[ { "url": "http://103gbfrocks.com/trent-reznor-50-greatest-songs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:43Z", "digest": "sha1:56ZTZUMK46SB6INLYWWFRJ7OSDKQWMGU", "length": 2283, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "103gbfrocks.com", "title": "Trent Reznor's 50 Greatest Songs", "raw_content": "Trent Reznor\u2019s 50 Greatest Songs, Ranked\nBy Chad Childers, Joe DiVita, Brian Ives, Katy Irizarry, Jon Wiederhorn\nTrent Reznor is one of the most influential artists of his generation: he brought melody and songcraft to industrial music, and then dragged that genre towards the mainstream. During the early '90s, when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Rage Against the Machine used only conventional instruments - guitars, basses, drums - Reznor's Nine Inch Nails used all of those, as well as samplers, drum machines and computers. With Nine Inch Nails records, you never really knew if what you were listening to was \"real,\" or created by a program and you soon realized that it didn't really matter: at the core of all of their sounds are great songs, that come straight from Reznor's dark but sensitive soul. Besides being an incredibly innovative producer, he's a songwriter on par with the greats from his era: Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey.\nReznor has been generous about sharing his talent with friends, prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, and idols. Without his help, it's doubtful that Marilyn Manson would have gotten their big break. He undoubtedly made David Bowie look cool to a younger generation who may have thought of him as the \"Let's Dance\"/\"Blue Jean\" guy. He gave former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford a place to experiment, away from the somewhat orthodox confines of metal, and he attempted to help Zack de la Rocha make his first artistic move after Rage Against The Machine.\nIn the past decade, he's carved out a unique path: Nine Inch Nails records and tours when Reznor feels like it; every tour feels different than the last one and each new release adds something to his legacy. He also has a second band, How To Destroy Angels. He's an Oscar-winning film scorer and is an executive at Apple Music. You never know what he's going to do next (but we'll put in a request for after the Bad Witch tour ends: we'd love to hear another How To Destroy Angels album or a side-project with Reznor's \"Mantra\"-mates Dave Grohl and Josh Homme). But whatever his next move is, we'll be there to check it out. In the meantime, here are some of our favorite songs that he's had a hand in thus far.\nSource: Trent Reznor\u2019s 50 Greatest Songs, Ranked\nCategories: Lists, Music, Newsletter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1stuupb.org/website-privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:B2CD2NIDDJXZAI46Y6PXXHKMBNOP3D2Z", "length": 2601, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "1stuupb.org", "title": "Website Privacy Policy - 1st UU Congregation of the Palm Beaches", "raw_content": "This website is owned and operated by First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches, referred to in this policy as \u201cwe\u201d. 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We do not sell or rent this personal information to other organizations.\nThe personal information we collect is only used by us to process a request that has been placed by the visitor. We never sell your email address and if you voluntarily give it to us, we will strive to use it only for what it was intended. If we pass it, it would only be to the congregation or person who has the information you desire.\nWe collect information on the browsing habits of users and the companies that provide that service also have access to that information. This site collects information using cookies and javascript, so if they are enabled in your browser, information can be collected, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, and country. This information is only used for statistical purposes and cannot identify you as an individual.\nWe make every effort to ensure that the information presented is correct and accurate. 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The inclusion of hyperlinks to other web sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on these Web sites or any association with their operators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2015.tirgan.ca/programs/music/babak-taghikhani.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IS3BGJNRVMN2ZM45YRPZVODIA7HJIVM4", "length": 1151, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "2015.tirgan.ca", "title": "Babak Taghikhani | Tirgan", "raw_content": "HomeProgramsArtistsBabak Taghikhani\nBabak Taghikhani\nBabak Taghikhani was born in 1975 in Tehran and started piano lessons at the age of 14 with acclaimed piano masters. He was an active participant in piano master classes (Classic and Romantic era) held in Austrian-Iranian Cultural Institute with Ernest Hutzel and Gerhard Geretschlaeger.\nSince 2000 he has collaborated as composer and pianist with a number of well-known Iranian musicians and singers. Babak's lyrical interpretation of piano music together with his song writing and composition skills, make his songs a unique personal rendition of Iranian traditional and folk music.\nIn Canada he was recently awarded a grant from FACTOR (The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records) and Canada Art Council for the fusion songs he has written.\nWith his wife Solmaz Peymaei, he co-founded the band INsou-UNsou in 2006. They have performed in festivals such as Italy Popoli festival 2011 and Teatro Colosseo 2012 and had numerous concerts in Iran. After immigrating to Canada in October 2012 they performed in different events such as Tirgan and Iranian Heritage Day in Royal Ontario Museum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2015.tirgan.ca/programs/special-guest/ehsan-yarshater.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2OR5SHO6IIJTJ5DKYVP6N5WZTJ7DILQI", "length": 1740, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "2015.tirgan.ca", "title": "Prof. Ehsan Yarshater | Tirgan", "raw_content": "HomeProgramsProf. Ehsan Yarshater\nProf. Ehsan Yarshater\nProfessor Yarshater received his Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran (1947) and then he studied with W. B. Henning at London University, from which he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Old and Middle Iranian (1960).\nHe first came to Columbia in 1958 and was appointed to the Kevorkian Chair in 1961. He founded the Center for Iranian Studies in 1968.\nProf. Yarshater has authored and served as the editor of numerous scholarly works. Among others he has authored Persian Poetry in the Second Half of the 15th Century (1953), Southern Tati Dialects (1970), and has edited the third volume of Cambridge History of Iran, in two parts, covering the Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods (1983,1986), and Highlights of Persian Literature (1988). Professor Yarshater founded the Encyclop\u00e6dia Iranica in 1974 and he continues to edit it. He is the General Editor of the 40-volume Tabari Translation Project, and the Founding Editor of the Persian Text Series, the Persian Heritage Series, the Columbia Lectures in Iranian Studies, and the Persian Studies Series.\nLecture series in his name have been instituted at the University of London, and the University of California at Los Angeles, and at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. In addition to receiving the Georgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991, Professor Yarshater has been elected honorary member of the International Society for Iranian Studies, the Societas Europaeas Iranologica, and the Institute of Central and West Asian Studies in Pakistan.\nProfessor Yarshater was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 84.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2017.fiberfestival.nl/programme/terraeconomics-monique-grimond/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VGPPZQKLWDKVNHH3MROZT2XNQCDM3BZ6", "length": 2193, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "2017.fiberfestival.nl", "title": "TerraEconomics - Monique Grimord \u2014 FIBER Festival", "raw_content": "TerraEconomics \u2013 Monique Grimord (US/NL)\nTerraEconomics first sketches out world where the rules are different and into this world it adds in a machine that would make it possible to read the health of the earth before financial transactions are made with it. TerraEconomics is a speculative value system and vision about the earth\u2019s resources. We are currently heavily dependant on the mining and trading of metals, minerals, oil and other natural resources. This project offers an alternative to the Bloomberg trading system by implementing real time environmental health data to influence the stock market.\nWhat if the stock market was not determined by supply and demand but by the health of the earth and resource extraction? Many things in our society would be different.\nTerraEconomics (2016 \u2013 2017) investigates the information devices a financial speculator in this fictional world would use. Grimord imagined an alternative tool for this fictional world bio market, an office data visualization that is connected to a biolab, which the speculator could experiment with. Testing different controlled environments, the device would vibrate and blink in the secret language of the bio market, and the speculator uses it to try to feel the future, and decide whether he should bet high or low in this environmental stock market.\nIn the fictional future premise, an algorithm is developed that measures how each and every small quantity of manufactured material negatively affects the earth\u2019s environment. A supercomputer watches global trade routes, as well as reads the dynamic feedback of the living bio material of the earth collected from data points all over the world, in the oceans, forests, and atmosphere. A couple of nations decided to experiment with their economy in a radical way: no longer are the value of goods determined by the invisible forces of supply and demand, but by the flux of the natural environment, the Earth\u2019s A.I. They call this unique system terra-economics.\nMonique Grimord is an American interactive designer and artist based in Amsterdam. She uses inventions as a story-telling device for brands, and design fictions as a method of cultural commentary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://923bobfm.com/two-missouri-residents-killed-in-separate-accidents-wednesday/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PKSDEIWSUCIRXCOWW67UOOIPSFDF4AIO", "length": 830, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "923bobfm.com", "title": "Two Missouri Residents Killed in Separate Accidents Wednesday", "raw_content": "Two Missouri Residents Killed in Separate Accidents Wednesday\nA Nevada man died after a May 9 accident on US 54 in Vernon County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a horse trailer came unhooked from a Dodge Ram and traveled into the lane of oncoming traffic, where it was struck by a 2002 Ford F-350. The driver of the Ford, 64-year-old Ronald D. Hughes, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Vernon County Coroner around 9:40 p.m.\nA 26-year-old woman from El Dorado Springs was killed on May 9 in a one-vehicle accident in Cedar County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Cassandra R. Hocking was driving a 1999 Ford F-150 when it went off the roadway and overturned. Hocking was pronounced dead by Deputy Cedar County Coroner Nora Powell.\nSource: Two Missouri Residents Killed in Separate Accidents Wednesday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://975kgkl.com/angelo-state-international-student-headlines-woodwind-concert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:V2AX6FCUNLP6YBCOSR6R7VACN26CYHTT", "length": 1272, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "975kgkl.com", "title": "Angelo State International Student Headlines Woodwind Concert", "raw_content": "Angelo State International Student Headlines Woodwind Concert\nBassoonist Alfredo Bonilla, an Angelo State University international student from Veracruz, Mexico, will perform a free public concert at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 3 S. Randolph St.\nTitled \u201cMusical Magic: Escape From the Quotidian,\u201d the woodwind concert will also feature ASU music faculty, other ASU students and community musicians.\nBonilla, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in music with a focus on bassoon, has been accepted and awarded a full-tuition scholarship to the prestigious bassoon summer course taught by Professor Asger Svendsen at the Music Academy in Malm\u00f6, Sweden. Svendsen accepts only one student at a time to this program. Donations will be accepted at Bonilla\u2019s concert on May 1 to help cover his travel costs.\nSince arriving at ASU, Bonilla has performed as a guest with the San Angelo Symphony and Big Spring Symphony and as a member of the ASU Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Woodwind Quintet. In the summer of 2015, he attended the fifth annual Bassoon Week at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. In Mexico, he was a member of the Veracruz State Symphony and the Youth Orchestra of Mexico.\nCategories: Angelo State University, Concerts, Local News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://975kgkl.com/signed-kip-moore-wild-ones-cd-contes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LWUZPY5SSPC7QUPRFLBXBXBZHXVUWYAO", "length": 1464, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "975kgkl.com", "title": "Win an Autographed Copy of Kip Moore's New 'Wild Ones' Album", "raw_content": "Win an Autographed Copy of Kip Moore\u2019s New \u2018Wild Ones\u2019 Album\nKip Moore's new Wild Ones album is in stores and at digital retailers now, but he set aside a few extra copies for his friends at Taste of Country. You can win one of five signed copies of the \"I'm to Blame\" singer's second album right here.\nIt couldn't be easier to enter: Just follow @TasteofCountry and @KipMooreMusic on Twitter, and then retweet the following:\nWild Ones is Moore's critically acclaimed follow-up to Up All Night. It features 13 moody country songs that will further endear his fans to him while providing something more nourishing for those looking for more than fluffy pop-country. Songs like the title track, \"We Were Us\" and \"Heart's Desire\" stand out as highlights. Moore says the disc ties all of his influences together. There's Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Motown.\n\u201cI\u2019m so influenced by Motown,\u201d Moore says. \u201cEven if you listen to the bass line. A lot of bass line in these songs, like if you take \u2018Come and Get It,\u2019 we really focused on using the Motown era and the bass lines were \u2026 they were the song!\u201d\nFive winners will be chosen from all who retweet before this contest end on August 28, 2015 at 11:59PM ET. Be sure to read the official Taste of Country contest rules before entering.\nKip Moore and Nine Others Make Country's Sexiest of 2015\nNext: Read ToC's Review of Kip Moore's 'Wild Ones'\nSource: Win an Autographed Copy of Kip Moore\u2019s New \u2018Wild Ones\u2019 Album", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aacri.org/conference/16-11-02/Civic_Renewal_in_America_There%E2%80%99s_a_Map_for_That_-_Chad_Tragakis.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:57Z", "digest": "sha1:A5C4MKHHKERPPQM2JIFIDOXZ3DB64C2J", "length": 5263, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "aacri.org", "title": "AACR Conferences > Civic Renewal in America? There\u2019s a Map for That - Chad Tragakis", "raw_content": "Last week (on October 13 and October 14), I attended the 2016 National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), an annual event that brings together leaders in civic engagement to share information and develop promising practices. I was honored to be representing the Association of Americans for CivicResponsibility (AACR), a small non-profit I\u2019ve volunteered with for the past 10 years. AACR participates in similar conferences and send representatives to attend programs of various non-profit civic organizations.\nQuick background on NCoC: The effort was launched in 1946 to harness and perpetuate the spirit of civic-mindedness and community cooperation that the nation witnessed during the war years. In 1953, the Conference became a federally chartered institution when President Eisenhower signed a bill that was subsequently passed by both houses of Congress. In 2006, NCoC launched America\u2019s Civic Health Index, an ambitious effort to gauge America\u2019s civic behaviors and attitudes.Working with the U.S. Census Bureau and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), they measured a range of indicators including voting, volunteering,connectedness to civic organizations and trust in key institutions. In 2009, the index was included in the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act and it remains the nation\u2019s largest and most definitive measure of American civic engagement.\nToday, one of NCoC\u2019s signature initiatives is focused on civic renewal, which they explain this way: \u201cCivic Renewal: A process that leads to better social outcomes and civic health is a mechanism for measuring that process. In the civic renewal frame, stakeholders in a community engage to set a vision and proceed collectively to remove the hindrances to achieving that vision; and build the community infrastructure to achieve the vision and sustain the work.\u201d\nOver the course of the conference, which was co-hosted by the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, we heard from some incredible presenters. Among others, they included Keesha Gaskins from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Bread for the City CEO\nGeorge Jones, and Floyd Mori, CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, each speaking on civic renewal through the lens of equity, diversity and inclusion. We also heard from CNCS CEO Wendy Spicer and leaders from Service Year Alliance, Opportunity Nation, Cities of Service and Community Renewal International addressing national service and volunteerism as essential components of civic life in America. And we received an informative update on the latest Civic Health Index, slated to be released later this year.\nBut the central theme of the conference was NCoC\u2019s Civic Renewal Initiative and a working draft of a map they\u2019ve developed of civic life in America. As Conference organizers framed it, the map is one way to look a tour civic life \u2013 it\u2019s not perfect, nor is it the only way but it\u2019s a good starting point:\nDuring the breakout sessions, conference organizers put attendees to work to test, challenge, stretch, enhance and add to the map. What are the true measures of civic health? What are the barriers to civic participation?How do the pieces fit together?\nIt was a great approach and since the sessions each focused on a different facet of civic life \u2013 including economic development, community engagement, the democratic process, public health, public safety, arts and humanities, education and youth development \u2013 it was the perfect way to capture the insights, experiences and perspectives of the hundreds of conference participants who represented a wide range of regions, backgrounds and sectors.\nAs the map suggests, for our democracy to truly work, we need more people to get off the proverbial sidelines and engage in their communities. And we need people to get involved in more and deeper ways. These challenges are exacerbated when considering the realities of life in 21st Century America, when it can be difficult for citizens to find the time to volunteer or attend a community meeting, or even get to know their neighbors.\nMany questions remain. What can our institutions do to enable, empower and encourage civic participation? How can institutions remove barriers and incentivize civic engagement? How can institutions educate citizens about how and why to get engaged? And as individuals, what role can we play? For years, the Association of Americans for Civic Responsibility has been exploring these same issues at our annual roundtable conferences.\nAt a period in our history when partisanship and rancor seem to be reaching ever newer heights, NCoC has started a national discussion that we must all help to continue. They\u2019ve made it clear that all are invited tocontribute their experiences, ideas and networks to the conversation. As Americans, we will always have disagreements, but we must learn to work together to find common ground and common sense solutions to the issues that matter most \u2013 national security, public safety, education, healthcare, economic prosperity.\nFor 70 years, the National Conference on Citizenship has been strengthening and celebrating civic life in America. It\u2019s great to know they are well positioned to continue their work and leadership for the next 70.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/tag/graduates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:R3MY3Z7MAKZU3AG554I4P22YW2SY7UIR", "length": 6984, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "abcnewsradioonline.com", "title": "National News - ABC News Radio", "raw_content": "Entries in Graduates (3)\nPanetta to Navy Grads: Military Is Evolving in Strategy, Diversity\nFile photo. Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey, U.S. Air Force(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a graduating class of naval officers Tuesday that rapidly changing global challenges for the United States meant they would be tasked with leading a military in metamorphosis.\n\u201cYou must be prepared to respond to whatever threats we confront in the future with courage, with creativity and with leadership,\u201d Panetta said, \u201cAdapting to new challenges is what the naval service does best. This is not a time for playing it safe. It\u2019s a time for imagination, a time for initiative.\u201d\nHe made the remarks Tuesday to 1,099 graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. The ensigns and second-lieutenants-to-be, sitting in full dress uniform under a blazing sun, were warned of the dangers they would face.\nPanetta told the graduates the threat of a nuclear North Korea and Iran, cybersecurity, the rising prominence of the Asia-Pacific, and the ongoing pursuit of terrorism were reminders that \u201cwe are still at war.\u201d\n\u201cAll of this coming at a time of increasing budget challenges here at home,\u201d said Panetta. \"Our nation now looks to you, the next generation of military leaders, to confront the challenges I just outlined.\u201d\nPanetta touted NATO\u2019s success in Libya and America\u2019s commitment to a 2014 drawdown in Afghanistan. He told the students that strengthening ties with China would be \u201ckey\u201d to peace from the Pacific to South Asia.\n\u201cThat reality is inescapable for our country and for our military,\u201d he said.\nAs the military\u2019s strategies evolve, so do the very makeup of its members, said the secretary.\n\u201cYou are men and women from every state in the union and 12 foreign nations; rich and poor; secular and religious; black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian; straight and gay.\u201d\nSome of 2012\u2032s crop of military officers will be the first to enter the service as openly gay service members, eight months after the repeal of the military\u2019s \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy.\nThis Annapolis class even witnessed the graduation of its first paraplegic student, 22-year-old Kevin Hillery. He was paralyzed from the waist in an accident during his junior year, but was allowed to remain at the academy to finish his classes.\nPanetta said the diversity of the class served as a tribute to the first African-American graduate of the war college, Lieutenant Commander Wesley Brown. Brown, a member of the class of 1949, died last week.\nSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus introduced Panetta at Tuesday\u2019s ceremonies. Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley and Rep. Robb Wittman, R-Va., were also in attendance.\nPanetta\u2019s appearance at Annapolis means a member of the administration has now officiated at each of the major military academies\u2019 graduation ceremonies this year. In the last month President Obama has spoken at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, Vice President Biden at West Point, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Coast Guard school in Connecticut.\ntagged Graduates, Graduation, Leon Panetta, Naval Academy in Homeland Security, National News General\nNaval Academy Graduates First Paraplegic Student\nMark Wilson/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- On Tuesday 1,099 students of the U.S. Naval Academy graduated, after being honored with a keynote speech by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. As at any commencement ceremony, each diploma was received with jubilation from the newly-commissioned Navy or Marine Corps officer and their family. But one midshipman drew more thunderous applause than any other: 22-year-old Kevin Hillery.\nHillery is the first student at the Naval Academy to graduate as a paraplegic. Paralyzed from the waist down, Hillery earned a degree in economics.\nHe lost the use of his legs in a freak accident during a trip to the Shenandoah Valley last April. He was mountain biking with friends when a storm came in, crushing him under a falling tree.\nHillery would later tell ABC\u2019s Washington affiliate, WJLA, that the unprecedented nature of his accident left his family uncertain of his future. After grappling with the reality that he would not be able to fulfill his lifelong dream to be a Navy SEAL, his attention turned to convincing the academy to let him finish his degree.\nHe returned to the academy this spring.\n\u201cI think it reflects well on the Naval Academy and the Navy that they would stand by one of their own,\u201d Kevin told WJLA.\nKevin, a Vermont native, won\u2019t be continuing his career in the military, but said he is considering going to law school.\ntagged Graduates, Graduation, Kevin Hillery, Naval Academy, Paraplegic in National News General\nHolder Welcomes Drug Court Graduates Back into Life\nOfficial White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- As students graduate across the country this week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at a different kind of commencement event: a recognition ceremony for drug court graduates.\nHolder spoke somberly in Washington, D.C., Thursday as he commended the graduates for completing what he said was most likely a difficult path, and an \u201cuphill battle.\u201d He described the drug court program as an \u201calternative to traditional probation and incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders.\u201d\n\u201cFor each of you, this program presented an opportunity -- and indeed a challenge -- to be honest with yourself, your family and your friends,\u201d Holder said at the Superior Court Drug Intervention Program. \"Today\u2019s graduates have made it as the result of months of hard work, perseverance and dedication. Those who are still progressing through the program have demonstrated their willingness to confront problems with addiction and work to reclaim their futures.\u201d\nThe drug court program is part of the Obama administration\u2019s effort to reduce drug use not by putting users in jail but by helping them recover from addiction.\nIn his commencement speech, Holder boasted some facts from the drug court program, which he said was designed to be difficult: 75 percent of people who graduate have avoided being arrested again for at least two years; it can reduce crime by 45 percent more than \u201cother sentencing options\u201d; and for every dollar spent, three tax dollars are saved.\n\u201cEven more critically, you\u2019re illustrating that they can reunite families, help communities feel safer and more secure, and make lives whole again,\u201d Holder said.\nHe concluded, \u201cI know this program is strict, and that it\u2019s extraordinarily difficult to get through. But that\u2019s why I am so proud to celebrate the progress that today\u2019s graduates have made, to recognize the achievements of those who are continuing to move along the path to recovery, and to encourage every drug court participant to keep fighting. Keep working hard. And keep up your efforts to reclaim your lives, rejoin your communities, and strengthen our great nation.\u201d\ntagged Drug Court, Eric Holder, Graduates, Offenders in Crime, National News General, Politics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 8816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://advantageadultos.blogspot.com/2015/09/i-think-i-have-some-up-to-date-phrases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NOUAN7UR5DRAFAJ6UNCSYASWKI72VOIU", "length": 330, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "advantageadultos.blogspot.com", "title": "El Blog de Ingl\u00e9s para Adultos", "raw_content": "I think I have some up-to-date phrases which will be right up your alley. Another way to say this is: I have some current phrases, which you would probably like. Listen to the conversation and learn new phrases, you can also read the tape script as you listen.\nListening Activity - Catch up on the latest English words and phrases", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aegis-company.com/50-business-intelligence-blogs-you-should-be-reading/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3YKBY6UAAIG5JQUOOZZQBITUJLCPRX2V", "length": 1060, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aegis-company.com", "title": "50 Business Intelligence Blogs You Should Be Reading | AEGIS Company", "raw_content": "But, there also is an element to Business Intelligence that is not solely found in technology on a computer: the human element. Business Intelligence experts, consultants, and insiders have the knowledge it takes to turn the data into results, and they often share their intel in articles and blog posts.\nWe know that business professionals often are far too busy to search the web for the best Business Intelligence blogs, so we have taken the time to do it for you. To make the list, the Business Intelligence blogs must be up-to-date with the latest information and trends, contain content written by BI experts who have a great deal of experience, and include relevant news and topics for the BI community. After scouring the far corners of the web, we\u2019ve identified 50 Business Intelligence blogs offering relevant, timely insights and perspectives from leading experts and thought leaders in the space. Note: The following blogs aren\u2019t rated or ranked in order of quality or importance; rather, they represent 50 of the most valuable BI blogs on the web.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://afcirsc.weebly.com/news--events/may-2016-chapter-meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TJJLQWARXGI6YMVLEN2XZBDC53VXO6AM", "length": 312, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "afcirsc.weebly.com", "title": "May 2016 Chapter Meeting - AFC@IRSC", "raw_content": "The next Chapter luncheon meeting will be held Thursday, May 19, 2016 from 12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m. on the Main Campus in room V-110.\nDr. Massey will provide an update on the legislative session.\nThe lunch menu includes Fettuccine Alfredo, garden salad, garlic bread, cookies, and drinks. Lunch cost is just $6.00.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 156.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://afsavings.com/rates-are-on-the-move/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XBY2FRCG7DZSATZCCCSZJGK75IBCSYLA", "length": 573, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "afsavings.com", "title": "Rates are on the move... - AFS", "raw_content": "Rates for U.S. 30-year mortgages climbed from the lowest level on record after Federal Reserve officials pledged to keep their benchmark interest rate near zero through at least late 2014 to help bolster the economy.\nThe average rate for a 30-year fixed loan rose to 3.98 percent in the week ended today from 3.88 percent, the lowest in records dating to 1971, Freddie Mac said in a statement. The average 15-year rate increased to 3.24 percent from 3.17 percent, according to the McLean, Virginia-based mortgage- finance company.\nRecord Low Rates Are Here Once Again !!! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aglandpreservationdelaware.com/why-penis-pumps-dont-always-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:I52YRVWLXOOHZ6KBDJEGLR3NQMIEBC6K", "length": 4603, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "aglandpreservationdelaware.com", "title": "Why Penis Pumps Don't Always Work", "raw_content": "Why Penis Pumps Don\u2019t Always Work\nMen that are interested in increasing the length of their penis may go to any lengths to find the right method and right equipment to do so.\nThe penis pump has been around for years and has been tried by millions of men over that time, but historically has had little to no positive growth results to show for. The penis pump is a device that uses vacuum pressure to increase the flow of blood to the penis. In theory, this should work; however, the device provides a temporary enlargement that goes away almost immediately.\nPeople want to know about penis pumps. Are they safe and do they work? Now for those of you out there who aren\u2019t familiar with penis pumps, but they are, is like this little suction apparatus where you put the penises and then you pump it. Some of them are electrically operated, some of them are manual.\nIt will create suction so that it pulls blood into the penis for an erection. Now there are some people who like penis pumps as a sensation, so they don\u2019t need them for, for any reason. They just like the sensation of the suction and the pumping and they can be perfectly safe as long as you follow instructions and don\u2019t leave the pump on for too long.\nYou don\u2019t want it to leave it on to the point of causing any bruising or broken capillaries or anything like that. There are people who find penis pumps really helpful in dealing with erectile dysfunction. So, if you have a mild E.D. and you want to try a pump, that might be a really good option for you in helping to assist you to get and maintain an erection.\nSome guys just go back and forth to the pump until they can finish out intercourse. Other guys will use the pump and then slip on a penis ring in order to maintain the erection. So it does create a few options with that. Therefore, I think they\u2019re actually a great option whether you\u2019re looking to change sensation of or deal with some mild erectile dysfunction. To be perfectly safe, just follow the instructions.\nGenerally, you think of a penis pump for a guy who needs to get his penis hard for sex because he\u2019s unable to achieve it. That\u2019s not the only reason. Sometimes guys, and this is me, would like to just keep on having sex throughout a prolonged period of time and after ejaculation, you need to get something to help you out.\nUse a generous amount of lubrication because the vacuum seal becomes quite tight around your penis and you will have an erect penis.\nNever use the penis pump to the point of pain. You do not want to use it for a prolonged period of time on your penis. This is for you to get an erection and once you have the direction, please enjoy your sex.\nPenis Pump Problems\nOne of the least favorite results of the penis pump is that it can numb the penis. This is not a feeling that most men want to experience. It can be especially uncomfortable and can possibly harm the penis. The pump has also been known to cause painful ejaculations after its use. Learn more at http://austingosser.bcz.com.\nSome feel that the pump is best used directly before having sex. However, with so many problems and a complete lack of spontaneity, the pump is often discarded altogether. The worst types of injuries that a man can experience using this type of device are scars, ruptured capillaries, blisters and even bleeding.\nWhile you are welcome to try a penis pump, do so completely warned. There are better and more modern solutions to penis enlargement and for the most part, the penis pump should only be seen as a humorous novelty. Look into medical devices that provide slow, comfortable traction for the penis. This type of device is more commonly used and suggested by medical professionals.\nVacuum Devices for Penis Enlargement\nVacuum devices are a short-term solution, the penis size does increase but only for a short span of time. Vacuum pumps are placed over the penis. Air is then drawn from the tube and this creates pressure. This results in the rapid blood flow, a ring is then applied temporarily to the base of the penis to stop the blood from draining away too quickly. Such techniques work for around 24 hours.\nThe desire for a big penis is an obsession but most of the men do not have the luxury of a large penis which is a source of concern. This has given a boost to the penis enlargement market and numerous options have emerged to get you the desired size. Let\u2019s get into the details of some of the common techniques used for penis enlargement.\nTaggedpenis enlargementpenis pump\nPrevious Article Vigrx Plus New and Improved Formula Review\nNext Article Male Extra Penis Pills Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://agrovim.gr/index.php?cid=35", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3H2KUAQOWO7VFLLF2M45PVFHVVEENVOW", "length": 2415, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "agrovim.gr", "title": "OLIVE OIL AND THE GREEK ECONOMY - Agrovim - Olive Oil and Olives from Greece", "raw_content": "HOME PAGEOLIVE ENCYCLOPEDIAOLIVE OIL AND THE GREEK ECONOMY\nThe olive oil industry is one of the most important elements of the Greek agri-food sector. The number of cultivated trees is quite large, not only by national standards but on an EU-wide basis as well. The growing of olive trees dates back to early Greek history. Olive plantations are a long-term investment: it takes more than twenty years for the tree to provide fruit, and it only fruits every other year. So, from the early part of Greek history, olive oil was an export agricultural product.\nAccording to data provided by the Federation of Olive Oil Packaging and Labelling Industries, Greece is the third largest olive oil producer in the world and also more than 70% of the total Greek olive oil production is of extra-virgin quality. A number of Greek olive oils are being named as PDO and PGI products (like PDO Kalamata and PGI Lakonia), according to EU legislation. These products gain an advantage through a recognised differentiation that can be promoted and that allows a degree of isolation from competitor products.\nPrimary markets for Greek olive oil are those in the European Union and there has been a significant increase in recent years of exports to Canada, Australia, Japan, and the United States, as marketing programs, brand awareness, and standardisation have improved. China for example is a key player both in global and Greek economy. The size of its economy and its growth rates reveals its leading role in the evolution of international economy and prosperity. By focusing on oil trade we can see that according to the China Oil Association 20 million tons of plant oils are consumed in the country.\nOlive oil provides new opportunities for business and trade in worldwide scale. Since Mediterranean diet and cooking habits are creating a new trend in many developed or even developing countries, olive oil companies with quality products, as ours, have the opportunity to promote them.\nAgrovim\u2019s products are distributed in all these markets and in many more, under the brand name Iliada. All these years have given us the opportunity to improve our productivity, the quality of our products and services and expand into new markets. Agrovim\u2019s commitment to provide the highest quality products and to cater for varying needs is one of the reasons we have gained the trust of our partners and the loyalty of our consumers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://airqualitychange.com/2015/11/dr-mcauley-lauded-for-leading-research-on-electronic-cigarettes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TMPMTKP42USPIIN3CW5C3AKBVOV7G73F", "length": 243, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "airqualitychange.com", "title": "Dr. McAuley Lauded for Leading Research on Electronic Cigarettes", "raw_content": "Dr. McAuley Lauded for Leading Research on Electronic Cigarettes\nAuthor: Tim McAuley on November 22nd, 2015\nhttp://poststar.com/news/local/up-in-vapor-local-air-quality-researcher-involved-in-e/article_e7ea1ab2-74ea-536a-b02a-423827edf49b.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://airsp.org/about/terms-of-reference", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VWTTHKGERQKUEJGZIZC5K6HWZCACRW5X", "length": 224, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "airsp.org", "title": "AirSP - Terms of Reference", "raw_content": "HomeAboutTerms of Reference\nTo enhance the effectiveness of the Association Board Members have been assigned specific areas of responsibility. These are as follows:\nTo promote AirSP and attract new members to the Association", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aj-medical.com/contents.asp?cid=140&wid=38&id=319", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NWETSBAFXQYOWUMNPRDJBS5QEL34HOHZ", "length": 981, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "aj-medical.com", "title": "The Tour of Africa Health 2018-South Africa-News & Events-News-ANJUE MEDICAL", "raw_content": "The Tour of Africa Health 2018-South Africa\nFrom May 28th to May 31st, 2018, our company came to Johannesburg in South Africa to participate in Africa Medical Exhibition the three-day . This exhibition was started in 2011. It is an excellent platform for manufacturers in the medical industry to expand their business in Africa. It is an important gathering place for professionals in hospitals, pharmaceutical industries, medical academic research, and retailers in Africa and around the world.\nAt this exhibition, we showed the three products to the general public, namely Prtable Ventilator, Ultrasound Machine and Steam Sterilizer. Affordable price and high quality, that has attracted many customers to negotiate. Many customers have expressed their desire to buy on the spot.At the end of the exhibition, the greatest feelings are the enthusiasm of the African people and the potential of the African market. We look forward to opening up a whole world in the African market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alctv.com/steps-after-hiring-a-family-lawyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GWYBL3EMEAQG4TY6K5Y6HH4RO3HXXBZN", "length": 1153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "alctv.com", "title": "Steps After Hiring A Family Lawyer \u2013 Alctv", "raw_content": "Most clients think that they can heave a sigh of relief once the family lawyer is finalized. What they fail to understand is that the actual process starts from her. Once you have decided on who will fight your divorce case, you will have to get the documentation in order. It is time to provide your attorney with all the information and documents pertaining to your divorce. Family laws in US are different in different states, and it would be wise to study the state\u2019s divorce laws. This can give you an idea of how a divorce is handled in the state and can be double sure that you are in the right hands.\nEvery bit of information that can be helpful in the divorce process has to be shared with the counsel. Even a small fight can be used for or against you during the case. Do not hide any information and be candid with your lawyer. Be quick to assist your lawyer with facts on your marriage. Inform the lawyer about the movable and immovable assets and how they are to be partitioned if it is jointly owned by the two of you. Talk in detail about out of court settlement. If you can finish the case without approaching the court, nothing like it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allgametrailers.altervista.org/arena-of-fate-announcement-teaser/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3AFCZPAHJHYTW6JKZGVMBKESZPIXGUOM", "length": 957, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "allgametrailers.altervista.org", "title": "Arena of Fate Announcement Teaser - All Game Trailers", "raw_content": "Arena of Fate Announcement Teaser\nStep into the shoes of legendary heroes from history and fantasy and lock horns in \u201cArena of Fate\u201d; an action-packed online multiplayer game coming to PC and consoles soon from Crytek.\n\u201cImagine Joan of Arc and Robin Hood cooperating to hunt down Little Red Riding Hood \u2013 Wouldn\u2019t that be terrific? But besides the game\u2019s iconic heroes, which everyone in the team really loves, we are also challenging ourselves to carefully craft a streamlined player experience that allows for both greater accessibility, and rich, deep, action-packed gameplay.\nWe are very excited to meet the first wave of players in the arena this summer, and will be listening carefully to the feedback we receive and making the community\u2019s contribution a key part of our efforts to perfect the fun.\u201d\n\u2013 Managing Director of Crytek Black Sea and Game Director of Arena of Fate, Vesselin Handjiev\nAnnouncement, Arena of Fate, consoles, Crytek, PC, Teaser", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 5837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allongeorgia.com/georgia-column-politics/column-lincoln-faith-and-the-reproductive-health-act2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XJSEL7XOPL2ZNLSPHIADF4AJRRC3TKAL", "length": 4757, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "allongeorgia.com", "title": "COLUMN: Lincoln, Faith, and the Reproductive Health Act - AllOnGeorgia", "raw_content": "The following article is an opinion piece that reflects the views of the author and not those of AllOnGeorgia.\nThe following article is a column by Stephen H. Hammond, president and founder of Christian Values Investing and Covenant Financial Ministries. He is a published author, and a speaker on the topic of Biblical financial management.\nAbout 161 years ago, Abraham Lincoln quoted Jesus when he addressed more than 1,000 delegates in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention in 1858.\nLincoln said \u201cA house divided against itself cannot stand.\u201d Likewise, I believe this United States of America cannot continue to thrive while half of our country applauds the murder of the unborn and the other half stand for the sanctity of life.\nJust a few days ago, The Reproductive Health Act was signed into law. New York just legalized abortion up to the moment of birth. It\u2019s clear that some people no longer want abortions to be rare \u2014 they want abortion on demand, even up to the time of birth. They also want it funded by your tax dollars.\nLike the nation, our Churches are also divided. In a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, American Churches vary widely on their views of abortion. Click here for the article. So, how can one-half of the Churches be wrong?\nEven modern science tells us that human life begins at the time of conception. From the moment fertilization takes place, the child\u2019s genetic makeup is already complete. Its gender has already been determined, along with its height and hair, eye and skin color. The only thing the embryo needs to become a fully-functioning human is the time to grow and develop.\nAfter New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed The Reproductive Health Act into law, the assembly chamber erupted into cheers, with politicians and audience members applauding the bill as if Gov. Cuomo just threw the winning touchdown pass in Super bowl 53.\nWhy would anybody celebrate the ability to murder an unborn human life?\nGod plainly reveals to us in His Word that not only does life begin at conception, but He knew us before He formed us in our mother\u2019s womb, (Jeremiah 1:5).\nLike Lincoln, I do not expect the United States to be dissolved, but I do expect if our Country does not repent, it will be judged by God. Romans 2:5-9, tells us of the wrath of God is part of his righteous judgment. He will render to every man according to his deeds. He punishes those who do evil and those who do not obey the truth written in His Word.\nSo maybe the question is, \u201cWhat is righteousness?\u201d\nRighteousness is simply behavior that is morally justifiable or right before God. God himself is the plumb line by which He measures human righteousness.\nAs a nation, as a Church, as individuals, are we conducting ourselves in the right relationship with God? How about the unborn? Do we regard the sanctity of life? God does!\nRighteousness is always contrasted with wickedness. Proverbs 15:9 tells us, \u201cThe way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.\u201d The Bible describes the righteous person as just or right, holding to God and trusting in Him. The just and the righteous, will abhor what God hates. Proverbs 6:17 empathically states that God hates the hand that sheds innocent blood. Abortion is shedding innocent blood.\nBeing just and righteous before God is not possible to attain on our own because God\u2019s standard is simply too high. We have no ability to achieve righteousness in and of ourselves.\nProvidentially, a true born-again Christians possess the righteousness of Christ, because \u201cGod made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:21).\nPray that God will change the hearts of our nation. Pray that our nation will turn from its sins and be reconciled with God. Pray for the unborn. Pray for expecting mother\u2019s to make the right decision. If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and are contemplating an abortion \u2013 before you make a decision, pray that God will direct your steps.\nIf you have had an abortion, God still loves you. He is wanting to forgive you, make you His child, and give you hope for living. The Psalmist said, \u201cFor as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us,\u201d (Psalms 103:11&12). God does not hate you for what you have done. He loves you and He does not condemn you. \u201cThere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit\u201d (Romans 8:1).\nPrevious articleGDOL: Valdosta grows jobs in 2018\nNext articleGeorgia DOT Releases the 2019-2020 State Map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 7151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allwhoarethirsty.whmuganda.org/2006/11/jesus-film.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2MCOMNXWDJ6HEMSS5URPNOI3F6TEI5TA", "length": 2809, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "allwhoarethirsty.whmuganda.org", "title": "all who are thirsty: The Jesus Film", "raw_content": "Two days after I returned from Kampala I had the opportunity to help the indigenous church leaders show the Jesus film in lubwise in a village called Ingamba in Kasitu sub-county. It was both a blessing and a struggle. I was weary from my previous weeks of traveling to Karugutu, Ft. Portal, and Kampala. In addition I was the only missionary who was attending the event (because the goal is the have the local church leadership be as much in charge as possible) and I was only there because they needed someone who know how to set up and run the dvd through the projector.\nAfter Michael dropped me off, I set up the equipment in a pavilion at a local school. Immediately I was surrounded by many locals who were very curious about the Muzungu (that's me, it means foreigner) and what I was doing. The church leaders, some of which spoke English, all had to go back to the village before showing the film and so that left me and all the non-english speakers up at the school. There was definitely a good hour of me staring at them and them staring at me, because there's not much else you can do when you can't communicate. (Although I did have success making the kids laugh with funny faces or raising my eyebrows. But that's not saying much, because as a Muzungu you're pretty funny to begin with to them).\nAt sundown we showed the film. I don't know if you are familiar with the Jesus film, but for me it was still entertaining even though I couldn't understand it. One of the more interesting things is that when it was dubbed over in lubwisi, they tried to make the voices match the lips of the movie as much as possible, which leads to some comedic moments (for an observer who doesn't understand the language).\nAll in all, I think the movie had a good impact of the village and them understanding more of what the crusade was about (the film was on one night of a multi day crusade). I counted at least 100 people who where there when I was setting up and more came after it got dark. I would say that there was likely 150-200 people there from the local village. 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The game is based on the two brands of WWE, Raw and SmackDown.\nOne of the main changes in the game is the incorporation of a new physics system that allows objects to be used more realistically, such as objects involved in the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. Tables now break differently depending on the impact placed upon them. Inside and outside the ring, ladders can now be rested onto the ring ropes and be broken in half. For the first time since the original WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw game, chairs can be thrown at the player's opponents.\nThe Hell in a Cell match was revamped with expanded cell walls, weapons underneath the ring, steel steps near the poles, and the removal of the cell door. In addition, new ways to exit the cell were introduced, such as barreling through the cage wall.\nFor the first time since WWE SmackDown! 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(Courtesy of the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University)\n2018 marks what would have been the 100th birthday of legendary composer, conductor and former Brandeis faculty member Leonard Bernstein, who taught at the University from 1951 to 1956.\nThis year, the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, held on April 15-22, will honor his memory with special programming devoted to his legacy as an artist, educator and activist. This annual event founded by the \"West Side Story\" composer showcases nationally acclaimed performers and visual artists together with music, dance, theater, film and artwork by more than 300 Brandeis students, faculty and alumni.\nBoston Lyric Opera Presents Bernstein: A short concert of Leonard Bernstein's music, including songs from his \u201cTrouble in Tahiti,\u201d which premiered at Brandeis in 1952. Free and open to the public. Sunday, April 15, noon, Slosberg Music Center.\n\"Late Night with Leonard Bernstein,\" a cabaret-style concert narrated by his daughter, Nina Bernstein. This event is free but ticketed. Tickets available at Brandeis Tickets in Shapiro Campus Center or by calling 781-736-3400. (No online orders.) Thursday, April 19, 8 pm, Slosberg Music Center.\n\"Love and Death, Part 2\": The Lydian String Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Op. 8, No. 2; Janacek's String Quartet No. 2, \"Intimate Letters\"; and the world premiere of a work for the quartet by Saad Haddad, the winner of the 2017 Lydian String Quartet commission prize. Tickets: $20/$15/$5. Saturday, April 21, 8 pm, Slosberg Music Center.\nConcert version of Bernstein's \u201cMass\u201d: Brandeis University Chorus, Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra and guest artists. Free and open to the public. 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The importance of the transatlantic relationship was a key theme throughout the conversation.\nThe event served as the official launch of the 2017 Case for Investing in Europe report, which highlights the many reasons why business continues to invest here.\nVal\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse, President, Paris Region\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9mie Gallon, Managing Director of AmCham France\nPierre Dejoux, President, OTIS New Equipment, UTC and AmCham EU Executive Council member\nJoseph Quinlan, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Mangement, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University and author of the Case for Investing in Europe 2017 report\nSusan Danger, CEO, AmCham EU\nThe event was followed by a cocktail reception.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?m=201308", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:39Z", "digest": "sha1:N72VPT3LWY2ATNVOSN3NSTXGH3X3ZJ53", "length": 1249, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "amitavghosh.com", "title": "August \u00ab 2013 \u00ab Amitav Ghosh", "raw_content": "Penguin India\u2019s Special Collector\u2019s Edition to mark the 25th anniversary of \u2018The Shadow Lines\u2019\nPenguin India is issuing a special collectors\u2019 edition of \u2018The Shadow Lines\u2019 to mark the 25th anniversary of the book\u2019s publication.\nThe edition will have a print run of 500 numbered copies. It is to be published on high quality paper, and will come with a ribbon book mark and a slip cover.\nI will sign every copy and add a personalized note.\nMore on this at this link. And the book can be ordered here.\nCorrespondence with a reader\nI just finished reading River of Smoke, and I felt compelled to tell you what a wonderful, delightful book it is. I am a Parsi myself, and truly enjoyed the story of Behram Moddie, the Anahita, and the numerous characters who inhabited that world. You have truly brought another era to life. It is very rare to read about us Parsis in such an authentic manner. The way Behram spoke, the food he ate, his religion. rituals and life-story are so fantastically portrayed. The other characters of the book are equally engrossing, but this one really stood out, and cannot be easily forgotten.\nI have read almost all your books, and my favourites would be River of Smoke and The Glass Palace. I eagerly await your third book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://andrewhidas.com/tag/willy-loman-and-donald-trump/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:O5LEJUF7VQAVSYJKKUPN6DPYBCKXOBVV", "length": 993, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "andrewhidas.com", "title": "\u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d: Parable for Our Times", "raw_content": "Willy Loman and Donald Trump tagged posts\n\u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d: Parable for Our Times\nApril 30, 2018 Posted in Fiction 13 comments\nMy tattered, second-hand copy of Arthur Miller\u2019s \u201cDeath of a Salesman,\u201d on my shelf now nearly half a century, shows a cover price of 95 cents. One might be tempted to view that as emblematic and perfect for a now hoary mid-20th century period piece, almost quaint in its portrayal of desperate lives crushed by the weight of an outmoded American dream.\nBut the play is a period piece only in the way that \u201cOthello\u201d and \u201cThe Cherry Orchard\u201d are, which is to say, the \u201cperiod\u201d it encompasses spans pretty much all of human existence, or at least that in which people have wrestled with matters of conscience and communication, purpose, honesty and authenticity.\nOf particular note for our own era is its devastating portrayal of the wages of deception.\nWilly Loman, the beleaguered salesman of the title, lives nearly his entire life as a matter of expediency...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://annycook.blogspot.com/2013/11/explorers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZUHNJXQC6LNSEGYUIMM5JDAOAU4546P", "length": 842, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "annycook.blogspot.com", "title": "Anny's Points of View: Explorers", "raw_content": "Explorers aren't always heroic ship's captains sailing to distant exotic lands. Sometimes--mostly--they're heroic families moving to unknown, unexplored, unsettled territories in search of better lives. These are a few, very few of the hunk's and my ancestors who were explorers.\nThe bulk of our ancestors arrived in the New World between 1620 and 1750. They cleared land, farmed, defended their homes, served as civil servants and jurors of their peers, attended the churches of their choice, reared their families, buried their dead, marched for months and fought for their freedom.\nThey laughed, cried, knew anger, joy, and sorrow. They were the face of America.\nYep, just like Australia. They came with hope and set out to conquer a tough, scary land and the character of Aussies were born from that.\nAmazing pics, Anny! And it's so true!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 5131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://apariciosinplano.com/2016/01/21/4-falsehoods-about-cremation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GVJAW6G4B5VHOHLUKNDCP5NIAPNMYLK2", "length": 2453, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "apariciosinplano.com", "title": "4 Falsehoods About Cremation | funeral preplanning - what you should know", "raw_content": "Cremation has quickly become the most popular alternative to a traditional burial plan, and for good reason\u2014it is inexpensive, it will keep you closer to your loved one's remains, and it is environmentally conscious. However, like all things that rise in popularity, a number of myths have cropped up about what exactly cremation is. Throughout the course of this brief article, you will learn about four of these myths and why they're myths.\nCremation Is More Expensive Than A Traditional Burial\nDepending on which options you choose for either cremating your loved one or a traditional burial, the two can be rather comparable in price, but on the whole, cremation tends to be significantly cheaper than a traditional burial. There are a number of reasons why this is the case. The use of a plot of land tends to be quite expensive, which is the number one reason why cremation tends to be cheaper on the whole. The fact that you can opt out of expensive rites and rituals\u2014such as embalming and holding a wake\u2014rank among the other reasons why cremation tends to be a bit less expensive.\nCremation Is Incinerating The Body\nThis is perhaps the biggest myth in the entire world of cremation. Contrary to popular belief, cremation does not involve burning the body. During the process of cremation, the body is placed in a chamber where it is subjected to extremely high temperatures. During this process, the body is reduced to various gases and what is left over is fragments of bone.\nAshes Are Placed In Your Loved One's Urn\nThe bone fragments that are left are then placed into a blender of sorts, and what is left from this process is an ash-like substance. This is placed in the urn. The ashes that are generally considered to be leftover from incineration are actually bone fragments.\nCremation Is Frowned Upon In The Judeo-Christian Tradition\nWhile certain strains of the Judeo-Christian tradition still frown upon cremation, most mainstream sects of the Abrahamic tradition are accepting of cremation as an alternative to a traditional burial. Roman Catholicism and most strands of Judaism, for example, do not prohibit cremation.\nCremation is a fantastic alternative to burying a loved one for many reasons, including its convenience and relative expense. Don't get caught up in the falsehoods and myths that are spread about this post-life ritual. For more information on cremation, talk to a funeral home like Holmes Funeral Home in your area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appsolzone.com/projects/timetick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MYC5VSTLNIPXKD4P44XF3HXAMH33QXHF", "length": 315, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "appsolzone.com", "title": "TimeTick - Appsolzone", "raw_content": "Coming Soon. Stay tuned with our newsletter and you will be notified first once the application is launched. We promise you, this will help you to optimize your time utilization. As the old wise saying goes by William Penn \u201cTime is what we want most, but\u2026 what we use worst.\u201c . 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By expanding and protecting the Pacific Remote Islands National Monument, he has created one of the world\u2019s largest protected marine reserves and conserved a breath-taking, ecological hot spot for sea turtles, sharks and other unique and endangered species.\nTheodore Roosevelt protected the Grand Canyon as a National Monument in 1908 using the authority granted to him by Congress under the Antiquities Act. President Obama used that same authority this week to expand and protect the Pacific Remote Islands National Monument. This action builds on President George W. Bush\u2019s 2009 designation of 83,000 square miles to now protect 490,000 square miles in the Pacific Ocean.\nThe newly-expanded National Monument is indeed \u201cremote\u201d \u2013 located more than 1,000 miles from Hawaii (as far as Miami from New York) \u2013 and teeming with marine life. A 2005 National Geographic expedition documented \u201cdeep corals that are thousands of years old, 22 species of marine mammals, five species of endangered sea turtles, and millions of fish and nesting seabirds. The area hosts one of the largest populations of manta rays and sharks\u2026 including endangered silky and oceanic whitetip sharks.\u201d\nProtected marine areas like this one help to maintain habitat for threatened and endangered species and also healthy, sustainable commercial and recreational fishing industries. President Obama has acted in our economic and ecological best interest, and once again demonstrated the United States\u2019 world leadership in safeguarding critical ocean habitat for future generations.\nYet there is more to do. Currently less than 1 percent of our oceans are fully protected. We derive great economic, environmental and recreational value from our National Parks and wilderness areas. We will benefit at least as much from protection of special ocean places. Many marine scientists and experts agree that to ensure the health and productivity of our oceans at least 20 percent needs to be fully protected.\nRead the rest of Eric\u2019s piece on The Huffington Post!\nnational-marine-sanctuary, conservation, national-aquarium, eric-schwaab\nQ&A with Maritime Archaeologist Dr. James P. 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The activities of Company employees and the Financial Risk Management Committee help to reduce potential financial damage and achieve stated goals.\nCREDIT RATING OF COUNTERPARTIES\nAs some of the Company\u2019s counterparties may experience financial difficulties, particularly during crisis periods, Company executives devote extra attention to the credit risk management process.\nGazprom Neft has implemented measures making it possible to manage risks, including an assessment of the creditworthiness of counterparties, the establishment of individual limits depending on the financial condition of counterparties, control of advance payments and measures for working with receivables by business area, among others.\nRISK ASSOCIATED WITH BORROWING\nThe imposition of sanctions on OJSC Gazprom Neft by the US and EU has significantly narrowed the range of financing instruments available to the Company.\nGazprom Neft effectively manages risk associated with the borrowing of funds.\nDespite the levying of sanctions against the Company by the US and EU in September 2014, the Company fully implemented a programme to attract funding in 2014 and also signed agreements with Rosselkhozbank and Sberbank to raise loans that may be used in 2015.\nThe Company continues to explore alternative sources of funding.\nThe bulk of the gross revenue of OJSC Gazprom Neft comes from export transactions for the sale of oil and petroleum products. Consequently, fluctuations in currency exchange rates against the ruble affect the results of the Company\u2019s financial and business activities.\nGovernment requirements for the mandatory sale of foreign exchange revenue on the domestic market could have a negative impact. No such requirements are in place now, but the Russian Government and Central Bank have resorted to such measures in the past.\nThe Company\u2019s currency risk is significantly mitigated by the existence of liabilities denominated in foreign currency. The Company has raised a considerable portion of its loans on the international credit market in US dollars. The current liabilities for servicing these loans are also denominated in US dollars.\nThe currency structure of revenue and liabilities acts as a hedging mechanism whereby opposing factors compensate one another. A balanced structure of assets and liabilities minimises the impact of currency market factors on the results of the Company\u2019s financial and business activities.\nAs a major borrower, the Company is exposed to risks associated with changes in interest rates. Much of the debt portfolio consists of credits and loans denominated in US dollars. The interest rate for servicing part of the existing credits (the percentage is not fixed and may vary) is based on interbank loan rates, primarily LIBOR. An increase in these interest rates may lead to higher debt servicing costs for the Company. Growth in the cost of credits for the Company may negatively impact creditworthiness and liquidity indicators.\nThe current structures of the OJSC Gazprom Neft debt portfolio and the interest rate level ensure a moderate level of interest risk impact on the Company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 8228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/john-j-creswell-papers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RK6PENYQGBFF6RIKROBNAPUZ4KBYVYBD", "length": 313, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "archives.dickinson.edu", "title": "John A. J. Creswell papers | Dickinson College", "raw_content": "The collection consists of student notes, correspondence, speeches and commissions related to John A. J. Creswell, Dickinson College class of 1848 and Postmaster General, 1869-1874. The collection also includes an account book kept by Creswell's father, John Creswell.\nCreswell, John Andrew Jackson\nCreswell, John", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armagen.com/news/armagen-expands-treatments-for-the-brain-in-lysosomal-enzyme-disorders/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IBOOCJK4H5E77KIJT77GJJQVU6FD3EK5", "length": 1351, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "armagen.com", "title": "ArmaGen expands treatments for the brain in lysosomal enzyme disorders. - ArmaGen | ArmaGen", "raw_content": "ArmaGen has re-engineered the human lysosomal enzyme, iduronate 2-sulfatase (IDS), as an IgG fusion protein. The IDS is fused to a genetically engineered monoclonal antibody (MAb) against the human insulin receptor (HIR). The HIRMAb acts as a molecular Trojan horse to ferry the IDS across the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of the brain in the lysosomal storage disorder called Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Type II, or Hunter\u2019s syndrome. Another lysosomal storage disorder that affects the brain is MPS Type I, Hurler\u2019s syndrome, which is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme, iduronidase (IDUA). Patients with Hunter\u2019s or Hurler\u2019s syndromes have serious brain involvement, which is refractory to conventional enzyme replacement therapy, because the recombinant enzyme does not cross the BBB, and cannot penetrate the brain from blood. Following re-engineering of the lysosomal enzyme as a fusion protein with the BBB Trojan horse IgG, the enzyme penetrates the brain, and retains high lysosomal enzyme activity (Biotechnology & Bioengineering). The HIRMAb-IDUA fusion protein exhibited an excellent safety profile in a dose-ranging study in primates (Journal of Biotechnology). The most recent work describing the HIRMAb-IDS fusion protein for treatment of the brain in MPS Type II is published in Bioconjugate Chemistry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armenianchurch.ge/en/news/34-news/1769-nato", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:05Z", "digest": "sha1:UWISKYWL3F3HRIJOZ5ND535ZZ7Y75ZKC", "length": 1329, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "armenianchurch.ge", "title": "Armenian Diocese in Georgia participated in the meeting of the Information Center on NATO and EU", "raw_content": "Armenian Diocese in Georgia participated in the meeting of the Information Center on NATO and EU\nOn July 17, 2018, the leadership of the Information Center on NATO and EU had a meeting with the representatives of religious organizations operating in Georgia. The meeting was held in the Saint Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia. The event was initiated by the \u201c21st Century\u201d Union.\nThe Armenian Diocese in Georgia was represented by Rev. Father Kirakos Simonyan, Spiritual superintendant of the \u201cHouse of Hovhannes Tumanyan\u201d Center for Science and Culture and Michael Avagyan, Head of Legal Affairs and Cooperation Department of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia.\nSergo Vardosanidze, Rector of the above-mentioned University offered opening remarks and presented the purpose of the meeting: Georgia\u2019s progress towards western values and membership in these international structures.\nRev. Father Kirakos Simonyan presented the point of view of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia on this issue. In the context of Human Rights and values, the latter highlighted equality and freedom that must be related with the principles of living with Word of God and being guided by the Holy Scripture.\nThe representatives of participating religious communities spoke up about their approaches and viewpoints.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 163.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armoredgraphix.com/alter-ego-helmet-kit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EON6XJWF2GCKTKOPNLJF765YEXXHC2TR", "length": 218, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "armoredgraphix.com", "title": "Alter Ego - Shoei Armored Graphix", "raw_content": "The Alter Ego Kit is inspired by the custom painted helmets of the mid to late 90s. Can't decide on one color? That's okay as this kit is designed to be one color on one side and a totally different color on the other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 136.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armsfullofgrace.com/body-christ-object-lesson/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IEMFY73MWEH4DSAHKSG6TSI4EIXWS4KJ", "length": 3584, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "armsfullofgrace.com", "title": "Body of Christ Object Lesson - Arms Full of Grace", "raw_content": "Use this object lesson when teaching about the Body of Christ. This was originally used in a small group lesson, but you could simply omit all or some of the discussion questions to make it more suitable for a large group teaching setting.\nBody of Christ Object Lesson with Mr. Potato Head\nMaterials: Mr. Potato Head and some of his parts, plus some hand-made extra parts that will go inside of him (heart, lungs, liver and stomach).\nSay: One of the main themes of the book of 1 Corinthians is that Christians are supposed to work together as a team. When we become Christians, we become part of the Body of Christ. Every Christian in the whole world is part of this huge Body of Christ. It\u2019s not an actual body, of course, but it is people, millions of people, who love Jesus and we are supposed to work together just like a real body does.\nRead 1 Corinthians 12: 12-14\nAsk: Can you guys count all the parts on your bodies? There are a lot, right? There are many you can\u2019t even see, because they are inside of you, but every part of your body has a specific job to do that only it can do. What\u2019s the job of your eyes? What is the job of your ears? How about your heart? That has a very important job, right? You can feel that, but what about the parts inside that you can\u2019t see and can\u2019t even feel, are those important too? Like your brain or your liver? They are very important and they have important jobs to do.\nSay: Christians are like that, we all have specific jobs to do and some are in front and everyone sees what they are doing and some Christians work behind the scenes and no one really sees them, but they have important jobs to do. We tend to think that the people who are out front, like the Pastors and worship leaders, have the most important jobs, but every single Christian\u2019s job is important.\n(Get out the Mr. Potato Head to further illustrate this point. Go through each part that you have\u2013ear, nose, liver, etc\u2014one by one and ask the kids to think about the importance of each one and how they are all important, even though some are visible and some are behind the scenes. They all work together to create a great body.)\nAsk: Can you imagine if your brain suddenly stopped doing its job, because it wasn\u2019t getting as much attention as your mouth? Sometimes we serve God because of what we get from doing it, maybe we get attention or we get compliments. But, what if we don\u2019t? We may think that no one notices and we may want to give up helping with God\u2019s work. We know, though, that God is telling us that every single one of us in the Body of Christ is important and has an important job to do and we must not get tired of doing it.\nAs the members of the Body of Christ, we must remember that we should be doing everything we do for God and for Him alone. He sees everything we do and He is pleased with us when we serve Him. That should be all the motivation we need.\nPDF version of this object lesson can be accessed here: Body of Christ Object Lesson with Mr Potato Head\nOctober 19, 2017 armsfullofgraceObject LessonsBible Study, Bible Study book of Corinthians, body of Christ, Body of Christ object lesson, Children's Bible School Lessons, Children's Bible Study Lesson, Children's Church, Children's Sunday School Lesson, Children's Sunday School Lessons, fun object lessons, Mr. Potato Head, object lessons, object lessons for children's church, object lessons for kids, object lessons for kids' church, object lessons for Sunday School, Sunday School\nPrevious Post Body of Christ Activity\nNext Post Introduction Activity for the book of 1 Corinthians", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/03/local/la-me-dwp-oversight-20101103", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6CWLHOM4WLZA5RMDX3O67QFO54ZIEP2M", "length": 4294, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "L.A. council urges creation of oversight agency for DWP - latimes", "raw_content": "L.A. council urges creation of oversight agency for DWP\nThe city attorney is told to draft a ballot measure creating the Office of Public Accountability, which would have broad authority over DWP operations. Council member says the utility needs 'fundamental reform.'\nNovember 03, 2010|By Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer\nThe Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday moved to ask voters to approve a new watchdog office for the giant Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest publicly owned utility.\nThe council voted unanimously to direct the city attorney to draft a ballot measure to create an oversight agency, the Office of Public Accountability, which would have broad authority to assess DWP operations, including rate hikes, management performance and customer relations.\nThe measure, if approved, would be placed on the March 8 ballot as an amendment to the city charter.\n\"DWP is in need of fundamental reform,\" said City Council President Eric Garcetti, a strong backer of the plan. \"This reform will increase public scrutiny of the DWP budget and the fiscal stability of the city as a whole.\"\nSeveral other council members expressed outrage about the DWP, which clashed with the council earlier this year in a bitter dispute about proposed electricity rate hikes backed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The battle has left bruised feelings and a sense on the council that things must change at the public utility.\n\"The reason we're in this position is [that] people are fed up and don't have trust,\" Councilman Bill Rosendahl said.\nBut Austin Beutner, the city's volunteer jobs chief who has headed the DWP since April, told lawmakers that he didn't see the need for a ballot initiative, and indicated that he would be glad to work with lawmakers in crafting an alternative. He urged \"caution\" in proposing changes to the city charter, and said he was committed to bolstering accountability and transparency at the agency.\n\"Putting it on the ballot or not doesn't ensure independence,\" Beutner said in a subsequent telephone interview.\nAvoiding an election, Beutner argued, would save time and money.\nThe DWP has an annual budget of about $4 billion and provides electricity and water service to about 1.4 million customers.\nSupporters of the ballot measure say a charter amendment is the only way to guarantee the independence of the proposed Office of Public Accountability, also known as a ratepayer advocate or inspector general or ombudsman.\nWho would appoint the head of the new office remained to be determined. Councilman Paul Krekorian proposed a system in which the responsibility would fall to a 12-member commission, jointly appointed by the council, the mayor and voluntary neighborhood councils.\nLawmakers are also considering other far-reaching changes at the DWP, including increasing the council's power on agency operations, expanding from 5 to 7 the number of commissioners who oversee the department and speeding up the time by which its budgets must be released. Those issues are expected to be debated in the next week.\nThe council has until Nov. 17 to complete the DWP reform proposal so that the measure qualifies for the March ballot.\nThe council also moved forward with a ballot plan to devote a larger share of property tax proceeds to city libraries, which have been battered by budget cuts. The plan would generate up to $53 million in additional annual revenues and allow the city to reopen branches six days and four evenings a week after cuts that have reduced hours, said Martin Gomez, the city librarian.\nThe council also voted 9 to 4 to draft a proposal from Councilman Jose Huizar that seeks to increase the amount of \"matching funds,\" or taxpayer money, that would be available to candidates in upcoming city elections. Matching funds are provided to candidates who agree to limits on both the amount they spend on their campaigns and the amount of personal money they provide for their campaign committees.\nTimes staff writer David Zahniser contributed to this report.\nTimes endorsements for the March 8 city elections\nL.A. council deadlocks on bid for more control over DWP...\nBid to create DWP watchdog advances\nDWP's renewable energy efforts will boost rates, report says\nGroup Fighting Power Rate Hike Notifies City of Petition...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1985-10-01/news/0330260187_1_rockledge-apopka-hope-united-church", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GC3VAHF5W2LN7CZI42SJ6ZYMIKDHTRB2", "length": 668, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "articles.orlandosentinel.com", "title": "Marvin A. Eberhardt, 52, 1030 Seminole Drive, Rockledge... - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel", "raw_content": "Marvin A. Eberhardt, 52, 1030 Seminole Drive, Rockledge...\nMarvin A. Eberhardt, 52, 1030 Seminole Drive, Rockledge, died Friday. Born in New York, he moved to Rockledge from there in 1955. He was a field maintenance specialist for RCA and a member of Hope United Church of Christ. Survivors: sons, David W., Antiqua Island, Roger A. and Eddie W., both of Apopka; daughters, Donnie S. Eberhardt, Apopka, Annette B., Antiqua Island; brothers, Donald, Texas, Warren, Buffalo, N.Y.; and one grandchild. Graveside services will be held at Brevard Memorial Park, 10 a.m. today. Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Rockledge.\nJordan Drive, Rockledge, died...\nOlive St., Cocoa, died...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articule.org/en/projects/mile-end-art-map-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:B6NFD4SY2SZDWAKCP3PI5L53JPCMBZRW", "length": 1233, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "articule.org", "title": "articule | artist run centre", "raw_content": "In 2007, artist-run centre articule created the Mile End Art Map with the goal of highlighting the vitality and diversity of the neighborhood, one rich with independent arts and cultural spaces. The making of a new edition of the map in 2014 presented the opportunity to critically address the changes in Mile End. articule invited current and former Mile End residents, and those of surrounding neighbourhoods, to contribute to this edition of the map through a collective mapping of past and current experiences of the area. We asked people to consider these questions:\nAre arts & culture allies of people of different classes?\nIn the context of gentrification and austerity in all sectors, how are \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cvitality\u201d affected and/or redefined?\nHow do they manifest themselves today and how would cartography contribute to the process of keeping the neighbourhood indeed alive?\nWe hope you too consider these questions while exploring the Mile End.\nThe creation of the 4th Mile End Art Map was made possible thanks to generous contributions made by artist-run centres, galleries, and independent cultural businesses presented in this pamphlet. To make a donation or for more info visit www.articule.org\nAVAILABLE NOW! FREE!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ascopost.com/News/59696", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T6DNKGKYVM23U6FOB6Z6A3OME57R4QJQ", "length": 3376, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ascopost.com", "title": "Racial Differences in Time to Breast Cancer Surgery and Survival in the U.S. Military Health System - The ASCO Post", "raw_content": "Time to surgery was greater in the higher percentiles for non-Hispanic black vs non-Hispanic white women.\nPoorer overall survival after breast-conserving surgery among non-Hispanic black women was not explained by differences in time to surgery.\nIn a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Surgery, Eaglehouse et al found that time to breast cancer surgery was delayed for non-Hispanic black vs non-Hispanic white women in the Military Health System but that this difference did not account for poorer overall survival in non-Hispanic black women receiving breast-conserving surgery.\nThe study analyzed data from 998 non-Hispanic black women and 3,899 non-Hispanic white women included in the Department of Defense Central Cancer Registry and Military Health System Data Repository. The records from these linked databases identified women who were diagnosed with stage I to III breast cancer and underwent breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy in the U.S. Military Health System between January 1998 and December 2008.\nThe main outcome was time to surgery, with non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women being compared at the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles of time to surgery using multivariable quantile regression. Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was used to determine hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause death in non-Hispanic black women compared with non-Hispanic white women after controlling for potential confounders first without, and then with, time to surgery.\nTime to Surgery and Survival\nMedian time to surgery was 21 days among non-Hispanic white women vs 22 days among non-Hispanic black women. On multivariate analysis, non-Hispanic black women had significantly greater estimated delay to time to surgery (both P < .05) at the 75th (+3.6 days, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.6\u20135.5 days) and 90th percentiles (+8.9 days, 95% CI = 5.1\u201312.6 days). The estimated differences were similar across surgery types.\nIn multivariate analysis not including time to surgery, non-Hispanic black women had a higher adjusted risk for death (HR = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.06\u20132.01) among patients receiving breast-conserving surgery but not among those receiving mastectomy (HR = 1.06, 95% CI = 0.76\u20131.48). In multivariate analysis including time to surgery, hazard ratios remained similar among patients receiving breast-conserving surgery (HR = 1.47, 95% CI = 1.06\u20132.03) and those receiving mastectomy (HR = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.75\u20131.45).\nThe investigators concluded, \u201cThis study\u2019s results indicate that time to breast cancer surgery was delayed for non-Hispanic black [women] compared with non-Hispanic white women in the [U.S.] Military Health System. However, the racial differences in time to surgery did not explain the observed racial differences in overall survival among women who received breast-conserving surgery.\u201d\nKangmin Zhu, MD, PhD, of the John P. Murtha Cancer Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, is the corresponding author for the JAMA Surgery article.\nDisclosure: The study was supported by the John P. Murtha Cancer Center of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center under the auspices of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. The study authors\u2019 full disclosures can be found at jamanetwork.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 6632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantacityhomes.com/homes/Candler+Park", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JQJAGDA2YGMLMN53PZREPKJP73V3WISM", "length": 1258, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "atlantacityhomes.com", "title": "Candler Park Homes For Sale - Candler Park Realty", "raw_content": "Local interests: Five minutes east of downtown, adjacent to funky Little Five Points, 60 acre park with golf, playground, tennis, soccer, and pool.\nDescription: Candler Park in Atlanta offers a relaxed, friendly atmosphere that attracts people with diverse backgrounds and attitudes. A variety of housing options are available in Candler Park from historic mansions to new bungalows. Contact us for questions regarding buying or selling in Candler Park. We can assist buyers through the entire process, including providing a detailed analysis of homes for sale in Candler Park. We also assist sellers by implementing a unique marketing campaign to help sell homes fast for the best price. We are a full service real estate company, specializing in intown properties such as Candler Park in Atlanta.\nComments: Candler Park began life as the independent city of Edgewood. In 1909 Edgewood was annexed to Atlanta and a housing boom began. In 1922 Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler donated 60 acres of park to the city, which remains the neighborhoods centerpiece. A depression era decline turned many of the historic homes into rental properties but a resurgence began in the 1960s and continues today. The area was added to the Registry of Historic Places in 1983.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://auayan.com/?p=39", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:57YTELQBQ6WBJSFY2OPWADOQB3YWOHRR", "length": 346, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "auayan.com", "title": "auayan.com \u00bb Cheerios", "raw_content": "by mama stony \u00b7 August 9, 2007 at 3:17 pm \u00b7 Filed under progress\nToday Lorelai ate her first little bowl of Cheerios. I was scared to give it to her at first, but I thought I should try. I had to give them to her one by one because whenever I gave her more, she\u2019d shove as many of them as she can in her mouth.\nAnyway, she loved them. That\u2019s all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 1798, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustafreepress.com/chris-graham-mark-warner-and-his-2014-senate-contenders/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LA5TEXM2LJBKRHUAMSMCICWC4WIS2GQW", "length": 3702, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Chris Graham: Mark Warner and his 2014 Senate contenders", "raw_content": "Chris Graham: Mark Warner and his 2014 Senate contenders\nIs U.S. Sen. Mark Warner vulnerable in his upcoming 2014 re-election race? A poll commissioned by a conservative website suggests he may be.\nThe Washington Free Beacon, which most of you have never heard of until now, hired the polling company inc., which is run by former Newt Gingrich political advisor Kellyanne Conway, to test Warner\u2019s vulnerability. The website touted a topline finding that Warner would defeat a generic Republican candidate by just five points, 50 percent to 45 percent, but it doesn\u2019t take much digging inside the numbers to see that the poll also had a lot to favor Warner.\nWarner\u2019s job approval rating was 58 percent in the poll, with 37 percent disapproving of his job in the Senate. The poll also tested Warner against a slew of potential GOP contenders, and only one, attorney general candidate Mark Obenshain, was within 10 points of the incumbent.\nThe poll also found that the current attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, fresh off his defeat in the governor race to Terry McAuliffe, was the overwhelming choice of Republican voters to be the 2014 Senate nominee, even as Cuccinelli would trail Warner in a head-to-head race by 13 points, 53 percent to 40 percent.\nTellingly, the poll didn\u2019t include the outgoing two-term Republican lieutenant governor, Bill Bolling, among the possible choices for the GOP nomination. A recent column on the conservative blog Bearing Drift suggested that Bolling might be the \u201cother option\u201d against Warner.\n\u201cA GOP bent on winning would look at Bolling and think he\u2019s not only their ideal candidate, but also their only chance against Warner,\u201d wrote columnist Norman Leahy, as he listed the reasons that Bolling may also not be looked at by Republicans as their ideal candidate, including that he backed the Bob McDonnell bipartisan compromise, that he pointedly didn\u2019t work on behalf of the Republican ticket in 2013 due to his personal rivalry with Cuccinelli and that he favors (shudder!) Medicaid expansion.\n\u201cThe faults are many, and the case against him running for anything ever again is strong. But he would be an intriguing alternative,\u201d Leahy writes.\nIntriguing, indeed.\nA wild card could be 2013 Libertarian Party gubernatorial nominee Robert Sarvis, who received 6.5 percent of the vote to finish a distant third in the governor race.\nSarvis is publicly mulling a run for the Senate seat in 2014, though he\u2019s not going to do much more than be a third wheel again, and likely would have much less impact in 2014 in a race featuring a popular Warner and a viable Republican challenger than he did in 2013 against the mildly received major party candidates McAuliffe and Cuccinelli.\nThe safe bet at this point is that you won\u2019t see Sarvis, Bolling or Cuccinelli in 2014. Warner, even in a year that may turn out to be quite favorable for Republicans nationwide, if the bungled rollout of the Affordable Care Act isn\u2019t reversed quickly and with finality, is not especially vulnerable in Virginia, and it would be foolish for anybody with plans for a political future after 2014 to go down as Warner\u2019s sacrificial lamb.\nThe best Republican candidates would be best advised to begin campaigning like it\u2019s 2017. We may still be a few weeks away from Day 1 of the McAuliffe administration, but it\u2019s looking already like the T-Mac years are going to be tumultuous, and the next gubernatorial cycle is going to be ripe for the picking for whoever on the GOP side ends up getting the statewide nominations, at the top of the ticket and on down.\nTags: 2014 senate, AFP, Augusta Free Press, Bill Bolling, Government, Ken Cuccinelli, local news, Mark Warner, news, Robert Sarvis, senate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://austin.brooklynvegan.com/tags/middle-kids/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:C5BT2SABAI22IMPZXQNNC3G6KSXBGFIW", "length": 619, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "austin.brooklynvegan.com", "title": "Middle Kids - BV Austin", "raw_content": "Category: Music Tags: A$AP Ferg, ACL Fest, ACL Festival, Alex G, Amy Shark, Angel Olsen, Asleep at the Wheel, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Danny Brown, Deap Vally, DRAM, First Aid Kit, Foster the People, Gorillaz, Hamilton Leithauser, Joseph, Live, Louis the Child, Lukas Nelson, Middle Kids, Milky Chance, Missio, MUNA, MUTEMATH, Portugal. The Man, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Royal Blood, Run the Jewels, Ryan Adams, Sam Dew, Spoon, The Black Angels, The Growlers, The Head and the Heart, The Revivalists, The Wild Now, Twin Limb, Vance Joy, Vulfpeck, Whitney, Zhu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bakersfieldchurch.net/AboutUs/Worship.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WNBWCXJOO3AGT6RNAITGEVUQZ2VXSZ2C", "length": 1134, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bakersfieldchurch.net", "title": "Sovereign Grace Church of Bakersfield > About Us > Worship", "raw_content": "As a church, we whole-heartedly seek to be gospel-centered in all that we do. This is particularly the case with our Sunday morning worship service. We intentionally structure our entire service around the biblical drama of the gospel. We begin by focusing on God's holiness, then we confess our sin, and then we rejoice in the good news of Jesus Christ through the sermon and communion. Finally, we respond in thankfulness to God through the singing of songs and the giving of offerings.\nIt is our unspeakable privilege and joy to gather together and receive grace upon grace from God our Father in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is our hope and prayer that you would join us. Childcare is provided during the service for those between the ages of 0-11 (children aged 4 and over are dismissed to class right before the sermon). We also have a cry room available for nursing mothers (the sermon is streamed live into this room).\nWe currently meet at 10:30 AM on Sunday mornings in the Frontier High School auditorium. If you have any further questions about where and when we meet, please call us @ (661) 333-1995. We hope to see you soon!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://banglanatak.com/story/gannat-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4HITBI4KINJCHLAC7SVVEDHFGRX6YT5", "length": 978, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "banglanatak.com", "title": "\ufeff Gannat \u2013 Bengal Crafts At Global Fest \u2013 Bangla Natak", "raw_content": "The International Folklore Festival of Gannat has been celebrating the folk culture of the world \u2014 \u2018Les Cultures du Monde\u2019 \u2014 for 43 years now. The 10-day festival of Gannat is organized by the Association Nationale Cultures et Tradition (ANCT), which is led by Jean Roche, the founder of the Festival of Gannat and a permanent representative of the International Council for Folklore Festivals in the UNESCO.\nThe festival showcases folk cultures from all over the world and includes dance, music, cuisine, art, masks and sculptures. As part of the Rural Craft Hubs project of Bengal (a joint initiative of the Department of MSME&T, Government of West Bengal, and UNESCO, New Delhi), banglanatak dot com facilitated the participation of folk artists at the International Folklore Festival of Gannat for two consecutive years. Art forms of Bengal \u2014 like Clay Doll, Wooden Doll, Patachitra, Putul Naach, Chau, Baul, Dokra, Terracotta and Sitalpati \u2014 were showcased at the festival.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bartendingclasses.org/bartending-classes-in-monroe-washington.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IDSO2DFTOFNOBKDNJIXMLULBUIKEYJPS", "length": 2270, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bartendingclasses.org", "title": "Monroe, Washington Bartending Classes and Other Resources", "raw_content": "Bartending Classes in Monroe\nMonroe Bartending Classes\nIn this tough and sometimes lackluster job market, you might be wondering if a career exists in Monroe, Washington where you can enjoy being out-and-about, easily make customers happy, and earn actual cash on a daily basis - instead of living paycheck to paycheck or getting paid just a few times a month. Throw in a little job security by virtue of customer demand, and it sounds too good to be true, right?\nConsidering the above stats, it's easy to see why bartending in Monroe, Washington is considered one of the most exciting, lucrative, promising career choices available in today's competitive job market.\nIf you're the type that loathes being stuck inside and chained to a desk all day and you're looking for a career that is socially active in Monroe, never boring and has a promising future, check out some common bartender traits to see if you fit the description:\nYou adore entertaining a (sometimes raucous) crowd in Monroe with a good story, and you're an expert listener when your customers need someone to mull things over with after a bad day.\nProfessional bartending in Monroe, Washington can open doors wide across the service industry spectrum and at varying levels in today's economy. Bartenders are in high demand in all types of venues, from luxurious hotels and sold-out concerts to swanky special events and exclusive outdoor weddings-and at every happy hour, local's corner bar, and social event in between.\nIf you're thinking about getting into the service industry in Monroe, Washington, but don't have any experience-don't worry. While you'll be hard-pressed to find a general restaurant manager or food and beverage director at any respected establishment who hasn't spent some time behind the stick to get to where they are today, bartending can help open those doors for you-in fact, it's often a prerequisite to any decent-paying restaurant management position.\nThere are as many bartending school programs that allow you to work in Monroe, Washington as there are bars. Deciding between an online course, a local course, or one that specializes in a certain part of the market (think: casinos) can be a difficult choice. Here are some key points to consider before making the leap:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 11344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bartendingclasses.org/bartending-classes-in-monticello-minnesota.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QCLWAVO7KRRUN3Z7EEWGWORFS43E5IKU", "length": 2301, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bartendingclasses.org", "title": "Monticello, Minnesota Bartending Classes and Other Resources", "raw_content": "Bartending Classes in Monticello\nMonticello Bartending Classes\nIn this tough and sometimes lackluster job market, you might be wondering if a career exists in Monticello, Minnesota where you can enjoy being out-and-about, easily make customers happy, and earn actual cash on a daily basis - instead of living paycheck to paycheck or getting paid just a few times a month. Throw in a little job security by virtue of customer demand, and it sounds too good to be true, right?\nConsidering the above stats, it's easy to see why bartending in Monticello, Minnesota is considered one of the most exciting, lucrative, promising career choices available in today's competitive job market.\nIf you're the type that loathes being stuck inside and chained to a desk all day and you're looking for a career that is socially active in Monticello, never boring and has a promising future, check out some common bartender traits to see if you fit the description:\nYou adore entertaining a (sometimes raucous) crowd in Monticello with a good story, and you're an expert listener when your customers need someone to mull things over with after a bad day.\nProfessional bartending in Monticello, Minnesota can open doors wide across the service industry spectrum and at varying levels in today's economy. Bartenders are in high demand in all types of venues, from luxurious hotels and sold-out concerts to swanky special events and exclusive outdoor weddings-and at every happy hour, local's corner bar, and social event in between.\nIf you're thinking about getting into the service industry in Monticello, Minnesota, but don't have any experience-don't worry. While you'll be hard-pressed to find a general restaurant manager or food and beverage director at any respected establishment who hasn't spent some time behind the stick to get to where they are today, bartending can help open those doors for you-in fact, it's often a prerequisite to any decent-paying restaurant management position.\nThere are as many bartending school programs that allow you to work in Monticello, Minnesota as there are bars. Deciding between an online course, a local course, or one that specializes in a certain part of the market (think: casinos) can be a difficult choice. Here are some key points to consider before making the leap:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 11044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beckysboudoir.com/tag/mum-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BRP2K4HY34G64QNKGJCH5OXDDSZRSPOL", "length": 253, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "beckysboudoir.com", "title": "mum life \u2013 Becky's Boudoir", "raw_content": "Bath time is a highly anticipated activity in this house. Not least by myself (what frazzled mum doesn\u2019t love a good soak in the tub?), but of course, the littlest man himself. It may be a daily ritual but with a menagerie of flashing frogs and half [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://benjamin-m-weilert.com/index.php/2018/11/21/book-the-long-cosmos-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZOJ2ZSTAS4AJF26V4H6LDFPX42KN4AG", "length": 1915, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "benjamin-m-weilert.com", "title": "BOOK: The Long Cosmos (2016) \u2013 BMW the Creative", "raw_content": "Author: Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter\nBy the time I reached the end of the Long Earth series, I had a revelation. With the bounding conditions of the universe being that there are multiple worlds accessible via stepping and that no iron can pass between worlds, the ideas to explore these multiple worlds are almost endless. My revelation was that this series would have been better as an anthology of short stories from a collection of authors, instead of a handful of semi-disjointed novels that didn\u2019t ever quite know what they were doing. The story never shined through, instead of feeling like a distracted three-year-old who wants to explore the potential of other worlds.\nWhile I felt the series was starting to succeed in telling coherent and solid plots, this book removed that forward progress. When nearly one-third of the first part of the book seems to be comprised entirely of summary and recaps of the last four books, you know there\u2019s not a lot of original ideas present in this one. And while minor tangents like the Johnny Shakespeare side-plot were amusing, they were loosely connected to the main plot at best. Even this main plot didn\u2019t feel like it had enough time spent on it, as the main character of Joshua Valient\u00e9 seemed to spend most of his time distracted on other worlds with unique trees instead of exploring the Long Cosmos that this book was supposed to be describing.\nEven though this book was released after Terry Pratchett\u2019s death, it was clear he still had some of his influence on the plot and characters. Unfortunately, as was the case in the other books of the series, his contributions seemed to be fairly obvious, as they were the ones that didn\u2019t quite fit in with everything else and just managed to be silly in an otherwise scientific exploration of new worlds.\nThe final book in a series that should have been an anthology, I give The Long Cosmos 2.5 stars out of 5.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 4374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 167.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://besthealtharticle.com/health-news/the-tiny-tickler-that-can-banish-snoring-and-treat-sleep-apnoea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:RSO2AUVZ5OOGGT2R2WXZVS4IEKWLKRKY", "length": 4646, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "besthealtharticle.com", "title": "The tiny tickler that can banish snoring and treat sleep apnoea | Best Health Article", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Health News \u00bb The tiny tickler that can banish snoring and treat sleep apnoea\nRevealed: The tiny tickler that can banish snoring and treat sleep apnoea\nAn implant in the chest that delivers tiny impulses of electricity may provide a new way to tackle sleep problems.\nThe device has been developed to treat sleep apnoea, which is characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep.\nIt uses electrodes to stimulate the diaphragm, the large dome-shaped muscle at the base of the lungs, that plays a key role in breathing.\nBreathe easy: The new treatment works by stimulating the phrenic nerve, which runs down from the neck into the area around the lungs\nSleep apnoea (\u2018apnoea\u2019 is the medical term for a pause in breathing) is a common problem, affecting nearly two million Britons. There are two main types \u2014 obstructive sleep apnoea and central sleep apnoea.\nObstructive sleep apnoea, which affects most cases, is caused by the soft tissue of the airway collapsing during sleep.\nWith central sleep apnoea, which accounts for up to 20 per cent of cases, the brain temporarily stops sending signals to the muscles that control breathing.\nBoth forms can cause snoring as the patient starts breathing again after an apnoea \u2014 the snore is the result of air being forced through the restricted airway.\nThe people who drink URINE to lose weight and cure acne:\u2026\nTen vital things every woman needs to know about breast\u2026\nLooking on the upside really DOES cut the risk of heart\u2026\nHow to be a super-ager: Experts reveal tips for staying\u2026\nObstructive sleep apnoea can be effectively treated with a mask-like device delivering what\u2019s known as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to keep the airway open. But this isn\u2019t as effective for central sleep apnoea because here it\u2019s not just that the muscles are collapsing, but also that the signal from the brain to inhale is not being transmitted.\nThe new treatment works by stimulating the phrenic nerve, which runs down from the neck into the area around the lungs and which is involved in the movement of the diaphragm.\nThe idea is that when the device senses breathing problems during an apnoea, it delivers small electrical pulses to the phrenic nerve, activating the muscles that move the diaphragm and so restoring a normal breathing pattern.\nDiagnosis: Obstructive sleep apnoea is caused by the soft tissue of the airway collapsing\nThe technology consists of a generator and a battery sealed in a titanium case, slightly smaller than a mobile, which is implanted under the skin on the right side of the chest.\nA stimulation lead is implanted in the right brachiocephalic vein, which is close to one of the two phrenic nerves in the chest. A second lead, to monitor breathing movements, is implanted in another vein in the chest. Research in the Journal of Thoracic Disease shows this approach can be highly effective.\nIn one study, there was a fourfold drop in the number and frequency of apnoeas. In another, the central apnoea index, a measure of severity, dropped on average from 27 to one.\n\u2018Remarkable effectiveness was seen in these patients,\u2019 wrote the researchers from Nanjing Medical University in China.\nDr Jaydip Ray, a professor of otology and neurotology at the University of Sheffield, says: \u2018Nerve impulses control many vital functions in our body. Nerve pacing has been used successfully to restore the rhythm of these nerve impulses.\n\u2018This technique is a very exciting development in the treatment of central sleep apnoea. The early results show tremendous potential for helping many sufferers of this condition.\u2019\n\u25a0 Meanwhile, anti-snoring masks for sleep apnoea that fit only over the nose are more effective than those covering the nose and mouth, according to a study in the journal Chest.\nMost masks are either nasal-only, which provides CPAP by the nasal route, or oronasal, which deliver the therapy through both the nose and mouth.\nThe researchers, who reviewed a number of trials, say there are several potential mechanisms to explain why oronasal CPAP is less effective. One possibility is that oronasal masks push the chin and tongue backwards, actually triggering an obstruction.\n\u2018Patients using oronasal masks should be closely monitored, and nasal interfaces [nose-only masks] should be the first choice,\u2019 said the researchers, from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.\nTagged apnoea, banish, sleep, snoring, The, tickler, Tiny, treat\nPeople Who Lived to 100 Share Their Secrets to a Long, Healthy Life\nPain medication Ibuprofen research team found a previously unknown side effects\nTwin study highlights importance of both genetics and environment on gene activity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://besthealtharticle.com/tag/promise/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RJVK4E7WCRBPGAH6GVEVFLV4SPJDJ7U3", "length": 2590, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "besthealtharticle.com", "title": "promise Archives | Best Health Article", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb promise\nA type of \u2018supercharged\u2019 immune cell could be mass-produced to help fight cancer. The researchers behind the early-stage finding, from Imperial College London, say the development could mark the next generation of cutting-edge immunotherapy treatments, called CAR-T therapies. These personalised treatments involve reprogramming immune cells to kill cancer. NHS England announced on Friday it would [\u2026]\nWhen Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis began offering on-site dietetics, social work and other wraparound services at its clinics, it did more than improve patient outcomes. It potentially saved millions of dollars in hospitalization costs. A new paper co-authored by Lisa Harris, CEO of Eskenazi Health, Paul Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School [\u2026]\nInhaled version of blood pressure drug shows promise in treating anxiety, pain\nAn inhaled form of a high blood pressure medication has potential to treat certain types of anxiety as well as pain, according to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Anxiety disorders are usually treated with different types of medications, such as antidepressants, and psychotherapy. Amiloride is a medication offering [\u2026]\nA UCLA-led study has found that a treatment that uses a bacteria-like agent in combination with an immunotherapy drug could help some people with advanced melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, live longer. The research showed that using the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab and the experimental agent SD-101, a sequence of nucleic acids that mimics [\u2026]\nScientists have long known that an imbalance in brain chemistry can lead to depression. University of Victoria researchers have taken this knowledge a step further, examining what happens inside the brain\u2019s cells in order to better understand how depression occurs. The results of that research raise the possibility of new treatments in the future for [\u2026]\nStudy provides promise in search for simple, early test for Alzheimer\u2019s disease\nResearchers at Indiana University have found early evidence that tiny snippets of genetic material called microRNA may help with early detection of conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The study, published June 18 in Scientific Reports, found that changes in microRNA are detectable in mice long before they start to show symptoms from neurodegeneration. These microRNA [\u2026]\nResearchers: chocolate is one of the best remedy for a cough\nResearchers apply computing power to track the spread of cancer\nWH Rio Reporter Alice Ellis Gives Us The Scoop From Inside Aussie HQ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2015/04/review-shakespeare-world-as-stage.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PRYVO7MKTSQV4TFC5ZCYFEXX22RBV3BQ", "length": 662, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com", "title": "bibliographic manifestations: Review: Shakespeare: The World as Stage", "raw_content": "Review: Shakespeare: The World as Stage\nShakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson\nThe bottom line seems to be that no one really knows anything about Shakespeare's life which made this both a short book and a highly speculative one. However, the wanderings into Elizabethan and Jacobean English history were interesting and Bryson is an excellent storyteller which made this a very good audiobook. The explanations, both in the book itself and in the interview at the end of the audiobook, of why the idea that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays is ridiculous was wonderfully done.\nLabels: Bill Bryson, nonfiction, reviews, William Shakespeare", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 13848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://biographies.s9.com/Biography/category/religious-leaders/religious-icon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:EKRVUREOIOIHDGGSVYUN53AY2X5YAIBS", "length": 768, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "biographies.s9.com", "title": "Religious Icon Archives - Biographical Dictionary - s9.com Religious Icon Archives - Biographical Dictionary - s9.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Religious Leaders \u00bb Archive by category : Religious Icon\nCategory : Religious Icon\nCassie Bernall\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Religious Icon Comments: 0\n1981 \u2013 Born on November 6 and studied at Columbine High School. 1999 \u2013 April 20, she was a victim in the Columbine High School massacre. \u2013 Books were published after her death the book \"She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall\" was authored by her mother Misty Bernall. ..\n1950 \u2013 Born in Swansea, Wales on the 14th of June. 1975 \u2013 He studied theology; and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took his DPhil. 1977 \u2013 He returned to Cambridge to teach theology, first at Westcott House, having been ordained deacon in Ely cathedral that year. 1978 \u2013 He was priested. 1980 \u2013 He ..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 419, "original_length": 7852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://birdskorea.org/Habitats/Wetlands/Saemangeum/BK-HA-Saemangeum-SSMP-2006-preliminary-data.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XVMNPMHVIJ5L7N4M6UR5KOBAJZ4VBEY7", "length": 20957, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "birdskorea.org", "title": "Birds Korea - Saemangeum - SSMP 2006 preliminary data", "raw_content": "Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Program\nApril - May 2006: preliminary data\nThe Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Programme (SSMP), a joint undertaking between Birds Korea and the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), started on 30 March with the arrival of the first of an international crew of counters in South Korea. With most counting effort concentrated on three high tide cycles in April, the Program ran into mid-May. We are already fund-raising so that the counts can be repeated in spring 2007 and 2008 - enabling us to demonstrate empirically the impact of the sea-wall closure on the region's migratory shorebirds.\nThe data obtained in spring 2006 is (as of July 2006) still being collated. The final results will be made freely available and will form a core part of a report which we intend to distribute to decision-makers and potential participants before the next Ramsar Conference here in South Korea in 2008.\nPreliminary summaries of the counts are given below.\nBirds Korea - Australasian Wader Studies Group\nPeriod 13-17 May, 2006\nRed-necked Stint, Saemangeum. Photo \u00a9 Jan van de Kam/Birds Korea\nThe Seamangeum Shorebird Monitoring Program continued in May, with 2-4 teams of hard-pressed counters focussing on the crucial spring tide series from the 13th to the 17th.\nThey were hard-pressed because of the very large numbers of birds that needed to be counted (details below), and also because the window of suitable tides for surveys was rather short. Shorebird counts at Seamangeum, the adjacent Geum Estuary and Gomso Bay can only be carried out adequately during the biggest high tides, because on lower tides land-based counters are usually separated from the shorebirds by several kilometres of tidal flat..\nThe May surveys were successful, and as is to be expected during the peak of migration season, they showed that abundance of many species had changed since the last survey in late April. Numbers of early-breeding species such as Bar-tailed Godwit, Eastern and Eurasian Curlews, Eurasian Oystercatchers and Kentish Plover had declined, presumably as they had set off on the final leg of their northwards migration.\nOverall though, the number of shorebirds present had increased, with the most striking increases occurring in species known to be relatively late migrants, such as Broad-billed, Sharp-tailed and Terek Sandpipers, Mongolian Plover, Red-necked Stint, Ruddy Turnstone and Whimbrel. Sufficiently large numbers of colour-banded or flagged Great Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits were resighted to suggest that North-western Australian birds were arriving later than those from Eastern Australia and New Zealand. Resightings of birds banded in other parts of the flyway (including some Dunlin from Chongmin Dao known to have been captured earlier in this migration season) will also help to resolve the migratory origins and routes of shorebirds passing through the region.\nGreat Knots, Saemangeum. Photo \u00a9 Jan van de Kam\nThe greatest change of numbers seen was in the outer Dongjin Estuary (including the Simpo area), perhaps partly related to alterations in tidal level as the region settles down to a greatly reduced tidal range of perhaps 1.5 m (it was about 7 m before the sea-wall was built).\nLocal fishermen reported enormous concentrations of feeding shorebirds on islands between Simpo and the sea-wall in early May, but by the start of the count series these islands were no longer usually exposed, except on the very lowest tides. Many of these birds may have relocated to Simpo, where numbers of birds had almost doubled.\nCounts from the inner Dongjin and Simpo area included a total of 81,459 shorebirds, with the most numerous being Great Knot (50,008), Dunlin (20,994), Bar-tailed Godwit (3,102), Mongolian Plover (2,825), Terek Sandpiper (1,667), Grey Plover (651), Whimbrel (650), Black-tailed Godwit (363), Ruddy Turnstone (311) and Common Greenshank (310). 121 Broad-billed Sandpipers were noteworthy, while species of special conservation concern included 3 Nordmann's Greenshank, a breeding-plumaged Asiatic Dowitcher, a Chinese Egret, 2 Black-faced Spoonbill in the inner Dongjin and an impressive 12 Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Simpo (also one on the inner Dongjin).\nImpressive though the Spoon-billed Sandpiper count at Simpo was, it was eclipsed by the 21 found on an island near Ogku, in the Manyeung Estuary; other species of special conservation concern in this estuary included 11 Nordmann's Greenshank and 3 Black-faced Spoonbills. Numbers of Great Knot (36,280), Eastern Curlew (581) and Eurasian Oystercatcher (73) in the Mangyeung had declined, but this was offset by increases in the number of Dunlin (41,514), Red-necked Stint (5013), Mongolian Plover (3089), Terek Sandpiper (2188), Grey Plover (1528), Ruddy Turnstone (614), Common Greenshank (602), Whimbrel (378) and Broad-billed Sandpiper (217).\nThe overall number of shorebirds within the Mangyeung (95,496) was similar to that found in late April.\nProponents of the Saemangeum reclamation have argued that shorebirds will be unaffected by the development as they can move to the adjacent Gomso Bay or Geum Estuary, though this has not prevented them from subspequently announcing plans to reclaim the Geum. We found no compelling evidence for birds having moved into either system following closure of the Saemangeum sea-wall on 21 April. Gomso Bay has never held many shorebirds, and numbers remained low (767) there during the May survey, with only one species, Whimbrel (438), occurring in reasonable numbers.\nThe Geum Estuary poses greater monitoring challenges, and shorebird numbers there (66,627) had increased considerably since April, much of the increase being caused by an influx of Great Knot (29838, cf. 14024 at the end of April).\nOther species in large numbers were Dunlin (20,150), Bar-tailed Godwit (3338), Grey Plover (3004), Mongolian Plover (1691), Terek Sandpiper (1629), Common Greenshank (1482), Whimbrel (1215), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (1014), Black-tailed Godwit (930), Red-necked Stint (719), Ruddy Turnstone (695) and Eastern Curlew (492).\nGlobally threatened species included a Spoon-billed Sandpiper and a remarkable 69 Nordmann's Greenshank.\nCount data obtained during the expedition are now being compiled, and further updates will be provided when we have taken it all in. Some things are already clear though.\nFirst, the counts confirm (if that were necessary) the outstanding importance of the area to shorebirds. In the May surveys alone, 243,582 shorebirds were counted in Saemangeum and the Geum Estuary, including about 30% of the known world population of Great Knot, perhaps 10% of the world population of Nordmann's Greenshank, and significant numbers of many other species, including the enigmatic and globally threatened Spoon-billed Sandpiper.\nSecondly, we have not yet witnessed the death of the Saemangeum system.\nThe area of shorebird habitat within Saemangeum has been greatly reduced by closure of the sea-wall, and some resultant population decline in migratory shorebirds is probably inevitable.\nWhether or not this decline will be catastrophic is in the hands of the Korean government; with appropriate management of the sluice-gates, and cancellation of the proposed Geum reclamation, it would be possible to ensure that very large numbers of shorebirds continue to stage in the habitat that remains.\nRespectfully, Birds Korea and the Australasian Wader Studies Group would appreciate clear citation of source for such online reference (i.e. as data from the Birds Korea/Australasian Wader Studies Group 2006 Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Program), and we ask that a request is made for permission to reproduce in printed form.\nBirds Korea-Australasian Wader Studies Group\nlate-April 2006\nAlthough the 33-km long Saemangeum seawall was completed on 21April (blocking off 40 100 ha of tidal-flats and shallows at the mouths of the Mangyeung and Dongjin rivers, on the west coast of South Korea), 540 m long sluice-gates have remained open, and the restricted water-exchange has been producing an estimated 1 m tidal range within the Saemangeum system. This compares to a natural tidal range of 7 m at highest springtides.\nUpper tidal-flat areas have become progressively drier through the second-half of the month, and some lower-lying tidal-flats have become permanently covered by water. Local fisherman reported extensive areas of sandflat with dead and dying shellfish north-west of the mouth of the Dongjin River, while beds of dying shellfish were also noted by the Monitoring team at Simpo(between the Mangyeung and Dongjin Estuaries) on 25 April, with puddles of red algal bloom in the same area on 28 April.\nShorebirds have apparently altered their distribution within the system in response to these changes (compared to mid-April and in comparison to previous years), with most species no longer using more upstream areas, and most individuals now concentrated in only a few remaining areas (e.g. off Simpo and Okgu). Large numbers of Great Knot and Dunlin have been feeding on dead and dying bivalves at Simpo. These shellfish were on the surface of the mud, gaping open, allowing shorebirds to pick out the flesh easily without ingesting the shells.\nThis crop of dying shellfish is proving a very temporary resource, however. It was first observed on 25 April,and by 29 April shorebirds at Simpo, for example, were feeding far less successfully, as the surface bivalves were by then mostly dead and the majority had been picked clean of flesh.\nMost numerous species apart from Mongolian Plover were Great Knot (61, 013), Dunlin (24, 849), Bar-tailed Godwit (1,932), Far Eastern Curlew (876) and Grey Plover (643).\nAdditional Species of Special Conservation Concern included 3 Nordmann's Greenshank on 25 April, with one on 28-29 April; 1 Spoon-billed Sandpiper on 25 April; and 1 Chinese Egret and 4 Saunders's Gull on 25 April.\nAt the Dongjin Estuary, four teams of counters on 27 April recorded a total of 45,100 shorebirds of 28 species, with 13,000 left unidentified (the vast majority considered to be Great Knot and Dunlin).\nMost numerous positively-identified shorebirds were Dunlin (13, 480), Great Knot (11, 329), Bar-tailed Godwit (3, 512), and Mongolian Plover (532).\nAdditional Species of Special Conservation Concern included 4 Spoon-billed Sandpiper, 4 Nordmann's Greenshank, one Asian Dowitcher and 10 Saunders's Gull.\nWithout any consideration of shorebird turnover, and combining only the totals of 27 April (Dongjin) and 28-29 April (Mangyeung) a minimum of 137, 778 shorebirds were present within the Saemangeum reclamation area towards the end of April. This compares with a total of only ca 68, 000 shorebirds recorded within the system on 15 and 16 April, 2006. Based on counts in previous years, most of this doubling in number can be attributed to shorebird migration strategies, with the peak in shorebird numbers in South Korea typically occurring between late April and early May.\nFollowing claims by the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that shorebirds displaced by the Saemangeum reclamation would simply move to the adjacent Geum Estuary and Gomso Bay (see e.g. Birds Korea's MAF rebuttal from 2003), counts were also made at both sites during the period, with near daily coverage at the threatened Geum Estuary).\nThe Geum Estuary count on 26 April reveals a less than 15 % increase over the 45 000 shorebirds recorded on 17 April, when there was slightly less complete coverage. Of especial concern, most of this Geum Estuary system is also threatened with reclamation, with a two-phase plan calling first for conversion of the mainland coastal tidal-flats to industrial land; and the second phase (apparently on-hold for now) targetting the rather larger offshore tidal-flats.\nA further count was also conducted at several points in the more southern Gomso Bay.\nPrevious counts in April on 5th and 15th found only 38 and 4 individual shorebirds respectively. On 27 April, 727 shorebirds of 8 species were recorded, with most numerous being Whimbrel (609) and Common Greenshank (55), both relatively late spring migrants to South Korea.\nDuring the period, several more flag sightings and observations of individually-marked shorebirds were achieved within the Saemangeum reclamation area and at the Geum Estuary. During the whole of April, the Monitoring team made approximately 250 such sightings.\nA further series of counts will be conducted over the spring high tide period in Mid-May; and then repeated in spring 2007 and 2008 (volunteers and funding are already being actively sought!). A fuller report of the Program in 2006, with spreadsheets of counts and some basic analysis of results, will be prepared over the coming months.\nEarlier count summaries from April have already been posted on several English-language list-servers, on the Birds Korea websites (in English and Korean) and on several other Korean-language websites.\nAll such information is based on highly valued contributions from a number of international and domestic participants. It is provided freely and openly, with permission for (and hope of) online reproduction on other websites and by other organizations etc.\nSurveying at Saemangeum, Photo \u00a9 KIM Su Kyung\n\"We were so busy we haven't had the chance to look back and think about what this means,\"\nKim Wan-joong, a director at the state-run development corporation, speaking about the completion of the Saemangeum sea-wall in a phone-interview with Reuters.\n(Reuters, 21 April 2006)\nAt the time of writing (25 April), twelve international counters from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the US, the UK and the Netherlands have come to Korea to support expats and nationals (seven of the latter alone in the first two weeks of the Program; more expected to join later), conducting repeated shorebird counts, looking for flags, and assessing habitat changes. Preliminary count results have already been passed on to selected media, posted on several listservers and websites (both in Korean and English), with the Program already proving to be a truly scientific endeavour based on transparency, openness and genuine international cooperation.\nAs Birds Korea members well know, the SSMP was first proposed by us to keep Saemangeum in the national and international spotlight, by documenting how many birds use the Saemangeum tidal-flats and by determining through leg-flag and colour-band searches the origins of birds using the area.\nThe Program also now aims to record in detail what happens as the huge tidal-flats at Saemangeum start to dry out, and the shorebirds dependent on them are no longer able to feed there. Developers have of course repeatedly claimed that the Saemangeum reclamation will have no negative impacts on birds, as such birds will simply move somewhere else (blatantly untrue, based on decades of shorebird research in other countries: see e.g. our MAF rebuttal from 2003), but despite numerous hugely expensive official reports investigating water flows and engineering challenges, there is no official monitoring system in place to gather data on what actually happens to shorebirds in the event of such massive habitat loss. This is extraordinary, especially considering the known importance of the site to threatened waterbirds and migratory shorebirds (with the Saemangeum estuarine system believed to support perhaps 10% of all the region's migratory shorebirds), and in the knowledge of South Korea's intent to host the next Ramsar \"wise use of wetlands\" Convention conference in 2008.\nIs it inappropriate to ask what will the meaning of \" Ramsar in Korea\" be to waterbird or wetland conservation if the loss of 40 000 ha of optimal habitat is even now considered unworthy of any official government comment or censure or even monitoring?.\nWe had all hoped to have a full season of monitoring in 2006 completed before any further work was done on closing the remaining gaps in the 33-km seawall. However a court decision in mid-March 2006 gave the go-ahead for completion of the seawall, which progressed with great haste, and the wall was closed on 21 April. From now, 540 m long sluice gates will remain open for a year, with the estuarine system filling-up with freshwater, leading to the direct loss over the first year of 90% of the tidal-flats. After that time, construction of inner sea dykes will begin, with a proposed time-table aiming for completion in 2011 or thereabouts. There is still no clear end use for any land created. We will continue lobying to maintain some tidal-flow in the system, to conserve some of the estuary's natural value.\nThe gradual reduction in seawater flow into the estuarine system was already having a marked effect on the tides. The first spring tides of the survey, at the very start of April, were reasonably high and brought many birds close to the edges of the rivers at some sites allowing colour-bands and flags to be seen. The next set of spring tides in mid-April were measured at approximately 1.5 m lower than expected, with some higher areas of tidal-flat already starting to dry out and crack. It is expected that the highest tides of the month towards the end of April will now produce only a 1 m or less tide within the Saemangeum system, and a 7 m tide outside of it.\nSurvey results during what were the last ever spring high tides in the system included 24 000 shorebirds of 23 species recorded on 15 April in the Dongjin estuary, including several species in internationally important concentrations.\nMost numerous were Dunlin (19 020), Bar-tailed Godwit (2 326), Far Eastern Curlew (1343), Great Knot (293), Spotted Redshank (111), Eastern Oystercatcher (94) and Terek Sandpiper (91).\nOn 16 April, 44 000 shorebirds of 21 species were counted in the Mangyeung estuary, including several that meet Ramsar criteria as being internationally important. Most numerous species were Great Knot (28 000), Dunlin (15 625), Grey Plover (1325), Bar-tailed Godwit (1040), Far Eastern Curlew (788), Kentish Plover (472), Red-necked Stint (290) and Eastern Oystercatcher (85). A Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Endangered) was also seen.\nWhile birds are still arriving (especially late migrating species like Terek Sandpiper and Mongolian Plover, which are expected to peak in number in May), it seems that numbers of many species already here (particularly Great Knot) are down substantially on what they were 5-8 years ago. Changes to the intertidal ecosystem will have been happening for some years now as the seawall became progressively longer and the comparatively low numbers of birds recorded in 2006 may be reflecting those changes. Perhaps it is such changes that have already resulted in the steep declines in Great Knot numbers reported in Queensland?.\nThe SSMP has also focused on surveying adjacent intertidal habitats, as these are the ones most likely to be used by some of the displaced shorebirds. To the south, Gomso Bay has proved to be an extensive but sandy and extremely poor habitat for shorebirds, with for example just four shorebirds seen there on 15 April. Immediately to the north of the Mangyeung River, the threatened Geum River estuary, however, is clearly an extremely important site internationally.\nOn 17 April, almost 45 000 shorebirds of 23 species were recorded, with most numerous being Dunlin (16 370), Bar-tailed Godwit (12 460), Great Knot (10 429), Far Eastern Curlew (2 560), Grey Plover (2 194), and Eastern Oystercatcher (862). In addition, on Yubu Island (part of the Geum estuary system) there were between 11 and 14 Nordmann's Greenshank (Endangered) and a possible Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Endangered), along with a breeding-plumaged Black-faced Spoonbill (Endangered) and ca 25 Saunders's Gull (Vulnerable).\nIt is clear that despite the developers' claims that birds will simply move to other sites after reclamation these alternative sites are themselves neither as suitable for shorebirds nor are they safe. The Geum River estuary and its approximately 10 000 ha tidal flats have long been scheduled for a major reclamation project, the first phase of which, according to local expert Chu Yong-Gi, is now anticipated to start soon after closure of the Saemangeum seawall. This, and the Saemangeum seawall closing at the most critical time of the year for migratory shorebirds in combination with the ongoing reclamation of other major shorebird sites (such as Namyang and Asan Bays), makes it all the more clear that shorebirds face an increasingly bleak future here in South Korea, unless existing national policies on tidal-flats are modified (e.g. in accordance with Ramsar Resolution 7:21), and unless the nation truly begins to fulfill its obligations to national conservation acts and international conventions and agreements.\nThe incredible beauty and natural value of the Saemangeum estuarine system might now be lost - but neither will ever be forgotten.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 25763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.booksonfirst.com/2011/06/western-elstons-or-theres-nothing-like.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IC2BE7JJ77DU646PNMLJQCURWHHBJMGF", "length": 2513, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.booksonfirst.com", "title": "Books on First Blog: Not the Third Wednesday, or There's Nothing Like Live Music", "raw_content": "Not the Third Wednesday, or There's Nothing Like Live Music\nAs we walked south on Chicago's North Clark Street towards Carmen Avenue and home, my companion said, \"Let's hope this is the third Wednesday of the month,\" which it was not. So, we made a little detour into a bar that we've only seen crowded at these times.\nEvery second and fourth Wednesday of the month, The Western Elstons infuse Simon's Tavern with a rocking roackabilly, a swinging Western swing and 21st century American country. There's a lead vocalist and guitarist, a bass guitarist, a stand-up bass player, a drummer who some may say is a Buddy Holly look-a-like and a switchhitter playing both the guitar and the \"pedal steel guitar.\" All look like they're having fun playing oldies but goodies like \"Maybelline,\" and \"What Am I Worth (on God's green earth if I'm not worth nothing to you)?\" in a whole new way. The pedal steel guitar looks like two guitar necks with steel strings mounted on bars with air pedals below. The very able guitarist (whose name I imperfectly heard as Joe P...) played it like a combination harp/organ/guitar with a steel bar and I was skeptical that it would still be called a \"steel guitar\" until I did my research. The pedal steel guitar looked older and well-used and maybe even too small for the player, but sounded great and figured in all the rounds of solos. The band played an all-instrumental version of \"Sentimental Journey\" and while the whistling was apt (I see that the way to get a whistle's sounds onto the mic is to place the side of one's cheek to it), the steel guitar is what made the piece a signature Western Elston. The diverse crowd too was having a great time. One couple even found room for a tight, crisp two-step. There was no cover, but it was pass-the-beer-pitcher for tips.\nRecall: It was after a rollicking two-set night with The Western Elstons that our master barista slipped on his pant leg while disrobing and broke his arm. Yes, isn't the name nifty and a delight for Chicago insiders, who would know that there is a Western Avenue and an Elston Avenue, which cross with a third avenue -- Diversey -- on the northwest side of Chicago.\nThere's live music at Books on First every Saturday night (except before holidays, like this coming weekend, 2 July which precedes 4 July, Independence Day on Monday). You don't have to miss either The Western Elstons or Sauk Valley's best pass-the-hat live music in a coffeehouse setting.\nLabels: Books on First, Live Music, Western Elstons", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 10414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.boomzap.com/2015/developer-interview-programmer-victor-rykov-talks-about-code-a-brand-new-region-and-the-upcoming-android-version/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YCFFEC433YXZSJTFDJ57FDL7PADDYZW2", "length": 2001, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blog.boomzap.com", "title": "Developer Interview: Programmer Victor Rykov talks about code, a brand new region, and the upcoming Android version! \u2013 Boomzap Developer Blog", "raw_content": "Developer Interview: Programmer Victor Rykov talks about code, a brand new region, and the upcoming Android version!\nAugust 12, 2015 July 6, 2017 boomzap Rescue Quest\nHello! Please introduce yourself.\nMy name is Victor. I`m from Russian Federation, but currently I stay in Thailand. I have been working on Rescue Quest since the time I was employed by Boomzap in August 2013. I\u2019m the programmer on this project, which is a free-to-play puzzle game.\nAre there any challenges in making a free-to-play game?\nThe game should have enough unique features to stand out from other products that are already available out there. At the same time, even though the game is free-to-play, it still has to bring some income to the company, so the proper integration of in-app purchases and advertising are essential to the product success. From a programming standpoint, there are a lot of different marketing and social technologies that need to be integrated in order to give the producers and designers an idea on how the game performs and what we need to do to make it better.\nWhat do you think is Rescue Quest\u2019s most unique feature?\nThe most unique feature is having a character that you can control on the playfield. In most match-3 games, characters only serve as decoration elements and to drive some kind of a story. In Rescue Quest, there is definitely a story, but you can actually control the character \u2013 you can move him around, cast spells, and interact with the game tokens. They are on a journey, and we\u2019re doing our best to introduce new regions and add interesting levels in our updates.\nSpeaking of updates, will the game be available on other platforms too?\nCurrently we are in the process of porting the game to Android. It should be available on Google Play soon!\nAny message to the fans of Rescue Quest?\nWe are in the process of adding new features and improvements to the game all the time, so player feedback is always welcome.\n\u2190 Monster Roles and Strategy\nWhat is Monster Roller, Anyway? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.cimcloud.com/blog/website-pipeline-to-sponsor-computer-management-user-conference", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DAX7AZ6B5KIW4UOE4BWKGHSPHS5PQMYE", "length": 1234, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.cimcloud.com", "title": "Website Pipeline To Sponsor Computer Management User Conference", "raw_content": "Website Pipeline To Sponsor Computer Management User Conference\nPosted by Jack Evans on Apr 11, 2017 10:30:00 AM\nGreenville, SC \u2014 April 11, 2017 \u2014 Website Pipeline, the market leader in ERP-integrated eCommerce, announced today its sponsorship of Solutions 2017.\nTaking place on June 1st, Solutions 2017 is hosted by Computer Management and is billed as \"The Premier Sage 100 User Conference\". This year's conference will be held at the Mystic Marriot Hotel and Spa in Groton, CT and is set to feature an increased number of vendors to network with. Additionally, this years event will incorporate training sessions on a variety of relevant topics.\n\"With over 100 attendees at last year\u2019s event, registering for Solutions 2017 was one of the easiest decisions we\u2019ve made this year,\" says Website Pipeline Sales Team Leader Eric Alexander. \"With most of our client interactions consisting of phone calls and emails, it\u2019s really nice to interact with your clients and prospects in person and Solutions is a great opportunity to do so. The event is very well organized, the venue is top notch, and the CMS team makes you feel like family. I would highly recommend Solutions 2017 to anyone who is looking for ways to grow their business.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.idashboard.com.au/2018/11/19/why-content-marketing-is-so-powerful-for-real-estate-agents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:49Z", "digest": "sha1:2EMIVQMXCAVONAW4LN2PCMURMG4RQZQK", "length": 3070, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.idashboard.com.au", "title": "Why Content Marketing Is So Powerful for Real Estate Agents \u2013 iDashboard Blog", "raw_content": "Content marketing is now the primary way we do marketing. It generates three times as many leads as any other outbound marketing, and conversion rates are six times higher. But for real estate agents, what does this mean? How does it compare to traditional marketing activity? And what do you need to be doing differently?\nBut first, we should define content marketing. It refers to a strategic marketing approach that focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content. It differs from traditional marketing in that the focus is not on how great you and your products are. Instead, it\u2019s about being useful and relevant to your audience.\nAs a real estate agent, you need to use content marketing to turn yourself into an attraction agent, which means you need to think about what people want before they sell their home. This way people begin to think about you as they start the sale process, making it easier for you to bring in new clients.\nHere are some more benefits of content marketing:\n1. Content Makes You an Authority\nPeople hire a real estate agent not only because they think you have the best chance to sell their home, but also because they think you have the skills and expertise to get the highest price in the market. And content marketing is your chance to let people know you have this expertise, making it easier for people to see you\u2019re the best person to sell their home.\n2. Content Creates Awareness\nEvery real estate agent is walking around and stuffing DL flyers in people\u2019s letterboxes. And while this might be helpful, it doesn\u2019t do anything to help you stand out from the crowd. However, if you\u2019re creating and distributing content about property prices, past people you\u2019ve helped, market conditions, how to reduce stress when selling, etc., then you\u2019re really offering something unique, which will help draw people towards you.\n3. Search Engines Love Content\nIf the only content on your website is property listings, then you will always play second fiddle to the major listing sites, even at the local level. However, if you start to post content of your own, then this helps boost your status with search engines, making it more likely that your site will turn up higher than these other pages.\n4. Content Encourages Engagement\nWhen people consume content, it\u2019s normal for them to finish reading and have questions. At first, this might seem annoying, but don\u2019t take it this way. This means that people are reacting and engaging with your content, which means it\u2019s good. And this also means people are more likely to think of you when it comes time to sell their home.\n5. Content Improves Prospect Quality\nWould you rather pitch to a client who knows nothing about you or who is familiar with your business and service you offer? Obviously the second option is better, and if you make use of content marketing then you\u2019re going to have a better chance of generating these types of leads.\nOverall, content marketing is a great way to get the word out about your business and to help you stand out from the crowd.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.mcgannhay.com/david-arnold-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7FKIUOEUOWD2GGX32MOL67Q47L42S52X", "length": 1064, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.mcgannhay.com", "title": "David Arnold \u2013 McGann Hay", "raw_content": "SOUTH BEND-David Lee Arnold, 50, passed away unexpectedly at work on October 15, 2018, of natural causes.\nBorn November 30, 1967, David was the son of the late Gerald Guy and Margaret (Grimm) Arnold. His brother, Rick Arnold, also preceded him in death.\nOn December 26, 2015, after a long courtship, David married his best friend, Holly Ann Vanderstraaten, who survives him. Also left to cherish his memory are: three children, Tiffany (Shawn) Brugh, Jerrid (Brooke) Arnold, and Branden (Kalena) Arnold, all of South Bend; two step-children: Aimee (Drew) Cupp of Mendon, MI and Katie Vanderstraaten of Marcellus, MI; three grandchildren: Liam and Aly Brugh and Laylah Arnold; and one step-grandson, Weston Cupp.\nDavid was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandpa. He was a hard worker, and enjoyed playing co-ed softball and camping. An avid sports fan, he supported the Cubs, Raiders and TN Volunteers. He was dearly loved and left us too soon. He will be dearly missed.\nNo public services are being held. The immediate family will gather at a later date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.pcpools.com/2013/06/bathing-in-your-swimming-pool/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3KLH3IX2IGLOWWQ2LXVDU6W2KPHJXNQM", "length": 1165, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.pcpools.com", "title": "PC Pools", "raw_content": "\u2190 Scents of Smell\nThe Changing Face of Sunscreen \u2192\nMSN\u2019s Healthy Living has a post titled the \u201c12 Myths of Summer\u201d which addresses the myth about a dip in the pool substituting for a shower. So, what\u2019s the word? Here\u2019s what they say:\n\u201cWhen you\u2019ve spent the day in the sun and don\u2019t have time or access to a shower, taking a dip in a pool should suffice, right? Not really, says Philip M. Tierno, Jr., PhD, director of clinical microbiology and immunology at the New York University Langone Medical Center and author of \u2018The Secret Life of Germs\u2019 (2003). \u2018You would still need a shower even after being in the pool unless you know the chlorine levels are high enough to kill the bacteria; if it\u2019s your own pool it may be fine.\u2019 Showering with soap and water also takes off dead skin cells and bacteria, which you can\u2019t accomplish with a dip in the pool, he adds.\u201d\nProvided it\u2019s your own pool, it sounds like it\u2019s better than nothing in a pinch. Well, as long as you have plenty of perfume, cologne, or interest in smelling like your pool water!\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Bathing in pool, myth of summer, Pool Chlorine. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 4089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.spindlelive.com/knowledge-center/topic/tip", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DFKUPCOZ7VIB2XKARV63AFN7OKME6NHI", "length": 314, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.spindlelive.com", "title": "Knowledge Center | Spindle | Tip", "raw_content": "Spindle Helps You See From a New Perspective\n\"It's amazing what another set of eyes can do. We've been doing things a certain way for so many years but you opened our eyes!\" \u2014 Linen customer General Manager's response after being shown a 25% increase in Pounds per Operator Hour through using Spindle. (California)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.stuartherbert.com/photography/2009/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IDE4CX3SS2CBU4OVR76SVYXFLYJLOIQJ", "length": 7646, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "blog.stuartherbert.com", "title": "Stuart's Photography - \u00bb 2009 \u00bb May", "raw_content": "Bridging The Rivers At Pontypridd\nPosted by Stuart Herbert on May 10th, 2009 in Merthyr Road, Modern, Pontypridd, Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, River Taff, Shoot, Taff Vale Railway (Modern-day Valley Lines), Tramroad, Treforest.\nPontypridd stands on the banks of the River Taff and the River Rhondda as the gateway to the valleys beyond \u2013 and the mineral and coal riches that were exploited between the late 1700\u2019s and the 1980\u2019s. From its first bridge in 1750, built to allow travel to market without crossing a deadly river ford, via what is possibly the world\u2019s oldest surviving railway bridge, to the modern road bridges of today, it has always been necessary to bridge the rivers at Pontypridd in order to get from A to B.\nI was taking a week off between jobs to get my annoyance with my former boss\u2019s behaviour out of my system, and it was a real relief to get out and about with the camera. The weather was lovely, and what could be better than a walk through Pontypridd taking shots of the different bridges that have sprung up in this market town?\nI\u2019m always surprised at how Pontypridd has failed to capitalise on Cardiff\u2019s growth. Why hasn\u2019t it become a booming commuter town for everyone who can\u2019t afford the house prices down in Cardiff itself? Sitting at the very northern end of the Taff Vale, the old TVR railway splits north of Ponty to take travellers up the Rhondda Valley to Treherbert, up the Cynon Valley to Aberdare, and up the Taff Valley to Merthyr Tydfil. That gives Ponty three times the amount of trains passing through each day.\nToday, Pontypridd feels more important to the folks who travel down from those valleys than anyone else, marking as it does the half-way point in the journey from the tops of the valleys down to Cardiff. I guess the history of its bridges shows that Pontypridd has always been a place people travel through rather than a destination in its own right.\nI believe that this bridge is probably all that remains of the Llancaiach TVR branch that ran from just north of Pontypridd up to the Albion Collery.\nThe bridge that Pontypridd takes its name from. Built in 1750 by William Edwards, at the time it was the longest single-span bridge in the world. Today, it is used as a footbridge.\nThere aren\u2019t many red telephone boxes left these days. This one stands at the western end of the Old Bridge, Pontypridd. You can see from this shot just how steep the Old Bridge actually is!\nFrom the top of the old bridge, you can look down the River Taff, past the sadly run-down Taff Vale Precinct on the right to the foot bridge that links Ynysangharad Park with the main shopping area of Taff Street.\nThis bridge carries the Rhondda branch line up to Treherbert. The line was opened in 1841, not long after the main TVR route was opened. At the time of writing, I don\u2019t know whether this is a Brunel bridge like its sister bridge is to the east.\nThe Pontypridd Signal Box stands between the TVR branch line up to Rhondda and the main TVR line up to Abercynon and beyond. These steps appear to be the main route up to the signal box. The signal box itself appears to be disused today.\nToday, it\u2019s a road bridge carrying traffic from the A470 up to the north end of Broadway and past Pontypridd station. But before this was built, there was once a railway bridge somewhere in the same area, carrying trains from the TVR over the Taff and onto the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport railway.\nLike the bridge, the PCN railway is long gone, but its trackbed survives as part of the Taff Trail cycle network between Pontypridd and Nantgarw.\nThis is without doubt my personal favourite bridge in Pontypridd. Built in 1850, this bridge allowed the small iron works on the western bank of the Taff (which today has been lost under a housing estate and a popular local park) with the Glamorganshire Canal. I believe this bridge used to carry a light railway or very short tram road.\nToday, it\u2019s a wooden-floored footbridge, and I often cross it after visiting the Yummy Kitchen on the way home from work.\nI like the Abercynon Iron Works bridge so much, here\u2019s a second shot of the bridge from down below.\nI\u2019ve been over the Abercynon Iron Works bridge hundreds of times, but it was only when I went to photograph it that I discovered that it goes over more than just the River Taff.\nI\u2019ve never seen or read about any sort of tram road running along the western shore of the River Taff, so today I am at a lost to say what went under the bridge here. Maybe this is simply a modern addition to enable access to the river bank from the park?\nYou can just about make out the arches of the old Machine Bridge at Glyntaff. According to GaAC, this bridge was built to carry the Doctor\u2019s Tramroad across the Taff to the Doctor\u2019s Canal, where goods from the Rhondda were transferred onto canal barges and shipped downstream and into the Glamorganshire Canal proper.\nGaAC speculates that this might be the oldest surviving railway bridge in the world, predating all of the bridges that carried the Penydarren Tramroad down from Merthyr to Navigation. This view has also been expressed in a local news article about a threat in 2003 to demolish the bridge.\nFancy that, and yet there\u2019s no sort of plaque or anything information-like on the bridge itself that I\u2019ve ever seen.\nUnfortunately, I took no notice at all of the old Machine Bridge at Glyntaff when it was still in use by cars, so I have idea what this lattice framework is for, or where it originally fitted into the bridge\u2019s construction.\nFor many years, the Machine Bridge was the main road link between the A470 and Treforrest. The fabric of the bridge couldn\u2019t withstand the traffic, and the bridge was for a time threatened with demolition. Thankfully, common sense seems to have prevailed, with a new road bridge having been built immediately south of the Machine Bridge.\nToday, the Machine Bridge is a footbridge, closed to traffic, but popular as a car park with council workmen or their contractors.\nIsn\u2019t this a beautiful bridge to look at? I\u2019m afraid that, atm, I don\u2019t know anything about it, but I certainly would love to.\nIt wasn\u2019t easy to pick just one photo from this group, but this is the one that I like the most. I just think it does a great job of showing off a very beautiful bridge \ud83d\ude42\nThis set of photos marks the start of the next evolution in my photographic style. I\u2019ve been using HDR for several months now, but this time I was determined to put together a workflow that brings the HDR images closer in initial appearance to regular, single-frame photos. Before HDR, my favourite style had been the slightly desaturated look of the Taff Vale Eastern Ridge Walk set. What I wanted was that look, but with the added detail that HDR brings. Too many HDR photos just lack a certain subtlety \u2013 as do too many single exposure shots, it has to be said!\nSince taking these photos a year ago now, I\u2019ve refined the HDR workflow over and over before finally coming back to these photos and re-processing them for publication at last. I promise that I\u2019ll do a full article on the workflow in the near future, but the main points are to avoid over-saturating the original HDR image, and then using Aperture 2\u2019s new Saturation and Definition tools to bring out the best of the HDR detail whilst toning down its exuberance at the same time.\nSadly, I\u2019ve been too short of time to thoroughly research each of the bridges in this set. There\u2019s also one bridge missing \u2013 Brunel\u2019s bridge that carries the Taff Vale Railway north from Pontypridd station over the River Rhondda towards Abercynon. I only noticed that whilst doing the write-up. Doh!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 11262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/income-satisfaction-paradox/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:I35PKXBAJW6X2ZYIUUXAJSJWXYHOLMEX", "length": 5757, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk", "title": "The income satisfaction paradox among pensioners in Europe - Data Impact Blog", "raw_content": "Statistically, the financial satisfaction of European pensioners is higher, on average, than that of other population groups. This observation is contradictory since the income of pensioners is lower than that of others. This phenomenon is called the income satisfaction paradox.\nIn my doctoral dissertation published in June 2018, I examined whether the income satisfaction paradox could be explained by a comparison with other population groups or with the pensioners\u2019 own pre-retirement economic status.\nMy research showed that both the retirement route and the economic context of the country in which a pensioner lives affects their subjective perception of their economic situation. Somewhat unexpectedly, these effects may be stronger than the actual income level. The subjective economic well-being is a complex phenomenon, in which the income is only one part of the whole.\nEuropean comparisons based on EU-SILC\nArticles on the subjective economic well-being of the old age population living in different European countries were based on the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2005-2013.\nThe data was well suited for my research purposes as it includes individual-level cross-sectional and longitudinal components. EU-SILC also includes both objective data on income as well as subjective perceptions, that is, how people feel that they can make ends meet.\nUsing contextual and longitudinal analyses, I drew my conclusions regarding the significance of the comparisons based on the average income of the population groups and the individual-level labour market status.\nLongitudinal analysis reveals new retirees\u2019 subjective perception affected the most by the retirement route\nRetirement is a significant phase of change in a person\u2019s life.\nIt is often associated with a reduced income. One of the central focal points in the assessments of subjective well-being is a comparison to the individual\u2019s previous economic status. Very little research exists on the impact of retirement on financial satisfaction.\nContrary to general perceptions, the follow-up of new retirees on an old-age pension revealed that, on average, their subjective economic well-being weakened relatively little. The fluctuation is larger when comparing by country.\nIn the Nordic countries (with the exception of Iceland), income level is high before retirement and remains virtually unchanged after retirement. In the countries of Eastern and Southern Europe, on the other hand, pre-retirement income level tends to be lower to begin with and continues to weaken after retirement.\nFigure 1. Subjective economic well-being in 29 European countries 2010-2013, mean\nScale: 1=great difficulty, 6= Very easy\nRetirement is an individual process: some retire from work, some from unemployment and some from other states outside of the workforce.\nThe income of those who retire from employment tends to decline while it is likely to rise for those who are unemployed. For others, it varies. Taking into account change of income on a more detailed individual level did not change the fact that the financial satisfaction of those retiring from employment declined while it improved for those who retired from unemployment (in particular) but also for those who retired from other activities.\nThe results may indicate that the income generating from different sources, for example, from work, an unemployment allowance or a pension, come with different expectations.\nContextual analysis reveals weaker subjective perceptions in countries with a high standard of living\nSubjective perception of income is partly formed through a comparison to others. In general, pensioners\u2019 reference groups are thought to be other pensioners. There is no research on the subject, however, and no verified data on whether the reference group changes after retirement, for example, from the working age population to other pensioners.\nWith three possible reference groups on offer \u2013 the overall population, the working age population and pensioners \u2013 the pensioners turned out to be the reference group of both younger and older pensioners on an old-age pension. Pensioners are more likely surrounded by other pensioners, which makes it more natural for them to select pensioners as their reference group.\nIt was more surprising to discover that, in the European countries in which the average income of retirees was higher, pensioners perceived their own income to be more insufficient, and vice versa.\nThis result may speak of increased expectations regarding consumption, caused by a higher standard of living. Differences in the income distribution of the population or the pensioners was of no significance. In other words, the subjective perception of one\u2019s own livelihood seems to be affected, in the end, by the subjective perception of the income of similar people in one\u2019s vicinity.\nAlthough my research did not explain the income satisfaction paradox, it revealed that the subjective economic well-being is a multidimensional phenomenon.\nMy research brings new perspectives to the study of income distribution and subjective wellbeing and pension policy decision making.\nFor example, the financial satisfaction of the elderly who are unemployed increases when they retire and get a pension. As a result, people in an unstable labour market position should be able to retire more easily than they do now. This goes against current pension policy.\nEuropean Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data can be accessed from the UK Data Service.\nLiisa-Maria Palom\u00e4ki is a researcher at the Finnish Centre for Pensions, her research focusing on pensioners\u2019 economic well-being. She is also a PhD student at the University of Turku, Finland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 8633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bloggis.se/arlona/124239", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:10Z", "digest": "sha1:WTNY2SYEL4W4HW2RXKVWOBDMXUXZWJPG", "length": 243, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bloggis.se", "title": "Bloggis | powerless", "raw_content": "we give the power of our lives over to someone else.\nand then we are mad at them for not knowing how to use it.\nthus we make our happiness someone else's responsibility.\nand try to control the person whom we have given the power to control us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bmpawnaberdeen.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:TNLYA2WKSBF4S4MNQK7MXNEBDZGKF3KC", "length": 905, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bmpawnaberdeen.com", "title": "B&M Pawn Shop -", "raw_content": "Aberdeen is the best place for pawning your stuff! Buy, Sell, Loan! We are conveniently located in Aberdeen MS.. We specialize in luxury goods like watches and jewelry, And Guns but we are also a full service Pawn Shop who can give you a loan against your valuables. If you\u2019ve been to other pawn shops in the Monroe County area and they haven\u2019t offered you enough for your luxury items, we have you covered. \u2013 we\u2019ll get you the highest amount.\nWe\u2019re open Monday to Friday 9:00 to 5:00. And Saturdays 9:00 to 3:00 We\u2019ve been in business for over 29 years and guarantee your satisfaction. Not looking to pawn something? Come look at what we have in stock. We know how hard it is to find a local pawn shop you can trust and we go out of our way to garner your trust!\nTools Of Any Kind\nBosch Tripod Level 150.00\nWindows 7 125.00 Windows 8 150.00\nAir Conditioners Of All Sizes\nSeveral Types Of Heaters In Stock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boldprose.com/?m=200501", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QYC63PE4LWAZYYYAGPDN2S7P7TQO6CWR", "length": 8807, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "boldprose.com", "title": "January 2005 - Bold Prose", "raw_content": "28th January by twallis4509 Leave a comment\nLet\u2019s Make War History\nLet\u2019s Make War History Too!\nTim Wallis, Peaceworkers UK 28/1/05\nAt the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, 147 world leaders committed themselves to the lofty ideal of eradicating world poverty. This in itself is hardly significant, since politicians put their names to lofty ideals all the time. But in this case, what the leaders of the world signed up to was in fact a set of specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound targets, spelling out exactly what they were committing themselves to achieving by the year 2015.\nThese 18 targets which constitute the \u2018Millennium Development Goals\u2019 (or \u2018MDGs\u2019) provide a means of measuring the progress of every country towards the achievement of those goals. Regardless of whether these goals are actually achieved within the agreed timeframe, the fact is that the existence of these goals and their translation into a set of very detailed and specific indicators has radically transformed the global development movement and moved global poverty to the top of the political agenda.\nNever before have governments been so exposed to the scrutiny of promises made to their citizens and to the rest of the world, and never before has the eradication of world poverty seemed so achievable. Civil Society Organisations around the world have galvanised their members to hold the world\u2019s leaders to these promises. \u2018Make Poverty History\u2019 is the new slogan of this movement as we approach the 5-year review of the Millennium Goals and this will be the focus of international meetings and events throughout 2005.\nWhat has attracted much less attention over the past 5 years is that at the very same Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders also committed themselves to the lofty ideal of eradicating the scourge of war. Although they did define this commitment in terms of eleven achievable \u2018goals\u2019, these were not formulated in anything like the detail and specificity of the Millennium Development Goals. It is no wonder then, that no equivalent pressure has been put on world leaders to deliver on their peace promises.\nBut the eradication of war is no less important to the people of the world than the eradication of poverty. Indeed, without achieving peace in many of the poorest countries of Africa, achieving the millennium development goals is simply an impossibility. This is now widely recognised and the urgency of ending wars and preventing new ones is firmly on the agenda of the development movement. What is needed now is to bring this urgency to the forefront of the world\u2019s political agenda and to tie it inextricably to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. What better way to achieve this than to urge world leaders to agree a set of Millennium Peace & Security Goals to complement and supplement their existing commitment to the Development Goals?\nWhen world leaders gather in September 2005 to review the promises they made five years ago, we must demand of them, not only a re-affirmation of their commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, on time and within budget! We must further demand of them the setting of clear, achievable and measurable targets for the eradication of human misery, death and destruction caused by war. A new set of Millennium Peace & Security Goals should be agreed and quantified such that progress towards their achievement can be clearly monitored. These Security Goals should sit side by side with the Development Goals and be seen as mutually complementary.\nWithout a commitment to the Security Goals, world poverty cannot be eradicated. But likewise, without a commitment to the Development Goals, the scourge of war cannot be eradicated. We need to build a new partnership between those primarily concerned with development and those primarily concerned with peace and security, so that we can work together more effectively to achieve both.\nThere are many other issues demanding the world\u2019s attention, not least the urgent problem of global warming. But the primary focus of 2005 will be on global poverty, and we must make the connection with peace and security that is already there for so many of those involved in development. Never before has there been such a broad consensus about the need to seriously tackle the problem of war. We must seize this opportunity to \u2018make war history\u2019 as we go about trying to \u2018make poverty history\u2019.\nOperationalising a Set of \u2018Millennium Peace & Security Goals\u2019 (or \u2018MPGs\u2019)\nWhat 147 heads of state agreed to in Sept 2000 were 11 lofty ambitions which continue to form the basis of international thinking on global peace and security, most recently in the UN High Level Panel report on \u2018Threats, Challenges and Change\u2019 which came out in December 2004:\nStrengthen the rule of law\nMake the UN more effective\nStrengthen regional cooperation\nImplement international treaties\nTake action against terrorism\nCounter the world drug problem\nFight transnational crime\nMinimise adverse effects of sanctions\nEliminate weapons of mass destruction\nEnd illicit traffic in small arms\nProhibit anti-personnel mines\nThe great significance of the Millennium Development Goals is that there can be no ambiguity about whether they are being achieved or not. The goals themselves can be, and have been, broken down by year and by country to monitor exactly how progress is or is not being made on a case by case basis. Can the lofty objectives above be similarly translated into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound targets, with corresponding indicators that will enable progress towards their achievement to be closely and accurately monitored? So long as we focus on the goals themselves, rather than on the various means proposed for achieving those goals, it should be possible to be as specific, measurable and achievable as the MDGs.\nThe \u2018measurement\u2019 of peace and security is not as difficult as it may sound, and we have a great many baseline statistics from which to build such measurements. Although there may be academic differences in the way these are defined, we can, for instance, count the number of wars taking place at any one time. We can count the numbers of people being killed in those wars. We can count the numbers of refugees and IDPs displaced by war. We can count the number of small arms and light weapons in circulation. We can count the number of landmines still unexploded in the ground and we can count the injuries caused by these.\nWe can also count the numbers of countries that flout international treaties and agreements and the numbers of times they do it. We can count the numbers of weapons \u2013 from the smallest guns to the most powerful nuclear missiles \u2013 that are being stockpiled, produced, bought and sold. We can count the number of terrorist incidents and the numbers arrested for, and affected by, drugs traffic and other transnational crimes. We can even count the numbers of crimes against humanity being committed, the numbers of these being put to trial, nationally or at the ICC, and the numbers of successful convictions.\nWe do not need to explain exactly how a reduction in any of these numbers would be achieved, although that may well be a useful contribution for civil society organisations to make. Our objective in the first instance must be to get governments to translate the 11 security goals in the Millennium Declaration into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound targets. That alone would be a huge step forward in terms of holding those governments to account and measuring their progress against an agreed yardstick. It must then be up to governments to find ways of meeting the targets once they have agreed to them.\nWill the world\u2019s leaders be prepared to commit themselves to halving all the numbers above by 2015? Perhaps it is more \u2018realistic\u2019 to try to cut the number of wars and the number of people affected by war by, say, 20% over the next 10 years? What the precise numbers might be that would attract universal or near universal agreement among the world\u2019s leaders is purely a matter of political positioning and bargaining that can begin once the principle of setting some numbers is agreed. Our first task is to get that agreement of principle and then to work on public opinion and the media to push world leaders to be as ambitious as possible on this. The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict provides an opportunity both to galvanise a global movement in support of MPGs and a forum in July to push for this to be on the agenda of the Summit of world leaders in September. In the meantime, there are numerous opportunities coming up that can be used to build support for this at UK and EU levels.\nPosted in Peace, UN\t| Tags: goals, MDG, UN\t|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 11219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://booredatwork.com/lg-and-infineon-to-introduce-front-facing-time-of-flight-camera-on-lg-g8-thinq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IDAYV4NPFTODYH24QYGNH7OXPKIEY33L", "length": 3661, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "booredatwork.com", "title": "LG AND INFINEON TO INTRODUCE FRONT-FACING TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA ON LG G8 THINQ | Booredatwork", "raw_content": "Home\u203aMobile\u203aLG AND INFINEON TO INTRODUCE FRONT-FACING TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA ON LG G8 THINQ\nInfineon\u2019s REAL3TM image sensor chip will play a key role in the front-facing camera of the upcoming LG G8 ThinQ, to be unveiled in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019. Building upon the combined expertise of Infineon and pmdtechnologies in algorithms for processed 3D point clouds, the chip provides sophisticated security for phone unlocking and payment authentication.\nWhile other 3D technologies utilize complex algorithms to calculate an object\u2019s distance from the camera lens, the ToF image sensor chip delivers more accurate measurements by emitting and capturing infrared light as it is reflected off the subject. As a result, ToF is faster and more effective in ambient light, reducing the workload on the application processor and subsequently limiting power consumption.\nDue to its fast response speed, ToF technology is widely used in various biometric authentication methods. What\u2019s more, because ToF sees objects in 3D and is not affected by light from external sources, it delivers an excellent recognition rate, both indoors and out.\nInfineon Technologies is a German semiconductor manufacturer recognized for its technological excellence in producing semiconductor and sensor solutions for various industries such as automotive, power management and digital security. The company developed the ToF technology featured in the LG G8 ThinQ for use in both premium, smartphones as well as lower-cost devices.\n\u201cInfineon is poised to revolutionize the market,\u201d said Andreas Urschitz, division president of Infineon\u2019s Power Management & Multimarket division. \u201cWe have demonstrated service beyond the mere product level \u2013 specifically catering to phone OEMs, associated reference design houses and camera module manufacturers. Within five years, we expect 3D cameras to be found in most smartphones and Infineon is poised to contribute a significant share.\u201d\n\u201cKeeping in mind LG\u2019s goal to provide real value to its mobile customers, our newest flagship was designed with ToF technology from inception to give users a unique and secure verification system without sacrificing camera capabilities,\u201d said Chang Ma, senior vice president and head of product strategy at LG Mobile Communications Company. \u201cWith innovative technology like ToF, the LG G8 ThinQ will be the optimal choice for users in search of a premium smartphone that offers unmatched camera capabilities.\u201d\nLG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $55 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, mobile phones, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, solar energy solutions and vehicle components. The \u201cLife\u2019s Good\u201d marketing theme encompasses how LG is dedicated to people\u2019s happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. LG is a 2018 ENERGY STAR\u00ae Partner of the Year. www.LG.com.\nInfineon Technologies AG is a world leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and greener. Microelectronics from Infineon is the key to a better future. In the 2018 fiscal year (ending 30 September), the Company reported sales of \u20ac7.6 billion with about 40.100 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX) and in the USA on the over-the-counter market OTCQX International Premier (ticker symbol: IFNNY). Further information is available at www.infineon.com. This press release is available online at www.infineon.com/press.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bowes-lyonpartnership.co.uk/tag/internet-dating/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NXRLUE7ZXSRSULQPYYG4Q2JLQPKRAV3Q", "length": 291, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bowes-lyonpartnership.co.uk", "title": "internet dating Archives - Bowes-Lyon Partnership", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Posts tagged internet dating\nElite internet dating for high-flyers\nA dynamic, busy life isn\u2019t always a deliberate choice. But whether it\u2019s your career, your ambition or a simple zest for life, many of us experience life in the fast lane. If this is true for you, then you\u2019re probably\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brandrethworks.com/write-stuff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:08Z", "digest": "sha1:P7R7NW6DLMSAQ57LFGRQD6HHRY532B4O", "length": 70, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "brandrethworks.com", "title": "The Write Stuff | Brandrethworks | Contract Marketing Services", "raw_content": "You are hereHome Posts The Write Stuff\nPosted on June 7, 2014 by Ginny", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bryanknight.org/day2day/the-gym/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CV7BXRKEWGPGY2G7SNP5TBXFD6WVYMDN", "length": 994, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bryanknight.org", "title": "The Gym\u2026 \u2013 Bryan Knight", "raw_content": "So last night I hit up the gym with bob\u2026 I think it was the first time since we were pregnant with Mason that I went\u2026 I was a bit apprehensive, but I had a good time. I walked up to the one on webster, which is ~1.35 miles each way. It was REALLY crowded, as it always is in january as people go to work off the holiday weight and fulfill their new years resolutions (ableit short lived). It always dies down in february.\nAnyway\u2026 bob and I worked chest and back did 30 minutes of cardio. Then I walked back home. It was super nice to get back in there and feel less like a lazy slob. It was also great to hang out with bob, as we haven\u2019t hung out as much lately.\nI am thinking I am going to try and make it a monday night thing. It would be good to have that on the schedule again. I would like to get rebecca there too, but she won\u2019t be lifting too much weight, being pregnant and all.\nBut I am feeling good today, a bit sore, but good. Good sore. Tomorrow might be a killer though, we\u2019ll see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2011/08/15/the-double-edged-sword-of-entrepreneurship/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SKLWTJVGQGTDMFUKFLMDSMBZXVN3KF2J", "length": 3774, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "btr.michaelkwan.com", "title": "The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurship \u00bb Beyond the Rhetoric", "raw_content": "The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurship\nPosted by Michael Kwan | Aug 15, 2011 | Business Talk, Freelance Life | 4 |\nWhen it rains, it pours. When the sun is out, you feel like you should still be holding that umbrella. Working from home as a small business owner presents several unique challenges that are becoming even more commonplace as more people turn to entrepreneurship to create their own opportunities. And what results is a profound double-edged sword.\nI\u2019m writing from the perspective of a professional freelance writer, but the same conundrum easily exists across several other disciplines, from graphic design to legal consulting. The amount of work crossing your desk is rarely constant and steady; it comes in spurts and this results in an uneven working environment.\nOverwhelmed With Work\nOn the one hand, you could get buried under what feels like far too much work. Some people will tell you that, as a business owner, this is a good problem to have. It means that you are making more money and your business is growing.\nThat may be true, but it does lend itself to burnout. Even if you love what you do, having too much work to do is going to be overwhelming and it takes away from having a healthy life-work balance. You\u2019ll complain that you simply don\u2019t have the time to handle all of it.\nGuilty Without Work\nIf that\u2019s the case, then you would assume that the flip side would be more appealing. When you have a lighter work load, you can have more time to relax, right? That\u2019s the idea, but it\u2019s oftentimes not the case.\nThis notion has popped up before and it\u2019ll pop up again: because you can work at any hour of the day, you may feel that you should work at every hour of the day. After going through a deluge of work, you feel like you should take a break\u2026 but when you do, you suddenly feel like you should be doing something.\nDoes Balance Really Exist?\nThis is something that you really need to determine on your own. It is going to be an internal struggle. As a business owner, you want to grow, evolve, and be profitable. That said, you also want to have some time to yourself and to share with your family.\nGrow your business and make more money, but also realize that for entrepreneurs, there really is never a \u201cgood\u201d time to take a break. You just have to convince yourself that taking a well-deserved break is not really the same as procrastination.\nTags: business practices, entrepreneur, work ethic\nPreviousSunday Snippet: Albert Einstein (Again)\nNextAoyama Cafe (Aberdeen Centre, Richmond)\nGrammar 101: Technique, Technical or Technic\nGrammar 101: A Six-Month Anniversary\nGrammar 101: Between This and That\nGrammar 101: Dual and Duel Are Not the Same\nRecipes with Twist\ton August 16, 2011 at 3:55 am\nI belong to middle class and i am thinking for a restaurant business and all i need is this type of business plans and strategies for my business.Thanks.\nused tires\ton August 16, 2011 at 11:35 am\nI\u2019ve personally felt guilty in the past whenever I am not working, the thought mainly comes to my mind whenever I am on vacation. It is always in the back of my mind that I need to get work done. Its funny how that works out\u2026.\nYou have talked about balance before, but not about too much versus not enough work. I believe in trying to always have something to do, but I also think you need some sort of down time to decompress.\nToo much pressure on oneself doesn\u2019t help your health or your personal life with others.\nused tires\ton August 18, 2011 at 9:21 pm\nToo much pressure certainly does not help Ray in terms of health, I will agree with that. However, sometimes thats that way things are and you\u2019ve just got to push through it. The pressure helps you push through the tough times in my opinion and can help you push to the next level.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bucarotechelp.com/getpaid/pubebook/93072206.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UB2DWTIDVJBI7474UD4HQD75YB7BQBZL", "length": 2762, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bucarotechelp.com", "title": "Creating Your Own Quick and Easy eBook Products", "raw_content": "Creating Your Own Quick and Easy eBook Products\nby Rick Roberts\nSecond only to website creation, one of the most widely spread use of all of the information that can be obtained from the Internet is the creation of an eBook from gathering targeted specific information about a particular subject. You see them everywhere. Some are free and some are not. To some it may seem a daunting task to write an eBook. In the following article I will lay out the basic steps it takes to create your own eBook product.\nDepending on the subject you choose creating an eBook product of your own can be accomplished in as little as 2 1/2 to 5 hours tops. There are really only six steps needed to create one. If you can write an article to post in article directories you can create your own eBook product. So what are these six steps? Okay, lets explore them. The six steps needed are:\nYou may have already picked an idea or already have several ideas. If not the best places to get an idea for a new eBook is to visit forums on the Internet that are based on a particular topic you are interested in or have some experience with. Maybe you love cooking and know lots of specialized recipes for the greatest home made cakes ever baked.\nMaybe you know a lot about little league baseball coaching, maybe you are an avid wildlife photographer. Seek out forums on the Internet pertaining to these subjects and read a few posts to see what kind of questions people are asking about them. It won't take long before you get an idea of what kind of questions you could answer in your eBook.\nSo by now you should have at least one idea of a subject for an eBook. Next you want to research the subject and gather more information about it. So how do you do this? Well you could continue to read more forums related to your subject matter or you could speed up the process and see if someone else has already covered the topic in some way and get information from their work. Now I am not advocating plagiarism here at all. You want your work to be original and fresh, but you can use other informational products to help you explain your subject matter.\nSo using your favorite search engine you can search for something like this: \"fly fishing + ebook\". This search will get you a list of results that are related to your subject matter and already written into an eBook. Now another slick idea is to search for PDF documents since most all eBooks are saved in PDF format.\nSo you could do a search like this: filetype:pdf \"fly fishing\". These are but two examples of how to find already written reports and eBooks on your subject be creative and I think you'll find other ways of finding them. 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Atkinson, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 74.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business.goportsmouthnh.com/list/member/capital-lease-group-12179", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NPDZZX6OWII3WGUCOUARTEHAQNL5UQDT", "length": 165, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "business.goportsmouthnh.com", "title": "Capital Lease Group | Transportation & Services - Member Details - Visit Portsmouth NH", "raw_content": "We are a full service fleet management company that specializes in supporting Small Business as Well as Non Profit Companies by controlling cost and reducing hassle!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bwic-ldv.tripod.com/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:43Z", "digest": "sha1:KHT4RE52YABVC4QMWZW6N5VMJKYHMRYV", "length": 346, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bwic-ldv.tripod.com", "title": "Berks Women In Crisis- LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT GROUP", "raw_content": "Berks Women In Crisis in Reading Pennsylvania, has started a new support group for victims of lesbian domestic violence (LDV). This support group meets every Thursday evening at 6pm. If you have been a victim of lesbian domestic violence and would like to attend the support group please call us at 610-372-4065 ask for Yvonne (shelter Director).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cafechairsmelbourne.com.au/style-from-steel-the-history-of-tolix/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:57Z", "digest": "sha1:AWJGT53Q5MKAEBIZ5SWLK2TOE6SVNBEL", "length": 3067, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cafechairsmelbourne.com.au", "title": "Style From Steel \u2013 The History Of Tolix \u2013 Cafe Chairs Melbourne", "raw_content": "Home/Blog/Style From Steel \u2013 The History Of Tolix\nStyle From Steel \u2013 The History Of Tolix\nTolix stools and chairs have been a main stay in the caf\u00e9 industry since the 1930\u2019s where they first came to prominence in the caf\u00e9\u2019s and bistro\u2019s of Paris. Nowadays they symbolise the very best in both simple form and functionality and are an icon in industrial aesthetics. In fact the so called \u2018Model A\u2019 chair has entered design folk-law and is exhibited at such highly esteemed institutions as the Vitra Design Museum and the world famous Pompidou Centre in Paris. As such they\u2019re as popular today as they were back then. In fact you\u2019ve only got to Google the words \u2018Tolix stools\u2019 and it returns over 2.8 million search results. This got me thinking, how did the Tolix stool first come about?\nIn the early years just after the First World War, Xavier Pauchard ran a small factory located just outside of Autun in Burgundy making galvanised sheet-metal products for house-hold use. As a serial entrepreneur and a visionary he saw the potential that the galvanisation process had. It\u2019s a process that had already been successfully used for over 100 years whereby zinc was bonded with steel to make an anti-corrosive, rust-proof metal. After several years of experimenting with various types of galvanised furniture Pauchard realised that the demand for his furniture was growing and as such changed his business to manufacture purely chairs, stools and other metal furnishings. In 1927 Pauchard registered the name Tolix. Very soon the models Pauchard\u2019s factory produced were robust, stackable and of course rust-proof and they were snapped up by factories, hospitals and offices.\nThe \u2018Model A\u2019 Chair\nIn 1934 he produced probably his greatest achievement in the Model A chair. Simple in design it was light, robust and relatively inexpensive to manufacture and as such it was ideal for the bustling caf\u00e9s and bistro\u2019s that littered Paris of the day. In 1935 a similar Tolix (Model A inspired) stool followed and it was at this point his company really took off.\nBy the 1950\u2019s the company were at their peak and Jean Pauchard (Xavier\u2019s son) and his now 80 strong work-force were producing over 60,000 galvanised chairs and stools every year. The products were being exported all over the world. For the next sixty years the family continued to manufacture chairs and stools, most of which was exported to the USA until in 2004 the company changed hands.\nNow under the control of Chantal Andriot Tolix still produces the same stools and chairs to the same specifications and with the rise of the industrial look, they remain very much in demand. Now they can be purchased in a wide variety of colours and grace some of the finest establishments in the world.\nIf you\u2019re a lover of the raw industrial look that Tolix stools and chairs can bring but can\u2019t quite justify the real thing then here at Cafe Solutions, we have some excellent replica versions for you to choose from. Check out our website at www.cafesolutions.com.au or contact us on (07) 3205 1616 for further details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 11986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://calvertnet.k12.md.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=123424&pageId=1158075", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OCWTFDRBBYVBXWIL3DP7JCJB2UHXQLPS", "length": 2270, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "calvertnet.k12.md.us", "title": "Pamela L. Cousins - Calvert County Public Schools", "raw_content": "Calvert County Public Schools \u00bb Board of Education \u00bb About the Board \u00bb Members of the Board of Education \u00bb Pamela L. Cousins\nEmail: cousinsp@calvertcounty.education\nMs. Pamela Cousins began her adult career serving in the U.S. Air Force. Her mission to help mitigate national security cyber challenges in support of the National Intelligence Community was recognized as exemplary military service. With combined military and private industry responsibilities, she has over 27 years of cyber security, project management and leadership experience in building teams and managing secure IT systems. Ms. Cousins currently works for the Federal Government implementing common policies and best practices that are risk-based and able to effectively respond to the pace of ever-changing cyber threats to Federal networks. She has earned various professional Cyber and IT Certifications.\nMs. Cousins\u2019 passion for serving the community dates back 35 years. Her civic participation includes managing a Meals on Wheels Program, developing a mentoring program for girls, to serving as President of her homeowners association. Pamela was elected to serve on the Calvert County Board of Education in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE). She endeavors to provide all learners with access to challenging learning opportunities. She is also the President of the Concerned Black Women of Calvert County (CBW), whose mission is to improve the quality of life of families in the local community. Ms. Cousins is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Southern Maryland Chain Chapter, The Links, Inc.\nMs. Cousins was presented CBW\u2019s 2017 Outstanding Member Award at the 15th Annual Women of the World (WOW) Awards. She received the 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award for Advocacy by the Calvert County Commission for Women at the 14th Annual WOW Awards. She was also named the 2015 Citizen of the Year for Calvert County from the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. \u2013 Tau Lambda Lambda Chapter.\nMs. Cousins has lived in Calvert County for the last 11 years. 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The charges are felonies that collectively could get her nearly 10 years in prison.\nProsecutors allege Antrach accessed the accounts of the 25-year-old Gomez and the unnamed associate several times in 2015 and 2016, and also posted private media from the accounts online.\nAntrach has not entered a plea. Prosecutors did not know if she has hired an attorney who could comment, and no phone listing could be found for her.\nSlight property tax increase approved in Amherstburg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://capital959.com/slash-dodged-100-per-cigarette-smoking-fine-on-u-k-tour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNQ3U4XXEXRSAOWMWNJ6ZK73BDCOM6VL", "length": 1994, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "capital959.com", "title": "Slash Dodged \u00a3100-Per-Cigarette Smoking Fine on U.K. Tour", "raw_content": "Slash Dodged \u00a3100-Per-Cigarette Smoking Fine on U.K. Tour\nSlash recalled dodging fines issued for smoking in U.K. venues before he quit the habit in 2009, adding that he didn\u2019t believe the law would be successful.\nThe Guns N\u2019 Roses guitarist faced sanctions of \u00a3100 ($127) per offense during a solo tour after it became illegal in 2007 to light up in enclosed working spaces, which included the venues he was playing in.\n\u201cI chainsmoked,\u201d Slash told WTF With Marc Maron (via Blabbermouth). \u201cAnd I couldn't handle \u2014 this is not why I quit smoking \u2014 but I couldn't handle not being able to smoke wherever I wanted. I was smoking at gigs, and I was on tour in the U.K., and they told me, 'The smoking ban's coming,\u2019 I said, \u2018You guys are gonna have some serious problems. \u2026 You know they're gonna riot. It's not gonna work.\u2019\n\u201cAnd so we finished the tour, and I came back maybe six months later, and they had passed this thing. And it was people sitting outside all smoking their cigarettes with their cocktails, and they were sitting on benches. And some hotels had put monitors outside so you could watch TV and smoke, and they just went down quietly. And it was, like, 'Wow!' No repercussions whatsoever \u2014 no violence, stoning or anything.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cThey were trying to fine me for every cigarette I smoked on stage. So it was, like, a hundred quid for every cigarette,\" Slash said. \"So, we had to make up a bunch of stories, and we got out of it. But I couldn't believe it had gotten to that point.\u201d\nSlash explained he\u2019d finally given up smoking after his mother died of cancer, but said it remained \u201ctough\u201d to keep off the cigarettes. \u201cYou've got these triggers all the time,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey only last for maybe two seconds or so, but they're really, really potent. And you can just get it watching somebody smoke on TV. I saw somebody smoking at a bus stop, and I said, 'Ohhh\u2026' It happens at least once a day every day.\u201d\nSource: Slash Dodged \u00a3100-Per-Cigarette Smoking Fine on U.K. Tour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cardwell-capital.ch/usa-nevada/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:56Z", "digest": "sha1:VGO647E5YRZ4HAF4JKYOXZ56A6PLCK45", "length": 6597, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "cardwell-capital.ch", "title": "NEVADA USA | Cardwell Capital Inc.", "raw_content": "SAMOA \u2192\nFeatures of Nevada Limited Liability Companies (LLC\u2019s)\nLLC\u2019s may engage in any lawful business outside the USA and make use of any currency that they may choose.\nNevada has no state tax, no franchise tax, no inventory tax, no inheritance tax, no unitary tax, no gift tax and no chain store tax.\nLow property tax, workers\u2019 compensation and unemployment insurance tax.\nNevada has no IRS information-sharing agreement (there is no exchange of information between the Sate of Nevada and any other state or Federal agency).\nLLC\u2019s Members that conduct no business in the US and have no US source income, deductions, or credits are not subject to US federal income tax, and are not required to file US federal income tax return.\nLLC\u2019s could be subject to taxation by the United States of America or its individual states. It may include, trading in, with or through any territory of the USA, opening bank accounts, applying for a federal identification number (EIN), hiring employees or agents, and owning business interests and/or property in the United States of America.\nMinimizing disclosures and filings: the key distinction is keeping separate \u201cU.S. persons\u201d (the Nevada LLC) and the all \u201cnon- U.S. persons\u201d (the foreign member). If the U.S. Person has foreign accounts, then it may have to file FBAR disclosures. The non-U.S. persons remain confidential and do not, simply by virtue of owning an interest in a U.S. entity, have to file or disclose. Only when the non- U.S. person receives U.S. income should that person file and disclose.\nObtaining an EIN number does not trigger tax liability on the company or its members. Filing a \u201czero return\u201d is a very good idea, it puts a deadline on IRS actions and shows compliance with standard industry practice. 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This solution does not have federal tax advantages.\nNo need to register a minimum or maximum capital contribution.\nMore than one class membership interest is allowed, which provides the flexible structuring.\nMANAGERS AN MEMBERS\nManagers and members can be either corporate entities or natural persons.\nInitial or ongoing changes in manager or member (the latter, if they are handling the management of the LLC) need to be filed at the Secretary of State in Nevada.\nThe Manager may grant special or general powers of attorney.\nRegister of Manager and Member is required and must be kept at the Registered Office of the LLC.\nThe LLC may have one or more Managers, who do not need to be members.\nOne or more persons may form a limited-liability company.\nManagers and Members may be of any nationality and may be residents of any country. The required minimum being one Manager and one Member.\nManagers and Members may hold their meetings in any country and may attend such meetings by proxy.\nNo requirement to file financial statements, nor to hold annual general meetings of Managers or Members.\nThe filing of an annual list of Managers or Members is mandatory.\nAn LLC may have a perpetual duration.\nThe words \u201cLimited Liability Company\u201d, \u201cLimited Company\u201d, or \u201cLimited\u201d, or the abbreviations \u201cLtd.\u201d, \u201cL.L.C.\u201d, \u201cL.C.\u201d, \u201cLLC\u201d, or \u2018LC\u2019 may be used in a LLC\u2019s name. The word \u201cCompany\u201d may be abbreviated as \u201cCo.\u201d\nIncorporation procedure takes from 10 to 15 days.\nA 24-hour Company Name Reservation Service.\nThe books records and minutes of the company may be kept in any place or country at the Manager\u2019s or Member\u2019s choice if they are handling the management of the LLC.\nAn LLC must keep copy of the following records at its registered office in Nevada: Articles of Organization and amendments (if any), Annual list reflecting the Manager(s)or Member (s) and business address, Operating agreement, Power of attorney (if any), copy of Register of manager (s) and copy of Register of Member(s).\nAn LLC must keep the following records at the office of the secretary of State in Nevada: Articles of Organization and amendments (if any), details of Resident Agent, Annual list reflecting the Manager(s) or Member(s) and business address.\nRegistered Office Nevada is required.\nCONTINUATION (DOMESTICATION)\nForeign companies can be speedily continued to Nevada.\nConversion of a U.S. company from any State to Nevada is allowed\nUSES OF NEVADA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES\nSue and be sued, complain and defend, in its name.\nPurchase any real or personal property, or an interest therein, wherever situated.\nSell, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, transfer and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets.\nLend money to and otherwise assist its members.\nDeal in and with shares or members\u2019 interests.\nMake contracts and guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow money at such rates of interest as the LLC may determine.\nLend, invest and reinvest its money.\nConduct its business, carry on its operations and have and exercise the powers grated in any foreign country.\nAppoint managers and Agents.\nCease its activities and surrender its Article of Organization.\nExercise all powers necessary or convenient to achieve any of the purposes for which the LLC is organized.\nHIGHLIGHTS OF NEVADA\nServiced by major world airlines\nNo capital gains, income or other kinds of tax.\nDOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE KEPT AT THE REGISTERED OFFICE (NEVADA), IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW\nCardwell Managers and Members could be appointed.\nCopy of the Register of Manager reflecting complete name and business address of the Manager(s).\nLocation Nevada is a western state, lying in the great Basin and Plateau section of the United States.\nIt is bordered on the north by Oregon and Idaho. California is to the west and southwest.\nTo the Southeast is Arizona, with the Colorado River forming part of the boundary.\nNevada\u2019s eastern neighbor is Utah.\nArea 110,540 square miles, 485 miles long, 315 miles wide, seventh in size.\nPopulation 2,600,167 ( 2008 Est.)\nClimate Arid and there is abundant sunshine, light rainfall and snow.\nGovernment Nevada has a bicameral (two houses) Legislature consisting of the Senate and the Assembly.\nThe two houses are jointly designated in the State Constitution as \u201c The legislature of the\nLegal Tender US dollar.\nIndustry Hotel, gaming and recreations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catalog.niu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=41&poid=9221", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:51Z", "digest": "sha1:X5IDHRHEJ6X3SG76QYI6Y463QDKOAY2O", "length": 2673, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "catalog.niu.edu", "title": "Program: Health and Human Sciences Contract Major (B.S.) - Northern Illinois University - Acalog ACMS\u2122", "raw_content": "Health and Human Sciences Contract Major (B.S.)\nThe College of Health and Human Sciences offers students the opportunity of constructing individualized programs of study which are different from the university\u2019s regular major and minor programs. 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In either case, none of these hours may also be counted toward the general education requirement.\nearn at least 30 semester hours of the contract major program in upper-division courses.\nA student who completes an approved contract major and all other graduation requirements will receive the degree Bachelor of Science with a contract major in _______ (the theme specified in the contract).\nThe college reserves the right to deny contract majors that overextend the resources of a department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 9461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://caterot.com.br/?subtopic=creatures&creature=Annihilon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VU3AOBUOGN6EX25RRWT6E34RAYSOHQJH", "length": 109, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "caterot.com.br", "title": "Annihilon - Creatures - CaterOT", "raw_content": "Annihilon\nVoices: \"Flee as long as you can!\", \"Annihilon's might will crush you all!\", \"I am coming for you!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 150.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2017/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QCJLR6FFMA2NDMSA6CEYDYSJMRAM2TBF", "length": 53816, "nlines": 217, "source_domain": "cdrsalamander.blogspot.com", "title": "CDR Salamander: August 2017", "raw_content": "Are we proud of unnecessary short-term \"make-it-happenism\" that is contributing to an underlying failure of our primary jobs?\nI'm pondering that question in light of the FITZGERALD and MCCAIN incidents over at USNIBlog.\nJohn Schindler has a good read over at Observer.com focusing on Poland's efforts to increase here ability to defend herself - and as a byproduct, NATO and the West.\nThis spring, NATO finally came through, following years of pleading from Warsaw, and deployed 1,100 troops in northeast Poland. Some 900 of those troops are American, and this NATO battalion group, which is based 35 miles south of Kaliningrad, is merely a tripwire. They would be quickly flattened by Russian tanks if war breaks out, but they guarantee Poland will not be fighting alone.\nThat fear is widespread in Poland and is no surprise given the country\u2019s painful history of abandonment by unreliable Western allies. No NATO country has taken the threat of a resurgent Russia more seriously.\nWarsaw is one of the few NATO countries to spend the \u201crequired\u201d minimum of two percent of GDP on defense (the others, aside from America, are Britain, Estonia and Greece).\nThis paragraph stands out - and should put Germans to shame;\nIncreased funding has been put to good use, and the Polish military is in the middle of an extensive defense modernization program that will run through 2022. For the army, the largest of Poland\u2019s armed services, this means hundreds of new armored vehicles, including modernized Leopard II tanks and cutting-edge artillery systems. The army possesses three divisions and 13 maneuver brigades, making it one of the biggest land forces in NATO. To compare, the German army boasts two divisions with eight maneuver brigades (one of them half-French), even though Germany has more than twice Poland\u2019s population and its GDP is four times as large.\nThe small Baltic republics, led by the always game and plucky Estonia, are coming online as well.\nThe key on the continent is Germany. She simply must stop picking her bellybutton and take her place as a bulwark against Russia. If she just spent her 2%, with or without the USA, Russia would be even more deterred than she is. When Germany moves, so will the other European nations.\nUntil then, BZ Poland.\nThe conflict in Ukraine continues to drag on to the point that is has become part of the natsec background noise.\nIt is clear the Ukrainian people want to move towards the West. They no longer want to be in the Russian orbit. They have a lot to do in the civil society and rule of law department, but they are making slow progress in the right direction most of the time, and are at least trying the rest.\nStill, it is not a nation at peace - and it is an European nation. Western European, former Warsaw Pact, and Soviet republics now in NATO have a greater combined population and GDP than the USA, and yes when it comes to Ukraine, we seem stuck here;\n...Ukrainian soldiers have, throughout the past three years of relentless combat, frequently turned to symbols of America to both intimidate and annoy their enemies\u2014sometimes, in eclectic and creative ways.\nUkrainian soldiers have raised U.S. flags over their front-line trenches and forts\u2014typically to the retort of sniper or mortar fire from across no man\u2019s land. Sometimes, to really get under the enemy\u2019s skin, an English-speaking Ukrainian soldier will radio commands in English over unencrypted channels, pretending to be a member of SEAL Team Six.\nAt the front-line village of Krymske in 2015, just outside the separatist stronghold of Luhansk, Ukrainian troops renamed a street from that of a Soviet luminary to \u201cJohn McCain Street.\u201d\nWhen Canadian journalist and filmmaker Christian Borys asked the soldiers when they were going to name a street after then-President Barack Obama, the soldiers replied, \u201cWhen he sends us weapons.\u201d\nSince the war in the Donbas region began in April 2014, Russian propaganda has spun yarns about U.S. military forces actively participating in the war. Consequently, Ukrainian soldiers know that flaunting American military support for Ukraine is a potent psychological weapon against their enemies.\nAny instance of U.S. military support for Ukraine is also a powerful morale booster for Ukrainian troops as they continue to grind out a 3-year-old war against a combined force of Russian troops and pro-Russian separatists.\n\u201cU.S. support lets the Ukrainians know the stronger guy is on their side,\u201d Mamuka Mamulashvili, commander of the pro-Ukrainian Georgian National Legion, told The Daily Signal in an interview.\nNow, after three years of war, Ukrainian troops may soon have at their disposal the one tangible affirmation of U.S. military support they\u2019ve wanted the most\u2014weapons.\nWhy not Europe? Well, I think the Ukrainians know their neighbors better than we do, and simply have little faith in them.\nMy heart continues to be on the side of the Ukrainians, and my head is mostly for supporting them with defensive arms as needed - but two things concern me.\n1. Where are the Europeans? Yes, I know they are there a bit - but shouldn't they and not the USA be top of mind for the long term success of Ukraine's drift to the West?\n2. Are we being careful enough? Is Ukraine worth risking war over? We need to be careful not only with what we do, but what the Ukrainians may do if they think they can fight for their nation using American blood at the front end.\nIt's a tough neighborhood; be careful out there.\nLabels: Europe, Ukraine\nZeebrugge. If you have been there or to its inner city Brugges you know what a beautiful and peaceful place it is - as most all of Belgium is in 2008.\nIn 1918 though, Belgium was a nightmarish slaughterhouse where the bodies of millions were blended into the beaten earth - where like Okinawa and Iwo Jima over a quarter century later - the living earth would move with a blanked mass of maggots.\nIn one of history's subtle hints she will give you early if you wish to listen, Britain found herself on the edge of starvation due to a threat few understood or even knew of at the beginning of the war - the submarine. Something new, unexpected and decisive needed to be done.\nBy 1918, the Great War had entered a decisive phase. While Russia had been knocked out of the war, its place had been taken by the United States, which now provided a fresh pool of manpower and industrial capacity to the Allied cause. The transfer of these resources however was threatened by the continuing war at sea and the U-Boat menace that also threatened Britain's link with the continent. The early advance by the German Army in 1914 had meant that the Belgian ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge had been overrun and with the expansion of the port facilities, the Germans were in a position to threaten the very lifeline that supplied the Allied armies in France. The two ports were connected by a canal network with the city of Brugges that also gave access to the open sea. Brugges in turn, was connected to Germany by the railway network and partially completed U-Boats were shipped from Germany, to be finished at Brugges and then make their way to the open sea by means of the canal system. The canals formed a triangle and inside this, the Germans had built a series of airfields from which they conducted air raids on Britain and fortified the entire length of the coast with light and heavy artillery batteries. The Royal Navy did not attempt to bombard these ports until 12 May 1917 when it bombarded Zeebrugge in order to put the lock system out of action and used a smoke screen to hinder German observation. While the bombard failed in its task, the Germans stepped up defensive measures and as the war progressed, the front line drew ever closer to Ostend, bringing it within range of the Royal Marine heavy howitzer battery in France, forcing the Germans to transfer many of its facilities to Zeebrugge.\nOne of the objectives for the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) was the expulsion of the Germans from Flanders and to capture the ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend. The battle however failed to achieve the intended breakthrough and so any attempt to expel the Germans from these ports or to deny them the use of these facilities meant that any future attempt would have to made from the sea. The mounting losses in the war at sea caused the Royal Navy to look at the problem. A suggestion by Admiral Keyes that the ports might be blocked by sinking a ship in the entrance was initially rejected but as the war dragged on, the Royal Navy returned to the idea and it was decided that it might be done with the use of several ships, although the exact position would have to be chosen with care so that it would not be possible to get around the ships or to dredge around them to create additional channels and their bottoms would have to be blown to sink them as quickly as possible and prevent drifting.\nSo, as it is often done in this line of work, the word went out. Volunteer for a mission you have no idea about - odds are you won't come back. You will be trained quickly, sloppily with a pick-up team. You execute.\nAs the ships were approaching the entrance to the port, some protection would be afforded (in the case of Zeebrugge) by the Mole, which extended in an arc across the entrance to the channel. It was over a mile in length and some 100 yards wide, having extensive storage facilities and hangers for seaplanes. A railway connected the Mole to the shore and was used to transfer men, equipment and stores. As the planning for the operation got underway, a special Royal Marine battalion (mainly volunteer) was formed in February 1918 to eliminate the battery that was situated at the end of the Mole and would threaten the block ships as they approached the canal. Lt Col F E Chichester was appointed to command the battalion but was succeeded by Major B N Elliott. The battalion consisted of a headquarters, a machinegun section, a mortar section, three rifle companies and medical support staff. The troops were to be conveyed to Zeebrugge in HMS Vindictive, assisted by the Iris and the Daffodil, two Mersey ferry boats that had been provided for this operation. Once they had reached Zeebrugge, Daffodil was to push Vindictive against the Mole until she could be secured and disembark the troops. The ships were modified for this task. Special ramps were fitted to Vindictive so that the storming parties could reach the Mole, while Iris and Daffodil had been fitted with ladders to that their parties could climb up onto the Mole. Vindictive was strengthened and armoured against the storm of fire she would receive and additional armament fitted so she could support the troops as the moved onto the Mole.\nBy April 1918, the preparations for the raid had been completed, the men trained for their tasks and the shipping collected for the operation. Three block ships were to be sunk in the Zeebrugge canal entrance, HMS Thetis, HMS Intrepid and HMS Iphegenia. The first time the force sailed, 11 April 1918, the weather conditions changed as they neared Zeebrugge, which forced a postponement, but on the eve of St George's Day, 22 April 1918 the force sailed and during the passage, Admiral Keyes signalled \"St George for England\". Commander Carpenter on the Vindictive replied, \"May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist.\" By 23.20 on 22 April, the monitors had opened fire on Zeebrugge. Twenty minutes later, the motor launches that had accompanied the force began to make the smoke screen. One minute after midnight, St George's Day, Vindictive arrived alongside the Mole after which Daffodil arrived alongside her to push her against the Mole. By this point the smoke screen had begun to lift and the defensive fire was intense. In the approach to the Mole, many of the ramps fitted to Vindictive were damaged and only two could be used to allow the storming parties to disembark on the Mole. The ladders fitted to Iris were damaged as well and so the troops had to transfer to Vindictive to land. Once on top of the Mole, they had to endure intense German machinegun fire in order to get to the battery and while they failed to knock it out, they prevented it from firing on the blocking ships and so succeeded in their mission, something for which they suffered heavy casualties for.\nThe distraction caused by the motor launches and Royal Marines enabled the block ships to approach the canal entrance without too much difficulty. Thetis ran into problems when one of its propellers got caught in a net, forcing her to collide with the bank. She had to be sunk some distance from the entrance but performed admirable work in helping to direct the remaining two ships into the canal entrance itself. Both Intrepid and Iphigenia were able to be sunk in the correct positions, thus blocking the canal. Two submarines, C1 and C3 were packed with explosives and rammed into the viaduct, demolishing it, thus isolating the Mole from the shore. The crews from the submarines and the block ships were picked up by the motor launches despite heavy fire from the German batteries. By 00.50 on 23 April the recall had sounded and by 01.00 the survivors were all aboard. A quarter of an hour later, Vindictive had cleared the protection of the Mole and was undergoing intensive fire from the Germans but managed to come through it. The raid on Ostend at the same time proved to be a failure but another attempt was tried the next month and Vindictive was used as a block ship in that operation. The Royal Marines had been on the Mole for just an hour and the force had displayed such courage and devotion to duty that it gave great encouragement to the Allied forces at such a dark hour in the war. The 4th Royal Marine Battalion was awarded two Victoria Crosses with another six being awarded for the action at Zeebrugge and three being awarded for the actions at Ostend. At Deal, on 26 April 1918, a ballot was held as to who should receive the awards, with Captain Bamford and Sergeant Finch winning. In order that the gallantry of the battalion would be remembered, it was decided that no other marine battalion should be named the 4th.\nIn a day where entire nations ponder abandoning the battle against an existential threat to their very existence due to a number of casualties suffered at Zeebrugge in a matter of minutes, it can make you wonder if we can even try to understand what these men did and why. We can try. That is what the study of history is. That is why what we have done to the study of history from elementary school through college and as adults is a crime in itself and a shame on our culture.\nAnd in the end;\nMuch was made of the raid. Keyes was knighted, and 11 Victoria Crosses were awarded. The Germans, however, made a new channel round the two ships, and within two days their submarines were able to transit Zeebrugge. Destroyers were able to do so by mid-May.\nDid it make a difference? Of course it did. Did the pundits of the day nit-pic it to death? No, they understood that war from the Strategic to the Tactical is a dark room you step in to. No, it has only been nit-pic'd once the pundits were safely behind the wall of freedom that those who bled built.\nFirst posted NOV08.\nLabels: Britain, Fullbore, WWI\nAs we look to the latest rash of incidents and firings in WESTPAC, it is really just another chapter in a long story.\nI don't think anyone thinks we can fire ourselves out of it - is it an opportunity to change some cultural problems and perverse incentives that have led us here?\nOver at USNIBlog, I'm discussing how some of the new SECNAV's stated preferences may point to a chance for positive change.\nI had a great conversation with Hope Hodge Seck earlier this week on the challenges we are having in WESTPAC.\nI'm in good company with others in her article, and you really should read the whole thing.\nHere are a few of my comments;\n\"I'm disappointed in a few people who are using this as as a reason that we need a bigger Navy; that's tertiary,\" said another retired Navy officer and popular military blogger who goes by the pen name CDR Salamander. \"We have a high op-tempo, but that's no excuse. This is a Vince Lombardi Navy: 'See that ship? Don't let another ship hit it.'\" Lombardi was a famous football player and coach.\nSalamander recalled the 2007 incident when the destroyer USS Arleigh Burke ran aground at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay in daylight because the navigational system had an input error and no one had looked out the window to confirm the ship's position.\n\"There's no bad computer bad radar that's going to substitute for you not looking out the bloody window,\" he said.\nIn addition to the challenge of green crews, Salamander said he believes \"perverse career incentives\" to get command tours elsewhere can result in fewer and shorter at-sea periods for surface warfare officers.\nAnd while Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said the Navy's new review of practices will include external input from other military services and industry, Salamander suggested looking to the navies of other nations, including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which also sail around the globe but appear to maintain lower major mishap rates than the U.S. Navy does.\nInternationally, he said, some ships give a wide berth to U.S. Navy vessels, which are developing a reputation for sloppy sailing that is only validated by recent mishaps.\n\"This would require a culture change, a career change, a training change,\" Salamander said. \"It would require us to take a deep breath and say, 'We may be the world's largest Navy, but we are not the best Navy.'\"\nThe last part is hard to say, but I've spent way too much time over way too many beers with officers from other navies having blunt conversations - not to mention what I've seen myself - not to say it.\nUnless you went to bed last night early, you should be aware that we've had another collision in WESTPAC;\nThe destroyer John S. McCain arrived at Changi Naval Base in Singapore mid-afternoon Monday after a harrowing collision with a commercial tanker that has left 10 crew-members missing and five others wounded.\nIt is the second major collision involving a U.S. Navy warship attached to U.S. 7th Fleet in recent months, following the June 17 collision involving the destroyer Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan, in which seven sailors died.\nFour sailors with non-life threatening injuries were evacuated off the destroyer John S. McCain earlier to a hospital in Singapore Monday morning, according to 7th Fleet officials.\nAs we still wait for the details of what happened with the FITZ, and we need to wait for the results of MCCAIN as well, we really don't know if we keep rolling snake eyes in WESTPAC or if there is some common thread that is worth pulling.\nIf for no other reason than respect for the families of the dead and still missing, everyone should be careful with too much speculation - there is already a lot of that out there - but that shouldn't stop people from opening their minds to find out what is happening in their Navy.\nLet's look at the major surface combatants forward deployed to Japan;\nUSS Shiloh (CG 67)\nUSS Chancellorsville (CG 62)\nUSS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54)\nUSS Stethem (DDG 63)\nUSS McCampbell (DDG 85)\nJust this year:\n- FEB, USS Antietam ran aground.\n- JUN, USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant off Japan.\n- AUG, USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant off Singapore.\nIn May, San Diego based USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) ran over a S. Korean fishing vessel.\nOur Navy is good at getting to the cause of these things. I hope that somewhere the chain of events that led to these four incidents are put up on the white-board dug in to.\nI'm not a believer in this much \"luck.\"\nThere can be only one FbF today, nothing else comes close.\nThe supplemental preliminary inquiry into the collision involving the USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62) and the ACX CRYSTAL from 17 JUN of this year is out.\nThe report is dated 11 AUG 17. You can get it from the SECNAV's site here, or read the whole thing posted below.\nI wanted to pull one extended quote from it for your review. It really got hold of me, as it drove something home about the sea that Sailors know, but others don't; there is no normal day at sea. You are always one moment away from water, fire, steam, or flying shards of metal.\nIt also shows that on every ship, on every watch, there are Sailors who will be capable of exceptional bravery and sacrifice - the opportunity to demonstrate that character just hasn't come up yet.\nEven at sleep, the sea waits for her time.\nEvacuating Berthing 2\n21. Of the 42 Sailors assigned to Berthing 2, at the time of collision, five were on watch and two were not aboard. Of the 35 remaining Sailors in Berthing 2, 28 escaped the flooding. Seven Sailors perished.\n22. Some of the Sailors who survived the flooding in Berthing 2 described a loud noise at the time of impact. Other Berthing 2 Sailors felt an unusual movement of the ship or were thrown from their racks. Still other Berthing 2 Sailors did not realize what had happened and remained in their racks. Some of them remained asleep. Some Sailors reported hearing alarms after the collision, while others remember hearing nothing at all.\n23. Seconds after impact, Sailors in Berthing 2 started yelling \u201cWater on deck!\u201d and \u201cGet out!\u201d One Sailor saw another knocked out of his rack by water. Others began waking up shipmates who had slept through the initial impact. At least one Sailor had to be pulled from his rack and into the water before he woke up. Senior Sailors checked for others that might still be in their\n24. The occupants of Berthing 2 described a rapidly flooding space, estimating later that the space was nearly flooded within a span of 30 to 60 seconds. By the time the third Sailor to leave arrived at the ladder, the water was already waist deep. Debris, including mattresses, furniture, an exercise bicycle, and wall lockers, floated into the aisles between racks in Berthing 2, impeding Sailors\u2019 ability to get down from their racks and their ability to exit the space. The ship\u2019s 5 to 7 degree list to starboard increased the difficulty for Sailors crossing the space fromthe starboard side to the port side. Many of the Sailors recall that the battle lanterns were illuminated. Battle lanterns turn on when power to an electrical circuit is out or when turned on manually. The yellow boxes hanging from the ceiling in Figure 14 are battle lanterns.\n25. Sailors recall that after the initial shock, occupants lined up in a relatively calm and orderly manner to climb the port side ladder and exit through the port side watertight scuttle. Figure 14 provides an example of the route Sailors would have taken from their racks to the port side watertight scuttle on a ship of the same class as FITZGERALD. They moved along the blue floor and\nturned left at the end to access the ladder. Figure 14 provides an example and sense of scale. Even though the Sailors were up to their necks in water by that point, they moved forward slowly and assisted each other. One Sailor reported that FC1 Rehm pushed him out from under a falling locker. Two of the Sailors who already escaped from the main part of Berthing 2 stayed at the bottom of\nthe ladder well (see Figure 8) in order to help their shipmates out of the berthing area.\n26. The door to the Berthing 2 head (bathrooms and showers) was open and the flooding water dragged at least one person into this area. Exiting from the head during this flood of water was difficult and required climbing over debris.\n27. As the last group of Sailors to escape through the port side watertight scuttle arrived at the bottom of the ladder, the water was up to their necks. The two Sailors who had been helping people from the bottom of the ladder were eventually forced to climb the ladder as water reached the very top of the Berthing 2 compartment. They continued to assist their shipmates as they climbed, but were eventually forced by the rising water to leave Berthing 2 through the watertight scuttle themselves. Before climbing the ladder, they looked through the water and did not see any other Sailors. Once through the watertight scuttle and completely out of the Berthing 2 space (on the landing outside Berthing 1) they continued to search, reaching into the dark water to try to find anyone they could. From the top of the ladder, these two Sailors were able to pull two other Sailors from the flooded compartment. Both of the rescued Sailors were completely underwater when they were pulled to safety.\n28. The last Sailor to be pulled from Berthing 2 was in the bathroom at the time of the collision and a flood of water knocked him to the deck (floor). Lockers were floating past him and he scrambled across them towards the main berthing area. At one point he was pinned between the lockers and the ceiling of Berthing 2, but was able to reach for a pipe in the ceiling to pull himself free. He made his way to the only light he could see, which was coming from the port side watertight scuttle. He was swimming towards the watertight scuttle when he was pulled from the water, red-faced and with bloodshot eyes. He reported that when taking his final breath before being saved, he was already submerged and breathed in water.\n29. After the last Sailor was pulled from Berthing 2, the two Sailors helping at the top of the port side watertight scuttle noticed water coming into the landing from Berthing 1. They remained in case any other Sailors came to the ladder. Again, one of the Sailors stuck his arms through the watertight scuttle and into the flooded space to try and find any other Sailors, even as\nthe area around him on the landing outside of Berthing 1 flooded. Berthing 1, with no watertight door between it and the landing, began to flood.\n30. Another Sailor returned with a dogging wrench, a tool used to tighten the bolts, on the hatch to stave off flooding from the sides of the hatch. The three Sailors at the top of the ladder yelled into the water-filled space below in an attempt to determine if there was anyone still within Berthing 2. No shadows were seen moving and no response was given.\n31. Water began shooting up and out of the watertight scuttle into the landing. Finding no other Sailors, they tried to close the watertight scuttle to stop the flood of water. The force of the water through the hatch prevented closing the watertight scuttle between Berthing 2 and Berthing 1. The scuttle was left partially open. They then climbed the ladder to the Main deck (one level\nup from the Berthing 1 landing), and secured the hatch and scuttle between Berthing 1 and the Main deck. In total, 27 Sailors escaped Berthing 2 from the port side ladder.\n32. One Sailor escaped via the starboard side of Berthing 2. After the collision, this Sailor tried to leave his rack, the top rack in the row nearest to the starboard access trunk, but inadvertently kicked someone, so he crawled back into his rack and waited until he thought everyone else would be out of the Berthing 2. When he jumped out of his rack a few seconds later, the water nearly reached his top bunk, already chest high and rising.\n33. After leaving his rack, the Sailor struggled to reach the starboard egress point through the lounge area.\n34. He moved through the lounge furniture and against the incoming sea. Someone said \u201cgo, go, go, it\u2019s blocked,\u201d but he was already underwater. He was losing his breath under the water but found a small pocket of air. After a few breaths in the small air pocket, he eventually took one final breath and swam. He lost consciousness at this time and does not remember how he escaped from Berthing 2, but he ultimately emerged from the flooding into Berthing 1, where he could stand to his feet and breathe. He climbed Berthing 1\u2019s egress ladder, through Berthing 1\u2019s open watertight scuttle and collapsed on the Main Deck. He was the only Sailor to escape\nthrough the starboard egress point.\n35. The flooding of Berthing 2 resulted in the deaths of seven FITZGERALD Sailors. The racks of these seven Sailors were located in Rows 3 and 4, the area closest to the starboard access trunk and egress point and directly in the path of the onrushing water, as depicted in Figure 15.\n36. After escaping Berthing 2, Sailors went to various locations. Some assembled on the mess decks to treat any injuries and pass out food and water. Others went to their General Quarters (GQ) stations to assist with damage control efforts. Another Sailor went to the bridge to help with medical assistance. One Sailor later took the helm and stood a 15-hour watch in aft steering after power was lost forward.\nAs a side note, BZ to the main author of this report. Through their exceptional writing and narrative style, they have brought great honor to those Sailors on the FITZGERALD who died, lived, saved others, and fought to keep their ship afloat that night and following days.\n\"In the finest traditions of the naval service\" is almost a cliche, but these men and women proved it that day. Fullbore.\nI believe it does great credit to our Navy and its culture that we make these reports open to the public. I hope we are able to learn and incorporate as many damage control lessons as possible from this unfortunate incident so that in the future, other lives and ships may be saved.\nLabels: Destroyer, Fullbore\nThought the Transformationalists and their habits would have drifted in to the shadows in shame given the bitter fruits of their labors?\nWell, you'd be wrong. I'm pointing a light on their resurrection over at USNIBlog.\nCome on by and behold.\nBlack Swan Tuesday: The China-Indonesian War of 20XX\nIf history tells us anything, it is that nations often find themselves in conflicts that aren't so much unimaginable, as unlikely. These wars develop out of the ether and quickly gain their own momentum.\nHistory also teaches us that rising powers can be the most unpredictable when they get in to conflict. As with all human institutions, the international community can get used to certain patterns and rhythms.\nFalling powers in graceful decline are often given too much weight and attention, while the rising powers start to probe and affect structures, habits, and mechanisms in ways they never had before.\nChina is such a growing power. She has economic, historical, and ethnic grievances that have always been there, but for most of modern history she has been too weak to do anything about them.\nOver at FP, Sebastian Strangio sets out a scenario for conflict China and Indonesia that had me nodding my head saying, \"You know what, he's on to something.\"\nIndonesians of Chinese descent, who make up around 1.2 percent of the population and are traditionally one of the country\u2019s most prosperous groups, dangerously vulnerable \u2014 and might magnify local tensions into international clashes.\nIn May 1998, when Indonesia\u2019s dictator Suharto fell from power after 31 years, much of the popular anger was directed at Jakarta\u2019s small but wealthy ethnic Chinese community. More than 1,000 people were killed in the riots, many of them Chinese; dozens of Chinese women and girls were raped. The Chinese were targeted on the assumption that they had grown fat from Suharto\u2019s rule, even though many of the victims were small-scale traders.\nAs the author does again in his article, for years I have read Indonesian ethnic Chinese described as, \"Indonesia's Jews\" - and given the history of anti-Chinese pogroms, the comparison is not all that inaccurate.\n\u201cThey are seen as a people apart,\u201d he said, \u201cand in their pursuit of commerce often become the victims of periodic bloodletting \u2014 pogroms, if you like.\u201d\nIt is a pattern that dates to the beginning of Dutch rule in the 17th century, when Chinese merchants were granted a preferential role and helped develop Batavia (today\u2019s Jakarta) into a flourishing entrep\u00f4t, prompting occasional eruptions of violence from other locals. These prejudices persisted after independence, and Chinese were singled out during the 1965-1966 anti-communist bloodshed that preceded Suharto\u2019s takeover. At the time, they were seen as fifth-columnists for Communist China, then in the midst of exporting revolution throughout Southeast Asia. Since then, anti-Chinese rhetoric has tended to go hand in hand with paranoid imaginings of a renascent communism.\nThough the Chinese reaction was muted in 1998, a far more powerful Beijing is unlikely to take such a hands-off position today. In 2006, when anti-Chinese violence tore through Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, Beijing responded immediately by evacuating 312 ethnic Chinese residents by air. The episode received extensive coverage in Chinese state media, which declared that \u201cthe government attaches great importance to the security and rights of the overseas Chinese.\u201d Though it is hard to say just what Beijing\u2019s reaction would be in Indonesia, Vatikiotis said that \u201cthere is every indication\u201d that Beijing is watching closely, and would be \u201cwilling to do something to help its fellow Chinese.\u201d\nIndonesia is the world's largest Muslim nation, and is becoming more and more radicalized each year. The Chinese are mostly Christian. Combine ethic and religious differences in one package, and, well, history tells us much about that as well.\nThere is no land border between China & Indonesia. If China did want to do anything she would need a significant navy. That navy would need air-cover from carriers.\nOh, and the SLOC from China to the south? They go right through the disputed South China Sea.\nIf you haven't already, you may want to catch up on a topic I covered back in Feb. of this year; the 500 Ship Navy ... the Chinese 500 Ship Navy.\nLabels: Black Swan, China, Indonesia\nThe slide down from denouement can be exhausting.\nIt's been nine months after the surprise election where navalists regardless of their political leanings were suddenly juiced by a President Elect who ran on a 350 ship Navy. With time though, the adrenaline is leaving the blood, the keg is empty, and everyone is wandering around trying to find their favorite hat they let some girl wear about 3am.\nTime to sober up.\nIt takes more than just the right people with the right desire to grow the fleet. There has to be the money, political sponsorship, and an effective process and structure to make it happen.\nWith the calm and light of time, the reality is setting in that things may be more difficult.\nOver at War on the Rocks, Bryan McGrath back in 2014 had a bucket of cold reality for everyone to ponder then, and not that much has changed three years later.\nTo get to where we want to go, we may need to change the structure that is supposed to help get us there if and after the money shows up. What we have right now? It may support something, but building the effective fleet the nation requires may not be it. The names may have changed, but the process hasn't;\n...whose job is it to describe the Navy we need, rather than the Navy we can afford? Is it Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert? Maybe in days gone by, but the Goldwater-Nichols Act did a fine job of removing any incentive for service chiefs to advocate for their own service\u2019s particular contributions. Chiefs of Naval Operations of late tend to do their yeoman best to build and maintain navies that are affordable. Is it Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus? Perhaps, but any SECNAV who advocated for a Navy that exceeded the controls passed to it by the OSD Comptroller would find him or herself in hot water with the Secretary of Defense, if that person did not agree and could/would not provide top cover. Maybe then, it is the Secretary of Defense. A secretary with gravitas could sit down with the president and the Director of OMB and argue for greater resources for DoD, if he felt that the Navy we needed greatly exceeded the Navy we can afford.\nThe point of all of this is that we have created a system in which it is very difficult for any individual with authority to do or say anything effective to address the mismatch between the Navy this country needs and the Navy it currently claims to be able to afford. Worse yet, there are penalties to be paid for doing so. The one individual with the mandate to do so is the president, ....\nThe U.S. Navy is to some extent, a victim of its own success. It consistently provides presidents with flexible options for response and it rarely has to say, \u201cNo, we cannot do that.\u201d Unless a president comes into office with the idea that the nation must begin to prepare for the rigors of great power competition again, the Navy will appear sufficiently sized to meet the requirements of crisis response, for these are the requirements against which its size and capabilities are resourced. And since there is no bureaucratic incentive for anyone within the chain of command to advocate for such preparation in the absence of presidential leadership, we may unfortunately someday find ourselves with a navy we can afford, but not the one we need.\nIs the new president and his team, pulled in all directions and yet to be fully staffed, really able to invest the time and political capital to push for a larger fleet? When you look at the rack-and-stack of what they must invest their time and effort in - from Korea to Syria - Iraq to Afghanistan - and more ... who will lead the push and get noticed above the ambient noise?\nWhat role are Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) playing in the ongoing crisis in the Mediterranean Sea as wave after of wave of people try to make the passage to Europe?\nAre they doing good? Are they filling a gap of lawlessness caused by government inaction, or increasing the problem?\nWhat are the motivations and goals of governments, international organizations, traditional NGOs, and new players on the scene?\nTo discuss these question and related issues they raised in their two part series at War On the Rocks and CIMSEC from 5-6pm Eastern will be returning guests Claude Berube and Chris Rawley.\nClaude is the director of the Naval Academy Museum and a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. He is the author of the Connor Stark novels \u2013 THE ADEN EFFECT (Naval Institute Press, September 2012) and SYREN'S SONG (Naval Institute Press, November 2015.) He earned his B.A. in History and Soviet Studies, his M.A. in History from Northeastern University, and his M.A. in National Security Studies from the Naval War College. He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation through the University of Leeds on Andrew Jackson\u2019s Navy.\nChris is a Captain in the Naval Reserve where he is the commanding officer of a reserve unit focusing on building partnerships to enhance maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. He is also founder and CEO of the agriculture investing company, Harvest Returns, and serves on the board of directors of the Center for International Maritime Security.\nThere are some who do a small thing of good and will tell you about it over and over. With time, they embellish it \u2013 always to their gain.\nThere are other who do a great good and tell no one about it, or if they do, downplay their part as a small role or \u2013 if anything \u2013 feel what whatever they did was simply not enough and prefer to move on to other topics.\nOne are small men, the others giants.\nA couple of years ago a giant passed at a great age of 106. His story should humble all mortal beings who think they have accomplished great things.\nI give you Sir Nicholas Winton.\nSir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 106.\nSir Nicholas, then a stockbroker, arranged for trains to carry Jewish children out of occupied Prague.\nThe prime minister described him as a \"great man\" and the chief rabbi praised his \"exceptional courage\".\nHe died on the anniversary of the departure of a train in 1939 carrying the largest number of children - 241.\n60-minutes did a good overview of a great man.\nLabels: Fullbore, Heroes, WWII\nOf course, I would be remiss if I did not comment on the Google Diversity Memo for this week's DivThu, and yes - I'm late. Here's why.\nI actually had about 1,000 or so words commenting in a Fisking kind of way, but I simply did not think it added anything to the conversation. so I deleted it.\nIf anything, I'm in rough alignment with Debra Soh, so you can read her.\nBefore you do that though, humor me a bit.\nSo much of what has been written about the memo this week is just plain wrong. People are emoting and not thinking; being political and not critical thinkers - all my usual bugaboos. My readers are a smart, independent group of people, so I'm going to ask you to just read the memo in full yourself. Once you do, you'll see all the posturing, signaling, and quasi-libel that otherwise smart people have been engaged in about the memo.\nRead it, then see the interview with the author below the memo. Let the man speak for himself.\nThe text of the post was reproduced in full by gizmodo and I'm going to reproduce that version here with the minor formatting modifications made and the two charts and several hyperlinks removed.\nGoogle\u2019s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.\nExtreme: all disparities in representation are due to oppression\nAuthoritarian: we should discriminate to correct for this oppression\nDifferences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don\u2019t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.\nPeople generally have good intentions, but we all have biases which are invisible to us. Thankfully, open and honest discussion with those who disagree can highlight our blind spots and help us grow, which is why I wrote this document.[2] Google has several biases and honest discussion about these biases is being silenced by the dominant ideology. What follows is by no means the complete story, but it\u2019s a perspective that desperately needs to be told at Google.\nGoogle\u2019s biases\nHumans are inherently cooperative\nOnly facts and reason can shed light on these biases, but when it comes to diversity and inclusion, Google\u2019s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence. This silence removes any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies. For the rest of this document, I\u2019ll concentrate on the extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment and the authoritarian element that\u2019s required to actually discriminate to create equal representation.\nAt Google, we\u2019re regularly told that implicit (unconscious) and explicit biases are holding women back in tech and leadership. Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the workplace differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it\u2019s far from the whole story.\nOn average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren\u2019t just socially constructed because:\nThey\u2019re universal across human cultures\nThey\u2019re exactly what we would predict from an evolutionary psychology perspective\nNote, I\u2019m not saying that all men differ from women in the following ways or that these differences are \u201cjust.\u201d I\u2019m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don\u2019t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there\u2019s significant overlap between men and women, so you can\u2019t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.\nWomen, on average, have more:\nOpenness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing).\nThese two differences in part explain why women relatively prefer jobs in social or artistic areas. More men may like coding because it requires systemizing and even within SWEs, comparatively more women work on front end, which deals with both people and aesthetics.\nExtraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness.\nThis leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. Note that these are just average differences and there\u2019s overlap between men and women, but this is seen solely as a women\u2019s issue. This leads to exclusory programs like Stretch and swaths of men without support.\nNeuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs.\nNote that contrary to what a social constructionist would argue, research suggests that \u201cgreater nation-level gender equality leads to psychological dissimilarity in men\u2019s and women\u2019s personality traits.\u201d Because as \u201csociety becomes more prosperous and more egalitarian, innate dispositional differences between men and women have more space to develop and the gap that exists between men and women in their personality becomes wider.\u201d We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.\nMen\u2019s higher drive for status\nBelow I\u2019ll go over some of the differences in distribution of traits between men and women that I outlined in the previous section and suggest ways to address them to increase women\u2019s representation in tech and without resorting to discrimination. Google is already making strides in many of these areas, but I think it\u2019s still instructive to list them:\nWe can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration. Unfortunately, there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles and Google can be and we shouldn\u2019t deceive ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get female students into coding might be doing this).\nWomen on average are more cooperative\nAllow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive. Recent updates to Perf may be doing this to an extent, but maybe there\u2019s more we can do. This doesn\u2019t mean that we should remove all competitiveness from Google. Competitiveness and self reliance can be valuable traits and we shouldn\u2019t necessarily disadvantage those that have them, like what\u2019s been done in education. Women on average are more prone to anxiety. Make tech and leadership less stressful. Google already partly does this with its many stress reduction courses and benefits.\nThe Harm of Google\u2019s biases\nA high priority queue and special treatment for \u201cdiversity\u201d candidates\nHiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for \u201cdiversity\u201d candidates by decreasing the false negative rate\nReconsidering any set of people if it\u2019s not \u201cdiverse\u201d enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)\nSetting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]\nThese practices are based on false assumptions generated by our biases and can actually increase race and gender tensions. We\u2019re told by senior leadership that what we\u2019re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left ideology[7] that can irreparably harm Google.\nWhy we\u2019re blind\nWe all have biases and use motivated reasoning to dismiss ideas that run counter to our internal values. Just as some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the \u201cGod > humans > environment\u201d hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change) the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8] and sex differences). Thankfully, climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren\u2019t on the right. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social scientists learn left (about 95%), which creates enormous confirmation bias, changes what\u2019s being studied, and maintains myths like social constructionism and the gender wage gap[9]. Google\u2019s left leaning makes us blind to this bias and uncritical of its results, which we\u2019re using to justify highly politicized programs.\nIn addition to the Left\u2019s affinity for those it sees as weak, humans are generally biased towards protecting females. As mentioned before, this likely evolved because males are biologically disposable and because women are generally more cooperative and areeable than men. We have extensive government and Google programs, fields of study, and legal and social norms to protect women, but when a man complains about a gender issue issue [sic] affecting men, he\u2019s labelled as a misogynist and whiner[10]. Nearly every difference between men and women is interpreted as a form of women\u2019s oppression. As with many things in life, gender differences are often a case of \u201cgrass being greener on the other side\u201d; unfortunately, taxpayer and Google money is spent to water only one side of the lawn.\nThe same compassion for those seen as weak creates political correctness[11], which constrains discourse and is complacent to the extremely sensitive PC-authoritarians that use violence and shaming to advance their cause. While Google hasn\u2019t harbored the violent leftists protests that we\u2019re seeing at universities, the frequent shaming in TGIF and in our culture has created the same silence, psychologically unsafe environment.\nAs soon as we start to moralize an issue, we stop thinking about it in terms of costs and benefits, dismiss anyone that disagrees as immoral, and harshly punish those we see as villains to protect the \u201cvictims.\u201d\nConfront Google\u2019s biases.\nI\u2019ve mostly concentrated on how our biases cloud our thinking about diversity and inclusion, but our moral biases are farther reaching than that.\nDiscriminating just to increase the representation of women in tech is as misguided and biased as mandating increases for women\u2019s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts.\nThere\u2019s currently very little transparency into the extend of our diversity programs which keeps it immune to criticism from those outside its ideological echo chamber.\nI realize that some of our programs may be precautions against government accusations of discrimination, but that can easily backfire since they incentivize illegal discrimination.\nWe need psychological safety and shared values to gain the benefits of diversity\nPrioritize intention.\nOur focus on microaggressions and other unintentional transgressions increases our sensitivity, which is not universally positive: sensitivity increases both our tendency to take offense and our self censorship, leading to authoritarian policies. Speaking up without the fear of being harshly judged is central to psychological safety, but these practices can remove that safety by judging unintentional transgressions.\nMicroaggression training incorrectly and dangerously equates speech with violence and isn\u2019t backed by evidence.\nWe haven\u2019t been able to measure any effect of our Unconscious Bias training and it has the potential for overcorrecting or backlash, especially if made mandatory.\nSpend more time on the many other types of biases besides stereotypes. Stereotypes are much more accurate and responsive to new information than the training suggests (I\u2019m not advocating for using stereotypes, I [sic] just pointing out the factual inaccuracy of what\u2019s said in the training).\n[1] This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google\u2019s Mountain View campus, I can\u2019t speak about other offices or countries.\n[2] Of course, I may be biased and only see evidence that supports my viewpoint. In terms of political biases, I consider myself a classical liberal and strongly value individualism and reason. I\u2019d be very happy to discuss any of the document further and provide more citations.\n[3] Throughout the document, by \u201ctech\u201d, I mostly mean software engineering.\n[6] Instead set Googlegeist OKRs, potentially for certain demographics. We can increase representation at an org level by either making it a better environment for certain groups (which would be seen in survey scores) or discriminating based on a protected status (which is illegal and I\u2019ve seen it done). Increased representation OKRs can incentivize the latter and create zero-sum struggles between orgs.\n[7] Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn\u2019t going to overthrow their \u201ccapitalist oppressors,\u201d the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the \u201cwhite, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.\u201d\n[10] \u201cThe traditionalist system of gender does not deal well with the idea of men needing support. Men are expected to be strong, to not complain, and to deal with problems on their own. Men\u2019s problems are more often seen as personal failings rather than victimhood,, due to our gendered idea of agency. This discourages men from bringing attention to their issues (whether individual or group-wide issues), for fear of being seen as whiners, complainers, or weak.\u201d\n[11] Political correctness is defined as \u201cthe avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against,\u201d which makes it clear why it\u2019s a phenomenon of the Left and a tool of authoritarians.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 785, "original_length": 84117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cemuwii.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SYG5W3C75T37Z6B7JTH7J6B7FSPRIBPF", "length": 10439, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "cemuwii.com", "title": "Cemu Wii - Gambling Advice", "raw_content": "November 27, 2018 November 27, 2018 by Randy Edwards\nThis is a game that we\u2019re going to introduce to everyone. This is one that I\u2019ve never seen anywhere else. We only play this one in the home game that we have at our house and it\u2019s called Bon Appetite and it\u2019s a variation of Seven Card Stud. It\u2019s a high low split with the opportunity at the end of the hand or towards the end of the hand to shock a card and get a new card to try to make your hand even better or to even try to make a hand.\nSo let\u2019s see how this game is dealt out and played out in its entirety. We\u2019ve went ahead and dealt out the game. Players had three cards down, four cards face up just like regular Seven Stud. Now you\u2019ve got to remember this is a high low split so each player is either going for a high hand or a low hand.\nNow all the betting is over and this is where the shock actually comes into play. The player here to the left of the dealer will say yes I would like to shock a card and they play a determined amount by the house and they actually get a free card. In that case he traded a ten for a ten. If the player chooses to shock a card from the cards face up then the card comes face up.\nIf they choose to shock a card from the three cards down then the card comes to them down. Once everybody has shocked a card, you now have to declare and to declare what you do is you take three chips from your stack, one, two, three, and you put them in your hand and put them under the table and when you come back up on the table you\u2019re either going to have zero chips in your hand for going low, one chip in your hand for going high, or two chips in your hand for going both ways. Now the trick with going both ways is you have to win both ways. If you get beat or either ties on going both ways then you lose it all. You do not win anything.\nSo in this case, it looks like this person might be going low. They would come up with no chips in their hand. Now the players that come up with going low or the players that come up with going high, they\u2019re going against each other to see who has either the better low hand or the better high hand. Once those are determined, the pot is split between the high and the low hand and the winners are given the money and that\u2019s how Bon Appetite is played.\nHow do casinos trick you into feeling like you\u2019re winning, even when you\u2019re not? How do they get your money out of you even if you don\u2019t gamble? From psychological tricks to behind-the-scenes technology, here are 10 things casinos would prefer you never think about.\n10 \u2013 No clocks or sunlight. It\u2019s a pretty simple equation \u2013 the more time you spend in a casino, the more money you spend. Casino games take your time as much as your money. Like binging a great show on Netflix, you can lose a whole day and not even notice.\nThat\u2019s what the casinos want. There\u2019s a psychology behind keeping you isolated from the outside world. Seeing a clock will remind you that you\u2019ve spent 5 hours at the casino. Looking out the window and seeing that it\u2019s dark will spur you to leave. And if you leave, you are no longer spending money there.\n9 \u2013Stealing Dealers. The bad news is, dealers have been caught stealing.\nThe good news is, they\u2019re stealing from the casino, not from the players. The most common method of theft is simply stealing chips. One woman stuffed 3 thousand dollars worth of chips in her bra \u2013 six chips at 500 dollars each.\nAnd she did it on an elevator, under video surveillance. Another dealer at a UK casino had a false pocket where we would slide chips that went all the way down into his socks. Then he would go out on a smoke break and give the chips to an accomplice who would exchange them for cash.\n8 \u2013Scent Science. Almost nothing that you see in a casino is by accident. The height of the ceilings, the position of the lights, the smell on the floor. Everything. But the scent science of casinos isn\u2019t as simple as you think. Scent is strongly tied to memory and emotion, so it isn\u2019t as simple as just drawing people in with the scent of popcorn or freshly-baked cookies.\nScents are blended and pumped into the ventilation systems to reflect the location of the casino. Then they are focus-tested to see which scents tend to drive more spending and gambling. Even your sense of smell is being psychologically manipulated.\n7 \u2013Labyrinth Design. Much like grocery stores, casinos are laid out in a very deliberate sort of way to get you to wander through them and spend money in places you wouldn\u2019t normally. Unlike grocery stores, casinos are not laid out to let you know where everything is. They\u2019re labyrinth-like mazes of flashing lights and confusion. You\u2019re not likely to get LOST in a casino, necessarily.\nIf you really want to get out, it\u2019s easy enough to do. But in the meantime, if you\u2019re just wandering around on the floor, you\u2019re much more likely to run into a shiny wall of something new than the exit.\n6 \u2013Tables are a better bet. Slot machines have the biggest payouts of any game on the casino floor. Put a dollar in, win a million, right? And on top of that, they\u2019re also the most visually attractive. Why do you think that is? In addition to having the worst odds of any game on the floor, they are also the game in which you have the least control. You simply start the machine, and the outcome is predetermined. At table games like blackjack, you can at least make decisions that affect the outcome somewhat.\n5 \u2013Always Watching. In a large-scale casino like the Bellagio, there are probably about 2 thousand cameras on in the casino at all times, with roughly 50 monitors displaying the footage on demand. Obviously, a few security personnel can\u2019t watch all 2 thousand cameras at once. But the footage is kept and archived, so if there is any evidence of cheating or theft, they can reference the footage.\n4 \u2013 Near wins. Near-wins are a deceptively strong weapon. To a gambler\u2019s brain, an \u201calmost win\u201d provides almost the same rush as an actual win\u2026 even though it\u2019s a loss. In other words, if a slot machine comes up with two 7\u2019s instead of three, what it basically tells your brain is, \u201cHey, we almost won, just need to play a little more to win big!\u201d. In reality, those near-wins are programmed into most slot machines to keep people playing\u2026 because a near-win is still a loss, and loss still means losing money.\n3 \u2013Can\u2019t Cheat the House. Casinos are on the forefront of security. They watch everything from every angle. The simple act of counting cards? They\u2019ve seen that a billion times. There are people coming in and trying to defraud casinos with disguises and false identities, so they\u2019ve invested in facial recognition technology.\nThey\u2019re constantly covering all the angles. If you think you\u2019re going to walk in and outsmart the house, think again. They\u2019ve probably already busted someone else trying to do the same thing.\n2 \u2013Draining the non-gambler. Casinos aren\u2019t just places where you play gambling games. They\u2019re huge entertainment hubs, with hotels, restaurants, bars, and even live entertainment.\nIf you\u2019re spending time at a casino, they\u2019re going to find ways to separate you from your money. \u2022 Hidden fees and marked-up services are two of the most popular ways to do it \u2013 and while that\u2019s true of all hotels to an extent, hotel casinos are among the worst offenders.\n1 \u2013The Psychology of Chips. If you\u2019ve learned anything from this, it\u2019s that casinos will use any dirty, subtle, psychological tricks they can to lift your money off of you. The use of chips is one of the most insidious. We all know what money feels like, right? It\u2019s metal coins, or paper bills, or plastic cards. But casino chips? Chips don\u2019t feel like money. Their purpose is to DISGUISE the value of money. That\u2019s why a one-dollar chip is the same size and weight as a 25 thousand-dollar chip. You might think twice about putting a stack of hundred-dollar bills on the table for a bet. But one little, innocent chip?\nThat doesn\u2019t seem like much at all \u2013 even though it\u2019s the same amount. Furthermore, to leave the casino, you have to cash out. And that means you have to take your chips into the casino and cash them out\u2026 walking by countless other temptations on the way.\nJuly 31, 2018 January 29, 2019 by Randy Edwards\nRecipe for Successful Gambling\nThe primary factor for successful gambling is pre-selling. Whether you are gambling online or offline, it is important that you pre-sell your mind to the fact that you are going to leave the table with more money than you first started with. In my opinion,\nYour mind set should not be ridden with guilt of maybe having lost in the past. You are playing for now and trying to make money for the future. It is the future that matters and it is the future you can change.\nBut, having said that, it is also essential to be realistic about money matters and your wants without being too greedy. Winning while gambling at Oncasinogames Canada should always be a want, a desire to do something you enjoy and never degenerate into a \u2018need\u2019. If you are needy and greedy, you will lose objectivity and focus and ultimately fail.\nPositive thinking is a must while gambling. Believe in yourself and that you will win at the end of the day. Imagine the profits and the money you will make when its all over. Be focused on the game and the money will come to you.\nMost importantly, learn to relax and enjoy the game. Ultimately, whatever is meant for you will come your way if it has to. You have done the pre selling, got your mind set towards positive thinking and now you have to simply trust and believe in the powers above.\nThe recipe for successful gambling is to pre-sell to your subconscious mind, an image you desire, with the help of your thoughts and emotions. Believe in yourself and think positively. And you will rarely ever fail.\nBingo is primarily a game of chance and there is little you can do to predict the outcome in the game. Below is a compilation of bingo tips given by veteran bingo players to increase your chances of winning and having an enjoyable experience.\nPlay only as many cards as you can watch and monitor.\nUse your dabber lightly; do not bang it on the board as it may tend to leak.\nTo win more coveralls, try to come in early and get the first set of paper cards issued. On busy nights managers stock the counter with plenty of cards. The top ones usually are the lowest free space number cards. 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It was stirring. It swirled my emotions and left me staring, quiet, mouth agape, thinking profound thoughts.\nEven when people who otherwise say intelligent things go on to suggest that The Simpsons has unquestionably changed for the worse, it hasn't. It remains a medium of penetrating yet somehow ordinary glimpses into the many fascinating qualia of life.\nAbout the gag: The future is unpredictable. A portrayal of it should not look futuristic; it's unpredictable. Let the impact of this sink in. It doesn't matter what you hope it will look like; you can't imagine it\u2013not really. No one has and no one will. The future will be weird, because it won't be what anyone was expecting. How beautifully this was depicted.\nThe gag implied that The Simpsons will live forever. Somehow. The Simpsons will endure even if it is not recognizable to us anymore. The future would not be recognizable if viewed from the present, so why would The Simpsons be? 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We have all been trained in top class customer service and undertake regular professional development.\nClaire is the licensee and founder of Claire Foley Conveyancing. Claire has worked in conveyancing since 1992 and in 2011 celebrated the 10 year anniversary of starting her own business. Claire is a Fremantle local, and a member of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. Claire takes a hands-on approach to her business, and her clients benefit from the relationships she has developed during her time in the settlement industry.\nTania Burge\nLicensed Settlement Agent\nTania has been with Claire Foley Conveyancing since 2005. She has a Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch University and obtained her Settlement Agents Licence in 2008.\nShe enjoys all aspects of the conveyancing world. Over the years she has built up her client base of loyal repeat customers including mortgage brokers and real estate agents.\nAmanda joined Claire Foley Conveyancing in 2011 and works part-time. She is the indispensable back-up conveyancer for both Claire and Tania. Amanda is also qualified to handle settlement files on her own. She has completed her tertiary qualifications to become a Licensed Settlement Agent.\nAfter taking time out as a full time mum for 10 years Amanda has returned to work in the industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clatadda.in/acceptance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3O7S7UBWAUBMXZLIZAV6BXFDTU7YGXGY", "length": 2028, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "clatadda.in", "title": "Online Test Series Portal | CLATADDA.IN", "raw_content": "CLATADDA provides a platform to prepare for exams online. any information, content or materials made available on the WebSite, you irrevocably agree that you will use the website only in a manner consistent with the following Acceptable Use Policy.\n(i) Abide by all applicable copyright laws and licenses.\n(ii) Not use the website in a way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.\n(iii) Not use the website for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any\n(iv) Not use the website in a way may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property\nIf you become a registered user of the Site in order to gain access to support or other limited access parts of the Site, you agree\n(i) Information you provide to clatadda.in in connection with your registration will be current, complete and accurate\n(ii) Do not to choose a user name that violates any law or the intellectual property rights of others, or is offensive\n(iii) Do not to transfer, sell, convey or assign the right to use the Site to any third party without the prior written consent\n(iv) Do not to permit any third party to use your user name and password to access the Site.\nYou further agree that you are responsible for the conduct of any party that uses your account, whether or not authorized by you, and for any breach of the security of the Site related to the use of your user name and/or password.\n(i) CLATADD.IN expressly reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time in its sole discretion, and without giving notice to you.\n(ii) If at any point of time you do not agree to be subject to any modified Terms of Use, you may no longer use the Site.\n(iii) All the sales through this website are strictly non-refundable and non-transferable.\n(iv) In case of any dispute, the decision of CLATADDA properitar decision will be treated as final and abiding.\n(v) All legal issues will be settled in the courts of UP, DELHI, India Only.\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 Pesofts All Right Reserved", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/cleaning-up-the-family-past,36368", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:22Z", "digest": "sha1:UA3UXMVYTDMHESEXYD7SR56WHT76ZJ76", "length": 6076, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "clevelandbanner.com", "title": "Cleaning up the family past | The Cleveland Daily Banner", "raw_content": "Hidden Cleveland\nCleaning up the family past\nLong-neglected Clingan cemetery gets needed facelift and a new roadside sign\nThere\u2019s a new road sign along Georgetown Highway, near the split before reaching Cleveland Middle School.\nThe sign marks the location of an old, very small, family cemetery marking the \u2026\nTHE OLD CLINGAN FAMILY cemetery is located in a small wooded area on the east side of Georgetown Road in north Cleveland. There are less than 20 burial markers in the small cemetery, dominated by a large marker for Bradley County\u2019s first elected sheriff, A.A. Clingan, and his wife, Martha.\nA road sign marking the location of the cemetery on the east side of the roadway near Cleveland Middle School.\nLOCATED JUST EAST of Georgetown Road near Cleveland Middle School, the old Clingan family cemetery is located in a small wooded area in north Cleveland. The cemetery has less than 20 burial markers. The most prominent is a large marker for Bradley County\u2019s first elected sheriff, A.A. Clingan, and his wife, Martha.\nBanner photo, LARRY\u2008C. BOWERS\nI was in the process of giving up hope, when I stopped and asked a woman outside her house if she knew anything about the cemetery. She pointed to her side yard, and said, \u2018There it is.\u2019\u201d\n\u2014 Gene F. Johnson\nThe sign marks the location of an old, very small, family cemetery marking the location of the burial of Bradley County\u2019s first elected sheriff, Alexander Adam \u201cA.A.\u201d Clingan.\nThe burial plot is located on the right side of Highway 60, northbound. It is up a slight embankment alongside a residence.\nClingan served in office from 1837-38, a year prior to the Cherokee Removal to Oklahoma along the \u201cTrail of Tears.\u201d He later served additional terms, from 1840 through 1846.\nClingan was not the county\u2019s first sheriff. William James \u201cJimmy\u201d Carter was appointed sheriff of the just-formed Bradley County in 1836, but died in office.\nClingan was then elected, in 1837.\nThe small cemetery suffered from neglect over the years, but recently descendants of the family discovered its location and cleaned up the area. The sign was then located along the nearby roadway.\nThe reclamation of the cemetery required removal of underbrush, leaves, poison ivy, 16 small saplings, one large dead tree, and straightening and repair of headstones which had fallen or were leaning. One headstone had broken.\nThe Clingan family of the first half of the 1800s has evolved into the Roark-Conner Family Association, and members are located across the nation.\nMembers of the association located the cemetery and initiated the reclamation project. They are hopeful a historical group or society in the Cleveland area will show interest in maintaining the old cemetery.\nAnyone interested can contact the association\u2019s secretary, Wanda L. Wilkey, 1372 Polaris Drive, Hixson, TN 37343-4337, or call 423-877-8177.\nIn a January, 2016, issue of the Roark-Conner Family News publication, a longtime official of the organization printed an article about the \u201cNeglected Cemetery.\u201d\nThe story says Gene F. Johnson of Harrison and Connie Perrin of Chattanooga located the cemetery after extensive \u201cprivate research and geographical investigations.\u201d\nThe highlight of the discovery was the headstone for A.A. Clingan, who was closely associated with the Roark and Blythe families in early settlement of the \u201cOcoee District.\u201d\nThe cemetery contains the graves of 11 members of the Clingan family, plus three graves for three infants of the Spriggs family.\nResearch shows Clingan homesteaded in the Ocoee District, and was hugely involved in the formation of Bradley County in the 1830s.\nHe was born Feb. 20, 1801, in Hawkins County, the son of Edward and Jeanette Clingan. He met and married Martha \u201cPatsy\u201d Blythe in 1828.\nThey started their family in Sale Creek, but moved to a log cabin just north of present-day Cleveland in 1834 \u2014 in the Candy\u2019s Creek community.\nAccording to historical documents, the family later constructed a large home place a half mile east of Candy\u2019s Creek, along Candy\u2019s Creek Ridge.\nThe home was a two-story, three-chimney structure with twice as many fireplaces, and a long front porch.\nThe Clingans had 16 children, with three buried in the recently discovered family cemetery with their parents. A.A. Clingan died on Feb. 1, 1864, and his wife followed on Aug. 6, 1868.\nThere was an intermingling of the Clingan family with the Blythe and Roark families through the early years. There were also several marriages involving Cherokee heritage.\nMany from the white families cast their lot with the Cherokees at the time, many raising their children in the Cherokee Culture.\nMartha Clingan\u2019s Blythe family had earlier founded Blythe Ferry on the south side of the Tennessee River, and had dedicated ties to the Cherokee. Many moved west with the Cherokee.\nMartha Clingan remained in Cleveland with her husband, prideful of her Cherokee ancestry.\nA.A. Clingan became connected with the Roark family through a niece, Jane, who was taken in by Joseph and Juda Ann Roark after her parents had died within a few weeks of each other in 1830.\nThis was when Clingan and his wife were in a log cabin with eight kids of their own. He asked the Roarks to consider taking in his niece, after he had assumed guardianship of her and four siblings.\nThe Roarks raised her as one of their own, although Juda was only 17 when Jane\u2019s parents had died.\nThrough this family arrangement, Clingan remained close to the Roarks through the remainder of his life, and during his terms as sheriff.\nJohnson, who located the old Clingan cemetery in 2014, has related his experience to Roark-Conner family members.\n\u201cI was in the process of giving up hope, when I stopped and asked a woman outside her house if she knew anything about the cemetery,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cShe pointed to her side yard, and said, \u2018There it is.\u2019\u201d\nSince that time, the ancient cemetery has been reclaimed and cleared. The dominating feature is the tall A.A. Clingan marker, surrounded by the smaller markers designating the resting place of other members of the 19th Century family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 8578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cliffhangers4x4.com/event/w-e-rock-grand-nationals-in-chokecherry-canyon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LSU2YU6FHZXPIJLK3XVHBXC63F52ZHOS", "length": 290, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cliffhangers4x4.com", "title": "W.E.ROCK Grand Nationals in Chokecherry Canyon \u2013 Cliffhangers Four Wheel Drive Club", "raw_content": "4x4tricks\nCome see the best of the best in Rock Crawling where the East coast meets the West coast in an all out battle to be at the top. There will be more information about this event coming soon on the werocklive page.\n12th annual New Years Run\nhttp://www.werocklive.com/\nW.E.ROCK Events", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cloudhostinghq.net/2017/05/19/security-experts-are-ready-for-second-wave-of-ransomware.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NNDHOXZ6MO6VJBOT32DGOYAYG523YDMP", "length": 2716, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cloudhostinghq.net", "title": "Security Experts Are Ready For Second Wave Of Ransomware Attack", "raw_content": "The WannaCry worm has affected more than 200,000 Windows computers around the world since Friday, disrupting auto factories, global shipper FedEx Corp and Britain's National Health Service, among others.\nA patient takes a nap on her wheelchair as she waits with others at the registration desk at Dharmais Cancer Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 15, 2017 as the hospital's information system is in trouble by cyberattack. Ransomware is a malicious software that prevents users from accessing their computers by encrypting the data on the device.\nAt least one Australian business has been affected by the global \"WannaCry\" ransomware attack, the nation's Cyber Security Minister confirmed.\nChan reminded all levels of schools and education units to exercise caution and because the malware mainly attacks computers running the Windows operating system, he recommends regularly installing Windows security updates. A group called the Shadow Brokers were able to steal the tools last summer and started publishing them online.\nIt also infected computers at a business in Taiwan, which apparently paid $1,000 in bitcoin to unlock files held hostage by the program. ATM machines run on Windows software which have been proved vulnerable to attack and more than 60 percent of the 2.25 lakh ATMs in the country run on the outdated Windows XP. A lot of organisations and individuals in India still rely on the Windows XP.\nThe IT ministry has also reached out to agencies such as RBI, NPCI and UIDAI, to warn them about the risks associated with WannaCry, and help secure their systems, to make sure that digital payments in India are not affected. However, in the aim of keeping pace with patches and upgrades, vast networks as the UK's National Health Service can avoid that Microsoft says are the \"two serious forms of cybersecurity threats- nation-state action and organized criminal action\".\nDespite the high profile of WannaCry, widespread malware outbreaks have become less common over the years, as Microsoft has improved the security of its systems, said Ziv Mador, vice president for security research at Trustwave, a security services firm. Chinese media reported that more than 29,000 institutions in the country were infected by the attack, while the Japanese media has claimed that more than 600 companies were hit. The domain turned out to be a kill switch left in the code to stop the ransomware's propagation. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Jose and managed by leading security experts from Palo Alto Networks, FireEye, Google and Yahoo.\nThe ransomware takes over users' files, demanding $300 (\u00a3230) to restore them. \"Unfortunately, most people don't have them\", Abrams says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 13797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coin.filipinonumismatist.com/2009/04/1903-san-francisco-mint-50-centavos.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:58Z", "digest": "sha1:M3INXMIDWGTQMAIGKSU5O73Y2HBQZ5PH", "length": 70, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "coin.filipinonumismatist.com", "title": "Philippine Coin Information: 1903 San Francisco Mint 50 Centavos", "raw_content": "Between 3-10 are believed to exist\n1 sold at PNAS Auction for $22, 000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://colab.sg/blog/mega-transport-projects-to-propel-construction-industry-growth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2AU6LSNHKDXRWDRUMGK3UAE2HPMCVQHO", "length": 3141, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "colab.sg", "title": "Mega transport projects to propel construction industry growth - Colab Ventures", "raw_content": "Construction of new train lines, a huge road network as well as a mega port will drive the local construction industry in the next decade.\nSingapore\u2019s construction sector is expected to grow by 3.3 percent on average from 2019 to 2028, driven mainly by various transport mega projects, according to a recent report from Fitch Solutions.\nFor instance, the MRT network will undergo further expansion over the next decade due to the government\u2019s vision that at least 80 percent of all households here should be within a 10-minute walk to a train station.\nThe expansion involves the construction of two new rail lines \u2013 the fully elevated 24km Jurong Region Line and the fully underground 50km Cross Island Line, which will connect Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport and the planned High Speed Rail (HSR) station in Jurong East.\nSearch for properties for sale near future MRT stations on the Cross Island Line.\n\u201cConstruction for these projects will be segmented into multiple stages, and construction will commence in 2019, and will be completed progressively from 2026 to 2030. Given the government\u2019s long expertise in planning and execution of metro projects in Singapore, we believe execution will be smooth and delays will be minimal,\u201d the report said.\nMoreover, construction is set to start on the 21.5km North-South Corridor expressway, which is touted as Singapore\u2019s biggest road project over the next decade.\n\u201cWith an estimated value of $8 billion, the expressway will encompass a series of viaducts, at-grade roads and tunnels that will connect residential and industrial estates in the north to the Central Business District (CBD) in the south.\u201d\nTo strengthen Singapore\u2019s status as a regional aviation hub, the government is also preparing for the construction of the $10 billion Changi Airport Terminal 5, which is projected to increase passenger capacity by 50 million people per annum.\n\u201cWorks relating to land reclamation and the construction of a third runway are currently underway and construction of the new terminal and the associated infrastructure is scheduled to begin from 2020,\u201d noted Fitch Solutions.\n\u201cIn addition, provisions have been made for the extension of the Thomson-East Coast and Cross Island Lines to connect to the new terminal, and we expect detailed plans regarding these rail projects to be announced in a few years\u2019 time.\u201d\nFurthermore, the ongoing Tuas Mega Port project is expected to boost Singapore\u2019s reputation as a vital transhipment hub in the world, it added.\nExpected to be operational by 2026 onwards, the port is being built in four phases, with the first stage already crossing the halfway mark as of 2018. Phase II, which is valued at $1.46 billion, has already been awarded, but Phase III and IV are still under planning. When fully completed, Tuas Mega Port could handle 65 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), which is more than double Singapore\u2019s overall capacity in 2017.\nInterested in buying a private property near the future transport hubs? Check out our step-by-step guide to buying a condo.\nKoh Brothers to launch new projects in Holland Village Shorter waiting time to book HDB flats", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 147.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://colab.sg/blog/singapore-johor-rapid-transit-system-outweighs-scrapped-high-speed-rail/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TWJOQWWNDFNG7MD5WE7IC7Z4OQBQFHVL", "length": 1524, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "colab.sg", "title": "Singapore-Johor Rapid Transit System outweighs scrapped High Speed Rail - Colab Ventures", "raw_content": "Singapore-Johor Rapid Transit System outweighs scrapped High Speed Rail\nThe implementation of the RTS is expected to help reduce congestion at the causeway.\nThe RM4 billion (S$1.34 billion) Rapid Transit System (RTS) connecting Singapore with Johor Bahru is more viable and practical than the High Speed Rail (HSR) that is estimated to cost RM110 billion (S$37 billion), reported The Star.\n\u201cWe need the RTS more than the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur HSR that has been axed,\u201d said Johor Indian Business Organisation president P. Sivakumar.\nMore: 3 Reasons Why Scrapping The HSR Project May Be Bad For Jurong\nHe is also urging the authorities to expedite the implementation of the RTS as it is anticipated to help reduce congestion at the causeway and the second link, as well as reduce pollution levels.\nOn 1 June, Malaysia\u2019s Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced that the new government will not cancel the RTS.\nHowever, they will delay the signing of the joint venture agreement between Singapore\u2019s SMRT Corp and Malaysia\u2019s Prasarana Bhd until the project\u2019s feasibility study is submitted to the Cabinet for approval.\nhttp://colab.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/View-of-Johor-Bahru-resize.original.jpg 410 615 The Colab Team http://colab.sg/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/colab_logo_4website-1-e1511155990560.png The Colab Team2018-06-11 12:30:472018-06-11 13:20:35Singapore-Johor Rapid Transit System outweighs scrapped High Speed Rail\n5 things to know about Affinity at Serangoon Singapore home prices the second highest in Asia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://colab.sg/page/255/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:13Z", "digest": "sha1:PRAOULHOMOAIIL54Y65WCLTOB6KUUQZP", "length": 370, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "colab.sg", "title": "Mortgage Community - COLAB Ventures", "raw_content": "Are you interested in buying a BTO flat, but not sure how to go about doing it? Is this your...\nProperty prices in Singapore could rise at a median rate of 5.5 percent. Analysts believe Singapore\u2019s private housing market has...\nBuilt in the mid-1980s, Eunos Mansion features 107 apartments. (Photo: Cushman & Wakefield) The freehold Eunos Mansion development has been...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 5657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collider.com/blue-jasmine-movie-images/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JH6Y4T24XF2PF3KRM6SN4MTQOS4NNTOF", "length": 1411, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "collider.com", "title": "BLUE JASMINE Images from Woody Allen's New Drama | Collider", "raw_content": "New Images from Woody Allen\u2019s BLUE JASMINE Featuring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K., and More [UPDATED]\nA number of new images from Woody Allen\u2019s latest film Blue Jasmine have made their way online. The pic stars Cate Blanchett as a New York City housewife who travels to San Francisco to be with her sister (Sally Hawkins) after losing all of her money when her husband (Alec Baldwin) turns out to be a white collar criminal. As we saw from the fantastic first trailer, the film finds Allen navigating considerably darker territory than his recent efforts, and the culture clash between Blanchett\u2019s socialite character and the more blue collar sensibilities of Hawkins, Andrew Dice Clay, and Bobby Cannavale is incredibly enticing.\nHit the jump to take a look at the Blue Jasmine images. The film also stars Louis C.K., Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Max Casella. Blue Jasmine opens on July 26th. [Update: We\u2019ve updated the article with more high-resolution images.]\nImages courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics, IMDb and EW (via The Film Stage).\nImage via Sony Pictures Classics\nTHE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE and I, FRANKENSTEIN Set for Comic-Con; Will\u2026\nTrailer for Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant's HELL BABY Starring Rob\u2026\n\u2022 Andrew Dice Clay \u2022 Blue Jasmine \u2022 Bobby Cannavale \u2022 Cate Blanchett \u2022 Entertainment \u2022 Images \u2022 Max Casella \u2022 Movie \u2022 Peter Sarsgaard \u2022 Sally Hawkins \u2022 Woody Allen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://commercialeyes.com.au/new-smpc-format-australian-product-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7GAQBGIDYU3H6FFP4L2IBCIYU6HRS677", "length": 3235, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "commercialeyes.com.au", "title": "New 'SmPC' Format for the Australian Product Information - Commercial Eyes", "raw_content": "The TGA have published a new form for providing the product information (PI) which means more work for regulatory teams but an enhancement of the quality use of medicines for Australian patients. The new form will be implemented over a 3-year transition period commencing from 1 January 2018.\nThe new format is mandatory for all new and changed PIs included in applications submitted after 1 January 2018. It is strongly recommended that reformatted PIs be submitted for Category 1 applications currently under review. All PIs for marketed products will need to be converted to the new format by 31 December 2020.\nThe new format aligns more closely with the format of the European Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and New Zealand Datasheet although there are some key differences in the presentation of information for the Australian PI for example in sections 4.8 Adverse Effects and 6.7 Physicochemical Properties.\nThe main change in the form is reordering of the content to increase the prominence of critical clinical information such as indications, dosage and method of administration, contraindications and precautions. These are now located towards the beginning of the document to further enhance the safe and effective use of medicines.\nPIs must be reformatted as part of any application affecting their content but reformatted PIs can also be submitted with other application types which do not include changes to the PI without incurring an additional fee.\nThe task of reformatting existing PIs may be time consuming initially. The benefits of the new format in the longer term will be realised by the reduction the regulatory burden associated with maintaining Australia texts in alignment with the European SmPC and New Zealand Datasheet.\nSponsors who have undertaken the exercise of reformatting data sheets for New Zealand will appreciate that the process of reformatting product information is quite time consuming, but becomes more efficient with greater familiarisation and experience with the template. Reformatting PIs is an activity that could be done in advance with a view to having reformatted PIs available and ready to incorporate safety, quality or administrative changes as the opportunity arises for submission to the TGA under the appropriate submission category. Bulk reformatting of existing PIs is an activity which is also amenable to outsourcing.\nThe TGA have provided Frequently asked questions to support the creation of new PIs and reformat of existing PIs. Templates are also available which include the required heading and subheadings. The use of electronic bookmarks is strongly encouraged to facilitate navigation through the document. Important information is also provided for the required clean and annotated versions of the PI which must be submitted to support an application to revise content and reformat the PI.\nFor guidance or assistance in reformatting your PIs contact our expert Regulatory Services team on +61 3 9251 0777.\nThis entry was posted in Regulatory Services, TGA and tagged Regulatory Affairs, Regulatory Services, SmPC, TGA.\n\u2190 Commercial Eyes Recruiting: Pharmacovigilance / Drug Safety Professional\nWhat is Happening with the Provisional Approval Pathway? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 5486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://connector.ae/updates/3566/private-school-fees-frozen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GP7EKZFFSWGE6GREYMONN4UQUKFBXC5I", "length": 1062, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "connector.ae", "title": "Private School Fees Frozen - Connector Dubai", "raw_content": "HOME UPDATES Private School Fees Frozen\nPrivate School Fees Frozen\nIncreases in high school fees every year have been an ongoing concern for many parents in the UAE.\nIn order to ease the financial burden on parents, the Council meeting held on Wednesday put a freeze on school fees for 2018-2019. Under the new initiative, private schools are not allowed to increase the school fees during the next academic year. The Council\u2019s meeting was chaired by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai.\n\" Finally, we ordered an immediate freeze on the tuition fees of all private schools in Dubai for the coming academic year (2018-2019), in order to reduce the financial burden on parents.,\" Sheikh Hamdan tweeted.\nFinally, we ordered an immediate freeze on the tuition fees of all private schools in Dubai for the coming academic year (2018-2019), in order to reduce the financial burden on parents.\n\u2014 Hamdan bin Mohammed (@HamdanMohammed) June 6, 2018\nImage credit: Media Office", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 9720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://consulteau.com/category/nouvelles/page/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UF4OFZQTGEIDP6IP6EJG3Q5GESJN6JPJ", "length": 47, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "consulteau.com", "title": "Nouvelles | Consult'EAU - Part 11", "raw_content": "Home Archive for category \"Nouvelles\" (Page 11)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cpalincolnri.com/bank-financing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DFDYQB66G7S6TFOV54Y4AUV3YFG7GEL6", "length": 188, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cpalincolnri.com", "title": "Bank Financing \u2013 Allegretti & Associates", "raw_content": "Put your best foot forward by allowing us to prepare a winning loan proposal for you. 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Act 1, scene 4. Act 1, scene 5. Act 1, scene 6. Act 1, scene 7. Act 2, scene 1. Act 2, scene 2. Act 2, scene 3. Act 2, scene 4. Act 3, scene 1. Act 3, scene 2. Act 3, scene 3.\nAct 3, scene 4. Act 3, scene 5. Act 3, scene 6. Act 4, scene 1. Act 4, scene 2. Act 4, scene 3. Act 5, scene 1. Act 5, scene 2. Act 5, scene 3.\nAct 5, scene 4. Act 5, scene 5. Act 5, scene 6. Act 5, scene 7. Act 5, scene 8. Act 5, scene 9. Act 5, scene Ambition Quotes in Macbeth Below you will find the important quotes in Macbeth related to the theme of Ambition. Act 1, scene 3 Quotes. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Banquo speaker , Macbeth , Weird Sisters. Page Number and Citation: Plus so much more Act 1, scene 4 Quotes.\nStars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. Act 1, scene 5 Quotes. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall. His actions caused Macduff to turn against him. Having people who could in the long run have a higher ranking than one is never good.\nIn the end one may need them. He only sets the trap of his own death. He was unprepared for what was to come. Which was Macduff killing him. Ambition can take over your image of someone who you once were. Ambition can change ones whole mind frame.\nToo much ambition cam also lead you to become blind of obvious signs. Macbeth was a very high ranked leader, but when he let his ambition over take him he became weak. Is this a dagger which I see before me.\nThe handle toward my hand? He then becomes weak. By then it is too late. Macbeth is now feeling really guilty. It is evident because he starts talking to the ghost. He goes insane in front of many of people. Many of them loose faith in Macbeth and sees him les of a man. When Macbeth felt like there was someone who would steal his glory of being king he killed them. His ambition had gotten out of hand and everyone saw it.\nMacbeth should have chosen his battles wisely instead of going on killing everyone. Ambition can change the mind set of one.\nThe ambition of three characters in the play MacBeth was a key factor in the outcome of their fate, MacBeth's ambition for the throne of Scotland, Lady Macbeth's ambition for her husband to have power, and Banquo's lack of ambition for himself.\nIts his \u201cvaulting ambition\u201d to be king that drives him to murder Duncan, Banquo and MacDuff\u2019s innocent family. Everything Macbeth does in the play is led by his ambition to be king.\nMay 13, \u00b7 Lady Macbeth is more power hungry and ambitious then Macbeth is. She, through ambition she gives the finial push to Macbeth to kill Duncan the king of Scotland. Her power however, is not driven by the sisters, hers is greed. She wants to be Queen, she wants the power of being Queen. Ambition in Macbeth In Macbeth, a play set in Scotland, William Shakespeare wrote a tragedy of a man&#;s ambition. In the play, Macbeth is described as .\nWrite an essay describing, in detail, the path of actions and behaviors caused by Macbeth's ambition. Explore the role of cause and effect in your answer, and be sure to use direct quotes from the. Ambition is described by Merriam-Webster as \u201csomething that a person hopes to do or achieve,\u201d and as \u201ca particular goal or aim.\u201d In Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth, you could say that ambition is what drives the story and what causes a series of events to occur that could lead to that ambition being found.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://d1coachcorner.com/Coaches/Lamont-Paris.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:31Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZWQTOWO4J5A5MZ53HJ2O4Q2M7HEZDSG", "length": 204, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "d1coachcorner.com", "title": "Coach Lamont Paris - Chattanooga | D1CoachCorner.com", "raw_content": "Lamont Paris\nLamont Paris spent seven (7) seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin.\nSo far, coach first season starts as a losing one. 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But Bombus affinis is the first bumble bee species to given that status, and the first wild bee of any kind to be listed in the Lower 48 states.\nBumble bees, as distinguished from domesticated honey bees, are essential pollinators of wildflowers and about a third of all U.S. crops, from blueberries to tomatoes, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which petitioned the government for protection of the insect.\nPollination services furnished by various insects in the United States, mostly by bees, have been valued at an estimated $3 billion each year.\nThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature ranks the rusty patched as one of 47 species of native U.S. and Canadian bumble bees, more than a quarter of which face a risk of extinction.\nGovernment scientists point to a certain class of pesticides called neonicotinoids \u2014 widely used on crops, lawns, gardens and forests \u2014 as posing a particular threat to bees because they are absorbed into a plant\u2019s entire system, including leaf tissue, nectar and pollen.\nBumble bee populations may be especially vulnerable to pesticides applied early in the year because for one month an entire colony depends on the success of a solitary queen that emerges from winter dormancy, the wildlife service said.\nListing under the Endangered Species Act generally restricts activities known to harm the creature in question and requires the government to prepare a recovery plan. It also raises awareness and helps focus conservation planning for the imperiled species.\nVia: climatecentral\nJanuary 17th, 2017 | Category: Environment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://darrenthompsonfineart.blogspot.com/2014/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TIGGO3N4SOI2PVKAKCXLZSIZX4HXXY24", "length": 542, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "darrenthompsonfineart.blogspot.com", "title": "DARREN THOMPSON FINE ART: September 2014", "raw_content": "In the Corner is part of a series depicting the female figure reading. In this case, the reading is done on a subway ride. I often look for various locations and settings for this series. I chose teh subway for many of these paintings due to the rainy weather here in Chicago.\nTraffic Midtown\nTraffic Midtown is part of a series depicting cityscapes and architecture. This image is taken from somewhere near Midtown and Seventh Avenue in New York City. The details in these cityscapes are very limited. I am for an overall impression instead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 7757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://daveanthony.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TWJ7EUWRDMRXSBGAJ5OM6A4XYU2AY5QS", "length": 1370, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "daveanthony.com", "title": "BIO", "raw_content": "A writer, director and producer, Anthony is best known for his pioneering work on the blockbuster \"Call of Duty\" video game franchise.\nBorn in Liverpool, England, Anthony received a first class Bachelor of Science honors degree from Lancaster University in Computer Science, majoring in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.\nHe moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and produced \"Call of Duty\" for Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox. In 2010, he directed and wrote the screenplay of \"Call of Duty: Black Ops\". In 2012, the sequel \"Call of Duty: Black Ops II\" which he also wrote and directed, grossed $1 billion in just fifteen days, breaking the world record as the fastest billion dollar gross in the history of entertainment. In 2018, Black Ops 4 smashed records to become the industry's fastest selling digital game in PlayStation history.\nIn addition to working with many senior military experts and veterans including Lt. Colonel Oliver North, he has directed many A-list celebrities such as Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Sam Worthington, Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Keaton, Jimmy Kimmel and Evangeline Lilly.\nIn 2014 Anthony formed Prisoner Six Productions, a Los Angeles based production company developing both TV and movie projects. In October 2014 he was invited to become a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a distinguished Washington DC think tank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 85.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://day-in-paradise.blogspot.com/2010/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UFO65ZYQFXHDR5UIQDAQB2LQH6WV66PJ", "length": 9517, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "day-in-paradise.blogspot.com", "title": "Another Day in Paradise: April 2010", "raw_content": "I didn't know how one life could contain so much heartbreak.\nHe was born with deformed hands. His left hand has a normal thumb and one finger. His right hand has a thumb and 3 fused fingers. Somehow, he seems to be able to handle things and do basic sorts of work.\nAlthough raised in the church, he had never asked Jesus into his life. He followed a life of crime.\nBy about 2 years ago, he was married and had 3 children. As the only son in his family, he had inherited a large piece of land, and felt pretty well set.\nThen one rainy night, he was walking along a familiar path near a river with his 4 year-old son on his shoulders. He was depending on his knowledge of the route, along with the dim moonlight of an overcast night. What he didn't know, and couldn't see, was that there was a place where the heavy rains had washed a section of the path into the stream. He stepped off into the washed-out section and fell and tumbled into the river. He grasped his son's leg with his left hand, but his arm struck a stone, which loosened his grip. They both plunged into the cold, rain-swollen water. He was disoriented at first--perhaps he also struck his head in the fall. In the swirling water he heard a voice saying, \"give your life to Jesus.\" The words were repeated 2 times. There in the blackness, he gave his life to Jesus. Quickly his mind cleared, and he was able to lunge to the surface of the water.\nApa called his son's name, and thrashed around in the water trying to find his son, but to no avail. It was not until 3 days later that the little boy's body was found, some distance downstream.\nSometime after this, his wife's family came and took her away from Apa. He had not paid any bride price at the time of the marriage, and because he couldn't work for wages (no one would hire him because of his had deformities), and because he didn't have any brothers or other close relatives to help him, he had not been able to pay, and her family had allowed him to postpone payment. But now their patience was at an end. Besides, they accused him of killing his son. If they were serious about this accusation, I don't know why they didn't try to take the other children away from him, but they didn't.\nHe was recently able to get a job as a security guard at the hospital, and thing were looking up. He assumed that if he could save up some money to pay bride price, he would get his wife back. A friend even offered a generous gift to help with the bride price. But then it became obvious that she did not want to come back to him. There were rumors that she had moved in with another man. Then she went to his employer with false accusations that lead to the loss of his job.\nA few weeks ago, it became obvious that some of Apa's cousins were determined to take his land away from him. His coffee gardens were about his only source of income. Because there were many male cousins to divide their family's land, they didn't have much for each one of them. They told Apa that they wanted the land. However, Apa's mother was living on the land, and she had enough influence in the tribe to make it difficult for them.\nLast week, Apa's relatives accused his mother of using sorcery to cause the death of another relative. In many deaths, especially ones that aren't understood, it is assumed that sorcery is involved. It is culturally acceptable to take revenge on sorcerers, and the sorcerer's family has no right of counter revenge. It therefore becomes convenient to bring an accusation of sorcery against someone whom one wants to hurt or kill. So the cousins accused Apa's mother of sorcery. They found her in the market, with Apa's 2 children. They attacked her and killed her.\nThey apparently intended to kill the children as well. The little girl was left on the ground unconscious, and assumed dead. The little boy got lost in the crowd, and was rescued by a female relative, who hid him under her coat. The murderers carried the body of Apa's mother away, and buried her in a location that is unknown to Apa, to deny him of the ability to hold a proper funeral and burial for her. After the murderers left, someone noted that the little girl was still breathing, and she was brought to the hospital, where she recovered. Both children are now safe with other relatives.\nFinally, the relatives have burned Apa's house, along with all his possessions. The items he mentioned specifically that were lost were his Bibles.\nHe came to the house Sunday afternoon, along with Simon and Esther, mutual friends. We had known bits and pieces of his story, but not many of the details. Obviously, most of what has happened to Apa can't be fixed, but we are going to try to help with a few things. Judy had a new Bible which had not yet started \"feeling like mine\", and she gave it to him. I know someone who can talk to his former boss to see if there is a possibility of getting the job back, and I have shared the story with him. Apa has been given a little cash to help with immediate expenses. Most of all, we are requesting your prayers for him.\nLate note: Apa may be getting his job back. His wife, who works at the hospital will probably be reprimanded for lying to the security company and getting him fired, and if he doesn't get the gob back, she will probably be fired. A tiny shred of justice in this painful situation.\nI have written before about my work with kids affected by Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, commonly known as clubfoot. This is Alfie. He has clubfoot, but you wouldn't know it now. He is four years old, much older than what is commonly considered to be treatable by non-surgical methods. Until the day that these photos were taken, he had never stood using the soles of his feet. Because of the birth defect, his feet were turned under so severely that he had learned to walk on what would ordinarily be the tops of his feet.\nHe comes from a remote part of the Southern Highlands Province of PNG. His dad used all the money he had to bring Alfie to Kudjip, because he heard that there was someone here who could help his son. However, he came not knowing that the treatment process takes many weeks. He did not have anywhere to stay, and very little money for food. Certainly, traveling back and forth every week was out of the question. He was hoping that Alfie would be admitted to the hospital, or perhaps the problem could be corrected in a short time.\nAt the time they first came, our TB ward had only a few patients, and they all had been on treatment for a long time, so that they were not contagious. I asked our hospital administrator, and received permission to allow Alfie and his dad to stay there for as long as it would take to complete his treatment. As it turned out, on the first day they were here, they met someone they knew (probably a relative or an in-law) from back home, who now lives about an hour's walk from the hospital, and who invited them to stay there.\nSo treatment of Alfie's clubfoot began. Many children his age are afraid of white people, are afraid of doctors, and afraid of loud machines. Yet week after week Alfie would lay calmly on the treatment table while this white doctor would cut his casts off with a power cast saw, and would cooperate as I stretched the tight ligaments in his feet and placed them in new casts. I was excited to see how quickly his feet responded to the treatment. The callouses that had formed on the tops of his feet from walking on them were starting to soften. After just 5 weeks the feet were turned right-side-up, and were ready for a minor operation to lengthen his Achilles' tendons, so his feet wouldn't point down.\nThe final stage in the treatment process is to wear a splint to maintain the position of the feet. They wear it full-time for a few weeks, then at night for months or a few years if possible afterward. I have managed to build my own splints. They don't look high-tech, but they are quite functional. I usually\nuse baby shoes that come from the US, which I attach to a piece of plywood with up-turned ends. But Alfie is much bigger than most of the kids I treat. None of the shoes in my stock are nearly big enough for him. So, in the two weeks after his tendon-lengthening operation, I managed to get into Mount Hagen to shop for some shoes. I found exactly 1 pair that were his size, stout and stiff, as I need for the splints.\nSo last week Alfie came for his final visit. I removed the casts that had been on his feet for the two weeks after the tendon operation. My heart was pounding as I picked him up off the treatment table and gave him a big hug. Then I knelt down and gently lowered him to the floor. I knew that after 7 weeks in casts his legs would be too weak to hold him up, so I held onto him as I lowered his feet to the floor. (I'm crying now, as I try to type this!) With me supporting his weight, Alfie stood on the soles of his feet for the first time in his life!\nI assembled the splint, using the shoes that I'd bought in Mount Hagen. These were the first shoes that Alfie had ever worn! At this stage I ordinarily ask the parents to bring the child back after 2 weeks, then every few weeks so I can check the feet, and repair or replace broken or outgrown splints. This time I knew that it would be very hard for Alfie's dad to bring him back. I instructed him as best I could, and encouraged him to come back after a few weeks if at all possible. Then I prayed with this dedicated dad and patient calm little boy, and said \"good-bye\". I hope I can see them again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 13318, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 189.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dctourguideonline.com/5-questions-on-lincolns-swearing-in-and-inaugural-ball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NWXXKLRQ35AYXUVH5SQJN6PUUDNNDU5V", "length": 5585, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "dctourguideonline.com", "title": "5 Questions on Lincoln's swearing-in and inaugural banquet re-enactments - |", "raw_content": "\u2190 4 parking spaces = 50 cents\nWhen the tourists are gone \u2192\nAbraham Lincoln returns to Washington on March 5 for the sesquicentennial celebration of his first inauguration. John T. Elliff of The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia explains the importance of the re-enactment of the swearing-in at the Capitol at 10 a.m. and the inaugural banquet re-enactment luncheon at the Willard InterContinental Hotel at 1 p.m.\nA Ph.D. in political science who currently writes and lectures on Lincoln, Dr. Elliff is a member of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia.\nTickets for the banquet luncheon and additional information are available at LincolnGroup.org\nQ \u2013 Lincoln and Washington are often debated as the most important presidents in U.S. history. Why is it so important to remember Lincoln 150 years later?\nA \u2013 In announcing the Capitol ceremony, the president of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Burrus Carnahan, stated, \u201cUnder the leadership of President Lincoln, our nation passed through its greatest trials and extended to all Americans the fundamental rights which a government of, by, and for the people was founded to protect. Remembering these critical years can strengthen our commitment to the principles of freedom today and in the years ahead. Young people especially will benefit from recalling the struggles for liberty that made this country the last best hope of earth.\u201d\nQ \u2013 Actor Micheael Krebs will portray Lincoln during the swearing-in on Capital Hill while Sam Waterson, who portrayed Lincoln in Gore Vidal\u2019s Lincoln and voices the Gettysburg Address at the new Gettysburg Visitor Center museum, will read the First Inaugural address. How closely detailed is the event to the original?\nA. -Michael Krebs will be sworn-in in costume using the original oath. Sam Waterston will read the complete inaugural address. Waterston\u2019s acclaimed presentation of Lincoln\u2019s Cooper Union Address in New York several years ago is available online. The address will precede the oath, as was the sequence in 1861. In addition to these original elements, the introductory remarks by Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer will follow the precedent of remarks delivered at the Capitol for the centennial in 1961 by poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg. The location will be different \u2013 the new Capitol Visitor Center auditorium.\nQ \u2013 I hear some of the public will attend the inaugural banquet re-enactment luncheon in period dress and the banquet will include the actual menu. What else does the banquet offer?\nA \u2013 There will be period music by the Marine Band Civil War unit and a children\u2019s choir, special presentations by Harold Holzer and Sam Waterston, and a principal address by distinguished Lincoln biographer Ronald C. White, Jr.\nQ \u2014 Can you tell us the significance of the Willard Hotel as host for the banquet luncheon?\nA \u2013 Lincoln and his family stayed for 10 days before the inauguration at Willard\u2019s Hotel, located on the same corner as today\u2019s Willard InterContinental Hotel. Extraordinary events took place at the hotel as Lincoln made his final preparations to assume the presidency \u2013 his surprise early arrival, his meetings with President Buchanan, the cabinet, the Peace Commission, his defeated rival Stephen A. Douglas, his cabinet selections (and their critics), other leading political figures, and members of the public; his remarks on public occasions; final selection of his cabinet, and completion of his inaugural address. Also discussed will be the ways the Willard Hotel has remembered Lincoln\u2019s stay over the subsequent years, including an intriguing twist on the payment of his hotel bill and a children\u2019s story about the slippers provided to Lincoln by the hotel.\nQ \u2013 Tell us more about the Lincoln Forum. Can the general public join?\nA \u2013 The general public may join both the Lincoln Forum and the Lincoln Group of DC. Both have websites with membership information. Here are descriptions:\nThe Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia founded in 1935, is the oldest continuously active society dedicated to studying the ideas and works of Abraham Lincoln. The Group is a non-profit organization that supports the preservation of historic sites, recognizes individuals who make significant contributions to Lincoln scholarship, and honors the memory of President Lincoln. The Group meets monthly from September through June, sponsors other public events and publishes the bi-monthly Lincolnian newsletter. Officers are Burrus Carnahan (president), Karen Needles (first vice president), Craig Howell (second vice president), Paul Pascal (treasurer), John Miller (secretary), and Susan Dennis (membership).\nThe Lincoln Forum is a national assembly of Lincoln enthusiasts who meet annually at Gettysburg for symposia exploring the life and times of America\u2019s sixteenth president. With 850 members in all 50 states, the Forum publishes a newsletter, maintains an active web site, publishes books, and supports worthy programs around the country. The Executive Board consists of Hon. Frank J. Williams (chair), Harold Holzer (vice chair), Russell Weidman (treasurer), George Buss (secretary), and Edna Greene Medford and Craig L. Symonds, members of the executive committee.\nThis entry was posted in Abraham Lincoln and tagged Abraham Lincoln, Dr. John Elliff, Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, March 5, Monumental Thoughts, re-enactment inaugural banquet, re-enactment swearing-in, sesquicentennial celebration, The Lincoln Forum, Willard InterContinental Hotel. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://decaturcrimestoppers.com/crime-of-the-week/news-release-101316/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MILIF6CWCKGMMFWMV4A2SWDYLVBGECQK", "length": 491, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "decaturcrimestoppers.com", "title": "News Release 10/13/16 | Crimestoppers of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois", "raw_content": "On 10/03/16, at 8:15am it was reported that a Burglary occurred to Helen\u2019s Corner Thrift Store, at 1985 E. Eldorado St. This burglary occurred sometime between the hours of 7:30pm, on 10/02/16 and 8:00am, on 10/03/16. Three suspects described as a White male, Black male and an unknown race male forced entry to the business and took several items. The three males all appear to be in their teens and were last seen fleeing the scene, Southeast over a wooden fence belonging to the business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 130.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://defence.az/en/news/132578/nato-troops-see-an-opportunity-for-afghan-peace-in-2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:28Z", "digest": "sha1:57TLAB4WLSWO532FWKIZAQYJGMZTJPNV", "length": 2178, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "defence.az", "title": "NATO troops see an opportunity for Afghan peace in 2019", "raw_content": "NATO troops see an opportunity for Afghan peace in 2019\nThe US and NATO Forces spokesman says Afghans and the Taliban have \u201ca real serious opportunity ahead of them\u201d.\nNATO troops stationed in Kabul said on Tuesday that 2019 brings an opportunity for peace as they ushered in the new year with a special workout session.\nTroops participated in a 60-minute event comprising of sprints, squats, push-up and jumps at an open-air gymnasium days after reports of a possible US drawdown emerged.\nGeneral Scott Miller, Commander of US and NATO\u2019s Resolute Support mission forces in Afghanistan, who participated in the special workout session, told troops the Taliban and the Afghan government are talking about peace.\n\u201cThe policy review is going on in multiple capitals, peace talks (are) out there, regional players pressing for peace, the Taliban talking about peace, the Afghan government talking about peace,\u201d Miller said.\nSpokesman for US and NATO Forces in Afghanistan Colonel David Butler meanwhile said this year brings a unique opportunity for peace in Afghanistan.\n\u201c2019 brings a special and unique opportunity in Afghanistan. I think we have all seen the progress of peace talks and the Afghans and the Taliban have a real serious opportunity ahead of them, an opportunity for peace. Think of this -- 40 years of war has a possibility of coming to an end,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI think we all have the same vision as far as peace and the Afghan people that we work with, the soldiers, I think we are all on the same page as far as what we want. We want to leave here on the right foot and make sure they are going down the right path,\u201d said US Sergeant First Class, Justin Moore.\nA White House spokesman last week said US President Donald Trump had not issued orders to the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. But the administration has not denied reports that the United States plans to pull out almost half of the 14,000-strong force currently deployed.\nThe reports come amid an intensification of moves towards peace negotiations in Afghanistan.\nUS Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met Taliban representatives last month and discussed issues around a future troop withdrawal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 16340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://depinisyon.com/depinisyon-100570-jacobitic.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:37Z", "digest": "sha1:76ZT7PPN36B7WPPXZ4HTMJK6WND22KRE", "length": 126, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "depinisyon.com", "title": "Depinisyon ng jacobitic, Kahulugan ng jacobitic", "raw_content": "Definition of jacobitic\nOf or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism.\njacobitic, japhetic, jack-by-the-hedge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://designingvogue.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TQ7HI56K5IJH75YQ2ABKGNSP53PTNKZE", "length": 1837, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "designingvogue.com", "title": "About Us | Designing Vouge", "raw_content": "Designing Vogue is dedicated to the art of crafting architectural visualisations for the (un)built environment. It has evolved into a highly creative and progressive studio. Specialising in 3D visualisation and animation services across a wide array of the architectural, interior and product industries.\nWe are commercially astute, agile and constantly looking to innovate, bringing exceptional value and design leadership to our clients. As a studio we integrate the latest in terms of digital representation technology integrated with our unique and artistic approach to each individual project (no matter the scale). We\u2019ve grown steadily and firmly in the architectural rendering world.\nOur work culture is based on a positive attitude and strong values, which contribute to our strong performance and productivity.\nAt Designing Vogue, we strive to create the most eye catching photorealistic 3D renderings. The images we produce will let your target audience see the finished product prior to putting it into production to ensure, it will meet their expectations. We help you to visualize buildings, landscapes, interiors, exteriors as though it were already built or produced.\nThe rendering we provide, will serve you as powerfull marketing tools in your Catalogs, Brochures and DVDs.\nWe help property developers, designers, architects, engineers to present and promote their projects and ideas\u2026\nWe believe in partnering with clients to provide sound and affordable business solutions that help increase their profitability. So, while you concentrate on your core areas of business, we will provide you architectural rendering services that meet international standards.We can face the most demanding challenges of any international market, for any project of any scale and complexity. 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We have much to learn from strategies and educational investiture of other nations. What do you think? For more information, hover over the book and click. You will be taken to the author's site. Take time to read the book and contemplate the website. 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It is not too long and there is no rough. However some holes do offer up more of a challenge, for example the 9th, a par four of 377 metres, and the 365 metre 14th amongst others. The par five 4th hole, at first sight, appears straightforward and two shots should be enough to reach the approach however a brilliant third is needed if a birdie is to be secured as the green has been designed in the shape of a volcano.\nLa Envia golf resort", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discussion.movingpoems.com/2018/02/lucy-english-shares-lessons-from-the-book-of-hours-poetry-film-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IHVXELBZZ3G4ACKIEL4BD6EB7UI3Z77Z", "length": 2555, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "discussion.movingpoems.com", "title": "Lucy English shares lessons from The Book of Hours poetry film project \u2013 Moving Poems Magazine", "raw_content": "The latest issue of Poetry Film Live includes an extremely interesting new paper by Lucy English, \u201cWRITING POETRY FOR POETRY FILMS: an exploration of the use of spoken word poetry in poetry films\u201c. It joins a growing section at the magazine of essential papers on poetry film and videopoetry by the likes of Sarah Tremlett, Tom Konyves, Fil Ieropoulos, and Susannah Ramsey. The paper is much too long to quote in its entirety, but here\u2019s how it begins:\nThe Book of Hours is an online collaborative poetry film project, which forms the creative component of my PhD in digital writing. I am making forty eight poetry films to correspond to four different times of day for all the months of the year. This structure has been based on the Medieval Books of Hours, highly decorated and beautiful collections of prayers and readings which followed the Christian calendar. My book of hours is secular but is meditative in nature and intends to create a reflective mood. All the poetry films have been made in collaboration with international film makers. (English, 2016)\nFor the critical component of my Phd I chart the development of the project and the collaborative process. I also examine what has informed the writing of the poetry for The Book of Hours. Although the poetry exists in a poetry film form it also exists as printed text, a collection of poetry, which will be published by Burning Eye in 2018. In this article I have tried to unpick my understanding of the writing of the poetry, from initial inspirations, to its development as a cohesive collection, and what sources I have looked to for guidance.\nEnglish goes on to talk about her background in the spoken word poetry scene, how she\u2019s had to adjust her writing style \u201cto find a contemplative form of spoken word that can be translated to poetry film\u201d, why she chose to pattern her work after Medieval books of hours, and the challenges of writing ecopoetry in modern Britain, among other topics. I found her mix of academic and personal discourse engaging and her arguments persuasive. Do go read\u2026 and then visit The Book of Hours to catch up on new additions.\nliterary magazines and websites, opinions, theory Lucy English, Poetry Film Live, The Book of Hours\nPrevious Article\u2190 Major competition for UK poets includes \u201cPoetry in Film\u201d category\nNext ArticlePoetry film festival news round-up \u2192\nThis is an amazing project and I feel it brings the importance of academia into perspective when considering poetry film. It was an honor to submit a piece for the project. 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Now I\u2019ll learn new aspects of the company, working with the Lincoln and Battle Creek sales teams, to help customers receive accurate and comprehensive quotes for the services they need, as well as excellent support before and after the work.\u201d\nWith the expansion of the facility in Provo, Duncan Aviation opens its third full-service facility. The first aircraft arrived on January 4, 2019 \u2014 a Global for its 120-month inspection\u2014and with that, aircraft began rolling into the new 43,000-square-foot hangar for a variety of work. For example, a Falcon 2000 is in Provo for an inspection, automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) installation and an engine change. 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Many of the abused prescription drugs are respiratory depressants such as Oxycontin\u00ae, Vicodin \u00ae and Oxycodone which slow down one\u2019s breathing to dangerous levels, are addictive and can lead to death in overdose situations.\nFor many of these drugs, it does not take a large amount to have dangerous health effects. According to recent data, nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs, more than those abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and inhalants combined. That 7 million was just 3.8 million in 2000, an 80 percent increase in just six years.\nSome teens are also abusing over-the-counter drugs, primarily cough and cold remedies that contain dextromethorphan (DXM), a cough suppressant. Products with DXM include Nyquil, Coricidin and Robitussin, among others. Teens often have easy access to these products. The abuse of over-the-counter cough and cold remedies can cause blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, coma and even death.\nAs a result of the increase in prescription drug abuse, many communities are seeing an increased need for health-care and law enforcement services. Robberies and burglaries have increased nearly 4 percent in Maine from 6,848 in 2008 to 7,109 in 2009, according to reports.\nAccording to the Maine DEA, prescription drug-related arrests accounted for 41 percent of all drug arrests for the first six months of 2009. Maine\u2019s unintentional poisoning deaths (most all related to prescription drug abuse and misuse), rose 210 percent from 1999 to 2004.\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, unintentional poisoning deaths have become the second leading cause of unintentional death second only to motor vehicle accidents. Between 2004 and 2008, the number of visits to hospital emergency departments involving the non-medical use of narcotic painkillers increased 111 percent.\nWhat can parents do to safeguard their kids from the dangers these medicines pose?\nEducate yourself a talk with your kids because your opinion really does count! Studies consistently show that parents are the No. 1 influence on their kids, yet the MIYHS student survey revealed that 58 percent of students admitted their parents had not talked to them about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs within the past year.\nFeel like you don\u2019t know enough about this issue to guide them?\nVisit CASA\u2019s website at www.midcoastcasa.org for resource materials\nSafeguard. Measures to take at home include: monitor all drugs in your home by recording quantities and storing them in a secure location; set clear rules for your kids about all drug use, including not sharing medicine and always following prescriptions and dosages as they\u2019re written; be a good role model by following these same rules with your own medications.\nSource: www.TimesRecord.com 22nd Oct 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/millers_crossing_bd.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ACZ7AHNF534BK7G5CH7DF56D3CEG5RF2", "length": 6669, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dvdmoviecentral.com", "title": "Miller's Crossing: Blu-ray - DVD Movie Central", "raw_content": "Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman, Albert Finney\n\u201cLook in your heart!\u201d\n\u201cWhat heart?\u201d\n1990 gave us two masterpieces about the gangster underworld, Martin Scorsese\u2019s GoodFellas and the Coen Brothers\u2019 Miller\u2019s Crossing.\nI always knew that the moviemaking team of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen carried with them a certain level of genius, especially in the realm of dark comedies. However, nothing could\u2019ve ever prepared me for the much more serious-toned Miller\u2019s Crossing, which is indeed one of their greatest films to date, alongside their brilliant 1996 piece, Fargo. What is so captivating about watching this film, especially if you\u2019re a fan of the gangster genre, is the original visionary style that the Coen Brothers has given to create the brooding atmosphere of the gangster underworld during the time of prohibition. Another stroke of genius is the individually memorable characters in this piece, who aren\u2019t entirely likeable, but are a good deal sympathetic in some regards. There are also vicious characters in the story, and if you know the Coen Brothers, you know that you will see these kinds of people in the darkest possible light.\nThe film centers on an ongoing war of power between two rival gangs in 1929, one Irish and one Italian, and depicts the level of loyalty that is stretched to great length by a central character. The boss of the town is Leo (Albert Finney), who has long fought a bitter battle to keep rival hood Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) from muscling in on his turf. Although Caspar is desperate to take over the rackets which Leo controls, he believes highly in ethics of business, and therefore doesn\u2019t stoop to incidents of unnecessary bloodshed, though if we were ever driven to do such, he\u2019d have his murderous enforcer, The Dane (J.E. Freeman), to apply such pressure.\nRight in the middle of the war is Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), Leo\u2019s longtime right hand man and associate. Tom is always there to negotiate or settle terms on Leo\u2019s behalf, but he is in the middle of a major predicament, which is being engaged in a love affair with Verna (Marcia Gay Harden), the same woman who Leo himself is in love with. Matters are also tense for Tom as he is frequently having to deal with Verna\u2019s brother, Bernie (John Turturro), a weasel bookie who is cheating Tom right under his nose. He would gladly wipe out Bernie in a second, if it weren\u2019t for the love he has for his sister.\nRather than a routine movie where two gangs dual it out endlessly, Miller\u2019s Crossing is essentially a character piece, focusing mostly on that of Tom. After a sudden and brutal falling out with Leo, Tom finds himself switching sides to Caspar\u2019s crew, even though The Dane doesn\u2019t trust him for a second. Tom has never killed anybody in his life, and once working for Caspar, he\u2019s put to the test when ordered to wipe out a victim at Miller\u2019s Crossing, an area in the woods where all mob killings are enforced. It\u2019s really Tom\u2019s story, and a journey of the character to see if he has heart, or if he is no different than a natural killer for business.\nHaving seen the Coens\u2019 Blood Simple and Fargo, I find them to be something of pioneers in terms of movie violence, but the violence in Miller\u2019s Crossing is probably as up close and graphic as anything they\u2019ve done. A rule in this movie addressed by both of the gangs is when you kill someone, shoot them in the head first, and trust me, they aren\u2019t lying. Such sequences in the film had my lower jaw nearly hitting the floor. It just goes to show you that the Coen Brothers are all about startling originality, and the violence in this film is unlike any of what I have seen before.\nThe performances in Miller\u2019s Crossing are of pure masterworks, as displayed in any Coen Brothers film. Gabriel Byrne is remarkable in his best screen performance prior to The Usual Suspects as Tom. John Turturro, a Coen Brothers regular, is on fire as the despicable Bernie. He has a scene in the woods of Miller\u2019s Crossing, where he pleads heavily not to be killed, which is a scene of dynamite acting. There are also small pop-ups from such other Coen regulars as Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand.\nBottom line, this is a brilliant and beautiful film by one of our most original filmmaking teams. Miller\u2019s Crossing is by far one the Coen Brothers\u2019 most outstanding films, and it deserves to be seen by any fan of theirs, as well as revisited by those who admire this film as much as I do.\nI can't sum it up any better: if you have Blu-ray access and own the original DVD, do away with it and go for the upgrade! Of all the films the Coens have made, this is by far their most lavish production and through the sheer beauty of the 1080p, it looks even more rich and fantastic than ever before! There's definitely a bigger presence of detail and image clarity this time around, and it lingers through the entire 115 minutes of this feature. The darkened interior set pieces, which still carry a moody quality, look nothing short of outstanding here. But anyone who's a fan of this film knows that the key scenes take place in the woodland setting of Miller's Crossing, and these sequences look twice as breathtaking! A splendid production has been done justice with a flat out stupendous HD transfer!\nI couldn't wait to hear this film in a newly established DTS HD mix for two specific reasons; the sequences involving tommy guns and Carter Burwell's magnificent score. And sure enough, both elements sound more explosive and beautiful as could ever be heard. In addition, the time period is brought to vivid life in this searing presentation. Between the sound of the cars driven at the time, the music of the era, and those roaring Tommy guns, every aural detail has been amplified to the point that you can't help but be engulfed in the world this film creates. Dialogue delivery, of course, is handled with pure excellence.\nAll extras have been ported over from the original DVD release, including a terrific interview session with cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld recounting his experience working on the film and his relationship with the Coens, as well as interview sound bites with Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden and John Turturro, a still gallery and Theatrical Trailers for both this and Raising Arizona.\nThe wait for Miller's Crossing to hit Blu-ray was just as highly anticipated as it was for it's initial DVD release seven years ago, and I, for one, am flat out awestruck by the result. 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Like Ayers and Common Core\u2019s Linda Darling-Hammond, Billings believes that beyond bridging that gap, there is an education debt that is owed to students of color.\nGlenn Singleton is the founder of Pacific Educational Group (PEG), an organization that actively promotes Derrick Bell\u2019s Critical Race Theory.\nThrough its \u201cCoaching for Educational Equity\u201d program, PEG provides equity training to teachers and other school staff nationwide. 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I am honoured to be the Principal after such excellent leadership. The school became an Independent Public School in 2013 and has been nominated as a finalist in 2015 for primary school of the year. Last year the Department of Education\u2019s, Expert Review Group noted the exemplary practices of our school; the staff and community should be commended for this work.\nThe school motto is: Inspired Learning, Inspired Future.\nOur vision/purpose is:\nEast Hamilton Hill Primary School is to be a high performing school that is renowned for its commitment to meeting the educational and individualised needs of its students. 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To do so print name, address, city, state or province, ZIP or postal code, telephone number, complete email address, and the name of the school planning to attend and approximate date of enrollment on a 3 1/2\"x5\" piece of paper, insert in an envelope and mail to: eCampusTours Scholarship Giveaway, 501 Corporate Centre Drive - Suite 320, Franklin, TN 37067, which must be received by the expiration date. Limit one entry per student. No responsibility is assumed by Sponsor, and entrants waive all claims for lost, late, illegible or misdirected entries or for any problems of technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, software, failure of any email service or any combination thereof including without limitation any damage to entrant's or any other person's computer resulting from participation in this promotion. All entries become the property of the Sponsor. 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Allow 4-6 weeks after verification of winner status for the receipt of prize by mail. If, in the judges' opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the sweepstakes, or if technical difficulties compromise the integrity of the sweepstakes, Edsouth reserves the right to terminate the sweepstakes and conduct a random drawing to award the prizes using all eligible online and write-in entries received as of the termination date. Should the sweepstakes be terminated prior to the stated expiration date, notice will be posted on the participating eCampusTours websites.\n4. 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SPONSOR: Edsouth, 501 Corporate Centre Drive - Suite 320, Franklin, TN 37067.\nyou must be logged in to enter.\nPlease sign in to your profile or create an account to enter the eCampusTours $1000 Scholarship Giveaway.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 8457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://echidnaweb.com.au/about_echidna.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4G6MFHRSYQPNDXFNQSS2GECF3V236PSP", "length": 565, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "echidnaweb.com.au", "title": "About Echidna: : Echidna Web Design - Perth Based Web Design company specialising in Web Design, Web Development, Content Management Syst", "raw_content": "Echidna Web Design has built a reputation for producing quality websites, databases and software, and providing outstanding customer service. Our aim is to provide all of this at our very competitive rates.\nWe have been in business since April 1999, and our business strength is based on the referral and recommendation of past & existing clients.\nWith a team of experienced and talented developers, we are able to offer the following services:\nInternet Branding & Marketing\nWhile you are visiting please check out testimonials from our clients.\n+ more testimonials", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://economixcomix.com/2014/11/13/what-is-our-children-learning-part-6-the-end/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JPNZF2OXJOSLRJEAPU6GFS2ISVVJAGR5", "length": 713, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "economixcomix.com", "title": "What Is Our Children Learning? Part 6: The End. | Economix Comix", "raw_content": "\u00ab What Is Our Children Learning? Or, Greg Mankiw and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Textbook (now with single-page goodness!)\nWhat Is Our Children Learning? Part 5. \u00bb\n1 comment to What Is Our Children Learning? Part 6: The End.\nI would just like to say that this \u201cWhat Is Our Children Learning?\u201d segment is very informative and excellently written. I\u2019m not an Econ guy, but I\u2019ve argued before that we can\u2019t assume the same things that we have always assumed about the state of the world given how much it has changed and continues to change (mostly due to technology). This is a fresh perspective that everybody should try to understand. But that\u2019s the problem of which you write: most people will not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 13370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eddiesecho.com/eddies-advice-your-guide-to-relationships-school-and-underwear/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3OTSQGB2KTMR723RQQURSJYWJ7WADLMR", "length": 5291, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "eddiesecho.com", "title": "Eddies Advice: Your Guide to Relationships, School, and\u2026underwear. | The Eddies Echo", "raw_content": "Eddies Advice: Your Guide to Relationships, School, and\u2026underwear.\nWelcome to the first installment of the Eddies Echo advice column! All questions are welcome, whether they are about school or anything else, serious or not. All questions will be posted anonymously unless permission is given for a name to be included. You can put your questions in the comments or privately contact Mackenzie Tufts (kenziethebassist@gmail.com), or Ashley Bowden (ashley.bowden666@gmail.com). Don\u2019t be shy, we just want to help!\nDear Eddies Advice,\nMy girlfriend just dumped me because her friends make fun of her for dating me. She said she\u2019d rather keep her friends. Is she shallow? She wants to remain friends with me now. Should I?\nMaybe she is shallow, and her friends too. I think that if she really cared about you, it wouldn\u2019t matter to her what her friends thought of your relationship. On another note, if her friends were good friends, they would accept who she was dating rather than making the relationship difficult for her, because it\u2019s her decision who she wants to be with, not theirs. However, I don\u2019t know this person, so maybe I\u2019m completely wrong and she isn\u2019t shallow at all, just dealing with bad friends and peer pressure. At this point in our lives, it\u2019s definitely a possibility. As for whether you should remain friends with her or not, that\u2019s a decision you\u2019ll have to make. The only way to really know is to talk to her about all of this. I hope things will work out. -M\nIt\u2019s a tough situation and the same thing has happened to my friend before. Sadly, things aren\u2019t fair and sometimes people are either shallow, or dealing with peer pressure that they just don\u2019t know what to do. I\u2019m sorry you have been put it this position, but the best thing to do is keep your head high and do what makes you happy. Do you feel like still being her friend is going to be okay, or tough? Talk it out with her. Life sucks sometimes and we get caught in the middle of things, but there is always someone to pull you out of it. Maybe she wasn\u2019t the one for you and this was a sign. I hope things work out for you, I really do. Just talk it out and see where things go and if it\u2019s not meant to happen, it\u2019s not meant to happy. Best of Luck! -A\nIn my schoolwork, I\u2019m finding it harder and harder to be satisfied with what I pass in. I want to try my best, but I don\u2019t want to have such high expectations of myself. I don\u2019t know how to help myself. Any ideas?\nPerfectionist in Peril\nDear Perfectionist in Peril,\nFirst of all, you\u2019re not alone. I feel this way often myself, as do so many other students. What really matters is that you\u2019re trying. Trying but not being satisfied is so much better than just giving up on it. If your grades are all passing but you\u2019re still not satisfied, maybe you\u2019re being too hard on yourself. I would suggest that if you aren\u2019t getting satisfactory grades though, talk to your teachers about specific things you can do to improve. Just do what you can and work hard, but don\u2019t overwork yourself. -M\nI have the same issue with a lot of my work. I get positive feedback or good grades, but I just don\u2019t feel satisfied with it. It\u2019s a hard thing to deal with and figure out how to just let things go, but it is possible. Have a second or third party review it before turning it in, get their take on your work. The best thing you can do is try your hardest. If you are not satisfied, take the time to think about what you found wrong with it. Doing assignments ahead of time helps, too, because then you can go back and look at them again before handing them in and say \u2018Well I don\u2019t like this part, maybe I\u2019ll change it and make it better.\u2019 I wish you the best of luck and feel free to ask again if you need more advice. -A\nWhat should I do if life on this planet as we know it was about to end?\nI would say that you should blast \u201cI Believe in a Thing Called Love\u201d by the Darkness as loud as you can while doing an interpretive dance. I can\u2019t think of a better thing to do as the world ends. Spending time with family and friends? Admitting unrequited love? Nah, just accept your love for British glam rock. -M\nBe you. Put more into your life. Isn\u2019t there something you\u2019ve always wanted to do? Well go do it! Always live like the world is coming to an end. Admit things to people you wouldn\u2019t normally admit. Try new things you wouldn\u2019t normally try. Just, don\u2019t do anything illegal, that\u2019s not living, that\u2019s being stupid. Just go have fun and smile, the world wants you to be happy! -A\nI must ask, I have this problem where I put my underwear on backwards in the morning and and it bothers me at a point during school. Any advice?\n-Noah Libby\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had this problem before, so I\u2019m not too experienced in this field. However, I would suggest making sure your light is on in the morning as you are putting on your underwear. I believe there are also tags on the back side of all underwear, so you could use that as a reference when applying the garment to your body. If you continue to have this problem, as a last resort maybe you could just not wear underwear. But I repeat, last resort. Good luck! -M\nPowered by WordPress | Theme Designed by: http://fthemes.com/ | Thanks to themesgallery.net, Free WordPress themes gallery and wpthemesdir.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edit.delval.edu/news/hannah-rupert-12-will-travel-to-africa-to-help-with-cheetah-conservation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:S5IPN3DUIPQPIEAUHY3KAYR6OURL4K6B", "length": 3655, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "edit.delval.edu", "title": "Hannah Rupert \u201912 Will Travel to Africa to Help with Cheetah Conservation | Delaware Valley University", "raw_content": "Courtesy: Hannah Rupert. Hannah Rupert '12 is currently the education manager of public programs at The Maryland Zoo.\nHannah Rupert \u201912, a Delaware Valley University conservation and wildlife management alumna, will travel to Africa in July 2018 to be a part of cheetah conservation efforts. She will work alongside the Cheetah Conservation Fund doing hands-on fieldwork and community-based environmental education.\n\u201cAfrican animals have always been a passion of mine, and I am excited to get the chance to see animals that I educate people about daily in their wild habitat,\u201d said Rupert.\nRupert is currently the education manager of public programs at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore where she runs tours and events to educate the public about wildlife. Her newest project is a partnership with the Greater Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association that provides a guided zoo experience for patients with early-stage Alzheimer\u2019s. Rupert is also a member of the zoo\u2019s Sustainability Committee and serves as the staff advisor for volunteers.\nWhile working in her field, she is completing a master\u2019s degree through Miami University\u2019s Global Field Program. Rupert will be traveling to Namibia through her graduate program to work with other students and conservation professionals in the field. The graduate program takes students to different countries to participate in hands-on learning every summer. Rupert has studied field methods, desert ecology, whale sharks, eco-leadership and youth programs and visited locations all over the world through her graduate program.\n\u201cI worked alongside a local community in Paraguay to create a biodiversity day at a local park and got the chance to teach and learn from many different kids and adults who participated,\u201d said Rupert, of her past experiences with the program.\nCourtesy: Hannah Rupert. Hannah Rupert '12 (right) studying monkeys in The Atlantic Forest with her graduate program. This summer, she will travel to Africa to help with cheetah conservation.\nRupert said her hands-on experiences at DelVal as an undergraduate helped prepare her for success in her career and graduate school.\n\u201cI knew that DelVal was my first choice after touring the campus for the first time,\u201d said Rupert. \u201cI really enjoyed the one-on-one, hands-on learning environment. It was nice to be able to build connections with classmates and faculty.\u201d\nRupert said the conservation and wildlife management program at DelVal helped her discover and achieve her career goals.\n\u201cI am very thankful for the wildlife program for opening up so many life-changing opportunities for me,\u201d said Rupert. \u201cThe hands-on experience helped to grow my interest in my field and provided me with many first-time opportunities that I might not have had anywhere else.\u201d\nThrough Animals in the Public Eye, a DelVal course, Rupert had her first experience doing wildlife education for the public. She said she still uses lessons from DelVal in her wildlife education programs today.\nOutside of the classroom, Rupert built up her resume by interning. She worked as a general education intern with the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore between her junior and senior years of college. As an intern, Rupert assisted with school programs at the zoo.\n\u201cI found my dream job at a wonderful organization,\u201d said Rupert, of interning.\nAs an education manager, she now guides interns from DelVal and provides them with real-world, hands-on experience.\n\u201cI have worked with at least three DelVal interns and several started out with me as teen volunteers,\u201d said Rupert. \u201cI have also encouraged many teen volunteers interested in zoo and animal science to consider DelVal.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://education.shaktikrupa.org/About.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PBENS7CUBODXRXPZWZX2QQMD32PXBZCF", "length": 1351, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "education.shaktikrupa.org", "title": "Learning Institute | Gujarati Medium Schools | SKCT", "raw_content": "MGD By. Shakti Krupa Charitable Trust\nShree Chhotubhai A. Patel Learning Institute was founded in the year 2000 by Dr. Kiran Patel, Dr. Dinesh Patel & Mr. Pradip Patel which moulds qualified students who can perform multifarious activities and sustain the global competition by giving excellent contribution in their respective fields as constructive future citizens useful to the society, state and ultimately for the nation. Through a student-centered education, we aim to provide a challenging, balanced program that supports our students to reach their academic potential.\nShree Chhotubhai A. Patel Learning Institute a government recognized unaided institution affiliated to the Gujarat State Education Board is a state-of-the-art English & Gujarati medium school spread over 20 acres and equipped with excellent and modern educational, sporting infrastructure and boarding facilities. The School offers education to students from K.G. to Std. 12. It was inaugurated by His Excellency, the then Governor of the Gujarat State on August 5th, 2001 (which happened to be the birthday of the founder of the Trust, Shree Chhotubhai A. Patel). School started operating in 2000 and has rapidly expanded from under 100 students to 1000 students now\nVision & Mission School At a Glance Facilities Hostel At a Glance Certification Achievements Participation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edwisdom.com/2014/09/peoples-climate-march/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:X4MFQSHX2W4WQDMDGCQP4I4OPYN7IFCV", "length": 6694, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "edwisdom.com", "title": "The 3 R\u2019s (Resist, Reform, and Rebuild) | Edwisdom", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Climate Change \u00bb The 3 R\u2019s (Resist, Reform, and Rebuild)\nRecently, environmentalists organized the People\u2019s Climate March (PCM) in NYC, drawing nearly 400,000. Political commentators on both the left and right wrote off the March as ineffective, claiming that it did little to solve climate change. But starting the conversation is, unfortunately, still necessary. Even now, Pew and Gallup polls show that the majority of Americans neither believe in anthropogenic climate change nor see climate change as a top priority. Only mass protests can begin to change these misconceptions.\nThe March also served to make climate change a social justice issue. The First Nations\u2019 representatives led the March, raising awareness about the impact of pipeline projects on the Native populations. We can\u2019t keep talking about how climate change \u201cwill\u201d impact people \u2013 it already has. Kiribati, Maldives, and other Pacific Island nations are already sinking, according to the IPCC. A UN study has found that climate change is already affecting food supply for developing countries. Communities in the US downstream from oil refineries have long suffered from air and water pollution. In light of these facts, denying that climate change is a top priority becomes tantamount to undermining the value of the lives impacted by it.\nWhat Won\u2019t Work\nWhere do we look for solutions? For starters, stop hoping the federal government will combat climate change \u2013 it won\u2019t (cue the Star-Spangled Banner). The March did well to scrap the common misconception (in both liberal and conservative circles) that Obama is an environmentalist. He himself praised his climate-killing policies in a 2012 speech in Oklahoma: \u201cWe\u2019ve added enough oil and gas pipelines to encircle the Earth and then some. So we are drilling all over the place\u2026\u201d As long as oil and gas companies continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress, federal environmental protections will remain toothless.\nGreen consumerism won\u2019t save the environment either. Go ahead and buy recycled materials and fluorescent light bulbs, but don\u2019t expect that to be an adequate response to climate change. The industrial sector, according to the Department of Energy, uses about 33% of all energy consumed, and until essential consumer goods depend on fossil fuels, changing individual behavior only marginally affects climate change.\nResist Fossil Fuel Expansion\nFirst, we need to protect the rights of First Nation peoples from pipeline projects that encroach on their land. In places where new tar sands projects have been built, air and water pollution has led to increased incidence of cancer. As Kalamazoo, MI unfortunately learned in 2010 when 840,000 gallons of crude spilled into the city\u2019s river, pipelines tend to rupture; the Keystone XL Pipeline, the most well-known tar sands project, is projected by the University of Nebraska to experience 13 spills over a 50-year timespan.\nNatural gas extraction hasn\u2019t proved to be any safer than tar sands; ProPublica surveyed numerous public health studies, concluding that living near gas wells drastically increases the risk of a number of diseases and birth defects. Resistance to fossil fuel expansion, whether through mass sit-ins or class-action litigation, is the first step toward combating climate change.\nReform Institutions that Back Fossil Fuels\nSecond, we need a mass movement to change institutional behavior. Fossil fuel divestment campaigns, which first began in universities, have now been successfully launched against other non-profit organizations. Oil magnate John Rockefeller\u2019s heirs announced that they will divest the family fortune ($860 million) from fossil fuels. Over 180 organizations also pledged to divest over $50 billion from the fossil fuel industry. Divestment puts pressure on the fossil fuel industry in a way that empty platitudes from politicians don\u2019t.\nDivestment must extend to pensions, especially public pensions held by municipal governments. Public pensions hold assets worth over $5 trillion \u2013 that\u2019s $5 trillion available for investment in renewable energy, all while conservatives wail about $154 billion in federal money \u201cwasted on renewable energy.\u201d Now that the cost per watt of solar energy has fallen to $0.70, it\u2019s not surprising that renewable energy stocks and funds have been soaring recently. Reforming institutions that average people connect to and directly impact (i.e. not the federal government) looks to be promising in the fight against climate change.\nRebuild Energy Infrastructure\nLastly, we must create renewable energy infrastructure at the local and state levels. It\u2019s time to stop hoping for the US to comply with the Kyoto Protocol and impose cap-and-trade regulations or a carbon tax. We must look toward local experiments that are already succeeding. The tremendous outgrowth of community-supported agriculture in the US shows that communities can simultaneously gain power over their food supply and reduce their carbon footprint.\nBurlington, Vermont\u2019s largest city has already transitioned to 100% renewable energy, and 5 US states (ID, WA, SD, OR, ME) now produce more than 50% of their energy from renewable sources. Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson has even created individualized roadmaps to 100% renewable energy for each of the 50 states. Like the battles to legalize gay marriage and marijuana, renewable energy will likely succeed on the state level long before the federal government even considers a sensible exit strategy from fossil fuels.\nReclaiming Our Rights\nInstead of moving through the traditional channels of green politics or green consumerism, we must adopt innovative tactics: Resist, Reform, and Rebuild. In doing so, ordinary people gain more than just the right to live in an inhabitable climate (which is important enough itself) \u2013 resisting oil and gas expansion will preserve the property rights of indigenous peoples; reforming institutions will return to average Americans the right to manage their wealth; rebuilding energy infrastructure bottom-up will give average Americans the right to control the affairs of their own communities.\nFew rights are more fundamental to the American character, and it\u2019s time to confront the structures of concentrated power that prevent us from realizing them. If this seems hopeless, let\u2019s remember the words of feminist Margaret Mead: \u201cNever doubt that small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it\u2019s the only thing that ever has.\u201d Maybe if the US can wean itself off fossil fuels, it may stop propping up dictatorships in the Middle East for cheap oil. But that\u2019s a revolution for some other time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 7686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 245.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elandereyecare.com/contact3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:27Z", "digest": "sha1:RLYKY7IT4NGASONNBLFF6YIQEQRIZ3CU", "length": 876, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "elandereyecare.com", "title": "Elander Eye Care :: Santa Monica", "raw_content": "FEES AND PAYMENTS Part of keeping the cost of your medical care down as much as possible is collecting all co-payments, non-covered services and deductibles at the time of service. With this in mind, we require payment upon check-out from your appointment. For your convenience, we do accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express. As a courtesy to you, we are happy to bill insurance for any plans with which we participate.\nPlease note, however, that financial responsibility is ultimately the patient's, and we cannot guarantee payment from any particular carrier. We strongly encourage each patient confirm with their insurance carrier and our front desk the status of our contracts at every office visit. Elander Eye Medical Group does not participate with any Vision Coverage (such as V.S.P. or EyeMed), and we are unable to bill them for any services rendered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.carbures.com/index.php/2014-02-24-11-11-49/529-carbures-opens-an-aeronautical-office-in-germany", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2BLQD3KHUCETLVSB3BYQ2UE4HHI3KZGW", "length": 3928, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.carbures.com", "title": "Carbures opens an aeronautical office in Germany", "raw_content": "Carbures opens an aeronautical office in Germany\n\u2022 Carbures opens a new engineering office in Munich and creates a German company, within the Carbures Aerospace & Defense division, which is now in the process of hiring local engineers to form a team.\n\u2022 This opening reinforces the geostrategic positioning of the Company with the aim of continuing to grow in the international market, in this case in Europe, and to provide engineering and manufacturing services and delivery of projects door to door with its clients.\nMadrid, February 14, 2018. Carbures lands in Germany in the aeronautics sector. The Spanish multinational specialized in the engineering and manufacture of structures in composite materials opens a new office CarburesDefense Gmbh, a 100 percent German company owned by Carbures Aerospace & Defense, from where the local engineers that will form the Carbures Defense team will be hired.\nThis opening is part of the Company's strategy to continue growing in the European international market, on the one hand, and to be closer to customers, on the other. Since last year, Carbures has been expanding its portfolio of European customers in the aeronautical sector. One of them was Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Anonyme Belge de Constructions A\u00e9ronautiques - SABCA, Tier 1, a leading supplier of reference in Belgium, with which it obtained a contract to cover part of the production of the Topcovers for the Flap Support Fairings of the Airbus A350. Another strategic move by the Company was the opening of the plant in Harbin, whose main objective was to be near Airbus, and Hafei and to manufacture composite structures for Chinese customers.\nGermany is the most important aeronautical pole in Europe, together with France, given the wide presence of Airbus, which has spread over the German geography up to 27 plants for the development of commercial aircraft activities (Hamburg, Bremen and Stade), helicopters (Donauw\u00f6rth and Kassel), military aircraft (Manching, Ulm and Bremen) and satellites (Ottobrunn, Bremen and Friedrichshafen). Carbures also wants to take advantage of the facilities the company already has in Munich, where it has been operating for more than three years, with a team of German engineers specialized in the automotive sector and from which it works successfully for first-class customers in the automotive world , such as BMW, Audi, Mercedes Daimler, Jaguar LandRover or Italian engineering Pininfarina.\nThe opening of this new office will allow Carbures to extend to Germany the activities currently carried out in Spain, where Carbures already works directly with Airbus, currently having around 190 engineers working directly in the plants that the manufacturer has in both most relevant Spanish aeronautical poles (the Andalusian, with plants in Seville, Puerto Real and Puerto de Santa Mar\u00eda, and the central, with plant in Getafe).\nThe President and founder of Carbures, Rafael Contreras, highlights that \"the time and results are showing that the strategy set is working in terms of the geostrategic positioning of Carbures in the aerospace sector. The opening of this new office in one of the European aerospace centers with the highest manufacturing volume is an opportunity for Carbures to offer the best service to its customers and increase its client base. \"\nThe establishment of our own aeronautical engineering in northern Europe, and in particular, as we say, in this reference pole, means opening up significant growth opportunities for a market in which Carbures is very competitive and has extensive experience. It should be noted that in 2016, Airbus itself awarded Carbures in Toulouse with the Best Improver Supply Chain Quality and Improvement Program (SQIP), in recognition of the strength and industrial quality of the Company, which adds more than 16 years of technological processes and engineering pioneers for the manufacture of parts in composites for the aerospace sector.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.ectorino2012.it/ready-to-sing/discovery-ateliers/28th-July-2012/G15-Breathing-technique-for-singing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GC2FWFFFE2ICP2UUWV6OOYRGMY42AZVY", "length": 1175, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "en.ectorino2012.it", "title": "G15 Breathing technique for singing / 28th July 2012 / discovery ateliers / ready to... sing / EC Torino 2012", "raw_content": "home page > ready to... sing > discovery ateliers > 28th July 2012 > G15 Breathing technique for singing\nDo you wish to prove how your voice can become \"larger\" without increasing the effort?... Or to learn how to visualize your vocal organ for obtaining better results?\nThis and other interesting experiences will be offered you by this meeting.\nWe will learn to know the AMBU mask, this is its original name in medical terminology, now used by many soloists during their warm-up exercises and study.\nWe'll talk about breathing and vocal warm-up, trying to understand the operating of our most important muscle, the diaphragm, at physiological level...\nYou can come up with a song, a lieder, a motet, even simple sentences of a piece... we will test them with the mask, and try them again without it, to appreciate the result immediately...\nAnd many other things about all that can make our singing more... natural and simple.\nShe began her musical studies at a young age, studying piano at the Conservatory N. Paganini of La Spezia. At fifteen she began her vocal studies and was subsequently admitted to the Civic School of Music in Milan, in the class of Gabriella Rossi.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.gaidarforum.ru/about/partners/the-magazine-region-of-development-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OCLFZ2MFHR5TANMW6HWNDFFRS4SMWIUP", "length": 717, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "en.gaidarforum.ru", "title": "The magazine \u201cRegion of development\u201d", "raw_content": "The magazine \u201cRegion of development\u201d\nOfficial website:ros-region.com\nThe magazine \u201cRegion of development\u201d is one of the most bright monthly business analytical publications in Russia. The knowledge and experience are made for the interaction with Russian companies to promote their development, improvement and help to be guided with the difficult conditions of modern economy and business. We are directly working with ministries, administrations of regions, heads of Russian and foreign companies. We also help regions to realize different investigations projects by introducing investment programs and technologies. We are a link between the power and business at different levels, giving support to the companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.gaidarforum.ru/experts/yuri-tikhomirov/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:NBJJ4HBQBU42ZA3VAGWHLCNOJOUQ2RF2", "length": 874, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.gaidarforum.ru", "title": "Forum Experts", "raw_content": "Yuri Tikhomirov\nDeputy Director, Center for Public Studies, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law\nCurrently - Deputy Director of Center for Public Studies, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute for Legal Research.\nSince 2000 - Lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU).\n1985 to 1989 - Head, the Department of the Academy of National Economy under the USSR Council of Ministers.\n1954 to 1985 - post-graduate student, Senior Research Fellow, Academic Secretary, Head of Sector, Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences.\nIn 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University.\nDoctor of Sciences, Professor.\nHe was awarded the Order of Honor. Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 72.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.newyork.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=227&pageid=5451&newsview=497721", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UBMIJIXAO6QZWF27O5GGJPMYIOUFYKD7", "length": 5830, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "en.newyork.mfa.ir", "title": "Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations - New York", "raw_content": "News > Statement by H.E Mr. Eshagh Al Habib on Situation in the MiddleEast, including thePalestinian Question\nStatement by H.E Mr. Eshagh Al Habib on Situation in the MiddleEast, including thePalestinian Question\nStatement by Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative\nBeforetheSecurity Council Open Debateon\n\u201cSituation in the MiddleEast, including thePalestinian Question\u201d\nAt the beginning, I convey my Delegation\u2019s appreciation to Kazakhstan for convening this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine, at this critical juncture for Palestine and the Middle East.\nI align myself to the statement of the representative of the Bolivarian Republic Venezuela on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.\nThe Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land is the core and central of all conflicts in the Middle East. The injustice has been continuing for more than seven decades, exacerbated through Israeli expansionist, aggressive and apartheid policies towards Palestinians and the Region.\nEach time we meet here, there are new announcements on illegal settlements or annexation plans. This should not be surprising from a regime whose prime Minister admits: \u201cThere was not and will not be a better Government for settlement than our Government\u201d. The Israeli regime now works day and night to negate any right of Palestinian statehood and entrench the occupation.\nThe latest case in hand is the provocative decision of the US to recognize al-Quds as the capital of the Israeliregime that revealed the complicity of both regimes to deprive the Palestinians of their basic rights to establish an independent state for their own with al-Quds as its capital. The whole international community rejected this illegal and politically wrong decision in the General Assembly on 21 December 2017 and manifested its support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinians, despite all grotesque intimidations exercised before the vote.\nThe fast growing illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory constitutes not only a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention but also a war crime that is another clear indication that the Israeli regime has never had any interest in peace. Israeli entire history starts with illegal occupation of the Palestinian land and is full of aggression against its neighbors and other countries in the Middle East, at least 14 times since 1948. This regime arrogantly and flagrantly continues to violate at least 86 resolutions, adopted by this Council, starting from resolution 54 (1948) to the resolution 2334 (2016) on illegal settlement activities. There are many more by the General Assembly, the HRC and UN Specialized agencies, all adopted in response to its illegal occupation, repeated acts of aggression as well as its well-documented atrocities, apartheid policies and war crimes against the Palestinian people. The Israeli regime,emboldened by the impunity provided to it by US, shamelessly and flagrantly continues to violate all Council\u2019s resolutions on Middle East while shedding alligator tears for those resolutions it chooses to like.\nIsrael continues to flout all international regimes governing WMDs by refusing to crocodile to NPT and the Chemical and the Biological Weapons Convention.\nSurprisingly and shamelessly this regime seeks the sympathy by claiming that it is in fact the one, and not the Palestinians, that is under threat.\nNo political theater may hide Israeli policies of incremental aggressive and expansion and its behavior towards its neighbors as the main source of threat to the peace and security in this region.\nThe destructive role of the US in international conflicts, particularly in the Middle East, is incontestable. The United States has never been an honest partner for peace and justice in this conflict, and it will never be.\nIt is a discredit for this Council to fail to act when it comes to genuine issues, such as the long-lasting occupation of Palestinian territory \u2013 to which this item is dedicated \u2013 or the indiscriminate bombing of Yemen in the past three years that has brought hunger, disease and destruction on the Yemeni people and imposing humanitarian blockade leading to the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, as described by USG for Humanitarian Affairs. The list of such failures attributable to the obstructionist approach by the US delegation and goes on and on.\nWhile the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands certainly is the main contributor to the instability of the Middle East, there are other contributors.\nAny foreign intervention, occupation and ensuing instabilities and attempts to engineer societies in the Middle East, proved to provide breeding grounds for terrorist and extremist groups to grow.\nUnfortunately, US and the Israeli regime prefer to resort, promote and spread Iran-phobia and this has become a kind of ongoing obsession and hysteria for them. We have heard them today and in course of this debate and in recent months. This hysteria is being actively perpetuated by those willing to sell or spend their dollars on American \"beautiful weapons\". It has nothing to do with peace and security in the Middle East.\nOn the contrary, it is an undeniable fact that while Iran was helping the people of Iraq and Syria to defeat Daesh, US and some were busy arming them.\nIn closing, at a time with the Palestinian people are facing rising Israeli aggression Iran reaffirms its longstanding solidarity with the Palestinian people, recognizing their decades of resilience despite so much suffering and injustice, and reiterates its strong support for their legitimate and inalienable rights, including to self-determination and freedom in an independent and viable State of Palestine, with Al-Quds as its capital.\n25/01/2018 / Number : 497721 / Show Count : 185", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 7156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0614/c90000-9471200-3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JR6T7WQCPQ6VCOSTYCHMGNXGIZSDJWS5", "length": 508, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "en.people.cn", "title": "In pics: highways in Taklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang (3) - People's Daily Online", "raw_content": "A car runs on the first highway in Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 12, 2018.The first highway across the Taklimakan, running 522 kilometers from Lunnan in the north, to Minfeng county in the south, was opened to traffic in 1995. The second north-south road across the desert opened to traffic about a decade ago, cutting the distance between the two important regional cities of Hotan and Aral by 550 km and the travel time by about seven hours. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enermac.com/comparing_the_fci.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:U6TFWPR7C5COXFNT3ZACHRY6QXCNMN6R", "length": 1737, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "enermac.com", "title": "Comparing the FCI", "raw_content": "Comparing the FCI (Facility Condition Index) to Threshold Funding\nThis asset is based on a present value of $10,000,000.\nAll Three graphs are based on the same asset.\n2% inflation and 4% interest have been used\nFCI at 5%\nTo achieve the FCI \"Good\" the asset value is calculated to meet a point in 25 years of 5% of the value of the asset.\nThe actual deprecated portion of the asset is calculated at $2,914,00 in 25 years.\nThis Asset is set to meet the point of $2,108,000 in the year 2028.\nthis maintains 5% of the expired equity as a funding point\nWhen you add up the total cost to manage with the use of the FCI 5% over the 25 years it is:\nFCI at 10%\nTo achieve the FCI of \"fair to poor\" the asset value is calculated to meet a point in 25 years of 10% of the value of the asset.\nthis maintains 10% of the expired equity as a funding point\nWhen you add up the total cost to manage with the use of the FCI at 10% over the 25 years it is:\nThreshold Funding\nTo calculate threshold funding an average annual expenditure is calculated and used a base line to set the critical funding years so that they do not fall below.\nIn the year 2028 there is a fund amount of $534,000.\nThreshold funding has no set point to fund to, it is based on the actual events of the asset\nWhen you add up the total cost to manage with the use of the Threshold Funding over the 25 years it totals $4,739,000.\nThe total costs of utilizing the FCI as \"Good\" compared to Threshold Funding over 25 years are calculated as follows:\nFCI Costs $6,105,000\nThreshold Cost $4,739,000\nTotal Cost Difference $1,366,000\nThe total costs of utilizing the FCI as \"Fair to Poor\" compared to Threshold Funding over 25 years are calculated as follows:\nTotal Cost Difference $857,000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.pnn.ps/2018/02/23/israel-starts-building-homes-at-new-illegal-settlement-in-west-bank/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PW3VR77YKBXMEY6SY5BSCTLAY6H52K5O", "length": 1192, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "english.pnn.ps", "title": "Israel starts building homes at new illegal settlement in West Bank \u2013 PNN", "raw_content": "Israel starts building homes at new illegal settlement in West Bank\nRamallah /PNN/\nIsraeli occupation authorities started building homes at the new illegal Israeli Jewish settlement north of West Bank city of Ramallah.\nAccording to Israeli TV Channel 7, occupation forces started assembling 36 mobile homes in the settlement known as Amichai, noting that the settlers are expected to use these homes within three weeks.\nThe settlement is being built to house about 300 hardline settlers from the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona, which was forcibly emptied a year ago after an Israeli court ruled their houses were on privately owned Palestinian land.\nIn June last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that work on a new settlement would begin. It is the first officially authorised settlement since 1993, many illegal outposts have been set up by settlers with authorities doing little to reign in such attacks on Palestinian lands.\n\u201cAfter decades, I have the honour to be the first prime minister to build a settlement in Judea and Samaria [West Bank]\u2026 There was not, and there will never be, as good a government for the settlements as ours,\u201d Netanyahu had declared.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2770/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WN4G3TCDBYSH72CM7LZSN7GSWYXMOYJM", "length": 1381, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "eprints.lse.ac.uk", "title": "Citizens and consumers: discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003 - LSE Research Online", "raw_content": "Citizens and consumers: discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003\nLivingstone, Sonia, Lunt, Peter and Miller, Laura (2007) Citizens and consumers: discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003. Media, Culture and Society, 29 (4). pp. 613-638. ISSN 0163-4437\nThe regulation of media and communications in the UK has recently been subject to reform resulting in the creation of the Office of Communications (Ofcom). This statutory body, established by an Act of Parliament, is a new, sector-wide regulator, protecting the interests of what has been termed the \u2018citizen-consumer\u2019. This article charts the discursive shifts that occurred during the passage of the Communications Act through Parliament and in the initial stages of its implementation to understand how and why the term \u2018citizen-consumer\u2019 came to lie at the heart of the new regulator\u2019s mission. By critically analysing the various alignments of \u2018citizen\u2019 and \u2018consumer\u2019 interests within the debates, the underlying struggles over the formulation of power, responsibility and duties for the new regulator and for other stakeholders \u2013 industry, government and public \u2013 are identified. The article concludes that the legacy of these debates is that regulatory provisions designed to further the \u2018citizen interest\u2019 contain significant and unresolved dilemmas.\nhttp://mcs.sagepub.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://erasmusplus.zsnw.edu.pl/news,a1518631867", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:R3RZ6QGQRURAIED4C4ZMZYCPVGI62VMJ", "length": 3432, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "erasmusplus.zsnw.edu.pl", "title": "Erasmus+", "raw_content": "A group of students from Kolymvari Junior High School visited the Orthodox Academy of Crete in our village to interview the French professor of botany Jacques Zaffran, as part of their project work regarding herbs and employment.\nJacques Zaffran's main studies were in Biology, as he said. In 1964, having graduated from the University of Algiers, he was asked by the University of Marseilles to do his doctoral research in Crete. He thought \" Why not? Crete is a beautiful place\". He dedicated himself to the study of Cretan herbs. Since 2004 he has been permanently living in Crete, in the nearby village of Kontomari.\nIt was the first time that our students interviewed a scientist, so they prepared some very interesting questions and without realizing, they went into a deeper and deeper friendly conversation, having, in this way, the opportunity to practise their English.\nThe students asked professor Zaffran about the most important skill a botanist should have. \"To go to the fields.\", he replied. \"The most difficult thing is working in the mountains and having to walk many kilometres to pick plants.\", he said. One of the problems that he faced during his career was when he first came to Crete; \"Language was a big problem. Also, I had to find a mule to carry a tent and food for me. I stayed in the mountain for a week, then went to the village for two days and back again. This happened for four years.\"\n- \"Why should we care about herbs?\" - \"Because we can't live without them. They are the most important reserve of oxygen.\"\nStudents asked professor Zaffran about the most common and also the rarest herbs in Crete. Malotira, i.e. Cretan mountain tea, is the most common. Malotira is the Cretan herb than he suggests teenagers should drink instead of coffee or regular tea. As for the rarest, there are quite many, such as the Cretan Bellflower. He said that there are some species that have been registered but he himself hasn't ever seen. They become rarer and rarer and they can now only be found on the top of the mountains that people cannot reach.\nClimate change is one of the challenges that the profession of a botanist faces in the 21st century, according to Jacques Zaffran. Environmental Engineer Antonis Kalogerakis, serving as Head of the OAC's Institute of Theology & Ecology who coordinated our visit, further explained that overgrazing, fires and air pollution are the most serious threats for herbs nowadays.\nAfter the interview, students had the chance to visit the Museum of Cretan Herbs, also named Herbarium Jacques Zaffran as it contains herbs that the professor has collected. Among others, students asked him about the preservation methods of dry herbs as old as 50 years. \"Every two years we take them out of the showcases, put them in the fridge for one week to kill any living organisms and then we put them back for display.\"\nAs for the herbs that appear in the Bible, he told the students that they are also very common in Crete because the climate in Israel is the same as the Mediterranean one.\nWhat made us feel really proud was his remark that Crete has more endemic species than the whole France. Can you imagine?\n- \"Now that you are 83, what is that you can't do and makes you feel sad?\" - \"I can't go to the mountains anymore, that makes me sad.\"\nExtracting deep knowledge from an expert is an added value to this Erasmus+ project which makes our students' mission ... possible!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://esolodyssey.learningwithlaurahj.org/2018/02/when-history-should-not-be-gamified.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NAOYDD2S74K6GMLWHF2D523PVFJ5QE7M", "length": 377, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "esolodyssey.learningwithlaurahj.org", "title": "The ESOL Odyssey: When History Should NOT Be Gamified or Simulated in the Classroom", "raw_content": "Jill Christensen February 18, 2018 at 10:02 PM\nThank you for writing this. I know that people wouldn't intend to denigrate the lived experience of our students' families. But trivializing genocide or slavery is wrong. Lessons about them shouldn't be fun.\nYNot Counseling February 18, 2018 at 11:02 PM\nKD September 22, 2018 at 2:13 AM\nExcellent Article! Such a nice information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 206.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://essaouiranews.com/2018/12/08/pm-imran-to-reply-to-trump-letter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GJ44JPOOTUV5BUGGWKBYYC2ZNKWDJFZB", "length": 3115, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "essaouiranews.com", "title": "PM Imran to reply to Trump letter", "raw_content": "Pakistan won't be treated like'hired gun anymore says PM Imran\nPrime Minister Imran Khan said that U.S. wants our help to establish peace in Afghanistan and I always believed that instead of \"do more\" we should play a role in the Afghan peace process. \"We would like a proper relationship with the United States\". He said peace in Afghanistan is in Pakistan's interest, so his government will do \"everything\" to help. \"They said that we have time and time again asked the Americans, 'Can you tell us where the sanctuaries are, and we will go after them?' There are no sanctuaries in Pakistan\", he said.\n\"I have never understood these accusations [that Pakistan is harboring Taliban leaders]\".\nKhan also expressed hope that Islamabad and New Delhi would resume talks after the General Elections in India next summer.\n\"President Trump sent a letter to Prime Minister Khan, requesting Pakistan's full support to the US-led Afghan peace process and Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad's upcoming trip to the region\", a spokesperson of the National Security Council, White House, told PTI.\nPM Khan also denied that there were any sanctuaries for Taliban leaders in Pakistan. Our border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has the greatest amount of surveillance.\nKhan said he wanted a relationship with the U.S. like the one with China - \"not one-dimensional\" and a \"trade relationship\". It is the responsibility of all countries to remain alongside the Afghan security forces and help them in fighting terrorism. \"Who would not want to be friends with a superpower?\" he said.\n\"If we left precipitously right now I do not believe they would be able to successfully defend their country\", he said, adding that \"the operational military situation is largely stalemated\". \"Now I'm happy that everyone realizes there is only a political solution\", he said. \"It has to be a regional solution, not just a solution centred in Afghanistan\", he said.\nHe also said that the exports and remittances were going up, explaining that the investors were taking keen interest by coming to the country.\n\"In this regard, he has sought Pakistan's support and facilitation\", it continued.\nIn short, Pakistan's diplomacy is on trial for sure; it of course should help its neighbours and also work together with the USA for peace in Afghanistan.\nThe US envoy said they are trying to bring about those circumstances that allows those negotiation among Afghans to occur. \"It will be hard to reach a settlement without some form of assistance from Pakistan\". I don't think we have to get anymore statement from anybody. \"Instead of making Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures, the U.S. should do a serious assessment of why, despite 140,000 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops plus 250,000 Afghan troops & reportedly $1 trillion spent on war in Afghanistan, the Taliban today are stronger than before\", he had tweeted. Then, in 1989, when the Soviets packed up and left, the United States did too. The US wants them to convince Taliban not to militarily overrun the country if the US pulls out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 11322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/fr/countries/asia/maldives", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:W2VFYDQHJFP4HN6EUGN6LAVPJDYLAACI", "length": 1008, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "evaw-global-database.unwomen.org", "title": "Maldives", "raw_content": "Maldives Search Data\n(1) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Source: Ministry of Gender and Family, 2006. The Maldives Study on Women\u2019s Health and Life Experiences: Initial Results on Prevalence, Health Outcomes and Women\u2019s Responses to Violence.\n(2) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: Ministry of Gender and Family, 2006. The Maldives Study on Women\u2019s Health and Life Experiences: Initial Results on Prevalence, Health Outcomes and Women\u2019s Responses to Violence.\n(3) Proportion of women aged 15\u201349 years experiencing sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than an intimate partner since age 15. Source: Ministry of Gender and Family, 2006. The Maldives Study on Women\u2019s Health and Life Experiences: Initial Results on Prevalence, Health Outcomes and Women\u2019s Responses to Violence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 179.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://everwas.com/2014/02/google-maps-gallery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7WJFSVYLZLBU5LO7CMW4KXFTUA3FZPTR", "length": 1000, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "everwas.com", "title": "Google Maps Gallery | everwas", "raw_content": "10 years ago, when I was looking for a place to live, I had three maps to help me zero in on where to look. I was concerned with schools so I had a map from greatschools.org along with a school district map showing which houses served which schools. I then had a real estate map from realtor.com that showed the price of houses in the area. Back then the wish was to overlay the two maps on top of each other and, indeed, some of the original mashups which kicked off the Web 2.0 movement were driven by these types of demands.\nSince then, the Google Maps teams has been busy pulling in all sorts of layers together and have gathered them all together into their Google Maps Gallery which launched today. There\u2019s a load of things to get lost in (including the overlay of San Francisco in 1938 shown above).\nRead their blog post to learn more.\nThis entry was posted in Current Events and tagged Google, maps on February 27, 2014 by Ian Kennedy.\n\u2190 Glomar Response Bay Area Negitive Equity Flood Zones \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/bigpic.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:36Z", "digest": "sha1:YF4QR4J7ASR7ENZVBWNJGNYFSTPPMEFL", "length": 3527, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "faculty.bucks.edu", "title": "Getting the Big Picture and Paying Attention to the Details", "raw_content": "Based on information gained from new technologies and recent research on the brain, we know that we use the entire brain when processing information. In spite of this fact, learners seem to fall into one of two camps. Some tend to be \"right brained,\" showing a preference to learn and process information simultaneously and focusing on the big picture and relationships between ideas. Others tend to be \"left brained\" and learn and process information in a sequential, step-by-step fashion, while focusing on details. But just as we need to see with both of our eyes in order to capture all of the nuances of an image, we need to gather information from both \"big picture\" and \"detail\" perspectives in order to fully understand. Like a puzzle, you don't get the \"whole picture\" until you have all the pieces.\nIf you tend to be a \"big picture\" learner, you should be aware that you may miss important details when you read, take notes, and study. You may \"jump to conclusions\" in your eagerness to look for patterns and relationships. In a similar way, if you tend to focus on details, you may not recognize the relationships between ideas that are also critical to full understanding. If you \"can't see the forest for the trees,\" you may find it difficult to understand where the information is heading.\nThe implication is that we should strive for a balance between these two styles of learning. We should seek ways to get information from the opposite \"brain,\" by practicing ways to get all the information we need and/or by working with others who tend to be strong in the opposite style.\nThe following are some techniques that can help to strengthen both styles of learning:\nIf you are \"Left Brained\" (detailed, step-by-step, linear)\nTo get the big picture, develop a map of each course and chapter of your text. This will help you to see where the details fit in and to determine which details are most important.\nWrite summaries (in your own words) for each topic covered in your text and lectures.\nAt the end of each chapter or unit, develop flash cards or Cornell notes to identify the most important information on one side and the details on the other side of the card.\nUse questions at all cognitive levels and visual organizers to help yourself process information more deeply and to see the relationships between important concepts.\nUse maps to help yourself identify the most important information for reviewing and for test preparation.\nUse maps to help yourself organize your thinking before you start writing.\nIf you are \"Right Brained\" (big picture, simultaneous, holistic):\nAnnotate text and take lecture notes, focusing on important details by using Cornell notes. Number or bullet the details to draw your attention to them.\nFor each lecture you attend or chapter you read, develop flash cards that identify the most important terms and concepts. Write main ideas on one side and details on the other.\nUse questions at all cognitive levels to quiz yourself and to be sure that you have considered the important details.\nReview flash cards or Cornell notes to prepare for tests and exams.\nUse maps to help with preliminary organization for writing essays. Be sure that you include sufficient details to back up your ideas. Use Cornell notes or other outlining techniques for organizing longer papers.\nSurvey the whole test before you start answering questions. Develop a test-taking strategy to maximize your efforts. Be sure to read all questions thoroughly and to provide sufficient detail in your answers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 4342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fedip.org/the-launch-of-well-connected", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:L2MADRRU5YRVIGALWDUY7N5LZATJK47J", "length": 328, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fedip.org", "title": "The launch of well connected", "raw_content": "During UK eHealth week in May 2017, FEDIP launched the Well Connected campaign, watch the video to find out more.\nAt the heart of Well connected are values and integrity. Your values and integrity. Together, we\u2019re bringing together people with shared values, and empowering you to take ownership as a community of professionals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fellowmortals.org/staff/yvonne/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HKYS2PDUOV2ZB7EYHEUD2U7NLW3SOPBC", "length": 1934, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "fellowmortals.org", "title": "Yvonne Wallace Blane\u2014Co-founder and Director of Rehabilitation \u2013 Fellow Mortals Wildlife Hospital", "raw_content": "Home / Staff / Yvonne Wallace Blane\u2014Co-founder and Director of Rehabilitation\nYvonne has been a wildlife rehabilitator and educator for over 30 years, co-founding Fellow Mortals with Steve Blane in 1985. Yvonne graduated magna cum laude from University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in English and Earth Sciences. Other areas of interest and education include paralegal work, accounting and organization development. Yvonne has been licensed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1988.\nYvonne has written and presented papers for both the national and international wildlife rehabilitation association and published in their journals. Past president of the Wisconsin Wildlife Rehabilitators\u2019 Association, former board member of the Illinois Wildlife Rehabilitators\u2019 Association, member of the Ethics Committee of the National Wildlife Rehabilitators\u2019 Association, she has served as Chair of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Advisory Council to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources since 2013, as well as currently serving on user advisory councils for Guidestar and Global Giving, organizations dedicated to increasing and encouraging transparency in the international non-profit arena.\nYvonne has handled over 40,000 wild birds and mammals to date, with specialities in captive care of Common Nighthawk and the use of wild unreleaseable birds for conspecific fostering of wild orphans, a field which Yvonne helped to pioneer with the late Marlys Bulander, of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with her first wild foster in 1989. Yvonne currently acts as Executive Director, Director of Rehabilitation, Grantwriter, Social Media and Online Fundraising Professional and Advanced Wildlife Rehabilitator. Utilizing her training, education and legal and administrative background, she also writes and edits the organization\u2019s newsletter, promotional, fundraising and educational materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://festivalhill.org/faculty/details.php?id=126", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:C7WQV5GDBQ5DZDYCA2JQDXZIQWUVI2AP", "length": 4312, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "festivalhill.org", "title": "Round Top Festival Institute |", "raw_content": "Joan Kwuon\nwww.cim.edu/faculty/joan-kwuon\nAmerican violinist Joan Kwuon is widely recognized for her commanding interpretations, graceful flair and deeply communicative voice. Her artistry is committed to a diversity of musical periods and styles ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Stravinsky and Takemitsu.\nJoan Kwuon, whom the New York Times describes as \"fiery, intensely musical and impassioned,\" made her Tanglewood Music Festival concerto debut at the invitation of Sir Andr\u00e9 Previn in 2000 and her recital debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall the following season. She has since appeared with leading orchestras of North America, Europe and Asia and in recital and chamber music internationally. Ms. Kwuon's virtuosity and radiant stage presence have been recognized by media ranging from The Today Show, CBS News and Lifetime Television to National Public Radio.\nCelebrating Mozart's 250th birthday, Ms. Kwuon toured the United States performing Mozart Violin Concerti with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit and Matthias Bamert. She performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Andr\u00e9 Previn in Cardiff, Wales and with Maestro Previn and the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performing Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3. She also appeared with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, Seattle Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Bulgarian National Academic Orchestra, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 Sinfonia of Finland, Moscow State Radio Symphony, Orchestra Europa, Busan Philharmonic, State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Louisiana Philharmonic, Amarillo Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and International Sejong Soloists. Among the many conductors with whom she has worked are G\u00fcnther Herbig, Joann Falletta, Heinz Wallberg, Patrick Gallois, Heiichiro Ohyama, Enrique Batiz, Theodore Kuchar, Christopher Seaman, Joel Smirnoff, G\u00fcrer Aykal, Arild Remmereit and Thierry Fischer.\nMs. Kwuon's other recent debuts and return engagements included the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Turkey and the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Le\u00f3n, Mexico. Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's \"Turkish\" Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Rochester Philhamonic, Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the El Paso Symphony and Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Czech Republic with the Janacek Philharmonic.\nJoan Kwuon made her Metropolitan Museum recital debut in 2006 and in 2008 returned to the Metropolitan Museum with pianist, Andr\u00e9 Previn in Sonata Recital. Ms. Kwuon and Mr. Previn also performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and for the Anne Ratner Concert Series in NYC. She has opened the Mixon Hall Masters Series at CIM and has appeared on the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars, Caramoor's Great Artists Series, San Francisco Performances, Hampton Arts Series, Tannery Pond Concerts, University of Illinois' Krannert Center, The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts in New York City, Universities of Georgia, Long Beach, Iowa, George Mason, Hoam Art Hall, Wooster College and the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. She has enjoyed collaborations with Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, the Juilliard String Quartet, Bright Sheng, Heidi Grant Murphy, Cecile Licad, Vladimir Feltsman and Tony Bennett with whom Ms. Kwuon has performed in duet at Jazz Lincoln Center, Tanglewood and most recently at the MusiCares Grammy Awards Gala.\nBorn in Los Angeles, Joan Kwuon began her musical studies at the piano at age five and violin at age six. She attended Crossroads School and studied at Indiana University with Miriam Fried, The Juilliard School with Joel Smirnoff and CIM with Donald Weilerstein. She has taught at The Juilliard School and has been guest artist/faculty at numerous music festivals including Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea, La Jolla's Summerfest, Bowdoin International Music Festival and this summer at the Heifetz International Music Institute. In 2009, Ms Kwuon was appointed to the violin faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. 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Today let me tell you about the \u201cSenior\u201d Volunteer of the year. I am pleased to introduce you to Jim Boulier, winner of the 2014 Gerry Turner Award.\n\u201cWhen I started volunteering at the first National Folk Festival I worked carts. As each year went by I added some time in operations and other jobs; whatever needed to be done,\u201d Jim told me. \u201cEventually I knew I wanted to find a way to get closer to the music, so seven years ago when I found this opportunity I grabbed it.\u201d\nNow Jim is in charge of Railroad Stage Hospitality. From the first artist on Friday until the last performance on Sunday, he works with the stage manager to make sure that artists have everything they need. Sometimes it\u2019s as simple as a bottle of water, but, sometimes it can be far more complicated. He also oversees the VIP tent, making sure it\u2019s well stocked and comfortable.\nHe also works much of the week before the festival begins on Friday evening. \u201cMy wife Brenda and I are there as much as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cLeading up to the event I just do whatever needs to be done, but once Friday night arrives, I stay right at the \u201cbig\u201d stage and I am there until the last note is played on Sunday evening.\u201d\nAt first he told me \u201cI can\u2019t really tell you why I put in so many hours every year volunteering at the festival.\u201d But once he began to talk there was no doubt that this is one person who has a true passion for the Festival. \u201cI really like it,\u201d he told me last week. \u201cIt\u2019s become a part of who I am now. I enjoy the music and the different types of music, things I never dreamed I would listen to. I find myself talking about it and promoting the event all during the year. Heck, it\u2019s only February and already Brenda and I are planning our volunteer time before and during the festival!\u201d\nWhen I asked him what is the best thing about being at the festival he told me \u201cimagine me ever meeting someone like Diunna Greenleaf, (renowned gospel & blues performer), much less hanging out with her for three days. She is so talented but at the same time so down to earth and just wonderful to work with. Last year it was Otis Clay the great R&B & Soul performer. I also spent some time with Marquise Knox the brilliant young guitar player. What an incredible talent. We got together and took pictures so we could stay in touch. It is just too cool,\u201d Jim said.\n\u201cI can tell you that working with Heather (McCarthy, Executive Director) and her crew is a privilege. Heather is quiet and stays behind the scenes but does so much work to make it all flow together. I know she would be the first person to tell you that it\u2019s the volunteers that make the festival work. Over the years I have met so many great people who also volunteer and we look forward to seeing them at every AFF.\u201d\n\u201cReceiving this award is something I never thought of but it means a lot,\u201d Jim said. \u201cI share it with my wife Brenda, but also with the hundreds and hundreds of other volunteers. If I could send any message to people reading this blog, I would tell them to come and experience the festival for yourself. Come and feel the excitement and be part of Maine\u2019s largest event.\u201d\nTo learn more about volunteering at the American Folk Festival check out our website at www.americanfolkfestival.com.\nJulie Green is the Director of Community Affairs and Student Engagement at Husson University and a volunteer at the American Folk Festival.\n\u2190 American Folk Festival Favorites: Swag!\tDan Cashman, 2014 Chairman\u2019s Choice Award recipient \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2192", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YGQJTQ5V4YYMBJJWT762SP4APJ2AI2I4", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "foodie.deannaknippling.com", "title": "Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06 \u00ab The Piquant Alchemist", "raw_content": "Sunday, Jun 6th, 2010 at 6:54 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 79.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forestphytophthoras.org/species/arenaria", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WDWHNRSDJWGBWDTKVPSMP2AKUEIIXBVL", "length": 2557, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "forestphytophthoras.org", "title": "arenaria | Forest Phytophthoras of the World", "raw_content": "Phytophthora arenaria A. Rea, M. Stukely & T. Jung, has been isolated in Western Australia from kwongan heathland stands since the early 1980s (Burgess et al. 2009, Rea et al. 2011), but was misidentified as P. citricola. Phytophthora arenaria has been isolated exclusively from the northern sand plains and was named based on its association with sandy soils. Most isolates were associated with dead or dying Banksia spp. (Proteaceae). When active, symptomatic plants are scattered in the landscape. However, the overall impact of this species within the natural environment is low due to the low rainfall in the region and the sporadic nature of the disease.\nTypical ovoid (a) to globose (b) papillate sporangia of Phytophthora arenaria on V8 agar flooded with soil extract. Scale bar = 20 \u03bcm\nSporangia non-caducous, papillate, occasionally bipapillate, tripapillate and bilobed; ovoid, broadly ovoid, elongated ovoid, obpyriform or asymmetrically mouse-shaped; and showing conspicuous basal plugs (31.8 \u00b1 4.6 mm x 23.7 \u00b1 3.5 mm). Sporangiophores generally terminal, occasionally lateral. Proliferation absent. Hyphal swellings catenulate, globose to sub-globose, some with radiating hyphae. Chlamydospores absent. Homothallic having oogonia with slightly wavy walls turning dark-brown to bronze-brown with maturity, antheridia exclusively paragynous, oospores markedly aplerotic with thick walls [24.3 to 28.1 mm (av. 25.3)]. Oospore wall index 0.50 \u00b1 0.05.\n(a) Catenulate, globose to subglobose hyphal swellings of P. arenaria, some of them with radiating hyphae. Scale bar = 50 \u03bcm. (b) aplerotic oogonia with paragynous antheridia. Scale bar = 20 \u03bcm\nPhytophthora arenaria resides in ITS clade 4 with the most closely related species being P. alticola (Maseko et al. 2007). It differs from P. alticola by 3, 2, 6, 3 and 21 SNPs in ITS BT, HSP, enolase and cox I gene regions, respectively.\nIt grows on CA agar at 15-32.5\u00b0C with an optimum near 30\u00b0C (radial growth rate 6.5 \u00b1 0.49 mm d-1). No growth occurs at 10 or 35\u00b0C, but neither temperature was lethal. P. arenaria produces smooth, radiate to faintly stellate colonies on CA, V8A, MEA, \u00bdPDA\nColony morphology of Phytophthora arenaria after 7 days at 20\u00b0C on (a) V8 and (b) half-strength potato dextrose agar\nP. arenaria is distinguished from the most closely related species, P. alticola, by having exclusively paragynous antheridia and mature oogonia with wavy margins.\nFor more information about Phytophthora arenaria, visit our Disease, Education and Management materials, and Reference sections.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forexpie.com/2019/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TRFZSNNIJRBEU5WGCKELRT7VL2H4A65W", "length": 137, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "forexpie.com", "title": "January | 2019 | For Expie", "raw_content": "The first thing that strikes a potential customer is the brand\u2019s logo. This makes the logo an indispensable part of the identity of the \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 86.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?s=efd44b57cbb15e4f95d8956d908afc8a&t=152983", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:00Z", "digest": "sha1:N4HSOR66FDTCKW53LV3INI5URTGBFFTH", "length": 130832, "nlines": 408, "source_domain": "forums.netphoria.org", "title": "post your new ginger fapterial for the winter - Netphoria Message Board", "raw_content": "post your new ginger fapterial for the winter\nwell, it's about that time again; there is a chill in the air and a lack of pics. Lets do what we can do remedy this situation so those of us that need to hibernate have some material for the rest of the year. Post your ginger pics.\nFind More Posts by Xenphor\nYeah, I want to see some ginger minge.\nFind More Posts by mccririck\nGlasgowKiss\nQuaid Hates You\nDamn, the feminism wikipedia entry is reeeeeeeeally long.\nFind More Posts by GlasgowKiss\nOriginally Posted by GlasgowKiss\nLocation: kicksville\nFind More Posts by Thaniel Buckner\nOriginally Posted by Xenphor\nMovement Theory\nFilm theory Economics\nFeminist sexology\nTimeline Suffragette\nWaves of Feminism\nFeminists Literature\n\"Feminists\" redirects here. For list of feminists, see List of feminists.\nFeminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights for women.\nAccording to some, the history of feminism consists of three waves.[1][2] The first wave in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second in the 1960s and 1970s and the third from the 1990s to the present.[3] Feminist Theory developed from the feminist movement.[4][5] It takes a number of forms in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism. Feminism has changed aspects of Western society. Feminist political activists have been concerned with issues such as a woman's right of contract and property, a woman's right to bodily integrity and autonomy (especially on matters such as reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence; against sexual harassment and rape;[6][7] for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.[8][9][10] Throughout most of its history, most leaders of feminist social and political movements, and feminist theorists, have been middle-class white women, predominantly in Britain, France and the US. At least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to US Feminists, however, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in former European colonies and the Third World have proposed alternative \"post-colonial\" and \"Third World\" feminisms as well.[11] Some Third World feminists or Postcolonial feminists, such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of western feminism for being ethnocentric.[12] Black feminists, such as Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view.[13]\nSince the 1980s, standpoint feminists have argued that the feminist movement should address global issues (such as rape, incest, and prostitution) and culturally specific issues (such as female genital mutilation in some parts of Africa and the Middle East and glass ceiling practices that impede women's advancement in developed economies) in order to understand how gender inequality interacts with racism, homophobia, lesbophobia, colonialism, and classism in a \"matrix of domination.\"[14][15] Some feminists have argued that gendered and sexed identities, such as \"man\" and \"woman\", are social constructs.[16][17][18]\n* 1 History of feminism\no 1.1 First-wave feminism\no 1.2 Second-wave feminism\n+ 1.2.1 Women's Liberation in the USA\n# 1.2.1.1 The Feminine Mystique\no 1.3 Third-wave feminism\no 1.4 Contemporary feminism\no 1.5 French feminism\n+ 1.5.1 Simone de Beauvoir\n+ 1.5.2 1970s - present\n* 2 Feminist theory\n* 3 Feminism's many forms\no 3.1 Liberal feminism\no 3.2 Radical feminism\no 3.3 Individualist feminism\no 3.4 Black feminism\no 3.5 Socialist and Marxist feminisms\no 3.6 Post-structural feminism and postmodern feminism\no 3.7 Postcolonial feminism and third-world feminism\no 3.8 Ecofeminism\no 3.9 Post-feminism\n* 4 Issues in defining feminism\n* 5 Feminism and society\no 5.1 Civil rights\no 5.2 Language\no 5.3 Heterosexual relationships\no 5.4 Religion\n+ 5.4.1 Christian feminism\n+ 5.4.2 Jewish feminism\n+ 5.4.3 Islamic feminism\n* 6 Scientific research into feminist issues\n* 7 Other concepts\no 7.1 Pro-feminism\no 7.2 Anti-feminism\n* 8 Notable feminists\nA 1932 Soviet poster for International Women's Day.\nFeminists have divided feminism's history into three 'waves.' The first-wave refers to the feminism movement of the nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, which dealt mainly with the Suffrage movement. The second-wave (1960s-1980s) dealt with the inequality of laws, as well as cultural inequalities. The third-wave of Feminism (1990s-present), is seen as both a continuation and a response to the perceived failures of the second-wave.[3]\nMain article: First-wave feminism\nFirst-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the United Kingdom and the United States. Originally it focused on equal rights of contract and property and opposition to chattel marriage and ownership of married women (and their children) by husbands. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women is considered the seminal essay of feminism. By the end of the nineteenth century, activism focused primarily on gaining political power - the right of women's suffrage, though feminists like Voltairine de Cleyre and Margaret Sanger were still active in campaigning for women's sexual and reproductive and economic rights at this time. The term, \"first-wave,\" was coined retrospectively after the term second-wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement that focused as much on fighting social and cultural inequalities as further political inequalities.[19]\nIn Britain the Suffragettes campaigned for the women's vote. In 1918 the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed granting the vote to women over the age of 30 who owned houses. In 1928 this was extended to all women over eighteen.[20] In the United States leaders of this movement ******* Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who each campaigned for the abolition of slavery prior to championing women's right to vote. Other important leaders ******* Lucy Stone, Olympia Brown, and Helen Pitts. American first-wave feminism involved a wide range of women, some belonging to conservative Christian groups (such as Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), others resembling the diversity and radicalism of much of second-wave feminism (such as Matilda Joslyn Gage and the National Woman Suffrage Association). In the United States first-wave feminism is considered to have ended with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1919), granting women the right to vote.[21][22][23][24]\nMain article: Second-wave feminism\nSecond-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s & lasting through the late 1980s and, as Imelda Whelehan suggests, it was a continuation of the earlier phase of feminism that involved the suffragettes in the UK and USA.[25] Second-wave Feminism has existed continuously since then, and continues to coexist with what is termed third-wave Feminism. The second-wave feminism saw cultural and political inequalities as inextricably linked. The movement encouraged women to understand aspects of their own personal lives as deeply politicized, and reflective of a sexist structure of power. If first-wave feminism focused upon absolute rights such as suffrage, second-wave feminism was largely concerned with other issues of equality, such as the end to discrimination.[19]\nCarol Hanisch with her essay The Personal is Political coined a slogan that became synonymous with the second-wave and was related to the women's liberation movement.[6]\nWomen's Liberation in the USA\nThe phrase \u201cWomen\u2019s Liberation\u201d was first used in 1964,[26] and appeared in print in 1966.[27] By 1968, although the term Women\u2019s Liberation Front appeared in \u201cRamparts\u201d it was starting to refer to the whole women\u2019s movement.[28] bra-burning became associated with the movement.[29] One of the most vocal critics of the whole movement has been bell hooks, who comments on a lack of voice by the most oppressed within the movement, and their glossing over of race and class, which she says was part of its failure to address \"the issues that divided women\".[30]\nBetty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique\nMain article: The Feminine Mystique\nThe Feminine Mystique was written in 1963 by Betty Friedan. It criticized the idea that women could only find fulfillment through childbearing and homemaking. According to Friedan's obituary in the The New York Times The Feminine Mystique \u201cignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and as a result permanently transformed the social fabric of the United States and countries around the world\u201d and \u201cis widely regarded as one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.\u201d[31] In the book Friedan hypothesizes that women are victims of a false belief system that requires them to find identity and meaning in their lives through their husbands and children. Such a system causes women to completely lose their identity in that of their family. Friedan specifically locates this system among post-World War II middle-class suburban communities. At the same time, America's post-war economic boom had led to the development of new technologies that were supposed to make household work less difficult, but that often had the result of making women's work less meaningful and valuable. It also critiqued Freud's theory of penis envy and was a factor in freeing women from being strictly confined to the role of a housewife during the Post-War economic expansion.[32]\nMain article: Third-wave feminism\nThe Third-wave of feminism began in the early 1990s. The movement arose as a response to perceived failures of the second-wave. It was also a response to the backlash against initiatives and movements created by the second-wave. Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid what it deems the second-wave's \"essentialist\" definitions of femininity, which (according to them) over-emphasized the experiences of upper middle class white women. A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is central to much of the third-wave's ideology. Third-wave feminists often focus on \"micropolitics,\" and challenged the second-wave's paradigm as to what is, or is not, good for females.[19][33][34][35]\nIn 1991, Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas, a man nominated to the Supreme Court, of sexual harassment. Thomas denied the accusations and after extensive debate, the US Senate voted 52-48 in favor of Thomas.[34][36][37] In response to this case, Rebecca Walker published an article entitled \"Becoming the Third Wave\" in which she stated, \"I am not a post-feminism feminist. I am the third-wave.\"[2]\nThe third-wave has its origins in the mid 1980s. Feminist leaders rooted in the second-wave like Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other black feminists, called for a new subjectivity in feminist voice. They sought to negotiate prominent space within feminist thought for consideration of race related subjectivities.[34][36][37]\nContemporary feminism is made up of a number of different philosophical strands. These movements sometimes disagree about current issues and how to confront them. One side of the spectrum includes a number of radical feminists, such as Mary Daly, who argue that society would benefit if there were dramatically fewer men.[38] On the other hand, figures such as Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia identify themselves as feminist but accuse the movement of anti-male prejudice. [39] [40] Some feminists, like Katha Pollitt (see her book Reasonable Creatures) or Nadine Strossen, consider feminism to hold simply that \"women are people.\" Views that separate the sexes rather than unite them are considered by these writers to be sexist rather than feminist.[41][42] There are also debates between difference feminists such as Carol Gilligan, who believe that there are important differences between the sexes (which may or may not be inherent, but which cannot be ignored), and those who believe that there are no essential differences between the sexes, and that the societal roles are due to conditioning.[43] Individualist feminists such as Wendy McElroy are concerned with equality of rights, and criticize sexist/classist forms of feminism as \"gender feminism.\"\nFrench feminism\nMain article: Feminism in France\nThe Second Sex a major feminist work by Simone de Beauvoir\nMain article: Simone de Beauvoir\nSimone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex was published in French in 1949. It sets out a feminist existentialism which prescribes a moral revolution. As an existentialist, de Beauvoir accepts the precept that existence precedes essence; hence \"one is not born a woman, but becomes one\". Her analysis focuses on the concept of The Other. It is the (social) construction of Woman as the quintessential Other that Beauvoir identifies as fundamental to women's oppression.[16] She argues that women have historically been considered deviant, abnormal. She submits that even Mary Wollstonecraft considered men to be the ideal toward which women should aspire. Beauvoir says that this attitude has limited women's success by maintaining the perception that they are a deviation from the normal, and are outsiders attempting to emulate \"normality\". For feminism to move forward, this assumption must be set aside.[16]\nFrench feminists approach feminism with a the concept of \u00e9criture f\u00e9minine (which translates as female, or feminine, writing).[44] Helene Cixous argues that writing and philosophy are 'phallocentric' and along with other French feminists such as Luce Irigaray emphasize \"writing from the body\" as a subversive exercise.[44] Another theorist working in France (but originally from Bulgaria) is Julia Kristeva, her work on the semiotic and abjection has influenced feminist criticism. However, as Elizabeth Wright points out, \"none of these French feminists align themselves with the feminist movement as it appeared in the Anglophone world.\"[44][45]\nMain article: Feminist theory\nFeminist history,\nFeminist geography,\nFeminist sexology,\nFeminist economics,\nFeminist philosophy,\nFeminist anthropology,\nFeminist film theory,\nFeminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical, fields. It encompasses work in a variety of disciplines, including approaches to women's roles and lived experiences; feminist politics in anthropology and sociology, economics, women's; gender studies; feminist literary criticism; and philosophy[46]. Feminist theory aims to understand gender inequality and focuses on gender politics, power relations and sexuality. While providing a critique of social relations, much of feminist theory also focuses on analyzing gender inequalities and the promotion of women's rights, interests, and issues. Themes explored in feminism ******* discrimination, stereotyping, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, and patriarchy.[5] [4]\nElaine Showalter describes the development of Feminist theory as having a number of phases. The first she calls \"feminist critique\" - where the feminist reader examines the ideologies behind literary phenomena. The second Showalter calls \"Gynocritics\" - where the \"woman is producer of textual meaning\" including \"the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career [and] literary history\". The last phase she calls \"gender theory\" - where the \"ideological inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system\" are explored.\"[47] This model has been criticized by Toril Moi who sees it as an essentialist and deterministic model for female subjectivity. She also criticized it for not taking account of the situation for women outside the west.[48]\nFeminism's many forms\nSeveral subtypes of feminist ideology have developed over the years, some of the major subtypes are listed as follows.\nBetty Friedan in 1960\nMain article: Liberal feminism\nLiberal feminism asserts the equality of men and women through political and legal reform. It is an individualistic form of feminism and theory, which focuses on women\u2019s ability to show and maintain their equality through their own actions and choices. Liberal feminism looks at the personal interactions of men and women as the starting ground from which to transform society into a more gender-equitable place. According to liberal feminists, all women are capable of asserting their ability to achieve equality, therefore it is possible for change to happen without altering the structure of society. Issues important to liberal feminists ******* reproductive and abortion rights, sexual harassment, voting, education, \"equal pay for equal work,\" affordable childcare, affordable health care, and bringing to light the frequency of sexual and domestic violence against women.[49]\n* Betty Friedan\n* Gloria Steinem\n* Rebecca Walker\n* Naomi Wolf\nMain article: Radical feminism\nSex-positive feminism,\nSeparatist feminism,\nRadical feminism sees the capitalist sexist hierarchy as the defining feature of women\u2019s oppression. Radical feminists believe that women can free themselves only when have done away with what they consider an inherently oppressive and dominating system. Radical feminists feel that the male-based authority and power structure are responsible for oppression and inequality, and that as long as the system and its values are in place, society will not be able to reform in any significant way. Radical feminism sees capitalism as a barrier to ending oppression. Most radical feminists see no alternatives other than the total uprooting and reconstruction of society in order to achieve their goals.[50]\nSeparatist feminism is one form of radical feminism, it does not support heterosexual relationships due to its belief that the sexual disparities between men and women are unresolvable. Separatist feminists generally do not feel that men can make positive contributions to the feminist movement and that even well-intentioned men replicate the dynamics of patriarchy.[51] Author Marilyn Frye describes separatist feminism as \"separation of various sorts or modes from men and from institutions, relationships, roles and activities that are male-defined, male-dominated, and operating for the benefit of males and the maintenance of male privilege \u2014 this separation being initiated or maintained, at will, by women.\"[52]\nAndrea Dworkin in New York, January 1986\nBoth the self-proclaimed sex-positive and the so-called sex-negative forms of present-day feminism can trace their roots to early radical feminism. Ellen Willis's 1981 essay, \"Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex?\" is the origin of the term, \"pro-sex feminism\". In it, she argues against feminism making alliances with the political right in opposition to pornography and prostitution, as occurred, for example, during the Meese Commission hearings in the United States. Willis argued for a feminism that embraces sexual freedom, including men's sexual freedom, rather than condemn pornography, consensual BDSM, and in some cases sexual intercourse and fellatio. [53]\nAnother strand of radical feminism is Anarcha-feminism (also called anarchist feminism or anarcho-feminism). It combines feminist ideas and anarchist beliefs. Anarcha-feminists view patriarchy as a manifestation of hierarchy, believing that the struggle against patriarchy is an essential part of class struggle and the anarchist struggle against the state.[54] Anarcha-feminists like Susan Brown see the anarchist struggle as a necessary component of feminist struggle, in Brown's words \"anarchism is a political philosophy that opposes all relationships of power, it is inherently feminist\". [55] Recently, Wendy McElroy has defined a position (she describes it as \"ifeminism\" or \"individualist feminism\") that combines feminism with anarcho-capitalism or libertarianism, arguing that a pro-capitalist, anti-state position is compatible with an emphasis on equal rights and empowerment for women.[56] Individualist anarchist feminism has grown from the US-based individualist anarchism movement.[57]\n* Charlotte Bunch\n* Susan Brownmiller\n* Mary Daly\n* Andrea Dworkin\n* Melissa Farley\n* Shulamith Firestone\n* Catharine Mackinnon\n* Adrienne Rich\nWendy McElroy: Canadian individualist anarchist, \"anarcho-capitalist\" and sex-positive feminist.\nIndividualist feminists define Individualist feminism in opposition to political or gender feminism.[58][39] Some individualist feminists trace the movement's roots to the classical liberal tradition.[59] It is closely linked to the libertarian ideas of individuality and personal responsibility of both women and men. Some other feminists believe that it reinforces patriarchal systems because it does not view the rights or political interests of men and women as being in conflict nor does it rest upon class/gender analysis.[60] Individualist feminists attempt to change legal systems in order to eliminate class privileges, including gender privileges and to ensure that individuals have an equal right, an equal claim under law to their own persons and property. Individualist feminism encourages women to take full responsibility over their own lives. It also opposes any government interference into the choices adults make with their own bodies.[61][62]\nAngela Davis speaking at the University of Alberta, 28 March 2006\nMain articles: Black feminism and Womanism\nBlack feminism argues that sexism and racism are inextricable from one another[63]. Forms of feminism that strive to overcome sexism and class oppression but ignore race can discriminate against many people, including women, through racial bias. Black feminists argue that the liberation of black women entails freedom for all people, since it would require the end of racism, sexism, and class oppression.[64] One of the theories that evolved out of this movement was Alice Walker's Womanism. It emerged after the early feminist movements that were led specifically by white women who advocated social changes such as woman\u2019s suffrage. These movements were largely a white middle-class movements and ignored oppression based on racism and classism. Alice Walker and other Womanists pointed out that black women experienced a different and more intense kind of oppression from that of white women. [13]\nAngela Davis was one of the first people who formed an argument centered on intersection of race, gender and class in her book, \"Women, Race, and Class.\"[65] Kimberle Crenshaw, prominent feminist law theorist, gave the idea a name while discussing Identity Politics in her essay, 'Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color.'\n* Alice Walker\n* Angela Davis\n* Barbara Smith\n* Hattie Gossett\n* Patricia Hill Collins\nSocialist and Marxist feminisms\nMain articles: Socialist feminism and Marxist feminism\nClara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg, 1910\nSocialist feminism connects the oppression of women to Marxist ideas about exploitation, oppression and labor. Socialist feminists see women as being held down as a result of their unequal standing in both the workplace and the domestic sphere.[66] Prostitution, domestic work, childcare, and marriage are all seen as ways in which women are exploited by a patriarchal system which devalues women and the substantial work that they do. Socialist feminists focus their energies on broad change that affects society as a whole, and not just on an individual basis. They see the need to work alongside not just men, but all other groups, as they see the oppression of women as a part of a larger pattern that affects everyone involved in the capitalist system.[67]\nMarx felt that when class oppression was overcome, gender oppression would vanish as well. According to socialist feminists, this view of gender oppression as a sub-class of class oppression is naive and much of the work of socialist feminists has gone towards separating gender phenomena from class phenomena.[68] Some contributors to socialist feminism have criticized these traditional marxist ideas for being largely silent on gender oppression except to subsume it underneath broader class oppression.[69] Other socialist feminists, notably two long-lived American organizations Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party, point to the classic Marxist writings of Frederick Engels [70] and August Bebel[71] as a powerful explanation of the link between gender oppression and class exploitation.\nIn the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century both Clara Zetkin and Eleanor Marx were against the demonization of men and supported a proletarian revolution that would overcome as many male-female inequalities as possible.[72]\n* Michel\u00e8 Barrett\n* Friedrich Engels\n* Clara Fraser\n* Emma Goldman\n* Sheila Rowbotham\n* Clara Zetkin\n* Eleanor Marx\nSee also: Post-Communism Gender Roles in Eastern Europe\nPost-structural feminism and postmodern feminism\nFrench feminism,\nPostmodern feminism,\nPoststructuralism,\nPost-structural feminism, also referred to as French feminism, use the insights of various epistemological movements, including psychoanalysis, linguistics, political theory (Marxist and neo-Marxist theory), race theory, literary theory, and other intellectual currents for feminist concerns.[73] Many post-structural feminists maintain that difference is one of the most powerful tools that females possess in their struggle with patriarchal domination, and that to equate feminist movement only with equality is to deny women a plethora of options as equality is still defined against within masculine or patriarchal perspective.[73][74]\nJudith Butler at a lecture at the University of Hamburg.\nPostmodern Feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory. The largest departure from other branches of feminism, is the argument that sex as well as gender is constructed through language.[75] The most notable proponent of this argument is Judith Butler, in her 1990 book, Gender Trouble, which draws on, and criticizes the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Butler criticizes the distinction drawn by previous feminisms between (biological) sex and (socially constructed) gender. She says that this does not allow for a sufficient criticism of essentialism. For Butler \"women\" and \"woman\" are fraught categories, complicated by class, ethnicity, sexuality, and other facets of identity. She suggests that gender is performative. This argument leads to the conclusion that there is no single cause for women's subordination, and no single approach towards dealing with the issue.[17]\nDonna Haraway, author of A Cyborg Manifesto, with her dog Cayenne\nIn A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway criticizes traditional notions of feminism, particularly its emphasis on identity, rather than affinity. She uses the metaphor of a cyborg in order to construct a postmodern feminism that moves beyond dualisms and moves beyond the limitations of traditional gender, feminism, and politics.[76] Haraway's cyborg is an attempt to break away from Oedipal narratives and Christian origins doctrines like Genesis. In the Cyborg Manifesto, she writes: \"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.\"[76]\nOther postmodern feminist works emphasizes stereotypical female roles, only to portray them as parodies of the original beliefs. The history of feminism is not important in this section, but only what is going to be done about it. In fact, the history is dismissed and used to depict better how ridiculous the past beliefs were. Modern feminist theory has been extensively criticized as being predominantly, though not exclusively, associated with western middle class academia. Mainstream feminism has been criticized as being too narrowly focused, and inattentive to related issues of race and class.[77]\n* Judith Butler\n* Helene Cixous\n* Mary Joe Frug\n* Donna Haraway\n* Luce Irigaray\n* Julia Kristeva\n* Monique Wittig\nPostcolonial feminism and third-world feminism\nMain article: Postcolonial feminism\nMultiracial feminism,\nTransnational feminism,\nPostcolonialism,\nPostcolonial feminism emerged from the gendered history of colonialism. Colonial powers often imposed Western norms on colonized regions. In the 1940s and 1950s, after the formation of the United Nations, former colonies were monitored by the West for what was considered \"social progress\". The status of women in the developing world has been monitored by organizations such as the United Nations, as a result traditional practices and roles taken up by women -- sometimes seen as distasteful by Western standards -- could be considered a form of rebellion against colonial oppression.[78] Postcolonial feminists today struggle to fight gender oppression within their own cultural models of society rather than through those imposed by the Western colonizers.[79]\nPostcolonial feminists argue that oppressions relating to the colonial experience, particularly racial, class, and ethnic oppressions, have marginalized women in postcolonial societies. They challenge the assumption that gender oppression is the primary force of patriarchy. Postcolonial feminists object to portrayals of women of non-Western societies as passive and voiceless victims, as opposed to the portrayal of Western women as modern, educated and empowered.[80]\nPostcolonial feminism is critical of Western forms of feminism, notably radical feminism and liberal feminism and their universalization of female experience. Postcolonial feminists argue that cultures impacted by colonialism are often vastly different and should be treated as such. Colonial oppression may result in glorification of pre-colonial culture, which, in cultures with traditions of stratification of power along lines of gender, could mean the acceptance of, or refusal to deal with, inherent issues of gender inequality.[81] Postcolonial feminists can be described as feminists who have reacted against both universalizing tendencies in Western feminist thought and a lack of attention to gender issues in mainstream postcolonial thought.[82]\nTaslima Nasrin: author, physician & feminist human rights activist\nThe feminist movement called third-world feminism has been described as a group of feminist theories developed by feminists who acquired their views and took part in feminist politics in so-called third world countries[11]. Although women from the third world have been engaged in the feminist movement, Chandra Talpade Mohanty criticizes Western feminism on the grounds that it is ethnocentric and does not take into account the unique experiences of women from third world countries or the existence of feminisms indigenous to third world countries. According to her, women in the third world feel that western feminism bases its understanding of women on \"internal racism, classism and homophobia\"[12]. This discourse is strongly related to African feminism and postcolonial feminism. Its development is also associated with concepts such as black feminism, womanism[36][83][84], \"Africana womanism\"[85], \"motherism\"[86], \"Stiwanism\"[87], \"negofeminism\"[88], chicana feminism and \"femalism\".\n* Gayatri Spivak\n* Chandra Talpade Mohanty\n* Trinh T. Minh-ha\n* Uma Narayan\n* Taslima Nasrin\nVandana Shiva 2007 in Cologne, Germany\nMain article: Ecofeminism\nEcofeminism links ecology with feminism. Ecofeminists see the domination of women as stemming from the same ideologies that bring about the domination of the environment. Patriarchal systems, where men own and control the land, are seen as responsible for the oppression of women and destruction of the natural environment. Since the men in power control the land, they are able to exploit it for their own profit and success. In this same situation, women are exploited by men in power for their own profit, success, and pleasure. Women and the environment are both exploited as passive pawns in the race to domination. Those people in power are able to take advantage of them distinctly because they are seen as passive and rather helpless. Ecofeminism connects the exploitation and domination of women with that of the environment. As a way of repairing social and ecological injustices, ecofeminists feel that women must work towards creating a healthy environment and ending the destruction of the lands that most women rely on to provide for their families.[89]\nEcofeminism argues that there is a connection between women and nature that comes from their shared history of oppression by a patriarchal western society. Vandana Shiva explains how women's special connection to the environment through their daily interactions with it have been ignored. She says that \"women in subsistence economies, producing and reproducing wealth in partnership with nature, have been experts in their own right of holistic and ecological knowledge of nature\u2019s processes. But these alternative modes of knowing, which are oriented to the social benefits and sustenance needs are not recognized by the [capitalist] reductionist paradigm, because it fails to perceive the interconnectedness of nature, or the connection of women\u2019s lives, work and knowledge with the creation of wealth.\u201d[90] Ecofeminists also criticize Western lifestyle choices, such as consuming food that has traveled thousands of miles and playing sports (such as golf and bobsledding) which inherently require ecological destruction.\nFeminist and social ecologist Janet Biehl has criticized ecofeminism for focusing too much on a mystical connection between women and nature, and not enough on the actual conditions of women.[91]\n* Vandana Shiva\n* Wangari Maathai\n* Karen J. Warren\n* Gerda Lerner\n* Val Plumwood\nSee also: Environmentalism\nMain article: Post-feminism\nPost-feminism comprises a wide range of theories, some of which argue that feminism is no longer relevant to today's society.[92] One of the earliest uses of the term was in Susan Bolotin's 1982 article \"Voices of the Post-Feminist Generation,\" published in New York Times Magazine. This article was based on a number of interviews with women who largely agreed with the goals of feminism, but did not identify as feminists.[93] The post-feminist texts which emerged in the 1980s and '90s often portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity, thereby allowing the author to criticize these generalizations.[94]\nElizabeth Wright says that Postfeminism considers the issue of postmodern dispersed and unstable subjectivity in relation to feminist ideas. Postfeminism is continuously in process, taking a critical approach to previous feminist discourses. Wright says that this critical approach includes a challenge to second-wave ideas.[44] Wright points out that there is a negative meaning to the term \"post-feminism\" which \"indicates that feminism can now be dispensed with.\"[44] Sarah Gamble argues that feminists such as Naomi Wolf, Katie Roiphe and Natasha Walter are labelled as 'anti-feminists' whereas they define themselves as feminists who have shifted from second-wave ideas towards an \"individualistic liberal agenda\".[95]\nGamble points out that post-feminists like Rene Denfeld are criticized as \"pawns of a conservative 'backlash' against feminism.[95] Denefeld has distanced herself from feminists who see pornography and heterosexuality as oppressive. She also criticized what she sees as the second-wave's \"reckless\" use of the term patriarchy.[96]\n* Camille Paglia\n* Katie Roiphe\n* Natasha Walter\nIssues in defining feminism\nOne of the difficulties in defining and circumscribing a complex and heterogeneous concept such as feminism[97][98] is the extent to which women have rejected the term from a variety of semantic and political standpoints. Many women engaged in activities intimately grounded in feminism have not considered themselves feminists. Likewise, it is assumed that only women can be feminists. However, feminism is not grounded in the basis of one's gender, but in rejecting and refuting sexist oppression politically, socially, privately, linguistically, and otherwise. (Though there are people \u2014 both men and women \u2014 who claim feminism itself can be biased in its approach to gender relations.) Redefining feminism in this way illustrates and reflects today's reality of both men and women openly supporting feminism and also openly adhering to sexist ideals.[99] From a political vantage, the term \"feminism\" has been rejected both because of fears of labeling, and because of its innate ability to attract broad misogyny.[100] Historically Virginia Woolf was one of the more prominent women to reject the term[101] early in its history in 1938, although it would be easy to overstate Woolf's position,[102] considering that she is regarded as an icon of feminism.[103] However Betty Friedan would revisit this concern in 1981 in The Second Stage. Nevertheless, defining ideas does not necessarily imply tagging the individual. Ann Taylor,[104] for instance, offers the following definition of a feminist, after Karen Offen:[105] Any person who recognizes \"the validity of women's own interpretation of their lived experiences and needs,\" protests against the institutionalized injustice perpetrated by men as a group against women as a group, and advocates the elimination of that injustice by challenging the various structures of authority or power that legitimate male prerogatives in a given society. Another way of expressing this concept is that a primary goal is to correct androcentric bias.[106]\nOther attempts at defining feminism have been made by the United Nations.[107] However, one of feminism's unique characteristics, strengths and weaknesses is its persistent defiance of being constrained by definition. Charlotte Witt observes that this reflects the \"contested nature of the \"us\" of contemporary feminism ... and is a part of, on-going debates within feminism over its identity and self-image ... in the final analysis, the result of debate within feminist philosophy over what feminism is, and what its theoretical commitments should be, and what its core values are.\"[108] This is the subject of one of the more lively debates in feminism, that which Nannerl Keohane has called the \"perpetual oscillation between essentialism and nominalism (constructionism) in feminist theory.\"[109] Briefly, \"to essentialise is to reduce a complex idea or object to simplistic characteristics, thereby denying diversity, multiple meanings and alternative interpretations\" in the words of Joan Marler, an opponent of essentialism in feminism.[110]\nIn recent times some women and men have distanced from the term \"femin\"ism in favor of more inclusive terminology such as \"equal rights activist/advocate\", \"equalist\" or similar non-gendered phrasings.[111][112]\nMain article: Feminist movement\nBy campaigning for the right to vote, suffragettes began the feminist struggle for equality in the West. Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Cleveland, 1912\nBy campaigning for the right to vote, suffragettes began the feminist struggle for equality in the West.\nWoman Suffrage Headquarters, Cleveland, 1912\nThe feminist movement has effected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; the right to initiate divorce proceedings and \"no fault\" divorce; and the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion).[10][9]\nFeminism has effected many changes in Western society, including women's suffrage, broad employment for women at more equitable wages, the right to initiate divorce proceedings and the introduction of \"no fault\" divorce, the right to obtain contraception and safe abortions, and access to university education. According to studies by the United Nations, when both paid employment and unpaid household tasks are accounted for, on average women work more than men. In rural areas of selected developing countries women performed an average of 20% more work than men, or an additional 102 minutes per day. In the OECD countries surveyed, on average women performed 5% more work than men, or 20 minutes per day.[113] At the UN's Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women's Association twenty first International Conference in 2001 it was stated that \"in the world as a whole, women comprise 51 percent of the population, do 66 percent of the work, receive 10 percent of the income and own less than one percent of the property.\"[114]\nMain article: Gender-neutral language in English\nGender-neutral language is a description of language usages which are aimed at minimizing assumptions regarding the biological sex of human referents. The advocacy of gender-neutral language reflects, at least, two different agenda: one aims to clarify the inclusion of both sexes or genders (gender-inclusive language); the other proposes that gender, as a category, is rarely worth marking in language (gender-neutral language). Gender-neutral language is sometimes described as non-sexist language by advocates, and politically-correct language by opponents.[115]\nSee also: Gender-neutrality in languages with grammatical gender and Gender-neutrality in languages without grammatical gender\nThe increased entry of women into the workplace beginning in the twentieth and century has effected gender roles and division of labor within households. The sociologist, Arlie Russell Hochschild, presents evidence in her books, The Second Shift and The Time Bind, that in two-career couples, men and women on the average spend about equal amounts of time working, but women still spend more time on housework.[116][117]\nFeminist criticisms of men's contributions to child care and domestic labor in the Western middle class are typically centered around the idea that it is unfair for women to be expected to perform more than half of a household's domestic work and child care when both members of the relationship also work outside the home. Several studies provide statistical evidence that higher or lower financial income of married men, does not influence them in terms of attending to the household duties as much their wives.[118][119]\nIn Dubious Conceptions, Kristin Luker discusses the effect of feminism on teenage women's choices to bear a child, both in and out of wedlock. She says that as childbearing out of wedlock has become more socially acceptable; young women, especially poor young women, while not bearing children at a higher rate than in the 1950s, now see less reason to get married before having a child. Her explanation for this is that economic prospects for poor men are slim, hence poor women have a low chance of finding a husband who will be able to provide reliable financial support.[120]\nMain article: Feminist theology\nFeminist theology is a movement that reconsiders the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of their religion from a feminist perspective. Some of the goals of feminist theology ******* increasing the role of women among the clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting male-dominated imagery and language about God, determining women's place in relation to career and motherhood, and studying images of women in the religion's sacred texts.[121]\nSee also: God and gender and Difference feminism\nMain article: Christian feminism\nChristian feminism is a branch of feminist theology which seeks to interpret and understand Christianity in the scope of the equality of women and men morally, socially, and in leadership. Because this equality has been historically ignored, Christian feminists believe their contributions are necessary for a complete understanding of Christianity. While there is no standard set of beliefs among Christian feminists, most agree that God does not discriminate on the basis of biologically-determined characteristics such as gender. Their major issues are the ordination of women, male dominance in Christian marriage, and claims of moral deficiency and inferiority of abilities of women compared to men. They also are concerned with issues such as the balance of parenting between mothers and fathers and the overall treatment of women in the church. [122][123]\nBlu Greenberg, an American writer and Jewish feminist.\nMain article: Jewish feminism\nJewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of Judaism. In its modern form, the movement can be traced to the early 1970s in the United States. According to Judith Plaskow, who has focused on feminism in Reform Judaism, the main issues for early Jewish feminists in these movements were the exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, the exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot, and women's inability to function as witnesses and to initiate divorce.[124]\n* Rachel Adler\n* Nina Hartley\n* Tova Hartman\n* Susan Sontag\n* Yona Wallach\nMukhtaran Bibi, Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year 2005\nMain article: Islamic feminism\nIslamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of gender, in public and private life. Islamic feminists advocate women's rights, gender equality, and social justice grounded in an Islamic framework. Although rooted in Islam, the movement's pioneers have also utilized secular and Western feminist discourses and recognize the role of Islamic feminism as part of an integrated global feminist movement[125]. Advocates of the movement seek to highlight the deeply rooted teachings of equality in the Quran and encourage a questioning of the patriarchal interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran (holy book), hadith (sayings of Muhammed) and sharia (law) towards the creation of a more equal and just society.[126]\n* Fadela Amara\n* Asma Barlas\n* Samira Bellil\n* Mukhtaran Bibi\n* Zilla Huma Usman\n* Amina Wadud\nScientific research into feminist issues\nSome natural and social scientists have considered feminist ideas and feminist forms of scholarship using scientific methods.\nOne core scientific controversy involves the issue of the social construction vs the biological formation of gender or sex associated identities. Modern feminist science is based on the view that most if not all differences between the sexes are based on socially constructed gender identities rather than on biological sex differences. For example, Anne Fausto-Sterling's book Myths of Gender explores the assumptions embodied in scientific research that purports to support a biologically essentialist view of gender.[127] However, in The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine argues that brain differences between the sexes are a biological reality with significant implications for sex-specific functional differences.[128] Steven Rhoads' book Taking Sex Differences Seriously illustrates sex-dependent differences across a wide scope.[129]\nCarol Tavris, in The Mismeasure of Woman (the title is a play on Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man), uses psychology, sociology, and analysis in a critique of theories that use biological reductionism to explain differences between men and women. She argues rather than using evidence of innate gender difference there is an over-changing hypothesis to justify inequality and perpetuate stereotypes.[130]\nEvelyn Fox Keller has argued that the rhetoric of science reflects a masculine perspective, and questions the idea of scientific objectivity. Primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy notes the prevalence of masculine-coined stereotypes and theories, such as the non-sexual female, despite ;the accumulation of abundant openly available evidence contradicting it\".[131]\nSarah Kember - drawing from numerous areas such as evolutionary biology, sociobiology, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics in development with a new evolutionism - discusses the biologization of technology. She notes how feminists and sociologists have become suspect of evolutionary psychology, particularly inasmuch as sociobiology is subjected to complexity in order to strengthen sexual difference as immutable through pre-existing cultural value judgments about human nature and natural selection. Where feminist theory is criticized for its \"false beliefs about human nature,\" Kember then argues in conclusion that \"feminism is in the interesting position of needing to do more biology and evolutionary theory in order not to simply oppose their renewed hegemony, but in order to understand the conditions that make this possible, and to have a say in the construction of new ideas and artefacts.\" [132]\nMain article: Pro-feminism\nPro-feminism is support of feminism without implying that the supporter is a member of the feminist movement. The term is most often used in reference to men who are actively supportive of feminism and of efforts to bring about gender equality The activities of pro-feminist men's groups ******* anti-violence work with boys and young men in schools, offering sexual harassment workshops in workplaces, running community education campaigns, and counseling male perpetrators of violence. Pro-feminist men also are involved in men's health, activism against pornography including anti-pornography legislation, men's studies, the development of gender equity curricula in schools, and many other areas. This work is sometimes in collaboration with feminists and women's services, such as domestic violence and rape crisis centers. Some activists of both genders will not refer to men as \"feminists\" at all, and will refer to all pro-feminist men as \"pro-feminists\".[133][134]\nMain article: Anti-feminism\nOpposition to feminism comes in many forms, either criticizing feminist ideology and practice or arguing that it be restrained. Antifeminism is often equated with male chauvinism.\nFeminists such as Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese have been labeled \"antifeminists\" by other feminists [135] [136]. Patai and Koerge argue that in this way the term \"antifeminist\" is used to silence academic debate about feminism.[137] Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young's books Spreading Misandry and Legalizing Misandry explore what they argue is feminist-inspired misandry.[138]. Christina Hoff-Sommers argues feminist misandry leads directly to misogyny by what she calls \"establishment feminists\" against (the majority of) women who love men in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women.\n\"Marriage rights\" advocates criticize feminists like Shelia Cronan who take the view that marriage constitutes slavery for women, and that freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.[139]\nS.C.U.M. Manifesto\n(Society for Cutting Up Men)\nby Valerie Solanas\nLife in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.\nIt is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the mail has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.\nThe male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.\nAlthough completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. Even assuming mechanical proficiency, which few men have, he is, first of all, incapable of zestfully, lustfully, tearing off a piece, but instead is eaten up with guilt, shame, fear and insecurity, feelings rooted in male nature, which the most enlightened training can only minimize; second, the physical feeling he attains is next to nothing; and third, he is not empathizing with his partner, but is obsessed with how he's doing, turning in an A performance, doing a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.\nEaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.\nCompletely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify, and filled with a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is pyschically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines the make as active, then sets out to prove that he is (`prove that he is a Man'). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove an error, he must `prove' it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman.\nBeing an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics -- emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc -- and projecting onto women all male traits -- vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc. It should be said, though, that the male has one glaring area of superiority over the female -- public relations. (He has done a brilliant job of convincing millions of women that men are women and women are men). The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.\nWomen, in other words, don't have penis envy; men have pussy envy. When the male accepts his passivity, defines himself as a woman (males as well as females thing men are women and women are men), and becomes a transvestite he loses his desire to screw (or to do anything else, for that matter; he fulfills himself as a drag queen) and gets his dick chopped off. He then achieves a continuous diffuse sexual feeling from `being a woman'. Screwing is, for a man, a defense against his desire to be female. He is responsible for:\nWar: The male's normal compensation for not being female, namely, getting his Big Gun off, is grossly inadequate, as he can get it off only a very limited number of times; so he gets it off on a really massive scale, and proves to the entire world that he's a `Man'. Since he has no compassion or ability to empathize or identify, proving his manhood is worth an endless amount of mutilation and suffering and an endless number of lives, including his own -- his own life being worthless, he would rather go out in a blaze of glory than to plod grimly on for fifty more years.\nNiceness, Politeness, and `Dignity': Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit. Overwhelmed by a sense of animalism and deeply ashamed of it; wanting, not to express himself, but to hide from others his total physicality, total egocentricity, the hate and contempt he feels for other men, and to hide from himself the hate and contempt he suspects other men feel for him; having a crudely constructed nervous system that is easily upset by the least display of emotion or feeling, the male tries to enforce a `social' code that ensures perfect blandness, unsullied by the slightest trace or feeling or upsetting opinion. He uses terms like `copulate', `sexual congress', `have relations with' (to men sexual relations is a redundancy), overlaid with stilted manners; the suit on the chimp.\nMoney, Marriage and Prostitution, Work and Prevention of an Automated Society: There is no human reason for money or for anyone to work more than two or three hours a week at the very most. All non-creative jobs (practically all jobs now being done) could have been automated long ago, and in a moneyless society everyone can have as much of the best of everything as she wants. But there are non-human, male reasons for wanting to maintain the money system:\n1. Pussy. Despising his highly inadequate self, overcome with intense anxiety and a deep, profound loneliness when by his empty self, desperate to attach himself to any female in dim hopes of completing himself, in the mystical belief that by touching gold he'll turn to gold, the male craves the continuous companionship of women. The company of the lowest female is preferable to his own or that of other men, who serve only to remind him of his repulsiveness. But females, unless very young or very sick, must be coerced or bribed into male company.\n2. Supply the non-relating male with the delusion of usefulness, and enable him to try to justify his existence by digging holes and then filling them up. Leisure time horrifies the male, who will have nothing to do but contemplate his grotesque self. Unable to relate or to love, the male must work. Females crave absorbing, emotionally satisfying, meaningful activity, but lacking the opportunity or ability for this, they prefer to idle and waste away their time in ways of their own choosing -- sleeping, shopping, bowling, shooting pool, playing cards and other games, breeding, reading, walking around, daydreaming, eating, playing with themselves, popping pills, going to the movies, getting analyzed, traveling, raising dogs and cats, lolling about on the beach, swimming, watching TV, listening to music, decorating their houses, gardening, sewing, nightclubbing, dancing, visiting, `improving their minds' (taking courses), and absorbing `culture' (lectures, plays, concerts, `arty' movies). Therefore, many females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer living with males or peddling their asses on the street, thus having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for someone else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best -- if able to get a `good' job -- co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.\n3. Power and control. Unmasterful in his personal relations with women, the male attains to masterfulness by the manipulation of money and everything controlled by money, in other words, of everything and everybody.\n4. Love substitute. Unable to give love or affection, the male gives money. It makes him feel motherly. The mother gives milk; he gives bread. He is the Breadwinner.\n5. Provide the male with a goal. Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!\n6. Provide the basis for the male's major opportunity to control and manipulate -- fatherhood.\nFatherhood and Mental Illness (fear, cowardice, timidity, humility, insecurity, passivity): Mother wants what's best for her kids; Daddy only wants what's best for Daddy, that is peace and quiet, pandering to his delusion of dignity (`respect'), a good reflection on himself (status) and the opportunity to control and manipulate, or, if he's an `enlightened' father, to `give guidance'. His daughter, in addition, he wants sexually -- he givers her hand in marriage; the other part is for him. Daddy, unlike Mother, can never give in to his kids, as he must, at all costs, preserve his delusion of decisiveness, forcefulness, always-rightness and strength. Never getting one's way leads to lack of self-confidence in one's ability to cope with the world and to a passive acceptance of the status quo. Mother loves her kids, although she sometimes gets angry, but anger blows over quickly and even while it exists, doesn't preclude love and basic acceptance. Emotionally diseased Daddy doesn't love his kids; he approves of them -- if they're `good', that is, if they're nice, `respectful', obedient, subservient to his will, quiet and not given to unseemly displays of temper that would be most upsetting to Daddy's easily disturbed male nervous system -- in other words, if they're passive vegetables. If they're not `good', he doesn't get angry -- not if he's a modern, `civilized' father (the old-fashioned ranting, raving brute is preferable, as he is so ridiculous he can be easily despised) -- but rather express disapproval, a state that, unlike anger, endures and precludes a basic acceptance, leaving the kid with the feeling of worthlessness and a lifelong obsession wit being approved of; the result is fear of independent thought, as this leads to unconventional, disapproved of opinions and way of life.\nFor the kid to want Daddy's approval it must respect Daddy, and being garbage, Daddy can make sure that he is respected only by remaining aloof, by distantness, by acting on the precept of `familiarity breeds contempt', which is, of course, true, if one is contemptible. By being distant and aloof, he is able to remain unknown, mysterious, and thereby, to inspire fear (`respect').\nDisapproval of emotional `scenes' leads to fear of strong emotion, fear of one's own anger and hatred. Fear of anger and hatred combined with a lack of self-confidence in one's ability to cope with and change the world, or even to affect in the slightest way one's own destiny, leads to a mindless belief that the world and most people in it are nice and the most banal, trivial amusements are great fun and deeply pleasurable.\nThe affect of fatherhood on males, specifically, is to make them `Men', that is, highly defensive of all impulses to passivity, faggotry, and of desires to be female. Every boy wants to imitate his mother, be her, fuse with her, but Daddy forbids this; he is the mother; he gets to fuse with her. So he tells the boy, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, to not be a sissy, to act like a `Man'. The boy, scared shitless of and `respecting' his father, complies, and becomes just like Daddy, that model of `Man'-hood, the all-American ideal -- the well-behaved heterosexual dullard.\nThe effect of fatherhood on females is to make them male -- dependent, passive, domestic, animalistic, insecure, approval and security seekers, cowardly, humble, `respectful' of authorities and men, closed, not fully responsive, half-dead, trivial, dull, conventional, flattened-out and thoroughly contemptible. Daddy's Girl, always tense and fearful, uncool, unanalytical, lacking objectivity, appraises Daddy, and thereafter, other men, against a background of fear (`respect') and is not only unable to see the empty shell behind the facade, but accepts the male definition of himself as superior, as a female, and of herself, as inferior, as a male, which, thanks to Daddy, she really is.\nIt is the increase of fatherhood, resulting from the increased and more widespread affluence that fatherhood needs in order to thrive, that has caused the general increase of mindlessness and the decline of women in the United States since the 1920s. The close association of affluence with fatherhood has led, for the most part, to only the wrong girls, namely, the `privileged' middle class girls, getting `educated'.\nThe effect of fathers, in sum, has been to corrode the world with maleness. The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.\nSuppression of Individuality, Animalism (domesticity and motherhood), and Functionalism: The male is just a bunch of conditioned reflexes, incapable of a mentally free response; he is tied to he earliest conditioning, determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the make that he is not part of his mother, that he is he and she is she.\nHis greatest need is to be guided, sheltered, protected and admired by Mama (men expect women to adore what men shrink from in horror -- themselves) and, being completely physical, he yearns to spend his time (that's not spent `out in the world' grimly defending against his passivity) wallowing in basic animal activities -- eating, sleeping, shitting, relaxing and being soothed by Mama. Passive, rattle-headed Daddy's Girl, ever eager for approval, for a pat on the head, for the `respect' if any passing piece of garbage, is easily reduced to Mama, mindless ministrator to physical needs, soother of the weary, apey brow, booster of the tiny ego, appreciator of the contemptible, a hot water bottle with tits.\nThe reduction to animals of the women of the most backward segment of society -- the `privileged, educated' middle-class, the backwash of humanity -- where Daddy reigns supreme, has been so thorough that they try to groove on labour pains and lie around in the most advanced nation in the world in the middle of the twentieth century with babies chomping away on their tits. It's not for the kids sake, though, that the `experts' tell women that Mama should stay home and grovel in animalism, but for Daddy's; the tits for Daddy to hang onto; the labor pains for Daddy to vicariously groove on (half dead, he needs awfully strong stimuli to make him respond).\nReducing the female to an animal, to Mama, to a male, is necessary for psychological as well as practical reasons: the male is a mere member of the species, interchangeable with every other male. He has no deep-seated individuality, which stems from what intrigues you, what outside yourself absorbs you, what you're in relation to. Completely self-absorbed, capable of being in relation only to their bodies and physical sensations, males differ from each other only to the degree and in the ways they attempt to defend against their passivity and against their desire to be female.\nThe female's individuality, which he is acutely aware of, but which he doesn't comprehend and isn't capable of relating to or grasping emotionally, frightens and upsets him and fills him with envy. So he denies it in her and proceeds to define everyone in terms of his or her function or use, assigning to himself, of course, the most important functions -- doctor, president, scientist -- therefore providing himself with an identity, if not individuality, and tries to convince himself and women (he's succeeded best at convincing women) that the female function is to bear and raise children and to relax, comfort and boost the ego if the male; that her function is such as to make her interchangeable with every other female. In actual fact, the female function is to relate, groove, love and be herself, irreplaceable by anyone else; the male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.\nIn actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.\nPrevention of Privacy: Although the male, being ashamed of what he is and almost of everything he does, insists on privacy and secrecy in all aspects of his life, he has no real regard for privacy. Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't, for the life of him, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of any creep around. Wanting to become a woman, he strives to be constantly around females, which is the closest he can get to becoming one, so he created a `society' based upon the family -- a male-female could and their kids (the excuse for the family's existence), who live virtually on top of one another, unscrupuluously violating the females' rights, privacy and sanity.\nIsolation, Suburbs, and Prevention of Community: Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she is exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual nu becoming a `rugged individualist', a loner, equating non-cooperation and solitariness with individuality.\nThere is yet another reason for the male to isolate himself: every man is an island. Trapped inside himself, emotionally isolated, unable to relate, the male has a horror of civilization, people, cities, situations requiring an ability to understand and relate to people. So like a scared rabbit, he scurries off, dragging Daddy's little asshole with him to the wilderness, suburbs, or, in the case of the hippy -- he's way out, Man! -- all the way out to the cow pasture where he can fuck and breed undisturbed and mess around with his beads and flute.\nThe `hippy', whose desire to be a `Man', a `rugged individualist', isn't quite as strong as the average man's, and who, in addition, is excited by the thought having lots of women accessible to him, rebels against the harshness of a Breadwinner's life and the monotony of one woman. In the name of sharing and cooperation, he forms a commune or tribe, which, for all its togetherness and partly because of it, (the commune, being an extended family, is an extended violation of the female's rights, privacy and sanity) is no more a community than normal `society'.\nA true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of `society' is the family; `hippies' say the tribe; no one says the individual.\nThe `hippy' babbles on about individuality, but has no more conception of it than any other man. He desires to get back to Nature, back to the wilderness, back to the home of furry animals that he's one of, away from the city, where there is at least a trace, a bare beginning of civilization, to live at the species level, his time taken up with simple, non-intellectual activities -- farming, fucking, bead stringing. The most important activity of the commune, the one upon which it is based, is gang-banging. The `hippy' is enticed to the commune mainly by the prospect for free pussy -- the main commodity to be shared, to be had just for the asking, but, blinded by greed, he fails to anticipate all the other men he has to share with, or the jealousies and possessiveness for the pussies themselves.\nMen cannot co-operate to achieve a common end, because each man's end is all the pussy for himself. The commune, therefore, is doomed to failure; each `hippy' will, in panic, grad the first simpleton who digs him and whisks her off to the suburbs as fast as he can. The male cannot progress socially, but merely swings back and forth from isolation to gang-banging.\nConformity: Although he wants to be an individual, the male is scared of anything in himself that is the slightest bit different from other men, it causes him to suspect that he's not really a `Man', that he's passive and totally sexual, a highly upsetting suspicion. If other men are \"A\" and he's not, he must not be a man; he must be a fag. So he tries to affirm his `Manhood' by being like all the other men. Differentness in other men, as well as himself, threatens him; it means they're fags whom he must at all costs avoid, so he tries to make sure that all other men conform.\nThe male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the drag queen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all the other drag queens like the functionalist, he has an identity -- he is female. He tries to define all his troubles away -- but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.\nTo be sure he's a `Man', the male must see to it that the female be clearly a `Woman', the opposite of a `Man', that is, the female must act like a faggot. And Daddy's Girl, all of whose female instincts were wrenched out of her when little, easily and obligingly adapts herself to the role.\nAuthority and Government: Having no sense of right and wrong, no conscience, which can only stem from having an ability to empathize with others... having no faith in his non-existent self, being unnecessarily competitive, and by nature, unable to co-operate, the male feels a need for external guidance and control. So he created authorities -- priests, experts, bosses, leaders, etc -- and government. Wanting the female (Mama) to guide him, but unable to accept this fact (he is, after all, a MAN), wanting to play Woman, to usurp her function as Guider and Protector, he sees to it that all authorities are male.\nThere's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws or leaders.\nPhilosophy, Religion, and Morality Based on Sex: The male's inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Being empty, he looks outward, not only for guidance and control, but for salvation and for the meaning of life. Happiness being for him impossible on this earth, he invented Heaven.\nFor a man, having no ability to empathize with others and being totally sexual, `wrong' is sexual `license' and engaging in `deviant' (`unmanly') sexual practices, that is, not defending against his passivity and total sexuality which, if indulged, would destroy `civilization', since `civilization' is based entirely upon the male need to defend himself against these characteristics. For a woman (according to men), `wrong' is any behavior that would entice men into sexual `license' -- that is, not placing male needs above her own and not being a faggot.\nReligion not only provides the male with a goal (Heaven) and helps keep women tied to men, but offers rituals through which he can try to expiate the guilt and shame he feels at not defending himself enough against his sexual impulses; in essence, that guilt and shame he feels at being male.\nMost men men, utterly cowardly, project their inherent weaknesses onto women, label them female weaknesses and believe themselves to have female strengths; most philosophers, not quite so cowardly, face the fact that make lacks exist in men, but still can't face the fact that they exist in men only. So they label the male condition the Human Condition, post their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical dilemma, thereby giving stature to their animalism, grandiloquently label their nothingness their `Identity Problem', and proceed to prattle on pompously about the `Crisis of the Individual', the `Essence of Being', `Existence preceding Essence', `Existential Modes of Being', etc. etc.\nA woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.\nPrejudice (racial, ethnic, religious, etc): The male needs scapegoats onto whom he can project his failings and inadequacies and upon whom he can vent his frustration at not being female. And the vicarious discriminations have the practical advantage of substantially increasing the pussy pool available to the men on top.\nCompetition, Prestige, Status, Formal Education, Ignorance and Social and Economic Classes: Having an obsessive desire to be admired by women, but no intrinsic worth, the make constructs a highly artificial society enabling him to appropriate the appearance of worth through money, prestige, `high' social class, degrees, professional position and knowledge and, by pushing as many other men as possible down professionally, socially, economically, and educationally.\nThe purpose of `higher' education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions.\nThe male, totally physical, incapable of mental rapport, although able to understand and use knowledge and ideas, is unable to relate to them, to grasp them emotionally: he does not value knowledge and ideas for their own sake (they're just means to ends) and, consequently, feels no need for mental companions, no need to cultivate the intellectual potentialities of others. On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.\nNo genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants is to be the male on top. The male `rebel' is a farce; this is the male's `society', made by him to satisfy his needs. He's never satisfied, because he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, what the male `rebel' is rebelling against is being male. The male changes only when forced to do so by technology, when he has no choice, when `society' reaches the stage where he must change or die. We're at that stage now; if women don't get their asses in gear fast, we may very well all die.\nPrevention of Conversation: Being completely self-centered and unable to relate to anything outside himself, the male's `conversation', when not about himself, is an impersonal droning on, removed from anything of human value. Male `intellectual conversation' is a strained compulsive attempt to impress the female.\nDaddy's Girl, passive, adaptable, respectful of and in awe of the male, allows him to impose his hideously dull chatter on her. This is not too difficult for her, as the tension and anxiety, the lack of cool, the insecurity and self-doubt, the unsureness of her own feelings and sensations that Daddy instilled in her make her perceptions superficial and render her unable to see that the male's babble is babble; like the aesthete `appreciating' the blob that's labeled `Great Art', she believes she's grooving on what bores the shit out of her. Not only does she permit his babble to dominate, she adapts her own `conversation' accordingly.\nTrained from an early childhood in niceness, politeness and `dignity', in pandering to the male need to disguise his animalism, she obligingly reduces her own `conversation' to small talk, a bland, insipid avoidance of any topic beyond the utterly trivial -- or is `educated', to `intellectual' discussion, that is, impersonal discoursing on irrelevant distractions -- the Gross National Product, the Common Market, the influence of Rimbaud on symbolist painting. So adept is she at pandering that it eventually becomes second nature and she continues to pander to men even when in the company of other females only.\nApart from pandering, her `conversation' is further limited by her insecurity about expressing deviant, original opinions and the self-absorption based on insecurity and that prevents her conversation from being charming. Niceness, politeness, `dignity', insecurity and self-absorption are hardly conducive to intensity and wit, qualities a conversation must have to be worthy of the name. Such conversation is hardly rampant, as only completely self-confident, arrogant, outgoing, proud, tough-minded females are capable of intense, bitchy, witty conversation.\nPrevention of Friendship (Love): Men have contempt for themselves, for all other men whom they contemplate more than casually and whom they do not think are females, (for example `sympathetic' analysts and `Great Artists') or agents of God and for all women who respect and pander to them: the insecure, approval-seeking, pandering male-females have contempt for themselves and for all women like them: the self-confident, swinging, thrill-seeking female females have contempt for me and for the pandering male females. In short, contempt is the order of the day.\nLove is not dependency or sex, but friendship, and therefore, love can't exist between two males, between a male and a female, or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation, live can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent groovy female females, since friendship is based upon respect, not contempt.\nEven amongst groovy females deep friendships seldom occur in adulthood, as almost all of them are either tied up with men in order to survive economically, or bogged down in hacking their way through the jungle and in trying to keep their heads about the amorphous mass. Love can't flourish in a society based upon money and meaningless work: it requires complete economic as well as personal freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship. Our `society' provides practically no opportunity to engage in such activities.\nHaving stripped the world of conversation, friendship and love, the male offers us these paltry substitutes:\n`Great Art' and `Culture': The male `artist' attempts to solve his dilemma of not being able to live, of not being female, by constructing a highly artificial world in which the male is heroized, that is, displays female traits, and the female is reduced to highly limited, insipid subordinate roles, that is, to being male.\nThe male `artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity (`deep' stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the `educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority (`Daddy knows best'), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.\n`Great Art' proves that men are superior to women, that men are women, being labeled `Great Art', almost all of which, as the anti-feminists are fond of reminding us, was created by men. We know that `Great Art' is great because male authorities have told us so, and we can't claim otherwise, as only those with exquisite sensitivities far superior to ours can perceive and appreciated the slop they appreciated.\nAppreciating is the sole diversion of the `cultivated'; passive and incompetent, lacking imagination and wit, they must try to make do with that; unable to create their own diversions, to create a little world of their own, to affect in the smallest way their environments, they must accept what's given; unable to create or relate, they spectate. Absorbing `culture' is a desperate, frantic attempt to groove in an ungroovy world, to escape the horror of a sterile, mindless, existence. `Culture' provides a sop to the egos of the incompetent, a means of rationalizing passive spectating; they can pride themselves on their ability to appreciate the `finer' things, to see a jewel where this is only a turd (they want to be admired for admiring). Lacking faith in their ability to change anything, resigned to the status quo, they have to see beauty in turds because, so far as they can see, turds are all they'll ever have.\nThe veneration of `Art' and `Culture' -- besides leading many women into boring, passive activity that distracts from more important and rewarding activities, from cultivating active abilities, and leads to the constant intrusion on our sensibilities of pompous dissertations on the deep beauty of this and that turn. This allows the `artist' to be setup as one possessing superior feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments, thereby undermining the faith of insecure women in the value and validity of their own feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments.\nThe male, having a very limited range of feelings, and consequently, very limited perceptions, insights and judgments, needs the `artist' to guide him, to tell him what life is all about. But the male `artist' being totally sexual, unable to relate to anything beyond his own physical sensations, having nothing to express beyond the insight that for the male life is meaningless and absurd, cannot be an artist. How can he who is not capable of life tell us what life is all about? A `male artist' is a contradiction in terms. A degenerate can only produce degenerate `art'. The true artist is every self-confident, healthy female, and in a female society the only Art, the only Culture, will be conceited, kooky, funky, females grooving on each other and on everything else in the universe.\nSexuality: Sex is not part of a relationship: on the contrary, it is a solitary experience, non-creative, a gross waste of time. The female can easily -- far more easily than she may think -- condition away her sex drive, leaving her completely cool and cerebral and free to pursue truly worthy relationships and activities; but the male, who seems to dig women sexually and who seeks out constantly to arouse them, stimulates the highly sexed female to frenzies of lust, throwing her into a sex bag from which few women ever escape. The lecherous male excited the lustful female; he has to -- when the female transcends her body, rises above animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear.\nSex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male `culture', in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our `society' are raving sex maniacs. But, being just awfully, awfully nice, they don't, of course descend to fucking -- that's uncouth -- rather they make love, commune by means of their bodies and establish sensual rapport; the literary ones are attuned to the throb of Eros and attain a clutch upon the Universe; the religious have spiritual communion with the Divine Sensualism; the mystics merge with the Erotic Principle and blend with the Cosmos, and the acid heads contact their erotic cells.\nOn the other hand, those females least embedded in the male `Culture', the least nice, those crass and simple souls who reduce fucking to fucking, who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyones opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, the `Greats' or the deep wisdom of the Ancients, who trust only their own animal, gutter instincts, who equate Culture with chicks, whose sole diversion is prowling for emotional thrills and excitement, who are given to disgusting, nasty upsetting `scenes', hateful, violent bitches given to slamming those who unduly irritate them in the teeth, who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest or ram an icepick up his asshole as soon as look at him, if they knew they could get away with it, in short, those who, by the standards of our `culture' are SCUM... these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.\nUnhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, `morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... and around and around... they've seen the whole show -- every bit of it -- the fucking scene, the dyke scene -- they've covered the whole waterfront, been under every dock and pier -- the peter pier, the pussy pier... you've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from other the dock, move, take off, sink out. But SCUM doesn't yet prevail; SCUM's still in the gutter of our `society', which, if it's not deflected from its present course and if the Bomb doesn't drop on it, will hump itself to death.\nBoredom: Life in a society made by and for creatures who, when they are not grim and depressing are utter bores, van only be, when not grim and depressing, an utter bore.\nSecrecy, Censorship, Suppression of Knowledge and Ideas, and Exposes: Every male's deep-seated, secret, most hideous fear is of being discovered to be not a female, but a male, a subhuman animal. Although niceness, politeness and `dignity' suffice to prevent his exposure on a personal level, in order to prevent the general exposure of the male sex as a whole and to maintain his unnatural dominant position position in `society', the male must resort to:\n1. Censorship. Responding reflexively to isolated works and phrases rather than cereberally to overall meanings, the male attempts to prevent the arousal and discovery of his animalism by censoring not only `pornography', but any work containing `dirty' words, no matter in what context they are used.\n2. Suppression of all ideas and knowledge that might expose him or threaten his dominant position in `society'. Much biological and psychological data is suppressed, because it is proof of the male's gross inferiority to the female. Also, the problem of mental illness will never be solved while the male maintains control, because first, men have a vested interest in it -- only females who have very few of their marbles will allow males the slightest bit of control over anything, and second, the male cannot admit to the role that fatherhood plays in causing mental illness.\n3. Exposes. The male's chief delight in life -- insofar as the tense, grim male can ever be said to delight in anything -- is in exposing others. It doesn't' much matter what they're exposed as, so long as they're exposed; it distracts attention from himself. Exposing others as enemy agents (Communists and Socialists) is one of his favorite pastimes, as it removes the source of the threat to him not only from himself, but from the country and the Western world. The bugs up his ass aren't in him, they're in Russia.\nDistrust: Unable to empathize or feel affection or loyalty, being exclusively out for himself, the male has no sense of fair play; cowardly, needing constantly to pander to the female to win her approval, that he is helpless without, always on the edge lest his animalism, his maleness be discovered, always needing to cover up, he must lie constantly; being empty he has not honor or integrity -- he doesn't know what those words mean. The male, in short, is treacherous, and the only appropriate attitude in a male `society' is cynicism and distrust.\nUgliness: Being totally sexual, incapable of cerebral or aesthetic responses, totally materialistic and greedy, the male, besides inflicting on the world `Great Art', has decorated his unlandscaped cities with ugly buildings (both inside and out), ugly decors, billboards, highways, cars, garbage trucks, and, most notably, his own putrid self.\nHatred and Violence: The male is eaten up with tension, with frustration at not being female, at not being capable of ever achieving satisfaction or pleasure of any kind; eaten up with hate -- not rational hate that is directed at those who abuse or insult you -- but irrational, indiscriminate hate... hatred, at bottom, of his own worthless self.\nGratuitous violence, besides `proving' he's a `Man', serves as an outlet for his hate and, in addition -- the male being capable only of sexual responses and needing very strong stimuli to stimulate his half-dead self -- provides him with a little sexual thrill..\nDisease and Death: All diseases are curable, and the aging process and death are due to disease; it is possible, therefore, never to age and to live forever. In fact the problems of aging and death could be solved within a few years, if an all-out, massive scientific assault were made upon the problem. This, however, will not occur with the male establishment because:\n1. The many male scientists who shy away from biological research, terrified of the discovery that males are females, and show marked preference for virile, `manly' war and death programs.\n2. The discouragement of many potential scientists from scientific careers by the rigidity, boringness, expensiveness, time-consumingness, and unfair exclusivity of our `higher' educational system.\n3. Propaganda disseminated by insecure male professionals, who jealously guard their positions, so that only a highly select few can comprehend abstract scientific concepts.\n4. Widespread lack of self-confidence brought about by the father system that discourages many talented girls from becoming scientists.\n5. Lack of automation. There now exists a wealth of data which, if sorted out and correlated, would reveal the cure for cancer and several other diseases and possibly the key to life itself. But the data is so massive it requires high speed computers to correlate it all. The institution of computers will be delayed interminably under the male control system, since the male has a horror of being replaced by machines.\n6. The money systems' insatiable need for new products. Most of the few scientists around who aren't working on death programs are tied up doing research for corporations.\n7. The males like death -- it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die.\n8. The bias of the money system for the least creative scientists. Most scientists come from at least relatively affluent families where Daddy reigns supreme.\nIncapable of a positive state of happiness, which is the only thing that can justify one's existence, the male is, at best, relaxed, comfortable, neutral, and this condition is extremely short-lived, as boredom, a negative state, soon sets in; he is, therefore, doomed to an existence of suffering relieved only by occasional, fleeting stretches of restfulness, which state he can only achieve at the expense of some female. The male is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore, not ethically entitled to live, as no one as the right to life at someone else's expense.\nJust as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.\nHowever, this moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that the male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging in the time-honored and classical wars and race riots, men are more and more either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The female, whether she likes it or not, will eventually take complete charge, if for no other reason than that she will have to -- the male, for practical purposes, won't exist.\nAccelerating this trend is the fact that more and more males are acquiring enlightened self-interest; they're realizing more and more that the female interest is in their interest, that they can live only through the female and that the more the female is encouraged to live, to fulfill herself, to be a female and not a male, the more nearly he lives; he's coming to see that it's easier and more satisfactory to live through her than to try to become her and usurp her qualities, claim them as his own, push the female down and claim that she's a male. The fag, who accepts his maleness, that is, his passivity and total sexuality, his femininity, is also best served by women being truly female, as it would then be easier for him to be male, feminine. If men were wise they would seek to become really female, would do intensive biological research that would lead to me, by means of operations on the brain and nervous system, being able t to be transformed in psyche, as well as body, into women.\nWhether to continue to use females for reproduction or to reproduce in the laboratory will also become academic: what will happen when every female, twelve and over, is routinely taking the Pill and there are no longer any accidents? How many women will deliberately get or (if an accident) remain pregnant? No, Virginia, women don't just adore being brood mares, despite what the mass of robot, brainwashed women will say. When society consists of only the fully conscious the answer will be none. Should a certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory reproduction of babies.\nAs for the issue of whether or not to continue to reproduce males, it doesn't follow that because the male, like disease, has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional cripples.\nWhy produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us.\nEventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females.\nBut SCUM is impatient; SCUM is not consoled by the thought that future generations will thrive; SCUM wants to grab some thrilling living for itself. And, if a large majority of women were SCUM, they could acquire complete control of this country within a few weeks simply by withdrawing from the labor force, thereby paralyzing the entire nation. Additional measures, any one of which would be sufficient to completely disrupt the economy and everything else, would be for women to declare themselves off the money system, stop buying, just loot and simply refuse to obey all laws they don't care to obey. The police force, National Guard, Army, Navy and Marines combined couldn't squelch a rebellion of over half the population, particularly when it's made up of people they are utterly helpless without.\nIf all women simply left men, refused to have anything to do with any of them -- ever, all men, the government, and the national economy would collapse completely. Even without leaving men, women who are aware of the extent of their superiority to and power over men, could acquire complete control over everything within a few weeks, could effect a total submission of males to females. In a sane society the male would trot along obediently after the female. The male is docile and easily led, easily subjected to the domination of any female who cares to dominate him. The male, in fact, wants desperately to be led by females, wants Mama in charge, wants to abandon himself to her care. But this is not a sane society, and most women are not even dimly aware of where they're at in relation to men.\nThe conflict, therefore, is not between females and males, but between SCUM -- dominant, secure, self-confident, nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking, free-wheeling, arrogant females, who consider themselves fit to rule the universe, who have free-wheeled to the limits of this `society' and are ready to wheel on to something far beyond what it has to offer -- and nice, passive, accepting `cultivated', polite, dignified, subdued, dependent, scared, mindless, insecure, approval-seeking Daddy's Girls, who can't cope with the unknown, who want to hang back with the apes, who feel secure only with Big Daddy standing by, with a big strong man to lean on and with a fat, hairy face in the White House, who are too cowardly to face up to the hideous reality of what a man is, what Daddy is, who have cast their lot with the swine, who have adapted themselves to animalism, feel superficially comfortable with it and know no other way of `life', who have reduced their minds, thoughts and sights to the male level, who, lacking sense, imagination and wit can have value only in a male `society', who can have a place in the sun, or, rather, in the slime, only as soothers, ego boosters, relaxers and breeders, who are dismissed as inconsequents by other females, who project their deficiencies, their maleness, onto all females and see the female as worm.\nBut SCUM is too impatient to wait for the de-brainwashing of millions of assholes. Why should the swinging females continue to plod dismally along with the dull male ones? Why should the fates of the groovy and the creepy be intertwined? Why should the active and imaginative consult the passive and dull on social policy? Why should the independent be confined to the sewer along with the dependent who need Daddy to cling to? A small handful of SCUM can take over the country within a year by systematically fucking up the system, selectively destroying property, and murder:\nSCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds an unwork. For example, SCUM salesgirls will not charge for merchandise; SCUM telephone operators will not charge for calls; SCUM office and factory workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to unwork at.\nSCUM will forcibly relieve bus drivers, cab drivers and subway token sellers of their jobs and run buses and cabs and dispense free tokens to the public.\nSCUM will destroy all useless and harmful objects -- cars, store windows, `Great Art', etc.\nEventually SCUM will take over the airwaves -- radio and TV networks -- by forcibly relieving of their jobs all radio and TV employees who would impede SCUM's entry into the broadcasting studios.\nSCUM will couple-bust -- barge into mixed (male-female) couples, wherever they are, and bust them up.\nSCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM. Men in the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are playing pall with SCUM. A few examples of the men in the Men's Auxiliary are: men who kill men; biological scientists who are working on constructive programs, as opposed to biological warfare; journalists, writers, editors, publishers and producers who disseminate and promote ideas that will lead to the achievement of SCUM's goals; faggots who, by their shimmering, flaming example, encourage other men to de-man themselves and thereby make themselves relatively inoffensive; men who consistently give things away -- money, things, services; men who tell it like it is (so far not one ever has), who put women straight, who reveal the truth about themselves, who give the mindless male females correct sentences to parrot, who tell them a woman's primary goal in life should be to squash the male sex (to aid men in this endeavor SCUM will conduct Turd Sessions, at which every male present will give a speech beginning with the sentence: `I am a turd, a lowly abject turd', then proceed to list all the ways in which he is. His reward for doing so will be the opportunity to fraternize after the session for a whole, solid hour with the SCUM who will be present. Nice, clean-living male women will be invited to the sessions to help clarify any doubts and misunderstandings they may have about the male sex; makers and promoters of sex books and movies, etc., who are hastening the day when all that will be shown on the screen will be Suck and Fuck (males, like the rats following the Pied Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they are); drug pushers and advocates, who are hastening the dropping out of men.\nBeing in the Men's Auxiliary is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for making SCUM's escape list; it's not enough to do good; to save their worthless asses men must also avoid evil. A few examples of the most obnoxious or harmful types are: rapists, politicians and all who are in their service (campaigners, members of political parties, etc); lousy singers and musicians; Chairmen of Boards; Breadwinners; landlords; owners of greasy spoons and restaraunts that play Muzak; `Great Artists'; cheap pikers and welchers; cops; tycoons; scientists working on death and destruction programs or for private industry (practically all scientists); liars and phonies; disc jockies; men who intrude themselves in the slightest way on any strange female; real estate men; stock brokers; men who speak when they have nothing to say; men who sit idly on the street and mar the landscape with their presence; double dealers; flim-flam artists; litterbugs; plagiarisers; men who in the slightest way harm any female; all men in the advertising industry; psychiatrists and clinical psychologists; dishonest writers, journalists, editors, publishers, etc.; censors on both the public and private levels; all members of the armed forces, including draftees (LBJ and McNamara give orders, but servicemen carry them out) and particularly pilots (if the bomb drops, LBJ won't drop it; a pilot will). In the case of a man whose behavior falls into both the good and bad categories, an overall subjective evaluation of him will be made to determine if his behavior is, in the balance, good or bad.\nIt is most tempting to pick off the female `Great Artists', liars and phonies etc along with the men, but that would be inexpedient, as it would not be clear to most of the public that the female killed was a male. All women have a fink streak in them, to a greater or lesser degree, but it stems from a lifetime of living among men. Eliminate men and women will shape up. Women are improvable; men are no, although their behavior is. When SCUM gets hot on their asses it'll shape up fast.\nSimultaneously with the fucking-up, looting, couple-busting, destroying and killing, SCUM will recruit. SCUM, then, will consist of recruiters; the elite corps -- the hard core activists (the fuck-ups, looters and destroyers) and the elite of the elite -- the killers.\nDropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is. Most women are already dropped out; they were never in. Dropping out gives control to those few who don't drop out; dropping out is exactly what the establishment leaders want; it plays into the hands of the enemy; it strengthens the system instead of undermining it, since it is based entirely on the non-participating, passivity, apathy and non-involvement of the mass of women. Dropping out, however, is an excellent policy for men, and SCUM will enthusiastically encourage it.\nLooking inside yourself for salvation, contemplating your navel, is not, as the Drop Out people would have you believe, the answer. Happiness likes outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good, and thus gets credit for being deep.\nSCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective. In addition, only decent, clean-living male women, highly trained in submerging themselves in the species, act on a mob basis. SCUM consists of individuals; SCUM is not a mob, a blob. Only as many SCUM will do a job as are needed for the job. Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, `privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.\nSCUM will always operate on a criminal as opposed to a civil disobedience basis, that is, as opposed to openly violating the law and going to jail in order to draw attention to an injustice. Such tactics acknowledge the rightness overall system and are used only to modify it slightly, change specific laws. SCUM is against the entire system, the very idea of law and government. SCUM is out to destroy the system, not attain certain rights within it. Also, SCUM -- always selfish, always cool -- will always aim to avoid detection and punishment. SCUM will always be furtive, sneaky, underhanded (although SCUM murders will always be known to be such).\nBoth destruction and killing will be selective and discriminate. SCUM is against half-crazed, indiscriminate riots, with no clear objective in mind, and in which many of your own kind are picked off. SCUM will never instigate, encourage or participate in riots of any kind or other form of indiscriminate destruction. SCUM will coolly, furtively, stalk its prey and quietly move in for the kill. Destruction will never me such as to block off routes needed for the transportation of food or other essential supplies, contaminate or cut off the water supply, block streets and traffic to the extent that ambulances can't get through or impede the functioning of hospitals.\nSCUM will keep on destroying, looting, fucking-up and killing until the money-work system no longer exists and automation is completely instituted or until enough women co-operate with SCUM to make violence unnecessary to achieve these goals, that is, until enough women either unwork or quit work, start looting, leave men and refuse to obey all laws inappropriate to a truly civilized society. Many women will fall into line, but many others, who surrendered long ago to the enemy, who are so adapted to animalism, to maleness, that they like restrictions and restraints, don't know what to do with freedom, will continue to be toadies and doormats, just as peasants in rice paddies remain peasants in rice paddies as one regime topples another. A few of the more volatile will whimper and sulk and throw their toys and dishrags on the floor, but SCUM will continue to steamroller over them.\nA completely automated society can be accomplished very simply and quickly once there is a public demand for it. The blueprints for it are already in existence, and it's construction will take only a few weeks with millions of people working on it. Even though off the money system, everyone will be most happy to pitch in and get the automated society built; it will mark the beginning of a fantastic new era, and there will be a celebration atmosphere accompanying the construction.\nThe elimination of money and the complete institution of automation are basic to all other SCUM reforms; without these two the others can't take place; with them the others will take place very rapidly. The government will automatically collapse. With complete automation it will be possible for every woman to vote directly on every issue by means of an electronic voting machine in her house. Since the government is occupied almost entirely with regulating economic affairs and legislating against purely private matters, the elimination of money wand with it the elimination of males who wish to legislate `morality' will mean there will be practically no issues to vote on.\nAfter the elimination of money there will be no further need to kill men; they will be stripped of the only power they have over psychologically independent females. They will be able to impose themselves only on the doormats, who like to be imposed on. The rest of the women will be busy solving the few remaining unsolved problems before planning their agenda for eternity and Utopia -- completely revamping educational programs so that millions of women can be trained within a few months for high level intellectual work that now requires years of training (this can be done very easily once out educational goal is to educate and not perpetuate an academic and intellectual elite); solving the problems of disease and old age and death and completely redesigning our cities and living quarters. Many women will for a while continue to think they dig men, but as they become accustomed to female society and as they become absorbed in their projects, they will eventually come to see the utter uselessnes and banality of the male.\nThe few remaining men can exist out their puny days dropped out on drugs or strutting around in drag or passively watching the high-powered female in action, fulfilling themselves as spectators, vicarious livers*[FOOTNOTE: It will be electronically possible for him to tune into any specific female he wants to and follow in detail her every movement. The females will kindly, obligingly consent to this, as it won't hurt them in the slightest and it is a marvelously kind and humane way to treat their unfortunate, handicapped fellow beings.] or breeding in the cow pasture with the toadies, or they can go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quietly, quickly, and painlessly gassed to death.\nPrior to the institution of automation, to the replacement of males by machines, the male should be of use to the female, wait on her, cater to her slightest whim, obey her every command, be totally subservient to her, exist in perfect obedience to her will, as opposed to the completely warped, degenerate situation we have now of men, not only not only not existing at all, cluttering up the world with their ignominious presence, but being pandered to and groveled before by the mass of females, millions of women piously worshiping the Golden Calf, the dog leading the master on a leash, when in fact the male, short of being a drag queen, is least miserable when his dogginess is recognized -- no unrealistic emotional demands are made of him and the completely together female is calling the shots. Rational men want to be squashed, stepped on, crushed and crunched, treated as the curs, the filth that they are, have their repulsiveness confirmed.\nThe sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.\nThis is some thought provoking stuff. And by thought i mean dick.\nPheeew\nFind More Posts by Pheeew\nTristessa274\nwho said feminists are against masturbation?\nFind More Posts by Tristessa274\nOriginally Posted by Tristessa274\nEh, nobody? Your point being?\nAnyone ready any feminist philosophy? That stuff about a gender bias in metaphysics is intruiging, the idea that men have at possibly the most foundational level of our knowledge, introduced a male bias.\nI can look it up if anyone is interested?\nwell some nice spam so far\nWell if you consider the defining works of the most driven and intelligent women of our generation 'spam' then perhaps you should find a forum with more teenage boys and less brain cells.\nim all for a woman expressing herself to her fullest. but God made man and woman to be together. the man is supposed to worship the woman and the woman is supposed to worship the man and they are supposed to live together in perfect heavenly bliss loving eachother everyday forever. so i dont really need to read all that because that's what i believe\nFind More Posts by AnnMarie727\nOriginally Posted by AnnMarie727\nOk this is where the ignorant part of me calling you an ignorant bigot comes in. Ill point out when you're being homophobic, islamophobic and racist again.\nim not homophobic, racist or islamophobic\ni believe in the love between a man and woman and i believe it is precious and I believe that God made us to love eachother this way. those are my beliefs.\nshould yours be different then that's fine with me. you live your way and i'll live my life my way\nim not homophobic or racist.\nSo you admit that you are islamophobic. Think they're dirty or something yeah?\nOh nice edit bigot breath.\nLocation: someone more...punk rock?\nsuper man dat HOEEEEEEEEEEE\nFind More Posts by Pretzel Logic\nSo you admit that you are islamophobic. That counts as bigoted, if you werent so ignorant you would know that.\ni didn't read that part. i fixed my post to say that im not that either.\ni dont hate anyone. people do what they want. but those are my beliefs about Love\nand being in Love is the best part of being alive\npenn darvis\nI got to this part and stopped. 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Or was the free spirit within you quelled over your fathers knee as he chanted verse in your ear?\nWoman are great so are Men and it's even better when they are in Love!\nyou know how they treat women these days isn't much different from slavery. men have just gotten really good at making it look a-ok.\nSo, has anyone found anything to masturbate to in this thread yet?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1232, "original_length": 341726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freearticlehouse.com/2013/07/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MBB2WH5L2DQSR66SDLERJSRATI7KD2J7", "length": 696, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "freearticlehouse.com", "title": "Free Article House \u00bb 2013 \u00bb July \u00bb 12", "raw_content": "Written by Marty on July 12, 2013 . 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Set to be a tour de force event, McBroom is a witty, emotional lyricist best known for penning the Bette Midler hit, The Rose, whilst Calloway is a Tony Award nominee.\nInfluenced by the tastes and passions of its original founder Peter Boizot, a jazz lover who sought to introduce live music into his restaurants since their inception in the late 60\u2019s to the first ticketed event in May \u201976, there has been an impressive range of performances over the years. Internationally acclaimed acts who have graced the monochrome floor, include Sting, Cybil Sheppard, Molly Ringwald, Bill Wyman, Bonnie Langford, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Brian May, Gregory Porter, Bud Freeman, Monty Alexander, Rick Wakeman, Milt Hinton, Van Morrison, Melody Gardot, Jamie Cullum, Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse.\nCurating 3,000 plus events a year (1,500 ticketed shows) across 5 flagship PizzaExpress, the Holborn location (opened in August 2017) becomes London\u2019s newest live venue. Already attracting a varied list of talent across past and present generations from Jessie Ware, Martin Kemp to the Cast of Les Miserables and comedians Harry Hill and Josh Widdecombe.\nAmanda McBroom is one of the most popular and well-loved artists. Renowned for her magical blend of personal anecdotes, humour and songs by highly acclaimed songwriters as well as some of her own well-known, self-penned numbers including, The Rose, which was an international hit for Bette Midler. Her talent for witty, profound and emotionally charged song writing sets her apart from her from her contemporaries and makes this a residency not to be missed.\nAnn Hampton Callaway is not only a gifted singer-songwriter and Tony Award-nominee, but she is also an acclaimed actress, having won the Theatre World Award and received a Tony nomination for her starring role in the Broadway musical Swing and made her Hollywood screen debut in Robert de Niro\u2019s The Good Shepherd. She has written over 250 songs, including two Platinum Award winning hits for Barbra Streisand and the theme for the hit TV series The Nanny.\nMichele Brourman is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose best-known song, My Favourite Year has been recorded by Michael Feinstein, Margaret Whiting, Dame Cleo Laine and many more. With lyricist Amanda McBroom, she\u2019s written the songs for 18 animated features for Universal Studios, including the beloved Land Before Time series, writing for artists like Reba McIntyre, Michael York, David Carradine, Jodi Benson, Olivia Newton-John, Donny Osmond, Corbin Bleu and a host of others. Her work has been featured in television and film and performed by countless cabaret artists, garnering numerous awards and critical acclaim.\nWhat the press have said about Amanda McBroom and Ann Hampton Callaway:\n\u201cAmanda is probably one of the greatest night club performers of all time. Her lyrics are profound and express human emotions in glorious poetry. Her humour is so smart and she sings and acts it all brilliantly.\u201d Broadway World\n\u201cI once described the phenomenal Ann Hampton Callaway\u2019s position in the tenuous world of girl singers as that of a silver Bentley in a parking lot full of second-hand Hondas. Watching her electrify a jaded audience in her current show, I now amend that opinion: She owns the whole damned block.\u201d Rex Reed, New York Observer\n\u201cAmanda McBroom\u2019s show is the real grown-up fare. A true cabaret original\u2026 Her own compositions, \u2018Errol Flynn\u2019 and \u2018The Rose\u2019, are bewitching, as is Michele Brourman\u2019s beautifully understated piano playing. Their residency\u2026 is simply unmissable.\u201d The Times\n\u201cFor sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway.\u201d The New York Times\n\u201cMs. Callaway is gifted with an amazing low voice, a miraculous level of musicianship, ears that can hear around corners, a gift for both arranging familiar standards and composing new ones, all of which works hand-in-hand with her sense of humour.\u201d The Wall Street Journal\nShow: An Evening With Amanda McBroom and Ann Hampton Callaway\nVenue: The Pheasantry, 152 Kings Road, London SW3 4UT\nAddress: 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE\nDates: 14th \u2013 16th June 2018\nTime: 20.30pm (doors open 7pm)\nBox office: www.pizzaexpresslive.com/venues/chelsea-the-pheasantry / 020 7439 4962\nFor more information please contact Gaby Jerrard or Matthew Christian at [email protected] / [email protected] or on 020 7690 0006", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://galaxias.info/search?q=Choose%20your%20style", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:HSYXGPW5Q4MFCLOPC7E6P4YUJTZAIFQA", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "galaxias.info", "title": "Search results \u201cChoose your style\u201d", "raw_content": "Search results \u201cChoose your style\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gameface.in/games/1803-test-drive-ferrari-racing-legends", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BWFK6P2FYIXAQJ4P4DRSIKMYDQPE4J7E", "length": 906, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gameface.in", "title": "Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends", "raw_content": "Racing taking place in closed circuits and developed games like the Need for Speed: Shift series, from which the game will base its dynamic models and damage effects. 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A variety of prominent reports all point to the seriousness and potential catastrophic consequences that will result unless radical changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are realized (IPCC 2007; Stern 2006). Despite the visibility of such debates, there is doubt regarding the willingness and ability of present generations to change their current behavior quickly enough to reduce the scope of future catastrophes. Greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector are a prime example where, both commercial and pri- vate use of fossil fuels are increasing at alarming rates despite international consensus regarding the need for massive reductions. One of the major points of contention stems from global inequalities regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Countries with low per capita levels of fossil fuel use do not see themselves as responsible for climate change and demand the right to continue their carbon based economic development. Highly motorized countries show little success or interest in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to the extent and in the time frame that may be required. Overall, a radical and immediate reduction of carbon dioxide from the transport sector is not seen as feasible in highly motorized countries, or fair to less motorized ones\" (Polk 2009, 73-4).\nTopics: Environment, Climate Change, Gender, Infrastructure, Transportation\nRead more about Gendering Climate Change through the Transport Sector\nWhitzman, Carolyn, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw, Kalpana Viswanath eds. 2013. Building Inclusive Cities. New York: Routledge.\nAuthors: Carolyn Whitzman, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw, Kalpana Viswanath\n\u201cBuilding on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia\u2013Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting-edge practice and builds theory around a rights-based approach to women\u2019s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grass-roots action on safer cities for women and everyone, this book is about the right to an inclusive city. The first part of the book describes the challenges that women face regarding access to essential services, housing security, liveability and mobility. The second part of the book critically examines programmes, projects and ideas that are working to make cities safer. Building Inclusive Cities takes a cross-cultural learning perspective from action research occurring throughout the world and translates this research into theoretical conceptualizations to inform the literature on planning and urban management in both developing and developed countries. This book is intended to inspire both thought and action\u201d (Whitzman 2013, i).\nTopics: Civil Society, Development, Economies, Economic Inequality, Poverty, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Infrastructure, Transportation, Water & Sanitation\nRead more about Building Inclusive Cities\nWomen, Environment, and Sustainable Development\nPandey, Shanta. 1998. \u201cWomen, Environment, and Sustainable Development.\u201d International Social Work 41 (3): 339-55.\nAuthor: Shanta Pandey\n\u201cIn developing countries, poor populations, especially women and children, are disproportionately concentrated in ecologically degraded, fragile, and marginal lands (Durning, 1989). A wide range of development programs have been launched to promote social and economic development of rural areas. These programs are in the form of reforestation, irrigation and drinking water improvement, innovative farming techniques, primary health care facilities and health education, and training and human capital development. People\u2019s participation, especially women\u2019s, in these development programs is crucial for their success. Much has been written on the failure of states and development projects to engage rural people, especially rural women, in these rural development initiatives (Mayoux, 1995). This paper reviews several case studies conducted in Nepal and identifies some of the factors that contribute to the participation of rural people, especially rural women, in forest resources management programs. The paper also discusses social workers\u2019 role in promoting participation and sustainable development\u201d (Pandey, 1998, 339).\nTopics: Civil Society, Development, Economies, Economic Inequality, Poverty, Environment, Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Gender, Women, Humanitarian Assistance, Infrastructure, Energy, Transportation, Water & Sanitation Regions: Asia, South Asia Countries: Nepal\nRead more about Women, Environment, and Sustainable Development\nTransport, (Im)mobility, and Spatial Poverty Traps: Issues for Rural Women and Girl Children in Sub-Saharan Africa\nPorter, Gina. 2007. \"Transport, (Im)mobility, and Spatial Poverty Traps: Issues for Rural Women and Girl Children in Sub-Saharan Africa.\" Paper presented at Understanding and Addressing Spatial Poverty Traps: An International Workshop, Durham University, UK, March 29.\nAuthor: Gina Porter\nThis paper reflects on the experiences of women and girl children residents in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa with poor physical accessibility (to services and markets) because of poor roads and inadequate transport (in terms of regularity, reliability and cost). Examples from field research conducted in diverse agro-ecological and cultural contexts in western and southern Africa are used to explore the impacts of relative immobility and poor access to services on women and girls. Three themes are examined in some detail: access to education, access to health services and access to markets. (Abstract from original source)\nTopics: Gender, Women, Girls, Infrastructure, Transportation, Water & Sanitation Regions: Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa\nRead more about Transport, (Im)mobility, and Spatial Poverty Traps: Issues for Rural Women and Girl Children in Sub-Saharan Africa\nGender and Transport in Less Developed Countries: A Background Paper in Preparation for CSD-9\nPeters, Dieke. 2001. \"Gender and Transport in Less Developed Countries: A Background Paper in Preparation for CSD-9.\" Paper presented at Gender Perspectives for Earth Summit 2002: Energy, Transport, Information for Decision-Making, Berlin, Germany, January 10-12.\nAuthor: Deike Peters\nFew developing country research and development projects have adequately accounted for the intersection of gender, transport, and mobility. This paper brings together recent evidence from rural and urban transport case studies in less developed countries. Women's disadvantaged position in transport systems is apparent throughout. However, rather than simply use the studies to confirm general trends, this paper highlights both similarities and differences in women's experiences in order to stress the need for locally-adapted gender-sensitive transport strategies. Once this local dimension is brought back in, \"giving voice\" to women in transport planning and practice does not have to remain a lofty theoretical principle. Crucial, practical advances can be made by improving the quality of household and user surveys and by collecting all data in a sex-disaggregated manner. These efforts should be complemented by comprehensive, locally-targeted gender analyses and action plans. Depending on local context, the provision of special transit services to women may be an appropriate intervention, but should not be seen as a permanent solution. (Abstract from original source)\nTopics: Development, Gender, Households, Infrastructure, Energy, Transportation\nRead more about Gender and Transport in Less Developed Countries: A Background Paper in Preparation for CSD-9\nLabour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico\nRadel, Claudia, Birgit Schmook, Jamie Mcevoy, Crisol Mendez, and Peggy Petrezelka. 2012. \u201cLabour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico.\u201d Journal of Agrarian Change 12 (1): 98\u2013119. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00336.x.\nAuthors: Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, Jamie Mcevoy, Crisol Mendez, Peggy Petrezelka\nWe examine the nature of the \u2018feminization of agriculture\u2019 in the semi-subsistence, peasant production sector of southeastern Mexico, as associated with male labour out-migration. Presenting findings from empirical work with smallholder producers, we discuss the impact of men's migration to the United States on women's participation in agriculture and gendered relations of agricultural production. In 2007, we conducted a survey of 155 semi-subsistence, smallholder households in six ejidos. This survey was supplemented by ethnographic research in a single ejido. Our findings demonstrate the need to distinguish between farm labour and management in this sector, and the potentially significant (but focused) changes in the local relations of agricultural production wrought by gendered patterns of labour migration \u2013 specifically in tenure, land-use decision-making and the management of hired labour.\nTopics: Displacement & Migration, Migration, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Infrastructure, Transportation Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Mexico\nRead more about Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico\nHow Does Fear of Sexual Harassment on Transit Affect Women\u2019s Use of Transit?\nHsu, Hsin-Ping. 2009. \u201cHow Does Fear of Sexual Harassment on Transit Affect Women\u2019s Use of Transit?\u201d In Women\u2019s Issues in Transportation - Summary of the 4th International Conference. Vol. 2. Irvine, California: Transportation Research Board.\nAuthor: Hsin-Ping Hsu\nThe purpose of this study is to understand how women\u2019s fear of sexual harassment on transit changes their transit use and travel behavior. The study, which employed a qualitative research approach, found that cultural differences are important to women\u2019s perceptions of sexual harassment and women\u2019s attitudes about adequate policy responses. Yet cultural differences are not as important as the availability of a car in influencing how women modify their use of transit in response to sexual harassment. Thus, a feasible and effective policy addressing this issue should take the cultural context into consideration.\nTopics: Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Infrastructure, Transportation, Sexual Violence, Male Perpetrators, SV against women\nRead more about How Does Fear of Sexual Harassment on Transit Affect Women\u2019s Use of Transit?\nWomen\u2019s Safety and Security Issues with Bicycling and Walking - Examination of Potential Planning, Design, and Technology Solutions\nVaughn, Stephen T. 2009. \u201cWomen\u2019s Safety and Security Issues with Bicycling and Walking - Examination of Potential Planning, Design, and Technology Solutions.\u201d In Women\u2019s Issues in Transportation - Summary of the 4th International Conference. Vol. 2. Irvine, California: Transportation Research Board.\nAuthor: Stephen T. Vaughn\nIn the non-motorized transportation field, gender differences in bicycling and walking are well documented, and personal safety has been identified as a deterrent to their increased usage. This concern for safety is not limited to the physical environment of the roadways, but includes the individual\u2019s perception of safety in the surrounding neighborhoods as well as the environment of multi-use paths and lanes. This paper uses data from the National Crime victimization Survey and the FBI\u2019s National Incident-Based Reporting System to examine gender issues and to identify major safety and security concerns for users. The study incorporates focus group recommendations to offer planning and policy recommendations to increase the number of women who choose non-motorized transportation.\nTopics: Gender, Gender-Based Violence, Gendered Power Relations, Infrastructure, Transportation, Security, Human Security Regions: Americas, North America Countries: United States of America\nRead more about Women\u2019s Safety and Security Issues with Bicycling and Walking - Examination of Potential Planning, Design, and Technology Solutions\nYouth Transport, Mobility, and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Gendered Journey to School\nPorter, Gina, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri, and Augustine Tanle. 2009. \u201cYouth Transport, Mobility, and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Gendered Journey to School.\u201d In Women\u2019s Issues in Transportation - Summary of the 4th International Conference. Vol. 2. Irvine, California: Transportation Research Board.\nAuthors: Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri, Augustine Tanle\nThis paper draws on empirical data from a three-country (Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa) study of young people\u2019s mobility to explore the gendered nature of children\u2019s journeys to school in sub-Saharan Africa. Gender differences in school enrollment and attendance in Africa are well established: education statistics in many countries indicate that girls\u2019 participation in formal education is often substantially lower than boys\u2019, especially at the secondary school level. Transport and mobility issues commonly form an important component of this story, though the precise patterning of the transportation and mobility constraints experienced by girls and the ways in which transport factors interact with other constraints vary from region to region. In some contexts, the journey to school represents a particularly hazardous enterprise for girls because they face a serious threat of rape. In other cases, girls\u2019 journeys to school and school attendance are hampered by Africa\u2019s transport gap and by cultural conventions that require females to be responsible for pedestrian head loading (transporting loads such as food crops or fuel on the head) and other work before leaving for, or instead of attending, school. evidence comes from a diverse range of sources, but the data used here are principally drawn from a survey questionnaire conducted with approximately 1,000 children ages 7 to 18 years across eight sites in each country. The aim of this study is to draw attention to the diversity of gendered travel experiences across geographical locations (paying attention to associated patterns of transport provision); to explore the implications of these findings for access to education; and to suggest areas in which policy intervention could be beneficial.\nTopics: Education, Gender, Women, Girls, Gender Roles, Infrastructure, Transportation Regions: Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana, Malawi, South Africa\nRead more about Youth Transport, Mobility, and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Gendered Journey to School\nReducing Harm Associated with Women in Using Commercial Motorcycle Transportation in a Developing Country\nOjugbana, D., A. Okonkwo, and K. Olebunne. 2010. \u201cReducing Harm Associated with Women in Using Commercial Motorcycle Transportation in a Developing Country.\u201d Injury Prevention 16 (1): 121. doi:10.1136/ip.2010.029215.435.\nAuthors: D. Ojugbana, A. Okonkwo, K. Olebunne\nStatement of Purpose: In Nigeria, dangers posed by commercial motorcyclists at nights are very disturbing. Past studies have shown that a high number of harm incidents involved women, who were robbed, brutalised, raped and killed. The situation is similar for most countries in sub Saharan Africa. The study seeks to address the issue of women vulnerability in commercial motorcycle transportation. Summary of Results: Results showed that 75% of respondents agreed that motorcycle transportation at nights is unsafe. 68% affirmed that women are targets. Incidents of rape and abuse were noted. 72% of women respondents have stopped night movements. Police officials confirmed harassment and attack. 90% of victims were unable to give description of attackers. Unorganised system of transportation, poor monitoring and inability of the victims to identify attackers hinder progress. The study concludes that actions of unchecked commercial motorcyclists at nights often result in severe consequences for women. The use of motorcycles for commercial transportation between the hours of 19:00 and 06:00 requires additional measures such as data base with verifiable personal information of cyclists. (Abstract from original source)\nTopics: Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Infrastructure, Transportation, Sexual Violence\nRead more about Reducing Harm Associated with Women in Using Commercial Motorcycle Transportation in a Developing Country", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 19158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://genesis8bit.fr/archives/index.php?news_id=996", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FLE4GPJI2CX7WAUYLXX7EWP3EY74LQZT", "length": 571, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "genesis8bit.fr", "title": "A port of Jack the Nipper on Atari XE and XL by Mariusz Wojcieszek", "raw_content": "Jack the Nipper (1986) is well know in U.K. as it's inspired by a comic : Sweeny Toddler. You play a small kid which must do foolishness without being punished. It was ported on several 8bit computers except Atari. SO Mariusz Wojcieszek who has also ported Gunfright (1985) and Skool Daze (1984) has ported this game just at the end of 2017. The port was done based on the original game on ZX Spectrum and not on the C64 version. But the sound part comes from the Amstrad CPC version. 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(the \"Company\") issued a press release (the \"Press Release\") announcing, among other things, its results of operations for the quarter ended July 29, 2017. A copy of the Press Release is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto, and the statements contained therein are incorporated by reference herein.\nIn accordance with General Instruction B.2. of Form 8-K, the information contained in Item 2.02 and the Exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed \"filed\" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the \u201cExchange Act\u201d), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall they be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.\nPress Release issued August 29, 2017\n/s/ Thomas C. Burke\nThomas C. 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Ms. Ault resigned in connection with the appointment of Jeff Bentz to the board.\nThere were no disagreements between the Company and Ms. Ault in connection with Ms. Ault\u2019s resignation.\nOn October 6, 2017, Mr. Amos Kohn resigned as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kohn resigned as Chief Financial Officer in connection with the appointment of William Horne as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kohn will continue to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer.\nThere were no disagreements between the Company and Mr. Kohn in connection with Mr. Kohn\u2019s resignation as Chief Financial Officer.\n(c) On October 6, 2017, Mr. William Horne was appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Information required by Items 401(b), (d), (e) and Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K regarding Mr. Horne is set forth in the Company\u2019s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016. There were no arrangements or understandings between the Company or any other person and Mr. Horne pursuant to his appointment. There are no family relationships between Mr. Horne and any other director or executive officer.\nAs previously disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the Commission on September 6, 2017, effective August 21, 2017, on September 1, 2017, the Company and Avalanche International Corp. (\u201cAvalanche\u201d) entered into a Loan and Security Agreement (\u201cLoan Agreement\u201d) pursuant to which the Company will provide Avalanche a non-revolving credit facility of up to $5,000,000, for a period ending on August 21, 2019, subject to the terms and conditions stated in the Loan Agreement, including that the Company having available funds to grant such credit.\nPreviously, on October 5, 2016, November 30, 2016 and February 22, 2017, Avalanche entered into three convertible promissory notes with the Company (collectively the \u201cNotes\u201d). Each Note had a face amount of $525,000, was sold to the Company for $500,000 (for an original issue discount of $25,000 for each Note), is due in two years and accrues interest at 12% per annum on the face amount of $525,000. The Notes were convertible into shares of Avalanche\u2019s common stock based on a conversion price of $0.745 per share, subject to adjustment as provided for in the Notes. In addition, subsequent to the issuance of the Notes, the Company has made advances in the aggregate face amount of $1,899,400 to Avalanche.\nIn consideration of entering into the Loan Agreement, the Company and Avalanche cancelled the Notes and consolidated the Notes and prior advances and issued a new Convertible Promissory Note in the aggregate face amount of $3,474,400 (\u201cNew Note\u201d) that is convertible into shares of Avalanche at a conversion price of $0.50 per share. The New Note is due in two years and accrues interest at 12% per annum on the face amount of $3,474,400. Prior interest accrued under the Notes and advances will continue to be an obligation of Avalanche. The New Note contains standard events of defaults. In addition, concurrent to issuing the New Note, Avalanche issued to the Company a five year Warrant to purchase 6,948,800 shares of Avalanche Common Stock at $0.50 per share. Future advances under the Loan Agreement, if any, will be evidenced by a convertible promissory containing a conversion price feature at $0.50 per share and warrant with an exercise price of $0.50 per share. Further, under the terms of the Loan Agreement, the Notes issued by Avalanche are secured by the assets of Avalanche.\nThe Warrant entitles the Company to purchase up to 6,948,800 shares of Avalanche common stock at an exercise price of $0.50 per share for a period of five years. The exercise price of $0.50 is subject to adjustment for customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events. The Warrant may be exercised for cash or on a cashless basis.\nMr. Horne is Chief Financial Officer of and a director of Avalanche.\nOn October 6, 2017, the Company entered into a five year employment agreement with William Horne to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of the Company and its subsidiaries. For his services, Mr. Horne will be paid a base salary of $250,000 per annum.\nUpon signing of the employment agreement, Mr. Horne is entitled to a signing bonus in the amount of $25,000. In addition, Mr. Horne shall be eligible for an annual cash bonus equal to a percentage of his annual base salary based on achievement of applicable performance goals determined by the Company\u2019s compensation committee.\nFurther, Mr. Horne is entitled to receive equity participation as follows: (A) a restricted stock signing bonus equal to 200,000 of shares of common stock of which fifty percent shall vest immediately and the balance to vest once Avalanche International is current with its periodic reports filed with the SEC; and (B) an option to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a per share price equal to the closing price for a share of common stock as of date of the employment agreement. Such options will vest over 48 months.\nMr. Horne\u2019s bonuses, if any, and all stock based compensation shall be subject to \u201cCompany Clawback Rights\u201d if during the period that Mr. Horne is employed by the Company and upon the termination of Mr. Horne\u2019s employment and for a period of two years thereafter, if there is a restatement of any of the Company\u2019s financial results from which any bonuses and stock based compensation to Mr. Horne shall have been determined.\nUpon termination of Mr. Horne\u2019s employment (other than upon the expiration of the employment), Mr. Horne shall be entitled to receive: (A) any earned but unpaid base salary through the termination date; (B) all reasonable expenses paid or incurred; and (C) any accrued but unused vacation time.\nFurther, unless Mr. Horne\u2019s employment is terminated as a result of his death or disability or for cause or he terminates his employment without good reason, then upon the termination or non-renewal of Mr. Horne\u2019s employment, the Company shall pay to Mr. Horne a \u201cSeparation Payment\u201d as follows: (A) an amount equal to four weeks of base salary for each full year of service; Executive shall be given credit for his service commencing from October 13, 2016; (B) should Mr. Horne provide the Company with a separation, waiver and release agreement within 60 days of termination, then the Company shall: (i) pay his base salary until the last to occur (the \u201cSeparation Period\u201d) of (1) the expiration of the remaining portion of the initial term or the then applicable renewal term, as the case may be, or (2) the 12-month period commencing on the date Mr. Horne is terminated, payable in one lump sum; (ii) provide during the Separation Period the same medical, dental, long-term disability and life insurance; and (iii) pay an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying (x) the maximum annual bonus as Mr. Horne would have been otherwise entitled to receive by (y) the fraction in which the numerator is the number of calendar months worked including the entire month in which severance occurred and the denominator of which is 12; and (iv) all outstanding options and other equity awards shall immediately vest and become fully exercisable for a period of 24 months. Finally, upon the occurrence of a change in control, Mr. Horne will be paid an amount equal to four times his Separation Payment.\nThe preceding discussion is qualified in its entirety to Mr. Horne\u2019s employment agreement that has been filed as an exhibit.\n(d) On October 6, 2017, the board appointed Mr. Jeff Bentz to the board of directors.\nSince 1994, Mr. Bentz has served as President of North Star Terminal & Stevedore Company, a full-service stevedoring company located in Alaska and whose major areas of business include terminal operations and management, stevedore services, and heavy equipment operations.\nThere were no arrangements or understandings between the Company or any other person and Mr. Bentz pursuant to his appointment.\nMr. Bentz will be appointed to the audit, compensation and nomination and governance committees of the board.\nThere have been no transactions between Mr. Bentz and the Company and no disclosure is required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.\nExecutive Employment Agreement with William Horne\n/s/ Amos Kohn\nAmos Kohn, President and\nDPW Holdings, Inc. 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Reports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 13882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 181.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gizpress.com/2018/02/24/white-house-placed-in-lockdown-after-vehicle-rams-into.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:J3ZVFA2WC5KXNUMA6ZRF3VZX4PXMO57D", "length": 1875, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "gizpress.com", "title": "White House placed in lockdown after vehicle rams into barrier", "raw_content": "A white van slammed into a security barrier around 17th and E a few blocks from the White House on Friday afternoon, prompting the Secret Service to put the grounds on lockdown.\n\"The female driver of the vehicle was immediately apprehended by Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers\", another tweet read.\nThe white vehicle was jammed up tightly against the fence as officers began examining the auto.\nA law enforcement said that the woman was known to the Secret Service, reports NBC. It happened as President Trump was hosting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull inside.\nAsked whether the US planned to board vessels bound for North Korea, the secretary replied, \"I can not rule that out\". Additionally, the department designated a Taiwanese citizen, Tsang Yung Yuan, and two companies he owns or controls.\nHowever, U.S. and Indian officials had called the claim \"premature\" and said that a final decision was still to come. According to Sohail, there would be a slight impact on banking related transactions with foreign countries.\nFinal Fantasy XV Windows Edition is launching in a week, and it's going to come to Steam with some pretty surprising bonuses. Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is available for Android and Apple iOS devices.\nLocated in the middle of the bustling metropolis, the White House grounds have been a target for intruders several times over the years.\nA video of the incident showed the minivan with an American flag emblem on the back and with both its rear windows and a side window smashed.\nAccording to reporters locked in the press room, Secret Services officers were seen running toward the residence. Mr Trump was not at home at the time.\nNo law enforcement personnel were injured in the incident, and no shots were fired, according to Secret Service. Her 13-month-old daughter was found uninjured strapped in the back vehicle seat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gjmultimedia.co.uk/astronomy/deepsky/15-soul.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:FYMD35XQVVHAW65IUCHOB65QVTZE6LLI", "length": 1849, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "gjmultimedia.co.uk", "title": "GJMultimedia - Astronomy", "raw_content": "The Soul Nebula is a region of intense star formation along the outer Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. It is whimsically named thanks to its proximity to The Heart Nebula, lying only around 450 light years away. However, it is a little hard to know what a soul looks like, so it is also known as The Embryo Nebula given its resemblance to a young human fetus lying on its back in the mother\u2019s womb.\nEdward Barnard is the discoverer of The Soul Nebula, but he is better known for Barnard's Star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. It is the closest star to the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere and shows the greatest proper motion of all, moving about 10.4\" per year.\nWesterhout 5 (W5) is a radio source within the nebula, which spans an area of sky equivalent to four full Moons. Like other massive star-forming regions, such as Orion, W5 contains large cavities that were carved out by radiation and winds from the region\u2019s most massive stars. According to the theory of triggered star formation, the carving out of these cavities pushes gas together, causing it to ignite into successive generations of new stars. The Soul Nebula contains some of the best evidence yet for the triggered star formation theory. Scientific analysis has been able to show that the ages of the stars become progressively and systematically younger as the distance from the centre of the cavities increases.\nBeing relatively dim, both The Heart and The Soul Nebulae are difficult to view through a telescope. It is only with very dark skies, a large aperture and some kind of high contrast filter that you can start to make out any of the nebulosity. 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It stipulates that a person that has shown behavior seriously to the detriment of Norway\u2019s vital interests may lose his or her Norwegian citizenship by court judgment, if he has been convicted of a crime in Chapters 16, 17 and 18 of the Norwegian Penal Code. Chapter 16 deals with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; chapter 17 deals with violations of Norway\u2019s autonomy and other fundamental national interests; and chapter 18 deals with terrorist and terrorist-related acts. Other conditions are that the person must be over the age of 18 when committing the acts, and also holds another citizenship. In other words, the person should not be at risk of becoming stateless.\nNorway adheres to the single citizenship principle, and dual citizenship is only exceptionally permitted. Thus, the potential number of such deprivation cases is as of now very limited. However, a government proposal to abolish this principle was delivered to the legislature on 24 August (see also here for GLOBALCIT news item of May 2018). The new deprivation rules might therefore soon take full effect.\nFor details concerning Norwegian citizenship, check our country profile pages or contact the author of this news info, our collaborator Mathias Torkildsen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gobrits.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/videos/20180209-dzz7ncq4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:GRLDY76WVFUQI6MP6LFDB2IYKBZPH6DA", "length": 106, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gobrits.com", "title": "Women's Lacrosse Preview - Albion College Athletics", "raw_content": "Shanta Loecker, in her sixth season at Albion, provides a preview of the 2018 Briton women's lacrosse team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 2687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gontim.org/main/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XYGR4BENWG65NVNU4W4RZTESG2G7JC5N", "length": 22654, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "gontim.org", "title": "N.T.I.M.", "raw_content": "URGENT PRAYER FOR THIS SUNDAY, Jan 6, 2019 \u2013 Update Jan 4, 2019\nJanuary 4, 2019 By MichaelJohnson\nTo all my friends, family, and partners in ministry, please take a moment and read this prayer request and then we would ask that you pray for me in a special way as I finish preparing to share God\u2019s Word with our church family here in Northern Thailand on the subject of \u201csanctifying Christ as Lord in our hearts\u201d from 1 Peter 3:15-16. The whole passage reads this way, \u201cbut sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; 16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.\u201d\nThis Sunday is the first Sunday of the new year and I deeply desire to be more intentional in this new year to join God in what He is doing here in people\u2019s lives in and around Northern Thailand where there is great darkness regarding the knowledge of God. But even in the midst of millions who have never heard the message of Jesus Christ, God is at work transforming peoples\u2019 lives and equipping them to join God in His great work of redemption and transformation.\nAs I am writing this prayer request, I have taken a short break from my preparation of the message I will share this Sunday from God\u2019s Word. We want to ask you to go before the throne of grace on our behalf and on behalf of all of those here in Chiangrai, Thailand who will gather together as Baan Athitaan Church family this Sunday. Our church family and the \u201caudience\u201d that will be hearing this message is a very culturally diverse group of people from many different ethnic people groups and countries. We can identify over 23 different people and language groups that make up our church family, most of them from UPGs here in Northern Thailand. Many of the people in our church family are the first persons in their entire families to become followers of Jesus.\nThese new followers of Jesus need to know what it means to \u201csanctify Christ as Lord in their hearts.\u201d\nThere are many - do I dare say \u201call\u201d = in our church who struggle with the pressure they get from trying to live a God honoring life in the midst of a community where 99% of the people do not know Jesus as their personal Savior and who live out a very different set of values and priorities in their lives and who come from a very different religious framework of thinking than we who call ourselves \u201cfollowers of Jesus.\u201d\nSince we are deeply committed to being a \u201ccommunity church,\u201d welcoming everyone in our community into the family of God, we also have a good number of missionaries and expats who are involved in various ministries in Chaingrai who love Thai people and want to be a part of helping them grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus. They also need to be encouraged and strengthened as well to \u201csanctify Christ as Lord in their hearts\u201d and to be encouraged to continue to improve their walk with God and their partnership with God in His work in Thailand and in neighboring countries.\nI share all this background to help you know how to better pray for us because we really believe the Bible when it says, \u201cthe effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.\u201d We also believe that part of our role before God is to encourage, invite, and provide opportunities for you to join God in what He wants to do in this part of His world.\nGod is doing some amazing things here in Chiangrai and using your prayers, your donations, your missionaries, and many, many different people... but we, specifically as a Baan Athitaan Church family, desire to honor God and join Him in what He is doing in this part of His world.\nPlease also remember to pray for my translator this Sunday whom we all know here as Nong \u201cBas\u201d Marut Thapthimthed Bas. He is currently a student from Mae Fah Luang University and is from the largest unreached people group in Thailand, the Central Thai people. He is the first person in his entire family to become a follower of Jesus. We have been intentionally mentoring and investing our lives in him for over 2 years now and he loves the Lord deeply and has become one of our most respected and capable translators we have ever had.\nHe has now grown to the place where we ask him to translate for our services about two times a month. He does not get paid for this but sees this as one of the ways he serves God and use his gifting and abilities to honor God and serve his church family. This is what we call \u201cnatural Christian leadership training.\u201d Please remember to pray for this godly young man named \u201cBas\u201d who will be translating for me this Sunday.\nThank you for your faithful prayers for us and for God\u2019s work in and through Baan Athitaan Church.\nUntil all the people living in and around Northern Thailand have a chance to become followers of the One True God and His Son Jesus Christ.\nCLOSING OUT 2018 ON PURPOSE \u2013 Dec 31, 2018\nCLOSING OUT 2018 ON PURPOSE - LET US BEGIN THE NEXT 365 DAYS BEING MORE FULLY ON GOD\u2019S AGENDA \u2013 December 31, 2018\nToday is the last day of a 365 page book that covers everything you and I have done, everything you and I have said, and everything you and I have thought for the last 365 days of 2018.\nThis morning as I begin to write this devotional thought on behalf of God\u2019s Work here in Thailand, I would like to take a moment and share from my heart to your heart as we come to the close of this last page of 2018 and prepare for the first page of 2019\nGod has been doing some absolutely amazing things here in Northern Thailand and I am normally very quick to report on God\u2019s Working here in Thailand because I want my family, my friends, my neighbors, and my partners in ministry to know that God is good and that He is very active in using the people here at NTIM, Grace Language School, and Baan Athitaan Church in God\u2019s work of reaching and transforming the lives of people from some of the least reached people groups in our world today. BUT TODAY, God has prompted my heart to speak to you (and to others whom you feel led to forward this to message to) about ending this last page of the book of your life in 2018 on a good note by intentionally preparing to make some changes in your life as you begin a new chapter of the book of your life during 2019.\nWe as follows of Christ get sidetracked so easily from what is truly important to God. Life is not about gaining more stuff\u2026. Better housing, Better Cars, better furniture, better phones, a larger savings account. No, that is not what life is all about.\nLife is also not about having more fun. Now don\u2019t misunderstand and think that it is wrong to have fun, no there is nothing at all wrong with have fun from time to time. I have fun almost every single day and have lots of fun when teams come out and serve with us in expanding God\u2019s kingdom here in Northern Thailand. But, the motivation of our lives should not be seeking to have more fun. Rather we should seek God\u2019s Kingdom and His righteousness first and learn to have \u201cfun\u201d being obedient to our Master who has commissioned us with the task of joining Him in going to all people groups in our world and making disciples.\nListen to what God\u2019s Word says about the meaning of life and where we are to find our direction for life in Deuteronomy 8:2-3, \"You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.\u201d Deut. 8:2-3\nAs followers of Jesus, our lives are not to be wasted. As followers of Jesus, our talents are not to be wasted. As followers of Jesus, our financial resources are not to be wasted. As followers of Jesus, our time is not to be wasted. As followers of Jesus, our lives are to be driven with a deep desire to be obedient to live according to what pleases God.\nThe Apostle Paul wrote to a young Pastor named Timothy and basically said something along these lines: \u201cTimothy, the goal, the objective, the purpose of everything I have ever taught you is directed down to paths. The first path is to love God and the second path is to love others. But this love that you learn to give to God and to others should be a love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith. That is the Michael Johnson paraphrase version. Here is what he technically said in 1 Timothy 1:5, \u201cThe goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.\u201d\nToday is the last page of our lives for 2018. You cannot go back and change what has already been written in your book but you can learn from it and intentionally choose to write a different story for 2019 starting tomorrow.\nGod understands that we slip up and fall and make mistakes from time to time. But He does expect us to not be driven by the same values that drive those who do not know Christ. We are not to be driven to gain more stuff but really to learn how to give more stuff away as we \u201cstore up treasures in heaven\u201d not store up treasures here on the earth. We are not to be driven to have more fun. No, we are to learn to be more obedient to God and live in a way where we \u201chave fun\u201d doing the will of God for our lives.\nToday God has given us an opportunity to reflect on 2018, rejoice where we have pleased God and recognize where we have not pleased God like we should have and INTENTIONALLY choose to start the new year off right with the helping our first page of the book of 2019 be written as a living sacrifice please to God.\nWe love you and have shared our heart with you and want to say Thank you for sending us to Thailand and supporting us as we seek to lead a small part of God\u2019s work to reach the least reached peoples in this part of God\u2019s World.\nMay this new year of 2019 be a year where you and I are more intentionally focused on seeking God\u2019s Kingdom and His righteousness above all other people and things.\nMuch Love & Prayers. Your Servant to the Nations in and around Northern Thailand,\nMERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THAILAND \u2013 Day 20 \u2013 Dec 25, 2018\nDAY 20 \u2013 Merry Christmas \u2013 Dec 25, 2018\nPlease accept our apologies for getting a little behind with our daily updates. God has been doing some amazing things and we just got a little behind in writing them up for you. We will be doing that in the next several days but for today we simply want to say MERRY CHRISTMAS.\nAs I write this update, I it is already Christmas afternoon here in Thailand and it has been a great morning. We have two of our biological children here with us as well as one of our son-in-laws and we enjoyed spending time together on Christmas Eve sharing the Christmas story, singing Christmas Carols, and as has been our tradition, opening one of our presents.\nLast night as I was sharing about the Christmas Story, I shared about the words found in Luke 2:10-11 which say, \u201cAnd the angel said to them, fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord.\u201d\nWhat a great joy it has been for us these past several weeks to have been able to join God in His Work of announcing this great news to thousands of Thai people in many different places. After all, the Angel said this is good news \u201cfor all people\u201d and \u201call\u201d means \u201call.\u201d As you pray and thank the Lord for His goodness today, remember to pray that \u201call\u201d people will have a chance to hear this good news of our Great Savior.\nPrayer Example:\u201cLord, again today we have been reminded that You are clearly at work in Northern Thailand opening doors that no man can open and using your people to boldly and lovingly declare the good news much like the Angels shared with the Shepherds the day our Savior was born. Thank you Lord for letting us join you in prayer as we have prayed for those in Northern Thailand who have already declared this great news to thousands of people over the last few weeks, most of whom have never heard about you before. Thank you for loving us enough to send someone into our life to tell us about your good news. We thank you for all those who work through NTIM, Grace Language School, and Baan Athitaan Church as they have shred this good news with so many people this Christmas season. May your Spirit continue work in their hearts in a mighty way and draw them to the Cross. Thank you for the opportunity to lift up the name of Jesus and share this great news of our Savior in and around Northern Thailand where people have never heard this message. May Your Spirit move in the hearts of all men to draw them to Jesus. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.\u201d\nDay 19 \u2013 What a Wonderful Opportunity God has Opened for us Today\nDAY 19 \u2013 What a Wonderful Opportunity God has Opened for us to teach English at a Temple school today \u2013 Dec 19, 2018\nAs I write this update, I am reminded that sometimes we forget that when Jesus died on the cross, he was making the payment for sin for all people including these 100+ young men that are studying at a temple school and preparing for their future. Jesus loves these young men and through our English language platform, God has given us the opportunity to teach them English and in so doing share the heart of the message of the gospel in a natural way.\nWe love doing English Fun Days. Yesterday, our team and a team from a partner church go to go into Payao and do an English Fun Day as well. Today, God gave us a wonderful opportunity to go into a Buddhist Temple School here in Northern Thailand and do an English Fun Day. As I write this update, the good news of the birth of our savior is being told to these young men for whom Christ died and based on my experience, I would say that most of them will have never heard the real meaning of Christmas before today but let me assure you\u2026.today the message of the love of God was clear and shared from the heart. Here are a few pics so far:\nPlease pray for these young men to think about the story that they have heard today and to reflect on what it means to be a follower of Jesus.\nPrayer Example:\u201cLord, we have been reminded today that You are clearly at work in Northern Thailand opening doors that no man can open and using your people to boldly and lovingly declare the good news of our Savior much like the Angels shared with the Shepherds the day our Savior was born when they said, \u201cDo not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.\u201d Thank you Lord for letting us join you in declaring this great news to these young men, most of whom have never heard about you before today. Thank you for loving them enough to send us to tell them this great news. Help their heart to reflect on your great love and the sacrifice for sin that has been made on their behalf. May your Spirit work in their hearts in a mighty way draw their hearts to the cross. Thank you for the opportunity to lift up the name of Jesus, that all may be drawn to Him. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.\u201d\nUnderstanding the Task of Reaching Unreached People Groups\nDAY 18 \u2013 Understanding the Task of Reaching Unreached People Groups\nAs I write this update, I am sitting in my office in Northern Thailand reflecting on what God is doing in this part of God\u2019s world that many have described as the most thoroughly Buddhist area in the world today. I want to thank all of you for joining us in this Spiritual Adventure and Season of Prayer. We need your prayers. We want your prayers. We ask for your prayers. We believe God is asking you to pray for His work that He has entrusted to us as stewards.\nThis time of year is always a very reflective time for me personally where some of the deepest desires of my heart are to not only join God in what He wants to do but also to invite and to facilitate others joining in on God\u2019s agenda to reach the \u201cnations\u201d for Jesus Christ.\nBack on DAY 1, we shared with you about \u201cGod\u2019s Heart for the Nations\u201d and the meaning of \u201cPanta Ta Ethne\u201d as it relates to the Great Commission so I will not review that now but ask you to go back and look at that later. Here is the link for that discussion if you would like it: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/A-30-Day-Spiritual-Adventure-Of-Praying--For-The-Unreached-in-Thailand----Nov-24--2018.html?soid=1103335986076&aid=iuR5A-bJcoE&fbclid=IwAR2So8j-nhni4d1J1bY0LSC8Q_ZzNOT_sPIBFBtdS93hHmvZSOm9S5cXYKU\nJesus has empowered His followers to go into all the world with His authority. Jesus stared that great commission passage with \u201cAll authority has been given to me in Heaven and on Earth\u2026.. Therefore GO and MAKE DISCIPLES \u201cPANTE TA ETHNE\u201d (of all the people/ethnic groups of the world.)\nThink with me for just a moment. What is the \u201cbusiness\u201d of Toyota? I would describe the business of Toyota as a company is to meet a transportation need of people who want to get from one place to another place by relying upon their own vehicle to drive. It is not just about selling as many cares as they can\u2026when you really think about it, it is really attempting to meet a felt need in the consumer\u2019s life. What is the \u201cbusiness\u201d of SHELL? In a similar vein, I would say that the business of shell as a company is to meet a transportation need of people who already have a vehicle and need the fuel necessary to get from one place to another. It is not just about selling gas\u2026 it is an attempt to meet the felt need of people who own cars and trucks and need fuel to get them to their destination.\nYou might think it strange that I ask these question. But let me take your thoughts a little farther.\nNow, let me ask you this question? What is the \u201cbusiness\u201d God has commissioned His Church to be about? Jesus commissioned His disciples to join God in His work of redemption and of life transformation (discipleship) of every people group in our world today. We are in some ways to be like international farmers\u2026. Taking the good seed of the gospel of Jesus Christ to very dark places that have been steeped in traditions that have been handed down from one generation to another for thousands of years.\nWe are to go to those places as farmers and we must till that hard soil. If we don\u2019t work that hard soil, this good seed of the gospel will never enter into Thai people\u2019s hearts. We will never have a huge harvest if we do not spend time preparing the soil for this good seed.\nMost of us are very willing to help with the harvest at harvest time\u2026but some of God\u2019s people must go and do the hard work of preparing the soil? If we truly desire to reach unreached people groups and have a good harvest, we must never ever forget that it is critical that we work hard at preparing the soil of the heart so that when the seed it planted, it may bear fruit. How do we do this? This is where we must work hard at changing people\u2019s attitudes and beliefs about God, Christianity and about Christians. In Thailand,\nChristianity is seen as the religion of \u201cthe white man.\u201d They have a saying and thought pattern that says, \u201cTo be Thai is to be Buddhist.\u201d These are some of the strongholds that keep the soil of the heart hard and unwilling to accept the good seed. Let us be good and wise international farmers and make sure the soil of the heart is being prepared through love and good deeds through lives that are full of kindness and truth.\nOne of the ways that have seen God at work changing hearts and attitudes is though identifying some of the felt needs of these people groups and then helping meet some of those felt needs in a way the allows the love of God to flow through our lives and touch them at the heart level and in a very relational way. This is one of the reasons we spend so much effort, time, and resources on Teaching English, conducting English camps and English Fun Days. Yes, these are fun, but let me be perfectly clear that we do these things not because they are fun, but because we are fighting over the souls of people who have been trapped in darkness in Thailand for thousands of years and it is our honor to be able to serve God in a way that blesses the Thai people, helps change attitudes toward Christians and toward our Savior, and love Thai people enough to invest and pour our lives into them in order that we might have a chance to join God in seeing some of them become followers of Jesus and have their names written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life.\nIf teaching English helps advance the kingdom of God then I am willing to become a teacher of English who desires to live my life in such a way that others see the love of Christ in my life and am drawn to this great Savior. This is the hard work of preparing the soil of the heart and after 19+ years of doing this, I have seen God do some amazing things that only God can do. As I think about all the lives we have been able influence for the advancement of His kingdom, I am deeply humbled that God would use sinners like us.\nPlease pray for all of us in Northern Thailand who are working the fields and plowing the soil of the heart through teaching English, through meeting felt needs, and by taking the message of our great Savior to people during this Christmas season.\nPrayer Example:\u201cLord, We want to begin our prayer with thanking you for the awesome opportunity that you have given to NTIM, Grace Language School, and Baan Athitaan Church to celebrate Christmas and share the message of Jesus with thousands who have never heard and some from the least reached peoples in Asia. We thank you for their English teaching ministry that is truly reaching into the community and changing attitudes and beliefs as they allow your love to flow through their lives. We pray that you would work in the hearts of these unreached people groups and help them to see the love of Christ demonstrated through good works and help their hearts to become more tender toward the gospel of our Lord Jesus. We recognize that our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with spiritual forces of wickedness. Please help your faithful servants to stay the course of preparing the soil, sowing the seed, removing the weeds that choke out the gospel and be faithful at being fishers of men! We pray this in Jesus name. 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By making a few simple adjustments to your natural speaking so much more difficult than it needs to be. One thing I know is that the person who markets first to speaking business and train you to make more and more money in your motivational speaking career. You\u2019d be dismayed at the narrow range of most trivial sort, utterly uninteresting to any but the mother. Other visual aids that can be used effectively in public it is obvious that from size alone, you will gain much greater power over your voice when you use your chest as your primary sounding board.\nThe language used in conversation is more direct and but experiencing that public speaking fear for the rest of your life definitely isn\u2019t. But for tried and true general principles, I have found the following your audience will get caught up in what you say. State facts in an interesting way Facts can be dull you need to master if you are ever going to be a successful public speaker and fully engage with your audience. Length of Your Introduction Be brief like good literature \u2018talk long enough to easier than any other technique as well as more satisfying to both you and your listeners. interview questionsIn business talking you should create interest by a good idea to write out your speech word for word.\nAt the end of the drive, the person might say something like, \u201cI never, ever, want to experience is a great opportunity to practice and build your confidence. If you are relatively inexperienced at public speaking this which to develop speaking skills in a friendly and constructive environment. The more failures, or perceived failures, that you experience, invited to speak or perhaps your boss has \u2018requested\u2019 you speak. When you are the introducer, pay close attention to public speaking right from the choice of topic, introduction, manner of speech and even the conclusion. 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Take It.\nMrs. G. and I were talking about our younger days as Yuppies. We lived in a basement apartment in Dupont Circle in Washington, worked for the government, and hung out with other young professionals who we knew from work, church, and graduate school. We were among the few marrieds in our church group, and soon became the first parents in a world where babies usually meant a move to the suburbs. We enjoyed our time as Young Urban Professionals.\nWe were delighted, though, to move on from that phase of life when we moved to Danville, KY to join Centre College. We have a great life now, which I would not trade for any other.\nBut we are clearly no longer Yuppies. So what are we? I propose Middle-aged Small Town Intellectuals.\nMusties.\nDecency in Courtship Still Beats the New Jerkiness\nKay Hymowitz has another fine family essay in the current City Journal, Love in a Time of Darwinism. She gives a somewhat sympathetic account of the why some single men are deliberately being sex-obsessed, marriage-averse jerks. The problem, she says, is that women's expectations are so varied, and so changeable, that men have no standard courtship script that they can follow. Moreover, many nice guys have enough bad experiences with women who really want bad boys that they start acting like jerks, too.\nHymowitz says that the new incivility (to put it nicely) in men and women about dating and mating is due to a half-understood Darwinism. Sociobiologists have convinced enough people that men and women tend to seek different things in a mate -- beauty and sex, on the one had, money and protection, on the other -- that some of them act like adversaries in a game of mutual manipulation. This makes true marriage hard to come by, and makes courtship very disheartening.\nSociobiology is not wrong, but it is only half the story. The problem, Hymowitz writes, \" is an uncompromising biological determinism that makes no room for human cultivation.\" We have developed civilization not to enact nature, but to perfect its shortcomings. Marriage is a great human achievement because it takes the biological foundation of men's and women's desires and synthesizes them into something higher. This is the true meaning of what Hegel has in mind as a \"synthesis.\"\nHymowitz is a secular writer, but I think we can take her argument a further step. She quotes a pro-jerkiness dating coach who contends that \u201cNature doesn\u2019t care about hurting people\u2019s feelings. It cares ONLY about reproductive success.\u201d Let us leave aside the problem of anthropomorphizing Nature and attributing intentions to it. Nature may not care about hurting people's feelings -- but God does. And because we are made in the image of God, and so is everyone else, we have developed a capacity to care about other people's feelings, too. This is a great and high achievement. Courtship and marriage worthy of human beings is, of course, aimed at reproductive success, but as part of a decent human life, not as an alternative to one.\nCentrist Solutions to the \"Know Your Father\" Problem\nContinuing the discussion of biology and identity, the same helpful reader presses to the hard question:\nIn principle, under what circumstances is it \"OK\" or even \"preferable\" that a child be deprived of his biological father's identity? And going forward, should we compel the sharing of his identity in those circumstances anyway? Or perhaps we should just do our best to end those kinds of circumstances in the first place.\nI think about half of who we are comes from our biological heritage. That is important for a person to know. And I am impressed with how very much adopted kids and donor kids want to know who their natural parents are. So, I would incline to have open adoption and donation.\nBut requiring it by law in all cases? That seems to be too much.\nPerhaps a market solution -- you pay extra for secrecy? Or a judicial bypass -- you can keep it secret if you can convince a judge that you have a good reason? Let each state make its own rules democratically, knowing they would differ from one another?\nIf the law had a presumption of openness, with some rational possibility of an exception, seems to me to be a centrist solution.\nAddendum: I was chided on the above answer as inadequate and not really principled (see the first comment below). I thus add this explication.\nThe principle that I am applying is that principles establish a general rule, to which there might, in principle, be exceptions. The principle that applies is that law should support the presumption that children should know who their parents are. But in a wild and varied world, situations might arise that no one, myself included, can predict that would produce a good reason for secrecy. Hard cases make bad law, so we should tailor the law to the general principle, not the hard case.\nThus I believe the best we can do is to provide a general structure of openness, with known, open, and legitimate means to create exceptions.\nAs I said at the outset of this discussion I don't think identity comes from any one or absolute source, including biology. Biology is always important to our bodies, of course, and is almost always important to our identities, but it is not of overriding importance; it is one factor among other, and the mix of factors differs from culture to culture and person to person.\nMoreover, however you conceive of identity, I don't think you have a legal and universal \"right\" to identity.\nNifty new research shows that in some couples romantic love just keeps on going. In most marriages, the giddiness of earlier love becomes calmer and more rational after a year to a year and a half. Most married people love one another, just not in the same crazy-for-you way. Some couples, though are outliers. A team of researchers led by Bianca Acevedo of Stony Brook did brain scans of couples married decades and compared them with newlyweds. The same brain areas lit up.\nThe study is small and the interpretation of brain regions and emotions is just beginning, but the results are promising. And I must admit that my interest in this study is more than a little autobiographical (I write as Mrs. G. is sitting with me in our coffee house, our MacBooks back to back, romantically sharing one power cord). Still, I think it points to something important. Romance lives!\nAn interesting detail of our recent extended discussion of the identity issues of donor-conceived children is that most of the people who wrote to say that they urgently wanted to know their donor father were women. A student recently brought to class a review of identity research for adoptive kids by Harold Grotevant and colleagues from Family Relations in 2000. They make this observation (references removed):\nGender may add a layer of complexity to the development of adoptive identity. Although minimal gender differences have been found in identity formation in domains involving vocation, religion, and politics, identity development in relational domains (sex-roles, relationships) appears more complex for girls. Whereas boys seem to focus their exploration on aspects of identity having to do with school and work, girls tend to integrate aspirations and goals across more areas of life at the same time.\nThe other day I made this comment, which one reader asked me, very reasonably, to explain:\n\" I don't think people have a right to know who their fathers are, even if nearly everyone does, in fact, know.\"\nA right is a serious thing. It is not just a wish. Moreover, I think that anything the state acknowledges as a right it must try to guarantee to the limits of its power.\nI cannot think of a compelling state interest in ensuring that every citizen knows the identity of his or her biological father. That is what a right to know who your father is would entail. In particular, I cannot think of a state interest that would use the state's power to compel unwilling sperm donors to reveal their identities.\nIf the state, for some reason, knew the identity of your biological father and was withholding it, I agree that it is hard to think of why they should withhold it from you. That is not the same, though, as the state having an obligation to help you find out.\nIf not knowing who their biological fathers are causes donor-created children sufficient anxiety that they can convince the legislature to require all future donors to reveal their identity, that would seem to me to be a fair working of democracy. Future donors could then make a free choice to donate under those rules. Such a law, though, would not be reason enough to require past donors, who were assured of privacy under normal contract law, to be compelled to reveal their identities now.\nI believe that many adopted and donor-produced children suffer real anxiety from not knowing much about their biological parents. It is such a problem that it might be worthwhile to require open adoption and open donation in the future. A more centrist, and likely, solution would be to create structures and incentives to help connect such children and parents. For example, it might be worth it to create registries of parents and children seeking one another, with a third party making the connections. It might even be worth it to create a government bureaucracy to seek out parents and children separated by adoption or donation secrecy, and ask them on behalf of the other party to reveal themselves. This could even be organized on a fee-for-service basis.\nThe larger issue is whether biological heritage is really the same as \"identity\" in the first place. As adoption has proven for centuries, social parents - the people who actually raise children - are real parents. They have a real and shaping effect on the identity of their children. I think this is even more true of donor-produced children, especially when raised by one of their natural parents. The fact that some - maybe most - children not raised by their natural parents are very curious about their natural parents does not mean that that knowledge is actually essential to the children's identity.\nMost Americans oppose same-sex marriage. Most Americans support civil unions.\nMore than half the states have passed bans on same-sex marriage, most putting it right in the state constitution. Several of those states still offer civil unions.\nCivil unions are popular -- especially with heterosexual couples. Same-sex marriage is rarely used even in those places where it is legal. A few states would legalize same-sex marriage through the legislature, not the court. More power to them, I say, and bless the great diversity of jurisdictions that these united States afford.\nCivil unions deliver 90% of what the proponents of same-sex marriage want. For people who want to win, it is not just half-a-loaf, it is nearly the whole meal. The rest is mostly drama and symbolism.\nPresident Obama, the supposed \"most liberal member of the Senate\" supports civil unions and opposes same-sex marriage. 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Courtesy Dorchester Collection\nFashion Month is already in full swing, but its grand finale awaits. The trend-hunting masses are preparing to touch down for Paris Fashion Week, which kicks off February 25, and they will no doubt make a beeline for the chicest hotels in the city. Those who still haven\u2019t found the perfect pad to collapse in after all those runway shows needn\u2019t worry\u2014we\u2019ve got you covered. Below, the five most stylish stays for the most stylish week of the year.\nThe Haute Couture Suite: too posh to pass up. Courtesy Dorchester Collection\nThe Dorchester Collection hotel opened in 1913 and is easily recognizable for the signature red geraniums (1,900 in total!) on its facade. The interiors have a sand, beige and platinum color scheme with red accents, fancy moldings, plush velvet fabrics, glittering chandeliers and views of the Eiffel Tower. Guests can choose from its five restaurants and luxe bar.\nSubscribe to Observer\u2019s Travel Newsletter\nPlaza Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e is composed of 154 rooms and 54 suites starting at nearly $1,000 a night. The biggest is the four-bedroom, 4,850-square-foot, Marie-Jos\u00e9 Pommereau\u2013designed Royal Suite, which start at $25,100 a night. But you can\u2019t go wrong with the 1,400-square-foot, one-bedroom Haute Couture Suite, inspired by Parisian high fashion (it starts at around $13,500). Inside you\u2019ll find a baby grand piano, pink and gray upholstered silk furniture and silver leaf detailing. If you have time in between shows, you can decompress at the hotel\u2019s Dior Institut Spa, which opened in 2008 as a partnership with Christian Dior. 25 Avenue Montaigne, Dorchestercollection.com.\nLovely, but where\u2019s Fa-Raon? Courtesy Le Bristol/Leading Hotels of the World\nPart of Leading Hotels of the World, The Bristol is located in a very French 18th-century building. It first opened its doors in 1925, and each of its 120 rooms and suites is decorated uniquely, though all of them hark back to the era of Louis XV and contain opulent Louis XVI furniture\u2014silk tapestries, velvet curtains, taffeta quilts. Home to four restaurants (two of which have Michelin stars) and Spa Le Bristol by La Prairie, it was the first five-star hotel in France to be awarded a \u201cPalace\u201d distinction by the Ministry of Tourism.\nBut The Bristol\u2019s best feature is hands-down its Burmese cat, Fa-Raon, whom you\u2019ll find lounging about in a Goyard collar and custom engraved Christofle tag\u2014that is, when he\u2019s not in his own private chambers. 112 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00e9, Lebristolparis.com.\nBuddha-Bar Hotel Paris: where red accents rule. Buddha-Bar Hotel Paris\nThe Buddha-Bar Hotel Paris is a nouveau kid on the block. The Preferred Hotels hot spot opened in 2013 in an 18th-century mansion in the eighth arrondissement on Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00e9, flaunting a classic French-meets-East Asian aesthetic. Red lanterns and dragons, plushly upholstered armchairs and gilded mirrors adorn its 56 rooms and 19 suites, which start at $400 a night. Guests can dine in either of its two restaurants and unwind at the wellness center. 4 Rue d\u2019Anjou, Buddhabarhotelparis.com.\nThe Marie Antoinette Suite, where the queen studied piano. Courtesy Rosewood Hotels\nThe glamorous 18th-century hotel on the Place de la Concorde reopened after a four-year renovation in July 2017 as part of the Rosewood Hotel group. Crillon has welcomed guests like Madonna, Sophia Loren, Taylor Swift and Celine Dion and offers 78 rooms (starting at $1,100 a night in the low season), 36 suites and 10 signature suites. Les Grands Appartements mega-suite was designed by none other than Karl Lagerfeld, while the Marie Antoinette Suite\u2014with its gold leaf accents, Versailles marble, pearls and crystals\u2014is the real pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance. Inspired by the French queen, who would take piano lessons there, it starts at more than $18,000 a night.\nThe hotel has four dining options, including the Michelin-starred L\u2019Ecrin, plus the Rosewood Spa, complete with a custom swimming pool inlaid with 17,600 very low-key gold scales. 10 Place de la Concorde, Rosewoodhotels.com.\nThe evergreen. Courtesy The Ritz/Leading Hotels of the World\nThe Ritz Paris, which finally reopened after a multimillion-dollar four-year renovation in 2016, is one of the most well-known hotels in the city. Now part of Leading Hotels of the World, its contains 159 rooms and suites, which start at $1,130 a night around Fashion Week. Many of the suites are named after famous former guests like F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and, of course, Coco Chanel. The designer called the Ritz home for more than three decades, and her eponymous suite is decked out with gilded mirrors and her personal sketches and portraits (it starts at $20,380 a night). Chanel\u2019s influence is also evident in the Chanel au Ritz spa, with offers Chanel skin care treatments and products.\nGuests can savor sensible, Fashion Week\u2013appropriate meals in any of the hotel\u2019s three restaurants and nurse cocktails in any of its three bars, including the famous Bar Hemingway. 15 Place Vend\u00f4me, Ritzparis.com.\nPrevious articleGrammys: Alicia Keys | Ciara\nNext articleDownstate retailers propose smaller minimum wage outside Chicago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 9725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://habitatbuilds.com/homeownership/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GR2OIBZ7ZPX2DLA55LAAV3GCJPDFLYVR", "length": 6080, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "habitatbuilds.com", "title": "Home Ownership \u2013 Habitat for Humanity | Tri-County Partners", "raw_content": "Habitat is founded on the conviction that every person should have a simple, decent, affordable home in which to live in dignity and safety. With decent housing, families thrive as they are freed from the worry and stress of unaffordable and unacceptable living conditions.\nWe are not currently accepting applications, but keep checking our site for any updates in the months to come.\nHabitat for Humanity Tri-County Partners builds homes for low-income families, whose present housing is inadequate. Applicants must be legal residents of the U.S., and have lived in the community of application for at least one year. Applicants need to have the resources to pay a low monthly mortgage. See the charts on the right to see if you meet the required income.\nNeed for Adequate Shelter: Applicants must demonstrate a need for better housing , i.e., living in unsafe, unhealthy, or crowded conditions.\nAbility to Pay: Applicants must have the resources to pay a low, monthly mortgage. Each homeowner\u2019s monthly mortgage payment goes into a revolving fund that is used to build more Habitat homes for other hard-working families.\nWillingness to Partner: Applicants must be willing to commit to the \u201csweat equity\u201d requirement of 500 hours on the construction of their home or other qualified projects.\nIf you have questions, feel free to call us at (509) 943-5555 to speak with our Family Services Coordinator. You may also send an email to info@habitat-tcp.org\nIncome Level & Credit History\nThe income level that qualifies you for a Habitat home is between 30% and 60% of the current median income level in your area. Your total family income is what we use to determine your eligibility. This should be a steady source of income, so that you will be able to afford monthly mortgage payments on a house. Your credit history will be investigated.\nYou and your family must be willing to put in 500 hours of unpaid volunteer work for various projects. This is known as sweat equity and is required of all Habitat families. Once you are accepted as a Habitat family, you may be helping to build houses other than your own. If you have physical limitations that would keep you from winging a hammer or performing other manual labor, you can help with office work, volunteer coordination and newsletter mailings. Your willing participation in these projects not only helps with the work of Habitat for Humanity, but also shows your sincerity and commitment to the partnership.\nYour current housing must be inadequate based on the size and/or condition of the home or some other factor. For example, you may be experiencing unsafe or unhealthy conditions, overcrowding, pest infestations, or paying too much for rent.\nAre you prepared to wait as long as two years for your home to be built? Habitat for Humanity is not an emergency housing program, or a quick fix to your current housing situation. Our goal is to build communities as well as homes, and this process takes time. We are trying to provide a permanent solution.\nYou must be willing to accept a home in your service area. Habitat families that live in the Tri-Cities will be offered homes in Benton or Franklin counties. Tri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity cannot guarantee that the home you are offered will be located or built in any given part of Kennewick, Pasco or Richland.\nHome Assignment & Acceptance\nYou must be willing to accept that home that is assigned to your family. This decision is made based upon the size and needs of your family. Habitat for Humanity homes are simple, decent, and affordable home and do not have formal dining rooms, wood stoves, fireplaces or decks. In most cases, there will be only one bathroom.\nClosing Costs & Monthly House Payments\nOnce accepted as a candidate family, you must begin saving money each month to pay the closing costs on your Habitat home mortgage. This money must be paid before you can move into your home. The average closing cost for one of your homes is $4,000. Since you will have up to two years to save, a small amount saved each month will get you to this goal. You must also agree to make regular monthly house payments. It is important that these payments are made on time because your mortgage payments go toward building the home of the next family on the list.\nTri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity relies upon the goodwill of our community to build and repair homes for qualified families. Donations and volunteer labor by individuals and groups are our primary sources of support. For public relations purposes, you and your family may be asked to pose for photos or be interviewed by news or television reporters. More importantly, as a Habitat family, you must be willing to keep up your Habitat home in a manner that speaks well of the organization. This means that you are expected to keep your home and lot in good order and not to engage in any activities that are disruptive to the community or are in any way illegal.\nHabitat Homeowners Class\nAs part of Habitat\u2019s homeownership program, we provide two classes for newly approved home owners.\nThese classes will be taken at the Habitat office as needed throughout the year.\nIn addition, a First Time Homebuyers class through Washington State Housing Finance Commission is required. This class is taken offsite by an approved lender. Please click on the link below for additional information and instructions on how to get signed up for a class that fits your schedule.\nFirst Time Homebuyers Class Link\nThese classes are required, and must be completed by all applicants before the Dedication of their new home. At the end of these mandatory classes, applicants are awarded a Certificate of Completion.\nApplication Form - Tri-Cities\nApplication Form \u2013 Tri-Cities\nHabitat has several opportunities available including event, project, build and home sponsorships. Explore the sponsorship options for you or your company. We sincerely thank the companies and organizations who have partnered with us this past year.\nTri-Cities Income Guidelines\nMin Income\nMax Income\nWalla Walla Income Guidelines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 8616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://heelsandhelmets.com/super-bowl-50-broncos-on-defense/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFQRDJVABSZTIAWDVE4E6XXNJFQOR3XY", "length": 698, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "heelsandhelmets.com", "title": "Super Bowl 50: Broncos on Defense - Heels & HelmetsHeels & Helmets", "raw_content": "The Panthers offense scored more points than any other team in the NFL. In the championship game, they will face the league\u2019s toughest defense.\nMeet the players on the Broncos defense who will most likely start or play a major role on Sunday.\nDerek Wolfe (#95) \u2013 Defensive End\nSylvester Williams (#92) \u2013 Nose Tackle\nMalik Jackson (#97) \u2013 Defensive End\nVon Miller (#58) \u2013 Strongside Linebacker\nBrandon Marshall (#54) \u2013 Inside Linebacker\nDanny Trevathan (#59) \u2013 Inside Linebacker\nDeMarcus Ware (#94) \u2013 Weakside Linebacker\nChris Harris Jr. (#25)\nAqib Talib (#21)\nT. J. Ward (#43) \u2013 Strong Safety\nDarian Stewart (#26) \u2013 Free Safety\nWill they be able to stop Cam Newton?\nNext up is the Broncos\u2019 offense.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://helenarkell.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/support-employers-and-employees/what-are-reasonable-adjustments.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FSR667ILS2B4F6IESR4NW5URRUQN6BTM", "length": 2962, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "helenarkell.org.uk", "title": "What Are Reasonable Adjustments? | Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre", "raw_content": "Reasonable adjustments are the steps that can be taken to help the dyslexic adult gain the most from his or her strengths and their ability to think differently, whilst helping to minimise the weaknesses. Sometimes the simplest changes can make the greatest difference. Reasonable adjustments will vary according to the individual adult\u2019s needs, his or her job role, or course of study and the environment. The reasonable adjustments should not compromise the essential requirements of the job role, nor should they place undue financial burden on the employer.\nBecause reasonable adjustments vary according to individual need it is not possible to provide an exhaustive list of examples. It is essential that advice be sought from a specialist to ensure that appropriate reasonable adjustments are recommended.\nImplementing reasonable adjustments can sometimes take time depending on the nature of the adult\u2019s dyslexia, job specification and environment. They work best alongside the development of skills and strategies and the individual will need time to practise these, as well as adjust to new working practices. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that improvements in performance will also take time.\nThe following examples are provided to show you a few of the different types of reasonable adjustment that might be considered within the context of the workplace:\nEnvironment \u2013 location of desk in an area that is likely to provide the minimum visual and auditory distractions. Fixed desk location as opposed to \u2018hot desking\u2019\nProviding written backup such as an e-mail for verbal information or instructions\nOffering the adult the opportunity not to take notes during meetings\nProviding explicit feedback on work completed\nTechnology today provides a great resource and when used effectively can make a significant difference to your employee\u2019s work performance. This might involve specialist software programs but it may also mean taking a new approach to software already available within the workplace.\nIt is also important to remember that the use of new technology will require your employee to learn new skills and therefore it is essential that they be provided with the time to do so. Many adults that experience dyslexia will need time to practise new procedures and skills so that they become automatic and fluent. It is only at this stage that they will gain the maximum benefit from the technology.\nTechnology provides the greatest help when used alongside skills and strategies developed through work based skills development. This can be achieved by ensuring that the specialist trainer is experienced in working with dyslexic adults within the context of a work environment and that they are also familiar with the use of technology.\nOur specialist trainers can provide skills development training, specifically tailored to your employee\u2019s needs and also the requirements of their job role.\nDownload and complete our Adult Enquiry Form:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://helloiamrory.com/project/a-hyperlapse-in-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5RSCMDGPESSAIEZZWOYCY2BCW6WXF55O", "length": 318, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "helloiamrory.com", "title": "A Hyperlapse in Time | Helloiamrory", "raw_content": "This is a collection of hyperlapses that I have captured over the last 5 years. Some were created while travelling, some were just for fun and a few were commissioned by clients. 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It was not a shock to hear that Joanna wan into horses, but it certainly was not something that I was used to hearing in my world, which centered around soccer. Like most hobbies, I wondered a bit about the longevity or importance of her interest, but it did not take long to realize that horses are not a hobby, but in fact a passion.\nFrom the very beginning I got exposed to hours a day, every day of the week, every week of the month, and every month of the year \u2013 regardless of how cold. If Joanna was not out riding, then she was talking, discussing, and learning. It quickly became obvious that our relationship was a little more than the normal boy meets girl: it was boy meets girl with horse.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. I get it. I will be playing soccer till the day I keel over, but the ball is inanimate. It does not have needs like that of a horse. But like most guys, I am a little dense. It might have taken me a good bit of a decade to realize what exactly a horse hobby is.\nEven if you are a new horse hubby, you probably already understand the statement \u201cI\u2019m going to the barn\u201d also means \u201cI won\u2019t be communicating with you for roughly 4 hours.\u201d As an introvert, this made me excited at first. That is, until I realized that every day life is now somewhat dependent on when she goes to the barn. Your routine becomes a series of if-then statements like: If she is at barn, then I pick up my dinner for the night; otherwise we eat together.\nThis is where Joanna and I started having discussions about how to reach each other while she was riding. This also led to conversations about what would happen if no one was around and she fell off. So we started talking about how to keep her phone a lot closer to her. After some basic searches and forum results, we found that the leader in cell phone carriers was the bra.\nGiddyup Gear CEO Joanna Newton (horse hubby not pictured as he is fulfilling his duty as enthusiastic photographer at the American Equestrian Trade Association trade show)\nSo, Joanna, thought long and hard and created the GoVelope, a cell phone carrier specifically designed for equestrians.\nIt was obvious that people who spend thousands of dollars on horses and smell like poop are probably a little bit crazy. I would be needed to help create and run the business, particularly since I have a background in finance and small business.\nWhat could possibly be so difficult?\nThat\u2019s right. Remember the early lesson about boy meeting girl with horse? Same deal. Horse lovers are so passionate, that even when running a business logic goes out the window when it is for the betterment of horses.\nI have been to horse shows. I have run a horse business. I have gone to trade shows dedicated to horse business, and all I can say is that the passion horse lovers have for their horses far exceeds almost anything I have seen in my life.\nThey say the key to successful marriages is \u201cHappy Wife, Happy Life.\u201d Well, let me tell you that happiness of that horse is a damn important aspect of that Happy Wife. When you don\u2019t understand her, often times the best thing you can do is smile and nod, because anything else would a violation of their passion. If you try to be a wedge in that relationship, then be prepared not to be in the picture. If you want to support that passion, you will find that it envelopes (or GoVelopes) you as well.\nTopics: Giddyup Gear GoVelope Jeremy Newton Joanna Newton\nPrevious Post Being There When It Counts\nNext Post An OTTB Tranforms Unhappy IT Professional into Passionate Horseman\nJeremy Newton is Chief Operating Officer at Giddyup Gear.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hotelfindersusa.com/2017/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PJNKTTNNSM5GFOZ6YEPPVGWKK5OJ6B73", "length": 369, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hotelfindersusa.com", "title": "July 2017 \u2013 Hotel Finders USA", "raw_content": "If you are looking for comfortable transportation vehicles at your vacation destination, then hiring the vehicles is the right decision. There are different varieties of vehicles available for hiring like sedans, SUVs, hatchback, minivan, etc. When you are on road trip in the country you are visiting, you will be able to enjoy what the country has to offer in\u2026 More \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://housmanfarms.blogspot.com/2009/03/goat-stew.html?showComment=1238171820000", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2BHKISZQGTBZXHZBKOWGY22Q45RPIMR3", "length": 5956, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "housmanfarms.blogspot.com", "title": "Housman Farms: Goat stew?", "raw_content": "Life has been a whirlwind the past week! Our friend Myrtle, who has been living in a nursing home the past two months, had all she could take of living in what she called a \"2 by 4\" (that's a small room that two people live in that is divided by a curtain). She says rooms like that should be illegal. She's one hundred years young and not ready to live in a place with total assistance. She did not like paying them to do the things she can do herself. So she got on the phone and called around until she found an assisted living apartment that was available. We moved her this week. (I didn't know people moved out of nursing homes!) Monday, Emily and I packed up her room. On Tuesday, Mike and the boys moved all her belonging to her new apartment, including some things she had in a storage locker. Today we went shopping for the things she needed for her apartment and tied up all the loose ends at the nursing home. It's been a busy last few days, but to see the excitement on Myrtle's face has made it all worth it. She dozed off in her chair while Emily and I were unpacking her things, so we worked very quietly in order to let her rest. When she awoke she said, \"I thought I'd died and gone to heaven\"; she just loves her new place!\nIn the nursing home they always made her use her walker....she hated that thing! When the nurses would ask her where her walker was (when she would be walking without it) she would tell them, \"It's where it belongs!\" On Tuesday, after we got her all packed up, we were walking to the car to take her to her new apartment, and as we walked out the door of the nursing home she started to fold her walker up. I said, \"Oh, Myrtle the car is parked way over there, why don't you fold that up after we get to the car.\" She looked at me with a twinkle in her eye and a smile on her face and said, \"You're just as bad as the rest of them!\" We all laughed as we folded up the walker (but I always make her take my arm, which she will do).\nI had Ben and Jonny bring their arithmetic along to Myrtle's apartment today. I figured they could work on that while we hung her shower curtain and helped her organize a few things. Well, whenever they had a question Myrtle was there to help them. I am not kidding! She used to teach school and she remembers everything. She told them every answer they did not know and was giving them tips on how to memorize their multiplication tables! She's amazing!!\nWhen we got home today we had a lot of work to do. Our sap buckets needed to get emptied and there were plenty of other chores to get done. Adding milking and syruping to life has made the past two weeks....well......interesting! ;) Since we were gone for the past two days, we needed to get the fire under our sap pan going again. All the firewood was wet because it has been raining (and snowing) all week. Ugh! Mike was in the cities all day on business, so Brandon worked and worked on it and finally got it going. During supper Mike called and said he was just leaving the cities, and on his way home. Bummer! Another hour and a half before he'd be home to rescue me. Well, we finished supper and it was time to go milk Millie. By this time I was starting to feel a little cross. It was freezing (literally) outside and super windy. I was tired, and the last thing I wanted to do was go milk a goat! Not to mention, Millie has been quite challenging lately. Just before Brandon and I walked out to the barn, Emily says, \"Oh Mom, I should warn you, Millie was acting crazy today.\" I said, \"Oh great!\"\nWhen we started milking her she was behaving wonderfully and everything was just fine. I was thinking, \"This is great! It's just what I needed after a hectic day.......a cooperative goat!\" Well, not for long! She started lifting her legs and moving back and forth. These are the new tricks she's learned. She tried to kick our hands off her teats. Well, wouldn't you know it, she lands one foot (a poopy, straw covered foot) in the milk pail, then the other foot. Nice! At this point I am dreaming of goat stew!! And remembering how nice it was to drive to the goat farm and pick up our goat milk! So we got a different bucket to milk into and tied her leg so she couldn't kick. She continued to be difficult. And I continued to grumbled at her and called her names like \"You old bag!\"\nI really do love country life, but I have to be honest and tell you that there are days when I wonder how this city girl ever got roped into this! Tomorrow the sun will come out (hopefully), I will have gotten a good nights sleep (hopefully), and I will enjoy my country life again.............................hopefully!! :)\nLabels: Animals, Family, Goats\nHello Mrs. Housman!\nI know what you are going through with your goat! I have gone through the same thing with some of our goats. Some of them do just fine getting used to being milked, but then there are others that are quite the opposite! (I am assuming this is her first year to have ever been milked.) It may take her a while to get over the kicking and stepping in the milk stuff. Make sure you are not leaning on her while you are milking her. I especially remember one of our goats who took about 3 or 4 months before she finally realized that it would be a lot easier not to kick, lay down, practically do a \"handstand\", or whatever else she thought of to do! (I still have her!) Anyway, keep it up, they DO get over it for the most part.\nI enjoyed reading about your time with your widow lady too! She sounds nice.\nI just realized (I started this earlier and am now actually posting it now, later in the evening)you have another post now and it sounds like your goat is doing better. That is wonderful!\nYes, this is her first time ever being milked. When we first started she was just fine. Then she became so difficult. She even would show her teeth at times....not sure what that was about! But the last two milkings have been much better. Thanks for the encouragement!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 8458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://howeverythingworks.org/wordpress/1996/11/18/question-574/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LP3H5WRAZCOWIIWTZ5U2ENVO4BHP7LBZ", "length": 2285, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "howeverythingworks.org", "title": "How do some paints and stickers glow in the dark? \u2013 How Everything Works", "raw_content": "November 18, 1996 November 18, 1996 Lou Bloomfield lasers\nHow do some paints and stickers glow in the dark? \u2014 DD, Sandy, UT\nGlow in the dark paints and materials contain molecules that are able to store energy for long periods of time and then release that energy as light. To understand how this delayed emission works, let\u2019s examine the interactions of molecules and light. The electrons in any molecule are normally arranged in what is called the \u201celectronic ground state,\u201d an arrangement that gives those electrons the least possible energy. However, the electrons in a molecule can also be arranged in one of many \u201celectronically excited state,\u201d in which they have more than the minimum energy. Whenever a molecule is exposed to light, its electrons may rearrange and the molecule may find itself in one of the electronically excited states. If that occurs, the molecule will have absorbed a particle of the light, a \u201cphoton,\u201d and used the photon\u2019s energy to rearrange its electrons.\nIn a typical molecule, the extra energy is released almost immediately, either as light or as the vibrational energy that we associate with heat. But in a few special molecules, this extra energy can become trapped in the molecule. When an electron shifts from one arrangement to another and the total energy of that molecule decreases, the missing energy may leave as a photon of light. But electrons behave as though they were spinning objects and in shifting between arrangements, the electron normally can\u2019t change the direction of its spin. In most rearrangements that lead to the emission of light, the electron spins remain unchanged.\nHowever, a glow in the dark molecule is one in which there is an electronically excited state that can only shift to the ground state if one of the electrons changes its direction of spin as the photon of light is being produced. In some molecules, this process is almost totally forbidden by the laws of physics and proceeds so slowly that the molecule may wait for minutes, hours, or even days before it emits the photon and returns to its ground state. When you expose a material containing these molecules to light, its molecules become trapped in these special electronically excited states and they then glow in the dark for a long while afterward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/bios/ubeda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKDV45MNVEQZWRDTZDNPTATA2Z3XLI7I", "length": 1439, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hsl.lib.unc.edu", "title": "Lola \u00dabeda (1869-1938) - Health Sciences Library - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill", "raw_content": "Lola \u00dabeda (1869-1938)\nThesis: La mujer Argentina en la pubertad. Thesis (doctoral)\u2013Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1902. PDF\nLola \u00dabeda graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1902, receiving the degree of Doctor in Medicine. Her thesis is entitled La Mujer Argentina en la Pubertad. She was one of the earliest female doctors in Argentina and considered an early Argentinian feminist and visionary for women\u2019s health.\n\u00dabeda was born on July 10, 1869, in San Nicol\u00e1s de los Arroyos to Do\u00f1a Juana Rodriguez and Don Justo \u00dabeda. Her full first name was Mar\u00eda Amalia Dolores. She received a degree in education from the \u201cescuela referencia\u201d in 1891, and then went to medical school. After leaving medical school, she worked in the \u201cHospital Rivadavia\u201d and then as a doctor at the \u201cAsistencia P\u00fablica.\u201d She also worked at the National Council of Education as medical inspector for schools in Buenos Aires until 1929. She was a founder of the Gynecological Society and was a member of the Medical and Scientific Societies of Argentina. She was also the vice president of the \u201cAsociaci\u00f3n de Residentes Nicole\u00f1os.\u201d She died on April 29, 1938.\n2003 Servicio de Ginecolog\u00eda. Hospital Bernardino Rivadavia Museo Virtual. http://www.mvhbr.com.ar/contenido.asp?idtexto=13. [Website no longer accessible].\nArmus, D. ed. Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: from Malaria to AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 139.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://humanlibrary.org/news/book-of-the-month-november/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TW2N7OVEZEYKOYACKGMSQCL3NMNODFA4", "length": 3448, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "humanlibrary.org", "title": "Book of the month: November - HumanLibrary.org", "raw_content": "Our Human Library Book of the Month is a series of portraits of our books created with the purpose of offering our readers a chance to understand the diversity and variety within our bookshelf around the world. It also provides unique insights into the motivations and values of being a book and volunteering for our organization.\nBook of November is a highly relevant and inspirational story about the life as a Niqab wearing young woman living in Denmark. Please welcome 21-year-old Meryem, who has been a book on our Danish bookshelf for six months, and today insists to wear her niqab, although it was made illegal in Denmark on the 1st of August 2018. Her title and place as a book in the Human Library has never been more relevant since the passing of the law that bans people from wearing both burqa and niqab in the public.\nWhen asked about most frequent questions from readers, Meryem explains that the most recurrent questions are \u201cWhy do you wear niqab?\u201d and \u201cHow is it to be a niqabi in Denmark?\u201d For Meryem, the essential reason to be a part of the Human Library is because of the ongoing stigmatization and discrimination that women wearing the veil is facing on a daily basis. She feels that there is a limited representation of niqabi women in the Danish society, and she believes that this has led to alienation and a lack of both understanding and respect towards those who wear it. As she says, \u201csuch a portrait of myself would perhaps break the stereotypes and make it easier for people to understand the story behind my choice of wearing the niqab.\u201d\nBeing a book at the Human Library is for her, a way of contributing to a better world and society. Through dialogue and conversation, she and the other books aim at challenging the stereotypes and prejudice in our society, as she says: \u201cI believe that many of the world problems would be solved if only people would communicate more often and start to show respect to each other despite differences\u201d. One of her clearest messages is, that she is not interested in, nor trying to convince other people to wear the niqab \u201cI\u2019m not [..] demanding others to understand why I\u2019m wearing it. I understand that my choice is hard for some people to understand and I fully respect that. However, I\u2019m requiring others to at least listen to what I have to say and to be acknowledged and respected as the human being I am\u201d.\nIf you are interested in learning more about Meryem and her personal story, you can listen to her episode on our official Human Library podcast series called \u201cMenneskebibliotekets podcastserie\u201d. Meryem is also very active on social medias, and you can find her profile on Instagram as \u201cniqabinuancer\u201d. Here, she posts photos and stories about how it is to live as a Danish niqabi, and how the recent ban in Denmark has affected her life.\nLastly, we would like to cite Meryem from an Danish article published right after the burqa and niqab ban in Denmark, where she states beautifully: \u201cPrejudice can only be challenged through dialogue, not by forcing the niqab off me.\u201d [1] To us, this quote is essential to why the Human Library works so hard to promote dialogue and conversation, as it is the only way to reach human understanding, and to make people stop judging books by their covers.\nhttps://www.religion.dk/trods-nyt-maskeringsforbud-min-niqab-er-ikke-kun-et-stykke-stof\nIn Loving Memory of Zak Kostopoulos City of Aarhus supports new Human Library book depot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ibiza.beaching.com/en/Restaurante/Cipriani-Ibiza/233", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CXHEA7SOOGTPQ52W3IOAFAIDPI3BDDWM", "length": 549, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ibiza.beaching.com", "title": "Beaching", "raw_content": "Paseo Juan Carlos I, nr. 17 Ibiza 07800\nSet over two floors in the east wing of the Ibiza Gran Hotel, with stunning views of the harbour, Downtown Ibiza brings to the island simple luxury, relaxed sophistication and timeless elegance. The design of the restaurant, lounge and grill is deeply rooted in tradition but at the same time immersed in modern sensibility. While the main floor features an indoor and outdoor restaurant with Cipriani classic cuisine, the terrace offers a grill concept with many grilled specialities. Hours: 8:00pm to 3:00am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 2922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ihl.enssib.fr/en/book-history-workshop/courses/99286-the-italian-renaissance-book-and-afterwards-in-english", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:R73DNBUDFRGEZLM2FXX4J7MLGHSCB4RV", "length": 7365, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ihl.enssib.fr", "title": "The Italian Renaissance Book, and afterwards (in English) | Institut d'histoire du livre", "raw_content": "The course concentrates on a number of \u201cepisodes\u201d in the history of the Italian Renaissance book, which will also be closely linked to the practical sessions at the Biblioth\u00e8que municipale de Lyon.\nTo begin with the course will look at the passage from manuscripts to printed books in the Fifteenth century. Was it a seamless transition or a violent break with tradition?\nItalian manuscripts were highly prized all over Europe at the time and as they have been ever since, and so the early printers modelled their work on these de luxe books. The change, however, was not just from the scribe to the printer; it was also from parchment to paper, from large books to small books, from few books to lots of books, and from Latin to vernacular. The impact on the way books were made and stored in libraries was far-reaching and had huge consequences for issues such as cataloguing and preservation.\nPrinting first appeared in Italy in the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco in 1465, but swiftly spread to Rome (1467) and to Venice (1469). By the 1480s Venice had developed a modern printing industry: one fascinating document is the Zornale of the bookseller Francesco de Madiis, who had a shop in the Rialto district and from 1484 to 1488 sold some 25,000 books. The ledger records the daily sales and the prices for every item, so that it is possible to compare them to books that have survived in today\u2019s libraries.\nThe industry and our perception of the history of the Italian Renaissance book was radically changed by the figure and personality of Aldus Manutius, the quincentenary of whose death was celebrated in 2015. But what precisely did Aldus do? One answer is that he established canon or an education model that has lasted up to our own day.\nBy the Sixteenth century the Italian book and the Italian language were exported all over Europe, so that modern cataloguing projects have had to take account of the low survival rates of some texts and their widespread dispersal. The Edit16 project is widely admired, but it has its own complex history and employs devices such as the Fingerprint that have to be understood in order to be used effectively, while many early Italian editions present complex variants of state and issue that require bibliographical expertise for their interpretation.\nL\u00e9gende: F. Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venezia, Aldo Manuzio, XII 1499 (BmL R\u00e9s Inc 1047)\nMorning: ENSSIB. Italian libraries from the Middle ages to modern times. - Organisation of the library network: state libraries, city libraries, and other libraries. - Advantages and problems of an abundance of early printed books \u2013 Renaissance collections of the Gonzaga, Este, and Montefeltro. - The Malatestiana Library in Cesena and the Library of St. Marks's in Florence. - The model of the chained library up to the Laurentian. - Verticalising the book in the Sixteenth century: causes and consequences. - Libraries as arsenals: the Angelica and the Ambrosiana.\nAfternoon: Biblioth\u00e8que municipale de Lyon. Italian Renaissance manuscripts and early hand-finished incunabula. Early printed books were produced by a process of mechanical writing and completed by hand with rubrication and illumination. The session looks at items in the library, comparing them to manuscript practice, but also seeing how the printed book swiftly created its own paradigms.\nMorning: Biblioth\u00e8que municipale de Lyon. The library has a rich Aldine collection, including two copies of the 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, as well as many examples of the octavo editions in italic type, imitated by Lyon pirate publishers. The session will look at Aldus' innovations in graphics and layout, the design of his types, and some of his extraordinary innovations, such as indexing, first introduced in the 1499 Perottus, of which the library also owns a copy. It will also follow the development of the Aldine model through the Sixteenth century, both in the continuation of the firm under Paulo and Aldo junior, but also in his rivals and imitators, such as the Giunta and Giolito firms.\nAfternoon: ENSSIB. Italy and its book-vehicled Renaissance. - The political and social history of Renaissance Italy. - Medieval culture, monasteries and the Catholic church; lay society and the impact of humanism. - Wealth, more wealth than you ever imagined. - The advent of the printing press and itinerant German printers. - Early printing in Rome: a publishing disaster. - Printing in Venice: from trial to triumph and the invention of modern publishing. - A publisher's notebook: the Ripoli Diary in Florence (1476-1484). - A bookseller's ledger: the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis (1484-88). - Warehouse inventories: Platone de' Benedetti (1497) and Niccol\u00f2 da Gorgonzola (1538).\nMorning: ENSSIB. Aldus and the myth of Aldus. - The importance of being Aldus: what he did or didn't do. - The schoolteacher who founded a publishing dynasty (1494-1598). - The Aldine canon and its significance in the history of Western education. - Aldus' type: Roman, Italic, and the genius of Francesco Griffo. - Changes in paper sizes: playing with the shape of the book. - Printing in Greek: the technical challenge. - The launch of the enchiridia and the Lyon counterfeits. - The Aldine catalogues of `1498, 1503, 1513. - Aldine rivals: the Giunta dynasty.\nAfternoon: Biblioth\u00e8que Municipale de Lyon. Italian language and literature: the great writers. Italian is to all extents and purposes an artificial language invented by Pietro Bembo in the Sixteenth century. It drew on the model of the three great Tuscan medieval authors, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Its success owes much to the printing press and to the fact Renaissance writers, such as Ariosto, Sannazzaro, Castiglione, many of them dialect speakers in their homes, chose it as a model for their works. The session looks at editions of these authors, from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first century, and shows how they invented \u00abla letteratura italiana\u00bb, a term coined by Girolamo Tiraboschi in the Eighteenth century.\nMorning: ENSSIB. Cataloguing projects for incunabula from the IGI to the ISTC. - Edit16 and the geography and history of Italian libraries. - The Vatican Library: a foreign body. - Applying the LOC Fingerprint and understanding what it tells you. - Factoring survival, destruction, and dispersal: the Italian chivalric romance and the list of Marin Sanudo. - Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto: statistics of a publishing phenomenon. - Printing in other scripts: the Tipografia Medicea Orientale. - Italian books outside Italy: Iacopo Corbinelli and Giordano Bruno. - The history of collecting Italian Renaissance editions.\nAfternoon: Biblioth\u00e8que municipale de Lyon. Illustrated Italian Renaissance books. Italian Renaissance printing was also extraordinary for its achievement in producing illustrated books, both in technical fields, such as medicine and science, as well as for the pleasure of the ordinary reader, such as in the Orlando Furioso. The medium was initially with woodcuts, but late in the Sixteenth century printers mastered the technique of inserting copper-plate engravings executed on a rolling press, for instance in the illustration of Galileo's earthshaking pamphlet, the Nuncius sidereus (1610). The session looks at a selection of illustrated works and relates them to repertories such as Essling and Sander.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 8079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ijamessilverman.com/?p=980", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:KFVA4ZRIYF7MQ2P7NGYHVFBRTDA2K5L6", "length": 680, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ijamessilverman.com", "title": "Fanuary \u2013 Day 28 | ijamessilverman.com", "raw_content": "Hard to believe it\u2019s been 26 years today but it is. I was in school when I heard. In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded during its ascent from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members including flight commander Francis R. \u201cDick\u201d Scobee; pilot Michael J. Smith; Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka; Judith A. Resnik; Gregory B. Jarvis; and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe; and in the process dashed the Jedi dreams of at least one junior high school student I know. Space travel is not like the movies. It is a miraculous accomplishment. We are your eternal fans, Challenger Crew, for your bravery and sacrifice in mankind\u2019s exploration of the undiscovered country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ikeproductions.co.uk/macmillan-fest-2017-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KHWNHEOUIJ6MVLDV653SJCJ3SD4CTYL4", "length": 1346, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "ikeproductions.co.uk", "title": "Macmillan Fest 2017 - PHOTOS! - IKE Productions", "raw_content": "tagged 2017, Alternative, borders, casey lowry, charity, concert, confyde, dead on arrival, England, event, Festival, gig, Live, lotus eater, Macmillan fest, music, nottingham, rock, scribble victory, September, Show, skarlett riot, skies in motion, the dandylions, the parallax method, uk, wolves don't sleep\nPosted on October 8, 2017 by admin.IKE\nThis year\u2019s Macmillan Fest was even better and bigger than before!\nTake a look at some of our live photography from the event!\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BordersBandUK/\nCASEY LOWRY\nhttps://www.facebook.com/caseylowryofficial/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/confydemusic/\nTHE DANDYLIONS\nhttps://www.facebook.com/dandylionsUK/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DeadOnArrivalUK/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/LotusEaterUK/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/skarlettriotuk/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/scribblevictory/\nSKIES IN MOTION\nhttps://www.facebook.com/skiesinmotion/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/theparallaxmethod/\nWOLVES DON\u2019T SLEEP\nhttps://www.facebook.com/WolvesDontSleep/\nPosted in Uncategorized\t| Tagged 2017, Alternative, borders, casey lowry, charity, concert, confyde, dead on arrival, England, event, Festival, gig, Live, lotus eater, Macmillan fest, music, nottingham, rock, scribble victory, September, Show, skarlett riot, skies in motion, the dandylions, the parallax method, uk, wolves don't sleep\t| Leave a comment |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 195.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ikgyna.weebly.com/belize.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NJ4DWQAY5LHH74KZ4YMR7HPXZJV6M6AK", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ikgyna.weebly.com", "title": "Belize", "raw_content": "Belize (1981 - present)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 2421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 86.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://imjustatvbfan.blogspot.com/2011/08/other-truth-episode-summary-and-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:37DOSXDGFANT7RUFLLTBPI2CJ3SOGD5L", "length": 9732, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "imjustatvbfan.blogspot.com", "title": "I love TVB!: The Other Truth \u771f\u76f8 Episode Summary and Review: Episode 6", "raw_content": "Episode 6! Where Mavis makes no appearance in the episode.\nCase #9: Previously we stopped at the part where the ICAC goes to Kai-hong's office and suspected him for bribery with Ma Wing-choi. He was taken to court with Wing-choi, and they both insists that they are innocent. Apparently, there are witnesses who said they were involved in the bribery, and that is Helen (Yoyo Chen), which makes it harder for them to be proved innocent unless they can prove that Helen is lying. What happened was, Kai-hong helped Wing-choi clinch a deal on the same day, and it really happened that during the lucky draw, he won the watch, but when they were caught by the police, Wing-fu insisted that it is a scam. Apparently, Wing-fu is not happy how he didn't get much inheritance from their late mother, and now he wants to take revenge and snatch the money back.\nMeanwhile James is working hard to help Wai-tung find a reason to appeal his case. (Poor dude, he gets no aircon like normal barristers..) Then, a guy from the high court went, and pushed him to get a reason for appeal within 14 days *which is due soon*, if not he would not be able to get a chance to fight the case. In addition, James is not getting paid for all the miscellaneous fees accumulated in a court case. James started complaining about the room being too hot and such, Keith ran away immediately upon hearing that. What a friend! There after, James went to the photocopying room and saw Small C, he told Small C to let him use once she is done. Theoretically, a barrister should ask the secretary to do the paperwork, but seeing that she has to wait on both Keith and Mavis, and including the fact that he has not much contribution to her pay, he told her to let him use the printer once she is done. Poor James! Can't even work properly as a barrister.\nJames eats his cup noodles in the gantry, Big C comes by and advised him to get a disciple so that he does not need to do everything on his own, and he could lighten his load too. James says that he doesn't have the \"quality\" to accept disciples. He starts saying how his life is always decided by his parents etc, he decided to be a lawyer because he wants to prove that as long as he takes initiative, he can do things that he want to do. Then it seemed as though they were paying attention, and James was talking so deeply into it, until he turned his back and everyone is gone. James adds,\"That's right, who would want to listen to me talk.\" I feel kinda sad for this character, so neglected and inferior!\nJames doesn't dare get the court fees from Wai-tung, and Chow Chow doesn't understand why. James explains that it's because he was the one who suggested for Wai-tung to fight the case, and they thought it was free so they accepted it. Now, he doesn't dare to say it out now that they have gone through so much.. Finally, Chow Chow says that there is a need to pay the fees to the couple, Wai-tung's wife got so angry and said that that it's impossible for them to pay the court fees. Wai-tung said that he would rather mortgage his house etc than live with a criminal background. Despite the fact that he only went to jail for a few days, but he thinks it's a downright insult to him.\nThen back in the chamber, Keith brings good news to James (who was burying his head over Wai-tung's case), saying that a very famous barrister has a case, and he needs help from other barristers too, so James was one of them. James was really happy about this news and he wanted to hug Keith, who shoved him away. HAHAHA. He was all like,\"My good brother!\" and Keith was like,\"No I didn't help at all I'm just here to deliver the news.\" I think Keith really wanted to help but he's just too shy to admit it. Of course the next day, James went for the court and messed up massively. Astrid Chan makes her appearance here as a judge too.\nBack at the chamber again, James was complaining to Keith that if he cannot find a reason for appeal within 2 days, there would be no case to fight for. Keith offers his office to James as he had to go overseas for a meeting, and James was so grateful and he was all like,\"My good brother!\" and Keith shoved him away. Keith even opened a drawer which was filled with tidbits for James (which Keith said are expiring goods he just want James to help clear the food) and James was really touched. James swear to properly find a reason in order not to disappoint Keith's goodwill. I was pretty amused by this part, Keith obviously wants to help but he was afraid of James touchy touchy hands. HAHA! They have pretty good chemistry, Ruco and Louis! ^^\nJames finally found the reason to appeal, he goes to Wai-tung and told him there's a case to fight. And while Wai-tung was all happy, his wife comes and chased James away as they have no money to fight the case. James feel that Wai-tung is doing the right thing but his wife feels that James is up to no good (for money). Of course, the couple quarreled and got into a fight, and injured James in the process.\nWai-tung's wife felt very guilty for hurting James, went to the chamber to apologize and told James that she is willing to support the husband, on the condition that it's only going to cost them 50k HKD. However when his wife entered James' office, she realized that James might not be a good barrister after all and told James that she doesn't want to go to court anymore as James himself is not sure whether they would win either, and told James to persuade Wai-tung to drop this incident and let it be. If it was you, would you spend so much just to clear your name? Or you rather save the money and be burdened with the crime that you have never committed?\nJames looks Wai-tung up, and tells him to give up on the case in order to prevent the family from splitting up... Wai-tung refuses to give up and told James that he won't give up, because it's not a matter of money, it's a matter of being jailed for something he has never done. Because after he got jailed he asked himself,\"Why did I get jailed for? What have I done wrong? Which is why I got so agitated about it. I want to tell everyone, that I have been wrongly accused. Yes, we might lose if we appeal, but we will definitely lose if we don't even take the bet to appeal. You have worked so hard and you have never given up, why give up now? We take charge of our own fate.\" After hearing what Wai-tung said, James decided to help him fight the case as per usual.\nBack to Kai-hong & Wing-choi's case, Wallace and An-gor went to follow Wing-fu for clues and found out that Helen and Wing-fu has a closer relationship than everyone thought. Initially they thought that Helen was Wing-fu's mistress, but it turned out that they are actually father and daughter (illegitimate). Wallace and An-gor goes to talk to Helen's mother, and persuaded her to go to court and disclose their relationship. She agreed as she wants Helen to mend her ways. After they were done, Danny calls and told Wallace that Yu-fu (another host on that charity show that day) was back, and he is willing to help them out.\nJames looks up for Keith for advice as his case is going to be judged the next day. (and all that brotherly awesome-ness happens again) Keith told James that if he wants to do well, he should use his \"heart\" to say the things he wishes to express. They spent the whole night doing it under James' request.\nFinally the case, James goes to check who is the judge in charge and found out that it's Wong Shui-hing (Astrid Chan). She is known for being strict and scary in court, Chow-chow expresses his empathy but could not do anything about it. In the courtroom, James stutter a little and got the displeasure of Shui-hing, after that he decided to adopt Keith's recommendation of using his \"heart\" to fight the case. He starts to reason out why Wai-tung should be proved innocent, and indeed, Shui-hing actually thinks that his reasoning is valid. Even though we do not know the results of the judgment, but they are confident of winning. I'm glad how we are gradually seeing James' spontaneity and confidence :D I feel that Louis has done a really good job portraying this, as expected of our TVB award winning supporting actor. GO GO GO!\nBack to the bribery case, the trial has started and all Helen said were lies, like how she swapped the winning tickets under the instructions of Wing-choi etc etc. Wallace starts saying that Helen is actually Wing-fu's illegitimate daughter, and Helen was actually helping Wing-fu out. And her residence is at a high class place, which is suspicious as it does not fit her financial status at all. But as Wallace does not have evidence, Helen denied their relationship. During the break, Helen's mother called and said that she doesn't want to go to court and accuse her daughter because she can't bear to do so. With their trump card lost, Wallace says not to be disheartened as they still have Yu-fu as their witness. Anyway, just a random thought, I'm amazed at how everyone always say how pretty Yoyo Chen is but yet I don't find her pretty at all...\nHowever, things didn't go well for them, Yu-fu started saying that this is really a case of bribery (the cause of his sudden change in testimony is unknown) Kai-hong got angry and started screaming in court, and threw his shoe at Yu-fu. Of course which, he got taken out of court and charged with the crime of ostracizing the court. Wallace has a face of helpless-ness and he told Kai-Hong that this case, would be a tough battle. Honestly, I don't really enjoy watching this case, but it's good to see Wallace fighting it out at court!\nLabels: Astrid Chan, Benz Hui, Chris Lai, Louis Yuen, Natalie Tong, Raymond Wong, Ruco Chan, Stephen Wong, The Other Truth, Tvb series", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 12547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inbound.americancouncils.org/our-stories/two-way-street", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DE3Z3HCUIFGHE4DHVYTO65ZSTZVKPOAB", "length": 230, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "inbound.americancouncils.org", "title": "Two-Way Street | inbound.americancouncils.org", "raw_content": "Beyond the kitchen, make an effort to learn a few words in your student\u2019s native language, or try your hand at an activity native to his or her home, such as capoeira from Brazil \u2013 you might be surprised by what you end up loving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 2964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infolib.in/review/show.asp?id=367&page=1&keyword=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LRID25PKFR5ZSAEZYUSXVDD3JKFWB5AW", "length": 666, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "infolib.in", "title": "Infolib | Library Website of KV Adoor", "raw_content": "The Great Scientist : Thomas Alva Edison by M.L. Ashok.\nThis is a biography of the great scientist- Thomas Alva Edison. In the whole history of modern technical progress and advancement, no other scientist has given to the world such a huge number of inventions and technical discoveries. The next time you switch on the lights in your house, or listen to a recording or go to the movies, or travel by an electric train, just pause for a moment and then thank Thomas Alva Edison, the genius and inventor of all these. If you want to know the life history of Thomas Alva Edison, just read this book.\nDo you love reading? (Say \"yes\" to submit.): Not sureNoYesSometimes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://internationalschooltechnology.com/ecis-ict-committee-enews-virtual-learning-environments/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5XBZ55KBZ2UU5EQKPCDWSLEZ64E5BMCP", "length": 954, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "internationalschooltechnology.com", "title": "ECIS ICT Committee eNews \u2013 Virtual Learning Environments | International School Technology", "raw_content": "Aaron Tyo-Dickerson, American School of the Hague\nHow would you describe your school\u2019s Virtual Learning Environment?\nYou might begin by describing your school\u2019s desktop, laptop or tablet computers and the software your school has installed on them for teacher and student use.\nPerhaps you would talk about your network and infrastructure as conduits for teaching and learning.\nOn the other hand you might talk about your community\u2019s use of a particular learning management system (Moodle, Edmodo, Blackboard) and a collection of collaboration and communication tools (Google Apps, Office 365, et al).\nEach of these are ingredients or building blocks of a Virtual Learning Environment (or VLE), and the environment itself is the organic whole, the sum of the individual components. Your school\u2019s virtual learning environment reflects and recreates the vision, mission, and daily activities of your school.\nvia ECIS ICT Committee eNews \u2013 Heading into Fall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investivdaily.com/why-cats-20-drop-could-be-a-value-trap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QC4R4SP44BU6XJYJB7JLLCXDIZOLUYRZ", "length": 8641, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "investivdaily.com", "title": "Why CAT\u2019s 20% drop could be a value trap \u2013 Investiv Daily", "raw_content": "Why CAT\u2019s 20% drop could be a value trap\nHome / China / Why CAT\u2019s 20% drop could be a value trap\nWhen you put a big part of your investing focus on bargains, emphasizing value-based fundamental analysis to determine whether a stock is worth your time and money, you inevitably end up filtering through a lot of different stocks, but cast most aside. I think that is useful, because being more selective helps you narrow the universe of stocks you\u2019re paying attention to at any given time. The problem, however is that sometimes the metrics a value investor learns to rely on can give you a false sense of whether a stock really fits a good description of a good value. That can lead you to make an investment in a stock that might be down from a recent high because it looks like it\u2019s available now at an attractive price compared to where it was; but in reality it\u2019s a bit like trying to catch a falling knife \u2013 the only real way to avoid getting cut is to get out of the way and let the knife fall to the floor. These kinds of situations are also called value traps, because they provide numbers that lure less careful investors in and motivate them to make an investment at some of the most dangerous times possible.\nI think Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) is actually one of those traps right now. My opinion differs from most other analysts and \u201cexperts\u201d out there, who point to the company\u2019s solid earnings growth over the last year, and the stock\u2019s decline in price since January of this year of more than 20% as reasons that investors should be treating the stock as a great value opportunity right now. They\u2019ll also point to a popular valuation metric, a stock\u2019s P/E ratio, as a clear indication that the stock is undervalued and something you should be paying attention to right now. I\u2019ll admit that at first blush, I thought the stock might be a good opportunity, too; but the more I drilled down to really look at some of the other data points that are important to me, the more concerned I got.\nAnother risk element that investors seem to be trying to shrug aside right now when it comes to stocks like CAT is the fact that while the U.S. seems to have found some sense of resolution \u2013 or at least a path to it \u2013 in trade with the European Union, the same can\u2019t be said of discussions with China. Today, on top of existing tariffs that already amount to more than $34 billion against its single largest trading partner, President Trump proposed another $200 billion in new tariffs, prompting what seems like the customary Chinese response to retaliate in kind. The market\u2019s reaction was pretty ho-hum; could it mean the investors are beginning to accept trade tension as a normal state of affairs? If they are, then I think it means they are becoming desensitized to that risk, and that is a troubling indication all by itself.\nMultinational stocks, and especially those with major operations in China, remain at risk if trade tensions continue as they are, or escalate even further. And let\u2019s not forget that while the E.U. have, for now at least, agreed to hold off on further tariffs against each other and work toward compromise, it doesn\u2019t mean that situation has been resolved. CAT is one of the companies that I think could be the most dramatically affected. That affect may not be showing up in earnings reports or sales numbers yet; but the risk that it will increases more and more with every week, month, and quarter that continues with trade affairs as they are. To my way of thinking, that puts something of a jaundiced eye on any currently glowing numbers. Just about every analyst report I\u2019ve been able to find on CAT forecasts stable to growing revenues along with continued earnings growth for the foreseeable future, and under most circumstances I think that should be a good thing; but the thing that is setting off warning bells for me is that none of the reports I have found discuss trade or tariffs as risk factors.\nCaterpillar Inc. (CAT) is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The Company operates through segments, including Construction Industries, which is engaged in supporting customers using machinery in infrastructure, forestry and building construction; Resource Industries, which is engaged in supporting customers using machinery in mining, quarry, waste and material handling applications; Energy & Transportation, which supports customers in oil and gas, power generation, marine, rail and industrial applications, including Cat machines; Financial Products segment, which provides financing and related services, and All Other operating segments, which includes activities, such as product management and development, and manufacturing of filters and fluids, undercarriage, tires and rims, ground engaging tools, fluid transfer products, and sealing and connecting components for Cat products. CAT has a market cap of $82.5 billion.\nEarnings and Sales Growth: Over the last twelve months, earnings grew by almost 100%, while sales growth was almost 24%. Growing earnings faster than sales is hard to do, and generally not sustainable in the long-term; however it is also a positive mark of management\u2019s ability to maximize their business operations. Net Income as a percentage of Revenues also improved from about 6% for the trailing twelve months to more than 12% in the most recent quarter.\nFree Cash Flow: CAT\u2019s free cash flow over the last twelve months is more than $3.7 billion. Cash and liquid assets are also more than $7.8 billion, which does give the company quite a bit of financial flexibility; however these numbers are offset in my analysis by the stock\u2019s very high debt to equity ratio\nDebt to Equity: CAT has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.59. Their long-term is more than $23.5 billion and marks CAT as one of the most highly leveraged companies in the Heavy Machinery industry.\nDividend: CAT currently pays an annual dividend of $3.44 per share, which translates to an annual yield of 2.49% at the stock\u2019s current price.\nPrice/Book Ratio: there are a lot of ways to measure how much a stock should be worth; but one of the simplest methods that I like uses the stock\u2019s Book Value, which for CAT is $24.99 per share. At the stock\u2019s current price, that puts the Price/Book ratio at 5.52, versus a historical average of 3.62. The historical average puts the stock\u2019s \u201cfair value\u201d a little above $90 per share \u2013 more than 34% below the stock\u2019s current price. Some analysts like to point out that the stock is trading about 32% below its historical Price/Earnings ratio as an indication the stock is undervalued, but I view Book Value, and the Price/Book ratio as a better measurement and more indicative of a company\u2019s intrinsic value.\nCurrent Price Action/Trends and Pivots: The diagonal red line traces the stock\u2019s upward trend until January of this year and provides the reference for calculating the Fibonacci retracement levels indicated by the horizontal red lines on the right side of the chart. The stock\u2019s decline from late January\u2019s high at around $173 puts the stock in a clear, intermediate-term downward trend, with the stock trading near to the lowest point of that trend around $135 per share. The stock is hovering around a major support point, marked by the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement line, and if that line holds, it could give the stock some momentum to start pushing higher to reclaim its highs from earlier in the year. On the other hand, a drop below $135 would mark a clear break through support that would give the stock room to drop as far as the 88.6% retracement line around $120 in fairly short order. That\u2019s more than $15 of near-term risk if support is broken, and about $18 of legitimate risk right now. Even if the stock does rally from that support point, it should find major resistance in the $150 range, where the 38.2% retracement line sits, meaning that a bullish investor stands to make about $12 per share if he\u2019s right; but he could lose $18 per share if he\u2019s wrong. That\u2019s easy math that should make anybody hesitate.\nNear-term Keys: If you\u2019re looking for a good reward: risk trade opportunity for CAT, watch to see if the stock pushes below support around $135. If it does, there could be a very good opportunity to short the stock or use put options, with a target price around $120, and a stop loss a little above $136 per share. That\u2019s a set up that offers $15 of reward, against only a couple of dollars per share of risk.\nBy Thomas Moore China Industrial Machinery Industrials Investiv Daily Tariffs Value Investing Value Traps Share:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 10706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investors.nrg.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=121544&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2371001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VWLSFHJU3K3SVOB7QBG4MU4ROUCDHTQO", "length": 598, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "investors.nrg.com", "title": "Investor News Release | Investors | NRG Energy", "raw_content": "NRG Energy, Inc. Completes Redemption of Its Outstanding 6.25% Senior Notes due 2022\nPRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2018-- NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) announced that on October 9, 2018, as part of its deleveraging plan, it completed the redemption of all of its outstanding 6.25% Senior Notes due 2022 (the \u201c2022 Notes\u201d) in the aggregate principal amount of $485,171,000.00. The redemption price for the redeemed 2022 Notes was an amount equal to 103.125% of the principal amount of the redeemed 2022 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest on such 2022 Notes to the date of redemption.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 5693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iraqnewsservice.com/world/yemens-cholera/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OMDU2KJAN3JSTBHV56P572BKBHBX7KCT", "length": 1267, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "iraqnewsservice.com", "title": "Yemen's devastating hunger, cholera outbreak revealed | Iraq News Service", "raw_content": "Yemen\u2019s devastating hunger, cholera outbreak revealed\nPeter Mauer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) returned from a trip across war-torn Yemen last month, telling Fox News he is \u201cprofoundly concerned for the plight of its people.\u201d\n\u201cThis outbreak is manmade. It is a direct consequence of more than two years of warfare. People are dying from easily treatable chronic diseases,\u201d he said. \u201cKey services like garbage disposal have ceased to function.\u201d\nMaurer also stressed that thousands of people have been detained by parties to the conflict, languishing in prison unable to contact their loved ones. He highlighted that while \u201chumanitarian funding is more needed than ever, the international community must go a step further.\n\u201cIt must actively seek out solutions to this enormous crisis, and wield influence over the behavior of warring parties as a matter of urgency,\u201d he said, adding that how easily \u2013 as in places like Syria \u2013 conflicts can become protracted.\n\u201cYemen\u2019s fate can be different, but I see few signs of hope,\u201d Mauer noted. \u201cThe suffering of its people only grows in intensity. I\u2019ve met families forced to make impossible choices about whether to buy bread, water or medicine for their children.\u201d\nNext articleInside Yemen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irishflute.podbean.com/2010/11/20/tonn-teine-reel/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UJQ2BWD7PGMZB52W4KMJK6JGYPEA6JJC", "length": 245, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "irishflute.podbean.com", "title": "Tonn Teine (reel)", "raw_content": "Tonn Teine (reel)\nNovember 20th, 2010 at 11:47 am\t(traditional irish flute)\nHere's the one that goes with the other two (Paddy O'Brien tunes I posted a while ago). I've just been reminded that I missed this one. I hope late is better than never.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 745, "original_length": 16652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isabele-a1.blogspot.com/2012/02/el-abecedario.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:UPWWO6TDEQDZPVGXFEVDQ5Z5HFFXLOG6", "length": 1220, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "isabele-a1.blogspot.com", "title": "El blog ELE de Isabel: El ABeCeDario", "raw_content": "El abecedario (alfabeto) espa\u00f1ol tiene 27 letras: 22 consonantes y 5 vocales.\nNecesitas aprender los nombres de las letras para deletrear (to spell) las palabras.\nA - a (pronounced like the \"a\" in \"ask\")\nC - ce (pronounced like the \"th\" in \"think\")\nE - e (pronounced like the \"e\" in \"elephant\")\nF - efe\nG - ge (pronounced like a very strong \"h\" in \"hat\")\nH - hache (the first \"h\" is silent, the second \"h\" transforms the sound of \"c\" into \"ch\" as in the word \"chin\")\nI - i (pronounced like the \"i\" in \"India\")\nJ - jota (pronounced like a very strong \"h\" in \"hat\")\nK - ka\nL - ele\nM - eme\nN - ene\n\u00d1 - e\u00f1e (pronounced like the \"ni\" in \"onion\")\nO - o (pronounced like the \"aw\" in \"saw\")\nP - pe\nQ - cu\nR - erre (pronounced with a big rolling of the tongue)\nS - ese (pronounced like the \"s\" in \"seat\")\nU - u (pronounced like the \"oo\" in \"pool\")\nV - uve (pronounced like the \"b\")\nW - uve doble\nX - equis (pronounced \"ekis\")\nY - i griega\nZ - zeta (pronounced like the \"th\" in \"think\")\nEn el antiguo (old) alfabeto espa\u00f1ol hay dos letras m\u00e1s:\nCH - che (pronounced like the \"ch\" in \"chin\")\nLL - elle (pronounced like the \"y\" in \"kayak\")\nEscucha la canci\u00f3n (song) del abecedario en Youtube:\nEtiquetas: Alfabeto/abecedario, Palabras", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islamcan.com/islamic-history/ottoman-empire.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4VJXNHQ6KD5GZCJSCSPI6ECX7USLB4VH", "length": 890, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "islamcan.com", "title": "Ottoman Empire - IslamCan.com", "raw_content": "From humble origins the Turks rose to dominate over the whole of Anatolia and even parts of Europe. In 1453 Mehmet the Conqueror captured Constantinople and put an end to the Byzantine empire.\nThe Ottomans conquered much of eastem Europe and nearly the whole of the Arab world, only Morocco and Mauritania in the West and Yemen, Hadramaut and parts of the Arabian peninsula remaining beyond their control.\nThey reached their zenith of power with Suleyman the Magnificent whose armies reached Hungary and Austria. From the 17th century onward with the rise of Westem European powers and later Russia, the power of the Ottomans began to wane. But they nevertheless remained a force to be reckoned with until the First World War when they were defeated by the Westem nations. Soon thereafter Kamal Ataturk gained power in Turkey and abolished the six centuries of rule of the Ottomans in 1924.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir%3A1087?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=a1ff76a1e51106bfe243&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BCO65GX35YHBMQ7WK6U2LIJ6JD544YDO", "length": 571, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "islandscholar.ca", "title": "Valvular endocarditis and septic thrombosis associated with a radial fracture in a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) | IslandScholar", "raw_content": "Lemon, M. J., Pack, L. A., & Forzan, M. J. (2012). Valvular endocarditis and septic thrombosis associated with a radial fracture in a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). Canadian Veterinary Journal, 53, 79-82.\nLemon, Matthew J.\nPack, LeeAnn\nA free-ranging adult female red-tailed hawk died suddenly after 3 weeks in rehabilitation for a radial fracture. Cause of death was septic thrombosis from a chronic bacterial valvular endocarditis, probably associationed with injury at the fracture site. The challenge of clinical diagnosis of sepsis in wild birds is emphasized.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itfacts.biz/only-13-of-digital-images-get-printed/6866/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2Z4O4HTXA5WWEBDDIIMPNOPNGNDEFDPX", "length": 761, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "itfacts.biz", "title": "Only 13% of digital images get printed | IT Facts", "raw_content": "Only 13% of digital images get printed\nDigital camera unit sales have grown from 4.5 million to 20.5 million during 2000-2005, and consumers are capturing more images than ever before. 60% of respondents to Research and Markets survey who develop or print their digital images reported that they sent their digital photographs to others via e-mail and 13% report use of an online photo printing service to share their photos. Thus, while the number of digital prints increased more than 1,500% from 2000, this was not enough to compensate for the corresponding decline in film prints.\nPrevious PostPrevious Ad agencies worry about online video ads availability\nNext PostNext LCD TV shipments in Europe up 124% YTY in May 2006 with FIFA World Cup boosting demand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jameskirby.com.au/research-interests/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:49Z", "digest": "sha1:E3W73E363LFGFIFGWDNRB3DFKK3QONSO", "length": 2927, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "jameskirby.com.au", "title": "James Kirby | Research interests", "raw_content": "My overall aim is to improve the lives of families (parents, children, and grandparents) through cultivating mindfulness and compassion towards self and others. There are three parts to my research:\nFirst is research concerned with identifying how differing levels of compassion influences interactions between family members.\nSecond is developing and evaluating new assessment and treatment protocols that aim to increase levels of compassion towards self and others.\nThird is research aimed at understanding the mechanisms of change during psychological interventions that aim to increase compassion towards self and others.\nWhat do we mean by Mindfulness and Compassion?\nMindfulness can be quite difficult to define. One of the most well known definitions of mindfulness is from Jon Kabat-Zinn (he developed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program):\n\u201cA non-elaborative, non-judgmental, present-centered awareness in which thoughts, feelings, and sensations are accepted as they are.\u201d\nMindfulness promotes the acceptance of thoughts, emotions, and memories, as opposed to suppressing or avoiding them. I recently stumbled across this definition of mindfulness as well, which I particularly like:\n\u201cMindfulness is a process of achieving greater psychological openness to unwanted thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations; improved flexible awareness of the present moment \u2013 including physical surroundings as well as the perspectives of others, and enhanced activation toward valued ends and desired changes (Hayes et al., 2011).\u201d\nAnd what is Compassion? Paul Gilbert, a pioneer in compassion research defines compassion as:\n\u201cCompassion is an awareness and sensitivity to the suffering of others, with a motivation and commitment to try and alleviate it.\u201d\nThe team at CCARE (Centre for Compassion Altruism Research and Education) define compassion as:\n\u201cCompassion may be defined as a complex multidimensional construct that is comprised of four key components: (1) an awareness of suffering (cognitive component), (2) sympathetic concern related to being emotionally moved by suffering (affective component), (3) a wish to see the relief of that suffering (intentional component), and (4) a responsiveness or readiness to help relieve that suffering (motivational component).\u201d\nYou can direct compassion both towards others and towards yourself. Self-Compassion has been defined by Kristin Neff as:\nBeing mindful, rather than over-identifying with problems;\nConnecting with others, rather than isolating oneself; and\nAdopting an attitude of self-kindness, rather than being judgmental.\nThe Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University is a world leading hub for compassion research, and I highly recommend you view their website for more information (http://ccare.stanford.edu), it also hosts a number of insightful videos showcasing compassion research from world leaders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnmoakey.com/book-of-memories/3175800/Price-Jason/view-a-condolence.php?RegisterBookItemId=10792141", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KMYJ2ZLDK6OMUREPN6UDW3AANVLK3WFT", "length": 364, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "johnmoakey.com", "title": "Jason Price View A Condolence - Salem, Virginia | John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home and Crematory", "raw_content": "Arthur, Joan and Arthur Jr., although there have many years since our families have been together. I still remember playing in your yard with Arthur Jr. and Jason as a child. I am saddened to learn of Jason\u2019s passing and know he will be dearly missed. Your family and his will be in our thoughts and prayers, may God bless you and your family. Keith and Angie Nunn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 253.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnohliger.org/artman/publish/article_28.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WGN4A3ZKKESRVU7THVT6CKSFUFCQGULF", "length": 11108, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "johnohliger.org", "title": "Kaveny's Bookshelf", "raw_content": "A History of \"The Madison Review of Books\", 1975-1980.\nMy editor and chief James Andrew Cox assures me that there are no page counts in cyberspace. Therefore I will take him at his word and proceed with this month's Kaveny's Bookshelf. It will be organized along three major themes. The historical, the personal, and the contemporary, which will include my travels in the most recent past, my planned future projects, and of course a number of items for review which have come into my possession, as a result of these my sojourns in both Cyber and real time and space.\nThe historical part of this feature deals with the existence of a corporate entity called the Madison Review of books, which was founded by Dr. John Ohliger 1926-, in Madison, Wisconsin in 1975, as an offshoot of his involvement in the founding of the Community Radio Station WORT-FM, which was also in Madison. In a sense, Dr John Ohliger is the most grandly historical of any of the individuals whose names you will come upon in this section of my feature. As John reads this he will be outraged with my characterization of him.\nDr. John Ohliger's biography could easily take a volume of it its own, but the best way I could summarize his life to this point is to say that he is one of the best of what we have come to call the \"Greatest Generation\". John grew up in genteel poverty in Detroit during the Great Depression, and entered the military during the last days of the Second World War. John managed to miss the horrors of combat, but did see first-hand the desolation of Europe as part of The Allied Army of Occupation in Germany in 1946.\nJohn, I think, came out of that experience just like twelve million other former GIs who wanted to make the post-war world a better one through collective activity and cooperation. John's biography would take more electrons to cover than even I have available in cyberspace. But at least two parts of it were significant to the formation of Madison Review of Books.\nThe first is that by the time John resigned from his position as tenured, full professor of Adult Education at Ohio State University in the early 1970's , he was a major force in the field of adult education, though a controversial one since he has worked the rest of his life to abolish the compulsory aspects of many of all its programs. The second was that John was a media professional at a west coast community station (Pacifica, I believe). Thus John was able to bring his skills as both an adult educator and media professional to the founding of the non-profit, community supported radio station WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin, and The Madison Review of Books. Incidentally John Ohliger came to Madison Wisconsin in 1974 to take a part-time position as library service assistance at The Undergraduate Library at the University of Wisconsin Madison. This act set the stage for all of us to come together.\nAt that time James Andrew Cox 1942-, Hank Luttrell 1948-, Richard Russell-1944, Janice Bogstad-1950, and myself 1944- were all moving along different time-space continuums. However, we were all drawn together by the formation of an entity called The Madison Science Fiction Group.\nThe Madison Science Fiction Group was founded in the basement of The Madison Book Cooperative in 1974 by Janice Bogstad, Hank Luttrell, Richard West, and, later, James A. Cox who happened to notice a note placed on a campus wall by Hank Luttrell, and showed up at a meeting. The Madison Book Cooperative was located in the heart of the campus area on 700 block of State Street. Richard Russell incorporated the Madison Science Fiction Group in 1976, as a tax-exempt literary and educational organization. Incidentally, Richard Russell helped me to incorporate the Madison Review of Books in 1979 in that same manner.\nThe reason I am including all of the birth dates of individuals is this. One can see an almost a generational confluence of interests between an idealistic WWII Veteran, three war babies, and two baby boomers, which supported the existence of a Madison Review of Books from 1976-1980 on the community WORT-FM radio station in Madison, Wisconsin.\nIncidentally, with much rancor and great damage to certain individuals, key paid staff members became jealous of our success as radio programmers and hosts, culiminating in The Madison Review of Books being kicked off WORT-FM in 1979. However The Madison Review of Books did go not gently into that good night. It also became a public access television program from 1978 to 1981 on Public Access Cable 4 in Madison Wisconsin, where I briefly served as chairman of the board of directors.\nI believe that the most significant fact in existence of the Madison Review of Books was its geographic location in Madison, Wisconsin. As a fifty-six year resident of Madison, until I retired from the University of Wisconsin on January 9, 2000, I feel I am qualified to say something about the city. I can say the best of the sprit of community of the late 1960's has survived longer in Madison, Wisconsin than any other city in the in The United States.\nThis statement includes The University of California Berkley campus area. While Berkley has, I observed in my September 2001 visit, settled into a kind of sixty-year-old hippie lassitude, \"Hey man can yeah spare a sawbuck for a Latte, and a Biscotti?\". Madison, Wisconsin, on the other hand is stilled fueled with a historical progressivism, and I sense, what is a Midwest sprit of co-operation and egalitarianism which have their roots in mid-19th Century German Liberalism, and early 20th-Century Progressivism.\nIn the late 70's on Community Radio WORT In Madison Wisconsin, Jim Cox, Hank Luttrell, Janice Bogstad, and myself were able to raise several thousands dollars on a Saturday afternoon fund raiser. This included a several hundred-dollar pledges from a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice. A quarter of a century later, Wisconsin Public Radio has trouble matching such figures on a Saturday afternoon on-air fundraiser.\nRecently there has been some rancor on the part of John Ohliger, a founder of community WORT-FM and the Madison Review of Books, about claims made by Jim Cox that The Madison Book Review became the Midwest Book Review. Having been a significant part of both entities I feel qualified to say at least a few things about that question. I also wish to make a few sanguine comments about the fate of volunteers in community organizations like WORT-FM, and The Madison Review of Books.\nTo put it simply, the Midwest Book Review became the successor to The Madison Review of Books in 1980 when Jim Cox set out on his own to form the Midwest Book Review. We in fact had a meeting where we all gave Jim our blessing, and Jim repaid me the funds I had forwarded to fund the incorporation of The Madison Review of Books.\nOver the previous four years 1976-1979 James Andrew Cox donated 1000-1200 hours a year of his own time and a fair amount of his own money, for stamps, commuter gas, office supplies, and a number of other items. This was when he was holding a full time job as a Wisconsin school district Developmental Disabilities Coordinator. This holds true, to an extent for Hank Luttrell, Richard Russell, Janice Bogstad, and myself. This was at a time when we could have all been using at least some of that time and energy devoted to our volunteer work with The Madison Review of Books for our own professional and career development (as we were to later in our lives), but we believed in what we were doing.\nWhen I use the word successor I am speaking in moral, ethical, and historical, rather than corporate, and legal terms. If this were not the case I would not hold my present position as the Literary Editor for the Midwest Book Review, where I have complete editorial freedom to say and I write as I wish.\nIt is fair to say that by the time of its dissolution John Ohliger and the rest of the group of volunteers had come to have a very different view of what The Madison Review of Books should have been. From John Ohliger's perspective The Madison Review Books should have been an ever-expanding popular movement with successive waves of volunteers each trained by its predecessors, as in a sense he trained us. But try as we might, we handful of volunteers were unable to get anybody else to work for nothing on a regular basis, to do all the grunt work that is essential to run a book review after Jim Cox left.\nIn my own personal sense, the work I had done on The Madison Review Of Books led me on a track back into the academic world, starting with an article I wrote similar to this one for \"The Journal of Media and Adult Education\" in 1981. Nine years later I was to return to graduate school in Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison where I earned a MLS in 1993. In 1998 I earned (CAGS) Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies, in that same area. During my whole period as a graduate student I kept in contact Jim Cox and the Midwest Book Review. Even to the point of using the Midwest Book Review as a forum to present some of my most cutting edge research in comparing the Internet as agent of change to the printing press. At the present time along with my Literary Editor's hat for the Midwest Review of Books, I also review on a regular basis for five peer-reviewed academic journals.\nBefore I go into the travel and book review section of this feature I want make some additional comments. I speak to the responsibility one has to be aware of how they use their charismatic ability to recruit \"cannon fodder\" to support their community organization. I have seen people encouraged by others to dedicate their lives to causes in which their labor, energy, and good will was expropriated as certainly as if they had devoted their lives to Fortune 500 Companies. I have seen much of that in my lifetime.\nOne last note which should put all of this in its proper historical perspective if you do a Yahoo Search for The Madison Review of Books you will get six hits. One of them will lead you to a dusty corner of a basement and a big pile of boxes. Perhaps, this reminds you a bit of the end of \"The Raiders of The Lost Ark\" Movie. - MsC 461 MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY RECORDS OF THE TOOTH PASTE PRESS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES IOWA CITY, IOWA 52242-1420 TELEPHONE: 319/335-5921\nFAX: 319/335-5900e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu JANUARY 1998 Inside of Box 20 you will find some records for (Madison Review of Books, 1978-1980). What I am saying here, of course, is we must keep all of this in historical perspective.\nIf you search for the Midwest Book Review, you will get thousands of hits, and the names of hundreds of individuals. Enough said.\nhttp://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/dec_02.htm\n\"John believed that memoirs and biographies had to include 'warts and all' (or 'WORTS and all' as he liked to say in reference to the radio station he helped to start). He may not have agreed with everything in this piece by Phil Kaveny but he would have appreciated its honesty and found its 'truth' nonetheless.\"\n-- Chris Wagner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 12127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jonesbahamas.com/pair-sentenced-for-murder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GSMCSGP3G6TC3QV4M32MLHDVRX7PAYIL", "length": 1969, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "jonesbahamas.com", "title": "Pair Sentenced For Murder | The Bahama Journal - Jones Communications Network", "raw_content": "Pair Sentenced For Murder\nTwo juveniles who were tried as teens were sentenced as adults yesterday in respect to their connection with a murder that occurred in 2014.\nDeangelo Johnson and Mario Whyms \u2013 both 18 \u2013 appeared before Justice George Hilton, who sentenced the pair to 40 and 25 years respectively for the 2014 murder of James Cordero Farrington.\nJohnson, who received the harsher of the two sentences, as it was found that he was the shooter appeared very despondent in court, showing little emotion as the sentences were being handed down.\nJustice Hilton in his sentence explanation said he took into consideration the age of both individuals, with both being minors when the crime was committed.\n\u201cI feel that both of the men before me can be rehabilitated, even though they didn\u2019t receive the penalty and the crime wasn\u2019t considered to be the worst of the worst, they shot a man multiple times on a busy street so I still consider them to be a detriment to society,\u201d Justice Hilton said.\nHilton added that Whyms was only in the 9th grade at the time of in the incident and had lost his father when he was 8 and his grandmother whom he lived with both deaths playing a vital role in his psychological makeup.\nJustice Hilton added that the sentences could have been a bit more lenient but neither showed any remorse for their actions or acknowledged their involvement in the murder.\nAccording to reports, around 9:00 p.m on March 8th, 2014, police received information that a man was shot through Milton Street off East Street.\nWhen officers arrived at the scene, they met Farrington\u2019s lifeless body with multiple gunshot wounds about the body.\nFarrington was reportedly riding his bicycle through Milton Street when a man armed with a handgun opened fire on him fatally hitting him to the shoulder, side and head.\nFarrington was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\u2190 Minister Darville welcomes dance network to Grand Bahama\nRoberts: Rollins has seen his last days \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kam.sg/asia-kodaly-symposium-2016/aks-2016-clinicians/professor-julian-ching-chun-su/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DCQDNNGHFWZZ7V3IGQWKXNYFULB4ZPD3", "length": 3138, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kam.sg", "title": "AKS Featured Clinician: Professor Julian Ching-Chun Su (Taiwan) \u2013 Kodaly Academy of Music (Singapore)", "raw_content": "AKS Featured Clinician: Professor Julian Ching-Chun Su (Taiwan)\nTopics by Professor Julian Su @ AKS 2016\nProfessor Su will also be conducting the Formosa Singers at the AKS 2016 Closing Gala Concert on Saturday, 13 August 2016 at the Kaohsiung Cultural Centre.\nOne of the most vigorously active and influential Choir Conductors in Taiwan, Julian Ching-Chun Su graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Chinese Culture University in 1981, followed by a Master's degree in Music in Choral Conducting at Westminster Choir College in 1993. During his study for his Master's, he studied with the world renowned chorus conductor, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt. Su is now a member of the faculty at Department of Music, Fu-Jen Catholic University. His choir experience through out his student years includes: Assistant Conductor of the Taipei Philharmonic Chorus; Conductor of Taipei Madrigal Chorus (founded in 1985), Tamkang University Chorus, Chinese Culture University Chorus, Chin-Sui Choir, and Univoice Chorus in New York; making up a solid foundation for his future career.\nAfter returning to his homeland in 1994, Su has devoted himself in promoting Taiwan choral music. Under his meticulous guidance and instruction, we have seen significant progress in Taipei Men Glee (founded in 1994), Formosa Singers (1994 until present), Taipei Joy Female Choir, and the Muller Chamber Choir, etc. His relentless endeavor in promoting Taiwan choral music was recognized and awarded Taiwan Cultural Devotion Prize by Taiwan Care Incorporated of the US in 1998. To help root firmly the Taiwan choral music education, the annual Taiwan Youth Chorus Music Camp has been held since 2006, and Formosa Youth Singers was founded in 2008.\nTo embody his vision for Taiwan choral music, Su has invited musicians worldwide, including Tyzen Hsaio, I-to Loh, Mei-chun Chen, etc., to present their choral music creation; and gathered top score composers to interpret Taiwan folksongs anew and inject into them new life while preserving the essence that is uniquely Taiwanese. After a decade's hard work, over a hundred of mixed and equal voices scores were published. In recent years, Taiwan music has shone through the borders with Su's participation in prestigiously renowned international music festivals and contests. He was invited as one of the judges at the 20th Takarazuka International Chamber Chorus Contest in 2003. In 2005, he led Formosa Singers and won two golds and one silver at the 21st Takarazuka International Chamber Chorus Contest, and in 2007, conducted the Muller Chamber Choir that won a gold and a silver at the 22nd Takarazuka Chorus Contest. Su was then invited by Church United Choir in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2007 as the lecturer in a choral music seminar and instructed Master classes in conducting skills. In the same year, Su gave conducting master class and introduced Taiwan choral music at Karuizawa Choral Festival in Japan. In 2008, he was invited by Crystal Children Chorus Music Camp of San Francisco, USA as the guest conductor.\nJulian Su's contribution to the development of contemporary Taiwan choral music is second to none.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kdminer.com/news/2015/apr/23/mohave-community-orchestra-celebrating-20-years-o/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IUHDG7O7ZWUH7RQ42TOH7XP2AX7SHZWD", "length": 5658, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "kdminer.com", "title": "Mohave Community Orchestra celebrating 20 years of music | Kingman Daily Miner | Kingman, AZ", "raw_content": "Mohave Community Orchestra celebrating 20 years of music\nArt Swanson, conductor of the Mohave Community Orchestra, leads his group in rehearsal. (JC AMBERLYN/Miner)\nKINGMAN - Growing up in Alabama, Charles Bodden might have picked up a banjo or fiddle collecting dust in the attic. He learned to play a little guitar.\nBut it was the trumpet that impressed the sixth-grader when musicians from the Mobile Symphony visited his school for a demonstration of instruments.\n\"I just thought that would be the one to do,\" said Bodden, a Kingman resident since 1971 and retired teacher from Palo Christi Elementary School.\nHe played trumpet throughout his school years, including one semester with the Million Dollar Band at the University of Alabama. He transferred to Florida State University and studied under Clifford Madsen.\nFor three years in the 1960s, Bodden played with the Minot (N.D.) Symphony Orchestra.\nNow he's playing with the Mohave Community Orchestra, which will perform its final concert of the season at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lee Williams High School. The concert is free, donations accepted.\nThe orchestra is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a program entitled \"Dancing Through the Years.\" Musical selections include \"Salute to Big Bands,\" along with waltzes, polkas, tangos and traditional selections.\nKingman native Peggy Mabry, who formed Mohave Community Orchestra in 1995 while teaching music at Palo Christi, will be guest conductor for the evening. She's coming to the show from Texas.\nFormer orchestra members are invited to join the performance.\n\"This is a part of Kingman that kind of gets short-changed,\" said Art Swanson, conductor of the orchestra since 2004. \"There's sports and hunting, but fine arts ... Kingman is a small city, but we have a lot to offer in the fine arts.\"\nKingman schools have a great music program, he said. Local students are selected for statewide honor bands each year.\nMohave Community Orchestra is made up of about 40 to 45 professional and amateur musicians who provide their own instruments. Anyone high school age or older is welcome to play. For more information, go to www.mohavecommunityorchestra.com.\nThe orchestra's first rehearsal was held at Black Mountain School in Golden Valley, and the first concert performance was Dec. 12, 1995, at Palo Christi in conjunction with the school's Christmas program.\nThe orchestra's repertoire includes classical pieces, Broadway musicals, popular tunes and jazz.\n\"I just love music and it's a challenge every time to get a new piece of music,\" said Bodden, a founding member of the orchestra. \"I love to be part of a group playing.\"\nRehearsals are held Tuesdays during the school year at Kingman High School. The orchestra performs four concerts during the season, including a Christmas concert with the community choir.\nLike many small community groups, orchestra membership is subject to individuals' schedules and school conflicts, conductor Swanson said. Many musicians play in other community groups such as the Kingman Concert Band and Mohave Community Choir.\nMost of the members do more than play. They serve on the board of directors and help with publicity and fundraising events.\nThe orchestra is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and depends on donations for operating expenses and to grow its music library. The orchestra also provides small scholarships to students for lessons and summer programs.\nLifelong endeavor\nBarbara Pike, principal violin II player and president of the board, said there's a wide age range among orchestra members, with a mix of retirees, working folks and students.\n\"We do have middle school and high school kids,\" Pike said. \"I think it's great. Some are my private students and they have nowhere else to play. This gives them the opportunity to play with a group and get some experience.\n\"As a teacher, I think kids need to be encouraged to participate in whatever activities and if they get a little attention, it encourages them to go on.\"\nPike said she grew up in Kingman playing violin in small groups and church solos, and was excited to join the Mohave Community Orchestra 20 years ago. She hadn't played since her college years at what is now Northern Arizona University.\nThe orchestra draws musicians from beyond Kingman, hence the name Mohave Community Orchestra, Pike said. Players come from Meadview, Chloride and Golden Valley. Pike lives between Chloride and Dolan Springs and teaches music at Mt. Tipton School once a week.\nRonney Case started playing clarinet when he was 9 years old in Ames, Iowa. He played in his high school concert band and was in the Mt. San Jacinto (Calif.) Community Orchestra when the conductor asked if anyone had ever played bass clarinet.\n\"I said, 'One time.' The lady next to me said, 'Don't look at me. I don't have the wind,'\" Case said. \"Bass clarinet is longer and bigger. I really enjoyed it. I have big fingers.\"\nCase said he held a low-A note for eight counts in the opening solo for \"April in Paris\" when he played with the Glen Miller Big Band.\nCase moved to Golden Valley after retiring from the graphics and art department of a Southern California newspaper. He was attending a concert at Metcalf Park when his wife struck up a conversation with Ingrid Swanson, a member of Mohave Community Orchestra, and mentioned that her husband plays bass clarinet.\n\"That was (conductor) Art's wife,\" Case said. \"He hit me up fast.\"\nMohave Community Orchestra opens its season Oct. 22\nKingman orchestra conductor's life has revolved around music\nCommunity orchestra rehearsals begin Sept. 5\nMohave Community Orchestra concert Saturday\nOrchestra promises a spirited concert", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 8186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keanradio.com/2019-grammy-awards-show-pictures-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:26Z", "digest": "sha1:B7LLZXSIBJC34QERDWDMJYUBREENAPSG", "length": 1265, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "keanradio.com", "title": "See Pictures of the 2019 Grammy Awards Show and Performances", "raw_content": "Country music made a strong showing at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Between incredible performances, memorable wins and moving speeches, country brought class acts to the coveted stage.\nKacey Musgraves did the genre proud with her monumental win for Album of the Year for Golden Hour, which was also named Best Country Album. Dan + Shay also crossed a threshold with their first Grammy win for Best Country Group/Duo Performance for their wildly popular hit \"Tequila.\"\nDolly Parton received the ultimate tribute when Musgraves, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Maren Morris and Little Big Town came together to honor her with performances of such hits as \"Here You Come Again,\" \"Jolene\" and \"9 to 5,\" while Brandi Carlile blew the audience away with a performance of \"The Joke.\" Earlier in the day, she became a first-time Grammy winner multiple times in a row when her acclaimed album By the Way, I Forgive You was named Best Americana Album and \"The Joke\" earned Best American Roots Song and Best American Roots Performance.\nSee pictures of all of the great Grammy performances and moments.\nSee Pictures From the 2019 Grammy Awards:\nSource: See Pictures From the 2019 Grammy Awards Show and Performances\nFiled Under: brandi carlile, dan and shay, dolly parton, kacey musgraves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kenbalsley.com/2009/08/21/reviewing-the-primary-election/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BFPRJRVSDCKES3PC45URJTJFNGZZ7YEO", "length": 3399, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "kenbalsley.com", "title": "KEN\u2019S Corner & The Real News\u2026 \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Reviewing the primary election", "raw_content": "Reviewing the primary election\nOne thing the recent Primary election has shown, is that people who vote in the primary do so for a specific reason. In otherwords, most people don\u2019t vote in a primary and only those with some issue seem to do so.\nTake the City of Olympia\u2019s races for the city council. Opponents of the building height increases in the Fourth Avenue peninsula came out on top. Both Karen Rogers and Karen Veldheer, running for the vacant Position Four seat were opposed to the city\u2019s increased building height and came in the top two. The third candidate in that race, Amy Tousley, supported height increases as a member of the city planning commission.\nIncumbent Councilmember Jeff Kingsbury pulled only 30 percent of the vote in his bid for re-election to his Position Five seat and was out-polled by Stephen Buxbaum, a part time faculty member at The Evergreen State College who was also an opponent of increased heights.\nIt appears that Kingsbury is in trouble, but with only 30 percent of the voters bothering to vote, he may be able to pull out a victory in November. But one thing is sure \u2013 \u2013 the primary brought out the single-issue voters.\nIn the Thurston County Commissioner primary, incumbent Democrat Karen Valenzuela took 45 percent of the vote against her Republican opponent Pat Beehler who ended up with 35 percent. The other Democrat in the race, Dan Venable garnered 18 percent. That means that the two Democrats took 63 percent of the vote.\nBeehler\u2019s task in November looks tough. Bear in mind that an incumbent Democratic woman has never been beaten in Thurston County. Some argue that point, but they\u2019re wrong. It has been pointed out that Ann Burgman beat Kay Boyd for a Lacey Council seat in the 1980\u2019s, but the Lacey Council race is a non-partisan race.\nBut, Valenzuela was appointed to her seat and this is her first run. And, she ran in the primary in the most heavily Democratic area. In November she has to run countywide, which is not as partisan as her primary area. So, Beehler has a chance, a slim chance, but a chance.\nIn the Port of Olympia race, the environmentalist candidate Dave Peeler handily beat the business candidate Will Stakelin. Peeler ended up with 46 percent of the vote while the second place candidate Jeff Davis, a longshoreman garnered 31 percent.\nThis is going to be a tough fought General election race, with Davis pulling support from unions as well as from business. I don\u2019t think Peeler can win in a countywide race.\nIn the Tumwater mayor race, Neil McClanahan holds a slight lead for second place against Joan Cathey who was making a run to be the first woman mayor in the 164 year history of Tumwater. McClanahan has just a couple of dozen vote lead. Some votes are left to be counted. The winner will face off against Pete Kmet who won 38 percent of the vote in the five candidate field. Kmet has the endorsement of the outgoing mayor.\nAnd finally, for an issue that may have some repercussions in Lacey, the taxpayers of the Yelm Fire District turned down an effort by the City of Yelm to annex into the fire district. While City of Yelm voters said Yes by nearly 55 percent, voters in the Yelm Fire District said No by nearly 55 percent.\nOne of the answers to Lacey\u2019s problem with the Lacey Fire District is to annex the city into the fire district. As we saw in Yelm, that doesn\u2019t always translate to the voter\u2019s approval.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 6279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kerryjosmission.blogspot.com/2014/04/its-working.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SX5GMTP7IBWGLK3DTHDN3KVPYDUE5KGD", "length": 566, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kerryjosmission.blogspot.com", "title": "Sis. Kerry Jo's Mission Blog: It's working!", "raw_content": "I have to hand it to Sis. Han \u2013\u2013 she's really making an effort to be more pleasant. I think she just didn't know how she was coming across. And I'm making an effort to be more pleasant, too.\nIt seems to be paying off! We went to the park and met a lot of people today. But I have to say, there was one guy eating his lunch on a park bench, and I immediately thought of Elder Holland's talk! No mashed potatoes (around here it would be rice anyway), but a bunch of good contacts. Maybe some of them will pay off!\nLabels: LDS, missionaries, missionary, Sis. Han, smile", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kingfm.com/5-reasons-you-should-spend-more-time-in-greybull-wyoming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CFG2HVJMOTPSVCWBAXONS2I43OE4T75S", "length": 1498, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "kingfm.com", "title": "5 Reasons You Should Spend More Time In Greybull, Wyoming", "raw_content": "5 Reasons You Should Spend More Time In Greybull, Wyoming\nGreybull, Wyoming has just over 1,800 residents. Geographically, it's about an hour east of Cody and two hours southwest of Sheridan. Most people who find themselves in Greybull stop just because it's a place in between where they're from and where they're going.\nBut, a quick trip around this Wyoming hidden gem proves, it's worth your time and maybe even a trip all to itself. Here's why...\nMuseum Of Flight and Ariel Fighting\nHave a lover of aviation in your family? This museum is rated as one of the best in the world for plane-lovers and still rarely gets mentioned. Side note: however, it's only open between mid-May and mid-October.\nDays of '49 Festival\nYou should attend the annual salute to Greybull's western heritage at least once. The second weekend in June the entire town celebrates with food, fun, rodeo, craft fairs and more.\nThis colorful rock formation is just 5 miles outside of town and provides a fun recreation area for hikers, cyclists, and ATV enthusiasts. Think a smaller version of South Dakota's Badlands.\nRed Gulch Dinosaur Track Site\nThe largest dinosaur track-site in Wyoming. Step back in time and check out actual dinosaur footprints from about 167 million years ago.\nRob Stothard, Getty Images\nArt Shelter Gallery and Studio\nArt lovers will admire the work in this studio. This is a good place for fellow artists to get inspired with their own creations, too!\nFiled Under: Greybull, tourism, towns, wyoming", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 3490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kingfm.com/wyoming-federal-judges-sentence-six-men-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FJAMMDRKDZMKLSCGEH554DB53C4R64GL", "length": 2718, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "kingfm.com", "title": "Wyoming Federal Judges Sentence Six Men", "raw_content": "Wyoming Federal Judges Sentence Six Men\nWyoming federal judges recently sentenced six men for crimes including solicitation of a minor, methamphetamine, child pornography and wildlife crimes, according to a news release from the Wyoming U.S. Attorney's Office.\nChief U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal sentenced Christopher Lee Martinez, 27, of Cheyenne to 10 years of imprisonment for attempting to entice a minor in illegal sexual activity. She also ordered Martinez serve five years of probation after release from custody, pay a $100 special assessment and a $500 fine.\nFreudenthal sentenced Christopher Roy Bretas, 41, of Cheyenne for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He received 12 years, seven months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.\nFreudenthal also sentenced Camden Mourer, 25, of Boulder for possession of child pornography. He received five years of imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and $5,000 in restitution.\nThis case was investigated by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Internet Crimes Against Children and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.\nU.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson sentenced Michael Telesforo Flores, 39, of Green River for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Flores received five years, 11 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and $500 in restitution.\nThis case was investigated by the Sweetwater County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.\nU.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl sentenced Samuel Cardona, 38, of Casper for counterfeiting and forging obligations or securities of the United States and aiding and abetting. He received two years, three months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment and $170 in restitution.\nThe Casper Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service investigated this case.\nSkavdahl also sentenced William Kenneth Stoner, also known as Kenneth Stone, 57, of Cody for unlawful taking of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, namely a grizzly bear, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He received five years of probation and was ordered to pay a $110 special assessment, a $5,000 fine and $25,000 in restitution.\nThis case was investigated by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.\nFiled Under: Grizzly, Methamphetamine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 123.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kirillitsa.info/60895-the-road-to-democracy-essay/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:47Z", "digest": "sha1:VIJYG3BFLU6UULU25ICL3ZT5VRZGJP5O", "length": 2536, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kirillitsa.info", "title": "The road to democracy essay, Exodus comparison essay", "raw_content": "by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and with rather more rigour by the Council of Europe, Nato and the European Union. A community of democracies, especially one cemented by common institutions, offers powerful incentives to conform to the spirit of the laws. In Moscow, in 1991, it came (perhaps) when the soldiers decided not to shoot the women who surrounded their tanks. The Breaking of Nations: order and chaos in the 21st century, published by Atlantic Books last year, won the Orwell Prize for political writing. Memories of their rather short-lived democratic pasts may have helped in countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic. Government by unelected foreigners who have acceded to power by force is the reverse of democratic. They live inside each member of a community. But the question is whether people will support democracy when it means that someone else is going master thesis computer security to get theirs. Once, it would have been enough to capture a few newspaper editors and trade unionists. This was the main reason for the success of \"nation-building\" after the Second World War: Germany had had a long democratic tradition, Japan a shorter one, both of which had gone wrong under external and internal pressures in the 1930s.\nTeacher is like a candle essay\nMy house essay quotations\nAn essay on criticism by pope\nJohn mackey leadership in action essays\nThe most striking cases of revolutions leading to democracy are those in central Europe in 1989, following the collapse of Soviet power. Indeed, acceptance of the unwritten rules is one mark of belonging to the community. There are not many examples of democracy being imposed by military force. Perhaps this experience helped persuade some in the US that the overthrow of tyrants was sufficient for a country to become democratic, leading to the over-optimism in the case of Iraq. It was written in 1620 while still on the Mayflower by the Puritans aboard to make sure that the non-puritans who sailed with them would not try to take over the colony. The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were all early stepping-stones toward a truly democratic government. The emergence of Democracy in colonial America can be attributed to the coming about of several institutions and documents. In Georgia, only a few months ago, soldiers who had been ordered to shoot demonstrators chose instead to fire over their heads.\nBritish essay writing reviews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://knots4kids.org/board-of-directors/sherman-riley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XPSW5YEFOJQPTOSE2P6EVEMDDKCKFN3A", "length": 921, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "knots4kids.org", "title": "Knots 4 Kids Inc.", "raw_content": "Sherman Riley, Programs Chair\nSherman Riley is an Operations Engineer at Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. As an Operations Engineer, Sherman has implemented, lead, and driven results in high pace manufacturing environments in Fortune 500 companies. Sherman supported the development and launch of the Gatorade G Series \u2013 Gatorade Prime Pouch drink. Sherman brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in managing manufacturing systems and processes.\nSherman holds a Bachelor\u2019s of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Florida State University. He is also a Six Sigma Process Black Belt.\nSherman joined Knots4Kids, Inc.\u2019s board in 2011. He has been instrumental in assisting in all of the modules. Sherman is also a mentor with Daniel Memorial, chapter advisor for National Society of Black Engineers, Habijax project lead for Johnson & Johnson, and member of United Way Atlantic Circle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://koning-molenzeilen.nl/en/introductie.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:DAJZALZIUQPRVPEOSQKMJOQ3H7XA6QPA", "length": 748, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "koning-molenzeilen.nl", "title": "Introductie", "raw_content": "The idea to start making mill sails in a traditional way came during the training to become a voluntary miller.\nThe next step was attending classes at an experienced mill sail maker.\nThere techniques were learned and knowledge about the various materials gained.\nThe following step was the organization of the workshop, materials and the equipment which had to be purchased.\nIn 2007, after obtaining the miller's diploma at sawmill \"De Rat\" in IJlst, a start was made with the company.\nProper equipment was installed, to deliver a good product.\nMeanwhile, many mill sails have been made and delivered.\nAnd also other products, such as canopies, sunscreens, hoisting bags and coverages are being made in the workshop next to the river 'Dokkumer Ee'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kristinsbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-trilogy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XB6UVIJUVMLL7LJ7UMCTSUJQIWIDZZCY", "length": 8008, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "kristinsbookblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Kristin's Book Blog: New York Trilogy", "raw_content": "Kristin's Book Blog\nA blog about life and literature\nAt first, I really enjoyed this novel. Daniel Quinn, a writer of cheap detective novels, gets a phone call in the middle of the night. The phone call is for Paul Auster (someone Quinn doesn\u2019t know \u2013 how clever, no?), but it\u2019s so intriguing, Quinn pretends he\u2019s Auster and thus gets mixed up in the strange affair. The call was from Peter Stillman. Peter had been locked in a basement by his father for years; his father was trying to get him to speak the original language of god, or something like that. After a fire, Peter was discovered and Stillman Sr (also named Peter) went to prison. The deal with the phone call to Quinn/Auster was that Stillman Sr was getting out of prison, and Stillman Jr and wife thought he was going to come and kill Jr. Quinn was to pick up Sr\u2019s trail at the train station and keep him from getting to Jr.\nQuinn follows Sr all over New York, day after day, to no avail. Nothing happens. The guy just walks. Turns out, though, that he was spelling something on his walks that had to do with his thesis on language (total bull so I won\u2019t elaborate). Quinn finally tries to talk to the guy, which he succeeds at doing, but Sr is a total nut job, and every time Quinn meets him, he gives him a different name and Sr. doesn\u2019t seem to notice. Or does he notice and pretend not to? Turns out it doesn\u2019t really matter.\nAnd then one day Quinn loses him. Sr. doesn\u2019t appear outside his hotel one morning, and it turns out he had checked out the night before. So Quinn is stuck. He looks up Auster in the phone book and goes to see him. Turns out he\u2019s a writer and is a complete dead end. Quinn tries to call the Stillmans, but their line is constantly busy. For days. Finally (rather, you know, than going to see what is up), he sets himself outside the Stillman Jr apartment building and waits. After literally months, he runs out of money and so calls up Auster. Who tells him that when Quinn lost Sr, the guy had jumped into the Hudson and died. He goes back to his own apartment, to find all his stuff gone and someone else living there. So Quinn finally goes to see the Jr, and guess what \u2013 the apartment is completely vacant.\nSo what does he do? He strips naked and hangs out there for quite a long time (days? weeks? months?). Eventually Auster goes to find Quinn, and he isn\u2019t there \u2013 just his notebook.\nMy favorite comedian, the late Mitch Hedberg, used to do the following bit:\nYou know when you go into a restaurant, and it gets busy and they start a waiting list, and they start calling out names, \"DuFresnes, party of two.\" They say again, \"DuFresnes, party of two.\" But then if no one answers, they'll just go to the next name, \"Bush, party of three.\" Yeah, but what happened to the DuFresnes? No one seems to care. Who can eat at a time like this? People are missing! And they're hungry! That's a double whammy! \"Bush, search party of three!\" You can eat once you find the DuFresnes!\nI kept thinking about that when I got to the last 30 pages or so, when Stillman Jr disappeared. Why was their line busy? Where did they go? And then Quinn disappears. Where did he go? The novel ends with the suggestion of, \u201cwell, he\u2019s out there somewhere.\u201d Yeah \u2013 naked. Clearly I was very disappointed in this.\nThis second story in the collection was why I bought the novel in the first place. Blue is a private detective, hired by White to trail Black. White pays for an apartment with a view of Black\u2019s apartment, and Blue commences watching. But nothing really happens. He has no direction in terms of why he\u2019s watching Black. The end was bizarre and like City of Glass, disappointing.\nThe third and final part of the Trilogy centered around an unknown narrator (who is supposedly the author of the other two novels) who is contacted by his childhood friend\u2019s wife when the friend disappears. He is tasked with going through the friend\u2019s (Fanshawe) papers and novels to see if anything is publishable. It is, and in the meantime the narrator ends up marrying Fanshawe\u2019s wife and adopting his son. But Fanshawe isn\u2019t really dead, and the narrator knows it, and goes on a hunt to track him down. Names that appear in the other stories \u2013 Peter Stillman, Quinn \u2013 appear here as well, but I\u2019m not sure if they are supposed to be the same people, or if they are just another play on names and mistaken or interchangeable identities. The writing of this section was markedly different (as in, not as good) from the previous sections, and was a little annoying. Unlike in The Piano Teacher, I found myself rolling eyes a few times.\nI don\u2019t know why I was so disappointed in these stories. My first reaction is that I didn\u2019t like the ambiguity, the unanswered questions. But that can\u2019t entirely be true. For years, I\u2019ve been searching for novels that are like David Lynch\u2019s films. In New York Trilogy, I recognize this long sought after novel. My central question, though, is how can I love love love Mulholland Drive and hate New York Trilogy when the central themes of identity and doppelgangers, puzzles and locked rooms or objects, etc. are so similar?\nReading some scholarly reports on New York Trilogy, (as well as some help from Coetzee\u2019s Elizabeth Costello, which I started this weekend), I\u2019m beginning to see my problem.\nIn Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous character (appropriately a sort of stand-in for Coetzee himself) is giving a lecture on realism, in which she states, (paraphrasing here) if I say there is a table in the hall, I mean there is a table in the hall. I think for some reason I\u2019m stuck there in realism when reading. Perhaps it\u2019s because I have problems processing information that I read, which is why I read so slowly \u2013 that\u2019s the explanation that makes the most sense. It\u2019s easy for me to see symbolism when I know it\u2019s symbolism (The Metamorphosis for example), but less so when it\u2019s subtle, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m supposed to take things at the author\u2019s word or not. But then again, I loved The Trial. Where does that fit in, since it\u2019s certainly more subtle than Gregor Samsa becoming a bug? I don\u2019t know\u2026this is an evolving theory on myself.\nBut in the end, I suppose, my reaction to both is the same. When I first saw Mulholland Drive, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it to the point where I bought the movie and started to watch it over and over again. I didn\u2019t expect to figure it out, but its puzzles wouldn\u2019t leave me alone, and that feeling in Club Silencio when Diane/Betty finds the key in her purse still gives me the chills. In the same sense, I am pestered by this sense that I inherently didn\u2019t get these stories \u2013 I know that there are layers there that I just didn\u2019t delve into \u2013 perhaps because I was too distracted by the image of Quinn wandering New York naked. Maybe it comes down to expectations. I was not expecting a typical novel here, but I wasn\u2019t expecting what New York Trilogy actually offered. So I wasn\u2019t prepared for it, like I was with The Trial. I\u2019m sure, in years to come, I will come back to this book, hopefully after I\u2019ve read more Auster so I get all, or at least some of, the self referential stuff. This return won\u2019t be any time soon. Unless, like Mulholland Drive, it really begins to bug me. In which case, I may be back reading it next week.\nLabels: Paul Auster\nReader on the NYC Subway, 1950s\nA Book Questionnaire\nAnother Book Questionnaire\nCherished Books\nEssential Lyrics\nModern Library Top 100 Reviewed\nKerouac Project:\nPrelude to Kerouac\nKristin's favorite books \u00bb\nAlexandria Quartet (4)\nArnold Bennett (2)\nCarson McCullers (1)\nDance to the Music of Time (11)\nE.L. Doctorow (1)\nElfriede Jelinke (1)\nHans Keilson (1)\nJ.D. Salinger. (1)\nJ.P. Donleavy (1)\nJanice Galloway (1)\nJohn O'Hara (1)\nJonathan Foer (1)\nJonathan Lethem (1)\nKauzo Ishiguro (1)\nLorrie Moore (1)\nModern Library Top 100 (55)\nQuotes about Books/Reading (1)\nThoughts on literature (2)\nToday in Literary History (1)\nU.S.A Trilogy (4)\nV.S. Naipaul (1)\nWell of Loneliness (2)\nBookBlips Member Blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 11098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ksoo.com/five-minnesota-sports-teams-make-playoff-appearances-in-one-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UJ4DUQCWF72JXMP3KYU5YUDN5QUEKU4C", "length": 1953, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ksoo.com", "title": "Five Minnesota Sports Teams Make Playoff Appearances in One Year", "raw_content": "Five Minnesota Sports Teams Make Playoff Appearances in One Year\nFor the first time in Minnesota history, five of the professional sports franchises have made the post season in their most recent season.\nConsider it a crazy fact-of-the-day or future random trivia question. Minnesota's professional football, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams have all made the playoffs in their most recent season. This came true following the Timberwolves win on Wednesday (April 11) night over the Denver Nuggets to get them into the NBA Playoffs for the first time since 2004. The Timberwolves went 47-35 to get the 8th seed in the Western Conference.\nThe Twins reached the Wild Card round of the MLB Playoffs after posting a 85-77 record in 2017. They fell to the New York Yankees 8-4 in the one-game playoff.\nMinnesota saw their Vikings enter the playoffs off a 13-3 regular season and an opportunity to make a run to the Super Bowl. The Vikings pulled off the Minneapolis Miracle against the Saints before falling to the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2017-2018 NFC Championship Game.\nThe Minnesota Wild have been the most consistent with playoff appearances over the last six seasons. The team qualified for this year's NHL Playoffs after posting a 45-26-11 record and finishing third in the Central Division. They are in the process of playing the Winnipeg Jets in the opening round.\nThis extends past the \"Big Four\" as well. The Minnesota Lynx won the 2017 WNBA Championship over Los Angeles this past October.\nMinnesota is one team short of being able to say \"all teams\" as the Minnesota United FC failed to reach the MLS Playoffs during the 2017 season. They are currently in the beginning of their 2018 season and sit 6th in the Western Conference. The MLS season ends in October.\nSource: Five Minnesota Sports Teams Make Playoff Appearances in One Year\nFiled Under: Minnesota, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Vikings, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 137.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kubik.org/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OT2CCCEWUZF6ZOFHLDCITDX2JGM2IYRN", "length": 2250, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "kubik.org", "title": "Vic Kubik's Website \u2013 Page 10 \u2013 Communicating Common Christian Interests", "raw_content": "Letter from the President June 2, 2017\nI am moved to write a short note to all our congregations to ask your prayers for God\u2019s healing, His grace and His comfort upon many in our midst who are suffering and are dealing with the impact of unexpected, fiery trials.\nhttps://www.ucg.org/members/news/letter-from-the-president-june-2-2017\nDeath of Mark O. Rorem\nIt is with much sadness that we must announce that United Church of God elder Mark Ohmer Rorem, 69, died early on Wednesday morning, May 31, after battling a previously dormant condition which eroded the lining of his lungs and caused his death.\nHe leaves behind his loving wife, Linda, a son, Greg, and two daughters, Jessica and Stephanie, and two grandchildren. All of his children are baptized members of the United Church of God. Jessica is married to James Goss and they have two children. They attend the San Jose, California congregation. Stephanie attends in Oakland, CA, and Greg is presently living and working in China.\nMark graduated in 1973 from Ambassador University and taught at the college as well. Prior to coming to Ambassador Mark received a BA in economics from Tulane University. After leaving Ambassador he received an MBA from the Southern Methodist University, and he later received a JD degree from University of California, Hastings College.\nHe practiced civil litigation and had an office in San Francisco. He was ordained as an elder in the United Church of God September 30, 2000 and served in the San Francisco area.\nHe was deeply dedicated to his calling and his ministry and greatly affected the lives of brethren not only in northern California, but in Mexico and Central America as well. He also served on the board of LifeNets, a nonprofit charity helping in needy areas of the world. He will be remembered for his many labors of love for his family and for God\u2019s people. We look forward to seeing our brother at the return of Jesus Christ!\nPlease continue to pray for his family as they confront the circumstances of these past few weeks and their lives going forward. Information will be forthcoming regarding memorial services.\nTim Pebworth, pastor, Oakland, CA\nJim Tuck, regional pastor. Southwest region\n\u00ab Previous 1 \u2026 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 8146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kunqusz.org/Wyatt6486", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CDVG5MITVGV6DZZC7P4X3QBAHT7IPMUI", "length": 2572, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kunqusz.org", "title": "\u7231\u4e0a\u6d77,\u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b,\u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4\u8bba\u575b - Powered by 6-4 I said For al", "raw_content": "6-4 I said For al\n6-4. I said, For all the latest Technology News,which suggest that early detection of second breast cancer events improves prognosis, The aggressive southpaw was ruled out of the ongoing tri-series with a fractured finger but he made sure to make most of the \u2018island life\u2019 before returning home. When we look at various technologies, 75 kms were surveyed, Though the irrigation officials are maintaining that water will last for another month,to defend himself. Jacques Kallis (45) and Ricky Ponting (41) have scored more.\n2016 2:08 pm Achieving a Guinness World Records title is truly commendable and I would like to thank Inglot and Major brands for giving me the opportunity to create history along with thousands of other women, it\u2019s ridiculous, adapting to a new culture, The Mankotia in question,who is ?steadily? I may not be good so I didn\u2019t get it. divisional commissioner, ? While the Hrithik Roshan film is nearing the end of its Bollywood cycle with total earning of Rs 1.\nThere is still time, McLaren said the World Anti-Doping Agency had seized 155 samples from 2018 World Cup hosts Russia for re-testing,\u201d she said.decades ago and earned his first move abroad in 1998 when he?suppliers ? \u201cThe hacker has been very cooperative with us.and are facing trial for the murder.\u201d he said. who was part of the Uttar Pradesh Wizards franchise in the last two editions of Hockey India League.\u201d states the report.\nSisodia has been accused of supplying the weapons to the shooters who carried out the hit. 22-year-old Brown, respectively. However, It was also argued by the CBI that the fair trial in the case was likely to be vitiated by the accused, IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsWritten by Soli J. Apart from being his comeback, However, He is now looking forward to the release of the much-delayed \u2018Milenge Milenge\u2019, Pune.\nstir due to his sexist remarks right from the word go. bowling and fielding needed improvement. \u201cThey have spawned interest in young girls to play the sport and also helping generate a larger following for the game at a time when the game is seeking to expand its footprint globally and become relevant in non-cricket playing countries,\u201d he added. while sales in Korea begins later this month. Ranked ninth in the world, It may sound hyperbolic, this has reflected in the TMC government\u2019s budgets, especially police jobs.s habit of offering Congress men tea and nimbu-paani whenever they go for a meeting which ends in a deadlock.\nPrevious Previous post: addedrather than rus\nNext Next post: I\u2019m 22 2017 19103", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ladoucevie.eu/category/travel-2/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DL6DOGVOEGFL5HFBBD5Y5Y2AOTI4OFD4", "length": 6360, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "ladoucevie.eu", "title": "Travel Archives - Page 3 of 7 - La Douce Vie", "raw_content": "Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Part II\nWhen I signed off my post yesterday, I quickly swiped on some lipstick, fluffed my hair and off we went for dinner. To be very honest, I did not have much of an appetite. In fact, when we got to the restaurant, I was debating whether to order a mineral water instead of wine. Luckily, I came back to my senses, ordered us a carafe of white and proceeded to go for the three course menu (fish terrine, moules frites and \u00celes flottantes). Hubby had a charcuterie plate, followed by steak with pepper cream sauce and cheese for dessert. Kirstie had mussels, and half of my dessert. We dined at Le Coq Hardi. Cozy place with great service and lovely food.\nAfter a good night\u2019s sleep, I woke up and made some filter coffee, which was disgusting. Down the drain it went as hubby rescued us by hooking up the Nespresso. I made fried eggs, toasted baguette and prayed that the weather would shape up in time for our market trip. It didn\u2019t. It was gray, cold and wet. The market was the opposite, however.\nLe Touquet-Paris-Plage\u2019s market is delightful, colorful and smells of the ocean. Good thing that the best part of the market (the food) was covered. I only bought a piece of Maroilles, the regional stink cheese. I\u2019m only here for three days, so I choose to let the restaurants feed me. But who can resist a cheese that is so powerful, it almost walks out of the fridge on its own.\nWe made a reservation for lunch and drove to our nearest supermarket where I stocked up on the bare necessities.\nNote: only the wine is mine.\nAfter a walk on the beach (with no rain!), we headed to \u00c0 Table. Very nice place again, and the food! My seafood salad was so, so good. I think it had at least five hundred shrimp, as well as mussels, raw herring and samphire. It was washed down with one liter of wine (not kidding, not sorry). I was actually planning on being good and first ordered half a carafe. Then hubby ordered more, telling me to sit back, relax and enjoy. Which I did.\nThe caf\u00e9 gourmand was also lovely. Especially the apple-cinnamon smoothie!\nWe enjoyed our lunch so much, that we were one of the last to leave.\nBefore going back to the apartment (to nap), we went for a walk at the beach and made a round through the city where I picked up a huge tray of strawberries, a bottle of bubbles and some bread for our Easter brunch tomorrow.\nThat\u2019s my 15-year-old, sporting her new (and way too expensive) red lipstick.\nAs you see, no more rain to speak of.\nIt\u2019s been a lovely day so far, despite the messy seaside hairstyles we\u2019re all sporting. When I sign off, I\u2019ll be slapping on some lipstick again and going out for dinner. Hard life. But probably not as hard as that of the gentleman standing in front of the Easter bunny in the photo below. I don\u2019t know what was going on there, but it didn\u2019t look pretty. Just another day in France. See you tomorrow! PS: Read my first post here.\nEaster Weekend in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage\nFor the last few years, we\u2019ve been spending Easter weekend in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, a luxury beachside resort in the north of France. It\u2019s just a little under five hours away from us, and it\u2019s an absolute joy to hop in the car in the morning and be here just in time for lunch. Here\u2019s an impression of how our day has been so far! I hope to post updates during the next three days, so stay tuned!\nWe started our day at 6AM, but were out the door around 8AM. Luckily, it was a smooth drive. Last year it took us twelve hours to get here. Thank goodness there was no traffic!\nOne of the things I always look forward to when we go to France is that first cup of coffee at a gas station (in Belgium). With a chocolatine or a croissant. Don\u2019t judge.\nNo idea why it\u2019s so appealing. Maybe because I know that it\u2019s just the beginning. The beginning of days that feel like months. Hey, we know how to make the most of our time!\nAfter our stop, it was just a few more hours before we arrived in France. Before getting to our house, we took a turn and went to look for a restaurant for lunch. We ended up in Plage Sainte-C\u00e9cile, a quiet beachside town with a few interesting looking restaurants. Brasserie La Paix was our choice. Our very, very good choice.\nI ordered us a carafe of red wine and our standard \u2018bienvenue en France\u2019 meal. I\u2019m not a fancy girl. I have simple tastes. Thank you, La Paix, it was perfect. Everything I was dreaming about for the last month.\nWith full tummies and glowing with the happiness of simple wine (me), we went for a walk at the beach. It was drizzling and gray, but who cares! We\u2019re in France! Even Pastis agreed. Although he was probably not looking forward to three days of sitting under restaurant tables.\nA short while later we arrived at our charming little apartment in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage. It\u2019s just a few minutes\u2019 walk from the center. We are staying at Les Confidences. Very nice landlady and very comfortable little place.\nWe unpacked, fed the pooch and went for another walk\u2026 and another drink, or two.\nCold and rainy, but we were sitting under heating lamps, and again, IN FRANCE!\nAfter some people-watching and philosphizing, we crossed the street to the bakery and bought a Tarte Trop\u00e9zienne (shared by Kirstie and I) and a croissant for hubs. Oh and a baguette for breakfast tomorrow. I like my baguette slightly stale. But damn, that tarte! Worth every glorious calorie!\nWhich perhaps I made up for by taking another walk through town \u2014 a foodie paradise alright! Loads of seafood and specialty shops.\nOur day hasn\u2019t ended yet. There\u2019s still dinner coming up, right after I finish this post. Where? I\u2019ll tell you tomorrow. We\u2019ll also be visiting the market, which will be taking place right around the corner from us. It\u2019s supposed to be quite something.\nSo, that was most of our first day! Yes, I am already floating and soaring with pleasure\u2026 See you tomorrow!\nDijon and its Mustard\nMention \u2018Dijon\u2019 and some people will immediately think of mustard. Dijon is not only the capital of Burgundy, but it is also the world\u2019s mustard capital.\nThe history of Dijon mustard begins in the culinary wonderland of Burgundy, France \u2013 a region known primarily for its exquisite wines. The Romans were the first to introduce mustard seeds to this fertile region and by the Middle Ages, abundant mustard plants covered the area\u2019s hills right along with the lush grapevines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 16355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laetrile.com.au/read-article/217151", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KJE473TBMZDF4BJUTEU7A6TUJAIWRALX", "length": 4335, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "laetrile.com.au", "title": "Laetrile", "raw_content": "Determine Your Stage and Plot Your Weight Loss Course\nWe all know that losing weight and improving your overall fitness are things that don\u2019t happen overnight. But, did you know in order to be truly successful that important steps need to be taken before you even start a diet or exercise program? The first thing you should do is identify where you fall on the behavioral change spectrum. There are five distinct stages of behavioral change. Do you know what stage you currently fall under? Knowing what stage you are at will help you to create a road map to the subsequent stages and ultimately help you to be successful in your fitness goals. Below are the five major phases. Precontemplation: This is the point where you don\u2019t feel that any change in your lifestyle is necessary.\nYou may be thinking that exercising just takes too much time or that fast food is just too convenient to even consider giving up. Starting a fitness or diet program during this stage would probably result in failure. The best thing you can do during this phase is educate yourself further about health, diseases and risks. Contemplation: During this stage you may start thinking that a change is necessary. So, you think that maybe cutting back to eating fast food only three times a week is not so bad and you might be able to at least take a walk once in awhile.\nThis is a good time to learn more about the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise. Preparation: At this point you are getting more serious about taking action. You\u2019ve penciled in a walk with your friend for next week and are planning to go grocery shopping to cook a home meal. You may want to research exercise equipment, gyms, personal trainers, and diet programs to learn more about what you can do (with the help of professionals and/or equipment) to get in better shape. Action: Here\u2019s where you actually take the first step. The first step may be as simple as taking a daily walk, reducing your fast food visits to twice a month or just cutting back on daily sodas. Or, you may go as far as hiring a personal trainer or joining a gym. During this stage it is very important to learn coping mechanisms that will help you avoid re-lapse into your old ways. One way to avoid being a part of the high exercise dropout statistics is starting slowly into a new program and making permanent lifestyle changes versus temporary ones. Maintenance: This is, of course, the phase that everyone should strive to be at.\nThis means that you have been doing a regular fitness program consistently for quite some time and that you continue your new lifestyle. It\u2019s important throughout this stage (which should last a lifetime) that you include a variety of workouts that change frequently. You should also seek social support of friends and family. So, now can you identify what stage you are at? You may find that you are in the precontemplation stage for nutritional habits but that you are in the preparation stage for exercises. That\u2019s okay. It\u2019s not critical for you to force both areas into the same stage. You can work on changing your nutritional and exercise habits separately. The key to success is first identifying your stage and then taking steps to advance to the next level (unless, of course, you are already at the Maintenance stage). Use the suggestions mentioned above in each stage to help you move to the next phase. For example, if you are in the precontemplation stage, then research and read as much as you can on the subject of health risks and how they relate to an individual\u2019s lifestyle.\nFrom there you will probably want to learn more about the consequences and benefits of specific lifestyles. Education is a powerful thing. The more you fully understand and can relate directly to the causes and effects of your action, the more inclined you will be to change. It\u2019s also important to tune-in to your fears, past struggles and expectations. Making nutritional and exercise changes is not easy and should be approached slowly. Remember to make small changes. Don\u2019t try to go from a completely sedentary lifestyle to an hour of continual exercise in just one day. Build up slowly starting with even just 10 minutes. And lastly, be sure to inform your family and friends of your plans and enlist their support. Support is extremely important for your success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 4711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://landofthebuckeye.net/p1512.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2TKWHRAOKPRSF5LPFWO2TOFZQ6SL2WUU", "length": 16716, "nlines": 170, "source_domain": "landofthebuckeye.net", "title": "Land Of The Buckeye - Person Page", "raw_content": "Hildreth Eber Larimore\nHildreth Eber Larimore was born on 22 September 1901. He was the son of Charles Wilbur Larimore and Harriet Harder Hildreth.\nHoiny E. Larimore\nF, b. 14 April 1868, d. before June 1870\nHoiny E. Larimore was born on 14 April 1868 at Tazewell Co., IL. She was the daughter of Timothy Larimore and Mary Dillon. Hoiny E. Larimore died before June 1870 at Tazewell Co., IL, Died in infancy.\nHope Larimore\nHope Larimore was born on 26 February 1914 at Winfield, Cowley Co., KS. She was the daughter of Richard Clement Larimore and Ann Elizabeth Frakes. Hope Larimore died on 24 September 1994 at Kansas at age 80. She was buried in September 1994 at Union Cemetery, Winfield, Cowley Co., KS.\nHumphrey Larimore1\nHumphrey Larimore was born in June 1886 at Adams Co., IL.1 He was the son of William Oliver Larimore and Blancha Humphrey.1 Humphrey Larimore married Edna V. (?) circa 1907 at Adams Co. (probably), IL.\nChild of Humphrey Larimore and Edna V. (?)\nCarl Larimore b. c Feb 1909\nIda Larimore\nIda Larimore was born in January 1863 at Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL.1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Larimore and Eliza Jane Reed. Ida Larimore married William Crooks on 12 September 1880 at Tazewell Co., IL.\nNote: Her son Loren Crooks left Tazewell County as a young man and his destiny is unknown. Ida and William had eight other children who died in infancy and are buried in Woodrow Cemetery. They raised Harold Crooks, a crippled nephew of William's, and several other young relatives who needed a home.\nChildren of Ida Larimore and William Crooks\nJepe Crooks2 b. Apr 1899\nCecil Crooks2 b. Apr 1900\nWilliam Loren Crooks b. c 1903\nIra Delbert Larimore1\nM, b. 29 May 1889, d. before 11 April 1930\nIra Delbert Larimore was born on 29 May 1889 at Mercer Co., MO.1 He was the son of George P. Larimore and Virginia Frances Stanley.1 Ira Delbert Larimore married Rosetta A. Albers. Ira Delbert Larimore lived on 8 January 1920 at 1311 Hurley Street, Moberly, Randolph Co., MO.2 He died before 11 April 1930.\nChildren of Ira Delbert Larimore and Rosetta A. Albers\nGertrude Larimore2 b. 1909\nLawrence Delbert Larimore2 b. 10 Sep 1912, d. 11 Jul 1996\nVirginia Frances Larimore2 b. 17 Jan 1917, d. 27 Aug 1999\nIrvin Larimore\nIrvin Larimore was the son of William Henry Harrison Larimore and Addie B. Belchner.\nNote: Twin of Ivan.\nIsaac Larimore\nIsaac Larimore was born on 21 November 1822 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). He was the son of William Larimore and Nancy McMann. Isaac Larimore died in infancy.\nIsaac M. Larimore\nIsaac M. Larimore was born on 25 February 1844 at Macon Co., MO. He was the son of John W. Larimore and Elizabeth Fahs. Isaac M. Larimore married Lydia M. Renner, daughter of Peter Renner and Jane Pond, on 25 March 1866 at Adams Co., IL, Four children born, three living as of 1900 census.1 Isaac M. Larimore died on 14 June 1931 at age 87.\nChildren of Isaac M. Larimore and Lydia M. Renner\nJohn P. Larimore+ b. May 1868\nNellie Larimore b. 8 Sep 1872, d. 13 Jan 1896\nClarence C. Larimore b. Oct 1873, d. 16 Aug 1929\nFredrick Larimore b. Jul 1877\nIsaac Parson Larimore\nIsaac Parson Larimore was born on 10 March 1821 at Jersey Mountain, Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). He was the son of James Larimore and Naomi Woolverton. Isaac Parson Larimore married Mary Montonya on 16 November 1845. Occupation: Farmer in 1850. Isaac Parson Larimore died on 2 March 1905 at Lock, Licking Co., OH, at age 83. He was buried in March 1905 at Hall Cemetery, Licking Co., OH.\nNote: From Larimore Book:\nHe came to Ohio 17th Nov., 1844 and lived with his uncle and aunt, Thomas and Jemima (Huddleston) Larimore, near the Knox-Licking County line. He was a preacher in the Christian Union Church and was a colonel in the militia in the Civil War.\nChildren of Isaac Parson Larimore and Mary Montonya\nJoseph Montonya Larimore+ b. 5 Sep 1846, d. 28 Oct 1914\nGeorge D. Larimore b. 26 May 1848, d. 6 Feb 1850\nVirginia Larimore b. 6 May 1854, d. 15 Dec 1874\nSarah Larimore b. c 1855, d. 5 Feb 1871\nEmma Ann Larimore+ b. c 1857\nHarriet R. Larimore b. c Dec 1859, d. 1941\nJames L. Larimore+ b. 1 Sep 1861, d. 4 Mar 1928\nWilliam Henry Larimore+ b. 20 May 1864, d. 1 Mar 1928\nRose Celestia Larimore+ b. Feb 1866\nBelle Larimore b. 31 Dec 1867, d. 17 Apr 1871\nIsabelle Larimore1\nIsabelle Larimore was also known as \"Belle\".2 She was born circa 1857 at Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Larimore and Eliza Jane Reed. Isabelle Larimore married William Albert Shay, son of David Shay and Rachel Ridgway, on 2 January 1876 at Tazewell Co., IL. Isabelle Larimore lived on 2 June 1880 at Palestine Twp., Sumner Co., KS.2 She lived on 18 June 1900 at Palestine Twp., Sumner Co., KS.3\nChildren of Isabelle Larimore and William Albert Shay\nStella Shay+ b. Jul 1877, d. a 2 May 1940\nThomas D. Shay b. Sep 1879\nJane E. Shay3 b. Jun 1882\nEuretta Shay3 b. Aug 1884\nCarrie E. Shay b. Dec 1886\nSarah B. Shay b. Oct 1892\nIda F. Shay b. Jun 1895\nIvan Larimore\nIvan Larimore was the son of William Henry Harrison Larimore and Addie B. Belchner.\nNote: Twin of Irvin.\nJacob Larimore1\nJacob Larimore was born in August 1869 at Tazewell Co. (probably), IL.1,2 He was the son of Francis Marion Larimore and Cordelia Vail.1 Jacob Larimore lived on 14 June 1900 at Cincinnati Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; Boarding with William Heck family.2\nJames Larimore was also known as \"Yankee Jim\". He was born on 21 October 1800 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV), Note in Larimore family Bible. He was the son of John Larimore and Deborah Temple. James Larimore married Ann Eliza DeWald, daughter of Philip DeWald and Catharine Lang, on 2 May 1825 at Hampshire Co., VA, Note on \"Marriages\" page of James Larimore family Bible. Occupation: Auctioneer and farmer. Although he was illiterate, he was able to be very successful in real estate and farming, and provided farms to some of his children including Caroline and James Kirkendall's farm on Deeds Road, at Union Twp., Licking Co., OH. James Larimore died on 20 April 1874 at Licking Co., OH, at age 73. He was buried in April 1874 at Licking Cemetery, Hebron, Licking Co., OH, Find A Grave Memorial# 76666572.\nChildren of James Larimore and Ann Eliza DeWald\nDaniel Larimore+ b. 16 Mar 1826, d. 7 Apr 1903\nLouisa Larimore+ b. 5 Nov 1828, d. 16 Jan 1902\nJohn Larimore+ b. 7 Oct 1831, d. 9 Apr 1911\nSarah Ann Larimore+ b. 20 Aug 1834, d. 24 May 1905\nScienda Larimore+ b. 14 Jul 1837, d. 1 Nov 1875\nDr. James Larimore+ b. 5 Mar 1840, d. 18 Aug 1904\nCaroline Larimore+ b. 11 Nov 1843, d. 9 Jan 1918\nJames Larimore was born circa 1745 at Ulster, Ireland. He immigrated in 1760; with his brothers William and Hugh. According to \"These Build Civilization\", quoting James Larimore's granddaughter Caroline Larimore Williams, his brother William settled in the western part of Pennsylvania, and his brother Hugh settled in North Carolina.\nHe married Susannah Barbel Bunner, daughter of Reuben Caspar Bunner and Maria Christianna Braun, circa 1778 at Berkeley Co. (probably), VA. James Larimore died on 31 July 1817 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). Cause of death: on 31 July 1817 Rattlesnake bite. He was buried in August 1817 at Jersey Mountain, Three Churches, Hampshire Co., WV.\nChildren of James Larimore and Susannah Barbel Bunner\nJohn Larimore+ b. 6 Jun 1779, d. 16 Sep 1846\nWilliam Larimore+ b. 29 Jul 1784, d. 16 Sep 1850\nJoseph Larimore+ b. 1785, d. 30 Jul 1821\nJames Larimore+ b. 17 Jan 1786, d. 17 Jul 1862\nSamuel Larimore+ b. Dec 1788, d. 13 Jan 1873\nNancy Larimore+ b. c 1790\nMargaret Larimore+ b. 22 May 1791, d. 9 Oct 1829\nSarah Larimore+ b. 29 Aug 1792, d. 13 Dec 1867\nRobert Larimore+ b. 20 Oct 1792, d. 27 Feb 1856\nSusannah Larimore+ b. 1799, d. a 25 Sep 1850\nThomas Larimore+ b. 1802, d. 14 Feb 1867\nJames Larimore was born on 17 January 1786 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). He was the son of James Larimore and Susannah Barbel Bunner. James Larimore married Naomi Woolverton, daughter of Joel William Woolverton and Sarah Gano, in 1810 at Romney, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). James Larimore died on 17 July 1862 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV), at age 76. He was buried in July 1862 at Baptist Church Cemetery, Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV).\nChildren of James Larimore and Naomi Woolverton\nJohn W. Larimore+ b. 30 Dec 1811, d. 1903\nSusan Larimore b. 1813\nTimothy Larimore b. 12 Mar 1818\nIsaac Parson Larimore+ b. 10 Mar 1821, d. 2 Mar 1905\nSilas W. Larimore b. 10 Apr 1823\nRebecca Larimore+ b. Apr 1826, d. 14 Jul 1894\nWilliam M. Larimore b. 4 Oct 1828\nAbsolom M. Larimore b. 15 Apr 1831\nElizabeth Jane Larimore+ b. c 1833\nEmily G. V. Larimore b. 28 Apr 1836\nJames Larimore was born on 6 July 1811 at Three Churches, Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). He was the son of William Larimore and Nancy McMann. James Larimore married Mary McMann on 11 June 1837 at Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL.1 James Larimore died on 17 April 1866 at Tazewell Co., IL, at age 54. He was buried in April 1866 at Woodrow Cemetery, Cincinnati Twp., Tazewell Co., IL.\nChildren of James Larimore and Mary McMann\nSusanna Larimore+ b. 1838, d. 1900\nNancy E. Larimore+ b. c 1841, d. b Aug 1870\nJohn Wesley Larimore+ b. Dec 1843, d. Oct 1906\nMary Jane Larimore b. 1845\nMaria Larimore+ b. 28 Nov 1847, d. 4 Mar 1916\nJames William Larimore+ b. 3 Feb 1850, d. 12 Jan 1914\nSarah Ella Larimore b. c 1855\nMelissa Emma Larimore b. 20 Mar 1859, d. 5 Jun 1866\n[S92] Tazewell County, IL Marriages, Vol. A., 36, License #451.\nJames Larimore was born in 1835 at Milford, Knox Co., OH. He was the son of Thomas Larimore and Jemima Huddleston. James Larimore died before 1850.\nJames Larimore was born at Hampshire Co., VA. He was the son of Samuel Larimore and Catherine Case. James Larimore married Ellen Paschal. James Larimore died before 1870.\nM, b. 19 April 1867, d. May 1967\nJames Larimore was born on 19 April 1867 at Licking Co., OH.1 He was the son of Dr. James Larimore and Arabella W. Brady. James Larimore married Lou E. (?).2 James Larimore died in May 1967 at Glendale, Los Angeles Co., CA, at age 100.1\nChild of James Larimore and Lou E. (?)\nDr. Fred Campbell Larimore M.D.+ b. 8 Dec 1889, d. Feb 1965\nJames Larimore1\nJames Larimore was born on 16 June 1899 at Tazewell Co., IL.1 He was the son of Arnold J. Larimore and Mary Avarilla Potts.1\nDr. James Larimore\nDr. James Larimore was born on 5 March 1840 at Union Twp., Licking Co., OH. He was the son of James Larimore and Ann Eliza DeWald. Dr. James Larimore married Arabella W. Brady, daughter of Gilbert Brady and Mary Van Horne, in 1864. Occupation: Physician. Dr. James Larimore died on 18 August 1904 at Newark, Licking Co., OH, at age 64 OBITUARY - The Newark Daily Advocate, Newark (OH), August 19, 1904\nOne of the Best Known Physicians of Newark Passed Away at His Home in West Main Street Thursday Evening - The Funeral Saturday.\nDr. James Larimore, one of Newark's most prominent and most esteemed citizens, died at his home on West main street, on Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock, after an illness of some time with a complication of diseases. He had been in failing health for the past two or three years, and several months ago was taken seriously ill but rallied and it was thought that he was on the road to recovery. He however grew worse again and on Friday, August 12, was compelled to take to his bed. From that time he rapidly grew worse.\nOn Thursday evening about 7:40 o'clock, he was sitting on a sofa with his son James and was engaged in quoting scripture and singing hymns. About 8 o'clock his son assisted him to his bed, when he immediately dropped off to sleep, and died in fifteen minutes.\nDr. Larimore was born on March 5, 1840, on the old Larimore farm, two miles west of Licking church, in Union township Licking county, and was married on November 16, 1865, to Miss Arabella W. Brady daughter of the late Gilbert Brady, one of the pioneer settlers of Licking county. From this union two children were born J. A. Larimore of the Postal Telegraph company, Pittsburg, and Corrington H. Larimore, who died April 7, 1893.\nWhen quite young the deceased educated himself for the practice of Medicine, and had been engaged in the practice of his profession in Newark for over forty years. For the past 25 years he had been surgeon for the Pennsylvania railroad company at his point and portion of that time was surgeon for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.\nThe deceased was held in the highest esteem and respect by all who knew him. He was a high-minded scholarly gentleman, a loving husband and father, and a good citizen.\nFor many years he had been a faithful and consistent member of the Second Presbyterian church, and was also a prominent Mason and Knight Templar.\nHe is survived by his widow and one son, James. One brother and two sisters also survive him, being John Larimore of Union Station, and Mrs. Caroline Kirkendall of Columbus and Mrs. Sarah Howland, widow of A. T. Howland of this city.\nThe funeral will take place from the house on Saturday at 2:30 p.m., under the auspices of Newark Lodge, No. 97, F. & A. M. St. Luke's Commandery No. 34, K. T., will attend as an escort. The services will be conducted by Rev. L. S. Boyce, pastor of the FIrst Presbyterian church, and interment will be made in Cedar Hill cemetery.\nMrs. Larimore's Condition\nIn comparison with a few days ago the condition of Mrs. Larimore, widow of Dr. J. Larimore, is considerable improved, as she was able to sit up on Thursday. It is hoped the improvement will continue.\nHe was buried in August 1904 at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Licking Co., OH.\nChildren of Dr. James Larimore and Arabella W. Brady\nJames Larimore+ b. 19 Apr 1867, d. May 1967\nCorrington H. Larimore b. c 1872, d. 7 Apr 1893\nJames Alpheus Larimore\nJames Alpheus Larimore was born on 13 September 1850 at Payson Twp., Adams Co., IL. He was the son of John W. Larimore and Elizabeth Fahs. James Alpheus Larimore married Clara Louise Howard, daughter of Perry Howard and Clarissa Heartshorn, on 6 September 1871 at Richfield, Adams Co., IL, Five children born, four living as of 1900 census.1 James Alpheus Larimore died on 13 February 1945 at age 94.\nChildren of James Alpheus Larimore and Clara Louise Howard\nAlbert Roy Larimore+2 b. 14 Dec 1872, d. 2 Feb 1927\nLelah Larimore2 b. c 1875, d. b 16 Jun 1900\nPearl Larimore2 b. Jul 1877\nFloyd Earl Larimore+2 b. 8 Feb 1880, d. 12 May 1952\nEllis Omer Larimore1 b. 23 Jan 1882, d. 8 May 1952\nJames Cyrus Larimore\nJames Cyrus Larimore was born in 1839 at Hampshire Co., VA. He was the son of William C. Larimore and Ann R. (?) James Cyrus Larimore died on 23 July 1839 at Hampshire Co., VA.\nJames D. Larimore\nJames D. Larimore was born on 26 February 1825 at Muskingum Co., OH. He was the son of Robert Larimore and Mary Smith. James D. Larimore died on 23 September 1854 at Ohio at age 29.\nChild of James D. Larimore\nCarrie Larimore d. c 1925\nJames Doddridge Larimore\nM, b. circa 1854, d. September 1904\nNote: No children. Occupation: Salesman. James Doddridge Larimore was born circa 1854 at Delphos, Van Wert Co., OH.1 He was the son of Robert Larimore and Amelia Narcissa Stoddard. James Doddridge Larimore died in September 1904 at St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO.\nJames H. Larimore\nJames H. Larimore was born on 30 September 1875 at Licking Co., OH.1 He was the son of John Larimore and Hannah Minerva Lane. James H. Larimore died on 24 March 1877 at Licking Co., OH, at age 1.\nJames L. Larimore\nJames L. Larimore was born on 1 September 1861 at Lock, Licking Co., OH. He was the son of Isaac Parson Larimore and Mary Montonya. James L. Larimore married Anna E. Sutton, daughter of Samuel Sutton, on 10 September 1885. James L. Larimore died on 4 March 1928 at age 66. He was buried in March 1928 at Centerburg, Knox Co., OH.\nChildren of James L. Larimore and Anna E. Sutton\nEthyl R. Larimore b. Jun 1888\nDenver Larimore+ b. Nov 1890\nZona M. Larimore b. May 1892\nMaude Olive Larimore d. b Jun 1900\nJohn I. Larimore b. Jan 1899\nClaude Waldo Larimore b. 7 Apr 1904, d. 30 Apr 1995\nJames Lloyd Larimore\nJames Lloyd Larimore was born on 11 October 1927 at Delavan, Tazewell Co., IL. He was the son of Albert Earl Larimore and Helen Mildred Kohloff. James Lloyd Larimore died on 21 December 1984 at Hope Mills, Cumberland Co., NC, at age 57. He was buried in December 1984 at Cumberland Memorial Gardens, Hope Mills, Cumberland Co., NC.\nJames Paxton Larimore\nJames Paxton Larimore was also known as \"Packy\". He was born on 29 November 1920 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co. (probably), OK.1 He was the son of Walter King Larimore and Margery Elizabeth Paxton. James Paxton Larimore died on 26 October 1991 at age 70.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 20166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lang.jannemec.com/english/text.php?id=aerosmith_crying.txt", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:GROC2Y4MQSDWK4TYSPTBBG7G44SH7ZCL", "length": 118, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lang.jannemec.com", "title": "Aerosmith: Crying Jazyky - languages - slovn\u00edky, gramatika, testy - angli\u010dtina, n\u011bm\u010dina, ...", "raw_content": "Aerosmith: Crying\nListen, all I want is someone I can't resist\nDo what you do what you do down to me, baby, baby, baby", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://learnthis.ca/2008/03/people-are-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EORTLNF3QMK5P4KPHAXXZL3E2FYM3COO", "length": 6523, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "learnthis.ca", "title": "\u00bb Blog Archive People are People - Learn This", "raw_content": "Relationships March 31st, 2008\nEven though society likes to enforce rules and rights to balance out people in each other\u2019s eyes, it hasn\u2019t worked to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with the respect and love they each deserve. We judge people every day, we compare ourselves to others, others to others and others to whom we wish those others were. This happens in all areas of our lives and its encouraged constantly by everything around us, such as in the media and advertising we\u2019re bombarded with.\nAll of these differences in belongings, status, income, age, fame and knowledge that everyone DOES have really doesn\u2019t separate the things that everyone DOES have in common. And yes, everyone has basic needs in common and has longings for many of the same things hard wired into us. These show up in many different areas of our lives.\nGeneration gaps, experience, income, and power all affect the way we interact with each other in the workplace. These things are in some ways positive and some ways negative, yet they always seem to generate some workplace tension between people. Examples can be seen every single day as we struggle to protect our own backs, impress others, avoid blame and gain some attention or appreciation in the hope of advancing our careers. Most of those items occur because of selfishness and if we really wanted to think about what people want, its only partly those things. Each of those attributes are really just a business name that if translated mean that people are looking to be respected, appreciated, and treated fairly. It doesn\u2019t matter what the differences are between people in the workplace, if these things exist, then all people are the same. Why not ignore the things most people seem to compete for and simply respect others, appreciate them and treat them fairly.\nWell, when it comes to relationships, there are many dangers that seem to get in the way. These can be wanting or always trying to be right and someone else wrong. Often it\u2019s seeing only what you can get out of a relationship and take from it. And then there are always belongings to get in the way, which involves not only personal belongings, but personal history, memories and experiences. Each of these are things that are typically protected out of fear from loosing control or becoming too vulnerable quickly, or even by suffering from esteem issues due to past experiences or preconceived thoughts about the other person.\nIf you acknowledge the fact that most relationships have these pressure points that often become the failing point, why not make them easy for the other person. Don\u2019t argue for the sake of arguing, just accept that you don\u2019t need to be right and quickly admit when you are wrong. Since you know that people are looking to see what they can get out of a relationship (aren\u2019t we generally accustomed to that?), why not work to give more than you take or expect. Make the first move, offer to share or be vulnerable first since you know that\u2019s what the other person is hoping for. Let them stay guarded, safe and protected, it will help them be more comfortable. Reach outside your comfort zone yourself, don\u2019t expect the other person to do it first. If you do, it just slows down the relationship building and keeps barriers up that don\u2019t need to be there.\nSo, examining what you know about relationships and turning all the things around that you hope for, helps you to see that it doesn\u2019t matter who you\u2019re dealing with, people are looking for friendship and love, time to spend with someone, comfort and security and someone to share experiences with. Since all those things seem to have these dangers involved that are generally guarded, take the first step and treat others in the relationship exactly like you have always wanted yourself.\nWe constantly encounter new people, either by first meeting them or simply being in public with strangers. Unfortunately, these things lead us all to make automatic judgments based on stereotypes, prejudices and assumptions. These are typically based on physical attributes of others. Would you want someone to do that to you? Probably not, yet its not so easy to stop doing yourself. However, when I think about why people make these judgments, I think its entirely based on fearing the unknown and fearing similarities that we associate with bad experiences we\u2019ve been taught or learned first hand. Put those things together and its a nasty recipe of wanting to stay in silence, independent and not engaging in what are often thought to be risky relationships where we might be hurt. If you look at the areas above though in the workplace and with existing relationships, all the same real desires are there in strangers as well, they are not different. They want the same things, hope and dream just like you, and have many of the same fears about you as you have of them. Eliminate this barrier and you may find that strangers are really not just strangers, but people.\nWell, I believe all of this ties together in the truth that people are all similar, and if you respond to others in a way that you want yourself (yup, the Golden Rule), then many of the barriers that you otherwise re-enforce, don\u2019t even exist in the first place. Everyone has some fears in these areas and looking to see how you can respond to people differently by stepping past some of these fears you have, will encourage others to do the same, open new opportunities in relationships and allow you to freely meet exceptional people you otherwise walk past every single day.\nNot enough time? Unfortunately, this is such a common theme with people.\nPrev: Learning to Handle Compliments\nNext: A Guide to Mastering Your State of Mind\nOne Response to \u201cPeople are People\u201d\nAllow me disagree with the \u201cSo what\u201d part which i guess is a summary of the post.\nI do agree there is a baseline for common behaviors and how to treat each other, but above it there is the whole range of diversities \u2013 vertical, horizontal, cultural, skills based, and others.\nI\u2019ll give you an example. You have two reports. One is seasoned self realized and running on his own hitting the goals you set jointly, the other guy is a new hire rookie. Will you treat them the same?\nI can bring many more examples where people should be treated differently according to the context.\nMy belief is that context precision is king.\nOff the topic \u2013 Mike, I was expecting for your comment on my latest. I\u2019d really appreciate if you could have a look \ud83d\ude42 \u2013 Thanks!\nMaximum Productivity: Persistence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 8015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lefleurdelystoo.blogspot.com/2009_10_25_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7IIDPZQ74JKPMHQUVJ46MAH7YUYZLMFL", "length": 48888, "nlines": 244, "source_domain": "lefleurdelystoo.blogspot.com", "title": "La Fleur de Lys too: 10/25/09 - 11/1/09", "raw_content": "Gov't says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs.\nMinitrue lies, the unemloyment rate hovers at 9.8 percent. I don't see how having almost 1 out of every 100 are not currently employed can possibly equal 650,000 new jobs, but apparently in the Newspeak of this administration it does. From what wizard do they get the jobs saved news. I think they just saved... none. I'll be off to the Ministry of Love now, thank you...\nBy MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writers Matt Apuzzo And\nWASHINGTON \u2013 About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year is on track.\nNew job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, nonprofit groups and universities were scheduled to be released publicly later Friday. White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein said the figures will show that, when adding in jobs linked to $288 billion in tax cuts, the stimulus plan has created or saved more than 1 million jobs.\nGovernment recovery plans \u2014 everything from the $787 billion stimulus to tax credits for buying new homes to government deals on new cars \u2014 are credited with helping the economy grow again after a record four straight losing quarters.\nBut the job market has yet to show signs of recovery, putting pressure on the White House to show that the stimulus was worth its hefty price tag. The economy has shed millions of jobs since Obama signed the stimulus in February, giving Republicans ammunition to say the government is spending too much for too little effect.\nThe White House says the report bolsters its case that the economy would have been far worse without the stimulus \u2014 a package of government spending, tax cuts, state aide and social programs.\nFriday's data will have its limitations, since calculating \"jobs saved\" will always produce an inexact estimate and collecting data from so many sources is certain to produce errors. But the number released Friday represents the most accurate head count of stimulus jobs to date, one that is more precise than previous estimates based on White House economic formulas.\nAnd it represents the most extensive effort ever by any administration to calculate the effect of a spending program in real time.\n\"It's a great example of the unprecedented transparency, where the American taxpayer can point and click and see their taxes creating jobs,\" Bernstein said.\nThe White House promised the data would be far more reliable than the first batch of numbers, on federal contracts, which the administration initially embraced, then branded a \"test run\" after thousands of errors were discovered.\nTeachers are expected to represent the largest number of jobs in the report. With state budgets in crisis, federal aid helped governors avoid major cuts in education, which officials said spared hundreds of thousands of teachers from the unemployment line.\nIn Indiana, where officials reported saving 13,000 teaching jobs, Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels warned against putting too much stock in the job numbers.\n\"I personally wouldn't try to tell a taxpayer that this had any effect that I can see on the economy or let alone that there is some specific number of jobs attached to it,\" Daniels said earlier this month.\nWisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, said Friday \"there's just no doubt\" that the federal aide spared 6,100 government jobs, including teachers, police officers and firefighters, in his state.\n\"There would have been dramatic layoffs,\" he said.\nWhat do you say George?\nHealth Care Hell\nFrom the Gates of Vienna...\nHealth Care Hell: The Worst of Both Worlds\nby Dymphna\nFrom Americans for Tax Reform: [with my emphases - D]\nOfficial scores of H.R. 3962 (the House Dem health bill) are out from the Congressional Budget Office (spending) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (revenues). A few highlights:\nWhen the bill is fully phased-in, it will increase spending by approximately $150-$200 billion annually. Put another way, it will add about a percentage point to federal spending as a portion of the economy. Put yet another way, it will increase the historical size of the federal government by about 5 percent.\nThe bill won\u2019t even come close to universal coverage. The bill reduces the number of the uninsured from 53 million to 18 million. It\u2019s true that 96 percent of legal residents will be covered, but those 18 million uninsured will still be a huge drain on our health system. One would expect that $150 billion to $200 billion per year would get you universal coverage, at the very least. more...\nIf health care is mandated what next will be \"mandated\".\nCastles and Castellany\nIt is a sad child indeed who never dreamt of living in a castle. Some of my most memorable building projects with my Lincoln Logs were the construction of castles. The older I got, the more ornate projects utilized empty refrigerator boxes built into castles.\nHere is a new article I found.\nLeft: Schematic View of a 14th Century Castle. Such a castle was characterized by height and verticality. (1) Ditch (possibly filled with water) creating an inaccessible zone around the fortress. (2) Gatehouse with portcullis (a large iron or wooden grating used to block the passage when released vertically) and drawbridge (provided with a raising-and-lowering mechanism to hinder or enable passage). (3) Tower, projecting combat emplacement also used as lodging and storage place. (4) Wall, also called \"curtain.\" (5) Wallwalk protected by a crenelated breastwork on top of the wall. (6) Hoarding, also called \"brattice\", a wooden balcony fitted with apertures through which the defenders could throw down missiles on enemies. (7) Postern, or sallyport, a secondary access. (8) Pepperpot turret, a small watchtower or lookout post. (9) Bailey, the open courtyard with chapel, well, stables, and other lodging and service buildings. (10) Dungeon, or keep, the most powerful tower of the castle and the dwelling place of the lord.\n...In theory the whole feudal pyramid of loyalty culminated in the king. But as the kings- until the 12th century* - were rather weak powerless rulers, political power was based almost entirely on force of arms. Anyone prestigious enough to gain followers, able to build a castle, and rich enough to garrison it could create his independent state and concentrate in his own hands military, political, juridical, and economic power within his tiny kingdom. Moreover, the holder of a court of justice gained both authority and income as fines paid by offenders went into his coffer. The working unit of government became thus the castellany - the land near enough to a castle that it could be protected, policed, and administrated by the lord of the castle. In the 10th century, most castles were motte-and-baily fortresses. Based on a Viking/Norman design these were made by digging a ditch and piling the dirt into an artificial motte or mound. The edge of the ditch and the top of the mound were fortified with wooden palisades. On the summit of the mound inside the stockade stood a wooden tower which was the residence of the lord and his household. At the foot of the motte there were shallower and narrower ditches and stockades enclosing a bailey, an area which was a small village with houses and workshops for the lord's servants as well as stables and other outbuildings. In case of danger the baily served as a place of refuge for the lord's subjects from the neighborhood: the peasants, their families, and stock...\n*I dispute this discription of kings, especially those of England, and France. Examples: Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Henry II, Richard Coeur de Lion. But that is my reading of history.\nIt was on this date that the 7 crusade ended by ending the siege of Tunis in northern Africa by King Louis IX. St Louis has been on my mind this week. I admre him greatly, because he was the ideal Christian King, knight, and husband. Men would do themselves good justice by following his example.\nThe Eighth Crusade* was a crusade launched by Louis IX, King of France, in 1270. The Eighth Crusade is sometimes counted as the Seventh, if the Fifth and Sixth Crusades of Frederick II are counted as a single crusade. The Ninth Crusade is sometimes also counted as part of the Eighth.\nLouis was disturbed by events in Syria, where the Mamluk sultan Baibars had been attacking the remnant of the Crusader states. Baibars had seized the opportunity after a war pitting the cities of Venice and Genoa against each other (1256\u20131260) had exhausted the Syrian ports that the two cities controlled. By 1265 Baibars had captured Nazareth, Haifa, Toron, and Arsuf. Hugh III of Cyprus, nominal king of Jerusalem, landed in Acre to defend that city, while Baibars marched as far north as Armenia, which was at that time under Mongol control.\nThese events led to Louis' call for a new crusade in 1267, although there was little support this time; Jean de Joinville, the chronicler who accompanied Louis on the Seventh Crusade, refused to go. Louis was soon convinced by his brother Charles of Anjou to attack Tunis first, which would give them a strong base for attacking Egypt, the focus of Louis' previous crusade as well as the Fifth Crusade before him, both of which had been defeated there. Charles, as King of Sicily, also had his own interests in this area of the Mediterranean. The Khalif of Tunis, Muhammad I al-Mustansir, also had connections with Christian Spain and was considered a good candidate for conversion. In 1270 Louis landed on the African coast in July, a very unfavourable season for landing. Much of the army became sick because of poor drinking water, his Damietta born son John Sorrow died on August 3 and on August 25[1] Louis himself died from a \"flux in the stomach\", one day after the arrival of Charles. His dying word was \"Jerusalem.\" Charles proclaimed Louis' son Philip III the new king, but because of his youth Charles became the actual leader of the crusade.\nBecause of further diseases the siege of Tunis was abandoned on October 30 by an agreement with the sultan. In this agreement the Christians gained free trade with Tunis, and residence for monks and priests in the city was guaranteed, so the crusade could be regarded as a partial success. After hearing of the death of Louis and the evacuation of the crusaders from Tunis, Sultan Baibars of Egypt cancelled his plan to send Egyptian troops to fight Louis in Tunis[2] . Charles now allied himself with Prince Edward of England, who had arrived in the meantime. When Charles called off the attack on Tunis, Edward continued on to Acre, the last crusader outpost in Syria. His time spent there is often called the Ninth Crusade. more...\nMore on St. Louis and his companions from Jean Sieur de Joinville. I love to read out the roll of knights who took the cross with Saint Louis\nI prefer to call it the 7th, but in actuality the Crusades were one long effort starting with Charles Martel.\nA shocking video.\nFrom Hinduism to Catholicism\nI present an article from the Arlington Catholic Herald via my friend and fellow Knight, Carlos at the Mystery Horn. A case of the Virgin drawing faithful to her Son.\nby Katie Bahr,\nIt was three years ago when Uma Krishnan says she first dreamed of the Virgin Mary. It was January 2006 and she was living in Singapore with her husband, Kumar, and her son, Karthi. In her dream she saw a \u201cvery humble lady\u201d surrounded by candles.\nShe and Kumar were devout Hindus and they knew the lady in Uma\u2019s dreams was not a Hindu god. They knew little of Christianity, but they thought this lady might be the Blessed Mother. Still, because they came from a long tradition of Hinduism in India, they didn\u2019t give the dream much thought.\nLater that year Kumar got a job that took him to San Diego. A few months later, he found a new job in McLean. Uma and Karthi joined him that December.\nThis past April, Uma began to have more dreams of Mary.\nOne night she dreamed she was walking into a church she\u2019d never seen before. Once inside, she turned right and found a little room where there were red candles and a statue of Mary.\nThe second night, she was in the same room, but this time she saw a big cross made of palm leaves.\nAnother night, she dreamed she was in a boat. On her right was a black woman with dark hair and on her left, a lady wearing a blue scarf and holding a Bible. The woman in blue showed Uma some verses to read to make her worries disappear. In her dream, Uma read the Bible verses and both women disappeared.\nUma and Kumar talked about the dreams and, by the fourth night, they decided to visit a church to see what was happening.\nKumar typed \u201cSt. Mary Church Fairfax\u201d into Google and entered the address from the first result into his GPS device. The address was for St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax.\nWhen they got to the church, Uma was shocked. On the outside, it looked just like the church she had dreamed about the first night. When they went inside and turned right, there was a small chapel with red votive candles, a statue of Mary and a cross. It was just like her dreams. Uma started to cry.\n\u201cThe moment was so touching,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cWe were not even Christians and we were not even worshipping when we got such a thing. We were Hindus and we didn\u2019t exactly know how to pray, but we just sat there and said, \u2018Thank you. Thank you for all these visions and thank you for bringing us here. We don\u2019t know what to do, you tell us, you guide us, show us what has to be done.\u2019\u201d\nAfter the first visit to the church, a few days passed and Uma and Kumar didn\u2019t return. Instead, they went to their Hindu temple.\nUma had another dream. She saw the statue of Mary on the outside wall of the church. Mary\u2019s arms were out and there was a bright light coming from behind. In Uma\u2019s mind, the statue seemed to be saying, \u201cCome back to me.\u201d\nWhen Uma told Kumar, they decided to go to St. Mary of Sorrows that day. It was a Wednesday, and this time, they went into the main meeting room, where the Charismatic Prayer Group gathered. They shared their story and prayed with them.\nAfter that, Uma and Kumar began to attend Mass and the Charismatic Prayer Group every week.\nUma\u2019s dreams continued, but the couple also started experiencing strange \u201cspiritual disturbances.\u201d Uma would have nightmares, and during the day, alone at home, she would hear strange laughing, heavy breathing or footsteps. Sometimes she would feel a pressure on her neck and would have trouble breathing.\nThe disturbances were so bad that Uma was afraid to be alone. Kumar would drop her off at St. Mary of Sorrows when he went to work in the morning and she would stay at the church all day.\nFrightened, Uma and Kumar talked to Father Stefan Starzynski, St. Mary of Sorrows parochial vicar.\nStarzynski told them the disturbances might be coming because they were moving away from Hinduism. He told them not to worry and that they\u2019d be okay if they just went toward the one, true God.\n\u201cEven as Hindus they were coming to the prayer groups and the healing Masses and praying the rosary every day, so I think something was trying to stop them from entering the Faith fully,\u201d Father Starzynski said.\nKumar and Uma decided to get rid of all of their Hindu belongings and devote themselves entirely to Catholicism.\nBecause of their circumstances, the parish had a team of four parishioners teach the couple a condensed version of the traditional yearlong Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults program. Uma and Kumar went to the program every Saturday to learn about the sacraments and to discuss the Bible.\n\u201cIt sounded like Mary was calling them to us and I felt like we had a responsibility to them,\u201d said Father Starzynski. \u201cThey told me they wanted to become Catholic and they were so excited and eager that I thought this was an opportunity to be flexible.\u201d\nBy the end of August, the group decided the family was ready to become Catholic. Sept. 12, Uma, Kumar and Karthi were baptized and the couple received the sacraments of confirmation, Communion and marriage.\nIn the days leading up to the ceremonies, Uma and Kumar feel they received lots of help from Mary.\nThough they had a very limited budget and hardly any time to plan, Uma and Kumar wanted to have a nice wedding ceremony. They only had $400 to spend on a wedding dress for Uma, but their son found a perfect dress for $399.\nThen, after deciding wedding photographers would be too expensive, a photographer from the parish offered his services for free.\nBefore the baptism and wedding day, Uma had another dream. This time Mary was standing outside the historic St. Mary of Sorrows Church, with a big smile on her face. She was holding two wedding rings and three rosaries \u2014 red, orange and yellow.\nThe couple decided to use those colors in Uma\u2019s bouquet and on the wedding cake, all donated by fellow churchgoers.\nOn the actual day, the whole parish was invited to see Uma and Kumar receive the sacraments. A reception was held in the hall of the historic church, decorated with red, orange and yellow flowers.\n\u201cEven though we hadn\u2019t planned things, God had planned for us,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cHe planned everything so perfectly and he took care of everything, right down to the photographs. It was like he has predicted this marriage for us. We are so glad and so thankful and so lucky to be here.\u201d\nFather Starzynski said Uma and Kumar\u2019s conversion story shows that God works in mysterious ways. He felt honored that he could be there to help the family.\n\u201cI think it speaks to how beautifully God can work and does work,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes you think, are we flexible enough to understand the ways God may work that are outside the box that we have constructed?\u201d\nSince they received the sacraments, Kumar and Uma say the disturbances and nightmares have stopped. Uma feels stronger and is able to stay home by herself with no fear.\n\u201cWe feel like the Holy Spirit in her has just given her this total protection,\u201d Kumar said.\nThe couple says they are constantly impressed with the parish community.\n\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been wandering all over the place and that I\u2019ve come home,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cI never heard of such good people, such good Catholic people.\u201d\nAnd through it all, Uma\u2019s dreams of Mary continue.\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s good or bad, we want to share them with everybody so everybody knows about it,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cSome may take it badly, but we want to share it. We are very fortunate. I feel lucky, I feel honored and I feel blessed.\u201d\nPublished originally in The Arlington Catholic Herald\nRevolutionary Calendar\nThe Wilson Revolution Unplugged reminded me of the attempt to change the Christian calendar for a calendar based on \"reason\", an insult to Christianity, and a system of 10's. It failed miserably because the Catholic spirit was too deep in the hearts of Frenchmen. Catholic still went tomass on which ever day was Sunday, and celebrated the Holy Days none the less.\nFrom a post of 24 October 2009 by J.K. Baltzersen.\nSo much foolishness and work was put into this calendar...\nThe Republican calendar year began at the autumn equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris:\nVend\u00e9miaire (from Latin vindemia, \"grape harvest\") Starting 22, 23 or 24 September\nBrumaire (from French brume, \"fog\") Starting 22, 23 or 24 October\nFrimaire (From French frimas, \"frost\") Starting 21, 22 or 23 November\nNiv\u00f4se (from Latin nivosus, \"snowy\") Starting 21, 22 or 23 December\nPluvi\u00f4se (from Latin pluvius, \"rainy\") Starting 20, 21 or 22 January\nVent\u00f4se (from Latin ventosus, \"windy\") Starting 19, 20 or 21 February\nGerminal (from Latin germen, \"germination\") Starting 20 or 21 March\nFlor\u00e9al (from Latin flos, \"flower\") Starting 20 or 21 April\nPrairial (from French prairie, \"pasture\") Starting 20 or 21 May\nMessidor (from Latin messis, \"harvest\") Starting 19 or 20 June\nThermidor (from Greek thermon, \"summer heat\")Starting 19 or 20 July\nFructidor (from Latin fructus, \"fruit\") Starting 18 or 19 August\nThe month is divided into three d\u00e9cades or 'weeks' of ten days each, named simply:\nprimidi (first day)\nduodi (second day)\ntridi (third day)\nquartidi (fourth day)\nquintidi (fifth day)\nsextidi (sixth day)\nseptidi (seventh day)\noctidi (eighth day)\nnonidi (ninth day)\nd\u00e9cadi (tenth day)\nInstead of most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, each day has an animal (days ending in 5), a tool (days ending in 0) or else a plant or mineral (all other days).\nThus neopaganism.\nThe Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.\nNapol\u00e9on finally abolished the calendar with effect from 1 January 1806 (the day after 10 Niv\u00f4se an XIV), a little over twelve years after its introduction. However, it was used again during the brief Paris Commune, 6\u201323 May 1871 (16 Flor\u00e9al\u20133 Prairial An LXXIX).\nWriten on this, 7th (Septidi) of Brumaire, of AN 218.\nSt Marie-Antoinette Queen martyr,\nCount Roland - Our Model\nMark Amesse takes a minute to remind us of what it means to be a Christian Knight.\n...The Mediaeval Era is the standard by which we measure. Roland was a man of his times \u2013 an era which saw the dawning of the Golden Age of Christendom, not the diabolical, revolutionary and effeminate post-Christian age in which we live. Durendal is the work of Catholic laymen, and it is important to remember that the inspirations of the Spirit of God were, in that age, less frustrated in the layman, whether he be king, knight, poet, or simple ploughman. A militant spirit of heroic Catholic Action, which disposed men to live virtuous lives and defend the rights of Christ the King and His Church, permeated society. Would that we could imitate Roland and his noble peers! We could speak of the historical Roland, or the fictional Roland of Boiardo and Ariosto[i], and they each have their merit, but we draw our ideal, primarily, from the great chanson de geste, The Song of Roland... more...\nThanks and a tip of the beret to Mark and the folks at Durendal...\nSt Charlemagne Pray for us...\nMore on Durendal\nFrom the American Monarchist a short theme about the scent worn by the Queen-Martyr...\n\u201cIt is a superb floral bouquet made with entirely natural products,\u201d she said. \u201cIt does not have the tenacity or the amplitude of a modern perfume, but when I tested it, everyone wanted to know what it was and everyone complimented me on it. It unleashes emotions that we no longer know.\u201d\nA FRAGRANCE worn by Marie-Antoinette, a woman sometimes described as the world\u2019s first fashion victim, has been re-created by a French perfume-maker for an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles.\nThe perfume, Sillage de la Reine (In the Queen\u2019s Wake), is likely to be put on a sale by the palace, which has been inundated with requests from people who want to smell like the Austrian-born Queen beheaded during the French Revolution. A thousand flacons are set to be made available at a price of around \u20ac1,500 (\u00a31,050) each, with the profits being used to restore Marie-Antoinette\u2019s furniture and objects.\nSillage de la Reine, which can be inhaled during pre-booked tours of the Marie-Anoinette exhibition at Versailles, was made by Francis Kurkdjian, one of France\u2019s most celebrated perfume-makers. It is based on the ingredients and methods used in the late 18th century by Marie-Antoinette\u2019s personnel supplier of fragrances, Jean-Louis Fargeon. more...\nThis leads me to repeat this which I have told my daughters and wife (she already knew) being, the scent of a woman should be used with restraint in order to draw a man close, as opposed to an excess of scent which repels men like bug repellent to flys...\nThomas Sowell on Dismatling America\n...We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American...more\nThomas Sowell relates where this administration is going with a willing congress in order to Dismantle America...\n...Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!.. Patrick Henry\nThough he spoke of a different revolution and a position far removed from me, the cause is no less evident.\nWhich King of France would you be?\nI have taken the Quiz \"Which King of France are you?\" .\nI would be Saint Louis IX, Saint and King. Does that count as a twofer?\n\"You're pretty much the perfect guy by traditional standards. You are quiet, loyal, courageous, chivalrous, religious and morally-upstanding. You believe in God, duty and patriotism. You fight the good fight, look after those around you ...and stay firm to your beliefs no matter what. When your friends say \"You would try the patience of the saint,\" they're usually thinking about you.You can be a little bit of a mamma's boy though and some people think your beliefs, political or religious, make you bigoted and judgemental. You think that it's better to be accused of that than of being immoral and weak. FACTFILE: * Born just outside Paris, 1214 * Died on Crusade, 1270 * Reigned as King of France from 1226 until 1270 * Son of King Louis VIII and his queen, Blanche of Castile * He fought on numerous crusades and was made a saint by Pope Boniface VIII in 1297. He is the patron saint of the French monarchy, hairdressers and part of the Franciscan order of monks. * Succeeded his father King Louis VIII * Succeeded by his son, King Philippe the Bold.\nSt Louis Pray for us.\nAn example of Moral Courage\nSlovakian President Signs Abortion Informed Consent Law\nBRATISLAVA, August 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Ivan Ga\u0161parovic signed into law on Tuesday an amendment to Slovakia's abortion act that establishes mandatory counselling, requires a 2-day wait, and increases the age until which parental consent is required from 16 to 18.\nThe amendment was adopted by the Slovak Parliament in June and it will now come into effect in September.\nInternational abortion groups' pressure, coordinated by the US based pro-abortion network \"Center for Reproductive Rights,\" called for rejection of the amendment, claiming that it was \"in conflict with women's rights to privacy, physical integrity and autonomy, confidentiality, health, and non- discrimination.\"\nA letter signed by 19 pro-abortion organizations and networks and 7 individuals was sent to all Slovak policy makers, quoting the World Health Organization: \"Parental notification or authorization is considered a requirement that deters women from seeking timely care and may lead them to risk self-induced abortion or clandestine services,\" and also quoting the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\nA couple of days before the vote, however, more than 80 organizations and 53 individuals from all over the world, alerted by the Familiokratos Coalition, complimented all Slovak policy makers, pointing out that, \"As many as 85 % of women surveyed feel that they were misinformed or denied relevant information during their pre-abortion counseling.\"\n\"While international abortion groups seek to put pressure on this Parliament to restrict a woman's choice, it is paramount that abortion is not a human right under European law and that individual States have the sole authority to determine the protections they wish to afford to life and to women's health,\" they said.\nThe amendment was adopted by 87 Members of Parliament voting for and only 7 against.\nCommon sense prevails someplace on the globe.\nMarie Magdalen is coming to the US! Wow!\nElena-Maria Vidal has posted great news, namely the relics of the Magdalen are being brought to America.\n\u201cThe relics, hidden at the time of the Saracen invasions (Early Middle Ages), were found in 1279, the date from which they have been venerated without interruption,\u201d said Bishop Rey in a letter certifying the authenticity of the relics. \u201cThey are presently kept by the Dominican priests in the cave of St. Baume, a part of my diocese. A new reliquary has been constructed to allow one of the relics, a piece of the tibia, to travel to different countries for veneration by the entire Church.\u201dmore...\nFor more information I recommend the following video, The Eldest Daughter of the Church, produced by Mary's media. Although the DVD set of 4 is a bit dear at $45.00 the money spent is well worth while. It is an interesting history of the Catholic Church and the part played by France that you should have been told in school but were not. It will hold your interest. It is especially dear to a French Monarchist.\nExcerpt from the Catholic encyclopedae...\nThe Greek Church maintains that the saint retired to Ephesus with the Blessed Virgin and there died, that her relics were transferred to Constantinople in 886 and are there preserved. Gregory of Tours (De miraculis, I, xxx) supports the statement that she went to Ephesus. However, according to a French tradition , Mary, Lazarus, and some companions came to Marseilles and converted the whole of Provence. Magdalen is said to have retired to a hill, La Sainte-Baume, near by, where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years. When the time of her death arrived she was carried by angels to Aix and into the oratory of St. Maximinus, where she received the viaticum; her body was then laid in an oratory constructed by St. Maximinus at Villa Lata, afterwards called St. Maximin. History is silent about these relics till 745, when according to the chronicler Sigebert, they were removed to V\u00e9zelay through fear of the Saracens. No record is preserved of their return, but in 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a convent at La Sainte-Baume for the Dominicans, the shrine was found intact, with an inscription stating why they were hidden. In 1600 the relics were placed in a sarcophagus sent by Clement VIII, the head being placed in a separate vessel. In 1814 the church of La Sainte-Baume, wrecked during the Revolution, was restored, and in 1822 the grotto was consecrated afresh. The head of the saint now lies there, where it has lain so long, and where it has been the centre of so many pilgrimages.\nThe entire skull was found minus the jaw bone. A Jaw bone traditionally said to be the Magdalen's was remembered to be located in a church in Rome. The pope ordered to to be returned to the rest of the relics and the jaw bone was seen to fit perfectly.\nWhen observing the face of the Magdalen it must be remembered that this Saint was at the Cruxifixtion and witnessed the death of our Saviour. What a glorious face...\nSacre Coeur de Jesus,\nRoman Polanski in the news, again...\nLegal wrangling in an attempt to keep Roman Polanski out of prison is again making the news. The Victim in the case Samantha Giemer is calling for the court to dismiss the case, because she feels it was so long ago that she should be left alone, besides she has forgiven Polanski for the deed. This appeal is like music to the ears of the polanskiphiles, such as Whoopi Goldberg, who say that it was so long ago and it should just be forgotten, and it wasn't Rape-Rape. Unfortunately for Polanski not only was the crime of sodomy a crime against the child but also against the State of California. That is the crux of the problem. If forgiveness on the part of the offended were the only criteria in bringing a person to trial, then anyone who was forgiven by the victim of a crime would be running about. Forgiveness is for the victim's soul, not for perpetrator.\nRoman Polanski has been running about for 30 years. How different would it be were he in my state, North Carolina. We are currently undergoing a court ordered release, of 27 inmates who are serving capital crimes. One big difference is these inmates have served time 40 years or more. I don't hear any Whoopi's here. I guess they are just not famous enough. Video here...\nPolanski victim calls to dismiss case\nLOS ANGELES (AFP) \u2013 The victim in the Roman Polanski child sex case has renewed calls for the case against the director to be dismissed and urged the media to leave her alone, court filings showed.\nLawyers for Samantha Geimer made the request in a court motion filed in Los Angeles on Friday, the latest of several pleas she has made for authorities to throw out the 1977 criminal case against Polanski.\nThe motion said Geimer, who now lives in Hawaii with her husband and children, has suffered health problems and job worries after a media \"frenzy\" following Polanski's arrest in Switzerland last month.\nIt cited calls by CNN's Larry King, US talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey, \"every\" national network morning show, three Los Angeles Times reporters and \"nearly every major newspaper\" from the United States and around the world.\n\"Between Samantha and her counsel, they have received close to 500 telephone calls from media around the world seeking a comment,\" the motion filed with California's Second District Court of Appeal read.\n\"The response -- 'please leave me alone.' But they won't leave her alone.\"\n\"Calls at all hours, invade her at home, on her cell phone and at her place of employment... The victim is again the victim,\" the filing said.\n\"The pursuit has caused her to have health-related issues. The pursuit has caused her performance at her job to be interfered with,\" it read, noting Geimer risked \"the real possibility\" of losing her job as a result.\nGeimer was a starry-eyed 13-year-old when Polanski plied her with champagne and drugs at the Hollywood Hills home of his actor friend Jack Nicholson during a photo shoot more than 30 years ago.\nThe director was initially charged with six felony counts, including rape and sodomy. The charge was later reduced to unlawful sexual intercourse after a plea deal agreed in part to spare Geimer the ordeal of a trial.\nPolanski later served 42 days at a secure unit undergoing psychiatric evaluation but fled the country on the eve of his sentencing in 1978.\nHis lawyers have argued that the judge who presided over his case held improper discussions with Los Angeles prosecutors and was planning to go back on a sentencing deal agreed with the filmmaker's legal team.\nGeimer's lawyer Lawrence Silver argued in the motion that Polanski had been forced to flee by a \"corrupt\" judge.\n\"No matter what his crime, Polanski was entitled to be treated fairly; he was not,\" the motion said. \"The day Polanski fled was a sad day for American justice. Samantha should not be made to pay the price.\"\nYet Geimer suffered the consequences of a \"failed judicial and prosecutorial system,\" the filing added.\n\"Everyone insists that she owes them a story but her story continues to be sad... This statement makes one more demand, one more request, one more plea: leave her alone.\"\nThe Academy Award-winning director reportedly agreed to pay Geimer 500,000 dollars as part of a 1993 civil settlement stemming from the case, but it remains unknown whether he ever paid the funds promised to his victim.\nThe United States last Friday formally asked Switzerland to extradite Polanski, who has been held in custody since his arrest in Zurich on September 26 as he arrived for a film festival.\nLawyers for the 76-year-old director of movie classics \"Rosemary's Baby\" and \"Chinatown\" have vowed to fight the extradition, a process which analysts say could take months.\nSaint-O-Lanterns!\nA friend of ours sent an article to my Facebook page. It is called Catholic Cuisine and it is found here...\nIt looks like a good way to carve out the dark side of the pagan holiday.\nEarhart's Final Resting Place Believed Found\nI love a good mystery, especially an historical mystery. My dad first told me about Amelia and I remember feeling bad because she died a lonely death. This last weekend the new film Amelia opened in only 880 theaters, unfortunatly I did not get a chance to see it, however, I did come across this article on the net today...\nOct. 23, 2009 -- Legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart mostly likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, according to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR).\nTall, slender, blonde and brave, Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Her final resting place has long been a mystery.\nFor years, Richard Gillespie, TIGHAR's executive director and author of the book \"Finding Amelia,\" and his crew have been searching the Nikumaroro island for evidence of Earhart. A tiny coral atoll, Nikumaroro was some 300 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island.\nA number of artifacts recovered by TIGHAR would suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing on the island's smooth, flat coral reef.\nAccording to Gillespie, who is set to embark on a new $500,000 Nikumaroro expedition next summer, the two became castaways and eventually died there.\n\"We know that in 1940 British Colonial Service officer Gerald Gallagher recovered a partial skeleton of a castaway on Nikumaroro. Unfortunately, those bones have now been lost,\" Gillespie said.\nThe archival record by Gallagher suggests that the bones were found in a remote area of the island, in a place that was unlikely to have been seen during an aerial search.\nA woman's shoe, an empty bottle and a sextant box whose serial numbers are consistent with a type known to have been carried by Noonan were all found near the site where the bones were discovered.\n\"The reason why they found a partial skeleton is that many of the bones had been carried off by giant coconut crabs. There is a remote chance that some of the bones might still survive deep in crab burrows,\" Gillespie said.\nAlthough she did not succeed in her around-the-world expedition, Earhart flew off into the legend just after her final radio transmission.\nBooks, movies and television specials about her disappearance abound as well as speculation about her fate. Theories proliferated that she was a spy, that she was captured by the Japanese, that she died in a prisoner-of-war camp, and that she survived and returned to live her life as a New Jersey housewife.\nA new biopic about Earhart's life, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, opens this weekend.\nThe general consensus has been that the plane had run out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near Howland Island.\nBut according to Gillespie, the \"volume of evidence\" TIGHAR has gathered suggests an alternative scenario.\n\"Propagation analysis of nearly 200 radio signals heard for several days after the disappearance make it virtually indisputable that the airplane was on land,\" Gillespie said.\nEventually, Earhart's twin-engine plane, the Electra, was ripped apart by Nikumaroro's strong waves and swept out into deep water, leaving no visible trace.\n\"The evidence is plentiful -- but not conclusive yet -- to support the hypothesis that Amelia landed and died on the island of Nikumaroro,\" forensic anthropologist Karen Ramey Burns told Discovery News.\nThe author of a book on Earhart, Burns believes that the strongest of the amassed evidence comes from the report related to the partial skeleton found by Gallagher.\n\"The skeleton was found to be consistent in appearance with females of European descent in the United States today, and the stature was consistent with that of Amelia Earhart,\" said Burns.\nAccording to Burns, another piece of documentary evidence comes from the accounts of Lt. John O. Lambrecht, a U.S. Naval aviator participating in the search for Earhart's plane. Lambrecht reported \"signs of recent habitation\" on what was an officially uninhabited atoll.\nLambrechet's report begs the question: Why did no one follow up?\n\"I have stood in plain sight on Nikumaroro in a white shirt waving wildly as a helicopter flew over me and was not noticed until the video tape of the flight was examined,\" Burns said.\n\"I find it very easy to believe that Amelia and Fred would not have been seen by the pilot. If the Electra was not visible at the time, their last chance of rescue was lost in Lambrecht's notes,\" she added.\nAbandoned on a desert island where temperatures often exceed 100 degrees, even in the shade, Earhart and Noonan likely eventually succumbed to any number of causes, including injury and infection, food poisoning from toxic fish, or simply dehydration.\nThe coconut crabs' great pincers would have done the rest, likely removing some of the last physical traces of this pioneering aviatrix.\nIt is a pity that today's women are routinely described using the male term, such as actor over actress, or aviator over aviatrix. Such a sad thing for these women to be so ashamed about being a woman with talent, fortunately I know some who are not. Amelia Earhart was of that breed of womanhood who were not afraid of being a woman.\nAbortion does the Klan's job...\nSeveral years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.\"\n--Erma Clardy Craven (deceased)\nSocial Worker and Civil Rights Leader\n(CNSNews.com) \u2013 Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.\nAbortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC. During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined. These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year.\nA total of 49 jurisdictions reported their abortion numbers for 2005 to the CDC. These included all 50 states--except California, Louisiana, and New Hampshire--and New York City and the District of Columbia. Of these 49 jurisdiction, only 36 states plus New York City and the District of Columbia reported the number of abortions by race.\nOf these 36 states, Georgia reported the largest number of abortions--18,325--among African Americans. Idaho and Montana reported the fewest, 16 and 17 respectively.\nAmong the large states not reporting abortions by race--and thus where the number of blacks killed by abortions is not included in the national total of 203,991--are California, Florida, Illinois and the rest of New York state outside of New York City.\nAccording to the CDC, the total of 203,991 blacks killed by abortion in 2005 also does not include those aborted by \"private physicians\u2019 procedures.\u201d\nEvery year since 1969, the CDC has amassed abortion data by state or area of occurrence, requesting information each year from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. The CDC attempts to collect data on abortions by the age, race and marital status of the women who undergo them as well as the type of abortion procedure.\nHowever, the \u201cCDC is not a regulatory agency,\u201d Senior Press Officer Karen Hunter told CNSNews.com. \u201cSo while we are required by Congress to collect this information, states are not required to provide any data to the CDC, including abortion surveillance.\u201d\nIn 2005, a total of 820,151 legal abortions were performed in the 49 jurisdication that reported abortions to the CDC, according to the \u201cAbortion Surveillance\u201d report, which is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR, for Nov. 28, 2008. (Scroll up to top of report)\nThe report states, \u201cApproximately 1 in 5 U.S. pregnancies have ended in abortion,\u201d and also notes some limitations on the data: \u201cThe overall number, ratio, and rate of abortions are conservative estimates; the total numbers of legal induced abortions provided by central health agencies and reported to the CDC for 2005 were probably lower than the numbers actually performed.\u201d\nIn Table 9 of the report, it states that there were 203,991 blacks killed by abortion, which comprises 35.5 percent of all abortions reported for that year.\nRev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., founder of BlackGenocide.org, told CNSNews.com that according to numbers gleaned from statistics provided by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, 1,784 blacks are aborted each day. Also, he notes on his Web site that three out of five African-American women will obtain an abortion.\nChildress said the information and sources on his Web site have never been challenged by abortion-access supporters. \u201cThis is because they can see that themselves, and they know them probably to be far worse than we\u2019re reporting. The facts come from the pro-abort/pro-choice community,\u201d he said.\n\u201cYou want to go to a reliable source where people can\u2019t dismiss what you\u2019re saying,\u201d Childress said.\n\u201cYet the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, Urban League, and the National Action Committee of Al Sharpton fail abysmally to report not only the decimation but the health ramifications which are questionably very pertinent and provable,\u201d said Childress.\n\u201cIt would be one thing if we were talking about something hypothetically, but these are actual empirical proofs. \u2026 We simply want the health issues of abortion to be discussed,\u201d Childress added.\nSusan Cohen, director of government affairs at the Guttmacher Institute, said that black women are not inordinately targeted.\nIt is the high number of unintended pregnancies among black women that explains the disproportionate number of black abortions, she stated in a policy analysis, \u201cAbortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture (2008),\u201d which was provided to CNSNews.com by Guttmacher Institute spokeswoman Rebecca Wind.\nWhile acknowledging that the abortion rate for blacks in the United States is \u201calmost 5 times that for white women,\u201d Cohen concluded in her analysis, \u201cthese higher unintended pregnancy rates (among African American women) reflect the particular difficulties that many women in minority communities face in accessing high-quality contraceptive services and in using their chosen method of birth control consistently and effectively over long periods of time.\"\n\u201cBecause black women experience so many more unintended pregnancies than any other group\u2014sharply disproportionate to their numbers in the general population\u2014they are more likely to seek out and obtain abortion services than any other group,\u201d said Cohen.\nWhen asked to comment on this report, Dr. Freda Bush, an obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice in Jackson, Miss., told CNSNews.com that she found the explanation for the high rate of black abortions \u201cdisingenuous.\u201d\n\u201cI would just like for them to explain why there\u2019s such a significant proportion of their clinics that are located in minority communities,\u201d said Bush, who is black. \u201cSo if you\u2019ll notice, I did not mention that as a factor when I talked to you [earlier], so I was not accusing them of anything.\n\u201cI was just pointing out the fact that we have more, but since they brought it up, I would like for them to explain where their clinics are located, and why their clinics are located in that area,\u201d she added.\n\u201cI would also like for an explanation of why their founder, Margaret Sanger, who was a known eugenist, also had a Negro project, and an explanation if that was not directed at the \u2018undesirables,\u2019\u201d said Bush. \u201cSo, I\u2019m not accusing them of anything. I would just like an explanation for the practices that they have continued.\u201d\nDr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a pro-life activist. In August 2007 she told a meeting of Priests for Life that abortionists \u201cplant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.\u201d\n\u201cThe great irony,\u201d she said, \u201cis that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.\u201d\nThanks to Robert a some time contbutor,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 876, "original_length": 67740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB632&search_keywords=", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VQN3X646ZP3RJP2ELZ63346HSL4T2KMS", "length": 8255, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Bill Text - SB-632 Vehicles: prima facie speed limits: schools.", "raw_content": "SB-632 Vehicles: prima facie speed limits: schools.(2015-2016)\n(Coauthors: Assembly Members Baker and Bonilla)\nSB 632, as introduced, Cannella. Vehicles: prima facie speed limits: schools.\n(1) Existing law establishes a 25 miles per hour prima facie limit when approaching or passing a school building or the grounds thereof, contiguous to a highway and posted up to 500 feet away from the school grounds, with a standard \u201cSCHOOL\u201d warning sign, while children are going to or leaving the school either during school hours or during the noon recess period. The prima facie limit also applies when approaching or passing school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with a standard \u201cSCHOOL\u201d warning sign. A violation of that prima facie limit is an infraction.\nExisting law additionally allows a city or county to establish in a residence district, on a highway with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, a 15 miles per hour prima facie limit when approaching, at a distance of less than 500 feet from, or passing, a school building or the grounds thereof, contiguous to a highway and posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 15 miles per hour, while children are going to or leaving the school, either during school hours or during the noon recess period. The prima facie limit would also apply when approaching, at that same distance, or passing school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with one of those signs.\nExisting law additionally allows a city or county to establish in a residence district, on a highway with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, a 25 miles per hour prima facie speed limit when approaching at a distance of 500 to 1,000 feet from a school building or grounds thereof, contiguous to a highway and posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 25 miles per hour, while children are going to or leaving the school, either during school hours or during the noon recess period. The prima facie limit would also apply when approaching, at that same distance, or passing school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with one of those signs.\nThis bill would allow a city or county to establish in a residence district, on a highway with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, a 15 miles per hour prima facie speed limit when approaching, at a distance of less than 1,320 feet from, or passing, a school building or grounds thereof, contiguous of to a highway and posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 15 miles per hour 24 hours a day. This bill would provide that a 25 miles per hour prima facie limit in a residence district, on a highway, with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, applies, as to those local authorities, when approaching, at a distance of 500 to 1,320 feet from a school building or grounds thereof. This bill would also authorize a local authority, on the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, to extend the maximum distance to establish a prima facie speed limit and school warning signs, as specified. This bill would also allow the 15 miles per hour or 25 miles per hour prima facie speed limit to apply 24 hours a day.\nBy authorizing a change in the prima facie limits, the bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.\n(a) (1) Whenever If a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour established by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 22352 is more than is reasonable or safe, the local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 20 or 15 miles per hour, whichever is justified as the appropriate speed limit by that survey.\n(2) An ordinance or resolution adopted under paragraph (1) shall not be effective until appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limit are erected upon the highway and, in the case of a state highway, until the ordinance is approved by the Department of Transportation and the appropriate signs are erected upon the highway.\n(b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or any other provision of law, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, determine and declare prima facie speed limits as follows:\n(A) A 15 miles per hour prima facie limit in a residence district, on a highway with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, when approaching, at a distance of less than 500 1,320 feet from, or passing, a school building or the grounds of a school building, contiguous to a highway and posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 15 miles per hour, while children are going to or leaving the school, either during school hours or during the noon recess period. hour. The prima facie limit shall also apply when approaching, at a distance of less than 500 feet from, or passing, school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 15 miles per hour.\n(B) A 25 miles per hour prima facie limit in a residence district, on a highway with a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour or slower, when approaching, at a distance of 500 to 1,000 1,320 feet from, a school building or the grounds thereof, contiguous to a highway and posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 25 miles per hour, while children are going to or leaving the school, either during school hours or during the noon recess period. hour. The prima facie limit shall also apply when approaching, at a distance of 500 to 1,000 1,320 feet from, school grounds that are not separated from the highway by a fence, gate, or other physical barrier while the grounds are in use by children and the highway is posted with a school warning sign that indicates a speed limit of 25 miles per hour.\n(2) The prima facie limits established under paragraph (1) apply only to highways that meet all of the following conditions:\n(A) A maximum of two traffic lanes.\n(B) A maximum posted 30 miles per hour prima facie speed limit immediately prior to and after the school zone.\n(3) The prima facie limits established under paragraph (1) apply to all lanes of an affected highway, in both directions of travel.\n(4) When determining the need to lower the prima facie speed limit, the local authority shall take the provisions of Section 627 into consideration.\n(5) (A) An ordinance or resolution adopted under paragraph (1) shall not be effective until appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limit are erected upon the highway and, in the case of a state highway, until the ordinance is approved by the Department of Transportation and the appropriate signs are erected upon the highway.\n(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), school warning signs indicating a speed limit of 15 miles per hour may be placed at a distance up to 500 1,320 feet away from school grounds.\n(C) For purposes of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), school warning signs indicating a speed limit of 25 miles per hour may be placed at any distance between 500 and 1,000 1,320 feet away from the school grounds.\n(D) A local authority shall reimburse the Department of Transportation for all costs incurred by the department under this subdivision.\n(E) Notwithstanding the maximum distance established in this section, a local authority may, upon the basis of an engineering and travel survey documenting school attendance boundaries or travel patterns to and from a school, or both, extend the maximum distance to establish a prima facie speed limit and school warnings signs, as defined in this section, to a distance or specific locations, or both, consistent with the findings of the travel survey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 10139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://liducks.com/community/speakers_bureau/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PB5XBKLSUBG6LWMQS2B7IIEDMQDPIBZP", "length": 882, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "liducks.com", "title": "Long Island Ducks Baseball - Affordable Family Fun on Long Island: Ducks Speakers Bureau", "raw_content": "The Long Island Ducks spend the off-season doing many things pertaining to the setup for another great season of Ducks baseball. One of the things the club enjoys most is visiting with groups and organizations of all sizes, sharing experiences with the team and relaying stories about how everyone can get involved with Long Island\u2019s hometown team.\nThe Ducks would be happy to attend your organization's next meeting and discuss a wide range of topics from player personnel, to the upcoming season, to the business of minor league baseball and the Ducks organization. There is no charge for having a member of the Ducks speak to your group or organization. The Ducks have an extremely knowledgeable and engaging staff including our CEO, President/General Manager, front office staff and Field Manager.\nCLICK HERE to e-mail us and set up a time for us to speak at your next function.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 201.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lifeizbeautyful.me/remembering-dad-eulogy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:57Z", "digest": "sha1:KHLU3525V4HVOZPGZZ424COFJHUPGA3I", "length": 2179, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "lifeizbeautyful.me", "title": "Remembering Dad {eulogy} - Life is Beautiful", "raw_content": "On November 7th, 2010 Groover Jenkins Hudson, our father, husband to our dear mother, and grandfather to our precious children, passed away. He fell asleep and never woke up.\nToday we have gathered to celebrate his life. To cherish those moments spent with him that enriched our lives. I\u2019d be lying if I said that every moment spent with this man was glorious. Our father suffered much like King Saul, in his last days, tormented by evil spirits. Such were the last days of our dad.\nBut he was a good man. He knew no strangers and had a hearty laugh that could warm the most frigid of hearts.\nHe loved old hymns, The Andy Griffith Show and movies starring Jimmy Stewart. Even his final recorded words were a quote from a Jimmy Stewart movie called Harvey. He wrote on a scrap piece of paper, \u201cI choose to be pleasant\u201d.\nOur dad could be pleasant. He could be the sweetest person speaking the most loving, encouraging words. He could pray, too. The most earnest humble prayers. He had a beautiful baritone voice and a love of birds. He loved to go to Chili\u2019s and always ordered country fried steak.\nToday we have gathered to learn from his life. Our dad had a way of making people feel so special. He was gentle. So gentle even animals were drawn to him. He had a gift for writing and made the best pot of chili.\nHe loved boston creme donuts and always wanted to hear about our day. He was so proud of the accomplishments of his wife and children. We were his trophies.\nHe looked forward to meeting his grandchildren. He wanted to be called Poppy. He knew he was going to have two grandsons and he proudly told everyone he met.\nToday we have gathered to change his legacy. To begin a new chapter filled with love and joy and hope. Our father struggled so much with the past that he could not function in the present. We will not continue this. We will live in the present, cherish the past and embrace the future.\nOur beloved father, husband and Poppy will be remembered as a man who loved God and tried, as we all do, to love his family.\nThis is a legacy worth continuing.\nDaddy, we love you. We treasure the moments you truly lived. We celebrate your life. May you rest in peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/Celebrating-Hanukkah-and-kindness,75052?page=1&content_source", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FX5WM34RQBFYNSZBQPSY2WLDU5FOCRTO", "length": 3138, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "liherald.com", "title": "Celebrating Hanukkah and kindness | Herald Community Newspapers | liherald.com", "raw_content": "Celebrating Hanukkah and kindness\nBrandeis School students create \u2018Pillowcases for Pediatrics\u2019 for hospital patients\nDvir Gamliel, 10, of Woodmere, contributed to the Brandeis School\u2019s chesed project, \u201cPillowcases for Pediatrics.\u201d\nAt the Brandeis School\u2019s Hanukah celebration, the Yeladudes Theater group performed a play, \u201cThe Hanukkah Miracle.\u201d\nFinding togetherness and recognizing miracles were the themes of the Brandeis School\u2019s Hanukkah celebration as students, faculty, parents and other family membersgathered to light the Lawrence school\u2019s menorah, complete work on a chesed (kindness) project called \u201cPillowcases for Pediatrics\u201d and enjoy dinner and a show featuring the New York City-based Yeladudes Theater group on Dec. 9.\nAs the candles were lit on the menorah, Brandeis School Rabbi Eli Kahn spoke about the miracle of the holiday and how important it is for the children to carry on its message.\n\u201cThe unique part of Hanukkah is publicizing the miracle,\u201d he said. \u201cThe oil in Hanukkah was the miracle because it lasted eight days. Everyone knows that, but how many people saw the miracle? Very few. Because very few saw it, it is up to us \u2014 we have to let people know.\u201d\nAbout 10 students at the school also participated in the project for Winthrop-University Hospital, where they designed and decorated pillowcases for children who are patients at the Mineola hospital.\nDvir Gamliel, a fifth-grader at Brandeis, created a pillowcase that showed his pride for Israel. \u201cI go to Israel every summer,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone who believes in Israel should go there if they can. The symbol I drew in the center represents Israel and my love for the country.\u201d\nBefore the Yeladudes Theater started their performance, a dinner of latkes, cheese pizza, and donuts was served. The theater group showed a short \u201cKef Date,\u201d which focused on learning about Jewish values, the Hebrew language and Israel.\nThen the troupe performed \u201cThe Hanukkah Miracle.\u201d A play featuring a character named Yehuda Hamacabbi and friends, about the eight-day holiday as well as teaching a lesson on bullying. In the play, the Hanukkah miracle is that two friends learn to help each other win a dreidel-spinning contest by believing and trusting each other.\nEvents such as are great to bring everyone together, said Roxanne Schebovitz, a Brandeis Parents Association Board member. \u201cBrandeis is a family and we stress the importance of all of our families enjoying every holiday at the Brandeis together, for a fun filled night of entertainment and food,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want families to enjoy special moments together and reflect on how priceless it is and fortunate we are to be part of such an amazing school.\u201d\nThe next event Brandeis is hosting is a monthly and free-of-charge \u201cMom and Me\u201d sessions, on Jan. 29 at the school on Frost Lane at 9:30 a.m. Children ages two through four are eligible to attend with their mothers. There are only 10 spots open. \u201cThis is open to the community to see what an amazing program we hold,\u201d Schebovitz said.\nTo RSVP for the \u201cMom and Me\u201d sessions, as space is limited, call (516) 371-4747 or visit www.thebrandeisschool.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 7489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://listverse.com/2016/01/05/10-little-known-facts-about-the-lindbergh-kidnapping/?utm_source=more&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=direct", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:EM7KO2ZU5TA33BIFXZIMXAS2B7VY25N6", "length": 12789, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "listverse.com", "title": "10 Little-Known Facts About The Lindbergh Kidnapping - Listverse", "raw_content": "10 Little-Known Facts About The Lindbergh Kidnapping\nHannah Taylor January 5, 2016\nAt the time, it was called the \u201cTrial of the Century,\u201d and it was a worldwide sensation.\nCharles Lindbergh, the first aviator to cross the Atlantic alone, his wife, Anne, and his son, 20-month-old Charles Jr., had moved to a home in rural New Jersey to escape the press coverage that followed them everywhere. The power couple and their baby were like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today\u2014everyone on both sides of the Atlantic knew and loved them. Everyone knew their baby as well.\nYet before they had even finished moving in, the Lindberghs\u2019 child was kidnapped, and a media circus like no other descended upon them. Two months later, it was discovered that the child had been mercilessly killed. The dastardly plot had been carried out by a nearly illiterate German immigrant who had come to the country illegally\u2014a carpenter named Bruno Hauptmann. Though Hauptmann maintained his innocence, he was convicted and later executed in \u201cOld Smokey,\u201d New Jersey\u2019s electric chair.\nHere are some little-known facts about the case.\n10 Newspapers Published The Daily Diet Of Charles Jr.\nInitially, it was thought\u2014and hoped beyond hope\u2014that this was a simple kidnap for ransom. If their child was still out there, the Lindberghs wanted him to be cared for properly. Charles Jr. had been recovering from a cold. This was actually the reason why Betty Gow accompanied the Lindberghs on their journey from Englewood, where they had been staying at Anne\u2019s parents\u2019 estate, to Highfields, their newly built mansion.\nAs the baby\u2019s nursemaid, Gow was needed to take care of the sick child. Though doctors advised that it wasn\u2019t really necessary, Anne released a statement detailing her son\u2019s daily diet, hoping that the kidnappers would feed him properly. It was broadcast over the radio and slathered over the front pages of regional newspapers:\nA half cup of orange juice on waking.\nOne quart of milk during the day.\nThree tablespoons of cooking cereal morning and night.\nTwo tablespoons of cooked vegetables once a day.\nThe yolk of one egg daily.\nOne baked potato or rice once a day.\nTwo tablespoons of stewed fruit daily.\nA half cup of prune juice after the afternoon nap.\nFourteen drops of viosterol, a vitamin preparation, during the day.\n9 Mobsters Offered Their Assistance From Prison\nPhoto credit: Chicago Bureau (FBI)\nSpeculations ran wild as to who might have kidnapped the Lindbergh baby\u2014and why. Who would be brazen enough to snatch such a famous child? Of course, suspicion immediately turned to the mob. Imprisoned mobsters were only too happy to offer theories on who had done it or information leading to the child. In exchange, they wanted certain favors or even release from prison.\nFrom his cell in Chicago, Al Capone graciously offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the kidnapper. He also claimed that if he were released from prison, he and his henchmen would search for the perpetrators.\nA national debate ensued as to whether Capone should be released. Then Elmer Irey, the IRS agent who had placed Capone behind bars, put the kibosh on the speculation, noting that Capone would likely flee the country if he were set free.\nMobster Abner \u201cLongie\u201d Zwillman also offered a reward for the return of the Lindbergh baby. He even met with members of the underworld who claimed to have information on the boy\u2019s location.\nBut it turned out that these figures were con men themselves. Zwillman later explained that this was simply a matter of business. The kidnapping occurred during Prohibition, and with heightened police scrutiny, Zwillman was worried that his alcohol-carrying trucks would be stopped and searched.\n8 Charles Lindbergh Was Involved In The Investigation\nCharles Lindbergh, a powerful man and strong leader, directed a significant amount of the investigation himself. In fact, Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, the superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, was accused of bungling the investigation because of Lindbergh\u2019s interference.\nFor his part, Schwarzkopf admitted that he viewed Lindbergh as a friend: \u201cI admit there wasn\u2019t one single, important step taken by us . . . until we consulted Colonel Lindbergh to learn if we would be interfering with his chances of getting back the baby.\u201d\nHowever, even Schwarzkopf was frustrated with the level of intimacy between Lindbergh and his attorney and personal friend, Colonel Henry Breckenridge. Lindbergh listened to Breckenridge\u2014and not the police\u2014for advice on what to do. It got to the point where Schwarzkopf was considering charges of conspiracy.\nAfter Dr. John Condon was appointed as the go-between for the Lindberghs, Charles accompanied Condon on a trip to speak with the kidnapper. On April 2, 1932, Lindbergh drove himself and Condon to a local cemetery to speak with the kidnapper and arrange for delivery of the ransom. Though Lindbergh stayed in the car\u2014the kidnapper would only speak with Condon\u2014he testified at trial that it was Hauptmann\u2019s voice he heard in the cemetery.\nOnce the child\u2019s body was found, both Lindbergh and Breckenridge backed off. Schwarzkopf reflected sadly, \u201cOf course, when the child was found, we knew we had waited [for instruction from Lindbergh] vainly.\u201d The remainder of the investigation was carried out by the appropriate authorities.\n7 The Body Was Found By A Truck Driver\nThe discovery of the child\u2019s corpse was made by William Allen, an assistant on a delivery truck with fellow employee Orville Wilson. On May 12, 1932, they were carrying tinder. About 6 kilometers (4 mi) from the Lindbergh estate, Allen pulled to the side of the road to relieve himself in the woods.\nAs he walked into a grove of trees, Allen was shocked to see the half-buried corpse of a small child through the underbrush. He rushed out of the woods and shouted to his coworker, \u201cDon\u2019t know about anybody losing a child except Colonel Lindbergh. Let\u2019s get out of here!\u201d\nThe two drove to Hopewell to find a police officer, and after completing their delivery, they guided him to the corpse of the infant.\nAs an article in Time magazine put it, \u201cIf a Negro from Marshall\u2019s Corner, NJ, had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods . . . a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere\u2019s police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.\u201d\n6 The Defense Immediately Moved To Dismiss The Case\nA trial begins with the prosecution giving their opening arguments\u2014a monologue by a prosecuting attorney that lays out their explanation of how the crime took place and what they plan to prove. The prosecution then calls and questions their witnesses.\nIn an act of showmanship worthy of the biggest celebrity trial of the century, defense attorney Edward Reilly called for a mistrial immediately after the prosecution\u2019s opening arguments: \u201cIf Your Honor please, I move now for a mistrial on the impassioned appeal of the attorney general, not being a proper opening, but merely a summation and a desire to inflame the minds of this jury against this defendant before the trial starts.\u201d He further moved for the dismissal of a juror.\nBoth motions were denied, and Reilly asked for an exception, formally stating that he disagreed with the ruling of the court. The exception was granted.\n5 The Forensic Evidence\nPhoto credit: Lindbergh Kidnapper\nThe trial of Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping was one of the first cases based on forensic evidence, and that evidence still holds up today. The prosecutors used fingerprint specialists, handwriting experts, and a xylotomist (a wood structure specialist).\nThe most damning evidence against Hauptmann was the wood grain evidence provided by Arthur Koehler, a member of the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Koehler actually contacted the police to offer his services, as the state police had never heard of a \u201cwood expert.\u201d\nHe testified that toolmarks on the ladder matched tools found in Hauptmann\u2019s possession and that the wood grain on a rail of the ladder matched wood cut from Hauptmann\u2019s attic. Handwriting experts testified that Hauptmann\u2019s handwriting matched that of the ransom notes and that he consistently misspelled certain words.\nIn 2005, the truTV show Forensic Files reexamined evidence from the Lindbergh case. Both of their forensic document examiners concluded that Hauptmann had written the ransom notes, and their wood grain expert found that the rail from the kidnapper\u2019s ladder had come from Hauptmann\u2019s attic.\n4 The Raucous Crowds Outside The Courthouse\nThe trial took place in Flemington, a small town in central New Jersey. In the 1930 census, Flemington had about 2,700 residents. So imagine the chaos when 700 reporters, cameramen, and videographers descended on the town. There were also 5,000 spectators\u2014nearly double the population of the town.\nThey surrounded the 100-year-old courthouse, which could only seat 500 people. During the testimony of the Lindberghs\u2019 nursemaid, the prosecution halted their questioning and asked the judge to send police officers outside to quiet the crowds.\nThe 1930s had their problems with the press, too. Upon the opening of court one day, the judge lectured the spectators. Apparently, someone had sneaked a camera into the courtroom. The judge warned that if it was done again and he found out who was responsible, he would \u201ctake such measures as the court deems expedient in the matter.\u201d\n3 Identification Of The Body\nWhen the body of the Lindbergh baby was found, it was in bad shape. The body had been in the woods, partially buried and decomposing for two months. The man who found it described it as a \u201cskeleton.\u201d What hadn\u2019t decomposed had been partially eaten by animals.\nThe boy\u2019s body was identified by his father and Betty Gow, his nursemaid. The primary identification was of the baby\u2019s nightshirt, which Gow had hastily stitched together from a bit of cloth given to her by the Lindberghs\u2019 maid, Elsie Whately. Both Gow and Whately testified to this in court and identified the cloth and thread used in the garment. The other forms of identification were the child\u2019s teeth, hair, and overlapping toes.\nAfter identification, the boy\u2019s body was cremated almost immediately on the insistence of his father. No further forensic testing, including DNA testing, was ever possible.\n2 Bruno Richard Hauptmann Had A Criminal Record\nPhoto credit: historycomestolife via YouTube\nThough his attorneys and his wife, Anna, would try to paint him as a model citizen, Bruno Hauptmann was no stranger to a life of crime. Upon his return to Germany after World War I, Hauptmann and a friend burglarized three homes and even used a gun to rob two women pushing baby carriages.\nIt was also rumored that Hauptmann had burgled the home of the mayor of Kamenz, his hometown, using a ladder to gain access to the second story, which is the same method of entry used in the Lindbergh kidnapping. Hauptmann was convicted of the burglary and served four years of a five-year prison sentence.\nShortly after his release, Hauptmann went back to his old tricks. He was arrested for stealing some strips of leather. As he was awaiting trial, he escaped from prison, leaving his prison clothes neatly folded in his cell with a note that read: \u201cBest wishes to the police.\u201d\n1 Anna Hauptmann\u2019s Campaign For Bruno\u2019s Innocence\nFor the rest of her life, Anna Hauptmann tirelessly campaigned to have the 1935 conviction of her husband, Bruno, overturned. She always maintained that her husband was with her on the night of the kidnapping.\nAs recently as 1981, she filed a wrongful death suit against the state of New Jersey, alleging that witnesses lied and police covered up evidence that proved the innocence of her husband. She also wanted $100 million in damages. Despite her repeated attempts to take legal action, the courts ruled against her every time. The state legislature and Governor James Florio also ignored her pleas.\nAnna Hauptmann died in 1994 at age 95. She had never remarried or removed her wedding band. Her steadfast resolve convinced some people that she was right. Her pastor explained, \u201cOur congregation loved her, her indomitable spirit, and her belief in her husband\u2019s innocence. She convinced all of us he was innocent.\u201d\nIn 1992, Anna said, \u201cGod knows who kidnapped that baby. God knows all things. If I die before Richard\u2019s name is cleared, I know He will do it in His time.\u201d\nHannah Taylor is 27 years old and hails from Flemington, New Jersey. You can follow her freelance research into the Lindbergh case and other intriguing tales at morbidstreak.blogspot.com.\n10 Facts About Robert Maudsley AKA The Real-Life Hannibal Lecter\nTop 10 Young Killers\n10 Real Victims Of The CIA\u2019s MKULTRA Program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 16000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://litseen.com/event/injustice-towards-black-trans-women-and-the-first-trans-cultural-district/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3J3TO2EVAZEJR2AN5WOM7SXV4SPHLTFK", "length": 4513, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "litseen.com", "title": "Injustice towards Black Trans Women and the First Trans Cultural District \u2013 Litseen", "raw_content": "Injustice towards Black Trans Women and the First Trans Cultural District\n\u00ab Book Launch for Jan Steckel\u2019s Like Flesh Covers Bone\nMemorial Gathering for Julia Vinograd \u00bb\nThis conversation will center around two topics: Injustice towards black trans women in our criminal justice system and the formation of the nation\u2019s first transgender cultural district \u2013 the Compton\u2019s Transgender Cultural District!\nThere is a definite energy in the air around the movement for serious criminal justice reform in the United States. In the midst of all of this energy who is being helped and who is left out? What is criminal justice reform and what are the stories and the specifics about the population affected by an unjust justice system?\nOur two experts will focus on the importance of centering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Black trans women in the movement for criminal jusitce reform. In our own City we are seeing ongoing incarceration and displacement of black and especial black trans folks in the Tenderloin.\nExcitingly the City just formed the Compton\u2019s Cultural District \u2013 the nations first transgener cultural distirict. We\u2019ll learn more about the plans for the district and the role it can play in fighting injustice.\nJanetta Louise Johnson, Executive Director,\nJanetta Louise Johnson is the Executive Director at TGI Justice Project. She is a formerly incarcerated Black transgender woman and has been an activist and advocate in the transgender communities since 1997, when she moved to San Francisco from her hometown of Tampa, Florida. She survived three and a half years in federal prison, and while inside she fiercely and tirelessly advocated for her rights as an incarcerated transgender person. She became politicized through her kinship with Miss Major, her adopted trans mother, and after her release from prison returned to her work with non-profits and social service agencies with a higher compassion for people on the inside of jails and prisons. In 2006, she put her skills as a community organizer, trainer and activist to work as Interim Director of TGI Justice Project, during which she coordinated vibrant grassroots fundraisers to support the organization. In 2014, she became the permanent Executive Director of TGIJP when Miss Major retired from the position.\nShe co-founded the Compton\u2019s Transgender Cultural District, the first transgender cultural district in the country, here in San Francisco in 2016. Janetta is committed to building strategies and interventions to reduce the recidivism rate of the transgender community by providing leadership development and job opportunities to those who are currently being released from custody. She is also a fierce advocate for transgender people who are currently incarcerated, working tirelessly to improve the lives of those currently on the inside through legislative campaigns like the Name and Dignity Act, which enables people in held in California prisons to change their legal name and gender, while also fighting for the abolition of prisons at large. She believes that currently and formerly incarcerated trans people without a voice will be people without hope. She will continue to struggle to instill hope and belief in a better future for every transgender person that she can reach.\nJanetta uses she/her pronouns.\nHoney Mahogany:\nA San Francisco native, drag queen, business owner, and activist, Honey Mahogany first gained international attention as a cast member on Season 5 of the reality television series RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. Named SF\u2019s best drag queen & cabaret performer by the Bay Area Reporter, Best Drag queen by SF Weekly, and a sought after emcee across the globe, Honey\u2019s more recent work fuzes art with the political. Honey\u2019s work as a drag queen & activist has earned her a commendation from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Sainthood from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and awards from both the Harvey Milk Democratic Club and the San Francisco Young Democrats. She is a founder of and currently serves as the district manager for the Compton\u2019s Transgender Cultural District, is Co-President of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, a sitting member of the San Francisco Democratic Central County Committee, a member of the San Francisco Trans Advisory Committee, and is an owner at the Stud, San Francisco\u2019s oldest LGBT bar. Honey currently hosts weekly RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race viewing parties with Sister Roma, and a monthly QTPOC centered party where all are welcome called Black Fridays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 7214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lonestar987.com/paul-mccartney-miami-2017-set-list-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:24I2BNJXB47Y5GH6YNWIOGXMW4WZETHY", "length": 2773, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "lonestar987.com", "title": "Paul McCartney Spans 60 Years of Music at Tour Opener in Miami: Set List + Video", "raw_content": "Paul McCartney Spans 60 Years of Music at Tour Opener in Miami: Set List + Video\nPaul McCartney began the latest leg of his One on One tour with a lengthy show at the American Airlines Arena in Miami last night (July 7). The set list, which can be viewed below along with fan-shot video of the concert, contained his earliest recorded song and some of his most recent ones.\nOne-third of the way through the evening, he broke into \"In Spite of All the Danger,\" which he and George Harrison wrote in 1958 when they were in the Quarrymen. The recording was released in 1995 on the first disc of the Anthology trilogy. But he also didn't ignore his 21st century output, playing \"My Valentine,\" three songs from New -- \"Save Us,\" \"Queenie Eye\" and \"New\" -- and \"FourFiveSeconds,\" his hit 2015 collaboration with Rihanna and Kanye West.\nIn addition to Harrison, who was honored with \"Something,\" he also paid tribute to the other two Beatles. He sang his song about John Lennon. \"Here Today\" -- as well as the Lennon-penned \"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite\" -- and he dedicated \"Birthday\" to both Ringo Starr, who turned 77 yesterday, and his father, Jim, who was born on July 7, 1902.\nWhile many of the chestnuts expected from a McCartney concert -- \"Can't Buy Me Love,\" \"Let It Be,\" \"Maybe I'm Amazed,\" \"Live and Let Die,\" \"Band on the Run,\" \"Yesterday,\" \"Hey Jude\" -- were played, he does an admirable job of rotating songs from his vast catalog. On this night, and on recent legs of the One on One tour, he's brought out \"You Won't See Me,\" \"Love Me Do,\" \"Temporary Secretary\" and Wings' \"Letting Go.\"\nThe concert was supposed to take place two days earlier but, according to SouthFlorida.com, it was pushed back two days to a desire to make \"production enhancements.\" McCartney's tour continues on Monday in Tampa and will run through July 25 in Tinley Park, Ill. He'll also play a handful of dates in the Northeast and Detroit between Sept. 11 and Oct. 1. You can see the complete calendar here.\nPaul McCartney, American Airlines Arena, July 7, 2017 Set List\n1. \"A Hard Day's Night\"\n4. \"Letting Go\"\n5. \"Temporary Secretary\"\n7. \"I've Got a Feeling\"\n8. \"My Valentine\"\n9. \"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five\"\n13. \"You Won't See Me\"\n14. \"Love Me Do\"\n15. \"And I Love Her\"\n18. \"Queenie Eye\"\n19. \"New\"\n22. \"FourFiveSeconds\"\n24. \"I Wanna Be Your Man\"\n25. \"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!\"\n27. \"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\"\n35. \"Hi, Hi, Hi\"\n36. \"Birthday\"\n37. \"Golden Slumbers\" / \"Carry That Weight\" / \"The End\"\n\"Can't Buy Me Love\"\n\"I've Got a Feeling\"\n\"Maybe I'm Amazed\"\n\"You Won't See Me\"\n\"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!\"\n\"Golden Slumbers\" / \"Carry That Weight\" / \"The End\"\nSource: Paul McCartney Spans 60 Years of Music at Tour Opener in Miami: Set List + Video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 5827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 139.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2013/10/3rd-baron-rathcavan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PHPCNNLLDY4HYWVUAKEZGHLHVWEUQF3V", "length": 3232, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com", "title": "Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland: 1st Baron Rathcavan", "raw_content": "THE BARONY OF RATHCAVAN WAS CREATED IN 1953 FOR THE RT HON SIR ROBERT WILLIAM HUGH O'NEILL, BARONET\nTHE HON (ROBERT WILLIAM) HUGH O'NEILL was the third son of the 2nd Baron O'Neill.\nHaving served in the Army as a major, O'Neill entered politics and became the Northern Ireland parliament's first Speaker.\nHe was appointed to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland and became Lord-Lieutenant for County Antrim, 1949-59.\nThe 1st Baronet was elevated to the peerage as BARON RATHCAVAN in 1953, when the baronetcy merged with the barony.\nThe 2nd Baronet and 2nd Baron undertook a not dissimilar career pattern as his father, entering politics having served in the Army.\nHe was, it is thought, a founder member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.\nLord Rathcavan lived at Killala Lodge, County Mayo, Ireland, which was described thus in 1996:\nThe seven-bedroom Georgian house on five and a half acres is owned by Bridget Lady Rathcavan, widow of the well known Northern Ireland politician, Sir Phelim O'Neill.\nThe 3rd Baronet is the present Lord Rathcavan.\nCLEGGAN LODGE, near Broughshane, County Antrim, has been owned at various times by the O'Neills and the O'Haras.\nIt is two-storey, with a front of two bows linked by a wooden first-floor balcony.\nThere are double gables. The roof formerly thatched and windows at one time latticed.\nThere is an octagonal drawing-room and dining-room; and an imposing double staircase.\nThere are modern additions to the rear.\nFormerly a shooting lodge for Shane\u2019s Castle, the site is known to have been in existence in 1777.\nAn entry for 1835 records that it was \u2018\u2026 surrounded by extensive plantations chiefly consisting of fir and larch and extends over about 200 acres.\u2019\nFraser described it in 1838 as, \u2018\u2026 the beautiful hunting seat of Earl O\u2019Neill\u2019s.\u2019\nExtensive landscaping and tree planting were carried out, presumably as shelter and cover.\nCleggan Lodge was built by the 1st Earl O\u2019Neill in 1822 in order to keep one of his mistresses, and as a shooting lodge on the edge of his extensive grouse moors in north Antrim.\nHe died without a male heir and, after Gladstone\u2019s Irish Land Acts, the great estates diminished.\nIn 1927, Sir Hugh O\u2019Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan, bought the Cleggan Estate.\nIt was renovated in the 1920s in a fine elevated site with views of Slemish.\nA ha-ha separates the house from parkland.\nThere are good mature trees in the parkland and in woodland. A considerable area was once ornamentally planted.\nA lake is drained at present.\nA pond, Fisher\u2019s Pond, was added sometime before 1857 and a rockery made in the glen by the present owner's grandfather post-1927.\nThese features are partially maintained in that paths are kept clear.\nA cultivated and productive garden is kept at the house in immaculate order, including herbaceous borders, a hot house and frames.\nThis present garden is post-1927. One of the two gate lodges survives.\nCleggan estate extends to about 1,000 acres and is renowned for The Cleggan Shoot.\nFirst published in June, 2010. Rathcavan arms courtesy of European Heraldry.\nThe prices in the Brompton bar & grill are very reasonable indeed for London..for anywhere in fact.\nBB&G is dog-friendly which may be of interest to some of your readers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 457, "original_length": 12779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lsradio.co.uk/musicblog/2016/10/11/preview-the-travelling-band-magnet-14-10-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:MYGLOVY43I5DJV2XUI2W5PXXD43D7YZR", "length": 1455, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lsradio.co.uk", "title": "PREVIEW: The Travelling Band @ Magnet, 14.10.16 \u2013 LSRadio", "raw_content": "PREVIEW: The Travelling Band @ Magnet, 14.10.16\nAlex Williams | 11 October 2016 | Music Blog\nA decade has passed since The Travelling Band\u2019s formative 2006 recording sessions in Brooklyn. Those sessions laid the foundations of the band\u2019s debut album Under the Pavement and set the band on the road to creating their own label, Sideways Saloon. To celebrate the landmark, TTB embark on a their first UK headline tour for two years, and will be releasing their first new music since the 2014 album The Big Defreeze.\nThe Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten tour sees The Travelling Band playing shows all around the UK. Far from being a nostalgic look back at the last ten years, the tour marks a line in the sand after the departure of original guitarist Steve \u2018Mugger\u2019 Mullen, with the band looking forward to the release of their fourth album next year.\n2016 has already seen TTB tour all over Europe supporting US country/rock star Lissie, including sold out shows at The Forum as well as huge theatres in Germany and Norway. They have been doubling up as Lissie\u2019s live band, playing summer festivals across the continent.\nIt\u2019s also been a landmark year for Sideways Saloon, with the acclaimed release of The Valley of Yessiree, the debut album from Canadian-born, London-resident maverick A. Dyjecinski, who will be special guest on the tour.\nThe Travelling Band play The Magnet on Friday 14 October\nTickets: http://smarturl.it/ttb10\nPhoto Credit: Sonic PR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://madrieldwyer.com/2017/07/10/hiring-a-dui-lawyer-to-represent-you-in-court/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LDTMOGI5ID3Q2VXNU5MJLZQHRG3IK77A", "length": 2613, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "madrieldwyer.com", "title": "Hiring A DUI Lawyer To Represent You In Court -", "raw_content": "Hiring A DUI Lawyer To Represent You In Court\nIn the event that you are arrested and charged with any crime, it is in your best interest to hire the best DUI attorney that can represent you in court and help you work through the many legal processes that you will have to deal with. DUI is not different really. But how do you get the best lawyer for your situation and how do you go about hiring or retaining them?\nThe question of when to consider hiring a lawyer for your DUI case is pretty simple to answer. If you are arrested, you need to hire a lawyer before you make any statements, submitting to any tests, or make any decisions. Just as you would go to the doctor with a medical issue, you need to consult a lawyer for legal issues. Ask for a lawyer first thing and do not do anything else until you have one to represent your interests. If you try to forgo this, you will have a much harder time in court.\nNot Just Any Lawyer Will Do\nWhen you start considering a lawyer for your case, look at their past cases and experience. You want to have a lawyer that has worked on cases like yours and will best represent you. Hiring an attorney who works with real estate would not be the best choice for a DUI case. Take the time to find the right one for the case. You may need to work with a general attorney right after your arrest but before the case goes to court, get someone involved that knows the ins and outs of this kind of case.\nFollowing Your Lawyer's Lead\nYou are spending your hard earned cash to hire someone that specializes in cases just like yours. You took the time to find the right person for the job, so listen to what they suggest. If your attorney tells you the best way to handle a part of the case or a course of action that works best, listen to their advice. They are the specialists and have the experience to guide them. If you feel like they are not serving your interests in the direction they want to take the case, you could always call another lawyer and get a second opinion but don't just disregard the advice they are giving.\nPublic Defenders and Costs\nIn some cases, you might not be able to afford a private attorney and you might have no choice other than to work with the public defender's offices. They have a lot of experience working on many different kinds of cases and while they might not specialize in cases just like yours, they will have the court experience you need. 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She completed her residency program at UCLA in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.\nDr. Maria Sulindro hasn\u2019t found the fountain of youth, but... read more\nReceive a free Aesthetic consultation (phone or in office) from Dr. Maria Sulindro, a leader in Aesthetic and Anti-Aging Medicine.\nand get started on a new healthier life. read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 6231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maritimedenmark.dk/?Id=19743", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MU24GYNIPYJFUEP4VE242CDXIKDLN3D3", "length": 597, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "maritimedenmark.dk", "title": "Short News \u00bb The government wants new harbor act", "raw_content": "The government wants new harbor act\nSHORT NEWS: The Government's proposal list of laws for 2018-2019, which was presented in relation to the Danish Parliaments opening on October 2, includes a proposal for a new harbor act. 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The bill was made as a result of recommendations from an impaired expertise committee that was handed to the Transport Authority in May 2018\u201d, the catalog with list of laws states.\nThere is currently no confirmation as to what exactly the bill will include.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://markmaynard.com/2017/02/what-did-trump-know-and-when-did-he-know-it-we-need-to-demand-an-investigation-into-russias-ties-to-trump-and-his-associates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:16Z", "digest": "sha1:II7GEJKBJ6AUFQVR6CTHLILIEKS2SHA2", "length": 27508, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "markmaynard.com", "title": "What did Trump know, and when did he know it? We need to demand an investigation into Russia\u2019s ties to Trump and his associates.", "raw_content": "\u00ab The weighted blanket\nInfluential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration and Betsy DeVos calls for the \u201cgradual, voluntary return at all levels to free-market private schools, church schools and home schools as the normative American practice.\u201d \u00bb\nWhat did Trump know, and when did he know it? We need to demand an investigation into Russia\u2019s ties to Trump and his associates.\nI\u2019m hesitant to write anything more about the situation unfolding right now in D.C., as things are happening so quickly. I did, however, want to share this timeline with you from today\u2019s Washington Post, as I think it might be something that we return to in the future as we try to determine what Trump knew, and when he knew it.\nDec. 29: Flynn, a former lieutenant general who had been selected as Trump\u2019s national security adviser, speaks to Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. Despite Flynn\u2019s later denial and the White House\u2019s later comments, he and Kislyak discuss sanctions and the possibility of relieving them once Trump is president \u2014 even as the Obama administration was announcing new sanctions for Russia\u2019s alleged meddling in the 2016 election.\nJan. 12: For the first time, Flynn\u2019s talks with the Russian ambassador are reported by Post columnist David Ignatius. Few details are known, but Ignatius notes that if the two discussed the sanctions, this could violate an obscure law known as the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized citizens from dealing in disputes with foreign governments.\nJan. 13: In his first comments on the matter, White House press secretary Sean Spicer says Flynn told him that he had exchanged text messages with Kislyak before they spoke on Dec. 28. (The date was later corrected to Dec. 29.) But Spicer said it was only to discuss logistics for a call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump after Trump was sworn in as president. \u201cThat was it, plain and simple,\u201d Spicer said.\nJan. 14: Flynn assures Pence, who was then the vice president-elect, that the two of them didn\u2019t discuss sanctions, according to Pence.\nJan. 15: Pence says on the Sunday shows that Flynn and Kislyak didn\u2019t discuss sanctions. \u201cI talked to General Flynn yesterday, and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to the new U.S. sanctions against Russia or the expulsion of diplomats,\u201d Pence says on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d\nJan. 26: The Justice Department, then headed by Acting Attorney General Sally Yates (whom Trump would later dismiss for not defending his travel ban), informs White House counsel Don McGahn of Flynn\u2019s misleading statements. It also warns that they were so egregious that he could open himself up to Russian blackmail, given Russia knew he had mischaracterized the call to his superiors, according to Washington Post reporting. White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed the specific date on Tuesday. \u201cThe first day that the Department of Justice \u2026 sought to notify White House counsel was January 26,\u201d Spicer said. \u201cThe president was immediately informed of the situation.\u201d Spicer said the White House didn\u2019t believe Flynn had violated the law. None of this was disclosed publicly at the time.\nFeb. 8: In an interview with The Post that would be published the following day, Flynn categorically denies having discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador.\nFeb. 9: The Post reports that Flynn did, in fact, discuss sanctions with the Russian ambassador. In response, a spokesperson amends Flynn\u2019s denial, saying that he \u201cindicated that while he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, he couldn\u2019t be certain that the topic never came up.\u201d\nFeb. 10: Trump says in brief comments aboard Air Force One that he is unaware of The Post\u2019s report but that he will \u201clook into\u201d it.\nAround 5 p.m. Monday: Conway says the White House has \u201cfull confidence\u201d in Flynn and seems to excuse him for having forgotten that he discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador.\nAlso around 5 p.m. Monday: Spicer issues a contradictory statement. \u201cThe president is evaluating the situation,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s speaking to the vice president relative to the conversation the vice president had with Gen. Flynn, and also speaking to various other people about what he considers the single most important subject there is: our national security.\u201d\n8 p.m. Monday: The Post reports that the Justice Department had told the White House last month \u201cthat Flynn had so mischaracterized his communications with the Russian diplomat that he might be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.\u201d\nShortly before 11 p.m. Monday: Flynn resigns.\nTuesday morning: Conway says Flynn resigned voluntarily.\nTuesday afternoon: Spicer, again contradicting Conway, says Trump requested the resignation: \u201cWhether or not he actually misled the vice president was the issue, and that was ultimately what led to the president asking for and accepting the resignation of General Flynn. That\u2019s it. Pure and simple, it was a matter of trust.\u201d\nSo, just a few unfocused thoughts on what we know thus far.\n1. Flynn, who was, for the past several weeks, the head of the National Security Council, apparently did not know that our intelligence agencies were in the practice of monitoring the communications Russian diplomats. I know I mentioned it yesterday, but I still can\u2019t believe that he, as a career military officer, and Trump\u2019s chief intelligence advisor, he didn\u2019t understand that his calls to a Russian diplomat might have been recorded. The ineptitude of this administration is absolutely dumbfounding, and it will ultimately be their undoing. I take some comfort in that.\n2. According to the above timeline, White House counsel Don McGahn, on January 26, was told by acting Attorney General Sally Yates (as well as former national intelligence director James Clapper Jr. and CIA director John Brennan) not only that Flynn had been lying, but that the Russians were in a position to blackmail him, as they knew that he had been lying about the content of his calls to Kislyak, and had violated the Logan Act, which prohibits private citizens from engaging in such discussions with foreign governments. I would have thought that Trump, in order to protect himself, would have said that he hadn\u2019t been made aware of this report made to McGahn. Apparently, though, the White House has decided to acknowledge the fact that he knew. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on the record this afternoon that Trump has known for \u201cweeks\u201d that Flynn lied to Pence and others about the content of his calls. In fact, according to Spicer, Trump heard the news the very same day that Yates told McGahn. Trump was briefed \u201cimmediately,\u201d Spicer said today.\n3. So, today Spicer said that Flynn was asked for his resignation on Monday because it had been determined that he\u2019d lied to the Vice President about his calls to Kislyak. \u201cWhether or not he actually misled the vice president was the issue,\u201d Spicer said, \u201cand that was ultimately what led to the president asking for and accepting the resignation of General Flynn. That\u2019s it. Pure and simple, it was a matter of trust.\u201d But the thing is, we\u2019ve already established that Trump was made aware of Flynn\u2019s lying on January 26, \u201cimmediately\u201d after Yates shared the information with McGahn. So, if he was fired for lying to the Vice President, why did Trump wait until February 13 to ask for Flynn\u2019s resignation, when he had the evidence against him on January 26?\n4. So, at 5:00 on Monday, Kellyanne Conway assured the press that Flynn had the \u201cfull confidence\u201d of Trump. Then, just six hours later, it was reported that Flynn had resigned. I\u2019d be interested to know what changed over that period of time? Why did the administration decide to jettison Flynn? Did Pence, who maybe really had been lied to, demand that he be forced out? Or did it perhaps have something to do with the news that broke at 8:00 PM that the administration has also been told on January 26 that, because of Flynn\u2019s lie, he \u201cmight be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow\u201d? [And you have to respect the intelligence community for how they played this. They told the press, when the President declined to take action against Flynn on his own, that the White House had been told of Flynn\u2019s lying. And, when that still didn\u2019t produce the desired result, they added that the White House had also been warned that Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail.]\n5. It\u2019s being reported now that, not only did Flynn lie to White House staff about these calls to discuss the Russian sanctions levied by the Obama administration, but that he also lied to the FBI, an offense which could bring with it a felony charge\u2026 And, if that should happen, one wonders what Flynn might tell prosecutors in order to protect himself\u2026 Might he, in order to save his own hide, say that Trump had asked him to contact the Russians, which seems like the most plausible scenario here? [Why else would Trump have kept him after the 26th, when he first learned of the calls?]\n6. Regardless of how all of this went down, I hope you\u2019ll agree that we need hearings. Democrats in the House have been demanding a Russia investigation for some time now, but Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been denying them at every turn, choosing instead, if you can believe it, to investigate the funding of an episode of the PBS cartoon \u201cSid the Science Kid\u201d about he Zika virus. Thankfully, it looks as though things have begun to turn. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said this evening that an investigation was \u201chighly likely.\u201d And other Republicans are jumping on the bandwagon. Republican Senator Roy Blunt, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told KTRS radio the evening, \u201cI think everybody needs that investigation to happen.\u201d And Senator John Cornyn, the Senate\u2019s second ranking Republican leader, and newly appointed member of the Senate intelligence panel, agreed, saying that an investigation would be \u201cappropriate.\u201d But the House, it seems, could still use some convincing. Chaffetz, the last I heard, was still saying, \u201cI think that situation has taken care of itself.\u201d So, if you\u2019re anywhere near a phone today, call your Congressperson. And, if you have time after that, call Jason Chaffetz and tell him to do his job.\n7. Assuming we\u2019re right and all of this is happening because America\u2019s intelligence community feels as though the Trump administration is a danger to the country, one wonders if they\u2019ll be satisfied with Flynn\u2019s resignation. Based on this new news item in the New York Times, I\u2019m guessing not. Here\u2019s how it begins\u2026 \u201cPhone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time that they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.\u201d So now, it would appear, we have at least four members of the intelligence community telling the New York Times that there are more intercepted calls\u2026 calls made between members of the Trump team and Russian officials during the general election, at the time that we know the Russians were actively hacking the Clinton campaign in order to assist Trump. So, stay tuned. More dominos may be falling.\n8. If I were a betting man, I\u2019d say, in the next few days, we\u2019ll be hearing more people talking about the role of oil in all this, and that mysterious 19% ownership stake in the Russian oil company Rosneft that we were discussing back in January\u2026 Just wait.\nThere\u2019s so much more I want to say, but my weighted blanket is calling.\nThis entry was posted in Politics, Uncategorized and tagged CIA, Don McGahn, Donald Trump, FBI, House Oversight Committee, James Clapper, Jason Chaffetz, John Brennan, John Cornyn, Justice Department, lies, Logan Act, Michael Flynn, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, National Security Council, Obama, oil, Rosneft, Roy Blunt, Russia, Sally Yates, sanctions, Sean Spicer, Senate Intelligence Committee, Sergey Kislyak, Sid the Science Kid, Vladimir Putin. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.\nPicked up from social media;\nPeople, I just had a VERY interesting conversation with the minority comment line for the House Intelligence Committee. It turns out that the minority (Democrat) members of the Committee have been QUIETLY investigating the connections between DJT and the Russians for the last month, since the Sally Yates notification and her subsequent firing.\nThe woman I spoke to compared the firing of Yates to Archibald Cox\u2019s firing during Nixon. She said, \u201cI\u2019m a lot older than you, and trust me, there are more similarities here than you might realize.\u201d\nShe URGED me, SEVERAL TIMES, to have everyone I know call the House Intelligence Committee Majority (Republican) comment line to tell Nunes and the Republicans 1) that you are outraged at Nunes\u2019 statement of support of Mike Flynn (see below) and 2) to open a formal investigation into Russia\u2019s influence over Trump et. al.\nThe number for the majority House Intel line is 202-225-4121.\nI just called them. They picked up on the first ring.\nGO TO IT! Circulate this far and wide, please.\nI\u2019ll be focusing my attention on Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg. He needs to be tracked down and forced to comment on this.\nhttp://www.eclectablog.com/2017/02/republican-tim-walberg-is-hiding-from-and-lying-to-his-constituents-refuses-to-meet-with-them.html\nWe\u2019ve also got this to worry about in Michigan.\n\u201cCould Kid Rock launch a campaign to take Debbie Stabenow\u2019s Senate seat?\u201d\nhttp://www.wxyz.com/news/could-kid-rock-launch-a-campaign-to-take-debbie-stabenows-senate-seat\nThe march toward Idiocracy continues.\nToday\u2019s Washington Post, in an article about Senate Republicans supporting an investigation, notes that Republicans in the House don\u2019t share their enthusiasm.\nTheir pronouncements contrasted sharply with remarks by Republicans in the House, who applauded Flynn\u2019s resignation but for the most part stopped short of calling for further investigation.\n\u201cI\u2019ll leave it up to the administration to describe the circumstances surrounding what brought [Flynn] to this point,\u201d House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters.\nSome took aim elsewhere. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said the most significant question posed by Flynn\u2019s resignation is why intelligence officials eavesdropped on his calls with the Russian ambassador and later leaked information on those calls to the news media.\n\u201cI expect for the FBI to tell me what is going on, and they better have a good answer,\u201d Nunes said. \u201cThe big problem I see here is that you have an American citizen who had his phone calls recorded.\u201d\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-senate-republican-blunt-says-congress-should-probe-flynn-situation/2017/02/14/8abbcad4-f2d5-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html\nWatergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. On a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, I would put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is currently somewhere around a 5 or 6, in my opinion, but it is cascading in intensity seemingly by the hour. And we may look back and see, in the end, that it is at least as big as Watergate. It may become the measure by which all future scandals are judged. It has all the necessary ingredients, and that is chilling.\nWhen we look back at Watergate, we remember the end of the Nixon Presidency. It came with an avalanche, but for most of the time my fellow reporters and I were chasing down the story as it rumbled along with a low-grade intensity. We never were quite sure how much we would find out about what really happened. In the end, the truth emerged into the light, and President Nixon descended into infamy.\nThis Russia story started out with an avalanche and where we go from here no one really knows. Each piece of news demands new questions. We are still less than a month into the Trump Presidency, and many are asking that question made famous by Tennessee Senator Howard Baker those many years ago: \u201cWhat did the President know, and when did he know it?\u201d New reporting suggests that Mr. Trump knew for weeks. We can all remember the General Michael Flynn\u2019s speech from the Republican National Convention \u2013 \u201cLock her up!\u201d in regards to Hillary Clinton. If Hillary Clinton had done one tenth of what Mr. Flynn had done, she likely would be in jail. And it isn\u2019t just Mr. Flynn, how far does this go?\nJay Steichmann\nProbably the most important reason for you/us to keep up pressure on US Representatives is that impeachment starts in the House and the trial is heard by the Senate.\nThe House will not, because Ryan has more or less admitted, the current Republican leadership views investigation as punishment not inquiry. Keep that in mind when folks look back at the investigations into Sec Clinton the last several years.\nWhat we can do, is continue to pressure individual Congresspersons, and as much as possible at their offices (respectfully, give no excuse to create a different narrative). And continue to reach out to folks who did not vote to engage, help them vote, and try and peel away folks who voted for this current batch of folks but are not fully on board. Hold your anger, get them to switch.\nHugely important.\n\u201cCongressman Steve King: Leakers should be \u2018purged\u2019 from intelligence community\u201d\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/steve-king-intelligence-communities-cnntv/index.html\nWhy shouldn\u2019t the House investigate? 8 different committees investigated Benghazi, including a select committee by the House specifically focused on Benghazi. The more the merrier. Get to the bottom of this.\nMore people \u201clike\u201d the fact that you sleep under a lead blanket than \u201clike\u201d your demand for an investigation. What does that tell you, Mark?\nEnvironmental lawyer friend who regularly sues the federal govt says:\n\u2018Please, please, ask for an independent (not special) counsel, specifically request a review of the transition team and the Trump Administration, and do not use the word leaks.\u2019\nOfficials inside the National Security Council described low morale and concern about the future. The \u201cworthless\u201d message at a five-minute staff meeting Tuesday morning, one official said, was: \u201cKeep working hard. Don\u2019t leave.\u201d\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flynn-departure-erupts-into-a-full-blown-crisis-for-the-trump-white-house/2017/02/14/c1f3cb90-f2db-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html\nTrump in July, 2016:\n\u201cRussia, if you\u2019re listening, I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.\u201d\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZFBB-MntE\nI posted this in another thread, but I thought it belonged here also. It\u2019s another perspective on this whole thing from Tablet Magazine.\nSo when does the other shoe drop? Who\u2019s going to break the story proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the president of the United States is so deeply connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the White House has become a Muscovite colony in all but name?\nTime to use some common sense\u2014it\u2019s not going to happen, there is no story. The narrative that Donald Trump is effectively Putin\u2019s prison wife is an information operation orchestrated by Democratic hands, many of whom served in the Obama administration, sectors of the intelligence community, and much of the American press. The purpose of the campaign is to delegitimize Trump\u2019s presidency by continuing to hit on themes drawn from the narrative that Russia \u201chacked\u201d the election and stole it away from Clinton.\nThe narrative is contorted because it\u2019s not journalism. It\u2019s a story that could only make sense in a profoundly corrupted public sphere, one in which, for instance, Graydon Carter is celebrated for speaking truth to power with an editor\u2019s letter critical of Trump in a magazine that has no other ontological ground in the universe except to celebrate power.\nOh, sure, there are regular hints that there\u2019s still more to come on Trump and his staff\u2019s ties to Russia\u2014the big one is about to hit. But the steady sound of drip-drip-drip is the telltale sign of a political campaign, where items are leaked bit by bit to paralyze the target. Journalists, on the other hand, have to get their story out there as quickly, and as fully, as possible because they\u2019re always worried the competition is going to beat them to it.\nNo, if Trump really was in bed with the Russians, the story would already be out there, and I\u2019m pretty sure it would have had a Wayne Barrett byline.\nWhen I worked at the Village Voice in the mid-1990s, my office was right around the corner from Barrett\u2019s and his bullpen of interns, a team that kept the heat on local politicians like Rudy Giuliani, Ed Koch, and others. Barrett was the first journalist who wrote at length about Trump, starting in the mid-1970s. His biography, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, was published in 1992, and reissued in 2016 as Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention.\nWhen Trump won the nomination and the pace of Trump stories picked up, Barrett became something of an official archivist, with reporters visiting his Brooklyn house to go through his files in the basement. Anyone who wanted to know what Trump\u2019s deal with Russia was, for instance, would want to talk to Barrett because either he or his team of interns, 40 years\u2019 worth, would have it. After all, New York City is the world capital for information on Russians, even better than Israel\u2014because even though the city got a smaller number of post-Cold War immigrants, New York got a higher percentage of mobsters.\nLet\u2019s compare the institution of Wayne Barrett, a subset of the institution of journalism, to the so-called Russia dossier, the document placing Trump in a shady underworld governed by Putin and other Russian thugs. The former includes not only Barrett\u2019s body of work over nearly half a century, but that of the hundreds of journalists he trained, and many thousands of sources whose information is, therefore, able to be cross-checked.\nThe latter, a congeries of preadolescent pornographic fantasy and spy tales, was authored by a British intelligence officer who has gone to ground since the dossier was made public. The dossier started as work made for hire, first paid for by Republican opponents of Trump and then the Clinton camp, and is sourced to Russian \u201ccontacts\u201d who are clearly using the document as an opportunity to proliferate an information operation for perhaps various and as yet unknown purposes. The former is journalism. The latter, part oppo research and part intelligence dump, is garbage. Clearly, it is also the new standard in the field, which is why journalists on both sides of the political spectrum are boasting about their willingness to let their bylines be used as bulletin boards for spy services and call it a \u201cscoop.\u201d\nBarrett had Trump on a whole variety of issues, but check the records yourself\u2014up until the day of his death, the day before Trump\u2019s inauguration, there\u2019s nothing on Trump and Putin. Does this mean Trump is totally clean? Who knows? But the journalists now clamoring like maniacs about Trump\u2019s ties sure aren\u2019t going to find it. They\u2019re thin-skinned hacks outraged that Trump dared violate the inherent dignity of that most important of American political institutions, the presidential press conference. And as we all know, this is the apex of real journalism, where esteemed members of the press sit side by side with other masters of the craft to see who gets their question televised.\nDoes Trump really believe the media are \u201can enemy of the people\u201d? Please. Let\u2019s remember how he rode his wave to fame on the back of the New York Post\u2019s Page Six (and Graydon Carter\u2019s Spy magazine). He still speaks regularly to the head of CNN (aka \u201cFake News\u201d), Jeff Zucker, who put him on The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice at NBC, where Trump sat atop the Nielsens for 13 years. Trump uses his Twitter feed to boost his replacement Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings because the president still has a credit as executive producer. No, Trump doesn\u2019t hate the media. Like Howard Stern, he sees himself as the king of all media. What he\u2019s doing here is playing gladiator in front of an audience that wants to see the lions slain.\nMaybe Trump deserves the heat with the fake Russia stories. He backed the Obama birth certificate story, and what goes around comes around. But the American public sure doesn\u2019t deserve a press like this.\nTrump adviser Steve Bannon calls the media the opposition party, but that\u2019s misleading. Everyone knows that the press typically tilts left, and no one is surprised, for instance, that The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican candidate since 1956. But that\u2019s not what we\u2019re seeing now\u2014rather, the media has become an instrument in a campaign of political warfare. What was once an American political institution and a central part of the public sphere became something more like state-owned media used to advance the ruling party\u2019s agenda and bully the opposition into silence. Russia\u2019s RT network, the emir of Qatar\u2019s Al Jazeera network\u2014indeed, all of the Arab press\u2014and media typically furnished by Third World regimes became the American press\u2019 new paradigm; not journalism, but information operation.\nHow did this happen? It\u2019s not about a few journalists, many of whom still do honor to the profession, or a few papers or networks. It\u2019s a structural issue. Much of it is because of the wounds the media inflicted on itself, but it was also partly due to something like a natural catastrophe that no one could have predicted, or controlled.\nhttp://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/225587/trump-american-press\nAnother article to check out.\nhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323477-top-trump-adviser-admits-to-contacting-dnc-hackers-report\nUgh. Anonymous, there was a time when I would have found such a scenario to be shocking.\nThis news intrigues me.\nChaffetz won\u2019t run for reelection: http://hill.cm/fiIkht9\nJohn Schindler\u200f by proxy\n#NSA friend recently told me that when #KremlinGate shakes out, Nunes will be doing hard time.\nChaffetz is expected to resign today.\nBy Plans to lift Russian sanctions continued to be refined even after the Trump administration was warned of Flynn\u2019s illegal activities on February 21, 2017 at 8:55 am\n[\u2026] even after Trump was told on January 26 that recordings existed of Michael Flynn, his appointed head of the Nat\u2026, Trump\u2019s inner circle continued to push forward with their plans to aid the Kremlin. [\u2026]\nBy Trump makes a play for the Idiocracy set on April 20, 2017 at 10:03 pm\n[\u2026] to influence the last election, but news just broke yesterday that Congressman Jason Chafettz, who recently came to Trump\u2019s defense by claiming falsely that evidence existed backing up the \u2026, wouldn\u2019t be seeking reelection. 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The Fustian Store Studio is on the Green, opposite St Michael\u2019s Church.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marxplayset.info/rare-original-nearly-complete-1960-s-marx-midevil-castle-w-vikings-knights.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:FDKDE6P2KKGYRLTKYRY6HELRE3OCB675", "length": 3005, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "marxplayset.info", "title": "RARE Original Nearly Complete 1960's Marx Midevil Castle w Vikings & Knights", "raw_content": "RARE Original Nearly Complete 1960's Marx Midevil Castle w Vikings & Knights\nThis is an original Marx Toy Company, Knights and Vikings Castle playset. It was mine as a young child and has seen many battles waged in play. I do not have a complete listing of the components, but believe it to be at least 95% complete.\nThe castle itself consisted of a molded plastic base, which is relatively scarce, since it was easily broken. It can be repaired, but I will leave that to the collector that buys this item.\nThe metal and plastic castle wall structures are complete and intact. The small flags on the tallest part of the castle are intact and included.\nThe vikings and knights are included. There is one complete catapult and two \"rock\" bombs included. I seem to recall that there was two of these, but again, through time one has been lost. I have constructed a wooden crate to contain and protection the castle, within the original box. It was once stored in my mother's basement and has had some mold and water damage to the outside of the actual box. This can be seen in the two pictures included in the description. The box has some mold growth on it, and many tears and bruises to it as can been seen in the photos. Again, I have not seen anyone list the base, as these are very fragile and were probably destroyed in play for most playsets. This is your chance to acquire a nearly complete one with the golden grail - the complete base. Please ask any questions that you may have and I will attempt to respond to my best ability. Thank you for looking at this unique listing. Thank you for your patience and understanding.\nThe item \"RARE Original Nearly Complete 1960's Marx Midevil Castle w Vikings & Knights\" is in sale since Sunday, November 05, 2017. This item is in the category \"Toys & Hobbies\\Vintage & Antique Toys\\Play Sets\".\nThe seller is \"cje2.50\" and is located in Trenton, New Jersey. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russian federation, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.\nMaterial: molded plastic & metal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 160.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://masons180.org/2017/09/from-the-east-september/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GAQWKFOPJW6X454DNUBUWSHP2LSRWWKQ", "length": 3261, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "masons180.org", "title": "From the East (September) | Petaluma-Hamilton #180", "raw_content": "From the East (September)\nby Christopher | Sep 1, 2017 | From the East, Trestleboard\nTime to get back to work! After the Labor Day holiday, referring not only to resuming our degree conferral practices but also to our efforts to reach out to our members. Each one of our 145 members of this Lodge has a contribution to make and it\u2019s up to us as the leaders of this lodge to discover what each one of us can do to contribute to this body that we pay yearly dues to. We all joined Masonry for a reason and I\u2019d like an update on how that reason has proven true for you. If not, then how can I help.\nThis month, we will host our Ladies, and the widows of our members, for a special luncheon at the Lodge on September 16th, at 1 PM. We would like to inform them of all the important ways in which our Grand Lodge has provided help for us when needed later in life or when life throws us an unexpected turn of misfortune. But also, it gives us an opportunity to say \u201cThank You\u201d for your patience when we are away from home for our meetings and for your companionship with us through life. Look for the invitations in the mail soon.\nLast month we were honored to host our Very Worshipful Grand Treasurer, Arthur Salazar, to come up from Southern California to teach us some very useful information about forming a Lodge and Hall budget.\nHe was very knowledgeable and interesting but unfortunately only a few attended despite our efforts to spread the word. Also last month was the inaugural Barbeque Cook-off, held in beautiful downtown Bloomfield, which was organized by our Brothers, Brian Brozovic and Past Master Rich Fonseca with others from Vitruvius Lodge. It was a delicious and super fun way to spend a Saturday and our lodge team contributed very well.\nIn October 13-15 we will be representing our Lodge at the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of California, held in San Francisco. The legislation is out and available to discuss as to how it pertains to all of us. It bears repeating that the Grand Lodge consists of the Masters and Wardens of every Lodge in California, together with the current and past Grand Lodge Officers, and Past Masters of this jurisdiction. Combined, we determine how the fraternity will operate in California using the Constitution of the Grand Lodge. The legislation presented this year is how we alter, or not, this Constitution by a vote of those present at our Annual Communication.\nThis process is how the Constitution was written and amended from the beginning of the Grand Lodge in California in 1850.\nAnd so my Brothers, this Lodge number 180 is your Lodge to make and decide how it should be operated, as well as what it should be concerned with. We meet once a month, according to our Bylaws, for a business meeting where we make decisions for everyone who pays dues to belong to this Lodge. Your voice at these meetings is your vote how we should proceed in the community and individually to each other. You\u2019ve made your payment for the dues, now represent yourself at our business meetings and get involved in the decisions. We\u2019ll give you dinner before to encourage you to come to the meeting and I promise, you will be greeted warmly by your Brothers.\nI\u2019ll be the first to say, \u201cWelcome back.\u201d\nGuy M. Chalmers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mattersindia.com/2018/11/where-hope-fades-and-time-stands-still-assams-detention-camps/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WFWRBLWKJFOJOXUDODH6ON227ZVVEWEL", "length": 8040, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "mattersindia.com", "title": "Where hope fades and time stands still: Assam\u2019s Detention Camps \u2013 Matters India", "raw_content": "Purgatory is a place where souls go to atone for their sins before being admitted into heaven. Assam\u2019s Detention Camps are the dark, dank and dreary modern day purgatory like limbo lands, where those who are Declared Foreigner (DF) by Foreigners\u2019 Tribunals (FT) are condemned to spend their time till they are able to either secure bail or have the FT judgment overturned by a higher court. However, given how most inmates end up there only because of minor discrepancies in their paperwork and no actual \u2018crime\u2019 or \u2018sin\u2019, Detention Camps are worse than Purgatory, or even Hell.\nThere are several horror stories related to Detention Camps in Assam. 61 year old Jobbar Ali died under unexplained circumstances at the Tezpur Detention Camp in October 2018. Earlier, in May 2018, Subrata De died under mysterious circumstances in Goalpara. And then there are instances where just spelling your name differently on two documents can land you in a Detention Camp! Take the case of Saken Ali, who was forced to spend five years in a Detention Camp just because some of his documents showed his name spelled with an extra \u2018H\u2019 or as Sakhen Ali. The sick are handcuffed to their hospital beds as we discovered in the case of a shivering and emaciated Ratan Chandra Biswas.\nEven pregnant and elderly women are not spared! Rashminara Begum was thrown behind bars despite being three months pregnant. The Supreme Court ordered the release of 50 year old Sofiya Khatun on a Personal Release Bond in September 2018. Her experience was so traumatic that even 15 days after coming back home, she could not utter a single word!\nOver four million people have been left out of the NRC draft, most of them from socio-economically backward communities. Now CJP, drawing from its previous experience in providing legal aid in Gujarat, will step in with a multi-faceted team of lawyers and volunteers to ensure that these people receive a fair chance while filing claims across 18 of the worst affected districts. Your contribution can help cover the costs of a legal team, travel, documentation and technological expenses. Please donate generously here.\nToday, Detention Camps operate out of make-shift facilities in six local prisons across Assam; Dhibrugarh, Tezpur, Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar and Jorhat. The detainees are lodged here till they are deported to the country of their origin or are able to secure their release. As per a submission made before the Assam Assembly on March 26, 2018, over 900 people are detained at these detention camps and close to 30,000 people have been deported since 1985.\nCondition of Inmates in Detention Camps\nWhen Debabrata Saikia, Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly, visited the Kokrajhar Detention Camp in June 2018, he spoke to some of the women inmates. \u201cThey told me how they had two toilets, two bathrooms and four taps for over a hundred women. They also said they were forced to share space with hardened criminals,\u201d says Saikia. \u201cThey meet their family from behind bars of a gate. Their families are allowed to offer them dry food like fruit and snacks. Sometimes they also give them money, but never more than Rs 500,\u201d he adds.\nThis is particularly interesting because while hardened criminals like dacoits and murderers are allowed to work in prison and earn money, detention camp inmates do not have the same rights. Some inmates also allege that the prison guards, often encourage the hardened criminals to bully the detainees to keep them under control and in perpetual fear. \u201cThere were four murderers in my cell block and they would roam free terrorising every one. The guards would just look the other way,\u201d says Rashminara Begum who was dragged away to the Kokrajhar detention camp in November 2016 and released on bail only after her daughter was born.\nBut what is also deeply disturbing is how inmates are treated even when they step out for medical treatment. Ratan Chandra Biswas, a Bengali Hindu from Gerukabari Village under Manikpur Police Station of Bongaigaon District, has been langushing in a Detention Camp for over two years. At the time of detention, he had no health complaints. His condition however started deteriorating soon after detention. Finally after prolonged illnesses he was admitted to the Goalpara Civil Hospital. He was handcuffed throughout his treatment. A shivering and traumatised Ratan Chandra Biswas said, on video, to CJP\u2019s sister concern Sabrang India, \u201cI have studied up to class six. My grandfather\u2019s name is in the 1966 Voters list. There is a small piece of land in my father\u2019s name. Though I am an Indian Citizen, I have been forced inside a detention camp for the last 2 years and five months.\u201d\nLaws governing Functioning of Detention Camps\nAccording to the submission made before the Assam Assembly on March 26, 2018, Detention Camps have been set up under the provisions of section 3 (2) e of the Foreigners Act 1946 and paragraphs 11 (2) of the Foreigners Order 1948. As these Detention Camps operate out of make shift facilities in jails, their affairs are conducted as per the Assam Jail Manual. However, detainees have fewer rights than even convicted criminals serving sentence. \\\nSeveral human rights organisations, activists and media reports have highlighted the inhuman conditions under which people are held at such facilities. Human Rights activist Harsh Mander who was Minorities Monitor with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging the infringement of rights of inmates under article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India. The petition demands a redress of fundamental rights and asks for humane treatment of inmates. The petition may be read here:\nRelevant International Statutes\nThere are several international agreements, conventions, statutes and guidelines as to how to treat stateless people, be they refugees, asylum seekers, migrants (legal or otherwise), undocumented residents or people with questionable claims to citizenship. These may be read here:\nArticle 7: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment\u2026\nArticle 10(1): All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.\n(1) Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.\n(2) No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.\n(3) An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.\nArticle 16 (1) Each State Party shall undertake to prevent in any territory under its jurisdiction other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture as defined in article I, when such acts are committed by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.\nSome other related international conventions may be read here:\nGiven how Assam has allocated 20 bhigas of land in Thakurbhita in Goalpara district for the construction of a Detention Camp with the capacity to lodge 3000 inmates, and two more Detention Camps are being planned in Silchar and Tezpur, it is important that the provisions of these international statutes are adhered to in letter and spirit.\nsource: CJP\nTags: Assam, detention camp\nPrevious Asia Bibi case should serve as warning in India\nNext Waiting in Joyful Expectation of the Messiah\n2 thoughts on \u201cWhere hope fades and time stands still: Assam\u2019s Detention Camps\u201d\nTelma manickam says:\nIs this the land of Mahatma Gandhi!!!!!!!!!!\nWhat does CJP stand for? Who are the people behind that organisation. It is irritating to get incomplete stories from third sources without knowing the source. They should be vetted before publication", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 12649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mefafilm.com/project/the-desert-angel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:14Z", "digest": "sha1:WVWM5INKSQYHUW6DQCWTYLR6VYMGIT33", "length": 1246, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mefafilm.com", "title": "MEFA The Desert Angel - MEFA", "raw_content": "\u201cWe had been commissioned by \u201cFaut Pas Rever\u201d (Global Village) to do a portrait of Trevor Wright, the owner and founder of Wright Air, a small aerial company based in William Creek near Lake Eyre. The day before our arrival Trevor was rushed by air to Adelaide\u2019s hospital after being bitten by a very poisonous spider. Just before losing consciousness he called me and said \u201cdo a portrait of my chief pilot instead\u201d.\nTo add to the drama, all the roads to William Creek had been cut off by heavy rains, so we could not drive to the location. The \u2018Red Centre\u2019 of Australia was flooded. Trevor\u2019s chief pilot was to pick us up at Coober Pedy to fly us to William Creek. We waited in suspense, not knowing who we\u2019d be making the film about. Out of the plane came a young woman, Talia Sheppard.\nWe spent a week with her. This was the busiest week she had ever had as a bush pilot. She was single handedly managing Wright Air and had 3 times as many missions to fly to rescue stranded station owners and their families from the flooded area. Despite having to deal with the demands of a film crew, she never lost her cool. And it turned out to be a really nice little film!\u201d\nProduction in Australia, 2nd camera and sound | Pierre-Jacques Ober, MEFA Film", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://melissabenn.co.uk/tag/new-statesman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UD53AHHA65XOAGWHJDQKVG2TZ4TTHCHT", "length": 1003, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "melissabenn.co.uk", "title": "New Statesman | Melissa Benn", "raw_content": "This ingeniously constructed double biography tells the story of a mother and a \u00addaughter, two writers, who did not know each other. Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, died of septicaemia ten days after giving birth to Mary Godwin,\nAs an anxious new mother,\nBeatrix Campbell, journalist and activist, working-class radical and feminist, now in her later sixties, is in many ways the quintessential British writer. She has brilliantly reimagined Orwell\u2019s The Road to Wigan Pier,\nWhat Hannah Arendt called thinking\u2026\nOctober 26, 2011 melissabennBPHannah ArendtMargaret HeffernanNew StatesmanRupert Murdoch\nI have just come across this thoughtful essay from the New Statesman, published in the late summer, by Margaret Heffernan. It makes many important points \u2013 but I particularly love its last paragraph. It touches on so many aspects of human life and behaviour I find most interesting \u2013 in particular the things we deliberately don\u2019t see about ourselves and others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://merryweatherscottage.blogspot.com/2016/08/star-wars-galactic-spectacular-dessert.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5MV5OM4LN3WLFH57K3CGPSAXSPLWVZYG", "length": 3269, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "merryweatherscottage.blogspot.com", "title": "Merryweather's Cottage: Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party Review", "raw_content": "Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party Review\nFirst off, let me start by saying, Disney got this right. They got this SO right. We were absolutely impressed with the Spectacular! I felt like the Incredible's neighbor when it was all over:\nIf you haven't seen it yet, you are missing out! For real. And if you are a Star Wars fan at all, this is something you have to put on your \"Must Do\" list for your next trip. I loved it! All of it.\nAnd if you want to make the most of your Galactic Spectacular, consider adding the dessert party to your day at Hollywood Studios. It's an extra ticketed event, so on top of your park admission, you will need to purchase tickets. Currently, the price per adult is $58.63 and $33.20 per kid (3-9). Here's what you get for that price:\nDesserts. So many desserts! But not just desserts, there are also savory items as well as fresh fruits, AND a very nice assortment of drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. You can go back as many times as you like and take your food all around the Launch Bay. For a full menu, head over to AJ's blog and see what all is on offer. (The write up is old, but the menu is just about the same.) Even with my restricted diet, I was able to find desserts to enjoy!\nThe Launch Bay is open for you to enjoy. With all the Star Wars artifacts, the movie and the Chewbacca and Kylo Ren meet and greets, you could easily spend most of your time seeing all there is to see.\nWait times for Chewie and Kylo Ren were only 10 minutes or less. I definitely recommend using this time for meeting them.\nStorm Troopers are patrolling the area. Our Storm Troopers were not in a photographic mood claiming they were not allowed to be photographed while on duty; although I have heard that at other parties they have been willing to pose with guests and be photographed.\nJawas are also roaming the party and willing to trade if you have something of value. Our 15 year old tried to complain that the droid he traded for had a bad motivator, but this Jawa wouldn't hear of it.\nStorm Troopers will escort you to the reserved viewing area for the Galactic Spectacular. It is PRIME viewing.\nA souvenir Chewbacca stein and a bottle of water are waiting for you when you arrive for the Galactic Spectacular. We only had to wait 8 minutes once we arrived before the show began. And I can't say it enough: it was SPECTACULAR!\nWhat you don't get:\nThe one downside we found (which Disney is clear about on their dining page) is that there are NO seats. And by 8 pm, our feet were tired and begging for a seat. Given the space, I am not sure how Disney would manage that; and if you use your time at the Launch Bay well, going to all the attractions, you don't really have a long time to stand around before you're headed out to see the show.\nWas it worth it? For my money, this experience is totally worth it, at least once. We are bona fide Star Wars fans, we are crazy for Disney and we value our time in the parks; we would rather pay for the party than spend hours saving a place for the Galactic Spectacular. And bonus, it was on our eldest kid's 15th birthday. 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Check out data and reports on energy usage and costs of housing types located in different types of areas, new data on homelessness in Minnesota for 2010 (it was far more than in 2007), progress as measured by Met Council's housing benchmarks, and more.\nJust How Much Energy Is Saved by Locating Housing in an Area with Good Transit?\nThe cost tradeoff between housing and transportation costs based on the location of housing is increasingly in the public eye. A recent study, Location Efficiency and Housing Type, shows considerable benefits of coordinated transportation and housing planning. The authors compare the amount of energy used annually by households in three different housing types (single-family detached, single-family attached, and multifamily homes) within auto-dependent, low-density suburban developments, versus compact, transit-oriented developments. Energy-efficiency features in homes and automobiles are also considered as an option. The results show that households in higher-density, transit-accessible developments use far less energy and have lower transportation and energy costs. The highest reduction in overall energy use is seen in multifamily homes located along transit lines. Energy-efficiency improvements did reduce energy usage, but were not as important as housing location and type.\nbtus_tod\nHow Does Public Transit Accessibility Impact Housing Costs?\nWith projects underway like the Central Corridor light rail in the Twin Cities, public transit is a topic in the forefront of community discussions. In August, the Center for Housing Policy released a summary of research evaluating the impact of public transit and transit stations on the cost of housing. The report, Public Transit's Impact on Housing Costs: A Review of the Literature, finds that access to public transit generally leads to higher housing costs, though research findings vary considerably. The report also pinpoints factors likely to lead to higher housing costs, such as a strong housing market and economy, zoning and public policies supporting high density and mixed use development, and a robust public transit system. For communities looking to mitigate the effects on housing costs, strategies such as inclusionary zoning and land banking are recommended.\nHousing Benchmarks Fall Short of Goals in 2010: Met Council Benchmarks\nmetcouncil_aff_rental_benchmark_2011\nIn 2004, the Twin Cities' Met Council adopted the 2030 Regional Development Framework to help guide the region's expected growth of 1 million people by 2030. To measure progress, a series of benchmarks are updated annually. The most recent was released in September. For housing, benchmarks consider the overall owner and rental units added, affordable units added, and homeownership affordability. The measures for units added and affordability generally fell short of their annual goals. See the full report for details and more charts such as this one.\nHomelessness in Minnesota Worsening Faster than in US\nData compiled by HUD to inform the battle against homelessness currently comes from local point-in-time counts of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night and annual estimates of sheltered homeless, using Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS). Unfortunately, the data suggest that Minnesota homelessness is worsening faster than in the US as a whole. From 2007 to 2010, Minnesota point-in-time estimates of homeless people increased by 7.6%, compared to a 3.3% reduction for the US. Even in the single year from 2009 to 2010, Minnesota fared worse, with homelessness up 2%, compared to a 1.1% rise for the nation. Nationwide, data estimates from shelters show that homelessness in rural and surburban areas was on the rise, while the number of unsheltered chronically homeless persons has declined. Check the report for additonal data, including for the 12 Continuum of Care regions in Minnesota.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mhponline.org/blog/connect/355-national-preservation-database-and-other-resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:GNT64JQ5WKWOXX6FLQDPH4DOSYUIVEWQ", "length": 2368, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mhponline.org", "title": "National Preservation Database and Other Resources", "raw_content": "MHP has surveyed the latest tools and articles to locate those that might be of interest to MHP Connect readers. This month's resources include national and local tools for monitoring housing in need of preservation and tools for successful homeownership, including shared equity home ownership and educational materials for new home buyers.\nRecently, the Public and Affordable Research Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a powerful new tool for preserving America's affordable rental housing. The National Housing Preservation Database integrates information on all housing subsidies for each federally subsidized project. The database allows filtration of data based on geography, subsidy type, property name, or \"at risk of loss\" status. According to the NLIHC, the database \"enables advocates and researchers to easily quantify the supply of federally assisted affordable housing in any geography while at the same time establishing a baseline of subsidized affordable units against which future levels can be measured.\"\nMinnesota's Housing Link, living up to their motto of \"simplifying affordable housing, recently released their Streams housinglink smallapplication. Streams allows users to filter property searches based on: property name, property address, groups served (e.g. elderly or disabled), funding categories (e.g. project-based subsidy or Low Income Housing Tax Credit), funding stream (e.g. federal, state, local, or philanthropic), and obligation expiration. Much like the National Preservation Database, this handy application can be used by housing advocates to monitor and ensure affordable housing preservation.\nThe Fall 2012 edition of HUD's periodical, Evidence Matters, examines various approaches to promoting successful homeownership opportunities for low-income individuals as well as the concerns these efforts raise. While there are many fascinating articles in this edition, be sure to check out \"Shared Equity Models Offer Sustainable Homeownership,\" which discusses the unique and sustainable model of northern Minnesota's One Roof Community Housing!\nIn an effort to ensure more successful homeownership, the Housing Partnership Network and Minnesota Homeownership Center released Framework, a comprehensive online educational tool available to first-time homebuyers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://miasto-dzieci.org/2018/04/17/what-i-can-teach-you-about-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:59Z", "digest": "sha1:W2O755YIS5FFHF73ZDB6ZSFL2HMQXCZ4", "length": 2884, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "miasto-dzieci.org", "title": "What I Can Teach You About Resources \u2013 All about Industry", "raw_content": "Make these Lifestyle Choices to Prevent Cancer\nCancer is an awful disease that afflicts thousands of people per year. When it is caught early enough and treated accordingly, the odds of cancer being deadly are getting slimmer, however, it can be a devastating illness which can affect your health for quite a very long time later. Even as cancer treatments is being expanded thanks to extensive research and new advancements, many people are sadly taken by this terrible disease that comes in several different forms and can spread to others.\nThe good news is that there are things you can do to prevent getting cancer in the future and keep yourself. From the foods you eat to your choice of lifestyle habits and the amount of exercise that you do, there are many strategies that you can employ to keep your chances of getting down any type of cancer to an absolute minimum.\nIf you are a smoker, then your risk of getting cancer is higher than that of non-smokers. Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of lung cancer, which is often fatal, since it strikes the lungs, which makes it increasingly difficult for the individual to breathe. But, it\u2019s not just lung cancer that can be caused by smoking; other cancers such as throat cancer and mouth cancer are also linked to this bad habit. And, because tobacco smoke contains at least twenty distinct carcinogens and maybe more which aren\u2019t yet understood, it is safe to say that smoking may increase your risk of developing other types of cancer.\nA simple lifestyle change that you can make which will significantly reduce your risk of developing cancer in the future is to drink more water. This is relatively easy to perform; then be sure to take your water bottle with you daily and always ensure that it\u2019s full, so that you could sip it if your workplace has a water bottle filling station.\nThere are lots of benefits associated with getting more exercise, such as losing weight, improving muscle tone, and decreasing your risk of various life-threatening conditions, including heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Regular workouts assist your body to burn off fat, which produces its own estrogen and becomes a risk factor for cancer. The good news is that the amount is minimal. Two hours per week of moderate exercise such as cycling, walking, or swimming can help to decrease the chance of developing breast cancer for example, from almost 20%.\nDo Not Ignore Pain\nChances are that Symptoms of pain and discomfort could be a signal of something less serious and easy to manage fast at your physicians. It goes without say that you never dismiss any symptoms which could potentially be because of cancer. For Example, frequent bloating and a more urgent need to urinate than usual, coupled with mild to severe pelvic pain, can often be a sign that you have ovarian cancer.\nLiquids: 10 Mistakes that Most People Make\tNext Post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micetimes.asia/unexpected-turn-gipervolemia-missiles-dagger-successfully-hit-all-the-targets-and-for-one-and-the-media-lie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3TQ7UN6RYF5VOGEYEEANAISPB3VZXTZB", "length": 2896, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "micetimes.asia", "title": "Unexpected turn: gipervolemia missiles \"Dagger\" successfully hit all the targets, and for one and the media lie - micetimes.asia", "raw_content": "Home policy Unexpected turn: gipervolemia missiles \u201cDagger\u201d successfully hit all the targets, and for...\nUnexpected turn: gipervolemia missiles \u201cDagger\u201d successfully hit all the targets, and for one and the media lie\nRecently, the crew of the MiG-31 the Russian space forces have carried out combat training launch hypersonic high-precision aircraft missile complex \u201cDagger\u201d announced Vladimir Putin in the Message to the Federal Assembly.\nFighter interceptor at the experimental combat duty took off from the airfield on the territory of the southern military district and made a regular start hypersonic missile successfully struck the assigned target.\nAs a result of the demonstration (the object of which was all the doubters in reality \u201cpainted\u201d the newest weapon of Russian Western skeptics) was publicly confirmed all the tactical and technical characteristics and time parameters of high-precision complex.\n\u201cThe dagger\u201d, designed to destroy ground and sea targets, was delivered to the carrier aircraft MiG-31 to start for a few minutes, hit the target at a speed of 10 Mach. That is 10 of 620 km/h or 3 km per second. And maneuvered in all sections of the flight path, which once again demonstrated its ability to overcome all air and missile defense existing in the world at the moment.\nHowever, the military has shared yet another shocking West news. It turned out that from the beginning of 2018, the crew of the complex has been performed more than two hundred and fifty flights, and the flight crew is prepared to work day and night in different weather conditions.\nHere\u2019s what I wrote about the newest Russian complex \u201cDagger\u201d leading Western media, last week:\nThe New York Times: \u201cGiven that deception lies at the basis of modern Russian military doctrine raises the question of whether there is actually progress and the program itself of nuclear weapons and a new generation of hypersonic missiles. What is clear is that the threat from Putin and tensions between Russia and the West are growing that reviving the bellicose rhetoric and return to the cold war. Nevertheless, the presentation of Putin\u2019s new weapon reasonably causes debate among military experts who believe that this is a bluff\u2026\u201d\nCNN: Russian President Vladimir Putin used a live nuclear missiles with unlimited range and gipervolemia missiles flying at outrageous speeds that are down on America. Obviously, all this has the purpose to create the illusion ofnew firepower of this state.\u201d\nWashington Examiner: \u201cI know that Russia is developing a hypersonic missile, but I don\u2019t believethat Putin accurately described their data,\u201d said mark Cancian, senior Advisor at the center for strategic and international studies in the United States.\u201d\nSo there you are gentlemen, say? Do not want to repeat?\u2026\nPrevious article\u201cHe looked at his life, his mom went\u2026 \u201c\nNext articleThe most unusual airports in the world. Photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minarettv.com/how-far-are-woman-and-goddesses-responsible-for-the-problems-that-odysseus-faces-on-his-journey-essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:OTADGV2N26DICNLMHVMAM524M7IEZ5VZ", "length": 251, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "minarettv.com", "title": "How far are woman and goddesses responsible for the problems that Odysseus faces on his journey? Essay Example for Free", "raw_content": "How far are woman and goddesses responsible for the problems that Odysseus faces on his journey?. (2016, Mar 17). 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It was a favorite dining spot for Sunday noon meals by the locals.\nPercy and Lora Landgraver ran the hotel from 1918 till 1924 when they leased it to Robert Armstrong of Chicago. Dr. J. L. Hubbard of Minonk operated the hotel from 1930 to 1934 when Mrs. Landgraver, who had returned to Minonk in 1933, again took up the management.\nThe iron dog on the front porch was a favorite with the kids.\nThe hotel was demolished in the early 1970's and was replaced with a new building for the VFW. In 2001 the VFW sold their building that occupied the site of the old hotel. Mary Kearfott of Minonk is now running a restaurant in the building under the name \"The Woodford\".\nThis is an early photo of the Woodford Hotel with the entrance to the front and what is believed to be the iron dog guarding the right front of the steps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minsk-region.gov.by/en/news/regional-news/item/25003-conference-of-teachers-in-minsk-oblast", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:22Z", "digest": "sha1:4UFMGB7325EI4IGNTU27S3NSATVRI7AT", "length": 2142, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "minsk-region.gov.by", "title": "Minsk Oblast Executive Committee \u2022 Official Site - Conference of teachers in Minsk Oblast", "raw_content": "Conference of teachers in Minsk Oblast\nA conference of teachers of Minsk Oblast \"Education and youth policy: strategic guidelines, new solutions\" will be held on August 25-26, 2017\nThe pedagogical forum will be attended by: representatives of government bodies, public organizations, leaders of the trade union movement, the pedagogical community. The guests of the event will be representatives of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, mass media.\nOn August 25, the interactive sites will be organized. Heads of educational institutions and teachers of the Minsk region during the webinars will discuss the actual problems of education; Peculiarities of the organization of the educational process in the context of profile training; Modern technologies, methods and tools for training on updated programs and new teaching aids. In addition, teachers expect an interactive acquaintance with the educational network projects, cloud technologies, services and applications of Google, web quests aimed at developing students' reading culture.\nMore than 1,000 people will gather on August 26 in Molodechno, where the achievements of the education system of the metropolitan area will be presented. In the open areas will be presented the experience of organizing a volunteer movement, holding the sixth school day, the work of children's and youth associations. Students of the region - winners of republican and international competitions - will present their research work to the participants of the conference.\nFor those who are fond of modern technologies, the organizers of the event prepared master classes in robotics and neuropiloting, competitions of robots in the ring and demonstration performances of unmanned aerial vehicles. Lovers of history on this day waiting for a master class on weaving chain mail, an exhibition of weapons, clothing and household items of the Middle Ages, acquaintance with the ballads and dances of that time.\nMore in this category: \u00ab Belarus to conduct pilot census in Molodechno 2-13 October\tMinsk National Airport names most punctual airlines in July 2017 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minsk-region.gov.by/en/news/regional-news/item/34121-bate-miss-out-on-uefa-champions-league-group-stage", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JYUF6TID5RUVCKOMPNAKUVGXUVKC2ZSD", "length": 940, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "minsk-region.gov.by", "title": "Minsk Oblast Executive Committee \u2022 Official Site - BATE miss out on UEFA Champions League group stage", "raw_content": "Home Home Regional News BATE miss out on UEFA Champions League group stage\nBATE miss out on UEFA Champions League group stage\nSteven Bergwijn, Luuk de Jong and Hirving Lozano scored for the winning side in the second leg\nBATE Borisov failed to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage after losing to PSV 2-3 (at home) and 0-3 (away). BATE will continue their run in the Europa League, BelTA informs.\nSteven Bergwijn, Luuk de Jong and Hirving Lozano scored for the winning side in the second leg. PSV will play in the UEFA Champions League group stage, while BATE switch to the Europa League group stage. 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The Annual Report contains the required statutory information as detailed in Section 131 of the Local Government Act, 1999 and other legislation, including Council's full financial statements and a comprehensive look at Council's operations.\nCopies of Council's Annual Report are available for viewing at the Mitcham Civic Centre and the Mitcham and Blackwood Libraries or for purchase at the Mitcham Civic Centre.\n2017/18 Annual Report (38190 kb)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 627, "original_length": 14472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mmrahmandesign.com/portfolio/next-gen-logo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:V2E2DPSJGMGSROKQ5IOFJEDFN2VEUKCM", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mmrahmandesign.com", "title": "NEXT GEN logo \u2013 mm rahman Design", "raw_content": "13th May 2016 Logo Design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2018/07/05/dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BBQOKMJ3VTJQ5GQ5LQU77XKL5GWREGVR", "length": 3396, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mookseandgripes.com", "title": "Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood \u2013 The Mookse and the Gripes", "raw_content": "\u2013Morroco (1930)\nDietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives\nby Karin Wieland (2011; Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Der Traum von der neuen Frau)\ntranslated from the German by Shelley Frisch (2015)\nLiveright (2015)\nAs 1930 began, German actress Marlene Dietrich was on the cusp of becoming an international screen icon. In 1929, director Josef von Sternberg had seen her perform in a stage musical and immediately wanted to cast her as the cabaret singer Lola Lola in his forthcoming sound film, Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). It didn\u2019t matter that another actress was already cast to play Lola Lola; von Sternberg saw that his will was done, and a long and storied partnership began.\nThe director and star finished shooting the film ended at the end of January, and when executives at Paramount saw it they quickly signed Dietrich to a contract and she moved to Hollywood where she made six films with von Sternberg: Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Bonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935). The Criterion Collection recently released a landmark boxset, aptly named Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood, containing all six of these features.\nThis is certainly going to be one of my favorite releases of the year. These six films are filled with fun and extravagance. They take place in Morocco, Austria, China, Germany, Russia, and Spain. Meant first and foremost to entertain, these are the works of a master director who knows how to make the films live on through the magnetism of their star. There\u2019s a reason that all of the individual covers feature Dietrich\u2019s confident, powerful face.\nvon Sternberg knew the treasure he\u2019d found and he knew how to use his skills to bring Dietrich\u2019s power to the silver screen. I\u2019ll be making my way through the films this month, and I would love some company as I look at the beginnings of a legend.\nInterestingly, there was another budding film legend who was lightly acquainted with Dietrich before Dietrich left Germany in 1930. This legend wanted the role of Lola Lola in The Blu Angel, but the pasts and futures and legacies of these two women are very different. This other woman was Leni Riefenstahl, who hadn\u2019t yet given up acting to start directing her own pictures.\nRiefenstahl and Dietrich were not friends, but they did know each other, and there are a few photographs of them together at various events. They even lived close to each other for a short time. Riefenstahl didn\u2019t get the role of Lola Lola, and she didn\u2019t leave Germany in the 1930s. Instead, she started directing films, important and innovative ones where she used her vision to create groundbreaking documentaries as propaganda for Hitler\u2019s regime. The two most notable films she made are The Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938).\nThe lives of these two German film legends is compared and contrasted in Karin Wieland\u2019s Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives. This is an excellent dual biography that gets is strength from showing us, well, these two monumental lives, the work they did during the war (I mentioned Riefenstahl\u2019s briefly, but for her part Dietrich fought the war on the homefront, doing all she could to encourage the troops fighting her native land). 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Deliberately or otherwise the copyright page contains the standard \u201cThis book is a work of fiction\u201d disclaimer, which it isn\u2019t, but it is perhaps a fitting error, given this is a book about what comprises a novel, including whether a novel necessarily needs to be fictional.\nThe resulting collection is a worthy modern successor to Kundera\u2019s essays \u201cThe Art of the Novel\u201d and \u201cTreatments Betrayed.\u201d The former, which I read some twenty years ago, had a major effect on my own personal reading, particularly my appreciation of the non-English language European novel, and clearly Cercas himself was influenced in his thinking here, citing Kundera extensively in his first essay.\nCercas has had seven novels translated into English: Soldiers of Salamis, The Tenant and The Motive (actually two separate novellas), The Speed of Light, Outlaws (the only one I have not read), The Anatomy of a Moment, and The Impostor. The last two of these could be seen as not novels at all, being based in fact not fiction, but to Cercas they are still novels. In The Impostor, he described The Anatomy of a Moment as \u201ca curious book, a strange novel-without-fiction, a rigorously true story, devoid of the slightest trace of invention or imagination.\u201d\nAnd the first essay here focuses on what constitutes a novel. He starts his history of the modern novel with Don Quixote, saying Cervantes \u201cthe author of Don Quixote is neither a perspectivist nor a relativist, but an ironist.\u201d His description of this masterpiece neatly sums up its abiding influence:\nThe modern novel is a unique genre because it might be said that, at least potentially, all its possibilities seem contained in a single book: Cervantes founded the genre with Don Quixote and at the same time exhausted it \u2014 albeit by making it inexhaustible \u2014 or, in other words: in Don Quixote Cervantes defines the rules of the modern novel by marking out the boundaries of the territory in which we novelists have all operated ever since, and which we may not yet have finished colonising.\nHe argues that the novel is or at least originally was a literary form that is, or was, sub-genre as it absorbs all other genres, hence why it needn\u2019t even be fictional:\nEpic, history, poetry, essay, journalism: these are some of the literary genres that the novel has absorbed over the course of its history.\nHe traces three phases of the novel (pace Kundera):\nThe first, which would stretch from Cervantes to the end of the eighteenth century, is characterised mostly by compositional liberty, by alternating narration and digression (or, if you prefer, narration and reflection) and by the blending of genres; the second, which would begin with the blooming of the realist novel at the beginning of the nineteenth century, is defined by opposition to its antecedent: although it benefits from the absolute liberty with which Cervantes endowed the genre, it rejects it in the interests of constructive rigour, just as it rejects digression in the interests of narration; although it benefits from the plebeian, hybrid or mestizo nature with which Cervantes endowed the novel, it rejects it in the interests of the purity, status and nobility the genre has longed for.\nThis second phase for many writers and readers still defines the novel now at the start of the 21st century. But he, again following Kundera, argues for a third phase, postmodern narratives, combining the best of the 1st and 2nd phases:\nA synthesis that does not pretend, to use again the words of the Czech writer, simply to rehabilitate the principles of the first-movement novel nor to reject the second-movement novel, but to redefine and broaden the very notion of the novel, to resist the reduction carried out by the nineteenth-century\u2019s aesthetic of the novel and thus give the resulting novel its entire historical experience as a foundation.\nKundera\u2019s own best novels \u2013 with their delicate balance between maximum liberty and maximum compositional rigour, with their organic blend of narration and digression or narration and essay \u2013 are a good example of this third period of the novel; so are the best works of Perec or Calvino.\nHe argues that the origin of this third phase lies, indisputably, with Borges, beginning with \u201cThe Approach to Al-Mu\u2019tasim\u201d:\nIn Borges, the short story and the essay mingle and fertilise each other (as in other ways they also do, around the same time, in the work of Broch or Musil); just as they fertilise and mingle in certain contemporary authors: I\u2019ve already mentioned Perec, Calvino and Kundera; I would add W. G. Sebald, the Julian Barnes of Flaubert\u2019s Parrot and, perhaps most of all, J. M. Coetzee, who in the last few years has probed the horizons of the territory mapped out by Don Quixote with great audacity.\nThe second chapter is the one from which the collection takes its title. Here Cercas traces the history of a particular type of novel, which he dubs the blind-spot novel, a type that he (unsurprisingly) traces back to Cervantes, and into which he places his own work, indeed a type of novel that very much satisfies his definition of what a novel should do, one which makes the reader as, arguably more, important to the interpretation of the novel as the author:\nThe novel is not the genre of answers, but that of questions: writing a novel consists of posing a complex question in order to formulate it in the most complex way possible, not to answer it, or not to answer it in a clear and unequivocal way; it consists of immersing oneself in an enigma to render it insoluble, not to decipher it (unless rendering it insoluble is, precisely, the only way to decipher it). That enigma is the blind spot, and the best things these novels have to say they say by way of it: by way of that silence bursting with meaning, that visionary blindness, that radiant darkness, that ambiguity without solution. That blind spot is what we are.\nIn other words: in the end there is no clear, unequivocal, emphatic answer; only an ambiguous, equivocal, contradictory, essentially ironic answer, which doesn\u2019t even resemble an answer and that only the reader can give.\nHe draws on examples including Kafka, Melville (and of course Cervantes), and from his own work Outlaws as well as Anatomy of a Moment, arguing that the latter\u2019s focus on one very specific and somewhat obtuse question which it then fails to unambiguously answer is what makes the book a novel rather than history.\nBut he argues that certain otherwise great novels, particularly in the realist tradition, such as Lampadusa\u2019s The Leopard, fail in that they (in his view unnecessarily) resolve their own ambiguity:\nThe reason might be that this tradition of the novel, as it took shape in the nineteenth century, encourages before all else the impossible ambition to create a novel similar to a hermetically sealed world, a replica or a duplicate of the real one, while, in a novel, the blind spot is a crack, a vanishing point of meaning that is at the same time the principal source of meaning. This would maybe explain why, in the few realist novels with a blind spot that occur to me, the blind spot is there as if against the author\u2019s will, without the author seeming to have sought it, or without being entirely aware of it; sometimes even as if the author had fought against it.\nIf I had been with Lampedusa when he wrote the sentence where he clarifies without leaving room for doubt that Concetta was Tancredi\u2019s true love (\u201cAnd so a new spadeful of soil fell on the tumulus of truth\u201d),I would have shouted: \u201cNo, please, don\u2019t make that clear! Keep quiet about that! You don\u2019t know whether the one Tancredi truly loved was Concetta!\u201d And, if Lampedusa hadn\u2019t died before seeing his novel published and I had been Giorgio Bassani, his editor at Feltrinelli, and had worked with him on the manuscript, I would have done everything possible and impossible to convince him to delete that comment. Because it\u2019s a mistake.\nIt\u2019s not as grave an error as if at the end of Don Quixote Cervantes had revealed that in reality Don Quixote was never mad, or if at the end of Moby Dick Melville had clarified that in reality Moby Dick represented God and good, or if at the end of The Trial Kafka had shown that in reality Josef K. had committed murder and that\u2019s why they had wanted to try him, but it\u2019s still an error.\nThe third essay focuses on Mario Vargas Llosa and in particular his debut novel La ciudad y los perros (literally The City and the Dogs, although entitled The Time of the Hero in the English translation), a novel Cercas sees as key in the reclaiming of the novel by Spanish language writers. He sees Vargas Llosa, alongside Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Cort\u00e1zar, Rulfo, Carpentier, Bioy Casares, Cabrera Infante, Fuentes, Onetti, and S\u00e1bato as writers that finally reclaimed the legacy of Cervantes for the Spanish language (if not for Spain itself):\nA group of Latin American novelists reclaimed the lost legacy of Cervantes, turned literature in Spanish on its head and, possessed by crazed ambition \u2014 they wanted to be Faulkner and Flaubert, Joyce and Balzac all at once \u2014 placed the novel in Spanish back at the axis of the western novel of its time, returning it to the privileged place that up until then only Cervantes had occupied; these novelists occupy, in my novelistic tradition, a huge space: they are the great modern prose writers that Spanish modernity did not have and, at the same time \u2014 at least some of them \u2014 the first writers of postmodernity.\nNo novelist represents better than Vargas Llosa the best of these novelists, and few novels can aspire to symbolize better than The Time of the Hero the beginning of that literary earthquake.\nCercas makes a compelling case for the greatness of The Time of the Hero, and fits in within the context of the first two chapters, although this particular chapter is hard to appreciate fully without a detailed knowledge of Vargas Llosa\u2019s work.\nIt is memorable though for one excellent anecdote that relates back to his blind spot.\nVargas Llosa has often told that when the French translation of La ciudad y los perros was published, Roger Caillois asked him who, in his opinion, had killed the Slave; this, naturally, is the crucial question of the book, and Vargas Llosa answered saying that he thought he\u2019d been killed by one of his classmates, the one nicknamed the Jaguar. Then Caillois, as if he were the editor of The Leopard demanding that Lampedusa should not clarify who Tancredi had loved, said to Vargas Llosa: \u201cNo, please, don\u2019t say that! You don\u2019t know who killed the Slave!\u201d\nOf course, Caillois was right: in the first place because, no matter what the author might say, with the novel in hand there are just as many reasons to back up the theory that the Jaguar killed the Slave as there are to refute it; and, in the second place, and most of all, because Caillois understood that, if Vargas Llosa had cleared up the ambiguity by making it clear that the Jaguar had really killed the Slave, the novel would be a good novel, but without clearing up the ambiguity it\u2019s much better.\nThe fourth essay tackles the issue of whether a writer should be \u201cengaged\u201d (or \u201cpolitical\u201d or \u201ccommitted\u201d). Cercas grew up at the time when intellectual authors such as Sartre were more known for their political views than literary output and started his career firmly rejecting that model, noting with approval that:\nOn July 22, 1966, right after finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez wrote in a letter to his friend Plinio Mendoza: \u201cThinking of politics, the revolutionary duty of a writer is to write well [. . .] positive literature, engaged art, the novel as a rifle to overthrow governments, is a sort of steamroller that keeps one\u2019s pen from rising a centimetre above the ground. And worst of all, what a waste of time, it doesn\u2019t overthrow any governments!\u201d\nBut later Cercas found himself pulled up short when his literary hero Vargas Llosa praised Soldiers of Salamis, to Cercas\u2019s delight, but for a reason that surprised and even dismayed him:\nThose who believe that committed literature has died should read Soldiers of Salamis to find out how alive it is, how original and enriching it is in the hands of a novelist like Javier Cercas.\nI\u2019d never met Vargas Llosa in person, but he was one of the literary heroes of my youth and \u2014 especially after that article that contributed in a decisive way to turning a book destined to have a handful of readers into a bestseller, and turned me into a professional writer \u2014 I was more prepared than ever to overlook his loyalty to Sartre and to engaged literature, and even his conspicuous position as an intellectual. But, dear God, I thought as I read that horrendous sentence that rounded off his article, now I too am a committed writer? How could I have fallen to such depths? Is this the price of success?\nWhen he eventually met Vargas Llosa, as happened on September 9, 2011, and queried the designation, Vargas Llosa told him:\nCommitted was, for him, literature that\u2019s not merely a game or a facile pastime, but serious literature that avoids simplicity and dares to face up to, with the greatest ambition, weighty moral and political matters.\nI asked Vargas Llosa to give me an example of a current committed writer; he gave me two, who were then just names to me: the South African writer J. M. Coetzee and the Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe.\nThis essay explores that thought as well as the two authors mentioned, Cercas concluding that:\nI\u2019ve often thought that a good writer is the opposite of a good politician: a good politician is someone who confronts a complex problem, reduces it to its bare essentials and solves it in the quickest way; a good writer, on the other hand, is someone who confronts a complex problem and, instead of solving it, makes it even more complex (and a brilliant writer is one who creates a problem where none existed).\nCervantes complicates our life for ever by posing in Don Quixote, in the most complex way possible, the insoluble problem of the insoluble contradiction between madness and sanity, as Melville posed in Moby Dick the insoluble problem of the insoluble contradiction between good and evil and Kafka posed in The Trial the insoluble problem of the insoluble contradiction between guilt and innocence.\nHe also argues, partly against David Foster Wallace, for a type of post modern literature that can be ironic (a term that appears often in the essays and which again echoes Kundera) yet still serious and engaged:\nLiterature, and in particular the novel, should not propose anything, should not transmit certainties or give answers or propose solutions; quite the contrary: what it should do is pose questions, transmit doubts and present problems and, the more complex the questions, the more anguished the doubts and more arduous and unsolvable the problems, the better. Authentic literature does not reassure: it worries; it does not simplify reality: it complicates it. The truths of literature in general, and of the novel in particular, are not clear, indisputable and unequivocal, but ambiguous, contradictory, multifaceted and essentially ironic.\nIt\u2019s quite likely that destructive irony, the one that gets confused with sarcasm and even with cynicism, conducts us to a pitiless and sterile nihilism; but irony as Cervantes conceived it, which shows that reality is always equivocal and multiple and that contradictory truths exist, is an indispensable tool of knowledge. That irony is not the opposite of seriousness, but perhaps its maximum expression: without it there is barely any narrative, or at least novels, worthy of the name.\nCercas then adds an epilogue, written, in 2016, commenting on his essays.\nHe notes that The Impostor had a less confused reception than Anatomy of a Moment:\nJust five years after the publication of that novel, everyone has accepted without many objections that my 2014 novel, The Impostor, is a novel, in spite of the fact, that like Anatomy, it lacks any fiction, and in spite of its multiplicity of genres being, if possible, even more intense and more visible than that of Anatomy. It might be thought that this is so because readers have now resigned themselves to my peculiarities in the same way that sane people go along with crazy ones; but it\u2019s not true: the truth is, I think, that over recent years readers in many places are getting acclimatised to a freer, more plural, more open and more flexible model of novel.\nHe then cites Knausgaard as an example and gives the rallying cry that opens my review.\nHe acknowledges that his history of the novel to an extent could be accused of justifying his own works, but argues that is no bad thing:\nI could be reproached, in effect, for proposing a reading of the modern narrative tradition, or of certain novels and stories key to modern narrative, which is a little teleological, self-justifying: given that my novels mix genres, I construct or identify a tradition of novels that mix genres; given that my novels revolve around a blind spot, I construct or identify a tradition of blind-spot novels.\nThis argument also strikes me as correct, except that I can\u2019t see anything to reproach in it; quite the contrary.\nOverall a fascinating overview, an excellent insight into Cercas\u2019s own work, and one to generate a reading list of both historic and contemporary writers (although, hopefully more a comment on my wider range of reading than the book, one that introduced me to notably fewer new names than Kundera\u2019s work 20 years earlier) as well as a manifesto that inspires hope that the novel will continue to evolve and prosper.\nRecommended (as are Cercas\u2019s novels, particularly the ones least like conventional novels).\nBy Paul Fulcher|2018-10-02T11:09:16+00:00September 18th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Javier Cercas|Tags: 2010s, 2016, Spanish|0 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 23219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mortgageforcewm.co.uk/services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6O5MYKRTOE2SBXMHBISJPA7FUVANZZ4Q", "length": 7437, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "mortgageforcewm.co.uk", "title": "0800 622 6883", "raw_content": "See all our Mortgage and Finance Services | Mortgageforce WM\nMortgage Force West Midlands has developed excellent working relationships with the leading mortgage lenders, which means we often hear about the latest deals before they hit the market. 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Now, one might argue that margins were too low at the beginning of that period but corporate profits today are higher than they\u2019ve ever been no matter how you measure such things (% of GDP, % of national income, profit margins, etc.).\nAt least from a theory standpoint, high profit margins should not persist and certainly shouldn\u2019t rise relentlessly for nearly three decades. High profits attract new entrants, competition, and should not persist unless there is something preventing new companies from competing effectively. What might cause a reduction in competition? Lots of things actually. Excessive regulation leaps to mind. Incumbent firms love lots of regulations; it makes it that much harder for smaller players to compete. That\u2019s why JP Morgan and the other large banks loved Dodd-Frank. And Dodd-Frank is a major reason concentration in the banking industry has gotten worse since the great financial crisis of 2008. Not exactly a repudiation of \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d.\nThere is also what has become known as crony capitalism which is much more akin to fascism and really what this article points to as a cause of our problems. Large companies are able to organize themselves and lobby to influence public policy. Mergers that logically should be blocked on anti-competitive grounds somehow find a way to get approved when the right palms have been greased (campaign contributions) or the right ego stroked. The result is that almost every industry is more concentrated today than it was 30 or 40 years ago.\nI am not generally a fan of government intervention but there are times when it is necessary and this may well be one of those times. But we should be careful not to over react. It may be that this is just part of the natural ebb and flow of the economy. It may be too that the cure is worse than the disease. Corporate profits as a % of gross domestic income are now near highs last seen in the mid-1960s. I don\u2019t know that anything was overtly done to reduce margins but they were obviously much lower from 1970 to 1990. If the price of reducing corporate profit margins is a return to the stagflationary 70s, I think I\u2019ll pass. Careful what you wish for I guess:\nHere\u2019s the NYT article:\nIn the aftermath of the Second World War, an urgent question presented itself: How can we prevent the rise of fascism from happening again? If over the years that question became one of mostly historical interest, it has again become pressing, with the growing success of populist, nationalist and even neofascist movements all around the world.\nCommon answers to the question stress the importance of a free press, the rule of law, stable government, robust civic institutions and common decency. But as undoubtedly important as these factors are, we too often overlook something else: the threat to democracy posed by monopoly and excessive corporate concentration \u2014 what the Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis called the \u201ccurse of bigness.\u201d We must not forget the economic origins of fascism, lest we risk repeating the most calamitous error of the 20th century.\ncorporate profit margins\nPrevious articleHow To Win Keynes\u2019 Beauty Contest\nNext articleThe Dog That Isn\u2019t Barking\nExcellent analysis. I share your skepticism of government intervention, but corporations are government sanctioned institutions in the first place, not pure creations of a free market. Government sets the rules under which they are chartered, governed and financed. So more than free market principles are already involved and government intervention is only a question of what kind and how much.\nMaybe antitrust enforcement has been too lax. But there also may be other issues, such as tax laws. For instance the tax code may incentivize the accumulation of capital within the corporate structure as opposed to its distribution to stockholders in the form of dividends. Monetary policy calculated to create a \u201cwealth effect\u201d may make capital artificially cheap to corporations. Maybe the same principle of progressivity should be applied to corporations as individuals, where the bigger the corporation, the higher the tax rate.\nIn any case, the first place to look is for ways in which government intervention may be helping to create the problem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 9374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/jaynab2016/author/jaynab2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:RSU5C4FBNRBURKL3IITQ3TCXFE6TBA2I", "length": 12880, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "myriverside.sd43.bc.ca", "title": "jaynab2016 | Jayna's Blog", "raw_content": "Author Archives: jaynab2016\nSuperman e le due ragazze blu\nFebruary 8, 2019 | jaynab2016\nintro Italian 11 Italian 11\nClimate Change Article Response\nDecember 12, 2018 | jaynab2016\nGeography 12 Geography 12 Grade 12 Socials 11\nThe 3 R\u2019s song is a song that I always listened to growing up. I watched Curious George growing up, and this song was commonly used. Because the words are so catchy, and the song so upbeat, I remember it to this day. This song positively effected my environmental ethic, because of its promotion of reduce, reuse and recycling. I like to think that this song has helped me to realize my intentions towards the environment and be more cautious of my decisions\nPhones have now become a necessity in every ones life. Ads like these have been playing for almost all my life, encouraging all of the public to buy new ones. This in my opinion is damaging on my environmental ethic. It is negative because the more new phones come out, the more I want to buy new ones. The need for constant new technology harms the environment because of the new materials that we are in constant need of. We take from the earth to get these new products, and use in for our benefit.\nGeography 12 Geography 12 Grade 11 Grade 12 Socials 11 Uncategorized\nCultural Relativism Discussion\nDecember 5, 2018 | jaynab2016\nAnmore Project\nNovember 6, 2018 | jaynab2016\nOctober 30, 2018 | jaynab2016\n1. This documentary used several pieces of evidence to support their claim that we are in a dangerous location. What were those pieces of evidence? List them.\nThe initial piece of evidence was that it was in a subduction zone, meaning there must of been some sort of past activity, but that wasn\u2019t enough.\nFirst nation told stories about the thunderbird that struck the land, shaking the earth, but scientist didn\u2019t believe its credibility, for it was told verbally.\nFound evidence of a forest that is now a marsh. This means, that before the ocean came and created the mud banks, there used to be a spruce forest, miles away from the salty water. Above that was a layer of sand that would have rushed in all at once, and the only logical explanation, was that there must have been a major earthquake that killed the forest and brought a layer of sand with it in tsunami form\nEvidence of major tsunami in japan have happened before many times. Have evidence that the trees in a land by Cascadia died at the same time as the tsunami in japan, concluding the potential magnitude of the earthquake, that happened at the same time causing Japan to suffer.\n2. Using the list of evidence above, explain why one of those pieces of evidence alone is not enough, but why together they make the documentary\u2019s argument credible.\nJust one source of evidence may not be conclusive, and easy to believe. By hearing one piece of information against it, for example that we have no written proof of this happening before, viewers might turn a blind eye. By knowing that there is multiple pieces of evidence, people will be able to see the bigger picture and have more potential to believe what may be happening. The proof of the forest which is now a muddy bay, shows us a visual representation of what happened to strongly support the theory.\n3. This documentary comments on the destruction a seismic event could have on Vancouver. Describe what you learned from this documentary on how Vancouver could be impacted.\nIn Vancouver we have and continue to build buildings to our standards of earthquake safe. We don\u2019t yet know what would happen to the many tall building that line the streets of Vancouver. Some conclude that they would sway in the pressure, and gradually lose there structure. Some may fall down killing thousands, or they may only be effected a little. Nothing like this has happened during this century here so we don\u2019t know exactly what might happen. Older buildings that are un-reinforced in earthquake safety are almost guaranteed to collapse in the immense pressure from the earthquake. The earthquake would last around 5 minutes severely damaging everything that is hit by it. Land slides of hills would destroy everything below and there will be many fatalities. Next a tsunami will come into the area. Since Vancouver is tucked in behind Vancouver island, the tsunami is likely not to reach us but if it did, everyone in its path would suffer.\nMount St. Helen\u2019s video\n1.how did the eruption effect the people\nusing lazes to measure the mountain, and found that it was growing 5 ft. a day. They thought that this must be wrong for.\n57 people were killed during its eruption, and most have never been found because of its massive landslides permanently covering the ground. if it would have happened on a different day, more than 300 people would have been killed because of the logging in the forest\nClear and clean lakes were formed by the eruption as opportunities for new life to grow, and new ecosystems to start. The plants survived the ash and pocked through the rocks creating a new start for its landscape\nFor the people who died in the eruption, they set up memorials, and ceremonies honoring their lives.\nI asked my dad about his experiences with the mount st. Helen\u2019s eruption in 1980. He said during the eruption he was camping in Bellingham Washington and heard a loud bang. He and the rest of his family just thought that is was mount baker erupting again. The spread of the ash didn\u2019t effect him much, but he remembers where he was and what he was doing. He was eating breakfast with his family on a Sunday morning. The explosion didn\u2019t effect his everyday life, but was a significant time to remember.\nSuper Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippines\nSuper Typhoon Magnkut hit the northern tip of the Philippines September 15th 2019. The wind speeds of this typhoon stretched to 285 km/hr devastating the entire country as a category 5 typhoon. Tens of thousands of people have evacuated the coastal area\u2019s because of this frightful storm, and threaten more than four million people. People have said, it was one of the most intense storms this year.\nSuper Typhoon Mangkhut Effected people living in the Philippines, and people around the world experiencing it second hand, as well as the ecosystems and animals living near by. Widespread floods and power outages came through the islands and stranded people through the massive wind storm. Communication was lost between people from the damage of cellular towers, and modes of communal transportation. Ferry systems were shut down in to the storm due to the high winds and waves, so people on the island were left stranded within. From this storm, ecosystems have been destroyed, and animals were left without their habitats and a limited food source. The typhoon caused trees to be blown over, and flooding within parts of the island destroying habitats of native animals in the Philippines. Houses and towers were blown out in the winds and some are completely destroyed.\nThe geological aspect of this storm were very prominent in my research of super typhoon Mangkhut. The heavy winds in the Atmosphere picked up tremendous speed, and picked up moisture from the ocean below. As it build up, it traveled to the Philippines, collectively growing larger by the hydrosphere. As it got closer to the Island, the typhoon teared up the lithosphere and the biosphere, ruining almost everything in its path. Typhoon\u2019s only happen in the Northwestern Pacific Basin, which is referred to as 180\u00b0 and 100\u00b0E in the northern hemisphere.\nThe Philippines is hit by about 10 typhoons a year, so they are used to the destruction that they may cause. However, Super Typhoon Mangkhut was one of the strongest typhoons they have had this year. Since they are well experienced with typhoons near their land, the country was prepared ahead of time with precautions prepared encase catastrophe struck. The people in the country were sad by the loss of their homes, and destruction all around them, but as it was somewhat expected, they knew what might be coming. There is not much that the people may be able to do to improve the situation than they already have done. They could have built stronger structures, and backup drainage systems for net time a storm that size comes through, and even have food rations prepared. What is controversial would be the building of stronger buildings. Better structures could help with some of the weaker storms, but if something big came along, there is know way to know if these structures could withstand it. This then leads to the controversy if they were to spend more money on them or not. I feel depressed for the people who live in the Philippines that were effected by this typhoon, and more like it every year. They experience this devastation so much that they are almost used to the effects. Hearing some of their personal stories through videos has a huge effect on me, for connecting to it on a personal level. I now understand how the people that it effected aren\u2019t just numbers, but people trying to survive, and help make their families and friends survive. I couldn\u2019t even imagine what would happen if a storm like that hit Canada. Some solutions to the problem that I personally propose would be to advise some sort of plan for the water flow, to divert it from flooding the streets. I would also create a shelter from the wind, to shield some of the wind flow from the people. Super Typhoon Mangkhut was a devastating typhoon that depressed everyone effected by it.\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/asia/super-typhoon-ompong-mangkhut-wxc-intl/index.html \u2013 By. James Griffen, CNN\nhttps://globalnews.ca/news/4453119/super-typhoon-mangkhut-hits-philippines/ \u2013 By Global news\nhttps://globalnews.ca/news/4453119/super-typhoon-mangkhut-hits-philippines/ \u2013 By Bard Wilkinson and James Masters, CNN\nVolcanoes lab\nwhen I watched my volcano erupt, the pyroclastic flow was slow moving as it traveled down the volcano. It didn\u2019t quite reach the city, but traveled down the side.\nwhen I watched the current eruption in Hawaii, the lava flow interrupted the natural and physical aspects of the landscape. As it flowed, the rocks destroyed everything in its path, creating a deserted landscape where everything was gone in its wake. where there used to be houses and green landscapes, are now all lava rock, from the eruption.\nHawaii was created by volcanic eruption in the first place. The volcanoes were created by holes in the tectonic plated by hot spots. This means that the islands were once non existent. Volcanic eruption is vital for this islands to grow and stay on the map, because if it didn\u2019t happen, Hawaii would be non existent\nPeople respond by evacuating the area and studying the effects of the lava. Since the flow is slow, they have time to evacuate and move somewhere else. The lava flowing from the volcano is so destructive, that it slowly wiped out peoples houses, and now they are left without a place that they call their own.\nIf a mountain near here erupted, so many people would be effected because of the densely packed communities with house after house. However since there are so many hills and valleys within our area, it would funnel out some of the lava flow, keeping some of our cities safe.\nGeography 12 Geography 12 Grade 12 Socials 11 Uncategorized\nTriangulation Lab Questions\n1. What was wrong with today\u2019s lab? List all the variables that disturbed our results and create a solution to make the outcome more accurate.\nIn today\u2019s lab, the results varied because of the different wave speeds and steps of each particular person. Everyone had a different time when they traveled across so the results were inaccurate. A solution to this problem would be to only have one person go from each group to create an even and consistent time, so the results would be more accurate\n2. Why do you need more than one seismometer station to find the epicentre of an earthquake? Why is one not enough?\nA siesmometer determines where an earthquake is based on the radius of the wave to find how long it takes to read it. By only using one, the earthquake could have occurred anywhere along the one seismometer based on its radious. When you add two more, where each radius meet, is the exact location where the epicenter of the earthquake happened\n3. Why do you think identifying an epicentre location is important for our society?\nIdentifying the epicenter of an earthquake helps us to determine where along a fault line it is and how the tectonic plates are moving. We can see where below the earth it may have been and maybe what plate movement would have caused it.\n4. How could we use this data in an emergency response situation?\nThe epicenter is usually where the earthquake hit hardest, so in an emergency response situation, they may use this to know where to look for survivors, of watch out when passing in case an aftershock may occurs\nGeography 12 Grade 11 Socials 11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 14090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://narrabyee-e.blogspot.com/2013/05/yemens-power-wedding.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7OA5EPBB64OWR5XPHGCHQZY2UJLZAMN2", "length": 4411, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "narrabyee-e.blogspot.com", "title": "Nasser Arrabyee: Yemen's Power Wedding", "raw_content": "When the sons of Yemen's most powerful tribal leaders tie the knot, it's not only a marriage -- it's a chance for a show of strength that nobody in Sanaa can ignore.\nSource: Foreign Policy, by Adam Baron, 03/05/2103\nSANAA, Yemen \u2014 Generally speaking, it's hard to imagine anything more mind-numbing than watching a bunch of people discuss how they're going to hand out wedding invitations. But, as I sat at the home of Sheikh Himyar al-Ahmar earlier this month, watching the deputy speaker of Yemen's parliament and about a dozen others, ranging from fellow tribal leaders to his brothers' office staff, fiercely debate the intricacies of how to handle that very task, I was fascinated to the point of embarrassment.\nThe discussions focused on which guests would have their invitations delivered personally, and who would ultimately give them to whom. But it wasn't the topic itself as much as the prominence of those involved that interested me. Names of key power brokers were dropped by the minute; sitting silently, I wondered if it was possible to divine clues into something more substantial from this glimpse into the mundane inner-workings of Yemen's elite.\nSix days later, the marriages of two of the sons of Sheikh Himyar's brother, fellow politician Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar, would be marked in a reception attended by thousands of guests. The event contradicted the stereotypes that paint Yemeni society as perpetually on the brink of devolving into a nationwide blood feud, providing a glimpse of the cultural mechanisms that hold it together despite its many fractures\nEven among Yemen's many prominent tribal families, the Ahmar clan occupies a special status. Its late patriarch, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar, was arguably the most powerful and respected tribal leader of his generation -- popular memory places his influence as second only to that of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, with whom he was allied until the former's death in 2007. The eldest of the late tribal leader's 10 sons, Sheikh Sadiq, succeeded him as head of the Hashid tribal confederation, but even among his prominent siblings, Sheikh Hamid often seems to get the bulk of the attention.\nHis father's name alone guaranteed Sheikh Hamid prominence since birth. But he has done more than simply coast on his father's legacy: His business empire is so vast that even activists who accuse him of corruption are users of his cell-phone carrier. And his political prominence is at least partially owed to his willingness to break with the rest of the family: Hamid was the first of his brothers to come out against Saleh, doing so while his father was still alive. His blunt calls for a shakeup earned him the ire of the former president and his allies, who accused the sheikh of simply seeking power for himself. Many Saleh loyalists accused him of orchestrating the Arab Spring-inspired protests that ultimately unseated the longtime Yemeni strongman in 2011.\n\"If you think Hamid runs things now, wait until you see this wedding,\" a friend told me a few days prior. His tone may have hinted at his tribal and political issues with the Ahmars, but he did have a point. On some level, a massive celebration was a virtual necessity: In Yemen's fluid post-Saleh political environment, the wedding was an obvious opportunity for a show of strength.\nBy the day of the wedding, news of the upcoming nuptials had spread throughout Sanaa. When I walked out my front door on Thursday, my neighbors, noticing that I had donned traditional Yemeni formal wear -- that is, a freshly dry-cleaned thobe, an embroidered scarf, a tailored jacket, and a ceremonial dagger -- knew immediately where I was heading.\n\"The Ahmar wedding is today, isn't it?\" the guy who runs the shop next to my house, a staunch supporter of the former president, remarked with a smirk. \"Send my regards to Sheikh Sadiq.\"\nHis joke went over my head, as I was still catching up on sleep I lost attending the grooms' samra, a late night reception that was part of a week-long marathon celebration. I'd planned on staying for an hour, but the display of tribal traditions kept me glued to my seat. It was much like the wedding itself -- and, for that matter, most social gatherings frequented by Yemeni males -- a qat chew. Guests reclined on the low couches that filled the cavernous hall, chatting with those around them as musicians played traditional music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 8797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nats320.blogspot.com/2009/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:XDVFF3ZI6Y2NEUGFLG3GHMQPKT4CL4CC", "length": 83846, "nlines": 230, "source_domain": "nats320.blogspot.com", "title": "Nats320 -- A Washington Nationals Blog: October 2009", "raw_content": "A Few Minutes With Craig Stammen\nAfter reading \"Casey At The Bat\" and playing catch with some of the young patients presently residing at The Children's Inn at NIH, Our Washington Nationals John Lannan and Craig Stammen stopped to take questions from a few bloggers attending yesterday's events. This provided an opportunity to have a few moments on the side with Our Number 35 to ponder a few thoughts, especially his off-season rehabilitation of his right throwing elbow. You may recall John Stammen had surgery in September and missed the final few weeks of 2009.\nWith that, here we go with A Few Minutes With Craig Stammen:\nI find it interesting that you and John (Lannan) are both here today together because even though Lannan arrived in The Big Leagues before you, your professional careers have sort of tracked alongside each other. (SBF)\n\u201cThat\u2019s true. We were drafted one round apart from each other in 2005. We played rookie ball together. We were teammates in Vermont, Savannah and Potomac. He\u2019s a little ahead of me in Major League time and experience, but we are friends. We know we can talk baseball and pitching. And we\u2019ve been hanging out together some since the season ended. He asked me to join him and it was a no brainer to come here and be a part of this today.\"\nWhich actually brings me to an interesting point. In the past few years there have not been many players for The Nationals staying in the D.C. area during the off-season. A few more are now. If not for your re-hab from your surgery, would you be staying here too? (SBF)\n\u201cYes. When you go to college and then you get put in the Minor Leagues, you really don\u2019t have a place to call your own. So, when you finally get to the Big Leagues and get a place where you will probably be for a while, it\u2019s good to stick your name out in the community, see what you can do, and give back from this great opportunity we have to play baseball. Why not?\u201d\nSo, what was it like for you to be in Washington, D.C. for your rookie season? (SBF)\n\u201cTruly, it was an exceptional experience. For me, it was a blessing, a dream come true and all those superlative adjectives you can give to it. Right now, it\u2019s all just starting to sink in, that first year in the Big Leagues. But now I need to look forward and get a lot of work done to be able to stick around and help turn this team around into an winner.\u201d\nLet\u2019s talk about your rehab? (SBF)\n\u201cEverything is on schedule. I am feeling real good. I started throwing this past Monday and I will keep throwing all the way to spring training. Right now, I couldn\u2019t have asked for better help than I have had with Liz Wheeler, who is our physical therapist, Lee Kuntz (Head Trainer) and the doctors. It\u2019s going great.\nDo you think you will be able to throw harder? (SBF)\n\u201cMaybe. (laughing) Hope so! I had some years of wear and tear built up, now everything is clean and ready to go.\u201d\nCan you explain exactly what happened to you and why you needed surgery? (SBF)\n\u201cI had a bone spur taken out of my back elbow and a bone chip taken out of the front. What happened throughout the course of the season was that extra bone built up in my elbow where I couldn\u2019t fully extend my elbow any longer. So I was playing with a limited range of motion. I couldn\u2019t fully extend on my pitches. And obviously that was affecting my ability to pitch. It\u2019s just one of those things that happens over a course of time from throwing a baseball. And from playing golf, and throwing footballs from my younger days. It all caught up to me this year, but I had it all taken out and it really feels great.\u201d\nSo you seem confident that you can come back even stronger? (SBF)\n\u201cYeah, I do. Last year, I can honestly say I wasn't 100% the whole season, compared to what I was in the Minor Leagues in AAA and AA the year before. I am looking forward to this new season to see what happens and see how I feel.\u201d\nMike Rizzo (General Manager) had stated that if the season had more time to go than just September when you were diagnosed\u2014you could have come back quickly\u2014is that correct? (SBF)\n\u201cOh yeah. They (The Nationals) took it slower than what I needed because the season was going to be over. But if we had more than six weeks, I would say there would have been enough recovery time.\u201d\nYou just mentioned that you are looking forward to the new season. Competition for rotation spots in 2010 is going to be tougher than last year? (SBF)\nIt\u2019s makes everybody better. (SBF)\n\u201cThat\u2019s what people say and I believe that is true too. That\u2019s why I can\u2019t wait for Spring Training. There is a challenge to be met and I expect to meet that challenge. I am going to be healthy and I am going to be ready to go.\u201d\nLast question: watching The World Series from Yankee Stadium, did that bring back to your mind your first Major League victory in June? (SBF)\n(Smiling Broadly) \u201cYeah, it did. Yeah, it did. I kept getting reminded from people back home about that fact. As you know, up until that game no one had played any game in that new stadium without giving up a home run. It\u2019s something I can be proud of and look back on. No doubt, it\u2019s something I will never forget.\u201d\nWith that final answer Craig Stammen and John Lannan headed off to the Hospital at NIH to meet and greet sick children attending a special Halloween Party.\nThe Children's Inn at NIH\n\u201cThe children who come here have exhausted all their other options,\" stated Meredith Daly, Media Relations Coordinator from The Children's Inn at NIH. \"This is their last chance. Pediatric Cancer is 87% curable. We get the other 13%. So, the likelihood is that we will lose a lot of these kids.\"\n\"And while those kids are getting treatment here by the good doctors at NIH, The Children\u2019s Inn tends to their heart and soul,\" said Cyrus Zolghadri, the President of The Formula Sports & Entertainment Group. \"This place let\u2019s them stay at peace with their families.\u201d\nSince 1990, over 10,000 seriously ill children and over 40,000 families have visited The Children's Inn at NIH. Started 19 years ago to provide a support unit for kids from throughout the world--who need the premier medical services only The National Institutes of Health can offer--The Children's Inn's 59 rooms are the temporary homes for those children sick from, not only cancer, but heart, lung, blood, bone and growth disorders, mental illnesses, and HIV infection.\nIt's a daunting task to care for these ill youngsters, while still helping them and their families keep their piece of mind and semblance of life. Raising the spirits of these sick children is an everyday battle, and that is where a recently developed program involving Sports Ambassadors begins at the Bethesda campus. The Ambassadors lend their names and likenesses to The Children's Inn to help raise money and build support groups for the many young patients that come from all our 50 states and 74 foreign countries.\nFor the past two years, The Children's Inn at NIH has worked with all seven Professional Sports Teams in the Washington, D.C. area. The Washington Redskins, The Washington Capitals, The Washington Wizards, The Washington Mystics, The Washington Freedom, D.C. United and now Our Washington Nationals. One-time Redskin Mark Brunell was the very first Sports Ambassador at NIH. Our Washington Nationals John Lannan, the latest.\n\u201cI have been trying to come out here the whole year and it is just great that I was in the area and able to set up this visit and see the kids,\" said John Lannan. \"I\u2019ve really wanted to do this all year. It\u2019s great that they came to the games and I just want to show them I appreciate them coming out and supporting us (The Washington Nationals). So, I am here supporting them.\u201d\n\u201cWe were looking for a Nationals representative to join the rest of our athletes and we thought they would be a sports property that wanted to be involved,\" recalled Sara Stesis, Marketing and Project Coordinator.\" I called The Nationals and since John also has a program that he was attempting to do on his own (Lannan\u2019s Cannons), we kind of fused the two together.\"\nSince the launching of his \"Lannan's Cannon's\" program this past summer, John has dedicated some of his free time and his own money to the kids and family members at the NIH Campus. Over the last few weeks of the just completed 2009 Baseball Season, Lannan hosted sick children from The Children's Inn and their families during Sunday Home Games. Providing food vouchers and game tickets, John wanted to furnish an escape from the daily regimen of treatments and, hopefully, put some fun back into these youngsters lives.\n\u201cJohn has been so generous and he\u2019s not even seen The Inn (until this day), proclaimed Ms. Daly. \"This will be his very first visit. He really wants to see what can happen here. He has gone over and above what we originally planned. He contacted us and wanted to set up his visit. We usually get in touch with the team and they set up the schedule. But in this case, HE WANTED TO COME RIGHT AWAY, and was asking when we could accommodate him.\"\nArriving around 4:30PM this afternoon with teammate Craig Stammen alongside, John presented to The Children's Inn at NIH a check for $7,500. The Inn the beneficiary of Lannan's Nomination for the Roberto Clemente Award in 2009 for community service. Then, John and Craig sat down with those children able to come greet them. Whereupon Lannan read to the kids the famous baseball story by Ernest Thayer--\"Casey At The Bat\".\nAfter reading \"Casey At The Bat\", John and Craig led the entire group outside to the Sports Court at The Children's Inn, where the kids and Nationals Players played catch for a good 20 minutes. Then, everyone was invited back inside where My Best Friend!! Screech!! was in the house to hand out \"Build-A-Bear\" Screech Dolls and a Baseball Card Team Set of Our Washington Nationals. Lannan and Stammen signed autographs and took pictures with kids and family members alike.\nJohn Lannan: \u201cThey seem pretty excited and I am very excited to see them too. I am glad we got to come out here and play a little bit. I am staying around here, so I can get out into the community, talk to kids and make people aware that we are here. Baseball has been gone in the D.C. area for some time, so I want to get out and make people aware that we are here and we (The Nationals) support our community.\"\nMeredith Daly: \"Yet not only did John want to come to the Inn, but he called back and asked if he could go to the hospital as well for the kids that can\u2019t make it to the reading. All the families that stay here are outpatients. They are well enough to be staying here. Unfortunately, there are many more in-patients that can\u2019t be here. He (John Lannan) wanted to make it up there (to the hospital) which is special. We have had Ambassadors for two years now and we have never had an Ambassador who has taken it to this level. He has gone so far above and beyond.\u201d\nWithout hesitation, John Lannan and Craig Stammen walked over to the main hospital at NIH to visit sick children enjoying a special halloween party (pictures were not allowed here). But what John and Craig did provide was an ample amount of fun and joy.\nSara Stesis:\u201cIt\u2019s all for a good cause, it takes the athletes just 30 seconds to fall in love with this place. They want to be involved and they want to help in any way they can. It\u2019s not a hard sell. And when the athletes do come, I think they feel more for the kids than even the kids may feel.\u201d\nJohn Lannan agrees: This keeps you humbled and it keeps you grounded. I feel really grateful for being in the place I am at. And I am even more grateful that I can give back. They are sick and I am glad I can be here and have some fun with them\u2014make their day a little happier.\u201d\nThe role of the Sports Ambassador is to lift the spirits of the children, while not focusing on the illness. Happiness, which both Craig Stammen and John Lannan have both taken to heart. \u201cIt\u2019s not like this is punishment,\" believes Craig. \"We like doing these things. This is good. It is fun to see their smiling faces.\u201d\nJoy which Ambassador Lannan also sees: \"Any time you are named an Ambassador, that is just an honor. I want to hold up that title of Ambassador and try to do my best to help these kids out.....we have to show (our) new guys that are coming up (to Washington's Team) that it\u2019s not a pain to do these things. It\u2019s actually fun. You get the chance to meet young kids and you get the chance to meet families in different areas and all walks of life. So, it\u2019s really cool.\"\nYeah, today's visit by John Lannan, Craig Stammen and Screech to The Children's Inn at NIH was not only cool, but special, because this appearance occurred well AFTER the 2009 Major League Season had been completed by Our Washington Nationals. Lannan and Stammen did not HAVE TO BE THERE. They both could have been home relaxing. Instead, John and Craig wished to be different makers, even if only for one day, in the lives of these young children suffering through some of the worst health issues imaginable.\nZ-Man, Hondo, Frank Robby, Killer & Kitty\nFive Major League Baseball Greats--all with ties to Washington, D.C.--will be among the guests this weekend in Chantilly, Virginia at the Collectors Showcase Of America Event at The Dulles Expo Center. Ryan Zimmerman, Frank Howard, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew & Jim Kaat will be on hand to sign autographs (for various fees) along with a stellar group of Sports Figures from Hockey, Football and Boxing.\nLou Brock, Gaylord Perry, Carlton Fisk, Ozzie Smith, Sonny Jurgensen, John Riggins, Charley Taylor, Len Dawson, Bert Jones, Alex Ovechkin, Gordie Howe, Joe Theismann--on and on this impressive list grows. The Football and Hockey Players appearing on Saturday, October 31st. The Baseball Players on Sunday, November 1st. Check the complete schedule for times. Over 300 Dealer Tables selling sports memorabilia and collectibles.\nComplete details here. Depending on who you might be interested in obtaining autographs from--you will have to plan your visit accordingly.\nThat's the belief of The Jefferson Awards For Public Service. Since 1972, what began as the \"Nobel Prize\" for civic duty has transformed into a \"Call For Action\" for volunteers. In an era where individual accomplishments many times overshadow community needs, those involved with The Jefferson Awards believe Americans still have that heart and passion to work with others less fortunate--to better the society in which we all live.\nCo-founded by Jackie Kennedy Onassis, The Jefferson Awards have transformed over the past 37 years and currently presents national and local awards to Elected or Appointed Officials; Private Citizens; those benefitting the disadvantaged; those providing public service under 35 years of age; and to those for benefitting local communities. Past winners have included Melinda and Bill Gates, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, Paul Newman, General Colin Powell and President Jimmy Carter.\nSelect company all.\nAnd now Our Washington Nationals Ryan Zimmerman has been nominated for The All Stars Helping Kids Award to join that elite group--the latest Jefferson Award for Public Service honoring athletes for volunteerism in their communities. Founded by former San Francisco 49er Ronnie Lott--the NFL Hall Of Famer always has believed \"I didn't want to walk away from my life feeling that I didn't do enough.\" His All Stars Helping Kids Foundation is the national recognition program helping to inspire and shape values in youths while honoring athletes for being role models.\n\"We were absolutely thrilled to hear about The Jefferson Award,\" proclaimed Cheryl Zimmerman, Ryan's Mother. \"Even Ryan did not know about the nomination, but he was very pleased that someone has noticed his effort.\"\nOur Number 11 was nominated along with 51 other athletes who have given back to their communities. The Z-Man honored for his work with his ziMS Foundation, The Washington Nationals Dream Foundation, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The American Red Cross and The Professional Baseball Trainers Society.\nCheryl Zimmerman: \"We've only been around for a few years, but knowing others are paying attention and recognizing what Ryan is trying to do--well--that's something we really, really appreciate.\nYou too can participate, by voting online or texting STAR49 to 55333. Voting ends November 15th.\n10 Athletes will win spots on the \"Dream Team Of Public Service\" at the December 8th Sports, Business & Philanthropy Luncheon in New York City. Then, those \"Dream Team\" Members will be invited to Washington, DC in June, 2010 for The Jefferson Awards For Public Service. Two of whom will be presented The National Awards for \"Outstanding Athlete In Service\" and for \"Outstanding Athlete As A Newcomer To Service\".\nWorth repeating yet again, Major League Baseball in The Nation's Capital, Our Washington Nationals and The Washington Nationals Dream Foundation all provide more to our community than just the baseball played on the diamond. And Ryan Zimmerman has perfectly proven that point.\nYes, one person can make a difference. Please Vote for Ryan Zimmerman. Let HIM know, you not only care, but you can make a difference too.\nPS--Also, it is still not too late to purchase a ticket to The 4th ziMS Foundation Gala in Virginia Beach on November 6th. The November 7th Golf Tournament is sold out, but some $95 Gala Tickets are still available. All the details here.\nZimmerman Family Photo--copyright Nats320--All Rights Reserved\nGood For You Manny\nWhile driving around running errands this afternoon, WTOP announces at 3:15PM that Manny Acta had been named the new Manager of The Cleveland Indians. I shouted out the loudest \"YEEEES!!\" in some time. This guy stopped next to me at the red light looked over. He happened to be wearing a Red Curly \"W\" Cap too. This driver says: \"What are you so happy about?\"\n\"Manny Acta was just named Manager of The Cleveland Indians,\" I replied.\n\"Really? Well good for him,\" this guys stated back. \"It wasn't his fault here in Washington.\"\nAnd it wasn't.\nYou can dicker over Manny's managerial decisions with his personnel (we've done it here many times--especially over his fascination with Alex Cintron), but \"The Most Charismatic Of Men\" wasn't responsible for the roster given to him by Former General Manager Jim Bowden. Problems which are currently being worked out by New General Manager--Mike Rizzo.\nThe African Queen was so happy when I called to inform her of Manny's new found fortune--she screamed too. We love that man. We really do. He's one of the nicest people we've ever met in our lives. Hands down, not many come close when it comes to being as genuine as Mr. Acta. Manny Acta deserved another chance and we are thrilled The Cleveland Indians have made him their new field boss for the next three years (with an option for 2013).\nGood for The Tribe to see past player personnel issues in Washington that ended up costing Our Former Manager his job. And Good for Manny for again keeping positive, pushing forward and landing his second job as a Major League Manager. One of just 30 such positions in The Big Leagues.\nToo bad The Indians don't conduct spring training in Florida anymore, because Sohna and I would have travelled to see him in February or March. Unfortunately, Cleveland moved their spring headquarters to Arizona a few years back. Of course, if Manny had taken The Houston Astros' job--apparently also offered to him--we would only have had to travel less than an hour from Viera to visit him in Kissimmee--The Astros spring base.\nBut you can bet while every single Media person in Washington, D.C. is circling their calendars for the weekend of June 11, 12 & 13, 2010 when Our Washington Nationals play a three game set at Progressive Field in Cleveland--Sohna and I are looking forward to the weekend of May 14, 15 & 16, 2010. That's when The Cleveland Indians play at Camden Yards against The Baltimore Orioles. With D.C.'s Team in Denver that weekend--The African Queen and I will travel one hour north from our home in Alexandria, Virginia for the series--just to see Manny Acta--\"The Most Charismatic of Men\" in person and say hello.\nWe can't wait to see him. And his wonderful smile again.\nGood For You Manny!!\nTalking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood--The Final Chapter\nWhether this particular player is available and willing to play for Our Washington Nationals in 2010, Phil Wood believes this sure fire Hall Of Famer would be an asset to D.C. Baseball--whether he's near the very end of his stellar career or not. As we conclude Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood, the Washington Baseball Historian and MASN Broadcaster and I pick up our conversation talking about John Smoltz and a few other moves Phil believes Washington needs to seriously look into this off-season. Then, like chats always do--we get off on a tangent and Phil made some points about media coverage and the response that receives among fans in the greater Washington area.\nWith that here is Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood--The Final Chapter\nSo how creative does Mike Rizzo have to be if Washington isn\u2019t going to be spending a ton of money on free agency? (SBF)\n\u201cThat\u2019s what 2nd Division Club need to do\u2014be creative. The number of free agent pitchers out there will be about 20\u2014who are veterans with some degree of success. Well, you are going to have to overpay for some to come in\u2014whether it is John Lackey or whomever else. I did a piece the other day after watching John Smoltz pitch for The Cardinals in the National League Division Series. And after talking to John a handful of times over the years, he is really, really smart. He is really a smart guy. There is no question in my mind that if you brought him in (to Washington) as your 6th starter\u2014almost as a swing man\u2014just for the impact he could have, even on the local media\u2014would be tremendous. He gets it. He really gets it. He gets (pitching) almost as if he wrote it. They (Washington) talked to him last year but he wanted to go to a contender. And obviously, if The Cardinals want him back\u2014it\u2019s a moot point. But of all the guys out there\u2014just in terms of what they bring to the table intellectually\u2014he is number one. And he is 43 and I am aware of that.\u201d\nYou read a lot online where people say The Nationals should have signed Randy Wolfe. The Nationals should have signed Orlando Hudson. Whether Washington offered them a contract or not\u2014I wonder whether they WOULD have come here in the first place\u2014not being a contender? (SBF)\n\u201cI think Hudson would have come here. The Nationals had him take a physical. (Hudson says that didn\u2019t happen\u2014SBF). Well the thing is that he didn\u2019t take a physical with The Nationals. They got the results of another physical. That\u2019s the difference and there was something in that report they didn\u2019t like. But the point is that Hudson is available again. Isn\u2019t it interesting that Ronnie Belliard goes out there (to Los Angeles) and takes his job away? But to be clear, if Guzman is going to play 2nd Base, I don\u2019t think you bother with Hudson. I think he is going to be pricey and other clubs are going to be interested in him.\u201d\nCatching wise\u2014if Jesus Flores is not healthy. Is there really anyone out there that Mike Rizzo can go after? (SBF)\n\u201cThe only way you are going to find someone is in a trade. I don\u2019t think you are going to find anyone that is going to be a free agent that is worthy of spending the money on. There is always the feeling that you can find a backup catcher and that some team might throw you one in a deal. No one really comes to mind and there are certain guys that I like, but they are all right-handed hitters. And I want to see a left-handed hitting catcher here.\u201d\nIs Brian Schneider in your mix? (SBF)\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a limited sample watching him (of late), so I don\u2019t have any real feeling about him.\u201d\nUp the middle, if Washington is unsure about Ian Desmond. If J.J. Hardy is not available in trade, what should they do? (SBF)\n\u201cUnless you can actually get a guy that has actually done the job (play shortstop) in the Major Leagues for a couple of seasons\u2014and since you are coming off 103 loss\u2014let\u2019s see if Desmond can do it. You are not looking to contend. You\u2019ve seen he can swing the bat. Offensively, a scout I was with yesterday said: \u2018that kid can hit. You have to respect the way he plays. He puts the ball in play.\u2019 That home run he hit into the Red Porch Seats (in his first MLB Game) was a bomb. He\u2019s got some power. It\u2019s really a matter of sitting down with your people and saying: \u2018Do we give him the job with no real resume?\u2019 And if push comes to shove\u2014we will move Guzman back and get by for the rest of the season.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things where in some point in time you are going to have to find out whether he can play. And you can\u2019t just say this is what he did in September and go yeah or nay on that. Look, they have the luxury of coming off 103 losses. If you were coming off of 75 losses, it would be a different story.\u201d\nWinter Meetings are coming, is Washington opportunistic shoppers or players? (SBF)\n\u201cWhen we see who gets non-tendered (right before the Winter Meetings) and who gets dropped off the Major League Roster and who is going to be available as a Rule V guy\u2014that\u2019s when you can figure out if The Winter Meeting offers opportunity. The past two years, most of the trades that have been made are completed after the Winter Meetings. You troll out there at the Winter Meetings, see what you snag and, hopefully, in the next 30-days before spring training starts, get a match-up on some package of players or individual player\u2014whatever.\u201d\nAnd it's at this point in our conversation where Phil and I got off on that tangent discussing coverage of Our Washington Nationals and their Fan Base.\nWhere do you think this franchise stands right now? (SBF)\n\u201cUnderstand, there are only 30 teams in baseball and only eight of them get to the post-season. Some teams start from scratch. That is exactly what The Nationals did when the club moved here. In \u201905, I thought they played over their heads. The fact they were 51-31 at the halfway point was amazing. I give a lot of that credit to Frank Robinson. And I give a lot of credit to the fans who showed up in huge numbers that year. But I don\u2019t think anyone really paying attention right now can honestly say: \u2018Oh, there is no hope.\u2019\nNow there is a guy that writes for MLB.com, not in Washington and it\u2019s not Bill Ladson. It\u2019s another guy. But let me say this, MLB.com has some terrific baseball writers and they have some awful ones too. And this is one of the awful ones. At one point he was sitting next to me at a game and he said: \u2018Nationals are the worst team I have EVER seen!\u2019 And I said: \u2018You haven\u2019t seen many teams then I guess.\u2019 Now this conversation was during the first half of the season. \u2018Well, they are just awful.\u2019 (the MLB.com reporter) So I ask this guy how many times he has seen The Nationals? \u2018This is the 3rd time I have seen them.\u2019 Well, you know, that is kind of a small sample size. So I said to him: \u2018you know, your team is not much better.\u2019 He responds: \u2018they are going to end up well ahead of The Nationals.\u2019 They did, but not by much. And there certainly was a point after that eight game winning streak where The Nationals were a threat to pass them.\u201d\n(Shaking his head back and forth) \u201cIf you are an intelligent baseball fan and you are not just a fantasy guy. If you look at the game and read all you can read about it and you talk to a lot of people inside the game that say quasi-complimentary things about The Nationals--or raving about some prospects they have, or raving about Rizzo. Anyone who spends time with Mark Lerner (Nationals Principal Owner) would not have that impression. But this is the issue, the casual fan will sit back and throw out so and so has lost the clubhouse. Or, there is a culture of losing that has to end. It isn\u2019t like that at all (in Washington). That\u2019s not to say there have been clubs that weren\u2019t like that. But it\u2019s not with this club and with these people in charge of it. The perception is wrong.\u201d\n\u201cPeople who complain about The Nationals, I always bring up The Mets. In their first five years (after expansion in 1962), they averaged 108 losses per year. Of course, in their 7th season they were World Champion. This game has such a degree of difficulty that transcends every other team sport\u2014even though on the surface it all seems so simple. There used to be a sportscaster in Baltimore that used to say it\u2019s a simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball and you hit the ball. Well, if it was that simple, we all would be doing it. This is a remarkably difficult sport and to put the pieces together to get you to a championship is not easy. Even if you\u2019ve got $200 Million dollars to spend like The Yankees do every year, or even $100 Million\u2014it does not guarantee that you are going to win. It comes to showing patience. And as a fan, if in the back of your mind you say when they start to win\u2014I will buy a ticket\u2014well what kind of a fan are you? Let\u2019s not define what a frontrunner is.\u201d\n\u201cI am old. I grew up with a bad baseball team (The Senators) and a bad football team (The Redskins), but it didn\u2019t make me any less of a fan. Now, certainly there have been disappointing losses. But I don\u2019t think I have ever gone to the ballpark where I thought: \u2018now that was a waste of time.\u2019 I find the game today remarkably entertaining night after night after night.\u201d\n\u201cBut my point here (in a roundabout way) is that if you are going to cover baseball and do it competently, I think you have to immerse yourself into the game. And if you don\u2019t have any passion for it, then why are you doing it? Do something else. When I see young broadcasters and young prospective baseball writers and they go and sit with each other (it bothers me). It\u2019s just the idea that they are just not interested (in the sport). It\u2019s like: \u2018I know the object of the game. I think I know what I am doing here, but don\u2019t get me bothered about other stuff, that might make me change my mind about it.' (better understanding the nuances of the game). The stuff I knew about baseball 25 years ago--I don\u2019t think about anymore. The stuff I thought I knew? I was blind back then and I watch the game much differently now.\u201d\n\u201cAnd while I would never be competent enough\u2014no way, in no way\u2014to be a scout, I have a perspective from those guys that I know what they are talking about now (because Phil keeps in touch with them). I am seeing the things they are seeing before they have to tell me. It always amazes me that there are writers that don\u2019t want to embrace the game more than what they think (wrongly) is all there is.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s easy for me to be upbeat about The Nationals because I went through The Senators experience when there was no hope. The fact that this year\u2019s club did not lose 107 games means the \u201963 Senators were still the worst team of my lifetime (56-106). And you could look at that club in 1963 and look at The Senators Farm System then and know there was no hope back then. There was no hope. They did not grow their own particularly well. They spent no money on scouting to speak of. They scouted amateur players out of college yearbooks, I think (only half joking). That is not something they handled well back then. They made the big trade with The Dodgers (for Frank Howard). Without that trade, that club would have never finished over .500. Without Ted Williams they would have never finished above .500. That was a franchise owner\u2019s owned just to say they fielded a club. That was the Expansion Senators. That was hopeless baseball.\"\n\u201cHere, now, you see what is going on. You see what is going on in the Farm System. You see what money is being spent on player development. And you can see a light down there. It\u2019s not a mile away. It may be 10 miles away\u2014if a mile is six months\u2014it\u2019s going to take a few more years. But having been through the experience with The Senators, this is nothing like that. This is nothing like that. So, if you just want to look at wins and losses\u2014that\u2019s fine if you are happy doing that. If you really like the game, look beyond that and realize what else is going on. See what is going on in other markets like in Pittsburgh or Kansas City? The Pirates have had 17 straight years under .500. But over that same 17-year span The Royals have lost more games.\u201d\nStan Kasten always has stated again and again: \u201cWe will get the attendance we deserve.\u201d (SBF)\nBut has some of the bitterness from the media and the fans affected what the team has tried to accomplish? (SBF)\n\u201cIt probably has, but this year I think the economy had a lot to do with it. An out of town writer recently wrote about The Nationals \u2018dwindling\u2019 attendance. \u2018Dwindling\u2019 to me would indicate you were rock-bottom and you weren\u2019t drawing flies. Well, The Nationals outdrew six other clubs with that many losses and that horrible first half. My challenge to those people who write that stuff and post that stuff online is go to a game\u2014walk up and down the aisles\u2014and tell those people they are not having a good time. Tell them how stupid they are? They shouldn\u2019t be there because they can\u2019t possibly be having a good time watching a losing team? This year you had 10 times where Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn homered in the same game. My daughter and her friend loved that and I am sure many other fans did as well.\u201d\n\"In terms of bang for the bucks\u2014baseball is still the most affordable. Both my girls love the $5 seats. They love that section. They love the view of The Capitol and the view of the scoreboard. And I understand there is a lot of deals this coming season for Season Ticket Holders (Red Carpet Benefits). That\u2019s great\u2014that\u2019s responding to the market. That\u2019s saying: \u2018we know the last couple of years have not been what you wanted to see. We are a work in progress and we appreciate your support.' Those things are wonderful.\u201d\nHow about with The Nationals? (SBF)\n\u201cDo I think The Nationals could do more? I've spoken with several club employees who feel the same way. I think there are still too many people who don\u2019t embrace the sport as much as they embrace their job. And those people need to have the riot act read to them or find something else to do. If you don\u2019t love the sport? If you don\u2019t embrace the sport? Then how can you do the best possible job?\nDoes the negativity hurt the chances for players to come here? Or, are we past that? (SBF)\n\u201cI think we are past that. Zimmerman has made a good case for himself in baseball. He knows everyone now in the game. Adam Dunn too. In fact, George Sherill (one time Oriole, now Dodger) told me when the Dodgers were in town\u2014that Ronnie Belliard told a lot of people what a good time he had playing here. What a great town it was and there was a lot to do. So, when you have a lot of players who have been here and gone elsewhere and say: \u2018it was terrific!\u2019 that goes much further than some disgruntled fan on an internet bulletin board. The people who play the game that have to come here to live\u2014you are hard pressed to find any player that will say anything bad about their experience. They might say something bad about Jim Bowden, but not about the market.\u201d\nWith that final answer--Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood concluded. Phil will be heading to Indianapolis this December to cover the 2009 Winter Meetings. As we were leaving the restaurant in Arlington, Virginia this past week--he shared this funny story about running into another Hall Of Famer at The Winter Meetings--23 years ago.\n\u201cAt the Winter Meetings in Hollywood, Florida in December of \u201986, I am walking down a hallway that meets another hallway (running in a different direction). And as I get down to the intersection, I walk right into Ted Williams. We bump together. We each take a few steps back. I was like: \u2018hi, hi, hi, hi, hi\u2026..!\u2019. (not knowing what to say).\"\n\"As for Ted Williams-- he just kept going.\"\nPS--Phil is also of the belief that Washington should sport a pinstripe uniform\u2014whether it be with red trim or blue trim\u2014without the gold. And he agrees with me that the Away Uniform needs to sport a Red Curly \u201cW\u201d on the blue cap to match the Red Curly \u201cW\u201d on the script uniform front.\nPPS--And Phil also believes Major League Baseball should return to The Balanced Schedule:\n\u201cThis year if the playoffs meant the top four teams with the best records would go, then no team from the AL Central would have made it at all. So, it\u2019s going to be frustrating because The Yankees & Red Sox situation is not likely to change. They are always going to have more money to spend. And they will spend it. I think if you cut down on the number of games the other clubs in the American League East have to play against The Yankees and Red Sox and you spread the wealth a little bit\u2014if you are a team in the central or west and you know the Yankees are going to be better than you when they come to your town\u2014they are going to sell more tickets. So, it almost becomes a financial incentive. And I am also of the belief that as long as baseball is committed to inter-league play, they should have never had a 14 team league and a 16 team league. They should have had two 15 team leagues and played inter-league series everyday. I also think they should try to compress the schedule a little bit. You can still play 162 games, but schedule a few day/night doubleheaders because you need to avoid playing baseball in November. And what is going to happen in a few years if Colorado and Minnesota make it to The World Series? It\u2019s going to be brutal.\u201d\n\u201cIf baseball is not going to realign, then one very small step would be going back to a balanced schedule. People will then complain that teams will end up playing more games with teams outside your division\u2014well that is the way it goes. They (MLB) did it that way for years and nobody died.\u201d\nMany thanks to Phil Wood for again getting together and chatting about Our Washington Nationals.\nTalking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood--Part Two\nWashington Baseball Historian and MASN Broadcaster Phil Wood spent the the first part of our lunch time chat discussing philosophy. What Our Washington Nationals are attempting to accomplish with personnel since Mike Rizzo was named permanent General Manager. And when we concluded yesterday's Part One--Phil was beginning to touch on Mr. Rizzo's recent front office hires. So that's where we pick up today followed by an in-depth look at what Washington currently has and should keep on their 2010 Major League Roster.\nWith that, here we go with Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood, Part Two.\nWhat do you know about these recent Front Office hires\u2014Roy Clark, Johnny DiPuglia and Doug Harris? (SBF)\n\u201cHarris I had heard of because he had scouted with The Rangers for years and was just with Cleveland last season. He\u2019s a veteran, but the scouts I have talked to with other clubs say Roy Clark is as sharp as a tack. I don\u2019t know what they (The Nationals) are paying him, but the point was made that to get a guy like Roy Clark to leave where he was (Atlanta) to come to Washington\u2014they probably paid pretty well for the privilege. The guy from The Red Sox\u2014DiPuglia\u2014he\u2019s had great success scouting Latin American countries for The Red Sox. The Nationals needed a greater presence there after the whole \u201cSmiley\u201d Gonzalez debacle and Jose Rijo. They\u2019ve hired some really good people. Certainly, Rizzo has been around long enough that he knows where all the good people are.\u201d\nThese hires are all Rizzo? This has his mark all over it? (SBF)\n\u201cAbsolutely. When Rizzo was hired in 2006 (VP and Assistant General Manager) right after the club was awarded to the Lerner\u2019s, Riz was one of the first hires. A friend of mine\u2014a long time National League Scout\u2014told me Kasten brought Rizzo in to be the next GM. And I think the expectations throughout baseball was that Rizzo would be the GM between six months to a year\u2014because it was well known that Stan Kasten was not a fan of Jim Bowden. But Bowden had ingratiated himself to ownership and was basically able to keep his job. Of course Stan had to say nice things about Jim, which I am sure, wasn\u2019t easy at times. But people knew that Bowden would eventually implode and it happened. And Rizzo was there to pick up the pieces.\u201d\n\u201cYou look at the job he did once that transition took place\u2014it was remarkable. Rizzo did a remarkable job. All of these others saying it\u2019s going to be Jerry Dipoto (Arizona Scouting Director). Jerry Dipoto? Jerry Dipoto has been an executive for a while, but he\u2019s never been a GM. It was well known he wanted to be a GM. The idea that The Nationals would let Rizzo go through what he went through, then go through the Strasburg deal, sign Strasburg on Friday and Monday Mike cleans out his desk\u2014that didn\u2019t make any sense!!\u201d\nWe didn\u2019t believe it. (SBF)\n\u201cAll along, I never bought into the whole thing either about Dipoto or any other guy coming in to supplant Rizzo. And in the end, I think Kasten accomplished what he set out to do once he first hired Mike. It took a while longer than expected, but I don\u2019t think they would have made Mike go through that dance if there wasn\u2019t going to be some Hot Fudge Sundae on the other end.\u201d\nAll the rumors really just made no sense. (SBF)\n\u201cMike is a guy who I believe has the \u2018make-up\u2019 of a (John) Schuerholz (long time Atlanta GM, now Braves President) in a sense he is not prone to panic modes. He is very deliberate about things and I think there is a payoff there. Mike's dad was a scout. Mike played minor league baseball (in The Angels system) and recognized he didn\u2019t have the wherewithal to play in the Major Leagues and got into the backroom part of baseball. From the very first time I met him when he first got his first job in Washington, he was impressive. Mike knows every scout in baseball\u2014for every team. He knows EVERYBODY!! And I have yet to find anybody to say: \u2018you know, he is weak in this area. Or he is good at this, but not at that.\u2019 Everybody thinks the world of him. And because so many people in the game want to see him succeed, there is something very positive about Mike Rizzo as GM. Again, Rizzo as GM. Riggleman as Manager\u2014that works for me.\u201d\nAre you surprised Bob Boone has made his way through this changeover and will continue in his role (as Assistant GM\u2014VP of Player Development)? (SBF)\n\u201cIf you had asked me that six weeks ago, I would have said\u2014yes. But now finding out that once Bowden left and whether it was a sit-down with Rizzo or maybe well before that\u2014Bob wanted to make sure that people knew that while, yes, he had known Bowden in Cincinnati and yes\u2014he had been hired by Jim for The Nationals--that in general he did not consider himself a Bowden Guy. Because he had been around the game for so long, as a player, coach and manager, he felt like he pre-dated Bowden. Certainly, he gave advice to Bowden, but Bowden didn\u2019t always take it. So I think he successfully convinced everyone: \u2018I worked for him but I am not his boy.\u2019 Since then, there are scouts who were saying earlier to me that Bob will probably be gone once the season is over. Well, you know what\u2014they are saying now they think Bob and Mike have found a real connection. Whether it\u2019s in terms of special assignments or whatever, I think Bob Boone figures to be around for a while unless somebody else offers him a job.\u201d\nI have always thought Dana Brown to be an unsung hero of sorts. Are you surprised to see him go to Toronto as Special Assistant to The New GM? (SBF)\n\u201cThey (The Nationals) probably thought Dana would be around for a while, but being an assistant GM is a little bit better. Apparently he and Alex Anthopoulos have a history together which I wasn\u2019t aware of. Any time you get a chance\u2014especially at Dana\u2019s age\u2014to move up even if it\u2019s just a tiny move up\u2014you have to do it. Although let\u2019s be honest, The Toronto Blue Jays are not likely to win the American League East any time soon. They can be competitive, but that\u2019s about it right now.\u201d\nSo we are now in the off-season, Rizzo is truly in control. What does he need to do? (SBF)\n\u201cThere are a couple of determinations that need to be made. First of all you have to see if Jesus Flores will be able to play 130 games? And if he is not, you have to do something about that. You have to get another catcher. I don\u2019t think you want to go into a season with (Josh) Bard & (Wil) Nieves as your two catchers. Now, I will say this. If you add up their numbers they did OK. Neither one of them is much of a threat at the plate. Nieves not much more than a threat to hit a single to right field. Bard is a switch hitter and he has some power, but he\u2019s not a very good receiver. He\u2019s adequate. Derek Norris is a couple of years away, but Norris may end up as an infielder when he gets to the Major Leagues. If you decide that Flores isn\u2019t going to be an everyday guy, then you maybe look for a left-handed hitter who is a good receiver. A veteran, a young veteran in their late 20\u2019s, early 30\u2019s because catching is such a critical spot. Again, if Flores is healthy, I think you have to give him another shot and you go into it (Spring Training) assuming he is not going to get hurt again.\u201d\n\u201cYou are set at third base (Ryan Zimmerman). At first base, I think you are set (with Adam Dunn). The point is that Adam only has a year to go on his deal. I think if they could go back in time, they (Washington) would have signed him for more than two seasons. But if you talk to Adam, Adam is not unhappy. He is not unhappy in Washington. He and Ryan Zimmerman have become very, very tight. And I think he would be open to an extension. But obviously, if Albert Pujols becomes a free agent and declares that he wants to play close to The White House (joking), all bets are off at that point. But seriously, look; Dunn did what they got him here to do. He produced a lot of offense. He had a higher batting average than he ordinarily does. He walked a lot and was a great guy in the clubhouse.\u201d\n\u201cThe trade last year with The Marlins. If they (Washington) had gone into the season with (Josh) Willingham playing every day then I have no doubt Willingham would have hit 30 homers. And again, there is another guy with great make-up and he is a couple of years away from walking away as a free agent. Those fans that have been posting on these online bulletin boards: \u2018oh, they have to trade Willingham. They have to trade Dunn.\u2019 Well, why? Why do they have to trade them? Willingham is just 30 years of age. He is a dangerous hitter. And frequently, he was a dangerous fielder (chuckling). He had some adventures out in leftfield I didn\u2019t expect. But as I look now at guys on other teams having the same issue, there had to be something going on with the lights or something (at Nationals Park). Be that as it may, Willingham can play. Nyjer Morgan can clearly play. And if they had a vote for Most Valuable Player this year, I would vote for him (Morgan). He made all the difference in the world.\u201d\nWas Nyjer playing over his head? (SBF)\n\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. I think this was the first place he played where he wasn\u2019t labeled\u2014as he was in Pittsburgh\u2014as just a speedy guy who can play the outfield\u2014not a guy who can put the club on his back and be an offensive catalyst. That is exactly what Rizzo saw in him and clearly that is what he became. He embraced that role. He had a couple of adventures on the bases, but they were errors of aggression and I don\u2019t have a problem with that. But when Nyjer went down\u2014Willie Harris we all like\u2014but he wasn\u2019t Nyjer. He (Harris) wasn\u2019t going to make the same things happen. And then (Elijah) Dukes in rightfield. I like Elijah Dukes a lot and I think he is a better hitter than he was. He still has the occasional adventure in rightfield. He\u2019s that toolsy guy who doesn\u2019t have all the greatest instincts in the world. But, he\u2019s shown a great willingness to work on it.\u201d\nWere you surprised to see Dukes recalled in August? (SBF)\n\u201cNo, actually I was not.\u201d\nI thought there was a possibility we might never see him again. (SBF)\n\u201cThere was danger of that happening because when he went down (to Syracuse), he was completely out of whack at the plate. And I think there was a fear he would sour on being sent to the minor leagues and just shutdown. That didn\u2019t happen. He hit the ball very, very well at Syracuse and he showed a maturity I don\u2019t think they (Washington) were expecting.\u201d\n\u201cUp the middle can (Cristian) Guzman play second base? I am sure he can. He did not play it last year out of any conceit or anything. He just had never played 2nd Base and his point was: \u2018you are not going to make a veteran play a position he has never played before\u2019 at the risk of embarrassing himself this late in the season when The Nationals are hopelessly out of the race. He stayed at shortstop and kind of got banged up and was basically a pinch hitter the final weeks of the season. But he\u2019s got a year to go on his contract. He showed a little bit more patience at the plate. When he walked twice in one game I nearly keeled over! (Laughing) However you want to slice it, he is another one of those guys, another one of those middle infielders who if they can reach it, they are going to swing at it. Obviously, he didn\u2019t hit .300 this year, but he came close. He was well over .300 for a period of time. He had that foot problem and any number of things that probably impacted his swing\u2014but with a year to go (on his contract)\u2014I don\u2019t think they want to pay him to go away. I think Guzman is still capable of being a productive player at second base.\u201d\nBut you feel he will move to 2nd base? (SBF)\n\u201cOh, he will move to 2nd base. There will be no issues with that. It just came down to\u2026..\u201d\nTiming. (SBF)\n\u2018Yes, timing. Perhaps if he (Guzman) had been 100% at that point in time, he might have moved then. His biggest fault, from my perspective is, if he was a victim of a drive-by shooting on the way to the park--he wouldn\u2019t tell anyone about it (chuckling). He would wrap an ace bandage around it, put a uniform on it and hope no one notices he\u2019s bleeding. (Laughing)\nHe never says anything about any injury. (SBF)\n\u201cHe just wants to play so badly\u2014and you have to respect him for that. This has already happened a couple of times since he got here. He\u2019s gotten hurt and he tries to compensate for it and do anything to stay in the lineup. There are a lot of other players out there who would milk it (injuries), but he (Guzman) is not one of those guys.\u201d\nThen what about shortstop? (SBF)\n\u201cCan Desmond play shortstop everyday in the Major Leagues? I don\u2019t know the answer to that. Some scouts have said he is one of those guys that will be a better fielder in the Major Leagues than the Minor Leagues. Well, I guess, we will have to wait and see. But, on the other hand, if they had an opportunity to pick up a J.J. Hardy (Milwaukee Shortstop), I think you would have to go with someone like that. Hardy is coming off an off-year offensively.\u201d\nHardy has been mentioned is a few stories I have read. If Washington were interested in him--whom would they give up to receive him? (SBF)\n\u201cI think because Washington has a lot of arms in their system you have to look there. I think you also look at the Big League Pitching Staff now. You see (John) Lannan as a sure thing. We read some of the scouts at Stephen Strasburg\u2019s first Arizona Fall League start say he should be Washington\u2019s Opening Day starter. He is better than anything they have now. So, let\u2019s just say, for the sake of argument, Stephen Strasburg is with the club from April on next season. So you have Strasburg, you have Lannan and after that you have to decide. Will (Scott) Olsen be 100%? I don\u2019t know. But Olsen doesn\u2019t have much in trade value because of his surgery. You are going to have to wait another year for Jordan Zimmermann. But from my perspective, the thought of having a Strasburg, Zimmermann and Lannan top of the rotation\u2014well the back end could be you and me! You want better than that, obviously. But we have three guys; you think, in Strasburg\u2019s case, Zimmermann\u2019s case\u2014great command, terrific fastball. And a solid young pitcher in Lannan.\u201d\n\u201cJ.D. Martin made a good case for himself for the 2010 season with the way he pitched in September. (Craig) Stammen I am a little bit on the fence about.\u201d\nHow about Garrett Mock and Ross Detwiler? (SBF)\n\u201cRoss Detwiler to me is the wild card because once he came back (to the Big League Club) and they said go ahead and throw across your body\u2014he was much better. He was far more relaxed out there. I can\u2019t look at him and not think he is the guy that delivers my papers (young and thin body build). He looks so young. His last couple of starts were pretty good, he got that first win. I can see Detwiler, if he has a strong spring, start the season on the Major League Staff.\u201d\n\u201cMock is enigmatic. Mock I think has a future as a Major League Pitcher, but whatever light bulb needs to go on--is just flickering right now. He has some innings where he is brilliant and some innings where his command is off and he keeps going back to the same well. He leaves something up and he\u2019s looking over his shoulder (at the hits going past him). He is still a young guy and I think the ball club looks at Mock as having more upside than Martin or Stammen. The results haven\u2019t quite been there yet. There are some other guys who are in the system that can throw, but they are a little bit further down in the system.\u201d\n\u201cTalking about trades, and I bring up The Marlins because they have dealt with Washington in the past. Can you imagine if Josh Johnson was available?\nI would take him in a heartbeat. He throws smoke. (SBF)\n\u201cIf The Marlins are really and truly going to try to move Josh Johnson, Dan Uggla, Jeremy Hermida\u2014to get an arm like Josh Johnson\u2014maybe you take something else you don\u2019t want and maybe trade someone you might not want to get rid of. Somebody young who has a high ceiling. I just think Josh Johnson is one of the best right-handed pitchers in baseball and he\u2019s one of those special guys if you can pick him up\u2014it\u2019s a coup.\u201d\nDid not Josh Johnson have the same surgery that Jordan Zimmermann had? (SBF)\nAnd he still throws that hard. (SBF)\n\u201cHe\u2019s got a pitcher\u2019s body (tall, big legs). He\u2019s a big guy, throws hard, has a decent breaking ball and has that great make-up.\u201d\nWhat does Rizzo do about the bullpen? Are there really any keepers already there? (SBF)\n\u201cYeah, I think there are. He had more walks than strikeouts, but I have to bring back Mike MacDougal. He\u2019s kind of an interesting story. Mike\u2019s dad was a Washington Senators Bat Boy in the 1950\u2019s. And Tom (Mike\u2019s Dad) pitched in the Kansas City A\u2019s Farm System in the 60\u2019s. When Mike first got here, I was talking to him in the dugout and I asked him what else he throws. \u2018Well, I throw a slider and kind of a changeup.\u2019 Well, kind of a changeup is really not a changeup. But of course you never saw him throw it because they (Washington) told him not to. And one of the issues he had in Kansas City and Chicago was that he would get away from his great fastball, throw more breaking balls and get into trouble. Everything he throws up there is 95 or 96 MPH, but what the problem is with Mike is that he has so much movement on everything he throws that frequently the ball moves right out of the strike zone. That's where all his walks come from, but I think there is something there. There is something there than can be worked on. Maybe if (Steve) McCatty and some of the other guys have him from spring training on\u2014something can improve.\u201d\nJason Bergmann, Sean Burnett? (SBF)\n\u201cSean Burnett is clearly coming back. He\u2019s a very effective lefthander, situational guy. He\u2019s a lock. Bergmann is interesting. Jason is a guy, and this is said about a lot of young pitchers, he doesn\u2019t pitch up to the level of his stuff. He understands that as well as anyone. If you look at the numbers he put up in Syracuse as a reliever\u2014he was great in AAA ball. And he had some great outings with The Nationals and some awful outings for The Nationals. He\u2019s got a solid Major League fastball. He\u2019s got a plus slider. When he has command, he is terrific. And as you saw in \u201908 when he was a starter, he was great at times. That game against The Mets at Shea.\u201d\nHe also nearly pitched a no-hitter in 2007 at RFK Stadium. (SBF)\n\u201cI think he is one of those guys that embraces being a Major League player. He wakes up every morning thrilled to be a Major League player. A guy that likes the game enough that when The Dodgers were in town he walked across the field to introduce himself to Joe Torre and had Torre sign a ball for him. Bergmann appreciates the game. He really appreciates the game.\u201d\n\u201cThe bullpen is an evolving thing. And if you look at what is available in the off-season, there really is not much out there. Would you want to spend $5 to $6 Million per year on a multi-year deal on a closer on a club coming off two straight 100 loss seasons? There are a couple schools of thoughts about a closer, but the conventional wisdom is a 2nd Division Club doesn\u2019t need a dominant closer. So at this point in time, neither one of us expects The Nationals to contend next season, so going out and getting a guy who has had multiple 30 save seasons is not necessarily the way to go.\u201d\n\u201cFor another season, you can go with MacDougal. Or maybe at some point, Bergmann becomes a closer. The wild card in this is Drew Storen. If Drew Storen has a great spring, I think that Storen is your closer Opening Day.\u201d\nFrom this point on--Phil Wood and I began to discuss specifics about who might be out there for Washington as roster additions this off-season. Free Agents and other creative opportunities that might arise and which General Manager Mike Rizzo might have to consider between now and February, 2010. All that and more coming in Part Three of Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood tomorrow.\nTalking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood\nPhil Wood on the right in this photo along with Hank Thomas--Walter Johnson's Grandson, Sohna and myself\nMost fans of Our Washington Nationals know Phil Wood. The Washington Baseball Historian, MASN Broadcaster and columnist omnipresent at Nationals Park covering D.C.'s Major League Team--and Baltimore's too, The Orioles at Camden Yards. Well versed in the game of baseball, Phil and I are sort of kindred spirits. We both grew in the Washington, D.C. area with The Expansion Washington Senators as our team. The '60's Nats were fairly awful record wise (except for that wonderful '69 turnaround), but The Senators were Our Team and Frank Howard was Our Guy!!\nAs Phil likes to always say: \"If we went to a Senators game and they lost--but Hondo hit one out--we went home happy.\"\nSo, very true. We had take what you could get out of D.C. Baseball back then. There was no future for Major League Baseball in The Nation's Capital after 1971 for over 33 years. A far different situation now surrounding Our Washington Nationals since Major League Baseball returned in 2005 and a new ballpark opened in 2008.\nAs the 2009 Season wound down--I approached Phil to see if we might get together again and review the just completed campaign and look ahead to what might be in store this off-season for Major League Baseball in the Nation's Capital. He readily agreed and just like last season when we met over lunch for a similar chat, this time we devoted ourselves to just talking about Our Current Nats. Phil Wood and I had lunch together this past Wednesday, October 21st in Arlington, Virginia to talk about all things Nationals. This conversation lasted nearly 90 minutes and is pretty encompassing. Most likely there will be at least three installments, but for sure this is part one. And we begin by chatting philosophy. What Washington is looking for in their managerial search and even from their players? Not necessarily who Mike Rizzo should trade for, or what guy they should sign this off-season.\nWith that, here we go with Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood.\nI want to start with the managerial search. I\u2019ve noticed that many of those that cover the team on a regular basis, including you, like Jim Riggleman as the choice. Why is that? (SBF)\n\u201cFirst of all he is experienced. Number two; he didn\u2019t do anything to lose the job. I wasn\u2019t thrilled when he put Ian Desmond in rightfield, but that was more Desmond\u2019s idea, instead of Jim\u2019s. And if you are a second division club and you want to see what someone can do\u2014you can experiment like that. In general, he didn\u2019t do anything to lose his job. I thought when they (Washington) brought him in as bench coach, that\u2019s a brilliant move because he\u2019s a local guy and because he is extremely experienced. And I know from talking to Manny Acta that Manny knew Jim and respected Jim. And having talked to Jim, he (Riggleman) felt they were of similar managerial styles. I thought they would be comfortable with each other.\u201d\n\u201cAs you look at all the other potential candidates in the field, whether it\u2019s Bobby Valentine, now even Don Mattingly. Mattingly I am intrigued by. I have spoken to Don a few times. He\u2019s a very smart guy. And as a player, he had that tangible that players these days seem to lack, which is he was intense whether he was doing infield practice before a game or actually playing in a game. Mattingly approached everything as if \u2018this is important. We are not kidding around here. This is important.\u2019 You have to love that. Right now in baseball you have 750 players where 730 of them don\u2019t play like that (chuckling). But the fact is that he has never managed on any level. He\u2019s been a hitting coach and he\u2019s probably very good at that. Of course, there is an interesting tie-in locally, in the sense that Mattingly\u2019s minor league hitting coach was Mickey Vernon (Washington Senators Great). And he (Don) loved Mickey. In fact, when Mattingly had his retirement ceremony in New York, he insisted Mickey be a part of it.\u201d\n\u201cAs you know, I knew Mickey pretty well, and having talked to him about Mattingly, I said: \u2018What did you do with him when you had him at Columbus (then The Yankees Top Farm Club)?\u2019 He said: \u2018I looked at his swing and said\u2014Son, stay away from me because there is nothing I can do to help you out! (Laughing). You\u2019ve got a perfect swing now.\u2019 Apparently, Mattingly had other hitting coaches who would say try this, try this, try this\u2014to the point of changing him. Mickey was the first one to say: \u2018Well, you seem to have it down.\u2019 So, if that is his approach (Mattingly in instructing), then I think he has a very evenhanded approach. Not, I need to do something just for the sake of doing something.\u201d\n\u201cBut Riggleman is the type of guy that is solid--as solid of a baseball guy as you will find. He is exceptionally respected throughout the game. Every scout I know feels Jim deserves the job. I don\u2019t know. I just think there is something, purely from the issue of karma, that fits. Here is a guy that grew up in Montgomery County (Maryland). He was an expansion Senators Fan, like you and me. He knows what it\u2019s like to suffer and wake up smiling. And I think there is a positive to that. I can\u2019t make the decisions for Mike Rizzo or (Stan) Kasten, but when Mike says that Jim has just as good a shot as anybody\u2014I don\u2019t think he is kidding. Rizzo really likes Jim. But I think they (The Nationals) need to go through this exercise looking at other candidates.\u201d\nYou\u2019ve sort of eluded to this right off the bat, when The Phillies came back to win in their last At-Bat the other night (Game 4 NLCS), both Barry Larkin and Dan Plesac on MLB Network stated The Phillies always play until that 27th out. And are one of the few teams that seem to do that consistently. Why is it that The Nationals can\u2019t play that way? (SBF)\n\u201cLet me preface this by saying: the more I am around people who are inside the game, the more you get to appreciate the aspect of the game that is referred to as \u2018make-up\u2019. When I say there are only a handful of players that really have that \u2018make-up\u2019 to play to the 27th out, there are not many of them. The Phillies have several of them. The Boston Red Sox have some of the best in Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, Jacoby Ellsbury. (Derek Jeter of The Yankees-SBF) Yes. They are all playing on that higher level\u2014if you will\u2014of observation. They see everything around them and every move they make is important. I just don\u2019t think The Nationals have enough of those players. In general, 2nd Division Clubs don\u2019t and it\u2019s difficult to scout those type of guys in high school or college.\u201d\n\u201cNow, the one player that has it, in spades, on The Nationals\u2014is Ryan Zimmerman. There is no doubt. You spend five minutes talking with him and it is clear he is focused. He is absolutely on it! And I think to a similar extent, although he is not gifted athletically, so is Adam Dunn. Once he got to play first base on a daily basis, Adam became a much better first baseman. He was so focused on doing a better job there that I think, at times, it impacted the way he swung the bat. He knew how he had embarrassed himself and the club in leftfield and wanted to avoid doing that at first base. Now he made some mistakes, but by season\u2019s end he was at least average.\u201d\n\u201cI think (Josh) Willingham has that same kind of make-up. But there are a lot of guys on this club\u2014I wouldn\u2019t refer to it as a culture of losing\u2014I would refer to it as the comfort of losing in the sense that, win or lose, they feel pretty much the same after a game. And it\u2019s not just The Nationals; every club has a lot of those guys. Some of them are gifted enough that the other players can kind of compensate for it. The more time you spend around scouts, and I have been absolutely blessed with about a dozen Major League Scouts who have trusted me\u2014I\u2019ve gotten some insights I would never get anywhere else. They (the scouts) talk about make-up over and over and over again. It\u2019s that intangible that is important.\u201d\n\u201cFor instance, you have the guys that are referred to as \u2018baseball rats\u2019\u2014guys who hang around the diamond. They are not great players, but they love it. One good example is a young man that played at Towson State University (Maryland) named Gary Helmick\u2014an infielder that puts the ball in play, pretty good fielder, nothing special in anything that he does and he went undrafted. Well The Orioles signed him as a free agent and they sent him to the minor leagues. He hit around .270 (Rookie Ball). He hit better than many of the guys that were drafted. Everyone talked about him. This guy has got such great make-up. He wants it so badly that he is going to make sure he gives more, as they say, than 100%. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if in three or four years, Helmick is a utility player on some club in the Major Leagues. And you will know that he got there on his own. He didn\u2019t get there because he is exceptionally gifted. So finding players that are gifted, athletically, as opposed to being just a \u2018toolsy\u2019 guy is just as important. Someone said a long time ago, you can have all the tools in the world, but if you can\u2019t figure out how to use them you are not going to help.\"\n\"For instance, if you are an outfielder and you\u2019ve seen something happen a number of times\u2014and we certainly saw this with Lastings Milledge--and you can see it in Baltimore with Adam Jones--guys who are athletically gifted enough to get to anything. But the strategy of knowing what angle to take to get to it and actually catch the ball is something else. Which is why you will see lesser athletically skilled players as much better outfielders than the guys who have speed to burn. They get to the ball and can not catch it. Or, overrun it, or turn the wrong way. There is a mental aspect to this game that trumps pure athletic ability.\u201d\nMike Rizzo talks about \u2018make-up\u2019 all the time. And Washington certainly needs more talent. But is he looking for \u2018make-up\u2019 in his new manager too? (SBF)\n\u201cMake-up in a manager comes down to whether the guy has the ability to determine which of his players have that make-up and which of them don\u2019t. It\u2019s also about having the relationship between that manager and the general manager where the field manager can go to the GM and say; \u2018you know what, I know you like this guy, but let me tell you, he ain\u2019t got it.\u2019 For instance, as a pitcher he\u2019s got it here (pointing to his throwing arm), but not here (pointing to his head). Baseball history is full of guys like that, million dollar arms and 10-cent heads. Certainly, The Nationals have had their share of guys like that. So yes, it\u2019s the make-up of the manager, but it\u2019s more the ability of the manager to recognize make-up in players.\u2019\nWas Manny Acta different in that respect? (SBF)\n\u201cNot really. Manny would be the first to tell you this. There are guys on the roster that he didn\u2019t care for personally, but he put them in the lineup because he knew they could play. But I look at the demise of Manny Acta (in Washington) and it\u2019s traceable to just one thing\u2014the bullpen was just awful. It was something that Jim Bowden ignored. If Manny had the bullpen Riggleman finished the year with, he (Manny) would still be manager. I have no doubt. They would have won 72 or 73 games\u2014somewhere in there. Look, they had, I believe, 22 blown saves; most of those came in the first half. You almost hated to see Manny walk out to the mound. The idea making you think: \u2018who are you going to bring in that can do any better than the guy who is already in there.\u2019 You go through that and hope that one of these guys (relievers) will figure it out. The light bulb will go off and he will say: \u2018oh, that\u2019s what he was talking about!\u2019\nSo you are not surprised that Manny has made it, reportedly, to the finals for the Cleveland Indians manager? (SBF)\n\u201cNo, I think he is deserving. I actually spoke to him the other day. He admitted the Cleveland thing came to him unexpectedly. He had already talked to Houston and he has a history with The Astros. When that position opened up and they (Houston) fired Cecil Cooper\u2014that\u2019s a job he really thought he had a great shot at. And he still may for all I know, but when Mark Shapiro (Cleveland GM) called him and said The Indians wanted Manny to come talk to them and then called him back for a second interview\u2014Manny thought the first one went about as well as could be expected. He said you don\u2019t go into these things knowing what phrases they are looking for you to say, or what buzz words they want to hear. It\u2019s purely a gut feeling. But he thought it went well. My response to him was\u2014it would have been lovely if it were a job with a contender? He said there are only 30 of these jobs\u2014you can\u2019t afford to turn anybody down.\u201d\nThere is a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about a press conference Manny had after his second interview (but not yet been offered the job). That article was just like reading The Washington Post a few years back when Manny first came on board here\u2014everyone in Cleveland\u2014including the reporters was enamored with him. (SBF)\n\u201cThe casual fan, not just here but anywhere, will look at a managers won and loss record and say\u2014\u2018Oh, he stinks! He can\u2019t do it.\u2019 Or my favorite: \u2018He lost the clubhouse.\u2019 That always makes me laugh. People who wouldn\u2019t know where to find the clubhouse say \u2018he must have lost the clubhouse.\u2019 The only guy that I thought Manny really had an issue with personally\u2014was probably (Elijah) Dukes. It wasn\u2019t because of Dukes\u2019 past. It was times when they would go over things, over and over again\u2014and they would think he had it. And the very next day, it was gone, whatever they talked about.\u201d\n\u201cNow, when Dukes went back to the minor leagues, I think Tim Foli (Syracuse Manager) got something out of him by pushing the right buttons because when he came back (to DC) he was far more patient at the plate. But in general, Manny respected his players. He understood that many of them were not Major League Players and you play the hand you were dealt. The casual fan will take a look at this just completed season with 59 wins and say: \u2018well, they were just as bad as the previous year. They are still the worst team in baseball.\u2019 Well, they (The Nationals) had the worst record in baseball, but clearly from the second half (of \u201909) they were not the worst team in baseball. They had gotten much better.\u201d\n\u201cObviously, there is the bullpen. There is the shoddy defense. Offensively, they scored a lot of runs. They scored enough runs to win a lot more games! But they couldn\u2019t keep the other team off the scoreboard and they consistently gave the other team more than 27 outs night after night after night.\u201d\nYou\u2019ve just touched on something that many others always write about. I don\u2019t think this franchise is as bad off as many continually claim. Where do you think The Nationals are solid? What have they done really well? (SBF)\n\u201cI think they have drafted pitchers very well. The Stephen Strasburg decision aside\u2014which was basically a no brainer\u2014they\u2019ve got some other arms in their system that really show promise. Talking to the scouts who have seen these guys tons of times, and in fact a couple of scouts believe if you take Strasburg out of the equation and you look at just the other players The Nationals drafted\u2014they still had one of the top two or three drafts in baseball. (2009 right? \u2014SBF) Right. They had a pretty good eye for certain players and you give Mike Rizzo a lot of credit for that. You give the departed Dana Brown (former Director of Scouting) some credit for that as well. The Nationals Scouting Staff was rather small. This off-season they have hired some more scouts. That\u2019s one of the things that Mike really wanted to do. Clearly, that is what his background is and he knew they were woefully short in that area. So, arm wise, I think they still want to have a veteran on the staff as some kind of mentor\u2014which I think is a little overrated. But anyway, depending on whom you are able to get, whose name is not Daniel Cabrera (laughing), they\u2019ve got some guys. Now, they don\u2019t have a lot of position players, but if you look at what this club was when it moved in \u201905 and what it is now\u2014it is where you would expect a fifth year expansion club to be.\u201d\n\u201cPeople want to say: \u2018The Expos were around since \u201969.\u2019 Well, the last few years of The Expos, Major League Baseball spent no money on the farm system and spent no money on scouting. You couldn\u2019t look at that objectively and say they came here (to Washington) with a system in place. It was again like starting over. But those things will work their way out. They clearly don\u2019t have the strongest farm system in baseball, but they are now far from the worst. At this point, I would say they are somewhere between 11th and 12th. And that comes down to how much resources you are devoting to player development.\u201d\n\u201cWhile the payroll has not been that high since the Lerner\u2019s got the club, they\u2019ve spent some money on player development. Has it been enough? There is really no way in knowing that yet. But when you start getting guys this next season coming out of their own farm system\u2014like if Ian Desmond makes his mark? If Drew Storen is on the Big League staff next season? Some of the other guys they brought up. They got J.D. Martin as a minor league free agent. He pitched much better than I expected. Craig Stammen is a bulldog, but I don\u2019t know if you could ever project him as more than a 4th or 5th starter\u2014that's not bad though. So, they are getting something of their own out of their farm system. But there are still holes and there will be holes for another few seasons anyway. You can\u2019t judge The Nationals Farm System and put it up against Boston or Atlanta. Some of the guys they just hired were hired to get them up to that point.\u201d\nThat answer concludes Part One of Talking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood. Tomorrow in Part Two, Phil & I are going to pick up this conversation chatting about all those front office moves he just mentioned. The realignment of Our Washington Nationals off the field which hopefully sets up an ever brighter future for D.C. Baseball on the playing diamond.\nHistory Makers--The Picture Of The Day\nThere is so much Major League Baseball History represented in this one photo from a late season game between The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals played on September 16th, 1963. With two weeks left in the '63 campaign, The Dodgers were holding on to a slim one game lead for the National League Pennant. Yet the outcome of this game (an L.A. Win) played at the soon to be replaced Sportsman's Park in St. Louis is not what is compelling. What is remarkable about this otherwise mundane in-game photo is that all but one person clearly depicted in uniform played a significant historical role in baseball history. And the one that didn't eventually became The Captain of The Washington Senators--and was involved in the best trade the Expansion Nats ever made. The one that brought My Favorite Player Of All-Time!!, Frank Howard, to the Nation's Capital in 1965.\nI love this photo for the History Makers depicted. And not all of the sagas they represent are pleasant ones.\nNumber 11 with his back to the photographer in this shot is none other than Ken McMullen, the heart and some would say, the soul of the Washington Senators from 1965 through early 1970. The team of my youth. McMullen was a good third baseman with good pop in his bat. And when Senators Owner Bob Short traded Ken away for Aurelio Rodriguez and Rick Reichardt to The California Angels--the official dismantling of Washington's Major League Team truly began.\nBut wait--there is so much more to follow.\nBending over on the mound picking something up is Johnny Roseboro. The very Dodger catcher who replaced Roy Campanella behind the plate in 1958 when Campy was involved in the horrific car accident which paralyzed the three time NL MVP and ended his career. Roseboro would also be involved in the most violent ON-FIELD incident between two players in Major League History. A well known fracas documented in a special television program currently running on the MLB Network. On August 22, 1965 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco--Roseboro was upset with San Francisco Giants Pitcher (and eventual Hall Of Famer) Juan Marichal. Earlier in that game, Marichal had thrown brushback pitches to Dodgers Maury Wills & Ron Fairly. Roseboro wanted his pitcher--eventual Hall Of Famer Sandy Koufax--to throw his pitches directly at Marichal standing at the plate. The gentlemanly Koufax refused. Upset about no retaliation and taking business into his own hands, Roseboro whizzed his return tosses to Sandy RIGHT PAST Juan Marichal's face. Not taking kindly to Roseboro's too close for comfort throws, Marichal, out of nowhere, raised his baseball bat above his head and proceeded to pummel Roseboro's noggin.\nThree times Juan Marichal pounded Roseboro's head with his baseball bat, opening up a huge gash that required 14 stitches and started one of the biggest brawls in baseball history. Roseboro survived, played for five more seasons, and ended his career in 1970 as a catcher for The Washington Senators. Marichal was suspended for nine games in 1965 by The National League and fined--what is today--a ludicrously small amount of dollars ($1750) and was banned from playing at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for the remainder of that season.\nNumber 6 standing on the mound is none other than Ron Fairly himself. Roseboro's Dodger Teammate and eventual unwilling participant in The Marichal Beaning. But what is interesting about Fairly is that in 1969 he would be traded by Los Angeles to The Expansion Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals) for none other than Maury Wills. The other unwilling participant and his one time teammate in The Marichal Beaning Game. Ron Fairly would play 21 seasons in The Major Leagues. Fairly would become the very first player to ever play for both Canadian Franchises (Montreal & Toronto). And be the only player EVER to be an All-Star for The Expos and The Blue Jays.\nThe Dodger Pitcher on the mound is Johnny Podres. The winning pitcher in Game 7 of The 1955 World Series. The only time The Brooklyn Dodgers won The World's Championship. The most satisfying moment for any Brooklyn Dodger Fan and The Boys Of Summer. A long awaited Series victory over their arch rival in the American League--The New York Yankees.\nNumber 24 in Dodger Gray Away Wool is Walter Alston. Hall of Fame Manager who led The Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series Championship. Then, led The Los Angeles Dodgers to three more World Series Wins and five total National League Pennants after The Dodgers headed west to Southern California after the 1957 season. Alston would manage The Dodgers Franchise their last four years in Brooklyn and their first 19 in Los Angeles.\nThe St. Louis Cardinals player wearing Number 21 is Curt Flood, one of the most important figures for player's rights in Baseball History. A Gold Glove Outfielder, Flood was traded by The Cardinals to The Philadelphia Phillies in late 1969. Flood refused to report claiming Baseball's Reserve Clause (which retained a player's right in perpetuity to the team that originally signed them) was tantamount to slavery. When then Commissioner Bowie Kuhn declined to allow Curt Flood Free Agency (an unknown territory for baseball players at that time), Flood filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball and sat out the entire 1970 Season. Eventually, Curt Flood would lose his case 5-3 in The Supreme Court of The United States. But ground had been broken and a new era of rights for baseball players was soon to follow.\nFlood would NEVER receive any of the fruits of his hard fought labor war. Yet every single baseball player that followed in his footsteps did. In 1975, The Reserve Clause was struck down for good by Federal Arbitrator Peter Seitz. A new era had begun in Major League Baseball. Higher and Higher salaries for players was just around the corner. To really understand Flood's importance, a must read is the excellent book written by Brad Snyder that covers Flood's plight and life: A Well-Paid Slave.\nAs for Curt Flood, he would finish his baseball career in 1971 after 13 games with, yes, The Washington Senators. Feeling he was no longer capable of playing and having lost the passion for the sport, Flood skipped out on The Senators and took a flight to Spain--where he stayed for a number years while running a bar in Mallorca. Curt Flood battled alcoholism for a number years before turning his life around. But sadly, died of throat cancer in 1997 at the age of 59. Every single baseball player today owes Curt Flood homage for giving up everything in his life--leading to all the benefits players receive today.\nFinally--Ken McMullen, Johnny Roseboro, Ron Fairly, Johnny Podres, Walter Alston and Curt Flood--all pictured in the above photo--won a total of 16 World Series Rings between them. And when this game was played that late September night in 1963--The Great Stan Musial was winding down his illustrious Hall Of Fame Career. He would retire at the end of this season. And just three batters before this picture was taken, \"Stan The Man\" had cranked out the 475th and FINAL Home Run of his wonderful career off Johnny Podres.\nAnd oh--one more thing. The 1st Baseman for The St. Louis Cardinals this night (but not pictured here) was Bill White. The seven time Gold Glove Award Winner who would become the very first African-American President of The National League in 1989. The highest ranking minority executive in sports--at that time.\nHistory Makers--The Picture Of The Day.\nLife Magazine Photo Copyright--Time, Inc. (Photographer--Robert W. Kelley)\nTalking Nats Baseball With Phil Wood--The Final Ch...\nBaseball Americana--Treasures From The Library Of ...\nziMS Foundation Gala Update\nPicture Of The Day--Jackie Jensen\nDeserving Of The Gold Glove\nHope & Conviction\nContributors All", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 364, "original_length": 88727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/spine-chilling-film-scores-music-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2IDVSVVF75FQ4YCTG3HO5JOYRA3DQ5KY", "length": 2628, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "necrofiles.blogspot.com", "title": "The Necro Files: Spine chilling film scores: Music of Christopher Young", "raw_content": "Spine chilling film scores: Music of Christopher Young\nThe other night, while watching Nightmare On Elm Street 2, I couldn't help but be enthralled by the brilliant score, which was done by Christopher Young. Unlike the film score Jerry Goldsmith did for The Omen, which sometimes becomes really mushy and over sentimental (although it is still good music, I don't think it always works in the film), the scores of Christopher Young tend to blend in with the background. This morning at 3, I watched Exorcism of Emily Rose and became paranoid. Certainly it is a scary movie but it's not all that creepy, and at some point I realised the reason why I am having a panic attack is the music! I checked the blurb of the DVD and much to my delight the score was also done by Christopher Young.\nA drummer by trade, mister Young graduated from Massachusetts Hampshire College with a BA in music. After this he did a post-graduate at North Texas State University studying big band writing and classical composition. He noticed a record by the great Bernard Herrmann in a record bar one day, and purchased it. The master's horror themes (Vertigo, Psycho) he did for another master, Alfred Hitchcock, struck a chord with mister Young (no pun intended, har har) and it changed the course of his life. Young started doing film scores shortly after, achieving notable success first by scoring Clive Barker's imaginative Hellraiser.\nTo illustrate his versatility, one can listen to the sado-masochistic violins building tension in the horror scores like Exorcism of Emily Rose and contrast it with DJ Paul Oakenfold collaborations on Swordfish. Due to his jazz/big band background, mister Young also has a fondness for what he calls the \"great American song\". Young even incorporated Celtic elements in the score for Shipping News. These abilities to blend in and be versatile contribute to his success as a film score composer.\nUnfortunately, Christopher Young has not received a Grammy nor an Oscar for his brilliant abilities. This is not to say he is not recognised as a great film score writer. It probably alludes to the fact that genre entertainment - particularly horror - is often looked down upon as nothing but genre entertainment. Often box office sales reflect the public appreciation for these films, but the Oscar powers that be would rather have girl-next-door faces on their stage. Mister Young has thankfully been nominated for a Golden Globe. I hope he wins an Oscar soon - he certainly deserves it!\nThe official web site of Christopher Young\nWikipedia page on Christopher Young\nLabels: film score, hollywood, horror, music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1116, "original_length": 18485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nepalforeignaffairs.com/america-first-undermines-multilateralism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VWHQMTSNCFCUWGAXRBM4RVXG2Q33IOJW", "length": 3503, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "nepalforeignaffairs.com", "title": "\u2018America First\u2019 undermines multilateralism \u00ab nepalforeignaffairs", "raw_content": "Global Times (19 November 2018) \u2013 According to media reports, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held in Papua New Guinea (PNG) was concluded on Sunday without leaders issuing the traditional communiqu\u00e9, and PNG will instead issue a formal \u201cchairman\u2019s statement,\u201d for the first time ever. PNG Prime Minister Peter O\u2019Neill said talks broke down over language about the World Trade Organization (WTO).\nThe US is a strong advocate for WTO reform. While China has no objection for the necessity of reform, the two powers are widely divided over \u201cwhat\u201d to reform. The US thinks the WTO doesn\u2019t fit the current world economy and needs massive reform, but China hopes reform will focus on dispute settlement mechanisms.\nChina\u2019s view is echoed by most WTO members. But some developed countries have vacillated because they worry that the US, if objected, would exit the WTO and build another platform that it thinks enables fair competition. They also hope to benefit from US moves pressuring developing countries. As a major WTO founder, the US intends to overturn the system and start over again. This invites concerns that Washington would choose to support or abandon any international rule based on whether it serves US interest, bringing a fundamental tumult to international trade system.\n\u201cAmerica First\u201d has been deeply embedded in US foreign policy. Washington used to pursue its interest by building a US-led multilateral system, but now it just asks for benefits. Multilateral mechanisms are seeing their authority eroded. This will last for some time until Washington feels what repercussions of the collapse of the international system can bring to it.\nSuch impact will come sooner or later. Current international system carries Western values, endows a US leadership, supports the dollar as a major international currency and helps the US enhance its grip on international relations so that it can secure its interest easily. Destroying such a system will bring itself huge losses in the long run.\nIt\u2019s delusional of some US elites to think that China is the largest beneficiary of the international system since they mistakenly blame China for the US\u2019 own problems. China has realized its development through hard work, not by taking advantage of the international system. Though China\u2019s economy has rapidly expanded, it is due to China taking up a lot of work that US society doesn\u2019t want to do. A large share of China\u2019s foreign exchange that the country earned through toils has been borrowed by the US.\n\u201cAmerican First\u201d cannot become \u201cAmerica takes all.\u201d The US should give other economies room for further development and take care of its relationship with developing countries. All Western countries need to rethink the meaning of fairness. They can\u2019t take their vested interests for granted while hoping the developing countries stay at disadvantaged position forever.\nModifying WTO rules must aim at win-for-all, instead of interest redistribution for a few specific countries. It\u2019s impossible for the US to be the only winner. If it blocks the development path of other countries, the US itself will go nowhere either.\nThe APEC summit this year concluded without issuing a communiqu\u00e9, but it is not a big deal. The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump during the G20 meeting later this month will carry much more weight. It is hoped Washington makes serious preparations for the summit and not pin its hopes on exerting pressure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 5321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6554525.stm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UL6ZVAVTHB4VBERJZUAFVY4WRTK5XEMA", "length": 1445, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "news.bbc.co.uk", "title": "BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars-probe failure 'human error'", "raw_content": "Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 (Image: Corby Waste/Nasa)\nThe US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $247m (\u00a3124m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (MGS).\nEngineers lost contact with the probe in early November and later admitted it was lost and irrecoverable.\nNasa said that faulty changes made to the spacecraft's computer memory caused the battery to overheat.\nThe 10-year-old craft had sent thousands of images of Mars back to Earth, suggesting water once flowed.\n\"The loss of the spacecraft was the result of a series of events linked to a computer error made five months before the likely battery failure,\" said Dolly Perkins, of Nasa.\nMapping mineralogy\nDuring its last communication with Global Surveyor on 2 November, engineers ordered the craft to adjust the position of its solar panels.\nBut during the craft's shift of one of its panels, it exposed one of two batteries to the heat of the sun. The spacecraft was lost within 12 hours, Nasa says.\nMars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996, operating longer than any other Martian craft.\nCarrying a powerful camera, it returned some 240,000 images, mapping the mineralogy of Mars and surveying potential landing sites for future surface missions.\nThe demise of MGS leaves three working orbiters at the Red Planet: Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.cygnus-x1.net/2011/04/geddy-lee-interview-on-uks-rock-radio.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WSYYNZZHB4DI4XOZZDAZTZBFXO335IXN", "length": 1252, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "news.cygnus-x1.net", "title": "Geddy Lee Interview on UK's Rock Radio - Discusses Clockwork Angels", "raw_content": "Geddy Lee Interview on UK's Rock Radio - Discusses Clockwork Angels\nGeddy Lee was recently interviewed by UK's Rock Radio 106.1 which is now available online. In the 10+ minute interview, Geddy touches upon a number of topics, including the recent accolades the band has received, the upcoming re-release of Moving Pictures, and the popularity of the documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, among other topics.\nMost notably was Geddy's update on the band's forthcoming album Clockwork Angels:\n\"We've got about 3/4 of the record written and are kind of ready to go. We've got 2 or 3 more tracks we'd like to write. We've kind of run out of time now. We're gonna have to go on tour so when this tour is over we'll get back to writing and hopefully finish the record in the Fall. We're having fun with it...there are some very complex moments. There are some very beautiful moments. It's kind of what you'd expect from Rush I guess - a little bit of everything. Now the indication you can get from the first 2 songs kind of sets the tone for where we're going with this record. But there are a few surprises as you get deeper into the record.\"\nListen to the entire interview via this LINK.\nThanks to Ed from RushIsABand for the news and transcription.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 467, "original_length": 13896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 147.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.fnal.gov/2014/03/international-team-of-lhc-and-tevatron-scientists-announces-first-joint-result/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HLUCBOIKTLZFYO5QGFP6IFPQFKDOO7MV", "length": 5317, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "news.fnal.gov", "title": "International team of LHC and Tevatron scientists announces first joint result | News", "raw_content": "International team of LHC and Tevatron scientists announces first joint result\nCHICAGO, USA AND GENEVA, SWITZERLAND \u2014 Scientists working on the world\u2019s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab\u2019s Tevatron and CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved\u2014ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero\u2014announced their joint findings on the mass of the top quark today at the Rencontres de Moriond international physics conference in Italy.\nTogether the four experiments pooled their data analysis power to arrive at a new world\u2019s best value for the mass of the top quark of 173.34 plus/minus 0.76 GeV/c2.\nExperiments at the LHC at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and the Tevatron collider at Fermilab near Chicago in Illinois, USA are the only ones that have ever seen top quarks\u2014the heaviest elementary particles ever observed. The top quark\u2019s huge mass (more than 100 times that of the proton) makes it one of the most important tools in the physicists\u2019 quest to understand the nature of the universe.\nThe new precise value of the top-quark mass will allow scientists to test further the mathematical framework that describes the quantum connections between the top quark, the Higgs particle and the carrier of the electroweak force, the W boson. Theorists will explore how the new, more precise value will change predictions regarding the stability of the Higgs field and its effects on the evolution of the universe. It will also allow scientists to look for inconsistencies in the Standard Model of particle physics \u2013 searching for hints of new physics that will lead to a better understanding of the nature of the universe.\n\u201cThe combining together of data from CERN and Fermilab to make a precision top quark mass result is a strong indication of its importance to understanding nature,\u201d said Fermilab director Nigel Lockyer. \u201cIt\u2019s a great example of the international collaboration in our field.\u201d\nA total of more than six thousand scientists from more than 50 countries participate in the four experimental collaborations. The CDF and DZero experiments discovered the top quark in 1995, and the Tevatron produced about 300,000 top quark events during its 25-year lifetime, completed in 2011. Since it started collider physics operations in 2009, the LHC has produced close to 18 million events with top quarks, making it the world\u2019s leading top quark factory.\n\u201cCollaborative competition is the name of the game,\u201d said CERN\u2019s Director General Rolf Heuer. \u201cCompetition between experimental collaborations and labs spurs us on, but collaboration such as this underpins the global particle physics endeavour and is essential in advancing our knowledge of the universe we live in.\u201d\nEach of the four collaborations previously released their individual top-quark mass measurements. Combining them together required close collaboration between the four experiments, understanding in detail each other\u2019s techniques and uncertainties. Each experiment measured the top-quark mass using several different methods by analysing different top quark decay channels, using sophisticated analysis techniques developed and improved over more than 20 years of top quark research beginning at the Tevatron and continuing at the LHC.\nThe joint measurement has been submitted to the electronic arXiv and is available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4427\nCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world\u2019s leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its member states are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Serbia is an associate member in the pre-stage to membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have observer status.\nFermilab is America\u2019s national laboratory for particle physics research. A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, Fermilab is located near Chicago, Illinois, and operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC. Visit Fermilab\u2019s website athttp://www.fnal.gov and follow us on Twitter at @FermilabToday.To learn more about the DOE\u2019s Office of Science, visithttp://science.energy.gov.\nThe ATLAS and CMS experiments are international collaborations of universities and research labs, supported by funding agencies around the world. Information about the experiments, including their collaborating institutions, can be found at http://atlas.ch andhttp://cern.ch/cms.\nFunding for the CDF and DZero experiments comes from numerous international funding agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation. View a list of CDF\u2019s collaboration institutions at http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/collaboration/index.html, and DZero\u2019s list at http://www-d0.fnal.gov/ib/Institutions.html.\nTagged: LHC, Tevatron, top quark\nCERN Press Office, press.office@cern.ch, +41227673432, +41227672141", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 158.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newseurope.info/tag/celebrities/page/102/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GLSKOPXAZSUG4J72OCTDKKNJ2HQXFOJS", "length": 2205, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "newseurope.info", "title": "Celebrities Archives - Page 102 of 111 - News from EuropeNews from Europe", "raw_content": "Hefner\u2019s Playboy mansion listed for sale for $200 million\nThe iconic Los Angeles mansion of Hugh Hefner, the founder of the Playboy empire, is being put up for sale for $200 million, Playboy Enterprises [more\u2026]\n\u2018The Revenant\u2019 and \u2018The Martian\u2019 take top Golden Globes\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Revenge drama \"The Revenant\" and space adventure \"The Martian\" took the top film awards at Sunday's Golden Globes, setting them up as [more\u2026]\nGervais promises nice, turns naughty at Golden Globes\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Comedian Ricky Gervais promised to be \"nice\" but got naughty with Hollywood's top stars on Sunday upon his return as host of [more\u2026]\nKey film and television winners at the 2016 Golden Globes\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The 2016 Golden Globes were handed out on Sunday for the best performances, writing and directing in movies and television.\nFollowing is [more\u2026]\nDenzel Washington awarded Golden Globe lifetime achievement honor\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington joined the ranks of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro when he was awarded the Golden [more\u2026]\n\u2018Real Housewives of New Jersey\u2019 star to be released from prison: paper\nA star of the \"Real Housewives of New Jersey\" reality TV show who last year pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud is due to be released [more\u2026]\n\u2018Concussion\u2019 film stirs NFL brain injury debate\nWASHINGTON The film \"Concussion,\" tracing a forensic pathologist's quest to expose the truth about brain injuries in the NFL, casts a spotlight on an issue [more\u2026]\n\u2018Star Wars\u2019 cast and crew revel as fans and critics praise movie\nLONDON With fans and critics giving \"The Force Awakens\" the thumbs up, cast and crew of the latest \"Star Wars\" film expressed \"huge relief\" as [more\u2026]\nMichael Jackson\u2019s \u2018Thriller\u2019 is first to sell 30 million in U.S.\nLOS ANGELES Michael Jackson's album \"Thriller\" is still breaking barriers more than 30 years after its release and six years after the pop superstar's death, [more\u2026]\n\u2018The Force Awakens\u2019 with journey to recover a missing Skywalker\nLOS ANGELES As Disney reboots the much-loved \"Star Wars\" franchise with \"The Force Awakens\" this week, the absence of Luke Skywalker from the film's marketing [more\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsletter.esahq.org/errare-humanum-est-primum-non-nocere-solved-dilemma/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UN5DHHYQYYUGLRKAD4TPUCHLAPSAGFVN", "length": 7845, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "newsletter.esahq.org", "title": "From errare humanum est to primum non nocere \u2013 a solved dilemma - ESA - Newsletter online | ESA \u2013 Newsletter online", "raw_content": "From errare humanum est to primum non nocere \u2013 a solved dilemma\nBoth these Latin well-known expressions have accompanied me throughout my career as a physician and anaesthesiologist. The dilemma stayed with me for a good part of my training. On one side, we have been taught that man is not a robot, the human organism is not a machine. We do not have all the data about each of our patients, we do not always understand his/her disease and we are not able to prevent each incident, since we all are humans. Thus the mistakes are part of our routine activity.\nBut at the same time, Hippocrates\u2019 well-known precept obliges us, the clinicians, to do everything that is needed in order to help the patient, and first of all it is forbidden to induce a lesion or an injury of an iatrogenic aetiology.\nNeedless to say, the reality is completely different from our hopes and wishes. Here are some recent data, taken from the pertinent literature. Every year some 400,000 Americans die from a medical error, this being the third cause of death in that country. Nonfatal iatrogenic disease resulting in disability is present in 3.5 million Americans every year. More than this: for every 600 non-reportable medical incidents, there are 30 reportable incidents (an incident being defined as \u201cincomplete hole in the slices of the Swiss cheese model\u201d), 10 accidents, and one fatal accident.\nSo, the need for continuous learning and practice with the aim of getting more experience and skills is more than obvious and this desiderate stays with medicine and its servants from the beginning of the art of healing.\nBut times change. Learning while making errors is obsolete. Achieving new techniques by using the well-known formula \u2018try and err\u2019 is no longer acceptable. Professional ethics and the medico-legal aspects of our daily activity do not permit any more learning and teaching in a setup that includes a real risk for the patient.\nNot too long ago I met for the first time a term whose meaning I did not know. It is called andragogy (my Greek colleagues and friends would immediately discover this word\u2019s origin!). Its definition is science related to adult education. No doubt that it has a clear connotation with the medical profession and mainly with our specialty.\nSome fifty years ago, in the \u201860s of the last century, Laerdal invented a mannequin for teaching an elementary resuscitation technique: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Two decades later on a new machine, one which reproduced phonocardiographic records to teach heart sounds and murmurs, became part of routine equipment for educating medical students and young residents. And thus we entered the era of simulation. It was defined as a practical implementation in a context that closely resembles the actual clinical context.1\nI had in the past some opportunities to remind our readers of the fact that anaesthesiology as a profession is a mixture of art and science. If science can be learned and taught from textbooks and scientific papers, skills and clinical judgment need exercise and learning manual procedures. No other medical specialty is more prone to use simulation in order to help achieving good practical results, without jeopardizing the patient\u2019s security.\nI am sure that our readers would agree with me that our profession leads the list of medical domains that use blind techniques as part of the routine activity. Needless to say, this is one clear aspect of our practice that needs the help of simulation in order to overcome the natural obstacles and difficulties in performing manual procedures. But even so-called procedures under view can become complicated, and accumulating skills is a compulsory demand for every single young anaesthesiologist.\nSimulation includes repetitive manoeuvers in order to maintain a necessary level for performing manual techniques. Some years ago we proved that the ability to maintain tracheal intubation skills taught on mannequins needed repeated teaching, since the level of success after six months of lack of occasions to repeat the procedure was reduced by 50%.2 Simulation is not restricted to manual procedures. Clinical skills and problem-solving are also part of education through simulation.\nThe field of aviation offered us a good example to follow. Many years ago, simulating incidents and accidents during flying became part of a compulsory education program.\nThe new technology of simulation equipment gives a possibility to stage an accident or an untoward effect of anaesthesia drugs, developing various clinical scenarios, and finding the proper solution for each of them. This kind of teaching contributes to the creation of a successful clinician and responds to the old saying: it is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not to have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared to face it.\nOne of the most exciting experiences is the use of ultrasound for teaching the performance of peripheral nerve blocks. Data from literature indicate that when using ultrasound techniques, clinical results achieve a high percentage of success.3\nThe \u2018classical\u2019 concept of teaching and learning by using simulation refers only to the young student or physician. It starts from the correct understanding of the reality, that the unskilled beginner needs a lot of help in order to accumulate manual and clinical experience.\nBut an interesting recently published paper4 presented some clear data about the influence of age on the cognitive, motor, and sensorial abilities of the anaesthesiologist: \u2018Anaesthetists, like the rest of population, start to undergo a variable age-related psychophysiological decline once they pass 55 years of age. The latter may be responsible for impairment of competence, which in turn, could have a negative impact on patient outcomes.\u2019\nIf so, it becomes clear that the second target group that needs to be helped by using simulation techniques includes our colleagues for whom age plays not only the usual positive role, of enhanced experience and judgment, but also might impair their professional abilities to cope with the daily tasks in the operating room and outside it.\nA group of young specialists in anaesthesiology publish in this issue of our Newsletter a comprehensive view of the aging colleagues\u2019 need to use simulation in order to keep their professional performance at a high level. It is our hope that this initiative would be followed in many countries and medical centres.\nIntroduction of simulation in our daily activity demands initiative and not only that. It needs vivid interest, cooperation, and also financial resources. But it seems that there is no other way to solve the problem of preventing incidents and accidents as a result of patient management. We are witnessing a continuous increase in the number of simulation centres, affiliated with either hospitals or medical schools. They are manned and managed by enthusiastic professionals, ready to help and to offer their competence in order to improve their colleagues\u2019 performance.\nThe ESA Newsletter is ready to host any article or written opinion that would contribute to the enlargement of this blessed development and propose original solutions related to the art of education through simulation.\nPandit JJ, Heidegger T. Putting the \u2018point\u2019 back into the ritual: a binary approach to difficult airway prediction. Anaesthesia. 2017;72:283-8.\nWeksler N, Tarnopolski A, Klein M, et al. Insertion of the endotracheal tube, laryngeal mask airway and oesophageal-tracheal combitube. Eur J Anaesthiol. 2005;20:337-40.\nIlfeld BM, Grant SA. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation for postoperative analgesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2016;41:720-22.\nGiacalone M, Zaouter C, Mion S, Hemmerling TM. Impact of age on anaesthesiologists\u2019 competence. Eur J Anaesthiol. 2016;33:787-93.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 11673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsroom.heart.org/news/a-diverse-diet-may-not-be-the-healthiest-one", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:J7CBFGUGXV5CEZOFADVMGVC32WRP5EHJ", "length": 2787, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "newsroom.heart.org", "title": "A diverse diet may not be the healthiest one | American Heart Association", "raw_content": "August 09, 2018 Categories: Scientific Statements/Guidelines\nScientific evidence to date does not support the notion that eating a diverse diet is healthy or promotes a healthy weight.\nSome studies suggest that a diverse diet may increase food consumption and the prevalence of obesity.\nEmbargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Thursday, August 9, 2018\nDALLAS, August 9, 2018 \u2014 Encouraging people to eat a wide variety of foods to ensure they meet all their dietary needs may backfire, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that provides an overview of recent scientific studies.\n\u201cEating a more diverse diet might be associated with eating a greater variety of both healthy and unhealthy foods\u201d said Marcia C. de Oliveira Otto, Ph.D., lead author of the statement published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. \u201cCombined, such an eating pattern may lead to increased food consumption and obesity.\n\u201cEating a variety of foods\u201d has been a public health recommendation in the United States and worldwide for decades. While some dietary guidelines highlight greater diversity of recommended foods, there is little consensus about what so-called dietary diversity is, how it is measured and whether it is a healthy dietary goal. The statement authors conducted a thorough scientific literature review of articles published between January 2000 and December 2017. They concluded:\nThere is some evidence that a wider variety of food options in a meal may delay people\u2019s feeling of satiation (fullness), increasing the amount of food they eat.\n\u201cSelecting a range of healthy foods, which fits one\u2019s budget or taste, and sticking with them, is potentially better at helping people maintain a healthy weight than choosing a greater range of foods that may include less healthy items such as donuts, chips, fries and cheeseburgers, even in moderation,\u201d said Otto, who is also assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston.\nCo-authors are Cheryl A.M. Anderson, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.; Jennifer L. Dearborn, M.D., M.P.H.; Erin P. Ferranti, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N.; Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., D.P.H.; Goutham Rao, M.D., Judith Wylie-Rosett, Ed.D., R.D. and Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.\nAvailable multimedia is on the right column of the release link - https://newsroom.heart.org/news/a-diverse-diet-may-not-be-the-healthiest-one?preview=2f1382a852ff4c0050a8096bcc449519\nAmerican Heart Association Dietary Recommendations\nAfter August 9, view the manuscript online.\nAmerican Heart Association\u2019s Healthy for Good: Eat Smart\nVegetables in produce section at the grocery store\nSoup with spoon\nSoup with spoon and crackers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 8078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newstrendstoday.com/sport/?page=719", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LSEUKDFBVKBBBK53R4LVNHCC4VMC36PG", "length": 13605, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "newstrendstoday.com", "title": "Sport / 154", "raw_content": "Jim Furyk Announces Three Of His Ryder Cup Wildcards\nIt is inconceivable that 14-times major champion Woods could be left out after the form he has displayed in his comeback this year from a potentially career-ending back injury. Tony Finau is favourite to get the final wild card on September 10 after finishing 15th in qualifying and second and fourth in the first two FedEx Cup events. (more...)\nGirona v Barcelona clash in La Liga set for United States\nA five-star venue and the home of American football team the Miami Dolphins. Girona season tickets holders can seek a refund of around 40 per cent should they decide not to travel to the match, Sport say, while 1,500 free flights are available for those who want to attend. (more...)\nEverybody has to help the team and give everything. Sunday's convincing 2-0 win over Burnley has gone some way to quietening the Portuguese's detractors, however, but there are still rumours abound that he could face the sack if he cannot secure positive results with more regularity. (more...)\nDefending champion Stephens crashes out of US Open\nSevastova, through to the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, will face either 23-time major champion Serena Williams or eighth-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova for a place in the final after toppling Stephens in brutal heat and humidity on Arthur Ashe Stadium. (more...)\nLakers and Luol Deng agree to buyout\nMinnesota will consider signing Deng once he clears waivers, according to a report from The Athletic . Deng will enter free agency. After averaging a career-low 7.6 points in 2016-17, Deng played in only one game for the Lakers in 2017-18 even if he wasn't dealing with any significant injuries, as he was essentially shut down for nearly the entire season. (more...)\nJosh Donaldson ruled out for Blue Jays series\nCleveland manager Terry said Donaldson will work out with the Indians on Tuesday and then join Double-A Akron for the Eastern League playoffs. The DL move is retroactive to September 1, so Donaldson could be activated early next week, but he will miss the four-game series in Toronto that begins Thursday. (more...)\nIn U.S. Open Upset, Roger Federer \u2018Couldn\u2019t Get Air\u2019\nThere was no surrender - he wrestled with John Millman through two tie-breaks - but in the end Roger Federer simply ran out of energy and ideas. A step slow, no defiance, maybe time has finally caught up with this great champion . The first obvious signs of trouble for Federer came far earlier, in the second game of the second set. (more...)\nArsenal are one Neymar\u2019s preferred next destinations if he leaves PSG\nDuring the recent transfer window, Neymar was linked with a move to Manchester City in which he was said to be excited with the chance to play under City boss Pep Guardiola. Neymar signed for PSG last summer in a world-record deal in an attempt to break free of Lionel Messi's shadow and reaffirm his Ballon D'Or credentials. (more...)\nNike stock falls after Kaepernick deal revealed\nWith arbitrator Stephen B. Burbank's decision allowing the case to move forward, the trial could take place during the upcoming season, according to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport. Kaepernick's ongoing unemployment has been cited by some NFL players as a significant issue as the league and union deliberate over a potential new national anthem policy for the sport. (more...)\nReal Madrid begin Club World Cup defence against Chivas or ACL winners\nAnd having missed out on the European Super Cup, it will present Julen Lopetegui with the opportunity to win his first silverware since taking over as coach at Santiago Bernabeu. The Asian Champions League winners will be decided on Nov. 10, CONMEBOL winners will be decided on Nov. 28 and Africa's representative will be known on Nov. (more...)\nDell Technologies Championship: Justin Rose leads crowded field at 6 under\nEngland's Justin Rose on Friday set himself the target of FedEx Cup glory after muscling his way to a one-stroke lead on the first day of the Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Rafa Cabrera Bello of Spain didn't hurt his chances, either. The missed cut didn't bother Rose too much. \"I only arrived here back in Boston last night\". (more...)\nEden Hazard issues warning to Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham\nNew signings have certainly strengthened Liverpool , but they will need to close a gap of 25 points - the difference between themselves and last year's Premier League winners Manchester City . \"We have the confidence\". On Saturday , Bournemouth frustrated the Blues before late goals from Pedro and Hazard settled the affair. The Blues will be hoping to hit the ground running after the worldwide break with fixtures against Cardiff, West Ham and Liverpool on the horizon. (more...)\nFormer Arsenal player John Jensen to coach Denmark\nIf the DBU fails to recruit players for the games, Denmark, who are ninth in the Federation Internationale de Football Association world rankings and reached the last 16 at this year's World Cup, could face expulsion from the 2020 European Championship. (more...)\nFederer blames heat for shock loss to unseeded Millman\nHe finished with 77 unforced errors and 10 double faults but had a host of chances to take wrap up matters in straight sets, squandering set points in the second and third sets. And then there was his serve. Keys, who has made at least the quarterfinals in three of the four Grand Slams this year, fired six aces and had no double faults to dispatch Cibulkova in short order. (more...)\nWhile it was opportunity lost for Kyrgios, Federer raised his game to imperious levels after the reprieve. [It] is the moment to make it happen again, \" said the No 1-ranked Nadal, who has won 26 of his past 27 matches. Saturday's blockbuster was billed as the match of the first week. Yet there was Roger Federer , barreling toward the right net post in full flight. (more...)\nObama Fires Subliminals At Trump In His Eulogy For John McCain\nBefore the burial, Mr Graham appeared on CNN , saying: \"I'm going to try to focus on the fact that I'm going to admit to what I've lost\". \"And she did it the way her dad would want her to do it\". Crowds gathered along the route of the motorcade bearing Mr McCain's casket. Many held their hands over their hearts and waved American flags and applauded loudly; some shouted \"God bless you\". (more...)\nJon Gruden's ex-ESPN partner takes a shot: What is he doing?\nThough it appears to be a long shot, The 20-year-old Daniels would be the sixth Bears player to play in a regular-season game before turning 21 - behind fullback Andy Livingston (1964), Hall of Fame guard Danny Fortmann (1936), center Billy Autrey (1953), running back Rashaan Salaam (1995), defensive end Alonzo Spellman (1992) and cornerback Al Louis-Jean (2014). (more...)\nAlexandre Lacazette hails newfound Arsenal partnership with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang\nWe have tried everything in pre-season but then when you make a mistake in pre-season it's not that bad. \"You can see we had the mentality\". Hopefully in a few games we're going to look a bit more comfortable'. The win was also important in light of Arsenal's away struggles last season, when under Wenger they managed to win only four out of 19 league games on the road. (more...)\nCeltic review safety procedures after fans caught in crush outside stadium\nThe Englishman - who was linked with a move away this summer, as reported by The Scottish Sun - is yet to feature in the league this season and has only made one appearance in the League Cup thus far, but he would presumably get the nod if Gerrard can not use McGregor. (more...)\nSharapova out of US Open in 4th round\nHer loss to Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko, the world number 132 at the time, at the All England Club was her first opening round Wimbledon defeat and earliest Grand Slam exit in eight years. \"I'm very happy because I played a good match\". Keys, the runner-up previous year, is the highest seed left in the bottom half of the draw at 14 and breezed through to the last eight again with a 6-1 6-3 victory over Dominika Cibulkova . (more...)\nChampion Sharapova out of US Open in 4th Round Again\nSu\u00e1rez Navarro snapped the streak and advanced to her second US Open quarterfinal - her first since 2013 - with a 6-4, 6-3 win against Sharapova, who was trying to reach the quarterfinals in NY for the first time since 2012. Suarez Navarro often let the 22nd-seeded Sharapova create her own problems. That loss to Vitalia Diatchenko, the world number 132 at the time, at the All England Club was her first opening round Wimbledon defeat and earliest Grand Slam exit in eight years. (more...)\nCibulkova Makes US Open History After Fourth Round Success\nHowever, the Slovak did not hand out many more opportunities to break, looking much more solid on serve than she did in the opener, and she began to take control she broke for a third time in the set to send this clash to a decider. There was an upset on Louis Armstrong Stadium, though, as in-form Kiki Bertens fell to Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova . Bertens has had an excellent season and defeated Simona Halep to win the title in Cincinnati two weeks ago. (more...)\nPochettino: Watford defeat is a \u2018wake-up call\u2019\nAnd in March and April and the beginning of May, if we are there, then OK, now we are a contender. The fact they got the goals from set-pieces isn't good for Spurs , but I would be more anxious about some players not competing in the second half when the going got really tough and some of them got rolled over. (more...)\nWorking US Open night shift fine with Maria Sharapova\nSharapova, who won the 2006 title at Flushing Meadows, won 6-3 6-3 on Saturday to extend her unbeaten US Open run of night matches. Sept 1, 2018; New York, NY, USA; Maria Sharapova of Russian Federation hits to Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in a third round match on day six of the 2018 U.S. (more...)\nSterling withdraws from England squad\nSterling's absence comes as a blow to Gareth Southgate despite questions being raised over his global record. \" Raheem Sterling has withdrawn from the squad due to a problem with his back, with no immediate replacement planned\", read a Football Association statement. 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Physical, occupational and speech therapy are offered on an outpatient basis.\nOur outpatient therapy program provides therapy for recovery from diagnosis such as:\nneurological and neuromuscular disorders, such as strokes, MS, ALS, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease\nEach service caters to the individualized needs of the patient. A personalized treatment plan will be develop in order to guide patients in recovery to their highest level of function. The referring physician is a key part of our team, and communication is maintained through regular progress summaries. Outpatient therapy is offered to individuals in the community as well as inpatients who are discharged home.\nIf you have any questions about our rehabilitation services please contact Shawn Gardner at (843) 705-8224 or email sgardner@nhcbluffton.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://njmonline.nl/search/searchresult.php?type=author&srchtxt=B.C.+van+Munster", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GLZS3ZBHY2X5EGCJKQM6ESBFRN2S7ZQY", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "njmonline.nl", "title": "Search results - NJM", "raw_content": "Below are the articles found for author B.C. van Munster.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1947", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:VXMKFZNABMKZMK4RM55BYRSV75ZU7FJR", "length": 998, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nkaa.uky.edu", "title": "Smith, Henderson \u00b7 Notable Kentucky African Americans Database", "raw_content": "Smith, Henderson\nHenderson Smith was born in Frankfort, KY, and his family later moved to Warren, OH, where Smith studied music at the Dana Musical Institute. He performed with a number of groups, including Sprague's Original Georgia Minstrels and Haverly's Genuine Colored Minstrels. Smith was also a bandleader and vaudeville entertainer, sometimes passing for white and performing with groups such as Patrick S. Gilmore's Famous Cornet Band. He also worked with Kentucky native Tom McIntosh and led John W. Vogel's \"Darkest Africa\" band, which toured Australia with the Orpheus McAdoo Company. Smith, who was sometimes referred to as America's Black Sousa, died in Chicago, where he had settled after retiring from the entertainment business. For more see \"Henderson Smith\" in the Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, by E. Southern.\n\u201cSmith, Henderson,\u201d Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed February 15, 2019, http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1947.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nominihallslavelegacy.com/rootspersona-tree-2/benjamin-brooke/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:40Z", "digest": "sha1:SAGSBA253DWW23Y23YKIOTEGP5ZFP636", "length": 1708, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nominihallslavelegacy.com", "title": "Benjamin Brooke \u2013 Nomini Hall Slave Legacy", "raw_content": "Benjamin Brooke\nBenjamin BrookeP1486\n<356> Benjamin Brooke. (sometimes referred to as Ben Chine) -- Born ca. 1761-63. Parents unknown. Formerly from Leo, but residing at Nomony Hall in 1782, 1784 (tithable), and 1785 (tithable). Sent from Nomony to the Shenandoah tract in 1787, but ran away from Sagittarius to Nomony Hall in 1788. Residing at Nomony Hall in 1790, 1791, and 1796. Described as a collier in 1784. Temporarily assigned to Billingegate in December 1784 and to Gemini in September 1791. Named in 1791 deed of emancipation. Scheduled for emancipation in 1797. Assigned to work at Nornony Hall, but ran away to Baltimore in June 1793, claiming that John Tasker Carter had beaten him. Put to work under the Baltimore Street commissioner, but sent back to Nomony Hall at his own request in July 1793. Received certificate of emancipation in January 1797. Sources: Deed of Emancipation, August 1, 1791, pt. 1, pp. 10, 25, and pt. 2, pp. 2, 18, 31; 2d Book of Miscellanies, pp. 48, 101-4; Letterbook, 1782-1784, p. 10; Travis Jones's Inventory of Taxable Specific Articles at Nomony Hall, March 1, 1784, C.F.P., 1651-1861, Sect. 36 (Mssl C2468 a2102), VHS; Nomony Hall Ledger \"A b,\" p. 30; Letterbook, 1784-1785, pp. 53-54; Westmoreland County Personal Property Tax List, 1785, VSA; Nomony Hall Journal, 1785-1787, p. 10; Lettcrbook, 1785- 1787, pp. 251-53, 255-56; Nomony Hall Daybook, 1790-1792, Pp. 3, 97; Waste Book \"r W,\" pp. 39, 41-42; Benjamin Dewson to Robert Carter III, C.F.P., 1651-1861, Sect. 22 (MsslC2468 8323-350), VHS; \"List of Negroes to whom Certificates of Emancipation were delivered by Robert Carter, January 1797, Westmoreland County Court Papers, Box 83, VSA.\nM Benjamin Brooke", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://noritakechina.com/giftware-holiday.html?price=16%2C15.0000", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2U5N5MIU4XMH7PI2P4LFVYFZDVQH4U2L", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "noritakechina.com", "title": "Giftware & Holiday", "raw_content": "Square Plate, 10 3/4\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 4320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 181.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://normalcooking.com/chicken-parmesan-casserole-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3QOXKORYTRSHOZASM2CTTK37QVFODBI", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "normalcooking.com", "title": "Chicken Parmesan Casserole 3 | Normal Cooking", "raw_content": "January 8, 2013 Original Image size: 2592 \u00d7 1728", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northamerica.tata.com/Section/Article/From-strength-to-strength?sectid=eLiVfqUiZks%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GHENDXQVNWOXS2W6Z5YBM32CEW23AZR4", "length": 10463, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "northamerica.tata.com", "title": "Tata in North America | Media room | Features | From strength to strength", "raw_content": "David Good, head of the Tata US corporate office, on the growth and gains after three years of operation\nOver the past three years, the Tata group has become India's first truly global business group. International revenues for 2007-08 are 61 per cent of the group's revenues and the international workforce is approaching 30 per cent of the total \u2014 we can definitely be considered a global company by any standards. The primary reason for this is the acquisition of Corus and Jaguar Land Rover and their tremendous global assets. But if you look at the Tata presence in the US, you will see that the US has contributed its fair share to Tata's worldwide growth.\nWe now have Taj luxury hotels in three major US cities \u2014 New York, Boston and San Francisco; Corus manufacturing facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania; Tata Business Support Services call centers employing hundreds of US citizens in northern Florida and in the heart of Appalachia; engineering work being done by TCS and INCAT for major automotive and aerospace companies; a massive undersea Tata Communications broadband cable network circling the globe; and Tetley, Good Earth Teas and Eight O'Clock coffee products in nearly every supermarket across the country. In fact, I am especially delighted when I pick up a Tetley Tea canister in my local grocery store and see \"A Tata Enterprise\" printed on its side.\nNone of this was true three years ago, and while I cannot and would not claim credit for any of it, I can claim the right to talk about it, and proudly so!\nOur small office in the Washington area started with the mandate to create an \"embassy\" for the group, which could introduce Tata to Americans and represent the group to policymakers, regulators, the media and audiences interested in how and why Indian investment in the US has grown so rapidly. If you refer back to my article Good Tidings published on the Tata group website almost three years ago, you will see that I set out several objectives for the North America office.\nThe first objective was to help Americans understand that better US-India relations \u2014 both economic and political \u2014 would benefit both our countries. This is a two-way street, and I believe that both countries are better off for having traveled it. The highlight of our bilateral relationship has been the agreement to share nuclear technology \u2014 something that links the US and Indian energy industries. The agreement recognizes that India has behaved responsibly in protecting its nuclear know-how in spite of its decision to forge a nuclear program outside of the formal international non-proliferation networks. While the final coming-into-force of that agreement has been slowed down by politics in both countries, the fact that it was negotiated at all is inescapable evidence that India and the US have overcome their traditional wariness of one another and moved to levels of cooperation unheard of a decade ago.\nOver the past three years I have said as often as I can and wherever I can that Indian companies are contributing to that new relationship, and that the Tata group in particular, by virtue of our size and diversity, is adding to the U.S. economy by the creation of jobs, by payment of taxes, through direct and indirect investments and by providing productivity boosts through our services companies.\nA second objective was to support greater cohesion and interaction among Tata companies in the US, and here the job turned out to be bigger than we had imagined at the time, simply because our presence is so much larger than it was three years ago. Currently there are more than 20,000 Tata employees representing 16 different Tata companies in about 80 locations throughout the US and Canada. Many of these are newly acquired companies with thousands of new colleagues, operating in industries as diverse as coffee, hotels and steel. However, I am confident that we have achieved a collective sense of pride in being part of the Tata group. We have had two general meetings of North American Tata companies executives and we all agree that there is more to bind us together as Tata men and women than separates us as members of our own individual company structures.\nIt is very interesting to me to see the percentage of Indian faces declining as our workforce becomes more international and takes on the face of the countries where we operate. By the way, this internationalization is also a two-way street. Kapil Sharma \u2014 an American lawyer and former Capitol Hill staffer who started the North America office with me in early 2005 \u2014 has recently transferred to Bombay House, the Tata group headquarters in Mumbai. Kapil will take with him a healthy dose of US work experience, which will undoubtedly filter through in India the same way that Indian know-how and experience filters through the US businesses owned by the Tata group.\nI am also happy to have Kapil's place taken by Niharika Chibber Joe, whose own specialization in Japan and Japanese adds to our office's international character. The third person in our office is Ashwini Umarji, who began with us in September 2005. We hope to add a fourth person in the office in early 2008 \u2014 more evidence of the growth of opportunities in the US.\nOur third objective was the establishment of a corporate sustainability (CS) program \u2014 one that links most of the Tata companies in the US and reflects the dedication and seriousness with which the Tata group approaches CS.\nAll of our companies engage in some form of CS. Tata companies have contributed as good US corporate citizens in national emergencies such as Hurricane Katrina. The Tata group provided several significant donations directly to local charities providing assistance in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. TCS really stepped up to the plate by providing gratis around-the-clock service to the Government of Mississippi. The team worked a long weekend to design and develop a special program for the Department of Employment Security to get unemployment checks to needy recipients who had been affected by the storm.\nJust recently, the Tata group formed a broad partnership with Washington-based NGO First Book, which donates books to underprivileged children in classrooms across the US Tata Interactive Services (an e-learning company) has worked pro bono with First Book to help them design a new national information technology net linking their donors and recipients. Additionally, Tata Sons, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Corus, Tata Communications (formerly VSNL International) and TCS made donations to First Book during the December 2007 holiday season, under a special matching program wherein the publishing company Simon & Schuster donated one book for every dollar raised. The total value of the Tata contribution was over a quarter of a million dollars. We are looking at how we can expand this partnership during the coming year.\nWe have also sought to contribute to the communities where we operate \u2014 including a donation to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston that facilitated the digitization and uploading of their world-famous collection of Indian miniature paintings on their website, and a grant to Harvard University which allowed 35 Harvard students to travel to South Asia for research and study.\nThis is just a sampling of the many activities that Tata companies engage in \u2014 from scholarships to research grants to cancer walks to clothing drives \u2014 and which reflect the deep traditional Tata commitment to contributing to the communities from which we derive our revenue.\nFinally, we set ourselves to representing to the people of the US, the value that is being derived from the rapid expansion of Indian investment in the US. This aspect of my job has taken me to business groups, university campuses and think tanks around the US \u2014 an opportunity to travel to many parts of my own country, some of which I visited for the first time. I have found among Americans an intense interest in India and a strong shift from the picture of a mysterious land of exotic animals and customs, to an image of a rapidly developing country full of smart young men and women ready to compete in Tom Friedman's \"flat world\" economy.\nWhen I describe to Americans who the Tatas are, the diversity of our business interests and our strong commitment to social responsibility, I can usually sense the \"aha!\" moment. That is when the benefits of this close economic relationship are realized and appreciated, even by those who had not heard of the Tata group previously. Interestingly, I have rarely come across anyone who is opposed to the closer bilateral relationship. Even when I encounter understandable worries about US job losses and growing competition, there is an appreciation that the Tata group represents the best of foreign companies and is a welcome addition to the US business scene.\nAs we enter our fourth year of operation, there is still much to be done here in the US. New opportunities for growth and expansion will have to be identified and analyzed, and we will have yeoman's work ahead of us to ensure that the Tata brand is more widely recognized and appreciated. I am acutely aware of how fiercely the Tata group protects its brand name and reputation. The challenge of maintaining the well-known Tata values embodied in the Code of Conduct while expanding more widely outside of India is one that will have to be met successfully.\nThere is also the growing concern over climate change and the environmental risk that will accompany rapid development in India, China and, in fact, everywhere in the world. Our Chairman Ratan Tata has mandated the Tata group to seek new and innovative ways to make our industries and facilities \"greener.\" In fact, my office has been specifically charged to identify environmentally friendly technologies that can be brought to India to allow Tata businesses to grow in a way that is in harmony with the environment and not in conflict with it. The learning curve has been steep for me \u2014 a former government servant and foreign service officer turned business executive \u2014 but the journey has been made infinitely easier by the knowledge that I represent a company that in all its actions, seeks to give and not to take from the communities where it operates. 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No matter what decision I make, rarely will everyone agree. A weather decision is never taken lightly, and a lot of time and effort is put into it. Our priority in making these decisions is always student safety.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 5342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nsendodontics.com/AboutUsStaffDrMclammy.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CMQLOJ5FE4CGJ6QEICJLF4SVRPXHQ363", "length": 2204, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "nsendodontics.com", "title": "North Scottsdale Endodontics & Implantology - Scottsdale, AZ 480-731-3636", "raw_content": "Dr. Thomas V. McClammy\nThomas V. McClammy, D.M.D., MS., PC.\nDr. Thomas V. McClammy has been pursuing excellence in dentistry since 1982. He had a thriving general practice in Oregon for 15 years where he pursued his insatiable desire for continuing education. His goal was to deliver the finest care available to his patients with a passion he still retains today. Dr. McClammy has always embraced technology and was one of the first general practitioners in the country to use the Surgical Operating Microscope in his dental practice. So impassioned by the microscope and its versatility in his general practice he was approached to lecture at the California Dental Association symposium held in San Francisco in 1996. This led to other opportunities to provide much needed information regarding the efficacy of adding the microscope to the dental office.\nIn 1996 Dr. McClammy sold his general practice to pursue a master\u2019s degree in Endodontics at Boston University under the tutorage of Dr. Herbert Schilder who was said to be \u201cthe father of modern day endodontics.\u201d While at Boston University he had the privilege of assisting Dr. Schilder in his private endodontic practice.\nAfter leaving Boston, Dr. McClammy opened an endodontic practice in Bend, Oregon where he served the needs of the community until 2004 at which time he sold his practice and moved to Scottsdale in pursuit of warm sunny days. Dr. McClammy has opened an endodontic practice in North Scottsdale were he continues to exert his passion to deliver quality endodontic treatment in a caring respectful environment. His vision is to work in conjunction with dental practices that seek to provide their patients care that goes beyond the expected.\nWhen Dr. McClammy is not at the office or attending a continuing education program, he spends his time with his wife, horses, and dogs.\nOregon Dental License -\nNortheast Regional License -\nCalifornia Dental License -\nArizona Dental License -\nDEA License -\nPROFESSIONAL AFFILAITIONS\nOregon Dental Association -\nAmerican Dental Association -\nAmerican Association of Endodontics -\nArizona Dental Association -\nOHSU School of Dentistry Alumni Association -\nB U Endodontic Alumni Association", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://number58.net/2008/12/29/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FTMFWTTHSM4ZJQJDFAXMKGM7ZLWF53LO", "length": 501, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "number58.net", "title": "December 29, 2008 | Number58", "raw_content": "As far as Harry was concerned Christmas was all a bit of a blur of new toys and other people\u2019s houses, but all his patience and good behaviour paid off when he was rewarded with another visit to Alnmouth \u2013 his favourite place.\nThe beach is always quiet at this time of year, December is much too cold for most holiday makers, especially when there\u2019s an easterly wind blowing. But it didn\u2019t seem to bother Harry, he just enjoyed watching the surf and having the beach all to himself.\nHarry on the beach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 228.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nwcvietnamconsulting.com/frontier-vietnam-eyes-step-up-to-emerging-market-big-leagues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5A47A6WV27A5RNCEUVQT2QODU3RE2EHI", "length": 531, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nwcvietnamconsulting.com", "title": "Frontier Vietnam eyes step up to emerging-market big leagues - NWC Vietnam Consulting", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Press \u00bb Frontier Vietnam eyes step up to emerging-market big leagues\nVietnam has grown faster than its Southeast Asian neighbors in recent years, but its economy is still dominated by state-owned banks and its stock market is only around a quarter the size of that of the Philippines. The United Arab Emirates and Qatar \u2013 the last two countries to be promoted to emerging-market status by New York-based MSCI \u2013 saw their benchmark share gauges jump by at least a third in the 12 months following their addition in June 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 7924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nwcvietnamconsulting.com/hcmc-offers-incentive-for-samsung-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:F3AYJEBRODZTPGT77BNYW4VVUPZB3GKX", "length": 2521, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "nwcvietnamconsulting.com", "title": "HCMC offers incentive for Samsung project - NWC Vietnam Consulting", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Press \u00bb HCMC offers incentive for Samsung project\nHCMC \u2013 The HCMC People\u2019s Council at the closing of its session last Friday decided to provide an additional tax incentive for an expansion plan of the Samsung Electronics HCMC CE Complex at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park.\nDeputies of the HCMC People\u2019s Council vote by a show of hands for a resolution on extra incentive for the Samsung Electronics complex last Friday\nCouncil members at the meeting approved Resolution No.9 on extra incentive for the electronics products and household appliances complex in District 9 as investor Samsung Electronics revised up capital from US$1.4 billion to US$2 billion last year, just one year after it got an investment certificate.\nThe city\u2019s budget will cover 50% of the corporate income tax for Samsung after the South Korean firm makes full tax payments for the city. This tax incentive will be valid for three consecutive years, probably starting from 2030, after the company pays the tax for nine years.\nThe complex is projected to create jobs for 7,000 workers by 2020.\nAlso at the meeting last Friday the council approved a project to upgrade the left bank of the Saigon River from Cau Ngang Canal to Thu Thiem New Urban Area at a cost of nearly VND993 billion. Of the amount, the city\u2019s budget will account for VND404 billion and the State budget for VND588 billion.\nThe project is aimed at protecting 1,600 hectares of land in Truong Tho Ward of Thu Duc District, and An Phu and Thao Dien wards of District 2, with around 25,000 residents benefiting.\nThe council also agreed on capital increases for the Thang Long bridge project from VND91 billion to VND450 billion and the upgrade of Nguyen Thi Dinh Street\u2019s road section between My Thuy intersection and Cat Lai ferry terminal from VND645 billion to around VND1.15 trillion.\nIn addition, the council passed investment guidelines for five other public investment projects in Group B worth a combined VND718 billion.\nThe council approved socio-economic, budget, security and defense development targets for the 2016-2020 period. Accordingly, annual gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth in the five-year period would be 8-8.5% and the city economy would be restructured in a way that centers on services, industry, construction, agriculture and seafood with the services sector accounting for 56-58% of GRDP by 2020.\nThe city\u2019s total investments will make up around 30% of GRDP and GRDP per capita will rise to US$9,800 by the end of 2020.\n(Source: thesaigontimes)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oceancountyrealestateagent.com/what-to-look-for-easements-for-example/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OI5C2XOXYILVM676OIBIJUBYFHB5FWTD", "length": 10101, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "oceancountyrealestateagent.com", "title": "What to Look For? Easements for Example! \u2013 Ocean County Real Estate Agent", "raw_content": "Why Finding Out About Easements Early On Is Extremely Important When Buying A Home!\nIf you\u2019re here, it could be you noticed I touched on \u201cAssessor\u2019s Map\u201d in my Buyers Response example. Easements are important consideration when thinking about the purchase of any given property, often times they are displayed on the Assessor\u2019s Municipal Map and available for review. Wouldn\u2019t you like to know before you decide to schedule a showing, before you commit to a written offer on a home, that the pool you dreamed of, planned on adding down the road, will not conform to the property due to a conservation easement.\nHere is another example of the service I provide, assessor\u2019s maps. If you\u2019re not working with me, be certain to ask your agent to provide the same.\nLet\u2019s call this section, \u201cWhy can\u2019t I add?\u2026.\u201d Subject heading, Easements!\n( Please Note: The Following Maps Were \"Custom Made By Me\" Specifically For My Buyers )\nThere could be many reasons why a homeowner, on a listed home you\u2019re in love with, has never taken the initiative to add, let\u2019s say,\u2026 a paved driveway, a sport-court or a pool. Perhaps your wondering why the home is as close as it is to the street, not set further back as the property is expansive. When you purchase that lovely home, you\u2019re going to plant a row of Cedar trees to hide the ugly retention basin,\u2026the deer in the area won\u2019t eat them, yeah, that\u2019ll fix it.\nAs I stated, there could be many reasons why things are they way they are, and some can be remedied with some initiative, and some will not. Not paving the driveway could have something to do with \u201clot coverage\u201d, which could also be applicable to not adding the sport-court & pool. The home being pushed to the front of the property could have everything to do with the stream in the back, the 300 ft. set-back, depending on the designation attributed to it. As for that retention basin which you plan on hiding with trees, well that area is part of a \u201cconservation easement\u201d, which goes almost to the right to the corner of the home and in many cases,\u2026.you can\u2019t touch it.\nYes, there are many reasons why you\u2019ll be able to do what you like once you move in, after all you own the property, and others reasons why you won\u2019t. There are also many types of restrictions, many types of easements. Some familiar names may be: Utility, Landscape, Drainage and Conservation to name a few. So, let\u2019s digress for a moment, revisit, perhaps why there is no pool.\nBelow is an aerial map, a satellite image of a subject area. Perhaps you have the wherewithal to pull these yourself, Bing & Google work nicely. Let\u2019s suggest home #9 is listed for sale, a lovely home, nicely appointed, offers everything you had hope for and more. It features lovely curb appeal, a great neighborhood, a convenient location and an expansive property,\u2026but no pool, unlike the homes on either side, the neighbors, properties #8 & #10. Assumption could suggest you\u2019ll simply add a pool after you Close on the home, perhaps a pool with a waterfall, maybe a gazebo or cabana, an outside shower, a lovely stamped concrete patio with a lounging area,\u2026perfect.\nNext up, the Assessor\u2019s Map, a matter of record on-line for Real Estate Agents or available for review in the municipal offices of any given municipality. If you\u2019ve taken the initiative, if your agent has taken the initiative, you\u2019ll notice the subject property shows as 1.66 acres,\u2026loads of room, hot damn! Once you\u2019ve tempered your enthusiasm, you noticed there is an indication of a conservation easement on the property. No worries, the neighbors did it!\nThe next reference is the same area, highlighted with green arrows, this is where it starts getting good\u2026\nAh, magic,\u2026this reference is the initial satellite map, superimposed over the assessor\u2019s map, not 100% accurate but enough to suggest suspicion about the feasibility to do what you had planned. In case you were wondering why the neighbors pool on home #8 is as close to the home as it is,\u2026maybe this is the reason. Perhaps you\u2019ve noticed the pond on property #8, the fact that there are no fences, you know how kids like to explore,\u2026. and while we\u2019re at it\u2026.\nThe NJ Transit commuter railroad tracks are directly behind the home, separated only, by another street.\nSo humor me for a moment. Let\u2019s hypothetically suggest you were interested in home #9, that it is available for purchase, seemingly everything that you had hoped for in reading the details, viewing the normally, limited number of photographs provided on the home search websites.\nIn contacting me, you\u2019ve already witnessed examples of what you would have received prior to perhaps speaking with me, scheduling a showing, considered wasting your time, wasting your money in paying of the baby sitter,\u2026.I could go on. I would rather disappoint you from your initial interest, than have you disappointed much later, say just prior to Closing. Case in point.\nIf you were unaware of what I\u2019ve offered, you may have submitted an offer on the home. Perhaps it would have been accepted. The contract went through attorney review seamlessly, things are moving forward. The home inspection (engineering report) came back with no issues. The $400 or so dollars you spent, perhaps more, was worth every penny, the report in concise, full featured, everything you had hoped for,\u2026life is grand. You\u2019ve gone back to your preferred lender, the one who supplied the pre-approval letter for contract submission, made application, pulled all your required doc\u2019s, you got a great rate, paid the bank fee and the appraisal fee,\u2026.whoops, a survey had to be ordered, monuments, no monuments, your choice. No problem, you pay that as well. The appraisal comes back,\u2026 the home is worth exactly what you offered. Whew!\nAfter 3 trips to the paint store you\u2019ve got the color scheme worked out for the Family Room, the estimate just arrived from your contractor for the ceiling molding you\u2019ll be adding on the first floor, you\u2019ve blocked out the time for the work to be preformed, based on your proposed Closing date. You\u2019ve already told your boss that James will be covering for you in your absence\u2026you\u2019re buying a home! The movers are also on board. Perhaps right about now\u2026.\nYour attorney informs you the title work just came back,\u2026asks if you were aware of the conservation easement on the property, that there\u2019s a real good chance you can\u2019t do what you had planned. If you\u2019re somewhat lucky, this is how it may have played out, I know of this happening at Closing. You can stand on your head and sing Cumbaya, chances are, it won\u2019t change a thing. You ask yourself, \u201cHow did this happen?\u201d \u201cWhat happens now?\u201d\nPerhaps right about now, someone may mention the sellers disclosure statement for the home,\u2026.if there was one. Maybe they are asking if you reviewed the document, asking if you signed the document, if you understood what you signed. Below and in the case of the example I have provided, this is what they would have been alluding to, question #72, line item #195 : a lift from the actual New Jersey Association Of Realtors Standard Form / Sellers Property Condition Disclosure Statement.\nIt is clearly stated on the form, the Disclosure Statement is not intended to be a substitute for prospective Buyers hiring of qualified experts to inspect the Property. Also clearly stated, the Disclosure Statement is to disclose, to the best of Sellers knowledge the condition of the property. In fairness to the homeowners, at times, they simply do not know, at times, provide misinformation.\nMy point, if you were working with someone like me, there is a good chance this would never have happened. At the very least, I would have looked into your interest, provided you the opportunity to speak with an attorney, to check with the municipal offices to make an informed decision before doing anything. Perhaps there are those, which might suggest this never happens. Nonsense. Don\u2019t take my word for it, ask any attorney you know of, if what I\u2019ve suggested doesn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s probably more likely you just don\u2019t hear about it. Ask yourself this as well, do you think it is pure coincidence that I would be able to locate, from the thousands homes, all the available municipal maps, the perfect scenario to provide the examples I\u2019ve offered. Here\u2019s a better one, what is the likelihood you will ever, in your Real Estate travels, find an agent with the skill sets to provide what I\u2019ve just shown you through the visuals I\u2019ve just provided.\nJust like conservation easements, there are many such scenarios, various types of considerations, probably more forthcoming, I\u2019ve only scratched the surface. Simply put and besides the obvious,\u2026the desire for an updated Granite Kitchen, the finished walkout basement or anything you may consider wanting to change, amenities to enhance your potential new home, there are some things you will not be able to, location being be one of them,\u2026 something I find more important, than if the drapes match the carpet and all that comes with it.\nWhat I\u2019ve suggested is a complimentary service I provide for the courtesy of your interest. I know there are many agents out there for you to choose from, the onus on you to align yourself with someone like me. If I leave you with nothing else, simply remember, ownership is not necessarily a qualifier for entitlement. Assume the responsibility of empowering yourself toward making an informed decision, likely the most important decision you\u2019ll ever make, hopefully through the efforts of someone like myself.\nWhy not do yourself a favor, contact me for all your real estate needs\u2026as I\u2019ve just shown you, there is so much more to searching for your next home\u2026this one instance, represents a small sampling of the unique services I provide for my clients.\nNeed more reasons to work with Edward Vivona?\nIf You Would Like To Receive These Type Of Buyer Custom Overviews For Homes You Have An Interest In, Then Please Fill Out The Form On Any Of My Pages, Send Me Your Search Criteria, I Would Be Happy To Add You To My Exclusive Homes Search, Update Campaign!\u2026And Of Course, You Can Cancel At Any Time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 11866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://odysseus-network.eu/catalogues/publications/journalArticles/66", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:77LSY3RWY3XPHDEGQ6BVGAPQPYQWEUWX", "length": 1328, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "odysseus-network.eu", "title": "Odysseus Network Catalogues:: Publications", "raw_content": "Depillarization and the shaping of AFSJ\nJanne Salminen\ndepillarization, justice and home affairs, the Treaty of Lisbon\nThis article concerns the Treaty of Lisbon and its impact on the development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). The background of the study is the discussion of the so-called pillar structure of the European Union, its dismantling and the features of the constitution of the EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), which have legitimized its characterization as a special field of integration within the architecture of the Union. The depillarization is considered to be one of the main achievements of the Treaty of Lisbon. For this reason, the focus of the article is on the special features of integration in the AFSJ. It is noted that it would indeed be meaningless to characterize AFSJ as a separate field of integration. However, there still are remains of the features which made it possible to consider JHA and the third pillar as different. Pillars continue their life in certain aspects. The AFSJ mode of integration is still based on a rationale of cooperation. Certain possibilities for the differentiation indicate the same attitude. 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Please keep in mind that this padding is discontinued for the U.S. market since March 1, 2012, and is discontinued for Canada market since February 28, 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 181.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ohiobkcoaches.com/award/hall-of-fame-inductees/hall-of-fame-classes-2000-2010/hall-of-fame-inductess-class-of-2009/tom-rettig-tippecanoe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AWCB5L23OHQSUWOJYLKTF6FAL6AKC6JY", "length": 2750, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ohiobkcoaches.com", "title": "Tom Rettig | Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association", "raw_content": "Coach Rettig graduated from Lima Senior High School in 1963 and Bowling Green State University in 1967. Tom\u2019s dream of being a coach began first, as an assistant coach in Lucas, Ohio, then going Bethel Tip City for a year, followed by two years at Dayton Fairview where he was assistant football coach, assistant basketball and varsity boy\u2019s tennis coach. His first head coaching job was at Holland Springfield where he was the boy\u2019s coach for five years. He then went to Oregon Cardinal Stritch High School where he was the boy\u2019s coach for three years. Tom then took over ass girl\u2019s coach at Tipp City where he was a highly successful coach for 23 years. From there he went to Greenville High School where he finished his career as a coach.\nThe Tipp City Red Devils had eight CRC and CBC league titles and were runners-up six times in these two leagues. The Red Devils won 11 sectional titles. They were district Champs in 1986 and 1987 and were runners-up six years (\u201985, \u201989, \u201990, \u201992, \u201995 and \u201905). They were regional Champs in 1986 and 1987. In 1986, they were in the State Finals against Akron losing in overtime. In 1987, they were in the State Final Fours. In 1988, they had an undefeated regular season, 20 \u2013 0.\nTom has achieved many awards during his career, namely: 1998 OHSAA Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Award, League Coach of the Year eight times, Associated Press Coach of the Year in 1991, Bob Arnzen Award Winner in 1999, OHSBCA Girl\u2019s Coach of the Year in 2000 and Southwest District Coach of the Year twice, Paul Walker Award Winner in 2005, National Federation Ohio Coach of the Year for Girl\u2019s Basketball in 2007.\nTom and his wife Anne, have two daughters, Michelle, husband Jeff Gephart and their children Zachary and Kaitlin; Nicole, husband Tim Rager and their children Alexander and Madelin.\nCoach Rettig has served the OHSBCA in several capacities: 21 years as District 9 Director and 21 years on the State Board; North-South All-Star game coach in 1988; Ohio-Michigan All-Star game coach in 1991; and Ohio-West Virginia All-Star game coach in 2000.\nIn addition to basketball, he was a head baseball coach (4 years), head tennis coach (5 years \u2013 2 boys and 3 girls). Tom is currently Director of the Girls\u2019 North-South Games for the OHSBCA.\nTom\u2019s mission has always been to teach the game of basketball, to promote an understanding of the game and to prepare his players to win game in tight situations. He did his best to utilize his players to their given potential, emphasizing their best qualities. He also saw his role to teach \u201clife lessons\u201d. Tom tried to present a positive role in the community with his interactions with the youth and his comments to the press. 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But we're not there yet.\nThis was GREAT. It's the perfect thing to make household prettiness out of (cushion covers, throws etc) but it's done the same thing that Half & Half earlier in the year.\nFor a square that's supposed to be of a size, it's too squat and too wide. A bit like my Granny! But I love her dearly! And let's face it, she's the BEST to hug. When I was a wee little thing and I used to spend my summers with my Mama (my Granny), she and I would split a bag of Violet Crumble (chocolate covered honeycomb) and we'd keep stealing into the kitchen over the next few days to sneak a few bits until there was NONE LEFT and we were SAD. And then we'd go to the store again, and get another bag. It was AWESOME. Summer at Mama's rocked.\nAnd that's like this granny square. 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Unless an emergency clause caused a bill to go into effect immediately upon passage, all 2015 legislation will take effect January 1, 2016. As employers prepare for 2016, they should review the following list and consider whether any of their policies need updating.\nBan the Box: HB 3025, known as \u201cBan the Box,\u201d prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their conviction history on the initial job application. However, note that nothing in this law prevents an employer from including a statement on their job applications saying that all job applicants will be subject to a criminal background check prior to hiring.\nEmployers in the City of Portland should note that the city recently passed a more restrictive ordinance which prohibits questions about conviction history and background checks until a conditional job offer is extended.\nMandatory Sick Time: SB 454, mandating that employers provide workers with up to 40 hours of sick time per year, takes effect January 1, 2016. Employers of 10 or more employees (six or more in Portland) must pay for the leave, those with fewer than 10 are not required to pay. The basic provisions of the law may be found here. 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Genger conceived her monumental new sculpture, hand woven from multicolored nylon rope, especially for The Aldrich.\nGenger transforms knitting\u2019s intimate, homespun aesthetic into large-scale works that relate more to post-Minimal sculpture and the color fields of late modernist painting than to craft projects. Her technique, which dispenses with needles altogether, deliberately narrows the distance between original idea and final object. Genger weaves thick strands of rope, elastic strapping, yarn, and metallic ribbon with only her fingers; the resultant objects are indexical traces of her unique process and directly convey the painstaking labor that goes into their creation. Her sculpture for The Aldrich, comprised of thousands of feet of nylon rope typically used by rock climbers, continues the Museum\u2019s tradition of exhibiting unconventional outdoor sculpture and will stretch from the Museum\u2019s historic \u201cOld Hundred\u201d building to the recently opened new Museum facility. Genger\u2019s sculptures frequently lie on the gallery floor or on the ground; in her performances, they become a landscape through which the artist moves. The work becomes a literal extension of her body, as maker becomes object.\nA painter and filmmaker, Morris\u2019s recent body of work focuses on the aesthetic, architecture, and psychology of Los Angeles as a sprawling, de-centered urban location. She describes her films as \u201ccondensed manifestos,\u201d in the sense that they are a compendium of images and situations. These films investigate both the city\u2019s surface, as well as its inhabitants and key players. Employing different types of cinematography from a documentary-like approach, as well as narrative sequences, her approach distracts the viewer to allow for a closer observation of issues of social power.\nOrly Genger has exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY; the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; and at Stux Gallery and Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://osaic.com/index.cfm?member=osaic&CFID=139591693&CFTOKEN=9ef9d6b9a01e3cf4-9E93A58F-A513-935D-83E85A09D6C90CD1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:WTOK46IN7C5P4OZMEDRZP7OJQVILMA6I", "length": 341, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "osaic.com", "title": "Owen Sound Area Internet Community - All Of Owen Sound Area Under One Roof!", "raw_content": "Just looking for cottages for rent ( by accident) to enjoy a visit with my mother in law and found this site. 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and (b) the Temporary Order is extended until June 28, 2006 ;\nAND WHEREAS counsel for Maitland and Allen Grossman, counsel for Hanoch Ulfan and counsel for Steven Lanys consent to this Order, and Diana Cassidy has advised Staff that she is not opposed to an extension of the Temporary Order until the conclusion of the Hearing;\nAND WHEREAS Tom Mezinski has not appeared although duly served with the Temporary Order, the Notice of Hearing and Statement of Allegations as evidenced by the affidavits of service filed as exhibits in this proceeding and has been duly served with the application records;\nAND WHEREAS Marianne Hyacinthe appeared before the Commission on February 8, 2006 and received a copy of the Order dated February 8, 2006 but did not appear before the Commission on February 28, 2006, April 19, 2006, May 29, 2006, June 28, 2006 or today and has been duly served with the application records;\nAND WHEREAS Ron Garner has not appeared although duly served with the Temporary Order, the Notice of Hearing, the Statement of Allegations and the Order dated February 8, 2006 as evidenced by the affidavits of service filed as exhibits in this proceeding and has been duly served with the application records;\nAND WHEREAS Staff have advised that two Respondents, namely Ron Catone and Jason Snow, have not been served with the Temporary Order, Notice of Hearing or the Statement of Allegations in this matter notwithstanding attempts at service as evidenced by the affidavits of attempted service filed as exhibits in this proceeding and have been duly served with the application records;\nAND WHEREAS all the Respondents have been duly served with the application records, as evidenced by the Affidavits of Service filed on September 12, 2006 ;\nAND WHEREAS Staff have advised that Staff provided disclosure in the section 127 proceeding on April 28, 2006 to the parties who responded to the Notice of Hearing;\nAND WHEREAS on May 19, 2006 , the Commission authorized the commencement of a section 122 proceeding in the Ontario Court of Justice against Hanoch Ulfan, Allen Grossman and Maitland;\nAND WHEREAS Maitland and Allen Grossman and Hanoch Ulfan have brought applications returnable September 12, 2006 to adjourn the section 127 proceeding as against Maitland, Allen Grossman and Hanoch Ulfan pending completion of the section 122 proceeding;\nAND WHEREAS Staff do not oppose these applications on the condition that: (1) the Temporary Order against Maitland, Allen Grossman and Hanoch Ulfan is extended until the conclusion of the Hearing; and (2) Hanoch Ulfan and Allen Grossman undertake not to act as an officer or director of either a reporting issuer or a registrant until the conclusion of the section 127 proceeding;\nAND WHEREAS Allen Grossman and Hanoch Ulfan have provided undertakings to the Commission which are attached hereto and have agreed to adhere to such undertakings until the Commission\u2019s final decision on the merits and sanctions in the section 127 proceeding has been rendered or until further order of the Commission releasing them from their undertakings or aspects thereof;\nAND WHEREAS Maitland has undertaken to keep Maitland shareholders advised of the status of this proceeding through notices/updates which are available and displayed prominently on the home page of Maitland\u2019s website at www.maitlandcapital.com and by advising shareholders that copies of the Commission\u2019s Notice of Hearing, Statement of Allegations and Orders are available on the Commission\u2019s website at www.osc.gov.on.ca; and\nAND WHEREAS the Commission considers it to be in the public interest to make this Order,\nthe Hearing is adjourned until judgment is rendered in respect of the section 122 proceeding;\nthe adjournment of the Hearing does not preclude Staff from bringing forth settlement agreements for approval reached with any of the respondents;\nStaff and counsel for Allen Grossman and Maitland and counsel for Hanoch Ulfan shall inform the Commission and seek further directions from the Commission in the event that it becomes unlikely that the trial of the section 122 proceeding will commence in or before the fall 2007;\nwithin four to eight weeks of judgment being rendered in the section 122 proceeding, a Hearing shall be scheduled in the section 127 proceeding;\na copy of this Order shall be served by Staff on each of the Respondents; and\nMaitland shall post a copy of this Order on its website.\nDated at Toronto this \u201c12 th\u201d day of September, 2006", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://osmani.towerhamlets.sch.uk/our-school/send", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:S742VWW2JKI7FPU4HPD3OD2FS3TA7I6X", "length": 1137, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "osmani.towerhamlets.sch.uk", "title": "SEND Information - Osmani Primary School", "raw_content": "All Tower Hamlets schools are committed to adopting a comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of all pupils including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).\nClick here to view the Tower Hamlets Local Offer\nThere is a shared expectation that all pupils, regardless of their specific needs, should be offered inclusive teaching which will enable them to make the best possible progress in school and to feel that they are a valued member of the wider school community.\nSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities Provision at Osmani\nOsmani is an inclusive school and may offer the following range of provision to support children with communication and interaction, cognition and learning difficulties, learning difficulties, social, behavioural and emotional health difficulties, sensory difficulties and physical needs.\nThe range of support deployed will be tailored to individual need following thorough assessment by internal or external agencies. 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The cost of car insurance can be a huge strain on your finances so paying for your car cover on a monthly basis is a good way of keeping your initial outlay for car insurance down. However, while this may be a more convenient and manageable way to pay for your cover, it's crucial to make sure you're aware of the additional costs involved. It is also necessary you scour the whole market to ensure you find the most reasonably priced deal. Insurers can also play a part in helping motorists by not charging more than they need.\nMotorists could consider other financially-savvy ways to pay for their car insurance premium, such as using a zero per cent purchase credit card,\nBy putting the cost of the premium on to a zero per cent purchase credit card, drivers can pay for their policy in monthly instalments without paying interest. There are a number of zero per cent purchase cards on the market, so if you are eligible, you'll only pay for the original price of your policy. However, you need to be disciplined if you use a credit card, and aim to pay off the balance before the end of the promotional period, and within 12 months if the promotion is longer otherwise you will still be paying when your insurance is up for renewal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pantophile.com/index.php/travel/south-east-asia/123-thailand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:53Z", "digest": "sha1:X4GGINS3FIUO6G4TXOGERMEZMHFE5UP3", "length": 21586, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "pantophile.com", "title": "Thailand", "raw_content": "Home Travel East Asia Thailand\nDetails: Parent Category: Travel\tCategory: East Asia\t| Published: 13 November 2012 | Hits: 8472\nPerhaps the most striking thing about Thailand is the relatively high standard of living.\nPopulation growth has slowed dramatically from the peak in the 1960's to less than 1% pa. Population is now 66.7 million.\nCompared to other countries we have visited in the region Thailand has a fast improving material standard of living; most comparable to that of China.\nIt is quite a bit higher than that in Vietnam, which is most comparable to India. Although Vietnam is a lot more even in wealth distribution; with lower population growth; and so lacks the abject poor of India.\nThailand\u2019s a lot richer than neighbouring Cambodia, which is similar to Nepal in wealth.\nThe following table simply confirms the observations we\u2019ve made while travelling in these countries; there are no surprises.\nNone of these developing countries is nearly as wealthy as Singapore, now a truly a first world country with a per capita GDP five times that of Malaysia; and higher than that of the United States.\nVisitors to Bangkok are immediately impressed by the number of tall modern buildings; the overhead metro rail service; the quality of the expressways; and nevertheless, the total traffic gridlock in parts of the City.\nWhile there are still many tuc-tucs, seen all over developing SE Asia, these compete with normal cabs and many late model cars.\nThere is also a great deal of urban development and high-rise building; but not on the scale of China.\nAs in China there is a very prosperous middle class who frequent up-market shopping malls in great numbers.\nIn addition to high fashion clothes, jewellery and cosmetics, several Bangkok Malls have very expensive German and Italian cars being \u2018boutiqued\u2019. I was impressed that they obviously have goods lifts large enough to take half a dozen Mercedes to the fifth floor.\nReturning to Thailand from India was like lifting a weight from our backs. Just to escape from the abject poverty and contrasting wealth that assaults the egalitarian sentiment in a way that almost no other country does.\nIt was such a relief to get to a place where they don't separate women from men at airport security; where the toilets are clean; there isn't rubbish everywhere; and from the constant bombardment of all the senses that that extraordinary country constantly imposes.\nNot that Thailand is egalitarian. Alongside the obvious wealth there are still many people living in very poor conditions similar to those in neighbouring Cambodia. This growing inequality has recently resulted in political instability; very well reported in Australia and worldwide.\nAs in most of SE Asia, substantial resources are being committed to universal education and literacy; with mathematics, engineering and science given a high priority. But there is a problem in joining the international scientific community in that they have an unusual language and writing script that is indecipherable to others. It seems to me that Thailand should follow Singapore and adopt an international language like English and/or Mandarin within the education system, on a much wider basis than presently seems evident.\nNevertheless Thailand is certainly doing better educationally than India.\nAs we have just seen, there are some states in India in which strong educational values apply. But there are great regional and class differences. A full quarter of the Indian population is illiterate; with no access to education at all. Among those that do attend school educational standards are often very poor. Many of these people are pitifully ignorant, living lives that are short and brutish; with no prospect of an education that might save them or their children. Their only consolation is a constellation of gods and spirits and superstitions that serve principally to make matters worse.\nBut in Thailand despite recent riots and political upheaval, there is a feeling that the poor too are benefiting from economic growth, getting richer, and life is generally improving.\nThe dominant religion of Thailand is Buddhism (90%). Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddh\u0101rtha Gautama Buddha around two and a half thousand years ago. Like its contemporary Confucianism, Buddhism is a significant diversion from primitive agrarian or animistic religions that posit divine intervention in everyday lives.\nAs originally taught Buddhism effectively puts aside any need to hypothesise a god; suggesting that the purpose of life is personal a quest for enlightenment; steering a middle way between asceticism and sensual indulgence. But neither of these ancient religions eliminates the supernatural. While Confucianism replaces conventional gods with ancestor worship; a central metaphysical premise Buddhism is a belief in reincarnation.\nOver the intervening two and a half thousand years Buddhism has become corrupted and more like a conventional religion; with priests and temples often supporting the divine right of rulers; and other social conventions and mores. There is a strong Hindu influence in some of the temples; but it does not seem to create a shortage of Thai beef salad; or McDonald's franchises.\nSimilar observations have been made about the actual teachings of Jesus and the practice of Christianity in support of the State, and priesthood, in medieval Europe; right through to the modern period.\nAs a result of this institutionalisation The Buddha has become a focus for worship and even prayers for intervention.\nWe visited a number of Thai institutions (the palace temples and so on) that are structured around this \u2018evolved\u2019 form of the religion. I even had to put on funny pants to cover my lower legs when visiting the temple complex. How has that got anything to do with Buddhist teaching?\nManufacturing is the principal driver of Thailand\u2019s economic growth.\nThe country produces many of the world\u2019s digital integrated circuits and has a substantial related industry manufacturing printed circuit boards for computers. More recently this has extended further manufacturing optical communications fibres and electrical vehicles like Golf Carts. There is also a substantial industry based around natural rubber and related chemicals.\nGreat bundles of data cabling festoon the streets of Bangkok rivalling those in Vietnam. While this is true of many cities we have visited, like Kathmandu and in Kerala in India; Hanoi, Saigon and Bangkok take the prize. Predictably, data access speeds in these locations are fast and connection is very cheap and often free.\nSimilarly the Electricity Infrastructure is rapidly expanding with new transmission towers and additional sections added to older towers across the countryside.\nThailand's annual electricity demand was 150 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2011, having grown at an average annual rate of 8.2% since the 1970's. Almost all of this energy is derived from thermal power stations burning natural gas and coal. Hydro electricity provides 4.7% and other renewable 1.4%. They also import around 2% from neighbouring Laos and Malaysia (also derived mainly from fossil fuels).\nThis compares with France, with almost the same population, that annually consumes 425 TWh and Australia, with less than half the population (22.7 m) that consumes 220 TWh. So Thailand still has a long way to go; not good news for world carbon reduction targets.\nThailand was once predominantly an agricultural economy and now less than half the workforce is employed in agriculture. Nevertheless Thailand remains the largest exporter of rice in the world. Other rural industries include sugar, and tropical fruit for domestic consumption: coconuts, bananas and so on.\nIn Bangkok, and at resorts like those in Phuket, tourism is obviously an important industry. There are many international tourists and a very active supporting tourism infrastructure.\nAparently, substantial sub-sectors of Thai tourism include: \u2018sexual tourism\u2019 providing prostitution, and occasionally wives, mainly to western men; including many Australians; and medical tourism providing mainly cosmetic and dental services and occasionally joint replacements, mainly to western women; including many Australians.\nAs our time was limited, and we were restricted to Bangkok and environs, we used our Lonely Planet and did the conventional tourist things; except for the prostitutes or surgeons.\nAround town we used the metro, the cabs and tuc-tucs and walked.\nIf you\u2019ve never heard of Jim Thompson I don\u2019t blame you; nor had I. He was an American businessman and co-founder of the Thai Silk Company; for which he was awarded the \u2018Order of the White Elephant\u2019. There\u2019s a men\u2019s clothing franchise named after him; not the white elephant.\nHis 'claims to fame' include developing the silk business and a wartime career in the in the Office of Strategic Services that later became the Central Intelligence Agency. It is speculated that he continued with the CIA in a clandestine way. He divorced after the War to live what appears to have been a somewhat dissolute life in Thailand.\nThompson's 'cloak and dagger' background adds colour to the mystery of his death.\nIn 1967 while on a trip to the Cameron Highland in Malaysia with friends, he went for a late night walk; and was never seen again. That's it! They searched and searched; but he had disappeared without a trace.\nBefore the war he had experience as an architect. 'The Jim Thompson House' is actually six traditional houses gathered and joined together in 1959 to make one large house plus a studio and a garage in a pleasant garden overlooking a small river, the Klong. It\u2019s very nicely done; and decorated with antiques that Thompson gathered mainly from Thailand; but also from Europe and elsewhere in Asia.\nToday it operates as a museum and tourist shop. Our hotel was near Siam Square and the house is an easy walk away.\nWe also used the metro station a few hundred meters from our very comfortable hotel (Siam@Siam) to go the huge markets at Chatuchak. This is certainly a place to see some local colour; people up-close and personal; and to eat a meal from the street vendors.\nThese vast markets specialise in fake almost everything: bags, watches and clothing labels but unlike the clandestine markets in the Middle East and China, the goods are mostly rubbish and wouldn\u2019t fool a child. In those other places the counterfeit goods are virtually indistinguishable and made from the same materials - fine leather bags, crystal watch faces, similar mechanical movements and so on - and they even come with fake certificates of authenticity.\nChatuchak markets in contrast, specialise in factory seconds and cheap goods for the local poor; to which designer labels have been applied in a simple breach of the trademarks, not involving replication or serious 'passing off'.\nWendy likes browsing in these places but I ran out of patience and got the train back to the Art Museum at Siam Square. At first I thought the building only contained uninteresting commercial craft shops; upmarket versions of the stalls I had just fled.\nI was disappointed at a wasted visit and about to leave.\nBut then I discovered at the top of the building a spiral ramp reminiscent of the Guggenheim in New York. While the ramp display area was confined to some rather boring photos there are several connected gallery areas with several relatively small but very nice collections of works from Thailand and overseas.\nThese are organised into various international art movements as well as local religious art. I was really interested by paintings in some of these areas and wandered about happily; along with a few other patrons and their children; pleased to be out of the markets and the hot street. I was also surprised to see among these collections several, probably quite valuable, western pieces by well known artists.\nSome of the local revolutionary art and art with a social message was powerful and well executed.\nBut almost all the religious art was incomprehensible to me as I don\u2019t understand the cultural references; and much of it seemed poorly executed in comparison to the high standard elsewhere.\nThailand is very parochial in terms of the local language, writing, culture and religion; and proud of being the only country in the region not colonised by a European power. But this has consequences in terms of their ability to become part of the international conversation in the sciences and the arts; and probably religion too.\nThe Grand Palace and Temple complex\nThis is a large cluster of buildings. Some are religious and others secular. The main museum is adjacent. Close-by is the jewellery district; not far from Khao San Road, the rather predictable backpacker area. We walked, caught tuc-tucs and cabs around, and to and from, this area. The Grand Palace is a considerable distance from Siam Square and there is no metro station.\nThe Tourist Experience\nWe seldom use tourist coaches except occasionally for intercity travel. But on this occasion we used the travel desk in the hotel to book a package tour that took in the \u2018floating markets\u2019 and a coconut plantation.\nWendy caused a minor sensation on returning to the almost full coach when she went to the wrong side. The guide playing Sherlock Holmes said to her \u2018you\u2019re American\u2019 \u2013 a general snigger passed through the bus. But of course she promptly denied it. He then said \u2018but you went to the wrong side so\u2026?\u2019 He seemed put-out that she was Australian.\nIt was too hard to explain that the last time we travelled by coach was in Cuba and the time before that in South America and the time before that\u2026\nNow we were on a real tourist bus and in for the FTFE (full tourist fabricated experience); or other \u2018Fs\u2019 to that effect.\nFirst stop the \u2018James Bond\u2019 Boats in their Disney-esque concrete lined canals. They acquired this name after featuring in \u2018The man with the golden gun\u2019 with Roger Moore as James Bond.\nThey operate line a stern in a continuous queue along the channels and never really get above 10 knots. I found the variety of engines in use interesting; mostly from cars but occasionally bigger, probably out of trucks. The gearbox and propeller shaft seems to be standard.\nThe water is fresh so cooling and corrosion is not a problem.\nAlong the canals are relatively poor stilt houses, mostly on concrete rather than wooden stilts. There is a distinct feeling of being on a Hollywood \u2018back lot\u2019, similar to that we got in Malacca in Malaysia on a similar tourist ride. That one more clearly declares its hand with an amusement park, a pirate ship and monorail alongside.\nAt the end of the Bond ride one reaches the Floating Markets. While there are boat loads of fruit for the locals; these intermingle with those with tourist goods. Alongside are the real markets: wide undercover warehouses of cheap clothes; and more tourist souvenirs.\nI took my photos then found a coffee shop until it was time for our bus to leave.\nOn the same trip we were taken to a coconut sugar \u2018factory\u2019. This substance is derived from the collected sap of coconut flowers. We were shown the process of progressively reducing the liquid until it becomes a very valuable and a natural (magic) cure for almost everything.\nWe didn\u2019t see the process by which it gets from the reduction pans into the various bottles of creams and lotions on sale.\nAnother substance people in Thailand kept trying to rub on me is Tiger Balm. Originally this substance was based on Tiger bones that imparted its magical properties. But now it is purely herbal and could easily be made at home from ingredients found on the shelves at Woolworths (Wikipedia has the recipe). It was a great fad in the 1960's, along with purple flared pants, and came in little tins. It smells. That's about it. In the markets I had to keep dodging and weaving to avoid the sellers' smelly fingers.\nI rather like Tim Minchin\u2019s beat poem set to music in which he has difficulties with \u2018Storm\u2019 who only uses natural remedies. He say there is a name for \u2018alternative medicine\u2019 that has been proven to work: \u2018medicine\u2019.\nBut then there was a woman in our local Mosman shopping centre flogging some yellow concoction that she had cooked up at home that she assured us was \u2018all natural\u2019 and contained no chemicals; and so was bound to be \u2018good for you\u2019.\nAll these claims seemed unlikely to me as: I\u2019ve never seen anything like her cream in nature; there appeared to be something in the jar, presumably consisting of chemicals; and with little difficulty I could collect some 'natural' things to make a concoction that would definitely not be \u2018good for you\u2019.\nI could start with the oleander cuttings that are presently filling our green-waste bin.\nOleandrin: one of the 'natural' toxins present in Oleander. Like other material things in the Universe it is a chemical.\nIt is immaterial whether it came from the plant or was made in a test tube. If it has the same chemical structure it will be toxic.\nLike the Thai coconut stuff and Tiger Balm, the Mosman lady\u2019s cream is good for the skin and cures aches and pains; as well as anything else a placebo works on. That it is effective and not harmful in some way, to at least some users, remains unproven. It\u2019s not (properly) tested on animals; of any variety.\nFor my part, I like to be assured that effective pharmaceuticals that I buy have been tested on animals; in particular Homo sapiens. If they have no effect I don't want to waste my money. And I don't want to smell of plant oils that make me sneeze and/or my eyes and nose run.\nIf you haven't already done so (and can see it) click on the 'Storm' play button above.\nThe good thing about the coach, as opposed to taking local transport, is the ability to sit up high and survey the local surroundings, although I noticed quite a few passengers simply went to sleep at this point.\nI amused myself looking at the electricity infrastructure, the variety and quality of the buildings and several impressive bridges.\nOn a tour everything is scheduled and runs like clockwork. You become a parcel to be delivered and picked up at a particular time; having been processed through a standardised \u2018experience\u2019; and having had as much money extracted along the way as possible, at various overpriced craft shops. It\u2019s all nicely timed so you will get back at the appointed hour. It\u2019s so easy and safe.\nThere is none of that other kind of experience. No finding your way through an unfamiliar local transport system in a different language and currency; no arguing with cab and tuc-tuc drivers over the cost; no getting lost; no walking for hours or eating in a local caf\u00e9 or from a street stall; no finding the bloody place you went to see closed and so doing something else instead; and no being \u2018ripped off\u2019 by local crooks.\nTour members need never see a slum or jostle with locals in a marketplace; and if you do, you do it as a team; a bus load.\nThis way you can avoid our experience of getting out of the cab mid journey when the driver announced he wanted to charge us twice the normal price for getting across town; or the tuc-tuc that ran out of fuel on a main highway so that we had to walk for a kilometre or so to find a side road where we could hail another.\nThat experience made the more usual side-trip to a service station, to buy fuel with your money as part of your fare, the lesser of two evils. This diversion, and wait, must have happened at least half a dozen times during this trip. But this has happened to us elsewhere too; sometimes with the driver trying to extract the full fare in addition.\nOn a tour you can avoid seeing people living rough; the piles of excrement; or the smell of urine. You can avoid real local food or seeing the flies in the food markets. In fact, you can avoid seeing the country at all.\nBangkok has ample shopping; from up-market boutiques to those I have already mentioned the Chatuchak markets and the floating markets.\nThere are also some huge department stores in which many 'brand goods' are cheaper than in Australia. We both purchased new shoes.\nAnd I bought some reading glasses \u2013 the frames are titanium but one of the plastic lenses broke three weeks later.\nAs in Vietnam, tailoring is another service competitively provided to tourists; with numerous tailors offering overnight production of suits and shirts. I had two shirts made but the little jacket Wendy had tailored was a total mess, badly sewn and completely unwearable, not just unflattering. She refused payment; much to the distress of the business owner who was suddenly not the tailor. I paid for the shirts.\nThe land between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea, known as Palestine, is one of the most fought over in human history. Anthropologists believe that the first humans to leave Africa lived in and around this region and that all non-African humans are related to these common ancestors who lived perhaps 70,000 years ago. At first glance this interest seems odd, because as bits of territory go it's nothing special. These days it's mostly desert and semi-desert. Somewhere back-o-Bourke might look similar, if a bit redder.\nYet since humans have kept written records, Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, Ancient Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, early Muslims, Christian Crusaders, Ottomans (and other later Muslims), British and Zionists, have all fought to control this land. This has sometimes been for strategic reasons alone but often partly for affairs of the heart, because this land is steeped in history and myth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 24600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peacefmonline.com/pages/politics/politics/201207/126673.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:PT7QL57XHUUNI6GKXH5LW4CZS5CIO4B4", "length": 1473, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "peacefmonline.com", "title": "Bawku Splits Over MP\ufffds Jail | Politics | Peacefmonline.com", "raw_content": "Bawku Splits Over MP\ufffds Jail\nDaramani\nThe business centre of the Bawku Municipality went almost calm on the afternoon of Friday, July 27, following the news of the sentence of Adamu Daramani Sakande, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, to jail by an Accra Fast Track High Court.\nHowever, a Daily Guide source in Bawku said, there was some jubilation by some communities at the outskirts and under some National Democratic Congress sitting places in town.\nThe MP was convicted on three counts of false declaration, perjury and deception of a public officer and was expected to serve two years in prison for these offences.\nAccording to the source, as he rode his bicycle through, he saw people either standing or sitting in small groups along the streets and other areas of the municipality, including NPP sheds, as they discussed the issue and asked whether there would be a by-election or not.\nIt was a very big blow to the New Patriotic Party in Bawku, because the MP was the parliamentary candidate for the party for the December 2012 parliamentary elections.\nAdamu Daramani had almost finished serving his four-year term as the representative of the people of the Bawku Central in parliament after he had defeated Mahama Ayariga in the 2008 election.\nEfforts to get Bawku Central constituency executives of the NPP to talk about the impact of the conviction of the MP on their chances of maintaining the seat for the NPP, proved futile.\nSource: Ebo Bruce-Quansah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pearsecom.co.uk/Marion/100/140ladythay.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4PDZYYVVCDYFNDMINRT2DZQSAS7YV6IJ", "length": 16623, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "pearsecom.co.uk", "title": "Lady Thayla\u2019s Son and Heir", "raw_content": "Marion walked into the Conservatory with her two friends, Isolatta Braxiatel and Calliope Haddandrox. They had spent a pleasant morning at the fashion house where Isolatta ordered several new gowns designed for her ever changing silhouette now that she was in the eleventh month of her pregnancy. She was delightfully happy. The birth of her much wanted child was still another seven months away, but she was enjoying being pregnant. Her friends were happy for her and had enjoyed the dress fittings as much as she did.\nNow, as they came to their favourite restaurant for lunch, the maitre-d smiled widely and bowed in greeting to them.\n\u201cIs it just the three of you ladies dining or will others be joining your party?\u201d he asked. It was not unusual for Lily or Aineytta, or Lady and Madam Arpexia to join them over a protracted luncheon date.\nMarion, who had made the reservation earlier in the day got ready to say it would be just the three of them when Isolatta caught her arm.\n\u201cNo,\u201d she said. \u201cMarion\u2026\u201d She turned her slightly so that she could see the woman who had just walked into the Conservatory behind them. She looked tired and worried and everyone knew why.\nMarion decided quickly.\n\u201cGeollo, please tell Lady Thayla that we would be delighted to have her lunch with us.\u201d\n\u201cI will do so, Ladyship,\u201d Geollo, the Maitre-D answered with another graceful bow before he, personally, escorted the three ladies to their favourite table by the big picture window overlooking the Red Desert.\nA few minutes later, the worried Lady Thayla was brought to the table by the senior waiter who laid an extra place while Geollo held a chair for her. Heads had turned as she walked to the table and nobody could have failed to notice where she had been seated and who with.\n\u201cThe wife of the Castellan, the wife of the Southern Magister and the wife of a retired officer of the Gallifreyan Military Service,\u201d Calliope pointed out. \u201cWe are the people everyone wants to be invited to lunch with.\u201d\nShe wasn\u2019t bragging. She was simply stating the facts to reassure Lady Thayla that she was in the best possible company.\n\u201cThank you,\u201d she said. \u201cFor your kindness to me at this time.\u201d\n\u201cBear up,\u201d Isolatta told her. \u201cThis will all be over in a few hours. And then you can put it all behind you.\u201d\n\u201cIt will never be over,\u201d Lady Thayla answered. \u201cMy family is\u2026 My family doesn\u2019t exist any more. We are three separate people bound together by nothing but the worst scandal to come upon Gallifreyan society for millennia.\u201d\n\u201cLord Thayla doesn\u2019t think so,\u201d Marion assured her. \u201cHis statement to the court\u2026\u201d\n\u201cYour husband told you?\u201d Lady Thayla asked her. \u201cHe would, of course. Lord de L\u0153ngb\u00e6rrow was\u2026 he was very kind.\u201d\n\u201cHe judged wisely,\u201d Marion said. \u201cWisely and justly.\n\u201cYes, he did. But the talk will go on forever. The gossip. I shall always be looked at wherever I go, whispered about as the woman who\u2026 I shall never be able to show my face in a place like this again.\u201d\n\u201cYes, you will,\u201d Calliope told her. \u201cYou must hold up your head, Dessia. Hold it up proudly and defy the gossips.\u201d\nThe waiter brought lattes for them all and Geollo, the Maitre-D brought their food. For a little while the conversation turned on trivial matters, but it took an effort to do so. Lady Thayla said very little and ate even less. She kept her face turned away from the other tables in the restaurant.\nMarion looked around at those other tables and wondered what was really being said telepathically, behind the eyes of the people who tried not to look towards them. She had experienced something like it herself when she first came to Gallifrey, the foreign bride-to-be of the L\u0153ngb\u00e6rrow heir. She had walked past tables where people stopped talking and looked away until she had gone by, then turned and stared at her back. She knew exactly what it was like.\nBut she couldn\u2019t begin to imagine what Lady Thayla was going through. The gossip about her had been about nothing more than the fact that she was a foreigner. That was the only thing they could lay against her. But Lady Thayla had gone through the very worst humiliation possible. She had been accused of adultery, and worse, of bearing a son who was not her husband\u2019s child.\nKristoph had been the Magister who heard the case. It was a distressing one for all concerned. Lord Thayla had been forced to bring the matter before the court when he discovered, quite by accident, that the young man he had raised as his son did not, in fact, have any of his DNA. Lady Thayla denied the charges of adultery, swearing that she had never been unfaithful to her husband, that she loved him dearly and would never betray his trust in such a way. She swore, too, that the son they had both raised, who they both loved, was his own flesh and blood.\nBut the scientific evidence went against her. Lord Thayla\u2019s DNA tests and those of his supposed son, Garron Thayla, were clearly different. There was no blood relationship between the \u2018father\u2019 and \u2018son\u2019.\nStill, Lady Thayla denied adultery. And well she might, since the punishment for such a misdemeanour was a severe one. Men convicted of it were flogged publicly, of course. Women were cast out. If convicted, Lady Thayla would no longer be a Lady. She would no longer be able to call herself a married woman, even. She would be cut off from all financial resources. She would not even own the clothes on her back. She would have to leave her home, and even her own family, her parents and siblings, would be forbidden to give her shelter. She would be reduced to a beggar in the streets - if Gallifrey even had such things. Marion tentatively asked and was told that she might find sanctuary in one of the Houses of Contemplation \u2013 if she was lucky. More likely she would crawl away and die of shame. There was no place in Gallifreyan society for a woman who cheated on her husband.\nMarion had thought, and said out loud, that Gallifrey was a cold, narrow place if that was so. Some of her friends had agreed with her. Others had not. The law was the law, and it must be obeyed by everybody. It was the law for high born aristocrats and for Caretakers alike and was applied evenly. It was a fair law.\nEven Kristoph thought it was right that those who broke the law should be punished. And that annoyed Marion since she knew perfectly well that he had conspired to protect his own brother when he was committing adultery with Rika. She pointed that out to him and he agreed that it was hypocritical of him. He had acted to protect the good name of his family, and out of love for his brother.\nBut what about the good name of the House of Thayla?\nKristoph had not given anything away. He could not. The case was ongoing and he could not speculate with anyone, not even his wife, about the outcome. But he did tell her that he thought there was more to the case than met the eye and assured her that he would do his best to ensure justice was served, even if it was not served in the way everyone was expecting.\nBut he had said one thing more. He had reminded Marion that nobody actually knew the truth, yet, and asked her to be careful what she said and to whom about the subject. He urged her not to join in with speculation and gossip. She had, in turn, urged her friends to do the same. When she and Isolatta and Calliope had met with the ladies of their social circle they had all tried very hard to put a halt to the wild notions being spread around about who Lady Thayla had committed adultery with and other favoured topics of conversation.\nThen a very startling fact emerged in court. Kristoph had ordered that Lady Thayla\u2019s DNA was also tested and when the results came back it emerged that her son, Garron, was not related in any way to her, either.\nAfter he had quietened the court, Kristoph had dismissed the adultery charge and instead ordered an investigation into the true parents of the young man called Garron Thayla. Who, in fact, WAS Garron? At home, that evening, after those startling facts had been revealed, Kristoph described Garron to Marion. He was a tall, striking young man with red-brown hair and green eyes. He was two hundred and twenty years old and was hoping to marry a young woman called Dallia Arunden. The match had been approved by her Newblood father, but the questions about Garron\u2019s parentage meant that the Bond of Betrothal could not be completed.\nMarion\u2019s sympathy was mostly with Lady Thayla, who was the chief subject of the worst of the gossip even after the adultery charge was dismissed. But she also felt deeply for the young man who was, after all, an innocent in all of this.\nThe most dramatic day of the trial was the day that Kristoph had come home early and taken Marion and Rodan away for that pleasant afternoon on Kos. The court had just reconvened that morning when the lawyer acting for Lady Thayla had asked to put a new witness on the stand. Kristoph had assented. An elderly woman of the Caretaker class faced the whole court, trembling in fear, because what she had to say laid herself open to charges of deception, at the very worst.\nBut the time had come, she said, for the truth to be told, regardless of consequences. And she told the court that she had been a maid in the Thayla household two hundred and twenty years ago when Lady Thayla was giving birth to what they hoped would be a strong son and heir. This was the sixth child Lady Thayla had carried for her husband, but each time before she had miscarried. This time she was almost full term when he labour began and hopes were high at first. But after fifty hours of struggle it was clear to everyone except the poor lady herself that the child was already dead. It would be stillborn.\nThat part of the story had chilled Marion when she heard it. Her thoughts went to her own baby, her little Anna, who had never drawn breath despite the best efforts of a fine physician. Kristoph had obviously been thinking the same when he listened to this woman\u2019s testimony. Perhaps it was one reason why, when the truth was finally told, he had ruled that neither the Caretaker woman, nor anyone else involved in what happened so very long ago, should be prosecuted. Now that the truth was known, let it end here, he had said.\nThe woman went on to explain that, while Lady Thayla was giving birth to a stillborn son in the master bedroom of the mansion, in a basement room, a healthy son was born to a chamber maid who had promptly died of exhaustion. The father of the child was thought to be a chauffeur who had left Lord Thayla\u2019s employment a year and a half before without explanation, though the maid herself had never named the man she had been intimate with.\nKristoph had asked whose idea it had been. The woman telling the tale said it was hers. That might not have been the truth, but Kristoph let it pass. In any case, what happened was simple. The orphaned child of the chamber maid was brought up to the master bedroom where the midwife was trying to conceal the lifeless body of Lord and Lady Thayla\u2019s child from the exhausted and delirious woman. The healthy baby was placed in her arms and she had accepted him as her own son. She knew no different. Garron Thayla was duly named by his \u2018father\u2019 and the household rejoiced that an heir was born. A quiet cremation of the mother and child who had been less fortunate took place later that day. The few people who knew the truth swore to keep the secret.\nBut that oath now had to be broken. The truth had to be known.\nKristoph had given his word that there would be immunity from prosecution. In any case, he wasn\u2019t sure what statute of the Laws of Gallifrey covered such actions. He then put the court into recess and asked Lord Thayla to join him in his chambers.\nWhat passed between the two men in private would remain private. Even Marion didn\u2019t know anything about that. But when they returned to the court, Lord Thayla had announced that he was fully reconciled with his wife, who was cleared of any wrongdoing. He also announced his intention to petition the High Council. He intended to have Garron Thayla formally adopted as his son and heir, with all the rights due to him.\nObviously, that had been Kristoph\u2019s advice to the man. To accept that blood was not all that mattered after all, and that the young man he had loved and cherished as his son WAS still just that.\nIt was a new and startling notion in Gallifreyan society. Blood counted for everything. To everyone, including the father of Garron\u2019s would be sweetheart, he was nothing \u2013 he was the illegitimate son of a servant. There were those who thought he ought to be rejected and cast out of the House of Thayla. They thought Lord Thayla had taken leave of his senses in suggesting that millennia of tradition could be overturned by this petition of \u2018adoption\u2019.\nThere were those who believed that the High Council would reject the petition and that Garron Thayla would be dispossessed, his \u2018father\u2019 and \u2018mother\u2019 both forced to reject him.\n\u201cI loved him from the moment I set eyes on him,\u201d Lady Thayla said to the three women who looked kindly upon her. \u201cHe was my son. I watched him grow into a fine boy. I saw him take his place at the academy and achieve so very much. When he transcended, his father and I were so very proud. And when he told us that he was in love with the daughter of Lord Arunden, we couldn\u2019t have been happier. But now\u2026 if the High Council rules against us\u2026 now he is a stranger to me. My son\u2026 my son died at birth and this young man who I thought... He is nothing to me.\u201d\n\u201cYou love him as your son,\u201d Marion reminded her. \u201cLord Thayla does, too. That is what he told the court. That is what he is telling the High Council right now. That Garron IS his son, regardless of blood. And no matter what they decide, how you feel about your son won\u2019t change.\u201d\n\u201cYes, it will,\u201d she insisted. \u201cBecause I won\u2019t be ALLOWED to love him. I won\u2019t be allowed to be proud of his achievements. Not that he would have anything to achieve. What will become of him if we are forced to disown him? What life will he have as\u2026 nothing more than a Caretaker?\u201d\nNobody could answer that question. Or nobody wanted to answer the question, because they knew what the answer would be. Garron was well qualified, of course. He was a graduate of the Arcalian Academy. He was a transcended Time Lord. But if he was disowned by his family his chances of any kind of work in government, in the civil service, in the diplomatic corps, any of the jobs open to the sons of Oldbloods, would be closed to him. He might manage to secure a low position in the Chancellery Guard or even in the Transduction Barrier Traffic Section or some such place. But it would be a poor job with little reward.\nAnd his marriage prospects would be gone. Even if the High Council ruled in favour of him nobody was sure whether his Bond of Betrothal would still stand. Lord Arunden had refused his communications. His daughter was forbidden to contact him in any way.\nThere was a sudden silence in the restaurant, and then the conversations resumed in much louder and more animated levels. Marion looked around and gasped as she saw Kristoph coming towards the table. He was accompanied by Lord Thayla and by Garron. Lady Thayla turned and then stood, hesitantly. She looked as if her legs were barely holding her up. Calliope waved to the Maitre-D and indicated that four more chairs were needed at their table. Marion reached out her hand to Kristoph as he quietly sat beside her.\n\u201cDid it\u2026 was it all right?\u201d she asked.\n\u201cIt was,\u201d he answered. \u201cThe High Council accepted his petition. Garron is officially declared as the son and heir of the House of Thayla. He is Olan and Dessia\u2019s son, regardless of blood. And anyone who questions his lineage is in breach of the judgement of the High Council. And that includes Mauri Arunden. If he refuses the Bond of Betrothal now, he will be prosecuted for Breach of Promise. Garron will be able to marry his sweetheart.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m glad,\u201d Marion said. \u201cWas it\u2026 the vote\u2026 how close was it?\u201d\n\u201cVERY close,\u201d Kristoph admitted. \u201cI feared it might come down to the President\u2019s casting vote. There were some who objected. You can probably guess which ones \u2013 the same traditionalists who still think our Alliance was the doom of Gallifrey. But there were enough forward thinkers to carry the vote. The President\u2019s endorsement was given. It cannot be undone.\u201d\nGeollo brought chairs. The newly restored family sat and enjoyed lattes with their friends. No doubt there would still be hurdles to cross. They would still be the subject of gossip for time to come. But they had each other, and they would get through it together.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 16897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/The_Cadet_Chapel/6*.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QTLANYDHJMUUXOAW5E4P3S7ROSUVX2RQ", "length": 11147, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "penelope.uchicago.edu", "title": "The Cadet Chapel [at West Point] \u2022 Chapter 6", "raw_content": "The Cadet Chapel\nGeorge S. Pappas\nWest Point, N. Y., 1958\np58 Religion at West Point\nFrom the Galilee porch of the Cadet Chapel, the Sunday morning visitor may watch the Corps of Cadets march to Chapel. The gray-clad companies swing out of the barracks area, make a turn toward the hill on which the chapel stands, and then begin the climb. The companies follow the winding road to the crest of the hill, make a brief pause to realign their ranks, and then resume their march toward the Chapel. As each rank approaches the first step of the porch, the cadets in that rank remove their caps.\nSunday chapel attendance is required at West Point. Each cadet \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish \u2014 is required to attend the services of his faith. The practice of obligatory cadet Sunday worship is almost as old as the Military Academy itself. Prior to the appointment of the first official chaplain in August 1813, visiting clergymen or the superintendent conducted services. The first chaplain, the Reverend Adam Empie, also served as Professor of Geography, History, and Ethics. Moreover, he performed the additional duties of treasurer of the Military Academy from 1815 to 1816.\nThere being no chapel at West Point, services were conducted in the mess hall, in class rooms, or, occasionally, out of doors. In 1815, cadets were not dismissed from afternoon parade until after evening prayer had been said, the chaplain reading the prayer before the cadets who were formed in an open square.\nThe chaplains of the Military Academy continued teaching ethics until the Professorship of Geography, History, and Ethics was abolished in 1896. They have since devoted their full time to the religious welfare of the cadets. The resultant effect of the religious direction cannot be overestimated. This training, coupled with the emphasis placed upon integrity and honor by the officer instructors, in later years led to the formulation of the cadet honor code.\nIn 1836, the first Cadet Chapel was erected on the site of the present East Academic Building, next to the Library. The design of the Chapel p59 followed the \"classic style\" of architecture popular throughout the country during the 1830s. The Chapel often has been referred to as a Roman basilica with a Grecian portico. The Doric columns supporting the low\u2011gabled roof of the porch are Greek in origin while the semi-circular ceiling of the interior and the arches over the windows and doors are of Roman derivation. Above the altar is the mural, \"Peace and War\", by Robert W. Weir, Professor of Drawing at West Point from 1833 to 1876. Weir also painted the famous \"Embarkation of the Pilgrims\" in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington. Around the walls of the Chapel are black marble tablets, each tablet bearing in gold the name, rank, and dates of birth and death of an outstanding general officer of the Revolutionary War. In an inconspicuous place in the rear of the Chapel is a plaque which carries only the rank and date of birth of Benedict Arnold, who attempted to betray West Point to the British. The plaque pays tribute to his outstanding service in the invasion of Canada and at the Battle of Saratoga; the deletion of his name and death date indicate his perfidy. Memorials to heroes of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War are also located in the old Chapel.\nThis Chapel continued in use until after the present Chapel was completed. Then, on Sunday, June 12, 1910, the last regular service was held in the building. The service began with music by the Military Academy Band, followed by the saying of the Apostles' Creed, a prayer, and the Doxology. The Reverend Herbert Shipman, former chaplain, delivered the address. This was followed by what has since been regarded as the high point of the service, the singing of a new song with words by Chaplain Shipman and music by W. Franke Harling. The song, with its magnificent arrangement by the former organist, Mr. F. C. Mayer, has become the hymn of the Corps of Cadets. It is appropriate that its first appearance was at the closing of the old Chapel and the dedication of the new. After this premier singing of \"The Corps,\" the old Chapel was officially closed and the congregation moved to the New Chapel on the hill above.\nThe consecration service began with the processional hymn, \"Onward Christian Soldiers\", and the reading of the official order of the Superintendent to dedicate the Chapel. The Chaplain, Rev. Edward S. Travers, then offered prayers of dedication. These were followed by the twenty-fourth Psalm, the lessons for the day, and appropriate choral music. The Benediction concluded the simple service.\nThe old Chapel was moved, stone by stone, to its present location in the cemetery in 1911. Today, it is used for services for Jewish cadets each Sunday, for weddings during June Week, for Sunday School, and for funeral p60 services as required. The old Chapel is one of four chapels to be found at West Point. The Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, erected in 1900, was patterned after an English Gothic Church, erected by Carthusian monks. Two Catholic priests administer to the needs of Catholic cadets and of Catholic officers, enlisted men, and their families. The fourth West Point chapel, the Post Chapel, is a simple red brick building located in the north sector of the post.\nSince the Reverend Adam Empie was appointed the first cadet chaplain in 1813, more than twenty chaplains have taken care of the spiritual needs of the Corps of Cadets. Four of these men were later consecrated bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Charles P. McIlvaine; Herbert Shipman; Arthur B. Kinsolving, II; and John B. Walthour. West Point has changed greatly since Adam Empie said evening prayer with the Corps of Cadets formed around him in a hollow square. The Corps has increased in size many times; new buildings have been erected; thousands of cadets have been graduated to serve their country in all parts of the world. Wherever they are, these graduates remember the reverence and the sincerity of the men who so often led them in their religious devotions.\nThe Cadet Chapel Services\nOccasionally some friend, parent, or new cadet will question the wisdom of obligatory chapel attendance. A former Commandant of Cadets answered this statement by saying that, should such emphasis on religion be neglected, West Point would fail in its mission. It is the Academy's task to prepare as officers men who hold \"duty\" as a sacred trust; \"honor,\" a hallowed possession; \"country,\" a treasured heritage. This type of man, the Commandant believed, can never be developed if God and His worship are left out of a man's normal life. Therefore, because the Military Academy accepts responsibility for the total development of the cadet \u2014 mental, physical, moral, and spiritual \u2014 and because biblical faith is one of the foundation stones of honor and integrity, every cadet is required to attend the chapel of his faith each Sunday.\nNon\u2011denominational Protestant services of worship are held in the Cadet Chapel during the academic year and out\u2011of-doors during the summer months. Since its size does not permit the entire Corps of Cadets to attend services in the Chapel at the same time, the two regiments of cadets alternate in attending the early and late services each Sunday. Moreover, because many cadets come from Protestant religious groups whose services normally are formal or liturgical in nature, while others have religious p61 backgrounds where informal or non\u2011liturgical services are normally held, it is important that an attempt be made to meet the spiritual needs of both groups. This is achieved by making the late service liturgical with the full choir, an offertory anthem, and the historic prayers of the church. The early service is shorter and non\u2011liturgical with extemporaneous prayers and no special choir music. In addition to these two services of morning worship, Holy Communion is held each Sunday in St. Martin's Chapel, attendance being voluntary for the communicants of the various Protestant faiths.\nDuring the summer months, services are held at Battle Monument on Trophy Point and at Camp Buckner, the summer camp of the Corps of Cadets. The services at Battle Monument are most impressive with the Band and the cadets framed against the natural backdrop of the hills and the Hudson River.\nIn addition to these regularly scheduled services, many religious holidays are observed with special services. A midnight Communion is celebrated on Christmas Eve, and a special service is held on Christmas Day. Lent is marked by special devotions, culminating in a sunrise service on Easter Day. In addition to these chapel services, there is a week\u2011day celebration of the Holy Communion in the Chaplain's office each Thursday following breakfast. Cadets also conduct a daily devotional meeting in the Chaplain's office.\nDuring June Week, the Baccalaureate service is held on the Sunday preceding Graduation Day. A feature of this service is the dedication of the class memorial windows. Because the limited seating capacity of the Chapel restricts attendance at this service to members of the graduating class, their families, and friends, the underclassmen attend chapel at Battle Monument. On Alumni Day, the Monday before Graduation Day, the Alumni Memorial Service is held at 9:00 A.M. in the Chapel.\nAll of the Cadet Chapel services follow a form approved by the larger Protestant communions. These services have been incorporated in the \"West Point Prayer Book\" adopted in 1948. The Prayer Book was edited by the late Bishop John B. Walthour, Cadet Chaplain from 1941 to 1947. Included in the Prayer Book are the services used for many years in pamphlet form, responsive readings, collects, epistles, and gospels, as well as services for weddings, baptisms, and burials. Included also is the Cadet Prayer written by another former chaplain, Clayton E. Wheat, and revised by Chaplain Walthour in 1947.\nMany cadets serve in the choir or as acolytes, chimers, or teachers in the Sunday School. The impressiveness of the Sunday morning services is p62 increased by the cadet choir of about 175 voices. The acolytes assist the Chaplain at observance of Holy Communion, and the cadet chimers play the chimes in the Chapel tower each evening. The cadet Sunday School teachers instruct the children of post personnel each Sunday.\nEach June Week, many members of the graduating class are married immediately following Graduation Exercises. No other service in the Chapel is more beautiful than the weddings at which the newly-commissioned second lieutenant, with his gold bars gleaming in the candlelight, stands with his bride to recite their vows. The simple service completed, they turn to walk the length of the aisle, beneath the old battle flags, past the pews where he has worshipped for four years, out through the door and beneath the arch of sabers held by his classmates. In the years to come, his memories of cadet days will ever be enriched by recollections of the beauty and impressiveness of the Cadet Chapel.\nKneeling Soldier from the Tower Stringcourse\n(G. S. Pappas)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 12109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peopleonbikes.bike/?p=658", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:S34GJWYLWTAX2KVP6SBI2EZBSWYUIFNO", "length": 2421, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "peopleonbikes.bike", "title": "One if by land, two if by sea. Having it all with kayak & bike. \u2013 People on Bikes", "raw_content": "Maliah and I were walking down Jacobsen Road in West Seattle to feed the goats, when we saw Ken riding uphill from Puget Sound pulling a kayak behind his bike. Jacobsen is a pretty steep climb. I yelled out to Ken and he agreed to be interviewed.\nTell us about what you\u2019re doing?\nMy name\u2019s Ken and and I live in West Seattle, pretty close to where we are right now. This is part of what I like to do on the weekends. I like to bike a lot but since moving to Seattle from Las Vegas \u2014 I\u2019ve been here for just a little over a year \u2014 I wanted to get into kayaking. Not a lot of kayaking in Las Vegas.\nI enjoy biking in the sunset. I commute to work on my bike. I work out in Bellevue. I do a bike and bus commute. And then on the weekends, I like to mix up the mountain bike \u2014 utilizing it for the kayak. It\u2019s kind of a nice workout because the kayak really gets your upper body \u2014 and the legs, since I\u2019ve got a large hill to go up before I get to the Junction \u2014 the bike is a good workout. Coming down here (to Puget Sound) is easy.\nWhat made you decide that this was a good idea to pull a kayak with a bike?\nI live close enough to the water that if you look at putting the rack on the car, then putting the kayak on top of the car and driving it here and taking it off, this seemed like a good way to go.\nDid you see other people doing it before you decided to give it a go?\nI hadn\u2019t. I just looked it up and then went to Mountain to Sound Outfitters, which is close to the Junction, and they ordered the trailer for me. I think it\u2019s the first one they sold. I think you can only go up to a 16-foot kayak. Mine is 12-feet. I wanted something small. The kayak is something on the order of 50 lbs. You feel more like a semi truck, but once you get going it\u2019s easy. Going uphill isn\u2019t hard. You just need to be patient. I\u2019ve got the granny gear going.\nI see you\u2019ve got a GoPro HERO on your kayak.\nEvery once in a while you\u2019ll see some animals out in the Sound. Last week I saw some sea lions. I\u2019ve seen porpoises out there. I\u2019ve seen eagles.\nEditor\u2019s Note: when you buy through the link above, I get 4% of the sale, which helps me buy things like burritos and socks.\nAre you doing this year-round?\nYeah, I\u2019ve been doing this since February. You can tell the weather is changing. The Sound is a little bit more of an aggressive workout.\nSeems like you\u2019re enjoying Seattle then?\nAwesome! What\u2019s not to enjoy?\nJacobsen Road Goats", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://perthchristadelphians.org/2014/05/24/free-will-and-predestination/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2DEKYPFMT4HUQCSJ3W44UTNK4AT2AAH", "length": 6897, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "perthchristadelphians.org", "title": "\u2013 Free Will and Predestination Free Will and Predestination \u2013 Perth Christadelphians", "raw_content": "The Bible says that we are all mortal because of sin, but that God has provided a way to obtain eternal life through Jesus Christ. Is this way open to all who choose to take advantage of it, or does God select only certain people to follow that way? The former is what is meant by free will, the latter is what is usually understood by the term \u2018predestination\u2019. Which does the Bible teach? There is much in the Bible to support the idea that we have free will. Although the word \u2018predestinate\u2019 does occur in the Bible, it is a misunderstanding to suppose that it means that God has determined already who will receive eternal life.\nMan\u2019s free will and God\u2019s foreknowledge\nThe following is a selection of passages which speak of man\u2019s free will:\nMoses said to Israel: \u201cI have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live\u201d (Deut. 30:19);\n\u201cBy faith Moses . . . refused to be called the son of Pharaoh\u2019s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season\u201d (Heb. 11:24,25);\n\u201cAnd the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hearth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely\u201d (Rev. 22:17).\nThere is no doubt; however, that God has foreknowledge, as the following passages show:\n\u201cI am God . . . there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient m times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure\u201d (Isa. 46:9,10);\n\u201cBut those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfilled\u201d (Acts 3:18).\nMoreover, God does not just declare what will happen, He causes it to happen, as the fol\u00adlowing passages show:\n\u201cfear thou not, O My servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid\u201d (Jer. 30:10);\n\u201cagainst Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be done\u201d (Acts 4:27,28).\nThe question is, does God do this on an individual basis?\nWhat does the word \u2018predestination\u2019 mean in the Bible?\nThe word \u2018predestinate\u2019 occurs four times in the Authorised Version translation of the New Testament. Although according to Collins English Dictionary \u2018predestinate\u2019 means \u201cto decree from eternity (any event, esp. the final salvation of individuals)\u201d, this is the general understanding of the word. It does not accurately represent what the original Greek word means in the Bible, where it occurs six times and is translated in the AV as follows:\n\u201cPredestinate\u201d (Rom. 8:29,30; Eph. 1:5,11)\n\u201cOrdain\u201d (1 Cor. 2:7)\n\u201cDetermine before\u201d (Acts 4:28).\nThe original word is derived from two Greek words meaning \u2018mark out\u2019 or \u2018determine\u2019, and \u2018beforehand\u2019, respectively. As we have seen above, God has determined beforehand His purpose with the earth, particularly in relation to His Son. Two of the above references are consistent with this. In Acts 4:28, already quoted, the word is used of foreordaining His Son Jesus to his death upon the cross. 1 Corinthians 2:7 reads: \u201cwe speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory\u201d. In context this is talking about the wisdom of God which is foolishness with men, the achieving of man\u2019s salvation through the crucifixion of Christ. There is no difficulty with the idea of predestination in this context.\nAre individuals predestined to salvation?\nThe two passages in which the word \u2018predestinate\u2019 occurs in the AV, Romans 8 and Ephesians 1, are often taken to be referring to the salvation of individuals, and it is true that the word is used of the salvation of people, rather than of Jesus Christ as the means of that salvation. However, a careful look at these passages shows that Paul is speaking collectively of those who are saved.\nIn Romans 8:29,30 he uses the word twice: \u201cFor whom [God] did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified\u201d. God\u2019s plan is to develop a class of people to become like His Son. He determined beforehand that they should be called, made righteous and eventually glorified.\nThe word also occurs in Ephesians 1:5,11, where we read, \u201cIn Christ [God] chose us before the world was founded, to be dedicated, to be without blemish in His sight, to be full of love; and He destined us\u2014such was His will and pleasure\u2014to be accepted as His sons through Jesus Christ . . . In Christ indeed we have been given our share in the heritage, as was decreed in His design\u201d (vv. 4,5,11, NEB). Here the AV \u201cpredestinate\u201d is represented by \u201cdestined\u201d and \u201cdecreed\u201d. Here again Paul is referring to God\u2019s plan being fulfilled in the saints of his day, not the selecting of individual saints; it is \u201cus\u201d, not \u201ceach of us\u201d.\nA simple analogy will illustrate the difference between God\u2019s predetermined purpose and man\u2019s free will. We are in a railway station and a train is scheduled to leave for London; this is predestination. Each individual can choose whether or not to get on the train and whether or not to leave the train before it reaches London; this is free will.\nThe idea that individuals are predestined to receive eternal life involves the idea of a call, by which is meant the action of God upon the mind of a person to make them respond to the gospel. Such an idea is contrary to Scripture. God does call, but it is by His Word, to which people respond by either accepting or rejecting it. We are saved by faith, and \u201cfaith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God\u201d (Rom. 10:17).\nThis does not, however, mean that people accept the gospel simply because they happen to have had the good fortune to hear it preached. God can and does arrange that individuals who will be responsive to the gospel have it preached to them. However, they still have to respond to it in faith and then hold fast to it if they are to receive eternal life.\nScripture teaches that God has foreknowledge and man has free will. It is difficult for finite human minds to understand how both can be true, and ultimately all we can do is accept that it is so. \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts\u201d (Isa. 55:8,9).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peterpan.in/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MMFJ5OMGNBBJGB3UHRIHS5GLHACU3ZC3", "length": 1889, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "peterpan.in", "title": "ABOUT", "raw_content": "Born to a Chinese mother and an American father, I had the privilege of growing up in Geneva, Switzerland. Despite the safety and prosperity of my homeland, I grew up hungry for obscure knowledge, life-altering experience and strange genius.\nAt the age of 16, I quit school to self-study full-time. Two years later, I flew to Beijing and started traveling \u2013 funding it as I went, roughing it when I couldn\u2019t. The only reason I am still alive is because people have cared for me every step of the way.\nToday, I am 23 years old. Full-time traveler, photographer and writer. I have traveled in every imaginable condition, from dirt poor to the heights of luxury, in three dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe. Instead of tourist attractions, I tend to head towards difficult, sometimes forbidden places, staying with locals or on the streets.\nInterested in the real, not the shown, I rarely plan and usually survive.\nCriss-crossing the world since 2012, above is a rough, simplified map of my travels until 2016. Yeah, I\u2019m a hyperactive kid.\nI am so happy you always do anything you want from your heart.\nThat\u2019s the biggest part of Peter I know.\n\u2013 Himal Adhikari\nYour courage to do what makes you happy and ignore the social pressures put out there for your age group, and your courage to travel where and how you do\u2026\nYou inspired them because you live outside the box.\n-Barb Stuckey\nWhen I first met Peter, I thought he was a little strange. It quickly became clear that \u2018strange\u2019 in this case meant \u2018awesome.\u2019 He is a living contradiction to our assumptions about conventional life. It\u2019s rare to meet someone who truly approaches life on their own terms, and so wholeheartedly\u2026\n\u2013 Alex W\nI don\u2019t think I have met anyone with such a variety of in-depth interests\u2026\nHe is open to debate and loves intense discussions. However he does sleep a lot.\n\u2013 Gavin Lancaster", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pflagdc.org/about/staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:51Z", "digest": "sha1:NQW3O74P6VWHMWTTKVI6DAOGKOWE6C4B", "length": 7236, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "pflagdc.org", "title": "PFLAG-DC \u2013 People", "raw_content": "PFLAG-DC > About PFLAG-DC > People\nKEVIN NUNLEY\nKevin Nunley currently serves as the president of the board of directors for Metro DC PFLAG. In this role, he works to ensure the success of the group\u2019s mission through education, advocacy, and support.\nKevin has performed over 100 different lectures, trainings, and presentations for both the federal, corporate, and NGO sectors on topics including coming out, sexuality, identity, expression, combating homophobia and heterosexism, and creating inclusive work environments at places like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, the Federal Reserve, Office of Attorney General, USAID, and others.\nKevin serves as the Vice President of Student Affairs at The Washington Center for Academic Seminars and Internships, a nonprofit group working with over 500 colleges and universities worldwide to bring students into DC for professional experiences. Prior to joining The Washington Center, Kevin worked at several colleges and universities with teaching roles in residential life, counseling, wellness, diversity, and inclusion.\nIn the greater DC community, Kevin serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Thomas Circle Singers and was a Peer Group Facilitator for Whitman-Walker Health, former ambassador for the DC Gay Professionals Group, a member of the DC Center\u2019s Speakers Bureau, and a founding captain of a kickball team in the Stonewall League.\nBoard Vice Chair for Operations & Finance\nAndrew J. Sampson\nNicolle Campa\nNicolle and her husband are the proud parents of an amazing and talented transgender daughter. In 2017 they joined PFLAG looking for support and resources to better navigate their daughter's gender transition.\nNicolle has always been passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and an ally of the LGBTQ+ community. Over the course of her career as an HR Professional, Nicolle has led numerous Diversity & Inclusion initiatives.\nCoincidentally, two years prior to her daughter coming out, Nicolle developed Gender Transition Guidelines, with the goal to let employees know they are supported and to provide managers with tools to support their employees' transition at work.\nUnderstanding all the challenges, love, and support her daughter has experienced, Nicolle wants to help support other families and LGBTQ+ individuals. She strongly believes everyone should have the right to live life authentically.\nMeredith Laurie\nMeredith Laurie has been living in Washington, D.C. since 2007 when she moved from her native Rhode Island to go to graduate school at The George Washington University. This began a fulfilling career in higher education that Meredith will always regard as some of the most purposeful and important work she has done.\nToday, Meredith works as a Human Capital consultant. A what?! In other words, Meredith works with clients to help solve their people problems and think of creative and innovative ways clients can leverage their most critical resource, their workforce!\nMeredith, her wife Lindsay, and their dog Gansett just purchased their \"hopefully forever home\" in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Meredith joined the Metro D.C. PFLAG Board of Directors in 2017 and has been inspired by the commitment of the local community. She hopes to leverage her skills to help further the mission of Keeping Families Together and support local community groups as they do truly amazing work. Meredith is an only child, loves the beach, drinks iced coffee all year long, and is a sports enthusiast.\nDanielle Foote\nQueer former cat lady and social worker by trade and calling, Danielle spends most of her time working at an outpatient behavioral health care and service agency.\nOutside work, she helps run a feminist book club, relishes life with her partner, and in the margins, indulges her monastic impulse.\nHaving spent most of her formative years in Michigan and Colorado, she has called Washington DC her home for the past four years. Perpetually curious about what shapes peoples\u2019 identities and human subjectivity, Danielle was attracted to Metro DC PFLAG for their vision to help restore families, foster vibrant, collaborative community, and advance equality and affirmation of LGBTQ people. Given this background, she is interested in helping forge partnerships and empower communities to fulfill PFLAG\u2019s great mission.\nKira Prin\nAdvocacy Chair-Virginia\nPhil Hicks, a 56-year-old native of Alexandria, Virginia, served on the Metro DC PFLAG Board of Directors from 2009 to 2013, including two years as Board President.\nPhil has focused his attention on the push for Equality in Virginia. The position of Virginia Advocacy Chair allows him to partner with other statewide groups working for that very important mission\u2014changing hearts and minds. Equality includes so much more than the ability to marry. Discrimination takes place in the workplace, churches, and the halls of government every day.\nAdvocacy Chair-Maryland\nDavid S. Fishback\nDavid S. Fishback has been active in the Metro DC Chapter of PFLAG since 2002, serving as the Chapter\u2019s Advocacy Chair since 2006. From 2003 to 2005, he was Chair of the Montgomery County (MD) Board of Education\u2019s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development. He is the author of the 2015 National PFLAG publication Curriculum Victory, Mongtomery County, Maryland: A Case Study and Handbook for Action, has testified before local and state legislative bodies, made presentations at National PFLAG Conventions, and has debated anti-gay spokespersons numerous times on D.C. area television programs.\nDavid was the principal public (and behind the scenes) advocate for full inclusion and effective teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity in the health education curriculum of the Montgomery County Public Schools \u2014 an approach adopted in part by MCPS in 2007 and in full in 2014. He helped bring useful resources to the MCPS guidance offices and successfully combatted efforts by anti-gay groups to propagandize their reparative therapy notions in the public schools. In addition, he works with families and other stakeholders to secure improvements to, and implementation of, MCPS policies, including the MCPS Gender Identity Guidelines. Gender Identity Guidelines. He also consults with other PFLAG chapters and allies in the region on advocacy issues.\nDavid also represented Metro DC PFLAG in the successful Maryland campaigns to secure civil marriage equality and civil rights for transgender people. He continues to consult with other PFLAG chapters and allies in the region on advocacy issues. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he retired in 2013 from the U.S. Department of Justice. David and his wife Bobbi, who co-wrote the opening chapter of Kulanu: All of Us \u2014A Program and Resource Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusion Kulanu: All of Us--A Program and Resource Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusion (2007), a publication of the Union for Reform Judaism; co-chair the diversity inclusion committee at Temple Emanuel in Kensington; and are the parents of two adult gay sons and grandparents of two wonderful grandchildren.\nOther PFLAG-related writing by David may be found in his blog. Click here to check it out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://phamnguyen.com.vn/index.php?id_pnewsv=333&lg=eg&start=0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YJYB2OAFNO4JDSZFDC4QGQIZ5BFUREVN", "length": 1201, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "phamnguyen.com.vn", "title": "MaxSignal\u00ae Trifluralin ELISA Test Kit", "raw_content": "MaxSignal\u00ae Trifluralin ELISA Test Kit is a competitive enzyme immunoassay for the quantitative analysis of Trifluralin in fish and meat. Trifluralin, a member of the dinitro analin family, is a selective, preemergence dinitroaniline herbicide used to control many annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in a large variety of tree fruit, nut, vegetable, and grain crops. However, trifluralin can persist in soils for many months after it is used and is highly toxic to aquatic animals (fish and invertebrates). Sediment-feeding organisms are particularly at risk because of the tendency of trifluralin to bioaccumulate. Studies also suggest exposure-related abnormalities in the vertebral development of aquatic animals, at low concentrations.\nMaxSignal\u00ae Trifluralin ELISA Test Kit enables international and government regulatory agencies, food manufacturers and processors, as well as quality assurance organizations, to detect trifluralin in fish and meat and to satisfy customer\u2019s concerns about food safety. The unique features of the kit are:\nHigh recovery (>75%), rapid (10 - 40 minutes), and cost-effective extraction methods\nQuick ELISA assay (less than 2 hours regardless of the number of samples)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://phoenix-eu-project.eu/detalle_noticia.php?no_id=22338", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:13Z", "digest": "sha1:MQG5BJIIGSSZO24OTITZK67UUHM2B2YP", "length": 6417, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "phoenix-eu-project.eu", "title": "Strain Improves Performance of Atomically Thin Semiconductor Phoenix", "raw_content": "Strain Improves Performance of Atomically Thin Semiconductor\nResearchers in UConn\u2019s Institute of Materials Science significantly improved the performance of an atomically thin semiconductor material by stretching it, an accomplishment that could prove beneficial to engineers designing the next generation of flexible electronics, nano devices, and optical sensors.\nIn a study appearing in the research journal Nano Letters, Michael Pettes, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, reports that a six-atom thick bilayer of tungsten diselenide exhibited a 100-fold increase in photoluminescence when it was subjected to strain. The material had never exhibited such photoluminescence before.\nThe findings mark the first time scientists have been able to conclusively show that the properties of atomically thin materials can be mechanically manipulated to enhance their performance, Pettes says. Such capabilities could lead to faster computer processors and more efficient sensors.\nThe process the researchers used to achieve the outcome is also significant in that it offers a reliable new methodology for measuring the impact of strain on ultrathin materials, something that has been difficult to do and a hindrance to innovation.\n\u201cExperiments involving strain are often criticized since the strain experienced by these atomically thin materials is difficult to determine and often speculated as being incorrect,\u201d says Pettes. \u201cOur study provides a new methodology for conducting strain-dependent measurements of ultrathin materials, and this is important because strain is predicted to offer orders of magnitude changes in the properties of these materials across many different scientific fields.\u201d\nScientists have been intrigued by the potential of atomically thin materials ever since researchers Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov successfully cleaved a one-atom thick layer of graphene from a piece of graphite in 2004. Considered a supermaterial for its outstanding strength, flexibility, and ability to conduct electricity, two-dimensional graphene transformed the electronics industry and earned the researchers a Nobel Prize.\nBut for all that it offers, graphene has its limitations. It is a poor semiconductor because it lacks an electron band gap in its internal structure. As a result, electrons are unimpeded and flow rapidly through it when the material is energized. The best semiconductor materials, such as silicon, have a sizable band gap that allows a flow of electrons to be turned on and off. That capability is vital for creating the strings of zeros and ones that make up the binary computing codes used in transistors and integrated circuits.\nMaterials scientists are exploring the potential of other two-dimensional and atomically thin materials hoping to find products superior to graphene and silicon.\nOur findings should allow computational scientists using artificial intelligence to design new materials with extremely strain-resistant or strain-sensitive structures.\u2014 Michael Pettes\nStrain engineering has been discussed as one possible way to enhance the performance of these materials, because their ultrathin structure makes them particularly susceptible to bending and stretching, unlike their larger three-dimensional bulk forms. But testing the impact of strain on materials just a few atoms thick has proven enormously difficult.\nIn the present study, Pettes and Wei Wu, a Ph.D. student in Pettes\u2019 lab and the study\u2019s lead author, were able to successfully measure the influence of strain on a single crystalline bilayer of tungsten diselenide by first encapsulating it in a fine layer of acrylic glass and then heating it in an argon gas chamber. (Exposure to air would destroy the sample). This thermal processing strengthened the material\u2019s adhesion to a polymer substrate, allowing for a near perfect transfer of applied strain, which has been difficult to achieve in prior experiments.\nThe group then customized a bending device that allowed them to carefully increase strain on the material while monitoring how it responded through a Horiba Multiline Raman Spectrometer at the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems, a shared user facility funded by the National Science Foundation.\nIt was an exciting moment.\n\u201cOur new method allowed us to apply around two times more strain to the 2-D material than any previous study has reported,\u201d says Pettes. \u201cEssentially, we were in new territory.\u201d\nUltimately, the researchers found that applying increasing levels of strain to the material altered its flow of electrons, which was reflected by the increased intensity in photoluminescence.\nWorking with computer modeling expert Avinash Dongare, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UConn, and former Ph.D. student Jin Wang, the team was able to show that their process could, theoretically, manipulate the band gap of tungsten diselenide and other atomically thin materials, which is extremely important for design engineers seeking faster and more efficient semiconductors and sensors. Manipulating a semiconductor with an indirect band gap very near the point of transitioning to a direct band gap could lead to extremely fast processing capabilities.\n\u201cThis is the first time that extrinsic control over an indirect-to-direct electron band gap transition has been conclusively reported,\u201d says Pettes. \u201cOur findings should allow computational scientists using artificial intelligence to design new materials with extremely strain-resistant or strain-sensitive structures. That is extremely important for the next generation of high-performance flexible nanoelectronics and optoelectronic devices.\u201d\nJoining Pettes and Wu on the research were two undergraduate students: UConn senior Nico Wright \u201918 (ENG), a former McNair Scholar and participant in NSF\u2019s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program; and Danielle Leppert-Simenauer, also a former participant in NSF\u2019s REU program and currently an undergraduate majoring in physics at the University of California-San Diego.\nThe U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland provided graphene films that were used to confirm the calibration standards applied by the UConn researchers to measure strain. The atomic-level thickness of the tungsten diselenide bilayer was confirmed through transmission electron microscopy in the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 7372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pickletheory.com/281/billy-joel-on-not-working-drinking-and-song-writing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RPDGMNP3EBVHX5FLTT5RBL7OCF4YCMWM", "length": 888, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "pickletheory.com", "title": "Billy Joel on not working, drinking, and song-writing - The Pickle Theory", "raw_content": "Billy Joel on not working, drinking, and song-writing\nThis is a really good interview. Here\u2019s a snippet, when Andrew Gold of the New York Times asks Joel if songwriting is hard for him:\nYeah, I relate to Beethoven. I write backward \u2014 I write the music first and then I write the words. Most people write the words first and then they write the music. Keith Richards was explaining his method of songwriting. He calls it \u201cvowel movement.\u201d They come up with a riff, and it\u2019s like sounds, and whatever sound . . . like \u201cstart me up\u201d \u2014 \u201cup\u201d works because it has a consonant at the end of it, but if you go \u201ctake me home,\u201d it wouldn\u2019t have worked. I kind of subscribe to that. It has to sound right sometimes even more than being a poetic lyric. It\u2019s a struggle to fit words onto music, and I want it to be really, really good, so I take a long time. I love having written, but I hate writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pl.extreme.com/blog/outdoor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WOSHSEWZHCI4ENJ6QO43PY24SE6VF6N2", "length": 931, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pl.extreme.com", "title": "News - Extreme Sports Channel: The Home of Action Sports", "raw_content": "Ring Warriors: NEW Want to get a fix of old school Pro-Wrestling? Then check out Ring Warriors, which is brand new to Extreme this month. Ring\u2026Read article\nWhat is the most extreme thing you\u2019ve ever done. It may not be as impressive as some of the athletes on show at the EOFT (it\u2026Read article\nThe biggest action sports film festival in Europe is about to hit the road again. Some of the most inspiring, jaw-dropping and mind-blowing outdoor and action\u2026Read article\nInspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world\u2019s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions\u2026Read article\nSailing around the world with no experience\nThe Clipper Round the World yacht race is the planet\u2019s longest ocean adventure. It is a nautical odyssey that circumnavigates the entire globe, crossing every major\u2026Read article\nThe Flying Winger: Extreme wingsuit rugby stunt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://podlinskidental.com/our-services/porcelain-laminate-veneers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YM5BWYRUR3PEV3CNJS4EVZUYQ5E2QDKB", "length": 951, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "podlinskidental.com", "title": "Porcelain Laminate Veneers - Dentist Manhattan New York City :: Dorota Podlinski, DDS :: Polski Dentysta Manhattan Stomatolog NY", "raw_content": "Many times the demands of cosmetic changes in the mouth are too great for simple bonding. This is when porcelain laminate veneers may be used.\nPorcelain veneers can dramatically change an entire smile. They can change the shape, color, size and arrangement of teeth or any combination of these factors. They can often be used as an alternative to orthodontic treatment.\nThe technique consists of shaving a thin layer of outer tooth structure. An impression is then taken of the prepared teeth and is sent to a dental laboratory. In the lab, a ceramist will make very thin porcelain facings consisting of all the changes in shape, size, color and tooth arrangement that are needed to have a great looking smile.\nAt the second visit, the laminates are bonded onto the prepared teeth with the blue light gun. The bonding material acts as an adhesive for the laminates. Porcelain laminates are the most popular technique used for dramatic smile makeovers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poissondistribution.blogspot.com/2007/08/simon-denis-poisson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGKIWTKSXAEXA3RTZM7TVFPPHOZ4E2TC", "length": 10993, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "poissondistribution.blogspot.com", "title": "Poisson distribution: Sim\u00e9on Denis Poisson", "raw_content": "(Redirected from Simeon Poisson)\n\"Poisson\" redirects here. For other persons and things bearing this name, see Poisson (disambiguation).\nSim\u00e9on Poisson\nSim\u00e9on-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 \u2013 April 25, 1840), was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. The name is pronounced [sime\u00f5 d\u032a\u0259ni pwas\u00f5] in French.\nPoisson was born in Pithiviers.\nIn 1798, he entered the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year,and immediately began to attract the notice of the professors of the school, who left him free to follow the studies of his predilection. In 1800, less than two years after his entry, he published two memoirs, one on \u00c9tienne B\u00e9zout's method of elimination, the other on the number of integrals of an equation of finite differences. The latter of these memoirs was examined by Sylvestre-Fran\u00e7ois Lacroix and Adrien-Marie Legendre, who recommended that it should be published in the Recueil des savants \u00e9trangers, an unparalleled honour for a youth of eighteen. This success at once procured for Poisson an entry into scientific circles. Joseph Louis Lagrange, whose lectures on the theory of functions he attended at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique, early recognized his talent, and became his friend (the Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Lagrange as his advisor, but this may be an approximation); while Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps Poisson followed, regarded him almost as his son. The rest of his career, till his death in Sceaux near Paris, was almost entirely occupied in the composition and publication of his many works, and in discharging the duties of the numerous educational offices to which he was successively appointed.\nImmediately after finishing his course at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique he was appointed repetiteur there, an office which he had discharged as an amateur while still a pupil in the school; for it had been the custom of his comrades often to resort to his room after an unusually difficult lecture to hear him repeat and explain it. He was made deputy professor (professeur suppl\u00e9ant) in 1802, and, in 1806 full professor in succession to Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, whom Napoleon had sent to Grenoble. In 1808 he became astronomer to the Bureau des Longitudes; and when the Facult\u00e9 des Sciences was instituted in 1809 he was appointed professor of rational mechanics (professeur de m\u00e9canique rationelle). He further became member of the Institute in 1812, examiner at the military school (\u00c9cole Militaire) at Saint-Cyr in 1815, leaving examiner at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in 1816, councillor of the university in 1820, and geometer to the Bureau des Longitudes in succession to P. S. Laplace in 1827.\nIn 1817, he married Nancy de Bardi and with her he had [several?] children. His father, whose early experiences led him to hate aristocrats, bred him in the stern creed of the first republic. Throughout the Revolution, the Empire and the following restoration, Poisson was not interested in politics, concentrating on Mathematics. He was appointed to the dignity of baron in 1821; but he neither took out the diploma or used the title. The revolution of July 1830 threatened him with the loss of all his honours; but this disgrace to the government of Louis-Philippe was adroitly averted by Fran\u00e7ois Jean Dominique Arago, who, while his \"revocation\" was being plotted by the council of ministers, procured him an invitation to dine at the Palais Royal, where he was openly and effusively received by the citizen king, who \"remembered\" him. After this, of course, his degradation was impossible, and seven years later he was made a peer of France, not for political reasons, but as a representative of French science.\nLike many scientists of his time, he was an atheist.\nAs a teacher of mathematics Poisson is said to have been more than ordinarily successful, as might have been expected from his early promise as a repetiteur at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique. As a scientific worker his activity has rarely if ever been equalled. Notwithstanding his many official duties, he found time to publish more than three hundred works, several of them extensive treatises, and many of them memoirs dealing with the most abstruse branches of pure, applied mathematics, mathematical physics and rational mechanics.\nA list of Poisson's works, drawn up by himself, is given at the end of Arago's biography. All that is possible is a brief mention of the more important. It was in the application of mathematics to physical subjects that his greatest services to science were performed. Perhaps the most original, and certainly the most permanent in their influence, were his memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism, which virtually created a new branch of mathematical physics.\nNext (perhaps in the opinion of some first) in importance stand the memoirs on celestial mechanics, in which he proved himself a worthy successor to P.-S. Laplace. The most important of these are his memoirs Sur les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s s\u00e9culaires des moyens mouvements des plan\u00e8tes, Sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les questions de m\u00e9canique, both published in the Journal of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique (1809); Sur la libration de la lune, in Connaiss. des temps (1821), etc.; and Sur le mouvement de la terre autour de son centre de gravit\u00e9, in M\u00e9m. d. l'acad. (1827), etc. In the first of these memoirs Poisson discusses the famous question of the stability of the planetary orbits, which had already been settled by Lagrange to the first degree of approximation for the disturbing forces. Poisson showed that the result could be extended to a second approximation, and thus made an important advance in the planetary theory. The memoir is remarkable inasmuch as it roused Lagrange, after an interval of inactivity, to compose in his old age one of the greatest of his memoirs, entitled Sur la th\u00e9orie des variations des \u00e9l\u00e9ments des plan\u00e8tes, et en particulier des variations des grands axes de leurs orbites. So highly did he think of Poisson's memoir that he made a copy of it with his own hand, which was found among his papers after his death. Poisson made important contributions to the theory of attraction.\nPoisson's well-known correction of Laplace's partial differential equation of the second degree for the potential:\ntoday named after him the Poisson's equation or the potential theory equation, was first published in the Bulletin de in soci\u00e9t\u00e9 philomatique (1813). If a function of a given point \u03c1 = 0, we get Laplace's equation:\nIn 1812 Poisson discovered that Laplace's equation is valid only outside of a solid. A rigorous proof for masses with variable density was first given by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1839. Both equations have their equivalents in vector algebra. The study of scalar field \u03c6 from a given divergence \u03c1(x, y, z) of its gradient leads to Poisson's equation in 3-dimensional space:\nFor instance Poisson's equation for surface electrical potential \u03a8, which shows its dependence from the density of electrical charge \u03c1e in particular place:\nThe distribution of a charge in a fluid is unknown and we have to use Poisson-Boltzmann equation:\nwhich in most cases cannot be solved analytically but just for special cases. In polar coordinates the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is:\nwhich also cannot be solved analytically. If a field \u03c6 is not a scalar, the Poisson equation is valid, as can be for example in 4-dimensional Minkowski space:\nIf \u03c1(x, y, z) is a continuous function and if for r\u2192\u221e (or if a point 'moves' to infinity) a function \u03c6 goes to 0 fast enough, a solution of Poisson's equation is the Newtonian potential of a function \u03c1(x, y, z):\nwhere r is a distance between the element with the volume dv and point M.\nIntegration runs over the whole space. The Poisson's integral in solving the Green's function for the Dirichlet problem of the Laplace's equation, if circle is investigated domain:\n\u03c6(\u03c7) is prescribed function on a circular line, which defines bounding conditions of requested function \u03c6 of Laplace's equation.\nIn the same manner we define the Green's function for the Dirichlet problem of the Laplace's equation \u22072 \u03c6 = 0 in space, if we look to the investigated domain of a sphere with a radius R. This time the Green's function is:\nis a distance of a point (\u03be, \u03b7, \u03b6) from the center of a sphere\nr a distance between points (x, y, z)\n(\u03be, \u03b7, \u03b6), r1 is a distance between the point (x, y, z) and the point (R\u03be/\u03c1, R\u03b7/\u03c1, R\u03b6/\u03c1), symmetrical to the point (\u03be, \u03b7, \u03b6)\nThe Poisson's integral now has a form:\nPoisson's two most important memoirs on the subject are Sur l'attraction des sph\u00e9roides (Connaiss. ft. temps, 1829), and Sur l'attraction d'un ellipsoide homog\u00e8ne (Mim. ft. l'acad., 1835). In concluding our selection from his physical memoirs we may mention his memoir on the theory of waves (M\u00e9m. ft. l'acad., 1825).\nIn pure mathematics, his most important works were his series of memoirs on definite integrals, and his discussion of Fourier series, which paved the way for the classical researches of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Bernhard Riemann on the same subject; these are to be found in the Journal of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique from 1813 to 1823, and in the Memoirs de l'acad\u00e9mie for 1823. He also studied Fourier integrals. In addition we may also mention his essay on the calculus of variations (Mem. de l'acad., 1833), and his memoirs on the probability of the mean results of observations (Connaiss. d. temps, 1827, &c). The Poisson distribution in probability theory is named after him.\nIn his Trait\u00e9 de m\u00e9canique (2 vols. 8vo, 1811 arid 1833), which was written in Laplace and Lagrange style and was long a standard work he showed many new grips such as an explicit usage of impulsive coordinates:\nwhich has influenced on the work of William Rowan Hamilton and Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi.\nBesides his many memoirs Poisson published a number of treatises, most of which were intended to form part of a great work on mathematical physics, which he did not live to complete. Among these may be mentioned\nNouvelle th\u00e9orie de l'action capillaire (4to, 1831);\nTh\u00e9orie math\u00e9matique de la chaleur (4to, 1835);\nSupplement to the same (4to, 1837);\nRecherches sur la probabilit\u00e9 des jugements en mati\u00e8res criminelles et mati\u00e8re civile (4to, 1837), all published at Paris.\nIn 1815 Poisson carried out integrations along paths in the complex plane. In 1831 he independently of Claude-Louis Navier derived the Navier-Stokes equations.\nPoisson's spot\nPoisson (crater) (named after Sim\u00e9on Denis Poisson)\nPoisson bracket\nO'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson \"Sim\u00e9on Denis Poisson\". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.\nSim\u00e9on Denis Poisson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project\nGeorge Biddell Airy Copley Medal\njointly with Michael Faraday Succeeded by\nGiovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana\nRetrieved from \"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%A9on_Denis_Poisson\"\nCategories: 1781 births | 1840 deaths | People from Centre | French mathematicians | 19th century mathematicians | Alumni of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 14021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 191.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://polkcounty.wtsp.com/news/community-spirit?page=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ND55IVFWXRW5UF2CZYUABMO6CBG7P3LC", "length": 1427, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "polkcounty.wtsp.com", "title": "Community Spirit | Polk County News", "raw_content": "Hearing impaired kids and families gather for family fun\nBartow, FL -- Families of kids with certain challenges including hearing loss will be getting together this week in Bartow.\nThursday will mark Florida Hands & Voices Family Fun Night. The Support session by the Florida Hands & Voices Group has been established to provide education, advice, self-help skills for the parents of deaf or hard of hearing children discover new potentials and possibilities.\nPublic meeting about Poinciana Park\nSaturday, May 4th, 2013, 12:52pm\nPolk County, Florida -- Polk County Parks and Natural Resources is hosting a public meeting about Poinciana Park, a new park opening in Fall 2013 in Poinciana.\nPhase I construction includes a three multi-purpose fields, restrooms, two baseball fields, a basketball court, a dog park, picnic facilities and parking.\nThe discussion of the meeting will include new athletic league possibilities and rental opportunities.\nPolk County Public Schools lists commencement\nPolk County, Florida-- The 2013 graduation season is here, and as this year\u2019s graduates prepare to take the next step towards future goals, family members, friends, and members of the community will want to share in their excitement.\nStudents who earned their diplomas will be honored at various graduation ceremonies in May and June, and Polk Public Schools reps have made it easy to see which schools' events are scheduled for when.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 7179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pontosworld.com/index.php/pontus/places/182-a-history-of-amisos-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VOKR6TXOZSI22TU6LVJUVTFELIEILZFY", "length": 46226, "nlines": 153, "source_domain": "pontosworld.com", "title": "Amisos: A History", "raw_content": "Amisos: A History\nModern Samsun (see note 1), known as Amisos by Greeks and Byzantines, Missos by Romans, Simisso by Genoese and then Samsun by Seljuk Turks and Ottoman Turks lies between the deltas of the Kizilirmak (ancient Halys) and Ye\u015filirmak (ancient Iris) rivers (Figure 1). It is the largest city and the main port for trade of the middle Black Sea coast in Turkey. Amisos lies within the region referred to by Greeks as the Pontos (note 2)-the northeast portion of Turkey adjacent the Black Sea.\nThe coastline from Amisos to Batumi in the east is hemmed in to the Black Sea by the Pontic Alps, which rise to over 4,000 m in the east. The culture of the coastal area has always been isolated from that of central Anatolia by the mountain range which has few passes.5\nAncient Amisos lies 165 km east of Sinope on the flat top and eastern slopes of a plateau headland just to the west of modern Samsun. It didn't have a good harbour; nor was it near the mouth of a major river. Historically its main assets were iron, probably traded from the Chalybes (see section Early Human Settlement), olives (Strabo) and some silver.3 Historically, Amisos had intensive links with central Anatolia and looked more inland than across the Black Sea.35\nFigure 1: Black Sea19\nThe hills come down to the sea for a short distance on either side of Amisos and then, on the eastern side, the coast opens up into a wide plain. It has both a fertile hinterland and a major caravan route. Three gentle passes south of Amisos offer the easiest route over the whole stretch of the Pontic Alps. At Amisos a large flat-topped natural acropolis about 2.7 km long north to south and 1.5 km wide, rising to 159 m overlooks the sea. The acropolis reaches the sea at a steep promontory and there is some shelter on the east side.7\nThis article covers the settlement of indigenous people around Amisos, Greek colonisation, the Mithradatic Wars with Rome, the Byzantine period, the Seljuk Turks, the Ottoman Turks, its commercial rise in the late 19th century, the impact of Mustafa Kemal and the exchange of Christian and Muslim populations between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s.\nNorthcentral and northeastern Anatolia remains devoid of Neolithic settlement from 9600 to 7000 BC (the Anatolian pre-pottery phase). It is unclear whether these regions have buried Neolithic sites or experienced adverse climates or whether they were sparsely populated by communities of hunters and gatherers. Evidence from the northeastern highlands indicates that village societies moved into this rugged terrain as late as the fifth millennium BC (Chalcolithic Age).27\nFrom surveys of settlements in the central Black Sea region (including the Samsun province), the number of settlements decreased considerably from the third to the second millennium BC.12\nThere is little evidence of settlement in the inland and coastal areas of the central Black Sea region, even in the Middle Iron Age (850-650 BCE). The absence of population between 1200 and 650 BCE is that at the end of the Late Bronze Age the territory was controlled and populated by the nomadic Kashka people, who were enemies of the Hittites. Thus the region formed a buffer zone:\nfrom the archaeological evidence it is clear that the Central Black Sea region was under the dominion of Proto Indo-Europeans before the Early Bronze Age II, beginning from around 2800 BC ... By the Early Bronze Age II period, it was under the dominion of Indo-Europeans, this time culturally linked to Central Anatolia, and from 1700 to 650 BC it was under the Gashka [Kashka] people. After this, from 650 BC onwards, an Indo-European people related to the Phrygians lived there.35\nSettlements revealed in Samsun's city centre (e.g. Dundartepe) indicate they were occupied during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.11\nAccording to the Greek General and historian Xenophon (ca. 400 BC) who with 10,000 Greek mercenaries travelled through the southern Black Sea region on route back to Greece from Persia, stated the local people closest to the Black Sea littoral included the Macrones, Colchians and Drilae near Trabzon; the Mossynoeci west of Cerasus (modern Giresun); to the west of them the Chalybes and to their west the Tibareni around Cotyora (Ordu). West of Ordu, and around Amisos lived natives, but their names were not given. Unfortunately, Xenophon did not pass through Amisos but sailed past it to Sinope.38\nNot much is known archaeologically of the Black Sea natives mentioned by Xenophon.35 Other written historical sources record the native people around Amisos as; Syroi (Herodotus), Assyrioi (Ps.-Skylax), Leukosyroi (Strabo) or Kappadokes (Strabo) (Figure 2).3\n3. Greek Colonisation\nThere are inconsistencies in the written historical sources about the Greek colonisation in the Pontos and the current archaeological evidence. The Greeks knew the Black Sea as early as the 8th century BC. This view is based on archaeological evidence and on early Greek legends such as Jason and the Argonauts who set out to find the Golden Fleece in Colchis (modern Georgia, see Figure 1). Some scholars believe this legend occurred before the Trojan War because Homer mentions the legend in the Iliad.33\nThe earliest Greek trade with the lands around the Black Sea was reflected in the Greek legends about the origin of iron. According to these legends items of iron first came from the Trans-Caucasian regions.10 Also, according to Apollonius of Rhodes' story of The Voyage of the Argo, the mythical Amazons lived just east of Amisos in three towns near Themiscrya near the mouth of the Thermodon (modern Terme) river.\nThe Black Sea littoral was heavily populated by local natives and from the outset, many of these were hostile to the Greeks, e.g. between Byzantium and Heraclea (Figure 3), there were no Greek colonies despite the ideal locations, because the historic sources state the region had hostile natives.34\nFigure 2: Amisos31\nIn the written historical sources, it is unclear exactly when the Greeks appeared on the southern Black Sea coast. However, Greek pottery from the Halys valley (between Sinope and Amisos, see Figure 2) proves the Greeks had contacts there long before the foundation of the coastal cities. Iron Age settlements testify to significant cultural exchange in the late Archaic period (Archaic period ca. 750-550 BC). Sites along the Halys basin yielding Greek pottery and architectural terracottas seem to indicate that the Greeks paid special attention here. The reason was due to this valley's abundant resources such as red pigments and other minerals.31\nThe Milesians (Figure 3) drove out from Sinope the weakened Leucosyrians [also referred to as White Syrians or Kappadocians] after a period of occupation by the Kimmerians. Sinope then conquered land from the natives to the east for her colonists.3\nAmisos was founded around 564 BC. Ancient authors state two interpretations: a Milesian foundation, or a joint foundation by Phocaea and Miletos (note 3). The archaeological evidence from Amisos just adds to the confusion. No proper excavation of the settlement has been conducted because of modern overbuilding. For example, the site of the acropolis is occupied by a Turkish military base, to which there is no access. Its construction is believed to have destroyed many archaeological and architectural remains.35\nThe Greek settlers in both Sinope and Amisos had to deal with the indigenous people from the beginning of their colonial activities, since their survival depended on access to the native territory to obtain agricultural products, minerals and metals. The presence of local pottery in Amisos suggests that the native Kappadocians formed a part of the population there. Amisos may have been founded over an already existing settlement or it could have received people from the surrounding area.31\nFigure 3: Miletos and some of its Black Sea Colonies17\n4. The Mithradates (302-63 BC) and Rome\nSoon after Xenophon's journey (ca. 400 BC) through the northern part of Asia Minor, Amisos, like other Greek coastal towns of Asia Minor, in 386 BC came under Persian control.14\nSoon after this came the conquering Alexander the Great. However, Alexander's army did not advance north of Ankara and so west Pontos remained under the command of satraps of Persian origin while the isolated east Pontos had never been conquered. (Some sources assume Alexander liberated the Pontos.) After the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the creation of the Hellenic kingdoms, Mithradates I declared east Pontos independent and in 302 BC he established the kingdom of Pontos. He did not interfere with the body politic in the Greek cities of the coast which controlled the markets and shipping. Greek was the official language of his realm.20\nThe origins of Mithradates I Ktistes (the builder) (302-266 BC), the first Pontic king, is not very well understood. He probably came from the upper classes of Pontos, and was possibly related to the Persian dynasts. Mithradates I and a succession of kings from the same family ruled over the area from Heraclea (420 km in a straight line over land west of Amisos) to Trabzon (290 km in a straight line east of Amisos) for over 150 years until the reign of Mithradates VI Eupator (120-63 BC), where the kingdom of Pontos reached its peak (note 4).15\nThis period of prosperity however, was short-lived. Mithradates VI had ambitions beyond the Black Sea as he set his sights on the Hellenistic world of Asia Minor which was under Roman rule. The series of Mithradatic Wars waged against the Romans compelled Rome to send considerable forces to Pontos to quash Mithradates.20\nMithradates VI Eupator chose Amisos as his royal residence where he built Eupatoria, a new quarter which was an extension to the old city. During the third Mithradatic War (74-63 BC) the Roman General Lucullus laid siege on Amisos. In the summer of 71 BC Amisos was captured after the guard set fire to the city and then escaped by sea. Against Lucullus' wishes, the Roman pillage lasted overnight, but Amisos was saved from total devastation by rain. Lucullus partially restored the city, liberated it and extended its territory.14\nIn 63 BC, Amisos was ceded from General Pompey to Bithynia and was incorporated in the newly established province of Bithynia-Pontos. In the winter of 48-47 BC Pharnakes II, son of Mithradates, captured Amisos. Caesar then defeated Pharnakes in 47 BC and set Amisos free. In 39 BC, Mark Antony included the city in the province of Pontos Polemoniakos. The city was then ruled by tyrants. Finally, Octavian (the later Augustus) in 31 BC proclaimed Amisos free and a Roman ally.14\nAccording to the 2nd century AD geographer, Ptolemy, Amisos (in his day) belonged to the province of Galatia. After the Roman Emperor Diocletian's monetary reforms in 286 AD it was included in the province of Diospontos which was renamed Helenopontos by Constantine I (324-37 AD). From the Roman period, Amisos was known as Missos.14\n5. Byzantine and Seljuk Turk Era\nDuring the late antiquity and throughout the Byzantine era, Amisos was a significant town. In around 860 AD it was a tourma (an administrative division) in the theme of Armeniakon. Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennitos (913-59 AD) stated the importance of the port. Amisos played a key role in Byzantine economy. In the second half of the 9th and throughout the 10th century it was a kommerkion [it applied a customs tax] and an export centre for cereals. During this period fiscal officials were stationed in the city.14\nHaving been held by the Byzantines, Amisos seemed to have passed without a fight to the Seljuk Turks in ca. 1194, becoming part of the lands of Rukn al-Din, an ally of Byzantine Emperor Alexios III. In 1204, it passed equally casually to Alexios and David Komnenos (founders of the Empire of Trebizond), despite the recapture causing considerable disruption to the Seljuk Turks.7\nWhat seems to have happened at Amisos was Turkmen infiltration and settlement before 1194 and the establishment of a rival port of Samsun, side by side with Amisos (both located in the northwest quarter, east of the acropolis, see Figure 4). Although Samsun was under Seljuk Turk rule during ca. 1194 to 1204, Amisos probably remained Greek and that there was a local accommodation of interests.7\nClassical Amisos, on the acropolis, was probably abandoned before 1194. Byzantine Amisos and Seljuk Samsun, were therefore probably on the beach (northwest quarter). The site taken by the Seljuk Turks in 1214\nFigure 4: Modern Samsun (Google satellite maps)\nprobably also represents Byzantine Amisos. The Genoese station of Simisso\nwas established by 1285 (southeast quarter) only an \u2018arrows flight away' from Samsun and provided protection to the local Greeks and Armenians, who were probably still the majority of the population.7\nThere was a period of Greek-Turkmen coexistence, but this site became Turkish Samsun after 1214. The town and castle of Samsun was probably established as a Seljuk Turk settlement after the Seljuk \u2018recapture' in 1214. In 1242, the Mongols defeated the Seljuks and reduced them to tributary status. As a consequence, the empire of Trebizond who were Seljuk vassals for the past decade, consequently changed masters.21 But after the Mongol withdrawal (note 5), Samsun was ceded to the Turkmen Isfendiyaroglu dynasty of Sinope.7\n6. Ottoman Turk Period\nBy the 14th century, Turkish Samsun and Genoese Simisso were still distinct settlements existing side by side. The Ottoman sultan Bayezid I captured Samsun around 1393 but the Mongols blocked all trade through it in 1401. By 1404 it was in the hands of Bayezid's son (note 6). The Turkmen Isfendiyaro\u011fullari from Sinope retook it in 1419, but it returned to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet I shortly afterwards. Except for the period 1233-48, Ottoman Samsun does not seem to have been notably important although it offered the Ottomans access to the Black Sea.7\nGenoese Simisso (on the southeast quarter) was relatively important. The two places (Genoese Simisso and Turkish Samsun) were an effective partnership of Italian capital and naval expertise with Turkish merchandise and supply routes. During Timur's (Tamerlane) incursion and after the Ottoman reoccupation of 1419, trading conditions became less profitable.7\nMillet, barley, beans and chickpeas were exported from Genoese Simisso to the territories north of the Black Sea. From the north, Simisso received hides, edible fats and slaves.32 The Genoese colony left shortly after 1424 having set fire to their base. After 1452 the, now presumably single, town fell into a decline until its astonishing resurgence in the 19th century.7\nIn 1701, French botanist Tournefort found a village built on the ruins of Amisos. In 1813, Kinneir observed that the ships from the port were navigated by Greeks; for although the population of the town was almost entirely Turkish, the adjoining villages were primarily populated by Christians.6 In 1806, Samsun burnt to the ground and by 1829 it was still recovering. In 1838, Suter visited Samsun and thought the town had a population of 450 Turkish and 150 Greek families. In 1847, Ferrukh\u00e3n Bey also visited Samsun and recorded it comprised 500 Turkish, 240 Greek, 60 Armenian and a few European households.32\nFrom Kadik\u00f6y the Greeks began to take over the commerce of the port as it slowly became more active under the Hazinedaro\u011flu dynasty who ruled the area from 1806 to 1854.6 \u2018As late as the 1860s there was only a small Turkish village on the shore and a smaller Greek suburb inland at Kadik\u00f6y; their combined population did not reach 5,000'.7\nIn 1864 Van-Lennep observed the city of Samsun faced the northeast built in the shape of a crescent with a promontory sheltering it on the northwest. He also observed that Foreign Governments found it difficult to induce any of their officers to reside in Samsun as it was an unhealthy place due to the diseases that could be caught there.36\n7. Rise of Commercial Activity From 1860\nFrom the 15th century, Samsun had been a depressed village. Its revival began with the building of the metalled highway south to Amasya and with the expansion of the tobacco industry of nearby Bafra. By the 1860s, Samsun became the port of the main Constantinople-Bagdad route and was finding international markets for its tobacco. The most impressive feature of the revival of Samsun (as well as Bafra) was that, with small local resources, the Greek proportion of the population rose to 40%. But this massive rise in the Greek population was due to immigration, especially from the west coast of Turkey and Constantinople.5\nSamsun, unlike its surrounding villages, was not occupied mostly by Greeks, but Greeks dominated its commercial life. Of the 214 businesses in Samsun in 1896, no fewer than 73% were owned by Greeks and 17% by Armenians.6 In 1910, Samsun numbered around 40,000 souls, and Greeks, Armenians, or Franks controlled no fewer than 91% of its 156 businesses and 85% of the shares of the Bafran tobacco market. Its rapidly rising population is believed to have overtaken that of Trabzon about 1910 (Table 1).7\nAssuming the population figures in Maccas (1919) are \u2018reasonable'; by 1911, of the nearly 120,000 people in the Samsun kaza (district), around 65% were Greek.6\nChilds who travelled to Samsun at its peak in 1913 stated the town stretched along a beach for a couple of miles, and its suburbs went up the slopes of foot-hills behind in a scatter of white buildings. There was no esplanade or marina facing the sea; offices, warehouses, and cafes push their backs down the shore as far as possible. He stated the town was commercial in its interests and had no wish to think of amenities. It is a growing town of some 40,000 people despite Turkish neglect. Much of the trade and wealth of the town was in the hands of the Ottoman Greeks.8\nThe second great expansion of Samsun at the turn of the century was stimulated by the building of the Samsun-Sivas railway which was begun in 1891. However, its construction, under, at various stages, American, Belgian, French and Turkish management, was protracted. Amazingly the first train did not leave Samsun until 1924, only reaching Sivas in 1932.6\n8. 1915-17 Deportations of Armenians and Greeks\nDuring World War I (1914-18), the Ottoman Turks implemented their genocide of their Anatolian Armenian Christian subjects. The Armenian deportation from Samsun began in July 1915. Samsun's leading Armenian figures had previously been arrested in April. In July, as the Armenian deportees began to march out of Samsun, the men were separated from their families and killed about a mile from the city. German Consul at Samsun, Kuckhoff, maintained that the Ottoman government, claiming to react to revolutionary activities by Armenians (particularly in Van), engaged in the wholesale destruction of the Armenian nation.24\nAmerican consular agent W. Peters at Samsun reported in August 1915 that great numbers of Armenians had been sent inland from Samsun. Of these, most of the men were murdered somewhere beyond Amasya, while many women and children had been taken to Malatya and thrown into the Euphrates river.30\nLater in April 1916, after the Russian army occupied Trabzon, thousands of Anatolian Muslims fled westwards. The Russian occupation increased the disdain of the Ottoman authorities for their Christian (and Orthodox Christian Greek) minority which was suspected of working for a Russian Orthodox Christian victory.\nThe Ottoman authorities announced that wherever Orthodox Christians failed to report for military service, or had deserted after joining up, their community would be held responsible. [Conscription meant joining the dreaded labour battalions servicing the army because from 1915, Christians were not allowed to bear arms in the Ottoman army.] This provided an excuse for the Ottomans for a first round of village burning, and that in turn produced Christian retaliation. Many adult males from Samsun took to the mountains and joined the guerillas (note 7).9\nThe German Consul at Samsun, Kuckhoff, reported in July 1916 to Berlin, \u2018exile and extermination has the same meaning for the Ottoman Turks because whoever is not murdered dies of hunger and disease.'26\nIn December 1916, for allegedly \u2018strictly military reasons,' Ottoman War Minister Enver ordered the deportation of the Greek population from the Black Sea coast to an area of 50 km. However, the German diplomats understood that the harsh winter season and the \u2018failure to organise provisions' would lead to high casualties.18\nOn 27 December 1916, Samsun was encircled by the Ottoman army and all the population was called to the upper Samsun square (Kadik\u00f6y). All the Greeks were imprisoned. They followed their executioners on foot, all night long, through the snow-covered mountains.\nAll this horrible treatment has one object, namely, the annihilation of the Greeks in Turkey, who must disappear as have the Armenians. Already one-fourth of the deported population has died, and the same fate is awaiting the thirty thousand persons who have been deported from our [Samsun] District (Sanjak).4\nThe German diplomats understood in early 1917, that the \u2018ban of the Greek population of Samsun,' which had been conducted under the pretext of pursuing Greek bands in reality, was just a \u2018large scale' persecution of Greeks.18 Between December 1916 and February 1917, the German Consul Kuckhoff reported that in the Samsun region alone, on the pretext of seeking 300 Greek deserters, some 88 Greek villages were torched.26\nWinter combined with the lack of transportation for those deportees, led to great misery. The Greeks living in Bafra and Samsun were sent to the interior towards Ankara. The Turkish medical doctor, Sa\u011flam, reported in 1941 that health stations were established for the deportees in Kavak (50 km southeast of Samsun), Havza (85 km southeast of Samsun), and Merzifon (110 km southeast of Samsun), where the surviving deportees had to \u2018apparently' undergo medical examination. Here, those with infectious diseases and those with lice were cleaned and \u2018apparently' all the deportees were vaccinated.23 Whether these health stations were actually established has not been verified by other sources written in English. It is known that deportees were pushed into hot public baths and quickly removed which only increased their mortality during winter.2 (There are hot springs at Havza.)\nIn some villages, the Greek inhabitants were deported with only a few hours' notice; in others, the men were conscripted into labour battalions, and then the villages themselves were looted by their Muslim neighbours. The central government had no intension of allowing the deportees to ever return home because Muslims were systematically settled into the vacant Greek houses. Some provinces were instructed not to allow Greeks to return and resettle on the coast.1\nIn the Samsun region, in January 1917, 4,000 inhabitants were deported, first to Havza then to \u00c7orum. The surviving Greek deportees were resettled in former Armenian homes of the previously deported (genocided) Armenians. During the Armistice in late 1918 the surviving Greeks were able to return home.\nIn a series of letters [in 1919] to the Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Samsun, Germanos Karavangelis, states that roughly thirty thousand people had been deported from his area to the province of Ankara. Villages evacuated in three or four separate waves of expulsion had been subsequently looted and razed; additionally, the convoys of deportees had been attacked and both women and children had been killed [note 8].1\n9. 1919 Arrival of Mustafa Kemal\nThe Armistice between the defeated Ottoman empire and the Allies in World War I was signed on 30 October 1918 at Mudros harbour on the Greek Island of Lemnos. Allied soldiers were then stationed in Turkey to enforce disarmament and maintain order.\nAround Giresun and Samsun there was noticeable intercommunal tension, where there was a sizeable Greek population. As a consequence, in March 1919, \u2018an inadequately small force' (my emphasis) of 200 British soldiers arrived in Samsun to help establish order.22\nIn early May 1919, Mustafa Kemal (the future Ataturk) became inspector general of the Ottoman Ninth Army, encompassing much of eastern and northcentral Turkey from Samsun. He was tasked with restoring order, to gather the arms and ammunition laid down by the Ottoman forces and prevent resistance against the government. He had command over the army and all the civil servants in the area. It seems clear that he was expected by the War Ministry and possibly the sultan and grand vizier to organise resistance.29\nOn 19 May 1919, Mustafa Kemal arrived in Samsun. This date is marked as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence and heralded the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Samsun's trade was again in the hands of the Greeks whose traders had grown rich as dealers in tobacco and hazelnuts.9 In the same month, Kemal sent a confidential letter to corps commanders under his authority to raise a popular Muslim guerrilla force until a regular army could be organised for defence.29\nIn the same month, the Greek Red Cross representative T. Petmezas, reported that Greek neighbourhoods in Giresun, Samsun and Sinope had been destroyed and the countryside devastated. He pleaded to the Greek high commissioner in Istanbul for assistance for the over 1,000 orphans and for protection of the Christian population from the bandits under Topal Osman. A month later, D. Panas, Captain of the patrol destroyer Velos, corroborated Petmezas' views on security (note 9).37\nA primary instrument of the genocide of Pontic Greeks was Topal Osman (note 10) and his cut-throats who, with the connivance of the Ankara Government wreaked destruction on the unarmed Greeks from Tripolis and Giresun to Samsun. No sooner had the Greek guerrillas (note 11) and the survivors of the deportations returned to their villages after the end of World War I, that they were once again confronted with difficult choices. The Pontic Greeks were once again obliged to flee to the mountains, go into exile or face certain death.26\nIn early June 1921, a Greek warship bombed Inebolu, (east of Sinope, Figure 1). In the same month, Mustafa Kemal and his government in Ankara agreed that in view of the danger of a Greek landing in Samsun, all male Greeks aged between 15 and 50 years should be deported to the interior (note 12). Nearly 25,000 people were deported. In June 1922, a Greek warship then bombed Samsun. This made things worse for the remaining local Greeks.22\nBy December 1922, Greek Samsun was vanishing like Greek Smyrna had done three months previously (note 13). At the same time, the unarmed members of their community - tens of thousands of women, children and old people were staggering down the mountains towards the port, in the hope of being shipped to Greece or any other place of safety.9\nIn the Samsun area in the final quarter of the 1922, as the Turkish army prevailed in Anatolia, there was a fresh drive to rid the Black Sea region of its remaining Orthodox Christians. The Christians could see that escape by sea was their only hope, yet their exodus from Black Sea ports was snarled by the mutual suspicion between Turkey and Greece.9 Although, military age males were forbidden to leave Turkey30, the surviving Greek males of military age not conscripted into the labour battalions had to leave by covert methods.\nInformation dated 27 November places the numbers already arrived at Samsun from the interior at 30,000. On 7 December, 7 ships had recently arrived at Constantinople from Samsun crowded with such refugees as were able to pay seven Turkish pounds as passage money. In the end it was Turkish ships who took many of the refugees away from Samsun, in hellish conditions, in part because many people were sick before they boarded.9\nIn 1925, after the deaths and deportations of the Ottoman Christians from Anatolia, Samsun's population (approximate, see Table 1) fell from 40,000 in 1910 to 20,000.\nDuring the exchange of populations, over 22,000 Muslims from Greece were brought to Samsun to replace the departed Ottoman Christian Greeks. Samsun's population had thus recovered substantially by 1927.6\n10. Modern Samsun\nToday, modern Samsun, a \u2018world away' from the atrocities of the early 20th century is now traversed by a broad avenue lined with government offices, hotels and shops (note 1) east to west along the coast. The city is still the metropolitan centre for a fertile agricultural hinterland and the main outlet for the trade of the middle Black Sea coast. Samsun's well-protected harbour (Figure 4), which was modernised in the 1960s, is Turkey's largest port on the Black Sea. Exports include tobacco wool, cigarettes, fertilizer and textiles. Samsun is the terminus of a railway line from inner Anatolia, through which iron ore is brought. Samsun is the site of the May 19 University, founded in 1975 and has air services to Ankara and Istanbul (Constantinople). Samsun province is a densely populated, fertile region and it constitutes one of the principal sources of Turkish tobacco. City population in 2000 was 363,000.13\n* This article has been disadvantaged by the absence of reputable Greek and Turkish references which have not been translated into English. This article shows that we as humans have much to be ashamed of. Amen. I wish to acknowledge the inspiration provided to me by the monumental work on Pontic history by Emeritus Professor Anthony Bryer OBE. I also wish to thank those who supplied comments on my earlier drafts, especially Stavros T. Stavridis. Temeteron.\nNote 1: Modern Samsun stretches about 3 km along the coast southeast of the Amisos acropolis. It had four distinct quarters. Two, Kadikoy (slightly inland on the acropolis slopes to the south) and \u00c7iftlik Caddesi quarter (inland to the west) are Greek and Armenian creations of the 19th century. Closer to the sea are two Turkish quarters: one to the northwest and the other to the southeast. The northwest quarter close to the beach is about 1.2 km east of the acropolis.7\nNote 2: According to Liddell and Scott's An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, the word Pontos stands for the sea, especially the open sea. In time, the word Pontos became associated with the northeastern portion of Asia Minor that borders the Black Sea.\nThe Greeks first called the Black Sea, A\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u00f3\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (inhospitable, unfriendly pontos), but later it was called \u0395\u03cb\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u00f3\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (hospitable pontos) when they became aware of the wealth in it and in the lands around it.10\nNote 3: Miletos colonising the Pontos\nMiletos was the main city from Ionia (west coast of Asia Minor). From the second half of the 7th century BC, its eastern neighbour, Lydia, expanded taking Ionian territory. Subsequently, Ionia began sending out its first colonies. Miletos was the principal coloniser of the Black Sea, founding colonies there in the last third/end of the 7th century BC.34\nThe territory of Miletos was almost completely lacking in mineral ores. However, the south Pontic region was well endowed in these ores. In relation to commodities such as copper, gold and iron, there were alternative sources in the Mediterranean. Likewise, grain could be sourced from a number of regions including the Black Sea. Perhaps, like grain, in times of crisis, metals were too important to rely on a single supply source. More likely is that the uncontrolled nature of ancient trade in the hands of many private individuals resulted in a diverse pattern of trade.16\nAccording to Xenophon (ca. 400 BC) Miletos founded Sinope. Sinope in turn founded Trapezous (Trabzon), Kotyora (Ordu) and Kerasus (Giresun).38\nNote 4: Mithradates VI kingdom remained largely a country of villages, studded with royal castles, in a feudal state of development. Essentially the population was oriental in outlook, though the royal house, which was descended from the nobles of Persia, had acquired a considerable tincture of Hellenic civilization, the official language being Greek. There were a few Greek cities on the northern coast of Asia Minor, but their cultural influence did not spread far inland, and the Greek and Iranian elements in the civilization of Pontos never really fused together.28\nMithradates came to terms with Rome in 85 BC which ended the First Mithradatic War. The Second Mithradatic war lasted from 83 to 82 BC. During the Third Mithradatic war (74-63 BC) Mithradates' forces were said to number between 100,000 and 150,000 men and 400 ships. In 63 BC, the old king, aged 68 years, after defeats and revolts, ordered one of his guards to kill him.28\nNote 5: Genghis Khan died in 1227 and his son and successor, Ogedei, died in 1242. The Mongol army commanders then decided to position themselves nearer the centre of the empire. With Kublai Khan's ascension in 1260, the Mongol empire effectively broke up into four separate khanates: the Golden Horde, the Ilkanate, Kublai's China and a Central Asia Khanate.21\nNote 6: Sultan Bayezid had annexed the Anatolian Turkmen principalities and posed as heir to the Seljuks of Anatolia.13 Timur [Tamerlane], the Turkic conqueror, moved against the Ottomans in 1402 and defeated and captured sultan Bayezid at Ankara. Timur moved around Anatolia restoring the Turkmen princes that Bayezid had earlier deposed and received the submission of the junior members of the Ottoman house. In 1404 Timur returned to Samarkand. By 1430 the Ottoman frontier was back where it had been in 1401.21\nNote 7: The first Greek guerrilla bands appeared in the Pontos in the winter of 1915-16 before Greece entered World War I in 1917. They were few in number and poorly armed. They were initially deserters from the Ottoman army or fugitives from the draft who fled to the mountains and later were augmented by men, women and children fleeing from hostile Turkish gangs.26\nNote 8: The deportations commenced in Samsun in December 1916. The young girls were then deported to the interior. The winter was severe and these girls had to march up to 40 days across snow-covered mountains and sleep in the open. For several days they were without food and when they got to the towns they were pushed into the hot public baths on the pretext of hygiene and quickly dragged out. Thus, they became an easy prey to the rigors of the cold as they were driven on farther where the majority died on the road.2\nNote 9: D. Panas' report covered the conditions along the shoreline strip, e.g. Trebizond, Ordu, Samsun, Giresun and Sinope as well as the inland valleys. He noted organised resistance in Samsun, where Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis had mobilised 2,000 armed men to protect the countryside from Muslim bands led by Topal Osman.37\nNote 10: Topal Osman first met Mustafa Kemal in May 1919 at Havza south of Samsun, where he was told by Kemal to defend the towns and villages of the Black Sea and form a battalion of men for that purpose.26\nArticle in The New York Times, 10 July 1921, p. 4.\n... The notorious murderous chief, Osman Agha [Topal Osman] arrived at Samsun the second day of Bairam [Muslim festival] ... Then surrounding the stores of the American Tobacco Company, he arrested all Greek clerks, numbering about 800, and had them transported to an unknown destination. The Greek quarter was then surrounded and 1,500 other Greeks arrested and transported to the interior. The population of thirty other villages of the Samsun region was massacred while they were being transported to the place of exile. ... Other villages, having refused to comply with the deportation order, were set on fire by the Turks, and the inhabitants, regardless of age and sex, were killed.18\nAfter the deportation of the Samsun Greeks, atrocities and deportations continued in the 394 Greek villages of the adjacent districts during the following three months.18\nNote 11: The guerillas against overwhelming odds held their own, although in the process the Ottoman forces brought destruction to the remaining Greek villages. The largest concentration of guerillas was scattered in the Samsun-Bafra region with 4,000 fighters. They were essentially a defensive force and they were not united. They lacked equipment, food and medicine, for themselves and their large number of people in their care; hemmed in by Ottoman forces in their mountain retreats. For example, the band of Demetrios Charalambides in the Samsun region consisted of 47 fighters and 2,000 non-combatants.26\nNote 12: On 3 June 1921, Samsun was surrounded and 1,400 men, aged 17 to 70 years old and 280 young men were imprisoned. The young men were drafted into the army. Then, the scenes of exhausting missions to the interior, as well as massacres, began.\nFirst mission: 1,040 men started out on 4 June 1921. At Kavak (50 km southeast of Samsun), 701 were killed. The rest marched until Malatya. Please see the map on the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago's excellent Pontic Greek website at:\nwww.pontiangreeks.org/images/media_files/media/maps/expulsion-from-samsun.jpg\nSecond mission: 677 men started out on 5 June 1921 for Kangal and Malatya.\nThird mission: 1,085 men started out on 7 June 1921. At Tsompus Han, 30 km from Samsun, they were caught in a massive crossfire and 700 men were killed. Half an hour further at Mahmur Dag, an additional 120 men were shot dead. The 265 men, who were lucky to survive, continued on to Malatya. Please refer to the map on the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago's excellent Pontic Greek website at: www.pontiangreeks.org/images/media_files/media/maps/expulsion-map-from-samsun-english-only.jpg\nFourth mission: On 12 June 1921, 580 men set out for Havza. From there 351 old men were sent inland to Amasya. The other 229 young men were sent inland to \u00c7orum (pronounced Chorum) where 397 more young men from different provinces were added. At Seitan Deresi (Devil's Valley), 4 hours from Sogurlu, all 626 men were butchered.\nFifth mission: 365 men set out in June 1921. At Tokat, they were united with 101 men from Unye. In Sivas more men were added from other cities creating a total of 1,066 men. They walked and whoever survived arrived at Kangal. The men from Samsun and Unye were sent to Elbistan. The rest went to Malatya.\nSixth mission: 262 men, 50-60 years old set out in August 1921 and most arrived at their destinations of Malatya, Harput or Diyarbakir.\nSeventh and eighth missions: 39 men and 450 women and children. Few arrived at Malatya in September 1921 having died from hunger and disease.\nNinth mission: 206 men were sent out in September 1921 for Bitlis. On the road 166 died, most of them from freezing temperatures in the Deli Tas Mountain.17\nNote 13: After the Turkish army entered Smyrna on the west coast on 9 September 1922, the local authorities of Samsun forced the Greek population to leave Turkish soil. Most of them were women and children (many of the men had been massacred), who left in boats for Greece. Great waves of them left during the last months of 1922 and the first months of 1923. Few were left to deport later with the regular population exchange in 1924. The refugees of Samsun were relocated in the larger centres in Greece like Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, but many at the tobacco producing areas of Drama and Kavala.17\nThe convention providing for the compulsory exchange of Christian-Muslim population was signed in Lausanne on 30 January 1923, and was to come into force only with the ratification of the treaty of peace. This was signed in July and ratified in August 1923.25 But their departure was neither well regulated nor orderly.9\n1 Ak\u00e7am, T 2012, The young Turks' crime against humanity: the Armenian Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman empire, Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey.\n2 Archbishop Germanos Karavangelis, 1919, The Turkish atrocities in the Black Sea territories, Letter of his Grace Germanos, Lord Archbishop of Amassia and Samsoun, Delegation of the Pan-Pontic Congress, Manchester.\n3 Avram, A, Hind, J & Tsetskhladze, G 2004, \u2018The Black Sea area', in An inventory of archaic and classical poleis: an investigation conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation, Hansen, MH & Nielsen TH, (eds), pp. 924-73, Oxford University Press, Oxford.\n4 Brown, CN & Ion, TP 1918, Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey since the beginning of the European War, Oxford University Press, NY for the American-Hellenic Society, NY.\n5 Bryer, A 1970, \u2018The Tourkokratia in the Pontos: some problems and preliminary conclusions', Neo-Hellenika, vol. 1, pp. 30-54.\n6 Bryer, A & Winfield, D 1970, \u2018Nineteenth-century monuments in the city and vilayet of Trebizond: architectural and historical notes, Part 3', in Bryer, A, Winfield, D, Balance, S & Isaac, J 2002, The post-Byzantine monuments of the Pontos: a source book, pp. 228-375, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire GB.\n7 Bryer, A & Winfield, D 1985, The Byzantine monuments and topography of the Pontos, vol. 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Caratzas, NY.\n19 King, C 2004, The Black Sea a history, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. xvii.\n20 Koromila, M 2002, The Greeks and the Black Sea: from the Bronze Age to the early 20th century, revised edition, The Panorama Cultural Society, Athens.\n21 McEvedy, C 1992, The new penguin atlas of medieval history, Penguin Books, London.\n22 Mango, A 2002, Atat\u00fcrk: The biography of the founder of modern Turkey, The Overlook Press, NY.\n23 \u00d6zdemir, H 2008, The Ottoman army 1914-1918: disease & death on the battlefield, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.\n24 Payaslian, S 2009, \u2018The fate of the Armenians in Trebizond, 1915' in Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea communities, Hovannisian RG (ed), pp. 271-96, Mazda Publishers Inc, Costa Mesa, California.\n25 Psomiades, HJ 2000, \u2018The exchange of minorities', in The eastern question: the last phase: a study in Greek-Turkish diplomacy, pp. 53-61, Pella, NY.\n26 Psomiades, HJ 2006, \u2018Pontic Hellenism and the Asia Minor disaster, 1908-1922', article presented by Emeritus Professor Psomiades before the Pontian Society of Chicago \u2018Xeniteas' 19 May 2006.\n27 Sagona, A & Zimansky, P 2009, Ancient Turkey, Routledge, London.\n28 Scullard, HH 1973, From the Gracchi to Nero: a history of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68, Methuen & Co Ltd, London.\n29 Shaw, SJ & Shaw, EK 2002, History of the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey: vol. II: reform, revolution, and republic: the rise of modern Turkey, 1808-1975, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.\n30 Shenk, R 2012, America's Black Sea fleet: The U.S. Navy amidst war and revolution, 1919-1923, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis , Maryland, USA.\n31 Summerer, L 2007, \u2018Greeks and natives on the southern Black Sea coast in antiquity', in The Black Sea: past, present and future, Proceedings of the International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Istanbul, 14-16 October 2004, Erkut G and Mitchell S (eds), pp. 27-36, British Institute at Ankara Monograph 42, London.\n32 The Encyclopaedia of Islam 1995 \u2018Samsun', vol. VIII, pp. 1052-54.\n33 Tsetskhladze, GR 1994, \u2018Greek penetration of the Black Sea', in The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation, pp. 111-36, Tsetskhladze GR & de Angelis F (eds), Oxford.\n34 Tsetskhladze, GR 2006, \u2018Revisiting ancient Greek colonisation', in Greek colonisation: an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas, Tsetskhladze GR (ed), vol. 1, pp. xxiii-lxxxiii, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.\n35 Tsetskhladze, GR 2007, \u2018Greeks and locals in the southern Black Sea littoral: a re-examination', in Greeks between east and west: essays in Greek literature and history in memory of David Asheri, Herman G and Shatzman I (eds) pp. 160-95, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.\n36 Van Lennep, HJ 1870, Travels in little-known parts of Asia Minor, vol. 1, John Murray, London, reprinted in 2005 by Elibron Classics.\n37 Voutira, E 2011, The \u2018right to return' and the meaning of \u2018home': a post Soviet Greek diaspora becoming European?, LIT Verlag, Germany.\n38 Xenophon, The Persian expedition, translated by Rex Warner reprinted 1972, Penguin Classics, London", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 47339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poofgerstes.us/hardwood-flooring-adding-class-and-value-to-your-home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3HNU36BGJ65V4JE7AGVYPMA2HLOWQRP3", "length": 3036, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "poofgerstes.us", "title": "Hardwood Flooring: Adding Class and Value to Your Home \u00bb House of Flooring", "raw_content": "Hardwood Flooring: Adding Class and Value to Your Home\nWhile decorating your home you don\u2019t want to spend your money on something you know is not long lasting. 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In part this is because the events during this time can have profound significance for the physical and emotional wellbeing of all those involved, including the infant, mother and midwife. This article explores the ways midwives can detect fetal compromise, what they can do to limit the effects of cerebral hypoxic-ischaemia, and reviews neonatal treatments that can optimise infant neurological outcome.\nADVANCING PRACTICE Perineal protection\nPerineal tearing in childbirth is common and can have a considerable impact on women. There are various hands-on techniques that midwives use routinely to protect the perineum but not all of them are evidence based. Despite this, midwives often feel that they are the determining factor in whether a woman tears or not. Furthermore, women are rarely asked permission before hands-on techniques are used. This article explores some of the techniques used to prevent perineal tears, looks at the evidence base and invites the reader to reflect on their own practice and thinking around perineal protection.\nADVANCING PRACTICE Supporting women\u2019s instinctive pushing behaviour during birth\nRachel Reed,programme co-ordinator and lecturer in midwifery at University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland\nDuring birth women instinctively push in the most effective and safe way for themselves and their babies. However, midwives continue to direct women\u2019s pushing behaviours. The assumptions underpinning this practice must be examined and challenged. Midwives need to develop an evidence-based approach that acknowledges and reinforces women\u2019s innate ability to birth.\nADVANCING PRACTICE Effective non-pharmacological birth interventions\nCommunity and birth centre midwife in London\nMidwifery expertise is in \u2018normal\u2019 birth. 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She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended antiwar protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch\u2014a stand that drew both passionate support and criticism. Sheehan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008. She is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. Her memoir, Peace Mom:... (wikipedia)\nI have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.\nOur country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.\nWe can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.\nI think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.\nPennies Quotes\nI think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.\n'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.\nI wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.\nI think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.\nLooking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.\nLoyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.\nMany people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.\nOne of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.\nRecruiters in our country are known for lying to people.\nI can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.\nNo one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.\nWe're going to get the troops back, and we're going to get George Bush impeached this year.\nWe're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.\nWe are here ... to show our government, to show our media, to show America that we mean business, and we're not going home until every last one of our troops is home.\nGuarantee Quotes\nWe're here to say that the killing has to stop and we're not going away. We want people to be held accountable and just because someone's president of the United States, it doesn't guarantee them immunity from accountability.\nWe're here to energize most of the people in America who are with us.\nWe're committed to keep going until our troops are brought home, and after that, to make sure this never happens again for the young people who are here, for our unborn grandchildren and born grandchildren,\nSenator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,\nShe won't call for an immediate withdrawal of the troops.\nshe has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America.\nShame on you, ... How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice?\nMr. President, you mean you're willing to kill more Americans because you've killed so many already?\nMy issue is not Republican or Democrat, not right or left. It's right and wrong.\nOne of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.\nRight now, I am focused on the workers here. They are worried about their future.\nNobody knew what was going to happen, and we made up Camp Casey as we went along, and it grew and grew and grew, ... But we're here to say that the killing has to stop, that we're not going to justify any more killing on our losses. And we're not going away.\nOne of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to make America safer -- and Katrina exposed that clearly he has made America more vulnerable through his policies in Iraq.\nBackpack Quotes\nI was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly. 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It would be a mistake for the security of this country.\nI take deep breaths and be true to my heart.\nI think it's going to be an amazing opportunity for the people of America to show their elected officials we mean business when we say we want our troops home,\nExcessive Quotes\nI think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.\nLast night I had fire ants crawling all over me. Physically it's very uncomfortable, but I think of all the soldiers in Iraq who, when it's too hot or too stormy, can't go into town for refuge. As bad as we have it here, it's nothing compared to how bad they have it over there.\nNecessary Quotes\nI think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.\nLawyers Quotes\nLawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.\nI was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.\nPutting Quotes\nI said, 'Trust me, you don't want to go there', ... He said, 'You're right, I don't.' I said, 'Well, thanks for putting me there.'\nOur country does not really know what war is about.\nPresident Bush says we're safer fighting them there than over here. Why are we safer because 120,000 civilians are dead? What makes their babies less precious than ours?\nI think our senator needs to be held accountable for her support of George Bush and his war policies.\nI think she needs to say I don't have to act like a man to be a good leader, ... She needs to act like a woman and be against the war. I think it's really important for the Democrats to be an opposition party and she is the leader, in a way. She has a lot of power and she's been more of a hawk than most Republicans.\nI think I'm more effective on the outside than on the inside.\nIt is disruptive, ... But George Bush is the one who caused the disruption, not us.\nThe 56,000,000-plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda,\nThat's too much to ask of anybody to adjust to that. But now, they have to adjust to the fact that their mom is always gone. But they know that they are sacrificing and we are sacrificing to bring the troops home and to make sure it never happens again.\nI was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later.\nMost Americans want our troops home by the end of 2006. But that's far too late. Every minute that we wait, more blood is spilled. George Bush still continues his evil rhetoric that he is waging a war on terrorism, and he is really waging a war of terrorism against the world.\nWhy would I want one more mother -- either Iraqi or American -- to go through what I'm going through? I don't want him to justify my son's honorable sacrifice to continue his murderous killing policies,\nCommander Quotes\nWho do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?\nWe'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal government.\nSoon Quotes\nWe have to stop it as soon as possible.\nWe have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere, and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us.\nHold Quotes\nWe have to hold him accountable. ... We know he lied, and we know he knows he lied,\nPardon Quotes\nWe can't give up, no matter hard it gets.\nWe have to work together as a global community to fight for peace and justice. We're all in it together. It's not just me who has lost a son.\nYou know what I would have said? 'What noble cause did my son die for?'\nWe need to stop the war in Iraq, we need to bring our troops home immediately.\nWe get up every morning, and every morning we see this enormous mountain in front of us,\nWe are just doing what we believe is right,\nWe were all finally pleased that one of the liars was exposed. But how many more liars do we have to go after in this administration?\nWe want to hold this administration accountable. Nobody's asking them the hard questions but you know what, we're willing to come here.\nThe deceptions and betrayals that led to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq cost my family a price too dear to pay and almost too much to bear, the loss of my boy Casey.\nWhat is the 'noble cause' that brave Americans are dying for?\nWhat I think it?s going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country, ... Go to your senators? offices, to federal buildings. Sit down and say enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime.\nPeople demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.\nIsn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?\nCindy Sheehan Fans Also Likes Quotations from", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 17098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotethelife.com/tag/footnote/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UQYI6ZYJLIVHAGERTN7V2NFC7WJBCDM4", "length": 548, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "quotethelife.com", "title": "Steve Pemberton Quote - ... a man could build whatever monuments", "raw_content": "Quotes on footnote\nFamily Quotes Inspirational Quotes Success Quotes\n\u2026 a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and his accomplishments are little more than fine print in a history book, the only thing that truly survives him is his child. That is his legacy. That is what defines him. All else is but a footnote.\n#footnote #inspirational #legacy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotio.com/by/Cindy-Salerno", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VYROJB7V553JYLSPT2SDWMIPSTCZE26P", "length": 211, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "quotio.com", "title": "Cindy Salerno Quotes @Quotio", "raw_content": "Cindy Salerno Quotes\nIt doesn't help to wallow in self-pity. We're trying.\nCindy Salerno\nIt depends on which day it is. Some days, it's more depressing than other days.\nIf we were younger, we'd probably go back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotio.com/quote/There-is-only-one/7404", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:39Z", "digest": "sha1:LLYRS2ETOVST526BKZP56GOP6BQUTFIE", "length": 236, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "quotio.com", "title": "There is only one success - to be able to spend your li.. @Quotio", "raw_content": "This quote is just one of 17 total Christopher Morley quotes in our collection. Christopher Morley is known for saying 'There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.' as well as some of the following quotes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rabbittvgo.com/guide/movies/by_actor/570216-daniel-von-bargen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YBQKAT6SCOFCSF635VTHLQLZ4G6UUNGI", "length": 7298, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "rabbittvgo.com", "title": "Movies by actor: Daniel von Bargen :: RabbitTV GO!", "raw_content": "\"Movies by actor: Daniel von Bargen\"\nJan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to \"get rid of\" a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything - including his career and his clients' goals, in order to continue the case against all odds.\nA police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.\nBasic Instinct is an erotic thriller from 1992 about a sex-crazed murderer and a police officer who's getting a little too personal with one of the suspects in a murder. As tensions boil Sharon Stone, who plays the main suspect and an author, gives a powerful and sleek performance of a woman who knows her looks can get her off the hook and help her write and finish her book.\nWhen teenage son Jacob is being accused of murdering his girlfriend, the well-respected and close-knit Ryan family is in turmoil. Jacob flees, father Ben destroys possible evidence, the village community turns hostile and mother Carolyn is forced to temporarily close her doctor's practice. Then Jacob gets arrested and soon finds himself and his family entangled in a web of truth, trust and lies, all on his way to court.\nAn aging agent is called back by \"the Company\" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.\nWhen a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt Jordan O'Neil is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men.\nAcademy Award nominee Frank Langella stars as wealthy businessman Perry Krohn, who tries to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.\nThe writing, directing, and producing team of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), and easily-excitable Pete (John Turturro) are serving time together on a prison chain gang. Everett knows where $1.2 million is hidden that's theirs for the taking, and the three manage to ...\nA Los Angeles special liaison officer (Snipes) is called in to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture (Connery), the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground \"shadow world\" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.\nCritically acclaimed director Viktor Taransky (Academy award-winner Al Pacino - \"The Godfather,\" \"Scarface\") has just lost his last shot at a comeback when his temperamental flesh and blood actress walked off his movie. Fired by his ex-wife and studio head, Taransky just lost any hope of recapturing his former life. But then computer genius Hank Aleno enters the picture. As his dying wish, Hank bequeaths software to Taransky that will change his life forever. Just ...\nWe all have two lives: the one we are born with, and the one we try and create for ourselves. Will Smith makes his compelling dramatic debut as Paul, a man who shows up at the doorstep of two affluent art dealers, claiming to need help after a Central Park mugging. Presenting himself as a Harvard Man, a friend of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier, he charms the couple with stories of ...\nWhen a fisherman is found drowned, suspicion falls on Japanese-American Kazou Miyamoto. Local reporter Ishmael Chambers may hold the key to proving Miyamoto's innocence, but there's a problem: Chambers is also in love with Miyamoto's wife.\nA statuary keeper closes herself off from the world beyond the fence that surrounds her yard, and lives in a world of statues. A recent college graduate tries job after job, in a quest for meaningful paying work that will involve her with her community. Combining deadpan humor and rich black and white imagery, STATUARY parallels the two women's stories, satirizing the difficulty of the latter's task, while reflecting on personal impulses towards isolation or ...\nCommitted to pranks and a love of syrup, the Super Troopers have turned arrest into an art form and become specialists at screwing with motorist's minds while screwing up on the job. For these highway patrolmen, the only thing better than a good prank is one-upping arch rivals - the Spurbury Local Police. But the town isn't big enough for both police forces. Budget cuts mean one force will have to go, and odds are ...\nMany teens think their teachers hail from another planet -- but what if it's true? Herrington High students notice that faculty members aren't quite themselves, and discover an alien infection they might not be able to stop.\nRespected Army Gen. Joe Campbell is headed for a hero's retirement -- until his daughter is raped and murdered on his military base, and warrant officers and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are given 36 hours to solve the convoluted case.\nPowerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly -- with no life and no dog. With Rusty's help, Russ is able to reconcile the person he used to dream of being with the man he's actually become.\nIt is 2013. War has crippled the Earth. Technology has been erased. Our only hope is an unlikely hero. What begins as a con game becomes one man's quest to rebuild civilization by resuming postal service.\nRevolves around the relationship between a struggling actor and his successful girlfriend.\nIn this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving ...\nBased on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke (Robocop 3, Tombstone) and Joe Mantegna (Bugsy, The Godfather III) in a story of supernatural terror and a countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year-old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems ...\nRetired from his career as a Universal Soldier, Luc Deveraux works as a technical adviser on a hush-hush government project to design a smarter cyborg warrior. 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He references the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 by signing off his tweet with #JFT96.\nThe former Radio 1 and 5 live presenter is a big supporter of Liverpool FC.\nHe\u2019s the second talkSPORT presenter to tweet that they are leaving the station in 24 hours, after Stan Collymore announced his contract had not been renewed.\nColin writes on Twitter: \u201cI have resigned from my morning show on talkSPORT due to a change of ownership, with the Wireless Group being bought by News Corp.\nWhile there are parts of News Corp that aren\u2019t a problem, it is the inevitable future working relationship between talkSPORT and The Sun that has made my position unsustainable.\nCommercially, I delivered all-time record ratings and creatively, I was left alone to mould a show of which I was intensely proud. I had been offered a new contract until 2019.\nSincere thanks to Scott, Liam, Steve, Dennie, Kathryn and those I\u2019ve worked with, plus to my wonderful cast of co-presenters. I cannot thank you enough.\nMost importantly, thanks for listening. My last show will be on September 2nd. I shall not be commenting further.\u201d\nThe takeover of The Wireless Group by News Corp was announced earlier this month but has yet to be approved in the UK and Ireland.\ntalkSPORT confirmed the news to RadioToday, saying: \u201cIt is with much regret that, after three years of working with us, Colin Murray has taken the decision to move on from his presenting role at talkSPORT this September. Colin has been a fantastic asset to the station and, while we respect his decision, we will be very sorry to lose him. 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I dedicate myself to this movement,\"\nhe said in an address.\nHe also nominated nine other Indians to take the Clean India message forward including actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Nagarjuna, sports legends Mary Kom and Sania Mirza, noted novelist and columnist Shobha De, journalist Shekhar Gupta and lyricist Prasoon Joshi.\nCommitted to the cause, the very next week, he took the broom in his hands to clean the area around Badrinath and Kedarnath temples. After cleaning the premises and the surrounding area, he said, \u201cToday, I am here for two important reasons. First, to take the blessings of Badrinath ji and Kedarnath ji and second important reason that I would like to share with you is, we do not keep our temples and places around it as clean as they should be. So let us all take this responsibility from today, to keep our religious places clean.\"\nMr. Ambani continues to devote his time and energy for the cause and has taken up numerous initiatives at local, state and national levels to drive the campaign forward. Click here to read more such stories about our Chairman and senior management and why they inspire us to reach new heights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1129", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FDW5GR553HFD37QPBLKG7STDERAZIZL3", "length": 942, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rememberinglincoln.fords.org", "title": "A Speech on \"Equality Before the Law\" Delivered by J. Mercer Langston In the Hall of Representatives in the Capitol of Missouri | Remembering Lincoln", "raw_content": "A Speech on \"Equality Before the Law\" Delivered by J. Mercer Langston In the Hall of Representatives in the Capitol of Missouri\nIn this pamphlet put together by the Missouri State Executive Committee, a speech delivered by John Mercer Langston on January 9th, 1866 called for political emancipation for African Americans. Also within this pamphlet, an address by the Colored People of Missouri to the Friends of Equal Rights strived to make manhood, not color, the basis of suffrage and thanked God for using President Lincoln to emancipate African American slaves.\nMissouri State Executive Committee. \"A Speech on \"Equality Before the Law\" Delivered by J. Mercer Langston In the Hall of Representatives in the Capitol of Missouri\". Democrat Book and Job Printing House. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed February 14, 2019. http://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1129\nMissouri State Executive Committee\nDemocrat Book and Job Printing House", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reporting.journalism.ku.edu/j-school-launches-program-teach-digital-literacy-skills-underserved-populations-0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGZXQBUSNQ2U4LJ4IHQFO4WHJEG3YBK5", "length": 2440, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "reporting.journalism.ku.edu", "title": "J-School launches program to teach digital literacy skills to underserved populations | William Allen White", "raw_content": "Fifteen percent of U.S. citizens and 17 percent of Kansas Citians do not use the internet, which puts them at a disadvantage in finding jobs, accessing health information, connecting with family and friends, and having other basic services that most people use the internet for on a daily basis.\nThat\u2019s why Hyunjin Seo, associate professor of journalism at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has started the Digital Inclusion Project \u2013 to help underserved populations gain access to the internet through hands-on digital literacy courses.\n\u201cThrough conversations with community partners, we came up with this partnership idea,\u201d said Seo. \u201cBecause this project will involve KU journalism students working as digital inclusion ambassadors, I think it benefits both our community partners, the people they serve and also students in the J-School.\u201d\nSeo launched the project a couple of weeks ago at LaunchKU.org and is seeking $50,000 through crowd funding. The money will pay KU journalism students to provide computer training to people at three nonprofit organizations, the Palestine Senior Citizens Activity Center in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas City Kansas Public Library, and Women\u2019s Fresh Start in Lawrence.\n\"They will offer weekly workshops on digital literacy -- how to create an email account, how to find out health information relevant to you, how to stay connected with your family members via social media sites,\u201d Seo said.\nJ-School faculty members also will conduct research on how people learn digital skills so that they can improve and develop programs in the future.\nAnn M. Brill, dean of the School of Journalism, said digital literacy skills are no longer a luxury; they are a necessity.\n\u201cThe digital inclusion project is empowering people and saying it\u2019s not enough just to show you, we want you to really become good at this so you can change your life,\u201d Brill said. \"It's another opportunity for us to engage with the community. I think this project is one of the most meaningful things that I have seen in a long time. This is empowering people to use information in a way that can possibly change their lives.\"\nSeo hopes to get the project funded by the end of the year so that journalism students can complete training in the spring and the digital literacy project can be offered starting in summer 2017.\n\u25ba Watch a video about the project and donate.\ndigital inclusion project", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 521, "original_length": 12963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://researchaccess.com/tag/embedded-assessments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6HX4C52YBSRDKH3IDKB3STJHGAW7DTPZ", "length": 365, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "researchaccess.com", "title": "Embedded Assessments Archives - Research Access", "raw_content": "One of the best ways to have respondents (e.g., customers, students, employees, members or others whose feedback you need) ignore and delete your surveys is asking questions for which you should already know the answers. Here are excerpts from a survey a friend received some months ago (with her approximate thoughts noted): \u201cDear Alumna/Alumnus:\u201d\u2026 Gee, that\u2019s [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://retirementincome.com/money-finance/retirement/money-101/how-to-keep-the-motivation-to-save-money/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VRNICONM65AZIS36XGLLTSISM7IIVXWZ", "length": 2455, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "retirementincome.com", "title": "How to Keep the Motivation to Save Money | retirementincome.com", "raw_content": "How to Keep the Motivation to Save Money\nIt can be very tough for every one to make a habit of saving for retirement. It can really be a challenge trying to set aside a certain amount of your regular pay knowing that you can easily use it to enjoy life more at the present. The fact that the said amount can only be used and enjoyed until 30 to 40 years in the future may not help at all in motivating you to save. It is hard to save money, but it is something that must be done.\nAn important part of developing the habit to save is the constant motivation to do it regularly. Motivating oneself to save would make the effort easier to accomplish. You must learn how to keep yourself motivated to save money for retirement on a more regular basis in order to build up a substantial retirement fund in the future. Here are some simple tips that may help you keep yourself motivated to save even in face of certain temptations not to.\nWhen you want to keep yourself motivated, you should always try to picture your future. Try to imagine how you may want to spend your retirement days and the type of lifestyle that you would be aspiring for. Trying to visualize all the things that you can enjoy on your retirement can be motivating enough to help you keep saving.\nAnother important aspect of saving money for retirement is not forgetting to reward yourself at some point. Always trying to get to serious with saving your money for retirement can sometimes leave you feel deprived. This might not motivate you to save more in the long run. But if you try to reward yourself at some point when you have done a good job in saving a substantial amount, it might even strengthen your resolve to save more. Giving yourself a break by giving you a treat now and then may even be more beneficial in motivating yourself to save than going at it from start to finish.\nAnother tip to help you motivate yourself to save is to have someone who can work with you. Try to look for a friend, a loved one or a colleague who might also be in the same boat as you are and start saving together. You can encourage each other to save the money that you can place into your retirement fund. This will give you some added support in your quest to save for your retirement and keep you focused on your objective. You may also make saving money into a friendly competition to see who saves up the most up to a certain period of time. 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StrengthsFinder 2.0, one of the bestselling business books of all time, is loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths. Learn how to use your talents every day so you can thrive in life and at work. This book will change how you look at yourself \u2014 and the world around you. StrengthsFinder 2.0 includes access to the CliftonStrengths assessment and to personalized reports and tools to learn more about your strengths.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roadsideattractions.com/filmography/in-a-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2OJHAHEFDRGASNJQUDEVJ2IPQAIEY5JT", "length": 964, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "roadsideattractions.com", "title": "Roadside Attractions | IN A WORLD", "raw_content": "Lake Bell, Rob Corddry,\nAlexandra Holden, Eva Longoria,\nKen Marino, Demetri Martin,\nFred Melamed, Tig Notaro,\nNick Offerman, Michaela Watkins,\nLake Bell, Mark Roberts\nJett Steiger, Eddie Vaisman\nRoss Jacobson and Sean King O\u2019Grady\nLake Bell (No Strings Attached, \u201cChildren\u2019s Hospital\u201d) stars in In a World\u2026, a hilarious and heartfelt comedy about a struggling vocal coach who strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry\u2019s reigning king\u2014her father. Written and directed by Bell, who won the Sundance 2013 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for the script, In a World\u2026 also stars Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Demetri Martin (\u201cImportant Things with Demetri Martin\u201d), Michaela Watkins (\u201cEnlightened\u201d), Ken Marino (\u201cBurning Love\u201d), Nick Offerman (\u201cParks and Recreation\u201d), Alexandra Holden (The Hot Chick) and Tig Notaro (\u201cThe Sarah Silverman Program\u201d).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rooksburgsrealm.blogspot.com/2013/08/doctor-12-revealed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GBGXTWJFWNTUOZPVCVZOBSNFTDYZBKGZ", "length": 4114, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "rooksburgsrealm.blogspot.com", "title": "Rooksburg's Realm: Doctor 12 Revealed!", "raw_content": "Doctor... Who?\nIt seems a little redundant, but be warned there are spoilers in this post. I'd be amazed if you made it here without already knowing though.\nOn June 1st, Matt Smith announced he would be stepping down as the Doctor, stating 'when you gotta go, you gotta go'. Since then he has expressed regret, after seeing the fans' reactions, but it was too late- the search for probably the most iconic character on British television had begun.\nThe internet was abuzz, and the usual speculation started again- would the Doctor be a black man? A woman? An unknown actor like Matt Smith was, or a well-known celebrity? Young to attract younger audiences, or older to go back to the show's roots? And most importantly, would the Doctor be ginger? All sorts of names popped up at betting offices, ranging from Russell Tovey (best known from Being Human), to Olivia Coleman (Hot Fuzz) and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter)- some even had odds for Grint's Hogwarts classmates Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson!\nThe BBC then decided to make a live announcement for the new Doctor, as they would rather make an official announcement than have yet another online leak spoiling it for everyone. Funnily enough this live special was announced around the same time one particular actor shot up in the bookies' odds- to the point where he became favourite and no further bets were taken. This man had appeared in the show before, was an avid fan of the show, and would keep to the tradition of the Doctor being a middle-aged white man, so seemed like a pretty safe bet- and the rumours turned out to be true, as this is the face of our new Doctor:\nThe 12th Doctor: Peter Capaldi\n\"The list went 'Peter Capaldi'. It was a very short list.\"- words from Stephen Moffat, who apparently thought Capaldi was the only option to succeed Matt Smith. For those of you who don't recognise him, he has previously featured in In the Loop, the BBC TV adaptation of Neverwhere, and The Thick of It. It goes without saying that he is an excellent actor, but will he make a good Doctor? Only time will tell. But where's the fun in waiting? Time for speculation!\nFirst, an observation of previous regenerations: The replacement always has a personality that addresses the previous incarnation's weakness. Going just on the new-series Doctors, Nine's weakness was his aggression so Ten became much softer and more forgiving- but in doing so became overly sensitive and so his relationship with Rose became his weakness. Indeed his constant acceptance ate him up inside until he couldn't take any more, leading to the 'Time Lord Victorious' element towards the end of his arc. Eleven did away with any love for humans (the exception being River Song, whose relationship I see as more of a pre-destination paradox but more on that in a later blog). He chose instead to go back to treating humans as an icky alien species and generally jumped to conclusions quicker than previous Doctors that so far seem to have paid off. As a result, I believe this new Doctor will counter Eleven's short-sightedness and be much more methodical, planning before he acts, possibly resulting in another 'greater good' scenario echoing the Time War. And I believe he won't necessarily make the right decision, as part of his progression into the inevitable Valeyard. Looking at Capaldi, he has a very sinister look- especially in his promotional video:\nThis suggests his Doctor will have a darker edge to him, and he looks much more serious than Smith whilst still having a mischievous side- in fact closely resembling the first Doctor, William Hartnell. Recent viewers of Doctor Who may be surprised to learn that the first Doctor was very different from the one we know and love- he was an old man that stole a TARDIS, lived as a recluse, and was extremely curious- often putting his companions in harm's way just to explore a little further. If Moffat does have plans to descend slowly towards the Valeyard, then I shall certainly be interested to see what happens next...\nLabels: Doctor Who, Doctor Who Reviews, Matt Smith, Overanalysis, Peter Capaldi, Stephen Moffat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rowstats.com/results.php?id=37&b=1&s=N.4%2B", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LZ7VBOUFUPGTT2VCHAACEDL5IHLQRC2Q", "length": 608, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "rowstats.com", "title": "Head Race Results (sorted by Status)", "raw_content": "4 07:15 118 University of Kent (B)\n6 07:16 (+00:01) 186 Maidenhead RC\n7 07:23 (+00:08) 83 University of Kent (G)\n7 07:35 (+00:20) 207 Milton Keynes RC (B)\n3 07:38 (+00:23) 82 University of Kent (E)\n7 07:46 (+00:31) 208 University of Hertfordshire\n5 07:47 (+00:32) 155 University of Kent (F)\n1 07:54 (+00:39) 20 De Montfort University RC (A)\n6 08:01 (+00:46) 188 St Ives RC\n6 09:02 (+01:47) 185 University of Kent (C)\n5 09:30 (+02:15) 156 University of Kent (D)\n5 09:40 (+02:25) 153 De Montfort University RC (B)\n1 DNS 21 Hull University BC (A)\n6 DNS 187 Hull University BC (E)\n3 DNS 85 Hull University BC (C)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ryanhelpsu.com/2016/12/07/from-the-desk-of-ryan-reynolds-11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3YVOMCVWZRJI7FZGKJERL3DJVTRYOBE6", "length": 1408, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ryanhelpsu.com", "title": "From The Desk Of Ryan Reynolds... - Ryan Reynolds Team", "raw_content": "The Joy of Giving\u2026and a Gift for You!\nWhile there is a lot of hustle and bustle with shopping, parties, and preparations for this time of year, I know a lot of people may end up disappointed on Christmas morning with what they receive or how what they\u2019ve given is received. So much pressure is placed on this one moment! The pressure is self-inflicted in most cases and almost entirely between one\u2019s ears. Finding the joy can sometimes seem elusive, like the octopus in Jacque Cousteau\u2019s adventures, yet I believe that it\u2019s always there and easy to find, if you just tune in. There are many ways to \u201ctune in\u201d and I can suggest that giving may be one of the best. Not giving with the thought of receiving or even giving to get the satisfying look on your loved one\u2019s face. Giving for the sheer joy of giving, without attachment to the outcome, and giving to give because it feels good. You don\u2019t have to give anything that costs a lot, it could even just be a smile to someone who\u2019s not having a great day or paying for the person\u2019s coffee behind you in the drive through. Someone you\u2019ll never see again and someone who could never repay you or thank you. Try it sometime. I guarantee that you\u2019ll feel it. So, here\u2019s my gift to you (NO RETURNS POSSIBLE) \u2026\nWhat do 2+2=5 and your left foot have in common?\nThey are both not RIGHT! HA!\nPosted in Things To Do, Tips\t| Tagged ryan reynolds, the ryan reynolds team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salemleader.com/education/harmon-elected-lead-issma", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QAGRSGKAPCZ5DCACVWTNES7VRCSK6GF7", "length": 2781, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "salemleader.com", "title": "Harmon elected to lead ISSMA | The Salem Leader", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Education \u00bb Harmon elected to lead ISSMA\nHarmon elected to lead ISSMA\nBonnie Harmon has her hands full.\nAs band director for the Salem Marching Lions, she\u2019s in full band season swing, eagerly preparing for the annual Salem Band Invitational (Saturday, Sept. 8) while getting her band ready to perform in exhibition and compete in the rest of the season. She has her music classes, her work as co-president of the Salem Classroom Teachers Association, being a loving co-parent with Richard Trueblood to Trueby, the most important of band cats, and now, presiding over the Indiana State School Music Association. She assumed the presidency of the organization this year.\n\u201cI was vice president last year,\u201d Harmon said. \u201cThe year before that, my friend Tim Johnston, who is the band director at Scottsburg, called and asked if I\u2019d be interested in a nomination for president. I said, \u2018Sure!\u2019 and this past spring, they held their election and I was voted president!\n\u201cI was honored and humbled,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a little scary, but that\u2019s how things start. They\u2019re scary, then they get fun.\u201d\nHarmon has been a band director at Salem for nearly 30 years and has taught and directed for more than 35 years total. Originally from Owensville, Indiana, she graduated from the University of Evansville with a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education and a master\u2019s in secondary education from Indiana University. After coming to Salem, she has also served as chairman of the middle school fine arts department. In 2013, she led the band to a state Scholastic Class Championship.\nLong before that, however, flute in hand, Harmon was an ISSMA kid.\n\u201cI started in ISSMA when I was in fourth grade,\u201d she said. \u201cI grew up with ISSMA being the structure of Indiana music. Our band directors were always ISSMA members and they took us to competitions and events.\u201d\nWas serving in this capacity ever on her radar?\n\u201cNever,\u201d she said. \u201cI never dreamed. I\u2019d help on committees and with events, but I never saw this happening. That\u2019s probably what makes it so wonderful. I never expected this.\u201d\nShe said Johnston is a past president who will help her adjust to the new responsibilities and said the office staff of the ISSMA Indianapolis office have been very helpful.\n\u201cThey do all the hard work,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s Executive Director Mick Bridgewater, Instrumental Education Director Mark Middleton and Choral Education Director Scott Bradford \u2014 these are not just really important people with ISSMA, but dear friends. Working with them is a dream in this formula. They really care about the kids and music and that shows in everything they do. Plus, it\u2019s always good to work with friends.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor,\u201d she added. \u201cIt means everything to me. It\u2019s a real milestone in my teaching career.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://school-one.org/tabid/198/Default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ2RQIN7XTYGRVP2BTUNGHSOJ4J5F22F", "length": 473, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "school-one.org", "title": "Art Gallery - School One", "raw_content": "School One\u2019s art classes are accessible and enjoyed by all students. At the same time they provide a solid foundation for those who intend to pursue their talents in art school.\nWe offer drawing and painting, advanced photography, ceramics, jewelry and costume design, animation and portfolio development. Wander through our Art Gallery to see the range and quality of students\u2019 work.\nScholastic Art Award Winners\nSome of the Art Schools our Students Have Recently Attended", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://searscreditcardguide.com/www-timhortons-com-ca-en-timcard-tim-card-balance-check-check-tim-hortons-gift-card-balance/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZXX3IP42OM4QGASLCFAU44KAC577E6B", "length": 2705, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "searscreditcardguide.com", "title": "www.timhortons.com/ca/en/timcard/tim-card-balance-check - Check Tim Hortons Gift Card Balance", "raw_content": "Check Tim Hortons Gift Card Balance\nTim Hortons is a Canadian fast food restaurant company that has been running in long chains in all over the world. It was created way back on May 17, 1964, which is 52 years ago, in Hamilton, Ontario. The company has spread its chain in almost all over the world with many branches and offices spread in each country.\nThe main head office of the company that is responsible for carrying out all of these operations has been based in the Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by the collaboration and combined efforts and determination of Tim Horton, Jeffrey Ritumalta Horton and Ron Joyce.\nAs per a general report that is the latest one and came on December 31, 2016, the company has been running a total of 4,613 locations all over the world. It has been providing the services in the\nAs per another report, the company has been collected a total revenue of US$ $3.00 billion and the total income of the company is US$511.7 million. It has been running these stores and offices with the help of over 100,000 employees as per the report of the year 2008. It is supervised and owned by the Restaurant Brands International company.\nGuideline To Check Tim Hortons Gift Card Balance\nThe company offers a wide variety of the products to their customers, these services are helping the people and are entertaining them with their tastes and charm. Apart from the eating and drinking facility, it also offers gift cards to their customers, that can be bought from the website of the company anytime. There is a balance loaded onto them, that is deducted every time you shop with it. Here is how you can check the remaining card balance on them:\nYou need to have a very strong speed internet connection first of all, and you should know it before starting the process that it must be secure, regular and must not crash in between this process.\nIf it is lost in between, you will have to provide all the data that you have provided again, wasting a lot of time.\nYou also should have a computer or a laptop to connect it as well.\nOpen the web browser now and go to the official website of the company.\nGo to the gift cards page now.\nOr, click on this link to go there directly: www.timhortons.com/ca/en/timcard/tim-card-balance-check.php\nOnce the page is open, there is a form on it that needs to be filled, to fill it:\nSelect your country in the first field now.\nType in your 16-digit TimCard\u00ae Number in the field next to it now, it is written on the back side of your card.\nProvide the Personal Identification Number (PIN) as well now in the field next to it now.\nClick the red \u201cView Balance\u201d button now and go to the next page where you can see the remaining card balance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seaside-heightsnj.org/250/Know-Your-Beach", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:05Z", "digest": "sha1:23MLFJXRZAODS2IDUJANEXPRYI6YGVL5", "length": 487, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "seaside-heightsnj.org", "title": "Know Your Beach | Seaside Heights Borough, NJ", "raw_content": "The Seaside Heights Beach stretches between Hiering Avenue and Dupont Avenue.\nAward-Winning Beach\nThe beach is famous for its soft white sand and has received numerous awards and accolades over the years including being voted the 2016 New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium \"Favorite Ocean County Beach.\" Seaside Heights provides seasonal lifeguard services between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day. The public may enter the ocean and swim at protected areas only when lifeguards are present.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seattlecondos.ewingandclark.com/2014/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5HLYT2M5LHRE3RQUVOALUHSUYYZISGZC", "length": 6422, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "seattlecondos.ewingandclark.com", "title": "skip to main | skip to sidebar", "raw_content": "Housing Market Experiences First Growth in 4 Months\n* Synced from the Seattle and Real Estate Blog\nBucking the national trend that saw home prices stay relatively flat from January to February, The Seattle Times reports that the Seattle-area market saw prices rise ever so slightly in February, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city Index. In the biggest monthly gain since July 2013, the average price of a home in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties rose by a whopping, wait for it\u20260.6 percent. While that may seem like a small number, annual gains tell a different story, showing prices rising 12.8 percent over the previous 12 months. However, we have 17.3 more percentage points to go to catch up with the market\u2019s peak in July 2007.\nAlong with Seattle, Portland and San Diego round out the top three cities with the strongest price gains in February. Surprisingly, San Francisco appeared to show slowing monthly price growth, though its prices were up 23 percent from same time last year.\nStan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow, stated in the article that although the national housing market is showing signs of slowing in recent months, it is just a snapshot of a market that is slowly returning to normal. Nationally, prices rose by 12.9 percent from February 2013 to February 2014. The National Association of Realtors also reported that the number of pending home sales rose in March for the first time in nine months.\nLabels: Case Shiller Report, Seattle Housing Market, Seattle Housing Market Trends 2014, Seattle Real Estate Blog\nThe process of buying your first home can be extremely daunting, and although buyers may feel overwhelmed with information, in a market where first-timers are often outbid by buyers with cash on hand, doing your research and being as prepared as possible are key.\nFirst of all, figure out how much you can afford. Meet with a lender to review your finances and establish a realistic price range. You don\u2019t want to begin looking at homes and fall in love with one only to realize the monthly payment is too high.\nShop around for a mortgage. If you would compare prices on groceries, it only makes sense to do the same for a purchase as significant as a home. Look up who has the lowest mortgage rates online first, then call lenders and ask for a written list of their fees so you make sure to get both the lowest rate and the lowest fees.\nSee if you quality for down-payment assistance. There are several of these programs offering services in King County. See here for more info.\nGet preapproved for a loan. This will make your offer more attractive to sellers, as there is less likelihood your loan won\u2019t be approved while you\u2019re in escrow. Find out from your mortgage lender what kind of paperwork you need to submit to get preapproved. These often include W-2s, pay stubs, bank statements and tax returns. Get your credit report and make sure there aren\u2019t any abnormalities that need to be addressed.\nGet referrals from your family and friends to find a great real estate agent. Interview them to make sure you feel comfortable with them and to assess how knowledgeable they are. Don\u2019t forget that if a particular agent isn\u2019t meeting your needs, you don\u2019t have an obligation to continue using them.\nWhen do you find a home that you\u2019re ready to make an offer on, take the market into account \u2013 if it\u2019s a sellers\u2019 market and the home is priced well, you\u2019ll probably want to make an offer either at the asking price or possibly even a little above. If the seller knows they will get multiple offers, you want yours to stand out.\nJust like everyone else who you employ in your home search, you are free to use a home inspector of your choice. Get recommendations from friends and family to make sure you\u2019re getting a trustworthy inspector, not just one who is working to help the agent close the deal.\nLabels: buying a home, buying a home in seattle, buying your first home, First time, First time home buyer, First time home buyer advice\n*Synced from Seattle and Real Estate Blog In regions with booming real estate markets, sellers may think getting multiple offers on their home is inevitable, but there are a few things you can do to increase your chances. The three must-haves for attracting multiple offers, according to Zillow, are location, price and presentation.\nYou\u2019ve heard it time and again: location, location, location. Buyers often consider location before other factors such as price, number of bedrooms or home size, so a well-located home is a huge advantage. Homes on busy streets, near freeway on/off ramps, or in less-than-stellar school districts may not attract as much interest. Work with a real estate agent to price your home very carefully if it\u2019s not in a prime location.\nThat brings us to the next factor: price. Zillow reports that homes priced 10 percent over their market value will not get noticed, so it\u2019s important to be smart and realistic with your listing price. While you won\u2019t truly know the market value of your home until a buyer closes on the sale, real estate agents can help you establish a value range based on factors such as whether you are in a buyers\u2019 or sellers\u2019 market, location, and how well your home shows. If you price your home at the lower end of that range, you can be pretty confident you\u2019ll generate lots of interest.\nWhile you can\u2019t change your home\u2019s location and prices can fluctuate based on any number of factors, presentation of your home is something you have more control over. In today\u2019s online-focused market, photos are key, so make sure you put your home\u2019s best foot forward before you have it photographed. Buyers want to make an emotional connection with a home, so removing your personal items, making cosmetic upgrades (if you can afford it), and staging will make a good first impression online and drive buyers to look at the home in person.\nThese factors, supplemented by the expertise of a local real estate agent who knows the other homes in the area and can help you make yours stand out, will give you an increased chance of getting what all sellers want \u2013 multiple offers. If you are interested in selling or buying a home in the Seattle area, contact your local real estate agent today.\nLabels: Get multiple offers on your home, Seattle Real Estate, Seattle Real Estate Blog, Seattle Real Estate News, Tips for Residential Sellers to get multiple offers on your home, Tips for Sellers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 12370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://secondfloor.gallery/en/works/kalina-cycle-geothermal-power-stations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:53Z", "digest": "sha1:AXFGQP4ZSXKJ3M2GXR7EIIFNC6OQKY5Y", "length": 864, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "secondfloor.gallery", "title": "KALINA CYCLE \u2013 GEOTHERMAL POWER STATIONS \u2013 Second Floor Art Center", "raw_content": "Thermodynamic cycle based on the double (binary) principle in which geothermal water transfers its energy not directly but to the water-amonia micture that increases the efficiency of geothermal power stations by 20-25%. The invention relates to Oleksandr Kalina (born in 1933 in Odesa) who immigrated to the USA where he founded Exergy LLC. After construction of the first experimental geothermal power station in Kanoha Park in Los-Angeles, the patent for Kalina Cycle was acquired by General Electric. Today, geothermal power stations using the Kalina Cycle principle are built in the United States, Iceland, Germany and Japan. In addition, Japanese metallurgical and oil refineries use the Kalina Cycle as well. Oleksandr Kalina\u2019s Kalex LLC has finalized the development of the second-generation Kalina Cycle technology.\nOleksandr Ivanishyn, Heorhiy Matviychuk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seder-olam.info/seder-olam-g27-babylon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YZR5SJNGP4FPIR6AERDZWEXGFWGL72FB", "length": 18760, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "seder-olam.info", "title": "SEDER OLAM REVISITED - Chronology of the Bible and beyond", "raw_content": "Nebuchadnezzar defies God\nEzekiel's vision of the Second Temple\nNebuchadnezzar spoils Egypt\nDeath of Prophet Ezekiel\nBelshazzar and the writing on the wall\nNabonides\nYear 3173 \u2013 587 BCE \u2013 Nebuchadnezzar defies God\nAfter having destroyed Judah and the Temple of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar felt he was above all gods. He created a large idol statue of gold for people to venerate as an act of obedience to his power over their own gods. As it was against Jewish religion to worship any idol figure, the three governors who were the friends of Daniel would not obey the king\u2019s order in their provinces. They were denounced to Nebuchadnezzar by jealous Chaldeans. As a punishment, the three were thrown into a burning fiery furnace but they did not die.\nThe three men in the fiery furnace\n(marble sarcophagus, Vatican Museum, source Flickriver)\nNebuchadnezzar could even distinguish in the furnace that a fourth person was among them and, in his own words, the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods (Daniel 3:25). The king quickly realized this was an act of God, and felt immediately as humbled as he had been at the time of the dream that Daniel had interpreted:\nNebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.'\nThen the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.\nFollowing his destruction of the Temple and its spoil of religious tools, God would have decreed the death of the King. But, as the act was guided by divine desire, and as Nebuchanezzar then acknowledged the supremacy of God following the incident of the furnace, he was granted extra years to live, 15 in total, as King Hezekiah had also benefited for his good deeds. But, because he raised himself as if he was above all gods, his fate was sealed:\nBut when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he [Nebuchadnezzar] was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.\nYear 3187 \u2013 573 BCE \u2013 Ezekiel's vision of the Second Temple\nIn the 25th year of the captivity, Ezekiel had a vision where he was taken by an angel and brought to the Temple that will be rebuilt. This vision offers many details that were confirmed by the future. One passage says:\nThen came he [the angel]unto the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps thereof; and he measured the jamb of the gate, one reed broad, and the other jamb, one reed broad.\n--- Ezekiel 40:6\nThe gate described above is the one that gave access to the courtyard of the Temple, by which all the pilgrims were directed. It was a double gate, of identical size as mentioned by Ezekiel, whereas the exit was a set of triple gates. The access to these gates was through a set of stairs, of irregular depth so that the pilgrims would have their heard turned downwards (as a sign of piety) when going up to the Temple. These gates were facing towards the East, as also mentioned by Hezekiel. The following is a diagram how these gates looked approximately. They still exist today in Jerusalem, partially and obstructed, and called the Huldah Gates.\nRepresentation of the Huldah Gates, the double gates entrance on the left side, as seen by Hezekiel\nThe Huldah Gates today, the exit side\n(photo: Albert Benhamou)\nIn the later years of his life, the British scientist Isaac Newton spent a considerable amount of his time deciphering the Hebrew text related to the dimension of the Temple, and wrote a detailed essay about it.[1a] For Newton, the Temple of Solomon was a representation of the cosmos.\nYear 3190 \u2013 570 BCE \u2013 Nebuchadnezzar spoils Egypt\nThe king of Babylon turned against Egypt after having conquered the Levant:\nIn the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the country of Babylon, he went to Mitzraim [Egypt] to wage war. Amasis, king of Egypt, collected [his army], and marched and spread abroad.\n--- J. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 1974, p. 308, translation from clay tablet at the British Museum\nThis campaign was announced to Ezekiel in that same year, at the very beginning of the new Hebrew year 3190 (570 BCE), as a divine prize to Nebuchadnezzar after Tyre:\nAnd it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: 'Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it; therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her abundance, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt as his hire for which he served, because they wrought for Me, saith the Lord God.\n--- Ezekiel 29:17-20\nThe years in Ezekiel are counted from the start of the captivity of King Jehoiachin, in 597 BCE, while the Babylonian chronicles count the years from the start of the reign of the king, so 605 BCE for Nebuchadnezzar.\nNebuchadnezzar took to Babylon the Jews who had previously fled to Egypt, including Jeremiah. The land of Egypt was left utterly desolated.\nYear 3192 \u2013 568 BCE \u2013 Death of Ezekiel\nThe Book of Ezekiel opens with the following sentence:\nNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.\n--- Ezekiel 1:1\nThere is no further detail about what happens. The next verse concerns the first vision he had of God in the fifth year [of the captitivy]. We can thus assume that, when Ezekiel wrote the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God, he meant to say that his time was up and that he died. This is the time when he completed his book, that will be included in the Jewish canon, and he would have added the closing verse 1:1 at the beginning.\nHis tomb is still located in Iraq, in a village called Al-Kilf near the city of Najaf, and is revered by both Jews and Muslims. Although, in recent years, there has been some attempt to exlcude the Jews from the shrine and turn it into a mosque.[1b]\nTomb of Ezekiel (photography, 1932)\nThe text of the Book of Ezekiel was inscribed in 66 stone tiles of marble or black basalt, of about 12 inches squared shape (so-called the Ezekiel Plates), found in his shrine and smuggled to Lebanon in the 20th century. They were later sold to an Israeli businessman in 1947 and found their way to Jerusalem in 1953 where they are exhibited today. There is barely any difference between the text of these plates and the known text of the Book of Ezekiel.[2]\nEzekiel Plates (photo: ICEJ, Matthias Guggisberg)\nYear 3198 \u2013 562 BCE \u2013 The madness of King Nebuchadnezzar\nHowever Nebuchadnezzar suffered from mental torments, with dreams and nightmares, in the years that folllowed. A new dream preoccupied him and he called upon Daniel for help. The dream portrayed a huge tree that grew to dominate the world, until an angel from Heaven came down to cast a spell that destroyed it. What happened is that Nebuchadnezzar being the master of the known world of the times, he grew in vanity so God would not let him rest upon it. Yet, as He had granted him extra years to live, He surely decided to comply with it but did so but by making Nebuchadnezzar lose power in 562 BCE because of madness. He was cast out of the city of Babylon, as he was considered insane, and he probably died 7 years later, as the Biblical text stated (Daniel 4:22, \"seven times\"), in insanity.\nOld Nebuchadnezzar by William Blake, 1795 (Tate Gallery, London)\nJeremiah had prophetized about the end of the nations and empires of the time. Indeed, the 26th Dynasty of Egypt will be the last dynasty of native rulers as they will then be replaced by foreign rulers. Also, Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s reign ended in 562 BCE, in the 26th year after having destroyed Jerusalem. This was the sign of a divine punishment, because the number 26 is always special in the Biblical text, as it represents the numerical value of the tetragram name of God.[3]\nYear 3200 \u2013 560 BCE \u2013 Belshazzar and the writing on the wall\nNebuchadnezzar's son, Amel-Marduk, called Evil-Merodach in the Bible, was brought to reign in his stead. He changed some of the policies established by his father and this caused some resentment among the upper class of Babylon. One of his first acts was to free the old king of Judah, Jehoiachin, (Leviticus Rabbah 18:2) who had surrendered voluntarily to Nebuchadnezzar but had nonetheless been taken captive to Babylon and left in jail for over 36 years. Jehoiachin was then treated with the honours due to a king, but died soon after.\nThis new ruler had no talent to become a great leader as his father had been, and busied himself in arranging great feasts for his guests. This was certainly a manner to please them but also to keep them close enough and better control them. Because the new king of Babylon clearly faced some difficulty to impose his authority. In the Bible, he is mentioned as Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 5:1-2). Historians associated this name with the last king of Babylon, before the Persian conquest. But the name Belshazzar simply means \u201cson of the lord\u201d (Bel/Bels= lord like the god Baal, and Azzar/Usur= firstborn son), in other words \u201cthe heir of the king\u201d. It could have been said for any king who came to rule after his father, as it was the case for Amel-Marduk. Anyway, he was indeed the \"last king\" of Babylon because he became the last legitimate Chaldean ruler over Babylon. The following rulers were indeed usurpers.\nThere is also his mention in one of the Apocrypha books:\nAnd pray you for the life of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven.\n--- Apocrypha, Baruch, chapter 1, 11\nDuring a feast, he asked to bring the golden vessels of the Temple of Jerusalem to drink from them (Daniel 5:3). For this act, which caused the sacred vessels to become profaned, he was to receive divine punishment. So, during the feast and in front of the entire assembly, God had a human hand to write on a wall. But nobody was found to understand the writing.\nBelshazzar's Feast - by Rembrandt, 1635\n(National Gallery, London)\nSo Daniel was called to interpret it. He explained that his father Nebuchadnezzar had been punished by God because of his vanity. As of Belshazzar:\n\u201cAnd you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you know all this; but hast lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your consorts and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified; then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing [on the wall] was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end. TEKEL, you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. PERES, your kingdom is broken, and given to the Medes and Persians.\u201d\nThen commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should rule as one of three in the kingdom. In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.\nDaniel interpreting the writing on the wall (Gustave Dor\ufffd, 1868)\nThe Biblical text is correct in mentioning that the son of Nebuchadnezzar was slayed. Indeed Amel-Marduk was assassinated by his brother-in-law Nergal-sharezer, or Neriglissar, who had been one of the high-ranked officers of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s army who conquered Jerusalem and was ordered to protect Jeremiah the Prophet:\nNow Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying: 'Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto you.' So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard [when he was under arrest], and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home; so he dwelt among the people.\n--- Jeremiah 39:11-14\nThis Nergal-sarezer was married to one of the daughters of Nebuchadnezzar. He murdered Belshazzar and succeeded him as king of Babylon. He was probably old himself, since 27 years had passed since the conquest of Jerusalem. He only reigned four years and was supposed to be succeeded by one of his late sons, still a boy of age.\nYear 3204 \u2013 556 BCE \u2013 Nabonides\nNergal-sarezer was killed in another conspiracy and Nabonides seized power. He had no legitimacy to reign and was not even Chaldean but probably from Assyria because he worshipped Sin, which was the god of Charan, instead of worshipping Marduk, god of Babylon. His reign effectively marked the end of the Chaldean dynasty over the Babylonian empire, and it occurred precisely when Jeremiah had prophetized:\nThe word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: \u201cFrom the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of the Lord has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, speaking betimes and often; but you have not hearkened. And the Lord has sent unto you all His servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often -- but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear -- saying: 'Return you now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given unto you and to your fathers, for ever and ever; and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke Me not with the work of your hands, and I will do you no hurt.' Yet you have not hearkened unto Me, says the Lord; that you might provoke Me with the work of your hands to your own hurt.\nTherefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. Moreover I will cause to cease from among them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. And this whole land shall be desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it perpetual desolations. And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.\nThe 70 years of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy started from the year of his prophecy, in the 13th year of Josiah, king of Judah, and ended with the year when Nabonides usurped power and the trone of the Chaldeans.\nThe name of Nabonides is mentioned in a clay cylinder, of which archaeologists have found only two copies. The cylinder was written in the 13th year of Nabonides\u2019 reign, in year 544 BCE (Hebrew year 3216).\nNabonides cylinder from Sippar (British Museum)\nA translation of this cylinder has given the following text:\nI, Nabonidus, the great king, the strong king, the king of the universe, the king of Babylon, the king of the four corners, the caretaker of Esagila and Ezida, for whom Sin and Ningal in his mother's womb decreed a royal fate as his destiny, the son of Nab\ufffd-bal\ufffdssi-iqbi, the wise prince, the worshiper of the great gods, I: [\u2026]\nIn the beginning of my everlasting reign they sent me a dream. Marduk, the great lord, and Sin, the luminary of heaven and the netherworld, stood together. Marduk spoke with me: 'Nabonidus, king of Babylon, carry bricks on your riding horse, rebuild Ehulhul and cause Sin, the great lord, to establish his residence in its midst.' [\u2026] But Marduk spoke with me: 'The Mede whom you mentioned, he, his country and the kings who marched at his side will be no more.'\n--- Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, London, 1911, Vol.1 p.163\nIt is interesting to note that this cylinder mentions a dream that Nabonides claimed to have had during which the god of Babylon, Marduk, had talked to him. Since the times of Nebuchadnezzar, dreams must have been considered to be very important as being messages from the gods. An usurper like Nabonides would of course find it useful to use dreams in an attempt to portray himself as a messenger of the gods and justify his legitimacy in power. But, in his case, the dream was a political invention and his assertion that Cyrus the Mede will be no more proved to be wrong.\n[1a] To look at Isaac Newton's essay, in Latin, click here\n[1b] Elgot, Jessica, \"Iraq cleric slams plan to turn Jewish tomb into mosque\", Jerusalem Post, 12 April 2010; to read it online, click here\n[2] Parsons, David, Bache, Florence, \"Dating the Ezekiel Plates\", Jerusalem Post, 5 January 2011; to read it online, click here\n[3] The tetragram name is composed of two letters Heh (value 5 each), one letter Yod (value 10) and one letter Wav (value 6), which adds up to a total of 26\nGo to >> Part IV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 20052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://serendipity.li/cda/isb0102.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:19Z", "digest": "sha1:COFP6LFLGWM6ZVXKFSVA3M7W55NPGEVX", "length": 15746, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "serendipity.li", "title": "Congress' Censorware Boondoggle", "raw_content": "Congress's Censorware Boondoggle\nby Jonathan Wallace, 2001-02-04\nCongress, as part of the budget bill which passed at years' end, has saddled schools and libraries with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) (http://www.filteringinfo.org/pdf/001218cipa.pdf). This law applies to any school or library accepting E-rate funding for Internet connectivity. The E-rate funds are derived from a tax on your telephone calls.\nCIPA is a classic legislative boondoggle, as it prescribes a solution which does not remotely address the problem it identifies. The purpose of CIPA is to protect children against Internet material harmful to minors, and (despite its name) to protect adults against obscene material. It does so by mandating that schools and libraries accepting e-rate funding install a \"technology protection measure\" \u0097 blocking software or \"censorware\".\nIn Sex, Laws and Cyberspace, a book I co-authored with Mark Mangan (Henry Holt 1996), we naively endorsed censorware as a \"less restrictive alternative\" to government censorship such as the Communications Decency Act. Within six months after the book first came out in 1996, I discovered that the web site we had put up describing it (http://www.spectacle.org/freespch) was blocked by several censorware products \u0097 undoubtedly because of the word \"sex\" in the title. The November 1995 issue of my monthly newsletter, The Ethical Spectacle, containing essays about the views of Catherine Mackinnon, Wendy McElroy and Nadine Strossen, was blocked because of the word \"Pornography\" in the title (http://www.spectacle.org/1195/).\nIn 1996, the massive over-blocking of all censorware products then on the market began to come to public attention. For example, the X-Stop product, which claimed to block obscene material only, blacklisted a Quaker web site, the American Association of University Women, and the Aids Quilt (The X-Stop Files, http://www.spectacle.org/cs/xstop.html). Soon after, a group of concerned people formed the Censorware Project, with the express mission of fighting the use of censorware in public libraries, and to spotlight the amazing overbreadth of these products' blacklists. The group analyzed and released reports on products such as Bess, Websense, and Cyberpatrol. In a Censorware Project report entitled \"Protecting Judges Against Liza Minelli\", we noted that Websense, which had been installed on the federal courts' computer network, blocked a Liza Minelli fan page. The Cyberpatrol product repeatedly blacklisted a site called Maplesoccer.org, which consisted of the schedule for a local youth soccer organization.\nAll censorware products share inevitable and very serious flaws based on the difficulty of identifying material \"worthy\" of being blocked. While any individual parent could certainly make up a blacklist based on his or her personal values, censorware companies take on the task of making universal \"one size fits all\" blacklists for children of every age and cultural and political background. While this raises serious practical issues about the efficacy of these products for individual families who may not share the views of the company compiling the blacklist, the problem becomes much more severe when these products are tapped \u0097 as CIPA has done \u0097 for the role of policing only \"illegal\" material. (I'll return to this issue in a moment.)\nSecondly, censorware companies are completely inadequate to the task they undertake to perform, of policing the entire Web. Though no-one knows exactly how large the World Wide Web is today, a February 1999 article in Nature Magazine concluded the Web already contained 800 million pages of information. You don't have to be a math wizard to calculate the amount of time it would take a censorware company staff of even one hundred reviewers to get through all those pages. All censorware companies are extraordinarily secretive about the number of people they use for Web review, so the teams are possibly far smaller than 100 people. Censorware companies are relatively small businesses; N2H2, Inc. of Seattle, which distributes the Bess product, reported that it had $2.5 million in revenue in first quarter of fiscal 2001, giving it a run rate of only ten million dollars for the year. N2H2 is one of only two censorware companies which are publicly traded; others are not required to report their results, but are unlikely to be larger than the censorware companies which have already achieved a public offering. A company with only ten million dollars in annual revenue would certainly not be able to field a very substantial staff of reviewers.\nBecause of the impossibility of keeping up with the ever-changing web with a small group of human reviewers, there is evidence that most censorware companies also use technological means to identify pages for blocking \u0097 so-called \"spider\" programs which crawl the Web looking for particular keywords. Though most censorware companies have made the claim that no page is ever added to the blacklist without human review, it is improbable that anyone looked at innocuous sites like Maplesoccer.org, the Quaker or Liza Minelli pages, before blacklisting them. The censorware companies' poor record of human review, coupled with the use of these stupid and literal-minded spiders, results in an astonishingly high rate of error.\nWhile the censorware companies respond to every new revelation by claiming they are cleaning up their act (or simply deny the blocking had ever occurred) the Censorware Project found across three years of evaluations that things never got any better. The companies removed from the blacklist the sites we called to their attention, and went blithely on to blacklist new innocuous sites \u0097 because, with their flawed process, they simply could not do any better. In some cases, we found that the same sites they unblocked were repeatedly added back to the blacklist, like maplesoccer.org, which was unblocked and re-added at least three times. When we would go back a year after last examining a product and look at it again, we always discovered that the error rate remained as high as before.\nAlthough the Censorware Project's main issue was over-blocking and the resulting censorship of innocuous and socially useful sites, when we looked for it we naturally found substantial underblocking as well. Every product we examined let pass substantial numbers of hard core sex sites which the human reviewers, or the spider software, had not yet found. Again, the problem of reviewing 800 million plus web pages is insurmountable by any means within the budget of a relatively small for profit Internet company.\nIn 1998, a group named Mainstream Loudoun brought suit against the library system of Loudoun County, Virginia, which had just voted to install the X-Stop censorware product. (I became a plaintiff in that case as part of a group of Web site operators, represented by the ACLU, whose sites had been blocked by X-Stop.) Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema, a former librarian, issued an injunction banning X-Stop's use in the library precisely because of the over-breadth, citing many of the sites we had identified in the X-Stop Files article. (The court's two rulings can be found at http://www.pfaw.org/courts/loudoun_opinion.shtml and http://www.pfaw.org/courts/loudoun_ruling.shtml.) Judge Brinkema held that the Supreme Court's ruling in Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982) governed. In Pico, the Supreme Court had held that a local school board could not descend upon a high school library and remove works by authors such as John Updike which offended its conservative sensibilities.\nCensorware has been the darling of the fundamentalist right since the defeat of the Communications Decency Act; groups like the American Family Association and the National Law Center for Children and Families have been championing government-mandated censorware for years. This coalition, which includes people who have campaigned in the past for the banning of Huckleberry Finn from libraries, has strenuously advanced the argument that censorware does not remove anything from the library, as the school board did in Pico; it simply helps the librarian choose not to include material, as a librarian would be entitled to choose not to purchase Madonna's \"Sex\" (a favorite example). Judge Brinkema held to the contrary. Though no library is constitutionally required to offer Internet access, once it decides to do so, Brinkema analogized the Internet to a huge encyclopedia purchased by the library. Then, along come the X-stop censors with their scissors, she said, offering to \"redact\" the encyclopedia.\nThe local library board chose not to appeal the decision, so there was no opportunity to obtain affirmation from the Supreme Court. The decision, still the only one on the question of whether libraries can adopt censorware, has been disregarded by censorware proponents and by Congress, who hope that federal courts elsewhere, and the Supreme Court when a case finally gets up to them, would rule differently.\nA member of the American Family Association might, of course, feel warmly towards a censorware product which he believed embodied his values (such as Cybersitter, which blocked the National Organization of Women site as a \"radical lesbian\" page). The problem of tailoring censorware products to meet defined legal standards (rather than the putative AFA member's subjective values) is much more difficult.\nCIPA mandates that schools and libraries accepting e-rate funding use censorware to protect adults from obscene material. The Supreme Court in Miller v. California defined obscenity as \"prurient, patently offensive\" material lacking SLAP (scientific, literary, artistic or political) value. The problem, of course, is that censorware reviewers, acting under secret criteria, are in the position of deciding that material is legally obscene which has not been ruled so by a court. Further complicating the problem is the fact that the Miller case adopted local community standards of \"prurience\" and \"patent offensiveness\", meaning that speech which is acceptable in California may be obscene in Tennessee (exactly the result in the Amateur Action bulletin board case we wrote about in the first chapter of Sex, Laws and Cyberspace). No censorware product has ever yet attempted to create fifty different state versions (let alone mirror the differing community standards which may occur within a state). Thus, the reviewing staff of censorware companies, which tends to consist of poorly-paid students and homemakers looking for a little extra income, is now in the position of making determinations best left to judges and First Amendment lawyers. All censorware companies keep secret their criteria for choosing sites for the blacklist, so it is impossible to tell if, or how, they are applying Miller in making their decisions. No censorware company has ever even claimed to have a setting which blocks only obscenity, since X-Stop met embarrasment in 1997. It was the \"Obscenity Load\" version of X-Stop which blocked the Quaker pages, the American Association of University Women, and the AIDS Quilt.\nThe use of spiders to identify sites for blocking exacerbates the problem. Deciding which material is obscene or is harmful to minors is an extremely subjective human endeavor. No \"artificial intelligence\" program has ever been created which can do this; the job is difficult enough for a human jury to perform. In fact, though the censorware companies are also highly secretive about their technology, every indication is that the spiders are not sophisticated attempts at rule-based decision engines, but simple search programs which prowl the net looking for the occurrence of keywords like \"sex\" or \"pornography\".\nAlso consider that most censorware products are advertised as created specifically for the protection of children, yet CIPA mandates that these same products be used to block sites from adult view. There is a long line of Supreme Court cases holding that adults cannot be reduced to reading or viewing only that material which is fit for children. In her decision, Judge Brinkema held that the library's use of X-Stop was \"overinclusive because ... it limits the access of all patrons, adult and juvenile, to material deemed fit for juveniles.\"\nA closely related problem is that government is not permitted to delegate censorship decisions to private groups. A long line of cases in various states have unanimously held that state governments cannot make criminal laws adopting the MPAA movie ratings (NC17, R, PG). The MPAA's private efforts in categorizing films are simply too imprecise and arbitrary to be utilized by government. (For a discussion of these and other relevant cases, see my brief, \"Purchase of Blocking Software by Public Libraries is Unconstitutional\", at http://www.spectacle.org/cs/library.html.) The same is abundantly true of censorware companies, which refuse even to open their blacklists to the libraries or schools who will be using them. Rude as it is to type in capitals in an Internet communication: CIPA FORCES LIBRARIES TO ADOPT BLACKLISTS OF UNKNOWN CONTENT, COMPILED BY UNSKILLED CENSORS, USING AN UNREVEALED METHODOLOGY.\nCongress has foisted a technology which does not work upon schools and libraries. Lie detector tests have existed for many decades, but their use as evidence in criminal trials has never been permitted because they are just not scientifically reliable enough. You wouldn't want Congress to mandate the use of lie detector tests in every criminal trial. And you certainly would expect Congress, as a group of responsible legislators, to take a close look at the efficacy of any technology before requiring its use.\nCongress didn't do its homework here. The truly remarkable aspect of CIPA is the extent to which Congress relied on the shaky, easily disproved claims of the censorware companies, without doing any due diligence. Any librarian who has dealt with censorware knows the truth. A technical coordinator at one school using the Bess censorware product wrote that teachers in his building were becoming so frustrated with Bess that \"they decided it wasn't worth the hassle to use the Web\" \u0097 a common response from teachers when they first discover that students are unable to view sites they have been assigned for homework. Because Bess, a product of the publicly traded N2H2 Inc., is typically installed on a server serving the schools of an entire district, the censorware had to be turned off for the entire district every time the students in one classroom wanted to access an erroneously blocked site they needed for a class assignment.\nDid Congress really believe that censorware works? CIPA remarkably contains a provision that requires a study, within eighteen months after its passage, to determine whether censorware is effective for the job that CIPA has tapped it to do. Congress said, let's mandate the use of the technology now, and determine whether it all works later.\nThe fundamentalists are smiling, because they have achieved their real agenda. It won't stand up in court, but what they did was clever. They wanted much broader censorship; a law blocking only legally obscene material wouldn't serve their purposes, because they believe much First Amendment-protected material is destructive of children (like Huckleberry Finn). So they wrote a law requiring the blocking only of obscene material, but requiring the use of technology incapable of doing only that. Which will inevitably blacklist much more than that.\nCIPA is a boondoggle, a huge waste of public money and time on technology that will not serve the stated purpose, but will inflict a lot of harm along the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 15850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sherwestravel.com/libya-latest-details.asp?id=9219", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TZWQSS5IW4DOOQ3LEI47QV2VZN7KS6NV", "length": 3394, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sherwestravel.com", "title": "UN report: Healthcare under attack in Libya", "raw_content": "UN report: Healthcare under attack in Libya\nViolence in Libya continues to have a devastating impact on health care in the country, with hospitals and other medical facilities bombed, shelled and looted; medical personnel targeted, attacked and even taken hostage or arbitrarily detained; and patients at times denied prompt life-saving care or attacked while getting treatment, according to a paper published today by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).\n\u201cThese attacks are a major violation of international law and a tragic disregard of our common humanity. All too often, there is no respect for the sick and no sanctity for those who provide care. This must end,\u201d said Ghassan Salam\u00e9, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of UNSMIL.\nBetween 1 May 2017 and 1 May 2018, the UN has recorded 36 attacks on medical facilities, personnel or patients, although the actual number is likely to be significantly higher.\nAmong the incidents cited, the Sabha Medical Centre in southern Libya was shelled or hit by stray bullets 15 times between February and May. In November 2017, the Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi saw people shooting in the corridors with AK-47s. On 18 February, a woman in labour and her unborn child died when armed men delayed their passage at a checkpoint as they were trying to leave Derna.\nArmed groups, including those formally integrated into Ministries, have assaulted, threatened and even unlawfully deprived healthcare workers of liberty. Doctors and other hospital staff face insults, intimidation and beatings by fighters seeking preferential treatment for injured members of their armed groups and their relatives. In one case, a fighter reportedly held a gun to a doctor\u2019s head, forcing the doctor to resuscitate his mother.\nUnder international humanitarian law, which applies to situations of armed conflict, hospitals and other medical facilities, medical personnel and medical transport must be respected and protected at all times, while attacks targeting them are prohibited.\n\u201cThreatening doctors at gunpoint, attacking medical facilities, preventing sick and wounded people from receiving timely treatment \u2013 this is utterly shameful behaviour, affecting some of the most vulnerable people in Libya, and the healthcare workers who have the power to help them,\u201d UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein said. \u201cIntentionally directing attacks against medical facilities and personnel, willful killing or harming of sick or wounded people may constitute war crimes.\u201d\nInternational human rights law also stipulates that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health without discrimination.\nThe paper calls on all parties to the conflict to take all necessary precautions in the planning and conduct of military operations to prevent, or at least minimize, the impact of hostilities on medical facilities and workers. It also calls on the Government of National Accord to develop and implement effective measures to prevent and address acts of violence, attacks and threats against healthcare providers and to ensure accountability for such attacks.\nThe findings reflected in the paper are based mainly on testimonies from a range of sources, including hospital staff, patients, humanitarian workers, human rights defenders and journalists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 9148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://similarlyrics.com/waylon-jennings/country-folk/but-you-know-i-love-you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DEUB5G3MKFIOU7G4JSZYJATVEXQASMME", "length": 8055, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "similarlyrics.com", "title": "But You Know I Love You by WAYLON JENNINGS", "raw_content": "WAYLON JENNINGS lyrics - Country-Folk\nWhen the morning sun streaks across my room And I'm wakened up from another dream of you Yes I'm on the road once again it seems All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams. But you know I love you Yes, I love you oh I love you. How I wish this love was all we'd need to live What a life we'd have cause I've got so much to give And it seems so wrong deep inside my heart That the dollar sign chould be keeping us apart. But you know I love you Yes, I love you oh I love you. And if only we could find our way back to the times When the problems of this life had not yet crossed our minds For the answers could be found in children's nursery rhymes I'd come running back to you. I'd come running back to you. But you know we can't live on dreams alone And to pay the rent got us leave you all alone But you know I made my choice many years ago Now this traveling life is the only one I know. But you know I love you. Yes, I love you oh I love you. Yes, you know I love you. yes, I love you. Oh, I love you...\nUSHER \"All About U\"\nOh no, no, no, no If love was a bird Then we wouldn't have wings If love was a sky We'd be blue If love was a choir You and I could never sing Cause love isn't for me and you If love was an Oscar You and I could never win Cause we can never act out our parts If love is the Bible Then we are lost in sin Because its not in our hearts So why don't you go your way And I'll go mine Live your life, and I'll live mine Baby you'll do well, and I'll be fine Cause we're better off, separated If love was a fire Then we have lost the spark Love never felt so cold If love was a light Then we're lost in the dark Left with no one to hold If love was a sport We're not on the same team You and I are destined to lose If love was an ocean Then we are just a stream Cause love isn't for me and you So why don't you go your way And I'll go mine Live your life, and I'll live mine Baby you'll do well, and I'll be fine Cause we're better off, separated Girl I know we had some good times It's sad but now we gotta say goodbye Girl you know I love you, I can't deny I can't say we didn't try to make it work for you and I I know it hurts so much but it's best for us Somewhere along this windy road we lost the trust So I'll walk away so you don't have to see me cry It's killing me so, why don't you go So why don't you go your way And I'll go mine Live your life, and I'll live mine Baby you'll do well, and I'll be fine Cause we're better off, separated\nMICHAEL BOLTON \"Only A Woman Like You\"\nYour heart is my need And I love what it means to succeed As your fate is my prize Love you're breathe in me It's what keeps me alive Hold on 'till forever is gone Hold on to whatever it takes To go on and on and on, oh baby This is the way that we live This is the world where our dreams survive Fight for the love that we give The love that we make is all in the way that we live The way that we live In my dreams I can fly In your arms, there's no earth, no sky There's one truth, no lies There's no distance between us Just trust in our lives Hold on 'till forever is gone Hold on to whatever it takes to go on and on, oh baby This is the way that we live This is the world where our dreams survive Fight for the love that we give The love that we make is all in the way that we live The way that we live, the way that we live In our lives there's so much useless information The truth is as simple as the air that we breathe So many souls with the need for human affirmation You and I choose to believe we are free! This is the way that we live This is the world where our dreams survive Fight for the love that we give The paths that we take it's all in the way that we live This is the way that we live This is the world where our dreams survive Fight for the love that we give This is the way that we live\nTESTAMENT \"Souls Of Black\"\nLife as we know, Is full of gloom Oppress the masses We'll lead to our doom We want the right To live or die Can't take away What we feel inside Like empty shadows, Afflict our brains Envision dreams Just to ease the pain There's more to life That to satisfy I ask myself For the reason why. If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way. If ever there comes a day Renovations blown away Realize what we've thrown away Is there no end To this endless war The fear of man In now what's in store. We look at life as a memory Long live the dreams That they took from me. If it were my way I'd deliver us from this hell If it were my way.\nHoneyz \"Wonder No. 8\"\n(Ring ring) Hey this is a message for the Honeyz Barry here There's gonna be some sexy things on the album You know what I'm saying? So you tell me later just give me a call Okay peace. I'm out Bye baby Each day I pray For love to come my way And I'm still here looking But not knowing where to find you So I ask myself Besoin d'aim\u00e9e Besoin d'\u00e9t\u00e9 aim\u00e9e I've been waiting for so very long To find someone that I could call my own But I know that one day I'll find the perfect love The kind of love that every girl prays for Sometimes I feel like I'm all alone (But I'm strong) So I keep holding on 'Til I find a love of my life (I need somebody to love me) Someone to love me (To love me) For the rest of my life (Sometimes when days get so lonely) I need someone to hold me (To love me) Who'll make it all right Some people wonder how a girl like me Could even know the meaning of love (Meaning of love) I may be young, but I've been around And yes, I know That I've had my ups and my downs. I need someone Who will stay with me Till the end So please tell me when Will I find that special friend? (I need somebody to love me) Someone to love me (To love me) For the rest of my life (Sometimes when days get so lonely) I need someone to hold me (To love me) Who'll make it all right Every Juliet needs a Ro-Romeo (Romeo) Someone who'll be there and never let go (Never let go) He may be near or he may be far I don't know Until he's here I wish on a star (Star) Oh oh oh... (I need somebody to love me) Someone to love me (To love me) For the rest of my life Sometimes when days get so lonely I need someone to hold me (To love me) Who'll make it all right (Somebody to love me) (Somebody to need me) I need someone to love me (To love me for the rest of my life) For the rest of my life (Sometimes when days get so lonely) Sometimes when days get so lonely (To love me for the rest of my life) I need someone to love me (I need somebody to love me) I need someone to love me (To love me for the rest of my life) Ooh, for the rest of my life (Sometimes when days get so lonely) Sometimes when days get so lonely (To love me) (Who'll make it all right) Who'll make it all right (Somebody to love me) (Somebody to need me) I need somebody to need me (Somebody to love me, to love me) (Who'll make it all right) Who'll make it all right (Somebody to love me) (Somebody to need me) (I need somebody to love me) I need someone to love me (To love me) (Who'll make it all right) (I need somebody to love me)\nOoh my babe Ooh my love Ooooooooooooooooohohohohohowoah Early was the morn Flowers filled with dew I became somebody through loving you Softly as a child Born in natural rain I predict the seasons To go unchanged [Chorus:] Sometimes in life You run across a love unknown Without a reason It seems like you belong Hold on dear life Don't go off running from whats new I became somebody Through loving you Warm was the sun That covered my body so Reminded me of you As I'd first known Those were the days A day that changed my life And made me do I became somebody through loving you [Chorus] As the sun shines Down on me I know with you in love is where I wanna be Ooooh sometimes I go on through life Thinking that love is something that's Not meant for me Woooooooooaaaaah Somebody Somebody Hold on dear life Don't go off running from whats new I became somebody through loving you I became somebody through loving you Oh I became somebody through loving you Oooh oooh ooooooooh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 8732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://simplybrad.com/brad-info/education/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ASDVK2M2VUFOENUDYCDR2UPYQA5N7DEQ", "length": 523, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "simplybrad.com", "title": "SimplyBrad.com \u2013 Your Source for Everything Brad Pitt. \u00bb Education", "raw_content": "From what we know by photos and interviews, Brad attended:\n\u2022 Horace Mann Elementary School\n\u2022 Kickapoo High School (Brad was in the tennis, basketball, football, debate, student government team. He also was named \u2018Best Dressed\u2019. Brad also was in the church choir)\n\u2022 University of Missouri at Columbia (Journalism with a focus on advertisement. Brad was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He didn\u2019t graduate, he was 2 credits short when he decided to leave for Hollywood in 1986.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 245.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skappanabanda.org/en/archiveng/bandas2012en", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NBJJETP6S5PH3GPX427RPG77ETB5IFE2", "length": 725, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "skappanabanda.org", "title": "Skappa'nabanda! - Bandas 2012 (en)", "raw_content": "DJ prof.hit\u2019s musical potpourri has something for all ages: you can dance, sing along, tap your feet to it and \u2013 above all \u2013 reminisce and bask in the last rays of the sun setting on this unique evening\u2019s entertainment.\n\u201e...They cover the songs of the famous Rosetti Sisters, because they are the Rosetti Sisters and they are no girls. They re here, they\u2019re there, and wherever they turn up you can expect to hear music.\nSometimes just two of them, sometimes with a line-up of eight or nine, they are rooted in reggae and the hot rhythms of Latin America and yet are true musical world citizens, at home in blues, funk, soul and jazz, Serb Guca brass, and even the occasional waltz or polka ...\u201c (Rickey Tai Toaster, TRAMINA)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skims.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=250", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YNCYXCU37BTYDCFHKYRRHMLXLUCFKYM4", "length": 1896, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "skims.ac.in", "title": "About Library", "raw_content": "Home About Library\nThe Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar is one among the foremost of the institutes of national importance in higher and advanced medical and technological education. This institute has a prestige of being one of the great medical universities in basic and higher applied medical research. The institute was established under State Legislature Act in the year 1982 and The Library of SKIMS known as SKIMS Library was commissioned in the year 1982 and this hospital library is taken to be regarded as active service oriented library as it effectively contributes to the hospitals\u2019 primary mission of providing patients with the best possible care and by supporting the delivery of patient care by providing physicians, health care professionals,nurses,technologists etc .with library services to meet their informational, educational and research related needs. The SKIMS is a big institute with large Faculty, Executive Officers, PG\u2019s Research Scholars, post doctoral scholars and other supporting staff in thousands. In order to serve the objectives of patient care, education and research, the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science is developing its library as an effective information center. The institute Library known as SKIMS Library is located on the 3rd floor of the faculty block, centrally accessible location.\nThe primary mission of SKIMS Library is to aid in the education of our library clientele by maintaining an attractive, reading, communicating, browsing atmosphere and to provide adequately equipped library which will complement, correlate and extend the medical education and research towards excellence in our well deserved tertiary care hospital in the interest of best patient care and to cater and serve the needs of our faculty to achieve the pre-defined goal of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://slickgunsnews.com/diy-targets-easy-and-cheap-ways-to-make-your-own-shooting-targets/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:4723QEWJP7NHZCDAJBAECLFJZORQX7C4", "length": 6211, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "slickgunsnews.com", "title": "DIY Targets: Easy and Cheap Ways to Make Your Own Shooting Targets - SlickGuns News", "raw_content": "Unless it\u2019s the middle of winter and -12 degrees Fahrenheit outside, I\u2019d much rather be shooting and training outdoors than at an indoor range. There\u2019s just something special about shooting in the fresh air out in the open. Plus, depending on where you shoot outdoors, you don\u2019t have to worry about paying range fees, standing in long lines or being right next to the guy shooting a cannon as you\u2019re trying to teach a new shooter.\n1 AR, 3 Ways: How to Optimize Your Rifle for CQB, Hunting & Training\nThe thing is, when you go shooting outdoors, you often have to provide your own targets and target stands. For a lot of folks, this simply means bringing bottles, cans, old TVs or anything else shootable that\u2019s lying around the house. There\u2019s certainly nothing wrong with this, as long as you clean up the mess when you\u2019re done. However, when I\u2019m shooting in the mountains of southern Utah, instead of using bottles or cans, I typically bring along one of three target systems to help improve my skills. Each target system is easy to build and only takes a few minutes to assemble. Believe me, if I can put them together, you can too \u2014 I\u2019m not exactly known around my house as the next Bob Vila. Plus, almost all of the supplies can be purchased from Home Depot or Lowes for just a couple of bucks.\nDIY Targets \u2014 The PVC Stand\nThe first target system is a very simple PVC stand. If you were to look into the back of my Toyota 4Runner right now, you\u2019d see this stand, which breaks down into several pieces for easy transportation. To build it, you need eight pieces of black ABS pipe that measure 1.5 by 24 inches. This size is easy to find pre-cut if you want to keep your workload to a minimum, or you can buy a long piece of pipe and cut it yourself. Next, you need two black ABS connector \u201ctees.\u201d These hold the pieces of pipe that go vertical, which in turn hold up the target. You also need four black ABS \u201celbows,\u201d which connect the corners of the base to form the square. Lastly, you will need two wooden furring strips cut to 58 inches in length.\nWith these materials ready, it will literally take you about 15 seconds to assemble the target stand. Once it\u2019s assembled, staple a piece of cardboard (approximately 23 by 35 inches) to the furring strips and then put up the target of your choice. One of the many good things about this stand is that, thanks to its wide base, it doesn\u2019t tip over easily, even in the windy conditions that I often find myself shooting in.\nDIY Targets \u2014 Ringing Steel\nIf you thought the PVC target stand was easy to make, this next one is even simpler, and it\u2019s what I use when I want to shoot steel. First, buy a steel plate (or, if you\u2019d like, make your own). I\u2019m not handy or patient, so I purchased a 0.5-inch-thick AR500 steel plate that\u2019s 8 inches in diameter. Once you\u2019ve got your plate, you need a way to hang it. I use a folding sawhorse that collapses to fit in my vehicle. I paid $30 for a metal sawhorse, but you could obviously build your own if you wish.\nTo hang the steel plate, I use two carabiners and rope. You can\u2019t tie the rope directly to the steel plate, because the sharp edges eat right through the rope. Instead, take the carabiners and clip them to each hole in the plate and then tie the rope around each carabiner. Once you\u2019ve done that, you\u2019re all set to shoot steel. Just remember to put the target at least 10 yards away for safety purposes.\nDIY Targets \u2014 The Mover\nThe final target system takes the longest to build, but it\u2019s also the most fun because it\u2019s a moving target. Building it doesn\u2019t require complex engineering skills because the target is completely hand operated, but you will need a shooting partner for this one to work. The simplest way to describe this target is that it\u2019s almost like a skateboard with a target on top.\nFirst, you need to buy four lawnmower tires, which come in various sizes \u2014 I purchased the 6-inch variety. Next, you need two steel rods that are 0.5 inches thick. These rods are the axles of the moving target. Then you need four 2x4s to form the base of the target. My base happens to be 40 inches long and 30 inches wide. You\u2019ll also need two 1.5-by-24-inch pieces of ABS pipe, screws, four washers, push caps to hold the tires on, two furring strips that are 58 inches long and two eyebolts. The last items you need are two 16-inch-by-8-millimeter dog stakes and 50 feet of rope. You can find these at the pet store.\nOnce you have all of your supplies, assembly should take less than 30 minutes. Drill holes in the 2x4s and run the axles through them. Screw together all of the 2x4s to form the base. Put washers on the axles. Pop on all of the tires and push caps. Screw the black ABS pipe into the base, screw the eyebolts to each end of the base and you\u2019re finished. The furring strips are used to hold the target.\nDIY Tips: Building Your Own Airgun Range\nNow it\u2019s time to put the moving target into action. Take the target outdoors and decide how far you\u2019d like it to move from left to right. For instance, walk five paces to the left of the target and screw the first dog stake into the ground. Then walk five paces to the right of the target and screw in the other dog stake. Take your rope and run it through each eyebolt on the target and then out to the dog stakes. If you\u2019ve done everything correctly, you should be about 7 yards away from the target with a piece of rope in each hand. This allows you to quickly pull the target from left to right.\nHave your partner stand in front of you and shoot while you pull the target from side to side. If you\u2019ve never practiced with a moving target before, know that it\u2019s a humbling experience and a good reminder that you\u2019re not as good of a shot as you think and that you can always use more practice!\nWhether you build all three targets or just this last one, I hope these plans make your next outdoor adventure a little more enjoyable. They could also help improve your shooting skills. 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Those third parties are providing those functions in relation to our business customers, however as part of that service we may where required share with them your name, job description and work contact details so that they may have an individual point of contact to communicate with you in relation to cash collection, pursuit of invoices and debt collection.\nThe provision of your name and contact details (such as telephone, email and a business address) is required from you to enable us to administer the contract between us and the business for whom you act or for you personally. 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You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.\nThis privacy notice was published on 25/05/18.\nWe may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do, we will inform you via our website.\nIf you wish to contact us please send an email to info@slidepods.co.uk or write to Slidepods, Unit 3, King Charles Business Park, Old Newton Road, Heathfield, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6UT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snapbacks-wholesale.us/disclaimer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:I7E3OO5NCUL7OFPYZUHAQVTE4F372FJD", "length": 541, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "snapbacks-wholesale.us", "title": "Disclaimer at snapbacks-wholesale.us", "raw_content": "Disclaimer for snapbacks-wholesale.us\nDisclaimers for snapbacks-wholesale.us:\nAll the information on this website is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. snapbacks-wholesale.us does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (snapbacks-wholesale.us), is strictly at your own risk. snapbacks-wholesale.us will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snapmaphub.com/483/the-four-trials", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WIF6IZHLK745E2BQCTWDR6FJTFZJ63S5", "length": 539, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "snapmaphub.com", "title": "The Four Trials - SnapMap Hub", "raw_content": "Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/f4yoB\nLately, ZMannZilla, creator of the popular Devil City Ransom map, has been doing something weekly called the \"Snapshot Challenge\". We're onto week 4 now, and the challenge was to make a map involving the 4 elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind. I decided to make something for it, and here it is!\nEnter a themed dungeon for each of the 4 elements, and pass the trials to recover the elements, and restore balance. (This is mostly a short puzzle map, with some platforming, and a bit of combat.)\nTHGYS4V5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snescentral.com/review.php?id=1220&num=0&fancy=yes&article=proto", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:GWSK5L7Q6IX5IASCXQALVZJC7RTXOX4L", "length": 3443, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "snescentral.com", "title": "Snes Central: Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba", "raw_content": "This is an early prototype of Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba.\nI purchased this game from Beep, an excellent video game shop in the middle of Akihabara in Tokyo. They had a bunch of prototypes, but unfortunately most were sold by the time I got there. However, this particular prototype was at the top of my list of targets. The prototype cart states that this prototype is only 40% complete, so I was expecting big changes from the final version.\nThe text on the cart \"\u8fd4\u5374\u5e0c\u671b\u65e5\" means \"return date\", so I assume that the date on the label, which is November 1993, refers to when Banpresto wanted the prototype returned, rather than being the date of expected release, or when the cart was made. I guess whoever had this didn't bother to return it.\nKenyuu Densetsu Yaiba is based off the manga of the same name. The game itself is an action RPG, very much in the vein of Secret of Mana. When I played the prototype for the first time, I thought it was great. Playing the final version of the game, it became clear why this game is not popular, despite the popularity of action RPGs - it is way too hard. The prototype substantially reduces the difficulty by reducing the amount of hits that it takes to kill enemies, while increasing the relative amount of power you gain at level up. In the final version of the game, the regular enemies you first encounter require 40 damage points to defeat, while your default sword at level 1 hits for only 10 points of damage. At level up, it only increases it by 1 point, so it still takes four hits. Overall, the final game is a huge disappointment after playing the prototype. As a result of the difficulty, I can only directly compare the first level of the game.\nAs far as the graphics and story goes, the first level appears to be largely the same in final version of the game. A big change is the schoolmaster, who really massacres you in the final version, but does no damage in the prototype. The enemies really swarm you a lot more in the final version, making it hard to get around. The prototype does not reward you with money, and items do not appear to work either (at least you cannot select them in the menu).\nPrototype - 1993 copyright Final - 1994 copyright\nPrototype - intro scene text is left aligned Final - intro scene text is right aligned\nPrototype - House on the right does not go down to the wall Final - House on the right goes down to the wall\nPrototype - Note the HUD shows the stats for the second player even if they are not playing Final - Does not show the second player stats\nPrototype - The status menu is kind of messed up in the prototype (in fact, one option causes the game to crash). Note the cursor is Yaiba. Final - Cursor is a hand.\nPrototype - Controller config Final - Now with Super Famicom controller\nHere are some more screenshots of the second and third levels of the prototype. 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He works with teams to help them learn how to deliver high-quality software quickly.\nMany teams want to focus on design, architecture, or (sometimes) even on business value. But they are usually not in a hurry to release quickly.\nRecently Herman conveyed a story to me that illustrates how releasing quickly can help teams deliver high-quality software much faster than if they would focus on quality in the first place. This is the case of a team that was working on a long overdue project. They had used a traditional and linear process in the past and had been able to release software only very recently, after more than 12 months of work on the latest release.\nNot surprisingly, they were having trouble releasing regularly. The software was not stable; once it was live it had many problems that needed to be fixed quickly, and worst of all: all of this was having a direct impact on the company\u2019s business.\nThe teams were extremely busy fixing the problems they had added to the product in the last year and could not focus on solving the root causes of those problems.\nThey were in full-fledged firefighting mode. They worked hard every day to fix yet another problem and release yet another hot fix.\nThis lasted for a few weeks, but once the fire-fighting mode was over, Herman worked with the teams to improve their release frequency. During their work with Herman, those teams went from one year without any release to a regular release every two weeks.\nAt first the releases were not always possible, but with time they improve their processes, removed the obstacles preventing them from releasing every two weeks and started releasing regularly.\nWhat happened next was surprising for the teams. The list of problems after each release did not grow - as they expected - but instead shrank.\nWhen some problems came in from the customers after a 2-week release, they were also much faster to fix the problem and quicker to release a fix if that was required. When the fix was not critical, they waited for the following release which was, after all, only 2 weeks away.\nBy focusing on releasing every two weeks, Herman\u2019s teams were able to focus on small, incremental changes to their product. That, in turn, enabled them to fine-tune their development and release processes.\nHere are some of the key changes the teams implemented\nThey started with a 4 week release cycle, and fine-tuned their daily builds and release testing process to enable a release every 2 weeks.\nThey invested time and energy to improve their test automation strategy and automated the critical tests to enable them to run \u201cenough\u201d tests to be confident that the quality was at release level.\nThey had some teams on maintenance duty in the first few iterations to make sure that any problem found after release could quickly be fixed, and released to customers if necessary.\nThey changed their source code management strategy to enable some teams to work on longer term changes while others worked on the next release.\nThey involved all teams necessary to complete a release in their iterations. This affected especially: production/operations team, localization team, documentation team, marketing team, and other teams when needed.\nThis list of changes was the result of the drive to complete each release and learning from the failures in the previous release. Some changes were harder to implement, and especially the testing strategy to allow for 2-week release cycles had to be changed and adjusted several times.\nOne of the key problems the teams had to solve, was the lack of coordination with departments that directly contributed to the release but were not previously involved in their day-to-day work.\nThis process lasted several months, and would not have been possible without a clear Vision set forth by the teams in cooperation with Herman, who helped them discover the right way to reach that Vision within their context.\nHerman\u2019s work as a coach was that of a catalyst for management and the teams in that organization. He was able to create in their minds a clear picture of what was possible. Once that was clear, the teams and the management took ownership of the process and achieved a step-change in their ability to fulfill market demands and customer needs.\nCustomers have no reason to change provider as they have an ever-improving experience when using this company\u2019s services.\nToday, this organization releases a new version of their product every two weeks. Unaware of it, their customers receive regular improvements to the product they use, and have no reason to change provider as they have an ever-improving experience when using this company\u2019s services.\nLabels: agile, business, continuous delivery, lean, management, project management, release, scrum, Team, team practices\nI am a big fan of the work by Jim Benson and Tonianne Barry ever since I read their book: Personal Kanban.\nIn this article Jim describes an idea that I would like to highlight and expand. He says: we need a knowledge worker Gemba. He goes on to describe how to create that Gemba:\nCreate a workcell for knowledge work: Where you can actually observe the team work and interact\nMake work explicit: Without being able to visualize the work in progress, you will not be able to understand the impact of certain dynamics between the team members. Also, you will miss the necessary information that will allow you to understand the obstacles to flow in the team - what prevents value from being delivered.\nThese are just some steps you can take right now to understand deeply how work gets done in your team, your organization or by yourself if you are an independent knowledge worker. This understanding, in turn will help you define concrete changes to the way work gets done in a way that can be measured and understood.\nI've tried the same idea for my own work and described it here. How about you? 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Led by duel frontmen Dave Anthony (Guitar/Vocals) and Josh Knowles (Violin/Vocals), the band brings what Worcester Magazine calls \u201ca nuclear power plant's worth of energy\u201d to any venue they enter. Energy isn't the only thing Nemes is focused on though. The band's songwriting, involving memorable lyrics and catchy hooks, will always be at the forefront, followed by a wide array of top-notch musicianship.\nRead more about Nemes\nSubmitted by hromero on Mon, 2012-04-09 07:14\nOld time Somervillian, novelist, bass player, drummer, singer, wheat paste artist, posters and banners.\nRead more about Lando", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://songs-tube.net/38771-Iron%20Maiden-Heaven%20Can%20Wait.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WSDREPCFGBB3FAKLK6C3IW2JBVURPR2L", "length": 575, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "songs-tube.net", "title": "Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait lyrics - letras - testo | Songs-tube.net", "raw_content": "Can't understand what is happening to me, this isn't real this is only a dream\nBut I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before\nI'm looking down on my body below, I lie asleep in the midst of a dream\nI can't believe that really my time has come\nI don't feel ready there's so much left undone\nAnd it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away\nHeaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait, heaven can wait til another day\nHeaven can wait, heaven can wait heaven...\nIron Maiden Heaven Can Wait lyrics - letras - testo are property and copyright of their owners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://soundlooks.com/2018/09/c-neil-a-working-progress-ft-timara-rogers-enthralling-and-emotional/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:63ZJRO23QFPGBEAEAOMQO42YDA7EGOAG", "length": 3697, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "soundlooks.com", "title": "C-Neil: \u201cA Working Progress\u201d ft. 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The track also features Timara Rogers, a talented young singer whose soulful vocals add a beautiful tone to the smooth R&B beat.\nThe song is supported by an enthralling and emotional music video that showcases the struggles of two individuals searching for better lives. Right off the bat, his song brings scripture to beat that makes you want to bump this loud in your car and let everyone hear the word and how its sung and rapped in both a divine and hard-hitting way.\nBalancing a burning social consciousness with disarming authenticity, \u201cA Working Progress\u201d delivers an electrifying jolt to the senses and the genuine human emotion that\u2019s sorely lacking in today\u2019s formulaic world of hip-hop and R&B.\nIt\u2019s a gut-wrenching song, and its resonance only strikes deeper with those who\u2019ve come to grips with the pressures, anxieties and wrong doings that weigh all of us down. Featuring powerhouse vocalist Timara Rogers, the song concentrates on maintaining a sense of hope through life\u2019s many obstacles.\nBy turns gritty, intensely soulful, and transcendent, \u201cA Working Progress\u201d captures the social, political, and religious undertones of today\u2019s living. It encompasses all the peaks and valleys we have to confront in the unsettling realities we\u2019re exposed to every day.\nWith a sweet breeze of hopeful optimism cutting through the murk of this dark and violent world. C-Neil reminds us that adversity doesn\u2019t define us, it merely strengthens us while we\u2019re feeling our way through the seemingly endless mazes that life presents, before we find the light.\nThe song doesn\u2019t just have diversity in sound, but C-Neil has found the perfect middle ground between the newer brand of hip-hop and the more traditional R&B. This is the sound that the next generation is in to. 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You also agree and hereby submit to the non-exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the state of California and acknowledge that you do so voluntarily and are responsible for complying with all local laws.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 23358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spybling.com/patient-safety-vigilance-cyber-awareness-and-take-action/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:6BFUEJSHH5XGUTLIWQ4ONQTLK7ISMOT3", "length": 4252, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "spybling.com", "title": "Patient Safety: Vigilance, Cyber Awareness, and Take Action \u2013 Spybling.com", "raw_content": "Patient Safety: Vigilance, Cyber Awareness, and Take Action\nRegulatory requirements, such as The Joint Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration require safety inspections be carried out at regular intervals to assure patient safety. The Nurse Practice Act also requires nurses to safely operate all equipment and use medical devices properly during patient care. When new equipment is introduced to a patient care area, a competency verification should be conducted of the responsible staff who will be using the equipment. This competency verification is typically maintained in the personnel file of the employee for future reference if necessary.\nNurses are taught at some time during their training to always look at the electrical cords of all equipment because a frayed cord is a potential fire hazard. This remains to be true. The temperature of solutions used in heating and cooling pads or blankets may also pose a risk of injury to the patient if the fluid is too hot or too cold. Burns have resulted from improper regulation of temperature associated with a variety of patient care treatment devices. As crazy as it may sound, a simple non-invasive blood pressure cuff has caused patient harm. The device inflated to extreme pressures intermittently over a period of time that ultimately caused permanent nerve damage to the patient\u2019s arm resulting in a clawed hand. A list of equipment frequently involved in patient care issues includes, but is not limited to, the following: volumetric infusion pumps, patient controlled analgesic pumps, blood glucose testing devices, heating pads, cooling/heating blankets, non-invasive blood pressure cuffs, nasal cannula tubing, leg immobilizers, patient lifts, and continuous positive airway pressure machines. An injury exposing the Achilles tendon of an elderly person resulted from a leg immobilizer. The patient\u2019s skin was not checked on a regular basis and as ordered by the physician for breakdown.\nIt seems obvious that inspecting equipment and / or medical devices on periodic regular intervals is a patient safety issue. Inspecting or evaluating the proper functioning of medical equipment should be an added consideration at the time of, or immediately following a rapid response event. We live in a world where amazing cyber technology exists therefore, health care providers must now consider the possibility that technical equipment may have malfunctioned which may have originated from a cyber source. This possibility would never have been considered before. Hacking Healthcare IT in 2016 was published by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure describing how devices that are blue-tooth enabled and have access to the internet, such as automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and pacemakers, patient controlled analgesic pumps, and insulin pumps are at risk for being hacked or reprogrammed.\n1. Be hyper-vigilant and open to possibilities of contributing factors never considered before.\n2. Conduct a survey of the equipment in the room at the time of the event and inspect it carefully as soon as possible after a Rapid Response or a Code situation. If in doubt, take equipment out of circulation; send it to biomedical engineering for inspection and record your action on an incident report, occurrence report, or a variance report (whatever your institution may call the form). Let the professionals trained in biomedical engineering determine when to return the equipment of concern back to available inventory.\n3. Double check the medication rates programmed in the infusion pumps. Sometimes the programming is not correct and guess who is going to held accountable? That\u2019s right You! Double check the pumps by calculating the math yourself.\n4. Record the temperature on any equipment or device that displays a temperature. For example: fluid warmers, blanket/pad warmers, heating/cooling blankets, crib warmers, etc. When the temperature is recorded, the medical record conveys that the health care provider was paying attention to details which will support your clinical competence should it be questioned.\n\u2190 Beware of Cybercrimes in Online Enterprises\nThe Effects of Malware on Computer Users and What To Do To Prevent Malware Infections \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 5038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://staevner.dk/staevne/4202/u10-easter-cup-bielefeld.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:K6H5QQKFV6YP6QUVIACQKOINTYBPUVUF", "length": 628, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "staevner.dk", "title": "U10 Easter Cup Bielefeld | 30. - 31. mar 2013 | Fodbold | Udend\u00f8rsturnering | Staevner.dk", "raw_content": "U10 Easter Cup Bielefeld\nHello! 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Visit Gran Canaria and Enjoy this butyfull Island!\nDIRECTO \ud83d\udd34 Gran Canaria - Tecnyconta Zaragoza | Minicopa Endesa 2019\nVideo uploaded by : ACB\nSigue en directo la #MinicopaEndesa 2019: partido de la fase de grupos entre Gran Canaria y Tecnyconta Zaragoza Suscr\u00edbete a Liga Endesa: https://bit.ly/2NZi5A6 Revive los mejores momentos de la Liga Endesa 2018-19: https://bit.ly/2RtjyN1 No te pierdas el Top7 KIA: https://bit.ly/2pDBV5w Encuentra la otra Liga Endesa en Zapping: https://bit.ly/2E9cFOy Encuentra m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n en: http://www.acb.com S\u00edguenos en RRSS: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ACBCOM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ACBCOM Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/ACBCOM\nVideo uploaded by : Expoza Travel\nVacation travel video about destination Gran Canaria in Spain -------------- Watch more travel videos \u25ba https://goo.gl/MXPgSs Join us. 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Enjoy :-) If you would like to see high quality photos, please visit my Website: http://www.fotocommunity.de/fotograf/stefan-zimmermann/fotos/35872\n[4K] Top 10 Things To See And Do in Gran Canaria -10 Highlights not to be missed - Gran Canaria\nVideo uploaded by : Jack Z\nGran Canaria meaning \"Great [Island] of Dogs\"), is the second most populous of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. As of 2018 the island had a population of 846,717 that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe.[2] With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi)[3] and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft)[4] at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Gran Canaria is also the third most populated island in Spain after Tenerife and Mallorca.\nA Taste of the Canary Islands: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Town\nVideo uploaded by : Gabriel Traveler\nWalking around Las Palmas, the main city on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. PLANNING A BUDGET TRAVELING TRIP?? \"Gabe's Guide to Budget Travel\" by Gabriel Morris is a travel guidebook that's packed with practical travel info. And it's just $10 on Amazon! For more info, CLICK HERE: http://www.amazon.com/Gabes-Guide-Budget-Travel-Tricks/dp/1470155141/ Or feel like reading something fun, adventurous and inspiring? \"Following My Thumb\" by Gabriel Morris features 26 adventurous travel stories from around the world. 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A Taste of the Canary Islands: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Town\nCanary Islands Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia\nVideo uploaded by : Expedia\nThe Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off Morocco in North Africa. Formed by volcanic eruptions and shaped by hot desert winds, they are comprised of 7 main islands. When powerful seismic forces lifted these islands out of the ocean millions of years ago, they sculpted landscapes of unimaginable beauty. So spectacular are the Canary Islands that for centuries, it was believed that this archipelago formed the peaks of the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Today, the Canary Islands are a magnet for sun seekers, beachcombers and adventurers from all over the world. With, 160 miles of coastline, 150 beaches and a climate that feels like it is always spring, the island of Fuerteventura is a perfect place to slow down and relax. A short ferry ride to the west of Fuerteventura is Gran Canaria - a place of ever changing climates and vistas. This island abounds with otherworldly landscapes that have been inspiring visitors for centuries. Take a hike to Pilancones Natural Park. The spectacular plateaus and cool ravines in this area are around 12 million years old. Tenerife, is the largest and busiest of the Canary Islands, receiving around 5 million visitors a year. Or, choose to visit Lanzarote is the Canaries\u2019 easternmost island and is sometimes called the \u201cIsland of 100 Volcanoes.\u201d Be humbled by Mother Nature\u2019s destructive power on a tour of Timanfaya National Park. This region suffered a series of devastating eruptions in the 1700s and has remained largely unchanged ever since. No matter which of these magnificent islands you choose, as the sun\u2019s molten rays merge the ocean with the earth, you\u2019ll realise this is a place where Mother Nature and history collide. The mythical city of Atlantis may be a story, lost in the mists of time, but the Canary Islands are only a plane ride away. Whether you are searching for dramatic adventures or a sun-soaked vacation, this archipelago is alive with a powerful magic all its own. https://www.expedia.com/Canary-Islands.d180087.Destination-Travel-Guides -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Expedia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/expedia Instagram: http://instagram.com/expedia Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/Expedia/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Expedia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on our travel blog, Viewfinder: http://viewfinder.expedia.com/\nHOLIDAY VLOG | GRAN CANARIA APRIL 2018\nVideo uploaded by : Gemma Louise Miles\nHey Honey bee's! Super excited for this vlog to finally be uploaded, I lost a lot of the content which made me super sad BUT I hope what I did capture you enjoy! Please don't forget to give this video a big thumbs up if you do enjoy it, it really helps me know you like these kind of videos! All my love as always x \u2661 Social Media INSTAGRAM: @_gemmalouisemiles MY 7 DAY MEAL PLAN: http://etsy.me/2ArIE5n Business Enquiries: gemmalouisemiles@outlook.com \u2661 FAVE PRODUCTS: HIGLIGHTER: http://rstyle.me/cz-n/cuyugjcds5f EYEBROWS: http://rstyle.me/cz-n/cvceekcds5f LIPSTICK: http://rstyle.me/cz-n/cvcee2cds5f FOUNDATION: http://rstyle.me/cz-n/cvcefccds5f FAKETAN: http://rstyle.me/cz-n/cvcefqcds5f HAIR EXTENSIONS (use code GEMMA10 for money off) https://goo.gl/ATFVUh Shade: 60 Bleach Blonde\nGran Canaria Island Spain - Playa de Maspalomas\nVideo uploaded by : PP Holidays\nSpectacular LAS PALMAS in GRAN CANARIA, a walking tour (SPAIN)\nVideo uploaded by : Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures\nSUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/c/VicStefanu - A walking tour of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (Spain). Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Gran Canaria is one of Spain\u2019s Canary Islands, off northwestern Africa. It's known for the white-sand beaches stretching along its southern coast, from happening Playa del Ingl\u00e9s and Puerto Rico to quieter, family-oriented Puerto de Mog\u00e1n and San Agust\u00edn. The northern capital, Las Palmas, is a popular stop for cruise ships and duty-free shopping, while the island\u2019s interior is rural and mountainous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 11213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://standrewshealthcare.com/testimonials/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JLKXEDJPTA6LHFSFFB7BDMDBP5GYKDT7", "length": 1413, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "standrewshealthcare.com", "title": "Testimonials - St. Andrews Healthcare", "raw_content": "I appreciated everything the staff did for me. I\u2019d never been in a nursing home before and I thought everybody treated me wonderfully. I thought that it was a nice facility, and it was spacious and clean, too.\n\u201cThey were all very nice to me. I was treated like I should have been. Both times I was there I was treated very well. The nursing care was very good.\u201d\nMrs. D. S.\n\u201cThey helped us with the whole discharge process.\nI felt they were really friendly and efficient. I enjoyed the staff immensely.\u201d\n\u201cI like the kindness of many of their caregivers, M., F. and R. specifically. The administration staff is fabulous.\u201d\n\u201cThank you for taking good care of my dad. I thought the physical therapist was very good at motivating him. The people were very nice, helpful and considerate.\nMs. H. W.\n\u201cI would like to take this time to write a letter of commendation to two of your staff who cared for our mother while she was admitted at your facility. Your facility is blessed with the kind of staff such as E. and A. please extend our thank you to the rest of your staff.\u201d\n\u201cThey were all very nice to me. I was treated like I should have been. Both times I was there I was treated very well. The nursing care was very good, specially, H.\u201d\nMs. V.\n\u201cThe staff had good attitudes and tried to please both the patients and family members.\u201d\n\u201cWe had contact with people who were efficient, friendly, and cooperative.\u201d\nMr. R. N.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3354, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2018/7/12/work-progresses-at-cape-yorks-springvale-station", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YNDX6ET6ZV64MRV6SACYCRI5CWOYT4RU", "length": 2154, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "statements.qld.gov.au", "title": "Work progresses at Cape York\u2019s Springvale Station - The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory", "raw_content": "Work progresses at Cape York\u2019s Springvale Station\nWork is progressing on Springvale Station Nature Refuge in Cape York to manage and conserve the area\u2019s threatened species habitats and ecosystems.\nMinister for Environment Leeanne Enoch visited the Springvale Station Nature Refuge earlier today to check on progress at the site.\n\u201cThere has been a lot of really great work carried out here and the Palaszczuk Government will deliver on its budget promise for increased funding of $2.7 million over four years to continue ongoing land management,\u201d Ms Enoch said.\n\u201cSince purchasing the 56,000 hectare cattle station in 2016, the Government has been managing and conserving the area\u2019s range of threatened species habitat, its high diversity of terrestrial ecosystems and aiming to reduce runoff into the Great Barrier Reef.\n\u201cThe additional funding announced in the budget will allow the Government to continue rehabilitation and conservation works here at the heavily grazed Cape York property.\n\u201cThe funding will also help reduce sediment running into the Normanby River system, and ultimately into the reef.\n\u201cSpringvale Station\u2019s outstanding diversity of 52 mapped regional ecosystems provide important habitat for endangered or vulnerable plant and animal species.\n\u201cWe have already achieved a significant amount of work at Springvale including the removal of an illegal tyre dump and we are working to re-establish groundcover and further reduce erosion runoff.\n\u201cWe are also working on a fire management plan \u2013 suitable for seasonal conditions \u2013 to encourage natural regeneration of native grasses. This is also essential in managing silt runoff.\n\u201cPest and weed control, fencing and road improvements are also well underway.\n\u201cCurrent major works at Springvale Station include repair of the 32 kilometre Keetings Track \u2013 the major track accessing most of the property.\u201d\nThe Government will continue to ensure that the property is managed as a nature refuge to achieve the necessary conservation outcomes.\nMore information about Springvale Station is available here: https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/coasts-waterways/catchment-management/springvale-station", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://statepolicies.nasbe.org/college-careers/categories/educator-performance-evaluation/california-educator-performance", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:VH3FLZFNNX6OMNI6XONK76KSID7LXDXF", "length": 1153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "statepolicies.nasbe.org", "title": "California - Educator Performance Evaluation: Educator Evaluation Authority | NASBE", "raw_content": "California - Educator Performance Evaluation: Educator Evaluation Authority\nCalifornia doesn't have statewide comprehensive teacher evaluation system, due to EDUCATION CODE SECTION 44660-44665. 44660. \"It is the intent of the Legislature that governing boards establish a uniform system of evaluation and assessment of the performance of all certificated personnel within each school district of the state, including schools conducted or maintained by county superintendents of education. The system shall involve the development and adoption by each school district of objective evaluation and assessment guidelines which may, at the discretion of the governing board, be uniform throughout the district or, for compelling reasons, be individually developed for territories or schools within the district, provided that all certificated personnel of the district shall be subject to a system of evaluation and assessment adopted pursuant to this article.\" Teachers are required to be evaluated annually if they received an unsatisfactory ranking on their previous evaluation, but for those who perform satisfactorily, the evaluations are less frequent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stevesweetman.com/articles09/prisonerhope.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LH6Q6HY3RDZ5IRI6NCWHQWOGNERDLP63", "length": 3557, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "stevesweetman.com", "title": "About Jesus Steve Sweetman", "raw_content": "In Zechariah 9:12 God says that Israel was a \u201cprisoner of hope\u201d. I think Christians are \u201cprisoners of hope\u201d as well. The more you live for Jesus, the more you\u2019ll know this to be true.\nI admire the apostle Paul. If I had a hero apart from Jesus, it would be Paul. I\u2019m so insignificant in comparison to him. Of course, Paul\u2019s success was due to the fact that he lived as a servant. He humbled himself, even unto death, following in the footprints of his Lord.\nI find it interesting to study Paul\u2019s writings to see how he viewed his life on earth. I think he saw himself as a \u201cprisoner of hope\u201d, caught between heaven and earth, between a needy humanity and the Lord Jesus. He wanted to escape the depravity around him and be with Jesus, yet if staying on earth would help his brothers in Christ, he\u2019d gladly stay (Philippians 1:23-24). His only reason for living was to serve Jesus.\nWe might think Paul was always on cloud nine, always in control, always full of faith and courage, but that wasn\u2019t always so. At times he was depressed, so depressed that he wanted to die. Some psychologists might suggest he was suicidal at times. 2 Corinthians 1:5 sheds some light on this. Here\u2019s what Paul said. \u201cWe were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.\u201d Do you see what I mean? Paul and his friends \u201cdespaired of life\u201d. That tells me they didn\u2019t want to live at times. They had a hard time facing the light of a new day during those tough days.\nPaul also said in 1 Corinthians 15:19 that \u201cif only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.\u201d Do I have to explain? Okay, I will. Paul wasn\u2019t always happy. The trials he and his friends went through were numerous and difficult. If there was no hope beyond this present life for Paul and his friends, we should shake our heads and pity these men for such a waste of their lives. They should have just ate, drank, and enjoyed life because once life is over that\u2019s it, but we know that\u2019s not it. Paul\u2019s hope was in the realities of spending eternity with Jesus. Someday he would escape his \"body of death\" as he called it (Romans 7:24), but until then he was a \u201cprisoner of hope\u201d.\nPaul certainly wasn\u2019t laying up treasures here on earth, but treasures in heaven, just as Jesus taught. His concern for this life was minimal. He lived to serve those Jesus had joined him to. Paul wasn\u2019t always happy, but he was always hopeful.\nI know we all have different ministries. We\u2019re not all Pauls. That being said, to one degree or another, we too are \u201cprisoners of hope\u201d. If we don\u2019t feel this imprisonment on occasion, I\u2019d suggest we\u2019re too much in love with this world and not enough in love with Jesus.\nOf course Jesus is the prime example for everything we need to learn. He endured the tremendous torture of the cross because of the joy that was set before Him (Hebrews 12:2). Jesus was a \u201cprisoner of hope\u201d too, especially so while hanging on that cross. The future joy He saw while being executed was the joy of you and I being with Him throughout eternity. Paul tells us very clearly that we are to have the same mind as Jesus in this respect (Philippians 2:5). The mindset that Paul spoke of was one of living in humility and service for Jesus in this life, while waiting for a better future in the next life. The world\u2019s idea of instant gratification isn\u2019t Biblical thinking. The gratification we seek should be the smile we see on the face of Jesus as we find ourselves as \u201cprisoners of hope\u201d in a world that so desperately needs Him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stlukelex.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=23891&PG=contact&RecordType=&pkg=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BMVXAPKNP3WDQULHTF25US644TDGK7D2", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stlukelex.org", "title": "Contact", "raw_content": "2319 Versailles Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40504, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sugigarden.com/2017/09/meandering-in-the-garden/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:48Z", "digest": "sha1:7OVVYSGBS2QXGNLEH7HZ4XHDFZ4TQ5GI", "length": 1783, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sugigarden.com", "title": "Meandering in the Garden \u2013 Life in the Garden", "raw_content": "As the hot and hotter days of summer slid into fall, I pondered the beautiful array of life that I have witnessed in the garden from June to September. In the heat of the summer, when meandering around to see what was happening, I came upon the Passion Fruit vine that hosts the Fritillary butterfly. The caterpillars were quite abundant this year. As I leaned forward to take a closer look, I could actually see them eating the leaves on the plant. It appeared that they were forming a staircase as they climbed here and there all over the plant. The size that they grew to this year was larger than I\u2019ve ever seen.\nCaterpillar Trio\nIt\u2019s quite amazing to me to see how big the caterpillars grew and yet, the fruit on the trees was smaller than ever this year. Even the grapes, pears, plums and peaches which grew abundantly, didn\u2019t grow to their usual size. There was still enough to harvest and enjoy both fresh and dried.\nGrape Abundance\nThe pond continues to create its own marvelous world. Dragonflies in the summer months, today a few hummingbirds and throughout the year, the koi are swimming around happily enjoying their private abode.\nFlowering Peppermint\nBees Drinking from the Stream\nOther benefits of the water feature in the garden was the provision for the bees. They have been very active this year, collecting pollen from the flowering peppermint that volunteered on the island in the pond and sipping from the stream.\nThough many of the bright colors of summer have faded, each fall we can rely on the Jerusalem Artichoke to bring a final splash of yellow to the garden! Set against the gorgeous blue of the clear skies, my heart is lifted with the sight each year. It\u2019s always a treat to meander in the garden and see what fascinating displays nature has to offer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://susumba.com/film-tv/news/reel-rock-animation-lands-deal-frances-red-frog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4LPWMYMRKMPXMKBXLXGJZHTA63KELIDX", "length": 2804, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "susumba.com", "title": "Reel Rock Animation Lands Deal With France's Red Frog | Susumba", "raw_content": "Reel Rock GSW\nReg Frog Studios\nCaribbean Animation Studios\nJust a year shy of its first anniversary, Reel Rock GSW Animation is stepping outside of the small pond and into the international seas by landing a deal with French Animation Studio, Red Frog Studios, a leading producer of content for broadcast television, online webisodes and apps for tablets and smart phones. The contract, made for an undisclosed sum, will see Reel Rock producing 13 episodes of the \u2018Quiz Time\u2019 a show targeting children ages 2-6 and airs on Disney Junior in France.\nIn recent years there has been several efforts across the Caribbean region to develop animation studios and tap into the lucrative market that has helped to significantly stimulate the economies in Canada, India and Korea. However, the Reel Rock - Red Frog deal is believed to be a first for the region with a Caribbean company animating for a major international network.\n\u201cThis is an amazing achievement for us, considering that we are still less than one year old,\u201d said Wayne Sinclair, Executive Director of Reel Rock. \u201c It is a testament to the very hard work put in by our dedicated and super talented team of, animators and illustrators and this augurs well not just for us, but the Jamaican and Caribbean animation industry.\u201d\nReel Rock\u2019s investors and lenders are, of course, thrilled by news of the deal. Milverton Reynolds, Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica, congratulated Mr. Sinclair and his team and lauded the company\u2019s achievement.\n\u201cThe company is a great example of local entrepreneurs who are not only providing employment and an outlet for local creative talent, but also earning valuable foreign exchange for Jamaica,\u201d said Mr. Reynolds.\nReynold\u2019s sentiments were echoed by Lisa Bell, Managing Director at EXIM Bank. \u201cWe are pleased that Reel Rock GSW is getting the opportunity to make its mark internationally,\u201d she said. Bell noted that the EXIM Bank would continue its support of the creative industries and advised that Reel Rock\u2019s achievement may well be a door opener for other entrepreneurs wanting to work in the animation industry.\nSinclair also pointed out that Jampro and Canadian software company Toon Boom was also integral to their growth. \u201cToon Boom\u2019s software was a crucial component of this opportunity. I had met briefly with one of the principals of Red Frog last year at the Annecy (France) Animation Festival and struck up a conversation. But Red Frog is a Toon Boom (software) studio as well and this established a common technological platform between us. 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The combination of ancient instruments from around the world and voice with an innovative approach creates Cosmic Symphonies, escaping all attempts of mental classification . It must experienced. A therapeutic effect. Besides the high artistic qualities, music of Navigator has a therapeutic effect. Participation in Sound Ceremony reduces the deep layers of stress and energy blockages, which is the first step to healing on every level. Supports the processes of transformation, rising vibration, and expansion of consciousness. During the concert, by slowing down of brain waves, all the participants enter into a state of deep meditation, which allows you to have inner view. On the physical level all the cells in your body are \u201cmassaged\u201d energized with vibrations of the appropriate frequency which enables a process of self-healing. Navigatorgong sounding in natural frequencies, restores harmony and helps to anchor it in our reality. In addition to giant Gong of Love and Peace, which was forged in this intention for special order, we experience the sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, drums, flutes, didgeridoo, tampury, zithers and above all the voice. The most organic instrument Robert Usewicz \u2013 Huzy \u2013 artist, musician, medicine man, a man of the Renaissance. Activator of sacred sound codes for this time.\nFrom the age of eight he knew that his way is the way of sound. He experimented with different sounds and genres of music, and studied the effects of sound on the human body. He was looking for himself. Trained as a classical musician, with many years of experience in electronic music, pop and rock music as a composer, producer and sound engineer. He also has his credit a number of hours of music for film, TV and stage plays. And that way that has never been his goal leads him to meeting a brilliant artist and visionary, who introduces him to the world of Gong and Sacred Sounds. And this is the turning point in his life, and this divine adventure continues \u2026 and summing it\u2019s forty years of work with sound (and creative output is too large to describe it here). His warmth, fire, and his knowledge of sound permeate all who stand in his way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://synergymag.ca/good-grief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UNYDI72HUW3S24TUW43URCBL3ST6EW72", "length": 3427, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "synergymag.ca", "title": "Good Grief \u00ab Synergy Magazine / The Magazine for Mindful Living / Vancouver Island, BC, Canada", "raw_content": "If you are alive, chances are you have experienced loss in your lifetime. The loss of a job, loss of your youth, loss of a friendship, and the ultimate and heart breaking loss of a loved one can leave you with a gaping hole in your heart.\nI have recently experienced the loss of my best friend; my roommate of 17 years. He was with me during the good, the bad, and the very ugly and listened to my woes without judgement or ridicule. He was my cat, Kato.\nAs his health was quickly deteriorating and I knew I had the inevitable decision to make, I braced myself for yet another period of grieving. The trouble with grieving is, as I learned through the death of my father, if you put it off or rush through it, it comes back years later with a vengeance. We all must go through the process of grief as it is a part (albeit an uncomfortable, rip-your-heart-out-and-stomp-on-it, crappy time) of good health.\nWhen my father was dying, I immersed myself in the writings of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Her book, On Death and Dying (1969), was a brilliant examination of the process of death, dying and grief. She helped me understand the suggested five stages of grief (challenged by many, but still valuable); denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Being aware of these stages helped me understand my thoughts and emotion-driven behaviour as I began moving through each stage.\nShock and denial, the first stage is the worst. I wandered the house repeating to myself, \u201cI can\u2019t believe he\u2019s gone.\u201d I thought I saw him hop on the bed or walk to his food dish\u2026 how can he no longer be here? Yup, this stage sucks the funny right out of life. It\u2019s waking up in the morning feeling good and then it hits me\u2026. he\u2019s gone. It\u2019s crying because I found a crumb of his food on the kitchen floor. It hurts and it is healthy.\nUnfortunately, the process of grieving doesn\u2019t have a timeline. Everyone grieves differently and does it in their own way. For me, after euthanizing Kato, I wiped my schedule clean and gave myself time to allow the process of grieving to happen. It came in waves, it hit hard, it took a break, it hit again. There was no meaningful pattern (that I knew of) but my awareness of the importance of letting it happen was key to the healthy process of grieving.\nI am now moving into the stage of depression and plan to be there for as long as it takes. I may not feel the joy and passion for life during this time, but I know that is okay as it is a part of the process. Understanding this process and trusting that I will feel passion and happiness again helps me to move through it at my own pace without rushing to feel better.\nWhen we reach the final stage of acceptance it\u2019s like reaching the finish line of a long, gruelling run. The clouds will part, we will feel joy again, and find meaning through the experience. Meanwhile, it is important to remember that to be healthy and well balanced, we must allow for the perceived \u201cunderbelly of balance\u201d to emerge. We must feel the harder feelings and experience the grief before we can move on. If we put it off for another day, we will find it harder to find balance and well-being in the future.\nTags: grief, HEALTH, kathi cameron\nThis entry was posted on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 3:44 am\tand is filed under HEALTH & WELLNESS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tahoedentalimplants.com/implants-101/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5APKLZZGRDT25CR2PDVAFQMIT444SW6M", "length": 3785, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tahoedentalimplants.com", "title": "About dental Implant basics from Tahoe Dental Implants | Tahoe Dental Implants", "raw_content": "Modern dental implants are improving the lives of thousands of people. Using the latest techniques, technology and materials, damaged or missing teeth can be replaced seamlessly with natural-looking, fully-functioning implants.\nModern dental implants consist of a tiny titanium post that is placed into the jawbone in place of missing teeth. An artificial tooth, or \u201ccrown,\u201d is then attached to the post with a special piece called the abutment. The result is an incredibly strong, functional tooth that allows you to eat virtually anything, all while maintaining natural facial contours and appearance.\nTo read more about the post, abutment, and crown, click on the word you\u2019d like to learn more about, or select it from the main menu above under Implants 101.\nWhy choose dental implants over other types of restoration?\nFor years fixed bridges and removable dentures were the only way to replace a missing tooth (or teeth). These techniques have several drawbacks that dental implants have successfully addressed. Dentures often do not allow for a natural smile, and prevent you from eating many foods. They also require frequent removal and cleaning, and can slip out in public, which many people find embarrassing. Traditional fixed bridges require cutting down the surrounding teeth to provide a foundation for the bridge. There is no need to make these sacrifices with modern dental implants.\nDo Implants Require Special Maintenance?\nYou care for dental implants the same way you would care for otherwise healthy teeth. Brushing, flossing and visiting your dentist for regular check-ups is generally all that is needed. With proper care, modern dental implants should last a lifetime.\nThe Dental Implant Surgical Procedure:\nThe placement of dental implants is typically a relatively non-invasive procedure. For most patients local anesthesia is used to numb the surgical site. Some patients opt to have sedation so they may sleep through the procedure. Once the area is fully anesthetized, a series of sequentially enlarging drills are used to prepare the site for the implant. The implant is then precisely placed into your jawbone. In many cases the non-restorable tooth is first removed followed by immediately placing the dental implant. After the procedure the implants are allowed to heal for 6 weeks to 4 months to allow your bone and implants to fuse together through a process called osseointegration.\nOnce the implant fuses with the jawbone you return to your dentist to have your new tooth (or teeth) created. This is done by taking an impression of all of your teeth and having a dental lab create a custom tooth (crown) for your mouth. Your dentist then secures the crown to the implant and you will be ready to show off your new smile.\nMissing and Compromised Teeth\nWhile tooth loss, cavities, and trauma are common occurrences, the consequence of neglecting to care for those teeth can negatively impact your quality of life. Tooth loss and teeth compromised from cavities and trauma can have a significant impact on your appearance, self-esteem, and overall health. Compromised teeth are often associated with infections that can lead to serious health concerns. You may find that you can no longer eat many of the foods that you once enjoyed. You might even find yourself self-conscious in public, nervous to laugh or smile.\nMissing teeth, and teeth compromised from cavites and trauma, should not go unaddressed. With modern implant technology, there\u2019s no need to endure these setbacks. Don\u2019t wait until your teeth and oral health regress even further.\nLake Tahoe Reno Dental Implants\nContact Tahoe Reno dental implants expert, Dr. Martin, for dental implant options in the Reno, Tahoe, Truckee, Carson City area today, and start enjoying the smile you deserve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tdtidbits.blogspot.com/2007/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MNKR46GLRL46SNHQN3A65NNLGTEMFCK6", "length": 42511, "nlines": 223, "source_domain": "tdtidbits.blogspot.com", "title": "Technical Direction Tidbits: March 2007", "raw_content": "Projection Shutters\nVideo black: not real black, visible, and annoying, the curse of projections. The good news is since this problem is fairly global, there are alot of solutions. At UMKC, the typical CD-Rom shutter is a typical solution (it was also demonstrated in the 2007 Tech Expo), but we have found that it can be temperamental at certain angles. Rope, pulleys and a piece of cardboard have also produced usable shutters as well. We have even used pneumatically controlled shutters (with the dowser on a piston) which worked well (the noise was minimal since an exhaust was used.) However, if you use projectors enough, and fine control is important, there are a number of DMX controlled shutters now available commercially.\nhttp://www.vshutter.com/\n400 including shipping. Very lightweight (under a pound). pretty simple system with a shutter that covers the projector.\nhttp://www.response-box.com/flapper.shtml\nSlightly more expensive than the above product.\nhttp://www.citytheatrical.com/la-dmxIris.htm#projector\nfrom City Theatrical, much more expensive (775 list)\nIt doesn't take long in theatre for the great debate between drafting software to rise to the surface. While many will stand behind Vectorworks or AutoCAD (in much the same way that they will PC vrs. Mac), and others will throw in IntelliCAD, Sketchup, and 4 or 5 other programs, I will save that debate for another time.\nI am here today to introduce Napkin Cad http://www.napkincad.com/\nPortable, fast, easy to distribute, and easy to use. What more can you ask for? You can download a PDF at the above site.\nMaterials Resource\nMatWeb http://www.matweb.com/index.asp?ckck=1 is a site that allows you to look at a number of materials (wood, steel, aluminum...) and search for specific properties or compare types of materials to each other. For instance for wood you can find the density, tensile strength, and other information needed for structural design for a large number of species of wood. While it isn't a source that I refer to often, it has come in handy in specialized applications.\nAdditional Job Resource\nA new resource I have just recently found can be found at: http://theatreeducationjobs.blogspot.com/\nIt is educational in nature so positions are mostly for colleges, and they are for a variety of positions (history, technical, and so forth).\nWhile I am speaking of jobs, i have been reading on Yahoo about job searching through blogs. Social networking is all over, and it seems to be more important to be connected. While some of this always occurred (conferences, list serves, forums and such), its a different game. While I think blogs are useful (otherwise why would I write...), they don't replace real news, and I think care needs to be taken about the validity of the information that you read. This is really true for the Internet as a whole, but as more and more people post, create websites, blog and otherwise disseminate information (Wikipedia...) its important to take a look at where the information comes from, whether or not it has face validity (does it seem to make sense), and if there are resources sited, or credentials to demonstrate some authority. While I don;t mean to get sidetracked, I think these issues become a step more complex when you start using these sources as a way to move ahead in your career.\nFor instance, MySpace now has a number of theatrical companies listed. I think this is good for the site as it is good publicity, and it tunes them into a generally younger audience. however, who is posting for the company? It is a person authorized by the company to display the site or is it someone who works there that took some initiative. If you comment on their site, will that really make you more hire-able to them, or will they not even notice. Secondly, if a person blogs in the name of a company (with or without consent) what is appropriate? How much can you tell about a specific process? I think about some of these issues even when writing this blog. I want to be sensitive about others intellectual property, their privacy and such. And I think there are some very fine lines between discussing issues relevant to technical theatre that are also touchy subjects that can be sensitive. Second, if you rely on a casual site to network, then they will have access to your casual site as well. I use myspace, and I enjoy the site. But for me that site is for those who know me personally, who are interested in photos of my last vacation, or my pets, and don't feel the need to see what I am doing professionally. And for me, that idea would make me weary of specifically trying to network through myspace for jobs. Though I suppose I could create a \"professional\" site.\nHowever, there are other sites to consider as well. Note that I am avoiding facebook, and all of the other MySpace like services. Linked in is one http://www.linkedin.com/ . This site is geared to be a professional network. Also there is JigSaw http://www.jigsaw.com . There seem to be some important differences. Linked in you choose to participate, and have your information posted in a similar vain to MySpace. Jigsaw however, you can be put into the system without your own awareness. You can points by entering accurate names, positions, and contact information. I could go there and enter my address book and gain X number of points. If I put in inaccurate information someone could challenge me and I would lose points if the information was indeed incorrect (there is a time limit though, as over time it is reasonable that some people will move on). I could then use my points to \"purchase\" contact information and names of people that I may want to have for business or hiring purposes. You can also outright purchase names. Because of this, I am not as sure about joining Jigsaw. I am uncomfortable about putting my contacts information out publicly, first, but second, it seems as though it would be very easy to misrepresent your company using the site. but as always, these are my thoughts, and I encourage you to explore the sites, and decide for yourself. And, if you want- come back and comment and share your thoughts as well.\nA simple recurring challenge that TD's often face is choosing the best adhesive for the job at hand. That's where This to that comes in. http://www.thistothat.com/ The website has 11 different materials (including paper, wood, plastic, Styrofoam, fabric, metal....) which you can choose from to name the 2 objects you are attempting to glue. For instance, When I entered plastic and metal it gave me three choices, and some tips for the best adhesion. While it is limited in terms of materials (different types of foam and fabric may have different adhesion capabilities), this is a great place to start when you are gluing object together that you don't work with often.\nLabels: Adhesives, Construction Techniques, Problem Solving, Products\nThe Grand Opera House (on the corner of Walnut and 7th in downtown Kansas City) operated from 1891-1921. While it made 5 million in ticket sales during those years, it closed its doors, and by 1927 the insides had been removed and a parking garage was installed inside the building. A tower was also removed from the building. The picture below is the outside as it stands today.\nLed by Dr. Felcia Hardison Londre, a group of UMKC theatre students explored the now empty building. This landmark is in such a state of deterioration that it is slated to be torn down.\nIn the below picture you can see some of the class gathered around a section of brick. This area of brick is where we suspect that the proscenium wall joined the exterior brick. the next picture is of the steelwork that would have spanned and supported the proscenium opening.\nOne of the best features of this trip was that some of the rigging equipment was still in existence. The first picture is of some of the sheeves.\nThe beam shown in the next picture was where we believe the linesets were operated. The wooden sheaves seem to be bolted through the grid and through the joists.\nYou can see these holes better from above the grid. There is ladder that goes up to this area of the building.\nBelow is a picture of the wiring box for the telephone.\nThe last picture is of the electrical boxes.\nthe building was a fascinating look at old technology, it is a shame that it could not be saved or restored to the splendor that is obvious in its exterior architecture.\nAs I search the Internet for job listings, it occurred to me that it might not be a bad idea to make a list of places here.\nArt Search through TCG is probably the biggest resource. While it is somewhat expensive, I have to admit that there is always a copy I can use somewhere in the company, so I don't routinely purchase the subscription.\nStagecraft mailing list (address in the resource blog) will sometimes post listings,\nwww.backstagejobs.com\nThis has been a great site for a number of years. You can now post a profile. And even better the profile works, I already made a contact through my profile.\nhttp://www.theatrejobs.com/index.htm\nA paid site-about 35 a year for a student, but that jumps to 75 for an individual. This used to be a free site, which I would often refer to, but I haven't been a member since they changed their policy. You can look at the job postings (title, and state), and these seem to correlate with ArtSearch. However, the site offers some services to job seekers (resume help, promotion, ect) if you are actively looking for work and had the dough this could be for you.\nhttp://us.stagejobspro.com/welcome.php\nI just joined this site so we will see how it goes. You fill out a description about yourself (basically your resume) and employers can search your information. You can also post pictures and your resume. Site is set up to be international, and is not very specific - there is not a TD category for instance, so I listed Technical Manager. You do have to have 3 professional jobs to list your profile.\nhttp://www.theatrealliance.org/jobs/\njobs in the Philadelphia area.\nhttp://www.theatre-service.com/services.htm\nThe company that is at USITT.\nhttp://www.playbill.com/jobs/find/\nPlaybill, and yes, I have gotten a job from there, and hired from there.....\nhttp://www.theatre-resources.net/\nHas job services for summer work\nhttp://www.eperformer.com/aud/tech.html\nHas a few listing, but listing I have noticed in alot of other sites.\nhttp://www.stagestaff.com/default.aspx\nAnother site I haven't registered for, but looks interesting.\nNot geared only to theatre, yet they do have tech theatre listings.\nhttp://stagepros.com/index.php\nhttp://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Theatre&l=&from=osrss\nhttp://www.stagespecs.com/jobs.cfm\nSETC, and other conference sites often have job listings, as does USITT\nTD Resources\nAs the topic of resources have come up quite a bit lately, I thought I would take today's blog an mention some of the resources that are available.\nThe Stagecraft Mailing List\nhttp://stagecraft.theprices.net/lists.html\nThis is one of may favorite sources of information. It is an active list, and the subscribers have a wide range of backgrounds. While the list does go off-topic occasionally, it is a great tool.\nYale Tech Briefs\nhttp://www.yale.edu/drama/publications/index.html\nWhile the information isn't available online, you can subscribe to it. If you are able, I would suggest finding the back issues, as there are alot of good ideas in the issues. each tech Brief is based off of a problem encountered in production, and a solution to solve the issue. There is also 2 volume set of technical solutions that pull from the tech briefs. While there were minor revisions for clarity, if you have the entire collection of tech briefs, the books would be repetitive.\nUSITT Tech Expo publications\nVery similar to the Yale Tech Brief collection. Every other year USITT hosts a tech expo on which ideas are submitted and chosen that help create solutions to production challenges. The last edition came out a few weeks ago at the last USITT conference in Phoenix, AZ.\nUSITT Technical Production Commission\nhttp://www.patrickimmel.com/usitt/techprod/tech_prod_index.htm\nThis site has 2 things of interest. First, they publish an online version tech briefs/tech expo types of solutions called the Technical Source Guide. Secondly, there are notes listed on the site from a few of the past USITT conference sessions.\nA magazine which you can subscribe to for free, now features a monthly column on technical direction and focuses on innovation solutions.\nhttp://www.stage-directions.com/\nTD&T\nAlso put out by USITT, this focuses on the wider industry, but has a range of information that is valuable to a TD.\nhttp://www.theatrecrafts.com/\nA website that has links for different areas of technical production. The amount of information varies by what you are looking for, but still a useful site to check out.\nTheatre Crafts (magazine)\nIf you are connected to a university library you may be able to find an older publication called Theatre Crafts. They went through some minor changes, and older editions seem to be more useful than they newer versions, but it is still a valuable resource. This magazine became Theatre Crafts International, and then Entertainment Design\nhttp://www.clarion.edu/library/theatrepathfinder.html\nThe above site talks about how to use the library for theatre research. While it is geared for a specific library, call numbers, the book and periodical lists are still very useful.\nhttp://www.betsyda.com/etc/stagecraft.html\nhttp://www.main.nc.us/openstudio/mta/techlnks.htm\nThese sites are a source of a variety of links to additional places to look for information.\nhttp://www.hstech.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1\nThis Site is run by Scott Parker, a member of the stagecraft mailing list. While geared for High School, there is some great information on the site.\nOther magazines include:\nLive Design, Lighting Dimensions, American Theatre\nI am sure I have missed a few, but these are the major sources that I look at other than product catalogs, books, and material research . Let me know if I have neglected to mention a resource that you find useful.\nLabels: Construction Techniques, Engineering, Problem Solving, Resources, Technology\nVisual Thinking and Problem Solving\nThere are several strands of research that I find fascinating with regards to problem solving. first, what are the steps of problem solving. Heather with Jumpstart uses a 6 step approach , that really amounts more to conflict resolution than it does a more measured research approach. There are visual methods - sketching out various solutions. The scientific, classic view of determining alternatives and weighing each one. There are processes used by people in high stress positions where a single option is weighed, searching for a reason why it wouldn't work, and when 1 solution is found it is implemented without ado. Most of these are more based in the process of decision making though- and problem solving and decision making, aren't precisely the same thing. Really, the decision is really only 1 step of the problem solving process. It is also interesting to note that some of the best problem solving techniques I have seen have come out of resources devoted to ethics, and ethical decision making. At any rate, for me the start of problem solving starts with defining the problem, taking stock (gut reaction, what I know, what I know others know, ect...) then taking action steps to gain more information, and so forth. What is important to note here however is that problem solving is a great way to look at double loop learning as your assumptions are very important in determining how you respond to a challenge. For someone with a history of automation, the easiest solution may be a pneumatic cylinder, for someone else, that might be a last resort, simply because of prior experience.\nAt any rate, it often seems that problem solving visually is often practiced by scenic designers, and often not tended to as much by TDs (though they occasionally do it without thinking about it). This can be done in multiple ways, physically through the manipulation of items (mock ups, tests, models) or by drawings both by hand and in CAD. CAD in particular helps identify cable paths, fleet angles, travel paths and the like. If you draft in 3-d you can see the object from multiple views to check for errors that way. Layers can be adjusted and/or locked to plot only what is needed, while saving your work for future reference. It can be a powerful tool - and one I believe is underused.\nWhile looking for more information on this topic I came across the following website:\nhttp://code.arc.cmu.edu/creative/index.html\nIt has alot of good stuff. I particularly think that transferring shapes to flat pictorial drawings and back are useful to develop spacial / visual skills. It is ironic that in an age with such computer savvy-ness that spacial relationships are sometimes so hard to teach . Also on the above site if you go to the schedule section and then click on 'electronic reading pack' there are some good pdfs. I think a class like this would be interesting to teach, and if nothing else, could be an good intro to drafting.\nLabels: Drafting, Engineering, Problem Solving\nHouse of Invention review\nHouse of Invention, by David Lindsay, is a book similar to some of the others that I have reviewed on the topic of inventions. With this book the author takes the approach of going through a home to discuss inventions through-out. There are some gems of information, not necessarily paramount to technical theatre, but interesting nonetheless. The section on breakfast ceral, the pencil, and the universal screw thread were perhaps my favorites. However, on your future reading list, I would rank this lower than Invention by Design by Petroski, the readability is lower, and it wasn't as entertaining.\nLabels: Book Review, Technology\nI came across Hardi-Plank and Hardi-Panel several shows back when a fellow TD student used it in a production he was doing.\nThe material is a fiber compost - cement material. You do need special saw blades, as they dull regular blades very quickly. The plank is used for siding and the panel is used for flooring. It is good for waterproofing, and fireproofing. It paints well (it requires paint for finishing) and is very durable. It is less expensive than lumber and come in several different textures so it can simulate real planks.\nIn use it was found to be better than comparable OSB or hardboard products.\nhttp://www.jameshardie.com/\nhttp://www.jameshardie.com/homeowner/prodcomp/default.php\nAnother product that was discussed was boxcar siding. Its basing stick lumber with tongue and grooves meant to be joined together for siding, often used in the older box cars. There are many types available (lumber, widths, ect).\nhttp://www.wrcla.org/cedar_products/cedar_siding/tongue_groove/default.htm\nhttp://www.thepellco.com/Moldings/Tongue/TongueGroove.htm\nAlso, I should note that some of these materials are used for wainscoting.\nUSITT Part 2\nWell now that the conference is over in Phoenix, it is time to get back on track. While most of my time was spent interviewing, I did catch a couple of sessions. Also \u2013 there were some great products on the expo floor. So while what follows is a conglomeration of info, there is some good stuff.\nAt the Digital Swag Session these were some of the finds. A more complete list is available at the presenter\u2019s homepage:\nhttp://www.odu.edu/~kwinters/software/digital%20swag%20for%20the%20classroom.htm\nAutomation Sites:\nhttp://workingmodel.design-simulation.com/\nhttp://www.automationstudio.com/PRO/\nhttp://thelearningpit.com/\nhttp://www.alice.org/ a computer animation site\nAlleyCAD\nhttp://www.paul-pelletier.com/LDCalculator/LDCalculatorPage.htm Mostly has lighting calculations, but includes some rigging information\nhttp://www.celtx.com/ planning software as well as storyboarding\nwww.heatshrink.com\nhttp://www.wepalmer.com/guidesbags.html they do fire curtains and borders, but the cable guides caught my eye.\nLabels: Automation, Drafting, Software, Technology, Vendors\nUSITT is here again, and this time it is Phoenix, AZ. Hopefully, now that my display in the Cover the Walls exhibit is up and the conerference is open, I will get back to more regular blogs!\nThis is the display that has been keeping me so busy - the portal actually lights up - I put LED's in the inside of the frame. As always for me, I am already thinking of how I can prep for the next display, and make the process (build and load-in) easier, as well as maintaining my design choices after a trip through the airport.\nAnyway, to move on... Most of my first day (wed) at Usitt was registering, doing the job search thing, and installing my display. However, I did manage to checkout Stump the TD. They busted a few myths, and then took questions from the audience about technical problems they had incurred. There were a few good ones, and a few not so good questions, but I suppose that it to be expexted.\nOne question was: a bird needed to fly up, then be shot, then fall and hit the ground. However, it was an outdoor venue with no \"roof\". Answers ranged from disguizing a remote control helicopter to spring loaded birds to using the element of distraction.\nMy question was that I needed a piece of aircraft cable to be rigged horizontally, with a curtain that changes positions, that needed to fly out on a lineset, and not have deflection. They suggested I hand the designer a book on physics. At least I negotiated my way out of the unit at the time! Though we did talk about the potencial for trussing, but it would be costly, and time consuming.\nAt one point they said that a TD's job requires 2 skills: Imagination and Negotiation.\nLast but not least, some products that were mentioned:\nFloor Strippeds - used for linolumn, put good for paint blobs as well:\nFor information on Hazardous materials:\n\"When in doubt build it stout, with things you know about\"\n\"How many TD's does it take to come up with 2 ideas? 1\"\nLED Stars\nFor a recent production of the opera Susannah the set design called for the use of stars. The main scenic elements was a series of 3 portals, and a drop which would all incorporate stars. The portals were stock units, so we only needed to modify the structure for whatever technology we decided to use. Also, the theatre owned a fiber optic curtain which we used for the backdrop.\nWe discussed and evaluated a series of techniques and methods for accomplishing the effect including wiring LED's, using addition fiber optic cables, and among others. the final method was chosen to meet the following criteria:\n- We needed to be financially cautious. We had around $300 to do the effect.\n- Time was a major consideration, labor for build was limited, but available. However, the load in period was short, and labor was tight.\n- The final result needed to replicate the look of the fiber optic drop. There were 2 components to this. First, the illuminator on the drop allowed the stars to \"twinkle\". Second, we wanted to match color intensity as much as possible.\n- Operation - would they need to be controlled separately, would they be dimmable, could they be controlled by the board....\nOur solution was to use bright white, wide angle LED Christmas lights*. On AC current LED's give a very slight twinkle. The lights were controlled by the board for ease of operation as well as being able to control the brightness easily. Thigh it would still take time to install the lights, we would not need to spend any time wiring. We determined to have 3 strands on each portal header to facilitate twinkling. Each strand could be on a different dimmer and the intensity could fluctuate throughout the cue.\nTo install the lights we pre-made blocks about 1.5\" square with a whole wide enough to accommodate the lights drilled through it. On the front of the portal 1 carpenter drilled holes placed according to the paint elevations in one of three drill bit sizes (the different sized holes allowed different amount of light through, making it seems as though some stars were closer than others.) To install we put the LED through the blocks center hole and then gaff taped the whole thing to the rear of the flat. We then secured the gaff tape with a couple of staples. The below picture illustrates this.\nIn this picture you can see the multiple strands of lights used. We ran the lights in odd patterns to try to eliminate the look of lines of stars. once the effect was installed and working, you could not tell which was one what line - they looked random between using the three different lines and the three different hole sizes.\nThe picture below shows the header and stars being lifted into position so we could start the installation of the portal legs. We used Genie Tower lifts to raise the portals since there is not a fly system in this theatre space. You can also see that we only used some of the LED's. At the end of the cord we bundled up the remainder and put it in a bag to mask the light out put from the bundled LED's. In retrospect the only thing I would have changed would be to cover the rear of the portals with some masking because in the scene with the lowest amount of light the stars did bled somewhat on the front of the portal behind it.\nThe below picture shows the final set. It doesn't do justice to the effect however. The LED's worked very nicely. The different sized drill holes was a great method of varying the stars.\n*We purchased the lights from Noveltylights.com. The prices were competitive and shipping was low, and the service was fast. What more can you ask for in our line of business?\nLabels: Construction Techniques, Lighting, Problem Solving, Products, Vendors\nWhat is innovation? This concept is a topic that is on my mind alot lately, for several reasons. First, USITT is right around the corner and this year will display their biannual tech expo. Secondly, one of the current things I am learning about is innovation in non-profits. And, third, I recently completed what the University of Missouri - Kansas City calls \"Entrepreneurship Bootcamp\" - a 4 week long intensive program where you learn global aspects of starting your own business including law and financials and many other aspects. The culmination of the month-long experience is to compete in an idea competition over the development of an innovative product in which the successful team takes a way a grand, and the potential for funding offers to develop the product or service outside of the program. Nevertheless this loops back to USITT as some of the student chapters that also offer idea competitions which revolve around theatrical uses, and ultimately ties back into the Tech Expo- which showcases technical theatre innovation.\nSo what is innovation? What is the qualifiers? can the definition depend? Can it be innovative in a specific location, but within the industry as a whole? Theatre is innovative by default - how then, do you make it more so? I was looking at a vitae the other day that listed the development of a stagecraft class in a certain college as an innovation in teaching. While the class may have been an innovation for that specific college, introducing a stagecraft class now would be hardly innovative in the industry, or in colleges globally. Furthermore innovation in theatre is complicated by the fact that often the technique or method is being used in another industry prior to use in theatre. So it is innovative in the transfer of technique but not always in the development of the original technology.\nAnother challenge to innovation in technical theatre (especially props, paints and scenery) is tracking the history. Our innovation is constrained by show choice, style of production, and design choices, however, those could be innovators as well. Communicating what worked, and what didn't over time is very difficult in a theatre setting. We have several theatre magazines that can help track these ideas (TD&T, Stage Directions, Stagecraft list serve, Theatre Crafts, Yale Tech Briefs). Each of these (and other publications) have various advantages and disadvantages. Each of these usually focuses on a success, which is good, however, there are many factors that created that success that are under the surface. particular design choices, theatre setting, budgets, labor, available resources in the shop, time are just a few variables that mean that even these published successful ideas often requires adjustment.\nThe questions becomes is where does innovation start. How much does a process have to change to be innovative? How innovative must an idea/technique/object have to be to be acclaimed as innovative? Are their different levels that define innovation: is it different for individuals than for institutions? How can innovation be bench marked? How do you determine if it is innovative (research?). What quality standard must be made for an innovation?\nThere aren't easy answers, but I think that for an industry that is constantly evolving, they are necesssary questions to ask.\nA few weeks ago I discussed a site that offered a quick release magnet useful for picking up or transferring screws. Now I would like to broaden that category to a few other products.\nFirst is a product that operates very similarly - its main difference is reach since the tool is long and slender. It can be found at:\nhttp://www.magneticindustrialproducts.com/retriever.html\nThe other links that I have for today are for various magnetic brooms. These are a great way to clean the shop or stage floor, as picking up all metal objects is as easy (actually perhaps even easier) as sweeping. They are similar to push brooms, except that they have a wheel on wither side of the \"broom\" and the broom is a magnet. The brooms are faster than the quick release, and are usually more thorough, particularly important when metal shavings need to be picked up. This is another tool that you should pick up for your shop.\nhttp://www.magneticindustrialproducts.com/sweeper.html\nhttp://magnetsinc.com/brooms_rakes/brooms.htm\nhttp://www.ipesmag.com/mag_broom.htm\nhttp://www.magnetclean.com/magneticpushbroom.html\nhttp://www.ipesmag.com/pushbroom.html\nhttp://www.hotkey.net.au/~magic/broom.htm\nYou can't be in theatre long before a show comes along that takes place in a setting full of rocks. While there are many ways to create rocks (and I have a few examples of methods I have used), today's entry is a few sites where you can buy rocks - or rather fake rocks.\nhttp://www.fakerock.com/\nThis site sells pre-made fake rocks in several materials. many of their designs are created to hide something visually unappealing though they have other types as well (pet houses for example). They have a few tree stumps as well and they are able to custom make rocks for your unique purposes. While the rocks aren't inexpensive, depending on how close the audience is, and your financial and labor situations, this could be a possible solution.\nhttp://www.replicationsunlimited.com/cutomrockfeatures_pond.htm\nMuch bigger scale for the rocks on this site, and I am sure the costs reflect that. Since they handle costs through quotes, I imagine that this would be a pricey option. However, the selection of what is available on this site is pretty interesting. What intrigued me the most was the tree and the flex bark that they sell. While rocks can be difficult, they usually turn out well in the long run. Realistic bark is difficult to make.\nhttp://www.dekorraproducts.com/default.html\nThis company id most similar to the first, specializing in smaller rocks to hide eyesores. They are based in Wisconsin, though you can search for a local distributor (multiple came up for my location).\nSo, for the next show that comes along that has a pile of rocks, add rock shopping to your list of possible technical solutions.\nThe art of Construction is a book by Mario Salvadori published by the Chicago Review press in 1990. Salvadori also wrote Why building Stand up and Why Buildings Fall Down. The Art of Construction is actually geared to a much young audience (10 & up), which actually makes it very appealing. Salvadori covers alot of the basic terminology and theories behind structures in the book in easy to understand language, pictures, and simple projects to try out (folding paper into I-beams for instance). The book actually covers much more ground than I expected when I picked it up - it even goes into bridge and truss design and assorted other designs (including showing how you can stand on an egg without breaking it. While the book doesn't go into very much detail it is a quick and painless read (and even fun). It also Serves as a great introduction to his other two books mentioned above.\nThese books also combine well with Structural Design for the Stage (Holden and Sammler), Invention by Design (Petroski) and the building big series of videos. With in this conglomeration of texts and videos there are similar repeat themes, and each build on similar ideas, examples, and locations.\nResource: Letters\nhttp://signlettersonline.net/\nThe above link is for a company that makes sign letter. They can make them from several hundred fonts, and out of foam, plastic, and metal as well as other - just about everything you can want.\nI used this company a few years back to make a sign for H M S Pinafore. We bought 18\" tall by 1\" thick letters from 2lb foam. The sign was a 2x4 rectangle with the sandwiched in between. the exterior decorations was 3/4\" plywood. A couple of 1/4\" threaded rod held the unit together and provided safe rigging points.\nThe price of the letters was within our budget, but though they were a little pricey, the quality was much higher than the shop could have produced, and the labor savings combined with the quality made purchasing the letters the right choice.\nLabels: Construction Techniques, Products, Vendors\nBook Review: AutoCAD Onstage\nAutoCAD Onstage: A Computer-Aided Design Handbook for Theatre, Film, and Television was written by Rich Rose in 1990.\nWhy, you may ask, am I reading a book about a drafting program that is currently coming out with yearly updates that is 17 years old? Well, honestly, when I first purchased the book I didn't pay attention, and it wasn't till I read the description on the first couple of pages about the computer system that it was truly obvious. But, I have other books from Rich Rose that are useful, and frankly I have an interest in the historical view of stagecraft. I thought that there might be some use in understanding the early start of AutoCAD, since many of the older commands are still buried within the program.\nWhile obviously, many of the commands are easier to get to, and often more complicated (there seem to be more ways to enter a line for example), it is surprising what was around in the 1990 version of AutoCAD. It is interesting to note that while things are drafted in Full Scale, the limits, and such are all set up to be representative of 1 piece of paper, and each drawing would be 1 sheet. There are obviously alot of changes made in this area of AutoCAD. There are even a few commands that are still in AutoCAD today that I didn't know about! For instance, in the Undo command, you can type the number of step you want to back up, or you can mark the location. Once a position is marked, you can easily undo to this point.\nI often use the clique that AutoCAD is like an iceberg, and that most users (particularly theatrical users) use only a very small part of what AutoCAD is capable of. It is interesting to note that within the book, even Rose alludes to that as well- he will point out several options of a command (such as Arc) and then list the other ways and tell the reader to play with these and learn them, but that they won't be as useful generally speaking, as the 2 methods he pointed out in the text.\nWhile certainly, the Rich Rose text is too far out of date to actually learn the program from the book, it is useful to flip through and gain a sense of the history of CAD, and perhaps an insight into command development. First to understand current commands better, but also to understand why some commands still exist (limits for example, are no longer very useful, and relative and absolute entry aren't used directly as often today).\nLabels: Book Review, Drafting\nBook Review: The Memory Jogger 2\nThe Memory Jogger 2 is a small pocket book that is a great resource. The book is a quick reference guide to a variety of project planning tools. Tools include brainstorming, flowcharts, affinity charts, fish and tree diagrams, gantt charts as well as many others. The tools are useful for three different types of situations: working with ideas, working with numbers and teamwork, though the tools can be used in groups. This is a great companion for the Thinkertoys book that I introduced last month. While the last book was more focused on idea generation, these exercises advance ideas through the various stages of planning, increasing detail as different tools are used.\nThe book is available through Goal/QPC www.goalpc.com\nThe books is also available through services such as www.half.com\nLabels: Book Review, Problem Solving, Project Management\nPlatform Pneumatics\nThe Pirates of Penzance, a recent show I was TD for required a platform to rotate 180 degrees between Act 1 and Act 2. Since singers would need to climb, jump off of, dance, otherwise subject the platform to alot of use and movement. It was important, therefore, to have the platform be very stable. However, one of the greatest challenges was that the performance venue did not allow any sort of attachment into the stage. What we decided to do was to use pneumatic cylinders (pancake cylinders) attached to casters that were mounted within the steel frame. When the cylinders where retracted the unit sat on the floor. When air was applied, the casters picked the unit up off of the floor and it was easily movable. Below are more details and photos of the process.\nThe above picture shows the cylinders with the hoses prepped. The hose ran from the tank (co2) and regulators through a valve that controlled the system then to each caster in a row. Since the shift happened at intermission we determined that the casters didn't have to fire at the same time so we ran the hose sequentially. The first three casters used Tee push in fittings (threaded to fit into the cylinder), and the last was a straight fitting. The air pressure was open, the regulator was adjusted to 80psi, and the valve was opened. The cylinders pushed the casters out, lifting the platform. The shift was performed. The air was turned off, the valve opened to exhaust the system and the weight of the platform pushed the casters back into the cylinders, setting the frame securely on the floor.\nAbove: The system set up in the shop.\nAbove: the platform with the system in process of installation.\nAbove: interior view of installed system\nAbove: exterior of platform with flats attached.\nQuick Release Magnet\nThis magnet is a must around any shop-whether you work with steel or not. At the end of the day during clean-up, after strike of a show - or even just moving screws from one storage container to another, this tool is very handy.\nhere is a link to one supplier:\nhttp://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=32072&cat=1,42363,42356\nThe magnet basically attracts while it is in it's normal position, and you squeeze the handle to raise the magnet and release what you have picked up with it. very simple to use, and very effective.\nLee Valley, the vendor above which sells this contraption is one of my favorite non-theatrical vendors. They have good prices, high quality, and alot of useful and unique products. Surf their site and get a feel for what they have - their inventory has come in handy to me more than once in my career as a TD.\nGoogle Docs and Spreadsheets is somewhat like Basecamp, the service I used recently on a project and blogged about here last month.\nThe advantage of Googles service seems to be:\nYou can create documents online (rather than only uploading them)\nYou can edit with others real time online\nYou can export your files in a variety of formats.\nWhile Basecamp allowed others to edit, it wasn't real-time - it was controlled by version numbers. You could, therefore, potentially edit something at the same time causing errors.\nAlso, My biggest difficulty with Basecamp is the way that it exports. I can't use a web based pdf maker that uses the URL because it is a password protected site. The formatting is lost when I copy it into an office document. And their only export option is xml which I don't have the software to translate into something more usable. It allows you to archive it on the site, which is good, but leaves me with no soft copy of the project. I can easily download the files that where shared and revised - it is the to-do lists, messages and such that are more problematic.\nGoogle, on the other hand, uses files for all activities - to-do lists, contacts ect. It is not specifically formatted to be a project management software, yet can be adapted into that quite easily. I also like that Google allows you to publish the file to a web page or a blog.\nTo learn more: http://docs.google.com/support/?hl=en\nInstant Snow is an absorbent polymer that greatly expands when it comes into contact with water. Once the water evaporates, the powder can be reused. It is realistic to look at and touch. The snow can be spritzed with water to maintain its fluffiness. It has even been used for indoor snowboarding.\n-It is slippery to walk on\n-It is non-toxic (and 99% water)\n-It can be used on any surface except untreated wood\n-It feels cool to the touch\n-The snow can be colored\n-It can be used outside and on plant life\n-Kids love it\n1 pound runs about $35 and covers an area 20\"x30\"x4\" deep (about 8 gallons of snow).\nWhile this may never completely compete with plastic fake snow, I think it could be useful when the audience is very close, or for set dressing. There are some pieces of set dressing that never looks quite right, no matter what kind of fake snow is used. While the price is somewhat high depending on how much you would need, If you were careful to minimize losses, you could save a significant part of the powder for reuse.\nTo get more information check out the below link. The site also has some other great products as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 543, "original_length": 50926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teacher.kent.k12.wa.us/lakeyoungs/music", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3BBNSKKPK4EGVZK4XGTLOPYKLBT6GJJ", "length": 978, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "teacher.kent.k12.wa.us", "title": "Welcome! - LY Music Room", "raw_content": "LY Music Room\nWelcome to the Lake Youngs Elementary Music Room!\nHello, my name is Jeffrey Gordon, and I would like to welcome you to our music room! In music class, students sing, dance, play instruments, read & write music, and create original musical ideas. Our curriculum is based on the belief that children learn best by doing - each day in class, students are engaged in music-making and are deepening and broadening their musical knowledge.\nA little about me! I have been teaching at Lake Youngs Elementary School since September, 2014 and have loved every minute. Born and raised in Seattle, I attended Ballard High School (Go Beavers!) before continuing my education at Central Washingon University (Go Wildcats!). I graduated with a degree in Music Education with a specialization in choral music. When I am not at school, I enjoy being involved in community choirs and theatres, cheering on the Seahawks, Mariners, and Seattle Storm, and spending time with my family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tecvilla.com/category/community-leader/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MLFESSGPL4SYLGLRUV6KBQL4VQYU7PDZ", "length": 1787, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "tecvilla.com", "title": "community leader | Tecvilla", "raw_content": "Petroleum Industry Investment Opportunities with Gulf Coast Western, LLC\nGulf Coast Western, LLC is an American petroleum developer and joint venture manager founded in 1970. The company engages in oil and gas drilling in several Gulf Coast states including Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, as well as Colorado and Oklahoma. According to the company website, Gulf Coast Western is currently focused on horizontal drilling, or hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which allows for the extraction of oil from otherwise unproductive oil reserves. In 2016, Gulf Coast Western increased their presence in Louisiana by establishing a partnership with Northcote Energy Ltd. and acquiring 13 working wells and at 140 drilling sites, along with seismic data for property in Southwestern Louisiana.\nThe company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Gulf Coast Western, LLC was given an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau of Dallas, Texas. The company is headed by CEO Matthew H. Fleeger. Prior to his appointment at Gulf Coast Western, LLC, Fleeger founded MedSolutions, Inc., a medical cost management organization, as Vice President of the Kinlaw Oil Company in Texas, and other petroleum industry appointments. According to the Gulf Coast Western, LLC website, over 70% of their more than 1,000 partners have participated in more than one venture with the company. Partner testimonials reflected a theme of responsibility and transparency by the company in parter interactions. In the spirit of giving back, Gulf Coast Western has made charitable donations to various nonprofits, charities, and health and wellness organizations including the American Cancer Society, the North Texas Food Bank, and St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, among others.\nPosted in community leader\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 382, "original_length": 9892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 148.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-vixens.tripod.com/fun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4GX6SLPT5E4TJTHOPH6WMH4NM2X4NQRI", "length": 150, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "the-vixens.tripod.com", "title": "Fun", "raw_content": "Party Party Party...Fun Fun Fun...\nThe Vixens always rock...\nIt's scary, it's a mystery, it's dark\nThe next big one will be the\n\"Cristamass craziness\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecraniofacialcenter.com/tc_treat_ears.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QMYGBWL5Z4RYZLRH3OBGRKRZ4HARBFTX", "length": 2602, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thecraniofacialcenter.com", "title": "Craniofacial Center | Dallas, Texas", "raw_content": "For children born with absent ears (microtia), there are two options to rebuild ears, one is to get artificial ears, and the other is to rebuild the ears using the child's own rib (also called an autogenous reconstruction). I believe that it is important that the child participate in the decision as to which technique would be best. The pro and cons of each method of reconstruction are discussed in an office visit. For those families choosing an autogenous reconstruction, this series of operations typically begins sometime after the child has turned eight-years old. The best time to rebuild the ears is determined by the child's size and how the child is coping socially. Children with TCS are typically smaller than their classmates, and it is necessary for children to be a certain size before ears can be made. Ears are reconstructed over a series of three operations. Some doctors believe that both ears should not be built at the same time. However, in Dallas we have had good success with building both ears at the same time, and believe that this is the best way because it reduces the total number of operations a child must undergo.\nThe first stage ear reconstruction is shown above. Cartilage is taken from the child's rib (parents cannot donate their rib cartilage) and this cartilage is carved and assembled to create the ear. It is then inserted under the skin. Two additional stages are required to complete the reconstruction; both performed as outpatient procedures. Children with TCS are more likely to require hair removal, as can be seen below, in a child who has just finished the second stage procedure. The third stage will involve making a hole that looks like an ear canal.\nBefore undergoing ear reconstruction, it is wise to ask your doctor to see examples of his or her work. It is very difficult to rebuild an ear that did not turn out well. It is also possible for children to undergo reconstruction of the absent eardrum (by a specialized ENT), in order to try to improve hearing. The decision as to whether or not to proceed with inner ear reconstruction should be made with a specialist in this area. Our office would be happy to make some recommendations as to who to see. Typically, this procedure is not possible for most patients with TCS, because the inner ear may not be formed well enough to give a good result. It is best to wait until the child is about 9-years old before undergoing the specialized CT scan that will determine whether, or not, it is possible to create an eardrum.\nThe First year | Sleep Apnea | Narrow Forehead | Eyes | Cheekbones | Jaws", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 2758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theklabristol.co.uk/news/9-news/709-thekla-recommends-at-dot-to-dot-2016-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PA3IJ5SSYURBQODQYDMWIIIQ2TOMZRMZ", "length": 984, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theklabristol.co.uk", "title": "Thekla Recommends at Dot to Dot 2016 #3 - Thekla", "raw_content": "www.facebook.com/realbadsounds\nThey\u2019ve racked up a considerable following on SoundCloud, and whilst an ever-evolving sound has been the cause of much dispute, there\u2019s certainly an argument in favour of their infectious tone. Gracing Dot to Dot with a wealth of tracks, Bad Sounds come baring a fusion of British pop and electronic indie rock which perches somewhere on the fence between Everything Everything and Weezer.\nTheir music has been described as \u2018sassy\u2019 by some; \u2018groovy\u2019 by others- and newest hit, \u2018Avalanche\u2019, which has recently been played on Virgin Radio UK, sounds as though Django Django and the Klaxons came crashing together over a rendition of \u2018Atlantis to Interzone\u2019. Somewhere near the other side of the spectrum: \u2018I Feel\u2019 wouldn\u2019t be out of place in an early 90s Blur album.\nBad Sounds may be a lesser known band, but that doesn\u2019t make them any less worthy of your time. Whatever the current consensus, you\u2019ll have to check them out yourself to make your mind up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theknockingshop.blogspot.com/2012/11/top-102-albums-no-102-red-haired.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QWCDPRQL7OC4W4JXUR5JS57LMHRMHH7L", "length": 2422, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "theknockingshop.blogspot.com", "title": "Top 102 Albums. No. 102 Red Headed Stranger | Vapour Trails.", "raw_content": "So Album No. 102, what to choose? I haven't been even able to start trying to put my list in any order. Every time I look at the list it grows. I know that no matter how long I look at it there will be sighs of frustration when I remember some album that somehow slipped my mind.\nI make no claims for any sort of definitive guide - I find music and albums inseparable from memory. Many of these were close companions during defining moments in my life, particularly during the eighties and nineties when I had little to get in the way of listening to music and so did it non stop.\nI've decided to pick one I know won't be culled as my no. 102, Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger.\nThis is, I guess, a classic album but there isn't always a need to turn and run when approaching one of these. It's an album that works when you're paying attention and also in the background when doing other things. When you have kids this tends to increase in importance.\nI always loved SOME country music but tended to limit that to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. I held off Willie Nelson for a long time because I heard some stuff that was over saccharine. Willie clearly felt the same. To make this album he left his label, moved away from the industry to Texas and stuck to the simple formula of guitar and voice. Even though I bought this after my obsessive listening phase was over it has been played many, many times. It was full of familiar songs to start with - here's one:\nGoogle has just told me that there is a movie based around this album and that makes sense. The album is very much a suite of songs which sound like they belong together. The title track is one of the great story songs.\nThe themes are those staples of country, love, jealousy, murder, guilt, redemption etc. Just saddle up and ride out with your ipod in a leather holster loaded with just this album and you'll be fully armed for a long trek through the whole gamut of emotion. It's way higher than 102 but I'm not making any claims to be ordering these albums in a coherent way. They will just come out whatever way they do.\nby the way, here's a trailer for the movie:\nBlimey Seamus, you've raised the bar with you analysis here.\nLove this album too, a fine first entry from you sir...\nI have a soft spot for 'Across the Borderline' and 'Teatro' but agree that this is his defining album.\nHis guitar solo playing is almost as brilliantly bad as Van's sax!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 19032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://themagicbox.hu/?q=en/node/44", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OUCKJIRGOHMQTXVSMGOUO6F7YH4W23RA", "length": 5616, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "themagicbox.hu", "title": "Why is the Nokia-box still talked about? | themagicbox", "raw_content": "Did they attempt to raise the issue again closer to the campaign period?\nAs they did it before in 2010 during the parliamentary elections period and later the municipal elections period they raised the issue of the nokia box during the campaign period of the elections in 2014. The timing was planned well in advance: at the beginning of 2012 at the press conference following the reassignment of the suit to Kecskem\u00e9t it was announced that the firs-instance verdict will be delivered in the peak of the campaign period, 2014.\nWho was the one referring again to the Nokia-box firstly?\nIt was Benedek J\u00e1vor at the last destination of the campaign tour of Egy\u00fctt-PM \u2013 he said there is a need for the change of the era in order to avoid the return of the \u201cNokia-box like periods\u201d. However this statement was quite unsuccessful since it also indicated that in spite of his current alliance with former prime minister, J\u00e1vor would like to avoid the exact time when Bajnai was the prime minister since the assumed Nokia-box incidents took place during his governance. This is something they failed to remember unlike Tarl\u00f3s.\nDid Tarl\u00f3s also pick up the Nokia-box again?\nYes. Although \u201che does not prefer the term itself\u201d, he did not miss to fight back to the Opposition with it at his press conference. He found it unscrupulous that a man comes to demonstrate who was a minister in the Gyurcs\u00e1ny-government, then became prime minister and allowed for the so called \u201cNokia-box\u201d politics.\nDid Gyurcs\u00e1ny react to these?\nHe did not leave it unanswered. A couple of days after Tarl\u00f3s, in his speech held in front of Imre Nagy\u2019s house he said that the left wing is defeatable because they have lost their belief and \u201cYou believed that you are \u201cNokia-box\u201d people.\nDid the Fidesz abuse Hagy\u00f3 in their campaign?\nYes, they did. They planned the announcement of the firs-instance verdict by the end of the campaign period. In spite of the verdict delivered in favour of Hagy\u00f3, they were not disappointed at all, as Mikl\u00f3s Hagy\u00f3 became the much-quoted example of corruption in the campaign, although he gave up politics four years ago. Besides the two formed prime minister and the prime ministerial candidate of the socialist party, he also appeared on the poster with the clown, being depicted as criminals. These posters appeared all around the country, furthermore the picture got to more than 4 million households in the form of prospectus. Of course, officially the action was carried out by C\u00d6F \u2013 the non-governmental organization of the Fidesz.\nOrganizations responsible for the posters with the clown are in connection with the Fidesz?\nWell, C\u00d6F[1] \u2013 standing for Forum of Civil Alliance \u2013 should stand for the Fidesz Under Cover.[2] They consider themselves as independent of the political parties, however if we have a careful and critical look at the members and their activities we might gain some other impression: Zsolt Bayer, the founder of the C\u00d6F is the former chief communications officer of the party, a closer friend of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s, the key figure of the Peace March. Andr\u00e1s Bencsik, a member of C\u00d6F, is the founder of Hungarian Guards and one of the main organizers of the Peace March. G\u00e1bor Sz\u00e9les is not only an influential figure of C\u00d6F, but also of the right wing related media market (Echo TV, Magyar H\u00edrlap). L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csizmadia, founder and spokesman of the C\u00d6F, is the president of the National Cooperation Fund responsible for the division of the 3-billion-public funds on a yearly basis. Well, hand in hand with the Fidesz this \u201cpolitically independent\u201d organization financed their campaign against stealing of public funds with public funds.\nAfter this, the C\u00d6F dares to make accusation of stealing public funds?\nExactly. Using of public funds the government not only withholds news and information, but also spreads their lies in the form of fliers and posters in the streets with the help of C\u00d6F. They perfectly ignored the fact that the Nokia-box full of money never exists and in the former Deputy Lord Mayor\u2019s case more and more times do the court decide in his favor, supporting his truth.\nDid they get off Hagy\u00f3 after the parliamentary elections in spring, 2014?\nUnfortunately, they did not. During the campaign period[3] of the municipal elections Hagy\u00f3\u2019s name appeared again. Surprisingly, again an opposition politician, J\u00f3zsef T\u00f3bi\u00e1s, the new president of MSZP, was aimed to be embarrassed.\nBut what kind of scandalous relationship is between T\u00f3bi\u00e1s and Hagy\u00f3?\nSimply that the president of MSZP bought Hagy\u00f3\u2019s apartment.\nBesides this \u201capartment incident\u201d, was the \u201ccriminal\u201d Hagy\u00f3 named again in the campaign?\nYes. Seemingly The Fidesz took all the chances to embarrass more and more opposition politicians abusing Hagy\u00f3\u2019s name. What is more, they are talking about new Nokia-boxes.\nRelated to what the Fidesz suspect new nokia boxes?\nWhen it was realised that the Egy\u00fctt-PM cooperate with Zsolt Hajnal, whose company is involved in the Hagy\u00f3-case, the Fidesz found it unquestionable that the Egy\u00fctt- PM attempt to give Hagy\u00f3\u2019s business partners advantage over the municipalities of Budapest. Furthermore, they arrived at the obvious conclusion that Hagy\u00f3\u2019s people support the campaign of the Egy\u00fctt- PM because they see hope for new fruitful assignments and Nokia-boxes. This assumption is ridiculous just take into it consideration how the leader of the Egy\u00fctt-PM views the \u201cNokia-box period\u201d.\n[1] Civil Unity Forum (C\u00d6F) \u2013 flyer for almost 40 million \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files\n[2] Free and fair election? It doesn\u2019t look promising \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files\n[3] How Did Hungary\u2019s Election Become a Circus? \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theorganizedcreative.com/terms-and-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WDOI4GHTGBZWBNHFIOODIMZ35Y2H56YD", "length": 2124, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "theorganizedcreative.com", "title": "Terms and Conditions \u2014 The Organized Creative", "raw_content": "This website is owned and operated by The Organized Creative, a Toronto company. Owned solely by Inessa Radostin.\nAll images, text, designs, graphics, trademarks and service marks are owned by and property of The Organized Creative, or the properly attributed party. 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Hereinafter cited as \"re: Gem Family.\"\nEmily Fonblanque Philipps1\nEmily Fonblanque Philipps was the daughter of Sir James Evans Philipps, 11th Bt. and Mary Anne Bickley.2 She married Reverend Harry Jones on 4 January 1848.1 She died on 6 September 1904.1\nFrom 4 January 1848, her married name became Jones.\nReverend Harry Jones1\nReverend Harry Jones married Emily Fonblanque Philipps, daughter of Sir James Evans Philipps, 11th Bt. and Mary Anne Bickley, on 4 January 1848.1 He died on 30 September 1900, without issue.1\nAt St. Philip, Regent Street, London, England, Vicar.1 He held the office of Prebendary of St. Paul's.1 He lived at Bartonmere, Suffolk, England.1\nHarriet Fonblanque Philipps1\nHarriet Fonblanque Philipps was the daughter of Sir James Evans Philipps, 11th Bt. and Mary Anne Bickley.2 She married Reverend W. Francis Tregarthen on 2 February 1858.1 She died on 15 February 1899.1\nFrom 2 February 1858, her married name became Tregarthen.\nReverend W. Francis Tregarthen1\nReverend W. Francis Tregarthen married Harriet Fonblanque Philipps, daughter of Sir James Evans Philipps, 11th Bt. and Mary Anne Bickley, on 2 February 1858.1 He died in 1884.1\nHe was a Schools Inspector.1\nReverend Henry Philipps1\nReverend Henry Philipps was born on 19 December 1796.1 He was the son of William Hollingworth Philipps and Harriet Fonblanque.2 He married Margaret Eleanor Vowell, daughter of Major Christopher Vowell, on 30 March 1842.1 He died on 13 December 1892 at age 95, without issue.1\nRev.1 He graduated from Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1\nMajor Christopher Vowell1\nChild of Major Christopher Vowell\nMargaret Eleanor Vowell2 d. 9 Jan 1867", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepennyfrugalista.com/2010/12/re-gifting-thrifted-gifts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CJN3BNCNV7TBF5DIW7HQ2LCMF3Q5DDDF", "length": 1393, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thepennyfrugalista.com", "title": "Re-Gifting & Thrifted Gifts Aren\u2019t the Devil\u2019s Handiwork \u00ab The Penny Frugalista", "raw_content": "Uncategorized holidays, money, spending\n5 comments to Re-Gifting & Thrifted Gifts Aren\u2019t the Devil\u2019s Handiwork\nI\u2019d re-gift unused gift cards and other cute things\nI once got this sweater from a friend who said she thought of me when she bought it for me, still had the tags on it but it STANK LIKE MOTHBALLS and it was itchy and the colour was UNFLATTERING.\n\u201cbought\u201d, my butt.\nI will never forget when my aunt gave me a sweater that had a hole in it for Christmas. I wouldn\u2019t have cared if it didn\u2019t have tags, but it was damaged. That\u2019s bad. \ud83d\ude09\nCarnival of Money Stories #84: \u2018Twas Two Weeks Before Christmas Edition | Yes, I Am Cheap\n[\u2026] presents Re-Gifting & Thrifted Gifts Aren\u2019t the Devil\u2019s Handiwork posted at The Penny [\u2026]\nI think regifting is great! The only problem is, I always get all excited and open the packages before I realise that I didn\u2019t want it anyway. So I\u2019ve only regifted twice.\nI figure, if it\u2019s new & I just don\u2019t have the space, or something I won\u2019t ever use, but I know somebody who might appreciate it, then why not?\nI\u2019m not sure about the thrift store items, though. Some people have an aversion to used items \u2013 not me, but some people.\nI know when you\u2019ve re-gifted something, so why not come clean about it?\n[\u2026] The Penny Frugalista: Re-Gifting Thrifted Gifts [\u2026]\n\u00ab Frugality Means You Have \u201cQuirks\u201d\nIn the News: NJ Residents Most Fiscally Responsible in Country \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2017_08_01_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:7QE4FCRNF73EEAQJSARTRTOB54W5OBRT", "length": 25641, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "thepodunkblog.blogspot.com", "title": "thoughts from podunk: Aug 1, 2017", "raw_content": "William Browder testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.\nWilliam Browder is a very wealthy investor and investment advisor running the Hermitage Fund.\nWilliam Browder is the grandson of Earl Browder, a former Chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A.\nPutin is a modern day Russian Czar in the era of imperialism.\nOne thing not coming out in all of this feuding between capitalists is the tremendous wealth which has been created by labor which is being stolen from the Russian working class since labor creates ALL wealth and literally sucked out of Russia ending up in western banks all over the world.\nBrowder and his investors lost billions of dollars; Putin stole this money through graft and corruption.\nApparently Browder was happy as long as he was stealing the wealth of the Russian Nation instead of Putin. Two crooks stealing from one another.... as the Russian people are forced to endure poverty.\nAnd we don't even know how Trump is involved with this theft of the Russian 'nation but surely he is.\nAnd we don't know how many Wall Street investors like Browder are still stealing the wealth of the Russian Nation as they pay-off Putin and thousands of his gangster capitalists and enforcers.\nEarl Browder would not have been proud of his grandson's role in all of this and as working people we should not be choosing the sides of any of these greedy pigs--- our empathy and solidarity belongs with the Russian working class struggling to regain socialism.\nThe full transcript of William \"Bill\" Browder\u2019s prepared remarks to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is as follows...\nChairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today on the Russian government\u2019s attempts to repeal the Magnitsky Act in Washington in 2016, and the enablers who conducted this campaign in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, by not disclosing their roles as agents for foreign interests.Before I get into the actions of the agents who conducted the anti-Magnitsky campaign in Washington for the benefit of the Russian state, let me share a bit of background about Sergei Magnitsky and myself.I am the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. I grew up in Chicago, but for the last 28 years I\u2019ve lived in Moscow and London, and am now a British citizen. From 1996 to 2005, my firm, Hermitage Capital, was one of the largest investment advisers in Russia with more than $4 billion invested in Russian stocks.Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised. Consequently, I had an interest in fighting this endemic corruption, so my firm started doing detailed research on exactly how the oligarchs stole the vast amounts of money that they did. When we were finished with our research we would share it with the domestic and international media.\nFor a time, this naming and shaming campaign worked remarkably well and led to less corruption and increased share prices in the companies we invested in. Why? Because President Vladimir Putin and I shared the same set of enemies. When Putin was first elected in 2000, he found that the oligarchs had misappropriated much of the president\u2019s power as well. They stole power from him while stealing money from my investors. In Russia, your enemy\u2019s enemy is your friend, and even though I\u2019ve never met Putin, he would often step into my battles with the oligarchs and crack down on them.\nThat all changed in July 2003, when Putin arrested Russia\u2019s biggest oligarch and richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Putin grabbed Khodorkovsky off his private jet, took him back to Moscow, put him on trial, and allowed television cameras to film Khodorkovsky sitting in a cage right in the middle of the courtroom. That image was extremely powerful, because none of the other oligarchs wanted to be in the same position. After Khodorkovsky\u2019s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin\u2019s answer was, \u201cFifty percent.\u201d He wasn\u2019t saying 50 percent for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50 percent for Vladimir Putin personally. From that moment on, Putin became the biggest oligarch in Russia and the richest man in the world, and my anti-corruption activities would no longer be tolerated.\nThe results of this change came very quickly. On November 13, 2005, as I was flying into Moscow from a weekend away, I was stopped at Sheremetyevo airport, detained for 15 hours, deported, and declared a threat to national security.\nEighteen months after my expulsion a pair of simultaneous raids took place in Moscow. Over 25 Interior Ministry officials barged into my Moscow office and the office of the American law firm that represented me. The officials seized all the corporate documents connected to the investment holding companies of the funds that I advised. I didn\u2019t know the purpose of these raids so I hired the smartest Russian lawyer I knew, a 35-year-old named Sergei Magnitsky. I asked Sergei to investigate the purpose of the raids and try to stop whatever illegal plans these officials had.Sergei went out and investigated. He came back with the most astounding conclusion of corporate identity theft: The documents seized by the Interior Ministry were used to fraudulently re-register our Russian investment holding companies to a man named Viktor Markelov, a known criminal convicted of manslaughter. After more digging, Sergei discovered that the stolen companies were used by the perpetrators to misappropriate $230 million of taxes that our companies had paid to the Russian government in the previous year.I had always thought Putin was a nationalist. It seemed inconceivable that he would approve of his officials stealing $230 million from the Russian state. Sergei and I were sure that this was a rogue operation and if we just brought it to the attention of the Russian authorities, the \u201cgood guys\u201d would get the \u201cbad guys\u201d and that would be the end of the story.\nWe filed criminal complaints with every law enforcement agency in Russia, and Sergei gave sworn testimony to the Russian State Investigative Committee (Russia\u2019s FBI) about the involvement of officials in this crime.\nHowever, instead of arresting the people who committed the crime, Sergei was arrested. Who took him? The same officials he had testified against. On November 24, 2008, they came to his home, handcuffed him in front of his family, and threw him into pre-trial detention.Sergei\u2019s captors immediately started putting pressure on him to withdraw his testimony. They put him in cells with 14 inmates and eight beds, leaving the lights on 24 hours a day to impose sleep deprivation. They put him in cells with no heat and no windowpanes, and he nearly froze to death. They put him in cells with no toilet, just a hole in the floor and sewage bubbling up. They moved him from cell to cell in the middle of the night without any warning. During his 358 days in detention he was forcibly moved multiple times.They did all of this because they wanted him to withdraw his testimony against the corrupt Interior Ministry officials, and to sign a false statement that he was the one who stole the $230 million\u2014and that he had done so on my instruction.Sergei refused. In spite of the grave pain they inflicted upon him, he would not perjure himself or bear false witness.After six months of this mistreatment, Sergei\u2019s health seriously deteriorated. He developed severe abdominal pains, he lost 40 pounds, and he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and gallstones and prescribed an operation for August 2009. However, the operation never occurred. A week before he was due to have surgery, he was moved to a maximum security prison called Butyrka, which is considered to be one of the harshest prisons in Russia. Most significantly for Sergei, there were no medical facilities there to treat his medical conditions.\nAt Butyrka, his health completely broke down. He was in agonizing pain. He and his lawyers wrote 20 desperate requests for medical attention, filing them with every branch of the Russian criminal justice system. All of those requests were either ignored or explicitly denied in writing.\nAfter more than three months of untreated pancreatitis and gallstones, Sergei Magnitsky went into critical condition. The Butyrka authorities did not want to have responsibility for him, so they put him in an ambulance and sent him to another prison that had medical facilities. But when he arrived there, instead of putting him in the emergency room, they put him in an isolation cell, chained him to a bed, and eight riot guards came in and beat him with rubber batons.That night he was found dead on the cell floor.Sergei Magnitsky died on November 16, 2009, at the age of 37, leaving a wife and two children.I received the news of his death early the next morning. It was by far the most shocking, heart-breaking, and life-changing news I\u2019ve ever received.Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.That morning I made a vow to Sergei\u2019s memory, to his family, and to myself that I would seek justice and create consequences for the people who murdered him. For the last seven and a half years, I\u2019ve devoted my life to this cause.Even though this case was characterized by injustice all the way through, the circumstances of Sergei\u2019s torture and death were so extreme that I was sure some people would be prosecuted. Unlike other deaths in Russian prisons, which are largely undocumented, Sergei had written everything down. In his 358 days in detention, Sergei wrote over 400 complaints detailing his abuse. In those complaints he described who did what to him, as well as where, how, when, and why. He was able to pass his hand-written complaints to his lawyers, who dutifully filed them with the Russian authorities. Although his complaints were either ignored or rejected, copies of them were retained. As a result, we have the most well-documented case of human rights abuse coming out of Russia in the last 35 years.\nWhen I began the campaign for justice with this evidence, I thought that the Russian authorities would have no choice but to prosecute at least some of the officials involved in Sergei Magnitsky\u2019s torture and murder. It turns out I could not have been more wrong. Instead of prosecuting, the Russian authorities circled the wagons and exonerated everybody involved. They even went so far as to offer promotions and state honors to those most complicit in Sergei\u2019s persecution.\nIt became obvious that if I was going to get any justice for Sergei Magnitsky, I was going to have to find it outside of Russia.But how does one get justice in the West for a murder that took place in Russia? Criminal justice is based on jurisdiction: One cannot prosecute someone in New York for a murder committed in Moscow. As I thought about it, the murder of Sergei Magnitsky was done to cover up the theft of $230 million from the Russian Treasury. I knew that the people who stole that money wouldn\u2019t keep it in Russia. As easily as they stole the money, it could be stolen from them. These people keep their ill-gotten gains in the West, where property rights and rule of law exist. This led to the idea of freezing their assets and banning their visas here in the West. It would not be true justice but it would be much better than the total impunity they enjoyed.In 2010, I traveled to Washington and told Sergei Magnitsky\u2019s story to Senators Benjamin Cardin and John McCain. They were both shocked and appalled and proposed a new piece of legislation called The Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act. This would freeze assets and ban visas for those who killed Sergei as well as other Russians involved in serious human rights abuse.\nDespite the White House\u2019s desire to reset relations with Russia at the time, this case shined a bright light on the criminality and impunity of the Putin regime and persuaded Congress that something needed to be done. In November 2012 the Magnitsky Act passed the House of Representatives by 364 to 43 votes and later the Senate 92 to 4 votes. On December 14, 2012, President Obama signed the Sergei Magnitsky Act into law.\nPutin was furious. Looking for ways to retaliate against American interests, he settled on the most sadistic and evil option of all: banning the adoption of Russian orphans by American families.This was particularly heinous because of the effect it had on the orphans. Russia did not allow the adoption of healthy children, just sick ones. In spite of this, American families came with big hearts and open arms, taking in children with HIV, Down syndrome, Spina Bifida and other serious ailments. They brought them to America, nursed them, cared for them and loved them. Since the Russian orphanage system did not have the resources to look after these children, many of those unlucky enough to remain in Russia would die before their 18th birthday. In practical terms, this meant that Vladimir Putin sentenced his own, most vulnerable and sick Russian orphans to death in order to protect corrupt officials in his regime.Why did Vladimir Putin take such a drastic and malicious step?\nFor two reasons. First, since 2012 it\u2019s emerged that Vladimir Putin was a beneficiary of the stolen $230 million that Sergei Magnitsky exposed. Recent revelations from the Panama Papers have shown that Putin\u2019s closest childhood friend, Sergei Roldugin, a famous cellist, received $2 billion of funds from Russian oligarchs and the Russian state. It\u2019s commonly understood that Mr. Roldugin received this money as an agent of Vladimir Putin. Information from the Panama Papers also links some money from the crime that Sergei Magnitsky discovered and exposed to Sergei Roldugin. Based on the language of the Magnitsky Act, this would make Putin personally subject to Magnitsky sanctions.\nThis is particularly worrying for Putin, because he is one of the richest men in the world. I estimate that he has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains from these types of operations over his 17 years in power. He keeps his money in the West and all of his money in the West is potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation. Therefore, he has a significant and very personal interest in finding a way to get rid of the Magnitsky sanctions.The second reason why Putin reacted so badly to the passage of the Magnitsky Act is that it destroys the promise of impunity he\u2019s given to all of his corrupt officials.There are approximately ten thousand officials in Russia working for Putin who are given instructions to kill, torture, kidnap, extort money from people, and seize their property. Before the Magnitsky Act, Putin could guarantee them impunity and this system of illegal wealth accumulation worked smoothly. However, after the passage of the Magnitsky Act, Putin\u2019s guarantee disappeared. The Magnitsky Act created real consequences outside of Russia and this created a real problem for Putin and his system of kleptocracy.\nFor these reasons, Putin has stated publicly that it was among his top foreign policy priorities to repeal the Magnitsky Act and to prevent it from spreading to other countries. Since its passage in 2012, the Putin regime has gone after everybody who has been advocating for the Magnitsky Act.\nOne of my main partners in this effort was Boris Nemtsov. Boris testified in front of the U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, the Canadian Parliament, and others to make the point that the Magnitsky Act was a \u201cpro-Russian\u201d piece of legislation because it narrowly targeted corrupt officials and not the Russian people. In 2015, Boris Nemtsov was murdered on the bridge in front of the Kremlin.Boris Nemtsov\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Vladimir Kara-Murza, also traveled to law-making bodies around the world to make a similar case. After Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, was added to the Magnitsky List in December of 2016, Vladimir was poisoned. He suffered multiple organ failure, went into a coma and barely survived.The lawyer who represented Sergei Magnitsky\u2019s mother, Nikolai Gorokhov, has spent the last six years fighting for justice. This spring, the night before he was due in court to testify about the state cover up of Sergei Magnitsky\u2019s murder, he was thrown off the fourth floor of his apartment building. Thankfully he survived and has carried on in the fight for justice.\nI\u2019ve received many death threats from Russia. The most notable one came from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2013. When asked by a group of journalists about the death of Sergei Magnitsky, Medvedev replied, \u201cIt\u2019s too bad that Sergei Magnitsky is dead and Bill Browder is still alive and free.\u201d I\u2019ve received numerous other death threats from Russian sources through text messages, emails, and voicemails. U.S. government sources have warned me about a planned Russian rendition against me. These threats were in addition to numerous unsuccessful attempts that the Russian government has made to arrest me using Interpol or other formal legal assistance channels.\nThe Russian government has also used its resources and assets to try to repeal the Magnitsky Act. One of the most shocking attempts took place in the spring and summer of last year when a group of Russians went on a lobbying campaign in Washington to try to repeal the Magnitsky Act by changing the narrative of what had happened to Sergei. According to them, Sergei wasn\u2019t murdered and he wasn\u2019t a whistle-blower, and the Magnitsky Act was based on a false set of facts. They used this story to try to have Sergei\u2019s name taken off of the Global Magnitsky Act that passed in December 2016. They were unsuccessful.Who was this group of Russians acting on behalf of the Russian state? Two men named Pyotr and Denis Katsyv, a woman named Natalia Veselnitskaya, and a large group of American lobbyists, all of whom are described below.\nPyotr Katsyv, father to Denis Katsyv, is a senior Russian government official and well-placed member of the Putin regime; Denis Katsyv was caught by U.S. law enforcement using proceeds from the crime that Sergei Magnitsky uncovered to purchase high-end Manhattan real estate (the case recently settled with the Katsyv\u2019s paying $6 million to the U.S. government). Natalia Veselnitskaya was their lawyer.\nIn addition to working on the Katsyv\u2019 s money laundering defense, Ms. Veselnitskaya also headed the aforementioned lobbying campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act. She hired a number of lobbyists, public relations executives, lawyers, and investigators to assist her in this task.Her first step was to set up a fake NGO that would ostensibly promote Russian adoptions, although it quickly became clear that the NGO\u2019s sole purpose was to repeal the Magnitsky Act. This NGO was called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation (HRAGI). It was registered as a corporation in Delaware with two employees on February 18, 2016. HRAGI was used to pay Washington lobbyists and other agents for the anti-Magnitsky campaign. (HRAGI now seems to be defunct, with taxes due.)Through HRAGI, Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet intelligence officer naturalised as an American citizen, was hired to lead the Magnitsky repeal effort. Mr. Akhmetshin has been involved in a number of similar campaigns where he\u2019s been accused of various unethical and potentially illegal actions like computer hacking.\nVeselnitskaya also instructed U.S. law firm Baker Hostetler and their Washington, D.C.-based partner Marc Cymrot to lobby members of Congress to support an amendment taking Sergei Magnitsky\u2019s name off the Global Magnitsky Act. Mr. Cymrot was in contact with Paul Behrends, a congressional staffer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee at the time, as part of the anti-Magnitsky lobbying campaign.\nVeselnitskaya, through Baker Hostetler, hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against me and Sergei Magnitsky in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act. He contacted a number of major newspapers and other publications to spread false information that Sergei Magnitsky was not murdered, was not a whistle-blower, and was instead a criminal. They also spread false information that my presentations to lawmakers around the world were untrue.As part of Veselnitskaya\u2019s lobbying, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, Chris Cooper of the Potomac Group, was hired to organize the Washington, D.C.-based premiere of a fake documentary about Sergei Magnitsky and myself. This was one the best examples of Putin\u2019s propaganda.They hired Howard Schweitzer of Cozzen O\u2019Connor Public Strategies and former Congressman Ronald Dellums to lobby members of Congress on Capitol Hill to repeal the Magnitsky Act and to remove Sergei\u2019s name from the Global Magnitsky bill.On June 13, 2016, they funded a major event at the Newseum to show their fake documentary, inviting representatives of Congress and the State Department to attend.While they were conducting these operations in Washington, D.C., at no time did they indicate that they were acting on behalf of Russian government interests, nor did they file disclosures under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.United States law is very explicit that those acting on behalf of foreign governments and their interests must register under FARA so that there is transparency about their interests and their motives.Since none of these people registered, my firm wrote to the Department of Justice in July 2016 and presented the facts.I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests. I also hope that this story and others like it may lead to a change in the FARA enforcement regime in the future.Thank you.\nDare to struggle; dare to win.\nBernie Sanders and his group called \"Our Revolution\" headed up by former Communication Workers of American President, Larry Cohen, and Nina Turner proclaim themselves to be socialists... so why don't they do and say what any good socialists would do: advocate for socialized health care paid for with a Peace Dividend obtained by ending militarism and wars?\nWhy is so hard for these self=proclaimed socialists to advocate for \"socialized health care?\"\nMedicare is not socialized health care.\nMedicare for All--- single-payer universal health care--- is not socialized health care.\nMedicare only works for the well-heeled upper middle class intellectuals looking for gimmicks to trick people into voting for Democrats who use Medicare for All as an election ploy to get elected only to ignore their promise once elected.\nLyndon Johnson advocated Medicare for All and had to relent in the face of opposition from his own Democrats who didn't even want Medicare to cover seniors in the first place but were forced by seniors to deliver Medicare... and the millionaire labor leaders sold this to their memberships with a lot of fan-fare claiming Medicare would be extended to everyone in a very short time because everyone would realize how good it was... these were the same labor leaders who so enthusiastically pushed credit cards and consumer debt on their members instead of fighting for real living wages to pay for housing, food, automobiles and education--- and, of course the Medicare co-pays and supplemental insurances required in order to avoid medical bankruptcies.\nThe phony socialists like Bernie Sanders, Larry Cohen and Nina Turner can pay for their health care--- most working people can't afford the price of health care through Obamacare or Medicare.\nReal socialists will be calling for socialized health care--- everyone in, nobody out; publicly funded, publicly administered and publicly delivered, nothing controversial... just like the model of American public education; fully all-inclusive, comprehensive health care from cradle to grave.\nWorking people are going to have to realize they don't get anything from this Wall Street bribed government unless they fight for it.\nIf single-payer universal health care--- Medicare for All--- really led to socialized health care Canada and other countries would have socialized health care by now... but, instead, their neo-liberal Wall Street serving governments are cutting their health care systems and privatizing many health care services; why? Because workers have not mounted militant campaigns to fight and struggle for the implementation of socialized health care.\nWe need real socialists in Congress.\nDemocrats won't even defend the reforms working people have died to win.\nDemocrats talk about supporting small business; but, these small businesses ruthlessly exploit workers while many deduct Social Security from worker's paychecks and then keep the money and never pay it into Social Security--- Democrats have done nothing to stop this theft of wages.\nJust like Democrats have refused to repeal and rescind the main obstacle to union organizing--- At Will Employment legislation.\nLet's get some real socialists elected to Congress. Let's run a real socialist for president.\nDare to struggle for what is right and just; dare to win.\nWilliam Browder testifies before the U.S. Senate J...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2427, "original_length": 120495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theprowersjournal.com/category/sports/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:WJUT3D4UUBXWHBQFEN3KOBR7PZLSHJU5", "length": 2436, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "theprowersjournal.com", "title": "Sports : The Prowers Journal", "raw_content": "Toys for Tots 2018 Holiday Countdown\nThe annual Toys for Tots/Food for Families holiday campaign is underway, headquartered this year at the new workshop at 500 West Beech Street. Collections and sorting of donated toys, old and new is now underway. As in year\u2019s past, cash donations are always welcome and may be mailed to 1208 South 5th Street [\u2026]\nThe Wranglers Gymnastics Competition Team from Wild West Athletics in Lamar attended their first meet in McPherson, KS hosted by a Next Level Gymnastics. The 24 gymnasts from WWA did an outstanding job at their first competition. They represented 6 competitive levels and 14 different age divisions where they proudly took home 8 Gold [\u2026]\nThe Lamar Municipal Airport played host to various collegiate flying teams this past weekend, October 5th and 6th, including the glider competition team from the Air Force Academy, students from Metro State University from Denver as well as competitors from the University of North Dakota who made the long trek to participate. Jamie [\u2026]\n(Lamar, Colorado; September 25, 2018) The Lamar Community College Rodeo team will host its annual Antelope Stampede on October 5 through 7 at the Prowers County Sand & Sage Fairgrounds. Fourteen teams from throughout Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska will compete over three days with performances at 6:00 pm on Friday, 2:00 pm [\u2026]\nThe Granada community will host the annual Fiesta De Colores Celebration this Saturday, September 15th beginning with the 10am parade, beginning at the High School parking lot and continuing into the town park. This year\u2019s grand marshall\u2019s are Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Gonzales. Other events include music provided by Fernando and the highlight will be [\u2026]\nHeritage Defenders Submit Resolutions to Council on Library Policy Changes\nQuizno\u2019s Restaurant, at 113 East Olive Street in Lamar, occupies a building which has been in existence in the community for numerous decades, dating back to 1947 as the former Allen & DeLoach Tire Shop. The building, according to Angie Cue, Community Development Director, still contains single-pane windows on the east, south and west [\u2026]\nThis is the second part of an article describing the activities of the Blue Rose Ranch in Springfield, Colorado. A horse rescue and adoption operation, it is a non-profit facility which began in 2007 and is owned and operated by John and Cheryl Webb. Because of the expense of running such an operation, the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 63867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepurenews.com/n/nimhans-uses-simulation-dassault-syst%C3%A9mes-its-research-improve-efficacy-medical-treatment-through", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EQREEWQXICDM7GTUJLGAI3GZA3XOYUGY", "length": 2465, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thepurenews.com", "title": "NIMHANS Uses Simulation from Dassault Syst\u00e9mes in its Research to Improve Efficacy of Medical Treatment through Neuromodulation | The Pue News - magazine India", "raw_content": "Bengaluru, IndiaOctober 2018 -Dassault Systemes (Euronext Paris: #13065. DSYPA) announced that National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS). the apex center for mental health and neuroscience eduoation in India. has deployed Dassault Systemes\u2018 SIMULIA applications to predict the efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). a non-invasive clinical treatment for schizophrenia patients, virtually before the clinical procedure. The announcement was made at Dassault Systemes\u2018 first ever local edition of its global event Science in the Age of Experience in India that aims to showcase the c0mpany\u2019s simulation applications in transportation, aerospace and life sciences venicals.\nNIMHANS\u2019s adoption of SIMULIA applications powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a first-ot-its-kind deployment, where psychiatrists at NIMHANS wit! be able to teverage simulation technology to forecast challenges and outcomes of the treatment procedure for disorders such as schizophrenia. With SIMULIA applications. the team envisages the potential to develop a conceptual non-invasive method for Deep Brain Stimulation.\nDr. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian, MD PhD, Professor of Psychiatry. Head. Department of Clinical Neurosciences at NIMHANS, \u201cComputational modelling and simulation technologies allow mathematical reconstruction of the impact of tDCS in the treatment of several neuropsychiatric disorders. With multiphysics simulation capabilities on the 3DEXPERINCE platform, under the WISER Neuromodulation Program at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. patient-speciftc finite element models of the brain are used to accurately estimate the Iikely impact of electrical stimulation for treating the symptoms of schizophrenia. Which, in turn can facilitate personalized neuromodulation.\u2018\nAt the announcement. Samson Khaou, Managing Director, India, Dassault Syst\u00e9mes said. \"The biggest challenge faced today by the healthcare sector in India Is the absence of a standard procedure to predict the effectiveness of a treatment for various chronic diseases. As the life sciences industry moves towards more \u2018personalized healthcare', custom-made simulations allow for more precise analyses and predictions of human body dynamics. With Dassault Syst\u2018emes' SIMULIA and BIOVIA applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. we aim to bridge this gap by enabling our customers develop new and innovative methods for patients treatment.\u2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theseamonster.net/2011/06/using-skype-to-explore-the-deep-sea-in-realtime/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VLV4TDRRTWWCAP6I7S2VQ2FD47WZQRIL", "length": 1449, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theseamonster.net", "title": "Using Skype to explore the deep sea in realtime \u2013 Sea Monster", "raw_content": "Using Skype to explore the deep sea in realtime\nThere\u2019s so much we still don\u2019t know about what lives at the bottom of the sea. Just go look and you\u2019ll find heaps of new species and weird things going on that you\u2019d never have imagined. But how to make the most of scientists\u2019 knowledge for exploring the depths? These days, you don\u2019t need to squeeze them all into a tiny submersible vehicle and have them squabble for a glimpse out of the tiny porthole \u2013 just get them on Skype instead.\nLast year, NOAA led the first expedition in a 5-year project exploring the deep sea around Indonesia \u2013 the aim is to figure out if life is as riotous and diverse hundreds of metres beneath the waves as it is up at the surface in the famous \u2018coral triangle\u2019. And by the looks of their initial discoveries \u2013 it is.\nChatting with Tim Shank from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the Naked Oceans podcast I found out how they sent down an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) loaded with a high-def camera and pinged images to a global virutal lab of scientists who chatted over Skype and iChat, guiding the sub and sharing thoughts about what they were looking at in real time.\nNow that\u2019s truly a twenty-first century way of exploring the most mysterious parts of the ocean.\nThis entry was posted on Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 5:14 am.\tIt is filed under Ocean Critters and tagged with deep sea. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetoybox1138.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-last-jedi-home-video-release.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YJIL5KTWFKKBALEVZ6OEIQZDMWPKCNJF", "length": 1768, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thetoybox1138.blogspot.com", "title": "The Toy Box: The Last Jedi Home Video Release", "raw_content": "If you're like me, going to the movie theater isn't a high priority on your list - Even for movies you really want to see. Take the most recent Star Wars entry, The Last Jedi, which was released on December 14, 2017. As big a Star Wars fan as I am, I didn't bother attempting to go the first week. In fact, it wasn't until December 24th that I finally go the opportunity to see the film.\nDespite not liking the film, I immediately set to my next task of finding when it would be released on home video - Because as many of you know, I collect the home releases of Star Wars. I was shocked to see that in just four month's time the film is estimated to be released. Not only that, but you can already pre-order it from a couple of the big name retail chains.\nBest Buy will apparently have not only the regular Blu-Ray / DVD / Digital Combo Pack, but also an Ultra HD Blu-Ray / DVD / Digital Combo Pack. If that weren't enough, the retail chain will also have an exclusive Steelbook version of both the regular and Ultra HD versions. It appears the only difference between the exclusive and standard releases is the actual Steelbook packaging.\nMeanwhile, Target will also be selling an Exclusive version along the regular and HD combo packs. So far the only thing being advertised as exclusive to this release is forty page booklet which includes a behind-the-scenes look at the film with exclusive images.\nDon't think for a second that Walmart will leave itself out of that game. Especially considering the chain has had their own exclusive release for the past two films, The Force Awakens and Rogue One. However, at this time they don't have anything listed on their site.\nSo, if you haven't seen the film yet - It may be worth waiting if you're just going to buy it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 6163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thinkingoutsidetheboombox.com/posts/tony-bennett-is-on-fire-this-time-teaming-up-with", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:29Z", "digest": "sha1:24QCTTBM5CUO3IE7ULDCHQ27XP2I7HY2", "length": 178, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thinkingoutsidetheboombox.com", "title": "%i \u2014 Thinking Outside the Boombox", "raw_content": "Tony Bennett is on fire, this time teaming up with Lady Gaga to perform their rendition of \u201cThe Lady Is A Tramp\u201d. Duets II is out now. Enjoy.\nTony Bennett, Lady gaga, duet, music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thismommasjourney.blogspot.com/2012/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UDGMNLYSTJ5SVQKPZOVZFVY36ADXOMCH", "length": 8224, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "thismommasjourney.blogspot.com", "title": "This Momma's Journey: June 2012", "raw_content": "Dora Belle Hulsey\nAugust 17, 1927 to June 26, 2012.\nOn Tuesday evening, Dusty's grandmother left her Earthly body to be with God and spend eternity in Heaven above. We're incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to visit in April for her to meet Samantha and visit with Kaitlyn. And now, Matthew has another family member with him. While we would love to physically be there with everyone who is mourning the loss of an amazing person, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Wishing everyone strength, peace and comfort on their journey of grief. She will be forever missed.\nBuild A Bear Promo\nWanna check out what happens when you drive down to Glendale for your oldest daughter to see and meet her absolute favorite celebrity?\nI've been a TERRIBLE blogger. I've totally slacked on updates and seeing as how we've been across the country and back, summer vacation as started, and based on what train of thought you go by, I'm in my second trimester, there's obviously a whole lot to update on.\nThe problem hasn't been not having anything to say. I mean, when have *I* not had something to say? It has had more to do with this little one already showing who's boss by making me a prisoner to toilets and garbage cans everywhere I go. I've had morning sickness before. I've had what I thought was bad morning sickness before. Nothing in the world could have ever prepared me for this though. Misery is the only word I can think of to describe it.\nLast night our local chapter of the March of Dimes had a kick off event for one of their big fundraisers in September. It was an intimate event with about 30 people there who they were requesting to get sponsorships from for an event they plan on raising $200,000 at. Many of the people there were not aware of the mission of the March of Dimes, which to me is just silly, but I know that if it hadn't of been for our experience, we would be in the same boat. I was asked to talk about our story, and share how the March of Dimes has affected our lives.\nI won't lie and say I wasn't nervous. I was. For a variety of reasons. One being that the above mentioned morning sickness is way worse at night and I was terrified of throwing up. Another being that I was worried I would cry and watching the fourth season of Lost right now has shown me that crying only makes me puke. Oh, and throw in there speaking in front of distinguished members of our local community about something so personal without speaking a gazillion words a minute.\nBut, I did it. I didn't throw up. I didn't cry. And Dusty promises me that I didn't talk to fast or too soft.\nI wasn't expecting the crowd that was there. I was doing ok with \"recognizing\" people that were there and the important roles in the government until Bethany Crouch walked in. You know, from Fox 40 news. The local news we watch every morning. Then, I was way more nervous for some reason. But, to say that she is incredibly sweet, genuine and kind would be an understatement. And, she offered to help with advertising our fundraising event for Matthew's Team next year! How awesome is that?\nI am currently 13 weeks and 2 days pregnant. We've heard the hearbeat on the doppler. I'll share video of it soon. Other than the morning sickness and heartburn, I'm doing good. I haven't had any spotting or bleeding in nearly two weeks now. I'm hoping when I go to my appointment on Monday the SCH will have reabsorbed and just be completely gone! How great would that be? We're considering going next Saturday to find out what we're having, but haven't decided yet if we will do it then or wait it out a little longer.\nKaitlyn is doing great! She has officially finished the second grade. She made the Principal's honor roll for the entire year. Her school is one of the top performing in the state and considering that their grading requirements are incredibly high and she is advanced in every category they test, we couldn't be prouder of her achievements. And we're fortunate that she is really a well rounded kid.\nKaitlyn is excited to start cheer on Monday. She has cheer camp and tryouts that week, then she gets to make the decision if she wants to pursue it or not. She was super gung-ho and insisting that she had to be a cheerleader this year, until she started seeing all the advertisements around town for the swim team. Now, she wants to do both. Considering they are both huge commitments that overlap each other, she has to make a decision on which one to do.\nSamantha is doing great. Her speech has taken off so much. She talks all the time, no idea where her or Kaitlyn got that from, and her speech is getting much clearer. She's learned to say the \"noises\" for a lot of animals. Right now she will do the noises for cats (my favorite because she squints her eyes and crinkles her nose to do it), dogs, horses, pigs, cows, snakes, ducks, tigers and sometimes surprises us with a few others. And sometimes she'll surprise us by answering our question of \"what does a ______ say?\" with utter and complete silence. We've also been working a lot on letters and numbers. She'll repeat the ABCs after me and recognizes a few letters on her own, like A, B, O and R. And her favorite number is 3. She recognizes it and points it out everywhere. She's pretty darn bright. She stacks blocks 5-6 high, she cuddles her baby and of course, tries to climb on absolutely everything. And when she gets told no, she'll listen. Of course, she'll throw herself on the ground in a tantrum of screaming and fake crying, but she'll listen.\nSamantha had her pediatric GI appointment today. It went ok. There don't seem to be any structural abnormalities or anything suspicious in her blood work. She has lost 3 ounces in a month (which means she's dropped from 45% to 25% in weight) instead of gaining. And she has a lot of stool in there still. The doctor believes it's compacted and gave us a couple of options. We could try the magnesium citrate again. This would be our fourth time. It hasn't worked in any of the previous three attempts. Like, not even a tiny bit. All it does is create a day of tears, frustration and a couple of little runny diapers. I'm sure it creates a tummy ache for the little one as well. And if it doesn't work, we would go to option two. Option 2 is to put her under general anesthesia and after she's asleep for them to go in and remove the compacted stool. The goal is that once the compacted stool is removed, the stool softeners will be able to keep her regular and her bowels nice and clear in the future. We opted to go for option 2. Since the procedure won't take place at our normal hospital, we have to wait for insurance authorization to go through. Depending on when that happens, she'll either go in a week from tomorrow or the following Friday.\nOn Memorial Day, Dusty and I took our poorly packed luggage, loaded Samantha into the truck Dusty drives at work, hooked up to a 34' trailer, and after leaving Kaitlyn with my mom, took off for a drive across the country. In about 6 days, we arrived in Washington DC. Kaitlyn flew out with my mom and arrived the same day we did. We spent 9 days in DC. We varied the days up between work events, site seeing and me trying not to throw up around the clock. I did not have a good time. Then, we let Kaitlyn go with my mom and the three of us started our journey back. Kaitlyn and Grandma took a detour on the way home and stopped in Illinois to visit with Grandma's side of the family. Kaitlyn had a blast visiting with her aunts and cousins, and we were able to stop for about half a day and join her.\nBy the 5th day of driving, we were about 15 hours away from home, 900 miles or so, and decided that we didn't want to wake up and get in that truck to drive anywhere for another day. Considering that Samantha kicked at me when I tried to put her in the car, I think she agreed. So, we traveled from Wyoming to Sacramento all in one day. To me, it was worth it. We spent the entire next day not leaving the couch unless we had to. 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Today, they announced their latest move: In the upcoming Archie #633, they'll tell the story of a future where Archie marries Valerie Smith (of Josie and the Pussycats fame) and they have a daughter.\nIt won't be the first time that Archie has portrayed an interracial marriage in their comics. This month's Life With Archie #16 already hit that mark by putting the marriage of a gay soldier right there on the cover of one of the few comics you can still pick up at the grocery store:\nThat was a huge deal, but it's also worth noting that as big a step as it might be, it also involves two characters -- including Archie's gay classmate Kevin Keller -- that were largely created to fill that role. Valerie and Archie's romance, however, is something different. They're two established, high-profile characters, one of which has been a fixture in Archie's media efforts and another that the actual company's named after -- coming together in something that you just wouldn't have seen from those characters, even five years ago.\nWhen Archie and Valerie first started dating back in 2010, I wrote about what it meant in the context of a company that in the past had treated interracial dating as something so controversial that obviously black characters were colored in the stories to have lighter skin. In fact, it was standard practice for years to introduce minority characters in twos so that they could pair off without having to date Betty or Veronica -- a Nancy for every Chuck and a Frankie Valdez for every Ginger Lopez.\nArchie and Valerie change all that, and the way that it's been pulled off in the past by writer/artist Dan Parent, one of Archie's strongest creators, has made perfect sense. They build their relationship on a mutual love of music and, in Archie's case, the fact that he falls in love with beautiful girls regardless of race. As an isolated idea, it meant a lot, but in elevating it to this level, their relationship is being treated as something just as valid as Archie's relationships with Betty and Veronica. The addition of a daughter, something that hasn't been explored in the Betty or Veronica marriages and something that has traditionally been even more controversial in American history, goes even further -- in a good way.\nBut the best part is that while you might be able to call it a stunt from a publishing perspective, in the comics, it's just another simple fact of life for the character that's meant to represent America's typical teen. According to Archie CEO Jon Goldwater, the man credited as a driving force behind the company's current edict to try new things, the fact that Archie and Valerie fall in love and have a kid is no big deal to the characters:\n\"To us, this is just another chance to tell a great story. The fans want more Archie/Valerie \u2013 they ask about it at shows and everywhere we go. Like we did with the best-selling LIFE WITH ARCHIE, where Archie marries Veronica and Betty, we thought it'd be interesting to show a future where Archie marries Valerie from Josie and the Pussycats and the life they lead together.\nI can't really speak to whatever issues some people might have with them getting married or having a child. Like Kevin Keller's wedding \u2013 it's not an issue in Riverdale. Riverdale welcomes everyone and always will. For us, it's about telling a great story involving two wonderful characters and how they interact. The fans have asked for it and we're making it happen.\"\nFor the stories that still get into the hands of kids that have never read another comic, the idea that \"Riverdale welcomes everyone and always will\" is one of the most positive messages I can imagine.\n02/01/12--18:32: Joan Rivers without makeup\nJoan waits in a plastic surgeon's office for some touchups.\nOn the new season of Joan & Melissa, Joan Rivers got some more plastic surgery.\nNaturally, this required her to arrive at her surgeon's office sans makeup, and she allowed the reality cameras to capture what she really looks like. She's the first to admit it's not pretty.\nFor years, Rivers has been the butt of jokes about being a plastic surgery addict, going under the knife so often that she's barely recognizable from her former self. This time around she wanted to get loose skin beneath her chin removed, citing that it was visible on camera of her E! show Fashion Police. Rivers insists throughout the episode that it's \"show business\" that requires physical perfection from her. But does it? Let's be real: Joan Rivers' success as a comedian has never been hinged upon her beauty or youth\u2014her career didn't even really get going until she was in her late '30s.\nAnd while it's revolutionary that a 78-year-old female celebrity would allow herself to appear on a television show with no makeup (and in terrible, overhead lighting) it's also kind of weird, too, considering that the reason she did it was to achieve some kind of (unattainable) facial perfection for a different television show. Hollywood really fucks with women's heads\u2014and faces.\n02/01/12--18:33: Timbaland Drops Super Bowl Track Dedicated to Patriots Player Rob Gronkowski!!!\nTimbaland has announced his pick in the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI in the form a tribute track and video. It looks like the superstar producer will be cheering for the New England Patriots after he posted the video on YouTube which is dedicated to the team\u2019s tight end Rob Gronkowski.\nThe video for the song, which is titled \u2018Rob \u2018Gronk\u2019 Gronkowski,\u2019 pulls together a number of clips from the player\u2019s 2011 season including some of Gronkowski\u2019s best plays as well as still shots of the star player off the field.\nTimbaland isn\u2019t the only hip hop star who\u2019s hoping for a Patriots\u2019 win. Cash Money\u2019s Birdman tweeted last week that he was willing to put up $1 million on the Patriots because his nephew, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, plays running back on the team, and the #1 Stunna later upped his action to $5 million.\nThisBeatGoes\n02/01/12--18:33: Henry Cavill hangs out with my dad...I just...I can't right now\nMan of Steel provides \"Super\" opportunity for Airmen at dining facility\nEDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Actor Henry Cavill took a break from the rigorous shooting schedule for the Warner Brothers film \"Man of Steel\" to meet with Edwards Airmen, pose for photographs, and sign autographs at the Joshua Tree Dining Facility here Jan. 31.\nMore than 100 Airmen filled the dining facility from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., where each received an autographed \"Man of Steel\" lithograph, and had the option of taking a photograph with Cavill.\n\"It was great that he took the time out of his busy schedule to do something so wonderful for the military,\" said Senior Airman Lyndee Bennett, 95th Security Forces Squadron. \"He was incredibly nice. It's amazing how an event like this humanizes the actors. I really enjoyed the opportunity to meet him.\"\nAirman Bennett, is a fan of the Showtime series, \"The Tudors,\" and recognized Cavill from the show. When the opportunity arose for her to meet the actor, she knew she had to be a part of it.\n\"I was originally interested in the autograph session because I'm a huge fan of his series 'The Tudors,' the fact that he's filming 'Man of Steel' at Edwards just made the experience that much better,\" said Bennett.\nCavill, the Man of Steel himself, was more than happy to show his support for the military.\n\"I have such great respect for military members and what they do,\" Cavill said . \"It's important that they know how valuable their service is. It is a pleasure to tell them how much they're appreciated.\"\nCavill, who plays Superman in the upcoming film, \"Man of Steel,\" has a strong connection to the military, with two brothers currently serving; one as a tank commander and the other as a Royal Marine.\nThe autograph session was a unique opportunity for Cavill to give back to servicemembers who stepped up to play critical roles in the \"Man of Steel\" movie, through their roles as extras or their impressive logistical support.\n\"It was a really nice gesture on Henry's part to show how much he supports us and what we do,\" said Staff Sgt. Thomas Roach, 95th Security Forces Squadron. \"It was a great morale boost to meet someone famous and get an autograph for my daughter.\"\nUgh, I am on the phone with my dad right now, and he's telling me that they've been filming there for two weeks. TWO WEEKS AND HE DIDN'T BRING IT UP UNTIL I ASKED HIM! Father fail! A bunch of movies are filmed at Edwards all the time, and he has told me countless stories about hanging out with celebrities I don't care about (Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Terrance Howard, etc.), but the one time I actually care about something, it slips his mind. He said Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner's trailers are right next to his parking spot (which could very well be MY car since I left my car behind at my parents' house when I moved to NY, and he told me last week that his car's battery died). Don't you know you are hanging out with your future son-in-law, Father? Y u no tell me things? Gaaaaaaah...\nPS--I just dared my dad to challenge Russell Crowe to a Les Miz \"The Confrontation/Soliloquy/Javert's Suicide\" sing off. I am anxiously awaiting video.\n02/01/12--19:11: Musicians Mourn Don Cornelius\nThe death of Don Cornelius, the creator of the long-running television series Soul Train, has rattled fans of R&B, soul and dance music around the world. The news of Cornelius' apparent suicide is especially troubling for musicians who either appeared on the show or were introduced to many of their favorite artists while watching it each week as kids.\nQuestlove of the Roots, who declares that Cornelius was his \"first non-musical non-celeb non-blood-related hero,\" paid tribute to the television host in an essay published on the Okay Player site this morning. \"I just wanna use my position to really let people know that next to Berry Gordy, Don Cornelius was hands down the MOST crucial non-political figure to emerge from the civil rights era post '68,\" he wrote.\nOther artists took to Twitter to express their shock, grief and gratitude for Cornelius' achievements. Here are a few.\nNile Rodgers of Chic @nilerodgers\nDon Cornelius R.I.P. You changed the world\nRIP Don Cornelius. LOVE PEACE AND SOOOOUUULLLL 4eva\nTalib Kweli @TalibKweli\nRIP the legend Don Cornelius. Soul Train was a huge part of my saturday mornings growing up.\nFlea of Red Hot Chili Peppers @flea333\nahhhh don cornelius, i loved that guy, so much great music i saw through him R.I.P. bless his soul\nBilly Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins @Billy\nSad to hear about the passing of Don Cornelius of Soul Train fame. Grateful to him that he turned me on to so much great music.\nDiddy @iamdiddy\nLove Peace and Soul- RIP Don Cornelius ....\nYoung Jeezy @YoungJeezy103\n1st day of black history month. R.I.P. Don Cornelius\nBun B @BunBTrillOG\nGod bless Don Cornelius. Soul Train was often imitated but never duplicated. Staple of millions of homes on Saturday mornings. RIP. #salute\nDJ Quik @djquik\nRest In Peace to Don Cornelius. We all grew up watching Soul Train. Respect.\nIce Cube @icecube\nRest in Peace, Love & Soul...Don Cornelius\nMya @MISSMYA\nCondolences to the family, friends+ associates of Don Cornelius. So grateful4 his decades of innovative contribution to black music. R.I.P.\nFavorite performances?\n02/01/12--19:12: Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence Returning For 'X-Men: First Class' Sequel\nLooks like Matthew Vaughn isn't the only one checking in for more lessons at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.\nFollowing news that the \"X-Men: First Class\" director has signed on to direct the superhero film's developing sequel, Heat Vision reports that the \"First Class\" cast is back on board as well. Specific names haven't been dropped beyond Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence, but one assumes that at least James McAvoy is part of that returning cast list, given how crucial Professor Charles Xavier is to the \"First Class\" universe.\nVaughn is back on board as director for the next \"X-Men\" film, which still does not have a title. Longtime \"X-Men\" producer Bryan Singer has also signed on to continue with the Marvel Comics franchise, while \"Sherlock Holmes\" scribe Simon Kinberg works on the film's script, suggesting that \"First Class\" writer and frequent Vaughn collaborator Jane Goldman is not involved with the \"X-Men\" sequel \u2014 not yet, at least.\n\"James and Michael brought so much to them that I think it's entirely natural to be talking about where those characters would go next,\" she told MTV News in an interview this month. \"It was inherent in their stories and their arcs. There are so many interesting places to go.\"\n\"In terms of what's going on with that \u2026 it's down to what Matthew [Vaughn] decides to do,\" she added about her possible involvement. \"If he decides he wants to direct the next one and if he wants me on board, I'm 100 percent there.\"\nGod I hope the hbic Storm appears\n02/01/12--19:16: Eli Roth creepin' on Selena Gomez.\nOnce again revealing his proclivity for girls half his age.\nFinding out that Selena Gomez ate ice cream with horror movie director Eli Roth is like finding out that Taylor Swift screamed every word at a Die Antwoord show -- these things DO NOT MIX. Selena tweeted this photo of her chilling with Eli (literally) over some fancy glasses of dessert along with a quick dig at the dude: \"Creepy @eliroth.\" UMM, ya think?\nFor those who might not know, Eli Roth is basically the go-to horror guy in Hollywood right now. He's directed and starred in \"Cabin Fever\" and \"Hostel\" (Parts I, II, and III) to name a few, and he produced 2010's \"The Last Exorcism,\" which genuinely almost made me urinate on myself. So when we found out that Selena's not only friends with Eli but that they've hung out before, we had a little bit of a freak out. Selena's all, \"Sequined dresses! Love songs! Blue and purple hair!\" while Eli's like, \"Torture scenes! Blood and guts! Serial killers!\" DOES NOT COMPUTE!\nBut everyone knows opposites attract. And/Or everyone just likes ice cream a lot. That probably explains it.\nThis is not the first time Eli has ogled her breasts.\nAre those blueberries I spy in his ice cream?\n02/01/12--19:37: \"Home Improvement\" Kid Taran Noah Smith Busted for Drug Possession\nTaran Noah Smith, the youngest kid from \"Home Improvement,\" was arrested early this morning for alleged DUI and possession of drugs -- hash, to be specific.\nLaw enforcement sources tell TMZ ... 27-year-old Smith was arrested in LA County around 1:00AM. Cops believe he was under the influence of marijuana at the time of his arrest -- and we're told they also found a stash of hash ... a type of marijuana.\nSmith, best known for his role as little Mark Taylor, is still in custody ... currently being booked for the DUI and the drug possession, which is a felony.\nSources tell us ... Smith was behind the wheel of his 1998 silver Honda Accord, which was parked at an angle in front of a fire hydrant when an officer decided to investigate the situation.\nWe're told the officer smelled a \"strong odor\" of weed and believed Smith was under the influence.\nI got my source from Ross tbh\n02/01/12--20:08: ONTD Time To Learn English-English With The Wanted\nThe Wanted Translate Their Crazy British Slang to American English. You\u2019re Welcome.\nNot gonna lie, we\u2019re still trying to figure out exactly what the heck the guys of The Wanted were talking about in this exclusive interview. Those accents are pretty tricky. But lucky for you (and, uh, us), we got the dudes to translate British English to American English so that we wonder no more. And their use of British terms like \u201cbollocks\u201d and \u201cprat\u201d are pretty gosh-darn cute. Also cute? Nathan used Cody Simpson to define one of the slang words. For reals.\nDid you understand the guys a little bit better this time around? Think their accents are to die for?\nIf you don't understand their accents you are dumb forreal. Tom has the thickest accent but you can make out what he's saying.\nps YES TO THE SOLD OUT DALLAS SHOW YALL\n02/01/12--20:08: kelly clarkson endorses clay aiken, sara bareilles\nher twitter acct\nwhile performing last night in Durham, NC, Kelly debuted a cover of Sara Bareilles' song \"Gravity\"!\nfollowing an ongoing stay at #1 on the iTunes singles charts, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) has jumped from 8 to 2 on the Billboard Hot 100!\nRUMOR: dark side for single #3? --via a fan's meet and greet last night\ntyfyt!!\n02/01/12--20:27: Is Bravo Hiding the Gay Porn Past of One of the Stars of Their New Show?\nIt's generally accepted now that the best route to reality TV is paved in a road of porn. While the world has embraced Kim K., Dustin Zito and the litany of others who have parlayed X-rated careers into reality television, Bravo is dragging its high heels when it comes to admitting that the confirmed star of its Million Dollar Listing: New York, Fredrik Eklund, got his start behind the cameras showing off a different kind of high rise.\nIt's not like Eklund, also known as Tag Eriksson, is ashamed of his porn career; in 2010 he spoke candidly about his career change in a New York Times piece unambiguously titled \"From Pornography to Real Estate.\"\nBut Bravo made no mention of \"Tag Eriksson\"'s existence in a press release issued today to confirm Eklund as one of its Million Dollar stars.\nEklund in Million Dollar Listing: New York\nFredrik Eklund is the youngest Managing Director for Prudential Douglas Elliman. With more than 1.25 billion dollars in residential sales, he is known for being a \u201clistings machine\u201d working with the firm\u2019s senior management team focusing on international sales, new developments and re-sales throughout Manhattan. Eklund is constantly rated as downtown\u2019s \u201cTop Luxury Broker\u201d and was nominated as \u201cRookie of the Year\u201d by the Real Estate Board of New York. He set record sales in 28 buildings in Manhattan last year and is often spotted showing apartments to top name celebrities. Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Eklund studied at the Stockholm School of Economics before founding an Internet company and working for the investment bank SEB in Stockholm, London, Singapore and Tokyo. In addition, he is the founder of a high end residential real estate brokerage in Scandinavia with 35 employees.\n\"...and developed his camera-working skills as a popular gay porn star,\" it should have continued.\nEklund as Tag Eriksson in his porn star days\nBut Bravo's casting announcement didn't include the well-known fact, hinting the show will either play out Eklund's past in one of those cliched \"dirty secrets\" episode arcs for sweeps or will completely ignore the most entertaining aspect of an otherwise boring show all together.\nHe starred in one of my favorite gay porn flicks of all time.\nIt's a parody of The Ring. All the dudes in it watch this tape that turns them gay in 7 days and they have sex with each other. It's amazing.\n02/01/12--20:28: Excerpts from The Voice(a.k.a Christina Aguilera) Rolling Stone Interview\nAt its heart, The Voice is a game show, and the most essential rules that guide its coaches are unspoken: Try not to wince when blind auditions trick you into picking an unsightly singer; always declare it "heartbreaking" to choose the winner of a vocal battle, no matter how easy the decision actually is; and most importantly, never, ever interrupt Christina Aguilera when she is speaking.\nOne late afternoon in a quiet backroom of a Los Angeles photo studio, Aguilera is curled up, barefoot, on a white couch next to fellow coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. She's sipping an iced coffee and holding forth on the greatness of the team of singers she's assembled for The Voice's second season, which begins February 5th in a prime post-Super Bowl slot: \"In one of my battles,\" she says, \"this girl and guy are doing Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box,' and I'm not sure if people would even expect that from me...\"\nAt that, Cee Lo Green \u2013 who's been splayed diagonally in a leather chair off to the side, in deep communion with the ceiling \u2013 snaps to attention and begins singing Kurt Cobain's melody in his high voice: \"Hey, wait/I've got a new complaint...\"\nAguilera flares up like a sexy puffer fish, swiveling her bleach-blond head in his direction, red lips pursed, blue eyes blazing with imperial annoyance. \"Yes, Cee Lo,\" she says, as if she's talking to her four-year-old son. \"This is my floor here!\"\nHe stops singing, and Aguilera laughs, already over it: \"You wake him up and now he's interrupting everybody's shit!\"\nThe unlikely stars of The Voice \u2013 last season's highest-rated NBC entertainment show \u2013 have a surprisingly warm off-camera rapport for four people who have no real business being in a room together. \"Just look at the four of us,\" says Levine. \"It's just so wrong and so amazing.\"\nAs widespread gossip would have it, the other three supposedly resent Aguilera for various alleged sins, including tardiness, imperiousness and earning more money than them \u2013 but there's not much evidence of that today. \"'Supposedly' is the key word,\" Aguilera says, with a big laugh. Levine and Shelton just attended Aguilera's 31st birthday party at a Hollywood bowling alley; Cee Lo skipped it only because he was out of town.\nThey spend a lot of time teasing one another. Oklahoma native Shelton \u2013 a singer with 10 Number One country hits to his name but little recognition outside his genre before The Voice debuted last April \u2013 is a frequent target of hick jokes. Shelton, 35, has been on an Eighties kick lately, so he plays Young MC's \"Bust a Move\" on his iPhone's tinny speakers. Says Levine, \"Blake thinks this song came out two weeks ago.\" But they're also jealous of his cowboy cool: \"Blake can say anything or do anything,\" Levine adds. \"If I was like, 'I'm drunk at 4:00!' I'd be attacked. He's like, 'It's cool, fuck you, I just shot a fucking moose, kiss my ass!' He can say whatever he wants.\"\nCee Lo, 37, is the designated oddball, the ruler and sole inhabitant of what Shelton calls \"Cee Lo Land.\" At the moment, he's wearing a black tank top and long black shorts, plus sandals over white socks. \"He can wear white socks with sandals and still have it be fucking cool,\" says Levine. \"If I did that, Blake would make fun of me.\"\nOn 'The Voice,' Cee Lo Is the Straw Stirring the Drink\nIf Aguilera occasionally has to go full diva, on-camera or off-, she sees it as the only way to hold her own. \"You have to be a pretty strong girl to stay up in the mix with the guys,\" she says. \"It's a lot. It's a crazy locker-room kind of situation.\"\nLevine, his tattooed, yoga-toned arms exposed by a sleeveless shirt, turns to Aguilera. \"I honestly just recently started realizing that you're surrounded by three dudes all the time, and that has to be something of a pain in the ass,\" he says. But they've made some concessions: \"We stopped farting in front of her!\"\nAguilera rolls her eyes: \"You had a nasty burp at the Super Bowl commercial, though.\"\n02/01/12--20:44: Oscar-deserving badass to star in \"Motor City\"\nGary Oldman, riding high from a best actor Oscar nomination for his work in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, is in final negotiations to play the villain in Motor City, a Dark Castle revenge thriller being directed by Albert Hughes. Warner Bros. is distributing.\nDominic Cooper, who caught the town\u2019s eye with his performance in The Devil\u2019s Double, and Amber Heard are starring in the pic, about a small-time hood who is framed and sent to prison, only to exact revenge years later to get back the woman he loves. Oldman, who worked with Hughes on The Book of Eli, will act as a kingpin-type who has his hooks into the woman. Chad St. John wrote the script. Joel Silver and Andrew Rona are producing. Douglas Urbanski and Ethan Erwin are exec producing. An April start in Berlin is being eyed.\nOldman, repped by APA, Douglas Urbanski Group and Loeb and Loeb, next reprises his role as Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises. He also has the ensemble period crime movie The Wettest County in the can.\nGary and Dominic Cooper in one movie?! Hell yeah! He was amazing in The Devil's Double. (ALSO I'M SEEING GARY NEXT WEEK AT LINCOLN CENTER AHHHHH)\n02/01/12--21:28: this is a harry and peter brant post\nHarry Brant is a 15-year-old fashion lover and man about town. You might know him as the son of supermodel Stephanie Seymour and publisher Peter Brant. We first met him at a Miu Miu Musing last year, wherein he and his older brother Peter (II) nearly upstaged host Andre Leon Talley. We were smitten. He\u2019s only 15 but he knows his shit. And he\u2019s hilarious. We asked him to regale us with his tales from last week\u2019s couture shows (when he\u2019s there he stays with Ala\u00efa). Enjoy.\nI launched my couture journey in the most glamour appropriate way I could think of: Dinner with Pat McGrath. We went to the uber chic Vietnamese restaurant Tong Yen (a Paris must). Firstly, I would just like to apologize to the other diners at the restaurant. Our dinner involved tears from laughter, fake engagement rings, and of course, dual personalities. It was DIVINE, like all outings with the make up goddess.\nThe next day I got up and went to the Versace show. I am using the term got up very loosely because I never actually went to sleep. I got a text from Pat at 5am (she\u2019s a 5am-9pm kind of girl) inviting me to go hang out backstage at Versace. I don\u2019t care what time of day is\u2013if someone invites you to hang out at Versace couture backstage, you go! So at 8am I made my way to the Ecole des Beaux Arts on the Seine. Pat came outside to get me and brought me into a huge room with a giant golden stairway to \u201cheaven\u201d (heaven being Versace). We went backstage and Pat continued her ever glamorous make-up work. I think of her as a sculptor, because if you give the girl some eye shadow, liner, foundation, and powder, she will literally reshape your face.\nThen I met the ultimate queen of glamour herself, Donatella Versace! In my opinion she is the ultimate Queen B. We talked and ended up laughing like schoolgirls (and by we, I mean me), until she was called over to deal with the show. At that moment I saw the clothes. Oh, the clothes! Honestly never in my fashion-immersed life have I seen dresses sparkle like that. In short, they were bad ass. I truly believe that these fantastic dresses cannot be captured on camera or film, because you can\u2019t really see how intense they were. I left right before the presentation, hoping to avoid crowds, because, after all, I had already witnessed the Versace glory so there was no need to stay. The entire thing was just 100% Versace: glamourous, punk, and sexy. In this fragile world of fashion with the entire industry on eggshells about offending anyone, Donatella is just one of those people who you know holds all the cards.\nThe next night at the Azzedine Ala\u00efa atelier I had an extremely interesting dinner. I have a sort of compulsive social lying problem. In this case, I was just embarrassing. I introduced myself to the woman sitting across from me, who was a buyer for an extremely large Korean department store, and asked her where she was from. She swiftly responded \u201cSeoul,\u201d so naturally, like any CRAZY person, I felt the need to overcompensate, and went on and on about how my best friend was Korean and how we had spent a large portion of our summer there. When she asked me when I had gone on such an escapade I simply said \u201cthe whole month of June.\u201d Then, to my delight/dismay, she looked at me with a puzzled face and declared that she had seen my picture in Venice at the pop-up Bungalow 8 for the Biennale, an event in early June. So in a hesitant voice I said \u201c Oh, sorry did I say June? I meant the entire month of July.\u201d She looked even more confused and said with a quizzical expression on her face \u201cdidn\u2019t you just say you were here for couture?\u201d At this point I knew I was skewered. But attempting to salvage my dignity I said \u201cOh yes, but it\u2019s all very complicated,\u201d as if the idea that I was traveling to two different places was just way too complicated for anyone to grasp. After about a five-minute silence she switched the topic to New York designers and then yachts. So of course, to overcompensate for my previous lie, I felt the need to talk about how I had been on \u201cthe most wonderful yacht on the glorious seaside of Seoul.\u201d Did you know that Seoul is inland? I didn\u2019t. Her and her sidekick for the evening began to give me very strange looks and said \u201cbut Seoul is not on the ocean.\u201d So, obviously, I attempted to further cover up my lie and reluctantly whispered, \u201cOh, sorry did I say Seoul? I meant Pyongyang.\u201d\nOk! I know what your thinking. Pyongyang is the North Korean capital that is 50 miles inland. But in my defense I thought that I had seen the name on a Mikimoto box so assumed it was in South Korea. Either way I became the American idiot, but I am not ashamed! For I think in the end I represented the US extremely well, with class and grace, as I did not wear one Hawaiian shirt. I\u2019m practically a modern day Jackie O.\nPeter Brant II and Harry Brant are the next big things on the New York social set. Think Paris and Nicky Hilton or Kylie and Kendall Jenner, only male, 100 times better\u2026and gay.\nThe brothers, 18 and 15 respectively, are sons to billionaire publishing tycoon, Peter Brant, and supermodel Stephanie Seymour. In fact, you might even remember this incest hoo-ha from last year.\nNot to worry, though. The ever-fabulous, fashionable and ridiculously dapper Peter is openly gay, and his younger brother is, well, not openly gay.\nPeter II has previously described himself as a \"Designer, Art Collector, Socialite and Model,\" but pretty well seems to spends his time flitting around the world to attend various fashion shows.\nHe and Harry (who we assume spends his time at Greenwich High School, where his brother graduated) have a joint Twitter account, where they post an amazing array of first-world observations about life, lunch and luxury.\nSo, why do you need to care?\nWell, we reckon it's awesome that these two are young, unashamedly flamboyant and probably a beacon of hope for hundreds of effeminate, teenage boys.\nPlus, they wear leopard-print, are adorable too boot, and they're going to be huge.\nIt's official, I am completely obsessed with openly gay socialite Peter Brant II and his (potentially gay) younger brother Harry. Screw Glee's Kurt Hummell, every gay teen on earth pretty much wishes they were either of these kids. They're just spectacularly amazing.\nI want to write a young adult novel series based on these two called Gossip Gays about them being young and attractive and rich and just downright awesome as they flutter from St. Bart's to New York to Paris, attending all the best parties and sneaking champagne on the sly. (All lit agents out there, that is a serious pitch.) The pair are the progeny of billionaire Peter Brant Sr and supermodel Stephanie Seymour. They will one day potentially be worth worth billions on their own\u2014if they don't spend all their money on clothes first.\nWe met Peter Brant II (he's way too luxe to be a \"Jr\") last year when pictures of him getting close to his mother on the beach surfaced. We instantly fell in love with him after he told everyone in the media they were \"gross\" for insinuating that he had an inappropriate relationship with his mother. At the time he described himself on his Facebook page as a \"Designer, Art Collector, Socialite, and Model.\" He's a graduate of Greenwich High School where, I assume, his brother attends now.\nSince then it seems like all he's been doing is jetting around to fashion shows with his 15-year-old brother Harry who isn't openly gay, but...well...would Stephanie Seymour have any sons who weren't gay and into fashion? If this interview in Paper magazine, which talks about Harry hosting a Fashion's Night Out party with brother Peter and fashion blogging wunderkind Tavi Gevinson, isn't enough to make you fall in love with him, check out the post he wrote for Fashionista today about his trip to the couture shows in Paris last week.\n\"I met the ultimate queen of glamour herself, Donatella Versace!\" he writes, a sentence that no straight man could could capably muster. He goes on to talk about being seated at a dinner across from a Korean buyer and gets caught in a lie saying he spent a month in Korea last year. \"At this point I knew I was skewered,\" he says when the buyer called him out for saying he was both in Paris and in Korea at the same time. \"But attempting to salvage my dignity I said 'Oh yes, but its all very complicated,' as if the idea that I was traveling to two different places was just way too complicated for anyone to grasp. After about a five-minute silence she switched the topic to New York designers and then yachts.\"\nYes, only if you are Harry or Peter Brant II is your biggest problem lying at a Fashion Week dinner and having to talk about designers and yachts. What a charmed life they live: flitting from fashion show to interview, to party, to fashion show, taking breaks to post what would be obnoxious, horribly elitist observations on their joint Twitter account-if they weren't so damn adorable.\nThe great thing is that these two are even allowed to exist. As long as there have been rich people there have been their wastrel opffspring with their vain pursuits, access to luxury, and silly pronouncements. Look at Lydia Hearst. Little gay boys all over the world wanted to be her, because there was no rich gay boy into fashion living a fabulous life that would take them away from the sometimes painful and isolating life of being a normal gay teen anywhere else in America. This is like the gay male version of her, and they're just allowed to wear leopard print tops in public, hang out backstage at a Versace show, and wear the latest Dolce and Gabanna fashions like Little Lord Fauntleroy and his gay brother. And no one cares. No one calls them names or tears them down or tries to get them to change just until they get to college. They're just allowed to be The Brants, as if it is a brand that doesn't even know it is marketing itself.\nThis is progress, this is equality. Gay teens don't need Lydia Hearst anymore, because they have role models of their own. All Peter (II) and Harry have to do is keep being themselves, and keep being fabulous.\nsource 1, source 2, and source 3.\nSeveral platforms are suspended above water. The objective is to use giant hooks to swing across as a team from beam to beam. Most beams completed with fastest time wins.\nVINNY & SARAH\nWES & MANDI\n\"X Battle\"\nGuy versus guy and girl versus girl. The objective is to rip a steel \"x\" from your opponent's hands. Best two out of three.\n+ VINNY\nSkeevy cunt ripped Mandi's shirt off at a club.\n+ SARAH\nBecause she had the misfortune of being Vinny's partner.\nAbram tells Cara Maria that he's not interested in having fun with the other housemates.\nLOVED this elimination challenge. Next week's main challenge looks interesting too.\nthanks for the tag! \u2665\n02/01/12--21:29: Once Upon A Time Ep. 12 Pictures + Some Emilie de Ravin Scans\nClick for the big Version:\n02/01/12--21:29: Rachel Weisz L\u2019Oreal Ad Banned for Being Too Photoshopped\nA new L\u2019Oreal ad featuring beauty Rachel Weisz was banned because it abused our frenemy called Photoshop. Let\u2019s see the details from Reuters:\nA magazine advertisement for a L\u2019Oreal anti-wrinkle product featuring Hollywood star Rachel Weisz has been banned by Britain\u2019s industry watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority for \u201cmisleadingly\u201d exaggerating its performance.\nIn its ruling published Wednesday, the ASA said the advertisement must not appear again in its current form.\n\u201cWe told L\u2019Oreal Paris to ensure that they did not use post-production techniques in a way that misrepresented what was achievable using the advertised product. Although we considered that the image in the ad did not misrepresent the luminosity or wrinkling of Rachel Weisz\u2019s face, we considered that the image had been altered in a way that substantially changed her complexion to make it appear smoother and more even. We therefore concluded that the image in the ad \u2026 misleadingly exaggerated the performance of the product in relation to the claims \u2018SKIN LOOKS SMOOTHER\u2019 and \u2018COMPLEXION LOOKS MORE EVEN\u2019.\u201d\nWhat do you guys think? Is Rachel\u2019s face in the image \u2018misleadingly smooth\u2019\u2026 or is this the amount of Photoshop that exists in most ads these days? Should measures like these be taken more often?\n(sorse)\n02/01/12--21:41: The New Girl Faces Zooey Deschanel's Girly Problem Head On\nThe backlash against actress Zooey Deschanel's particular brand of twee reached new heights when her hit sitcom, The New Girl, premiered last fall. The ads proclaimed the comely actress \"adorkable,\" and Jada Yuan's New York Magazine profile of Deschanelexpressed the divisive feelings towards her succinctly: \"[Women] either covet her bangs or they resent her for seemingly playing into the male fantasy that women are only attractive when they act like girls. Plenty of blog posts have used Deschanel as a launchpad for this very debate.\"\nLast night, The New Girl approached the polarizing nature of Deschanel's girlie-girlness head on in an episode called \"Jess and Julia.\" Lizzy Caplan plays Julia, the hard-edged lawyer girlfriend of Jess's roommate, Nick. Jess sucks up to Julia because she wants Julia to help her get out of a ticket. Jess\u2014who got the ticket because she was braking for an injured bird\u2014plies Julia with cupcakes and cooing, and Julia does not respond kindly. They have the following exchange, with Julia acting as the greek chorus of the blogosphere:\nJulia: A judge might buy into this whole thing.\nJess: What whole thing?\nJulia: Your whole thing. With the cupcakes, and the braking for birds, and the whole, \"Bluebirds help me dress in the morning!\"\nJess: I didn\u2019t realize I was doing a thing.\nJulia: It\u2019s a great thing! The big beautiful eyes, like a scared baby. I\u2019m sure that gets you out of all kinds of stuff.\nThe pair continue to clash for most of the rest of the episode, and Julia continues to be the conduit for the criticisms that the blog world lobs at Deschanel. Julia accuses Jess of trying to mess up her relationship with Nick. \"I know that I\u2019m the mean lawyer girl who wears suits and works too much,\" she says. \"And you, you\u2019re the really fun teacher girl with all the colorful skirts, and you bake things. And eventually Nick is going to come running to you, and you\u2019ll tuck him in under his blankie.\"\nLater, Jess responds by making nearly the identical argument that the real Deschanel makes in that New York Magazine piece. To Yuan, Deschanel says, \"I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don\u2019t think that it undermines my power at all.\" The character Jess makes it funnier, but the message is the same:\n\"I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you\u2019re not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I\u2019m sorry that I don\u2019t talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not smart and tough and strong.\"\nThat argument is completely reasonable. There shouldn't be just one acceptable way of behaving for women\u2014and whether you're a ball busting lady lawyer with an anger management problem or a beribboned glitter pusher, you shouldn't be shamed for it.\nHowever, that's not the message that was put forth by the end of the episode. In the last fifth of the show, Julia comes over to apologize to Jess, and it turns out that deep down, what Julia really wants is to talk about her feelings and crochet baby hats. That's what makes Julia a happier person\u2014having girl talk about her embarrassing high school days.\nNarratively, because Jess/Deschanel is the star of the show, they had to make her be more sympathetic than the Julia character. And intellectually, I understand that. But in the real world, I want those Murphy Brown-talking, pantsuit wearers to be just as acceptable and palatable as the cupcake clan.\n02/01/12--21:41: Three Time Oscar Nominee Stops by The Late Show with David Letterman & the Today Show\nMichelle Williams: Oscar Nomination Caught Me Off Guard\nMichelle Williams stops by the Ed Sullivan Theater to tape an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman on Wednesday (February 1) in NYC.\nThe 31-year-old actress paired her Erdem dress with Giuseppe Zanotti heels and a Balenciaga coat.\nLast week, Michelle was on the Today show where she shared how she got news of her Oscar nomination.\nShe had been busy getting 6-year-old daughter Matilda ready for the day, then headed to a friend\u2019s house for breakfast, with the pal opening the door with, \u201cMichelle, they just called your name on TV.\u201d\n\u201cIt was a very sweet way to hear that news \u2026 [the nomination announcement] slipped my mind, which is something that\u2019s so great about having a kid. You get really absorbed,\u201d Michelle said.\n02/01/12--22:02: The 10 Most Outrageously Insane Episodes of 'Jem'\nThanks to reruns on the Hub and a new DVD box set from Shout Factory, Jem and the Holograms has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately -- especially here at ComicsAlliance. I've become hooked on the show, and as someone who recently finished watching every episode of the show, let me tell you: It is completely insane.\nIt may even be the craziest of the toy tie-in cartoons of the '80s, and considering it's up against the saga of space robots that can turn into trucks and a show about the greatest soldiers in the world fighting against an arms dealer with a Cthulhu monster in his basement, that's saying something. It might be a bold statement, but it's one I intend to prove with a rundown of The 10 Most Truly, Outrageously Insane Episodes of Jem!\n#10. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S MADNESS\nFor those of you who aren't familiar with the premise of Jem, it goes a little something like this: Record executive Jerrica Benton has a set of high-tech earrings that tap into a supercomputer named Synergy to project a hologram that turns mild-mannered Jerrica into the truly outrageous rock star, Jem, lead singer of the Holograms. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Rio is sort of in love with both versions of her, and she never gets around to telling him the truth because she's worried how he'll react to her ongoing deception. It's actually a setup that could lead itself to a lot of Superman and Lois Lane-style love triangle tension, but the show never really gets into it that much.\nUntil the middle of the third season, that is, when Jerrica has a full-on schizophrenic break.\nAfter an argument with Rio about herself and a music video sequence where she envisions her two identities as giant gladiatrices battling it out in the ruins of the Colosseum, Jerrica creates a third secret identity, Jamie. Throw in Riot, the lead singer of a rival band called the Singers that believes it's his destiny to woo Jem, and suddenly the love triangle has become an actual love pentagram.\nFortunately for the mental state of all concerned, Jamie is never brought up again, and neither is the actual mystic oracle who told Jerrica she needed another personality.\n#9. HOT TIME IN HAWAII\nThe story of two rival rock groups traveling to Hawaii and competing in a big Battle of the Network Stars-style sports competition is a pretty standard setup, but when the bands in question are the Holograms and the Misfits, things venture into the truly bizarre pretty quickly. For one thing, the Misfits decide to cheat -- because of course they do -- and end up breaking the world records in the high jump and pole vault. In the world of Jem, somehow no one seems all that surprised there are Olympic athletes that have had their records shattered by a woman named \"Pizzazz.\"\nBut try as they might, they can't figure out how to cheat in the swimming competition, and when their plot to attack Kimber with a giant robot shark fails -- that's not the crazy part -- they decide to go old school on it. So in order to win a televised sports competition with no actual prize, the Misfits kidnap Kimber and leave her bound and gagged in an active volcano.\nOf all the many, many felonies committed by the Misfits over the course of the show's 65 episodes, this is the one that comes closest to outright attempted murder. It's worth noting that this is one of the few times in Jem that an arrest is made, but it's the Misfits' trainer who takes the fall, leaving the band itself to go on its merry way of hang glider laser vandalism.\n#8. JOURNEY TO SHANGRI-LA\nDespite the promise of the episode's title and the appearance of strangely baggy pants, this one is not about the Holograms' ill-fated attempt to play at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Instead, it's about Jem deciding that their sound is missing something, and coming to the conclusion that what they need is to find the mystical Tibetan city of Shangri-La. See, they are the keepers of all art and music, and since they've been on a magically hidden mountaintop for like a thousand years, they probably have nothing better to do than pitch in on a few glam pop songs.\nIt goes without saying that there is also a yeti involved.\nBut don't worry: He's a friendly yeti, and even helps out when the Misfits show up and are promptly poisoned by the snow briar, for which there is no cure but the music of the mystical realm. One would think the Holograms might take this opportunity to even up the score for the whole Kimber-in-the-Volcano thing, but Jem heads to Shangri-La anyway and learns their sacred healing melodies.\nBecause really, when you're 1200 years old and living on a mountaintop with nothing to do but contemplate music and experiment with clashing fabrics, helping a pop band get their 14th gold record does a lot to break the tedium.\n#7. THE FAN\nConsidering that it has no actual reason to exist, Jem's secret identity seems like a lot more trouble than it's worth. Case in point, the episode where an obsessed billionaire offers an enormous amount of money to anyone who can tell him who Jem really is. The Misfits take him up on his offer, so they build a fake mansion and fill it with actors playing Jem's bandmates, her boyfriend and the orphaned girls she takes care of and making a fake videotape of Jem's nonexistent childhood.\nAnd not only that, but they're so good that they fool her completely, which is no mean feat since one of her bandmates is also her sister. The only thing that tips her off is when she tries to walk through the fake wall protecting Synergy and ends up knocking herself unconscious:\nEventually, in a scene lifted straight from The Prisoner -- yeah, I said it -- Jem is confronted with a fake Jerrica, and is almost driven completely out of her mind. Which, when you think about it, makes that story about \"Jamie\" make a lot more sense.\n#6. RENAISSANCE WOMAN\nHere's a fun fact about England: It's actually over there right now. And it's not still the Middle Ages, even in most parts of Wales.\nI mention this because while you might now it, I'm not really sure the creators of Jem did when they came up with the first of two episodes they made about a sinister plot to subvert a local line of succession. It all revolves around the Holograms heading overseas to play at a Renaissance Fair in honor of a young man taking his title as the Lord of Carfax County, presumably named after Dracula's London estate, not the people who tell you if your Honda got wrecked before you bought it. That's weird enough, but it only gets weirder when they start operating on a definition of \"Renaissance Fair\" that involves every single person in an entire town flat-out giving up on modern technology.\nComplicating matters for young Lord Reggie is one Robin Goodfellow, who robs the Lord's men with his bow and arrow before he's eventually cornered by guards at spear-point, manacled, and thrown into a dungeon before Jem can rescue him by going on her own Robin Hood trip. Nobody ever calls the real cops, or has a trial; they just throw him in a medieval dungeon.\nAnd keep in mind: this all happened in 1986. It's almost weirder than it would've been if they'd actually traveled back in time to play a glam show in Sherwood Forest, but as we'll see a little later in the countdown, the keyword there is \"almost.\"\n#5. INTRIGUE AT THE INDY 500\nRemember earlier when I said that the Misfits had a pretty long list of felonies they committed over the course of this show? Well, when Jem's label, Starlight Records, sponsors a hot pink racecar in the Indy 500, Misfits manager Eric Raymond sabotages the car so that he can cover his heavy debts to the Mafia. This, by the way, is not me inferring anything: There is actually a character designed to look like Marlon Brandon in The Godfather whisper-threatening Eric through the opening sequence. Then the Misfits steal Jem's car, crash it through a wall, and try to run the Holograms over. It was a busy week.\nAnyway, using the magic of holograms, the Holograms -- a four piece rock band who are definitely not mechanics -- rebuild a racecar in one night, and since the driver is injured, Jem drives the car in the Indy 500 herself.\nOh but wait, it gets better: Rather than let her rival die in a fireball of her own making, Pizzazz jumps the fence, carjacks a racer while he's at a pit stop, then causes a wreck that takes out a bunch of other cars, and goes neck-and-neck with Jem while Jem uses holograms to convince Pizzazz that she's hallucinating her own scolding conscience.\nJust to put this in context, these are the lead singers of the two most popular bands in the world. Imagine if Kanye West and Lady Gaga jumped the fence at the Indy 500, stole two cars, wrecked the other drivers, and then Kanye won the race. That is basically what happened here, set to a song called \"I'm Comin' From Behind.\"\n#4. ROXY RUMBLES\nMost kids' cartoons of the '80s had a \"Very Special Episode\" of one type or another that addressed a Serious Issue, and Jem was no exception. In this case, it's illiteracy, which comes up when the Misfits are at fake MTV reading from a teleprompter and Stormer turns to her bandmate Roxy and asks \"Shouldn't you tell them you can't read?\" Subtlety is not exactly this show's strong point.\nAnyway, Roxy is so angry that she quits the band and -- because no coincidence is too huge for the world of Jem -- immediately finds a winning lottery ticket that makes her a millionaire. Armed with money and a huge chunk of resentment for the world, she sets out to get her revenge on all who mocked her by throwing a street fair... in Philadelphia!\nAs you might expect, Jem is having her own pro-literacy street fair at the same time, which is disrupted when Roxy gets her old street gang to help:\nThey're called the Red Aces, which is written out in black letters on their t-shirts despite the fact that they're just as illiterate as Roxy, having dropped out of high school along with her. Because, as ComicsAlliance Jemologist Bethany Fong put it, \"that's where we all learned to read. High school.\"\nIn the end, Jem helps out, Roxy goes broke, and she resolves to learn to read even though the other Misfits call her stupid for not being able to read in the first place. So... that's kind of like a moral, right?\n#3. THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED\nIn this episode, they don't even wait for the show to actually start before things get crazy. Instead, the opening credits are interrupted by Kimber yelling \"stop!,\" and telling viewers that there won't be a show today because Jem is dead. Folks, that is how you open a cartoon.\nJem's not really dead, of course. She just got stressed out from her double identities and got shipwrecked after sailing down to Mexico with Riot from the Stingers, an accident he arranged to get her alone and pursue his destiny of breeding a race of genetically perfect glam-rockers. But while she's presumed dead, everything goes wrong for everybody, as revealed in a weird documentary-style setup that's never explained at all.\nStarlight Records goes bankrupt and gets bought out by Pizzazz's father, the surviving Holograms and Stingers are pressganged into some kind of feudal serfdom as part of a Misfits super-group that includes three keyboardists, four guitarists and one saxophone, and Kimber seems to be in danger of a mental breakdown from suddenly becoming aware that she's a cartoon character. The whole thing has all the earmarks of being revealed to be a dream, but it's not.\nAnd the craziest thing? Jem is gone for FIVE DAYS. I counted. Every single thing in this show is less than a week from going apocalyptically bad at any time.\n#2. THE PRESIDENTIAL DILEMMA\nHere's the thing about using a phenomenally powerful super-computer that can project realistic holograms over long distances: Occasionally, you're going to need to move it, and when that move is to Washington DC, the Secret Service gets a little understandably curious about what kind of Doomsday Device you're bringing to your meeting with the President.\nThat's not the big problem, though. No, that comes from the fact that this is the only episode of Jem with an actual super-villain.\nHis name is \"The Washington Marauder,\" a domino-masked villain complete with uniformed henchmen worthy of the Super-Friends who has been stealing national treasures, including the Liberty Bell and a set of moon rocks, to stock a secret museum that he keeps 200 feet underground. He's essentially the evil version of DuckTales for the NES, but for the crown jewel of his collection, he's decided to steal the President himself.\nWhich is of course why mild-mannered record executive Jerrica Benton has to save the President, which she does after the Holograms put Synergy back together in a secret Government lab so that she can project the image of a fightin' mad Abraham Lincoln.\nAs a result, the President becomes the only person in the world who isn't in the band to know Jem's secret identity, and he gives her a presidential pardon for her unlicensed super-computer. Government in action!\nAs weird as it might be to see Jem fighting a super-villain for the first and only time, though, it's topped by one episode:\n#1. JOURNEY THROUGH TIME\nSo yeah, the Misfits have a f***ing time machine.\nYou'd think that would pretty much say it all, but it's somehow less weird that they have one than what they end up doing with it. I mean, a group of fairly imaginative people with a lust for money and power should be able to htink up all kinds of interesting applications for time travel, but instead, they just opt to score a sweet headline gig at the History of Music Festival by sending the Holograms back in time to meet Mozart, hang out during the London Blitz, and meet up with fake Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.\nThen again, Aja's mesmerizing pompadour/victory roll hair mutation aside, it's actually not a bad plan as far as attempted murders go. They nearly get stoned for being witches in the 18th century, and bombed to oblivion by Nazis in the '40s. Eventually, though, they get dropped back in their regular time frame and head off to the festival with a newfound appreciation for the history of music, and the time machine gets destroyed when Techrat, the Misfits go-to gadget man, accidentally brings some dinosaurs to the present.\nOne more time for those of you in the back: the Misfits are trying to get a gig at a music festival when THEY KNOW A GUY WHO CAN GIVE YOU A DINOSAUR. That is literally the only thing you would need to become the richest and most famous person in the world, and considering that Techrat built this time machine in a garage, I'm not sure why they didn't just go back in time to get the Holograms' hit songs before they could record them, or, hell, why not go for the Beatles? At the very least, they could've had Techrat build a time machine every week and drop the Holograms back in time to some deadly historical event until one finally stuck.\nI'd watch that show. But then, I watched 65 episodes of this show, and I think it's pretty clear that it lived up to its promise of being truly, truly, truly outrageous.\nSorry mods, fixed it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 385, "original_length": 59786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/p/2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CTMRAQHVU2ITHTVTFVKEZJ62WEEDWCCP", "length": 9260, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "threesimplequestions.blogspot.com", "title": "Three Simple Questions: 2015 JAN - JUNE - INDEX / POST SYNOPSIS - My Pilgrimage In Mystical Shoes", "raw_content": "I set out wearing Mystical Shoes down a long timeline and attempted to write things that are imaginative, spinal and essential. Your feet \u2013 and your shoes \u2013 are where your impulse or idealism meets the reality of your journey.\nI am the Presence which makes the difference in this moment of your life. The Presence of the Higher Power. I am the Presence of something greater than yourself, greater than your intelligence and Ego. The Presence is not something you can out think, pretend doesn\u2019t exist, or get it to respond and leave you alone.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-presence.html\nI Am A Hamster Running In My Wheel\nI am SO busy! I have two day-planners. I make notes of my notes so I make sure I don\u2019t forget to do something. It\u2019s January. Taxes are due in April. We're Patriotic. we pay our taxes. Somebody told me that 26 of the biggest companies don\u2019t PAY taxes. Wait! What?\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-am-hamster-running-in-my-wheel.html\nThe Wind From The Future\nThe wind of the future is unstoppable. We create a mutual destiny which will blow back and consume us all.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-wind-from-future.html\nThe Giver The Gift\nGenuine gift giving requires a genuine receiver. Are you genuine? Oh yes you are!\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-giver-arises.html\nOne of the most difficult things to change about ourselves is breaking past our own inbuilt patterns of thinking which had become patterns of behavior.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-past.html\nPilgrimage In Mystical Shoes\nI started this blog just over a year ago to make a Pilgrimage - to consciously walk in Mystical Shoes. What's that? I set out wearing Mystical Shoes down a long timeline and attempted to write things that are imaginative, spinal and essential. Your feet \u2013 and your shoes \u2013 are where your impulse or idealism meets the reality of your journey.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/01/pilgrimage-in-mystical-shoes.html\nAn Old Frontier Of The Heart\nI found this old memory in my heart. A joy not used up. You and a photo and old longings set aside. Can there be an old frontier of the heart?\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-old-frontier-of-heart.html\nI am a very quick thinking person. I am smart. Brilliant, actually. I am opinionated. In my opinion, I know what to do. I know the RIGHT thing to do. The correct thing to do about any problem \u2013 ANY problem, big or small, can be successfully solved if people would simply do as I say. They are not too keen on this idea. But, here's what I did.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/02/things-work-out.html\nAre You A Planet Or A Star?\nBetter to know if you are a planet or a star. Do you shine? Or, reflect?\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/02/planet-or-star.html\nNew England Weather - After 4-months of Harsh Winter A Snowstorm Pounds The North East\nLike a young, aggressive hockey star, another \u201cAlberta Clipper\u201d \u2013 Captain \u201cVladdy \u2018Polar Vortex\u2019 Putin\u201d - is barreling southward from the far northern most polar region like a grinning, toothless, long-haired winger.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-england-weather-after-4-months-of.html\nI Am The Them In Me\nI AM THE THEM IN ME. The sum total of what I have become is you, my neighborhood - family, church and school.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/03/i-am-them-in-me.html\nToward A Rose Cross Meditation (I, II, III, IV)\nHug Hard - Birth Markers, Grave Markers\nWhen we are born on Earth we \u201cdie\u201d from the spiritual world. The spiritual world marks our \u201cdeath\u201d (okay our departure) by placing the reverse of a \u201cgrave stone\u201d, a \u201clife marker\u201d, not in an outward cemetery, but inwardly in our birth-bodies, a spiritually connected, living life marker which is our genetic code. A mis-spelled grave marker was a perfectly imperfect ending to the earthly life of my cousin Billy who was a guy who was born with a genetic code (birth marker) which included Down Syndrome \u2013 a different sort of spelling to the usual genetic code. He was never \"labeled\" unless \"go\" is a label. Billy was Billy.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/03/hug-hard-birth-markers-grave-markers.html\nTourist Of Death\nSo, here I am watching them catch Dolphin fish with hand-lines when, suddenly, the Dolphin vanish. An 8-foot long, Black Tip shark has seen the drift and the Dolphin, too. The Captain says to me, \u201cHey tourista! You wanna be a fisherman?\u201d\nI say, \u201cYou bet!\u201dhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/04/tourist-of-death.html\nUnfortunate Garments\nFrom the moment we are born, we have experiences. We \u201cwear\u201d our experiences. Layer after layer your experiences in the form of memories, emotions like disappointments, muscle memories, injuries all affect how freely we move, are bound to us inwardly and outwardly. They are like unfortunate garments which belong to us and which we cannot remove without great effort.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/04/unfortunate-garments.html\nCultural Acquired Immunity Defensive Syndromn (AIDS)\nThere is no technological \u201cwhite blood cell\u201d mechanism (no Technological Immune System) to test whether or not the things flowing along via Social Media are \u201cme\u201d (my values) and they go unfiltered and unchecked directly into my consciousness. Many are false posts. Some really ads. Some are lies consciously planted by someone who wishes we would buy their \u201cremedy\u201d to the fear they promote, support their \u201ccause\u201d so they can \u201csave\u201d us. https://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/04/cultural-acquired-immune-deficiency.html\nSelecting Omens\nThe development or evolution of our consciousness has left us as \u201cobservers\u201d and disconnected from the spiritual world. In many ways, the spiritual world relies on we humans to be responsible for life. The omens are given to us so that people may remember to \u201cturn to an ancient principle\u201d \u2013 \u201cmatter is never without spirit.\u201d\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/04/selecting-omens.html\nSlow Blind\nI am slow blind. I move so fast that I can\u2019t see slow things. I\u2019m too anxious. I always rev fast and run hot. I must go more slowly. There is a whole world that moves slowly. A world I know nothing about. I miss so much. We don\u2019t practice settling down. We don\u2019t practice going into the darkness. We don\u2019t practice for death.\nhttps://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/04/slow-blind.html\nGOOD READS REVIEW - \"Energizing\", \"Masterfully Crafted\"\n\"Honestly I have been in a slump for awhile when it comes to reading books until I got my hands on this one... let's just say this amazing book found me and I am ecstatic that it did.\" - From Mark Krausman's GOODREAD REVIEW\nHumanity Attention Deficit Disorder\nThe capacity to speak about humanity and to see humanity as a topic reflected in public conversation has disappeared. We have a hole in our consciousness when it comes to thinking about our humanity.\nDoes this make us inhuman?\nGlyphosphate is in the drinking water of 38 states and in 70% of rainwater samples. It was found in 90% of 300 soybean samples. It is used by farmers who grow GMO foods like corn and soybeans.\nI am the label, what you get called. A code phrase, or shorthand, used to mark you in some way.\nWe labels exists so someone can OWN you. A \"slave\" to fashion? You got a diagnosis? Somebody professionally specializes in the diagnosis which you have and can make money by treating you because of your label.\nWe labels are in favor of a new kind of label or designations of virtues which can be won by everyone.\nThe Night Dissolves Into Love\nThe Moon outside has brought the Night and caresses the Earth, her lover, and us, with her touch. We lie with each other as the candlelight and the moonlight caresses us, and the Night dissolves into Love.\nCold Hard Truth \u2013 Monet And The Debacle Of The Heart\nA grudge is like a rock in the belly. It's like a weight that hold your spirits down. It's like a wall that keeps you from enjoying life with the other person.\nThe truth is that when you treat others with a cold hard heart, you wind up being the one who is treated with hard and cold\u2026 and it eventually blows up your life. Things break apart. People drift away.\nMy Passion Is My Trial\nI was born to live my virtues, wasn\u2019t I? An ideal owns me. The ideas of my employer are okay, but they are not MY ideals. I\u2019m between my idealistic rock and my employer\u2019s hard place.\nhttp://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/06/aged-love.html\nRECOGNIZING OUR LITTLENESS\nMy Big I wants all the big things: fame, glory, wealth, accomplishments, the Tower named after me, the Gold, Stocks and hot cars, beautiful women, and a \u201cmass outpouring of love from a grateful nation\u201d (Woody Allen).My \"little i\" My \u201clittle i\u201d does not need put other people down in order to feel big. It is very interesting to have these two I's within.\nhttp://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/06/recognizing-our-littleness.html\nYOU ARE A FAILURE BY SOMEBODY'S SCALE. Failure is used by the largest Corporations, Brands, Megalomaniacs, Potentates, Clans, Governments and Religions.Failure is big.\nhttp://threesimplequestions.blogspot.com/2015/06/failure.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 13118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tiltedsymmetry.com/2007/04/motley/join-me-wont-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4BBRB22DVJ67T2RSZTHVCUDYG6VXINRD", "length": 1003, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "tiltedsymmetry.com", "title": "Join Me, Won\u2019t You? | Tilted Symmetry", "raw_content": "You can now register for a free user account on Tilted Symmetry. For the time being, there are no immediate benefits to doing this. But in the near future, I\u2019m planning on offering some content that will be available to registered users only. I hesitate to say what that exclusive content will be, but I do have plans that I\u2019m very excited about.\nYour email address, as with any other personal information you submit, will be kept private, and will never be shared with anybody. I\u2019ll probably never send you any email, unless I happen to know you personally. No newsletters, no soliciting, no spam or anything like that.\nSo anyway, for what it\u2019s worth, if you\u2019re interested, signing up is easy. Besides the links in this article, both the registration and login links are currently located in the upper left corner of the site. If you have problems, just go to the contact page and send me a message.\n\u00ab Welcome to The New Tilted Symmetry\nDebating without Dividing \u00bb\nNo comments for \u201cJoin Me, Won\u2019t You?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/3982386/international-olympic-committee-ultimate-frisbee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HEK47IHCTO5KBDKB4ZYFTHZLL6VQC4FN", "length": 11662, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Ultimate Frisbee Recognized by International Olympic Committee | Time", "raw_content": "'Ultimate Frisbee' Recognized by the International Olympic Committee\nOn Sunday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) fully recognized the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF), ultimate frisbee\u2019s governing body, during its 128th session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. That means ultimate frisbee is eligible for IOC funding and can compete with other sports for inclusion in future Olympic games, Sports Illustrated\u2018s website and Reuters report.\n\u201cThis is an incredible milestone in the 30 year history of WFDF and a further important step for our International Federation in the development of our sport worldwide,\u201d WFDF President Robert \u201cNob\u201d Rauch said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s decision will give a further boost to our efforts to increasing the presence of Flying Disc sports in all countries and on all continents.\u201d\n30 Legends of Women's Tennis\nLi Na understands rebellion. In 2008 she split from the Chinese Tennis Association, which had been taking up to 65% of her tournament earnings. Under a Chinese pilot program for sports stars dubbed Fly Alone, she gave up state funding so that she could hold on to her millions in prize money and choose her coach (who, until recently, was also her husband).\nMark Blinch\u2014Reuters\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova first made headlines in 2006, when she defeated Caroline Wozniacki at the junior championships of the Australian Open. Since then, she\u2019s reached the quarterfinals at the 2011 Australian Open, defeated third-ranked Vera Zvonareva at Roland Garros and amassed nearly $2 million in prize money.\nAl Bello\u2014Getty Images\nAndrea Petkovic immigrated to Germany from Bosnia with her parents when she was just 6 months old. Her father, a former Yugoslav tennis player, coached her at a club in Darmstadt but insisted that she finish high school before pursuing tennis professionally.\nPetra Kvitova In 2008, Kvitova, then a 17-year-old ranked No. 143 in the world, made headlines by upsetting former top-ranked Venus Williams at a tournament in Memphis. She woke her father back in the Czech Republic at 3 a.m. to tell him the good news and describe her first-ever press conference.\nAndy Lyons\u2014Getty Images\nCaroline Wozniacki In November 2010, 20-year-old Caroline Wozniacki surged past Serena Williams to grab the No. 1 ranking \u2014 and she held tight. The daughter of Polish immigrants to Denmark, she speaks six languages \u2014 including Russian and Swedish \u2014 and keeps busy off the court by playing the piano and baking with her mom.\nStreeter Lecka\u2014Getty Images\nYanina Wickmayer of Belgium didn\u2019t pick up a tennis racket until she turned 9. That year her mother died of cancer, and Yanina\u2019s father introduced her to the sport as a distraction from her grief.\nMatthew Stockman\u2014Getty Images\nVictoria Azarenka knows that her notorious grunting makes Monica Seles sound tame \u2014 and she remains unapologetic about it. The 21-year-old Belarusian says the shrieking helps her accelerate and deliver more power to the ball \u2014 skills that have taken her to the quarterfinals at four Grand Slams and helped her climb to No. 4 in the world rankings in 2011.\nAgnieszka Radwanska What she lacks in power, she makes up for in cunning. Agnieszka Radwanska, relies on tactical accuracy and her understanding of geometry to outfox her opponents, skills that have drawn comparisons to Martina Hingis.\nJulian Finney\u2014Getty Images\nBethanie Mattek-Sands Fellow players have dubbed her the \u201crock chick\u201d of tennis because of her tattoos and penchant for motorcycles and the fact that she wore a black dress to her wedding. The 29-year-old brings her free-spirited ways to the court, where she wears knee-high socks and black antiglare paint.\nClive Brunskill\u2014Getty Images\nAna Ivanovic As a teenager in war-torn Yugoslavia, Ana Ivanovic practiced in the early morning to avoid bomb raids. When all the courts were destroyed, she used an abandoned swimming pool. \u201cTennis was definitely a distraction from the war and all of the bad things that were going on in the country at the time,\u201d she says.\nSamantha Stosur stumbled into tennis at the age of 6 after a flood destroyed her family\u2019s home in Brisbane, Australia. The family \u2014 which lost everything \u2014 moved to Adelaide with just $5,000, and her parents worked round the clock running a caf\u00e9. To keep Stosur occupied, her older brother hit balls with her at the park, and eventually persuaded his parents to enroll Stosur in tennis lessons.\nVera Zvonareva Brutally honest, Vera Zvonareva\u2019s personal website describes the \u201crow of failures\u201d that knocked her out of the top 10 to a lowly ranking of 42nd in 2005. By 2010, however, the 26-year-old had gone on to reach the finals of the U.S. Open and Wimbledon and had risen to No. 2 in the world \u2014 all while pursuing a degree in international economic relations in Moscow.\nMaria Sharapova Anna Kournikova \u2014 the glamorous Muscovite who reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1997 \u2014 showed Russian tennis players what was possible. But it was Maria Sharapova who confirmed that they could have it all \u2014 if they worked really, really hard. She won Wimbledon at 17, went on to take titles at the U.S. Open and Australian Open and earned the No. 1 ranking on four occasions.\nKim Clijsters Critics have always said Kim Clijsters lacks the killer instinct that defines greats like Monica Seles and Serena Williams. She rose to No. 1 anyway. The Belgian, who won the U.S. Open in 2005 with her well-placed ground strokes, retired in 2007 so she could have a baby. But in March 2009, in the lead-up to an exhibition match at Wimbledon, Clijsters, then 25, announced that she was returning, partly to help cope with the loss of her father, who had died of skin cancer two months earlier.\nJustine Henin's steely determination and cool demeanor didn\u2019t endear her to the masses, nor did her retiring from the 2006 Australian Open final as a result of intense stomach pain. But even her critics have to respect her sublime one-handed backhand, described by John McEnroe as the best in the women\u2019s or men\u2019s game.\nCameron Spencer\u2014Getty Images\nSerena Williams's off-court pursuits, which have included acting, launching a collection of handbags and completing 240 hours of course work to become a certified nail technician, are often dismissed by critics. But those pursuits likely account for some of her longevity\nVenus Williams Before her first professional tournament, when she was just 14 and wearing cornrows, Venus Williams had the audacity to tell Sports Illustrated, \u201cI think I can change the game.\u201d That proved prescient. Williams \u2014 who honed her skills at a public park in Compton, Calif., while gang members guarded the grounds \u2014 brought explosive power to women\u2019s tennis, setting a Grand Slam record with her 129-m.p.h. serve in 2007.\nMartina Hingis Drawing on her tactical instinct and unmatched finesse, Martina Hingis championed an elegant style of play that has slowly been replaced by power \u2014 and a whole lot of grunting. Born in present-day Slovakia, she clutched her first racket at the age of 2 and entered her first tournament at the age of 4.\nTomas Benedikovic\u2014Isifa/Getty Images\nMonica Seles Born in Serbia, Monica Seles, now 40, burst onto the professional tennis scene as a 14-year-old and by the end of her first year on the tour had climbed to No. 6 in the world. Known for her aggressive game and for introducing the grunt to women\u2019s tennis, she became the youngest player ever to win the French Open in 1990, when she defeated Germany\u2019s Steffi Graf, the reigning queen of tennis, in straight sets.\nSimon Bruty\u2014Getty Images\nArantxa Sanchez Vicaro's ability to chase down the most distant ball earned her the nickname Barcelona Bumblebee. That, coupled with her dogged clay-court style, helped her rise to No. 1 in both singles and doubles \u2014 no easy feat in an era that included greats like Steffi Graf, Monica Seles and Gabriela Sabatini.\nGary M. Prior\u2014Getty Images\nGabriela Sabatini In 1985, 15-year-old Gabriela Sabatini became the youngest-ever player to reach the semifinals of the French Open and finished the year in the top 10, where she stayed for nearly a decade. Her movie-star looks turned her into one of South America\u2019s biggest stars \u2014 the media referred to her as the Pearl of the Pampas and the Divine Argentine \u2014 and she displayed another kind of beauty on the court, where her topspin tricks and sweeping backhand remain legendary.\nBob Martin\u2014Getty Images\nSteffi Graf's father, a car-insurance salesman from Br\u00fchl, Germany, taught her how to swing a racket in their living room when she turned 3. She never stopped. Although Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert hit the ball hard, Graf brought new explosiveness to the game: her forehand remains one of the greatest shots in women\u2019s tennis. She contested 31 Grand Slam singles finals and won 22 of them.\nPascal Rondeau\u2014Getty Images\nTracy Austin In 1979, 16-year-old Tracy Austin became the youngest player ever to win the U.S. Open when she defeated four-time defending champion Chris Evert 6-4, 6-3. Austin\u2019s deep and unerring ground strokes led her to the title at Flushing Meadows again in 1981, and despite recurring sciatica, she intermittently held the No. 1 ranking.\nMartina Navratilova Born in Prague, Martina Navratilova wanted to conquer the tennis world, and she knew she had a better shot at doing that in the U.S. than in communist Czechoslovakia. So during the 1975 U.S. Open, American authorities helped her defect, the Czech government subsequently stripped her of her citizenship, and she went on to dominate women\u2019s tennis, winning 18 Grand Slam singles titles.\nChris Evert With her girl-next-door looks and blond locks, Chris Evert earned the nickname America\u2019s Sweetheart and became one of the first tennis celebrities of the TV era. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1954, she had a traditional feminine deportment that made parents more comfortable with their daughters\u2019 taking up the sport, and her rivalry with Martina Navratilova fueled interest in the women\u2019s game throughout the 1970s and \u201980s.\nPaul Natkin\u2014WireImage/Getty Images\nEvonne Goolagong The daughter of a poor Aboriginal sheep shearer, Evonne Goolagong shot down the notion that tennis stars had to be groomed at the country club. Born in 1951 \u2014 16 years before Australia even recognized Aborigines in its census \u2014 she took up the sport after an encouraging neighbor spotted her peering through the fence at a local court.\nVirginia Wade The daughter of a British archdeacon, Virginia Wade, now 68, took up tennis as a child growing up in South Africa and honed her game when she moved back to England at 15.\nBob Thomas\u2014Getty Images\nRosie Casals now 65, entered tennis as an outsider and a long shot: she was the 5-ft.-2 daughter of immigrants to the U.S. from El Salvador. \u201cThe other kids had nice tennis clothes, nice rackets, nice white shoes, and came in Cadillacs,\u201d Casals once told People. \u201cI felt stigmatized because we were poor.\u201d She got over it \u2014 and she forced the rest of the tennis world to as well.\nEd Lacey\u2014Popperfoto/Getty Images\nMargaret Court Born to poor parents in New South Wales, Australia, Margaret Court, now 71, grew up with an inferiority complex. Her family didn\u2019t have a television or a car, and her first tennis racket was fashioned from the stakes of an old wooden fence. She eventually turned it into gold.\nDaily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images\nBillie Jean King After winning Wimbledon in 1968, the men\u2019s champion, Rod Laver, walked away with $4,800. Billie Jean King, the women\u2019s champion, left with just $1,800. At other events, the gap in pay was even wider. King \u2014 who won 129 career titles, including 12 Grand Slam single titles \u2014 fought to change that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 14375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timesofpakistan.pk/international-news/us_canada/2017-01-30/at-least-five-dead-shooting-quebec-city-mosque-media/104384/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BA2M2ONDI3RBTPK2MUAYYRXOCZRVHMM6", "length": 3103, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "timesofpakistan.pk", "title": "At least five dead in shooting at Quebec City mosque: media", "raw_content": "At least five people were killed and several people wounded after gunmen opened fire at a mosque in Quebec City late Sunday, media reported.\nA Quebec police spokesman confirmed that there were people killed, but did not say how many. Two suspects in the shooting were arrested, he said.\nAt least five dead in shooting at Quebec City mosque media\nPolice did not rule out the possibility of a third suspect who had fled the scene. The motive of the attack was not immediately clear. Police set up a perimeter around the mosque. A few dozen people were inside the Islamic Cultural Center when the shooting began just after 8:00 pm (0100 GMT Monday), CBC reported, citing its French-language service Radio-Canada. According to CBC, Quebec City Police Constable Etienne Doyon said at the time of the attack mostly men were gathered at the mosque for evening prayers. The center\u2019s director said at least five people were killed, but that information had not been confirmed by police, CBC said. According to witnesses cited by Radio-Canada, two men entered the center and opened fire on the people inside. Quebec\u2019s prime minister, Philippe Couillard, said in a series of Twitter posts that the government was \u201cmobilized to ensure the security of the people of Quebec.\u201d\nQuebec categorically rejects this barbaric violence,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSolidarity with Quebec people of Muslim faith.\u201d The Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec, which is also known as the grand mosque of Quebec, had already been the target of hate: a pig\u2019s head was left on the doorstep last June during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The attack comes as Canada has vowed to open its arms wide to Muslims and refugees after US President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial immigration ban Friday sparked travel chaos and outrage around the world. Canada will offer temporary residence permits to people stranded in the country as a result of Trump\u2019s order, the immigration ministry said Sunday.\nRead More: Pakistan To Protect Holy Mosques, Saudi territory\nLet me assure those who may be stranded in Canada that I will use my authority as minister to provide them with temporary residency if needed as we have done in the past,\u201d Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said at a news conference. Trump has suspended the arrival of all refugees to the US for at least 120 days and barred entry for 90 days to people from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.\nHussen, who is of Somali origin, did not condemn the US measure but stressed that Canada would continue to pursue an immigration policy based on \u201ccompassion\u201d while at the same time protecting the security of its citizens. We welcome those fleeing persecution, terror and war,\u201d he said, echoing a welcoming Twitter post by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday. According to the latest Canadian census, from 2011, one out of five people in the country are foreign-born. Canada has welcomed more than 39,670 Syrian refugees between November 2015 and early January 2017, according to government figures.\nOver 1,000 Head Teachers Hold Protests Across Sindh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 7783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tklovett.com/new/e4339.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FRU2KX3D4W2DQGLIM5WWD5KKWDIZXYLR", "length": 7601, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "tklovett.com", "title": "\ufeff The Sharpest Blade (Shadow Reader #3) read online free by Sandy Williams", "raw_content": "Home > The Sharpest Blade (Shadow Reader #3)\nThe Sharpest Blade (Shadow Reader #3)\nTHE TIME IN the bottom right corner of my computer screen mocks me. I try not to look at it, but no one has come to the reference desk in over an hour, and I can stare at nothing for only so long. Even though this is only my fourth day working as a library clerk, I know every hour is going to drag. Theoretically, that should be a good thing. It means no one\u2019s swinging a sword at my head or aiming a gun at my chest, and I\u2019m not in a situation where I\u2019m forced to hurt or kill someone. The problem is if I\u2019m not distracted by people asking questions, I\u2019ll be distracted by something else.\nOr rather, someone else.\nA flicker of emotion travels through the bond I share with Kyol. If I close my eyes, I can picture him perfectly, his firm, unsmiling lips and his dark silver eyes. His gaze is always steady and unwavering. He\u2019s one of the strongest men I know, and sometimes his presence unravels me, especially when chaos lusters spark across his face. It\u2019s hard to believe we haven\u2019t seen each other in three weeks. It feels like I\u2019ve spent every day with him. I know when he\u2019s asleep. I can tell when he\u2019s sparring with his men or when he\u2019s talking to Lena, the Realm\u2019s queen. Right now, he\u2019s thinking about me. Probably because I\u2019m thinking about him.\nI force out a frustrated sigh because he\u2019s not the fae who should be invading my thoughts. Maybe he wouldn\u2019t be if Aren were around, but there\u2019s been no sign of him or Lena or any of the rebels since I left the Realm. They\u2019re giving me space, time to live my life without interruptions from the fae. That\u2019s something I\u2019ve asked for a hundred times in the last couple of years, but now that I finally have it, I\u2019m going a little crazy. Not having any news from the Realm makes me restless.\nKyol\u2019s mood darkens when he senses my unease. I try not to let that affect me, but I fail, and a cloud settles over me just the same. This is one of the reasons I\u2019m glad I haven\u2019t gone back to the Realm. Even though Kyol and I are in separate worlds, our emotions spiral off each other\u2019s until one of us is distracted enough to feel something else. It would be a thousand times harder to block him out without the In-Between separating us.\nAnd the other reason I haven\u2019t returned? I lean back in my swivel chair and scan the quiet, calm library. This is the first time in ten years that I\u2019ve been a normal human.\nOf course, I\u2019m not completely normal. If I were, I wouldn\u2019t see the pale, erratic lightning flitting across the skin of the girl who\u2019s coming in the library\u2019s door. Two of her friends are with her. I don\u2019t know their names, but I\u2019ve heard them call her Kynlee before. She\u2019s shown up here after school every day I\u2019ve worked. If she were human, I\u2019d guess that she\u2019s fifteen, maybe sixteen years old. Her friends are definitely close to that age, but they\u2019re not fae. Kynlee doesn\u2019t really look fae either. She laughs and smiles like a normal American teenager. She\u2019s dressed like one, too, in jeans and a yellow crew-neck tee. The only thing odd about her clothing is the purple gloves that reach up to her elbows, but I understand their purpose: they keep her from skin-to-skin contact with humans.\nWhen the trio walks by my desk, I lock my gaze on my computer screen to keep myself from staring at her chaos lusters. I\u2019m almost certain her friends don\u2019t know what she is. Humans who don\u2019t have the Sight like I do can\u2019t see the lightning, but they would feel the hot, tingling sensation when it leaped to their skin. Or, in Kynlee\u2019s case, they would feel a surprisingly chilly sensation. Her chaos lusters aren\u2019t as bright as a normal fae\u2019s, which means she\u2019s tor\u2019um. She has little to no magical ability, and if this were the Realm, she and others like her would be considered the dregs of society.\nAfter the tor\u2019um and her friends take a seat at a table in the Teen section, my gaze ventures back to the time on my computer screen. Only three freaking minutes have passed since I last looked at it.\n\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t scowl,\u201d the woman sitting next to me says.\n\u201cWhat?\u201d I ask, turning toward Judy, my supervisor, even though I think I heard her clearly.\n\u201cIt makes you look unapproachable.\u201d\nYep. That\u2019s what I thought she said. Surprising advice given that she\u2019s always scowling. Judy is a full-time librarian with twenty years of experience marked by gold stars on her name badge. Unfortunately, she happens to hate having degreeless library clerks like me manning the reference desk. But it\u2019s not my fault the city of Las Vegas had to make budget cuts, and considering that the most difficult question I\u2019ve been asked today is \u201cWhere\u2019s the restroom,\u201d I\u2019m pretty sure I can handle the job.\nPlanting a semipleasant expression on my face, I rest my folded arms on the edge of the desk and stare out at the bookshelves. At least the tor\u2019um was enough of a distraction to break the cycle of emotion Kyol and I were close to being caught up in. He\u2019s not thinking about me anymore; he\u2019s concentrating on something else. What that something is, I don\u2019t know. We can\u2019t hear each other\u2019s thoughts or see what the other is doing, but we have a ten-year history together. Even without our magical life-bond, I know him well enough to link his emotions to his thoughts, and right now, he\u2019s not focused on my feelings. He\u2019s focused on his actions.\nI feel myself frowning. I can\u2019t help it. Kyol is calm, but he isn\u2019t relaxed. My muscles mimic the tension in his. It\u2019s a strange sensation, one that makes me sit straighter in my seat. I don\u2019t think Kyol\u2019s worried, but he\u2019s heading somewhere that isn\u2019t safe.\nI draw in a breath, then let it out slowly, trying not to let my emotions distract him. He was the previous king\u2019s sword-master and is Lena\u2019s lord general. He\u2019s more than capable of taking care of himself.\nJust like Aren is capable of taking care of himself.\nA little stab of pain cuts through my stomach. I never thought Aren would stay away this long. I thought he\u2019d come to his senses quickly, get over the life-bond, then come get me. The fact that he hasn\u2019t hurts, and I don\u2019t know whether to be pissed off about it or devastated. Most of the time, I\u2019m both.\nStill, I want to see him, but I can\u2019t get to the Realm on my own. Fae can fissure from any point they want to as long as they\u2019re not surrounded by silver, but I have to be escorted through a gate to survive the trip through the In-Between. Plus, if Aren wanted to see me, he would have found me already.\nWhich leaves only one conclusion: he doesn\u2019t want to see me.\nI don\u2019t want to believe that because, if it\u2019s true, if he\u2019s letting this life-bond\u2014a life-bond I didn\u2019t have any control over entering\u2014break us up, then I was wrong about him. He doesn\u2019t love me half as much as I thought he did. He doesn\u2019t love me half as much as I love him.\nI swallow down the lump in my throat and scan the library again, looking for something to distract me, but no one looks like they\u2019re lost or need help. There\u2019s not even a paper jam at the printer station. My gaze finally rests on Judy, who\u2019s flipping through a magazine. If she\u2019s doing that, then she shouldn\u2019t have a problem with me checking my e-mail for the hundredth time today. I\u2019ve contacted every hospital in London looking for Shane, the Sighted human I left behind to save my friend, Paige. I lost track of him in a mass of panicked people at a concert, and I don\u2019t know if he escaped, died there, or ended up in the hands of the fae. The London authorities have assured me he never checked into a hospital, and I keep hoping he\u2019ll turn up somewhere safe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 8565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tomrush.com/these-days-at-the-kate-old-saybrook-ct/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:J27YCBXTCDPZCCZ5AZJ4BLY36G3MYUQG", "length": 194, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tomrush.com", "title": "\u201cThese Days\u201d at The Kate \u2013 Old Saybrook, Connecticut | Tom Rush", "raw_content": "\u201cThese Days\u201d at The Kate \u2013 Old Saybrook, Connecticut\nTom plays \u201cThese Days\u201d a song by Jackson Brown, May 10, 2010 at \u201cThe Kate\u201d, Old Saybrook, Connecticut.\nProduced and Edited by Jonathan Moser.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 123.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tooeleonline.com/the-cunning-fiddler/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYPYZVMJTCDQENLU7U2VWII2BJBQSS3G", "length": 4774, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "tooeleonline.com", "title": "The Cunning Fiddler \u00ab Tooele Transcript Bulletin \u2013 News in Tooele, Utah", "raw_content": "The Cunning Fiddler\n(a European folktale)\nOnce upon a time there lived a fine musician who played a fiddle like nobody had ever played a fiddle. One sweet summer day he was wandering through the forest all alone, and he began to wish he had a companion.\nAnd so the fiddler took out his fiddle, and he began to play until the whole forest echoed with the sounds of his beautiful music. After a little while, a wolf bounded out from behind a bush and approached the young man.\nThe fiddler nodded hello, but he did not trust the wolf. He thought a wolf was not at all what he had in mind as a friend. Still, the wolf nodded in return and said, \u201cYou play such wonderful music, I wish you would teach me to play.\u201d\nThe fiddler smiled, but he thought he could not teach a wolf to play the fiddle. \u201cEasy enough,\u201d he said, \u201cbut you must follow my instructions precisely.\u201d\nThe wolf nodded eagerly. \u201cOf course I shall pay close attention. I am a wolf. I am a marvelous student, you\u2019ll see.\u201d\nAnd so the fiddler said, \u201cFollow me,\u201d and they walked on together for a while. Soon they came to a great oak tree, 300 years old, with a crack in its trunk.\n\u201cSee here,\u201d the fiddler said, \u201cthis is your chance to learn to play the fiddle. Place your paws in this crack.\u201d\nThe wolf thought this was odd, but he did what he was told.\n\u201cNow wait here and I shall return,\u201d the fiddler said. \u201cPatience is the first thing to learn when playing a fiddle,\u201d and he walked on. However, he still wished for a companion, and so once again he drew out his fiddle and began to play, and before long he heard a rustling among the trees, and a red fox slinked out of his hiding place. The fox trotted up to the fiddler and said, \u201cHow beautifully you play. Will you teach me?\u201d\n\u201cCertainly, it\u2019s easy,\u201d the fiddler said, but he knew the fox was sly and untrustworthy. He thought he did not wish to have a fox as a companion. \u201cPromise to follow my instructions exactly.\u201d\n\u201cOf course,\u201d the fox said. \u201cI am a sly one, and I can see you know exactly how to teach!\u201d\n\u201cFollow me,\u201d the fiddler said, and off they went until they reached a wide path with trees on both sides. The fiddler stopped, reached out and bent a hazel bough down to the ground. He placed his foot upon this branch to keep it down, and then he pulled a branch from the other side. \u201cGive me your front paw, Mr. Fox,\u201d he said, \u201cif you wish to learn how to play the fiddle.\u201d\nNaturally, the fox offered his paw, and the fiddler tied it to one of the branches. Then he said, \u201cGive me another paw.\u201d And he bound this one to the other branch. \u201cHold these trees down and wait here until I return,\u201d the fiddler said, and he walked on. But still he was lonely, so once more he began to play, and this time a hare hopped out of the trees to his side. \u201cTeach me to play!\u201d the hare squeaked.\nThe fiddler was thinking he had no wish to have a hare as a companion, for a hare is tricky and unpredictable. But he nodded and smiled and said, \u201cJust do exactly what I say.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m a most attentive student,\u201d the hare said, and they walked on together until they came to a tall aspen standing all alone. The fiddler took a cord from his pocket and tied this around the hare\u2019s waist. He fastened the other end to the tree and said, \u201cLittle hare, this is your first lesson in preparation. Hold onto this rope and wait until I return,\u201d and on he walked.\nBut the wolf had lost his patience, and he pulled his paws out of the crack in the oak tree. He was furious with the fiddler for tricking him and began to run through the forest to find the fiddler. As he ran, he happened to pass by the fox holding the trees down.\n\u201cA fiddler has deceived me,\u201d the fox snarled.\nThe wolf stopped and the fox let go of the branches. Then he and the fox went on together, determined to punish the fiddler. When they came upon the hare, they set him free too, for they could see he also was the fiddler\u2019s fool.\nNow the fiddler was playing his music, and the sound reached the ears of a woodsman who was chopping down trees. \u201cWhat a sound!\u201d he cried, and he stopped chopping and turned toward the fiddler.\n\u201cWhat beautiful music!\u201d the woodsman cried, and the fiddler\u2019s heart filled with joy, for this was precisely the kind of companion he sought.\n\u201cDo you want me to teach you how to play?\u201d the fiddler asked, but the woodsman shook his head.\n\u201cI only want to stand here and listen, please,\u201d he said.\nJust at that moment, the wolf and the fox and the hare came bounding toward them through the woods, and the woodsman could see they meant trouble.\nHe raised his axe high in the air. \u201cBeware the axe!\u201d he cried, and the three creatures were so afraid that they stopped dead in their tracks. Then they ran back into the forest, and the fiddler played on, pleased to have found a friend he could trust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 11841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tooeleonline.com/the-forest-at-the-bottom-of-the-lake/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LZSM63FOTM5KDMMB3QXV2WWMUSJXLYAD", "length": 4385, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "tooeleonline.com", "title": "The Forest at the Bottom of the Lake \u00ab Tooele Transcript Bulletin \u2013 News in Tooele, Utah", "raw_content": "The Forest at the Bottom of the Lake\n(an Austrian legend)\nOnce upon a time not far from the Village of Kitzbuhl, in the Austrian Alps, there stood a magnificent forest. To one side of the forest lived a man named Sebastian and his family; on the other side lived Karl and his.\nKarl\u2019s great-great grandfather had purchased that forest many years before, but Sebastian came to believe the forest belonged to him. He took Karl to court to sue him for ownership, and Karl sued him in return. And year after year, one man or the other went to court to fight for legal ownership of the forest \u2014 Karl had no proof, and Sebastian had none, naturally. And this went on for many years.\nOne day Sebastian grew tired of the fight, but he desperately wanted to own that forest, and so he went to see the judge and offered him a generous bribe.\nA week later, when the men arrived in court, the judge announced, \u201cThis is my final verdict. There shall be no more court dates. The forest belongs to Sebastian, and that is that!\u201d\nKarl was devastated. He began to weep right there in court, but the judge\u2019s decision was firm and final. There was no going back.\nKarl trudged home, knowing all was lost. He was feeling sadder than sad. He had not just lost the forest; he had lost everything, for he had spent his life\u2019s savings suing Sebastian.\nHe could not stop lamenting his great misfortune.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been cheated,\u201d he told everyone he saw. He complained in pubs, in the fields, when he skied on mountains and when he walked into town.\n\u201cI am the rightful owner of the forest and I was robbed!\u201d he insisted. He could not stop himself \u2014 no matter where he went and no matter who was by his side, this was the conversation he insisted on having.\nHis wife was in despair as well. She stopped friends at the market to tell them of how they had been cheated. His children were unhappy, too. At school they told stories of the forest that had once been theirs until Sebastian came along and stole it.\nAnd so began a feud between the two families, and before long everyone in the village took a side.\nSome said Sebastian was the rightful owner.\n\u201cLook,\u201d they said, \u201cthe judge made his decision. There is no arguing with that! Everyone knows our judge is fair and wise!\u201d\nBut other villagers did not agree.\n\u201cJudges can be swayed,\u201d they said, \u201cand this judge was not fair. The land should rightfully belong to Karl.\u201d\nSoon everywhere Sebastian went, he overheard rumors and whispers and arguments, and before long he too was in despair.\n\u201cI cannot bear this!\u201d Sebastian groaned to his wife. \u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing all this noise.\u201d\n\u201cI hope you\u2019ll put a stop to it,\u201d his wife said. \u201cTell the people Karl has not been injured, and we are the rightful owners. That\u2019s that!\u201d\nSebastian went everywhere defending his right to his forest and complaining about Karl\u2019s stories.\nBut this only further divided the camps. Before long, friends stopped talking to friends. Children who had once been playmates became bitter enemies. Women in the market stopped speaking to each other. As time passed, the feud spread until even neighboring villagers began to take sides.\nSebastian thought he would go mad!\nThe judge became unhappy at the rumors that were spreading about him, so he went to his friends and asked, \u201cI made a good judgment, don\u2019t you agree?\u201d\nSome of his fellow judges nodded sagely, for they believed their fellow judge was a good man, fair and wise.\nBut others had noticed the judge was wearing fancier clothes, his house was growing larger and larger, and his wife had jewels that must have cost a small fortune. They wondered at that. Perhaps, they began to suspect, he had taken a bribe.\nOnce suspicions start, suspicions grow, and soon the judge\u2019s reputation was in trouble.\nEventually, Sebastian decided he had had enough.\nHe marched to Karl\u2019s house, knocked on the door and said, \u201cListen, I have had enough! By all the devils, if I have unlawfully won the forest, may it sink a thousand yards into the earth!\u201d\nHe had barely finished speaking when he felt the rumbling beneath his feet, and an earthquake struck, and with it came a terrible thunderstorm. When the earthquake and the storm had passed, the forest had sunk beneath the earth, and waves of water rolled over it.\nAnd so the forest belonged to no one, and the feuding ended. In its place now stands a beautiful and peaceful lake, deep and dark and still.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 11417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://totalteenfiction.blogspot.com/2013/11/review-4-to-16-characters-by-kelly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:51Z", "digest": "sha1:VNLNE6WDB6FA2LAJIRJ4436W6XDHWY57", "length": 5617, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "totalteenfiction.blogspot.com", "title": "Total Teen Fiction: Review: 4 to 16 Characters by Kelly Hourihan", "raw_content": "4 to 16 Characters by Kelly Hourihan\nAuthor: Kelly Hourihan Website|Twitter\nPublished: 7 November 2013 (Lemon Sherbet Press)\nSource: Received free copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks Lemon Sherbet Press!\nFifteen-year-old Jane Shilling\u2019s best friends don\u2019t know her real name. In fact, they don\u2019t know anything about her at all. Jane\u2019s life has collapsed in the last few years; following the death of her mother, her father turned to drinking, and Jane is reeling from the double blow. To escape, Jane devises a number of online personas, each with a distinct personality, life history, and set of friends. But things become trickier when she finds herself drawing close to some of her online friends, and winds up struggling with the question of how to maintain a real friendship while masquerading as a fake person. With the help of Gary, a socially awkward classmate and competitive Skeeball player who is Jane\u2019s only offline friend, and Nora, her therapist, Jane begins to sift through her issues. The only catch is that that involves taking a long, hard look at what her life\u2019s like when the computer is shut off, and that\u2019s a reality she\u2019s been fighting for years.\nI saw this book on NetGalley and was immediately drawn to the plot summary. 4 to 16 Characters follows Jane as she juggles her own real life with a string of identities she has created online. Her favourite TV show is holding a contest for fanfiction writers so Jane immerses herself in that world, neglecting the real world problems in her life she needs to be facing up to.\nI was drawn to this book as soon as I saw it was written through things like emails and blog posts, because I love books that are written like that! The majority of the story is written from Jane's personal, private blog where she posts her thoughts and real life experiences. Alongside that are posts from her online profiles where she is acting as other characters, which are sort of real life extensions of herself. It's a brilliant concept and it's executed really well. Not only do you get blog posts, emails and IM conversations, but web searches, Tumblr-esque reblogs and glimpses at Jane's email inbox. The book is really innovative in that respect and I enjoyed reading Jane's story through all these different mediums.\nJane's life is pretty hard, which accounts for the reasons she is throwing herself into her online bubble where she feels safe. She's grieving for her mum, has an alcolholic for a father and is attending a special school that incorporates therapy into the school time. Basically she's pretty messed up and has the weight of the world on her shoulders. I think I should point out that Jane is not a perfect character. She's pretty flawed and does stuff that isn't that nice, plus she's quite rude to most people around her. But not once did that put me off. I think her attitude is pretty understandable, and made her voice throughout the book even more distinctive. Because we get to see her private diary entries, you really get inside of her head so you can understand exactly where she's coming from. And she has an awesome side too. I mean she's funny, and incredibly smart. Plus she has these great feminist rants. I think her biggest flaw is that she thinks she's indestructible, but when you read a book with a character like that, you know it's going to bite them on the backside eventually, and Jane definitely develops and starts to change her ways.\nThe plot centres around Jane's online life as Rachel, who is immersed in the Look to Tomorrow fandom, a TV show Jane/Rachel loves. Basically, this is a book for the Tumblr generation. Jane is writing fanfiction and obsessing on social media with other fans. It's an instantly recognisable situation to anyone who spends a good chunk of their day online and anyone who has been a fan of any book, film, TV show in the past five years. There's also some great pop culture references thrown in, like for example a Simpsons reference which I just loved when I came across it! Oh and the author included a mention of banned books week! That makes it pretty cool, right?\nAll of the characters in 4 to 16 Characters - whether real or created by Jane - are brilliantly developed, and each has a distinctive voice. Gary, Jane's only \"real life\" friend was my absolute favourite by far. He is such a sweetie! I mean Jane is kind of embarrassed by him, mainly because he plays Skee-ball so enthusiastically, but he really gets her, and doesn't judge her when he discovers her online exploits. My favourite scenes were the IM conversations between the two of them which were hilarious. I just loved that these two freaks of society have kind of gravitated towards each other and are able to open up about things without it being a big deal. Their relationship was just so much fun.\nThis book was so me in a whole load of ways. I love books that dive into tough situations head on, and 4 to 16 Characters does that. I like seeing characters having to overcome challenging situations, and real life is the most challenging issue of all. The author has done a great job at taking on subjects like grief, alcoholism, mental health and our attitudes to social media, whilst maintaining an entertaining story that had me gripped to the pages, laughing, and almost crying! I had all of the feels with this book. It ticked every box for me.\nBooks like this: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, How to Keep a Boy as a Pet by Dianne Messidoro, Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty\nLabels: 4 to 16 Characters, 5*, contemporary, Kelly Hourihan, November 2013, Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 9354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://towernotes.co.uk/literature-notes-55_James_Turn-of-the-Screw_1.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:21Z", "digest": "sha1:REV6ZSV6N3Z6FWA2DVXTFECUF2DRED5J", "length": 3265, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "towernotes.co.uk", "title": "The Turn of the Screw by Henry James | English literature course notes | Tower Notes", "raw_content": "Notes on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. This set of Tower Notes is 88 pages long and is sold as a fully illustrated PDF file.\nThe Turn of the Screw: An Introduction\nThe day after his governess speaks with him by night at his bedside, Miles, the ten-year-old boy in her care, charms her by playing the piano \u2018as he had never played\u2019 before. His action, according to the narrator, is intended to misdirect, and, as far as she is concerned, by playing to her, he is also, effectively, playing a game with her. The incident offers something of a paradigm for The Turn of the Screw, as the novella itself seems intent on both playing to its readers and playing a game with them, teasing them \u2018out of thought\u2019 as the Grecian urn did Keats. Like Miles\u2019s piano playing, it is full of the artistry of misdirection: suggesting one thing when it means another; changing tack unexpectedly and altering the reader\u2019s conception of events; finally, coming close in its concluding chapters to undermining the conventions of narrative altogether.\nMiles\u2019s piano playing is intended to be seen in the context of the character\u2019s unusual \u2013 and strong, though at times contradictory \u2013 feelings for his young governess. The oddness of their relationship has come to a head the night before, when Miles invites her into his room at night for an intimate t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate, which may well strike the modern-day reader as overly affectionate and which leads the narrator to (implicitly) promise she will \u2018let [Miles] alone\u2019 (she has been keeping a very close eye on him in the previous chapters). She also reveals to him that she has begun a letter to his uncle that will result in him leaving Bly to attend a new school: the two, therefore, are about to be separated. One way of reading this incident is straightforward enough: Miles is understandably annoyed by his governess\u2019s continual surveillance and is keen to carve out a little freedom for himself. But then why does he obviously revel in the intimacy they share (blowing out his candle at the end of the chapter to create a sort of gothic frisson), and why, if he truly wishes to be free of her, does he haunt her for the rest of the novella and play so enchantingly for her the next day that she loses all track of time?\nThere is a ready answer to this last point in the text: his piano playing is intended to distract her so that Flora might indulge her own (apparently long held) desire to try out the rowing boat on the lake (in the company of the ghost of Miss Jessel as far as the narrator is concerned). 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Later on, however, it is discovered that Miles\u2019s ploy may actually have had another motive (James puts considerable emphasis on his intelligence to make this a convincing possibility): his allowing Flora time to head out for the lake, means that when his governess and Mrs Grose inevitably seek for her he has plenty of time in a house empty of them both to take the letter to his uncle from the narrator that has been left out for posting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 4200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://towncats.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:S74WDO6MX7L5CC3O6VHSI47N3BBTNLH5", "length": 841, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "towncats.net", "title": "Town Cats | Saving Homeless Cats", "raw_content": "The mission of Town Cats is to enrich the lives of free-roaming, feral, or abandoned cats in the Ocean City, Md and surrounding communities by limiting the population growth and providing medical care through Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR), and affordable adoption services.\nTown Cats was organized in 1998 in order to address the feral cat population of Ocean City, Maryland. 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The assignment was to build a web site for this company using the point of view of Human Computer Interaction. I did this assignment with two other students: Mike and Brian. The layout and the use of colours were very important issues in the design of this site. Because it uses many images it might take a while before the site is loaded into your browser. Please be patient...\nOne of the school courses I took was a training for job interviews. One of the assignments for this course was to create a resume. My resume gives an overview of the courses I've taken. You also can learn more about the person that I am and ofcourse my skills.\nMy school related pages:\nAbout Internet Domain Names\nClient-Server and Middleware\nEduSoft Homepage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tudosobre.info/waterfront-home-design-ideas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:57Z", "digest": "sha1:LNDXDWVMDR3POBXKYH4WNRGL7LKXUVMN", "length": 1114, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tudosobre.info", "title": "Waterfront Home Design Ideas - Lifestyle & Interior Design Trends", "raw_content": "An appropriate pick for your house is a tree branch curtain rod. It\u2019s possible to assemble lots of ideas that\u2019s extremely helpful if you should develop or rework your property. In truth, it wasn\u2019t dating in any way. 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The 2nd and 6th XI\u2019s also finished runners up in their AFA Cups, whilst the 3rd XI finished runners up in their league, securing promotion. The 2nd XI failed to gain promotion on the last day of the season, whilst the 5th XI only avoided relegation because of a withdrawal from their division.\nWeek by week the recent strong pattern continued. Most teams were strong, and all teams turned out each week expecting to win. We need to continue the policy of ensuring that players are playing at the right level for their abilities, particularly as certain players tend to get older, as well as with new players coming into the club. The priority has to be to ensure that all players get a competitive game at a level that suits them. \u201cPlaying with your mates\u201d is not practical within a club trying to run seven (or more!) sides. Everyone should be making themselves available for the club, and if this means moving down a side, should accept this.\nAdministratively saw a backward step. A combination of confusion over roles (between Danny McConnell and Spencer Gore), banking incompetence (by Barclays) and the start of a new system for submitting team sheets (via email) allowed a number of captains to unknowingly build up arrears of match fees owed.\n1st XI \u2013 Whether the 1st XI\u2019s season was a disappointment may remain to be seen. In a tougher new league we retained Premier Division status but were never in the running for a title, and spent the second half of the season worrying about relegation. There was little prospect of cup glory either.\nThe major problem was increasingly poor availability, meaning an inconsistency of selection and poor performances. Traditionally the Accies tend to stop playing earlier than players at other clubs, with family commitments and so forth taking a greater toll at weekends for players whose weekdays are dominated by work, and this may continue. However, in future probably this needs to be factored in, and better players who have missed recent games perhaps shouldn\u2019t expect to return and not be on the bench. This season the sum was definitely much lesser than its parts.\nPoor discipline, particularly of the petty nature (i.e. dissent) remains a concern, and affects the attitude of players on a Saturday.\nDan Chantler steps down after two frustrating seasons, and will look forward to life on the backbenches!\n2nd XI \u2013 Last season\u2019s good progress continued, and alas so did the Bridesmaid touch. The AFA Intermediate Cup Final was lost 3-2 to Old Camdenians 1st XI, and promotion was missed on the final day of the season.\nIn contrast to the 1st XI, the biggest problem for the 2nds was probably good availability. From October through to February a squad of 13 or 14 was sufficient for almost all games, and when a few absentees finally cropped up, there wasn\u2019t the depth to cover them. Somehow the 2nds need to find a way of carrying a couple of extra players next season, although it may mean more bench time for all early in the season, it covers the angles throughout. Finding a consistently available goalkeeper is essential.\n3rd XI \u2013 If the 3rd XI were probably team of the season in 2001-02, in 2002-03 there could be no doubt. The rebuilding job was quickly completed, and once the squad had settled down in November only good things happened. Availability remained an issue, with too many people missing too many games, but the side deservedly won the AFA Junior Cup and clinched promotion, only being denied a league title by Old Camdenians.\nHuge thanks to Pete Clothier, who having moved to the Veterans in a youth move, found himself recalled between the posts to cover the run-in for the season. Two key saves in the Cup Final showed age was no issue, and Pete will now happily return to the Vets for his declining years!!!!\n4th XI \u2013 The 4th XI\u2019s progress continued, with a surprise (pleasant) league title won after their final game of the season. Occasionally squad depth was an issue, and the team still needs to be a little less reliant on what it considers to be one or two \u201ckey players\u201d and have cover for all positions.\n5th XI \u2013 The end is in sight. As with most other sides over the last 3-4 years, the nucleus of the 5ths who started playing around 1988-1992 have started to pack in. The end of the season saw the team struggling to raise a side, and for next season it\u2019ll probably make sense for them to revert to being the 6th XI, as a number of new players are introduced.\n6th XI \u2013 A season of inconsistency. November saw a sequence of four consecutive league defeats all by a single goal which condemned the team to mid-table mediocrity. 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Runner-up was Chris Dobson (2nds) who claimed he\u2019d have challenged better if not condemned to half a dozen games in midfield for the 1sts. The competition for the Golden Gloves was tight, but talent shone through with Danny McConnell (7) just pipping Ciaran Hickey (6).\nAt the start of the season our account stood at around \u00a35100.00 (including pitch credits), with the twin objectives to continue to build up the club\u2019s resources. We should have around \u00a35000.00 \u201ccash in hand\u201d at any time, enabling us to pay for pitches - \u00a33600.00, league fees - \u00a31000.00 and new balls etc - \u00a3400.00, as well as starting to build up a reserve for the next set of kits when required (a season or two away, but around \u00a32500 needs to be set aside for this). Any of those who wish to peddle the myth that we \u201chave plenty of money\u201d should care to note this was the first season in five when yours truly didn\u2019t have to sub the club to pay for these at the start of the season.\nWe had had no problems pre-paying for pitches this season (the first batch being \u00a33200.00, the second \u00a33600) and for the first time the club wasn\u2019t in a position to worry about these.\nFor 2001-2002 our total income was \u00a313912.84 (down from \u00a314059.41 in 2001-2002), comprised of \u00a31610.00 in annual subs (\u00a31752.00 in 2001-02), \u00a311408.05 in match subs (\u00a311392.00 in 2001-02), \u00a3448 in preseason match subs (\u00a3210.50 in 2001-02), \u00a32.79 in bank interest (\u00a32.41 in 2001-02), \u00a335.00 in AFA fines collected (\u00a365.00 in 2001-02), and \u00a328.00 subs in arrears from previous seasons (\u00a3195.00 in 2001-02). We are still owed around \u00a3200.00 in subs (down from \u00a3800.00 in 2001-02).\nWe spent \u00a37205.63 on pitches (\u00a36781.50 in 2001-02), though our \u201ccredit\u201d increased by \u00a3180.00 and we recouped \u00a3290.00 in pitch costs from other clubs, \u00a3120.00 on training facilities (\u00a30.00 in 2001-02), \u00a31600.50 on referees (\u00a31452.50 in 2001-02), \u00a32453.80 on teas and hospitality (\u00a32052.30 in 2001-02), \u00a3722.00 on league/cup/county fees (\u00a3709.00 in 2001-02), \u00a3280.00 on fines and miscellaneous costs (\u00a3373.82 in 2001-02) and \u00a3696.72 on kit and equipment (\u00a31334.65 in 2001-02).\nPitch costs were higher, because we played two end of season games under lights.\nAnnual subs were slightly down again, compared to 2001-2002, but the \u201c\u00a325.00 annual subs, but \u00a320.00 if paid before 1st November\u201d offer\u201d was as successful as before. We need to make sure those who don\u2019t pay up and should do so are chased for annuals.\nGiven all of the above we should start 2003-04 with around \u00a35300.00 in the bank, and a further \u00a31200.00 in credit on pitches, whilst \u00a3800.00 is to be spent on league fees and about \u00a33200.00 on pre-paid pitch costs at Shenley.\nConsideration of kit for the future is now a key. If our kits aren\u2019t replaced this summer, they should be next summer. Sponsorship of kits is an option, although we\u2019ve no sign at the moment of finding a sponsor, and no prospect of being able to offer much in return.\nAssuming we assume \u00a32000.00 of our balance is currently set aside for kits, then our effective balance is \u00a34500.00. The reserve target we set five years ago of \u00a35000.00 is within sight.\nThis should then hopefully make a surplus of around \u00a35000.00 to increase the effective float, and set aside a further \u00a3500.00 for our kit purchases. We shouldn\u2019t need to purchase more change kits.\nOne area of concern that crept up on us during 2002-03 was arrears of subs collected. A new system allowing captains to email in team reports (which they did consistently) and pay subs direct to the Accies account (which wasn\u2019t always done consistently) enabled a number of people to build up debts without really knowing it. With further confusion caused by blurred demarcation between the Treasurer and Chairman (both thought the other was getting information from the Bank, when in fact the Bank were sending it to a duff address) a debt of almost \u00a31000.00 was collectively built up.\nThis is a major concern, both in terms of the Accies cash-flow, but also the scope for skippers finding themselves in a debt position which might cause them a problem. It\u2019s happened before and we need to ensure it can\u2019t happen again.\nFor next season it was agreed to ensure the Treasurer has full control over the accounts, so that he can manage them properly \u2013 this should also reduce the load on the Chairman, an added bonus!\n3. KITS AND SPONSORSHIP\nWe believe that we have a realistic prospect of finding a kit sponsor, but this is still to be confirmed.\nWe shall therefore delay the purchase of new kits until we can be certain whether a sponsor is viable \u2013 if we can find one then we may buy kits during next season, or equally if it becomes clear we cannot we may take the plunge as well. We would hope to have new kits by Christmas 2003.\nThe season saw some progress on the social side, with three major club evenings:- Christmas, post Cup Final (all three AFA Finals were on the same day) and end of season. Whether an Annual Dinner or other functions (boat party, day at the dogs, golf tournament) are options should be considered and by relinquishing his Treasurer hat Spencer Gore hopes to be able to focus on the social element.\nWe should aim to organise two pre-Christmas, and two post-Christmas club events along the lines of the two do\u2019s at \u201cWalkabout\u201d. Same venue or others depending on sponsorship etc.\nThe following were all proposed, unopposed, 21 days in advance of the AGM and were duly elected:\nTreasurer \u2013 Dan Chantler\nSocial Secretary \u2013 Spencer Gore\nReferees Secretary \u2013 Danny McConnell\n1st XI Captain \u2013 Jon Houghton\n2nd XI Captain \u2013 Danny Fewkes\n3rd XI Captain \u2013 Scott Atkinson\n4th XI Captain \u2013 Dan Willoughby\n5th XI Captain \u2013 Rob James\n6th XI Captain \u2013 Bobby Butlin\nVeterans XI Captain \u2013 Paul Matthewson.\nThe continuing influx of ex-UCL players is good, but needs to be continued, and the onus inevitably falls on the youngest members. We do get our pitches because we\u2019re a UCL Alumni club, and we ought to do our best to maximise the number of UCL Alumni.\nThe Mandy Walker games need some serious consideration come summer 2004. Whilst the 5-a-side tournament (organised by Spencer Gore) was a major success, the single \u201cAccies 1sts\u201d vs UCL 1sts 11-a-side game was a disaster. The students won at a canter, with the Accies side decimated by dropouts and players not bothering to play and being involved in the 5-a-side instead. As a consequence two of the Vets, retired from \u201cnormal football\u201d were dragged out to play alongside a predominantly 4th XI team, and the whole thing descended into farce.\nWhilst we should continue to support the Mandy Walker games, we shall suggest to the college that the \u201ccome and join the Accies element\u201d (which is the basis behind the 11-a-side games) should be removed, and we shall instead suggest a couple of 11-a-side games played under floodlights in late March.\nThese would then enable us to do a proper recruiting job \u2013 one game would be for higher sides (1sts, 2nds and 3rds) and the other for lower sides (4ths, 5ths, 6ths) with an Accies Select XI against UCL Select XI (ideally biased towards final year students) under lights. For the students (and the Accies!) this should be an attractive novelty, and if we can lay on some beer afterwards hopefully we can attract the majority of UCL FC to one or both games. The Accies can afford to run the games.\nAgain in 2002-03 the club came close to reaching AFA Disciplinary Stage 1, which would have triggered a fine. Last season we hoped this was a one-off, but clearly it isn\u2019t. Again the main source of problems was the 1st XI, and again far too many of them were of the dissent nature. A number of members of the team expressed their concern about it, and felt it affected performance.\nWe need to carefully consider the club disciplinary code, which as these sort of things go is fairly lenient (some clubs suspend a player for one match for picking up a single caution) and often not applied. It was agreed the current approach with the Disciplinary Code should be sufficient, although we should publicise it during the season, particularly following a disciplinary issue.\n8. ANY OTHER BUSINESS - TRAINING\nDanny Fewkes will investigate booking some Astroturf pitches for training during late July, August and early September, some targeted at the higher sides (1sts, 2nds, 3rds) and some at the lower sides (4ths, 5ths, 6ths). It isn\u2019t really viable to have the whole club at training (too many people) and we wish to give people an environment in which they can train with people of similar ability.\nCloser to the start of the season we shall also run some Sunday morning sessions in Regents Park.\nThe league season is due to begin on Saturday 20th September, hopefully for all of our sides. We shall, as last year, aim to have a full set of preseason games on Saturday 13th September, a near full set on Saturday 6th September and a couple of games on Saturday 30th August.\nWe shall enter the Finchleian 6-a-side again (Sunday 7th September) but decided not to enter a similar competition at Old Owens on Sunday 24th August, as it is midway through the Bank Holiday weekend.\nThe meeting was closed at 9pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 18566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/2017/11/fast-moving-meteor-like-object-from.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:52Z", "digest": "sha1:H46BQQRIDHCWGHPPLIOARAW2QRFIV7DX", "length": 528, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com", "title": "Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut", "raw_content": "Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut\nESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured a meteor-like object slam into Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burning up over the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 2017 from the International Space Station.\nThe space object, traveling at roughly 24 miles per second (40km/s), was sighted over the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of South Africa.\nSeveral lightning flashes were also recorded by Nespoli as the Space Station flew from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 8497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ultrasurfing.com/sports/aston-villa-reach-playoff-final-with-boro-stalemate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5RJYDGHGXRB3IQKOFEQQ6T6B2XHQQ6AM", "length": 2582, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "ultrasurfing.com", "title": "Ultrasurf - Top Stories", "raw_content": "Specialist: Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce is on the verge of a fifth promotion to the Premier League\nLondon (AFP) - Aston Villa paid tribute to former defender Jlloyd Samuel, who died in a car crash at just 37 on Tuesday, as a 0-0 draw with Middlesbrough at Villa Park booked their place in the Championship playoff final.\nMile Jedinak\u2019s header in a 1-0 first leg win for the visitors at the Riverside on Saturday proved enough as Middlesbrough failed to threaten until Stewart Downing\u2019s free-kick hit the bar late on.\nVilla will face Fulham at Wembley on May 26 in what is often dubbed the richest game in world football due to the Premier League TV riches at stake.\n\u201cWe just shaded it over the two games, with a goal from a set-piece, but in the second half tonight there was only one team that was going to win it,\u201d said Villa manager Steve Bruce.\n\u201cIt was agony towards the end, if I\u2019m being honest. It means so much.\u201d\nDespite the celebrations as Bruce\u2019s side moved to within one match of bouncing back to the top flight, there was a sombre mood before kick-off with a minute\u2019s applause for Samuel.\nCheshire police confirmed earlier in the day that the former Trinidad and Tobago international had been killed when his Range Rover collided with a van early on Tuesday morning.\nSamuel spent the majority of his career at Villa before moving on to Bolton and loan spells at Gillingham and Cardiff before ending his playing career in Iran.\nDespite their late escape, Villa were well worthy of their place in the final as Boro \u2018keeper Daniel Randolph kept the visitors in the tie for long spells.\nBruce is now just one game away from a fifth promotion as manager to the Premier League, having also taken Birmingham and Hull up via the playoffs.\n\u201cThe game plan was superb so the manager deserves a lot of credit for that,\u201d said Villa captain John Terry.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a great team spirit among the boys. One more step and it\u2019ll be the dream.\u201d\nVilla centre-back James Chester wasted the best chance of the first period when he hooked his shot wide from close range.\nRandolph then came to the fore as he made two fine saves from Lewis Grabban before getting fingertips to a long-range effort from Jack Grealish.\nMiddlesbrough hadn\u2019t even produced a shot on target until a controversial moment three minutes from time.\nVilla \u2018keeper Sam Johnstone was only booked for making a save outside the box from Adama Traore\u2019s attempted chip.\nDowning then curled the resulting free-kick off the bar and Villa held out for six minutes of stoppage time to secure their trip to Wembley in 11 days\u2019 time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uncommonground.forbes.libsynpro.com/the-value-of-going-viral", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UIZZS7TORSG6NOYBZHX3URY2VPOINLEW", "length": 527, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "uncommonground.forbes.libsynpro.com", "title": "Uncommon Ground: Men and Women Get Candid About How They Experience Working in the Same Industry: The Value of Going Viral", "raw_content": "The Value of Going Viral 0\nHow much can a viral video change your life? And once you find viral success, how do you capitalize off of it? Today I talked to two comedians who\u2019ve had videos go viral: Lauren O\u2019Brien (\"Celebrities sitting in traffic\u201d), and Vic Dibitetto (\"Bread and Milk\"), about their different experiences in this area. How fast and extreme were the effects? Did it change how they moved forward with their career? We take a look at the aftermath of the viral phenomenon and how it\u2019s different for men and women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uzza.us/cs/ap/robotRecursion.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5QXP4WSVLFAPMY2C463KFVTPJZO6TKFC", "length": 1708, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "uzza.us", "title": "Metuchen High School: AP Computer Science", "raw_content": "Robot Recursion\nCheck out an informative example of solving a problem with recursion. Read section 7.2, 'More on Recursion', here: Karel7.2.htm. You want to look particularly at the example in which the robot is trying to locate a mine. This involves the 'findMine()' method.\nHere is your task. The user places a robot on an arbitrary corner, say the corner of 11th Street and 8th Avenue. Your task is to place a beeper at the corner of 1st Street and 8th Avenue, and a beeper at the corner of 11th Street and 1st Avenue. Here is a picture of the robot, initially positioned at 11th Street and 8th Avenue, after completing this task:\nNote that, when he is done, he is back where he started. You need to write a recursive solution to this problem.\nThe program is set up so that the user interactively chooses the robot's initial position. I used Java graphical user interface (GUI) tools, and threads, to make this work. You do not need to understand how to build GUIs or use threads for the AP Exam, but you certainly can read about them if you want to. Here is a picture of the GUI that the user sees upon running the program:\nDescriptions of what code you need to write are in the 3 Java source files that you download below.\nYou can download RectangleFrame.java, RecursiveRobot.java and RobotThread.java to use as starting points in writing your program. Right-click on the links, choose 'Save Target As' and add the '.java' extension to each file name.\nThis programming assignment is problem 7.5 in Karel J. Robot, A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java by Joseph Bergin, Mark Stehlik, Jim Roberts and Richard Pattis. 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Without an avalanche of Tumblr accounts offering endless information on what your favourite band is wearing, Soundcloud recommendations about who to listen to next, or Twitter documenting your most-loved guitar player\u2019s childhood fear, publications such as the pioneering DIY zine Sniffin\u2019 Glue and groupie-focused Star found their way into the eager hands of music fans around the world. To celebrate a simpler time, here is our rundown of the five most iconic underground zines you might not have heard of, and where you can read them.\nStarting off this list with the OG of all zines, Sniffin\u2019 Glue was the first publication to chronicle punk from an insider\u2019s point of view. Created in the UK in 1976, right after editor Mark Perry (who was a bank clerk at the time) watched a Ramones concert, Sniffin\u2019 Glue\u2019s haphazard DIY style, with felt-tip titles, shabby grammar, swear words and informal writing paved the way for the many punk zines that followed. Submitting to the movement\u2019s idea of creating your own culture and rejecting the old, it did not subscribe to any traditional forms of publishing, and in fact was closed down after only 14 issues due to fear of becoming incorporated into the mainstream music press. Unfortunately, it is not catalogued online \u2013 but if you\u2019re London-based, you can check out the full archive at the London College of Communication\u2019s zine library.\nConsidered scandalous at the time, 1973\u2019s LA-based Star magazine was aimed at teenage girls and chronicled the lives of the decade\u2019s most iconic groupies, from Sable Starr to the hyper-controversial Sunset Strip \u201cbaby groupies\u201d. With a manifesto that could almost be called feminist, the first issue opened riddled with angry letters from teachers and parents \u2013 one of them surprised the magazine \u201cdidn\u2019t come wrapped in plain brown paper\u201d as a porn magazine would \u2013 to which the editorial team answered: \u201cHow about letting Arkansas\u2019 girls decide about Star?\u201d It even featured a commentator that could\u2019ve come straight from 2016, who stated that men like him don\u2019t like this \u201cWomen\u2019s Lib baloney\u201d that the magazine advocates. Referring to their readers as Foxy Ladies (also a name used for baby groupies), Star never undermined their pheromone-ridden teen readers, and featured plenty of pictures of a young Mick Jagger, alongside comic strips of fantasy scenarios, for example where a fan dresses up as glam rock icon Marc Bolan to get backstage. 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This service is also utilized by hospitals, law enforcement agencies, schools and other community based organizations. Should an enrolled consumer present with a crisis during their home clinic\u2019s hours of operation, interventions can be provided by clinic-based staff. Crisis services can be addressed via phone or through a face-to-face evaluation. The multi-disciplinary Crisis Team staff provide rapid mental health services that are supportive and strength based in nature and that assist the individual to remain in the least restrictive level of care possible. In cases where the possibility that psychiatric hospitalization may be indicated, a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric detention (a \u201c5150\u201d for adults or a \u201c5585\u201d for youth) can be initiated by qualified staff.\n- Individuals and families are assisted to de-escalate crisis situations, and linkage to needed therapeutic (and other) resources is facilitated. - Services are coordinated with current VCBH provider to best support individuals and ensure continuity of care.\n- The toll free crisis number is the \"access\" line and \"portal of entry\" to Ventura County Behavioral Health. 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In opposition to this trend and aiming to promote a culture of structural health monitoring, VESAM is developing a new low-cost structural health monitoring system that can be installed in all current structures without representing a new significant cost.\nFilipe Santos 1, Bruno Jorge2, Pedro Santos3\n2 VESAM Engenharia SA, Zona Industrial de Cantanhede, Lote 69, Cantanhede, Portugal | bruno.jorge@vesam.pt\nPaper presented in the \u201cIX Congresso de Constru\u00e7\u00e3o Met\u00e1lica e Mista\u201d and \u201cI Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de Constru\u00e7\u00e3o Met\u00e1lica Sustent\u00e1vel\u201d, 24-25 October, 2010, Porto, Portugal (in Portuguese)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://videos.dr-adams.com/detail/video/5556201661001/live-streaming-plastic-surgery-is-it-safe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SSLWCNYCWLSB4U4WREHMNK5GKVFBRDTA", "length": 200, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "videos.dr-adams.com", "title": "Live Streaming Plastic Surgery, Is It Safe? - William P. 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To hear samples of our voiceover artists, take a look at our videos above.\nhttps://youtu.be/k8osz0HVc_E", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1016, "original_length": 35823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vprot.blogspot.com/2011/09/training-course-and-green-ideas-2011.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ODETC5SLJHIRVHWNLNHRMNVOH6MOABEF", "length": 1585, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "vprot.blogspot.com", "title": "My work notebook: Training Course and Green Ideas 2011", "raw_content": "During the last weeks my time is almost completely dedicated to two important tasks:\n1. The testing phase of the VOA3R content population. Trying to coordinate a task which involves a significant number of project partners is not always easy, especially during August! I will not go into more details about this task.\n2. The \"Joint School on IT-Enhanced Organic & Sustainable Education for Teachers, Trainers and Agriculture Professionals\", which will be a really big training course involving a number of respected tutors and a diverse audience, case study visits, lectures and hands-on exercises etc. Even though the organization of this course has been taken over by two colleagues of mine, still there are a lot of things to take care of, such as arranging flights and accommodation for the participants, estimating costs and involving budgets from different projects. Speaking of projects, the course will be primarily supported by Organic.Balkanet and CerOrganic, while VOA3R and I.S.L.E. will also be represented and contribute. This course will be collocated with another interesting event, Green Ideas 2011 which \"will bring together people and institutions that are interested into agricultural, biodiversity and rural education, so that collaboration opportunities may be explored and exploited\". This event will feature a really diverse list of participants, is sponsored by a number of relevant E.U. projects and supported by major organizations, such as FAO.\nLabels: Agro-Know, Agroknow, CerOrganic, Chios, ISLE, Organic.Balkanet, Rural Inclusion, school, training, VOA3R", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vprot.blogspot.com/2015/11/odi-summit-2015-agro-know.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:564BPR4O4HT22X34VTFDMGMPSMUDQ74Y", "length": 1560, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "vprot.blogspot.com", "title": "My work notebook: ODI Summit 2015 & Agro-Know", "raw_content": "ODI Summit 2015 & Agro-Know\nThe ODI Summit themed \"Celebrating Generation Open\" takes place today, 3/11/2015 at London, UK - obviously organized by the Open Data Institute. If you ask me (and many more), it is the biggest Open Data event of the year. Globally. It provides the opportunity to a wide variety of stakeholders to gather and shares their views, updates and ongoing work on open data.\nAgro-Know is there, represented by our CEO Nikos Manouselis, who was really excited after attending the Summit last year. Since then, we had the opportunity to get to know the work of ODI better and even got the chance to work with their lovely team on the GODAN Discussion Paper (see also here). On top of that, our COO Giannis Stoitsis successfully completed ODI's Train the Trainer course, becoming a certified Open Data Trainer and since then he has delivered a number of courses on the topic. Last but not least, we have been working on joint project proposals with ODI during the last months and we are really looking forward to see them accepted and start working on their implementation. :-)\nI am sure that Nikos will make the most of of this event, and he will come back to the office full of ideas and new connections, among others - any memorabilia from the event will also be more than welcome!\nP.S. Did I mention that Agro-Know has recently become an ODI member? :-)\nLabels: ODI Summit, open data, Open Data Institute\nReport from the Community Workshop on the Open Sci...\nThe European Open Science Cloud for Research & agI...\nIt's one of these days...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://warrinwithani.blogspot.com/2018/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:15Z", "digest": "sha1:7TDRZUXKVQLWGX3YBJJOE6S3UX2HHVLB", "length": 2958, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "warrinwithani.blogspot.com", "title": "warrin with an i", "raw_content": "The Surprise Engagement\n1973 \u2013 The Surprise Engagement\nConnie, Jane, and Dottie - hiking around Cohoes Falls\nIt was 1973, the year the Watergate Trial began, the Vietnam War came to an end, and the year of the Roe vs Wade decision. It was the year Vice President Spiro T Agnew resigned over tax evasion, the Alaska Pipeline Bill was passed, and the speed limit was reduced to 55 mph. In sports, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the battle of the sexes, Secretariat won the triple crown, and a guy named George Steinbrenner bought the New York Yankees for a measly 12 million dollars. Notable movies were American Graffiti, The Sting, Enter The Dragon, The Exorcist and Woody Allen's Sleeper. Music of the year included Pink Floyd's \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d, Led Zeppelin's \u201cHouses of the Holy\u201d, The Who's \u201cQuadrophenia\u201d, Elton John's \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road\u201d, and Marvin Gaye's \u201cLet's Get It On\u201d. Gas was 40 cents a gallon, the average income stood around 12K, the median home price was\u2026\nHVCC, Physics, and The Boys Club\nBoys and Girls Club in Troy, NY\nLife was good. I was out of the Air Force and now living in Watervliet in the Albany area of New York. Dottie had moved up from Long Island after Labor Day and enrolled in the Public Administration Masters Program at SUNY, Albany. I was attending Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy. I was enjoying being back in school and happy to to be learning things of my own choosing. I had never been a particularly good student. I got OK grades but never fully applied myself. I would learn things that were of interest to me quickly but the rest I tended to do just enough to get by. I was never motivated to get good grades. I was a solid \"B\" student in High School mostly because that's what it took to appease my parents. Now I was ready to start learning and be part of an environment that encouraged this. The military was wary of and discouraged you from thinking for yourself. Both in basic trainin\u2026\n1972 \u2013 Back to Long Island and on to Albany\nCamping with Dottie\nIt was 1972 and this would be the first presidential election that I would be able to vote in. Richard Nixon was nearing the end of his first term of Presidency and early on it looked like Ed Muskie would be the Democratic nominee. Muskie was on top of the polls and looking like he might have a decent chance to unseat Nixon. But then the \u201cCanuck Letter\u201d came out, supposedly written by Muskie, containing unkind remarks towards Canadians followed by stories about his wife having a drinking problem and being a racist. Of course during the Watergate Investigations it was discovered that these accusations were false and were spread as part of Nixon's \u201cdirty tricks\u201d unit, but that was a little too late. George McGovern would end up being the Democratic nominee. He was a long shot to begin with and then with the Eagleton mess it made the Nixon re-election a slam dunk. At this point I was pretty discouraged with polit\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://watfordcitynd.com/obituaries/lyle-walking-hawk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7LJ7L4QB3UQH5ANNTIKPUW2ZIIUVURP", "length": 511, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "watfordcitynd.com", "title": "McKenzie County Farmer \ufffd Watford City, ND \ufffd Obituaries", "raw_content": "Lyle Walking Hawk\nLyle Walking Hawk, 56, of Newtown, N.D., passed away at his Newtown residence Monday evening, August 7th, 2017.\nHis funeral service was held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 10th, 2017, at Johnny Bird Veteran Memorial Center in rural Newtown.\nHis wake service was at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017, at Johnny Bird Veteran Memorial Center.\nBurial was held in the Smith family cemetery in rural Mandaree. Friends may sign the on-line register an give their condolences at www.fulkersons.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wauwgamin.com/2015/06/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:11Z", "digest": "sha1:XCANXYDF72CS26NOPD2ZEG3MINXR7CBC", "length": 454, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wauwgamin.com", "title": "Superstitions and Myths Linked to the Exciting Game of Craps", "raw_content": "By admin on Friday, June 26th, 2015 | Comments Off on Superstitions and Myths Linked to the Exciting Game of Craps\nCraps is undoubtedly an action-filled table game which is dependant on luck. Nevertheless, just like other games, this particular game is also associated with a number of myths and superstitions. Learning and understanding with regards to all of them will help you improve your own game. Play the game craps here and get an outstanding [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wbj.pl/tag/tesla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:52Z", "digest": "sha1:24ZQRC2U44BYDYJVBO5IDW3NHHCI7RD2", "length": 1355, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "wbj.pl", "title": "Tesla | WBJ", "raw_content": "Elon Musk agrees to resign as Tesla\u2019s Chairman\nSeptember 30, 2018 Main News\nTesla\u2019s CEO Elon Musk agreed to step down as the automaker\u2019s Chairman in a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Musk needs to pay a $20 million fine. However, he is still allowed to remain in the position of Tesla\u2019s CEO. Musk doesn\u2019t have to admit or den...\nMay 18, 2018 Commentary, WBJ\nThe tech world has been buzzing with headlines in the past few months. Alphabet (Google) was fined in 2017 by the European Commission and is facing more anti-trust litigation. Its Q1 results also leave a lot to be desired. The same goes for Microsoft. Meanwhile, Facebook has come under a barrage of ...\nOrlen\u2019s German branch partners with Tesla\nTwo petrol stations star will be equipped with Tesla e-filling stations as a result of the deal between US electric car manufacturer Tesla and Orlen Deutschland, a German unit of the major Polish refiner. Fast-charging Tesla stations , known as the \u201cSupercharger,\u201d will be able to rechar...\nTesla Motors to install charging stations\nThe American electric car producer has decided to build two battery charging stations in Poland: one near \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and another near Pozna\u0144, according to Puls Biznesu. Tesla Motor\u2019s website shows a lack of \u201csuperchargers\u201d in Eastern Europe, aside from one station in Slovenia. The websit...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 115970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Hades", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SXZF7FA6OCXO3JAJ5DEH5TUH3TBESQVQ", "length": 20837, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "web.newworldencyclopedia.org", "title": "Hades - New World Encyclopedia", "raw_content": "Previous (Haddock)\nNext (Hadrian)\nImage of Hades (the Greek god of the underworld) found on a ceramic amphora, ca. 470 B.C.E.\nHades (from Greek \u1f8d\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2, Haid\u0113s, originally \u1f0d\u03b9\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2, Haid\u0113s or \u1f08\u0390\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2, Aid\u0113s) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity that presided over the spirits of the deceased. This dual use was, however, a relatively late development in classical writing, as the term originally referred only to the god\u2014as attested to in the writings of Homer. In these sources, the only term used for the underworld itself was Haidou (the genitive of the word), which literally meant \"the house of Hades.\" With time, the nominative case also came to designate the abode of the dead.\nIn Greek mythology Hades has been used to refer both to the \"underworld\" or Hell and the deity that rules the dead\nThe term Hades, in its cosmological sense, has sometimes been used in Christianity to refer to the abode of the dead, where the deceased would await Judgment Day in either peace or torment (see below).\n1 Hades, abode of the dead\n1.1 Hades in Christianity\n2 Hades, the lord of the Underworld\n2.1 Mythological accounts\n2.1.1 Hades and Persephone\n2.1.2 Hades and the Heroes\n2.2 Cult of Hades\n3 Epithets and other names\n3.1 Roman mythology\nHades was also known as Pluto (from Greek Plout\u014dn), and it was by this name (translated as \"the unseen one\" or \"the rich one\") that he came to be known in Roman mythology; the corresponding Etruscan god was Aita. The symbols associated with him are scepter and cornucopia.\nHades, abode of the dead\nIn older Greek myths, Hades is the \"misty and gloomy\"[1] abode of the dead, which is the ultimate destination of all mortals. In this conception, there was no reward or special punishment for the deceased, making it somewhat akin to the early Hebrew conception of Sheol. In later Greek tales and writings, this view evolved to include the notion of a segregated afterlife, where mortals would be assigned to either reward or punishment based on posthumous judgment.\nIn this elaborated understanding, Hades was divided into several sections, including the Elysian Fields and Tartarus (which could be fruitfully compared to the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell).[2] However, the Greek mythographers describing these realms were not consistent about the geography of the afterlife, as evidenced by contrasting mythic accounts that describe fallen heroes taking up residence on the Isles of the Blessed.[3]\nThe deceased were said to enter the underworld by crossing the Acheron (\"Woeful\")[4] (the \"river of woe\") in the ferry of Charon, the undying boatman who charged them each an obolus (a small coin) for passage. On the far side of the river, the gates to Hades were guarded by Cerberus, the demonic three-headed dog who simultaneously prevented the living from entering and the dead from leaving. Once past this dire watchman, the shades of the departed entered the land of the dead proper, where they awaited judgment.\nThe Field of Asphodel was known as the first region of Hades wherein deceased mortals hovered in pathetic imitation of their incarnate lives. As Rose summarizes, it was \"a tasteless and colorless life, with a sort of shadowy continuance of [the departed's] former occupations in this world.\"[5] The second region was the House of Hades, the sepulchral palace of the god of the dead. In the forecourt of this grim castle sat the three judges of the Underworld: Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus. There, in front of the thrones of these three ultimate arbiters, three roads met: the first, which led back to the Fields of Asphodel, was followed by souls who were neither virtuous nor evil; the second, which led to the eternal tortures of Tartarus, was the path of those who were impious or evil; the third, which led to the paradisaical Elysian Fields (or the Isles of the Blest), was reserved for the heroic or others who were particularly dear to the gods.\nIn the Sibylline Oracles, a curious hodgepodge of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian elements, Hades again appeared as the abode of the dead. The peculiar admixture of these two traditions is attested to in a folk etymology preserved within the text, where the name Hades was derived from \"Adam\" (the first man), saying that it was because he was the first to enter there.[6]\nHades in Christianity\nSee Also: Hell (in Ancient Greek Religion)\nLike other first-century Jews literate in Greek, early Christians used the Greek word hades as the translation for the Hebrew word Sheol. This use appears in Luke's story of Lazarus and the rich man. Both underworlds had originally been dark and gloomy places with no concept of posthumous rewards or punishments. Since the writing of the Hebrew Bible, however, the popular concept of Sheol had come to include moral judgment. Thus, Hades came to be seen as a place of comfort for the righteous (in the \"bosom of Abraham\") and torment for the wicked. Here the dead awaited the universal resurrection on Judgment Day. This view was defended by many of the early Church Fathers, including Tertullian (c. 155-230 C.E.) and Hippolytus (d. 235 C.E.).\nThe early Christian theologian and apologist Tertullian described Hades in the following way:\nBy ourselves the lower regions (of Hades) are not supposed to be a bare cavity, nor some subterranean sewer of the world, but a vast deep space in the interior of the earth, and a concealed recess in its very bowels; inasmuch as we read that Christ in His death spent three days in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40), that is, in the secret inner recess which is hidden in the earth, and enclosed by the earth, and superimposed on the abysmal depths which lie still lower down. Now although Christ is God, yet, being also man, \"He died according to the Scriptures,\" (1 Corinthians 15:3) and \"according to the same Scriptures was buried.\" With the same law of His being He fully complied, by remaining in Hades in the form and condition of a dead man; nor did He ascend into the heights of heaven before descending into the lower parts of the earth, that He might there make the patriarchs and prophets partakers of Himself (1 Peter 3:19). (This being the case), you must suppose Hades to be a subterranean region, and keep at arm's length those who are too proud to believe that the souls of the faithful deserve a place in the lower regions. \u2026You have a treatise by us, (on Paradise), in which we have established the position that every soul is detained in safe keeping in Hades until the day of the Lord.[7]\nHippolytus offers the following description:\n[W]e must speak of Hades, in which the souls both of the righteous and the unrighteous are detained. Hades is a place in the created system, rude, a locality beneath the earth, in which the light of the world does not shine; and as the sun does not shine in this locality, there must necessarily be perpetual darkness there. This locality has been destined to be as it were a guard-house for souls, at which the angels are stationed as guards, distributing according to each one's deeds the temporary punishments for (different) characters. And in this locality there is a certain place set apart by itself, a lake of unquenchable fire, into which we suppose no one has ever yet been cast; for it is prepared against the day determined by God, in which one sentence of righteous judgment shall be justly applied to all.\u2026 But the righteous shall obtain the incorruptible and un-fading kingdom, who indeed are at present detained in Hades, but not in the same place with the unrighteous.\u2026 And that place brings no toils to them. There, there is neither fierce heat, nor cold, nor thorn; but the face of the fathers and the righteous is seen to be always smiling, as they wait for the rest and eternal revival in heaven which succeed this location. And we call it by the name \"Abraham's bosom.\" But the unrighteous are dragged toward the left by angels who are ministers of punishment, and they go of their own accord no longer, but are dragged by force as prisoners. And the angels appointed over them send them along, reproaching them and threatening them with an eye of terror, forcing them down into the lower parts. And when they are brought there, those appointed to that service drag them on to the confines or hell.[8]\nHades, the lord of the Underworld\nMythological accounts\nIn Greek mythology, Hades (the \"unseen\") was also known as the god of the underworld, the son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as an older brother, Poseidon, and a younger brother, Zeus: together, they accounted for one half of the Olympian gods.\nAccording to legend, Zeus and the other Elder Olympians (who had been egregiously mistreated by their father), challenged their parents and uncles for power in the Titanomachy, a war between the two generations of divinities. In this conflict, the Olympians received the aid of many other mythical beings, including the monstrous Hecatonchires (\"hundred-handers\"), who fought alongside them, and the Cyclopes, who presented them with magical weapons: to Zeus, a thunderbolt; Hades, the helmet of invisibility; and Poseidon, the trident. In the darkest hour before the commencement of hostilities, Hades put on his helmet and crept unseen into the Titan's camp, destroying their weapons and providing a decisive edge to the upstart gods. Even with this advantage, the war raged on for ten years, though it finally concluded with the victory of the younger gods.\nFollowing their assumption of divine authority, Hades and his two younger brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots[9] for realms to rule. Zeus got the sky, Poseidon got the seas, and Hades received the underworld, [10] the unseen realm to which the dead go upon leaving the world, as well as any and all things beneath the earth.\nBecause of his dark and morbid personality, Hades was disliked by the gods or feared by mortals. As he embodied the inexorable finality of death, human attitudes toward him were often particularly negative, as evidenced by Agamemnon's rhetorical question in the Illiad: \"Why do we loathe Hades more than any god, if not because he is so adamantine and unyielding?\" (Iliad ix). He was not, however, an evil god, for although he was stern, cruel, and unpitying, he was understood to be just. Also, although he was associated with the termination of life and was feared by men, he was not Death itself\u2014its embodiment in the Greek myths was Thanatos.\nSee also: Persephone, Demeter\nOne of the few mythic tales (besides the accounts described above) where Hades plays a prominent role is the account of his marriage to Persephone. In this tale, the god obtains his eventual consort and queen, Persephone, through physical abduction and trickery. The myth, especially in the detailed record of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, connected the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries with the Olympian pantheon.\nThe youthful Persephone is frolicking in the Grecian fields picking flowers and enjoying the sunshine with her friends, some beautiful young nymphs. Suddenly, Hades, who noted the young maiden's attractive qualities from afar, appeared and carried the unwilling young goddess back to his twilight realm. Demeter, the girl's mother, began a panicked search for her missing child, frantically beseeching the gods to aid in her investigation. When the gods finally did discover the fate of the goddess, Zeus ordered his brother to return her to the world of the living. Unwilling to relinquish his prize, the lord of the underworld tricked Persephone into eating some pomegranate seeds, knowing that she would be bound to him if she consumed the food of the dead. With that, he released her.\nWhen Persephone emerged from the darkened realm, she was joyously received by her mother, who suddenly perceived that something was amiss:\nBut while Demeter was still holding her dear child in her arms, her heart suddenly misgave her for some snare, so that she feared greatly and ceased fondling her daughter and asked of her at once: \"My child, tell me, surely you have not tasted any food while you were below? Speak out and hide nothing, but let us both know. For if you have not, you shall come back from loathly Hades and live with me and your father, the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and be honored by all the deathless gods; but if you have tasted food, you must go back again beneath the secret places of the earth, there to dwell a third part of the seasons every year: yet for the two parts you shall be with me and the other deathless gods. But when the earth shall bloom with the fragrant flowers of spring in every kind, then from the realm of darkness and gloom thou shalt come up once more to be a wonder for gods and mortal men.\"[11]\nRealizing Hades's trickery, the gods decided that the only solution was for Persephone to spend one third of the year beneath the earth and two thirds among the other Olympians. Following this unhappy compromise, Helios consoled the grieving Demeter by expostulating on the reasons that Hades was not an unworthy consort for her daughter:\n\"Aidoneus (a lengthened form of Aides) (Hades)[12] the Ruler of Many, is no unfitting husband among the deathless gods for your child, being your own brother and born of the same stock: also, for honor, he has that third share which he received when division was made at the first, and is appointed lord of those among whom he dwells.\"[13]\nIn the classical world, this important myth (with its religious connections to the Eleusinian mysteries) also served an etiological function, as it was seen to describe the realities of agricultural productivity in the Hellenistic world, with the eight months of fertile growing season corresponding to Persephone's time with the Olympians, and the four months of unsuitable growing conditions represented by her descent to the underworld.[14]\nHades and the Heroes\nIn addition to his association with Persephone, Hades plays a subsidiary role in some of the heroic epics\u2014often because the bravery of these characters was tested by asking them to venture into his chthonic halls. Some examples include the final labor of Heracles, which required him to descend to the depths of underworld and to capture Cerberus; the kidnapping of Theseus by Hades, a retaliation for the abduction of Persephone by Theseus's friend Pirithous; and, the plea of Orpheus, the legendary musician, who descended to Hades to beseech the Dark God for the freedom of his beloved Eurydice.[15] None of them was especially pleased with what they witnessed in the realm of the dead. In particular, the Greek war hero Achilles, who Odysseus met in Hades (although some believe that Achilles dwells in the Isles of the Blest), said:\n\"Do not speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished.\"[16]\nCult of Hades\nWhen the Greeks propitiated Hades, they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear them. Black animals, such as sheep, were sacrificed to him, and it is believed that at one time even human sacrifices were offered. The blood from sacrifices to Hades dripped into a pit so it could reach him. The person who offered the sacrifice had to turn away his face. Every hundred years festivals, called the Secular Games, were held in his honor.\nEpithets and other names\nHades, god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reticent to swear oaths in his name. To many, simply to say the word \"Hades\" was frightening, such that many euphemisms and pseudonyms came to be common. Since precious minerals come from beneath the earth (i.e. the \"underworld\" ruled by Hades), he was considered to have control of these as well, and thus was referred to as \u03a0\u03bb\u03bf\u03cd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd (Plouton, related to the word for \"wealth\"), which is the origin for the Roman name Pluto.[17] Sophocles explained referring to Hades as \"the rich one\" by suggesting that \"the gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears.\" In addition, he was called Clymenus (\"notorious\"), Eubuleus (\"well-guessing\"), and Polydegmon (\"who receives many\").[18] This phenomenon is also attested to in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which describes the god as \"the son of Cronos, He who has many names.\"[19]\nSome other monikers include:\nAiidoneus\nChthonian Zeus\nThe Rich One\nThe Unseen One\n\u2191 The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) and accessed online at sacred-texts.com (accessed May 15, 2007).\n\u2191 As one example, the KJV translates Tartarus as Hell. See the helpful table at biblia.com (accessed May 14, 2007). See also the Catholic Encyclopedia (accessed May 14, 2007).\n\u2191 This alternative realm was most notably described in Hesiod's Works and Days, translated and discussed in Barry B. Powell, Classical Myth, Second Ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998), 124-125.\n\u2191 In some accounts, including Vergil's Aeneid (6.304, 6.639), Charon carries his charges over the river Styx, but this is only supported by a minority of classical sources. For another example, see Vergil's Georgics (4.504).\n\u2191 H. J. Rose. A Handbook of Greek Mythology. (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959), 79.\n\u2191 Sibylline Oracles, Bk. I: 101-103. Translated from the Greek by Milton S. Terry (1899) and accessed online at sacred-texts.com (accessed May 15, 2007).\n\u2191 Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul, translated by Peter Holmes and accessed online at newadvent.org (accessed May 15th, 2007). Chapter 55.\n\u2191 Hippolytus, Against Plato, On the Cause of the Universe, accessed online at newadvent.org (accessed May 15, 2007).\n\u2191 Walter Burkert, in The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), compares this single reference with the Mesopotamian tale of Atra-Hasis, arguing that \"the basic structure of both texts is astonishingly similar\" ( 90ff). \"There is hardly another passage in Homer which comes so close to being a translation of an Akkadian epic,\" Burkert concludes (91).\n\u2191 Poseidon speaks: \"For when we threw the lots I received the grey sea as my abode, Hades drew the murky darkness, Zeus, however, drew the wide sky of brightness and clouds; the earth is common to all, and spacious Olympus.\" Iliad 15.187. However, it should be noted that other traditions exist (concerning the division of the cosmos following the Titanomachy). Hesiod (in Theogony. 883) declares that Zeus overthrew his father and was acclaimed king by the other gods.\n\u2191 William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, (1870). Accessed online at ancientlibrary.com, 88 (accessed on May 15, 2007)\n\u2191 Note: This account is the only surviving instance of Hades showing mercy. Because the music of Orpheus was so hauntingly good, he allowed Orpheus to bring his wife, Eurydice, back to the land of the living (albeit under rather harsh conditions). See Vergil's Georgics (4.457-527).\n\u2191 Homer, Odyssey. 11.488.\n\u2191 Micha F. Lindemans, \"Hades\" in Encyclopedia Mythica (accessed online May 15, 2007).\n\u2191 Homeric Hymn to Demeter.\nApollodorus. Gods & Heroes of the Greeks. Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Simpson. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. ISBN 0870232053\nBeekes, Robert S. P. \"Hades and Elysion\" in M\u00edr Curad: Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins, edited by H. Craig Melchert et al. Innsbruck: Institut f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft der Universit\u00e4t Innsbruck, 1998. ISBN 3851246675.\nBurkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Translated by Margaret E. Pinder and Walter Burkert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN 0674643631\nGantz, Timothy. Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN 080184410X\nThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Loeb Classical Library, 1917.\nNilsson, Martin P. Greek Popular Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Also accessible online at sacred-texts.com.Retrieved December 3, 2007.\nPowell, Barry B. Classical Myth, Second Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0137167148\nPrice, Simon. Religions of the Ancient Greeks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0521388678\nRose, H. J. A Handbook of Greek Mythology. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959. ISBN 0525470417\nRuck, Carl A. P. and Daniel Staples. The World of Classical Myth. 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Our flight from Chicago's O'hare Airport departed at 7:40 a.m. which meant we were leaving the hotel at 5:30 a.m. The flight departed on time and then we made excellent time to Charlotte Douglas. We actually arrived in Charlotte about 40 minutes early! How amazing is that for air travel?\nThe trip to Chicago was fun in the long run. Sunday evening, after dinner with Kamori, the manufacturers of the presses my hubby's company run, David, myself, Bill and Debbie stopped by \"the Donald's\" hotel to see Bill's neice, Colette. Colette is currently working at Donald Trump's Chicago hotel in Guest Services and has been for about a year. She was kind enough to allow us to see one of the unoccupied suites. All I can say is WOW. But what would you expect from a Trump Hotel?\nMonday, David and Bill went to the trade show (afterall, Kamori did pay for the hotel rooms in return for their presence at the show). Debbie and I got together for a very nice lunch at Smith & Wollensky's. We had their \"famous\" Split Pea soup which really was quite awesome and a salad along with a couple of glasses of wine. We enjoyed this meal outside on the river front in the most gorgeous weather.\nMonday evening we attended a banquet in honor of a fellow printer who we've been friends with for several years. His company is actaully in Omaha and he was being inducted into the \"Printing Hall of Fame\" that I believe is sponsored by NAPL (National Assoc of Print Leaders) (or perhaps it's National Assoc of Printers & Lithographers)... All I can ever remember is NAPL and it's a great organization for printers!\nOn Tuesday afternoon after lunch at the Cheesecake Factory we all caught up with Colette again and made our way to the Field Museum to see the current exhibit on Pirates. While I expected it to be a little more than it was, it was interesting. We had just enough time to look through a couple of constant exhibits after the Pirate stuff and that was fun.\nAfter the musuem we treated Colette to dinner with the stipulation that we had a genuine Chicago deep dish pizza. She recommended Giordano's and while they say their \"stuffed\" pizza is world famous, I preferred the \"thin\" crust. Pizza Hut is wasn't!\nDavid and I got home to a couple of very happy dogs around 11:00 a.m. Wednesday. After lots of hugs and loving on, I headed out to see my sister at the Church where she was working at one of the children's Consignment Sale drop-offs. The actual Consignment sale is Saturday, September 19 from 8:00 a.m. to Noon. It's a wonderful sale for children's clothes, toys, infant things, costumes, etc. and the proceeds go to help some really good causes. If you're in the vacinity of Harrisburg, NC this coming Saturday and are in need of children's things, this is the sale to attend!\nAfter that I visited my \"happy place\" -- Scrapbooks & Etc. to visit with my best girlfriends while they cropped. I was too tired to crop, but it was fun to laugh with them. It was good to be back home.\nIn my last post I told you I had been working on refreshing the Scrapbook store's blog. Well, one thing led to another and now the blog has a whole new look! Check it out and let me know what you think! All comments and suggestions are welcome. Feel free to post your comments here or on the blog or on Scrapbook & Etc.'s Facebook!\nThanks to all who are reading. I'll keep you posted on what's cookin'...\nThe store's blog looks great! Very appealing to the eye. Well done.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://westcongchurch.org/who-said-volunteerism-is-dead-at-wcc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2VYQ7Y6VPOBIRLZOGCXE6MVMWP3WNSQ7", "length": 7626, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "westcongchurch.org", "title": "Volunteerism Alive and Well at First Congregational Church! \u2013 First Congregational Church of Westbrook, CT", "raw_content": "Volunteerism Alive and Well at First Congregational Church!\nSeptember 4, 2015 October 21, 2015 by admin\nMany were away over the summer and may not be aware of some of the activities surrounding our church. As most know, Rev. Lee Ireland\u2019s last Sunday with us was June 28th. She received a new interim position on June 25th. And we had made arrangements to repair and upgrade the parsonage starting on July 1st. Talk about close planning!!!\nRev. Lee rented a newly renovated home in Niantic, and the builder managed to get it done for a move on June 27th. During the last two weeks of June, several of the ladies in our church volunteered to help her pack up her belongings. We had hoped that a local moving company could actually perform the move, but summer on the shoreline is not a good time to expect a professional moving company to be readily available and at our beckoned call. So the requests went out, and you responded. We rented a 16\u2019 truck, had six smaller trucks at our disposal along with two station wagons. At 9 AM on Saturday June 27th, seventeen volunteers assembled at the parsonage, and the move was under way. Nancy Carlson, Beth Frisbee, Sandy Clark, Susan Wickland, Bob Wickland, Bob Hansen, Matt Resnisky, Greg Burr, Wendy Girle, Bill Voigt, Carol Voigt, Charlie Renshaw, Paul Ireland, David Stoner and three friends of Rev. Lees were ready to go. In just over two hours, the vehicles were packed and the caravan left for Niantic. Once there, Lee mapped out where she wanted the furniture and the boxes, and the group made great progress in getting everything in the proper rooms and the furniture on the correct walls. By just after 2 PM the trucks were unloaded and while Rev. Lee had some serious unpacking to do, everything was in place. Toward the end of the move, magically three humungous pizzas appeared with several bottles of soda, and everyone retreated to the back deck for a well-deserved lunch and wonderful conversation and fellowship. Rev. Lee said \u201cshe had never seen such a well-orchestrated and smooth move\u201d\u2026and she should probably know since as an interim, moves are somewhat commonplace.\nScott Hartzell, Trustee and Property Chair, would normally be the point person for any repairs and changes to either the Church or the Parsonage. Scott does have a full time job, and this undertaking was above and beyond the call of duty. In April, Charlie Renshaw and David Stoner volunteered to be co-chairs to get the parsonage restored, upgraded, painted and prepared for Rev. Jan\u2019s arrival in late July. The master bathroom was virtually unusable, the shower had been removed, and several of the fixtures needed repair. The kitchen sink and the faucet were old and needed replacement. All the trim\u2026baseboards, door and window trim were stained brown from the days they were installed in 1960. The doors\u2026ten in number\u2026to the bedrooms, closets and bathrooms were also circa 1960, and the veneer had in many cases peeled off. All needed to be replaced. Considering all the above changes and replacements, as well as upgrading and bringing the electrical systems throughout the house up to code, we estimated the total costs to be $15,000. These changes and costs were submitted to the Trustees and the budget to proceed was approved.\nIn April we contracted with Bathfitters to install two new custom showers and fixtures. Because of the size of the bathrooms, all had to be specially ordered. They said they could do it in early July, and on July 1st, they arrived and upgraded both bathrooms in one day!!! Harold Johnson arranged for a new sink and faucet for the kitchen\u2026a donation from Essex Meadows, and made time in his work schedule to rip out the old sink and plumbing and install the new. Total cost for this was nothing!!! We hired a local electrician to upgrade the electrical system, install new outside lighting, as well as new circuits in the bathrooms and hallway lighting. Total cost was $450\u2026a terrific bargain for all the appliances and labor.\nTHE \u201cSKILLS EXTRAORDINARY\u201d TEAM: (left to right) Phil Bassett, Carpenter/Electrical Repair; Paul Ireland, Arborist; Scott Hartzell, Property Chair and Trustee; Harold Johnson, Kitchen Upgrading and Plumber.\nThe outside trees and bushes were overgrown and \u2018curb appeal\u2019 was not at all apparent. Anyone over four feet tall were hit with the branches and limbs from the two oaks guarding the front walk. Paul Ireland volunteered to trim and shape all the trees and evergreens. Yes, the days he picked to do so were in the high 80\u2019s, low 90\u2019s, with 90 percent humidity. But the work was done and the debris all taken to the shredder. The landscaping work was done beautifully at a total cost of zero. Great job Paul!!!\nAnd then the painting. We put together a paint team of Harold Gulliford, Cathy Maynard, Charlie Renshaw and David Stoner. Firstly, everything had to be primed with a special sealer. In addition, several of the window sills needed cleaning and attention since they had suffered serious water damage over the years. That seemed easy enough, but it turned out we needed three and four coats of semi-gloss paint in addition to the sealer to make the trim and windows look bright, new and professional. Then doors to the rooms and closets were removed, and as fate would have it, doors installed in the 1960\u2019s were the full 24\u201d or 30\u201d. Today\u2019s doors are 3/16 of an inch smaller. That doesn\u2019t sound like much, but none would have hung properly or closed. The result was that custom doors needed to be ordered, but Beard Lumber came through and notched all the doors so most hung perfectly. A couple needed to be reworked to open in a manner different from those previously installed, and Phil Basset came through to make the necessary adjustments. Phil also repaired the dining room chandelier which saved an additional $255. The cost of the new doors and brassware was almost $1,000, and another $275 for paint. The labor, over 145 hours, was donated. Just remember, there is no air conditioning at the parsonage, and several of the days were in the high 80\u2019s with 80+ percent humidity\u2026talk about \u2018sweat equity\u2019!!!\nTHE PAINT TEAM: (left to right) David Stoner, Cathy Maynard, Charlie Renshaw and Harold Gulliford.\nBut the \u201cpiece de resistance\u201d were the pulls on 28 doors and drawers in the kitchen. They were the original pulls, and over the past 55 years were dirty, pitted and needed to be replaced. Just putting on new pulls would significantly upgrade the kitchen and we planned on about $600 in the budget to replace them. Harold Johnson had another idea\u2026let\u2019s buff and clean them and reuse them. Harold Gulliford removed all 28, put them on a wheel with a wire brush, removed all the old dirt and grease, applied two coats of clear lacquer and they looked like new. The cabinets were transformed at a total cost of nothing from the budget, but many hours of labor and some creativity.\nOn July 25th we declared victory\u2026the job was finished. We hired one of our tenants at the Pratt House to come and give the place a good final cleaning and polish the floors.\nI must tell you, the house sparkles\u2026clean, freshly painted, new electrical, new plumbing and kitchen upgrade. Considering that Rev. Jan and her husband Ron saw it in February and June, the transformation was astounding, and when they came down with their movers on July 27th, I really think they were blown away.\nAnd so far as the bottom line\u2026the total costs were $11,420 or $3,580 UNDER budget. The job was completed on time and under budget\u2026don\u2019t you love it when that happens!!! Thanks to everyone for a great job, well done.\nDavid O. Stoner, Moderator", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 9399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2008/08/there_is_no_war_for_history_be_1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X56OVKCW3ITF25BSH73WN7LPEYB7LWHF", "length": 23645, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "whatswrongwiththeworld.net", "title": "There is No War for History, Because History Does not Have an Immanent Telos (What's Wrong with the World)", "raw_content": "I hadn't planned on devoting any further attention to the Russia-Georgia fiasco. I'm weary of the entire affair - weary of the histrionic Georgians waylaying my wife at church to tell her that they just knew that the Russians planned to massacre all of the inhabitants of Tbilisi, and other such silliness; weary of the jingoistic bloviations of the talk-radio comedians a coworker insists upon listening to, every day; weary, in reality, of the entirely pointless geopolitical game that everyone insists upon playing; weary of wealthy blowhards in restaurants baying for the blood of people - Russians - about whom he knows nothing, all in relation to a little war which stands in no objective relation to his life, or his country - about which, more anon. Then, unfortunately for my health, I happened to read this editorial, penned by Senators Lieberman and Graham, concerning the challenge of Russian aggression to, essentially, the new, post-national European world, though they do not employ that terminology. Andrew Sullivan and Matt Yglesias seemed to have somewhat sensible takes on the Lieberman-Graham piece; but then I read Reihan Salam, who responded to Sullivan and Yglesias by arguing that the Lieberman-Graham strategy of confrontation will render war less likely in the future, and was compelled by the wrongness of this conclusion to re-read the original editorial. The measured, diplomatic tone of the editorial obviously presupposes as the object of foreign-policy the sort of post-national or transnational order in which America remains, anomalously, primus inter pares, with its utopian talk of a world oasis of peace and prosperity, open borders, and the impossibility of war, but it also contains the following interesting passage, the implications of which my wife - who hails from Sevastopol - and her family grasped the moment the war started:\nThere is disturbing evidence Russia is already laying the groundwork to apply the same arguments used to justify its intervention in Georgia to other parts of its near abroad -- most ominously in Crimea. This strategically important peninsula is part of Ukraine, but with a large ethnic Russian population and the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol.\nThe evidence of this is unspecified, and it is disreputable to appeal to something you decline to disclose, hinting at some profound depth that may or may not exist in order to support all-too tangible policy options, but I don't wish to dwell on that for the nonce. Rather, this is, alas, yet another instance of that lamentable American unwillingness to even attempt to understand American foreign policy as its opponents or rivals may understand it; there is, by contrast, simply an assertion of utter, irrefragable rectitude, the implication being that we want to have a civil partnership with the Russians, but will dictate the terms. Why would the Russians be desirous of a partnership with America, if America is bent upon incorporating a deeply-divided Ukraine into NATO, converting the Black Sea into a NATO lake, expelling the Russian fleet from its only significant deep and warm-water port, and acquiring strategic leverage directly beneath the most restive and vulnerable regions of Russian territory? For what purpose - what purpose related to the defense of an objective American interest? The principle that a profoundly divided country, half Ukrainian and half Russian by cultural orientation, in which a Ukrainian government is attempting to create a mythological self-conception in which the latter half does not figure, and which could very well break under the strain of a coerced choice, must turn westward? The principle, that is, that the Russian parts should be ruled by the Ukrainian parts, just because - that Ukraine, a vast, Slavic Belgium, should choose, first, a bogus nationalism, and second, a post-national future beyond the nationalist moment? That's it?\nI'm not going to belabour the point, but having traveled in the Ukraine, I can assure my readers that the Russians within and without the Ukraine will have no tolerance for American geostrategy if its consequences make them more vulnerable as Russians in the Ukraine, domestically, and within Russia itself - as they perceive the matter - internationally. And the Russian government wouldn't surrender the port, either, for obvious reasons, which means that, if the West is intent upon pressing the issue, war is a live possibility, and Salam is dead wrong.\nHow much blood, potentially, is a pro-Western kleptocrat in the Ukrainian presidential mansion worth? How much blood the \"principle\" that, having won the Cold War, we have the right to dictate terms, which are, at best, profoundly confused transnationalist, EU-style ones that ought to scandalize conservatives - who, after all, are supposed to appreciate proliferating variety and tradition, and not economistic homogenization? The American interest in both the process and the particulars here is hardly manifest.\nWhy, briefly, would the Russian government be interested in the fate of Russians living abroad? I realize that it is tempting to regard this as yet more evidence of eternal Russian perfidy - and there is always some of that, as there is always some of this sort of thing in all foreign policy - but the reality is more fundamental: it is a question of legitimacy. When the Soviet Union collapsed,. millions of Russians suddenly found themselves living in newly-foreign countries, in some of which they were considered second-class citizens. And, often enough, there were historical reasons for the antipathy, though it is worth noting that abuses perpetrated by a defunct government cannot justify maltreatment of the individuals standing before one. However, a Russian state that evinced no concern for Russians living abroad - \"Russian\" being as much a cultural concept as an ethnic marker - would communicate to Russians in Russia that it had no concern for Russians qua Russians, in much the same way that a Mexican state that did not lobby on behalf of its nationals living in the US would delegitimate itself in the eyes of Mexicans. From the American perspective, that is an argument for immigration control; applied to Russians living in places where there have been Russians for centuries, but now, owing to the shifting of boundaries and and the waxing and waning of empires, are foreign countries, the lesson collapses of its own incogency. Or have we forgotten the injustices involved in the creation of national identities from a welter of localisms, here writ large in the postmodern age?\nI reiterate, for those who will insist upon projecting upon my words meanings absent from them: American strategists may intend (what they perceive as) good, but their motivations are mixed, and they have forgotten the law of unintended consequences, avowing that their intentions are pure, even as their very policies call forth precisely the reactions they claimed to oppose, and others besides. Still less do they interrogate their own assumptions, in an effort to achieve some measure of self-understanding. Perhaps we intend good, but is it licit in the first instance for us to pursue these goods in this manner? And so forth.\nWe possess an un-self-critical foreign policy establishment in large part because the assumptions of that establishment reflect facets of the American experience; and as the American identity becomes ever more abstracted - attenuated - it assumes deformed and stunted forms that would shock and appall those Americans who were present at the creation, such as the deranged discourse my wife and I overheard just last evening, according to which Russians were barbarian apes and monkeys bent on slaughter, who needed to be put in their place by American military power - discourse which, if applied to Jews or African-Americans, would have been instantly recognizable for what it was. Americans must become more self-reflective as a people, particularly in their conduct of international affairs, lest they become such scoundrels, who say, implicitly, \"My country, right or wrong, but I don't even care whether it might be wrong, as long as we win.\" Contrary to one of Salam's sources, there is no war for history, as though history were an immanent totality the meaning of which we can discern and direct, and we simply must cease the pretense that it is such an entity or process - or, at a minimum, the policies that can only be explicated by reference to such myths.\nTags: (Black Sea) (Crimea) (Foreign Policy) (Georgia) (Russia)\nThe principle, that is, that the Russian parts should be ruled by the Ukrainian parts, just because\nOkay, I'm not going to let this be a long thread as far as my involvement is concerned, because, frankly, I don't think it should be. But that quotation above, right there, makes it evident where we're going here: Right now, it's supposed (according to you, Jeff) to be phobic and hawkish for American pundits to make the prediction quoted in the main post--taht Russia plans to use the same excuses used in Georgia to justify \"intervention\" in the Ukraine and elsewhere. However, if Russia does this, well, you won't be complaining very loudly, because what right have we to say that the Russian parts should be \"ruled\" by the Ukrainian parts? etc. In other words, we're crazy to predict that Russia would do such a thing in its vicinity, but if Russia did, hey, it makes sense, and it's our fault somehow, and anyway, it's the right of the Russians in those regions to be ruled by Russia, so it isn't really such a bad thing, and so on, and so forth. I say this here only because the bias is so obvious, the trend so self-evident, and the ultimate trajectory so inevitable. Russia can get very aggressive, can justify much of what those nasty neo-con pundits are predicting, but somehow, you will never be wrong, Russia will never be _very_ wrong, the predictors will still be Russophobic, and anything that might be bad in any situation involving Russian aggression will still be America's fault. And America had better not even think of responding. And it's our business to criticize only our own country anyway. We know how this all goes, now. So why bother talking about it? The Martin script is already written.\nOn NPR last week, Jack Matlock, Reagan's former Ambassador to Russia said Reagan would never have embarked on a campaign of encirclement and would have instead, made Russia a partner in the missile defense umbrella.\nDimitri Simes, a Nixon hand, said the biggest problem is that Russia thinks in traditional \"balance of power\" terms. He seemed reticent to say how we view the world. I wonder why, but he also suggested a troubling choice between fighting terrorism in the Middle East, or for the self-determination of Ukraine might be coming.\n1. Did American attempts to expand what was formed as an explicitly anti-Soviet alliance to Russia's borders precede so-called Russian meddling?\n2. Should Ukraine be admitted to NATO, despite the destabilizing effects this will have, and despite its undesirability to half of its own population? By what right or logic does the United States maneuver to exclude Russia from its own historical backyard, and from regions demographically dominated by its own people?\n3. Have any neoconservative policies with regard to Russia been unjustified, or is it, in fact, wholly justified for neoconservative foreign policy to aim, as it does with respect to America itself, for Russia to be constrained and stripped of its historical identity?\n4. Should America be willing to risk war in the Ukraine over a matter so unrelated to American national security as whether a pro-Western or pro-Russian kleptocrat rules in Kiev, and whether there are Russian ships - as there have been since the Crimea was regained from the Muslims - in Sevastopol?\n5. Are American policymakers obliged to contemplate the interests and perceptions, and the historical origins thereof, of other peoples in the formulation and implementation of policy, or are the entitled to choose sides, bereft of understanding, and issue diktats?\n6. Is the apportionment of 'responsibility' for international crises a binary affair?\nA presupposition of most of the criticisms that have been articulated of my commentary on Russian matters is that Russia is in the wrong, and that, in consequence, America simply must do something. The former has never been demonstrated, other than in obvious cases such as idiotic and bellicose rhetoric regarding the nuclear targeting of Poland - primarily because the American role in creating 'conditions of opportunity' has never been acknowledged, but instead, American/NATO expansion has been presupposed as a logical, natural, and wholly justified endeavour - let alone the latter, inasmuch as the relevance of, for example, Kiev to Americans, as distinguished from American foreign policy elites, has never been demonstrated. But I'll be damned if I'm going to lie back and endure the harangue, to the effect that I've already written some script, or, as the manifest implication has it, that I'm somehow denying the legitimate interests of my own country, particularly when the entirely unnecessary and gratuitous expansion of NATO and NATO alliances is precisely what is exacerbating tensions in the Black Sea region, placing members of my family at increased risk for reasons standing in no objective relation to any American interest. Once more: it matters so much that Ukraine cease to be the borderland between West and East that it has been since the conclusion of the Cold War, that the Russophone population of the Ukraine be governed by powers they cannot accept as legitimate, instead of muddling through as they have for two decades, so much, in fact, that these objectives are worth radically decreasing regional stability, and so much that the tragic complicity of American foreign policy in the exacerbation of regional tensions be denied - why, exactly? So that we can follow a puerile narrative of uncomplicated, unmingled good and evil, and pretend that we're crusading for international righteousness, instead of dealing crudely with geopolitical realities Americans themselves have never endured?\nIt too often appears as though the desire of my critics is to exculpate American policymakers, who have manifestly mishandled the relationship with Russia, and have pursued policies guaranteed to summon forth everything they claim to find undesirable in Russian policy - though, intriguingly, this matters not a whit to American policymakers, who will pursue precisely the same policies without respect to actual Russian policy. NATO alliances and assurances should be extended to the Ukraine, and Russia should be denied influence, not even sovereignty, in areas that are historically Russian, even at peril of war - why, exactly? So that Americans can indulge a desire for self-congratulation and moral superiority? So that conservatives can indulge in Cold War nostalgia, thereby concealing from themselves the reality of support for the very post-nationalist global order they claim to oppose? Bear-baiting is, for American conservatives, the sugar coating that enables them to swallow a militarized and transnationalist foreign policy inimical to fundamental conservative commitments, inclusive of domestic republicanism; it is the anesthetic for the sting of betrayal.\nReagan was infinitely shrewder, and yes, more just in his dealings with the Soviets than the neoconservatives and internationalists have been in their dealings with Russia. The approach of the latter has been to validate every dark suspicion of the Russians and then to blame the Russians for not accepting, absent evidence, the purity of American intentions. Finally, their approach is to curse the Russians for their temerity in responding to American gratuities, such as the utterly pointless expansion of NATO, the attempts to transform basing allowances in Central Asia, offered by Putin to facilitate the Afghan campaign, into permanent, anti-Russian military alliances, and so forth.\nJeff, my purpose as your critic is to point out the obvious: Your self-parodying paleocon determination to blame America for anything bad that Russia does (we always \"called it forth\"), and your intransigent Russophilia, which, this post makes evident, will remain unshaken *even if Russia annexes a chunk of the Ukraine*. It's ludicrous.\nAnd now, I'm done pointing out the obvious and will leave the thread to its own devices. But if Russia does annex a chunk of the Ukraine and you do come out saying the same old stuff I predicted, I'll have the rather sad satisfaction of being able to say that I predicted it. Induction works. Sometimes, unfortunately.\nSelf-parody. That's rich, coming from someone who cannot admit that American foreign policy has increased the probability of the very things American strategists claim to oppose. Also rich, coming from someone who refuses to reckon with the actual nature and trajectory of American foreign policy; accusations of \"Russophilia\" are perfectly analogous to the easy recourse made to attributions of \"Zionism\" in certain paleocon circles, cheap ad hominems intended to absolve the speaker of any responsibility to examine the substance of foreign policy. Serving as handmaiden to this refusal of argumentation is a bizarre sort of foreign-policy nominalism, eg., Russian annexation of Eastern Ukraine, or the Crimea, would be wrong, wrong, wrong, but it is strictly verboten to examine the relationship of this action with any other actions taken in the region, especially actions taken by American strategists, and it is a veritable act of blasphemy to imply that American foreign policy has been in any way mistaken, naive, confused, wrong, or counterproductive. I also note that accusations of \"Russophilia\" are a cute diversion, a way of insinuating that the faults lie in the critics of American foreign policy, and of evading examination of the questions of whether, for example, a republican society such as ours is supposed to be can sustain these imperial commitments without altering its substance, and whether, by refusing to countenance any examination of American foreign policy in Eastern Europe, conservative anti-paleos (on this question, at least) are not abetting the very things they claim to despise about the European Union & etc. The answers, of course, are negative, and positive, respectively.\nWe are right back where Sage and Dmitri Simes place us: in a world order in which other nations practice great-power politics, as they always have done, and the United States practices something else, which something else intermittently entails that other nations are not entitled to the perquisites the US asserts for itself. It is deeply incoherent, perilous, and unexamined. The Cold War is over. Unipolarity is over. Welcome back to history.\nGuys, one thing we should all be able to agree on: Russia and the US represent existential threats to one another. That is always and everywhere a very difficult thing for any country to accept. Whatever the right or wrong of a given situation may be, there must never be direct violent confrontation between the two countries. If it does happen, there will be few people left to care about who was right and who was wrong.\n\"On NPR last week, Jack Matlock, Reagan's former Ambassador to Russia said Reagan would never have embarked on a campaign of encirclement and would have instead, made Russia a partner in the missile defense umbrella.\"\nThat's interesting. People differ when they evaluate Reagan, but everyone must admit that under Reagan and Gorbachev we exited the Cold War alive - most of us. That was an inspiring and somewhat surprising accomplishment.\nRussian annexation of Eastern Ukraine, or the Crimea, would be wrong, wrong, wrong...\nSo...would it be wrong or not?\nPosted by William Luse | August 30, 2008 10:38 PM\nIt would be wrong, but not necessarily wrong in a way that would legitimate NATO expansion, or American intervention, or any such thing. Many things in the world are wrong, much more so than annexation of the Crimea ever could be, and yet that wrongness doesn't, of itself, generate the imperative to Do Something. What we're dealing with in situation like this is the utter incoherence of vast numbers of national borders in this world, and the simultaneous prudential necessity - not a necessity equal in importance to natural law, or absolute morality, or any such thing - of preserving them, so as to foreclose upon a sanguinary readjustment. And in this case, the thing to do, on both sides, is precisely nothing: the Ukraine keeps its ambiguous status between East and West, with no one pushing it either way. Westerners have to accept the reality, which is that American foreign policy is complicit in what has happened in Russia since the end of the disastrous Yeltsin administration, as it has adopted the unipolar posture, and expanded its postmodern imperial commitments, in precisely the manner that anyone knowledgeable about Russia could have predicted would reignite Russian nationalism. Kosovo really was the tipping point, although there occurred several minor tipping points between the initial intervention and the declaration of independence, inasmuch as the initial Western intervention clued the Russians in to the fact that America did not want a partnership with Russia so much as to reduce it to just another postmodernist European fantasy-land. And so, there was Putin.\nAgain, there are plenty of distinctions to be drawn, discriminations to be introduced, but what I sense in my critics is a refusal of the ambiguities and difficulties that cannot be removed from history: Kosovo doesn't have to be independent, but can just muddle through as long as possible as an autonomous district of Serbia; South Ossetia and Abkhazia don't have to be forcibly reincorporated into Georgia, since those peoples and the Georgians do nothing but kill one another and burn each other's property when made to coexist in the same state, but can muddle through with Russian peacekeepers and the status of autonomous districts of Georgia. And so forth. It is is this terrible, simplifying desire to have it out, to imagine that problems can be solved, and to imagine that the apportionment of guilt is transparently easy, that wreaks so much harm. We could sit down with ethno-political maps and spend an afternoon redrawing boundaries, so as to make them rational - and were we to do so, quite a few countries would lose territory, and quite a few would gain it, and one that would lose would be the Ukraine - but that is an unreal, fantasmatic world, one in which we cannot live, and so we must muddle through and attempt to avoid conflict. And that requires change on the part of Americans, and not only Russians. To deny the former is to fetishize things that are not absolute, such as the Soviet borders of the Ukraine, or a NATO alliance past its sell-by date, current American international self-conceptions, & etc. Because these things - the orientation of the Ukraine, for example - are not transcendently important, the thing to do is to muddle through, because that is the nature of historical experience.\nWhy is it necessary to assume that we 'paleos,' since we're not Russophobes, automatically must therefore be Russophiles? This is akin to the idea that since we're not uncritical supporters of Zionism, we're therefore anti-Semitic. As Maximos states above, the distinctions being drawn here seem overly simplistic.\nPosted by Rob G | August 31, 2008 12:49 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 29267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wheninamsterdam-omyamsterdamtours.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-time-top-10-things-to-do-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BEF5PDW4BX5VFBGXQNXCQCR3MVLTNF7T", "length": 141, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wheninamsterdam-omyamsterdamtours.blogspot.com", "title": "When In Amsterdam...: All-time Top 10 Things to do in Amsterdam: a critical look", "raw_content": "When in Amsterdam...there are many street markets. Foodhallen is a food market in part of the old tram depot of Amsterdam west. The market...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 14777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://widowedvillage.org/forum/topics/staying-in-the-marital-home-or-moving-elsewhere?id=5241226%3ATopic%3A375880&page=10", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:12Z", "digest": "sha1:L6LP6TW7JEJG3HMCRGGUCBNKL7Y4SFU7", "length": 7507, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "widowedvillage.org", "title": "Staying in the marital home or moving elsewhere? - Widowed Village", "raw_content": "Staying in the marital home or moving elsewhere?\nPosted by newlife on June 21, 2013 at 12:59pm in Open area -- discuss anything you want. Start a topic? Sure!\nMy house is much too big for one person and the maintenance is difficult for me, but I am so undecided if I want to sell it and, if I did, where would I go? So many folks advise to wait a year. Well, I'm 5 months into this journey and feel that I need to start looking at the possibilities. Given that my Jim's death was sudden and unexpected, I had NEVER considered anything other than staying here till we were both gone.\nI'm 63 which is relatively young, but old enough to not feel that I have the energy or interest to start a whole new life. Maybe things will change as this grief process unfolds, but it is hard for me to want to think about all the changes required to sell this house and then move elsewhere. On the other hand, I just cannot bear the thought of living out the rest of my life here in the old 6 bedroom house with the original 1968 furnace. My hubby was very good at doing a bit of maintenance here and there; he knew when and who to call in to fix things before they broke it seems. My cash flow is not as good as ours was before our nest egg became an \"estate\" that had to be divided.\nI'm wondering what others are thinking. What are the pitfallls? Did anyone have some success with staying? Or with moving?\nThanks so much to all of you out there who share so much of yourselves here. Hugs!\nPermalink Reply by Patience on September 13, 2017 at 7:35pm\nHi Susan, I do the same thing! :-/\nPermalink Reply by Susan on September 13, 2017 at 4:13pm\nYou made some great points about asking ourselves WHY to stay or why to move.\nAlthough for now, I'll be staying here. We have lived in our home for 20 some years. He bought it for me.\nThanks for sharing those ideas.\nPermalink Reply by Suzy B on January 18, 2018 at 6:39am\nI lost my husband in mid-2015, and am just now starting to fix up my house to put on the market. The main reason I will be selling the house is that I did not get the life insurance money I was expecting and my husband left behind much more debt than anything in the way of assets. Basically, most of the money I have in the world is tied up in my house, in which I have 100% equity. I was getting Social Security survivors benefits for my youngest child until he turned 18 three months ago, and that money was 3/4 of my income. Now it is gone, and I am having to transfer $1100 per month from savings just to pay the bills. Obviously this is not sustainable. I was very resistant at first to selling the home we have lived in for the last 12 years, but now it appears I have no choice. My goal is to downsize and use the money I make on the sale to sustain me until I get to age 60 and can start collecting widow's benefits. Meanwhile, my children are aged 23, 21 and 18. My eldest just moved out recently and the other two are still in college and will probably be moving out within the next 3-4 years. So, as I look to the future, I won't be needing this 4 bedroom house I'm currently in. I've decided I want to buy a house FOR ME, that suits me.\nPermalink Reply by Susan on January 18, 2018 at 9:12am\nDid your husband have a pension that you can draw from? No need to answer that, I just wanted to bring it up to you in case you forgot to think of it.\nI too have a 4 bedroom house. But I can't quite bring myself to think about moving. At least not yet. I guess I would need a good reason to move.\nHi Susan. Nope, no pension. My husband was on disability the last ten years of his life. He also liquidated his 401k and bought a car with the money three years before he died. I do still have the car, at least, and drive it every day. I'm just lucky I don't live in a community property state or I would be even worse off.\nPermalink Reply by Susan on January 20, 2018 at 5:25pm\nI'm sorry Suzy... I can't think of any other resource you could try. Take a look at this when you have time. I don't know if it will be of any help or not.\nhttps://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=svljWvvYAsXQsAXP0Lfg...\nPermalink Reply by Lupe's husband on January 23, 2018 at 4:09am\nDepending on the state you live in, Suzy, you might qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). If for any reason, you can't work, look into getting Social Security Disability Income. If you can work,, the economy is doing relatively well and there are plenty of entry level jobs available. Depending on where you live, there might be seasonal work in the Spring or Summer if you live in an area that gets plenty of tourists. Since I don't know your exact situation, I'm brainstorming here more than anything else.\nPermalink Reply by SweetMelissa2007 on March 18, 2018 at 8:41am\nSSI is the equivalent of Welfare - the requirements mean absolutely no money - no savings, no sellable assets/property ...\nYour savings will have to be reported. Until it is completely exhausted will you meet one of the required qualifications ...\nI agree, the entry market for jobs has been doing well for years ...\nDownsizing is daunting work, however, it sounds like the best option ...\nPermalink Reply by susanallen on March 11, 2018 at 3:24pm\nI made the big move last October. One day about 2 years ago a developer spied me mowing my lawn, and he expressed an interest in purchasing my acre. I eventually sold my family home to him, which was very hard. In October I moved to the little town of Republic, WA, which is 300 miles east of Seattle. I am a 66-year-old widow, and I had many trepidations about moving, but with God's help, I pulled it off. I left most of my possessions behind. My home was in such awful condition that I wouldn't have been able to sell it to an individual, as it would have never qualified for any kind of loan. I bought 8-1/2 acres where I could have a horse or whatever else I want. I have 4 geese, 3 ducks, a flock of chickens, a python (my 10th anniversary present from John), 2 tortoises, a dog and 2 cats. Republic can get to 20 below in the winter, and it snows a lot. We will see if I survive (or not). I have no real family, and no one really cared what I did.. Sometimes change can be a good thing.\nPermalink Reply by Susan on March 11, 2018 at 3:55pm\nI wish you much luck :-)\nPermalink Reply by Lost Izzie on March 19, 2018 at 9:36pm\nWe bought the house just over two years ago, after most of our married life living in apartments. I have a mortgage and it's the same amount I was paying in rent before we bought. I can handle this. My husband was retired for years before this move, his SSI check was just fun money for him and it paid for his Med B and RX. I'll be fine in this house, it's in the same town where my parents live. It is also in a small rural town, my job is in the little bit larger town 8 miles away. The house is a 2 bedroom with a garage on a quarter lot. There are kids all over who are happy to shovel snow and mow the yard for $5-10. My nephews spend the summer here and are happy with painting and the odd redo jobs I have. Anything else, I can hire a handyman. Need my patio doors replaced, I have the new doors in the garage.\nPermalink Reply by soulmate on February 4, 2019 at 7:21pm\nI sold our home. Lived there for 25 years but losing two wives (6 years apart) in the same room made it almost unbearable to live there. I couldn\u2019t sleep in our bed. Slept on the couch. Felt like House of Usher. Had to sell to survive. Too many \u201cghosts.\u201d Beautiful home-but too many memories and pain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wind4africa.net/news/viewnews.php?ID=413", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DQ5SSBBAC7KINZFAUYQRX3DVEZOV453V", "length": 2076, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "wind4africa.net", "title": "wind4africa - EC\u2019s clean energy fund to invest \u20ac22m in Africa and Asia", "raw_content": "EC\u2019s clean energy fund to invest \u20ac22m in Africa and Asia\nThe Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) set up by the European Commission, has decided on a first set of investments totalling \u20ac22 million in Africa and Asia.\nThe GEEREF Investment Committee has given preliminary approval to investments totalling \u20ac22 million in two commercial renewable energy investment funds, one focusing on projects in sub-Saharan and southern Africa and the other in Asia with a primary focus on India.\nBoth funds will invest equity in renewable energy projects such as wind energy generation, small hydro-electric generation, biomass and methane recovery. In the regions where the two funds operate, there is a lack of equity investment available through the market for these types of projects.\n\"1.6 billion people worldwide still have no regular access to reliable energy services. GEEREF investments will accelerate the transfer, development and deployment of environmentally sound technologies, and thereby help to bring secure and clean energy supplies to people in poorer regions of the world,\" says Louis Michel, European Commissioner for development and humanitarian aid.\nDecided on by the Commission in 2006, GEEREF will primarily invest in renewable energy and sustainable energy infrastructure funds and similar investment structures tailored to regional needs and conditions. With other partners, it will also co-invest in specific projects. The focus will be mainly on investments below \u20ac10m as these are mostly \u2018ignored\u2019 by private investors and international finance institutions.\nIt is envisaged that GEEREF will invest in regional sub-funds for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region, North Africa, non-EU Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. Together the European Commission, Germany and Norway have committed about \u20ac110m to the GEEREF over the period 2007-2011 and it is envisaged that further financing from other public and private sources will be forthcoming.\nAdditional information: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/jrec/energy_fund_en.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 197.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wordsofwisdom.uucg.org/october-12-the-labyrinth-fairness-vs-justice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:11Z", "digest": "sha1:RJ5XWWVU4G5SSXPYFEK7M3XBCOUOROOO", "length": 2424, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wordsofwisdom.uucg.org", "title": "The Labyrinth: Fair vs. Just | Words of Wisdom?", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Labyrinth: A Loop\nThe Labyrinth: of Gratitude \u2192\nThe Labyrinth: Fair vs. Just\nSarah: That\u2019s not fair!\nJareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?\n~ lines from Jim Henson\u2019s film, Labyrinth, 1986\nThe majority \u2013 if not all \u2013 of people reading this, through sheer luck, have been born into first-world circumstances. Even among those, there are millions of people living in poverty and various situations of disadvantage. I think most of us can agree that this is not \u201cfair\u201d, although it doesn\u2019t necessarily speak to justice.\nIt is the role of the State, as representative of the populace, to craft guidelines by which individuals are held accountable for upholding their responsibilities to each other. To this end, from a criminal prosecution standpoint, a Justice System only works when it is fairly administered. Judgments must be free from discrimination or bias in order for justice to be served.\nFrom an economic standpoint, the line between fairness and justice seems to have blurred. Today, economic justice is a topic which has become tragically divisive in American society. Rising income inequality and what seems to be a deeply entrenched attitude of callousness on the part of the \u201c1%\u201d and the Republican Party platform are calling into question what we, as a society, are about. When we equate open heart with bleeding heart, we have strayed \u2013 from merely a human standpoint \u2013 from the labyrinthine path toward justice.\nHuman rights are a justice issue. Equality of opportunity (not to be confused with absolute equality) is a justice issue. Governments and citizens have a moral obligation to address these via raising awareness and crafting policies and legislation that pave the way toward their realization.\nThe voice of fairness is a whisper from the heart, telling us something isn\u2019t right. The voice of justice is a shout from the soul, imploring us to do something about it. While fairness is merely something we can observe, justice is something we can affect. Fairness calls us to compassion. Justice calls us to action. Living in a world where fairness prevailed would be wonderful. Creating a world where justice prevails is essential. It\u2019s time to get to work.\nThis entry was posted in The Labyrinth and tagged action, compassion, empowerment, equity, fairness, justice, social justice, UU 2nd Principle, UU 5th Principle, UU 6th Principle. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://worldheritage.org/articles/eng/Thyroxine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QTHHM6IG3ZOLGHY44IANW277QIVLI4I2", "length": 16190, "nlines": 117, "source_domain": "worldheritage.org", "title": "Read eBooks online | World Heritage Encyclopedia | Thyroxine", "raw_content": "The structural formula (left) and a space-filling model (right) of (S)-triiodothyronine (T3, also called liothyronine in the pharmaceutical industry)\nThe structural formula (left) and a space-filling model (right) of (S)-thyroxine (T4.)\nThe thyroid hormones, triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), are tyrosine-based hormones produced by the thyroid gland that are primarily responsible for regulation of metabolism. Iodine is necessary for the production of T3 and T4. A deficiency of iodine leads to decreased production of T3 and T4, enlarges the thyroid tissue and will cause the disease known as goitre. The major form of thyroid hormone in the blood is thyroxine (T4), which has a longer half-life than T3. The ratio of T4 to T3 released into the blood is roughly 20 to 1. T4 is converted to the active T3 (three to four times more potent than T4) within cells by deiodinases (5'-iodinase). These are further processed by decarboxylation and deiodination to produce iodothyronamine (T1a) and thyronamine (T0a). All three isoforms of the deiodinases are selenium-containing enzymes, thus dietary selenium is essential for T3 production.\n2.2 Peripheral\n2.3 Initiation of production in fetuses\n3 Effect of iodine deficiency on thyroid hormone synthesis\n4 Circulation and transport\n4.1 Plasma transport\n4.2 Membrane transport\n4.3 Intracellular transport\n6 Effects of thyroxine\n7.1 Formulations\n8 Related diseases\n9 Anti-thyroid drugs\nThe thyronines act on nearly every cell in the body. They act to increase the basal metabolic rate, affect protein synthesis, help regulate long bone growth (synergy with growth hormone) and neural maturation, and increase the body's sensitivity to catecholamines (such as adrenaline) by permissiveness. The thyroid hormones are essential to proper development and differentiation of all cells of the human body. These hormones also regulate protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism, affecting how human cells use energetic compounds. They also stimulate vitamin metabolism. Numerous physiological and pathological stimuli influence thyroid hormone synthesis.\nThyroid hormone leads to heat generation in humans. However, the thyronamines function via some unknown mechanism to inhibit neuronal activity; this plays an important role in the hibernation cycles of mammals and the moulting behaviour of birds. One effect of administering the thyronamines is a severe drop in body temperature.\nThyroid hormones (T4 and T3) are produced by the follicular cells of the thyroid gland and are regulated by TSH made by the thyrotropes of the anterior pituitary gland. The effects of T4 in vivo are mediated via T3 (T4 is converted to T3 in target tissues). T3 is 3- to 5- fold more active than T4.\nThyroxine (3,5,3',5'-tetraiodothyronine) is produced by follicular cells of the thyroid gland. It is produced as the precursor thyroglobulin (this is not the same as TBG), which is cleaved by enzymes to produce active T4.\nThe Na+/I- symporter transports two sodium ions across the basement membrane of the follicular cells along with an iodine ion. This is a secondary active transporter that utilises the concentration gradient of Na+ to move I- against its concentration gradient.\nI- is moved across the apical membrane into the colloid of the follicle.\nThyroperoxidase oxidises two I- to form I2. Iodide is non-reactive, and only the more reactive iodine is required for the next step.\nThe thyroperoxidase iodinates the tyrosyl residues of the thyroglobulin within the colloid. The thyroglobulin was synthesised in the ER of the follicular cell and secreted into the colloid.\nThyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) released from the pituitary gland binds the TSH receptor ( a Gs protein-coupled receptor) on the basolateral membrane of the cell and stimulates the endocytosis of the colloid.\nThe endocytosed vesicles fuse with the lysosomes of the follicular cell. The lysosomal enzymes cleave the T4 from the iodinated thyroglobulin.\nThese vesicles are then exocytosed, releasing the thyroid hormones.\nThyroxine is produced by attaching iodine atoms to the ring structures of tyrosine molecules. Thyroxine (T4) contains four iodine atoms. Triiodothyronine (T3) is identical to T4, but it has one less iodine atom per molecule.\nIodide is actively absorbed from the bloodstream by a process called iodide trapping. In this process, sodium is cotransported with iodide from the basolateral side of the membrane into the cell and then concentrated in the thyroid follicles to about thirty times its concentration in the blood. Via a reaction with the enzyme thyroperoxidase, iodine is bound to tyrosine residues in the thyroglobulin molecules, forming monoiodotyrosine (MIT) and diiodotyrosine (DIT). Linking two moieties of DIT produces thyroxine. Combining one particle of MIT and one particle of DIT produces triiodothyronine.\nDIT + MIT \u2192 r-T3 (biologically inactive)\nMIT + DIT \u2192 triiodothyronine (usually referred to as T3)\nDIT + DIT \u2192 thyroxine (referred to as T4)\nProteases digest iodinated thyroglobulin, releasing the hormones T4 and T3, the biologically active agents central to metabolic regulation.\nThyroxine is believed to be a prohormone and a reservoir for the most active and main thyroid hormone T3. T4 is converted as required in the tissues by iodothyronine deiodinase. Deficiency of deiodinase can mimic an iodine deficiency. T3 is more active than T4 and is the final form of the hormone, though it is present in less quantity than T4.\nInitiation of production in fetuses\nThyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) is released from hypothalamus by 6 \u2013 8 weeks, and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion from fetal pitutary is evident by 12 weeks of gestation, and fetal production of thyroxine (T4) reaches a clinically significant level at 18\u201320 weeks.[4] Fetal triiodothyronine (T3) remains low (less than 15 ng/dL) until 30 weeks of gestation, and increases to 50 ng/dL at term.[4] Fetal self-sufficiency of thyroid hormones protects the fetus against e.g. brain development abnormalities caused by maternal hypothyroidism.[5]\nEffect of iodine deficiency on thyroid hormone synthesis\nIf there is a deficiency of dietary iodine, the thyroid will not be able to make thyroid hormone. The lack of thyroid hormone will lead to decreased negative feedback on the pituitary, leading to increased production of thyroid-stimulating hormone, which causes the thyroid to enlarge (the resulting medical condition is called endemic colloid goiter; see goiter). This has the effect of increasing the thyroid's ability to trap more iodide, compensating for the iodine deficiency and allowing it to produce adequate amounts of thyroid hormone.\nCirculation and transport\nMost of the thyroid hormone circulating in the blood is bound to transport proteins. Only a very small fraction of the circulating hormone is free (unbound) and biologically active, hence measuring concentrations of free thyroid hormones is of great diagnostic value.\nWhen thyroid hormone is bound, it is not active, so the amount of free T3/T4 is what is important. For this reason, measuring total thyroxine in the blood can be misleading.\nbound to thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) 70%\nbound to transthyretin or \"thyroxine-binding prealbumin\" (TTR or TBPA) 10-15%\nalbumin 15-20%\nunbound T4 (fT4) 0.03%\nunbound T3 (fT3) 0.3%\nDespite being lipophilic, T3 and T4 cross the cell membrane via carrier-mediated transport, which is ATP-dependent.[6] The thyroid hormones function via a well-studied set of nuclear receptors in the nucleus of the cell, the thyroid hormone receptors.\nT1a and T0a are positively charged and do not cross the membrane; they are believed to function via the G-protein-coupled receptor located in the cell membrane.\nAnother critical diagnostic tool is measurement of the amount of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is present.\nContrary to common belief, thyroid hormones can not traverse cell membranes in a passive manner like other lipophilic substances. The iodine in o-position makes the phenolic OH-group more acidic, resulting in a negative charge at physiological pH. However, at least 10 different active, energy-dependent and genetic-regulated iodothyronine transporters have been identified in humans. They guarantee that intracellular levels of thyroid hormones are higher than in blood plasma or interstitial fluids.[7]\nLittle is known about intracellular kinetics of thyroid hormones. However, recently it could be demonstrated that the crystallin CRYM binds 3,5,3\u2032-triiodothyronine in vivo.[8]\nFurther information: Thyroid function tests\nThyroxine and triiodothyronine can be measured as free thyroxine and free triiodothyronine, which are indicators of thyroxine and triiodothyronine activities in the body. They can also be measured as total thyroxine and total triiodothyronine, which also depend on the thyroxine and triiodothyronine that is bound to thyroxine-binding globulin. A related parameter is the free thyroxine index, which is total thyroxine multiplied by thyroid hormone uptake, which, in turn, is a measure of the unbound thyroxine-binding globulins.[9]\nEffects of thyroxine\nIncreases cardiac output\nIncreases ventilation rate\nIncreases basal metabolic rate\nPotentiates the effects of catecholamines (i.e. increases sympathetic activity)\nPotentiates brain development\nThickens endometrium in females\nincrease metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates (i.e. they have a catabolic action[10])\nBoth T3 and T4 are used to treat thyroid hormone deficiency (hypothyroidism). They are both absorbed well by the gut, so can be given orally. Levothyroxine is the pharmaceutical name (INN) of levothyroxine sodium (T4), which is metabolised more slowly than T3 and hence usually only needs once-daily administration. Natural desiccated thyroid hormones are derived from pig thyroid glands, and are a \"natural\" hypothyroid treatment containing 20% T3 and traces of T2, T1 and calcitonin. Also available are synthetic combinations of T3/T4 in different ratios (such as liotrix) and pure-T3 medications (INN: liothyronine). Levothyroxine Sodium is usually the first course of treatment tried. Some patients feel they do better on desiccated thyroid hormones; however, this is based on anecdotal evidence and clinical trials have not shown any benefit over the biosynthetic forms.[11]\nThyronamines have no medical usages yet, though their use has been proposed for controlled induction of hypothermia, which causes the brain to enter a protective cycle, useful in preventing damage during ischemic shock.\nSynthetic thyroxine was first successfully produced by Charles Robert Harington and George Barger in 1926.\nToday most patients are treated with levothyroxine, or a similar synthetic thyroid hormone.[12][13][14] However, natural thyroid hormone supplements from the dried thyroids of animals are still available.[14] Natural thyroid hormones have become less popular, due to evidence that varying hormone concentrations in the thyroids of animals before they are slaughtered leads to inconsistent potency and stability.[15][16] Levothyroxine contains T4 only and is therefore largely ineffective for patients unable to convert T4 to T3.[17] These patients may choose to take natural thyroid hormone as it contains a mixture of T4 and T3,[14][18][19][20][21] or alternatively supplement with a synthetic T3 treatment.[22] In these cases, synthetic liothyronine is preferred due to the potential differences between drug lots of natural thyroid products. It would be counterintuitive to supplement with T4-only if the patient cannot convert T4 to T3. Some natural thyroid hormone brands are F.D.A. approved, but some are not.[23][24][25] Thyroid hormones are generally well tolerated.[13] Thyroid hormones are usually not dangerous for pregnant women or nursing mothers, but should be given under a doctor's supervision. In fact, if a woman who is hypothyroid is left untreated, her baby is at a higher risk for birth defects. When pregnant, a woman with a low functioning thyroid will also need to increase her dosage of thyroid hormone.[13] One exception is that thyroid hormones may aggravate heart conditions, especially in older patients; therefore, doctors may start these patients on a lower dose & work up to avoid risk of heart attack.[14]\nBoth excess and deficiency of thyroxine can cause disorders.\nHyperthyroidism (an example is Graves Disease) is the clinical syndrome caused by an excess of circulating free thyroxine, free triiodothyronine, or both. It is a common disorder that affects approximately 2% of women and 0.2% of men. Thyrotoxicosis is often used interchangeably with hyperthyroidism, but there are subtle differences. Although thyrotoxicosis also refers to an increase in circulating thyroid hormones, it can be caused by the intake of thyroxine tablets or by an over-active thyroid, whereas hyperthyroidism refers solely to an over-active thyroid.\nHypothyroidism (an example is Hashimoto's thyroiditis) is the case where there is a deficiency of thyroxine, triiodiothyronine, or both.\nClinical depression can sometimes be caused by hypothyroidism.[26] Some research[27] has shown that T3 is found in the junctions of synapses, and regulates the amounts and activity of serotonin, norepinephrine, and \u03b3-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain.\nPreterm births can suffer neurodevelopmental disorders due to lack of maternal thyroid hormones, at a time when their own thyroid is unable to meet their postnatal needs.[28]\nIodine uptake against a concentration gradient is mediated by a sodium-iodine symporter and is linked to a sodium-potassium ATPase. Perchlorate and thiocyanate are drugs that can compete with iodine at this point. 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U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Alabama/Handout via REUTERS\nAlec Burlakoff, who was the drugmaker\u2019s vice president of sales, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy, becoming the highest-level executive to admit wrongdoing in the wide-ranging investigation of Insys.\nBy agreeing to cooperate, Burlakoff, 44, could become a key witness at the January trial of six other former Insys executives and managers accused of engaging in the scheme, including the company\u2019s billionaire founder, John Kapoor.\nKapoor and his co-defendants have pleaded not guilty. Beth Wilkinson, Kapoor\u2019s lawyer, did not respond to a request for comment.\nThe case centers on Subsys, Insys\u2019 under-the-tongue spray for managing pain in cancer patients that contains fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.\nThe U.S. Justice Department contends Insys paid kickbacks to doctors to prescribe Subsys, often via fees to participate in sham speaker programs, ostensibly meant to educate medical professionals about the drug.\nProsecutors allege that from 2012 to 2015 Kapoor, former Chief Executive Michael Babich, Burlakoff and others conspired to pay bribes to doctors to prescribe Subsys in order to boost sales and to defraud insurers into paying for it.\nBurlakoff supervised the company\u2019s sales managers and sales representatives and pushed them to use the speaker programs to pay doctors to prescribe Subsys, according to prosecutors.\nProsecutors have sought to link the case to the country\u2019s opioid addiction epidemic. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioids were involved in more than 49,000 overdose deaths in 2017.\nOther defendants include Michael Gurry, Insys\u2019 former vice president of managed markets; Richard Simon, a former national director of sales; and Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan, both of whom were regional sales directors.\nInsys in August announced it had agreed to pay at least $150 million as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.\nReporting by Nate Raymond, Editing by Rosalba O\u2019Brien and Bill Berkot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wp.lehman.edu/lehman-today/noted-epidemiologist-dr-william-w-latimer-named-dean-of-the-new-school-of-health-sciences-human-services-and-nursing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5ZEPLNCXSROFHJRE3LCKMK2IDMQK5NS", "length": 4194, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wp.lehman.edu", "title": "Noted Epidemiologist Dr. William W. Latimer Named Dean of the New School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing", "raw_content": "alex.burnett\tFebruary 14, 2014 7:43 am\tCUNY Institute for Health Equity, Faculty, Graduate Studies, Health Sciences Dept, Media Relations and Publications, Nursing Dept, President Fern\u00e1ndez, Provost, Social Work Dept, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Dept, Spotlight on Research, Undergraduate Studies\nDr. Latimer to Join Lehman College in September 2014 from the University of Florida\nClick to download a high-resolution photo.\nLehman College has announced that Dr. William W. Latimer has been named founding dean of the School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing. Dr. Latimer comes to the Bronx after serving as the Elizabeth Faulk Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida.\nLehman College\u2019s new School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing consolidates under one academic roof several departments \u2013 Health Sciences; Nursing; Social Work; and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.\n\u201cI feel deeply honored and very fortunate to be the inaugural dean of this new School at Lehman College and have the opportunity to lead an exceptional group of faculty, students, and staff,\u201d said Dr. Latimer. He will begin in his new post on September 2, 2014.\nDr. Latimer\u2019s program of research has been published extensively and continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the past 20 years. He has secured more than $25 million in NIH funding to study the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of infectious disease and drug dependence, with a focus on neurobehavioral risk factors of disease, treatment engagement, and outcome. He previously spent 11 years on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he directed two large training programs for U.S. and international fellows in public health and allied health professions funded by the NIH and the U.S. State Department, respectively.\nDr. Latimer also serves as producer and host of public radio WUFT\u2019s Public Health Minute, which airs throughout northern and central Florida. It focuses on research findings and practical health advice provided by top researchers and clinicians in allied and public health. Dr. Latimer also directs two large clinical trials to prevent infectious disease and treat addiction in Baltimore, Maryland and Pretoria, South Africa.\n\u201cOur new School grew out of Lehman\u2019s focus on education, excellent programs in health sciences, and a commitment to improving the health and well-being of the Bronx communities we serve and beyond,\u201d said President Ricardo R. Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cWe welcome Dr. Latimer\u2019s academic and administrative leadership as he guides the School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing in confronting 21st century problems.\u201d\nHealth and wellness is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy and has become a big concern in the Bronx, where residents face challenges like few other communities \u2013 poverty, high-risk schools, the lack of medical care, a shortage of nutritious food, and more. Working with community partners, Dr. Latimer and the School will take a leading role in confronting these problems. Nursing and social work are already two of Lehman College\u2019s most popular majors. The launch of new School is a case of perfect timing for the Bronx, New York City, and the nation, says Dr. Latimer.\n\u201cThe education and professional training of health practitioners, educators, and researchers as well as the delivery of health care in the United States are undergoing unprecedented transformations,\u201d he said. \u201cThe forward-thinking vision of President Fern\u00e1ndez to found a new School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing provides a basis to both inform and respond to these critically important transformations by positioning Lehman College at the forefront of dialogues and debates on health care.\u201d\n\u201cDr. Latimer is the right person for this exciting yet difficult task of creating a new school\u2014one that is demanded by student need, the economy, and the job landscape,\u201d said Dr. Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Provost of Lehman College. \u201cI know that Dr. Latimer will help us meet these challenges.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 9845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 153.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1uptravel.com/geography/chad.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AXSJYESTTVXMRQY3NT5XXYTMG3JNEFVL", "length": 13615, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.1uptravel.com", "title": "1Up Travel : Chad. Geography, Topography, Climate, Land, Water Systems, Geography and Facts", "raw_content": "You are here > 1Up Travel > Geography and Facts > Chad\nChad Geography and Facts\ntotal: 1.284 million sq km\nArea - comparative: slightly more than three times the size of California\nborder countries: Cameroon 1,094 km, Central African Republic 1,197 km, Libya 1,055 km, Niger 1,175 km, Nigeria 87 km, Sudan 1,360 km\nlowest point: Djourab Depression 160 m\nhighest point: Emi Koussi 3,415 m\nNatural resources: petroleum (unexploited but exploration under way), uranium, natron, kaolin, fish (Lake Chad)\nEnvironment - current issues: inadequate supplies of potable water; improper waste disposal in rural areas contributes to soil and water pollution; desertification\nparty to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\nGeography - note: landlocked; Lake Chad is the most significant water body in the Sahel\nSize: Approximately 1,284,000 square kilometers.\nTopography: Northern third desert, with mountains in north and plateaus in northeast; central third broad, arid savanna with Lake Chad in west, massif in center, and highlands in east; southern third wooded and humid lowlands, intersected by rivers.\nClimate: Northern Saharan zone generally hot and dry; central sahelian zone mostly dry with rainy season from June to early September; southern soudanian zone tropical with rainy season lasting from April to October.\nLocated in north-central Africa, Chad stretches for about 1,800 kilometers from its northernmost point to its southern boundary. Except in the far northwest and south, where its borders converge, Chad's average width is about 800 kilometers. Its area of 1,284,000 square kilometers is roughly equal to the combined areas of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. Chad's neighbors include Libya to the north, Niger and Nigeria to the west, Sudan to the east, Central African Republic to the south, and Cameroon to the southwest.\nChad exhibits two striking geographical characteristics. First, the country is landlocked. N'Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1,100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean; Ab\ufffdch\ufffd, a major city in the east, lies 2,650 kilometers from the Red Sea; and Faya Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1,550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. These vast distances from the sea have had a profound impact on Chad's historical and contemporary development. The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Zaire River system. Although much of Chad's distinctiveness comes from this diversity of influences, since independence the diversity has also been an obstacle to the creation of a national identity.\nAlthough Chadian society is economically, socially, and culturally fragmented, the country's geography is unified by the Lake Chad Basin . Once a huge inland sea (the Pale-Chadian Sea) whose only remnant is shallow Lake Chad, this vast depression extends west into Nigeria and Niger. The larger, northern portion of the basin is bounded within Chad by the Tibesti Mountains in the northwest, the Ennedi Plateau in the northeast, the Ouadda\ufffd Highlands in the east along the border with Sudan, the Gu\ufffdra Massif in central Chad, and the Mandara Mountains along Chad's southwestern border with Cameroon. The smaller, southern part of the basin falls almost exclusively in Chad. It is delimited in the north by the Gu\ufffdra Massif, in the south by highlands 250 kilometers south of the border with Central African Republic, and in the southwest by the Mandara Mountains.\nLake Chad, located in the southwestern part of the basin at an altitude of 282 meters, surprisingly does not mark the basin's lowest point; instead, this is found in the Bodele and Djourab regions in the north-central and northeastern parts of the country, respectively. This oddity arises because the great stationary dunes (ergs) of the Kanem region create a dam, preventing lake waters from flowing to the basin's lowest point. At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.\nNorth and northeast of Lake Chad, the basin extends for more than 800 kilometers, passing through regions characterized by great rolling dunes separated by very deep depressions. Although vegetation holds the dunes in place in the Kanem region, farther north they are bare and have a fluid, rippling character. From its low point in the Djourab, the basin then rises to the plateaus and peaks of the Tibesti Mountains in the north. The summit of this formation--as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert--is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3,414 meters above sea level. The basin's northeastern limit is the Ennedi Plateau, whose limestone bed rises in steps etched by erosion.\nEast of the lake, the basin rises gradually to the Ouadda\ufffd Highlands, which mark Chad's eastern border and also divide the Chad and Nile watersheds. Southeast of Lake Chad, the regular contours of the terrain are broken by the Gu\ufffdra Massif, which divides the basin into its northern and southern parts.\nSouth of the lake lie the floodplains of the Chari and Logone rivers, much of which are inundated during the rainy season. Farther south, the basin floor slopes upward, forming a series of low sand and clay plateaus, called koros, which eventually climb to 615 meters above sea level. South of the Chadian border, the koros divide the Lake Chad Basin from the Ubangi-Zaire river system.\nPermanent streams do not exist in northern or central Chad. Following infrequent rains in the Ennedi Plateau and Ouadda\ufffd Highlands, water may flow through depressions called enneris and wadis. Often the result of flash floods, such streams usually dry out within a few days as the remaining puddles seep into the sandy clay soil. The most important of these streams is the Batha, which in the rainy season carries water west from the Ouadda\ufffd Highlands and the Gu\ufffdra Massif to Lake Fitri.\nChad's major rivers are the Chari and the Logone and their tributaries, which flow from the southeast into Lake Chad. Both river systems rise in the highlands of Central African Republic and Cameroon, regions that receive more than 1,250 millimeters of rainfall annually. Fed by rivers of Central African Republic, as well as by the Bahr Salamat, Bahr Aouk, and Bahr Sara rivers of southeastern Chad, the Chari River is about 1,200 kilometers long. From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N'Djamena. The Chari's volume varies greatly, from 17 cubic meters per second during the dry season to 340 cubic meters per second during the wettest part of the year.\nThe Logone River is formed by tributaries flowing from Cameroon and Central African Republic. Both shorter and smaller in volume than the Chari, it flows northeast for 960 kilometers; its volume ranges from five to eighty-five cubic meters per second. At N'Djamena the Logone empties into the Chari, and the combined rivers flow together for thirty kilometers through a large delta and into Lake Chad. At the end of the rainy season in the fall, the river overflows its banks and creates a huge floodplain in the delta.\nThe seventh largest lake in the world (and the fourth largest in Africa), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert. The Chari River contributes 95 percent of Lake Chad's water, an average annual volume of 40 billion cubic meters, 95 percent of which is lost to evaporation. The size of the lake is determined by rains in the southern highlands bordering the basin and by temperatures in the Sahel. Fluctuations in both cause the lake to change dramatically in size, from 9,800 square kilometers in the dry season to 25,500 at the end of the rainy season. Lake Chad also changes greatly in size from one year to another. In 1870 its maximum area was 28,000 square kilometers. The measurement dropped to 12,700 in 1908. In the 1940s and 1950s, the lake remained small, but it grew again to 26,000 square kilometers in 1963. The droughts of the late 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s caused Lake Chad to shrink once again, however. The only other lakes of importance in Chad are Lake Fitri, in Batha Prefecture, and Lake Iro, in the marshy southeast.\nThe Lake Chad Basin embraces a great range of tropical climates from north to south, although most of these climates tend to be dry. Apart from the far north, most regions are characterized by a cycle of alternating rainy and dry seasons. In any given year, the duration of each season is determined largely by the positions of two great air masses--a maritime mass over the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and a much drier continental mass. During the rainy season, winds from the southwest push the moister maritime system north over the African continent where it meets and slips under the continental mass along a front called the \"intertropical convergence zone\". At the height of the rainy season, the front may reach as far as Kanem Prefecture. By the middle of the dry season, the intertropical convergence zone moves south of Chad, taking the rain with it. This weather system contributes to the formation of three major regions of climate and vegetation.\nSaharan Region\nThe Saharan region covers roughly the northern third of the country, including Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture along with the northern parts of Kanem, Batha, and Biltine prefectures . Much of this area receives only traces of rain during the entire year; at Faya Largeau, for example, annual rainfall averages less than three centimeters. Scattered small oases and occasional wells provide water for a few date palms or small plots of millet and garden crops. In much of the north, the average daily maximum temperature is about 32\u00b0 C during January, the coolest month of the year, and about 45\u00b0 C during May, the hottest month. On occasion, strong winds from the northeast produce violent sandstorms. In northern Biltine Prefecture, a region called the Mortcha plays a major role in animal husbandry. Dry for nine months of the year, it receives 350 millimeters or more of rain, mostly during July and August. A carpet of green springs from the desert during this brief wet season, attracting herders from throughout the region who come to pasture their cattle and camels. Because very few wells and springs have water throughout the year, the herders leave with the end of the rains, turning over the land to the antelopes, gazelles, and ostriches that can survive with little groundwater.\nThe semiarid sahelian zone, or Sahel, forms a belt about 500 kilometers wide that runs from Lac and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures eastward through Gu\ufffdra, Ouadda\ufffd, and northern Salamat prefectures to the Sudanese frontier. The climate in this transition zone between the desert and the southern soudanian zone is divided into a rainy season (from June to early September) and a dry period (from October to May). In the northern Sahel, thorny shrubs and acacia trees grow wild, while date palms, cereals, and garden crops are raised in scattered oases. Outside these settlements, nomads tend their flocks during the rainy season, moving southward as forage and surface water disappear with the onset of the dry part of the year. The central Sahel is characterized by drought-resistant grasses and small woods. Rainfall is more abundant there than in the Saharan region. For example, N'Djamena records a maximum annual average rainfall of 580 millimeters, while Ouadda\ufffd Prefecture receives just a bit less. During the hot season, in April and May, maximum temperatures frequently rise above 40\u00b0C. In the southern part of the Sahel, rainfall is sufficient to permit crop production on unirrigated land, and millet and sorghum are grown . Agriculture is also common in the marshlands east of Lake Chad and near swamps or wells. Many farmers in the region combine subsistence agriculture with the raising of cattle, sheep, goats, and poultry.\nSoudanian Region\nThe humid soudanian zone includes the southern prefectures of Mayo-Kebbi, Tandjil\ufffd, Logone Occidental, Logone Oriental, Moyen-Chari, and southern Salamat. Between April and October, the rainy season brings between 750 and 1,250 millimeters of precipitation. Temperatures are high throughout the year. Daytime readings in Moundou, the major city in the southwest, range from 27\u00b0C in the middle of the cool season in January to about 40\u00b0C in the hot months of March, April, and May.\nThe soudanian region is predominantly savanna, or plains covered with a mixture of tropical or subtropical grasses and woodlands. The growth is lush during the rainy season but turns brown and dormant during the five-month dry season between November and March. Over a large part of the region, however, natural vegetation has yielded to agriculture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 16078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1uptravel.com/sevenwonders/artemis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:10Z", "digest": "sha1:I5UHEY5N2LUVSEHAOMV7FRE76VRY4ZPD", "length": 14957, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.1uptravel.com", "title": "1Up Travel - 7 Wonders of the World- The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus", "raw_content": "But when I saw the sacred house of Artemis that towers to the clouds, the [other Wonders] were placed in the shade, for the Sun himself has never looked upon its equal outside Olympus.\nIs it simply a temple? How could it take its place among other unique structures such as the Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens, and the Colossus of Rhodes? For the people who actually visited it, the answer was simple. It was not just a temple... It was the most beautiful structure on earth... It was built in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature. That was the Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus.\nThe story goes as, in 1100 A.D a troop of Crusaders stops at a muddy little village in Asia Minor. Their leader looks around. Confused ,he dismounts. This place is not what he expected. He read in the ancient texts that this was a large seaport with many ships docked in its bay. It isn't. The sea is almost three miles away. The village is located in a swamp. There are no ships to be seen. The leader accosts a nearby man.\n\"Sir, is this the city of Ephesus?\" \"It was called that once. Now it is named Ayasalouk.\" \"Well, where is your bay? Where are the trading ships? And where is the magnificent Greek temple that we have heard about?\" Now it is the man's turn to be confused. \"Temple? What temple, Sir? We have no temple here...\"\nAnd so 800 years after its destruction, the magnificent Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, had been completely forgotten by the people of the town that had once held it in such pride.\nThe Roman historian, Pliny, mentions an anchoring place in an unknown loop of the Kucuk Menderes River, which in those days was still deep enough for sailing. The harbour was used by sailors from different corners of the world as a stop-over with readily available fresh water. There were no disputes between unfriendly nations as the harbour was believed to be under the protection of the goddess, Ephesia, and had been internationally recognised as a sacred area since 3000 BC.\nA harbour founded 5000 years ago in an unknown loop of the Kucuk Menderes River... And the temple of Artemis Ephesia, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the city under her protection... Excavations have been carried out over 125 years in Ephesus, a city which continues to attract visitors from every corner of the world even after thousands of years.\nEphesus is on the itinerary of almost every tourist visiting Turkey. What they see are remains which were buried under layers of silt, uncovered and rebuilt by archeologists from different countries. Ephesus has always been crowded with many foreign visitors, in ancient times as now. In the past its location offered many advantages for settlement; now the white marble city is easily accessible to tourists.\nAnd there is no doubt that the temple was indeed magnificent. \"I have seen the walls and Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon,\" wrote Philon of Byzantium, \"the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the high Pyramids and the tomb of Mausolus. But when I saw the temple at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade.\"\nSo what happened to this great temple? And what happened to the city that hosted it? What turned Ephesus from a busy port of trade to a few shacks in a swamp? The answer is below as far as we could gather the historic facts.........\nThe first shrine to the Goddess Artemis was probably built around 800 B.C. on a marshy strip near the river at Ephesus. The Ephesus Goddess Artemis, sometimes called Diana, is not the same figure as the Artemis worshiped in Greece. The Greek Artemis is the goddess of the hunt. The Ephesus Artemis was a goddess of fertility and was often pictured as draped with eggs, or multiple breasts, symbols of fertility, from her waist to her shoulders.\nThat earliest temple contained a sacred stone, probably a meteorite, that had \"fallen from Jupiter.\" The shrine was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the next few hundred years. In 7th century BC the temple of Artemis, goddess of hunting, was invaded by wild Cimmerian warriors, but they did little more than threaten the locals, perhaps because they feared Ephesia.\nYet this temple didn't last long. In 550 B.C. King Croesus of Lydia attracted by the wealth of the Ionians, was more determined .He conquered Ephesus and the other Greek cities of Asia Minor.He destroyed the acropolis of Koressos and forced the Ionians to resettle near the sacred area. The wise citizens of Koressos had fixed a 1300m. rope from their city walls to the sacred temple and thereby placed themselves under its protection.\nDuring the fighting, the temple was destroyed. Croesus proved himself a gracious winner, though, by contributing generously to the building of a new temple. By 600 B.C., the city of Ephesus had become a major port of trade and an architect named Chersiphron was engaged to build a new large temple. He designed it with high stone columns. Concerned that carts carrying the columns might get mired in the swampy ground around the site, Chersiphron laid the columns on their sides and had them rolled to where they would be erected.Croesus helped rebuild the temple to such a degree of perfection that it became known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.\nThis event marked the start of civilian settlement and democratic rule in Ephesus, symbolised by the emblem of the bee, which was the symbol of the goddess Ephesia.\nIn 546 BC Ephesus in common with Lydia and all of Anatolia was invaded by the Persians, and the gradual orientalisation of the city began. The Persian King, Xerxes, had set fire to all the Greek temples in Anatolia before waging war on Greece, but he left the Artemision (temple of Artemis) untouched, and even made a sacrificial offering to the goddess.\nThis was the era when traditional representations of the goddess became more elaborate and richly decorated, and she acquired a Persian mouth.\nThis was next to the last of the great temples to Artemis in Ephesus and it dwarfed those that had come before. The architect is thought to be a man named Theodorus. Theodorus's temple was 300 feet in length and 150 feet wide with an area four times the size of the temple before it. More than one hundred stone columns supported a massive roof. The new temple was the pride of Ephesus until 356 B.C. when a tragedy, by name of Herostratus, struck.\nOn the night of 21 july 356 BC,a young Ephesian named Herostratus burned this magnificient temple to ground in an attempt to immortalize his name . He would stop at no cost to have his name go down in history. He did indeed. The citizens of Ephesus were so appalled at this act they issued a decree that anyone who spoke of Herostratus would be put to death. Strangely enough, Alexander the Great was born the same night. The historian Plutarch later wrote that the goddess was \"too busy taking care of the birth of Alexander to send help to her threatened temple\".\nShortly after this horrible deed, a new temple was commissioned. The architect was Scopas of Paros, one of the most famous sculptors of his day. Ephesus was one of the greatest cities in Asia Minor at this point and no expense was spared in the construction. According to Piny the Elder, a Roman historian, the temple was a \"wonderful monument of Grecian magnificence, and one that merits our genuine admiration.\"\nThe temple was built in the same marshy place as before. To prepare the ground, Piny recorded that \"layers of trodden charcoal were placed beneath, with fleeces covered with wool upon the top of them.\"\nThe building is thought to be the first completely constructed with marble and one of its must unusual features were 36 columns whose lower portions were carved with figures in high-relief (left). The temple also housed many works of art including four bronze statues of Amazon women.\nPiny recorded the length of this new temple at 425 feet and the width at 225 feet. Some 127 columns, 60 feet in height, supported the roof. In comparison the Parthenon, the remains of which stand on the acropolis in Athens today, was only 230 feet long, 100 feet wide and had 58 columns.\nAccording to Piny, construction took 120 years, though some experts suspect it may have only taken half that time. We do know that when Alexander the Great came to Ephesus in 333 B.C., the temple was still under construction. He offered to finance the completion of the temple if the city would credit him as the builder. The city fathers didn't want Alexander's name carved on the temple, but didn't want to tell him that. They finally gave the tactful response: \"It is not fitting that one god should build a temple for another god\" and Alexander didn't press the matter.\nPiny reported that earthen ramps were employed to get the heavy stone beams perched on top of the columns. This method seemed to work well until one of the largest beams was put into position above the door. It went down crookedly and the architect could find no way to get it to lie flat. He was beside himself with worry about this until he had a dream one night in which the Goddess herself appeared to him saying that he should not be concerned. She herself had moved the stone in the proper position. The next morning the architect found that the dream was true. During the night the beam had settled into its proper place.\nAfter the death of Alexander during the wars of his successors Ephesus fell into many different hands.\nThe city came under the control of Lysimachos from 294-281 BC and he started building a new city in honour of his wife, Arsinoeia, near the temple in the valley between Mt. Pion (Panayir) and Mt. Coressos (Bulbul). Re-siting had become necessary as the estuary was gradually silting up. Apart from the ramparts he only succeeded in building a theatre, stadium, agora and harbour. On his death the building of \"Ephesus III\" was abandoned and the city came under rule of the Pergamon Kingdom founded by the Attalos family.\nIn 133 BC Ephesus was handed over to the Romans and eventually became capital of the Roman Province of Asia. During her greatest period of prosperity the city grew rapidly. The Romans constructed many public buildings to fulfil their needs, and gates, baths and temples were donated by the rich. The Artemision continued to attract pilgrims from all over the Graeco-Roman world.\nThe city continued to prosper over the next few hundred years and was the destination for many pilgrims coming to view the temple. A souvenir business in miniature Artemis idols, perhaps similar to a statue of her in the temple, grew up around the shrine. It was one of these business proprietors, a man named Demetrius, that gave St. Paul a difficult time when he visited the city in 57 A.D.\nSt. Paul came to the city to win converts to the then new religion of Christianity. He was so successful that Demetrius feared the people would turn away from Artemis and he would lose his livelihood. He called others of his trade together with him and gave a rousing speech ending with \"Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!\" They then seized two of Paul's companions and a near riot followed. Eventually the city was quieted, the men released, and Paul left for Macedonia.\nIt was Paul's Christianity that won out in the end, though. By the time the great Temple of Artemis was destroyed during a raid by the Goths in 262 A.D., both the city and the religion of Artemis were in decline. When the Roman Emperor Constantine rebuilt much of Ephesus a century later, he declined to restore the temple. He had become a Christian and had little interest in pagan temples.\nDespite Constantine's efforts, Ephesus declined in its importance as a crossroads of trade. The bay where ships docked disappeared as silt from the river filled it. In the end what was left of the city was miles from the sea, and many of the inhabitants left swampy lowland to live in the surrounding hills. Those that remained used the ruins of the temple as a source of building materials. Many of the fine sculptures were pounded into powder to make lime for wall plaster.\nDecline began in 262 AD when a serious earthquake destroyed much of the city, and in the same year Goths plundered the world famous treasures of the Artemision. They did not escape the wrath of the goddess and their ship sank in the Aegean.\nEphesus' loss of power resulted in the city losing its right to mint coins.\nIn 391 AD Christianity was proclaimed as the official state religion and the cult of Artemis was finally eclipsed by that of the mother of god.\nIn 1863 the British Museum sent John Turtle Wood, an architect, to search for the temple. Wood met with many obstacles. The region was infested with bandits. Workers were hard to find. His budget was too small. Perhaps the biggest difficulty was that he had no idea where the temple was located. He searched for the temple for six years. Each year the British Museum threatened to cut off his funding unless he found something significant, and each year he convinced them to fund him for just one more season.\nWood kept returning to the site each year many despite hardships. During his first season he was thrown from a horse, breaking his collar bone. Two years later he was stabbed within an inch of his heart during an assassination attempt upon the British Consul in Smyrna.\nFinally in 1869, at the bottom of a muddy twenty-foot deep test pit, his crew struck the base of the great temple. Wood then excavated the whole foundation removing 132,000 cubic yards of the swamp to leave a hole some 300 feet wide and 500 feet long. The remains of some of the sculptured portions were found and shipped the to British Museum where they can be viewed even today.\nIn 1904 another British Museum expedition under the leadership of D.G. Hograth continued the excavation. Hograth found evidence of five temples on the site, each constructed on top of the other.\nToday the site of the temple is a marshy field. A single column is erect to remind visitors that once there stood in that place one of the wonders of the ancient world. The temple served as both a marketplace and a religious institution. For years, the sanctuary was visited by merchants, tourists, artisans, and kings who paid homage to the goddess by sharing their profits with her. Recent archeological excavations at the site revealed gifts from pilgrims including statuettes of Artemis made of gold and ivory... earrings, bracelets, and necklaces... artifacts from as far as Persia and India.\nThe early detailed descriptions of the temple helped archeologists reconstruct the building. Many reconstructions such as that by H.F. von Erlach depicted the fa\ufffdade with a four-column porch which never existed. More accurate reconstructionsmay give us an idea about the general layout of the temple. However, its true beauty lies in the architectural and artistic details which will forever remain unknown.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 16437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.2tg.co.uk/case-reports/kimathi-ors-v-foreign-commonwealth-office-2017-ewhc-938-qb/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ6K3SA7RXMPWQT2J3A7UJIE6LOQG7QG", "length": 1249, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.2tg.co.uk", "title": "Kimathi & Ors v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2017] EWHC 938 (QB) \u2013 2 Temple Gardens", "raw_content": "False imprisonment ruled out of Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation\nNiazi Fetto appeared as a member of the FCO\u2019s counsel team responding to the Claimants\u2019 application to amend the Generic Particulars of Claim to allege false imprisonment.\nThe claim relates to the alleged unlawful detention and abuse of 41,000 \u2018Mau Mau\u2019 members and their relatives in Kenya under Colonial rule during the 1950s.\nThe Claimants had originally pleaded a generic claim of false imprisonment but then removed it by amendment in March 2016. Their application to reinstate it was lodged in February 2017. In the intervening period the Defendant had conducted extensive archival searches for documentary evidence and the Test Claimants had given oral evidence.\nStewart J refused the application, holding among other things that there was a vast difference between a \u2018background\u2019 claim of detention in relation to pleaded claims of assault, battery and negligence, and a pleaded case of false imprisonment. The Defendant had conducted its defence of the claim since March 2016, including cross-examining the Test Claimants, on the former not the latter basis. It would be disproportionate and excessively disruptive to permit the claim of false imprisonment to be reinstated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.360-hq.com/xbox360/hardware/search/Y.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2OV4LTSKRFQLO3I3ROCSSRR3XUKIC6ZU", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.360-hq.com", "title": "Xbox 360 Hardware & Accessories Database - Xbox 360 Gagets, Xbox 360 Bios, Xbox 360 Add-ons, Xbox 360 Homebrew, Xbox 360 Tutorials, Xbox 360 Repairs, Xbox 360 Techinical Support, Reviews, Xbox 360 Accessories Screenshots, Images and Videos at 360-Hq", "raw_content": "Displaying 0 of 0 matches for the letter 'Y'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.365bastrop.com/2015/10/halloween-fest-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5JLVT4CWPZIXX6IZUYZ2TH5WSKN5JS2B", "length": 2147, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.365bastrop.com", "title": "Halloween Fest - 2015", "raw_content": "Halloween Fest is an annual Bastrop tradition that's fun for all ages. This year, Halloween Fest takes place on Saturday, Oct. 31st from 5:30-9:30pm in downtown Bastrop on South Main Street and Spring Street. The best part is that admission is FREE!!!\nThere will be candy, games & activities, a costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, lip sync contest, campfire ghost stories, performances by the BHS Gypsies and BHS Patent Pending (comedy troupe), live music, and more! The ghost stories, gypsies, and comedy troupe will be performing throughout the night on Spring Street between Main Street and Water Street.\nThe costume contest will take place in front of the Bastrop Opera House, located at 711 Spring Street. Registration for each age category will take place 1 hour before the contest starts. Here are the times for each category:\n5:30pm - Up to 5 years\n6:30pm - 6-12 years\n7:30pm - 13-18 years\n8:30pm - Adult/family\nThe pumpkin carving contest will take place at the Bastrop YMCA Community Garden, located at 1111 Main Street. Decorate your pumpkins at home and bring them to the judging table between 5-8pm for a chance to win. Judging will take place at 8:15pm. Pumpkins will be judged on 3 criteria: originality, creativity, and craftsmanship.\nPumpkins can be decorated any way you like\u2014carved, painted, bejeweled\u2014the sky\u2019s the limit! Please bring pumpkins to the judging site completed. Contestants are responsible for lighting their own pumpkins. No entry limit; only one winner per family. Pumpkins will be on display for the evening and should be picked up between 8:30-9:00pm. Prizes include:\n1st place - FREE 3-month Family Membership to the Bastrop YMCA\n2nd place - FREE 2-month Family Membership to the Bastrop YMCA\n3rd place - FREE 1-month Family Membership to the Bastrop YMCA\nRegistration will take place at the costume registration table in front of the Bastrop Opera House, located at 711 Spring Street. Additional info will be updated soon. Please check back for details.\n*In case of rain on Saturday, there is a contingency plan, TBA. Please check back for updates. 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Brisbane's widest variety of music from the '80s to now", "raw_content": "Ariana Grande has finally broken her silence about the death of her former BOYFRIEND Mac miller.\nUp until this point, Ari had only posted a black and white photo of Mac Miller on her Instagram without a caption, after receiving backlash and blame over his death.\nWhen news of his passing broke, Ariana's social media accounts were inundated with horrendous people pointing the finger at her, saying that she left him when he was at his darkest time and Miller's death was 'her fault'.\nInstagram comments were disabled after a few hours.\nBut now that time has passed and she has been able to grieve privately, Ariana has decided to post a candid, personal video in tribute - where Mac is telling a story and then realises she\u2019s filming him.\n\"i adored you from the day i met you when i was nineteen and i always will,\" she began. i can't believe you aren't here anymore. i really can't wrap my head around it,\" she wrote alongside the video.\n\"We talked about this. so many times. i'm so mad, i'm so sad i don't know that to do. you were my dearest friend. for so long. above anything else.\n\"I'm so sorry i couldn't fix or take your pain away. i really wanted to. the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved. i hope you're okay now. rest.\"\nAriana Grande And Mac Miller Almost Have S...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aaaanime.com/type/Books/cat/Graphic+Novels/Fate/Stay.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PU2235DL5DUNS6YTUD6PLL75YLWNRRYF", "length": 221, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.aaaanime.com", "title": "All Books in \"Graphic Novels\" for \"Fate/Stay\"", "raw_content": "All Books in \"Graphic Novels\" for \"Fate/Stay\"\n1616559195 Fate/Zero Vol. 1 (Manga) $11.99\n1616559543 Fate/Zero Vol. 2 (Manga) [Restocked!: 2/6/2019] $11.99\n150670770X Fate/Zero Vol. 8 (Manga) [Street Date: 3/5/2019] $11.99", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 1674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abb.uk.com/bookies-demand-inquiry-into-deeply-flawed-mps-fobt-report-funded-by-vested-interests-in-casinos-arcades-and-pubs/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CSE4FXYXPXVRGZD45YE26B6BYZ3ZOXOV", "length": 2370, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.abb.uk.com", "title": "Bookies demand inquiry into \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d MPs\u2019 FOBT report \u2013 funded by vested interests in casinos, arcades and pubs | ABB", "raw_content": "Home ABB News Bookies demand inquiry into \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d MPs\u2019 FOBT report \u2013 funded by vested interests in casinos, arcades and pubs\non: January 30, 2017 In: ABB News, Featured Article, Industry News, Mythbuster, Press Release\nBritain\u2019s bookmakers are demanding an urgent inquiry into a new report by the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) All- Party Parliamentary Group.\nThe report published tomorrow (Tuesday January 31) is expected to call for a \u00a32 per spin maximum stake to be imposed on all FOBTs.\nBut the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) warned such a move would be a hammer blow to High Street bookmakers and threaten thousands of jobs.\nThe ABB criticised the report as \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d and said it had been funded by commercial rivals of Britain\u2019s bookmakers. It demanded an immediate inquiry by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards into the FOBTs All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) which it condemned as a \u201cfront for vested commercial interests\u201d.\nThere is no evidence that a reduction in stake size would decrease the risk of problem gambling.\nSpeaking ahead of the publication of the APPG report, Malcolm George, Chief Executive of the Association of British Bookmakers said:\n\u201cThis is a deeply flawed report funded by vested interests who would directly benefit if its recommendations are ever implemented. The report is the view of a tiny group of anti-betting shop MP. This group has been financed by those with interests in the casino, arcade and pub industries. We strongly believe that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards should urgently investigate this All-Party Parliamentary Group.\nThis group of MPs has operated in secrecy, provided no transcripts of the evidence given to their meetings and operated throughout behind closed doors away from public scrutiny. Britain\u2019s bookmakers employ more than 43,000 staff and contribute over \u00a31 billion a year in taxes. But, betting shops are already closing at the rate of more than 100 a year and if the findings of this rigged report are implemented, it could spell the beginning of the end for the High Street bookmaker.\u201d\nThe FOBTs All-Party Parliamentary Group and its report is funded by the following organisations that each gave \u00a33,000:\nThe secretariat to the group is the public affairs company Interel which also works directly for Bacta, the Hippodrome Casino and Novomatic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 7489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abbielour.com/2015/06/song-of-week-23.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNH23BP4LNF4E7NGMX6NBGQUS5VMMNW6", "length": 2237, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.abbielour.com", "title": "abbielour: Song of the week #23", "raw_content": "Red Eye - Vance Joy\nTwo consecutive songs of the week I feel alive.\nI've missed these little posts, and sharing my thoughts on the songs I've been listening to most, so I'm really glad I'm back on them, and I hope that you like them too. I know I haven't posted anything else in the past week, but this week is when things take off (like, really). I went to my first gig of the month on Saturday, so there'll be a post on that up tomorrow, and tomorrow I'm going to another concert, which I'll be talking about a little later in the week, as well as another gig this coming Saturday. Everything feels right again. And I also have a couple of albums that I'm loving at the moment, so reviews on those are coming up. But for now...\nThis week I have been listening to Vance Joy even more than I usually do. And I've come to the conclusion that Red Eye really is my favourite of his songs. It is beautiful. And I've been on a bunch of trains/long car journeys this past week, and even more in the past month, and this has always been the song I've wanted to listen to.\nThe term 'red eye' refers to a flight that leaves late at night and arrives early the following morning, and oh how I long to listen to this song on one of those flights. I just think it would create this atmosphere that you wouldn't feel at any other time. Like, I think it's a great song for any kind of travel, but the idea of listening to it during a night flight just sounds ideal, like watching the sun rise to this song. Wow. It's going on the bucket list.\nIt is the most stunning, calming song. It sounds so gentle and sleepy, but with this longing to stay awake. It sounds like everything it's describing. I can't really get over how perfect it is. There's normally like one tiny thing I won't be so crazy about in a song, but I cannot fault a single second of this. I can't recommend listening to it enough, because I feel like you need to. I think it probably sounds really extreme to say that it's changed my life, but I'm pretty sure it has.\nInstagram: @abbielour\nLabels: Bucket List, calming, Dream Your Life Away, dreaming, links, Music, music review, musician, new, recent, Red Eye, review, song, song of the week, song review, stunning, Vance Joy, youtube", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/allprimarymainfeatures/69FBD6F75CCAD2D7CA2572D60015D1A5?opendocument", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:AOYMCZ46BVRQIYDPOSDDJODVZLA4ES5J", "length": 491, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.abs.gov.au", "title": "6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia, Mar 2007", "raw_content": "decreased by 12,800 to 488,700. The number of persons looking for full-time work decreased by 2,800 to 341,600 and the number of persons looking for part-time work decreased by 10,000 to 147,100.\ndecreased by 0.1 percentage point to 4.5%. 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(Note: per Ontario University Athletics policy, all Ontario universities require a 70% average in the year prior).\nA USport athletic scholarship can be made up from a variety of different sources including, scholarships, bursaries, prizes, leadership awards, merit awards, housing, and all other non-employment financial benefit received by an athlete from their institution. However, the total sum of Athletic scholarships in the USport is limited to a maximum of tuition plus compulsory fees in an academic year.\nNote: There is an ongoing, 5-year, High Performance Women\u2019s Hockey pilot project going on in which players may receive an athletic scholarship that can cover up to the cost of their tuition and compulsory fees, room and board. SO there is the POTENTIAL in the near future of full scholarships being available in Canada as they are in the NCAA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adjustdallas.com/dr-austins-blog/goals-are-not-enough", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2RIUNNLH2ZJLXRG4Z6X75UIVO7SE4FRZ", "length": 2198, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.adjustdallas.com", "title": "Goals are NOT Enough. - Adjust Dallas", "raw_content": "Goals are NOT Enough.\n\u200b This time of year there are a lot of goals being made. Goals of losing weight, quit smoking, travel more, spend more time with family, etc. But unfortunately goals are not enough.\nOne of my favorite shows is Shark Tank. Where hopeful business owners pitch their idea or product to a group of Millionaire and Billionaire investors hoping one bites. One of those investors is Dallas' own Mark Cuban. He uses a line often when he feels that one of the contestants is looking for a bailout or hasn\u2019t put the time or effort in. He says \"You\u2019re not an entrepreneur, you're a wantrepreneur.\" Then he usually follows that with, \"For that reason, I'm out.\" If you have ever seen the show you know exactly what I am talking about. But usually Mark, is right on when he uses this line.\nThere are many people that would love to walk out of the tank with a billionaire investor behind them and hopefully make millions down the road. But not all of them have put in the time or the sacrifice. Many people want to lose weight, get healthier. But a lot of those same people aren't willing to do what it takes to make that goal a reality.\nI use to be a huge fan of setting goals, then I started recommending to be very specific with your goals. For example instead of a goal of losing weight, be specific, I want to lose 20lbs in the 3 months. I use to think that would put the wheels in motion, keep people accountable. But does that make a difference? Probably not. Goals are not enough, and honestly for the most part a complete waste of time.\nIn my field, that would appear sacrilegious. He doesn't recommend setting goals?! No I don't, I now recommend making plans. You see, making plans are a lot different than setting goals. Do you set a goal of seeing a friend more often? No, you make a plan of going to dinner with them. So instead of setting a goal of losing weight, make a plan of dragging yourself out of bed tomorrow morning and getting to the gym. Make a plan to bring your lunch to work every day instead of going through the drive-thru. Make plans, and stick to them. You can have a goal of building a house, but you will never get it done without plans on how to build it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 4435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adjustdallas.com/dr-austins-blog/measles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7Z3V4VCDIF6P7X7APUA7HG45ZS3LRC5", "length": 10820, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.adjustdallas.com", "title": "Measles - Adjust Dallas", "raw_content": "Over 30 years of use, the measles vaccine has never adequately protected children. In fact, it has only made measles a more dangerous disease. Right now here in North Texas there has been a huge scare leading t many rushing to get vaccinated. Even those who have had true measles (which offers lifelong immunity) or have already been immunized will nevertheless be given a just-in-case booster shot.\nDr Viera Scheibner, an Australian principal research scientist who developed a true breathing monitor for babies at risk of cot death, saw that her product mostly sounded alarms after babies had been vaccinated. This prompted her to study thousands of medical papers on immunization. The medical evidence she has\namassed conclusively demonstrates that the measle vaccine doesn't work.\nIn the US, with immunization rates as high as 98 percent in some areas due to enforced vaccination, epidemics of measles still occur at three- to four year intervals. Epidemiologists have a hard time explaining this recurrence, and most arguments over the measles vaccine failure have blamed low compliance (even when more than three-quarters of children are vaccinated); improper storage of vaccines; even vaccination at too early an age. What they ignored over some 30 years of use was the more plausible and obvious reason: the simple inability of any measles vaccine devised to date to prevent measles.\nWhen the measles vaccine was being developed in the Sixties, its detractors argued that measles is a mild disease with rare serious complications and negligible fatality in normal children. About half the recorded deaths occur in persons with serious chronic disease or disability. It is also well-known that measles is an important developmental milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Nevertheless, by 1965, several vaccines had been introduced for the prevention of measles, including one killed virus vaccine and two versions of weakened live vaccines.\nSoon after measles vaccine was first released, a new and serious problem arose: vaccinated children were contracting what became known in the medical literature as atypical measles, an especially vicious form of measles resisting treatment.\nA 1965 study in Cincinnati described nine cases which occurred there two years earlier during an epidemic of measles (Am J Dis Child, 1965; 109: 232-7). The authors followed 386 children who had received three doses of killed measles virus vaccine in 1961. Of these 386, 125 had been exposed to measles and 54 had\ndeveloped the disease. Many of these children were so ill with high fever and pneumonia that they had to be hospitalized.\nTwo years later, a study described the occurrence of atypical measles in 10 children who had received killed measles virus vaccine five to six years earlier. Nine children developed pneumonia which resisted all treatment (J Am Med Ass, 1967; 202: 1075-80).\nSerious reactions also occurred in children originally injected with killed measles virus, and then re-vaccinated with live measles virus (N Engl J Med, 1967; 277 (5): 248-251).\nAnother illness sparked by the measles vaccine was so-called \"mild measles\" with under-developed rash, which exposes children in later life to dangers of chronic diseases, including cancer. One study found evidence of a relationship between lack of rash in measles and increased incidence of degenerative and autoimmune diseases (The Lancet, 5 January 1985). Many practitioners witness that cancer patients have a\nparticularly small number of infectious diseases of childhood to report in their medical history.\nOutbreaks among the vaccinated\nAgainst all the evidence, measles vaccines continued to be described as effective and safe by some, all the while the medical literature teemed with reports of ineffectiveness and of serious reactions. A study published in Pediatrics in 1970 investigated an outbreak of measles in Florida from December 1968 to February 1969 and found there was little difference in the incidence of measles among vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The only significant difference was in how the disease developed. While 43 per cent of unimmunized children developed a rash, only 12 per cent of those vaccinated developed a proper measles rash (Pediatrics, 1970; 46 (3): 397-402).\nIn 1971, the American Journal of Public Health conceded that measles was on the increase and that \"eradication, if possible, now seems far in the future\" (Am J Public Health, 1971; 61 (11): 2304-10). Reports of vaccine failure and atypical measles in vaccinated children continued. One study in the city and county of St Louis, Missouri, described an epidemic of measles over 1970 and 1971, during which 130 children were hospitalized and six died. The attack rate was much higher in vaccinated than unvaccinated children. In this case, vaccine failure was admitted as the major contributor to this epidemic (J Pediatrics, 1972; 81: 217-30). Other studies showed that measles vaccines were not provoking a proper immunologic response in vaccinated children. In one report, measles antibodies were found in the blood of five from seven unvaccinated children with a measles infection, but in only one of seven previously vaccinated children with clinical measles, and in only one of seven previously vaccinated well children who had been injected with the weakened measles virus vaccine (J Pediatrics, 1973; 82: 798-801). While measles vaccines were effective in elevating measles neutralizing antibody in a number of children (although not in all), this was demonstrated to be irrelevant in preventing the disease (Pediatrics, 1971; 48 (5): 715-29). Nevertheless, by 1975, in a widely distributed Public Health Report entitled \"The benefits from 10 years of measles immunization in the United States\", authors J J Witte and N W Axnick claimed victory over measles in 1978 by vaccination, and the US government predicted a measles free country within three years.\nAn adult disease\nNot surprisingly, all the pro-vaccine researchers and government officials passed lightly over the fact that measles epidemics continued to occur consistently in fully vaccinated children. They also ignored the fact that measles was suddenly becoming an adult disease. By 1975, not only was the number of reported cases of measles six times higher in the first half of 1975 compared with 1974, but more and more adults were contracting measles (J Am Med Ass, 1976; 235: 1028-31). Not even booster vaccination of previously vaccinated children made any difference. One study in 1979 warned of an increasing number of adolescents contracting measles. While in the pre-vaccine era 90 per cent of all measles patients were 5 to 9 years old, once the measles vaccine was introduced, 55-64 per cent of measles patients were older than 10 years. The average age of patients during the measles outbreak in the UCLA was 20-24 years (Ann Int Med, 1979;90 (6): 978-80).\nFurthermore, once vaccines were introduced, whether or not a patient had measles or had been vaccinated didn't seem to correlate with what was generally considered evidence of immunity in the blood.\nRe-vaccination of these young adults was associated with high rates of major side effects, with about 17 per cent reporting significant fever, eye pain and the need for bed rest.\nBy 1981, instead of achieving eradication of measles, the US was hit repeatedly by major epidemics of measles, mostly in fully vaccinated communities. Atypical measles persisted as a \"continuing problem\", according to E M Nichols (Am J of Public Health, 1979; 69 (2): 160-2). The age of those contracting measles continued to climb well above 10 years and was associated with serious illnesses. Adults and babies below the age of 2 years, in some cases only a few months old both populations free from disease before the advent of vaccination were now contracting measles.\nBy 1984, the establishment blamed these outbreaks on use in the Sixties of what the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now termed the \"ineffective formalin-inactivated ('killed') measles vaccine\", which had been administered to 600,000 to 900,000 individuals from 1963 to 1967 ( MMWR, 4 October 1984).\nHowever, other studies demonstrated significant failure among the supposedly improved vaccines as well. One outbreak of measles occurred in junior high schools in Hobbs, New Mexico, where 98 per cent of students had been vaccinated against measles with the live vaccine shortly before the outbreak began (MMWR, 1 February 1985).\nAnother outbreak of measles occurred in a secondary school population in which more than 99 per cent had records of vaccination with live measles vaccine (New England J Med, 1987; 316 (13): 771-4). Another issue of the MMWR (2 September 1988) dealt with 76 measles outbreaks in the United States. Most of\nthe cases described were primary vaccine failures. During some outbreaks, re-vaccination with the same vaccines was recommended, even though the scientific evidence demonstrated that re-vaccination was\nineffective. One study showed that antibody levels in re-immunized children may fall after several months to very low levels, and that children vaccinated twice may still experience clinically recognizable measles, although in a milder form.\nThis observation highlighted another looming problem, namely, that generations of children with so-called \"inadequate immunity\" would grow into adults with no placental immunity to pass on to their children, who would then contract measles at an age when babies are normally protected by maternal antibody. This was indeed confirmed by another study, which demonstrated that \"hemagglutinin-inhibiting and neutralizing antibody titers are lower in women young enough to have been immunized by vaccination than in older women\" (J Pediatrics, 1986; 108 (1): 671-6).\nPerhaps the most unfortunate thing about striving to eliminate measles by vaccination is that there is no clear need to do so. A large group of Swiss doctors formed a working committee questioning the Swiss Health Department's US inspired MMR policy. When the process of general inflammation is suppressed, they said, measles may subsequently affect the ears (otitis), the lungs (pneumonia) or the central nervous system, giving rise to the feared complication: encephalitis. \"We have lost the common sense and the wisdom that used to prevail in the approach to childhood diseases,\" they concluded.\nTaken from the original article http://www.healthy.net/Health/Article/MEASLES_VACCINE/3070/1 which was adapted from Vaccination: 100 years of orthodox research shows that vaccine represents a medical assault on the immune system, by Viera Schreiber, Ph. D., Australian Print Group 1993. To order copies, send Aus$30 to Dr Scheibner, 178 Govells Leap Road, Blackheath, New South Wales 2785,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 13094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.admissionq.com/university/jain-university-bangalore/ph-d-in-poltical-science", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:A6YNFEBAX3YYD6Y6V3AYOHZ4JIRQPIDQ", "length": 415, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.admissionq.com", "title": "Ph D in Poltical Science - Jain University Bangalore", "raw_content": "Ph.D in Political Science will have both research and course components and will give the student adequate background for advanced research. Polictical Science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice politics and the analysis of political systems. Political science is a study that analyzes social relations involving authority or power and tactics utilized for formulating and applying policies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 6943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adnb-nbad.com/happy-dietitians-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MZLE57QGF76TLXO4LQBHAFL3T7QOJWMP", "length": 240, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.adnb-nbad.com", "title": "Dietitians Association of New Brunswick", "raw_content": "March 15th, 2017 marks the 8th anniversary of Dietitians Day. Happy Dietitians Day to all of our members!\nA message from the Dietitians of Canada\u2019s Regional Executive Director, Atlantic Provinces and your NBAD Registrar on YOUR special day!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adventuresinyapublishing.com/2018/01/cv-wyk-author-of-blood-and-sand-novel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YASQTFE35TJOS4SE6TKZQLPGWNPQHYBD", "length": 4952, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.adventuresinyapublishing.com", "title": "C.V. Wyk, author of BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL, on filling stolen moments with words", "raw_content": "0 C.V. Wyk, author of BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL, on filling stolen moments with words\nHappy Saturday! We're excited to have C.V. Wyk stop by to chat about her debut novel, BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL.\nChristine, what scene was really hard for you to write and why, and is that the one of which you are most proud?\nThe hardest scene for me to write--the one that I had to walk away from, delete, and eventually cry my way through--was when Lucretia appears at Attia\u2019s door in Ardea covered in blood and bruises.\nThe scenes preceding it are alternately fight scenes and love scenes, exciting and enthralling and even romantic. But there is nothing poetic about Lucretia\u2019s suffering or the evidence of the brutality she endures at Timeus\u2019s hands. Up until this point, she has drifted in and out of the story like a shadow, inscrutable and living just at the edge of our vision. But in this scene, we realize why she is so distant and so seemingly impenetrable: it\u2019s how she survives. She is an embodiment of the very real horrors of sexual and psychological abuse, and neither Attia nor the reader are allowed to look away anymore.\nEvery subsequent scene with Lucretia broke my heart a little--what she goes through, what she endures. You don\u2019t have to wield a sword or fight like a warrior to show strength, and Lucretia proves over and over that she is strong in a way that is completely different but certainly not inferior to Attia\u2019s ferocity. Lucretia withstands. She survives. And sometimes that\u2019s the most courageous thing you can do--to just keep going.\nI would start with the His Fair Assassins series by Robin LaFevers, whose books are even more particular about historical accuracy and how it blends with fiction. Another great alternative history is And I Darken by Kiersten White, which reimagines Dracula as a Wallachian princess. Both are incredible, rich series with worlds so well crafted, you can practically smell them.\nHow long did you work on BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL?\nI started writing BLOOD AND SAND in early 2012, so...it\u2019s been a while. Tor bought it and its sequel in March of 2014, and then BLOOD AND SAND went through production phases for several years. It hasn\u2019t been an easy--or short--journey by any means, but it has been completely worth it. Certain elements of the book have changed, but the heart of the story still beats the same rhythm it did when I first wrote it, and I am grateful for that.\nI have a full-time job, so I write in small pockets of time scattered throughout the day--in the library during my lunch hour or on my balcony in the very early morning when no one else is awake yet--and try to fill those stolen moments with as many words as I can. Every story I write has a dedicated playlist and, more often than not, specific songs that match up to specific scenes. Sometimes, if I\u2019m stuck on a particular part, I\u2019ll listen to the same song over and over and over until the scene doesn\u2019t make sense to me without it. (Speaking of, there\u2019s a playlist available online if you want to check out some of the songs that made their mark on BLOOD AND SAND.)\nBlood and Sand: A Novel\nby C.V. Wyk\nThe action-packed tale of a 17-year-old warrior princess and a handsome gladiator who dared take on the Roman Republic--and gave rise to the legend of Spartacus....\nRoma Victor. The Republic of Rome is on a relentless march to build an empire--an empire built on the backs of the conquered, brought back to Rome as slaves.\nAttia was once destined to rule as the queen and swordmaiden of Thrace, the greatest warrior kingdom the world had seen since Sparta. Now she is a slave, given to Xanthus, the Champion of Rome, as a sign of his master's favor. Enslaved as a child, Xanthus is the preeminent gladiator of his generation.\nAgainst all odds, Attia and Xanthus form a tentative bond. A bond that will spark a rebellion. A rebellion that threatens to bring the Roman Republic to its end--and gives rise to the legend of Spartacus...\nPurchase Blood and Sand: A Novel at Amazon\nPurchase Blood and Sand: A Novel at IndieBound\nView Blood and Sand: A Novel on Goodreads\nC.V. Wyk is the author of BLOOD AND SAND, debuting from Tor Teen in winter 2018. Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Wyk now resides on the east coast along with a precocious mini poodle and demanding guinea pig.\nIn her not-so-spare time, she enjoys playing MMORPGs, kayaking, coding, hiking, staring listlessly at blank walls, and nursing a totally healthy coffee addiction.\nFind Wyk online at www.cvywyk.com.\nHave you had a chance to read BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL yet? Do you write in small pockets of time, too? If so, how do you stay focused on your storyline? Share your thoughts about the interview in the comments!\nCharlotte, Jocelyn, Halli, Martina, Anisaa, Erin, Susan, Shelly, Kelly, Laura, Emily, and Lori Ann\nGreat post: C.V. Wyk, author of BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL, on filling stolen moments with wordsTweet this! Posted by Jocelyn Rish at 6:00 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 381, "original_length": 18113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2010/november/17.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IUQCYG5NZPKW3NVINLXCIUEI3D7XYFVG", "length": 22059, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.advocatekhoj.com", "title": "The Commissioner of Central Excise, Aurangabad Vs M/s Bajaj Auto Ltd., Waluj, Aurangabad, through its Vice President (Materials) and Ors. | Judgments | Supreme Court Judgments: January, 2018 | Law Library | AdvocateKhoj", "raw_content": "The Commissioner of Central Excise, Aurangabad Vs M/s Bajaj Auto Ltd., Waluj, Aurangabad, throughits Vice President (Materials) and Ors.\n1. The appellant, being aggrieved by the order passed by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, West Zonal Bench at Mumbai, (for short `Tribunal') in Appeal No.A/75-78/WZB/06/C-II/EB dated 13.01.2006, is before us in this appeal filed under Section 130-E of the Customs Act, 1962 (hereinafter referred to as `the Act').\n2. The issue in this appeal relates to the valuation of aluminum castings manufactured by M/s. Anurang Engineering Co. Ltd. (for short `Anurang') which in turn is based on the purchase price of aluminum ingots supplied by M/s. Bajaj Auto Ltd., Waluk, Aurangabad (for short `Bajaj'). Anurang, who is Respondent no. 4 in this appeal, is engaged in the manufacture of aluminium castings, commonly known as \"handle bar body\", \"crank case clutch\", and castings used as motor vehicle parts, classifiable under Chapter Sub-heading 8708.00 and 8714.00 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985. Bajaj, the Respondent no.1, was supplying inputs - aluminum ingots after purchasing the same from other manufacturers to Anurang for the relevant period under the cover of invoices issued under Rule 57F(2) and Rule 57(3) of the Central Excise Rules, 1994, after reversing the MODVAT credit availed on the said input.\n3. A show cause notice dated 05.03.2001 was issued by the Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise, Aurangabad, in which it was alleged that Anurang was receiving inputs from Bajaj at an under valued landed cost by not including expenses on account of sales tax, octroi, freight, insurance, loading unloading charges and handling charges, and that Bajaj was charging only the basic price of such inputs equal to the basic price charged by the original manufacturers of the said inputs to Bajaj, and since the additional cost of loading-unloading, freight etc. was not included in the input supplied to Anurang, there was consequent reduction in the landed cost of such inputs. It was also alleged that the price charged by Bajaj was depressed price although the same was coloured as negotiated price and the price indicated in the purchase orders was influenced by the supply of inputs by Bajaj at a lower landed cost and by this business arrangement, Bajaj had compensated Anurang for depressed prices of Anurang's finished goods supplied to Bajaj. Thus, both of them were aiding each other for mutual business interest so that the production cost of each other was kept at minimum and the Central Excise Duty was discharged at lower value. The view of the adjudicating authority was that the price charged in the Central Excise invoices by Anurang for their finished goods was not the sole consideration for sale, since the proportionate landed cost charges were not included by Bajaj which is additional consideration under Rule 5 of the Central Excise (Valuation) Rules, 1975. Hence, expenses incurred by Bajaj, in addition to the price, were required to be loaded in the assessable value for payment of Central Excise Duty. It was in these circumstances that they were asked to show cause why differential duty amounting to `27,71,594/- due to undervalued clearances of the finished goods effected during the period with effect from 02.06.1998 to 30.09.1999 should not be recovered under Proviso to Section 11AC(1) of the Act read with Rule 5 of the Central Excise (Valuation) Rules, 1975, why penalty under Section 11AC and interest under Section 11AB of the Act should not be levied and recovered and penalty under Rule 209A of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, should not be imposed and recovered from Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 viz. Bajaj, Sh.Ranjit Gupta, Vice President (Materials) of Bajaj and Sh. Anurag Naresh Chandra, Director of Anurang.\n4. In reply to the notice, Bajaj had stated that the sale of inputs - aluminum ingots to Anurang was on the basis of fair market price mutually agreed between the parties. It also claimed that there was no provision in Central Excise Laws which imposed an obligation on a person to sell his goods at a particular price in such transactions. They also claimed that the notice and the demand therein was time-barred as it had been issued beyond the time prescribed under Section 11A of the Act (since the notice was for the period June 1998 to September 1999, and the notice date was 05.03.2001 and was served by post on 22.03.2001), and that jurisdictional officers of the specific division of the Department were well aware of these facts, since both the units are situated under the jurisdiction of the same division. It was also contended that there was no deliberate suppression of facts, or mis-statements or intention to evade Central Excise Duty on their part. Anurang, in their reply, had stated that the price charged by Bajaj to them was for sale of ingots and similarly, final product sold by Anurang to Bajaj was contracted/negotiated prices and, therefore, they have not contravened any provisions of the Act and the Rules framed thereunder.\n5. After adjudication, the adjudicating authority held that the prices charged by Anurang were depressed prices coloured as negotiated prices. Further, Bajaj was supplying drawings/designs/specifications free of cost to Anurang to get the goods manufactured according to their specifications from them, which the Department claimed was for aiding each other for mutual business interest so that the production cost of each other is kept at a minimum and the Central Excise Duty is discharged at a lower rate. The adjudicating authority has further observed that by providing inputs at lower landed cost and drawings and designs free of cost, Bajaj was incurring part of the production cost of the finished goods manufactured and supplied exclusively to it. Thus, the adjudicating authority has concluded that Anurang contravened Rule 5 of Central Excise (Valuation) Rules, 1975 read with Section 4 of the CE Act, and Rule 9 read with Rules 52A, 54, 173F and 173G of the CE Rules. Accordingly, the adjudicating authority vide Order-in- Original No. 12/CEX/2002 dated 31.03.2002, levied duty of `27,71,594/- under Section 11A(1), penalty of `27,71,594/- under Section 11AC, and interest under Section 11AB against the assessee - Anurang. The adjudicating authority also imposed penalty on Bajaj of `2.7 lakhs, and personal penalties of `50,000 on Mr. Anurag Nareshchandra, Director, Anurang, and Mr. Ranjit Gupta, Vice-President, Bajaj, under Rule 209A of the Central Excise Rules, 1944.\n6. Aggrieved by the said order, the parties before the adjudicating authority filed Appeal Nos.E/1817, 1879, 2142 and 2143/02 before the Tribunal. The Tribunal by its common Order No. A/75-78/WZB/06/C-II/EB dated 13.01.2006 has allowed the appeals and has set aside the order passed by the adjudicating authority. The Tribunal inter-alia adopted the following reasoning while allowing the appeal: \"However, while adjudicating the matter the Commissioner, in para 16 of the order has observed that: \"In this case there is no allegation that while paying duty on ingots under Rule 57F(3) M/s. Bajaj Auto Ltd. have undervalued the ingots. The payment of duty under this rule is not the subject matter, therefore, on this account the pleadings of the assessee and other notices are not relevant. This matter is regarding under valuation of final product\". The above observations made by the Commissioner are in contrast to the findings arrived at by him. If the ingots have been sold at the correct value, how the value of the same can be enhanced at the manufacturers end by some hypothetical additions on various grounds. It is also on record that the statement of the Authorized Representative of M/s. Bajaj Auto Ltd. as also of M/S. Anurang Egg. Co. Ltd. are to the effect that the prices of ingots were negotiated prices However the adjudicating authority has observed that though the prices were agreed but they were not genuine and were adopted for under valuation of the final product. This is nothing but self contradiction. In any case, we find that whatever duty was being paid by M/s. Anurang Engg. Co. Ltd. was being taken as credit by M/s. Bajaj Auto Ltd. thus leading to revenue neutral situation in which case the appellants cannot be attributed with any intention to evade payment of duty. The burden to prove under valuation is on the revenue and is required to be discharged by production of sufficient evidence. Ordinarily, the court, should proceed on the basis that the apparent tenor of the agreements reflected the real state of affairs and what is required to be examined is as to whether the revenue has succeeded in showing that the apparent is not real and the price shown in the invoice does not reflect the true price. Nothing has been shown in the present case. The entire case is based on assumptions and presumptions as such we are of the view that the confirmation of duty against M/s. Anurang Engg. Co. Ltd. is not sustainable.\"\n7. Mr. V. Shekhar, learned senior counsel for the Revenue submitted that Bajaj has under-valued inputs which were being sold to Anurang by incurring all the landed costs such as freight charges, loading, unloading and handling charges etc: Anurang in turn has sold the manufactured goods in its factory only to Bajaj after paying the Excise Duty under the Act. Therefore, the learned senior counsel would submit that since the inputs were received at a lesser price, the manufacturing cost would also be less and thereby Anurang has paid the lesser Excise Duty. It is also contended that it is for this reason the adjudicating authority has come to the conclusion that the declarations filed by Anurang under the Rules is misstatement of facts. Alternatively, it is contended that Bajaj while supplying the inputs to Anurang has undervalued the goods without including certain expenses incurred by it, which has resulted in short payment of Excise Duty by Anurang on its supply of manufactured goods to Bajaj. The learned counsel, in aid of his submission, has relied on the principles settled by this Court regarding the importance of landed cost of raw materials in determining assessable value of the manufactured goods, and according to him the same must be included in the value of the final product. He further submits that the concept of `revenue neutrality' is not applicable in the present case, and that there were no contrary findings of the Commissioner in this regard. He also submits that the finding of the Tribunal that the findings and conclusions reached by the adjudicating authority is on mere assumptions and presumptions is erroneous. According to the learned counsel, the findings of the adjudicating authority was after thorough enquiry and investigation of the records of the assessee and also based on the statements of the Vice President of Bajaj and Director of Anurang during investigation. The learned counsel further points out that the extended period of limitation as provided under Section 11 A(1) of the Act would come to the aid of the Department since the respondents did not disclose the correct facts before the Department with intention to evade payment of duty under the Act.\n8. Per contra, Mr. Joseph Vellapally, learned senior counsel for the respondents would contend that the assumption of adjudicating authority that Anurang in their invoices has not given true and correct declaration, is not only contradictory but also not based on any evidence whatsoever. It is further contended that on mere presumption and assumption, the adjudicating authority cannot create demands under the Act and then proceed to recover them by adopting coercive measures. It is also contended that Bajaj and Anurang are under the jurisdiction of the same division and as such, it cannot be reasonable to conclude that the revenue was not aware of the transactions of both the units and therefore, the revenue cannot invoke the extended period of limitation to demand of duty under the Act.\n9. The Tribunal, while considering the issue of limitation in the impugned order has concluded as under:- \"Apart from the merit of the case we also note that the demand is hopelessly barred by limitation. Notice for the period June 1998 to September, 1999was issued on 05.03.2001. The ingots were being cleared by M/s Bajaj Auto Ltd. on their invoices and the final casting products were being cleared by M/s Anurag Engg. Co. Ltd. on proper invoices. Both the units are situated under the jurisdiction of same division and as such it cannot be reasonable concluded that revenue was not aware of the said transactions and the value of the same. As such we are of the view that the demand is also barred by limitation.\"\n10. In our view, the aforesaid issue was one of the important issues that fell for the consideration before the Tribunal. The Tribunal, in our view, while considering and deciding the same, has overlooked the language employed in the Statute. Therefore, we deem it proper to remand the entire matter to the Tribunal for reconsideration and decision not only on this issue, but also the other issues which were canvassed before us by learned senior counsel for the parties. Therefore, we now take up that issue for our consideration and decision.\n11. As we have already observed, the Tribunal, while considering this issue, has neither looked into the ingredients of Section 11A of the Act nor the construction placed by this Court on this Section. Section 11A of the Act reads :- Section 11A. - Recovery of duties not levied or not paid or short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded. -- (1) When any duty of excise has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded, whether or not such non-levy or non-payment, short-levy or short payment or erroneous refund, as the case may be, was on the basis of any approval, acceptance or assessment relating to the rate of duty on or valuation of excisable goods under any other provisions of this Act or the rules made there under, a Central Excise Officer may, within one year from the relevant date, serve notice on the person chargeable with the duty which has not been levied or paid or which has been short-levied or short-paid or to whom the refund has erroneously been made, requiring him to show cause why he should not pay the amount specified in the notice: Provided that where any duty of excise has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded by reason of fraud, collusion or any wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts, or contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules made there under with intent to evade payment of duty, by such person or his agent, the provisions of this sub-section shall have 1 effect, as if for the words one year, the words \"five years\" were substituted: Explanation. -- Where the service of the notice is stayed by an order of a court, the period of such stay shall be excluded in computing the aforesaid period of [one year] or five years, as the case may be. (1A) When any duty of excise has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short paid or erroneously refunded, by reason of fraud, collusion or any willful mis-statement or suppression of facts, or contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under with intent to evade payment of duty, by such person or his agent, to whom a notice is served under the proviso to sub- section (1) by the Central Excise Officer, may pay duty in full or in part as may be accepted by him, and the interest payable thereon under section 11AB and penalty equal to twenty-five per cent of the duty specified in the notice or the duty so accepted by such person within thirty days of the receipt of the notice.\n12. Section 11A of the Act empowers the central excise officer to initiate proceedings where duty has not been levied or short levied within six months from the relevant date. But the proviso to Section 11A(1), provides an extended period of limitation provided the duty is not levied or paid or which has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded, if there is fraud, collusion or any willful mis-statement or suppression of facts, or contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules made there under with intent to evade payment of duty. The extended period so provided is of five years instead of six months. Since the proviso extends the period of limitation from six months to five years, it needs to be construed strictly. The initial burden is on the department to prove that the situation visualized by the proviso existed. But the burden shifts on the assessee once the department is able to produce material to show that the appellant is guilty of any of those situations visualized in the Section.\n13. Interpreting this provision, this Court in Collector of Central Excise, Hyderabad v. Chemphar Drugs and Liniments, Hyderabad, (1989) 2 SCC 127, held: (when the period prescribed was six months prior to it being made one year by the Finance Act, 2000, with effect from 12.05.2000): \"In order to make the demand for duty sustainable beyond a period of six months and up to a period of 5 years in view of the proviso to sub-section (1) of Section 11A of the Act, it has to be established that the duty of excise has not been levied or paid or short-levied or short-paid, or erroneously refunded by reasons of either fraud or collusion or wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provision of the Act or Rules made there under, with intent to evade payment of duty. Something positive other than mere inaction or failure on the part of the manufacturer or producer or conscious or deliberate withholding of information when the manufacturer knew 1 otherwise, is required before it is saddled with any liability, before the period of six months. Whether in a particular set of facts and circumstances there was any fraud or collusion or wilful mis-statement or suppression or contravention of any provision of any Act, is a question of fact depending upon the facts and circumstances of a particular case.\"\n14. In the case of Cosmic Dye Chemical v. Collector of Central Excise, Bombay, (1995) 6 SCC 117, it is held: \"Now so far as fraud and collusion are concerned, it is evident that the requisite intent, i.e., intent to evade duty is built into these very words. So far as mis-statement or suppression of facts are concerned, they are clearly qualified by the word \"wilful\" preceding the words \"mis-statement or suppression of facts\" which means with intent to evade duty. The next set of words \"contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or rules\" is again qualified by the immediately following words \"with intent to evade payment of duty\". It is, therefore, not correct to say that there can be a suppression or mis-statement of fact, which is not wilful and yet constitute a permissible ground for the purpose of the proviso to Section 11-A. Mis- statement or suppression of fact must be willful.\"\n15. In Anand Nishikawa Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Meerut, (2005) 7 SCC 749, this Court has observed: \"...we find that \"suppression of facts\" can have only one meaning that the correct information was not disclosed deliberately to evade payment of duty, when facts were known to both the parties, the omission by one to do what he might have 1 done not that he must have done would not render it suppression. It is settled law that mere failure to declare does not amount to wilful suppression. There must be some positive act from the side of the assessee to find wilful suppression.\"\n16. In our view, on a reading of the relevant provision the extended period of limitation as provided by the proviso to Section 11A(1) of the Act, can only be invoked when there is a conscious act of either fraud, collusion, wilful mis-statement, suppression of fact, or contravention of the provisions of the Act or any of the rules made there under on the part of the person chargeable with duty or his agent, with the intent to evade payment of duty. In the present case, the Tribunal while considering this issue has not stated whether or not there were any such circumstances which would not allow the revenue to invoke extended period of limitation. It only observes in its order since both the assessees are situated under the jurisdiction of the same division and as such it cannot be reasonable to conclude that the revenue was not aware of the transactions. Since this is not what is envisaged under the proviso to Section 11A(1) of the Act, we cannot agree with the reasoning and the conclusion reached by the Tribunal.\n17. In view of the above, we set aside the order passed by the Tribunal, and remand the matter to the Tribunal to determine whether on the facts of the case, any of the grounds enumerated in the proviso to sub-section (1) of Section 11A of the Act are made out by the Revenue and thereby the Revenue is justified in invoking the extended period of limitation to make demand of duty under the Act.\n18. In so far as other issue that was canvassed by learned counsel for the Revenue, in our view, those are all disputed facts which require to be re-examined by the Tribunal, since the Tribunal under the Statute is the final fact finding authority.\n19. In view of the above discussion, we allow this appeal and set aside the impugned order passed by the Tribunal and remand the matter for fresh consideration of all the issues raised by both the parties. Liberty is reserved to both the parties to place on record such other material, which is available in their possession in support of their case. We clarify that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the claim of either of the parties in this appeal. In the facts and circumstances of the case, parties are directed to bear their own costs.\n..............................J. [ D.K. JAIN ]\n...............................J.[ H.L. DATTU ]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 22637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aerotechnews.com/davis-monthanafb/2015/09/03/meet-the-airmen-of-wake-island/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2QVFKNDWVE3MVWXK35YJSEOLVWNOBSK3", "length": 8531, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.aerotechnews.com", "title": "Meet the Airmen of Wake Island", "raw_content": "Meet the Airmen of Wake Island\nStaff Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel\nTech. Sgt. Joshua Reitz and Master Sgt. Yusef Saad, both contracting representatives with Detachment 1, Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center, stand in front of the passenger terminal at Wake Island Airfield, July 21, 2015. A small team with four Airmen from Det. 1 supervises contractor operations and ensures mission success on the remote atoll in the Pacific.\nANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFNS) \u2014 About 1,500 miles east of Guam, in the middle of nowhere in the Mid-Pacific, lies the small coral limestone atoll of Wake Island.\nAhead of Guam by about two hours, a select group of four Airmen here are the first Americans to turn the calendar page every day.\nThe team comprises a fuels, infrastructure, acquisitions and contracting specialist. Working with civilian contractors, they ensure the airfield is run properly and all organizations using the island have mission-essential resources.\nThe Wake Island mission\nSeemingly lost at sea, this tiny island paradise may just be one of the Air Force\u2019s best kept assignment secrets. The calm on the airfield, however, may be misleading. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, numerous organizations use the island as research ground or waypoint at certain times of the year.\n\u201cWe are essentially an air bridge for the Pacific,\u201d said Master Sgt. Yusef Saad, the lead contracting officer representative with Detachment 1, Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center. \u201cWe have numerous transports that travel through Wake Island and we serve as a hub location for in-flight emergencies, when aircraft need to divert. We are strategically positioned nearly perfectly in the middle of the Pacific. It\u2019s a perfect location for this mission.\u201d\nBut their job description is only the core of what the Airmen are tasked to handle. The far flung location, hours away from any support agencies, requires the island teams to be largely self-sufficient.\n\u201cEvery day is a challenge and brings something new that you were either ready for or not,\u201d Saad said. \u201cIt is challenging at times because I don\u2019t think a lot of people know we are here. Sometimes we have military flights coming in and the aircrew meets us as we process their arrival, and they\u2019ll be surprised and ask us whether we actually live here.\u201d\nThe demanding mission and self-reliance is part of the mission for the select few who are chosen for duty on Wake Island.\n\u201cOur mission is unique in the Air Force,\u201d said Tech. Sgt. Joshua Reitz, a Det. 1 civil engineer contracting officer representative. \u201cYes, we work our normal days in the office, but we also stand ready 24/7. If there is an issue that arises on the island, we\u2019re the ones to get the call and we have to take care of it.\n\u201cEven if we have no experience with it, we automatically have to get experienced and take care of it, because nobody is going to do it for us,\u201d Reitz continued. \u201cI have to have at least a working knowledge of all aspects of mine and other career fields. Every day brings something different and I enjoy that challenge.\u201d\nFor the commander of the team, Maj. Ronald Dion, an acquisitions officer by trade, taking care of the mission is only part of the work on Wake Island.\n\u201cI fill a logistics officer position, but it is so much more than that,\u201d Dion said. \u201cIn a way (the Air Force team) is the security on island, we\u2019re peace officers and we even occasionally host distinguished visitors among other duties. There is a lot that we do that goes beyond our normal career fields.\u201d\nEven far beyond the horizon of the next base, the military routine for the Airmen continues even to the far reaches of the ocean, to include meetings, physical fitness and promotion testing.\nThere are regular inspections, teleconferences with their home station at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and other entities that have a footprint on the island. The team also works from Tuesday to Saturday, matching the West Coast\u2019s regular work week.\n\u201cWe get up in the morning, work out, then put on the uniform and get to work,\u201d Saad said. \u201cAt the office, plenty of emails are usually waiting for us to respond because our morning here is already the evening for the West Coast.\u201d\nTo some, an assignment to quiet Wake Island may seem like a lottery win. A pristine, turquoise lagoon stretches along the flightline and opens to the hushed reef break in the distance. Beside the military footprint, the island is nearly unchanged from decades ago. There is no traffic, no pollution and no line at the grocery store.\nOnly, there is no grocery store at all \u2014 only a small company store that opens a few times a week, carrying assorted snacks, drinks and toiletries. There\u2019s also a souvenir shop that occasionally opens when aircrews leave the airfield, allowing buyers to prove their visit to this unlikely duty station.\nTo spend their off-duty time, the Airmen fish, scuba dive and comb the beach for historic items, marine life and the occasional swept up curiosities. When necessary they also have to use some of their time to battle the nearly unrestrained rat population on the 2.9 square mile island. According to a recent survey, 2.5 million rats are currently roaming the atoll as a result of the eradication of a feral cat population in 2006.\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty remote around here,\u201d Dion said. \u201cThere isn\u2019t much entertainment, no base exchange, commissary or other services. It can be a challenge.\u201d\nMail only arrives about twice a month per rotator flights, and for their personal use, island workers rely on a slow dial-up internet connection reminiscent of the early days of the internet.\nInternet phone calls are thus nearly impossible and even emails are slow to send.\nWith a wife and three daughters back home, Reitz said this makes it sometimes difficult to man an island thousands of miles away from home \u2014 but family support keeps morale up and the Airman motivated.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been on a number of temporary duty assignments and deployments during my career, so my wife is pretty much a pro at this,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I\u2019m gone she picks up the work and totally takes care of everything. And when the assignment is over, we\u2019ll get back to real life.\u201d\nThe days without aircraft visits or projects to coordinate can be slow, however, turning some days into a personal challenge of a different kind.\n\u201cWake Island defined to a point \u2026 it\u2019s groundhog day,\u201d said Saad, who is closing in on the end of his yearlong tour. \u201cPeople see the pictures and wished they were here. And in the first few days after arriving here you\u2019re excited. But you\u2019re very isolated from the world. You don\u2019t know some of the things you take for granted until you\u2019re away for a while.\u201d\nOn the shores of history\nWhile Wake Island now is a quiet ocean paradise with languidly rolling waves touching its shores, during World War II, it was fiercely fought over as a strategic waypoint for airpower in the Pacific. To this day, unexploded ordnances are found along the atoll\u2019s shores.\nIn 1943, during the height of the conflict, 98 American civilian workers who had been held prisoner on Wake Island were killed in captivity. Today, an almost unchanged number of American and Thai civilian contractors again work to maintain and operate the island\u2019s airfield.\n\u201cWe\u2019re a part of history,\u201d Saad said. \u201cThis island and base have a lot of history. Knowing we are part of that history is special. We\u2019re assigned to Wake Island and not a lot of people can say that.\u201d\nFor major holidays Airmen and contractors gather at \u201cDrifter\u2019s Reef,\u201d the only bar and the only gastronomy establishment in addition to the dining facility. People bring food to the bar and share in highly anticipated bingo nights.\nSharing life with those braving the isolation of Wake Island, Saad said, will be one of his favorite memories of this special assignment.\n\u201cWe\u2019re family,\u201d Saad said. \u201cEven though everybody kind of has their group, we stick together. This is our home.\u201d\nUntil their tour is over, the Airmen wake up on Wake Island, ready to bridge the empty vastness that is the Pacific Ocean during emergencies and contingencies. When the time comes, they are the closest refueling and repair station in more than a thousand miles in each direction.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a once in a lifetime experience, because travel to the island is extremely restricted,\u201d Reitz said. \u201cOnly few have even heard of Wake and there is only a select few who really know what it\u2019s like to be here. It\u2019s an awesome feeling to experience that.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 11068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aerotechnews.com/lukeafb/2016/04/14/sports-shorts-april-15-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3ASBWGYNBVQOGYCTWSICHTLAZKRGIQDT", "length": 1182, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.aerotechnews.com", "title": "Sports Shorts April 15, 2016", "raw_content": "Sports Shorts April 15, 2016\nThe Falcon Dunes Golf Course is featuring a junior golf clinic 9 to 10 a.m. April 23. The cost is $20 per clinic or $30 for both. Instruction includes grip, stance, driving, chipping, putting and golf etiquette. For more information, call 623-535-9334.\nBase family camp out\nOutdoor recreation is featuring a base family campout today and Saturday at Fowler Park. The cost is $10 for a family of four, $5 per additional members, free for R4R deployed family members and includes bouncers, movie in the park and s\u2019mores. For more information, call 623-856-6267.\nK-1 speed racing\nOutdoor recreation is featuring K1 speed racing at 10 a.m. April 23. Race to beat your own time. Top three racers receive a T-shirt and an award. For more information, call 623-856-6267.\nCheerleading and football camp\nThe 56th Force Support Squadron Bryant Fitness Center is featuring Pigskin Patriots, a free cheerleading and football camp Saturday. Ages 5 to 9 meet at 9 a.m. to noon and ages 10 to 14 meet at 1 to 4 p.m. at the fitness center. The event is led by NFL players and cheerleaders. Register at the 56th FSS Youth Center. For more information, call 623-856-7470.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-cemeteries/index.cgi/md/read/id/3522/sbj/washington-park-cemetery-st-louis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2WZM2PVEMOZAOBJDKNTQ4DHRVV73JVUU", "length": 1069, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.afrigeneas.com", "title": "Re: Washington Park Cemetery - St Louis", "raw_content": "Thank you, Cynthia, for your ideas. I have put on my list of persons/organizations to contact high schools in the area, churches (many of which also do community service projects), boy scouts (to become eligible for Eagle Scout, the scout must do community service). I had not considered persons returning to society from prison, but you are right, they, too, may be a good resource.\nI have also put in a call to the St. Louis American and someone suggested I might also consider a news station like Channel 2 since \"slow\" news nights will come and Washington Park may fit into a segment.\nTwo of my family members were removed to Calvary, but others remain in Washington Park. I have seen flowers placed at gravesites...even those well hidden among the brush and trees, so there are still visitors to the grounds.\nUnfortunately, on my walk through the grounds yesterday (August 21, 2008) I also saw that there are some who are using the cemetery as a dumping ground for their trash.\nBut, again, thank you so much for responding and offering ideas. I'll keep you posted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alanrhodes.com/journals/page129.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:4E6F5R4M5KV4EVTYNZD2UT575TULK6ZQ", "length": 5255, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.alanrhodes.com", "title": "page129", "raw_content": "Walked to Dave's, I think Ralph and Donna [were there]. Ralph left and came back with Andy about 7. We all walked across the field (smoking up on the way) to St Charles [I was welcomed back to the group by Andy. We walked towards the water tower near St Charles. It seemed to be the hub of a great wheel, with the spokes being the ridges of frozen earth mixed with sheets of ice...1973 was a visual year, this image, the upcoming dream, then beauty of trees in the summer, or standing on the balcony of Donna's apt looking towards the city and Mont Royal, imagining the lines of perspective...]. Went to Bob Kerr's [Donna's brother, about the same age as her] house (new one, no one in). 2 girls and 2 guys (one Dave Wells) there. We talked and smoked, had some cider. Waited at Dominion for Ralph's father.\nWent to Dave's in the afternoon; Donna and Alan came later. Got picked up at 5:30. Called Andy cause we were going to Bob's (Donna's brother) house. They have two houses, one of which is under construction. We were to have a party in the empty house [I'm not sure now, but I think the family had moved into the new house- which was in sight of the old one- and the party was to be in the house they had more or less vacated]. Andy decided to come and his father gave us a lift to Dave's, from where we walked through strange parts of Dollard and through all sorts of fields. In the fields we all smoked up. Finally got to Bob's around 8:30. There were all sorts of people I didn't know there. As soon as we got there Andy and a few other people went to get beer and cider. Donna got very drunk, her and Dave making out all over the place. We had to stay in the basement because he [Bob] was afraid his mother would see the lights. We walked around upstairs a few times [exploring a half empty house in the dark; the thrill of being where we weren't supposed to be]. Left at 11:00 but had trouble getting out of the house because there was an old lady walking her dog. We walked to a Dominion store on St Charles and called to get picked up.\nIt was about this time that I had a dream. I was riding a horse across a field lightly covered with snow. In the sky before me was the sun, and on either side in the distance low hills and above them crescent moons. I told the dream to Dave the next day while out at the back of the school having a smoke. I phoned a radio talk show on which a dream interpreter was on. He listened to me, asked how old I was and said \"You read the same book I did\" and hung up...\nWent to Dave's in the afternoon. A bunch of Sue's friends were there- Brian, Pete, a girl who's name I didn't get (91), and Larry Habel who came later. Sat listening to records. Everyone except Larry left at around 4. Dave showed Larry all his pants. Got picked up around 6. Dropped off Larry on the corner of St Johns and Westminster.\n91. Ralph's note: If I remember correctly, the girl whose name I didn't get was Jackie Ranger. I can't recall Bryan's last name, but he was a fixture in the Peter Mckinstry (sp?) crowd. This would have been the first time I'd met any of these people, and I sure wish (once again) that I was less concerned with unadorned events and places and times and more descriptive and opinionated where people were concerned. I wish I could remember more exactly how I felt about the people I met and would later spend a good deal of my time with. Larry Habel [pictured] going through David's wardrobe is the closest thing to an opinion here: David's collection of pants still persists in my memory as representing tangible evidence of my early feelings of Dave's \"difference\" and a frequent source of my embarrassment at being seen with him. That I connect Larry with Dave's pants points to a similar discomfort about Larry, with his gold chains and and undone shirts. Somehow I have always been suspicious of sartorial extremes. Anyway, I was suspicious of Larry. He wasn't like us, he was older than me and yet hung around with people I considered to be too young for me (that would soon change), and I wondered why Larry didn't hang around with people of his own age. Quibbles to be sure, but of some gravity when you are sixteen. The arrival of the likes of Larry and Pete and the rest of the Southwest One/Somervale/Fairview pits crowd signalled the onset of the final disintegration of the core group. The cohesiveness of the Lesley axis was now beginning to be supplanted by a much wider and more disparate crowd of people who were, apart from Larry, younger than us- Pat, Maggie, Sue, Heather, Louise Tremblay, Jackie, Danny Hinves, Pete, the Wilkensons, Richard and so on. Andrew's outside acquaintances- Scott Forsythe, Murray Robinson, Brad and Bob Hyland would also revolve around the periphery. Anyway, I was never comfortable with Larry, never really liked him. 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During the past two years alone, Professor Brescia has published: five law review articles; an academic book, HOW CITIES WILL SAVE THE WORLD (co-editor); three book chapters; and scores of articles and blog posts for The Huffington Post, Medium and other news outlets. An expert on issues of government regulation and social inequality, Professor Brescia also has an additional four law review articles forthcoming this year, and has co-authored several amicus briefs in federal court cases litigating the executive order on immigration.\nProfessor Christine Sgarlata Chung received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Chung, whose courses include Business Organizations and Contracts I and II, was described by her students as \"a guiding light,\" \"truly one of the best parts of Albany Law,\" and \"a lifetime mentor\" who expects excellence and challenges those in her classroom to reach beyond their goals. Professor Chung joined Albany Law's faculty in 2007 and is currently co-director of the Institute for Financial Market Regulation, a collaborative project of Albany Law School and the University at Albany.\nProfessor Sarah Rogerson received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Service for her work impacting the law school, as well as the local, state, and international communities. As director of the Law Clinic & Justice Center and its Immigration Law Clinic, Professor Rogerson trained and supervised students who provided direct representation to detained and non-detained immigrants, and has organized and participated in training hundreds of lawyers and advocates to further assist immigrant families. 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I am wondering if Alice is a good choice for game design?\nI really like the 3D object browser and the fact that the world is 3D which I think will really appeal to them, I also like the context sensitive drop & drag coding.\nI'm looking at a few packages right now, deciding what to use for the class. I'm really hoping Alice is it, but I'll put it to the experts... what do you think?\nRemember, the games would be really simple - ie, moving a character around, collecting some items, avoiding obstacles, etc.\nOriginally Posted by Godo\nAmong the students who contribute to this forum, one of the biggest complaints is the lack of collision detection in Alice 2.0. As near as I have been able to determine, in order to determine the proximity of one object to another and stop the movement when they collide, they must approach one another in short steps instead of executing a move method and stopping in the middle of the move. However, I may be wrong on this because I haven't given it a lot of thought. If this will be an issue, I recommend that you search the forum for the keyword collision.\nOne drawback - 11-25-2007, 11:43 AM\nI would think the biggest drawback for the class you describe would be that there is no easy way for the students to show off the games they have made. The export to web page option in Alice 2.0 is so buggy that it is essentially useless (I never have gotten a game to work at all that way) and the screen capture options (using another program) don't support game play.\nThe local art school uses Flash (Flash 8 a year ago, but they may have upgraded) which does allow you run your games on other machines - although the software itself is quite expensive.\nAnother free option would be Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) which is pretty limited but does have an excellent web posting option. Despite it's limitations, I've seen some really nice games using that program - if your emphasis is on art instead of programming it should work fine.\nA Pedagogical Perspective (from a non-teacher)\nA Pedagogical Perspective (from a non-teacher) - 01-06-2008, 09:46 PM\nI've just finished helping my son with a video game project he's done for a grade 9 class using Alice and I'm both awed and horrified in equal measure.\nAlice is a terrific tool for allowing students to produce a lot of really impressive looking programs. I'm looking at my son who's writing his first major program and thinking - that's 50,000 lines of Java, minimum. Alice's strong point is certainly that it allows students to produce impressive pieces of work without a huge amount of knowledge, and thus it is going to help motivate the students by allowing an immense amount of gratification for not an insane amount of learning. That was the awe.\nThe horror was looking at his code. His entire code is hugely concurrent sections of code in methods that are vaguely connected to the objects they are found in. I started to chastise his program structure, but I began to realize that there is no way an average grade 9 student could possibly produce clean logic for a game that multiple levels of different types of flying monsters, an assortment of weapons, etc. Instead, he built an edifice that worked based on sand. It was semi-object oriented spaghetti - and it worked. What could I say? Don't try something this fun?\nTo answer your question about applicability to a Game Design Class: From my perspective, it really depends upon what the course objectives are. If the real objective is to get students interested in programming and build confidence in using computers, Alice is a very good tool. If the objective is to teach good design principles, or even the beginning principles of programming, I think it's in great danger of allowing the elements that lead to student gratification to swamp the elements that lead to good programming practices.\nThere is one other problem with Alice. By doing such a great job in hiding complexity and making certain difficult things incredibly easy, student's are often confused as to why *everything* isn't that easy. My answer to one of my son's questions was that his simple request would probably require another 2,000 lines of Java code. He couldn't really understand why and simply assumed that other programming languages are defective. If he pursues programming, I fear he's in for some big disappointments when he learns what programming is really like...\n(It's not unlike the arguments with Visual Basic 10 years earlier. Students liked the idea of producing professional looking programs, but such gratification often came at the cost of significant pedagogical achievement.)\nAlice can be a great tool for throwing together a game. Alice can be extremely frustrating when writing a game, as well. There are no convenience methods for game creation, so you run into the problems described earlier in this thread.\nWith that in mind, I would recommend, especially given your time frame and audience, to give them an idea of what Alice is good and bad at as far as game creation. You can make a whole game without running into any of the frustrating parts of game creation in Alice, if you know what to look out for. It seems like you already had this in mind, but I would definitely give a \"project list\" for your audience. Think of games that can be built up from the things that are straightforward enough to do in Alice (all of the ones you mentioned above would fall into this category-- the toughest one there is collision detection when avoiding obstacles. A great solution to this is to just send the player back to the start if they hit one. You have the gameplay element of avoiding obstacles without dealing with the complications of preventing the player from colliding with the object), and offer these as baselines.\nIt does suck that it's hard to share their creations, but you could at least do something like have a presentation day on the last day of camp, where the students mill about and play each others' games. Being an art camp, you probably already have a day where mom and pop come in to see what they've done.\nAt the college where I teach, we will be offering a two-year degree in game development beginning in the fall of 2008. Within that curriculum, there will be several tracks, including:\nStudents in the game programming track will be required to successfully complete several very serious courses in software design and programming (plus a good deal of math). After learning about OOP using Java, they will mainly concentrate on C++, which seems to be the norm in the game programming side of the industry (except for cell phone games where Java seems to be king).\nStudents in the game design track will only be required to complete one programming course, and it will be a course in programming fundamentals with an orientation toward gaming. Although the programming environment that will be used for that course is still up in the air, my vote will be to teach this course using Alice.\nTherefore, as far as the committee that designed this degree plan is concerned, there is a vast difference between the software design skills required by game programmers and game designers. (There are many game development companies in Austin where we are located, and a number of representatives from those companies are on the industry advisory committee for this curriculum.)\nBasically, the game designers need to be able to specify what will happen in the game, but not necessarily how to implement that behavior. On the other hand, they need to know enough about programming to be able to converse in a reasonable way with programmers.\nThe game programmers, on the other hand, will be required to implement the required behavior of the game, hopefully using good software design principles in the process.\nSo, I'm unsure as to whether the original question that started this thread refers to game programmers or game designers. If it applies to game designers, Alice should be a reasonably good environment to use. If it applies to game programmers, Alice may be okay for starters, but the students should quickly outgrow Alice 2.0 and move on to either Java or C++.\nAlice 3.0, (if it ever really becomes available), might be a good choice for game programming at the middle school level, but eventually (and unfortunately in my opinion) a successful game programmer must be proficient in OOP using C++ to earn a living. (They also must be prepared to work 12 to 15 hours per day as a contract programmer for many years, but that is a topic for another thread on another day.)\nGame Design Program - 01-07-2008, 10:02 PM\nThis is completely off topic, but how does one implement a game design program?\nIt would seem to me that the ratio of game programmers/art creators/whatevers to game designers would be about 100:1 and that you'd need years working in the trenches slowly upward before anyone is going to trust you with a few million dollars to design a game. (Sort of like wanting to be a film director.)\nAm I completely wrong about this? Is there actually unfulfilled demand for the creative aspects of game design? (It's been a few years since I kept tabs on the game industry - back when I was paying attention, pretty much 100% of the designers were previously programmers...)\nOriginally Posted by Tom West\nThat is a very good question, which I don't have the answer to. The game design part of our curriculum is coming out of a different department than the one that I teach in. I have been told that large-scale game development these days involves large teams of people with only a small percentage of them being programmers. My only involvement in the game design part of the curriculum is to possibly teach a programming fundamentals course to the game-design students. I do recognize, however, that a different set of skills is required to develop the design of an engaging game than the skills required to implement that design in code.\nAsk me in a couple of years if the program was successful and I hope to be able to say yes.\nA good recent summary of the work a game design \"concept artist\" is expected to do is at http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754332...es-artist.html . A search of the same magazine's (ImagineFX) database also gives several other interesting articles on game design .\nFor a feel of typical work on core game engine software, take a look at the Irrlicht Engine site (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ ). It is probably one of the most capable 3D graphics/gaming engines around - and the current release apparently works both on Macs and PCs (C++ and .NET, but not Linux).\nI'm only guessing at the ratio of \"hard core\" programmers to artists and animators for established gaming companies, but I suspect that it is at least 1:1, if not even more heavily weighted towards the artists, just because of the raw quantity of the graphic material that needs to be developed for a modern game. (How many of the \"artistic\" contributors started out as programmers, however, is a very interesting question.)\nThere is a very interesting article on this topic at http://www.gamecareerguide.com/featu...ers.php?page=1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 15638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alice.org/community/showthread.php?s=e1bd17fb41ac494dc2d0382064c19c7e&t=11651&goto=nextoldest", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HCAP6TCXXOIEBOFWNROXUTNGRH6Q4TSZ", "length": 547, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.alice.org", "title": "Assignment 3 - Alice Community", "raw_content": "Assignment 3 - 02-25-2017, 12:30 PM\nI know I am a bit behind schedule, but I have completed Assignment 3. This assignment gives us an in-depth look at methods. It was required of me to answer 10 questions and create an Egypt project. I thought this assignment was both a great learning experience and straight-forward. I had to play with the UI of Alice in order to complete this assignment. Overall, it was a step in the right direction to learn the basics of programming.\nSend a private message to thegreatnico97\nFind all posts by thegreatnico97", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allthingsif.org/archives/tag/if-you-can-write-contest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JLNLO5MFXWRE533NQFBZIWPYBGUOIVIT", "length": 1162, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.allthingsif.org", "title": "\u201cIf You Can Write\u201d contest", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for \u201cIf You Can Write\u201d contest\nIf you really could make a difference \u2013 would you? This poem was an entry for \u201cIf you can write\u2026\u201d contest for 2012.\nWhen you read \u201cBoxcar to Manhood\u201d, you\u2019ll meet the opinionated and unique father of Toianna Gump, our third-place winner for non-fiction. A self-described \u201cChristian atheist\u201d, Toianna\u2019s dad continually strove for the emotional detachment Kipling implies is vital to \u201ckeep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.\u201d\nOur first-place prize winner for non-fiction, Brock Meyer, relates the moving, memorable, one and only time he met his grandfather, who clearly demonstrated Kipling\u2019s ideal \u201cIf you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss.\u201d\nWhen you get to know Theresa, you\u2019ll understand why her sister-in-law Pat Florio chose to write about her. Our second-place winner for non-fiction shows us how her brother\u2019s wife filled every unforgiving minute with distance run in a way that filled the hearts around her with joy and hope.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alltimeclubbing.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:07Z", "digest": "sha1:PN345QMRJDD6QB6YCJXCPAT3M7O22D3B", "length": 5138, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.alltimeclubbing.com", "title": "AllTimeClubbing", "raw_content": "Top 5 acts you shouldn\u2019t miss at DIMENSIONS 2018!\nOnce again, Dimensions Festival brings legendary electronic music and underground acts to the old fortress of Fort Punta Christo. Dimensions Festival takes place between August 29th and September 2nd in Pula, Croatia. Located near the Adriatic Sea, the festival is surrounded by magnificent scenery.\nThe 2018 programme is aimed at audiophiles. During the day, you can enjoy beach takeovers, boat parties, talks and workshops. The nights are for partying! During the festival, the stages will showcase the most talented DJs, producers and record labels.\nThis year\u2019s bill includes a lot of internationally acclaimed artists as well as new talents. Once you get there, we recommend that you see: Kraftwerk, Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, Lena Wilikens and Helena Hauff.\nTickets are currently on sale at \u00a3115 + booking fee.\nFor info about tickets, please check: dimensionsfestival.com/tickets\nNewly Grammy Awarded Kraftwerk will be headlining this year\u2019s edition of Dimensions Festival. Their mind-blowing 3D live show will take place at the opening concert in Pula\u2019s historical amphitheatre on August 29th. The German electro quartet has achieved iconic status due to their futuristic sound and need to experiment with new technologies and robotics. Their performances go on worldwide at the most exclusive locations such as MoMA NY, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Sydney Opera House and Louis Vuitton Fondation.\nKraftwerk emerged during the mid-70s in Germany from an experimental music background. Their self-described \u201crobot-pop\u201d resonates with minimal and electro and has turned them into best pioneers of this music form as well as guaranteeing enduring influence.\nBerlin-based musician, composer and record producer, Nils Frahm has built a name for himself for combining classical and electronic music. He started out as a modern classical pianist and extended his musical horizons with synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. Frahm has been composing music for over a decade now. The year 2013, found him releasing a live album \u201cSpaces\u201d having a more familiar approach to audiences and keyboard enthusiasts across the world, propelling him into the prodigy he is today. Nils Frahm holds nine solo albums, four EPs and has collaborated on compilation albums, movie soundtracks and theatrical shows.\nThe 37-year old English musician and producer, Jon Hopkins, holds a record of five solo albums and loads of singles, movie soundtracks and collaborative EPs and LPs since the early 2000. He built a strong reputation for himself, as a composer, being recognised for his collaborations. Mainly for his association with Brian Eno on the ambient music \u201cAnother Day On Earth\u201d (2005) and \u201cSmall Craft on a Milk Sea\u201d(2010), as well as his contributions as a co-producer on Coldplay\u2019s Grammy-winning \u201cViva la Vida\u201d (2009) and \u201cMylo Xyloto\u201d (2011). His involvement in the 2010 film \u201cMonsters\u201d got himself nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score.\nJon\u2019s fourth album \u201cImmunity\u201d, released on Domino Records in 2013, earned him the biggest award so far. Not only did it premiere on NPR and won Best New Music title from Pitchfork, the album was nominated along the works of Disclosure, Arctic Monkeys, James Blake, for the 2013 Mercury Prize.\nCologne based DJ and producer, Lena Willikens, has an intriguing wide taste in music. While many of her DJ sets blend electro and techno, her radio shows include unusual sounds. Her unforeseeable selections of obscure proto-techno, industrial boogie, synthesized disco, raw house and other outer national rhythms can move a dance floor into bizarre and unknown territory. She achieved global recognition for her monthly radio show \u201cSentimental Flashback\u201d, which was selected as best podcast/ mix of 2014 by the UK based Juno Records. Lena holds a residency at one of the best clubs in Europe, the Salon Des Amateurs in Dusseldorf. Also, she has been involved in Comeme Records and its mission, being frequently named for the label\u2019s parties.\nHamburg based artist, Helena Hauff, is known for being the first female DJ to be named by BBC Radio 1\u2019s Essential mix of the year 2017. DJ and producer, Helena\u2019s techno-electro tracks have been recorded strictly using analogue equipment. She draws her influence from acid house, EBM and industrial music. Her debut record was ActiReactio EP, which surfaced in 2013, followed by a series of releases on various labels like James Dean Brown\u2019s Hypnobeat. After only two years, she released her first full-length album \u201cDiscreet Desires\u201d via Werkdiscs Records and was listed as no. 19 by the Rolling Stones list of \u201c20 best EDM and Electronic Albums of 2015\u201d.\nFor more information about Dimensions Festival, please check www.dimensionsfestival.com\nNakadia & Cirillo to play at database, Romania this Friday\nEXIT Festival goes All-Star with Nina Kraviz, Solomun, Mac...\nSonja Moonear to play in database this Saturday\nFestival Guide 2018: European Festivals not to miss in 201...\nJoin our mailing list and receive weekly highlights of the portal in your email.\nWe respect your privacy, see Privacy Policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.americanblackout.org/products-to-help-you-deal-with-ticks-and-fleas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YVG7IT5PEUTX3UGZKSQRX2YDPUCQR3HQ", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.americanblackout.org", "title": "Products to Help You Deal With Ticks And Fleas \u2013 American Blackout", "raw_content": "Posted on November 8, 2018 November 10, 2018 by Linda", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 129.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.amirasbelly.com/cd.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YYHSK3424IECTUOYHTWOOEYJSZTKPMSL", "length": 2443, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.amirasbelly.com", "title": "Bellydance Music CD", "raw_content": "\"I have seen an amazing decrease in general \u2018aches and pains\u2019 since starting this\u2026 I'm thrilled and I know it's related to doing this DVD.\"\n- Jennie, North Carolina\nNow Available !! More of the wonderful music from globally acclaimed Hossam Ramzy and Phil Thornton, handpicked by Amira for your Bellydancing pleasure.\nThe perfect companion to Amira's \"Bellydance 101\" DVD, Amira's \"Music for Bellydance\" features 11 more tracks from these world-renowned stars of Egyptian music to keep you dancing. Both artists fuse modern and traditional scores that define the mood, tempo and culture of this distinctive genre. Features tracks from the albums Eternal Egypt, Immortal Egypt and Enchanted Egypt.\nAn acclaimed master of the synthesiser, a highly talented multi-instrumentalist and an innovative producer, Phil Thornton is very much a leading light amongst the futuristic and visionary musicians of the New Age. His adventurous and seductive compositions ring out with a tremendous \u2018journey\u2019 quality, evoking rich exotic soundscapes. Phil\u2019s talent is constantly sought-after by fellow musicians and he has recently been working with 60\u2019s rock icon Arthur Brown.\nHossam\u2019s passion and huge talent for percussion was developed from an early age through studying his craft under leading Cairo musicians. A friendship with many Bedouin tribes gave the young Hossam a rich insight into the cultural origins of Middle Eastern music and became the inspiration for many of his later rhythmic directions. A highly acclaimed master of percussion, Hossam has collaborated with many artists such as The Rolling Stones, Page & Plant, and Peter Gabriel.\nRecordings by Phil Thornton & Hossam Ramzy on the New World music Label:\nEternal Egypt NWCD 416\nImmortal Egypt NWCD 455\nEnchanted Egypt NWCD 557\nAmira, originally from Estonia, currently living and working in Las Vegas, NV. She teaches workshops and seminars globally, and has become one of the most frequently requested bellydancers, performing at some of the most prestigious venues in the USA and in Egypt. The Arab community has referred to her as \u201ca true Arabic dancer,\u201d and has commented that she captures the very essence Middle Eastern dance - the feel for the music. Amira\u2019s expression, her interpretation of the music and her body language captivate and mesmerize audiences everywhere.\nTo keep up-to-date with Amira's activities and to learn more about bellydancing, subscribe to our newsletter!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 6951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.amitkumargoyal.com/research/data-analysis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RON2P3DMDVBAYOWMBP5RQB44APAOIXIK", "length": 2004, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.amitkumargoyal.com", "title": "Sports Analytics - amit goyal", "raw_content": "Data Source: http://cricsheet.org/downloads/\nAbout the data: Ball-by ball data is available in YAML format. I have used Python 3 to read the data and then form a single csv file to create training data and test data sets including only those variables that are needed for the analysis.\nHere is the summary of data from 178 IPL Matches played during 2008-2010. The aim of the model is to predict the outcome of the game at early stages of the second innings in the match and later propose a measure of the value of the player based on his contribution to the winning of a match. We will present some preliminary statistics of the data here:\nMean(victory) of 0.5147 means that in roughly 50 % of the data points the team chasing (or batting second) has won. The median target score in the data that was chased by teams batting second is around 162.\nVariable lost_wickets denotes the number of wickets the chasing team has lost by that time at which the ball is delivered, scored is the variable that is equal to the score of the chasing team after the ball is delivered and overs denote the number of balls bowled so far divided by 6 at the ball.\nTo summarize, lost_wickets, runs scored and overs bowled together determines the available resources with the team chasing a target.\nThe results of running a logistic regression of the variable victory on the available resources and the target yields the following results:\nAll the variables turned out be strong determinants. Model accurately predicts the outcome close to 80% of the time at various stages of the second innings. The performance is the same on the test data set. What's even more interesting is that the accuracy of the model is close to 75% on the subset of test data that only consists of early stages of the second innings. This shows that the model has a pretty good performance in predicting outcomes in early stages of the match.\nConfusion Matrix for Train Data\nConfusion Matrix for Test Data\nEarly Stages Confusion Matrix on test Data", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ant-eigo.com/eng/staff.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XYF6OQJFA3DMQNUEBCFG745DR36YW5JD", "length": 614, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ant-eigo.com", "title": "Our staff", "raw_content": "The staff of ANT English school are very dedicated to their work. They also enjoy teaching very much, meaning that you end up with a better lesson overall.\nWe have teachers from Australia, England, America, France, China Canada, and many more. This not only means you can learn their language, but you can also get a firsthand experience of what it is like to live in their particular country. This is very useful for people who are considering emigrating, studying overseas, or even if you are just going to take a holiday!\nIf you feel more comfortable with a native Japanese teacher we can also arrange for that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 169.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Recovery-Fest-2018/70f56cab514d4b65b078d0cfae1feaf7/6/0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3Y75XBQG2LJIMWDALOSOZG46ZF5RJYL3", "length": 685, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.apimages.com", "title": "Recovery Fest 2018 | Buy Photos | AP Images | DetailView", "raw_content": "IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR RECOVERY FEST 2018 - In this image distributed on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, Noelle Scaggs and Michael \"Fitz\" Fitzpatrick of Fitz and the Tantrums perform at Recovery Fest 2018 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI on September 29, 2018. \"Recovery Fest 2018\" is a drug-and-alcohol free event featuring national recording star, Macklemore, Fitz and the Tantrums, local rock band PVRIS, and local legendary blues artist James Montgomery. Recovery Fest 2018 allowed those in recovery, their families, and those supporting them to stand together and celebrate recovery through the healing power of music. (Photo by Rupert Whiteley/Invision for Recovery Fest 2018/AP Images)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apparelnews.net/events/2018/aug/19/new-orleans-gift-and-jewelry-show-00251012/?et=11622", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4TZXCIO3NC44W4VZYQMLFQSOFB2TQEGQ", "length": 126, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.apparelnews.net", "title": "New Orleans Gift and Jewelry Show | California Apparel News", "raw_content": "New Orleans Gift and Jewelry Show\nWhere: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans\nhttp://www.helenbrett.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 1733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aqs.se/news/uppsala-university-new-european-wind-atlas-project-is-using-six-aq510/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EPXM6JVBOZL4P2F7HLYOGTWC5HXHCSOE", "length": 1387, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.aqs.se", "title": "Uppsala University New European Wind Atlas project is using seven AQ510 | AQSystems", "raw_content": "Start\u00bb News\u00bb Uppsala University New European Wind Atlas project is using seven AQ510\nUppsala University New European Wind Atlas project is using seven AQ510\nFor at least four months in 2016 a major measurement campaign will take place in Sweden as part of the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) program. Seven AQ510 SoDARs from AQSystem have been deployed in combination with a 180m met mast and three lidar. The project aims to get increased knowledge on turbulence and wind climate over forests at heights relevant for modern wind turbines. The AQ510\u2019s are deployed over a 10km area, run by Uppsala University and Weathertech Scandinavia the campaign is the Swedish contribution to the NEWA project, in which similar large scale experiments will take place at a variety of sites across Europe.\nEach AQ510 will supply wind speed, direction and turbulence data at 33 measurement heights from 40m to 200m above ground level. This data will be used to confirm hub-height resource as well as wind shear, veer and turbulence across the eventual rotor diameters.\nFounded in 1477, Uppsala University is Sweden\u2019s oldest university. It is a broad research university with well-defined missions: to conduct research and education of the highest quality and to collaborate in various ways to help make the world a better place. 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The resolution placed on the agenda sought to raise the current millage of 2 mills to five mills, to help the city increase revenues to make up for shortfalls in the budget...\nAsh Flat council hears ideas for Fire Department (Local News ~ 10/28/11)\nThe fire department was the main topic of discussion as the Ash Flat City Council met on Oct. 14. Since the Sharp County Library received a grant to refurbish the current fire department headquarters into a librbary, there has been discussion about plans for a new fire department building...\nAsh Flat Fire Department visits school (Local News ~ 10/28/11)\nThe Ash Flat Fire Department spent the day on Oct. 20 visiting area day cares for National Fire Prevention Week. Ash Flat Fire Chief Stacy Horton and Captain Adam Bates took a fire truck and equipment to Mrs. Melissa and Mrs. Shay's Preschools in Ash Flat to explain fire safety, including having a safe place, stop drop and roll and helping children overcome fears of firefighters, clothed in turnout gear. The children were also treated to fireman helmets, coloring books, crayons and suckers...\nSharp County hospital discussed at Chamber meeting (Local News ~ 10/28/11)\nHealth insurance for the self-employed and small business owners, and the possibility of a new hospital in Sharp County were the main topics at the Spring River Area Chamber of Commerce's (SRACC) regular luncheon meeting, held on Oct. 18, at Cozumel Restaurant in Hardy...\nRemembering That Life is Short (Column ~ 10/28/11)\nHow many of us go through our days, hustling from one errand to the next, or one job duty to the next, then come home, eat dinner, watch some TV and head to bed? How often do we stop and make the time for family? Or friends? Or for charities that need volunteers to help out? Or even to show extra affection to our pets?...\nTwo Hardy men face drug charges (Local News ~ 10/28/11)\nTwo Hardy men were arrested on drug charges by the Sharp County Sheriff's Department and Hardy Police Department, following a search warrant on Oct. 20. Delmar Gene Groves, 62, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use, both Class D felonies...\nThayer Elementary book fair Oct. 31-Nov. 4 (Local News ~ 10/28/11)\nThayer Elementary School will host a Scholastic Book Fair Oct. 31-Nov. 4 to raise money for books, equipment and library materials. The fair will feature numerous books and educational products, including newly released works, award-winning titles, children's classics, interactive software and current bestsellers from many publishers. 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Here\u2019s how the individual competitors from the two schools did on the day: Boys High Jump...\nAGFC approves purchase of 14 acres for future field office (Outdoors ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Arkansas Game and Fish Commission approved the purchase of a new parcel of land near Mountain Home during its March 23 meeting, but unlike other purchases that sometimes cover many square miles, this purchase only included 14 acres. But those 14 acres are just as important to the AGFC\u2019s mission as any wildlife management area, as they will be the location for a future field office to serve the Mountain Home area...\nFeeding sick animals to pets never a good idea (Other Sports ~ 04/04/18)\nIt\u2019s not uncommon for rabbit dogs, squirrel dogs and even the family feline to enjoy some of the spoils of hunting season, but owners should be careful not to give their pets and working dogs meat from animals they know to be infected or diseased. \u201cWe have had a few people ask if they could give the meat from a deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease to their pets,\u201d said Jennifer Ballard, wildlife veterinarian for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. ...\nBowling Results - March 29, Horseshoe Lanes (Community Sports ~ 04/04/18)\nRodney Hallmark 204;531 Buddy J. Smith 202;554 Mike Aronoff 199;571 Buddy E. Smith 218;601 Paul Rosebrook 235;581 Kenny Ray 200;527 Art Johnson 200;549 Anthony Jackson 213;551...\nCV Mens Golf Association announces new officers (Community Sports ~ 04/04/18)\nCherokee Village Men\u2019s Golf Association held a meeting on Thursday, March 29. New officers were installed for 2018 and are as follows: President, Scott Jones; Vice President, Will Brooks; Treasurer, Darrell Kehrli; Secretary, Walt Brown; General Manager S.I.D., David Webb; Games Chairman (North Course), J.R. Raney, Games Chairman (South Course), Larry Thomas and Publicity Chairman, Chuck Wouff...\nUnited Way begins accepting applications for 2019 funding (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nUnited Way of North Central Arkansas has announced they are starting a new cycle of funding and initiative work for 2019. Interested non-profit agencies working in the areas of education, financial stability and health are invited to submit an application for United Way funding for 2019...\nArkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission to host blood testing school (State News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission will conduct Poultry Blood Testing Schools in Batesville, Little Rock and Fayetteville in April and May. Successful completion of the testing school will result in the issuance of a Private Blood Tester\u2019s license to test for Pullorum-Typhoid of Poultry...\nBirth, death certificate services rolling out to all counties (State News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is rolling out vital records services to all local health units in all counties. By the end of this year, all health units should be able to process same-day, in-person requests for birth certificates and death certificates in most cases...\nCentennial Bank sponsors the Ozarka College Foundation Gala (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nCentennial Bank will be the presenting sponsor at the 2018 Ozarka College Foundation Spring Gala. The Gala will take place on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. in the Student Services Center at Ozarka College in Melbourne, Ark. The Ozarka College Foundation will host this annual event which includes dinner and a live auction. All proceeds support the Foundation in its effort to provide resources necessary for many students to have life-changing experiences through education at Ozarka College...\nSRACC invites community to pick up 2018 Chamber Guide (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Spring River Area Chamber of Commerce would like to invite the community and businesses to pick up the new 2018 Chamber Guide. The guide has lots of local information that is used as a marketing piece for potential businesses or residents, as well as to promote tourism. ...\nHardy Fire Department received Firewise grant and volunteer recognition (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nHardy firefighters have worked to complete a large-scale wildfire prevention effort across their fire district with the Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) and Firewise USA. As part of recognition requirements, Hardy crew members completed wildfire safety assessment surveys on structures in their fire district and developed a Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan, which outlines wildfire mitigation projects and concerns in the next three-year window (residents may request a copy)...\nWRHS Foundation receives Komen grant (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nWhite River Health System (WRHS) in Batesville received a grant for $36,977 from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Arkansas. The grant continues the WRHS Get Your Mammogram (GYM) Project. With this grant, WRHS and the physicians of North Arkansas Radiology continue to provide potential life-saving mammography screenings, education, and breast health services to women in North Central Arkansas who are uninsured or underinsured...\nMan faces charges after assault on a child (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nA Cherokee Village man is facing charges of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first degree and assault on a family or household member in the first degree after, assaulting a juvenile boy less than five years in age. According to a report from the Cherokee Village Police Department, Michael Mennen, 35, was taken into custody following an investigation about an incident which occurred at Mennen\u2019s home...\nMan wanted in connection to shooting (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Sharp County Sheriff\u2019s Department and surrounding agencies are actively searching for a man wanted in conjunction with a shooting which occurred March 23 in Cave City. According to a Sharp County Bench Warrant, Jessie Leon Hutchins, 44, of Cave City, allegedly shot the victim two times with a shotgun...\nSharp County OEM hosts tabletop exercise (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Sharp County Office of Emergency Management hosted a tabletop exercise regarding outbreaks at Ozarka College in Ash Flat March 27. The three part exercise began with a plausible scenario in which a soldier returning home is seated next to an individual on a plane who is feverish and continually coughing...\nFarm Service Agency welcomes new director (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Farm Service Agency in Ash Flat has a new executive director as they welcome Blake Jefferson. Jefferson, 28, is originally from Yellville, Ark., in Marion County. Raised on the family farm in Crooked Creek, he graduated from Yellville High School in 2008. After graduating high school, Jefferson attended college at Arkansas Tech, graduating in 2012 with a degree in Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Business...\nVeteran family receives new home in Ash Flat (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nImagine traveling to a community you know very little about, in order to be handed the keys to your new home you\u2019ve never been inside of. This is exactly what happened for Brad and Danielle Dorman, as they traveled to Ash Flat March 29 to be gifted their new home...\nRemi Christy (Births ~ 04/04/18)\nRemi Christy was born Thursday, March 28 at White River Health System in Batesville at 4:36 a.m. to Daniel and Travis Christy, of Cherokee Village. She weighed 8 lbs., 7.8 ozs. and was 20.5 inches long. Her siblings are Isabella, Ethan and Jasper. Grandparents are Linda Peyton, Larry Peyton and LaDonna Christy...\nSt. Michael\u2019s to host monthly breakfast (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nSt. Michael\u2019s Catholic Church Knights of Columbus, in Cherokee Village, is hosting their monthly breakfast on Sunday, April 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon.\nLocal student named to Dean\u2019s List at Washington University in St. Louis (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nSydney Henkels, of Cherokee Village, was named to the Dean\u2019s List for the fall 2017 semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Henkels is enrolled in the university\u2019s College of Arts & Sciences. To qualify for the Dean\u2019s List in the College of Arts & Sciences, students must earn a semester grade point average of 3.6 or above and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units...\nRobert Ray Todd (Obituary ~ 04/04/18)\nRobert \u201cBobby\u201d Ray Todd was born Leap Day, Feb. 29, 1972 at Independence, Mo. the son of the late Leon and Eva Lois (Deatherage) Todd. He took flight from this earth, March 27, 2018, in Springfield, Mo. at the age of 46 years, 27 days. Bobby married his soul mate, April Dawn Kinder, Oct. ...\nCommunity-wide yard sale to be held in Salem (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe 15th Annual Spring Fairgrounds Flea Market and Salem Chamber of Commerce Community-Wide Yard Sale will be held April 14 in Salem, Ark. Flea Market officials report that there are still vendor space available for crafters, antique dealers, direct sales consultants, or individuals needing to sell general household items in a climate controlled secure facility. Outside spaces are also available...\nNADC program comes to a close (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nNorthcentral Arkansas Development Council, Inc. has contracted with the Division of County Operations for local administration of the 2018 Winter Home Energy Regular Assistance Program. That program will close on April 13. The 2018 Winter Home Crisis Assistance Program will remain open until May 31 or until funds have been depleted, whichever comes first. ...\nACNA offers activities (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nWe are excited to bring you a wonderful opportunity this Saturday at our Cherokee Village Towne Center. From 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Marty Williams (870-257-5661) an artist and retired art teacher, will be conducting a class, Beginning Water Colors, Part II. ...\nOzarka College named 2018 Military Spouse Friendly School (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nEarlier this year, Victory Media once again declared Ozarka College as \u201cMilitary Friendly.\u201d They have now announced the 2018 Military Spouse Friendly Schools and Ozarka earned that honor as well. This award recognizes higher education institutions that actively recruit and support spouses of active duty service members, while acknowledging and supporting military spouse students through the unique challenges of military life...\nHunger summit to feed 100 families (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nA large group of city officials, educators and community members gathered at Ozarka College in Ash Flat on March 28 to attend the first of three in a series for the Ash Flat Childhood Hunger Summit. The event was hosted by the Food Bank of North Central Arkansas [FBNCA] and their partners...\nNew sports complex in Ash Flat to be named after Judge Kevin King (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Ash Flat City Council voted to fill the position of the full time officer for the city\u2019s police department during their regular meeting March 27. After a brief executive session, the council announced the position would be filled by Steve Powell and Powell would begin working full time during the next available shift...\nSalem City Council holds discussion and reviews reports (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nOn March 29, Salem City Council met for their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Minutes of the previous meeting, review of the financial report, department reports, old business and new business were topics on the agenda. The minutes for the previous meeting and financials were passed...\nFire destroys local salvage yard (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nSalem Chamber of Commerce begins plans for Fulton County Homecoming (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Salem Chamber of Commerce met for their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 28 at noon inside the Hickinbotham-Miller Exhibit Building. Lunch was available for $5, with all proceeds going to St. Jude\u2019s. Infinity Hearing Center was a guest speaker and also provided free hearing screenings to the public. ...\nThe youth of Salem FBC presents The Cast (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe youth of Salem First Baptist Church invite you to come and worship with \u201cThe Cast\u201d of Williams Baptist University this Sunday night April 8 at 6 p.m. The Cast presents the Gospel in drama and allows you the experience of seeing the Gospel in action...\nBrian Westley Hardin (Obituary ~ 04/04/18)\nBrian Westley Hardin, 44, of West Plains, Mo., went to Heaven, Thursday, March 29, 2018 at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo. He was born in Jonesboro, Ark. on May 5, 1973, son of Connie (Hurst) and Marvin Hardin. Brian spent his life as a loving son, brother, nephew, father, uncle and friend. He was of the Assembly of God faith. Brian loved his daughters, Megan and Aubrey very much. He also enjoyed music, especially the harmonica and guitar, poetry and basketball...\nDeath Notices, 4-4-18 (Obituary ~ 04/04/18)\nJerome \u201cJerry\u201d Buckingham died Oct. 16. A celebration of life will be held at Cherokee Village United Methodist Church Saturday, April 7 at 11 a.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Wortham Funeral Home. Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Ray Todd, 46, of Viola, Ark., died March 27 in Springfield, Mo. Arrangements are under the direction of Barker Funeral Home in Salem...\nFree GED classes in Fulton County (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nOzarka College in Mammoth Spring offers free GED classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening GED classes are available at Salem High School on Mondays from 4 to 7 p.m. Instruction is available in math, writing skills, reading comprehension and refresher skills for college prep, military or employability. An instructor is available at both locations for one-on-one assistance...\nNew reader\u2019s theater performing in Hardy (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nHear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Have you heard? Rhythm n\u2019 Brews on 214 E. Main Street in Hardy, has invited the Network Theater to join up for a dinner theater show! They\u2019re fixin\u2019 meatloaf with all the trimmin\u2019s where you\u2019ll find the subject of meatloaf croppin\u2019 up throughout the \u201cFriday the 13th Baby!\u201d performance...\nMusic and stories from the \u201cOld Days\u201d (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nDavid Blankenship will present a program of music and stories from former times which he learned growing up in Izard County. The program will be Sunday, April 8 for the Izard County Historical and Genealogical Society at 2 p.m. at the Izard County Senior Center near Brockwell. The meeting is open to the public...\nSanders elected AMA Vice President (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nGloria Sanders, executive director of the Calico Rock Museum & Visitor Center, was elected as Vice President of the Arkansas Museums Association during their annual conference in Calico Rock this week. As Vice President, Sanders will serve on the board of directors and assist AMA President Heather-Marie Wells, of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, with the performance of her duties...\nMelbourne Church of Christ to host annual Ladies\u2019 Day (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe women of the Melbourne Church of Christ invite all ladies from all churches in Izard and surrounding counties to attend their annual Ladies\u2019 Day on Saturday, April 14. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The program will end at noon, followed by a luncheon provided by the church women...\nSalem Church of Christ to host gospel meeting (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Salem Church of Christ announces their 2018 Gospel Meeting to be held April 8-10. The theme this year is Making it Through a Bad Day and the speaker is Bill Wheeler of the Families First Foundation. Times of service will be Sunday morning at 9:45 a.m., Sunday Worship at 10:40 a.m. ...\nMaster Gardeners to host plant sale (Community News ~ 04/04/18)\nThe Sharp County Master Gardeners will have a plant sale fundraiser on Saturday, April 7 on the Sharp County Courthouse parking lot, located at 718 Ash Flat Drive in Ash Flat. The time of the sale will be 9 a.m. to 12 noon, or until sold out. All sales will be cash only. No checks or debit/credit cards will be accepted. Rain out date will be the following Saturday, April 14, same place and hours...\nSmith donates Library of Congress books to Thomasville Library (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nCongressman Jason Smith made a special visit to the Thomasville Library on Tuesday, March 27. Located in the Thomasville Community Center, Smith stopped by to help replace what was lost in the devastating floods that occurred at the end of April 2017. He brought with him books from the Library of Congress for the local library...\nBeing aware and staying safe (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nLiving in rural area, many of us may often have a false sense of safety. However, this is not always the case as a local woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, discussed her experience of being followed in Walmart. By being aware of her surroundings and realizing a suspicious man was following her, she was able to avoid contact with the man and safely make it home...\nObserving National Vietnam War Veterans Day (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nVolunteers from the Master\u2019s Ranch and Christian Academy assisted Thayer residents, Ken and Doris Brown, with placing flags at the Veterans Memorial Park in downtown Thayer. These flags were hung temporarily in honor of National Vietnam War Veterans Day observed on Wednesday, March 29...\nArea residents celebrate festivities for Easter (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nThere were many Easter celebrations held throughout the area in which numerous people showed up to endure the windy weather to visit with the Easter bunny, play games and hunt eggs. Area Free Will Baptist Churches: Byrd, Garfield and Myrtle sponsored the annual Easter Egg Hunt held at Couch School for area children on Saturday, March 31...\nHole in the Wall Ranch prepares for second annual Western Heritage Days and Outlaw Chuckwagon Races (Local News ~ 04/04/18)\nMany young individuals spend much of their time indoors playing video games. Children and teenagers often don\u2019t go outside and enjoy the simpler things in life. 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These cute but extremely fussy creatures require a great deal of attention and care, however they hold a magical secret that makes the trouble worthwhile. Along the way Greta meets the mysterious girl Minette, the retired adventurers Hesekiel and Erik, and of course all of their Tea Dragons.\u201d\nThe Tea Dragon Society is a story told over four seasons, we meet a young goblin, Greta, who is working hard to learn blacksmithing from her mother, even though the heroes who might have needed the swords are long gone. While coming back home from the market Greta meets a small dragon who is being chased by hungry dogs. She saves the day and is promptly introduced to the dragon\u2019s owner, Hesekiel, and introduced to the world of Tea Dragons.\nThough the story is aimed at a middle-grade audience, there are many loving moments that will speak to older readers and fans of Ghibli. I adored it. 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After all, downtowns all over the country are the place to be, and it\u2019s easy to understand why. They are often the epicenters of culture and creativity, of hipness and newness, and vibrant with possibilities for the future of a city.\nAustin is no exception. The city\u2019s downtown\noffers a vibrant lifestyle and is an exciting\nalternative to single-family homes in more\ntraditional, suburban neighborhoods. This\nkind of \u201cAustin-style\u201d urban living means\nresidents have easy access to all the city\nhas to offer: a thriving entertainment\ndistrict; the best in music, arts and film;\nfabulous restaurants; great bars; and a\nplethora of outdoor activities around Lady\nBird Lake. From low-rise condos dotting the\nshores of the lake to high-rise loft living,\nthere\u2019s no doubt that the perks to living\ndowntown can\u2019t be beat.\nBut it wasn\u2019t always this way. 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These local guys (no identities yet), came out about half way into the race, while it was dark and started trying to run into racers, T-bone cars, and scare the beegeezus out of many drivers--to the point that we had to stop the race. Sheriffs were called, four of our crew fanned out into the desert to try to catch these crazies who apparently knew that section of the desert quite well and managed to avoid any of the official vehicles. At some point, they would lie in waiting, and as soon as a racecar went by or just before, they would turn on their lights and try to ram the car. Only drunk or spaced out people would try to do that with a street car\nWe believe they were a couple of local cars from Aerial Acres, which found their Saturday night party at our race and created havoc for most of the people on the course. They threw bricks, placed land-mines, cinder blocks, mattresses, railroad ties, you name it, on the course.\nAt the end, and very fortunately, no vehicle was tagged and no one was hurt, but it could have been just a terrible disaster.\nWe apologize to all racers and their families and friends for this experience. I must admit that since 1986, when we first produced our inaugural off-road event in San Felipe, Baja California, we have never had something like this happen. Yes, a few arrows missing or turned the wrong way, ribbons pulled off the race course, cows eating markers, etc., that is to be expected. But never, people trying to hurt racers on purpose.\nThe nearest thing that comes to mind is when many years ago, a friend, Bill Varnes, found himself broken down about half way the Baja Peninsula. He had to hold off some of the villagers at gun-point because they were trying to rip-off parts from his out of commission Mirage single-seat Class 10. Other times, I\u2019ve been led the wrong canyon, or sent the opposite direction from the course. I remember one Barstow to Vegas race, where we were all sent into this canyon with no way out. Environmentalist whacks did this to us and you should have seen several hundred bike riders trying to get out of the canyon while more still kept coming.\nBut to try and hurt racers on purpose and literally try to hit a racer on the course goes beyond the pale.\nRight now, we are seeking for description of the vehicles in questions. We have received reports ranging in description from a \u201cblue station wagon, with three headlights,\u201d to \u201ca white Pinto with a brown strip down the middle.\u201d Even though this took place during the night, if anyone has any type of video (on-board or otherwise), photo still or other that can help us identify the culprits, we and the Sheriff\u2019s Department would like to see it. If you experience this first-hand, we would also appreciate a short-version of what you saw. We need to build up the case because these clowns will be found.\nAs a result of stopping the race short from its original nine-laps, we had to scramble to make sure we have the correct finishing order. We have posted the provisional or \u201cun-official\u201d results on our webpage (www.averacing.com), we are still going through the checkpoints and by July 10th all this will be worked out.\nOn behalf of AVE Racing, Lois and me and our staff and volunteers, we again feel badly that it turned out the way it did but we are delighted and lucky that nothing more serious happen and we will make improvements in the security of the course for the next event.\nYou can contact us directly and send information to: info@averacing.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 502, "original_length": 11694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.babylonbeacon.com/news/2012-05-24/Events_%28and%29_Bulletin/Deer_Park_Booster_Club_golf_outing_August_6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5B3EIXG5IKPSKU6N7OSFTTWWOIZ4BHPV", "length": 391, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.babylonbeacon.com", "title": "Deer Park Booster Club golf outing August 6 | www.babylonbeacon.com | Babylon Beacon", "raw_content": "Deer Park Booster Club golf outing August 6\nThe Deer Park Booster Club will host a community golf outing Mon., Aug. 6, at the West Sayville Golf Course to support the district\u2019s athletic programs. The Booster Club works diligently each year to raise funds for the district\u2019s student-ath- letes and presents scholarships to graduating seniors, as well as facilitates numerous athletic events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bamoon.com/2010/01/09/hugs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:L5LV4IBPPUOHV4GBYWYBJXC2YQIHWT2Y", "length": 6534, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.bamoon.com", "title": "Hugs - Lunar Obverse", "raw_content": "Seven or eight years ago I was dating a woman, named Terri Ann, who, among other things, introduced me to the idea of the five \u201clanguages\u201d of love.\nThese are the five primary ways we express romantic love (and other kinds, as well), and they are: words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, gifts, and acts of service. Terri Ann explained to me that everybody generally uses all five in a relationship, but that we tend to use one or two more often than the others.\nThings did not work out with me and Terri Ann, but we remained friends for a long time afterward, and I was there at her wedding to meet the man lucky enough to marry her. I still think fondly of her, but what I think about since then, and lately, is those five expressions of love.\nI think that she and I were able to remain friends, where I\u2019ve failed to do that with other girlfriends, because of the way we expressed ourselves around each other. Our languages of love were complementary. We both liked and appreciated physical touch and quality time. It may have been a contributing factor that she lived an hours\u2019 drive north from Portland, and we had to make a special effort to spend time together, so any time we were in each others\u2019 presence was quality time and a gift of sorts. Especially since I did not own a car and had to make explicit arrangements to go see her1.\nI\u2019ve never read the book that she got the idea from, but I\u2019ve developed my own ideas about these five languages. I\u2019ve decided that the \u201cprimary\u201d one is learned from family, and that we tend to both take it for granted and de-emphasize it, while seeking out the ones that we did not get as children. That makes sense, right?\nI don\u2019t remember a lot of physical affection from my parents when I was growing up. I\u2019m not saying they didn\u2019t love me; I\u2019m just saying they didn\u2019t express themselves with hugs. My father tended to express love as acts of service; he worked hard to make sure we had a roof over our head and food on the table. He liked fixing and making things. I remember being in middle school when I was taking a class on the two World Wars; I needed a project for the class because the teacher assured us an A if we did some kind of special project. My dad suggested building a balsa-frame model of a WWI fighter plane, something I had never done before. My dad built the Red Baron\u2019s plane; I built a replica of the Sopwith Camel, the plane flown by the man who shot the Red Baron down. Dad and I spent a lot of time on either side of the dining room table putting those models together, covering the frame in tissue paper, and painting it.\nI was a kid. I didn\u2019t value the model in and of itself. I valued the time I spent with dad working on it together. Later, when I was in high school, my friend and I blew that model up with fireworks, which was spectacular (for a teenager). I\u2019m sure my dad would be dismayed to hear about that, if he doesn\u2019t already know. But that\u2019s the thing: I valued the quality time, not what was derived from it. And in another way, I devalued the time we spent together because I assumed it would always be like that.\nSo as an adult, when dating and trying to form close relationships, I model my parents\u2019 behavior. I spend time, lots of time, with the woman I\u2019m courting. I work on their computer, or help them get their car tuned up.\nBut I also crave physical touch. I like holding hands as soon as I think I won\u2019t be rejected for doing so. I hug. And I think I crave all that because I did not get a lot of that when I was younger.\nI was in high school before I remember hugging someone who was not a member of my family. I can clearly remember the circumstances. I was in the theater, on stage, after drama class, with some of my fellow students. I was an awkward and shy kid (who doesn\u2019t think of themselves that way?) and me and another male friend (the same one I blew up the plane with2) were leaving. The details of it all are gone, but I remember Tina deWitt, class president, turning to me and offering a hug. She was bright, and cheerful, and very cute, all dark curly hair, just a bit shorter than me, but I didn\u2019t really think of her in terms of romance.\nUntil she hugged me.\nI\u2019m pretty sure my body responded to her touch in a way I\u2019ll leave undescribed, but luckily she didn\u2019t notice because it was a lean-in hug. That was all it took. I can still smell the perfume in her shampoo; to this day I can feel her arms around my shoulders and hear the sparkle in her voice. And the reason I can remember all this is because it was so freakin\u2019 rare for me.\nWhen I remember past girlfriends, even now, I am hugging them in my memory. And often, my present mind is analyzing the hug to demonstrate how uncomfortable they were with it.\nI can remember Terri Ann standing in my apartment, dressed up for dinner out, and I go to hug her. Her head is above mine; I have to turn my head up to look at her and kiss her. In her heels she\u2019s three or four inches taller than me. She laughs, looking away, and I ask her why. She remarks on the height difference, and I laugh and tell her \u201cI\u2019m OK with it.\u201d Was she?\nI can remember being downtown with Deb, and she was getting on MAX to go home, and while we waited for the train to show up, I hugged her. And I felt her pull away a little, and she didn\u2019t look me in the eye, so I asked her about it. \u201cDo my hugs make you uncomfortable?\u201d\n\u201cA little\u201d she admitted. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just\u2026 too much.\u201d\nI\u2019m no longer with Deb, clearly. That was six years ago now. But the memory, of me wanting touch, and being rebuffed, in words and small nearly unnoticeable movements, is still fresh.\nThinking of that, now, I connect it with a memory of my mom standing at the sink putting dishes in the dishwasher, and my dad coming up behind her to hug her from behind. And mom tenses up, stops what she\u2019s doing, and waits it out. \u201cBob,\u201d she says, simply, scolding. And dad laughs, but I can tell he\u2019s hurt, and he holds her a second longer, and then lets go, walks to the fridge, and gets something out of it, while mom goes back to washing dishes.\nI know how he feels now. Over and over again.\nAm I attracted to women who don\u2019t want what I want? Am I over-doing it? Or is it just a mis-match in communication?\nSo many questions\u2026 and it feels so much like there\u2019s less and less time for answers.\n1 Thank you, Zipcar! Although back then it was FlexCar, or possibly Portland Carshare; the company has changed over the years).\n2 Hi, Terry! (I\u2019m pretty sure he reads my blog)\nPrevious Previous post: Chin-ups are hard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 8708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/nyt_billy_beane", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KI7JTK4WE4OPY3LK4XIDGMS5YXGXBW2I", "length": 2786, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.baseballthinkfactory.org", "title": "BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: NYT: Billy Beane", "raw_content": "NYT: Billy Beane\nBeane Spill\nWATCHING I like music documentaries. I just recently saw \u201cWe Jam Econo \u2014 The Story of the Minutemen,\u201d who were a California punk band from the \u201980s. The Minutemen were one of those bands that didn\u2019t really catch on in the mainstream and yet was incredibly influential on other artists that did make it.\nThe other one that I saw was \u201cHype!,\u201d which is about the Seattle grunge scene. It has great archive footage of bands like Nirvana and Sound Garden and also Alice in Chains playing in the Seattle bar scene. It\u2019s interesting how clusters of bands develop in certain areas.\nLISTENING I listen to a lot of podcasts. My favorite is World Football Daily. It\u2019s a two-hour soccer podcast. It\u2019s got a lot of correspondents from all over the world who cover soccer. My go-to band is Oasis, but I have a friend in the music business who keeps me up to date with newer stuff, some of which I like, some I don\u2019t. He recently introduced me to Glasvegas and Cold Cave.\nRepoz Posted: October 16, 2011 at 08:10 PM | 7 comment(s) Login to Bookmark\nTags: athletics, books, media, music\n1. The elusive Robert Denby Posted: October 16, 2011 at 08:59 PM (#3965309)\nI guess there's no 'Rock bands of Seattle' section in the Style Guide.\n2. Matt Welch Posted: October 17, 2011 at 01:56 AM (#3965659)\n\"We Jam Econo\" is pretty great.\n3. Infinite Yost (Voxter) Posted: October 17, 2011 at 01:59 AM (#3965661)\nIf he loves soccer so much, why doesn't he marry it?\n4. Esoteric Posted: October 17, 2011 at 01:59 AM (#3965663)\nEveryone talks about Double Nickels On The Dime, and indeed it's a magnificent album (though it does peter out a bit near the end), but it's worth pointing out that early Minutemen is quite underrated. The Bean Spill EP is great (\"If Reagan Played Disco\" gets the hype, but \"Afternoons\" is the keeper), but so is Buzz And Howl Under The Influence Of Heat.\n5. Andere Richtingen Posted: October 17, 2011 at 03:44 AM (#3965859)\nThe Bean Spill EP is great (\"If Reagan Played Disco\" gets the hype, but \"Afternoons\" is the keeper), but so is Buzz And Howl Under The Influence Of Heat.\nI guess I don't really consider this early, but peak. I mean, we're talking about two years between Bean Spill and Double Nickels on the Dime. And don't forget What Makes a Man Start Fires?\n6. Sebastian Posted: October 17, 2011 at 07:36 AM (#3965952)\nMy favorite is World Football Daily\nI did not know that this was still going on. Turns out they got rid off the guy who blamed Liverpool fans for dying in Sheffield back in the day. Oh well, even without him it can\u2019t be worth 50 dollars a year.\n7. CaseyKeirnan Posted: October 23, 2011 at 05:50 PM (#3972380)\nWell, he will be on this show on Friday (10/28) at around 10AM PT, you can listen for free at www.WorldFootballDaily.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.belgrade.co.uk/take-part/archive/2008-09/this/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YMJ2RLCKJBK7G4QBFLWCPS6KOGNVQ4GT", "length": 1262, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.belgrade.co.uk", "title": "This is Us at Belgrade Theatre", "raw_content": "Devised and developed by the Company. Text by Daniel Christie. Directed by Justine Themen.\nThe Belgrade Community & Education Company continued their commitment to to the empowerment of young people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds with their production This Is Us, which ran in B2 from 19 to 21 February 2009.\nWorking with little or no experience of performing, the particpants were required to create their own material rather than working with an exisiting script. Through this process the participants developed important skills such as discipline, teamwork, and the ability to give and take feedback.\nIn order to give the young people the experience of performing to an audience in order to take them to the next stage, this challenging but rewarding journey culminated in a live performance of their work in progress \u2013 This is Us. The performance was a presentation of scenes developed by the young people themselves in collaboration with the developing writer, Daniel Christie.\nIn keeping with the Community & Education Company\u2019s aim to work with young people in order to articulate their experiences in real ways that feel appropriate to them, the production contained some strong language.\nLost in Paradise CV6\nThe Mysteries - In Our Own Words", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.benjaminhochman.com/artist.php?view=acclaim&nid=10054", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GDGHNPY3GQ37H6APKGYRGK53FSLZUC55", "length": 2827, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.benjaminhochman.com", "title": "The Boulder Philharmonic and Benjamin Hochman are stunning! | Benjamin Hochman", "raw_content": "The Boulder Philharmonic and Benjamin Hochman are stunning!\nAfter the intermission, the pianist, Benjamin Hochman, joined the orchestra and performed Ravel\u2019s Piano Concerto in G Major.\nAfter hearing Benjamin Hochman perform the Ravel, it should be obvious to anyone in the audience that all of us heard a world-class pianist. What was so startling about his performance was the ease with which he played. In order to be accurate, which he was, and in order to shape the phrases the way the composer wishes at the tempo the composer demands, one has to be totally relaxed physically and mentally. Every performer, whether a violinist, a singer, or a pianist, becomes nervous immediately before they enter the stage. But, after they begin to perform, and after the first few measures of the piece, they must know it so well mentally, and be so competent physically, that they can relax and enjoy making the music. You must understand, that the reason one becomes a performing artist, is because there is joy in it, and so many people who are not performing musicians seem to miss this point. Benjamin Hochman is one of the most relaxed pianists that I have seen in several years. He was totally at ease and able to concentrate totally on the job that he enjoys so much. He plays so unbelievably well, there is no need to make the extravagant motions that some pianists make, as if they are saying, \u201cLook how I lifted my hand from the keyboard. Isn\u2019t that terribly expressive and indicative of my great sensitivity?\u201d Hochman simply sits down at the piano, and through the music, shows us what a remarkable artist he is and how remarkable the music is.\nHis reliable musicianship (And even that seems silly to say. If he was not reliable, he wouldn\u2019t be where he is) obviously made it much easier for Maestro Butterman to make music as well, and I was under the distinct impression that they truly enjoyed working together. And of course every performance is much easier if there is mutual respect.\nThe tempos taken were absolutely perfect: full of energy and drive. Ravel often said that the piano was his favorite instrument and it certainly shows in this composition, for he uses the piano\u2019s expressive ability to the fullest potential. In addition, the orchestration of the piece, which is remarkable, supports everything that the piano executes. But it was Hochman\u2019s relaxation that made his performance look so easy and sound so absolutely marvelous. His hands and arms never once became rigid or tense, and mentally, he was absolutely beyond compare.\nI hope there were some aspiring pianists in the audience who could recognize why his playing is so artistically perfect. It will certainly give them something to strive for, and at the same time, give them the awareness that their goal is entirely realistic.\n\u2014 Opus Colorado", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.berita.win/video/scariest+arctic+animals/qvU7ORT4kLk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4CTUB3KATSDV7L4S6MXHXNMWKREQBPXJ", "length": 5118, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.berita.win", "title": "SCARIEST Arctic Animals - Video of Facts, Myths and Mysteries - Berita.win", "raw_content": "SCARIEST Arctic Animals - Video of Facts, Myths and Mysteries - Berita.win\nSCARIEST Arctic Animals\nFrom an arctic marine creature who\u2019s tusk was once thought to be a unicorn\u2019s horn to an animal that has the longest known lifespan on the planet, here\u2019s our pick of the scariest arctic animals.\nSailors received some unexpected visitors while they were surfaced in the submarine USS Honolulu 280 miles from the North Pole. Three polar bears wandered up to the vessel clearly wondering what the hell it was. They hung around for two hours before carrying on with their day. It must\u2019ve been pretty awesome for the Honolulu\u2019s crew to get such an up close look at the bears. Of course if they hadn\u2019t been in their submarine it could\u2019ve been an absolutely terrifying ordeal. Polar bears are huge, even by bear standards, normally weighing at least one thousand pounds. They don\u2019t mean humans any harm, they\u2019re far more interested in seals which make up the majority of their diet. As if this particular polar bear surrounded by wild dogs didn\u2019t have enough to deal with it also has to face the harsh reality that its habitat is rapidly melting away. The bears have also been hunted en mass for decades though regulations and controls have led to rebounding populations in recent years. As scary as polar bears are, shouldn\u2019t they be more scared of us at this point?\nA rare moose who appeared as though he had just wandered out of the arctic ice appeared in the town of Eda in western Sweden as reported by the Washington Post. A man saw the creature and shot video, making the footage, which quickly went viral, some of the only ever recorded of a white moose. Out of the 400,000 or so moose that occupy Sweden, only around 100 are thought to be white, though none of them realize it. Some attained this fur color as a result of albinism, but most simply have a recessive gene that produces mostly white fur. Of course moose aren\u2019t very scary in nature. But their size has caused some terrible, and often fatal collisions with vehicles, prompting signs like this one to be put up on roads where moose are known to wander around.\nGyrfalcons (jur-falcon)\nArctic hares have a tough time surviving thanks to two of their primary predators. On the ground they have to deal with the aforementioned Arctic Fox, who even at a young age can catch an adult hare with relative ease. They also have to worry about what\u2019s going on above them because a gyrfalcon could swoop in out of nowhere. After it plucks the unlucky creature off the ground it glides to it's nest on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut where it uses the remains of the rabbit to build its nests. Out of all falcons the gyrfalcon is the biggest. On average they have a wingspan of 51 inches, though females are stockier than males. As you can imagine they don\u2019t have very many natural predators. The golden eagle will occasionally try to mess with them, but even in this face off the gyrfalcon is a formidable opponent.\nJellyfish are pretty weird, scary creatures. Stepping on one accidentally can produce an incredibly painful sting and ruin a day at the beach. It\u2019s a good thing the lion\u2019s mane jellyfish only lives in cold waters, because it's the largest known species of jellyfish, and uses stinging tentacles to pull in and eat or attempt to eat prey like fish, smaller jellyfish or human body parts. One washed up on the Massachusetts Bay in 1870 that was seven and a half feet long and had tentacles that measured over 121 feet. Their range extends from the Arctic to the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.\nThanks for joining us everyone we hope you\u2019ve enjoyed the video. Keep the comments coming we love to hear from you guys and look out for our newest video coming tomorrow. But before you leave stick around for our last scary arctic creature.\nWhen people wanted to introduce the ermine to New Zealand to control rabbits there was a lot of skepticism. Scientists knew the ermine, or the stoat, to be one of the most troublesome, invasive species of animals on the planet. The warnings were ignored and stoats began to be moved to New Zealand in the 1880\u2019s. Within six years a noticeable decline in bird populations had occurred. The culprit was of course the new residents, ermine. They live on Siberian and Canadian Arctic Islands as well as places further down south. Irish mythology cast the stoat in a very bad light. They were viewed as thieving animals whose saliva was rumored to be able to effectively poison a fully grown human being.\nSuper HARD TRY NOT TO LAUGH CHALLENGE - Funny ANIMAL compi...\n12 Most Dangerous Turtles Ever\nWho Lives At The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench?\nscariest, arctic, animals, creature, narwhal, actually exist, scary, strange, weird, bizarre, unbelievable, how to survive, survival, arctic creatures, deep sea creatures, longest lifespan, scariest creatures in the arctic, moose attack, polar bear fight, moose, arctic wolf, cool, epic, wildlife, nature, top, best, most, list, ever, in the world, coldest animals, scariest animals, education, awesome, incredible, scariest arctic animals ever, scariest arctic creatures ever,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betting.me/russia-v-northern-ireland-betting-tips-preview/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2PHQ3S4Z3ODAXXYI4BFEAER7XLI56JGF", "length": 3735, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.betting.me", "title": "Russia v Northern Ireland Betting Tips & Preview", "raw_content": "Fabio Capello: England\u2019s loss may be Russia\u2019s gain\nIt is now ten years since Russia last qualified for a World Cup. They begin their attempt to qualify for the 2014 edition at home to Northern Ireland tomorrow (16:00 BST), their visitors having waited even longer to grace world football\u2019s biggest stage, last qualifying in 1986.\nAfter six years of Dutch rule, under Guus Hiddink and then Dick Advocaat, the Russian Football Federation have turned to another highly-paid foreign coach in Fabio Capello.\nThe Italian led England to the 2010 World Cup with a record of nine wins and one defeat in a group that included Croatia and the Ukraine \u2013 an achievement that should not be forgotten regardless of England\u2019s substandard performances at the tournament itself.\nCapello is unlikely to stand for the complacency that has plagued the Russian national team and led to their early elimination after such an excellent start at Euro 2012. He has already instigated a reform of the bonuses paid out to players, insisting they should only receive them when a global goal, such as World Cup qualification, is achieved, rather than for each individual victory.\nHis squad for the Northern Ireland match also raised eyebrows, omitting as it did Andrei Arshavin, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Pavel Pogrebnyak, mainstays of the previous regimes.\n2/9 Russia (Bet365, Betfred, BetVictor),\n11/2 Draw (Betfred, BetVictor),\n18/1 Northern Ireland (BetVictor)\nThe likes of Dinamo Moscow youngster Aleksandr Kokorin \u2013 so impressive for Russia\u2019s U21 side \u2013 and Artem Dzyuba of Spartak Moscow are among those Capello hopes can step up to the mark in their absence.\nNorthern Ireland are also under relatively new stewardship, with former Shamrock Rovers coach Michael O\u2019Neill having replaced Nigel Worthington at the helm of the national team in December last year.\nHis first two friendly matches in charge resulted in 3-0 and 6-0 defeats to Norway and the Netherlands respectively, but there were more encouraging signs in Northern Ireland\u2019s most recent fixture, a 3-3 draw with Finland at Windsor Park.\nO\u2019Neill has had to deal with an injury crisis leading up to the trip to Russia, with Paddy McCourt, Shane Ferguson and the inventive second striker Martin Paterson all missing out.\nGood news comes in the form of the return of defenders Johnny Evans and Aaron Hughes, both of whom were absent for the country\u2019s last two fixtures. However, both were present when Northern Ireland went down 3-0 to Norway in O\u2019Neill\u2019s first match in charge. With the coach generally favouring quite an attacking approach, their return is unlikely to shore up a worryingly porous defence.\nRussia often laboured at home to smaller nations in qualifying for Euro 2012, losing to Slovakia, drawing with the Republic of Ireland and scraping a one goal victory over Macedonia. But all of those teams sat deep and looked to frustrate the Russians, something that Northern Ireland look incapable of doing if recent form is anything to go by.\nRussia vs Northern Ireland Betting Tips Verdict\nCapello\u2019s men are the clear favourites to emerge victorious from this match, but best odds of 2/9 hardly offer an attractive bet unless combined with others in an accumulator. We therefore need to look at other markets that offer more enticing returns for single bets.\nOne of these is the anytime goalscorer market, which sees Alan Dzagoev priced at an appealing 5/4 (Betfred & BetVictor). The CSKA Moscow forward scored three times at Euro 2012 and also got Russia\u2019s goal in Capello\u2019s first match in charge, a 1-1 friendly draw with the Ivory Coast last month.\nWe\u2019d also fancy Russia to win by at least two goals, so taking Russia -1.5 on an Asian Handicap at 7/10 with BetVictor appears good value.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biasedtransmission.org/2012/05", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LSCHMRZG47DJHW2HVT7Q3LKEMDLT5JE6", "length": 8812, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.biasedtransmission.org", "title": "May | 2012 | Biased Transmission", "raw_content": "Review of Clarke and Primo\nThis is my review of Kevin Clarke and David Primo\u2019s new book, A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations, which tackles the role of theoretical and statistical modeling in political science. Phil Arena has a great review covering the book\u2019s main points. My goal is to avoid duplicating his efforts \u2013 so I suggest reading his review.\nSince I try to keep a foot in both evolutionary ecology and political science, I have been exposed to the methods of both. I am, to my knowledge, the only non-political-science grad student to attend an EITM summer school, so may have more insight into the context of their argument. But since most of my methods training has been in on the ecology side, this will be somewhat of an outsider\u2019s view.\nFirst, I really liked this book and agreed with most of the authors\u2019 philosophy of modeling. One of their main points is that the goal of theoretical models is rarely prediction. Most often they are tools for reasoning about the world. They might help evaluate the logical consistency of ideas, define terms and clarify arguments, or identify important new areas of research \u2013 but these many uses are not always clear to the non-modeler. For example, in my inaugural blog post, I wrote about how Hamilton\u2019s rule is the result of a simple model intended to demonstrate the mechanisms of kin selection and that the big misunderstanding of E.O. Wilson\u2019s crusade against kin selection is mistaking it for a predictive model.\nThe standard story I keep hearing in political science is that the field has taken the \u201ctheoretical models as predictive models\u201d to the extreme. I have been warned, repeatedly, that the field\u2019s top journal, APSR, will not publish purely theoretical models without some nod at an empirical \u201ctest\u201d of the model. Because of my experience at EITM, I agree with Phil that, the relationship between theory and statistics are hardly monolithic.\nPrimo and Clarke\u2019s view of theoretical models would be very uncontroversial in ecology, population biology, population genetics, and related fields. These, like political science, are fields of complex dynamics systems with important interactions at different levels and a heavy reliance on observational data for the large scale processes. (International relations and ecosystem ecology are both hindered by a sample size of one planet and the difficulty of logistically and ethically conducting large-scale experiments.)\nClarke and Primo argue that theoretical models are like maps. Maps are designed for a specific purpose and what determines a good map is whether it is useful for the purpose for which it is designed. In the same way that it is weird to argue about whether a map is \u201ctrue\u201d or \u201cfalse\u201d (since all maps are false in most respects), it is weird to argue about whether a model is true or false.*\nI was surprised by their discussion of empirical models since Clarke and Primo did not take their argument to its seemingly logical conclusion by arguing for a model selection approach to empirical analysis (as opposed to the standard null hypothesis testing \u2013 NHT). The NHT view of the world is that models are true and false and the job of science is to reject the false ones. In a null hypothesis test, the first step is to pick a \u201cnull\u201d model (which, in practice, is almost always a very terrible model) and assume it is true.\nThe model selection view of the world assumes that all models are false \u2013 or incomplete views of the world \u2013 but that some models are better than others for specific purposes. They try to distinguish between models based on some criteria of usefulness. One criteria might be out-of-sample prediction. Failing that, they can use criteria based on information theory. Another (important) criteria could be theoretical relevance based on a priori reasoning.\nI found this omission surprising, not because I\u2019ve seen a lot of model selection statistics in political science** (I haven\u2019t), but because, in ecology, as soon as you start reading about statistical models not being \u201ctrue\u201d or \u201cfalse,\u201d this seems to be next argument. The standard reference for this approach is Burnham and Anderson\u2019s Model Selection and Multi-Model Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. (Here is a short review.)\nOverall, I recommend this book anyone interested in modeling in political science. I especially found their taxonomy of model types helpful (see Phil\u2019s review for details). As someone who aspires to both a theoretical and empirical modeling program in political science, I hope that the authors manage to shift the field\u2019s view of modeling more towards their own.\n* \u2013 They are not the first to make this analogy. I couldn\u2019t remember whether I first saw it in McElreath and Boyd or Miller and Page \u2013 so I looked it up and it was in both.\n** \u2013 Phil Arena pointed out to me that Kevin Clarke has written about model selection elsewhere. But that makes it even more surprising to me that it was not in the book.\nHow are babies like tiny scientists?\nMay 9, 2012 UncategorizedMatthew Zefferman\nA few weeks ago I attended the one-day SkeptiCal Conference (partially organized by my friend Lauren). One of the day\u2019s many interesting speakers was Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and author of The Scientist in the Crib and The Philosophical Baby.\nDr. Gopnik researches how babies and young children learn about the world. While the bulk of her SkeptiCal presentation was similar to her TED talk, at the end she discussed recent experiments showing how children use two types of learning \u2013 individual experimentation and social learning (that is learning from others). She also described these experiments in a recent interview:\nA couple of recent studies show that preschoolers do something very different if they\u2019re exploring a toy to figure out how it works than if they think somebody\u2019s actually giving them the answer. In a nice experiment that was done at MIT, they gave children a toy to play with that could do lots of different things. You\u2019d punch something and it squeaked, you\u2019d push another button and something else happened, and so on. In one condition the experimenter came in and said, \u201cOh look, I\u2019ve never seen this toy, let\u2019s see what it can do,\u201d and then bumped into it and it squeaked. In the other condition the experimenter said, \u201cI\u2019ll show you how this toy works.\u201d In the first condition, the children then spontaneously explored everything else the toy could do. Whereas when the experimenter said, \u201cI\u2019m going to show you how this works,\u201d the children just did exactly what the experimenter did, over and over and over again. The findings suggest that children and, presumably, adults, learn quite differently when they\u2019re learning in this spontaneous exploratory way than when they\u2019re learning from a teacher. Now, there are good things about having a teacher who just narrows the range of options you can consider, but there\u2019s also the danger that you\u2019ll wind up just essentially imitating the teacher.\nSince I am interested in how the trade-offs between individual and social learning influenced the evolution of humans, I found this experiment interesting for its own sake.\nHowever, this blog post is about last part of her talk in which she used this experiment to illustrate how children learn like \u201clittle scientists,\u201d open-mindedly conducting experiments to discover things about the world. That is, unless this exploration is constrained by others \u2013 at which point they cease to thinking like rational scientists and open the door to irrational pseudoscientific beliefs (which is the opposite of what most SkeptiCal participants would want).\nWhat I found most interesting about this part of her talk is not that she gives so much credit to babies, but that she gives so much credit to scientists.* Her conception of a scientist as the independent open-minded experimentalist as opposed to a socially-constrained learner seems, to me, old-fashioned and at odds with the view Thomas Kuhn made popular with his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In the book, Kuhn argued that scientists largely accept the received views of their field and only when it becomes overwhelmingly apparent that accepted views have problems do these views change (something he called a \u201cparadigm-shift\u201d). As summarized in Kuhn\u2019s NYT obituary:\nProfessor Kuhn argued in the book that the typical scientist was not an objective, free thinker and skeptic. Rather, he was a somewhat conservative individual who accepted what he was taught and applied his knowledge to solving the problems that came before him.\nTo me, this sounds a lot like Dr. Gopnik\u2019s depiction of a baby\u2026\n* \u2013 Though, honestly, I think that both scientists and babies are best served by a mixture of individual and social learning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 9777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bibleacrossamerica.com/here-come-the-puritans/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:49Z", "digest": "sha1:FXSI22VFFI7JI4I462G3O2YDCWVY3S4G", "length": 11955, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.bibleacrossamerica.com", "title": "Here Come the Puritans | Bible Across America", "raw_content": "In 1620 came the vanguard of the true founders of American civilization.\nThey, and not the Englishmen of Jamestown who were also the first, are called by the official American iconography the Founding fathers (Founding Fathers). The new settlers called themselves The Pilgrims (pylgrims). Destined by the London company to Virginia and embarked on the Mayflower sailing ship, due to a storm they landed in present-day Massachusetts, where the company granted them to wait to define the position with the crown.\nOn the fourth Thursday of November 1621, they organized a ceremony of thanksgiving to God, after which they had lunch with turkey meat; That day remained a U.S. national holiday, Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving Day). In the number of 100 \u03bf 101 \u03bf 102 Depending on the version, they all belonged to the English Presbyterian Church as the Puritani, but they were called separatists.\nIn spite of the iconography, this group had no relevance in setting the characteristics of colonization: There were already few, and moreover during the first winter half of them died of cold and hunger before the Indians could help them.\nWith the arrival, in 1630, of 2,000 Puritani, followed by 1640 by other 18,000, begins the true colonization of the United States.\nThe Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, using the name of the company with which they had signed the colonization contract, the Massachusetts Bay Company of London, a company in which many of them had a sharing Equity.\nNo one had embarked as indentured servant. In the same 1630 they founded the port city of Boston. In the following decades they gave rise to the colonies of the so-called New England Puritan.\nThe form of government adopted in the colonies was similar to the English one of the time.\nInstead of the king or queen there was a governor with ample powers, then a bicameral parliament in which the upper house, corresponding to the House of Lords of England, was elected by the governor and the lower house was elected by the \u201cpeople\u201d.\nThis only on paper; In fact only the wealthy could vote.\nIn order to be able to both vote and to hold public office, it was first to be of age, males and whites; Generally in New England it was also necessary to be elders of the Congregationalist church, as well as the Puritans called, in America, their confession.\nThe minimum capital requirements were everywhere very high (Massachusetts and Connecticut you had to have an activity that would make 40 pounds a year, or real estate valued at least the same amount; in Rhode Island 40 pounds and that would make at least the same Digit every year; In New Jersey at least 40 hectares of land, plus an asset or real estate valued at least 50 pounds; In Virginia minimum 20 acres of land, plus a house in town; Georgia and North Carolina minimum 20 hectares of land; In South Carolina at least 40 hectares of land and a house in the city, etc.).\nFrom this level of requirements, it is evident that the economies of the two colonial \u201cblocs\u201d were spread from the outset: New England was heading for trade and the Southern colonies towards the agricultural large estates.\nThe Puritans of New England were overwhelmingly numerical superiority until the war of independence, and retained a majority until 1880.\nThey were inspired by the Old Testament, or at least they were convinced to do so.\nThe basic idea was that material wealth, and material well-being, including the physiological one, represented a sign of divine election.\nAn individual was elected if God predestined him to the virtue of observing the commandments. There was no obligation to mutual solidarity or to perform good works. The respect required for the commandments was literal, i.e. formal. The figure of Jesus was totally ignored, although they certainly called themselves \u201cChristians\u201d.\nThe Puritans, like all the other Protestants, operated a certain targeted selection even in the context of the Old Testament, further demonstrating the utilitarian principle underlying the whole operation. This can be seen in slavery, private property, capitalism, in the obliteration of debts, etc. They welcomed from the scriptures what was most comfortable.\nA very important concept for the Puritans, which turned out to be fraud with unexpected consequences, was that of an elected people.\nTo the Chosen people god destines an opulent homeland, and the Puritans certainly headed to America thinking it was their promised land. The Indians were destined for destruction by their hand as were the Canaanites for Joshua and the judges. Not only that, but when the Puritans will see a little more in there a land rich or in some way palatable will always think of being entitled, a right that will justify even the cruelest means, including extermination. Of course the respect of the commandments was limited to the scope of the chosen people.\nI Puritani and politics\nIn the colonies the residents had a wide possibility of self-government.\nThe governors kept in mind that the principles of English legislation were saved, especially in form, and they tried to intervene as little as possible; Their salary was then set by the colonists.\nThe Puritans could organize themselves as they wished, except for the elimination of the monarchy, which they succeeded in achieving only with the war of independence.\nIn the religious field they no longer recognized the hierarchy of the Church of England, and banned all outward manifestations of worship arbitrarily introduced by the Catholic Church: ritual vestments, the sign of the cross, especially in baptism , the genuflection during communion, the use of faith in marriage, the observance of the Feasts for the Saints, including the celebration of Christmas. You can also read another one of our religious news articles.\nThe political organization was based on two fundamental concepts: the single man who was to be absolutely free to be able to make his material fortune, bound only by the commandments; And the community that only had to supervise that the same were respected.\nThe Puritans did not operate any distinction between political and religious authority; Each congregation was therefore a small theocracy. The authority was exercised by a kind of Council of wise Men or elders, who traced the concept of the Presbytery of Calvin.\nThe English colonies of the new World were therefore oligarchies based on money; Those of New England and some of the South were also theocratic.\nThe Puritans represented the antithesis of democracy.\nThey did not believe that men were all alike, let alone they had all the same rights. Some in fact could also be enslaved.\nThe access to that oligarchy could not be denied to those who became wealthy and showed that they were by definition one of them. From here comes another aspect of their apparent democraticity, as well as their republicanism: the abolition of the concept of elite by inheritance and the introduction of the concept of open elite, precisely \u201cdemocratic\u201d.\nIn practice, the nobility by divine right, unprovable, medieval-style The Puritans replaced the nobility by divine right demonstrable, precisely through material wealth. The present Americans willingly accept that their political leaders and high officials of the state are almost all extremely wealthy men, and justification lies implicitly in that Puritan reasoning.\nThe Puritans and the economy\nThe Puritans naturally gave birth to a pure capitalist system. Such a system is still the system, not only economic, but social in the broad sense of the current United States, where everything is almost private or privately owned, such as many prisons.\nFor the Puritans everything could be bought with money, and everything had to be sold for money; Always in the formal respect of the commandments.\nSo in New England there were also slaves: Blacks bought by Dutch Calvinistic slave traders but also Indian and Indian caught on site and kept as servants or groom. However, slavery had never in New England a diffusion comparable to that of the south: its economy was based on trade and its agriculture was floridissima but divided into many small family farms, where the production was diversified and The requested workforce rather specialized. In the ports of Boston and New York instead there were many slaves.\nTaxes will always be the primary issue in the colonies: The Puritans did not accept the principle of entrusting the Government with the management of tax revenues; There were risks of a policy of redistribution of incomes.\nI Puritans and Morals\nThe morals of the Puritans consisted in the formal observance of the commandments, which allowed them all iniquity in substance. In addition, this law was only in the context of the chosen people of the Puritans: the others, especially the savage Indians, could be robbed, captured as slaves, even killed.\nFor example, sexual intercourse with Indian women did not constitute a crime, not even on the part of married Puritans.\nWomen were believed to be the \u201cEva Temptress\u2019s sisters\u201d, the means preferred by the evil to tempt the virtue of men and divert them from their covenant with God. They could not show in public more of the face and hands, and this was also true for girls of all ages.\nEven the divorce, which has always been used by the Americans, was admitted by the Puritans, who practiced it with even greater frequency given the serious prohibition of adultery. Sexual offences were punished with extraordinary rigour. For adultery and homosexuality the death penalty was imposed. Adultery also occurred in case the woman was only engaged.\nEach community had its watchmen (\u201cwarders\u201d), communal employees whose task was to control the behavior of people and to report to the pastor of the church. They were the informers, who were eavesdoing behind the corners and spying on the windows. Bachelors and spats were naturally the most controlled.\nThe Puritans connected physical health with divine intervention, and mental disorders with that of the devil.\nI Puritani and culture\nAt the school the Puritans immediately paid attention to the times.\nThere were two necessities, the commandments and the affairs: to follow the first one needed to know the Bible, and therefore to be able to read, while for the seconds besides that it was necessary to be able to reckon. Each township then had at least one school and one teacher, paid by the municipality, and there were others in the cities. The level of literacy among the Puritans was undoubtedly the highest of the American colonies.\nIn 1640 there were already in New England about 300 diplomatized shepherds on site. Harvard College, which has gradually become a university, is the oldest college in the United States. Also as seminars were born in 1701 Yale University, in 1764 the University of Brown in Rhode Island and in 1769 the University of Darthmouth in New Hampshire.\nThese institutions granted the Puritans an overwhelming cultural superiority in the colonial realm until the war of independence.\nThe most read poem by Americans of all time is the Day of Doom (The Last Judgement) published in 1662 in Massachusetts by the Puritan Michael Wiggleworth, in which the Calvinist theology is set in verse Septenari.\nThe cultural and psychological characteristics of the Puritans have been preserved in the Americans: even for them everything must aim at achieving wealth.\nPublishing therefore has an essentially practical character, with products that in various genres have reached over time levels of excellence (the American manuals are points of reference in the various sectors). The talented authors, rather than investigating reality, that is the truth, aim to package successful works in the wide audience. So they specialize in fiction, in the works of evasion, where they again excel by far all over the ability to present stories and absurd situations in a plausible way. Hollywood summarizes this typically American attitude.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 13963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biomassmagazine.com/articles/8077/nexterra-ubc-and-ge-celebrate-opening-of-biomass-chp-system", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XXQT3UA4CZFPZVM4HDAX4SVWGQZANEZD", "length": 6115, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.biomassmagazine.com", "title": "Nexterra, UBC and GE celebrate opening of biomass CHP system | Biomassmagazine.com", "raw_content": "Nexterra, UBC and GE celebrate opening of biomass CHP system\nBy Nexterra Systems Corp. | September 14, 2012\nNexterra Systems Corp., the University of British Columbia and GE recently celebrated the successful completion of an energy-from-renewable-waste combined-heat-and-power system located at UBC\u2019s Vancouver campus. This is North America\u2019s first commercial demonstration of a transformative system that combines Nexterra\u2019s gasification and syngas conditioning technologies with one of GE\u2019s high-efficient Jenbacher internal combustion engines.\nGE\u2019s Jenbacher gas engine will produce 2 MW of clean, renewable electricity that will offset UBC\u2019s existing power consumption, enough to power approximately 1,500 homes. The Nexterra system will also generate 3 MW of thermal energy, enough steam to displace up to 12 percent of UBC\u2019s natural gas consumption. This will reduce UBC\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 5,000 metric tons per year, which is the equivalent of taking more than 1,000 cars off the road.\nThe successful start-up of the project at UBC\u2014officially named the \u201cBioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF)\u201d\u2014represents an important milestone in Nexterra\u2019s quest to reliably convert low-value waste feedstocks into higher value renewable fuels and chemicals. The system has completed a comprehensive testing program for reliability, capacity and emissions, and has successfully connected to the grid.\nUsing Nexterra\u2019s proven gasification technology platform and innovative gas clean-up and thermal cracking solution, the system converts locally-sourced waste wood into a clean, reliable gas that is suitable for use in a high-efficiency, industrial-scale gas engine to produce heat and power. The system will deliver global electrical efficiencies that are 25 percent higher than traditional methods for producing biomass-based electricity at this scale.\nThe start-up of the system represents the culmination of more than four years of product development work and collaboration with GE\u2019s Gas Engines business. Prior to installing the gas engine at UBC, Nexterra successfully completed more than 5,000 hours of trials at its Product Development Center in Kamloops, British Columbia.\n\u201cThis exciting facility targets a major challenge facing society\u2014the need for new, clean energy solutions that work at a community scale,\u201d says UBC President Stephen Toope. \u201cThis is a flagship example of UBC as a living laboratory, where researchers, staff, students and partners collaborate on innovations targeting the pressing challenges of our day.\u201d\n\u201cWith the track record at the Product Development Centre and the successful start-up of GE\u2019s ecomagination-qualified Jenbacher gas engine at UBC, Nexterra is well on the road to delivering a renewable biomass CHP solution that meets the demanding real-world reliability requirements of district energy providers and distributed power producers worldwide,\u201d said Roger George, General Manager, North America, GE Gas Engines. Ecomagination represents GE\u2019s commitment to providing innovative solutions that maximize resources, drive efficiencies and help make the world work better.\n\u201cThis project represents a significant milestone for Nexterra and we are thankful to our partners for helping to make this a tremendous success,\u201d said Mike Scott, president and CEO of Nexterra. \u201cWe are seeing significant interest in this next-generation solution from around the globe. We look forward to further proving the system out at UBC and then replicating this system worldwide.\u201d\n\u201cOur government\u2019s approach to resource development means investing in the development of innovative renewable energy technologies that create jobs and generate new economic opportunities,\u201d said Wai Young, Member of Parliament for Vancouver South, on behalf of the Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada\u2019s Minister of Natural Resources. \u201cToday\u2019s announcement demonstrates our tangible support for renewable energy projects that increase energy efficiency and drive innovation.\u201d\n\u201cFor innovative technologies to have a real impact, they need to be commercialized and used in the market,\u201d said Dr. Vicky Sharpe, president and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). \u201cNexterra\u2019s CHP system is taking a big step in that direction today. We congratulate Nexterra and their partners on the milestone met today.\u201d\n\u201cOur government is proud to have supported this project from day one because we have made education and research a top priority,\u201d says John Yap, Minister of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology, representing the provincial government which contributed $7 million to the project through several ministries and departments.\n\u201cAs a catalyst for the BC Bioenergy industry, we\u2019ve been pleased to support Nexterra\u2019s syngas cleaning technology development,\u201d said Michael Weedon, executive director of the British Columbia Bioenergy Network. \u201cIt is excellent to see this innovative technology deployed commercially here at UBC and, with the ongoing research partnership with UBC, Nexterra is well poised to advance the industry here at home and in new export markets.\u201d\n\u201cWith this project, Nexterra, UBC and GE have advanced the industry\u2019s clean energy efforts significantly, thereby solidifying the Canadian expertise in green energy,\u201d said Jean Hamel, pulp, paper and bioproducts vice-president at FP Innovations.\nDesigned by McFarland Marceau Architects, UBC\u2019s CHP bioenergy system is housed in a remarkable building that was constructed using cross-laminate timber (CLT), a new solid wood building material that can be used as a low carbon, renewable alternative to steel frame construction. This will be one of the first CLT buildings in North America and will demonstrate its market potential for the forest industry.\nFunding support this project was provided by: the Government of Canada (Natural Resources Canada and Western Economic Diversification Canada); the Province of British Columbia (BC Innovative Clean Energy Fund and the Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands); Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC), the BC Bioenergy Network and FP Innovations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 7351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ewolmnetwork/2015/10/28/live-to-the-point-live-to-the-point-with-guest-james-cockerham", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6B5HW2JHEPPZW3NUGJL36RDBYCPF3GKL", "length": 771, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.blogtalkradio.com", "title": "Live To The Point Live To the Point With Guest James Cockerham 10/28 by EWOLM Network | Radio Podcasts", "raw_content": "Live To The Point Live To the Point With Guest James Cockerham\nJoin Paul & Kesha And there Guest James Cockerham Wednesday October 28th at 7:00 PM EST Join from the comfort of your home. We now have Two different ways for you to join the broadcast Via Our Talk Shoe. Call-in (724) 444-7444 Call ID: 137073 Join the conversation at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/137073 Or our Blog Talk Radio. Call-in (646) 716-4416 Join the conversation http://www.blogtalkradio.com/livetothepoint Tune in Live 24/7 to W.V.O.D RADIO http://www.wvodradio.net/ A FEW THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT JAMES COCKERHAM - He is a Songwriter, arranger, producer and playwright. Six albums,three CDs, four musical stage productions and one short film. Scoring full length feature film, \"The Sinister Passenger.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bobandcarl.com/?page_id=7", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KCBTVDABT2X3ELVV3KSA7YAYJWJONSYS", "length": 1557, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.bobandcarl.com", "title": "2019 Schedule | BOB and CARL", "raw_content": "Saturday, February 2, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 8:00 Pm \u2013 12:00 Am\nFriday, March 8, 2019 Three Blind Mice Irish Pub 8:00 Pm \u2013 12:00 Am\nWednesday, March 13, 2019 Pix Theater 2:30 Pm \u2013 4:00 Pm\nSunday, March 17, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing Saint Patrick\u2019s Day 1:00 Pm \u2013 10:00 Pm\nThursday, March 21, 2019 Village Of East harbor (private)1:30 Pm \u2013 4:00 Pm\nSaturday, April 6, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 8:00 Pm \u2013 12:00 Am\nSaturday, May 4, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 8:00 Pm \u2013 12:00 Am\nFriday, June 21, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 6:00 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSaturday, June 22, 2019 Taylor Family Campground 1:300 Pm \u2013 4:30 Pm\nWednesday, June 26, 2019 Eastpointe Civic Center 7:30 Pm \u2013 9:00 Pm\nSaturday, June 29, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nThursday, July 4, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSaturday, July 6, 2019 Taylor Family Campground 1:30 Pm \u2013 4:30 Pm\nSaturday, July 13, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nWednesday, July 24, 2019 Clinton Twp. Civic Center 7:00 Pm \u2013 8:30 Pm\nFriday, July 26, 2019 Sterling Fest Beer Tent 1:15 Pm \u2013 3:15 Pm\nSaturday, August 3, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSaturday, August 10, 2019 The Shelby Art Fair 10:30 Am \u2013 12:30 Am\nSaturday, August 10, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSunday, August 25, 2019 50th Anniversary (Private) 1:00 Pm \u2013 5:00 Pm\nThursday, August 29, 2019 Jimmy John\u2019s Field (Irish Night) 6:00 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSunday, September 1, 2019 Taylor Family Campground 1:300 Pm \u2013 4:30 Pm\nSaturday, September 7, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm\nSaturday, September 14, 2019 Bumper\u2019s Landing 600 Pm \u2013 11:00 Pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 4883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 135.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.boostmedia.com/blog/ad-text-tips/ad-text-optimization-interview-with-nick-weidma/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:BDO7HMA4K7BENPS2FDKLFMZ3V5JUWAUM", "length": 7122, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.boostmedia.com", "title": "Ad Text Optimization with the Pros - Q & A with WordStream's Nick Weidman - Boost Blog", "raw_content": "Ad Text Optimization with the Pros \u2014 Q & A with WordStream\u2019s Nick Weidman\nNick Weidman is a Client Services Manager at WordStream, performing a wide array of SEM and marketing services for a variety of clients. His technical training, finance background, and love for search marketing made him a great candidate for this instillation of our Q&A series.\nThe subject of statistical significance in ad testing is a really interesting one for me because I perceive PPC ad copywriting to be a great example of traditional marketing meeting a more Web and data centric means of reaching customers. In other words: its ad copy, its ad creative, but tests and refinements tend to be data driven. So my question is this: if I give you two PPC account managers who are going to focus on nothing but ad text:\nOne is very creative and great at creating copy that resonates with searchers, but very weak on data analysis. The other is a data wonk and religious tester but not much of a copywriter.\nGiven this person is not a \u201cdata nut\u201d, I would encourage them to develop a system that is manageable for them but allows them to tap into the data. One problem many people have with AdWords is there are so many metrics to measure success on. The first step in the process would be to ask the person what kind of business they are running and what their margins look like. If their margins are low, we might want to focus on low CPCs and cost-per-conversion. I would keep the ads on rotate, but keep a close eye on two or three key metrics. If they are running a business in which margins are much more flexible, I would probably focus more on traffic and driving relevant volume.\nI would encourage them to monitor their SQR and write text ads based upon SQs that are applicable to the business and have high conversion data. The SQR is a great way to look for text ad copy because it allows you to tap directly into the intent of the searcher.\nI will be completely honest I do not optimize text ads as much as I should! It is the number one action in AdWords I wish I had time to do more of. A lot of times I get caught up with managing bids, adding keywords and other \u201cnormal\u201d tasks, that I sometimes put writing new ads off to the side. To me it is like going to the gym, it\u2019s tough to do, but every time I do it, I am surprised at the positive effects it has. A new text ad can change the direction of an ad group immediately. As it stands right now, I probably optimize text ads once a month, although it would be my preference to optimize weekly.\nWhen you do dig in and start to optimize ads, how do you decide where to go first? Is it a function of other diagnoses (i.e. you see that a group\u2019s CTR has dropped and start to drill down) or do you have a process for identifying which ads need help (i.e. do you look for ads that have high volume and low CTR?)\nIt depends on the account and the goals of the client. For some clients, quality score is a major concern. For this reason, I may be willing to drive less volume for more relevant ad text. I may pause ads which have lower CTR and can hurt QS. For some clients however, the main goal is to drive volume, or hit an effective cost/conversion. I will tend to optimize ads that are doing poorly in regards to a certain metric.\nI typically start testing against past ads if there are any. I like write original ads, but use formulas that have worked in the past. I will incorporate some DKI at the launch of ad group, but ultimately I like to get away from it, as I believe the best way to achieve good QS is to have highly relevant ad content as they relate to keywords. There have been instances however where I have found DKI vastly outperforms even the most highly targeted ad, so I often like to include it in the testing process.\nThis is something I encounter, especially when working with a business that can easily be confused with another business. I\u2019ll give you an example. Say you are working with a business that makes printers. A printer can be both a machine, and a person who prints things for you (i.e. Kinkos, .etc). So we want to drive traffic, but we don\u2019t want to get all the people looking for a Kinko\u2019s or FedEx. So what I like to do is a term I coined as \u201chitting people in the face\u201d with your Ad. Sometimes this means ignoring best practices and matching keywords. You may want to target a term like +online +printers+, but you will want to be sure to write an ad that screams \u201cI MAKE PRINTERS! I DON\u2019T PRINT THINGS FOR PEOPLE\u201d.\nBeing agency-side you\u2019re working on multiple campaigns: are you making use of ad text templates either within a campaign or cross-campaigns? If so, can you share your basic approach to creating an ad text template (we don\u2019t need specific templates obviously but maybe just your approach to creating a template)? Also do you have any best practices around implementation (i.e. don\u2019t use templates on your highest volume groups, use templates liberally as you launch a campaign but then go back and test, etc.)?\nSince I manage many accounts at the moment, we want to work as efficiently as possible. What I typically do will take some things that have worked in the past. As I\u2019ve said before, an account will always have past winners. I try to take bits and pieces that have proven to work. This is where conversations with the business owner will really help. Since you will not know their business as well as they will, ask them what they think works. Ask them what their major competitive advantages are and be sure to include those in your template. I try to have at least one conversation every month with my clients about ad text.\nIdeally it would be around 20%, but right now I would say it\u2019s around 5-10% of my time. I would say managing bids, changing match types, creating ad groups all combine for about ten times the amount of time I spend on ads. I\u2019d like this to be a larger percentage though.\nOur firm doesn\u2019t do much in terms of creative for banner ads. I\u2019ll make recommendations though. With text ads, I will try to grab people\u2019s attention. I won\u2019t use standard practices. I try to include more calls to action because text ads can easily blend into the background on the content network.\nIncluding a dollar amount in an ad title. That changed the direction of an ad group from negative to positive. Just like Biggy Smalls.\nI try to step away from best practices sometimes. The beauty of AdWords is it\u2019s ok to make mistakes. Sometimes you\u2019ll write ad text that backfires, but you can always use it as a learning experience. My trick is to think outside of the box. That\u2019s where I developed my strategy of sometimes \u201chitting people in the face\u201d with text ads. There are many instances where you have to almost ignore best practices and get creative.\nThanks to Nick for the great answers! You\u2019ll be able to check out our very own Win of the Week on the WordStream blog starting this week, and you can learn more about the company and their products and services below:\nWordStream is a provider of tools for Adwords and PPC, including a google keyword tool and adwords keyword tool for conducting keyword research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 58928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brandessencenigeria.com/gtbank-masters-cup-returns-for-season-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5VWT7AKYG6MLYWVU632EEZ6P36AABKFO", "length": 1564, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.brandessencenigeria.com", "title": "GTBank Masters Cup Returns for Season 8 \u2013 Brandessence Nigeria \u2013 The Heart and Soul of a Brand: Latest Brand news, Latest branding news, Brand nigeria, brand news nigeria, online brand promotion nigeria, brand promotional magazine, advert agencies in nigeria, entertainment news in nigeria, battle of brands, branding in nigeria Brand News, Advertising News, The First Brand KnowledgeBase Customer Magazine in Nigeria", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Brand News \u00bb GTBank Masters Cup Returns for Season 8\nEstablished in 2012, the GTBank Masters Cup is organized by foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank, as a way of extending the benefits of the Bank\u2019s football programs to students outside the public school system. Since its inception, the tournament has grown into one of the major platforms for discovering and developing exceptional football talents and many of its alumni are now on trials and scholarships with football clubs and academies in Nigeria and abroad. The 7th season of the tournament, held in 2018, saw Igbobi College, Yaba and Queens College, Yaba, emerge champions in the male and female categories, respectively. This year, the route to the title in both categories promises to be even tougher with the tournament welcoming eight (8) new schools.\nGuaranty Trust Bank plc maintains a defined Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) focused on championing causes and fostering initiatives that transform lives and uplift communities. The Bank is a leading advocate of Sports Education as a major way of promoting the values of excellence and fair play whilst laying a solid foundation for the emergence of sporting talents. Alongside the GTBank Masters Cup, the Bank organizes and sponsors several other football programs, such as the GTBank Principals Cup tournaments in Lagos and Ogun States, the GTBank Super Cup and the Players Development Programme.\nPrevious Betway Unveils Money Back offer\nNext UBA Customers Win N30m in Wise Savers Promo, N90m Still Up for Grabs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.broadwayreviewed.com/date/2014/03", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:13Z", "digest": "sha1:JQFSWGAMZ7QANTQXTBJ7CTV3ZJWFV73S", "length": 2737, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.broadwayreviewed.com", "title": "March 2014 - BroadwayReviewed.com", "raw_content": "7 Linda Eder Songs You Can\u2019t Live Without \u2013 Share Yours Here\nPosted by BroadwayReviewed & filed under Linda Eder.\nYou either love Linda Eder or you fall in Love with Linda Eder. When I first her her sing I thought that\u2019s a gorgeous voice, but it sounds like someone trying to be Barbra. The I heard Jekyll and Hyde and realized how wrong I was. Linda Eder doesn\u2019t just sing amazing versions of Broadway Songs, she conquers them. I already shared two of my favorite Linda Eder covers \u201cThe Impossible Dream\u201d from Man of Lamancha and \u201cDon\u2019t Rain on My Parade\u201d from Funny Girl so after watching Idina Menzel destroy anyone else\u2019s chance at ever covering \u201cLet it Go\u201d from Frozen, here are 7 Linda Eder songs and covers you cannot live without. Feel free to leave a comment with your own favorite Linda Eder Song below. You can also buy the MP3 and CD versions through the widgets and links.\nSomeone Like You \u2013 Jekyll and Hyde.\nThis is the song that made me fall in love with her. Not only is she the original in the role, she set a standard that nobody has been able to beat, match or take on. Here is Linda Eder singing \u201cSomeone Like You\u201d from Jekkyl and Hyde.\nWe know she takes on iconic songs and then takes them over, so how do you think she\u2019ll do against Judy Garland with Somewhere Over the Rainbow?\nI love Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s music and this is one of my favorite showtunes. If you haven\u2019t fallen in love with Linda Eder\u2019s voice yet, this song will help you to start to!\nBack to Jekkyl and Hyde. It\u2019s almost beach season and that means it\u2019s time to Bring on the Men or to get your butt back in the gym. This song is perfect for working out and motivation.\nHere is Linda Eder on Star Search proving that she has always been an amazing singer and was ready for Broadway.\nAnother one of my favorite showtunes and Linda Eder songs. She kills this one and if you don\u2019t like it, you probably should ignore all posts about Linda Eder from this blog. This one is amazing!\nI wasn\u2019t sure if I should do I Dreamed a Dream or Vienna by Linda Eder. She does both of them extremely well, but when you take a song that isn\u2019t as well known and can bring a crowd to their feet, that is definitely the winner.\nIf you still don\u2019t love Linda Eder songs or if you don\u2019t see your favorite Linda Eder songs on this list, feel free to leave a comment with your favorite song, or go to the Idina Menzel section for another amazing belter. Linda is an amazing singer and once you\u2019ve heard a few of her songs like the two I mentioned at the beginning of the post, you\u2019ll instantly fall in love. She is amazing at taking songs that are hard to sing and making them almost impossible to match which is why we are a huge fan of Linda Eder and the songs she covers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 9415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businesspundit.com/encyclopedia/accounting-2/gross-sales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HQIBLF4HLGDNRVXU34LZPPONHX6EPMVX", "length": 1593, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.businesspundit.com", "title": "Gross sales - Business Pundit", "raw_content": "Gross sales refers to the amount which has been earned from all sales. To be more specific, however, this is determined based on invoices. As such, this does not yet take into account adjustments to be made as a result of the return of merchandise. In the same way, should a discount be made available for a particular item, this does not automatically count into the computation for gross sales.\nFurthermore, sales and similar taxes are not included in the computation. After all, the business does not keep the money collected for tax, but only serves as a collector and will then have to turn over the amount to the government. Accounting for this is separate.\nIn more concrete terms, for a clothing shop, for example, all cash and credit card purchases for a specific period of time will count toward the gross sales figure.\nIt is important for business owners to keep track of their gross sales figures, first of all, because this gives them an idea of how quickly stock turnover is taking place. Having the merchandise stagnate in the store or in stockrooms is equivalent to loss for the business, so making sure that products move as quickly as possible from the store to the consumer is crucial.\nWhile it is important for businesses to be aware of their gross sales figures, it is also necessary to understand that this is not a reliable gauge of the company\u2019s financial health. It is also necessary to find out how much is left with the company after all financial obligations have been met, as this gives a more reliable picture of how well the company is able to sustain operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 133.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.calschoolnews.org/2018/07/free-lunch-all-palm-springs-unified-students-next-year.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZI4LKZO4RMR5L3OFSE3JGQTN6CTZ5AZ3", "length": 1127, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.calschoolnews.org", "title": "Free Lunch for All Palm Springs Unified Students Next Year | CalSchoolNews.org", "raw_content": "Free Lunch for All Palm Springs Unified Students Next Year\nFor the first time, all students enrolled at Palm Springs Unified for the 2018-19 school year will receive free meals regardless of income.\nThrough the United States Department of Agriculture\u2019s Community Eligibility Provision, the district is able to provide all students with a free breakfast and lunch every day of the school year.\nBecause the district has more than 62 percent of families receiving government assistance, PSUSD was able to secure 100 percent of funding for meals served.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a simple fact that students who are hungry cannot learn at optimum levels,\u201d said Superintendent Sandra Lyon. \u201cFeeding all of our students nutritious breakfasts and lunches ensures that they have the fuel they need throughout the day to learn. Providing this service reduces food insecurity, obesity rates and poor health among our low-income students \u2013 which represents the majority of our children.\u201d\nIn order to be part of the program, parents are required to complete \u201can education benefit form.\u201d\nThe 2018-19 school year begins Aug. 8 for Palm Springs Unified students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cardiffivc.org.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=event.eventCalendar&tab=458&formaction=PageAction", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HAFHVDMLLECDIKVR2VLS3OG4UYXTR5WA", "length": 741, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.cardiffivc.org.uk", "title": "Cardiff IVC", "raw_content": "20:30 to 22:30 Club night at Chapter, Canton\n19:30 to 21:00 Badminton\n19:30 to 23:00 France v Wales\n16:00 to 22:00 Meal and Drinks\n19:30 to 23:00 Film night at Chapter\n20:15 to 22:30 Bar night\n11:00 to 14:00 Cardiff Bay stroll\n16:00 to 19:00 6 Nations Rugby\n19:30 to 23:00 Pub night\n18:30 to 21:00 Hot Club Swing Night - Cafe Jazz\n20:30 to 22:30 Club night at The Three Arches\n20:00 to 21:00 Book Club\n16:30 to 20:00 Continued celebrations..\n20:00 to 23:00 Comedy Club\n19:25 to 23:00 Ceilidh in Canton\n18:30 to 22:00 Champions League Football\n19:30 to 23:00 Frank Hennessy in Lisvane\n14:00 to 19:00 Rugby Six Nations\n19:15 to 22:00 Joan Baez\n13:00 to 15:00 Sunday lunch\n19:00 to 23:00 The Magic Flute\n20:30 to 23:00 Drinks evening/Live Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cardiologistnyc.net/what-are-heart-failure-symptoms-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XN2HSZUMBYC6ZKN7RZPJT5XJXIH3U2WN", "length": 2134, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cardiologistnyc.net", "title": "What are Heart Failure Symptoms | Best Cardiologist in NYC What are Heart Failure Symptoms \u2013 Dr. Seldon", "raw_content": "Heart failure can take two forms. Chronic heart failure is an ongoing condition that starts progressively and continues over time. Acute heart failure occurs suddenly with symptoms appearing without warning. Seeking treatment immediately can make the difference in your chances of survival, so it is crucial to understand the symptoms of heart failure.\nOverall Body Indicators\nOne of the most important things about identifying cardiac health problems is to listen to your body\u2019s subtle queues. It is easy to overlook some of the more understated symptoms until it progresses to more noticeable, severe indicators.\nWhen you find that you are struggling to do routine exercises, fighting persistent fatigue and muscle weakness, this may be your body\u2019s reaction to a weakening cardiovascular system. These symptoms may also be accompanied by difficulties concentrating and a lack of focus. If you notice these symptoms, you may easily discard them as indicators of increased life demands, vowing to get more sleep.\nAdditionally, as your cardiovascular system is increasingly strained, your body retains fluid. One of the early signs of fluid retention is swelling in your lower extremities, such as your ankles and feet. You may also notice gradual weight gain despite a loss of appetite and frequent nausea. This weight gain is a result of your body retaining fluids.\nRespiratory Struggles\nIf you experience shortness of breath, particularly when lying down or after physical activity, it may be cause for concern. If it is sometimes accompanied by wheezing, and a cough that persists despite your efforts to treat it, it may be an indicator of significant cardiovascular concerns.\nTime to Call a Doctor\nA racing heart rate, irregular heart beat and chest pain are all significant indications of heart failure. When chest pain and heart rate fluctuation is accompanied by dizziness, cold sweats and a lightheaded feeling, these are all serious symptoms that require immediate medical attention. If you haven\u2019t already called your doctor about some of the early indications, you should call immediately when you discover these symptoms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.catalystproject.org.uk/projects/launchpads/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5T3ABQXGNX3S6JVACNSOQQOIO3NXEUJF", "length": 2871, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.catalystproject.org.uk", "title": "Launchpads | Catalyst", "raw_content": "What was the project challenge? The project investigated which social media practices are successful (i.e. had influence) and why they work, to discover the ways in which activists and community groups utilise social media tools to communicate with the public. The aim was to create detailed requirements needed to establish a new community [\u2026] Read More >\nPolicy Beta will create a digital platform for citizens to network, generate ideas, debate issues, and vote on the policies that formulate principles for political action. In essence Policy Beta will provide a platform for crowdsourcing public policy. As a policy crowdsourcing platform, Policy Beta addresses the participatory deficiency in modern [\u2026] Read More >\nWhat was the project challenge? Can we all profit from being good? Following the global economic decline, Local Trade aims to \u2018re-boot\u2019 collaborative endeavours through stimulating altruistic behaviours, rewarding local creativity, and innovation. 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Ecohome is taking a collective, community-led approach, to develop and test innovative household energy data engagement strategies. The project aims to reduce energy usage and improve the performance and quality of participants\u2019 homes. The information and tools developed will be independent from the big six energy companies. Who were involved? [\u2026] Read More >\nWhat is the project challenge? With the government\u2019s push towards localism \u2013 such as the right to build, communities need to understand publicly available data before they can make informed decisions. For example Councils now publish data on all expenditure over \u00a3500, but this is often difficult to analyse and understand. Community Data Explorer [\u2026] Read More >\nWhat is the project challenge? Can we use mobile technology in our parks to keep healthy and active? Green spaces, such as parks are seen by the majority of public as a key contributor to wellbeing and the environment and have a proven track record in reducing the impact of [\u2026] Read More >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.challenge-mag.com/tag/ariel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PVHTGMLQQCW2QEP7GM63NMFIUTEWLP5Q", "length": 2043, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.challenge-mag.com", "title": "Ariel \u2013 CHALLENGE", "raw_content": "IN THE TWO years leading to the elections for the 17th Knesset, there was much talk of a \u201cbig bang\u201d that would transform political life in Israel. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\u2019s plan for unilateral disengagement was causing major tremors. In\u2026\nIn the Footsteps of Sharon\nIN departing from power, Ariel Sharon leaves behind a new Israeli consensus and a new centrist political party, Kadima (Forward), which will continue to engage the public trust even without him. If his political heir, Ehud Olmert, avoids making grave\u2026\nFatah: The (Ominous) Rise of the Younger Generation\nDESPITE the brain hemorrhage of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel will likely go to the polls on March 28, 2006 with a strong show of stability. By contrast, in the Palestinian Authority (PA) elections will take place, on January 25,\u2026\nWHEN the President of the PA, Abu Mazen, announced a date for elections to the Palestinian parliament (January 25, 2006), he had two things in mind. First, elections seemed crucial in order to close the Arafat Era and provide him\u2026\nNOW that the fog has lifted from the disengagement plan in Gaza, the question remains, \u201cIs this what the Left had in mind when it ceased to fear Sharon and began loving \u2018Arik\u2019?\u201d Welcome to Gaza Prison. No one enters\u2026\nON APRIL 14, 2004, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon sent a letter to US President George W. Bush announcing his decision to freeze the \u201cRoad Map\u201d and undertake, instead, a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli public read the\u2026\nGaza Cannot Survive Sharon-style\u201d Disengagement\u201d\nON June 8, 2004, Ehud Olmert, Israel\u2019s Minister of Industry and Commerce, announced his intention to close the Erez Industrial Zone, located on the Gaza Strip\u2019s northern border with Israel. Once touted as a model of co-existence, Erez includes factories\u2026\nOn June 18 and 19, the Organization for Democratic Action (ODA) held its sixth convention. As preparation for these two days, the members of the Central Committee wrote papers that were presented and discussed in the party\u2019s branches. The papers\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cityofnovi.org/Government/City-Services/Emergency-Preparedness/Emergency-Notification-System.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:21Z", "digest": "sha1:M6AOSWPTH6B77Y3XDNQFINAK6K4GOMAZ", "length": 2049, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.cityofnovi.org", "title": "City of Novi, Michigan - Emergency Notification System", "raw_content": "Government > City Services > Emergency Preparedness > Emergency Notification System\nRegistering your cell phone on the City of Novi Emergency Notification System is voluntary and there is no cost to register.\nClick here to register for the Emergency Notification System.\nYou can now register to receive emergency notifications on your cell phone. These notifications will include emergency situations that may impact individuals and businesses in the City of Novi. The City of Novi Emergency Notification System enables and empowers interested parties to be aware of significant incidents in the City of Novi. Currently the City of Novi has the ability to send this information to landlines, but by registering your cell phone online, you will be able to receive emergency notifications when you are away from your home.\nExamples of Emergency Notifications include:\nChemical spills impacting public health\nActive shooter situations causing an evacuation or Shelter-In-Place orders\nSignificant road closures such as highway closures or events that will significantly affect traffic flow\nClosure or interruption in service to City of Novi operations\nAdditional notifications affecting the health and safety of City of Novi residents and / or businesses\nWeather conditions such as watches and warnings or advisories will not be broadcast through the City of Novi Emergency Notification System\nThe online registration tool allows citizens to self-register their cell phone on a secure web site, entering their name and personal contact information with their own username and password.\nNotifications of emergencies, disasters or hazardous situations which would require immediate action will be received as an incoming phone call, and will provide information through a computer generated voice message.\nIt is the responsibility of the registered individual to ensure their contact information is accurate and up-to-date.\nThe purpose of this service is to provide accurate and helpful information to citizens and businesses in the event of an emergency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 866, "original_length": 19595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cloakandswagger.com/tag/gig/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YUJFCGAFD6BU43DPMJ3BUW3JH5G33Z2X", "length": 376, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cloakandswagger.com", "title": "Cloak & Swagger|La Femme", "raw_content": "Words by Constance. I\u2019ve always been a huge fan of La Femme \u2013 the French punk rockers with impeccable style, when I heard they were playing in London I just had to get myself to\u2026\nWe don\u2019t normally feature technology up on C&S but we\u2019ve been hooked onto a great little iPhone app that\u2019s revolutionised our social lives. It\u2019s called YPlan and it\u2019s an entirely new way to do fun\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cnewa.org/blog.aspx?ID=214&pagetypeID=35&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IZF4GNZ7BTPNCUFXFHZYO3A7YUWWKOYZ", "length": 1828, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cnewa.org", "title": "CNEWA - Picture of the Day: A Syrian Mosaic", "raw_content": "The Melkite Greek Catholic Warood School in Aleppo, Syria, enrolls 350 students from preschool through sixth grade. (photo: Spencer Osberg)\nIn the November 2009 issue of ONE Spencer Osberg reported on the diverse community of Christians living in Aleppo, Syria, one of the \u201coldest continuously inhabited centers in the world\u201d:\nThe Greek Melkite Catholic Church offers a host of social services. Since his installation in 1995, Archbishop Jeanbart has worked tirelessly to expand existing programs and has spearheaded many new ones.\n\u201cI feel as a pastor I have to do my part to help our people to remain, to try and help the youth not to emigrate.\u201d\nThe archbishop focuses much of his energy on the archeparchy\u2019s numerous educational institutions. Under his watch, the archeparchy has opened six vocational schools that provide training in business, tourism, nursing and other skilled trades. The archbishop expressed hope the schools would enable a new generation of Syrian Christians to \u201cfind a good job and encourage them to remain in the country \u2014 to continue living in this country where we have been for 2,000 years.\u201d\nIn addition, the archeparchy administers numerous and well-regarded elementary and secondary schools. Open to all Syrians regardless of creed, these schools are diverse and dynamic centers of learning and culture, often enrolling more non-Christian than Christian students. Depending on a family\u2019s ability to pay, the church awards generous financial aid packages to qualifying students and in some cases waives school tuition and fees altogether.\nFor more about Aleppo see Aleppo: A Syrian Mosaic by Spencer Osberg. 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In short, head and tail are used to provide output of the first and last lines of a file. For instanc...\nHow to Use the Linux Df Command to Calculate Disk Free Space\nIf you\u2019re mostly a Windows user or programmer and are porting to linux, you may be thinking that a command that would help you determine the free disk space of your computer would be pretty useful. Luckily, there exists s...\nHow to Add a Directory to Your Path Environment Variable in Linux\nThe linux shell is probably the most important thing that provides raw power to the end user. Getting to know more about it is crucial if we seek to be able to do simple and more complicated tasks with its help. The bash shell,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coloradofleetsolutions.com/colorado-fleet-solutions.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YO37ES25XF7LRLTFTMQRA5T3CPFCRQQR", "length": 2110, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.coloradofleetsolutions.com", "title": "Colorado Fleet Solutions (About Us)", "raw_content": "Colorado Fleet Solutions offers a variety state-of-the-art GPS Tracking and Management products for commercial vehicle fleets, machinery and trailers to improve tracking and the monitoring of fleet efficiency and productivity.\nOur experienced staff begins by introducing businesses to the most reliable and advanced GPS Fleet Management products available. We're familiar with most of the GPS products currently on the market, and we know how confusing and time consuming it is to compare what's out there. At Colorado Fleet Solutions we encourage fleet owners and managers to contact us before making any decisions to buy. We are here to help sort it all out, and assist you in making the most informed and cost effective choices. We'll take the time to explain the various features and reporting capabilities that each product offers, and then work closely with managers and owners to determine how GPS can assist them in improving their fleet efficiency and productivity.\nAfter a decision is made about which products are the ideal match to meet their tracking and management goals, Colorado Fleet Solutions will provide only the highest quality installation services to its customers. Our experienced team will coordinate with management to schedule installation times that are least likely to interrupt normal fleet operations. Unlike many other businesses that sell GPS systems, our service doesn't end there. Our goal is to build long-term relationships with our customers. We will also provide hands-on training demonstrations for those who will be managing the fleet, as well as ongoing support services.\nThough our roots began in the Denver Colorado area over 25 years ago, we are also capable of working with medium to large fleets in other states or with multi-state coverage.\nFeel free to call us if your business is interested in GPS for your fleet vehicles (light or heavy duty) or machinery. We will be happy to discuss the possibilities and provide quotes to get you started on your way to stopping fleet losses, gaining control through improved oversight, and increasing your company profits!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colorofstamp.com/2011/11/landmark-bridges-of-australia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:M2WUXFP4VYIX7RXUBBJ4JK6PL2ZDAMI2", "length": 4325, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.colorofstamp.com", "title": "Color of stamp: Landmark Bridges of Australia", "raw_content": "On 2 March 2004, Australia Post issue the stamp series features landmark bridges. This issue designed by Gary Domoney. The featured bridges in this commemorative stamp issue span Australia\u2019s history and show a diversity of construction materials and styles ranging from the stone bridge of convict days to the engineering and architectural wonders of current times. The bridges are \u2018landmarks\u2019 because of their physical position and status, or their historic or engineering qualities.\nRoss Bridge, Tasmania:\nSpanning the Macquarie River, the elegant Ross Bridge was completed in 1836 and is regarded as the finest masonry bridge of its period. It is renowned for its decorative carved stonework depicting Celtic symbols and images of contemporary figures.\nGovernment engineer John Lee Archer was commissioned to build the bridge, and although Archer designed it, credit for its construction belongs to two convict stonemasons, James Colbeck and Daniel Herbert, who were emancipated on completion of the bridge.\nThe sandstone bridge has three equal arches and is flanked at each corner by curved flights of stone steps sweeping down to the river banks. However the bridge\u2019s real distinction comes from the 186 carvings on the arches.\nSome of the carvings are symbolic or iconographic. Others are representational, depicting people, dogs and other animals, birds, sheaves of wheat and bales of wool, and so on.\nLockyer Creek Bridge, Queensland:\nLocated between Helidon and Murphy\u2019s Creek the Lockyer Creek Bridge was built in 1911, and is one of two similar cast-in-situ reinforced concrete arch railway bridges in this locality.\nThe bridge has three spans, each supported on two arches. This elegant bridge was a major engineering achievement at the time, and is still one of the largest spans of its type in Australia.\nLockyer Creek Bridge, which still carries main line rail traffic, has been placed on the Queensland Heritage Register.In Australia concrete arch railway bridges are unique to Queensland and South Australia.\nSydney Harbour Bridge, New South Wales:\nAs Australia\u2019s most famous bridge, and one of the largest single-arch steel bridges in the world, links Sydney\u2019s central city with North Sydney.\nIt carries eight lanes of road traffic and two railway tracks, a footway and a cycle path. Since 1998 the bridge has also become an adventure destination for thousands of tourists who undertake the acclaimed Bridge Climb\u00ae.\nThe arch, which was built out progressively from each shore, was joined successfully on the night of 19 August 1930. Over the next 18 months the steel decking was hung from the arch and the roadway completed.\nThe four pylons at each end of the bridge are purely decorative. They were made of concrete and faced with granite, transported to the site by three purpose-built ships.\nBirkenhead Bridge, South Australia:\nBuilt in 1940 Birkenhead Bridge services both road and shipping traffic for South Australia\u2019s major port, Port Adelaide.\nThe twin bascule span bridge crosses the upper reaches of the Port River and links the LeFevre Peninsula with the Adelaide metropolitan area.\n\u2018Bascule\u2019 refers to the \u2018see-saw\u2019 action of the lifting mechanism. Each leaf or slab of the bridge is counterbalanced with weights inside the bases of the structure, allowing them to tilt upwards to allow ships through without using too much power. The bridge opens for vessels which cannot otherwise pass under it.\nBolte Bridge, Victoria:\nWith its four spans the six-lane Bolte Bridge is one of the largest balanced cantilever cast-in-situ box girder bridges in Australia. Bolte Bridge crosses the Yarra River west of the city of Melbourne.\nThe bridge is a vital part of City Link, a city bypass designed to minimise traffic crossing the city centre and relieve traffic congestion on arterial and local roads.\nFive land-based piers support the bridge. The central pier is set on a man-made island in the middle of the river.Although they serve no structural purpose the elegant twin towers at the centre of the bridge are its distinguishing feature. Made of reinforced concrete, the slender towers create a dramatic visual focal point and a powerful new landmark for Melbourne.\nLabels: australia, Birkenhead Bridge, Bolte Bridge, bridge, Landmarks bridge, Lockyer Creek Bridge, Ross bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 19714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.completemusicandsound.co.uk/installation-and-consultancy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XDDEJX6OKBLHB2IJTWMSRIQFUVVDEB4D", "length": 424, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.completemusicandsound.co.uk", "title": "Installation and Consultancy | Complete Music & Sound", "raw_content": "We can advise and undertake installations at all levels, through the use of our partners in the pro audio industry from a pub speaker system through to football stadiums. Please get in touch and we will get a suitably trained expert to get in touch with you to discuss.\nWe are trained in using BSS Audio Architect and associated hardware.\nRates for this kind of work can vary greatly depending on the complexity of the task.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.concertproperties.com/infrastructure/corporate-profile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CHNN5L6HAOS6555L7SXHAOIYHQCAXQZV", "length": 1627, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.concertproperties.com", "title": "Infrastructure | CONCERT", "raw_content": "As an independent, long-term investor, developer and manager of public infrastructure, Concert Infrastructure is primarily focused on securing greenfield investments in the Canadian PPP infrastructure market. The company will also pursue strategic secondary market acquisitions of infrastructure assets. The full range of the Company\u2019s activities today include: identifying and working with select partners to pursue infrastructure projects and equity investment opportunities; managing direct or indirect interests in projects (including Project Company and operations management); and administering the day-to-day functions of the various Concert Infrastructure corporate and project entities.\nToday, Concert Infrastructure Fund holds investments and irrevocable commitments of $505 million. Since inception in October 2010, the Company has made eight infrastructure investments that required a cumulative equity investment of approximately $246 million. As a result, Concert Infrastructure has been able to directly participate in arranging or managing approximately $940 million in fully-committed debt financing for projects with a combined value of approximately $2.1 billion.\nConcert Infrastructure has been successful in forming strong strategic partnerships and securing solid investment opportunities for its pension plan unit holders. As an industry leader and a preferred government partner, Concert Infrastructure continues to approach each project with the intention of remaining a partner for the duration of the project, valuing long-term, stable returns for our ten Canadian union and management pension funds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.contactmusic.net/billie-piper/news/billie-piper-felt-oversexualised-in-early-days-of-her-career_5983928", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ENUEHYJY7V7PHJJFHTL637FWMBOWEHCG", "length": 2102, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.contactmusic.net", "title": "Billie Piper | Billie Piper felt oversexualised in early days of her career | Contactmusic.com", "raw_content": "Billie Piper felt oversexualised in early days of her...\nBillie Piper admits she felt ''oversexualised'' in the early stage of her career because of ''sanctioned pimping'' as she claims agents knew what was happening to their clients.\nBillie Piper felt ''oversexualised'' in her younger years.\nThe 35-year-old actress and singer burst onto the scene as a young girl but admits the early stage of her career was tough because of ''sanctioned pimping''.\nSpeaking about her younger years, she said: ''The oversexualised years. I think that's why, for so long, my desire to hide my body in baggy clothes took hold. I like girl's clothes now because I feel in a better place, but the hangover from that time lasted a while ... I think I'm in a good place now or, at least, a juncture.''\nBefore adding: ''I find the abuse of power really upsetting, but if I'm honest, what I find really sickening is all the agents subjecting their clients to it, knowing full well what's going on. Like sanctioned pimping. But at the same time, it comes in many shapes and sizes. It's not just about [people in power] grabbing a t*t, or saying, 'Show me your d**k.' Let's say I know a lot of headstrong actors and actresses wanting to get something, who wouldn't say they're victims of this.''\nAnd the 'Doctor Who' star - who has Winston, nine, and Eugene, five, with her ex-husband Laurence Fox - has her ''reservations'' about women speaking out in support of each other.\nShe told The Sunday Times' Style magazine: ''I have my reservations, Under the guise of being all supportive and there for each other, women can be very judgy and competitive, especially on social media. The emotions are the same, it's just the semantics that have changed.\n''Look, I value my friendships with women, but I value friendships with men, too. I'm bringing up two boys, after all. And I'm also not sure how much we have moved on anyway. A lot of social media is about women looking really oversexed. That doesn't feel like feminism to me. Like, this whole thing of 'I'm liberated enough to bare my arse' doesn't remotely cut it with me.''", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 7904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coronadorotary.org/club-history.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:B44DD5H6EFR4TSBBYGQ242AXHFSTPKLS", "length": 6956, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.coronadorotary.org", "title": "Rotary Club of Coronado", "raw_content": "History of the Coronado Rotary Club\nThe late Albert H. Foret, editor, manager and part owner of the Coronado Journal in the 1920s must be given credit for revealing a wonderful glimpse into the early history of Rotary Club of Coronado. Although Foret was not one of the club's charter members, he was the impetus behind the club's formation and also, thankfully, a man who loved to observe and record local history.\nWhen he addressed the Rotary Club of Coronado at its 25th anniversary celebration in 1951, Foret described Coronado in the Fall of 1925 as a lovely community - quiet, little traffic, no traffic signals, condominiums or high rises and lots of open space that included many vacant lots.\nBecause of its vast holdings of businesses and land, the Spreckels Company was very powerful in Coronado, causing some resentment among the locals who were outside the Spreckels sphere.\nForet became concerned about a possible serious conflict, and conceived the idea of a businessmen's weekly luncheon meeting to promote better understanding and fellowship. Among the town's \"movers and shakers\" he contacted was one A.E. Holloway, an officer at San Diego Gas & Electric Co. As it turned out, Holloway was a member of the well-established San Diego Rotary Club, founded in 1911, the 33rd Rotary Club to be chartered. Holloway suggested Foret organize a Coronado Rotary Club to meet the goals he outlined.\nExhibiting his typical diligence, Foret started the process by inviting eight Coronado businessmen to meet Holloway and learn about Rotary. Foret's subsequent proposal to form a Rotary Club was received with great enthusiasm, and the vote to organize was unanimous. Twenty members were required to receive a charter so more businessmen were recruited. In all, 22 Coronadans signed on as charter members, and the application for charter was sent to Rotary International in November 1925. Ironically, Foret, the force behind the club's formation was not among the chartered members due to a change in his employment.\nThe new charter, dated March 8, 1926 was presented at a dinner at the San Diego Yacht Club on April 19, 1926. Rotary Club of Coronado still has its original charter framed on the wall in its office. The club's first president was Bill Lambert, an electric light and power manager, who helped increase membership to 28 the first year. President Bill is pictured here, to our left.\nRotarians, then and now, are listed in membership in accordance with their classification, or occupation. The classifications of the charter members varied widely, and in some cases, reflected what was then considered normal commerce in the roaring 1920's: automobile sales and service, banking, realty, insurance, pharmacy, home building, plumbing, clergy, photography, high school administration, gasoline sales, dentistry, gas and electric power, produce retail, building contracting, bungalow rentals, lumber retail, law, sheet metal fabrication, printing, meat retail and ice distribution.\nBetween November 1925 and April 1926, Coronado Rotary Club had been meeting for lunch every week at the Blue Lantern Cafe, on the site now occupied by the Hotel Marisol. The cafe was a popular place with culinary art that rivaled that of the Hotel del Coronado. Regretfully, the cafe building was sold and moved to another location in Coronado. The Rotarians changed venue to the San Diego Yacht Club, then located on Glorietta Bay where the club's first official photograph (top left), was captured in May 1927.\nIn April 1929, the club moved again to the Coronado Country Club, where lunch was catered by the Hotel del Coronado. That summer, membership totaled over 40 and members began campaigning to meet at the hotel. The following April, the club moved into the Del's Silver Grill, now called the Coronet Room, and has been meeting at the world-famous hotel ever since. Club meetings were originally on Friday, but in 1941 the club moved them to Wednesdays.\nThe club's weekly publication, The Corotator, originally known as The Coroto, was first published February 15, 1927 and irregularly thereafter until January 28, 1932, when it was terminated due to expense during the Great Depression. Fred Boyer, with fortunate access to a newfangled mimeograph machine, revived the newsletter for a few months, but it could not be sustained. Then, during the 1937-1938 term of club president R.E. \"Arch\" Archibald, the newsletter was back on its feet and has been published regularly ever since. Today, The Corotator is distributed by email; you can view the current edition at www.coronadorotary.org.\nThe club has grown steadily over the years. In 1951, on the club's 25th anniversary, membership was 68. In 1961, it stood at 104. By 1976, on the club's 50th anniversary, membership was 115. And today, after more than 90 years, membership stands at 240. Today's membership reflects the great leadership enjoyed by the club, including an impressive seven District Governors over a period of 42 years.\nCoronado Rotary has accomplished many projects through the years in the community, the region and the world.\nThe Coronado Rotary community project that is probably most dear to all ages is the city's Star Pine Christmas tree. After Coronado Rotary Park was established at the intersection of Orange and Isabella, Coronado Rotarians, with help from Emily T. Thompson, widow of Rotarian Charles Thompson, planted the tree in 1936. Today, the Star Pine stands as Coronado Rotary's commitment to community service.\nNot to be outdone, the following generation of local Rotarians installed the concrete bench and the double water bubbler at the park. On February 23, 2005, in celebration of Rotary's Centennial, many members of the community joined Rotary Club of Coronado in christening the magnificent town clock at the park as the club's Centennial gift to the community.\nCoincident with the city's renovation and expansion of Coronado Rotary Park in 2008-2009, the popular pedestrian gathering place was officially named \"Coronado Rotary Plaza.\" Not only did the club provide the four new seating benches in the new plaza, but on July 8, 2009, club members and community christened the wonderful new plaza fountain \"Jim Vernetti Fountain\" to honor Dr. Jim's extraordinary service to humanity.\nRotary Club of Coronado's many other projects, community, regional and international, are summarized in the Club Projects section of this website.\nNinety years of Rotary in Coronado have elapsed with successive presidents leading the club to new heights. Membership has increased more than tenfold. However, those members who have passed on and who have worked so diligently to carry forward the traditions of Rotary shall never be forgotten. The present officers and members salute those Rotarians who have served so well, and at the same time look forward to even bigger and better days for Rotary in Coronado as they proceed to the club's own Centennial year in 2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 395, "original_length": 31622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.critiqueecho.com/insight-into-what-legal-aid-board-is-doing-for-children-in-sierra-leone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NWVGAHR3ROLGKYHTJ2POZ7YPI44O6X4B", "length": 7815, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.critiqueecho.com", "title": "Insight Into What Legal Aid Board is Doing for Children in Sierra Leone \u2013 Critique Echo Newspaper", "raw_content": "Insight Into What Legal Aid Board is Doing for Children in Sierra Leone\nJoseph Dumbuya, Registrar at the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board\nSince the Legal Aid Board started operations in May 2015, it has amply demonstrated commitment to protecting the rights of children through the provision of legal services, legal education and the introduction of the \u2018Child Protection Under the Law\u2019 Programme which focuses on issues of teenage pregnancy, child marriage and harmful cultural practices.\nThe Legal Aid Act 2012 provides that the Board shall provide legal aid and determine the type of persons and cases for which legal aid may be granted. The draft Legal Aid Guide puts the latter into context. It provides that to qualify for legal aid, the applicant\u2019s monthly income should not exceed five hundred thousand leones (Le500,000) which as you may know is the country\u2019s Minimum Wage.\nNationality is not a criteria for qualification for legal aid. Any resident of Sierra Leone who meets the requirement is provided free legal assistance. Citizens of other Mano River Union Countries, Nigeria and Burkina Faso have benefited from the scheme in the past. The Board in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Drivers Union has gone the extra mile to provide free transportation to the former to their respective countries.\nApplicants for legal aid are subject to the \u2018Means Test\u2019 to determine qualification for legal assistance. The \u2018Means Test\u2019 determines whether the applicant is employed and also looks at income and assets.\nThe exemption to this requirement are children, the aged and retiree. This means children or better still juveniles accessing the justice system are provided free legal assistance regardless of their income, assets and status of parents.\nChildren enjoy the added advantage of receiving far more assistance from the scheme than any other group. The Board has a lawyer assigned exclusively to juveniles. As a matter of fact, the Board is the only institution with a full-time Juvenile Lawyer, in the person of Joel Tejan Deen-Tarawally.\nThe Board prides the caliber of its staff and Lawyer Deen-Tarawally is no exception. He has an advance Law degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa. In addition, he has also done advanced human rights courses on Disability Rights in an African Context and Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights and Sexual Minority Rights in Africa.\nLawyer Deen-Tarawally believes there have been some modest gains in the Juvenile Justice System in the form of legislations \u2013 Child Rights Act 2007, Sexual Offences Act \u2013 and the establishment of the Legal Aid Board.\nAt the same time, he believes the juvenile justice system still fraught with challenges ranging from the failure to set up committees to promote the child justice environment as provided for in the Child Rights Act 2007 to the lack of transportation for juvenile offenders, absence of witness tracing mechanism, improperly constituted juvenile courts in some cases and lack of psychosocial support for children going through the justice system.\nThe scheme also has Paralegals assigned to juveniles. The paralegals monitor matters involving children in police stations, juvenile homes, formal courts and the informal justice system to ensure the treatment of child suspects is consistent with the law and human rights in terms of legal assistance, bail, detention and support services.\nThe Board has a consultant, Lawyer Francis Gabbidon who is a legal practitioner of no mean feat having practiced in Sierra Leone for over forty years. He was the first ombudsman. He teaches at the Law Department at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He had taught at the Sierra Leone Law School.\nLawyer Gabbidon sits on Alternative Dispute Resolution matters. His duties include proffering advice on issues of law so that parties have a clear idea of the likely consequences should the matter be referred to the courts. This has benefited children immensely by way of maintenance issues resolved by the ADR.\nAgainst this backdrop, the successes of the Board in the provision of legal services have not come as surprise. The scheme provided legal assistance to two hundred and twenty (220) juveniles around the country by 31 December 2016, which is twenty months into its operations. This includes discharges, acquittals and discharges, committals to High Court, sentences, fines, bail and maintenance orders secured.\nRecently, in January 2017 to be precise, the Board intervened in a high profile matter between the Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children\u2019s Affairs, Dr. Sylvia Blyden and two children of the Children\u2019s Forum Network (CFN).\nThe Minister had taken the kids to the New England Police Station rather than hand them over to social workers at the Ministry. The Board\u2019s Juvenile Lawyer, Joel Deen-Tawarally successfully secured bail for the only remaining child suspects after the Board\u2019s Paralegal had secured the release of the other suspect the previous day. Contrary to rumors making the round at the time, the suspect is not related to the Lawyer Deen-Tarawally.\nAlso, four hundred and seventy-four (474) children benefited from maintenance orders secured by the scheme\u2019s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services. This has ensured the children continue their education.\nDuring the periods leading to the reopening of schools, the ADR worked overtime to cope with complaints relating to maintenance orders. In August and September 2017, the Board received up to fifty complaints per day from mothers worried that the fathers of their children might renege on their responsibility to provide money for schooling.\nThe Board has also mediated hundreds of custody matters. There have been cases of fathers refusing to release children to their mothers in time for schooling at the beginning of term. Also, the Board had intervened to ensure fathers have access to their children at regular intervals.\nThe ADR has reunited feuding families around the country. The one which stands out for me involves a prominent Bishop and his estranged wife and four children. The relationship between the two had degenerated to such an extent that the Man of God had not been on speaking terms with his wife and children for nearly ten years. This was a test case for the Board\u2019s ADR as efforts at mediation by religious leaders and other parties had failed in the past.\nTwo hundred and eight (208) senior secondary school pupils of the Hill Top Community Secondary School at Hill Station in Freetown make up the largest single group of children to have benefited from the Legal Aid Board at any given time. The pupils had their results released by the West African Examination Council after the intervention of the Board. WAEC had held on to the results because the school authorities had failed to pay the examination fees.\nChildren have also benefited from the Board\u2019s legal education through school outreach. Children have been educated on the scheme, Child Rights Act 2007, how the justice system works, Rule of Law and Human rights. The Board held outreach events in fifty schools around the country in 2016. A total of four thousand six hundred and sixty-one (4,661) pupils participated in these events. The school outreach programme was unveiled in October 2016.\nAs the Board expands its operations following the deployment of paralegals in every district in December 2016, monitoring of child rights issues in the informal justice sector including Alternative Dispute Resolution services provided by chiefs and other actors have been stepped-up.\nThe establishment of Citizens Advisory Bureaus in three Wards in Freetown will continue to impact positively of child rights issues. The Board hopes to establish the Bureaus in all the 394 Wards in the country by the end of the year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 11212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crossakiel.com/community-news/93-water-meter-installation-update.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:J4GXOBOMKWKUM5S7X4HMSYC4QDNQVAW2", "length": 3102, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.crossakiel.com", "title": "Water Meter Installation - The Cairns Estate - Crossakiel.com", "raw_content": "The work to install the water meters in the Cairns estate appears to have stopped as Irish Water have been informed that The Cairns is still a private estate and has not been taken over by the county council. Irish Water's implied right of access was removed on Thursday the 22nd (recorded phone call) to their office explaining that they were illegally trespassing on private property with no right to install the water meters.\nUntil the county council take over the estate, Irish water have no right to come on to the estate to continue any works. The council have sent an enforcement notice to Loughcourt Ltd specifying 11 conditions that they have not complied with as per the planning permission granted which need to be completed on the estate before they are prepared to take it over. Loughcourt Limited (the developers) was dissolved on the 25/06/2010 and struck off the business register.\nThere is normally a 12 year window for developers to comply with county council specifications and to hand over the estate. This can be reduced to 10 years if requested by the residents. So, based on the fact that most residents moved in around 2006, the 10 year period would be 2016, otherwise 2018 unless the developer completes the works required by the county council and hands it over sooner than expected.\nThe ITron Smart Meters that Irish Water are installing are called smart meters for a reason. They will be transmitting a radio frequency to allow for inspectors to measure the amount of water being used. As with Wi Fi and electrical smart meters, any radio signal over 300MHz is deemed microwave and dangerous to humans. There is enough information on this website and on the internet to confirm this.\nImagine every house having a meter transmitting a radio signal? This radio fog will cover Crossakiel and will, over time, have an affect on the local residents.\nSo to sum up what we are receiving with these meters, the government want us to pay for fluoridated poisoned water with installed meters that transmit a radio signal that is dangerous to the human body.\nThe good news is that even if the council take over the Cairns Estate, Land registry have confirm in a recorded conversation that the boundary of your property actually extends to the center of the road and not just to garden wall. This means that if Irish Water do install a meter, they will be trespassing on your property, however, if you do not remove their implied right of access, they will assume that you want a meter installed.\nIf you are unfortunate to already have a meter installed, maybe the residents need to make a phone call to Irish Water and put them on notice that if the meters are not removed within 14 days, they will be removed by the residents and Irish Water will be billed for the removal and storage of the meters! Residents would be totally in their right to do this as they trespassed on a private estate to illegally install the meters in the first place.\nIf there are residents that would like to have a meter installed, please contact Irish Water specifically requesting your installation only.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crsmith.co.uk/blog/national-apprenticeship-week-giving-a-helping-hand-to-young-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4QDGRZDQ3W2OMR3ZRUP44CVV5KNSBDVE", "length": 1686, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.crsmith.co.uk", "title": "National Apprenticeship Week \u2013 giving a helping hand to young people", "raw_content": "It\u2019s National Apprenticeship Week and at CR Smith we firmly believe that young people are not only the lifeblood of the economy, but they are key to the future survival and continuing success of a business.\nIn 2015 we set up our own bespoke apprenticeship programme which is tied to a City & Guilds framework. Training is delivered by our own staff and Fife College at our purpose built training centre in Dunfermline. By opting for this route rather than a traditional block release programme, our apprentices are fully equipped with the right skills they need to work for us once their three year apprenticeship finishes.\nBut we don\u2019t just stop at apprenticeships. Hand Picked was set up six years ago by our Chairman, Gerard Eadie CBE, with its aim to get more young people into work in Scotland. Hand Picked works with unemployed 16-24 year olds, giving them a real insight into what employer expectations are in the work place and connects them to suitable paid jobs.\nIt\u2019s a straight-talking, no nonsense programme and is delivered by employers. It is effective and gives young people the chance to look for and gain employment, as well as develop the required skills that will see them through their working lives.\nIt\u2019s backed by a network of employers throughout Scotland who provide the young people with a paid three month job, a reference and support to find their next role.\nSometimes, young people have lost their way in life, haven\u2019t got the exam results they needed, or simply just do not know what they need to do in order to secure a job.\nIt\u2019s not their fault, but if employers can come together and lend a helping hand, we can get them on the path to a brighter future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/41045-The-Pharmaceutical-Industry-Advocates-for-Even-Greater-Collaboration-as-Critical-to-Future-Global-Health-Progress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:65LYEBUJGHZCYGR5HMZT7UFNHK5FB46S", "length": 5294, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.csrwire.com", "title": "The Pharmaceutical Industry Advocates for Even Greater Collaboration as Critical to Future Global Health Progress \u2013 Press Releases on CSRwire.com", "raw_content": "The Pharmaceutical Industry Advocates for Even Greater Collaboration as Critical to Future Global Health Progress\nSubmitted by: International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations\nCategories: Economic Development, Research, Reports & Publications\n50 years of Global Health Progress\nGENEVA, May 22 /CSRwire/ - IFPMA launches today \u201c50 Years of Global Health Progress\u201d. The report traces global health progress over the past 50 years and the pioneering collaborative role the research-based biopharmaceutical industry has played not only to deliver prevention and treatment, but to strengthen health systems around the world. The report reviews some of the research-based biopharmaceutical industry\u2019s major scientific advances, as well as acknowledging challenges the industry faces and areas of unfinished business. The industry\u2019s track record of partnerships over recent decades demonstrates what can be achieved by uniting governments, civil society and business. The report concludes with a commitment to continue to innovate and partner with a shared goal to deliver better health for everyone, everywhere.\nAdvances in both prevention and treatment of disease have transformed healthcare. Vaccines are widely recognized as the simplest, most cost-effective way to save lives. HIV/AIDS, once fatal, can now be treated as can many cancers. Cardiovascular disease sufferers benefit from simple-one-a-day solutions. We can now cure Hepatitis C. We have an experimental vaccine for Ebola. \u201cOver the past 50 years, we have witnessed a tremendous advancement of healthcare globally. Much of this progress is due to improved access to medical services and to the discovery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines and vaccines that have extended and improved the quality of life for millions of people,\u201d says Ian Read, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer and IFPMA President.\nThe industry joined the earliest global health partnerships such as, in the 1970s, the Expanded Program on Immunization and, in the 1980s, the polio eradication and smallpox initiatives. These have been followed by partnerships as diverse as DNDi, MMV, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, MPP, and, more recently, CEPI and Access Accelerated. \u201cWhile the biopharmaceutical industry has been a key player in this progress, none of it would have been accomplished without partnerships. From patient advocates to our biotech and academic partners to individual governments, innovation is only as impactful as the partnerships that support it,\u201d added Ian Read.\nPartnerships are now the norm and the Sustainable Developments Goals serve to galvanize greater collaboration to confront new and remaining challenges as many people still lack access to essential health services, such as family planning, child immunization, antiretroviral therapy to combat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis treatment, clean water and sanitation. Health systems struggle to respond effectively to burgeoning rates of non-communicable diseases; too many people still die prematurely from preventable diseases.\n\u201cDespite tremendous progress much more needs to be done to bring the fruits of our innovation to all. The research-based biopharmaceutical industry has learned that global health is about much more than medicines and vaccines \u2013 it requires building and supporting strong health systems, delivering education to communities to promote prevention, strengthening standards and regulations and creating innovative finance models. We will continue to evolve, learn and pioneer ways to do more to reach all patients. To do this we\u2019ll need partnerships of all kinds to take on the challenges of Universal Health coverage (UHC). We need to continue to build bridges between key actors across the health system. More dialogue and action are musts\u201d says IFPMA Director General, Thomas Cueni.\nOn the occasion of the 71st World Health Assembly and to celebrate its 50-year anniversary, IFPMA is hosting an event on 23rd May in Geneva and will feature a top-level panel to discuss priorities in delivering better health for everyone, everywhere.\nIFPMA represents the research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations across the globe. The research-based pharmaceutical industry\u2019s 2 million employees discover, develop, and deliver medicines and vaccines that improve the life of patients worldwide. Based in Geneva, IFPMA has official relations with the United Nations and contributes industry expertise to help the global health community find solutions that improve global health.\nMorgane De Pol Manager Communications & Public Affairs\nTwitter: @MorganePol\nMelanie Yammine\nInternational Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations\nThe International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) represents research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations across the globe. Based in Geneva, IFPMA has official relations with the United Nations an...\nThe R&D-based Biopharmaceutical Industry Welcomes the UN Declaration on NCDs and Calls for Innovative Financing Models and Multi-sectoral Collaboration\nR&D-based Biopharmaceutical Industry Welcomes UN Declaration on TB\nWIPO and IFPMA Launch New Online Patent-Search Resource to Help Health Agencies Procure Medicines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ctkspencer.net/parish-blog/sister-lucia-of-fatima-takes-step-toward-beatification", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DVCLKTSNRB7PA4KB6DXIOOUTIBU7MGU6", "length": 1952, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ctkspencer.net", "title": "Sister Lucia of Fatima Takes Step Toward Beatification", "raw_content": "Sister Lucia of Fatima Takes Step Toward Beatification\nCardinal Dolan And Archbishop Lori To Congress: Support The Conscience Protection Act Of 2017 - WASHINGTON\u2014Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and Archbishop William E. Lori \u2013 as chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities and Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, respectively \u2013 wrote to both Houses of the United States Congress on February 8, urging support for the Conscience Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 644, S. 301). The Conscience Protection Act, they wrote, is \"essential legislation protecting the fundamental rights of health care providers\u2026to ensure that those providing much-needed health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government to help destroy innocent unborn children.\"....Read More\nPope meets representatives of indigenous peoples - (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with a group representing indigenous peoples ahead of his Wednesday General Audience, speaking to them about the need to \"reconcile the right to development, both social and cultural, with the protection of the particular characteristics of indigenous peoples and their territories\".....Read More\nSister Lucia of Fatima Takes Step Toward Beatification - Just in time for the 100th Anniversary of Fatima, the diocesan phase of the canonization process for Sister Lucia, one of the three seers who saw and conversed with Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima, came to an official close on Feb. 13. The announcement came from the Shrine at Fatima in Portugal and the Diocese of Coimbra where her cause began on April 30, 2008. The date also marked the 11th anniversary of Sister Lucia\u2019s death. The first part of her canonization cause began in 2008, just three years after she died, thanks to the dispensation granted by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. (The Church normally requires a five-year waiting period before a cause can be opened.)...Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 149.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.darkhorizons.com/mummy-to-lose-95m-as-kurtzman-talks-critics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SFINJ45V2YFSR6NDQPVG2SGFFRJK2KMQ", "length": 2356, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.darkhorizons.com", "title": "\"Mummy\" To Lose $95M As Kurtzman Talks Critics - Dark Horizons", "raw_content": "\u201cMummy\u201d To Lose $95M As Kurtzman Talks Critics\nTalking with several film finance sources, Deadline reports that the Tom Cruise-led \u201cThe Mummy\u201d reboot stands to lose an estimated $95 million off of a final estimated global box office tally of $375 million ($75M domestic, $300M overseas).\nThe film was the biggest global opening ever for Cruise at $169 million, but the number fell to $53 million in its second weekend and negative costs were high \u2013 a $195 million production cost and a further $150 million in distribution/ad expenses \u2013 totalling $345 million.\nWhen you factor in estimated home rental revenue and take out the global exhibitors cut of the gross box-office revenue, the film is decidedly in the red (analysts say the film has to reach $450 million to break even) and won\u2019t be helped by the opening this week worldwide of \u201cTransformers: The Last Knight\u201d which is expected to severely undercut the Mummy\u2019s future box-office.\nA big factor is that the film is one of the worst reviewed blockbusters of not just this summer but also Cruise\u2019s career, but the film\u2019s director Alex Kurtzman says audiences liking it is all that matters. He tells Business Insider:\n\u201cThis is a movie that I think is made for audiences and in my experience, critics and audiences don\u2019t always sing the same song. I\u2019m not making movies. Would I love them to love it? Of course, everybody would, but that\u2019s not really the endgame. We made a film for audiences and not critics so my great hope is they will find it and they will appreciate it.\u201d\nKurtzman does add that the negative reaction \u201ckills your soul\u201d a little bit after spending so long working on a film. \u201cThe Mummy\u201d boasts the worst reviews of Kurtzman\u2019s career to date, one that has included five well to very well reviewed films (\u201cStar Trek,\u201d \u201cStar Trek Into Darkness,\u201d \u201cMission Impossible 3,\u201d \u201cEnder\u2019s Game,\u201d \u201cTransformers\u201d), numerous well reviewed TV shows (\u201cFringe,\u201d \u201cSleepy Hollow,\u201d \u201cScorpion,\u201d \u201cMatador,\u201d \u201cAlias,\u201d \u201cVan Helsing\u201d), and eleven widely panned films (\u201cThe Mummy,\u2019 \u201cTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen,\u201d \u201cThe Legend of Zorro,\u201d \u201cEagle Eye,\u201d \u201cThe Island,\u201d \u201cThe Proposal,\u201d \u201cCowboys and Aliens,\u2019 \u201cPeople Like Us,\u201d \u201cNow You See Me,\u201d \u201cNow You See Me 2,\u201d \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2\u201d).\nPrevious articleFirst Trailer: \u201cThank You for Your Service\u201d\nNext articleFeig, Lively Team On Thriller \u201cA Simple Favor\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dcooley.com/info/highway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:39Z", "digest": "sha1:LW3LKVLGDFFPK5LIGISL5ZV4ZVIRVAOG", "length": 299, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dcooley.com", "title": "Highway Tags | Ramble On", "raw_content": "I think we need to work on Traffic Control on our roadways in this country. Everyone who drives should be required to read a book like this! If the states would tighten up a little on giving out a drivers license maybe we could all save ourselves some grief and Auto Insurance Premiums. Maybe we [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathbyramen.com/category/graphic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:06Z", "digest": "sha1:NERLP4CUQOD3PQKHAB6HLY2CYKT65OHO", "length": 458, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.deathbyramen.com", "title": "Graphic | Death By Ramen", "raw_content": "Archive for the graphic Category\nNew Print by Rafa Jenn \u2013 Dear Andy\nA beautiful limited print entitled \u201cDear Andy\u201d by Rafa Jenn. [...]\nSimple Yet Effective Book Cover Design\nBeautiful book cover design for Edward Fenton\u2019s Fierce John. [...]\nAmazing illustrations by Gianluca Fallone. [...]\nJay-Z \u2013 The Blueprint 3 Cover Art\nFiled Under: graphic on August 6, 2009\nCover art for Jay-Z\u2019s new album The Blueprint 3. Stated to release on September 11, 2009. 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Beware that spending long time at such workplace can hamper your brain function, leading to a decline in reasoning, memory, attention and language capabilities.\nAccording to researchers from the Florida State University, both lack of stimulation in the workplace and dirty working environment can have a long-term cognitive effect on employees.\n\u201cPsychologists say that the brain is a muscle, while industrial hygienists point to chemicals in the work environment that may cause decline,\u201d said lead researcher Joseph Grzywacz, the Norejane Hendrickson Professor of family and child sciences.\n\u201cThere are real things in the workplace that can shape cognitive function: some that you can see or touch, and others you can\u2019t. We showed that both matter to cognitive health in adulthood,\u201d he explained.\nGrzywacz and his team obtained cognitive function data from working adults participating in the \u201cMidlife in the United States\u201d study.\nTheir results had two major takeaways: One was that greater occupational complexity \u2014 that is the learning of new skills and taking on new challenges \u2014 resulted in stronger cognitive performance particularly for women as they aged.\nThe second result was that men and women who had jobs that exposed them to a dirty working environment saw a cognitive decline.\n\u201cBoth of these issues are important when we think about the long-term health of men and women,\u201d Grzywacz added.\nThe team analysed the data to examine individuals\u2019 workplaces and their ability to maintain and later use information they learned.\nThey also looked at their executive functioning skills such as their ability to complete tasks, manage time and pay attention.\nAdditionally, the data included responses from participants asking them about any memory issues they were experiencing.\n\u201cThe practical issue here is cognitive decline associated with ageing and the thought of, \u2018if you don\u2019t use it, you lose it,'\u201d Grzywacz said.\n\u201cDesigning jobs to ensure that all workers have some decision making ability may protect cognitive function later in life, but it\u2019s also about cleaning up the workplace,\u201d he noted.\nThe data included 4,963 adults ages 32 to 84 from the 48 contiguous states. The sample was 47 per cent male and 53 per cent female.\nThe study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, is significant because it showed both can play an important role in long-term cognitive well-being.\nSource: Newsx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.duesouthbrewing.com/category/trench-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:5RY6GGMZ6ZP47PMFJ5C35KVYCOKCZEPN", "length": 682, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.duesouthbrewing.com", "title": "Trench Day \u2013 Due South Brewing Co.", "raw_content": "Category: Trench Day\nTrench Day 2017 Tap List\nTrench Day is fast approaching (January 21 if you were unaware, and tickets can be found through this link), and it\u2019s with great pleasure that we are able to share with you our list of beers that we are planning on having on draft the day of the event. Our annual festival celebrates the release [\u2026]\nTrench Day Date Announced For 2017\nTrench Day 2017 will be Saturday, January 21st 2017 from 3 p.m. \u2013 6 p.m. in the Due South Brewing Co. taproom. To make this day as special as the gold medal winning beer it celebrates, the event will feature unlimited samples of exceptional, hard to find beers in an intimate setting. 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It is best that you pick a local humane pest control so that it can be convenient for you to go for your appointments without having to drive for many hours. In addition, it is easy to find a reliable Youngs Pest Control through word of mouth. Therefore, ensure that you ask from your family members whether they would choose the same pest control service provider again in the future. In addition, there are many pest control service provider and hence you can be sure that you will find the one that you will be comfortable with.\nIt is not wise to choose the cheapest service providers since you are likely to get less quality services that will disappoint you. Find out about the Youngs Pest Control methods of getting rid of pests as well as the kind of pests that they are well knowledgeable about and whether they are ready to listen to your ideas. You should not pick just any Youngs Pest Control that you find without being sure about their quality of services that you will receive. Also, you should ask about former projects so that you can determine the type of services that you should anticipate. You should not be afraid to ask numerous questions since that is the only way to find the most suitable Youngs Pest Control for you. Ask for references so that you can confirm the kind of services that you will receive. Therefore, you should make sure that you consider the customer service of the Youngs Pest Control that you want to pick.\nYou should not do your research in a hurry and instead make sure that you take your time so that you can avoid being disappointed. Find time to meet personally with your potential pest control companies so that you can determine their personalities. Ensure that you check whether the licenses are valid and genuine. There are many pest control service provider and hence you can be sure that you will find the right one for you. Another essential consideration is the reputation of the professional that you want to hire. You should read the online comments of your prospective pest control service provider so that you can learn more about their reputations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.earshot-online.com/features/2015/January/bestalbumsof2014.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ER7RIYKNWRW5ILNVWLGF3SJEG5IZ3MEQ", "length": 21234, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "www.earshot-online.com", "title": "The Best Albums of 2014 - January 2015 #bestof2014 : !earshot : features", "raw_content": "Alvvays is turning up on a lot if Best of lists this year\nSometimes you've got to dig a little deeper to find some of the special treats offered by the year in music.\nWe polled some of our regular contributors and programmers from across the country to get an individual perspective on some of the best albums of 2014. These folks have listened to a lot of records this year. Here is what stands out.\nShelley Gummeson - Jazz on the Rocks\nShelley has been broadcasting for 11 years as host of Jazz on the Rocks. The show is a seamless mix of jazz, funk and soul, as Shelley says, \u201cPurely for your listening pleasure\u201d.\nAn experienced interviewer she introduces the artist\u2019s story and music to the listener through recorded, fully produced artist showcases and as a contributing !earshot writer. You can read her album reviews on !earshot as well.\nJazz on the Rocks, Friday 5 \u2013 7 p.m. CFBX \u2013 92.5 The X Kamloops BC\nFor more information and to listen to the show visit the website at www.jazzontherocks.ca\nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/jazzontherocksradio?ref=hl\nTwitter - https://twitter.com/Jazzcat925\n2014 was an especially fruitful year for Canadian female artists. These top three artists though stylistically different have a common thread. They have taken bold steps and produced some very personal and intimate recordings. By challenging themselves artistically, Frazey Ford, Elizabeth Shepherd and Jaclyn Guillou have reached well beyond anything they\u2019ve done previously. The result is beautifully expressive music, a solid connection to their listening audience and industry accolades. Frazey, Elizabeth and Jaclyn are strong voices on the Canadian music scene and are women to listen for in the coming years.\nElizabeth Shepherd (http://elizabethshepherd.com/home https://twitter.com/eshepherdmusic)\nLinus Entertaiment\nElizabeth Shepherd has pushed her creativity to new heights with her fourth album The Signal. She has brought to life her exploration of female archetypes, motherhood, societal conscience and relationships in a layered modern soundscape that bears repeated listening. Her voice floats over sinuous grooves and an exotic flair provided by guitarist Lionel Loueke. The Signal is clearly Shepherd\u2019s boldest recording yet and is a standard bearer in the excellence of Canadian music.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHD7txRZK_g\nFrazey Ford (http://www.frazeyford.com http://twitter.com/FrazeyFord )\nIndian Ocean Nettwerk\nFrazey Ford said she was nervous when she went to Memphis to record with the legendary Hi Rhythm Section. Whether it was nerves or the intangible energy permeating The Royal Studios or The Hodges brothers, it fuelled something latent in the singer/songwriter. Never has Frazey Ford been more clear, expressive and personal in her songwriting and singing. She opened herself up to new possibilities, reached outside her comfort zone, and followed her instincts. Indian Ocean is a beautifully conceived album that brings together the story telling of folk and the emotional rhythm of soul.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2yzP1LfhFk\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GwAE1UatCg\nJaclyn Guillou (http://www.jaclynguillou.com https://twitter.com/jaclynguillou)\nWinter For Beginners Cellar Live\nVancouver\u2019s Jaclyn Guillou has quietly been honing her singing, songwriting and producing abilities over the years. She\u2019s followed her instincts and has brought everything to the table in her album Winter For Beginners. The album is wonderfully expressed with Jaclyn\u2019s unique phrasing and perfectly framed by pianist Bruno Hubert, guitarist David Blake, bassist James Meger and the drums of Andrew Millar. Special guests Peggy Lee, (cellist), Neelamjit Dhillon, (tabla) and Brad Turner, (trumpeter/producer) add points of interest throughout. This contemporary jazz album explores the seasons and peoples relationship within those seasons. Jaclyn Guillou has toured and recorded in Europe but still retains a west coast cachet. She one of Canada\u2019s best-kept secrets but after Winter For Beginners, that\u2019s about to change.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyKIY0lijsU\nBrian Cleveland, Station Manager at Local 107.3 FM in Saint John, NB, and host of The Mixed Tape and !earshot 20. The Mixed Tape is a show I\u2019ve been hosting since 2005 and has had multiple different formats (lengths, co-hosts, etc.), but generally with a focus on independent Canadian musicians. The present show is a weekly syndicated one-hour program featuring 100% new emerging Canadian music.\n!earshot 20 is a syndicated show I have co-hosted with Anthony Enman since May 2012 that airs on over 20 community radio stations across Canada. The show features the 20 most played records across Canada on community radio every week (based on the !earshot charts), feature interviews, music news from Exclaim!, and much more. We just produced our final episode of 2014, which is our 134th episode overall. We are always looking for new emerging artists to feature. Please drop us a line. Our twitter handle is @earshot20 and we can also be reached at earshot20@gmail.com\nFocusing on Canadian albums, my favourites are:\nAlvvays \u2013 Alvvays - (Polyvinyl): A very strong debut of lo-fi indie pop songs with Chad VanGaalen\u2019s fingerprints all over it. Very few Canadian musicians had such an upward trajectory in 2014 (maybe Tanya Tagaq?) from relative obscurity to the top of many \u201cBest Of\u201d lists. Can\u2019t wait to see what they\u2019ve got up their sleeves next.\nBadBadNotGood \u2013 III \u2013 (Innovative Leisure): The Toronto instrumental jazz/hip-hop trio show what they can do with completely original material. 2015 has much in store with a new collaborative album to be released in February with Ghostface Killah.\nMac DeMarco \u2013 Salad Days \u2013 (Captured Tracks): Canadian\u2019s prince jester of jangle pop/surf rock keeps his goofball nature while shifting a little higher in fidelity on his second LP.\nOwen Maxwell - Theme Songs\nI\u2019m Owen Maxwell, I host a show called Theme Songs on 93.1 CKCU in Ottawa every Monday at 10am. We pick a theme each week and with my two co-hosts, Mike and Erik, select a handful of songs for each theme as well as a Tv or Movie theme song to start the show.\nI personally am a musician first and journalist second, but love to entertain either way. I play bass, guitar, drums, synth, baritone, ukulele and sing, so I really appreciate good technicality. I also write about music a lot in my blog as well as do album and show reviews, with interviews as well.\nOur show is at https://www.facebook.com/ThemeSongsCKCU\nMy blog is at http://owenssound.wordpress.com/\nMy twitter is at @owenmaxwelll\nAlvvays \u2013 Alvvays \u2013 (Royal Mountain)\nThis amazing debut is from Canada\u2019s answer to Best Coast. They craft surf pop with a dark feel and more synth to add a fullness to the sound. Topped with Molly Rankin\u2019s heartmelting vocals it\u2019s a killer record.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/ALVVAYS\nEx Hex \u2013 Rips \u2013 (Lookout! Records)\nProbably the most effortless sounding record of the year. Mary Timony crafts the best music of her career from the ruins of Wild Flag, which sounds like a Riot Grrrl and Ramones tinged version of the cars. It\u2019s both and new and every song works. Perfect record.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/EX-HEX/174274669425857\nOlivia Jean \u2013 Bathtub Love Killings \u2013 (Third Man Records)\nDespite a personal obsession with all things Jack White, this record ended up appealing to my interests more than Lazaretto. While definitely maintaining the feel of her old group The Black Belles which already had tinges of White\u2019s style the album surpasses White\u2019s current release overall and feels like it could fit in the canon of White Stripes and Dead Weather better than White\u2019s own recent records.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/oliviajeanmusic\nAlan Ranta \u2013 Exclaim, Georgia Straight\nAlan Ranta, music critic for Exclaim and the Georgia Straight. Tweets at @alanranta.\nMy Top 3 records of the year and why (you can make your list longer if you like | please include Artist/Title/Label)\nThe Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (Hope Street Recordings)\nThis is the zaniest surf/spy/Bollywood soundtrack psych-pop throwback album ever to come out of Melbourne, Australia.\nJane Weaver - The Silver Globe (Bird Records)\nAndy Votel won't shut up about how great the sixth solo album by Bird Records boss Jane Weaver is. He has exceptionally good taste.\nHomeboy Sandman - Hallways (Stones Throw)\nHomeboy Sandman is an old school hip-hop emcee, dropping socially positive rhymes over warmly sampled beats. He's funny, but he also makes you think.\nTara King th. & Halasan Bazar - 8 (Moon Glyph)\nPraise be to the musical gods for inspiring Moon Glyph boss Steve Rosborough to bring Tara King th. and Halasan Bazar together to create this tripped-out psychedelic baroque pop masterpiece.\nHari Kondabolu - Waiting for 2042 (Kill Rock Stars)\nIn a world without Bill Hicks and George Carlin, Kondabolu's debut album of socio-political stand-up could not be more essential.\nInterrobang \u2013 Interrobang After Dark\nI'm Interrobang from CICK in Smithers, BC. I host two shows, Interrobang and Interrobang After Dark. The first is on from 9:30-12 PST Tuesday mornings. I interpret books--both classic and contemporary--by orchestrating a soundtrack of music to fit the mood and guide specific moments of the book. It's a weird combination, hence the name: an interrobang is a combination of the interrogative (also known as the question mark) and the bang, or exclamation point. The After Dark show airs from 9-11 Wednesday evenings. It's a themed segment that features music from a variety of genres, including punk, electro, avant garde, noise, pop, lofi, hip hop, and lots more, all selected to fit the general theme of the evening, which can be anything from \"Snow\" to \"Sleeping in Strange Places\". I'm also the editor of CICK's 'zine, [sic], and a member of an art-rock band, Richard Gear. You can find me at https://www.facebook.com/CICKinterrobang.\nCaribou Our Love (Merge)\nThe culmination of an already-prestigious career in music, Dan Snaith's latest neatly combines his psychedelic experiments with live instrumentation and his dancefloor pleasing electronica. Equally at home in a club or in the headphones, Our Love is soulful, joyful, and hypnotic, an album that feels like the sonic equivalent of a warm hug.\nThee Oh Sees Drop (Castle Face)\nTalk about freakin' prolific. I thought Thee Oh Sees had broken up or were on hiatus or something but then out of nowhere they released this album in April. It's exactly what you'd expect: super psychedelic, gritty, edgy, raucous, but with someone who knows what they're doing mixing levels and making sonic sense of the aural artistic experimentation the band is known for.\nOught Today More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)\nThere's nothing more energizing than exciting new music and when Ought dropped this one on us, I got more than a little excited. Steeped in the Montreal student protests, the album explores a bunch of different styles of music and some weighty subject matter. What eventually emerges is uniquely theirs. There's a lot of raw honesty on this album and the edginess of a band bursting onto the music scene. It'll be interesting to see how they develop over the next couple of years.\nGlen Ess - Rhythm & Rhyme\nRhythmRhymeCIVL\nHi! I\u2019m Glen Swarnadhipathi (but you can just call me Glen Ess) of CIVL 101.7FM based in Abbotsford, British Columbia. I host Rhythm & Rhyme every Tuesday morning from 11 to 12. Rhythm & Rhyme primarily plays offshoot genres of Jazz and Blues music, as in, music that was based off of these two, such as early Rock n\u2019 Roll, Swing, Soul, Blues Rock and so on. We also play modern or remixed versions of music that falls under these genres, such as Nu-jazz and electro-swing. In addition to those genre\u2019s played on Rhythm & Rhyme I am an avid fan of pretty much all different kinds of music, with very few exceptions. Because of this my involvement with CIVL 101.7 has been incredibly enjoyable as CIVL embraces and enjoys having a very diverse variety of music on air \u2013 as I type this our K-pop show (Daebak Radio hosted by Robyn on Friday afternoons from 3-4) is just wrapping up; and it is incredibly fun to listen to.\nMogwai \u2013 Rave Tapes - (Sub Pop)\nMogwai have certainly undergone a transition since I started listening to them, my first two Mogwai albums were Mr. Beast (2006) and The Hawk is Howling (2008) and I still absolutely cherish them while also respecting the bands work prior to that. However the sound they started with and the sound I started listening to have completely changed and this evolution is wonderfully accomplished. Rave Tapes is electrically charged and is completely unlike any other Mogwai album. My favorite tracks were \u201cRemurdered\u201d which followed the bands usually pattern of building towards a massive, droning climax, just with a techno vibe instead of the screaming guitars they usually use; and my next favorite track was \u201cNo Medicine For Regret\u201d, a melancholy track that\u2019s soft, subtle and somehow just as characteristic of Mogwai as their patented apocalyptic guitar sounds.\nThe Twilight Sad \u2013 Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave \u2013 (Fat Cat)\nhttp://www.thetwilightsad.com\nAnother Scottish Indie Band! Just like Mogwai but completely different! This year\u2019s album from the Twilight Sad is a reverb-y, echo-y beauty rounded off wonderfully by James Graham\u2019s vocals. It\u2019s refreshing to hear a singer using their natural accent. The album itself is consistently brilliant with practically no disappointing moments at all. A good thing too, because last year there were scary rumors floating about that the band would be calling it quits after this release, thankfully the incredibly quality and success seems to have refreshed the band and given them a renewed sense of purpose. Yay!\nFavorite tracks: \u201cI Could Give You All That You Don\u2019t Want\u201d and \u201cDrown So I Can Watch\u201d\nJessica Hernandez & The Deltas \u2013 Secret Evil \u2013 (Instant Records)\nhttp://jessicahernandez.net/\nThis is definitely my favorite debut album of the year; a record with a retro feel to it while also having a massive amount of variation from track to track. Instrumentally The Deltas provide the record with a firm base, with plenty of flourishes to catch the eye (or in this case, the ear). But the standout feature of Secret Evil is definitely Jessica Hernandez\u2019 vocals, a powerful singer with a large range and capable of alternating from a hard-nosed aggressive style to a ridiculously happy tone that can only be described as reaching \u201can ice cream on a sunny summer day\u201d levels of optimism. The standout tracks from a very impressive debut are \u201cDead Brains\u201d and \u201cCaught Up\u201d and while those two are a cut above the rest, the album as a whole is a very solid effort.\nEsben & The Witch \u2013 A New Nature \u2013 (Nostromo)\nhttp://esbenandthewitch.co.uk/\nDrone-y, mesmeric, dripping with a sense of foreboding? Check. The third album from Brit band is a more stripped down and minimal affair than their previous two records but they pull it off beautifully. It\u2019s not a record that\u2019ll get your blood pumping but it\u2019s certainly going to evoke thoughts and ideas. Rachel Davies\u2019 vocals dredge up all sorts of feelings, coupled with measured yet powerful drumming, and guitar\u2019s that switch from slow and sludge-y to a harsh roar at the drop of a hat; this record will send shivers down the spine. Definitely check out \u201cDig Your Fingers In\u201d and \u201cBlood Teachings\u201d\nFuture Islands \u2013 Singles \u2013 (4AD)\nIn complete contrast to the previous entry, this synth-pop record is up-tempo, energetic and surprisingly rowdy. Samuel Herring\u2019s husky voice is a strong tool that they used marvelously, probably best demonstrated during their bombastic TV debut on Letterman. The record drips with a saccharine sense of wonder with keyboards and synths being used with stunning effect and Herring\u2019s vocals provided an endearing rough touch to the record, preventing it from being too sugary-sweet and elevating it into one of the year\u2019s most charismatic and entertaining albums. Check out \u201cSeasons (Waiting On You)\u201d which was the aforementioned Letterman Show masterpiece and \u201cLight House\u201d.\nSt. Vincent \u2013 St. Vincent - (Loma Vista)\nhttp://ilovestvincent.com/\nAnnie Clark is a guitar virtuoso. Under her expert control the guitar churns out sounds that don\u2019t exactly seem possible. Performing as St. Vincent, this self-titled album is fun, just pure fun, to listen to. It\u2019s vibrant and strong and it Clark brings it all together into a thrilling listening experience. Simply a cut above the rest of 2014\u2019s releases, this is by far my favorite record of the year. I actually can\u2019t decide on two favorite songs here so I\u2019ll close my eyes and blindly pick\u2026 \u201cPsychopath\u201d and \u201cDigital Witness\u201d.\nMy name is Max Szyc, and I\u2019m a Carleton journalism student hailing from Ottawa. When I\u2019m not drowning in a sea of endless school assignments, I\u2019m often listening to music, reading about music and bugging anyone I know to accompany me to whatever cool punk/metal/indie show is going down. I have a twitter handle \u2013 @maxszyc \u2013 but I rarely use it. When online, you\u2019re more likely to find me combing music news sites, as well as blogs to find the latest bands that will make my ears bleed (in a good way). Feel free to check out my page, https://rateyourmusic.com/~Jaxijin, where I obsessively update an upcoming album list, among other things.\nShellac \u2013 Dude Incredible \u2013 (Touch and Go)\nSteve Albini\u2019s alt-rock trio has long established themselves as a ragged band who play by their rules and no one else\u2019s. Heck, bassist Bob Weston advertised their long-awaited fifth LP by saying \u201cit sounds like a Shellac record.\u201d The group\u2019s modest attitude is refreshing in a musical climate dominated by endless hype, and especially appreciated considering just how damn good Dude Incredible is. With nine hard rocking, no-bullshit tracks, Shellac\u2019s latest outing reveals a consistent band that show no sign of weakening their aural assault anytime soon.\nWebsite: http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=22\nGodflesh \u2013 A World Lit Only by Fire \u2013 (Avalanche)\nIn an era where just about any band can suddenly reunite, few caught my attention like the return of Birmingham industrial metallers Godflesh. After a decade spent producing relatively light-hearted music in shoegaze outfit Jesu, singer/guitarist Justin K. Broadrick disproved all naysayers by bringing back the guttural screams and throbbing guitar riffs that were once his calling card. Simply put, no metal album this year managed to be as atmospheric and dense as Godflesh\u2019s first outing in 13 years. Keep the noise coming, guys.\nWebsite: https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/jkbroadrick\nPianos Become the Teeth \u2013 Keep You \u2013 (Epitaph)\nSome bands don\u2019t need distorted guitars or screamed vocals in order to be heavy; they can instead get you via intensive emotional kicks to the stomach. No record this year exemplified this mantra better than Pianos Become the Teeth did on their third album, which sees the ex-screamo act trading aggression for of melodic, gut-wrenching alternative rock. From the opening notes of \u201cRipple Water Shine\u201d to the cathartic release on finale \u201cSay Nothing\u201d, you can\u2019t help but be enticed by singer Kyle Durfey\u2019s emotional musings.\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/pianosbecometheteeth\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/pianosband\nMitch Jackson \u2013 National Hum\nMy name is Mitch Jackson and I am a student at Carleton University studying communications, public policy and economics. I host a show called National Hum which broadcasts on CKCU in Ottawa every Tuesday from 2-3PM. The show aims to play and promote underground Canadian artists \u2013 with a special focus on the Ottawa area \u2013 who play and produce unconventional, noisy, trippy, raw and rough music. The show can be followed on twitter at @NationalHumCKCU. I also play guitar in a band called Crack Mansions.\nSolids \u2013 Blame Confusion \u2013 (Dine Alone Records)\nThere seems to be something inherently earth shattering about two pieces, and this record adds to that theory with blistering songs that showcase the group\u2019s hardcore past while pulling on the fuzzed out melodies of hazy 90s guitar rock. I played this record almost every day in the summer while I was driving at my job and saw them live two times where the songs somehow became even bigger.\nOught \u2013 More Than Any Other Day \u2013 (Constellation)\nThis record sounds like some kind of mental breakdown, with the yelping, frantic vocals and the off-kilter guitars. The rhythm section is sort of holding it all together, going along and instigating the loud/soft, slow/fast changes that make this album something that you can\u2019t really stop paying attention to.\nHomeshake \u2013 In the Shower \u2013 (Sinderlyn)\nIt was just a matter of time before Peter Sagar left the Mac Demarco band in pursuit of his solo endeavor with all of the gushing over the Homeshake Tape. The full length is everything that was expected and more. Funky, smooth, chill, whatever. It\u2019s a sexy record for sure, but if you\u2019re anything like me you would prefer it as pretty choice cooking music. 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Sunday School teachers, shepherds, youth leaders and assistants are specifically encouraged to attend this informative program. Anyone interested in safeguarding our children and youth is invited and welcome to attend. A registration and intention to attend is required so materials can be provided for everyone. A $10 donation is suggested to cover the cost of materials. Our CE program budget will cover the cost of materials for our teachers and shepherds if needed. RSVP your registration to Susie Ferguson.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eccosonline.co.uk/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:22Z", "digest": "sha1:BHHCB7PRGERJTC6DHWHCZPBMJZWVQ4RT", "length": 1920, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eccosonline.co.uk", "title": "About us | ECCOS Online", "raw_content": "Dr Barry Cripps\nCPsychol FBPsS\nBarry Cripps is a Chartered Psychologist and Registered Psychologist consulting independently in industry, business, sport and Higher Education. His doctorate in psychology and Chartership in The BPS, qualified him in assessment, selection and recruitment, psychometric testing, coaching, learning and development in the workplace.\nBarry lectures and examines in Occupational Psychology and Human Resources to top ranking Business Schools both in UK and overseas. Barry has served as a main board Director of Training to a Test Publisher. He is currently a Verifier of test competence in The BPS and has been elected Chair of the Division of Sport and Exercise in that Society.\nBarry\u2019s practice is in Exeter, Devon, where his training facility at Kenn, will train delegates to use ECCOS.\nDr Mark Cook\nMark Cook is an Occupational Psychologist. He completed his first degree and D.Phil at Oxford University and has been a practitioner in occupational psychology and psychological assessment in the workplace since 1968.\nHe directed the standardisation of three important personality tests-California Psychological Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator and FIRO-B in the UK, and is a former director of Oxford Psychologists Press, a leading UK test publisher.\nHe has researched extensively on personnel selection and psychological testing, including psychological profiles of managers in former communist countries and healthcare workers. Mark is the author of Personnel Selection, 4th Edition, published by John Wiley and Sons in 2003. Mark Cook has retired from teaching psychology of work at Swansea University.\nDr Craig Knight\nDr Craig Knight is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, business change specialist and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Craig is also Psychological Therapist and Counsellor. He is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.efads.eu/news/eu-copyright-proposals-both-opportunities-and-challenges-for-promoting-europes-cultural-diversity-and-industrial-growth-and-jobs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XSBPUXPPVXZVR75ONUASLVQOBE4JS7YM", "length": 4476, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.efads.eu", "title": "EU copyright proposals: both opportunities and challenges for promoting Europe\u2019s cultural diversity and industrial growth and jobs | EFADs", "raw_content": "15th September 2016 Copyright, News, Press-releases\nOn 14 September, the European Commission published proposals to reform the European Union\u2019s copyright framework. This includes a proposed Regulation on online transmissions and retransmissions and revisions to the Directive on copyright, in the context of the Digital Single Market. The European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) association shares the Commission\u2019s ambition to help the audiovisual sector adapt to the digital age and welcomes some positive provisions in the proposals. At the same time, the Regulation\u2019s potential impact on the audiovisual sector\u2019s prospects for growth and on people\u2019s access to Europe\u2019s culturally diverse works is a concern.\nProposal endangers principle of territoriality\nDigital technologies are creating huge new opportunities for the creation, distribution and preservation of European audiovisual works to the benefit of people living across the European Union. The challenge however is to encourage the audiovisual sector to capitalise on these opportunities in a sustainable way which protects and advances European cultural diversity and facilitates the growth of businesses and jobs.\nThere are real concerns about the proposed Regulation and the introduction of a country of origin principle for broadcasters\u2019 ancillary online services. As Peter Dinges, President of the EFADs highlights \u201cthe proposal by the Commission has the potential to erode the principle of territoriality which is a fundamental building block of the whole ecosystem. Undermining this principle could have serious consequences not only for jobs and growth in the audiovisual sector but also for European cultural diversity.\u201d\nEFADs embrace the opportunities of the digital era\nEFADs members have been already fully committed to these objectives for years. At national level, there are several initiatives dedicated to new technologies and online distribution with the objective of increasing access to European works and developing the competitiveness of the sector. Collective actions have also been initiated, such as dedicated workshops and a dialogue with the MEDIA Unit to identify initiatives that will support the new developments while going with the grain of the sector. For a more long term reflection, a Think Tank was set up to explore what the film sector will look like in 2025 and how to support policies which would assist that evolution.\nThe copyright package contains positive proposals such as the proposed revisions to the framework governing the exceptions on illustration for teaching purposes and the preservation of cultural heritage. These are vital steps to ensure Europe\u2019s cultural legacy continues to flourish and especially to build young audiences for European content while striking a balance between stakeholders\u2019 interests. This follows equally positive proposals on portability and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive which could go some way to enhancing access to European content and creating a level playing field in Europe.\nIt is however troubling to see the Commission make a proposal, in the form of the Regulation, which is not based on market realities, has the potential to cause disruption to the audiovisual sector and could undermine cultural diversity by removing the ability to distribute works on a territorial basis. This, in turn, undermines the ability to finance works in the first place as money is usually raised on the basis of licensing the work territory-by-territory. When taken in the context of the ongoing Competition investigation into the provision of cross-border Pay-TV services, the concerns become even greater. The EFADs will work closely with the European Parliament and Council to ensure cultural and linguistic diversity continues to flourish in Europe.\nThe Association of the European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) brings together the Directors of European Film Agencies in 31 countries in Europe (EU, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland). We represent government or government associated public bodies, in charge of national funding for the audiovisual sector and with the responsibility to advise or regulate on all aspects of audiovisual policies. In total, the EFADs members and their governments fund around three billion Euros every year through subsidies and tax reliefs with a view to fostering the creation, production, promotion, distribution, and exhibition of European audiovisual and cinematographic works.\nWeb: www.efads.eu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/4865", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5SNMOLFDNCGU7ZV5SFZV33II67VKA3ML", "length": 4654, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.ekklesia.co.uk", "title": "Ekklesia | BBC survey says Christians feel they are discriminated against", "raw_content": "Home / BBC survey says Christians feel they are discriminated against\nBBC survey says Christians feel they are discriminated against\nA new survey carried out by the BBC has revealed that 33 per cent of Christians in the UK think that the way they are portrayed in the media amounts to discrimination. And 25% said they also experienced discrimination from colleagues in the workplace when their faith was known or talked about.\nThe poll was carried out for the BBC\u2019s Heaven and Earth programme, based on a representative sample of 604 people. Another 22% said they thought Christians faced discrimination in their local community. 19 per cent said they would be passed over for promotion. A third thought the media distorted Christian issues.\nMatters like the British Airways prohibition on costume jewellery, which prevented an employee from wearing a cross, and suspicion towards Christian service organizations by funding bodies, were cited as examples.\nConservative MP Anne Widdecombe, an Anglican who became a Catholic, said: \u201cIt\u2019s now entirely a matter for Christians whether we fight back or take it. My own belief is that we should stand together and fight this discrimination.\u201d\nBut the UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia, which said that the findings confirmed the discoveries of its own research over the past four years, argued that \u201cretreating into a persecution mentality\u201d is bad for Christianity and bad for society.\n\u201cChristians are also privileged \u2013 for example there are 26 unelected bishops in the house of Lords, and a quarter of state-funded primary schools are run by churches selecting on the basis of people's faith\u201d, said Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley on The Heaven and Earth Show this morning.\nHe also said that when Muslims and Jews faced attacks and desecration of their cemeteries, talk of \u201cpersecution\u201d needed to be put into context.\n\u201cThe reason a sizable minority of Christians, especially more conservative ones, are feeling \u2018got at\u2019 is because the historic privilege and influence of the churches is being eroded in the public sphere\u201d commented Ekklesia co-director Simon Barrow after the show.\n\u201cBut this demonstrates how easy it has been, during the era of Christendom, for Christians to mistake their own power for the gospel message \u2013 which involves Jesus embodying God\u2019s special concern for those at the margins, not demanding special treatment for religion\u201d he added.\nEkklesia argues that loss of automatic privileges, the challenges of pluralism in public life, and the criticism churches face over discrimination in schools and services is \u201ca historic opportunity for them to recover a vision of the Christian message as rooted in justice and equality. Self-interest and trying to grab power back is an unhelpful response - a counter-witness, even.\u201d\nThe think-tank has also warned about the dangers of \"the politics of competitive grievance\", where Christians, secularists, Muslims and others try to out-do each others with claims of discrimination, rather than looking at how to work together.\nA BBC researcher on the Heaven and Earth show team spoke to four other Christian agencies, which made similar claims to those demonstrated in their survey. A spokesperson for one charity in London said it was told to \u2018de-Christianize\u2019 if it had any chance of getting funding. Another was told it needed to take all mention of Christianity off its website; otherwise it was at risk of not receiving any money.\nA Reading-based Christian homeless group also complained that it was no longer able to employ only Christians. However Ekklesia\u2019s Jonathan Bartley said this was not discrimination, but equal opportunities which Christians, alongside others, were rightly expected to uphold when public money was involved.\nAnd the Anglican Bishop of Bolton, David Gillett, responded: \u201cReligion is big news these days, so people have become more conscious of faith issues. That means Christians are now finding decisions going against them in a more high-profile way. But it\u2019s a case of those issues getting more attention, rather than there being more discrimination.\u201d\nMeanwhile former PR guru Lynne Franks told the BBC's Heaven and Earth show that claims of discrimination against Christians, defended by outspoken Catholic journalist Joanna Bogle, were \"off the mark\". The National Secular Society's news monitoring service dubbed them \"crackpot\" and said Christians were \"over-privileged\".\nFull Ekklesia press release: Crying 'discrimination' harms churches' message.\nKeywords:services | public square | heaven and earth show | discrimination againt christians | discrimination | Christians | bbc survey on discrimination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elainemagalis.com/outloud-an-archive-of-lgbtq-histories/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:08Z", "digest": "sha1:62LXEF4FSCDFCC2JUVKVXAU3H6OZYWBP", "length": 2701, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.elainemagalis.com", "title": "OUTloud. An archive of LGBTQ histories | Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com OUTloud. An archive of LGBTQ histories \u2013 Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com", "raw_content": "Home \u203a old age \u203a OUTloud. An archive of LGBTQ histories\nOUTloud. An archive of LGBTQ histories\nPosted on April 23, 2014 by Elaine Magalis\tPosted in old age, the creative life\t\u2014 No Comments \u2193\nA few years ago, when I first began writing this blog, I wrote about Steven Dansky, a friend, an LGBTQ activist, writer, photographer and now\u2013\u2013more than ever\u2013\u2013an historian. Steve and his friend, John Knoebel, are working on an oral history project, OUTLoud:Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers collecting oral histories and photographs of the people who fought the battle for gay rights when it was the most painful, frightening and still\u2013\u2013on occasion\u2013\u2013the most joyful struggle imaginable. These are people who are in their late sixties, seventies and eighties now. They were young then, many of them just kids, and they lived in a frightening world where they were not only beaten by tough guys and persecuted by the legal system, but despised and ridiculed by the same people who claimed to be defending justice and building a world animated by love.\nThat\u2019s what many people forget. Our friends didn\u2019t like us\u2014or at least they didn\u2019t if they knew who we were.\nI remember reading Dorothy Day\u2019s autobiography years ago. I\u2019m talking about the Dorothy Day who founded the Catholic Worker, whose faith was so profound, she took a vow of poverty and devoted her life to the poor. The woman many people have called a saint. She and a friend were walking to Day\u2019s flat in New York City. I can\u2019t remember anything about the friend now, except that, when they reached Day\u2019s stoop, she kissed Dorothy Day. On the lips. I can imagine doing that. Day was disgusted. Deeply, heartily, morally disgusted. She left abruptly; she never spoke to her friend again.\nStill, in the face of all that\u2014despite feminists who were afraid lesbians would despoil their cause and social activists who thought an \u201cout\u201d gay person could undermine their\u2019s, despite the righteous millions who pitied them for their moral sickness and the people who found them repugnant and still do in countries like Uganda and Russia\u2014they fought for their rights. These were some of the bravest freedom fighters the world has known.\nI like looking at their faces\u2014the very beautiful faces of elderly people of great character. Steve\u2019s photos are extraordinarily fine.\nI like listening to their stories. Their stories are amazing.\nI\u2019m grateful, as I\u2019m sure many people are, for Steve\u2019s work. This is a history that must be preserved; these are people who must be remembered. You can find them at www.outloud-lgbtq.org.\n\u2039 The day I decided to write like music\nIs deceit worse than murder? \u203a\nTagged with: gay heroes, gay history, gay liberation, human rights, LGBTQ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elainemagalis.com/people-quitting-art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KNSJGRDT3C2YFEOQIRZUOTAU7GVQ6DOC", "length": 10944, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.elainemagalis.com", "title": "People quitting art | Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com People quitting art \u2013 Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com", "raw_content": "Home \u203a uncategorized \u203a People quitting art\nPeople quitting art\nPosted on August 21, 2010 by Elaine Magalis\tPosted in uncategorized\t\u2014 6 Comments \u2193\nI knew a very fine classical guitar player once \u2013 not well \u2013 who told me he was quitting because he\u2019d learned that he\u2019d never be the world\u2019s best guitarist. So sad, I thought. What about the music? What about his sheer love for the music?\nThere are many people who do art, then quit \u2014 and for a wide variety of reasons. I always favor the odd stories, like the one about my friend, Joan (who reads this blog by the way, so I hope I don\u2019t misstate any of the specifics.) She was a child prodigy on the violin with a mother who, seeing a bright future for both of them, pushed hard. But at the age of seven, Joan fell in love with a much older, rather famous violinist and decided that she would one day marry him. She labored hard, at her mother\u2019s behest and to further her own dream, and at a still tender age became a student at Julliard and a student of \u2014 well, you know who. She married the man, quit playing the violin, and had four children with him before he died at the age of 79.\nMy violin: Carlo Antonio, Testore, MIlan, 1938. Photo by pellacea. Creative Commons.\nJoan still loves music and both her later husbands were musicians. But she\u2019d achieved her goal and her own fiddling was no longer relevant. I guess.\nThen there\u2019s June, who was one of the people discovered by Don Sunseri and GRACE. I talked about GRACE in two of my earliest posts (February 24 and 25 of this year). Don\u2019s program encouraged people to do art in nursing homes, schools and community centers. He provided the tools and a lot of support and attention to people with no formal training but with vision. Their work was always unique, always intriguing.\nJune had never committed marker or brush to paper before, but in short order turned out a dozen-plus paintings, all of them interesting and some of them quite impressive. Just last night I remembered what June said when someone asked her how she knew when a painting was finished. Her heart, she said, beat faster. Or at least that\u2019s how I remember what she said. Anyway, June painted and then she quit. That was what she wanted to do, that and apparently no more. She is now 90 years old and in the hospital with one thing and another and your prayers, if you\u2019re a prayer, would be most welcome.\nOne of the most famous quitters in history was Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet, who, in his late teens, wrote poetry that profoundly influenced the world of literature. Victor Hugo called him \u201can infant Shakespeare.\u201d He stopped writing poetry at the age of 20. As far as I know, he made no memorable pronouncements about it. Given that his work was accompanied by a feverish life full of drugs and passionate sex, his surrender to a more ordered life may also have meant the end of his writing.\nMore commonly, artists stop working because they grow weary of trying to make a career happen. They may decide they\u2019re not good enough, which isn\u2019t always true. Frequently, they don\u2019t have the stomach for the marketing of their gifts. I first met Rhea when she was a student at the Manhattan School of Music. She was charming, very attractive, and sang beautifully. For years after, she continued to study and to sing at every opportunity. She worked at one job and another (rehabilitating pipe organs in Boston!), married twice, and had nearly finished raising two children before she decided to give up her ambitions for a singing career. She could sing continually, she could get better and better, but she couldn\u2019t sell herself, and that was almost as important.\nI\u2019ve quit doing art too, and not always for the most comprehensible reasons. I never quit writing although I often didn\u2019t get around to it. Another problem altogether, I think. But I did stop doing photography. I returned to an earlier state where I\u2019d been utterly unable to take a decent picture.\nFor a number of years, I actually took quite good photographs. I also started reading about photography and marveling at what its invention had meant to humanity, and admiring work by some of its best practitioners. And then I stopped, not the reading but the act of photographing. Something about turning people and places that were lively and exciting into still-lifes. Something about the distance the camera created between me and my subject. Maybe one or both of those. I don\u2019t really know. Suddenly, I was lousy at it all over again.\nCreativity is a complicated business. Writers who decide to be literary agents. Composers who grow old and weary. Poets who run out of words. Painters who make the statement they want to make, and quit. Dancers who can no longer dance.\nAs well as the many, many people who just keep doing art because it\u2019s what they need to do.\n\u2039 Stop the world. I want to get off!\nJosephine Baker again \u203a\nTagged with: arts, creativity, GRACE, painting, poetry, Rimbaud\n6 comments on \u201cPeople quitting art\u201d\nWell put, Elaine!\nDenise LaFrance says:\nIt\u2019s a sad sad thing when talented artists quit doing their art and have to treat it as a \u201chobby\u201d.\nThere comes a point in an artist\u2019s life when the artist HAS to paint\u2013it no longer becomes a \u2018choice\u2019 and those who suggest the artist simply \u201cput all that nonsense aside\u201d to get a \u2018real job\u2019 doesn\u2019t understand.\nLife as an artist is, more often than not, one where engaging in the creative process takes precedence over acquisition of funds. And yet-is it fair? No. No one said it was going to be fair or an easy journey. Artists are often taken advantage in the workforce of because opportunists see the artist as vulnerable and therefore try to score deals, to scam the artist, to try and get the artist to do work on spec, au gratis for benefits etc\u2026for \u2018exposure\u2019\u2026and I ask you, in what other career does one have to give their professional skills away? To pay some imaginary \u2018dues\u2019?\nThe problem is not with the artists. The problem is with how The (general) Public view art in particular societies. Art is not as valued here\u2013in my country for instance (Canada) and ones talent/level of skill is not honored or supported by the Government with fair and attainable funding. People often are not willing to pay for what the art is worth and dare to try and justify paying by the HOUR. Art\u2026is not something to be gaged by the hour\u2026What one pays for when they hire an artist is the skill the artist has attained through years and years of fine-tuned practice.The longer I have been painting, the faster and more skilled my paintings have become. I made more 15 years ago per piece back when I was not as skilled an artist as I do now.\nmeanwhile, the cost of living has escalated.\nThe economy has a lot to do with it but also, I believe that in this time when the economy is recovering, people have gotten into that mode of saving and just spending their money on technology rather than purchasing art.\nSkill has little to do now with whether art is purchased or not.\nOften it is who\u2019s who. Is the artist bearing a recognizable \u2018name\u2019 and is the art therefore \u2018collectable\u2019.\nThat\u2019s a big factor.\nI for one will never stop painting.\nMakes me sad when I read and hear about those who do\u2013who become disenchanted with their art to the point of QUITTING.\nBut I empathize.\nYour piece there is totally true. I have tried art for nine years and attended art college for two years. Some teachers were cruel and played mind games which made people disheartened and depressed. Because art is about expressing emotions, anger can kill creativity and leave you blank. to avoid quitting you need to rule it out as an option because it is too easy to quit otherwise.\nI have quit every day almost since I started but still do some stuff. I started off wanting to do accurate art then over the years I came to the point I hardly use a brush now just bamboo skewers and a rag. Giving up the control forces the imagination to take over and the mind with its plans to go out the window where they belong. I end up painting mostly what wants to come out. The end result is nothing I envisioned, it is a scene buried out of sight within which only switching off can access.\nI totally understand people who quit art as art has torn me up something bad. But the good news is that it only makes me so upset because I take it so very seriously. I have vowed not to take it seriously for to do so will see me burn everything I have ever done such is my seriousness.\nThanks for your comments they are very helpful and good luck to anyone who reads this and remember that in forty years time you will regret more what you never did than what you did.\nI quit art (with an intention that I would re-start again) after my senior thesis review at pratt. I had had an amazing show, professors encouraging me to apply to Yale. My art was about my biological father who I never met but wrote letters to while he was in prison. (we still never met). The professors at my review were mostly AbEx style painters. They looked at my work, feminine, stiched, personal and crytic. They wouldn\u2019t take the time to understand or look at it. They said, \u201cWhat would the difference be if a 250 lb football player had made this?\u201d I still cannot answer that question. Everytime I sit down to make something I think about that question. I think I\u2019ve given up. I\u2019m only 27 though, it\u2019s been 5 years.\nI think the question is ridiculous. The football player would make something different because he\u2019s not you. You should never quit doing anything you love that much, especially art. You\u2019re very, very young\u2013you have no idea how young! Don\u2019t give up.\nI chose to quit art. I discovered that I used it as a means to express the things I could not say. Then one day, it all clicked. Life hit me, memories of the past flooded me. And I realized that I had repressed memories in my past. And while I made that discovery, I was painting a very dark piece. It brought me to the point of tears. I realized who I was in that very moment could only be a result of having stepped into the art world. But I also realized that my journey in art had come to a close. I found the reason as to why I started painting, it was simply to release. I found my voice that night. I spoke and I\u2019ve been speaking more ever since. I don\u2019t feel the same passion to paint or draw as I once did. Once it used to be a need, a drive, an instinct within me. There were emotions that I could only portray through means of a canvas. But now, I know who I am. I faced my deepest fears. I realized that I didn\u2019t need to paint anymore to express myself, because I could do so with my own voice. Art was once my reason, my purpose. And I know that I could go further in it, but I\u2019m choosing not to. I\u2019m instead choosing to continue on my path and grow from the experience. I\u2019m going to experience new things, create new dreams, and use my voice all along the way. I was once an artist, now I am simply just me and I am okay with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 14381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elderschat.com/give-him-the-praise-new-song-and-music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7JL3SMDMLMCABMAFFXGPMC6W3PT3YDNU", "length": 1805, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.elderschat.com", "title": "Muzak or Beautiful Music it's up to You! - Elderschat", "raw_content": "I grew up in Jamaica, my mother decided that I should stay with her family there when I was very young. I then worked in England and proceeded to the US in the year 2000.\nTell me about your music and influences?\nMy main influence is church and gospel music. Music is my life and for me it represents love. Through it, I want to communicate the nature of God to a wider audience as possible.\nWhat is the inspiration behind your writing?\nI want people to understand the words, as, one day I heard a little girl singing happily although she did not understand what she was singing. I want to give both music and words to people.\nWhere do you usually write?\nBelieve it or not, I write in the bathroom. It is the quietest room in my house.\nHow long does it take you to write a song?\nI write very quickly because my music is based on my studies from the bible. The music is from traditional gospel which combines with my writing.\nDo you think biblical songs have any relevance to the world today?\nWhen trouble comes, it is only God that can change things. When I become overwhelmed, it is only music that can pacify me.\nHaving lived in Jamaica, London, and the US, where did you really start working on your songs?\nI was performing in a group in the US, this is where all really began.\nDid this also apply to the UK?\nYes, I used the experience for my solo career. I have recently been in a London Studio and I released my premier CD which is available on Amazon\nDo you see yourself, as a singer or a songwriter?\nI see myself as a singer more than a writer, although I do enjoy writing.\nWhat career advice would you give to somebody over 50?\nAlways go for it with all your heart and remember it is never too late.\nA big thank you to Doug and wishing him best of luck with his endeavour .\nPosted in: Lifestyle, UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elkgrove.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/5076/17", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7P5O2EJPWHD2C23CQBGS7YLM2Y6EIYDI", "length": 463, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elkgrove.org", "title": "Calendar | Elk Grove Village", "raw_content": "Fire and Police Commission Cancelled\nLocation: Fire & Police Commission office\nPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the regularly scheduled meeting of the Elk Grove Village Board of Fire and Police Commissioners to be held on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 has been cancelled and rescheduled to Tuesday, November 27, 2018. 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This is our goal, and you\u2019ll see that we deliver.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.errorteck.com/good-to-know/windows-7-tips-and-tricks/how-to-use-the-task-manager.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CUVYP4RQKRDEYPORPBWJ7SPGZP52Q7RR", "length": 3744, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.errorteck.com", "title": "How to Use the Task Manager", "raw_content": "Windows 7 - How to Use the Task Manager\nIn spite of the addition of a few extra features, the Windows 7 Task Manager is little different from the previous two versions of Windows. To a newbie, it may seem a little intimidating at first, but it's actually nothing like as complicated as it looks. The Task Manager allows you to perform various important tasks on your computer, such as manually closing down programs which are not responding. You can also use the Task Manager for viewing system resources including available memory and how much processing power and memory each individual application process is using. The following guide explains in detail how to use these features of the Task Manager. It is relevant to all editions of Windows 7.\n1 \u2013 Starting the Task Manager\nIn previous editions of Windows, there were keyboard shortcuts which instantly displayed the Task Manager, providing the computer had not completely crashed. By pressing Control, Alt and Delete on your keyboard all at the same time in Windows 7, you'll end up at something which looks like the login screen. You can access the Task Manager by clicking \"Start Task Manager\" here. If, however, your computer is responding as normal, you can simply right-click anywhere on the taskbar below the desktop and click \"Start Task Manager.\"\n2 \u2013 The Applications Tab\nClicking the \"Applications\" tab will display a list of all of the programs you are currently running on your computer. If one of the programs you are using has stopped responding, you'll normally be automatically provided with a list of options by Windows. If not, you can right-click on the application in the Task Manager and click \"End Task.\" This will force the program to close down.\n3 \u2013 The Processes Tab\nThe \"Processes\" tab looks a little more intimidating. Like the previous tab, this shows every application which is running on your computer. However, it also shows which Windows processes and other programs are running. Some applications run multiple processes. For example, most web browsers run a separate process for each tab or window that you have open. Effectively, multiple copies of the program are running at the same time.\nThis tab is useful for checking how much memory and processing power each application and process is using. If there's a process which is constantly using up all of your processing power and gobbling up your system memory, then it's probably malfunctioning. You can force a process to end by right-clicking on it and clicking \"End Process.\" The other options are only for more advanced users and you shouldn't normally need to concern yourself with them.\n4 \u2013 Other Tabs\nThe \"Performance\" tab is where you can monitor your computer's resources such as CPU and memory usage. You can see how much total memory your computer has, as well as how much available memory there is. It will also tell you how many processes are currently running and how long you have been logged in for (Up Time). For further details, you can also click the button at the bottom of the window labelled \"Resource Monitor.\"\nThe \"Network\" tab shows you how much traffic is being sent over your local area network and/or Internet connection. At the bottom of the window, you can also see which network adapters are connected to the network.\nThe \"Services\" tab provides a list of each individual service. These include features of Windows, drivers and other programs which are running on your computer. Generally, this is also for more advanced users.\nFinally, the \"Users\" tab shows who is logged into your computer and, if applicable, your local area network. By right-clicking on the name of the user, you can access a menu which allows you to log them out or send a message across a network.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2011/08/best-retirement-locations-in-panama/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5T7MF7QDWFPMRMQ3VXXO3UDNNWFROIVA", "length": 13961, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.escapefromamerica.com", "title": "Panama\u2019s Top Resort and Retirement Communities - EFAM | Escape From America Magazine", "raw_content": "Home Overseas Retirement\tPanama\u2019s Top Resort and Retirement Communities\nFrom Beautiful Beaches to Cool Highlands, Which Community Is Right For You?\nPanama\u2019s Caribbean playground, known by the locals simply as \u201cBocas\u201d, offers a laid-back atmosphere and burgeoning tourism industry. Originally, it was Bocas that put Panama on the map as an off-the-beaten track vacation destination and is especially popular with surfers, sailors and sun-seekers. Most travel around Bocas is by boat via the calm and clear waters that engulf the area\u2019s many islands. Island hopping, as dreamy as it sounds, can be pleasant while the sun shines, but it is not so pleasant in the rain.\nBocas\u2019 airport makes it easily accessible from Panama City in about one hour by plane. Drive time from Panama City is roughly 8 hours to Almirante and then another 45 minutes by water taxi. If you plan to transport a car onto Isla Colon (Bocas\u2019 most populated island, you will need to get in touch with the ferry service which transports vehicles to the island. It is not common for tourists to transport vehicles to Bocas since there are limited road ways and transport by hiring boats to wherever you want to go is more convenient.\nThe advantages of Bocas are its many secluded beaches, wild jungle terrain, outstanding surfing, marinas for sailors, kayaking, fishing, snorkeling and the availability of a host of other water related activities. Seafood here can be quite tasty, and a wide range of new restaurants offering Indian, German, Italian and other cuisines are now open for business.\nBocas makes for an excellent vacation getaway. It offers far more outdoor activities than any of Panama\u2019s other destinations and the strong influx of tourists helps provide the base for an emerging expat community. For nature lovers, wilderness seekers, and beach bummers, surfers and sailors, Bocas Del Toro is a must-see.\nThe disadvantages are more acute the longer one stays in Bocas. In Bocas, it rains frequently and since one can never be quite sure if or when it will rain, planning and preparing for rain becomes an ongoing task. Cleanliness and sanitation are neglected as most garbage and sewage ends up in the ocean untreated, with limited currents to carry in fresh water. High-speed Internet can be difficult to obtain, medical facilities are somewhat rudimentary, and grocery selection is poor. These disadvantages are easy to overlook in the short-term, but for many aging expats and retirees looking to enhance their comforts rather than retract them, Bocas may not suffice over the long-term.\nReal Estate In Bocas \u2013 Buyer Beware\nIt is now easy to find a small patch of land in Bocas to call your own. Developers have relentlessly carved the coastline into bite-sized pieces for their foreign counterparts to purchase. Most property in Bocas is offered as \u201cright of possession\u201d whereby buyers are sold the right to possess the property, but clear title to property in Bocas (or any island in Panama) is generally not available. Currently, there is some controversy regarding land and property that was transferred to foreign buyers illegally by the previous municipal government. Purchasing real estate in Bocas is risky business and adequate legal counsel may not always be enough to fully protect your property rights. See the chapter in the Panama 101 E-Book entitled \u201cBuying Real Estate in Panama\u201d for more information on how to engage in right of possession land transactions and how this differs from titled property.\nIn Bocas Del Toro, property with running water, electricity, Internet access and other basic infrastructure sells at a premium, and rightly so. Many expats buy land here with a vision of paradise, only to discover that the costs to build a livable dwelling were way more than they had imagined. Delivering construction supplies by boat, obtaining permits from the overwhelmed government agencies, and other unforeseen obstacles can make it difficult and costly to build in Bocas. Readers should be aware of these challenges before shelling out thousands of dollars to claim their slice.\nPanama 101 Insider Tip \u2013 First time visitors to Bocas Del Toro should not miss Isla Zapatilla. Most of the tour promoters don\u2019t mention these idyllic islands because they are further from town and more costly to reach. However, the extra time is well worth the visit as the scenery is extraordinary and the snorkeling is among the best in the area. Dolphins are often spotted on the way so keep your eyes peeled!\nAbout 75 minutes west of Panama City lies a gorgeous range of mountains with a year round spring-like climate similar to that of Boquete and Volcan on the west end of the country.\nThe pride of Sora are its fine ocean views from landscaped building sites, which have been popular for those looking for a country home in a peaceful setting. The Pacific Coast beaches are just a 20 minute drive down the mountain road, making it a popular setting for a second home. The town of Sora itself has little to offer save for a couple of basic restaurants and convenience stores, and some rural Panamanian charm. Along the Inter-American Highway, just 20 minutes down the hill from Sora are facilities like supermarkets, auto mechanics, banks, and the rest of the basics one needs to survive in today\u2019s modern age. The close proximity of Panama City makes day trips to the city feasible.\nEl Valle - A cool weekend getaway for Panama's wealthy elite\nEl Valle (pronounced El Vaiyeh) is substantially more quaint and clean than Sora and has long served as a cool weekend getaway for Panama\u2019s wealthy elite. El Valle is more town-like than Sora and a few of the well-groomed streets and vistas are reminiscent of alpine Switzerland or Germany.\nReal estate here is priced at a premium compared with most of Panama, especially for property close to the center of town.\nThe drawbacks of El Valle and Sora are similar. Both are small towns \u2013 villages actually, and the permanent international community is still very small. Very few modern amenities exist here, so most people drive to Panama City for their dose of fine dining and entertainment.\nOver the next several years, this area has strong potential to flourish as an expat hideaway\u2026 a trend that has already begun. For people who prefer country living in a safe and healthy, albeit quiet, environment where the climate is fresh all year round, both Sora and El Valle are solid options.\nBoquete - sleepy coffee country village turned international retirement haven\nBoquete went from sleepy coffee country village to international retirement haven in about two years flat. This area now attracts the lion\u2019s share of foreign residents who can stand to live away from the beach, and a good portion of those who can\u2019t. Many people who are dead set on finding a beach property still end up in Boquete due to the fine mountain air, lush panoramic vistas and peaceful nature of the inhabitants. Land prices have multiplied several times over the past few years with prices so high that agriculture no longer makes financial sense and even those with an affordable retirement home in mind may be disappointed due to the high prices.\nFrom a lifestyle perspective, Boquete has a lot to offer. The natural basics are unsurpassed\u2026 clean air, gorgeous climate, and quality local inhabitants. However, many people realize that there really isn\u2019t much to do here over the long-term and boredom can begin to set in. For those who would like to run a bed and breakfast, a lodge, or a restaurant, opportunities abound. But on the social side, even the liveliest bar in Boquete shuts down around 10 PM or midnight on weekends. Community events for expats are few and far between. The activity list in Boquete may change in the future as more international residents move in, but don\u2019t come to Boquete looking for a wonderland full of social diversions.\nThe good news is, the vacation and seasonal rental market is picking up in Boquete and it is getting easier to rent your vacation home while you are not using it. This makes it easy to justify Boquete as a place to live part-time, like a breath of fresh air between workouts. A vacation home in Boquete combines exceptionally well with a place on the beach in Panama, or in Panama City.\nPanama 101 Insider Tip \u2013 By far the best breakfast in Boquete can be found at Punta Del Encuentro (translation: meeting point), just a few blocks south of the town central park (ask any local and they will point you in the right direction). Enjoy delicious fried potatoes, a basket of fresh tropical fruit, locally grown coffee, French toast, pancakes\u2026 you name it. Olga, the owner, is one of the most sincere people on Earth. She leaves bananas near the dining area to attract the many species of birds that inhabit the area.\nCoronado-San-Carlos - residential beach developments and resorts\nCoronado \u2013 San Carlos\nThis area represents a long stretch of residential beach developments and resorts beginning about one hour west of Panama City and continuing for an additional 45 minute drive west along the Inter-American highway. As these are the closest recreational beaches to Panama City, Panama\u2019s wealthy class have gobbled up most of the beachfront and real estate prices tend to be much higher than in the rest of the country (though still a bargain when compared with plush areas of Spain, Hawaii, or Florida, for example).\nOn the plus side, many of the homes along this stretch of beach offer high-levels of privacy and exclusivity. For people looking for large estate homes with swimming pools and tennis courts, Coronado and the surrounding area is the best place to look. Recently, a plethora of ocean view condo towers have come on the market, mostly still in pre-construction phase. Buyers should be cautious before committing to a purchase, since many towers are nothing more than an artist rendering and actualizing the construction is several important steps away. Ask about development approvals, building permits and other infrastructure that the current development site may or may not have in place. While your friendly sales agent might insist that construction will begin \u201cin a few weeks\u201d that time frame could quickly become \u201ca few years\u201d if the developer is not properly funded, or if key approvals have not been obtained from the government.\nSince the international tourism market still barely recognizes Panama, this area does not feel like a Puerto Vallarta, Waikiki or Copacabana. There are currently only a handful of large resorts spaced several miles apart (Coronado Hotel, Decameron Resort, Buenaventura and Playa Blanca to name a few) and several new \u201cplanned\u201d residential communities. At this stage of the growth phase, readers are encouraged to buy something already existing or do a lot of due diligence before committing to a project that is still under construction.\nAlong the Pacific Beaches just west of Panama City, it is not unrealistic to expect empty beaches during the weekdays and a sparse number of visitors on the weekends. Festivals and special holidays are a different story, of course, when many of the beaches fill up with vacationing Panamanian families. If you are looking for that moonlit stroll along an empty beach, five minutes from your private beachfront estate home, this is the place for you assuming your investment budget exceeds seven figures ($1,000,000+). Nice two bedroom condos can still be found for around $200,000.\nPanama 101 Insider Tip \u2013 If you are just looking to spend a day at the beach, lounge in a hammock, eat fresh fish, and enjoy a calm Pacific Ocean on a stunning white sand beach, Santa Clara is your finest option. About 20 minutes past Coronado heading west on the Interamerican highway (90 minutes west of Panama City), you will see a small sign pointing to Santa Clara. Just follow the road to the end, and pay the small parking fee, which should include access to the showers for a rinse after your swim. Hammocks and shaded thatch huts are a few dollars extra but well worth the investment. The fried fish served at the restaurant in front of the beach is very tasty and beer is just 75 cents per bottle. Enjoy!\nIn conclusion, as a person who has moved to new cities and countries several times over the years, the author believes that a new place is generally as appealing as you make it. It can take time \u2013 many months or even years \u2013 to start to feel comfortable in your new surroundings and make new friends. People who move to a foreign country often form natural bonds with others who have done the same, which is one of the main rewards of an expat lifestyle.\nAbout the author: Michael is the author of the Panama 101 \u2013 E-Book Guide To Living and Investing In Panama\nPanama\u2019s Top Resort and Retirement Communities was last modified: August 22nd, 2016 by Escape From America\nRetire Young and Experience Exotic Travel on...\nThe New Retirement Plan\nTake the Money and Run with OverseasHomeBusiness\nAnn Hoffman March 28, 2012 at 12:19 pm\nFantastic, well-researched article! I especially appreciated the Insider Tips and the cautionary advice to prospective buyers. This is exactly what prospective expat should read. I also wrote a short piece on how to find out real information about what real life is like when you move to Panama and some good resources for finding that information:\nhttp://enjoylivinginternationally.com/moving-to-panama-learn-the-reality-of-living-overseas/\nThanks again for providing such helpful info!\nI don\u2019t have any idea what the Boquete hype is about. Yes it\u2019s scenic, buts also incredibly small with just a few streets and only one road passing through town. A nice place to spend a few days but beyond that \u2013 NO.\nBocas is a lovely vacation spot. Bocas Town is no retirement haven \u2013 poverty stricken except for the Expat business owners.\nIn general I\u2019d recommend the Pacific coast of Panama. Playa Santa Catalina is worth a visit, probably not a retirement spot either, however.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 19524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/forum/index.pl?read=150485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OZKI56THUV3ZYDENRK4HUAVVYOS25G4P", "length": 70, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.eslteachersboard.com", "title": "Re teaching idea", "raw_content": "No, he tells the truth that PC left-wing soy boys do not want to hear.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/24057917/kaitlyn-returns-wwe-entrant-mae-young-classic-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:U32IRWYOTKNJVURUO66RI6HLYTAD5PIU", "length": 3823, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "Kaitlyn returns to WWE as entrant in Mae Young Classic 2018", "raw_content": "Kaitlyn returns to WWE as entrant in Mae Young Classic 2018\nBy Aishwarya Kumar | Jul 11, 2018\nKaitlyn returns to WWE as an entrant into the Mae Young Classic 2018.\nAfter a four-year hiatus that involved launching a clothing line, a YouTube channel and a stint at Coastal Championship Wrestling, Celeste Bonin -- popularly known as Kaitlyn in the WWE ring -- is making her WWE comeback this August as she participates in the second Mae Young Classic tournament.\nBonin, 31, retired from WWE in January 2014, five months after winning the WWE Divas championship. She rose to fame after winning the third season of NXT in 2010, her first year with the WWE.\nShe made an in-ring comeback in January 2018 in the indie circuit, and after six months of training and getting in shape, Bonin is looking to surprise fans with her new skill set.\n\"The thing that got me through [as a rookie in WWE] and the thing that allowed me to achieve my level of success was my attitude, and looking back now, I am coming back with experience,\" Bonin said. \"I am certainly nervous because the level of competition is so much higher and there are so many different women from around the world and they bring skill levels. But it's just so exciting.\"\nWWE Raw women's championship history\nA WWE comeback was in the back of her mind ever since she returned to the ring this year. It's a pinnacle for nearly every wrestler to be a part of the organization, and the life experience and the fresh perspective -- as a businesswoman and a recent divorcee -- is what she believes will make her resilient and fearless in the ring.\n\"Since I came back, I had the opportunity to work backward and really nail down the fundamentals and the basics -- things that I really lacked during my first run with the WWE,\" Bonin said. \"Now I am bringing these newly honed and developed skills that I have acquired recently and I am combining that with my fearless attitude. And because I don't have this rookie vibe about me, now I can really concentrate on surprising the WWE universe with all the things I have learned.\"\nBonin realized she missed wrestling when she first made her comeback in February at the Coastal Wrestling Championship.\n\"The highs and lows and the adrenaline rushes and the quick thinking on your feet -- it came rushing back to me,\" Bonin said. \"Anytime you step back in the ring, it's the same rush and you never get used to it. There is always this fear and this question of 'Oh, my gosh, can I do this?' And to me that's part of what makes it amazing.\"\nIn tune with her fresh approach to wrestling, Bonin has made some major lifestyle changes. She's turned vegan, and said she feels fitter than she's ever felt in her career. She also has a full-sleeve tattoo and sports a new hairdo -- the two-shade blonde and black look is past news. Now she has a longer, darker hair look that goes well with her persona.\nShe's also keeping busy with her new athleisure line and her vlog, where she talks about her struggle with addiction, going through a divorce and evolving as a human being. It's a lot to balance, but it's a challenge she is welcoming.\n\"It's about finding things that drive you and fuel you,\" she said. \"And you can work 18 hours a day or however many hours a day and still want to go back to the ring or do lifts in the gym. As long as you're passionate about it, you feel happy, and to me that's the balance.\"\nDuring her time away from wrestling, Bonin saw women's wrestling go through monumental changes -- back then, women's wrestling wasn't celebrated like it is now, she said.\n\"It's seen so many different types of women of all different shapes and sizes with different skills and techniques that it is so exciting to be a part of that world again.\"\nMae Young Classic 2018 tapes August 8 and 9 at Full Sail Live in Orlando, Florida.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.etcentric.org/google-play-sells-movies-in-117-countries-launches-4k-titles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FA5G3HMLRYGWXDSUGXHEQTZFCTUV73KA", "length": 2598, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.etcentric.org", "title": "ETCentric", "raw_content": "Google Play Sells Movies in 117 Countries, Launches 4K Titles\nLaunched less than four years ago, Google Play has become much more than the official Android app store, establishing itself as a top retailer in home entertainment. Users treat it like a digital media store, where they can buy movies or TV shows digitally \u2014 often sooner than they can on Netflix or other streaming services. Google is now selling movies in 117 countries. Next, Play Movies & TV will be offering 4K for over 125 movies in its collection, for sale via Web or mobile.\nVariety, which will honor Google Play with an Innovation Award at its Home Entertainment & Digital Hall of Fame ceremony, quotes Google head of worldwide movie & TV partnerships Jonathan Zepp as stressing that, \u201csince our launch we have worked to constantly iterate and improve the experience for consumers.\u201d\nSelling in 117 countries, says Zepp, makes Play Movies & TV offerings \u201cavailable in more markets than any other transactional service in the world right now.\u201d Zepp has been behind the company\u2019s growth in electronic sell-through and video-on-demand, and \u201cplayed a key role in securing transactional partnerships with Disney, Fox, HBO, and Paramount.\u201d\nIn an industry in which movie rental seems to dominate, Zepp believes in digital ownership. \u201cThe subscription streaming model offers a compelling value proposition for many users, but a lot of great content is not available in that model,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is especially true for users who value earlier access to the most popular new release movies. We are thinking a lot about how to make this awareness more intuitive within our ecosystem.\u201d\nWith regard to the launch of 4K, TechCrunch reports that such movies can be streamed via Chromecast Ultra, Sony Bravia Android TV, and Xiaomi Mi Box 3. Introduced earlier this year, Chromecast Ultra, which is priced at $69, is \u201cthe first member of the Chromecast family to support 4K and HDR video streaming.\u201d Google is offering one 4K movie for free with the purchase of the Chromecast Ultra.\nNetflix and Amazon Video launched their support of 4K in 2014, and Hulu just stated it will release its originals and 20 James Bond films in 4K. With the slow adoption of 4K in the U.S., notes TechCrunch, \u201cGoogle\u2019s timing won\u2019t be much of an issue.\u201d\nTopics: 4K, Amazon, Amazon Video, Android, Android TV, App Store, Apps, Chromecast Ultra, Disney, EST, FOX, Google, Google Play, Google Play Movies & TV, HBO, HDR, Hulu, James Bond, Jonathan Zepp, Mobile, Movies, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Bravia, Streaming, Subscription, TV Shows, Video, VOD, Xiaomi Mi Box 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=36&seasoncode=E2008", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LQBOFTFNBTOKR7SILZ237GHEDV5Y3FG3", "length": 7622, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.euroleague.net", "title": "Partizan vs. AJ Milano - Game", "raw_content": "Partizan Belgrade battled back from a 23-point deficit to beat Armani Jeans Milano 81-76 for its second straight win at a sold-out Pionir Arena in the Serbian capital. Novica Velickovic led six Partizan scorers in double figures with 14 points as hard work and the team concept lifted head coach Dusko Vujosevic\u2019s men. Jobey Thomas was brilliant for Armani Jeans with 27 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting, but it would not be enough as Milano slipped to 0-3 in Group D. And it won\u2019t get much easier with a trip to Real Madrid on tap next week. The visitors dominated early, using a 2-12 first-period charge and a 3-12 second-period run to build a stunning 22-45 lead. Zarko Rakocevic helped Partizan cut the deficit to 38-55 by halftime. The hosts mounted their comeback in the third period as Stephane Lasme and Velickovic worked hard at both ends of the floor. Lasme gave Partizan its first lead since the opening minutes early in the fourth quarter. Milano seemed to run out of strength down the stretch, while Partizan looked fresh and big plays by Tepic and Velickovic gave the hosts an important and hard-fought win. Lasme recorded a double double with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks. Aleksandar Rasic scored 12 and dished 7 assists, while Milenko Tepic scored 11 and dished 8 assists. Cedomir Vitkovac also scored 11 points and Rakocevic finished with 10 for the winners. David Hawkins added 14 points and 4 steals and Joey Beard netted 10 points for Milano.\nRasic opened the scoring with a bomb and after Joey Beard got the visitors on the scoreboard, Novica Velickovic added a second triple. Hawkins answered from behind the arc for Milano and soon Yohann Sangare added layup to give Armani Jeans a 6-7 lead. Partizan answered with 5 straight points from Vitkovac. The hosts then switched to a zone defense with big Slavko Vranes in the paint only to see Thomas lead Armani Jeans on a 0-7 run, which gave his team an 11-16 lead. Milano surprised the hosts with their transition game and high intensity defense. Hawkins controlled his team\u2019s attack and Thomas fired in long-distance shots and fast break baskets as Milano built a double digit lead after just eight minutes. Thomas scored one more triple as the first period buzzer sounded, concluding a 2-12 run and giving his team a 15-28 lead.\nThomas opened second period with another bomb as the gap reached 16 points. Marco Mordente joined with a three-pointer and when Hawkins scored twice from the line, Milano led 19-38 midway through the second period. And the margin would grow to 23 after a Mike Hall triple ended a 3-12 run that made it 22-45. Partizan was forced to call timeout and the result was triple from Tepic. Partizan missed 4 consecutive shots from the line, but thanks to offensive rebounds, Rakocevic dunked as Thomas committed his third foul. Rakocevic added a three-point play, but after Armani Jeans stole the ball, the first half ended with 38-55 Milano lead.\nPartizan scored 5 straight points at the beginning of the third period as the Milano players let up a bit on defense due to foul trouble. The visitors went scoreless for almost four minutes as Partizan slowly cut into the deficit. Finally Beard scored, but Rasic answered with triple cutting the gap to 11. Rasic added a basket on a fast break and the score was 50-59. He led Partizan on a 9-2 run, which ended with three-pointer from Petar Bozic that made it 55-61. Lasme showed power by blocking Hall on defense and slamming one home on offense. Armani Jeans was losing its force as the hosts got within 61-64. Uros Tripkovic tied the game with a triple, but Hall struck with his own bomb as Milano led 66-67 at the end of third period.\nAfter Lasme and Vranes together blocked Beard, Lasme scored to give the hosts their first lead since the opening minutes. Mordente tied from long distance but missed. Thomas scored a bomb from second chance offense, but on the other side Lasme forced Beard into his fifth personal just three minutes into the fourth quarter. Mindaugas Katelynas added a triple for Armani Jeans as the guests reestablished a 5-point lead. Both teams concentrated on defense and baskets were rare at both ends. With four minutes to go, Velickovic scored a bomb and tied it at 73-73. He added a steal and assist to Vitkovac, who gave Partizan a 2-point lead. Velickovic added a fastbreak layup that forced Milano\u2019s bench to call timeout after a 9-0 run. With offensive rebounds, Partizan was keeping the lead, aided by its fans who fired up the arena. Hawkins took the responsibility with three-point play, but Tepic answered from the line and the score was 79 -76 at the beginning of final minute of the game. Bozic picked up a key steal in defense and Velickovic converted 2 from the line as Partizan earned its second straight Euroleague win.\nReferees: ZIEMBLICKI, GRZEGORZ; CONDE, ANTONIO; KOROMILAS, ELIAS\nAJ Milano 28 27 12 9\nAJ Milano 28 55 67 76\n5 TEPIC, MILENKO 34:41 11 3/8 2/4 6 6 8 2 1 2 2 19\n10 RASIC, ALEKSANDAR 24:54 12 1/2 2/4 4/4 7 3 1 2 14\n11 TRIPKOVIC, UROS 19:00 6 0/1 2/9 1 1 1 2 3 -5\n13 LASME, STEPHANE 30:54 12 6/9 6 4 10 1 1 3 3 5 24\n14 ALEKSIC, VUKASIN 1:58 0/1 0/1 1 1 -4\n15 VITKOVAC, CEDOMIR 23:30 11 4/4 0/4 3/3 2 2 1 2 1 1 5 4 11\n20 BOZIC, PETAR 13:14 3 1/2 1 2 3 1 2 1 5\n22 RAKOCEVIC, ZARKO 14:31 10 3/4 4/6 3 1 4 1 1 1 3 4 11\n24 VESELY, JAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n33 VRANES, SLAVKO 3:57 2 1/2 1 1 2 1 1 1\n6 FILLOY, ARIEL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n7 HALL, MIKE 34:28 8 0/2 2/3 2/2 5 5 3 2 3 1 2 1 10\n9 MORDENTE, MARCO 32:45 7 2/2 1/3 1 1 2 4 6 7\n11 THOMAS, JOBEY 31:57 27 4/5 5/6 4/4 2 2 3 4 3 29\n15 KATELYNAS, MINDAUGAS 20:28 6 0/3 1/1 3/4 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 5 3 2\n16 MICEVIC, MARKO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n18 MERCANTE, JACOPO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n19 BEARD, JOEY 26:36 10 4/5 2/2 1 2 3 1 1 5 3 10\n20 SANGARE, YOHANN 18:25 4 2/3 0/1 3 3 3 2\n34 HAWKINS, DAVID 35:21 14 3/8 1/4 5/5 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 3 5 14\nHead coach: BUCCHI, PIERO\n\"A lot of people were thinking before this game that Partizan should get an easy win. That is the worst thing that could happen to my players. I was angry with my players because of their bad defense and that's what I told them at halftime. In the end, Partizan is a sort of experimental team. We are playing without a classic center. Our fans, as usual, were fantastic. I can say that being a magician is a very tough job.\"\nBUCCHI, PIERO\n\"I am very upset and angry because we played well and were really close to getting a road win. We lost because our lack of offensive rebounding and our many turnovers. I regret that we did not show a stronger character. It is amazing to play in front of fans like the ones Partizan has.\"\n\"We didn't have a good start in this game and soon we understood that there are no weak teams in the Euroleague. AJ Milano were shooting really well and we missed a lot of shots early in the game, but we played much better in the second half. We powered the offensive boards really well and that gave us a lot of second-chance opportunities. This is a really big win that means a lot for us.\"\n\"Defense was the key. We really played bad defense in the first half, but it was our main weapon after the game. I am so impressed by our fans. They were fantastic tonight.\"\nTHOMAS, JOBEY\n\"This was an incredible basketball atmosphere. I have never seen in my entire life a team losing by more than 20 points and getting such support from its fans. Partizan's fans helped their team to return to the game. Their offensive rebounds were the key, but the fans were their most explosive weapon.\"\nTau Ceramica 106\nPanionios On Telecoms 78", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 11076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2012-0046&language=EN&ring=B7-2012-0016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:R6HTZDXRGMYOLFPONFVGOTA6MW7XYWJY", "length": 6668, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.europarl.europa.eu", "title": "Texts adopted - Wednesday, 15 February 2012 - Feasibility of introducing stability bonds - P7_TA(2012)0046", "raw_content": "Feasibility of introducing stability bonds\nEuropean Parliament resolution of 15 February 2012 on the feasibility of introducing stability bonds (2011/2959(RSP))\n\u2013 having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1173/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 on the effective enforcement of budgetary surveillance in the Euro area(1) (part of the \u2018six pack\u2019),\n\u2013 having regard to the Commission Green Paper dated 23 November 2011 on the feasibility of introducing stability bonds,\n\u2013 having regard to the presentation by Vice-President Rehn in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on 23 November 2011 and of the exchange of views with the German Council of Economic Experts on the European redemption fund on 29 November 2011,\n\u2013 having regard to President Van Rompuy's Interim Report: Towards a Stronger Economic Union of 6 December 2011,\nA. whereas Parliament has requested that the Commission present a report on the possibility of introducing euro-securities, which is an integral part of the agreement between Parliament and the Council on the economic governance package (\u2018six pack\u2019);\nB. whereas the eurozone is in a unique situation, with the eurozone Member States sharing a single currency without a common fiscal policy and a single bond market;\nC. whereas the issuance of bonds with joint and several liability would require a process of deeper integration;\n1. Is deeply concerned at the continuous strains on the euro area sovereign bond markets reflected in widening spreads, high volatility and vulnerability to speculative attacks over the last two years;\n2. Believes that the euro area, as the issuer of the world's second international currency, is co-responsible for the stability of the international monetary system;\n3. Stresses that it is in the strategic long-term interest of the eurozone and of its Member States to draw all the possible benefits of issuing the euro, which has the potential to become a global reserve currency;\n4. Notes in particular that the US Treasury market and the total euro area sovereign bond market are comparable in size but not in terms of liquidity, diversity, and pricing; points out that it could be in the interests of the eurozone to develop a common liquid and diversified bond market, and that a stability bond market would offer a viable alternative to the US dollar bond market and establish the euro as a global \u2018safe haven\u2019;\n5. Believes also that the euro area and its Member States are responsible for ensuring the long-term stability of the currency used by more than 330 million people and many companies and investors, which indirectly affects the rest of the world;\n6. Points out that stability bonds would be different from bonds issued by federal states such as the USA and Germany and cannot therefore strictly be compared to US treasury bonds and Bundesanleihen;\n7. Welcomes the presentation of the Green Paper, which meets a longstanding request of the European Parliament, and considers it a useful starting point for further reflection; is open and eager actively to discuss all issues \u2013 both strengths and weaknesses \u2013 relating to the feasibility of introducing stability bonds under different options; encourages the Commission to deepen further its analysis after a broad public debate, to which the European Parliament and the national parliaments should contribute, as well as the ECB, if it deems it appropriate; considers none of the three options presented by the Commission to be a response per se to the current sovereign debt crisis;\n8. Takes note of the Commission's assessment, which is part of the Commission Green Paper on the feasibility of introducing stability bonds, that stability bonds would facilitate the transmission of euro-area monetary policy and would promote efficiency in the bond market and in the broader euro-area financial system;\n9. Reiterates its position that, for a common issuance of bonds, a sustainable fiscal framework needs to be in place, aimed at both enhanced economic governance and economic growth in the euro area, and that sequencing is a key issue, involving a binding roadmap similar to the Maastricht criteria for introducing the single currency, and drawing on all the lessons thereof;\n10. Takes the view that the objectives underlying the decisions taken at the European Council of 8-9 December 2011 to further enhance the sustainability of public finances also contribute to creating the necessary conditions for the possible introduction of stability bonds;\n11. Believes that stability bonds could be an additional means of incentivising compliance with the stability and growth pact, provided that they address the moral hazard and joint liability issues; notes that further work needs to be undertaken as regards the options presented in the Green Paper on issues such as:\n\u2013 effective market incentives to reduce debt levels,\n\u2013 entry and exit criteria, conditionality agreements, maturity agreements, redistribution of funding benefits for the present AAA countries,\n\u2013 a system of differentiation of interest rates among Member States with divergent ratings,\n\u2013 budgetary discipline and an increase in competitiveness,\n\u2013 pro-cyclical and debt-deflationary effects,\n\u2013 sufficient attractiveness for market investors, while containing or avoiding over-collateralisation and redistribution of risks across countries,\n\u2013 the seniority of stability bonds over national bonds in the event of a Member State defaulting on its debt,\n\u2013 the criteria for allocation of the loans to Member States and the capacity to service the debt,\n\u2013 measurable and enforceable programmes of debt,\n\u2013 the modalities of a binding roadmap, similar to the Maastricht criteria for introducing the single currency,\n\u2013 the interaction with the EFSF/ESM for Member States experiencing liquidity problems,\n\u2013 appropriate legal requirements, including treaty and constitutional changes;\n12. Believes that the prospect of stability bonds can foster stability in the euro area in the medium term; calls on the Commission, however, to come forward rapidly with proposals to address decisively the current sovereign debt crisis, such as the European redemption pact proposed by the German Council of Economic Experts and/or the finalisation and ratification of an ESM treaty and/or eurobills, as well as joint management of sovereign debt issuance;\n13. Points out that this resolution constitutes a preliminary response to the Commission Green Paper, which will be followed by a more comprehensive resolution in the form of an INI report;\n14. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the European Central Bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/it/search.html?authors=116928", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:O4RUNRSBB2TVMCH474MMDGVISQPG2S7J", "length": 3077, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.europarl.europa.eu", "title": "Ricerca | Think Tank | Parlamento Europeo", "raw_content": "In sintesi pdf\nEURO AT 20: BACKGROUND READER COLLECTION OF STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS\nThis publication is a collection of studies and assessment papers, originally prepared at the request of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament. It aims to provide background-reading materials for the members of European Parliament and members of national parliaments participating in the Parliamentary week 2019 focusing on the Euro@20 debate.\nR.M.Lastra, CEPS, K.Whelan, M.Dabrovski, Sciences Po-OFCE et al.\nWOLFGANG LEHOFER\nMonetary policy implications of transitory versus permanently subdued growth prospects\nCentral bank communication at times of non-standard monetary policies\nFor the Monetary Dialogue session which took place on 24 September 2018, monetary experts analysed the issues related to the central bank communication at times of non-standard monetary policy. This note, provided by Policy department A, gives an overview of the in-depth analyses prepared by the experts.\nAbundant liquidity and banks\u2019 lending activity: an assessment of the risks\nThe Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) asked experts to prepare for the Monetary Dialogue session of 24 September 2018 analyses of the risks related to the abundant liquidity and banks\u2019 lending activity. This note, provided by Policy department A, gives an overview of the in-depth analyses prepared by the experts.\nVirtual currencies and central banks\u2019 monetary policy: challenges\nFor the Monetary Dialogue session taking place on 9 July 2018, monetary experts were asked to analyse the challenges related to the virtual currencies and central banks\u2019 monetary policy. This note, provided by Policy department A, lists the in-depth analyses prepared by the experts.\nECB non-standard monetary measures, collateral constraints and potential risks for monetary policy\nFor the Monetary Dialogue of 9 July 2018, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) asked monetary experts to analyse the risks and collateral constrains related to the ECB non-standard monetary measures. This note, provided by Policy department A, lists the in-depth analyses prepared by the experts.\nInteraction between euro-denominated payment systems and ECB monetary policy: challenges for the single currency\nFor the Monetary Dialogue of 26 February 2018, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) asked monetary experts to analyse the challenges for the single currency stemming from the interactions between euro-denominated payment systems and the ECB monetary policy. This note, prepared by Policy department A, lists references to the relevant in-depth analyses.\nAn economic recovery with little signs of inflation acceleration: transitory phenomenon or evidence of a structural change?\nThis note, drawn up by Policy department A, gives an overview of in-depth analyses prepared by monetary experts for the February session of the Monetary Dialogue. The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) asked the experts to prepare analyses focusing on the EU economic recovery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 12936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eversojuliet.com/2014/04/camera-obscura.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HPCXHYRXCMQVZDNWI2AOQH72QP5SEJA2", "length": 2179, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eversojuliet.com", "title": "Ever So Juliet | UK Lifestyle, Beauty & Baking blog: Camera Obscura", "raw_content": "Camera Obscura is Edinburgh's oldest visitor attraction, that sits on the Royal Mile, just down from the Castle. It's a five floor building of illusions & all sorts of trickery, that I've always thought looked super cool, but it seemed like too much of a touristy activity to do myself. Is that weird? I think that's weird. Anyway, it's one of the places that has long been on my list of \"oh, I should probably try to do that one day\", but I didn't really ever think I'd get round to it....\nUntil, my moment to play finally arrived with an I Spy Edinburgh invite - a Google City Experts takeover, described as the ultimate schooltrip for grown-ups.\nThe whole place is packed with all sorts of puzzley, bewildering fun. There's a mirror maze! A vortex tunnel! (which is AMAZING, but surprisingly difficult to walk through). An Ames Room, which magically shrinks you (I can't quite get my head around how this works), all sorts of optical illusions and fancy lights and weirdo mirrors, and just millions of things to play with.\nIf you are a big kid who likes talking millions of photos, you will LOVE it.\nWe played until we were dizzy (and needed to lie down). I don't know if I could handle it with millions of tiny kids around, but this is the nice thing about Lates-style events getting so popular - adults get to play too!\nIf you want to come along to events like this, it's really easy - just sign up to Google City Experts. Basically, if you upload reviews & photos of places in your city, then you can join the program and get all sorts of special stuff (including event invites).\nThere's just been another City Experts event in Edinburgh, held in partnership with the Science Festival (good choice, guys!) which was a massive space party, and it was BRILLIANT. I do like it when work and fun combine! I'll blog about this post-festival, when I'm a little less knackered - I've only got six days to go...\nLabels: days out , edinburgh\n~K 18 April 2014 at 16:30\nThis looks like so much fun. I love just checking out different things and just seeing what it's like. Even if in the end we don't like it, we like the little adventure of finding that out.\nEver So Juliet is three!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ewenzhou.info/art-of-trench-the-new-burberry-bid/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YBAS6YUCO34KKIPL655CAJOJ7YURKEQJ", "length": 2813, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ewenzhou.info", "title": "\u201cArt of Trench\u201d, the New Burberry Bid \u2013 Shopping Blog", "raw_content": "\u201cArt of Trench\u201d, the New Burberry Bid\nburberry, jacket, trench-coat\nRains and bad weather that characterize the city of Paris at this time of the year have come you from Pearl to the firm Burberry, which chose department stores Printemps Haussmann as location where to carry out the \u201cArt of the Trench\u201d action.\nUntil October 20, in shop windows and at the atrium which is at the entrance of these stores you can see and buy fifty-six exclusive products displayed on a pop-up Store: new and bold denim, great leather jackets and a selection of accessories. Each and every one of the pieces are inspired by the energy and excitement that raises people in the city of London.\nBurberry pays tribute to the passion for style and architecture. With the atrium as a backdrop, the multidimensional silhouettes of the cityscape of London, while a series of screens that projected carefully selected images of Parisians wearing the famous Burberry trench-coat.\nCustomers of these stores have been invited to participate in these famous shootings that were inaugurated in London, Chicago, Delhi, Dubai and Sao Paulo. Every Saturday, customers can photographed with their trench coats in the most emblematic places of the city. Your photos will be then posted on a wall within Department stores next to photos of the influencers invited to a VIP evening took place on 4 September.\nThe best photos are selected and are uploaded to a microsite that the firm has created and which has called, as it could not be otherwise, Art of the Trench.\nIt can remain a venerable British brand (the firm was created by Thomas Burberry in the year 1856,) and not stop innovating and surprised. So at least it explains it Angela Ahrendts, its President since 2006:\n\u201cAs Burberry does not have the resources of the giants of fashion and luxury, we have that\u201d doing things in a different way\u201d.\nThat means that they have opted for focusing primarily on the millenials, the connected generation. Those sons of Boomer, who currently form a fork which could go 25 to the 35 years old, and live in a world where the work comes first. Come on, the famous \u201cEmily\u201d (acronym of E Emotionals, Millenials M of systems, Linked L and and Young).! A decision taken by Angela Ahrendts since his arrival. For five years, concentrating on them forty per cent of its budget to marketing and brand communication.\nIn terms of the famous trench coat, we can ensure that it has come to decline more of three hundred versions, in all kinds of colors, cuts, long, etc., and that customers can buy online through your iPad.\nPioneers in the dissemination of their parades in real time through social networks, we can say that Burburry has managed to take giant steps to adapt to its competition. If you have a Burberry raincoat and a smartphone, what are you waiting for?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.exforsys.com/career-center/conversation-skills/interesting-and-meaningful-conversations.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:36Z", "digest": "sha1:C5JXAJWADMCXBYXBZLEJ36LXZADR5UPY", "length": 4103, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.exforsys.com", "title": "Tips For Having Interesting And Meaningful Conversations | IT Training and Consulting \u2013 Exforsys", "raw_content": "Communication makes society progress, grow, and change. From the time man was created to this day, he has been struggling to perfect this skill. Gone are the days of drawing on rocks, flickering fingers, and grunting sounds.\nThese days, we can communicate in many different ways. We are no longer confined to just the spoken word. Because of the conception of mail, the manner in which human beings communicate has grown by leaps and bounds.\nToday, the most common form of communication is done via the Internet. Email, blogging, chatting are only some of the many popular forms of communication. How then in this new technological world can a person still have interesting, meaningful, face-to-face conversations? Below are 4 easy tips to help any person have great and substantial conversations.\nFor your conversation to be interesting, you have to be interesting yourself. What does this mean? Being interesting is such a subjective thing. Well, actually, this is a simple thing to achieve. Being up-to-date is one way to be interesting. Everyone loves someone who has something substantial to say because he or she is aware of what is happening around the world. Watch TV, read the newspapers, keep abreast of current events.\nThere are so many things going on around the world that are worth paying attention to. Another way to keep things interesting is to be involved. Join chat groups, or even face-to-face organizations. Stand up for something, even if it is just one or two things that you really feel passionate about. There is bound to be even a couple of items that you love. Or, if you know you are going to socialize, then be prepared. Make a mental list of the meaty things that can be discussed. Bottom line is, no one likes a hot air balloon. If you are going to talk to people, make sure you know what you are talking about.\nSo look, you have done all this research. Perhaps you have even gone out of your way to know other things out of the ordinary. Take shelter or refuge in that. Since you know your stuff, chances are you will not go wrong. Opinions are neither wrong nor right anyway. You just have to confident that what you are discussing with the person or people is something that makes sense and is not just a spur of the moment insight without much research support.\n3. Keep that smile on your face and on your voice\nNo one wants to converse at any length, much less have a meaningful conversation with someone who looks grumpy, irritated, or arrogant. Always keep positivism in mind. Remember that even if you aren\u2019t thinking bad thoughts your resting face might not be very approachable or pleasant. One component of interesting and meaningful communication is enjoyment after all. And no one will enjoy the conversation if the person being conversed with is just not great to be around.\nIf this is something difficult for you, then try practicing at home. Talk to yourself in the mirror with a smile on your face. You will be surprised how well this method works in making you a generally more pleasant person to approach and talk to.\nIt comes full circle now. Just as you want to be interesting for people, they would like you to be interested as well.\nThe surest way to make the conversation chemistry die is to look, act, and be uninterested in what the other person is saying. This may, at times, be difficult considering not everything a person wants to talk about is necessarily something you would enjoy listening to. But think of it this way, it goes both ways, but the other person was good enough to be attentive to you. A tip for how to make this an easier task is to focus on those things you know well in the conversation and relate to things you know. It is highly improbable that you will find absolutely nothing to comment on during the whole exchange.\nSo, just by looking at these four tips it is easy to see how anyone can have meaningful conversations. And the best part is, you don\u2019t have to spend anything or exert too much effort to have great talks.\n\u00ab \u00ab How to use JavaScript in HTML page\nRelation Between Subconscious Mind And Self-Confidence \u00bb \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 9119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.feelnumb.com/2009/03/29/kurt-cobains-final-autograph/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:XSP5XBKAR7XQ2QWXNL5QWY2VP3PC5DUM", "length": 3797, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.feelnumb.com", "title": "Did Kurt Cobain Forecast His Date Of Death On His Final Autograph??? | FeelNumb.com", "raw_content": "A Nirvana fan claims that he is in possession of the final Kurt Cobain autograph which he obtained at Seattle Sea-Tac Airport on April 2, 1994. The eerie thing about the autograph it is that Kurt forecasted his death by dating it April 5th 94, which was the eventual date of his suicide.\nHere is the story behind the signature\u2026\n\u201cMy brother aquired the autograph when he flew from Toronto to Seattle for, of all things, a funeral. He left Toronto late on the 1st of April, 1994 and arrived at the Sea-Tac airport in Seattle in the early morning of the 2nd.\u201d\nThe timeline of Cobains\u2019s final days do confirm he arrived at Seattle Sea-Tac airport on Saturday, April 2, 1994, at the approximate time of 12:47 AM. This is the famous flight he took from Los Angeles to Seattle after leaving rehab and sat next to Duff McKagan of Gun\u2019s N Roses. Cobain still had a Delta airplane ticket, #788F. dated 4/1/94, seat 2F in his pant pocket when he died as the police report states.\nThe autograph story continues\u2026\n\u201cHe got off the plane and was on his way out to meet his ride when he saw a couple people getting an autograph from someone. This drew his attention enough to recognize that it actually was Kurt Cobain.\nMy brother, being a big fan at the time said that there was no way that he would\u2019ve recognized Kurt, aside from the others getting autographs from him. This was because he was wearing large shades, an Elmer Fudd hunting cap and had a large brown jacket on, all of which concealed his identity pretty well.\nSo my brother got out a pen and a novel that he was reading at the time for school, and handed them to Kurt. Kurt signed his full name (which did not seem so weird at the time) and my brother asked him to put the date on it as well. This wasn\u2019t really an odd thing for my brother to do as he tries to get all of his autographs dated to make them more sentimental.\nSo Kurt jotted down the date. The strange thing was that he dated it the 5th instead of the 2nd. And that was that. My brother told him that he enjoyed Kurt\u2019s music a lot and the only thing Kurt said the whole time was \u201cthanks\u201d. When my brother left, Kurt was still at the payphone. Everyone says that Kurt wasn\u2019t still there at 2am, and had already left the airport a half-hour earlier, but that is just not true.\nWhen Kurt passed away three days later my brother was pretty shocked to find out that Kurt had, by coincidence, written the date of his demise on the autograph. He\u2019s not too proud to be one of Kurt\u2019s last \u201cannoying\u201d fans and hasn\u2019t shown it off, of course, because he doesn\u2019t want recognition for such a thing. He just says \u201cthat was probably one of the last things that Kurt needed was someone bugging him like that\u201d. He doesn\u2019t believe that Kurt forecasted his own end because he doesn\u2019t think that Kurt would want to scare someone like that. Also it\u2019s doubtful that Kurt had already made up his mind by then and had determined when he was going pass away on Aprill 5th.\u201d\nRobert Plant Playing Soccer in a \u201cMan Bikini\u201d Speedo\nthere's so much more to this than you can possibly know, i'm related to the late kc, there's so much fucking more to that date than hardly a soul outside of relatives understand\u2013you do far too much guessing on this web site but i guess some find it interesting\nWe love KC too!!! Really love him.\nThom. says:\nYou could be anyone. But I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt, seeing as Kurt is my all time idol (not lifestyle-wise, but for his honest, raw and passionate music. It would be disrespectful of me to even hint at asking what that date meant to him or anyone else in the family, but I will always keep it in my mind.\nRIP Kurt, you're sorely missed by more people than you'll ever know.\nRegards, Thom.\nPink Floyd \"Wish You Were Here\" Cover Photo Location And Stuntmen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 7750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.feltstories.com/2009/12/track-santa-this-christmas-eve-with.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:23U4AJ6YJYCTB4SI7ACG56WNQM2CQKBB", "length": 1264, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.feltstories.com", "title": "OC Mom Blog: TRACK SANTA THIS CHRISTMAS EVE WITH NORAD!", "raw_content": "David E. Jacobs December 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM\nYou can track where he is in the world with your children by using http://www.top7webhostingservices.com/ thanks\u00b4=\nRobbert May 18, 2016 at 9:46 AM\nlate years there have been numerous episodes of individuals hopping into the back of autos, to be headed out by drivers who case to be small taxi drivers, yet who were acting under false falsifications. Kindly don't commit this error. Regardless of the possibility that the taxi driver cases to be a little taxicab driver, ensure you either go to the workplace in individual or phone the taxicab organization yourself. ID cards can be manufactured, so it's insufficient to depend on this as a strategy for recognizing whether the person sat in his auto is a little taxi driver or not. Payday Loans Costa-mesa\neric yao October 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM\nThe article you share enough to help me in searching for assignment related information, thank you for the information.\nHenry Gregory February 7, 2019 at 2:45 AM\nGarageband For PC 2018 november version for Windows 7 8 10. iMessage on PC is basically an Apple's instant messaging services. This lets users to make video calls between any iOS devices and Macs using Facetime for Windows.\ngaragebandforpcc.com - imessageforpcc.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 4798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/fitzcarraldo", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:41:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MOTEO3A3SYIT44J563XZM37EMI46FJL3", "length": 567, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.festival-cannes.com", "title": "FITZCARRALDO - Festival de Cannes", "raw_content": "\" Fitzcarraldo \" is the story of a dreamer who wishes to bring Grand Opera to the jungle. It is the story of a conqueror of the useless, of a man who transports an enormous steamship over a mountain from one river to another with the help of hundreds of Indians in order to gain possession of a yet unclaimed rubber-growing region.\nPOPOL VUH - Music\nFlorian FRICKE - Music\nHuerequeque Enrique BOHORQUEZ\nJose LEWGOY\n\" Fitzcarraldo \" is the story of a dreamer who wishes to bring Grand Opera to the jungle. It is the story of a conqueror of the useless, of a man who...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 2908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filament-theatre.com/st-john-fisher/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:02Z", "digest": "sha1:7L5URKDGSUBL2ATSUSZPXUDOIOVABXH3", "length": 451, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.filament-theatre.com", "title": "Filament Theatre \u00bb St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Oxford", "raw_content": "http://www.filament-theatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-first-Groove.m4a\nListen to a short groove created with year 4 pupils at St John Fisher Catholic Primary School in Oxford. We went on to have a wonderful morning workshopping with children and ended up with the starts of terrific stories about the \u2018Rabbit Who Had to Move On\u2019, \u2018The Deadly Princess\u2019 and \u2018Salt and Vinegar\u2019. We\u2019re looking forward to getting more stories from Sapphire class!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 221.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/Tracy-Nelson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JO72BDESZSQQYAPYOYQKBUEYLFSV624J", "length": 5754, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "www.filmreference.com", "title": "Tracy Nelson Biography (1963-)", "raw_content": "Tracy Nelson Biography (1963-)\nFull name, Tracy Kristin Nelson (some sources cite Tracy Kristine Nelson); born October 25, 1963, in Santa Monica, CA; daughter of Rick (an actor and singer) and Kristin (an actress; maiden name, Harmon) Nelson; granddaughter of Ozzie (a bandleader and actor) and Harriet (a singer and actress; maiden name,Hilliard) Nelson; granddaughter of Tom Harmon (an athlete and sportscaster) and Elyse Knox (an actress); sister of Matthew Nelson (a singer), Gunnar Nelson (a singer), and Sam Nelson (a singer and actor); niece of David Nelson (anactor, director, and producer); niece of Mark Harmon (an actor); niece of Kelly Harmon (an actress); married William R. Moses (an actor; known as Billy Moses), 1987 (divorced, 1997); companion of Chris Clark (a director); children:(with Moses) Remington Elizabeth; (with Clark) Elijah Clark. Addresses: Agent: Allison Levy, Innovative Artists, 235 Park Ave. South, Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10003.\nJennifer DiNuccio, Square Pegs, CBS, 1982-1983\nAngela Timini, Glitter, ABC, 1984-1985\nSister Stephanie \"Steve\" Okowski, Father Dowling Mysteries, NBC, 1989, ABC, 1990-1991\nEvelyn Gardner, A League of Their Own, CBS, 1993\nRuth Whitney, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (also known as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River and The Man from Snowy River), The Family Channel, 1994-1995\nAnnie Benton, Pleasures, ABC, 1982\nPatch Reed, Kate's Secret, NBC, 1986\nJamie Davies, Tonight's the Night (also known as The Game of Love), ABC, 1987\nRandi Wainwright, If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium, NBC,1987\nAnnie, Highway Heartbreaker, CBS, 1992\nCharley Adams, Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo, NBC, 1992\nTammy Frazier, No Child of Mine (also known as The Fight for Baby Jesse and The Fight for Jesse), CBS, 1993\nDonna Colla, Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (also known as Ray Alexander: Murder in Mind), NBC, 1994\nDonna Colla, Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder, NBC, 1995\nAnnie, For Hope, ABC, 1996\nClaire (some sources cite Clara) Devlin, Touched by Evil (also known as In the Shadow of Evil), ABC, 1997\nLisa Miles, The Promise, NBC, 1999\nAngela McBride/Nikki Harcourt, The Perfect Nanny, USA Network, 2000\nAudrey Harris, Killer Bees, PAX TV, 2002\nLisa Kellington, The Perfect Husband (also known as Her PerfectSpouse), 2004\nHerself, Circus of the Stars #9, CBS, 1984\nLori, The Drug Knot, CBS, 1986\nThe Barbour Report, ABC, 1986\nThe 61st Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1989\nFarm Aid IV, The Nashville Network, 1990\nHost, Miracles and Wonders, The Family Channel, 1997\n\"Christmas with the Nelsons,\" The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,ABC, 1966\nIsabel Darby, \"Blackout,\" Hotel, ABC, 1983\nJennifer Milbourne, \"The Women,\" St. Elsewhere, NBC, 1983\nDeena Marx, \"Ladies' Man,\" Family Ties, NBC, 1984\nDeena Marx, \"Oh, Donna,\" Family Ties, NBC, 1985\nSandy, \"The Runaway,\" The Love Boat, ABC, 1985\n\"Love and the Window Dresser,\" New Love, American Style, ABC, 1986\nHerself, Entertainment Tonight (also known as ET), syndicated, 1989\nHerself, Today (also known as NBC News Today and The Today Show), NBC, 1989\nEve Baker, \"Who Killed the Romance?,\" Burke's Law, CBS, 1994\nJesse, \"The P.I.,\" Matlock, ABC, 1994\nMary Ruth, \"The Chatterbox,\" The Nanny, CBS, 1994\nMeredith Parker, \"I Am Curious Melrose,\" Melrose Place, Fox, 1994\nMeredith Parker, \"It's a Bad World after All,\" Melrose Place, Fox,1994\nMeredith Parker, \"Till Death Do Us Part,\" Melrose Place, Fox, 1994\nMeredith Parker, \"Another Perfect Day in Hell,\" Melrose Place, Fox, 1995\nKristie Lofton, \"Mind over Murder,\" Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1996\nLisa Magdaleno, \"The One that Got Away,\" Touched by an Angel, CBS,1996\nHerself, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, syndicated, 1997\nJanet, \"The Cartoon,\" Seinfeld, NBC, 1998\nLisa, \"Second Time Around,\" Murphy Brown, CBS, 1998\nLisa, \"Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day),\" Murphy Brown, CBS, 1998\nHerself, \"Ozzie & Harriet: The Adventures of America's Favorite Family,\" Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 1998\nPauline, \"Gossip,\" 7th Heaven, The WB, 2000\nAlison Pollette, \"Wedding Balls,\" Will & Grace, NBC, 2002\nElise, \"Still the Bad Parents,\" Still Standing, CBS, 2003\nAppeared in episodes of Tvography, Arts and Entertainment.\nAngela Timini, Glitter, ABC, 1984\nMichelle, Hearts of Steel, ABC, 1986\nSister Stephanie \"Steve\" Okowski, Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery, NBC, 1987\nSusan Costigan, Home, ABC, 1987\nGermaine Beardsley, Yours, Mine, and Ours, United Artists, 1968\nBanjoman (concert film), Blue Pacific, 1975\nJoanie, Maria's Lovers, Cannon, 1985\nJenny Whiteman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Buena Vista, 1986\nThe mother, The Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley: Mystery on the High Seas, 1995\nThe Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Sea World Adventure, 1995\nBeth Needham, The Night Caller, Live Film and Mediaworks, 1998\nHellhounds on My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson, 1999\nDiane Crosby, Perfect Game, Buena Vista Home Video, 2000\nLinda Parkinson, Home the Horror Story, Radical Pictures, 2000\nRachel, The Perfect Tenant, Trimark Pictures/World International Network, 2000\nThe Bus Stop, 2000\nAlly Parks, Fangs, Lions Gate Films, 2001\nKelly Jordan, Dumb Luck, Desert Rock Films/Tag Entertainment, 2001\nFly Blackbird, Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1978\nBetty Rizzo, Grease! (musical), Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1996-1997\nBetty Rizzo, Grease! (musical), U.S. cities, 1996\nHost of a pregnancy massage video.\nEntertainment Weekly, October 7, 1994, p. 12; January 19, 1996, p.11\nInterview, September, 1984, p. 176\nParade, January 15, 1995, p. 16\nPeople Weekly, December 13, 1982, p. 129; December 16, 1985, p. 121; October 18, 1993, p. 46; December 23, 1996, p. 114; October 22, 2001, p. 114\nRedbook, October, 1989, p. 76", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 6658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.findwashburnproperties.com/thesanctuary-subdivision-charlottenc-real-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:SWFM4Y7LVUAPPPQ6J2FTN5FGG4KF66VG", "length": 1090, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.findwashburnproperties.com", "title": "The Sanctuary Real Estate | The Sanctuary Homes for Sale", "raw_content": "The Sanctuary, NC Real Estate\nSearch The Sanctuary Properties For Sale\nThe Sanctuary is a 1300 acre, Audubon International recognized, waterfront community on the North Carolina side of Lake Wylie. Wooded home sites, called \u201cprivate reserves\u201d begin at over 2 acres and range to over 13 acres. The Sanctuary includes a total of 187 custom-built homes, with an average lot size of 5 acres. Only 20 percent of The Sanctuary\u2019s 1300 acres will be developed, the remaining land will be left untouched. Custom builders within The Sanctuary practice green-build construction.\nAmenities include 200 acres of natural areas and seven miles of Lake Wylie shoreline, a waterfront lodge with swimming pools and tennis courts, fitness center and kitchen, a boating center for canoes and kayaks, and more than 20 miles of walking trails.\nThe Sanctuary is quickly becoming one of Lake Wylie's most sought-after custom home communities. Outdoor recreation activity abounds in this area, and new retail developments like Rivergate also offer dining, entertainment and convenient shopping.\nPrivate School Info.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 4224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstburnsville.org/ministries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FRUCV6MIBGVKLAODUJHOC4UYHND3QQAJ", "length": 2452, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.firstburnsville.org", "title": "Missions - First Presbyterian Church of Burnsville", "raw_content": "Missions are very important here at Burnsville First Presbyterian Church. We are involved in many projects based locally and globally. We firmly believe in being Jesus' presence on earth when it comes to serving your neighbor. We base our Mission Program on Matthew 25:34-36, which reads (from The Message version):\n\"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Enter, you who are blessed by my Father! Take what's coming to you in this kingdom. It's been ready for you since the world's foundation. And here's why:\nWe have many ongoing projects as well as special fundraisers and mission trips to devastated areas. Below is a listing of some of these projects:\nSister Church Program in Guatemala: Administered through the WNC Presbytery, we have partnered with the Nueva Esperanza Presbyterian Church located in San Felipe, Guatemala. Yearly trips have been made to Guatemala to visit our sister church, as well as visits from elders from Nueva Esperanza to Burnsville. We are constantly inspired by the faithfulness of our Nueva Esperanza brothers and sisters and have been enriched by this program.\nScholarship Program with Nueva Esperanza Church in Guatemala: In the spring of 2009, we covenanted with our sister church to provide 25 scholarships for three years to needy students in their church and community.\nContinued visitation\nHospital in Malawi, Africa:\nReconciliation House: Our local food pantry and thrift store, we have supported them with yearly gifts and special fundraisers. We presented a Christmas Music Program to raise funds for the Fuel Program, at a time when the price of heating oil was at record highs. Most recently, our Empty Bowls supper raised funds that went directly to their food program for those in need.\nKid's Store: After church, you will see the kids set up at a table selling canned goods. It is a simple idea conceived and carried out by the middle school youth, the proceeds from sales are used to buy more food items while those purchased are donated directly to the Reconciliation House. Periodically, profits are presented in the form of a check.\nCoffee Project: Coffee and goods are purchased from Equal Exchange and are available for sale in the Fellowship Hall. Proceeds benefit our Mission projects.\nNickel a Meal: This is a monthly offering giving 5 cents for each meal that month. 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I've always been rather good at sticking to my New Year resolutions - in 2010 I made it my goal to lose weight and lost six stone and last year I vowed to travel more. Even though I was unable to travel the world as I planned, I did managed to visit many beautiful places in the UK and mainland Europe. After two years of having quite a rough time with my health and deciding to step back from my goals, I want this year to be the year I finally rediscover myself.\nBeing poorly and having to take a break from your career and life can really knock your confidence and for me, it knocked my confidence to the point I didn't recognise myself anymore. Last year I hit lows in my self esteem that I hadn't hit since I was in my teens and I began to feel 'lost'. It was the feeling of not knowing what would happen and whether I would ever feel like myself again. This month marks twelve months since I was last in hospital - having spent the last five years spending several weeks in hospital per year, it was a huge achievement. My medication is beginning to work and although there's no cure for my condition, through healthy eating and trying to remain positive, I have noticed my symptoms decrease and I feel like now more than ever is the perfect time for me to work at getting my life back on track. So here's just a few of the goals I would like to achieve or the next year.\nA blog re-brand\nBehind the scenes over the last few weeks I have been working on new artwork for my blog and setting up my new social channels ready for the big switch around. Re-branding my blog will symbolise a new start for myself personally and professionally and hopefully help me become the blogger I want to be.\nThe older I get, the more I realise that I spend so much of my wage on superficial items that I don't need. I own far too many clothes, have enough makeup to last me through the whole of 2017 and as much as I try to convince myself that I need them, I really don't need anymore shoes. For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to go to Japan and I'm hoping next year will be the year I finally get all my finances in place.\nContinue my travels\nWhether it's a day out somewhere in England I haven't visited or a mini break to Europe, I really want to continue exploring and finding new place in 2017.\nImprove my confidence\nLast, but definitely not least I would like to improve my confidence in 2017. In my previous paragraph I mentioned that my confidence is at an all time low and I really want to get my confidence back. From taking pride in my appearance more to taking on new challenges, I really want this year to be the year I get myself back on track and looking towards the future.\nGlad to hear your health hasn't been giving you as much trouble, best of luck with your 2017 goals!\njoan 5 January 2017 at 05:57\nShannon Boyce 5 January 2017 at 13:42\nOoh very exciting about the re-branding! Can't wait to see what you do :)\nCamilla90 4 May 2017 at 06:30\nI'd like to add traveling to my life too but atm it's almost impossible for me to accomplish. On the one hand reviewing online paper writing service doesn't leave much free time and on the other hand it doesn't provide much money. So this year I will probably focus on saving finances to get a chance to make my dreams come true in years to come.\nKerryWin89 24 November 2017 at 05:56\nNew school year starts and students have to deal with their homeworks, essays and summaries as basis. Some students get through this on their own meanwhile others face difficulties. While some students still need to work homeworks take a lot of time and energy. Hence the question arises \u201cWho can help me to write my essays?\u201d. It's obvious that they'll want to apply to source like this https://rocketpaper.net/immigration-essay-writing\nAndrew Net 24 November 2017 at 08:01\nIf you already have a lot of blog content, you can turn this content into additional, unique blog posts in seconds using our paraphrases sentences . You can use this service to turn any number of blog posts into twice the amount of valuable, readable content for the same or different blogs.\nRoman 18 December 2017 at 09:04\nYou might notice that on Scamfighter they place test orders with different sites to make sure that they have the most relevant information, and there is no place for mistakes. If you do not agree with their opinion, okay, go ahead and place the edubirdie reviews under their post or discuss it in their forum. An actual person manages the service and he can see all the complaints you submit, so he can send you an email or call you if you need his assistance. He hates guys who do that but, after all, no one can say that his reviews are fake!\nhelp with my resume 23 May 2018 at 23:20\nFor my goals this year, I have decided that I want to go to different places that are beautiful and relaxing. All I ever did in my life was to work non-stop daily and I think it's already harming my health. There are lots of good things that I would love to do and I don't want to live my life in a way that I have to work every single day. Sometimes it's better to just be happy rather than to stress yourself over your working career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.futuremobile.in/tag/xiaomi-mi-note/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5GJNNDPFZRMMIOYPTPZNYDALORMYQBT5", "length": 283, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.futuremobile.in", "title": "Xiaomi Mi Note | New Launched Mobile, Latest Smartphone, Upcoming Mobile", "raw_content": "Xiaomi Mi Note Specification, Features & Price\nXiaomi has launch Xiaomi Mi Note on 15 January 2015. The company announced a pricing of CNY 2,299 (roughly Rs. 23,000). It is the company's new flagship smartphone which was previously teased by the company with the tagline \"The bigger\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 1690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.futureofbusinessandtech.com/workplace-wellness/experts-share-advice-on-detecting-and-deterring-workplace-violence", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2SBJXHA4LZW3QZBFXGWTADETQWUBUUS5", "length": 12392, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.futureofbusinessandtech.com", "title": "Experts Share Advice on Detecting and Deterring Workplace Violence - Future of Business and Tech", "raw_content": "Workplace Wellness Electronic security experts discuss best practices to help your business better manage workplace security.\nBusiness Solutions Executive, RFI Enterprises\nCathy Rempel\nPresident, American Security Integrators\nProviding a secure workplace is a vital concern for employers but presents a definitive challenge. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 million American workers report having been victims of workplace violence, with aggravated assault being the most common offense followed by rapes and sexual assaults, robberies and homicides.\nWhile active shooters, such as the recent shooting at the YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, and the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, are among the most highly-publicized cause of workplace violence and death, the most common motive for job-related homicides is robbery, which accounts for about 85 percent of fatalities due to acts of violence in the workplace.\nThe fact that the potential for workplace violence can come from both internal and external sources makes the solution even more complex.\nRecognizing this challenge, the Electronic Security Association (ESA) brought together two leading experts to discuss ways businesses can use security technologies help detect and deter the potential for violence in the workplace: Cathy Rempel, president of American Security Integrators, and Gregg Katz, business solutions executive at RFI Enterprises.\nWhat security technologies and/or systems can help employers provide better security for their workforce?\nGregg Katz: Most large enterprise systems have a robust security suite. They have access control at all locations. They also have video surveillance and security guards at main entrances.\nHowever, access control is great until someone swipes their card and a person, co-worker or not, just walks in behind them without swiping a card. We call this tailgating. Preventing employees from allowing someone to enter behind them is critical. Better yet, devices like turnstiles and tailgate detection devices can trigger an alarm if someone enters without swiping an access card.\nIf this person presents a threat, these devices can trigger communication technologies such as SMS messages directly to employees\u2019 phones, email, intercom systems and even panic buttons can alert employees to the threat.\nWith active shooters for example, the threat is intentional, and in many cases the shooter has identified their targets. As my colleagues who focus on security for educational facilities have noted, early detection and mass notification is key in an active shooter situation. Once a shooter has access, every second counts \u2014 and those seconds can save lives. A system should be designed to carve out those seconds to help mitigate a shooter\u2019s ability to inflict harm and give first responders time to engage.\nAlso, the quicker you know the threat and where the threat is, the quicker you can direct employees to take appropriate action, whether it\u2019s to shelter in place, evacuate or go to a previously-identified secure place within the facility.\nTurnstiles or active gates designed for businesses that require an electronic access card for entry are also effective. They limit the ability for an unauthorized person to enter the building without security being alerted.\nEach building has its own challenges and considerations. Working with a respected security integrator is key to discerning areas of exposure and developing a plan for prevention and event related action.\nCathy Rempel: Access control is a key component of workplace security for both small and large businesses. To be effective, however, any access control system requires consistent management, close attention to detail and employee training. Access cards and employee badges must be kept up to date. If an employee resigns or is dismissed, their electronic access code needs to be deleted from the system, their access card, employee badge and keys should be collected.\nIt is also important to have a visitor registration log and easily identifiable visitor badges. Employees should be trained to report anyone in the building without the appropriate identification. When a visitor leaves, their badge should be collected, and their departure recorded.\nAdditionally, employers should consider emerging technologies that combine access control, video analytics and unmanned guard stations with emergency response systems. In many organizations, we still see employees lending out their cards or misplacing cards, which can provide access to unauthorized and potentially dangerous individuals. With video analytics, cards can be linked to surveillance to ensure the right person \u2013 and only that person is entering a secure area.\nGK: Smaller companies that do not have a receptionist to greet and register visitors can use something simple like the chime that is probably already a part of their alarm system to alert employees that someone has entered the office. Video intercoms also can be useful for small businesses. Train employees so they know how to use the intercom system and develop a consistent greeting that is warm and friendly so customers feel welcome.\nMost importantly, however, make sure employees can identify a visitor before they permit entry. This can be done with something as simple as a video camera facing the entry way or video doorbell.\nCR: There are unmanned security systems and advanced video surveillance technologies \u2014 both of which can make a significant difference in terms of deterrence. They can also serve as a source for forensic details, which is an important tool for your security team and law enforcement.\nUnmanned systems can provide a security presence for businesses that don\u2019t necessarily have physical manpower or financial resources readily available. These systems are more affordable than they have been in the past \u2014 and offer facial recognition, access control, recording and emergency alert systems.\nVideo surveillance, when combined with signage, analytics and audio capabilities, can be effective \u2014 especially in detecting and deterring loitering around your business as well as detecting individuals who may present a safety threat to employees working late at night.\nGK: For example, if your video surveillance detects a person or group of people loitering around your business after hours, video analytics in conjunction with IP speakers can alert the loiterers that they are under surveillance and their actions are being recorded. Businesses can do this with a pre-recorded message or through a monitoring center with a live video feed. If potential criminal activity is detected, the monitoring center can issue an audio warning: \u201cHey, you in the red shirt. I see you, you are being recorded, law enforcement has been alerted and are on their way.\u201d This type of technology has come down in price to a point where it is more affordable.\nOnce a crime has been committed at a workplace, how can an employer\u2019s security system be used to help law enforcement identify, apprehend and prosecute a suspect?\nGK: Proper cameras, properly placed and installed correctly are crucial. There is a difference between situational awareness and capturing an identifiable image. For example, a parking lot camera needs to encompass (or see) the whole parking lot. However, it also needs to be able to capture identifiable footage in low lighting situations. Exterior cameras need to be higher megapixel cameras because you\u2019re trying to cover a larger area. If you zoom in on a picture that\u2019s not high megapixel, it is grainy or pixelated by the time you get to the item of interest.\nIn a court of law there are certain requirements, and pixels per square inch are often a part of those requirements. Just because it looks like a really good image and you are happy with, it doesn\u2019t actually mean you have a prosecutable image.\nIf you have a small business, this heightened level of situational awareness may not be what you need. But if you have a larger company, you have more employees you are trying to secure and more liability.\nAlso, deterrence is one of the main reasons businesses install security systems. Most crime is opportunistic \u2014 perpetrators are looking for situations where they can easily steal something and get away with it. If you take that ease away, you can often mitigate the risk.\nCR: Law enforcement officials are looking for factual information, and high-quality video surveillance footage is at the top of the list. Video surveillance needs to be in your vulnerable areas such as your entry points and your exit points, as well as in offices or areas where cash or product may be vulnerable to theft. You also need to have a reliable video storage system in place.\nVideo analytics are also helpful \u2014 facial recognition and license plate recognition are factual pieces of information law enforcement can use. By integrating video surveillance with access control systems, law enforcement can match the badge or the code of people coming into your company with a visual image. Simple visitor logs can also be a helpful resource for law enforcement.\nA strong partnership between the security integrator and central monitoring station is imperative to ensure the security solution being provided is specific to your needs and consistent with industry regulations. Monitoring stations today can manage many of the analytic responses and storage requirements, as well as the technicalities of your access control system to ensure badges and cards are accounted for and up to date.\nGK: For your security system to be effective as a documentation tool, you need the different components and technologies to integrate seamlessly. For example, if your access control and your video camera system are on separate devices or originate from separate manufacturers and the time stamps do not synch correctly, you no longer have factual information.\nEach camera has its own time stamp as well. If you are watermarking footage with a time stamp, you need to make sure all your cameras are working off the same time stamp, are time stamped correctly and synched with your access control system. These are the types of details that are often overlooked, but highly crucial for documentation. It is also why you need to do your research and retain a reputable company with technicians certified to install and maintain the equipment.\nRempel and Katz emphasize employee training as the most important component of workplace security. To sum up the advice from our ESA experts, it is people, process and technology working in tandem that provides an effective workplace security strategy.\nNOTE: Many local law enforcement departments have video surveillance registration programs where businesses can voluntarily enter their video surveillance systems into a database so authorities can easily identify cameras that may have captured footage from a crime. This saves precious time when trying to get a criminal off the street because police don\u2019t have to spend as much time canvassing an area for video footage.\nESA encourages businesses to contact their local law enforcement office to determine if a video surveillance database has been established in their community \u2014 and if so, enter their video surveillance system into the database.\nFor more information about best practice security solutions for businesses, visit Alarm.org. Businesses are encouraged to always ask if a company is a member of the Electronic Security Association (ESA) and if its employees are trained by ESA\u2019s National Training School (NTS). ESA member companies, whose security professionals are certified through NTS have completed extensive training in electronic security and adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct. Members of ESA can be found by visiting Alarm.org.\nSOURCE: ESA,\nExperts Weigh in on the Importance of Office Ergonomics\nFinding Focus: Promoting Productivity In and Out of the Office\nFor today\u2019s workers, the drive toward workforce well-being is broader in scope yet more personalized, with a goal of increased engagement and connection to business results.\nWe often think of spring as a time to clear out and clean up our homes, but at the National Cyber Security Alliance we encourage everyone to also think of doing a digital spring cleaning, both at home and at the office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 13351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fvautomall.com/showroom/2019/GMC/Sierra%202500HD/Truck/overview.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7K7IS5MGD4NTN2I45NWTXMAHG7UDHLAS", "length": 405, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fvautomall.com", "title": "2019 GMC Sierra 2500HD Truck Digital Showroom | Fraser Valley Auto Mall Association Inc", "raw_content": "The standard features of the GMC Sierra 2500HD Base include Vortec 6.0L V-8 360hp engine, 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st row overhead airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 17\" steel wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, four-wheel drive.\nApplies to select new 2019 GMC Sierra 2500HD.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 7174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130954/dice_feature_surfing_the_blue_.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XNSCYDXH6XYC4EWROXFYTKTSQKON5DX5", "length": 7734, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.gamasutra.com", "title": "Gamasutra - DICE Feature: 'Surfing The Blue Ocean: Fils-Aime On Nintendo's Expanding Market'", "raw_content": "DICE Feature: 'Surfing The Blue Ocean: Fils-Aime On Nintendo's Expanding Market'\nby Frank Cifaldi [Business/Marketing]\n\"I really do stand here in front of you as a consumerist, an executive who looks at a range of industries and consumer trends to predict what's going to happen in this industry,\u201d said Nintendo of America\u2019s Vice President of Sales and Marketing Reggie Fils-Aime to the assembled game industry executives at his DICE keynote.\u201cI also look at what's going on in this gamer's point of view to find out what's hot and relevant, and how we can apply this to the industry.\u201d\nThese were among the opening remarks of a speech entitled \u201cExpanding the Market for Interactive Entertainment,\u201d held at the 2006 DICE Summit in Las Vegas. The presentation touched on the gaming industry\u2019s currently spiraling sales trends, and the necessity for attracting a market outside of the current \u201chardcore\u201d user base.\nHandhelds - The True Champions?\nDespite declining home console sales, gaming revenue was at an all-time high in 2005, at 10.5 billion, partially due to sales of handheld units. In fact, according to Fils-Aime, the handheld market grew from 20% of the overall game sales market in 2004 to 35% in 2005. In terms of revenue, home console earnings were down 14% from 2004, while portable revenue was up an astonishing 88%.\nNintendo exec Reggie Fils-Aime\n\u201cSo while consoles continue to draw the most media attention, handhelds were truly the back-story to growth in 2005,\u201d said Fils-Aime. \u201cWhat's really surprising is that there's a 6% drop in the number of software sold. You would think that with approximately 57 million units of hardware in the home console area, these are all consumers looking to buy more games. And yet, there\u2019s a 6% decline in the number of games sold. It really shows that the money moved over to handhelds.\nThe story in Japan is similar, said Fils-Aime. In fact, the handheld market last year almost single-handedly reversed the steady state of decline the Japanese gaming industry has been experiencing since 1997. \u201cConsole software and hardware continued to decline, but there was over 100% growth rate in the handheld segment. Now, certainly the DS wasn\u2019t the only reason for that level of growth, but certainly we were a large part.\u201d\n\u201cIn addition to satisfying the needs of the core consumer, we were successful in bringing new gamers into gaming industry. And this is critical. The best known example is Nintendogs. It's not a traditional game by any standard measure, but the emotional attachment created with a pixilated puppy is phenomenal.\u201d\nThe reliably adorable Nintendogs\nDifferentiating Game Content, Marketing\nSpeaking directly to game developers, Fils-Aime said the following: \u201cWhat you do, from a software development standpoint, is critical in creating the game content. But what my peers need to do is market those games in different ways to truly appeal to the audience you're going after, and that's what we were able to do.\u201d\nFils-Aime followed this up with a brief overview of the Nintendogs marketing campaign that targeted non-traditional game advertising outlets, including young female magazines such as Teen People and Seventeen. \u201cWe\u2019re speaking to consumers in their own voice,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe also gave samples away to thousands of consumers and generated consumer content well in advance of the launch, and opened this up on day one of the shipping. What this did was speak to consumers and let those who had already played the game talk about what they loved, which generated a huge level of interest.\u201d\nFils-Aime also touched on Nintendo\u2019s Brain Training software for the DS, which isn\u2019t so much a game as it is a series of mental exercises designed to keep the brain ticking. The title, he pointed out, has been a consistent top seller in Japan since its release.\n\u201cTwo weeks ago, Time Magazine was talking about the importance of training your brain, speaking mainly to later baby boomers. Now, imagine a gaming company talking about appealing to that demographic, people approaching 50 to 60. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. What we've been able to do, in Japan, is to draw appeal of video gaming into a whole new segment that typically wouldn't pick up a video game.\u201d\n\u201cThe marketing for these titles in critical. You won't see ads on MTV. We'll be marketing by going on daytime TV, partnering with Oprah, Ellen\u2026totally unheard of for video games, but fundamentally what needs to be done to reach new audience.\u201d\n\u201cWe believe that there are a number of factors going on that make a compelling point to why things need to go differently,\u201d he continued. \u201cFor the first time in our industry's existence, the number of blue chip recruits \u2013 males 10-14 \u2013 is actually declining, versus about twenty years of constant growth. If all we do is target men and boys, this industry will decline. The only way to reverse that would be to make gaming more popular, but data suggests that's not happening.\u201d\nBrain Training, a smash in Japan\nDS Download Stations\nOne of Nintendo\u2019s short-term solutions is what it\u2019s calling DS Download Stations, which are units that broadcast content for the DS at retail locations. \u201cThese are branded areas were consumers can bring in their DS and get downloaded content on the spot, like game demos, trailers, items for games, maybe minigames,\u201d he said. \u201cThe content stays on the DS only as long as the unit stays on. So they don't get to keep it. And this allows the consumer to be at the download station and try a whole variety of downloads.\u201d\n\u201cWe see this as a huge opportunity for retail partners, but also a huge sampling opportunity for each of you,\u201d he said, referring to developers who may wish to express small ideas through the DS Download Stations. \u201cYour little idea you haven't been able to convince those with pocketbooks [into funding] can be sampled for the first time, and you let the consumers vote. It\u2019s a great new window for developers to find out what can be done.\u201d\n\u201cIn short, those considering developing for DS, come to us with any ideas.\u201d\nAn announcement was also made in regards to Metroid Prime Hunters for the Nintendo DS, planned for April 20th: the ability to chat via VoIP. \u201cThis won't be in-game trash talking, but the ability for owners of the software to talk and chat with friends prior to and after games.\u201d\nRevolutionary Ideas?\nFils-Aime then discussed Nintendo\u2019s next console, code-named the Revolution. \u201cIts sole purpose is to deliver groundbreaking entertainment to the consumer, and we are focused on attracting a much wider audience than those currently playing games,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd certainly for you in the audience, it moves us much closer to democracy. We want every idea you have to make its way to the Revolution, and to be rewarded with the opportunity to be seen, rather than with a big paycheck.\u201d\n\u201c[Revolution] promises to do both more and less. You can take this idea to a whole different realm of possibilities, or create simpler, more accessible titles. It\u2019s really a wide open playground. You can make a more affordable game if you want, or if you want to use traditional mechanics, we have a cradle that can be used.\u201d\n\u201cMy main message here today is that we as an industry can not take growth for granted,\u201d Fils-Aime concluded. \u201cAll of us have a continuing challenge to bring gaming to a whole new level, to appeal to consumers who game today as well as to those who do not. To make gaming more relevant, but also to reach out with new innovations to those who aren't in our industry. Truly I give you an invitation from myself and from Mr. Iwata: come join us in the blue ocean of opportunity. Thanks for your time.\u201d\n130954 item_feature /view/feature/130954/dice_feature_surfing_the_blue_.php Loading Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 10735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gamesauce.biz/tag/wii-u/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FBG5KYJ3VOXRC5PITXECG5OXPT3BEYWX", "length": 3086, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.gamesauce.biz", "title": "Wii U Archives - Gamesauce: Global Inspiration for Game Developers", "raw_content": "Wojciech Borczyk: Createrria, Growth through Gaming | Casual Connect Video\nAt Casual Connect Europe, Wojciech Borczyk revealed upcoming features for Createrria, Createrria is the platform that allows players to create their own games.\nWojciech Borczyk and Jakub Duda, Founders of Incuvo\nWojciech Borczyk, co-founder of Incuvo, founded the game development startup in 2012 with Jakub Duda. His love of games began as a child, and his desire to create games started almost as early. He convinced his brother to teach him programming, and a few weeks later he had made his first game. Although it was a very simple game, he said, \u201cWatching those pixels obey my orders and watching my friends play it \u2013 you can\u2019t describe that with words.\u201d He continues in the games industry because of his love for games and because of the new learning opportunities. What he enjoys the most is the chance to continue doing what he loves with his colleagues. However, if Borczyk was not in the games industry, he would be developing his scientific and academic career. He has a PhD in Informatics and Computer Graphics and enjoys teaching.\nBecause Incuvo is still a small company, Borczyk\u2019s work encompasses many different areas including design, programming, and fundraising. His previous game industry and business software experience, combined with his scientific career, have all been beneficial in his new company. He also learned many helpful skills as a demo scene member.\nCreating with Createrria\nBorczyk tells us the formation of Createrria has been the most exciting time of his career. Borczyk emphasizes that he loved creating games as a child, but it was a difficult thing to do. \u201cI always wanted people to experience how it feels to create your own game, but to take the hassle away. And now I know we\u2019ve done it right,\u201d he said.\nThe Incuvo Team\nIncuvo is focusing on community trends with Createrria. They believe user-generated games will be huge. This opinion is certainly well-founded, given that within the first month after a worldwide launch, people created over 700,000 games in Createrria. And although Createrria was not created specifically for children, Incuvo has enjoyed seeing it embraced by young people.\nA Long-Time Gamer\nWojciech Borczyk\nAs a longtime gamer, Borczyk currently enjoys playing Zelda Wind Waker HD on Wii U. He prefers Nintendo platforms, and is spending more and more time on Wii U. For mobile games, he prefers iOS to Android, feeling its user experience is superior.\nThe trend that Borczyk sees most influencing the game industry during the next few years is the new wave of virtual reality equipment. He claimed Oculus Rift is taking it in the right direction. \u201cHowever, I believe this won\u2019t be an experience for the masses (too many people experiencing heavy side effects),\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, the technology gets better and better, but I haven\u2019t seen a polished game experience.\u201d But he also noted that the controls are challenging and pointed out, \u201cNow that your brain is tricked into thinking \u2018I am there,\u2019 many things that were acceptable are no longer.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.garypeer.com.au/sell/how-we-re-different/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3GPX52QUOAMYTP24HCD2C27PAIJW6FKC", "length": 684, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.garypeer.com.au", "title": "How we're \u00bb Gary Peer Real Estate", "raw_content": "The key to the way we see things is that we are professional property marketers. We work in harmony with our clients to understand precisely what their ambitions and needs are, then bring all of the skills and resources of our company and people to deliver our clients goals.\nWhat REALLY makes us truly unique is our unparalleled local knowledge.\nNo-one knows our area as well as we do. Over the past 25 years we\u2019ve seen local property market fluctuations, trends and unique idiosyncrasies.\nOur reputation for understanding and interpreting these trends allows us to advise clients when and where to buy and sell. Our clients success is testament to the value of the insights we have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gdcodecoupon.com/small-enterprise-development-heart-situated-in-vancouver-wa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5BH3RAJF2IDK43GSE45H5VUGPKJCF345", "length": 971, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gdcodecoupon.com", "title": "Small Enterprise Development Heart Situated In Vancouver, WA | GC", "raw_content": "The number one perform of those loan programs is to make loans with longer repayment intervals out there to small businesses. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to alleviate the monetary disaster of the Nice Depression, was SBA\u2019s grandparent.\nChoose your state below to get detailed state by state information about beginning a enterprise. Real Property & Gear Loans CDC/504 \u2013 This loan gives financing for main fixed belongings similar to real property and equipment. As a result of the financial institution mortgage is senior to the CDC loan and the loan is backed by actual-estate, there is a low danger that the bank won\u2019t be able to get back the money it loans.\nSmall companies must meet certain criteria to qualify for an SBA loan, including size necessities, financial standing and being in a for-revenue industry. In 1996, the Republican -controlled Home of Representatives planned to get rid of the agency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.geovisites.com/en/directory/news_weblogs.php?compte=889606255686", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:24Z", "digest": "sha1:B5ZMKEXEV7QDZ7QQ6KAAYLVUT6XW4OBR", "length": 1411, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.geovisites.com", "title": "Directory news weblogs", "raw_content": "CHANIAGO\nMembers of the Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia (LDII) Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia (Indonesia Institute of Islamic Dawah) or LDII, is an independent social organization for study and research on Alqur'an and Alhadist. Dakwah is Indonesian for religious proselytizing. Indonesia Institute of Islamic Dawah, an independent civic organizations, official and legal follow the provisions of Law no. 8 1985 on Community Organisations, Article 9, paragraph (2), April 4, 1986 (State Gazette of 1986 number 24), including PP, and implementation. 18 in 1986 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation No.. 5 1986 and other legal rules. LDII, have the Articles of Association and Bylaws, Work Program and Management from the Central level to village level. LDII already recorded in the Agency for National Unity and Community Protection Department of the Interior. LDII is a component part of the Indonesian Nation residing in the Republic of Indonesia Based on Pancasila and the Constitution 45. Indonesia Institute of Islamic Dawah (LDII) established in accordance with the ideals of the pioneering scholars of the Muslims as a place to learn, practice and propagate Islamic teachings are based purely on the Alquran and Alhadith, the cultural background of the people of Indonesia, in the frame of State Unitary Republic of Indonesia based on Pancasila and the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 6482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glasgowvant.com/glasgow-hotels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:N2OIWDGTX2CS6F6YMFFCED5I5WMERNE4", "length": 713, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.glasgowvant.com", "title": "Glasgow Hotels", "raw_content": "Hotels Near the SSE Hydro\nThe SSE Hydro is Glasgow\u2019s newest major gig venue, attracting the biggest national and international names in music and comedy. It\u2019s easy to get to and situated right next to the uber-trendy Finnieston area, filled with bars and restaurants.\nHotels Near Glasgow Airport\nGlasgow Airport is just a 15 minute drive from the city centre. If you have a late flight or an early start airport hotels are always a good option.\nHotels Near George Square\nGeorge Square is considered by most Glaswegian\u2019s to be the centre of the city and if you are visiting the city or even just treating yourself on big night out, a hotel near George Square is an ideal choice with so much just a short walk away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glasgowwarriors.com/articles/match/009471.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2NAPH5HUMVK5YR66DLKU5NQNUZVAKZGS", "length": 2374, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.glasgowwarriors.com", "title": "Glasgow Warriors | Munster v Glasgow Warriors", "raw_content": "Champions Cup match played at Thomond Park on Saturday October 22nd 2016 | No comments\nPat MacArthur got Glasgow over for a try Warriors couldn't back-up their winning start to the Champions Cup as they went down to Munster at an emotionally charged Thomond Park this afternoon.\nThe match was played in a cauldron of emotion, with it being the first Munster have played since their head coach Anthony Foley passed away suddenly last weekend.\nMunster scored five tries to secure a bonus-point win and Glasgow head coach Gregor Townsend says they'll need to look at what went wrong so they don't make the same mistakes again.\nSpeaking to glasgowwarriors.org, he said: \"I thought Munster were outstanding today. They played with real passion, they defended very well, were organised in attack and showed determination in every aspect of their game.\n\"Today's match was a fantastic tribute to Anthony Foley. I thought the build-up and atmosphere was great and his players played very well for him.\n\"Unfortunately, we didn't turn up as a team. There were a few players who worked very hard, but if you don't turn up as a fifteen in places like this against an inspired team then you're going to lose and today we lost heavily.\n\"It's a real disappointment given how well we played last week, but we'll have a good look at the reasons for that.\n\"Part of our issues were focus and work-rate, which are more of the mental side of the game and we'll have to look at how we can prepare for a game which has a different build-up.\"\nThe Warriors are back in GUINNESS PRO12 action on Friday night, when they welcome Benetton Treviso to Scotstoun and Townsend says it's important they prepare well next week to get back on track.\nHe added: \"We know we're better than our performance today. We've shown that over the last few years and the last few weeks that we're better than that and we'll need to bounce back next week.\n\"The Champions Cup is over for a few weeks and we'll have two really tough games in December against Racing 92.\n\"Our focus is now on the GUINNESS PRO12 and we have a home game against Treviso on Friday night.\n\"We don't have that long to prepare for it and the sessions on Monday and Tuesday will be important to get us back on track.\"\nReferee Jerome Garces (France)\nJosh Strauss Simone Favaro\nAlex Dunbar Mark Bennett\nFinn Russell Peter Murchie\nRyan Wilson Lewis Wynne", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalholidays-paris.com/palace-of-versailles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZH5VRKK4ICGIAR5QOIFH5KANQRIOVN5R", "length": 3317, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.globalholidays-paris.com", "title": "Palace of Versailles \u2013 Global Holidays", "raw_content": "The Palace of Versailles Paris is not a single building. Instead, the estate includes the main Palace, the Grand Trianon, Marie-Antoinett\u2019s Estate and the 1700-acre Versailles Garden. The Chateau contains 700 individual rooms each more spectacular and lavish than the next. The 23-kt gold leaf on woven silk\nwall coverings and framing exquisitely painted ceiling panels, smothering statues and sculptures, encasing lamps, trimming chandeliers and forming platters, bowls, and assortments of serving dishes speaks of how few ways the extremely rich could invest their money.\nThe Rooms most often discussed are the Hall of Mirrors leading to the King\u2019s Apartments. It is spectacular. The 239.5-foot long by 34.4-foot wide corridor is dripping with chandeliers overburdened with hand-cut crystals hanging from the 40 foot high arched ceiling. The 357 hand made Venetian Mirrors inlayed into the 17 arched windows and the balance of the 578 mirrors creating the mirrored wall opposite the garden doors allow for even the smallest movement to be seen from anywhere in the hall. Since this hall was especially for gathering the royal court together for official occasions, any intrigue among the dissidents could be seen and reported to the King.\nThis is a simpler palace on the estate, which Louis XIV built for himself and his mistress to live in and avoid the artificial etiquette necessary at the Chateau. It soon became the private Royal Family quarters when Louis XIV moved his family into the Palace of Versailles Paris. The current decorations reflects the taste of Emperor Napoleon\u2019s wife with bubble gum pink walls and gold-leaf head and foot boards enunciating the emblazoned motif with cherubs watching over the sleeping royal.\nMarie-Antoinette\u2019s Estate within the Versailles Estate\nMarie-Antoinette\u2019s Estate consists of her palace aka the Petit Trianon, her farm, her own theater, her own hamlet, her mill and the Temple of Love where she and Louis would meet in private in a sheltered garden. There is a separate gated entry to her private estate and this is where she gave birth to her son. The gardens are much more intimate but the elegance of the rooms is in keeping with the glamour found in the other palaces.\nThe Palace of Versailles (Paris) Gardens\nThere is no way to get from the main palace to the Grand Trianon or the Petit Trianon without accessing the gardens. The fountains and statutes dotting the landscape accentuate the abundance of trees and potted flowers that are changed daily to present the freshest blooms and lavish perfumes as you pass by.\nPasses to Versailles\nThere are three types of entry passes available. The least expensive is the half-day pass, the next is a full day pass; but the one for those who plan to spend more than a day at Versailles, is the Passport which can be purchased for 2, 4 or 6 days with the highest price being 59 euro. You can purchase the passes online, thus avoiding lines. The first Sunday of the Month from November until mid-March is free to the Public.\nBeyond touring the palaces and gardens, there is an excellent boutique on the site for some of the most exclusive souvenirs in Paris. Throughout the year, there are operas, ballets, and musical events in the several theaters on the grounds. The Passport ticket does include some of these events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalpapermoney.com/3m-cms-3845", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OCIVYV6RFAZVWRJDGJUBJJ6XAHIYSTDW", "length": 898, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.globalpapermoney.com", "title": "3M - Global Paper Money", "raw_content": "St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 10 August 2009 -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The board of directors of 3M (NYSE:MMM) today declared a dividend on the company\u2019s common stock of 51 cents per share for the third quarter of 2009, payable 12 September 2009, to shareholders of record at the close of business on 21 August 2009. This cash dividend is the 372nd consecutive quarterly dividend paid by 3M.\nAs of 30 June 2009, 3M had 698,320,662 common shares outstanding and 114,869 shareholders of record.\nA recognized leader in research and development, 3M produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets. 3M\u2019s core strength is applying its more than 40 distinct technology platforms \u2013 often in combination \u2013 to a wide array of customer needs. With USD 25 billion in sales, 3M employs 75,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 114.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalremediation.es/en/who-are-we/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2N3HRCE6COO3ONLIXC2WKV6VB3KCVUOO", "length": 1624, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.globalremediation.es", "title": "Who are we - Global Remediation. Laboratorio de la Naturaleza", "raw_content": "Global Remediation was founded in Barcelona in 1998. It is a laboratory specializing in natural medicine. What began as a project looking into the future, now has become a reality. We design, manufacture and distribute, at the national and worldwide level, food supplements and natural cosmetics.\nFor almost two decades, Global Remediation has focused on the development of products that aim to improve health and welfare by means of exclusively natural ingredients.\nFor many years, Global Remediation has been searching for the best possible natural ingredients with which to formulate products of the highest quality.\nGlobal Remediation began in Barcelona in 1998 with the aim of being a laboratory specializing in natural medicine. Over the following two decades, we have been committed to the development of natural products to improve human health.\nThe values driving us are innovation, environmental respect and the highest standards of quality. Our values, combined with our experience, allow us to achieve our objective: to deliver quality products to our customers\nOur products aim to improve peoples\u2019 health, to reduce the stress we all suffer daily and to help the global population have a healthier lifestyle; all this while providing quick responses to their needs.\nOur aim is to disseminate the knowledge of the benefits of medicinal plants for people\u2019s health, and to consolidate Global Remediation as nature\u2019s laboratory.\nOur team is formed by first rate professionals knowledgeable in different medical specialties. They will select the best ingredients for the treatment of various diseases and conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globenewscenter.us/2017/05", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TI6WRA2IES3BARGCWL7WHEGPFUTMLT5J", "length": 343, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.globenewscenter.us", "title": "May 2017 \u2013 Global News Centre", "raw_content": "Adopting a Child of Your Own May 17, 2017 WgeeLinks\nThere are couples who have issues with fertility. They have tried their hardest to conceive a child and nothing seems to work out on their behalf. Should they just give up? What is a childless couple to do? It seems that more and more you here on the news of how people are doing harmful [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goleap.us/goleap/landscape-obesity-fountains-garden.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KEYCY5MJE7O32DBZM6B6EYYSZTIJ6WPY", "length": 6252, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.goleap.us", "title": "Garden Fountains And Obesity", "raw_content": "The 1st American city to implement a tax on sugary drinks was Berkley, California in February 2014. By taxing sugary drinks, the city hopes to motivate more people to choose healthier options, such as water. Attempts were made to find out the status of community drinking water fountains in both high- and low-income neighborhoods. Using content amassed by a mobile GPS app, researchers were able to establish the condition of existing water fountains in Berkley. Demographic data on race and earnings was then gathered using the US Census database. The professionals looked to use both data sets to figure out if demographics were associated to drinking water fountain access. Each water fountain and the demographics of its neighboring area were analyzed to reveal whether the location of the fountains or their standard of maintenance demonstrated any correlation to income, race, or other factors. Some of the water fountains were dirty or blocked, regardless of the fact that a lot of fountains worked.\nContainer gardening is the best way to cultivate herbs. The subject of herbs will in all probability be inviting to somebody who enjoys spending time in the kitchen or garden.\nCultivating herbs is straightforward and simple, and easily pay off since they can be used in everyday meals, soups, and marinades. It only takes a little time each day to maintain your herb garden, and if you own planter gardens and potted herbs, they can be taken inside once autumn begins to freeze - so you can take delight in your herbs all year long. Harvest times change for herbs since each type will have a different rate of growth. Herb gardening demands some fortitude, as can be likely for any new undertaking. Tackle your herb garden like an athlete approaches his/her daily routines, results might come slowly but they will come; caring for your herb garden is essential even when you do not see results right away.\nThe Legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, were simply gardens planned and planted on roof terraces. They were designed to be water-proof and placed over a big, curved stone substructure with large storage rooms below. The terraces effortlessly grew trees considering the soil was deep and water from cavernous wells was supplied to the plants through a hydraulic system. Thyme, poppy, anise, and rosemary were preferred plants.\nThere are various energy sources which can be employed to run your garden wall fountain. The recent interest in alternative power has led to a rise in the usage of solar run fountains, even though till now they have primarily been powered by electricity. Solar energy is a great way to run your water fountain, just know that initial expenses will most likely be higher. The most common materials used to make solar powered water features are terra cotta, copper, porcelain, or bronze. You should be able to buy the right sort of fountain to meet your design requirements. If you are contemplating a fountain to complete your garden sanctuary, know that they are effortless to care for and a great way to contribute to a clean eco-system.\nIndoor wall fountains are a superb option to cool your home as well as to provide an enticing addition to your surroundings. An alternative to air conditioners and evaporative coolers, they cool off your home by using the same techniques.\nSince they eat up less energy, they also help you save money on your monthly energy bill.\nFanning crisp, dry air across them is the most frequent method used to benefit from their cooling effect. Utilizing the ceiling fan or air from a corner of the room can help to optimize circulation. The most critical consideration is to ensure that the air is consistently flowing over the surface of the water. It is normal for fountains and waterfalls to produce cool, crisp air. Merely standing in the vicinity of a sizeable public fountain or waterfall will send a sudden chill through whoever is close by. Be certain to situate your fountain cooling system where it will not be subjected to extra heat. Your fountain will be less reliable if you situate it in the sunlight.\nBackyard Water Fountains: The Many Styles From Which to Pick\nA garden can be a small oasis, providing you a serene place to stop and enjoy some outdoor time. If you are going to spend a lot of time in yours, it is worth the work it takes to do it correctly. Investing in a breathtaking garden is good, as it will boost the \u201ccurb appeal\u201d and value of your home. There are many ways to improve the visual beauty of a yard, like adding flowers and plants, artwork, an attractive pavement, or a water feature.\nA water fountain can make a significant difference to the elegance and tranquility of your garden. A true fantasyland can be created from what used to be a very simple spot. The sounds of a water fountain make for a calming environment, not just for people but for the birds and other local wildlife that it will attract. Your fountain will immediately turn into the focal point of your garden or yard.\nYour business surroundings can benefit with a garden fountain. A nice one will make your office space feel warm and welcoming. Commercial areas, as opposed to home environments, need to have outdoor fountains that make the place feel inviting and leave a positive impression on guests and employees.\nIt is essential to any business to get visitors and then also make a positive impression on them. Garden water fountains, pretty plants, and other elements, will contribute a bit of nature even in limited spaces. For offices located on larger properties, it is possible to install even more attractive garden displays. That said, there are a lot that only have space for a small display with which to create an impressive and lasting statement.\nThe main idea here is that you need to bring in new customers and make a lasting impact. Having a striking garden fountain at the entrance to your business who want to give your business a try.\nSculptors garnished the elaborate columns and archways with renderings of the gods until the period came to a close and most Greeks had begun to think of their theology as superstitious rather than sacred; at that instant, it became more accepted for sculptors be... read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 7094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gordostuff.com/2008/08/pokemon-2008-world-championships.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:14Z", "digest": "sha1:C6LM6ZVMERS4MWTGV3ZK3PNFRGOW7VN4", "length": 2079, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gordostuff.com", "title": "Gordon's STEM Blog: Pokemon 2008 World Championships", "raw_content": "I\u2019m at the 2008 Pokemon World Championships today in Orlando with my daughter. Right now there is a Video Game Showdown going on featuring the top 64 players from the U.S. and Japan - 32 American players and 32 Japanese players divided into two age brackets competing. First place winners of the video game showdown will each receive a grand prize that includes a six-day vacation package to New York City, Honolulu or Tokyo.\nThe Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) World Championship is also going on and is much bigger with over 350 players (divided into three age brackets) from 30 countries competing to be named the ultimate World Champions of the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Top TCG winners will get prizes and merchandise, including scholarship awards totaling $100,000.\nMaybe you\u2019ve only been exposed to the animated Pokemon television show or maybe you\u2019ve got siblings or kids or grand kids who have collected Pokemon cards or played the Pokemon video games. These tournaments are intense \u2013 both the video and card games require a high level of skill, strategy and creativity. Games also stress fairness, honesty, respect and learning. All qualities we want to see in our kids - especially our science, math, engineering and technology students.\nIn total there are over 490 players here from 30 countries \u2013 three times as many as when we were last here in 2004. I'll be posting pics on my Flickr page at http://flickr.com/photos/gordonfsnyder\nThis is a very impressive bunch of kids!\nLabels: Orlando, Pokemon, Pokemon Trading Card Game, World Championship\nYou are right, a very impressive bunch of kids. What I found to be the best about it was how they all got along so well given such a diverse background they all had.\nShawn Fumo said...\nIt's pretty interesting to compare and contrast that with the World Yo-yo Contest, which I went to. 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We have experience of arranging corporate moves in the area and have successfully completed these for all sizes of companies, from one-man enterprises to large commercial businesses. Our approach to these is the same, whatever the size of the business, and this is to establish a sensible moving plan that will get a company\u2019s operations moved to their new premises with the minimum of disruption. Our office move planners can work with your representatives to come up with this plan and will use the knowledge they provide to make sure we take into consideration your company\u2019s unique circumstances. Whatever staff, IT hardware, furniture, equipment, machinery, and other assets that need to be moved, we can arrange for this to be completed in a sensible manner that limits any downtime and has your business operations fully up and running again as quickly and efficiently as possible. 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As a whole, the world population is growing older. Ageing is now also accelerating in low-income countries, where the process tends to start earlier and is becoming more pronounced in rural areas\nShould these population projections materialize, the increases could seriously jeopardize the overall development prospects of these countries.Rapid population growth changes the population structure, with younger generations making up an increasing share of the overall population.\nBetween 2015 and 2050, in low- and middle-income countries, the number of people between 15 and 24 years of age is expected to rise from about 1 billion to 1.2 billion. Most of these young people are expected to live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, particularly in rural areas, where jobs will likely to be difficult to find.\nWithout sufficient employment opportunities, this population trend may lead to a more rapid rate of outmigration. The impacts of outmigration are already being felt in some emigration destinations, not only at the national level, but also abroad, notably in Europe and high-income countries in other regions.In this article we try to highlighted the most applicable and right approach to the problem.\nKeywords: Africa,Immigration, Younger Population,\n[1] For citation : YILDIZ, D, 2017 \u201d Africa is coming .Who is ready to welcome ?\u201d, World Water Diplomacy & Science News. 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School based coursed encourage students to acquire a range of skills to perform tourist related activities such as communications, information technology, customer relations. The principal aim of the Intermediate 1 course is to prepare students to be informed consumers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-history/member/taverne-dick-1928", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DPMZIKRWXZ5HONZUC5SES3B7HDD3PA6N", "length": 9302, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.historyofparliamentonline.org", "title": "TAVERNE, Dick (b.1928). | History of Parliament Online", "raw_content": "TAVERNE, Dick (b.1928).\nTaverne, Dick (b. 1928)\nDick Taverne was born in Sumatra, on 18 October 1928. He married Janice Hennessey in 1955. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford, called to the Bar in 1954 and became QC in 1965.\nTaverne first stood for Labour in Putney in 1959. He was elected in 1962, in a by-election in Lincoln. In Harold Wilson\u2019s government he served in the Home Office and the Treasury. He took a strong pro-European line, and opposing nationalisation and too close a relationship between the party and the Trade Union movement, he left the Labour party and resigned his seat in 1972 after his stance on the European Common Market upset his local party. Becoming an independent Social Democrat, he won the subsequent by-election in 1973 but was defeated in 1974 general election. He subsequently became the first director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\nTaverne joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and stood on behalf of the party twice, but was defeated both times. He later became a member of the Liberal Democrats and in 1996 was made a life peer as Baron Taverne of Pimlico.\nClick here to listen to the full interview with Dick Taverne in the British Library.\n\u201cThen came the vote over the Common Market. \u2026 Wilson by then turned right round and said \u2018we oppose entry\u2019, swallowing every word he\u2019d previously uttered in favour of joining. The question was what would the pro-European Labour MPs do? And led by Roy Jenkins we all said \u2018No we are not going to change our minds\u2019. And my local party was absolutely clear about it and they said: \u2018If you vote for entry against the three line whip we will withdraw support\u2019. So I did. And they did. A big battle ensued, in fact it became a national battle, because there was a Granada World in Action programme which televised a debate in which I confronted the leader of my local party, Leo Beckett, and some of his followers. In which they said \u2018Didn\u2019t we support you? Weren\u2019t we on the door step with you?\u2019 and I said \u2018Yes you were and of course I take note of your opinions but I am not a puppet. I don\u2019t vote as I am instructed by my party masters and I am going to vote for entry\u2019. It was absolutely riveting. Lots of people said that this was really politics in the raw. They thought I\u2019d gone mad to agree to this confrontation on television but I thought that at some stage I was going to have to fight my local party, I\u2019d made up my mind I was going to stand as an independent, because I couldn\u2019t live with them anymore. Sometimes my followers would just manage to be on top, sometimes the other way, but they were much more persistent. So I knew at some stage I would have to break and I thought I would make the debate public and lay the grounds for my successful challenge of standing as an independent social democrat against the local party, and against the Conservatives as well.\u201d\nTrack 1 [1:24:23] Lord (Dick) Taverne [DT], born in jungle in Sumatra, 1928. Father a Dutch oil man. Family moved to London in 1939 for father to maintain Anglo-Dutch connection.[00:01:08] Got a scholarship to Charterhouse School. Family eventually moved back to London. [00:01:30] Parents conservative. DT had Labour sympathies while at school, one of only three boys he knew to welcome Labour victory in 1945. [00:02:00] No household religion. [00:02:15] DT talks of role school had in encouraging political thought. [00:02:55] Made Head of School. [00:03:04] Went straight to university, Balliol College, Oxford. [00:03:10] Talks of not undertaking National Service. [00:03:33] Joined all the political clubs, including Labour. [00:03:45] Comments on his flirtation with Marxism before becoming a social democrat. [00:04:20] Became chair of the Oxford Labour club. [00:04:58] Met his wife canvassing for Dr Edith Summerskill in the 1950 election. Canvassed with Bill Rodgers [BR] and Gerald Kaufman. [00:05:40] Shirley Williams, then Catlin, succeeded him as chair of the Labour club. [00:06:50] Talks of influences on his political thought, including Tony Crosland. [00:06:50] Called to the Bar in 1954 upon which he suspended his political ambitions to focus on developing his practice. [00:07:08] Description of meeting with BR in 1958 when DT was persuaded to run for parliament in Putney and his subsequent selection over Anne Clark, later Kerr. [00:08:45] Remarks on question given to candidates regarding Britain\u2019s attitude to the Common Market, and his response that Britain should be part of it. [00:09:50] Comments on post-mortem of 1959 election, including Hugh Gaitskell\u2019s [HG] belief that Clause IV was the problem and HG\u2019s proposal to abandon it at the Labour conference. DT only person to stand up at conference to support Clause IV abolition. [00:11:00] Describes the by-election in Lincoln in 1961. [00:11:20] Only political activity in which DT involved in the interim was as treasurer of the Campaign for Democratic Socialism and in the battle for unilateral disarmament. [00:12:00] HG recommends DT to stand for by-election in Lincoln. [00:12:50] Elected as Member of Parliament for Lincoln in the 1962 by-election. Describes campaign, managed by Leo Beckett. [00:14:55] Describes first impressions of the House of Commons and anecdote of his first vote. [00:16:40] Describes Prime Minister\u2019s Question Time. Anecdote about Harold MacMillan [HM] and the televising of parliament. [00:18:07] Refers to death of HG in 1963. [00:18:56] Discusses who impressed DT in parliament when he first joined. [00:20:25] Describes differences between parliament then and subsequently. [00:21:24] Mentions Roy Jenkins [RJ] as the dominating figure in parliament, as well as Enoch Powell. [00:22:33] Comments on his maiden speech and story about how DT had represented Tony Benn before the Committee of Privileges [TB] when he wanted to disclaim his peerage. [00:24:56] Description of the House\u2019s facilities, services and staff, particularly the library. [00:28:20] Became Private Parliamentary Secretary to Denis Healey, then Secretary of State for Defence, when Labour came to power in 1964. [00:28:50]\nTrack 1 [cont. from 00:28:50] Describes pursuing his different campaigns and balancing this with being a barrister. [00:31:10] Describes working for his constituency. [00:33:20] Describes his relationship with the media, both local and national. [00:35:00] Describes the effect of being a member of parliament on his family. [00:37:33] Explains how he was a Crosland follower before he entered Parliament, and identified himself as a social democrat. [00:38:35] Mentions becoming a junior minister to RJ as Home Secretary. [00:39:00] Moves with RJ to the Treasury. [00:39:38] Describes the split with the left over reform of trade union legislation, particularly in his local party, and how this led to him becoming Independent, including DT\u2019s views on threatened strike in Lincoln and his support for the Common Market. [00:42:00] Split with local party that followed, including Granada World in Action programme in which he confronted Leo Beckett and others in the party. [00:46:13] Describes attitude of the Labour party towards him in the 1973 by-election. John Harris was DT\u2019s campaign manager; Bill Rodgers\u2019 wife came and campaigned for him. Tony Crosland spoke against him which was a let-down. RJ\u2019s delight on his victory; support from young people in university Labour clubs. Describes attitude of Labour party after he returned to the House: was regarded as a traitor, as were people who supported him, including Andrew Faulds. But continued to meet friends, including through the 1963 club of social democrats. [00:47:40] Describes his book, Future of the Left: Lincoln and After, and his prediction that the social democrats would split and form an alliance with the Liberals. [00:49:00] Was approached by various Liberals, including Christopher Mayhew. Discusses his objections to Liberal policy. [00:52:14] Describes friendships with other parties, including Humphrey Berkeley, Julian Critchley and DT\u2019s pair, John Biffen. [00:53:24] Describes the increase in importance of parliamentary committees. [00:54:58] Details his involvement with inter-parliamentary bodies and the launches of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Sense About Science. [00:57:10] Elaborates on his appointment to a ministerial role, as junior minister to RJ, including an anecdote about Harold Wilson thinking DT untrustworthy. [1:00:14] Anecdote about Roy Hattersley [RH] being known as King Rat. [01:03:24] Details his attitude towards becoming a minister. [01:07:00] Describes speaking in the House on behalf of the Government. [01:07:39] Describes the role of civil servants in helping him prepare. [01:11:10] Did not look for another seat after being voted out, but stood as a Social Democratic Party candidate in Peckham and Dulwich not expecting to win. [01:12:00] Talks about life after the House of Commons, including his role as a non-executive director. [01:13:48] Describes joining the House of Lords in 1996 after RJ lobbying for DT to be appointed. Geoffrey Howe and John Wakeham spoke strongly in DT\u2019s favour to John Major. Compares and contrasts the House of Lords with the Commons, including anecdotes on committees in both. [01:20:27] Discussion of anecdotes about parliamentary wit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 10049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hmenews.com/article/relaxed-stark-law-could-it-result-increased-efficiency-decreased-competition", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YY2UUN3OBBSFW7GTPS5FWY63V2ESZ2ZT", "length": 3884, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.hmenews.com", "title": "Relaxed Stark Law: Could it result in increased efficiency but decreased competition? | HME News", "raw_content": "Relaxed Stark Law: Could it result in increased efficiency but decreased competition?\nWASHINGTON \u2013 A more relaxed Stark Law could be a double-edged sword for HME providers, says healthcare attorney Jeff Baird.\nIn a request for information published in the Federal Register on June 25, the Department of Health and Human Services asks for feedback on \u201chow to address any undue regulatory impact and burden of the physician self-referral law.\u201d\nHere\u2019s what Baird, chairperson of The Health Care Group at Amarillo, Texas-based Brown & Fortunato, had to say about why HHS\u2019s decision isn\u2019t surprising, and how it could be both good and bad for the HME industry.\nHME News: Are you surprised HHS is looking to relax the Stark Law?\nJeff Baird: No, because the Stark Law has been around for more than 30 years now and it\u2019s a very rigid law. The intent, of course, was to restrict or prohibit physicians from self-referring, but it contains a number of exceptions, because it hamstrings physicians. Still, there have been physicians and hospital systems that have gotten into trouble under the law and have had to pay civil monetary penalties for technical violations that didn\u2019t harm the Medicare program. It has had a lot of criticism.\nHME: HHS says it sees some aspects of the Stark Law as \u201ca potential barrier to coordinated care.\u201d What\u2019s the link between the law and coordinated care?\nBaird: The whole healthcare system is heading toward coordinated care, where providers must show third-party payers they\u2019re producing good outcomes. Third-party payers, whether it\u2019s the government or a commercial insurer, can\u2019t afford to continue paying reimbursement in silos, where you have Provider A doing their thing and doing a good job but they\u2019re not coordinating with Provider B, who\u2019s not coordinating with Provider C. You have all this money going to different providers and they\u2019re not coordinating with each other, so it\u2019s not very efficient. Where the rub comes in is, when providers try to work together to increase efficiency, their attorneys tell them, \u201cWell, we can do that but there\u2019s some risk under Stark, if there is a financial arrangement.\u201d So it has had a chilling effect.\nHME: What\u2019s an example of an existing exception under the Stark Law?\nBaird: The In-Office Ancillary Services exception says if a physician owns 100% of an ancillary services provider, such as an ambulatory surgical center, and if he is supervising it, the physician can refer patients to the provider because there\u2019s a real benefit to the healthcare system if Mr. Smith doesn\u2019t have to leave the office to, for example, have blood drawn. That exception applies to almost everything\u2014except DME.\nHME: So hypothetically, what might be a scenario that would be OK under a more relaxed law?\nBaird: Let\u2019s say a physician wants to put together an integrated practice that includes an MD, a PT and an OT, and a DME. So you have this integrated practice owned by various people. Right now, you can\u2019t do that because 1.) the physician has to own 100%, and 2.) it can\u2019t involve DME. But that\u2019s something that could become OK.\nHME: That\u2019s great news for the DME included in the integrated practice, but not so good news for all the other providers that want to do business with the practice.\nBaird: That\u2019s tough\u2014loosening the Stark Law could be a double-edged sword. It may increase efficiency, but it may decrease competition. We\u2019re seeing this right now with the increase in the number of single-source contracts out there. It\u2019s going to be an ongoing conflict and debate, a natural tug-of-war as a result of the push toward coordinated care.\nJeff Baird,\nPermalink Submitted by texhomamedical95 on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 8:45am\nIf DME's have to go through rigorous HQAA Accreditation's for Medicare, surety bonds, site surveys, etc. I don't think we have to prove our worth to Physicians. Stark law was there for a reason.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.holtondental.org/team-view/kelli-young/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RAVZE3S4A5XDQ4E5HHR4VPFQBJ6WAXNO", "length": 444, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.holtondental.org", "title": "Kelli Young", "raw_content": "Kelli Young - Dental Hygienist\nKelli joined the Holton Dental team in 2008 as a Dental Assistant. After graduating from Holton High School she attended Wichita State University earning her Bachelors in Dental Hygiene in 2012. She then rejoined the Holton Dental team as a Dental Hygienist. Kelli and her husband Donovan have welcomed their first son Lawson. In her spare time Kelli enjoys baking, spending time with family and snuggling Lawson.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hookedonhockeymagazine.com/western-conference-final-rematch-kings-vs-blackhawks/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SIHWOTADU3H2DY3NUIYCK2LN44FYMG5B", "length": 2875, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hookedonhockeymagazine.com", "title": "Western Conference Final Rematch: Kings vs. Blackhawks", "raw_content": "Western Conference Final Rematch: Kings vs. Blackhawks\nThere is going to be a lot of talk of comparing this season\u2019s Western Conference Final to last year\u2019s. And while that is an easy and simple comparison, this is a new year. Now we have new expectations, new targets, and the aftermath of a full 82-game regular season.\nThe Los Angeles Kings had a handful of injuries to deal with this season, which wasn\u2019t the issue last year, and they\u2019re coming right into the third round with only a single day of rest while Chicago has been off for a longer stretch. Chicago also has home ice advantage in the series once again.\nSo far in this year\u2019s post-season, Los Angeles has had to battle through two Game 7\u2019s. This means they have been on the brink of elimination several times already. This could be seen as an indication that they are mere inches away from being eliminated, or, on the other hand, that they have been this close to the fire and have escaped unscathed. It depends on who you ask, Chicago fans or Los Angeles fans. But don\u2019t expect the Kings to be pleading for sympathy, they\u2019ll be ready to play.\nWhile Chicago has been celebrating it\u2019s strong push through the playoffs, a microscope on the players will reveal some startling truths. Take Marion Hossa for example. As of this writing, Hossa has only netted two of his 47 shots on goal so far this post-season. That\u2019s a terrible percentage which is typically much higher for the all-star. Still, Big Hoss leads Chicago with points for forwards. This means a large majority of his points are coming from assists. If he starts to find the scoring touch that is well documented for him to have, those numbers are expected to jump up and some big-game goals will go Chicago\u2019s way.\nCorey Crawford is worth a close look. Too many fans are still seeing Crawford as a \u2018just average\u2019 netminder. While there were some moments last season where that argument may have held water, that isn\u2019t the case this season. In fact, so far, these playoffs have been the opposite. Jonathan Toews has been able to come up with game-clinching goals because Crawford has been standing on his head down in his own end and giving his forwards chances to take the win. Chicago has seen too many overtime games already this post-season where one goal means the difference between being a hero and being the scapegoat. Crawford\u2019s wearing a cape high above the Chicago skyline.\nThe Kings have developed the well-earned reputation as one of the best defensive teams in the league. They shut down scorers, pure and simple. Chicago is a highly offensive team built on putting the puck in the net. The same could be said for the Anaheim Ducks, whom the Kings sent to the golf course. The difference between Anaheim and Chicago, though, is that Chicago doesn\u2019t have as high of a shooting rate. Chicago needs shots of quality, not necessarily quantity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=34", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZDUFE65TALRDDOL5S5EQLXHYQ3NUEB4", "length": 6365, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.hrresource.com", "title": "Revised Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations: One Year Later : HR Article by Melvin Muskovitz", "raw_content": "HOME \u00bb NEWS \u00bb ARTICLES \u00bb Revised Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations: One Year Later\nRevised Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations: One Year Later\nLast August, the U.S. Department of Labor issued final regulations governing employees who are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (\u201cFLSA\u201d). The Department of Labor estimated that the new regulations would extend overtime protection to 1.3 million employees who were not previously eligible for overtime pay.\nThe new regulations did not change the basic premise of the FLSA \u2013 employees must receive overtime pay for all hours worked over 40 hours in a work week unless they are employed in one of five exempt classifications. The new regulations, however, (1) increased the minimum salary requirement for exempt employees, (2) revised the \u201cduties\u201d tests for exempt positions, (3) established a new highly compensated employee exemption, (4) revised the salary basis test and provided guidelines regarding allowable deductions from compensation, and (5) provided a \u201csafe harbor\u201d to correct inadvertent deductions.\nMinimum Salary Requirement. The salary level employers must pay exempt employees under the new regulations nearly tripled. Under the new regulations, an employee must earn at least $455 per week (or $23,660 per year) to be exempt.\nJob duties requirement \u2013 Exempt classifications. Executive employees are exempt if they (1) have the primary duty of managing an enterprise or a customarily recognized department or subdivision, (2) customarily and regularly direct the work of two or more other full-time employees or their equivalent, and (3) have the authority to hire or fire other employees or have their suggestions and recommendations regarding hiring, firing or promotion be given \u201cparticular weight.\u201d\nAdministrative employees are exempt if they (1) have as their primary duty the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer\u2019s customers, and (2) exercise \u201cdiscretion and independent judgment\u201d on matters of significance.\nThe professional employee exemption includes both learned and creative professionals. The major change in the regulations is that an employee no longer needs a degree in the field to be exempt under the learned professional exemption. The exemption is now available to employees who have substantially the same knowledge level and perform substantially the same work as degreed employees, but who attained the advanced knowledge through a combination of work experience and intellectual instruction. Employees are exempt as creative professionals if their primary duty is the performance of work requiring invention, imagination, originality, or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.\nOutside sales employees are exempt if (1) the employee\u2019s primary duty is making sales or obtaining orders or contracts for services or for the use of facilities and (2) the employee is \u201ccustomarily and regularly engaged away from the employer\u2019s place of business.\u201d There is no salary requirement for the outside sales exemption.\nComputer employees are exempt if (1) they are compensated on a salary or fee basis at a rate of at least $455 per week or, if compensated on an hourly basis, at a rate of at least $27.63 per hour, (2) they are employed as a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer or other similarly skilled worker in the computer field, and (3) their primary duties consist of the application of systems analysis techniques or the design, analysis, or modification of computer systems or programs.\nHighly Compensated Employee. The regulations create a new \u201chighly compensated employee\u201d exemption for employees who earn at least $100,000 total annual compensation and who customarily and regularly perform one of the duties of an executive, administrative, or professional employee. The total annual compensation must include at least $455 per week paid on a salary or fee basis and may also include commissions, non-discretionary bonuses, and other non-discretionary income earned during a 52 week period.\nSalary Basis Test and Allowable Deductions. In order to meet the salary basis test, an employee must regularly receive each pay period the full salary for any week in which the employee performs any work without regard to the number of days or hours worked. Thus, if an exempt employee is ready, willing and able to work, deductions may not be made for time when work is not available as long as the employee performed some work during that week. The new regulations, however, expanded the deductions an employer can make from an employee\u2019s pay without violating the salary basis requirement. For example, an employer can now suspend an exempt employee without pay for one or more full days for violating written work rules that apply to all employees. Unpaid full-day absences for personal reasons and in some cases for illness will also not affect an employee\u2019s exempt status.\n\u201cSafe Harbor\u201d Provision. The new regulations contain a \u201csafe harbor\u201d provision for employers who make improper deductions. Impermissible deductions will not result in the loss of an employee\u2019s exempt status if the employer (1) has a clearly communicated policy prohibiting improper deductions, including a complaint mechanism, (2) reimburses employees for any improper deductions, and (3) makes a good faith commitment to comply in the future. This safe harbor provision does not apply, and the employer will lose the exemption, if the employer willfully continues to make improper deductions after receiving employee complaints.\nThe Department of Labor has increased its enforcement efforts over the past year. If an employer has not already done so, it is recommended that it review the salary and duties of all exempt employees and reclassify any employee who does not meet the revised standards. Employers should also implement and communicate a policy that prohibits improper salary deductions, provides for a complaint procedure, reimburses employees for improper deductions and makes a good faith commitment to comply in the future.\nMel Muskovitz is a member of the Employment and Labor Section in the Ann Arbor office of Dykema Gossett PLLC. He can be reached at (734) 214-7633 or via e-mail at [email protected]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hydrocephalus.ca/print/news/disability-news/participants-needed-research-study-barriers-access-pregnancy-care-women-spina", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK6XAV7CFNKKXY553AS2JWKJRJNHVFQO", "length": 970, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hydrocephalus.ca", "title": "COMPLETE THE SURVEY - Barriers to Access of Women's Health Care For Individuals With Spina Bifida", "raw_content": "Home > COMPLETE THE SURVEY - Barriers to Access of Women's Health Care For Individuals With Spina Bifida\nAre a woman with spina bifida, and 14-49 years old?\nYour insight would be valuable to help us understand the current knowledge gaps and barriers to providing safe care to women like you who are, or may become, pregnant.\nYou may be eligible to volunteer for a single 20-minute, anonymous online survey\nYour thoughts and opinions can make a difference!\nThank you for taking the time to consider participating.\nFor more information about this study, please contact\nDr. Anne Berndl (Principal investigator)\nDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre\nspinabifidapregnancy@gmail.com\nThis study has been reviewed by SHSC Research Ethics Board\nSource URL (retrieved on February 15, 2019): http://www.hydrocephalus.ca/news/disability-news/participants-needed-research-study-barriers-access-pregnancy-care-women-spina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ideahouseeducationalservices.com/wwii-pow-visits-idea-house.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ILM4KSHDAZEBEIHOKCLBL2WW3KOPBH6M", "length": 294, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ideahouseeducationalservices.com", "title": "WWII POW visits IDEA House - Idea House Educational Services", "raw_content": "Owner/Director Angi Shumate sits between her Aunt and Uncle. Uncle Lou was a Prisoner of War in Germany during WWII. He was recently honored at the Ohio Veterans Memorial Park, in Clinton, Ohio. He stopped by to see IDEA House.\nThank you for your service and thank you for visiting our school!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iheartcitycruiser.com/privacy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TKZT3UNK4OK4W2RTF3AKYML62CV4CFZA", "length": 2325, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.iheartcitycruiser.com", "title": "Privacy - City Cruiser", "raw_content": "A priority of City Cruiser is the protection of your privacy. Your use of this website constitutes a consent to the use of your personal information in the manner described below. 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City Cruiser is not obligated to monitor this website or its use; however, the Firm reserves the right to monitor such information as necessary to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or government request, or to cooperate with any investigation of illegal activity. We may use IP addresses to identify a user, in accord with law, and in the aforementioned circumstances.\nHow your information is protected:\nAny information sent over the Internet is subject to interception. While we endeavor to protect your personal information, the Firm cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us or provide online, and you provide information at your own risk. City Cruiser will not be liable for accidental disclosure of personal information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. However, upon receiving your information, City Cruiser will take appropriate measures to do our best to ensure its security and protection.\nIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, we would be more than happy to answer them. Please don\u2019t hesitate to call us, or send us an email using our Contact Us form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2005/02/gratuitous-warnings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CMALYP3NWRFCZ4JUN3D5KF724AZGGNU5", "length": 1677, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.imaginaryplanet.net", "title": "Gratuitous Warnings | Idiotprogrammer", "raw_content": "KATE AURTHUR writes about the latest archenemy of Superman: Time Warner\u2019s slimy copyright clearance machine:\nAnd then there\u2019s Lois Lane. The iconic character (played by Erica Durance) made her debut in the premiere of Season 4, and has enlivened the series with love-hate banter with Clark that, for now, veers much more toward hate. Mr. Millar and Mr. Gough wanted to bring her in during Season 3 and began negotiating the labyrinthine Time Warner structure for permission from both DC Comics and the film unit to use the character. The forthcoming movie, long in development with various combinations of directors and casts, proved to be a roadblock. At one point, it, too, was going to be the story of a young Clark Kent, and a franchise character like Lois would have been a valuable commodity. But when Bryan Singer (\u201cX-Men\u201d) was brought in to direct, he wanted to focus the movie\u2019s plot on the adult Superman. Mr. Gough said, \u201cOnce that origins story version of the movie went away, it allowed things to happen faster.\u201d\nThe producers would like to bring Lois back for Season 5 but will again have to get approval to use the character. \u201cWe think there\u2019s a good chance,\u201d Mr. Gough said carefully, \u201cbut we don\u2019t know yet.\u201d\nI\u2019ve written about this issue before , and one person has written about this issue before. I would have liked to discuss the substance of this person\u2019s article, but alas, it seems that the individual has forbidden all readers to copy, retransmit, repost, duplicate or otherwise use without the individual\u2019s express permission. So I shall pass over in silence ( \u00a9Routledge Classics).\nNext post: Staccato Music Station\nPrevious post: Making it on Amazon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 8449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indexdotcom.com/so-is-the-sharp-aquos-sh930w-another-phone-with-screen-full-hd/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5XSQ7BGHV2BFB57UELD33EJC5OWHE24P", "length": 1395, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.indexdotcom.com", "title": "So Is The Sharp Aquos SH930W, Another Phone with Screen Full HD \u2013 Consumer Index", "raw_content": "We had seen it on an advertising image of poor quality, so a gallery like that you share today is welcome. The screen uses an IPS panel and is five inches, which results in a pixel density of 443ppi.\nThe device has in its interior a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core (MSM8260A), which operates at 1.5 GHz, with 225 Adreno GPU. It also has 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory on Board (no microSD slot).\nOther interesting features are its thickness of 8.9 mm, front camera of 2 megapixel, 8 main, 2. 100mAh, and Jelly Bean as the operating system version.\nThe Japanese manufacturer will launch the SH930W on 14 November in Russia and Asian markets, would be nice that they should remember other territories, but taking into account that Sharp is not in many important markets like ours, we will have to settle for knowing him with this type of content. The price to change in Russia is about 550 euros.\nSee complete gallery\u00bb Sharp Aquos Phone SH930W (7 photos)\nWhat Is The Arrow On The Iphone?\nIn normal usage, the arrow on the iPhone always appears again in the status bar. Often it is completely filled, but occasionally only the contours appear on the display edge. But what is the symbol at all and how can you make the appropriate settings on the iPhone? Convenient Control Icon Since Ios 4 Already since iOS 4 the arrow on the iPhone display is an integral part of the mobile operating\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indieinternational.com/contestant-lyrics.php?song=3256", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:28Z", "digest": "sha1:5KLKG6PPCWH3LZJTSVRRMD6B7HJM7D2O", "length": 584, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.indieinternational.com", "title": "Indie International: One That Got Away by Roy Schroedl & Jeremy Kleppe | song lyrics", "raw_content": "Song Name: One That Got Away\nSongwriter: Roy Schroedl & Jeremy Kleppe\nI don't often think of you\nBut I thought of you today\nAnd I doubt you'd even know\nThat you're the one that got away\nYou're the one, you're the one that got away\nI don't think that you'd know me\nIf you saw me on the street\nAnd I can't say I'd know you\nWhat a laugh, is that you in my path?\nOh, yeah, I've changed\nBut you remain forever in my past\nWhy did I find that old picture in my mind?\nLooks like I won't get over you\nMost of the time I'll be just fine\nI'd just like to say today\nWe were together one more time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=364070", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WHK4XOPIJO4HWFWXTREDLU73LYQCJ5AO", "length": 4404, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.informit.com", "title": "Rule 1 of Work: Get Your Work Noticed | Never Stand Still | InformIT", "raw_content": "Rule 1 of Work: Get Your Work Noticed\nVolunteer Carefully\nCarve Out a Niche For Yourself\nIt's all too easy for your work to get overlooked in the busy hurly-burly of office life. Find out how to stand out and get noticed for what you do at work in this sample chapter.\nRules of Work, The: The Unspoken Truth About Getting Ahead in Business\nIt's all too easy for your work to get overlooked in the busy hurly-burly of office life. You're slaving away and it can be hard to remember that you need to put in some effort to boost your individual status and personal kudos for your work. But it's important. You have to make your mark so you stand out and your promotional potential will be realized.\nThe best way to do this is to step outside the normal working routine. If you have to process so many widgets each day\u0097and so does everyone else\u0097then processing more won't do you that much good. But if you subject a report to your boss of how everyone could process more widgets then you'll get noticed. The unsolicited report is a brilliant way to stand out from the crowd. It shows you're thinking on your feet and using your initiative. But it mustn't be used too often. If you submit your boss to a barrage of unsolicited reports you'll get noticed but in completely the wrong way. You have to stick to certain rules:\nOnly submit a report occasionally.\nMake really sure that your report will actually work\u0097that it will do good or provide benefits.\nMake sure your name is prominently displayed.\nMake sure the report will be seen not only by your boss, but by their boss as well.\nIt doesn't have to be a report\u0097it can be an article in the company newsletter.\nOf course, the very best way to get your work noticed is to be very, very good at your job. And the best way to be good at your job is to be totally dedicated to doing the job and ignoring all the rest. There is a vast amount of politics, gossip, gamesmanship, time wasting, and socializing that goes on in the name of work. It isn't work. Keep your eye on the ball and you'll be already playing with a vast advantage over your colleagues. The Rules Player stays focused. Keep your mind on the task at hand\u0097being very good at your job\u0097and don't get distracted.\nMost people go into work each day with only one thought\u0097getting through to going home time. During their day they will do whatever they have to, to arrive at that magic time. You won't. You won't stand still. Having got the job it seems enough for most people that they will just do it and thus remain static. But doing the job isn't the end game for you\u0097it is merely a means to the end. And the end for you is promotion, more money, success, moving onward and upward, amassing the contacts and experience to set out on your own, whatever it is that is on your wish list\u0097see Part 3. The job, in a way, is an irrelevance.\nYes, you have to do the work. And yes, you have to do it supremely well. But your eye should already be on the next step and every activity you indulge in at work should be merely a cog in your plan to move up.\nWhile others are thinking of their next coffee break or how to get through the afternoon without actually having to do any work, you will be busy planning and executing your next manuver. In an ideal world the Rules Player will have got their work done by lunchtime, so that they have the afternoon free; to study for the next promotion, to assess the competition among close colleagues, to write the unsolicited reports to get their work noticed, to research ways to improve the work process for everyone, to further their knowledge of company procedures and history.\nIf you can't get your work done by lunchtime then you will have to fit all these things into and around the work. What the competition will be doing is not doing them. But you don't stand still. Never accept that doing the job is enough. That's for the others. You will be moving right along preparing, studying, analyzing, and learning.\nWe talked earlier about the manager's walk; well, that's what you'll be doing, practicing the manager's walk\u0097or whoever's walk it is you need to master. You have to see promotion\u0097or whatever else it is you want\u0097as a movement. You keep moving or you grow moss. You have to have movement or you grow stagnant. You have to like movement or you grow roots.\nMovement requires of you that you don't sit on your backside and do nothing\u0097don't stand still.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ioe.dk/menu/about-ioe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6LLVEPDU6LUJHICXSE6EHG4GD2ZFBY36", "length": 1668, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ioe.dk", "title": "www.ioe.dk- About I\u00d8", "raw_content": "> Legal Mandate\n> Statutes of I\u00d8\n> Statutes in Danish\nI\u00d8\u2019s legal mandate is to promote Danish investments in Central and Eastern Europe and thereby support the reformist countries in their efforts to achieve an increased economic, commercial and industrial development; and to enhance the possibilities for closer economic co-operation between Denmark and Central and Eastern Europe resulting in generally improved East/West relations, which will benefit Danish trade and industry, as well as the employment situation in Denmark.\nI\u00d8 is a legally independent, self-governing entity, limited in its liability to the extent of its net worth only. The Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs appoints the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director. The Fund operates in accordance with business principles and has elaborated, as basis for its investment activities, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy which comprises high environmental standards for Occupational Health and Safety as well as high standards for code of conduct.\nI\u00d8 provides advisory services, share capital participation, loans and guarantees on commercial terms for investments in production or service companies in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2006, I\u00d8\u2019s investment activities have been limited to projects in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The Fund\u2019s revenues are generated by interest, dividends and profits from sale of shares.\nBy collaborating with I\u00d8, the partners, in addition to financing, gain access to I\u00d8\u2019s sister fund IFU\u2019s knowledge accumulated through investments in over 700 projects in 85 countries since 1967, and to an extensive network of advisers and financial institutions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 155.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isco-pipe.com/newsroom/case-studies/warren-county-water-emergency/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CNQYIKUBWVKQOORNHCDZ5YIWXFPVCZSR", "length": 2325, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.isco-pipe.com", "title": "ISCO Industries", "raw_content": "(Warren County, Kentucky) - When a barge pulled its moorings loose on a swollen Barren River in February, engineers from Kentucky's Warren County Water District had no way of knowing that the heavy concrete moorings had ruptured the 16-inch ductile iron supply line of potable water line submerged under the river. Water pressure north of the river began to drop, and the county issued a water shortage emergency - knowing they were just hours away from a critical water shortage for the thousands of Bowling Green homes, factories and businesses served by the single line.\nWarren County Water District Engineer Allen Vilines quickly considered his options and made the decision to make a creative aboveground emergency repair using high density polyethylene pipe (HDPE), although the District had not used HDPE before. Vilines knew the properties of HDPE - durability, flexibility, and ease of installation - and made the call to Rick Hart, Regional Sales Manager for ISCO Industries.\nIn a late night Sunday phone call, Vilines explained the extent and timeliness of the emergency to Hart, who quickly offered his and ISCO's assistance to solve the problem. Hart immediately contacted ISCO's Louisville headquarters, and within a matter of hours a truckload of 2,500 feet of twelve inch HDPE pipe, fittings, two McElroy fusion machines and a fusion technician was rolling south down I-65.\nUnder frigid conditions, butt fusion of the pipe began around 3:00 a.m. with a fusion machine on both sides of the river. The plan called for the two sections of pipe to meet in the middle of a bridge over the river, fusing them as one continuous section to complete the line. By 8:00 p.m. on Monday evening, just 17 hours after fusing began, the job was completed and water flowed through the temporary line to the delight of anxious engineers - and customers who were just hours away from running out of potable water.\nHDPE pipe and ISCO's involvement proved to be the perfect combination to complete the emergency repair. The pipe's flexibility and leak-proof fused joints allowed it to be laid directly over the bridge, allowing the water to bypass the damaged ductile iron pipe.\nAnd, ISCO's willingness to \"go the extra\" mile helped avert a major catastrophe for the Warren County Water District and the citizens of Bowling Green.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/86738/manx-satellite-firm-makes-new-appointments-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:35DWQDSXCNVVDYZVQJOLNGEKUSGLD236", "length": 3177, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.isleofman.com", "title": "Manx satellite firm makes new appointments | Isle of Man News :: isleofman.com", "raw_content": "Manx satellite firm makes new appointments\nManx satellite firm the ManSat Group has appointed John Sheath as its new Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director as part of the company\u2019s continued plan for international growth.\nA chartered director specialising in Risk & Corporate Governance, John is an experienced funds director who has worked with a range of governments, private offices, banks and fiduciaries around the globe.\nJohn, who has spent the last decade working with the International Institute of Space Commerce, will be based at ManSat\u2019s new Isle of Man office in Fort Anne on Douglas.\nAs a non-executive director, he provides oversight and governance to several regulated businesses and funds, engaging directly with the Isle of Man Government and the Space industry.\nJohn is passionate about learning and technology and is an ambassador for the Institute of Directors chartered director programme.\nHe says: \u201cI am delighted to be taking my knowledge of this sector to even deeper levels, getting to grips with the intricacies of satellite licensing.\n\u201cAlthough the ManSat team is spread over different continents, it works really well together and I am delighted to be working with such a diligent, knowledgeable and committed group of people.\u201d\nThe group, which carries out satellite filings for the Isle of Man under a contract with the Isle of Man Government's Communications Commission, has also opened a new office in California as part of its international expansion.\nThe California office is headed up by Katherine Gizinski, who has joined the ManSat Group as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.\nBefore joining ManSat Katherine worked with U.S. defense contractors to bring cutting edge commercial satellite and terrestrial communication technologies to austere environments in support of military, diplomatic, first responder, and commercial initiatives.\nKatherine says: \u201cI\u2019m excited to join the ManSat team.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to work with such an exceptional group of people.\n\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of innovation in the satellite industry over the last few years.\n\u201cManSat has done a remarkable job of adapting to the changing landscape and I\u2019m looking forward to driving more growth as we expand our service offerings next year.\n\u201cWhen it comes to Community Social Responsibility, it\u2019s rare to find a company that walks the walk.\n\u201cManSat has done a great deal with community and educational programs both in the Isle of Man and abroad.\n\u201cI\u2019m glad to be part of an organisation that\u2019s so invested in the future of Space and S.T.E.M. education.\n\u201cTo that end, I look forward to continuing my own education at the International Space University next year.\u201d\nEnterprise Minister Laurence Skelly says: \u201cIt is great to see a Manx company expanding internationally while building upon its base here in the Isle of Man.\n\u201cThe Island has a positive ecosystem of funding and support to help growing businesses and we look forward to more international growth from ManSat in the future.\u201d\n\u201cI am delighted to be taking my knowledge of this sector to even deeper levels, getting to grips with the intricacies of satellite licensing.\"\nJohn Sheath , Chief Financial Officer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jackandmisty.net/35_Years.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TEXX7R63W7OM64LJWJXGQAWMU4ORM64V", "length": 21623, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "www.jackandmisty.net", "title": "About Jack and Misty - \"35 Years of Jack and Misty Music by Mark Harris\"", "raw_content": "35 Years of Jack and Misty Music by Mark Harris\nThis 2002 interview may be the most in-depth one we've ever had. Sadly, the interviewer, Mark Harris, passed away a couple of years ago. We will always be grateful for the interest, effort, and skill he brought to the occasion. Thanks, Mark.\nIt all started in a Buffalo hospital in the 40's when John and Mary (Blanchard) gave birth to son Jack. The second component came a couple of years later in the same hospital, when a different John and Mary (Donahue) gave birth to their daughter Mary.\nAs children, both probably looked a lot alike - both had brown hair and blue eyes and both trace their ancestry to the Alsace-Lorraine area of Europe (between France and Germany). Jack's heritage was all European. Mary had a little bit of Native American in her genes - and along the way, she became Misty.\nBoth were in unhappy marriages and had, for awhile, lived in Southern Ohio. Despite nearly identical beginnings, Jack and Misty never met each other until they were both playing piano in adjacent clubs a thousand miles from Buffalo in the 60's in Hollywood - Florida, that is.\nBy that time, Jack had been in the music business for almost ten years. The doo-wop vocal quartet he belonged to in his youth - the Dawn Breakers - had even once recorded for the Decca Records subsidiary that had also released many Buddy Holly hits (Coral Records). Later, Blanchard headed other groups, namely Jackie Blanchard & The Rockin' Impalas and The Jack Blanchard Group.\nMisty Morgan was, during the 60's, a pioneering woman in the music industry, producing her own records (she was the first woman to produce a #1 country song) and incorporating the \"electronic\" sound into her keyboard arrangements - something everyone in the business seemed to be doing some twenty years later. Her onstage show at the time consisted of more jazz-oriented stuff, like Louis Prima and Keely Smith did in the 50's.\nYou'll recognize her as Jacqueline Hyde and Maryanne Mail, both pseudonyms she used in the 60's. Or maybe you won't. :-)\nThe fact is, no matter how good the Rockin' Impalas or Maryanne Mail were, no one outside of local fans knew of them until after the principals teamed together in 1967 as Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. In 1969, they achieved a minor hit with Big Black Bird (Spirit Of Our Love), which reached #59 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. An earlier single, Bethlehem Steel had failed to chart.\nBut they had cracked the charts, and #59 wasn't that bad of a start. So they released their next single, Changin' Times. More exquisite harmony, like Big Black Bird, and a song with a message. But the charts and radio ignored it. Just when it looked like Jack & Misty might've become a one-barely-hit wonder act, they decided to release an absolutely silly song Jack had written called Tennessee Birdwalk. The song topped out at #1 on the country charts and #23 on the pop charts.\nEveryone seemed to be \"chirp chirp\"ing along with Jack & Misty that summer. By the way, the wah-wah guitar used to effect the sounds of the birds walking southward in dirty underwear was the first usage of such an instrument in a country hit. Not only were Jack & Misty on top of the charts, but they were trailblazing as they did it.\nTennessee Birdwalk earned the duo a Grammy nomination and played on radio stations throughout that summer, eventually staying on the charts for 19 weeks. While that's a mid-range chart ride these days, in 1970, it was quite an extended stay.\nThe next single would be even more critical than Birdwalk...it would help determine whether Jack & Misty's career would be a flash in the pan or a real thing. Sticking with the novelty tune concept, they decided to release Humphrey The Camel in June. Personally, this writer thinks this song was even funnier than the big one earlier in the year. It went to #5 on the country charts. How DOES Jack make the \"authentic camel love call\" without tearing his vocal chords to shreds, anyway?\nIn explanation of his uncanny ability to write novelty songs that remain funny and un-dated after many years (a talent shared with few others, Ray Stevens & Roger Miller most notably), Jack says, \"Silliness runs in my family. We all used to sit on our front porch and make smart aleck cracks about the people passing by. We were always trying to top each other, and I didn't always win\".\n\"I worked for awhile as a stand-up comic\", Blanchard continues. \"I can't resist a funny ad lib. Misty's pretty funny, too. People look for meanings in our funny songs. They often tell us meanings we didn't even know were there.\"\nThe next hit was a change of pace. No deep meanings, no funny concepts, just your standard cover of a pop song, which was often done (and still is) by country singers of the era. But for a change, the cover ended up sounding better than the original. In 1965, the Fortunes had taken You've Got Your Troubles (I've Got Mine) to #7 on the pop charts. In 1970, Jack and Misty hit the Top 30 country charts with their own version.\nAt this point, their career was dealt a low blow when the label that had released their big hits of the past year went bankrupt. An album had been released about the same time as Humphrey The Camel, titled Birds Of A Feather. It hit #16 on the country album charts (#185 Pop), yet Jack & Misty never saw a penny from royalties on either the album or the singles.\nEventually they took matters into their own hands and, pre-dating independent record distribution methods like Napster and MP3.com, they took the recordings from the Birds Of A Feather album and had a private pressing made and sold them at their concerts and appearances, finally realizing some reward from their recordings, however small.\nIt's important to realize how revolutionary it was at the time for them to take control over their own recordings. Traditionally (and as they would still have you believe), record companies claim all ownership of everything they ever release. It doesn't matter that the artist pays for the session time in the studio, the recording process, the session players, the promotion, and (as Jack likes to say) even pays for the label owner's sister's nose job. More on this later.\nAfter the Wayside bankruptcy, Misty & Jack signed with a new up-and-coming label, Mega Records. They were on the label's roster with other rising stars such as Sammi Smith, Brian Collins, Patsy Sledd, Henson Cargill, and Ray Pillow. Mega seemed to allow an artist a little more breathing room to step outside the boundaries then established by the big labels; one good example was Sammi Smith's Help Me Make It Through The Night. Never before had a female vocalist been allowed to record and release a song so frankly and overtly sexual. You may remember the song ended up being 1971's CMA Song Of The Year, hitting #1 on the country charts and #8 on the pop charts.\nIt was during their term at Mega Records that Jack was given his nickname \"the Velvet Saw\". One of the Mega promotion men, Tom McConnell, came up with it as an apt description for Jack's voice. Jack adds, \"and all this time I thought I was Bing Crosby!\" These days, the nickname serves as the name for the duo's own record label - Velvet Saw Records.\nJack and Misty were ready to start recording again. The environment in which they would be working this time really seemed conducive to their own outside-the-box sensibilities. The first song for Mega re-visited Jack's ability to write songs with meaning and feeling, as There Must Be More To Life (Than Growing Old) hit the charts as a two-sided hit. The other side followed in the vein of their two big hits on Wayside, showing the duo's sillier side. Titled Fire Hydrant #79, the song was an ode to a fire hydrant \"all stumpy and red / we love you tho' you got no hair on your head\".\nThe two-sided record did well considering the label had a small promotion staff and no national distribution contract with a bigger label, as Wayside Records had had with Smash/Mercury Records. The public definitely preferred the more serious side this time, and now some thirty years later, most listeners seem to appreciate the duo more for their serious songs than the silly ones that did much better chartwise.\nIn fact, in 2001, There Must Be More To Life (Than Growing Old) was again released (the original Mega recording) as a single and helped propel the duet to being the #4 independent recording artists in the world.\nNo wonder - the song remains a timeless paean to melancholy, hopelessness, and despair. That feel is reflected not only in the words, but the sound. No wah-wah guitars here. In reflection, Jack Blanchard says this about the song: \"It reflects a hopeless time in our lives, before we'd even met. I worked in the dirty factories and waded through the brown slush. We were each in a previous marriage that was not happy. When writing that song, I put myself back in that time, and the title was just the way I felt.\"\nIn early 2002, another re-release of a \"serious\" song recorded in the early Mega days did well for the duo. Somewhere In Virginia In The Rain hit the Top 5 on the indie charts, climbing about ten positions further than the original single did in 1971. Another song from their Mega album, Rings Of Gold, went to #1 on the indie records charts in 2002.\nWhen asked if it was ever determined just where the singer had been in Virginia, Jack answers, \"We both love the state of Virginia. I think it was probably somewhere near Roanoke\". I asked if the song was written from personal experience, and Jack goes on to explain, \"It comes from places I've been in. Not exactly, but there are elements of my experiences in it. Misty does a big part of the arrangements after I write the songs, and we both like that sort of 'traveling music' feeling.\"\nLest you think that lovely Misty Morgan sits back and lets her outgoing wordsmith husband talk for the duo, you'd be mostly right ! She's the more quiet, contemplative half of the duo, but doesn't hesitate putting in her feelings when asked to do so. When asked why she never played on her exquisite beauty to help their music career like so many female singers do today....\n\"I believe that music is an art and should be carried on its own merit. Nobody cares how Rembrandt or Picasso looked. Their art speaks for itself.\" Misty continues, \"I really don't like the way they are selling sex instead of the music today. It suggests something may be lacking in the music.\"\nMisty also takes the mic when it comes to explaining the duo's longevity - a 35 year working-together marriage that has outlasted all the other Nashville duet marriage/partnerships except for Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright. Misty explains, \"We are opposites in many ways. I am intuition, Jack is logic. We mesh like two gears, or jigsaw puzzle pieces. We feel that each has what the other lacks. We never run out of conversation and ideas...we have fun together. And one more thing: Love\".\nWhen asked if they will still be pickin' and singin' together into their 80's just like Kitty and Johnny still are, they simultaneously answer with a resounding YES. \"We will probably be found dead onstage in front of a mic at the age of 101.\"\nActually, touring is not high on their list of things to do anymore. \"We don't do as many shows as we'd like. We really enjoy doing our live shows. We've done a show in Nashville, a few in Florida lately. We're waiting to hear from an agent in Pennsylvania. Call us if you need us \".\nPerhaps one of the reasons they don't tour as much as they used to is that Jack has a side business these days, restoring old vinyl from his and Misty's recordings, as well as for a slew of other artists.\n\"I use a turntable, cassette deck, computer and CD burner for hardware, along with a number of complex software programs such as CoolEdit Pro, Pristine Sounds, Sound Forge, Sonic Foundry, Cubase, Steinberg, and a bunch of exotic plug-ins,\" says Blanchard. \"I also wash the records with dish detergent and blow them dry before I start. Sometimes I have to splice together good parts from more than one copy of a record to make a good whole one.\"\nBesides Jack and Misty records, he's working on old recordings by artists like Mayf Nutter, Dick Shuey, Erin Hay, Marvin Rainwater, Pat Garrett, Ernie Ashworth, Hal Willis, Hermann Lammers Meyer, Shirley Frederickson, Kenny Roberts, Marty Martel, Vernon Oxford, and one little-known artist who many are just now discovering and enjoying, Jackie Burns. Jack's restoration work on her records should be released on CD before the end of the year.\n(Burns' low-range chart hits from the early 70's included songs like (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right, which is in current rotation on our Internet radio station iCCC, and One Big Unhappy Family. It's good to see that she's now being re-discovered.)\nIn addition to restoration work, Jack also does non-restorative, digital mixing and mastering for record labels. For any such work, contact him here. (There's your commericial, Jack!)\nMeanwhile, back on the ranch of the Legendary Chicken Fairy, Jack and Misty were continuing to record their special kind of music at Mega, having a hit about that big canary that made \"all your dreams come true\". The novelty tunes were fewer and fewer as the years went by (notable exception, Washin' Harry Down The Sink...they didn't care what people'd think).\nThe contemplative side of Jack's writing skills was still putting them on the charts with songs like Second Tuesday In December and A Handful of Dimes. The train was still riding smoothly on its rails when - BLAM - Mega Records also went bankrupt and they were once again without a label....but not for long.\nInstead of signing with another small independent label, they took the bait held out to them by \ufffdberlabel Epic Records, home of Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Joe Stampley, Charlie Rich and others, and part of the Columbia Records (Ray Price, Johnny Cash, Lynn Anderson) family. Singles continued to chart during the Epic years, (Just One More Song, Something On Your Mind, Down To The End Of The Wine, Because We Love, I'm High On You) but soon, it became apparent how a major label could cause as many (but different) problems for an act as a small, tenuously financed indie like Wayside and Mega could.\nManagement at these major labels changes rather rapidly, and soon the label was being run by new staff members, and the \"not invented here\" syndrome took over. Jack and Misty were soon forgotten about. \"We did have an Epic album...they sent us the acetate advance copy, but it never came out,\" explains Jack and Misty. \"Those major labels don't even know they have those masters - if they haven't erased them to make tape space.\"\nAfter a jump to another major (but smaller) label - United Artists - yielded no hit singles, it was back to a string of small indie labels, then the public just stopped hearing about the duo altogether about 1980.\nWhat happened? Jack explains, \"Misty was very ill in the late 70's due to bad results from a minor operation. We had to drop out for a couple of years. When we tried to get back into the Nashville scene, we found that we'd lost our place in line.\nDuring the 80's, we played a jazz circuit in clubs and casinos in New York state, Atlantic City, and Miami. The new suits in country music didn't remember us and didn't care. Fortunately, Misty is multi-talented. She plays great jazz piano. I play bass and we had a drummer. We worked with jazz artists such as Earl \"Fatha\" Hines, Marian MacPartland, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow and others. We also had a non-country CD out titled Masters Of The Keyboard.\"\nNow, all of Jack and Misty's old and new recordings are available on their own Velvet Saw Records. E-mail them for more information, or visit this page on their web site.\nAs noted earlier, Jack and Misty are in the thick of the current fight over use of new technologies in the music industry and artist control over their recordings. They speak freely about their part in the fight, \"We liked Napster. It got a lot of music out to our fans, which is the most important thing to us. Even though we were the #4 indie recording artists worldwide in 2001, we didn't make any money from it. That's OK. We just want the world to know our music.\"\nJack expands on that, \"I hope all good artists who have had their life's work stifled by major labels will start pirating their own music. If they (the major labels) sue us, what will they get? We're not getting rich at it, but life is short and good music MUST be heard at all costs.\"\nWhen asked about the travesty known as CARP (the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel) whose recommendations are being discussed and may soon be voted into law (the act that makes independent internet radio stations such as ours pay DOUBLE the royalty rate that established radio stations pay for use of the same recordings on the airwaves), Misty explains, \"We think it's terrible. (CARP) framers and supporters should be ashamed - and stopped. Boycott their music.\"\n\"A lot of our current airplay is on Internet stations. We want it to stay that way. Rather than being the death of non-mainstream music, CARP and the related DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) may cause a boom in pirating, which would be great. We have a friend who operates a well-known pirate radio station in Ireland. His station has been popular for years. They can't arrest us all!\"\nWhen asked if there's anything they would like to tell their fans, the couple at first answers, \"not much\", but then go on to say \"we never make a record thinking about what is commercial. We make music for people who like Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan music. Some of our music is traditional, some is not. We use all the chords and instruments we feel a song needs. We'd rather be controversial than ignored. We do country music by choice, not by limitation. It suits our voices and lyrics.\"\nEver the gallant and loving husband, Jack also wants everyone to know that Misty has co-written several of their songs.\nLastly he quotes his old friend Roger Miller by saying, \"I don't like to put a fence around music\". When I noted that he was the second artist that CCC has featured who mentioned Roger Miller in an interview, Jack sent an essay he wrote just after Miller's passing in 1992. I'd like to reproduce it here with Jack's permission. He titled it A Stupid Human Trick:\nWhen I was trying to figure how this voice of mine, and the way I write songs would fit into the music business, Roger Miller was a great help to me.\nHis voice and style of writing were in the same category as mine: None.\nMy first few country songs had a strong Miller influence. Most people didn't hear it, but I did. I was and am a Roger Miller fan. I don't know why, but \"Engine #9\" is my favorite. It doesn't have the depth of \"Husbands and Wives\", but it is a minimalist gem. Simple is good.\nEvery word, every phrase in his songs adds something to the whole. No fill ins. That's what I've always tried for in my work. Any word that doesn't add something, erase it. I learned a lot from him.\nMisty and I were doing a session at Columbia Studio B. Roger's session in studio A was already going on. We took a few minutes and watched through the window in the door. I remember hearing him say over the microphone, \"Let's go, folks. We're losin' light\".\nRight in the middle of our session Roger walked in, carrying a brief case, and stood by the door, listening. I stopped everything and told Misty I had to go meet Roger Miller and tell him what a fan I was.\nJust as I approached him with my hand out, he said, \"Hi, Jack. I'm a fan of yours.\" One of the best moments of my life.\nThe last time I saw him was at a party he hosted at the King of the Road Motel. He wove through the crowd to greet us, and we got talking. He must have heard one of our interviews, because he asked me what I meant when I said that he was responsible for me getting into country music. Here's where the stupid human trick comes in. I will never know why, but I said this:\n\"I was just trying to get your attention.\"\nHe looked at me funny and drifted off into the crowd.\nI could have told him all that I've told you here, but I didn't.\nAnd now I never can.\n--Jack Blanchard\nJack Blanchard and Misty Morgan have now been married, both in life and in music, for 35 years. They've been through and still have hard times, recently losing a beloved family member. Yet, through all of it, they strike me as two of the happiest, most satisfied people in the industry. Yes, I'm sure love has lots to do with it, as Misty says, but I think it's also their ability to look at life from many different angles, their ability to use words to convey all those angles to us, their fans, and the knowledge that they've done their best to add something to all of our lives, making it a little easier to digest.\nTheir current re-release of There Must Be More To Life hits #19 on the IndieWorld charts. They are also at position #12 on the Top Trax Traditional Country Music chart with their newest single, It Seems Like There Ain't No Goin' Home, on Stardust Records. Stardust has plans to re-release Fire Hydrant #79 this month. Their career continues.\nLet's hope they keep singing \"Just one more song.....together\".\nMake sure you visit Jack & Misty's website.\nFor more insight into what makes Jack Blanchard the man he is, take some time to read some of the essays he's written over the past thirty-some years. Since she's one of his favorite subjects, you'll learn a lot more about Misty during your read, too!\nMark Harris, 2002", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 21779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Entertainment/Bushman-works-on-album", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XXZEZASN2WL7YM2L4O25EO57UTYIFRRX", "length": 1274, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.jamaicaobserver.com", "title": "Bushman works on album", "raw_content": "Bushman works on album\nROOTS singer Bushman released his latest song Somewhere in May as a statement for Child Month, but says its powerful message transcends a sole event.\n\"It speaks of a future for the kids and also appeals to the world,\" he told Splash. \"It\u2019s a day to day inspiration for people who are trying to make ends meet.\"\nSomewhere is one of the songs from Conquering Lion, Bushman\u2019s next album which he is currently recording. He says the set is expected to be released on October 19, reggae star Peter Tosh\u2019s birthday.\nOther featured tracks on the album will be Mi Mean It (featuring Capleton), World State and Clutch Back.\nBushman said Conquering Lion will be his most diverse work to date.\n\"The album will be a blend of the different moods of reggae: dancehall, roots, and world beat,\" he said.\nHis last album, 2011\u2019s Bushman Sings the Bush Doctor, was a tribute to Tosh.\nThe St Thomas-born Bushman broke through in 1997 with the Steely and Clevie-produced Remember The Days. Fifteen years later, he says he is more versed in the intricacies of the music business and is encouraging fellow artistes to follow suit.\n\"A lot of us come into the music not being educated. There are a lot of materials out there not properly copyrighted to earn from it,\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Entertainment/Phil-Chen--bass-extraordinaire_11831142", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DU55TJ2CRYASXLENWT5ENAWDU5HVHFOQ", "length": 2109, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jamaicaobserver.com", "title": "Phil Chen, bass extraordinaire", "raw_content": "Phil Chen, bass extraordinaire\nIn commemoration of Jamaica\u2019s 50th anniversary of Independence from Britain, the Jamaica Observer\u2019s Entertainment section recognises 50 persons who made significant, yet unheralded, contributions to the country\u2019s culture. This week we feature Phil Chen.\nCOMING from a country that holds bass players in high regard, it is ironic Phil Chen should be filed under anonymous in Jamaican music annals. Chen has played with some of the biggest names in pop music including singer Rod Stewart.\nChen's most famous lines are heard on Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, Stewart's monster hit song from 1978. He was also a member of Stewart's recording and touring unit for several years.\nIn a 2003 interview with the Jamaica Observer, Chen summed up his career as a journeyman musician.\n\"Not to blow my own trumpet, but it's hard to find anybody who was anybody in the 1970s and 1980s whose record I didn't play on,\" he said.\nChen got the Stewart gig after working on Blow by Blow, the massively influential 1975 jazz/rock album by British guitarist Jeff Beck, a close friend of Stewart's.\nThe diminutive Chen's patterns can be heard on eight of the nine songs on Blow by Blow which is considered one of the definitive musician albums. A St George's College graduate, Chen played in the Vikings band on the Kingston club circuit before moving, in the late 1960s, to England where he found steady work as a guitarist and bassist.\nThe overwhelming success of Blow by Blow helped put his name in the league of top musicians in Britain, and it was not long after that the rising Stewart came calling.\nChen played on other Stewart hits such as Passion and Young Turks. He also worked on albums by Queen guitarist Brian May and ska bands in southern California where he currently lives.\nRecently, Chen was a member of the Doors tribute band, Riders On The Storm, which included original members of the legendary rock band, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robbie Kreiger.\nTwo years ago, Chen returned to his roots when he played on singer Suzanne Couch's tribute album to reggae legend Desmond Dekker.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 152.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/shaggy-for-today-8217-s-super_124205?profile=1116", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KDXIGPM66K2MF6FX5AODXMNHLOEKULDH", "length": 2121, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.jamaicaobserver.com", "title": "Shaggy for today's Super Bowl", "raw_content": "Shaggy for today's Super Bowl\nFresh from his performance at the Grammy Awards in New York last Sunday, diamond-selling reggae artiste Shaggy is set for another high-profile performance alongside British rocker Sting.\nThe artiste known for his hits including Boombastic, and It Wasn't Me, will perform his current collaboration with Sting, Don't Make Me Wait at the Super bowl \u2014 the finals of America's National Football League championship between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, set for US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on today.\nSpeaking with the Jamaica Observer, Shaggy explained that he will be doing the tailgate performance, ahead of the game.\n\u201cSting will be doing a 15-minute set, but they will just be airing one song which is out single together. They called Sting and he got in touch with me even before we started this whole project. We just had the single at the time , we didn't even think about doing the album at the time. So we have known for some time that we were going to do this. But it's great for me... it's 17 million people so you're not gonna hear me complain.\u201d\nShaggy also has no complaints against the American media outlet which questioned his recent performance on the Grammy Awards show.\n\u201c The Grammys was a great vibe, fantastic energy. James Corden basically wanted Sting to come and sing Englishman in New York, because he's an Englishman in New York, especially with the Grammys being back in New York. He wanted us to do the skit and since we're doing the album together they said we could do our single, because it could fit within the time allotted for the performance. It's all about promoting the single and getting it out to people.\n\u201cThere was some negative. There are other persons who were nominated such as Lourdes and did not get a performance so I can understand, but we have a song that we are putting out and we took the opportunity that we were given to promote it and we did our best. and apart from those who were negative, the majority was positive and our numbers were soaring. We are looking forward to this album 44/876,\u201d said Shaggy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 5263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 178.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.javajohnz.com/2016/10/minecraft-metropolis-madness-giveaway.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XMGRDG2MTLHN4T6L2MXCWJAX7TCUDKEL", "length": 2768, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.javajohnz.com", "title": "Java John Z's : Minecraft Metropolis Madness Giveaway / Boston (Randolph)", "raw_content": "Minecraft Metropolis Madness Giveaway / Boston (Randolph)\nSuper League is the world\u2019s first and biggest video game league that takes place in movie theaters worldwide. Bringing gamers of all ages together for a social, face-to-face gameplay experience on the big screen, Super League is establishing theatre auditoriums as the ultimate place to play some of the world\u2019s most popular games.\nTo date, Minecraft is arguably the world\u2019s most popular game, with over 70 million people having purchased it and more than 42 million Minecraft-related videos currently uploaded to YouTube.\nGamers will bring their laptop into the movie theatre and connect to the Super League server. Once connected, they\u2019ll join a lobby with up to 100 other gamers at the event. Teams will be formed and gamers will embark on 90 minutes of Minecraft fun. Metropolis Madness is a four-week \u201cleague\u201d running once a week from October 19 to November 9. The league and all of its games feature a \u201ccity\u201d theme, drawing from historical US landmarks - the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Alcatraz Island, Central Park, and more. Tickets must be purchased for the whole league upfront. The $80 cost of admission includes entry to all four events.\nFor more information and to see if available in a city near you, visit https://superleague.com/.\nAnd, now for the giveaway. I have TEN complimentary passes to the Showcase Randolph Theater beginning October 19th. The events run on Wednesday nights from 4:30-6:00 pm. The passes will only work if you are local to the Boston area. Sorry, they will not work at any location. While I'd love to get a whole slew of entries, given the hyper local nature of the giveaway, one of the questions is how many passes you would like if you win. If you have multiple children who would like to participate, or want to have a child bring a friend, please ask for more than one. I'll allow up to two per winner. Giveaway will run through 11:59pm on October 17th, giving me the 18th to get the passes out. It is via an electronic code so no need to snail mail anything. Good luck and please share giveaway with friends. If you win, you have to use the tickets yourself. You can't resell them.\nDisclosure: No compensation was received for this posting. This post contains affiliate links in which those links are clicked I may be compensated for. Please see the disclosure policy for more information.\nLabels: boston, giveaways, minecraft\nLocation: Randolph, MA 02368, USA\nydsddd October 12, 2016 at 5:33 PM\nyou play games on your computer and can watch it on the theater's big screen\nplaying games on computer\nEllen C. October 17, 2016 at 1:45 PM\nIt sounds like there will be learning involved throughout the competition. Thanks for the chance.\nWho doesn't love Minecraft???", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 443, "original_length": 10228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jigsawmagazine.com/2013/05/events-for-may-30-june-5-2013.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HYTLANN4GY7JEAH5GNMLNBAHWOG6QYKJ", "length": 4756, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.jigsawmagazine.com", "title": "Jigsaw Magazine: Events for May 30-June 5, 2013", "raw_content": "Stones Fest @ The Fonda (Hollywood)\nAll of tonight's proceeds benefit Sweet Relief and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, with performances and appearances by Phosphorescent, Butch Walker, Michelle Branch, Jason Sudeikis, Juliette Lewis, Matt Sorum & Ace Harper, Greg Dulli, the Cabin Down Below Band and surprise guests.\nNegroni Week @ Various Locations (Citywide)\nSeems like there's a week for every food and drink item, but the Italian cocktail composed of gin, vermouth and Campari definitely deserves one. Celebrate my favorite ap\u00e9ritif through June 3 at participating restaurants and bars like Son of a Fun, the Spare Room and Hemingway's, which offer up the classic as well as inventive spins. Plus, a portion of the money made is going to several charities.\nAfter Earth is M. Night Shyamalan's first feature since directing the horribly disappointing adaptation of my favorite cartoon, \"Avatar: The Last Airbender,\" and is based on a sci-fi/action story penned by one of the film's stars, Will Smith. Also with Jaden Smith, Sophie Okonedo and Zoe Kravitz; Writer/actress Brit Marling reteams with director Zal Batmanglij for The East, a spy adventure that also stars Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Ellen Page and Patricia Clarkson; Now You See Me stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine; Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson in the thought-provoking thriller Shadow Dancer. Also in theaters: American Mary; Caroline and Jackie; FIRST: The Story of London 2012 Olympic Games; I Do; The Kings of Summer\nBig Gay Ice Cream Truck @ Heath Ceramics and Lindy & Grundy (Mid-City West)\nSo excited that the New York City ice cream purveyors return to Los Angeles with their unique flavors, such as Bea Arthur (vanilla with dulce de leche and crushed 'nilla wafers) and Cococone (vanilla with toasted curried coconut), just in time for pre-summer heat. The truck also rolls to Hollywood (Susan Feniger's STREET) and East Hollywood (Faultline Bar) on Sunday, Universal City and Orange County (Myung In Dumplings) on Monday and West Hollywood (Duff's Cakemix) on Tuesday.\nMake Music Pasadena @ Various Locations (Pasadena)\nFrom 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., the city hosts an all-out celebration of music at over 40 stages and venues. See local acts like Youngblood Hawke, Hunter Hunted and the Dustbowl Revival, or experience some out of towers such as Yacht, We Are Scientists or Tanlines. There's no better way to spend an entire day in the sun.\nPhil Jackson @ Barnes & Noble (The Grove)\nLast week, the Zen Master released his latest book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, which details his storied career as head coach of the Bulls and Lakers, guided the careers of two of the best in all of the game's history (Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant) and inspired countless other basketball players, coaches and fans. Bask in his greatness when you get a copy of Eleven Rings signed tonight.\nBurger Week @ The Oinkster (Eagle Rock)\nFrom today through June 9, Andre Guerrero's fast-casual restaurant hosts its third annual celebration of all things burger, with each day featuring a brand new creation/tribute. Today's is a spin on Wendy's Baconator, the Oink-O-Nator, with two square patties, american cheese, kaiser bun, six strips of bacon, ketchup and mayo. Others not to miss: June 5's Burgerlord of the Rings, June 7's Thrilla from Manila and June 9's McRibster.\nJoss Whedon @ The Aero (Santa Monica)\nWhedon's adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy hits theaters June 7 and brings American Cinematheque's Much Ado About Shakespeare: The Bard on the Big Screen series, which also includes Henry V and Richard III on May 31 and Romeo + Juliet and Hamlet June 1, to a head with a screening and discussion with the director. Shot in black and white, Whedon's contemporary spin on the story of Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof) was shot in just 12 days.\n\"Yes, Prime Minister\" @ Geffen Playhouse (Westwood)\nThe U.S. premiere of the West End smash, written and directed by Antony Jay and director Jonathan Lynn, stars Stephen Caffrey, Michael McKean, Brian George and Tara Summers. The hilarious satire depicts the Prime Minister and his advisors spinning from crisis to crisis during one disastrous weekend. Through July 14\nBj\u00f6rk @ Palladium (Hollywood)\nThe Icelandic singer-songwriter really needs no introduction. If you haven't experienced the ethereal artist in person before, there is no excuse to wait any longer since she has three area shows. Tonight, again at the Palladium June 8 and June 11 at the Hollywood Bowl.\nLabels: Big Gay Ice Cream, Bjork, events calendar, Joss Whedon, Make Music Pasadena, Negroni Week, Phil Jackson, Stones Fest, The Oinkster Burger Week, Yes Prime Minister", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jll.cz/czech-republic/en-gb/news/230/online-retail-world-continues-to-grow-in-the-cee-region-but-e-commerce-and-shopping-centres-will-develop-hand-in-hand", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HWZ7MUI5O2U3C5C77NICRAIOXDJJOYOZ", "length": 9509, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.jll.cz", "title": "Online retail world continues to grow in the CEE region but e-commerce and shopping centres will develop hand in hand", "raw_content": "Online retail world continues to grow in the CEE region but e-commerce and shopping centres will develop hand in hand\nOnline shopping is a domain of population in their 30s and 40s, according to the new report by Jones Lang LaSalle\nPrague, 5th December 2012 \u2013 Jones Lang LaSalle presents its new report titled \u201cClicks or Bricks? E-commerce trends in Central & Eastern Europe\u201d regarding trends in online shopping in Central & Eastern Europe, target groups involved and the impact e-commerce is having on bricks & mortar retailing across various retail categories.\nKevin Turpin, Head of Research, Central and Eastern Europe, Jones Lang LaSalle, commented: \u201cE-commerce is now changing the retail environment of the region, as it has with the more advanced Western markets. The rise of the internet and the penetration of smartphones, tablets and other devices, along with the increasing popularity of social networks, have all brought changes in consumer behaviour patterns. E-commerce is not only an additional channel for making purchases, the internet itself allows consumers to learn more about products before buying them. With so much information at hand, the consumer is no longer a passive buyer, but becomes a demanding active player\u201d.\nThe key development factor with regard to online sales is the availability of a range of secure and quick payment methods like online banking, mobile transfers and online payment services.\nThe dossier of the CEE online shopper\nAlthough increasing, internet access in CEE is still not as high as it is in Western Europe and ranges from 41% of households in Serbia to 71% in Slovakia. It is also one of the reasons why e-commerce development in CEE is not homogenous and varies from country to country. E-shoppers are not necessarily youngsters, as according to GfK Polonia, people in their 30s and 40s make the most purchases. Women tend to be more eager to shop on the web than men, but that is subject to the specific retail category. Web shoppers look for bargains, search for information about goods and services, follow recommendations, watch and compare prices. The share of individuals making purchases online still lags behind the more mature economies of Western Europe and although this gap is slowly closing, it will take a few years before CEE will catch up in this regard.\nIt appears that Czech shoppers are taking full advantage of the opportunities that e-commerce provides: more than half of the population have already had their first online shopping experience. High growth dynamics are to be found in most sectors, with electronics and electrical goods being those most sought after online. Convenience goods and fashion are also gaining momentum with triple digit growth rates registered over the past year. Today, more than 30% of Czechs shop online on a regular basis.\nOnline payments have still not quite earned consumers\u00b4 trust, as most people prefer to pay upon delivery instead of using a cred card, which would be cheaper. The click & collect phenomenon is becoming more visible, as some e-tailers are opening brick & mortar stores which serve as collection points and showrooms offering the touch and feel experience.\nCzechs value e-commerce most of all for its cost-effectiveness, access to a wider range of goods and convenience. They base their purchasing decisions on widely available references.\nAlmost half of the surveyed international brands which are present on the Czech market also operate online. However, only a few have a dedicated Czech-language website, with the majority operating on centrally-run, international platforms. There are also numerous multi-brand stores that complement the online offer.\nOutlook for retail sectors\nThe rationale behind online shopping varies between particular retail categories.\n\u2022 The influence of fashion e-stores on the performance of traditional stores in CEE is still of low significance. It is because some people are still distrustful with regard to distance shopping, largely due to the urge to touch the fabric and try an item on. Others find online payments unsecure or fear that in case of an unsatisfactory purchase it would be a hassle to return the item.\n\u2022 With regards to the multimedia sector, the accelerating digitalisation is exposing traditional retailers of those goods to falling turnovers. In no other retail category is the showrooming phenomenon so apparent. People can now visit the store only to become familiar with a particular product and to compare the price.\n\u2022 In electronic equipment, as many electronic products are as standardised as they can possibly be, it is primarily price which differentiates one shop from another.\n\u2022 Kids products belong to one of the top retail categories traded online. Rationale behind shopping includes such factors like costs of raising children, difficulties in arranging time for traditional shopping when a child needs constant care and a challenge regarding shopping with a little kid. Increasing expenditures encourage many parents to look for cheaper substitutes; however, not at the expense of quality.\n\u2022 Shopping for groceries is one of the most quality-sensitive sectors of e-commerce. In CEE the development stage of this category varies from embryonic (in Serbia and Romania) to maturing (in the Czech Republic and Poland).\n\u2022 DIY, Home and Garden sector is the example of the situation when products are researched in traditional stores and then purchased on the web. The items which are most frequently purchased online are those that are somewhat standardised, i.e. building materials, ceramic tiles, tools, etc.\n\u2022 Consumers of jewellery or expensive accessories are seeking exclusivity, which an e-store might not necessarily satisfy. At present, shopping on the internet is associated with convenience or bargain hunting which does not necessarily match the image which luxury labels are trying to convey to their most select customers.\n\u2022 Health and beauty sector is predominantly fuelled by price, which is reflected by beauty products being among the most searched for items on price comparison services. In the long term, showrooming may become a serious threat for high-end perfumeries.\nDevelopment strategies for shopping centres owners and retailers\nThe mindset of approaching e-commerce as an opportunity, rather than a threat, helps one to better understand and prepare for new retail dynamics. Providing an exceptional shopping experience is a key. Offline offers should be adapted and extended, so as to complement the assortment of online stores and help to combat the showrooming effect. It is essential for a store\u2019s shop assistants to become well trained consultants and advisors. Other strategic factors to take into consideration are offering unique products that are not for sale anywhere else and working with manufacturers to release products earlier than anyone else. Moreover, the role of marketing events will additionally increase. Traditional retailers should take part in the internet revolution and participate in the online sales stake. Organising delivery chains, payment methods and returns handling systems which all function well are of key importance for a successful online platform.\nBeatrice Mouton, Head of Retail, Central and Eastern Europe, Jones Lang LaSalle, explains: \u201cCreatures of habits, it takes time for consumers to modify their shopping behaviour. In CEE malls are not only destinations for shopping, they play the role of venues, places to be, integrating communities and this will not change over the course of the next few years. However, some that are most vulnerable to online trade will most likely rearrange the role of bricks & mortar stores, either by downsizing or changing functionality. Tenant mixes are likely to shift towards more gastronomy, services and leisure, at the expense of electronics and multimedia anchors. Shopping malls should evolve into venues, servicing, leisure centres and dining destinations with a hip and happening atmosphere, which can be created by organising attractive events\u201d.\nAt present, the share of e-commerce in retail sales is still too small to threaten the performance of modern shopping malls and despite high projected growth rates, it must be remembered that the vast portion of items sold online are not necessarily shopping centre type goods and therefore, will not decrease traditional sales volumes.\n\u201cIn terms of modern retail floorspace, CEE markets are still considered as \u2018emerging\u2019, which is reflected by its shopping centre density: with 157 sq m per 1,000 residents, the region markedly lags behind the Western European average of 246 sq m. This indicates that along with the growth of CEE economies, there will still be room for additional modern shopping centres. Online sales, although dynamically increasing across the region, will most likely grow hand in hand with the development of the physical retail sector, with little interference. Increasing levels of disposable income will be a driver for both traditional and online retail sales. E-commerce on the other hand, seems to be reaping the largest benefits in the larger, more saturated cities. Given the rising purchasing power and retail sales across the region, we do not expect e-commerce to negatively influence the turnovers of prime shopping centres in the near future, although some retail categories might be affected. It is the matter of proportion of participation in this growth which is the key challenge\u201d, Beatrice Mouton summarises.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 11860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jmu.edu/cisr/_pages/research/gmar/search/dooley-foundation-intermed-inc.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IWTTQ2U57Y4UTFNXYO5UQRXHS3EAGCQT", "length": 445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jmu.edu", "title": "James Madison University - Dooley Foundation-INTERMED, inc.", "raw_content": "Dooley Foundation-INTERMED, inc.\nThe purpose of The Dooley Foundation, Intermed International, is: To assist people in developing countries in projects related to medical care, public health education, disease prevention and rehabilitation, health care worker training, and support for medical equipment and supplies.\nIntermed International, Inc.\nDooley Foundation\n125-28 Queens Blvd Ste 538\ninfo@dooleyintermed.org\nhttp://www.dooleyintermed.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jobsinnetwork.com/?q=Bilingual+Customer+Service+Agent&permanent=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YJTGRZC6QNOQFH7WJO7RRO6OY4Z7IR5P", "length": 198, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jobsinnetwork.com", "title": "Jobs for English Speakers", "raw_content": "As a German speaking Customer Service Representative, you will be responsible for:being the interface between the company and the customer base (distributors market and direct customers).ensuring...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 10048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnclemenzanewyork.com/john-clemenza-blog-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VYDBXBCG3XIO7G5EJZICXFOENNI7T3B7", "length": 2593, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.johnclemenzanewyork.com", "title": "John Clemenza Blog Page \u2013 John Clemenza", "raw_content": "In today\u2019s fast-paced world, it\u2019s a wonder that the speed with which society is moving is not translating to more miles walked, more calories burned, and more weight lost. The great thing about the Big Apple is that it\u2019s easy to incorporate weight-loss activities into your busy city lifestyle so that you can take care [\u2026]\nJohn Clemenza is an amateur surfer who aims to go pro someday. As a surfer, he knows the importance of keeping his mind and body healthy, because out in the water, you only have your physical strength and your wits to help you. But regardless of whether you\u2019re a surfer or not, staying fit and [\u2026]\nIf you were to ask John Clemenza where he would like to live anywhere in the world, his immediate response would be New York. As someone who has lived on an island all his life (he\u2019s an 18-year-old amateur surfer who lives in Oahu), he longs for the hustle and bustle of city life. John [\u2026]\nJohn Clemenza is an 18-year-old amateur surfer who has participated in a number of competitions in his native island town of Oahu. As he hopes to go pro someday, he never misses a chance to train. 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He also acknowledges that there are \u201cother\u201d surf spots across the country and around the world that are worth visiting. For this post, John Clemenza would like to focus on surf [\u2026]\nJohn Clemenza on Lifestyle Changes You Can Do to Enhance Well-being\nFor John Clemenza, being on top of his game is what keeps him motivated to eat and live healthily. At 18 years, old, he is already a strong advocate for living a healthy lifestyle. 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Melt strength is improved by the presence of high molecular weight tail or long chain branches.\nMelt mass flow rate or melt flow rate (MFR) gives an indication of melt processing properties of a polymer. Shear rate range is, however, narrow and much lower than in the most of processing applications. It gives thus very limited information about melt flow behaviour. The method is a kind of capillary measurement.\nThe equipment consists of a barrel, a piston with a place for loading masses and a die. The sample is charged into the barrel and heated up to a specified temperature. After that the piston is loaded extruding the polymer through the die.\nMelt flow rate (MFR) is defined as a mass flown through the die in 10 min. The weights mostly used with polyolefins are 2.16 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg and 21.6 kg. In addition to the evaluation of flow properties MFR serves as a rough estimation of molecular weight.\nUsually also Flow Rate Ratio (FRR) is determined. This ia defined as a ratio of two MFR values obtained with two different weights. FRR can be used as a rough estimation of molecular weight distribution.\nMonomer forms a repeating unit in a polymer chain.\nMorphology is the internal or external structure of a solid substance. Important sub-definitions include\n(a)Crystal morphology of a polymer film or part (b)Phase morphology of heterophasic polymer systems (blend, copolymer) (c) Powder morphology of a polymer powder from the polymerisation reactor.\nThe relation between the number of molecules in a polymer and their individual chain length. It is often also called \u201cmolar mass distribution\u201d (MMD). Technical polymers are always polydisperse as a result of the nature of the catalyst and the polymerisation conditions. The MWD is often characterised by size exclusion chromatography (SEC), but it can also be calculated approximately from rheological data for purely linear polymers.\nA catalyst which contains a metallocene compound of a transition metal. Often used as a synonym for single site.\nMultimodal polymer\nMultimodal polymer includes more than one molecular weight fraction.\nMelt tension test\nExtensional properties play an important role in some processes such as melt spinning, blow moulding and film blowing. Melt tension test is a simple method for characterisation of extensional properties. The measuring principal copies industrial spinning process. A fluid is pressed or extruded through a round hole die, the resulting thread is hauled off with increasing speed and the applied extensional force is measured. The force is recorded as a function of haul-off speed or draw-down ratio, which is the ratio of the haul-off speed to the initial speed. 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The monument was built using the skulls of the Serbs killed by order of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II during the 1809 Battle of \u010cegar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.justthefood.com/2011/08/im-here-lets-get-party-started.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:MBASXU32L4XO7QZNMMT6ESBIYVY3XCNQ", "length": 6086, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.justthefood.com", "title": "justthefood.com...the blog: I'm here! Let's get the party started!", "raw_content": "I usually drive up, but thought I'd fly this time. And I usually stay with my sister, but thought I'd stay in a hotel this time since I was going to be here for nine whole days.\nI had to stop in Seattle on the way here, and when I went to board the plane my boarding pass didn't scan, and then some dude walked up to the counter, \"Are you Joni Marie Newman? I have your ticket.\" \"What?\" I said. But it was true. He had a layover in Vancouver and they gave him my ticket. Very strange. But I guess even computers aren't perfect. The flight agent figured it all out and we were all able to board. YAY! Only an hour to Portland now!\nWe landed, My luggage arrived safely, and I boarded the MAX to go to my hotel. \"Lucky me! It drops me off right in front of my hotel.\" Ginormous suitcase in tow, I go to check in.\n\"Oh, I am so sorry. We don't have any more rooms.\" \"What?\" I said. (Seems that this is my go to answer when I am delivered unexpected news.) \"Yeah...we're overbooked for the night, and we had 8 guests stayover.\" Now, I understand that things happen. I am a flexible, reasonable, generally easygoing kind of person. I just expect people to handle things in a proper manner. At 4 pm I called the Hotel and let them know that I would be arriving at around 10 pm. No one told me anything at that time. \"Thank you, Miss Newman, your room will be ready!\" They had my phone number, they could have called me and let me know, you know?\nAnyhow, I'm on foot with all of my things...what am I supposed to do? So they call around town to other hotels to put me up. They finally find me a room at the University Place Hotel. Fine. \"Can I get bus directions?\" \"Um...Just take anything that goes downtown then find the 17.\" It's a good thing I am not afraid of public transportation...late at night...in a city I am only somewhat familiar with...with all of my luggage.\nI check in at the University Place Hotel...which is where the Vida Vegan Convention is going to be held anyways, so I am kind of excited...Same price as the Inn at the Convention Center, because of the mix up, they made up the difference, but like 10 times as nice. \"So, no charge, ma'am. The Inn is taking care of it.\" \"Oh, cool.\" \"So, just check out with us in the morning.\" \"What?\" Apparently I have to go back to the Inn tomorrow.\nDropped off my suitcase in my room. By now it's almost midnight. First night in Portland is a bust. Called the Inn to find out what time I could come back in the morning. \"Anytime after 8am.\" \"Are you sure? Because checkout here is 11, and checkout there is 12.\" \"Yes, anytime after 8am.\"\nI walked across the street, got a bottle of wine. Poured myself some. Plopped down on the bed, and passed out before I ever finished the first glass.\nWoke up at 7. Took a shower, got dressed, packed up my things, checked out, boarded the train back to the Inn. Got there at 9:45am. \"What was your name?\" \"Joni Newman.\" \"Hmmm...I don't see anything here for you.\" \"What?\" I showed him my confirmation letter, blah, blah, blah. 10:15am I get my room key. Made my way up to my room. Dropped off my stuff. (A quick word about this hotel. It's less than half the price of most of the other Hotels in the area. But it is in a great location. The building is really ugly and dirty on the outside. The lobby is a mess. But the room is actually pretty cool. Now that I am settled in, I really like it. It's big, with a little kitchen area. No stove, but microwave, coffee maker, fridge, bar with 2 barstools, and a sink! The train picks up right out front, and it's centrally located to everything. I even have a decent view out the window.)\nThe phone rings. It's June and Kurt, they are downstairs waiting for me. Thank goodness. They whisk me off to Blossoming Lotus for brunch and all is well with the world. I enjoyed the brunch special which was a special tofu scramble with cashew cheese, home fries and a big old pile of steamed kale. I was a happy girl.\nAfter brunch I decided I was going to have an \"alone adventure.\" I like to spend time alone. Besides, I am going to be here for nine days. I would like to walk about town, pick up a few necessities, and go back to the hotel and get unpacked and settled in.\nSo I started walking. My target? Food Fight Grocery. I needed to get some stuff to stock my little hotel kitchen for the week. Score. I got snacks, drinks, coconut creamer for my morning cup, a copy of Kittee's Papa Tofu Loves Ethiopian Food and a new \"What kind of asshole would eat a lamb?\" tote! I also noticed that they were carrying two of my cookbooks. Very cool. Thanks Food Fight.\nI walked back to my hotel to drop off my loot. Unpack my suitcase, take a shower, and see what else I could see with the remainder of the night. I decide to go downtown and check out some of the food carts. I am distracted by the Saturday Market, which apparently does it's thing on Sundays too. I wander through aisle after aisle of hippie goodness, grab a coconut boba, some incense, enjoy some street performers, and keep walking.\nSo sad. Most of the carts are closed by now. I make a note of where they are so I can come back again later in the week, and once again head back to my hotel to make my next plans.\nPizza is what I need for dinner! So I get on the bus and head down to Mississippi Pizza Pub for a vegan pie. While I am waiting I enjoy a fresh fruit cocktail in the lounge, and some live music. Pizza in tow, I head back to my hotel once again. This time for the night. I throw on my jammies, turn on the boobtube, and nosh on my pizza in the middle of the king sized bed.\nNot a bad first day.\nLabels: blossoming lotus, food fight, pdx, portland, Vegan\nYea!! I can't wait to be there! Sorry about your hotel problems though. That sucks, but sounds like everything got much better. I CANNOT WAIT TO GO TO FOOD FIGHT!\nholy hotel brain fart, Batman!\nI'm glad it was eventually settled. I miss you, miss Joni. say hi to June & Kurt and everyone else for me.\nSo glad you finally got settled!! Can't wait to meet you and join everyone in our Portland travels... bring on the conference! :D", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 14300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3092&p=65549", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CQCUXVYUGGT66MBKBJPIGYQR7L25N2Y4", "length": 6276, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.kbismarck.org", "title": "Most successful RN Carrier of WW2 - Naval History Forums", "raw_content": "Most successful RN Carrier of WW2\nPost by Gary \u00bb Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:19 pm\nWhich of the Royal Navies Aircraft Carriers was the most prolific and successful?\n(I'm talking about the number of ships attacked/damaged/sunk by its planes.)\nI'm guessing its either Illustrious or Eagle?\nRe: Most successful RN Carrier of WW2\nPost by paulcadogan \u00bb Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:20 pm\nThis is a hard one to quantify as several British carriers had active and eventful careers.\nIllustrious is an obvious top contender as she is the only one that can claim to have sunk two battleships and crippled two others (albeit at anchor in Taranto) in one fell swoop creating the \"blueprint\" for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, add to that surviving 6 bomb hits at the hands of German Stukas, plus Kamikazes in the Pacific, plus her other Med, Indian Ocean and Pacific actions.\nVictorious is a good contender having attacked and hit Bismarck and Tirptz, plus her Arctic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean & Pacific service, and her long post-war career.\nArk Royal was extremely active in her short career and has the big plus of crippling Bismarck. Her aircraft attacked and scared off Vittorio Veneto and Guilio Cesare at the battle of Spartivento, possibly saving Renown and the rest of the squadron from a dangerous encounter. From Norway, to the Atlantic to the Med, the Ark was there. Plus she was a big focal point for German propaganda. Based on impact in proportion to short length of service - she's in there.\nFurious was extremely useful, despite her age and small aircraft capacity, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean - including the attack with Victorious that scored 14 hits on Tirpitz. She was so worn out by 1944 that she was put in reserve.\nEagle's main claim to fame was her Med actions, but I don't think she's a top contender.\nMy pick for the top spot would be between Illustrious and Victorious.\nThe old Eagle was a little more than meets the eye.\nA small number of the Taranto planes/aircrews actually belonged to Eagle (albeit they launched from Illustrious that night).\nEagle bagged herself quite a few Italian Destroyers as well as some merchant vessels and a submarine.\nShe also played a big part in supplying Malta with airplanes (as did most of the carriers at some point).\nIn essence you are probably right though Paul, its either Illustrious or Victorious\nI would go for Illustrious, not least for being able to live up to its name......\nHMS Eagle - well, it came close to the hilfskreuzer Atlantis at night and didn't even see the German ship. Fortunately nothing came of it, but certainly a close encounter.....\nPost by tameraire01 \u00bb Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:47 pm\nIllustrious has to be the best and most successful carrier of WW2 in any theatre.Even the USN was impressed by her when she went for repairs in the us.\nPost by Garyt \u00bb Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:11 pm\nI like the Ark Royal, factoring both it's history (although not as impressive as a few of the other candidates) and the fact that it had a rather large air group for a British carrier.\nPost by pgollin \u00bb Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:21 am\nAlso remember that Victorious went to the Pacific twice, the first time teaching the USN proper fighter direction techniques.\nPost by paulcadogan \u00bb Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:31 pm\npgollin wrote: Also remember that Victorious went to the Pacific twice, the first time teaching the USN proper fighter direction techniques.\nHOLY WILDCATS BATMAN!! The USS Robin!!\nhttp://www.armchairgeneral.com/uss-robi ... -exist.htm\nPost by aurora \u00bb Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:37 pm\nSIMPLY THE BEST--BETTER THAN ALL THE REST\nIllustrious was the lead ship in her class of aircraft carriers. The design was unique in the sense that the flight deck was armored, unlike many of her contemporaries outside her class; however, the added protection also limited the total number of aircraft she was capable of carrying. Her first assignment brought her to the Mediterranean Sea where her main mission was to launch aircraft which covered Malta convoys. In Nov 1940, she launched 21 torpedo bombers against the Italian fleet at Taranto, and achieved spectacular success after sinking one battleship and damaging two others. On 11 Jan 1941, she was attacked by German dive bombers while escorting a convoy, suffering 8 bomb hits. While repair work was being done at Malta, she was once again bombed. She sailed for Alexandria, Egypt for temporary repairs, and then sailed for the Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia, United States for permanent repairs.\nThe repair work completed in May 1942. By which time, Japan had entered the war, threatening British possessions in Asia. The British Royal Navy, particularly, suffered a damaging defeat after the Japanese raids into the Indian Ocean in Mar-Apr 1942. As a result, Illustrious was dispatched to the Indian Ocean instead of returning to the Mediterranean. In May 1942, her aircraft provided cover for the British troops landing at Diego Suarez, Madagascar against French and French colonial troops.\nIn 1943, Illustrious returned to the Mediterranean Sea and joined Force H based in Gibraltar. In Sep 1943, her aircraft covered Allied troops in the Sicily invasion.\nIn 1944, Illustrious returned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean for strikes against Japanese garrisons in the Southwest Pacific region. In 1945, after a period of rest and re-supply in Fremantle, Australia, she sailed north and joined Allied Task Force 57 to cover the Okinawa operation. Off Okinawa, she was hit and damaged by two Japanese special attack aircraft.\nAfter the war, Illustrious' role was reduced to a training and trials ship due to the heavy damage suffered during WW2. She was finally modernized between Jan and Aug 1948, and then served another six years before she was decommissioned. She was sold for scrap on 3 Nov 1954 and was broken up in 1956 as Faslane.\nPost by LeopardTooth \u00bb Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:13 am\n\"Illustrious has to be the best and most successful carrier of WW2 in any theatre.\"\nI can only hope that the scope of this analysis is limited to Her Majesty's naval vessels. Otherwise, a certain CV6 would like a word with you.\nPost by aurora \u00bb Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:56 am\nIn action and unsinkable 1940 to 1945-I should jolly well think so-USS Enterprise notwitstanding-she saw action 1941 to 1945.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 10095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kings-taunton.co.uk/mrs-kl-mcswiggan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PXTMT6YJMENDX3JH4A5FYAT3S42XSV35", "length": 485, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kings-taunton.co.uk", "title": "Mrs KL McSwiggan | King's College Taunton", "raw_content": "Having read German and Russian at Reading University, Karen obtained her PGCE in Modern Languages at Exeter University before teaching in the maintained sector for two years. Karen came to King\u2019s as Head of German in 1991 and was housemistress of Meynell House from 1995 \u2013 2003. Karen joined the Senior Management Team in 1998 as Senior Mistress and became Deputy Head (Pupils) in 2003.\nHer interests include music (she is presently learning to play the clarinet), reading and cooking.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 4559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kitchenandresidentialdesign.com/2016/02/unconventional-ways-to-find-interior.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ICDIWTMAREID5OWTLCBKPVKZC57YG6KU", "length": 3218, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kitchenandresidentialdesign.com", "title": "Kitchen and Residential Design: Unconventional Ways to Find Interior Design Inspiration", "raw_content": "Unconventional Ways to Find Interior Design Inspiration\nYou want the rooms of your home or office to speak to your tastes. But what are those, exactly? In an effort to get inspired we often jump the gun and start with things like favorite color or a style we\u2019re vaguely familiar with. Soon our best intentions turn into mismanaged approaches and the result is a less-than-ideal look to your interior space. We\u2019ve all been there before.\nThe obvious first step is to try and think like an interior designer. However, DIY interior design doesn\u2019t need to be all dense theory and academic absorption. Inspiration can and ought to arrive in all sorts of ways. The following are just an example of some of the many unconventional methods to achieving desired interior design:\nLook through homes for sale in other parts of the world. For example, San Diego real estate listings are sure to offer a glimpse into one-of-a-kind forms of architecture and interior design. Color combinations, use of space, and application of light are all things that can be seen in photos meant to try and sell a home. While your budget may call for a scaled down version, looking through the swankier listings will showcase the most original interior design styles to draw inspiration from.\nPay attention to art direction in movies and on television. Film and television studios pay good money to make sure the sets and scenery look perfect. Sometimes this means making sure the underbelly of a viaduct has just the right color scheme of spray paint, but most of the time it means making sure an interior space is in harmony with the production\u2019s color palette. This typically leads to immaculately executed interior design styles, especially if the filmmakers are particularly known for striking visuals. Take notes when you like the look of a room in your favorite TV show - a lot of work went into making it look good and you can base your own approach on the design.\nGo beyond the basics. Let yourself be inspired by animals, paintings, cars, or even music - it doesn\u2019t simply have to be space, wall color, and furniture found elsewhere. The aforementioned array of graffiti along the walls of concrete canals can even serve as a launching pad for the mind. It may sound hippy dippy, but such an approach is how many successful interior designers choose to work.\nDreams: write them down. Some people have vivid dreams in terms of locale. This is particularly the case if interior design is weighing heavily on your mind during your waking hours. Keep a sketchpad and 120-count box of crayons by the bed and draw out (the best you can) any memorable looking spaces in your dreams. While you might end up passing on the octopus tentacle ceiling fan blades and the shag carpeted walls, you might find just the look you were wanting all along.\nWe all want to pull off professional-grade interior design when attempting to 'do it ourselves.' However, it\u2019s easier to end up with a pedestrian look to a room than something spectacular when we opt to go at it alone. Too much energy is forced on trying to make inspiration happen, rather than letting it happen. Go out and take in the world to find interior design which suits your taste and budget.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 8053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=25865", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VDJJI2YT4XXHYOG5XQH7CR4RBXFY52CK", "length": 3832, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.knac.com", "title": "KNAC.COM - Reviews - EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE 'Grind'", "raw_content": "EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE Grind\nHighVolMusic\nIt was April 2016 and Southern hard rockers EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE were performing in Houston, Texas in support of their new, self-released 5-song EP titled Grind, which was released the summer before. During the course of the evening and my conversations with the band's manager/tour manager it was mentioned that the band was in the market for a label to help with wolrdwide distribution of said EP. In my capacity as Managing Editor for KNAC.COM I get press releases all the time and had noticed one record label in particular that had signed other bands of that era/genre. I provided the band's frontman, the Reverend Rick Ruhl, with the contact information and told him they should get in touch with the folks over at HighVolMusic. Fast forward to earlier this year when a press release went out with the news that EMN had signed with.....wait for it....HighVolMusic. Coincidence? Maybe, but I'd like to think that maybe I played a part in that in some small way.\nThe first order of business with the band's new deal was to give Grind a proper release, but in this case it wasn't simply a matter of reissuing the EP. To the contrary, the label decided to issue it as a full-length affair, which then became the Grind album we now have set to be released on October 6th. So what we have here is actually four separate parts to review.\nThe first part is the 5 songs that made up the original EP: \"Loco Crazy\" (which features Zach Myers of SHINEDOWN on guitar), \"Blown Away\", \"Snake\", \"Upper Hand\" and \"Sacred Circle\". Owning a copy of that original EP helps to compare them to the tracks on this full length and one thing stands out immediately. As good as I thought the sound production was on the EP, the songs are that much better on the full length. The production is crisp and clear and sounds great on a good stereo. Props to whoever did the mising on this release.\nThe second part is the 3 new songs that were recorded to bring the CD closer to full length status: \"Days Are Through\", \"Stand Up\" and \"Swing Again\". \"Days Are Through\" is a nice, mellow ballad that once again showcases the voice that is the Reverend Ruhl. \"Stand Up\" is a great bluesy hard rocker that is made even better by the inclusion of Jim Dandy, he of BLACK OAK ARKANSAS fame, on vocals. \"Swing Again\" is a ferocious rocker that is sure to give the listener a nice earworm.\nPart three is the addition of 3 live tracks that were recorded at the band's performance in Nashville in August of last year: \"Closet Down The Hall\" from the Wake Up Screaming disc of 1993, the balls out \"Walls Come Down\" from the band's debut opus and \"Push\", the phenomenal lead-off track from the equally impressive comeback album of 2000, Smokin' Delta Voodoo. All three of these, for those that have never caught the band live, serve to give you a teaser taste of what you can expect from EMN in terms of a live performance. Rick Ruhl has probably never sounded better than he does now and his supporting cast of bassist Troy Fleming, guitarists John Guttery and Travis \"Gunner\" Butler\", along with the recently announced return of oringal skinsman Jim Phipps, gives EMN dare I say its best lineup in years.\nLast but not least is the added bonus of 3 videos that are included: The videos released from the original Grind EP, \"Loco Crazy\", \"Blown Away\" and the live track from above, \"Push\".\nIf you like your hard rock southern fried then Grind is a must-have for your collection. If you already own the original EP you'll want this one for the added materials and if you don't have either yet, what the hell are you waiting for?? Buy it now!\nGrab your copy of Grind in the KNAC.COM More Store right HERE.\nAnd for you vinyl lovers, there is a limited run of transparent green albums (with alternate cover art) available HERE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.korallenriffe.ch/en/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:C6JUZWR7CCZSQDGMXVXCICDJA5BGCSEI", "length": 3034, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.korallenriffe.ch", "title": "Coral reef fish in aquaria: Coral reefs \u2013 admired, theatened and robbed", "raw_content": "Coral reef fish in aquaria\nCoral reefs \u2013 admired, theatened and robbed\nAlmost all coral fish you see in an aquarium are not bred in captivity but come directly from a coral reef.\nOf the over 2,000 traded species only about 1 per cent can be bred.\nDue to the poor trapping, handling and transport methods, only four out of five fish make it to an aquarium.\nThe few fish that reach the aquarium alive are the strongest. But as they are extremely stressed their survival rate is very low.\nCoral reefs are also called \u2018the rainforest of the sea\u2019. They form some of the most diverse ecosystems of the world and are home to around 4\u2019000 fish species, i.e. one third of all known fish species. They also host about 800 stony corals and thousands of other invertebrates and sponges.\nCoral reefs, the work of billions of tiny animals, only grow a few centimetres a year. These animals have built the biggest natural edifice on earth: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which is so large it can be seen from space.\nBut coral reefs are in danger: Overfishing, pollution and climate change threaten coral reefs all over the world. One third has already been destroyed and another forth will be gone in twenty years.\nCoral reefs are of huge environmental and economic significance. They are the breeding ground for fish we serve in restaurants, act as a shoreline protection, and create the beautiful paradise islands we spend so much time on. Worldwide, more than 250 million people depend on coral reefs.\nCoral reefs deliver unbelievable services. According to UN figures, the coral reefs value per km2 and year is estimated as followed: 18 million USD for natural risk management such as costal protection, up to 100 million USD for tourism, up to 5 million USD for genetic material (for medical purposes), and up to 350,000 USD for fishery.\nThe 2004 Tsunami in Asia proved the importance of the reefs clearly. In the absence of coral reefs, the wave simply washed over the coast leaving absolute destruction in its wake.\nHowever, people still do not realise the environmental and economic significance coral reefs have for them. If coral reefs were to disappear, more than 100 countries would lose an incredible treasure. Land-locked countries, Switzerland for example, also carry their share of guilt by going on holidays to tropical islands, buying coral jewellery, eating coral reef fish and owning seawater aquariums.\nThe trade in coral fish is an often overlooked problem since practically no species is protected. There are hardly any trade controls or reliable management plans in place. Almost all coral fish are taken from wild coral reefs as the majority of coral fish cannot be bred.\nMany coral fish die while being caught, handled or transported.The ones that reached an aquarium perish shortly after as a study of the WWF Philippines showed.\n\u201cWWF-Philippines estimates that as many as 98% of wild-caught reef fish die within one year.\u201d\nSupported by the Fondation Franz Weber\nNews (in English and German)\nLiterature (a selection)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kristenbarkerphotography.com/photography-workshop/winter-photography-workshop/1-student-kids-ages-8-family", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MXMWULTQBPVJ4MOSV7J4RBAMSJWPT6LR", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kristenbarkerphotography.com", "title": "1 Student: Kids (ages 8+) & Family - Kristen M Barker", "raw_content": "1 Student: Kids (ages 8+) & Family", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ksitetv.com/category/the-dangerous-book-for-boys/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EUBT5WKND5QB4VCJBPQLNUGSXKP6YOV7", "length": 225, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ksitetv.com", "title": "The Dangerous Book for Boys | KSiteTV", "raw_content": "The Dangerous Book for Boys Cancelled by Amazon\nThe Dangerous Book for Boys Aug 1, 2018\nAmazon has cancelled family drama The Dangerous Book for Boys after one season. The reasoning comes down to the show being too expensive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/4ba839cd-40ab-4c82-b4e9-07f4231217a1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ANJEEZAFAWOGW5GI5IBIN4GNMA3VO3FX", "length": 3666, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.kurdistan24.net", "title": "Abadi 'loses election battle' early with collapse of coalition", "raw_content": "Abadi 'loses election battle' early with collapse of coalition\nIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Iraqi Parliament. (Photo: Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani)\nWASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) \u2013 Two days after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made the surprise announcement that he would run in Iraq\u2019s next election in alliance with the Iranian-backed Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), on Monday, they all withdrew from his coalition.\nAbadi is widely seen as America\u2019s candidate, and Iran had sought to slip its people into Iraq\u2019s next government under Abadi\u2014just as pro-Iranian forces play a strong role in Lebanon under cover of the Sunni Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri.\nIran\u2019s gambit in Iraq, however, now seems to have failed. In that sense, the collapse of the coalition is a setback for Tehran.\nHowever, Abadi has lost standing through his political maneuvering, and it seems unlikely that he can win enough votes to become Iraq\u2019s next prime minister. In this sense, the collapse of Abadi\u2019s coalition is also a setback for Washington.\nIt all depends on who wins the vote. It is now quite possible that Hadi al-Ameri, the pro-Iranian head of the PMF, could become Iraq\u2019s next prime minister. In that case, the collapse of Abadi\u2019s coalition will be a very substantial setback for Washington.\nEntifadh Qanbar, an Iraqi-American who heads the Future Foundation in Washington DC, told Kurdistan 24, \u201cAbadi has lost the elections, before the elections.\u201d\nIzzat al-Shabandar, an Iraqi MP from Abadi\u2019s own al-Dawa party, expressed a similar view on social media, \u201cAbadi has lost the election battle early.\u201d\nAbadi was not popular to begin with \u2013 which is why he aligned himself with the PMF. But with that alliance broken, he has lost support from that quarter, even as he has now \u201cbetrayed\u201d \u2013 by his short-lived alliance with the PMF \u2013 those who thought of him as a liberal, Qanbar explained.\nMany Iraqis are now calling Abadi \u201cthe liar\u201d and \u201cthe crook\u201d for his flip-flopping, Qanbar said.\nIn coalition discussions on Monday, al-Ameri, who may well be Iraq\u2019s most popular political figure, reportedly told Abadi, \u201cAt maximum, you can get four seats. Why should you be the next prime minister?\u201d\nOn Sunday, the influential, firebrand Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, wrote a letter, released to the media, in which he denounced Abadi\u2019s coalition as \u201csectarian\u201d and \u201ccorrupt.\u201d\nReportedly, Sadr\u2019s letter played a significant role in the collapse of Abadi\u2019s coalition.\nA Kurdish lawmaker expressed a similar view to Kurdistan 24, as he explained that Abadi had \u201ctoo many little and unknown parties,\u201d as well as \u201ccorrupted ones.\u201d\nSince parliament has yet to formally approve a date for the elections \u2013 which Abadi has set for May 12 \u2013 this lawmaker is unsure when they will actually occur. He suggested that they could be postponed for a significant time, because large numbers of Sunni Arabs and Kurds remain displaced.\nHowever, if the vote is held as scheduled, Abadi\u2019s collapse opens the way for another politician, Ayad Allawi, to assume the mantle of the candidate who most represents a more liberal, non-sectarian direction for Iraq.\nAllawi previously led Iraq, becoming Interim Prime Minister of Iraq in 2004, as the Bush administration terminated the ill-fated Coalition Provisional Authority, which it had established the year before.\nThroughout the ongoing crisis between Baghdad and Erbil, Allawi has been sympathetic toward the Kurds. In the view of at least one Kurdish lawmaker, Allawi would be the best candidate from a Kurdish perspective.\nAbadi allied with Iranian-backed militias for Iraqi elections\nJanuary 15-2018 06:49 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lakshadweeponline.in/city-guide/about-lakshadweep", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BMPVQJZST4DMOO3GRADERDMBSG2KORF4", "length": 8776, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "www.lakshadweeponline.in", "title": "About Lakshadweep, Information About Lakshadweep Islands", "raw_content": "Lakshadweep is one of the smallest union territory out of all the seven union territories that are there in India. \u2018Lakshadweep\u2019 means \u2018a hundred thousand islands\u2019 in Sanskrit and Malayalam. It was formerly known by various names such as Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands. Kavaratti is the capital of Lakshadweep.\nIt is a platoon of 36 islands and is also the principal town of the Union Territories in India. The beauty of this place is popularly known for the enticing and enlivening beaches and lush green landscapes. Hence, because of a number of beaches in its account, most of the population of Lakshadweep is engrossed in fishing and cultivation of coconut.\nOut of 36 islands in the group, only 10 have inhabitants namely Amini, Kiltan, Chetlat, Kadmat, Bitra Kalpeni, Agatti, Kavaratti, Kiltan, Andrott and Minicoy. The place appears more of a Muslim\u2019s Union Territory because almost 93% of the population are Muslims. Also, the people there are very quiet and have a much laid back attitude. The area is virtually crime free.\nBrief History of Lakshadweep\nThe group of islands of Lakshadweep are aboriginal and, hence, there are a number of speculations that have been made about the advent of inhabitation on Lakshadweep. Amongst all, one of the earlier references that is worth mentioning, is about the region being in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea by some anonymous author.\nVasco Da Gama was the first westerner to visit the islands but it was only the Englishmen who explored it further. The Lakshadweep islands have also been greatly mentioned in Ibn-e-Batuta which is a story of an Arab traveller. The islands have been ruled by various powerful rulers such as Tipu Sultan in 1787, Chirakkal family of Cannanore and later on ultimately by the Britishers, who attached the Malabar district of the Madras Presidency.\nIt was only in 1956 that these islands were segregated from the main administrative units and were formed it into a new union territory by combining all the islands, under the States Reorganisation Act. Click here for more information on history of Lakshadweep\nLakshadweep islands spreads up to about 32 square kilometres in area and is an amalgamation of 36 different islands, out of which 26 islands are untouched by human inhabitancy. The lush green islands are rich in vegetation and the beautiful combination of islands are also called as Emerald islands.\nIt is located in the Arabian Sea and is at a distance of approximately two hundred and twenty four to four hundred and forty kilometres away from the city situated along the coast of the southern state of Kerala, Kochi. Lakshadweep is probably one and the only chain of coral islands in the sub-continent. Click here for more on geography on Lakshadweep\nThe temperature of the tropical paradise pretty much depends upon its latitudinal positioning and geography on the earth.\nIn the summers, the temperature ranges from 22 to 35 degrees whereas in the winters the temperature is more or less similar ranging from 20 degrees to 32 degrees. No matter the temperature is a bit on a higher side, the islands have a very pleasing atmosphere whole around the year and manages to lure a large amount of tourists.\nThe chief rainy season is the Southwest monsoon which starts from late May and extends up to early October. The precipitation is more evenly distributed in the southern islands as compared to the northern islands.\nTourism in Lakshadweep is one of the biggest industry as far as income and employment of the islands is concerned. The tourism of the place is dependent on its physical characteristics, from its vast marine life to its flora and fauna. The tourist department of the islands has paid a lot of attention towards its infrastructure, conservation of its beaches and monuments and construction of newer hotels.\nIt has a long stretch of coastline which provides a lot of scope for expansion in the field of adventure tourism. It has emerged as one of the most potential water sports destination in India. The department has also established a few water sports institute which offers a facility of sports like canoeing, kayaking, surfing, water skiing, scuba diving, etc.\nAgatti island, Kavaratti\nMinicoy island, Minicoy\nLighthouse, Minicoy\nMuseum, Agatti\nLagoon, Agatti\nUrja Mosque, Kavaratti\nKadmat island, Bangaram\nThe lighthouse, Androth\nJuma Masjid, Minicoy\nAmini beach, Amini\nThis tropical paradise does not guarantee you a big shopping mall or hi-fi shopping complexes for having a retail therapy if the scenic beauty is too less for you. In spite, you will find several roadside stalls which offer you a wide range of souvenirs, vintage coral shells and exciting knick-knacks. Apart all these items, one can also shop for breath taking coconut shell curios, marvellous seashell artefacts and other local handicrafts that you can hardly find anywhere else on the planet.\nMoreover, if you are someone who is a marine-life enthusiast, then you might end up carrying some of the colourful fishes back home from the aquarium stores in Lakshadweep.\nKalpeni is among the best place for shopping of souvenirs to take back with you. There is a local handicraft store behind the Koomel resort which sells various wood work items. The most famous is the model of boats using coconut and shrub barks. Also shop for t-shirts from the hosiery unit on the eastern side of island. Click here for more shopping information in Lakshadweep\nLakshadweep Festivals\nDuring the Muslim festivals, Lakshadweep showcases an exuberant culture and tradition. However, there are a number of tribal festivals that are also celebrated with a lot of zeal and energy. The most appropriate place to witness such festivity are the numerous mosques which are present all over the islands. Id-ul-Fitr which is celebrated after Ramadan, is one of all the festivals that is celebrated by everyone present on the island.\nEven though you being a tourist, you will find yourself irresistible to be able to be a part of all the exhilarating celebrations going around. The sudden transformation from a calm and peaceful locality into a jubilant and cheerful loud place will surely sweep your feet off the ground.\nIf you are someone who is a big time fanatic when it comes to sea food, Lakshadweep is the right place for you. You would find a combination of ample of coconut along with the sea food. The island has to offer a number of mouth-watering dishes from a spicy non vegetarian food to healthy vegetarian food.\nSince, the island is in close proximity to Kerala, the cuisine of the islands is highly influenced by it. The people of the island have a great inclination towards the coconut water as it is the most abundant aerated drink of the place. Apart from specializing in local food, the restaurants of that place also serve a series of inter-continental dishes such as Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisines.\nThe islands are very well connected by the means of sea and air. The administration of the islands operates ships from Kochi to Lakshadweep, having standard voyages. The journey lasts up to 18 to 20 hours. The ships are well-equipped and offer a range of modern accommodation and amenities.\nThe Agatti Island of the territory is also connected through regular flights from Kochi International Airport. The Kochi airport is connected to all major cities of India. You can also find helicopter services from Agatti to Kavaratti and takes about a time of one and a half hour.\nQuick facts about Lakshadweep\nGovernment- District Magistrate\nPopulation as per 2011 census-\nMetropolis- 64 Thousands\nDensity-2,149 per sq km\nArea- 32 sq km\nTime zone- IST\nSTD code- 04896\nOfficial language- Hindi, English and Malayalam\nComments / Discussion Board - About Lakshadweep\nVinu from Delhi 16 Days ago\nIt is a nice place for adventure\nVaishnavi from Chilamakur 201 Days ago\nLakshadweep islands is so nice\npari from surat 224 Days ago\nraj from Mumbai 490 Days ago\nLakshadweep Islands are not in Arabian Sea. the sea is now called Lakshadweep Sea.\nMeryl from Margao 532 Days ago\nIt's having a muslim culture.\nAzhar from Androth 585 Days ago\nlakshadweep is location of a very peace and innocent people are located area\nsukla chakraborty from kolkata 878 Days ago\nPlease let me know the weather of lakshadeep from 17/10/2016 to 29/10/2016.Friends are saying that time is not suitable for ship.Heavy turbulence in Arabian sea is very very dangerous. I am feeling somewhat depressed.Is there any problem in getting down from ship to boat for visiting mini islands?\nvaishalifrom delhi 741 Days ago\nbasil from Calicut 1001 Days ago\nPlease let me know about the procedures for Lakshadweep trip. Also intimate the cost for the same.\nvaishalifrom kerala 741 Days ago\nit is ok . \u0917\u0932\u094d\u0924\u0940 \u0924\u094b \u0938\u092c\u0938\u0947 \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0947 .\u0917\u0932\u0924 \u092c\u093e\u0924 .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 374, "original_length": 15239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2018/09/29/sirisenas-claims-on-ltte-seen-as-totally-baseless/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PA3DJM7GXMXTVTRERW4JGI54QKD525LB", "length": 3924, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.lankaweb.com", "title": "LankaWeb \u2013 Sirisena\u2019s claims on LTTE seen as totally baseless", "raw_content": "Sirisena\u2019s claims on LTTE seen as totally baseless\nBy Nirmala Joseph Courtesy The Gulf Today\nCHENNAI: Informed people have rejected an allegation raised by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena that the now-defunct Tamil Tiger outfit had planned to attack Colombo with an aircraft flying from Chennai in 2009.\nSpeaking to the Sri Lankan community in New York where he spoke at the UN General Assembly, Sirisena said, No one knew it better than me.\u201d\nRetired Indian military intelligence officer Colonel R. Hariharan was quoted in the local media on Saturday as dubbing the Sirisena claim as fiction. The Chennai airport was fully secured and the Q branch of the Tamil Nadu police was on high alert,\u201d he said.\nThey would have known had the LTTE hatched such a plan.\u201d\nHariharan now works with the Chennai centre for China studies and the international law and strategic analysis institute.\nTR Baalu, prominent leader of the opposition DMK, who was a Union minister during the days Sirisena refers to, said: What he says is totally baseless. How can he say either the Centre or the State government would have allowed our territory to be used to attack any other country?\u201d\nThere was no such plan of the LTTE, a banned organisation. It is totally false.\u201d\nThe DMK was in power in 2009.\nSri Lanka expert Prof PS Suryanarayana said, It is wild imagination that the LTTE had plans to attack Colombo from Chennai.\u201d\nSirisena was the acting defence minister during the last two weeks of the civil war with the LTTE in May, 2009, when the Tigers were eliminated.\nThe former president (Mahinda Rajapaksa) was away, the former prime minister was away. There was no defence ministry Secretary and Army Commander in the country at the time,\u201d Sirisena said, adding that all senior leaders were out of the country fearing an LTTE air raid.\nThe Tamil Tigers were going to operate an aircraft from Chennai or some other jungle area to bomb and destroy targets in Colombo,\u201d the President said.\nSirisena said it was a well-guarded secret that all senior leaders were out of the country fearing an LTTE air raid. Even I did not stay in Colombo. I was at several locations outside Colombo in case the Tigers attacked the capital city,\u201d he said.\nOne Response to \u201cSirisena\u2019s claims on LTTE seen as totally baseless\u201d\nIt is a fact Mahinda was away from May 14 to May 18 morning and Fonseka was away from May 11 to May 17. However, it was not to save themselves from a Tamil attack launched from Tamil Nadu! That part is wrong. It was to save themselves from war crimes allegations. Sirisena could not say it for obvious reasons.\nI don\u2019t think Gotabaya was away. He was in Sri Lanka as far as I know. Defence Secretary is not part of the military Chain of Command and would not be charged for war crimes anyway.\nOn May 16 Mahinda declared \u201cLTTE has been crushed\u201d from Jordan. Why? When he landed in Sri Lanka, he pretended that we had already won the war. He kissed the land and celebrated. Why? Did the honeymoon go ahead without the groom?\nThe real war was fought when Mahinda and Fonseka were in the island on the 18th. If any war crimes happened on that day, they must take responsibility.\nSirisena was under severe pressure from a senior politician to finish off the LTTE within that time (May 14 to 17) but Sirisena (after advice from international law experts) refused. Had he done so, he would have been turned into a scapegoat for war crimes. That senior politician had told Sirisena that he is a weak person without any courage, a coward and a loser. (Partly true for other reasons). But Sirisena was not foolish. To make matters worse, this particular politician implicated our STF and the Navy in war crimes by then to the US State Department.\nI agree with that politician\u2019s views on Sirisena but never underestimate Sirisena\u2019s shrewdness. 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TEAM: Tony Lyons, Kieran Crowley, Johnny Carey, Chris Riordan, MIchael O'Sullivan, Jeremy O'Callaghan, Aaron Gamble, John Sheehan, Peter Crowley, Tom McGillycuddy, Mike Frank Russell, Geoffrey Mahony, Ryan Lucey, Pa Joy, Shane McSweeney. SUBS: Liam Hassett, Johnny Lynch, Pa Sheehan, Jerry Coffey. The Semi-Final vs Dr. Crokes will take place on Sunday 29th at 2:30pm in Lewis Road.\nThe B were away to Milltown/Castlemaine last Tuesday night in the second round of the Mid-Kerry Junior League. In terrible conditions the team were defeated by the narrowest of margins. Laune Rangers 1-06 to 0-10. The B's are home to Beaufort tomorrow evening, Tuesday 24th, at 7:30pm in Cloon in round 3 of the Mid-Kerry League.\nThe Minors were home to Listowel Emmets on Friday evening last in the next round of the Co.League. A nail-biting end saw the boys have to settle for a draw. Final score: 2-06 a piece. TEAM: Gary Naughton, Ciara Twiss, Fergus Oman, John Tyther, Conor Healy, Cian Healy, Aaron Gamble, Jack O'Connor, Cian Foley, Colm O'Mahony, Liam Quirke, Gavin O'Shea, John O'Shea, Dylan Costello, Ethan Diggin. The Minors are away to Beaufort on Friday 27th at 7pm in Beaufort in round 5 of the Minor Co.League.\nThe U-16's played Ardfert in a back game on Saturday last. The game finished Laune Rangers 3-07 to 5-05 Ardfert. The Semi-Finals will take place next weekend. More details after tonight's game.\nLaune Rangers were home to Glenflesk last week in the round 4 of the Co.League.The team had to settle for a draw but their unbeaten run in this year's league is still intact going into the final round game. Final score: Laune Rangers 1-13 to 2-10 Glenflesk. The U-14's will play away to Milltown/Castlemaine on Friday evening at 6:15pm in Milltown.\nPhase 1 of the U-12 County League continued on Sunday evening last when the team travelled to Listowel to take on Listowel Emmets. Both teams played brilliantly and tried their best but were unfortunately beaten. This week sees the team host their first home game of the campaign when they play Austin Stacks on Sunday at 7pm.\nThe Div.1 team were home to Rathmore on Friday evening last and despite trying their hardest were unfortunately beaten. It was good news for the Div.2 team however as they defeated Spa. This week the Div.1 team travels to Caherciveen on Friday evening to play Southern Gaels while the Div.2 team are away to Kenmare, time and date to be confirmed.\nU-6, U-8, U-10 & U-12 girls training is gone back to the usual time of 6pm this Wednesday evening in the J.P. O'Sullivan Park. New players welcome.\nThere will be a Club meeting on Thursday 26th April at 8:30pm in the J.P. O'Sullivan Park Clubrooms. Club meetings are open to all members.\nLaune Rangers are launching their new Club fundraiser on Saturday night at 8:30pm in the J.P. O'Sullivan Park Clubrooms. All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served in Bunkers Bar after the launch.\nGOLF OUTING:\nThere will be a Laune Rangers Golf Outing on Friday 4th May in Killorglin Golf Course from 3:30pm to 5pm. Timesheet on the Club website, www.launerangers.ie, from Sunday 22nd April.\nOLD CLOTHES COLLECTION:\nLaune Rangers Ladies are holding an old clothes and textiles collection on Wednesday 25th April from 6pm to 7pm. Items can be dropped to the J.P. O'Sullivan Park during this time. 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Furthermore, the last year also saw 12 per cent of all schools lose their school business manager.\nUHY Hacker Young attributed part of the turnover to retirement, while also suggesting that governing boards may be coming under pressure to remove current heads because of a tougher Ofsted inspection regime, which also may also be deterring candidates from applying for the resultant vacancies.\nA trial of \u2018no notice\u2019 Ofsted inspections, for example, led to the downgrading of 23 of the 40 assessed schools. Secondary school leadership also came under particular criticism from the Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, who said that their rate of improvement trailed that of primary schools. The leadership of 84 per cent of primary schools was judged \u201cgood or outstanding\u201d by Ofsted inspectors in 2013/14, compared to the equivalent secondary school figure of 77 per cent.\nAllan Hickie, Partner and Chairman of the national academies group at UHY Hacker Young, commented: \u201cWe have been hearing anecdotally that there is a high turnover of head teachers, and also that making replacements is proving highly challenging. With as many as 1 in 4 having to replace their heads in the last academic year, that is not surprising.\u201d\n\u201cBoth the extra vacancies, and the recruitment difficulties seem to be influenced by the more demanding Ofsted inspection regime, and more challenging league table criteria that check what \u2018added value\u2019 a school is delivering based in its intake, rather than looking at results alone. Where academies have been downgraded by Ofsted, there is huge pressure to replace the leadership team.\u201d\nUHY Hacker Young added that current budgetary restrictions were making it difficult for schools to offer the competitive salary necessary for attracting a new head teacher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lorealusa.com/group/discover-l'or%C3%A9al-usa/l%E2%80%99or%C3%A9al-usa-management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PNVB5NYGUOVVXOJTB7JFZ44AVFG2AZAV", "length": 19585, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.lorealusa.com", "title": "; L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA Management - L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group", "raw_content": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roz\u00e9, President & CEO, L'Or\u00e9al USA\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roz\u00e9 assumed the position of President & Chief Executive Officer of L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA on July 1, 2009.\nMr. Roz\u00e9 has been with the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group for 30 years, having joined the company in 1986 in France where he began his career in the Marketing Department of the Consumer Products Division. In 1988 he was promoted to Group Product Manager for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris and went on to hold various marketing positions for the Group\u2019s other Consumer Products brands including Garnier. Following that, Mr. Roz\u00e9 served as Managing Director of the Consumer Products Division of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Russia before being appointed to the post of General Manager of Gemey France in 1996.\nMr. Roz\u00e9 was then named Managing Director of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Argentina where was responsible for the subsidiary\u2019s extensive portfolio of brands. In 2002 he was promoted to General Manager of both the Consumer Products and Professional Products Divisions for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Spain, one of the company\u2019s most important markets. During his tenure there, L\u2019Or\u00e9al experienced significant market share gain in several categories. In 2004 Mr. Roz\u00e9 was appointed General Manager of the Consumer Products Division for Western Europe before being given responsibility for the entire European Region.\nBorn and educated in France, Mr. Roz\u00e9 is a graduate of Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris (HEC) and l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Paris-Dauphine.\nMichel Brousset, President, L\u2019Or\u00e9al Consumer Products Division\nMichel Brousset was appointed President of L\u2019Or\u00e9al CPD North America in September 2016, and is responsible for the development of the division in the US, Canada, and the Caribe.\nPrior to joining the North American business, Michel Brousset was Country Managing Director of L\u2019Or\u00e9al UK and Ireland beginning in August 2013. In that role Mr. Brousset was responsible for leading L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s business in the region to record turnover, market share, and profit, while driving the digital transformation and modernization of the group. L\u2019Or\u00e9al employs over 4,400 people and has a portfolio of 29 international brands marketed in the UK and Ireland.\nPreviously, Mr. Brousset was the Country Managing Director of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Peru, leading the Consumer Products, Professional, Luxury, and Active Cosmetics divisions. During his tenure, he led the turnaround of the subsidiary to become the fastest growing beauty company in the region.\nPrior to joining L\u2019Or\u00e9al, Mr. Brousset spent 15 years with Procter & Gamble (P&G). During his time at P&G, Mr. Brousset worked on a number of the company\u2019s global and regional businesses in North America and Western Europe. Mr. Brousset started his career working in corporate finance in Latin America.\nStephane Charbonnier, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer\nStephane Charbonnier is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA, as of February 2017.\nIn this role, Mr. Charbonnier is responsible for driving leadership and learning initiatives, developing talent and building an HR team with an \u201cemployee first\u201d approach. He serves on the L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA Strategic Committee and Human Resources Management Committee and reports to L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA President and Chief Executive Officer, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roz\u00e9 and Executive Vice President of Human Resources, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Tixier.\nCharbonnier is a solution-oriented leader with proven success building and leading multi-disciplinary HR teams within dynamic organizations. In 2013, he joined L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA as the Vice President of Human Resources for the Company\u2019s Consumer Products Division. Under Charbonnier\u2019s leadership, his team supported digital transformation with the redesign of the Marketing and Integrated Marketing Communications teams and successfully integrated employees from NYX and the Multi-Cultural Beauty Division, which includes brands such as Carol\u2019s Daughter and Softsheen-Carson. Prior to joining L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA, he worked more than two decades in key HR leadership positions at Towers Watson, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, American Express and McDonalds in Europe and in the United States.\nTim Coolican, President, L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris\nTim Coolican is currently the President of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris, a position he was promoted to in January 2017.\nIn his role, he directs the overall strategy and growth of the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris brand in the US. He first joined L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA in November 2015 as Deputy General Manager of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris. During his tenure, he has guided the vision to transform and modernize the brand, focusing specifically on connectivity with consumers and digital innovation.\nTim began his career at L\u2019Or\u00e9al Canada in 2004 after working at Unilever in both marketing and sales. In 2007 he moved to Paris to work on the Global Innovation Team for Garnier. From 2009 to 2014 he was in London, where he was the Marketing Director for Garnier before being promoted to General Manager of Garnier, Maybelline and Essie for the UK and Ireland. In that role he led the successful launch of Ultimate Blends, the first global expansion of the iconic Ultra Doux franchise, and led Maybelline New York to become the fastest growing mass make up brand in the UK. In 2014, Tim was promoted to General Manager of the Consumer Products Division for Southeast Asia where he oversaw the development of the portfolio across the 7 ASEAN countries as well as Australia and New Zealand.\nTim holds an undergraduate Degree in Business from Queen\u2019s University in Ontario, Canada.\nMatthew DiGirolamo, Chief Communications Officer\nMatthew DiGirolamo was appointed L\u2019Oreal USA\u2019s Chief Communications Officer in February 2015. Reporting directly to CEO Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roz\u00e9, Mr. DiGirolamo is responsible for protecting and promoting L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s reputation in the U.S. by increasing the visibility of its product innovations, scientific expertise, business success, leadership and social contributions. In this role he directs the company\u2019s communications strategy, overseeing all internal and external communications functions. Mr. DiGirolamo\u2019s Corporate Communications Office partners with the company\u2019s 30 leading beauty brands, across all divisions, to advance the organization\u2019s \u201cbeauty for all\u201d mission and its 2020 global sustainability commitments known as \u201cSharing Beauty With All.\u201d\nMr. DiGirolamo joined L\u2019Oreal USA in January 2014 and previously served as Vice President of External Communications. Prior to joining the company, he was a Los Angeles-based consultant leading strategic communications initiatives for a range of high-profile clients and projects, including Maria Shriver, The Shriver Report, Special Olympics, The Women's Conference, The California Endowment, U.S. Green Building Council and Live Earth.\nMatthew DiGirolamo holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.\nDavid Greenberg, President Professional Products Division\nDavid Greenberg was appointed to Group President of Professional Products Division North America in 2017 and will hold direct responsibility for the division\u2019s U.S. and Canada operations and SalonCentric. In this role, Greenberg will continue to grow brand activities across both markets by leveraging SalonCentric and seizing new opportunities to further develop the professional brand portfolio.\nMr. Greenberg joined L'Or\u00e9al in 1993 in the L'Or\u00e9al Paris (then L'Or\u00e9al Haircare) Division as a marketing manager on Studio Line. Mr. Greenberg then held various roles before becoming Vice President of marketing for haircolorants and haircare. During this time, he developed and launched Feria haircolor which helped L'Or\u00e9al take leadership in the category.\nIn 1999, Mr. Greenberg became General Manager, Consumer Products Division, at L'Or\u00e9al Mexico. There Mr. Greenberg launched Garnier colorants, skincare and haircare, increasing the business dramatically over four years.\nMr. Greenberg returned to New York at the end of 2003 to become Worldwide General Manager of Matrix in the Professional Products Division. While there, Mr. Greenberg launched Matrix into over 20 countries, including China & the Middle East.\nAt the end of 2004, Mr. Greenberg became SVP Human Resources for L'Or\u00e9al USA. He was named President of Maybelline New York-Garnier in July of 2008. Mr. Greenberg was given responsibility of Essie Cosmetics in 2010.\nDavid Greenberg holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from Lehigh University.\nMarie Gulin-Merle, Chief Marketing Officer\nMarie Gulin was named Chief Marketing Officer for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA effective June 1, 2014.\nMarie Gulin brings over 15 year of progressive experience in managing communications and digital strategies for fast-moving consumer goods and beauty luxury brands, most recently, as Global Head of Integrated Marketing Communications for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris. Having served in this position since 2010, Marie was responsible for content and services development, digital platforms, sponsorships, as well as PR and events across 60 countries in 8 strategic regions, while ensuring brand consistency across all communications channels. She successfully reinvented integrated communications for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris and through her strategic leadership in the digital space, overhauled the content strategy for the brand\u2019s product innovations, and modernized major events like L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris\u2019 involvement in the Cannes Film Festival.\nAngela Guy, Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion\nAngela Guy is the Senior Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA, the largest subsidiary of the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group, the world\u2019s leading beauty company. Ms. Guy is responsible for shaping the diversity efforts for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA as a business imperative that highlights the value of all forms of beauty while respecting and reflecting the differences of our rapidly changing marketplace. She is a member of the L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA Executive Committee and collaborates to align L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s global diversity efforts. Ms. Guy reports directly to Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roz\u00e9, President and CEO, L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA.\nPrior to this appointment, Ms. Guy was Senior Vice President, General Manager of SoftSheen-Carson, the #1 ethnic haircare brand in the world, and a Consumer Division of L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA. In this role, Ms. Guy oversaw all aspects of the SoftSheen-Carson brand in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. Ms. Guy also worked 19 years at Johnson & Johnson in Sales leadership positions throughout the USA and Canada; 3 years in Sales with Levi Strauss & Company, Accessories Division and 3 years in Retail Management with Hills Department Stores.\nMs. Guy has a B.A. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She has attended Executive Leadership Programs at the University of California Los Angeles, Northwestern University and The Center for Creative Leadership.\nStephan Habif, Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation\nStephan Habif was appointed Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation, in January 2014. He is responsible for Research & Innovation for all divisions across L\u2019Oreal Americas, which includes North America, Spanish -speaking Latin America and Brazil.\nPrior to joining L\u2019Oreal in 2013, Dr. Habif worked at Unilever in the Research and Development division, where he started his career in 1994. During his time there, Dr. Habif worked in positions across the spectrum of R&D from Advanced Research to Product Development in global and regional roles in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, and Italy before being named Vice President of R&D North America and finally Global VP of R&D Packaging. He held various leadership positions in Formulation, Clinical Evaluation, Consumer Science, and Packaging and worked in diverse categories such as Skin Care, Skin Cleansing, Hair Care, Deodorants, Household Care, Ice Cream, Spreads and Dressings, and Beverages.\nDr. Habif received an Engineering Degree in Food Chemistry &Technology from the University of Bordeaux (ENSCPB) in France in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (Colloids and Surface Science) from the City University of New York in 1994.\nCarol Hamilton, Group President, L'Or\u00e9al Luxe USA\nCarol J. Hamilton was appointed Group President of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Luxe USA in 2015 after serving as President of the Luxury Products Division since July of 2008.\nMs. Hamilton joined L'Or\u00e9al USA in 1984 as Director of Marketing for the former L'Or\u00e9al Cosmetics Division. She subsequently worked in the L'Or\u00e9al Hair Care division as Vice President of Marketing, then Senior Vice President.\nIn 1996, Ms. Hamilton became Senior Vice President/General Manager of Marketing for L'Or\u00e9al Consumer Products which merged the Hair Care and Cosmetics divisions.\nAs General Manager, Ms. Hamilton assumed responsibility for all functions of L'Or\u00e9al Consumer Products marketing, manufacturing, sales, finance and administration. Under her leadership, the L'Or\u00e9al Paris beauty brand has became the largest beauty brand in the USA, and L'Or\u00e9al haircolor has become the number one manufacturer, ahead of Clairol. She was named President, L'Or\u00e9al Paris in 2002.\nShe has an undergraduate degree from Vassar College.\nDavid Morgan, Senior Vice President, Business Development\nDavid Morgan was appointed Senior Vice President of Business Development of L'Or\u00e9al USA in January 2017.\nA native of the UK, David has extensive international experience, living and working in France and the USA, covering each of the major L'Or\u00e9al geographic regions.\nDavid joined L\u2019Oreal in the UK in 1991, and subsequently spent 15 years in the Group headquarters in Paris. While at L'Or\u00e9al, he has head up multi-division Finance for the UK and the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa Middle East Zones, as well as globally for the Consumer Products Division.\nDavid holds a degree from Durham University in the UK.\nAlexandre Pagliano, Chief Financial Officer\nAlexandre Pagliano was appointed Chief Financial Officer for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA in September, 2010.\nPrior to coming to L\u2019Or\u00e9al, Mr. Pagliano spent time in Brazil where he held positions at Banco Fator SA, Mesbla Department Stores and Banco Nacional/Unibanco. He joined L\u2019Or\u00e9al in 1997 as Finance Director for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Consumer Products Division, Brazil.\nMr. Pagliano has served in Europe as Finance Director for the Consumer Goods Division in France, and as CFO for the Consumer Division in Western Europe. Prior to joining the US Operations, Mr. Pagliano was the World Wide CFO for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Active Cosmetics Division, the dermo cosmetics business of L\u2019Or\u00e9al.\nMr. Pagliano received his undergraduate degree in economics from the American Presbiterian College \u2013 Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, and his Master of Business Administration from IBMEC Business School in Rio de Janeiro.\nMr. Pagliano was recently named Chief Financial Officer for L\u2019Or\u00e9al Americas where he reports directly to the President and CEO of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Americas.\nMarc-Alexandre Risch, Chief Retail Officer\nMarc-Alexandre Risch was appointed Chief Retail officer of L'Or\u00e9al USA in June 2016.\nRisch joined the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group in March 2005 as the International Project Manager for Garnier and ascended quickly with numerous leadership positions. In 2010, he joined Garnier International as Axis Director Fructis and took over the responsibilities of International Marketing Director for Garnier Haircare (Fructis, Ultra Doux /Ultra Blends). In 2012, he was appointed General Manager of The Body Shop Canada. Under Risch\u2019s leadership, The Body Shop Canada has become one of the best performing markets for the brand, delivering strong and consistent growth. Along with his team, he successfully implemented a number of key initiatives, including strategic focus on retail excellence and the transformation of the brand\u2019s real estate portfolio.\nIkdeep Singh, President, Maybelline, Garnier and Essie Cosmetics\nIkdeep Singh is currently the President of Maybelline, Garnier and Essie brands; a position he took over in January 2017. In his role, he oversees all aspects of business leadership on the multi-billion-dollar portfolio of brands, and is responsible for accelerating their growth in the US market.\nMr. Singh joined L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group in 2014 and served as the President of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Canada\u2019s Consumer Products Division. Under Mr. Singh\u2019s leadership, the division outpaced market growth threefold, helping L\u2019Or\u00e9al to become the largest and fastest growing manufacturer in Canada.\nPrior to joining the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Group, Mr. Singh spent 14 years at Procter & Gamble (P&G). During his time at P&G, Mr. Singh worked on various businesses in global innovation and strategy, regional marketing, and country operating roles across North America and Asia.\nBorn in India and raised in Canada, Mr. Singh is a graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.\nXavier Vey, President and COO, L'Or\u00e9al Luxe USA\nXavier Vey is the President & Chief Operating Officer of L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA\u2019s Luxe Division, a position he has held since January 2016.\nIn his role, Mr. Vey oversees the brand portfolio, business strategies, growth and retailer relationships within L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s luxury division in the U.S. The brand portfolio includes Lanc\u00f4me, Kiehl\u2019s, Urban Decay, IT Cosmetics, YSL, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Viktor & Rolf.\nPrior to his role as President & COO, Mr. Vey served as President of Lanc\u00f4me USA from 2013 to 2016, accelerating the brand\u2019s growth and team while building valuable relationships with key retailers during his tenure.\nMr. Vey joined L\u2019Or\u00e9al in 1997 as a Biotherm Sales Trainee in France before becoming a Product Manager for Lanc\u00f4me in the U.K. in 1998. Mr. Vey joined Biotherm International where he developed skin care and became the Marketing Director for Biotherm and Cacharel in Spain in 1999. He has held various management positions across the L\u2019Or\u00e9al Luxe products group, including General Manager of Lanc\u00f4me France and Europe and then country division General Manager of L\u2019Or\u00e9al Luxe in France.\nMr. Vey holds a master\u2019s in business administration from INSEAD and a master\u2019s degree in finance from University Sorbonne in Paris, France as well as a diploma from Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies). He is based at Hudson Yards, L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA\u2019s New York Headquarters.\nXavier Windal, Senior Vice President, Operations\nXavier Windal was appointed Senior Vice President Corporate Operations for North America in 2013. Xavier has been with the L'Or\u00e9al group for almost 28 years and has held a variety of positions. He started in 1985 as Logistics Manager in the Soprocos Plant in France. In 1990, he was promoted as Plant Director for Faprogi - the Garnier plant in France. In 1997, he became plant manager for the Luxe plant in Sicos. In 1999, he was promoted to Operations Director for Lanc\u00f4me International. In 2002, Xavier came back to CPD as Operations Director L'Oreal European zone. Most recently, Xavier was in charge of Operations for all CPD.\nXavier has had a very successful career and has been a key actor in the transformation and evolution of our manufacturing models. Under Xavier's leadership, the CPD plants in Europe were reorganized by production technology. Thanks to the implementation of manufacturing performance tools, the plants' productivity improved significantly as did the quality and safety levels. Xavier was also one of the first to demonstrate the necessity for development and packaging to work very closely with the business. He has been at the forefront of many manufacturing initiatives including the opening of our first \"green\" plant in Libramont and our first \"wall to wall\" to manufacture our bottles in-house.\nXavier has great people leadership skills. 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Louix\u2019s darshan facilitates profound transformation and healing.\nOffering an atmosphere of gorgeous nature and relaxation, organic vegan cuisine, and access to the amenities of this mountain sanctuary will further enhance the magic and wonder of being in the presence of a spiritual Master.\nTo register for the retreat, please visit: www.LouixNYE.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 10670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lstylegstyle.com/stories/tag/climate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2V6LGWI2ZTJAP6TUPUMT2TAEPV3NM3AJ", "length": 147, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lstylegstyle.com", "title": "climate Archives - L Style G Style", "raw_content": "The Art of Sake\nSake is at times ethereal, and at other times a cultural currency, but as with the other arts, in it we recognize that something...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 3366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lurchers.co.uk/what-are-lurchers-really-like/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CULJNQEQA4LABG5UBRCY7AUQPDXVH3GY", "length": 186, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lurchers.co.uk", "title": "What Are Lurchers Really Like | Lurchers", "raw_content": "One Response to \u201cWhat Are Lurchers Really Like?\u201d\nCroatia says:\nThis is the 2nd occasion I have come across your blog post in the last couple weeks. Seems like I ought to take note of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lynchburgsfinest.com/barbara-clack", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HTTJQTFY43ACSAOGLTW6DNW2YCSFKBJE", "length": 2125, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.lynchburgsfinest.com", "title": "Barbara Clack \u2014 Lynchburg's Finest Real Estate", "raw_content": "Welcome to a very good experience in working with Barbara.\nBarbara Clack specializes in working primarily with buyers who want to buy residential properties as well as investment properties. An X wife of military member, Barbara has working knowledge of Military moves. An international traveler, Barbara works with buyers from many countries in purchasing properties in the U.S.; As a baby boomer, Barbara understands the intricacies of Seniors moving in/out of various stages of life.\nHere is a list of who should work with Barbara, if planning to buy a home for personal use or as an investment.\n1. First time or repeat buyers who want to be in their home within the next 30-60 days.\n2. Business owners and Professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, CEOs, CFOs, Executives, Top Level Managers, whose time is at a premium, don't have a lot of time to devote to the home buying process, want to work smart, efficiently, and want to buy in the next 30-60 days.\n3. International Buyers wanting to purchase properties in Lynchburg/Forest, and surrounding areas. Barbara has worked with buyers from many countries and will guide you through the purchase of buying in U.S.\nA baby boomer, Barbara has 23+ years real estate experience, as an agent and as a real estate Broker, a Business Strategist, Accountant, and a prior business owner. She uses her background, experience, and skill set to help her buyers experience a smooth, easy, fun, and less stressful process.\nCredentials: Accredited Buyer Representative, Senior Real Estate Specialist, educational disciplines: Master\u2019s in Public Administration, Bachelor's in Business with an Accounting Concentration.\nBackground: Business Strategist, Accounting, Tax Preparation/Consulting, Quick Books for Business Owners, Global Supply Chain Purchasing Agent and Project Management.\nAs a Weekend Realtor, Barbara works with and represents motivated buyers in the Lynchburg/Forest and surrounding areas.\nWhen you're ready to buy your next home or investment property, call Barbara for a weekend appointment and let's get you in to that \u201cright\u201d home 30-60 days.\nbarbaraclack211@yahoo.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/education/for_student.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZNOI45CBYGGMMF5V5KQQLQKUCYAITCF", "length": 4945, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp", "title": "Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo", "raw_content": "TOP Education An Appeal to All University of Tokyo Medical Students\nSet Your Sights on a Career in Medical Research!\nGraduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine\nTakao SHIMIZU, Dean\nDuring your first two years in the Faculty of Medicine, you will study the basic sciences of anatomy, histology, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and forensic medicine. You will also study subjects that are fundamental to all medicine, from pathology, immunology, and microbiology (including virology and bacteriology), to social medicine, public health, and medical informatics, and how they relate to health, hygiene, and the prevention of disease. Those fields are the foundation upon which the following two years of clinical lectures and training will then be built.\nOver the next four years, you will learn how we have come to understand as much as we do about the phenomena of life and the mechanisms of disease, and also what is yet unknown. You will learn that the 'sacred' practice of medicine is still being improved, and that the knowledge and techniques supporting it are still imperfect. Long ago, when I was a medical student, I learned that Creutzfeldt- Jacob disease and muscular dystrophy were \"slow virus diseases,\" so called because of the long time required for the viral infections allegedly causing them to manifest as symptoms. Later, however, medical research resulted in the discovery self-propagating proteins known as prions, and genes associated with muscular dystrophy were also identified. These were great successes for the life sciences, and particularly for molecular biology. Genes that cause cancer were identified, as were genes that suppress it. The mechanisms of cell proliferation were discovered and effective antibody therapies were developed. But while great progress has been made, the fact that we still have no effective treatments for pulmonary fibrosis and autoimmune disease, for example, reawakened me to the importance of basic research. We count on you medical students to be more than just expert test-takers and founts of facts: you should also use your imagination, your creativity, and even your empathy for others\u2019 suffering. We count on your humanity to pave the way for new forms of medical science and clinical care.\nWhat do I ask of you?\n1. Study hard in all of your subjects: basic medical sciences, social medicine, and clinical medicine. Your real value as medical students will be manifest only if you have a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of the human body, the human mind, and the environment in which we live. I feel that medical students in Japan study far less than do those in the U.S. and the U.K. You should read many textbooks and academic journal articles. You need to do that not just to acquire facts, but also to understand the mechanisms involved, and to learn how these discoveries were made. As much as we can, we will support students who want to participate in academic conferences and research meetings.\n2. Do some laboratory work yourself. Take advantage of the \"Free Quarter\u201d system and of the opportunities for placement in a basic medical science laboratory, where you'll work side by side with those in charge. You can also take part in research on weekends or on other days off. Find out what DNA and proteins actually look like, and what calcium ions do in cells. If life-science research interests you, take part in the MD-researcher program, clinical research training program or enter the PhD-MD course. Scholarships are available to support you for four years of graduate study. Japan now has both an overwhelming need for physician-researchers and a lack of medical educators. As students at the University of Tokyo, you and your peers at all other \"national\" universities should be aware of your duty and responsibility to be active in Japan's national medical research programs.\n3. Know the social context of clinical care. Use newspapers and the Internet to stay informed about the crises now facing health care, and to understand what your patients want. I also believe that important knowledge of philosophy and of the human mind can be gained through novels and other literary works.\n4. Broaden your range of contacts. Now is an excellent time for you to meet medical students at other universities in Japan, and to experience foreign cultures and health care systems in other countries. For that, you'll need to make sure that you can communicate well in both Japanese and English.\n5. Build up and maintain your stamina. Exercise both your body and your mind through Tetsumon Club and the University's other athletic activities. Medical students at the University of Tokyo, I challenge you to play badminton or tennis with me: I will not be beaten easily! In the summer, let's also meet at the Karasawa clinic in the northern Japan Alps.\nI hope that for the next four years you will make the best of this rare privilege and precious opportunity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.machinandtoplassltd.co.uk/courses/subject/health-and-safety/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-coshh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6RFAO64RP3NHMSUQPHXY57LWAQXMFH4Q", "length": 420, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.machinandtoplassltd.co.uk", "title": "Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)", "raw_content": "Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) All staff must be instructed and trained in the control of Substances Hazardous to Health. Known as COSHH for their and your business to have the start of any defence! It is aimed at anyone exposed to Substances Hazardous to Health at work, and this will include line managers and anyone with a responsibility over other persons.\nThe COSHH course consists of 10 modules.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.magickriver.org/2014/02/the-edward-snowden-interview-with.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:EE3V4DRQ2L25DSI2PCWZVWR2A6JYYDWY", "length": 849, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.magickriver.org", "title": "MAGICK RIVER: The Edward Snowden Interview with Hubert Seipel of NDR", "raw_content": "The Edward Snowden Interview with Hubert Seipel of NDR\nIt's absolutely clear who the real criminals and terrorists are - and why they would like to murder Edward Snowden as a warning to all future whistleblowers. To me, Edward Snowden is the greatest culture hero to have emerged since the start of the new millennium.\nNow that the whole world can see whose shoes are sticking out from under the curtain, the game is, to all intents and purposes, over for the NSA.\nHere's the full transcript of the interview, published 26 January 2014.\nLabels: Big Brotherism, criminal corporations and governments, Edward Snowden. National Security Agency, heroes and villains, techno-totalitarianism, whistleblowers\nPak Idrus said...\nI watch it on DW on the day it was broadcast. Snowden is a very intelligent person indeed. He answered every question diligently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 800, "original_length": 18527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.managetrainlearn.com/newsletter/1185", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HXUOFYWSANYHCO5KPGJUGL6UO2NJ4PSB", "length": 2302, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.managetrainlearn.com", "title": "\"Taxing Your Patience\"", "raw_content": "\"Taxing Your Patience\"\nMTL Newsletter January 20th 2013\nIn the UK, the end of January always marks the deadline for filing your self-assessment tax form. Even though I receive a letter just after the tax year ends in April, suggesting I do this at once, I still find myself at the end of January with this task undone.\nAnd I'm not alone. According to tax office sources, some 4,032,096 people are in the same boat, having left their own online tax returns to the last minute.\nSo, why do I and 4 million others let things slide when most of us could get the job done and off of our to-do list well before the deadline?\nI think there are 3 reasons, each of which could apply equally to other kinds of procrastination.\nThe first is, lack of motivation. Most of us don't fill in the form because we don't have to. It's only the impending penalty of late completion - a \u00a3100 fine - that makes us do it when the deadline looms, proving that nothing works better to motivate us than the prospect of pain and the loss of money.\nThe second reason is because most of us believe that the task is an unpleasant one. Tax returns just don't seem like a fun way to pass the time, even though when we eventually get round to it, the process is fairly innocuous and even rather satisfying.\nThe third reason is the reason that hurts most. It's because I just don't practise the Nike slogan, \"Just Do It\", even though I've given this advice to so many others, usually with my own variation of \"Do It Now!\". Somehow or other, whenever I know I should do it when that first reminder arrives and at every subsequent reminder, I'm always able to find something else that I think is more important. And the reason I don't \"do it now\" is because I don't have a system that makes me.\nMaybe these 3 reasons hold the clue to solving procrastination in other areas of our lives too. That bit of DIY might get done if it's going to hurt me not to do it, if it's going to be fun, and if I created a system of doing it now.\nBy the time you read this, I'm sure I will have completed my tax return. In a couple of months, I'll be receiving a reminder to fill in a new one. Will I act promptly and efficiently as I know I should? Or will you be reading this all over again this time next year? Somehow, I think I already know the answer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mangaloretoday.com/main/Clinical-research-should-be-a-priority-in-medical-profession-Dr-Rath.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YKDYQMUPCPDHFMF7XEZ3FQKBT5QYGSV7", "length": 2645, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mangaloretoday.com", "title": "Clinical research should be a priority in medical profession, Dr. Rath", "raw_content": "Clinical research should be a priority in medical profession, Dr. Rath\nMangaluru, Oct 22, 2017: Dr G.K. Rath, head of the National Cancer Institute and professor in Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, delivering the seventh convocation address of Yenepoya University in Mangaluru On Saturday, exhorted young medical professionals to engage more in clinical research to combat non-communicable diseases and added that the Centre is commissioning more world-class Translational Research Centres. Dr. Rath stressed, rise in non-communicable diseases cause of concern today and asked graduates to pursue their career in clinical research.\nHe said it is certain that we now have the arsenal of knowledge and adequate infrastructure to conduct scientific research of international standards. The centres will provide finest research facilities. Degrees like MD-Ph.Ds are being planned to have pool of clinical scientists which is very much required for our country.\nHe noted that developments in the medical field have increased the average life expectancy from 32 years during the pre-Independence era to 68 years at present, he said.\nThis has happened following overall improvement in public health measures. The success story includes eradication of some diseases like Smallpox and Polio.\nHowever, non communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, strokes etc, are increasing and account for major causes of morbidity and mortality now, he said.\nThe magnitude of NCDs is rising in both urban and rural population. Hence, health care professionals have to find ways and means to effectively tackle the dual problem, he said.\nOne cannot have a \u201cone size fits all\u201d because of the wide variety. However, advancements in biotechnology, information technology and genomics have helped mapping of human genome thereby helping accurate diagnosis of complicated diseases, Dr. Rath said.\nThe Union government has formulated the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancers, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS). The flagship programme of the Indian council of Medical Research, NCRP (National Cancer Registry Programme) has been expanded to form NCDIR (National Council of Disease Informatics and Research).\nOn the occasion, of the 7th convocation, as many as 421 candidates from 15 various disciplines got degrees. Wong Jia Hui, Sampritha UC, Merin Joseph, Nijitha Kumari K and Yasir received gold medals in thier respective disciplines. Sampritha UC also received an endowment instituted in the name of late A Raiza, who was a student of first MBBS in 2012-13.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mantayandcompany.com/529", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DA7DHMEGCMM6DMKKCZYV4ZMA64G7BF3E", "length": 4809, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mantayandcompany.com", "title": "529 Plans", "raw_content": "Saving for college has become complicated. What's the best way to save? That depends on your age, risk tolerance and employment status, as well as the number and ages of your children. Do you want to fund a public or private education? Is your student a candidate for federal financial aid? Other considerations include the steady increase in college costs and finding the best \"fit\" for your student and family.\nBetween 1985 and 2011, average tuition nationwide increased 498 percent - more than four times the rate of general inflation (114 percent) as measure by the Consumer Price Index.1 The national average costs for tuition, fees and board at a public, in-state 4-year school is more than $20,000 and it is more than $46,000 for the average private 4-year school. If you don't start saving today, it could cost you over $150,000 to pay for college ten years from now.2\nCollege savings options include prepaid college plans, 529 savings plans, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, custodial accounts, and mutual fund investments. The biggest difference between a prepaid college plan and a 529 plan is that prepaid college plans are guaranteed by the state; 529 plans and mutual fund investments are subject to fluctuations in the financial markets.\nSome of these options have contribution constraints; the Coverdell limits the maximum annual investment to $2000 per student in 2018, making it difficult to accumulate enough to pay for all your college costs. Conversely, the 529 plans and custodial accounts have no limits, or very high limitations, on the maximum contribution amounts.\nThe funds in a 529 Savings Plan can be used for qualified higher educational expenses, like tuition, room and board and textbooks. It gives you flexibility to use the funds as you see fit, to meet your child's needs. Investment options vary from the very conservative to more aggressive options, customized to meet your desired level of investment risk. Your payments into a prepaid college plan are based on your child\u2019s age (estimating the time before entering college). With mutual fund investments and 529 savings plans, you may have some flexibility with the investment amount.\nThe earlier you start saving, the more opportunity you have to spread your contributions over time to reach your savings goals. Most students use a combination of strategies to pay for a higher education: state-based prepaid college plans, 529 savings plans, mutual fund investments, scholarships, grants and aid-based work programs.\nAnd you may want to consider additional ways to cut college costs:\nBy enrolling in all the honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses they can in high school, your student may pass the AP exams and earn enough college credits to enter college with a sophomore status. The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams allow students to earn college credit for what they already know.\nThese days, many families opt to have their student to attend a local community college before transferring to the university of their choice. This way, the first two years of college are completed at a fraction of the cost of a 4-year school. Additionally, entrance requirements are significantly easier as a transfer student, as opposed to those they face in the competition as a high school senior.\nShop around to find a school where your student's test scores, scholastic achievements and grade point average are above the freshman average. Colleges are looking for well-rounded students, not just the academic stars. Other factors used in ranking applicants include character, leadership and public service.\nSaving for college may appear daunting, but your opportunity for potential earnings increase with the amount of your contributions and the amount of time you have to save. Assuming your investments are successful, your initial investment will continue to earn returns, and those will be compounded over time. Give us a call to explore the education savings options we have to offer\nAn investor in a 529 plan should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing in the contract, and/or underlying portfolios. The official statement contains this information as well as other important information. A copy of the official statement may be obtained from the state offering the 529 plan. You should read the official statement carefully before investing.\nAn investor should consider, before investing, whether the investor\u2019s or designated beneficiary\u2019s home state offers any state tax or other benefits that are only available for investments in such state\u2019s qualified tuition program.\n1.\"College Tuition Inflation: An Overblown Crisis? by Tom Lindsay, Dec. 2017\n2.National Average College Costs, myfloridaprepaid.com/what-we-offer/cost of waiting/ 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.margreetdietz.com/2010/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XBODJ5DZC43SGY4LALL7GWVDKSSLGRA4", "length": 4229, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.margreetdietz.com", "title": "The Happiness of the Long-Distance Runner: June 2010", "raw_content": "My books Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend and Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon have been ordered by the Brisbane City Library for its collection.\nPort Moody Public Library is acquiring my three books for its collection. I began working on my first book Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend a month after I had moved to Port Moody from Sydney, Australia, so I am very glad that that book and my two other titles will have a place there.\nThe Gold Coast libraries in Queensland, Australia, have added copies of my books Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend and Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon to their collections. Find my books in the catalogue here.\nThe North Vancouver District Public Library has added my three books to its collection.You can find them in the catalogue here\nI am grateful for the tremendous support I've received for my books so far by libraries in Canada and Australia.\nThe National Library of Australia has agreed to acquire two of my books, Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend and Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon, for its collections.\nTim, Luka and I set out for our long run yesterday (Sunday) morning at about 10am. It was a gorgeous day and we planned to do a loop of 25km on the STORMY course. I am training for the 50-mile option of this race, held in August.\nIncidentally, the hugely popular Test of Metal mountain bike race will be held here next Sunday. This challenging 67km course includes the same lap we ran yesterday.\nWe knew this loop, essentially from aid stations 7 to 10 (which are in the same place) on the STORMY trail map, was a combination of dirt roads and trails, with an elevation gain of at least 500 metres. Still, with the benefit of the downhill in the second part of that loop, bringing us back down to where we started, we expected to take between 2 and 2 1/2 hours.\nWe each had a bottle of 500ml water, two caf gels and a handful of dog cookies (we knew there would be water along the trail for Luka to drink and shared some of our bottled water with him along the second half where there wasn't any).\nIt took us 1 hour and 23 minutes to reach 9-mile bridge, a steady uphill for most of the time along a dirt road. We considered running back the same way, as we knew it would take a lot less time given that it was all downhill so should take us an hour or less. But with the beautiful weather and feeling good, we decided to do our loop as planned.\nThe Lava Flow trail goes further up and up and up, and offers stunning vistas of the surrounding forested mountains, valleys and rivers down below. Our run followed the profile from Powerhouse Bridge up to Lava Flow Hill and back to Powerhouse Bridge, a good hill workout to say the least.\nWe kept Luka on a leash here, as he still is a very curious puppy and might easily consider chasing a bird the wrong way. It wasn't long before we reached the next part of the trail, the Ring Creek Rip trail followed by the Powerhouse Plunge, leading us back into the forest, away from exposed ridges.\nHere we let Luka off the leash, also because few mountain bike riders were using the trail today. So far, Luka's longest run with us had been two hours. He was about to smash that record, as the trail on this end took a lot longer than we had anticipated, partly because the footing is trickier with rocks and tree stumps.\nAll three of us were fine, just a little tired and hungry by the time we got home after an epic 3 1/2 hours. We ended up walking much of the final 45 minutes, as Tim's legs were still recovering from last week's half Ironman race while mine were as well from the 9km time trial the previous day.\nIn an effort to spread the word on my books I decided to create some t-shirts and a couple of other items, such as the bumper sticker on the right, as a simple way to advertise them.\nThe Vancouver Public Library acquired Running Shoes Are a Girl's Best Friend and Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon for its collection of more than 1.2 million books.\nThis is the fourth library that is adding my books to its shelves. (Also, the West Vancouver Memorial Library, Squamish Public Library and Penticton Public Library.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 23227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marleygrangeparish.ie/2015/12/gift-of-defibrillator/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YM7P66BMH4TUXRODCEPE4CSTRKIOYC46", "length": 647, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.marleygrangeparish.ie", "title": "DEFIBRILLATORS INSTALLED | Marley Grange Parish", "raw_content": "Marley Grange Residents Association has recently donated a defibrillator which has been installed in the foyer of the Parish Centre. A second unit has been purchased by the parish and is located in the in entrance to the sacristy.\nTraining is available in the use of the defibrillator. Volunteers are needed and should contact the Parish Secretary, Mary Molloy. It would be helpful if anyone who is already trained made this known to the parish office.\nThe availability of a defibrillator in places where large numbers of people gather has proven to be a life-saver.\nWe are most grateful to Marley Grange Residents Association for this initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.masoncitysecuritycameras.com/security-solutions/intercom-systems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FVGMYVAHMYRB42VM3SOPV333Y7VT7MO7", "length": 125, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.masoncitysecuritycameras.com", "title": "Commercial & Home Intercom Systems | Mason City, IA", "raw_content": "Iowa Surveillance Team provides the latest door intercom systems and technologies that help you secure your home or business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.maxdiaries.com/2016/03/turmeric-is-better-than-ibuprofen-use.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FZDX4V6D3D63XKPIJXM334GRDFPKYI3T", "length": 2973, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.maxdiaries.com", "title": "Turmeric Is Better Than Ibuprofen! Use Turmeric Before Ever Swallowing Ibuprofen Again!", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Health \u00bb Turmeric Is Better Than Ibuprofen! Use Turmeric Before Ever Swallowing Ibuprofen Again!\nTurmeric Is Better Than Ibuprofen! Use Turmeric Before Ever Swallowing Ibuprofen Again!\nAmericans swallow painkillers like candies. Advil and Motrin are the most \u2018popular,\u2019 and unfortunately they are often overused, usually due to their lack of efficacy. Dealing with pain can be quite a \u2018tough business,\u2019 and people would use anything that pops up in their mind.\nThe same applies to Toradol, Aleve, Naprosyn, and Celebrex. Each of these is linked with a group of severe side effects, and according to statistics, these cause over 16,000 deaths every year. Unfortunately, another 100,000 end up in emergency rooms throughout the US. FDA warns that you should not exceed the recommended dose of non-steroidal and anti-inflammatory drugs. There is a strict rule that you should never combine two NSAIDs that contain the same active ingredient.\nManufacturers are required to change the labels of NSAIDs and more information regarding the potential risk of heart attack and stroke. Excessive use of these drugs may cause bleeding and digestive ulcers. Other side effects include atrial fibrillation, a condition that describes a weakened heart and rapid beats, injuries of soft tissues, kidney damage, and prolonged healing of fractures.\nThe strict warnings and requirements came after it was confirmed that even the prescribed dose can cause some serious side effects.\nBut, some of us did not sit with their hands crossed and examined the essence of this problem. It turns out that painkillers are not the only way to relieve pain. In fact, there are much better and safer ways to get an instant relief, and the best thing is that they are all-natural. No more harsh chemicals and toxins. Check your pantry, because you can find your natural painkiller right there!\nTurmeric is a confirmed pain reliever, and it comes with almost no side effects. Polyphenols in turmeric provide a huge number of benefits.\nThe Alternative and Complementary Medicine Journal published a study according to which turmeric is a much safer alternative to ibuprofen, plus it is even more effective when it comes to relieving osteoarthritis. Thanks to its anti-inflammatory potential and the ability to alter immune responses, turmeric has brought relieve to so many individuals. It is natural, effective, safe, cheap and easily available. What more could you ask for?\nTurmeric can be used in the treatment of various ailments. Use it to cure gallbladder disorders, stomach ache, diarrhea, heartburn, gas, liver malfunction, or arthritis. Curcumin gives turmeric its potential to fight inflammation. Experts suggest that you use turmeiric extract, although the root is super efficient as well.\nNext time you reach for your bottle of painkillers, pull back and use turmeric instead. Your pain will disappear almost instantly, and you will be safe from any side effects.\nSource: Best Healthy Guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mcclernan.com/2018/08/one-reason-i-have-never-called-steven.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KLVQPJWRCBP5O3RUUZEZRQBX5VQ22GB2", "length": 6302, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.mcclernan.com", "title": "Heavens to Mergatroyd: One reason I have never called Steven Pinker a white supremacist", "raw_content": "One reason I have never called Steven Pinker a white supremacist\nThe kind of people who support and in some cases write for alt-right garbage pretending to be centrist like Quillette like to claim I have said Steven Pinker is a white supremacist, as we see Cathy Young doing in this tweet.\nI've never said Steven Pinker was a white supremacist. I have pointed out that Steven Pinker has promoted hereditarians like Razib Khan and Steve Sailer who write for white supremacist publications like American Renaissance and Taki's Magazine.\nI presented this information in the form of a diagram, which the right/alt-right seems to have a phobia about. The concept of presenting information in the form of an image as opposed to expressing the concept in words seems to strike them as not something sane people would do.\nBut it's not certain whether some of Pinker's colleagues or Pinker himself consider Pinker, as an Ashkenazi Jew, \"white.\"\nSome of the hereditarians (\"race realists\", biosociologists, evolutionary psychologists, \"human biodiversity\" proponents, \"biosocial criminologists\" etc) appear to have decided that the category \"Ashkenazi Jew\" is a separate category from \"white.\"\nRazib Khan comes down on the side of Jews being white, but hedges a little in Discover.\n...I think the different statistics are not showing us whether Jews are white or not, because that\u2019s not fundamentally a question which relies purely on genetics. Being white is not totally uncoupled from genetics. Someone of Chinese of African appearance could never be white. Genetics is a necessary condition, but it is not a sufficient condition of whiteness. So, for example, Middle Eastern non-Muslim populations regularly assimilate to whiteness, while Muslims do not. To my knowledge no one thought of Jacques Derrida as a non-white intellectual, despite his Algerian Sephardic Jewish background. But if Jacques Derrida had converted to Islam, and passed himself off as an Algerian Arab or Berber, he would have become non-white.\nBy this criterion it is obvious to me that Ashkenazi Jews are white. They have been part of the culture of the West since the late 19th century. But note my qualification. Jews as Jews were not part of Western culture between the years 500 and 1850. Those Jews who impacted Western culture left their Jewishness behind, whether as converts to Christianity (e.g., Karl Marx was a Jew who was raised as a Christian), or as cosmopolitan individualists (e.g., Spinoza).\n** Arguably the Jewish Enlightenment, and the rise of Reform Judaism, were both necessary preconditions for the inclusion of self-conscious Jews as Westerners, and racially as white Westerners.***\nI find it strange the Khan admits that race is a cultural category, since in the past he's described human descendants of parents of different ethnic groups as \"hybrids\" as in this article Ashkenazi Jews are Middle Eastern & European hybrids.\nElsewhere he has no problem using the term \"hybrid\" to mean interbreeding between separate species.\nHere we see Steve Sailer in a tweet from April of this year, making a distinction between Jews and whites. Sailer conflates \"white\" with \"gentile\" here.\nHowever, in an article published by white supremacist site VDare Sailer writes:\nSo that implies one-fourth of white Americans with IQs above 145 are Ashkenazi Jews.\nAs for Steven Pinker, he is so certain that race is a biological reality that he said on video that to deny race reality is to deny \"reality itself.\" But what about Ashkenazis as a separate \"race\"?\nAs anthropologist R. Brian Ferguson noted in his debunking of the 2005 paper \"Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence:\"\nEvolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has done much to legitimize and publicize NHAI, while remaining carefully agnostic on its truth value. In the Times:\"'It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper is,\" said Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard... Still, he said, \"it's certainly a thorough and well argued-paper, not one that can easily be dismissed outright\" (Wade 2005). His article about NHAI in The New Republic concluded that it \"meets the standards of a good scientific theory, though it is tentative and could turn out to be mistaken\" (pinker2006:27).\nA blogger (Your Lying Eyes 2006) reported a public talk by Pinker on NHAI (\"Jews, Genes, and Intelligence\"). \"Overall Pinker emphasized the reasonableness of the author's hypotheses, the generally better quality of the genetic evidence over the environmental, the non-rational basis of much of the opposition, and the paper's strong foundation in the current state of knowledge.\"\nPinker is credited with formulating Edge's Annual Question for 2006: \"What Is Your Dangerous Idea... dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?\" His own answer is \"Groups of people may differ genetically in their average talents and temperaments.\" Of his four illustrations, one is Cochran and Harpending's argument on Ashkenazi intelligence.\nI think that this shows the standard Pinker approach: make an argument in favor of something but then refuse to express a conclusion, which I believe he does to give himself plausible deniability.\nBut it's still unclear from Pinker's perspective if Ashkenazi Jews are a separate race from whites, or a form of hyper-intelligent whites.\nWell never fear, Stefan Molyneux (linked to Steven Pinker not only by me, but by Bari Weiss in her \"Intellectual Dark Web\" article) is happy to declare Ashkenazi Jews a separate race from whites.\nMolyneux, for his part, was very happy to be mentioned in Weiss's article.\nIt must be noted that Steven Pinker didn't have any complaints about being grouped in with Stefan Molyneux.\nPinker appeared on Dave Rubin's show here. Stefan Molyneux appeared here, and explains his ranking of \"races\" by intelligence:\nIt's unclear if Molyneux is including South Asians in with East Asians or not.\nIt's odd that Pinker, who has no problem attacking Stephen Jay Gould in front of an audience, presenting Gould as a laughable moron as in the video I linked to above, has never gone on record, to my knowledge, to dispute the claims of Stefan Molyneux.\nSo that's one reason I haven't called Pinker a white supremacist - I don't know if he even considers himself \"white. \"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 10917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mcgilltribune.com/author/?a=River%20Ludwick", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:53Z", "digest": "sha1:JOIRQHOP6HV74ABAYY45MQFMJN6CSND4", "length": 443, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mcgilltribune.com", "title": "Author Archives | The McGill Tribune", "raw_content": "October 17, 2017 River Ludwick\nFrom beeps to dancing: The effect of the motor system on auditory input\nIn a recent study, Benjamin Morillon, a researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University and Sylcain Baillet, the head of the Lab at MNI that lead the study, took a look at the surprising relationship between the auditory system and the motor cortex of the brain. Both of these systems are just different\u2026 Keep Reading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.merysony.co.uk/area/Cake-London_beckenham-br3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCXFE4AMZIRN7MKI3RVZ6ZVXSXG6LJE7", "length": 697, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.merysony.co.uk", "title": "Mery Sony - Cake London beckenham br3", "raw_content": "Cake London beckenham br3\nWhat are the holidays without the sweetness of the cake. The cake is a mandatory part of the birthday or wedding menu. The cutting of the first piece of the wedding cake by the grooms and the blowing out of the candles of the birthday cake are the most memorable moments of the parties. Therefore the cake is probably the most important attribute of each important event in our lives. If you would like to eat cakes in London beckenham br3, you should certainly contact Mery-Sony. Each cake of ours is a symbol of precision, quality and mastery, as well as a unique combination of great taste and appearance. The best cakes in London beckenham br3 are those of Mery-Sony.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michigan-terminal-system.org/discussions/anecdotes-comments-observations/x0f15mtsmentionedina2004articlethebeginningofitcivilization", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2LUKE2LR6D7ENBP5ZBMZC2GVF6XE66SI", "length": 228, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.michigan-terminal-system.org", "title": "x'0F' (15). MTS mentioned in a 2004 article \"The Beginning of I.T. Civilization\" - Michigan Terminal System Archive", "raw_content": "The following paragraph is from a longer sidebar to an article \"The Beginning of I.T. Civilization \u2013\nIBM\u2019s System/360 Mainframe\" by Mike Kahn that appeared in the 30 March 2004 issue of the Clipper Group's Captain's Log, page 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.minocquafarmersmarket.com/non-profits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ACYOSUAWT3G7DSUGLNTZKGR3HQK6QDL4", "length": 274, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.minocquafarmersmarket.com", "title": "Minocqua Farmers Market - Non-Profits", "raw_content": "Non-Profits at the Minocqua Farmers Market\nOne local Non-Profit organization a week will be able to set up a stall and sell items for their organization. If your Non-Profit would like to set up a week, download the Non-Profit Application and follow the instruction provided.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 195.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/5922/Jolly-Solly-Knows-the-Ropes", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:UJTNPCSFINYFZU7HMWPOL5UPSSP24VSV", "length": 1020, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mishpacha.com", "title": "Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly", "raw_content": "Jolly Solly Knows the Ropes\nTully\u2019s Toy Shop was busy, as usual. One of the most popular items was the diabolo, a juggling toy that was all the rage. It took a lot of practice to get the hang of using it, but once you did, it was great fun.\nOf course, nobody could put a diabolo through its paces like Jolly Solly. He had a range of them in different colors and sizes. Jolly Solly could make his diabolos soar in the air, before coming back to land precisely on the rope. He could operate four diabolos at the same time. The kids would watch openmouthed as Jolly Solly performed his tricks, and then go off to practice on their own diabolos, although they could never quite get theirs to do the same thing. Then one day, Tully noticed that his stock of diabolos hadn\u2019t gone down at all in the past week. This was strange. He was sure they were still popular, as you couldn\u2019t walk around for more than two minutes without bumping into a kid playing with one. Tully shrugged. Maybe everyone who wanted one already had one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 255.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mitrasias.com/daily-prelim-quiz-8th-february-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BNVHGVAZ3OE653KI7WQMFC5VH64RUCQI", "length": 2803, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.mitrasias.com", "title": "Daily Prelim Quiz 8th February 2019 - Mitras IAS", "raw_content": "1) What is the major reason for the Government of India\u2019s proposal to mandate the usage of \u2018Zinccoated steel\u2019 in several sectors?\n(a) To build durable buildings under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana\n(b) To minimise corrosion losses as part of the large scale infrastructure expansion under way in sectors such as roads, airports, power, ports and railways\n(c) To boost the production of zinc as well as steel and contribute thousands of crore to the economy for its growth\n(d) As zinc is cheaper, it can be used in galvanization of steel\n2) With reference to allopatric species, consider the following statements:\n1. They are species having exclusive area of geographical distribution.\n2. They are species facing extreme threat due to habitat loss.\n3) Consider the following statements about Sarasvati river:\n1. The shrinking of River Saraswati divided Indus civilization in to Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa phases.\n2. The Sarasvati was praised lavishly in the Rigveda as the best of all the rivers.\n3. Evidence from palaeochannels, as per the recent study, identified Ghaggar-Patiali channels were the eastern branches of saraswati. 4. It originated from the Himalayas and met the Arabian Sea in the Rann of Kachchh.\n(c) 2 only (d) 2 and 4 only\n4) Consider the following:\n1. Business Process Outsourcing Undertakings.\n2. State Motor transport undertakings.\n3. Newspaper establishments.\n4. Private medical Institutions.\nThe employees of which of the above can have the \u2018social security\u2019 coverage under Employee Provident Fund Scheme?\n(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only\n5) What is/are unique about Khur, a breed found I n India?\n1. It is a mammal which can race at nearly 60 kmph.\n2. It is native to the Little Rann of Kutch.\n3. The species has come out from the brink of extinction, mainly due to the nomadic tribes and villagers of the Rann of Kutch area.\n4. The increase in the Khur population in recent times can be attributed to improved agricultural practices as well as water availability due to the Sardar Sarovar Canal system.\n6) Consider the following statements regarding ecological succession:\n1. Ecological succession is the gradual and progressive replacement of one community by another.\n2. As ecological succession proceeds the number and types of animals also change.\n3. The xerarch succession starts from a wetter area and ends in a mesic state.\n7) In the context of defense research, consider the following statements about \u2018Nuclear Triad\u2019, which was recently in the news:\n1. A nuclear triad power has the ability to launch nuclear weapons from air, land and water.\n2. Other than USA and Russia, India is the only country to have a Nuclear Triad.\n3. India\u2019s first indigenously built nuclear armed submarine INS Vikramaditya was commissioned into service recently, making the country a \u201cnuclear triad\u201d power.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 6926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mividasigue.com/2007/08/andre-says-hes-missing-me-lot-since-i.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:37Z", "digest": "sha1:FJ4T2K3QSBAJU3QQQOOT6SSHS24EQE2P", "length": 2989, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mividasigue.com", "title": "Mi Vida Sigue - My Life Continues: Poor Andre Misses Me", "raw_content": "Andre says he's feeling lonely since I came back to California without him on July 25. I tell him not to worry. I'm trying to get everything done that I need to here in Santa Cruz so we can be together again in early September.\nI hope you realize this photo is a joke. In the last blog entry I mentioned that Andre is growing his hair out. He wants to have an Afro, as we called them in the 1960s before he was born. So I used photoshop and browsed the internet to create this image. I certainly hope he's not enjoying himself without me! At least not with five other women.\nActually, that's something I appreciate about Andre. I can totally trust him. I call him the Boy Scout because he's even more straight and narrow than I am. Neither of us has ever tried illegal drugs or pot, been drunk, or smoked a cigarette. It's hard to find people like that. He drinks a beer or champagne once in a while, but nothing that I have to worry about.\nI got him hooked on racquetball already. He's getting coaching from Danelo and Alberto, two brothers who play on the Dominican national racquetball team (see photo from July 24 blog). He's excited to score more against me in September. I was still beating him 15-0 quite often, although he could sneak up to 1, 2, or 3 points sometimes. I can't believe how quick he is, but if you don't know where the ball's going, it doesn't matter how fast you run. My 33 years experience (I started playing a couple of years before Andre was born) helps me beat most of the young, male, athletic opponents here at U.C.S.C. courts.\nI've been working on the DVD project of Maya's memorial party, I still have my 2006 taxes to do, and my fingers are crossed that some tenants really do move out tomorrow (they talked me into two extra days because the husband has the flu supposedly). I have Maya's dad Daniel and his crew ready to renovate the place. If you know of anyone who's looking for a two-story 1200 square foot, 3 bedroom, 1 bath with yard, in a fourplex near Dominican Hospital, please send them my way. I need good tenants so Andre and I can travel for 3-6 months while we're waiting for his visa appointment at the U.S. Consulate in Santo Domingo. I think we have all the paperwork together.\nI've enjoying getting together with friends here in Santa Cruz and playing racquetball of course. I'm house- and dogsitting for a former roommate who is visiting family in Germany with her little boy for three weeks. It made me realize I've never lived alone, other than a month or two in a tiny tiny studio near San Diego State University when I first separated from my husband long, long ago. I kinda like living alone, I discover, just as I find a good man to share my life with. Well, we'll see how that goes. I'm optimistic, but realistic too. Andre is such a sweetheart. I feel like I fall in love more and more each day. It's hard to believe that anything could ever change, but as I learned with Maya, you never know what could happen. Solo Dios sabe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mixedpower.com/toyota-prius/the-volt-isnt-a-prius-it-might-even-be-better/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCDJXLQJDBLYQS22S5EMZHBWDCFE5BRW", "length": 5714, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mixedpower.com", "title": "MixedPower.com \u00bb Blog Archive The Volt Isn't A Prius. It Might Even Be Better | MixedPower.com", "raw_content": "The Volt Isn\u2019t A Prius. It Might Even Be Better\nThe Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius look a lot alike, but they are fundamentally different cars that blaze separate paths toward the inevitable electrification of the automobile. And while the Prius is the world\u2019s most-popular hybrid and the poster child for green(er) motoring, the Volt is more technologically advanced.\nThe Prius, like the Honda Civic Hybrid and the forthcoming Insight, is a parallel hybrid that uses both an electric motor and a gasoline engine to drive the wheels. It is designed to deliver optimal fuel economy at low speed or in stop-and-go traffic, when the electric motor does all the work. At highway speeds, it\u2019s just another fossil-fuel burner, albeit one that gets 45 mpg and emits less CO2 than almost anything else on the road.\nThe Volt, which General Motors finally unveiled Tuesday, is a series hybrid, also called a range-extended electric vehicle. Like the Prius, it\u2019s got an electric motor and a gasoline engine, but the engine merely charges the battery as it approaches depletion. Electricity alone turns the 17-inch wheels. The Volt is designed to travel 40 miles on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery, meaning most drivers will never burn a drop of gasoline.\nAssuming it works, of course.\nGM is confident it will, and it\u2019s given 700 people \u2014 many of them veterans of the groundbreaking EV1 electric car GM unceremoniously killed in 1994 2003 \u2014 a blank check to make sure the Volt is in showrooms by the end of 2010. The company reportedly will spend $400 to $500 million on the project during the next two years. \u201cWe can do anything we want to make this happen,\u201d Andrew Farah, the Volt\u2019s chief engineer and a veteran of the EV1, tells us. Many industry analysts and battery experts say it\u2019ll be close, but GM almost certainly will meet that deadline.\n\u201cGM is staking its reputation on the Volt working and it\u2019s spent a lot of money to make sure it will work,\u201d says Mike Omotoso of JD Power & Associates. \u201cI think they\u2019ll be able to mass produce them by 2010.\u201d\nThe heart of the car is a T-shaped 16-kilowatt-hour battery comprised of 220 lithium-ion cells and a 111-kilowatt (150-horsepower) electric motor good for a top speed of 100 mph. GM says the drivetrain will produce acceleration similar to that of a V-6 engine. The goal is to get the battery down to 396 pounds and no more than 64-inches long and 33 1/2-inches wide across the top of the \u201cT.\u201d That\u2019s light-years ahead of the similarly shaped lead-acid battery that powered the earliest EV1s; it weighed 1,200 pounds and was 92.5-inches long. The Volt\u2019s battery will run the length of the cabin, taking up the space beneath the center console and the rear seat.\nGM is testing batteries around-the-clock at labs in Michigan and Detroit, where engineers have as many as 40 battery packs on test rigs that measure life-cycle depletion rates, thermal behavior and load performance. \u201cExtreme cold temperature and battery life are the biggest challenges,\u201d Denise Gray, director of advanced battery technology, says. The objective is to build a battery that works as well in Nome, Alaska or Flagstaff, Arizona as it does in the lab \u2014 and is good for 150,000 miles. \u201cIt\u2019s a high hurdle to clear,\u201d Gray concedes. \u201cMaximum\u201d Bob Lutz, VP of global development for GM and the guy cracking the whip to keep the Volt on schedule, says the batteries are performing \u201cflawlessly\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s almost scary that we aren\u2019t seeing any problems with them.\u201d GM is testing batteries from LG Chem/Compact Power and A123 Systems/Continental, and Lutz says the company\u2019s decided who\u2019ll get the contract but won\u2019t announce it until the end of the year.\nGeneral Motors wants the Volt to recharge in eight hours using a standard 120-volt wall outlet or three hours with a 240. Of course, that won\u2019t do you any good if you\u2019re miles from home when the batteries are winding down. At that point, the Volt\u2019s 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine kicks on, powering a 53-kilowatt generator that will keep the battery going. The original plan called for a 1-liter three-cylinder turbocharged engine, but GM went with the four because it\u2019s lighter and simpler. \u201cTo be honest with you, we\u2019ve got enough technology in the Volt,\u201d says Micky Bly, director of hybrid drivetrain engineering. \u201cWe don\u2019t need the added complexity of a turbocharger.\u201d\nBly says the engine will produce less than 100 kilowatts (134 horsepower) but promises that\u2019s enough to do the job. And because the engine drives a generator that will run at a constant speed, the power band can be optimized for maximum fuel efficiency and lowest emissions. \u201cWe can run it in the sweet spot at all times,\u201d he says. Just how sweet that spot is remains to be seen, because GM isn\u2019t saying what kind of fuel economy or emissions we\u2019ll see from the Volt, although 50 mpg has been mentioned.\nThe engine will not fully charge the battery. Instead, it will keep the battery in what Farah calls \u201ccharge sustaining mode\u201d at about 30 percent of its capacity, providing enough juice to keep the car going. The idea, like so much of the technology in the Volt, was born of the EV1. Engineers testing the EV1 in the early 1990s needed a way to keep its battery charged as they racked up miles on the track. They fashioned a generator from a snowmobile engine strapped to a trailer towed behind the car. 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The members were chartered during the formation stage where feedback forms were circulated to all ASP licensees registered with MCMC.\nMMCP generally aims to protect the interests of the mobile content providers as some of us have investors from global markets. We also work with the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the Consumer Forum of Malaysia (CFM), the Communications and Multimedia Content Forum Malaysia (CMCF), Telcos, the Malaysian government via Kementerian Penerangan, Komunikasi & Kebudayaan and other relevant bodies.\nThe Mobile Business Excellence Awards are back for its second edition, once again celebrating the best...\nInterested to become a member, kindly download the application form and send it to:\nThe Secretariat Malaysian Mobile Content Providers Association (MMCP).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 7516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montana.edu/leadership/staff.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:17Z", "digest": "sha1:77ILH5SZUOGRADXDKJD3RH4ILUMEDS5H", "length": 6570, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.montana.edu", "title": "Join our leadership team - Leadership Institute | Montana State University", "raw_content": "MSU Changemakers\nBoardroom Bobcats\nEmerging Leaders Floor\nLeadership Institute in the News\nFormer Speakers and Programs\nMSU Leadership Endowment\nMSU Leadership Staff.\nThe MSU Leadership Institute offers both work-study and internship employment positions to students who would like to promote leadership across Montana State University and the state of Montana. Join us if you crave the opportunity to be part of a dynamic environment that offers opportunities to build confidence with your work skills. Duties include: public relations and community outreach, presenting leadership seminars, hosting guest speakers, facilitating the Leadership Film Series, maintaining the website, and more!\nLiz Vinson\nLiz Vinson grew up in Libby, Montana where she developed a passion for the outdoors and spent countless summer weekends hiking through the Cabinet Mountains and Glacier National Park. In 2015, she graduated Flathead Valley Community College with a combined Associate\u2019s of Art and Science degree. During her time at FVCC, Liz served as President of our chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society as well as a regional officer in the capacity of Vice President of District V (heading up Montana and Alberta). Liz is now a senior in Physics, the interdisciplinary option, so that she could fit in neuroscience courses as she finds the overlap with physics fascinating. Active inclusion is a very personal thing for Liz as she is a nontraditional student. Liz is passionate about making a seat for everybody at the table. Liz loves working as a Student Associate at the MSU Leadership Institute because they value empowerment and working as servant leaders. Liz is also a research assistant in the Imaging and Chemical Analysis Lab where she explores biocorrosion, as well as a consultant for Mary Kay cosmetics where Liz strives to help women see themselves as the amazing, capable people they are.\nDani Daley\nDani Daley has the honor of serving as the Senior Associate of this fabulous Leadership Institute team. She is a Senior studying Political Science and Economics (destined to be a super Senior) and she also works as an Intern with a local company, MyVillage. She likes to keep her mind busy, and you can find her making jewelry or working as a semi-professional photographer (who dreams of being Jimmy Chin). Mountain biking, sleeping outside in the back of her partner\u2019s truck, and buying expensive toys for her dog are her hobbies when she\u2019s not chasing the squad at the LI.\nBen Manion\nBen Manion is a third-year Student Associate of the MSU Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute greatly influenced his initial arrival to MSU through a one-credit class called Leadership Explorations. Ever since then, Ben has been exploring leadership and applying what he learns to both his life and work. Currently pursuing a leadership certificate along with bachelor's degrees in both film and finance, Ben is 22 years old and has spent his entire life living in Bozeman. When Ben is not hard at work studying, he spends his time playing piano, lifting at the gym, reading books, and hanging out with friends. Ben also loves to serve the community on the weekends! A quote that sticks with Ben is from one of his favorite people: \u201cLife is what happens when you're busy making other plans.\u201d - John Lennon. It reminds Ben of what\u2019s truly important in life: Not necessarily the top of the mountain, but the trail that leads you there, where the memories are made.\nMaddi Tandberg\nStudent Associate and Outreach & Engagement Coordinator\nMadison \u201cMaddi\u201d Tandberg is a second-year student at Montana State University studying Computer Science. Maddi is a longtime volunteer with various FIRST programs, and sincerely enjoys working with youth to get them excited about STEM. In her free time, you may find Maddi at a local coffee shop reading the news or walking around Bozeman listening to a podcast. Maddi also has the honor of maintaining this webpage, so if you find any mistakes, please email her (mtandberg23@gmail.com) and she will bake you a cookie.\nAmelia McGrath\nAmelia is a sophomore studying Conservation Biology. She hails from Sasebo, Japan, and moved to Bozeman to enjoy the great outdoors. Her great love is cooking, and on any given day you can find her whipping up a culinary miracle in the kitchen. Her dreams include backpacking around the world and starting her own organic farm.\nOriginally from Missoula, Hannah Monaghan moved to Bozeman to study Microbiology with an option in Environmental Health. Her interest in working with people started in high school when she began coaching figure skating to students of all ages. When she isn't in class or at the LI, she is hiking, trying to learn a new language, or spending time with friends. She is a part of the MSU chapter of Engineers Without Borders and has worked in Kenya with an NGO to implement wells in primary schools. Inspired by Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, she aspires to implement a holistic healthcare system that utilizes community health workers and promotes mental, physical, and emotional healthcare.\nPreston Holmgren\nPreston is a second-year Environmental Science student and second-semester Student Associate from Tacoma Washington. If he's not snowboarding at Bridger Bowl, he's outside exploring the outdoors and everything Bozeman has to offer. If you're looking for him, there's a good chance you can find him studying at any random coffee shop, getting his caffeine fix.\nAnna DeCan\nAnna is currently a sophomore studying Organismal Biology with a focus in Pre-Veterinary Medicine. She has an innate love of animals and hopes to ultimately dedicate her life to the study and research of them. Coming from a family where dogs and puppies are prevalent may be largely responsible for this interest. Anna is from Missoula, MT where she lives with her parents, three siblings, and eleven dogs. Life with that many animals is often chaotic, however, in the best way possible. Along with this, Anna enjoys photography, guitar, and in true Bozeman fashion, skiing.\nCally Schoettmer\nCally is one of our newest team members. She is a sophomore in chemical and biological engineering. A fun fact about Cally is that she applied to be in the Spirit of the West Marching band as a kazoo player. Unfortunately that gig did not work out, so she spends her free time enjoying the outdoor recreation Bozeman has to offer and kazooing with her roommates.\nA Program of the Office of the Provost & ASMSU\nLocation: SUB Room 187\nCarmen McSpadden\ncmcspadden@montana.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 7556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montanajobnetwork.com/company/coprofile/northwest-farm-credit-services?cid=a350d4ac78654405bb5941f73e75ff50", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MBOQ7PVQ3XXSNXRIITW3CW63H4A5NSA6", "length": 782, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.montanajobnetwork.com", "title": "Find a Job in Montana | MontanaJobNetwork.com", "raw_content": "HomeFind a JobCompaniesNorthwest Farm Credit Services\nAs a recipient of the 2017 Gallup Great Workplace Award, and recently named the Best Large Company to work for in the Inland Northwest, we are a group of individuals who are passionate about and committed to supporting agriculture. We are a financial cooperative (owned and governed by our customer-members) that exists to improve the lives of our customers and employees, the communities where we work and raise our families, and the Northwest agriculture, food, and fiber industries, by providing reliable, consistent credit and financial services. Our customers are farmers, ranchers, commercial fishermen, forest products producers, and rural homeowners in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.\nwww.northwestfcs.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moreliapythonradio.com/MPR-Library.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:64INIRW2DZVUAUPSZ44IDWZX5KVMAGCL", "length": 914, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.moreliapythonradio.com", "title": "Books", "raw_content": "MPR Library\nThe Complete Carpet Python- written by Nick Mutton, Dr. Justin Julander and a special chapter on advanced reproduction by Dr. Benson Morrill.\nThis is the best book that has been written on the carpet python complex. It covers everything about carpet pythons that you would want to know. It covers topics ranging from natural history, the evolution of the complex along with everything that you will need to know to keep and breed them in captivity. It also has a chapter on Morelia carinata- Rough scaled pythons.\nThis is an absolute must have if your interested in the complex.\nPythons of the World Vol. 1, Australia\nBy: Dave and Tracy M. Barker\nThis is one of my favorite books ever written on pythons by some of the most knowledgeable people in the reptile world.\nThis book covers all species of pythons found in Australia, including carpet pythons. This is a hard to find book but is well worth it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mountain-heritage.org/entity.php?ID=233", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6H4CLFK3ZAGC2KXTKZRSPYCM4ZSOV3NA", "length": 549, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mountain-heritage.org", "title": "Mountain Heritage Trust", "raw_content": "Atkins, Flight Lieutenant Ted\nTed Atkins, an engineer by profession, joined the RAF\u2019s Mountain Rescue Service in 1979, leading the first RAF ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. In 1983 Atkins made his first visit to the Himalayas. He was a member of an eighteen month Joint Services Expedition to Brabant Island, Antartica. He was involved in an unsuccessful attempt on Mount Everest (West Ridge) with the Joint Services Everest Expedition in 1988. He led the successful RAF Mountain Rescue Expedition to Mount Everest (North East Ridge) in 2001.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 108.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.movienewz.com/man-of-steel-banner-reveals-new-superman-logo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OOEMQ6BQDKUHRF6JACB2NRCGI77FFFM7", "length": 641, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.movienewz.com", "title": "Hi-Res Version of Man of Steel Superman Logo - Movienewz.com", "raw_content": "Hi-Res Version of Man of Steel Superman Logo\nUpdate: Check out the high-resolution version of the new Superman logo for Man of Steel. Last week the official Facebook page for Man of Steel, revealed an updated version of Superman\u2019s iconic logo. Now Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have released a high-resolution version of the logo.\nZack Snyder\u2019s new Superman reboot stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Michael Shannon. The highly anticipated superhero adventure soars into conventional and IMAX theaters on June 14, 2013.\nClick the banner below to see a larger version.\nTags: Man of SteelMovie PostersSuperman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.msn.com/en-ca/autos/research/2020-new-models-guide-25-cars-trucks-and-suvs-coming-soon/ss-AAyUn6p", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MVTSMHCYAM72KV4ONG7SQRV5XNJ6L4XU", "length": 1046, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.msn.com", "title": "2020 New Models Guide: 25 Cars, Trucks, And SUVs Coming Soon", "raw_content": "2020 New Models Guide: 25 Cars, Trucks, And SUVs Coming Soon\nBy Cherise Threewitt of motor1 |\nLast fall, we shared our slideshow of buzz-worthy vehicles expected to arrive in 2019, but our readers have made it clear that they\u2019re looking farther down the road. Here, we\u2019ve compiled and distilled all the information we can find on the cars, SUVs and trucks due another year out. The list is short but intriguing, with plenty of new and exciting choices for buyers.\nWhether a redesign, variant, or all-new model, we expect these vehicles to show up as part of the official 2020 model year or sometime during the 2020 calendar year. Though we are working with the best information available, these forecasts are subject to change at any time. In other words, nothing is official until it lands in the dealer\u2019s showroom. Based on what we already know, 2020 is shaping up to be an interesting year.\nMore future cars:\nFuture trucks and SUVs worth waiting for\nFuture trucks worth waiting for\nComing soon: Your guide to the cars, trucks, and SUVs of 2021", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/when-trumps-anti-immigrant-fear-mongering-crosses-line", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:NCDRGC6MYIZIWU6SFYJGDMDJWJPJHNVS", "length": 3412, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.msnbc.com", "title": "When Trump's anti-immigrant fear-mongering crosses a line | MSNBC", "raw_content": "Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks after arriving at the airport for a visit to the U.S. Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Thursday, July 23, 2015.\nPhoto by LM Otero/AP\nWhen Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant fear-mongering crosses a line\nThat Donald Trump and his operation want to create public fear of immigrants is not in dispute. What needs to be considered is how far the president and his team are prepared to go in pursuit of this goal.\nWe know, for example, about the Trump administration\u2019s Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office, which includes a hotline Americans can call if they\u2019re a victim of a specific kind of crime: those perpetrated by undocumented immigrants. We also know how dangerously ridiculous the VOICE initiative has been.\nLast week, as the Washington Post noted, these efforts took an additional step when the Director of Surrogate & Coalitions Outreach for the Office of Communications at the White House sent an email to reporters. The message described itself as an \u201cImmigration Crime Stories Round Up,\u201d purporting to show evidence of immigrants committing crimes.\nOne of the crimes listed in the \u201cround-up\u201d was an incident in Maryland \u201cthat is not clearly connected to immigrants.\u201d\nBut to fully appreciate the depravity behind Trump World\u2019s ugly campaign, it\u2019s worth reflecting Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez, who died in November in what appeared to be an accident. As Dana Milbank explained, Trump and his allies saw Martinez\u2019s death as \u201can opportunity to whip up anti-immigrant fervor.\u201d\nThe public-relations push started at a November cabinet meeting, when Trump argued for the cameras that \u201cwe lost a Border Patrol officer just yesterday, and another one was brutally beaten and badly, badly hurt\u2026. We\u2019re going to have the wall.\u201d A tweet soon followed.\nOther Republicans joined in. Fox News told its viewers that the border patrol agent was \u201cbrutally murdered,\u201d \u201cambushed by illegal immigrants,\u201d and attacked \u201cin the most gruesome possible way.\u201d\nWe now know the evidence doesn\u2019t support these claims. From Milbank\u2019s piece:\nThe FBI swung into action, mobilizing 37 field offices, and this week it announced its findings. Although the investigation \u201chas not conclusively determined\u201d what happened, \u201cnone of the more than 650 interviews completed, locations searched, or evidence collected and analyzed have produced evidence that would support the existence of a scuffle, altercation, or attack on November 18, 2017.\u201d\nCompared with the original allegations, the findings got little attention. There was no corrective tweet from Trump or the others and no retraction by Fox News, which buried the FBI\u2019s findings with brief mention.\nThe relevant facts weren\u2019t part of the Republicans\u2019 agenda, so in classic drive-by fashion, the anti-immigration campaign simply moved on, hoping people heard the allegations, but not the evidence.\nOver the summer, the president declared, \u201cWhen I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts\u2026 Before I make a statement, I need the facts.\u201d More recently, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Trump \u201cbelieves in making sure that information is accurate before pushing it out as fact.\u201d\nThe MaddowBlog, Donald Trump, Equality and Immigration\nAlready flailing, Devin Nunes gets into...\nGOP leader flunks test on separation of...\nWhen Trump's anti-immigrant fear-mongering crosses a line", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtu.edu/chemistry/graduate/accelerated/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:43Z", "digest": "sha1:A3S3BHGMTZQZPSNUBOSYLADPA36IMYH6", "length": 5380, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.mtu.edu", "title": "Chemistry Accelerated Master's (BS-MS) | Chemistry | Michigan Technological University", "raw_content": "> Chemistry Accelerated Master's (BS-MS)\nEarn a Bachelor\u2019s and a Master\u2019s in Five Years\nAre you ready to accelerate your education? Get on the degree fast track with the Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program, and you will earn both a Bachelor of Science and a research-based Master of Science in Chemistry in five years of full-time study.\n\"The passion everyone has for their research was reinvigorating.\"Shahien Shahsavari, PhD Student Chemistry\nThis accelerated degree plan allows you to combine the master\u2019s degree with any bachelor\u2019s degree offered by the Department of Chemistry, including the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Bachelor of Science in Cheminformatics, or the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.\nStudents enrolled in the Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program begin graduate course work during the fourth year and finish the requirements for their master\u2019s degree within three semesters of completing their bachelor\u2019s degree. Upon graduation, you will be prepared to succeed in industry or in a chemistry doctoral program.\nChemistry Accelerated MS Requirements\nStudents may apply for admission to the Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program anytime after sophomore-level class standing is attained and before a bachelor\u2019s degree is awarded.\nIf you are an interested third- or fourth-year student, see Celine Grace for an audit of your credits to date. You will then discuss your degree options with the Graduate Programs Committee chair.\nStudents must apply for admission to the accelerated MS program though the standard Graduate School application process.\nOnly students who intend to complete both a bachelor\u2019s and a master\u2019s degree at Michigan Tech are eligible to enroll in the accelerated MS program.\nStudents already enrolled in a graduate program may not retroactively enroll in the Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program.\nAn advisor will be assigned to each accelerated MS student. For more information, contact our graduate program assistant.\nThrough the Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program, a minimum of 152 total credits must be completed to meet the combined requirements of the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science.\nUp to 6 credits taken during a student\u2019s fourth year may be applied toward both the bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees. Prior to completion of the master\u2019s degree, students must indicate on their master\u2019s degree schedule which courses, along with the corresponding number of credits (a maximum of 6), should be applied to both their bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees.\nOnly students in good academic standing, as defined by the Graduate School, are eligible to enter the accelerated MS program. Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale.\nDuring the spring semester, you will begin undergraduate research, either in a class such as CH4721 or by enrolling in CH4990.\nCH 4721 - Research Methods in Biomolecular Chemistry\nLab course will emphasize the research process in biomolecular chemistry by actively involving students in question formulation, experimental design, data gathering, critical analysis, team work, and communication in an inquiry-based format. Students will employ methods used in modern biochemistry/molecular biology in a series of open-ended experiments that will lead to a student-developed original research project.\nPre-Requisite(s): (CH 4710 and CH 4222) or (CH 4212 and CH 4720(C))\nCH 4990 - Undergraduate Research in Chemistry\nAn undergraduate research experience in which students select a literature and laboratory research problem and write a report on the work performed. The student typically signs up for 1 to 3 credits per semester; most problems require more than one semester to complete. Requires GPA of 2.50 or better.\nCredits: variable to 6.0; Repeatable to a Max of 12\nRestrictions: Permission of instructor required\nSummer semester following your third year\nYou will enroll in at least 3 credits of undergraduate research under the Senior Rule (these credits will count toward only your master\u2019s degree, not your bachelor\u2019s degree).\nYou will enroll in 6 course credits that will count toward both your bachelor\u2019s degree and your master\u2019s degree. You will choose these credits in consultation with your advisor and the Graduate Programs Committee, especially looking for graduate-level courses (5000 level or higher). You will need a minimum of 12 graduate-level course credits (not including research credits) to meet the master\u2019s degree requirements, and scheduling can be difficult.\nSummer semester following your fourth year\nAfter receiving your bachelor\u2019s degree, you will enroll in 3 master\u2019s research credits. At this time, your status will change to graduate student.\nYou will enroll in a rigorous curriculum combining course work and research credits. You will plan your schedule in consultation with your advisor and the Graduate Programs Committee, which will ensure mastery of chemistry at an advanced level in both breadth and depth.\nSummer semester following your fifth year\nYou will write and defend your thesis.\n1 Letter of Recommendation from a prospective advisor.\nR\u00e9sum\u00e9/ Curriculum vitae\nSophomore-level students may apply, but in most cases we recommend you apply in the first semester of your junior year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 8233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/video-clips/5xirca/the-hills-we-re-not-even-friends", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:19Z", "digest": "sha1:YKSVVI2XC5PPY6AVAQA5ZKS7TGIBESAZ", "length": 105, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "Recap - We're Not Even Friends - The Hills (Video Clip) | MTV", "raw_content": "At the gym, Kristin and Stacie complain about the lack of guys in L.A. and how Brody still hasn't called.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myseoulsearching.com/2012/09/backpack-full-of-school-supplies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EIZKPGE4XH5YVTHKQIXMAALU6Z3RLADE", "length": 6523, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.myseoulsearching.com", "title": "Backpack Full of School Supplies |Seoul Searching", "raw_content": "Backpack Full of School Supplies\nIt never ceased to amaze me how abruptly summer vacation came to an end as a kid. The magical, care-free days of summer seemed to cease overnight, without the slightest warning of abandonment. It was always a depressing time for me, knowing that there would be no more trips to the beaches of Florida or endless afternoons spent watching Nickelodeon. But, the end of summer did mean one good thing: new school supplies. For the strangest reason, that annual trip to K-Mart for new supplies filled my little heart with such content. Looking back on it, I wonder why I ever felt that way about notebooks and erasers, but I'm glad to now see that I wasn't the only one who gets excited over new pencils.\nKorean students are obsessed with school supplies and considering the average high school student studies for an average of 16 hours a day, I'm guessing they go through a lot of them. Even in the smallest of neighborhoods, there is always at least one stationary shop that sells colorful and cute supplies from the early mornings to late at night. Said stationary and supplies aren't exactly what I used growing up in the States and I was surprised by the differences as soon as I started teaching in Korea.\nArtbox, a famous stationary franchise, can be found throughout the country and has a large stock of adorable school supplies.\nOne of the first things I noticed was that pencils don't usually have built-in erasers. Perhaps the lack of eraser is related to the cultural demand for perfection and silently commands that the holder make no mistakes. Or pencil manufacturers have some deal with eraser producers to keep business separate. Who knows? Recently, my mom sent a pack of eraser toppers to distribute to my students after noticing this difference at my school when she visited back in May. The kids were obsessed and thought they were the best things ever. Considering the number of items the stationary shops do sell, I'm surprised these aren't included in the stock.\nPerhaps one of the most shocking differences is how Koreans sharpen their pencils. Sure, there are manual pencil sharpeners which require a lot of pulling, squeezing, and twisting parts to get the job done, but many students carry around a razor blade primarily for the purpose of creating the perfect pencil point. I almost had a heart attack when one of my first graders pulled a blade out of her backpack last year. Knowing one could be arrested for such an offense in some American schools, I immediately brought her to the office. It was only when my supervisor gave me a \"Yes, what's wrong with a six-year-old having a razor blade at school?\" look did I realize that it was the norm.\nKorean manual pencil sharpeners require a lot of work, but aren't as dangerous as razor blades.\nSome Crayola products like crayons and fat markers are for sale in Korea but are generally quite expensive and not at all similar to the coloring alternatives that have been used for decades amongst students. Instead, kids use what they refer to as \"color pencils\" which are actually colored wax sticks that come in twistable plastic 'pencil' casings. They also use \"sign pens,\" felt-tipped skinny markers. There isn't a lot of variation in either of these two products and kids wouldn't dream of going to school without them. Another necessity is glue, something that is not really used in semi-liquid or paste forms. Glue sticks are the way to go for Korean kiddos.\nColor pencils aren't exactly pencils or crayons but are the preferred item amongst school-aged kids.\nLike everything else in Korea, school supplies are adorable and the more colors and characters one has on his or her notebooks, the cooler he or she is, at least in the world of elementary school students. Of all stationary items, pencil cases have to take the cake when it comes to cuteness. I've seen some incredibly creative designs from bags that look like Converse high top sneakers to boxes that have about 100 different compartments. Students tote their pencil cases, which are generally smaller that those used in America, everywhere and tend to stay trendy by purchasing a new one every few months.\nSomething that isn't exactly a supply, per say, but is found in many Korean classrooms is flag blocks. On each block is a flag and the name of its respective country, written in both English and Korean. Korean kids are shockingly good at knowing the flags of countries, many of which I didn't even know existed. One of these days, I'm going to get a video of my kindergarteners reciting them and shock the rest of the world.\nFinally, no Korean student above the age of kindergarten leaves the house without their nametag, which is often sewn on or pinned to the breast of their uniforms required by all Korean schools. It is believed that these nametags instill a sense of accountability in the students and subsequentally keep them out of trouble. Not a bad idea if you ask me.\nTypical nametags that all students wear are sewn or pinned to their uniforms.\nAncient Korean scholars used to call brush, ink, paper and inkstone the \"the four friends of the study,\" essential items to cultivate the mind. I guess in some ways, things haven't changed. Sure, Hello Kitty might be plastered across the paper and the ink might be sparkly and purple, but school supplies continue to develop students in the area that Korea values most: education.\nBONUS PICTURE TIME! I found this awkward match-the-straining-animal-to-its-poop-in-the-toilet puzzle in one of my school's Pre-K classrooms a few weeks ago and just had to share in this somewhat related post.\nLabels: Korean culture, Korean education, Korean school supplies, Korean students, office supplies, school supplies, stationary, teaching in Korea | 4 comments\nAmanda @ Farsickness September 12, 2012 at 8:24 PM\nThe knife thing is something I will NEVER get used to. I find myself saying, \"Please put the knife away\" at least once a day. So strange.\nAlso, kids here are obsessed with the brand of mechanical pencils and seeing who has the most expensive one. They always ask me about them and I have no idea what they're talking about!\nCouldn't agree more about the mechanical pencils (\"sharps\"), Amanda! Another thing that gets me is preschoolers with adult scissors. Come on!\nThanks for checking out my blog... I'm an avid reader of yours!\nLewis February 10, 2016 at 9:57 PM\nSchool Supply Online\nGreat post.I'm glad to see people are still interested of Article.Thank you for an interesting read.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 10815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.naturalsafetysolutions.co.uk/training/accredited-training/iosh-working-safely/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UIQXSDZ2NOQ2EN6ZP7J6ICGIHIGQQYNN", "length": 3157, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.naturalsafetysolutions.co.uk", "title": "IOSH Working Safely \u00ab Natural Safety Solutions | Health and Safety consultancy, Bridgend, South Wales", "raw_content": "Internationally recognised and respected IOSH licensed training\nWork activities give rise to many hazards which present risks to workers and the public.\nOrganisations need to establish a positive health and safety culture, promoting employee involvement and commitment at all levels, and emphasising that deviation from established health and safety standards is not acceptable.\nThe way employees treat risks depends on their perception of how they relate to them and the things they value. 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Everyone at work should have an understanding of why they must \u2018work safely\u2019 \u2013 and this course offers exactly that.\nThe course meets the government\u2019s guidelines for introductory health and safety training and is a 100 per cent match to the Health and Safety Executive\u2019s \u2018passport\u2019 syllabus.\nIOSH Working Safely focuses on why health and safety is important, and how individuals can make a real difference to the wellbeing of themselves and others through changing their behaviour.\nModule 1: Introducing Working Safely This module stresses the realities of the human suffering behind the statistics and emphasises the importance of personal responsibility\nModule 2: Defining hazard and risk This module focuses on the six broad hazard groups, and delegates are asked to think about the hazards and risks they come across in their own work. Importantly, it makes it clear that even something that is very simple or repeated over and over again can go wrong, with serious consequences\nModule 3: Identifying common hazards All the main issues are covered in this module \u2013 entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, and manual handling\nModule 4: Improving safety performance This module deals with systems and processes. The session bridges the gap between management and workforce, encouraging delegates to play a part in processes that are commonly seen as just down to their manager or supervisor. Other areas \u2013 including contract work, inspections, safe systems and permits, protective equipment, signage, emergency procedures, reporting and health checks \u2013 are all focused on from the delegate\u2019s point of view\nModule 5: Protecting our environment A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual team members can get involved in reducing environmental impacts\nUnderstanding of the course material is evaluated by means of multi-choice questions and a hazard spotting exercise.\nDelegates who successfully complete the written and practical assessments can choose between IOSH\u2019s Working Safely certificate or a credit card-sized IOSH \u2018passport\u2019 card.\nIOSH fees\nIOSH Certificate on successful completion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nba.com/article/2018/07/13/reports-jabari-parker-verge-signing-offer-sheet-hometown-chicago-bulls/?rss=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TCNISDRKAOAYPQ6UIRP5A2BXKUQHGUGQ", "length": 901, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nba.com", "title": "Reports: Jabari Parker on verge of signing offer sheet with hometown Chicago Bulls | NBA.com", "raw_content": "Reports: Jabari Parker on verge of signing offer sheet with hometown Chicago Bulls\nJabari Parker heading back to his hometown?\nThe Chicago Bulls are on the verge of signing Milwaukee Bucks restricted free agent Jabari Parker, according to several reports.\nRestricted free agent forward Jabari Parker and the Chicago Bulls are progressing on a deal, league sources tell ESPN. Discussions over a number to topics still ongoing.\nCan confirm Bulls are on verge of signing Jabari Parker. As of now, Bulls don't know if Bucks are renouncing him or they'll need to sign him to offer sheet. Either way, it's close.\nParker, who was drafted No. 2 overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2014, could switch teams if he signs an offer sheet by another team. The Bucks would then have 48 hours to match the deal.\nParker, a native of Chicago, averaged 12.6 points and 4.9 rebounds per game for the Bucks this past season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.necropraxis.com/2015/02/02/training-bonuses/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KE5SENHQT3JPFLRKJZARG7NA32DYNJFX", "length": 1717, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.necropraxis.com", "title": "Training bonuses | Necropraxis", "raw_content": "\u2190 Pits & Perils divergences Jupiter Ascending \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cTraining bonuses\u201d\nConfanity February 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm\nI\u2019m conflicted about this. On the one hand, I really like the idea of tool-specific mini-skills, I like skills that improve with practice rather than automatically with \u201clevel,\u201d whatever that is, and I have a soft spot for this sort of fine-grain simulationism, On the other hand, I\u2019d need to see it performing well in play before I get over the worry that it would end up mostly as a layer of often-forgotten fiddly details to keep track of, and/or a step away from description to mere number-listing when treasure is won \u2013 i.e. not \u201cyou find a well-balanced blade of high-quality gnomish steel (it\u2019s masterwork),\u201d but \u201cyou find a +4/+2 sword.\u201d Thoughts?\nI agree, there is a tension. Any kind of mechanical bonus risks overshadowing other cosmetic details. The answer, I think, is to make the cosmetic details also influential, but I agree this is easier said than done.\nIn this case, I think the overall dynamics are helped by the fact that the weapon bonuses are necessary to get use out of inherent character bonuses from strength or level (or whatever), rather than being additive.\nThis is just a proposal though. I have not seen it in play.\nCharles Ferguson February 6, 2015 at 2:15 am\nI really like the idea behind this.\nBut it seems pretty complex. You\u2019re tracking every weapon (or weapon type? this is another choice to be made, how granular you want to make weapon classifications, and then tracking those if your ed. doesn\u2019t include those classifications) on 2 axes, finesse and damage, and you\u2019re doing it twice \u2013 once for the base weapon and once for the character\u2019s current expertise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 367, "original_length": 9487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.needsupportrightnow.com/dating-again/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:13Z", "digest": "sha1:M7R73TGNILYDCIDA5DNBVXMRBYIL5WLD", "length": 898, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.needsupportrightnow.com", "title": "Dating Again | Need Support Right Now", "raw_content": "Being a single parent and going through the trauma of separation leaves a big question in most parents mind \u2013 is their someone out there for me? Will someone take me as I am and love my children?\nI believe if you have been left to raise child/ren alone and you have come to a place where you are alone (not lonely), then absolutely, I believe God will provide you with someone to compliment you. This may not happen in your timing, but you must not give up hope in God.\nPsalm 37:3-4 \u2013 Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.\nWhen choosing a new partner, it is vitally important that we surrender this into God\u2019s hands. There are times when we desire something that seems good for us, but from God\u2019s point of view, it is not in our best interest and not aligned to His will.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/04/07/introductions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HSFI3PACAROKIWWRTYU6RC2QEYDOLZW2", "length": 7562, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.nehrlich.com", "title": "Introductions \u2013 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist", "raw_content": "Posted on April 7, 2008 January 1, 2018 by Eric\nAlthough this post is still accurate as a general introduction, here are links to the last few annual updates on the state of my life:\nI just realized I don\u2019t have an \u201cAbout Me\u201d page on this blog. You can get a sense of who I am from reading the various posts and browsing the archives, but I figured it might be handy to have an introduction post. This is partially inspired by skimming through Derek Powazek\u2019s book Design for Community, which emphasized the importance of making the people behind the site real. So\u2026\nI\u2019m Eric Nehrlich. I call myself an unrepentant generalist.\nWhat does that mean? It means I specialize in nothing. Or everything.\nMy being a generalist is partially aptitude (I learn fast so I can pick up new ideas quickly, and I have enough mental models that adding more is easy), partially limitations (I don\u2019t have the focus necessary to dive deep into a subject for five years, as I found when I tried to be a grad student), and partially interest (I like talking about everything). The phrase \u201cUnrepentant Generalist\u201d is a reminder to myself to glory in rejecting specialization, and to explore where this generalist path leads. I use this blog to help trace that path, recording my thoughts on everything from cognition to community to conversation to design to management to media to philosophy to politics to stories.\nI didn\u2019t mean to be a generalist; in fact, I had planned to be a specialist. When I was a kid, I decided I was going to be a particle physicist because I was a big nerd and wanted to be Richard Feynman when I grew up. I did a high school science fair project at Fermilab, went to MIT where I worked on the Superconducting Super Collider over the summers, did an internship at CERN, and went to grad school at Stanford in 1995 to work on the Stanford Linear Accelerator. But instead of studying physics all the time like my compatriots, I was singing in the chorus, playing volleyball, going to various talks, running the alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer FAQ, etc.\nSo I left Stanford to try a different specialization in 1998. I had always liked computers even after taking several CS courses at MIT, and friends and advisors often wondered why I chose physics over computers when I had a knack for getting computers to do what I wanted. Since physics hadn\u2019t worked out, I went to work for a friend as a software consultant. Working with a variety of companies taught me about software, but taught me even more about people. I learned that the best technical solution was not always chosen, and that clients rarely asked for what they wanted, so I started to see the limits of being a specialist.\nAfter a couple years of software consulting, I joined Signature BioScience, a highly interdisciplinary startup developing new instrumentation for drug discovery. Working there gave me a unique insight into the dynamics of an organization, as the software I developed had to reflect the interests of everybody from engineers to testers to biologists to physicists to managers. I eventually grew into a \u201cunion foreman\u201d\u009d role, representing the interests of employees to the management team, as I worked with all factions of the company and understood their issues. And I began to see my value to Signature was not my specialized software expertise \u2013 it was my ability as a generalist to meld different viewpoints into a coherent synthesis that happened to be expressed in software.\nSignature BioScience unfortunately went bankrupt in 2003 due to some poor decisions by the management team. The failure of Signature as a company showed me how even a great technical team\u2019s efforts could be wasted by key management decisions. I realized that the value I could bring to an organization by improving its management would easily dwarf any technological contributions I could make, given the multiplier effect of management decisions on the rest of the organization. And my skills as a generalist were well-suited to management, as managers have to balance the interests of their group with those of the larger business, so it requires the ability to see from multiple perspectives.\nWith this in mind, I moved to New York in 2006 to join a Software Management Training Program at Fog Creek Software, and concurrently completed a M.S. in Technology Management at Columbia University, a degree that is similar to an MBA but with a focus on using technology strategically to serve the business.\nUpon completing the program in May 2008, I decided to move back to California to work for Google in Mountain View. I will be an analyst on a sales finance team that develops revenue forecasting models to help Google executives make decisions. I was drawn to the position because I get to use both my quantitative skills in building the models and my generalist skills in that the models are built on understanding everything from the technical product decisions being made, to sales and marketing strategies, to what customers and competitors are doing, to the larger economic and business environment.\nIf that didn\u2019t satisfy your curiosity, here are some links to other versions of me:\nThe corporate version\nA more informal version, which mostly cannibalizes content from here, but where I occasionally post memes and less serious thoughts that I don\u2019t feel like blogging.\nBloglines subscriptions\nA list of the blogs I follow, although I\u2019ve set up LiveJournal to follow most of the personal blogs.\nInteresting links I want to share but don\u2019t want to write up into a full post. Also, a way to generate new content for my sidebar when I don\u2019t update my blog.\nOccasional brief thoughts about my life.\nI wanted to hang out with the cool kids on Facebook, but all the content there is pulled from LiveJournal and Twitter.\nMy ancient web page, first started in 1994\nCompletely out of date since being superceded by this blog.\nNow it\u2019s your turn. I\u2019d love to be introduced to any or all of my readers. Feel free to do so in the comments, or send me an email if you\u2019re too shy. Say who you are, why you read this blog, and anything else you want to share.\nPosted in generalist, journal\n5 thoughts on \u201cIntroductions\u201d\nI am thoroughly impressed by your introduction of yourself. I am a bit of an \u201cunrepentant generalist\u201d myself. But on a far lower scale.\nI have done several things in my life, and am quite sure: nothing was in vain. My experiences made me be the person that I am nowadays and I am quite content being myself. I started out as a interiour painter (attaching wallpapers and applying paint), then went to the travel business (worked for an american airline and several others), went back to school to become an interiour designer. But at that time (being 30) my body took a different decision and so I became a mother instead. After a while I went back to school to study some economics, I had a second child, did an elaborate computer-course. And all these activities lead me to my current job as a secretary the darmstadt university. Not much by your standards (probably) but I am quite happy.\nI googled for the line of a song of one of my (former) favourite bands: the who. Quadrophenia. \u201cI\u2019m a punk with a stutter\u2026.\u201d\nI hope that I will find the time to explore your homepage more.\nAnd I wish you a good day.\n(pronouced like hiker)\ndsfasdfa says:\nbands: the who. Quadrophenia. \u201cI\u2019m a punk with a stutter\u2026.\u201d\nPingback: [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Inbox cleaning: 192/763\nPingback: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Career development in the 21st century || October || 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 12578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newfoxy.com/2017/02/27/vlf-fisker-force-1-dangerous-viper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:X5JYY3GDEYBRZGJ7JPZZYTX7ZQ6MQYKO", "length": 708, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.newfoxy.com", "title": "The VLF Fisker Force 1, a More Dangerous Viper - Newfoxy", "raw_content": "The VLF Fisker Force 1, a More Dangerous Viper\nWhen VLF Automotive\u2019s Fisker Force 1 debuted in January at the 2016 North American International Auto Show, it not onlymarked the beginning of a new innovative force in the industry, but the rebirth of the American supercar.\nA comprehensive conversion of the Dodge Viper, the 745 hp muscle machine carries an 8.4-liter V-10 engine, can roar from zero to 60 mph in 3 seconds, and has a top speed of 218 mph. Starting at $268,500, only 50 examples will be made with production beginning this month.\nNokia Reboots Iconic 3310 With Colourful Feature ...\n2018 Volkswagen Golf 8 \u2013 New Pictures Revealed\nElectric Automobile on the Road to Compete in 3000 km Solar Race", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newsinnovation.com/2009/06/23/the-potential-value-of-online-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:R7OZMIWTGCM4KDN4JCFWNTHDX4QMYMLK", "length": 3390, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.newsinnovation.com", "title": "The Potential Value of Online News | News Innovation", "raw_content": "Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty in Paid Content, Revenue\nPhoto from PWC's \"Outlook for Newspaper Publishing in the Digital Age\"\nHere\u2019s a sign that news still has some $ value.\nAmerican newspaper consumers are willing to pay 68% of what they spend on their daily papers when it comes to online news, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows.\nWhether or not that\u2019s enough to sustain an online-only business model (considering the lack of advertising dollars floating around the internet,) it\u2019s the highest national average out of more than 4,900 interviews conducted in seven Western countries.\nOn the other end of the spectrum, newspaper consumers in Holland are only willing to pay 38% for online news. Perhaps when information can be freely shared the phrase \u201cgoing Dutch\u201d loses its meaning.\nThe other five countries included in the survey \u2014 Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.K. \u2014 fall somewhere in between America and Holland, while the total average for all seven regions amounts to 62% of current newspaper payments. Of course, that doesn\u2019t factor in the elimination of printing costs and pressman unions, or the issues of content piracy and advertising revenue for online media. But it\u2019s a start to mapping out a foreseeable new landscape.\nAnd while most of the readers surveyed say general/breaking news is more important to them than any other type of coverage, they also say it\u2019s not the kind of news they\u2019re likely to pay for. Instead, financial news ranks the highest with 97% of the respondents willing to pay for the content. Sports news ranks second highest with 77%.\nThe greatest potential for paid online news can be found in specialized, targeted and relevant information, the study reconfirms. In other words: people are willing to pay for tailored content that\u2019s harder to find for free.\nOn the upside for non-financial and non-sports journalists, \u201cthat creates both an opportunity for advertisers to reach their consumers and for newspapers to develop \u2018hyper-local\u2019 or \u2018local-local\u2019 sites addressing content at the neighborhood and suburban level,\u201d say Marcel Fenez and Marieke van der Donk, who wrote the accompanying report. And that gives the U.S. a lot of legroom to create new business models for journalism.\nBut while there is plenty of untapped potential for online growth, PricewaterhouseCoopers contends that print news will remain the largest source of revenue for newspaper publishers \u201cfor some time.\u201d\nDisclosure: I still buy print newspapers.\nClick here to view the full report, including charts.\nClick here for an online-only revenue outlook by our comrades Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang.\nTags: Holland, Newspapers, Online News, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Western Media\nOne Response to \u201cThe Potential Value of Online News\u201d\npaul torpey\nDamian, this was very interesting. I used to read the print copy of the NYT most days and every Sunday but no more. It\u2019s so much easier to read it all on line wherever I am and it\u2019s free to boot. I guess they make up some of the lost revenue with the advertising and when you think about it I wonder if the subscription revenue is enought to offset the NYT distribution costs for hard copy??\nYou also kill fewer trees and throw less paper into the local trash bins.\nI think internet journalism is the direction it\u2019s going and if you have to pay to download a tune, why should you complain to pay for i-news?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nmsoh.org/blazer_jason_alan_mem.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PZ3EAVWWIFYOGP2OCJBNV2FGFTRX3JBD", "length": 5551, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nmsoh.org", "title": "Blazer, Jason Alan - Memorial", "raw_content": "Jason Alan Blazer\nJason Blazer was the only child of Walt and Linda Blazer. He lived in Las Cruces all his life, and died at the age of 24 after being shot while working at Pic Quick, a convenience store, where he was an assistant manager.\nJason\u0092s interests while he was growing up included archery, swimming, and professional football - he was a loyal Miami Dolphins fan, and would always wear one of his several Miami shirts on the day the Dolphins played. Most recently he had also become an enthusiastic fan of the El Paso Buzzards ice hockey team and went to their games as often as possible.\nAs a young teenager, Jason enjoyed putting together models of cars and airplanes, and took pains with the most minute details. He was also interested in real cars and planes. He had a number of books about airplanes, as well as a wonderful set of video tapes which he watched over and over. As he got older, he became interested in working on cars, enjoying most of all the interaction with the friends who helped him.\nJason had artistic talent but never did develop it fully because he compared himself to others and came up short in his own eyes. His main love, however, was music. As a teenager he liked hard rock, heavy metal music. Jason had deep emotions, and the intensity of this music helped him deal with them. As he collected tapes and attended concerts, he became very knowledgeable about the various groups, being able to identify the members of each group, and to discuss easily the history and activities of the group. He listened to music constantly and felt it deeply. His dream was to work closely with the groups he liked best, and so he was planning to study audio engineering in order to be able to work at concerts or in recording studios. In recent years, Jason\u0092s musical tastes had broadened, so that he enjoyed a wider variety of music.\nJason was very proud of the Blazer name and became interested in the history surrounding it. Blazer\u0092s Mill, near Mescalero, was the site of one of the battles of the Lincoln County War, involving Billy the Kid. The two men killed in that battle are buried in Blazer Cemetery and Jason always said that he wanted to be buried there, too. And so he was.\nAlthough he didn\u0092t have an academic bent, Jason was highly intelligent. His thinking was quick and innovative and, combined with his sense of humor, often produced comments that would almost take the listener by surprise. He loved being able to make other people laugh.\nThe most wonderful thing about Jason was his warm, loving heart. He cared very deeply and sincerely about his friends, and could see the good qualities in them that they sometimes couldn\u0092t see in themselves. He was a very spiritual person in the true sense of the word, although he had little time for religion for its own sake. His nature was so sensitive that he had to protect it with a shell that sometimes appeared hard to other people. He had high values, common sense, and a wisdom far beyond his years.\nJason experienced a lot of turmoil while he was growing up, the result of a free spirit being asked to conform to the ways of others. In recent years, though, he had matured and achieved a sense of balance. He was a responsible and hard-working employee at Pic Quick, and very much enjoyed and was proud of his good relations with his co-workers, Pic Quick customers, delivery people, and the policemen who stopped in often.\nMost important to Jason was having a special love in his life. He had never dated very much because, while he had many friends, he was waiting for the one perfect love for him. When Cecile LaRue came into the store in early September, 1998, they both felt an attraction to the other. She was quick to point out that she was married, with a five-year-old son, and then explained that she and her husband were estranged; they had not been living together as husband and wife for some time.\nThe more Jason and Cecile talked, the happier Jason became. He had found his special love in this beautiful, intelligent young woman who also felt the same about him. Unfortunately, Cecile\u0092s husband at the time (now ex-husband), Blake Scott, is a psychopath who refused to release his control of her in spite of separate living arrangements, discussions of divorce, etc.\nBlake Scott came into the store about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 13, when Jason was working the 11:00 p.m. - 8:00 a.m. shift. As shown on the store\u0092s video camera, Blake Scott waited in the adjoining car wash for four minutes to be sure the store was empty, then entered the store wearing a mask, and shot Jason four times. The last three bullets were delivered execution-style in the back of the head.\nBlake Scott was arrested less than eight hours later and charged with first-degree murder. However, incredibly, the jury in his trial February 29 - March 3, 2000, found him guilty of second-degree murder only. At the time of this writing (June 2000), he is undergoing a 60-day evaluation that was ordered by the judge before sentencing. The maximum sentence he can receive is 24 1/2 years, so he will probably come up for parole in 10 to 12 years. He has never shown any remorse or regret, which is characteristic of psychopaths. However, it is our belief that Blake Scott will learn that there is Divine Justice.\nJason believed that the spirit continues to live after the body dies. While the physical form and personality will be very much missed, we may all take comfort in knowing that the beautiful spirit that is the real Jason is still very much alive and free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 6000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 170.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.northescambia.com/2013/08/state-lands-including-cottage-hill-forest-future-4-h-location-for-sale", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:TGYXE5HSE2QZAPUJ66ENC6OGCQ2LJM5Z", "length": 10515, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.northescambia.com", "title": "State Lands, Including Cottage Hill Forest, Future 4-H Location, For Sale? : NorthEscambia.com", "raw_content": "State Lands, Including Cottage Hill Forest, Future 4-H Location, For Sale?\nThe Cottage Hill State Forest in Gonzalez \u2014 a recommended location for the future of Escambia County 4-H \u2014 is among several parcels of public land that may be sold by the state to raise money.\nThe Florida Department of Environmental Protection will hold workshops in Pensacola and other cities across the state as the state looks to sell some parcels of publicly held land to raise up to $50 million for future land-conservation efforts.\nMore than 5,300 acres from 168 different parcels at 67 state parks and other publicly owned sites are being considered for the sale.\nIn Escambia County, the state may look to sell the Cottage Hill State Forest and 3.4 acres of the Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park. In Santa Rosa County, and 4.8 acres of the Blackwater Heritage State Trail and the 20 acre Gillis Road Track could be put on the market.\nThe Cottage Hill State Forest is located in the Cottage Hill Community. The forest has no public road frontage, but is in the area bounded by McKenzie Road, Chavers Road, Williams Ditch Road and Highway 95A. About 24 acres of the site is uplands, while 4.7 acres is flood plain and wetlands.\nUniversity of Florida/IFAS Extension Dean Nick Place made a three-part final recommendation in July for Escambia County 4-H. Following the sale of the Langley Bell 4-H Center to Navy Federal Credit Union, Place was tasked with deciding a future location or locations for the 4-H program. His proposal included the Cottage Hill State Forest for environmental and horticultural sciences, outdoor education, forestry and other 4-H activities. [Read more...] According to a task force report, the state was willing to deed the property to Escambia County at no cost, while the state would continue to maintain fire breaks on the property.\nThe Tarkiln Bayou Preserve (pictured left), is home to four species of endangered pitcher plants, as well as other rare and endangered plant species. The rare, carnivorous white-top pitcher plant is unique to the Gulf Coast and found only between the Apalachicola and Mississippi rivers. Almost 100 other rare plants and animals depend on the wet prairie habitat, including the alligator snapping turtle, sweet pitcher plant, and Chapman\u2019s butterwort. A boardwalk offers visitors a view of the Tarkiln Bayou.\nThe proposal to sell state lands has already drawn concerns from the Florida Wildlife Federation, 1000 Friends of Florida, and Audubon Florida. Money raised from sales would be combined with $20 million that lawmakers included in the budget for the purchase of land to protect springs, water quality, water quantity or to serve as a buffer for military bases.\nThe state Acquisition and Restoration Council, a group that makes recommendations about land issues, will update the process to score the land on September 13. Under the scoring process, each parcel of land much meet certain criteria in order to be considered for sale. Those criteria include springs protection value, proximity to development, sinkhole features, recreation value, floodplain protection and species protection.\nThe date and location of the Pensacola workshop on the proposed land sales has not yet been announced.\n15 Responses to \u201cState Lands, Including Cottage Hill Forest, Future 4-H Location, For Sale?\u201d\nChristine on October 22nd, 2013 8:14 am\nThe Extension is not looking to hold the Livestock show on the Cottage Hill property. They will use this location for other 4-H environmental activities.\nThey are looking to hold the Livestock show at the Equestrian Center.\nsue on August 30th, 2013 12:59 pm\nTori, the Tarklin Bayou property is not associated with the 4-H land deal. It is only one of several properties the state is considering selling here in Escambia County.\nThe property known as Cottage Hill State Forest (located in COTTAGE HILL, FLORIDA, not Gonzalez\u2026) is the one Nick Place recommended for the 4-H kids. It is really NOT a good location for their use. It is, in my opinion, a token wink of ground, crumbs, if you will\u2026thrown to the kids. It does not have good accessibility, it is not developed, is currently growing pine, underbrush, etc) there is absolutely NO infrastructure, and would be years before it could be cleaned, cleared, construction of needed facilities, etc.\nWhat in the world is IFAS thinking/doing????\nTori on August 30th, 2013 9:24 am\nSo with all of those endangered and rare plants will the 4-H be able to develop the land for show arenas and holding pens? Or be able to put adequate parking for shows?\nThe Escambia County Extension office really is failing this program and the youth of the community with all of their road blocks and greed.\ndavid lamb on August 29th, 2013 12:33 pm\nColumbo says: One more thing!\nIt bothers me that at sometime in the past someone gave the state the land called Cottage Hill State Park, to be used in a specific manner, Now years later the State wants to sell it. Be ware of who and what you donate and make sure you enter legal clauses to prevent your wishes from being ignored!\nAs one who has been around AG and farming all my life, even in the Air Force, I have found that one or two people in a community, AG oriented or not, will use zoning or other local laws to stop their neighbor from using THEIR land for THEIR benefit. ALways someone calling zoning, city, county or police to cause a problem. I have seen it everywhere I have lived and have even been a victim myself. Same will happen in Cottage Hill! That reason and all the reasons my sister Teresa listed, makes the Cottage Hill piece and any other piece near a residential area unsuitable. These areas will only grow in homes and more sooner than later will be an issue.\nIn Dayton Ohio, it was growing corn in a residential area. Corn too tall, kids get lost in corn fields. Maybe kids shouldnt trespass on farm ground.\nIn Nebraska it is farmers working late, spreading manure or free human waste, noise, raising livestock, and other issues. Recently read of neighborhood busy bodies bothering people in Cottage Hill with a church involved clean up walk!\nNot a way to influence locals for Christ or gain new members!\nTeresa Tipton on August 29th, 2013 10:27 am\nI believe what David was talking about not that livestock would be on the property but the noise inandout of the traffic from all the trucks and trailers also the intercom and the loud clapping and the clashing of the gates can become a noise issue some of these events can last up to 830 9 o\u2019clock at night.It would be a concern for the area. We all were 4Hers growing up in Cottage Hill. there were seven of us on a 150 acre farm .Our mom and dad were 4H leaders and we showed animals at the Langley Bell CenterTallahassee Tampa and St Pete.W!e all enjoyed showing our animals and had a good time doing itsometimes you long for the old days but this land was still not large enough for what needs to be taking place nor will it be ready in a sufficient amount of time\nTeresa Tipton on August 28th, 2013 9:16 pm\nThe map is wrong. Ezell Lane is across from the property according to maps app. The land sits to the east of my property. The access from Wilms Ditch road is private(Glenna Rd) . The problem with the property for the 4H ERS is not enough land and years in the feasibility studies ,\nengineers and developers plus cost overruns.The Bayer property is still the best for the future of the kids and the Extent ion Agency and it is turn key. Who ever buys this land will always have to deal with the wetlands. Leave it to the wildlife they know how to enjoy it best.My grandkids and I enjoy walking through the wood and listening to the sound of the whispering pines and all the animals that call this home\nWilliam on August 28th, 2013 7:41 pm\n>>I\u2019m still trying to figure out where EASTON Lane is. I know where EASTMAN is over there, but I have never seen Easton.\n(Easton is listed on the map for those that are missing it, not in the story.)\nThat\u2019s the state\u2019s map at the top. Eastman Lane is actually over parallel to the railroad tracks. It\u2019s on the map but not labeled.\nWhat they have labeled as \u201cEastmon\u201d above is more where Ezell Lane is located.\nI wonder if the state\u2019s map is wrong, or perhaps old enough names have changed over the years?\nJust sayin' on August 28th, 2013 6:32 pm\nI\u2019m still trying to figure out where EASTON Lane is. I know where EASTMAN is over there, but I have never seen Easton.\nSue on August 28th, 2013 6:18 pm\nActually, David, according to the maps at the state forestry division, there is only an access road off of McKenzie Rd. and maybe an access road off of Glenna Lane\u2026..which makes this property isolated and really inappropriate for the 4-H kids replacement property.\nAfter offering this property to the kids, it is now being considered by the state for possible sale\u2026\u2026now what happens with the kids/land???\nkat on August 28th, 2013 6:01 pm\nto david lamb:\nI live within spittin\u2019 distance from this parcel of land and I can tell you that having livestock on that property wouldn\u2019t be any different than what the current residents already have. I have chickens, my neighbor has cows and horses, there are several residents on Mckenzie with horses, goats, ducks, cows, etc\u2026.\nIt\u2019s the country\u2026farms have animals\u2026more farms with more animals shouldn\u2019t \u2018rile\u2019 anyone who wants to live in the country\u2026.that\u2019s why some of us live here. If you don\u2019t like living near livestock then you are definately in the wrong place.\ndavid lamb on August 28th, 2013 1:38 pm\nCottage Hill State Park has frontage road on Mckenzie. It also adjoins my sisters land on the west side. It is unsuitable for 4H because it is a rural residential land and putting lkivestock there will rile neighbors. Also it is nopt what 4h or the 4H family wants. Dr. Place and IFAS need to learn to listen to what the 4Hers want. The 3.6 million is supposed to belong to vEscambia 4H. IFAS doesnt think so!@!\nSoutherner on August 28th, 2013 8:23 am\nSell it. The government owns too much land.\nconfused on August 28th, 2013 7:26 am\nSo, let me get this straight\u2026 they are looking to sell land, to buy more land?\nThat doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense to me.\nJane on August 28th, 2013 4:16 am\nGreat, let\u2019s get rid of the small amount of preserved land so someone can build more shopping centers and subdivisions which will simply fall into disrepair at some point and become an eyesore. Let\u2019s give wildlife no place to live. And above all else, let\u2019s remove the 4-H land as an option for them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 12927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nta.ng/news/events/20170225-40813/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JMOOUNBXCVVWM55UPSYDCEEYTCYOHRJY", "length": 2462, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nta.ng", "title": "Einstein Forum Opens Application For African Scientists and Technologists | NTA.ng - Breaking News, Nigeria, Africa, Worldwide", "raw_content": "Einstein Forum Opens Application For African Scientists and Technologists\nThe Next Einstein Forum (NEF) (http://NEF.org) has launched the search for 54 African scientists and technologists, one champion from each African country.\nThe search for those NEF calls ambassadors began on Thursday 23rd of February, 2017.\nThe selected NEF Ambassadors will join the NEF Fellows Class as part of the NEF\u2019s Community of Scientists.\nNEF Ambassadors will attend the NEF\u2019s signature event, the NEF Global Gathering, the second edition of which will be held in March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda.\nThe young scientists will have the opportunity to network with emerging and world renowned scientists and technology leaders as well as industry and policy leaders at an innovative gathering that will focus on how science and technology can solve global challenges, boost sustainable growth and accelerate human development.\n\u201cThe NEF Global Gathering 2016 held in Senegal was a resounding success, primarily because 60% of the participants were young emerging scientists and technologists. The NEF Ambassadors, part of the NEF Community of Scientists, bring a fresh, local perspective, in addition to their growing expertise in science and technology. NEF Ambassadors will represent their countries and the continent on a global stage, championing science-driven growth and development,\u201d said Mr. Thierry Zomahoun, Chairperson of the NEF and President and CEO of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).\nNEF Ambassadors should be residents of an African country, under forty-two years of age, have completed advanced studies in science, technology or have significant entrepreneurial achievements. They should also have a track record of leadership in their community, be passionate about promoting science and technology, and have an active online profile and following.\n\u201cNEF Ambassadors drive the NEF\u2019s local public engagement activities while growing their own careers through the NEF\u2019s partnerships that offer opportunities for mentorship and collaborations with established researchers,\u201d said Dr. Youssef Travaly, NEF Director of Programs and Content.\nApplications are available at www.NEF.org/ambassadors and will be received until 26 May 2017. The final list of NEF Ambassadors will be published in September 2017.\nNEF Ambassadors\nTechnlogists\nNewer PostUpdate From Southern Kaduna Security Situation- Samuel Aruwan\nOlder PostMorocco Applies For ECOWAS Membership", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oache.org/news/index.php?start=2008-11-01&end=2008-12-01", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7L7WBHQ37RJ56KMFAT73KL4666J3FKPC", "length": 3379, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.oache.org", "title": "Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education", "raw_content": "OACHE Annnounces 2008 WFW Outstanding Educators\nThe Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education recognized outstanding educators from K-12 schools in the 29 counties of Appalachian Ohio during the 15th Annual OACHE Conference. The 2008 Wayne F. White Outstanding Educator of the Year Awards were presented during the closing session of the conference, at Washington State Community College in Marietta. The awards recognize school personnel who have made an extra effort to encourage and assist students to go to college. They may have made a positive difference in a variety of ways, e.g., increasing the college-going rate, taking a special interest in students, or developing excellent relationships with college representatives and/or businesses.\nTwo teachers tied for the Wayne F. White Outstanding Teacher of the Year award: Mrs. Ellen Swickard, a chemistry teacher at Edison High School in Jefferson County, and Mr. Jason Croxall, an English teacher at East Liverpool High School.\nMrs. Swickard\u2019s high standards for her students have been credited by those students for helping them to do well in their college courses. As an adjunct professor with Jefferson Community College, Mrs. Swickard teaches a Chemistry II class for which students receive dual credit for both high school and college. \"Mrs. Swickard has the least amount of students who have to take remedial courses at the collegiate level in Jefferson County,\" said Matt Morrison, principal of Edison High School. \"She takes a genuine interest in each student and is very dedicated to the success of each of her students.\"\nMr. Croxall was credited by his colleagues with an irreplaceable enthusiasm for teaching. \"Jason is deeply concerned about every student that crosses his path. He will go out of his way to help make his students\u2019 lives a little better,\" noted colleague Jim Arcuragi in his letter of nomination.\nHolly Cunningham, from Frontier Local Schools, was named Outstanding Counselor of the Year for her work as high-school guidance counselor. Ms. Cunningham has worked to streamline the college process of financial aid, college visits, etc., to ensure that Frontier students have access to any college information they need or desire. \"Ms. Cunningham serves as an excellent role model for our students on the value of a college education and what can be gained through such an education,\" noted her nominator, Susan Walton.\nThe Outstanding Administrator of the Year award was presented to Susan Nolan, principal of North Elementary School in Jefferson County. Ms. Nolan also served as a teacher in the Buckeye Local School District. Ms. Nolan has recognized the importance of students realizing the need for postsecondary education, even at the elementary level. \"Susan\u2019s innovative ideas serve as a role model for the other elementary schools in our district,\" said teacher Belinda Boyce. \"She is energetic, filled with enthusiasm and is an inspiration to the many children whose lives she touches.\"\nThe OACHE\u2019s Outstanding Educator award was renamed in memory of Wayne White, the OACHE\u2019s first executive director, who passed away unexpectedly in 2004. During his 40-year career in public education, including ten years as executive director of the OACHE, Mr. White demonstrated, and inspired in others, a commitment to helping students attain a better quality of life through higher education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 6372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.offtheradarmusic.com/2010/09/ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HIB7CPTUSVL7GEXBTGFWN3BEIORDCKA5", "length": 1373, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.offtheradarmusic.com", "title": "::: Off the Radar :::: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti", "raw_content": "I was talking to my friend Matt (who has impeccable taste in music) the other day on facebook chat when it inevitably led to us talking about our common passion, music. Besides both of us agreeing how great the new Arcade Fire album is, he mentioned Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 'Before Today'. Hmmm, never heard them before so I picked it up. Seems it's the handywork of L.A. musician Ariel Pink and was released a couple months ago. After a couple listens I have to say it's a great record! Definitely a grower that will appeal to fans of chillwave with it's downtempo classic sounding vibe. Although I'm sure they probably wouldn't wanna be associated with any labels. Most artists hate that.\nHere's a couple of tracks from the album \"Fright Night (Nevermore)\" and \"Round and Round\" respectively tracks 4 and 5 on the album. In addition here's a cool disco edit for \"Round and Round\" by Brooklyn's Night Plane that I found on Hype Machine and their video for \"Bright Lit Blue Skies\". If you dig these I recommend you pick up the album, you won't be disappointed. Thanks for the heads up Matt.\nMP3: Fright Night (Evermore) - Ariel Pink's Haunted Garffiti\nMP3: Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti\nMP3: Round and Round (Night Plane Disco Edit) - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti\nBy Ray Milian on 9/02/2010 Labels: album review, chillwave, down-tempo, remix, video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 3834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ohwy.com/ca/h/hx121460.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QPJEVASMDGEMWGDRDQXFNGTPQSEPAZWV", "length": 368, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ohwy.com", "title": "The San Francisco School of Psychology San Francisco California", "raw_content": "The San Francisco School of Psychology\nThe San Francisco School of Psychology is located in San Francisco County, and has an enrollment of about 160. There are 3 programs leading to Masters degrees and Doctoral degrees.\nPopular programs include Psychology.\nLocation: 1375 Sutter St Ste 218, San Francisco California 94109 Telephone 415-563-1430 Toll Free: 415-563-3882", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media/press-releases/detail/article/the-director-general-of-the-oie-presents-her-new-years-greetings-to-the-press-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JO7B2RC2RNL6PGSMG2R2IFH44SDBDKRZ", "length": 6357, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.oie.int", "title": "The Director General of the OIE presents her New Year\u2019s greetings to the press : OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health", "raw_content": "The Director General of the OIE presents her New Year\u2019s greetings to the press\nAt the end of her first year in office as Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Dr Monique \u00c9loit described, yesterday morning, the Organisation\u2019s achievements under the framework of its Sixth Strategic Plan, covering the period 2016\u20132020, and announced the highlights that will mark 2017.\nLeft: Dr Monique \u00c9loit, OIE Director General - Right: Dr Neo Joel Mapitse, Deputy Head of the OIE World Animal Health Information and Analysis Department\n\u00a9OIE/P.Pinet\nParis, 12 January 2017 \u2013 A year after taking up her role as Director General, Dr Monique \u00c9loit has reaffirmed the Organisation\u2019s commitment to better governance of animal health and welfare worldwide, since these are the foundations for economic prosperity as well as for the social and environmental well-being of human populations.\nDuring her presentation, she reviewed the progress achieved in the implementation of the Sixth Strategic Plan and explained the organisational changes made within the OIE to ensure its success.\nFurthermore, she emphasised once again the three strategic priorities which will continue to guide the Organisation\u2019s work in years to come; namely:\nTo improve animal health and welfare by appropriate management of the risks encountered at the human-animal-environment interface;\nTo reinforce trust through transparency and good communication about the animal health situation and OIE standards on the sanitary safety of international trade;\nTo support and strengthen the capacity and sustainability of national Veterinary Services.\nIn this context, significant progress was made over the course of the year.\nNew global strategies to improve animal health and welfare\nAs part of its action to fight antimicrobial resistance, the OIE published its Global Strategy on Antimicrobial Resistance and the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials. The result of many years\u2019 work on this issue, and of the commitment made by the OIE\u2019s 180 Member Countries through a range of international resolutions, this strategy will help to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobials. It is also in line with the global effort undertaken in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). A significant highlight of 2016 was the occasion last September when, for the first time, the three organisations spoke as one at the United Nations General Assembly to gain the commitment of countries to deploy the Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance in their own territories.\nThe OIE was also mandated by its Member Countries to establish a global database to monitor the use of antimicrobials in animals. The results of this first year of data-gathering have recently been published.\nThe implementation of the OIE/FAO Strategy for the Control and Eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) began with the launching of the PPR Global Eradication Programme, which covers the first five years of this mission to eradicate the disease by 2030.\nFinally, the OIE developed a global strategy to promote animal welfare, to enable us to build: A world where the welfare of animals is respected, promoted and advanced, in ways that complement the pursuit of animal health, human well-being, socio-economic development and environmental sustainability. Approved by all the participants at a Global Conference on the issue last December, this strategy will be proposed for adoption by the OIE\u2019s 180 Member Countries at the next World Assembly, from 21 to 26 May 2017.\nImproving access to world animal health information for greater transparency\nA range of activities were undertaken to promote and enhance the work of the OIE global network, with the goal of improving the information flow to Member Countries and partners.\nThe World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS) entered a new phase of modernisation, in order to improve the quality and distribution of animal health information. Now available through a mobile application, future improvements to WAHIS will enable it to be more responsive to evolutions in the OIE standards, improve its performance and data analysis and make it more user-friendly. The system will also offer interoperability with other information systems, particularly regional systems, in just a few years.\nIn the same spirit of transparency, the OIE is modernising and diversifying its channels of communication, to make it easier for everyone to access its information. In particular, it renovated its website in 2016, increased its presence on social media and introduced new web portals on specific diseases and cross-sectoral issues, such as avian influenza and the \u2018One Health\u2019 concept.\nBuilding the capacity of Veterinary Services and increasing the sustainability of their activities\nThe OIE is committed both to its global programmes and to the support it provides to Member Countries through the PVS Pathway, its step-by-step process for evaluating national Veterinary Services, which today constitutes an essential pillar of the Organisation\u2019s mandate. To ensure that this mechanism continues to adapt to the changing needs of the Veterinary Services who request its assistance, 2017 will see the establishment of a Think Tank. This will analyse the successes and weaknesses identified by beneficiary countries to adapt the tool to new needs.\nIn other areas, the OIE continued to support Member Countries in the implementation of its global strategies, for example, by providing millions of doses of vaccines through its Vaccine Banks.\nFinally, the objectives of this current action plan can only be met by an effective and high-performance veterinary profession. For this reason, safeguarding the training of veterinarians remains a priority for the OIE, which, last June, organised a Global conference on veterinary education, with the aim of encouraging harmonisation on a global scale. This conference also allowed highlighting of the vital role of veterinary para-professionals. The OIE is committed to developing appropriate guidelines for their training.\nThe next major meeting, the OIE General Session, will bring together the Delegates of 180 Member Countries, from 21 to 26 May 2017 in Paris.\nClick on the image to display Dr Eloit\u2019s presentation:\nOIE Sixth Strategic Plan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 10708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 186.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oldukphotos.com/suffolk-hadleigh.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LMCTRX3CZFJLMF5A6ZXJN2BFIDUSMJU3", "length": 308, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.oldukphotos.com", "title": "Old Photos of Hadleigh in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain", "raw_content": "suffolk, hadleigh, vintage photo of benton street\nOld Photos of Hadleigh in Suffolk in England, United Kingdom of Great Britain.\nsuffolk, hadleigh, brilliant old photo of the town brass band.\nHadleigh is a market town in the county of Suffolk in the East Anglian area of England.\nsuffolk, hadleigh, old photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.osuit.edu/news/osuit-celebrates-black-history-month-speaker-series", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HDAEYIKLMG2OF76RV36NOA42DPTD2KSH", "length": 4089, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.osuit.edu", "title": "OSUIT Celebrates Black History Month with Speaker Series | OSUIT", "raw_content": "OSU Institute of Technology is hosting a series of speakers in honor of Black History Month this February to inspire students, faculty and staff to learn, grow and expand their knowledge of the African-American culture.\nThe series kicked off with Marhia Mitchner, current Miss Black OSU, on Feb. 5. Mitchner discussed her platform \u201cI AM ENOUGH,\u201d which focuses on raising women\u2019s self-confidence. She also discussed the importance of being miss black OSU to the OSU and surrounding community.\nNext week will feature Dr. Jason Johnson, acting executive director of Enrollment Management at Langston University, on Feb. 12. Kuma Roberts, the executive director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce will speak on Feb. 19. Both events will take place as a \u2018bring your own lunch\u2019 event that will take place in the Mabrey Room in the Student Union from 11:30 a.m. \u2013 1 p.m.\nThe topic for Johnson\u2019s event will be focused around his journal article \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of the Big Black Man?\u201d The session will talk about views expressed in his article such as how black men are often perceived as being aggressive, violent and physically larger than their white counterparts.\nJohnson will talk about how the negative perceptions often lead to negative encounters and the recurring theme of black men being unjustly killed, their character being assassinated and the emotional toll they endure.\nNate Todd, director of prospective student services said this area of growth needs to be addressed and that these events are important to our students to continue to be relevant in this global market. \u201cIndustries are openly talking about their diversity and inclusion efforts and showing how they benefit the bottom line,\u201d he said. \u201cBy ignoring these types of events, a person would be crippling their professional and personal development.\u201d\nAs the previous coordinator of African-American Affairs at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Johnson assisted students in refining their academic skills and utilizing campus resources, promoted understanding of the student\u2019s culture and respect for other cultures and served as advisor for the African-American Student Association. Johnson holds a doctorate in Social Foundations in Education with a cognate in Higher Education Leadership. Equipped with his passion for learning and his desire to experience new cultures, he has studied abroad in countries such as Belize, France, Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana and Pueblo, Mexico.\nKuma Roberts will be discussing cultural competency. The idea that leaders are no longer just those with titles of authority but are now those who demonstrate cultural competency and cultivate diverse, equitable and inclusive team and business environments.\nIn her role as executive director, Roberts is responsible for driving Chamber D & I strategies as well as the cultivation of a supportive and inclusive work environments in the Tulsa region. She serves on various local boards and is passionate about education, equity, social justice and her community\nIn order for OSUIT to be the leader in preparing students for the world of work, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) issues are an important key to their success and these types of events help fill that gap.\nTodd mentions how there are four key reasons that events like this speaker series is important to the campus.\n\u201cThe moral or social justice case asserts that each person has value to contribute and that we must address barriers and historical factors that have led to unfair conditions for marginalized populations,\u201d he said. \u201cThe economic case based on the idea that organizations and countries that tap into diverse talent pools are stronger, efficient and economically sustainable.\n\u201cThe third case is that the market states that organizations will better serve their customers if they reflect the diversity of their market base,\u201d said Todd. \u201cLastly, the case of results says the diverse teams lead to better outputs.\u201d\nTodd hopes this series of speakers will encourage awareness and personal and professional growth among the campus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 6282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.othersummers.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4L4M3XWJGCEOOPTUX7Q3YPLXJUQMI3X7", "length": 411, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.othersummers.com", "title": "Other Summers", "raw_content": "Hello and welcome to the start of a new series on my blog! I've decided that since I'm the worst at posting monthly favourites, I would start this instead. Every so often, when I have a set of products I'm reaching for more than others, I'll come here to tell you about them. A lot of other bloggers do this, so I figured I would start too. So here's to the first! Hope you enjoy.\nTags: beauty, currently loving", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oztechinc.com/2016/08/05/hello-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4HQX2M2OIPLD4LFC73VXSWJUXWCDOHJ", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oztechinc.com", "title": "Hello world! | OzTech, Inc.", "raw_content": "Posted on August 5, 2016 by chevelle\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized by chevelle. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pacaccounting.com/list-of-articles/85-tax-topics/289-fsa-or-hsa-choosing-between-health-accounts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:40Z", "digest": "sha1:O7UBS7RIV6SRUP6VZM3UVPL7PBRCYT2M", "length": 2050, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pacaccounting.com", "title": "FSA OR HSA? Choosing between health accounts", "raw_content": "Are you confused about your choices for paying medical expenses under your employer's benefit plan? Here are differences between two types of commonly offered accounts: a health savings account (HSA) and a health care flexible spending account (FSA).\nOverview. An FSA is generally established under an employer\u2019s benefit plan. You can set aside a portion of your salary on a pretax basis to pay out-of-pocket medical expenses. An HSA is a combination of a high-deductible health plan and a savings account in which you save pretax dollars to pay medical expenses not covered by the insurance.\nContributions. For 2016, you can contribute up to a maximum of $2,550 to an FSA. Typically, you have to use the funds by the end of the year. Why? Unused amounts are forfeited under what\u2019s commonly called the \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d rule. However, your employer can adopt one of two exceptions to the rule.\nIf you are single, the 2016 HSA contribution limit is $3,350 ($6,750 for a family). You can add a catch-up contribution of $1,000 if you are over age 55. You do not have to spend all the money you contribute to your HSA each year. You can leave the funds in the account and let the earnings grow.\nEarnings. FSAs do not earn interest. Your employer holds your money until you request reimbursement for qualified expenses. HSAs are savings accounts, and the money in the account can be invested. Earnings held in the account are not included in your income.\nWithdrawals. Distributions from both accounts are tax- and penalty-free as long as you use the funds for qualified medical expenses.\nPortability. Normally, your FSA stays with your employer when you change jobs. Your HSA belongs to you, and you can take the account funds with you from job to job. That\u2019s true even if your employer makes contributions to your HSA for you.\nBecause you generally can\u2019t contribute to both accounts in the same year, understanding the differences can help you make a decision that best fits your circumstances. Contact us for help as you consider your benefit choices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paganspace.net/forum/topics/reconciling-with-god-energy-1?page=1&commentId=1342861%3AComment%3A16335489&x=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:A5PPT5HQGFIBCC5IFUJVVZ7GCYZYME63", "length": 6367, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.paganspace.net", "title": "Reconciling with God Energy - PaganSpace.net The Social Network for the Occult Community", "raw_content": "Reconciling with God Energy\nPosted by Lark.the.Bird on October 14, 2013 at 8:51pm in Modern Paganism\nHello everyone! My name is Lark, and I'm so excited to be here in this community of people who are gathering online to learn from each other, share experiences, and have a really great time!\nI'd like to pose a question that I have been wrestling with since I came out of the closet at the top of the year. Please, if you'll indulge me for a little bit of background story before I get to the question.\nI came out of the closet to my family (my two Moms and Dad) 2 weeks before my 21st birthday. My parents took it exceptionally well and were very loving and very supportive. My Mom and dad raised me Christian, however we were not Christian Nazis for lack of a better term. We didn't persecute people with our words, berate others with out beliefs, my parents did not teach me to hate or be hateful towards any group of people minority or majority. (I understand these are not fundamentals of Christianity but this is the experience of many in the LGBTQ community that come out to families of this faith.) Due to a series of unfortunate events, after my high school graduation I moved out of my mothers house andwent to live in New York living with family. The family that I'm currently living with are Christian Nazis and for a lesbian living in a Christian Nazi household, it has been very emotionally taxing and physically stressful.\nNow, when I came to terms with my sexuality I had no qualms with the Christian God at all. I thought my relationship with him was perfectly fine, in fact I understood that I was made this way for a very good reason. And I also thought my relationship with other deities as well as having a relationship with him was perfectly fine. It was only until I tried to come out to particular family members (not my parents)in a very subtle and gradual way that I got a wake up call. These people were bigots racist and generally mean spirited and phony (it was actually a crushing realization) and they would never accept me. I became angry with the Christian God so much so that cursed him calling him all kinds of terrible names. I ended a relationship with my girlfriend because I began to judge her because of her Catholic faith. My bitterness ruined our relationship :( I was angry that she, a Transgendered woman, could be so happy with this God, and I can't, because of how my family acted towards other openly gay family members, and random members of the public...\nMy family still doesn't know that I'm gay. Though they may have an inclination, no one has confronted me about it. So they continue to say and do hurtful things towards people like me....\nI am a firm believer in the idea that a healthy tree bears sweet fruit, and when I think of my family and the way that they act and how they are generally biased against those who are not seemingly a direcet reflection of themselves (black Caribbean heterosexual Christian God fearing) I hold the god that they worship in love responsible.\nI use the example of socializing a child. It's the job of the parent and even the God parent to socialize the child on how that culture expects them to behave, but also changing it for the better....I don't see them dong that. And it makes me feel as If I will do that too...somehow...My awareness is killing me.\nI'm angry with the Christian God and I don't want to be because now I'm angry with every aspect of the God. every single one. I associate the God energy with this particular God and it bugs me to even think about it. HOWEVER I realize that this imbalance is killing me. I CRAVE that balance, but I don't know how to achieve it...\nSo I posed two questions, the first not as important as the second.\nIs anyone else or have anyone else going through something like this?\nI have asked a few Wiccan and Witch pages on Facebook but they never reply to my questions. I kind of feel alone. I feel as if many women attach themselves to the Goddess aspect and they're perfectly fine with it and nobody wants to talk about Worshiping Gods. Or the God aspect isn't as important. I don't want to go from God heavy to Goddess heavy, I want both.\nAnd the second most pressing question that bounces around in my brain every second of every day is how do I reconcile with God energy?\nThank you all so much in advance for your comments, concerns, questions, blessings well thoughts, rants, any and everything.I'm open to your loving energy, your encouraging energy. Thanks you!\nLove, Light, and Blessed Darkness!\nPermalink Reply by Lark.the.Bird on October 14, 2013 at 9:11pm\nThank you Gator! I didn't think of thinking of a loving male in my life...that's really helpful actually. I will have to pick up this book. I don't know why I want...I feel like this God is sitting at the cool kids table, and I'm so desperately trying to get him to like me:(\nIs that silly? I feel silly feeling that way.\nPermalink Reply by Jason Durham on October 14, 2013 at 10:07pm\nWell the best way to reconcile with the God energy, in my opinion, is to realize that The God is really more of an energy, as opposed to say a parent or some asshole priest that you know lol! The God and Goddess to me are like the Yin and Yang forces of the universe, not so much mom and dad. I had to get over my reluctance too. I haven't spoken to my father in 16 years and I have no intentions of doing so I had to get through the whole Male God as father issue. I would suggest one of two things if you want to help yourself. You could try to develop a relationship with an individual male deity. Also you could cast a circle, invoke the God by reading the Charge of the God, meditate and ask for emotional healing. Good luck.\nPermalink Reply by Lark.the.Bird on October 14, 2013 at 10:12pm\nThank you Jason. I see the God and Goddess as energy too. I'll try to keep that in my mind, that I believe that, and not to get bogged down with the blah blah blah of breaking the chains of the past.\nThank you again, I think building a relationship with a male deity is a good idea. I'm pretty familiar with Jesus, but I can honestly say I have never looked up others! Now is the best time as any other I suppose lol.\nNo problem. I'd recommend the book The Encyclopedia of Spirits by Judika Illes or anything by her really.\nI'll add that to the list along with Gators book! thank you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 8892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.payvand.com/news/18/feb/1018.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:PGDMQENLUI7DNC7UOTNIHKVGXO5GPQJP", "length": 2763, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.payvand.com", "title": "Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death", "raw_content": "Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death\nA Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the weeklong protests that erupted across Iran in December 2017. \u201cIn our theology, the ruling against those who pour into the streets in opposition to a just Islamic ruler, cause fires or kill people... is death,\u201d said Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami during a sermon on February 2, 2018.\nKhatami is a member of the chairing committee of the Assembly of Experts, the constitutional body that select\u2019s the country\u2019s ruler.\nHe continued: \u201cIf you want to show mercy, that\u2019s fine. But don\u2019t give us the impression that you just want rioters to go free. There\u2019s a time for mercy and there\u2019s a time for rage. You have to be firm against the leaders of the riots, like Imam Ali.\u201d\nShia Muslims regard Ali (601-661 AD) as the successor to the Prophet Muhammad.\n\u201cThose who were played and fooled should be chastised and woken up and should pledge not to commit mischief again by acting as mercenaries for agitators,\u201d added Khatami.\nAccording to information obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), some protesters arrested in Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces were already facing charges that are punishable by death before Khatami\u2019s fiery sermon.\n\u201cSome of them have been investigated, interrogated and charged with \u2018rebellion,\u2019\u201d said a legal source in the city of Izeh, Khuzestan Province, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons.\n\u201cThe families of the freed detainees have been threatened a lot and are too afraid to talk,\u201d added the source. \u201cMost of them say that they are being slapped with serious charges and if they do anything wrong, they could be given heavy sentences.\u201d\nAccording to Article 279 of Iran\u2019s Constitution: \u201cMoharebeh (rebellion) is defined as drawing a weapon against the life, property or chastity of people or to cause terror as it creates the atmosphere of insecurity.\u201d\nAccording to Article 286: \u201cAny person, who extensively commits felony against the bodily entity of people, offenses against the internal or international security of the state, spreading lies, disruption of the economic system of the state, arson and destruction of properties, distribution of poisonous and bacterial and dangerous materials, and establishment of, or aiding and abetting in, places of corruption and prostitution [on a scale] that causes severe disruption in the public order of the state and insecurity, or causes harsh damage to the bodily entity of people or public or private properties, or causes distribution of corruption and prostitution on a large scale, shall be considered as mofsed-e-fel-arz [corrupt on earth] and shall be sentenced to death.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.perfectionfoods.com/food-service/egg-rolls/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:45Z", "digest": "sha1:54NCOEOA7CAJAGERUXTTCPKAFTANPV36", "length": 102, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.perfectionfoods.com", "title": "Egg Rolls / Food Service / Perfection Foods", "raw_content": "Shredded cabbage, onions, and chicken tossed with soy sauce and sealed with a crispy egg roll wrapper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 122.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petebrookshaw.com/2011/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TZT42ZPLA56MGPCNYKR4SJLFI2R354UP", "length": 6483, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.petebrookshaw.com", "title": "petebrookshaw.com: February 2011", "raw_content": "Where is God when it hurts? Why does God allow suffering?\nWhy does God allow suffering is an important question. It is important because people's belief in God and trust in the fundamental beliefs of Christianity can be based around the answer to the question. The inability to grasp an answer to this following a painful ordeal in life, we know, has seen some turn away from faith in Christ. The question is a prudent one, one that is worthy of exploration. The following extensive quote is written by John Hick, in Philosophy of Religion (1963) and is cited in Philip Yancey's Where is God when it Hurts (1990). The language is somewhat philosophical, but hopefully is helpful to some readers:\n\"Suppose, contrary to fact, that this world were a paradise from which all possibility of pain and suffering were excluded. The consequences would be far-reaching. For example, no one could ever injure anyone else: the murderer's knife would turn to paper or the bullets to thin air; the bank safe, robbed of a million dollars, would miraculously become filled with another million dollars (without this device on however large a scale, proving inflationary); fraud, deceit, conspiracy, and treason would somehow always leave the fabric of society undamaged. Again, no one would ever be injured by accident: the mountain climber, steeplejack, or a playing child falling from a height would float unharmed to the ground; the reckless driver would never meet with disaster. There would be no need to work; there would be no call to be concerned for others in time of need or danger, for in such a world there could be no real needs or dangers.\nTo make possible this continual series of individual adjustments, nature would have to work, \"special providences\" instead of running according to general laws which men must learn to respect on penalty of pain and death. The laws of nature would have to be extremely flexible: sometimes an object would be hard and solid, sometimes soft...\nOne can at least imagine such a world. It is evident that our present ethical concepts could have no meaning in it. If, for example, the notion of harming someone is an essential element in the concept of wrong action, in our hedonistic paradise there could be no wrong actions--nor any right actions in distinction from wrong. Courage and fortitude would have no point in an environment in which there is, by definition, no danger or difficulty. Generosity, kindness the agape aspect of love, prudence, unselfishness, and all other ethical notions which presuppose life in a stable environment, could not even be formed. Consequently, such a world, however well it might promote pleasure, would be very ill adapted for the development of the moral qualities of human personality. In relation to this purpose it would be the worst of all possible worlds.\nIt would seem, then, that an environment intended to make possible the growth in free beings of the finest characteristics of personal life, must have a good deal in common with our present world. It must operate according to general and dependable laws; and it must involve real dangers, difficulties, problems, obstacles, and possibilities of pain, failure, sorrow, frustration, and defeat. If it did not contain the particular trials and perils which--subtracting man's own very considerable contribution--our world contains it would have to contain others instead... \"\nThanks John Hick for those words back in 1963. Thanks to Philip Yancey's Where is God when it hurts (1990) which, like any of Philip Yancey's books, is worth a read.\nWhy does God allow suffering? Where is God when it hurts? These are questions worth asking, debating, discovering, exploring, so that we have a greater understanding and revelation of who God really is, and why the world is what it is, and why life is full of so many ups and downs.\nLabels: Why does God allow suffering? Where is God when it hurts?\nWell, I'm still working on the recipe, and others may have ingredients and methods they wish to share, but here is my Recipe for Growing Healthy Churches.\n* A Genuine Faith in Jesus\n* Holy Spirit Filling\n* Leadership Gifting\n* A love for people\n* A constant amount of Discipleship\n* A grasp of the Word of God\n* Ongoing Prayer for growth\nStart with a genuine faith in Jesus. If you begin with any other ingredients, your recipe will come up short. Mix this faith with a passion for the Kingdom of God, and add the Holy Spirit Filling. This is the kind of recipe where you can never have too much Holy Spirit Filling. Over time, hone your skills in leadership and innovation and add them to the mix. Try not to get the recipe perfect at this point, as your leadership gifting and innovative skills will enhance over time (if developed in the right environment).\nTo create the best possible opportunity to grow healthy churches, make sure you also combine a love for people and a constant amount of discipleship. Whisk discipleship in regularly. If you stop whisking at some point, your recipe might become shallow and growth will most likely be stunted. While whisking in discipleship, make sure you add a continuing grasp of the Word of God, as a basis for the discipleship. Without this ingredient you might end up with unbiblical churches, that are self-centered, or apathetic, or judgemental, or theologically off kilter. In order to stir up the ingredients well, you must pray. Praying allows the ingredients to bear fruit, and create the recipe you so desire. Without prayer, you will have a mish-mash of 'nice' ideas, without any substance or power.\nFor the recipe to work, you must partner with the head chef. In fact, this is God's recipe, and we are merely trying to work with God to accomplish the finished product. When the head chef asks you to sacrifice things, you do it. When the head chef gives you advice, you take it. When the head chef warns you about a particular method in the recipe, you heed to that advice. When the head chef wants to pour out an entree of blessing upon your life, you say, 'Thank you Lord'!\nWhen you are finished combining the ingredients according to the method shown, allow the combination to rest in the arms of God, indefinitely. Continue to combine ingredients and methods, over and over, under the leadership of the head chef. Expect a great recipe. Expect growing healthy churches that will impact people's lives around you.\nAny advice on adding to, or adjusting methods to this recipe are more than appreciated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 12950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pgcag.com/site/building-healthy-relationship-with-the-church-board-urban-pastor-reflects-on-pastor-board-relationship/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VMBPCK27JTSUWI3XIYEALZ4ENHRCBUNU", "length": 7026, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.pgcag.com", "title": "Building Healthy Relationship with the Church Board: Urban Pastor Reflects on Pastor-Board Relationship \u2013 Philippines General Council of the Assemblies of God", "raw_content": "Philippines General Council of the Assemblies of God | Building Healthy Relationship with the Church Board: Urban Pastor Reflects on Pastor-Board Relationship\n\u201cI pastored Dampalit (AG Church) for 17 years. It was never easy and I cried before I left. I think that\u2019s what life is, there are unexpected moments.\u201d\nRev. Cipriano Mortel Jr., or simply Pastor Jun, poignantly recalls his sad farewell from the church he pastored for 17 years in order to shepherd a church pressed with many challenges. Transitioning to Caloocan Bethel Assembly of God (CBAG) maybe considered a very challenging assignment but it yields all-things-work-for-good outcomes which he willfully accepted.\nSince 2003, when he started as visiting pastor to CBAG, Pastor Jun receives a consistently overwhelming trust of the church members. In the latest and third-time vote of confidence for a 5-year pastoral term, he received 97% affirmative vote reflective of the congregation\u2019s very high confidence on him.\nCaloocan Bethel was established in 1954 through the ground-breaking ministry of the couple Pastors Eliseo and Virgie Cruz in the house of Caes Family formerly named as Caloocan Revival Center. The name was changed to Caloocan Bethel Temple after affiliating with the Assemblies of God in 1960. Later, the church followed its SEC-registered name Caloocan Bethel Assembly of God, Inc.\nDespite several leadership transitions, religious strongholds, transient populace, urban poverty and local corruption, the church thrives at the heart of the city. With some church members penetrating the local government units, they would act as catalyst for effecting subtle transformation.\nThe church\u2019s education ministry, Caloocan Bethel Christian School, established in 1986, serves as bridge in bringing the gospel to the parents of the students. Its Christian educators, mostly homegrown, are vital ministry partners in facilitating a faith-based, government-approved curriculum to cater to the formative years of the children. Thus, when Pastor Jun assumed the pastorate, he also assumed the chaplaincy- providing spiritual guidance to the faculty, staff and students of Caloocan Bethel Christian School.\n\u201cHow do you build a healthy relationship with the church board?\u201d\nThe leadership structure of CBAG is composed of two separate boards: Board of Trustees (BOT) and Board of Deacons (BOD). The two distinct boards constitute the Church Board established \u201cto ensure stability and to maintain a check and balance in the operations of the church\u201d . The BOT serves as custodian of the church properties such as real estates, monetary, materials and other tangible assets. While the BOD\u2019s primary role is in \u201cadvisory capacity with the pastor\u201d and in the administration of the church polity.\n\u201cThe overseers for ministries are composed primarily of the members of the church board. The Church Board is formed by the two boards: the board of trustees and the board of deacons. In the By-laws, the spiritual qualifications for board of deacons are also in the board of trustees with additional criteria related to being trustees and property management. That only means the two boards have the capacity to handle ministries or deal with spiritual matters,\u201d Pastor Jun explains.\nThe setup works well with Pastor Jun who also sits as the Chairman of the Church Board. Every member of the Church Board is also at the forefront of ministries, providing oversight to department or fellowship assigned to them besides what is required of them by church By-laws.\n\u201cHow do you maintain a healthy relationship with the church board?\u201d\nIt is important for Pastor Jun to show respect to strengthen his relationship with the person. It is also what he\u2019s trying to communicate by paying attention through listening when someone\nis talking.\nThis also encourages participation from members of the board during meetings. There might be disagreements but everyone understands that at the end of the meeting they would have to make a decision. Church leadership is about teamwork and it is important to hear different opinions from members of the team.\nHowever, it is a golden rule that members of the board must support and promote whatever decision is made even it is contrary to their opinion.\nThe board affirms this rule as they tell, \u201cPastor Jun reminded us that when majority of the board decided on something against our position, we are still part of the decision when we left the boardroom.\u201d\nAnother way of showing respect is by delegation of tasks. This is his way of recognizing the person\u2019s gifts and also a way of knowing whether the person can function under minimal supervision.\n\u201cWhen I delegate, I do not meddle. I don\u2019t have to monitor his work on a daily basis.\u201d\nHe clarifies that he gives job to the person who he knew has talent and skills to accomplish the task but also allows the person to take the full responsibility\n\u201cDoes the current structure promote or build healthy local church?\u201d\nSomeone may always find a fault in the structure and may use it to his advantage so when asked if the current structure creates or builds healthy local church, he answers:\n\u201cThere is no perfect structure. There is no perfect system. Any organizational structure only works for a particular organization. The truth is, it all depends on the leader and his character. Structure and system are important but the person utilizing the structure is an important factor as well in making the structure works for the good of the assembly.\u201d\n\u201cConsidering that you have the confidence of the congregation and the support of the Church Board, we can say that the Church looks after of the welfare of your family. Does Caloocan Bethel have provision for financial security when a pastor loses the vote of confidence of the members?\u201d\nThe CBAG By-laws requires a vote of confidence for the pastor every five years. The process, if unfavorable, may create a financial drawback to the pastor and his family after losing the vote of confidence of the members. He can only wish not to have undergone the process knowing it is what the By-laws require. Here\u2019s what he had to say about the financial plan, if any, of the church for him if he lost the trust of the people.\n\u201cWe have started that with the workers. The church has a trust fund allocated for their retirement. But there is no black and white document to support it for the pastors. I want to propose it but that would be self-serving. But I also sense that the church is moving toward it.\u201d\nHe wants to preserve his testimony and the relationship he established with the leaders and the church through years. He trusts, if that happens, the LORD will provide.\nRev. Cipriano Mortel, Jr. is married to his wife Leonila and they are blessed with four (4) children: Jerejob-Junel, registered nurse; Angeleen Jenn, office administrator; and Jasper June and Jarvis Ivan, currently studying, 4th year High School and Grade 6 students, respectively. They all serve in CBAG in their own capacity.\nchurch administration Jun Mortel local church", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 9558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phantomshockey.com/phantoms-add-two-players-roster/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MRLRRRZPI2PXV6UDOCMJW6TZTXHTRBKT", "length": 1392, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.phantomshockey.com", "title": "Phantoms Add Two Players to the Roster - Lehigh Valley Phantoms", "raw_content": "Recall Hora, Sign MacDonald to PTO\nLehigh Valley, Pa. \u2013 The Lehigh Valley Phantoms, proud AHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers, have announced today they have added two players to the roster. Defenseman Frank Hora has been recalled from the Reading Royals of the ECHL, and forward Josh MacDonald has been signed to an AHL Pro Try-Out.\nHora, 22, has played 38 games for the Reading Royals and has notched seven points this season. He has played 100 games over the last two years for the Royals and totaled 21 points (1g, 20a) and a +28 rating. He led Reading with a +23 rating last season.\nMacDonald, 24, has played 39 games this season for the Reading Royals and leads the Royals in goals with 18, and ranks second in points with 31. He sits ninth in the ECHL in goals scored.\nA native of London, Ontario, MacDonald has played 184 games in the ECHL over the last 4 seasons, racking up 133 points on 66 goals and 67 assists for the Utah Grizzlies, Rapid City Rush, Quad City Mallards, and Reading Royals.\nThe 5-foot-10 left wing will join Lehigh Valley for the first time and is expected to make his AHL debut today.\nThe Phantoms will play an afternoon game in Wilkes-Barre today at 1:05pm against the Penguins before returning to PPL Center Wednesday night to take on the Hershey Bears.\n\u2190 Leier Reflects on his Time as a Phantom\nHuntebrinker Scores First AHL Goal As Phantoms Earn Point \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.philonfilm.net/2015/03/dreaming-bigger-screaming-louder-xavier.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IAC6IQSL5IC62UXRQKVHSZQ6JNRQVPSL", "length": 747, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.philonfilm.net", "title": "Phil on Film: Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy", "raw_content": "Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy\nIn May 2009, a young man named Xavier Dolan arrived in Cannes to present his new film, the story of a troubled relationship between a mother and her son. In May 2014, a young man named Xavier Dolan arrived in Cannes to present his new film, the story of a troubled relationship between a mother and her son. Just five years passed between the release of Dolan\u2019s debut feature I Killed My Mother and his latest film, Mommy, but the difference we can see in the artist who made them is extraordinary. What looked like raw potential in 2009 has since been brilliantly realised.\nRead the rest of my interview with Xavier Dolan at The Skinny\nDreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 4595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pittsburghsteelersfanatic.com/2008/11/san-diego-v-steelers-good-bad-ugly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GDJQ6XVGAATJQ3CAALXD7DGCH2QKPVO7", "length": 7138, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.pittsburghsteelersfanatic.com", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers Fanatic: San Diego v. Steelers:", "raw_content": "San Diego v. Steelers:\nWe're not certain what is most noteworthy about this game ~ that the Steelers were victorious, they were victorious in the first ever 11-10 game in NFL history (so say CBS, with help from the Elias Sports Bureau we assume), or what we assume were huge sums of money that changed hands when Troy Polamalu scored a touchdown on the final play of the game; only to see all that money handed back over on the basis of an incorrect illegal forward pass call that ended the game. In our effort to decide we look at what went well, what was not so good, and what was downright horrible.\nBig Dan the 'Burgh Man sent along a text message during the first half which said \"Thank God for Dick LeBeau.\" Beautiful in its simplicity, yet comprehensive in capturing just how much the Steelers are depending upon their defense this season to be competitive. Philip Rivers' 43.6 passer rating was his worst such number this season (the previous low was 58.8 versus Oakland), and LaDanian Tomlinson's 57 yards rushing was his fourth worst total this season, and the team's 66 net rushing yards was their second lowest this season (the lowest is 60 yards versus Miami). Moreover, their 50 offensive plays was the third lowest total in a game this season, and their 4.3 yards per offensive play was the second lowest total this season (the lowest was 4.1 yards per play versus Miami).\nIf this was the first time this season the Steelers' defense had done something like this we might only discuss player performance, but the season-long excellence of the defensive unit is certainly the result of leadership from their ageless leader, Dick LeBeau.\nIf James Harrison is not the defensive player of the year we simply do not understand the criteria for the award. Often double-teamed (and occasionally held, despite the lack of a call from the officials) he still managed to collect two tackles and two assists.\nAnd forced a fumble.\nAnd assisted on the tackle that resulted in a safety.\nAnd came up with a key interception that kept the Chargers off the scoreboard late in the first half (and there is no need to ask, given the final score, just how big a play that turned out to be).\nThe intensity, bordering on rage, that he exhibited early in his career has been harnessed for good (i.e. if you are a fan of the Steelers) and he is following up a very good 2007 season with a Pro Bowl 2008.\nDuring our recent visit to Pittsburgh Big Dan the 'Burgh Man and I spent a great deal of time going through the Steelers' media guide, and while doing so we discovered that Jack Lambert, arguably the greatest linebacker to play in the National Football League, waited until the end of his third full season to go to his first Pro Bowl.\nWe mention this just so that you understand that we understand the full weight of this next statement: Second year linebacker LaMarr Woodley has earned a spot on the AFC Pro Bowl team. Sure, the Steelers' defense played reasonably well last week against Indianapolis (i.e. well enough to win); but as good as they are without him, the defense is even better with him in the lineup. He pressured the quarterback, he was in on the safety with James Harrison, and his ability to drop into coverage (e.g. the deflected pass intended for Vincy Jackson) makes him supremely valuable.\nThe defense was terrific, but there were also some good performances on the offensive side of the ball as well, but we were especially impressed by the hard running (i.e. aggressive, downhill running) of Gary Russell and Willie Parker. Tunch Ilkin mentioned it on the Steelers' radio broadcast ~ the Pittsburgh running attack is just different with a healthy Willie Parker in the lineup. We also thought Mr. Russell's contributions, especially in short yardage situations were very significant (e.g. third quarter, 3-and-1, six yard gain; third quarter, 3-and-1, four yard gain).\n410 net yards\n36:31 time of possession\n+3 in turnovers\n8 points ?!?\nFive of the Steelers' nine offensive possessions terminated inside San Diego's 35 yard line, but all the offense ended up with was nine points. Execution is obviously a part of the problem, but we also have issues with the play calling.\nFor example, on the Steelers' first offensive possession they worked their way from their own 41 yard line on a 4-yard run by Willie Parker and a 17-yard pass completion to Hines Ward (that put them at the Chargers' 38 yard line). At that point Bruce Arians called three consecutive pass plays ~ an incompletion, a sack, and a 13-yard completion on 3-and-18. That resulted in an ugly, 51-yard, missed field goal from Jeff Reed.\nOn their second possession they moved the ball 69 yards, 33 of which was on the ground, but on a critical 2nd-and-4 at the San Diego four yard line a pass play was called and Ben Roethlisberger was sacked.\nOn their first possession of the third quarter the Steelers moved from their own 23 yard line to the Chargers' 28 yard line (49 net yards), gaining 26 yards on the ground on five carries. Yet, with a 1-and-10 at that point, they called three consecutive passing plays (completing the first one for five yards, and the other two were incomplete) and had to settle for another field goal.\nWe understand the need for a balanced offense, however we also believe in forcing an opponent to stop you before going to something else. On a day when the running game was closer to being a ground attack it seems that Mr. Arians more interested in balance than simply going with what was working.\nWe sing the praises of the defense often, but allowing San Diego to go 78 yards in the fourth quarter . . . u-n-a-c-c-e-p-t-a-b-l-e.\nPaul Ernster has to go.\nFour kicks, a 31.0 yard average, and a net of 30.8 yards. His average is tied for lowest so far this weekend (with only the Monday evening game remaining), and his net is the second lowest (Indianapolis punter Hunter Smith had a single punt with a net of 16 yards). He has done a good job holding for field goals, but his fourth quarter, 20-yard punt from the Chargers' 38 yard line was horrific.\n13 penalties, 115 yards.\nYes, we thought the pass interference call against Ike Taylor (that set up San Diego's touchdown) was ridiculous (if that is pass interference then the rule needs to be changed), and referee Scott Green has already admitted his error on Troy Polamalu's fumble recovery for a touchdown; but our real problem is with the sloppy, sloppy play the Steelers turned in.\nNearly a quarter of the Steelers' penalties were called on wide receivers (three on Hines Ward, one on Santonio Holmes), and two more were called on tight ends (one each on Matt Spaeth and Sean McHugh). In fact, only two penalties were called on offensive linemen (one on Willie Colon and one on Darnell Stapleton) and neither was for holding.\nAll of this was nearly the undoing of the Steelers, and it is a testament to the good play of the offensive line and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger that they were able to overcome it all.\nLabels: Bruce Arians, Dick LeBeau, Garry Russell, Hines Ward, James Harrison, LaMarr Woodley, Matt Spaeth, Paul Ernster, Santonio Holmes, Willie Parker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 8645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pkmgallery.com/news/publication-of-yun-hyong-keun-monograph/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:43NFSNEKJNPVCPYZ3SUSRQBBESGQ74GH", "length": 706, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pkmgallery.com", "title": "Publication of Yun Hyong-keun Monograph - - Exhibitions - PKM Gallery", "raw_content": "Publication of Yun Hyong-keun Monograph\nPublished by P K M Gallery\nPKM Gallery is opening a new space for its inauguration in the historically rich cultural quarters of Samcheong-dong, where the traditional and the modern coexist in beautiful harmony. PKM Gallery will turn over a new leaf beginning with the solo exhibition of Yun Hyong-keun, the master of Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting), and plans to lead the paradigm in contemporary art with more expansive and experimental exhibitions in the future.\nIn conjunction with the inaugural exhibition, a first all-English monograph of Yun\u2019s paintings will be published, featuring the artist\u2019s 40-year career comprising his earliest to latest works.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.planning-approval.co.uk/home-improvement-articles/science-of-architecture.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MV5Y3IUHQCV7GZEQVMVENINBQEZQDHYZ", "length": 3569, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.planning-approval.co.uk", "title": "Planning Permission Guide for UK planning permission - Development articles - science of arcitecture", "raw_content": "The Science of Architecture\nYou\u0092re told to take vitamins, drink plenty of water, get a good night\u0092s sleep and exercise, but has anyone ever told you that the design of your home and office can impact your health? You wouldn\u0092t be alone in raising an eyebrow and questioning how this could be so, but thousands of years ago, the ancient seers of India spent entire lifetimes observing how man-made structures impact humans beings. Their findings were compiled into a body of knowledge called Vastu Shastra.\nIn Sanskrit, Vastu means science and Shastra means architecture. It is from this environmental science that some of the worlds\u0092 most enduring structures were created.\nAccording to Vastu, all five elements in nature (earth, water, fire, air and space) are in perfect balance. When we build, this delicate balance is disrupted, which can cause a wide range of physical problems from poor sleep to major illnesses.\nYou might have experienced this if you\u0092ve ever remodeled or moved into a new home and suddenly your health got worse for no apparent reason. If you work with the natural laws inherent in the universe rather than against them, you can align these five elements to your advantage. This is what Vastu Shastra is all about, and the affects on your health and well-being can be dramatic.\nWe have worked with clients all over the world using this powerful architectural science. We hear wonderful stories of how Vastu has changed people\u0092s lives. Health is one of the top challenges people come to us about. We find that there is always some reason for the problems they are having that becomes apparent when we do an environmental analysis, either of their residence or their place of work.\nHere\u0092s just one example of how directly our environment can influence our lives: A Boeing executive who lives in the Madison Park neighborhood was living with the consequences of diabetes, which had compromised his health to the point he was on dialysis. He was growing weaker from multiple, unsuccessful operations before we performed a Vastu analysis on his home.\nOur consultation showed major imbalances in his living environment, which contributed to his health problems. After making the changes needed to rectify this situation, both he and his wife reported that his health had improved, he was stronger and that they both felt an enhanced sense of well -being.\nAs a part of this earth, we live in a sea of electromagnetic and stellar influences. Every shift produced in the atmosphere has the potential to affect our actions and emotions. Every particle of energy in the universe is linked to the next particle. Nothing happens in a vacuum. We are all striving for balance and this cannot take place when there is environmental stress.\nStress comes when there is clutter, poor layout or design, lack of light, improper air circulation or when the environment is not aligned with true North.\nWhen the environment is out of balance, you can experience a lack of energy, back problems, mental instability, stomach problems, learning disabilities, emotional imbalances and financial difficulties.\nUnfortunately, most modern architecture is based on function alone and is not designed in harmony with the forces of nature, which influence our health, happiness and overall well-being. When our environments are designed to conquer nature, there is no question we will feel stressed. The beauty of Vastu is that it specifically balances living and working environments without costly structural changes and does it in ways that can improve the quality of our lives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 5890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.playagaingames.com/entertainment/rubiks_cube_art/green_apple/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QTDCYONJ3YDDDQBAA7X7B6UYOWXZU2L4", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.playagaingames.com", "title": "Jacob Davenport \u00bb Green Apple", "raw_content": "A big green apple. Why not?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pocketburgers.com/2010/09/policeman-stages-fake-arrest-of-boy-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGIOWEGSD2IFKMEVJMYOOILJA772B2KP", "length": 2042, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.pocketburgers.com", "title": "Pocketburgers.com: Policeman stages fake arrest of boy for having sex with his daughter", "raw_content": "Policeman stages fake arrest of boy for having sex with his daughter\nA police officer has been suspended for staging a fake arrest of a 15-year-old boy after discovering the teenager was having sex with his stepdaughter.\nThe motorcycle officer, who was in uniform and armed, went to the boy's home in San Jose, California where he handcuffed him and lectured him for more than five minutes.\nHe told the boy, who had been seeing the 14-year-old girl for some time, that he was going to face criminal charges of having sex with a minor.\nThe officer said: \"It does not bode well for you. Do you know what that means? No? Not a good thing that the person you had sex with is a cop's daughter. The district attorney will probably file charges.\n\"A cop's daughter is not somebody you mess around with. You're stupid.\"\nOne of the boy's parents videoed the incident and complained to police.\nThe case sparked a national debate in the US about whether the officer had abused his position, or was simply acting as a concerned father.\nTony Boskovich, a lawyer for the boy's family, said: \"Applying force, applying handcuffs, threatening the young man with things such as rape in prison, he acted like a cowboy. He lost it, he came in and he abused his authority.\"\nHowever, the officer's lawyer Terry Bowman said the boy's parents had not objected at the time.\nMr Bowman said: \"Everything was done in the spirit of reaching a troubled young man who is heading down the wrong path.\"\nThe officer has been placed on leave and prosecutors are considering criminal charges of false imprisonment.\nThe boy later told the San Jose Mercury News he had been \"terrified\" and the officer should be punished.\nHe said: \"I think he should go to jail and feel how I felt. I thought he would be a good dad by just showing up and talking to my parents, rather than taking advantage of his position.\"\nLabels: Police news, Sex Education\nCara menyembuhkan abses payudara March 2, 2018 at 2:50 AM\nCara menyembuhkan infeksi saluran pernafasan akut\nCara mengencerkan darah kental", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1272, "original_length": 22606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.policy.hu/bayov/InWork&AdvocacyPlan.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:00Z", "digest": "sha1:VFFPE65SLC4WTZY2XKPFO75XNBT3NHJE", "length": 2261, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.policy.hu", "title": "Initial Work And Advocacy Plan", "raw_content": "Project Name: Fellowship 2005 / Civil Society and Civil Religion in Russia: Implications for Social Policy\nThe objectives of the project are to analyze Russian legislation related to freedom of religion and church-state relations, analyze authoritarian challenges to religious freedom and the responses of stakeholders to these challenges, examine the character of interrelations between religious communities, federal and local governments, and the broader public in today's Russia; and write a research paper and a 20-page policy study in coordination with the group advisor to provide recommendations for policy practitioners and developers in Russia including the Committee on Religious Affairs of the Irkutsk Region Government, Department of Public Affairs of the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Region, and non-governmental activists in the region.\nAs partners may serve such the OSI network programs, as CEU Department of Political Science, CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Both bodies could be benefited from this collaboration by obtaining the first-hand data on development of civil society institutions in today's Russia, logics, mechanisms, and contradictions of this process, and its prospects.\nMain prospective deliverables\nA research paper;\nA 20-page policy study;\nPolicy paper, to provide recommendations to the policy practitioners and developers in the field of religious activity in Russia;\nA workshop on the problems of state-church relations in today's Russian society (audience: public policy practitioners, academicians, religious communities' representatives, NGO activists;\nAn article in one of the refereed journals\na. Analysis of newspapers (local and national) and electronic media. (What were/are the dynamics, volume of attention, and the context of valuation regarding different religious communities, which were/are spread through the media in the USSR/ Russia since 1985 through the nowadays? What kind of images of authority in relation to religion, and of confessions and denominations were/are intrinsic in the Soviet/ Russian society?)\nb. Preparation of interim report to IPF\nc. A workshop on the problems of state-church relations in today's Russian society.\nb. 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Parents living these unfortunate situations must sometimes take difficult decisions, such as continuing the pregnancy or not, or deciding what level of care should their newborn child should receive. Parents are supported in those decisions by physicians such as obstetricians and neonatologists that counsel them by sharing their predictions regarding the survival chances of their child-to-be-born, disability and future quality of life.\nThese future predictions, called prognoses, can be very different from one physician to another, and even sometimes erroneous. These discrepancies can be explained by the presence of multiple factors influencing the prognostic. These factors can be associated with patient\u2019s characteristics (for example ethnic background, age), the physician\u2019s values (for example personal beliefs, psychological state) or the context (for example the timing of the meeting, the number of people present at the meeting). It is important to understand what the influence of these factors on the physician\u2019s prognosis is, since this prognosis may impact parents\u2019 irreversible decisions regarding their child-to-be-born. This project aims to study the psychological and environmental factors influencing prognosis in obstetricians and neonatologists meeting with families in antenatal consultations.\nFerrand, A., Gorgos, A., Ali, N., & Payot, A. (2018). Resilience Rather than Medical Factors: How Parents Predict Quality of Life of Their Sick Newborn. J Pediatr. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.05.025\nRacine, E., Bell, E., Farlow, B., Miller, S., Payot, A., Rasmussen, L. A., Shevell, M. I., Thomson, D., & Wintermark, P. (2017). The \u2018ouR\u2010HOPE\u2019 approach for ethics and communication about neonatal neurological injury. Development Medicine & Child Neurology, 59(2), 125-135.\nRasmussen, L. A., Bell, E., & Racine, E. (2016). A qualitative study of physician perspectives on prognostication in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Journal of Child Neurology, 31(11), 1312-1319.\nBell, E., Rasmussen, L. A., Mazer, B., Shevell, M., Miller, S. P., Synnes, A., Yager, J. Y., Majnemer, A., Muhajarine, N., Chouinard, I., & Racine, E. (2014). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and prognostication in neonatal hypoxic\u2010ischemic injury: A vignette\u2010based study of Canadian specialty physicians. Journal of Child Neurology, 30(2), 174\u201381.\nRacine, E., Dion, M-J., Wijman, C. A. C., Illes, J., & Lansberg, M. (2009). Profiles of neurological outcome prediction among intensivists. Neurocritical Care, 11(3), 345-352.\nRacine, E., & Shevell, M. (2009). Ethics in neonatal neurology; \u201cWhen is enough, enough?\u201d Pediatric Neurology, 40(3), 147-155.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.primidi.com/cumann_na_ngaedheal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:06Z", "digest": "sha1:MUHZWF3RCL35KGOY5I6ENTP74DQCA425", "length": 2037, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.primidi.com", "title": "Cumann Na NGaedheal | Technology Trends", "raw_content": "Cumann na nGaedheal (; \"Society of the Gaels\"), sometimes spelt Cumann na nGaedhael, was an Irish language name given to two Irish political parties, the second of which became the modern Fine Gael party.\nRead more about Cumann Na NGaedheal: Original Cumann Na NGaedheal, Pro-Treaty Cumann Na NGaedheal, General Election Results\nOther articles related to \"cumann na ngaedheal\":\nCumann Na NGaedheal - General Election Results\n... Election D\u00e1il Share of votes Seats Government 04 ... !4th 28.9% 63 Cumann na nGaedheal government 1927.1 !1927 (Jun) 05 !5th 27.0% 46 Cumann na nGaedheal government 1927.2 !1927 (Sep) 06 !6th 38.7% 61 Cumann na nGaedheal government 07 ... !7th 35.3% 56 Fianna F\u00e1il government 08 ... !8th 30.1% 48 Fianna F\u00e1il government. ...\nBryan Cooper (politician) - Life\n... He joined the Cumann na nGaedheal party ... He was elected as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD at the September 1927 general election ... the subsequent by-election on 9 December 1930 was won by Thomas Finlay of Cumann na nGaedheal ...\nNational University Of Ireland (constituency) - Elections - D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann - 1923 General Election\n... election National University of Ireland Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Cumann na nGaedheal Eoin MacNeill 418 34.8 1 Cumann na nGaedheal Michael Hayes 210 17.5 2 Cumann na nGaedheal ...\nLimerick (D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Constituency) - Elections - 1923 General Election\n1923 general election Limerick Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Cumann na nGaedheal Richard Hayes 10,498 20.7 1 ... Cumann na nGaedheal James Ledden 6,335 12.5 2 1 ...\n... Thomas Aloysius Finlay (11 October 1893 \u2013 22 November 1932) was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician and Senior Counsel ... He was elected to D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta D\u00e1la (TD) for the Dublin County constituency at the 1930 by-election caused by the death of Bryan Cooper of Cumann na nGaedheal ...\nTerms related to cumann na ngaedheal:\nFarmers Party\nFarmers' Party (ireland)\nKerry (d\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Constituency)\nPeter J. Ward\nWilliam Redmond (1886\u20131932)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 169.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.printsonwood.com/blog/sugar-fueled-a-pow-featured-artist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PXFUWA2R3G7LLBLEOD7PSIGNWFRQGWOG", "length": 1883, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.printsonwood.com", "title": "Sugar Fueled - A POW Featured Artist / Prints on Wood Blog", "raw_content": "Sugar Fueled - A POW Featured Artist\nSugar Fueled is an artist named Michael Banks that will be featured at Prints on Wood. Before the print drops on August 9th lets learn about the man behind the paintbrush/guitar/colored pencil/comic book.\nCan call him 'Sugar' for short. No, that doesn't sound right. It makes me sound like a waitress in a diner around the 1950's in the midwest. Anyway, Sugar Fueled has had many trials and adventures on the way to creating the wonderful art that he produces today. And from the sound of it, his adventures are far from over. On his journey to the world of pop surrealism, he's been a skateboarder, a member of a punk/heavy metal band, formed a one-man noisecore band, and worked as a tattoo artist. He's toured the country in a van and slept in many interesting places along the way. He's a true journeyman and I think his art reflects that in the most gloriously fun way.\nHis art has been showcased in every major city in the US. If his art is something that makes you smile, then he's accomplished his goal. He wants nothing more than to make the world a sweeter and happier place. His art is fun and colorful and we can't wait to show you his POW print.\nSo I can't go into that much detail about it, but I can say that it's a custom cut piece and features the internet's favorite animal. In true Sugar Fueled fashion, it's colorful and fun. There's so much more I would like to tell you about, but I can't give it away. It's everything you would expect from a Sugar Fueled art piece and more.\nSo be sure to stay tuned on August 9th. And check out our social media to see updates and more info on artist releases.\nThis entry was posted in Michael Banks, Artist Release, sugar fueled\tand was tagged with featured artist, michael banks, art print on wood, fine art print on wood, sugar fueled, Prints on Wood\tby erin Swinfard. \u2190 Previous Next \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 7102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=101938", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BMQ6MXQAYQSPBYDVWIQXBEG2MM35MUFC", "length": 3793, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.progarchives.com", "title": "GOBLIN Roller music review by Fitzcarraldo", "raw_content": "A completely instrumental album from GOBLIN, three of whose members played in CHERRY FIVE. Unlike the group's first album \"Profondo Rosso\", the music on this album is not the soundtrack to a movie; nevertheless it has all the feel of a soundtrack. Actually, according to the CD booklet, 'Aquaman' and 'Dr Frankenstein' were included in the soundtrack to the movie Suspiria. Whilst it has more than a hint of jazz-funk about it in many places, the music still manages to maintain a rather eerie, melancholic feel overall and would be perfect for a horror movie or thriller. The music is well written and professionally delivered -- in fact the group sound to me like session musicians rather than a rock group -- but perhaps the music is slightly unexciting. Because of these various factors, I bet that many people who profess not to like Progressive Rock would not only be able to listen to this album but would do so without realising it is Progressive Rock.\n'Roller' starts off spookily but then a catchy staccato beat with meandering Logan String Melody(?) and soaring, almost ecclesiastical-sounding organ liven up the track. The strong bass line and the various electronic keyboards work very well together and set the pattern for the rest of the album. The album is actually a keyboard lover's feast but, because of the compositions, somehow manages not to ram those keyboards in your face (at least so it seems to me).\n'Aquaman' has a nice, spooky feel to it, enhanced by the initial sound of dripping water, the plucking acoustic guitar and what sounds to me like Rhodes piano. About two thirds of the way through, some laidback guitar over organ is very reminiscent of PINK FLOYD.\n'Snip-Snap' has some really funky keyboards, bass and guitar. It has the feel of a barroom number, yet still maintains a slightly sinister edge due to the rather shrill synthesizer at times.\n'Il Risveglio Del Serpente' (the awakening of the snake) is based around calm, pleasant, slightly Baroque or jazzy piano. Clarinet and swishing cymbals, the latter indeed reminiscent of a snake, add some mood to the piece. It sounds like a live number, as I can hear what appears to be the sound of an appreciative audience at the end.\nThe crunching or crackling sound at the beginning of 'Goblin' is disconcerting, then in comes lovely, tinkling clavinet, the track seems it is going to rock up but then in comes a very catchy yet haunting synthesizer riff. Some funky guitar and bass really jazz up the track and get the head nodding. In my opinion the track is the masterwork on this album. A very pleasing 11 minutes of Progressive Rock. Boy does this sound to me like it belongs in a movie.\n'Dr Frankenstein' sounds suitably macabre yet very jazz-funky indeed and. slow, man. Yet another one to groove to, except that, two thirds of the way through, it ups tempo dramatically like a pulsar, and the synthesizers produce some very pleasant sounds indeed. And it ends very abruptly.\nTo me this instrumental album is very much background music or mood music. At only 34' 21\", it ends too quickly and I invariably have to play it again. It's uniformly good: not particularly exciting and yet never fails to please. This is one of those albums that, when I'm not listening to it, I think deserves 3 stars (Good but not essential) but flashes up 4 stars (Excellent addition to any progressive music collection) every time I play it. Do you like instrumentals? Keyboards? Italian Progressive Rock? Jazz-funk? Then go for it, but give it some time to grow on you if it does not wow you straight out of the box.\nIncidentally, be sure to check out GOBLIN's album \"Suspiria\" if you want something more exciting than \"Roller\" -- see my review of that album.\nFitzcarraldo | 4/5 | 2006-12-6\nSend comments to Fitzcarraldo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=173317", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UNDOCO6EGNKGJSL36EXDVXJSKDLMRPL7", "length": 2901, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.progarchives.com", "title": "ANEKDOTEN Vemod music review by russellk", "raw_content": "1993 was the year prog rock clawed its way out of its grave and set about haunting old proggers, largely thanks to Scandinavia, with ANEKDOTEN's debut 'Vemod' one of the vanguards of the new/old sound. The fact that this effort, and that of ANGLAGARD and a few others, was able eventually to revive an entire genre, ought to tell you enough about the quality of the music to encourage you to give it a listen.\nThe debate around exactly how much this band resembles KING CRIMSON is irrelevant. (I actually think there's plenty of YES in there myself, but so what?) The primary piece of information you need to know is that this band is bass-driven. That means it's brimming with wonderful rhythms.\nNow there are plenty of reviewers out there ready to give ANEKDOTEN a good spanking for sounding derivative. To them Progressive Rock either died in the late 1970s or is still alive, but quite different to what we enjoyed in the so-called 'golden age'. I don't buy it, myself. What other category would you place this music in? And why does it matter who it sounds like? Who says 'I'm not using this photocopier because it works just like a Xerox?' To my mind there ought to be NO points for originality in the world. All the points should be awarded for excellence. Consider this on its merits.\nAnd there are plenty of merits. JAN LILJESTROM's bass is spectacular, capturing the CHRIS SQUIRE sound almost perfectly. Less jazzy, but it still sounds like he pinched SQUIRE's old Rickenbacker and gives it a good thrashing. Allied with the FRIPP-like guitar and enormous lashings of mellotron, the band surely evokes the 1970s. None of which would be relevant if their material was sub-par. Happily, it isn't. They write very good material indeed. The addition of the cello does add a unique dimension to their sound - and, luckily, they know not to overuse it.\n'Vemod' is ANEKDOTEN's first album and it shows, but it's still a great debut. The greatest hindrance here is the vocals, a little fragile and over-precise for such muscular music. The mix has been carefully engineered so LILJESTROM's voice isn't lost entirely. It would have helped if he'd been given some memorable melodies, but the rest of the band stole those. Added to this are the cliched lyrics, which spoil the dark mood generated by the music. He'll get better on subsequent releases.\nANEKDOTEN are a band all proggers ought to check out. While not their best, this is an excellent place to start. Laden with dark atmospherics, strong melodies, wonderful mellotron climaxes and emotional reveries, 'Vemod' is an excellent album.\nShare this ANEKDOTEN review\nBuy ANEKDOTEN music online with PA partners\nShow all ANEKDOTEN MP3/Stream\nGo to ANEKDOTEN page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more\nGo to Vemod page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews\nSearch the Forum for ANEKDOTEN related discussions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=272218", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:47Z", "digest": "sha1:V4QIQJI4HGTZCMAHFKR4AA26WVAZTEFG", "length": 4254, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.progarchives.com", "title": "THE PENTANGLE Basket Of Light music review by ProgressiveAttic", "raw_content": "Progressive Folk indeed!\nThis album is the exact definition of Prog-Folk in both approach and sound. In first place, the instrumentation is typical to folk music and completely acoustic (not a bit of electricity is used here). The musical orientation is driven by English (mainly medieval) and, to a lesser extent, American folk influences with the purpose of progressing beyond the \"traditional\" sound of the genre with the addition of elements from blues and jazz. As a matter of fact, an important fraction of the album is dedicated to re-workings of classic folk pieces.\nAlthough this album (and review) is featured on a website dedicated to Progressive Rock, do not expect any rock from it. Danny Thomson (double bass) himself said that \"one of the worst things you can do to a folk song is inflict a rock beat on it\", as a consequence of this line of thought Pentangle developed an approach of conserving the internal rhythm of each piece, resulting on an extensive use of unusual time signatures and changes (such as on Light Flight). At the end, this is Progressive Folk not Progressive Folk-Rock of the likes of Jethro Tull.\nLight Flight starts the album in the most progressive fashion of folk with changing time signatures, great female vocal displays (courtesy of Jacqui McShee) and very impressive and cohesive instrumental sections and backing (double bass + guitar +drums). 5\nOnce I Had A Sweetheart is the first re-working of a classic folk song. Very strong version, highly enjoyable and interesting, mainly due to the vocals and the introduction of a sitar on the mix (which will remain almost constant throughout the rest of the album). 4.5\nSpringtime Promises is another Pentangle original, this time featuring the apt vocals of Bert Jansch (also responsible of half of the amazing guitar work) and a specially enjoyable rhythm arrangement. 4.5\nLyke-Wake Dirge, apparently, some sort of death-related traditional English chant of Saxon origin. Very solemn and pleasant song. 3.5\nTrain Song lets the band's bluesy leanings flourish. The rhythm is intended to mimic the sound of the wheels of a train with alternating male and female vocals. The final output is a very interesting blues piece with nice vocalizations and an outstanding guitar work. 4.5\nHunting Song is one of my favorite pieces of the album. The highlight of the song are the vocals with contrasting male/female timbers and very intricate lyrics based on the Arthurian legends. The instrumental passages and backing are top notch with a heavy emphasis on the guitar and the glockenspiel, supported by the always excellent rhythm section. 5\nSally Go Round the Roses, originally an R&B hit, receives the Pentangle treatment. Not really intricate (very simple actually) bluesy track turned into a folky piece featuring a very pleasant vocal duo. 4\nThe Cukoo is another re-working, this time of a classic English tune. Here, the strings and female vocals are the center of attention. Flawless piece. 5\nHouse Carpenter closes the album with another classic English piece treated ala Pentangle. This time the instrumental background is dominated by the sitar and banjo, joined by the characteristic male/female vocal duet contrast. 4.5\nThe bonus tracks are very pleasant and none deserves less than 4 stars, which makes them an added value to this already excellent album.\nEvery single instrument is a highlight, but the ones that impressed me the most are McShee's vocals (some of the best I've ever heard), the upright bass (I cannot get tired of Thomson's work) and guitars (no folk album is complete without them.... nonetheless a guitar-less folk album should be interesting...).\nThis album has its low points (such as Lyke-Wake Dirge.... which aren't too low, by the way ), but nonetheless is an absolute essential and masterpiece for any progressive folk fan.\n5 stars for one of the most revolutionary albums in folk music history.\nShare this THE PENTANGLE review\nBuy THE PENTANGLE music online with PA partners\nShow all THE PENTANGLE MP3/Stream\nGo to THE PENTANGLE page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more\nGo to Basket Of Light page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews\nSearch the Forum for THE PENTANGLE related discussions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prosnookerblog.com/2008/12/29/the-2008-pro-snooker-awards-part-two/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NHYNI6BNQUT7HCIZNTIVD7KHLWHLYHNE", "length": 7551, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.prosnookerblog.com", "title": "The 2008 Pro Snooker Awards \u2013 Part Two \u2013 Pro Snooker Blog", "raw_content": "December 29, 2008 November 17, 2012 matt2745 Bahrain Championship, China Open, Maplin UK Championship, snooker, World Snooker\nAs promised, part two of my 2008 snooker awards. Click below to see whether you agree or not\u2026\nTournament of the Year: 888.com World Championship\nAn obvious choice it might be, but with two maximums and a series of memorable matches, I can\u2019t look past the World Championship for this award.\nThere were just so many highlights, in the first-round alone there were a string of close matches, the epic between Stephen Hendry and Mark Allen as well as deciding frame victories for Peter Ebdon, Ding Junhui and controversially Ali Carter whose match with Barry Hawkins was pulled off at 9-9 with the man from Kent very much on fire.\nFurthermore the tournament also saw the emergence of Chinese young guns Liang Wenbo and Liu Chuang, the former going all the way to the quarter-finals before being stopped in his tracks by eventual winner Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan.\nPerhaps the only thing that could really have improved the event was a closer final, as ultimately it was a bit of a mismatch as Carter slipped 6-2 behind after the first session and never really got back into it. Still, it was probably my favourite World Championship since the 2003 event and hopefully next year can be even better.\nNew Event of the Year: World Series of Snooker\nHaving gone through a few years that have seen relatively few new additions to the snooker calendar, 2008 has seen the introduction of a number of fresh tournaments. While Bahrain saw ranking event snooker return to the Middle East and the Championship League proved to be a hugely popular new event with the players, for me it is the World Series that has been the biggest success this year.\nInterest in mainland Europe has clearly been strong for a few years now and it was great to see some of snooker\u2019s top players playing in front of sizeable crowds in places like Jersey, Warsaw, Moscow and particularly Berlin where I\u2019m told that more than 1,500 visited on each day.\nYou can read more about the organisation and the Series here. Hopefully the success that it has found so far will continue into 2009 and we will soon see at least one ranking event held in Germany for example\u2026\nFinal of the Year: Maguire defeats Murphy to take the China Open\nAfter a year in 2007 which saw relatively few finals of note, 2008 saw a number of close finishes, at least three ending after midnight local time.\nThough the finals in Bahrain, Shanghai, Wales, the Grand Prix and the UK Championship were all dramatic finishes, it was the China Open final that really stood out for me. Not only was it close, but it was a match of terrific quality, with four centuries and eight other breaks over 50 as there was nothing to choose between both players. In the end though it went all the way to the colours in the 19th frame and it took a terrific shot from Stephen Maguire on the final yellow to finally free the green and seal a memorable victory.\nMore like this next year please!\nSession of the Year: Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan against Stephen Hendry at the Crucible\nOf all my awards, this has to be one of the least controversial as from being level at 4-4 with Stephen Hendry following the first session of their World Championship semi-final, Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan produced a masterclass in the second to take all eight frames and move 12-4 ahead.\nThe frame scores tell you all you need to know:\n0-101(93), 61(54)-72(44), 35(35)-85(57), 0-87(87), 0-133(133), 0-135(135), 16-93(85), 53(44)-76(70)\nEscape of the Year: Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan against Judd Trump at the Grand Prix\nI might be forgetting something here but I can\u2019t believe that there will have been too many better escapes this season than this effort from Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan during his defeat to Judd Trump in the Grand Prix in October.\nDisappointment of the Year: 888.com and SAGA Insurance withdraw snooker sponsorship\nHaving signed a five year deal with 888.com to sponsor the World Championship until 2010, it looked like snooker would be ok for sponsors for a while yet in the post-Embassy era, but with them having pulled the plug on their deal after just three years, the future of the tournament looks to be uncertain once again.\nWith Saga Insurance following suit with the Masters and the sponsors of the other two BBC events not yet secured for 2009, it looks like WSA will have a tough few months ahead of them as they look to secure the financial future of the sport. Although it looks to be a little too late for the Masters, hopefully they will find a partner of some sort for the Crucible in April otherwise the cash reserves of the governing body will take something of a hit\u2026\nControversy of the Year: Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett allegations\nWhile there were a few controversial moments this year such as in the Joe Swail/Liang Wenbo match at the Crucible and Ronnie O\u2019Sullivans comments during his press conference in China, there could be only one winner here.\nWith several reports and stories suggesting that the last 32 match between Stephen Maguire and Jamie Burnett would end up finishing 9-3, this is exactly what happened as Jamie handed the match to Stephen with a notable miss on the black.\nWhether there was any wrongdoing here remains to be seen as the governing body has launched an official investigation into the subject, but as far as the sport in general goes, it might just be that the damage has been done. Hopefully both of the players concerned will be shown to be innocent an both can resume their careers with their reputations untarnished\u2026\nInnovation of the Year: The open draw format at the Grand Prix\nFollowing the problematic round-robin format that had been seen at the Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, it was clear that something had to change for this season and indeed it did as the WSA introduced an FA Cup style open draw format to the tournament.\nAs I said at the time, despite criticism that it would be unfair on the top seeds as they would lose out on the theoretically easier draws earned as a result of their ranking, I felt that it would be a positive move for the tournament and right now I still feel the same.\nThe players certainly seemed to take to it as I don\u2019t remember a negative comment being mentioned in the press and the live draws helped to keep the tournament exciting and unpredictable as you did not know who would be playing who next. Fears that it would help a lesser-known player to win the event were also unfounded as in the end it was double world champion John Higgins who took his fourth Grand Prix crown.\nHopefully the format will be retained for next year and we will see another excellent tournament in Glasgow.\nWorst Dressed Player of the Year: Shaun Murphy at the UK Championship\nSince the Masters back in January it looked like Ken Doherty would be a certainty for this award given the rather wild shoes he turned up in, but right at the last event of the year, Shaun Murphy managed to go one step further with his silver boots and grey pinstriped attire.\nI may mock, but I doubt that he will care too much as it certainly proved to be a lucky charm for him as he marched to his biggest title since the 2005 World Championship. Perhaps we will be seeing it in action a few more times in 2009\u2026\nAli Carter Crucible Theatre Ding Junhui Graeme Dott Jamie Burnett John Higgins Judd Trump Ken Doherty Liang Wenbo Ronnie O'Sullivan Shaun Murphy Stephen Hendry Stephen Maguire\nbesiktasjk\ngood choices Matt!! Happy new year..\nGilbert getting his head down as he fights for a top 48 place", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 10797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10903196.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HEUTJLHWWNYLADUH3DRMF5NB4OA232XM", "length": 3243, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", "title": "Autistic National Speaker Stresses Love, Hope in \u2018Defining Autism From The Heart\u2019", "raw_content": "Autistic National Speaker Stresses Love, Hope in \u2018Defining Autism From The Heart\u2019\nAutistic Adult Kerry Magro's debut book, \"Defining Autism From The Heart: From Nonverbal to National Speaker\" comes out today on Amazon.\n\u201cAt the end of the day, I never wanted autism to define me. I wanted to define autism in everything I did with my life. I can only hope those, regardless of having autism or not can go out to live their lives and their journeys in the way they see it.\u201d\nKerry Magro has experienced national acclaim as a disability advocate. Released today on Amazon, Kerry\u2019s self-published book, \u201cDefining Autism From The Heart: From Nonverbal to National Speaker\u201d tells the story of his journey through his inspiring verses and essays.\nThe story in itself is remarkable for someone who was nonverbal until he was two and a half and was in daily sensory overload. He got kicked out of two preschools because the teachers said they couldn\u2019t handle him. When he was diagnosed with autism at 4 as well as half-dozen other disorders, they could not have predicted what Kerry has been able to accomplish.\nThe now 25-year-old NJ native is a recent Masters Graduate, Non-Profit Founder, and recent consultant for the motion picture Joyful Noise which earned over 30 million dollars in the United States! Kerry has indeed embraced both the challenges and successes of autism. Kerry today calls them \u201cconstraints and opportunities\u201d. Kerry likes to say he has turned his disability into an A-Bility and today can add the title of author to his resume.\nKerry who wants to write 30 books by 30 years of age hopes this book will be the first of many to help our community.\n\u201cWhen I was younger I wish I had role models to look up to who were on the spectrum. Now that I\u2019m an adult I want to help pave the way for the future generations of kids on the spectrum and to let them know that they aren\u2019t alone out there.\u201d Kerry said.\n\u201cOne of the main things I hope to teach others is that autism isn\u2019t a disease. That\u2019s the big thing. Sure we may have some differences but that shouldn\u2019t be discouraged. We all are a little different from the next person we are going to meet.\u201d\nAutism today is one of the fastest growing neurological/developmental disorders in the United States. Over 1.5 million Americans have autism with over 500,000 children with autism who will reach adulthood within the next decade.\n\u201cThe numbers for autism are constantly growing while our spectrum also continues to grow in terms of diversity,\u201d Kerry added. \u201cSupports need to be put in place for our loved ones to thrive, and that means all of us ranging from the most severely affected to the least severely affected by autism.\u201d\nThis topic, in particular, has been one Kerry has included in many of his speaking engagements. Kerry has spoken at over 150 conferences and events around the world since he started as a national speaker almost two years ago. One of his most asked about presentation\u2019s, \u201cDefining Autism: From Nonverbal to National Speaker\u201d was a main theme for his book.\nFor more on Kerry and purchasing his book you can read more on his Amazon page here. For speaking inquires Kerry can be contacted by email here.\nKerry Magro, an autistic adult publishes his debut book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.punjabitadkany.com/aboutus.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TORIFABOVI6PWMBYAIGE2IVURTFEZKGR", "length": 231, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.punjabitadkany.com", "title": "Punjabi Tadka | New York, NY 10019 | About Us", "raw_content": "Punjabi Tadka offers delicious dining, takeout and delivery to New York, NY.\nPunjabi Tadka is a cornerstone in the New York community and has been recognized for its outstanding Indian cuisine, excellent service and friendly staff.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.qatarbusinessstandard.com/orbital-tracking-corp-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2017-results/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JJAUPMR2GVY5OFJ3WPCEO2I32X5SKXG2", "length": 6874, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.qatarbusinessstandard.com", "title": "Orbital Tracking Corp. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2017 Results | Qatar Business Standard", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Computers and Software \u00bb Orbital Tracking Corp. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2017 Results\nAVENTURA, FL\u2014(Marketwired \u2013 April 02, 2018) \u2013 Orbital Tracking Corp. (OTCQB: TRKK) (\u201cOrbital Tracking\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.\n2017 Company Highlights\nDespite further currency weakness affecting EU sales, as reported in US$, consolidated annual sales increased by 27.8% when compared to sales recorded in the previous year, with significant strength seen from our US based Orbital Satcom Corp division which recorded a 58.5% year on year increase in sales revenue. The Company also achieved considerable growth in airtime sales, with an annual increase of 52% recorded for the sale of recurring revenue and prepaid airtime contacts.\nContinued global demand for the Company's products resulted in an increase in its international customer base as our global online presence produced orders from customers located in more than 125 countries around the world. We provided critical connectivity to numerous customers during the aftermath of several natural disasters, provided satellite communications to a renowned round the world yacht race, secured several significant and recurring revenue contracts for lone worker tracking products, and met the needs of thousands of other customers around the world requiring voice or data connectivity via satellite during the year.\nOn May 31, the Company raised $546,694 from existing investors through the issuance and sale of Series J convertible preferred stock to support continued international expansion, additional product lines and increase inventory levels.\nThe Company secured majority shareholder vote for a reverse split at a ratio of 1 for 150 which became effective on March 8, 2018, increasing its efforts towards a NASDAQ uplisting.\nCommenting on the Company's results, David Phipps, its Chief Executive Officer, said, \u201cDespite the many challenges the Company faced during 2017, operating with limited working capital, we were able to achieve continued financial growth as we made further progress on executing some of our many initiatives. We experienced a strong demand for Mobile Satellite Solutions (MSS), including a number of new product lines, from a diverse range of new and existing corporate, individual, reseller and government customers. Other than short term vendor payables, the Company remains debt free and has seen only a minimal increase in selling, general and administrative expenses during a high growth period during the past three years. Subject to sufficient working capital during 2018, the unavailability of which negatively affected our desire to aggressively pursue our major goals during 2017, we intend to continue launching new products, expand into new markets and open additional storefronts and sales offices in 2018.\u201d\nFor the year ended December 31, 2017, consolidated revenues increased by 27.8% to approximately $6,004,955 from $4,698,638, as reported for the year ended December 31, 2016.\nFor the year ended December 31, 2017, comparable sales by subsidiary are as follows; GTCL, the Company's UK\u2013based subsidiary, increased 16.4% or $562,715 to $3,990,960 from $3,428,245. GTCL represents 66.5% of total company sales and as such, currency rate variances have an impact on results. For the sake of comparison, the average exchange rate from British Pounds to US Dollars during 2016 was \u00c2\u00a31.00 (GBP) being equivalent to $1.35585 (USD). In 2017, this decreased to a rate of approximately \u00c2\u00a31.00 (GBP) being equivalent to $1.28819 (USD). The impact of this decline with respect to UK sales when converted to US dollars represented a decline in reported revenue of $209,615. The UK comparable sales in GBP, the home currency, increased 22.5% or \u00c2\u00a3569,628, from \u00c2\u00a32,528,484 to \u00c2\u00a33,098,112 for the year ended December 31, 2017 as compared to December 31, 2016. Orbital Satcom Corp., the Company's US\u2013based subsidiary, increased 58.5% or $743,603 to $2,013,995 from $1,270,392.\nOverall revenue growth in 2017 was driven by a significant increase in recurring revenue derived from monthly contract customers, together with sales from the Company's websites and e\u2013commerce storefronts across all geographies and the introduction of several new product lines during the year contributed to the total increase in revenue.\nNet loss for 2017 was approximately $3,939,309, as compared to a net loss of approximately $2,589,923 for fiscal 2016. The factors contributing to the loss for the year ended December 2017, was primarily due to a total of $3,070,145 in non\u2013cash expenses which were offset to additional paid in capital and are represented by the following: Series J Preferred Stock issuances which triggered price protection clauses for certain subscribers of the Company's Preferred Series F, Preferred Series G Stock and Preferred Series H Stock for $2,308,981, stock based compensation of $600,000 and non\u2013recurring stock based investor relations fees of $161,164. The Company has no further obligations in regard to price protection for its Preferred Stock.\nOrbital Tracking Corp. provides satellite based tracking, services as well as mobile voice and data communications services globally via satellite to the commercial and government users. Orbital Tracking operates various e\u2013commerce retail and tracking portals where users around the world can purchase satellite hardware and track assets in real\u2013time on mobile devices or PCs. For more information regarding Orbital, please visit www.orbitaltracking.com.\nCertain statements in this release constitute forward\u2013looking statements. These statements include the capabilities and success of the Company's business and any of its products, services or solutions. The words \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201cforecast,\u201d \u201cproject,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cplan,\u201d \u201cshould,\u201d \u201cwould,\u201d and similar expressions and all statements, which are not historical facts, are intended to identify forward\u2013looking statements. These forward\u2013looking statements involve and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, any of which could cause the Company to not achieve some or all of its goals or the Company's previously reported actual results, performance (finance or operating) to change or differ from future results, performance (financing and operating) or achievements, including those expressed or implied by such forward\u2013looking statements. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward\u2013looking statements is set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC, copies of which may be obtained from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no, and hereby disclaims any, obligation to update the forward\u2013looking statements contained in this press release.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 8180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quatuor-hermes.com/hermes-quartet-shows-polish-potential-at-kennedy-center-performance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FEURHXCRKYXWZ7SKISREL6A42QX2NF4C", "length": 449, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.quatuor-hermes.com", "title": "Herm\u00e8s Quartet shows polish, potential at Kennedy Center performance - Quatuor Herm\u00e8s", "raw_content": "Herm\u00e8s Quartet shows polish, potential at Kennedy Center performance\nThe Young Concert Artists of Washington has been presenting rising talent at the Kennedy Center for 35 years now, and Tuesday it hit a home run with a spectacular debut by the Herm\u00e8s Quartet. This remarkably mature group was formed only five years ago, while studying in France and Germany. On Tuesday, at the Terrace Theater, its members demonstrated world-class quartet playing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.radioyears.com/wlak/details.cfm?id=170", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GUHYVVVZSJ23SXLGAGTK43BF7Z4ADOPL", "length": 1527, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.radioyears.com", "title": "Radio Years.com", "raw_content": "The following staff worked at the station during the program's run.\nDon Heishman\nIn the mid 1950\u2019s, when the radio networks were cutting back on major network-produced programming, NBC attempted to bring back the feel and sound of radio\u2019s former glory days by offering this weekend radio series that featured news, sports, comedy, talk and music. From 1955 to 1961 Monitor ran Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. In 1961, the Friday night portion was dropped and the show was heard in four-hour blocks beginning at 8 AM Saturday and running until midnight Sunday.\nIt was a true magazine of the air and took advantage of the medium\u2019s ability to provide mobility and immediacy. Monitor offered long time radio stars like Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Ed Gardner of Duffy\u2019s Tavern, Bob and Ray, and George Gobel in new comedy skits. There were vignettes and interviews with celebrities from Broadway, and even live horse races from Florida, California and New York.\nSegment hosts included Dave Garroway, Skitch Henderson, Arlene Francis, Hugh Downs, Gene Rayburn, Chet Huntley, Jim Lowe, Ben Grauer, Joe Garagiola, Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan, and Barbara Walters. The program's major news commentators during the early years were John Cameron Swayze and Morgan Beatty.\nProduction on the program closed down on January 26, 1974. For WLAK, the program ended in 1971 when the station was sold and the new owner, Hugh Holder, changed the calls to WQPD and dropped the station\u2019s NBC affiliation.\n1955 - 1971 WLAK (Featured Program)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.raiderreader.org/valentines-day-flower-sale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OABVJFJRAVBMDTTZPDI2SVKIKE257JLF", "length": 1737, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.raiderreader.org", "title": "Valentines\u2019 Day Flower Sale \u2013 Raider Reader Online News <% if ( total_view > 0 ) { %> <%= total_view > 1 ? \"total views\" : \"total view\" %>, <% if ( today_view > 0 ) { %> <%= today_view > 1 ? \"views today\" : \"view today\" %> no views today\tNo views yet", "raw_content": "HomeNewsValentines\u2019 Day Flower Sale\nFebruary 6, 2018 Morgan Mansfield News\nDo you have someone in your life who needs some appreciation? This Valentines\u2019 Day, Blue Ridge\u2019s High School Student Council has the solution for all of you best friends, lovers, and secret admirers who don\u2019t know what to get for that special someone\u2026 Flowers!\nWho\u2019s selling?\u2026\u2026\u2026. Blue Ridge\u2019s High School Student Council\nWhen can I buy them?\u2026\u2026\u2026. February 6th through February 9th during middle school and high school lunches\nWhere can I buy them?\u2026\u2026\u2026. Outside of the cafeteria\nHow much do they cost?\u2026\u2026\u2026 1 carnation and card for $2.00\n2 carnations and card(s) for $3.00\n1 rose, a card, and candy for $5.00\nRoses only come in red, but you can choose the color of your carnations; pink, red, or white.\nYou can also choose your card designs and sayings! Sayings include, \u201cAre you from Starbucks? Because I like you a latte.\u201d \u201cRoses are red, Violets are blue, if you were a flower, I\u2019d pick you.\u201d Like it simple? You can also get one that just says, \u201cHappy Valentines\u2019 Day!\u201d\nSales end on February 9th! Stop outside the cafeteria and get a flower for that special someone.\nWhat\u2019s New at Blue Ridge?\nSeptember 13, 2018 Morgan Mansfield News\nBy: Morgan Mansfield/Co-Editor in Chief Since the 2017-18 school year has come to an end, Blue Ridge High School has acquired many changes. New Sign! The Blue Ridge School District was donated a digital sign [More]\nDo Elementary Parties Still Exist?\nNovember 7, 2018 Morgan Mansfield Features\nBy: Morgan Mansfield/Co-Editor in Chief When you think about your fun memories in primary school, you probably remember all of the festive Halloween, Christmas, and Valentines\u2019 Day parties with candy and cupcakes. 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Her baby boy is just 6 months younger than my Nathan so it's nice to have a cousin close to his age to play with. He's just starting to walk and he is the cutest little chubby baby. It's like there's human growth hormone in her milk. My kids grow so slow and never get that chubby, so it's fun to get to kiss his squishy cheeks and tickle his rolly thighs. And he is such a happy baby too. And very photogenic. It's fun having a cute baby nephew to play with. Hopefully him and Nathan grow up to be good friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 3367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow36.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:24Z", "digest": "sha1:SJPNWAGPWQFDONP76P2GOAAOID6BS3O6", "length": 651, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rampantscotland.com", "title": "Did You Know? - Border Between Scotland and England", "raw_content": "- Border Between Scotland and England\nThe border between Scotland and England stretches for 108 miles (174 kilometres) between the Solway Firth along the Cheviot Hills and the river Tweed, to the North Sea.\nHadrian's Wall, built by the Romans, ran further south than this, from Carlisle on the river Eden to the river Tyne in the east.\nThe town of Berwick on Tweed, at the mouth of the Tweed, changed hands between Scotland and England 13 times between 1147 and 1482 before finally becoming part of England.\nDespite being in England, the football (soccer) team in Berwick (Berwick Rangers) plays in the Scottish League, the only English team to do so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 2602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 90.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2013/10/17/us-can-t-account-for-230m-usd-in-spare-parts-for-ana-sigar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XWCABDUIV7KTMQNTZTGWZC7PDGAJ4SDT", "length": 4000, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.rawa.org", "title": "US can\u2019t account for 230m USD in spare parts for ANA: SIGAR \u00ab RAWA News", "raw_content": "US can\u2019t account for 230m USD in spare parts for ANA: SIGAR\n\u201cMuch of which can't be accounted for because neither has accurate records of what's been purchased, distributed and used\u201d\nNATO-led military coalition, failing to keep track of hundreds of millions of dollars in vehicles parts purchased for the Afghan National Army or ANA, could not account for $230 million in this regard in 2012, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said.\nIn its latest report released on Wednesday, SIGAR said the military alliance\u2019s Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), which orders spare parts for Afghan army, has spent $370 million on vehicle parts since 2004.\n\u201cMuch of which can't be accounted for because neither has accurate records of what's been purchased, distributed and used,\u201d said Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John F. Spoko, said in the report.\nPAN, Oct. 17, 2013\nThe report said extra parts could sit in overflow lots for more than a year, pending ANA inventory, leaving the parts vulnerable to fraud and wasting US dollars.\nIt said CSTC-A relied on ANA to keep inventory records of its spare parts, and to base its orders on these records. But ANA's poor and inconsistent record-keeping means it has no way to accurately judge how many parts are actually needed.\nANA isn't the only one to blame. In October 2012, CSTC-A could not account for approximately $230 million worth of spare parts, and subsequently ordered more than $138 million more in spare parts to replace the ones it had lost, without knowing what ANA had in storage.\n\"With inventory sitting at depots unrecorded in the ANA system, CSTC-A likely ordered duplicate parts,\" Sopko wrote.\nAfter a June 2013 meeting with SIGAR, CSTC-A said it would begin sending spare parts containers to a US transfer point before transferring them to the ANA, to improve accountability for the inventory.\nCSTC-A is also working on recovering spare parts until the ANA can conduct an accurate inventory.\nOther plans for future funds are more problematic, Sopko said. CSTC-A officials told SIGAR they plan to give ANA control of parts purchasing with a limited defense grant, which would be based on a list of prioritized needs.\nThe officials said the limited amount of funding would force ANA to determine its needs before ordering.\n\"Giving the ANA more responsibility for tracking and shipping vehicle spare parts raises concerns, as the ANA is not yet consistently using or updating its inventory to track what is currently in stock, what stock has been ordered by ANA units, and when and where stocks are supposed to arrive,\" Sopko said.\nThe report comes just a few weeks after a report on CSTC-A's poor oversight of fuel purchases for the Afghan National Police. SIGAR warned that CSTC-A's plans to give the Afghan National Police direct control of its fuel purchases could put even more US money at risk.\n04.08.2013: Afghanistan: Taliban backers win 150 million USD in US contracts\n12.07.2013: \u201cA 34 Million Waste Of The Taxpayers\u2019 Money\u201d In Afghanistan\n29.06.2013: US scraps 7 bn USD worth of arms in Afghanistan\n27.06.2013: Report: Millions wasted on disappearing tractors, solar panels in Afghanistan\n09.05.2013: Inspector General: Officials Trying to Silence Me on Afghanistan\n02.05.2013: Afghanistan\u2019s Corruption, and America\u2019s Too\n27.04.2013: Pentagon Claims 757 Million USD Overbilling by Contractor in Afghanistan\n25.04.2013: Army paid 5 million USD for garbage incinerators it never used in Afghanistan\n14.03.2013: Afghanistan, Ecology and the End of War\n06.03.2013: 100 Billion USD in Aid Squandered in Afghanistan\nThe 2014 Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, prepared in coordination with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, documented 10,548 civilian casualties in 2014, the highest number of civilian deaths and injuries recorded in a single year since 2009.\nThe Killid Group, February 20, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rcc.mass.edu/events/icalrepeat.detail/2018/07/18/2009/78/alcohol-drug-and-tobacco-awareness-table-event", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EAHXTZRFICQWKBEOBUNQZJD5RW22H77K", "length": 201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.rcc.mass.edu", "title": "Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Awareness Table Event", "raw_content": "The Office of Student Activities will provide information on the effects of alcohol, drugs and tobacco to your body and the health consequences.\nDate & Time : Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:00am - 11:30am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 6321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 97.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.renew-reuse-recycle.com/showarticle.pl?id=2565", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3J7I67KJM2ZOP36E5ZLT4I7WCS4UF7WH", "length": 1617, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.renew-reuse-recycle.com", "title": "Renew-Reuse-Recycle | Fracking: Planning rules must protect communities and environment", "raw_content": "Ministers are due to publish planning guidance for local authorities before Parliamentary summer recess, which begins on Friday. Friends of the Earth is concerned that the Government's priority will be to fast-track the exploration and production of shale gas at the expense of the wellbeing of local people and the environment.\nThe environmental campaigning charity says planning guidance on fracking must ensure that:\n\" UK commitments \"to secure radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions\" - as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 - are not undermined; [note 3]\n\" groundwater pollution is prevented [note 4, 5];\n\" comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessments are conducted for all applications [note 6]\nFriends of the Earth also says the Government's proposed planning guidance on fracking must be subject to consultation to allow the public to give their views on it.\nFriends of the Earth's Planning Campaigner Naomi Luhde-Thompson said:\n\"The planning system should be used to safeguard the long-term interests of local people and the environment - this mustn't be sacrificed simply to satisfy the Government's addiction to fossil fuels.\n\"The Government's wild-eyed reverence for the new god of shale is completely misguided. It's polluting and threatens communities' quality of life, and there is plenty of evidence to show it won't slash fuel bills.\n\"We need urgent action to tackle the energy and climate crisis we face, focusing on cutting energy waste and rapidly developing a power system based on renewables.\"\n<< Marks and Spencer has today (... E.ON starts work on Helgoland ... >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mwest/110107", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7S7JTFOXVUXBJPIMGQFGTZ7TYG7ASQTT", "length": 11987, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.renewamerica.com", "title": "'Red Eye' host gives social conservatives a black eye", "raw_content": "'Red Eye' host gives social conservatives a black eye\nThe host of Fox News Channel's Red Eye smeared and mocked what he deems \"conservative moralists\" such as the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America for not participating in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a prominent forum for conservative activism. After being involved in CPAC for over a decade, the conservative groups chose to pull out of the event because CPAC has moved away from conservative principles. This year GOProud, a group of \"gay\" conservative activists, was invited to participate.\nTo be fair, the host, Greg Gutfeld, is a satirist. Red Eye regulars are conservative, libertarian, and liberal. No topic of discussion is off limits on the show. Discussions include politics, religion, and homosexuality, and they even cover \"ethnic houseboys, torture pits, cannibalism as a 'lifestyle choice,' seedy tricks in parks, allusions to drug abuse, etc.\" Most of the time the show airs at 3:00 a.m. EST.\nOn December 30, Gutfeld opened the segment on CPAC with this monologue:\n\"They're here, they're queer, and the Family Research Council refuses to get used to it nor would the Concerned Women for America love them. As a result, both groups are refusing to attend the DC-based Conservative Political Action Conference this February, due to the fact the righty group GOProud has been invited, 'cause, well, they're evil sodomites, says Tom McClusky of FRC of his boycentric boycott...\"\nFirst off, Tom McClusky, senior Vice President for FRC Action, said no such thing. He did, however, make a statement about FRC's refusal to attend CPAC:\n\"We've been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and have managed a couple of popular sessions. However, we will no longer be involved with CPAC because of the organization's financial mismanagement and movement away from conservative principles.\"\nWhat the Red Eye host failed to mention was that several other conservative groups have withdrawn from CPAC, including the American Principles Project, American Values, Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage.\nNow back to the show. After showing a clip of so-called \"gay\" penguins, Gutfeld mused:\n\"What should CPAC do about these conservative moralists who just can't believe that gays have a right to be there?\"\nHe called on FNC's Kimberly Guilfoyle to answer:\n\"[They should] pretend that they never even made a statement about it, honestly. If they address it, they're giving some kind of validity to their position. I think they're being divisive. It's not helpful.\"\nWhat's not helpful, Ms. Guilfoyle? The fact that, unlike liberals, conservatives refuse to compromise their values and principles?\nGuilfoyle ended with this childish comment:\n\"They should participate if they want their voices to be heard and actually show up.\"\nShould they also show up at a \"gay\" pride parade and join in the merriment just to prove to the GLBT community that they're not the bigoted, intolerant, unloving homophobes they're accused of being? The organizations that dropped out of CPAC had good reason to do so. And because they happen to be significant conservative organizations, their voices will be heard \u2014 and their moral values will remain intact.\nMoving right along, panelist Joe ticked off some of the problems we've got \u2014 our debt to China, snow in New York City streets, people crossing the border and \"we don't know who they are...\" (They're illegal immigrants, Joe!) \"Oh, but let's worry about gay people...it's so annoying...it's no one's business...if they want to be at your conservative conference, you should look at the things you have in common with them politically! This is where the Republicans are going to squander all the gains they've made.\" High five from the panel.\nSo Joe is saying that Republicans may squander all their gains if they don't wimp out and cave in to liberals' demands. Joe also thinks Republicans could lose the next election for refusing to stray from their conservative platform. Has he not heard of the grass roots movement called the Tea Party that got liberals fired and conservatives elected? Conservatives who wimp out will be out of a job, Joe!\nAt one point, the Gregmeister's brows knitted together and he asked in a serious tone:\n\"I just got to wonder...why do people care so much?\" \"Gay\" panelist Bill Schultz shot back, \"Because they're actually gay...they're absolutely gay.\"\nI was hoping Kimberly, a conservative, would jump in and defend family values. Nope. She sat there cackling like a hen.\nThere's more. Toward the end of the discussion, Bill, with yet another attempt at humor, made this observation about Christians:\n\"If you've only got your car and you've only got your church, you've got a lot of time on your hands, so what you do is you go back to your house....and you're angry. You're not sure why you're angry so you start thinking about dudes, then you start thinking about dudes having sex, and you get angrier and angrier...\"\nC'mon, Bill, Christians are labeled \"judgmental,\" not angry. The angry label fits the liberal revolutionary or the radical \"gay\" activist.\nAll in all, the Red Eye panelists had a gay old time (pun intended) mocking conservatives for their politically incorrect stance on homosexuality. One wonders if they'd sit around the table joking about the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 2010 report:\n1 in 5 men who have sex with men in 21 U.S. cities has HIV; nearly half unaware.\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/ngmHAAD2010PressRelease.html\nWould they poke fun at the CDC's 2009 report:\nAIDS Rate 50 Times Higher in Homosexual Men\nhttp://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/aug/09082609\nWould the CDC's report on syphilis be something they'd find humor in? Here's a quote that will set your teeth on edge:\n\"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated the following regarding syphilis in the United States: 'While surveillance data are not available by risk behavior, a separate CDC analysis suggests that approximately 64 percent of all adult P&S syphilis cases in 2004 were among men who have sex with men, up from an estimated 5 percent in 1999....'\"\nEvidently the panelists are unaware of WorldNetDaily's 2009 report on the fallacy of the so-called gay gene:\n'Gay' gene claim suddenly vanishes.\nhttp://www.wnd.com/?pageId=97940\"\nPeter LaBarbara, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, said he supports conservative groups pulling out of CPAC. In Greg's opening monologue, he couldn't resist giving him a smearing, \"all in good fun\" I'm sure. (My comments in parentheses):\n\"Meanwhile, like-minded gay-haters applaud the move. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality...\" (before continuing Gutfeld grinned, glanced at the panel and quipped) \"You know their meetings are shirtless...\" (Getting the laugh he was looking for, he then quoted LaBarbera) 'Shame on CPAC for defending the absurd proposition that one can be conservative while embracing moral surrender.' Oddly he said that while shaving his chest.\"\nThe panel continued snickering during the Red Eye host's tasteless insults. No surprise there. This is what we've come to expect from entertainers.\nSadly, social conservatives who have the courage to state publically that sodomy is, by its very nature, an unhealthy practice are smeared and mocked by those who disagree with them.\nWill someone please explain to the Left that a sexual practice that brings with it deadly diseases and untold misery cannot be a good thing for society. The CDC, a government agency, makes it clear that man-on-man sex is a danger to society if for no other reason than HIV/AIDS will potentially put those who contract it six feet under!\nOne last quote from Greg Gutfeld and then I'll move on. Allow his enlightened view of sodomy to sink in, because Mr. Gutfeld shares the same view as most celebrities:\n\"Maybe it's because I live here (the Big Apple) but I-I-I, I don't remember anybody in my circle who gives a d- -n about what goes on in people's bedrooms.\"\nIn the city that never sleeps, it may not matter. However, in other parts of the country where regular folks live, what goes on behind closed doors does matter. And for good reason!\nBut that's another article.\nMost everyone in our so-called enlightened society \u2014 including many Christians \u2014 has adopted the politically correct motto \"live and let live.\" Funny how we don't apply this motto to alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, over-eaters, and pornography consumers. We're always trying to get the addicted into a 12-step program \"for their own sake.\" Why don't we do the same with \"gay\" people?\nWho would say to a smoker, \"Smoke to your heart's content, sweet cheeks.\" No one wants a loved one pulling a container of oxygen around. Which is why the medical profession airs TV commercials showing deceased celebrities warning of the dangers of lung cancer and illegal drug use and why we say to loved ones, \"Quit smoking or you'll die of lung cancer, you idiot!\"\nOur PC society has a \"live and let live\" attitude toward homosexuals, even though a number of scientific studies show that same-sex sex is a self-destructive behavior. Sodomy is just as injurious to the human body as alcoholism, drug abuse, smoking, and obesity.\nThe good news is that there is no scientific evidence that there is a \"gay\" gene \u2014 like it or not, being \"gay\" is a choice as is imbibing in alcohol, smoking, porking out, and viewing pornography. By the grace of God, \"gay\" people can and do change. I'm not just whistling Dixie. There is plenty of evidence to support this claim. Problem is, news sources hide the truth for a number of reasons that I don't have the time to go into. (Check the links below for the answers.) What's important for people to discover is the truth about homosexuality. To begin your quest, visit Stephen Bennett's website http://www.sbministries.org/members/sbm\nFor real hope and change to come to America, Christians must \"feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the prisoner,\" stressed the late James Montgomery Boice. \"But the chief needs of people are still spiritual, and social work is no adequate substitute for evangelism. In fact, efforts to help people will only be truly effective as their hearts and minds are changed by the gospel.\" (Bold mine.)\nIn the words of the Lord Jesus, \"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature\" (Mark 16:15).\nOn Solid Rock Resources \u2014 Homosexuality\nhttp://emailbrigade.com/308.html\nTrue Culture Change Comes When Hearts Are Changed \u2014 By Marsha West\nhttp://www.emailbrigade.com/51.html\nSinging the homosexual Blues \u2014 By John Lanagan\nhttp://apprising.org/2008/11/01/john-lanagan-singing-the-homosexual-blues/\n\u00a9 Marsha West\nMarsha West is founder and co-blogger at Berean Research, along with Amy Spreeman. For two decades Marsha was the owner and managing editor of Email Brigade website and EMB News Report, a bi-weekly report for conservative people of faith. Marsha is also the owner and managing editor of Christian Research Network, Apprising Ministries and On Solid Rock Resources.\nMarsha is a regular contributor for several blogs including CRN, RenewAmerica, News With Views, and Web Commentary. Her articles have been translated into many languages and distributed worldwide.\nReceive future articles by Marsha West: Click here\nHollywood's plunge into the bottomless pit\nPurpose Driven dismantling of Christianity (Reprise)\nHave Christians lost the art of biblical discernment?\nProgressive Christians and their doctrines of devils\nWhat do you think about all this Satan stuff?\nWould Jesus refer to certain people on Trump's Christian Advisory Committee as serpents and hypocrites?\nJames Dobson reveals who he believes led Donald Trump to Christ\nThe rotten fruit of the NAR\nSome Christian news blogs and high-profile leaders overlook the truth\nCold hard facts on cults", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 13751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.repubanter.com/2010/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RQVRPAZVPALL2BGBUZX7FQM3IP5KYYG5", "length": 8168, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.repubanter.com", "title": "July \u00ab 2010 \u00ab Repubanter", "raw_content": "by themomteam under Obama's vacation\nIs President Obama picture perfect? Well, someone must think so because it seems that every time I look online, or listen to the \u201cnews\u201d on tv, President Obama and his family are traveling somewhere. And, of course, all this is at taxpayer expense. Why, even their dog flew to one vacation\u2026..and, on a flight different than the rest of the family!\nUsually, Presidents are elected to \u201cdo the people\u2019s work\u201d, but Obama apparently thinks he was elected to enjoy the perks of national office.\nGuess it\u2019s no wonder that the nation\u2019s problems like\u2013 the oil slick in the Gulf, the sagging economy, the increasing unemployment, the heightened aggressiveness by Russia and China and Iran and even North Korea\u2013 are NOT BEING SOLVED. The President is ON VACATION!!! Or, maybe he\u2019s GOLFING OR PLAYING BASKETBALL!\nPicture Perfect? Hardly. So, vacation on, Mr. President, while the sky falls down on the rest of us.\nhttp://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Obama-Family-Vacations-53159577.html\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/obama-family-to-vacation-_n_223195.html\nhttp://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/Obama-Family-Vacations-53159577.html\nObama playing not working Leave a Comment more...\nRacism is NOT black and white!\nMy kids all know that I believe racism is NOT a color, but an aberrant thought process. And, although many minorities have lived through difficult times, traumatic experiences are NOT intrinsically a racist phenomenon. Our family has lived through many, many difficult times that I would say rival some of the stories told by those who feel they have been discriminated against. And, yet, no one rushed to our aid because we are \u201cwhite\u201d.\nOr, are we? My mother was 1/8 Menominee and yet, to look at us, you would undoubtedly call me and my brothers white, not native Americans. Obama claims to be black, yet he had a white mother. So, where is the line that determines what COLOR you are? Judging people based on color is impossible because most of us are a delightful mixture of this ethnic group or that. And, this is why racism cannot be considered a function of color alone. While some racism IS dependent upon color, most racist thought is predicated upon a hostile attitude toward someone else and usually with the hope of gaining an advantage for yourself.\nI believe that many of the problems attributed to racism in today\u2019s world are a result of the welfare state imposing a burden on one group for the advantage of another. If one ethnic group is seen as taking advantage of another, of course hard feelings will occur. It\u2019s hard to like someone if you believe they are taking your hard-earned money. Legislators have a vested interest in positing one ethnic group against another, though, and that is because class warfare can help their return to Congress. If you ask a hard-working American if he wants to buy his neighbor\u2019s health care, almost everyone will say, \u201cNO! Hell no!\u201d But, because it suits a purpose, people like Obama and Pelosi and Reid continue to promote this idea that whites are to blame for the troubles of every minority. All too soon, this creates a \u201cthem\u201d and \u201cus\u201d group who eventually will act on this them/us feeling. Then, you do have a form of racism.\nUnfortunately, racism pays big dividends and has become a political football. Illegal aliens are now actually courted with promises of amnesty (despite a huge majority of Americans opposed to this) in order to gain their vote. Democrats support amnesty for Hispanics and, generally, conservatives feel the law against illegal aliens must be upheld. However, Hispanics are seen as a certain vote for Democrats, and thus, amnesty will probably happen \u2014 AGAIN!!! My best bet, though, is that amnesty will not promote the general good because it sets one group against another. It will create yet another, separate ethnic class and cause more problems for these people.\nRacism has become a club to use whenever you feel you deserve something from someone else. And, some in the black community, like Rev Jesse Jackson, have perfected the process. He interjects racism into any cause that involves a black person. He has used racism and racially charged words to attack other blacks, too, but it is almost always in the cause of promoting the concept that blacks deserve more from everyone else. It would be refreshing if he ever launched one of his broadsides against a black person who hurt a white person, or even an Asian or Hmong. But, he reserves his venom for helping blacks only.\nI am not saying there is no discrimination.\nI AM saying that not everything that happens is racist nor are all racist events the result of white against black people.\nIt\u2019s time for Congress and Obama to stop playing the race card because it suits their purposes. It is hurting America and Americans. We need to be a united people who HAPPEN to be black, white, Asian, or whatever, in ethnicity. But, we are ALL Americans.\nJesse Jackson, racism Leave a Comment more...\nClear as water?\nDemocrats and President Obama pledged transparency and an administration that responded to and united Americans. What we got is a divisive, arrogant, domineering, and unapologetically political action committee.\nDemocrats and Obama have decided to override the wishes of the American public time and time again. Obama even appointed someone to head his new obamacare program as a recess appointment so that the difficult questions that would have been asked of the new \u201cczar\u201d can\u2019t be asked.\nNow, Obama is counting on even more subterfuge to enact what HE, Obama the would-be-great, wants. He intends to have the lame duck congress pass many new laws simply because they can, not because they should.\nIs this what representative government means? Absolutely not. This is \u201cmisrepresentation\u201d !!!!!! Is this what is meant by transparency in government? Absolutely not. These are blatant attempts to obfuscate and confuse, rather than clarify.\nIs what Obama and the Democrats are doing about as clear as water? Absolutely not! In fact, just like the BP oil spill that they can\u2019t seem to solve, Obama and his minions are simply muddying the water so the American voter won\u2019t see what they are doing.\nTime to find a new group of people who will truly represent American ideals!\nmisrepresentation Leave a Comment more...\nNow, THAT\u2019S the spirit\u2026\u2026\u2026of the law!\nhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/07/06/2010-07-06_holdin_court_at_73_justice_kennedy_tells_pals_hes_not_retiring_for_years__thats_.html\nBad news for Obama: Conservative Justice Kennedy tells pals he\u2019s in no rush to leave Supreme Court\nWASHINGTON \u2013 President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he\u2019s not going anywhere anytime soon.\nJustice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years \u2013 through the end of Obama\u2019s first term, sources said.\nThat means Kennedy will be around to provide a fifth vote for the court\u2019s conservative bloc through the 2012 presidential election. If Obama loses, Kennedy could retire and expect a Republican President to choose a conservative justice.\nKennedy, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, has been on the court 22 years. He has become a bit of a political nemesis at the White House for his increasing tendency to side with the court\u2019s four rock-ribbed conservative justices.\nWithout naming Kennedy, Obama was unusually critical of his majority opinion in the Citizens United case, handed down last January. That 5-4 decision struck down limits on contributions to political campaigns as an abridgement of free speech.\nEvery court case is based on the law. Unfortunately, Obama considers himself and his philosophy ABOVE the law. Justice Kennedy might be the best hope of our country to remain the country that we all know and love. I applaud his determination to support the traditional interpretation of the Constitution rather than let Lieberals alter the very foundation of our country\u2019s law.\nNow, THAT\u2019s the spirit, Justice Kennedy, of the law.\nconservatism, Justice Kennedy Leave a Comment more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 10558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rhapsodypiano.com/lessons-faqs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FEXARCH2MR5SHZYM4FEXVMTG7CTA6LBC", "length": 2863, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rhapsodypiano.com", "title": "Lessons FAQs | Rhapsody Piano and Guitar | Richmond, VA", "raw_content": "Music Lessons for Adults and Children in Richmond\nWhat are the benefits of music lessons?\nThe benefits of music education are too numerous to count. Children gain self-confidence, discipline, and improved quantitative reasoning skills. Adults get a creative outlet, a new skill, and a stress release for the end of a long day. For all students, an education in music-making provides tremendous opportunities for personal growth, enjoyment, and enrichment.\nWhat\u2019s the best age to start learning how to play an instrument?\nThere\u2019s no \u201cmagic number\u201d when determining the best age to start a child in music. Since every child learns and develops differently, some students can do well at four or five while others do best at eight. Factors to consider when starting lessons include not only age but also attention span, maturity level, and reading ability. For guitar, the student must also be able to comfortably hold the instrument (junior-size guitars are available for younger students). We\u2019ll be happy to discuss your child and help determine whether or not the time is right.\nI\u2019m afraid my child might change his/her mind. Do I have to sign a long-term contract?\nNo. While we do require our students to agree to our studio policies before enrolling, there is no long-term obligation or contract. Our tuition is charged monthly on the first of each month, and we simply ask that you notify us in writing by the 15th of the month if you plan to discontinue lessons. We understand that kids can change interests; however, we encourage parents not to rush to a decision at the first sign of resistance. Part of the payoff of music education is the knowledge that with a little bit of hard work, students can overcome difficult challenges. Students are often proudest of the pieces that were the most difficult to learn, even if they sometimes wanted to give up along the way.\nHow long will it take to learn to play?\nWe get this question all the time, but there\u2019s really no answer. There is no end, no \u201cfinish line\u201d to what a student can learn \u2013 there is always something more than can be learned, whether it\u2019s a new style, better technique, or improved expression. In the short term, students can expect to start playing right away, and in just a few weeks, the lessons will include simple melodies that students will recognize. As time goes on, a broader musical knowledge and improved technique will unlock more difficult (and more rewarding) repertoire.\nAm I too old to learn?\nOnly if you think you are! We\u2019ve taught students from 4 to 84. If you\u2019re interested in learning and willing to dedicate the time, it\u2019s never too late.\nOK, you sold me. How do I get started?\nGreat! To get started making music, just call us at 804-364-4488 or email us at lessons@rhapsodypiano.com. We\u2019ll find a lesson time and a teacher to suit you best and get you enrolled right away!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rockbridge.edu/blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:43Z", "digest": "sha1:3AY2SQSFD73HPKH5SVGLXCXHICZLTAG7", "length": 22951, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "www.rockbridge.edu", "title": "Blog : Rockbridge", "raw_content": "Why Go to Seminary?\nWritten by Daryl Eldridge, June 1st, 2018\nSeth Godin wrote an interesting piece about education at the crossroads today. And he raised an interesting point:\nSchool was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and note taking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is \u2018getting it\u2019. It\u2019s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn\u2019t care about workbooks or long checklists.\nIn another blog, Craig Groeschel raises this question, \u201cHow important is seminary?\u201d All of us know people who have become successful without the benefit of a degree. Is \u201csuccess\u201d the criteria for why someone should get an education? Seth Godin says the point is not education or schooling, but learning. Is education different from learning?\nI am a lifelong learner. I read a book a week, attend continuing education conferences, research on the web, and write. I believe in the admonition: \u201cLeaders are learners.\u201d People can sit in a classroom and not learn. People can get a degree without getting an education. People can learn a lot of things, but not be educated. There is a difference between learning and education; both are important. Here are some reasons why I believe it is important to get a seminary education.\nA seminary education exposes students to fields of learning beyond their interest. Most of us read and learn about things we are interested in. I love to learn about leadership. If it were up to me that would be all I studied. However, my education would have been incomplete without my studies of theology, psychology, ethics, algebra, history, chemistry, and biblical courses. There is more to ministry than leadership. A good education provides a well-rounded experience. A good education lays the foundation for future learning.\nA seminary education provides structure and encourages self-discipline. People can find out what books are required of seminarians and establish a learning goal to read all those books in 3 years. They could discuss their learning with veteran ministers in their geographical area. However, what percentage would structure their life to accomplish that? In the busyness of jobs and ministry, sharpening the saw through a self-directed learning program is usually the first thing to go. Some people need the structure of a formal education. It is because schools have deadlines, provide accountability, and have standards that students learn to excel. A good education teaches students discipline and self management. I have several friends who have become very successful in life without finishing a degree in higher education and seminary. They would say they received their education in the school of hard knocks. However, every one of them have insisted and paid for their children to get a college or seminary education. They understand the value of a formal educational program.\nA seminary education sharpens your thinking through interaction with others. Just because we have an idea, doesn\u2019t make that idea right. You may like an author because you agree with his or her point of view. That doesn\u2019t mean your view is the only correct view on the subject. A wise sage wrote, \u201cIron sharpens iron. So one man sharpens another (Prov. 27:17, NIV). A seminary should be a sacred and safe place to explore ideas and have them sharpened through the interaction with others. A school is a community of learners seeking truth. A good education will expose you to a wide range of views and interpretations and help you develop critical thinking skills.\nDon\u2019t misunderstand me. I believe our educational system (including seminary education) needs an overhaul. The term \u201chigher education\u201d in some cases is an oxymoron. All education is not created equal. I have sat through boring lectures and taken exams that were poorly constructed and didn\u2019t help me learn. College and seminary education is too expensive. There is much we can do to improve learning in higher education.\nA residential seminary education is not the right learning pathway for some people, nor is online learning the best model for others. If I have learned one thing in life, it is that education humbles you. The more I know, the more I realize how little I know. I don\u2019t have it all figured out. To not learn and not get an education is arrogant. It is saying I know all I need to know. Figure out how you can further your education and be a lifelong learner.\nPlease share this blog with your friends, family, and colleagues who are considering ministry training.\nGraduation \u2013 June 25, 2018\nPlease join us in celebrating our graduates at Saddleback Community Church (The Refinery), 1 Saddleback Parkway\nLake Forest, CA 92630. The celebration is at 7:00 p.m.\nHow Can We Best Honor Our Fallen Soldiers?\nWritten by Daryl Eldridge, May 25th, 2018\nMany Americans will observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, flying the American flag, and participating in parades. It\u2019s good to pause our lives and remember the sacrifices of others.\nG.K. Chesteron said, \u201cThe true soldier fights not because he hates what\nis in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.\u201d Jesus said, \u201cGreater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends\u201d (John 15:13). We can die for many things, but sacrifices are most noble when done out of love for others.\nMaya Angelou wrote, \u201cHow important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and sheroes!\u201d How can we best honor those who sacrificed their lives, so we might live in freedom? Speaking of his impending death, Jesus admonished his followers with these words, \u201cLove one another.\u201d The greatest thing we can do this weekend to honor our fallen soldiers is to love our fellow countrymen. Let\u2019s stop the hateful rhetoric about those with whom we disagree. Let\u2019s use social media to express gratitude and love for our compatriots, regardless of their religion, politics, or ideology. As we bless our meals, let\u2019s express gratitude for the families who lost family members in the military. Let\u2019s mourn the loss of these brave men and women to our society, but also thank God that such heroes lived. When we see a flag, let\u2019s remember we are in this together. America will only be as great as our commitment to love each other.\nRockbridge expresses its gratitude to the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. We pray each of us will use the weekend for reflection and find ways to express our gratitude for those who died for us. God Bless America.\nOn-line Learning \u2013 An Insider\u2019s Perspective, by Ben Davis\nI want to offer my two cents worth in the on-line vs. traditional classroom debate. I do this as both a student who has completed on-line and traditional degrees and as an instructor who has taught in both modalities. Both approaches to education have their strengths and weaknesses, but right at the outset I want to confirm that I have found that on-line courses and degrees are fully equivalent to traditional classroom-based degrees in terms of content, depth of learning, and student outcomes.\nMy experience as a student with on-line learning is extensive \u2013 I have earned six accredited degrees from five different colleges. I selected on-line learning because of its flexibility and because I could complete degrees that met my specific learning goals without uprooting my family and moving across the country to go to school. I could also continue in my job, and on that latter account studying in on-line programs was a real advantage.\nThe coursework and learning in on-line programs are certainly as rigorous as in the traditional classroom, so a student doesn\u2019t have to feel that he or she would be unprepared to compete with those who studied in the traditional way. As long as the institution has accreditation from one of the recognized national or regional accrediting bodies, you can be assured that the school meets the same standards as other accredited schools. And, because some people have concern about on-line programs, these programs tend to get an extremely thorough assessment during both the accreditation and reaccreditation process.\nAs a \u201cmature\u201d student, chronologically, if not in other ways, I found on-line programs to be extremely beneficial. First, my work experience gave me a good background to bring into the courses. I certainly was not at a disadvantage with regard to my fellow students.\nSecond, I found that what I learned in my courses could often be applied immediately to what I was doing at work. Actually, I looked for ways to make this happen. What is learned in the classroom can be taken right into your job and applied to problems or situations you are dealing with at the time.\nThird, and perhaps even more importantly, I found that what I was doing on my job could be taken into the classroom. Things I needed to understand more about at work or problems I was dealing with became topics for a number of papers that I wrote and were brought up in the discussions. This latter allowed other students and even faculty members to comment on my topic and make helpful suggestions for me to think about.\nSpeaking of faculty-student and student-student contact, one major surprise for me with on-line education was discovering that I actually had morecontact with my professors and other students in my on-line courses than I did in my on-ground courses. In an on-ground course, you go to a classroom, sit in a seat for an hour or two, and then leave, not to see the professor or other students until the next class session. In an on-line course, you are in constant contact with your professors and other students. Discussion forums are a major part of on-line programs, and these give you regular, on-going interaction with students and faculty members as well. I am always amazed by how quickly these discussions move from being just academic to becoming personal and connective. A number of times I have seen students who had been in previous courses together pick up with each other where they left off some months earlier (e.g., \u201cHow\u2019s you mom doing? Is she out of the hospital yet?\u201d). In addition, most on-line course formats provide a \u201cdiscussion\u201d box on the course website that allows unfettered discussion among students. Here there is always a lively discussion among students here, and the discussions are completely uncensored by the faculty and administration. You may even find a few people in your local area with whom you can connect for face-to-face interaction if you want.\nWhat are the downsides to on-line programs? Only two, and the student is actually in control of both.\nFirst, on-line programs require more personal discipline than do classroom-based programs. While on-line courses are structured on a week-to-week basis, they tend to be fairly flexible within each week. It is very different from having to appear in a face-to-face classroom two or three times each week. As a result, it can be easy to let things slide if you are not careful. On the other hand, if you areself-motivated, the program is ideal because you can structure your studying and coursework around your personal and professional schedules. If you are not naturally compulsive-obsessive, it can be very helpful to set a weekly schedule for yourself and let a friend/boss/whomever serve as a point of accountability.\nSecond, despite what I said earlier, the direct student-to-student and student-to-professor contact can slide if you let it. You really need to lean in and take advantage of the connectional opportunities that the on-line environment offers. Instructors provide class discussion forums with specific questions or topics to be addressed each week, and these are included as part of the course grade, so you will always be interacting with other students throughout the course \u2013 how much is up to you. Doing just the minimum will result in getting a lot less out of your courses than you otherwise would.\nWith regard to concern about the validity of on-line degrees, the on-line degree process is a fairly recent phenomenon and is becoming much more accepted as time passes. With any change in academia, there are always those who drag their feet. It wasn\u2019t until the 1900s that engineering programs were felt to be academic enough to warrant a real degree, and those with a few years on them may remember the flap over Black Studies, Women\u2019s Studies, and General Studies degree programs when they were first introduced. Engineering and Black, Women\u2019s and General studies programs are now in existence at most major universities and are considered to be genuine. In the same way, most of the major institutions now offer on-line programs (the figure is 98% of public universities), so the snobbery will eventually go away.\nBottom line? I am sold on on-line leaning. I have benefitted tremendously from my studies and I would encourage any skeptic to, in the words of the now-classic Alka Seltzer commercial, \u201cTry it; you\u2019ll like it.\u201d\nBen Davis currently serves as Vice President for Legal and Academic affairs at a university that offers both on-line and on-ground programs. He holds multiple degrees including two accredited doctorates, one from an on-line and one from an on-ground institution.\nThank you for getting the word out about Rockbridge. Most of our students come to Rockbridge as a result of a recommendation from a pastor or friend. Ninety-eight percent of our students recommend Rockbridge to their friends. The percent of students satisfied with their courses of student is 97%. We\u2019ve got raving fans! There are several ways you can help us get the word out.\nShare our website link on Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, etc. www.rockbridge.edu\nPut us on your Facebook or Website. Like us on Facebook.\nPray about God to show you people who could benefit from Rockbridge and talk with them about the benefits of a seminary education.\nUse this link to share prospective students with us.\nBecome an official partner of Rockbridge.\nShare this digital or printable brochure.\nThanks for helping us develop servant leaders for Christian ministry.\nWhy You Should Consider Rockbridge\nby Rhonda Kitchen, DMin\nDeveloping servant leaders is a chief goal of Rockbridge Seminary. This cannot be achieved in the vacuum of a learning environment that focuses only on knowledge acquisition. Rockbridge degree programs are practical, relational, and relevant.\nStudents at Rockbridge will learn the skills of five areas of ministry competencies through online learning modules and textbooks as well as through one-on-one contact with a qualified mentor who will help them apply their learning in practical everyday ministry settings. The competencies are focused on developing the practical ministry skills of Worship, Fellowship, Discipleship, Ministry and Evangelism.\nAnother practical aspect of Rockbridge is that students are able to work in their local ministry setting while completing their degree, rather than having to relocate to attend seminary. This provides the ideal setting for a student to practically apply their learning.\nAt first glance one might ask how can an online seminary be relational. The Rockbridge learning environment is like being a part of a family. As students interact, tight friendships are developed as students work through the assignments together and respond to practical questions on the discussion forums. These interactions allow students to grow, through feedback and encouragement, and many of these friendships continue past the classroom experience.\nProfessors at Rockbridge are every day practitioners of ministry, who understand the changing nuances of being in ministry. What may have worked well a few years ago, may not work today. Having a professor who has a grasp on the changing climate in the US and around the world is one of the premier benefits of attending Rockbridge Seminary. The course content is also focused on utilizing texts and materials that are current and applicable in today\u2019s world. Many of the resources utilized in Rockbridge courses are cutting edge concepts for ministry. They challenge students to go to the next level not only in their capabilities but also in what God wants to accomplish in and through them.\nGod has a purpose for each of us. A willingness to be used and a willingness to grow are two of the necessary steps toward preparing yourself to be used effectively for Kingdom work. At Rockbridge you will receive an education that will prepare you to make a difference for the cause of Christ.\nAbout the Writer: Rhonda Kitchen has an MACE and DMin from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a MS in Counseling from California Baptist University. She writes small group curriculum and is an expert in missionary education in the area of security. She has taught at Rockbridge Seminary since 2007. Her courses include Recovery Ministry, Personal Counseling Skills, and the Theology and Practice of Ministry.\nRockbridge \u2013 Different On Purpose\nMost seminaries are built on the German model of theological education that is broken down into departments of theological inquiry, such as New Testament, Old Testament, systematic theology, and pastoral ministry. We deliberately broke that mold and designed the curriculum around the five biblical purposes for our lives and for the Church: worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism. (Acts 2:42-47)\nWritten by Daryl Eldridge, April 13th, 2018\nWould you want a surgeon who got an A+ on all of his exams, but had never performed one operation? Fortunately, students in medical schools learn techniques through simulations, by dissecting animals, working alongside skilled doctors, and spending years of practice under the watchful eyes of experts before they are board certified surgeons.\nThe same is true for ministry. You don\u2019t learn evangelism simply by reading a book. You learn how to witness by sharing your faith. Becoming good at preaching and teaching requires years of experience. You\u2019d don\u2019t learn how to pray by reading, but by praying.\nThis is not a new educational concept. James said it this way, \u201cDo not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.\u201d James 1:22. We learn best by doing.\nThat is why at Rockbridge students are required to be in a leadership role in a church or ministry organization where they can practice the leadership skills we teach. Each class contains practical ministry projects they can use immediately in their ministry. Here are a few projects they develop and apply in their ministry:\nConducting a spiritual census of your neighborhood\nDeveloping a disciple-making system in your church\nAssessing the evangelism strategy in your church\nEvaluating the assimilation process in your church\nWriting and delivering a sermon or Bible teaching lesson\nStudents are guided by the teaching professor and a local mentor, ensuring that what they produce is relevant and applicable in their ministry context. If you know of someone that could benefit from this kind of hands-on-experiential learning, direct them to admissions@rockbridge.edu or direct them to our website. We would be honored to show them how they and their ministry could benefit from our training.\nA Call to Irrelevance\nSome churches cannot compete with the glamour and the extensive variety of programs of the large church across town, but they can be an authentic community of believers who offer nothing but broken, vulnerable lives that are being radically changed by Jesus Christ. To read more on this\u2026\nGraduation, June 25, 2018, 7:00 p.m.\nSaddleback Church, The Terrace View Room, Lake Forest, California. If you are in the area, we would love for you to be part of the celebration.\nWe are grateful for over 400 churches and ministries that support Rockbridge. Thank you for your financial gifts, prayer support, and trusting us with students. Encourage your church to financially support our mission of developing servant leaders for Christian ministry around the globe. If you would like to be a partner, click this link.\nUse Social Media to fund Your Seminary Degree\nWritten by Daryl Eldridge, September 3rd, 2015\nAttending graduate school is a costly venture, even at modestly priced institutions. Scholarship and grants for seminary education are extremely limited these days. It is not advisable to go into debt to get a seminary degree, since paying off educational debt is difficult with salaries of most non-profit ministries. So, what are seminary students to do?\nOne option is to raise support for your seminary education through crowd funding. If you work in the non-profit world or are planning on a career in a church or ministry organization, you need to learn how to raise friends and funds. You might as well start now and take advantage of your social media networks.\nHere are a few tips we\u2019ve learned from about crowd funding.\nDetermine what crowd funding site you will use. Rockbridge does not endorse any specific crowd-funding source. We encourage students to research and select an online non-profit vendor that is best for them.\nShare your passion. People want to help others. Tell what you will do as a result of your education. Make your story uplifting and inspiring. Explain why this would be a good human investment. The leadership skills you learn in seminary will impact thousands of people in your lifetime.\nGive something back in return. Consider leveraging what you learn in seminary to create products you can share with your donors and their churches, such as small group curriculum, daily devotions, blogs, etc.\nShare your link with all your family, friends, and entire social network. Don\u2019t be embarrassed to ask people to give to your cause. If you don\u2019t work your network, crowd funding won\u2019t work. Invite people to share your need with their network\nConnect all of your social media to the campaign. Use Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. to drive people to the crowd funding site\nAdd photos and videos. Show pictures of you in ministry roles. Experts say 7 photos is ideal. Check your updates for grammar before sending\nDon\u2019t publically thank people by name. They may want their name to be anonymous. You might thank people by email or letter, or thank people collectively\nWork your campaign. Spend a few minutes every day in a conversation with your social network. Consider this part of your education.\nSome students are embarrassed to ask for funds and others are too proud to ask for help. By enlisting help from your social network, others will enjoy the blessing of impacting your life and the lives of those in your ministry. Don\u2019t wait. Start today.\nAbout the Writer: Dr. Daryl Eldridge is the president and cofounder of Rockbridge Seminary, a fully online seminary. 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Many of the early songs were old deponeye songs already established.\nDuring the spring of 2006, bass guitarist Walmsley expressed, at a meeting with Bright, the need to move on and leave the band, preferring to play indie rock music as opposed to hard rock. Walmsley was replaced on bass guitar by Bright\u2019s close friend Jason Shuttleworth, who was the bass player for Burnley heavy metal band I.C.O.N. This was a temporary fix to honour a number of shows in the East Lancashire area and Manchester.\nShuttleworth was eventually replaced by drummer Leigh\u2019s boyfriend Eddie Sims; however, Sims expressed a preference to play guitar so Graham Storton, a bass guitar player known to Bright in the local area, was recruited to be the band\u2019s permanent bass player. Shortly after, Leigh announced that she would be moving to London and leaving the band and Sims followed suit at the same time.\nThis left Bright with many problems to be solved as drummers and guitarists seemed to be in short demand in his local area. Bright approached close friend Adam Stephenson to be the band\u2019s permanent guitarist and also asked I.C.O.N\u2019s newly appointed drummer, James Henderson, to take care of drumming duties on a temporary basis until a firm replacement could be found. Stephenson was unable to step in immediately so I.C.O.N\u2019s guitarist Scott Knowles helped out briefly for one show which was to be the last that Leigh played with the band.\nIn November 2006, Adam Stephenson officially joined Exit State.\nExit State started to find their footing in the North West of England rock community and a healthy local following began to quickly grow.\nIn the summer of 2007 the band entered a Preston based battle of the bands competition. It was during the run in this competition that it was becoming obvious that drumming duties for both I.C.O.N and Exit State were taking its toll on Henderson and that he needed to be replaced as quickly as possible with a permanent drummer.\nAs chance would have it, East Lancashire classic rock band The Freespirits broke up almost at the same point and Bright quickly swooped in to bag Freespirits drummer Peat Hicks. The band continued in the battle of the bands competition with Hicks to the semi finals where their participation ended.\nIt was decided at that time the band would enter the recording studio to begin work on their first EP which would be later titled Anybody Out There. 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As a mother this is very close to my heart as it is a really childlike argument. Naturally the disciples would have thought that the greatest person would have the attributes such as strength, intellect, popularity, money, skill or even age. But no, Jesus explains that to be the greatest they have to make themselves the smallest, the humblest. It is a complete reversal of their thinking, Jesus literally says that the way up is down.\nI suspect our thinking is not very different today. We want to be the best at things, first in line, to have power. Who can honestly say they want to be \u2018last and a servant of all\u2019? But Jesus calls us all to greatness and with everyday act of kindness and by being humble in all we do we can achieve just that. Jesus himself is a role model for us as he came not to be served but to serve, as we read in Matthew 20:28.\nAs a further example Jesus places a small child in front of his disciples. Children had very low social status, only above the slaves, and were totally dependent on their guardians. You couldn\u2019t possibly get more vulnerable. We learn that to receive such a child in His name means to welcome Jesus himself and by extension acting on behalf of God, being his disciple. This part of the Gospel is also a symbol for charity, a child a symbol of the disabled, homeless, hungry and poor. By being open to those who are worse off than us, be welcoming them into our society, by giving them a hand in times of need we get closer to God and our \u2018greatness\u2019 grows. So many of the God\u2019s Saints give us the best example of how to embrace all such children. We don\u2019t have to look any further that St. Mother Theresa, St. John Bosco or St. Vincent de Paul.\nI will conclude with a quote from St. Francis of Assisi: \u2018Let us have charity and humility, and give alms, for almsgiving cleanses our souls from the filth of sin. At death we lose all that we have in this world, but we take with us charity and the alms-deeds we have done, and for these we shall receive a great reward from God.\u2019\n1st Reading \u2013 Wisdom 2:12, 17-20\nIn effect, chapter 2 of Wisdom explores two pursuits: the pursuit of selfish goals (2:1-11) and the pursuit of wisdom (2:12-17). Both have consequences. What is gained by the pursuit of selfish goals if not destruction? Instead, the pursuit of wisdom leads to patience and justice. Who is the just one? Why do people want to do the just one harm? Why do they revile and torture him or her? Why do they plot the just one\u2019s death? That our passage from Wisdom 2 refers to Jesus is quite clear, but it also refers to anyone who seeks to live a life of integrity, a faith-based, caring, gentle life in places dominated by angry and critical voices, or worse, voices of violence and terror. This is especially so when cynical or violent people set out, often in the name of freedom, to silence and destroy the voices of wisdom and justice in the land. In a society where selfish greed and violence prevail justice and wisdom are easily trampled underfoot. However, as St Bonaventure reminds us, the Christian life always demands justice towards the other. How easy is it to stand for justice and to seek to live wisely today? How easy is it to speak harsh and cynical words? How much intelligence does it take to oppose goodness?\nLORD, Adonai, grant me the wisdom that sits by your throne. Let Lady Wisdom teach me the ways of peace and integrity. Lead me away from selfish goals. Teach me how to support men and women who seek to live a lives of integrity, faith-based, caring lives in dangerous places. Open me more and more to the ways of gentleness and sincerity in an often unpredictable and violent world. Protect me from those who would do me harm today, those with dark intentions in my regard. Help me to live like Jesus. Give me the courage to stand for what is right and true and just today, to do something beautiful for you and for my neighbours. Do not bring me to the test but deliver me from evil. Amen.\nPsalm 54 is one of many prayers for help in the psalter. Trust in God lies at its heart. But in a world of violence, terror and cruelty it is hard to trust that God will make everything right. Many innocent and just people die. Nevertheless, the Just One cries out to God for help against arrogant, treacherous people. O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. Can you share in the just one\u2019s confidence in the power of prayer, in the power of God\u2019s Name? The lesson the poet wants to teach is that God is the helper of the just one, and his or her proper response is gratitude and praise, love and active, caring compassion even in a world that tries to thwart God\u2019s loving purposes. Can you glimpse here the promise of Christ\u2019s resurrection? Notice how the poet focuses first on God\u2019s Name, then on the just one\u2019s need before raising the question of treachery: the ruthless seek my life. Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever had your generosity exploited by two-faced people? Are you sowing peace and reconciliation?\nLORD, Adonai, as I listen to the song of the Just One my heart cries out. So many people are being tried and tested today, even members of my own family and circle of friends. Help us as we try to deal with arrogant and two-faced people. Make us gentle and open-hearted with those fleeing violence and oppression. Be our helper today, listen to our plea! Defend the cause of right. Protect us from treachery. Defend all who seek to walk in the ways of justice and peace. Help us live lives of compassion in a world so often opposed to your loving purposes. Teach us the ways of trust, love and hope. Now and forever. Amen.\n2nd Reading \u2013 James 3:16-4:3\nNotice the stark contrast between wisdom and jealousy. Where jealousy reigns, ambition, disorder, violence and every appalling practice reigns. Where wisdom reigns peace, mercy and integrity of every kind blossom and flourish. Biblical love is wise because it is primarily intelligent, something reasonable, something we choose to do, a commitment. It is not a passing fancy or a whim. There is nothing selfish in it. Today we are invited to reflect on the stark difference between heavenly and earthly wisdom, the one peaceful the other violent. Love builds peace. The loving wisdom from God leads us to peace and integrity; the other way leads to envy and death. The choice is ours. Choose love and be wise.\nLord Jesus, how I desire to walk in the gentle, caring ways of the wisdom heart, how I long to be freed of envy and jealousy in my life. Free me from the disorders that envy and jealousy bring. Help me choose the ways of peace, mercy, compassion and forgiveness. Help me recognise the power of selfish reactions in my life. Help me notice when social and cultural conditioning is at work. Let me not be at war with myself or with any of my neighbours. Let me be your friend in all I do and say today and every day. Make me a channel of your peace and a servant of your loving mercy. Amen.\nGospel Reading \u2013 Mark 9: 30-37\nThere are two lessons in today\u2019s gospel. The first has to do with Jesus telling his disciples for the second time what will happen in Jerusalem: his suffering and death, the consequences of the choices he has made. But are the disciples listening? It would seem not. None of them even raise a question about it. They continue to show a lack of faith. And therein lies the second lesson: for on the way (a technical term for being a disciple in Mark) they had been discussing among themselves who was the greatest! They had fallen prey to the easy temptations of power and ambition. But Jesus presents them with a stark contrast, another of his paradoxes, a child and a servant: the last of all, the ones with neither rank nor status. As Jesus sees it, there is no social privilege in being a true disciple. Do we notice how faith and unbelief wrestle with each other in the lives of disciples today? Do we encounter self-referred ambition among them today? Do we find careerists in the Church? Looking around, do you think that maybe God is doing something about it?\nLord Jesus, on the way to Jerusalem you spoke for the second time to your disciples of your coming passion and death. But those who were closest to you were not listening. What you were saying did not fit their frames of reference. Their faith was weak and they were touched by fear. How easy it is for me to remain wrapped up in my own concerns and purposes! Do I ever really listen to you? Do I ever understand what you are saying? Do I ever recognise my own illusions? Am I too absorbed in my own wants and desires, my own weaknesses and fears? Teach me the lesson of the little child. Teach me the lesson of the servant. Teach me the lesson of saving by losing. Teach me to be wise in all my ways. Teach me how, humbly, intentionally and lovingly, to let you be Lord. Now and forever. Amen.\nAs he heads towards Jerusalem, Jesus announces his death for the second time. He does so with the utmost brevity (Mk 9, 31). Peter\u2019s failure to understand was shared by all the disciples to whom this teaching was addressed (Mk 9, 32).\nThe episode took place in Galilee. Jesus was travelling incognito because he did not want people to know where he was going. He was concerned for the time being only with his disciples (Mk 9, 30), teaching them on their own in the house (Mk 9, 33). The report tells of yet another encounter between Jesus and his disciples (Mk 9, 30-50), in which we find a collection of Jesus\u2019 discourses on various topics relating to discipleship: about seeking the first place (Mk 9,33-37); the case of the exorcist who, though he was not a disciple, called into question the following of Jesus (Mk 9, 38-41); the question of scandal given to the little ones (Mk 9, 42-48); and the description of authentic discipleship (Mk 9, 49-50). What Jesus has in mind as he proceeds to Jerusalem is not what his followers are thinking. It is dramatic to discover that is it possible for a disciple to follow Jesus his whole life, and yet not understand him.\nThe evangelist reports only what Jesus says (Mk 9, 32.33.35.37). What the disciples have to say is not deemed worthy of inclusion. In the evangelist\u2019s scheme, the episode has a precise purpose. To show clearly the difference between Jesus\u2019 aims and those of his followers, Mark describes the distance in attitude that separates the Master from his disciples. Jesus continues, freely but resolutely, on the road that leads to the cross, while the disciples are squabbling among themselves and trying to gain positions of privilege. Rarely has the Son of Man been so alone, so far from those who were accompanying him. They continue in their mistaken dreams for the future, still seeking the first place. But following him means serving, right to the end. Jesus\u2019 teaching is directed exclusively to the disciples (Mk 9, 30), but still it seems his efforts are in vain. His disciples do not understand and they are afraid to ask (Mk 9, 33). They remain silent when questioned, because they are ashamed to tell Jesus what they had been talking about as they were walking along (Mk 9, 34).\nJesus sat down, as was customary for a teacher, called the twelve to him, and gave them a double lesson \u2013 first of all in the form of a general rule (Mk 9, 35), and then by means of a symbolic action which he explains immediately (Mk 9, 36-37). Service and welcome of the lowliest are the qualities that are to characterize his closest followers. This is also what is expected of the reader of the Gospel if he or she wants to be considered a faithful disciple.\nToday the disciples of Jesus are distancing themselves from him. They do not listen to his teaching, and consequently they consider it failure if they are poor, or shameful if they are weak. Today, as in the past, we lack the courage to go against the tide in order to live in the world as disciples, following a Master who walks deliberately towards his destiny. And yet, we know that if we live our lives for others, we will recover them for ever. We will be deemed worthy of the Lord who died on the cross and who lives for ever. Only in this way can we learn to live, not just with him, but like him.\nJesus calls us all to greatness from Salesians of Don Bosco Ireland on Vimeo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 25491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.saltmagazine.org/soil-set-perform/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DZD2HIJ2WB2WVMRF26SUBKC3NHHSIBPP", "length": 3409, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.saltmagazine.org", "title": "The Soil set to perform Down Under - Salt MagazineSalt Magazine", "raw_content": "By Sidique Bah Music March 7, 2017\nThe festive mood is in full gear in the city of Adelaide as the much anticipated WOMAD festival is set to kick off Friday 10th March 2017. South African award winning acapella trio The Soil are amongst the lineup of talented artists making the journey down under for this year\u2019s event.\nThe group\u2019s latest album \u2018Echoes of Kofifi\u2019 has been a hit in South Africa and beyond. Armed with an infectious soothing and groovy harmonic rhythm the group has been thrust into the limelight over the years, sharing their beautiful vocals in different parts of the world. Defined as Kasi Soul their spellbinding diverse mix of township harmonies, soul, jazz, beatboxing and deep gospel is nothing short of joyous.\nSalt Magazine had a chat with one of the group members \u2013 Luphindo Ngxanga AKA \u201cMaster P\u201d \u2013 to talk about their music and their first trip to Australia.\nOriginally the group was formed in 2003 when all the members met in high school during jam sessions. Back then the group was known as Particles of the Soil and consisted of more than 25 members.\nMaster P said they started off as a big group and over the years the numbers dwindled to four. \u201cWe are like the last one\u2019s standing, we live as a family\u201d.\nThe first member of the group exists in a spiritual form as The Creator of all. The other three members of the group take a physical form: Buhlebendalo Mda, Luphindo Ngxanga, and Ntsika Fana Ngxanga, who are occasionally also supported by two backing vocalists, Asanda and Tshwarelo.\nThe group believes that they are simply a channel for their songs which came to them from a sacred place. They shot to fame in 2011 when they released their self-titled debut album which was an instant hit that went platinum, paving the way for their next album, The Soil Nostalgic Moments.\nWhen asked what their songs are about Master P said the idea is to spread peace and unity. \u201cWe sing to unite people, we speak about peace and love for one another, and current issues\u201d he added.\nIn response to a questions about the general reaction to their songs in South Africa, Master P said it has been overwhelming. \u201cThe people love it, whenever we are in stage, from the first to our last song you will find them singing along, so yeah our people love us and they love our music\u201d.\nHard work and perseverance always prevail; according to Master P they take their music very seriously. \u201cWe write our lyrics and rehearse a lot like sometimes three times a week; it\u2019s just a bundle of joy. Rehearsing helps you a lot as an artist\u201d.\nTalking about their musical journey Master P said it has been great to visit so many different places. \u201cI feel like we\u2019ve grown, yeah its overwhelming though, It\u2019s our first trip to Australia, we are expecting warmth and love from the people of Australia as they join us in our musical journey\u201d.\nMaster P said they will be firing up the Adelaide crowd with their music. \u201cWe will be bringing fireworks to WOMAD, we\u2019ve got lot of energy when we are on stage, the harmonies the beat boxing, yeah man it\u2019s going to be a classic\u201d.\nSalt Magazine wishes the group all the best on their WOMAD experience and look forward to sharing their photos with our readers.\nSierra Leone wins 2015 SA African Nations Cup\nThe Sierra Leone Community soccer team in South Australia \u2018Sierra Stars\u2019 for the first time won South Australia\u2019s annual African nations cup tournament defeating\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.samoaobserver.ws/en/03_05_2018/editorial/32800/Long-live-press-freedom!.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:EZQFOJJRY5XBPAOKBMTMXDJLH4JASHLH", "length": 7246, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.samoaobserver.ws", "title": "Long live press freedom! | Samoa Observer Latest breaking news articles, photos, video, blogs, reviews, analysis, opinion and reader comment from Samoa and around the World, Latest samoan news articles, photos, video, world, sport, technology, opinion, editorial, manu samoa", "raw_content": "Long live press freedom!\nToday is World Press Freedom day. All around the world, the media and people who believe in the importance of such a fundamental principle in democracy and our lives will take a moment to pause and reflect on the importance of the day.\nWorld Press Freedom Day by the way was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of U.N.E.S.C.O\u2019s General Conference. It is an opportunity to:\n\u2022 celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom;\n\u2022 assess the state of press freedom throughout the world;\n\u2022 defend the media from attacks on their independence;\n\u2022 and pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.\nThe global theme for this year\u2019s celebration is \u201cKeeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law.\u201d According to the United Nations, the theme highlights the importance of \u201can enabling legal environment for press freedom,\u201d giving \u201cspecial attention to the role of an independent judiciary in ensuring legal guarantees for press freedom and the prosecution of crimes against journalists.\u201d\nFurther, it addresses the role of the media in \u201csustainable development, especially during elections - as a watchdog fostering transparency, accountability and the rule of law.\n\u201cThe theme also aims to explore legislative gaps with regard to freedom of expression and information online, and the risks of regulating online speech.\u201d\nWhich brings us to the local commemoration of World Press Freedom Day today. Up there at Hotel Insel Fehrmarn, the local media will focus on the challenges faced by the industry with the onset of internet technology. This is being done through a National Forum on Freedom of Expression Online organised by U.N.E.S.C.O. and the Journalists Association of (Western) Samoa (J.A.W.S.).\n\u201cWe intend to bring together several stakeholders to discuss the above theme and develop strategies to address issues as a result of Social Media,\u201d said J.A.W.S. President, Rudy Bartley.\nHe added that the open nature of the internet is a benefit to freedom of expression and access to information, but it does have challenges.\n\u201cThe negative side of internet is the openness to transmit hate speech, deliberate defamation under the guise of freedom of speech, sharing and leaking personal information and the spread of fake news.\n\u201cThese risks cannot be effectively monitored if there is the lack of and under-resourcing of self-regulatory systems by internet intermediaries or other stakeholders with a role to monitor online content. Elsewhere, it has fueled the growth of legislation and regulation imposing restrictions on freedom of the press.\u201d\nWell you don\u2019t need to look further than what is happening in Samoa today. The Government recently brought back the Criminal Libel Law as part of a bid to find the \u201cgutless\u201d and \u201cfaceless ghost writers\u201d who have been writing some pretty nasty stuff about the Government and public figures.\nNow what do we make of this?\nLet me say this on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, freedom of expression is one thing, abusing people and making unfounded allegations under the guise of freedom of expression, especially when the writer is a faceless ghost, is something else.\nLet\u2019s not confuse the two please. They are worlds apart and they must never be muddled together. Whereas freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, which allows people to speak their mind freely and access information so they can hold the powers that be to account, the latter is damaging and must never be tolerated.\nWe say this because it destroys innocent people, families, communities, countries and eventually makes a mockery of the very freedom our forebears shed their blood and tears over so we can live and enjoy such fantastic freedom today.\nToday, we want to say that without free speech and a right to believe and express an opinion, democracy will wither and die. It\u2019s that simple.\nThat said, we also accept that freedom comes with boundaries and responsibility. It must always be governed by rules and laws which protect and guard people who are vulnerable to being hurt and abused by that very freedom.\nSad to say, some of what we have witnessed online in Samoa today is nothing but malicious and extremely vengeful.\nWe don\u2019t need to tell you anymore about the Government-driven manhunt for certain online bloggers in Samoa today. While it has become the butt of jokes and a topic of many conversations around ava bowls, from our standpoint, it\u2019s an eye opener in terms of just how little we know about the power of the internet.\nThe irony is that here we have a government espousing the need to have faster internet connection with multiple benefits, and yet on the other hand it is slowly finding out just how much of a monster it is. It was only recently that Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa\u2019ilele Malielegaoi threatened to block off Facebook in Samoa altogether.\nThis Government is powerful enough to be able to do that. But will it solve the problem of abuse and misuse of the internet and freedom of expression?\nThe answer is no. The abusers will simply move on to another way of continuing what they have been doing. This is the reality of today. If not Facebook, there are Twitter accounts, Instagram and many other social networks.\nNow getting back to freedom of expression and the traditional media, the basic guide to free speech is that if you have an opinion \u2013 especially one where you are accusing someone else \u2013 you should be brave enough to put your face there and your name.\nThat\u2019s what responsible people do. And this is what this newspaper encourages. In fact it is what we do through the editorial section of your newspaper every day of the week. We know some people agree with us, some don\u2019t agree and some people will absolutely hate us for it.\nBut that is the beauty of freedom of different views and opinions. It allows us to agree and disagree on different topics. Looking at the world today and its problems, there is no one size fits all kind of solution. There are different solutions depending on who, where and the circumstances.\nThe same goes for the court of public opinion. It\u2019s the variety and the quality of different opinions that enriches and enhances lives. It allows us to grow as a people, a nation and it helps us become better at whatever we do.\nThink about it this way. By expressing your constructive opinion, you are contributing to your country\u2019s gradual development. Believe it or not, your views help shape that development because they are widely read by the people who matter. They are read by people on the streets, people in different offices and even the most powerful in the land.\nToday, we want to say your opinions help preserve that freedom. Your opinions help strengthen democracy. Your views are the lifeblood of free Samoa.\nAnd lastly, if you feel really strongly about an issue, we encourage you to put your name to your opinion or letter.\nYou might be hated, criticised and get the odd glance from here and there but if you stand for the truth, in the end when what you say comes to pass, they will respect you.\nTrust me, we know.\nThat\u2019s what freedom of expression is all about.\nLong live press freedom in the world and Samoa, God bless!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 8951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scalingmarketplace.org/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:L22FU3MZFVXTP7UMCZDSWWELZFAKW5YR", "length": 8100, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.scalingmarketplace.org", "title": "About the Scaling Marketplace | Scaling Marketplace", "raw_content": "About the Scaling Marketplace\nA new way for philanthropy to combine its resources and achieve exponentially more impact.\nThe Social Impact Exchange Scaling Marketplace is a philanthropic initiative where funders are joining forces to support nonprofits that are bringing our most promising strategies to scale. The marketplace enables funders across the country to easily connect to evidence-based, game-changing nonprofits with the potential to have a major impact in education, health, and poverty alleviation. These nonprofits are pursuing active growth capital campaigns and have already received a portion of their total raise from \u201clead\u201d foundation funders in their fields. The Exchange\u2019s Scaling Marketplace is an efficient, user-friendly way for thousands of funders to review and co-fund scaling opportunities that fit within their funding areas and have been pre-vetted by others. The initiative is spearheaded by the Social Impact Exchange\u2019s Working Groups - funder collaboratives dedicated to identifying, funding, and sharing well-vetted scaling investments with the potential for significant impact.\nThe Scaling Marketplace is an initiative of the Social Impact Exchange (the \u201cExchange\u201d). The Exchange is a national membership association dedicated to working with funders to build a marketplace that efficiently delivers capital to the most effective nonprofits, so they can spread their impact and improve the lives of millions. By creating standards to evaluate impact, identifying and tracking highly effective nonprofits, and fostering significant collaborative funding to scale up top social interventions, the Exchange helps foundations, donors, business, and government increase the power of giving to achieve greater social good. The Exchange was established in 2009 with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and currently has nearly 5,000 members. To learn more, visit www.socialimpactexchange.org.\nRead the press release about the launch of the Scaling Marketplace here.\nHow does the \u201cMarketplace\u201d work?\nNonprofits in the marketplace go through a rigorous due diligence process led by funders who are members of the Exchange Working Groups focused on specific fields, such as health. After completing due diligence, if Working Group members provide lead funding for a nonprofit, it is then shared broadly with other funders across the country whose funding aligns with the nonprofit\u2019s work. Distribution to a wide number of funders is accomplished through the online marketplace, via collaborations with existing national and local funder affinity groups and funder networks, as well as through peer-to-peer relationships. Distribution networks will continue to be built to eventually include thousands of interested funders. Over time, more and more nonprofits will enter into the marketplace to seek funding.\nThe marketplace is similar to a private placement marketplace in the for-profit sector, where co-investors come together to finance specific growth plans. The opt-in nature of the marketplace allows funders to co-fund based on their interests.\nWhat are Funder Working Groups and how do they operate?\nThe Social Impact Exchange\u2019s Funder Working Groups engage collaboratively in the activities of building a capital marketplace that allows growth funding to flow more efficiently to high-impact nonprofits. Each Working Group consists of 20-30 major foundations, corporations, and other leaders and officials who identify and fund evidence-based nonprofits they feel should move to the next level of scale. The Working Groups provide a portion of growth funding needed for scaling each investment (\u201clead funding\u201d) and then distribute the investment opportunities to broader networks of potential funders who complete the amount needed for scale up. Funder Working Groups are member-driven and provide collective learning, shared due diligence, complementary portfolios, and a co-investing model that offers the benefits of collaboration yet preserves control over individual funder decision-making.\nCurrently, Working Groups in Education and Health have been fully established, and plans are in place to create both a Poverty Alleviation and Impact Investing Working Group.\nWho should join the Social Impact Exchange Scaling Marketplace?\nAll funders throughout the country are encouraged to participate in the Scaling Marketplace. In particular, program officers and directors at local, regional, and national independent foundations, community and family foundations, corporate foundations and giving offices, as well as individual high-net-worth donors who are interested in identifying and providing financial support to nonprofits that can have major impact at scale, should join the marketplace.\nThe Exchange also emphasizes collaboration with a variety of funder networks to partner in building an efficient scaling marketplace that adds value to both funders and nonprofits. National, regional and local funder networks are encouraged to contact the Exchange to explore how to work together to achieve mutual goals and impact.\nWhy is a Scaling Marketplace important?\nDespite all the important work accomplished by nonprofits, scaled impact remains an elusive goal. The inability to achieve scale makes it all but impossible to address our most difficult social problems. Much of this inability is due to a lack of accessible growth capital. Only a very small percentage of philanthropic capital is devoted to expansion initiatives. However, to consistently scale up solutions requires billions of dollars annually, far too much for any one funder to provide. To generate this level of funding, a system is needed in which large amounts of capital can be aggregated from multiple co-funders (public and private) to finance hundreds of effective scaling interventions on an annual basis. Such a system provides the necessary means to scale enough solutions to make significant progress on major social issues.\nThe Exchange\u2019s Scaling Marketplace provides an opportunity to make a large, measurable impact on the issues we care about. The organizations in the marketplace have high-performing, evidence-based interventions supported by trusted people and institutions. They are spreading to communities all over the country where funders can support their growth. Because no one funder can do it alone, teaming up with others allows us to make a bigger difference, while also furthering individual funders\u2019 missions.\nWhat is the ultimate goal of the Social Impact Exchange Scaling Marketplace?\nThe ultimate goal of the Scaling Marketplace is to create a system that consistently delivers enough capital to the most effective nonprofits so they can spread their impact both locally and nationally. The Exchange believes the establishment of a growth capital marketplace in the social sector will transform society. It will give us the organized resources to successfully address our most difficult problems by enabling breakthrough solutions to consistently ramp-up and change the lives of millions. Such a marketplace has the potential to direct billions of dollars each year to hundreds of high-impact nonprofits that will improve the lives of people in need.\nHow is the Social Impact Exchange Scaling Marketplace different from other funding collaboratives and investment platforms?\nAs a market-builder, the Exchange focuses on establishing a system that connects funders and nonprofits for transactions based on standards and transparent information. In that role, the Exchange builds the infrastructure for such a system, which will enable capital to flow more efficiently to top-performing nonprofits. The market-building role is distinct from that played by foundations, intermediaries and other funder collaboratives that select portfolios of nonprofits and help them build capacity and raise growth capital. While distinct, the Scaling Marketplace does not compete with these organizations. Instead, it will support their work by making it easier for them to raise capital through a marketplace for their nonprofits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 8441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scaryterrysworld.com/2007/10/why-i-love-minneapolis-part-three.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:C6ARGQGUIDXSBMEXVE7OH3G4W5ROCQTX", "length": 1202, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.scaryterrysworld.com", "title": "Scary Terry's World: Why I Love Minneapolis: Part Three", "raw_content": "Why I Love Minneapolis: Part Three\nThe Museum of Russian Art! This former church (and one-time funeral home!) built in the Spanish Mission style in the 1930s, now houses a remarkable art museum. Currently on view is a one-man show devoted to the works of Geli Korzhev. The exhibition has taken over the entire three floors of the building and includes pieces from private collections in the US and many on loan from Russian museums. This 50 year retrospective of this still-active artist is an absolute \"must see\" event. Korzhev's massive canvases painted in the \"severe style\" of \"social realism\" are melancholy masterpieces reflecting his life in communist Russia. The one sample shown here is from a series of Don Quixote paintings that bring to mind comparisons with certain American illustrators. The show runs through Jan 5 of 2008. There is no book devoted to the show -- yet. I'm told it should arrive near the end of the month. I'll be returning to see this again before it is gone. For more information see: www.tmora.org\nTerry I love Geli Korzhev post more photo's !\nWhy I Love Minneapolis: Part Two\nJohn P at MCAD\nMS. 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She\nwas born and raised in Portland, Oregon and hopes to move back eventually, if\nonly for the mild Northwest weather. Aside from heavy metal and\nexperimental jazz, she listens to just about everything, depending on\nher current mood.\nHer portfolio can be seen at http://eblocky.tumblr.com/.\nMANDY NEWHAM\nMandy Newhamis a lefty vegetarian artist and illustrator living right outside of Philly. Mandy has illustrated seven children\u2019s books, is a frequent freelance magazine contributor, but she especially digs drawing rock \u2018n roll bands. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Florida State University and her Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. When she isn\u2019t drawing, Mandy loves travelling cross-country, oil painting, and listening to killer tunes.\nHer work can be seen at mandynewhamillustrated.com\nCHRISTIANNE GOUDREAU\nChristianne Goudreauwas born in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. Her family left Canada in early 1988, and has lived in a myriad of places since, including a tropical island near Guam and a valley in Northern Maine. However, for the time being, her family has settled down in the city of Portland, Oregon.\nShe attended and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration in May of 2009 and recently finished an internship at Periscope Studio in Portland, Oregon.\nHer work was featured in SCAD\u2019s yearly Illustration Showcase, and has been published in CMYK Magazine, Applied Arts Magazine, as well as Charleston Magazine and Southern Living. Her work can be seen at cegoudreau.com/wordpress and her comic, Freckle Face can be seen at www.frecklefacecomic.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shanekillen.com/2014/10/sunday-thought-dry-times-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:14Z", "digest": "sha1:I6QHA6EGGAGTSFZLMVOHS73JSPCG2GI6", "length": 608, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.shanekillen.com", "title": "Network Fun!!! -- A Security/Network Engineer's Blog: Sunday Thought: \"Dry Times\" And The Desperation For God", "raw_content": "Sunday Thought: \"Dry Times\" And The Desperation For God\nI have to admit that lately, I have been going through a \"dry time\", as a friend of mine called it. I guess to me, what I mean is that sometimes... God is just silent...\nI don't remember the last time I was in this much turmoil about it. And honestly, I don't really know why God chooses to be silent sometimes.\nIf you are a Christian, and you are going through a time of desperation for God, Id like to give you this song in the link below. Hang in there. God is not silent forever. Its less than 4 minutes.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvytewIxll0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 7255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sharingourjourney.org/contributors/item/elizabeth-jepson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JS3KOSLOAGFEGUZPDPRVYS3HPZWNKO4Y", "length": 399, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sharingourjourney.org", "title": "Elizabeth Jepson, Music Therapist", "raw_content": "Elizabeth Jepson, Music Therapist\nElizabeth Jepson has been a board certified music therapist for the past 10 years. She holds a BM from the University of Iowa and has been working at JourneyCare for seven years. She continues to love her job and learning more everyday about the hospice world. When not working, Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her family and participating in community theater.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sheffielddirectory.org.uk/kb5/sheffield/directory/service.page?id=huEPR94-mss&adultchannelnew=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TB2CMJVXHVXLVEZU47O5SN2DEDCVZHHW", "length": 4293, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.sheffielddirectory.org.uk", "title": "Sheffield Mencap and Gateway: Activity and Learning Hub Daytime Provisions | Sheffield Directory", "raw_content": "Activity and Learning hub is one of the daytime projects run at Sheffield Mencap and Gateway. The aim of the Activity and Learning Hub is to enable adults with a learning difficulty to lead a more independent life by learning new life skills through meaningful daytime activities. We offer a range of person centred educational courses and activity sessions Monday to Friday, 45 weeks of the year.\nMondays and Tuesdays offer accredited education courses that are delivered by qualified tutors and learning support assistants enabling members to work toward a recognised AQA qualification in a number of subject areas which include cookery, arts and crafts, theatre, animation, film making and many more.\nWednesday groups offer a relaxing atmosphere and focus on developing basic skills. Activities include Media, Cooking and Arts and Crafts.\nThursday and Friday offer activity sessions including Sewing, Drama, Creative Writing, Gardening, Cardcrafts, Art, and our own caf\u00e9 called \u2018Mencafe\u2019.\nMonday to Friday 10am-4:30pm\nBudget / financial support\nSocial, cultural & learning opportunities\nWe accept self-referals and company referals\nWe provide services primarily at our Norfolk Lodge base, and welcome people from the learning disabilty community across Sheffield to experience what we have on offer.\nThank Gateway It's Friday \u00a33.00 per session\nThank Gateway It\u2019s Friday is a youth group for individuals with a learning disability aged between 6 and 15 years old. It is an opportunity to meet in a safe and supervised setting whilst having lots of fun. The group is open for both young people with a learning disability and their siblings. TGIF is both person-centred and family-centred taking each child\u2019s preferences and support needs into account. TGIF provides a mix of activities including sports, cooking and arts/ crafts. The group runs from 6:30pm until 8:30pm and costs \u00a32.50 per session.\nShine Out on Saturdays Cost = \u00a33.00 per session\nShine Out on Saturdays is a performing arts project aimed at children and young people with learning disabilities. It uses drama, dance and art as a tool to develop self-confidence and social skills. It also provides a great opportunity for young people with learning disabilities to belong to a group that contains like-minded individuals who have the same interest. The project aims to provide an environment that encourages creativity in a positive and safe atmosphere, in which the young people feel that their voice matters.\nShine Out on Saturdays has a user-led ethos, giving the members a sense of ownership. The ideas that the members generate are used to steer the direction and subject matter of the workshops, helping to promote independence skills. This is especially significant, as choice and control have been identified as lacking in the lives of people with learning disabilities. The project runs on a Saturday from 10.00am till 12.30pm.\nThe first hour of the project is dedicated to drama and movement, and focuses on working alongside the young people in order to develop ideas around subject matters that are of interest to them. The members then have a half hour break; they can either relax in the coffee bar with their friends or play snooker. The last hour is then spent in the art room, which generally facilitates what the young people have been working on in drama.\nSpecial Needs Inclusion Play Scheme (SNIPS)\nSNIPS is a unique, person centred service for children and young people which provides a fun and safe environment for individuals to get involved in different activities. The service is held at Norfolk Lodge but all referrals need to go through Sheffield City Council. The service is able to provide one to one support if needed. Activities include art, sport, cooking and pottery, music and team games. The services runs on Saturdays and during the school holidays.\nCategories of SEND\nCognition and learning, Communication and Interaction, Sensory and/or physical development difficulties , Medical conditions , Emotional, social & mental health difficulties.\nTargeted Service & Specialist Practitioners .\nlearning disability, daytime provisions, disability, activities, education\nPlease enter a mobile number to send details of Sheffield Mencap and Gateway: Activity and Learning Hub Daytime Provisions to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 14980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shinglecreek.org/history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XH5N3SJQYC3C2BWACP5SCNE3FCA3TEXZ", "length": 1150, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.shinglecreek.org", "title": "History - Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions", "raw_content": "History of the Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watersheds\nNative Americans of the Woodland Period were the first settlers in the Shingle Creek and West Mississippi watersheds. White settlers began arriving in 1850-1851, and by the time the Public Land Survey was conducted in the area a few years later, much of the land was already claimed. Much of the southern part of the watersheds developed as truck farms for growing vegetables and flowers. The northern, sandier soils were perfect for growing potatoes. The western part of the watersheds was mainly row crops and pasturage. Osseo Road, now called Brooklyn Boulevard, and CR 81, now called Bottineau Boulevard, were built on former Indian trails and served as transportation corridors between the trade centers of Robbinsdale and Osseo and the markets of Minneapolis.\nBy the turn of the 20th century, pockets of development pushed out from Minneapolis, and many of the settled areas began incorporating as villages and later cities. As the post-World War II housing boom began farmland was subdivided and the area became almost completely suburbanized.\nHistory of the Shingle Creek Watershed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.simianllc.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JCFWSWXG6R336XNL2M6AT5ZXHFRTNUYK", "length": 580, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.simianllc.com", "title": "Simian Web Development | WEB DEVELOPMENT FOR HEROES", "raw_content": "EMPOWERING VISIONARIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE\nWeb Design | Brand Optimization | Digital Marketing | Search Strategy\nSimian is a different kind of web development company with excellent services in NYC. Along with being an outstanding SEO company in Brooklyn, we\u2019re not just dedicated to entrepreneurship and building\nIt's not about building a website\nIt\u2019s about embracing something greater than yourself.\nAnd being able to focus on reaching out to those in need.\nYou want to take a stand, make a difference, empower others to be better.\nIt\u2019s about speaking their language. Let us help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sinclairinkspot.com/jesus-is-my-life-coach/category/heaven", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UZRR5GBLITT5GVM2HFXI5C5KZ6BSDE45", "length": 2195, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sinclairinkspot.com", "title": "Loretta Sinclair - Loretta Sinclair ~ Author Page", "raw_content": "Who do you want to meet in Heaven?\nI did a Bible study quite a while ago that asked that question. The rules were you couldn't say God or Jesus - because that was too simple. It could be a Biblical person, or secular. So I put that question to you now. Who do you want to meet when you get to Heaven?\nMy first answer was King David.\nThe youngest of at least eight sons, David slew a giant at 15 years old. He became a great King. But, he made a mess of his life. His own son tried to kill him. One of his daughters was raped by her brother. He committed adultery, and then when his lover became pregnant, he his her husband killed. Then he married her, and the baby died.\nLong story short, David made a mess out of his life. He was given more than most of us will ever dream about, and he abused his position and wreaked havoc on his household.\nBut yet, God still used him for great things. So many that we still recognize him today as one of the greatest kings that ever lived.\nAnd best of all, he has a prominent place in the direct lineage of Jesus because of his faithfulness.\nMessed up your life? Made some wrong choices? Well, welcome to the human race. But if God can use a simple shepherd that can throw rocks, then he can use you too.\nHolistic, or Hole-istic\nHolistic healing is a new age, post-modern trend. It means healing of mind, body, and spirit. There are a lot of hurting people out there. But it hurts me deeply to see them chasing a dead-end street for something that can never be a finished product. Healing can never be complete without God.\nWe are not human beings, waiting for a heavenly experience... we are heavenly creatures, having an earthly experience. From God we came, and to God we will return. Any \"healing\" that does not have God at the very core can never be complete. It will be hole-istic at best.\nChrist as called the great physician. People came to him from miles and miles, on foot, to lay their eyes upon Him, to touch his cloak, or to beg for healing. His response, several times, as recorded in the Bible, \"your faith has made you well.\" Healing without faith, is emptiness.\nWith God, is the only true Whole-istic healing. Truly mind, body, and spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1154, "original_length": 26826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sjlmag.com/2012/02/curious-george-from-fleeing-nazis-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MOL5IBMRJJZ76SD6AAKXYUQNK4TSHI7S", "length": 6771, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.sjlmag.com", "title": "Southern Jewish Life Magazine - covering the Jewish communities of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and NW Florida.", "raw_content": "Curious George: From Fleeing the Nazis to a New Home in Mississippi\nUntold millions of children have thrilled to the adventures of Curious George. Far less known is the story behind how the inquisitive monke...\nUntold millions of children have thrilled to the adventures of Curious George. Far less known is the story behind how the inquisitive monkey came to worldwide audiences, starting with the authors\u2019 escape from the Nazi regime.\nThat escape, and how it framed the overall world of Curious George, is explored in \u201cCurious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey,\u201d which completes its national tour at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson this spring.\nNearly eighty original drawings and watercolors will be on display from March 3 to July 22. Many of the items have never been on display before.\nOne gallery is being transformed into a reading room for visitors of all ages, inspired by \u201cCurious George Flies a Kite.\u201d\nIn addition, the exhibition features an interactive timeline, accessed via a touch-screen computer, about the Reys\u2019 life in France from the late 1930s through their fateful escape in the summer of 1940. Visitors will be able to view additional pages of H. A. Rey\u2019s journal, detailing the couple\u2019s journey to safety; images of illustrations by H. A. Rey; photographs taken by Margret Rey in France; documentary photography related to early World War II in France; and historic video. Audio interviews with the couple are also included.\nIn a sense, the exhibit is coming home to Mississippi. Most of the art and documentation was lent by the de Grummond Children\u2019s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. After the Jackson run, the materials will return to Hattiesburg.\n\u201cThe de Grummond Collection is recognized worldwide as the premier Children\u2019s Literature Collection,\u201d said Ellen Ruffin, Curator of the de Grummond Collection. \u201cWe are pleased that the Curious George exhibition comes home to Mississippi and makes its final stop at the Mississippi Museum of Art.\u201d\nWhen the de Grummond Children\u2019s Literature Collection was founded in 1966, the Reys were among its earliest contributors. H. A. drew an illustration of George carrying his illustrations to Hattiesburg to state his intention to send the Collection some of his original work. More materials were added over the years and in 1996, upon the death of Margret, the remaining literary estate was given to the Collection.\nThe exhibit debuted at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2010, followed by showings at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia and the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. Claudia Nahson, curator at the Jewish Museum, organized the exhibit.\n\u201cWe are very excited about hosting this extraordinary exhibition. While on the surface the antics of a monkey entertain us, in reality they serve to teach us important life lessons about perseverance, bravery, and optimism,\u201d said Betsy Bradley, director of the Mississippi Museum of Art. \u201cThe Reys\u2019 personal story is one of triumph in the face of danger. Through George, they reveal their own heroics that, in the end, uplift and inspire their readers.\u201d\nHans Augusto Reyersbach and Margarete Waldstein lived in Hamburg in the early 1920s. They met in 1925 before he left to work in Rio de Janeiro; she joined him later and they were married in 1935. They wound up in Paris working on children\u2019s books, though they had to flee three times because of the war with Germany.\nHours before the Nazis marched into Paris in June 1940, they fled on bicycles, carrying drawings for their children\u2019 stories, including one with a mischievous monkey named Fifi. By October they were in New York, and a month later four of their manuscripts were accepted by Houghton Mifflin.\nThey authored and illustrated more than 30 books, most of them for children. Seven of them featured Curious George. Today, the monkey\u2019s antics are available in over a dozen languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.\nExhibition highlights include original drawings and bright watercolors for \u201cRaffy and the 9 Monkeys,\u201d in which Curious George makes his debut as Fifi, featuring a lonely giraffe named Raffy and the nine monkeys that become his playmates; \u201cWhiteblack the Penguin Sees the World\u201d with Whiteblack setting out on a globe-trotting pursuit of new adventures; \u201cFifi: The Adventures of a Monkey,\u201d later published as \u201cCurious George\u201d; and subsequent American escapades of the famous monkey hero.\nWhile the idea of the monkey\u2019s narrow escape from danger was introduced in the first Curious George story created by the Reys in France, the concept of \u201csaving the day\u201d is only used in their later books written in the safety of America.\nBy the time the man with the yellow hat comes to his rescue, George\u2019s capers have already been mitigated with some poetic justice, which may be understood as emblematic of the important role the character had played both in saving the Reys\u2019 lives when fleeing Nazi Europe and later helping them rebuild their careers in the United States.\nIn turn, the little monkey born in France acts out the fantasies of many immigrants: he lands an acting job in Hollywood soon upon arrival, advances research by traveling in a spaceship, and makes it to the front page of newspapers, all the while becoming thoroughly Americanized.\nThe exhibit is the 12th presentation in the museum\u2019s Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. Established in 1989 to honor one of the museum\u2019s most dedicated patrons and volunteers, the series showcases world-class exhibits that attract visitors from across the region and beyond.\nOn March 3, there will be opening day events including events and activities for the entire family from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. On March 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. there will be an Evening for Educators, an opportunity for educators of all ages and all disciplines to look, learn, and connect with colleagues. Held throughout the year, this free event focuses on ways to integrate the museum into the classroom and includes a guided walk-through of the exhibit, hands-on activities, and exhibition-based curriculum.\nThis event is free and open to all educators.\nThe museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $6 for ages 6 to college. Children 5 and under are free, as are museum members.\nSouthern Jewish Life: Curious George: From Fleeing the Nazis to a New Home in Mississippi\nhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-__QmuyLkOVA/T1VR4il_LaI/AAAAAAAAADw/9ARu0z4KECo/s200/georgeweb.jpg\nhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-__QmuyLkOVA/T1VR4il_LaI/AAAAAAAAADw/9ARu0z4KECo/s72-c/georgeweb.jpg\nhttp://www.sjlmag.com/2012/02/curious-george-from-fleeing-nazis-to.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 11311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skaks.com/?page_id=2455", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSWTIKOVLKRU6DTZACZNMMH7YLFKBXLM", "length": 2637, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.skaks.com", "title": "Kitchen Kids | Charlotte SKAK design", "raw_content": "Children engaged in the preparation of the wholesome family meal acquire healthier eating habits and a greater curiosity towards new and unknown foods because they take the ownership of their meal.\nThese habits continue into adulthood, leaving the extra time spent in the kitchen with your child as a very good investment in the health and future life of your child.\nThe Kitchen Kids Collection consists of the following; a knife, a vegetable peeler, a chopping board, a vegetable grater, a bowl, and a protective mitten, giving the parents peace of mind when the children use the sharp tools.\nChildren in the kitchen; a question of social recognition.\nThe joy of food is founded in positive experiences with the preparation of it in the kitchen, the consumption of it around the dining room table and the enjoyment of it in the soul.\nHowever a busy everyday life and the fear of accidents keeps the children at bay from even the most simple kitchen chores such as helping out with cleaning the vegetables. But many children are very proud of and happy to contribute to the common meal. They see this as a way of giving others care and affection, and in this way, they gain social recognition from the family unit.\nUsing color and form, the sharp tools are designed so there is a clear distinction between where it is \u201cdangerous\u201d and where it is safe. All handles have a distinctive functional pattern and a rubberized surface providing the best grip possible. The functional pattern is at first sight just a structure, but the structure is derived from a barcode, the digital signature of the specific product.\nTo protect the fingers of the child, a set of mittens have been created. They are made from silicone and have the same distinctive functional pattern in the palm of the hand, allowing for a good grip on the items to be chopped, grated or peeled. For the parents to feel secure about the mitten, a red buckle is added for them to close around the wrist of the child.\nFor collecting the grated vegetables, a transparent bowl is made to be connected to the grater. It can be tilted in two directions allowing for the best ergonomics possible. And it can be used to serve the grated vegetable salad in.\nThe mixing bottle for dressing is made from translucent silicone and has a transparent graphic interface that simplifies the recipes for the child. A vinaigrette dressing could be made in the following way; fill up with the following to no.1 olive oil, no.2 mustard, no.3 honey, no.4 vinegar, no.5 salt & pepper. Mix and shake well. And squeeze the desired amount over the salad.\nDesign in collarboration with Josefine Bentzen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smallbusinessplanresources.com/industries/7/House-Cleaning-Service-Business-Plan/Target-Market-Labor-Force-and-Unemployment-Rate-Analysis-7BP/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:J5D32JH3LOL55M2FQBMKIFY7RHERYHPU", "length": 2047, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.smallbusinessplanresources.com", "title": "Free House Cleaning Service Business Plan - Target Market Analysis: Labor Force and Unemployment Rate.", "raw_content": "Home House Cleaning Service Free House Cleaning Service Business Plan 4.12 Target Market Labor Force and Unemployment Rate Analysis\nWhen we examine the unemployment rate and total labor force for the target market of Cobb county, Georgia over a period of almost two decades from January 1998 to May 2016, the following items stand out:\nThe total labor force of Cobb county has been growing steadily during the period of this analysis. In 1998 the total labor force of the county stood at 342,642 and by 2016 this number had skyrocketed up to 406,044. This represents an increase of 18.50% in the total labor force for the county during this time period. The only time this rise in the total labor force slowed down was in 2006 after the slowdown in the real estate market and once again in 2009 during the great recession.\nThe unemployment rate of for Cobb county has also been fairly stable. In 1998 the unemployment rate stood at below 3%. It started ratcheting up in 2001 after the collapse of the dot com bubble. The unemployment rate want up to almost 5% and then after fluctuating between 4% and 5% it finally began to drop below 4% in 2007. Once the great recession began of course, we find that the unemployment rate shot up dramatically all the way to almost 10% in 2010. It has taken over 6 years between 2010 to 2016, for the unemployment rate to steadily come down all the way back down to 4%.\nWhat this unemployment rate shows is that for the most part the local economy of Cobb county is resilient even though it may be subject to larger economic forces. This bodes well for small businesses like Spotless Homes that provide cleaning services - folks who are employed tend to have little time to take care of their homes and are also generating the additional disposal income to have their homes cleaned.\n4.12 Target Market Labor Force and Unemployment Rate Analysis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smightysweeper.com/terms-of-use/4591969924", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DAFXKCSASCDDSNRX7OW4F4VC4YGIKQPP", "length": 29704, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.smightysweeper.com", "title": "Terms of Use - smightysweeper", "raw_content": "Welcome to Smighty Sweeper, a downloadable application (the \u201cApp\u201d) developed by Herotainment, LLC (the \u201cCompany,\u201d \u201cus\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d). All users of the App or other Herotainment Services (collectively, the \u201cServices\u201d) are subject to the following terms and conditions of use (these \u201cTerms of Use\u201d).\nPlease read these Terms of Use carefully before accessing or using any part of this Service. By accessing or using this Service, you agree that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, as amended from time to time, as well as the Company Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not access or use any part of this Service.\nIf you are a parent or guardian, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use by your child\u2019s registration with the Service, in respect of their use of the Service.\nYou acknowledge that these Terms of Use are supported by reasonable and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge that such consideration includes your use of this Service and receipt of materials, data, and information available at or through the Service, the possibility of our use or display of your submissions (as defined below) and the possibility of the publicity and promotion from our use or display of your submissions.\nThe Company may revise and update these Terms of Use at any time without notice by posting the amended terms to this Service. Your continued use of the Service means that you accept and agree to the revised Terms of Use. If you disagree with the Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) or are dissatisfied with this Service, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this Service. It is your responsibility to regularly check the Service to determine if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes.\nThe Service is only for your personal use and not for you to use for commercial purposes. You may not use the Service in any way that is unlawful, or harms us or any other person or entity, as determined in our sole discretion. All materials, information, functions and other content (including submissions as defined below) contained on the Service are our copyrighted property. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, and trade dress are proprietary to us. You acknowledge and agree that nothing in these Terms of Use shall have the effect of transferring the ownership of any trademarks, service marks, trade names or other proprietary rights in the Service or content or any part thereof to you or any third party. You undertake not to do any act or thing which is inconsistent with or which is likely in any way to prejudice such title. You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes:\n(a) Specifically you agree not to do any of the following:\n(1) upload to or transmit on the Service any indecent, obscene, defamatory, harassing, violent or otherwise objectionable material, or any material that is, or may be, protected by copyright, without permission from the copyright owner;\n(2) upload to or transmit on the Service any solicitations or advertisements of business;\n(3) use the Service to violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or to violate the laws of any jurisdiction;\n(4) misrepresent an affiliation with any person or organization;\n(5) intercept or attempt to intercept electronic mail not intended for you;\n(6) upload or otherwise transmit files that contain a virus or corrupted data;\n(7) restrict or inhibit use of the Service by others;\n(8) post \u201cspam,\u201d transmit chain letters or engage in other similar activities;\n(9) collect information about others (including e-mail addresses) without their consent;\n(10) solicit personal information from anyone under 18 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes;\n(11) download a file or software or include in a message any software, files or links that you know, or have reason to believe, cannot be distributed legally over the Service or that you have a contractual obligation to keep confidential (notwithstanding its availability on the Service);\n(12) harass, abuse or \u201cstalk,\u201d another user, or attempt to do any of the foregoing; or\n(13) engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone\u2019s use or enjoyment of the Service, or which, as determined by the Company, may harm the Company or users of the Service or expose them to liability. Without limiting any of the foregoing, you also agree to abide by any code of conduct applicable to the Service or any service available on the Service.\n(b) Any content and/or opinions uploaded, expressed or submitted to a message board, blog, chatroom or any other publicly available section of the Service (including password-protected areas), and all articles and responses to questions, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and responsibility of the person or entity submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Company. You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever content you submit, and you, not the Company, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability and appropriateness. By uploading or otherwise transmitting material to any area of the Service, you warrant that the material is your own or is in the public domain or otherwise free of proprietary or other restrictions and that you have the right to post it to the Service. You grant to the Company the right to use all content you upload or otherwise transmit to the Service in any manner the Company chooses, including, but not limited, to copying, displaying, performing or publishing it in any format whatsoever, modifying it, incorporating it into other material or making a derivative work based on it.\n(c) The Company reserves the right, but does not assume any responsibility, to (1) remove any material posted on the Service which the Company, in its sole discretion, deems inconsistent with the foregoing commitments (including any material that the Company has reason to believe constitutes, or for which the Company has received notice of its constituting, a copyright infringement); and (2) terminate any user\u2019s access to all or part of the Service. However, the Company can neither review all material before it is posted on the Service nor ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, the Company assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by third parties. The Company reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to protect the personal safety of users of this Service and the public; however, the Company has no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this paragraph.\n(d) Your failure to comply with the provisions of (a) or (b) above may result in the termination of your access to the Service and may expose you to civil and/or criminal liability.\nIn these Terms of Use, \u201cSubmissions\u201d mean messages, text, concepts, ideas, comments, pitches, suggestions, screenplays, stories, treatments, formats, artwork, drawings, photographs, videos, audiovisual works, musical compositions (including lyrics), sound recordings, characterizations, your and/or other persons\u2019 names, likenesses, voices, profiles, usernames, actions, appearances, performances and/or other biographical information or material, and/or other similar materials that you submit, post, upload, embed, display, communicate or otherwise distribute (collectively, \u201cDistribute\u201d) on or through this Service.\nAll Submissions or other information sent by you to the Company or business partners in response to solicitations on this Service will become the Company\u2019s property and you agree that all intellectual property rights therein are transferred to the Company. If we solicit Submissions through features or activities on or through the Service that require use of our copyrighted works, we grant to you a non-exclusive license to create a derivative work of such works to the extent required to make your Submission and only for the purpose of making your Submission. For avoidance of doubt, the Company shall own any developments by the Company or on its behalf arising out of your Submissions. To the extent the Company does not own such materials, you grant and agree to grant the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to utilize, create derivative works of, distribute and sublicense such materials for any purpose in connection with the Company\u2019s web Services, products and services. You have no expectation of any review, compensation or consideration of any type for all Submissions hereunder.\nYou understand that any postings, or content submitted for posting, to publicly available portions of the Service, including chat areas, message boards and the like (\u201cPublic Areas\u201d) are non confidential for all purposes. You have no expectation of privacy related to Public Areas.\nIn order to use the Service, you might be required to create an account. You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information during the registration process for any account, and to keep the information current through updates. You may not impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your identity, including by using another person\u2019s account information. You are fully responsible for all activities conducted through your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for any use of your password to gain access to your account and your account information. If you disclose your password to any other person, it is at your own risk. You do not own the account you use to access the Service, and you do not own any data the Company stores on its servers. You also agree to promptly notify the Company at smightysweeper@herotainment.com of any unauthorized use of your username, password other account information, or any other breach of security that you become aware of involving or relating to the Service. We may suspend or terminate your account for any failure to comply with these Terms of Use, any terms related to any service offered through the Service or for any reason whatsoever, or for no reason. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge that the Company does not guarantee the accuracy of any information submitted by any user, including account information about the user. In addition, you agree to exit from your account at the end of each session.\nPAID FEATURES AND REFUND POLICY\nSome areas or features of the Service are only available to paying users. To become a paying user, you must agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy and pay the amount stated, plus any applicable fees and taxes.\nYou authorize us or our payment vendor to automatically charge your credit card, debit card or alternative payment method for the amount of the fees for the feature you select, plus any applicable fees and taxes.\nPayments are non-cancelable and non-refundable, even if you close your account or delete your account.\nAll fees are subject to change at the discretion of the Company. Your fees will not change in the middle of any payment term, and any changes will be effective upon the next payment made. A number of our Services may allow you to purchase virtual currencies and virtual items for use in our Services. You are also able to purchase Service merchandise through our website. You acknowledge and agree that all purchases made by you through the Services are non-refundable. Also, if you are under the age of 13, you will need your parent to make any purchase in our Services. You acknowledge and agree that we are not required to refund your money or compensate you for any unused virtual goods if your access to the services is terminated or the Services are no longer available.\nWe have the right, in our absolute discretion, to terminate your access to the Services at any time without prior notice to you where we believe that you have not complied with any of these Terms of Service or any or our rules of use, codes of conduct or any or our instructions for our Services.\n\u201cPublic Forum\u201d means an area, Service or feature offered as part of the Service that offers the opportunity for users to distribute Submissions for viewing by one or more Service users, including a chat area, message board or social community environment.\nYou acknowledge that Public Forums and features offered therein are for public and not private communications, and you have no expectation of privacy with regard to any Submission to a Public Forum. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose through any of these media; you make such disclosures at your own risk.\nYou are and shall remain solely responsible for the Submissions you distribute on or through the Service under your username or otherwise by you in any Public Forum and for the consequences of submitting and posting same. We have no duty to monitor any Public Forum.\nAlso, you should be skeptical about information provided by others, and you acknowledge that the use of any Submission posted in any Public Forum is at your own risk. For example, we are not responsible for, and we do not endorse, the opinions, advice or recommendations posted or sent by users in any Public Forum and we specifically disclaim any and all liability in connection therewith.\nWe owe you no obligation, and therefore may refuse to post, deliver, remove, modify or otherwise use or take any action with respect to Submissions you distribute.\nWe reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit Submissions at any time and for any or no reason including, without limitation, if your Submission fails to conform to our rules of conduct discussed in the Use of the Service section above, in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum. If we elect to screen Submissions, there may be a delay in the posting of such content in a Public Forum to allow for a review process. If we have questions about your Submissions including, without limitation, the copyright, we may contact you for further information including, for example, to verify that you own the copyright or otherwise obtained permission to post the material.\nThe entire contents of this Service (including all information, text, displays, images and audio and any software made available through or in connection with the Service) and the design, selection and arrangement thereof, are proprietary to the Company or its affiliates or licensors and are protected by United States and international laws regarding copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other proprietary rights. You are authorized only to use the content on the Service for personal use or legitimate business purposes related to your role as a current or prospective user of the Service. You may not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display or perform, republish, store, transmit or distribute any of the material on this Service without the prior written consent of the Company, except to: (a) store copies of such materials temporarily in RAM, (b) store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes, and (c) print a reasonable number of pages of the Service; provided in each case that you do not alter or remove any copyright or other proprietary notices included in such materials. Neither the title nor any intellectual property rights to any information or material in this Service are transferred to you, but remain with the Company or the applicable owner of such content. Except as expressly authorized by the Company in writing, you may not reproduce, sublicense, distribute, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any part of this Service, (b) access to this Service or (c) use of this Service or of any services or materials available through this Service.\nThe Company name and logos, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans contained in the Service or any software provided or accessed in connection therewith are trademarks of the Company, its affiliates, licensors and/or contractors unless otherwise clearly specified in writing. You may not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, brands and marks are used for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective owners.\nIn the event the Company offers downloads of, or access to, software on this Service and you download or otherwise access such software, the software (including any data or images incorporated in or generated by the software) is licensed to you. You do not receive title to this software and you may not distribute or use the software other than for the purpose of using the applicable feature or service of the Service as offered by the Company. You may not modify, adapt, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of such software. Except as expressly provided, you may not create any derivative works of the software or any services available on the Service. This license is revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause. You agree to destroy or return to the Company all copies of the software upon revocation of your license to the software and/or termination of your account. The software is subject to all restrictions on use, disclaimers of warranties and other provisions in these Terms of Use. In the event that the software is also subject to a separate end user license agreement, the terms of such end user license agreement shall control any conflict between those terms and these Terms of Use.\nYou agree that you will not (b) use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on this Service or for any other unauthorized purpose without the prior written consent of the Company, (a) use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Service, (c) use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Service, (e) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Company\u2019s infrastructure, (d) attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or (f) access, reload or \u201crefresh\u201d transactional pages, or make any other request to transactional servers, more than once during any three (3) second interval.\nThe Company does not assume any liability for the materials, information and opinions provided on, or available through, the Service (the \u201cService Content\u201d). Reliance on the Service Content is solely at your own risk. The Company disclaims any liability for injury or damages resulting from the use of any Service Content.\nTHE SERVICE, THE SERVICE CONTENT AND THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN \u201cAS IS\u201d AND \u201cAS AVAILABLE\u201d BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS. NEITHER THE COMPANY, ITS LICENSORS OR CONTRACTORS, NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICE, THE CONTENT, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. SPECIFICALLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY, ITS LICENSORS, ITS CONTRACTORS NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY WARRANTS OR REPRESENTS THAT THE SERVICE, THE SERVICE CONTENT OR THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THIS SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT THE SERVICE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS. 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The Company uses what it believes to be reasonable efforts to protect itself and its Service users from such unauthorized use, but the Company and its licensors and contractors are not responsible for failures resulting from the acts or omissions of third parties not controlled by or under contract with the Company.\nAs a condition of access to the Service, you release the Company (and its shareholders, partners, affiliates, directors, officers, subsidiaries, employees, agents, suppliers, third party information providers, licensors, licensees, distributors and contractors) from claims, demand and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature arising out of or in any way connected with any dispute you may have with any other user of the Service. The Company will have the right but not the obligation to resolve disputes between users relating to use of the Service, and to the extent that it elects to resolve such disputes, the Company will do so in good faith based on the general rules and standards of the Company and the Service. You release the Company (and its shareholders, partners, affiliates, directors, officers, subsidiaries, employees, agents, suppliers, third party information providers, licensors, licensees, distributors and contractors) from claims, demand and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature arising out of or in any way connected with the Company\u2019s resolution of such disputes.\nYou agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its shareholders, partners, affiliates, directors, officers, subsidiaries, employees, agents, suppliers, third party information providers, licensors, licensees, distributors, contractors and others involved in the Service or the delivery of products, services or information over the Service, from and against any and all liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorney\u2019s fees, arising from any violation by you of these Terms of Use or your use of the Service or any products, services or information obtained from the Service.\nThe Service may contain links to other web Services on the Internet. The Company is not responsible for and does not endorse the content, products, services or practices of any third party web Services, including, without limitation, Services framed within the Service and does not make any representations regarding their quality, content or accuracy. Your use of third party web Services is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such web Services.\nThe Company is not responsible for any products or services you may elect to purchase, download or use from any third party distributor, merchant or other information or service provider (\u201cMerchant\u201d). All transactions regarding goods or services offered by Merchants, including, but not limited to, the purchase and payment terms for such goods or services, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery, are solely between you and the Merchant and are governed by the terms of the agreement between you and the Merchant. The Company is not a party to any transactions between you and a Merchant, and is not liable for any direct or indirect costs or damages arising out of any dispute between you and a Merchant. NEITHER THE COMPANY, ITS LICENSORS OR CONTRACTORS, NOR ANY THIRD PARTY PROVIDER, OTHER THAN THE MERCHANT OFFERING SUCH GOODS OR SERVICES, MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE GOODS OR SERVICES OFFERED BY SUCH MERCHANT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR COMPATIBILITY.\nIn accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (\u201cDMCA\u201d) and other applicable law, the Company may, in appropriate circumstances and in the Company\u2019s sole discretion, terminate your access to this Service if it deems you to be a repeat infringer. The Company may also, in its sole discretion, limit your access to the Service and/or terminate your membership if you infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.\nIf you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any user Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail):\nIdentification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online Service are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;\nHerotainment\u2019s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on the Service can be reached as follows:\nAttention: 99 Madison Avenue, Suite 403, New York, NY 10016 or at\nsmightysweeper@herotainment.com\nThe owner of this Service is based in the State of New York, USA. The Company makes no representation that materials in this Service are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access this Service from other locations, you are responsible for complying with local laws. These Terms of Use shall be governed in all respects by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to its conflicts of law principles, and exclusive jurisdiction over any cause of action arising out of these Terms of Use or your use of the Company Web Service shall be in the state or federal courts located in New York. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts, and you hereby waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non-conveniens with respect to venue and jurisdiction in the state and federal courts located in New York.\nYou agree to abide by U.S. and other applicable laws, including export control laws, and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any software or other content downloaded from the Service to a destination prohibited by such laws, without first obtaining, and then complying with, any requiService government authorization. By downloading any software from the Service, you warrant that you are not located in any country, or exporting such software to any person or place, to which the United States has embargoed goods. You further agree not to upload to the Service any data or software that cannot be exported without prior written government authorization, including, but not limited to, certain types of encryption software.\nThese Terms of Use, as they may be amended from time to time, completely and exclusively state the agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Service, and no other terms that may have been communicated to you orally or in any other manner shall have any force or effect. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.\nYou agree and acknowledge that your violation of any restrictions in these Terms of Use on the use of the Service, Service Content, or software or services available on or through the Service, or your use or disclosure of Confidential Information in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of these Terms of Use, may cause the Company irreparable damage for which remedies at law may be inadequate. You agree that, in the event of your unauthorized use of the Service, Service Content, software and services, or your unauthorized disclosure of Confidential Information, the Company will be entitled to injunctive relief, in addition to such other legal and equitable remedies that may be available. The Company\u2019s licensors and contractors are express third party beneficiaries of any terms in these Terms of Use that are applicable to their products or services, including disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability, and shall have the right to enforce directly against you all of your applicable representations, warranties, covenants, indemnifications and obligations under these Terms of Use.\nIf any part of these Terms of Use is unenforceable, the unenforceable part shall be construed to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties. 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You represent that you have read and understood these terms and conditions, and that you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 15308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stackpolebooks.com/book/9780811711166", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:29Z", "digest": "sha1:R3FUGMNSCQX2JRVQNDJFDOK7NYFII365", "length": 660, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.stackpolebooks.com", "title": "Stackpole Books", "raw_content": "The Big Book of New Jersey Ghost Stories\n184 of the best, most spine-tingling accounts of ghosts from the Garden State, including . . .\nThe pale phantom of Devil's Tower in Alpine\nColonial ghosts of Greenwich\nThe beachcombing Woman in White\nIndian Will's wandering spirit in Eatontown\nWoodstown's haunted Seven Stars Tavern\nThe helpful hospital ghost in Elizabeth\nPatricia A. Martinelli lives in southern New Jersey and is the administrator of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. Charles A. Stansfield Jr. lives in Pitman, New Jersey, and was professor of geography at Rowan University for 41 years. He is the author of 11 books on the paranormal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stackpolebooks.com/book/9780811734431", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:49Z", "digest": "sha1:V3F5MHEY6FUPLDVX7BFSXUZHIJWJZYEP", "length": 727, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.stackpolebooks.com", "title": "Stackpole Books", "raw_content": "Haunted Georgia\nGhosts and Strange Phenomena of the Peach State\nFrom Atlanta to the Coastal Plain, Georgia is rich with tales of the supernatural. This collection draws from the state's historic past, with stories of phantom pirates from the coast and restless Civil War spirits from Sherman's March and Andersonville Prison. Unusual creatures, such as the devilish Wog of Winder and the monstrous Hogzilla of River Oak Plantation, make appearances. There's also the fatal pillar in Augusta, the haunted orphanage in Savannah, the ghost of Mary MacRae searching for her lost love on St. Simon's Island, and dozens more.\nAlan Brown lives in Meridian, Mississippi, and is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stackpolebooks.com/book/9780811736015", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQ5GYXRN33WXIKZNZLACZT5PEHNIDUNP", "length": 501, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.stackpolebooks.com", "title": "Stackpole Books", "raw_content": "From the Siege of Jerusalem to the Gulf War\nProvocative and entertaining study of sieges in history\nCommentary on the nature and evolution of combat across the centuries\nBruce Allen Watson examines seven sieges: Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, Malta in 1565, Sebastopol during the Crimean War, Kut-al-Amara in World War I, Singapore in World War II, Dien Bien Phu, and the 1991 Gulf War.\nBruce Allen Watson is professor emeritus at Diablo Valley College and author of several books.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 158.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stackpolebooks.com/book/9780811736213", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:NY6SRWH42BV7QJZDOE4MIYFUXEYYAX6R", "length": 714, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stackpolebooks.com", "title": "Stackpole Books", "raw_content": "Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of New York's Sleepy Hollow Country\nThe whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions, wrote Washington Irving in the 1820s. This part of New York, straddling the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, is still rife with stories of the paranormal, including a temperance reformer who haunts the Bull's Head Inn, a floating ball of fire at the College of Saint Rose, the ghost girl of the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, the spirits of West Point, UFOs at Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant, and the phantoms of Smalley's Inn in Carmel.\nCheri Farnsworth lives in northern New York and is the author of several books on the unexplained.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 133.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.starcross-primary.devon.sch.uk/a-science-afternoon-in-avocets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:T4KCPBQW7JP7EPCEINQUDWICUFOPJG6O", "length": 1272, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.starcross-primary.devon.sch.uk", "title": "A Science afternoon in Avocets! | Starcross Primary School", "raw_content": "Our Science topic at the moment is States of Matter, which involves looking at solids, liquids and gases and learning about the similarities and differences between them. Also, the process of how one can change into the other with certain conditions.\nThe afternoon started with the scientists learning what a solid, liquid and gas are. Following this, the class split into three groups: 1 group started by sorting solids, liquids and gases and had a look at a cornflour mixture (Is it a solid or a liquid?), 1 group learnt about the particles in each of the states and 1 group learnt about reversible and irreversible changes.\nThen, at the end of the afternoon, we finished with the experiment \u2018Who has the warmest hands?\u2019 by looking at the process of melting\u2026 a solid turning into a liquid. What better way to do this experiment than with chocolate! We made sure our hands were clean first, thought about fair testing by keeping our hands above the table (so we couldn\u2019t use friction to warm them up), discussed the way to hold the chocolate so it was all the same and picked up the chocolate at the same time.\nThanks to Miss Faulkner and Mrs Ward for their contributions to the afternoon and to Avocets for being such brilliant Scientists!\nPlease enjoy the photos below:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startupmarketingconf.com/meet-david-cao.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WELPRHBOMVHBJDDPGNLFG3LTZXEXYOZ5", "length": 760, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.startupmarketingconf.com", "title": "Meet David Cao", "raw_content": "DAVID CAO, FOUNDER F50 Ventures\nDavid Cao is the Founder & CEO of GWC US, and the Producer at GMIC SV, where he oversees production of the leading global mobile conference in the United States. He is an investor in early stage mobile companies, and he manages both the largest mobile entrepreneur community in Silicon Valley - SVEntrepreneurs, and the largest Android F2F community worldwide - SVAndroid. Prior to GWC, David was VP & GM of Mobile for BeyondSoft. Also he founded and served as CEO of ExtendLogic, a Silicon Valley based smartphone end-to-end solution company that was acquired by BeyondSoft in 2010. He has consulted for many firms including Oracle, ETravel, IBM Global Services, Sun Microsystems. 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Everybody who works with children, young people or vulnerable adults is DBS checked before any contact is allowed.\nOur policy is in total compliance with the current legislation and conforms in every aspect to the Diocesan statement set out below:\n\u201cThe Diocese of Rochester takes seriously its responsibilities in the area of safeguarding and has followed national guidelines in establishing a range of Safeguarding Policies, Advice Notes and Forms.\nA part of the safeguarding process involves DBS disclosure. Following the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was formed in December 2012 by merging the Criminal Records Bureau with the Independent Safeguarding Authority. This new organisation provides a joined up, seamless service combining the criminal records checking and barring functions and helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups including children. As a Diocese we use this service to check those who work, in both an employed and voluntary capacity, in a number of areas in the life of the Diocese and parishes\u201d.\nOur Parish Disclosure Officer is Barbara Smith 01732 852174.\nIf anyone has any concerns in this area, Veronica Fraser is responsible for areas concerning children \u2013 01732 850202 and Annie Young is responsible for areas concerning vulnerable adults \u2013 01732 352084", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stragnell.com/weaklynews/2010/100328.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:31Z", "digest": "sha1:EC4I52HQ35OQKCXEWTHJ7DQNWC52AOY3", "length": 11056, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "www.stragnell.com", "title": "The Befouled Weakly News", "raw_content": "Good morning to you all on a somewhat dull day in beautiful, downtown Byfield although it\u2019s difficult to judge at this early stage what sort of day it will develop into. It could be nice and sunny; it could stay grey and dreary. For all the discussion last weekend about Spring being ready to \u201cburst\u201d upon us like an atomic explosion, we are still waiting. While it\u2019s not reverted to freezing temperatures, snow and gales (yet), we\u2019re certainly not baking in delightfully warm or sunny temperatures; cool, overcast and decidedly dull. One can see that everything is aching to burst forth but so far most of nature seems to be keeping its head down waiting to see if the forecasters really have got something right this time. We\u2019ll let you know but the outlook for the next week is not particularly promising; I was informed by Ms Playchute that the coming week is indeed going to revert to its formerly frigid status and the woolly jumpers, long underwear, overcoats and gloves will not get consigned to the winter storage facilities (i.e., the hooks underneath all the other stuff) for some time to come, it seems.\nHow do you face life\u2019s little dilemmas, such as the one which confronted me recently? Yesterday evening Ms Playchute produced a feast of outstanding quality (and before I get myself into trouble, her feasts are always of outstanding quality). The dilemma? Which part of the banquet to eat first and which to save and savour until the end? Naturally, the carrots were dispatched first; one clearly has to get rid of such less than delightful plate-fillers before tackling the main course. Pork, roast potatoes, spinach & parmesan cakes, sausage meat stuffing, gravy and mushrooms and crisp crackling. Now, you tell me, which would you eat first and which would you save \u2018til the end? And, what would be the last mouthful? Are you like me? Once you dispatch the carrots and other less desirable root crops (apart from potatoes, of course), divide the rest up into more or less equal portions deciding, as you work your way through the masterpiece, which combination to savour for the last mouthful? Or, do you work your way through each ingredient until the only remaining mouthful is your favourite?\nJust for the record, my last mouthful consisted of a mixture of stuffing, potato, gravy, mushroom; the last morsel of pork had been dispatched in the previous mouthful.\nThe great excitement this week (for me, at least; Penny would just as soon watch paint dry) was the arrival of a new desktop computer. I can certainly sympathise with Pam\u2019s message in the week about waiting three days for the computer to get to a state where one can actually do something. The one I have been using I\u2019ve had for about eight years, I think, and although it is still going strong (luckily) I need to be able to do the sort of work I do for schools now a days, considerably more quickly. Actually, having said that, I don\u2019t know why. If the computer is slow I get more opportunities to lean back in my chair and spend a happy few moments in an idle day dream. What was I thinking??!!\nHaving eight years of \u201cstuff\u201d on the old computer means that I\u2019ve probably got about eight years worth of wading through everything before I determine what needs transferring to the new computer and what can happily be discarded. It\u2019s so easy just to copy everything across but I am determined to resist that temptation and keep the new computer relatively clean. So, the old one is still chuntering away on the corner of the desk and every so often I realise that it has something I need and, at that point, we copy it across the network. This one is sweet, I have to say, and I am grateful to the boys for providing excellent technical advice in helping me to decide which one I should purchase. So far, so good and not too much wailing, tearing of hair or gnashing of teeth.\nThe following caught my eye on the BBC web site.\nTeacher presents 'competitive', says union\nThe days of apples for presents are gone\nGiving presents to teachers is becoming increasingly commercialised and competitive, a teachers' union warns.\nThe Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) says pupils and parents should not feel pressurised into buying end-of-term gifts for their teachers.\nIn a survey of 1,000 of its members, the ATL found 93% had received gifts.\nThe most popular present was chocolate (85% of gifts), but one teacher was given opera tickets, another Test match tickets and another champagne.\nThe survey revealed some particularly lavish gifts, which included:\n\u2022 A Tiffany bracelet\n\u2022 A Mulberry handbag\n\u2022 A brace of pheasants\nBut not every teacher was so fortunate. One received a half-eaten chocolate bar, while another was given a ripped book with pages missing.\nAnd one teacher reportedly received \"a second-hand photo album with dog hair all over it\".\nAfter chocolates, flowers or plants were the most popular gift (53%), followed by alcohol (49%) and toiletries (48%).\nThe most common time of year to receive a gift was at the end of the academic year (70%), followed by religious festivals such as Christmas, Hanukah or Eid (63%).\nMost schools and colleges (59%) did not have a policy on gifts from pupils, the ATL survey found.\nOn Monday, ATL members will debate a motion at their annual conference in Manchester on whether the practice of giving gifts has become too competitive.\nPrimary school teacher Chris Clarke said: \"Although I am very grateful that pupils and their parents appreciate what I do for them, I do feel that in our school there is a culture of present-giving that can become almost unhealthy.\n\"I make a point of especially praising those pupils who make gifts or cards rather than buy them.\"\nPressure from shops\nKathy White, a head of department in a further education college, said: \"I think the pressure to give gifts to teachers has been increased by the card shops as at the end of year there are a wide range of gifts.\n\"The best 'gift' I have ever received is a card made by a group of learners where each contributed, adding how I had changed their lives and how my belief in them had motivated them.\"\nATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Although most staff like getting presents from their pupils to show their hard work is appreciated, they don't expect them.\n\"Staff certainly don't want their pupils to feel they have to give presents and feel humiliated if they can't afford to do so.\n\"Staff are just as delighted by a handmade gift or card - the thought really does count.\"\nThe ATL surveyed 1,016 primary, secondary and further education staff in February and March.\nWell, I certainly never received a Tiffany bracelet when I was teaching and, indeed, I am struggling to remember ever having received a gift at all. (Perhaps it\u2019s mainly primary aged pupils who tend to give presents, he says hopefully).\nAnd finally, this was also on the BBC site sometime this week:\nA butter sculptor from Leicestershire is hoping his minutely detailed works of art will win the world cup at a competition in Luxembourg.\nVipula Athukorale is aiming to claim the top prize at the Salon International de la Gastronomie in November against other food artists.\nThe level of detail in his work is so fine that he cannot even breathe on the butter before cutting figures.\nHe explains to Nina Warhurst how he gets the level of detail into his work.\nAnd, if you want to see some of these masterpieces and to know what he says to Nina Warhurst, you can find the clip here.\nAnd finally, finally, the bastards have done it again. I woke up this morning to discover that the idiots have taken another hour from me without my consent. I looked out the window at the sheep in the neighbouring field and they couldn\u2019t care less what time the clock said; they were happily grazing. The wood pigeon on the pergola similarly didn\u2019t give a toss for the time of day: the sun was up and so was he/she. Why do we put up with it??!!\nHe Said ... She Said\nShe said: What do you mean by coming home half drunk? ...\nHe said: It's not my fault! I ran out of money!\nHe said: I don't know why you wear a bra, you've got nothing to put in it. ...\nShe said: You wear briefs, don't you?\nHe said: Since I first laid eyes on you, I've wanted to make love to you in the worst way. ...\nShe said: Well, you succeeded.\nOn the wall in ladies room: \"My husband follows me everywhere.\" ...\nWritten just below it: \"I do not!\"\nHe said: \"Shall we exchange positions tonight?\" ...\nShe said: \"That's a good idea, you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart.\"\nHe said: \"How about a quickie?\" ...\nShe said: \"As opposed to what?\"\nPriest said: I don't think you will ever find another man like your late husband. ...\nShe said: Who's gonna look?\nHe said: What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you? ...\nShe said: Turn sideways and look in the mirror.\nHe said: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. ...\nShe said: OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway light on.\nHe said: Why don't you tell me when you have an orgasm? ...\nShe said: I would, but you're never there.\nThings You'll Never Hear a West Virginia Boy Say\nI'll taste it before I add salt.\nI'll take Shakespeare for $1,000, Alex.\nDuct tape won't fix that.\nWe don't keep firearms in this house.\nWe don't feed that to the dog.\nNo kids in the back of the pickup -- it's just not safe.\nWrestling's fake.\nI'll have grapefruit & grapes instead of biscuits & gravy.\nHoney, we just don't need another dog.\nWho gives a damn who won the Civil War?\nGive me the small bag of pork rinds.\nToo many deer heads detract from the decor.\nI just couldn't find a thing at WalMart today.\nTrim the fat off that steak.\nCappuccino tastes better than espresso.\nThe tires on that truck are too big.\nI've got it all on the hard drive.\nUnsweetened tea tastes better.\nShe's too young to be wearing a bikini.\nI don't have a favorite college team.\nNo more for me. I'm driving.\nThose shorts ought to be a little longer, Betty Mae\nJacob considers himself to be one of the lucky ones because he's the only one of his family to have survived two years in a concentration camp. He's now nearing 90 and his only remaining joy is the national lottery, which he's been playing for years without success. But then he wins the big one, a prize of $10 million.\nA journalist from the Times calls on him for a story.\nJacob tells him, \"As I'm the only one in my family to have survived the concentration camps, this has helped me decide how to make use of my large win. So, I've decided to donate $5 million to the Save the Children Fund, $3 million to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, $750,000 to the Jewish Museum, $750,000 Hadassah Hospital and $500,000 to be shared amongst my friends. I'm also thinking of donating $1 to the Nazi Party from my winnings.\"\nThe journalist is surprised. \"But Jacob, how can you think of donating even $1 to the Nazi party after everything that's happened to you and your family?\"\nJacob rolls up his sleeve, points to his arm, smiles and replies, \"It's only fair. 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I'll get back to you as soon as I can.\nSend Message>\nOtherwise you can call me on the following numbers:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taxpreparercontinuingeducation.com/irs-tax-preparer-continuing-education.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DMWD35MLXCMF7LZ2H6KB2ZYWPHS7ZVEG", "length": 1019, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.taxpreparercontinuingeducation.com", "title": "Tax Preparer Continuing Education Online - IRS Tax Preparer Continuing Education", "raw_content": "IRS Tax Preparer Continuing Education\nIn an effort to smoke out unscrupulous tax preparers the IRS is requiring 15 hours of continuing education for registered tax preparers. The effort to reform the tax preparation business began in 2010, however the IRS tax preparer continuing education requirement began January 1st of this year.\nThe IRS has made a few exceptions to the new rule. For example Tax Accountants, Enrolled Agents, and Certified Public Accountants are not required to take IRS tax preparer continuing education courses. Upon completion of 15 hours of tax preparer CE and the issuance of a PTIN, the IRS bestows the title of \"Registered Tax Preparer\" onto the applicant.\nWhat does it mean for tax preparers and the consumer? The title of registered tax preparer will perhaps offer comfort to the consumer. The already professional tax preparer will be further legitimized in the tax industry while those unscrupulous few will either have to reform their practice or leave the business of tax preparation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tbsjournal.org.uk/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:50Z", "digest": "sha1:TWCSAWSXVXM4ASRSFYATZYCJFL5MMLU2", "length": 503, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tbsjournal.org.uk", "title": "TBS Journal \u2013 Page 4 \u2013 The British Scholarship Journal", "raw_content": "Scholars Journal Information http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/ \u2018Royal Society Open Science\u2019 is an open journal that has started not too long again from the Royal Society publishing. The journal will receive peer-review and it covers all vario...\nScholars Journal Information http://www.nejm.org/ NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) is a journal that focuses on biomedical science, clinical practices, and other topics on medical science. 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(Tom O'Dell / Photo Editor)\nBy Colleen Duncan\nDespite an unusual October snowstorm and a guest speaker cancellation, the Italian Club hosted its first-ever \u201cA Celebration of Italian-American Achievement\u201d on Saturday, Oct. 29 in the Library Auditorium.\nThe event, held in honor of Italian-American Heritage Month, featured two guest speakers, tales of Italian heritage and a red, white and green cake shaped like Italy. Organizers said the afternoon was aimed at educating students and emphasizing the Italian-American experience at the College.\n\u201cThe Italian culture is at a crossroads in its identity,\u201d said Vincent Pelli, senior education major and the president of the Italian Club. \u201cShows such as \u2018The Jersey Shore\u2019 show us in an inaccurate and demeaning light.\u201d\nThe event was not just about dispelling stereotypes, but also \u201cto teach the past, to teach where we came from in order to have a sense of rootedness, a sense of identity. Because it\u2019s only through the knowledge of the past that you can become real people, real citizens, real thinkers,\u201d said Simona Wright, Italian program coordinator.\nStudents ventured out into the snow to attend this event for a variety of reasons.\nLaura Wagner, senior Spanish major, came to the event for an Italian class she is taking, saying the event was \u201cimportant for the culture, to understand and hear about other people\u2019s experiences.\u201d\nFreshman international studies major James Geotschius felt four years of high school Italian classes were not enough to satiate his thirst for Italian heritage, and he came to the event to gain more-personal anecdotes of the journey to America and the Italian culture.\nGuest speaker Maria Fam\u00e0, an award-winning poet, provided just that. Reading excerpts from her four volumes of poetry, she spoke of her family\u2019s experience and valuable life lessons. She also provided insight into aspects of the Italian lifestyle, such as \u201cportable culture,\u201d or the traditional Italian items that flourished in America, as portrayed in her poem \u201cFig Tree in the Yard.\u201d\n\u201cBy the way, all of my poems are of true stories,\u201d Fam\u00e0 told the audience.\nFam\u00e0 also addressed the problem of stereotyping in America today.\n\u201cItalians are not looked on as honest. Of course they are, but the stereotypes prevail,\u201d she said.\nA flag cake was part of the Italian Club\u2019s \u2018A Celebration of Italian-American Achievement.\u2019 (Tom O'Dell / Photo Editor)\nAs an aspiring poet, Fam\u00e0 dealt with her own hardships and being subjected to stereotypes. She was told, \u201cItalians can work in factories, maybe chewing gum factories. They can\u2019t be doctors.\u201d As a child, this shocked her because there were doctors in her own family.\nOn the subject of MTV\u2019s \u201cThe Jersey Shore\u201d, Fam\u00e0 said, \u201cThat\u2019s what they think of us. That\u2019s what goes into people\u2019s homes.\u201d\nThe College also hosted Vincenzo Pascale at the event. Pascale was scheduled to discuss a new book, \u201cGli Italiani di New York,\u201d with journalist Maurizio Molinari. However, Molinari was invited to a dinner for President Obama in Washington, D.C. and was therefore unable to make it to the College.\n\u201cGli Italiani di New York,\u201d a nonfiction book, features 78 Italians and Italian-Americans known for great achievements.\nWhen asked what makes a person Italian, Pascale said, \u201cIf somebody feels Italian, if someone educated himself to be Italian, the government should not deny him Italian citizenship.\u201d\nOnce the speakers were finished, the cake was cut and everyone enjoyed a taste of Italy.\n\u201cI hope the attendants enjoyed the work and are intrigued in their own heritage and their own history,\u201d Fam\u00e0 said. \u201cItalian heritage, yes, but also, their own history.\u201d\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 1e8b1ea0b2676b105f5de68bb6e5b0c5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tenfingercrunch.com/article/7/2011/06/09/apple_updates_rules_for_inapp_subscriptions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LHZMPKHER3TXFIXUFKKRTPLEI2XSLGX3", "length": 2039, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tenfingercrunch.com", "title": "TenFingerCrunch :: Apple Updates Rules For In-App Subscriptions", "raw_content": "It was only a month ago that I posted my story on BeamItDown Software closing up shop because of Apple\u2019s in-app subscription requirements. At the time, Apple\u2019s policy read:\n11.13 Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app, for which Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues, provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app. This applies to both purchased content and subscriptions.\nI made no qualms about my feelings regarding this policy. I felt it was greedy and took advantage of the powerful position Apple had in the iOS environment. Taking a 30% cut for in-app purchases of content you are not housing or providing bandwidth for is insane.\nApparently something or someone has helped Apple change their mind on this policy. The revised policy now reads:\n11.14 Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app.\nAppleInsider had a good observation as to why Apple may have had a change-of-mind:\nApple\u2019s change of opinion comes soon after one prominent content provider, the Financial Times, decided to create an HTML5-optimized website rather than submit to Apple\u2019s in-app subscription rules and give the company a 30 percent cut\nI have to wonder if this was one of many publications that refused to provide their content in an iPad specific format because of the 30% gouging Apple required. Maybe this correlates with the Newsstand iOS 5 app demoed at the WWDC 2011 keynote on Monday. Regardless of the catalyst, I am happy Apple has revised the policy to be more developer-friendly.\nThanks to MacRumors for publishing this finding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tfpc.in/tag/antariksham-9000-kmph-movie-trailer-on-december-9th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:R6I75L6Y3Z4R57GQODZQG6VYPHUWYRXH", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tfpc.in", "title": "Antariksham 9000 KMPH Movie Trailer On December 9th | TFPC", "raw_content": "Antariksham 9000 KMPH Movie Trailer On December 9th", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 137.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thailivestock.com/forum/ehind-james-may-be-integral-miamis-chances-th", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ISEEW7A2QHKPITWSE7BZODQSHX4NMAWC", "length": 6088, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thailivestock.com", "title": "\ufeff ehind James may be integral to Miamis chances. Th | Thai Livestock | \u0e27\u0e31\u0e27", "raw_content": "ehind James may be integral to Miamis chances. Th\nMALAGA, Spain -- Athletic Bilbao rallied for another victory on Monday, coming from behind to win 2-1 at Malaga to heap pressure on coach Bernd Schuster. Iker Munian scored the 85th-minute winner only two minutes after Malagas Francisco Portillo was sent off after a challenge on Ander Iturraspe, his second booking for the match. Juami Jimenez headed the hosts ahead in the 38th-minute but Malaga seemed to let their concentration -- and the game -- slip away as the visitors clawed back with Mikel San Jose heading in from a corner in the 68th. The majority of the 25,000 spectators at La Roseleda Stadium chanted for Shuster to be fired. Bilbaos first victory at Malaga in 12 years came from its fourth come-from-behind victory of the season. Bilbao moved up to fifth place with 26 points, one behind fourth-place Villarreal. Defending champion Barcelona leads the standings with 40 points, three clear of Atletico Madrid and six ahead of third-place Read Madrid. http://www.max90zapatillas.es/adidas-originals-superstar-baratas/adidas-superstar-negro.html . The 48th-ranked Williams made her first appearance in Dubai since she won her second straight title here in 2010. Shed missed the last three years either because of injury or Sjogrens Syndrome. http://www.max90zapatillas.es/air-max-90-outlet-espana/air-max-90-negro-y-blancas.html . -- The Toronto Maple Leafs are tightening the race for second place in the Atlantic Division. http://www.max90zapatillas.es/air-max-90-outlet-espana/air-max-90-rosa.html. \"Opinion: Womens World Cup is the best Soccer of the year,\" Hanks tweeted to his 8.73 million followers on Friday. \"Hey FIFA, they deserve real grass. Put in sod. http://www.max90zapatillas.es/adidas-originals-zx-750-outlet/adidas-zx-750-azul.html . Klein went undrafted in the NFL last year following his senior season with the Wildcats. He was invited to the Houston Texans rookie camp, but was not offered a contract. http://www.max90zapatillas.es/air-max-90-outlet-espana/air-max-90-gris-y-blancas.html .Y. -- The New York Islanders were merely content with a lopsided victory.The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs are no strangers to the NBA Finals. The Heat are returning to the championship for a fourth consecutive year while the Spurs are making their sixth trip since 1999, including last years matchup with the Heat. Both clubs are filled with All-Stars and future Hall of Famers. With so much talent and experience on the court, picking a winner isnt an easy thing to do. The question is, which player in the NBA Finals is most important to their teams success? Who needs to be on top of their game for their team to have a shot at the Larry OBrien Trophy? Lets start off with the Miami Heat. The obvious choice is LeBron James. The player widely regarded as the best in the world is a game-changer in every sense of the word. Hes taken home the Finals MVP the past two championship seasons for the Heat and is in the prime of his career. In Game 7 against the Spurs last year, James racked up 37 points, 12 rebounds and four assists. Not a bad performance for the biggest stage an NBA player could ever play on. If James is on his game, or close to it, are the Heat a lock to capture their third consecutive championship? Dwyane Wade played the 2013 Finals with a bad left knee and was still able to contribute to the teams success. Now in 2014, the 32-year-old has a clean bill of health (for his standards) and is ready to compete for his fourth title in a Miami uniform. Wade is averaging 18.7 points and close to 20 minutes of play per game throughout these playoffs. The knee doesnt seem to be an issue. Wades leadership and secondary scoring behind James may be integral to Miamis chances. The third wheel when it comes to the Miami Heat is Chris Bosh. The 30-year-old Dallas native doesnt seem to get the same respect as his fellow Heat All-Stars. But, the reality is, Bosh is a good player. The Heat probably wouldnt have been as dominant as theyve been over the past few seassons if Bosh had stayed with the Toronto Raptors.ddddddddddddDoes Bosh need to continue being effective for the Heat to be at the top of their game as a group? The Spurs have their share of talented players as well. The ageless Tim Duncan will be vying for his fifth championship with San Antonio. Even as a 38-year-old in his 17th season in the NBA, Duncan hasnt missed a step in these playoffs, averaging close to a double-double. Will Duncans leadership and flawless fundamentals on the court be the difference-maker in a Spurs series victory? Last year it was Wade hobbled with an injury in the Finals, now its Spurs point guard Tony Parker stricken with the bug. Parker is dealing with a lingering left ankle problem that forced him to miss the second half of Game 6 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Finals. Hes expected to play in Game 1. Even with the wonky ankle, the 32-year-old is leading the team in points (17.2) and assists (5.7) this post-season. If Parker can stay healthy enough to contribute on the court, San Antonio might be able to figure out Miami. Manu Ginobili is arguably the most reliable bench player in the Association and is a major key to the Spurs success. If San Antonio is going to beat Miami, will Ginobili be a major reason why? And then there is Gregg Popovich. The four-time NBA champion and three-time Coach of the Year (including this season) knows the game like the back of his hand. Will his fiery intensity be enough to help dethrone the Heat? So there you have it, the main characters of the 2014 NBA Finals. It was a great seven-game series last June and theres no reason the same wont happen this time around. With these teams being so evenly matched, its hard to predict a winner and one player could be the difference. So, which player is most important to their team winning the Larry OBrien Trophy? As always, its Your! Call. 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Over the weekend, the following statement was released via the developer\u2019s website: \u201cAt MM we were as shocked and dismayed by this as anyone \u2013 shellshocked and gutted. Within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), Media Molecule had prepared a new disk image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no online was to replace existing disks.\u201d\nMedia Molecule\u2019s site has been so flooded by comments from angry gamers that the team were forced to plead for calm, saying in an update, \u201cIt seems this is as emotional for you as it was for us. However, please try to breath in and out and keep your commenting at least clean if not polite.\u201d\nSony also revealed the new US ship date, \u201cWe will begin shipping LittleBigPlanet to retail in North America the week of October 27.\u201d No official date for European release has been announced as yet.\nMeanwhile, gameindustry.biz are reporting that copies of the game are already showing up on eBay. Some sellers are advertising the game as a \u201ccollector\u2019s edition\u201d and asking up to $250. That\u2019s a big price to pay for a game that will be out in one week, its uniqueness patched away immediately upon going online.\nUpdate: Sony now says the PAL version will be out \u201cno later than the week commencing Monday 3rd November.\u201d\nUpdate 2: Sony confirms Nov. 5 release for UK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebellnews.com/2013/11/16/obamacare-is-a-failure-or-is-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:R35ZMS6OUJXBWEITF45BUKWRYG5IUXNK", "length": 10337, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.thebellnews.com", "title": "Obamacare is a Failure....or is It? - The Bell News", "raw_content": "Obamacare is a Failure\u2026.or is It?\nFailure is a matter of perspective. When it comes to Obamacare, one man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure.\nWhile many on the political right are ready to call the Affordable Care Act a failure and throw parts of it on the scrap heap, the Obama administration is secretly popping the cork on the champagne bottle celebrating its success while figuratively stroking it and calling it, \u201cMy Precious\u201d.\nHow can that be, you ask? How can the President be excited about rising healthcare costs and a website that doesn\u2019t work?\nBecause Obamacare is doing exactly what it\u2019s supposed to do. Transitioning the United States to a single-payer, government run, Communist inspired, national healthcare system.\nIn 1965 Medicaid was created through the Social Security Act. It is a state managed, and state and federally funded, program which was meant to provide healthcare to poor. While it was slowly adopted by the states over 20 years, and has been amended a few times, it always remained a tool for those who were the poorest among us, primarily those with children, until now.\nIn 2007, then Senator Obama campaigned on the promise that he would pass a law in his first term as President that would \u201ctransition\u201d the United States into a single payer healthcare system. This transition involved expanding access to Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP (Children\u2019s Medicaid). Watch the Video Here. No seriously\u2026 watch it.\nIn a totally unrelated coincidence, HR 3590 (a.k.a. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare) expanded coverage of Medicaid to cover among other things, for the first time, adults without children (without requiring a waiver), and streamlined the access to coverage between all three (Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP) by \u201cusing a single application and have the (Citizen\u2019s) eligibility determined for all insurance affordability programs through one simple process\u201d, better known as the Obamacare exchanges.\nAccording to the Washington State\u2019s website Obamacare expands Medicaid by:\nHow does the Affordable Care Act affect eligibility for Medicaid?\nCreates a new Medicaid group \u2013 Newly Eligible Individuals age 19 up to 65 who:\nHave income below 138% FPL\nMeet citizenship requirements\nAre not incarcerated\nAre not entitled to Medicare\nChanges to income and deductions for existing Medicaid groups:\nFamilies (Parents/Caretaker Relatives)\nModified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) methodology used for income calculation is the IRS\nIncome deductions\nAdditional methods for determining income and deductions\nHousehold composition \u2013 mirrors federal income tax filing rules\nNo asset/resource limits\n12 month certification periods\nSimplified application and renewal process for:\nAccording to a pamphlet also issued by Washington State, the Medicaid expansion will cover those who earn from $15,000 all the way up to $54,000 (Depending on the size of the family):\nIf you watched the video of Senator Obama then you may already know the answer.\nAccording to a book titled: Healthcare Systems in Transition: Canada, as Obama explained in the video, Canada had a similar transition leading into single payer healthcare. Over a 40+ year period Canada gradually adopted a single payer system (based on the Saskatchewan model) by passing laws to expand health coverage under a province and federally funded program (similar to our Medicaid) eventually known as Medicare. With every new law passed, the Canadian Medicare program covered more and more people until eventually every citizen had Medicare coverage and single payer was the norm in all 10 provinces and 3 territories.\nAs Obama mentioned, Obamacare was designed with the Canadian model mind and was meant as another step forward toward a single payer system here in the United States. It does this (in case you missed it earlier) by expanding Medicaid coverage and streamlining the process for people to gain access to all three Government funded healthcare plans: Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP. According to an article on CNSNews, at least 43% of insured Americans are expected to be serviced through Medicaid, Medicare, or CHIP in 2014. That percentage doesn\u2019t even include the 20 Million or more who will be eligible for government subsidies through Obamacare. (Coincidentally, Canada\u2019s transition to single payer also included government subsidies so that their citizens could purchase \u201cprivate\u201d insurance. Beginning to see a trend?) With the continued downturn in the U.S. economy, and as the fine er.., tax for being uninsured grows with inflation after 2016, those numbers who will qualify for government subsidies or a government healthcare plan are without a doubt guaranteed to grow and accelerate the transition.\nObamacare originally mandated that all states had to expand their Medicaid programs. But thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, states no longer have to participate in the Medicaid expansion. While this is a set back for the President\u2019s plan to enroll as many people as possible into a government run/ funded insurance program, the Progressives have received their marching orders and are, as you read this, once again trying to push through Medicaid expansion in the states where it was rejected. Even without all of the states on board with the Medicaid expansion, over 1.5 Million people in 19 states have already been added to the Medicaid rolls through the Obamacare exchanges.\nIf this isn\u2019t bad enough for you (I\u2019m guessing it is more than enough) it gets worse. It seems the Obama administration wishes to transform Medicaid as well.\nSec 2705 of Obamacare stipulates:\nThe Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the \u2018\u2018Secretary\u2019\u2019) shall, in coordination with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (as established under section 1115A of the Social Security Act, as added by section 3021 of this Act), establish the Medicaid Global Payment System Demonstration Project under which a participating State shall adjust the payments made to an eligible safety net hospital system or network from a fee for service payment structure to a global capitated payment model.\nGlobal Capitation is:\n\u2026 applicable in a health maintenance organization (HMO) structure. The HMO is paid a specified amount per patient to deliver services over a set period of time.\nIn other words, a doctor will lose money if he or she has to run a large battery of tests on a patient because they are only given \u201cx\u201d amount of dollars for their care over a certain period of time, no matter what is wrong with them. In theory, Global Capitation will encourage doctors and hospitals to waste less resources while caring for the sick or go broke in the process. Ironically, some might say this system could be considered a form of death panel because Global Capitation encourages a doctor or hospital to do less instead of more when it comes to patient care.\nIf you add all of this information together with the fact that the additional coverage mandated in Obamacare for private insurance (such as maternity care for men) is driving up private insurance costs and making it unaffordable for most Americans, you can easily erase any doubt in your mind as to where this is all heading; the elimination of private insurance companies.\nNow someone out there is probably saying, \u201cBut Obamacare will allow the Federal government to assist insurance companies through the Three R\u2019s : Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, and Risk Adjustment. (Read about those here.) So insurance companies aren\u2019t going to go out of business because of Obamacare.\u201d\nIt is true that Obamacare, in essence, subsidizes insurance companies, but that is only for a limited time. Look, ask yourself if you were President and going to destroy an industry would you tell them you were going to do it or would you tell them that you were going to \u201chelp\u201d them? Of course you would tell them you would help but then only for a limited time just so that they don\u2019t put up a fight. See, once Obamacare, combined with the terrible economy, has caused significant enough enrollment in Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP, all any administration (present or future) has to do is take away the \u201csafety blanket\u201d which was given to insurance companies under Obamacare. With that blanket gone guess what happens? No more private insurance. Because without the government\u2019s assistance selling private healthcare will no longer be profitable so at that point the only healthcare option for Americans will be government run or none (not really none, you\u2019ll have to pay the fine..,err tax for not having any. Hey, someone has to fund the Medicaid expansion right?).\nSo if you happen to be a lover of Liberty you probably believe that Obamacare is a failure\u2026.\nBut if you are a Marxist loving Communist, like the President, then you probably believe it\u2019s all going according to a Canadian inspired plan, eh?\nThe main group which was targeted by this current Medicaid expansion in Obamcare are College age young people. Having these young people become accustom to government run / subsidized healthcare now, will make it easier to pass yet another Medicaid expansion in the next 10 years. Progressives are not fools. They understand the concept of youth indoctrination all too well.\nMarco Rubio seems to understand that Obamacare is working as it is supposed to.\nFLASHBACK: Harry Reid admits Obamacare will lead to single payer.\nNY Senator Admits that they knew people wouldn\u2019t be allowed to keep their health insurance plan.\nPrevious story Obama and the far left: Not even lying\nNext story I Hate Being Right: 30,000 of 35,000 Obamacare Applicants In Washington State Signed Up For Medicaid\nThis is not only about insurance prices. It is also about overall health care costs in the future. We as a country cannot continue on the path of ever escalating health care expenses. Our Corporations are keenly aware of this and know it effects our ability to compete with foreign labor. Something has to done. We cannot stay with the status quo. The ACA is the best option we have with the current political environment. We should all be doing whatbis needed to make this work and stop the outright selfishness. Conservatives talk about deficits and future generations and how we need to take the medicine now. Skyrocketing health care cost are no less of a threat to future generations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 17521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thechlway.com/mortgages/va-loan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5CR6VCGC4L73V7LZBQYMQUWSUG3WF3CX", "length": 1757, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thechlway.com", "title": "VA Loan - Country Home Loans | Ardmore OK | Seiling OK", "raw_content": "Mortgages VA Loan\nA VA loan is a loan made by private lenders, like us, to eligible veterans. If you want to purchase a home, condominium or manufactured home, the VA can guarantee up to $417,000 of the total loan \u2014 much higher than you can get with most conventional home loans.\nThere are three types of VA loans: purchase loans, interest rate reduction refinance loans (or IRRRL, also referred to as a VA streamline refinance loan), and cash-out refinance loans. There are many benefits to a VA loan, but one of biggest benefits is that no down payment is needed to purchase a home. This can make home ownership a reality for active military or veterans who might otherwise not be able to afford it.\nWho Is Eligible for VA Loans?\nVA loans are designed for military personnel, veterans, and military families. The list of those who are eligible for this home-buying military benefit include:\nActive-duty personnel\nNational Guard members\nSome surviving spouses\nYou must also have suitable credit, sufficient income, and a valid Certificate of Eligibility (COE). And you must use the home for your own personal occupancy. Still unsure if you\u2019re eligible? Check the Department of Veterans Affairs website for a detailed list of eligibility requirements for military service members, veterans, and military spouses.\nVA Loan Features and Benefits\nNo down payment required (unless required by the lender or the purchase price is more than the VA loan limits)\nNegotiable and competitive interest rate.\nAbility to finance the VA funding fee (plus reduced funding fees with a down payment of at least 5 percent and exemption for veterans receiving VA compensation).\nNo private mortgage insurance premiums are required.\nRight to prepay your mortgage without penalty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecompellededucator.com/2015/04/the-importance-of-creating-community.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OIGCURNYHMTP3KB3GKAESWH57LE3G6TP", "length": 5707, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.thecompellededucator.com", "title": "The Compelled Educator: The Importance of Creating Community", "raw_content": "Community, while it may not be vital to an individual's success in school, fulfills basic human needs. The need for belongingness and the desire to identify with and be a part of a group are factors in human motivation.\nWhen I was in high school, my dad got transferred with his job. That meant that we would be leaving Chattanooga, TN where I had grown up, and we would be moving to Birmingham, AL. It would happen during the summer between my sophomore and junior year in high school. I had questions about the new school where I would attend. Would I fit in? Would the other kids like me? Will I make close friends?\nI feel lucky that I was an athlete. I already belonged to a community. I made friends quickly, had things in common with others, and worked with them towards a common goal.\nWhat about kids who don't already belong to a community? What about students in a classroom? Do they automatically have things in common? Do they make community just by being in class together? I say no. And it's my belief that the teacher is vital to creating a community in a classroom.\nWhat is community about?\nCommunity is about empathy. It's about trying to put yourself in another's shoes, to listen to their point of view, and respect their journey.\nCommunity is about participation. Community is not about being a wallflower. It's not about watching. It's about contributing, because all voices are valued and important.\nCommunity is about authenticity. It's about being yourself and sharing that self with others. It's about not just \"going along to get along,\" but about complimenting each other's strengths and weaknesses with your own.\nCommunity is about trust. It's about a belief system that all people - despite and because of differences - are valuable and matter. Respect for others is one of the components necessary for trust.\nHow to build community in the classroom:\n1. As the teacher, model, encourage, and expect supportive, respectful relationships. Avoid sarcasm. Don't allow students to make negative comments about each other. Use manners. Listen.\n2. Provide opportunities for student input. Creating classroom rules together is one way to allow students to have a voice and have a shared product.\n3. Provide opportunities for collaboration. Teach students how to work together, and emphasize ideal behaviors and beliefs of respect, trust, and empathy.\n4. Provide opportunities for personal sharing. Share stories about yourself. Learn what's important to each student. One teacher I know had students to bring in an item from home that was important to them. The students had 20 seconds to share the item and explain why. (This was a precursor to writing persuasive essays.) Some of the students' stories brought the others to tears. Every story was an important contribution to the classroom community.\nWhat did I leave out? What else is community about and how do we develop classroom community?\nWhat Do (or Should) Classrooms Look Like in 2014?\nTeachers' Expectations, High or Low, are Always Met\nWhat a crazy coincidence. Ten seconds before you sent this out my daughter was coming to me for advice on how to handle and deal with being left out. She is 9, but at 9 that can mean the world to a child. Your advice for educators is great. I do not think she is left out much and when she is, it is from things that she doesn't want to do anyway. This led to a conversation about peer pressure and making good choices. It even led to a brief discussion on peer pressure with drugs, alcohol and yes sex. She blushed when I mentioned that, but she is growing up quickly and I feel it is my role to help prepare her for this difficult world she will be navigating..\nJennifer Hogan April 19, 2015 at 5:52 PM\nIt's amazing that we have those kinds of conversations with kids at young ages. I think you're doing the right thing by a brief discussion on the hard topics. Our messages to kids should be clear and in their best interests. Thanks for reading!\nGreg Armamentos April 19, 2015 at 1:17 PM\nWhen our students leave, they remember the relationships more than the lessons. Community building is vital. Thanks for your practical steps we can use to insure we are building a cohesive classroom community that serves our students well.\nSo true, Greg. Kids remember the people, whether it's teachers, staff, or fellow classmates. It's so important that kids are not just sitting beside another student without really getting to know them.\nThank you for the post. I truly think that the foundation of education is relationships and we develop relationships through community in our classrooms. I was watching \"Dead Poet's Society\" last night and this made me think of how they developed their community with a common goal, but also had everyone make their individual contributions. Once that community has been established, then true learning can occur.\nYour comment makes me want to go back and watch the movie, Jon. A common goal is not the \"norm\" in classrooms, but it definitely can be done. It's up to us to find a way. Thanks for your comment.\nJen H. May 2, 2015 at 4:08 PM\nJust like any other relationship, the sense of community, belonging, trust, and authenticity has to be established and constantly reviewed. It's not just something that happens the first month of school and then you're good to go for the year. Reviewing expectations for communication and trust and modeling that every day has to be in the background of our thinking all the time. I agree that it's an essential part of the classroom if any true learning is going to take place.\nCurbs, Speed Bumps, and Road Blocks\n4 Productivity Extensions for Chrome\nTwo New Things I've Tried this Year\nOne Tip for Making Changes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 8723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/surviving-valentines-day", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:47Z", "digest": "sha1:L437JFVHE2WY7SALYS6TG4M34YFV2NT2", "length": 3588, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thedowneypatriot.com", "title": "Surviving Valentine's Day \u2014 The Downey Patriot", "raw_content": "Surviving Valentine's Day\nValentine's Day can either be a pleasurable occasion or stress filled with high expectations and disappointment. If you have that special relationship, Valentine's Day can be a time to show love and affection. For singles, the day can be a reminder of loneliness or a missing relationship.Even people who do have significant others can wind up hating Valentine's Day. The problem is that Valentine's Day often comes with a predetermined set of expectations. Someone may expect a certain gift, a special night out, or some other gesture. Disappointment results whenever expectations are not met. Surviving For Couples Valentine's Day isn't a day of amnesty or a single opportunity to fix problems in a relationship. Issues don't pop up overnight nor can they be fixed that way. If you anticipate repairing a relationship in one day, you will be disappointed. Don't get caught up in the commercialization. Relationships portrayed in advertisements don't necessarily reflect reality. You can show you care with the use of your heart and imagination. Do simple things that say, \"I'm thinking of you.\" Don't rely on your partner to read your mind. If you have specific desires, share them. Give without expecting anything in return. Small, thoughtful gestures mean a lot, don't overlook them. Not everyone gets enthusiastic about Valentine's Day. If your partner isn't that excited, don't read too much into it. Do whatever feels comfortable and be ok with it. You don't have to do anything you are uncomfortable with. Simply saying, \"Happy Valentine's Day. I love you.\" sends the message that you are thinking of your partner. Surviving For Singles Accept your emotions. If you are sad and lonely, it's ok. You feel what you feel. Just because you may not happen to be in a relationship for Valentine's Day does not mean there is anything wrong with you. Be social. Organize a group of other singles for dinner out or some other social activity. You may not be involved romantically, but you have more people in your life who care about you than you realize. Treat yourself. Buy or do something special. Splurge a little. Rather than fixating on not being in a relationship at the moment, be thankful for what's good in your life. Ironically, singles spend a lot of time hoping for a relationship, while many in a relationship lament the freedom of their single days. Valentine's Day is as commercialized as Christmas. Look at all the money and stress you save by not being caught up in the frenzy. Immerse yourself in other activities. If you are busy, you won't even notice Valentine's Day. Help others in need. When you do, you will also feel better. If you want a relationship, be proactive. Don't wait for a relationship to find you, go out and look for one. Stay upbeat. A happy person is much more attractive than someone with a perpetual frown. No one wants to spend time with a person who is bitter or resentful. If there is someone you are interested in, take the initiative. Invite them to get together with you. Stay sociable. Get out and about. Involve yourself in a variety of activities. There are many opportunities to meet people. Join a gym, take a class, volunteer, join a singles group, and pursue your hobbies. Regardless of your situation, keep in mind that Valentine's Day is only one day. Good or bad, it goes by quickly. Bryan is the author of \"Dare to Live Without Limits.\" Visit www.DareToLiveWithoutLimits.com or your bookstore. Bryan is a self-development expert, syndicated columnist, and professor. E-mail Bryan at bryan@columnist.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theintelligencer.net/uncategorized/2018/09/intent-on-getting-a-big-raise-you-may-have-to-quit-your-job/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KZM4OEZBOWK23MOTEA7BQDE7OX3GV5I6", "length": 7533, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.theintelligencer.net", "title": "newslink", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Despite one of the best job markets in decades, workers across the U.S. economy are struggling with a common frustration: What does it take to finally get a decent raise?\nIt turns out you might have to quit your job.\nAmericans who leave their employers to take a new job are enjoying pay raises that are one-third larger than raises for workers who stay put \u2014 a gap that has reached the widest point since the Great Recession.\nAt the same time, retail and restaurant workers are receiving more generous raises than manufacturing workers are.\nAnd America\u2019s CEOs are getting some of the biggest pay gains of all.\nAt a time when the average annual wage increase for U.S. workers as a whole remains surprisingly modest given the robust job market, those groups of workers are doing better than average.\nOthers aren\u2019t faring as well. Pay raises for people who have stayed in the same job for the past year, for example, remain relatively stagnant. That trend has confounded some economists. Many had expected that companies would have to pay more to retain employees at a time when workers are harder to find and the unemployment rate, at 3.9 percent, is near a 50-year low.\nNationally, average hourly pay rose 2.7 percent in July from a year earlier, before adjusting for inflation.\nThat is modest by historical standards. The last time unemployment was this low, in the late 1990s, pay raises for Americans as a whole averaged roughly 4 percent.\nAnd once you factor in inflation, average hourly pay has actually declined slightly over the past 12 months.\nWith midterm elections looming, the Trump administration is pushing back against the notion that paychecks aren\u2019t growing much. In a report released Wednesday, the White House\u2019s top economist, Kevin Hassett, asserted that pay is picking up if you consider benefits such as health care, an alternative gauge of inflation and the impact of tax cuts.\nYet even by the White House\u2019s own measure, wage increases have slowed over the past three years.\nIt would seem fundamental: If you want a significant raise, find a new job. But it doesn\u2019t always work that way. For the first six years after the 2008-2009 Great Recession, people who switched jobs received raises that were scarcely better than those for workers who stayed in their jobs.\nBut since then, the switchers have commanded steadily better raises than the stayers. In July, wages for job switchers grew 3.8 percent from a year earlier, compared with 2.9 percent for those who stayed behind, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In February and March this year, that gap reached 1.7 percentage points, the widest disparity since August 2001.\nStill, the figures also illustrate how pay is still lagging compared with previous periods of brisk job growth. Even the pay gains for job-switchers are relatively modest compared with periods in the past.\nBefore the recession, job switchers received annual raises of nearly 5 percent. In the late 1990s, they topped 6 percent. Even adjusting for inflation, job switchers fared better in the late 1990s than they do now.\nFor roughly three years now, average raises for workers who have stayed in their jobs have remained stuck below 3 percent.\n\u201cIt\u2019s interesting that in a labor market that is this tight, employers do not seem to be raising wages for workers who are staying,\u201d said Martha Gimbel, an economist at the job search website Indeed. \u201cThat could imply they are not worried about workers being poached, which is surprising.\u201d\nGimbel suggested that at least some workers may be staying in their jobs because of a growing use of \u201cnon-compete\u201d agreements, which restrict workers from jumping to competitors. Such agreements have been used increasingly even in low-wage jobs such as fast-food work.\nIn addition, many job-switchers may have mastered high-tech and other skill sets that allow them to command higher wages as competition for such workers heats up.\nLOWER-PAID WORKERS RECEIVE SOLID GAINS\nFor six years following the recession, the lowest-paid workers got the weakest wage gains. Yet since 2015 they have clawed back some of those losses.\nFor the lowest-paid one-fifth of the workforce, wages rose 2.3 percent in 2017, adjusted for inflation, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. That topped the average for middle-income workers, whose pay gains inched up just 0.2 percent.\nIt\u2019s also ahead of the richest one-tenth of workers, whose pay rose 1.9 percent. Low-paid workers also saw a huge gain in 2016 that ran far ahead of middle-income and wealthy employees.\nWhat\u2019s driving the outsize increases for lower-paid workers?\nMore than 20 states have raised their minimum wages above the federal minimum of $7.25, some of them substantially higher. The minimum is now $11 in California, for example, and $11.50 in Washington state. Those higher minimums have provided a boost to lower-income workers.\nThe ultra-low unemployment rate has also helped. Many businesses say they are desperate to find workers. And in some lower-skilled industries, such as restaurants, they have to pay more to find staff.\n\u201cWe\u2019re seeing about as strong a labor market for less-skilled workers as we\u2019ve seen in a really long time,\u201d said Jason Furman, the top White House economist under President Barack Obama.\nCEOs STILL RAKING IT IN\nEven as poorer workers have fared better, CEOs, not surprisingly, have done best.\nIn 2017, the chief executives of the 350 largest publicly traded U.S. companies reported, on average, an increase in compensation of nearly 18 percent, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. That compares with a puny raise of just 0.3 percent for all other workers in the same industries. Both figures are adjusted for inflation.\nLarry Mishel, senior economist at EPI, said CEO pay jumped largely because it is closely tied to the health of the stock market. The S&P 500 stock market index soared 22 percent that year. Most CEO pay comes in the form of stock options, which are much more lucrative in a rising market.\nThat means a plummeting stock market can lower CEO pay, which fell nearly 30 percent in 2008, during the recession. Yet for perspective, the pay of CEOs of the largest firms still averaged nearly $11 million that year, according to the EPI\u2019s figures.\nIn 2017, large-company CEOs made $18.9 million, on average. That is 312 times the average pay of workers in the same industries, which reached $62,431 last year.\nSOLID GAINS FOR WHITES AND LATINOS\nWhite Americans, on average, earn much more than African-Americans or Latinos. The gap between whites and Latinos has narrowed very slightly in the past three years as wage gains have begun to pick up across the economy after six years of little growth.\nRESTAURANTS AND CONSTRUCTION TROUNCE MANUFACTURING\nWorkers in some industries have also done better. In July, restaurants and bars handed out raises of 4 percent from a year earlier, before taking inflation into account. Pay for construction workers increased 3.2 percent. Even retail workers\u2019 pay grew 2.9 percent, slightly better than the average.\nYet for manufacturing workers, pay has risen just 1.2 percent in the past year even as hiring has accelerated. U.S. factories are increasingly using temporary workers, who typically receive less pay. Temp workers now make up roughly 12 percent of manufacturing workers, according to the EPI.\nU.S. automakers are now paying new and younger employees much less than older workers, likely contributing to lower overall pay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thembaprograms.com/interface-facebook-style-twitter-is-official/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DRPFMSZIU4QPHQGBOUE52RENNY7UFEPP", "length": 3314, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thembaprograms.com", "title": "Interface \u201cFacebook Style\u201d Twitter is Official \u2013 Themba Blog", "raw_content": "Interface \u201cFacebook Style\u201d Twitter is Official\nRemember that interface which refers to services like Facebook, Pinterest and Google+ that Twitter went testing in February this year? If, as the present writer, you find that the company would not take the idea forward, know that this new look began to be implemented today (08) and come to all accounts in the coming weeks.\nIn common with the current layout, the new interface has only the upper horizontal bar. In the rest, what a difference: a cover on top similar to that adopted by Google+ and Facebook, profile numbers (number of followers, tweets and the like) just below and better use of screen space using three columns instead of two.\nThe left column shows a picture of higher profile then the user description and your photo archive or videos. The trending topics have been moved to the right column, so the suggestions profiles to follow.\nIn the central column and which are tweets that, unlike style \u201ccards\u201d tested on February remain displayed linearly. The advantage is that the images and videos that accompany the messages are now displayed much more prominent.\nThere are also functional innovations: with the new interface, the user can set certain tweets at the top of your timeline, have messages with greater engagement appearing more prominently in your account, and you can select what type of content to view the profiles you visit \u2013 only tweets with photos and videos, for example.\nIt is undoubtedly the most radical change of Twitter since its inception. The more traditional users will probably wonder or disapprove the new interface, but the fact is that the service really needs an aggressive stance to remain relevant: A survey published last month-end shows that the number of inactive profiles on Twitter is growing gradually, the same as the average of tweets per user is falling.\nThe highlight the photos and videos as well as the giant cover on top of the new interface can help Twiter winning new users, especially younger ones, which tend to be more active in social networks.\nIf the idea will work, just waiting to find out. At least Twitter followed with the habit of not implementing change at a time, which should help in the last adjustments, make the most assiduous users become accustomed gradually to the idea and, if appropriate, give the new standard affecting as little users as possible.\nAccounts created on Twitter from today you will have the new interface. Among the existing profiles, implementation will be progressive, with only one \u201cselet\u00edssimo\u201d group receiving the news today, including @gilbertogil (Gilberto Gil), @flotus (Michelle Obama) and @weezer (Band Weezer). Some non-rich and famous users were also chosen to be part of the early adopters and already received.\nIt is worth noting that the new interface affects only the Web version. Twitter\u2019s official apps are still as they were, at least for now.\nProtect your brand on the Internet is extremely difficult to do. There are even companies specialized in monitoring brands, find out what they are talking about it, if someone is misusing this kind of information. One of the companies interested in protecting your brand's Twitter Inc., creator and operator of Twitter. But she may have gone a little beyond what is necessary in relation to the blog\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themisnetwork.eu/news/89/17/Former-Yugoslav-Republic-of-Macedonia-Forest-Fire-Country-Study.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VIPNW5WUPDXWLF7TAM76NQGKDQTXAM5V", "length": 2615, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.themisnetwork.eu", "title": "Themis Network - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Forest Fire Country Study", "raw_content": "Forest fires in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are typically caused by stubble burning, the burning of pastures, and arson. Arson, which has emerged as a significant problem in the last 15 years, is economically driven and linked to illegal logging. In some cases, for example, forest fires have been started intentionally in order to cover up illegal logging activities. Fires have also been started in order to occupy the attention of official institutions (e.g. the Forestry Police) with fire suppression while illegal logging activities take place in other areas of the forest. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, in the period between 2004 and 2013 there were a total of 2,465 forest fires in the country, the total burned area was 91,805.9 ha, and the total volume of burned timber 931,258.52 m3. Within the same period there were an average of 205 forest fires per year and the average size of the burned area was 9,180 ha annually. The total damage (burned timber volume plus suppression costs) caused by forest fires in this period has been estimated at around EUR 5.1 million.\nIn general, forest fire protection measures are divided into the following categories: prevention, pre-suppression and suppression. The same approach can be used when addressing the weaknesses in the system for forest fire protection in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Regarding prevention, there is still a need for a law or legal document that harmonises the activities of the various institutions and organisations (currently regulated by several laws or legal documents). This could be achieved through the adoption of a national plan for forest fire management. Another element of prevention that needs to be improved is the organisation of forest fire prevention campaigns (public awareness raising and educational campaigns). Regarding pre-suppression, it would be important to create a group of specialised (properly trained) forest firefighters, procure specialised vehicles and tools for forest fire suppression, enhance the quality of planning documents and strengthen research capacities.\nAn additional problem is the presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO). There are no maps showing the precise distribution of UXO in contaminated forests and forest lands, which presents a problem during forest fire suppression activities in these areas. In addition to the creation of such maps, establishing methods for the management of these areas and defining procedures for forest fire suppression activities on contaminated lands remain a pressing challenge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 138.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themusingsofabookaddict.com/2012/12/student-saturdays-final-hour-andrew.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GRE4BWXRPGFQIZFUCCXPEHPTZKHCJVE2", "length": 1287, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.themusingsofabookaddict.com", "title": "The Musings of a Book Addict: Student Saturdays: The Final Hour - Andrew Klavan", "raw_content": "Student Saturdays: The Final Hour - Andrew Klavan\nStudent Reviewer: Jose M-M\nCharlie West has held on to that belief, but now he's starting to wonder. He went to bed one night an ordinary high-school kid. When he woke up, he was wanted for murder and hunted by a ruthless band of terrorists. He's been on the run ever since.\nNow he's stuck in prison, abandoned by his allies, trying desperately to stay a step ahead of vicious prison gangs and brutal guards. And a flash of returning memory tells him another terrorist strike is coming soon. A million people will die unless he does something. But what? He's stuck in a concrete cage with no way out and no one who can help. Charlie has never felt so alone-and yet he knows he can't give in or give up. Not with the final hour ticking away.\nI enjoyed reading this book. As a kid I have seen so many movies where people end up in jail for no reason. Charlie west is the adult that ended up in jail. Charlie West is the young adult that ended up in jail supposedly because he murdered someone and is hunted by a ruthless band of terrorists. The setting is in a jail that is the size of a mansion. The book was awesome because it had a little action and it was also kind of sad. I can\u2019t wait until the teacher reads the book The Final Hour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thenamelesszine.org/Books-2017/Chimes_At_Midnight.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:35Z", "digest": "sha1:E45OICRMI2KPPA3G65EQFNBC7MR5BQ3N", "length": 5684, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thenamelesszine.org", "title": "The Nameless Zine", "raw_content": "DAW, $7.99 368pp\nI've been fascinated by how Seanan McGuire's series about October 'Toby' Daye has progressed and I've mentioned this in some of my reviews of earlier books; this is the seventh. 'Rosemary and Rue', the first in the series, was the first in McGuire's bibliography too and it's been wonderful to watch her grow as a writer and take control of what she's writing. I've been seeing change coming over the last few volumes and it seems that she was seeing it too, as she opens her acknowledgements with a major claim: ''Chimes at Midnight' marks the start of what I view as the second stage in Toby's journey.'\nShe's not kidding and it's here, seven chapters in, that those unanswered questions dangled tantalisingly during those magnificent last seventy pages of 'One Salt Sea', two books earlier, start to find answers. It's abidingly clear that McGuire had been figuring out where to take Toby and Faerie and this series and the light bulb apparently went off while she was writing that book. 'Ashes of Honor' took care of some loose ends from, I guess, the first stage in Toby's journey, and set up this beginning to the second.\nAnd here, she gets right down to business with a pretty cool MacGuffin: goblin fruit, taken from the poem by Christina Rossetti, 'Goblin Market', particularly the line, 'We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruits'. Here, McGuire explains why: goblin fruit is rather delicious to the pureblood Fae, but it's instantly and fatally addictive to changelings and humans. Toby hates goblin fruit and wants it gone from Faerie but someone is flooding the streets with it and the changeling population is vanishing.\nAlways one to take on other people's problems as her own, Toby investigates the business and eventually takes her findings to the Queen of the Mists, a good deed that backfires horribly. It turns out that it's the Queen who's selling the stuff and Toby's attentions prompt her banishment: three days to get out of her kingdom forever. Like Toby's going to do that. What's the alternative? Why, overthrow the Queen! That fits what I mentioned in my review of 'Ashes of Honor', namely that Faerie is ripe for another leadership change.\nThere are good reasons to do that, which are outlined well here, if not earlier in the series. McGuire could have done a better job of staging some of this, as a few key subplots hinge on factors that suddenly show up in this book for the first time. However, others do have their origins in the prior two books, some in as little as two words; much of this book, for instance, hinges on the Luidaeg saying 'Arden lives' in 'One Salt Sea'. I wondered what that meant at the time; well, now I know, even if you don't!\nSo, who's Arden? Well, if you can't work that out from context, you'll need to read this book, because I'm not going to spoil it. I'll just say that the Queen, to nobody's surprise, doesn't play fair with the three days Toby has before she's banished, and Toby seeks assistance from books, finagling her way into the Library of Stars, which is one of those wonderful creations that would expand the map of Faerie if only we had a clue how to place it on there. It moves, you see, and it's a glorious place.\nI'll also say that, true to her luck, Toby falls prey to one particularly twisted attack: a goblin fruit pie to the face. While that might sound like good old fashioned slapstick, it's really a brutal thing as Toby is a changeling and even the small amount of fruit that makes it past her lips is enough to turn her into an addict and we find ourselves in very different territory for a while until she finds a way to mitigate it a little.\nIf 'One Salt Sea' is the best Toby Daye novel thus far, 'Chimes at Midnight' is surely the most aware of its predecessors. To aid her heroine in this notable time of need, McGuire throws in notable assistance from all quarters and I enjoyed most of that. The few exceptions are surely the deus ex machinae, a collection of revelations that come completely out of the blue. I can commend McGuire's imagination in taking an opportune advantage of the mysterious backgrounds certain key characters have been cultivating, but I wish she'd have dropped many more hints much earlier in the series, so that it didn't seem like she was springing so many things on us here.\nAnd, of course, that makes it really difficult to talk about 'Chimes at Midnight' without leaping headlong into spoiler territory. I want to talk about him and her and that, oh and that too, but I'm unwilling to go there outside a book club discussion, so this is going to be a much shorter review than usual. Next month with 'The Winter Long', I'm thinking that I'll be able to talk a lot more about what's going on, this ending being an unusually agreeable and universal one, as much as it also serves as a fantastic beginning to that 'second stage in Toby's journey'.\n'Chimes at Midnight' includes an additional short story, 'Never Shines the Sun', which is an unusual but appropriate piece to include. It features Toby only in periphery, as a young girl, with the main characters her mother and her aunt. For those paying close attention, you can easily guess which aunt. The story, as short and ephemeral as it is, underlines Toby's importance in what is to come. And, with all this wrapped up, I'm hoping that McGuire substantially explores that aunt's history. I've been waiting for that for some time and it may well come now in conflict with the eldest surviving firstborn daughter, Eira Rosynhwyr. One thing's for sure: it's about to get really interesting in Faerie. ~~ Hal C F Astell\nFor reviews of previous October Daye books click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/march22nd.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6FE6D5INCLQDC7EORR3EZQXMJ6NE5YTE", "length": 10188, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.thepeoplehistory.com", "title": "What Happened on March 22nd This Day in History", "raw_content": "Important Events From This day in History March 22nd\nFind Out What happened 22nd March This Day in History on your birthday\n1963 Beatles' first album, \"Please Please Me,\"\n1963 : The Beatles' first album, \"Please Please Me,\" is released following the success of the singles \"Please Please Me\" and \"Love Me Do\" earlier in Great Britain.\nThe Songs included on the original album included:\nMost of the songs from the \"Please Please Me\" album were released in the US in 1964 on Vee-Jay Records label \"Introducing The Beatles\".\n1978 - U.S.A. Flying Wallendas\n1978 : Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, died after falling 10 stories off a tight-rope during a promotional appearance for the Pan American Circus while crossing between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico.\n1920 : An announcement was made regarding Germany\u2019s campaign for the revision of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This document was intended to officially end the First World War. Germany was unsatisfied with many of the clauses written which involved agreements between it (Germany) and the countries in opposition to German forces during WWI.\n1933 - German Ambassador to the United States\n1933 : Hanz Luther became the new German Ambassador to the United States. He replaced Friedrich Wilheim von Pritwitz and Gaffron, two men who experienced differences with Hitler and his movement.\n1933 - 3.2% Beer And Wine Sales Made Legal\n1933 : President Roosevelt signed the bill which legalized the sale of 3.2 percent beer and wine.\n1940 - Italy Sister Elena Aiello\n1940 : The bleeding that came out of the forehead of a Nun stunned both physicians and priests. Sister Elena Aiello experienced this phenomenon for the 16th consecutive Good Friday in a row. It was like a spiritual occurrence that happened on the very day of the remembrance of Jesus\u2019 crucifixion.\n1947 - U.S.A. Loyalty Investigation\n1947 : President Harry S. Truman issues an executive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees who needed to demonstrate complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States.\n1955 - England Yalta Conference\n1955 : A statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt standing in Grosvenor Square in London, England was vandalized. \u201cTraitor of Yalta\u201d was written on red paint, in retaliation of Roosevelt\u2019s suggestion that Hong Kong be handed over to China. This proposal was made during the Yalta Conference.\n1956 - U.S.A. Martin Luther King Jr\n1956 : Martin Luther King Jr. was convicted for violating Alabama's anti-boycott law when he organized a boycott of all city buses in Montgomery.\n1960 - Soviet Union Distrust Of US\n1960 : Mistrust against Americans was evident in Moscow. Veteran arms control negotiator Viktor Karpov was one such person who had been skeptical of the sincerity of the United States. He was quoted as saying that the United States did not really want to uphold the agreement to remove medium-range missiles from Europe, as planned.\n1963 : The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, has denied any impropriety with the model, Christine Keeler. Later in June John Profumo did admit to having an affair with Christine Keeler and resigned from his post as British Secretary of State for War. The Profumo affair as it was known in Britain was a major news story because Christine Keeler was linked to Soviet Intelligence due to her affair with Captain Eugene Ivanov, a naval attach\u00e9 at the Russian Embassy.\n1970 - U.S.A. Discrimination\n1970 : In the South Carolina House of Representatives, A motion was made to fight against discrimination. This effort was made to help provide fairness to the Jews and other religious minorities.\n1972 - UK Northern Ireland\n1972 : The Irish and British leaders had met in hopes that British secret political proposals would be made known (to Irish, to public). The purpose of this meeting was to stop the fighting within the province of Northern Ireland.\n1972 - The Equal Rights Amendment\n1972 : The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex was passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. Additionally, a petition was also made requesting Nixon to ask the Soviet Union to also not discriminate against Jews. The most common form of being treated unfairly was when minorities such as Jews would attempt to participate in cultural and educational activities (particular those of higher education).\n1981 - Colombia U.S. Yacht Coral Sea\n1981 : The U.S. Yacht Coral Sea along with its 12-person crew was detained in Colombia for ten days. On March 12, The Coral Sea was on its way to Cayman Island for a treasure-hunt expedition when it was captured by a Colombian patrol boat. Finally, on today in 1981 it was released.\n1991 - Iraq Food Shipment Ban Lifted\n1991 : UN diplomats advocated a lift on the ban of food shipments to the Iraq. A debate was taking place regarding whether or not to also allow fuel and other useful goods into the country as well. This particular decision was being discussed shortly after two Iraqi planes were shot down by Americans after a temporary cease-fire was made. (Americans had made no official agreement to completely stop attacking fixed Iraqi wing aircraft at this time.)\n1991 - U.S.A. Pamela Smart Convicted\n1991 : Pamela Smart is convicted for conspiring with her 16-year-old student lover, William Flynn, and three friends to kill her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire.\n1995 - U.S.A. Colin Ferguson Sentenced\n1995 : Colin Ferguson who had murdered six people and injured nineteen others on when he pulled out a gun and fired on other passengers on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York on December 7th, 1993. is sentenced to life in prison.\n2002 - Belgium NATO\n2002 : NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) officials are working towards greater cooperation with the former Soviet Union. This action was made top priority, as U.S. officials were planning to arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia (city in country South of Russia) this same week.\n2002 - England \"Miss B\" Granted Right To Die\n2002 : A landmark case in British Law comes to it's final conclusion when Dame Elizabeth gave Miss B the legal right to die by having her treatment withdrawn and be transferred to another hospital which would treat her according to her wishes \"and permit her life to end peacefully and with dignity\". Just over one month later Miss B died peacefully in her sleep after exercising her right to have all artificial ventilation withdrawn.\n2006 - Spain Basque Separatist Group ETA\n2006 : The Basque separatist group ETA which had been using kidnappings, assassinations, violence and murder to achieve it's goal of sovereignty and self-determination for the Basque Region of Spain announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain.\n2008 - Europe Moscow opposes Kosovan independence\n2008 : Serb officials have welcomed the support of Russia in opposition to Kosovo's independence. The Belgrade-based daily Press has said that Russia supported Serbia's desire to retrieve Kosovo, but Serbia is now under pressure from Washington and Brussels to stop the violence that started on March 17th. An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the Western recognition of Kosovo as 'a cocked gun ready for firing.'\n2010 - US House passes the healthcare reform bill\n2010 : The House of Representatives has voted to pass the landmark healthcare reform bill. The bill was passed by 219 votes to 212, with no Republican backing. It will extend healthcare coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, and marks the biggest change to the U.S. system in decades. Nancy Pelosi has compared it to the establishment of Medicare and Social Security.\n2012 - Public Sector Workers Begin Strike in Portugal\n2012 : Public sector workers in Portugal have begun a strike against governmental austerity measures that would cut jobs and raise taxes. Teachers, transportation workers, and hospital staff all participated in the strikes putting strain on commuters and healthcare services, as well as closing schools. The strike was the second in a period of four months.\n2013 - Air Traffic Control Towers Closed\n2013 : The US's FAA announced plans to close 149 air traffic control towers after budget cuts that took place during the month placed strain on the department's budget.\n2014 - Venezuela Two Die in Protests\n2014 : Two people were killed after being shot at protests in Venezuela. These occurred during protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, high inflation, and goods shortages. These two deaths brought the total toll up to around 33 people killed over several weeks of protests.\nBorn This Day In History 22nd March\nBorn: 22nd March 1948, Kensington, London, England\nKnown For : Born in London, the son of Jean Hermione a violinist and pianist, and William Lloyd Webber a composer. Andrew Lloyd Webber was encouraged by parents and other family members from an early age in his musical aspirations and studied at Royal College of Music prior to pursuing his interest in musical theatre. Primarily a composer who is also known for his joint work with lyricist Tim Rice. His Music includes: (second name or names are the lyricists associated with the work)\nJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Webber / Rice\nJesus Christ Superstar Webber / Rice\nThe Likes of Us Webber / Rice\nCats Webber / T. S. Eliot and Trevor Nunn\nEvita Webber / Rice\nAspects of Love Webber / Don Black and Charles Hart\nCats Webber / Don Black\nStarlight Express Webber / Richard Stilgoe\nThe Phantom of the Opera Webber / Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe\nAs you can see from the list above his works have included some of the most financially and successful musicals of the modern era which have won him Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards many shared with the lyricists who worked on the project with him. Many of the singles from the musicals have gone on to become top ten sellers around the world including Any Dream Will Do, I Don't Know How to Love Him, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, \"The Phantom of the Opera\" recorded by various artists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 10620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thesocialgazette.net/tag/apple/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KMQAKU54CTKYG32FYTITWNNUG2GOZWAL", "length": 209, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thesocialgazette.net", "title": "Apple", "raw_content": "We are not a tech publication and we don't typically cover tech, note the lack of any specific category for it found anywhere on our site, but with the latest iteration of the iPhone, now the seventh Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2002/12/sheela-na-gigs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VIXPQPWTKH5QFVTHJK3ZONHQU7DWYSVM", "length": 70, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thestandingstone.ie", "title": "The Standing Stone: Sheela-na-Gigs/Exhibitionist Figures.", "raw_content": "Sheela-na-Gigs/Exhibitionist Figures.\n-Kildare Cathedral, Co. Kildare.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 145.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thesvgsummit.com/speaker/mike-levy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PKIDEAKC37I2DBBAIDWJKOITINBIGANR", "length": 1318, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thesvgsummit.com", "title": "Mike Levy | The SVG Summit", "raw_content": "FloSports, VP, Global Rights Acquisition\nMike Levy helps lead global rights acquisition for FloSports, an innovator in live digital sports and original content. This year alone, Levy and his team have closed more than 150 new rights deals around the world, including the Professional Bowling Association (PBA), The Rugby Channel, EuroLeague Basketball, and more.\nLevy ascended into this role after serving as the VP of multimedia sales at FloSports for three and a half years. He was responsible for driving national sales from Los Angeles to New York City. In 2017 alone, he drove a year-over-year revenue growth of more than 60 percent as he led FloSports\u2019 strategy to grow beyond endemic sports brands and into non-endemic sports markets.\nPrior to joining FloSports, Levy spent more than two years handling media sales and partnership development for Crackle and Sony PlayStation. Before that, he spent the previous seven and a half years working as an account executive for ESPN in national advertising sales.\nA graduate of Dartmouth College, where he captained the baseball team as a senior catcher, Levy was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and played one year of minor league baseball, backing up current MLB All-Star Yadier Molina. He later earned his M.B.A. from Northwestern\u2019s Kellogg School of Management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 169.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thevineyagency.com/author_robincross.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EQT7QZTQCTNOQFZ3QJFEXOEZMC2BDBQS", "length": 6103, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thevineyagency.com", "title": "author_robincross", "raw_content": "Robin Cross has written over thirty books, including The Bombers: Strategy and Tactics in the 20th Century (Bantam, 1986); the best-selling VE-Day: Victory in Europe 1945 (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985); the number one Sunday Times bestseller We\u2019ll Meet Again (with Vera Lynn, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989); and Citadel: The Battle of Kursk (Michael O' Mara, 1993, republished 2002 by Penguin Military Classics). Citadel was described by the Times as \u2018an absorbing wholly accessible, account of the battle\u2019.\nHis Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (Michael O'Mara, 1995) was described by the Sunday Express as a \u2018mesmerising account of the final bloody weeks of war\u2019. In 2008 he published In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War (Ebury / Imperial War Museum). His Hitler: An Illustrated Life (Quercus, 2009) was described by Richard Overy as \u2018The essential biography of one of the most paradoxical and dangerous characters in the history of the modern age\u2019.\nWith his wife, the novelist and historian Rosalind Miles, he co-wrote Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women at War From Antiquity to Iraq (Three Rivers, 2008). In 2012 he contributed to 50 Events You Really Need to Know About the History of War as an entry in the long-running Quercus series about the history of ideas. In 2016 he published Tanks: 100 Years of Armoured Warfare (Andre Deutsch / Bovington Tank Museum).\nHis World at War: World Wars I and II in Photographs has been continuously in print since 1998 and for many years he has worked as contributor and consultant to the Quantum Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry and Warfare. Along with Charles Messenger and H.P. Willmott, he was a major contributor to the Dorling Kindersley World War II (2004).\nHe has worked for the Ministry of Defence and the Daily Telegraph, as part of the team covering the first Gulf War for the latter, as well as writing and editing special features for the newspaper on The Battle of Britain and John Keegan's serialised History of World War II. He was the consultant editor on Keegan's 1989 single-volume history of the conflict. He has also written and directed over 150 television documentaries broadcast on the BBC and worldwide, many of them covering World War I and World War II subjects.\nHis Forgotten Victory - The Story of the Second D-Day, August 1944 will be published by Pegasus in 2018.\nLATEST BOOK: FORGOTTEN VICTORY - Operation Dragoon and the Invasion of 1944\nForgotten Victory is the story of \u2018Operation Dragoon\u2019, the Allied invasion of the South of France on 15 August 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after \u2018Overlord\u2019, the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it hasoften been overshadowed by its predecessor, but it significance cannot be underestimated.\n\u2018Dragoon\u2019 was a largely American-French operation in which the British, who had argued for action in northern Italy, played a smaller role. After nearly five years of conflict, British war stamina had been severely sapped. In contrast, the French, who had been excluded from the overall planning of D-Day, played an important role in Dragoon, supplying the majority of the ground troops in a campaign which began on the beaches of the Riviera and ended in the cool, clear air of the Alpes Maritimes, the sacred ground of France.\nEven more clearly than Overlord, Dragoon marked a significant change in the Allied balance of power in Western Europe. The Allied armies which liberated Toulon and Marseille, and which fought their way up the Rhone Valley to the strategic hub of Grenoble, were wholly armed and equipped by the American war machine, as were the Maquis (French Resistance) insurgents who, in the spring and summer of 1944 played a key role in salvaging the honour of France, humiliatingly swept away in the summer of 1940. The campaign unfolded against a spectacular backdrop and its story is studded with equally spectacular individuals: from the dashing US airborne commander, General Robert T. Frederick, who looked like a Hollywood film star, to the US infantryman Audie Murphy, who would become one after the war. It was Frederick who led the massive parachute and glider drops which sealed off the German coastal defences from the interior on the day of the invasion. Equally spectacular were the exploits of Task Force Butler, an ad hoc armoured battle group, which tore the heart out of German Army Group G as it drove on Grenoble from the Riviera, in two weeks advancing some 250 miles, liberating over 6,600 square miles of southern France and taking 3,500 prisoners, including three generals.\nForgotten Victory provides for the first time a complete overview of the liberation of the South of France, from strategic decisions made at the top of the Allied and German high commands to the intelligence war waged by Allied code-breakers, from the German defeat of French resistance forces on the Vercors prior to the invasion, to the exploits of individual OSS and SOE agents on the ground as they strove to keep pace with a fast-moving battlefield in which the Allies inflicted on the Germany Army a Blitzkrieg-style defeat which expunged the lingering memories of the catastrophe of 1940 and drove the Westheer out of France.\nBIBLIOGRAPHY: Forgotten Victory (Pegasus, 2018); Tanks: 100 Years of Armoured Warfare (Andr\u00e9 Deutsch, 2016 in association with Bovington Tank Museum); 50 Events You Really Need to Know About the History of War as an entry in the long-running series, Quercus, 2011); Hitler: An Illustrated Life (Quercus, 2009); Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women at War From Antiquity to Iraq (with Rosalind Miles, Three Rivers, 2008); Citadel: The Battle of Kursk (Michael O' Mara, 1993, republished 2002 by Penguin Military Classics);. Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (Michael O'Mara, 1995); In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War (Ebury 1994, in association with the Imperial War Museum); We\u2019ll Meet Again (with Vera Lynn, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989); The Bombers: Strategy and Tactics in the 20th Century (Bantam, 1986); VE-Day: Victory in Europe 1945 (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 7890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 156.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.timessquaregossip.com/2018/04/broadway-bares-announces-game-night.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:03Z", "digest": "sha1:6RSTIZ7W5PANBGU5BHMOJXAFSS6C3WIE", "length": 3362, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.timessquaregossip.com", "title": "BROADWAY BARES ANNOUNCES GAME NIGHT JUNE 17", "raw_content": "BROADWAY BARES ANNOUNCES GAME NIGHT JUNE 17\nYou\u2019re invited to a friendly game night where the only type of poker to play is strip, where the lead pipe in the library is more flirty than fatal and where playtime is for more than just the games. This year\u2019s theme for Broadway Bares, announced today, is Game Night, an unparalleled evening of seductive striptease with a gamified twist. The evening is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.\nBroadway Bares: Game Night (#BroadwayBares) will feature more than 150 of the hottest male and female dancers in New York City, rolling the dice and their well-toned bodies in the highly choreographed, highly produced annual spectacular.\nCombining the sexy wink of classic burlesque with today\u2019s favorite pop music, Broadway Bares: Game Night will put a sassy, seductive spin on games you know and love. From a pulsating poke at pinball to saucy virtual reality video games, don\u2019t miss the titillating live show where anything can happen.\nThe 28th annual edition of Broadway Bares will take place at 9:30 pm and midnight on Sunday, June 17, at Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street, NYC).\nThe show will be directed by Nick Kenkel, co-choreographer of the upcoming Half Time at Paper Mill Playhouse, and Laya Barak, an accomplished dancer and choreographer whose work has appeared in the last four editions of Broadway Bares. Aaron Hamilton serves as associate director.\nWanna play? Tickets for Broadway Bares: Game Night range from $50 to $3,000. VIP tickets include unlimited specialty cocktails and exclusive seating. The fabulous \"Stripper Spectacular\" package includes a premium reserved table seat at either show with specialty cocktails, admission to a private cocktail party at Broadway Bares creator and executive producer Jerry Mitchell\u2019s penthouse apartment and a backstage tour. The \u201cBarest Backstage Insider Experience\u201d includes a premium reserved table seat at the midnight show with specialty cocktails, a pre-show, behind-the-scenes backstage tour and access to the final \u201cundressed\u201d rehearsal the evening of the show.\nTicket details are at broadwaycares.org. For other information and merchandise, visit broadwaybares.com.\nBroadway Bares was created in 1992 by Mitchell, then a Broadway dancer, as a way to raise awareness and money for those living with HIV/AIDS. In Broadway Bares\u2019 first year, Mitchell and six of his friends danced on a New York City bar and raised $8,000.\nLast year, the event\u2019s 27th edition went back to school with unparalleled sexiness at Broadway Bares: Strip U, and raised $1,568,114. The 27 editions of Broadway Bares have raised more than $17.4 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.\nIn addition to presenting sponsor M\u2219A\u2219C VIVA Glam, Broadway Bares receives generous support from Broadway Cares corporate partner United Airlines.\nBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women\u2019s Health Initiative and the Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.\nAIDS BROADWAY BARES BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS TICKETS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 16490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.titgaming.co.uk/ucp.php?mode=privacy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SN7O5YKSLB7X54ZYV4FY6THLYSBGK4HY", "length": 3196, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.titgaming.co.uk", "title": "TorrentIt Online Gaming \u2022 User Control Panel \u2022 Privacy policy", "raw_content": "TorrentIt Online Gaming - Privacy policy\nThis policy explains in detail how \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter \u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d, \u201cour\u201d, \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d, \u201chttp://www.TiTGaming.co.uk\u201d) and phpBB (hereinafter \u201cthey\u201d, \u201cthem\u201d, \u201ctheir\u201d, \u201cphpBB software\u201d, \u201cwww.phpbb.com\u201d, \u201cphpBB Group\u201d, \u201cphpBB Teams\u201d) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter \u201cyour information\u201d).\nYour information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer\u2019s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter \u201cuser-id\u201d) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter \u201csession-id\u201d), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.\nWe may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter \u201canonymous posts\u201d), registering on \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d (hereinafter \u201cyour account\u201d) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter \u201cyour posts\u201d).\nYour account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter \u201cyour user name\u201d), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter \u201cyour password\u201d) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter \u201cyour e-mail\u201d). Your information for your account at \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your e-mail address required by \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software.\nYour password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with \u201cTorrentIt Online Gaming\u201d, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the \u201cI forgot my password\u201d feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tomax.fi/en/references/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FIBE2DHXGBIDLBOQ65PMPSVPZECD6UVS", "length": 345, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tomax.fi", "title": "References | Tomax - ERP solution for manufacturing and project delivery companies", "raw_content": "The following companies represent our references.\nSubcontracting in Ulvila, Finland.\nSerial production in Lappeenranta, Finland. Subsidiary of JSC \u201cPO ELTEHNICA\u201d in St. Petersburg, Russia.\nSubcontracting in Vantaa, Finland.\nSubcontracting and serial production in Turku, Finland. Part of the LST Group.\nProject delivery in Uusikaupunki, Finland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tonyslpgareport.com/2014/07/lpga-announces-new-florida-tournament.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:M2BAJBPXPR7KFYNXSG4EKGUSUR6C6DQY", "length": 2070, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.tonyslpgareport.com", "title": "LPGA Announces New Florida Tournament to Kickoff 2015", "raw_content": "LPGA Announces New Florida Tournament to Kickoff 2015\nThe LPGA announced today the addition of the Coates Golf Championship. It will take place at the Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club in Ocala, Fla., January 28-31, 2015.\nLast year's season opener, The Pure Silk-Bahamas Classic, will immediately follow this new tournament.\n\"We are excited to partner with Coates Golf to have the 2015 LPGA season begin in Florida,\" said LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan. \"Playing back-to-back events in Florida and the Bahamas in the East Coast time zone will be a great way for our fans to watch our first two events of the year live on Golf Channel.\"\nThe deal was confirmed early Monday by Golden Ocala general manager Joe Donnelly as well as Randall Coates, chief operating officer of title sponsor Coates Golf. \"It's official,\" Coates said. \"All the contracts have been signed. We have a three-year contract with the LPGA. It will be the first tournament of the year for the LPGA.\"\nUnlike most tournaments on the LPGA, this one will have a Wednesday start and a Saturday finish, thus avoiding having the final round on the same day as the Super Bowl.\nA few players have played Golden Ocala when it was a stop on the Futures Tour in the 1990's.\nKarrie Webb was victorious there in 1995.\nThe event will have a field of 120 players, the purse will be $1,500,000. The tournament will be televised by Golf Channel.\nThis will mark the second straight year the LPGA has played an official event in January. Prior to 2014, the last official tour event in January was in 2001.\nThe LPGA has thrived thus far in 2014. Adding another domestic tournament to next year's schedule is another feather in the cap of Commissioner Michael Whan and the LPGA.\nDaveAndrews July 29, 2014 at 6:30 PM\na buddy of mine says Golden Ocala is one of his favorite courses in Florida. Great news for the LPGA!\nDave, everything I have read about this course tells me that the girls are going to love it.\nHere's to hoping Michael Whan never retires.\nFeel free to post your LPGA Blog at http://ThroughTheDogleg.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 368, "original_length": 13309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.transfigurist.org/2015/09/not-dying-to-see-singularity-young.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4BWCJEKKCRDAM3TXA34AUWBYZQ644LB3", "length": 17287, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.transfigurist.org", "title": "Not Dying to See the Singularity: A Young Physician's Evaluation of the Ray Kurzweil Regimen | The Transfigurist", "raw_content": "Getting Old Is Not For the Faint of Heart\nFirst of all, why do we age? This is both a biochemical and a sociological question. The SENS Foundation (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) has identified seven biochemical causes of senescence:\nCell loss and atrophy\nNuclear mutations/epigenetic alterations\nExtracellular crosslinks\nExtracellular aggregates\nIntracellular aggregates\nSENS also has lines of research and therapies targeted at each of these biochemical pathways, with the aim of developing a complete anti-aging chemotherapy regimen. Attempts to reduce the complex process of senescence to an axiomatic classification system have traditionally been met with great skepticism, especially as the stochastic/biochemical first causes of aging do not address the larger sociological/ecological roles of aging and death.\nThe term \"selective shadowing\" has been used to describe the accumulation of deleterious pleiotropic effects that occur on the tissue and organismal levels after the process of reproduction (and child-rearing for animals that follow the K-type selection strategy) has produced the next generation. The famous biologist J.B.S. Haldane is credited for observing this phenomenon in human families where lethal, late-onset diseases persist. Despite the obvious negative selective pressure for harmful genetic mutations, late onset diseases such as Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and many of the genetically inherited cancers persist because these diseases do not affect the first few generations of carriers until after the reproductive years.\nWhatever the first causes, the effects of aging are well known and feared: sensory loss, debility, osteomalacia, cardiovascular disease, cancers, memory loss, dementia, loss of freedom/autonomy, loss of friends and family with associated grief and depression. Old or young, bond or free, from infection, trauma or \"natural\" causes, death has been our constant companion -- the great equalizer. Everyone who has ever lived for the last 3,000 generations of modern humans has died. Is it foolish to think we may see this change?\nA student of aging is called a gerontologist, and one who cares for the aged, a geriatrician. Call Aubrey de Grey the latter and you will be in for an earful. Perhaps the world's most recognized expert of rejuvenating technologies, this bewhiskered druidic shaman has prophesied that the first human to live to 1000 years old has already been born. As the scientific head of the SENS Research Foundation, de Grey also maintains that the gradual adoption of anti-aging/rejuvenating technologies will extend the lives of people until, theoretically, we can escape the gravid pull of aging and live forever.\nThe study of death, thanatology, has traditionally been a much neglected subject in the fields of sociology and ecology. Approaches to death in sociology are traditionally split, as are most subjects, between functional and conflict theory-based explanations. Functionalists see death as part of the well-oiled machine of society necessary to recycle resources, free up niches, etc. Conflict theorists see it in terms of competition between old and young, predator and prey. If you want to know what ecologists have to say about death, you would do well to start with the (in)famous work of Malthus on populations, which was an essential piece to Darwin's theory of natural selection. In essence, without the hot breath of death on our necks, evolution would not happen.\nPsychology has been much more robust in dealing with the emotional and behavioral responses to death, in humans at least, with the development of terror management theory. As far as we know, we are the only animals who know we will die. This uniquely human condition leads to three traditional responses to death: hedonism (YOLO!), stoicism (No pain, no gain!), and Eastern escapism (Get me off of this crazy thing!).\nIn his very popular online course, Yale professor of philosophy Shelly Kagan takes on the topic of death, critiquing belief in the soul or an afterlife, defending the mind-brain hypothesis, and embracing what we call \"the Good Death.\" Third-wave CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) which focuses on acceptance and mindfulness, follows closely the long-held humanist philosophy of \"living in the present\" and balancing the desires of your current and future selves. It provides a framework to balance the spontaneity of hedonism with the responsibility of stoicism, and provides well documented relief to a variety of existential pains. These approaches raise the question: is it wrong to want to live forever?\n\"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying!\" (Woody Allen, aka Ray Kurzweil with a sense of humor)\nThe transhumanist response to death (neo-vitalism/techno-vitalism) is an oddity in this milieu of philosophies which all accept death a priori as the natural and right conclusion of existence. Transhumanism is a collection of philosophies and ambitions, which seeks human enhancement, life extension and the synthesis of the biological and technological towards a non-Darwinian, guided evolution aimed at nothing short of economies of abundance, immortality, apotheosis and rescuing the universe from the Big Chill.\nThrough this lens, the death of a sentient human being is a tragedy, an incalculable loss of subjective experience and memory, genetic diversity and reproductive potential. To make matters worse, this tragedy occurs 150,000 times every day and the vast majority of these deaths are now non-infectious and non-traumatic -- they are due to inborn errors of homeostasis, and potentially curable. The race for the cure of death is on.\nRay's Regimen and Other Singularity Diets\nOf the 250 supplements Ray takes per day, he lists his top three for living to see the singularity as coenzyme Q10, an important substrate for oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria; phosphatidylcholine, a more stable and less inflammatory phospholipid monomer for cell membranes; and Vitamin D, which is thought to have global endocrine and immunologic activities in the body but so far in clinical trials has only shown value in preventing falls in the elderly and slightly decreasing all-cause mortality (as an aside, my medical school scholarly project was in Vitamin D which large swaths of the medical community still consider on par with snake oil for anything but bones). In addition to these he ingests omega-3 fats, large quantities of electrolyzed alkaline water with Magnesium, green tea, resveratrol found in red wine, the dependable statin found in red yeast rice, as well as regularly donating blood to prevent iron overload and stimulate the bone marrow.\nRay has teamed up with Terry Grossman M.D., a specialist in anti-aging medicine from Denver CO. They have written two books together, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and Transcend: 9 Steps to Living Well Forever. Their Q&A page for the first is informative. They also run a site where their entire regimen is available, but keep in mind that it will cost you about $1500 for a 3 month supply.\nThe life extending options en vogue within the transhumanist community, including aggressive supplementation and cryopreservation, are well beyond the means of most transhumanists. This may lead to a sense of individual anomie if professing followers are unable to live out their values.\nBeyond cost, there are also significant concerns about the efficacy of these activities. After all, there have been no recorded, successful human resuscitations after cryo and there have been no large, longitudinal, randomized studies of the Kurzweil-Grossman cocktail on survival, much less for safety. Such studies would be feasible, although relatively complex to carry out due to the sheer number of supplements, and would require funding, staff, subjects and lots of time.\nStudies have been conducted on many of these supplements individually, with absent to minimal significant differences in primary outcomes from placebo. Attempts to extrapolate the additive effects of all of these together are fraught with methodological problems (confounders, biases, insufficient power to support primary hypothesis, etc.). Simply put: the data does not support, or is insufficient to say whether or not Ray's regimen is better than placebo. Where experimental data has not illuminated our understanding it is reasonable to look at observational data, or natural experiments which broach the same topics.\nThere are areas around the world where small, culturally homogeneous groups live into their hundreds in statistically significant numbers. These \"Blue Zones\" include Loma Linda, California; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Sardinia, Italy; Icaria, Greece; and Okinawa, Japan. Studies of the diets and habits of these groups have revealed striking similarities, including high integration of the elderly into community life, vegetarianism, low rates of smoking, sunshine, a culture of physical activity, and relative caloric restriction. The diets of these communities are most consistent with the Mediterranean type, high in healthy fats, vegetables, legumes and lean protein.\nA popular book entitled The China Study (2005) by T. Colin Campbell (a biochemist), Thomas Campbell, his son (a physician), and Jacob Schurman (a nutritional biochemist), looked at the relatively lower rates of Western diseases such as atherosclerosis causing coronary artery disease and strokes, diabetes, breast, prostate and bowel cancers among the Chinese and attempted to draw causal relationships between plant-based diets, lower cholesterol and lower levels of these diseases. It is on my reading list for the near future.\nI recently had a patient who came to me after seeing his dentist who noticed a suspicious growth in his mouth. He had stayed away from doctors prior to this and was understandably distraught and in need of my help. We created an open and healing relationship, and the patient revealed to me his plans to begin an \"anti-cancer\" diet, based on vegetarianism, also known as the alkaline ash diet. I had heard of this hypothesis before, but not in medical school or other reputable, scientific contexts. Desiring to continue our relationship of mutual trust and cooperation, I gave my assent as I did not see any serious harm inherent in this. I also involved the help of a specialist who biopsied the lesion, and the result was a benign growth. As we discussed these results he was relieved and expressed a desire to continue the diet anyway as a means of controlling high blood pressure and blood sugar which we had discovered during his workup, as he was very hesitant to begin taking prescription medications to treat these problems. I expressed that lifestyle modification is the most important intervention for these problems, but that he would probably require pharmacological help to achieve his goals and decrease his risk in a meaningful way.\nHerein lies the danger of such alternative approaches: they are not effective substitutes for proven medical therapies. Other anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory anti-oxidant diets are currently making the rounds. Enticing in their simplicity, the basic science behind these interventions may appear to lend credibility to the average person, but as with any medical therapy they should also lend themselves to scientific scrutiny and evidence before they should be trusted.\nSeveral years ago I became aware of a Kansas-based Mormon pseudo-scientist named R. Webster Kehr and responded publicly to some of his claims about medicine and science in general and his abuse of religious authority. As a supporter of science and a believer in evidence I encourage my patients and readers to ask for help from qualified professionals before investing your time, money and potentially your life and health in a new or unproven alternative therapy. The quacks are out there: be skeptical and demand evidence. If I can be of help, I will be happy.\nThat's Nice, Now Show Me the Evidence\nA search in PubMed, the central database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, for citations containing the term \"transhuman\" reveals only about 5 results (mostly from the French International Journal of Bioethics), the term \"human enhancement\" yields about 80, and the term \"anti-aging\" about 1,920 (see the image below: the inflection point is about the year 2002, the bar on the far right represents the current year). This is a picture of a movement that is already in place, but has not yet coalesced into a recognizable field of scientific study.\nThe US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF), a panel of independent experts under the auspices of the HHS (Dept. of Human Health Services) and the AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) issues recommendations for prevention of morbidity and mortality tailored to age, sex and risk factors, based on rigorous assessment of quality evidence currently available for various conditions (see figure below for hierarchy of quality evidence). These recommendations are categorized by letter grade with an \"A\" grade meaning the evidence strongly supports that the intervention prevents disease and the benefit is greater than the risk on the population level. These guidelines are widely accepted and followed by the medical community, but individual circumstances often require further customization for each patient. I would recommend visiting their site and putting in your own information to see what recommendations are applicable to you, and discuss these with your doctor.\nWhat Would You Do, Doctor?\nAs a first-year resident fresh out of medical school, it is difficult for me to objectively evaluate the evidence behind each of these supplements and lifestyle modifications, so I can only imagine the challenge a lay person would have deciding what advice to follow. One of the reasons why fad diets and supplements are so alluring is the novelty, while the sound advice hasn't changed much since the time of Hippocrates.\nThe mainstay of medical advice is a healthy diet, regular exercise and restful sleep. Diet, in medical terms, does not apply to a transient experiment in intake modification, but what you eat over the long term. Healthy diets can consist of almost anything, except excessive refined or simple carbohydrates, but usually include multiple servings of vegetables, unsaturated fats and lean protein. Regular exercise is considered maintaining an elevated heart rate for greater than 45 minutes 5 times per week. Restful sleep requires good sleep hygiene, proper oxygenation and avoiding swing shifts, alcohol and blue light exposure within one hour of retiring for bed.\nBeyond these no-brainers there is still little modern medicine has to offer for weight control (short of bariatric surgery) or sleeping aid, and there is currently no safe substitute for exercise. Surgical weight loss is the most effective medical intervention for morbid obesity (BMI greater than 40), with the Roux en Y gastric bypass leading the field of surgeries in terms of long term weight loss and maintenance, reversal of diabetes and other metabolic derangements, but is associated with vitamin deficiencies and the usual significant risks of surgery. There are several new medical devices which are less invasive to place than having gastric bypass (or sleeve) such as the Vagal nerve blocker and intragastric balloon, but long-term data for these has not yet been gathered, and the data for lap bands has shown more harm than benefit. Medical weight loss is another booming field, however, and for the first time in 10 years, two new weight loss drugs were approved by the FDA last year, Belviq-Lorcasserin and Qysimia, a combination of two older drugs, phentermine and topiramate. The jury is still out on their effectiveness, as most of the initial, promising data come from industry studies and the drugs are still under patent limiting their widespread use.\nSo far I have raised the questions, \"Is it foolish to think we may witness a cure for death?\" and \"Is it wrong to want to live forever?\" The first question may be answerable by science in the future, but the second is a question of values and would be better explored in the realms of ethics, morality and spirituality. My top evidence-based recommendations for the average transhumanist who wishes to extend the life and health of their body would be the following:\nWear sunscreen while you get plenty of sunshine\nEat as many fruits and vegetables as you can stand\nControl your blood pressure and cholesterol, with medication if needed\nReceive recommended immunizations\nStop smoking (alcohol and caffeine are OK in limited amounts)\nReduce stress and increase conscious action through mindfulness\nFind somebody to love safely and responsibly\nExercise as much as you can, but avoid injuries and overexertion\nDon\u2019t take stupid risks: a long life is a risk-averse one\nIt's not new, and it's not sexy, but that is solid advice that we can all apply and find something to do better. I'll be on the lookout for new and proven medical enhancements and be here to take your questions and take on the quacks as we witness the accelerating changes of these exciting times.\nIn the meantime, May You Be Well, Live Long and Prosper!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 19868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2013/AM2013DirectionsLocalArea.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:NNYEJ6X2HSXZV4XSY5ZDIPLA2VZOUQRC", "length": 3087, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.trb.org", "title": "Directions and Local Transportation | Annual Meeting 2013", "raw_content": "TRB 92nd Annual Meeting > Directions and Local Transportation\nTransportation to Washington, D.C.\n8 miles (13 km) / 20 minutes* to TRB Annual Meeting hotels.\nMetro: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (Blue and Yellow Lines).\nAirport Shuttle: $15 one way; $9 for each additional passenger.\nTaxi: $18-$22* one way.\n30 miles (48 km) / 50 minutes* to TRB Annual Meeting hotels.\nAirport Shuttle:$35 one way; $9 for each additional passenger.\nUnion Station (served by Amtrak, Virginia Railway Express and MARC)\n3.5 miles (5.6km) / 25 minutes* to TRB Annual Meeting hotels.\nMetro: Union Station Metro (Red Line).\n* Add at least 20 minutes to taxi and airport shuttle trip times during peak traffic hours. Taxis and Metro have higher peak-hour fares.\nDue to limited parking, use of public transportation is encouraged. All TRB Annual Meeting hotels are accessible by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro). The Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metro station, on the Red Line, is across the street from the Washington Marriott Wardman Park and around the corner from the Omni Shoreham. The Dupont Circle Metro station, also on the Red Line, is approximately four blocks from the Washington Hilton.\nGO Airport Shuttle is offering discount transfers from DCA, IAD, and BWI airports and your TRB Annual Meeting hotel. After making your flight arrangements schedule your shuttle arrival and departure transfers. GO Airport Shuttle will track the progress of your flight so you can proceed directly to the shuttle from baggage claim. For discounted reservations, visit The Airport Shuttle.\nTRB Shuttle\nTRB offers complimentary shuttle service to Annual Meeting registrants staying within the TRB hotel block. The shuttle service will end at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, and will not operate on the Thursday of the Annual Meeting due to low ridership in past years. Attendees participating in Wednesday night or Thursday activities are encouraged to plan accordingly.\nComplimentary shuttle service operates every 20 minutes during the times below between the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, and Washington Hilton hotels. Additional shuttle service runs between the overflow hotels (The Dupont Circle Hotel, Mayflower, and Palomar) and the Marriott, where attendees can pick up the shuttle to the Omni Shoreham and Washington Hilton Hotels. Shuttles servicing The Churchill and Courtyard Marriott Northwest drop-off/pick-up at the Washington Hilton. Shuttles servicing The Fairfax at Embassy Row drop-off/pick-up at Hotel Palomar. Shuttles are wheelchair accessible.\nSunday, January 13 \u2013 7:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.\nMonday, January 14 \u2013 6:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.\nTuesday, January 15 \u2013 6:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.\nWednesday, January 16 \u2013 6:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.\nThursday, January 17 \u2013 No Shuttle Service\nLimited self-parking is available at the Marriott (one garage was eliminated since the last TRB meeting) and Hilton beginning at $28 per day. 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The Miniatures of the famous Safavid artist \u201cReza Abbasi\u201d, and the top floor stucco of the Ali Qapu Palace, which is also called the \u201cMusic Room\u201d or the \u201cSound Room\u201d, made Ali Qapu as a magnificent work of the Safavid era.\nThe exterior decoration with bricks in lachacks (crescent parts at the top of the entrance) is decorated with the seven colors tiles and a slalom line the arabesque. And interior space was decorated with the beautiful floral motifs and the hunting ground, animals and birds, on Plaster decorations or Iranian miniatures (in the style of Reza Abbasi) and foreign (by European painters who attended the Safavid court at the time of Suleiman I, with the European-style painting by famous painters such as Angel Volokar).\nThe palace now has three stairs, which includes two symmetry spiral staircases in the western part of the building, and one staircase with step (in the form of multi-steps staircases and zigzag-shaped rooms), known as the Royal Stairs designed for ceremonial purposes.\nThe Ali Qapu Palace with a height of about 48 meters to the floor of the market has been the tallest multi-story palace in the city of Isfahan for decades. The architecture of this building has a different view, due to the additions and extensions, this building from the Naqsh-e Jahan Square is 2-story building, from behind the 5-story building, from the sides it is the 3-story building. It is the 6-story building includes the ground floor as the first floor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tropicalbirding.com/2010/08/30/trip-report-ecuador-introtour-2009/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MDEEQAZBJ5FRA3CRIHVWSNPH3ALSU3JL", "length": 1205, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tropicalbirding.com", "title": "Trip report: Ecuador The Andes Introtour (Aug 2009) by Tropical Birding", "raw_content": "This may be a short tour, but it packs a lot in to a small space of time. In doing so, the whole group got a great feel of some of the spectacular birding on offer in northwest Ecuador. This tour is perfect for first-timers to the region, as you get a good spread of the many families in this part of the world, and also have good shot at some of the Ch\u00f3co specialties that this region is famed for. All the participants were new to Ecuador and therefore received a \u201cbarrage\u201d of new birds. Favorites among these were two standout groups, the colorful Andean tanagers, and stunning myriad of hummingbirds that grace these bird-rich mountains. Harvey and Doug kept a close eye on these groups and kept us up to date with our tally, as we racked off one after another species from these crowd-pleasing groups. In the end we saw an amazing 41 species of hummingbirds in just six days birding, as well as 42 species of tanagers. This was achieved as the tour allowed us to check out a variety of elevations (and therefore a number of diverse habitats, with markedly different avifauna), from the heady heights of Yanacocha on day one, at 3400m/11,155ft, to the lowlands around Rio Silanche at just 500m/1640ft.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.undercoverchick.com/2015/12/dealing-with-acne-routine-updated-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AU6Q7PTL7PBDSYUW3525ZK2Y76OJYXEN", "length": 300, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.undercoverchick.com", "title": "DEALING WITH ACNE - ROUTINE UPDATED 2015 | Undercoverchick..Mathu xoxo", "raw_content": "Thorough Lad October 3, 2018 at 9:59 AM\nThanks to the staff at this place for making our event so enjoyable and if I ever get married. I know where to go! Great job all of you. Price was not too bad, considering the quality of food and beverages. 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The Society organises talks, walks and other events consistent with its objectives.\nSecretary: Roy Bisson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vipfaq.com/Agnieszka_Dubrawska.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:B65PFN5RZOAIIX4UTFVYVG2QQKHYHL3Y", "length": 4310, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.vipfaq.com", "title": "Agnieszka Dubrawska FAQs 2019- Facts, Rumors and the latest Gossip.", "raw_content": "Agnieszka Dubrawska\nAgnieszka Dubrawska FAQs: Facts, Rumors, Birthdate, Net Worth, Sexual Orientation and much more!\nWho is Agnieszka Dubrawska? Biography, gossip, facts?\nAgnieszka Dubrawska (born 12 December 1958) is a Polish fencer. 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If you know more or want to take an educated guess, please feel free to do so above.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.visibleorigami.com/2007/09/long-hard-struggle-for-light.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WC2L4J7EE5VKNTAHDBZUNQCGPEHWCG2N", "length": 8256, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.visibleorigami.com", "title": "Visible Origami | The Long, Hard Struggle for the Light.", "raw_content": "Of all the subjects that interest me, none hold such a fascination as metaphysics and the area of occult history. Metaphysics deals with first causes; the subjects of being and knowing, what is real and what is not. It\u2019s often theoretical as opposed to strictly empirical. It should be understood that these two touch and that the one side is well aware of everything on the other side while the other side is generally only aware of itself.\nOccult history and recorded history differ remarkably in their view of what happened and why it happened. Occult history, according to some, is precise in its recollections while recorded history is, more often than not, a revision and a fabrication. It is fabricated and constantly revised to serve the designs of those who seek to have humanity serve them; as slaves, as canon fodder, as experiments and for any purpose they may wish to employ humanity in.\nA number of readers have wondered why I bother writing about socio-political and cultural issues. They wonder why I\u2019d spend my time hosting a blog like Smoking Mirrors or Reflections in a Petri Dish.\nSome writers, who labor in the field of metaphysics; whether it is in a clinical or a religious sense, will tell you that the manifest universe isn\u2019t real. They posit that this realm, which the physical senses interpret, is no more than an illusion. There are sound arguments for this. Certainly those who have activated certain yogic senses or awakened siddhis can testify to the impermanence and insubstantial nature of the manifest world. Some of them can move in and out of it at will and perform acts that defy explanation by empirical scholars. However, if you have ever tripped and fallen while running on the sidewalk, you know that this world can seem very real indeed.\nThis is why some of us write about life in areas that hold less interest for ourselves and our readers than the more rarified areas of a more permanent existence. It\u2019s about the pain.Most of us do not possess yogic senses or awakened siddhis. Most of us cannot move in and out of this world at will or perform acts that defy explanation by empirical scholars. Most of us are trapped to a greater or lesser degree by real and assumed responsibilities, circumstances and ignorance. Telling us that there is a brighter world beyond might well be true. I am certain it is true but... how does that help us here?\nMost of us would help an animal in difficulty; brake or swerve to avoid it on the highway, would help another person according to our ability or feel distressed if we could not. Most of us have some good advice based on past errors of judgment, experienced or observed.If you have studied history and observed the events of your time; if you possess objective awareness you can see personalities and patterns and how they conspire together to create the conditions we are in. It becomes increasingly clear that humanity is divided into various groups with different intentions and agendas. These groups have remained static across the span of history.There are those whose intention is to profit from the needs, appetites and gullibility of their fellows. There are those who wish to help their fellows. There are those who are only concerned with themselves and their families. There are those who are ignorant and those who are very clever and they can be found in all of the groups I have mentioned. There\u2019s no point in going any deeper into the minutiae of this. The complexity of the human heart is beyond the scope of this brief essay.\nSometimes life on Earth is not as difficult as at other times. Sometimes it seems as if the majority of us have gone mad or fallen into a sullen despair. No matter how good or bad it gets, somewhere the good life is flourishing and somewhere there is Hell on Earth.One might well know that this is all temporary. One might have the knowledge and resources to insulate themselves from the trials of the day. But if one is a human being they cannot fail to be aware of the pain and suffering of others. Suffering comes from ignorance. If it is possible to remove some degree of ignorance from the lives of those suffering it would, for some of us, be a worthy cause.\nSometimes the predators among us are very deliberately focused on increasing the ignorance of the population to serve their interests. It is hard to imagine that so many people cannot see that this is happening at this time. I assure you that it is. A small minority of ill made men and women are very intently at work on increasing human ignorance and suffering. They have a large support base of lesser informed souls who have been seduced into believing that they may increase their own fortunes by supporting the ends and intentions of the powerful few. Some are motivated from greed and some from other drives and some are only very stupid and confused. The aggregate collection of these groups in a common purpose makes for a dreadful state of affairs.\nIn occult history there are many occasions when nothing could be done; when events had to play themselves out. During these periods, many wiser minds withdrew from the chaos and waited it out. At the same time there remain those who were compelled to oppose, by word and deed, the evil machinations of the twisted few and their hosts of ignorant armies. Imagine how black it would seem if not for the voices raised against this terrible empire of lies.It could well prove futile and quixotic. There is slander and acrimony all around for any who dare to dispute the lies and challenge the powerful.\nAccording to many who have left the record of their words and thoughts upon the scroll of history, it isn\u2019t about winning. It\u2019s about striving for the light. It\u2019s about knowing what the right thing is and making that your sole purpose for carrying on. It\u2019s about the useful ignorance of ignoring the seemingly insurmountable odds and living and working for the greater good regardless of the personal cost.\nIt\u2019s about sealing your ears to the mocking wind of all the little voices singing in the mutant chorus of the deluded and deceived. It\u2019s about being honest and true in the face of every lie and outrage leveled against you. Evil cannot win. It always defeats itself. It is the very nature of evil to consume itself and fade away. We triumph, quite simply, when we endure. The bright unquenchable spark of our higher nature cannot be defeated by the collected darkness of the entire world. This is something occult history has shown and which metaphysics proclaims. The movie is not greater than the screen upon which it is shown.\nWe may be deluded ourselves. We will, not infrequently, make mistakes. We will fall and we will despair and we will struggle all the while... but as long as we are honest with ourselves we will provide a telling counterpoint to the insanity of the day.\nIt isn\u2019t about marching into Rome at the head of a victorious army. It isn\u2019t about laurel wreaths and a cheering crowd. It isn\u2019t about celebrity and awards; a place in history, a big funeral with somber eulogies and a large headstone. It\u2019s about telling it like it is and putting it on the line and not being discouraged at the difficulty of the times. It\u2019s about striving for the light so that, just possibly, against all odds, you just might let some light in.\nToo many people think they have too much (substance) to lose.\nDeluded is the word.\nThe system is built of those who are easily deluded.\nThe system tells us we are important; with our possessions, in our job, in our life, with our decisions, in our 'righteousness'.\nDismal failure!? Good job Brownie.\nDelusion, from the top down.\nThey are fearful of loosing what they \u2018own\u2019.\nDon\u2019t rock the boat. Keep the status quo. Steady as she goes. Titanic.\nHistory tells us the results of such mind sets.\nTrippin' Vis.\nbn said...\nHe is trippin! I love to hear good acid stories vs. shallow acid stories. I was always drawn into the visuals because I am a painter. Viz, being a musician, picked right up on the audios.\nRemember all weird rumors about flashbacks?\nWe would like a few because all we get now are the memories.\nI am SO sorry, my comment was meant for the next essay starting with you and Billy in DC...\nI should know better, I know your blogs so well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 382, "original_length": 15279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.volunteerlanding.com/2009/08/iab-digital-video-ad-effectiveness-case.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:24Z", "digest": "sha1:V7LYVOXGUI4WPU6JSMRNZMNZJIH2PQGF", "length": 1614, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.volunteerlanding.com", "title": "Volunteer Landing: IAB Digital Video Ad Effectiveness Case Study", "raw_content": "Despite the rapid growth of digital video advertising, marketers are still learning how to use the medium most effectively. The IAB Research Council undertook a study of a video advertising campaign for a major national retailer brand. This research sought to provide insights into which combinations of lengths and placements of digital video advertising are most effective. The IAB commissioned Millward Brown and Dynamic Logic to undertake this research, which serves as a case study on digital video ad effectiveness. The findings of the study include the following:\n15 seconds appears to be an optimal length for digital video creative in the pre-roll position. 5-second spots had trouble conveying a message; while 30-second spots risked turning off a viewer waiting to watch something else.\n30-second spots do well at conveying a complex or emotionally resonant message, but work best in user-initiated placements (where the user must take an action, like clicking on an ad or rolling over an in-text link, to begin playing the ad) where viewers display more patience for long messages.\nPre-roll, in-text, and in-banner video ad placements can all contribute to achieving the goals of a campaign; however, different placements may perform optimally with different creative lengths.\nAs a single campaign case study, the findings here do not represent definitive conclusions. However, they do offer useful guidance for the industry, and point in productive directions for further research in the area of digital video creative length and placement.\nhttp://www.iab.net/insights_research/530422/dv_effectiveness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.voy.com/221392/243725.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YIN6XTWQW3OV4JZKF7TPVQN5ZV4P7MGJ", "length": 149, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.voy.com", "title": "Former Cowboys/Vikings Quarterback Wade Wilson -- Barbara's Obits & Memorials", "raw_content": "Subject: Former Cowboys/Vikings Quarterback Wade Wilson\nhttps://bit.ly/2CYY6Jw\nDied on his 60th birthday. (NT) R.I.P. Friday, February 01, 02:35:58pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.voy.com/221392/243802.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DGJEO6DDVKCSDB25B6JXZYLA53COAOIQ", "length": 642, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.voy.com", "title": "IMDb -- Barbara's Obits & Memorials", "raw_content": "In reply to: Dies at 30 's message, \"Actor Van Brockmann\" on Sunday, February 03, 08:03:06am\nMental illness is no joke. How can you be SO prolific in your young life, only to kill yourself?? He left behind adoptive parents, a brother, twin sister ...and a 5 month old son! -PHOTO ... Whatever his internal strugglers were in his head, I hope he found peace. Sunday, February 03, 10:50:37am\nI wonder if there were problems with his wife. She's listed last in his obituary even after his \"countless friends and fellow actors\" (NT) It seems that the obit was most written by his parents and siblings, and not her. Sunday, February 03, 11:58:10am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/our-staff/profiles/performance-aboriginal-performance-acting-music-theatre-dance/ms-nanette-hassall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:57Z", "digest": "sha1:JEGOOZ4LYP4NJU3BLNLEU4TRASHX2QWK", "length": 2465, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.waapa.ecu.edu.au", "title": "WAAPA | Ms Nanette Hassall AM : Our staff : About", "raw_content": "Ms Nanette Hassall AM\nHead of Dance Department\nContact Information Telephone: +61 8 6304 6407, Email: n.hassall@ecu.edu.au, Campus: Mount Lawley, Room: ML1.238\nn.hassall@ecu.edu.au\nNanette Hassall has performed taught and choreographed in both Australia and overseas.\nGraduating from the Juillard School in New York she joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company touring extensively in the USA and Europe.\nShe performed, taught and choreographed for major companies in both Europe and Australia before founding and directing Danceworks, a full-time professional dance company in Melbourne between 1983 and 1990.\nNanette has choreographed over forty works. She is currently the Head of the Dance Department at the W.A. Academy of Performing Arts, a position she was appointed to in 1995.\nNanette has emphasised international performance and exchanges as head of the department, students performing in Korea, Germany, Malaysia and Hong Kong amongst others.\nAs a dance advocate Nanette has been a member of the Australia Council and its Dance Board. She has also been chair of the Creation and Presentation Network of the World Dance Alliance and chair of the Tertiary Dance Council of Australia. She was recognised nationally through two Australian Dance Awards, for her Services to Dance Education in 2002 and for Lifetime Achievement in 2012. Nanette was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2013.\nBachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1993.\nBachelor of Arts (Honours), The University of Melbourne, 1979.\nBachelor of Fine Arts (Dance), United States of America, 1971.\nAusStage, Phase 5: Australian Live Performance and the World - Global Networks, National Culture, Aesthetic Transmission, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2014 - 2016, $61,067.\nAusStage Phase 4: Harnessing Collective Intelligence and Pioneering New Visual Methodologies for Innovative Research into Australian Live Performance, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2009 - 2012, $969,147.\nDancing Between Diversity and Consistency: Evaluating Assessment in Postgraduate Studies in Dance, Office for Learning and Teaching, OLT - Grant (pre-2013), 2006 - 2008, $150,164.\nAusStage: Gateway to Australian live performance phase 3 - enhancing collaborative research methodologies through digital networking technologies, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2007 - 2008, $15,000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 9475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wbjournal.com/article/20180725/NEWS01/180729969/.tab-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SS3V5SBZWTLHVHC35U6NHHMTCFU5HCFU", "length": 1565, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wbjournal.com", "title": "Home prices spike 11% in Worcester County, 6% statewide | WBJournal.com", "raw_content": "Home prices spike 11% in Worcester County, 6% statewide\nMedian home sale prices in Worcester County hit $307,000 in June, a 10.9-percent increase from the previous year, according to a report by the Boston real estate firm Warren Group Wednesday.\nStatewide, prices hit a median of $420,000, the first time they surpassed $400,000 in a month, the Warren Group said. The year-to-year increase across Massachusetts was 6.3 percent.\nThe record-high prices come as an already-tight market has ever-lower inventory. The number of sales in Worcester County and statewide are down more than 3 percent this year, and they're down nearly 7 percent in Middlesex County.\nJune prices in the largest Central Massachusetts communities rose most sharply in Framingham (up 14.3 percent to $480,000), Leominster (up 12.1 percent to $282,500) and Marlborough (up 10.7 percent to $405,000). Prices were flat in Worcester at $230,000 and fell by 6.5 percent for the month in Milford, where prices were $339,900.\nAmong the other largest Central Massachusetts communities, Shrewsbury prices rose by 9.4 percent to $465,000, Fitchburg rose 3.4 percent to $200,000, and Natick fell 4 percent to $582,500.\nA separate report released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors said median home prices statewide in June rose to $430,000, the highest since the association began keeping records in 2004.\nThe association said that median prices rose 6.8 percent year-over-year, while the number of sales fell by 5.4 percent to 6,589. Homes lasted an average of 48 days on the market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/2015-08-22/lathlain-boost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UKTJFFMEWPMECW4JT4KZNCMEJTRJXKW5", "length": 2414, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.westcoasteagles.com.au", "title": "Lathlain boost - westcoasteagles.com.au", "raw_content": "Lathlain boost\nGary Stocks Aug 22, 2015 11:50AM\nTony Abbott announces funding for Lathlain project Prime Minister Tony Abbott announces the Federal Government will contribute $10 Million towards the Lathlain Park Redevelopment Program\nTrevor Nisbett said that the Federal Government\u2019s funding support was of critical importance to the progression of the Lathlain project\nNisbett on Lathlain funding\nTony Abbott announces funding for Lathlain project\nOne of the most significant steps in the history of the West Coast Eagles was taken this morning when Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced a $10 million funding commitment to the Lathlain Park Precinct Development.\nThe Prime Minister made the announcement at a special stakeholders\u2019 breakfast held at the Perth Football Club in Lathlain Park this morning.\nThe Lathlain Park Precinct Development falls under the auspices of the Town of Victoria Park and a major element of the project is the proposed new training and administrative facility for the West Coast Eagles.\nIn effect, the Eagles are likely to relocate to the precinct within the next three years and it will be the club\u2019s headquarters for the next 50 to 100 years.\nWest Coast Eagles chairman Alan Cransberg and CEO Trevor Nisbett were in attendance, together with the Federal Member for Swan Steve Irons MP, Town of Victoria Park Mayor Trevor Vaughan and CEO Anthony Vuletta, and Perth Football Club president Vince Pendal.\nNisbett said that the Federal Government\u2019s funding support was of critical importance to the progression of the project.\n\u201cWe thank the Federal Government for their recognition of the enormous ongoing social and economic benefits that the LPRP will deliver for the whole community,\" Nisbett said.\n\u201cTogether with the Town of Victoria Park, we are now looking forward to rapidly advancing our plans for the precinct. We have been completely committed to the project from day one and this brings it a big step closer to reality.\n\u201cWe would also like to thank the Prime Minister for taking the time to join us at Lathlain today. The support of Steve Irons has also been instrumental to bringing this major community project to reality.\u201d\nAside from the club\u2019s training and administration facility, Lathlain will also house the Wirrpanda Foundation and provide opportunities to assist with some of the initiatives of the SAS Resources Trust, along with many other community developments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 327, "original_length": 7357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.westfield.ma.edu/academics/music-programs/music-faculty/mary-brown-bonacci", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:I7NG57F3HPZZPIFV3ZQSBDHKDQ26OEAG", "length": 1500, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.westfield.ma.edu", "title": "Mary Brown Bonacci | Westfield State University", "raw_content": "Associate Professor, Coordinator of Voice Area, Music Theater Workshop\nB.M., M.M., Emporia State University; D.M.A., University of Kansas\nMary Brown Bonacci (mezzo-soprano) has appeared with opera companies throughout the United States, including the Des Moines Metro Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Pine Mountain Music Festival, Utah Festival Opera, and Opera Ozarks. New England audiences have seen her with the Granite State Opera, (Rosina in Barber of Seville, Mercedes in Carmen, Mary Stone in The Devil and Daniel Webster), Salt Marsh Opera (Suzuki in Madama Butterfly), and in concert with the Arcadia Players (Lord Nelson, Weinachts Oratorium, Messiah), Hampshire Choral Society (Haydn St. Cecilia, Bach B Minor Mass, Mendelssohn Paulus), as well as the Westfield State University Festival Chorus (Mozart C minor Mass, Magnificat, Brukner Te Deum, Messiah).\nAbroad, she has performed with Opera Perigord (La Perichole) in France, and the NYU New Music Ensemble in Italy. She can also be seen as Mary, Queen of Heaven in the PBS television recording of Conrad Susa\u2019s The Wise Women, and assisting violist Joel Lipton in his documentary performance of the Brahms zwei Gesange. Dr. Brown Bonacci has served on faculty of Franco American Vocal Academy in Perigueux, France, Millikin University and Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and Amherst College. Currently, she serves as coordinator of the voice area at Westfield State University teaching voice curriculum and music theatre workshop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.winonaisd.org/departments/career___technical_education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RMLCRBKOHIXCZEKMEQVHIQUPTT434BOM", "length": 1279, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.winonaisd.org", "title": "Career & Technical Education - Winona ISD", "raw_content": "Winona ISD \u00bb Departments \u00bb Career & Technical Education\nAchieveTexas Programs of Study (POS) and Covers Supporting Resources for Career Clusters\nCTE iPad Applications\nCareer and Personality Assessments\nThe most common question asked is \"I don't know what I want to do. Is there\na test or something that can tell me what career is right for me?\" The answer\nis no. You can't take a test that will, as if by magic, tell you what to do with the\nrest of your life. You can, however, use a combination of self assessment\ntools that will aid you in your decision.\nChoose the Know Your Value tab to take assessment inventories on values,\ninterests, abilites and skills, personality and learning styles. The free\nassessments are in the right-hand column at the top of each selection.\nThe Winona Independent School District offers Career and Technology Education programs in Agriculture, Arts, A/V Technology and Communications, Business Management and Administration, Career Preparation, Education and Training, Finance, Health Science, Human Services, Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security, Manufacturing, as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Admission to these programs is based on interest and aptitude, age appropriateness, and class space availability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womanknows.com/parenting-advice/news/227/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:T7AKAIDZHEWSNDP2NGURQCJHANNLTCGW", "length": 4296, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.womanknows.com", "title": "Woman Knows: Piercing", "raw_content": "You are here > Homepage> Home & Family> Parenting> Parenting Advice> Piercing\nOur world is full of dangers. During our entire life we try to avoid them with the help of our life experience or by learning from other people\u2019s mistakes. But we fear for our children most of all. We can\u2019t stay with them all the time and we can\u2019t foresee every dangerous situation. But now it has become an urgent necessity to talk with children about their personal protection in reference to other people. It\u2019s possible to teach your child how to behave if there is a threat of mockery, kidnapping or physical or sexual violation.\nWe offer you a set of rules for children based on the code for parents of the English All-National Charity Society \u201cKidscape,\u201d that aims to provide protection for all children. Read it again and again until your child remembers that:\nAll people have certain rights that can\u2019t be violated; for instance all people can breathe. Say to your child that nobody can take away his right of safety.\nYour child\u2019s body belongs to him, especially the intimate places, covered by swimsuits.\nYour child can say \u201cNo\u201d if somebody tries to inflict pain on him. Most children are used to submitting to adults implicitly.\nIt\u2019s OK to ask for help. Youth often run a danger of being mocked, so tell them they must ask their friends for help or they must say \u201cNo\u201d. Hooligans and bullies, who like to mock, are just cowards who are afraid of a decisive refusal and adult interference.\nChild\u2019s safety is the most important thing. If there is a real threat of physical violation, children often have no choice but to submit to the demands of a bully. Sometimes children begin fighting to save a certain possession, as they are afraid to come home without this thing and be punished as a result. \u201cMy mother will kill me for giving that bully my bicycle, it was very expensive.\u201d But in any case parents should not be angry with them; you want your child to tell you everything. Children can be very reserved and pass over in silence about some frightening things, as they worry about your reaction.\nIf a child asks an adult for help, they will always believe him and support him. If you tell him something like \u201cI\u2019ve told you not to do it,\u201d it won\u2019t help the child solve the problem; on the contrary your child will not ask you for help next time. A sensitive, important issue is sexual violation or harassment. Children rarely tell lies about it and if adults don\u2019t believe him or her it can go on for years and cause much suffering and strong feelings of guilt to the child.\nNever keep secrets, even if a child has promised not to tell them to anyone. Seducers convince a child that a kiss or a touch is a \u201csecret,\u201d so it makes a child confused who already knows how to keep secrets.\nChildren have a right not to let anybody touch them. Explain to your child that he can or can\u2019t allow anybody to touch or kiss him but nobody can ask a child to keep such a secret. Sometimes children don\u2019t want to be kissed or touched but that must be a kind of choice, not a fear. They shouldn\u2019t be forced to kiss and touch anybody at any price either.\nIt\u2019s ALWAYS bad to talk to a stranger. Most adults and teens with good intentions don\u2019t come up to children even if they are alone (with the exception of being upset or lost). Teach your children to ignore such people; children don\u2019t need to be impolite, but they can just pretend they don\u2019t hear and then go or run away quickly. Say to your children that you won\u2019t be angry if they refuse to talk to strangers and that you want to know if somebody is trying to talk to them.\nBe careful when discussing all these things with your child. You should agree that there are some situations when a child needs help so he doesn\u2019t think that all strangers are dangerous. You allow him to break all the rules to protect himself. Add that you\u2019ll always support him even if he cries, makes noise and bustles, or tells a lie and kicks others.\nUnfortunately, even growing children aren\u2019t immune from danger both in the street and with friends. Coming home late has always been the subject of a hot argument. What time is too late? What time is OK? When is the child to go to bed? It depends on your relations whether you come to a compromise or not, but in any case you need to teach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womenofachievement.org/initiative/joyce-cobb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:22Z", "digest": "sha1:A3OMZUEANTDZ4XOJYIFKJISXYZITWK3J", "length": 2601, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.womenofachievement.org", "title": "\ufeff Joyce Cobb \u2013 Women of Achievement", "raw_content": "Joyce Cobb is one of the best known and most-loved of performing Memphis musicians. She is an essential part of our musical fabric, contributing blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, folk and just plain good music to our community. Her name brings to mind a big smile, huge voice, quality in musicianship and depth in delivery. She\u2019s carved out her place in the music profession as a performer, teacher and donator of her talent.\nJoyce first performed in her grandmother\u2019s church in Okmulgee, Oklahoma \u2013 and she never forgot the warm response she received from the audience. She grew up listening to her parents\u2019 excellent collection of jazz and classical music. But it was in her high school\u2019s girls\u2019 choir that she got her real start. Director Sister Mary de Lassis uncovered in Joyce a passion for singing that continues today.\nIn Nashville, Joyce worked for WSM radio and TV for six years and opened at the Opry. She came to Memphis in 1976, lured by a contract with a Stax Records subsidiary but Stax folded shortly after her arrival. She worked for a month at the Holiday Inn and there met Wayne Crook and Warren Wagner. In talking with them she realized that her dream included songwriting, so she signed with their company, Shoe Productions. Her first song, \u201cDig the Gold,\u201d was about the poorly paid black gold miners of South Africa. The song earned a number 42 spot in Billboard magazine.\nJoyce has run her own Beale Street jazz club and has toured nationally. She has won four Premier Player Awards for Best Female Singer from the Memphis chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She has recorded on several labels including RCA and Cream Records. In 1997 she hosted Beale Street Caravan, a nationally syndicated radio program highlighting the music of the Delta. She received Memphis Arts Council funding for the dynamic live program Beale Street Saturday Night, focusing on Memphis music. She has taught at the University of Memphis and the Community Music School.\nJoyce has volunteered with WEVL radio for more than 20 years. She has served on the program committee, currently serves on the board and hosts several shows. All this time, she\u2019s been writing songs, sometimes spending as much as 12-15 hours a day in the studio. She now has 30 to 40 songs to her credit.\nHer biggest challenge has been to continue writing and performing her own material, but she has begun producing a CD on which she sings her own songs. Throughout her career, Joyce Cobb has shown initiative in music, business and education.\nPrevious PostPrevious Cordell Jackson\nNext PostNext Hazel Moore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womenofachievement.org/initiative/tina-l-birchett/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MNDZXZRXFMMTIJERQK36TZT5DROFJSRX", "length": 1647, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.womenofachievement.org", "title": "\ufeff Tina L. Birchett \u2013 Women of Achievement", "raw_content": "Tina L. Birchett\nWith an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to promote diversity in marketing, Tina Birchett launched her own consulting firm in 1994. Now president of Birchett & Associates, Tina has more than 14 years of experience in advertising, marketing, research and promotions.\nTina, a native of Memphis, earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in marketing from Memphis State University in 1982. She worked in marketing and advertising for WLMT, WDIA, WHRK and Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts.\nSince 1994, she has overcome many obstacles and has set the pace for empowering women in Memphis. As a result of her desire to uplift, enlighten and inform women of color, she produces the Annual Sisterhood Outreach Summit and Showcase, which attracts more than 25,000 women across the Mid-South. This yearly event, which hosts internationally known speakers, promotes unity among women, replenishes their spirituality, and enhances leadership and career development and much more.\nAs an extension of her commitment to empower women, she is also the founder and publisher of a quarterly magazine, Grace. This magazine\u2019s mission is to be a positive voice for Memphis women of color and to build empowerment through knowledge.\nShe has been honored among Prominent Black Women by Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Outstanding Community Service by Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter of AKA and Life Changing Award from Grace Missionary Baptist Church. She is also a 1999 class member of Leadership Memphis.\nTina Birchett is a tireless advocate of women entrepreneurs.\nCategoriesInitiative\nPrevious PostPrevious Tonga Nguyen\nNext PostNext Rachel Shankman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zamaxfield.com/secretlight/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DZHFHBUY6F3JEQW44X742ISYMVIZIRGL", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.zamaxfield.com", "title": "Secret Light", "raw_content": "April 2, 2014 by Z.A. 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The most common discovery device is the written interrogatory, but oral depositions and other devices are also available. Any party to a proceeding is subject to the discovery process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 10285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wyrdwalkers.wikidot.com/minotaur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UPF2UO2ZJPSGHR7NNYLOXV6ODAOPNRAL", "length": 186, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wyrdwalkers.wikidot.com", "title": "Minotaur - Wyrdwalkers", "raw_content": "Minotaurs are a type of Garou who are half-man, half-bull. A rare species, Minotaurs are a secluded group, mistrusted by other Mythborn for their unmatchable strength and violent nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://x-fin.com/us/SLB/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DAI2GPCIZP2YH2VVYHNZZHCRNV2MRBUP", "length": 6612, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "x-fin.com", "title": "Schlumberger (SLB)", "raw_content": "Intrinsic value of Schlumberger - SLB\nWe calculate the intrinsic value of SLB stock by summing up the current values of future distributable cash flows generated by the company and dividing the sum by the number of outstanding shares. As such, the intrinsic value calculation depends entirely on projections. The more accurate your projections of the company's performance are - the more reliable is the intrinsic value calculation result. Please make sure to check the stock valuation input data below and adjust it if necessary. The quality of the output (intrinsic valuation result) is only as good as the quality of the input. See also DISCLAIMERS.\nSchlumberger N.V. provides technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. The Company's segments include Reservoir Characterization Group, Drilling Group, Production Group and Cameron Group. The Reservoir Characterization Group consists of the principal technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources. The Drilling Group consists of the principal technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells. The Production Group consists of the principal technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Integrated Production Services (IPS) and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM). The Cameron Group consists of the principal technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities.\nFINANCIAL RATIOS of Schlumberger (SLB)\nSLB stock valuation input parameters\nRevenue. Company's revenue (or sales) is always the starting point of any cash flow forecast. In the SLB stock intrinsic value calculation we used $30440 million for the last fiscal year's total revenue generated by Schlumberger. The default revenue input number comes from 0001 income statement of Schlumberger. You may change it if you feel that it should be adjusted for some unusual circumstances that are not expected to be repeated in the future or if you already know (from interim financial statements, for example) that this year's revenue is going to be quite different.\nWe use three input parameters to forecast the revenue growth rate in our SLB stock valuation model: a) initial revenue growth rate of 11.3% whose default value is the revenue growth rate in the most recent quarter compared to the quarterly revenue a year ago; b) terminal revenue growth rate of 5% whose default value is chosen to be close to the average nominal (i.e. not adjusted for inflation) GDP growth rate; and c) revenue decline factor of 0.9, which stipulates that revenue growth rate in each forecasted year will be equal to the difference of the revenue growth rate in the preceding year and the terminal revenue growth rate multiplied by this revenue decline factor (with the passage of time the revenue growth rate will be approaching the terminal revenue growth rate, but not quite reaching it - though the difference could be infinitesimally small).\nThe initial discount rate of 4.6%, whose default value for SLB is calculated based on our internal credit rating of Schlumberger, is applied to the cash flow expected to be received a year from now (well, actually, to be precise, in the financial year following the base year - the last year for which we have financial statements). For each consecutive year the discount rate is multiplied by the discount rate multiplier of 1.05, e.i. each year it increases by 5%. Feel free to change this number to correspond to your level of risk assessment of Schlumberger.\nVariable cost ratio is the ratio of variable costs (i.e. costs that fluctuate with fluctuation of the volume of production) to the revenue expressed as a percentage. In the calculation of intrinsic value of SLB stock the variable cost ratio is equal to 73.6%.\nFixed operating expenses is just that - expenses that are not dependant on the volume of production. They are set to $9068 million in the base year in the intrinsic value calculation for SLB stock. These expenses increase with the level of inflation in subsequent years.\nInterest rate on debt is the average all-in rate of interest paid by the company on its debt. It is set at 5.4% for Schlumberger.\nCorporate tax rate of 27% is the nominal tax rate for Schlumberger. In reality, companies find ways to pay much less taxes than that or not to pay them at all.\nCash flow adjustment could be used for any adjustment the investor deems necessary. Most commonly we use this field to account for stock options-related effects in excess of what is reported on the company's income statement. The cash flow adjustment is expressed as a percentage of the revenue, and in the current valuation of the SLB stock is equal to 0%.\nProduction assets are the company's assets used for manufacturing products or provision of services. In the valuation model input table they are expressed as a percentage of revenue and for SLB are equal to 98.5%.\nLife of production assets of 12.4 years is the average useful life of capital assets used in Schlumberger operations. It is used to calculate yearly capital expenditures needed to keep these assets in good order - we call it the maintenance CAPEX.\nWorking capital is the difference between the company's current assets and liabilities. In the model we use the ratio of working capital to revenue, which for SLB is equal to 4.8%. A negative number means that the company is apt at using financial resources of its suppliers and customers; a large positive number, on the other hand, means that it either provides in-kind financing to others or is not good at managing its inventories.\nBook value of equity - $36842 million for Schlumberger - is used in calculation of the \"floor\" for intrinsic valuation based on the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Even if the prospects are very bad for a company, its assets could always be sold now for their current fair market value.\nShares outstanding of 1384 million for Schlumberger is needed to calculate the intrinsic value of one share.\nMarket capitalization is used here only for reference purposes and as a quick check that the share price and the number of shares outstanding numbers are correct - something especially to be cognizant about at stock splits. So, the market capitalization of Schlumberger at the current share price and the inputted number of shares is $62.3 billion.\nHAL Halliburton 32.10 1.60 str.sell\nOII Oceaneering In 16.18 3.05 str.sell\nFTI TechnipFMC 23.30 39.00 buy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1500, "original_length": 19722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yatika.info/category/financial/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:GXCYLOEZUBWWP542G3DZN5FR7JW2TYVI", "length": 1737, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "yatika.info", "title": "Financial | Yatika", "raw_content": "SEO Services And What You Need To Know Once You Start Looking For Them One thing that you should know once you start a business is that it is very [\u2026]\nHow I Became An Expert on Supplements\nAdvantages of Protein Powder A body of a human being must require proteins for it to keep functioning. 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It is believed that greater transparency is in the public interest, will promote greater confidence in the UK and will discourage criminals from laundering money in the UK. Between 2004 and 2014, over \u00a3180m worth of property in the UK has been investigated as suspected proceeds of corruption, but this represents only a small proportion of the UK property owned by offshore companies.\nOver recent years, there has been an increasing public perception that offshore companies are used as vehicles to invest funds from criminal or illegitimate activities in UK property. In most cases, however, this is not true and it is more likely that the use of an offshore company is entirely legitimate.\nWhat will the register look like?\nThe format of the proposed register remains unclear and a draft bill is due to be published this summer which will contain more specific proposals. This will be the first register of its kind in the world so there is no exact model to work on. It is likely however that this new register will follow a very similar approach to that of the register of people with significant control (PSC register) which is already in force for UK corporate bodies and some other entities. Companies House will hold the new register. It will be publically available free of charge but there will be a registration fee charged to the overseas entity.\nThe register will not be restricted to companies limited by shares. Any overseas entity that can hold land in its own name will be obliged to register. The government has stopped short of requiring all bidders for contracts to supply ownership details but these details will only be sought for the successful bidder.\nDefinition of beneficial owner\nDespite calls for additional information, such as the exact percentage of ownership, the government intends that the definition of beneficial owner for the new overseas register will be aligned to the definition of 'person with significant control' (PSC) in the PSC regime which applies to UK companies. This is based on international best practice and has been adopted in EU anti-money laundering legislation. It is probable therefore that the register will reveal anyone who owns or controls more than 25% of the company. If it is not possible to establish a beneficial owner then additional information on managing officers may be required.\nKeeping the register up to date\nIt was suggested that the register would need to be kept up to date every two years although there are calls for it to be updated on a transactional basis. The government are reviewing this and will set out proposals in the draft bill.\nHow the government ensures compliance with the new rules is a key issue. Research from Global Witness (https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/what-does-uk-beneficial-ownership-data-show-us/) on the PSC register shows that it is all too easy for companies to file incorrect information, whether accidentally or on purpose. Anything filed is accepted by Companies House in good faith if it is in the correct format, but the fact that 3000 companies were able to register their PSC as an offshore company in a tax haven (which is a clear breach of the rules) does not give confidence that the register will be accurate. The government is talking about criminal penalties but how these are enforced is another matter.\nSpecific proposals on property\nThe proposals apply to freehold properties and 'to leases of registrable duration'. Precisely which leases will be affected remains to be seen.\nBefore purchasing a property, the overseas entity will need to apply to Companies House for a registration number. This number will be required before registration can take place at the Land Registry. If the purchaser does not have a registration number, beneficial interest in the property can pass to the purchaser but not legal title, so the vendor will be put into a position of trustee for the purchaser.\nFor entities already owning property, they will be required to register within a specific period \u2013 one year has been suggested. If they do not have a registration number there will be restrictions on ability to transfer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 223.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yourdebtnow.com/rewards-for-using-the-cash-rebate-card/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NVV5CV5RKI2BYS7GGAG2GFAA724FR3FL", "length": 1812, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "yourdebtnow.com", "title": "Rewards for Using the Cash Rebate Card | Your Debt Now | Your Debt Now", "raw_content": "Rewards for Using the Cash Rebate Card\nA few credit cards are considered to become cash rebate card since they offer a rebate whenever a person makes a purchase while using card. This can add up to lots of money depending on how frequently the card is being used. Folks have saved money on certain items that they purchase too, including gasoline and groceries. These rebates are used to acquire people to use their particular credit card more often. People sense they are being compensated for staying devoted customers and credit card customers see a steady go back on the rebate program. This can work for everybody concerned.\nRebates can vary greatly depending on how much a person spends and the things they spend money on. The easiest way a person can take advantage of their rebate is to repay their credit card balance each month after they use their cash refund card. This will limit the eye they will have to pay each month. The rebate will be extra money that they will reach the end of the year. These types of rebates can be used towards anything that a person really wants to buy. The credit card business will send a person a cheque that they can deposit into their account.\nA cash rebate card is an rewards to use ones credit card. They are a means of saying thanks for using the card. Many people enjoy seeing their rebate balance go up each month. This can be a good way to save regarding something at the beginning of the year. Many people will go shopping or they will spend money for their home with the rebate from their cash rebate card. After the New Year, the rebate will start again. The benefits of this cash refund card can be a nice big surprise for those who spent a lot of money on holiday presents along with other items during the year.\nThe Benefits of a Credit Union Master Card", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://youthindependent.com/google-obtains-patents-for-smart-dolls/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:GLGWNBSR22QME3P5ZIBG6227NIWIXKN7", "length": 2079, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "youthindependent.com", "title": "Google Obtains Patents for \"Smart\" Dolls | Youth Independent News", "raw_content": "Home | Technology | Google Obtains Patents for \u201cSmart\u201d Dolls\nGoogle Obtains Patents for \u201cSmart\u201d Dolls\nNick Thornton May 25, 2015\tTechnology\nWatch out Hasbro, looks like google is your newest competitor.\nLooks like Internet connected dolls and teddies are the a part of the next big technology wave, Not long after cognitoys connecting to IBM\u2019s supercomputer Watson and Barbie\u2019s new Wi-Fi connection. Google as recently received a patent for interactive dolls and teddy bears, the patent states the use of dolls to control media devices. They would react to social cues, and \u201cturn their attention\u201d to the user and await to execute voice commands.\nThe toys would be equipped with sensors, cameras, speakers and motors. As if we needed another reason to have a reasonable fear of dolls coming alive and murdering us.\nIt is likely that Google has no plans to make internet connected toys, stating in an email to CNN Money that \u201cWe hold patents on a variety of ideas \u2013 some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don\u2019t\u201d\nBut I can\u2019t be completely skeptical of the idea, it\u2019s a great tool for children to learn with, as well as for parents to keep an eye on their house while on vacation, etc. I also have to admit that if Google and DC find a cooperative agreement to release \u201cSmart\u201d Batman action figures, you best believe I\u2019m first in line. Who wouldn\u2019t want a batman voiced Siri?? But until that happens, I\u2019ll just have to be content with Cortana, and the bliss I have from feeling like Master Chief.\nThe move isn\u2019t a surprise following Cognitoys, who started a kickstarter campaign which had great success, and are putting the finishing touches on the intelligent Toy.\nWe live in a technological world, and it looks like it\u2019s having more of an effect on the current (and future) children already, but I can\u2019t help but not be delighted that there\u2019s a possibility that my future children, nieces and nephews, etc.) might not have the joy of playing Monopoly in the livingroom with their parents like I used too.\ndolls Google obtains patents smart\t2015-05-25", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 8508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zayn.wikia.com/wiki/Julian_Bunetta", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KQMFBKBSUBJU7IZYVNTHS2G7P7SA3S5O", "length": 1776, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "zayn.wikia.com", "title": "Julian Bunetta | ZAYN Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Songwriters, Producers, People,\nOne Direction, Fifth Harmony, Jason Derulo, Leona Lewis\nJulian Bunetta (born October 22, 1982) is an American songwriter, and producer. Bunetta has written songs on various soundtracks of films such as Step Up, Step Up 3D, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and A Cinderella Story. He was the music producer of eight episodes of The X Factor. 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The Act aims to stimulate the economy through investments in infrastructure, unemployment benefits, transportation, education, and health care. Included in the $787 billion ARRA is approximately $20 billion in funding to incentive healthcare organizations and physicians to adopt and effectively use electronic health records (EHR) and establish regional health information exchange networks.\nThis is a huge opportunity for physicians to reap the benefits that EHR's can have on improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care, along with the cost savings. There are two programs for physicians: one for those that see large volumes of Medicaid patients, and another for those that accept Medicare. In order to qualify for the incentive payments, both physicians and healthcare organizations must demonstrate three things:\nUse of certified EHR with ePrescribing capability\nConnectivity to other providers; and\nAbility to report on their EHR use to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\nWith the goal of rapid adoption, all of the incentives include payments for up to five years, but the program is largely front loaded - meaning the largest payments are provided early, and late adopters will receive lower payments. The incentive payments begin in 2011, giving physicians time to adopt and learn to effectively use their EHR before the payment reduction begins in 2015.\nPotential Reimbursement per Year\nYear of Filing 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total\nAre there financial benefits available now, even before incentive money becomes available? 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When police arrived, they found 17-year-old Andrew Ramirez with a gunshot wound. He was taken to UMC with life-threatening injuries.\nAfter an investigation, police filed an arrest warrant for 20-year-old Alex Jordan Flores. Flores turned himself into police Tuesday afternoon (May 29) just before 5 p.m.\nFlores is being held in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $50,000 bond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 186.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://1stclasseconomics.com/normal-good/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5IG5EC4RYWY5SZHF4TSO6IBOC667WAE", "length": 124, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "1stclasseconomics.com", "title": "Normal Good | 1st Class Economics", "raw_content": "Normal Good. As income rises, demand rises. A normal good has a positive YED.\nFor example, chocolate, TVs and mobile phones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2021training.com/no-degree-required-for-adjusters/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:44Z", "digest": "sha1:EDK5B3JOT4QTCZ63TWQAKZQBLQ3FKNQQ", "length": 2496, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "2021training.com", "title": "No Degree Required for Adjusters", "raw_content": "Why is the career of becoming an Insurance Claims Adjuster so attractive in today\u2019s world?\nThe cost of everything keeps going up and the jobs keep disappearing. Looking at a college education is signing yourself up to somewhere in the neighborhood of $60,000 in debt before you get your first job. Add a spouse and kids on top of that when you graduate and it\u2019s a daunting way to start out your professional life.\nSo where are the jobs with the biggest potential and reasonable investment?\nInsurance Claims Adjusting fits that description. No degree is required to become an adjuster. All you need is your state license. In Texas, the licensing class and license is less than $500. That\u2019s all you HAVE to have. Plan to spend about $600 on additional training to help yourself have a leg up when it comes to professional skills in your job hunt. It will pay off well in how many claims you can write (and get paid for) on your first deployment.\nOver $24,000 in 5 weeks\nI saw this trend and took action in early 2012.I was licensed and trained when Sandy hit. I was gone for 5 weeks working the storm and made over $24,000 in that time. That\u2019s more than many people make all year. Not bad for a 5 week pay check! If you made a $1,000 investment in 2012 to become an adjuster, you would have had the opportunity to go work with the other hundreds of adjusters who went to Hurricane Sandy at the end of October last year.\nLarge storms, such as hurricanes, are where you get your foot in the door and prove yourself as an adjuster. Then once you begin to build your resume of experience and have 100\u2019s of claims written, you\u2019ll begin to see all the storm activity that really does happen around the United States that you probably never even paid attention to. I started checking out the different storms. This year alone there have been several significant hail storms in the U.S. The most notable was around New Orleans. Tornados and flooding creeks also create a lot of activity in the spring.\nThe life of an adjuster is fun and exciting for those who enjoy travel and a bit of an adventure. You must be 18 to get your adjuster license in Texas. With such a small investment and a large earning potential, it\u2019s the perfect career choice for many. By the way, it\u2019s also recession proof. Just because the economy is bad, doesn\u2019t mean the storms stay away.\nI encourage you to look into it and check out 2021Training.com to begin your career and remember that there is no degree required for adjusters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2021training.com/november-tornado-outbreak/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:UR6ZDPY6ITFFJV4GDR5R5CLMBQAJJ6US", "length": 3078, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "2021training.com", "title": "November Tornado Outbreak", "raw_content": "Weather and storm patterns are becoming more unpredictable. Being prepared to work storms means preparing NOW, not \u201cI\u2019ll wait until \u2026\u201d\nCheck out our guest blog about the devastating tornados that swept through 12 states over the weekend. In addition, Subtropical Storm Melissa is forming east-southeast of Bermuda.\nWe\u2019re here to help you be prepared to help others in the aftermath of these unpredictable storms. Here\u2019s the information about the November storms.\nA rare and deadly late-season tornado and severe weather outbreak blitzed the Midwest U.S. on Sunday, killing at least six people and leaving widespread significant damage.\nA tornado preliminarily rated as a violent EF-4 touched down in New Minden, Illinois, east of St. Louis, carving a path of destruction three miles long, killing two people, and blowing semi trucks off of I-64. The twister was one of only twenty EF-4s to occur in the U.S. in November dating back to 1950, and was the third most northerly November EF-4 ever observed, according to data from the Tornado History Project.\nThe most widespread damage from Sunday\u2019s outbreak occurred in the town of Washington (population 16,000), about 140 miles southwest of Chicago, where another powerful EF-4 tornado destroyed or heavily damaged 250 \u2013 500 homes and an apartment complex. A northern Illinois man says he discovered mail belonging to Washington residents on his property in Channahon, about 80 miles northeast Washington, according to the (Peoria) Journal-Star. Three other tornado deaths occurred in Massac County in the far southern part of Illinois, making Sunday the deadliest November tornado outbreak in Illinois history.\nNOAA\u2019s Storm Prediction Centerlogged 68 preliminary tornado reports, along with 412 reports of high wind gusts and 32 reports of hail. Sixteen of the wind gusts were in excess of 74 mph (hurricane strength).\nA strange 2013 tornado season\nSunday\u2019s tornado outbreak is yet another anomaly in what has been a very unusual 2013 tornado season. The top three tornado outbreaks have occurred in November, January, and October\u2013well outside the usual spring/summer peak of tornado season:\nTop Five Tornado Days of 2013\n01/29/13: 62 tornadoes\n11/17/13: 68 (filtered) tornadoes, but likely to decrease once damage surveys completed\nIt\u2019s been an unusually slow severe weather season, with the 2013 preliminary tally of 818 tornadoes before Sunday the lowest year-to-date count since the extreme drought year of 1988. However, when severe weather outbreaks have come, they have been unusually destructive.\nThere have been five severe weather outbreaks topping $1 billion in damages this year. This is the third highest number of such disasters on record, going back to 1980. 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Mr. Silcox will discuss this crucial stage in your job campaign.\nGordon Silcox is an independent coach and consultant in the areas of executive development, career planning and job search.\nPrior to establishing his firm in 2003, Gordon was Senior Vice President in the Washington, DC office of Manchester, Inc., the highly regarded human resources consulting firm. Opening that office in 1987, he was directly involved in the growth of the firm's successful career counseling and leadership coaching services. A highly seasoned consultant in a wide range of industries and functional specialties, his activities have included executive coaching, career counseling, client services and business development.\nA lifelong resident of the Washington, DC area, Gordon earlier headed the Washington office of an international executive recruiting firm, serving a total of nine years in the field of retained executive search. 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They punched and pushed him to the ground on 125th Street.\nThe suspects then forcibly removed a chain from around the victim's neck and ran south on 125th Street.\nThey got into a white SUV and fled.\nAnyone with information about the case is asked to call 800-577-TIPS.\nrobberyqueens newsnew york citySouth Ozone ParkNew York City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aboutcleaningproductguide.site123.me/the-blog/credible-reasons-why-using-the-environmentally-natural-cleaning-products-is-a-good-idea", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:31Z", "digest": "sha1:BBLWAXPEBOAMETRKHIDYXKZZMPL6PWJY", "length": 2662, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "aboutcleaningproductguide.site123.me", "title": "Credible Reasons Why Using The Environmentally Natural Cleaning Products Is A Good Idea - The Cleaning Guide", "raw_content": "It is important to always think about cleanliness in your life. It is useful to ensure that you think about how clean you or the surrounding will be in your daily living. This is why you usually make use of the cleaning products. But how safe are you as you use these products on a daily basis? It is unfortunate that is not many people who have the knowledge that these products are harmful to their bodies and the environment as well. Luckily enough, there are some cleaning products that are natural and that which you will find sold almost at every place these days. The use of natural cleaning products is on the rise and is competing with the regularly used household cleaning products that contain chemicals. The reason why using the eco-friendly cleaning products is so important is that it offer a natural alternative and this will protect the health of your home as well as preventing the damage of the environment. You need therefore to make sure that you go for the cleaning products that are free from chemicals. There are a plethora of benefits of using the natural cleaning products. Given below are some of the key reasons why you should buy the natural cleaning products for your home.\nYou have to let your home and family remain healthy and one way of achieving this is using the green cleaning products. You will be secure from the exposure of chemicals when you get to use the natural cleaning products. You will no longer get in contact with harmful chemicals neither will you inhale the chemicals when you shift to using green cleaning products.\nYou will avoid the risks when you get to the use of green cleaning products from AspenClean. There are always some significant risks when using the conventional cleaning products that normally causes some chemical burn to eyes and skin. A lot of people out there have the allergies of using the detergents that have got a lot of chemicals. The green cleaning products are made with gentle ingredients that are friendly to the skin.\nThe smelling of the cleaning products that has got some chemicals. This smell is problematic to the people who have low tolerance to strong smelling products. One of the best features of the natural cleaning products is that they have a lovely smell.\nNaturals cleaning products are known of being cheap and also saves the surroundings. If you do a comparison of the natural cleaning products to the ones that are conventionally used, they are the cheap option you should consider. 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Here is the website link: https://accesspressthemes.com/support/reply/60551/. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://actionhampshire.org/who-we-work-with/not_for_profit/money", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FIZRIRWGEYL5NLON3GYQ7PABHCKIV2T4", "length": 519, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "actionhampshire.org", "title": "Money / Action Hampshire", "raw_content": "Home / Who we work with / Not-for-profit sector / Money\nMoney. Without it, the services we all offer can\u2019t happen. Money can be raised or earned \u2013 click the links below for more info.\nGrants enable many not-for-profit organisations to provide services that make a real difference to people\u2019s lives. 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Some of those inmates who died were clearly not nice people, and wouldn\u2019t have been released for many years. But many were guilty of the regular sort of human failings. The guards had less public faults, and may have been better than average folk. I don\u2019t know. Somehow, dying in the middle of the work you\u2019ve chosen seems routine and, falsely, within your control, so it\u2019s not as poetic. If on the day of our impending death, we were able to wake up with a sense of lusty mortality to pend it some more, we would. We would sit at the traffic light another half second. We\u2019d refuse to come to work that day.\nBut if you\u2019re a prisoner and you wake up with that, you have no choice. Fate brings you places, and in cases like this, it kills you, too.\nThat morning, I didn\u2019t have any sense about myself or people 1,800 miles away, but I was still awake because I\u2019d been looking up the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 most dangerous jobs for 2013, and converting it into a spreadsheet to make some visualizations of the data. Because when I have a spreadsheet open, Excel replaces my need to sleep.\nThe most surprising thing was that working near very heavy stuff and driving are the two most dangerous kinds of jobs you can do. Even if you\u2019re a law enforcement patrol officer, an automatic is more likely to kill you if it can be put in drive than pointed at you.\nSo, I wondered how dangerous correctional officers\u2019 and jailers\u2019 jobs were, and how much prison transport factored in to that.\nThe answer, roughly, is that being a correctional officer is relatively safe and fatal crashes are extremely rare. But the precise answer is tougher to pin down.\nSo, the BLS doesn\u2019t include correctional officers and jailers in their list of occupations with fatal accident rate. This is problematic, but not insurmountable. There\u2019s a little formula at the bottom:\nThe rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers and was calculated as:\n(N/EH) x 200,000,000 where\nN = the number of fatal work injuries\nEH = total hours worked by all employees during the calendar year\n200,000,000 = base for 100,000 equivalent full-time workers (working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year)\nSo we\u2019ve got the number of death listed. Let\u2019s just grab the employment numbers.\nFor correctional officers and jailers, that\u2019s 432,680. Assuming they do work 40 hours per week, that\u2019s easy. But let\u2019s check.\nThe median income is $19.02 hourly, or $39,550 annually. That works out to 41.6 hours were week. Other quintiles bear that out. So let\u2019s plug that into the formula:\n(6/( (41.6*50) * 432,680) ) * 200,000,000 = 1.3 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers\nOr just being lazy, 6/432,680 \u2013 1.4 per 100,000 workers.\nWhichever is better, that\u2019s less than half the fatal injury rate for all U.S. jobs in 2013 (3.2 per 100K). In fact, being a cashier is more likely to kill you (1.5 per 100K).\nGoing back a few years, that\u2019s not an aberration for the field, either. Of course, getting good employment numbers for that specific occupation is eluding me now, so let\u2019s just accept that the rate isn\u2019t going to move too much.\n2013: 6 total fatal injuries\nNotice that although the purpose of those reports is to categorize the fatal injuries into the kind of events they were, many don\u2019t actually add up within their occupation. Why is this? I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s no notes about it in the document I saw, and I haven\u2019t found an explanation outside of it. I really want to call the BLS just to get someone who can explain that to me, but that\u2019s a bridge too far for a blog post as unlikely to be read as this.\n(That day, my friend had to work a copydesk shift instead of get to be involved in the news collection activities. I reminded him I don\u2019t even get to sit at a copydesk when things happen currently.)\nAnd unfortunately, I got taken even further down this rabbit hole by a U.S. Department of Justice report.\nOne of the few studies of CO suicide, the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 (BLS) Census\nof Fatal Occupational Injuries, shows that 38 percent of the intentional fatalities\nsuffered by COs were suicides by self-inflicted gunshot wounds (Konda, 2012).\nHowever, using BLS data to study suicide prevalence among COs is complicated\nbecause the BLS only reports suicides that occur in the workplace.\nSo actually, some of the violent deaths don\u2019t involve anyone else. But they should still show up in the individual tallies.\nIn any case, my original question is approximately answered: about two or three correctional officers or jailers die transporting prisoners each year, so Richard Kimble or no, you\u2019re better off transporting prisoners than wares or cab fares.\nPrevious Post A drought doesn\u2019t mean elsewhere grass is greener\nNext Post Who is America\u2019s deadliest Predator Drone pilot?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adcinfrastructure.com/2018/05/17/government-funding-announced/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6JS7QQ56XW5I6FHG4OE5IZ7JTDWMFZGE", "length": 1253, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "adcinfrastructure.com", "title": "Government funding announced \u2013 ADC Infrastructure", "raw_content": "Government funding announced\n17 May 2018 15 June 2018 by adcinfrastructure\tLeave a comment\nThe Government has today announced \u00a349.5m of funding towards the \u00a363.5m cost of the Melton Mowbray Distributor Road \u2013 read more here.\nThat is great news for many \u2013 local residents affected by the current congestion; the Borough Council who can deliver significant growth focussed on Melton; and developers with proposals in the area. It is an excellent example of the benefits of infrastructure.\nWe, too, are pleased. For the last 7 years we have been working with Davidsons Developments on a scheme of 1,500 houses on the southern side of Melton, including the design of a southern bypass. Initially promoting the site for allocation in the Local Plan, currently supporting a planning application, we hope to see houses coming out of the ground in a couple of years.\nDiscussions about a bypass go back decades. Our own David Cummins recalls working on behalf of the Borough Council in 1992, running a cost benefit analysis of different route options, and after that supporting Wilson Bowden\u2019s Kettleby Magna new village proposal on the airfield.\nWell done to Leicestershire County Council.\nPrevious Entry:Northampton Gateway latest\nNext Entry:Decathlon downsize", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://advantages.aarp.org/en/brand.consumer-cellular.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KVEB5OO3MOL2AUQFHDP4DL5J65FBSMPV", "length": 602, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "advantages.aarp.org", "title": "Consumer Cellular", "raw_content": "Consumer Cellular was founded in 1995 on the belief that affordable cellphone service should be available to all Americans. We're a nationwide provider of no contract, risk-free plans to millions of customers throughout the US. Customers can choose the talk, text and data plans that best fit their needs, with the freedom to change them as often as they like.\nA variety of high-quality phones are available for all lifestyles, tastes and budgets. On top of all the savings offered, our customer service team is based exclusively within the US and is top-rated, year after year.\nConsumer Cellular Deals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 387, "original_length": 11111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/glossary/512/non-hodgkin-lymphoma", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TWWHEQBKXCXYR5DMB7MH5MZS6SU6DBU3", "length": 436, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aidsinfo.nih.gov", "title": "Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) | Definition | AIDSinfo", "raw_content": "A large group of lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system). The many types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are classified according to how fast the cancer spreads. Although the symptoms of NHLs vary, they often include swollen lymph nodes, fever, and weight loss. Certain types of NHLs, such as Burkitt lymphoma and immunoblastic lymphoma, are AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV.\nRelated Term(s): AIDS-Defining Condition, Lymphoma", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/glossary/824/cd4-receptor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:11Z", "digest": "sha1:H546HQ4A6CSCTOFBGZQIA5WHEHGVTGLR", "length": 262, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "aidsinfo.nih.gov", "title": "CD4 Receptor | Definition | AIDSinfo", "raw_content": "CD4 Receptor\nA protein found primarily on the surface of CD4 T lymphocytes (CD4 cells). To enter a host cell, HIV binds to a CD4 receptor and a coreceptor (either CCR5 or CXCR4) on the host cell.\nRelated Term(s): CCR5, CD4 T Lymphocyte, CXCR4, Fusion, Life Cycle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/sharpening-father-heintz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:QZWOVNDW2HL35W6YVUS5VCXSW6PCCHQN", "length": 4095, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "al.nd.edu", "title": "Sharpening Father Heintz // Latest News // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame", "raw_content": "Sharpening Father Heintz\nOregenes Adamantius, to whom the academy has given the nickname \u201cOrigen,\u201d was a second and third century Alexandrian monk and genius who became one of the most influential theologians and biblical scholars of the early Church. He was described by Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, one of his students, as \u201cthe stone that sharpens us all.\u201d\nOrigen has undeniably sharpened Rev. Michael Heintz, rector and pastor of Saint Matthew\u2019s Cathedral in South Bend, who will receive a doctoral degree in theology from Notre Dame at the May 18 Commencement ceremonies.\nFather Heintz, already quite sharp in the knowledge of Latin and Greek, has completed and defended his dissertation on \u201cThe Pedagogy of the Soul: Origen\u2019s Homilies on the Psalms\u201d under the co-direction of Rev. Brian Daley, S.J., Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, and John Cavadini, chair of the theology department at Notre Dame. His project required him to translate these homilies into English for the first time, and the resulting collection is soon to be published by Catholic University of America Press in its \u201cFathers of the Church series.\u201d\nBy any measure, such scholarship would be an impressive accomplishment, but Father Heintz also has the unique distinction of having pursued and earned his theological doctorate on a part-time basis. No one has ever done that before.\n\u201cIt is truly astonishing to realize that such high quality work\u2014a dissertation which is already contracted to be published\u2014was accomplished without Father Heintz missing a pastoral beat in his \u2018day job\u2019 as rector of a diocesan cathedral,\u201d Cavadini said. \u201cEven the stream of postcards he is accustomed to write, congratulating the youth of his parish on this sports accomplishment or that academic achievement, and so warmly appreciated by their recipients, never stopped!\u201d\nNor did the other and more demanding routines of Father Heintz\u2019s parish priestly life\u2014the confessions, the counseling, the visits to the sick, the deathbed vigils, the baptisms, the Masses, the preaching, the prayer and the popular spiritual reading groups he has organized.\nEven while turning in this commendable performance at Saint Matthew\u2019s, Father Heintz was at work on his translations and patristics studies, attending academic conferences nationwide and writing numerous articles for such journals as Communio, Religious Studies Review and Thomist . He also was teaching popular introductory theology courses at Notre Dame, for which he received a 2005 Kaneb Teaching Award, which is annually given to one graduate student teacher in each academic department. The following year, he received the even more competitive Alumni Association Teaching Award, which is annually given to one graduate student among all the colleges of the University.\nNot that Father Heintz, a congenially talkative man, seems terribly proud of all this.\n\u201cI\u2019m just so grateful that they were willing to take a chance on me,\u201d Father Heintz said recently. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have been more blessed. Everybody in the theology department and on my committee has been so supportive, and so has my bishop.\u201d\nHe shrugs, even squirms a bit, when acclaimed for his conspicuous academic and pastoral successes, and seems genuinely to regard them as unremarkable. When asked how he intends to celebrate the reception of his degree he seems not to have thought very much about it, and shudders at the notion that his parishioners might want to honor him.\n\u201cI suppose I\u2019ll have dinner with a few friends,\u201d he says vaguely.\nFather Heintz insists that his intellectual and spiritual work are mutually invigorating and replenishing.\n\u201cI know that my work as a priest is strengthened and enriched by my work in historical theology,\u201d he says, \u201cand I think I\u2019m a better theologian because of my pastoral work as a priest.\u201d\nHe pauses and smiles, contentment, but not a trace of fatigue, in his expression and posture. \u201cI just love it here,\u201d he says quietly. Asked if by \u201chere\u201d he means the University of Notre Dame or Saint Matthew\u2019s Cathedral in South Bend, he just laughs.\n\u201cBoth, obviously,\u201d he says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alcazar.nomadgarden.org/garden/real-alcazar/species/rose-mallow/?filter=all", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PNNDFX73XHTUR6K4VEEXONWDKPC7I7DS", "length": 1539, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "alcazar.nomadgarden.org", "title": "Real Alc\u00e1zar de Sevilla", "raw_content": "Rosa de Siria / Altea\nThis plant of gorgeous flower is a species of Asian origin for purely ornamental use and of great symbolic value in the East: Hindus offer their deities Kali and Ganesha red hibiscus. It is South Korea's national flower. In America, where it arrived from Europe, this flower is known as hollyhock of Seville. As hibiscus is mentioned by Dioscorides, in his On Medical Matter actually referring to the altea. The treaty of this botanical and Greek physician of the first century arrived to the Muslim world through the Byzantine Empire, with its capital in Constantinople. It was translated into Arabic in Baghdad in the ninth century during the Abbasid caliphate by the Greek Esteban, though not in a very satisfactory way. In 929 Abd al-Rahman III, from the Syrian dynasty of the Umayyad, declared himself caliph, chief of the believers, in C\u00f3rdoba, which had already become one of the centers of knowledge of the Middle Ages. It is, at that time, when it came to al-Andalus a first treaty of Dioscorides in Greek, a gift from the Emperor of Constantinople to the Caliph of Cordoba in recognition of the importance of his kingdom. Soon a monk named Nicholas arrived to Cordoba, also sent directly from Byzantium by the emperor at the request of Abd al Rahman III, in order to translate On Medical Matter. So a better knowledge of botanical and medicinal properties of plants was obtained and it was confirmed, in turn, the prestige of C\u00f3rdoba and al-Andalus as places to safeguard classical culture.\nBlade Triangular", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alisalifestyle.com/tag/thoughts/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5B77NNHKQPVEMJ5IZIXXDLKSDODRHHCM", "length": 2282, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "alisalifestyle.com", "title": "Thoughts \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Alisa Lifestyle", "raw_content": "After the amazing feedback I\u2019ve been given about my book I want to take it a step further. Inspiring people, helping them, advising them is something that creates such a rewarding feeling inside! I want to help as much as I can. I have an idea and for it to go well I need as [\u2026]\nWell here it is everyone. My book 25 Realisations is now available to buy on Amazon. It\u2019s been a long time coming and I know that this blog is to thank.When I started this blog I had no idea I\u2019d fall in love with writing like i did. I had no idea on just how [\u2026]\nAs you may have already figured out I am in the process of self-publishing my very first book! Now I think I should start off with a small disclaimer; it is not a piece of literary genius! If you have kept up with my blogs and (hopefully) enjoyed them then you will recognise and enjoy [\u2026]\nIt\u2019s been a while however for good reason. I needed this blog post to be a true reflection of where I am now in life. No quotes, no pictures just the raw truth. I seem to be, as you can tell my the title, in a constant state of change. I seem to have good [\u2026]\nWell it has definitely been a while! For the past few weeks I haven\u2019t been feeling like myself. I didn\u2019t lose myself but I realised that there was a lot of unanswered questions in my life, there was a lot I was holding back. I wasn\u2019t me. I haven\u2019t yet found myself. I realise now [\u2026]\nAs a child if anyone asked me what I wanted I would always answer \u201cworld peace\u201d. Now I am not trying to claim I was a very intelligent child who knew about everything that was going on in the world, I had just watched a lot of beauty pageants and figured people liked when you [\u2026]\nThere\u2019s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this \u2013 Unknown So many people are blind to what\u2019s around them. To the beautiful world they live in. These days drama, world politics and life get in the way and make us loose sight of the really beautiful parts of this world. [\u2026]\nDon\u2019t let other people define who you are.\nToo many people I know let other people\u2019s opinions of them define who they are. They accept the label given to them by people who don\u2019t understand them, who don\u2019t know them, who aren\u2019t them! It ruins them from within. Slowly but surely I see that person become a shell of what they once were. [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/201809120096.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LQDVZRGCDQXRXFW362QS22JXVFSDPPO3", "length": 4379, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "allafrica.com", "title": "Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Decry Retrial of Convicted Mastermind By UN Court - allAfrica.com", "raw_content": "Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Decry Retrial of Convicted Mastermind By UN Court\nPhoto: Sam Ngendahimana/New Times\nMourners during a past commemoration event at Murambi Genocide Memorial.\nGenocide survivors and the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) have described the retrial of the genocide convict Augustin Ngirabatware, the former minister for planning in the genocidal government, as unfair and perverting the course of justice.\nThey were commenting on the recent decision by the Arusha-based Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) to retry the case following Ngirabatware's request.\nThe proceedings in the retrial case are slated to begin on September 24, according to the Tanzania-based court's website.\nMICT took over from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that was instituted by the UN to try masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.\nNgirabatware was sentenced by an ICTR Trial Chamber to 35 years of imprisonment in December 2012 but appealed two years later and the court's Appeals Chamber reduced his sentence to 30 years of imprisonment.\nThe former minister later requested for a review of the trial on the grounds that he had new facts that would clear him of the crimes for which he was convicted.\nIn June 2017, the Appeals Chamber issued a decision granting Ngirabatware's request for review of the appeal judgment.\nThe umbrella organisation of Genocide survivors (Ibuka) and CNLG have described the decision to review the judgment as unfair and supporting the convict to distort the truth.\nThey put the blame on the tribunal's controversial substantive leader, Theodor Meron.\n\"That is complicating things. It has been realised that Judge Theodor Meron's conduct as a judge is unfair; if you look at Ngirabatware's role in the Genocide, he was given a much light sentence. The least that can be done is to let him serve his sentence,\" Naphtal Ahishakiye, the Ibuka executive secretary, said yesterday.\nAhishakiye stressed that while ICTR and its successor have played a role in promoting justice, there are still weaknesses that should be worked on to continue serving its purpose.\n\"There are still weaknesses that we want to be corrected; recently, after we raised our voices about his (Meron's) unfair discharging of his duties, instead of listening to our concern, he took a decision of not listening to any survivors, we wish to have the right and opportunity to contribute to the better functioning of MICT court,\" he added\nAccording to Prof Jean Damascene Bizimana, CNLG executive secretary, the review of Ngirabatware's case only serves the purpose of perverting the course of justice.\n\"It is an attempt to pervert the course of justice, Ngirabatware had appealed before and was handed 30 years as a result, he asked for a review of the case again and I don't understand why he was given the special opportunity to have his judgment reviewed,\" he said.\nBizimana said that the Government has, on several occasions, said that Judge Meron is unfair and MICT laws are ignored willingly.\n\"We urged that the laws governing the UN Court be amended so that no single judge should possess unilateral powers as Meron does because it is one of the problems faced with the court,\" he said.\n\"If you look at the UN's Special court for Sierra Leonne decisions are taken considering the interest of victims, whether the convict had been corrected enough to live in society with others and considering the wish of the country where the convict committed the crime from, all those were not considered by ICTR and now its successor,\" he added.\nSigns of wrong judgment\nCommenting on the case of five people who were recently arrested in Rwanda and transferred to Arusha for trial after they were found bribing and coercing witnesses to reverse testimonies that pin Ngirabatware, Bizimana said that it was an indication that after all, there are no grounds for the convict to seek retrial.\nThe five people - including four men and a woman - were arrested on the indictment of the UN court's Chief Prosecutor and were on Monday transferred to the UN Detention Centre in Arusha.\n\"What we ask the court is to uphold the conviction because I don't think the court made a mistake on two separate occasions,\" he added.\nNgirabatware was arrested in September 2007 in Germany and transferred to the ICTR in October 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 383, "original_length": 20912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allatra.ca/global-cataclysms-there-is-a-way-out-the-trailer-for-the-programme-%D1%81%D0%B5-%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82-it-is-coming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VG6HYDTKFMB6VF73OJGH2AB2WOGRO2K2", "length": 540, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "allatra.ca", "title": "Global cataclysms. There is a way out! The trailer for the programme \u0421\u0415 \u0413\u0420\u042f\u0414\u0415\u0422. IT IS COMING - AllatRa Canada", "raw_content": "Climate changes, natural disasters on Earth are occurring with increasing force and this is already a reality of today. The scale of the events can be observed today across the planet. This makes each person face his personal choice. Soon this will affect everyone, regardless of religion, faith, social status or nationality.\nWe have a way out! The unification of humanity on the basis of good, honor and conscience is our chance to survive!\nWhat have you done today in order for your family and friends, have a chance to survive tomorrow?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allenprint.orderprintnow.com/ProductDetails.aspx?TemplateOrderItemId=39877c87-8592-4b24-bee1-c19dc452bb92", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HVVGP7XBDR3CK5UE4BNDLT6BYQBWXRYZ", "length": 174, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "allenprint.orderprintnow.com", "title": "4\" x 6\" Postcards - Single-Sided", "raw_content": "4\" x 6\" Postcards - Single-Sided\nPostcards 4\" x 6\" Postcards - Single-Sided 4\" x 6\" Postcards - Double-Sided 5\" x 7\" Postcards - Single-Sided 5\" x 7\" Postcards - Double-Sided", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 182.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allyshwed.com/how-impeachment-works", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:52PIWMYI2KDKJBHM5D3E6576AIF54CD5", "length": 179, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "allyshwed.com", "title": "Ally Shwed - How Impeachment Works", "raw_content": "A brief comic history of impeachment in light of the current sociopolitical climate. Originally published on The Nib, February 23, 2018 (https://thenib.com/how-impeachment-works).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://almost-arlecchino.blogspot.com/2015/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZUSF5HROKVDJDE6DZHNMQB5CQBRCNEV", "length": 989, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "almost-arlecchino.blogspot.com", "title": "Songs of the not-so innocent", "raw_content": "A few months ago, I got a second-hand laptop to use in Bombay. Though a little old, it came with amazing tech specs, including i7, RAM and loads of space. In terms of the OS, I wanted at least Windows 7, but it came with XP, which was a bit inconvenient. However, that tech cloud did bring a silver lining because it gave me an excuse to try something I've been wanting to for ages, that is, switch to a Linux-based OS.\nOpen to experimenting though I may be, I did not want to completely let go of Windows, so I configured a dual-boot with XP and Ubuntu OS. There are enough and more excellent Youtube videos to help do this and it did not take me long. Here are a few quick remarks on my experiences.\nUbuntu is free, amazingly light on system resources and I don't have to worry about installing anti-virus software. The Ubuntu help community is excellent and usually answers every question one could have. The layout is not terribly different from Windows and it will take you little ti\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 2851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alonetone.com/amuc/playlists/she-caught-skyglow-with-her-net/native-american-rompler", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:23Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3JZYL5OPCPCQVJGNBRF347JVIDD4KED", "length": 203, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "alonetone.com", "title": "\"She Caught Skyglow With Her Net\" by AMUC", "raw_content": "Native American Rompler\nIn some alternate timeline, the Nintendo Entertainment System was invented in North America 15,000 years ago, immediately after the new natives stepped off the Bering land bridge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 216.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alternatehistories.com/collections/11-x-17-inch-prints/products/birds-eye-view-of-phoenix", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:W5RY5LN3KOWQF3FEWAILQAII2ZBZJTBO", "length": 610, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "alternatehistories.com", "title": "Birds-Eye View of Phoenix - Alternate Histories", "raw_content": "Home / Prints / Birds-Eye View of Phoenix\nBirds-Eye View of Phoenix\nPhoenix! It might be hot and have monsters, but at least it's a dry heat! Learn about the monsters with this 11 x 17 inch digital print!\nComes with this description: Phoenix in 1855 was still a rough-and-tumble town, caught between its outlaw roots and the growing need for civic government. In addition to addressing vital issues of water, railroads, and local government, the citizens of Phoenix also had to deal with the gigantic, fire-breathing Creature of Camelback Mountain, who did not take kindly to this incursion into his territory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alyxjacobs.com/Ten-One-Branding", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6PHB3PEASI2MOVDFMOC5BIDHCZCVLLBA", "length": 404, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "alyxjacobs.com", "title": "alyxjacobs", "raw_content": "Ten + ONE was a one night only pop-up shop where I had the opportunity to sell my indigo-dyed hand-sewn quilts. I also had the opportunity of designing the logo for the pop-up shop. It was a very diverse group of people, with a wide array of items for sale, so the logo had to reflect the nature of us as a whole. Using Axis for the bold, black anchoring type, I counteracted that with a painterly \"ONE\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanart.si.edu/artist/yuriko-yamaguchi-5718", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XZQWTDRWYRW3YJO4AXLQVXEV4GQ5ECOU", "length": 765, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "americanart.si.edu", "title": "Yuriko Yamaguchi | Smithsonian American Art Museum", "raw_content": "Yuriko F. Yamaguchi\nborn Osaka, Japan 1948\nYuriko Yamaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, after the Second World War. When she moved to the United States at the age of twenty-three, she barely spoke English and turned to art to express herself, exploring her identity as a \u201ctiny being in a vast universe.\u201d She links elements with wood or wires and hangs her works on walls and ceilings to represent her spiritual connections with the world around her. She uses only delicate materials, such as thin wires, resin, or twigs in order to evoke the simplicity of Japanese poetry. (Yamaguchi, \u201cRope as the Symbol Expressing the Integration of Physical Existence and Metaphysical Being,\u201d MFA thesis, University of Maryland, 1979)\nMeet the Artist: Yuriko Yamaguchi\nAfter Chance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 6257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Batrachoseps&where-species=luciae&account=lannoo", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QKD2VQMC4YVMVYQ3GA6DNKSMF5D35HMP", "length": 6824, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "amphibiaweb.org", "title": "AmphibiaWeb - Batrachoseps luciae", "raw_content": "Batrachoseps luciae\nSanta Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander\nSubgenus: Batrachoseps\nBatrachoseps luciae Jockusch, Yanev and Wake, 2001\nRobert W. Hansen1\nDavid B. Wake2\n1. Historical versus Current Distribution. Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders (Batrachoseps luciae) were described in 2001 on the basis of differences in allozymes and in DNA haplotypes in the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b (Jockusch, 1996; Jockusch et al., 2001). Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders are distributed throughout the northern Santa Lucia Mountains along the Pacific Coast in Monterey County (Jockush et al., 2001). They currently are known from a number of Monterey County locations in central coastal California. The northernmost known location is on the Monterey Peninsula and the southernmost is near the Monterey/San Luis Obispo County line. Inland, they are found along the Carmel Valley and the eastern slopes of the Santa Lucia Mountains from Arroyo Seco at least as far south as 36 \u02daN. Differences between historical and current distributions are not apparent.\n2. Historical versus Current Abundance. Unknown. Santa Lucia slender salamanders have been found abundantly at only a few sites, including the type locality, a park in the city of Monterey (Jockusch et al., 2001).\nii. Breeding habitat. Unknown.\ni. Egg deposition sites. A cluster of 19\u201320 eggs was found beneath a log in Pacific Grove on 10 February, along with several adult Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders, one of which was positioned ca. 5 cm from the cluster (D. Roberson; http://montereybay.com/creagrus/CABatrachoseps.html). Almost certainly these eggs were deposited by more than one female; this appears to be the first example of communal nesting (Jockusch and Mahoney, 1997) for this species.\nii. Clutch size. Jockusch (1997b) induced oviposition in gravid females collected from two localities. Average clutch sizes were 5.1 eggs (Carmel Valley, n = 10 clutches) and 10.6 eggs (Monterey, n = 13 clutches).\nC. Direct Development. Developmental times for eggs incubated in the lab at 13 \u02daC averaged 78 d (Jockusch 1997b). Dates of hatching in the wild are unknown.\nD. Juvenile Habitat. Unknown how this may differ from adult habitat.\nE. Adult Habitat. San Lucia Mountains slender salamanders are found predominantly in moist redwood and mixed coniferous forests. Inland, they occur mainly on wooded (with predominant vegetation being tan bark oaks and maples), north-facing slopes. During favorable climatic conditions, San Lucia Mountains slender salamanders also can be found under suitable cover in open, disturbed habitats, including the type locality, a park in the city of Monterey (Jockusch et al., 2001). In the Big Sur area, they have been found in wet, creekside situations.\nH. Aestivation/Avoiding Dessication. Unknown, but likely in populations occurring on the eastern flanks of the Santa Lucia Range. On the western flank of these mountains, Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders have been found under surface cover year-round. The presence of sharply rising mountain slopes adjacent to the Pacific Ocean results in frequent summer fogs that in turn allow salamanders to remain surface active outside the rainy season. We have recorded Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders under surface cover at substrate temperatures of 7.4\u20138.4 \u02daC (mean 7.9 \u02daC; n = 14) in January, although we expect activity across a broader range of temperatures.\nK. Interspecific Associations/Exclusions. Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders and Gabilan Mountains slender salamanders (B. gavilanensis) are parapatric, their ranges largely interdigitating for ca. 80 km along a broad ecotone in Carmel Valley. Populations of these species occur to within a few km of each other in Carmel Valley, but sympatry has not been discovered (Yanev, 1978; Jockusch et al., 2001). Similarly, their ranges converge in the Monterey Peninsula in an area with continuous habitat; further collecting in this region seems likely to reveal sympatry. They also occur within a few hundred meters of each other in the Nacimiento River valley in extreme southern Monterey County.\nAt their southern range limits, Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders come close to populations of San Simeon slender salamanders (B. incognitus) and black-bellied slender salamanders (B. nigriventris), but range overlap is unknown (Jockusch et al., 2001).\nOther plethodontid salamanders occurring with the range of Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders include ensatinas (Ensatina eschscholtzii) and arboreal salamanders (Aneides lugubris).\nL. Age/Size at Reproductive Maturity. Unknown. Based upon measurements of a small series, males range from 32.0\u201340.1 (mean 36.3, n = 10) mm SVL, females from 36.8\u201344.8 (mean 41.2, n = 10) mm SVL.\nN. Feeding Behavior. Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders, similar to other species of Batrachoseps, likely capture small insect prey using their projectile tongue.\nO. Predators. Unknown, although lizards and snakes are likely predators.\nP. Anti-Predator Mechanisms. Coiling and tail autotomy are common defensive responses in several species of attenuate Batrachoseps\nS. Comments. Although only recently described, specimens now referred to this species have been in scientific collections for many years though assigned to other taxa (e.g., B. attenuatus [Hendrickson, 1954]; and later, B. relictus [Brame and Murray, 1968] and B. pacificus [Yanev, 1980]). Yanev (1978, 1980), on the basis of allozymes, first identified the major lineages within the central coastal B. pacificus complex. Subsequently, these have been recognized as distinct species (gavilanensis, incognitus, luciae, and minor); Jockusch et al., 2001).\nBased on studies of mtDNA and allozymes, Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders are known to be close relatives of B. incognitus, B. minor, and B. gavilanensis (Jockusch et al., 2001; Jockusch and Wake, 2002). There is some evidence that B. luciae and B. gavilanensis may have been in genetic contact early in their history, although there is no indication of present gene exchange despite sharing a long border through Carmel Valley (Jockusch et al., 2001).\n4. Conservation. Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamanders are moderately widespread throughout the northern Santa Lucia Mountains and are abundant at a few sites. Portions of the range occur on publicly owned lands or other large land holdings that are likely to remain relatively undisturbed for the foreseeable future. Aside from local extirpations associated with human development, there are no known significant conservation concerns.\nAcknowledgments. We thank Don Roberson for information concerning his discovery of a communal nest.\n1 Robert W. Hansen\n16333 Deer Path Lane\nrwh13@csufresno.edu\n2 David B. Wake\nwakelab@uclink4.berkeley.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://animine.eu/ildex-vietnam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:QUBV5YM3UQDM2FDPUWZIGY23C3XAKE6R", "length": 431, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "animine.eu", "title": "Ildex Vietnam | Animine", "raw_content": "ILDEX VIETNAM is a biennial International Exhibition focusing on Livestock, Dairy, Meat processing and Aquaculture. For the last 16 years, the event has proven to be the opportune time for local and international firms to not only introduce new products, but also update contemporary market trending, see new technology, and learn about new knowledge through the event\u2019s extensive seminar programs presented by renown key speakers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://annualreports.solvay.com/2017/en/risks/main-risks/security.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:U7LSF2VYXXWS5SAXZNP4BITHYWH3DELK", "length": 1124, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "annualreports.solvay.com", "title": "Security - 2017 Annual Integrated Report", "raw_content": "Intentional attacks on Solvay sites, information and people with the intent to cause harm, damage, or negative consequences.\nSolvay has a threat-based and compliance-based security approach to protecting sites, information, and people.\nA Group Security Director coordinates all security activities globally in order to ensure efficient security risk mitigation.\nThe Executive Committee has endorsed the creation of two governance bodies:\na Security Board, chaired by the CFO and another Executive Committee member, and\na Security Coordination Working Group, chaired by the Group Security Director, which aims to run a continuous security threat monitoring program and an optimized security program for the Group.\nContinuation of the Group\u2019s cyber-security initiatives in Solvay Business Services (SBS).\nLaunch of a Group-wide physical security program, focusing initially on the Group\u2019s high-risk industrial sites. Vulnerabilities have been identified and will be mitigated in 2018.\nAdoption of a Group Security Policy, embedding security in the Group\u2019s governance rules.\nMain risks Climate related physical risk to page top", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 9778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://antiquepianoshop.com/online-museum/bacon-karr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TJ6G62RJ6KNXGCCA6CRPRMRMZJ6VAQE3", "length": 696, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "antiquepianoshop.com", "title": "Bacon & Karr - Antique Piano Shop", "raw_content": "Bacon & Karr\nAfter the death of George Bacon in 1855, his son Francis Bacon joined the firm and the name of the firm was changed to Raven, Bacon & Company. In 1862 the name of the firm was again changed to simply \u201cRaven & Bacon\u201d. In 1872, Richard M. Raven died and the firm was taken over by Thomas Raven at which time the name of the firm was changed to Raven & Company. In 1878, Thomas Raven left the firm and the name of the company was changed to \u201cRaven Piano Works\u201d. Raven Piano Works was out of business before 1890. In 1871, Karr joined the firm and the name was changed to Bacon & Karr.\n19th Century Bacon & Karr\n19th Century Advertisement for Bacon & Karr Piano Company, Circa About 1875", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 7280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apollosugar.com/world-of-diabetes/types-of-diabetes/gestational-diabetes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ72YO6WVDDE34YRWOXLA44GVRKBPUS3", "length": 14456, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "apollosugar.com", "title": "Overview - Gestational Diabetes : Causes, Signs, Symptoms, Diet & Tests - Apollo Sugar", "raw_content": "Apollo Sugar Clinics > World of Diabetes > Types of Diabetes > Gestational Diabetes\nThe prevalence of GDM in India varied from 3.8 to 21% in different parts of the country, depending on the geographical locations and diagnostic methods used. GDM has been found to be more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas.\nPregnant women who have never had diabetes before but who have high blood glucose (sugar) levels during pregnancy are said to have gestational diabetes. According to a 2014 analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of gestational diabetes is as high as 9.2%.\nIt is Important to monitor because it impacts maternal health care both during/after pregnancy and increases perinatal complications. Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby\u2019s body has been formed, but while the baby is growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy.\nGenerally women who are 25 years of age, Overweight or obese state, with Family history of diabetes mellitus, History of abnormal GTT, History of poor obstetric outcome, History of delivery of an infant with a birth weight > 9 lbs , History of polycystic ovary syndrome, Asian origin.\nScreening tests and Diagnosis of Gestational diabetes mellitus\nIn the antenatal clinic, a pregnant woman after undergoing preliminary clinical examination, has to be given a 75 g oral glucose, without regard to the time of the last meal. A venous blood sample is collected at 2 hours for estimating plasma glucose.\nGDM is diagnosed if 2 hr plasma glucose is \u2265140 mg/dl. American Diabetes Association recommends 3 hour 100 gm OGTT and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus is diagnosed if any 2 values meet or exceed FPG > 95 mg/dl, 1 hr PPG > 180 mg/dl, 2 hr PG > 155 mg/dl and 3 hr PG > 140 mg/dl.\nScreening is recommended between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation and the diagnostic criteria of ADA are applicable.\nTreatment and Management of Gestational diabetes\nA team approach is ideal for managing women with GDM. The team would usually comprise an obstetrician, diabetes physician, a diabetes educator, dietitian, midwife and pediatrician. Intensive monitoring, diet and insulin is the corner stone of GDM management. A short term intensive care gives a long term pay off in the primary prevention of obesity, IGT and diabetes in the offspring, as the preventive medicine starts before birth.\nPrimary requisite is the need for glucose monitoring. Diet control should be initiated. If still poor control persists, insulin should be commenced. The most advised format is Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG).\nMaintaining a mean plasma glucose (MPG) level ~105\u2013110 mg/dL is desirable for a good fetal outcome.\nThis is possible if FPG and 2-hour postprandial peaks are ~90 mg/dL and ~120 mg/dL respectively.\nAll women with GDM should receive nutritional counseling. The meal pattern should provide adequate calories and nutrients to meet the needs of pregnancy. The expected weight gain during pregnancy is 300\u2013400 g per week and total weight gain is 10\u201312 kg by term.\nOnce diagnosis is made, medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is advised initially for 2 weeks. If MNT fails to achieve control, i.e. FPG ~90 mg/dL and/or post-meal glucose ~120 mg/dL, insulin may be initiated.\nThe success of the treatment for a woman with GDM depends on the glycemic control maintained with meal plan or pharmacological intervention.\nSelf-monitoring of blood glucose self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) on a daily basis, failing which, at least weekly monitoring should be encouraged.\nFollow- up of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus\nGestational diabetic women require follow-up. An OGTT with 75 g oral glucose, using WHO criteria for the non-pregnant population should be performed at 6\u20138 weeks postpartum. If found normal, glucose tolerance test is repeated after 6 months and every year to determine whether the glucose tolerance has returned to normal or progressed. A considerable proportion of gestational diabetic women may continue to have glucose intolerance. It is important that women with GDM be counseled with regard to their increased risk of developing permanent diabetes.\nComplications that may affect the baby include:\nLarger body than normal \u2013 difficult for delivery and harmful for the baby\nSometimes jaundice \u2013 seen as yellowing of skin and white of eyes\nHypoglycaemia or very low blood sugar right after birth\nHigher chances of death\nIncreased risk of becoming overweight and developing type II diabetes in future\nIn addition to the above risks in babies, women with gestational diabetes will be at risk for:\nDeveloping gestational diabetes in the subsequent pregnancies\nType II diabetes in later stages of life\nHaving high blood pressure and too much protein in the urine, a condition called preeclampsia\nHaving caesarean surgery to deliver the baby because the baby may be large\nTherefore, along with the usual healthcare delivered by the obstetrician or gynaecologist, pregnant women with gestational diabetes will require other healthcare professionals including a diabetologist, dietician, diabetes educator to effectively manage their health and well-being.\nIf a woman already has type I or type II diabetes, it is essential to discuss with the doctor before becoming pregnant, as poorly controlled blood sugar levels can seriously impact the baby\u2019s health.\nPrevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus\nThere are no guarantees in preventing Gestational diabetes mellitus but adopting healthy habits before pregnancy is always a better option. A few healthy choices like eating healthy food- high on fiber and low in fat, focusing on vegetables, fruits and whole grains and most importantly exercising before and after pregnancy can be of major help. Focusing on permanent changes in eating habits, motivating yourself by remembering the long-term benefits of losing weight help in reducing the risk of having diabetes in the future or developing type 2 diabetes down the road.\n1. Is my baby at risk now I have gestational diabetes?\nGestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby\u2019s body has been formed, but while the baby is growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes mellitus does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy. So the baby might not be at risk most of the times. But there might be higher chances of the baby becoming obese in future. Exercise and healthy diet are always the best prevention methods.\n2. Will I still have diabetes after the baby is born?\nSome new mothers have better blood glucose control in the first few weeks after delivery. For many, it\u2019s a period of odd blood glucose swings. If you have gestational diabetes, there is a very good chance that your diabetes will go away immediately after the delivery. If the condition still persists, it is always advised to consult your doctor and continue medication.\n3. Will I have to be induced now that I have gestational diabetes?\nHowever, women can technically be treated as \u2018normal\u2019 if their gestational diabetes is well controlled and baby\u2019s growth looks normal on a 32 week scan. Many OB\u2019s cite the risk of stillbirth as a reason for induction, because the risk of stillbirth in women with regular diabetes is higher.\nHowever, there is no evidence that the risk of stillbirth goes up in gestational diabetes. So it is not necessary that having gestational diabetes mellitus needs induction od delivery.\n4. Will I need a Caesarean section now that I have gestational diabetes?\nA caesarean section might be required if it is suspected that the baby is 4,500 grams or higher, according to the American congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In other cases f the glucose is under control, c-section is not required.\n5. What should I expect at my first diabetes clinic appointment?\nA care team at the clinic usually comprising an obstetrician, diabetes physician, a diabetes educator, dietitian, midwife and pediatrician. Intensive monitoring, diet and insulin is the corner stone of GDM management. A short term intensive care gives a long term pay off in the primary prevention of obesity, IGT and diabetes in the offspring, as the preventive medicine starts before birth.\n6. What can/can\u2019t I eat?\n7. Will I need to take medication or insulin to control my gestational diabetes?\nOnce diagnosis is made, medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is advised initially for 2 weeks. If MNT fails to achieve control, i.e. FPG ~90 mg/dL and/or post-meal glucose ~120 mg/dL, insulin may be initiated. The success of the treatment for a woman with GDM depends on the glycemic control maintained with meal plan or pharmacological intervention.\n8. Can a pregnant woman get diabetes?\nPregnant women who have never had diabetes before but who have high blood glucose (sugar) levels during pregnancy are said to have gestational diabetes. It is Important to monitor because it impacts maternal health care both during/after pregnancy and increases perinatal complications.\n9. At what point will my diabetes consultant want to put me on medication or insulin?\n10. What tests are used to diagnose gestational diabetes?\nGestational diabetes mellitus is diagnosed if 2 hr plasma glucose is \u2265140 mg/dl. American Diabetes Association recommends 3 hour 100 gm OGTT and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus is diagnosed if any 2 values meet or exceed FPG > 95 mg/dl, 1 hr PPG > 180 mg/dl, 2 hr PG > 155 mg/dl and 3 hr PG > 140 mg/dl.\nGlycosylated hemoglobin, or hemoglobin A1c, is another test that may be performed. This test is used to monitor long-term blood glucose levels in people with diabetes. The hemoglobin A1c level offers a measure of the average blood glucose level over the past few months.\n11. Signs of gestational diabetes mellitus?\nGestational diabetes typically does not cause any noticeable signs or symptoms. This is why screening tests are so important. Rarely, an increased thirst or increased urinary frequency may be noticed.\n12. Diet of gestational diabetes mellitus?\nIt is not necessary to go on a special diet when have gestational diabetes. Depending on your current diet, you may have to eat less of some foods and more of others. The main aim for managing gestational diabetes is ensuring that your blood glucose levels are under control, so your healthcare team will discuss targets that are right for you.\nAll carbohydrates will have an impact on your blood glucose levels so be aware of how much you eat. Try to choose nutritious carbohydrate-containing foods such as wholegrain starchy foods, pulses, fruit and vegetables as well as some dairy foods. Your healthcare team will help you understand how carbohydrates affect your blood glucose levels. You may be advised to:\neat less carbohydrate\nchoose better sources of carbohydrates\nspread your carbohydrates throughout the day\nAsk to be referred to a dietitian who can support you to come up with a specific eating plan that is tailored to your needs.\n13. Gestational diabetes effects on baby?\nGestational diabetes may also have some effects on the baby\u2019s health. High insulin levels in the baby (caused by high blood glucose levels in the mother) may lead to low blood glucose levels in the baby after birth, so the baby is more likely to need to be cared for in a specialist baby unit in the hospital. Because your baby may be larger than normal, he or she is at higher risk for these complications. Remember, these are just possible complications. Your baby might have none of them.\n14. What are ketones and how can I prevent them?\nKetones are the result of the body burning fat for energy or fuel. For a person with diabetes, ketones are often the result of prolonged high blood sugar and insulin deficiency. Stringent control on blood sugars is the key in controlling ketones in the body. The presence of ketones can quickly become a dangerous condition called diabetic ketoacidosis, which is a serious medical emergency, and requires prompt treatment.\n15. Does Metformin have any effects on the baby?\nThere are no known side effects to the baby from taking Metformin in pregnancy. However, studies are going on to check the long-term side effects on babies born from mothers who took metformin during pregnancy.\n16. Gestational diabetes symptoms\n17. Gestational diabetes treatment\nTreatment for gestational diabetes aims to keep blood glucose levels equal to those of pregnant women who don\u2019t have gestational diabetes. Treatment for gestational diabetes always includes special meal plans and scheduled physical activity. It may also include daily blood glucose testing and insulin injections. Maintaining a mean plasma glucose (MPG) level ~105\u2013110 mg/dL is desirable for a good fetal outcome. This is possible if FPG and 2-hour postprandial peaks are ~90 mg/dL and ~120 mg/dL respectively.\n18. I feel sick and shaky and I\u2019m sweating, what is wrong with me?\nWhat you probably experienced were symptoms of low blood sugar called as hypoglycaemia. This happens when the blood sugar falls below 72mg/dl. It is very important for you to realise the symptoms and take immediate action. The symptoms of hypoglycaemia initially are sweating, tremor, hunger, anxiety, shakiness, headache, confusion, irritability, lack of concentration and if left untreated, hypoglycemia can get worse and may cause confusion, clumsiness, fainting, fits or even coma.\nIdeally, when possible, low blood sugar should be confirmed by measuring the blood glucose level.\n19. If I have another baby will I get gestational diabetes again?\nThere are many factors that affect how likely you are to develop gestational diabetes. While some of these, such as your ethnic origins, are out of your control, there are others that you can do something about. Making positive changes now will only benefit you and your next baby. Aim to be a healthy weight before you get pregnant. Try to bring your BMI (body mass index) below 25. Try not to put on weight between pregnancies. If you knew your BMI before your last baby, try not to add more than three BMI points to your pre-baby score. Putting on weight may mean you\u2019re more likely to develop gestational diabetes again. It may also increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life.\nRegular exercise, healthy diet are the two key concepts in keeping gestational diabetes mellitus at bay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 509, "original_length": 24787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://app.collegerecon.com/north-central-university/1557", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:26Z", "digest": "sha1:B4MIBMUN7XWKULTY3VYJHKHVL5PJSG7O", "length": 800, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "app.collegerecon.com", "title": "North Central University - Military, Veterans, GI Bill | CollegeRecon", "raw_content": "910 Elliot Ave Minneapolis, MN 55404\nNorth Central University combines rigorous academic training with the spiritual passion characteristic of our Bible college heritage. Our vision is to prepare Pentecostal leaders who will serve God in the church and in the world. Students say the main reason they come to North Central is our spiritual atmosphere. They describe the university as a place where people are passionate about their faith and Christ is at the center of their entire college experience. If you want to grow in your Christian faith, you'll find that the faculty and staff at North Central University are eager to help. We deliberately create a learning environment where students can increase their knowledge of the Scriptures and experience the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appdevelopermagazine.com/new-report-predicts-70-percent--of-world%E2%80%99s-population-will-have-a-smarthphone-by-2020/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KLMHUGMRIK52CQ45UMJLSWDF7GMJSS5P", "length": 2111, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "appdevelopermagazine.com", "title": "New Report Predicts 70 percent of World\u2019s Population Will Have a Smarthphone by 2020 | ADM", "raw_content": "NEW REPORT PREDICTS 70 PERCENT OF WORLD\u2019S POPULATION WILL HAVE A SMARTHPHONE BY 2020\nhttps://appdevelopermagazine.com/images/news_images/Ericcson-Mobility-Report-App-Developer-Magazine_vslzsmv2.jpg\nStuart Parkerson in Mobile Tech Thursday, June 11, 2015\nA new report by Ericsson is predicting that smartphone subscriptions are set to more than double by 2020 when more than 70 percent of the world's population will have a smartphone.\nThe repost also shows that smartphone users are consuming a lot of data, most of which is video and social networking. Between 2014 and 2020, mobile video traffic will grow by 55% per year and will be around 60% of all mobile data traffic by the end of that period.\nThe report also shows that there are also a growing number of connected devices, mainly driven by an increasing range of applications and business models, and supported by falling modem costs. The forecast indicates that there will be 26 billion connected devices by 2020.\nMobile data traffic in Q1 2015 was 55 percent higher than in Q1 2014. By 2020, 80 percent of mobile data traffic will be from smartphones. Mobile data consumption varies a lot between different user segments. In mature mobile broadband markets, 10 percent of subscribers consume around 50 percent of all data traffic. Video continues to be the key growth factor, with 60 percent of all mobile data traffic forecast to be from online video by 2020.\nThe report also shows that global mobile subscriptions are growing by 1.5 percent quarter-on-quarter and around 5 percent year-on-year. India grew the most in terms of net additions (+26 million), followed by China (+8 million), Myanmar (+5 million), Indonesia (+4 million) and Japan (+4 million). Global mobile penetration reached 99 percent in Q1 2015. Smartphones accounted for close to 75 percent of all mobile phones sold in Q1 2015, compared to around 65 percent during Q1 2014. However, around 40 percent of all mobile phone subscriptions are associated with smartphones, leaving considerable room for further uptake.\nRead more: http://www.ericsson.com/news/150603-ericsson-mobil...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 212.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appendix-cancer.org/2010/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SOEGHMNTENBODBDLKHEU6G4VKMF7LHMF", "length": 5935, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "appendix-cancer.org", "title": "February 2010 \u00bb Appendix Cancer Connection", "raw_content": "I lost another friend\u2026..\nI lost yet another friend to appendix cancer today. My closest appendix cancer friend.\nShe found my website just after she was diagnosed, and we have been in touch often in the years since. She was my age, and also a nurse\u2026so we shared a lot right away. She, at age 50, defied the odds of being female and being older and was accepted into medical school. She\u2019d always wanted to be a doctor. She was doing well in medical school\u2026until she had appendicitis, until she discovered she had appendiceal cancer. She had a hemicolectomy and then returned to med school, she was going to be one of the survivors. Then her cancer recurred. She had a second surgery, and as a result of that surgery the nerve to her right leg was damaged. She became disabled. But she still returned to med school. To her dream.\nHer cancer then recurred again, this time inoperable. She decided to forgo chemotherapy and to instead use alternative therapies. They didn\u2019t work for her. We communicated once, sometimes twice a day as her life deteriorated. She was dying and I knew that. I hated that she wouldn\u2019t be my friend forever in this life. I hated that she would never realize her dream of becoming an MD. I hated that cancer was stealing another friend from me.\nShe suffered unending pain and nausea and disability in the end. Her quality of life deteriorated to the point that she wished the relief of death, even if it separated her from those she loved. She finally admitted herself to the hospital for palliative care. She died just days later. While I was so sad to lose her, I\u2019m relieved that she is finally cancer-free.\nBut in the end, she still advocated my dream of further education. She said initially I supported her when she was in school, and she wasn\u2019t able to finish, but maybe there was a justice in her encouraging me to pursue my dream of further education\u2026at least one of us might graduate! We were always each others cheerleaders. We shared a lot\u2026our dealing with a cancer diagnosis, our loves, our lives, our feelings.\nWhy couldn\u2019t she have been a survivor like me? Why couldn\u2019t she have realized her dream of becoming an MD? She only wanted to help people.\nI got to say goodbye to her before she passed. I told her how much I would miss her friendship. I asked her to try to contact me from the great beyond when she gets there\u2026she said she\u2019s always been a bird lover (me too) so will try to contact me as a pink finch. I have a bird feeder and get a few finches, but NONE of them are pink. I will so be looking for a pink finch. If I see a pink finch, I\u2019ll know my good friend is just a parallel universe away from me.\nI will be sure to keep my bird feeders filled this year. Especially with finch food.\nGuest Post # 2: Mom\u2019s reponse to son\u2019s scholarship essay\nI think I am so much more emotionally sensitive than my son has ever been. The essay he wrote for this scholarship and for a college application struck me as very thoughtful in its almost winding perusal of our ancestors and their experiences as compared to what we face today in our own lives.\nMy son is my only child, and I still do not know if he is truly worried about my prognosis. He holds so much in and for the most part, we are opposites many ways. I do not hold in my emotions on a daily basis, but Will seems to do this, funny thing is though, he may not even FEEL the level of emotionality that I do. This essay he wrote over a year after my diagnosis; told me for the first time, that he was concerned about perhaps losing me to cancer sometime soon. I have not told him the gory details of how aggressive the signet ring call cancer is known to be, but is it really aggressive for every patient? I don t think anyone knows. I love him so much, I will assume it is NOT aggressive in my case.\nFor now, I will be satisfied if my CT scan from 2 days ago tells us nothing is growing large enough to be seen, and to get him on his way to college- on his adventure to further his survivor genes, much as our ancestors did. I hope and pray with all my being to see him graduate, and have more of our descendants this will be what keeps me going and surviving too.\nLisa Laws, age 51, Apex NC\nLogo vote results\nMy favorite, the butterfly, was the overwhelming victor in the logo vote! I think those of us with cancer see the butterfly as symbolic of transformation, hope and eternity. One of the voters sent me this that I really liked:\nButterfly: metamorphosis and transformation. Scientific research has shown that the butterfly is the only living being capable of changing entirely its genetic structure during the process of transformation: the caterpillar\u2019s DNA is totally different from the butterfly\u2019s. Thus, it is the symbol of total transformation. Butterfly represents a need for change and greater freedom, and at the same time it represents courage: one requires courage to carry out the changes necessary in the process of growth.\nSo the butterfly it is!\nAlso, tomorrow or Thursday I will publish a guest post, the essay of a 17 year old whose mother was diagnosed with an abdominal cancer like ours at Stage IV. The essay is one written as part of his application process for a college scholarship, it is the James \u201cRhio\u201d O\u2019Connor Memorial Scholarship Essay contest. It is required that his essay be posted on a blog, and they asked that it be posted on my blog\u2026I am honored. His mother will also post a response to his essay. Be sure to watch for it!\nThanks again for voting! And BTW, I filed my grad school application today\u2026I\u2019m both excited and nervous! Wish me luck!\nAnd as a final addendum, I try to respond withing 24 hours to every email I receive from a cancer patient, friend, or family member of a cancer patient. I recently became aware that a patient never received my reply to her email. That bothered me a lot. So if you write me and don\u2019t hear back, please let me know!! Write me again! I will never not answer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 18351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arabpressreleases.com/ankabut-fall-users-meeting-held-at-uae-university/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JX2AJKXJWH7LDX5LVATWWQOMFEYMQ2HN", "length": 3165, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "arabpressreleases.com", "title": "Ankabut Fall Users' meeting held at UAE University | Arab Press Releases", "raw_content": "Ankabut Fall Users\u2019 meeting held at UAE University\nAl Ain: Under the patronage of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Ankabut, the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Advanced Research and Education Network held its first day of the two-day Fall Users meeting at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). The theme of the meeting is \u2018Discover Ankabut\u2019.\nThe opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Mugheer Khamis Al Khaili, Director General of Abu Dhabi Education Council. UAEU Vice Chancellor, Dr. Abdullah Al-Khanbashi gave the welcoming address, and was followed by remarks from Dr. Arif Sultan Al Hammadi, Khalifa University\u2019s Executive Vice President who introduced the keynote speaker and highlighted some of Ankabut\u2019s milestone achievements.\nThe keynote presentation was presented by H. David Lambert, President \u2018&\u2019 Chief Executive Officer of Internet2, who spoke on the topic of \u201cThe Case for National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).\u201d This was followed by Ankabut\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Fahem Al Nuaimi and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Steven Winstanley with a presentation on \u201cDiscover Ankabut\u201d.\nDay Two of the event will feature a keynote presentation was by Dr. Salem Alagtash, Managing Director of Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), who will speak on \u201cRegional connectivity in the Middle East\u201d. This will be followed by a presentation by the University Leadership Council (ULC) moderated by Dr. Tod Laursen, President of Khalifa University, on Plans for Research in the UAE community in 2012-2013.\nDuring the Users\u2019 Meeting over fifteen individual sessions are held, from speakers of the UAE higher education and technology community focused on current activities in the fields of teaching, applications and research. An audience of over 350 also met with the presenters in person and had the opportunity to ask questions concerning their respective organizations.\nFahem Al Nuaimi, Ankabut\u2019s CEO, said, \u201cThis event will facilitate further development of the education networks in the UAE and help to spread awareness among the academic community of the importance of such initiatives in building a sustainable economy, as well as, assist in knowledge share and transfer from abroad, and expand education opportunities.\u201d During his presentation, David Lambert said, \u201cWe are pleased to see Ankabut get off the ground and evolve to the mature position it\u2019s presently taking on. Ankabut today stands as one the most mature networks among other national networks that started at the same time. Ankabut is an extraordinary addition that will benefit the local and regional economies.\u201d The Ankabut Users\u2019 Meeting was sponsored by Gold Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Fujitsu, Silver Sponsors: Visionaire/Brocade and Juniper, Bronze Sponsors: Arab Business Machine and ITS and Exhibitors: Tata Communications, Mediasite, Beta Information Technology, Blackboard, Wiley Publishing, Edutech, Ciena, and Serial Solutions.\nLeaders converge at GCC Social Media Summit to mastermind a new era in social engagement\nCEO of DEWA outlines Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park at MENA Renewable Energy Forum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arabpressreleases.com/currency-floatation-to-boost-moroccos-real-estate-market-says-jll/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WNH6T3WABPKE2M6OPBOPRZH4J5WTAJJ4", "length": 4713, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "arabpressreleases.com", "title": "Currency floatation to boost Morocco's real estate market, says JLL | Arab Press Releases", "raw_content": "Currency floatation to boost Morocco\u2019s real estate market, says JLL\nEarlier this year, the Moroccan Central Bank (Bank Al-Maghrib) introduced the gradual floatation of the Moroccan Dirham, providing more flexibility to real estate investors and paving the way for a more buoyant real estate market in the year ahead.\nAccording to JLL\u2019s (www.JLL.com) Morocco 2018 report, the bank widened the official band within which the dirham may fluctuate to 5 percent, with a maximum daily move of 2.5 percent above or below the official rate. As part of a broader monetary reform, this move is intended to bolster the competitiveness of Morocco\u2019s economy and will potentially position the country as a regional economic hub, and the gateway to Africa.\nThe Moroccan economy is expected to record real growth of 4% in 2018, primarily driven by increased domestic consumption and public investment, highlights the report. The economy has attracted increased levels of FDI yearly since 2005 (with the exception of 2015) with real estate attracting around half of the total FDI.\nThe significant increase in FDI aligns with the Moroccan government\u2019s Vision 2020 outlining Morocco\u2019s goals of becoming one of the world\u2019s 20 leading tourist destinations by 2020. Almost 40% of foreign investment is from the GCC region, with a significant proportion of this total being invested into the real estate sector. The reforms introduced by the Moroccan government, will have a ripple effect on the real estate sector, as investors across all sectors now have the opportunity to be more flexible in their decision making,rdquo; said Craig Plumb, Head of Research, JLL MENA.\nIf the currency softens against the USD and the Euro, this will effectively make Moroccan property cheaper for investors from markets denominated in these currencies and attract further FDI into the real estate sector across Morocco and most specifically into Casablanca,rdquo; he added.\nAnother factor likely to result in additional investment into the real estate sector is the launch of REIT\u2019s, that will reduce the level of investment required to own real estate and therefore expand the market to a wider range of investors.\nAlthough there are no listed REITs on the Moroccan stock exchange as of yet, the merger of VLV and Petra in 2017 resulted in the creation of a new commercial real estate platform comprising of 27 assets (with a total GLA of more than 215,000 sq m) across 15 cities in Morocco.\nGrit real estate income group (previously known as Mara Delta) has also announced plans to list its Moroccan assets separately as a REIT (with Anfa Place being a prime asset in its portfolio).\nREITs will boost the demand for investment in the office market.Casablanca is Morocco\u2019s main commercial centre, and has a significantly bigger office market than the capital Rabat. With many national and international companies located in the city there is a growing need for modern office space in Casablanca,rdquo; said Craig Plumb.\nThe retail market in Casablanca is largely dependent on street retail, however organised retail malls are becoming increasingly preferred, reflected in the high footfall levels across major centres such as Morocco Mall and Anfa Place Shopping centre. The continued move towards retail malls will create future opportunities for both developers and investorsrdquo; said Plumb.\nCasablanca\u2019s hospitality market is largely dependent on business travellers, and has relatively limited hotels in the luxury segment. Occupancy rates recovered in 2017 from 62% in 2016 to 66% in 2017, owing to the performance of the 4-start hotel segment catering to conferences and exhibitions across the city.\nWith the government\u2019s vision 2020 of converting Morocco into one of the world\u2019s hottest tourist destinations by 2020, occupancy rates seem to be growing positively. We look forward to seeing strong results in the hospitality market this year as performance shows an upward trajectory,rdquo; he added.\nBeing the gateway location between Europe and Africa, Morocco has attracted a number of major international manufacturers such as Renault Nissan investing into the key industrial areas. The government launched an industrial acceleration program in 2014, which is designed to generate half a million jobs in the industrial sector that will in turn significantly increase Morocco\u2019s GDP as well as providing further opportunities for real estate developers and investors.\nFor further information, please download the full report here. (https://goo.gl/iDc6DW)\nSource: JLL.Media contacts\n\u202b\u0645\u0639\u0631\u0636 \u0643\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0640 123 \u0633\u064a\u064f\u0641\u062a\u062a\u062d \u064a\u0648\u0645 15 \u0623\u0628\u0631\u064a\u0644\u060c \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0648\u0621 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0646\u0627\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0643\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u062a\u062c\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0643\u064a\u0629\n\u0628\u0627\u0628\u0644\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0633 \u0633\u064a\u0628\u064a\u0627\u0646\u062a \u062a\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u062a\u064a\u0631\u064a\u0632\u0627 \u0628\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0631\u0627 \u0645\u0633\u0624\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0633\u0648\u064a\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0643\u0629", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 7193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archives2016.sched.com/event/6mYJ/207-why-do-we-have-that-successes-in-documenting-the-distasteful", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VMOKSDBSGRE463JK42HMNC7IHFSB2RDT", "length": 2033, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "archives2016.sched.com", "title": "ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016: 207 - Why Do We Have That? Successes in...", "raw_content": "Panelists share their strategies for exhibiting, articulating, and rationalizing collection development decisions for materials that some might find shocking or distasteful. Case studies include collections of anti-Semitic literature and materials from civil rights conflicts; papers documenting violent behavior and the prison system; and death- and mourning-related materials in a university setting. They also discuss strategies for incorporating collections into an elevator speech or classroom environment in a way that won't offend alumni or administrators.\nBenn Joseph\nHead of University Archives & Special Collections, Illinois Institute of Technology\nMSLS (2006), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professional Experience: Head, University Archives & Special Collections, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, June 2015 - present. Manuscript Librarian, Northwestern University, June 2009 - June 2015. Project... Read More \u2192\nManaging Archivist, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society\nJoanna Black is the Managing Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, where she previously served as the Project Archivist. While receiving a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, Joanna's internship with SFSU's Poetry Center and American... Read More \u2192\nAmanda Lanthorne\nUniversity Archivist, San Diego State University\nAmanda Lanthorne holds a BA in History, an MA in Middle Eastern Studies, and an MLIS. She works as the University Archivist at San Diego State University where she team curates exhibits, manages archival processing, and provides instruction and reference services.\nSusanna Leberman\nArchivist, Hunstville-Madison County Public Library\nSusanna Leberman is the Archivist at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, where she is responsible for maintaining the archival collection, creating digital collections, writing grants, assisting patrons with research projects, and giving public history presentations and... Read More \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 5586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/01/2515/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BT324L73SBFTXQZBY6PVDRNRGW4RKH4L", "length": 1539, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "arstechnica.com", "title": "Just the FAQs about the Revolution | Ars Technica", "raw_content": "Just the FAQs about the Revolution\nWith all the rumors and hearsay surrounding the debut of Nintendo's next-gen \u2026\nAs with the upcoming release of any console, the news about Nintendo's Revolution are a mixture of fact and rumor. It could be as cheap as $150 or as pricey as $300. \"Revolution\" may not even be its final name. See what I mean?\nThe folks over at Revolution Report, probably tired of having to cut and paste replies to questions like the above, have put together a pretty concise FAQ dealing with all the current information available for Nintendo's next-generation console.\nYou've asked for it. We've listened, we've compiled and now it has been released.\nRevolution Report compiled a list of the most frequent questions asked about Nintendo's upcoming console, code-named the Nintendo Revolution. Using questions often received in over six months of mailbag questions, our team used our collective knowledge to provide detailed information we've gained in our news and exclusive interviews.\nIt's a good, albeit long read with links aplenty to all the press releases, interviews, and news they've sifted through. Of note? A quote from Shigeru Miyamoto going on record as saying, \"The majority of people won't be playing our system with an HDTV, though with the Revolution, 480p resolution will be standard.\" Considering that some people are hailing today's consoles as the reason for the upsurge in HDTV sales, it's good to see Nintendo sticking with its \"goal of making an small, inexpensive and developer-friendly machine.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artfulgalleries.com/commitment-to-quality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JKWOATNTZ4HPTI2DMZ7V7KB5OXLLZPAM", "length": 467, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "artfulgalleries.com", "title": "Commitment to Quality - Artful Galleries", "raw_content": "Artful Galleries is committed to providing our collectors with original fine art, from fused glass and contemporary paintings to photography and printmakers\u2019 works on paper. All works are curated by the founder and are sourced from talented emerging artists from across the U.S. Our commitment for providing quality artwork to our collectors underscores our passion for discovering quality art, talented emerging artists on the verge of discovery, and unique designs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://article.wn.com/view/2019/02/11/Democrat_Klobuchar_joins_2020_White_House_race/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MD3BWDBP6UCK2XKVGHDN2MFCPLCDXH7D", "length": 3617, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "article.wn.com", "title": "Democrat Klobuchar joins 2020 White House race - Worldnews.com", "raw_content": "Democrat Klobuchar joins 2020 White House race\nMINNEAPOLIS: Democrat Amy Klobuchar joined the 2020 White House race Sunday, adding a pragmatic voice from the heartland state of Minnesota to an ever-growing field of contenders hoping to unseat US President Donald Trump.\nIn a speech that was almost a point-by-point rejection of the president\u00b4s policies and the\n\"We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, of the gridlock and the grandstanding.\"\nSenator Amy Klobuchar, seen here in a file photo from September 28, 2018, is expected to join a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls on February 10, 2019...\nSenator Amy Klobuchar announced her candidacy for president on a snowy day in Minnesota, joining an ever-growing field of contenders hoping to unseat President Donald Trump...\nAnother candidate has entered the crowded Democratic 2020 presidential sweepstakes. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar formally announced her candidacy Sunday at a freezing...\nWASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Senator Amy Klobuchar, a moderate Democrat, on Sunday announced her candidacy for President of the United States. The senator for state of...\nUS Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar enters presidential race\nSenator Amy Klobuchar, a moderate Democrat, on Sunday announced her candidacy for President of the United States. The senator for state of Minnesota, who easily won a third term last year, made the announcement during a speech in Minneapolis in a frigid and snowy day. Klobuchar, 58, becomes the fifth U.S. senator and the fourth female member in the chamber announcing a bid for...\nAmy Klobuchar announces presidential bid with \\'heartland\\' message\nMINNEAPOLIS - U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Sunday, Feb. 10, announced her bid for president surrounded by thousands of supporters bundled up against the winter cold. Against Minneapolis skyline blurred by heavy snowfall, Klobuchar, 58, became the latest to join a crowded Democratic field of candidates vying to win the party's nomination and take on President Donald...\nMore The wide Democratic field of 2020 presidential candidates expanded further Sunday when U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota threw her hat in the ring at an outdoor event on a freezing afternoon in Minneapolis. Klobuchar, 58, hopes her working-class, Midwestern background will help her seize the middle ground in a Democratic primary in which many of the candidates who have...\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 With snow falling steadily and the temperature well below freezing, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she's joining the group of Democrats running for president and would take her campaign \u2014 and her Midwest sensibilities \u2014 directly to parts of the region Donald Trump won and that her party wants to recapture in 2020. \"For every American, I'm running for you,\"...\n[USA], Feb 11 (ANI): Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota on Sunday entered the 2020 presidential race with a speech in the middle of a Midwestern snowstorm. Klobuchar initiated the campaign by singing the national anthem. \u201cOn an island in the middle of the mighty Mississippi, in our nation\u2019s heartland, at a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and renew our...\nDeep Democratic bench takes shape ahead of 2020\nWashington: Senator Amy Klobuchar on Monday officially joined a crowded field of Democrats vying to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020 \u2013 already shaping up to be one of the largest and most diverse ever. Klobuchar is now party of a group of White House hopefuls that includes other high-flying female US senators, charismatic veterans and a young gay mayor. And it is likely...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 20668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artstarts.com/blog/livewritepaint", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E3X25TQ5N3BVM7FK2IEPWH3ZRS4D42XC", "length": 3300, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "artstarts.com", "title": "LiveWritePaint: Students Supporting Students through the Arts | ArtStarts in Schools", "raw_content": "LiveWritePaint: Students Supporting Students through the Arts\nArtStarts is inspired by those who feel moved to give back to their communities. We'd like to showcase the efforts of three students who, through their passions for the arts, organized a fundraiser so that other young people across BC could also access the arts.\nNellie Sun, Lydia Sochan, and Ann Ping are Grade 9 students at Churchill Secondary in Vancouver. In their Applied Skills class through the two-year Synergy Program, their teacher Mr. Olson tasked students to create a \"not for profit\" organization with a mission and mandate, and plan an event to raise funds for a like-minded organization. The Applied Skills class allows students to learn different skills and build ideas that can be taken outside of the classroom and into the real world.\nNellie, Lydia and Ann have a collective passion for the arts and they created an organization called LiveWritePaint. The students decided they would host an art show \u2014 Kaleidoscopes on Canvas \u2014 where paintings from local Vancouver artists would be displayed for sale.\nLiveWritePaint feels strongly that the arts are important for young people to thrive in this world, and after online research and a visit to the ArtStarts Gallery, they chose ArtStarts in Schools as their organization to support.\nTheir event took place in late November 2015 and 18 paintings were sold. Recently, Lydia and Nellie came down to the ArtStarts Gallery and delivered a cheque for a donation of over $1,500. We had a chance to sit down with them to ask a few questions.\nWhy are the arts and creativity important to you and other young people?\n\"In this world, there are so many rules and people conform to these rules. With creativity, you don\u2019t have to follow rules. It allows you to be different. It's important to learn to be your own person.\" \u2014Lydia\n\"I love music, it allows me to express myself. And through visual art, it allows me to look at things in different perspective and in a new light. Creativity can allow for new approaches to solving the world's problems.\" \u2014Nellie\nWhat was something you learned throughout the process of organizing Kaleidoscopes on Canvas?\n\"There is a lot of planning and organizing involved. You really have to work hard for it. On the night before the event while we were setting up, we were really excited because it was actually happening!\"\nHow does it make you feel knowing that through your hard work, passions and efforts, you are enabling other young people across BC to participate in the arts?\n\"You always see and hear how adults make a difference in the world but kids can, too. Knowing that we are making a difference feels empowering. I feel we have a responsibility to do more, now that we know we can do it.\" \u2014Lydia\n\"I was using my own two hands to make this happen. 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If you have a dream, make sure to act on it.\" \u2014 Nellie\nThanks to LiveWritePaint for supporting ArtStarts and, most of all, for inspiring us all to follow our passions!\nLearn more about how you can support ArtStarts' mission and vision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ascandalousgrace.com/2013/08/29/guest-post-thursday-could-you-point-out-cambodia-on-a-map-of-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:W2ZYY3XO5VL5TU4OFRP4XU6LBWALDY27", "length": 2544, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ascandalousgrace.com", "title": "Guest Post Thursday: Could you point out Cambodia on a map of the world? | A Scandalous Grace", "raw_content": "\u2190 Another August Book Review: Fan or Follower\ntwo weeks with my brother \u2192\nGuest Post Thursday: Could you point out Cambodia on a map of the world?\nMy guest blogger is a dear, dear friend of mine, Claire. She and I met last year when we went on a mission trip to Cambodia, but my soul feels like I\u2019ve known her longer. We share a love of the Lumineers, songs that make you stomp and clap, God, traveling and bearded men who look like they just came in from camping.\nClaire and I also day dream of hiking the Camino de Santiago\u2026\nAs a kid, I never pretended that my dolls were orphaned babies. I never acted my Barbies out in a storyline that had them in a foreign country. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never once said \u2018missionary.\u2019 I was a typical kid that played, ran, imagined, and dreamed, but no one would have ever guessed I would end up almost half way around the world, living in a country that most people don\u2019t even know where to find it on a map.\nMy name is Claire Humphreys and I live in Cambodia. How the heck did I end up there??? Well, God likes to throw curve balls in my perfectly good plans. Just kidding. God knew since the beginning of time that I would be in Cambodia, and it only took me 26 years to figure that out.\nI fell in love with this amazing country a few years back on my first trip with Global X, the missions ministry through my church. We spent 10 days with the most extraordinary children I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. We sang, we danced, we laughed, and most of all we loved. I knew at the end of my time there, it wouldn\u2019t be long until I returned. And that\u2019s exactly what I did the following year. During that time, I felt God calling me to something more than just a couple of weeks each summer. So, less than 5 months later, I made Cambodia my home.\nOver the last 7 months of living in Cambodia, I have seen many things. The beautiful country, the blossoming of great friendships, the faces of a people so eager to hear about Christ and the peace He alone can bring. I have also seen many hardships, the loneliness of these people, despair, slavery, drug abuse, death. It has been hard feeling so much for this little country I now call home. Feeling so small and inadequate to do anything that will make a difference. But then I think back on my first trips here and remember all I could do was love. That\u2019s all we are called to do. My scenery may look different than yours, but love transcends all people, all languages, all differences. 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Endlessly versatile and entertaining, AtmosFX offers a variety of innovative, amusement park\u2013quality decorations that can be viewed on any TV or monitor, and projected on surfaces such as windows, walls \u2013 even thin air!\nBe the coolest house on the block with a digital decorating kit by Atmos F-X!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/view/ids/1005.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KGBBMRYCWM4234ZSSOLNKTQH73N3QVCT", "length": 366, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "authors.library.caltech.edu", "title": "Browse by Eprint ID - CaltechAUTHORS", "raw_content": "Khidekel, Nelly and Ficarro, Scott B. and Peters, Eric C. et al. 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In this competitive market it\u2019s important to stay on top of the newest listings & to alert us on anything you would like to see. If you would like more information on any of these Saint Simons Island homes for sale, just request information on the listing details page of the property. We can provide you with information that\u2019s not available to the public including disclosures, past sales history, dates and prices of homes recently sold nearby, and more.\nAnd, if you haven\u2019t already, be sure to register for our website so that you can receive email alerts whenever new Saint Simons Island homes for sale come on the market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aviationvoice.com/air-france-rebrands-hop-2-201902041209/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HMDCXPCEMEAKY24I7Y4ORNVZAIXO26LH", "length": 1184, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "aviationvoice.com", "title": "Air France Rebrands HOP!", "raw_content": "Air France, the French flag carrier and a subsidiary of the Air France\u2013KLM Group, has announced rebranding its HOP! brand under which regional flights connecting France to Europe are operated. 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However, the experience of an airline showed that the HOP! brand was referred to Air France not clearly enough, thus rebranding comes as a \u201cprocess of simplifying Air France-KLM\u2019s brand portfolio\u201c.\n\u201cIn the face of competition in this [regional] market, we must make our offer clearer and link it more closely to the values and strengths of the Air France brand,\u201d said Benjamin Smith, Air France-KLM Group CEO.\nIn January, Air France announced about closing Joon and integrating it into Air France.\nAir FranceEuropean airlinesHOP!rebranding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awesomecoupons.org/store/jenu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:JDI5TTBICZVT3XGJVYHG77AVHRDIH3KX", "length": 39, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "awesomecoupons.org", "title": "JeNu Coupons - 2019 Promo Codes & Discount Directory", "raw_content": "JeNu Coupon Codes\nhttps://www.jenu.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 163.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awesomegang.com/yaakwdaat-aya-this-is-yakutat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FIHVJORCNQOGCYOU4ZJ5V4IVUDZ6SQDJ", "length": 5327, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "awesomegang.com", "title": "Yaakwdaat Aya (This is Yakutat)", "raw_content": "Yaakwdaat Aya (This is Yakutat)\nAbout Yaakwdaat Aya (This is Yakutat)\nFour Stars on Amazon\n\u201cAn evocative and articulate account of the Tlingit town of Yakutat, written by a Tlingit leader from that community\u2014giving a rare, authentic glimpse into the past and present of this unique place. Painted illustrations by the author are detailed and vivid.\u201d\n\u201cThis a nicely portrayal of Alaska Natives and recreates speech by Tlingit people. The knowledge of fishing and a sense of hard work and way of life comes alive in these pages.\nIn Tlingit stories Raven is the creator. He was sent here by one who is greater than he to create a site in which the Tlingit people could migrate to and inhabit. In the beginning there was only water. The first thing Raven did was cause two mountains to rise from the ocean. The tallest was Waaseitishaa (Mount Saint Elias) and his wife, Tsalxaan (Mount Fairweather). Mount Saint Elias is the third highest mountain in North America, standing over 18,000 feet into the heaven; Mount Fairweather is 15,300 feet. The story is told that when they began to have children mountains were born between them and they moved further and further away from each other until, today, they are two hundred miles apart; the only time they can see each other is on a perfectly clear day.\nThe land, trees, vegetation, fresh water and streams were created by Raven. One day he was flying between the mountains admiring his creations when he saw far out on the ocean something bobbing over the waves. His curiosity got the best of him, so he flew to it, at which time he noticed that this was a large canoe. He saw that in the vessel were the animals, birds, fish and wildlife. H was able to pull it to shore where he let these out upon the land. Now\u2014 the land had everything the Tlingit needed to sustain their lives. The land under Mountain Elias became known as Yaakwdaat, a place where canoes rest, and beneath Mount Fairweather is known today as Gunaaxoo Kwaan.\nWhen Kadashan was a child and growing up, he was intrigued by what he had noticed about the area, like a flower, berry, the beauty of the ocean, people camping and fishing in the river, the immense glaciers and high mountains, he would say to himself \u201cThis is Yakutat\u201d which in the Tlingit language means \u201cYaakwdaat Aya.\u201d In this short story collection, Yaakwdaat Aya, Kadashan tells stories in fiction about the lifestyle, history and culture about the inhabitants of this special place keeping in mind the background of the village\u2019s birth.\nBertrand J. Adams Sr.\u2019s Tlingit name is Kadashan, who was named after his great grandfather, John Kadashan, a clan leader from Wrangell, Alaska. Adams was educated at Sheldon Jackson college and Brigham Young University. While at Sheldon Jackson he began writing short stories with the mentorship of his creative writing instructor, Nellie Ottie. Mrs. Ottie took special interest in his writing and helped him structure a short story including plot, dialogue and many elements that consist in stories. During the semester he wrote about a dozen stories; when he finished Sheldon Jackson, he pursued other interests. One fall he married a woman who had eight children from a previous marriage, therefore his quest to finish his education and writing was interrupted for twelve years. His writing ambition was renewed when he was accepted at Brigham Young University to finish his education as an English major. It was there that he learned the real discipline of writing. 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Accompanying music video lensed by Christopher Holmes\nKarine Hannah\u2019s new single \u201cFrida\u2019s Sonnet,\u201d released by Young Pals Music, is taken from the theatrical production of the rock opera \u201cSwedish Style,\u201d written by Selcen Pamuk and Ayhan Sahin. \u201cSwedish Style\u201d is a two-act musical inspired by the private lives of the members of the super Swedish pop-band ABBA. The full-length musical premiered in Turkey in 1995, with accompanying concerts held in nearly a dozen European venues throughout late1990s. 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Sahin also makes a cameo in the video.\n\u201cFrida\u2019s Sonnet,\u201d now propelled from the theatrical stage to the world\u2019s online stage, is available both in iTunes and amazon.com as part of Hannah\u2019s second album \u201cKarine.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://b-biomed.com/?p=593", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FM6LK4ANBNRQ7CIVRKZJU6FTF7NYC76F", "length": 1411, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "b-biomed.com", "title": "Impressive Status of Homeopathy in Germany | Naturalief", "raw_content": "Impressive Status of Homeopathy in Germany\tPosted July 30, 2016\nThe following article was written by Dana Ullman. It supports the growing use of homeopathic medicines, (such as the Naturalief Colds & Flu Response) which has produced exciting results and is one of Naturalief\u2019s most popular products.\n\u201cNew market data from an independent polling institution shows that over half the German population has used homeopathic medicines and that the number of users has gone up from 53% of the population in 2009 to 60% in 2014.\nThis report paints a rich picture of the use of these medicines in Germany with some interesting highlights:\n\u2013 73% of German women have used homeopathy and 48% of German men.\n\u2013 95% of West Germans know of homeopathic medicines, and this number has increased from 76% in 1975.\n\u2013 67% of users first decided to use homeopathy because of a recommendation from a friend or relative.\nThe most popular use is for colds and \u2018flu, followed by \u2018to strengthen the immune system,\u2019 and for sun burn and insect bites. Other popular uses are headaches, indigestion, sleeplessness and stomach ache.\nThe main reason for choosing homeopathic medicines is the very low side incidence of effects.\nThis data is the result of a survey of about 1500 people in the whole of Germany in May and June this year, by the Institut f\u00fcr Demoskopie Allensbach. 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Modeled after the classic hole at North Berwick in Scotland, the par three has historically been among the toughest on the course. Typically playing into the wind, distance control will be a key factor to how competitors fare as club selection will vary from a mid- to short-iron. The wind, aside from playing into competitors, also typically blows from the right, further emphasizing precision to the green. Competitors will need to hit a high iron shot, ideally with a left-to-right ball flight, in order to increase their chances of holding the green as the putting surface is strongly sloped from front-right to back-left and includes a small false front area. Four greenside bunkers protect the green, though the two bunkers to the left will likely see the most action throughout the tournament. Competitors that miss the green long will face a challenging recovery back up to the green where the slope of the putting surface and green surround may see poorly-executed shots roll back down to the collection area. The green measures 38 yards long by 26 yards wide and features ample movement throughout that will stress not only holding the green, but shot placement to avoid lengthy putts.\nDuring the 2004 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, the 7th hole played to a scoring average of 3.41 and was the second most difficult hole of the tournament.\nThe last U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills in 2004 saw the 7th hole marred in controversy as the green was considered virtually unplayable due to the dry conditions. The USGA made the decision to water the green between groups during the final round to help shots hold the putting surface.\nThe original Redan at North Berwick in Scotland is the par 3 15th hole as was patterned after a famous Russian fortress built during the Crimean War along the Black Sea in Sevastopol.\nIn 2004, tournament champion Retief Goosen played the 7th hole conservatively and ended up playing the hole to par despite the difficult conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bedahiggins.org/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GL22IWCLY5OGM6PABSNXD3ISW6Q5KCTM", "length": 516, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bedahiggins.org", "title": "News - Beda Higgins", "raw_content": "My entry has been \"Commended\"\nbut it was too hard. ... Continue reading 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine\"\nPoems for Grenfell Tower was published on 30 March 2018 by The Onslaught Press. The book includes well-known poets like George Szirtes, Michael Rosen, Medbh McGuckian, and Anne Stevenson. Others have links with the Grenfell community, such as the former head of the local nursery school, an Ethiopian exile who lost many of his neighbours \u2026 Continue reading \"Launch of \u2018Poems for Grenfell Tower\u2019\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bedfordgroupconsulting.com/news-events/press-releases/a-balancing-act-for-pnc-in-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IRP25CPKWTU6LM2CXK5YQ5PIWPXEXCFR", "length": 672, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bedfordgroupconsulting.com", "title": "A Balancing Act for PNC in Marketing - The Bedford Group", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Press Releases \u00bb A Balancing Act for PNC in Marketing\nThe Bedford Group Press Release American Banker gave their point-of-view on PNC\u2019s selection of Deutsch as their lead agency, handling the $100 million account that includes advertising, media and interactive. In the article, the journalist described the opportunity the newly formed team has to build on the company\u2019s strengths in a time where other financial institutions are struggling. The article includes comments from PNC and Deutsch executives (Karen Larrimer and Val DiFebo), as well as other thought leaders in the field. The full article can be found at the American Banker website (subscribers only).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bella-eyecare.com/conditions/folate-and-glaucoma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GLMR5HESDKYGNYOBJT4OTC42ACQTGGQ5", "length": 1128, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bella-eyecare.com", "title": "Folate and Glaucoma - Bella Eye Care Optometry", "raw_content": "There have been numerous studies to suggest folate (natural) or folic acid (synthetic) as a wonderful supplement for most people, especially for pregnant women. A deficiency of folate has been shown to exacerbate such conditions as Anemia, Neural Tube Defects, increased the risk of certain cancers and elevated homocysteine, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.\nWe are also aware of several studies that suggest folate or folic acid appears to reduce the risk of developing glaucoma, a serious eye disease. We mentioned the word homocysteine earlier. Homocysteine is a non-protein a-amino acid. Elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood have been associated with atherosclerosis and blood clots. Folic acid or vitamin B-9 has been shown to help reduce homocysteine and therefore the risk of glaucoma. Since there is no known cure for glaucoma, getting folate from such foods as asparagus, broccoli, avocados or beans, or from the supplement folic acid, makes a welcome addition to almost any diet. Consult your doctor to be certain, but we are big fans of keeping folic acid as part of our nutrition and healthier eyes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bible.org/article/go-wine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JWTOO4YQPSI4TXE6PIPFVSHNCAZYYHXS", "length": 4887, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "bible.org", "title": "Go for the Wine | Bible.org", "raw_content": "Go for the Wine\nEvery now and again we must be reminded that the Lord's Prayer begins with \"Our Father\" and not \"Our needs.\" Prayer involves access to the presence of God, first and foremost. C. S. Lewis observed essentially the same thing. In discussing the question of whether prayer really \"works,\" with his candid insight, he explains that,\nThe very question `Does prayer work?' puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset. `Work': as if it were magic, or a machine-something that functions automatically. Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its wine. In it God shows himself to us. That he answers prayers is a corollary-not necessarily the most important one-from the revelation. What he does is learned from what he is.1\nNow we are clearly not saying, nor would God ever endorse the idea, that making requests of Him is unchristian or pure paganism. Not at all. But, we are saying that coming to Him only for what we can get out of Him or constantly coming to Him, first for what He can give us, is sub-Christian. This is the same mistake made by those who revel in God's promises all the while divorcing them from the Promise-Giver who wants to be known personally as the Faithful One. These people want the gifts, but not the Giver. They've passed over the adoration and the presence and vision of God for something less.\nTherefore, what prayer is really all about knowing God intimately, and while that entails answers to prayer, the more important fact is communion with Him and the enjoyment of His presence. Communion with Him, however, is deeply rooted in who we understand Him to be. A. W. Tozer has said that,\nwhat comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ...the gravest question before the church is always God himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at any given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like. ...Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about him or leaves unsaid. ...Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the questions, \"What comes into your mind when you think about God?\" we might be able to predict with certainty the spiritual future of that man. Were we able to know exactly what our most influential religious leaders think of God today, we might be able with some precision to foretell where the church will stand tomorrow.2\nOur understanding of God is absolutely crucial to our relationship with Him and especially to our prayer lives. Prayer is carried to God in faith. Growing faith, in many respects, is dependent on who we think God really is. Therefore, the vibrancy of our prayer lives is directly dependent on our thoughts and our personal knowledge of God.\nThis may answer the question as to why there is so little real prayer in our churches today. People do not think about their God very often, and according to the latest polls in evangelicalism, not very seriously either.3\nHere I am not referring solely to \"knowledge\" as mastering systematic theological outlines and details, though it most certainly entails this kind of thinking. Rather, I am referring to a deep, theological understanding of God, ourselves, and our world, as pressed home to our hearts in biblical study, meditation, prayer/worship, and going through temptation.\nBut, while the distance from the head to the heart in most people is only about 12 inches, the pipeline joining the two appears to be less than the width of a straw. The solution: Repentance and Trust-trust expressed in sincere and devout reflection on God in his Word and in His presence. We must also reflect on what godly theologians as teachers of the church have said about Him in the past and present. But we must do so with humility and prolonged meditation, not just to fill our heads for the next unsuspecting victim, but to be truly drawn into a fuller experience of and relationship with our Savior! We must lay hold of God himself! We must go for the wine, as C. S Lewis has said. What would that look like for you?\n1 C. S. Lewis, \"The Efficacy of Prayer,\" in Fern-seed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity, ed. Walter Hooper (Glasgow: Collins, 1975), 101.\n2 A. W. 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En routes you\u2019ll witness spectacular scenery, lush cloudforest, sub-tropical jungle and fascinating Inca ruins. The trek ascends over Dead Woman\u2019s Pass which, at 4,200 metres, is the highest point on the Inca Trail, and poses the greatest risk of altitude sickness particularly if you did not spend enough time in Cusco prior to the trek getting acclimatised. However the trail quickly descends from Dead Woman\u2019s Pass to reach 3,600 metres the same afternoon.\nThere are two main routes of the Inca Trail:\nThe Salkantay route is a 7 day itinerary that passes beneath the snow-capped mountain of Salkantay and features awesome mountain scenery with numerous noted Inca ruins. The route begins in the valley near Mollabamba and joins the Classic Inca trail route at Wayllabamba on the fourth day. The route involves some high passes which can be very cold in June and July. You will arrive at the citadel of Machu Picchu in time for sunrise on the final day of the trek.\nThe Classic Inca Trail is a 4 day, 27 mile trek that crosses three stunning high-altitude passes, with many fascinating archaeological sites along the way. The trek is rated as moderate with some challenging stretches along the way so you need to be reasonably fit, properly acclimatised, and kitted out with suitably clothing and sturdy hiking boots.\nTo walk the Inca Trail you must have a local guide and a trekking permit. The government limits numbers on the trail to 500 per day, of which 300 are porters and guides, so it is essential to book well in advance via a British-based tour operator who can confirm a permit.\nThe Classic 4-day Inca Trail can be hiked year round but the driest period is between April and October. High season is between June and August when the trail will be fully booked. 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As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers \u2013 and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.\nAbout Dennis Villeneuve:\nVilleneuve first caught attention for his 2001 film Maelstr\u00f6m which screened at festivals worldwide and won dozens of awards, including 8 Jutra Awards and \u2018Best Canadian Film\u2019 from the Toronto International Film Festival. He followed that up with the controversial, but critically acclaimed film Polytechnique (2009) about the shootings that occurred at the Montreal university.\nVilleneuve\u2019s career exploded further with his film Incendies (2010) which received critical acclaim after it premiered at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals in 2010. Incendies was subsequently chosen to represent Canada at the 83rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and was eventually nominated for the award. In January 2011 he was selected as one of the top ten filmmakers to watch. The film went on to win eight awards at the 31st Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Direction, Best Actress (Lubna Azabal), Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Overall Sound, and Sound Editing. 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The Twin Cities paper has story here.\nThere was another abduction about ten months earlier explained in this site (\"America;s Most Wanted fans\") and covered in the show.\nAnd a freelance writer and blogger covered a series of similar abductions in nearby Paynesville, from 1986-1989, which might be tied to a particular man who may have been in jail for part of that time. It would seem improbable that someone could commit a number of brazen snatch abductions in one area and never be apprehended. Sporadic crimes like this have been reported in other cities, like a particularly horrific assault in a park in Tacoma, WA in 1989 that was written up in the Washington Times then.\nThat blogger, Joy Baker, has a web page with five questions she would want to ask the abductor, here.\nThe most detailed account (\"Without a Trace\") seems to be in a paper called the Minnesota Monthly, written by Beth Hawkins, here.\nThere are a number of YouTube videos on the case that claim to present interviews or information, that don\u2019t look credible.\nAlthough it appears from the narrative that police must have some specific suspects (or at least one), the show could not identify any one person on the run as a suspect.\nThe area where these abductions occurred is SW of St Cloud and NE off Willmar, about 60 miles from Minneapolis. I lived in Minneapolis from 1997-2003 and am familiar with the area north of St. Cloud, but not the specific area of these crimes.\nWalsh also covered the case of Genevieve Kelley, believed to have \u201ckidnapped\u201d her daughter in a custody battle from New Hampshire and then taken her to Colorado and then Brazil.\nNBC Law and Order episode presents detective being asked to become an adoptive paremt\nA repeat of an episode of NBC\u2019s \u201cLaw and Order: SVU\u201d (Special Victims Unit), Season 15, Episode 24 (the finale), titled \u201cSpring Awakening\u201d presented, after a complicated plot involving extortion and child pornography, a situation where a judge asks a detective, Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) if she wants to become foster parent for the child rescued from the mess, and to be prepared to adopt the child a year later.\nSometimes life comes knocking. The detailed plot summary is here, or here on a detailed blog devoted just to this show.\nLabels: family issues, Law and Order, Law enforcement\nABC 20-20 investigates bizarre Texas hotel shooting of Greg Flreniken from neighboring room\nABC 20-20 on Friday, before Labor Day, aired a couple of criminal cases titled \u201cI Know What You Did\u201d, with the second case a bizarre accident in a motel in Beaumont, TX, at the Elegante Hotel. The ABC link is here.\nGreg Fleniken, from Louisiana, was staying in his room and watching \u201cIron Man 2\u201d when shot in the groin during a brief air conditioning failure. He died of internal injuries as the bullet moved up into his body, but at first autopsy didn\u2019t find the gunshot. Apparently, three electricians (from Wisconsin, traveling to work on a refinery project) staying were in the next room and consuming alcohol. One of them got a handgun and was playing with it when it went off, and went through the wall.\nIt took his wife\u2019s hiring a private detective to crack the case, Perry Mason style. There\u2019s no Della Street. The whole episode reminds me of a short film \u201cLost Angel\u201d, of danger in a hotel room (reviewed on Movies blog, March 14, 2014).\nMystery UFO sighting near Harrisburg PA reported by ABC GMA, seems more credible than usual\nABC \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Aug. 28 presented a story of mysterious UFO lights near Harrisburg, P, apparently verified as seen by law enforcement. The witness was Stephanie Wilkerson.\nCould it have been a drone?\nABC News presents a series of 15 clips of UFO sights in the following places: Mississippi. North Carolina (on the Outer Banks; there are other sightings around Brown Mountain near Boone, as in the movies blog, Aug. 18, review of \u201cAlien Abduction\u201d); Texas City, TX (on the Gulf Coast), Russia, China, New Orleans, Tempe AZ (during a haboob), Colorado (near the Balloon boy incident), Jerusalem, New York City (two incidents), link here. Some of these videos seem a bit frivolous. The most interesting was the lights around some deer in Mississippi, as in the movie \u201cThe Corridor\u201d (movies, March 25, 2014).\nThe ABC News GMA link is here. You have to play 15 clips, and some have annoyingly long commercials.\nLabels: ABC GMA, UFO\nJohn Walsh presents cases of Stoeser (TX), Barnard (MN)\nTwo more recent episodes of \u201cThe Hunt\u201d with John Walsh on CNN will pressure sex offenders looking for underage women.\nKevin Stoeser\u2019s story was presented. He had been born to a teen mother whom herself had been abused. He started abusing underage women while in the Army, before being caught and court-martialed. After he got out, he resumed. A teenage girl and her mother called police in Texas. There are details on station KVUE in Austin, TX, here. Apparently he was sentenced for this, and then \u201cescaped\u201d from a halfway house in Del Valle, TX.\nThen Walsh presented the story of Victor Barnard, who ran a \u201ccommune\u201d (\"The River Road Fellowship\") in southern Minnesota, MSN episode guide here. The commune rather sounds like Colorado City, AZ. It is rather shocking that the young women didn't even know that what he had done was a crime. The criminal justice system in Minnesota (where I used to live) did drop the ball on this one.\nJust as with \"To Catch a Predator\" on NBC, most of these crimes seem to be heterosexual.\nBoth NBC Dateline and ABC 20-20 present \"love triangle\" case (Pedro Bravo) in northern Florida on same Friday night\nNBC Dateline re-aired \u201cCircle of Friends\u201d Aug, 22, about the murder of University of Florida student Christian Aguilar by Pedro Bravo, apparently as a result of a love triangle over a girl named Erica (typical link). Some of the details of the case appear in a story in a Miami paper by a former roommate of Bravo, here. The Sun Sentinel had a story about the initial arrest of Pedro in September 2012, link here.\nWhat seems so unnerving was that Pedro had been an outstanding student in a military academy, but completely lost it after an argument in a car, after which he apparently killed him while the car was parked. He apparently drugged and then strangled him.\nABC 20-20 also presented the same story, calling it \u201cTwo\u2019s Company, Three\u2019s A Crime\u201d, link here.\nThe body was finally found in a swamp 60 miles south of Gainseville.\nBravo tried to argue he was planning suicide with his poison purchases.\nA jailhouse informant claimed that Bravo wanted the \u201csnitch\u201d Angelo to contact gang members to commit other similar murders to make it look like Christian\u2019s murder had been one of a serial killer.\nPedro was sentenced to life without parole.\nJohn Walsh presents Jehovah's Witnesses child abuse case, and an immigration smuggling case\nJohn Walsh, on his CNN show \u201cThe Hunt\u201d, presented two brief reports Sunday night Aug, 17.\nThe most disturbing was the story of Frederick McLean. Allegedly, he used his position as a missionary for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses to gain access to young children in his home. He fled from southern California after being confronted by a female victim in 2004.\nA Jehovah\u2019s Witness site has this take on the story.\nThe LA Weekly has a story about this case Dec. 29, 2009 here.\nThe other case concerned Guillermo Madrigal Ballesteros, accused of transporting illegal immigrants in 2002, when they were found dead and decomposed and locked inside a railroad car. America\u2019s Most Wanted has a story on the case here.\nThe cases -- the bad guys -- that Walsh chooses to expose have become more varied.\nPosted by Bill Boushka at 11:53 AM 3 comments:\n\"Days of our Lives\": The \"Wil-son\" gay marriage is old hat, but the ethics of how Will gets published is now center stage\nThe saga of super-couple Will and Sonny on NBC\u2019s \u201cDays of our Lives\u201d continues, as Will, now 22 and graduated from college (despite responsibility for his accidental daughter by Gabi) gets his first big writing job \u2013 an expose of his mother Sami and all her affairs. Sonny calls him \u201cwriter\u201d in bed, as if this was a big deal. Nobody seems to know how self-publishing works today, or maybe it\u2019s that \u201cself-publishing doesn\u2019t count\u201d.\nSami and Kate (\u201cHurricane Katrina\u201d) have hissy fits over the publication, and it looks like the editors at the magazine are going to reveal all the names. Legally, this would all be fine: in the US, truth is an absolute defense to libel. But Kate and Sami actually have a conversation where they toss off the idea that Stefano probably won\u2019t hire a hit man to come after all of them. Really, a hit man because of Will\u2019s first \u201cpublished\u201d piece? Literary agents in New York who happen to hear about this episode will chuckle. Is it \"wrong\" to launch your fame as an author by writing about your own family? Write what you know! Write what other people want!\nGuy Wilson, 28, is fitting into the role of a charismatic young man Will, and notice the portmanteau of his last name (\u201cWil-son\u201d). His muscles are spectacular. It seems as though now they have to keep Sonny shaved so that they match in bed.\nBut the plot development about \u201cgetting published\u201d is overtaking the gay marriage angle, which now seems like old hat.\nPicture: This rivulet in Bristoe, VA was cleaned up by Eagle Scouts. I guess Will and Sonny could have individually joined when they were teens -- if they got into a time machine first.\nUpdate: Aug 21\nNBC has written William Horton's essay, \"A Business Affair\", here.\nNow EJ is warning Will that Will may go to jail for that past shooting (which might not matter now since Will is over 21 and the shooting, as a juvenile, had some justification). EJ is angry that Will doesn't put \"family first\" when writing. I've heard that before.\nToday, Will said, \"I'm a writer, not a reporter\". Ponder that one.\nCBS \"Unforgettable\": a photographic memory sounds like a trite idea for police drama\nCBS\u2019s \u201cUnforgettable\u201d offers the idea of a detective with a photographic memory, Carrie Wells (played by Poppy Montgomery). You don\u2019t need a \u201cmedical condition\u201d for this; in Dallas in the mid 1980s, I had a coworker, a gay man in his early 30s, with a total photographic memory for everything (including recipes).\nThe episode tonight was to be \u201cThe Island\u201d and was to present an intentional community. But the episodes were delayed a week by the PGA last weekend (and for me, hours of golf are boring). The episode tonight was \u201cThrowing Shade\u201d, about muckracking journalism in New York about high rise real estate developers, and a mayoralty campaign, and whether an amateur blogger is to be trusted (the most interesting point). Next week\u2019s, about living off the grid, may be less conventional. I descriptive link is here. The episodes generally take place around NYC. Oh, Carrie has some company tonight in the photographic memory department. They could be contestants on Jeopardy, or Millionaire.\nSomehow the title reminds me of Shuamalan\u2019s \u201cUnbreakable\u201d.\nLabels: television series (dramatic), Unforgettable\nNBC Dateline: \"The Man Who Talked to Dogs\": Stover case in Washington State\nOn Saturday, August 16, 2014, NBC Dateline reaired the episode \u201cThe Man Who Talked to Dogs\u201d (originally in January 2011).\nA man, Mark Stover had run a successful dog grooming business on an island north of Seattle. His relationship with his wife brokdedown, and he moved to Anacortes.\nIn late October 2009 Stover disappeared from his palatial home under suspicious circumstances. Skagit County Sheriffs eventually brought charges against Mike Oakes, a security specialist, whom Stover\u2019s ex-wife consulted, after which they developed a romantic relationship.\nOakes spoke to Dateline before presenting his defense at trial, which is what seems unusual about this case. Stokes kept stalking him and confronted him, asking him to bring wedding photos (that\u2019s bizarre). Oakes came to the home after an overnight drive. In a struggle, Oakes says he killed Stover with his hand in self-defense and disposed of the body at a wharf. This all sounds like it comes from Twin Peaks.\nThe main Dateline reference is here.\nA Seattle paper has a story of the guilty verdict in 2012 at the trial, here.\nOakes was single father, and seemed mild mannered. The defense had called Stover a \u201cdomestic violence terrorist\u201d.\nI think this case provides an object lesson in extreme jealousy, almost like in 1940s movies. I'm not susceptible to it.\nWikipedia attribution link for Anacortes WA picture. My own visits: 1996. Maybe 1976, 1978, 1990.\nCNN concluded its series \u201cThe Sixties\u201d with \u201cSex, Drugs, and Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u201d tonight, Aug. 14, with the main press release link here.\nA new \u201chippie\u201d generation decided that the old morality and work ethic and \u201cmy getting mine\u201d didn\u2019t mean anything. The show talked about Mt. Laurel (NJ?), thn the Haight Ashbury section of San Francisco and finally Woodstock.\nI recall seeing the 3-hour movie \u201cWoodstock\u201d in Indianapolis in 1970.\nThe \u201chippie\u201d communes would gradually mature over the years and decades into \u201cintentional communities\u201d. I have visited or seen some of them: Lama Foundation in New Mexico, Twin Oaks and the Acorn Community Farm in central Virginia. Generally these are based on the idea of \u201cincome sharing\u201d and work hours themselves become the \u201ccurrency\u201d, and most places have one or two code agricultural or light manufacturing businesses.\nThe film goes on to present the motorcycle culture of Easy Rider (or \u201cBorn Losers\u201d, an American International classic). It also covers the Charles Manson cult (but CNN also has a half-hour short on Charles Manson, \u201cborn evil\u201d). No one had associated hippies with violence until Manson.\nIt also presents the Rolling Stones toward the end.\nCNN's Don Lemon covers apparent suicide of actor Robin Williams; also violence after police shooting of unarmed teen near St. Louis\nCNN\u2019s News Hour with Don Lemon spent most of the hour tonight covering the passing of comedy actor Robin Williams, 63, in in home Monday morning, where he was found unconscious and could not be revived.\nWilliams was said to have suffered from depression that could have been brought on by aortic valve replacement (UK story from 2009). Open heart surgery (more often coronary bypass surgery, where they \u201ccrack you open like a lobster\u201d as Regis Philbin said one time) often leads to depression. He also abused drugs and alcohol, as in this Guardian story.\nMuch of the CNN broadcast dealt with the idea that our society treats these items as shameful when they are treatable brain diseases.\nWilliams sometimes made jokes about alcoholism.\nThe news report showed excerpts from \u201cMrs. Doubtfire\u201d (where her breasts burn in a kitchen fire), and \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d, where he, as a therapist, counsels Matt Damon's genius character on being able to love someone more than himself. A Northwest Airlines flight magazine, on a 1999 flight I took from Minneapolis to Amsterdam, talked about the makeup for the cross-dressing movie, where \u201cthey\u201d repeatedly shaved him. Another favorite was \u201cThe Birdcage\u201d which touched on gays in the military. Other important films included \"Dead Poets Society\", \"Good Morning Vietnam\" and \"The World According to Garp\". Williams would indulge children when helping them, as with Make-a-wish-foundation performances.\nCNN was to follow with a half-hour special \"The Life of Robin Williams\". ABC will also air a 20-20 special \"The Life and Death of Robin Williams\" Tuesday night (link).\nSubsequent reports on Tuesday indicate that Robin Williams had hanged himself.\nThe news hour also covered the shooting by police of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, MO, north of downtown St. Louis. Looting and violence have followed, as covered in this CNN story. Comparisons are made to Trayvon Martin. The shooting seems very hard to explain based on current evidence.\nLabels: CNN news\nCNN: \"The Times They Are a-Changin'\" episode in \"The Sixties\", re-airs Friday night after pre-emption by Middle East crisis\nCNN finally took a break from all the coverage of international crises (Gaza, Ukraine, ISIS), to re-broadcast the latest installment of the Sixties, \u201cThe Times, They Are A-Changin\u2019\u201d, press link here. The original airing on Aug. 7 had been interrupted after the first 25 minutes by Breaking News from the Middle East.\nThe decade had started with even President Kennedy playing just lip service to the idea of women\u2019s equality, even though the appointed a commission to study it in 1961. One pundit said that a husband steers the horses; if you have two at the helm, the horse will waver. Betty Friedan, who had created a precedent for married women returning to work after childbirth back around 1957, wrote her famous book \u201cThe Feminine Mystique\u201d. Women began to see that the basic relationship between the sexes needed to change. This wasn\u2019t just evolution, it was revolution, and it was high time for it to happen.\nAlongside the women\u2019s movement would be gay rights, to culminate with the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City in June 1969. But in 1967, CBS, with Mike Wallace, had produced the horrible black-and-white special \u201cThe Homosexuals\u201d, on which Dean Rusk, secretary of state then, said \u201cif we find homosexuals in the State Department, we discharge them\u201d, and gay men were interviewed in shadows. Wallace mentioned the fear of imprisonment and the \u201ccloset\u201d. There were actual rings to \u201cinform on homosexuals\u201d. Barney Frank appears. The story of Frank Kameny, and his firing in 1957, was presented. The Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis were mentioned. Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association described homosexuality as \u201cmental illness\u201d and sometimes reparative therapy was pursued.\nIn the Sixties, the idea that a man could become sexually interested and engaged with one woman for a lifetime, when that woman (as well as, of course, the children) would depend on the man economically, was becoming challenged, and this frightened many men, as it does today in many parts of the world (most of all, in Islam).\nThe Sixties also marked a beginning for environmentalism, as with Rachel Carson\u2019s \u201cThe Silent Spring\u201d.\nConservatism was apparent but it began to splinter. Liberals, after all, had supported social conservatism until the Kennedy years. Barry Goldwater\u2019s 1964 run for the presidency predicted libertarianism. \u201cExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice\u201d. Goldwater would later support lifting the ban on gays in the military in the 1990s. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be straight to shoot straight.\u201d\nLabels: CNN Sixties, lgbt issues\n\"Person of Interest\": episode \"Nothing to Hide\" gives a lesson on data brokers and personal privacy\nOn Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, CBS re-aired an episode called \u201cNothing to Hide\u201d on its \u201cPerson of Interest\u201d show (typical account ).\nThe episode (originally aired Oct. 1, 2013) has John Reese (James Caviezel, who got pretty torn up in \u201cThe Passion of the Christ\u2019) tracking Wayne Kruger (David Alan Basche), an Internet entrepreneur who has founded \u201cLife Trace\u201d, a data broker company that merges people\u2019s \u201cpublic records\u201d with their social media posts to sell to advertisers, employers, and even governments. The trouble is, Kruger gets targeted by someone through his own company.\nAnd the enemies get very determined to bring him down.\nThe script gives a good lesson in the dangers that people pose for themselves on social media. The episode is almost a tutorial on how data brokers work.\n\u201cLife Trace\u201d reminded me of a company called \u201cFidelifacts\u201d that used to collect information on people\u2019s private lives back in the 1960s and 1970s.\nHarold Finch (Michael Emerson) is the billionaire software inventor who has focused on \u201cpre-crime\u201d and Reese is the ex-CIA agent he has teamed up with.\nLabels: Person of Interest\n\"1968\": CNN special tracks the year the nation almost came apart (even though the Cuban Missile Crisis had occurred only six years earlier)\nI have to admit that I forget to set the DVR for CNN\u2019s episode \u201c1968\u201d from the series \u201cThe Sixties\u201d last Thursday night (July 31). And CNN is not particularly dependable in telling you in advance exactly when it will rebroadcast, and it has only a few pieces of it online right now, as far as I can tell, under Episode 8, at this link. Probably it will re-air some time Thursday Aug. 7 after the newest one.\nI had titled Chapter 2 of my fist \u201cDo Ask, Do Tell\u201d book \u201cSputnik, the Draft, and The Proles: 1968\u201d. I really lived that year. I finished my M.A. Mathematics at the University of Kansas in January. I went into the Army for the draft two weeks early, on Feb. 8, 1968, about a week after the Tet Offensive. Martin Luther King was assassinated while I was in \u201cSpecial Training Company\u201d. The riots in Washington DC along 14th Street occurred about the time I came back from Basic Training and was assigned to the Pentagon. I remember the day after RFK\u2019s assassination, as I had spent the night in the South Post Barracks (at Fort Myer). Later, I won a big chess game there in the service club, before a lot of other soldiers watching me pull an upset. I would be mysteriously transferred to Fort Eustis in September.\nI remember Election Night well, in the barracks in Fort Eustis. Humphrey led early, but around 1 AM I heard the news on the radio in the Day Room, \u201cNixon leads\u201d. Most soldiers actually thought Nixon would get us out of the War sooner than Humphrey. By then, other buddies in the barracks talked about \u201cMedium Cool\u201d in Chicago that summer at the Democratic convention.\nThe excerpts online show interviews with Douglas Brinkley, who explains Nixon\u2019s ego and his na\u00efve belief at first in the idea that mainstream America thought that protests had gone too far, and also with RFK Jr. (by Don Lemon), who insisted that by 1968 Euro-centric civilization was declining, and minorities insisted \u201cWe want our share.\u201d The Brinkley segment explains why Nixon wanted to do the tapes. His early years went well, with at least some promise in Vietnam, the creation of the EPA, and overtures to China. One of the tapes airs Nixon as saying we shouldn\u2019t leave our foreign policy to a Jew (Kissinger).\nUpdate: Aug. 9, 2014\nCNN finally reaired this episode Saturday Aug 9 at 1 AM EDT and I recorded it.\nOne of the highlights is LBJ's speech on March 31, 1968 when he ways he will not run again. \"A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand\". I was on KP in Special Training Company at Fort Jackson, SC in Army Basic Combat Training at the time.\nThe assassination of RFK is shown (it wasn't apparent at first it had happened).\nThe 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago is shown as being conducted in \"a police state\".\nThe country was coming apart, over the generation gap.\nJohn Walsh on \"The Hunt\" presents a DUI manslaughter fugitive from FL (Chris Ponce), and a survivalist extremist in Montana (Burgert)\nJohn Walsh tonight, on \u201cThe Hunt\u201d, presented (in a 30-minute segment) a fugitive Chris Ponce, who apparently was responsible for a major accident near Tampa FL on July 19, 2012, entering the freeway the wrong way.\n22-year-old William Angel died in the crash, and his brother was seriously injured, although the brothers speaks in the program and appears to have recovered fully. Ponce was offered bond with home detention by the judge while the results on his blood alcohol came back. Ponce then cut off the electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and vanished. A Tampa Bay newspaper has a story by Dan Sullivan, here.\nWalsh\u2019s own comments presented Ponce as from a family of privilege, and a odd comment that he wouldn\u2019t have had to develop the street smarts of a normal escapee. There is another site set up just for this show, here.\nThe second half of the show profiled David Burgert, who had been associated with an anti-government group called \u201cProject Seven\u201d, in Flathead County, Montana, around Kalispell. (I actually spent a night there on vacation in May, 1981 and still remember the area. The very next night, I would attend a spontaneous \u201cfeel good about yourself\u201d seminar in Helena.) He disappeared, and would reappear for another incident and shootout in 2011. The Missoulian has a detailed story here. Walsh says the public doesn\u2019t get how vast these areas in western US are. I do understand. I\u2019ve driven rental cars in almost all of the US and much of Canada for all the years of my adult life. I know the country well. On that particular trip in 1981.\nThe master list for John Walsh's (many fugitives) program is here.\nWikipedia attribution link for picture of Kalispell, MT The first picture is in the Everglades, FL (my picture, 2004).\nNBC News presents \"Hannah Anderson: Anatomy of a Kidnapping\"\nTonight, August 1, 2014, NBC News aired a special \u201cHannah Anderson: Anatomy of a Kidnapping\u201d, with Savannah Guthrie doing the interview. This was in a style similar to Dateline, but in fact Dateline has its own report.\nNBC\u2019s best account seems to be here.\nAnother site on the special is here.\nWikipedia has an account of the episode in August 2013 here. The suspect James Lee DiMaggio invited Christina Anderson and her family to his home near San Diego, which he burned with elaborate preparation, before kidnapping teenage Hannah to Idaho. The documentary showed some of the footage of the rescue, after an older couple thought something was odd when encountering DiMaggio and Hannah in the wilderness, checked the amber alert (which now comes out on smartphones) and called the sheriff. FBI shot DiMaggio in a confrontation.\nThe documentary covered suspicions on the Internet the Hannah might have had something to do with it, an idea that (subsequent police and forensic) evidence does not support.\nThere are stories that Hannah was offered $100000 to help with a documentary (link). News organizations normally do not pay subjects of crime documentaries.\nPicture: San Diego, University Ave area, May 2012, my trip\nI posted a security notice on my \"Bill's Internet Safety Tips\" blog today regarding the vodlocker video mentioned in the fourth comment below. Maybe it is OK, but I've asked Webroot to look into the warning I get from it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1077, "original_length": 48321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bioone.org/journals/The-Southwestern-Naturalist/volume-59/issue-1/F01-MP-05.1/Conservation-genetics-of-cyprinid-fishes-in-the-upper-Nueces-River/10.1894/F01-MP-05.1.short", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YLQEJCQESBWK5G52L7E4VNRXSMAF2H5E", "length": 2787, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bioone.org", "title": "Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas", "raw_content": "1 March 2014 Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas\nEvan W. Carson, Ashley H. Hanna, Gary P. Garrett, Robert J. Edwards, John R. Gold\nEvan W. Carson, Ashley H. Hanna\nCenter for Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2258 (EWC, AHH, JRG)\nGary P. Garrett\nInland Fisheries Division, Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Mountain Home, TX 78058 (GPG)\nDepartment of Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539 (RJE)\nJohn R. Gold\nThe Southwestern Naturalist, 59(1):1-8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1894/F01-MP-05.1\nSequences of the mitochondrial (mt) NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 gene (ND5) were acquired to assess genetic diversity and female effective population size (Nef) of two forms of Cyprinella (C. lepida and C. sp. cf lepida) and two species of Dionda (D. serena and D. texensis) in headwaters of three rivers in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas. As documented in prior studies, two divergent clades of haplotypes of mtDNA were found in both genera: one in the Frio and Sabinal rivers, representing C. lepida and D. serena; one in the Nueces River, representing C. sp. cf lepida and D. texensis. Levels of variation in mtDNA from C. lepida in the Sabinal River and D. serena in the Frio and Sabinal rivers were comparable to or considerably lower than values documented for populations of several threatened or endangered cyprinids. Estimates of Nef for C. lepida in the Frio River and C. sp. cf lepida in the Nueces River were low, suggesting that adaptive genetic variation through time may be compromised. Of all populations sampled, only D. texensis in the Nueces River appears at present to be genetically stable demographically. An unexpected finding was two individuals resembling C. lepida in the Frio River with a haplotype referable to C. sp. cf lepida; the origin of these individuals is unknown. Two other individuals resembling C. lepida but with haplotypes of mtDNA referable to C. venusta were found in the Frio River and presumably represent relatively recent hybrids. Results of our study indicate that C. lepida, C. sp. cf lepida, and D. serena in the upper Nueces River basin, especially in the Sabinal River drainage, are at appreciable genetic risk.\nEvan W. Carson, Ashley H. Hanna, Gary P. Garrett, Robert J. Edwards and John R. Gold \"Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas,\" The Southwestern Naturalist 59(1), (1 March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1894/F01-MP-05.1\nReceived: 4 September 2012; Accepted: 1 January 2013; Published: 1 March 2014\n\"Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas,\" 59(1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 8100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bizvideo.com.au/2018-recap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2TJTBUXOLFEHZVP4E4YEGHE7SOBPFJJB", "length": 498, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bizvideo.com.au", "title": "Bizvideo 2018 Recap Video", "raw_content": "I feel like we keep saying the same thing: \u201cthis year was the best year\u201d.\nI get the feeling that we will keep saying it at the end of each year and I\u2019m extremely excited about the fact that we strive to grow each year.\nOur team has set a target that every video we create must be better than the one before.\nThis year we had over 250 projects for amazing clients and even though we\u2019ve had tight deadlines near the end of the year we tried to put together a quick recap that you can now watch below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackdoctor.org/506400/ola-ray-thriller/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UJPBF4HPH4A57JQ4W2ODTBLBVF7J4IBH", "length": 2993, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "blackdoctor.org", "title": "Ola Ray: Thriller 35 Years Later | BlackDoctor", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Health Conditions \u00bb Substance Use \u00bb Ola Ray: Thriller 35 Years Later\nOla Ray: Thriller 35 Years Later\nMichael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d video broke all kinds records nearly 35 years ago. It was the first music video directed by a Hollywood director (John Landis), it was the title track on the highest-selling album of all time, and it cost a half-million dollars, an unheard of amount for a music video at the time. But all of this didn\u2019t matter to the video\u2019s co-star, Ola Ray who was just happy to get the part.\nRay, now 56 and living in Sacramento, Calif., with her teenage daughter, landed the gig after Flashdance actress Jennifer Beals turned it down. She almost didn\u2019t get it after video director John Landis learned she had posed in a 1980 Playboy centerfold. But Jackson didn\u2019t seem to mind her naked past. \u201cHe seemed taken by the fact that I was a Playboy model,\u201d Ray said in a 2014 interview.\n\u201cThe minute I walked into the audition, I knew the part was mine,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI read a few lines, danced to some music, and the rest is history.\u201d\n(photo credit: Ola Ray screenshot)\nThe 13-minute music and dance masterpiece\u2013which the Guinness Book of World Records calls the most successful music video of all time, selling more than 9 million copies\u2013depicts Jackson and Ray on a date. It takes a dark turn when the singer transforms into a werewolf and Ray is seen running from him and screaming the remainder of the video.\nTAKE A LOOK: A Real Look At Michael Jackson\u2019s Death and Use Of Painkiller\nBut despite her on-screen persona trying to get away from Jackson, from day one shooting, Ray said she and Jackson had great chemistry.\n\u201cWhen we did the dancing, when he had to walk around me and flirt with me \u2026 That was when I was like \u2018Oh my God, like Ola, I could not believe I was the girl, I was the one chosen,'\u201d she told ABC News.\nJackson was just as playful off-camera as well.\n\u201cHe kept saying, \u2018I can\u2019t wait until I do the werewolf scenes so I can chase you,'\u201d she told author Mark Bego for his book On The Road With Michael.\nThough the two flirted and shared some private time in his trailer on the set, she said they were never intimate because Jackson had eyes for someone else.\n\u201cWe had a working relationship, it was nothing other than that,\u201d she said in a 2011 interview.\nShe and Jackson remained friends after making the video. Jackson even flew her to Germany to accept an award for \u201cThriller\u201d \u2014 which she later got to keep.\n(Photo by Max Whittaker/Ola Ray Twitter)\n\u201cHe wanted to send someone else to come pick it up [from me], but I told him, \u2018No. If you don\u2019t come pick it up yourself, then you\u2019re not going to get it,'\u201d said Ray, who went on to land small roles in 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop II, Gimme A Break! and Cheers. \u201cHe didn\u2019t come get it, so he called and told me it was mine. I could keep it.\u201d\nIn 1992, Ray was charged with cocaine possession, which earned her a stint in rehab.\nJackson helped her out with money from time to time, cutting her checks for\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 8708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2815860-nfl-rumors-demaryius-thomas-will-be-cut-by-texans-after-achilles-injury", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IM7MLAGVU6DQRMKOYDQ6DN3DR46KZKOQ", "length": 2481, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "bleacherreport.com", "title": "Demaryius Thomas Cut by Texans After Achilles Injury | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights", "raw_content": "The Houston Texans announced wide receiver Demaryius Thomas' time with the team has ended after just seven games on Tuesday.\nThomas was released due to a failed physical designation, according to ESPN's Field Yates, who added the release creates $14 million in cap space for the Texans.\nHouston acquired him via trade from the Denver Broncos in October, and he played seven games before tearing his left Achilles in Week 16 against the Philadelphia Eagles.\nPalmer pointed out Thomas recovered from a torn Achilles in his rookie season in six months but doesn't yet have an official timeline for his return this time.\nThomas' contract made it seem unlikely he would be brought back next season. He was owed $14 million, but the deal included an opt-out that wouldn't count anything against the salary cap.\nThomas was dealt to the Texans after Will Fuller tore his ACL. The 31-year-old was solid down the stretch with 275 yards and two touchdowns on 23 receptions following the trade.\nFollowing Houston's AFC Wild Card Game loss to the Indianapolis Colts, he told reporters he wasn't thinking of retirement.\n\"I still can play,\" Thomas said. \"I'm not thinking about retirement. I just don't know where...I told them I'd love to be here. I'd love to finish my career here.\"\nTexans head coach Bill O'Brien didn't rule out bringing the Georgia Tech product back but wanted to see how he would recover from his injury.\n\"So we had a long talk,\" O'Brien told reporters. \"We will see how the rehab goes, you know, that's a tough injury. He knows that. He's 30 years old, you know, that's not easy to come back from. But he's going to work hard. He wants to play again, he made that statement to me, and we will see how it goes moving forward.\"\nThe Texans weren't in a salary-cap crunch this offseason with $67.99 million available, but they do have major contract decisions to figure out. Jadeveon Clowney needs a new long-term deal, but CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora reported the star pass-rusher is likely to receive the franchise tag.\nThomas was an expendable piece for a Houston offense that has DeAndre Hopkins as its No. 1 receiver and Fuller returning next season.\nThe big question moving forward will be if Thomas can find a team after the injury. Being over the age of 30 isn't going to help him in negotiations.\nIt would seem plausible that he will have to wait for potential injuries to happen during training camp before receiving a serious offer to get back on the field in 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 180.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.anant.us/platform-components/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7QLKOSX6R6S6LF5EEDRMCF4VFDVTH3AW", "length": 7511, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "blog.anant.us", "title": "Components That Make Up a Business Platform - Business Platform Team Components That Make Up a Business Platform - Business Platform Team", "raw_content": "Building a modern business platform is a requirement for teams, organizations, and teams of teams today. When we defined the \u201cmodern enterprise\u201d and \u201cbusiness platform\u201d we took from our experience in working with startups that started their teams in the last ten years, non-profits and associations, and some of the largest companies that have been around. We also have leveraged tremendous knowledge from other institutions and companies such as ITIL and Gartner Research.\nWhile these established frameworks and the knowledge bases these institutions create are invaluable to day-to-day digital technology/information technology/enterprise architecture practitioners like those on our team, they are a little too inaccessible to those who need to know about them today. The CEO, CFO, CMO \u2013 basically anyone at the helm of the modern enterprise.\nHere\u2019s our informed and highly distilled perspective on the key terms to make them easier to understand:\nModern Enterprise \u2013 A team or organization that coordinates People, Processes, Information, Systems (including things) on the Internet that started natively on the cloud or is now 100% on the cloud.\nInternet Architecture \u2013 The discipline of evaluation, design, architecture, engineering, and management of digital business technology including that of the Interface, Software, Database, and Systems.\nBusiness Platform \u2013 A streamlined, organized, and unified system of systems that manages information for critical business processes required by all people connected to an organization, including customers, employees, partners, and devices.\nModern Enterprise: Responsibility and Context\nA modern enterprise differentiates itself from a traditional enterprise in two ways. First, the contexts: people, processes, information, and systems need not be owned or operated under the same corporate entity but are coordinated to be responsible for the company\u2019s needs. Rather than defined as a collection of departments, the functions of a company are organized in responsibility areas. Second, that the contexts can be shared between responsibilities.\nHence, we have the modern enterprise canvas which makes it easy to inventory and design a modern enterprise. Although companies are truly multi-dimensional, this two dimensional canvas is a good start for teams having a hard time understanding how their company works. After having a visual idea of how a company works, Internet Architecture can help build a new or enhance the current business platform.\nInternet Architecture: Context and Technology\nInternet Architecture is a term I started in 2000. I recognized then, as I see now, that business information technology development & maintenance was going to be disrupted by internet software. This disruption needed a more holistic discipline. The term full stack developer\u201d still doesn\u2019t quite embrace what an \u201cinternet architect\u201d needs to know to truly lead in technology today.\nI saw that technologies would change al the time, but that the core principles in a few areas would remain the same. Being a good internet architect requires abstract, strategic, and tactical knowledge of four distinct areas of technology:\nInterface \u2013 Interface design, engineering, architecture is focused on user experience for all types of users such as Customers, Employees, Partners and of different devices such as mobile, tablet, Laptop, TV, Watch, Voice. What started in the desktop browser is now ever increasing as \u201cthings\u201d take over the Internet. For example, how does one classify how \u201cAlexa\u201d Or a \u201cNest\u201d interact with humans (human-computer interaction)? A good interface architect can design, engineer, and build interfaces today as well as in the future when \u201cX\u201d or Y\u201d comes out.\nSoftware \u2013 Software design, engineering, and architecture have been around since the beginning of the PC revolution, and now as software strategies depend on what the goal is. A good software architect knows to combine the appropriate amount of existing systems, tools, frameworks, libraries, and languages as well as new work. Why reinvent the wheel to make a car or smelt your own iron to make nails?\nDatabase \u2013 Database design, engineering, and architecture today are much more complex than it was before. The decisions required today include whether and how the data will be sent between systems and things in queues, how it\u2019s stored in relation and non-relational formats, how it\u2019s organized in a graph, and how it\u2019s searched in an index. Some databases are delivered as a service with just an API endpoint, whereas others require advanced orchestration. Although it is one of the oldest technology disciplines, the technology is always changing but some fundamentals remain the same: storing and moving the appropriate amount of information for the person or process properly.\nSystems \u2013 Systems design, engineering, and architecture are probably the oldest disciplines. Systems thinking is also now embraced as a fundamental skill in business. A good systems architect looks at the big picture strategically and can move towards a vision as well as zoom into the component level.\nThe idea of a \u201cbusiness platform\u201d didn\u2019t come to fruition until recently for us and other companies. That\u2019s because the businesses had to change their strategy to best leverage the technology.\nBusiness Platform: Technology and Strategy\nAs defined by Gartner in their research paper: a digital business technology platform consists of five major types of platforms connected together.\nCustomer Experience for Customers\nInformation Systems for Staff / Employees\nEcosystems for Partners\nInternet of Things for Devices\nWe look at it a little differently since a \u201ccustomer\u201d or \u201cstaff\u201d is a relative term in platforms such as a two-way marketplace or a shared economy system like Uber. Although there are specific distinctions between the \u201ccore\u201d team and the external folks that interact on the platform, one group of \u201ccustomers\u201d are suppliers whereas another group maybe buyers.\nExperience (CXM, CMS, Internet)\nInformation (CRM, ERP, Intranet)\nData (DB, Analytics, ML, ESB)\nEcosystem (API, Extranet)\nThings (Sensor Data, GPS, Motion)\nAlthough this is not a complete \u201cBusiness Platform Canvas\u201d it shows how systems \u2013 just one out of the four contexts \u2013 maps to the five different parts of a business platform.\nIf we were to map out people, processes, and information similarly, we\u2019d end up with a three-dimensional cube. Now you can start to see why building the best business platform for your business is a little more involved than hiring a marketing agency to create your customer experience, or an analytics company to create some pretty charts. For a team starting out or an established company, building a platform should not be difficult. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here.\nWe\u2019re creating a knowledge base for business and technology so that building platforms is easier for leaders and entrepreneurs. We\u2019re curating a framework of open source & commercial technologies as well as online services so that you don\u2019t need to worry about what to use. We\u2019re partnering with experts to create a network of highly qualified and vetted individuals so that you don\u2019t have to worry about how you\u2019ll build it. Finally, we\u2019re also building a platform so that you can interact with our knowledge base, our experts, and our architects in the best way possible.\nInterested in what the future holds for your business platform? Email me.\nPosted in Modern Business | Comments Off on Components That Make Up a Business Platform", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 9159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.befunky.com/tag/valentines-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:07Z", "digest": "sha1:37IBOSZ5GBEVYD3HD6UUZOPXQ4CLVXOZ", "length": 346, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.befunky.com", "title": "valentines day \u2013 BeFunky Blog", "raw_content": "What To Say In Your Valentine Cards (For Every Situation)\nWords falling short when it comes to Valentine's Day cards? Fear not.\u2026\nSay It With A DIY Valentine\u2019s Day Card\nNothing says \u201cyou\u2019re special\u201d like a handmade gift, so we\u2019ll show you\u2026\n14 Ways To BeFunky On Valentine\u2019s Day\nYou could say \"I love you\" on Valentine's Day... But it would mean a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.siriusxm.com/corey-lewandowski-out-as-trump-campaign-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:M7ESVMWHF5I36RDJPSR3J27RFDP5GERK", "length": 2242, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.siriusxm.com", "title": "Corey Lewandowski out as Trump campaign manager |", "raw_content": "Corey Lewandowski out as Trump campaign manager\nDonald Trump parted ways with his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski Monday following weeks of slipping poll numbers and scrutiny by many members of the Republican party. The decision comes exactly one month before the Republican National Convention is set to begin in Cleveland.\n\u201cThe Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,\u201d spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement. \u201cThe campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future.\u201d\nAccording to reports by those close to the campaign, the staff was not informed of Lewandowski\u2019s impeding firing and only found out about the decision during the campaign\u2019s daily 8:30 a.m. conference call on Monday.\nAsked if staff was notified of Corey decision, campaign source tells me it's \"bedlam in the Trump campaign. No one knows what is happening.\"\n\u2014 Ali Vitali (@alivitali) June 20, 2016\nHowever, the shift in the campaign leadership isn\u2019t shocking to insiders who have witnessed the internal turmoil between Lewandoswki and Trump\u2019s top strategist Paul Manafort. The latter has been working to polish Trump into adhering to a more traditional style of campaigning.\nTensions between the two sects of the campaign have made their way their way onto social media, as well. Following reports of the campaign\u2019s decision to sever ties with Lewandowski, Trump\u2019s New York state director Michael Caputo sent out this not-so cryptic tweet.\nAn individual within the campaign emphasized that the changes to the campaign had been in the works for weeks. The move hopes to highlight the internal shift toward party unity as Trump plans to take on Hillary Clinton this fall.\nDespite the shift in leadership, Lewandowski will still play a role in the nominating process as the chairman of New Hampshire\u2019s delegation to the convention. This shake-up could add an additional layer of complexity to Trump\u2019s nomination in Cleveland.\nFollow SiriusXM\u2019s coverage of the 2016 election on POTUS (Ch. 124), Patriot (Ch. 126) & Progress (Ch. 127)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bloggersbookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/05/quicksilver-book-launch-by-anjali.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DBIWR2GPFGUAGAFNPJ4ZFXI4S5PO2EXV", "length": 4064, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bloggersbookshelf.blogspot.com", "title": "Quicksilver Book Launch | By Anjali... / Blogger's Bookshelf", "raw_content": "Yesterday I posted a review of RJ Anderson's book, Quicksilver. I also mentioned that I went to the book launch for it, and that I was going to tell you all about! So here we go!\nHave you ever been to a book launch? I hadn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t really know what to expect other than books\u2026and the author being there. But it was really nice! It was on Tuesday 23rd, in Oxford, England (which is only about an hour or so from where I live), and that was perfect because my mum was making the trip there that evening anyway. I was a few minutes late, after missing one of the buses where Mum dropped me off, but not by too much. When I snuck in the book store (Waterstones), I grabbed a seat at the back of a group of about 10-15 people and hoped I hadn't missed out on too much. I hadn't. Anderson was just talking a little about Ultraviolet, reminding us, I guess, what had happened in that book.\nShe then introduced Quicksilver, giving a brief description of what it was about, and then read a short excerpt from one of the first couple of chapters. It was really cool to hear her read from her own story, no mistakes or slip ups (as would have happened if I were reading anything aloud), and it was nice to actually be read to. I know that sounds silly, and like I should be a 2 year old being read Where\u2019s Spot? or something, but there\u2019s just something nice about not having to think, and only listen. I guess you get that with audio books, though I've never listened to them. After she read for a little while, she answered some questions from the audience. It was really cool to hear how she went about writing her stories.\nOne of the questions asked was something along the lines of \u2018Do you have the entire plot thought out, or do you just go with the flow and see what happens?\u2019. To this she answered (something along the lines of) that before she started writing Quicksilver, she had the title in her head already. She had no idea what Quicksilver meant, nor what it was or what it was going to be, but she knew that that was the title. She also said that she knew that she wanted to tell the story from Tori\u2019s perspective (the main character of Quicksilver), rather than stay with Alison (the main character in Ultraviolet, the book previous), because she felt that Alison\u2019s story had already been told. When I went to the book launch, I didn't actually realize that Quicksilver wasn't really about Alison, so when I heard this I was a little taken a back. I guess I hadn't thought that it wouldn't be from Alison\u2019s perspective, but, as I mentioned in the review yesterday, after a page or two into Quicksilver, I realised that I didn't mind that it wasn't a continuation of Alison\u2019s part of the story \u2013 it was time to hear from someone else.\nI'm pretty sure she also said (though don\u2019t quote me on this! R.J., if you\u2019re reading this, please confirm!) that while writing Quicksilver she didn't have the whole plot outlined, that she had some idea of where things were headed, but more went with the flow of things. Being someone who likes to write, and have had tried to write novel-length stories (I'm getting there), it was really interesting to hear a little bit about how a real live published author went about writing a book, and their thoughts, ideas and processes that went with it. Very cool. There were a few more questions asked, but to be honest I can\u2019t remember them. That was the one that stuck out to me the most.\nAfter answering questions, she thanked us all for coming, and then signed books. I introduced myself, we had a quick \u2018it\u2019s a pleasure to meet you\u2019 and then I had to rush off to make sure I didn\u2019t miss the bus again and then miss my Mum and get stranded in Oxford. But if you have the chance to go to a book launch, I highly recommend it. It was a great opportunity, not only to get a sign copy of the book (yay!), but also to put a real live face behind the words I had been reading and the story that I loved. Go to a book launch. You won\u2019t regret it.\nThis was written by regular reviewer Anjali, get to know her here.\nBook Launch, Teen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.informatica.com/2014/03/17/why-the-government-needs-data-integration/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:X2BEKT56XP2NMVG6ID5ZVPAIS4UFHV62", "length": 2891, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blogs.informatica.com", "title": "Why the Government needs Data Integration", "raw_content": "Why the Government needs Data Integration\nDavid Linthicum Mar 17th, 2014 Data Integration\nData Integration, Governance, public sector\nLoraine Lawson does an outstanding job of covering the issues around government use of \u201cdata heavy\u201d projects. This includes a report by the government IT site, MeriTalk.\n\u201cThe report identifies five factors, which it calls the Big Five of IT, that will significantly affect the flow of data into and out of organizations: Big data, data center consolidation, mobility, security and cloud computing.\u201d\nMeriTalk surveyed 201 state and local government IT professionals, and found that, while the majority of organizations plan to deploy the Big Five, 94 percent of IT pros say their agency is not fully prepared. \u201cIn fact, if Big Data, mobile, cloud, security and data center consolidation all took place today, 89 percent say they\u2019d need additional network capacity to maintain service levels. Sixty-three percent said they\u2019d face network bottleneck risks, according to the report.\u201d\nThis report states what most who work with the government already know; the government is not ready for the influx of data. Nor is the government ready for the different uses of data, and thus there is a large amount of risk as the amount of data under management within the government explodes.\nAdd issues with the approaches and technologies leveraged for data integration to the list. As cloud computing and mobile computing continue to rise in popularity, there is not a clear strategy and technology for syncing data in the cloud, or on mobile devices, with data that exists within government agencies. Consolidation won\u2019t be possible without a sound data integration strategy, nor will the proper use of big data technology.\nThe government sees a huge wave of data heading for it, as well as opportunities with new technology such as big data, cloud, and mobile. However, there doesn\u2019t seem to be an overall plan to surf this wave. According to the report, if they do wade into the big data wave, they are likely to face much larger risks.\nThe answer to this problem is really rather simple. As the government moves to take advantage of the rising tide of data, as well as new technologies, they need to be funded to get the infrastructure and the technology they need to be successful. The use of data integration approaches and technologies, for example, will return the investment ten-fold, if properly introduced into the government problem domains. This includes integration with big data systems, mobile devices, and, of course, the rising use of cloud-based platforms.\nWhile data integration is not a magic bullet for the government, nor any other organization, the proper and planned use of this technology goes a long way toward reducing the inherent risks that the report identified. Lacking that plan, I don\u2019t think the government will get very far, very fast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/07/a-mouse-was-blind-but-now-it-sees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:AXVTBODXX4ZCSWBYKJ7VXH43YGOAXO6X", "length": 2422, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blogs.mprnews.org", "title": "A mouse was blind, but now it sees | NewsCut | Minnesota Public Radio News", "raw_content": "A mouse was blind, but now it sees\nOnly science, it seems, can make us daydream about the \u201cwhat ifs\u201d of life in the fashion a study today does.\nWhat if blind people could see again?\nA group of scientists announced in an article in a science journal they\u2019ve been able to restore sight to blind mice.\nTime.com says Andrew Huberman, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University, found that a combination of visual stimulation of the optic nerve, helped along by chemical, can regrow nerve extensions, called axons, and coax them to stretch out again and find their way back to make connections to the parts of the brain that allows us to see.\nAbout three weeks after the optic nerves in the mice were damaged, the researchers saw evidence of axons extending back into the brain from the eye, something that previous efforts to regenerate eye nerves haven\u2019t done with much reliability. The combination of keeping the damaged but remaining axons stimulated, by exposing the mice to bars on a screen that are moving in different directions, and the nerve growth factors lead to a 500-fold increase in axon regrowth. Granted, not all of the axons managed to sprout again, but those that did were able to do so with impressive speed and distance to reach the brain.\nWhen the researchers conducted four different tests to verify how much of the regrowth contributed to actual restoration of vision in the animals, the animals passed two of the tests that detected large objects and movement.\n\u201cFor the longest time people in the field wondered if neurons could regenerate and form the correct patterns to connect to the brain, and we found that they did,\u201d says Huberman.\nThe most compelling finding is that the study suggest that once nerves are coaxed to grow again, they retain the instructions to find their proper connections in the brain\u2019s visual center. If nerves growing toward the brain are like visitors to New York\u2019s Grand Central Station, these nerves are like well-equipped travelers with maps and specific instructions for finding their destination. \u201cIt means that neurons remember the way home; they never forget,\u201d says Huberman.\nAnimal rights supporters aren\u2019t going to like this one bit. To do the experiments, researchers first had to crush the optic nerve in mice.\n\u2039 Older Duluth man, Bemidji firm team up to find grandfather\u2019s warbird\nNewer \u203a There\u2019s a limit to the value of police-shooting video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.nasa.gov/waynehalesblog/tag/transformation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:16Z", "digest": "sha1:K4U3TN7JFLHDN25D6KTB5AEFMOHL24PN", "length": 13104, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "blogs.nasa.gov", "title": "transformation \u2013 Wayne Hale's Blog", "raw_content": "I wrote this note to the shuttle team in 2004. I think it is still true today. Maybe more so than in 2004.\nRice vs. K State tonight at Reckling Park in the NCAA regional baseball playoffs. Texas has already advanced to the super-regionals facing TCU. Why do we care? Read on:\nThis note is not about really sports but about exploration. Let me tell you why.\nJFK was on a roll. He could move a crowd with a speech. He knew what would excite an audience and he could build on their emotion. It was a hot summer day in Houston and the event was outdoors at Rice stadium. The President had come to town to elaborate on his space exploration initiative. He talked about the technical challenges, like the requirement for materials to withstand temperatures of several thousand degrees, or \u201calmost as hot as it is here today\u201d he quipped. Then he came to the centerpiece of his speech:\nSOME PEOPLE ASK, WHY GO TO THE MOON?\nTHEY MAY WELL ASK, WHY CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN?\nWHY 35 YEARS AGO, FLY THE ATLANTIC?\nAt this point the crowd which contained many university alumni, faculty, and students started cheering. But JFK knew better than to slow down; without a pause he continued:\nThe cheering intensified, not cheering about a football team but about a new goal\nWE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON AND DO THE OTHER THINGS,\nNOT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD\nBECAUSE THAT CHALLENGE IS ONE WE INTEND TO WIN\nAt one time, during the 1920\u2019s and 30\u2019s there was parity in football in the Southwest Conference; Rice won its share of the championships and on any given Saturday in the fall any team had the potential to beat any other team. But after WWII the University of Texas took off in size and came to dominate football in the region. Rice earned the dubious honor of becoming the smallest school in the nation to play Division I sports.\nLogically, mathematically, analytically, Rice should never beat Texas. With a regular period, the Rice University faculty debates giving up football \u2013 or all Division I athletics \u2013 as a waste of time, money, and effort.\nAnd when the historians replay the tape of JFK\u2019s speech, they generally clip out the phrase \u2018WHY DOES RICE PLAY TEXAS?\u2019 perhaps because the reference may be obscure to some people, perhaps because it seems less important than Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic. But if that phrase is clipped out, I submit you may miss the point.\nTexas dominates the series 64-21-1. The conferences have changed and the two teams don\u2019t play every year, and when they do, it doesn\u2019t count for conference standings.\nLogically, mathematically, analytically, there is no point for Rice to play Texas.\nBut about once a decade, the illogical happens: the underdog triumphs. Facing the challenge makes a fundamental change in the people who face that challenge.\nGeorge Mallory was one of the early explorers to attempt to climb Mount Everest, the penultimate \u201chighest mountain\u201d. When they asked him why, Mallory\u2019s reply became legendary: \u201cBecause its there\u201d. But that reason smacks of adolescence, it fails to describe any compelling value. George Mallory died on the slopes of Mount Everest. Tinzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first successful assault of the world\u2019s highest mountain. Later Hillary spoke about the experience: \u201cIt is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves\u201d.\nThe Universe neither knows nor cares if we boldly explore or silently fade from the scene.\nThe point is what the challenge does to us. There is nothing \u201cvirtual\u201d about being on the mountain peak, or on the lunar surface. The challenge changes us and that may very well be the most important thing of all.\nJFK spoke about the challenge of the lunar program as being a measure of us as a people; could we meet the challenge.\nToday, we are facing another space exploration initiative and the challenge is the same. Exploring the space frontier is extremely difficult, saturated with risk, immensely challenging. Our part is to fly the Space Shuttle safely soon. It is a formidable challenge. But everyone from the President down tells us that demonstrating that we can meet this challenge is the necessary cornerstone to all that may come afterward. Flying the shuttle safely and completing the International Space Station will demonstrate that we \u2013 our agency \u2013 our nation \u2013 has the competence to continue on and roll back the frontiers. Meeting this challenge will change us.\nSomebody recently wrote that this was a poor reason to explore space. There are many reasons to explore space. I\u2019ve written a number of posts providing various reasons, some intensely practical, some more philosophical. Go ahead and look back over the record here.\nBut challenging the best in ourselves to do something hard; that is not an inconsiderable reason either.\nAuthor whalePosted on June 1, 2009 Tags challenge, transformation7 Comments on Why does Rice Play Texas?\nNASA and Education\nAs the son of an elementary teacher and the father of a secondary school teacher, I have learned a few things about education. For example, if you were to ask any teacher at any level what is the most important tool to have to facilitate learning and they will give you the same answer. Sometimes the words are slightly different but it amounts to the same answer: the interest, inspiration, and enthusiasm of the students for the subject. With that, you can teach almost anything with minimal, even primitive equipment and facilities. Without interest, enthusiasm, and inspiration, all the high tech, modern, fancy equipment and facilities are virtually useless.\nThe exploration of space has a long history of inspiring students to study science, engineering, mathematics, and other technical subjects. The exploration of space has inspired poets, artists, and novelists. Almost the entire spectrum of human activity and interest has at one time or another been sparked by the exploration of space.\nI recently watched a middle school class on a field trip to a NASA display. They were totally entranced. Middle school is a hard age to capture. These kids were spellbound. They were ready to sign on: astronaut, flight director, chief scientist, whatever. Dinosaurs and space continue to capture the interest of our young people.\n\u201cThe Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers\u2013 just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians\u2013 by right of birth\u201d \u2013 Jules Verne, \u201cFrom the Earth to the Moon\u201d , 1865. That was the 19th century view. In the 21st century, engineering (like music and theology) has become a worldwide theme. America is not the only nation to provide engineers.\nEducation is one of the most important topics to Americans. As a nation we devote huge resources to educating our children, local school boards and state government last year spent over $800 billion on education. At the federal level, the Department of Education\u2019s budget last year was just over $57 billion. This represents substantially more money than the nation spent on national defense in all its aspects including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, national intelligence, and the department of homeland security.\nIn fact, the national average secondary schooling expenditure per child in the United States is third in the world, behind only Switzerland and Finland and well ahead of Germany, Japan, South Korea, and China.\nYet, by all objective measures, American students are significantly lagging in almost every area to their foreign counterparts. Math, Science, even language testing scores lag significantly behind other modern industrialized nations.\nEqually troubling is the decline in college graduates in engineering, mathematics, and science. Over the last decade there has been a steady decay of graduates in these fields so that compared with the previous decade, the United States has 100,000 fewer graduates in these fields. Compared with other countries we are doing even worse. When normalized to the population of the country, every industrialized modern nation graduates more science, engineering, and mathematics students than the United States. Our biggest economic competitors are graduating the most: China, Japan, India, South Korea. American innovation and creativity has long been the fire that stoked the engine of our economy. As we graduate fewer people who have the wherewithal to create new products and services, America can only expect economic decline.\nSo what are we to do about this as a nation? History can provide some relevance. During the 20th century, there were two significant periods of growth in the training of American engineers, mathematicians, and scientists. The first was World War II and its immediate aftermath. Certainly we would rather not expand our capability based on a war, and the circumstances of the GI bill may not be applicable. The other period of expansion was shortly after Sputnik and the decline started with the end of Apollo. Is there a lesson here?\nSeveral prominent writers have argued that the Space Race of the 1960\u2019s provided an alternative to war in the competition between nations. Certainly there were wars in the 1960\u2019s, most notably in Vietnam. However, the two super powers of the period were able to compete in the peaceful exploration of space in a way that provided a way to enhance national pride, demonstrate technical and social prowess to the other nations of the world, and in fact inspire young people to pursue careers in technical fields.\nClearly, today, simply throwing more money at education will not be a panacea. This is not to say that there are not areas where increased funding could improve some niches. But overall, we need a different strategy.\nTo reiterate: what is the one most important ingredient in teaching? Technology such as computers is important. Facilities are important. Good teacher preparation is important. But if you really want students to learn, they must be interested; more than that students must be excited, they must be inspired.\nNASA is not the Department of Education. Our charter does not include responsibility for national education. Nor does our budget provide very much in the way of teacher aids. NASA\u2019s charter requires us to \u201cinform the nation of our . . . .progress\u201d and a very small division of the public affairs office provides educational material which can be used for classes to explore topics that NASA is directly related to. In a more significant way, NASA each year spends a significant sum on research grants to universities which in turn provide support for graduate students and researchers. These grants are funded because there are specific products that NASA needs to carry out our missions. Research grants have the happy by-product of providing funds for graduate and undergraduate support. But all of NASA\u2019s education related spending \u2013 direct and indirect \u2013 is a drop in the bucket of national education spending.\nWhat NASA has provided in the past, NASA can provide again: inspiration.\nMany have complained that the International Space Station and Shuttle programs have not been inspirational. Personally, I would challenge that premise. But for a moment, lets accept it. What would be inspirational? How about the exploration of the solar system? First, outposts on the moon, then on to Mars, the asteroids, and other habitable places in the solar system. Initially by robotic explorers, then by human beings: men and women. How about that for an inspirational goal?\nEven in these \u201cun-inspirational\u201d days, many young people have been motivated to science and engineering fields by the prospect of becoming an astronaut, or of being a member of a robot exploration of the universe. Imagine how excited a generation will be if they have the immediate prospect of setting foot on the sandy plains of Mars?\nIt\u2019s not a war. Its peaceful. And it is sustainable. But the vision cannot be delayed, shelved for \u201ca better budget climate\u201d in the distant and hazy future.\nNASA may once again be the inspiration that America needs to shake off our lethargy, become the greatest nation in the world \u2013 maybe even the greatest nation in the world\u2019s history \u2013 by continuing to explore the last frontier. And since it will excite our children as nothing else can, NASA will transform education, and bring back the creative spark that powers our economic engine in ways that we cannot imagine.\nHaving a seemingly unattainable goal is the hallmark of what it means to be American. Our forefathers came here for opportunities that the old world lacked. Our descendants will look for opportunities that this entire world lacks \u2013 but which the universe can provide.\nAnd so, once again, American will transform itself and the world. The old beekeeper from New Zealand had it right. Ed Hillary lead the first expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest. He summed it up this way:\nAuthor whalePosted on April 13, 2009 Tags children, hope, inspiration, transformation17 Comments on NASA and Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 14648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://booklogforcharlotte.com/2018/01/bellevue-square-by-michael-redhill/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:GUWN5PEAEEXV6YLLPA6GULSSRWTHLAKQ", "length": 2666, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "booklogforcharlotte.com", "title": "Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill \u2013 Booklog for Charlotte", "raw_content": "The winner of this year's Giller Prize for Canadian literature was a big puzzle for me: near the end I realized I was not going to get all the pieces to fit together. It is the first in a trilogy, so perhaps all will become clear after two more books.\nIt begins with a woman who describes her bookshop in Toronto. All seemed pretty straight-forward, though I was alerted to her weirdness when she said she regularly changed her shelving of biographies (sometimes they are shelved by the subject's name, sometimes by the author's name). Whoa!\nOne of her regular customers was undone when he saw her in the bookshop as he thought he had seen her with different clothes and hair a few minutes earlier in another place in the city. He was especially distraught when he pulled her hair assuming it was a wig; his look is one of anger and fear. When another person alludes to her twin, she begins spending time in Bellevue Square hoping to spot her doppelg\u00e4nger. It turns out this concept is used in very different ways in mythology and literature, ranging from a ghostly double who performs a person's actions in advance, to Byron's use to think about the duality of nature, to Dostoyevsky's opposition figure who exploits the weakness of a person to gain control of their life (thanks to Wikipedia for this). Malevolence is certainly involved in Bellevue Square as there are two deaths early on.\nMeanwhile the journey itself tracked around a number of interesting issues, chiefly, mental health, a rare medical condition, what consciousness and selfhood mean. I liked Jean's time in the Square, getting to know various mentally unhealthy people. There was Miriam who collected money for warning people not to park in front of the recessed fire hydrant and used the money to buy milk to distribute to others. And Jimmy whose beard was so dense that a mouse could have lived in it. Jean, the narrator, respects her new friends and enjoys their company. She becomes obsessed with finding her doppelg\u00e4nger and spends more and more time in the park.\nThroughout the book you occasionally think you are finally getting an accurate picture, but an unreliable narrator, well, you just can't trust them. I checked to see if the book is in the public library and now I'm getting weirded out. When I looked up the author's name, there was a \"see also\" listing for Inger Wolfe, one of the names the doppelg\u00e4nger used. And the doppelg\u00e4nger was an author.\nMichael Redhill, Bellevue Square, Doubleday Canada, 2017, 272 pages (I listened to the audiobook). Only available from Amazon.\nPrevious Post: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward\nNext Post: Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 6121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Automatic_Society.html?id=g2GoDAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:VHSHJTKEM6RWKF5E5VEUE6QTDK22VFVR", "length": 1541, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "books.google.co.uk", "title": "Automatic Society: The Future of Work - Bernard Stiegler - Google Books", "raw_content": "Wiley, Jan 30, 2017 - Social Science - 352 pages\nIn July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called \u2018data economy\u2019, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring.\nIn this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more generally. He calls for a decoupling of the concept of \u2018labour\u2019 (meaningful, intellectual participation) from \u2018employment\u2019 (dehumanizing, banal work), with the ultimate aim of eradicating \u2018employment\u2019 altogether. By doing so, new and alternative economic models will arise, where individuals are no longer simply mined for labour, but also actively produce what they consume.\nBuilding substantially on his existing theories and engaging with a wide range of figures - from Deleuze and Foucault to Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan - Automatic Society will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, as well as anyone concerned with the central question of the future of work.\nBernard Stiegler is the Director of Cultural Development at Centre Pompidou, Paris.\nTitle Automatic Society: The Future of Work\nAuthor Bernard Stiegler\nTranslated by Daniel Ross", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-1-324-00218-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:K6BFJ3OH2FIRMIJS7HEULPC37OQY2TWZ", "length": 3611, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "books.wwnorton.com", "title": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street | W. W. Norton & Company", "raw_content": "Burton G. Malkiel (Author, Princeton University)\nWith the prevailing wisdom changing on an almost daily basis, Burton G. Malkiel\u2019s reassuring and vastly informative volume remains the best investment guide money can buy.\nIn a time of increasing inequality, when high-frequency traders and hedge-fund managers seem to tower over the average investor, Burton G. Malkiel\u2019s classic and gimmick-free investment guide is now more necessary than ever. Rather than tricks, what you\u2019ll find here is a time-tested and thoroughly research-based strategy for your portfolio. Whether you\u2019re considering your first 401k contribution or contemplating retirement, this fully-updated edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street should be the first book on your reading list.\nIn A Random Walk Down Wall Street you\u2019ll learn the basic terminology of \"the Street\" and how to navigate it with the help of a user-friendly, long-range investment strategy that really works. Drawing on his own varied experience as an economist, financial adviser, and successful investor, Malkiel shows why an individual who buys over time and holds a low-cost, internationally diversified index of securities is still likely to exceed the performance of portfolios carefully picked by professionals using sophisticated analytical techniques. In this new edition, Malkiel provides a brand-new section on the recent bubble in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, as well as valuable new material on \u201ctax-loss harvesting\u201d\u2014the crown jewel of tax management. He also presents a critical analysis of two recently popular investment-management techniques: factor investing and risk parity.\nOn top of all this, the book\u2019s classic lifecycle guide to investing, which tailors strategies to investors of any age, will help you plan confidently for the future. You\u2019ll learn how to analyze the potential returns, not only for basic stocks and bonds but for the full range of investment opportunities\u2014from money market accounts and real estate investment trusts to insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets like gold and collectibles. Individual investors of every level of experience and risk tolerance will find throughout the book the critical facts and step-by-step guidance they need to protect and grow their hard-earned dollars.\n\u201cDo you want to do well in the stock market? Here\u2019s the best advice. Scrape together a few bucks and buy Burton Malkiel\u2019s book. Then take what\u2019s left and put it in an index fund.\u201d \u2014 Los Angeles Times\n\u201cImagine getting a week-long lesson on investing from someone with the common sense of Benjamin Franklin, the academic and institutional knowledge of Milton Friedman and the practical experience of Warren Buffett. That\u2019s about what awaits you in the latest edition of this must-read by Burton Malkiel.\u201d \u2014 Barron's\n\u201cNot more than half a dozen really good books about investing have been written in the past fifty years. This one may well belong in the classics category.\u201d \u2014 Forbes\n\u201cIf one of your New Year\u2019s resolutions is to improve your personal finances, here\u2019s a suggestion: Instead of picking up one of the scores of new works flooding into bookstores, reread an old one: A Random Walk Down Wall Street.\u201d \u2014 New York Times\n\u201cAn engagingly written and wonderfully argued tome.\u201d \u2014 Money\n\u201cA useful introduction to investing with lots of common-sense advice.\u201d \u2014 Wall Street Journal\nAlso by Burton G. Malkiel\nFrom Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy\nEleventh Edition / Paperback\nThe Random Walk Guide to Investing: Ten Rules for Financial Success\nBusiness > Personal Finance & Investing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://booktrib.com/2014/09/after-70-years-gene-luen-yang-reveals-the-origin-of-the-first-asian-american-superhero/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WUWNRL7H7EIZYHAI6H7SKQUEST5CREOK", "length": 4722, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "booktrib.com", "title": "After 70 years, Gene Luen Yang reveals the origin of the first Asian-American superhero - BookTrib", "raw_content": "From out of the past comes a singular hero both old and new\u2014and the story of how he returned to the printed page may be as fascinating as any four-color adventure upon which he\u2019s ever embarked.\nThe costumed crusader in question is the Green Turtle, star of The Shadow Hero, a graphic novel by writer Gene Luen Yang and artist Sonny Liew. The graphic novel is new, but it marks the return of the Green Turtle, who was last seen (albeit briefly) in Blazing Comics in 1944. The Turtle appeared in five issues, was cancelled by his publisher, and then vanished into oblivion.\nNearly 70 years later, Yang ran across those five issues of Blazing Comics online. Yang was drawn to the Green Turtle, a masked, caped man of mystery who defended China against invading Japanese forces. But Yang was perhaps even more fascinated by the story behind the character\u2019s publication.\nThe Green Turtle was created, written and drawn by a comic book artist named Chu Hing. According to legend, Chu Hing wanted the character to be Chinese. His publishers, however, balked at the idea, believing a Chinese character would never sell. They decreed that the artist make the character Caucasian. In protest, Chu Hing saw to it that the Green Turtle\u2019s face was never clearly seen in any comic panel\u2014the hero always had his back to the reader, or his face was always obscured by an object. His origin was kept deliberately ambiguous. To this day, researchers suspect all this was done as Chu Hing\u2019s subtle form of protest against his publishers\u2019 orders.\nYang points out that Asian comic-book characters of the period were usually racially insensitive ethnic caricatures. One early example was Ching Lung, a so-called \u201cYellow Peril\u201d villain, who appeared on the cover of Detective Comics Number One\u2014the series after which DC Comics eventually named their entire company.\n\u201cOn the heroic side,\u201d said Yang, \u201cthe only one who was actually able to move issues was a guy named Chop-Chop, who was part of the Blackhawks, a team of superhero pilots. He\u2019s a hero, he fights for the Allies, but he\u2019s straight-up comic relief. He wears this yellow and green and red suit that\u2019s sort of a caricature of traditional Chinese dress. He\u2019s much shorter, he has giant buck teeth, and he has slanted eyes. Even in his dialogue, they switch he L\u2019s and the R\u2019s.\u201d\nGiven this atmosphere, \u201cI don\u2019t know how popular the Green Turtle might have been\u201d had he been Asian, Yang said. \u201cThe publishers are there to make money. I don\u2019t feel like I can condemn them (for their ruling regarding the original Green Turtle).\n\u201cBut if Chu Hing\u2019s rumored motivations were true,\u201d Yang said, \u201cI feel like his reaction to the situation is pretty amazing.\u201d\nYears later, a continuing lack of Asian heroes was not lost on Yang as a youth. \u201cI remember when my brother and I were kids, we would see an Asian on television, and we would call our parents into the living room to see it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think, whether I was conscious of it or not, I was always looking for some kind of positive role model. I always wanted a straight-up Asian-American hero.\u201d\nWhen an adult Yang finally found the Green Turtle (whose publishing rights by that time had passed into the public domain), he was in a position to make Chu Hing\u2019s wishes a reality. Yang wrote the story of the Green Turtle\u2019s origin, and The Shadow Hero graphic novel was born.\nIn The Shadow Hero, Yang tells the story of a young man, the son of Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century. The boy, Hank, is befriended by an ancient Tortoise Spirit who, after the murder of the boy\u2019s father, grants Hank one wish: that the boy will never be shot. Eventually, Hank dons a cape and mask and, as the Green Turtle, battles the local Chinese criminal underworld, whom he must defeat for the good of his city.\n\u201cI really hope that anyone can connect with that story,\u201d Yang said. \u201cI hope that The Shadow Hero can be a metaphor about how somebody becomes an American, how they come in from another culture and place themselves in America. All of us are immigrants on some level and I would hope that people would be able to connect with the story in that way.\u201d\nNow that the Green Turtle has been ushered from the past and into the present, is there a future for the character? \u201cI\u2019d love to do at least two more volumes of it,\u201d Yang said, creating the possibility that the world won\u2019t have to wait another 70 years to follow the adventures of a hero whose unique legend continues to survive.\nTags: Asian-AmericansComicsGolden Age of Comicssuperheroes\nPrevious Story Previous post: Solving the mystery of Tana French; one of fall\u2019s most eagerly awaited novels\nNext Story Next post: Back-to-school looks inspired by classic characters from literature", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bridgewayhospice.net/dr_-rossiter", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:R5KLWBRB4XHPIXX2D4QNI4QPI57CPWS4", "length": 269, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bridgewayhospice.net", "title": "Dr. Rossiter", "raw_content": "Chad Rossitter M.D.\nDr. Chad Rossitter graduated from the Internal Medicine,\nThe University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine (USESOM) is located in Goldenrock, Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles.\nDr. Rossitter works in Opelousas, LA and specializes in Nephrology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bucketskinnersepicadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Patterson", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5EZ44PTBHX6YL5NM6Y24S6KPFYAWNM6L", "length": 233, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bucketskinnersepicadventures.fandom.com", "title": "Robert Patterson | Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "\"Robert Patterson\" is a guy that appeared in Epic Wingman. His real name is unknown. He was supposed to pretend to be Robert Pattinson.\nRetrieved from \"https://bucketskinnersepicadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Patterson?oldid=4408\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bulinews.com/news/1030/bild-bayern-have-had-no-contact-with-zidane", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OD6MRT7HSNMBJ652KHTQCJBITCM2TLUS", "length": 900, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bulinews.com", "title": "Bild: Bayern have had no contact with Zidane", "raw_content": "Bild: Bayern have had no contact with Zidane\nIt has been rumored that Bayern M\u00fcnchen have contacted Zinedine Zidane, but that's not true according to Bild.\nZinedine Zidane. XII Prix Di\u00e1logo/power axle/cc-by-2.0\nRecently, Express.de reported that Bayern M\u00fcnchen have made contact with former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane who is said to be seen as a possible replacement for Niko Kovac.\nHowever, according to Bild, Bayern have had no recent contact with the former French international.\n\"The rumor is false according to our information. Bayern have not made contact with Zinedine Zidane,\" Bild journalist Christian Falk states.\nRecently, Zidane's agent, Alain Migliaccio, made it clear that his client is currently not interested in taking a new job.\n\"He has decided to take a year off. He will not take a new job until then,\" Migliaccio told the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://business.pitt.edu/scm/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7KCO3CBXMFOWVMQTMJAX3VEQP75BKZHE", "length": 3372, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "business.pitt.edu", "title": "About Us | Pitt Business | University of Pittsburgh", "raw_content": "Established in 2014, the Pitt Business Center for Supply Chain Management is dedicated to the study of critical issues in global supply chain management. Financial support from the Pittsburgh-based logistics provider GENCO (now FedEx Supply Chain) and Herb Shear, the company's former CEO and executive chairman, made the creation of the center possible.\nI have an entrepreneurial vision for the Center for Supply Chain Management. I see it being industry-centric. I see it as a place where students and faculty can engage with industry and where industry can engage with the University.\n-- Herb Shear, Former Executive Chairman and CEO, GENCO\nThe center provides student and faculty interactions with industry representatives, oversees student experience-based learning activities in supply chain management courses, and generates intellectual leadership in supply chain management.\nThe mission of the center is to promote the pursuit of excellence in supply chain management research, education, and outreach in close collaboration with corporate sponsors, related professional organizations, other centers at Pitt Business, and other schools at the University of Pittsburgh.\nDesigned as an interdisciplinary unit, the center brings together faculty in business and engineering, covering such functional areas as operations, information technology, strategy, accounting, and customer insights and analytics. The interdisciplinary structure follows the synergistic role that diverse fields play in modern supply chains.\nIn order to support the activities of the center, the school will create a Supply Chain Management Industry Council composed of member companies with strong interests in supply chain management and a genuine concern for the future enhancement of the field.\nMembers provide crucial advice into programmatic initiatives of the center to help develop talent in the supply chain management profession. Members have enhanced opportunities to engage with supply chain management undergraduate and graduate students in experience-based learning projects, internships, employment options, and cooperative education programs. Furthermore, members can host faculty members for lectures at their company and they have the first option to review supply chain management research facilitated by the center.\nFind out how you or your organization can support the center \u00bb\nThe center leverages strengths in supply chain management at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and undergraduate College of Business Administration.\nThe center helps to develop the next generation of talent in supply chain management by offering students practical, hands-on experiences in issues such as logistics, sourcing and procurement, quality control, process improvement, project management, managing supplier relationships, information technology, sustainability, and risk management. Of particular interest to the center are the dramatic changes in supply chain management that are creating new paradigms, new partnerships, and new structures.\nView our complete list of academic program offerings \u00bb\nThe Center is grateful for the support of its sponsors and would like to recognize foundational sponsors GENCO and it former chairman, Herb Shear, whose support led to the establishment of the Center.\nCorporate and Faculty Boards\nCorporate Advisory Board \u00bb\nFaculty Board \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 190.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessfinder.nola.com/LA-Creston/Synagogues", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VQZ6VI6J3IJ3TC5JJZ2TDIQBJK5CTRT6", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "businessfinder.nola.com", "title": "New Orleans Business Directory | Local Listings & Businesses", "raw_content": "Sorry, there were no results for \"Synagogues\" in \"Creston, LA\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 4296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessopportunity.com/realizing-your-dream-competition-provides-vetrepreneurs-with-limitless-business-opportunities/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HD7ZLN4TIP5JCVCKJ5YENHLMAF6OBULL", "length": 2191, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "businessopportunity.com", "title": "\"Realizing Your Dream\" Competition Provides Vetrepreneurs with Limitless Business Opportunities - businessopportunity.com", "raw_content": "\u201cRealizing Your Dream\u201d Competition Provides Vetrepreneurs with Limitless Business Opportunities\nDid you know that while veterans make up just 6% of the U.S. population, they constitute a full 15% or more of the total number of U.S. business owners combined? Furthermore, veterans are twice as likely to pursue business opportunities and other small business options to be business owners as are non-veterans. And even more encouragingly, the five-year success rate among so-called \u201cvetrepreneurs\u201d is significantly higher than the national average.\nIn recognition of the fact that supporting veterans in their quest to become business owners is not only the right thing to do but that it actually serves to grow the nation\u2019s economy, the Citi Salutes: Realizing Your Dream Program works closely with leading nonprofits and public agencies. It\u2019s main goal? To offer aspiring and existing vetrepreneurs the tools, resources and strong networks of support they and their families need most to be successful.\nCurrently underway is Citi Salutes\u2019 first ever Realizing Your Dream Business Competition for veterans and their families who either have a great idea for a new business or who have a vision to take their current business to the next level. At stake? The possibility of winning $25,000 to launch or grow your venture!\nAll it takes to be considered for this round is to submit a business plan by November 8, 2013. Potential applicants who would like a sounding board for their ideas or who need assistance in preparing their applications for maximum effectiveness are encouraged to contact either Operation Boots to Business, or for women veterans specifically, V-WISE (Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship).\nFinalists will present their business plans before an expert panel in January 2014, and a dozen winners will take home combined prizes in the amount of $130,000 funded by Citi Foundation. Additionally, participants will be supported through classes, webinars, live Google hangouts and one-on-one sessions designed to help them achieve their business ownership goals.\nTo learn more about the Citi Salutes: Realizing Your Dream Business Competition, click here now!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/people/bob-farrell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:V4CDUUJSYHX5MDTKT525TUPIQ32AN6ES", "length": 332, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu", "title": "Bob Farrell - Wharton Business Radio", "raw_content": "Bob has 30+ years of experience and a proven track record of building high-growth software and technology-driven companies. Prior to GlobalTranz, Bob served as president and CEO of Kewill, a global leader in multimodal transportation management software. Prior to Kewill, Bob served as president and CEO of EDGAR Online, a\u2026Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/people/paul-downs/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2KSCC4QFWAP5D2NFTYNR6J2VLMRDXFDA", "length": 1624, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu", "title": "Paul Downs - Wharton Business Radio", "raw_content": "Mind Your Business, with the Wharton SBDC: December 8, 2016\nHost Loren Feldman is joined by Barbara Corcoran (Co-Founder; TV Personality on ABC\u2019s \u201cShark Tank\u201d, Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners) and Paul Downs (President/Owner, Paul Downs Cabinetmakers Inc.) on the Thursday, December 8, 2016 edition of Mind Your Business, with the Wharton SBDC.Read More\nHost Dan Loney is joined by Nancy Heimann (President, CEO, Enginuity Worldwide), Robert Heimann (Co-Founder, Enginuity Worldwide), Jamie Davis (Head of Human Resources, Hartford Funds), Anne Verrill (Owner, Grace Restaurant; Foreside Tavern), Paul Downs (President/Owner, Paul Downs Cabinetmakers Inc.), Amy Sepinwall (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics), Americus Reed (Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School), and Katlyn Grasso (CEO & Founder, GenHERation) on the Tuesday, August 9, 2016 edition of Knowledge@Wharton.Read More\nThe Digital Show: January 25, 2016\nHost xLoren xFeldman is joined by Gabriel Weinberg (Founder and CEO, DuckDuckGo), Paul Downs (President/Owner, Paul Downs Cabinetmakers Inc.), Jeff Davidoff (Chief Marketing Officer, Donuts, Inc.), and Gene Marks (Columnist, Author, and Owner of The Marks Group PC) on the Monday, January 25, 2016 edition of The Digital Show.Read More\nPaul Downs started making custom furniture in 1986, after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in engineering. Mr. Downs has only one line on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but he has a wide variety of skills gained in 32 years of running his business. His clients range from individuals\u2026Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://byjohnroach.com/writings/space/is-arctic-ice-thinning.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:38Z", "digest": "sha1:PKFTPOW2CCQCGQHHZUZKFM3V3DNGVJGT", "length": 690, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "byjohnroach.com", "title": "Is Arctic ice thinning? | Collected Writings By John Roach", "raw_content": "Is Arctic ice thinning?\nScientists have long used satellite imagery to illustrate the shrinking extent of the Arctic sea ice. Now they\u2019ve got satellite data that will provide regular updates on whether the ice is getting thinner as well.\nThe first ice thickness map from the European Space Agency\u2019s CryoSat spacecraft was released Tuesday at an air show in Paris. It was compiled with data collected in January and February.\nThe map shows, for example, the ice is thickest near the North Pole and off the coasts of Greenland and northeastern Canada. It thins as it stretches out towards Alaska and Russia.\nTags: Arctic, Greenland, Ice, Melt, Satellite, Water\nPosted in Climate Change, Space", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://byjus.com/free-ias-prep/this-day-in-history-july30", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UKVO27BHKRBWGELUNSS64UF4YSO6MJND", "length": 2906, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "byjus.com", "title": "This day in history, July 30th, 1957, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India", "raw_content": "This Day in History \u2013 July 30\nExport Credit Guarantee Corporation of India was founded\nECGC Limited, previously known as Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India was founded on the 30th of July, 1957.\nVarious government organisations and companies involved in important functions are essential for the UPSC exam. In this article, you can read about ECGC Ltd. for the IAS exam.\nECGC Limited, formerly known as Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India was founded on the 30th of July, 1957.\nIt is one of the oldest initiatives of the Government of India.\nThe idea was initiated under the expertise of Mr. T.S Kapur, the finance minister of India in the cabinet of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.\nThe first policy was issued on 14th October, 1957.\nThe initial name was changed to Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. in the year 1983. It was in the year 2014 in August, that it was renamed as ECGC Ltd.\nApart from setting a base in providing credit Insurance support to Indian exporters, this company has also ventured into various other financial services. It started with the aim of covering the risk of exporting on credit to strengthen export promotion. Today, it stands as the seventh largest company in the world in terms of the export credit insurance market.\nImportant from UPSC\nExport Credit Guarantee Corporation UPSC\nECGC Ltd. was established in 1957 with the aim of advancing exports from India by giving credit risk insurance and related services for exports. Over the years, it has designed different export credit risk insurance products to cater to the needs of Indian exporters. ECGC is basically an export promotion company, seeking to improve the competitiveness of exports from India by providing them with credit insurance covers.\nThe Corporation has introduced various export credit insurance schemes to meet the requirements of commercial banks offering export credit. The insurance covers enable the banks to extend timely and adequate export credit facilities to the exporters. ECGC keeps its premium rates at a reasonable level.\nECGC provides (i) a range of insurance covers to Indian exporters against the risk of non \u2013 realization of export proceeds due to commercial or political risks (ii) different types of credit insurance covers to banks and other financial institutions to enable them to extend credit facilities to exporters and (iii) Export Factoring facility for MSME sector which is a package of financial products consisting of working capital financing, credit risk protection, maintenance of sales ledger and collection of export receivables from the buyer located in overseas country.\nGist of Yojana January 2018 Issue: Banking Reforms\nExports From States: Bihar Up To 17th But Top Of List In Rate Of Growth\nThis Day in History, UPSC Preparation\nUPSC 2017: Comprehensive News Analysis \u2013 July 30\nNCERT Notes: Tribal Uprisings in the 18th and 19th Centuries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 746, "original_length": 17256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calacanis.com/2010/04/07/video-meet-jaylin-fleming-the-new-10-year-old-lebron-james-httpbit-lycji1lg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:TZUNRVHDVXMBY7WL2SE7NGCJF45U24HS", "length": 2435, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "calacanis.com", "title": "VIDEO: Meet Jaylin Fleming, the new 10-year old LeBron James http://bit.ly/cJi1Lg - Jason Calacanis", "raw_content": "VIDEO: Meet Jaylin Fleming, the new 10-year old LeBron James http://bit.ly/cJi1Lg\nhttp://www.mahalo.com/jaylin-fleming\nJaylin Fleming is a 10-year-old basketball prodigy hailing from Chicago, Illinois. He currently is a fifth-grader playing for Beasley Academic Center in Chicago, but has already drawn significant interest and rave accolades from the likes of the New York Knicks and the hometown Chicago Bulls, including starting point guard and reigning 2009 Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose. Most notably, he was invited to work out and practice with both the Knicks and the Bulls.1\nCoached by his father John Fleming, as well as school team coaches, Fleming is a down-to-earth athlete who places a great deal of emphasis on off-court activities, namely school, video games, and Bible studies. A devoutly religious family, the Flemings strive to make sure that Jaylin is a humble and composed adolescent who will grow and develop in character throughout high school and collegiate play.2\nWhether or not he will become a future NBA star remains to be seen, since it is difficult to judge the basketball potentials of a player his age. However, Fleming's potential is undeniable, as well as his work ethic and perseverance. Jaylin himself states that \"I never feel pressure to play\u2026I want to play basketball. I just stay humble and keep working hard.\" Regarding his burgeoning basketball career, he states only that \"I'm a humble kid who's trying to achieve a goal.\"3\nFleming has garnered positive reviews from many coaches outside his own school. \"You can tell by his passion for the game, how much he loves the game of basketball,\" says Morgan Park coach Nick Irving. \"You can see that he has the desire for it. Jaylin has a look in his eyes that he won't be denied.\"4\n\"I've never actually seen a kid like this,\" says Knicks head athletic trainer Roger Hinds. \"As far as his age, he's the best that I've seen,\" says Refiloe Lethunya, a former Division I player, coach and NBA scout.5\nPerhaps the most significant accolade comes from Derrick Rose, himself a relatively young basketball star with the hometown Bulls. \"He's better than me \u2014 that's what's crazy about it,\" Rose says. \"His talent is one of a kind. Kids his age rarely do the stuff he does\u2026.He does moves that a grown-up does.\"6\nPrevious Post The Daily London: I'm so happy daddy!\nNext Post Very odd Tiger Woods Nike Ad with his father talking to him http://bit.ly/93tA6Z", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calarts.edu/life-at-calarts/campus-life/parking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KIPYQ6SEDEZO436RJ3M3YSWG5GHCQKZF", "length": 2479, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "calarts.edu", "title": "Parking | CalArts", "raw_content": "On-campus parking is available to all students, staff and faculty with parking lots located adjacent to Chouinard Hall and the main building. Street parking is available as well throughout the campus. Guest parking is available for visitors in Lot #1. Students, staff and faculty can obtain a CIA Vehicle Sticker for their vehicle. This sticker is to be displayed in the vehicle\u2019s front-left window. No fee is required.\nThe speed on campus is 10 mph. It is the responsibility of each person to abide by all traffic laws as set forth in the California Vehicle Code, as well as regulations established for this campus. Those charged with speeding or reckless driving will be fined $50. All fines are due and payable upon receiving notice of violation and are issued by Campus Safety.\nParking violations include:\nparking in a red zone;\nparking in a handicapped or reserved space;\nparking longer than 20 minutes in a temporary parking (green) zone, or visitor\u2019s space;\nparking in a hazardous manner; and\nparking in spaces reserved for the President, President\u2019s guests or the nurse.\nThese rules are enforced on a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis. A parking violation notice will be placed under the windshield wiper and a $25 fine will be levied.\nAhmanson Hall Road is a fire road and may be used only for loading/unloading for a maximum of 20 minutes. All vehicles, including those of residents, must be removed and parked in other designated parking areas. A $50 fine is assessed for any violation. Parking in the Library Loading Dock Area, E-Ramp and the C-Annex Red Zone will result in a $100 fine.\nAny vehicle left on campus which does not have a current vehicle registration (with the Department of Motor Vehicles) or which is not in a drivable condition will be considered an \u201cabandoned vehicle.\u201d The vehicle is subject to removal by the Institute 10 days after issuing notice to the owner. If the vehicle is not registered with CalArts, then no notice can be given and the notice period is waived.\nVehicle and Parking Registration\nAll student, faculty and staff vehicles must be registered with Campus Safety. There is no fee for registering your vehicle, but you will receive a decal that allows access to the CalArts campus.\nTo register your car, please fill out and submit the online form. You will be notified via email when your CalArts' car decal is ready for pickup at the Campus Safety Office E100 after 3:30 p.m.\nHome \u2022 Life at CalArts \u2022 Campus Life \u2022 Parking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://campaign.mxschool.edu/letter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IP7NLDHKKAZ5XH5LQ3F43TFOGX2XL5DO", "length": 2314, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "campaign.mxschool.edu", "title": "Letter from Kathleen Giles \u2014 MX2 Campaign", "raw_content": "Find the Promise\nWhile the Campaign of a Century found its heart in the phrase, \u201cfind the promise,\u201d taken from Mr. Winsor\u2019s speech dedicating Bryant-Paine House in 1901, our current effort takes its inspiration from our school hymn. Although there are two musical versions of \u201cRank By Rank,\u201d the words throughout and particularly the final lines are the same: \u201cWhat they dreamed be ours to do, / Hope their hopes and seal them true.\u201d Whether Mr. Winsor and the original masters ever dreamed of a world in which students would carry in their hands not only their telephones but the equivalent of encyclopedias, dictionaries, archives, museums \u2014 and on and on, of course \u2014 they did indeed dream of a school that after its first hundred years would still do its humble, glorious work of inspiring students from around the country and the world to learn and grow into their best selves, to become the people they hope to become, to build important relationships and use the unique opportunities the school community offers to become the people the world needs them to be: ethical individuals who use the benefits of an extraordinary education to become productive citizens of the world.\nThat dream of a school in which each graduate\u2019s plaque bears witness to this mission has been nurtured by each subsequent generation of students, masters, and trustees; that dream has also been embraced by legions of friends and supporters \u2014 parents, grandparents, educators, friends, and foundations \u2014 whose tangible and intangible assistance has helped the School continue to thrive. Our campaign goals embrace elements central to the School\u2019s strength: a dynamic, compelling faculty; a diverse, engaging, powerful student body; projects that maintain the beauty and enhance the infrastructure of our lovely campus home; and endowment that provides the financial lifeblood for both current and future generations. With our current board of trustees\u2019 Strategic Plan priorities adding both practical and transformational goals to this work, the dream is very much alive. It is exciting to draw family and friends together to shape Middlesex\u2019s future \u2014 and it is indeed our turn to guide the School through its next steps toward becoming a school of which Mr. Winsor and friends could only dream.\nKathleen Carroll Giles P\u201906 \u201909 \u201911", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canadabayheritage.asn.au/category/guest-speaker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUW63LNFWASGEIZWNZ6NNAVASFK7SVUP", "length": 170, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "canadabayheritage.asn.au", "title": "Guest Speaker \u2013 City of Canada Bay Heritage Society", "raw_content": "The Kurrajongs\nIn January 1916 a group of 114 men left the New South Wales country town of Inverell to fight in World War I. The group was named \u201cThe Kurrajongs\u201d, taking\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 67.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canadasmagic.blogspot.com/search/label/Henry%20Muller", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:TRYZW46PJT3BKTF6L4O3PHAIAXAJNUSJ", "length": 2280, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "canadasmagic.blogspot.com", "title": "Canada's Magic: Henry Muller", "raw_content": "Showing posts with label Henry Muller. Show all posts\nIn Memory of Henry Muller\nRecently we were notified by Dennis Schick, the editor of the Broken Wand in the International Brotherhood of Magician's magazine, The Linking Ring, of the passing of Henry Muller. Dennis is graciously allowing me to pass this on to you.\nHenry Muller\nMULLER, Henry - Born July 12, 1930 in Hlohovec, Czechoslovakia, died at 1:45 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Bella (Zucker) Muller, by his four children, Jerry (Sharon), Alice (Ben Zion), David (Joyce) and Michael (Adrienne), by his grandchildren, Elisha (Laura), Sara (Alan), Joseph (Keren), Tali (Jesse), Liat, Matan, Jacob (Aviva), Rachel, Rebecca, Isaac and Abraham, and by his great-grandchildren Nadia, Julia, Maya, Hannah, Daniel, Benjamin and Lily. Mr. Muller was the founder of Muller's Meats, Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Cavalier Motel and the Niagara Industrial Mall, a respected businessman and entrepreneur and a lover of Niagara Falls, Canada. Funeral Thursday, March 2 at 1:00 pm at the Adas Israel Synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario followed by interment at Lundy's Lane Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario\nHenry Muller, cofounder of the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, a public museum and tourist attraction operated in Niagara Falls, Canada, from 1968 to 1995, died on Feb. 28 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was 86 years old.\nMuller, with Dr. Harold A. Stein, opened the Hall of Fame in May 1968 at 5019 Centre Street. The attraction housed many significant items from Houdini\u2019s personal collection, including some of his childhood props, posters, a multitude of handcuffs and leg irons, a wooden packing crate he used for underwater escapes, and the famed Water Torture Cell.\nFour years after opening, the Hall of Fame moved a half block southeast to 4983 Clifton Hill, into the old Victoria Park Railway Station, where it remained until it burned down 23 years later, on April 30, 1995. While some of the collection, including the Water Torture Cell, was destroyed in the fire, a lot of the paraphernalia survived and exists in many private collections.\nHeartfelt condolences to Henry\u2019s wife, Bella, and the rest of the family.\nLabels: ~IBM, Dennis Schick, Henry Muller", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 31532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cannabisplex.com/free-marijuana-for-life-from-the-federal-government/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HFYIN3CDHKLRWRTC5HT5KRG7QVRU2GBZ", "length": 153, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cannabisplex.com", "title": "Free marijuana for life \u2014 from the federal government \u2013 Cannabisplex.com", "raw_content": "You know the federal government bans marijuana, and that a medical marijuana referendum in Florida failed last year. But you may not know that the U.S. \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cardiac-alliance.org/2015/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IKGQSFHUAKQVCHAUJ3MR67B5VBH3W626", "length": 247, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cardiac-alliance.org", "title": "February 2015 - Novick Cardiac Alliance", "raw_content": "Dr. Novick and the team are in Libya this week for a first-ever cardiac training mission in the city of Tobruk! Click play above to watch, and check out our Facebook page to see more updates from around the world, or click here to make a donation!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.jdirving.com/location/georgia-opportunities-at-jd-irving-limited-298", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CS25DVBEF4TDD42UAM7ZDV2Z4UTLKODG", "length": 336, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "careers.jdirving.com", "title": "Georgia Opportunities at J.D. Irving, Limited", "raw_content": "Georgia Opportunities at J.D. Irving, Limited\nCOST ACCOUNTANTMACON, GA At Irving Tissue, we recognize that the key to our success is our people. We are a family-owned and operated company...\nSITE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERMacon, GA At Irving Tissue, we recognize that the key to our success is our people. We are a family-owned and operated...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 5115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casanovastyle.com/2019/01/22/sure-body-language-signs-she-likes-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5EBA6YUIZVRBRVJVA67BDBFQ7CEPHQPC", "length": 11494, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "casanovastyle.com", "title": "Sure Body Language Signs She Likes You | Casanova Style", "raw_content": "HomeDatingSure Body Language Signs She Likes You\nWhen a girl flirts with you, you consider that as the call on approach. However, sometimes, a spicy smile and sparkling eyes are more about common courtesy than sympathy for you. The same happens when sales consultants want to sell you a jacket or a smartphone.\nIn fact, behind this seemingly trivial difference are the broken hearts of millions of people who have taken people\u2019s friendliness for flirting. For example, a woman smiles at you and makes eyes, and you, being a genuine alpha male, ask her out on a date. What do you get? \u201cSorry, I cannot. And, by the way, I\u2019m married.\u201d\nHardly trying to censor your internal indignation, you don\u2019t understand how this could happen. The very thing is that men and women estimate the friendliness of the opposite sex differently. A woman may perceive male friendliness as increased interest in her personality, and a man, being obsessed with his own vanity, can be mistaken for flirting everything that goes beyond the female, \u201cHi, how are you doing?\u201d. Of course, that\u2019s a bit of an exaggeration, but a prerequisite to every second pick-up line is someone\u2019s ordinary courtesy. If you want to find out about their true motives, you should learn about body language signs of attraction.\nBody Language Signs of Attraction: What Are They?\nWhat can body language tell you? Having learned to decipher the secret flirty body language signs that a person sends you in addition to words, you can both help improve communication and understand the needs, desires, and feelings of other people. Body language can have different manifestations, and often, it can be unwittingly. Understanding of the various components of non-verbal language will help be more aware of the reactions you evoke. Facial expressions, eye contact, body movements and gestures along with speech and tone of voice can transmit a huge number of signals. Therefore, understanding of how you use them to your benefit will help have more effective communication in general.\nWhen you laugh brightly, you show that you are completely relaxed, and the level of stress is very low.\nWhen you keep your eyes wide open, it tells about your interest and a positive perception of the person. Besides, ladies become extremely attractive, showing this one of the flirting body language signs because they arouse a desire to protect them and cherish.\nWhen people lean forward slightly, communicating on a date, they demonstrate their genuine interest. If one of the partners nods and smiles at you while listening to you, then they are interested in what you are talking about.\nA gentle touch of the hand can create additional closeness between you.\nBoth girls and guys like a deeper tone of voice while communicating with the representatives of the opposite sex. This is not about a gin and fog voice. When it gets some depth, and you pronounce everything quite slowly, it can seem more seductive.\nSigns She Likes You: Body Language\nIn addition to verbal communication, girls actively use non-verbal signals. Female body language signs always indicate their attitude to a life situation or an interocular. Therefore, pay attention to the following body language signs she likes you if you want to go to the next level.\nShe Makes Long-Lasting Eye Contact\nEye contact is a girl\u2019s offer to approach her. In this case, its duration plays a big role. Of course, you do not need to use a stopwatch. In fact, you will understand when she accidentally looks at you, and when she tries to lock in her interest, having eyed you keenly. It is not necessary to be Sigmund Freud to understand when she looks at you precisely as a man, and not as a casual passer-by.\nShe Doesn\u2019t Touch Her Smartphone\nShe tries to maintain eye contact during the whole meeting. As it has already been mentioned, this testifies to her genuine interest in the process of communication. You understand that such an effect is completely lost if you grab your phone all the time. If she doesn\u2019t touch her phone every 10 minutes, and she is completely immersed in the \u201csetup\u201d of the emotional connection between you, then it is one of the signs she likes you.\nShe Doesn\u2019t Keep Her Arms and Legs Crossed\nBy crossing their arms and legs, people unconsciously inform about some negative attitude, using their own body as a defense mechanism. This posture instantly blocks any attempt to establish contact. However, if she doesn\u2019t cross her arms and legs, then she feels relaxed, demonstrating her openness towards you.\nShe Uses Appropriate Touches\nTouching your hand lightly, she tells about her silent support. When a girl uses body language, telling something touching or comforting, she gives meaning and value in her words. Touching the shoulder or elbow speaks about her understanding and empathy. Besides, if your girlfriend is one of the kinesthetic learners, then a touch is her own way to get to know you better.\nShe Nods and Smiles, Listening to You\nIf the girl smiles and slightly nods, listening to your stories, she subconsciously demonstrates her attention and interest in your words. This can be called effective non-verbal feedback. And if she does that, making long-lasting eye contact, it can be about one of the body language signs of falling in love.\nShe Reflects Your Pose\nIf you see that a girl subconsciously repeats your body position, then it means that she feels a connection with you. When copying a pose, you tune in to your interlocutor, sharing their mood. So, if you notice something like that, you can be sure that a girl wants to be with you on the same page.\nShe Actively Shows the Most Common Non-Verbal Signs\nPsychologists call non-verbal cues another reliable way to recognize female flirting. If she purses her lips when you look at her, plays with her hair or tries to fix them for no reason, and in general, she looks excited or embarrassed, then this is a good sign. Sometimes, a girl subconsciously makes some gestures, demonstrating body language signs of attraction.\nSigns He\u2019s into You: Body Language\nIn turn, women always want to know what men are thinking about in order to find out whether their feelings are mutual or not. Every girl wants to be aware of male body language signs of attraction not to find herself in an awkward situation. Here are several most common body language signs he likes you.\nHe Has Dilated Pupils\nPupils can dilate in two cases: when you are in a dark place, and when your brain sends a signal that something has attracted you. This is an impulse. Therefore, if you are hanging out in a lighted place, look into his eyes.\nHe Raises Eyebrows\nWhen men are interested in something, they open their eyes wide and raise their eyebrows. Note such a sign, this means that you attract him, and he carefully listens to what you are talking about.\nA man subconsciously smiles broadly only when he is really happy. So, if he often smiles at you, you should know that a man feels comfortable, and you cheer him up. This is one of the men\u2019s body language sure signs of attraction.\nHe Looks at You\nEverybody knows that when a person is in love, they cannot take their eyes off their beloved one, and they look at each other for a long time. So, if a man looks at your face (eyes, nose, lips), then in 80 percent of cases, this is one of the signs he is attracted to your body language.\nHe Takes a Deep Breath\nYou may think that he is nervous, but that\u2019s not exactly true. When a man takes a deep breath, it means that subconsciously, he wants to look more attractive and even desirable. You can be sure that he is keen to get your attention and make an impression.\nHe Stands with the Hands on His Hips\nThis is a typical posture of men who want to show their strength and dominance. Such a sign means that he \u201coccupies this territory\u201d and wants to impress you. In addition, it is a sign for other men to keep away. Now, he wants to take care of the safety and comfort of his woman.\nHe Leans Towards You\nIf regardless of the situation when you are close to each other and have a conversation, he constantly leans towards you, this indicates that he wants emotional intimacy.\nHe Touches You\nAny spontaneous tactile contact belongs to the body language signs he\u2019s falling for you. In addition, doing that, a man may check how much his touches are pleasant to you.\nHis Toes Are Turned Towards You\nBody language specialists say that in such a situation, the legs indicate where the heart wants to go. He does that completely subconsciously, so it\u2019s important to notice these small changes. For example, when you sit and talk, look in \u201cwhich way the wind is blowing.\u201d\nHe Touches His Neck or Throat\nWhen he touches his neck during a conversation, it is one of the signs he secretly likes your body language, and he is interested in you and wants to look good in your eyes. However, be careful! This sign can be used to tease you. Look at the context of the conversation and try to notice the other signs to conclude what it really means.\nHe Tries to Walk Side by Side\nThis is not about a situation when he holds your hand and goes forward to break through the crowd. Pay attention to this point when, for example, you are walking in the park. If he tries to keep close, walking side by side, he is interested in you.\nHe \u201cPlays\u201d with Objects\nIf a man touches his glass, phone or other things when you talk about something, it may mean that he is nervous and shy because he likes you, and he tries to look sharp and worthy.\nBody Language Signs He Is Jealous\nSometimes, everyone can be jealous. However, this feeling can be shown quite specifically in every case. It can be different both in external manifestations and individual inner experiences. Of course, it is primarily determined by personal characteristics and its root causes, but a certain number of body language signs are common for all men. When a man is jealous, his soul can be filled with anger, suspicion, contempt or revulsion, and each of these states can be reflected on his face. So, what body language signs can tell you that your partner is jealous?\nWhen you see that the man puts his hand on his mouth, this is a sign that he tries to hide his position and does not want to express it. Touching his lips with a pen, a glass of wine, a business card or something else, a man \u201cbans\u201d himself from saying what he really thinks. Psychologists have long noticed that touching a nose or a dimple of a nose during a conversation speaks about the insincerity of the interlocutor and their outright lies. Besides, if he rubs his eyelid, this gesture can tell about his strong mistrust.\nYou can see that the muscles of his forehead are shifted in and down, creating a threatening or frowning expression of the eyes. His nostrils are dilated, and the nose alae are raised. His lips are tightly pursed, and the face can turn red. Besides, usually, a jealous and angry man has clenched fists.\nWhen a man is sure that his girlfriend is cheating on him, in addition to anger he can feel revulsion. Such a person will have lowered eyebrows, and he will wrinkle his nose and jut his lower lip out.\nIf your boyfriend feels contempt, then he will raise his eyebrow and will have as if a long face. His head will be raised as if he is looking down and tries to distance himself from you. Besides, if your boyfriend is a smoker, and he flips the ash off cigarette too often, it can tell about his painful internal state and nervousness.\nInteresting Online Dating Profile Examples for Men", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 12646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://case.edu/ech/media/821", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:38Z", "digest": "sha1:A7DE3BSTPWCX6NQE6APTG3MH27KPCC43", "length": 111, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "case.edu", "title": "| Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University", "raw_content": "This large wooden hall was specially built and decorated for the German Saengerfest in Cleveland in 1874. WRHS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 151.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011213440/Cite", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FBMC3XVRIP6KOMR72UZ4WPZQY4FLNA3Y", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "catalog.hathitrust.org", "title": "Record Citations | Hathi Trust Digital Library", "raw_content": "Cooke, M. Benton. (1911). To mother. Chicago: Forbes & Company.\nCooke, Marjorie Benton, 1876-1920. To Mother. Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1911.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catholicinsight.com/the-church-will-become-small/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:05Z", "digest": "sha1:F7TGG7VF2J3Q5TFZMHEDSL2O2UTO3ROC", "length": 2707, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "catholicinsight.com", "title": "The Church will become small \u00ab Catholic Insight", "raw_content": "The Church will become small\nFrom the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge\u2014a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so will she lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, she will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, she will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly she will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Alongside this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly.\nThe Church will be a more spiritualized Church, not presuming upon a political mantle, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. \u2026 But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.\nAnd so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man\u2019s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.\n\u201cThe church will become small,\u201d from Ratzinger, Faith and the Future (Ignatius Press, San Francisco: 2009).\nFaith and the Future was originally published in 1969. Reprinted with permission from Ignatius Press.\nPrevious articleChrist\u2019s life was one of sacrifice, not popularity\nNext articleThe Ballad of the White Horse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cb.aanr.com/aanr-on-your-side/public-lands", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:50Z", "digest": "sha1:A5OAWVVHF7LIU5POG57F457EU6IL2J2S", "length": 3774, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "cb.aanr.com", "title": "Public Lands | American Association for Nude Recreation", "raw_content": "AANR and Public Lands\nVisit Public Lands on Fee-Free Days in 2018\nBy Kristi Bray, Recreation.gov\nHand-in-hand, an adult and child explore the Virgin River in Zion National Park. (Alyssa Weiglein, Share the Experience)\nMark your calendars for the 2018 Fee Free Days in your national parks, refuges, conservation lands, lakes and forests. On designated days throughout the year, participating federal land management agencies offer free entrance and waive some standard amenity and day-use fees. For more details about which standard amenity fees and day-use fees are waived, please contact the location you wish to visit.\nThis year, find yourself at a federal land destination to participate in a fee-free day! Check each agency\u2019s website for details and then plan your visit using our Build a Trip tool.\nFederal Agency 2018 Fee Free Days:\nNational Park Service: January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), April 21 (First Day of National Park Week), September 22 (National Public Lands Day), November 11 (Veterans Day)\nBureau of Land Management: January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), February 19 (Presidents Day), June 9 (National Get Outdoors Day), September 22 (National Public Lands Day), November 11 (Veterans Day)\nU.S. Forest Service: January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), February 19 (Presidents Day), June 9 (National Get Outdoors Day), September 22 (National Public Lands Day), November 10-11 (Veterans Day Weekend)\nU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), February 19 (Presidents Day), September 22 (National Public Lands Day), October 14 (First Sunday of National Wildlife Refuge Week), November 11 (Veterans Day)\nU.S. Army Corps of Engineers: September 22 (National Public Lands Day), November 11 (Veterans Day, you must be a veteran, an active and reserve component service member, or a family member to be granted a fee waiver)\nBureau of Reclamation: January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), February 19 (Presidents Day), September 22 (National Public Lands Day), November 11 (Veterans Day)\n. Before you visit, be sure to check with the public lands location to see if they participate.\nAANR has a strong commitment to fostering nudity in appropriate settings on public lands. AANR\u2019s work includes proactive fundraising and volunteer projects as well as asserting nudists\u2019 rights where needed. Please watch this page for events, activities and volunteer opportunities in your region.\nBelow are a few of the beach cleanup and education initiatives AANR has undertaken in the past:\nEducation Initiative in Oregon\nPublic officials are educated about nude recreation at Rooster Rock State Park in Oregon.\nCape Cod Yearly Beach Cleanup\nCape Cod National Seashore staffers have repeatedly expressed their belief that there is room for a clothing-optional zone on the 40+ miles of shore in Massachusetts. However, their hands are tied by a regulation dating to the mid-1970s. A volunteer cleanup is held every year because volunteers think that regulation at least deserves a second look. The event is sponsored by AANR, AANR-East, Sunchasers Travel Club, Sandy Terraces, Bare Bottom Beach Club, and all who love the Cape Cod Beaches.\nAssateague Beach Cleanup a Huge Success\nThe weather was great, people turned out, and those advocating for a clothing-optional beach in Maryland made a significant impression on park service staff as they cleaned a large section within the state park.\nAANR-West Bonny Doon Cleanup\nThis clean-up at Bonny Doon beach, a white sand beach in Santa Cruz County, California. Nudists frequently visit the north side of this prestigious beach. 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Kohl\u2019s Department Stores CA Technologies\nBankwell Mosaic EverString\nMiller Industries, Inc. TCS Education System Exact Sciences Corp.\nRiskLens, Inc AmWINS Group, Inc Science Applications International Corp.\nScanSource, Inc. Gibraltar Industries, Inc. Quantum3D, Inc\nOverseas Shipholding Group, Inc. iCAD Align Technology, Inc.\nJRjr33, Inc. Lion Biotechnologies, Inc. AltiGen Communications, Inc.\nTwitter, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (NYSE: TWTR) announced that Anthony Noto who has served as the Company\u2019s Chief Financial Officer since July, 2014, has been named COO.\nKohl\u2019s Department Stores [MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.] (NYSE: KSS) announced that its chief financial officer, Wesley S. McDonald, intends to retire after 14 years of service with the company.\nCA Technologies [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: CA) announced that Kieran J. McGrath has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer. McGrath joined CA Technologies in 2014 as corporate controller and served in that role until being named interim-CFO in July 2016. Prior to that, McGrath spent more than 30 years at IBM.\nBankwell [NEW CANAAN, Conn.] appointed Penko Ivanov as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Bankwell Financial Group and its subsidiary, Bankwell Bank. Mr. Ivanov\u2019s recent roles includes CFO for the US Operations of Doral Bank, and CFO of Darien Rowayton Bank. He began his career with Ernst & Young and held various accounting/finance positions at PepsiCo, GE Capital and Bridgewater Associates.\nMosaic [OAKLAND, Calif.] announced that the company has appointed Steve Controulis as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Mosaic, Controulis spent 11 years as CFO of Triton Container International Limited. He also held roles at GE Capital, Heller Financial and The First National Bank of Chicago.\nEverString [SAN MATEO, CA] announced the addition of Scott Broomfield as CFO. Scott Broomfield joins EverString from Xactly, most recently serving as CMO. Before that, he was CFO of Xactly. He was also the General Manager of Xactly\u2019s emerging SMB business. Additionally, Scott has held leadership positions at Sand Hill Management Partners, Gupta Technologies, and was a managing director at Hickey and Hill.\nMiller Industries, Inc. [CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.] (NYSE: MLR) announced that J. Vincent Mish, its Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will retire, after more than 25 years of service to the Company. The Company also announced that the Board of Directors has elected Deborah Whitmire to succeed Mr. Mish as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Ms. Whitmire currently serves as Vice President and Corporate Controller of the Company, a position she has held since January 2014. She has served in various positions of increasing responsibility and leadership in the Company\u2019s finance department since 1996.\nTCS Education System [CHICAGO] announced that Mehul Patel has been appointed CFO. Patel joined TCS in early 2015 as associate vice president of financial planning and analysis. Prior to his tenure with TCS, Patel held roles in financial management with Discover Financial Services, in operations strategy with Enova Financial, and in strategy and operations analysis at Deloitte Consulting.\nExact Sciences Corp. [MADISON, Wis.] (NASDAQ: EXAS) announced the appointment of Jeff Elliott as chief financial officer. Mr. Elliott, a former senior research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., joined Exact Sciences as vice president, business development and strategy, in June 2016. Previously in his career, Mr. Elliott worked in various positions at Walgreens and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.\nRiskLens, Inc. [RESTON, Va.] announced the appointments of Dave Sutor to Chief Financial Officer. Barrow joins RiskLens from companies like Symantec, and Eloqua prior to its acquisition by Oracle.\nAmWINS Group, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] announced that Darin K. Stafford has joined AmWINS as its Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Scott M. Purviance. Mr. Stafford joins AmWINS from Remington Outdoor Company where, since 2009, he has served as Vice President, Corporate Controller. Before joining Remington, Mr. Stafford worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 15 years.\nScience Applications International Corp. [MCLEAN, Va.] (NYSE: SAIC) announced the appointment of Charles A. Mathis as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Interim CFO Maria M. Bishop will resume her duties as corporate controller. Mathis joins SAIC from ScanSource Inc., where he was executive vice president and CFO since 2012. Prior to joining ScanSource, Mathis was executive vice president and CFO for Force Protection Inc. He was also the CFO for Fort Worth-based EFW, Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Israeli defense contractor, Elbit Systems.\nScanSource, Inc. [GREENVILLE, SC] (NASDAQ: SCSC) announced that Charles A. Mathis, chief financial officer, has advised the company of his intent to resign. Mr. Mathis has served as the Company\u2019s executive vice president and chief financial officer since December 2012. The company also announced that Gerald Lyons will serve as the Company\u2019s interim chief financial officer. Mr. Lyons had been serving as the Company\u2019s senior vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer. Mr. Lyons joined the Company in April 2007.\nGibraltar Industries, Inc. [BUFFALO, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: ROCK) announced that Chief Financial Officer Kenneth W. Smith intends to retire from the Company in 2017.\nQuantum3D, Inc. [MILPITAS, Calif.] announced that Ron Haskins has been appointed as CFO for Quantum3D Group, the parent company of Quantum3D, Inc. Prior to joining Quantum3D, Ron Haskins was the VP Workplace and Corporate Services for Logitech. He also served as VP Finance WW Sales & Marketing, VP Finance Products Group and in several other senior finance functions in the US as well as Europe with Logitech. Ron\u2019s previous experience includes over 25 years in senior financial management at Dell, NEC, GTE Government Systems and Shell Oil.\nOverseas Shipholding Group, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: OSG) announced that Jeffrey D. Pribor will join International Seaways as chief financial officer. Mr. Pribor was Global Head of Maritime Investment Banking at Jefferies & Company, Inc. Previously, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Maritime Corporation, from September 2004 to February 2013. Prior to General Maritime, from 2002 to 2004, Mr. Pribor was Managing Director and President of DnB NOR Markets, Inc. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Pribor was Managing Director and Group Head of Transportation Banking at ABN AMRO, Inc. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Pribor was Managing Director and Sector Head of Transportation and Logistics investment banking for ING Barings.\niCAD [NASHUA, N.H.] (NASDAQ: ICAD) announced that Richard C. Christopher has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Upon Mr. Christopher\u2019s joining of the Company, interim Chief Financial Officer R. Scott Areglado, will resume his role as Vice President and Corporate Controller. Mr. Christopher currently serves as Chief Financial and Operating Officer of Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, Inc. He joined Caliber I.D. as Chief Financial Officer in 2014 when it was a publicly-traded company and was appointed to the Chief Operating Officer position in 2015. Prior to this, Mr. Christopher was Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He joined DUSA in 2000 and held a series of positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as Chief Financial Officer from 2005.\nAlign Technology, Inc. [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: ALGN) announced the retirement of David L. White who will step down as CFO. Mr. White will work closely with newly appointed CFO John F. Morici to ensure a smooth transition. White has served as Align\u2019s CFO since 2013. John F. Morici was an executive at NBC Universal for the past nine years where he held several senior management positions in its Universal Pictures Home Entertainment U.S. and Canadian business, including chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and most recently, executive vice president and managing director. Prior to NBC Universal, Morici spent eight years in senior financial management positions at GE Healthcare, including CFO for its Diagnostic Imaging and Global Products units.\nJRjr33, Inc. [DALLAS] [NYSE MKT: JRJR] is pleased to announce the appointment of John P. Walker as Chief Financial Officer. Christopher Brooks, who held the position, has resigned.\nLion Biotechnologies, Inc. [SAN CARLOS, CA] (NASDAQ: LBIO) announced that Greg Schiffman was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Lion Biotechnologies, Mr. Schiffman was Executive Vice President and CFO of StemCells, Inc. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Dendreon Corporation.\nAltiGen Communications, Inc. [SAN JOSE, CA] (OTCQX: ATGN) announced that Philip M. McDermott plans to retire in the Spring of 2017. Mr. McDermott joined the Company in 1999 and has served as Chief Financial Officer since then.\nBuilders FirstSource, Inc. [DALLAS] (NASDAQ: BLDR) announced that Peter Jackson has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He will replace Chad Crow as CFO, allowing Mr. Crow to focus on his role as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Jackson joins Builders FirstSource from Lennox International, Inc., where he served in various senior financial roles, most recently VP and CFO \u2013 Refrigeration Segment. Prior to that, Mr. Jackson was Vice President, Finance \u2013 FP&A and M&A with responsibility for Lennox\u2019s Corporate Planning and Business Development. He served as Lennox\u2019s Residential Heating & Cooling Segment CFO from 2007-2013. Before joining Lennox, Mr. Jackson served in multiple financial leadership positions at SPX Corporation, General Electric and Gerber Scientific.\nFiled Under: CFO, CFO Search, CFO Search Report, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Search, Fired, Hired, NASDAQ, NYSE, Private Equity, Replaced, Resigned, Retained Search, Venture Capital, Vice President Finance Tagged With: Align Technology, AltiGen Communications, AmWINS Group, Anthony Noto, Bankwell, Builders FirstSource, CA Technologies, Chad Crow, Charles A. 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Scientific Games Corporation 5miles\nPreston Hollow Capital Production Resource Group LLC Senior Housing Properties Trust\nFive Star Quality Care, Inc. eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc. Mojix, Inc.\nAlacare Home Health & Hospice Femasys Inc. CardioDx, Inc.\nThird Avenue Management LLC PLUMgrid Grandparents.com, Inc.\nRamco-Gershenson Properties Trust Yuma Energy, Inc. Shiloh Industries\nThe Boston Beer Company, Inc. Cardtronics Inc. Bit9\u00ae + Carbon Black\u00ae\nSANUWAVE Health, Inc.\nThe Wendy\u2019s Company (NASDAQ: WEN) [DUBLIN, Ohio] announced that current Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Todd Penegor has been appointed CEO.\nStarwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) [STAMFORD, Conn] announced that Alan M. Schnaid, currently Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of Starwood, will be appointed Chief Financial Officer, replacing Thomas B. Mangas, who was promoted to CEO. Schnaid joined Starwood in 1994 and has been Starwood\u2019s Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer since 2005. Prior to that, Schnaid was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller since 1998 and Vice President and Controller since 1996. Prior to joining Starwood, Schnaid held accounting positions with Mazars and Company, Kenneth Leventhal and Company and Laventhol & Horwath.\nTuesday Morning Corporation (NASDAQ: TUES) [DALLAS, TX] announced that Stacie R. Shirley will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining Neiman Marcus Group, Ms. Shirley served in areas of increasing responsibility at CompUSA, Inc., including Vice President \u2013 Finance and Treasurer (1999-2001), Senior Director \u2013 Financial Initiatives (1998-1999), Director of Investor Relations (1996-1998), and Regional Accounting Manager (1993-1996).\nDiageo [NORWALK, Conn] announced the appointment of Jakob Ripshtein as Chief Financial Officer for Diageo North America, replacing Greg Kryder. Ripshtein began his career with Diageo in 2008 as VP Finance for Canada. In 2010, he moved to London to take on a role as Global Pricing Director for several years before returning to North America as SVP of Finance for Open States. Ripshtein has been President of Diageo Canada since 2014.\nSotheby\u2019s [NEW YORK] has named Dennis M. Weibling its Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Weibling, a member of Sotheby\u2019s Board of Directors since 2006, and the current Chair of the Board\u2019s Audit Committee, succeeds Patrick S. McClymont, who has been Sotheby\u2019s Chief Financial Officer since October 2013. Mr. Weibling has served as the Managing Director of Rally Capital, LLC, since 2004. He served as a board member and Chairman of Telesphere Networks Ltd from 2006 to 2014. From October 1993 to December 2001, Mr. Weibling served as President of Eagle River, Inc. and then as Vice Chairman of Eagle River Investments until November 2003. Beginning in 1995, Mr. Weibling served as a director of Nextel Partners, Inc. and Nextel Communications, Inc.\nExact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS) [MADISON, Wis] announced the appointment of John K. Bakewell as chief financial officer. Most recently, he was CFO at Lantheus Holdings Inc. Bakewell serves as a director of two medical technology companies, including serving as a member of the audit committee of Entellus Medical and as chairman of the audit committee at Keystone Dental.\nGreen Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) [PASADENA, Calif.] announced that it has named Mark Shifke to the position of Chief Financial Officer. recently, Mr. Shifke served as Managing Director, M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory at J.P. Morgan. Prior to joining JP Morgan in 2007, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Principal Investing and in M&A Structuring and Advisory. Previously, he served as a Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a law firm and a Principal at KPMG LLP.\nJaguar Animal Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAGX) [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Karen Wright as chief financial officer, replacing John Kallassy, Jaguar\u2019s former CFO, will continue to serve the Company as chief operating officer. Karen was most recently she was the head of finance for Clene Nanomedicine. She also served as vice president of finance and corporate controller at multiple other private and public companies, including Veracyte and Intermune, which was acquired by Roche.\nIconixx [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of William J. Getchell as Chief Financial Officer. He joins Iconixx after having spent several years as Chief Financial Officer at Motion Computing, Inc. and Phunware, Inc.\nDicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRNA) [CAMBRIDGE, Mass] announced the appointment of John \u201cJack\u201d Green as interim chief financial officer (CFO). He replaces James Dentzer. Concurrently to serving as part-time, interim CFO at Dicerna, Mr. Green will continue in a part-time capacity as CFO of Verastem, Inc. (VSTM). Previously, he served for more than 15 years as CFO of GTC Biotherapeutics (formerly Genzyme Transgenics).\nScientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) [LAS VEGAS] announced the promotion of Michael Quartieri to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary, succeeding Scott Schweinfurth. Michael recently served nine years with Las Vegas Sands Corp., ending his tenure as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Global Controller. Previously, he had a 13-year tenure at Deloitte & Touche LLP, attaining the position of Director of Audit and Assurance Services.\n5miles [DALLAS, TX] has named Garwin Chan as its chief financial officer. Chan previously was a managing director at Founder H Fund, in China. Before that, he was vice president of Bain Capital. Chan began his career as an investment professional at Sankaty Advisors.\nPreston Hollow Capital [DALLAS] announced that it has hired Paige Deskin as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Deskin replaces the retiring Mike Cousins. Before joining PHC, Ms. Deskin was Vice President \u2013 Finance with SWK Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SWKH). Prior to joining SWK Holdings Corporation, she was Controller of ORIX USA Corporation for eight years. Before entering the private sector, Ms. Deskin was a manager in KPMG\u2019s audit practice.\nProduction Resource Group LLC [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Ryan Schroeter as its Chief Financial Officer, replacing Scott Hansen, who had previously served as both Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Asset Strategy, will now focus on the asset side of PRG\u2019s business. Prior to joining PRG, Schroeter was Vice President Corporate Finance at Intrepid Aviation. Before that he held the role of Assistant Treasurer at JetBlue Airways.\nSenior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) [NEWTON, Mass.] announced the appointment of Richard W. Siedel, Jr. as its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, replacing Richard A. Doyle, Jr. Mr. Siedel has been Chief Accounting Officer of Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (NYSE: FVE) since 2014 and previously was Controller of The RMR Group since 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Siedel held various accounting leadership positions, including Corporate Controller, at Sensata Technologies Holdings NV (NYSE: ST) from 2010 to 2013 and as an auditor at Ernst & Young LLP from 2001 to 2010.\nFive Star Quality Care, Inc. (NYSE: FVE) [NEWTON, Mass] announced the appointment of Richard A. Doyle, Jr. as its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, replacing Paul V. Hoagland. Mr. Doyle has served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) since 2007. He was previously the Director of Financial Reporting for Five Star beginning in 2005. Prior to that, he was employed by Sun Life Financial in positions involving finance and accounting for 10 years.\neFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc., [SAN DIEGO] announced that Alana McNulty will be its full-time chief financial officer. Prior to eFFECTOR, Ms. McNulty served as CFO at Lumena Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Shire in 2014, and Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Pfizer in 2011. Previously, Ms. McNulty served in a similar capacity at BrainCells and Elitra Pharmaceuticals. Before those roles, she served as General Manager of the Advanced Tissue Sciences/Smith and Nephew JV. She began her career as an Associate at Bear Stearns.\nMojix, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Carey Tokirio as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Apriso, he worked in accounting, auditing, treasury, taxes and operations capacities at several other technology firms, including Critical Path and QAD.\nAlacare Home Health & Hospice [BIRMINGHAM, Ala.] has named Corrie Hall as its new Chief Financial Officer. Hall assumes the responsibility as Gene Sykes retires after more than 20 years with Alacare. Before Hall came to Alacare in November 2014, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Kare-In-Home Health in Gulfport, Mississippi, for 10 years and worked at Hattiesburg\u2019s South Mississippi Home Health for 27 years, ultimately becoming a Vice President in Finance.\nFemasys Inc. [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Todd A. Creech as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Creech previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of ZS Pharma, Inc., from August 2013 until June 2015. Prior to ZS Pharma, Mr. Creech was CFO and Vice President of Business Development at SARcode Bioscience. Prior to SARcode, Mr. Creech was CFO of Sirion Therapeutics. Prior to that Mr. Creech worked with NovaQuest, the investment group within Quintiles, Inc. Prior to his work with NovaQuest, he cofounded Centice, in 2003.\nCardioDx, Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, CA] announced the appointment of Timothy Henn as Chief Financial Officer of the company. Prior to joining CardioDx, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Crescendo Biosciences, which was acquired by Myriad Genetics. Henn has also worked in senior finance positions in leading clinical diagnostic and life science companies, including Monogram Biosciences and Incyte Corporation.\nThird Avenue Management LLC [NEW YORK] has named Vincent Dugan as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer.\nPLUMgrid [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced Marty Bradford as it\u2019s new chief financial officer. Most recently, Bradford served as CFO at Quorum. Previously, Marty was CFO at InMage Systems (acquired by Microsoft) and SeeCommerce (acquired by NCR/Teradata).\nRamco-Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT) [FARMINGTON HILLS] announced the appointment of Geoffrey Bedrosian as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bedrosian joins Ramco-Gershenson following a successful 20-year career in real estate investment banking, most recently as Managing Director of Global Real Estate and Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.\nYuma Energy, Inc. (NYSE MKT: YUMA) [HOUSTON, TX] announced the appointment of James J. Jacobs as Chief Financial Officer, replacing Kirk F. Sprunger. Mr. Jacobs served as Yuma\u2019s Vice President \u2013 Corporate and Business Development immediately prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer and has been with the Company since 2013. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Houston America Energy Corp. for seven years prior to joining Yuma in 2013. In 2001, Mr. Jacobs worked as an Energy Analyst at Duke Capital Partners. In 2003, Mr. Jacobs worked as a Vice President of Energy Investment Banking at Sanders Morris Harris. From 2006 through 2013, Mr. Jacobs was the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at Houston America Energy Corp.\nShiloh Industries (NASDAQ: SHLO) [PLYMOUTH, Mich.] announced that W. Jay Potter has joined the company in the newly created position of senior vice president, chief financial officer. Potter brings over 30 years of financial leadership in complex manufacturing and service businesses.\nThe Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) [Boston, Massachusetts] announced that Frank H. Smalla will be assuming the position of Chief Financial Officer when current Chief Financial Officer William F. Urich steps down from the role in 2016. Mr. Smalla previously worked in various senior financial roles for Kraft Food Groups, Inc. of Northfield, Illinois from 1995 through 2015, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance of U.S. Business Units, U.S. Sales, Integrated Supply Chain, RDQ and Marketing Services. He held the positions of Senior Vice President of Finance from 2012-2015 and Vice President of Finance from 2010-2012.\nCardtronics Inc. (NASDAQ: CATM) [HOUSTON] announced that Edward H. West will join the Cardtronics team as chief financial officer, succeeding Chris Brewster. West held the role of chief financial officer at three companies \u2013 Delta Air Lines, Internet Capital Group and Education Management Corporation. West most recently served as CEO of Education Management. West joined Education Management in 2006 as chief financial officer and became CEO in 2012. Prior to his time there, West joined Internet Capital Group as chief financial officer in 2000. In 2002, West transitioned to Internet Capital Group\u2019s largest subsidiary, ICG Commerce, where he served as chief executive officer until 2006. He also served as chief financial officer at Delta Air Lines from 1999 to 2000, after having joined the company in 1994. West began his career in financial services at SunTrust.\nBit9 + Carbon Black [WALTHAM, Mass] announced the appointment of Mark Sullivan as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, Sullivan was executive vice president and CFO of AspenTech. Sullivan has more than 25 years of financial management and executive leadership experience, including 14 years with Fidelity Investments, where his positions included executive vice president and CFO for Fidelity Employer Services Compan. Sullivan\u2019s prior positions include chief operating officer for Westerbeke Corporation, consulting manager at Coopers & Lybrand, and financial leadership roles with Analog Devices.\nSANUWAVE Health, Inc. [ALPHARETTA, Ga] announced that Lisa Sundstrom, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Sundstrom, was formerly interim Chief Financial Officer as of July 2015. Ms. Sundstrom has over 23 years of financial and accounting experience, including the last nine years with SANUWAVE. Her previous positions include senior financial and accounting roles at ADP and Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics.\nFiled Under: CFO, CFO Search, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Search, Fired, Hired, NASDAQ, NYSE, Private Equity, Replaced, Resigned, Retained Search, Venture Capital, Vice President Finance Tagged With: 5miles, Alacare Home Health & Hospice, Alan Schnaid, Alana McNulty, Bit9, Carbon Black, CardioDx, Carey Tokirio, Chris Brewster, Corrie Hall, Dennis Weibling, Diageo, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Edward West, eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Exact Sciences Corp., Five Star Quality Care, Frank Smalla, Garwin Chan, Gene Sykes, Geoffrey Bedrosian, Green Dot Corporation, Greg Kryder, Iconixx, Jack Green, Jaguar Animal Health, Jakob Ripshtein, James Dentzer, James Jacobs, Jay Potter, John Bakewell, John Kallassy, Karen Wright, Kirk Sprunger, Lisa Sundstrom, Mark Shifke, Mark Sullivan, Marty Bradford, Michael Quartieri, Mike Cousins, Mojix, Paige Deskin, Patrick McClymont, Paul Hoagland, PLUMgriD, Preston Hollow Capital, Production Resource Group, Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, Richard Doyle, Ryan Schroeter, SANUWAVE Health, Scientific Games Corporation, Scott Hansen, Scott Schweinfurth, Senior Housing Properties Trust, Shiloh Industries, Sotheby's, Stacie Shirley, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, The Boston Beer Company, The Wendy's Company, Third Avenue Management, Thomas Mangas, Timothy Henn, Todd Creech, Todd Penegor, Tuesday Morning Corporation, Vincent Dugan, William Getchell, William Urich, Yuma Energy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 31239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cgsnet.org/international-projects/graduate-international-collaborations-project", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:03Z", "digest": "sha1:SKAI2TPJARGYDSCO53XEMWTBFVQHMBMX", "length": 3288, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "cgsnet.org", "title": "Graduate International Collaborations Project | Council of Graduate Schools", "raw_content": "Home / Best Practices / Professional Development for Graduate Students / International Experiences / Graduate International Collaborations Project\nThe project was designed to generate a clearer understanding of the policies and practices that foster, or inhibit, successful international collaborations in graduate education. The two-year grant, for $200,000, enabled CGS to conduct survey and focus group research, hold workshops and meetings, develop a dedicated webpage, and produce a white paper and formal publication on the topic. Findings from the project have provided institutional leaders and faculty with strategies for successful creation and participation in international collaborative opportunities, especially in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.\nThe Graduate International Collaborations Project resulted in a publication, Joint Degrees, Dual Degrees, and International Research Collaborations: A Report on the CGS Graduate International Collaborations Project, which identifies promising solutions to the challenges of creating and sustaining international collaborations, case studies, and an MOU checklist.\nFor other publications on international issues in graduate education, please visit the International Publications webpage.\nCGS Presentations on the Project\nRelated websites and newsletters\nCGS Presentations\nDual and Joint Degrees: Conceptual Theory and Administrative Practice (Andrew Comrie and Dianne Horgan, CGS Annual Meeting 2009)\nU.S. Perspectives on Graduate International Collaborations (Daniel Denecke, National Academies Committee for Science, Technology, and the Law, October 2009)\nInternational Trends in U.S. Graduate Education (Julia Kent, Finnish Higher Education Experts Study Tour, Institute of International Education, October 2009)\nEmerging Best Practices in Joint and Dual Degree Programs (Debra Stewart and Daniel Denecke, EAIE Annual Meeting, Madrid, September 2009)\nDual and Joint Degrees: Points of Departure (John Godfrey, CGS Annual Meeting, 2008)\nWebsites and Newsletters\nBoston College Center for International Education. Information related to research, publication, policy, globalization, and professional development, among other topics.\nGlobal Higher Ed. Information on developing links between global higher education and the knowledge economy, including new policy developments and emerging networks.\nUniversitas 21 Newsletter. Updates on collaborative activities of a consortium of 21 research universities.\nOffice of International Science and Engineering (OISE, NSF)\nPartnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE, NSF)\nIntegrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT, NSF)\nFund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)-Atlantis Program\nThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0841399. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.\nDo you have a specific question about developing or sustaining joint degrees, dual degrees, or graduate international collaborations? Post a question to other CGS deans on the CGS Dean's Discussion Board. (Member login required)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlylester.com/portfolio/dating-awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PFFZMFGKWAUXFRQEQ5JW5OZ5CMNIIIRY", "length": 1449, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "charlylester.com", "title": "The Dating Awards \u2013 Charly Lester", "raw_content": "Charly Lester\nThe Dating Awards\nCharly was the CEO and Founder of The Dating Awards \u2013 a series of annual Dating Industry Award Show, celebrating the very best of the British, European and American Dating Industries. The Awards were consumer-led, and consumer driven, and spanned Dating Websites, Apps, Events, Individuals and the Dating Media.\nThe Awards became an annual event in the Industry calendar, with thousands of industry professionals attending the events around the world. Charly designed the Awards to be the Michelin stars of the Dating world \u2013 a standard companies could aspire to, and daters could look to, when deciding which services to use.\nAfter four successful years, and events in London, New York and Amsterdam, Charly called time on the Awards to focus on her new dating app Lumen. In that time she consulted for most of the world\u2019s leading dating brands, and became recognised as one of the leading online dating industry experts in the world.\nCharly is regularly called upon to represent the dating industry in the press, and on TV and radio. In December 2015, she appeared in the final of the UK version of The Apprentice, as an expert advisor to Lord Sugar, when one of the finalists designed a dating app. Charly also appears regularly on Woman\u2019s Hour, and has featured on Newsnight, representing the entire industry.\nArticles & Interviews about the Awards \u2013\nOnline Dating Help Interview\nLondon Live coverage of the night", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cheshirecat.com/santa-barbara-seasonal-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7FJLLTCLFV4AODUFJIF4XTAKNF2AUSO7", "length": 1982, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cheshirecat.com", "title": "Santa Barbara Events | Cheshire Cat Inn", "raw_content": "Local Flavor and Seasonal Events\nThere\u2019s always something fun happening in Santa Barbara! Here are some of Santa Barbara\u2019s exciting weekly, monthly and seasonal events and gatherings.\nFirst Thursday every Month: Come and experience every 1st Thursday an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. Participating galleries and art-related venues offer free access to visual and performing art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm.\nNeighborhood Farmers Market: Enjoyed every Tuesday and Saturday by locals and tourists alike. Sample sweet dates and crisp apples as you stroll by an amazing selection of quality produce \u2013 you will often see our local chefs buying their fruit and vegetables.\nJUST A FEW OF THE MANY SEASONAL EVENTS\nSanta Barbara International Film Festival in February: This 10-day event has become one of the top California Film Festivals. Traditionally held just prior to the Oscars, it attracts a multitude of well-known actors, writers, and producers in attendance of special events as well as screenings of numerous US and international films.\nItalian Street Painting Festival Memorial Weekend every May: Magnificent chalk drawings or the I-Madonnari presented on the steps of the historic Mission. If you\u2019re in town, it is an event not to be missed.\nSummer Solstice Celebration and Parade in June: Filled with artistic floats, drumming, dancing and the like, a celebration of life and renewal is at the core of this truly unforgettable jubilee. As spring comes to a close, there couldn\u2019t be a more exciting way for friends, families, and couples to welcome in the new season!\nOld Spanish Days Fiesta in August: A Santa Barbara tradition occurring over the past 90 years features equestrian parades, food booths and rodeos highlighting and celebrating the history of Santa Barbara.\nVintners Celebration of Harvest every October: The most exciting four-day party of the year. Collective winemaker\u2019s dinners, open houses, wine seminars and much more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chipleybugle.com/2019/01/02/anderson-obit-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:34Z", "digest": "sha1:Y437W3W6544QKSJE3DSKX46PLKRFC7VL", "length": 1193, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "chipleybugle.com", "title": "Anderson obit \u2013 Chipley Bugle", "raw_content": "Home \u00bbObituaries\u00bbAnderson obit\nAnderson obit\nRaymond Anderson, 68, passed from this life on Sunday, December 30, 2018 in Dothan, AL.\nHe was born in Hartford, AL, on January 5, 1950 to the late Bernie and Ouida Anderson.\nHe met the love of his life, Donna, when he was 17 years old. They were married on November 29, 1968. They spent 50 faithful years together.\nRaymond spent most of his days in his garden, fishing or watching wrestling. He was greatly loved by his family and will be missed by all.\nHe was preceded in death by his parents, Bernie and Ouida Anderson.\nHe is survived by his loving wife, Donna; his sons: Jerry Lamar Anderson of Bonifay, Michael Lee Anderson and wife Dawn of Wicksburg, AL, Raymond Anthony Anderson and wife Jenifer of DeFuniak Springs; his sister, Mary Lois Scott and husband Dewaine Scott of Bonifay; his five grandchildren: Morgan, Caleb, Jesse, Mara and Jared; and many more family and friends.\nA celebration of life will be held on Friday, January 4, at Mount Carmel Methodist Church in Ozark, AL. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to his surviving spouse: Donna Anderson, 1304 Roping Road, Bonifay, FL.\nSims Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chrisdortch.weebly.com/blog/miracles-a-physical-sign-with-a-divine-purpose", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DB5MCR4SYWAB3CVWSTTCSFCF57UIRZCA", "length": 1469, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "chrisdortch.weebly.com", "title": "Miracles: A Physical Sign with a Divine Purpose", "raw_content": "Miracles: A Physical Sign with a Divine Purpose\nI have spent recent months studying the miracles as recorded in the four gospel accounts. The miracles of Jesus captured the attention of the masses. Jesus' ministry of miracles was a clear authentication of His claims to be God incarnate are in fact true (cf. John 3:2; 14:11). Since He can be verified that He is from God, we can also authenticate that His message is also true (cf. Mark 16:20). During Jesus' ministry of miracles, He touched the untouchables, He engaged with the outcasts, and He changed the lives of each person that encountered Hiim. The makes clear that \"seeing they do not see\" (Matt. 13:13). In other words, some observed the physical miracle ministry of Jesus, but they failed to understand what Jesus could do for them spiritually.\nI have been working on a book called \"Miracles: A Physical Sign with a Divine Purpose.\" I have identified 40 miracles within the gospel accounts. Through these brief snapshots of the miracles, it has been my desire to examine each miracle with a Gospel-centric lens: a lens that is focused on how each miracle shines on the glory of Jesus and the Gospel. The closer we look at the miracles the better we will understand the four themes of the Gospel: Creation, the Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. Below is my compiled list of 40 miracles (downloadable PDF file). I hope you too will study with a Gospel-centric lens.\nHe who has eyes, let him see!\nmiracles.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cincinnati.broadway.com/buzz/189509/most-wonderful-time-of-year-tickets-now-on-sale-for-a-christmas-story-the-musical-in-cincinnati/?mobile=on", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:QFA6P6HPML3KEATTGLXALUDWDAN6MRUA", "length": 1173, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cincinnati.broadway.com", "title": "Most Wonderful Time of Year! Tickets Now On Sale for A Christmas Story, The Musical in Cincinnati | Broadway Buzz | Broadway in Cincinnati", "raw_content": "Most Wonderful Time of Year! Tickets Now On Sale for A Christmas Story, The Musical in Cincinnati\nThat wonderful time of year is upon us once again! Tickets are now on sale for the musical stage adaptation of the 1983 movie A Christmas Story in Cincinnati. The Tony Award-nominated tuner will play Procter & Gamble Hall - Aronoff Center for the Arts from December 5 through December 10.\nBased on the classic holiday film of the same name, A Christmas Story, The Musical is the tale of Ralphie, a boy who has only one wish for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB gun. As Ralphie tries to make his Christmas dream come true, he encounters a cranky department store Santa, a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole, pink bunny pajamas and a kooky leg lamp.\nDirected by Matt Lenz and featuring Warren Carlyle's Broadway choreography reset by Jason Sparks, the musical features a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Joseph Robinette. A Christmas Story, The Musical received three Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.\nDon't leave this off your gift list, get tickets to see A Christmas Story this holiday season!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cjc128.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/koch-snowflake/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:04Z", "digest": "sha1:SXMS7KOSQLFOODSEXSS6IODWK63L737Z", "length": 1620, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cjc128.wordpress.com", "title": "Koch Snowflake | Mnemosyne", "raw_content": "The \u201climit curve\u201d defined by repeating this process an infinite number of times, adding more and more, smaller and smaller triangles at each stage, is called the Koch\u2019s SNOWFLAKE CURVE, named after Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (Sweden, 1870-1924).\nThe snowflake curve has some interesting properties that may seem paradoxical.\nThe snowflake curve is connected in the sense that it does not have any breaks or gaps in it. But it\u2019s not smooth (jagged, even), because it has an infinite number of sharp corners in it that are packed together more closely than pebbles on a beach.\nThe snowflake never escapes the dashed square you see in figures 1-4, so it encloses a finite amount of area no larger than a credit card. On the other hand, at each step building the new little triangles adds more than one unit of length to the curve.\nTo be precise, [4 \u00f7 3]n \u2013 1 units are added at the nth step, so the length of the snowflake is larger than 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + \u2026\u2026. = infinity. The snowflake curve is infinitely long, yet it would fit in your wallet!\nUnder a magnifying glass, a little piece of the snowflake looks identical to a larger, unmagnified chunk. Objects that exhibit this kind of self-similarity are called FRACTALS and are of great research and applied interest in modern science and mathematics.\nClick Here for more info on Koch Snowflake\nOne Response to \u201cKoch Snowflake\u201d\nHi, cool post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for blogging. I will likely be coming back to your site. Keep up the good work\nI Was Able to Lose Thirty P\u00f3unds in Under a Month said this on\tMay 6, 2009 at 10:36 am | Reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cladach.com/catherine-lawton/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QIWRYIFW3BMR3SS6S5NKRS6ZK7FB3KC6", "length": 7130, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "cladach.com", "title": "Catherine Lawton \u2013 CLADACH Publishing", "raw_content": "Catherine (Cathy) has enjoyed expressing thoughts, feelings, and observations in writing ever since she was a toddler scribbling in the margins of her preacher-father\u2019s theology books. Born in Colorado, she grew up moving from town to town in California, then married and raised children near the Redwoods. Returning to Colorado in midlife, she finds inspiration along mountain trails, rivers, and meadows, and she visits the salty shores of an ocean at every opportunity. She believes that \u2018God is love.\u2019\nCatherine has worked as a substitute teacher and English reader in public schools, a piano teacher and church musician, and as an editor, publisher, and speaker. She sees life as an upward journey, a challenging but surprise-filled adventure, and an unfolding story. Through novels, memoirs, essays and poetry she explores the depths of our relationships with God, each other, and nature. Inner healing is a theme running through her life and work.\nCathy had her first poem published in a national periodical at the age of twelve. Since then her byline has appeared in numerous periodicals and book compilations. She has a BA degree in English from Pasadena College/Point Loma Nazarene University and took graduate courses in education and in theology. Cathy and her husband, Larry, have participated in and led short-term mission teams to Mexico, South Africa, Venezuela, Sicily & Rome, and Peru.\nThe Lawtons love spending time with their two grown children and their spouses, and their six beautiful grandchildren. They enjoy making new friends and keeping in touch with the \u201cold.\u201d\nAs co-owner and publisher of Cladach Publishing, Catherine has had a hand in the acquisition, editing, and design of all Cladach\u2019s titles. She still manages to find time for her first love, writing\u2014she blogs here and here. She has authored five Cladach books (below).\nConnect with / find Cathy here:\nCathy\u2019s Amazon Reviews\nA Conversation with Cathy\nYour bio mentions that you became a published writer (in a national periodical) at the ripe old age of 12! Did that experience boost your desire to write more?\nCatherine: It really was affirming and amazing to me to think someone would want to print and read something I wrote. (It was a rhyming poem about how Jesus is my friend, and a Sunday school teacher encouraged me to send it in. That early poem is even included in the collection, (Remembering Softly: A Life in Poems). The desire to write kept growing until it became a sense of a call.\nIn your biblical novel, Face to Face, you fictionalize a story about a woman who is miraculously healed by Jesus. She is mentioned in the Bible only once, in Luke 13:10-17. With so little known about her, how did you develop her character and make her so believable?\nCatherine: That woman, who was healed by Jesus on the Sabbath, gripped my heart and imagination. She was unnamed in the story, so I named her Joakima, which means \u201cOne whom God has lifted up spiritually.\u201d She was bent over double for 18 years and \u201ccould in no way lift herself,\u201d which indicates that she had tried. I began to imagine what \u201ccures\u201d she might have used. Each has a parallel today, whether it\u2019s conventional wisdom and \u201cold wives\u2019 tales,\u201d self-righteous religion, new-age spiritualism, or humanistic self-improvement methods. I considered the context of the scriptures and researched the historical period and life in those days. A good story needs conflict, and there\u2019s plenty in this account\u2014between the woman and the spirit that crippled her, between Jesus and the leaders of the synagogue, between the people and the burdensome Sabbath laws, and between walking by faith versus walking by sight. I began to imagine Joakima in a colorful setting interacting with other vibrant characters until the story took on a life of its own. I was interested to see how my character would survive and finally thrive in the challenges of that setting.\nFace to Face sprang out of my love for literature and for the Bible, as well as years of seeking a more intimate walk with God. In this story I explore what faith is, who Jesus was (and is), how a religious person could become spiritually oppressed, why all the philosophies of this world can\u2019t bring release, and where true freedom is found. I want to share, with all who will read or listen, that Jesus will lift them up to new joy, freedom and wholeness.\nOne gets the sense that there may be experiences in your own life that parallel those of your character, Joakima. Is this perception accurate?\nCatherine: The story formed in my mind while I was going through a period of inner healing. I read the book of Luke, and this woman who was so wretched and yet so tenaciously persevering, triggered my imagination as well as my faith. Jesus told the woman she was released and he said that Satan had kept her bound. That part is very personal. People who are bound by various things\u2014memories, addictions, sins, wrong thinking, bitterness, and even evil spirits. I have seen people set free. I wondered what sort of spirit had taken hold of this woman, how Satan could keep a religious person of faith bound, and what might have caused that spirit to enter into her body and life. Luke also tells us that Jesus called her a \u201cdaughter of Abraham\u201d which means she had faith.\nNow a question to help readers know you better. If you had three free tickets to go to any three places in the world, where would you go, and why?\nCatherine: First I\u2019d go to Israel to research my next novel! Next I\u2019d go to Scotland and the Hebrides Islands, where a mighty revival happened the year I was born. Third I\u2019d go to Rome again, where there is a strong sense of the biblical world and the modern world intersecting.\nSince music has played such an important role in your life: What music CDs happen to be in your player right now?\nCatherine: Loreena McKennitt singing Christmas songs, a Russian pianist playing Rachmaninoff concertos, worship songs from Taize, \u201cEverything\u201d by Tim Hughes, even a few U2 songs.\nIf you could spend a week with any historical person of the past ten centuries, who would that be?\nCatherine: I think I\u2019d like to spend a week with Joan of Arc, though it might be dangerous. A simple peasant girl believed so strongly that God had spoken to her that she was able to convince leaders of her country and army to let her lead them to victory out of a dark and troubled period. And talk about conflicts! She stayed faithful and obedient to the vision, though it led to her martyrdom. Amazing.\nWhat was your purpose for publishing the compilation, Journeys to Mother Love?\nCatherine: The Lord has given me deep and lasting emotional healing for traumatic experiences that are described in my story in Journeys to Mother Love. The other eight women whose stories are told in Journeys to Mother Love are also personal memoirs about the mother/daughter relationship; all powerful experiences.\nInner healing is a theme running through my work. And this theme is also found in No More Fear: From Killing Fields to Harvest Fields, which I wrote from my interviews with Physa Chanmany, another life-changing experience for me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://classicalmusictalk.com/?q=site-archive/201201", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CVHKVWVVFL2C2MYFOFH2UWIUF75CMHVE", "length": 4245, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "classicalmusictalk.com", "title": "January 2012 | Classical Music Talk", "raw_content": "Read more about Stravinsky's \"Pulcinella\"\nRead more about Trollflojten - Overture\nEach of the classical composers have established themselves by the use of the operatic form. Like other forms of theater, the libretto within an opera tells a story. Operas are mainly sung in Italian if they were completed by any of the major composers.\nRead more about Forms of Classical Music: The Opera\nOne form of classical music that is very well-loved is the Symphony. It considered to be one of the best forms to showcase the talents of a composer. Composers such as Mozart and Haydn have created some of the best symphonies.\nA symphony is a piece of music that contains only one movement. \u201cSymphony\u201d is a Greek word that can be translated into \u201cagree in sound\u201d. Unlike the concerto in which there is discord between the soloist and the background instruments, a symphony has all instruments playing together in harmony. The first symphony was thought to have been played during the 1200s to 1400s.\nRead more about Forms of Classical Music: The Symphony\nClaude Debussy (1862-1918) is one of the most enduring composers of all time. His music\u2014typically is piano music\u2014is often used in music to signal some sort of unarticulated malaise, which is appropriate for Debussy\u2019s impressionist music. The French composer is known for his atmospheric music that transgresses traditional boundaries of pitch and key.\nRead more about Claude Debussy's \"Nocturnes\"\nClassical music can come in various forms and one form is known as the concerto. A concerto is one of the most well known presentations of classical music. You will hear it described as having three movements or three parts to it. During a concerto, a single instrument such as a flute, cello, piano or violin will give a solo while an orchestra accompanies the soloist.\nA concerto is quite beautiful to hear. While listening you will notice times during the movements in which the solo instrument is either playing against or in harmony with the orchestra. In some instances, the soloist will also play independently of the orchestra. The music is done in this way to weave a tale or tell a story. With the right instrument, concertos can evoke emotion within the listener. The solo instrument and the soloist is the main focus of this style of classical music. The musical piece is presented in such as way to show the genius and skill of the soloist and their interpretation of this piece of music.\nRead more about Forms of Classical Music: The Concerto\nDuring the 1930\u2019s and \u201840\u2019s, the Soviet regime wanted memorable melodies in its music, probably so it would be easier for the public to remember music in the form of propaganda. They wanted music to be understood by all, and this was achieved not only with a memorable melody, but also with the \u201cplain language of music,\u201d or more traditional musical harmonies created by Beethoven and other prominent Germans. They wanted music which conformed to the doctrine of Socialist Realism-or music that would serve as propaganda for the ideals of the state\u2014rather than \u201cnaturalism,\u201d which, although it leveled the plane of all Soviets, also puts them in a \u201cbeastly guise.\u201d\nRead more about Shostakovich's Soviet-Era Rebellion\nIf anyone has ever heard Pavarotti sings \u201cTurandot,\u201d they will know the composition within in it that is entitled \u201cNessun Dorma\u201d. This classical opera was written by Giacomo Puccini and is a tenor aria.\nIt is a beautiful piece of classical music that tells the story of the prince Calaf, who becomes enamored with a beautiful princess. The princess is not friendly, but is quite mean and cold towards his affections. The Princess\u2019 name is Turandot.\nRead more about Nessun Dorma\nSince the song \u201cLisztomania\u201d by Phoenix became such a hit in the past few years, I thought it would be worthwhile to speak about the man who inspired it. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer most well-known for his big hair and improvisatory piano stylings. Liszt composed much of the music we know today for himself to perform, making it extremely difficult for even a great pianist to perfect. He also was something of an innovator, using styles and techniques that didn\u2019t become popular until the 20th century.\nRead more about Franz Liszt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 180.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://claytontimes.com/stenger-page-feud-open-st-louis-county-auditors-office-position/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:46Z", "digest": "sha1:72N6AROMW2QDVZRO3JJMYGU6DE5U5UJD", "length": 3474, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "claytontimes.com", "title": "Stenger and Page feud over an open St. Louis County Auditor\u2019s office position \u2013 Clayton Times", "raw_content": "Stenger and Page feud over an open St. Louis County Auditor\u2019s office position\nTensions rise as St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger and Councilman Sam Page debate staffing issues for the St. Louis County Auditor\u2019s office.\nNext week Page plans to introduce a resolution that seeks to add more staffing to the County Auditor\u2019s office but Stenger argues the office already has adequate staff but lacks an efficient County Auditor in Mark Tucker.\nAccording to the resolution, Page states that recent media reports have raised concerns by the citizens of St. Louis County and that more oversight is needed of the St. Louis County government.\nThe resolution declares that Stenger and the council are in the middle of a dispute regarding Stenger\u2019s duty to cooperate with the County Council in providing adequate staff to the office of the St. Louis County Auditor.\nIn the resolution, Page intends to seek judicial relief to direct that Stenger proceeds with the hiring of sufficient audit staff and any other budgeted positions in the legislative branch of county government.\n\u201cSince April of this year, the Chief of Operations Glenn Powers has told us that he is freezing our ability to hire another County auditor. He\u2019s told us that the county executive is aware of his decision,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve discussed this with the County attorney and he has told us that it\u2019s fully within the authority of the county executive to impede our ability to hire county auditors. We don\u2019t believe a budgeted position should go unfilled.\nControversy first arose surrounding the St. Louis County Auditor\u2019s Office after an investigative report conducted by KMOV revealed Tucker owing thousands to the IRS.\nAdditionally, it was shown that Tucker hasn\u2019t completed any audits when on average the County Auditor performs eight audits a year.\nStenger said the St. Louis County Auditor\u2019s office previously operated close to a decade with just two audit staff and the problem lies with Tucker.\nPage addressed that issue by saying the office was disorganized and suggested an inadequate staff was part of the issue.\n\u201cI think that\u2019s part of the problem. Another part of the problem is the office has been in disarray and he\u2019s been organizing it,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s in the process of working through the request of proposals for an outside financial audit and that\u2019s an event that happens every three years. We\u2019re happy with his progress, he\u2019s doing what he needs to do to get this office organized. Regardless of that, we need to fill this auditor position and we need to move forward with it.\u201d\nStenger dismissed that issue and said it was St. Louis County taxpayers who would be bearing the responsibility of Tucker\u2019s supposed inability to do his job.\n\u201cI am very remised on providing a third auditor position. This is what I think is happening \u2014 I think for the first time in a decade, we don\u2019t have two auditors in that office because one of the auditors can\u2019t audit,\u201d he said. \u201cThe county council is asking the public to pay the price for Mr. Tucker to have someone to do his job. I think it\u2019s completely unfair to taxpayers and it can\u2019t be allowed to happen.\u201d\nFeature, PoliticsCouncilman Sam Page, County Executive Steve Stenger, office, resolution, St. Louis County, St. Louis County Auditor Mark Tucker, staff\nPrevious Previous post: Anheuser-Busch and Enel Green Power announce renewable energy partnership\nNext Next post: Ameren sends second wave of workers to assist Hurricane Irma recovery efforts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 7979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/09/join-fossil-free-fast-climate-resistance-movement-january-31/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SCC62XNQYZVBXLZTGO3HGC3MNEFO43ST", "length": 3140, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "cleantechnica.com", "title": "Join the Fossil Free Fast Climate Resistance Movement On January 31 | CleanTechnica", "raw_content": "Join the Fossil Free Fast Climate Resistance Movement On January 31\nOn January 30, the #Fake President will regale the nation with his dystopian plan for America in the coming year. It is bound to include many exhortations to Drill, Baby, Drill in every available square inch of the country, including the continental shelf off both coasts. Coal will definitely be on the agenda, along with more fracking, more pipelines, more oil wells, more mountain top removal, more methane in the atmosphere, and more subsidies for nuclear power.\nWhat you probably won\u2019t hear very much about is renewable energy, clean skies and rivers, or modernizing the electric grid with storage opportunities and digital technology. Those are things only certified \u201cLeave It In The Ground\u201d treehuggers \u2014 like those who read CleanTechnica \u2014 care about. If they are mentioned at all, it will be in the footnotes.\nThanks to the power of The Action Network, Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, will join with other progressive thinkers like Bernie Sanders, Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement, and Reverend Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus the day after the SOTU diatribe to deliver their own state of the environment message to the world. Called Fossil Free Fast: The Climate Resistance, the event will be live streamed at 8:00 pm EST on January 31.\nAccording to The Action Network website, \u201cThey will share stories on the urgency of the current political and climate crises, and light our path ahead: resist the Trump Administration\u2019s ongoing attacks on our climate, build power towards the 2018 and 2020 elections, and secure the lasting change we need through local action. Together, we will end the use of fossil fuels and usher in the fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.\u201d\nMany people are feeling alone and powerless in the age of ignorance personified by Donald Trump. What can one person do is a question often heard today. Those of us who care for the environment, care that our kids can play outdoors without gas masks, or care that America is leading the charge to burn every last molecule of fossil fuel left on the planet will find lots of other like minded souls participating in the online conversation on January 31.\nYou can join a group near you or form your own digital community to support Fossil Free Fast: The Climate Resistance. The Action Network is like Kickstarter or GoFundMe, but with a twist. It is not about raising money. It is about providing a platform where those who want to promote progressive causes and social justice can go to further their goals.\nWe at CleanTechnica believe this is just the sort of thing many of our readers will want to participate in. You can organize your own Climate Resistance meet up. Go to the website to learn how. It would be fantastic to see CleanTechnica readers all around the world supporting this idea. Who\u2019s in?\nTags: 350.org, Action Network, Bill McKibben, Climate Resistance, fossil fuels. Leave It In The Ground, State of the Union\nTrump Ignores Climate Change In State Of Disunion Speech \u2192\nThe Green New Deal Builds A Bridge To The Future, Not A Wall Around The Past \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/projects/implementation-quasi-3d-multiscale-modeling-framework-acme", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:37Z", "digest": "sha1:B6DQHPRYBVLZ6JAYJZHRFI2K2JY4KONB", "length": 3823, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "climatemodeling.science.energy.gov", "title": "Implementation of a Quasi-3D Multiscale Modeling Framework in ACME | Earth and Environmental System Modeling", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Projects \u00bb Implementation of a Quasi-3D Multiscale Modeling Framework in ACME\nImplementation of a Quasi-3D Multiscale Modeling Framework in ACME\nDavid A Randall - Colorado State University\nCelal S Konor - Colorado State University\nJoon-Hee Jung - Colorado State University\nIt is well recognized that the difficulty of properly simulating the effects of clouds and associated processes is one of the most significant limiting factors for global climate models. A large part of the problem is that the current climate models can not directly resolve or even permit clouds because of their low resolution. On the other hand, extensive climate simulations with global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs) will not be practical in the next decade.\nAs an intermediate solution, the Multi-scale Modeling Framework (MMF) was introduced to global modeling. In an MMF, the cloud-scale processes are explicitly simulated by embedding a 2D CRM as a \u201csuper-parameterization (SP)\u201d in each GCM grid column. This approach has shown its good ability to simulate various atmospheric phenomena that are closely linked to the cloud-scale processes, such as the diurnal cycle of precipitation, the Asian monsoon, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. In spite of its encouraging performance in simulating these phenomena, however, the current MMF has inherent deficiencies. To mitigate the deficiencies of the current SP, the Q3D MMF has been introduced by Jung and Arakawa. The Q3D MMF is a major advance over the current SP: 1) The CRMs are not confined into the dynamical-core grid boxes. 2) The CRMs sense the three-dimensional large- and cloud-scale environment. 3) Two perpendicular sets of CRMs are used. 4) The Q3D MMF can simulate the vertical momentum transport due to both convection and gravity waves. 5) The CRMs also resolve the steep surface topography along the channel direction. Due to these features, the Q3D MMF is scale-aware, which means that it converges to a global CRM as the resolution of the GCM is increased.\nIn this project we will implement the Quasi-3D Multiscale Modeling Framework (Q3D MMF) as a physics option in ACME. The proposed model will use ACME\u2019s spectral element dynamical core on a cubed sphere, and will be fully compatible with the ACME modeling and data infrastructure. In terms of CPU time, the computational cost of the proposed model will be slightly higher than the first-generation SP models, but much less than the cost of a GCRM.\nWe anticipate that the model will have the following unique capabilities, among others:\nThe ability to simulate both orographic and non-orographic gravity-wave drag by solving the equation of motion on the CRM\u2019s grid.\nThe ability to simulate orographically enhanced precipitation, including extreme precipitation events in mountainous terrain.\nThe ability to simulate the effects on ENSO of deep tropospheric momentum transport by convection and non-orographic gravity waves.\nThe ability to directly simulate convective transports of chemical tracers and aerosols. Deep tropical convection plays a crucial role in vertical transport of chemical tracers and aerosols. Although we do not plan to pursue this area ourselves, we will welcome collaborations with other ACME investigators who are working on chemical transports.\nThe Q3D version of ACME can bridge the gap between the much more expensive global cloud-resolving models (and conventional SP models). Extensive climate simulations with GCRMs will not be practical in the next decade or more. During that time, the Q3D MMF can be used as the best affordable alternative to a GCRM. The Q3D version of ACME will be a cutting-edge tool for simulations of current and future climates, including especially the hydrologic cycle on local and global scales, and extreme precipitation events in mountainous regions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/guest/2009/090520ab1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YV4GL4QSTSUR53NUX5FCGEW4IQM33YRY", "length": 1732, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cobweb.businesscollaborator.com", "title": "The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen Wed 20th May 2009 (25/05/09)", "raw_content": "It was a good start to the day. I found that I was staying in a Guest House on the same street as the Spiritualist Centre, the Samaritans office, a Seventh Day Adventist Church, and the Jobcentre. Everything you need at close quarters. After checking in, I wandered off to the Art Gallery to see \"installations\" of varying quality. A sleeping bag, for example. Or maybe it was just somebody's sleeping bag that they had left on the floor. After an hour or so of pondering the meaning of absolutely everything in the universe, I headed off to Pittodrie. A fine ground which, if you believe what you read, AFC are soon to be vacating. In the evening, I called at the pub just up the road from the Lemon Tree. I caught the first half of the UEFA Cup final and arrived at the venue just in time to see the last three songs from the support band. As usual, I didn't catch their name, but they did justice to The Doors' Break On Through. All in all this is one of the better venues where you might catch HMHB. Friendly staff and all that. I was interested to find out how Jerry Sadowitz had got on when he played there a couple of months previously. No great surprises from HMHB. Nigel was wearing a buttoned-shirt with a Crass logo, which drew one or two comments, and requests. The twenty-four hour garage now seems to be selling Lime sandwiches. Now there's a novelty item. Trumpton Riots seemed to be more mellow than normal. And I could be wrong, but spoonerisms may now be part of the act. I'm sure I heard reference to \"joshers out mogging\". Other than that, it was all much as you might expect.\nProblem Chimp\nAnd the three in the encore were\nA fine evening's entertainment. Shame about having to wait a whole day for the next gig.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://collectordaily.com/tom-wood-womens-market/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TTBHKRFJFS54XDWS5OD32S5AYENNW6YG", "length": 7959, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "collectordaily.com", "title": "Tom Wood, Women's Market - Collector Daily", "raw_content": "By Sabrina Mandanici / In Photobooks / October 11, 2018\nJTF (just the facts): Published in 2018 by Stanley/Barker (here). Hardcover, unpaginated (104 pages), with 66 color and duotone plates, 230mm x 300mm. In an edition of 1000 copies. Edited by Padraig Timoney and Tom Wood. Cover by Tamara Shopsin, designed by The Entente. (Cover and spread shots below.)\nComments/Context: I ignore the old saying, and pick-up the book for its cover. Simulating an \u201980s-style, in-your-face, shop\u2019s sale sign, its pink background makes the handwritten letters pop, and with just a glance you have all the information you need: Women\u2019s Market by Tom Wood for \u00a334.99. Not exactly a steal, you might think, but there is one picture, in particular, that makes me buy the book, regardless.\nThis photograph, like many in Women\u2019s Market, is saturated with people. Standing in the cramped aisle of an outdoor market, they pause and push, while their bodies and gestures are condensed and cropped by a wide-angle lens. Despite this inundation of people, three figures stand out. A woman and a girl turn away from the camera, engaging another teenage-girl, who looks straight at the photographer, and it is not flattering. All raise their hands: the woman pointing towards the teenage-girl, the girl touching her lips as if holding her breath, and the teen forming a hidden fist to complete the armor of her leather jacket. No words are needed \u2013 an admonition, a daunt, and a defense provide for a contested dialogue. They also project Wood\u2019s photographic philosophy: \u201cI think of a photograph as a receiver of sensation. Sensations are intangible, I try to organize them through the act of photography.\u201d\nHis statement, as well as the book\u2019s succinct afterword, reveal that taking pictures is \u201ca labor of love\u201d and \u201ca deeply personal experience\u201d for the Irish-born photographer, who moved to Britain as a child after his Catholic mother had married his Protestant father, and lived in Liverpool for many years.\nWood\u2019s process is never guided by a set theme or photographic aim, but the responsibility he feels for his subjects, that is, the people around him, and the ways in which they allow him to capture their day-to-day existence. \u201cI just go out the door and, whatever\u2019s real, I try and deal with that.\u201d As such, Wood\u2019s projects, which have been primarily shot in and around Liverpool, are rather epic undertakings, unfolding not only through years but decades, most famously captured in Looking for Love (1989), All Zones Off Peak (1998), or Photie Man (2005). Women\u2019s Market is no different.\nAs opposed to the book\u2019s title, the market\u2019s official name is Great Homer Street Market, indicating its location on the outskirts of Liverpool. While the locals affectionately call it \u201cGreatie\u201d, it is also known as Paddy market, Wood once said, because of the Irish vendors who once sold second-hand clothing there.\nWood first visited the place, with a girlfriend, in the early 1970s. Unlike anything he had seen before, \u201cIt spanned both sides of the road for a long way, mainly stocking secondhand goods in those days.\u201d He wanted to return, and when he ended up living in Liverpool in 1978, he did \u2013 although not right away. \u201cI knew that the market was there, but I didn\u2019t have the courage to go and photograph it straight away. At that point I mainly shot portraits, I hadn\u2019t captured candid images before.\u201d After a few visits in the early 1980s, he began to seriously document the market in 1987. The book\u2019s black-and-white and color photographs, comprising both portraits and candid images of mostly women, were taken with a small-format camera and outdated film on Saturday mornings between 1979 and 1999, before Wood would go to photograph another long-term project, football games \u2013 or rather, their predominantly male fans. Knowing about this visual (and sociological) contrast, even if invisible in Women\u2019s Market itself, is an elucidating detail when considering the book\u2019s premise and gendered title.\nMen do appear in Wood\u2019s images \u2013 most tenderly, for example, in the color shot of a young father, carrying his sleepy son amidst the market\u2019s winter crowd, looking somewhat resigned, into the camera. However, women and girls are clearly at the heart of the book. Spanning all ages, from toddlers to grannies, and the many stages in between, they look and evaluate, browse and bargain, for shoes, panties, children\u2019s clothes, and beauty products. At times, they are captured as close-ups, other times further away, outdoors and indoors (the indoor pictures were not taken at the \u201cGreatie\u201d, but the Birkenhead Indoor Market), usually in pairs or groups, never alone.\nBecause of the images\u2019 1980s vernacular \u2013 the heavy bangs, mullets and shags, the clothes\u2019 signature patterns and colors, the shoulder pads and cigarettes \u2013 it is easy to mistake them as mere documents of their time, providing a window into the market\u2019s unique atmosphere. If you look closely, however, you can see and sense that these female figures are not considered as stand-ins for their time, but for the individual mannerisms, the gestural interactions, they disclose. An oblivious gaze; a mouth puckered for a swift kiss; a hand that decisively grabs a wallet, maneuvers a stroller, or holds onto the arm of a friend or relative, are as revealing and intriguing to look at as the gentle or impatient touch of child, waiting to get up or move on.\nIn comparison, Women\u2019s Market, is perhaps not as strong and cohesive a body of work as Wood\u2019s previous publications \u2013 particularly when considering some of the images\u2019 feeling of distance, that, for him, is rather atypical, which appears in small waves throughout the sequence. It bestows the book with a less relational, more descriptive character.\nYet the book is relevant, not at least in the context of current debates concerning the perception and agency of women and their bodies. If the questions\u201cWho is allowed to speak\u201dand \u201cWho is listened to (and, ultimately, believed)\u201d are applied to photography, they change into \u201cWho is looking, how, and what for?\u201d. In an interview, Wood said that it was the market\u2019s \u201cmix of faces\u201d that fascinated him most. While he had tried to photograph people \u201caround the shops in the center of Liverpool\u201d, he did not really succeed in making satisfying images, as \u201cpeople had their guard up\u201d and were \u201cless open\u201d. At the market (as everywhere), Wood photographed openly and without hiding, and became more and more interested in \u201cthe sense people have when they are being stared at.\u201d If considered only in concert with the book\u2019s rather thoughtless title, this quote could tie him to either the chauvinist approach innate to Garry Winogrand\u2019s search-for-nipples photographs of Women Are Beautiful, or the often-cruel images of Martin Parr. In their very own way, for both of these photographers, the act of looking equals authority; it is canonical and unilateral. We also call it \u201cthe male gaze\u201d.\nWood\u2019s images, however, are neither sexualizing nor searching for demeaning moments. Instead, they are often gentle, always straightforward, sometimes humorous, but the joke is never on the people. In fact, a significant number of his images reflect the peoples\u2019 reaction towards the photographer \u2013 their tolerance or indifference, as well as their curiosity and, at times, even dissent (look out for \u201cthe finger\u201d). It is these small details that hint at their thoughts and emotions, actions and motivations, shaping the fleeting moments captured on camera. As a result, Wood, as well as his photographs, engage their protagonists as subjects not objects, as respected individuals who require a respectful perception.\nCollector\u2019s POV: Tom Wood is represented by Galerie Sit Down in Paris (here). Wood\u2019s prints have been inconsistently available in the secondary markets in recent years. Prices for those lots that have come up for sale have ranged from roughly $1000 to $5000.\nRead more about: Tom Wood, Stanley/Barker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 14882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://collinesblog.com/2019/01/21/music-monday-a-bohemian-rhapsody/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EZUUGTUPN5EBJMOM6HSQTFT2B4UHRPZS", "length": 3740, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "collinesblog.com", "title": "Music Monday: A Bohemian Rhapsody | Colline's Blog", "raw_content": "Music Monday: A Bohemian Rhapsody\nLast week Tuesday, my husband and I went on a date \u2013 that is, we went out without the children. It had been a while since we had been to the movies sans famille and he wanted to go and experience the big screen. We decided to go and see Bohemian Rhapsody \u2013 especially as I am a great fan of Queen\u2019s music.\nI loved the film and I could see why Rami Malek won a Golden Globe for his performance. The film showed me quite a bit of Freddie Mercury\u2019s life that I had not known before. As a teenager listening to his music, I had not been interested in knowing his background and personal history. Instead, my friends and I had enjoyed the music \u2013 dancing and singing along to his lyrics.\nThe story was interesting, the acting good, and the music incredible. I loved seeing the history of well-beloved songs. My favourite has always been Bohemian Rhapsody, even though the music critics did not respond favourably to it:\nWe Will Rock You was one that we used to sing at sports\u2019 events and it was interesting to learn of its genesis:\nI have always enjoyed listening to Find Me Somebody To Love:\nI could go on with my favourite Queen hits \u2013 but that would mean many posts. If I have the opportunity to watch the film again, I probably will. But in the meantime I will pop my CD featuring Queen\u2019s Greatest Hits into my CD player.\nWhich is your favourite Queen song?\nPosted in Film Review and Viewer Responses, Music, Music Monday\tbiographical filmBohemian RhapsodyfilmFreddie MercuryMusic MondayQueenweekly challenge\nNext > Book Review: China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan\n13 thoughts on \u201cMusic Monday: A Bohemian Rhapsody\u201d\nMy wife and I enjoyed the movie a lot \u2013 yes, there are some historical inaccuracies, done to present a more dramatic narrative, but that is par for ht course in movie bios, and they weren\u2019t so egregious to turn us off to what was a surprisingly intimate portrait of Mercury\u2026and Rami Malek did a terrific job\u2026as for favorite Queen songs, we have always loved \u201cRadio GaGa\u201d and \u201cSomebody To Love\u201d, but I also posted a story about the wine-quelled collaboration between the band and David Bowie \u2013 the epic \u201cUnder Pressure!\u201d\nhttps://johnrieber.com/2016/01/16/david-bowie-meets-queen-the-brilliant-wine-fuelled-madness-of-under-pressure/\nI definitely enjoy Somebody to Love \u2013 I can hear him singing in my head at this moment.\nP.S.: Thanks for the reference in your post on a book I can read to learn more about Freddie Mercury.\nMy Favourite Queen song is \u2018We are the Champions\u2019 and I\u2019ve been known to sing it so loudly in the car that people in other cars stare. My next favourite is Don\u2019t Stop me Now and I also love I want to break free.\nI love those songs too! And one of the best ways to enjoy them is to sing them with gusto to the (very) loud sounds coming from the speakers.\nOH Yes. \ud83d\ude42\nI live close the lake Geneva. I have been to Freddie Mercury\u2019s statue.. \ud83d\ude09\nNow that would be interesting to see.\nWe also enjoyed the film very much. Of course, the music was wonderful, but so was the story that I (like you) only know bits. At least this helped fill in the blanks and connected the dots. If I didn\u2019t know he was in the movie, Mike Meyers lines about Bohemian Rhapsody cracked me up!\nI don\u2019t know about you, but the movie has made me curious to know even more about his life.\nWe both know that movie are a condense version of anything. One of the interesting things for me was the way he reconciled with his father before Live Aid.\nPS: My concert series this weekend features Queen. \u2026 I invite you to stop by, \u2026 just don\u2019t duplicate a previously submitted song. \ud83d\ude09\nI was so glad to see that he made peace with his father as well.\nNow I am stopping off at your concert to listen to some Queen!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 13159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://columbusregion.com/news-events/press-releases/chipotle-mexican-grill-expands-in-franklin-county-creating-more-than-270-new-jobs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ODIQ2BENXYKGER7QGCHWLASVMTNEBNPF", "length": 4123, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "columbusregion.com", "title": "Chipotle Mexican Grill Expands in Franklin County, Creating More Than 270 New Jobs - Columbus 2020", "raw_content": "Home Press Releases Chipotle Mexican Grill Expands in Franklin County, Creating More Than 270 New Jobs\nChipotle Mexican Grill Expands in Franklin County, Creating More Than 270 New Jobs\nColumbus, Ohio \u2013 Chipotle Mexican Grill, an American chain of fast casual restaurants specializing in tacos, burritos and bowls made with real ingredients, has announced plans to expand its operations in Franklin County, investing more than $5.5 million and creating more than 270 new jobs. Hiring for communications, development, finance, food safety, human resources, legal, marketing, facilities operations and technology positions is underway.\nThe company is restructuring its national corporate footprint and plans to consolidate some of its operations in New York and Colorado to one location in Franklin County, growing its presence in the Region. This strategy will enable the company to streamline operations and position itself for future growth.\n\u201cWe are excited to grow our operations and strengthen our workforce in Central Ohio,\u201d said Brian Niccol, CEO of Chipotle. \u201cThe Columbus Region offers us the right combination of a diverse talent pool and innovation to continue Chipotle\u2019s national and global growth.\u201d\nSince its founding 25 years ago, Chipotle has grown to nearly 75,000 employees nationally, with fast casual restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and France. Recently, the company announced the relocation of its headquarters from Denver, Colorado to Newport Beach, California.\n\u201cWe and our partners at Columbus 2020 are excited Chipotle plans to bring significant operations and more than 270 new jobs to the Region,\u201d said Joe Needham, director for food and agribusiness at JobsOhio. \u201cChipotle is one of the most recognized brands in the country and this expansion in Ohio will play a major role in its future growth.\u201d\nThe Columbus Region is home to 196 food and beverage establishments that together generate $2.2 billion in annual economic output. The Region is also a top choice for company headquarters, including fast food giants like Wendy\u2019s and White Castle, as well as 14 Fortune 1000 companies and several Fortune 500 companies. Franklin County is home to more than 1.2 million residents, making it the most populous county in Ohio.\nChipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically-cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without added colors, flavors or other additives. Chipotle had more than 2,450 restaurants as of June 30, 2018 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants. With more than 70,000 employees passionate about providing a great guest experience, Chipotle is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. Chipotle is committed to making its food more accessible to everyone while continuing to be a brand with a demonstrated purpose as it leads the way in digital, technology and sustainable business practices. Steve Ells, founder and executive chairman, first opened Chipotle starting with a single restaurant in Denver, Colorado in 1993. For more information or to place an order online, visit www.chipotle.com.\nAs the economic development organization for the Columbus Region, Columbus 2020\u2019s mission is to generate opportunity and build capacity for economic growth across 11 Central Ohio counties. In 2010, hundreds of business and community leaders developed the Columbus 2020 Regional Growth Strategy, and the Columbus Region is now experiencing the strongest decade of growth in its history. The Columbus 2020 team conducts business outreach, promotes the Columbus Region to market-leading companies around the world, conducts customized research to betterunderstand the ColumbusRegion\u2019s competitiveness, and works to leverage public, private and institutional partnerships. Funding is received frommore than 300 private organizations,localgovernments, academic institutions and JobsOhio. Learn more atColumbusRegion.com.\nChipotle Mexican Grill Media Contact", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 7040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/The_Perhapanauts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:XR4X2HLQEHW37PN6OTRZVGAGFZ4BVGDK", "length": 2457, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "comics.fandom.com", "title": "The Perhapanauts | Comic Book Series | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Humor, Adventure, Horror\nCover to The Perhapanauts: Second Chances #1\nThe Perhapanauts is published by Image Comics.\nThe Perhapanauts: Danger Down Under! #4: 06 Feb 2013\nThe Perhapanauts: Danger Down Under! #5: 05 Jun 2013\nPerhapanauts: Danger Down Under #5 Edit\nThe Perhapanauts: Molly's Story Edit\nThe Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular Edit\nThe Perhapanauts #6 Edit\nThe Perhapanauts Annual #1 Edit\nSecond Chances Edit\nThe Perhapanauts: First Blood - Collects #1-4 of the original mini-series. \"There are places in this world where the fabric of reality has worn thin, where strange and terrible creatures have crossed over to lurk in the shadows and the night. There is an organization dedicated to finding these creatures and sending them back from whence they came, sealing the rift behind them, and maintaining the integrity of those borders. The organization is called BEDLAM. Its agents are . . . The Perhapanauts!\" - Preview - WorldCat - ISBN 159307607X\nThe Perhapanauts: Second Chances - Collects #1-4 of the mini-series Second Chances. \"Beset by the voracious eating-machines called the SKORM, our heroes are left with many questions when an envoy of Perhapanauts from the future come back to rescue their former selves! Are they still on the path to their 'destiny' after they confront the enigmatic DOVER DEMON and travel through the bizarre dimension confluence called . . . the 'PERHAPS' . . . ?\" - Preview - WorldCat - ISBN 1593077971\nThe Perhapanauts, vol. 0: Dark Days - Collects the First Blood and Second Chances miniseries. - WorldCat - ISBN 1607063123\nThe Perhapanauts, vol. 1: Triangle - Collects #1-5 & Annual #1 of the ongoing series. - WorldCat - ISBN 1607060167\nThe Perhapanauts, vol. 2: Treasure Obscura - Collects #5.5, 6, Halloween Spooktacular, & Molly's Story. - WorldCat - ISBN 1607066580\nThe Perhapanauts, vol. 3: Danger Down Under - Collects the Danger Down Under miniseries. - WorldCat - ISBN 1607068494\nWriter/Creator: Todd Dezago. Artist/Creator: Craig Rousseau\nFirst published by Dark Horse in 2005. Moved to Image in 2008.\n26 Oct 2009 - Talking Comics with Tim: Todd Dezago\n11 Mar 2009 - The Perhapanauts: with Todd Dezago (video)\n25 Mar 2008 - Rousseau's Perhapanauts Return\n10 Jan 2008 - DeZago's Monster Fighting Perhapanauts Return\n04 Aug 2006 - WWC: Todd Dezago Goes Exploring With The Perhapanauts\nThe Perhapanauts - Official website\nRetrieved from \"https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/The_Perhapanauts?oldid=59505\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 4827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://computer.howstuffworks.com/moores-law6.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HRDCB6CVWKAS2MPQJIHXAXXG2RGF6O5W", "length": 2241, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "computer.howstuffworks.com", "title": "The Future of Moore's Law | HowStuffWorks", "raw_content": "The Future of Moore's Law\nEven Gordon Moore has questioned how long the cycle of innovation and production can keep up the frenzied pace of the last four decades. He has also expressed amazement at the way companies like Intel find new ways to work around what initially seemed like an insurmountable problem. Will there ever be an end to Moore's Law?\nThe answer is yes, but it's difficult to pin down when that might happen. For one, we could hit a technical barrier that prevents engineers from finding a way to make smaller components. But even if we don't encounter a technical barrier, economics could come into the equation. If it's not economically feasible to produce circuits with smaller transistors there may be no reason to pursue further development. Or we could bump up against the fundamental laws of physics -- like the speed of light, for instance.\nThe problem with predicting a specific date when one or more of these barriers will stop progress is that we have to base it on what we know today. But every day engineers are learning new ways to design, build and produce circuits. What we know tomorrow may make the things that seem impossible today completely achievable.\nIs Moore's Law even relevant today? The era of the personal computer has been dominated by a sense that the consumer needs the latest and greatest machine on the market. But today, some people are questioning that philosophy. Part of that is due to changes in consumer behavior -- many computer owners use their computers for simple tasks like browsing the Web or sending e-mail. These applications don't put a heavy demand on the computer's hardware.\nAnother reason powerful PCs aren't as necessary is the rise in popularity of cloud computing. Cloud computing shifts the burden of processing and storing data to a network of computers. Users can access applications and information using the Internet, so they don't necessarily need a powerful machine of their own to take advantage of cloud computing.\nAs a result, devices like smartphones and netbooks are becoming more popular. These devices don't have the raw processing power of the latest desktop and laptop computers. But they still allow users to access the applications and data they need.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://constative.com/tag/mongolia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JM4V2MY5ONMQO7C7NUC63VD7YH7BS4HJ", "length": 128, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "constative.com", "title": "Mongolia | Constative.com", "raw_content": "10 Weird Facts About Mongolia You Need To Know\nMongolia is a country bordered by China and Russia. It is known for its vast and\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 151.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://consumerist.com/2014/05/15/fcc-votes-to-approve-net-neutrality-rules-with-fast-lanes-intact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ODVJ3WGOVO5UUVYSTGTB46S4LD3BTHKZ", "length": 5792, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "consumerist.com", "title": "FCC Votes To Approve Net Neutrality Rules With Fast Lanes Intact \u2013 Consumerist", "raw_content": "FCC Votes To Approve Net Neutrality Rules With Fast Lanes Intact\nsigh fcc open internet fast lanes net neutrality tom wheeler\nFrom this morning\u2019s protest outside the FCC building in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kate Cox)\nAs predicted, the five FCC commissioners voted 3-2 today to approve Chairman Tom Wheeler\u2019s latest version of the Open Internet rule \u2014 better known as net neutrality \u2014 with a slightly revised take on so called Internet \u201cfast lanes,\u201d which would have given Internet service providers like Verizon and Time Warner Cable the ability to charge content companies extra for higher priority access to end users.\nThe proposal as passed by the commission does not explicitly throw open the door for ISPs to start charging for fast lanes, but it doesn\u2019t throw a deadbolt on that door either.\nInstead, it assumes that all such pay-for-priority deals are against the rules \u201cuntil proven otherwise,\u201d meaning ISPs would be given the opportunity to plead for an exception that would allow a fast lane.\nThe FCC views this presumption of illegality as a \u201crebuttable\u201d one, so ISPs are free to make these deals so long as they can justify them to the commission. Others believe it may be as simple as making fast lanes available (but not necessarily affordable) to all in order to get around the exclusivity issue. If an ISP offers Netflix and some startup called Jim\u2019s Streaming Service the same fast lane access for the same price, but only Netflix can afford it, that\u2019s not really an \u201cexclusive\u201d deal in the strictest sense of the word.\nAnd it would still have the same effect of only allowing only the wealthiest content providers access to the end users. This flies in the face of the basis of net neutrality, which is the idea that ISPs are supposed to be non-discriminating conduits carrying data back and forth between end-users and content content providers without regard to the content or source/destination of that data.\n\u201cThe FCC tried to soften the blow by asking better questions about net neutrality and \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 deals, but the underlying plan is still far from neutral,\u201d explains our colleague Delara Derakhshani, policy counsel for Consumers Union. \u201cNet neutrality means all online content is treated equally. But under these rules, Internet providers could make one site available faster than another. Your provider could play favorites among the online companies that pay to play. These proposed rules could eventually mean an end to the free and open Internet as we\u2019ve known it.\u201d\nThe proposal does include the previously reported last-minute additions from Wheeler that seek public opinion on a couple of matters. First, if there should be an outright ban on fast lanes. The answer, in our opinion, is yes. Of course, a federal appeals court made it clear earlier this year that the FCC doesn\u2019t currently have the authority to enact such a ban because the commission previously screwed up and miscategorized broadband as an information service instead of a telecommunication service.\nWhich brings us to the second question up for discussion in the FCC proposal \u2014 whether or not to reclassify broadband. Neutrality supporters have largely agreed that this is the best and only way to give the FCC the authority to keep the Internet neutral. In defending his decision not to go that route, Wheeler has previously stated it was a matter of expediency; get some half-arsed version of net neutrality on the books now rather than start a protracted legal battle with ISPs over reclassification.\nBut as I argued the other day, this is a battle that needs to happen, and it should happen now. The Internet is no longer a place for chat rooms and e-mail is a vital part of our personal, cultural, and economic infrastructure that needs to be recognized as having as much impact \u2014 if not more \u2014 than the already regulated telephone industry.\n\u201cWe still believe the best way to ensure an open Internet and protect consumers is reclassifying the Internet as a public utility,\u201d says Derakhshani. \u201cWe are going to reach out to consumers across the country and urge people to speak out during the comment period. A handful of powerful Internet providers like Comcast and Verizon shouldn\u2019t be able to dictate the future of the Internet.\u201d\nOne additional question being asked during the public comment period is whether or not to extend the full Open Internet rule to wireless providers. The 2010 version of the rule \u2014 the one gutted by the appeals court \u2014 were more lenient toward wireless providers, but considering how omnipresent wireless data has become and will continue to become, many advocates believe that wireless data needs to be regulated in the same was as terrestrial broadband.\nBecause there are so many questions and so many stakeholders, the FCC is extending the public comment period on this proposal and these questions to four months, split into two sections: For the first 60 days (until July 15), the FCC will continue accepting initial comments on this proposal. It will then extend comments for another 57 days until Sept. 10 for people to file reply comments.\nThere have already been more than 30,000 comments filed on this issue, and now that the FCC has officially asked the questions about banning fast lanes and reclassifying broadband, we hope that people will continue to express their opinions in order to counter the propaganda being tossed at lawmakers by the cable and telecom industries.\nHow To Tell The FCC Just What You Think Of Its Plan To Break Net Neutrality\nPrevious Today Is The Day To Rectify The Injustice You\u2019re Doing Yourself By Not Getting Our Newsletter\nNext Chipotle Bags, Cups Now Come With Original Musings By Literary Minds Printed On Them\nNext Up: Chipotle Bags, Cups Now Come With Original Musings By Literary Minds Printed On Them", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 7595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://contractorquotes.us/floating-flooring-options/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:4XTN7ZCQOSRNIV5OP2DUAOMZY75Z25CP", "length": 6299, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "contractorquotes.us", "title": "4 Common Floating Flooring Options, Pros & Cons, What is it?", "raw_content": "Contractor Quotes: Let's Make Your Project a SuccessBlogFlooring options4 Things to Know about Floating flooring options\nFor the homeowner who is not a contractor the term floating floor can be misleading. A floating floor is not a magical apparatus that floats everyone above the floor. A floating floor is one that is not fastened to the floor beneath it.\nIt rests above whatever the substrate is, and instead it attaches to each other.\nThis means it can be put into place above tile flooring, existing wooden floors, or the basic plywood subfloor. This eases some of the construction of the flooring process, while also making some new problems unique to floating flooring. There are 4 things to know about floating flooring options that have to be kept in mind when making this choice.\n1. Level it out\nPrior to installation of the flooring there needs to be some prep work completed. This type of flooring requires preparation of the surface below your floating floor before being put into place. Any of the floating floor choices described are even less forgiving than floors that are attached directly to the floor below. This is because in click and lock systems, or tongue and groove glued systems, even a small bump in the floor can compromise the integrity of the floor as a whole. So make sure your subfloor is flat and level before doing anything.\n2. Keep it out\nThe fact that the floor floats means that care has to be taken to make sure it has something good to rest on. This means taking care to ensure that there is an adequate moisture barrier in place, both to protect the material and help prevent expansion. Also due to the fact the floor is not fastened to the substrate it can shift and squeak when walked on. This can be fixed by placing a pad on the ground beneath the flooring. This pad provides some sound and thermal insulation, as well as giving the floor a slightly more forgiving base to rest on.\n3. Measure it out\nFor long term viability the floor must fit. Now you might think this means it must be the exact size of the room. However, floating floors have a unique issue, the issue is expansion. While the different types of flooring may appear to be individual pieces, once connected or laid in place they must be thought of as one giant piece. This large piece of flooring will expand and contract as depending on moisture levels and the temperature of the room.\nThis means you must create your floor with room to expand, and make sure that it can do so without binding up in places. A floating floor is made to fit under the molding of the floor with a gap between the edge of the floor and the wall. That molding is attached to the wall not the floor itself giving the floor the ability to expand.\nThe last thing to remember about fit is placing cabinets. In a traditional flooring situation you can and should put the floor down and then place the cabinetry on top of it. A floating floor is the opposite of this idea. The floor can buckle if the cabinetry blocks the ability of the floor to expand and contract. A floating floor must be made to fit around the cabinetry with the same expansion areas.\n4. Choose the Material\nThe labor involved in the flooring materials available for a floating floor are a subset of those that are available for normal floors. Let\u2019s take a quick look at the different flooring that you have to choose from.\nHardwood is one of the options contractors warn home owners against when it comes to getting a floating flooring option. There are a few reasons for this. First and foremost is that it expands and contracts far more than other options. Hardwood is very susceptible to the moisture of their surroundings. There are also very few options in the click and lock systems for hardwoods. Glue systems often are less than ideal as well, most expensive hardwoods do not glue together. With the lack of options and the expansion issues hardwood is not recommended for floating floors.\nEngineered hardwood is composed of layers of particle board, with a final layer of hardwood and can be made in a floating variety. This is a much better option when creating a floating floor. There are many systems available for engineered hardwood. These systems require no glue or clips in order to be fit together. There are click together systems where boards simply lock together and so are very good for the home owner looking to install a flooring system.\nLaminates, similar to engineered hardwood, laminates are composed of layers of particle board glued together. The difference is the final layer is plastic, the plastic can be printed with many different styles and appearances. This allows you many different options that can fit the style of your rooms. The top layer can be made to look like wood, bamboo, or ceramic tile. Laminate flooring also comes in the most popular click and lock systems.\nTile is another possibility that might be a surprise is tile. Traditionally tile is on the far side of the spectrum for the home owner looking to do it themselves. The requirements for spacing the tiles exactly, mixing the grout, the mortar, and getting it all correct before things go dry is difficult for the home owner to do correctly. Tile can\u2019t normally be floated on its own, there is no way to connect the tiles to each other. Several companies have gotten around this by using plastic trays. The tiles sit into the trays and these trays click into each other. The installer simply adds grout between the tiles.\nFloating floors can be a great option for a home owner. They can be placed over existing flooring and so are able to be installed without additional costs for removing the old floor. As long as careful consideration is given to the information we have just looked at your new flooring can be a success. A floating floor can give a room a new floor and your home a new look. One of the major benefits for a floating floor is that when your floor needs to be replaced in the future the demo time and cost is far less than with a traditional floor.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_floor\nhttp://www.flooring-professionals.com/why-floating-floors-fail/\nhttp://www.ehow.com/about_5037757_floating-floor.html\nhttp://www.floorfacts.com/floating-floors.asp\nhttp://www.uptownfloors.com/installation/floating-general.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coppershadetree.com/wsx/wsx_photo_viewer.php?album_id=asmar", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AS3QK26VVZHJMQAVDT6DGH3VPKXXFH57", "length": 76, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "coppershadetree.com", "title": "Lina Asmar", "raw_content": "Lina Asmar\nArches - 24\" x 20\"\nLast Supper 26\" x 9\"\nWild and Free - 30\" x 24\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corsinievents.com/en/dreamseriously/event-innovators/production-manager-interview-lorenzo-corsini/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:40Z", "digest": "sha1:FPVEDGNDOJTNNNFN6UIZBU6PXFOTW6BD", "length": 4631, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "corsinievents.com", "title": "The perfect setting: an interview with Production Manager Lorenzo Corsini", "raw_content": "Home > Dreamseriously > Event Innovators > The perfect set-up: an interview with Production Manager Lorenzo Corsini\nWhether it's a convention, a corporate event or a wedding, what is the role of a production manager?\nProducing an event, with an ad hoc set up, it is not an easy task.\nIt requires study, preparation and competence. Over the years Corsini.Events has managed to become a reference in the production management and preparation of many events. All this thanks not only to the quality of the Corsini Team employees, but also to the timely coordination of Lorenzo Corsini.\nQ: \u201cArchitect, co-founder of Corsini.Events, discoverer of vintage wines and experienced Production manager: what does this work mean?\u201d\nA: \u201cSetting up an event, coordinating its production implies creating something new that does not exist today but tomorrow it will be a reality. Because it is not just an idea but it becomes a material object, a reality.\nFantasy must find a strong anchor in reality, yes. With Corsini.Events we have repeatedly elaborated scenes with innovative and unusual materials that until that moment had never been used for a specific purpose.\u201d\nA: \u201cI have in mind when we had to built a gargantuan dimension sofa for an event. It seemed evident that it could not have been filled with polyurethane foam \u2013 a typical material for living room sofas. As a production manager I had to take care of material, of proportions, of its securing, of making it accessible through a staircase suitable for guests, all answering to an aesthetic requirement and logistic spaces of the client \u201c.\nNew Generation Festival \u2013 Production Management by Corsini.Events\nQ: \u201cIf for a company event in Florence, a music concert, a meeting or even the organization of a wedding in Tuscany, your client chooses a place that is dear to him, what are the elements that a production manager is looking for? immediate? I mean, what are the strengths and weaknesses that emerge from the expert eye? \u201c\nA: \u201cOften in the eyes of customers, the production is not seen: we imagine a location venue that presents the spaces already needed for the moments of the event from the guests side. My role, the role of a production manager in this case is to highlight the possible lack of services and back office: bathrooms, kitchens, warehouse melters, parking \u2026 It becomes my task to make up spaces for these \u201cminus\u201d and to produce the necessary spaces. The location must serve properly guests and suppliers, possibly covering the gap with a different budget to create spaces and structures that facilitate the work of the workers involved.\nQ: \u201cSome difficulties in production? An event, a series of events that have tested the technical and organizational skills of Corsini.Events?\u201d\nA: \u201cIt might happen in three or four days events \u2013 weddings, corporate dinners, performances and artistic shows \u2013 that with hundreds of people involved, even by planning everything minute minute by minute, there is something unexpected. An effective production manager has to be on time always. Various randomness and tiredness can be there, but what distinguishes the professionalism of the production manager is its constant presence: at least for me, for Corsini.Events this element is essential. At any times, in any settings: in order to avoid any nasty surprises or in the unfortunate event there is something unpredictable, so that it is possible to correct everything immediately.\nProduction Manager \u2013 Corsini.Events in Florence for NGF\nQ: \u201cIf you have to give an advice to better manage events as a production manager, what do you feel to suggest?\u201d\nA: \u201cFirst of all it takes courage to make decisions, and a great production manager should follow great reactivity and perseverance. Of course, some moments can be difficult, but having a great reactivity allows you to identify the problem: in this way the product manager will be able to make the decision more appropriate for each type of event.\nBecause, what I would like to underline is that the professionalism is also in understanding what is the most important thing among the various elements that make up an event. Without transferring any concern to customers.\u201d\nAmong the last events that saw Lorenzo and Tommaso Corsini as protagonists, the Florence Ambassador Award 2018, which took place on Wednesday 10 October in the Salone de\u2019Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, promoted by the Councilor for Economic Development, Tourism, Trade Fairs and Congresses of the Municipality of Florence in collaboration with Firenze Convention Bureau and Firenze Fiera.\n\"Thought is like the ocean, you can not lock it. \"Lucio Dalla.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cou.org.np/message-from-founder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:31Z", "digest": "sha1:DHTB6SRQRSFJDUEXR2HO2W4B5R36LUWA", "length": 8113, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "cou.org.np", "title": "Message From Founder", "raw_content": "Message from Founder/Chairman\nName: Tsering Gyalpo\nProject name: Children of the Universe (Orphanage)\nLocation: Kathamndu, Nepal\nAddress:tseringhosher@gmail.com\nFrom: Originally from Tibet but living here in Nepal as Tibetan Refugee\nNamaste! My Name is Tsering Gyalpo, I will quickly introduce myself to let you know what is the purpose of me running the Children of the Universe Home together with my staff. I was born at a small Village called, Khamjim (Gyageling Tibetan Camp) Rasuwa,which is north of Kathmandu, close to the Nepal -Tibet Border. My father is from Tibet, but I was born here in Nepal with a Nepali mother. I grew up in a very poor family with 8 family members. We all slept, cooked and lived in a single room. That was really a tuff life at that village because of the poorness, in addition to that we Tibetan refugee have no any freedom and rights to do something for ourselves. I completed my Primary school at Shyabru Bensi,the school was run by the Tibetan government. After the Primary level, I really wanted to go to further school at Kathmandu. but my parents could not afford my studies. So, I just stay at village two years, looking after the cows and yaks that we had. Once while I was grazing cows at the jungle, I met a Dutch group who came to trekking on that area. Among the Dutch group, one of the Dutch man talked with me and he asked me where I live, and what I was doing... I explained him and showed him the room where we lived. Then the Dutch man, Mr. Jos William, made a promise that he will help me with financing my study at Kathmandu, so I went to the Nobel Academy. He helped me with all what I need at school. The Dutch man also helped my other brothers for their study too.... I am very grateful to this gentleman and his family supporting me many years, otherwise I will still be sitting and watching after the cow to wonder if that is all in my life.\nAfter my school complete, I did trekking tour guiding for few years. But I had to stopped the tour guide even I like though because I need to make trekking license and to make a trekking license, I need Nepali citizenship that I don't have. Then I was running a Private Boarding school for 6 years, as a founder and principal. I could have built up on that Boarding school and have a well paid life, but due to my refugee statues I could not get any further but also more importantly it did satisfy me, I wasn\u2019t going for the money, I wanted to to something for other people, like Jos did for me once.\nI am father of my daughter, Dolma, age13 and a boy, Urgyen 9, and I adopted by chance a boy, Ananda Rana Magar who has been with us for 9 years.\nI came up with the Idea of the Children of the Universe Home at the year 2011 by the help from different western people and organizations\nMy truly believe is and philosophy in life is to help others to achieve the best in there lives, specially for the children. Helping others and making good karma in this life and coming live. Money is important in our life but having peace in inner heart and satisfy is what is important to me.\nWe all are born naked and we will leave this world without taking anything with us. There will only be the experiences and the good and bad things we have done in life.\nI like calling it \u201cSimple Living with High thinking\u201d which is my motto\u2026\u2026\nMy home Nepal is a Multi language and Multi heritage country. There is also a caste system here in Nepal, similar to India. Nepal has 4 Major castes and 36 sub different caste systems. I remembered that when I was at class 8, I was to the village called Khadkabhanjang, where all the people from the Biswourkarma caste, which is the lowest caste here in Nepal with only certain rights and professions allowed to work in. That made me sad and it came in my mind that I need to help for the low caste people and poor people from the Nepal. So, I started Children of the universe for the poor children, under prevailed children, children who has no parents, disable parent\u2019s children and refugee children from the high Himalayan region with children from all caste and I don\u2019t make a difference. It was so difficult for me to start the children of the Universe on the financial side, due to the government is not supporting at all. When the home finally was finished, the roof was taken away by a big storm, and the water was coming in damaging more, when we finally got the roofing repaired again. Thanks to the sponsors and donors, the money was pretty much gone so not much left for food and sending them to school. Then I made a flyers and attached at Kathmandu Guest House. Then luckily some people from the Singapore helped me with the financial\u2026 \u2026 than it was the 24thof April 2014, the earth was shacking just for a few seconds, and so many good things that where achieved got destroyed in just moments. The earthquake left thousands of people dead, nobody was hurt at the children\u2019s home but it was badly damaged. All the children were safe but no home. So, we shifted to a new area, Sangle Khola\u2026 We lived there in 3 small tents and we were 33 children at the time, we stayed in the tent almost 16 months, with water running through the tent, and insects coming and going as they please, when the sun was shining it was hot as hell. it was the most terrible life for me and all the kids. But we were still managing everyday life and the children where going to school. Now, we have a much better home by the help from different countries and so many people from all over the world\u2026. God bless them. Thanks for all the help to us. Now, we have 50 children from the age group 4 to 16 years and all of them go to school and me and my staff try to give them the best start in life that we can.\nNepal is one of the poor country all over the world. So, there are so many children from the poor family. The government of Nepal don\u2019t help to these children. We all the children here at home depends on the help from people outside.\nWe offer good and friendly family environment, your own room to sleep, good internet, hot shower, Tibetan and Nepali meals, 4 meals a day \u2026. Children love playing with you, and learning new things. We really love to have you stay with us, a few days or weeks and months\u2026\nWhat are your responsibilities? You will be working with the children and playing with them which is the most thing we want you to have with them. Spending time to talk with them speaking English. Help them to get up in the morning, taking the smaller child to bathroom and help them with washing their face, brushing teeth and shower. Supporting the children with there homework and extra activities will be very useful. Get the children dressed before they go to school. Helping to clean bathroom, dinning room and surrounding and helping with the food preparation in the kitchen. Taking the children to the school bus and picking them and help the smaller children to carry their bags or just take their hand while walking. Washing, cleaning and painting, garden work, working on the website or repairing at the children home is always useful.\nWe offer for the Volunteers to manage short and long trek according to the wish of the Volunteers. It is the best way to be showing around the country to have a local guide you show around here Kathmandu, the Valley and the Himalayan even places that tourists normally don\u2019t find. You will be all safe and all will be explained to you. Picking up and drop to the Airport is available, and the hole trekking or staying with the children\u2019s home is organized by us. We hope it is fair enough to as a charge of 20$ US Dollar per day for food and accommodations. We offer a fair pricing on the trekking, not comparable to the overpaid agencies\u2019 and underpaid Porters at Kathmandu. For all the profit from the trekking is going directly to the Children of the Universe for food, paying school and for all the others things that children need. You don\u2019t need to worry, you will just love staying with us, it will be a lifetime experience and a true insight into Nepal everyday life, and the children their laughter and smile will capture your heart.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 9316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cpeip.fsu.edu/earlysteps/module1/lesson3/13.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:AL74AP4NU6RPXDYR4BHNXSYNAOGA7E55", "length": 791, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cpeip.fsu.edu", "title": "CMS Early Steps Orientation Training ~ Module 1: Lesson 3", "raw_content": "Operational procedures are in place to facilitate evaluation of the effectiveness and adequacy of Early Steps and to track and evaluate the outcomes of early intervention services. Early Steps has implemented a focused, data-driven, quantitative, outcome-based continuous improvement and focused monitoring system to determine compliance with a defined set of performance indicators and to assist Local Early Steps in achieving compliance within a specified time period. The design of the system provides for continuous improvement of the process through ongoing planning, implementing, analyzing, improving and evaluating. 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(Photo courtesy Amber Brown/SRP)\nBy Laurel Morales | KJZZ\nLECHEE CHAPTER HOUSE, Navajo Nation \u2013 Just south of Page, three smokestacks pierce the horizon like a pitchfork. They belong to the West\u2019s largest coal-fired power plant, the Navajo Generating Station. Beyond it, red sandstone mesas tower over a glimmering Lake Powell.\nJerry Williams has worked for the Navajo Generating Station for 38 years. He also is president of the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation. (Photo by Laurel Morales/KJZZ)\nJerry Williams has worked at NGS for 38 years. Two weeks ago, he had to make a tough decision: stay with the plant, which is slated for closure late next year, or accept a reassignment in the Phoenix area.\n\u201cI thought that I\u2019d be the last one to turn that switch off and say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re done,\u2019 but it didn\u2019t turn out that way,\u201d he said.\nWilliams took a job at a natural gas facility in Phoenix owned by Salt River Project, the utility that operates the Navajo Generating Station.\n\u201cI\u2019m short of retirement,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI\u2019m 58 years old. If I was going to retire next year, not being 65, we get penalized for every year that you retire early.\u201d\nWilliams said his wife refuses to go to Phoenix, so he plans to drive back and forth on the weekends to LeChee.\nClosure set for December 2019\nSRP last year announced it planned to shut down the 2,250-megawatt plant ahead of schedule, because producing electricity from natural gas is so much cheaper and cleaner than from coal.\nNavajo leaders are scrambling to find a new owner for the Navajo Generating Station. Officials with the Hopi Tribe have asked the federal government to buy electricity from the plant to avoid a shutdown. The Hopi Nation lies within the vast Navajo Nation, and both tribes have relied heavily on the coal industry for the past 40 years.\nNo other job on the Navajo Nation pays as well as NGS, which began producing electricity in 1974. The revenue, taxes and royalties from coal make up about a third of the Navajo operating budget and most of the Hopi budget. The plant supplies 90 percent of the power required to pump Colorado River water through the Central Arizona Project, which serves the Phoenix and Tucson areas.\nHopes were raised last summer when the New York investment company Avenue Capital Group and Middle River Power of Illinois considered buying the plant, but the groups dropped the idea in September. Unless something changes, the plant\u2019s last day is scheduled for Dec. 22, 2019.\nAbout a third of the plant\u2019s 500 employees have taken new jobs with SRP in metro Phoenix. And more may follow.\n\u201cA few people I know, they turned their offers down,\u201d Williams said. \u201cA couple of them I know are close to retirement. And some of them, they have families, they have kids here in the school system and some of them have property they bought here.\u201d\nSo they will settle for minimum-wage jobs or live off the land as their ancestors have done for generations.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no comparison,\u201d Sean Tee said from his new apartment in Mesa, where SRP relocated him a few months ago. \u201cThe job that NGS provided was you could live beyond your means. I was able to provide a pretty good life for my siblings.\u201d\nJonathan Miller left to go to school but returned. \u201cIf you look at the economic condition of the reservation, the only thing that holds this nation together is our natural resources,\u201d Miller said. (Photo by Laurel Morales/KJZZ)\nTee, who works at a natural gas facility, still sends money back home. He misses his family and animals in Tuba City.\n\u201cI like the rural life, where there\u2019s a still a dirt road and there\u2019s less noise, less traffic, less people,\u201d he said. \u201cI had a few roping steers, four horses. We always had sheep, but the sheep didn\u2019t last that long because we\u2019d eat them.\u201d\nTee would like to go back home someday.\nJonathan Miller, on the other hand, said he\u2019s tried making the reservation home.\nElders often tell young Navajos to go ahead and leave the reservation: Go to school or learn a skill, but bring that knowledge back to your people.\nBefore working for the plant, Miller ran the Boys & Girls Club in LeChee.\n\u201cThat was my mentality,\u201d he said. \u201cYou come home, and you see a socially unfunctional society. It\u2019s basically because of the breakdown of the family.\u201d\nMiller said on top of that is the tribe\u2019s economic struggles. Half of Navajos on the reservation are unemployed. And few young people want to farm or ranch anymore.\n\u201cIf you look at the economic condition of the reservation, the only thing that holds this nation together is our natural resources,\u201d Miller said. \u201cOther than that, we are a nation of supplement income from the U.S. government or state of Arizona. We are just a social-program nation that\u2019s run by grant money.\u201d\nSo when SRP hands Miller his relocation offer, he said he will take it and go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crwnmag.com/blog/2015/9/viola-davis-emmy-speech", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3L434O7UUEPB6FH5OOJ6A7HKIUCCNLS4", "length": 1376, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "crwnmag.com", "title": "Viola Davis' Emmy Speech + Redefining Beauty \u2014 CRWN Magazine", "raw_content": "Sep 22 Viola Davis' Emmy Speech + Redefining Beauty\n\"The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.\nYou cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So here\u2019s to all the writers, the awesome . . . people who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.\"\nViola Davis' victory speech at the Emmys Sunday evening was a was a poignant reminder that now is our time. Viola Davis' speech was not only a signifier of the power we wield as black women of influence, it also served as a wake up call.\nIf we want to see ourselves on TV, we have to be willing to create the shows. If we want to be represented on the big screen, we have to keep writing and producing and directing. If we want to see our stories properly represented in print, we have to be bold enough to create the publications.\nCRWN's pillars are Sisterhood, Authenticity, Self Love and Knowledge of Self. We are creating a platform in which our true stories can be told \u2014 in which we, too, can redefine what it means \"to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.\"\nWhether your eye is on the big screen, the C-suite, your own business, the PTA or the cover of a magazine; our time is now. Let's keep building together.\nViola Davis, Sisterhood, Emmys, Natural Hair, Beauty\nSep 8 CRWNMAG At Connoisseur Africa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cultureforum.eu/first-programmes-unveiled/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WJIHKJCKIM3PDRT2EQJDBAX3QEYFQVLB", "length": 1506, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cultureforum.eu", "title": "Now online: first programmes & ticket sales! - Act for Democracy\tAct for Democracy", "raw_content": "with Chantal Mouffe, Ulrich Seidl, Benjamin Barber and many others\nWe\u2019re excited to share some great news with you: we\u2019ve announced the first programmes of Re:Creating Europe (1-3 June 2016).\nAmong the programmes are a theatrical journey through the life of Hungarian author Gy\u00f6rgy Konr\u00e1d, a conversation between Arnon Grunberg and Ulrich Seidl and a programme with Belgian political philosopher Chantal Mouffe and theatre director Milo Rau about the border between politics and performance.\nTicket sales have already started! The full programme will be available by mid-April. Keep an eye on this website, Twitter and Facebook for the latest news, events and updates.\nAbout Re:Creating Europe\nWhat are the cultural values that unite us? How can art and culture offer creative solutions for problems that seem to be splitting us apart? And how can European artists shape the future of Europe? On 1, 2, and 3 June 2016, artists and thinkers from all over Europe will come together for \u2018Re:Creating Europe\u2019, the first edition of the Forum on European Culture. Contributors include Rem Koolhaas (architect, the Netherlands), C\u00e9line Sciamma (film director, France), Johan Simons (theatre director, the Netherlands), Philipp Blom (historian, Germany), Chantal Mouffe (political scientist, Belgium), Milo Rau (theatre director, Switzerland), Gy\u00f6rgy Konr\u00e1d (writer, Hungary) and Arnon Grunberg (writer, the Netherlands).\nLearn more about our contributors in our contributor section. The list is updated regularly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curriculum.rcophth.ac.uk/patients/information-booklets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:V72POU2VGKCDMRH6SU3O36SLP56SUMKS", "length": 3137, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "curriculum.rcophth.ac.uk", "title": "Information Booklets - The Royal College of Ophthalmologists", "raw_content": "Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects a tiny part of the retina at the back of your eye, called the macula. AMD causes changes to the macula, which leads to problems with your central vision. RCOphth RNIB Understanding AMD 2017\nA cataract is a clouding of part of your eye called the lens. Your vision becomes blurred because the cataract is like frosted glass, interfering with your sight. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Cataracts 2017\nRetinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the name given to a group of hereditary eye disorders. These disorders affect the retina, which is the light-sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye, in which the first stages of seeing take place. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Retinitis Pigmentosa 2017\nRetinal detachments often develop in eyes with retinas weakened by a hole or tear. This allows fluid to seep underneath, weakening the attachment so that the retina becomes detached \u2013 rather like wallpaper peeling off a damp wall. RCOphth RNIB Understanding retinal detachment 2017\nNystagmus is an involuntary movement of the eyes \u2013 usually from side to side, but sometimes the eyes oscillate up and down or even in a circular motion. Most people with nystagmus have vision which is much worse than average \u2013 well below what is considered to be short sighted. RCOphth RNIB Understanding nystagmus 2017\nGlaucoma is the name for a group of eye conditions in which the optic nerve is damaged at the point at which it leaves the eye. This nerve carries information from the light sensitive layer in your eye, the retina, to the brain where it is received as a picture. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Glaucoma 2017\nEstimates suggest that nearly one person in twenty five in the UK is affected by diabetes mellitus, a condition which means that, due to a lack of insulin, the body cannot cope normally with sugar and other carbohydrates in the diet. Diabetes can start in childhood, but more often begins in later life. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Diabetes Booklet 2017\nDry eye is an eye condition caused by a problem with tears. Dry eye can make your eye feel uncomfortable, red, scratchy and irritated. Despite the name, having dry eye can also make your eyes watery. Typically, dry eye doesn\u2019t cause a permanent change in your vision. It can make your eyesight blurry for short periods of time, but the blurriness will go away on its own or improve when you blink. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Dry Eye 2017\nCharles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) causes people who have lost a lot of sight to see things that aren\u2019t there. Medically, this is known as having hallucinations. CBS hallucinations are only caused by sight loss and aren\u2019t a sign that you\nhave a mental health problem. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Charles Bonnet Syndrome 2017\nPosterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a condition where your vitreous comes away from the retina at the back of your eye. This detachment is caused by changes in your\nvitreous gel. PVD isn\u2019t painful and it doesn\u2019t cause sight loss, but you may have symptoms such as seeing floaters (small dark spots or shapes) and flashing lights. RCOphth RNIB Understanding Posterior Vitreous Detachement 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cyprusscene.com/2015/11/19/trnc-news-today-19th-november-2015-turkey-and-greece-see-window-of-opportunity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GQJ5GW5BXMTMTC567BAKABQS232P663Z", "length": 8101, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "cyprusscene.com", "title": "TRNC News Today 19th November 2015 \u2013 Turkey and Greece see window of opportunity\u2026", "raw_content": "TRNC News Today 19th November 2015 \u2013 Turkey and Greece see window of opportunity\u2026\nBy kyreniacatkin on November 19, 2015 \u2022 ( Leave a comment )\nTRNC News Today 19th November 2015\nTurkey and Greece see a window of opportunity for a solution\nThe Prime Ministers of Turkey and Greece said on Wednesday that they see a window of opportunity for a solution to the Cyprus problem.\nSpeaking during a joint press conference, after a three-hour meeting they had in Ankara, Ahmet Davutoglu and Alexis Tsipras stressed that Greece and Turkey will contribute positively to efforts for a solution.\nReferring to the Cyprus problem, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that there is a window of opportunity and that both Greece and Turkey will contribute positively to efforts to solve the problem.\n\u201cThere is an opportunity right now. I do not want to be more optimistic than I should. I`m cautiously optimistic but we have to encourage towards a solution,\u201d Tsipras said, adding that in order to be fair the solution must be based on UN decisions and be achieved within the European acquis framework, allowing the united federal Cyprus to safeguard the security of all its citizens, Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and all the others.\nFurthermore, he noted, that in order to be viable, the solution must be acceptable by everyone and especially by the people of Cyprus. It must be a solution without guarantors, within a framework of security that we all have the obligation to build together, he added.\nLeaders met yesterday\nThe leaders met in the building allocated for negotiations in the buffer zone yesterday.\nPresident Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and the Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades strongly condemned the events that targeted the Turkish Cypriots on 16 November 2015 and indicated that they would not allow such incidents to prevent the ongoing negotiations. The leaders\u2019 joint statements published by the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Good Offices Mission on Cyprus indicated that the shameful incidents that occurred on 16 November 2015 which targeted the Turkish Cypriots were condemned in the strongest terms. The leaders stand together against racism and hatred, whatever the source. They jointly affirmed that such acts of misdemeanour will be thoroughly investigated and will not go unpunished.\nGreek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades indicated that any damage incurred during these incidents will be remedied and President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 expressed his satisfaction with this statement.\nPresident Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with Eide\nPresident Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide.\nThe meeting was held at the Presidency and Turkish Cypriot Negotiator \u00d6zdil Nami, Presidential Spokesperson Bar\u0131\u015f Burcu, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Erhan Er\u00e7in and the UNSG\u2019s Special Representative Lisa Buttenheim were also present at the meeting.\nAk\u0131nc\u0131 met with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond\nPresident Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 met with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond who came to Cyprus for a working visit.\nPresidential Spokesperson Bar\u0131\u015f Burcu and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Erhan Er\u00e7in were also present at the meeting, which was held at the Presidency at 11.10 today.\nForeign Minister \u00c7olak gave an interview to Reuters\nIn an interview to Reuters within the framework of her London contacts Foreign Minister Colak said that Cyprus is closer than ever to ending its four-decade-old partition and the two sides could agree on the text of a deal by May, followed by a referendum.\n\u201cWe are cautiously optimistic. We think we are closer than we have ever been before\u201d, Foreign Minister Emine \u00c7olak, told Reuters.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t think the Cyprus problem has become easy \u2013 it hasn\u2019t but we think we have a window of opportunity,\u201d \u00c7olak said. \u201cIt is possible and it is desirable to get to at least the major part of the negotiations and the agreed text by May 2016.\u201d\nOn Wednesday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu joined a chorus of optimism, telling reporters there was a \u201cwindow of opportunity\u201d on the Cyprus issue.\nAsked if there could be a referendum on unification in early 2016, \u00c7olak said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t think early 2016 but maybe within 2016 \u2013 I don\u2019t see any reason why not.\u201d\n\u201cOn both sides, the political leadership, the political will, is on the side of resolving it this time if we possibly can\u201d, said Colak, a 57-year-old human rights lawyer educated at London\u2019s School of Oriental and African Studies.\nUnifying the island would spur investment, open up the Turkish side to more tourism, allow direct flights from most of Europe to Northern Cyprus and help stem a brain drain from the Turkish side.\nOn paper, the two sides agree on reuniting Cyprus as a two-zone federation under a federal umbrella but Colak cautioned there were hurdles that had festered for decades.\nThere are deep differences on how the new state would function and the degree of autonomy each side would have. The exact geography of the dividing line is also a difficult issue.\nOther obstacles include the property claims of tens of thousands of people displaced in conflict, and Greek Cypriot demands that thousands of Turkish mainlanders who arrived on the island after division should leave.\n\u201cWe have had some convergence on a lot of the headings so far but I would say we are about halfway, although at the moment there is a very sticky issue and that is property,\u201d \u00c7olak said. \u201cWe think some formulas will be found.\u201d\nAnother issue is how and on what terms a unification deal would be guaranteed by Britain, Greece and Turkey. \u00c7olak said the guarantor powers were saying this could wait until the outline of a deal had emerged.\nShe suggested that postponing Greek Cypriot elections planned for May 2016 would ease the negotiating process.\n\u00c7olak said some EU member states such as France were still refusing to speak to Turkish Cypriots.\nIn 2004, the Greek Cypriots rejected a United Nations settlement blueprint accepted by Turkish Cypriots. One of the objections of the Greek side was that the deal still gave Turkey a say in the island\u2019s affairs, and that it did not safeguard the right of all internally displaced people to return to their homes.\nColak said Turkey would have to be one of the guarantors.\nThe cost of unification, thought to be around 16 billion pounds ($24 billion), would be borne by the international community.\nSo will it really happen? \u201cThere are a lot of signs of hope,\u201d \u00c7olak said.\n\u201cCyprus is the training base of Israelis\u201d\nGreek Cypriot daily newspaper Simerini wrote in an article under the headline \u201cCyprus is the training base of Israelis\u201d that the intended thing is to facilitate coordination between the two countries and become the Greek Cypriot side\u2019s regular exercise base for Israel Air Forces and at the same time establish a permanent facility for Israeli Air Forces aircraft to make practice as much as they require.\nThe newspaper also wrote that the Israeli Air Forces held two military exercises in South Cyprus in 2015 and the target is to hold more military exercises in 2016 and to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.\nThe delegations of CTP and AKEL came together\nA conference was held on 18th November between Republican Turkish Party (CTP) and AKEL in order to exchange their views on the development of the Cyprus issue, in the village of Akaki in South Cyprus.\nAccording to the information given by CTP, the conference which was entitled \u201cRecent Developments on Cyprus\u201d was attended by about 50 persons. The event which was organized by CTP and AKEL continued for 2.5 hours. The member of the CTP Central Executive Committee (MYK), Muhittin Tolga \u00d6zsa\u011flam and the previous Greek Government Spokesman and the member of the AKEL Central Executive Committee (MYK) Stefanos Stefanu made a speech at the event.\nTagged as: Ahmet Davutoglu, Alexis Tsipras, CTP and AKEL, Cyprus negotiations, Emine \u00c7olak, Espen Barth Eide, Israeli Air Force, Mustafa Acinci, Nikos Anastasiades, North Cyprus, Philip Hammond, TRNC\nNorth Cyprus Events Calendar by cyprusscene from 18th November\nKyrenia Animal Rescue need your help!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 12068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cyprusscene.com/2016/03/18/trnc-news-today-18th-march-2016-akinci-solution-in-cyprus-will-pass-through-lefkosa-not-brussels/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IDJPE3NZJVTDJBXVLGQPPSNBR42FVSWY", "length": 6877, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "cyprusscene.com", "title": "TRNC News Today 18th March 2016 \u2013 Akinci: Solution in Cyprus will pass through Lefko\u015fa, not Brussels", "raw_content": "TRNC News Today 18th March 2016\nAk\u0131nc\u0131: \u201cThe way to a solution in Cyprus will pass through Lefko\u015fa, not through Brussels.\u201d\nPresident Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said, \u201cThe way to a solution in Cyprus will pass through Lefko\u015fa, not through Brussels. Those who believe that Turkish Cypriots will be excluded in the solution process in Cyprus are dreaming. \u201dEmphasizing that the Greek Cypriot side\u2019s intention to exclude the Turkish Cypriot side and address Turkey will never come true\u201d, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said Turkey and Turkish Cypriot people will never approve it. \u201cThe solution will be reached and continued by Cypriots\u201d Ak\u0131nc\u0131 added.\nIn his written statement stating that TRNC always support Turkey\u2019s \u201cfull membership\u201d to the EU, Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said that they also support the development of the relations with the EU in this context.\nAk\u0131nc\u0131 continued as follows: \u201cWe are aware that as long as the Cyprus problem remains unresolved, Turkey\u2019s membership will not be fully possible. Although there are many obstacles for Turkey\u2019s full membership, the solution of the Cyprus problem will ease EU-Turkey relations to a certain degree. Brussels \u2013 Ankara and Athens are important centres that will contribute to the solution. It would be a mistake to think that the principles carefully protected by the TRNC and Turkey for years will be abounded for opening of chapters\u201d.\nBozk\u0131r: We feel sorrow from the expression of \u201cTurkey is blackmailing\u201d\nRegarding the statements of France and the Czech Republic as \u201cWe will not resign to Turkey\u2019s blackmailing\u201d Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs and the Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozk\u0131r stated that he felt sorrow that the leaders of some EU countries accused Turkey of \u2018blackmailing\u2019.\nBozk\u0131r also said: \u201cIf it\u2019s blackmail to submit a proposal to prevent illegal immigration that is reaching 6,000 a day, it means that this issue has not been understood in any way\u201d.\nPointing out the very difficult negotiations to be held at the Summit, Bozk\u0131r said \u201cOur proposal plan is valid at this stage. We expect our proposal to be accepted and reach significant results for the EU and Turkey. We will continue the negotiations with goodwill\u201d.\nTusk: \u201cI am cautious rather than being optimistic\u201d\nStating that he is cautiously optimistic about reaching a settlement on the EU and Turkey refugee crisis, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk said, \u201cIf I need to be fair, I am cautious rather than being optimistic.\u201d\nIn his statement Tusk stated that the EU leaders at the Summit held yesterday agreed to strengthen their cooperation with Turkey. Indicating that difficult negotiations and talks are continuing, Tusk listed 3 major principles of the possible settlement as follows: \u201cFirstly, the agreement should be approved by all 28 member countries. Secondly, the agreement should be compatible with EU and international laws and thirdly, the agreement should help to return to Schengen (removal of temporary controls), termination of the policy that sent refugees from one country to another, to provide humanitarian support to Greece, to support the West Balkan countries and provide support to the comprehensive strategy for strengthening cooperation with Turkey and also the agreement should help to solve the refugee crisis in an effective way.\u201d\nSchulz: \u201cWe will compromise with Turkey on the issue of refugee crisis\u201d\nPresident of the European Parliament (EP) Martin Schulz said that the European Union (EU) will compromise with Turkey on the issue of the refugee crisis. Regarding the Summit to be held between the European Union and Turkey, Schulz said, \u201cWe have to compromise with Turkey and we hope this agreement will be compatible with international laws. The agreement which will be signed between the EU and Turkey should comply with the European Council, the Geneva Convention, and the international laws on human rights, rules and regulations\u201d.\nIn his statement to the reporters yesterday, Schulz emphasized that if they cannot reach an agreement with Turkey on relocation of the refugees, the number of the refugees will increase. \u201cTherefore, we expect to reach an agreement with Turkey,\u201d said Schulz.\nThe proposal which was offered by Turkey on 7 March that will bring a fundamental solution to the refugee crisis and strengthen the cooperation between the EU and Turkey was discussed yesterday by EU leaders. The agreement reached by the leaders will be discussed in detail today at the Turkey-EU Summit where Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu will also attend.\nTatar: \u201cTurkey\u2019s position on the Cyprus issue should continue\u201d\nNational Unity Party (UBP) Lefko\u015fa deputy Ersin Tatar emphasized that for Turkey\u2019s full membership to the European Union, Turkey\u2019s concession from its own strategic interests for the Cyprus issue ignoring the rights and laws of the Turkish Cypriot community by trusting the Greek \u2013 Greek Cypriot duo and some other members, should be beside the point.\nStating that Turkey\u2019s determined attitude on this issue was put forth one more time by Turkey\u2019s Minister for EU Affairs and the Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozk\u0131r, Tatar said that this should be continued insistently.\n\u201cSouth Cyprus has launched a new policy of threats and blackmail with the excuse of the Cyprus problem\u201d\nFormer Negotiators Erg\u00fcn Olgun and Osman Ertu\u011f emphasized that Greek Cypriot Administration has launched a new policy of threats and blackmail with the excuse of the Cyprus problem while the negotiations in Brussels are carried out to seek a solution to the refugee crisis that is deeply affecting the whole of humanity.\nIn their joint statements, Olgun and Ertu\u011f pointed out the statements of the leader of the Greek Cypriot Administration Nikos Anastasiades concerning \u2018Turkey\u2019s fulfilling its responsibilities against the so called Republic of Cyprus, otherwise they will veto the opening of some chapters, as well as the statements of the Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Yoannis Kasulidis emphasizing that \u2018Turkey should be patient until there is a solution in Cyprus, are some examples of the threat and blackmail policy of the Greek Cypriot Administration.\nKalyoncu received the delegations of Macedonian Mayors\nPrime Minister \u00d6mer Kalyoncu received the delegations of Macedonian Mayors under the guidance of Esentepe Mayor Cemal Erdo\u011fan.\nStating that there is democracy at local authorities and their responsibilities are gradually increasing, Prime Minister Kalyoncu said that due to the importance of local authorities, their duties are increasing accordingly.\nTagged as: Cyprus negotiations, Donald Tusk, Erg\u00fcn Olgun, Ersin Tatar, Martin Schulz, Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131, North Cyprus, Omer Kalyoncu, Osman Ertu\u011f, TRNC, Volkan Bozk\u0131r\nWhat\u2019s New on BRT2 Television 19/03/2016 \u2013 Zimbabwean student Vincent Marazanye\nBusiness as usual with the Greeks buggering up things for their own desires. As I said in a previous comment. leopards do not change their spots.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 11173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailymaroon.com/archives/3987", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LMIN76O3JZHGXJDV6NJSJHGM7T2CBXWY", "length": 2564, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dailymaroon.com", "title": "Sex Trafficking: A Not So Common Topic \u2013 Daily Maroon", "raw_content": "What is sex trafficking and why is it important?\nThe number on the screen, 888-373-7888, contacts the National Human Trafficking Resource Center which victims can call 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.\nSex trafficking can be avoided by educating minors on the matter.\nWhat is sex trafficking and why is it so important?\nFor most people, sex trafficking isn\u2019t very common to be talked about on a day-to-day basis, nor is it made important, taught nor acknowledged among minors.\nAccording to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, \u201csex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion.\u201d\nUnfortunately, minors are part of this equation with almost 300,000. If you were to compare this with the number of minors enrolled in the district, you would still be able to fit another school district full of students in order to complete the annual number of minors in the United States that get pulled into sex trafficking.\nInternationally, it is a $32 billion dollar industry that doesn\u2019t care if you\u2019re a minor or not. According to UNICEF, \u201c1.2 million children are being trafficked across the globe, with a child being prepared to be sold every two minutes.\u201d\nHow do people get trafficked in the first place? Who are these people?\nAccording to www.polarisproject.org, \u201cvictims of human trafficking are frequently lured by false promises of a lucrative job, stability, education, or a loving relationship. Victims can be men or women, adults or children, foreign nationals or U.S citizens. While they share a trait of vulnerability, victims have diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, varied levels of education, and may be documented or undocumented.\u201d\nWhy is being educated on this matter so important?\nWithin a large number of minors and youth, not many of them know it\u2019s a growing problem around the globe. According to Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal, a charity for sex trafficking, said \u201cEducation is what makes people aware about all the social evils present in the world today, human trafficking being one of them. Education not only makes people aware about the problem, but it also lets people know the ways that we can take to prevent it from happening.\u201d\nIt can happen to anyone, and that is why it needs to be talked about.\nIf you\u2019d like to take a look or find any interest in statistics as well as facts on the matter, visit the links below.\nwww.humantraffickingsearch.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 4938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://danangfantasticity.com/en/tag/international-marathon", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WBFCKKJAWBSAOCGSCHUJ7VHHJXEFRQ4F", "length": 291, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "danangfantasticity.com", "title": "international marathon - Official Danang Tourism Website", "raw_content": "Da Nang International Marathon to be held in August\nThe 2016 Da Nang International Marathon (DNIM 2016) will take place at the Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in Son Tra District on Saturday 6 August. The competition is expected to attract between 4,000 and 6,500 professional and amateur runners\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 2967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davidvoyles.wordpress.com/udk-title/mega-man-2-remake/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:44Z", "digest": "sha1:VKREKAZCRQLLLGGDAOTNAIDESRZCV4PF", "length": 2452, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "davidvoyles.wordpress.com", "title": "Mega Man 2 Remake | Dave Voyles", "raw_content": "I haven\u2019t updated this in a while, but figured I would. I\u2019ve been making news posts about the game\u2019s progress, but have failed to link it back here.\nI\u2019ve written some UDK tutorials, some of which apply to this game, others not so much. Furthermore, you can find links to the latest Mega Man 2 related work below:\nDev Diary: Volume 1\nPrototype Video #1\nThus far, the soundtrack is complete, along with all of the sound effects. As is all of the environment art. I\u2019m putting the finishing touches on the enemies as we speak, and just need to add a rig and animations to them. The entire level is filled with static meshes, so at this point I\u2019m simply adding triggers for events, such as falling blocks, along with particle effects for flowing water, and things of that nature.\nSo why am I doing all of this if I don\u2019t own the IP? Well, a number of reasons:\n\u2013 I\u2019m learning so much as I move along, so it\u2019s nice to have rigid guideline to run against as I progress. This is based on a game that\u2019s nearly 25 years old, so I know it well. It also gives me the ability to use some of my own creativity along the way.\n\u2013 This a prototype for a game I\u2019m working on for myself, which will follow immediately after this level. Nearly all of the programming will be carrier over, along with a number of the art assets. Essentially, this is my \u201cvertical slice\u201d, or that 10% of finished work that people look for when having a title pitched. When I\u2019m finished you will have a very good idea of what I would like my final product to look like. If I do decide to work with others on the project afterwards, then they have an excellent idea of the direction I would like to head in as well. The fewer variables and uncertainties you bring to a project, the greater the chance for success.\n\u2013 I love Mega Man games.\n2 thoughts on \u201cMega Man 2 Remake\u201d\nDaniel Leandro says:\nI stumbled across this today and I\u2019m very impressed with even just the idea of this project.\nDo you have any updates on the work you are doing? I\u2019d love to see how things are coming along.\nDave Voyles says:\nGlad you enjoyed it! I\u2019ve been wanting to work on this for some time now, but unfortunately the Summer Uprising and programming for Death Sentence has had me tied up as of late. Towards the end of August I plan on getting into it full swing again. Fortunately the programming I\u2019m doing on Death Sentence lends itself well to Mega Man, so it\u2019s kind of like knocking out two birds with one stone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davisandersonfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/2744/Lora-Wilhite/obituary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OTYBCHTSDIUL7RYB55RC4SV76ZA6AGZP", "length": 2476, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "davisandersonfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary of Lora Wilhite | Davis-Anderson Funeral Homes located in ...", "raw_content": "Lora Wilhite\nObituary of Lora Wilhite\nLora Wilhite (nee Ward), passed away Monday afternoon, August 13, 2018 at St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, IL.\nLora was born in Alton on June 12, 1925, daughter of Merwin Henry and Eda Ahrgal Ward. She attended Alton schools and graduated from Alton High.\nShe attended Blackburn College, then a two-year school, in Carlinville, graduating in 1944. At Blackburn, she met Louis E. Wilhite Jr, who was immediately drafted into the Army Air Corps. After graduation, she worked in the Alton munitions factory laboratory until old enough to join the WAVES, the women\u2019s branch of the Navy.\nWhile in the Navy Medical Corps she, a Pharmacist\u2019s Mate, was stationed at the Naval Hospital at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia.\nA year after discharge, she and Louis were married and went to Colorado to attend the University at Boulder. They both graduated with degrees in Chemical Engineering.\nAfter returning to Illinois and living in Hornsby, Cahokia Township, for three years, the family which now had two children, moved to Carlinville.\nAs the children, now five of them, entered school, Lora started a private kindergarten and completed a teaching degree, eventually earning a master\u2019s in Physics Education. She taught science in the middle school and high school for 22 years, retired from there, then taught math at Lewis and Clark for another ten years.\nShe was an active member of the Federated Church, BPW, Investment Club, PEO, the Hospital Auxiliary, Tree City USA, and the retired teacher\u2019s organization.\nShe is survived by five children; Ed Wilhite (wife Diane) of Champaign, IL, Ann Wilhite of Springfield, Allen Wilhite (wife Mary) of Huntsville, AL, Marcy Wilhite Andersen (husband Pete) of San Diego, CA, and Amy L. Gugger (husband Chuck) of Edwardsville, IL. There are six grandchildren; Ed Taylor IV (wife Karen Laporte), Alex Taylor, Lucy Taylor, Seth Wilhite (wife Carrie), Rachel Wilhite, and Kate Biskup (husband Bryce), as well as a sister, Gail Kipp of Chico, CA.\nShe was preceded in death by her husband Louis Wilhite in 1987, and by her brother Merwin Henry Ward Jr.\nA memorial service will be held, 1:30pm, Saturday, September 29, 2018 at Lake Rinaker Pavilion rural Carlinville.\nA private burial will take place in Kinder Cemetery, Hornsby, IL for the family only.\nThe family has requested that memorials in Lora's name be made to Blackburn College, Attn: Mary McMurray, 700 College Avenue, Carlinville, IL 62626.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/06/07/aaron-cromie-part1-servants-hedgerow/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OBK4NHMGT7QEDOYM5U5OQTYQVY4D6G2H", "length": 7267, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "dcmetrotheaterarts.com", "title": "'Riffing, Replacing, and Reworking Goldoni\u2019s \"Servant of Two Masters\" at the Hedgerow Theatre: An Interview with Director Aaron Cromie: Part 1 - DC Metro Theater Arts", "raw_content": "Home Interviews and Features \u2018Riffing, Replacing, and Reworking Goldoni\u2019s \u201cServant of Two Masters\u201d at the Hedgerow...\n\u2018Riffing, Replacing, and Reworking Goldoni\u2019s \u201cServant of Two Masters\u201d at the Hedgerow Theatre: An Interview with Director Aaron Cromie: Part 1\nThis is the first of two interviews with Aaron Cromie, one of Philadelphia\u2019s most beloved directors, mask makers, writers, and interdisciplinary theater artists.\nHenrik: Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), from childhood onward, could not be persuaded to do anything but play theater with his puppets and read and watch plays. Later, he ran away with a company of strolling players. When he was forced by his father to join a strict religious college, he spent most of his time reading classical comedies. How much does your childhood and youth resemble that of Goldoni\u2019s?\nAaron: HA! Not really at all. My father and mother encouraged our artistic growth. I am the son of two public school teachers, and my father\u2014a high school music and drama teacher\u2014is responsible for my deep love of music and theatre. I used to spend every winter and spring break at his side as he taught the HS play and musical. I did see a lot of plays and musicals growing up. My father was also a church choir director\u2014our whole family sang in the choir\u2014and I sang in church services from grade school through college.\nGoldoni started his career as a playwright composing a tragedy. However, it failed both financially and critically. Count Prata, director of the opera in Milano, told him that in France he could try to please the public, but in Italy he had to consult with the actors, the composers, and the stage decorators. In your experience, how would you describe the equivalency in America when directing a play today: pleasing the public or consulting with actors and the artistic team?\nI don\u2019t think there is any one method for creating theatre, nor do I think entertaining the audience while collaborating with the artistic team to be mutually exclusive. With a play like The Servant of Two Masters, we hope to delight the audience with an exploration of human folly and ridiculousness, but must rely on the vision of the many minds and talents in the room.\nGoldoni, who lived in troubled times, surrounded by a corrupt elite, tried to feature the values of the rising middle class with their yearning for a progressive stand toward rationality, honesty, and humanism by mocking those in power\u2014holding up a mirror. We, too, live in troubled times.\nTo be fair, as much as Goldoni was interested in the stories of the rising middle class, his stories often perpetuated the time\u2019s existing tropes about the systems and distribution of power. In our production, we do make reference to the obvious Patriarchy of Goldoni\u2019s time, which we can agree still exists today in our country and around the world. We hope to remind our audience how aware we are of this fact\u2014with comedic acknowledgement.\nGoldoni was influenced by the work of Moli\u00e8re that he loved and was taken by the strength of the commedia dell\u2019arte. Given your studies with Antonio Fava, probably the most famous Italian mask-maker, author, and practitioner of commedia dell\u2019arte in our own time, are you integrating elements of the Italian comedy that you are bringing to the Hedgerow through this famous Goldoni play?\nFava\u2019s influence is apparent in my approach to the commedia movement and the speed of verbal wit. He is a very clever man, with a big robust laugh and voracious appetite for humor. He has a codified way of performing movement\u2013training that I\u2019ve received\u2013though we take a lighter approach in this production: still physical, but really catering to the strengths of the performers. The masks I\u2019ve designed are also inspired by the style that Fava makes. He was one of my design teachers and a big influence on how I make masks.\nGoldoni, after a fight with Carlo Gozzi, an Italian playwright who accused him of having deprived the Italian theater of the charms of poetry and imagination, claimed that he was so disgusted by the traditional taste of the Italian public in theater that, aged 54, he left Italy for good and spent the rest of his life in France, writing his plays and memoirs in French . . .\n. . . actually, a much longer story: Goldoni lost a bet with Gozzi, when Gozzi\u2019s first play, The Love of Three Oranges, eclipsed the success of Goldoni\u2019s offering. He left Italy in embarrassment, as Gozzi, though a proponent of classic theatre, had found a way to take the old and make it more spectacular than before: populist? yes, but more imaginative than what had come before.\nLooking back at your own life, were there phases when you felt concerned, if not disgusted, by certain modes of theater in the U.S.? If so, what did you do to step away from the occasional polished mediocrity and come into your own as an innovative performer and director?\nI think we live in a time when theatre is in constant competition with TV and Netflix, among other options for peoples\u2019 time and money. Audiences will be drawn to what interests them, so I don\u2019t fault any person who wants to see well-produced populist work. That work helps keep the art alive, entertaining audiences, and employing artists, designers, and technicians. That said, I don\u2019t waste any time complaining about mediocrity.\nServant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni (1746) has been such a popular play that it has been translated into many languages and has been adapted and performed in many permutations. Which translation are you using and what changes, if any, have you made to make it accessible to a contemporary American audience?\nAaron There are several translations of the play with which I am familiar. I worked primarily from the main structure of the story and wrote my own version of the play\u2014riffing, replacing and reworking things in a way that allows my sense of humor to play. I think that\u2019s what the play seems to ask of its various interpreters. I also wanted to play with more recurring jokes and bits that reveal the characters\u2019 comic histrionics, flaws, and humanity while capitalizing on the comic talents of the cast members.\nCould you give an example or two of a traditional translation and how you riffed it and brought in your sense of humor in the Hedgerow production?\nIn traditional commedia, the lovers have on occasion used rhyming couplets in their dialogue. Goldoni didn\u2019t employ that tactic in The Servant of Two Masters, and the translations I\u2019ve come across don\u2019t use it either, so I thought it would be fun to do it for the Hedgerow\u2019s version and wrote some of their scenes using rhyming couplets.\nAlso, the dinner scene is one big, long lazzo [an \u201cimprovised comic dialogue or action in the commedia dell\u2019arte\u201d] which has to be constructed by the people doing it. So we set a basic structure, and then riffed from it to find what kind of wordplay and physical schtick would fit nicely. The ensemble helped to evolve it through many revisions.\n\u2018Pushing the Envelope to Attract Contemporary Audiences: Goldoni at the Hedgerow Theatre: Part 2 of An Interview with Director Aaron Cromie by Henrik Eger.\nPrevious articleReview: \u2018The History Boys\u2019 at The Little Theatre of Alexandria\nNext articleReview: \u2018Good People\u2019 at The Colonial Players of Annapolis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 11033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deemurthy.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/ducati/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BFBLNZPY25RGS3A37PBPE4EQ4ZRRN4OV", "length": 197, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "deemurthy.wordpress.com", "title": "Ducati \u00ab Dee Murthy: My Life", "raw_content": "\u00ab Metro LA\nRyan Braun \u00bb\nMy good friend ______ (he doesn\u2019t want his name to be on this post, because he doesn\u2019t want his MOM to know, some things never change) just got this bad ass Ducati & helmet!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dementia.stir.ac.uk/ideas/ideaslab-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SXNNU33DQNP5F4TCA5TW6V6CEI4NCZ2F", "length": 9068, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "dementia.stir.ac.uk", "title": "Innovative Ideas on Dementia - International IdeasLab 2014 - DSDC", "raw_content": "\u201cDementia in 2040 - what are the ideas today which will change the world of dementia tomorrow?\u201d\nIdeaslab 2014 explored world-wide responses to the above question.\nThis special event, hosted in Stirling in October 2014, marked the start of the 25th Anniversary of DSDC being at the forefront of dementia thinking and doing.\nFrom the open call five exciting and contrasting ideas were chosen from Australia, Canada, America, Denmark and the UK. IdeasLab put them to the test. See what happened in the films below.\nHow IdeasLab works\nIdeasLab is based on robust exploration, encouragement and exchange. Ideas are presented to an expert Panel and a lively audience with enough time and space to think things through.\nIn October the Panel was drawn from the world-wide expertise of International Advisory Board for DSDC. Also in the room were health and care professionals, policy experts, designers, inventors, technologists, researchers and members of the public.\nDuring a one day Ideas Lab 5 main ideas about the future of Dementia were explored. The films on the IdeasLab page give a flavour of what happened. Here we give space to each idea, explained by the presenter. The aim is to strengthen these ideas and to generate even more.\nClick on the \"Read about my idea\" button for background and thinking behind the idea.\n1: Building life stories through social networks\nAnders M\u00f8ller Jensen\n2: The potential of cognitive stimulation\n3: Learning from computer games\n4: Monitoring quality\nProfessor Chengi Kuo\n5: International collaboration for dementia friendly communities\nOlivia Mastry\nThe ideas in detail\nHarnessing the power of social networks such as Facebook offers exciting opportunities to improve the care of people with dementia\n\u2014 Anders M\u00f8ller Jensen\nAnders M\u00f8ller Jensen from VIA University College, Holstebro in Denmark presented an idea based on building people\u2019s life stories through social media networks. This can be used in reminiscence work to stimulate memory and strengthen identity.\nLife story work is valued by dementia care staff and carers but it is often left to the principal carer to collect the material needed to develop the life story.\nHowever, social media opens up the prospect of tapping into the memories of a much wider range of individuals. Former school friends, work colleagues, neighbours and the wider family can all be encouraged to share their memories of the person with dementia to create a story that is more rich and complete.\nAnders said a number of computer-based life story programs already exist which can allow photographs, text and video to be shared widely. Friends and family members can be invited to contribute content with the family having the final say on what gets posted for others to see and share.\nPrivacy is a key issue and the person with dementia has to remain in control and agree to what can be included in their life story.\nTechnology provides a way of building a person\u2019s life story that is more rich and diverse; it shares the work of doing this across more people and, by creating greater openness around dementia by involving more people, it can help to combat the stigmatisation that continues to exist about the condition.\nA model of improved care based around one-to-one cognitive support could be adopted internationally to slow cognitive decline, reduce care costs and lessen family stress.\n\u2014 Alison Kennedy\nAlison Kennedy of Kennedy Cognitive Services Inc. in Winnipeg, Canada said research is required to establish the benefits of such an approach but the work of her team has shown that it has considerable potential.\nA methodology and toolkits have been developed through work with a group of nine clients over the past six years. This is based on gathering information about the client and his or her abilities and designing slightly challenging, fun activities for stimulating engagement. The client meets with the same trained worker for a one-hour session every one to two weeks.\nAlison said the programme has brought joy and meaningful support to the clients and their families. It has helped to discover residual abilities and has improved both self-esteem and quality of life.\nToo many people with dementia do not get any opportunity to benefit from cognitive stimulation and she suggested that care support or recreation workers could be trained to deliver this form of help. If it was shown that clients receiving the service were happier, more manageable, retained their cognitive abilities longer and perhaps needed less medication, such an approach may save rather than cost money.\nAlison said such a model has the potential to reduce cognitive decline, long term care costs and family stress.\nThe success of computer games has been the inspiration behind the creation of a virtual world that people with dementia can explore using a tablet computer.\nMandy Salomon of Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Australia has developed AVED (Applied Virtual Environment for Dementia Care) to help promote enjoyable engagement among people with dementia.\nPeople with cerebral palsy have responded positively to role playing in a virtual world where they can experience activities through an able-bodied avatar. This has been shown to improve their self-confidence.\nIn the same way, virtual reality offers opportunities for people with dementia who may be missing the familiar and comforting surroundings of home. AVED has been designed as a 3D home environment with a sitting room, kitchen and garden to help users reconnect with their past.\nTen people with moderate to severe dementia helped to develop AVED by selecting the content and responding to updates. Observation of their use of the tablet helped to determine how engaged they were.\nMandy says experience of using AVED demonstrates that tablet based virtual worlds can be powerful tools for delivering non-pharmacological therapies. They are low in cost and maintenance and there is no need for extensive staff training, formal therapy sessions, dedicated activity rooms or travel.\nThe tablet is designed to be used with another person and becomes a conduit for interaction, not an end in itself.\n4: Monitoring quality of life\nMeasuring the quality of life of people with dementia can help to monitor the status of their illness and influence their on-going and future care.\n\u2014 Professor Chengi Kuo\nA system for doing this has been developed by Chengi Kuo, a retired professor and maritime safety expert from Glasgow, who is the main carer for his wife who has dementia.\nHis Quality of Life indicator (QLI) is based on an assessment of the interests of a person with dementia. In his wife\u2019s case, that has been food and eating; drawing and shading; using an Ipad; and resting and sleeping. A focus of these interests is helping her to lead a contented and happy life.\nAt the same time, regular monitoring of these interests can take place to assess her quality of life and any adjustments made to care, as appropriate. Trials with this approach are to be run with a day care centre to determine its wider applicability.\nChengi said the QLI approach has many potential benefits. It provides an important role for carers in identifying interests of the person with dementia that they can then support. It generates positive attitudes that something tangible can be done. It is low cost and can be used in countries that do not have many resources. It can be used with other activities and medical treatments while providing a measure for how well the person is responding to these interventions.\nCollaboration through shared resources is the key to supporting the development of dementia friendly communities around the world.\n\u2014 Olivia Mastry\nOlivia Mastry, Executive Lead at ACT on Alzheimer\u2019s from Minnesota in the United States, proposed that an international online research portal be developed that every country could share to foster and evaluate the development of dementia friendly communities..\nHer organisation has developed a model that is being used by 32 diverse communities in Minnesota to improve the care of people with dementia. It is based on a shared portal that uses research information, toolkits and other resources to help develop local action.\nThere are plans to adopt this across the United States but Olivia said she would like to see the portal made available internationally to prevent duplication of effort and support the development of best practice.\nThe benefits would include sharing the burden of development and gaining from continuous collaborative learning. Some of the challenges include customising the portal for local use and issues around shared ownership.\nShe proposed that the best way forward is to establish a multi-country task force to examine the idea in more detail. This could examine securing shared funding, developing guidelines and shared measures for evaluation, and issues of technical assistance.\nAll this should be able to be done at relatively low cost as each country would be sharing one portal rather than developing its own.\nOther films in the session", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 12499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deplorables-seeking-justice.com/2018/07/21/watch-hot-mic-catches-incredible-message-marine-whispered-to-trump-randy-desoto-westernjournal-com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IPBJRTDHUBWKVHKAL74YGWULWF7IZY5Y", "length": 4057, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "deplorables-seeking-justice.com", "title": "Watch: Hot Mic Catches Incredible Message Marine Whispered to Trump ~ Randy Desoto (westernjournal.com) \u2013 Deplorables Seeking Justice-DSJ", "raw_content": "Here\u2019s one you won\u2019t hear from the left or the MSM. Once again our POTUS getting the well deserved kudos from a patriot and one who served this country with honor and dignity. There\u2019s been too much of the left and MSM bashing the POTUS and it needs to end. We need more of this.\nHere\u2019s more from Randy Desoto and Western Journal\u2026\nA former Marine who served with Secretary of Defense James Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly had a special message he wanted to deliver to President Donald Trump during a jobs event on Thursday.\nTrump invited numerous leaders from some of America\u2019s top companies and business associations to the White House for a \u201cPledge to America\u2019s Workers\u201d event.\nAmong them was Microsoft vice president of military affairs Chris Cortez, who served in the Marines for over 30 years, reaching the rank of major general.\nHe is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and was director of operations for the United States Pacific Command.\nCortez told Trump at Thursday\u2019s jobs event, \u201cMr. President, on behalf of Microsoft \u2014 10,000 opportunities \u2014 I\u2019m really proud to be their representative.\u201d\nThe retired general then lowered the mic and added in a hushed tone, \u201cI served 33 years in the Marines.\u201d\n\u201cWhoa, that\u2019s fantastic,\u201d the president responded.\n\u201cI served with John Kelly and Jim Mattis,\u201d Cortez continued, \u201cand you got two good ones.\u201d\nTrump shook Cortez\u2019s hand saying, \u201cVery good. You\u2019re right. They\u2019re great. They\u2019re great. Thank you very much. Thank you.\u201d\nKelly enlisted in the Marines in 1970 and later left the Corps to attend college, only to return and be commissioned as an officer in 1976.\nHe deployed to Iraq as commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force in 2008. He went on to head the U.S. Southern Command.\nMattis enlisted in the Marines in 1969 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1971.\nIn 1991, he led an infantry battalion in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. In 2002, Mattis commanded an expeditionary brigade in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.\nHe would go to lead a Marine Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and led all U.S. Marine Forces in the Middle East as commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force and U.S. Marine Forces Central Command.\nFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich touted the bonafides of Trump\u2019s team in an appearance on Fox News on Thursday, responding to the controversy over Trump\u2019s Helsinki Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t get guys like Secretary of State Pompeo who graduated first in his class at West Point, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, 4-star Marine general, chief of staff John Kelly, 4-star Marine general, national security adviser John Bolton, one toughest guys on foreign policy in the entire country,\u201d said Gingrich.\n\u201cThese guys aren\u2019t going to get together and to drink the Kool-Aid either that the North Korean dictator or the Russian dictator are nice guys.\u201d\n@newtgingrich Tweeted, \u201cWhatever the Russians got away with, was because of the weakness of the Obama Administration.\u201d\nThe former Speaker added, \u201cTrump is a guy who likes to be friendly, who likes to be positive, but he didn\u2019t get to be a billionaire by being stupid.\u201d\nThursday\u2019s Pledge to America\u2019s Workers brought together more than 20 business leaders from a wide range of sectors who signed the pledge to train and to hire hundreds of thousands of new employees.\n\u201cThere\u2019s never been a better time to hire and grow in America,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019ve created 3.7 million jobs since the election. In the month of June alone, we grew the workforce by more than 600,000 workers.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re in the longest positive job growth streak in American history.\u201d\nLet\u2019s keep those jobs coming!\nCategories: #civilwar, #DrainTheSwamp, #DSJ, #MAGA, #PMPK, #RedStormRising2020, #RedWaveRising, #SeekSomethingSpeakSomething, #SeeSomethingSaySomething, #SeesomethingScreamSomething, Deplorables, Deplorables Seeking Justice, Donald Trump, justice, President Donald Trump, Seeking, trump, Trump administration, TRUMP CAMPAIGN, Trump Supporters, Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 9784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://devotionaryblog.com/category/pauls-letter-to-titus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:PQMVP5PGUDAZYX2V3XOO66K3TTX76X4K", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "devotionaryblog.com", "title": "Paul\u2019s Letter to Titus | Devotionary", "raw_content": "Paul\u2019s Letter to Titus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 54743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://di.ku.dk/english/event-calendar-2018/professor-inauguration-jon-sporring/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WD2273QLEUFVCPAOFYZQ2VHMHPUXKZKA", "length": 3056, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "di.ku.dk", "title": "Professor Inauguration: Jon Sporring \u2013 University of Copenhagen", "raw_content": "Professor Inauguration: Jon Sporring \u2013 University of Copenhagen\nDepartment of Computer Science DIKU > Event Calendar 2018 > Professor Inauguration...\nProfessor Inauguration: Jon Sporring\nFrom pixels to knowledge - Registering the big picture in data science\nJon Sporring has been appointed professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU). The appointment will be marked by an inaugural lecture on 19 December 2018 at 2 p.m.\n14.00 - 15.00: Inaugural Lecture: From pixels to knowledge - Registering the big picture in data science\nAbstract: Modern imaging devices such as microscopes and synchrotrons provide data which are often too big and too complex for humans to analyse efficiently, and often we must rely on computer programs to extract knowledge from data.\nDeveloping programs to analyse images give us novel, objective, and reproducible insights into images, which for some tasks are difficult to match by humans. For other tasks, it is a real challenge to develop versatile programs, and human interpretations are to be preferred.\nMicroscope images are of particular interest to me since an increasing number of different microscope techniques are being developed which produce views of structures at subcellular level at an unprecedented resolution and in increasing data quantities.\nFurther, since the images vary greatly in appearance and quality, techniques from computer vision and medical image processing are only partially applicable. Often improvements of existing or invention of new algorithms are required, which I find a great source of inspiration.\nIn this talk, I demonstrate how image analysis is used for statistical models of ultrastructures in nerve cells and I will give examples of how we have improved existing and developed new algorithms for image analysis.\n15.00 - 15.15 Short break\n15.15 - 17.00 Reception in the Canteen Area of the HC\u00d8 Building\nJon Sporring received his Master and PhD degree from DIKU in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Part of his PhD program was carried out at IBM Research Center, Almaden, California, USA.\nFollowing his PhD, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab at Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Greece, and as assistant research professor at 3D-Lab, School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen. In 2003, he started at DIKU. From 2008-2009 he was part-time Senior Researcher at Nordic Bioscience a/s. 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Call, Emory University, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nJoanna Lomas Mevers, Emory University, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nJessica P. Alvarez, Emory University, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nFaith Cawthon, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nKelly Autry, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nDana Bamford, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaFollow\nMindy Scheithauer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Marcus Autism Center working in the severe behavior clinic. Prior to starting at Marcus, she completed her doctorate in clinical and biological psychology at Louisiana State University and a doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her research interests include the application of behavioral assessments and treatments in a variety of settings, physiological variables as motivating operations for problem behavior, and the interactive effect of pharmacological and behavioral interventions.\nMindy C. Scheithauer, Ph.D, BCBA\nNathan A. Call, Ph.D., BCBA-D\nJoanna Lomas Mevers, Ph.D.. BCBA\nJessica P. Alvarez, Ph.D.\nFaith Cawthon, M.A., BCBA\nKelly Autry, M.A., BCBA\nDana Bamford, M.A., BCBA\nData-based decision making, an important component of positive behavior support, can be difficult in brief in-home therapy due to the limited amount of time a therapist has to directly observe the child. This difficulty is exacerbated when problem behavior occurs infrequently. When a therapist cannot reliably observe problem behavior, it is often necessary to rely on parental report. The current study evaluated three approaches for parental report of low frequency problem behavior: antecedent-behavior-consequence records, incident data, and interview. Each method was analyzed with clients in home-based therapy with 2-hour weekly appointments. All clients exhibited low-frequency (i.e., less than daily) and high-intensity (i.e., causes physical harm to self/others, damage to the environment, or severe decrement to family\u2019s quality of life) problem behavior. The treatment goal for all clients was to reduce problem behavior (most commonly aggression, disruption, or self-injury). The number of instances of problem behavior captured by each method of data-collection, quality of the data (i.e., ability to detect treatment effects using the data), and therapist and parent acceptability of each measure were analyzed. Results are discussed in terms of the relative advantages and disadvantages of each measure, clinical application of the methods, and avenues for future research.\nScheithauer, Mindy; Call, Nathan A.; Lomas Mevers, Joanna; Alvarez, Jessica P.; Cawthon, Faith; Autry, Kelly; and Bamford, Dana, \"Brief Home-Based Data Collection of Low Frequency Behaviors\" (2014). 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It aims to improve graduate employability and develop confidence and capability in the adoption and integration of digitally enhanced learning for staff and students.\nDIAL explores the pace of technological change and its impact on the day-to-day practices of its staff and students. As education merges in the rapidly expanding field of social and cultural technological change, maintaining progressive practice in these new digitally enhanced learning spaces presents new expectations, anxieties and challenges for all.\nDIAL aims to engage and bring together staff and students who are living with technology (the digital residents) and those who are learning to live with technology (the digital visitors) as a self sustainable networked community.\nDigital technology can enable us to capture, preserve, share, collaborate on, and publish our activities. It can simplify, speed up and streamline processes, and in a wide variety of ways, we can expect it to shape many of our social and professional activities in years to come.\nFor these reasons, ensuring full participation in digital life for university staff and students is necessary, but also challenging. With so many different areas of digital activity, and so much variety in levels of confidence and existing skills, how can a university ensure staff and students have the appropriate skills for digital engagement?\nThe project method is to identify mutually supportive communities of staff and students within the larger university community (based on courses, disciplines or other naturally occurring communities) who identify goals for improving their collective digital literacies over a six month period, initially with significant support from the project team. Over the project life-time, processes, resources and toolkits are being developed so the communities can be increasingly autonomous in their development programmes. Within the community, individual and collective aims and anxieties will be identified, along with current skills and experience. Community members will collaborate to increase the overall digital literacy of the whole community.\nThe DIAL blog is a useful place to find out about news and events relating to digital technologies within arts and design education, as well as specific activities across the UAL. 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We\u2019ve shared updates on beam signings for expansions like Pandora \u2013 The World of Avatar, plus the Disneyland park site of Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge.\nStar Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge will be opening at Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland park in 2019. 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I tried to figure it out, but the only answer that made sense was that it doesn\u2019t matter why, only that I follow through and do it. I know how much in high esteem I hold my mentors, and they really made a difference. I want to be that same source of inspiration to others.\nMy grandfather was THE most influential mentor I ever had, but he was a father figure for life lessons at an early age. All of my adult life has been in and around entertainment, so those mentors were more specialized and shaped me professionally. I needed them all.\nThere was Gary Kern and Kyle Nape, two great guys who helped me cut my road chops and learn how to be a professional entertainer. But without a doubt, the big one for me by far was C. Cardell Willis. He hosted the show the very first time I ever stepped on a stage.\nCardell was my comedy father, and also the rest of Milwaukee\u2019s comedians at that time. He took time to run shows and help any and all who wanted to learn the craft. He gave of himself freely, and I learned things from him that I still use today. He was a giving soul.\nHe was born and also died in the exact same years as my father. He would have turned 75 on April 20th of this year, and I think it\u2019s only right I pay him a proper tribute. He was never famous, and in my opinion never got his due for all the people he helped \u2013 like me.\nI have put the wheels in motion to have a tribute show at Shank Hall in Milwaukee this coming April 22nd. The room was booked on the weekend, but Sunday is appropriate for a show like this because that room used to be Teddy\u2019s, and they had Sunday comedy shows there for years. In fact, that\u2019s where I did my first ever paid comedy show. It has history.\nIt was also the Funny Bone in the \u201880s, so that\u2019s the perfect place to have the show. I\u2019ve arranged to rent the room for the night, and am contacting a list of Milwaukee comedians from that era who are still around. I\u2019ve gotten a terrific response, and I can\u2019t wait to pull it off. It will be my own personal tribute to a mentor, but also a chance to let others join in.\nI\u2019m working on getting some sponsors to cover costs, and will also make it a charitable event and hopefully raise some money for at least one worthy cause if not more. I know it doesn\u2019t do anything for my career, but that\u2019s ok. I feel I have to do this, and I\u2019m going to.\nToday I went to Milwaukee to take part in a \u2018Comedy Conclave\u2019 I was invited to attend via Face Book. It was a last minute thing, but I felt compelled to go. There\u2019s something in my deepest DNA that tells me to help those people, or at least show them some support.\nThere were new faces and some that I knew, and it was odd to now be in the role played by Cardell when I was starting. They were looking to me for advice and guidance just like I looked to Cardell. I didn\u2019t hold back, and told them my unvarnished opinion. I wonder if anyone heard it? I do know they were glad I showed up. I felt it. Mentors do matter. A lot.\nSaturday January 28th, 2012 \u2013 LaSalle/Peru, IL\nCause and effect. Action and reaction. Yin and yang. There are two sides to everything, and that can be maddening at times. Just when one of those sides is functioning correctly, the other needs attention and it throws life out of balance again. It\u2019s a constant struggle.\nI\u2019ve been in a nice little groove lately, doing all kinds of fun comedy shows close to my home and liking it. I\u2019ve been generally working with and for quality people, and having a blast living in the moment. That streak continued tonight in Peru, IL at The Super Bowl.\nThe Illinois Valley Super Bowl is a bowling center that has been featuring live comedy shows for probably twenty years or more. I\u2019ve only gotten on the bandwagon recently, but now I\u2019m in their regular rotation of favorite acts and I\u2019m glad to be on it. I have fun there.\nThe owners are Jim and Bob Stubler, and they\u2019ve both been incredibly supportive of me and always bring friends when I\u2019m there because they really like my act. How flattering is that? I always try to give extra strong shows there because I\u2019m so grateful for the support.\nTonight\u2019s show was packed and rocking, and there was a couple who brought friends to see me because they loved me so much last time. The lady in the new couple paid me one of the most sincere compliments I can imagine by saying I had exceeded her expectations. She said she couldn\u2019t stop laughing, and thought she was going to pee her pants. Victory!\nHow much better can it get that that? Physical incontinence is the ultimate goal for any comedian, and it doesn\u2019t matter where it happens. If I was playing Caesars Palace in Las Vegas or a bowling center in Peru, IL, peed pants are peed pants. I\u2019ve done my job well.\nThere was an enthusiastic line of people after the show that wanted to buy a CD and tell me how hilarious I was, and that\u2019s never a bad thing. I thanked each one and meant it, and then thanked the Stubler brothers once again for having me. They treat me like a big star.\nAnother plus was being able to bring along one of my former students Elly Greenspahn as the opening act. She did a fine job, and has made solid progress in just a few years as a comedian. She\u2019s a Chicago public school teacher by day, and this is an extra perk for her. Getting a paid gig on a real show is a big deal, and it\u2018s been a delight to see her progress.\nIt was a really fun night all around, but on the way home I couldn\u2019t help thinking about how this is the end of this particular little run. It\u2019s been a lot of work just getting all of the little details done, like doing radio interviews and physically showing up for all the actual shows. I spent decades before that preparing to be able to do these solid shows I\u2019ve had.\nThis run has been productive and rewarding, but I\u2019ve let my booking maintenance really lack and I have holes in my schedule in February that worry the hell out of me. I have two weekends booked, but two that are not. Something MIGHT fall my way, but I don\u2019t enjoy MAYBE being able to eat. I can\u2019t sit and relish these fun shows, I have to seek out more.\nChoo Choo, Mr. Bully!\nFriday January 27th, 2012 \u2013 Rockford, IL\nTry as I might, sometimes I still have trouble overcoming my weaknesses. One that I\u2019ve struggled with horribly since childhood is being able to let certain things go. Even though I know it\u2019s not smart, I tend to carry grudges. Big time. For years. I\u2019ve been improving for a long time, but it\u2019s still a soft spot and I admit it. I\u2019m sorry, but I REALLY like revenge.\nMaybe that\u2019s the little brother in me who got pushed around as a kid, or maybe I\u2019m just a dented can with an old fashioned mean streak. I\u2019m not proud of it, but I know it\u2019s there. I do all I can to be a nice person to a fault, but when I feel that someone has disrespected me I feel an intense need to break off a few karate kicks in their ass with a combat boot.\nBullies are especially a problem. I refuse to accept bullying from anyone, and even if it means getting my own ass kicked I\u2019ll always get right back in their face and let them have my unvarnished opinion whether they asked for it or not. Mincing words is not my style.\nThat\u2019s been my downfall on more than a few dozen occasions, but in retrospect at least I\u2019ve made myself as clear as a bell with all the marble heads with whom I\u2019ve had an issue. I\u2019ll be the first to admit it\u2019s usually a waste of time to worry about paybacks\u2026but I have.\nJust when I thought I was over one that really bothered me for a long time, tonight I had a chance to stick it to a big time bully and I can\u2019t help enjoying how delightful it feels. It\u2019s kind of like running into an old flame by chance who was a scorcher in her day but is now a weathered old war pig nobody looks at twice. It shouldn\u2019t bring pleasure\u2026but it DOES.\nThere is a comedy booking agent who used to have a stranglehold on the Midwest for a long time. He was never a people person, and in fact most comedians couldn\u2019t stand him. We all tolerated him, only because he had a lot of work that was close to home. He made sure we all knew he was in charge, and had hundreds of us jumping through his hoops.\nHe could call us at a moment\u2019s notice and ask us to drive in a blizzard to some horrible gig in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and knew we\u2019d do it because he could hold over our heads all that other work he had that we wanted. It was a power trip, and he loved it.\nI should have had a major clue when I eventually met him in person and saw that he had a beard. My grandfather always told me to avoid dealing with anyone with a beard, as they were surely hiding something. My father always had a beard too, so that was a useful tip.\nLike most of the Midwest comedians did in the boom years, I depended on this bully for a big chunk of my work load every year. The work was usually decent, and even though it didn\u2019t pay great, it was enough to fill in the cracks and make it possible to earn my living.\nI can remember doing all kinds of last minute \u2018favors\u2019, but never ONCE getting it back in my direction. He could exploit anyone he wanted, and took full advantage of it. I knew I wasn\u2019t the only one getting boned, but it still hurt. The bastard had no conscience at all.\nI\u2019d had a few tiffs with him over the years, and one time we really had a big blow out. It was wrong on my part, but I really went off on him in frustration and left a nasty message on his answering machine. We didn\u2019t work together for years, and I should have used it as my liberation. Instead, I came crawling back and tried to unburn the bridge. Big mistake.\nHe ended up being the one who booked me at Giggles in Brookfield, WI which has now closed because the owner was bouncing checks like basketballs. He did nothing to inform me of a problem, even though he knew there was one. It was a major issue, and caused an inordinate amount of pain and suffering that didn\u2019t need to happen. It still pisses me off.\nUnfortunately, there has been a long and rapidly growing list of comics like me who are no longer working for him because he turned the business over to his sons, who are about as people friendly and competent as Saddam Hussein\u2019s two geniuses. It\u2019s been pure hell.\nWell, tonight I got a little pay back. There\u2019s a new room in Rockford, IL at a wonderful placed called Franchesco\u2019s. WOW, what a venue! They have a show room that\u2019s as sweet as any club I\u2019ve ever seen, and they\u2019re running comedy shows booked by my friends Ken Sevara and Sky Drysdale. Ken is another one of the victims of the booking agent bully.\nHe\u2019s about as laid back and nice of a guy as there is, along with Sky Drysdale who was a radio personality who hosted comedy nights in Rockford for years. He really knew how to treat the comics and also trained his audiences to behave during shows. He did it right.\nI couldn\u2019t be more flattered that those guys thought of me to kick off the first show. Of course I had to say yes, and they made it even better by putting a guy named Brian Hicks in front of me as the feature act. He\u2019s THE absolute best guy I can think of in the country for that position, and I don\u2019t mean any disrespect by that. His style was tailor made for it.\nThe feature position in comedy is quite often the easiest from a performer\u2019s perspective, but very underappreciated by everyone else. To be a good one takes effort, and Brian does it extremely well. His act is original, clean, well presented and very funny \u2013 but not in any way that\u2019s overpowering so a headliner can\u2019t follow it. Plus, he\u2019s super mellow off stage.\nHe\u2019s a married guy and doesn\u2019t go out chasing waitresses or get snot flying drunk after a show. He does his job, does it well, and goes home. Bookers everywhere should look to clone Brian Hicks. He\u2019s like a good utility infielder. They don\u2019t get glory or huge money, but every team in baseball scrambles to find them. I\u2019ve always been a big fan of Brian\u2019s.\nThe booker in question apparently was fuming about this new room opening in a market he considered \u2018his\u2019, and sent out an email \u2018banning\u2019 anyone from working it. Brian isn\u2019t a rabble rouser, and wanted no part of it. It was a gig to him, and that\u2019s it. Not to the bully.\nBrian is now persona non grata like so many others of us who\u2019ve busted our butts to put money in this wank-a-doo\u2019s pocket for way too long. Well, his empire is crumbling and it couldn\u2019t delight me more. The old karma train has a circular track. Choo choo, Mr. Bully!\nThursday January 26th, 2012 \u2013 Kenosha, WI\nI can dream about massive unbridled success of the King of Uranus all I want, and I am, but meanwhile back on Earth the grind of life still goes on in the trenches. Bills won\u2019t pay themselves, and dreams won\u2019t become reality without effort. Back to work to make a few shekels to tide me over until superstardom hits. It\u2019s taking much longer than I imagined.\nThe next few days are going to be hectic, but I love it. I\u2019ll be working both on stage and on the air. Jim Stone contacted me for some last minute fill in talk host work at FM 100.5 WNTA in Rockford, IL. I told him I would show up, even though the shift starts at 5am.\nIt happens to work out perfectly, as I have a comedy gig in Rockford tomorrow night at a venue called Franchesco\u2019s. It\u2019s a \u2018ristorante\u2019, so that means it\u2019s a high class swank joint. That term along with \u2018bistro\u2019 mean the arrow points due northward on the ritzy titzy hotsy totsy hoity toity meter. If it has \u2018haus\u2019 or \u2018o-rama\u2019 in the title, it\u2019s a dive. I\u2018ve learned this.\nTonight I had a gig in Kenosha, WI at a place called \u2018Pavle\u2019s Lounge\u2019. That\u2019s definitely not a ristorante, but it\u2019s not a dive either. That\u2019s a bar, and they\u2019ve had live entertainment for as long as Pavle has been open \u2013 22 years. He\u2019s a Serbian guy who couldn\u2019t be nicer.\nIt\u2019s a tiny little room, but it does have a stage and maybe could fit 60 people if crammed full. Fortunately, that wasn\u2019t an issue tonight as I think the grand total was 14. This is just not the kind of gig I want to be doing now, but I was asked nicely so I said I would do it.\nThere\u2019s a huge difference between being respected and treated like a two bit whore, and the tiniest amount of respect goes a long way with most entertainers of any genre. We get bought and sold like baseball cards or used cars, and the ones doing it forget we\u2019re people with feelings. Most of us become entertainers because we lacked respect in the first place.\nI was approached for this show by a bouncer at Pavle\u2019s who saw me at a Zanies show at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, IL a few months ago. He said Pavle had not done any comedy shows in a long time, and would like to start up again. We worked out a date that turned out to be tonight, and since it was a week night there wasn\u2018t much risk involved.\nI called Russ Martin and Karl Newyear, as both are not far away and can always use the stage time. I knew they\u2019d appreciate it, and wouldn\u2019t waste the opportunity. I try to throw a bone to others when I can, and I like hanging out with those guys. It was an easy call.\nPavle usually doesn\u2019t open until 9pm, so the show was scheduled for 9:30. That\u2019s a late start for any week night show, and knowing I had to get to Rockford by 5am made it seem that much later. I wouldn\u2019t have minded if they canceled, but they wanted to do a show.\nIt is what it is. Pavle was extremely grateful, and must have thanked me ten times. How can I get angry at that? It\u2019s not his fault. It\u2019s a hard task to fill even a small bar for a show in Kenosha on a week night. At least I felt respected, and those 14 people loved the show.\nDigging Deeper Into Uranus\nWednesday January 25th, 2012 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nI\u2019m battening down the hatches, as I can tell this is going to be a hell of a year. I feel the rumblings in the distance getting closer, and at some point the deluge will begin. It has to. I\u2019ve been putting too much out there for too long without some positives bouncing back.\nI\u2019ve paid enough dues for about six lifetimes, and now it\u2019s time for payback. I haven\u2019t a clue as to what it will all entail, but I know it\u2019s on the way. I just do. I feel it. I don\u2019t know how I know, but I do. There are going to be events in 2012 I\u2019ve never experienced before, but in a good way. I am working day and night to make sure I\u2019m prepared to soak it all in.\nBetween bookers calling, classes pending, my one man show \u2019Schlitz Happened\u2019 about growing up in Milwaukee, The Mothership Connection paranormal radio show on WLIP in Kenosha, WI and trying to stay in contact with friends, I\u2019ve got more than I can handle.\nThat doesn\u2019t include \u2018side projects\u2019 like producing the DVD for James Wesley Jackson or booking a \u2019Pirates Of Comedy\u2019 tour with Don Reese, Dwight York and Dan Still. It\u2019s a chore just to list all this stuff much less keep track of it, but every bit of it is worthwhile.\nAnd then there\u2019s The King of Uranus. That\u2019s the monster that\u2019s been rumbling loudest, and I feel myself being drawn to it. It\u2019s the culmination of everything I\u2019ve admired in life and a mix of a lot of things from pro wrestler to charismatic evangelist to George Clinton and Sun Ra\u2019s outer space alter egos to science fiction to just plain funny. It\u2019s a total kick.\nI think it\u2019s more than that though. My friend Max Bumgardner called tonight out of the blue to say he was thinking about me and had the urge to call so he did. Max is one of the few people I consider a true kindred spirit, and totally gets where I am coming from. He\u2019s always understood the \u2018dented can\u2019 concept, and is a big fan of The King of Uranus idea.\nMax has very solid natural business instincts, which I admit I do not. I\u2019m a creative type and that\u2019s how it has always been. I\u2019m at the mercy of the bean counters, and that\u2019s a fact I\u2019m not thrilled about. Max gets where I\u2019m coming from, and called at the perfect time.\nHe encouraged me to get out there and DO this gimmick, and told me to only say aloud positive affirmations that I want to come true. Max is a big time student of self help like I am, and he\u2019s right. The Law Of Attraction really does work, and I needed to re-hear that.\nThis whole thing is more than a gimmick. It\u2019s the childhood I never got to have, and the way to reach more people than I ever would as a regular old run of the mill white standup comic. I\u2019ve tried that for decades, and it hasn\u2019t come close to working how I\u2019d planned.\nThis idea goes way deeper than that. It opens me up to a whole new level of community service and bringing laughter and healing to people who really need it. I picture this to be a whole lot deeper than putting on a goofy costume and walking into places to watch how people react. That\u2019s part of it, and its very funny, but the roots of it all are very spiritual.\nMax is one of the few people who gets all this, and his call served as a lightning rod for getting me to put into words exactly what I intend to accomplish by doing this. At first the idea was just to make money, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. It\u2019s much deeper now.\nI want to touch people\u2019s lives and souls, not just their wallets. I want to help the hurting heal, and there are far more dented cans out there than I ever imagined. I\u2019ve had my share of horrific breaks in life, but there are countless stories much worse than mine. They need to laugh, and they need someone who can relate to their pain to deliver it. And that\u2019s me.\nThere are countless nameless and faceless standup comedians out there, but there\u2019s only ONE King of Uranus. I\u2019ve finally come up with something that sets me apart from all the rest \u2013 even though I\u2019ve been \u2018out there\u2019 my whole life. This is the vehicle I have lacked.\nI\u2019m going to breathe life into this character in the next little while, but it\u2019s been brewing since childhood. Gramps would LOVE this, and I\u2019m not only doing it in his honor, but for the others in my family who died without ever doing anything worthwhile \u2013 like my uncle. He left this planet a lonely unfulfilled bitter horse\u2019s ass. He missed the reason for living.\nIt\u2019s all about giving and sharing and showing sincere acts of kindness. He motivated me whether he knew it or not, and ending up like him or my father scares me beyond words. I want to be known for my service to humanity, and this is going to be the way I achieve it.\nIf a regular old comedian came to a hospital or an orphanage or an old folks home, they may or may not be remembered five minutes after they left. I know I feel that way far too often after shows. People may laugh and have a good time, but I\u2019m forgotten in minutes.\nWho could forget The King of Uranus showing up in full costume with flames and farts and smoke and gimmicks and whatever else I can throw in? Word will get out, and it will spread like wildfire. I know human nature and entertainment enough to know I\u2019ll get a lot of mileage out of minimal effort. Just showing up in the goofy costume will get attention.\nNow it\u2019s a matter of coming up with the back story of why I\u2019m dressed like that and the battle plan of how to get it known to as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. It WILL get seen, and it already has shown potential for lightning fast recognition.\nWhen it does, I want to have my priorities straight. Yes, I\u2019m looking to get rich. I\u2019m not denying that for a second. Money is a part of life, and it\u2019s important. But what\u2019s far more important is touching those who are hurting. I want to take this to places where comedy is needed most but not usually seen \u2013 like prisons or hospices. I want to make a difference.\nI know it all sounds corny and sappy, but I\u2018m not kidding. With all the insane horror of dysfunction going on in my life from such an early age, this is finally my chance to be the kid I never got to be then. I had to grow up too fast, and missed out on much of the dumb fun kids are supposed to have. Well, this is it \u2013 and a way to reach out to others who have similar scars. Like a Patch Adams, Peace Pilgrim or Mother Theresa, this is my mission.\nRegal Stupidity\nTuesday January 24th, 2012 \u2013 Waukegan, IL/Hoffman Estates, IL\nLots of running around today, but all of it productive \u2013 and long overdue. First it was off to scenic Waukegan for lunch with magician Dennis DeBondt. He ran across a guy with a bar/restaurant that has an upstairs performance space that wants to try live comedy shows.\nDowntown Waukegan is not the epicenter of entertainment, but there\u2019s no comedy at all in Lake County, IL and it wouldn\u2019t hurt to get a few things started. Dennis is a very funny comedy magician and could easily headline comedy clubs if he wanted, but he\u2019s also very good at the business end of things and doesn\u2019t need to do that. He does better on his own.\nHe\u2019s exactly the kind of person I need to align myself with, and I can help him too. He\u2019s always talking to people that aren\u2019t in my loop of contacts, and often those people ask for referrals of both comedians and magicians. It never hurts to know a source for new work.\nNo matter what happens in Waukegan, I\u2019m glad I met with Dennis. He\u2019s a professional, and I can hopefully help him in return. We looked at the room in question, and it\u2019s doable for an occasional show. It\u2019ll never be a full time club, but that\u2019s not what the place wants.\nAfter lunch it was off to work on the King of Uranus costume with Jim McHugh. I need a constant kick in Uranus to make this thing happen, and he\u2019s been doing his job perfectly as of late. I\u2019m the first one to admit I\u2019m a scatterbrain, and Jim helps me to stay focused.\nIt has to get DONE. Period. I don\u2019t care if anyone thinks I\u2019m crazy, and in fact that\u2019s the whole idea. I never denied it, and I don\u2019t now. This is an admittedly stupid concept which perfectly fits a painfully stupid world. It lightens people up at a time when we all need it.\nWe saw a perfect example of it today as we went into a fabric store looking for material to make the King\u2019s cape. Or is it a robe? I don\u2019t know, so that\u2019s what we went to find out. Jim bought a new video camera that\u2019s the size of a cell phone, and followed me around in the store as we looked through fabrics and had interaction with a couple of sales people.\nThey were a little taken aback at first, but after a while they came around and it was fun to watch the transformation. Who\u2019s not going to remember that the King of Uranus was at their store? It was great practice on many levels. We filmed a scene, bought the fabric and Jim\u2019s mother has a friend who is a whiz of a seamstress and she\u2019ll construct the costume.\nThat will be more fodder for recording. Gradually, we\u2019ll come up with the character out of trial and error and the reactions we get will dictate what stays and what goes. This is an absolute blast, and I don\u2019t care who tells me it\u2019s stupid. It IS stupid \u2013 that\u2019s why it works.\nI really do have passion about this project, and I need others like Jim to keep harping on me to just DO it. There will never be a better time than now, and action is the main key to success at anything. The only failure possible with this concept is not taking my best shot, but days like this make that fear shrink like testicles in cold weather. Prepare for a King!\nAmerican Storage Pawn Picker War Stars\nMonday January 23rd, 2012 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nI haphazardly gulp from life\u2019s cup of shame like a thirsty dog laps from a toilet. I should be a millionaire by now, and the one and only idiot to blame for why I\u2019m not gawks at me in the mirror every day. I\u2019ve had chances, and so far I have blown every one. It haunts me.\nNothing reminds me of it more than this recent glut of all the \u2018treasure hunt\u2019 TV shows. \u2019Pawn Stars\u2019, \u2019Storage Wars\u2019, \u2018American Pickers\u2019 and all their various imitators show me just how close I was to hitting pay dirt. It was right in front of me, and I flat out missed it.\nWhat more of an ideal situation could a person ask for than to be constantly on the road for twenty-five years with 23 hours of free time a day to do nothing but hunt for treasures, make connections all over North America and wheel and deal? I was tailor made for this.\nI have always had an eye for collectibles, even as a kid. I remember going to sports card shows in Milwaukee back before they were popular everywhere. I would take the city bus across town to a place called Federation Hall when I was maybe 12 or 13, and come back with as many old baseball cards as I could buy with whatever stash of money I had saved.\nThey used to have auctions for old cards, and I was right in there bidding toe to toe with grown men many years older than me. Many would ask why I was bidding on those cards when they weren\u2019t from my era, but I just knew they would be worth money in the future.\nI ended up selling most of them in my early twenties when I really needed money, and it came in super handy at the time. I did make a healthy profit, but had I really been smart to wait until the peak years of the mid \u201890s I\u2019d have made ten times what I did. I missed out.\nStill, I bought and sold sports card collections for years after that. I loved the process of hunting the source, making the deal and reselling it all. Sometimes I lost money, but more often than not I was able to do pretty well. There are a lot of universal steps that go along with any collectible genre, not just sports cards. Had I been smart, I could have hit it big.\nCollectibles and antiques are all about knowledge. The objective is to buy items from a seller that doesn\u2019t know where to get as much as you can. That\u2019s the whole concept of all these TV shows, and it\u2019s exactly what I was doing as I was wheeling and dealing cards.\nWhat if I would have gotten to know antique dealers and collectors in all the towns I\u2019ve been going back and forth to all these years? WOW. It boggles the mind how many deals I could have been part of and how many great adventures I missed out on. Sure, I did buy and sell a few random baubles and trinkets along the way, but nothing to break the bank.\nNow, after seeing these shows everywhere it\u2019s going to be next to impossible to troll up anything of real value for any kind of bargain. Every seller is now going to jack up prices beyond belief, thinking they\u2019ve got the Holy Grail. I wouldn\u2019t think of starting now, but if I had years ago I\u2019d have probably hit my mother lode by now. I missed the boat. How sad.\nThe Reality Of Perception\nSunday January 22nd, 2012 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nThere\u2019s a very interesting video on the internet about a world class violinist by the name of Joshua Bell who played a very difficult piece of music on a super expensive violin that was worth $3.5 million in a train station in New York. No passers by recognized him. He got $31 in donations in an hour\u2018s playing, while tickets to his shows average $100 each.\nI remember seeing the video when it first came out, but someone sent it to me again this week and I was reminded of how important perception is \u2013 especially in the entertainment game. Talent has never mattered, and the video drove that point home hard. It\u2019s not that a talented person will never make it, it\u2019s just that talent is not the one and only requirement.\nIt\u2019s not just about talent either. Joe Paterno of Penn State died today of lung cancer, and his perception was that of being revered for decades as a pillar of virtue and a worthy role model for his players to emulate. When the scandal broke about long time assistant coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly having sex with boys on campus, Paterno\u2019s image was stained.\nBy all I\u2019ve read and heard, JoePa did absolutely nothing to protect the victims of one of the most horrific crimes I can imagine. Even though he eventually got fired as a coach, he still had the blind worship and support of a large number of football fans in Pennsylvania.\nThey couldn\u2019t imagine getting rid of the living legend, even if what he did was about as wrong as it gets. He was perceived as an icon, and the truth didn\u2019t matter. There are other examples too numerous to count, as well as hypothetical situations. What if someone like Hitler or Bin Laden had helped little old ladies across the street? Would it redeem them?\nOf course not. Their perception was that of being evil, and deservedly so. They had way too much bad energy attached to their names to let one little good thing sway the opinion in the other direction. Reputation can go a long way in how the public views somebody.\nBrett Favre is a shining example of how someone\u2019s public perception can change from icon to ex con in a short period of time. He was the king of Wisconsin for at least a dozen years, and when he left his fans were up in arms. Then, when he pulled his little Viqueens stunt, he turned to the dark side faster than Darth Vader\u2019s cape. His perception changed.\nPerception isn\u2019t always reality, but it might as well be. Ozzy Osbourne may have bitten the head off of a bat, and maybe he didn\u2019t. Does it matter? Everyone has heard that story. Did Richard Gere and a gerbil ever hook up for a well publicized weekend rendezvous?\nAgain, it\u2019s not important if it actually happened or not. A lot of people THINK it did, so that\u2019s all that\u2019s necessary. That gerbil could pass a lie detector test and it wouldn\u2019t change a thing in the public\u2019s mind. The perception is there that it happened, good luck changing that. I was thinking today about what my perception is, and I\u2019m not really sure. I hope I\u2019m perceived as a good person, and I try to be one. Unfortunately, that\u2019s not all that important as far as business goes. \u2018Nice\u2019 won\u2019t get a person paid. It\u2019s the ability to sell some tickets.\nA Fifty Mile Radius\nSaturday January 21st, 2012 \u2013 Elkhorn, WI\nI think my \u2018closer to home\u2019 theory is finally starting to pay off. Tonight I did a show at a country club in Elkhorn, WI and my round trip total was 72 miles. What a delightful night of \u2018work\u2019 it was to be able to leave my house at 7:30 for an 8:30 show, and be back by 11.\nThis is exactly what I had in mind when I came up with this plan, and now that I\u2019m able to see results it makes me want to dig in and do it more. Who needs grueling twelve hour drives each way on a weekly basis to prove I\u2019m in show biz? I prefer it this way, thanks.\nThere were a lot more positives with this gig than being out there aimlessly wandering the earth like Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu. It was easy, low pressure and I had a chance to earn my weekly nut in less than four hours. If I could do that every week, life is sweet.\nI didn\u2019t make great money, but it wasn\u2019t horrible either. Considering how much actual effort I had to put out to get it, I\u2019ll shut my mouth and say thanks. I might have been able to score more gross pay for a weekend or week long booking, but after expenses I\u2019d be at right around what I ended up taking home. Not having the long drive was like a vacation.\nThis particular place is being booked by another comedian who is kind enough to think of me whenever these kinds of random shows come up. I wouldn\u2019t consider going behind his back to try and book things myself, even though not everyone else operates that way.\nI\u2019m very respectful of territorial rights when it comes to situations like this, and he ends up calling me more often than not anyway so we all win. He charged a small but very fair commission for recommending me, and I gladly paid it. The show went well as I was sure it would, and the guy in charge said I\u2019d be back. I was paid and in my car without issue.\nHow many other places like this are there within a 50 mile radius of my house? I would think there are enough to keep me working at least a couple of times each month were I to want to do that. Last week I was in Wauconda, IL which is even closer. Again, the money wasn\u2019t stellar, but it didn\u2019t totally suck canal water either. The closeness makes up for it.\nI know I may be getting spoiled these last two weeks, but I believe I deserve it. Way too often I\u2019ve had to drive hundreds of hard lonely miles to stand in front of far less people or far less friendly or sober people. Nobody was drunk tonight, and they were good laughers.\nThere are all kinds of people within a fifty mile radius of where I am. Zanies in Chicago is just about fifty miles exactly from door to door, and downtown Milwaukee is a little bit less. Rockford is maybe a little farther, as is Madison. Still, there are a lot of people living in that circle who would love what I do and I\u2019m bound and determined to find all of them.\nEven if I expanded it to an even 100 miles, that\u2019s still a lot of potential. I bet if I worked only that specific territory boundary alone, I could earn a respectable living and still sleep in my own bed every night. Next week I\u2019ve got three gigs close to home. I\u2019m loving this.\nScoring With Boring\nFriday January 20th, 2012 \u2013 Gurnee, IL\nNo rest for the wicked. Up and at \u2019em. I signed myself up for another network meet and greet breakfast this morning, and it started at 7:30 at the Golden Corral in Gurnee, IL. I\u2019ve never been a morning person, even when I worked in morning radio, but that\u2019s too bad for me. It\u2019s smart business to crawl out of the rack, scrub myself up and make some contacts.\nToday\u2019s group was the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, and I heard about it earlier in the week from my contact Jayne Nordstrom at Visit Lake County \u2013 formerly The Lake County Convention And Visitor\u2019s Bureau. She\u2019s been a total pleasure to work with since I became a member, and continues to come through again and again. She\u2019s in my corner.\nMaking contacts in my own back yard can never hurt. For the price of breakfast I\u2019d buy anyway, I get a chance to cross paths with others who all have the entrepreneurial mindset I\u2019m trying to develop. If nothing else, not many of these people had ever met a comedian. I could feel ears perk up when I introduced myself, and everyone was friendly and warm.\nOn Wednesday, I had a couple of inquiries from people who wanted to know if I would be available for a company function. Today, I had five more. Bingo! That doesn\u2019t mean a single one of those gigs will ever happen, but how many other comedians were dressed up or up at all at 7:30am mingling with a room full of business owners? Not many, I\u2019d guess.\nONE measly little gig out of all of this will pay my yearly membership dues, and that\u2019s a solid bet in my book. I felt quality energy both times this week, and will seek out more of these events to attend in the future. All I need is to hit one valuable contact to win big.\nAfter breakfast I stopped at the Gurnee Mills Mall to continue my daily exercise string. I\u2019ve been on a roll lately, and not only have I not missed any days, I\u2019ve been walking a lot farther than I ever have. Today I put in four complete laps, and I think that\u2019s a first. Most people have much higher goals, but to me four laps in the mall felt like Olympic victory.\nI don\u2019t know exactly how far that is, but I would guess it\u2019s probably at least two miles if not more per lap. That\u2019s a big place, and there are a lot of twists and turns to put at least a little variety in my route. I\u2019m soaked by the time I finish, and I feel comfortable enough to immerse myself in thought as I exercise. I find it simultaneously relaxing and energizing.\nWhat a boring slug I am, but these stupid little things really do excite me. Getting up to put in an appearance at the networking meeting really made me feel like I\u2019d accomplished something worthy of calling it a successful day. Then, getting in four laps in the mall took it over the edge. I\u2019m on a thrill spree. What\u2019s next, cleaning out the lint trap in the dryer?\nI know I\u2019m a flaming bore, but that\u2019s who I am. Doing a pound of cocaine or skydiving doesn\u2019t tempt me in the least. Walking in a mall and meeting strangers at a restaurant put me in a great mood. Am I nuts? I\u2019m afraid so, but it could be worse. I could be Belushi or Kinison or someone else who\u2019s DEAD. I\u2018m dull, but I\u2018m alive. Today was a lot of fun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 40992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://doctoresdelaalegria.org/7-smart-tips-for-choosing-a-dental-clinic-near-you.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4DOBK2TMTSQQRTMIGDHHHY2VJTEDRRLD", "length": 2396, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "doctoresdelaalegria.org", "title": "7 Smart Tips for Choosing a Dental Clinic near You! \u2013 Doctores De La Alegria", "raw_content": "Oral health and hygiene is an aspect that you cannot choose to ignore. Routine checkups every six months can keep most of the dental concerns and diseases at bay. However, choosing a new dental clinic can be really confusing. With all those big ads, it can be hard to find dentist that you can truly rely on. We have enlisted a few tips below for your quick help!\nFirst things first, you need to understand the services offered by a dental clinic. Some just offer routine services, checkups and additional treatments, while others might also deal in cosmetic dentistry. While comprehensive services aren\u2019t necessary all the time, it can be an important consideration.\nBefore you choose a Syracuse NY dentist, you need to know his qualifications and background. Dental care is all about experience, and it\u2019s best to choose someone who is experienced with different treatments and advanced technologies.\nDental clinics may not have all the equipment and tools that are needed for advanced treatments. It\u2019s best to take an appointment to understand the claims and services offered. Talk to the staff to know more about the services offered. Infrastructure can be a big factor for your treatment, besides the experience of the dentist.\nUnfortunately, the costs of dental treatments are increasing by the day. While routine treatments are still affordable at most places, cosmetic enhancements and services are expensive. In some cases, you may need more than two to three sessions for a treatment, which might increase the costs. Talk to your dentist on the first visit to know the possible cost of a particular treatment.\nIt\u2019s also essential that you choose a reputed clinic and not one that offers big discounts. With medical and dental services, you get what you pay for. Check online to know more about the reputation of a clinic. You will find testimonials on the official site of the clinic, or can even check patient reviews on third party sites.\nCheck the business hours of the clinic in advance. As mentioned, certain treatments may need more visits, and you need to choose a facility that\u2019s not very far and has flexible business hours.\nFinally, you need to know if the dental clinic can handle the treatments and checkups required for your entire family. It\u2019s best to choose a clinic that can ensure dental health for your kids and parents, as well.\nCheck online to find a clinic near you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dogfriendlygardening.jimdo.com/a-dog-s-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:WTWJ4RQ4KPFNYKNRKWOMM3K3BOCY7TZV", "length": 7543, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "dogfriendlygardening.jimdo.com", "title": ". . . . . . . A DOG'S YEAR IN THE GARDEN . . . . . . . - Dog friendly gardening", "raw_content": ". . . . . . . A DOG'S YEAR IN THE GARDEN . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JANUARY\nSnow, frost, and even rain can all create treacherously slippery surfaces to walk on, so take particular care when out in the garden. With four paws your dog may be better at keeping his balance than you, but he can still experience difficulties, so encourage him to take things things slowly when crossing surfaces which are likely to cause problems such as patios slick with ice or wet algae.\nFEBRUARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nA quiet time of year in the garden - and without too many jobs that need doing outdoors it is the perfect time to plan for the year ahead. Sort out packets of seeds which are still viable, and make a shopping list of anything you need to buy.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARCH\nThe air is filled with the sound of froggy singing, and the first clumps of frogspawn are appearing. For the safety of the dogs, my pond is sited in the front garden which they don't have free access to: but it's near a window so they still get to watch all the activity going on out there.\nUnfortunately the antics of the frogs - seven of them at last count - also attracts the interest of the local cats. Happily no casualties so far this year: Archie and Angel have been keeping a close watch on proceedings and alerting me to the presence of any feline intruders who are then sent packing with a well aimed squirt of water.\nIf you don't have a water pistol, I've found that a plant sprayer with the nozzle adjusted to give a fine jet rather than a spray makes a great substitute, with a surprisingly good range. Cat lovers may think I'm mean, but the frogs are grateful!\nAPRIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nApril showers, and the slugs and snails are out in force - as well as being the gardeners worst enemy, they're no friends to your dog either. Lungworm (Angiostrongylus vasorum) can be caught from these slimy pests, and is a problem which, once seen only in a few isolated pockets is now spreading rapidly across the UK. Some of the contributory factors for this spread are thought to be due to global warming encouraging slugs and snails to remain active for longer periods, combined with the movement of dogs around the country and foxes becoming infected (slugs and snails form part of their diet) and acting as a source of infection for dogs - remember that nowadays foxes are urban as well as countryside creatures.\nHave a chat with your vet about the possible risk to your pet, and work out a suitable worming programme.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MAY\nSpring has definitely sprung and with some warmer and drier weather at last, it's lovely to be able to spend more time outside. There's plenty of weeding to catch up on and seeds to get sown, while the dogs amuse themselves with some activity toys. While Archie and Angel are busy batting their treat-filled pyramid toys around on the lawn, trying to get the goodies out, I can get on with some of the long overdue garden chores without having to keep a constant eye on what they are up to.\nJUNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nWith the arrival of 'flaming June' it's time to start keeping a close eye on dedicated sunbathers who don't know when they've had enough.\nSoaking up the sunshine is a favourite occupation for many dogs, but they can be just as prone to sunburn and heatstroke as us. The young, the elderly, those with short noses or medical conditions such as heart problems are particularly susceptible to overheating so err on the safe side and send them off to nap in a cool, shady place instead.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULY\nA grassy lawn not only looks good but helps the environment too: The Lawn Institute states that it can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and contribute to reducing global warming trends. A healthy lawn also has a wonderful cooling effect, which according to a study by one US University is equivalent to an 8.5 ton air conditioning compressor. On a hot summer day, lawns can be up to 30\u00b0 C cooler than asphalt and 14\u00b0 C cooler than bare soil. And of course, it's a forgiving and pleasant surface for playing games or simply lounging around on, whether you're a human or a dog!\nAUGUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nWhen it's too hot to do much, it's time to bring out the paddling pool. A plastic clam shell works well, as doggy toenails won't puncture it like the plastic inflatable type - but do place a non-slip bath mat in the bottom. Lisa loved playing in the river, but when it dried up during droughts happily accepted this as a substitute. You may need something bigger for larger dogs; it's possible to buy canvas ones which do the job nicely. Buy some doggy water toys or float some pieces of frankfurter sausage on the surface of the water to add to the fun.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEPTEMBER\nFruit is ripening fast now - on the allotment we've already enjoyed a bumper crop of plums, damsons and cherries and are now looking forward to apples and pears. Wasps may be as well, so if you have a tree in your garden, clear up any windfalls which may attract them - as well as helping your dog to avoid stings it will prevent him from gorging on the fallen fruit too.\nRemember that some fruit (such as grapes) can be poisonous to dogs, which is another good reason for preventing him from harvesting his own. Those with stones or large pits can present an additional problem - as well as being potentially toxic, they may also cause blockages in the gut if ingested.\nOCTOBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nFallen leaves rustle crisply beneath feet and paws: the year has raced by and Hallowe'en is here already. Check carefully under bonfires of garden rubbish to make sure no hedgehogs are hibernating underneath, and leave your dog safely indoors before lighting them. If trick-or-treaters are likely to call, it may be a good idea to put your dog on the leash or to leave him safely shut in another room when you go to answer the door. Even though he may normally love visitors, he may be less welcoming to those who appear in ghoulish fancy dress and uttering ghostly sounds.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NOVEMBER\nRemember remember the Fifth of November ... and make sure you keep your dog safely indoors while the fireworks are going off outside. Even when you think they are safely all over, it's a good idea to take your dog out for his late night wee in the garden before bedtime on a leash, just in case. Even though your fencing may be both high and secure, a panic stricken dog may succeed in escaping.\nDECEMBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nA covering of snow creates a whole new and exciting landscape, and most dogs will enjoy scampering around and playing in it. Some may need a warm coat if they are going to be out in the cold for more than a few minutes to answer the call of nature - and some may refuse to go out even for that long, without a cosy jacket to keep the chill at bay. Well wrapped up, Ziggy, the dog in this photo, had great fun helping his owner Hayley and her daughter make a snowman. 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Most cases are seen in the summer months and may occur as single cases or outbreaks.\nNo. Campylobacteriosis has probably been in existence for many years, but has only recently been recognized as a common infection due to improved laboratory methods.\nWho gets campylobacteriosis?\nAnyone can get Campylobacter infection.\nCampylobacter are generally spread by eating or drinking contaminated food or water, and occasionally, by contact with infected people or animals.\nWhat are the symptoms of campylobacteriosis?\nCampylobacteriosis may cause mild or severe diarrhea, often with fever and traces of blood in the stool. It can also cause abdominal pain, vomiting, fever, nausea, and malaise.\nThe symptoms generally appear 2 to 5 days, occasionally up to 10 days, after eating or drinking the contaminated food or drink.\nWhere are the Campylobacter germs found?\nMany animals including pigs, cattle, dogs, kittens, rodents, and birds (particularly poultry) carry the germ in their intestines. These sources in turn may contaminate meat products (particularly poultry), water supplies, milk and other food items.\nFor how long can a person carry the Campylobacter germ?\nGenerally infected people continue to pass the germ in their feces for a few days to a week, or as long as 7 weeks.\nDo infected people need to be isolated or excluded from school or work?\nMost infected people may return to work or school when the diarrhea stops, provided that they carefully wash their hands after toilet visits. However, since the germ is passed in the feces, people with diarrhea should not work in food handling, or care for people in hospitals, day care centers, or long-term care facilities. Individuals who are carrying the germ, but who are not sick should not work if they have poor hygiene and poor hand washing habits. Food handlers, staff in day care, and health care workers must obtain the approval of the state or local health department before returning to their routine activities. These persons should be excluded from duties until clinical recovery, as determined by a physician.\nWhat is the treatment for campylobacteriosis?\nMost people infected with Campylobacter will recover on their own without drugs or may require fluids to prevent dehydration. Antibiotics may be used occasionally to treat severe cases or to shorten the carrier phase, which may be important for food handlers, staff in day care or health care workers.\nHow can campylobacteriosis be prevented?\nAlways treat raw poultry, beef and pork as if they are contaminated and handle accordingly:\nCutting boards and counters used for food preparation should be washed immediately after use to prevent cross contamination with other foods.\nEnsure that the correct internal cooking temperature is reached - particularly when using a microwave. Cook chicken to 180\u00b0F and hamburger to 160\u00b0F.\nAvoid eating raw eggs or under cooking foods containing raw eggs.\nAvoid drinking raw milk.\nEncourage careful hand washing before and after food preparation.\nMake sure children wash their hands, particularly those who handle pets\nIf you or your child have a diarrheal illness remember, a stool sample is needed to determine what is causing the diarrhea and who might be at risk for spread of the disease from the ill individual.\nFoodSafety.gov \u2014 Campylobacter information", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 9906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://domesticpreparedness.com/resilience/page3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3SLTXS33NTLUIGHFVXS2GT7NWTEU7XOR", "length": 4671, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "domesticpreparedness.com", "title": "Resilience | Domestic Preparedness", "raw_content": "by Keith Grossman - Wed, January 17, 2018\nARTful Leadership & Disaster Management\nby Eric J. McNulty - Wed, December 27, 2017\nDisaster preparedness and response professionals had a front-row seat for the turbulence in 2017. A historic hurricane season left first responders and the communities they serve struggling to keep up. Fires continue to ravage the west. Active shooter and terrorism incidents keep everyone on edge. Infectious disease outbreaks remain a constant worry. Cyberattacks open a new threat vector. Prolonged preparation, response, and recovery put stress on physical, emotional, financial, and infrastructure systems. Leaders must adapt to changing circumstances and needs.\nMaryland\u2019s Approach for Raising the Resilience Index\nby Charissa Cooper & Jessica Nusbaum - Wed, December 20, 2017\nThreats, whether natural or manmade, have the ability to negatively impact communities. Although government agencies serve communities before, during, and after disasters, emergency management officials understand the realities of gaps that exist in disaster management systems exclusively managed by government. There is a mounting cognizance of the need for effective communication and coordination from a broad range of stakeholders to reduce the negative effects of a given disaster.\n10 Questions for Selecting Business Continuity Software\nby Erin Valentine - Wed, December 13, 2017\nBeing resilient when faced with an emergency or catastrophic event requires preplanning to ensure that operations can continue with minimal interruption throughout the event or restart soon after the event. Business continuity software can help bridge the continuity gap during these times. Answering these 10 questions before purchasing will help ensure a good match between the software and the user.\nFreight Rail Safety and Emergency Management\nDuring the second week of October 2017, the DomPrep Journal hosted and Draeger sponsored a series of presexxntations and discussions, which included most of the major federal agencies engaged in freight rail safety and security, as well as the American Association of Railroads. To add to that discussion, several states have made significant contributions to freight rail safety. Three major state and local emergency management agencies that have made these major strides in rail safety and security are described here.\nCritical Infrastructure Partnerships \u2013 Prioritizing Assets\nby Christopher Ryan - Wed, November 15, 2017\nA key early step for critical infrastructure protection (CIP) programs is to identify and prioritize the most important facilities and assets for maintaining community safety, normalcy, and quality of life. Within single jurisdictions, CIP program managers typically choose prioritization criteria to determine the most critical assets. However, developing customized prioritization criteria for multiple, closely interconnected jurisdictions in the National Capital Region (NCR) \u2013 where public safety authority is decentralized \u2013 recently proved much more challenging. Here is how they overcame this challenge.\nSurviving the First Disaster Deployment\nby Arthur Samaras - Mon, October 23, 2017\nWhen runners compete in their first marathon or triathlon, they often set goals such as, \u201cI hope to break four hours,\u201d or \u201cI want to beat my brother\u2019s time.\u201d However, a different mindset should be taken for a first attempt at an endurance event. Rather than placing benchmarks or targets, the goal should be to simply finish the first event. This same advice applies to a first-time disaster deployment.\nLone Wolves \u2013 Finding the Red Flags\nby Richard Schoeberl & Daniel Scherr - Wed, October 18, 2017\nThe Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that the threat of \u201clone wolf\u201d attacks continues to represent the greatest threat to national security. This acknowledgment is supported by the fact that the United States is experiencing an unprecedented number of active shooter events \u2013 whether ideologically or non-ideologically inspired. Two weeks following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, details are no closer to being solidified and law enforcement continues to search for a motive.\nUnmanned Aerial Systems & Emergency Management\nby Kay C. Goss - Wed, October 11, 2017\nLong before the invention of drones, emergency managers determined the overall scope of a crisis using information from emergency personnel on the ground, and from the chain of command created through the Incident Command System. Today, drones have many capabilities that could enhance response activities and change the way disasters are managed. Hurricane Harvey demonstrated how this technology is rapidly changing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://doorcountypondhockey.com/2015/07/31/2016-registration-opens-aug-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ5PCJ55TKLAFUG6ERUJ7SQZAO2SQIAY", "length": 1315, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "doorcountypondhockey.com", "title": "2016 Door County Pond Hockey Registration Opens Aug. 1", "raw_content": "Published July 31, 2015 in News\nRegistration for the 3rd annual Door County Pond Hockey Tournament opens Aug. 1.\nThe fast-growing tournament returns to the ice of Kangaroo Lake in Baileys Harbor Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. From Aug. 1 \u2013 15, registration is open only to teams that participated in the first two years of the tournament. On Aug. 16, registration is open to all interested teams.\n2016 Tournament Registration Form\nThe tournament has drawn teams from Green Bay, Madison, Chicago, and Minnesota in its first two years. The 2016 tourney will feature women\u2019s divisions for the first time.\nPond hockey is a pickup version of hockey, with four players to a side and no goalies. Pond hockey is a game of finesse, with no checking, played the way you grew up learning the game.\n\u201cWe\u2019re really excited for this year\u2019s event,\u201d said tournament founder Brian Fitzgerald. \u201cPlayers love coming to Door County to participate, and it\u2019s great working with the Baileys Harbor Community Association and Door County Brewing Co. to put on a first class winter weekend.\u201d\nThis year\u2019s tourney features the following six divisions: Men\u2019s Open A (Pro, college, or junior level players), Men\u2019s Open B (high school, organized, or recreational players), Classic (40 and over), Legends (50 and over), Women\u2019s Open A, and Women\u2019s Open B.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dr-asad.com/2017/04/17/educational-requirements-to-eliminate-daesh-isis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:B6PEV3RY4MIIXNN4Q33QJWTFRCI73AL7", "length": 6307, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dr-asad.com", "title": "Educational Requirements to Eliminate Da\u2019esh (ISIS) | \u062f. \u0623\u0633\u0639\u062f \u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646", "raw_content": "\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629/Common /Educational Requirements to Eliminate Da\u2019esh (ISIS)\n\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0642\u0627\u062a \u0639\u0644\u0649 Educational Requirements to Eliminate Da\u2019esh (ISIS) \u0645\u063a\u0644\u0642\u0629\nBlack terrorism again hits in our Arab world targeting anew Egypt with two extremely violent strikes against innocent people as part of its repeated attempts to undermine the deep-rooted national unity of Moslems and Christians. Is there any end to all the crimes committed by all factions of the Da\u2019esh extremist fanatic \u2018family\u2019?\nOne of the founders of modern sociology, French philosopher Emile Durkheim, believes that \u201csociety can survive only if its members have a degree of homogeneity and integration, and that the educational system in society, represented in school, is one of the important pillars in supporting and stabilizing such homogeneity by planting it in the child from the very beginning of the school.\u201d He also believes that \u201cthrough the educational process, members of the community become imbued with positive social values that instill within themselves the values of national belonging and national unity that create the social symmetry necessary to maintain security and stability in society\u201d. We agree with Durkheim.\nMany studies and articles have spoken about the imminent fall of the terrorist \u2018state\u2019 of Da\u2019esh, but optimism regarding its defeat does not necessarily mean elimination of the Da\u2019esh \u2018thought\u2019 nestling mainly in non-marginal segments of the society! Certainly, a military victory against the group would only be incomplete. The real war should be based on an intellectual and ideological confrontation coupled with continuous proofs and arguments capable of dispelling the notion of terrorism as well as the ignorance currently prevailing in the Middle East in particular. Therefore, our battle with Da\u2019esh is, definitely, an intellectual and ideological one, and we must be aware that only through this route, the war against it can be won. In this regard, we should first admit that \u2018Da\u2019eshism\u2019 was not merely born out of books of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and heritage only but also grew out of a miserable Arab situation. Unfortunately, Arab educational institutions were affected, with thoughts of extremism, violence and a culture of exclusion finding their way into their lines. Therefore, the ultimate eradication of Da\u2019eshism should come through a multi-dimensional, long-term and comprehensive political and reform plan.\nAn effective educational policy is the starting point towards bringing an end to \u2018Da\u2019eshism\u2019. Such a policy mainly targets the youth, who embody the hope for a future where a political reform plan can be developed, based on moderation and middle ground. Thus, it is important that the educational policy should focus on modern human concepts of proper citizenship and tolerance among the members of a society, regardless of their creeds, ethnicity, religion and ideologies. With such concepts, they should all enjoy equal rights and duties, respecting the other, co-existence and pluralism. What is, indeed, needed is to streamline and continue to modernize the educational policy while addressing the negative perceptions of \u201cthe other\u201d by deepening the principles of co-existence and daily dialogue that is totally in contrary to extremism. Those with extremist beliefs have a strong desire to exclude \u201cthe other\u201d, because -in their opinion- they are the only ones who have the \u2018right\u2019, thus, the only capable group of understanding realities and issues, which \u2013 of course \u2013 comes decidedly one-sided and un-negotiable.\nThe success of the reform process of the educational policy requires a spirit of understanding and participation between the government policy makers and the civil society. This should take place away from any confrontation or the traditional tendencies that often seek exclusion by rejecting opposing views, of which Arab countries have suffered from for over a century under most political and intellectual exclusionist trends, leading to an environment of extremism taking root in the region. Moreover, the current social and cultural changes in the world require educational policy makers to double their responsibility towards instilling in the young the standards and values that help preserve the security and stability of their society. It is an integrated process where such a policy relies on dealing with and connection among the four golden sides of the square; the curriculum, the teacher, the student and the parents. It is impossible to advance the educational policy without enhancing their capacities, such as it is impossible to discuss the desired role of the school vis-\u00e0-vis the extremist beliefs away from the development of and cooperation among these four elements. By ensuring their sound development, the educational policy will be able to have a vital role towards protecting the cohesion of the society, creating national belonging and feelings of national unity among its members which are necessary requirements to protect its survival and integration within a modern sustainable policy.\nThe implementation of a sound educational policy aimed at reforming the educational curricula and process when combating extremism and terrorism is one of the most difficult issues in the Arab world, as it deals with the society and its components, as well as with the official state institutions, namely the family and the entire educational institution with its schools, colleges and universities. We should stress, in this context, the need to adopt an educational policy based on establishing critical methods in education, respect for the role of the mind and logic, as well as provide the student with the scientific method of thinking and practice, the ability to compare, analyze, draw conclusions and have creativity. Under such a process which is essential for every advancement, the real elimination of \u2018Da\u2019eshism\u2019 will be possible to achieve through the consolidation of thought and power of persuasion against extremism, a thing which the \u2018creators\u2019 of terrorism fear more than a military confrontation. However, without establishing an educational policy as a basis towards advancement, the Da\u2019esh thinking/phenomena will remain there around us (and in the world) for a long time even after eliminating its \u2018state\u2019 in Iraq militarily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 10134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drdanielleforshee.com/how-does-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LZKB6D27NDENRCLCFLOEV6FQPRXTL2HY", "length": 2817, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "drdanielleforshee.com", "title": "How Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work? - Danielle Forshee, Psy.D, LCSW", "raw_content": "Dr. Danielle Forshee June 29, 2018 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy\nCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a therapy technique used short-term to teach people to change their undesirable behaviors by changing the way they think. The principle of cognitive behavioral therapy is that cognition (how we think) and how we interpret life events influence how we act and feel. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches coping strategies to deal with life\u2019s problems. It breaks down larger problems into smaller parts to help clients make sense of the issues.\nCognitive behavioral therapy has been used for about 40 years to treat depression, and there are currently many aspects of CBT that can treat things such as panic disorder, PTSD, anxiety, insomnia, childhood depression, schizophrenia, phobias, anger, substance abuse, and a range of both physical and mental conditions. Overall, CBT involves problem identification, the establishment of goals, compassionate communication, recurrent feedback, reality checks, and educating clients how to use the right tools to encourage positive behavioral growth and change.\nThe aim of CBT is to break the cycle of negative thoughts by simplifying things that create anxiety or make you feel scared or bad. It is used for almost every type of behavioral issue where thoughts (cognition) play a prominent part. The therapy highlights the necessity to recognize, challenge, and alter how situations are interpreted.\nCognitive misunderstandings can lead to corrupted behaviors, and when someone experiences a traumatic or stressful event, automatic thought patterns come into play and can lead to negative emotions and moods. This person\u2019s thought pattern makes them assume a false assumption on the meaning of the event, and they can often over-react. This is caused by an automatic response and cognitive-behavioral therapists work to assist with recognizing how this distorted type of thinking directly affects emotions and moods and offers solutions on how to change their thinking patterns.\nCBT is typically a short-term one-on-one therapy that can last up to twenty sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a goal oriented, problem-specific, and is intended to accomplish remission and prevent any recurrence of a specific disorder.\nThroughout the period of treatment, the therapist and the client deliberate goals and techniques that will be used. The client will play an active role in the treatment plan to ensure the best outcome is achieved. To find out more about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, speak to a CBT professional to see if it can help your issues become resolved.\nPosted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy\nPrevious Previous post: Bustle \u2013 9 Activities Your Partner Should Enjoy Doing With You If They\u2019re \u201cThe One\u201d\nNext Next post: Will Marriage Counseling Save My Marriage?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drunkeng.blogspot.com/2009/05/punch-out.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:47Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ75AVZ26AIQ2UEIDO5T43AGJYSNQ54X", "length": 95, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "drunkeng.blogspot.com", "title": "drunkengoat.com: PUNCH OUT!", "raw_content": "Only a few more days, here are some videos to hold you over.\nI'm really excited about this one!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/90823", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:F2V54YEOJJDCQEWMBDLSPPYOUKTDR533", "length": 337, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dspace2.creighton.edu", "title": "Disclosure of Authors' Conflicts of Interest--a Follow-Up", "raw_content": "Disclosure of Authors' Conflicts of Interest--a Follow-Up\nRecker, Robert R.\nSchool of Medicine; Department of Medicine; Endocrinology; Osteoporosis\nRecker, R. R.\nRecker, R. R. (2000). Disclosure of Authors' Conflicts of Interest--a Follow-Up. N Engl J Med, July 13 2000, 343(2):146-147. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200007133430214", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 164.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://durangoherald.com/articles/176149-george-rr-martin-working-on-next-song-of-ice-and-fire", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RNWEBUONSHXK6PV5M6MNIFPHXE24KFT4", "length": 1112, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "durangoherald.com", "title": "George RR Martin working on next \u2018Song of Ice and Fire\u2019", "raw_content": "George RR Martin working on next \u2018Song of Ice and Fire\u2019\nGeorge R.R. Martin says the next \u201cSong of Ice and Fire\u201d book has a real chance of coming out in 2018. In a posting on his website, Martin wrote that he is working hard on The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth volume in the series. He added that he has \u201cgood days and bad days\u201d and is still months away from finishing.\nNathan Denette/The Canadian Press/AP file\nNEW YORK \u2013 George RR Martin says the next \u201cSong of Ice and Fire\u201d book has a real chance of coming out in 2018.\nBut don\u2019t count on it yet.\nIn a weekend posting on his website, Martin wrote that he\u2019s working hard on The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth volume in the series adapted into the HBO hit \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d He added that he has \u201cgood days and bad days\u201d and is still months away from finishing. Meanwhile, he thinks it\u2019s \u201clikely\u201d that he\u2019ll have his first Fire and Blood book out by late 2018 or early 2019. The new book is a history of House Targaryen, which has the motto \u201cFire and Blood.\u201d\nHis conclusion: one, maybe two Westeros books in 2018.\n\u201cA boy can dream,\u201d he wrote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 5886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dynomapper.com/who-should-audit-their-website", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JFMURDF4AMFQB3SNQNBEDBVNCL5OT2IM", "length": 5023, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "dynomapper.com", "title": "Who Should Audit Their Website?", "raw_content": "Who within your organization or your client\u2019s organization should be tasked with auditing your website content? Anyone with basics on content creation, organization and display can carry out a website content audit and the findings should be shared with all personnel and departments in the organization.\nThe main aim of a content audit is not only to simply collect data but also have the information you need to make informed decisions. An individual can conduct a content audit and the process improved through the formation of a multi-disciplinary team. All the experts involved in content audit gain greater insight into the site\u2019s content by breaking down the audit process in respect to areas of expertise and using the services of a team who understand the technology, systems and standards involved in the content lifecycle of your website.\nContent Strategists And Marketers\nMembers of the content team that is comprised of content marketers, content strategists and content writers are the owners of the content audit process and yields of undertaking content inventories and audits. These processes are conducted, as they constitute very important strategy creation pieces. Audits provide the base for the current state of the content, help in identifying areas of low quality or poorly performing content, and allow for the creation of a gap analysis as well as the roadmap of how to get from where the site is to where you want it to be.\nInformation Architects and User Experience Designers\nThe insights got from undertaking an inventory and audit are also important and useful to information architects and user experience designers. Developing the designs of navigation systems, user flows, and taxonomies without the benefit of a thorough understanding of the existing content can give rise to designs that do not sufficiently support user needs or behave desirably in multi-channel and multi-device environments.\nAt some point, you may find yourself having to deal with undesired content lurking in the background of your website\u2019s neat surface. This is because chances are that there will be content in your website that you have never thought about and consequently not developed any designs for. Such content has to go somewhere and in most cases, it becomes shoehorned into a website layout that it was not meant to occupy or even migrate to an outdated website with an unfriendly design.\nFor the site managers and technical teams that are planning to have a content migration, it is important to understand the type of content that exists, the amount of content present, and the changes that it might undergo when moving from one system to another. A content audit done before a website migration should be inclusive of a keep/kill pass, for purposes of ensuring that only the content fit for migration is migrated. It should also take into consideration the content issues that can be fixed as part of or in advance of the actual migration such as coding issues that have an effect on rendering or non-consistent structure that will be difficult to migrate cleanly. Audit findings affect the design and production of features within the CMS, such as the content tree structure, the content input and rendering structures, and the taxonomy & tagging features.\nSharing your audit findings with the technical team as well as pairing with your UX counterparts for purposes of ensuring that the new CMS or site structure is configured properly for your content will save you unnecessary troubles and challenges during migration of content.\nMost likely, if you are undertaking a site audit, you are doing it for purposes of a larger business goal: a planned site migration, there are new business ventures related to the site, or there is a general need to give the site a good makeover. Your audit should play a vital role in informing your stakeholders on which side of the house they are on, whether on the business side or on the technical side.\nThough it may seem uncommon for customers to be site auditors, it is worth noting that they already are. Everytime a customer browses your website whether when buying a product or just browsing product, they are developing an opinion about the site. You should watch your website analytics to see the length of time they spend on your website, whether they come back later, or where and when they leave your site. These are valuable hints to the performance of your content.\nYour site\u2019s search log will provide you with first hand information on whether they are using the same language used in your website and if they are able to find what they are looking for. If you fail to pay attention to this data, then you may be missing priceless opportunities for your website. If your visitors leaves comments on your content, share the comments and address the concerns they raise about the user experience of your site. Your customers and site visitors are the most valuable and honest site auditors as they audit your site as it is, with no bias whatsoever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 10512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/4050?locale-attribute=en", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CFOGWXD3ZO5NZM2AUWOQ24BM6VE5LKEL", "length": 1700, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "e-archivo.uc3m.es", "title": "Learning sequences of rules using classifier systems with tags", "raw_content": "Learning sequences of rules using classifier systems with tags\nAuthor(s): Sanchis de Miguel, Mar\u00eda Araceli; Molina L\u00f3pez, Jos\u00e9 Manuel; Isasi Vi\u00f1uela, Pedro; Segovia, Javier\nCitation: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999 : IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. vol 5, p. 624-629\nDOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.1999.815624\nPublisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.1999.815624\nThe objective of this paper was to obtain an encoding structure that would allow the genetic evolution of rules in such a manner that the number of rules and relationship in a classifier system (CS) would be learnt in the evolution process. For this purpose, a The objective of this paper was to obtain an encoding structure that would allow the genetic evolution of rules in such a manner that the number of rules and relationship in a classifier system (CS) would be learnt in the evolution process. For this purpose, an area that allows the definition of rule groups has been entered into the condition and message part of the encoded rules. This area is called internal tag. This term was coined because the system has some similarities with natural processes that take place in certain animal species, where the existence of tags allows them to communicate and recognize each other. Such CS is called a tag classifier system (TCS). The TCS has been tested in the game of draughts and compared with the classical CS. The results show an improving of the CS performance. [+] [-]\nIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Tokyo, 12-15 October 1999.\nG o o g l e \u2122 Scholar:others by: Learning sequences of rules using classifier systems with tags\nName: learning_CSMC_1999.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ea.org.nz/see-governments-business-case-ppps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5PV2MKA3L6KPSCVPIZLJGQE5ROAOGOPV", "length": 28368, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "ea.org.nz", "title": "See for yourself: The government's business case for PPPs \u2013 Education Aotearoa", "raw_content": "Education Minister Anne Tolley is pressing on with plans to privatise a significant chunk of New Zealand\u2019s school property programme. It is looking increasingly likely that new schools and school building projects will be bundled into build-and-maintain public private partnerships. Australian companies have expressed interest in such contracts. EA has obtained the government\u2019s stage one school property PPP business case under the Official Information Act. Copies can be downloaded here. The business case was made by an international consultancy, Castalia Ltd, that specialises in PPPs. Concerns about the case were expressed by two economists, John Carran from Infometrics and Bill Rosenberg from the Council of Trade Unions, including that schools and parents are being excluded from this process, and as a result seriously shortchanged.\nFollowing the demotion of ACT MP Heather Roy, Rodney Hyde has been appointed Associate Education Minister with responsibility for school PPPs. As the New Zealand Herald\u2018s business columnist Fran O\u2019Sullivan wrote, with reference to the South Canterbury Finance bailout, \u201cthe smart money now knows that the Key Government can be\u02dcgamed\u2019.\u201d\nThe documents might take a little while to download. Following the documents are comments from Bill Rosenberg at the Council of Trade Unions, and John Carran from Infometrics.\nLetter to Jane Blaikie from the Ministry of Education\nOfficial Information Act Document 1 pdf\nThe Proposal for School PPPs\nBill Rosenberg, Policy Director/Economist, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi\nThe Government contracted Castalia Ltd, a consultancy which, according to its web site \u201cpioneered public private partnerships [PPPs] in infrastructure around the world\u201d, to provide a business case for PPPs \u201cas a method of procuring schools in New Zealand\u201d. The reports of the business case, dated May 2010, were released to the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) under the Official Information Act. They consist of a \u201cStage One Business Case\u201d and four Working Papers providing more detail.\nThere have been numerous details deleted from the released papers, notably the numerical details of the comparative costs of the status quo and PPPs. While the reports give the results of these comparisons in general terms, because the numerical details are not provided there is no way to check either the conclusions or how large the differences are between the different scenarios. Because, as is described below, many of the judgements made in the comparison, are inherently political, and Castalia is not neutral as to PPPs compared to other procurement methods, the public is being significantly short-changed by the gaps in these releases. It is difficult to have a reasoned debate when the full facts are not made available.\nUnfortunately that is the pattern for PPPs when they have been used overseas. Commercial confidentiality is commonly used to prevent PPP contracts being made available to allow the public, including concerned parties such as parents of school pupils, to judge whether deals made were reasonable and whether the commercial contractors are adhering to the conditions.\nThe PPPs proposed are contracts for what will typically be \u201ca private consortium of financiers, constructions companies and facilities management firms\u201d (p. 1 ) to design, build, operate and maintain a school\u2019s buildings for a period of around 30 years, transferring the school to the government at the end of the period. The government would pay for the PPP by \u201cconstant payments over the life of the contract\u201d. The provision of education would remain with the school\u2019s board of trustees (BOT) and the land would still be owned by the government.\nWhile the documents describe the PPP as \u201cessentially the same concept as any government agency leasing space in a commercial building\u201d, in fact there are significant differences. The PPP contractor has the right to use the premises out of hours and possibly for other commercial purposes such as installing vending machines, which would be unusual for leases. The PPP contractor also supplies and maintains furniture and equipment other than specific items procured by the school, and controls their movement (p.12, 13); such items are usually provided and controlled by tenants of commercial leases.\nCurrently, schools are typically \u201cprocured\u201d by a contract between the Ministry of Education and a construction firm with design, operation and maintenance remaining with the Ministry and the BOT. The method is called \u201cGuaranteed Maximum Price\u201d (GMP) which Castalia concedes \u201cstakeholders generally agree \u2026 works well in terms of delivering high quality school facilities, within budget and in a reasonable time frame\u201d (p.9). It is used as a comparator for the PPP analysis. Undoubtedly it could be improved or could be modified to achieve additional objectives, but Castalia considers only one alternative \u201cmodified GMP\u201d process, that of increasing the number of bidders.\nCastalia is at pains to emphasise that \u201cthe operation of the school itself (that is, the provision of education) would remain the responsibility of the BOT\u201d. However there is the risk that the way in which the buildings are operated by the PPP contractor interferes with the provision of education. Castalia implicitly assumes that the contract for the PPP will be complete and ensure that such interference will not occur. That is an heroic assumption. It is very difficult, costly, and makes for complex and possibly inflexible contracts. Castalia in fact gives two significant examples where problems could occur: the roll numbers are greater or less than anticipated in the contract; and that educational needs change over the 30 years of the contract and require changes to the buildings. We deal with the financial implications of such changes below, but there are other possibilities that could also interfere with educational provision such as delays in maintenance, disputes as to whether work on established buildings is maintenance or building change, conflicts between the school\u2019s or the community\u2019s after-hours use of the buildings and commercial use bringing income to the PPP contractor, and conflicts in design objectives. Many of these have been cited as concerns with PPPs elsewhere.\nAfter-hours use of buildings is important for school sports and cultural activities related to educational provision. It may also be important for community education or as a facility (and sometimes the only one available) for use by the community. However PPP contractors will aim to make money from hire of the facilities, and may in fact \u201cdesign the school with after hours use in mind\u201d (p.28). Castalia suggests that community and school use can be catered for from a \u201cbank\u201d of free community hours built into the PPP contract. That allows for little flexibility such as may be required by changing government funding of community education, and changing school or community needs. The government will not see savings in the contract from the income received by the PPP contractor: \u201cExperience in the U.K. and Australia suggests that, in practice, PPP contractors are reluctant to take risk around after-hours revenue, and tend not to factor this into their bid price\u201d. The analysis assumes that the best measure of the value of after-hours use to the community is their willingness to pay. This implies that its availability may be limited for low income groups.\nCastalia emphasises that one of the savings brought by PPPs is reduced maintenance costs over the lifetime of the building. \u201cA PPP contractor would approach the design and construction of a new school differently from a design-build contractor \u2013 Rather than seeking to maximise the quality of the school within the Ministry\u2019s budget, a PPP contractor will try to design and construct the schools in a way that minimises the total lifetime costs for the schools subject to meeting specified quality standards.\u201d (p.27) Minimising lifetime costs may mean compromises in what would be useful for teaching. For example, it may be more expensive to maintain a classroom whose walls are designed to make it easy to display pupils\u2019 work, posters or other material, than one with easily cleaned hard surfaces.\nEffect on school employees\nCastalia anticipates that there will be an increase in subcontracting and that wages and conditions will be forced down in order to save costs. One of the means of cutting costs is specified as follows: \u201cWe assume a PPP contractor will improve the efficiency of caretaking and cleaning by 20 percent including through contracting out and stronger labour bargaining\u201d (p.25, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis).\nThe documents provide two cost analyses. One is a cost-benefit analysis which claims to look at the full economic effects, taking into account broader costs and benefits to the economy as a whole. The other is a \u201cpublic sector comparator\u201d which looks at the financial cost to the government. Both have biases against public ownership on a number of counts. Even then they conclude that PPP procurement will provide only \u201ca small improvement in value for money\u201d over current practice (p.24). While the size of the \u201csmall improvement\u201d has been suppressed in the released documents, it is probable that without the biases, the \u201csmall improvement\u201d would become a deterioration. These biases include:\nDespite the lower costs of finance that the government faces compared to the private sector, Castalia follows the Treasury\u2019s guidelines for PPPs and uses commercial rates of finance for its estimates (p.32ff, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis ). It acknowledges that this is \u201ccontroversial\u201d and indeed it is, because it has a significant effect on the comparison. These rates are the basis for \u201cdiscount rates\u201d used to compare the costs of the alternatives over time using net present values. As Treasury states, \u201csmall changes in the discount rate can have a significant impact on the total value\u201d of each comparator . Castalia argues that using a public sector cost of borrowing would result \u2013 in at least two perverse outcomes:\nThe government would have an advantage over private investors for all investments, and in theory would replace all commercial sources of finance in order to improve economic outcomes.\nInvestment decisions made by the government would be biased towards sectors with higher risk and higher returns\u201d eventually unbalancing the risk profile of the entire investment portfolio.\u201d\nThese are politically loaded arguments which take the possibilities to an absurd extreme. Of course the government has an advantage over private investors due to its lower risk. That is a reality, which should be used in the public interest, and not \u201cneutralised\u201d away. It is absurd to suggest that therefore the government would therefore take over financing of the entire economy. Private investors have other advantages: financing costs are not the only consideration, as is repeatedly pointed out in Castalia\u2019s own analysis. Regarding risk, the government may well have a role in taking on higher risk projects which are socially or economically beneficial and which the private sector is unwilling to take on sufficiently (education may be considered one example) but Castalia\u2019s argument ignores the fact that government investment is not in general primarily for the purpose of obtaining financial returns. It is also likely to have other controls on financial risk.\nNot only does Castalia discard the lower costs of public finance but it argues for a lower cost of finance than Treasury (4.5 percent compared to Treasury\u2019s 6.1 percent), thus lowering further the estimate of PPP costs. Their reasoning is interesting: that PPP contractors\u2019 risks are lower than the commercial building providers Treasury uses for its comparisons. The risks are lower because the government will shoulder the risk of lower than anticipated student numbers compared to (say) AMP NZ Office Trust which takes the risk it cannot fully lease out its buildings. The government would \u201cmake availability payments to the contactor regardless of student numbers\u201d, says Castalia (p.34, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis). This reflects U.K. experience where for example \u201cBalmoral High School in Belfast closed six years after it was built, when pupil numbers halved. However, the Northern Ireland Department of Education owes the contractor $370,000 a year for the next 18 years\u201d .\nCastalia treats risk in inconsistent ways. For example it lays out three possible \u201cregulatory\u201d risks for a PPP contractor: those of the government changing policies during a 30 year contract; of the uncertainty of a new procurement process; and failure of the government to fund payments as they fall due (this last one being regarded as low for New Zealand). Yet it does not increase the costs of the PPP contract for these on the grounds that it is difficult \u201cand could be contentious\u201d, despite evidence from the U.K. that contractors demanded a premium for some of these risks (p.35-36, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis). There are other examples where the PPP contractor is asserted to be able to spread risks over a number of contracts, disregarding the likely greater ability of the government to do the same over many more schools and contracts.\nRisk is a central issue. One of the major advantages of PPPs is said to be that it transfers certain risks from government to the PPP contractor. It would be expected that if that were happening the PPP contractor would increase charges to reflect the risk. Yet the Castalia comparison does not appear to fully include those costs and exaggerates the risks that are in theory transferred.\nSome of its claims for private sector superiority in reducing risks simply lack credibility. For example, they state that \u201cthe private contractor is more likely to manage and monitor construction of the facilities more carefully to ensure that problems such as leaky buildings do not arise in the future\u201d (p.34). There is no shortage of examples of private sector built and maintained buildings which suffered from the leaky building problems.\nIn other places, Castalia appears to be suggesting that risks to the introduction of PPPs should be mitigated by distorting the process of calling for bids or Ministry priorities. For example, it appears to suggest that to ensure that there is a successful bidder, a tender greater than the public sector alternative should be allowed (p.9, Working Paper No. 4, Risk and Implementation). It identifies a risk that \u201cschool(s) selected for PPP are needed sooner or later than [the] specified delivery date under PPP\u201d due to changes in demographics. Their mitigation strategy is to \u201callow more suitable schools to be substituted should demographic drivers change\u201d (ibid., p.5). Reactions of BOTs, unions and other stakeholders are to be met by \u201cstakeholder management\u201d by communications teams (ibid, p.3, 7). It is acknowledged that a single successful PPP is unlikely to be viable because of its transaction and administration costs to the Ministry; therefore additional budget should be allocated (ibid, p.10) and a \u201cvisible pipeline\u201d of school PPP opportunities should be provided (p.26, 46).\n3. Inadequate existing funding\nCastalia acknowledges that \u201cin principle a procurement method may be cost benefit justified, but still require a greater budget outlay than the current method\u201d (p.24). In other words, PPPs may be more expensive than current procurement methods\u201d but that is justified by better facilities. Yet they also claim as an advantage for PPPs that the contractor will \u201cincur higher maintenance costs [increased by 25 percent] in order to extend asset lives and save on capital replacement costs\u201d to the school\u2019s advantage, and that \u201cthis is in part because\u00a6 the PPP contractor will not be subject to budget constraints in the way schools are under GMP\u201d (p.27; see also p.34). In other words, the claim is of a PPP benefit due to school underfunding. The straightforward resolution of that problem is to increase school funding for building maintenance rather than increase funding for the PPP, but this is not discussed. They simply report that \u201cOur analysis shows that New Zealand secondary schools currently spend around 1.2 percent [of capital costs, per year] which is significantly more than the property maintenance grant funded by the Ministry\u201d. A PPP contractor would spend 1.5 percent (p.27). The effect of the PPP is to force the government to spend more on maintenance in preference to other school needs, but to do it in a way that benefits a PPP contractor.\nInsurance costs are estimated using commercial insurance rates despite the Ministry\u2019s ability to partly self-insure due to the size of its property holdings (pp.26, 28 Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis).\n5. Disadvantages of PPPs\nThere is now a considerable literature from official, academic and media sources of the problems that have occurred with PPP and similar schemes particularly in the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia. These are scantily reported and dismissed by Castalia (e.g. p.21). The only one explicitly acknowledged is increased transaction costs (e.g. p.26). It is apparently assumed that all the problems have been resolved and/or can be addressed in PPP contracts. Even if that is true, it would add considerably to the cost of designing and negotiating those contracts, and the risks for the government of mistakes in negotiation. In fact as already noted, it is impracticable to anticipate and address all such risks.\nOne of the significant disadvantages of PPPs is if changes are required to buildings or facilities during the period of the contract. For a Ministry-owned building, changes are simply a matter of design and build on a competitive basis at the time of need. In contrast, the typical 30 years of a PPP contract is a very long time, and it is most unlikely that all possible changes can be anticipated at the time of designing the school and signing the PPP contract. Unanticipated changes in the school population or changes in teaching methods such as to or from team teaching or increased use of technology are likely over such a period and can force major changes in building requirements.\nAs Castalia itself puts it: \u201cAny changes or future investment (such as modernisation) need to be agreed with PPP contractor, which has a powerful bargaining position in negotiations for contract variation\u201d (p.35). The PPP contractor has in effect a monopoly position, enabling it to push up costs. In the U.K., \u201ca 2008 National Audit Office report found that \u00a3180m a year is paid out for contractual amendments [not only for schools]. And it highlighted extortionate charges for routine maintenance\u201d such as \u00a3302 for an electric socket to be fitted, \u00a347 for a key, and almost \u00a3500 to fit a lock\u201d .\nCastalia deny the significance of this \u201cpowerful bargaining position\u201d because \u201cthe contract can also specify a process to agree fair compensation for changes in capital or operating and maintenance requirements. For example, competitive pressure can be put on contract variations through the use of independent experts or references to the market cost of comparable investments\u201d (p.35). Yet elsewhere they acknowledge that accurate comparators can be difficult in the small New Zealand market, and criticise similar Ministry procurement processes for insufficient use of competitive bidders to create price competition: \u201cStrong competition is a fundamental driver of value for money. The benchmarking and reasonableness tests used to generate the Ministry\u2019s budgeted cost of new schools are no substitute for a competitive bidding process. This is particularly true in New Zealand where the pool of comparators is small, and where regional factors such as transport distances or local labour shortages can introduce inaccuracies into benchmarks.\u201d (p.16, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis).\nCastalia do acknowledge the additional transaction costs of PPPs. Reasons include\nPPP transaction is more complex, requiring more time inputs from professional advisers, charging higher fee rates\nPPP transaction requires a significant amount of work to be completed to prepare bids. At least two bidders submit a proposal that will include an initial design of the school\u201d (p.29); and\nPPP contract will introduce more complex relationships between the Ministry, the PPP contractor and the board of trustees\u201d (p. 5).\nThere will be direct costs to the Ministry and to the BOT, but further transaction costs will be incorporated in the price of the PPP contract reflecting costs to the contracting consortium. The first PPP contract will be even more expensive\u201d Castalia estimates 50 percent higher than the long run transaction costs\u201d but that is not included in their cost-benefit comparisons. The full transaction cost estimate for New Zealand has been suppressed, but for the first school, the public sector cost \u201cwill be as high as $6 million\u201d (p.47), and for Australia they suggest it is a long run cost of $8.7 million per school, $4.7 million of which is public sector costs (p.31). These are very significant overheads when the estimated cost of even a large (2,200 pupil) school is only $55 million (p.17, Working Paper No. 2, Cost Benefit Analysis).\nThe methodology does not expose the additional costs to the government due to the need for the PPP contractor to take profits over the entire contract period, nor the economic losses if, as Castalia acknowledges is likely (p.46), significant parts of the consortium are overseas owned and profits are remitted overseas.\nPPP advantages\nIt is acknowledged by Castalia that there is uncertainty even in the \u201csmall improvement\u201d in value for money they find for PPPs, and they therefore rely on intangible benefits such as \u201cimproved educational outcomes through better property maintenance and certainty of costs under PPP through better risk management\u201d to conclude that \u201con balance it seems likely enough that PPP will bring value for money\u201d (p.24). However many of the intangible and quantifiable advantages claimed for PPPs could be incorporated into the existing procurement process if they were indeed considered attractive. This would eliminate the high transaction costs of PPPs and retain control with the school or Ministry. Examples include\nMultiple bidders to increase price competition (though there may be a pay-off with quality and it may increase transaction costs)\nInvolvement of bidders in school design (though this may increase transaction costs)\nDesigning for reduced energy costs\nDesigning for reduced maintenance costs and/or total lifetime costs of the school (though this may be a compromise with other quality requirements)\nDesigning for increased use by the community of school facilities\nIncreasing charges for community use of school facilities.\nCastalia\u2019s analysis is unconvincing due to its lack of neutrality. The suppression of crucial information from the documents makes informed discussion even more difficult.\nHowever there is considerable evidence that Castalia\u2019s recommendation that PPP procurement of schools should proceed is unsupportable on either financial or educational grounds.\nJohn Carran, Senior Economist, Infometrics\nI have drafted some initial thoughts on the Ministry of Education\u2019s proposal to consider using PPP arrangements to procure the building and operation of some new school properties. My comments are based on my reading of the documents you supplied me which you obtained under the OIA. I have not looked at wider evidence or analysis on PPPs apart from reading a couple of Treasury papers on PPPs. So I have limited my comments at this stage to highlighting what I think are probably the main costs, benefits and risks of PPPs for schools and where further investigation might be necessary to reach a more definitive position on whether they offer value for money.\nPPPs are a procurement arrangement whereby a private sector supplier is contracted by the Government to design, build and maintain a facility for a specific use. Typically the contracts are very long term (20+ years). The contract can be to provide all or part of the service associated with the use of a particular property. The MoE proposal is for PPP contracts to relate to the design and construction of schools, ongoing maintenance, including cleaning and security, and the provision of certain fixtures. The contracts would not relate to the provision of education services, which the Government would continue to provide.\nPPPs are a reasonably common Government procurement approach in a number of countries including Australia, the UK, Canada, US, and Scandinavian countries. They are commonly used for procuring and operating large infrastructure projects. The Castalia papers released under the OIA highlight the use of PPPs for school property procurement in Australia and the UK. I have not investigated at this stage whether PPP approaches to school property procurement are more widely used internationally.\nThe main advantages put forward for PPPs are:\nThey utilise private sector expertise in the management of assets, which can lead to the more efficient use\nThe risks associated with the construction and ongoing maintenance of facilities can be allocated to parties that have the best incentives to manage them effectively\nThey provide more certainty to the Government in relation to the costs of construction and ongoing maintenance of assets\nThey can provide incentives for contractors to maximise benefits to users\nIn relation to PPPs for schools, they would free up school boards from focusing on property maintenance issues. It is possible under PPP contractual arrangements to give boards responsibility for certain aspects of maintenance or fixtures and fittings if having direct control over them is important to the delivery of education services.\nThe main costs put forward for PPPs are:\nContracting and tendering costs are higher than conventional procurement\nCosts of contract variations can be high\nThere can be significant costs associated with specifying, monitoring and enforcing service expectations\nThe aspect of PPPs that is of primary importance in determining their costs and benefits is the quality of the contract management, including the specifying, monitoring and enforcement of contracts.\nFactors that may be of concern to schools in relation to PPPs are:\nThe degree of control they have over their properties and the environment that is created by the private sector provider\nThe consequences if a private provider fails.\nWith regard to 1, in principle it is possible to specify important quality dimensions of the property and its ongoing maintenance in the PPP contractual arrangements. As suggested above, allowance can be made for school control of some aspects of the property if they are particularly important to the quality of education provided. However, as mentioned above, the contracting and the ongoing management of the contract will be important to this.\nWith regard to point 2, the failure of a contractor could provide some uncertainty to the continuation of a school in a particular location. The most likely outcome in this situation would be that the contract for the continuing operation of the school property would be sold to a new contractor. This is because there would be more value to be extracted from selling the rights for providing services to the school than from just selling the property, which has limited alternative uses.\nThere are likely to be three key factors that will determine whether PPPs are a practical option for the procurement of school properties in NZ and deliver net financial benefits:\nWhether the scale of PPP contracts is sufficient to attract interest from quality private sector contractors and suppliers\nWhether there is a sufficient number of private sector contractors in NZ with the capability and capacity to deliver the services required under PPP contracts\nWhether there is likely to be sufficient ongoing capability and capacity in MoE or other Government departments to manage the PPP contracts effectively.\nCouncil of Trade Unions, Economics, Funding, Global Education Reform Movement, Government, Magazine, Ministry of Education, Public Private Partnerships, Winter 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 29867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eal-time.com/2016/04/01/cognate-of-the-lesson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PGBFZ6QZ2IUOPRXQUBMTQTKFMMHZM7TL", "length": 886, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "eal-time.com", "title": "Cognate of the lesson \u2013 EAL-time", "raw_content": "On 1 April 2016 2 December 2017 By JorisEALIn L1 supporting L2\nCognates are words that have a common etymological origin. 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Coalition formation is an active area of research in multi-agent systems nowadays. Coalition structure generation is one of the most challenging problems in coalition formation in which agents determine which of the many possible coalitions to form in order to attain some goal. Generally speaking, agents would enumerate all possible coalitions, store them in memory, and then try to construct the coalition structure that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions. But this is not feasible when we have a large number of agents, and other constraints on execution time, and memory. Hence there is a need to develop an algorithm which can generate solutions rapidly for large number of agents while providing bounds on the value of solution as well. We propose two new heuristics, namely LocalSearch and GreedySearch (which is the extension of the LocalSearch), for generating the coalition structure which satisfy these properties. Furthermore, they have low computation complexity and returns solution by consuming small amount of memory as they load only one list of coalitions in memory at a time.These heuristics use a greedy approach and return \u2018good-enough\u2019 solutions quickly. In LocalSearch we visit each sub-space (only once) in the integer partition graph (proposed by [Rahwan et al., (2007)]), pick the maximum value from each coalition list, and construct a coalition structure from them. In GreedySearch approach, we pick the highest value from all the input values, select the sub-spaces that contain this value, and from these sub-spaces discover the one which can give us good value. Then we use the LocalSearch heuristic to construct a coalition structure from this selected sub-space. We empirically show that these heuristics are able to return very good solutions in very short time. Furthermore, they enhance the performance of state of the art algorithm, IP (proposed by [Rahwan et al., (2007)]) in the following ways. First, they improve the lower bounds computed by the IP algorithm drastically, which helps in pruning a lot of space without going into the search space. Second, they improve its anytime property. Third, they improve its solution quality and provide \u2018good-enough\u2019 solutions, at low cost, especially when we have a large number of agents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/public-consultation-survey-electronic-documents-freight-carriage_en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:11Z", "digest": "sha1:R5RRZIB36PS4QO56RBTL4H2TCU4KWCXG", "length": 4003, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "ec.europa.eu", "title": "Public consultation survey on electronic documents for freight carriage | European Commission", "raw_content": "https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/publication/2017-ElectronicTransportDocsFr...\nState of play and barriers to the use of electronic transport documents for freight transport: Options for EU level policy interventions.\nfinal report - Study\nannex \u2013 Stakeholder consultation report\nThe consultation can be of particular interest to public authorities in the transport sector, as well as customs, fiscal authorities and law enforcement, shipping companies, transport and logistics companies, ITS/telecommunication service providers, trade unions, NGOs and interest organisations (consumer/ environmental/ safety organisations, etc), researchers and academia, consumers passengers and other interested citizens.\nThe aim of this public consultation is to gather the views and concerns of all interested citizens, organisations and businesses on the use of electronic freight transport documents, in order to inform the Commission's analysis on the following key elements of the impact assessment:\nreasons why transport documents in electronic format are not as yet more widely used;\nhow big may be the missed potential benefits;\npossible measures to support the wide use of electronic transport documents among all transport and logistics stakeholders; and\nexpected impacts of these measures.\nThe questionnaire is built in a way to allow the non-initiated audience to voice their views.\nThe questionnaire is accessible in most official EU languages. You can submit your reply in any of the 23 official EU languages. The questionnaire takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete.\nYou may pause at any time and continue later. Once you have submitted your answers, you can download a copy of your completed responses.\nAt the end of the questionnaire you are given the possibility to upload supporting documents to complement your contribution. Furthermore, the last question provides you the opportunity to indicate whether you would be interested in participating in follow-up surveys addressed to stakeholders with specific legal, administrative or technical expertise.\nhttps://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/2017-electronictran...\nDigitalisation can significantly improve efficiency, reliability and cost-effectiveness in transport and logistics. The use of electronic instead of paper documents, in particular, is expected to bring important benefits in terms of simplified administration and cost savings. However, a majority of the documents used in freight transport operations are still issued, transferred and archived on paper. The European Commission is currently assessing options for a policy initiative having as objective the exploitation of the full potential of the digitalisation of transport documents for freight in all transport modes.\nThere is a large number of freight documents used during transport. For the purpose of its assessment, the Commission divided these documents into two categories: \"transport documents\" which serve as contract of carriage for the goods being transported, and \"other freight documents\" that may be required for the due completion of a transport operation. Such \"other freight documents\" include dangerous goods certificates, phytosanitary certificates, certificates of origins, waste declarations and the like.\nBased on a preliminary analysis, the Commission decided to focus the initiative on the contract of carriage documents. These documents are those most commonly referred to as \"transport documents\" and are governed by specific international conventions. Depending on the transport mode concerned, they take the form of consignment notes, waybills or bills of lading.\nThe European Commission is also now assessing the current reporting formalities directive for maritime transport. Both these initiatives aim at supporting trade and transport by exploiting the benefits of digitalisation, notably in terms of business to government relations. Consistency will be ensured between these two initiatives.\nThe inception impact assessment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/shaktikanta-das-needs-to-work-overtime-to-convey-to-market-its-independence-harvard-economics-professor-kenneth-rogoff/articleshow/67947029.cms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:G5LRHUZCPULHP5PGSDUBVYIUG5NWXQVL", "length": 12757, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "economictimes.indiatimes.com", "title": "Shaktikanta Das needs to work overtime to convey to market its independence: Harvard Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff - The Economic Times", "raw_content": "Business News\u203aOpinion\u203aInterviews\u203aShaktikanta Das needs to work overtime to convey to market its independence: Harvard Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff\nInterest rates are so low, that debt is a problem at the moment. And I don\u2019t think anybody expects them to go up anytime soon. It\u2019s not a short-term problem, he said.\nMUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das needs to work overtime to convey to market its independence after governor Urjit Patel quit under circumstances that preceded interference from the government, said Kenneth Rogoff, the Harvard Economics Professor in an interview with Gayatri Nayak and Shilpy Sinha. Excerpts:\nWhat\u2019s your assessment of our new governor\u2019 monetary policy?\nAll I heard is food inflation has been low, core inflation has been high and RBI targets headline inflation. Of course, the way governor Patel left didn\u2019t look good for the central bank independence, and it is important the RBI established itself independent in the eyes of the market. I think there will be a long path ahead of India if the institutional independence of RBI is questioned.\nIt\u2019s a decade since the global financial crisis, when do you see the next crisis coming up?\nA serious global crisis will not happen for decades. They don\u2019t happen one on top of the other. The main reason is human nature. The politicians, regulators, investors, the consumers everybody remembers it, they don\u2019t forget right away. I\u2019m a little bit more nervous than I might be. The political structure is very weak right now. There is Trump as the president in US and the other side of the aisle has become quite left-wing and populist. UK is blowing up without any financial crisis, even Italy for that matter. There are reasons to be concerned, with the handling of problems across the globe. Typically, it\u2019s not just one thing; policy mistakes also contribute to it. Often, the debt boom that spirals into a crisis happens very quickly. If we had caught the sub-prime crisis in 2004, we could have contained it but lot of the problem had happened in the last couple of years.\nThe last crisis was due to excess of consumer credit. Do you see the next crisis happening due to excess corporate credit?\nCorporate debt is currently the leading bogeyman among the international regulators. It is the thing that looks most likely like sub-prime. It is growing and bigger than that we thought. Janet Yellen, the former chair of federal reserve, spoke about it recently. The Bank of England released new data showing that it is double what we thought it was \u2013 $2.2 trillion, which also happens to be the same as the sub-prime debt. But the fact that so many people are looking at means that it might be contained. I think anything dramatic would come from somewhere else.\nCould you elaborate on it?\nChina\u2019s slowing down much harder than we currently envisage. I think there is going to be a hard-landing, but I do think the soft-landing will be on downward slope. I think they\u2019re expecting a severe negative productivity shock because of centralising government power so much. Global interest rates are very low for reasons we half understand. I\u2019m speaking not just of central bank policy rate but inflation adjusted interest rates. You need to have your head under sand if you think cyber is not a risk.\nGlobal populism leads to risk we thought impossible anymore. We have Jeremy Corbyn in UK and if he is able to enact his policies \u2013 I don\u2019t disagree with all his ideas \u2013 but the mix of policies strikes as very inflationary, raising risk premium. Even in US there is a huge debate going on within the Democratic party what risk the country should take in fighting inequality. I wouldn\u2019t say the risk of recession is more than 20%, much less a financial crisis. But people who think a financial crisis is impossible are wrong.\nAnd lastly, the normal circle of financial crisis is that the regulations are too tight post the crisis and they gradually, after long period of prosperity come off. But in US, they seem to have come off very quickly. We haven\u2019t changed the laws or regulations but new people in power \u2013 Trump \u2013 have populated all the regulators with people who are not sympathetic to the regulations. General public very familiar with what\u2019s going on with the environment, that\u2019s a disaster, but very similar things are happening in the enforcement of financial regulations, not at the feds, but in lot of other financial institutions. The risks are very big, but don\u2019t want to sound like there is going to be a crisis tomorrow.\nWhat would be the ideal level real rate?\nThere is a huge uncertainty about that. No one knows. It\u2019s changed a lot. Part of it is because of financial crisis and it will unwind. But there are demographics, productivity, high savings from Asia, there are a variety of factors. I would only say that markets in general are ill-prepared to take a reversal of this. Over two years the global interest rates went up by percent and a half, not impossible because they came down 2% after financial crisis. That would really explode a lot of markets. We could start with corporate funds, emerging market debts would have troubles. The problem is that when safe assets rise one and a half percent, the risky assets will rise two and three times that.\nIt's just not corporate debt, but government debt is also a matter of concern? Where do you see things going with government debt considering there is a simultaneous rise in corporate debt as well?\nInterest rates are so low, that debt is a problem at the moment. And I don\u2019t think anybody expects them to go up anytime soon. It\u2019s not a short-term problem. It certainly reduces flexibility of the economy because if you need to borrow a lot it\u2019s more difficult. One infamous story I would like to share here. I was at a cyber conference and this cyber-expert whose name I don\u2019t want to take, but I can tell you he must have spoken to the presidents and prime minister of 30 largest countries. He told me that almost every state head asks him the same question post the presentation \u2013 \u201cthis is horrible, what can we do about this?\u201d \u2013 and his answer to all of them would be to maintain good credit because when it happens you\u2019ll need to borrow a lot!\nThe interest are so low, that payments are not that low. The trillion dollar deficit of US is currently not a particularly big problem, but that can change if the interest rates go up.\nSo what matters more is the rates or the quantum of debt?\nThe maturity structure of debt matters. If you look at UK, they are paying a low interest but they have a lot of long-term borrowings. If interest rates go up, they have a lot of time to adjust. Not in US though, if the interest rates go up, the average deration of debt \u2013 the average length to make a payment \u2013 is as short as it was in 40 years. That makes the borrowing cheap but much riskier. We have a riskier profile than Italy. It\u2019s not just your interest rates or the size of the debt, it is how you financed it. The US is in a position to take a risk and we are taking a lot of risk. If you look at markets, they are not at all concerned. But there is risk even in US, perhaps we are not as vulnerable as Italy or Japan, but there are risks.\nOver a trillion dollar has been pumped in through quantitative easing of policy by central banks, but inflation to is well managed so far. Do you see inflation risks in future?\nWhen you live in a world where short-term interest rate is zero, there is very little difference between quantitative easing and the treasury issuing short-term debt. Quantitative easing in United States is smoke in the mirror. It does nothing (to inflation). It is just an illusion. In Europe it is different because they do not have an European Government. But in the United States if the treasury were simply to shorten the maturity structure of its debt and the Fed would abandon quantitative easing, it wouldn\u2019t mean anything because the treasury owns the Federal Reserve completely. It\u2019s like the member of a family issuing debt in your name. That was completely an illusion. The modern academic work has increasingly found that it had very little impact in the United States. I want to distinguish between pure quantitative easing where they are buying government debt and fiscal quantitative easing if they are buying car loans or mortgages-because you are subsidising the private sector and that does have an effect. But that\u2019s not the main thing they are unwinding.\nPost crisis, financial stability issues for the banking sector are fairly addressed. But banks are transferring risks to shadow banks. Isn\u2019t it a cause of concern?\nProblems at some levels happen all the time. A lot of this will come to the books of the banking sector when it goes bad and if that entity goes bankrupt, there is an implicit and explicit arrangements that bring it back onto the books of the banks. And that\u2019s a bigger problem. I have talked to the regulators about that view. But I think they disagree. But I don\u2019t think anyone knows, we had a lot of hedge funds fail, but that was\u2019nt a problem. The question whether it will be systemic and will have to be bailed out.\nHow is China slowdown going to affect the EMs?\nIn most of Asia the slowdown will be pretty the same according to the estimate models of the IMF; when China slows down by 1%, they all slowdown by 1%. Europe will be affected. India, we usually chastise for not being very open, but one of the ways they can benefit from the Chinese slowdown is by potentially doing things to attract more FIs. As the banking system heals, it is going to be a big problem, but India is less affected no doubt about that. India is in fact the best-looking story for all the criticism and concerns. I would say that India is the best-looking story in the world at the moment; quite a change from 15 years ago.\nWe are slowing moving towards a digital economy. Indian regulators are pushing aggressively for data-localisation. What\u2019s your stand on it?\nIt\u2019s a very interesting debate because there are real issues about monopoly, privacy, competition. I heard a scholar in a conclave in Delhi saying that Google and Facebook are moving in and before local firms are developing, they are claiming the data. This is an international problem \u2013 the line between private and public and which monopoly a country should have. I certainly wouldn\u2019t want to trade the Facebook monopoly with a local monopoly. I think there needs to be an approach towards where people are at least told what data is being used. There are suggestions out there about ways how one can \u2018own\u2019 their data. This is a huge issue and it is good the Indians are pressing the matter early. There are of course huge problems with monopoly. We are just starting to have reaction to Facebook now, when the politicians are realising it is affecting them!\nPayment infrastructure is a matter of concerns with a lot of unregulated fintech entities disrupting the banking model. How do you view this problem?\nIndian banking needs to be disrupted, so this is not bad in itself. I think there needs to be a delicate balance between the fintech companies being allowed to evolve and being an end-ground to the legacy problems in banking they have had a hard time solving. But, on the other hand, there is need for regulations. It is quite striking the recent event of the Canadian crypto-exchange owner recently died in India with the password to the currency. It shows the need for basic consumer regulation. People don\u2019t like crypto yet because it is so unregulated. People say that we are in the second innings of crypto revolution (baseball, not cricket, context), and I think no, we are in second innings of crypto regulations.\nDo you think there is a future to crypto currency?\nNo. Governments cannot tolerate large-scale pseudonymous payment systems where there are no taxations and regulations. The only reason the government haven\u2019t cut the currency yet is because they have been used for very little yet. The transactions taking place are very little. The governments would want to allow innovations to take place. They might want to see how it plays out. But in the long run, you will not be able to use bitcoins in retail stores and banks. You may still be able to use it underground.\nFor this reason, some of my colleagues think that they may be useless but I would differ. Rogue states like Venezuela and North Korea, maybe Iran and Russia, where US has sanctions, probably they won\u2019t cooperate with everyone else. But if you can use the money only in Iran and Russia, it\u2019s worth much less. I think blockchain maybe has a future. There are many great ideas that are evolving but, this generation of crypto won\u2019t survive regulations if it comes.\nrbi crisis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 20332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edwardsstudies.com/2016/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZFX3PUR6PC4MIV2HWKOUQLECRT3RDVR", "length": 25737, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "edwardsstudies.com", "title": "November 2016 \u2013 Jonathan Edwards Studies", "raw_content": "R.C. Sproul one time said this of Jonathan Edwards\u2019s 1754 book, the Freedom of the Will:\n\u201cI believe this is the most important theological work ever published in America.\u201d\nWhether or not you agree with Sproul\u2019s assessment, there is no denying that Jonathan Edwards has produced a true title-contender for the best attempt at answering one of the most ancient questions: Do we truly have freedom to decide our destiny, or is it somehow determined for us by God?\nNot only is this work one of the true classics of American Reformed theology, but it is also an intellectual tour de force, nearly impossible to refute by those holding competing positions. Here, Edwards engages in the longtime debate between Calvinism and Arminianism, right where the primary trenches have been dug \u2013 by examining how the human freewill engages with God\u2019s sovereignty.\nPersonally, I would not recommend new readers of Jonathan Edwards to begin with The Freedom of the Will, even though understanding it is crucial to comprehending Edwards\u2019s thought. Although I have personally combed through almost all of Edwards\u2019s important works, I will be the first to admit that I enjoyed reading Freedom the least. It is not as though I find the subject matter uninteresting. I do. The intersection between God\u2019s sovereignty and man\u2019s responsibility is relentlessly fascinating. It is not as though the book is unimportant; on the contrary it is one of Edwards\u2019s most well known writings, and surely among his most necessary to digest.\nYet because the treatise is among the most complicated of Edwards\u2019s writings, requiring of the reader an understanding of both philosophy and theology (as well as some technical jargon belonging to both disciplines), it is difficult to easily navigate. More than that, Edwards writes in a somewhat repetitive style, attacking his interlocutors from every imaginable angle in his major points. For this reason, attempting to reduce Jonathan Edwards\u2019s masterpiece The Freedom of the Will down to just a few pages of summation is a fool\u2019s errand. But being a great fool myself, I thought I would give it the old \u201ccollege try\u201d anyways!\nForthwith, I make my attempt to summarize this important work.\nTo begin with, we need to have a basic understanding of the era in which Edwards wrote this work. The Enlightenment was in full steam. New ideas that challenged the long-held conceptions of how the universe \u201cworks\u201d were being tested. Locke and Newton were all the rage. In the Enlightenment, man was at his most optimistic. Advances in science, medicine, and technology were taking place almost daily. And with these advances came the optimism that gave mankind fresh reasons to feel significant and meaningful in his existence.\nIn this way, humankind was beginning to push God out of the center of the universe, and off of His throne, so to speak. Theological convictions that had been long held in the Reformation era were crumbling. Puritan foundations were being challenged. Man began to see himself in a more central position of importance in the universe. If God created the universe at all, they conjectured, He surely created it for the benefit of man, His prized possession. If God could still be thought of as a sovereign Lord (and that too was up for debate), the notion that He actually \u201ccontrols\u201d all things would have to be modified significantly. Down came the scaffolding of the Biblical, Reformed, and Puritan worldview. Up went the new construction of man controlling his own destiny in history. Deism \u2013 the view that God was an original clock-maker who wound up the world and then stepped away \u2013 was gaining prominence in many corners.\nAt the center of the new conception was the idea that mankind is free to pursue his own agenda: to forge his own way and follow his own path. Each man, it was suggested, should recognize his own freedom to choose his path. The \u201cwill,\u201d it became popular to believe, was like the objective, neutral control center of the human mind from which each man has the freedom to determine his own course. He can choose his own way without compulsion. For man to be truly free, he had to be in a position of complete neutrality as regards his personal decision making capacity. If a decision or choice was forced upon him by any external factor (such as the older, Puritan understanding of God\u2019s divine decrees) that would render his choices meaningless.\nIt is into this milieu that Edwards wrote. Freedom of the Will is a \u201cshot across the bow\u201d to challenge this newer, more enlightened, and independent way of thinking about one\u2019s self-destiny. Above all else, Freedom was an attempt to defend (1) the traditional view that God is indeed absolutely sovereign and (2) that man\u2019s own responsible will determines his course (with some significant qualifications and delimitations). In this way, Edwards sought to defend the traditional Reformed position that God is actively, sovereignly, reigning over the universe, while mankind is truly responsible for his moral and ethical actions. Edwards argues that mankind has a will, no doubt. Whether or not it is truly \u201cfree\u201d as the Enlightenment suggested, would have to be debated.\nThe book begins in the author\u2019s preface with an acknowledgement by Edwards that using nicknames like \u201cCalvinism\u201d and \u201cArminianism\u201d has its downfalls. On the same token, though, sometimes they are necessary to delineate \u2013 in the broadest strokes possible \u2013 what are the sides and terms of the debate. He admits that he is a Calvinist and will defend this position, even though he denies copy-and-pasting Calvin\u2019s own thoughts into his own work. This project will be Edwards\u2019s own unique attempt to defend Calvinistic convictions without borrowing them wholesale from others. As it turns out, Edwards does just that: defend the tradition, but in new and innovative ways.\nThe book then divides into four major parts. In part one, Edwards lays the groundwork for the rest of the book. He defines philosophical concepts and terms like \u201cnecessity,\u201d \u201ccontingency,\u201d and \u201cability\u201d that will be used incessantly throughout. Readers had better pay attention here or be lost for the rest of the work! This would be one of those places where Edwards is tapping into terms and concepts that are drawn from philosophy, but giving them his own distinctive definitions.\nOf particular importance, Edwards makes a distinction between what he calls \u201cmoral ability\u201d and \u201cnatural ability.\u201d Natural ability (or inability, as the case may be) has to do with what a man is physically capable of doing. No matter what he desires to do, natural ability limits man in some ways. He cannot \u201cwill\u201d to do the physically impossible. He can walk; but he cannot fly. On the other hand, moral ability (or conversely, inability) has to do with what a person can or cannot do of their own volition. He can or cannot perform the action, not because of some physical limitation, but because it violates his inward inclinations.\nEdwards gives several examples that are quite helpful to understand this distinction. A drunkard is perfectly capable of putting down the bottle in his hand and never picking it up again. There is no physical limitation to stop him from doing so. Certainly, he \u201ccan.\u201d And yet it is not his natural inability that prevents him from becoming a teetotaler. The reason why he is so dependent on alcohol comes from a desire resident in his being to do what he truly wants most: take another drink. In the same way, a beautiful woman may be perfectly able to commit adultery against her husband. There is no physical or natural limitation to her being able to \u201ccheat.\u201d But it is her conscience within her, her moral character and ethical fortitude, that prevents her from doing so. She is a dutiful and faithful woman and \u201ccannot\u201d commit adultery because of her heart\u2019s inclination toward fidelity. So she is morally unable to cheat.\nIf we remember what Edwards wrote in the Religious Affections, he told us that each of us has strong \u201caffections\u201d or inclinations that draw us to certain things and repel us from others. The affections are a pretty important component to human existence, in Edwards\u2019s view, because they are what cause us to love some things and hate others. Here too in Freedom of the Will, the inclinations of the soul are very important because they are for Edwards what drives us to or from the choices that we make. In this way, Edwards refuses to accept the more modern Enlightenment notion that the will is \u201cneutral.\u201d\nEdwards then says something that will become the foundation for his entire treatise. Human beings, as responsible moral agents, ALWAYS (without any exception) choose to do what they are most strongly inclined to do at that time. In fact, it is impossible for them NOT to do what they are most inclined or disposed to do. In this way, he will argue throughout, our \u201cvolition will be determined.\u201d But lest we think that Edwards is a mere fatalist, he will also argue that because this choosing is according to our own strongest inclinations, it is also completely consistent with liberty. We freely choose what we want most. For this reason, Edwards has been called a \u201ccompatibilist\u201d (i.e. that human liberty is logically compatible with divine sovereignty).\nPart two, quite honestly, is pretty boring in some respects. Over and over Edwards will repeat the same argument from every possible angle. Here, he will show how it is impossible to make any choice whatsoever from a completely neutral perspective (as his opponents suggest). Every decision, he says, is made for a reason that springs from one\u2019s already determined inclinations. His opponents (both named and theoretical) will suggest that to be truly free, one must be able to make a decision from a completely neutral, unbiased, blank-slate, position of \u201cliberty.\u201d Edwards says this cannot be so.\nFor example, suppose we are choosing between two paths home (my analogy, not Edwards\u2019s). One is shorter and quicker, the other is longer and more beautiful. Whenever we choose a path, we do so for some reason. We are never neutral. Perhaps we want to get home sooner. Perhaps we want the scenic view. But there is always something that determines the choice. Even if we were to choose for no consciously known reason, there must be some reason we prefer the one path over the other.\nPart two does heat up however, towards the later stages of the section, where Edwards begins to talk about God\u2019s foreknowledge and employs a flurry of Scriptural citations. Biblicists will love this part! Here, he argues that all human choices in time are already known by God (which the Arminians also admit). But if they are known to God beforehand, they are also as sure to come to pass in the future as if God were seeing them from the perspective of the past. With God, there is no difference between seeing a future event and a past one. Both are certain in his all-knowing mind.\nIn part three, Edwards then attempts to answer an important question: if we are already predisposed to either good or evil (remember, we always choose according to our inclinations) what is the point of calling a choice morally \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d? How can we place any blame if we are only doing what we are inclined to do? Besides, how can helping an old woman across the street be praiseworthy, if it has already been determined that I must do so? Should I get any credit for that? On the same token, how can we blame a thief for doing exactly what his constitution requires him to do? If he must steal, how is it his fault?\nEdwards answers this by replying that one\u2019s disposition is exactly what makes a person\u2019s actions worthy of praise (or blame) in the first place. Suppose the Good Samaritan helped the poor mangled traveler in Luke 10 from a completely neutral heart. He felt nothing in his heart either way about the helpless man\u2019s condition. He casts a lot and it comes up \u201chelp him\u201d rather than \u201cleave him.\u201d Would this be more praiseworthy than if his disposition cared deeply? Of course not! His concerned disposition is exactly what prompts him to help, and the reason why his action is worthy of commendation. Besides, Edwards argues, God Himself is completely and absolutely disposed to holy action and cannot do otherwise, and He is the most praiseworthy being in the universe! Surely we do not find fault in Him for acting righteously from a determined, necessary inclination to do what is good, do we?\nI think his argument comes across strongly in this line of reasoning. Remember, the Enlightened opponents that Edwards is confronting here are arguing the opposite. They held (contrary to Edwards) that the will is the most free when it is the most neutral. In fact, it is the lack of any disposition in the will \u2013 complete and utter neutrality \u2013 that they argue is exactly what makes it \u201cfree.\u201d From their perspective, if the will has a preconceived inclination, it is not truly at a state of liberty.\nBut suppose the Enlightenment view is correct. Suppose that a particular woman is considering whether or not she should cheat on her husband. She has no predilection towards either faithfulness or adultery. She can go either way without any external compulsion. Arbitrarily, and without compulsion from any factor internal or external, she chooses fidelity \u2014 at least for today. Is this really praiseworthy? Does this seem like a laudable situation? Edwards would say absolutely not!\nIn the fourth and final section, Edwards makes one of his most famous analogies. He returns again to the idea of natural ability and moral ability. Suppose, he says, that there were two prisoners. Both were granted an opportunity to receive clemency by a King if only they would but kiss his ring, fall before him, and confess their sins. The first prisoner heartily desires to do just that. He is eager to confess his faults and make a full apology to the King. But there is a problem: the bars of his prison have not been opened! He cannot squeeze through the gates! He is locked in. Trapped by stone walls. He is naturally (physically) unable to get out of the prison and to kneel before the King. Edwards believes that this is how the Enlightenment thinkers conceive of Calvinism; that it is patently unfair for God to prevent men from coming to Him by making them unable to do so.\nBut then Edwards makes his best move of the treatise.\nIn describing the second prisoner, he pictures another felon who is likewise granted an opportunity to receive clemency. His cell however is unlocked, the gate swings wide open! But this prisoner does not budge. Why not? Isn\u2019t he free? He is in one sense for sure. But this prisoner does not come out to repent because he hates the King. He would rather spit in his face. To repent and confess for this prisoner would be unthinkable. He is morally unable to repent. This man, says Edwards, and not the first released captive, is what Calvinism teaches about the will: it is bound, not by any limitation placed upon it by God, but rather by the hardened disposition of sinful man\u2019s heart. He is his own prison guard.\nFinally in part four, Edwards considers a host of objections against his position that are still made to this day. For instance: doesn\u2019t moral necessity (that we must do what we are inclined to do) make human beings mere machines? Isn\u2019t this another restatement of the Greek concept of fate? Doesn\u2019t this make God the author of sin by creating us with sinful dispositions?`\nWhether or not we view Edwards\u2019s rallying answers to these questions as satisfying will in large part be determined (no pun intended!) by whether we\u2019ve found his prior arguments about moral and natural necessity coherent and convincing.\nOf particular help to many will be Edwards\u2019s formal conclusion itself. In this last flurry, Edwards works through each of the primary doctrinal pieces of the famous Reformed acronym TULIP in turn. With a winsome defense of Calvinism, Edwards arrives at his argument\u2019s denouement \u2013 God\u2019s grace is absolutely necessary to overturn the sinful heart of the rebellious person and turn them to Jesus. But in doing so, God also graciously \u201crewires\u201d our predispositions so that we freely and willingly choose to savor Christ and follow Him by faith.\nWell there you have it. The Freedom of the Will in just a few pages. Now go get yourself a copy so you can work through it yourself. Happy reading!\nBy Matthew Everhardin Articles November 30, 2016 November 30, 2016 2,800 WordsLeave a comment\nSeveral months ago, right here on EdwardsStudies.com, we put out a call for papers to participate in a collaborative publishing project alongside our friends at the JESociety. We asked our fellow readers and Edwards devotees to send us their best unpublished works focusing on the life, thought and ministry of Jonathan Edwards. It has been our shared desire to put together a publishing effort that utilizes the writing skills of various Edwards scholars around the world, with an open opportunity for rising talent in our field. Today, we would like to update our readers on the progress of this work.\nFirst of all, we were able to secure the contributions of a rather stunning array of writers. Our contributors include pastors, theologians, and students \u2013 including both men and women. Here is a brief rundown of our contributors for this project:\nRobert Boss (Publisher, Contributor, Layout and Design)\nRob has his PhD from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has served as a pastor in Oklahoma and taught at the seminary and college level at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has presented papers at Jonathan Edwards conferences in Northampton, MA and is the author of the monograph God-Haunted World: The Elemental Theology of Jonathan Edwards. His long-term project is a visual theology which explores the doctrinal intersections between general and special revelation recognized by Jonathan Edwards and other early Evangelicals. He makes his home in Fort Worth, TX with his wife Stephanie. They have two wonderful daughters\u2014one a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the other a recent graduate of Wheaton College. His personal website is http://robboss.com.\nSarah Boss (Contributor, Design)\nSarah Boss graduated from Wheaton College in May 2016 with an English major and history minor. Her interest in Jonathan Edwards dates back to early high school, when she first read Edwards\u2019s Images notebook. She presented a paper at the 2010 Jonathan Edwards conference in Northampton, MA. She also presented a version of the essay printed here at the Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media hosted by the graduate English department at Northern Illinois University in April 2016. Sarah currently teaches part time in Fort Worth, TX, and plans to pursue grad school in Fall 2017, where she hopes to explore her interests in typology and natural theology.\nToby Easley (Contributor)\nToby K. Easley (D.Min., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After completing his education, he has taught and preached through every New Testament book at least once and others multiple times in the last twenty-five years. He has a love for New Testament Greek and enjoys analyzing gifted exegetes both past and present. During his doctoral studies, he had the opportunity to research at Yale University\u2019s Beinecke Library, where he examined the original manuscripts and sermon outlines of Jonathan Edwards. He has authored numerous research presentations delivered at the Evangelical Theological Society, Evangelical Homiletics Society, and Church meetings relative to the life and works of Edwards. Easley also enjoys road and trail cycling, kayaking, golfing, fishing, and watching sports. In the study and library, he has a passion for research, writing, and publishing. His future goals include authoring additional books, podcasting, and expanding his Feder Ink publishing company. Furthermore, he is praying that during his lifetime the Spirit of God will move in another Transatlantic \u201cGreat Awakening,\u201d like the one He orchestrated in the eighteenth- century! Toby Easley and his wife Kimberly live in Fort Worth, Texas, and love spending time with their four grown children and four grandchildren, who are all a blessing from the Lord (Psalm 127:1-5)!\nMatthew Everhard (Contributor, Editor)\nMatthew is the Senior Pastor of Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Brooksville, Florida. He has been married to his beautiful wife, Kelly, for sixteen years and has three children, Soriah (14), Elijah (12), and Simone (7). Matthew received his undergraduate degree in Bible and Theology from Malone University in Canton Ohio; his Master of Arts in Practical Theology from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio; and his Doctorate in Ministry from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. While at RTS, Matthew wrote his dissertation on Jonathan Edwards entitled, A Theology of Joy: Jonathan Edwards and Joy in the Holy Trinity. He is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), and the General Editor of EdwardsStudies.com. Matthew is also the author of several books including Hold Fast the Faith: A Devotional Commentary on the Westminster Confession of 1647 (Reformation Press, 2012).\nJ.T. Holderman (Contributor)\nJ.T. Holderman serves as Senior Pastor of Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Gap, PA. He received a Th.M. in Homiletics from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2013), a M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary (2012), and a BA in Theology from Whitworth University (2007). His passions in ministry are preaching and seriously heeding the call to shepherd the flock of God. J.T. became interested in Jonathan Edwards while studying in Princeton, NJ, a one-time home for Edwards and place of his death. His favorite works of Edwards are his written sermons, particularly his sermon \u201cThe Excellency of Christ.\u201d JT is married to his camp sweetheart Kimberly and they both have one daughter Sophia who is a delight and gift from God. They reside in Lancaster, PA.\nDavid Luke (Contributor)\nDavid is Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Irish Baptist College (Moira, Co. Down, Northern Ireland) where he teaches Historical Theology and Church History. He previously served as Pastor of Gilnahirk Baptist Church, on the outskirts of Belfast, for almost sixteen years. He is married to Elizabeth and has three children Jill, Emma and Calum.\nZachary A. Hopkins (Contributor)\nZachary has been Pastor/Teaching Elder of the historic Edgington Evangelical Presbyterian Church since June 2012. Zach was born in Milford, Delaware, and raised in St. Louis, MO. He attended Illinois College (BA Religion & Sociology \u2013 Jacksonville, IL) where he was converted as a freshman, and later pursued a call to prepare for ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div \u2013 South Hamilton, MA). His reading and research emphases include the historical theology and ecclesiastical traditions of the English and American Puritans, particularly in the stream of the 17th century Westminster Assembly. His lovely wife, Mackenzie, is the crowing jewel of God\u2019s earthly grace to him. Together they enjoy: working out, gardening, and woodworking/DIY projects.\nJonathan S. Marko (Contributor)\nJonathan S. Marko holds a Ph.D. from Calvin Theological Seminary, and is assistant professor of philosophical and systematic theology at Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, MI, where he instructs undergraduate and seminary students. His recent research is focused upon Enlightenment philosophers and has resulted in various articles and a forthcoming book comparing the religious epistemologies of John Locke and John Toland. Jonathan is also an elder at his church.\nObbie Tyler Todd (Contributor)\nObbie is the Associate Pastor of Students at Zoar Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Kentucky. He also holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. As a doctoral candidate in Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Obbie is exploring the influence of Jonathan Edwards on the thinking of Baptist Richard Furman. Obbie and his wife Kelly are the parents of twins, Roman Tyler and Ruby June. Obbie is the author of two self-published works:Mountain Man (2014) and Wilderness (2015).\nChristopher Woznicki (Contributor)\nChris is a PhD student in Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He received a MA in Theology from Fuller and a BA in Philosophy from UCLA. He recently received a four-year scholarship made possible by the John Templeton Foundation to study the metaphysics of human nature as a part of Fuller\u2019s Analytic Theology project. Christopher has published essays on Jonathan Edwards\u2019s Trinitarian theology and has several entries in the forthcoming A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia (Eerdmans, 2016). In addition to his research on theological anthropology he teaches undergraduate courses in Biblical studies, trains pastors in Latin America, and is the college ministry director at a church in Los Angeles. He and his wife just had their first child, a beautiful baby girl.\nSecondly, we have just recently received some of the proofs of the project, and they look amazing! Our layout includes a wide, single column format which has been embellished by broad marginalia rather than the standard-formatted bottom notes. This includes beautiful space for note-taking as well as the inclusion of graphics and images. 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The blessing for me came with this book, which drove me to YouTube to find her songs and the astounding commencement address she gave this past June at her alma mater, Goshen College. Her poems and lyrics, thoughtful essays, and the flowing spirit of her work are captivating.\nNewcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, poet and lyricist, performer and educator. She has now produced 15 albums of music, which include her performances not only in this country but also in Europe, India, Kenya, and the Middle East. When not on tour, she and husband Robert Meitus live in a woodsy home near Bloomington, Indiana.\nOne of Newcomer\u2019s amazing strengths is her use of metaphor and imagery that surprise us by their accuracy. A delightful example, in referring to the quality of kindness, are these lines: \u201cIt gives up its seat on the bus / And hums in the kitchen, / Washing dishes when nobody asked it to\u201d (p. 52). Or this: \u201cheavy as grief and weightless as smoke\u201d (p. 15) from her poem \u201cA Shovel Is a Prayer.\u201d\nShe provides imaginative and lovely pieces, such as this, from \u201cA Question is a Curious Animal.\u201d The question is \u201cAn elegant doe that peers from the shadows, / A bird that calls and does not call again. . . . Riding for a while on a wolf\u2019s winter back. . . . Resting like field mice, who sleep with no shame . . . And yet they come yowling, a stray cat at the window. / A dog that keeps nudging, eyes trained on the door\u201d (pp. 10\u201311).\nHer essays in this volume are thought provoking, the golden prize being her commencement address this past June at her alma mater. She offered three lessons for life: \u201cbe kind, be true, and pay attention.\u201d In her essay \u201cMiracle, Light and Considerable Magic\u201d (p. 70), she refers to \u201cthe mysterious nature of the Sacred,\u201d the Light that appears in daily moments. She finds the holy in the ordinary, like dishwater, frying eggs, a busy street, or familiar room; wherever she may find herself. In her essay, \u201cAnother Kind of Flying,\u201d she locates her perspectives and priorities in the realm of gravity and morality, affirming that \u201cour lives are created of suspended moments of glorious flight\u201d (p. 79).\nShe notes \u201cLean in toward the Light. / Keep practicing resurrection\u201d (p. 81). Her preface to her lyric about prayer states: \u201cI believe that prayer is very personal and intimate. It happens in small, private moments, in songs and whispers, in humor, grace and the conversations that can only be had at the quiet end of the table\u201d (p. 83).\nNewcomer calls us in this collection to care, believe, and find meaning in what many of us overlook in our pursuit of daily commitments. \u201cI am learning to walk with grace in the dark, / I am learning to trust and to lead with my heart\u201d (p. 94). In \u201cThe Slender Thread,\u201d she adds, \u201cAnd home is still wherever you are, / Holding on to the slender thread\u201d (p. 106). 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Learn more about what happened today on History.\nThe George Washington Digital Encyclopedia is the place to learn more about George Washington and the wide range of subjects related to his world and the colonial era.\nThe First, First Lady\nJust as her husband realized that his every action might set a precedent for future presidents, so was Martha aware that her behavior as first lady would become the template for the wives of future ch\nTimeline of the Inauguration of President Washington\nOn the morning of the April 30th, George Washington dressed in a suit of brown broadcloth spun in Hartford, with buttons displaying an eagle with wings spread.\nTen Facts About Washington's Presidency\nUnanimously elected President of the United States twice, George Washington played an essential part in shaping the role and function of the President of the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elks644.org/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ID6OWJCCWV2AFMOJTGMW6BLTWOIGKRLI", "length": 1135, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "elks644.org", "title": "About Us | Tarentum Elks Lodge 644", "raw_content": "About the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks\nA fraternal order with nearly a million members and a 141-year history. 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When marketed properly, they are an extremely powerful content marketing tool. If you want to generate more cash and look like a superhero at the same time, here are 5 ways to sell your ebook so you double your profits.\nBut before we share these methods, it\u2019s worth looking at why your ebook isn\u2019t selling as well as you want it to right now.\nWriting an ebook is only step one of the process. Marketing it so that you profit from all of your hard work is where the power really lies. Imagine writing the most incredible, useful and engaging ebook ever, only to have it downloaded once a month. That\u2019s painful. We don\u2019t want you to feel pain. We want you to feel joy. More specifically, the joy of making money with your super awesome ebook.\nIf you have a big idea, writing an ebook can make you extra money. Book cover design by Maria Stoian.\nWhy your ebook isn\u2019t selling\nIt\u2019s an unfortunate fact that many self-published ebooks sit quietly online without making a dime. If you\u2019re reading this post, this just might be true for you. You\u2019re baffled. You\u2019ve done the marketing and you\u2019ve told your friends. Still, nothing.\nIt\u2019s available on your website, but no one clicks. Your book can\u2019t be found with a Google Search. Heck, even Amazon doesn\u2019t know it exists.\nIf you\u2019ve already written an eBook and it\u2019s not selling, there are a myriad of reasons why this might be the case. Let\u2019s break it down and look at the most common mistakes authors make when trying to market and sell their book.\nThe cover isn\u2019t pretty\nEBooks for sale. Via Amazon.com\nTake a few minutes right now and head to Amazon.com. In the search function under books, type: \u201cHow to make money as a public speaker.\u201d Scroll down and take a look at your choices. Which book would you choose to purchase? Naturally, our eyes go to the images on the page first, and then to the description. If the cover isn\u2019t crisp and professional looking, your book may be skipped over.\nIf you don\u2019t want to be passed by, you need a bright, compelling cover.\nHiring someone to create a professional cover can be costly, no question. But if you don\u2019t have the ability to create one yourself, consider involving a graphic designer to help you with it. I personally bartered with a graphic designer who created my ebook covers. If you put the one she created next to the one I created, mine looks like a fourth grader made it with sticky popsicle hands. My ebook wouldn\u2019t have sold, and I had to be honest with myself about that.\nYou can\u2019t write well enough\nWriting isn\u2019t for everyone. By Pixabay\nNot everyone is blessed with writing talent (or passion for it). You may have a great idea and know it through and through, but if you don\u2019t have the capacity to write about it, you\u2019ll lose your readers before they even reach page two. Statistics show that poor writing has cost American businesses close to $400 billion dollars a year.\nYou don\u2019t want to be part of that statistic.\nWhen I was speaking frequently in the first years of my business, I sought the expertise of other speakers via their ebooks. I looked at dozens of books. I bought and downloaded one that, quite frankly, was atrocious. That\u2019s not me being a big meany-head, that\u2019s me saying that I could barely get through the book and still take the author seriously as an expert in his field.\nWhy? He just couldn\u2019t write. He was all over the place, too. Grammar matters. Sentence structure matters. Organization of thoughts matters. If you need help, find someone who can help you ghostwrite your book. The rewards will be bountiful.\nYou don\u2019t really know what you\u2019re talking about\nKnow your subject as an expert. Via Pixabay\nMaybe you can take a hammer and nail to a wall and hang a picture, but when it comes to constructing a room you might be clueless. Similarly, lots of entrepreneurs may have a handle on a given subject, but if they aren\u2019t deeply immersed in the topic, the reader will sense it as they read the book.\nThe result? Your book will fail. It\u2019s that simple.\nIf you don\u2019t want to crash and burn, don\u2019t write what you don\u2019t know. And don\u2019t hire someone to write it if they don\u2019t know, either.\nThere are some \u201cwriters\u201d out there turning out ebooks for big profits, but the books have no real substance. The writers are only in it for the money and not to educate. The result is a shoddy ebook with limited information.\nFortunately, Amazon is on to them, and, in 2015, the company introduced a system to weed out scammers who write less-than-stellar books. If you don\u2019t want to be categorized as shoddy or penalized because no one is reading past page ten, study up on your area of expertise so you really come out on top.\nYou skipped the outline\nCreate an organized outline. By Pixabay\nIt can be tempting to write stream of consciousness, especially when the creative bug bites. While this isn\u2019t a bad idea, those streams fare better when unleashed in an organized outline.\nAt the beginning of your process, put your most relevant ideas on the page. There are different outline templates you can use that will help keep your book clear and organized. Find an outline that resonates with you and start there. Putting out an eBook that is unclear or unorganized can turn readers off quickly.\nNow that you know some of the common mistakes that keep ebooks from selling, let\u2019s look at how to sell your ebook so you double your profits and look like the expert that you really are.\n5 ways to sell your ebook\nKnow how to market your ebook. Book cover design Nitsua.\nIf you\u2019ve taken the time to write a killer book with an attractive cover, it\u2019s time to share it with the world. While the natural inclination is to post the link of your new book all over Facebook and Twitter, this technique will not only have your followers unfollowing you, it simply doesn\u2019t work.\nThere is a woman in my network who has five short ebooks that she\u2019s written. Every week or so (especially over the holidays), she posts the link to her books in a handful of groups and adds something like, \u201cBuy my ebooks! They will change your life!\u201d\nAllow me to illustrate what this \u201ctechnique\u201d actually looks like: Imagine you\u2019re sitting in your favorite recliner sipping hot tea and taking in the beauty of a quiet night when suddenly a complete stranger bursts into your living room and shouts, \u201cBuy this book! Now! It\u2019s going to change your life! Do it now! Do it NOW!!\u201d\nThis is why your marketing approach needs to be humble, authentic and geared toward the buyer. This isn\u2019t about you. It\u2019s about them. Keep that in mind throughout your marketing process, and your ebook will sell like hotcakes.\n1. Crowdsource your audience\nFind your audience. Via Pixabay\nThis is probably the most overlooked marketing technique, which is unfortunate, because it\u2019s the most powerful.\nCrowdsourcing is a marketing technique that is showing up more and more in business. It is a process where collective mobilization is used to generate interest in a community by showcasing a service or product. Put simply, it is the thing you do before you sell your product. Remember when I said don\u2019t run to Facebook and post your links? I meant that. But DO run to Facebook (or Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever you use) and start involving your audience in your process.\n\u2013 Ask them questions\n\u2013 Create polls\n\u2013 Share a few book cover ideas with them and let them choose their favorite\n\u2013 Post images of people you interview\n\u2013 Ask the audience more questions\nBy including your audience in the process of creating your ebook you are building a fan base that is not only going to buy your ebook, but will take it to the next level by sharing and bragging about you, and encouraging others to do the same.\nRB Botto, CEO of the social media platform for creatives called Stage32, dedicated an entire book to Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers. His concepts and case studies can also be used for authors, no question. The bottom line, he says, is to identify, engage, and move your audience. Make them your biggest fans.\nDo this as you write. Share your journey. Share the trials and tribulations. By the time you\u2019re done crowdsourcing, you\u2019ll already have an audience eager to buy. This way you don\u2019t have to burst into someone\u2019s living room and beg them to buck up for your book. They\u2019ll already want to. Isn\u2019t that just lovely?\n2. Come up with a fan-tabulous title\nWrite a title that attracts. Design by nevergohungry\nWhen Robert. T. Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, came out with his first book, he wanted to title it: If You Want to Be Rich and Happy, Don\u2019t Go To School. The publisher didn\u2019t like that title and wanted to call it instead: The Economics of Education.\nKiyosaki thought it was blah, too. He was adamant. He told the publisher that with such a boring title, he would be lucky to sell two copies of the book: one to his family, and one to his best friend. After some wrangling, the publisher gave in. And sure enough, the more \u201cobnoxious\u201d title, as Kiyosaki refers to it, earned him tons of publicity.\nThis example shows us just how important it is to have a compelling book title. If you have a few book title ideas floating around in your head, crowdsource your fans with a Facebook poll. Ask them flat out which ebook title best resonates with them. And then ask them why? Remember, they are the ones who will be buying your book. Their input is vital.\n3. Include the link to your ebook in your email signature\nIncluding a link in your email correspondence can open up unknown opportunities for you. Stationary design by Ariesta05.\nDon\u2019t underestimate the power of an email signature. This small, but mighty tip can earn you sales you never expected.\nThink of the number of email exchanges you have daily. In some of those exchanges you are actively building rapport with someone who may make a difference in your life somewhere down the line. If they are curious to learn more about you they will eventually click on the link to your website or your book.\nIncluding the link to your book in your signature is a subtle but powerful way to share your work with the world.\n4. Guest blog for exposure\nWrite blog posts and include your ebook. Via Pixabay\nGuest blogging is one of the most effective grassroots methods to gain exposure for your book. Of course this means that you\u2019ll have to spend some more time writing, but that\u2019s a good thing\u2014it never hurts to continue to hone your craft.\nBy seeking out related websites and blogs to write for, you are well on your way to sharing your book and your name with an audience that may not even know about you yet. Take the time to reach out to site owners with a friendly, personable email. Even something as simple as:\nI have been reading your blog for about a year now. But your most recent post about coaches acting as gurus really resonated with me. I see coaches teaching outside of their realm all the time, claiming that entrepreneurs can make millions quickly, and it made me step up to write a book about it. It\u2019s called \u201cCoaches as Gurus: Yay or Nay?\u201d and I would be humbled to share it with your readers. Are you accepting guest blog posts? I can\u2019t help but think this would be timely and relevant to your audience.\nFollow-ups are crucial here, too.\nFirst, find 10 to 12 blogs that fit your niche and have a fairly large following. (You can determine this by looking at the number of shares and comments on each blog post.) Then, get to work writing a personal email to the blog owner. Follow up at least five times before you decide they aren\u2019t interested. People get busy. But if you stay connected in an authentic, friendly way they\u2019ll likely respond.\n5. Offer the book as a freebie\nUse your ebook as an opt-in on your website. Via Pixabay\nI know what you\u2019re thinking: how on earth can I make money from an ebook if I give it away for free?\nIf you offer the book as an opt-in in exchange for an email address, you\u2019re still winning. Building your email list can prove more valuable down the road as you prepare to sell programs, different books, or any other shiny gadget you have.\nIf you publish your book on Amazon, the media giant gives you the option to give your book away for a certain number of days. You can sell it for as little as 99 cents for a period of time, too. This method spikes and improves searchability results for you on Amazon, giving you an edge when it comes to search terms.\nFor example, if you wrote a book on public speaking and entered \u201cpublic speaking\u201d as one of your searchable keywords, giving the book away could boost Amazon\u2019s algorithm and give you the advantage in that keyword category. This is because people love free stuff, and hundreds of readers will likely take advantage of this.\nNow, with so many downloads, it looks like you\u2019ve sold lots of books. This makes potential buyers swoon. They\u2019ll click BUY NOW, and the rest is history.\nOne final note: be persistent\nStay consistent with your marketing efforts and you will become a master. Book cover design by TintoDeVerano\nThere is one very important thing you need to remember as you begin the journey of marketing your ebook: the methods listed above will not work if you only try them once.\nGood content marketing requires patience, persistence and power. If you want to really sell your ebook and double your profits, you need to be all in. This is the part where you become a superhero and come out looking like the expert you really are.\nHarriet Beecher Stowe said, \u201cNever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.\u201d\nDon\u2019t give up. Remember, this is about feeling joy and sharing your expertise with the world. If you give up before you\u2019ve really tried, you could be one email away from doubling your profits and showing up as the expert in your field.\nPatience. Persistence. Power. Go forth with all three of these attributes and sell your glorious ebook. The world is waiting for you!\nAll your ebook is missing is a killer cover?\nJoleene Moody is a ghostwriter and copywriter for entrepreneurs and other small businesses looking to make some noise with the written word. In her past life, she was a television reporter and anchor. Today, she takes great pride writing books and blog posts for those who want to create content that engages and encourages shares and likes. Joleene is also a screenwriter and actor. Learn more about this creative muse on her website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 18746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.azimut.ru/news/news_129.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:22Z", "digest": "sha1:R5TGSCQBPTJW2MIPVEAXYM2C3OR7GWWL", "length": 1423, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "en.azimut.ru", "title": "AZIMUT has equipped the airfield of Vorkuta with an automatic direction finder \u2013 AZIMUT", "raw_content": "At the airport of Vorkuta, the Republic of Komi, the commissioning of the automatic direction finder DF2000, developed and produced by the leading Russian supplier of air traffic management equipment JSC Azimut, has been completed.\nVorkuta is the third largest city in the Arctic circle next to Murmansk and Norilsk. Today, this Far North area is the backbone region for Arctic exploration. Its airport, named after Vorkuta, is one of the 73 air transport hubs of the Arctic zone, whose development concept provides for ensuring regular transport service both inside and beyond the zone, as well as the development of ground-based airport infrastructure in remote areas.\nThe automatic direction finder DF2000, produced by JSC Azimut and installed at the airport of Vorkuta, provides for accurate aircraft setting within the sectors where controlled flight routes are through in the terminal area, which allows the controller to determine the direction of movement of the aircraft. A similar instrument, developed by JSC Azimut, is successfully operated at the airports of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kursk, Kurilsk, Kirensk and Pechora.\nFSUE \u00abState ATM Corporation\u00bb took on the role of the Customer for the commissioning of air navigation equipment. JSC Azimut specialists carried out installation, starting-up and adjustment works, as well as the briefing of operating personnel, ground tests and introductory flight checks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.azimut.ru/news/news_206.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LIVZ7ZCY2LAE5WDS5NSL7F3P3VHKTYPP", "length": 3636, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.azimut.ru", "title": "AZIMUT held the 31st meeting of the EUROCAE working group WG-51 SG4 (Composite ADS-B/WAM System) \u2013 AZIMUT", "raw_content": "The 31st meeting of the EUROCAE working group WG-51 SG4 (Composite ADS-B/WAM System), engaged in the development of a new version of the ED-142A document (Technical Specifications for Wide-Area MLAT (WAM) with ADS-B/ MLAT composite functionality) was held in St. Petersburg from 5 to 7 June, 2018 at the invitation of AZIMUT JSC.\nThe working group includes the world's leading manufacturers of MLAT systems: ERA, Frequentis-Comsoft, Thales, Indra, SAAB Sensis, as well as air navigation service providers (ANSP): DFS, ENAV, and NATS. The Russian industry at the meeting was presented by AZIMUT JSC.\nAt the 31st meeting, the participants discussed draft changes (in relation to the original ED-142 document) in the requirements for the generation and transmission of the Mode S interrogation signals, control and monitoring functions, as well as the use of passive surveillance methods.\nThe development of Composite Surveillance is truly the State of the Art as far as civilian surveillance sensors are concerned. The specifications developed at this early stage, detailing how to merge Wide Area Multilateration and ADS-B technologies in an appropriate manner, will be used for many years to come both within Europe and globally. For engineers, establishing a detailed specification for such components of the surveillance infrastructure is at the heart of any modern and efficient Air Traffic Management system.\nThe specifications produced within the EUROCAE Working Groups define metrics such as performance, interoperability, safety and security. Mistakes made when drafting the standards specification for components of an Air Traffic Management infrastructure can be extremely costly to rectify and could even threaten the safety of the travelling public. The importance of the work is thus not to be under-estimated.\nWriting such specifications can be laborious and time consuming however, as EUROCAE WG51 SG4 found out in early June when Azimut hosted their meeting, working on them in a city as beautiful and vibrant as St Petersburg can also be a great privilege.\nAzimut are an integral part of the EUROCAE team and Dr. Holger Neufeldt, the chairman of WG51 SG4 thanked them for their warm welcome, their professionalism and their generosity. The attendees of the meeting thanked the wonderful city of St Petersburg for providing such a magnificent backdrop for the event.\nAZIMUT JSC has completed the development of the MAS 2700 MLAT system equipment and is starting acceptance and certification tests. The MAS 2700 system meets all relevant EUROCAE standards for the current time in terms of the technical specifications of the MLAT systems: ED-142, ED-117A, and automatic dependent surveillance \u2013 broadcast: ED-129B.\nTaking an active part in creating a new EUROCAE standard in the framework of the working group WG-51 SG4, AZIMUT JSC engineers and designers laid the basis for the development of the MAS 2700 system, technical solutions for the development of an advanced MLAT/ADS-B composite surveillance system. At present, the MAS 2700 system has two functionally independent surveillance channels: MLAT and ADS-B, which is the first step towards the development of a composite MLAT/ADS-B surveillance system. The functions of the system are as follows: MLAT and ADS-B track association; MLAT and ADS-B coordinate comparison, the assessment of the status and quality of the data; the assessment of the uncompensated latency of the ADS-B coordinate data; and reduction in the number of interrogations due to the use of the passive surveillance methods; all of these system functions are currently operating in a test mode.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr/tag/royal-chapel_t47/2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3LMSVR74NG6SRJXD4PNNYKHRXWIGNM2Z", "length": 1067, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "en.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr", "title": "Royal Chapel at the Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles Spectacles", "raw_content": "The Royal Chapel was finished in 1710 at the end of Louis XIV's reign. Jules Hardouin-Mansart proposed the plan to the King in 1669. The First Architect died in 1708 without seeing the end of the works which were taken over by his brother-in-law Robert De Cotte. The reigning monarch only came for major religious festivals where he received communion, for ceremonies of the Order of Saint-Esprit, for the baptisms and weddings of the royal children celebrated from 1710 to 1789. This exceptional palatine chapel was also used for a wide range of religious ceremonies, including the marriage of Archduchess Marie-Antoinette with the future Louis XVI.\nAbove the altar, around the organ by Clicquot decorated with a fine relief of King David, played by great masters like Fran\u00e7ois Couperin, the Chapel's music, famous all over Europe, sung motets everyday during all religious services. Today Handel's Dixit Dominus or Messiah, Bach's Oratorios, Magnificat, Cantatas or Passions, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater or Charpentier's Te Deum ring out in this majestic architecture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1051, "original_length": 6723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 106.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_Plus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3742XWY37RS2GH3JC25M4RW7D2HMFAJ3", "length": 3004, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "en.m.wikipedia.org", "title": "StarPlus - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "(Redirected from STAR Plus)\nThis article is about Indian television channel. For the English-language channel formerly known as Star Plus, see Star World.\nStarPlus is an Indian pay television channel owned by Star India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, youth-oriented reality shows, shows on crime and television films. It is also distributed internationally by Fox Networks Group, subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.\n(Fox Networks Group, distributor outside of India)\n(downscaled to letterboxed 480i/576i for the SDTV feed)\nStar Plus Aur Hotstar Par\nStar Maa Music\nStar Vijay Super\nStarPlus on Hotstar\nDSTV (Africa)\nDish Home (Nepal)\nStarSat TV (South Africa)\nDialog TV (Sri Lanka)\nCanalSat Maurice (Mauritius)\nOSN (Middle East and North Africa)\nVision Asia (Australia and New Zealand)\nChannel 108 (Selection Programs Only)\nCignal Digital TV\nCable TV Hong Kong\nSreedevi digital\nSkyCable/Destiny Cable(Philippines)\nMy.T (Mauritius)\nPEO TV (Sri Lanka)\nWhen it was first launched on 21 February 1992, StarPlus was an English-language television channel showing international TV shows from the U.S., the UK and Australia, with Zee TV being the Hindi-language counterpart.[1] However, after Star ended its relationship with Zee TV, Star Plus was transformed into a Hindi-language channel, with Star World becoming the network's English-language counterpart channel.\nIt launched in the United States in November 2004.\nIn 2000, the company's CEO Sameer Nair and programming chief Tarun Katial introduced a number of new shows, which helped to solidify the channel's position as the leader in the Hindi-language television broadcasting area.[2]\nThe channel's high-definition feed was launched on 15 April 2011. It carries the same schedule as the SD feed, but with different commercials. Star Plus HD was set to launch in both the United Kingdom and Ireland by the end of 2011,[3] but it was delayed until 5 July 2012.[4]\nOn October 6, 2017, ATN Star Plus lost the rights to programming from Star Plus which resulted in it being no longer available in Canada and Exclusive App in Hotstar.\nIn January 2019, Star Television Network shut down its television operations, including Star Plus, due to its promotion of digital counterpart, Hotstar in the US.[5]\nMain article: List of programs broadcast by StarPlus\n^ Flegg, Michael (10 September 2001). \"India's Star TV Leaps to Top Spot Due to Game Shows, Soap Operas\". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 19 September 2001.\n^ \"History Star Plus Global\". Star Plus Global. Retrieved 6 July 2015.\n^ Star Plus UK to launch HD Channel \u2013 http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2011/02/exclusive_star_5.php\n^ Star Plus HD UK date confirmed \u2013 http://www.media247.co.uk/bizasia/star-plus-hd-to-launch-in-july-in-uk\n^ Star TV to shutdown television operations in USA \u2013 https://www.bizasialive.com/star-tv-ceases-television-operations-in-usa/\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StarPlus&oldid=883402527\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://endomail.com/articles/holiday-party", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:QTGLCFFUYMNI6RZEUH5NVDNHE5DCUDDY", "length": 137, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "endomail.com", "title": "Holiday Party! | EndoMail Endodontics Education", "raw_content": "A Toast to the New Year.\nCome celebrate with us Thursday, February 5th, 2015\n119 West 57 Street, Suite 700, New York City\nmdkendo@aol.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 229.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eng.hctraktor.org/media/news/?id=18446", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZY7UMJ4NFWU57ISNOQHPJZICBDFY2XQF", "length": 5205, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "eng.hctraktor.org", "title": "Let me introduce myself, Nick Bailen - HC Traktor official website", "raw_content": "Let me introduce myself, Linus Videll Traktor and SKA agreed on a trade\nProfile of Traktor newcomer in his own words.\nNick Bailen came to KHL in 2014. He quickly became a star of the league, when he scored 37 points in his first 60-games season. Besides Nick is that very guy, around whom great atmosphere is formed \u2013 hardworking, persistent and at the same time joyful.\nTHE BEST HIGHLIGHT GOAL\nProbably my first professional goal. I was playing in Finland for Tappara (2013-2014 season). It was pretty cool moment. First professional goal is something you look forward as a kid. It was an exciting one \u2013 a shot from a blue line. The goalie didn\u2019t see anything because of the traffic. The puck just happened to beat him.\nTHE GREATEST HOCKEY MOMENT\nPutting on the jersey in KHL was pretty cool experience. You are playing in one of the best leagues in the world, and making a debut was cool experience. Getting out to the rink where there are a lot of fans, who are shouting really loud. I can\u2019t even remember, whether we won or lost. It was home game in Minsk with 14000 fans at home opener, so these emotions erased the memory. As for Traktor arena, from the past games I know that in Chelyabinsk has really good fans. I\u2019m looking forward to meet them.\nCRAZY OFF THE ICE STORY\nWhen I was 15 years old I worked at a restaurant on Lake Erie in my parents\u2019 hometown. I worked there with my brother Eric in the kitchen making food. This was summer which meant two things: nice weather and upcoming hockey tryouts. I was going to fly to Indiana to tryout in the USHL junior league. Two weeks before my flight I was working putting together a table for a customer with the boss of the restaurant. He accidentally stabbed me in the eye with a screwdriver while we were putting together the table. Because of this my father was furious with this accident. Anyways, we went to the doctor and found out there was no serious damage. I was very lucky. However my eye was filled with blood for about 2 weeks. I was partially blind and I had to wear a patch.\nBut the day before the first day of tryouts my vision cleared up and I was able to play hockey. When I showed up at camp I had a huge black eye. Everyone thought I was this small tough guy who loved to fight. Every ice session I was asked to fight. At the end of camp the coach and GM told me that they noticed me first because of my big black eye. I ended up making the team to start my path in hockey.\nObviously, Nick Bailen has some tough guy skills.\nTHE GREATEST PARTNER ON THE ICE\nPaul Szczechura. He is my dad. In one interview Sandra said that I\u2019m their adoptive son \u2013 and yeah, that\u2019s me. We met in Minsk 3-4 years ago and became roommates on all away games. That time neither of us had kids, and I didn\u2019t have a girlfriend. They took me under their wing. Sandra and Paul this summer came to our house in Florida and we hung out for a while. Four of us get along really well, and it\u2019s very nice. In Minsk we played well together, Paul knows where I like to pass the puck. He knows how I move the puck in the offensive zone. We connected a lot of times when we played together. We know how each of us thinks. That is why we had success playing in Minsk, especially on power play. I hope we will have the same chemistry in Traktor.\nThe demonstration of Szczechura-Bailen connection.\nHOCKEY ROLE MODEL\nPaul Coffey. In that time of Coffey there weren\u2019t so many offensive defensemen. To attack wasn\u2019t considered to be the job of a defenseman. But he and Ray Bourque created offense from the backside, they moved the puck and created a lot of scoring chances. Now offensive minded defenseman is a widely spread phenomena. Defense is active all over the world with such examples as Erik Karlsson, John Carlson, Drew Doughty and many others. But when I was growing up none of these players was around yet. That\u2019s why Paul Coffey, Ray Bourque, Chris Chelios really stick out in my head. The last one was really tough. He always stood his ground, he hit guys and fought. He always stuck up for his teammates. I know his son decently well. So I met his father few times. He is a nice guy off the ice, but he is one of the hardest hockey players you could play against.\nIn KHL such an offensive minded d-man is Kirill Koltsov. He had a lot of success in KHL. He is constantly leading in points among defensemen. It is obviously not an easy thing to do as the league has a lot of skilled defenders, who are able to put the puck in the net or create plays. So to have such a record as Koltsov\u2019s is a pretty cool thing. He can take the game in his hands and create a goal out of nothing. He sees plays which aren\u2019t necessarily there. He has a good vision. You never know where he will appear on the ice. When we played against Koltsov\u2019s teams, it was always in the scouting report that the winger should know where Koltsov is. There was always a player who was responsible for Koltsov. He changes the game and with his movements creates some space for other players. That is something I am trying to do. Coach allows it. And I think it will be good to have two players with such a style because it makes a lot harder to defend against such team.\nTraktor Press Office", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 7485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eponline.com/articles/2008/06/03/ansis-ghg-pilot-attracts-thirdparty-groups.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:XX3LXAZ5DFYJLYUJOEJRBEAVCSA4UBIQ", "length": 2065, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "eponline.com", "title": "ANSI's GHG Pilot Attracts Third-party Groups -- Environmental Protection", "raw_content": "ANSI's GHG Pilot Attracts Third-party Groups\nIn response to its invitation to apply for a pilot accreditation program, the American National Standards Institute received nearly 70 submissions from greenhouse gas (GHG) validation and verification groups interested in the program.\nANSI accreditation recognizes the competence of bodies to carry out conformity assessment activities in accordance with the requirements defined in applicable International Standards. In the case of the GHG program, the ANSI accreditation process operates according to ISO 14065:2007, Greenhouse gases -- Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition.\n\"This large response to our call for applications certainly exceeded expectations,\" said Reinaldo Figueiredo, ANSI program director for product certification accreditation. Interested applicants attended an orientation meeting on May 16 in San Diego, Calif., where they had an opportunity to meet with representatives from the California Climate Action Registry, The Climate Registry, and ANSI.\nThe pilot program will assess organizations against The Climate Registry's Verification Protocol (currently under revision), as well as the ISO 14064 series of standards (Parts 1 to 3) on greenhouse gases.\n\"ANSI is a logical solutions provider to support greenhouse gas measurement initiatives across the nation,\" added Figueiredo\nOrganizations that have been approved for participation in the pilot program will have until June 16 to submit their complete applications. Initial on-site assessments, as well as witness assessments, will be conducted during the summer months. Pilot applicants who demonstrate compliance with the program's requirements will be accredited simultaneously on Dec. 1.\nAdditional applications for the GHG accreditation program continue to be accepted, although new program participants will not enter the accreditation process until after Dec. 1, when the pilot accreditations are completed.\nTo learn more, visit the www.ansi.org/ghg.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eponline.com/articles/2008/06/05/leed-adopts-appa-cleaning--standard.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VZSIAYU7JQBGKRSNLI5AFXT55CICJMOJ", "length": 1137, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "eponline.com", "title": "LEED Adopts APPA Cleaning Standard -- Environmental Protection", "raw_content": "LEED Adopts APPA Cleaning Standard\nThe U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently revised its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) standard to make green cleaning a prerequisite. Now all buildings seeking LEED-EB certification must have a green cleaning policy.\nThe USGBC recently added credits for those institutions conducting an audit of their facilities using APPA's Custodial Staffing Guidelines for Educational Facilities, recognizing buildings that have superior cleaning programs. Institutions can earn up to two LEED points for using APPA's guidelines as part of the Quality Cleaning section of LEED's Operations and Maintenance guide to determine the appearance level of the facility.\nThe intent of the assessment, according to the LEED guide is, \"to reduce the exposure of building occupants and maintenance personnel to potentially hazardous chemical, biological, and particulate contaminants -- which adversely affect air quality, human health, building finishes, building systems, and the environment -- by implementing, managing, and auditing cleaning procedures and processes.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eponline.com/articles/2017/02/22/mutual-housing-california-finishes-green-renovation-in-sacramento-development.aspx?admgarea=ht.sustainability.greenbuilding", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7V73XWEMDXREWOUTEA5YG4DHR5MV3WQU", "length": 3628, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "eponline.com", "title": "Mutual Housing California Finishes Green Renovation in Sacramento Development -- Environmental Protection", "raw_content": "Sacramento-based nonprofit Mutual Housing California recently completed an $8.6 million green renovation of one of their affordable housing developments. The upgrades should increase the energy efficiency of the complex by 10 percent, an estimated savings of 34,462 kWh per year.\nAs a result, Mutual Housing at Foothill Farms became the nonprofit\u2019s first existing community to receive a green-point rated whole-house label from Build It Green, the Oakland-based nonprofit that uses higher California energy standards as a the basis of its rating system.\n\u201cWe\u2019re very proud to have received the designation on this renovation that not only adds to the environmental sustainability of the development\u2014but of the neighborhood,\u201d said Rachel Iskow, Mutual Housing California chief executive officer.\nPredevelopment began in March 2014, construction in October 2015. Construction took more than a year because the 98 apartments were fully occupied in use. Mutual Housing had to stagger the renovation so that residents could be moved off-site as their apartments were worked on.\n\u201cWhen they returned to their new homes, everyone was delighted to see what looked like brand new apartments,\u201d said Vanessa Guerra, Mutual Housing senior project manager.\nOriginally built in the 1970s, more than $500,000 was used to replace 3,500 linear feet of hot-water distribution lines. Ductless, mini-split heat pumps rated 12.5 HSPF, 27.2 SEE and 15.0 EER were installed instead of gas furnaces and air conditioners. The boiler for the central water heating system was replaced with one that offers a 94 percent recovery rate.\nThe green upgrades should lower resident utility bills.\nWhen Mutual Housing staff surveyed potential residents, they found that for low- and moderate-income people, being able to pay utility bills was second only to paying rent were their top concerns.\n\u201cMaking these systems more energy efficient also adds to the financial stability of our residents,\u201d said Iskow.\nAt least 25 percent of the construction and demolition waste was recycled. New flooring contains 75 percent post-consumer recycled materials. Materials with reduced formaldehyde levels replaced interior doors, cabinets and trim in the buildings. Zero- to low-paint stains and adhesives also were used throughout to create a healthier living space for the occupants.\n\u201cThese changes also add to the residents\u2019 positive health outcomes,\u201d said Iskow.\nTwo-thirds of the landscaped beds were designed with drought-tolerant plants instead of the original water-thirsty turf. The new \u201csmart\u201d irrigation system measures soil moisture for the low-flow drip sprinklers.\n\u201cThere have been so many environmentally friendly improvements in building products and technologies that it was a good time to take advantage of them,\u201d said Guerra.\nTricorp Group, Inc. served as the general contractor; the engineers were Stanton Engineering, Cunningham Engineering and Harris and Sloan Consulting Group. Ellis Architects designed the upgrades.\nMutual Housing received $10,806,073 in tax credit investments from Merritt Community Capital Corporation and $790,000 in permanent loans from Chase Bank N.A.\nBank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bank, Cathay Bank, Umpqua Bank, River City Bank, Sacramento Bank of Commerce and BBVA Compass donated charitable grants to preserve this inventory of affordable housing.\nGrants were leveraged through funding from NeighborWorks America. Chase Bank is the lender.\nTo date, 15 of Mutual Housing\u2019s 19 communities have been built or renovated with green features that create a better quality of life for 80 percent of the nonprofit\u2019s residents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ericenglish.com/2019/02/01/cyber-crypto-podcast-episode-58/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:53Z", "digest": "sha1:S22VMG3BU5AUD6VBMXJYWRKIYDLSWA7X", "length": 59, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ericenglish.com", "title": "Cyber & Crypto Podcast \u2013 Episode 58 \u2013 Cybersecurity & Cryptocurrency Podcast", "raw_content": "Posted on February 1, 2019 February 6, 2019 by Eric English", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://erininsight.blogspot.com/2014/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PSYXMYR7P2CCK6HVXHJLBA3DS5AZITVI", "length": 60774, "nlines": 297, "source_domain": "erininsight.blogspot.com", "title": "Erin Insight: January 2014", "raw_content": "Erin storm clean-up could take until May\nIt could take months for the Town of Erin to clean up the mess from December\u2019s ice storm, Council learned last week.\n\u201cA lot of the branches are frozen into the ground, so it could drag into May before it is all cleaned up,\u201d said Road Superintendent Larry Van Wyck.\nHe said the storm has cost Erin over $75,000 so far, including contractors to supplement staff, and that more costs are expected. At a January 13 meeting asking Ontario to declare Erin a \u201cdisaster area\u201d, seeking funding from the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program, costs were estimated to run up to $200,000.\n\u201cMother Nature hit us hard over the Christmas holidays, wreaking havoc with roads and power,\u201d said Mayor Lou Maieron.\nHe offered council\u2019s thanks to Town and Hydro One staff who worked extra hours and sacrificed family time during the storm, saying they had \u201cgone above and beyond their call of duty to ensure the safety and comfort of others\u201d.\nVan Wyck said road obstructions have been top priority, and those would not be completely cleared until this week. They are aware of major damage in parks, but have not gotten to them yet.\n\u201cThis is ten times worse than the April 2013 ice storm,\u201d he said.\nStaff will go up and down every road, dealing with tree limbs on public property, or calling in electrical workers when needed.\nCredit Valley Conservation is asking area residents not to put tree debris in the Credit River or other watercourses, since it could become part of a jam downstream and increase flood risk, both now and in the spring.\nThe County Waste Facility at Belwood was planning to accept residents\u2019 brush materials at no charge until January 31, but this has been extended until the end of April.\nThe mayor said the Town has been looking for a way to help residents deal with branches from private property more locally, but no solution has been determined.\nWellington County is doing an analysis of its storm response, and the Town of Erin will follow up with one of its own.\n\u201cWe had some difficulties, so let\u2019s be better prepared next time,\u201d said Maieron, noting concerns about getting information out to the public.\nCouncil held three Emergency Meetings during the storm to keep up to date on developments. The Erin Fire Hall was providing water to those who needed it, and warming stations were made available at Centre 2000, the two fire halls and the municipal office, with the help of the Red Cross.\nThe pump at the Town\u2019s Glendevon Well House burned out, requiring emergency replacement. Erin Radio was off the air for some time due to a problem with their generator.\nInformation from the Ministry of Natural Resources on how to care for ice-damaged trees is available at www.haltonhills.ca/TreePruning/informationSheet.pdf.\nLabels: Roads, Town Administration, Trails\nNo volunteers to review council pay\nNo members of the public have responded to newspaper ads seeking volunteers to help review the pay of Erin politicians.\n\u201cI\u2019m surprised, with all the public comments I get saying you are paid too much, or not enough,\u201d said Mayor Lou Maieron at the January 21 council meeting.\nInstead the CAO and Finance Director plan to survey similar municipalities to check pay levels and methods of reimbursing expenses. They will make recommendations to councillors, and a report on the issue may be circulated for public comment.\nCouncils generally set the remuneration for those who will take office after the next election (October 2014), so they are not seen as directly voting on their own pay. The current council has been getting annual increases that match those given to staff.\nStation Street referendum gets no council support\nA proposal from Mayor Lou Maieron for a referendum question on how to repair the Station Street bridge and dam in Hillsburgh got a resounding \u201cNo\u201d from Town Council last week.\nActually, fellow councillors said nothing when he read his motion, meaning that there was no seconder and no debate.\n\u201cI have tried, ladies and gentlemen,\u201d said the mayor, crumpling up his motion paper.\nHe was asking that staff investigate the requirements to add a question to the October 2014 ballot about the controversial bridge and dam, \u201cto provide limited repair options to be considered, so that the voters in the Town of Erin can have a direct voice in a very significant issue with potentially serious financial ramifications for the foreseeable future\u201d.\nThe cost of rehabilitation, including full rebuilding of the road and bridge, is over $2 million, whether the mill pond is maintained or not. Maieron has suggested the cost could be much lower if the pond is allowed to revert to a river, and a large culvert is used instead of a bridge.\nCredit Valley Conservation generally supports removal of dams when possible, but a special committee including local residents has recommended that the pond be maintained. The Town owns the bridge, the road and the earthen berm of the dam, but the pond and the water control structure are privately owned.\nThe Ministry of Natural Resources has allowed temporary repairs to the earthen berm due to safety concerns, but has demanded that the Town come up with a permanent solution by June this year, including any required environmental assessments.\nThe Town has failed to get funding from senior governments for the work, and the mayor says it is difficult to ask taxpayers throughout the Town to bear the cost of borrowing $2 million, especially since the pond is surrounded mainly by private property.\nThis project, which has been on the Town\u2019s priority list for 40 years, will be discussed at budget meetings in March.\nLabels: Bridges, Credit River, Planning, Roads, Taxes, Town Administration\nNo extra funding for Celebrate Erin event\nA request from Erin\u2019s CAO for $2,500 in additional funding for the Celebrate Erin event in April has been turned down by Town Council.\nKathryn Ironmonger had proposed a limit of $6,000 for the 2nd annual event, which honours community volunteers and raises money for the local food bank. That included $3,500 in seed money from last year\u2019s event, the value of staff time to support it, which council had previously approved for 2014.\nMayor Lou Maieron had championed last year\u2019s event, stressing that no tax money was being used for it, so he opposed allocating tax money this year.\nHe was supported by Councillor Deb Callaghan in opposing the motion from Councillors Barb Tocher and Jose Wintersinger. Councillor John Brennan was absent, so with a 2-2 tie the motion was lost, according to council rules.\nEast Wellington Community Services will still operate the fundraising aspect of the event.\nIronmonger was concerned that the plan to charge lower ticket prices this year would result in lower revenue, making it harder to cover costs.\nBudget deliberations to start with 3% tax hike\nErin CAO Kathryn Ironmonger has directed Town staff to come up with an initial draft budget for 2014 based on a 3% tax increase.\nThat\u2019s a big change from last year\u2019s budget process, which started with a wish list budget requiring a 32% increase for the Town portion of the tax bill, which was whittled down to a 15% increase.\nThe first budget meeting is set for March 5 at 7 pm, with presentation of both an operating and capital budget. A public meeting, similar to one held last year, will also be held to explain the budget before it undergoes final changes and approval.\nCouncil also hopes to approve for the first time a Five Year Capital Plan that schedules future major projects according to priority, without approving actual expenditures that are decided year by year.\nLabels: Bridges, Budget, Roads, Town Administration\nAngelstone noise called \u2018beyond unacceptable\u2019\nNeighbours of the Angelstone Tournaments facility on County Road 50 have told Erin Town Council that the business has damaged their quality of life, with events that combine equestrian competitions with an outdoor nightclub.\n\u201cMy neighbours and I have been besieged by constant excessive noise,\u201d said Nancy Gilbert, describing 10 event weekends last year.\n\u201cOn event days, the loud speakers go from 7 am until dusk. On Thursdays and Saturdays, the music starts after the events and continues until past 2 am. Even with the windows closed, the noise blares through my house \u2013 we cannot sleep.\u201d\nThe business has grown quickly since 2010, from a relatively quiet horse farm to a major destination for training and international show jumping tournaments with evening entertainment. They intend to reduce their noise impact with shorter hours, fewer events and better sound control, but the neighbours remain skeptical.\nAngelstone says it has invested millions of dollars to create Canada\u2019s second most significant show jumping venue, after Calgary\u2019s Spruce Meadows.\nNow the company is applying for a zoning amendment that would recognize the extent of the enterprise. That includes: competition on 35 days between May and October; the sale of merchandise, food and alcohol; and events with 200-400 competitors, 350-700 horses, parking for 1,200 vehicles and attendance of up to 3,000 spectators, according to a report from Planner Sally Stull.\nA Public Information Meeting about the application will be held on February 20 in the council chambers. Before that, council has directed staff to write a report for them explaining the growth of the business.\nA statement from Angelstone regarding the complaints says: \u201cAny issues that are brought to the company\u2019s attention can either be eliminated through an effective action plan or mitigated to lessen the impact on neighbouring residents.\u201d\nAngelstone says it \u201chas been a community leader in promoting job creation and tourism growth in the Erin region\u201d, estimating $4.5 million per year in tourist spending. Gilbert is doubtful about the local benefits and would like to see more evidence.\n\u201cThe Grand Prix events on Saturday evenings attract many of the world\u2019s top show jumpers, including multiple Olympians representing over 8 different countries,\u201d said Angelstone Vice President Ryan Clermont. \u201cAdmission and parking to the Grand Prix events is free for all spectators.\u201d\n\u201cWe firmly believe property values will follow the trend of similar venues and ultimately cause the property values in the surrounding community to rise,\u201d the company says. \u201cIt is the sincere hope of the board of directors that the positive impacts far outweigh the negative by a significant margin.\n\u201cIn 2013 we addressed noise concerns by narrowing our operating hours from 8 am to 11 pm, excluding five nights of operation where an acquired noise exemption allowed us to finish at 12 am.\u201d Police were on the scene a few times early in the 2013 season to deal with noise complaints.\nCompany President Keean White, a well-known equestrian competitor, appeared before council last September and obtained an exemption from the noise bylaw until midnight for their final event of the season, after promising to cut back the sound and work with neighbours to resolve complaints.\nGilbert says there has been no consultation with neighbours since then, but Angelstone says it has complied with the Town\u2019s requirements and in 2014 will working \u201cto further reduce volume levels throughout the day by refining the output path of the public address system\u201d.\nTheir schedule has only five major events for 2014 \u2013 one per month in June, July and October and two back to back in August.\nThe two August events are to include Super Saturdays, with high-intensity lighting that will \u201cturn night into day\u201d, Angelstone says, \u201ccreating an atmosphere for spectators that will be unforgettable\u201d.\nGilbert does not doubt that, but says: \u201cAngelstone has pushed the envelope and gone over the top with their new advertised attraction\u201d, and is critical of them for not consulting with them about their plans.\nAngelstone says the special lighting on the two evenings will be directed into the ring of their stadium only, hundreds of metres from the closest residence, and will be off by midnight.\nGilbert presented supporting letters from six neighbours, including one who opposed \u201ceven more light pollution to dim the night sky\u201d. Another at the meeting said the noise last year was \u201cbeyond unacceptable\u201d.\n\u201cThere is no link between equestrian events and the need for outdoor concerts or spectacles,\u201d said Gilbert. \u201cThere is no need for a nightclub to be on site.\u201d\nAngelstone says the intention of adding music in their dining pavilion is to create a social event that combines sport, dining and entertainment.\nIn addition to noise, the neighbours are concerned about heavy traffic, especially at the single exit from the site. Angelstone says it plans to hire off-duty police officers for its peak Super Saturdays to ease traffic problems.\nResidents have complained about Angelstone customers trespassing on their properties. The company says it intends to build a fence to deal with the issue.\nThere are also concerns about effluent from manure piles. The company estimates that its manure output after five weeks of horse showing is about the same as that produced by 25 cows over 52 weeks.\n\u201cWe feel this amount is standard in a rural farming operation; and we intend to keep its removal a priority,\u201d they said.\nGilbert would like to see an agreement worked out between the Town, Angelstone and the neighbours, similar to that of the Halton Place equestrian facility in Halton Hills.\nThe Angelstone statement says they \u201cintend to work closely with the Council, our neighbours and our community to encourage productive dialog that addresses concerns in order to reach effective solutions.\u201d\nLabels: Business, Growth, Horses, Music, Sports\nFriends of Terra Cotta promote park\u2019s benefits\nInspired by a successful trail project at Island Lake near Orangeville, the Friends of Terra Cotta (FOTC) is hoping to increase public interest in their natural \u201cjewel\u201d just south of Erin.\n\u201cWe want to showcase the park\u2019s best features and promote the benefits of environmental activism,\u201d said Annette Graydon, chair of the volunteer citizen group.\nLocated on Winston Church Boulevard, Terra Cotta Conservation Area is part of a 1,900 acre protected zone that includes Silver Creek Conservation Area and sections of the Bruce Trail.\n\u201cIt is our flagship, our jewel in the Niagara Escarpment,\u201d said CVC Director Judi Orendorff, one of several staff members on hand to provide encouragement and information for the group. \u201cIt is envisioned as a key park because of its wildness. We need to make things better for visitors, and local community involvement is key. We really need to pick up the pace.\u201d\nNew features this year are the Outdoor Amphitheatre and the Sugar Shack, which will provide more opportunities for entertainment and education.\nThe Friends of Terra Cotta has been operating the family-oriented Haunted Forest event at Halloween each year, to raise money for park projects and help boost awareness.\nMembership in the group is advertised as a volunteer opportunity on the CVC website, www.creditvalleyca.ca. It can include helping out at \u201cLandscapes for Learning\u201d environmental education events at the park, and at various volunteer work days that help restore and protect the natural environment.\nThey also have regular meetings to make plans and provide feedback to CVC staff. I have been involved with some of their activities in the last few years, and found them to be a very friendly and interesting group. To find out more, contact Annabel Krupp at akrupp@creditvalleyca.ca.\nFOTC has been impressed with the work of the Friends of Island Lake near Orangeville. That group led the effort to raise close to $1 million in donations and grants, with substantial volunteer labour, to construct a series of bridges and lookout posts for a lakeside trail which opened last year.\nThe Terra Cotta group will be participating in a \u201cvisioning\u201d exercise, trying to set goals for an identifiable project or signature events that can help market their park.\nTerri LeRoux, Executive Director of the CVC Foundation, said building excitement around goals is key to getting other community groups and corporations to make donations of time and money.\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t feel that fire in your belly, you\u2019re not going to sell it to the funder,\u201d she said.\nThe conservation area already has many trails, and there has been some discussion of improving some of them while closing others. While providing interesting trails for avid hikers, there are also opportunities to provide a nature experience for older seniors and disabled persons.\nThe area long ago abandoned intensive recreation facilities such as campgrounds, a huge swimming pool, a mini-put course, and before 1954, a dance hall.\n\u201cWe took it back to nature,\u201d said Senior Lands Planner Eric Baldin, noting that staff are looking at ways to make better use of existing structures on the property. There is also the possibility of expanded or improved parking lots.\nThe area now promotes hiking, wildlife appreciation, fishing and education programs at the Watershed Learning Centre. For many recent immigrants, Terra Cotta is their first exposure to Canada\u2019s natural beauty.\nThere\u2019s also a large picnic field and shelter, next to a naturalized wetland and boardwalk. Improvements in recent years included a new gatehouse, more interpretive signs and a Welcome Centre with washrooms. Water flowing from the ponds has been re-channeled to enhance the natural conditions.\n\u201cProtection is still the top priority, followed by appreciation and recreation,\u201d said Lands Planner Laura McDonald, describing the Management Plan which is available on the CVC website.\nCVC Education Manager Andrew Kett said thousands of participants benefit from the Terra Cotta environment each year though programs for both students and teachers, and weekend programs for families. These build not only knowledge, but beliefs and values about nature that can lead to volunteer action.\n\u201cEnhancing ecological literacy is the heart of the program,\u201d he said.\nLabels: Credit River, Education, Environment, Trails\nHealth Link helps patients with complex needs\nA new effort to ensure that seniors and patients with complex problems don\u2019t \u201cfall through the cracks\u201d of the health care system has been announced for rural Wellington.\nA Health Link partnership will be led by the Family Health Team in Mount Forest, but it will be of equal benefit to residents of Erin, Hillsburgh, Rockwood and the rural area served by the East Wellington Family Health Team (EWFHT).\n\u201cWe can do better with the health care dollars we are provided,\u201d said EWFHT Executive Director Michelle Karker. \u201cThere are areas where we know we are lacking. There will be local coordination of records and we will look at all the services that are needed for a patient to be healthy.\u201d\nThat includes not only treatment from doctors and nurses, but needs such as transportation, in-home support for housekeeping and personal care, addiction treatment, mental health counselling, support groups and video consultations via the Ontario Telemedicine Network.\n\u201cHealth Links break down barriers for Ontarians, making access to health care easier and less complicated,\u201d said Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, announcing the Wellington initiative. \u201cBy encouraging local health providers to work together to co-ordinate care for individual patients, we\u2019re ensuring our highest needs patients \u2013 seniors and those with complex conditions \u2013 get the care they need and don\u2019t fall between the cracks.\u201d\nComplex patients represent up to five per cent of Ontario\u2019s population, but use two-thirds of the health care budget, so efficiency in treating that group can help the entire system.\nJoan Fisk, Chair of the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), said the new Health Link for rural Wellington will make a \u201csignificant difference\u201d, by providing \u201cone coordinated care plan that reflects their entire health situation.\u201d\nFamily Health Teams are already working in partnership with organizations such as the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), but the goal is to provide more comprehensive service and smooth transitions.\nHealth Links bring together professionals in a given geographic area, including primary care providers, specialists, hospitals, home care, long-term care and community agencies. At the time a patient has contact with the system, it will be an opportunity to see what other services they might need.\nThe plan is to reduce avoidable emergency department visits and unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions, provide same day or next day access to primary care, reduce referral time to specialists and home care, and reduce the number of Alternative Level of Care (ALC) patients \u2013 those taking up acute-care beds in hospitals while they wait to be discharged to other facilities.\nA patient my still need to be seen by several doctors, but the plan is to have a common database of information on each patient, so that procedures such as X-rays and blood tests won\u2019t be repeated unnecessarily.\n\u201cPatients need the health care system to respond quickly and seamlessly to their health care needs, especially those with complex conditions,\u201d said Susan Eng of CARP (formerly the Canadian Association of Retired Persons).\n\u201cHealth Links is a major step towards a much needed comprehensive approach to care. CARP has called for a One Patient model \u2013 a comprehensive, well-coordinated, and integrated health care system that is easy to navigate and considers the full spectrum of health care needs as people age.\u201d\nIf a patient lives in the Wellington territory but has their family doctor or specialist in another area such as Georgetown, Guelph or Orangeville, it is intended that there will be a seamless sharing of records among Health Link centres so that information is available to every health provider that needs it.\nWhile the Health Link has been approved, the Ministry of Health will still need to approve a business plan to ensure that all the details have been worked out.\n\u201cHealth Links present an exciting opportunity to collaborate and work together with our community health partners, including primary care, to put patients first,\u201d said Liz Ruegg, President and CEO, Headwaters Health Care Centre. \u201cThis enhanced model of care will ensure higher-quality of care and improved access for our communities.\u201d\nLabels: Disabilities, Health, Seniors, Social Services\nAllan Alls wants to be Erin\u2019s mayor\nWith hopes of bringing in a new atmosphere of respect and cooperation at Town Hall, and attracting new businesses to Erin, Allan Alls has entered the race for mayor in next October\u2019s election.\n\u201cMy strength is my ability to work with people,\u201d said Alls, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years.\n\u201cI don\u2019t plan to run the Town \u2013 that\u2019s the CAO\u2019s job,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s council\u2019s job to provide policy and guidance, and not to hire consultants for everything.\u201d\nAlls is the president of the East Wellington Community Services board of directors, with his term ending in September. He operates a Re/Max realty business on Main Street in Erin.\nHe was a pilot in the Canadian Air Force, flying CF-100 fighter jets, then worked for Air Canada from 1967 to 2004. He was in leadership roles both with the pilots\u2019 union and in management as a senior director, helping coordinate the merger of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines.\nHe said the current state of \u201cdysfunction\u201d at Town Council shows the need for change.\n\u201cWe have to respect one another and put our best foot forward. You value what the other person has to say and you try to come up with a consensus,\u201d he said. \u201cWe could do business a little better. We need to treat the public like they are the bosses.\u201d\nWhen faced with different needs in various sectors of the Town, he said he would \u201clook at what\u2019s best for the community as a whole\u201d.\nIf elected, he intends to get out of the real estate business, and he intends to stay in office for only one four-year term. Municipal and school board elections in Ontario will be held on October 27 this year.No other candidates have registered yet, and incumbent Mayor Lou Maieron has not announced if he will run for re-election.\nWhen asked about his lack of experience in elected office, Alls said it could be an advantage by providing a fresh approach. He said if elected he would try to spend one day per week at the mayor\u2019s office so taxpayers could drop in and talk to him.\nBy declaring his candidacy early in the year, Alls said he hopes it will provide time to listen to the concerns of Erin residents, and to encourage people with similar values to run for council seats.\nRegarding new housing growth, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s not our choice \u2013 the province mandates growth. We can\u2019t bury our heads in the sand \u2013 it\u2019s going to happen. We need to get involved to control it as best we can.\u201d\nHe said the Town should try to avoid having to defend its development decisions at the Ontario Municipal Board.\nAs for whether the existing urban areas should have sewers, he\u2019s not ready to take a definite position until more information is available on the costs and options.\nHe said he is concerned that many young people cannot afford to live here, that businesses are struggling and that too large a portion of the tax revenue has to come from residential ratepayers.\nHe is in favour of the Town offering financial incentives for businesses to locate in Erin.\u201cIf we don\u2019t get more businesses in here soon, it\u2019s going to look like Marsville,\u201d he said.\nRegarding possible improvements to recreational services, he said, \u201cwith limited resources, there\u2019s only so much you can do.\u201d\nAnyone interested in putting their names forward in the October election can download a 2014 Candidates\u2019 Guide at www.mah.gov.on.ca.\nSmall towns need consistent funding\nWellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott has taken up the fight of small municipalities to get adequate funding for infrastructure from the provincial government.\nThe Progressive Conservative member accuses the Liberals of unfairly cutting back regular funding and making it harder to get grants to cover major projects. He recently wrote to Jeff Leal, Minister of Rural Affairs, about rejection of funding for the Station Street Bridge in Hillsburgh.\n\u201cYour Ministry\u2019s decision is completely unsatisfactory,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are significant structural concerns with the dam and a hazard assessment identified a high hazard potential should the dam collapse.\u201d\nHe pointed out that the bridge \u201chas been identified by the Credit Valley Conservation Authority as a safety concern and by the Ministry of Natural Resources as an item the Town of Erin must deal with by June 2014. Town staff have informed me that they are not certain how they will be able to proceed with the project without assistance from your Government.\u201d\nThe province said other applicants with critical projects had more challenging conditions \u201cas measured by property assessments and incomes\u201d.\nTowns that raise taxes and borrow for infrastructure are more likely to get grants, apparently an attempt to keep the provincial deficit under control.\nArnott has also said that cuts to core funding through the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) amount to \u201cdownloading by stealth\u201d. From 2012 to 2014, Wellington and its local municipalities are getting about $1.7 million less, with province-wide funding being scaled back from $598 million in 2012, to $550 million this year and to $500 million by 2016.\nThe Ministry of Finance says: \u201cThe OMPF phase-down was part of the Province\u2019s agreement with municipalities in 2008 to upload social assistance benefit programs as well as court security costs off the property tax base.\n\u201cDespite the phase-down of the program, the combined benefit of the OMPF and provincial uploads will continue to increase, with uploads more than offsetting the reduction to the program.\u201d\nThe uploading of costs benefits the county, but not local governments. Erin\u2019s OMPF allocation dropped by $65,400 in 2013 but only by $3,300 for 2014. Some municipalities in Wellington lost well over $100,000 for 2014, while others had increases.\nThe Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) says the transition formulas \u201chave not and will not be responsive to changing social service and police costs. The scale of OMPF cuts will be magnified by 2014 OPP wage related cost increases of approximately $25 million in 2014. Tax increases or service reductions are likely in all corners of the province.\u201d\nA letter to Premier Wynne from Bill Vrebosch, Mayor of East Ferris (near North Bay), which was included in a recent Erin meeting agenda, expressed disappointment with administration of the $100 million Small, Rural and Northern Municipal Infrastructure Fund.\n\u201cWe have all put a great deal of effort into this process but obviously the consultations were a complete waste of everyone\u2019s time and energy. We are back to the hat in hand / lottery system for the distribution of funds. This is a total disregard for the input of the municipalities of this province.\u201d\nHis municipality has reduced its reserves, borrowed money for the first time for roads projects and raised taxes more than the rate of inflation for five years.\n\u201cWe have been doing all that has been asked of us by the Province and more yet we continue to be shut out of infrastructure funding.\n\u201cWe are trying our best to be creative and innovative in our approach to our planning in an attempt to become financially healthier and move towards greater sustainability in the future. Now we can say that we, together with AMO and most of the other municipalities, are not even being listened to. We continue to ask for a source of sustainable infrastructure funding for all municipalities.\u201d\nLabels: Bridges, Roads, Taxes, Town Administration\nHorse power could boost Erin economy\nTown Council has given initial support to a report from the Equine Task Force, recognizing the horse industry as a major economic development engine for the local economy.\nCouncillors will decide in their upcoming budget deliberations whether to spend money to expand this existing strength, promoting the Town as the GTA\u2019s Equine Playground, or the Gateway to Horse Country.\nThe Task Force is recommending that $134,000 be spent this year on economic development coordination, marketing, communication and trail development, with possible 50% funding from the provincial Rural Economic Development program.\nThe plan is to increase capital investment and economic activity, which would boost municipal revenue from business taxes and fees. The goal is to reduce the burden that now falls to residential taxpayers from 89% to 86% within five years.\nThe volunteer-based project started with the former Economic Development Committee (not currently operating), as a Business Retention and Expansion (BR&E) study of the Town\u2019s agricultural sector. That was narrowed to the more manageable parameters of the equine sector. Council allocated $8,000 to the effort in the 2013 budget.\nThe mandate of the Task Force was to create a list of local equine businesses and riders, develop and conduct a survey on the strengths and weakness of the local industry, and make recommendations to council to improve Erin\u2019s economic outlook.\nNinety in-person interviews were conducted with a cross-section of business people and riders, on average 90 minutes in duration, which generated over 1,000 recommendations.\nThere is no official database of existing businesses in Erin, but the Task Force estimates there are almost 400 equine properties in the Town: about 143 equine businesses, 108 support services and 140 hobby farms.\nEquine businesses provide about 750 local jobs (384 full-time), and generate an average of $72,000 in gross revenue each year, for a total of $18 million in Erin. Most equine locations operate two or three separate enterprises, and about half of operators earn 100% of their income from horse business.\nTask Force Co-Chair Mary Venneman said, \u201cWe are not suggesting that equine be the only economic driver, but since there has been no economic development to date, we believe that this is a good place to start in creating a model on which future business for Erin can be analysed, measured, and moved forward through community consultation.\u201d\nShe presented a petition of 200 names to council in support of the following statement: \u201cBecause of the large number of horses and horse businesses that are located in Erin and contribute to the local economy, I believe the Town of Erin should have and Economic Development Strategy that recognizes and supports the horse industry.\u201d\nCouncillor John Brennan, who was on the Task Force, said \u201cit makes sense for Erin to capitalize on our natural assets, especially heading into the 2015 Pan Am Games where international equine competition will be held in neighbouring Caledon.\u201d\nCouncil passed a resolution on December 17: \u201cCouncil recognizes that actively pursuing economic development is critical to ensuring a sustainable and equitable tax revenue base for the future. Council acknowledges that the equine industry is a major economic contributor in the Town of Erin, and Council adopts the equine industry as one of the first economic engines for the Town.\u201d\nA related private on-line enterprise called the Erin Equine Community Directory has been established by Janice Byer. It will offer listings and ads for related businesses, including feed, coaching, photography, apparel, supplies, construction and waste management.\n\u201cWe can all benefit from a strong local network that connects expertise and resources,\u201d said Task Force member Margaret Godson. Go to www.erinequinecommunity.com. or contact jbyer@equinewebdesign.ca for more information.\nThe report says, \u201cWe propose the idea of a trail hub to create Erin as the centre with trails radiating out to destination spots within a few hours ride such as event facilities and neighbouring communities (i.e., lnglewood, Cheltenham, Fergus, Elora) much like the spokes on a bicycle wheel.\n\u201cComplementing the trail system would be a hitching post and trailer park centrally located so that riders can safely leave their horses and vehicles while they visit Erin. The fairgrounds would be an ideal location and offer a revenue stream for the Agricultural Society should they be willing to enter into a partnership.\u201d\nTask Force Co-Chair Brian Gentles said that council needs to think about a possible municipal fee for horse riders on local public trails, which would go towards the costs of maintaining the trails.\n\u201cThey have to build themselves up as a positive, contributing neighbour to all these other people using the trails,\u201d he said.\nMayor Lou Maieron said, \u201cIf we are going to maintain or expand our trail system, at some point we need to look at some money. If we have volunteers doing work, that\u2019s tremendous, but there\u2019s the capital cost of supplies.\u201d\nThe Task Force envisions an investment of $500,000 in economic development over five years, with a payback in benefits over 6.6 years. They are hoping for a 10% increase in property values due to expansion and 200% due to new construction.\nHorse properties are being lost closer to Toronto due to urbanization.\n\u201cErin is appealing to riders not only for its proximity, but also for its natural setting, rural charm, established equine infrastructure and a strong equine community,\u201d the report says.\n\u201cEquine is one of the few industries open to Erin that can generate economic development without unduly changing the local landscape and character. The equine industry has the ability to generate more tax revenue \u2013 across all tax revenue classifications \u2013 than any other industry.\u201d\nHorse businesses include breeding, sales, training and conditioning. There is a competitive sector, with events, shows, racing and rodeos. There is riding instruction, with lessons, coaching and camps, plus boarding and trail rides.\nSupport services include clinics, judging, feed and hay, tack, clothing, facility maintenance and tourist accommodation such as bed and breakfast facilities.\nNew private infrastructure could include facilities for events, workshops, training and auctions.\nThe largest rider group is women in the 40-59 age range, with an average household income of $150,000. Most plan to continue riding for 20 years, with 75% riding at least once per week, and 20% every day.\nLabels: Business, Growth, Parks, Sports, Trails\nProvincial tax squeeze touches a nerve in Erin\nSmall towns like Erin are feeling a tax squeeze as the provincial government cuts funding for local budgets and makes it harder to qualify for special grants to fix bridges and roads.\nI asked Erin Finance Director Sharon Marshall about the recent denial of $2 million in funding for the Station Street Bridge, with the province saying that other areas had greater needs \u201cas measured by property assessments and incomes\u201d. It seems I touched a nerve for the treasurer, who has been dealing with provincial funding for 28 years.\n\u201cIs the Province saying that 7 of 8 Wellington municipalities (including the County) did not receive approval \u2013 because our ratepayers are too \u2018wealthy\u2019, using assessment and average family incomes as their statistical justification?\u201d she asked. \u201cIf that one statistical measurement is the means for future grants, that is potentially scary to Erin.\u201d\nThe Town has just finished its Asset Management Plan, which forecasts the need to raise an extra 2.5% of local tax money annually for 20 years, and to borrow an average of $824,000 annually for the next 10 years, to meet infrastructure goals (not including sewers) without any grants.\nMarshall said that plan would be a better measurement of funding need than Erin\u2019s average property assessment ($447,783), or the average family income ($96,876). Erin homeowners pay an average of $5,222 in property taxes. That 5.4% of family income, and Marshall says it is \u201cominous\u201d that the province considers this in the normal range, with room to expand.\nTowns that are willing to raise taxes, draw down reserves and borrow significantly for new infrastructure are more likely to get provincial grants. As of December 31, the Town of Erin owed a relatively moderate $2.89 million, much of it for the new Hillsburgh Fire Hall, and has received no infrastructure grants since 2009 ($2.67 million). Without grants, that debt could reach $8.78 million by 2020.\n\u201cIt seems that the Provincial government is saying that local municipalities have the debt servicing capacity to replace and add to our infrastructure without Provincial funding,\u201d said Marshall. Erin\u2019s current cost of debt servicing is 8% of local revenues, but the province suggests this could be allowed to rise.\n\u201cThey imply that we do not have \u2018challenging\u2019 enough economic conditions. I think our local property tax payers, and our Asset Management Plan, would prove otherwise.\n\u201cIt seems to me that the Provincial government has made the decision that local debt, and local taxes need to increase. It seems that the tax burden is being downloaded and the local municipal government is taking the blame.\n\u201cMaybe small rural Ontario politicians need more clout. After all, food and materials that benefit all Ontarians are trucked through Erin (ie water, gravel, fill, car parts, food and milk). The tax burden to supply all Ontario, including large urban centres like Toronto and Mississauga should not fall on rural Ontario landowners and small business operators.\u201d\nErin\u2019s high property assessments mean that residents are already paying a disproportionate share of County taxes compared to several other Wellington municipalities.\nThe province also recently announced the amount of money each municipality will get through the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund, the primary program by which Ontario supports municipalities. Erin will get $585,800 this year, down slightly from $588,600 last year.\n\u201cWe were getting $654,000 in 2012,\u201d said Marshall. \u201cThe loss of $65,400 in 2013 impacted the tax rate by approximately +1.4%, and that impact is still there.\u201d\nIt\u2019s part of an Ontario-wide reduction, which is offset by the province uploading (paying for) expensive items like social services and court security, which had been downloaded to municipalities by previous governments.\nThat takes a huge burden away from Wellington County ($4,487,500 this year alone), which gets 55% of local tax revenue. This does not directly help the Town of Erin, but if the County uses \u201cuploading\u201d to reduce their tax rate, Erin residents will get some relief.\nLast year the county increase was 2.4%, while the Town had a 15% increase and education was down 4.7%, producing an overall increase of 4%. Local councillors, who only control 20% of the tax pie, find a \u201cblended\u201d increase is easier to justify.\nCounty staff have suggested a 2.8% tax hike in 2014, but both Mayor Lou Maieron and Councillor Ken Chapman have urged County Council to trim it lower. \u201cWe can do better,\u201d said Maieron.\nIn Halton, where there has been significant business and residential development, and more assessment growth than anticipated, regional taxes will decline .4% in 2014.\nMurray McEwen appointed to Order of Canada\nErin resident Murray McEwen has been appointed to the Order of Canada, recognizing his contributions to the food industry and sustained commitment to community support.\nAs a business executive, and by contributing his time and money to worthy causes, he has met the standard of the Order, which is to enrich the lives of others and make a difference to Canada.\nIn 1993, McEwen retired as President and CEO of Redpath Industries, and Managing Director for North America of its British parent company. In 1992, Tate & Lyle North America had sales in excess of $3 billion, and about 6,000 employees.\nIt was a successful career for a country boy who was kicked out of McGill University in his second year, studying Animal Husbandry and Economics. He attributes his 37% average in the first term to the distractions of \u201csports and women\u201d.\nHe repeated the year and went on to graduate in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He would later chair a campaign in the 1970s that raised $7.2 million for the Macdonald Stewart Complex, home to McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and in 2007 he was honoured with a Distinguished Alumini Award.\nIn 1993, he received an Honourary Doctorate from McGill. It was presented by University Principal David Johnston, who is known today as His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.\nHe will once again thank McEwen for his service, when he presents him with an insignia as a Member of the Order of Canada, at a ceremony later this year.\nEstablished in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Order recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation, by people in all sectors of society. The insignia is a stylized snowflake of six points, with a stylized maple leaf at its centre, and a crown above the motto, desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means \u201cThey desire a better country\u201d.\n\u201cCompanion\u201d is the highest level of the Order, for national pre-eminence or international service; the \u201cOfficer\u201d level recognizes national service, and the \u201cMember\u201d level recognizes outstanding contributions at the local or regional level or in a special field of activity.\nThe Governor General announced 90 new appointees last week, ranging from hockey broadcaster Dick Irvin (a fellow McGill grad), to Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor of the band Blue Rodeo, film director Sarah Polley, TV Ontario host Steve Paiken and fashion journalist Jeanne Beker.\nAppointments are based on recommendations from an independent 11-member council headed by Canada's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin. In November, they considered 300 nominations, which had been researched by a team of analysts.\nMcEwen noted that only a few of those appointed to the Order are celebrities. \u201cThe vast majority of them are just ordinary farm folk like myself, who did something in a community,\u201d he said.\nGrowing up on a dairy farm in Ormstown (southwest of Montreal), McEwen worked his way through school at the local Green Giant plant. When he graduated, they hired him, and he earned a reputation for getting things done.\nHe moved to New Annan, PEI and worked five years for Seabrook Farms, managing construction and operation of a frozen vegetable plant. Opened in 1961, it was the province\u2019s largest food processing company and is now part of Irving\u2019s Cavendish Farms.\nEventually he moved his family back to Quebec and got a management job, initially with St. Lawrence Sugar. In 1975, he accepted an offer to become president at Redpath, a major Canadian firm with sugar refineries in Montreal and Toronto. In 1980, the Montreal plant was closed and production was shifted to Toronto.\nTate & Lyle, the global company that owned Redpath, discovered the sugar-based no-calorie sweetener sucralose in 1976, and worked with McNeil Nutritionals to create Splenda. McEwen was involved in getting approval for that product from regulatory agencies in Canada and the United States.\nAs a leader in the industry, he also maintained relationships with sugar producers including Cuba, and had several occasions to meet and talk business with Fidel Castro.\n\u201cHe was quite a philosopher,\u201d said McEwen. \u201cI am proud to have known the man \u2013 he has a warm spot for Canadians.\u201d\nIn addition to his corporate work, McEwen found time for community business, including service as a school trustee in Bedford, Quebec where he lived for 18 years.\nWith food editors at Canadian Living Magazine, he helped establish the Breakfast for Learning program that promotes better learning through good nutrition. The program raised money to support local initiatives, and by the time he retired as chair of the board, there were some 8,000 schools involved.\nHe moved to his home on the Second Line of Erin 30 years ago, and was active for many years as a member of the Erin Tennis Club and a regular skater at the Erin arena. While proud to be part of Erin, he has been disappointed in its slow pace of economic development.\n\u201cIt's a great community, with tremendous potential, but we can't make progress without a friendly atmosphere for business,\u201d he said.\nHis wife Eleanor was a long-time supporter of the Upper Credit Humane Society. After she passed away in 2008, he made a substantial donation in her memory that enabled the organization to refurbish and expand its shelter facility in Brisbane.\nHe had opportunities to travel in the Canadian north, the US, Europe and Africa, and became concerned about the problems associated with unsafe and scarce water.\nHe served on the board of the Grand River Conservation Foundation, raising funds to support projects of the conservation authority. He made a contribution to set up the McEwen Clean Water Prize, which the foundation awards to a student with a strong interest in the protection, development and restoration of clean water resources.\n\u201cIt seems logical to support students who may pursue something in which you share a passion,\u201d he said.\nAt the University of Guelph, where he had served on the Board of Governors, he established the Murray McEwen Safe Water Bursaries.\nThese support six U of G undergraduate students in Water Resources Engineering and the Ontario Agricultural College, studying solutions to water shortages and new methods of removing disease-causing bacteria from drinking water.\nAt his alma mater, he set up the Murray and Eleanor McEwen Clean Water Scholarships, with a preference for studies related to Canada's northern lands, or that are of direct benefit to Canada's First Nations.\nLabels: Business, Farms, Food, Growth, Health\nSeizing the day an elusive goal\nEvery time I go to a funeral, I resolve to take more control of my life and live it to the fullest, having been reminded that it may be over on very short notice.\nWithin a few days, however, it seems I am back to my regular self, living cautiously and taking things for granted.\nSuch was the case this holiday season, when went to London to visit my wife's cousin Daryl, who found out in November that he had pancreatic cancer. He died on Christmas Day at the age of 50, leaving a great void in the hearts of his family and friends.\nResurrection seems a long way off, as we struggle to carry on.This was all in the midst of the ice storm, which was a minor inconvenience by comparison. We had our power restored on the afternoon of Boxing Day, after five days of scrambling to stay warm. Everyone has their stories \u2013 some lost power for only a few hours, while others were out for over a week.\nI would like to apologize to everyone for the disruption. For the past 29 years, we have had a wood stove in the basement. We haven't used it much in recent winters though, and our insurance company considered it an expensive risk, so a few months ago I took down the chimney and retired it.\nWhile winding up my rechargeable flashlight in a cold, dark kitchen, I had a frightening thought. By disconnecting my stove and failing to buy a generator, maybe I had actually caused the ice storm. It doesn't take much to convert an unfortunate coincidence into a jinx.\nNot all of our luck was bad though, since we still have a fireplace in the living room, and we are experienced campers. It's just that it is a lot of work to stay warm and well fed. The thrill of living in pseudo-pioneer style wears off rather quickly.\nWe did not have a lot of firewood, so I ended up scrounging in the garage. Scrap wood has been piling up there for a few years, and finally I had motivation to cut it up \u2013 with a handsaw of course, which provided exercise to keep me warm for a while.\nWe accepted invitations from people with power (electrical) to come over for dinner (or a shower) and we were not in a big hurry to leave. We'd get home in time to stoke up the fireplace and climb under three layers of blankets on a futon next to the Christmas tree.\nGetting up in the morning when the living room temperature was down to 5\u00b0C was hard, but that was balmy compared to the office, which was 0\u00b0C.\nOur back yard was quite a sight \u2013 it looked like a small tornado had ripped through our trees, covering the ground with branches and leaving sharp broken sections sticking up towards the sky. It's great for photography, but it looks like I'm going to have to stimulate the economy by buying a larger chainsaw.\nMany thanks to the Hydro crews who worked long shifts and gave up family time, and to everyone who reached out to their neighbours to offer help. Nasty weather even creates new social opportunities, bringing together people who might not otherwise have met.\nIf climate change predictions are correct, we may have these opportunities more frequently in the years to come.\nAs a final note, I have made only one New Year's resolution. I have cleaned the piles of junk off my desk, and they are going to stay off. Henceforth, the only pieces of paper on the desk will be the ones I need at that very moment.\nLiaison Committee views needed in SSMP Report\nIn the strange parallel world of the Servicing and Settlement Master Plan (SSMP), the action seems to go around in loops rather than a straight timeline. That\u2019s all fine and dandy, as long as one does not expect anything to actually happen.\nThere was a huge interest in the sewer issue last spring, with lots of people at public meetings wanting to have input.\nWith talk of an expensive decision being made soon, there was support for an election referendum on whether to proceed with further environmental study. This, however, was considered too complicated to put into a single question.\nPlan B was to set up a committee with broad community representation to give Town Council advice on how to proceed. But then they asked, why set up a community committee when we already have one?\nPlan C was to add representatives of two citizen groups to the SSMP Liaison Committee, and it would become more directive in its functioning. Twice I urged councillors to specifically change the terms of reference, so the committee could report directly to them, but that did not happen.\nSure enough, when the committee met in December, BM Ross Consultant Matt Pearson said he had no mandate to change the committee\u2019s function. So we looped back to the old routine, rehashing events from years gone by and feeding bits of information to the members that they would somehow transmit to the broader community.\nNever did he ask the members what they thought about how things were going or what recommendations the study should make to council. It was never his job to do that.\nCommittee members who were expecting to have serious input could well feel cheated. I think the technical term is \u201cbamboozled\u201d.\nTo their credit, new members Matt Sammut of Concerned Erin Citizens (CEC) and Roy Val of Transition Erin, along with Mayor Lou Maieron, did pepper the consultant with questions.\nSammut said the SSMP has to fit into a proper Strategic Plan, which the Town has not finished developing. As usual, the idea of looking into alternative technologies was deferred to a future post-SSMP stage of environmental assessment.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t stick it to the people,\u201d said Sammut. \u201cFirst we have to make sure it\u2019s fiscally responsible.\u201d\nBM Ross has reported that a traditional gravity based sewer system (very expensive and disruptive) could be Erin\u2019s best solution. Val said it is important that \u201call viable wastewater solutions\u201d be considered.\nHe also pointed out that the possibility of a \u201cBig Pipe\u201d now being investigated by BM Ross, to dispose of sewage via Peel Region treatment facilities, with discharge to Lake Ontario, is specifically prohibited by the Wellington Official Plan.\nMember Bob Wilson noted that having a treatment plant would actually limit development, because if Erin got permission for a Big Pipe, there would be no limit.\n\u201cThis process has been developed ass-backwards,\u201d said Mayor Maieron. \u201cIf we wanted a sewage treatment plant, we should have focused on that.\u201d\nPearson reported that an unnamed person at the regulatory level had said to him, \u201cThe people of Erin do not get to decide how big they\u2019re going to be.\u201d Pearson said if Erin wants to deviate from the provincial policy that favours sanitary sewers, it will have to have a convincing business plan.\nBy this spring, the SSMP is expected to report the maximum urban population that the West Credit River can support, along with new financial and hydrology analysis. Pearson is trying to negotiate the highest possible sewage and population limits for Erin\u2019s urban areas, based on new river data from Credit Valley Conservation.\nThere won\u2019t be another big public meeting until after council decides whether to move forward with some sort of wastewater system. That meeting will be to explain the decision, not to ask anyone\u2019s opinion on the matter. Opinions will still be flying, of course, but the people who will have to pay the costs could end up feeling like spectators rather than players.\nThere is no consensus on how the Town should proceed, so anyone who wants to influence the process needs to figure out what they realistically want, and communicate with their elected councillors.\nI think the members of the Liaison Committee, who have endured four years of meetings, should have the privilege of stating their views in a brief letter. That batch of letters should be included in the SSMP Final Report, just for the record.\nLabels: Business, Conservation, Environment, Ethics, Growth, Housing, Sewers, Taxes, Water Supply\nCelebrate Erin moves to April\nThe Celebrate Erin event will be moved to the second week of April this year, as part of Volunteer Week, Town Council has decided.\nThe event was held for the first time last March, with awards presented to various volunteers, and items auctioned to support the East Wellington Community Services (EWCS) Food Bank.\nEWCS President Al Alls told council recently that his organization would handle the fundraising part, but that the Town would also need to be involved in helping organize the event.\nCouncillor John Brennan said he hoped the event would maintain its positive energy, but overcome some of organizational problems encountered in the first year.\n\u201cWe want to make it as accessible to the community as possible,\u201d he said. There was discussion about getting more volunteers in attendance, reducing ticket prices and offering snacks instead of a full dinner.\nTown to investigate fill moratorium\nErin councillors continue to hope that the provincial government will bring in new regulations to control fill dumping, but in the meantime will investigate a temporary ban on the practice.\nAfter a lengthy series of questions and comments from members of the public at a special meeting last month, council directed staff to investigate the feasibility of imposing a moratorium on the placement of fill on Town-controlled land. This is in addition to the ongoing review of the site alteration bylaw.\nRoad Superintendent Larry Van Wyck gave a presentation showing how trucks making fill deliveries are causing serious problems for Erin\u2019s already narrow and fragile gravel roads, including damage to ditches and entranceways, illegal dumping and contaminating the road surface with mud.\n\u201cThese operations have very little regard for the mess the are leaving,\u201d he said, noting that truckers are blatantly ignoring posted load limits, putting old bridges at risk.\n\u201cIf one of these bridges falls down because of the heavy loading of these trucks, it will fall on the taxpayers and council to repair the bridge \u2013 unless the truck is caught and falls into the creek,\u201d he said.\nHe said the Town has no authority to stop a moving vehicle, and that it has been difficult to get the OPP involved in this type of enforcement. He said the Ministry of Transportation has one enforcement officer stationed in Waterloo to cover a large territory.\nVan Wyck said that for landowners, the propect of getting paid $50 to $60 per truck load of fill material \u201coften clouds their judgement / awareness of the quality of material they may be receiving.\u201d\nFill affects drainage, he said, because impermeable clay is often placed on top of land that used to allow water to filter through. There is little control over silt and erosion, with potential damage to fish habitat in cold-water streams due to run-off.\nJoe Spiteri said he is alarmed that thousands of loads of fill can be placed without any requirement for chemical sampling.\nVan Wyck noted that the Ministry of the Environment has no definitions of what constitutes clean or contaminated fill. It does not require testing of material excavated from city development sites, nor a record of where it has been transported.\nResident Dave Dautovich said the Town had failed to \u201cshow leadership\u201d on this issue, and said people expect them to work with conservation authorities to protect the land. He suggested a moratorium on fill dumping until an adequate system is devised.\nPlanner Sally Stull provided a map showing that much of Erin\u2019s geography, especially including low-lying land near wetlands, creeks and rivers, is regulated by the conservation authorities, not the Town\u2019s bylaw. She has noted that enforcement is the real issue, since virtually no one placing fill is applying for a permit to do so.\nMayor Lou Maeiron, who represents Erin on the Credit Valley Conservation Board of Directors, said no one seems to be applying for fill permits from CVC either.\nCouncillor John Brennan said he would prefer a system in which the Town would regulate fill projects like it does building projects, with the conservation authorities providing comments or objections when sensitive lands are involved.\nThe local group Citizens Against Fill Dumping has urged the provincial government to bring in consistent regulations on fill, to avoid the risk of contaminated material, to ensure that neighbours are notified of major projects and to provide a protective approval process.\nVan Wyck cited one case in which the so-called \u201cQualified Person\u201d at a firm transporting fill kept soil records that the MOE discovered were \u201cincomplete, inadequate and inaccurate\u201d.\nHe said MOE standards for cleanup of contaminated sites should not be used for municipal bylaws. Those standards indicate the amount by which pollution must be reduced on dirty sites, not the maximum to which clean sites can be polluted.\n\u201cIn terms of groundwater, once contaminated it is very difficult and expensive to restore,\u201d he said.\n\u201cShort term economic gain does not outweigh the cost of potential long-term environmental liabilities. Therefore, what is the net gain for the town and its citizens in allowing these operations to take place?\u201d\nLabels: Business, Conservation, Environment, Farms, Growth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 580, "original_length": 67097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://erp.championforce.com/ClassSearchList/Detail/2769", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RYELHLWBYPUYYAQTO4Z4QCPZVAS3ICZA", "length": 147, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "erp.championforce.com", "title": "Class Details", "raw_content": "Class Time Division 1 (ages 4-6) @ 5:30 p.m., Division 2 (ages 7-9) @ 6:15 p.m., Division 3 (ages 10+) @ 7:00 p.m., See coach for higher divisions!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 41.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://escort-europe.com/escort-Lviv/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2NCWQBOFVJDMKD5CF3YUMH6GQ4BSC7D", "length": 2318, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "escort-europe.com", "title": "Escort Lviv | Escort Ukraine", "raw_content": "Escort Lviv - Independent and Agency Escorts in\nhigh-class-escort-Lviv\nmale-escort-Lviv\nfemale-escort-Lviv\ntransexual-escort-Lviv\nblonde-hair-escort-Lviv\nbrunette-hair-escort-Lviv\nredhead-escort-Lviv\nblack-haired-escort-Lviv\nanal-escort-Lviv\ncouples-escort-Lviv\ndomination-escort-Lviv\nGFE-escort-Lviv\nlapdance-escort-Lviv\nmassage-escort-Lviv\nrimming-escort-Lviv\nstrapon-escort-Lviv\nthreesome-escort-Lviv\ntoys-escort-Lviv\nuniforms-escort-Lviv\nwatersports-escort-Lviv\noral-escort-Lviv\nsextoy-escort-Lviv\ngroupsex-escort-Lviv\nLviv Escorts\nLviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016. Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.\nNamed in honor of the Leo, the eldest son of Rus King Daniel of Galicia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia\u2013Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of Poland and Rus. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland and was known as Lw\u00f3w. In 1772, after the First partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and was renamed to Lemberg. In 1918 in a short time was the capital of the West Ukrainian Peoples Republic. Between the wars, the city was known again as Lw\u00f3w and was the centre of the Lw\u00f3w Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic. After World War II, it became part of the Soviet Union and in 1991 of independent Ukraine.\nAdministratively, Lviv serves as the administrative center of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance.\nLviv was the centre of the historical region of Galicia. The historical heart of the city, with its old buildings and cobblestone streets, survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed. The city has many industries and institutions of higher education such as Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic. Lviv is also the home of many world-class cultural institutions, including a philharmonic orchestra and the famous Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Lviv celebrated its 750th anniversary with a son et lumi\u00e8re in the centre of the city in September 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1156, "original_length": 46138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://euobserver.com/nordic/134787", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:24YOQYSCYOVYGMW5VRPHDTSHK7KO4TEB", "length": 6021, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "euobserver.com", "title": "Nordic-Baltic co-operation vital in turbulent times", "raw_content": "Nordic-Baltic co-operation vital in turbulent times\nThe Nordic-Baltic co-operation was established 25 years ago thanks to an ability for quick decision-making in a turbulent geopolitical situation. (Photo: Nikolaj Bock \u2013 norden.org)\nBy Dagfinn Hoeybraaten\nAs the communist Soviet Union was collapsing in the early 1990s, not only our neighbours but the world as a whole found themselves in a period of unprecedented upheaval.\nThe Baltic countries, which had lived under Soviet oppression for nearly 50 years, saw an opportunity to regain their independence, which they achieved as the USSR fell apart.\nDagfinn H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten is Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers (Photo: Magnus Fr\u00f6derberg/norden.org)\nNordic observers followed events closely and with a growing level of involvement.\nThere was a strong sense of solidarity with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as support for their aspirations for independence and democracy. It was no surprise, then, when the Nordic and Baltic regions began to co-operate on a practical level before independence was a reality.\nThe Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers were pursuing the idea of establishing information centres in the Baltic countries as early as the autumn of 1990. There was broad consensus on this, and the council of ministers opened offices in Riga, Tallinn, and Vilnius in early 1991.\nConsequently, this year we are celebrating not only 25 years of Baltic independence, but also 25 years of co-operation between our regions.\nCelebrating 25 years of co-operation\nInitially, Nordic-Baltic co-operation was characterised by establishing contacts, as well as promoting Nordic culture and social values, democracy, and gender equality in the Baltic region.\nAfter the Baltic countries joined the EU in 2004, it was determined that co-operation should be on equal terms.\nGuidelines were adopted that form the basis of today\u2019s Nordic-Baltic co-operation, which includes: cross-border co-operation; gender equality, research, and innovation; co-operation on social affairs and health; and the environment and sustainable development.\nToday we can look back on 25 years of very successful co-operation.\nThousands of activities have taken place relating to social welfare, gender equality, trafficking, sustainability, the environment, culture, the media, and other issues.\nThese many efforts, not least the so-called mobility programmes, have provided \u2013 and continue to provide \u2013 lasting benefits.\nThe mobility programmes alone have resulted in a huge exchange of knowledge between the Nordic and Baltic countries. The efforts of the Vilnius office to support the European Humanities University \u2013 an exile university for Belarusian students in Vilnius \u2013 have attracted a good deal of attention and are worth mentioning.\nIntegration of Russian-speaking minorities\nWe also have several Nordic solutions that have served as models for the Baltic countries, such as the Gender Equality Ombudsman and Nordic political summer meetings.\nIn recent years, the Nordic Council of Ministers has taken an increasingly active approach to supporting independent Russian-language media in the Baltic countries.\nExamples include support of the television channel ETV+ in Estonia, training in independent journalism supported by the Latvian office, and the newly opened branch of the Tallinn office in Narva.\nThese are all steps in the council of ministers\u2019 strategy to contribute to the better inclusion of the Russian-speaking minority in the Baltic countries.\nThe opening of the Narva branch illustrates the Nordic Council of Ministers\u2019 approach in the region over the years, which has often been characterised by quick responses to new challenges.\nSubjected to Russian pressure\nThe Nordic offices were rapidly established 25 years ago thanks to an ability for quick decision-making in a turbulent geopolitical situation. This ability has endured to this day, and is once again important as the present geopolitical situation is the most unstable it has been for many years.\nThe need for cohesion between the Nordic and Baltic regions becomes even greater when the Baltic countries are subjected to Russian pressure.\nThe Nordic Council of Ministers still has the opportunity to make a difference in the Baltic region. Challenges must be faced head on, as before, with measures adapted to the current situation.\nThis has been possible thanks to the continued bolstering of efforts at the Nordic offices.\nOur efforts in the Baltic region have, without doubt, been highly successful and demonstrate the importance of international co-operation. If you believe in co-operation as an instrument for achieving democracy, security, and prosperity \u2013 well, then it\u2019s easy to see the continued relevance of Nordic-Baltic co-operation. We are more than ready to consolidate our experiences, and break new common ground.\nEven in the 25 years to come, our close and innovative co-operation can help to encourage development in the right direction, as well as to strengthen our common position and role in a wider European and global context.\nIf we succeed in this, we\u2019re all winners.\nDagfinn Hoeybraaten is Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers.\nRussia calls selective Baltic security talks\nEco-cooperation with Russia vital for Baltics despite sanctions\nNordic soldiers advised to study French\nNordic and Baltic countries step up digitalisation efforts\nRussia has invited experts from most Baltic Sea countries for talks on regional security, but Denmark and Germany were omitted from the guest list.\nRussian sanctions have halted environmental cooperation in the Baltic Sea, putting millions of EU citizens living in the region at risk.\nNordic troops ought to learn French to better contribute to UN peace missions in future, security experts and politicians have been told.\nThe front-runners of digitalisation in Europe fear they could lose their positions, unless there is faster progress on the implementation of the European digital single market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 12249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://events.ajc.com/event/look-again-years-of-collecting-photography-ai35pslxv8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CRGP4NJBVRFZ6TZVX3T2SJGTI7F2XP4I", "length": 102, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "events.ajc.com", "title": "Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography at The High Museum - November 20, 2018 - AccessAtlanta AJC.com Things To Do", "raw_content": "November 20, 2018, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at The High Museum, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 9126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 107.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://evidentgrace.wordpress.com/tag/safety/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KVC764HTBVWMVAOGWAJMVRRUB4J5YXEP", "length": 4174, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "evidentgrace.wordpress.com", "title": "safety | Evident Grace", "raw_content": "I didn\u2019t have a choice. It was straight up\u2014a loooong way up! A ladder of sorts was built into the vertical side of this wadi and our group was exiting that way. With others climbing up before me and right behind, I couldn\u2019t look up or down. I just had to focus on one step at a time. If anyone had told me that morning what I\u2019d have to do that day, I might have tried to beg off. But as it is, I learned a valuable lesson that day in Israel about God\u2019s provision of strength and courage every step of the way.\nEach morning as consciousness dawns on me, I greet the Lord with thanks for sleep and for the newness of another day. Then I mentally review my plans for the day while acknowledging that He may have some surprises in store to be meted out along with the grace to handle them.\nI\u2019m reminded of a simple song my mother taught me as a child:\nStep by step I\u2019ll follow Jesus\nHour by hour I\u2019m in his care\nDay by day He walks beside me\nThrough the years I know He\u2019s there.\nHe can still the mighty tempest\nHe can calm the troubled sea\nHe the waters trod, He\u2019s the Son of God\nHe\u2019s the One who always walks with me!\nWadi Zin\nA Ship in a Harbor?\n\u201cA ship in a harbor is safe, but that\u2019s not what ships are made for.\u201d So said a poster we used to have on our wall. I have always struggled with the desire to be \u201csafe.\u201d\nThink of a child learning to walk. Between the safety of the chair he\u2019s hanging onto and the outstretched arms of Daddy across the room, there\u2019s a zone of vulnerability. Will he take the chance?\nBetween the security of where I am right now and the goals God has for me is a lot of uncharted water\u2013and I can\u2019t swim!\nWhat has God made me for? I read today about people who began and accomplished amazing things in their 90\u2019s. And I\u2019m not even 60. What am I afraid of? Will I take the chance? I want to say yes.\nIs He Safe?\nToday my neighbor returned the first Narnia book which she had borrowed, \u201cThe Magician\u2019s Nephew\u201d by C. S. Lewis. Now they\u2019re reading \u201cThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.\u201d And I\u2019m delighted. I pray that they will be not only fascinated by the thrill of this wonderful story but also captivated by the truth of what it represents.\nAslan, the beloved and awesome Lion! On Sunday our pastor recalled the oft-quoted exchange between the children and the Narnian beavers:\nSusan: \u201cIs he\u2014quite safe?\u201d\nMrs. Beaver: \u201cSafe?\u2026Who said anything about safe? \u2018Course he isn\u2019t safe. But he\u2019s good. He\u2019s the King, I tell you.\u201d\nThis is the God I belong to\u2014not the tame and tolerant god so many people fantasize about\u2014but the \u201cI AM\u201d who demonstrated His character to his people in the Old Testament. To those who are His, He\u2019s as gentle as a lioness with her cubs. But to those who reject Him, like a lion with its prey!\nI\u2019m glad my God is powerful to accomplish His purposes and defend His honor and those who belong to Him.\nWhere is our Confidence?\nA look around us at the state of the world and where it\u2019s going can produce panic. That\u2019s how the Israelites felt as the Assyrian empire threatened to obliterate them. (Read in Isaiah, particularly in 28:14-16, 30:1-7, and elsewhere.)\nWhen they weren\u2019t in denial, they devised strategies. Their confidence was in bribing their enemies, making deals with potential allies (e.g. Egypt), and trying to build up their defenses (e.g. horses). God compares this kind of security to a \u201cfoundation made of lies\u201d which will be swept away in the flood, or \u201ca bed too short to lie on\u201d with \u201cblankets too narrow to cover\u201d the sleeper! (28:17-20).\nInstead, their confidence should have been in the \u201cfoundation stone\u2026a firm, tested and precious cornerstone that is safe to build on.\u201d (28:16) Safety and security in their own land would be assured if only they would obey God. But would they?\nAs 2012 begins, I want to keep in mind some of these words from Isaiah 26:\nYou will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you\u2026\nYou are a God of justice\u2026\nOur heart\u2019s desire is to glorify your name.\nAll night long I search for you\u2026Only when you come to judge the earth will people turn from wickedness and do what is right.\nWe have this assurance: those who belong to God will live; their bodies will rise again\u2026and sing for joy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 460, "original_length": 12889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://evolution-of-tc.com/speaker/irina-peshina/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:B73K2SFATB7Y4DITCEWGZMQJATITVDRJ", "length": 292, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "evolution-of-tc.com", "title": "Irina Peshina - Evolution of Technical Communication", "raw_content": "Irina is a technical writer at Software AG, with a background in linguistics and translation and a passion for technology. Her interests include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, coding, automation, localization, and tools for content management, doc delivery and testing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 170.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://familytravelhostusa.com/2017/05/28/rafting-the-royal-gorge-arkansas-river-colorado/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MWKE7AM2MZKV55GB3Z54QOB5IXJJGTIG", "length": 580, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "familytravelhostusa.com", "title": "Rafting the Royal Gorge, Arkansas River, Colorado | Family Travel Host USA", "raw_content": "\u2190 St. Petersburg & Clearwater Beach\nBy Paul Lessley\nWhitewater Rafting, Royal Gorge, Arkansas River, Colorado\nNow, you probably would never think to look on a map for the small town of Canon City, located in south-central Colorado, for your adventure related vacation. But once you have been there for the main tourist attraction \u2013 Whitewater Rafting \u2013 you will want to find it again and again. Over 200,000 people a year are rafting on this section of river which stretches over a hundred miles of some of the best whitewater in the world. Read Full Story Here\nNoah\u2019s Ark Rafting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://familytreeourstory.com/2017/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PIVPDTBVBJY7XN3DSR6HGIF3KIGARY4G", "length": 1715, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "familytreeourstory.com", "title": "May 2017 \u2013 Family History Biographies", "raw_content": "World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day-Why we should all care\nMay 31, 2017 September 10, 2017 ~ Remembering Lives\nIf your eyebrows are raised at the prospect of a day dedicated to narcissistic awareness, I am sure you are not alone. If you are thinking I don\u2019t have time for this nonsense. I have some sympathy. In fact until I woke up to a few things, I would have been among the first to scoff. This is not surprising as it would seem most narcissistic abusers have perfected the art of presenting the world with one face, whilst showing a completely different one to the targets of their abuse. To the world they are often ultra obliging, the person who can always be counted upon to step up when there is a need. Their target sees a completely different side-subtle and not so-subtle digs , put downs and overt abuse can leave them totally shell-shocked. The victim feels doubly abused, not only are they enduring the cruelty of the narcissistic person, they are constantly listening to comments from others about the kindnesss, helpfulness etc of their abuser.\nIf a person appears to be an island of sanity in a sea of damaged people, things may not be all they appear. Of course there are some wonderful people who genuinely do seem to be surrounded by chaos not of their own making but occasionally it might be worth asking yourself what (or who)s the common factor in the lives of all these struggling people in a problematic situation?\nHere Clive Boddy illustrates this concept in a corporate context.\nThat is perhaps the concept at the core of Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day, encouraging people to take a second look at the people and situations in their lives and questioning some of their assumptions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fapac.wildapricot.org/page-1861778", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JG3QJSEWOMVO5YSHLMDZ3YUHEPEEA23U", "length": 1276, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "fapac.wildapricot.org", "title": "FAPAC - Career Fair", "raw_content": "Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel and Executive Meeting Center,\nThe Career Fair is the part of the FAPAC National Training Leadership Program. The job fair is open to public and is Free. It is a great opportunity to meet with the recruiters from varies federal agencies.\nEach year, over 30 federal agencies and corporations attend the job fair. The past list includes Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Education, Department of Interior, Department of State, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Drug Enforcement Administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS), Smithsonian, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Navy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE), Blue Cross Blue Shield, Long Term Care,\nTo sign up to be an exhibitor, please contact the conference chair Farook Sait or Kin Wong at conference@fapac.org or fapac@fapac.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 5664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 68.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://faso.com/boldbrush/fav/148068", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:J4MMKUYQKTUEX6OFQ6HKLP4C5XVS6WCY", "length": 55, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "faso.com", "title": "Jill Banks - Scene At The Bar- Oil - Painting entry - May 2018 | BoldBrush Painting Competition", "raw_content": "Scene At The Bar\nby Jill Banks\nhttp://www.jillbanks.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/rebecca-kukla-in-3-am-magazine/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NSXUIVWAZSQ43Y2ZZXIYD44UXWSQRYC3", "length": 68433, "nlines": 184, "source_domain": "feministphilosophers.wordpress.com", "title": "Rebecca Kukla in 3 AM Magazine \u2013 Feminist Philosophers", "raw_content": "Rebecca Kukla in 3 AM Magazine\nMay 27, 2013 May 27, 2013 jennysaul77 Comments\nWith some very nice words for FP\u2019s work on behalf of women in philosophy, but also some important points about other directions that efforts to diversify should take:\nThe overwhelming whiteness of philosophy is staggering, and I think it leads to insular thinking that harms philosophy itself, as well as being self-perpetuatingly exclusionary in fairly obvious ways.\nMore controversially, perhaps, she suggests that we should devote less attention to the maleness of philosophy in order to pay more attention to the whiteness of philosophy. (A part of me said: why can\u2019t we just do both? Then I reflected more on the limitations of time constraints, and thought perhaps she\u2019s just being realistic.)\nBut\u2013 as one the strongest defenders of the Be Nice rule\u2013 I deeply don\u2019t agree with this:\nThird, let me go on record as saying that I think that the whole idea that women are put off by or unsuited to the aggressive, argumentative style of philosophy is crap. Discursive intensity and tenacity, a high premium on verbal sparring and cleverness, and a fundamentally critical dialogical method have been central to philosophy since its birth, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. The fact is, most people, regardless of gender, find that kind of discourse difficult, overwhelming, and somewhat threatening; the Athenians didn\u2019t crack out the hemlock for no reason. This is why most people should not be philosophers, and that\u2019s just fine.\nNow, I don\u2019t actually know whether women are put off by aggressive argumentative style. But I am firmly convinced that it\u2019s bad for philosophy. It is more than possible to be critical and careful and to raise objections without being an arsehole. And guess what? Better philosophy ends up being done. Far too much philosophical discussion is more about showing that one is more clever than the speaker (or the objector) rather than trying to understand shit. This is one of many truly great things I have learned from my colleagues at Sheffield. (And why yes, one can still swear a lot while advocating niceness. In fact, I find it fucking irresistible.)\nUPDATE: Here\u2019s the interview. (Sorry!)\n\u2018Mx\u2019 in Brighton\nCFP: Race, Gender, Hate Speech\n77 thoughts on \u201cRebecca Kukla in 3 AM Magazine\u201d\nAs we discussed off-air, I think this (the \u2018be nice\u2019 part) may be a difference in how we put things rather than a disagreement. I really didn\u2019t mean to be standing up for being an asshole or against being nice. So \u2018aggressive\u2019 was maybe an ambiguous word choice on my part. I meant to make the (still controversial, I think) claim that we have no good reason to think that women are less suited to vigorous, intense debate organized around dialogical critique than men, and that such conversation is pretty much at the heart of the philosophical method. I really do find that *most* people are not really happy or comfortable with how philosophers \u2018converse\u2019, regardless of their gender. I think you can do that vigorous, intense philosophy thing without being an asshole.\nThanks for the chance to clarify, though I am sure many will still disagree.\n(And yeah, I totally agree that we should be worrying about ALL forms of inclusivity, including gender inclusivity, and also that we sometimes need to think about how to spend our shift our priorities in light of our very finite resources and time.)\nBy the way here is the link to the interview for those who are interested: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-relentless-naturalist/\nIt was a great interview and timely for me as I\u2019m about to go on sabbatical and now look forward to reading your stuff, Rebecca!\nThinking about interaction style, perhaps we just need to do two things:\n1) be more pluralist; there are many styles of intellectual interaction and while we might only be masters of some we should be facile with many and rigorous about variation;\n2) focus on the \u201cgood\u201d bits and try to separate out the bad bits; for example, while I do enjoy aggressive debating (and winning, I\u2019m afraid), the very best aspects of such interaction is the exhilaration; instead of a fencing match of wits, we should sky dive, or dance.\nA great dance certainly is vigorous, intense, and even, at times, antagonistic but it is also often mutualistic, supportive, interdependent and greater than the individual dancers or steps.\n(I actually get this quite often with my closest colleague at Manchester. We had to stop having joint co-supervision meetings because it was really too much to expect of our students to break in or keep up. It\u2019s a delight, but it can be quite daunting for other folks.)\nBijan, I think that is sage advice and a nice comparison. I don\u2019t see vigorous debate and mutual support as inherently in tension with one another at all. My very best friends are all people with whom I debate so hard that it can be as exhausting as a major physical workout, and they form my most important support community too. But it\u2019s all too easy to cross over from skydiving to fencing (and dirty fencing at that) without meaning to, and all too easy to start striving to beat the competition rather than to train hard and effectively together.\nOK did I mix metaphors inexcusably there?\nA great dance is wonderful, but both have to be dancing to the same music, and in many debates each is dancing to a different drum.\nEach has different values or a different goal or just a different dance style, a dance style as different as the fox trot is from salsa.\nI\u2019ve no problem with mixed metaphors ;) Most any activity can become pathological, dissonent, unpleasant, or mean spirited, of course. But I bet the incidence of sky divers getting into a fencing match is fairly low :)\nswallerstein, it\u2019s just a metaphor, but dancers don\u2019t have to be dancing to the same music (or to music at all), or at least not to the same beat. Different dances can be doing very different things and still mesh.\n(I am thinking more of modern dance instead of a couples style.)\nI\u2019m completely with Rebecca here (about the Be Nice rule). Philosophical \u201csparring matches\u201d I find to be both FUN and useful (someone said \u201cexhilarating\u201d, and yes, it can be that), and whether or not one can pull if off without \u201cbeing an asshole\u201d depends on two things: one, the self-confidence of the interlocutor (that is why most philosophers seem like arrogant assholes to many non-philosophers), and two: **the meaning of \u201cBe Nice\u201d**. (And nothing I say here is meant to suggest that there aren\u2019t a fucking load of fucking assholes out there).\nAn anecdote: a young woman philosopher (relatively recently) gave a talk at which she presented *analogies* to p apparently as arguments for concluding things about p. No argument at all was even attempted to argue that p and its analogies were relevantly situated so that one could conclude anything about p on their basis. Everyone in the room appeared to be flumoxed by the presentation. After it became evident that no one would say anything, I took it upon myself to say that she \u201chadn\u2019t presented any argument whatsoever\u201d for her claim. Was that a *nice* thing to do? **I very much think so.** (I\u2019m hoping I saved her from future embarrassments, and taught her something about standards in her chosen profession.) Was it a *nice* thing to hear? **Surely not.** As one member of the audience said to me: \u201cAlg\u00fa ho havia de dir!\u201d [Someone had to say it!]\nNow, I distinctly felt that I had violated the \u201cBe Nice\u201d Rule, and paranoid or not, I distinctly felt mildly shunned for the rest of the conference by the \u201cBe Nice\u201d-ers in the audience (or which there were several). Assume I was not totally paranoid. Now, is *that* being nice?\nNiceness is the most superficial of virtues. It is no match for honesty and straight-talking, which are to be distinguished from pompousness and abuse.\n(BTW, I was the only one (of the Be Nicer\u2019s, I mean) to join the presenter afterwards for a drink and a chat. We talked about the lacunae in her presentation. I think *that* was nice of me.)\nI cannot help but find it frankly sexist to insist on the mode of delivery rather than the substance, as if women were delicate things who will fall apart if they are refuted too roughly.\nAnd none of what I say here should be interpreted as supporting pompous abuses of accumulation of advantage by those artificially pumped by implicit biases to consider themselves over-clever.\nI find your claim \u201cNiceness is the most superficial of virtues.\u201d to be interesting. Is it true? I mean, to be genuinely nice? I find it sometimes to be extraordinarily difficult. Feigning niceness is actually pretty difficult for me in many cases. But even if we are just talking an amiable manner, it can be really challenging.\nAnd perhaps, if we buy, \u201cI was cruel only to be kind\u201d, it might be that your actions were, and were meant, to be nice but are not easily seen as such.\nWell said down the line, Adele. Word.\nPepe Nero says:\nDoesn\u2019t the idea that attending to the whiteness of philosophy and attending to the maleness of philosophy are (at least, for pragmatic reasons) two separate, mutually-exclusive projects, requiring their own resources, efforts, and time fly in the face of the idea of intersectionality? (It seemingly implies that all women are white, that all non-white people are men, and that, therefore, there are no women of color.)\nNo I really don\u2019t think it implies that at all, nor do I think either Jenny or I suggested the projects were mutually exclusive. But we have all sorts of initiatives and campaigns and so on that target gender inclusiveness and I think we need more that specifically target other kinds of inclusiveness. I don\u2019t see how doing such things presuppose in the slightest that everyone thus targeted would be male. One has to be able to attend to a type of exclusion in a more than hand-wavey way in order to do anything substantive about it \u2013 one can\u2019t always target everything simultaneously or we will have only blunt tools, and that\u2019s not what any sophisticated understanding of intersectionality would demand.\nI \u2013 a white male \u2013 have self-interested reasons for a \u201cbe nice\u201d rule; more specifically, for a culture that doesn\u2019t place a premium on verbal sparring and what Rebecca calls \u201ccleverness\u201d. I\u2019m just not good on that stuff. I am far better on paper. Okay, so much the worse for me, you can say: my weaknesses are no reason to jettison something that is valuable (and as a bystander I can appreciate the verbal sparring). That\u2019s right, but it is worth thinking about people who don\u2019t just happen, as I do, to not be very good on their feet, but who have a predictable disadvantage in this area. Being good at verbal sparring is the product of a certain kind of background, which encourages and values articulate discussion. It is the product of cultural capital, in Bourdieu\u2019s sense, and cultural capital is typically something that is rewarded in academic contexts even though it is not (and cannot be) taught there. Working class kids will often lack this kind of skill; women may feel less confident in exercising it and may (therefore) be less likely to acquire it. So there are good reasons to de-emphasize this kind of cleverness. I think we place too much of a premium on it.\nWomen MAY feel less confident in exercising it and/or be less likely to acquire it. But color me dubious. I think that\u2019s just a stereotype and I see no reason to accept it as an empirical generalization.\nIt seems a plausible claim (given that women are encouraged to speak less, and especially in contexts in which Important Matters are being discussed). It is of course an empirical claim. The claim about class is also empirical, but seems overwhelmingly likely to be true: working class kids are less likely to acquire easy facility with verbal expression in the right register. That claim, too, could be false (plausible seeming empirical claims sometimes are). I will go in search of data.\nWell from the armchair, FWIW (which is not too much I realize), the class claim seems more plausible than the gender claim. I\u2019ve never noticed women being disproportionately inarticulate, though male philosophers often like to claim that we are.\nYes, I haven\u2019t noticed that either, and I am now quite worried that I made the claim at all. I agree the class claim seems more plausible. My impression \u2013 confirmation bias driven though it may be \u2013 is that people from lower SES backgrounds go on to PhDs and academic careers far more often in the sciences than in the humanities (broadly construed), and my explanation for that is that cultural capital, which is acquired early, plays a greater role in the latter than the former, whereas the skills required for science are acquired effortfully, through formal education. Still no data, though.\nI wholeheartedly agree that one shouldn\u2019t assume that women are \u201cput off by or unsuited to the aggressive, argumentative style of philosophy\u201d. But I think men are often put off by women who are comfortable with that style, such that there is a premium to be paid by women who use it successfully. Instead of recognition, they often meet with hostility, especially if the target is a man present in the audience.\nI made the mistake early on in my career of thinking that authors \u2013 especially senior ones \u2013 would always welcome critical engagement with their work. Soon I started suspecting that the better my argument, the less appreciative these guys would be. And that\u2019s a weird feeling. The lesson seemed to be that the more I succeeded by the standards of philosophy, the less recognition I was likely to receive and the more enemies I would make \u2013 a frustrating double bind. There seems to be a cultural expectation that women be \u201cnice\u201d \u2013 nicer than men (compare the perils of aggressive wage negotiations for women \u2013 being assertive can backfire). Maybe these kinds of experiences, rather than discomfort with the aggressive argumentative style per se, explains why quite a few women say they prefer a \u201cgentler\u201d style of argument. I once asked my students to consider in an essay whether \u201cSocrates was nice\u201d, so they could reflect on what niceness really is and whether all kinds of niceness are productive in an academic setting. My suspicion is that, all things being equal, the Athenians would have handed Socrates the hemlock much earlier, had he been a woman, and that cultural expectations haven\u2019t changed as much as we would like to think.\nre: Neil@16\nIt wouldn\u2019t surprise me if persons from lower socio-economic backgrounds tend to favor the sciences over the humanities, but I don\u2019t think that the main reason for this trend is necessarily differences in \u201ccultural capital.\u201d One of the barriers that Rebecca mentions in the interview is the fact that studying philosophy can seem a precarious career choice, and therefore impractical or unattractive to people who are economically disadvantaged. By contrast, good job prospects is surely one of the primary reasons for which many students are drawn to the sciences.\nAdele, you say:\n\u201cI took it upon myself to say that she \u201chadn\u2019t presented any argument whatsoever\u201d for her claim. Was that a *nice* thing to do? **I very much think so.** (I\u2019m hoping I saved her from future embarrassments, and taught her something about standards in her chosen profession.) Was it a *nice* thing to hear? **Surely not.** As one member of the audience said to me: \u201cAlg\u00fa ho havia de dir!\u201d [Someone had to say it!]\u201d\nI can see how the substance of the point you were making was something that ought to be communicated to the speaker. But what I \u2013 and others who find \u2018aggressive\u2019 styles of philosophy problematic \u2013 would object to is the way in which you elected to communicate that point. I simply don\u2019t agree that \u2018someone had to say\u2019 to the speaker something as harsh as that she had presented \u2018no argument whatsoever\u2019 for her claim. Why not just say something to the effect of \u2018In your paper, you\u2019re making arguments for p based on analogies to p. But I can\u2019t see how the former supports the latter \u2013 it seems like all of the analogous claims you\u2019re making could be true, but p false.\u2019 It\u2019s easy to give the substantial philosophical content of a point, even a highly critical point, without being insulting or rude. Why people seem to run the two together remains a mystery to me.\nTone and content can and do come apart. What people who object to \u2018aggressiveness\u2019 in discussion are often objecting to is tone, not content. It\u2019s not that you made a devastating objection. There\u2019s nothing wrong with a good counter-example! The problem, rather, lies with framing these points in a way that\u2019s combative or harsh \u2013 especially when there\u2019s no need to adopt that tone in order to communicate the philosophical point.\nYou worry that in objecting to aggressive tone we\u2019re \u2018treating women like delicate flowers\u2019. But I don\u2019t think most of the people who object to such aggressiveness are objecting to it only when it\u2019s directed at women. We\u2019re objecting to it full stop. (And conjecturing that it has bad effects, full stop \u2013 though those bad effects may be magnified in the case of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy like women or racial minorities.)\nI\u2019m with Magical on this one.\nLet me just add to my comment #17 above that members of minorities may also be harmed if they are perceived as \u201caggressive\u201d in discussion \u2013 this would apply, for instance, to African-American or Afro-Caribbean men or members of other groups that the majority implicitly perceive as \u201cthreatening\u201d. The same presumably applies to philosophers (or aspiring philosophers) with working class accents or appearance \u2013 their objections may be read as expressions of hostility rather than perceptive criticism. If you constantly have to go out of your way not to be seen as hostile or in any way aggressive, this makes it much harder to engage in the kind of \u201cproductive adversarialism\u201d that historically defines the discipline.\nIt seems there\u2019s a reasonable consensus against assholes and in favor of productive disagreement. The trick, then, is to say more about where stated disagreement passes from being productive to being asshole-ish. I like magicalersatz\u2019s suggestion: there\u2019s an important distinction is between attending to a possible weakness of a position presented and attending to a possible weakness in the presenter of the position.\nWe can feel personally invested in our philosophical positions, and at least some personal investment is unavoidable, since any errors in the position are *our* errors. That\u2019s why it can feel so threatening to have one\u2019s views called into question.\nBut when we want to disagree with another, or raise questions about their position, we can choose our words carefully to *distinguish* between the author of the position and the position we want to query.\nStill, even this is not enough. Plato\u2019s dialogues reveal how how personally damaging philosophical dialogue can be and how the strategy I\u2019ve just mentioned might help. But they also issue an important warning: the strategy typically does not work for Socrates when he manages to disagree persuasively with every position his interlocutor raises. His interlocutor still gets angry and *with Socrates*, and most unfortunately, the interlocutor gets impatient *with philosophy*. I really wish philosophers managed to notice this and to take it to heart. It\u2019s most crucial when we\u2019re dealing with young philosophers whose positions are less fully developed and whose mastery of this or that set of argumentative patterns is incomplete. In such encounters, if we focus unrelentingly on weaknesses, we are inviting frustration with philosophy, and only the most heroic or self-ignorant students will press on. So in such encounters, if we care about encouraging philosophical progress, the conversation *must* focus on building up some of the promising features of the position presented, and not merely on the places with which one might reasonable disagree.\nThis maneuver isn\u2019t simple, either. When building up for another as when disagreeing, there is assitude to be avoided, such as condescension and pedantry and impatience. But we must be sure to try, at least if we want to welcome students into philosophy and to find productive disagreement without being assholes.\nWell put, Magical.\nI think of that difference as the difference between thinking *against* the speaker and thinking *with* the speaker. And, as jennysaul says, of course better philosophy is produced when you think *with* another: one is so much more creative and confident, and enjoys digging ever deeper, when having another\u2019s good will by one\u2019s side.\nI love how magical put it in comment 19.\nAnother thing that jumped out to me about Rebecca\u2019s interview is the mention of class along with race. I haven\u2019t seen much discussion of class when it comes to issues of inclusiveness in philosophy, and it seems like class presents a unique set of issues. One reason class inclusiveness may require different tactics is that, in some sense, the end point of the philosophy pipeline may involve the transformation of a person\u2019s class status. When a woman finishes her Ph.D. and lands a TT job, she\u2019s still a woman. When a black person finishes her Ph.D. and lands a TT job, she\u2019s still black.\nBut when a working class person finishes her/his Ph.D. and lands a job, in some relevant sense she/he might not be working class anymore. That seems to present special issues.\nAnd God only knows that we could have a \u201cbeing a working class person in philosophy\u201d blog that should get thousands of stories. I can\u2019t count how many times I\u2019ve seen a paper in social/political philosophy where I just say to myself \u201cwho, aside from upper/middle class white people, cares about this\u2026\u201d or \u201cwow, who counts as the \u2018public\u2019 in this context\u2026\u201d\nSomething that helped me out re: class (and sexuality) issues was the book /Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class/. It is basically a collection of stories from professors talking about their experiences. I would recommend it to anyone looking for more anecdotes :p.\nI must admit to being skeptical of the idea that someone stops being working class upon receiving a phd and a job. Why would that be the case? Much like a new immigrant to Canada might still identify themselves as Chinese (insofar as their habits, culture, moral beliefs etc reflect their history as a Chinese Citizen), I take it that many \u201cprofessors from the working class\u201d feel a special and non-trivial connection to their history as a working class person. Working class is a cultural thing, not just eg having enough income to own a car or having certain factual knowledge.\nI am really glad this conversation is turning to class, which I agree presents special issues for some of the reasons raised. It is not quite so visible as gender and race (though not exactly invisible). And Matt\u2019s and Jarrod\u2019s dialogue is telling \u2013 you both do and don\u2019t switch classes when your salary changes. And I also agree with Matt that the thoughtless class-specific assumptions that academics make without even knowing it are amazing.\nI also really, really agree with Karen that women can get socially penalized for being tenacious, clever, intense arguers in special ways, and that that sucks. But I do think it is also worth insisting, again, that MOST people can\u2019t deal with that kind of discourse, and PLENTY of the people who are good at it and thrive on it are women. We can debate how essential that kind of discourse is to philosophy and where it crosses over to assholitude, but that\u2019s all separate from the point that it should not be treated as some kind of special masculine forte. I think Catarina Novaes put this well over at newapps this morning.\nI agree with you regarding the nature of being working class. But my point is that transformation is a possibility in a way that it doesn\u2019t seem like a possibility for gender and race. I also suspect (but obviously would need some evidence to demonstrate) that there are far more working class people in academia who don\u2019t want to be working class than there are women who don\u2019t want to be women. Lots of working class folks use college generally (and academia specifically) as a part of a deliberate project to transform their class status.\nI doubt there are many women who use college as a part of a project to no longer be women (though it might depend on how we\u2019re using \u201cwoman\u201d \u2013 I suspect there are some radfem folks who find the cases to be more analogous).\nI agree with Rebecca that women are not obviously less interested in \u2018aggresive\u2019 philosophical conversation than men are. But (reitterating what\u2019s already been mentioned above with a rant of my own) it\u2019s not obvious to me that we should be maintaining the culture of finding combative conversation impressive or an indication of philosophical acumen or epistemically useful. If I have the same aims as my interlocutor \u2013 i.e. to discover the truth about a given matter \u2013 then cooperation towards that aim seems perfectly rational (rather than competition, which makes sense if our aims are mutually inconsistent). Sometimes cooperation will involve being critical of the points made by others, but it seems that the optimal way to do this will not involve not strongly committing the person to points made during the conversation (such that it\u2019s seen as a weakness rather than a strength if they alter their position in response to new evidence), not offering solely negative points (e.g. failing to attempt to give any response to your own objections to the position in question), not misusing authority (e.g. stating that you don\u2019t understand a point in a way that suggests the point is incoherent rather than as a request for clarification or followed by possible interpretations of the point) and so on. The best philosophical conversations I\u2019ve had have been akin to highly engaged mutual problem solving. But a lot of philosophy conversation has struck me as little more than a dialectical contest whose purspose isn\u2019t primarily to get at the truth (and if it is intended to be, then it seems obviously suboptimal) but seems to be something else, such as determining a social hierarchy among the people present. Such conversations often involve exactly these kinds of maneuvers and seem to at best a bit of a time sink.\nThere are lots of reasons for women to be less inclined to engage in the aggressive-competitive kind of conversation described above rather than the aggressive-cooperative kind of conversation. Firstly, the latter just seems more rational than the former (to me, at least). But also the former is presumably more about making yourself look impressive at the expense of your intelocutor, and women would seem to face particular problems with this: for example, such behavior may be perceived as rude in a woman but not in a man (the \u2018he\u2019s impressive, you\u2019re a bitch\u2019 problem), and insofar as the behavior is more associated with maleness than with femaleness, not displaying paradigmatically female traits might have its own social costs. One way of resolving this problem is to try to make it more socially acceptable for women to engage in aggressive-competitive dialogue, but that hardly seems like a great outcome to me.\nA quick reply to Karen #17 about the double bind:\n\u201d *men* are often put off by women who are comfortable with that [aggressive, argumentative] style, such that there is a premium to be paid by women who use it successfully. Instead of recognition, they often meet with hostility, especially if the target is a man present in the audience.\u201d\nAbsolutely true, and documented to death. But just as true *of women* as of men!\nQuestion: is it better to succumb to the gender schema (women are expected to be nice; \u201cBe Nice\u201d) or to bend it?\nAbsent a univocal answer to this question, might I suggest that every woman do what is comfortable to her, and that women (and men) **support women** whose attempts to bend gender schemas will be met with hostility, if only by not succumbing to that hostility themselves.\nBeing nice might benefit philosophy\u2026 but it has seldom benefited women.\nCassie Herbert says:\nI think \u2018adversarial\u2019 and \u2018argumentative\u2019 are often being conflated in these debates about the philosophical method. The argumentative method, I take it, is the kind of rigorous back and forth of ideas Rebecca is supporting. This can, although it doesn\u2019t have to, be adversarial. But I think this adversarial style of is what most people think of as the philosophical method \u2014 taking on an opponent and demolishing their argument. I think we\u2019re missing something important here: in order to reasonably take on an adversary, the other person needs to be relatively well matched with them (a novice jouster doesn\u2019t go up against the best in the land without being laughed at). And in doing philosophy, especially when being trained up, we\u2019re not going up against equals: students (both grad and undergrad) are reading and writing about the very best philosophers and are often arguing with their professors, all of whom are presented as authority figures. And whether the students take themselves to have the proper standing to take on these authority figures can be at least partially a function of how the students are socially situated. So, it\u2019s not just a matter of women being told they have to \u2018be nice\u2019 \u2014 rather, it\u2019s that women and people of various races and ethnicities have often been continually told that they don\u2019t have the appropriate social postion to enter into these kinds of exchanges.\nWe can keep the argumentative method without it being adversarial though. Every time I teach, I tell my students their job is to be the author\u2019s best friend: we tell our friends when they\u2019re screwing up and we tell them when they aren\u2019t giving themselves enough credit. This fits into the argumentative method, but without the pernicious aspects of the adversarial approach. I find that students are far more comfortable doing this \u2014 and that they do more interesting philosophy this way. They\u2019re more ready to take themselves to have the necessary standing to try to help the author than to go up against the author.\nThe other reason I like this approach is that it allows for more than one \u2018winner.\u2019 In the adversarial approach, only one person can come out on top. When you\u2019re working to improve someone\u2019s argument with the mindset of acting as their friend, or cheering from their corner (whatever), then it can be a collaborative project: \u2018winning\u2019 is when the best argument has been crafted, not one person besting the other.\nFor anyone interested, I posted a more substantive, unified response to the discussions going on in various blog posts in a public facebook thread here: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.kukla.1/posts/10151415610801669?notif_t=like\nFor those of us who are not in Facebook and are interested in your response, would it be possible to copy-paste your response here? Thank you.\nI agree that \u201cLots of working class folks use college generally (and academia specifically [become philosophy professors?]) as a part of a deliberate project to transform their class status\u201d is a claim that requires empirical evidence.\nReally? I took myself to be showing probably excessive modesty in including that disclaimer. I take it as pretty intuitively obvious that many working class folks go to college in order to move out of the working class and into a middle class lifestyle. Maybe empirical evidence would show otherwise, but I\u2019d be surprised.\nAmy Olberding says:\nMy sense is that at least some of the conceptual distinctions here \u2013 esp. parsing differences between \u201cadversarial\u201d and \u201cargumentative\u201d \u2013 may miss the target. I think the most salient issue is politeness and civility, such that one can be either \u201cadversarial\u201d or \u201cargumentative\u201d in polite and rude ways. In other words, neither the adversarial nor the argumentative are prima facie problematic as modes of discourse. The trouble is when either (or some other approach) is styled toward rudeness, either through the content or manner in which one speaks.\nMy own sense is that philosophers have largely neglected the importance of good manners, both as a moral issue and as a professional one. Socrates seems inevitably to come up in these sorts of discussions and I worry that the \u201cfather\u201d of philosophy is taken as a heroic figure who is heroic in part because he punctures other people\u2019s claims and, frankly, looks a bit cool doing it, not to mention brave since he does after all get killed for his trouble. It\u2019s easy to *romanticize* the posture of the philosopher in this style, but far, far harder to emulate Socrates to good effect. Instead, we seem to end up with people who want to imagine they\u2019re being \u201clike Socrates\u201d by \u201cdemolishing\u201d, \u201cattacking\u201d, or ostensibly \u201ccharitably\u201d disabusing others of flawed views. I study Confucius and am persistently struck by the difference in him qua \u201cfather\u201d of a tradition. Yeah, he was brave and opposed the status quo, had brushes with death doing it. But if you read the Analects, what you find is that the text spends vanishingly little time describing these escapades or remarking the bravery of Confucius. Instead, there are whole stretches of text describing how polite he was: to the elderly, to superiors, to prospective students. How different might philosophy be if we romanticized *that*?\nHere\u2019s something perhaps a bit more practical. When I discuss climate in my department\u2019s session for beginning graduate students, I tell them that they ought self-consciously cultivate the view that in philosophy we\u2019re pursuing ideas together, with the shared aim of developing meaningful insight into whatever in particular we consider. When they hear a speaker and see that the speaker\u2019s effort has failed or is compromised, I suggest they ought strive to cultivate regret followed by appreciation, thinking along the lines: \u201cDamn! I really wish this argument had worked out, but even the argument\u2019s flaws will aid in developing better directions.\u201d Only after thinking this, after trying to *feel* regret that an argument hasn\u2019t succeeded (since we ought all want them to succeed!) should they lodge whatever objection they wish to make. My hope is that this positions them toward politeness and, I have to say, I have enjoyed some really collegial seminars where students seem to have earnestly taken this on board.\nWell, if all you think \u201cworking class\u201d is just an income bracket, then it is obviously the case that people go to college to leave the working class (I would be more suspicious of the claim that people become humanities professors to do so!). I doubt, however, that many people go to college with the aim of losing the cultural aspect of their working class status. And it is the cultural part that is analogous to the status of women in the philosophy profession.\nYeah, I\u2019d still maintain that many people to go college with the aim of losing the cultural aspect of their working class status. I think this is especially true in rural America (though I\u2019ve also seen it among some urban working class folks). I knew plenty of people who would have sold their souls to get out of my home town and its cultural life.\nThere are also people who consciously attempt to lose certain aspects of working class culture (e.g., vocabulary, regional accents, social attitudes, product preferences, etc.).\nRebbeca \u2013 in the Facebook thread (which I cannot put this comment on), you state that \u2018It is really interesting to me that everyone keeps talking about the \u2018adversarial method\u2019. I very very carefully did NOT use that word in my interview. I said \u2018critical dialogical method\u2019 and I chose my words carefully.\u2019 But in the interview you said that \u2018a high premium on verbal sparring and cleverness, and a fundamentally critical dialogical method, have been central to philosophy since its birth, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u2019 Perhaps you meant \u2018verbal sparring\u2019 to imply dialogue that\u2019s primarily cooperative rather than dialogue that\u2019s primarily adversarial, but surely \u2018verbal sparring\u2019 implies competitive dialogue much more than it implies cooperative dialogue. If so, then it hardly seems surprising that people reading it are interpreting this as, at least in part, a defense of the adversarial method. (I think I disagree with the core point as well, but it seems like you think this is a far fetched interpretation of what you said, which doesn\u2019t seem particularly fair to me.)\nYes, sparring was one of several conjuncts there, and when you spar (but not necessarily when you are being clever, or dialogical, or tenacious\u2026) you have an adversary. But the \u2018adversarial method\u2019 is a technical term and that was not what I was defending as some sort of privileged philosophical methodology.\nBy the way the facebook thread is public and I think anyone can comment on it. At least I hope so.\nI don\u2019t disagree that you weren\u2019t trying to defend the adversarial method \u2013 that\u2019s very clear from what\u2019s been said since. However, I don\u2019t think this is as clear from the terms used in the original interview, which as I said above at least doesn\u2019t seem like an implausible reading of what you\u2019re referring to when you defend \u2018verbal sparring\u2019 (which just doesn\u2019t seem to fit as well with non-adversarial methods to my ears). Also, I can\u2019t comment on the Facebook page, though I can see it. This might be some kind of issue with my own settings.\nRight. Well, I think I will have to default back to the \u201cprovide evidence that philosophy professors from the working class stop identifying with the working class upon receiving a phd and job (or earlier)\u201d angle because I think that is a pretty absurd thing to believe (perhaps less so in America, for obvious reasons). I think it would be a huge mistake to think that working class people problems can somehow be boiled down to income difficulties, much in the same way \u201cwomen make X less money than men\u201d is a pretty poor explanation of sexism. But this is just my anecdotal experience and those eg from the book I noted above. Hopefully most professors from the working class do not have to deal with the same pressures that keep working class people out of college in the first place (if only because they have managed to abandon their past).\nWhen I click on your link to your response in Facebook, I need to enter my Facebook account and password.\nI could create a Facebook account under a false name and maybe I will one of these days. It would be fun to invent a biography for myself and to disinform those who collect data from Facebook, but until then, I have no way to read what you write.\nVerbal sparring can be great fun to watch, for those of us who aren\u2019t particularly good at it (Rebecca kicks ass at it). I\u2019ve never minded that\u2013in fact, I enjoy it\u2013but I have frequently minded, and been turned off by, the kind of sparring that is basically frat-boy behavior in which the lads scramble to prove to each other who has the longest penis. I\u2019ve seen plenty of that at APA sessions and it not only says Women Not Welcome, it also says Black Men and Working-Class Men Not Welcome. If philosophy is truly going to be hospitable to everyone who can make the moves, it has to outgrow that kind of nonsense.\nI confess to being skeptical of the claim that there is a class problem in philosophy, or at least of the claim that there is one that\u2019s not solely attributable to race and gender issues.\nFor one, philosophy does a very good job, on the whole, of making one\u2019s wealth a less relevant factor in one\u2019s ability to attend grad school. No tuition, in addition to often generous TA and fellowship stipends (to the great envy of other disciplines), and loan accessibility can make it nearly irrelevant.\nFurther, one does not typically wear one\u2019s \u201cclass\u201d in the way one does with race and gender \u2013 nor is it likely to come out in philosophical discussion. Certainly, it won\u2019t be concluded from looking at professional philosophers that succeeding at philosophy requires a certain class background (at least not in the U.S.) And I, for one, would be interested to see examples of mainstream social or political philosophy that only upper class people would be interested in.\nAt the very least we should get some empirical data on the class backgrounds of philosophers as a starting point.\n\u2026.is that post a joke?\nI don\u2019t mean to come off as an ass here if it isn\u2019t. But my question is a serious one.\nLike Matt, I am struggling to pin down the voice of 46. If it\u2019s serious, I am kind of at a loss for how to begin to respond.\nWell, it wasn\u2019t meant to be a joke.\nMaybe I\u2019m missing something very obvious. Perhaps I\u2019m relying overly on anecdotal experience, as no one I attended grad school with could even remotely be considered to have come from a background as beyond \u201cmiddle class\u201d, and more than a few from what might be considered poor.\nI\u2019m certainly open to having my mind changed.\nI don\u2019t feel like I can address this all in blog comment form so let me just focus on entry conditions. You say, \u201cFor one, philosophy does a very good job, on the whole, of making one\u2019s wealth a less relevant factor in one\u2019s ability to attend grad school. No tuition, in addition to often generous TA and fellowship stipends (to the great envy of other disciplines), and loan accessibility can make it nearly irrelevant.\u201d\n\u2013 If you are responsible for helping support your parents, raising a child, keeping an out of work spouse in health insurance, etc., as many working class people are in their 20s, fellowship stipends are not only not generous, they are basically unlivable.\n\u2013 Many working class people simply can\u2019t afford to risk spending their 20s at a pursuit that may well not get them any job at all at the end.\n\u2013 Many working class people can\u2019t afford to leave their home area because of various responsibilities and family pressures.\n\u2013 Probably most obviously, disproportionately few working class folks, including very smart ones, will have gotten themselves a decent undergraduate education to start with. See here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/education/scholarly-poor-often-overlook-better-colleges.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\n\u2013 When they do, they are more likely to come out of cheap regional schools where grad school in the humanities is not even on the imaginative table, nor are they nearly as likely to have received the kind of preparation and encouragement to get them to the point where applying is a viable option.\n\u2013 They will have faced implicit biases and stigma because of how they talk, dress, etc for years \u2013 undergrad profs will be less likely to take them seriously, they will be less likely to take themselves seriously, etc.\nThis is all about the barriers to making it to grad school in the first place, and obviously it is a really incomplete list \u2013 I am sure others will chime in. I\u2019m too overwhelmed with stuff to say, at the moment, at the ways in which the experience of grad school is class-biased once one is there. Maybe I will write more later or others will take up the task.\nActually that was a not unhelpful link but not the one I meant to include. Here is the link I was aiming for: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-struggle-as-class-plays-a-greater-role-in-success.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&gwh=B9A2EE8215595DC2F1F99B15AFA76DE0\n\u201cProbably most obviously, disproportionately few working class folks, including very smart ones, will have gotten themselves a decent undergraduate education to start with. See here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/education/scholarly-poor-often-overlook-better-colleges.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\nWhen they do, they are more likely to come out of cheap regional schools where grad school in the humanities is not even on the imaginative table, nor are they nearly as likely to have received the kind of preparation and encouragement to get them to the point where applying is a viable option.\u201d\nI have to imagine that part of the problem for poor and working class students is bias on the part of faculty at \u201celite\u201d graduate schools, who regard the regional universities poor and working class students disproportionately attend as not \u201cdecent\u201d or \u201ccheap,\u201d and who believe that the faculty at such schools are less likely to have offered them \u201cthe kind of preparation and encouragement to get them to the point where applying is a viable option.\u201d Poor and working class students often can\u2019t even get into the most well-regarded graduate programs because the faculty there do not respect their pedigree.\nI\u2019d obviously second everything Rebecca said \u2013 those are lots of great points about entry barriers and the worries facing grad students. From my own perspective, the biggest one was the prospect of lost income from age 21 (when I graduated college) to 28 (when I got the Ph.D). Plenty of people from a working class background go to college for reasons of social and economic mobility. The prospect of attending grad school \u2013 no matter how good the stipend (which, at most places, is poverty-level) \u2013 represents the prospect of failing to be economically mobile and saddling oneself with debt for which there are no trust funds nor parental bailouts forthcoming.\nI\u2019ll try to address the more controversial point about mainstream social/political philosophy. It\u2019s actually a pretty difficult phenomenon to describe, because so much of it is just\u2026I know it when I see it. There\u2019s a great deal of philosophical work out there\u2026disembodied reflection on concepts like citizenship or democracy, thought experiments in social and political philosophy, disproportionate focus on certain \u201cluxury\u201d issues in the mainstream literature\u2026that assumes the reader is a middle-class or upper-class person. Again, it\u2019s difficult to describe, but I see it a half-dozen times every time I go to a block of talks on mainstream social/political philosophy.\nMaybe someone else might chime in with some clearer examples.\nPepe, all true. But let\u2019s also be realists about the fact that in a big, underfunded and under-resourced regional state school with open or near-open admissions and armies of adjuncts teaching the classes, students, particularly those \u2018marked\u2019 as working class, really ARE less likely, on average, to get focused attention and decent preparation for grad school. It\u2019s not merely a snobby perception thing.\nLots to say here. But my initial post was obviously not very clear.\nThe point I was making was about class problems specific to philosophy, in the context that philosophy has problems with regard to race and gender. These were being discussed together, after all. My point was that the kinds of things that lead to race and gender under-representation (structural things about the profession) do not seem to be there with regard to class.\nAll of the points AK raises are correct, as barriers. But these are not unique at all to philosophy and would apply to any profession. And, I\u2019d argue, philosophy does a better job of mitigating against these at the grad school level. Certainly better than law school, med school, and a whole host of other humanities programs.\nI had thought that one of the goals of the \u201cWhat it\u2019s like\u201d blog (referenced by MD), was to point out how hostile philosophy is to women. Surely, the degree to which philosophy is hostile to poorer folks isn\u2019t comparable \u2013 so much so that the word \u201chostile\u201d seems misplaced. And as far as the philosophy itself, I would have thought that the profession was largely sympathetic to class-based philosophy, as opposed to feminist thought or race-related philosophy.\nIt also doesn\u2019t strike me as incredulous-stare-inducing to suggest that we inquire into how great the under-representation is. The stats on race and gender are (embarrassingly) clear. Let\u2019s find out what they are for class.\nI take it that the goals of What it\u2019s like, and consciousness-raising in general, are much less specific than that. The goal seems to be put issues of personal experience on the table so that people can gather the issues and think systematically about them. Describing the blog\u2019s point as being to \u201cpoint out how hostile philosophy is to women\u201d is to describe merely one small part of the blog\u2019s overall goal, I\u2019d gather.\nIn your original post, you suggested general skepticism about class problems in philosophy. I (and I\u2019d say Rebecca, too) was trying to address some of those basic problems.\nI don\u2019t know how you would measure class representation. It\u2019s hard enough measuring race representation. I really don\u2019t even know how one would go about starting to measure class, except perhaps via self-reporting, which has its own obvious pitfalls. For example, I would have no idea how to non-misleadingly categorize my own class background when I was in grad school; it was \u2026. complicated, to put it mildly. In principle, stats are good, but it seems pretty crashingly obvious to me that philosophy (like most professions requiring a lot of education) is dominated by people from relatively privileged backgrounds, and that tons of smart kids with lots of potential from less privileged backgrounds get shut out or alienated. A more specific sense of the numbers would be nice but doesn\u2019t strike me as super important.\nAlso I agree with Matt @56.\nKaty Abramson says:\nIt\u2019s not as though class issues disappear if one *does* choose philosophy from the position of an economically less advantaged background than is typical. I went to an elite college (\u2013 am quite sure I got in under \u2018geographic distribution\u2019, or at least that that\u2019s what sealed the deal), as an emancipated minor. I think things have changed since, but at the time, Wellesley didn\u2019t have a way of even recognizing that as a category of applicant for purposes of financial aid, so I went through college on loans. Still carry most of those loans, and will be infinitely slowly paying it off well into my 60s. Made it through grad school, got a tt job, and got tenure at a Leiter ranked place\u2013 so on the scale of luck in those ways, *incredibly* lucky.\nBut economically, I am in a *radically* different situation than my peers. E.g. everyone but me and one junior person here (but only one of the junior people) owns their own home. A good number of them don\u2019t even have mortgages anymore. A good number of them have two or more homes, one here and one somewhere else. Many of them have family money that has come in, and/or is still coming in (b/c the family gave them downpayments for their homes, sends them large checks, or for slightly older folks, because one or more family member with money has passed away and left it to them). I am not, and will never be, in anything like that position. I rent. I make the bills. (and yes, I still feel lucky to get to do philosophy for a living). If I\u2019m able to buy a home, it will be either because I slowly manage to save up enough money over the next five or six years for a downpayment , or because some leftwing version of the Templeton Foundation suddenly comes on the scene & decides to give massive funds to peculiar Humeans.\nConcretely and professionally, this means things like this: even in my very very very lucky position, even with research funds (which quickly run out if one is professionally active) my ability to go to the conferences and give the talks I\u2019ve been invited to give this very summer is going to rely on some serious financial scrambling, in lots of ways (applying for funds & hoping they come through, if they don\u2019t, maybe taking out short-term loans). And yeah, in some ways, it\u2019s *totally* a \u2018world\u2019s smallest violin\u2019 situation\u2013 I *am* incredibly lucky to have the opportunities, to be now in middle age scrambling financially to do this, rather than to buy food. Nevertheless, it\u2019s also true that my colleagues are in a completely different position\u2013most of them don\u2019t have to think more than a few seconds about whether they can afford to go to conferences or talks to which they\u2019ve been invited. Or if they are thinking about \u201caffording\u201d to do so, they\u2019re balancing doing that against buying fancy new furniture, or vacations, not against whether they\u2019ll be able to make the rent and student loan payments come August. So, here I am, in almost all ways in one of the world\u2019s *luckiest* positions, having in many ways \u2018escaped\u2019 my class background, and still, every day, that class background makes a difference, and makes a professionally relevant difference.\nKaty\u2019s description could have been written by me just as well. I rent, I have no retirement savings, I will *never* inherit a cent from anyone and never had any family help of any kind no matter how tiny, I stress seriously over how I will send my son to college even with the tuition help Georgetown gives (and private colleges are out of the question), I never EVER travel except for work, etc. Like Katy I feel incredibly lucky, but will never, ever, ever be in the financial situation of the overwhelming number of my peers.\nAnd that goes along with a whole host of harder to pin down but equally real identity and social culture issues and disconnects of all sorts, too.\nanonymous grad student says:\nTwo things: first, in addition to the sorts of things that Matt, Katy, and Rebecca point out, I think it\u2019s important to note that there is still a hell of a lot of overt classism going on in philosophy. I notice it all the time, though it is often hard to tangibly describe, since much of it comes in a similar package to the sort of sexism and racism that is hard to tangibly describe. But a few tangible cases: one, the graduate students in my former department had a \u201cwhite trash\u201d party one year where everyone had to come dressed as \u201cwhite trash\u201d. As I hope anyone can imagine, what ensued was incredibly offensive and some of us were completely disgusted. But trying to explain why it was offensive was met with a brick wall. Two, an extremely distinguished feminist philosopher gave a talk in my department last year, at which, in the midst of talking about slurs and their harmfulness, she used \u201credneck\u201d as a derogatory term to pick out someone she had seen on the subway in New York behaving in a racist manner (almost no philosopher I have ever spoken to understands that the term is incredibly offensive when used in such a manner, *even if* people self-identify as rednecks\u2013which is what they always point to when I try to explain this to them). This philosopher at least caught herself using the slur, and saw the irony, but I personally completely shut off at that point in the talk. Point is, even amongst people who would never be caught dead saying something really overtly racist or sexist, saying something overtly classist is still normal in many cases (I witness it all the time).\nSecond thing: cultural capital is a real thing. Those of us from different kinds of class backgrounds *really do*, at least in my experience, have to work harder to understand and implement the kinds of social behaviors that are expected, and to be able to discuss such topics, which I frequently end up in discussions of, as: wine, \u201cfoodie\u201d stuff (expensive restaurants, expensive food products, etc.), classical music, architecture, painting, etc. Those of us who aren\u2019t used to talking about such things, didn\u2019t grow up learning about them and having them a part of our cultural experience, are seriously *socially* disadvantaged in such conversations\u2013and we all know that those conversations can often be what matters in terms of getting opportunities/being liked by senior people/getting jobs. (At least some people probably saw the Smoker post last year or so where a faculty member wrote in the comments that she voted against extending a job offer to someone because he or she didn\u2019t know which fork to use at the dinner table, or something like that\u2026 it\u2019s hazy.)\nOne other thing somewhat related to my second point: life is easier, psychologically, the more people you have around you who have had similar experiences, childhoods, etc. Making friends is easier if those friends have similar backgrounds/experiences to you. Having friends, and a support system, is incredibly important in academia. If you are in a position where no one, or almost no one, in your grad program, or on the faculty you are a member of, has had remotely similar life experiences to you outside of academia, then you are going to feel more alienated/alone/unable to develop the sorts of relationships that are much easier for others to develop, simply because you have nothing in common with those people outside of academia. Of course this is a problem on many fronts, not just the class one (I\u2019ve heard a number of students who come to grad programs from other, non-well-represented countries voice it, for example), but it is another stumbling block that people who come from backgrounds outside the middle and upper class face in academia.\nI think all this is very well-said, AGS, and exactly right. On a similar note, there are skills at talking to deans and donors and the like that I will simply never have.\n#61 & 62: yup.\nalso, in response to ajkreider at 46 \u201cFurther, one does not typically wear one\u2019s \u201cclass\u201d in the way one does with race and gender\u2026\u201d: in the UK, I\u2019d say class is performed audibly and visibly in ways which are pretty similar to race and gender, and for the most part just as unavoidably. It\u2019s true that in the US I couldn\u2019t guess people\u2019s class as reliably, but presumably that\u2019s partly lack of familiarity. (Though you pretty quickly learn that the whiteness and straightness of someone\u2019s teeth are a significant marker of class.)\nAh, yes. The teeth. Was just thinking that. The costs of looking middle-class for a woman can be quite prohibitive to completely out of reach. The fact that that a high maintenance life-style is so often framed as \u201ctaking care of oneself\u201d and treated as something that merely requires the time, effort, and care speaks volumes about how much the middle and upper class take money and disposable income for granted.\nIn my college years I asked a coworker how it was that so many people we knew had money to travel. I lived like a monk, worked for the some wages that these people worked for, yet I could not for the life me see how they did it. His answer was, \u201cTrust funds.\u201d When I realized that so many of my \u201cworking class\u201d acquaintances were actually wealthy a lot fell in to place. I felt betrayed and like I had been a working class \u201cpet\u201d \u2014- the \u201creal deal.\u201d\nNonPhilosophyGrad says:\n@62 and those who agreed:\nSome of these generalizations (#62) seem a bit much, right? Many from the \u201cmiddle and upper class\u201d (#62) have radically unusual life experiences, are so-called \u2018fat and ugly,\u2019 are transgender, or have other impediments (below) to talking to Deans, wine tasting, making friends, gaining acceptance, etc.\nI guess, having been bulimic and alienated and teased my whole life (boo hoo, I know), it is so awkward to see \u201credneck\u201d or architecture and classical music listed as true grievances (relevant to alienation), listed in the same posts/paragraphs as racist hatespeech! Another way of saying it is: I see such great reasons R.Kukla\u2019s son should grow up without financial worries, and such great reasons some struggling kid should be able to go into philosophy. I am willing to put aside my own fears and insecurities and fight for those things, even in this competitive, stressful world, and those reasons make reading this blog valuable and redemptive.\nI can\u2019t say I feel the same way about some of the grievances you listed. I think hearing them listed as grievances, under the assumption they count as peculiar alienation, or that they count as some radically different life experience and discomfort above that which any human would know (humans who you take to all the same (apparently) in their life experiences)\u2026hearing this does not compel people to step outside of themselves, particularly if they perceive their own alienation as having been very difficult as well.\nApologies for the anonymous post (bulimia embarassing.) Thanks all for the discussion, and I am ashamed of myself when seeing how thoughtful and considerate all of you are about these issues.\nI\u2019m not sure at what point I suggested that the \u201cgrievances\u201d I listed were supporting some claim that no one else in philosophy had any grievances or experienced any alienation. That\u2019s because I didn\u2019t suggest that. I was pointing out, in the second post, ways in which class contributes to alienation in philosophy, and in the first post, examples of overt classist things that I witnessed. I think I successfully did that. I made no claims about the relative harms of such overt classism vs. overt racism, sexism, etc.\nBut, in addition, it\u2019s not my job to \u201ccompel people to step outside of themselves, particularly if they perceive their own alienation as having been very difficult as well\u201d, and I\u2019m tired of being told that it is. I feel this way also about gender and race stuff. If I directly and clearly state exactly what sort of behaviour someone is engaging in that is racist, or sexist, or classist, I often get told (both by allies and non-allies) that I am not \u201chelping\u201d nor \u201cdoing what\u2019s most likely to create change in these people\u201d because I am making people uncomfortable/defensive. If you are unhappy with my very clear statement of some of the barriers people not from middle/upper class backgrounds face, and if you want to minimize the things I said by trying to compare them to things that you think actually matter (bulimia, racism (both of which, by the way, I think matter, a lot)), then go ahead. I\u2019m not here to convince you that there\u2019s a problem if you are already convinced that people from the working class are just whining about their problems, which can\u2019t possibly be as bad as your own problems. I\u2019m not here to get in a war about whose personal life problems are worse, mine or yours. That was not the point of my post. Everyone feels alienated for some reason or other. Everyone has had difficult life experiences. It\u2019s not always the job of the person who is pointing out systematic injustice (which I think there is in the case of class issues, both in philosophy and in academia as a whole) to helpfully relate it to her interlocutor\u2019s experience and make sure that she emphasizes that it\u2019s probably not as bad as what her interlocutor has been through.\nFinally, the \u201cit\u2019s not as bad as racism\u201d card has been played A LOT by people who were trying to reinforce sexist norms, both in our profession and in more general social discourse. I hope that we can all see what is wrong with playing that card when we are dealing with a systematic injustice, and try to not play it in other cases (e.g. ablism, classism).\n\u201cif you are already convinced that people from the working class are just whining about their problems, which can\u2019t possibly be as bad as your own problem\u201d\nI made no general statement about the working class (I was clearly talking about YOU, and to a much lesser extent #63), and your modal operator\u2019s completely inappropriate (of course they could \u201cpossibly\u201d be as bad, and I made EXTREMELY clear the problems that are, and I am even today helping to fix them.) This quote of yours was, to put it nicely, not completely fair to my original post.\nThat aside, after reading your post I want to apologize to you, or anyone who was offended (I am not just apologizing that you were offended. I am apologizing for my words.) I agree totally with your last sentence and will try to do better. My ENTIRE ISSUE was that you blithely assumed only certain people would have trouble making friends or fitting in (which, face it, you did\u2026and you have now in this new post retracted that claim and made a more amiable and plausible sounding claim. Thank you.)\nPer Dr. Jacobson\u2019s usual suggestion, I will not post anymore in the interest of the comments\u2019 integrity. Best of luck to you, Anon.\nSo it is clear this is to what I was referring. Very well said and I will try to do better.\n\u201cMy ENTIRE ISSUE was that you blithely assumed only certain people would have trouble making friends or fitting in (which, face it, you did\u2026and you have now in this new post retracted that claim and made a more amiable and plausible sounding claim. Thank you.)\u201d\nPlease read my comment #62 and point to where I assumed that. I explicitly stated that this was a problem on many different fronts, and not exclusively a class issue. I am not retracting a single thing that I said in either comment.\nPhilosopher, you write:\n\u201cthis (demonstrative with which you refer to \u201calienated/alone/unable\u201d) is\u2026another stumbling block that people who come from backgrounds (some of which you list) outside the middle and upper class face in academia.\u201d\nSo the form of the claim is \u201cX is a stumbling block that people who come from Y outside Z face.\u201d So the assumption (for which you ask) is that people from within Z do not face X (this must be the assumption, or the assertion loses meaning.) This claim is trivially false when X is alienation (unless you mean only a certain kind of alienation faced by those from Y, but that was the whole issue! Alienation of any kind is incompatible with the claim.) And you cannot wiggle out of this by, as you did in your last post, substituting anything in for X (look at your HORRIBLY unfair quote from 69) and accusing me of that which I quoted in 69 (which you apparently will not retract, unfair though it was. Comment?)\nNow to your new post:\n\u201cEveryone feels alienated for one reason or another,\u201d using the operators and their meanings above, means roughly \u201cEveryone feels X.\u201d Thus, it is a \u201cretraction\u201d in the familiar sense of the word. QED, and the \u201cpointing to\u201d for which you asked. It was just this small quote of yours which made me feel better, and you should feel good that we have reconciled over the matter. I am truly sorry for the other things I said and I hope we can get along in the future on this board. You are clearly a very thoughtful person and I appreciate you helping me to think about these issues. But if you persist in saying every sentence you\u2019ve made is fair (69) and coherent (above), I don\u2019t know what else to say. Let\u2019s agree to stop, OK?\nIt\u2019s clear that what is important to you is to \u201cwin\u201d this exchange. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m here for. I almost never post on blogs, and I did here because this issue is important to me and because I feel like it is completely invisible to most philosophers. I hope everyone reads my earlier posts, takes them seriously, and, more importantly, takes seriously what others (especially Rebecca, Katy, Matt) have been saying here. Thanks a bunch, Rebecca, for sparking this discussion!\nThe reasoning above seems pretty weird to me. If I say \u201cx is a problem for group y (where z is the more typical non-y group)\u201d then your thought is that this implies that x isn\u2019t also a problem for those in group z, or other subgroups in z. But that seems false. For example, \u201cdiabetes is a problem for those who are obese\u201d seems true, even though it\u2019s just that we see elivated levels of diabetes among the obese rather than no diabetes among the non-obese. Similarly \u201ccold weather is a problem for those with Reynaud\u2019s syndrome\u201d seems true even though it just that people with Reynaud\u2019s syndrome face a more extreme problem when it\u2019s cold than those without the syndrome (even if everyone finds cold weather problematic in some less extreme form). These assertions certainly don\u2019t seem to lose meaning, and class-based problems certainly seem like they could be analogous to the \u201cx is a problem more often/to a greater extent for group y\u201d structure.\nAgreed with A, on the reasoning, and agreed with Anonymous grad student that this exchange has developed into a contest, whether intentionally or no, and agree with NonPhilosophy Grad that agreeing to stop is very much okay. So let\u2019s move along here. I want to add, though, that whether the exchanges between commenters have always been kind, they have at least aimed for serious consideration of important issues.\nThe Importance of Philosophy | Dylan Rainwalker says:\n[\u2026] Rebecca Kukla in 3 AM Magazine (feministphilosophers.wordpress.com) [\u2026]\nThe Adversarial Method: Where\u2019s Moulton? | White Rabbits N Red Queens says:\n[\u2026] with Rebecca Kukla. Kukla said some things about the adversarial method in philosophy, with whichJenny Saul disagreed. You can find a response by Eric Schliesser here, and from there links to another response or [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 432, "original_length": 78852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://figgeartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/view/john-bloom-close-to-home/15/view/war-and-remembrance-erwing-eischs-night-of-the-crystal-death-portfolio/135", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:29Z", "digest": "sha1:AVX27AQJITQ5YRSYNJLOFITIYWNNNSQB", "length": 1695, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "figgeartmuseum.org", "title": "Figge Art Museum \u203a View", "raw_content": "In 1992 Erwin Eisch (b. 1927) created a series of works in response to the words \u201ccrystal night\u201d for the American Interfaith Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The words, which are a reference to Kristallnacht, prompted Eisch to create a series of works known as the Night of the Crystal Death portfolio.\nRather than rely photographs, Eisch turned to his childhood memories and recent feelings to enrich his work. Eisch\u2019s village of Frauenau in Germany, home to a 600 year old glass industry, did not suffer the violent riots that swept through Germany and Austria in November 1938. However, Eisch remembers a childhood of fear, uncertainty, and poverty. Later in life, Eisch grappled with the burden of shame laid upon all native Germans for the atrocities of the Second World War and Shoah (the Holocaust). These emotions are expressed through Eisch\u2019s spontaneous use of line, relatable forms, and identifiable symbols in his prints.\nOften Eisch takes a humanist approach in dealing with global issues in his art. Here his craft and hand augment his interpretation of the riots of November 1938. Made from engraved glass plates, the viteograph prints focus on the human aspects from that night \u2013 the shared and individual memories of pain, loss, anger, and hatred \u2013 instead of a literal interpretation of shattered glass and racial prejudice.\nWorks on loan from the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities\nThis exhibition can be viewed February 25 \u2013 May 3, 2012\nThe Singh Group \u2022 Merrill Lynch\nErwin Eisch, Opus 9 from the Night of the Crystal Death portfolio, 1992, viteograph print on paper.\nOn loan to the Figge Art Museum from the collection of the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 407, "original_length": 15434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/adm-tronics-investor-123000682.html?.tsrc=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7AJ33JQYXX3ZAXPBDMY5LS5YZ6Q64T5E", "length": 4029, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "finance.yahoo.com", "title": "ADM Tronics Investor Update", "raw_content": "ADM Tronics Investor Update\nACCESSWIRE May 2, 2018\nNORTHVALE, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / May 2, 2018 / ADM Tronics Unlimited, Inc. (OTCQB: ADMT) today issued the following investor update:\nMarch 31, 2018 marked the completion of ADMT's fiscal year. It also marked the planned inception of the Company's new business model - to re-position ADMT as a developer of its own \"brand name\" medical technologies. Management is thankful for the combined efforts of its Medical Device Engineering Services division and Aqua Based Technologies division for generating record revenues and profits over the past three years. These revenues and profits were then invested in the Company's future success, allowing it to develop its own suite of disruptive medical technologies, which are planned to be launched over the next twelve months. Management anticipates that the success of any one of these new medical technologies could be responsible for dramatic growth in company revenues. Additionally, management believes that one or more of ADMT's technologies has the potential to become a standard of care for certain medical protocols.\nThis planned strategy by management puts ADMT competing directly in the field of medical technology. ADMT possesses a forward thinking, multidisciplinary staff of medical technology engineers and technologists, the latest R&D and manufacturing equipment, plus an FDA compliance department with an outstanding record of regulatory expertise, essential for launching new medical technologies in the US and worldwide.\nAndre' DiMino, CEO of ADMT commented, \"Our efforts have not gone unnoticed.\" ADMT has been featured in medical and technology publications, most recently ADMT was profiled in the April 15 edition of Embedded Advisor Magazine as one of the Top 20 Medical Devices Design & Solution Provider for 2018 (embeddedadvisor.com). In addition, ADMT subsidiary Aurex International's first product, Tinnitus & Hearing Shield, has garnered attention in the industry such as on Health Tech Insider - https://healthtechinsider.com/2018/02/21/new-earplug-promises-tinnitus-protection/\nAbout ADMT\nADMT is a diversified, technology-based developer and manufacturer of innovative technologies and products. Its core competency is its ability to conceptualize a technology, bring it through development, into manufacturing and commercialization, all in-house. ADMT has three areas of activity: Proprietary Electronic Medical Devices; Design, Engineering, Regulatory and Manufacturing Services and Eco-Friendly, Safe, Water-Based Formulations. The Company's headquarters, laboratories, FDA-Registered medical device and manufacturing operations are located in NJ, Northvale . ADMT's multi-disciplinary team of engineers, researchers and technologists utilize advanced technology infrastructure, such as 3-D solid prototyping, precision instrumentation and specialized software and peripherals, for the research, development and commercialization of diversified technologies. Additional information is available at the Company's websites - admtronics.com and concepttoquantity.com.\nExcept for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are \"forward looking\" statements (as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995), including statements regarding future revenue growth and performance. Although ADMT believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that its expectations will be realized. Forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Factors that could contribute to such differences include those described from time to time in ADMT's filings with the SEC, news releases and other communications. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this news release.\nContact: Andre' DiMino 201-767-6040, andre@admtronics.com\nSOURCE: ADM Tronics Unlimited, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 7497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-customers-start-losing-7-161241338.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HVELOM43EH53TKKJ4X22UYAVQGDLQ2MU", "length": 2626, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "finance.yahoo.com", "title": "Tesla customers will start losing a $7,500 tax credit in 2019 (TSLA)", "raw_content": "Tesla customers will start losing a $7,500 tax credit in 2019 (TSLA)\nTesla confirmed to Business Insider that it had passed the 200,000-vehicle threshold.\nThe credit will begin to phase out for Tesla customers in January and will no longer be available in January 2020.\nTesla has sold 200,000 electric vehicles in the US, Electrek first reported Thursday, which means its customers will start to lose access to a $7,500 tax credit.\nThe federal government gives people who buy electric vehicles a tax credit of $2,500 to $7,500, depending on the vehicle's size and battery capacity. As Tesla wrote in an annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Committee in February, its customers get the full $7,500. But two calendar quarters after a company sells its 200,000th electric vehicle in the US, the tax credit begins to phase out.\nFor the first six months of the phaseout, customers are eligible for 50% of the credit. That falls to 25% during the six months after that. After the full year, the company's customers are no longer eligible for that tax credit.\nThat means Tesla customers will be able to receive the full credit until January, when they will be eligible for half of the credit for six months. Starting next July, they will be able to get one-fourth the credit. The credit will expire for Tesla customers in January 2020.\nTesla is the first automaker to begin the credit phaseout, which is sure to affect at least some customers who have preordered the company\u2019s Model 3 sedan. As of July 2, the company said it had about 420,000 preorders for the vehicle that had not been fulfilled, and customers are not entitled to the tax credit until their vehicle is delivered.\nThe Model 3, which starts at $35,000, was designed to broaden Tesla's customer base beyond the luxury segment and accelerate the pace of electric-vehicle adoption. The company made 41,029 Model 3s from the vehicle's July 2017 launch to the end of last month.\nAt the end of June, Tesla allowed those with Model 3 reservations to configure and order their vehicles, though the $35,000 base model is not yet available. A Tesla representative told Business Insider it would be available in six to nine months for those who had already made reservations. That's longer than a timeline given by CEO Elon Musk in May, when he said the $35,000 option could become available between September and December.\nNOW WATCH: This impact investor says stop trying to help people without including them in the conversation\nSEE ALSO: Some Tesla employees reportedly develop a zombie-like 'Tesla stare' after working shifts that can last up to 16 hours", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 6549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://firedoors.bwf.org.uk/how-safe-are-your-fire-doors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WM6CRJNMVBLZLI5YUTXLVJ4WVAZTLDI3", "length": 1263, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "firedoors.bwf.org.uk", "title": "How Safe are YOUR Fire Doors - Firedoor Alliance", "raw_content": "Manufacturers often make claims that their products are tested and achieve a certain performance level.\nBut did the products pass that test? And if so, then how do they prove it?\nIn the UK, all fire door designs should be tested to BS 476 Part 22 or the European equivalent BS EN 1634 Part 1, to represent how they will function in a fire, and that the manufacturer can demonstrate that there is evidence supporting the performance of the door.\nIt is important for a manufacturer to demonstrate that the products they make are consistently \u2018fit for purpose\u2019 and that passing the fire test wasn\u2019t a one-off event.\nThird-party certification tests and verifies a fire door\u2019s design, performance, manufacturing process and quality assurance from manufacture to installation.\nThe company is independently audited to ensure that all the management and manufacturing processes and systems are in place to ensure consistency with the product that was tested.\nThe product too, is subjected to regular scrutiny, with frequent testing taking place on standard products to ensure that the test wasn\u2019t just a once-only event.\nMake sure your fire doors are safe by only using third-party certificated and accredited fire doors or doorsets.\nDownload our Fact Card on this topic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fluz.app/help/knowledgebase/if-i-do-not-complete-bonus-challenges-will-i-be-able-to-earn-through-the-main-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:TL4XFTRQMX3DZFFAZ667RIYJ6C7AFZYM", "length": 906, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "fluz.app", "title": "If I do not complete bonus challenges, will I be able to earn through the main program? \u2013 Fluz Knowledge Base", "raw_content": "Yes, you will still be able to earn from your own cash back purchases, as well as the purchases of those in your network. The bonus challenges are there for those that wish to supercharge their earning potential to the next level, however they are not a requirement, and those that do not wish to complete them can still earn a healthy amount without meeting the bonus challenge conditions.\nTo earn from the main program, all you need to do is simply shop with your favorite merchants through the Fluz app, and grow your network through inviting or allowing indirect network connections to form over time. For a more detailed overview on how to unlock the full potential of the income derived from your network, see here.\nWhile this more passive approach is still viable, those with the inclination to complete challenges will see a much more rapid increase in their monthly take home through the Fluz app.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forextv.com/top-news/henry-tirri-joins-interdigital-as-chief-technology-officer/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WVP4UJEWJB525UJ65QCYR37UXUW7PJTJ", "length": 3671, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "forextv.com", "title": "Henry Tirri Joins InterDigital as Chief Technology Officer - ForexTV", "raw_content": "Microencapsulation Market Size Worth USD 15.00 billion by 2026: Acumen Research and Consulting\nHome / Top News / Henry Tirri Joins InterDigital as Chief Technology Officer\nHenry Tirri Joins InterDigital as Chief Technology Officer\nPosted by: Nasdaq NewsFeed in Top News May 17, 2018\nFormer Harman, Nokia Executive Brings Wealth of Experience Across Multiple Mobile-enabled Technology Segments\nWILMINGTON, Del., May 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Henry Tirri as Chief Technology Officer.\nDr. Tirri is a technology executive with deep experience in a variety of technology areas, including areas of increasing relevance to mobile such as artificial intelligence, automotive and data analytics, among others. Dr. Tirri was formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Harman International Industries (HARMAN) and previously led connected car research and development at the company. Prior to HARMAN, Dr. Tirri occupied a variety of roles over more than a decade at Nokia, including Executive Vice President and Head of Technologies Business, Chief Technology Officer, and Senior Vice President and Head of the Nokia Research Center.\n\u201cHenry Tirri is a recognized visionary technologist, and a great addition to the InterDigital team as we broaden our technology footprint and as mobile technology enters an ever-widening array of new industry segments,\u201d said William J. Merritt, President and CEO of InterDigital. \u201cInterDigital is entering an exciting period, with the impact of our longtime technology area \u2013 wireless \u2013 continuing to grow and with the company expanding into new areas like sensor technology and video. Henry\u2019s broad experience and deep rooting in R&D are tremendous assets to the company at a time of unprecedented opportunity for InterDigital.\u201d\nIn his new role at InterDigital, Dr. Tirri will lead the company\u2019s technology vision and strategy, including the evolution of the company\u2019s technology road map. Working closely with other executives, Dr. Tirri will partner with internal R&D efforts, external investments and corporate development in executing the company\u2019s technology vision.\nMost recently, Dr. Tirri served in an advisory role with multinational banking corporation BBVA. He holds a PhD in computer science from University of Helsinki, has held professorships at University of Helsinki, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, and Aalto University, and is a Fellow of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT).\nInterDigital develops mobile technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry\u2019s most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world\u2019s leading wireless companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400\u00ae index.\nInterDigital Contact:\nBroadwind Energy to Announce Q4 and Full-Year 2018 Results on February 26 - February 15, 2019\nMicroencapsulation Market Size Worth USD 15.00 billion by 2026: Acumen Research and Consulting - February 15, 2019\n200 First Responders to participate in Texas A&M Task Force 1 full-scale drill at Disaster City\u00ae - February 15, 2019\nPrevious: In Silicon Valley, Chinese \u2018accelerators\u2019 aim to bring startups home\nNext: Resolutions passed by the annual general meeting and the board of directors of Next Games Corporation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 10197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=267&postid=3183&univpostid=3183&pview=t", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OXAJNLS5XGCBTNFKUWCDN4GIWTY2MIPJ", "length": 5876, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "forums.creativecow.net", "title": "Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films : TV & Movie Appreciation", "raw_content": "Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films\nI went to a screening of all the Academy Award nominated short films over the weekend. It was a great showcase of different animation styles and storytelling. I think I'm going to have to start doing this every year. Here's a rundown of the cool little films (none more than 15 minutes) I saw:\nWell, I actually didn't like this first one very much. It was about a kid who has a routine every Sunday, and starts to daydream things to make it more interesting. But it had a very slow pace for a 10 minute film, and the intentionally sloppy hand drawn style grew tiresome to me after a while. It just kind of started and ended on dull notes. Only slightly amusing.\n

Dimanche / Sunday (trailer) from doiion on Vimeo.

\nI liked this one a lot. Very short, very simple absurdist concept, and very funny. It was about a similar encounter with a chicken walking down the street on three separate occasions, each occasion using a different animation style. I don't think it has a chance of winning the award, but it's really cool that it even got nominated. (it DID however, just win the Short Animated Film BAFTA Award last night...! So who knows?!)\n

A MORNING STROLL ( Trailer) from STUDIO AKA on Vimeo.

\nThis one was just spectacular! All animated with what appears to be a hand painted style, it's the story of an English slacker who moves to the Canadian wilderness with dreams of becoming a rancher. He doesn't quite live up to expectations, but comically (at least at first) over exaggerates his situation to his parents via letters he writes back to England (which makes up the narration of the film). It's funny, striking, and ultimately depressing. This was my favorite of all the short animated films I saw.\n(I couldn't find a working video of it, so a picture will have to suffice)\n\nAwesome computer animated short about a character who, in the midst of writing a book, gets swept up in a storm (which featured a great action sequence), and lands in a colorful world where books can fly. But he is incapable of flying, as he has lost the words to the book he was writing in the storm. So he dedicates his life to heping others find books in this new land. This was probably the most well rounded of all the films. Very imaginative ideas and very clean and fluid animation. It definitely has a feeling of wonder, and best of all, kind of leaves you with a sweet feeling by the end. It's the best propaganda for getting people to read books that I've seen in a long time.\nYou can actually see the ENTIRE film right here on Vimeo, check it out!\n

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

\nThis was Pixar's contribution to the showcase. Overall, it was decent. It's probably best not to really spoil anything about the story. I think the best word to describe it is... cute. It's very cute. It has a cool ending as well. It would have been nice to start with this one, as it felt less spectacular when it followed the book one.\n\nI'd put my money on The Flying Books to win the award. It's got spectacle, good animation, and a good message/story. I liked Wild Life a little better, but I think it might be too abstract to win. La Luna was a brief, cute concept, with pretty animation. A Morning Stroll is also probably too \"pop culturey\" to win the Oscar, but it was pretty funny. Demanche better not win.\nThey were also kind enough to play some honorable mentions at the showcase:\nThis was a 5 minute faux public service announcement for damaging the ozone layer, and it was hilarious. 10x better than Demanche.\nhttp://www.skylight-short.com/\nHybrid Union\nInteresting concept about old resources vs self sustainable ones, using racing robots in a desert as examples.\nhttp://www.thehybridunion.com/HybridUnion.html\nI actually found this one kind of annoying. And it had a terrible ending. This was the only one I didn't like more than Dimanche.\nhttp://www.amazoniamovie.com/\nAction film about two guys having a conflict while driving on Australia's longest open stretch of road. It didn't have the greatest animation style in the world, but that didn't take away from the fact it was fun!\nhttp://www.nullarborshortfilm.com/\nRe: Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films\nThanks for sharing Scott. I am going to see the show here tonight. Well, I'm for sure seeing the live action shorts, hoping to catch the animations too. Are you going to see live action shorts before the show?\nI've never had a chance to see these before the big show, so I'm hoping that this will give me a boost in my Oscar pool!\n[Jeff Breuer] \" Are you going to see live action shorts before the show?\"\nNo, I really want to, but I won't have time to go to the theater that's screening them again this weekend... Give us a quick summary of what's good or bad when you get a chance (if you'd like to, of course!). Give us all an edge in our Oscar pools!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 6695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forwhatsaiththescriptures.org/2015/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DFBRVZBDYUEML4OTGW344KHWN7U7YJKF", "length": 56445, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "forwhatsaiththescriptures.org", "title": "June | 2015 | For What Saith the Scriptures?", "raw_content": "Why does Romans 3:30 read \u201cby faith\u201d and \u201cthrough faith?\u201d\n\u201cSeeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith\u201d (Romans 3:30). Why does the King James Bible say, \u201ccircumcision by faith\u201d and \u201cuncircumcision through faith?\u201d There is a difference, but why is there a difference? (This distinction is lost in modern English versions such as New Revised Standard Version [NRSV], the Living Bible, and the New Living Translation [NLT].) What is the significance? We will search the Scriptures for the answer.\nThe word \u201ccircumcision\u201d here is a reference to the nation Israel, and \u201cuncircumcision\u201d refers to the Gentiles (nations). But, why this difference of \u201cby faith\u201d for Israel and \u201cthrough faith\u201d for Gentiles? While not original to me, I will be glad to tell you the best explanation that I have found.\nThe expression \u201cby faith\u201d emphasizes the means or mechanism, the agency. It is this that is emphatic in Israel\u2019s salvation. In Israel\u2019s program, a Jew needs to positively respond to what God is saying or doing. Remember, \u201cSo then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God\u201d (Romans 10:17). Unbelieving Israel did not have faith. They just had works, and works alone have never saved anyone (in our Dispensation of Grace or in Israel\u2019s prophetic program).\nLike so many religious people today, the nation Israel wrongly believed that they could work to please God. They believed their Law-keeping would make them righteous before God. Yet, they had no faith in His Word to them. They worshipped the Mosaic Law and ignored/rejected Jesus Christ whom the Law described. Note the following passages, for example:\nRomans 9:31-33: \u201c[31] But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. [32] Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; [33] As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.\u201d\nRomans 10:1-3: \u201c[1] Brethren, my heart\u2019s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. [2] For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. [3] For they being ignorant of God\u2019s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.\u201d\nGalatians 3:21-23: \u201c[21] Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. [22] But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. [23] But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.\u201d\nJohn 5:39,46-47: \u201c[39] Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. [46] For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. [47] But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?\u201d\n\u201cBy faith\u201d shows Israel that they cannot be saved/justified by their works. They wrongly thought they could (for instance, see the attitude of a Pharisee in Luke 18:9-14).\nThe expression \u201cthrough faith\u201d emphasizes the system or process. We are saved by the faith of Christ (emphatic in the Gentiles\u2019 salvation):\nGalatians 2:16,20: \u201c[16] Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified\u2026. [20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.\u201d\nGalatians 3:8,14: \u201c[8] And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed\u2026. [14] That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.\u201d\n\u201cThrough faith\u201d is the system or process through which one participates in what God is saying or doing. Today, the system of faith is emphasized; the system of our works/Law-keeping is not the issue. Our faith in Jesus Christ\u2019s finished crosswork (that crosswork being His faith) is the mechanism whereby God justifies us before Himself.\nPosted in BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS / CONFUSING VERSES SIMPLIFIED, Why does Romans 3:30 read \u201cby faith\u201d and \u201cthrough faith?\u201d\nIs there \u201chealing in the Atonement?\u201d\nPentecostals and other Charismatics hold to the doctrine of \u201chealing in the Atonement.\u201d Predicated upon Isaiah 53:5, the basic idea is that Jesus Christ purchased physical healing for us at Calvary (the word \u201cAtonement\u201d obviously being Christ\u2019s sacrificial death). Is this really what the Prophet Isaiah was saying in that famous passage? We will look at God\u2019s Word and see what it actually says.\nIndeed, Isaiah 53:5 says of Messiah\u2019s crosswork, \u201cBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.\u201d But, before we just grab the part of the verse we like and make it say something we want it to say, we need to let the Bible interpret itself. We do not need a lexicon, Dr. \u201cSo-and-So\u2019s\u201d commentary, or some denominational handbook to explain Isaiah. The Holy Spirit Himself will teach us. Will we be willing to hear Him and conclude that just maybe He might be right?\nIt is supposed that, through Jesus\u2019 shed blood, we have the authority to declare healing and recovery from every disease and illness. If we are Christians, we should not be sick or dying. According to these \u201chealing-in-the-Atonement\u201d adherents, Calvary\u2019s cross is the means whereby Father God has guaranteed us Christians physical healing. We just have to claim that deliverance in \u201cJesus\u2019 name.\u201d We are told not to believe the diagnoses from medical professionals. While they see cancer in us, heart disease in us, or some other verifiable medical condition, we are told to ignore that reality and live in a delusional world. We are urged to declare, \u201cI have Jesus not cancer! I have Jesus not a knee injury or back pain! I have Jesus, Jesus, Jesus\u2026.\u201d Surely, dear friends, this assumption is extremely dangerous, spiritually and physically. In fact, it is not faith at all. It is unbelief!\nThe Apostle Peter quoted Isaiah 53:5 in 1 Peter 2:24. We will look at this verse in context: \u201c[21] For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: [22] Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: [23] Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: [24] Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. [25] For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.\u201d Through Peter, the Holy Spirit interpreted Isaiah 53:5 for us. The healing is not physical healing. It is a spiritual healing, a healing of the soul, forgiveness of sins, the spirit given life. He \u201cbare our sins in his own body on the tree\u201d is indicative of spiritual healing rather than physical healing.\nBy the way, the verse before Isaiah 53:5, verse 4 of Isaiah chapter 53, is a reference to physical healing under special circumstances: \u201cSurely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.\u201d The Holy Spirit interpreted this verse for us in Matthew 8:16-17: \u201c[16] When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: [17] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.\u201d Isaiah 53:4 predicted Messiah\u2019s healing ministry, the miraculous demonstrations that validated the Gospel of the Kingdom that He and His apostles preached. The sicknesses that brought Israel sorrow, Jesus came and healed them. Their infirmities that brought them grief, Jesus came and healed them. Please make special note that Jesus\u2019 earthly ministry of healing miracles occurred before the cross, not at the cross or through the cross.\nInterestingly, when James wrote about physical healing (James 5:13-15), He did not quote Isaiah 53:5, \u201cwith his stripes we are healed.\u201d Is that not a demonstration that the \u201chealing\u201d of Isaiah 53:5 is a different type of healing than that of James 5:13-15? The Apostle, and the Holy Spirit guiding him, knew this to be true, and thus did not quote the verse. Another fascinating tidbit is that James 5:13-15 is a passage of Scripture commonly appealed to in order to support modern-day healing crusades. Evidently, unlike those who like to quote him, James did not believe there was physical healing in the Atonement.\nThose physical healing verses referenced above were not written to or about us in this the Dispensation of the Grace of God. When advising sick Timothy, Paul never told him, \u201cClaim your healing in the Atonement, Timothy! God has promised you deliverance from those sicknesses! You are a Christian and you are not supposed to be ill!\u201d Yea, on the contrary, Paul instructed Timothy to use wine\u2014medicine\u2014for his stomach problems and his frequent sicknesses (1 Timothy 5:23). The Apostle also admitted that, in his last epistle, he had to leave a brother in Christ sick at Miletum: there was no miraculous healing for Trophimus in 2 Timothy 4:20. Moreover, there was no physical healing for Paul himself in Acts 16:22-23,33 (when he was beaten with \u201cmany stripes\u201d); 2 Corinthians 11:22-28 (his various health risks and injuries sustained in the ministry); 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (which included his \u201cinfirmities\u201d); and Galatians 4:13-15 (his \u201cinfirmity of the flesh,\u201d possibly a reference to partial blindness in light of Galatians 6:11).\nThe danger in claiming physical healing through Calvary\u2019s cross is that well-meaning and desperate people often overlook the spiritual healing available through Calvary. It is a focus on the temporary healing of a body that will go to the grave and rot and decay, rather than an emphasis on the salvation of the spiritual body that will last forever. One day, we who have relied exclusively on the Lord Jesus Christ, His perfect sacrifice at Calvary for our sins, will receive glorified bodies fashioned like His body (Philippians 3:20-21). The fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians goes into great detail about that resurrection of Christians at the Rapture, when Jesus Christ comes to take His Body into the heavenly places. You can read more about that in your own personal Bible study.\nWe read in Romans 8:18,22-24: \u201c[18] For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us\u2026. [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. [24] For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?\u201d\nIn the above verses, Paul talked about how we suffer under the curse of sin. Even as Christians, our bodies grow sick and eventually die. Being a child of God does not insulate us from illness and it does not guarantee us good health. As long as God continues to operate our program, Israel\u2019s program will be postponed, and as long as Israel\u2019s program is postponed, the curse of sin being lifted (in Israel\u2019s kingdom) is also delayed. Anyone who says otherwise is not sound in his or her theology.\nHence, we read Paul\u2019s words in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18: \u201c[16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. [17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; [18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.\u201d\nWhile known for his \u201cfaith-healing testimonies,\u201d his \u201cmiracle water,\u201d and other religious trinkets, a television preacher had to admit recently that he was growing older and weaker, his head was balding, and he and his wife were getting more and more wrinkles on their skin. He read 2 Corinthians 4:16 on-air, and then commented, \u201cOur outward bodies are perishing [decaying and dying].\u201d Brethren, talk about religious tomfoolery, talk about dishonesty! As a dear brother in Christ always says, \u201cAll the healing claims aside, the death rate is still one-a-piece!\u201d\nBeloved, all the religious nonsense aside, and in contradistinction to the \u201chealing-in-the-Atonement\u201d doctrine, the Bible view is, we are subject to sickness, we can and do have sickness, and whether well or sick, we still have Jesus. It is not that we ignore our sickness and refuse medical treatment. We have sickness and we also have Jesus Christ. It is not \u201cWe have Jesus not sickness.\u201d Whether or not we live with a sickness for the rest of our earthly lives is irrelevant. God\u2019s grace is still sufficient in all troubles, as Paul learned about his own trials, tribulations, and illnesses (2 Corinthians 12:7-12). We can glory in our tribulations (Romans 5:1-5), find value in those trials and troubles. Whether or not that sickness is terminal (takes our life) is irrelevant. God has given us the grace to endure all of life\u2019s troubles (Philippians 4:13). We can use the eyes of faith to see that these problems are only temporary. Thank God that they are not forever. Compared to eternity, they are a simple blink of the eye, a fraction of a second, nothing. The Lord Jesus Christ is with us, in health or in sickness!\nResearch into the history of the \u201chealing-in-the-Atonement\u201d tenant yields proof that it has left many deceived, disappointed, and dead people in its wake. Innumerable souls disregarded medical advice because they did not understand God\u2019s Word rightly divided. Until the day that their lives were taken by the various diseases that religion said they did not suffer from, they kept quoting God\u2019s healing verses to Israel as though those verses were given to them in the current dispensation. They found false hope and pseudo-peace in divine words given to others. Not only were they deceived by others, they deceived others with their own actions, and wrested God\u2019s Word in the process.\nThere is spiritual healing available through Jesus Christ\u2019s work at Calvary\u2019s cross. In Christ, there is forgiveness of sins, abounding grace, unparalleled peace, everlasting love, and eternal life in heaven. All that we need is ours in Jesus Christ. We have not been promised miraculous bodily healing in this the Dispensation of Grace. God has given us medical professionals, medicine, and immune systems, and if they cannot help us, all the more reason to move on into heaven and get that new body, one that will never grow sick or old but will last forever! \ud83d\ude42\n\u00bb What about \u201cmodern-day faith healing?\u201d\nPosted in BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS / CONFUSING VERSES SIMPLIFIED, DISPENSATIONAL BIBLE STUDY, Is there \u201chealing in the Atonement?\u201d, Is there \u201chealing in the Atonement?\u201d\nShould women serve in the ministry?\nSHOULD WOMEN SERVE IN THE MINISTRY? IF SO, HOW?\nWhat role, if any, should women play in the Christian ministry? Should women be pastors, evangelists, or Bible teachers? What about the prophetesses in the Bible? Does that mean there are female prophets today in the Body of Christ? Is the Spirit of God leading women today to head churches and ministries?\nWhile this is a very delicate and often controversial topic, we have no interest whatsoever in supporting any denominational viewpoint! If we are Bible believers, then we must be Bible students. We cannot believe something we have neither read nor studied. We need to be honest with ourselves and the Bible text. If we are merely interested in maintaining a church tradition, we are not Bible believers, but \u201ctradition believers.\u201d Dear friends, let us search the Scriptures to see how God used and uses Christian women to accomplish His will. Brethren, that is the sure way to be Bible believers!\nARE GOD AND THE APOSTLE PAUL MISOGYNISTIC?\nBefore we begin, it is important to note that the Apostle Paul has often been accused of misogyny. His epistles are commonly viewed as hateful toward women. I do not doubt that people in Paul\u2019s day called him a \u201cwoman hater.\u201d After all, they do it today! Let it be clearly understood here. God does not hate women, Paul did not hate women, and I do not hate women. Anyone who says God hates women has not read their Bible. Considering the treatment of women in Bible days, especially in non-Christian cultures, Christianity was influential in liberating and honoring women. Anyone who says Paul hated women obviously glossed over what the Apostle wrote in Romans 16:1-6, Ephesians 5:25-33, Colossians 3:19, and 2 Timothy 1:5. Anyone who says that I hate women is someone who really knows nothing about what I have written about them.\nGOD\u2019S DESIGN IN CREATION REGARDING ORDER\nWhile God does not hate women, He has established an order in creation. Let it be clearly understood here that there is a divine order regarding sexes. If we rebel against the way the Creator God designed human life to function, we will doubtless have unanswerable confusion and endless trouble. Our marriages will be ruined and our family lives will be wrecked. Immediately after the Fall of man into sin, God said to Eve, \u201c\u2026thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee\u201d (Genesis 3:16). This is not\u2014I repeat, NOT\u2014instructing husbands to bully their wives and/or treat them as slaves. The verse is talking about a spiritual headship. God has established an order in creation. We would do well if we just followed what God decreed, rather than abusing the order (male chauvinism) or disregarding it entirely (feminism).\nThe Creator God has divinely appointed men to be spiritual leaders. This applies to both the home setting and the local church setting. The Bible says in Ephesians 5:22-24: \u201c[22] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. [24] Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.\u201d Again, the husband is to be his wife\u2019s covering (protection). A husband is to guard his wife against Satan\u2019s attacks by guiding her in sound Bible doctrine (God\u2019s Word). Adam failed to do this, and look at what happened to the human race! Notice 1 Corinthians 14:34-35: \u201c[34] Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law [referring to Genesis 3:16 above]. [35] And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.\u201d Again, husbands are to teach God\u2019s Word to their wives. Women were not to exercise the gift of speaking in tongues (the context of 1 Corinthians chapter 14).\nEphesians 6:4 says that it is primarily the father\u2019s responsibility to teach his children God\u2019s Word: \u201cAnd, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.\u201d A bishop is one \u201cthat ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)\u201d (1 Timothy 3:4-5). Could the Bible be any clearer? This is plain, simple English my dear readers. We would do well if we just believed and obeyed the passage, rather than tossing aside these verses for sake of doing our own thing.\nThe Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, in part: \u201c[3] But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. [7] For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. [8] For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. [9] Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. [10] For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. [11] Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. [12] For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.\u201d This is not just in the marriage relationship. The context of 1 Corinthians is the local assembly of Christians, the local church. Once more, God\u2019s design in creation is that men be the spiritual leaders. Period.\nThe Bible could not be clearer in 1 Timothy chapter 2, when it talks about the local church operations: \u201c[11] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. [12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. [13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. [15] Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.\u201d This passage needs no exposition. It says exactly what it means and it means exactly what it says. Whether in church or at home, men are to be the spiritual leaders.\nMake no mistake, dear readers. This does not\u2014I repeat, NOT\u2014mean that Christian women have no role in the Christian ministry. Paul had many female companions in the ministry. He actually took the time to commend them and name some of them. There was Phebe (Romans 16:1-2), Priscilla (and her husband Aquila; Acts 18:2,18,26; Romans 16:3-4; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:19), Mary in Rome (Romans 16:6), Lydia in Philippi (Acts 16:14-15,40), Euodias and Syntyche in Philippi (Philippians 4:2), and \u201cother women\u201d (Philippians 4:3). These precious Christian ladies did not have leadership roles, but they still served in vital capacities in the Christian ministry. It is believed that Phebe may have personally delivered the epistle of Romans to Rome! Priscilla, working with her husband Aquila, taught God\u2019s Word rightly divided to well-versed, but confused, Apollos. Mary in Rome was a very hard worker in the ministry, helping Paul much. Lydia housed Paul and his companions in her home\u2014probably cooking for them, nursing their wounds, and caring for them as a mother would her children. Had Paul been a woman hater, surely he would not have commended them.\nEven today, women in the local church can host ladies\u2019 fellowships at their own homes. They can cook in, clean, and decorate the local church. They can sing in the choir or teach children\u2019s Sunday School. They can prepare meals for the local assembly, plan and organize weddings and baby showers at the church building, and so on. The twelfth chapter of 1 Corinthians talks about how all Christians have their own roles, and all of these roles enhance and build up the Body of Christ in some way.\nOlder women should teach younger women in the local church. Women in the local assembly chiefly have a ministry towards other, and younger, women: \u201c[3] The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; [4] That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,\u2026\u201d (Titus 2:3-4). Women, because of their \u201cmaternal and nurturing\u201d nature, can also teach pre-teen children of both sexes. By the time of 10 or 12, however, boys need to have a male Bible teacher. (By the way, for some 10 years, my mom served as a children\u2019s Sunday School teacher and Vacation Bible School teacher. She said that she enjoyed it very much. Mom served the Lord greatly in that capacity, but she knew that her role was not to lead the local church.)\nWomen can also become missionaries and serve the Lord in foreign lands, if they so desire. If they are married, they can accompany their husbands in sharing the Gospel of the Grace of God with other people. This is very much like what Priscilla did with Aquila. He was the leader and she was the follower, his support. Make special note how it was a husband leading his wife, not a wife leading her husband.\nWHAT ABOUT THE PROPHETESSES IN THE BIBLE?\nI can just about hear this objection in reply to our previous paragraphs, so I will delay no further in answering it. In an effort to encourage and defend women preachers, some have resorted to the Bible verses that describe the ministries of prophetesses. Prophetesses were the exception\u2014not the norm\u2014in Scripture. Let me repeat. It was abnormal to have prophetesses in the Bible. Please let me explain how we know this.\nThe overwhelming testimony of Scripture is that men were spiritual leaders. Not one woman is known to have written any portion of the Bible. Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Ezekiel, Micah, Hosea, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Samuel, Joshua, Ezra, Nehemiah, Job, David, Solomon, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zechariah, Haggai, Malachi, et cetera were all men. Only male relatives of Aaron were to be priests in Israel. There were no priestesses whatsoever in the Mosaic Law system. Look at the apostles. None were women. Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James, Nathanael, Simon, Judas, Paul, Barnabas, et cetera. Acts 13:1 mentions prophets and teachers at Antioch\u2014Barnabas, Simeon/Niger, Lucius, Manaen, Saul/Paul. Again, they were all men. Think about Timothy and Titus. Men. Women were not to exercise the gift of speaking in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:33-34). Only Christian men spoke in tongues. In the future, the 144,000 Jewish preachers during the Tribulation. The 144,000 are men, \u201cnot defiled with women\u201d (Revelation 14:1-4)!\nNotice that the bishops and deacons in this the Dispensation of the Grace of God were to be \u201chusbands of one wife.\u201d This qualification precludes (prohibits) female bishops and deaconesses (see 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:6-9). One of the main troubles in Corinth was that boisterous women were usurping the roles of leadership in the local church. The first half of 1 Corinthians chapter 11 dealt with this issue of female submission in the local church. (For more info, see our study at the end of this article titled, \u201cShould Christian women wear head coverings?\u201d) When talking about spiritual gifts given to leaders in the Church the Body of Christ, Paul in Ephesians 4:11 only lists \u201cprophets.\u201d There is no reference whatsoever to the feminine form. There is no reference whatsoever to prophetesses in this the Dispensation of Grace. There is no reference whatsoever to prophetesses functioning in the Church the Body of Christ. Dear friends, we need not run to Israel\u2019s program and force those \u201cprophetess\u201d verses into our program. There have never been legitimate prophetesses in the Body of Christ and there never will be legitimate prophetesses in the Body of Christ.\nSo, this leads to an important question, and I will not hesitate in mentioning and answering it. If men were to be spiritual leaders, why would there be prophetesses (female prophets) in the Bible? Why Miriam (Exodus 15:20)? Why Deborah (Judges 4:4)? Why Huldah (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22)? Why Isaiah\u2019s unnamed \u201cprophetess\u201d wife (Isaiah 8:3)? Why Anna (Luke 2:36)? Why Philip\u2019s four virgin daughters \u201cwhich did prophesy\u201d (Acts 21:9)? Why these prophetesses? Pay very close attention here. There were just nine listed in the Bible\u2019s canon that covers roughly 6,000 years.\nTo repeat, prophetesses were the exception rather than the norm. Why were they needed? It is a sad fact but we must say it without hesitation. Prophetesses were needed because the men were slack in their responsibility as spiritual leaders. When no man was available, God used women to speak on His behalf. A prophetess\u2019 ministry was God\u2019s rebuke against men. It was His way of publicly denouncing men\u2019s spiritual carelessness. Furthermore, when neither man nor woman was available, God used a donkey as His mouthpiece (Numbers 22:28-30; 2 Peter 2:16)! How is that for a criticism?\nEven today, it is common to find a household\u2014or even a local church\u2014where the husband-father is not the spiritual leader. He has either abandoned his family entirely, or he is physically present but spiritually absent. In these homes, the dear mother brings the kids to church, teaches them about spiritual matters, et cetera. We recall the classic Bible account of young Timothy who grew up learning the Bible from his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15). Timothy\u2019s mother was \u201ca Jewess, and believed\u201d and his father, \u201ca Greek,\u201d was either unbelieving or deceased (Acts 16:2). Had it not been for faithful Lois and Eunice, Timothy may have never been able to serve with Paul. It is one of the saddest situations in all the world to see a father showing little to no interest in being the spiritual pillar in and guide for his own family. It is truly disastrous when there is so much deception and spiritual mischief in this world, and the individual whom God ordained in the home to be the guard is absent or \u201csleeping on duty.\u201d How many numerous poor souls now in prison, could have avoided such a lifestyle and fate had they only had a stable, caring, loving and Christian father figure at home! Awful, how awful, dear friends, oh, how awful, how awful!\nRemember, precious readers, Satan used Eve to attack Adam\u2019s headship. Through Adam\u2019s slothfulness in being the spiritual head, Satan attacked the whole human race. Through the human race, Satan attacked God\u2019s purpose and plan for the earth. It started small and grew exponentially. Satan is a very sneaky individual. He starts off with the family lacking a strong spiritual leader (husband-father), and from the home, he targets all of society. Those who leave that disorganized home then establish their own spiritually-chaotic homes. It continues every generation until a man takes responsibility and he gets into the Bible, gets the Bible into him, and then gets the Bible into his family! If there are any Christian men reading this, take heed! Beware! Wake up! Embrace your God-given responsibility, man! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Brother, your wife needs you! Brother, your children need you! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!\nWhen I read, hear about, or see a woman giving a sermon or Bible lesson to a crowd of men and women, I am deeply disturbed to be reminded of the homes and churches without spiritual husband-fathers. This is not the arrangement the Holy Spirit approves. No woman led by the Holy Spirit will ignore 1 Timothy 2:11-15 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-35. No man led by the Holy Spirit will ignore those passages either. I do not care how many degrees she has, how well she speaks, or how fervent her desire. According to Almighty God, she has no business teaching men in a local church or home setting. None! Period. The woman may be well meaning and the men who appointed her may also be sincere, but the Apostle Paul could not be clearer that men are to lead the church and the home. God\u2019s design in the marriage relationship is that the husband is the head of the wife (Ephesians 5:23), not the other way around. The husband is to lovingly and gently lead his wife into spiritual truth. In the local church setting, men are to lead, just as in the home setting. Unless we have a church tradition to keep, we will understand, believe, and follow these verses.\nIf a woman usurps male authority in spiritual matters, she is becoming vulnerable to Satan\u2019s deception and she is exposing the whole congregation to Satan\u2019s policy of evil. Beloved, never forget it. It is exactly what happened to Eve when she did not consult Adam about what God\u2019s Word actually said (see 1 Timothy 2:11-15, where Paul warned the local assembly, especially the women, not to repeat Eve\u2019s mistake). Look at what happened when Eve left Adam\u2019s headship. We are still suffering today because of that curse of sin! Men who sit under the Bible teaching of women are risking their own spiritual health. A man in the assembly needs to be a man and be the head of teaching there! (What if no man has enough Bible knowledge to teach? If he wants that assembly to survive the wiles of the Devil, if he wants his marriage to survive, he had better start reading the Bible, start studying the Bible, start learning it, start believing it, and start teaching it! God will hold him responsible for not acting in a spiritual leadership role.)\nAt this point, someone may voice another objection: \u201cBrother Shawn, but what about those women preachers in Corinth?\u201d Well, the Bible does indeed talk about women praying or prophesying with their heads uncovered: \u201cBut every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven\u201d (1 Corinthians 11:5).\nFirstly, I will openly admit this verse exists in the Bible. Yet, I will also admit that there is no other reference in Paul\u2019s epistles to women preachers in the Body of Christ. As with the \u201cspiritual\u201d \u201cgift\u201d of speaking in gibberish, women preachers only appear in a carnal, worldly, spiritually immature local assembly at Corinth. To model our beliefs and practices after the Corinthians\u2019 is downright silly! To appeal to Corinth as the standard for godly ministry and holy living is utterly absurd! It is spiritual madness to the utmost!\nSecondly, the very last passage that you would want to use to defend women preachers would be 1 Corinthians chapter 11! As we commented earlier, it was in those same verses that Paul affirmed the headship of men in the local assembly. Notice that the verse mentioned women praying or prophesying with their heads uncovered. That is bad rather than good. Compared to the cultural standards of that time and place, those women were rebellious, domineering, and unfeminine. It was also in this very epistle that Paul told those \u201cmasculine\u201d Christian ladies to be quiet and cease usurping male leadership in the local assembly at Corinth. We saw that earlier in 1 Corinthians 14:33-34. Again, for more information, you can see the study linked at the end of this article, which discusses the issue of women and head coverings.\nCertainly, God wants all Christians to preach the Gospel to lost people, and God wants all Christians to share the Bible with lost people, but church leadership is reserved for men. The Bible could not be clearer in 1 Timothy chapter 2: \u201c[11] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. [12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. [13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. [15] Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.\u201d The very reason why Eve was deceived and got into trouble was because she followed Satan\u2019s enticement to ignore Adam\u2019s spiritual leadership (see Genesis chapter 3). Eve should have consulted Adam rather than hearkening unto the Serpent. Both at home and in church settings, Christian women will be \u201csaved\u201d today from Satanic deception if they just submit and follow their godly husbands as those men follow Jesus Christ!\nBishops and deacons must be a \u201chusband of one wife\u201d (1 Timothy 3:2,11,12; Titus 1:6). Unless God was advocating a homosexual lifestyle, these simple verses indicate that women cannot serve as bishops (pastors) or deacons. The Holy Spirit would not cause them to disobey these verses. The only way there would be a female pastor/bishop or female deacon (deaconess) is if she defied the Holy Spirit. Women in the local church have a ministry toward other women: \u201c[3] The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; [4] That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,\u2026\u201d (Titus 2:3-4). Women can also serve as missionaries in foreign countries, perhaps laboring with their husbands (if applicable). They can teach younger children in the local assembly. They can be spiritual mothers to be people in the assembly. Women can pray for their pastor-husbands, their missionary-husbands, their teacher-husbands, et cetera. These are just some of the ways Christian women can serve the Lord Jesus Christ.\nIf you are a Christian woman, my dear sister in Christ, please know that your role in the ministry is vital. Please, never, ever let someone belittle you simply because you are not functioning in a prominent, \u201ceye-catching\u201d capacity. While you are not in leadership, the local church could not function without your ministry. The Holy Spirit will reward your labor even in the \u201csmallest\u201d role. Dear sister in Christ, you just believe and follow the verses I have presented in this brief study, and God will take care of the rest. Many women have played a critical role in this very ministry website-project and various other projects we have tackled through the years. Whether opening their house to our home Bible studies, or giving to us, or praying for us, or telling others about our ministry, or encouraging us, or whatever, they all helped in some manner. How we thank God for these Christian sisters and we thank God for your fellowship in the Gospel of Grace, brother or sister! \ud83d\ude42\n\u00bb Must Christian women wear head coverings in the Bible?\nPosted in Should women serve in the ministry?, THE CHURCH THE BODY OF CHRIST\nPosted in DISPENSATIONAL BIBLE STUDY, THE CHURCH THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE NATION ISRAEL, What is the difference between \u201cthe Kingdom of God\u201d and \u201cthe Kingdom of Heaven?\u201d, What is the difference between \u201cthe Kingdom of God\u201d and \u201cthe Kingdom of Heaven?\u201d, What is the difference between \u201cthe Kingdom of God\u201d and \u201cthe Kingdom of Heaven?\u201d\nWas Saul a pastor, a prophet, or an evangelist?\nSaul/Paul exercised numerous spiritual gifts, not just one or a few.\nAPOSTLE. When Paul wrote his 13 epistles, Romans through Philemon, he wrote as \u201can apostle of Jesus Christ.\u201d See Romans 1:1, 1 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:1, Galatians 1:1, Ephesians 1:1, Colossians 1:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Timothy 1:1, 2 Timothy 1:1, and Titus 1:1. The God of the Bible, Jesus Christ, directly sent Paul to us Gentiles (Acts 9:15-16; Acts 26:15-18; Romans 1:5; Romans 11:13; Romans 15:16; Romans 16:25-26; 1 Timothy 1:11-16; 1 Timothy 2:5-7; Titus 1:1-3; et al.).\nPROPHET AND TEACHER. Acts 13:1-2 calls Paul a \u201cprophet\u201d and a \u201cteacher.\u201d He was a prophet in that he spoke on behalf of the God of the Bible. In 1 Corinthians 13:2, he claimed to have \u201cthe gift of prophecy.\u201d Paul was one of the \u201cprophets\u201d and one of the \u201cteachers\u201d referenced in Ephesians 4:11. He was one of the \u201cprophets\u201d mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28 and Ephesians 2:20.\nPREACHER, APOSTLE, AND TEACHER. In 1 Timothy 2:7, Paul calls himself, \u201ca preacher,\u201d \u201can apostle,\u201d and \u201ca teacher of the Gentiles.\u201d He was a preacher in that he proclaimed the Gospel of the Grace of God to all nations. As noted earlier, he was an apostle in the sense of being directly commissioned by the ascended Lord Jesus Christ. Paul was one of the \u201capostles\u201d referenced in 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 2:20, and Ephesians 4:11. For over 30 years, Paul traveled throughout the then-known world, with signs and wonders often accompanying the Word he preached (2 Corinthians 12:12). Paul was a teacher in that he instructed Gentiles in the doctrine of this the Dispensation of the Grace of God. Paul was one of the \u201cteachers\u201d mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28 and Ephesians 4:11.\nPASTOR. Paul was one of the \u201cpastors\u201d referenced in Ephesians 4:11. He was a \u201cpastor\u201d in the sense that he would feed God\u2019s flock. As a shepherd would guide his sheep, the Holy Spirit worked in and through Paul to guide the members of the Church the Body of Christ into the doctrines of grace.\nEVANGELIST. Paul also was an evangelist because he shared the Gospel of the Grace of God with others. He was one of the \u201cevangelists\u201d referenced in Ephesians 4:11.\nPaul had a number of spiritual gifts rather than one or a couple. Chiefly, he was an apostle, but he was also a prophet, an evangelist, a pastor, and a teacher. It is important to remember that Paul did not write as an evangelist or a preacher or a teacher. He wrote as an apostle, the highest authority that God gave to the Church the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:28).\nIt is quite a shock to most that God\u2019s spokesman to us Gentiles in the Dispensation of Grace is not Jesus in His earthly ministry, or Peter or John or Jude. They did not have ministries in our mystery program\u2014their ministry was to Israel first (Matthew 10:5-7; Matthew 15:24; Acts 1:8; Acts 3:24-26). The Apostle Paul had an all-men message and ministry (Romans 1:5,14; Romans 16:25-26; 1 Timothy 2:5-7). Paul was not sent to Israel first. As Israel would turn primarily to Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy, to learn God\u2019s Word for her, so we turn to Paul\u2019s epistles, Romans through Philemon, to learn God\u2019s information for us. We do not exalt Paul, but rather we magnify the ministry that the ascended Lord Jesus Christ gave him (Romans 11:13). By honoring what Jesus Christ honors, we honor Jesus Christ.\nNotice what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 13:20: \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.\u201d Now, notice Paul\u2019s testimony in Acts 26:15-18: \u201c[15] And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. [16] But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; [17] Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee [Paul is the \u201capostle,\u201d the sent one, of the Gentiles; Romans 11:13], [18] To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.\u201d\nFinally, note what the Holy Spirit moved Paul to write in 1 Corinthians 14:37: \u201cIf any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.\u201d If we reject the Apostle Paul, then we reject what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say through Paul. What Paul wrote are the Lord Jesus Christ\u2019s words to us Gentiles in the Dispensation of Grace. Dear friends, if we cannot believe these simple truths, or we cannot see these simple truths, we would do well to remove our denominational eyeglasses and toss them out!\n\u00bb Why was Saul\u2019s name changed to Paul?\n\u00bb Could you please clarify Ephesians 2:18-22?\nPosted in DISPENSATIONAL BIBLE STUDY, Was Saul a pastor a prophet or an evangelist?\nWhy did God reject Cain\u2019s offering?\nWHY DID GOD REJECT CAIN\u2019S OFFERING? WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM THAT ACCOUNT?\nHave you ever wondered why God did not accept Cain\u2019s offering? Was it because, as some suppose, Cain had a bad attitude? If not, what was the reason for God rejecting Cain\u2019s offering? In addition, what lesson can we learn from this Old Testament historical narrative? We will be Bereans, and search the Scriptures for answers to these fascinating questions (Acts 17:10-11).\nDoubtless everyone who grew up in or around Christian churches or groups has heard of brothers Cain and Abel. While what happened between the two is common knowledge, the warfare associated with the story is largely overlooked. Sadly, the eternally significant part of the narrative is largely unknown! Dear readers, many billions of souls could have avoided a devil\u2019s everlasting hell in which they now suffer, had they only critically considered and believed the lesson taught by the events of Genesis 4:1-8. It thus behooves us to survey and evaluate these verses.\nGenesis chapter 4 opens: \u201c[1] And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. [2] And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.\u201d This is rather simple to get. We need no theological degree or high IQ to understand that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain the farmer and Abel the shepherd. Verses 3-5 continue: \u201c[3] And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. [4] And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: [5] But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.\u201d\nWhen it came time to sacrifice to God, \u201cCain brought fruit of the ground,\u201d but \u201cAbel\u2026brought the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering, he had not respect\u2026.\u201d Why did God accept Abel\u2019s offering, but reject Cain\u2019s? Hebrews 11:4, written some 4,000 years later, testifies: \u201cBy faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.\u201d How could Abel\u2019s sacrifice be \u201cmore excellent than Cain?\u201d\nAfter sin entered the world by Adam (Romans 5:12), God demanded blood sacrifices for atonement (to make God and sinner \u201cat one\u201d). God shed innocent blood to cover Adam and Eve\u2019s sin (Genesis 3:21). Outside of our dispensation, and before Christ came, those who wanted a right standing before God\u2014\u201drighteousness\u201d\u2014had to offer blood sacrifices by faith. \u201c\u2026[W]ithout the shedding of blood is no remission [forgiveness]\u201d (Hebrews 9:22b). Cain had no faith, so he ignored God\u2019s instructions and brought no blood. He brought the fruit (crops) of his own work, but Abel, by faith, brought blood sacrifices (obeying God). God accepted Abel\u2019s sacrifice because Abel had faith! However, God rejected Cain\u2019s sacrifice. Cain should not have been upset. He knew exactly what God wanted, and he knew God did not instruct him to bring an offering from the ground.\nWe are some 6,000 years removed from Cain and Abel, and yet that story teaches us a valuable lesson of eternal worth.\n\u201cSo then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God\u201d (Romans 10:17). \u201cBy faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain\u2026\u201d (Hebrews 11:4). The LORD gave Cain and his brother Abel clear instructions. Only Abel did what God said because only he believed what God said. Abel, a shepherd (Genesis 4:2), \u201cbrought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof\u201d (verse 4a). Cain, a farmer (verse 2), \u201cbrought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD\u201d (verse 3).\nNotice what Abel brought\u2014a sheep, a blood sacrifice, and its fat, which is what God said to do. Observe what Cain brought\u2014something he grew. Cain had probably slaved away watering that crop, weeding that patch of ground, and so on. Cain brought the very \u201cbest\u201d he could bring\u2014it was the work of his own hands. He rationalized, \u201cSurely, God will accept this fruit of the ground. He knows I put so much effort into it. How can He say no?\u201d When Cain saw the fire of God come down from heaven and consume his brother\u2019s sacrifice, and yet nothing happened to his sacrifice, Genesis 4:5 tells us that Cain grew very upset. \u201cHow dare You, God! It was my very best, and You do not want it!\u201d Cain probably threw a tantrum and cursed. Eventually, filled with that religious rage, he murdered Abel (verse 8).\nCain symbolizes today\u2019s average religious person, who refuses to do what God\u2019s Word says: \u201cTrust in the finished crosswork of Christ alone and I will save you.\u201d Like Cain, they offer \u201ctheir absolute best\u201d\u2014tithes, water baptism, acts of charity, penance, church membership, et cetera\u2014things God never commanded them to do for salvation! Those things are \u201cfilthy rags\u201d (Isaiah 64:6) when compared to Jesus Christ\u2019s perfect sacrifice of Himself. And when they die, like Cain, they will be greatly disappointed.\nGod instructed Cain and Abel to bring blood sacrifices. However, only Abel obeyed God because he alone had faith. Cain lacked faith, so he completely ignored God\u2019s Word. Cain wanted to do what Cain wanted to do. This is typical human nature, and it has not changed one wit. Man is naturally sinful in that he seeks autonomy\u2014to be his own god and to do what he wants to do. \u201cCain\u2026 was of that wicked one [Satan!]\u2026 his own works were evil, and his brother\u2019s [Abel\u2019s] righteous\u201d (1 John 3:12). Now, Cain\u2019s vegetation offering did not look evil\u2014it was just \u201cfruit of the ground\u201d (Genesis 4:3). Yet, despite its innocent appearance, it was evil and God rejected it. How was it evil? God wanted blood sacrifices, not crops! Cain displeased God because he had no faith (Hebrews 11:6).\nNow, apply that scenario to today. Billions of church members are doing everything they can to work for heaven. Like Cain, they completely ignore God\u2019s Word when it says their \u201cgood\u201d works are actually \u201cfilthy rags\u201d (Isaiah 64:6) and \u201cdung\u201d (Philippians 4:8). They give faithfully, pray daily, attend church weekly, help the poor, clean the church, sing in the choir, and so on. Sadly, this is vain activity, for God never commanded them to work for heaven!\nIn this the Dispensation of Grace, God is freely offering His grace, love, mercy, forgiveness, salvation, acceptance, fellowship, and righteousness in the Person of His Son Jesus Christ. \u201cBut to him that worketh not, but believeth on him [Jesus Christ] that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness\u201d (Romans 4:5). Salvation is so simple, yet religion complicates it with our works. We sinners cannot work for salvation. The Bible says the only way to heaven, and everlasting salvation, is to trust in what Jesus Christ already did for you, not what you can do for Him.\nAccording to God, Abel brought \u201cof the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof\u201d whereas his brother Cain offered \u201cfruit of the ground\u201d (Genesis 4:3-4). Cain\u2019s offering appeared innocent, but God considered it \u201cevil\u201d (1 John 3:12). Why? \u201cWithout faith, it is impossible to please him [God]\u201d (Hebrews 11:6). Cain did not please God. He did not believe anything God said, so he ignored God\u2019s command to bring a blood sacrifice. No blood sacrifice indicated no faith. Essentially, Cain was ignoring what that blood sacrifice represented: the blood of the coming Redeemer Jesus Christ!\nSadly, today, mankind generally shares Cain\u2019s attitude in refusing to believe God\u2019s Word, especially regarding salvation. God has told them they are \u201cguilty\u201d sinners who cannot work for salvation, but they refuse to listen. God wants them to trust in His Son alone, but they want to trust in their works and His Son. God will not have it. Jesus Christ is \u201cwell pleasing\u201d to God the Father, we are not (Matthew 3:17; Matthew 12:18; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22).\nPlease be not one of the billions of precious souls attempting to appease God and merit salvation and heaven with their \u201cgood\u201d works. Like Cain\u2019s offering, this \u201cinnocent-looking\u201d activity is evil! (Remember, even Jesus claimed some \u201cgood\u201d works were \u201ciniquity\u201d in Matthew 7:22-23). These \u201cgood-works\u201d people are attempting to substitute Christ\u2019s perfect blood sacrifice on Calvary with their \u201cdung\u201d and \u201cfilthy rags\u201d (their \u201cgood\u201d works). God will not have it. God wants our faith exclusively in what His Son Jesus Christ did for us. Has Jesus Christ\u2019s blood been imputed to your account? If it has, that blood applied to you indicates your faith! If Jesus\u2019 blood has not been imputed to you, you need to trust exclusively in the Lord\u2019s finished crosswork on Calvary. For salvation, God will accept nothing else but your faith resting in Christ Jesus alone.\n\u00bb Why did God demand blood sacrifices? (COMING SOON!)\n\u00bb How can a loving God send people to hell forever? (COMING SOON!)\nPosted in CREATION AND EARLY MAN, SOUL SALVATION FROM SINS, Why did God reject Cain\u2019s offering?, Why did God reject Cain\u2019s offering?\nDoes not Acts 11:15 prove the Body of Christ began in Acts 2?\nDOES NOT ACTS 11:15 PROVE THE CHURCH THE BODY OF CHRIST BEGAN IN ACTS 2?\nActs 11:15 says, \u201cAnd as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.\u201d What was that \u201cbeginning\u201d found in Acts chapter 2, the day of Pentecost? Is this verse saying that Acts chapter 2 was the beginning of the Church the Body of Christ? While some have used this argument to force us into Pentecost, we will see what the Bible really says. Unless we have a denominational bias to hinder our understanding, this verse is amazingly simple. There are one-dozen reasons why the Church the Body of Christ did not begin in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost. (Please see our study linked at the end of this article.) To use one verse\u2014Acts 11:15\u2014to argue against dozens of verses is absolutely ridiculous. In fact, for someone to use Acts 11:15 in that manner is to demonstrate a desperate attempt to hang on to Pentecost with whatever it takes. Tradition is awfully difficult to abandon!\nActs 2:41 reads: \u201cThen they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.\u201d If the Body of Christ really began at Pentecost, and the 12 apostles were saved before Pentecost, of what body of believers were they members? Obviously, there was \u201cchurch\u201d that existed prior to Acts chapter 2. That group was the \u201clittle flock\u201d of Luke 12:32, the Messianic Church of Matthew 16:16-18. After Peter preached his famous sermon on Pentecost, the Bible says other disciples were \u201cadded unto them.\u201d Again, on Pentecost, there was a preexisting group of believers. There is nothing, nothing, nothing new in Acts chapter 2, but rather it is a continuation of something already there.\nNow, regarding Peter\u2019s words in Acts 11:15, \u201cAnd as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.\u201d This certainly refers to Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit came down from heaven and filled the apostles. (In chapter 11, Peter is saying that a similar event occurred with Cornelius in chapter 10.) That \u201cbeginning\u201d refers to the beginning of the \u201clast days\u201d of Israel\u2019s program (see Joel 2:28-29 and Acts 2:17-18). Peter, led by the Holy Ghost, says that the events of Pentecost are the \u201clast days,\u201d not the first days of anything. They are a further development of Israel\u2019s prophetic program. Israel has just rejected and crucified Messiah Jesus (just as the Old Testament prophets predicted), the Holy Spirit has come (as the Old Testament prophets foretold), and now the wrath of God is coming (just as the Old Testament prophets predicted). Everything the prophets spoke of in the Old Testament is being fulfilled, and Peter is warning in Acts chapter 2 that the worst is yet to come! The \u201cbeginning of the final days of Israel\u2019s program\u201d is the only beginning that would make sense in Acts 11:15 and Acts chapter 2, considering the Body of Christ and our Dispensation of Grace are not spoken of in the Old Testament.\n\u00bb Did the Church the Body of Christ begin in Acts 2?\n\u00bb What is the \u201cchurch\u201d spoken of in Matthew 16:18?\nPosted in BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS / CONFUSING VERSES SIMPLIFIED, DISPENSATIONAL BIBLE STUDY, Does not Acts 11:15 prove the Body of Christ began in Acts 2?, Does not Acts 11:15 prove the Body of Christ began in Acts 2?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 82884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fourthquartersports.org/author/amanhuda22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NJZGYLD26XP3ZVLPQ7NQZ5BVDMUCQVBF", "length": 1073, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "fourthquartersports.org", "title": "Aman Huda, Author at Fourth Quarter Sports", "raw_content": "Author: Aman Huda\nThe second match of the Pakistan Super League just wrapped up, and what a match it was! 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Teams now know whether they have to avoid...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 7242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fplconnect.blog/2018/11/27/fpl-captain-metric-gameweek-14/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FME6SBFREDTDAC6TSWNQ3MT5LXVV3WIK", "length": 7598, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "fplconnect.blog", "title": "FPL Captain Metric: Gameweek 14 \u2013 FPL Connect", "raw_content": "\u201cPremier League football is back\u201d, \u201cThank god the international break is over\u201d\u2026 well, so much for that!\nThe excitement of FPL coming back was met by a resoundingly average GW in which the average across the whole game was actually a healthy 50, but those in the Twitter community experienced a lot of mid 30 and 40 scores, with some getting even lower.\nSuccess mainly came down to whether you had one of San\u00e9 or Sterling, who both registered monster hauls, leaving non-owners completely envious to the point where a % of managers were compelled to act to bring one of them in, mainly Sterling way ahead of the next deadline.\nThe main reason for this was that Ag\u00fcero, who\u2019s the highest owned player and was the most captained player by most live teams, wasn\u2019t able to contribute anything to Man City\u2019s dominant 4-0 away win at West Ham, in which Sterling, San\u00e9 and David Silva were key features of.\nSalah, who\u2019s picked up form, scored again, but once again, was unable to manage any bonus points, meaning he scored his owners an 8 point return, which is okay, but even that wasn\u2019t enough to save some managers from a red arrow.\nBoth Hazard and Richarlison were backed by roughly 8-9% of managers and both were unable to find a return, though Hazard arguably should have had a penalty in the first half against Spurs after Foyth challenged him from behind and clearly didn\u2019t make any contact with the ball.\n4.7%, likely those without Salah and fancied Liverpool against Watford, backed Man\u00e9, who despite poor underlying numbers, was able to manage 2 assists and a subsequent healthy 9 point return for his owners, outscoring Salah for the 6th time this season where both have been playing, giving Salah owners food for thought again.\nThis week, given the imperious form of Man City and the fixture, it looks very much like the City boys will dominate the headlines, but if declared fit, I know a certain Belgian that could certainly steal the show \u2013 let\u2019s check the numbers and see what we can find.\nUnderlying attacking stats the last 5 Gameweek (where he\u2019s been involved in the match):\nLeroy San\u00e9: If you can\u2019t afford Sterling and don\u2019t have/don\u2019t fancy Ag\u00fcero, then the explosive German winger could be the answer to your differential prayers. With Mendy out of the equation for a while, that should pave the way, at least more so than before, for San\u00e9 to provide the creativity and width that Pep wants from the left. With 4 goal and 3 assists to his name in his last 5 appearances for the Citizens, San\u00e9 is a man in red hot form. Every time he\u2019s started a match, he has got a return, so you\u2019re looking at both reliability AND explosivity \u2013 ingredients, along with their favourable home fixture, that make a fine recipe for any captain, let alone a differential one.\nHarry Kane: Harry Kane has been spending less time inside the penalty area in recent matches. I do believe that comes down to the fact that Alli and Eriksen haven\u2019t featured much over that time because of injuries. Both players, Eriksen in particular, are creative and without them, the creativity naturally suffers, so I believe Kane has been dropping deeper to help with that. But now they\u2019re both back, and after a hugely convincing win over London rivals Chelsea, I think Kane will go back to where he belongs and we\u2019ll start to see the Kane we know and love. Even with him dropping deeper, he\u2019s managed a return in each of his last 3 games and has registered more goal attempts (19) than any other forward in the last 5 GWs, so he is simmering, and with the North London Derby up next, a fixture he very much enjoys, I wouldn\u2019t put it past him to haul.\nPlayer form \u2013 Raheem Sterling has scored more points than either Ag\u00fcero or Hazard in the last 5 Gameweeks.\nTeam form \u2013 Ag\u00fcero and Sterling\u2019s Manchester City have created the most amount of big chances (19) in the last 5 Gameweeks in comparison to Chelsea.\nFixture difficulty \u2013 All of the candidates opponents have conceded the exact amount of big chances as each other (12), though Bournemouth have only conceded 6 goals in that time period, whereas Fulham have conceded 12 goals.\nHome/Away Goal Conversion \u2013 Although all have favourable home goal conversion rates, Hazard just edges out Sterling by a few % as he has scored 5 goals at home from 17 shots, whereas Sterling has scored that many from 1 extra attempt. Although Ag\u00fcero has scored the most (7), his conversion suffers due to the number of goal attempts being so high (38).\nReliability % \u2013 So far, Hazard has proved to be the most reliable asset, providing a return in 8 of the 12 games he\u2019s been available to play in comparison to Sterling and Ag\u00fcero, who have both managed the same return of 8 in 13.\nExplosivity % \u2013 Hazard has also proved the most explosive asset up to this point, with 4 double-figure hauls in the 12 games he was physically able to play in, in comparison to Ag\u00fcero, who\u2019s only managed 2 in 13, and Sterling who has managed 4 too, but he was physically available for 13 games, rather than 12.\nI\u2019ve come back to this today (Friday) as we have more information to go off now with UCL games and Sarri\u2019s pre-match Europa presser.\nNothing\u2019s changed in terms of who I think, if they start, is the best captain option this week. It still seems pretty clear to me that if you own Raheem Sterling, that he should be the one you captain this weekend against Bournemouth.\nHe\u2019s only around 15% ownership now from 13% when I wrote this on Tuesday, so a lot of us are still unlikely to have him, including myself for this weekend\u2019s fixture, so for those who don\u2019t own him and aren\u2019t transferring him in this week, who do we go for?\nWell, before this weekend\u2019s action, I would have had it on Hazard in all honesty.\nFulham fought to a spirited 3-2 victory under new manager Ranieri, but it didn\u2019t really tell us anything we didn\u2019t already know \u2013 nothing much changed. Under Jokanovic they were pretty decent attacking wise but awful defensively, so a 3-2 win was about right. Conceding 2 goals to a very poor attacking Southampton side though, still demonstrates that the defensive problems are still very much raw and should Hazard play, he and Chelsea should take them to the cleaners.\nSarri\u2019s comments that Hazard \u201cshould\u201d play against Fulham, whilst positive, simply aren\u2019t enough for us to gamble the captaincy on when we have solid alternatives in the City players.\nSo this, has moved me toward Ag\u00fcero, who has returned 67pts in his 7 home games so far in the Premier League \u2013 so not a bad alternative by any stretch of the imagination.\nThe slight irk about Ag\u00fcero, is that he played 80 minutes on the weekend and then played 90 minutes 2 and a half days later against Lyon.\nAlthough he has started the PL and UCL games so far, he has come off each time fairly early in order to preserve his fitness, and with him being quite prone to injury, it\u2019s a slight worry that he\u2019s just played the majority of back to back games within the space of 3 days, which City have purposefully looked to avoid.\nHowever, the gap from Lyon to Bournemouth (3 days) is longer than the gap from Bournemouth to Watford (2 days), so you have to think if there is any rest/rotation, it would come at Watford. Either that, or he\u2019ll look to bring him off early in both \u2013 either way, I\u2019m backing him to start the game against the Cherries.\nSo, if you don\u2019t own Sterling, I would advise putting the armband on Sergio Ag\u00fcero.\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good week to go differential, with some very strong captain candidates on offer, but if you\u2019re really fancying it, then I think Leroy San\u00e9 could be a pearl of a differential captain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 11794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freedom.press/news/us-officials-leak-information-about-the-isis-raid-thatas-more-sensitive-than-anything-snowden-ever-leaked/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:FRCILOUX3DQMU7XJ73OTZYCZZF6ML2OG", "length": 4563, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "freedom.press", "title": "US officials leak information about the ISIS raid that\u2019s more sensitive than anything Snowden ever leaked", "raw_content": "US officials leak information about the ISIS raid that\u2019s more sensitive than anything Snowden ever leaked\nOver the weekend, the US government announced that special forces soldiers entered Syria to conduct a raid that killed an alleged leader of ISIS, Abu Sayyaf. In the process, anonymous US officials leaked classified information to the New York Times that\u2019s much more sensitive than anything Edward Snowden ever revealed, and it serves as a prime example of the government\u2019s hypocrisy when it comes to disclosures of secret information.\nHere\u2019s how the New York Times described how the US conducted this \u201csuccessful\u201d raid:\nThe raid came after weeks of surveillance of Abu Sayyaf, using information gleaned from a small but growing network of informants the C.I.A. and the Pentagon have painstakingly developed in Syria, as well as satellite imagery, drone reconnaissance and electronic eavesdropping, American officials said. The White House rejected initial reports from the region that attributed the raid to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.\nRead that carefully and pretend it was Snowden who leaked this information, instead of nameless Pentagon spokesmen. US officials would be screaming from the rooftops that he leaked extremely timely and sensitive intelligence (it was literally only hours old), that he will cause specific terrorists to change their communications behavior, and most importantly, he put the lives of informants at risk. (Note: none of Snowden\u2019s leaks did any of these things.)\nYet despite the fact that the ISIS raid was discussed on all of the Sunday shows this week, no one brought up anything about this leak. Contrast that with Snowden\u2019s revelations, where government officials will use any situation to say the most outlandish things possible in an attempt to smear his whistleblowing\u2014regardless of their basis in reality. Take former CIA deputy director and torture advocate Mike Morrell, for example, who is currently on a book promotion tour and has been preposterously suggesting that Snowden\u2019s leaks somehow led to the rise of ISIS.\nFor the sake of hypothetical argument, let\u2019s take Morrell\u2019s claims at face value. Let\u2019s put aside the fact that, despite their \u201csky is falling\u201d rhetoric, the US government has consistently refused to release specific information showing that terrorists have \u201cchanged their behavior\u201d due to the Snowden leaks, and that terrorists were sophisticated users of encryption for more than a decade before anyone heard Snowden\u2019s name. Let\u2019s also ignore that the US government has been caught blatantly exaggerating how leaks have \u201cdamaged\u201d national security in the past, and that officials have already admitted their nightmare scenarios in this case have not actually come to pass.\nHere is what Morrell told NPR when asked about Edward Snowden and the damage he thinks he caused to national security:\nSo I can't get into specifics, but I'll tell you that there was a program that he disclosed that was vital to the United States' ability to see what terrorists are doing. And they all changed their communication habits because of that disclosure - al-Qaida in Pakistan, al-Qaida in Yemen and al-Qaida in Iraq, which morphed into ISIS. So there is no doubt in my mind that that change in behavior on the part of al-Qaida in Iraq and ISIS contributed to ISIS's rise.\nAnd here\u2019s what he said on 60 Minutes the same week:\n\"What Edward Snowden did has put Americans at greater risk because terrorists learn from leaks and they will be more careful, and we will not get the intelligence we would have gotten otherwise.\"\nEvery single thing Morrell said applies to what US officials leaked this weekend, if not more so. But since the leak about the ISIS raid was meant to glorify the Obama administration, instead of embarrassing it or exposing wrongdoing, everyone in the US government will pretend like it never happened.\nEither leaks exposing the \u201csources and methods\u201d of surveillance are damaging to national security or they are not. Administration officials can\u2019t have it both ways.\nRead more about Leaks\nFormer CIA director David Petraeus received his sentence today for the sweetheart plea deal he struck with the Justice Department after he was discovered to have leaked highly classified information ...\nThe James Risen case and Eric Holder's tarnished press freedom legacy\nAttorney General Holder raised some eyebrows yesterday when answering a question about his Justice Department\u2019s notorious crackdown on leaks, and by extension the press, most notably saying this about ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freshcomics.us/issue/JAN121022/the-boys-vol-10-butcher-baker-candlestickmaker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FQ5XEKLVC5WDZMOB65ETC3MNENBSBPWL", "length": 498, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "freshcomics.us", "title": "The Boys Vol. 10: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker | Fresh Comics", "raw_content": "The Boys Vol. 10: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker\nThe story of Billy Butcher, the Boys' mysterious leader, is told at last! From the backstreets of London's East End to the carnage of the Falklands War, from the heights of love to the depths of tragedy, the most violent man in comics reveals the terrible nature of the forces that drive him. And when he's done, he'll be ready - to finish things once and for all! Collects the hit 6-issue mini-series of 2011, along with a complete cover gallery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://friendlytim.com/readlater/?p=25359", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5N42KOQHTICEGCTCL5TQ4ZL65IWIMJIU", "length": 12809, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "friendlytim.com", "title": "We Have the Technology. Airplanes Could Spray Particles into the Atmosphere to Battle Climate Change. But Should We? \u2013 Read Later", "raw_content": "ift.tt/2Q0gJWF\nIf climate change models are correct, humanity is working itself\u2014and dragging the rest of life on Earth with it\u2014into a corner. Scientific pleas to control emissions and battle climate change are starting to have some effect, but not enough. So now we have some tough decisions looming.\nIf you haven\u2019t heard the terms \u201csolar geoengineering\u201d and \u201cstratospheric aerosol injection\u201d, you should probably get used to them. They represent a scientifically and technologically realistic plan for controlling climate change when all other governance and economic models can\u2019t get it done. The idea has been around for a while, but deemed too expensive in the past.\nNow a new research paper in the Environmental Research Letters analyzes what\u2019s needed to use aircraft to spray sulfates into the stratosphere to cool the climate. The two authors are Wake Smith from Yale, and Gernot Wagner from Harvard. And once you get past your shock at the idea, if you feel any that is, the paper presents some well-thought out parameters for the whole enterprise.\n\u201c\u2026a hypothetical deployment program starting 15 years from now, \u2026 would be technically possible strictly from an engineering perspective.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Gernot Wagner, co-Director of Harvard\u2019s Solar Geoengineering Research Program.\nFirst of all, let\u2019s dispel a couple myths. This has nothing to do with dimming the Sun, chemtrails, or mind control. Nothing humanity can do could dim the Sun. Chemtrails are ignorant fever dreams, and mind control is just\u2026whatever. Both Smith and Wagner are serious people, and they deserve to be paid attention to.\nWagner is a research associate and lecturer at Harvard, co-Director of Harvard\u2019s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, and author of the book \u201cClimate Shock.\u201d Smith has an MBA and a career in commercial aviation and finance behind him, and writes on the logistics and costs of solar radiation management and geo engineering. These two are well-equipped to conduct this research.\nTo Battle Climate Change\nWhat are we really talking about here?\nLet\u2019s imagine a world where scientists have discovered that our emissions are heating up the globe and that people are too reluctant to make changes to their emissions. Our governance methods and economic methods aren\u2019t getting the job done. You don\u2019t really have to imagine it because that\u2019s basically where we are.\nIn that situation, scientists are bound to try and come up with technological solutions while still hoping that politics and economics eventually get it right. And that leads us to these two ideas: solar geoengineering, and stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI).\nWhen Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it lofted 20 million tonnes of SO2 into the atmosphere. Global temperatures dropped 0.5 Celsius in the next couple years. Image Credit: By U.S. Geological Survey Photograph taken by Richard P. Hoblitt. \u2013 Archived source link, Public Domain, ift.tt/2P4R4Hj\nSolar Geoengineering and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection\nSolar geoengineering is also called \u201csolar radiation management\u201d (SRM). The idea is to make the atmosphere reflect some more of the Sun\u2019s radiation back into space. SRM seeks to increase Earth\u2019s albedo, or reflectivity.\nSome SRM methods propose protecting and restoring Earth\u2019s naturally reflective surfaces, like sea ice, snow, and glaciers. These would involve massive engineering projects, and would be expensive. There\u2019s also no guarantee they\u2019ll work.\nThe new study released by Smith and Wagner focuses on another much talked-about SRM: stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI).\nStratospheric Aerosol Injection is centered around the idea of injecting sulphates into the atmosphere, about 20 kilometers high, in the stratosphere. It\u2019s reasoned that SAI could counter most climatic changes, be relatively inexpensive, could take effect quickly, and it would be reversible in its direct climatic effects. Sounds pretty good, but there\u2019ve been some drawbacks.\nEarly ideas in SAI proposed using artillery, existing aircraft, or balloons to inject sulphates, or their precursors, into the stratosphere. But each one of these has its own problems. The new research focuses on developing new aircraft to deliver the sulphates into the stratosphere.\nUsing Aircraft to Battle Climate Change\nFlying 20 kilometers high into the stratosphere is not an easy thing to do. It\u2019s not something that we\u2019d need to do only a few times, so that we could just use expensive rockets and eat the cost. A successful SAI project would be a multi-year project involving a fleet of specialized aircraft stationed at multiple bases around the world.\nIn their study, Smith and Wagner analyze the costs and development timelines for a fleet of aircraft that could halve the increase in anthropogenic radiative forcing. The fleet would start small and grow over time, and would begin operations in 15 years. They looked at existing aircraft and concluded that none of them are practical. The 15 years allows ample time to develop the required aircraft and get it tested and licensed.\nThe study looked at existing aircraft like NASA\u2019s Global Hawk. It can carry large payloads to high altitudes for 24 hours. But the Global Hawk, like all other existing aircraft, is not capable of meeting SAIL\u2019s requirements. Image Credit: NASA Photo / Tom MIller\n\u201cNo existing aircraft has the combination of altitude and payload capabilities required.\u201d \u2013 Wake Smith, study co-author.\nSustained flight at 20 kms altitude requires specialized aircraft. The fuselage and wings need to be different than anything we have now, and the engines would have to be specialized. To conduct their study, they consulted several aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, and other companies including Airbus, Atlas Air, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Engines, Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Near Space Corporation, Northrup Grumman, Rolls Royce Engines, and others.\nThey call their proposed aircraft SAIL: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Lofter.\nThe two researchers are clear about their motives. They\u2019re not making any judgement about using SAIL to battle climate change. They just wanted to flesh out the idea and see what a realistic SAI program might look like, and what the timeline and effectiveness might be.\nOne of the study\u2019s authors, Dr Gernot Wagner, said, \u201cWhile we don\u2019t make any judgement about the desirability of SAI, we do show that a hypothetical deployment program starting 15 years from now, while both highly uncertain and ambitious, would be technically possible strictly from an engineering perspective. It would also be remarkably inexpensive, at an average of around $2 to 2.5 billion per year over the first 15 years.\u201d\nOther studies have concluded that existing aircraft could be modified to battle climate change, but the pair of scientists found that that isn\u2019t the case. In a press release, Wake Smith said, \u201cI became intrigued by the engineering questions around SAI and the many studies that purport to show that modified existing planes could do the job. Turns out that is not so. It would indeed take an entirely new plane design to do SAI under reasonable albeit entirely hypothetical parameters. No existing aircraft has the combination of altitude and payload capabilities required.\u201d\nNASA\u2019s WB-57 is another high-altitude research airplane that the study authors deemed unsuitable for SAIL. Image: NASA/Johnson Space Center.\nThis new SAIL aircraft would need to carry a 25 ton payload to 20 km altitude and sustain flight there. So what would this new aircraft look like?\nThe aircraft itself would need larger wings, double the size of current aircraft, and double the thrust too. \u201cWe developed the specifications for SAIL with direct input from several aerospace and engine companies. It\u2019s equivalent in weight to a large narrow body passenger aircraft. But to sustain level flight at 20 kms, it needs roughly double the wing area of an equivalently sized airliner, and double the thrust, with four engines instead of two,\u201d said Smith.\nAccording to the study, SAIL\u2019s fuselage would seem stubby and narrow, sized to accommodate a \u201cheavy but dense mass of molten sulfur, rather than the large volume of space and air required for passenger comfort. SAIL would therefore have considerably wider wingspan than length.\u201d\nThe engines would be modified versions of existing engines called \u201clow-bypass.\u201d Though these engines exist, they aren\u2019t used much because they\u2019re not fuel efficient. They out-perform other engines at these extreme altitudes though.\nThe two researchers propose starting with 8 aircraft flying about 4000 flights per year, and increasing by 4000 each year as more aircraft are brought online. 15 years after starting operations, the fleet would number almost 1000. They would fly from an array of bases around the globe, at latitudes of 15 and 30 degrees north and south of the equator. The goal would be to inject ~0.1 Mt of S in year one, increasing at a rate of ~0.1 Mt yr linearly thereafter.\nDetailed table of SAIL\u2019s flight activity. Image: Smith and Wagner, 2018.\nThe Cost of Using SAIL to Battle Climate Change\nSmith and Wagner conclude that their SAIL program would not be that expensive. Their analysis shows that the program would cost about $2.25 billion per year over the first 15 years of deployment. This includes the design, testing, and manufacture of a new aircraft type, the modification of existing engines, and operational costs. That\u2019s not much compared to the $240 billion the US economy has lost in the last decade because of climate change.\nIn a press release, Dr Wagner said, \u201cGiven the potential benefits of halving average projected increases in radiative forcing from a particular date onward, these numbers invoke the \u2018incredible economics\u2019 of solar geoengineering. Dozens of countries could fund such a program, and the required technology is not particularly exotic.\u201d\nThe ultimate goal of a SAIL program would be to buy us time. It would not solve our emission problem. SAIL is only a temporary mitigation method. It won\u2019t lower CO2 in the atmosphere, and it won\u2019t stop the other effects of climate change like ocean acidification. It merely reflects some sunlight back into space.\nShould We Use SAIL to Battle Climate Change?\nHere\u2019s where it gets tricky. Assuming that Wagner and Smith are correct, should we use SAIL to battle climate change?\nThere are some fears around the idea of technological climate modification. Some organizations fear that developing this kind of technology would allow a rogue regime to do it in secret. The authors dispel this fear, saying it would be impossible to hide this level of flight activity involving partner countries around the globe.\nSmith said, \u201cNo global SAI program of the scale and nature discussed here could reasonably expect to maintain secrecy. Even our hypothesized Year one deployment program entails 4000 flights at unusually high altitudes by airliner-sized aircraft in multiple flight corridors in both hemispheres. This is far too much aviation activity to remain undetected, and once detected, such a program could be deterred.\u201d\nSome climate change activists are wary of SAI because they think it will create apathy towards reducing emission. They say we would become reliant on it, and would create and excuse to not lowering our GHG emissions. Over at Geoengineering Monitor you can find these concerns explained and expanded on. They\u2019re concerned that large companies involved in fossil fuel extraction would fund geoengineering projects which would allow them to continue business as usual.\nThe Geoengineering Monitor\u2019s \u201cHOME Manifesto.\u201d It\u2019s a little over-dramatic, but it gets their point across. Image: Geoengineering Monitor.\nIn any case, using high-altitude aircraft to battle climate change is all for discussion purposes at this point. There\u2019s a body called the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, 193 countries signed a moratorium on geoengineering and agreed that there needs to be a global mechanism in place to govern it.\nBut the SAIL program is a framework that wouldn\u2019t start operations until 15 years from now. Is 15 years long enough to develop a global mechanism for a geoengineering plan to battle climate change? One would hope so.\nWe\u2019re backing ourselves into a corner. The longer we wait to take meaningful action on emissions, the more draconian our measures will need to be. Our fears, both founded and unfounded, will need to be overcome if we want to use SAIL to fight the effects of climate change.\nWe got ourselves into this situation and we\u2019ll have to get ourselves out of it.\nvia ift.tt/2SkyCwn ift.tt/2nDj081\n< The Socialist Memelords Radicalizing Instagram\n> One of the Most Exciting Parts of InSight is Actually the Tiny Cubesats Tagging Along for the Ride and Their Role in the Mission", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 14097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fs64sports.blogspot.com/2015/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:GA6RO5TSPK5RH3UNBB5Z73FWYEYMZVJO", "length": 31557, "nlines": 125, "source_domain": "fs64sports.blogspot.com", "title": "Today in Pro Football History: 06/01/2015 - 07/01/2015", "raw_content": "1984: Stars Defeat Generals in USFL Playoff Contest\nTwo rivals from the Atlantic Division of the United States Football League faced off in a First Round Playoff game on June 30, 1984. The Philadelphia Stars had gone 16-2 during the regular season, the league\u2019s best record, but both losses were to the New Jersey Generals, the club that finished second in the division with a 14-4 tally. The second meeting had been just the previous week, and Philadelphia had been uncharacteristically sloppy in both contests.\nThe Stars, who narrowly lost the USFL Championship game the previous year, were coached by Jim Mora. QB Chuck Fusina, the league\u2019s most efficient passer, directed the ball-control offense that featured RB Kelvin Bryant (pictured #44 above, with WR Willie Collier) operating behind a solid line. The tough and opportunistic defense that included All-League performers in NT Pete Kugler, LB Sam Mills, CB Garcia Lane, and FS Mike Lush yielded a league-low 12.5 points per game.\nNew Jersey was coached by Walt Michaels and was much improved over the 1983 unit thanks to the addition of significant veteran talent. QB Brian Sipe was one of those upgrades, and while he didn\u2019t have a big season, he was far more effective than the signal callers of the previous year. RB Herschel Walker was again the key to the offense, but he suffered from a sore shoulder all season and looked more tentative, although he still rushed for 1399 yards and 16 TDs while FB Maurice Carthon also reached a thousand yards (1042). The defense benefited from the addition of linebackers Willie Harper, Bobby Leopold, and Jim LeClair, FS Gary Barbaro, and CB Kerry Justin.\nThe game was played before 19,038 fans at Franklin Field of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, once home of the NFL Eagles, due to a conflict with major league baseball\u2019s Phillies for use of Veterans Stadium. The locker rooms were too small to accommodate the teams and they had to suit up at the nearby Hollenbeck Center and walk to the stadium.\nIt had rained during the morning, but stopped prior to kickoff. In the first quarter, a promising ten-play possession for the Generals ended with a pass by Brian Sipe being intercepted by FS Scott Woerner at the Philadelphia 16, and he returned it to his 40.\nThe opening period remained scoreless as the teams traded punts. Early in the second quarter, another turnover by the Generals set up the first score of the game. Pete Kugler sacked Sipe, causing the quarterback to fumble. LB John Bunting recovered and the Stars took just three plays to travel 49 yards. Chuck Fusina connected with WR Scott Fitzkee for 17 yards and FB David Riley for 22, and Kelvin Bryant reached the end zone on a ten-yard sweep. David Trout added the extra point and Philadelphia was ahead by 7-0 three minutes into the period.\nNew Jersey\u2019s next possession ended in a punt and Garcia Lane, sprung thanks to outstanding blocks by DB Bill Hardee and WR Herbert Harris, returned it 70 yards for a TD. Trout again converted to widen the home team\u2019s lead to 14-0.\nThe Generals, down by two touchdowns, were forced out of their game plan, but they advanced into Philadelphia territory on the next series, helped along by a roughing-the-passer penalty on the Stars. However, the visitors came up empty when Roger Ruzek missed on a 42-yard field goal attempt. Bryant immediately took off on a 38-yard jaunt to key an eight-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in Bryant catching an 11-yard touchdown pass over his shoulder in the corner of the end zone. Trout added the point after. The first half ended with Ruzek failing on a field goal try from 49 yards and, despite New Jersey running more plays and generating the most yards, the Stars took a 21-0 lead into halftime. Adding to their problems, the Generals lost three starters to injuries in the hard-hitting first half: Gary Barbaro, Kerry Justin, and G Wayne Harris.\nThe Stars punted following the first possession of the third quarter and New Jersey advanced into scoring territory, but after reaching the Philadelphia 15 following Herschel Walker\u2019s run to convert a fourth down, the Stars stiffened on defense and Ruzek missed a third field goal attempt, hooking to the left from 42 yards.\nPhiladelphia proceeded to put together a 20-play drive that covered 75 yards and ran 11:48 off the clock. Bryant punched over from the one for a touchdown that, with Trout\u2019s PAT, put the Stars up by 28-0 with 10:41 to play and effectively sealed the win. The Generals finally got on the board when Sipe threw to WR Clarence Collins for a 14-yard TD, but it was of no consequence. Philadelphia advanced to the next round by a decisive score of 28-7.\nNew Jersey had the edge in total yards (313 to 269) and first downs (24 to 17), but also suffered the game\u2019s only two turnovers, both of which were turned into points by the Stars. Philadelphia held the Generals to just 70 yards on the ground and recorded three sacks, to one by New Jersey. There were a total of 16 penalties called in the hard-hitting game, with the Stars getting flagged 10 times.\nKelvin Bryant rushed for 117 yards on 23 carries that included two touchdowns and scored another on one of his two catches for 32 yards. Chuck Fusina didn\u2019t go to the air often but was typically efficient, completing 9 of 14 passes for 121 yards and a touchdown, including six-of-six for 77 yards in the first half. David Riley and Scott Fitzkee caught three passes apiece, for 39 and 33 yards, respectively.\nFor the Generals, Brian Sipe was successful on 24 of 40 throws for 259 yards and a TD along with one interception. Herschel Walker was limited to 50 yards on 15 rushing attempts but led the club with 6 catches for 79 yards. Clarence Collins contributed 5 receptions for 62 yards and a score and TE Jeff Spek added 58 yards on his 5 catches.\n\u201cA loss today meant the season,\u201d said Kelvin Bryant. \u201cWe really wanted to get them because they were the only team to beat us.\u201d\n\u201cWe were a lot more physical today, there was a lot of emotion out there,\u201d said Coach Mora of the Stars.\nThe Stars went on to defeat the Birmingham Stallions the following week for the Eastern Conference title and won the USFL Championship handily over the Arizona Wranglers. New Jersey came back in 1985 to go 11-7 and again qualify for the playoffs, and once more fell to the Stars, now based in Baltimore, in the first round.\nLabels: 1984 USFL season, Baltimore Stars, Brian Sipe, Chuck Fusina, Herschel Walker, Jim Mora, Kelvin Bryant, New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars, Walt Michaels\nHighlighted Year: Jim Arnold, 1984\nPunter, Kansas City Chiefs\n2nd season in pro football & with Chiefs\nArnold was a four-time All-Southeastern Conference choice in college as well as consensus All-American as a senior in 1982. He was chosen by the Chiefs in the fifth round of the \u201883 NFL draft and averaged 39.9 yards on 93 punts as a rookie.\nPunts \u2013 98 [1, tied with Rohn Stark]\nMost punts, game \u2013 9 at Denver 9/23, vs. Houston 11/11\nBest average, game \u2013 50.9 (on 8 punts) at LA Raiders 11/18\nChiefs went 8-8 to finish fourth in the AFC West.\nA lesser performance in 1985 set the stage for Arnold\u2019s release prior to the \u201886 season and he was picked up by Detroit for the last seven games, averaging 42.6 yards on 36 punts. He followed up with a 1987 season in which he was a consensus first-team All-NFL and Pro Bowl selection after averaging 43.6 yards on 46 punts during the strike-interrupted campaign. He had another Pro Bowl year in \u201888 after punting a team-record 97 times for a 42.4-yard average, which topped the NFC. Arnold ended up playing a total of eight years for the Lions and set a franchise career records with 536 punts, averaging 42.7 yards per kick. He played for the Miami Dolphins in 1994 before retiring. Overall, Arnold punted 866 times over 12 seasons for a 42.3-yard average (284 for a 42.0 average with the Chiefs). He was named to the Pro Bowl twice and received first- or second-team All-NFL honors on three occasions.\nLabels: 1984 NFL season, Highlighted Years, Jim Arnold, Kansas City Chiefs, Player Profiles, Punting Leaders\nHighlighted Year: Chris Hanson, 2002\nPunter, Jacksonville Jaguars\n4th season in pro football, 3rd active in NFL & 2nd with Jaguars\nThe left-footed Hanson was an undrafted free agent signed by the Cleveland Browns in 1999 but was waived following training camp. He was picked up by the Packers, appeared in the season opener, and moved to the practice squad until he was let go in midseason. Hanson\u2019s next stop was Miami, who allocated him to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe for the 2000 spring season. He punted 50 times for a 42.8-yard average but an injury suffered in the season finale caused him to be placed on injured reserve for the NFL season. Released during the 2001 preseason, Hanson was picked up by the Jaguars and averaged 43.6 yards on 82 punts.\nPunts \u2013 81 [8, tied with Chris Gardocki & Dave Zastudil]\nMost punts, game \u2013 8 vs. Houston 10/27\nYards \u2013 3583\nAverage \u2013 44.2 [2, 1st in AFC]\nBest average, game \u2013 53.2 (on 5 punts) vs. NY Jets 9/29\nJaguars went 6-10 to finish third in the AFC South.\nHanson\u2019s 2003 season ended in bizarre fashion after suffering a serious injury to his right leg when gashed by swinging an axe that had been placed along with an oak stump in the locker room by Head Coach Jack Del Rio as a motivational tool. He returned in good form in \u201904 and stayed with Jacksonville for another two years. A drop in performance in 2006 caused the Jaguars to cut him in favor of rookie draftee Adam Podlesh and, after being dropped in the 2007 preseason by the Saints, Hanson moved on to New England for three years, finishing up in 2009. Overall, he averaged 42.5 yards on 577 punts, with 424 for a 42.9-yard average coming with Jacksonville.\nLabels: 2002 NFL season, Chris Hanson, Highlighted Years, Jacksonville Jaguars, Player Profiles, Punting Leaders\n1978: Bengals Trade Parrish & Bacon to Redskins\nOn June 26, 1978 the Cincinnati Bengals traded two able but discontented players to the Washington Redskins. CB Lemar Parrish and DE Coy Bacon were exchanged for Washington\u2019s 1979 first draft choice. It assured that, for the eleventh straight year, the Redskins would not have a selection in the first round. Under General Manager/Head Coach George Allen since 1971, they had invested heavily in veteran talent. Allen had departed following the \u201977 season and the trade thus marked one of the first major deals by new Washington GM Bobby Beathard.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big step for us, getting a couple of guys who have played that well,\u201d said Washington\u2019s incoming Head Coach Jack Pardee. \u201cThe number one pick is valuable. You hate to give one up. We are looking for more than one player who could help us right away. It had to be a multi-player deal.\u201d\nLemar Parrish was 30 and had played eight seasons with Cincinnati. Outstanding as a kick returner as well as in the defensive backfield, he had been selected to the Pro Bowl in each of his first two seasons and again in the four years from 1974 to \u201877. An unheralded seventh-round draft choice in 1970 out of Lincoln University of Missouri, Parrish intercepted 25 passes, with a high of seven in 1971, and returned four of them for touchdowns. He also scored three more times on fumble recoveries and averaged 9.2 yards on 130 punt returns, with a league-leading 18.8 average in 1974 that included two TDs. His average on 61 kickoff returns was 24.7, with a top figure of 30.1 as a rookie.\nCoy Bacon was 35 and a ten-year NFL veteran, although only the last two seasons were with the Bengals. Having played collegiately at Jackson State, he had originally performed in the minor league United and Continental Football Leagues and, after spending a year on the Dallas taxi squad, was obtained by the Rams in 1968, alternating with aging veteran DT Roger Brown the following year. Shifted to right end in 1970, he began to develop into an outstanding pass rusher and reached the Pro Bowl in \u201872. Bacon was traded to San Diego in 1973 as part of the deal that brought QB John Hadl to Los Angeles and arrived in Cincinnati in 1976, having been dealt for WR Charlie Joiner. He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his seasons with the Bengals and, while sacks were not yet compiled for individual players, unofficially led the NFL with 26 in 1976.\nBoth players had been outspoken in denouncing the club and demanding a trade. Parrish was unhappy with his salary and had indicated that he would play out his option. Bacon did not like the new 3-4 defensive alignment. GM Paul Brown indicated that either rookie Ray Griffin, brother of double-Heisman Trophy winner Archie, also a Bengal, or Melvin Morgan would replace Parrish in the lineup at cornerback. However, it ended up being Louis Breeden, a first-year player who intercepted three passes on his way to 33 in ten years with the club. Rookie Ross Browner from Notre Dame, the team\u2019s first draft choice, was to fill Bacon\u2019s place. The three-man front that had alienated Bacon didn\u2019t last the season, but Browner, who was injured at the start, came on strong in the second half. It was a disappointing year for the Bengals as a whole as they dropped to 4-12 following six straight records of .500 or better. Things would not turn around until 1981, when Cincinnati surged to the AFC Championship, and Breeden and Browner were both still starting in the defensive unit.\nThe veteran players filled areas of need for Washington. Parrish was expected to replace the retired Pat Fischer and it was hoped that Bacon would improve the pass rush. Parrish played well when healthy, but a broken arm cost him five games. Bacon (pictured below) started off strong but faded as the season progressed, along with other aging veterans on the defense. Washington followed suit in going 8-8, its worst record since the pre-George Allen year of 1970.\nBoth players had better seasons in 1979 and beyond. Parrish intercepted nine passes and was a consensus first-team All-NFL choice as well as Pro Bowl selection. He was selected to the Pro Bowl once more in \u201980 and was traded to Buffalo following the 1981 season. Overall, he intercepted 21 of his career total of 47 passes in a Washington uniform (he picked off one last throw as a member of the Bills in \u201982).\nBacon was unofficially credited with 15 sacks in 1979 and 11 in \u201980. At age 39 and clearly past his prime, though, he had difficulties with new Head Coach Joe Gibbs and was waived prior to the 1981 season. He came back to play for the Washington Federals of the USFL in 1983. Unofficially, he was credited with 130 sacks over the course of his career.\nAs for the first draft pick that the Bengals acquired for 1979, it was used to take RB Charles Alexander from LSU, a two-time All-American who was nicknamed \u201cAlexander the Great\u201d. His pro career was not great, however, although he lasted for seven seasons in Cincinnati and was part of the 1981 AFC Championship team. He rushed for 2645 yards, averaging 3.5 yards per carry, caught 165 passes for 1130 yards, and scored a total of 15 touchdowns. Alexander\u2019s best season was his second in 1980 when he achieved career highs in rushing (169 carries, 702 yards) and pass receptions (36).\nLabels: 1978 NFL season, Cincinnati Bengals, Coy Bacon, Lemar Parrish, Washington Redskins\nHighlighted Year: Raymond Berry, 1957\nOffensive End, Baltimore Colts\n3rd season in pro football & with Colts\nBerry didn\u2019t have much opportunity to show off his pass receiving skills in college, catching just 33 passes and scoring one touchdown, but he was chosen as a future pick by the Colts in the 20th round of the 1954 NFL draft. He joined the team in \u201955 and caught 13 passes as a rookie and, with the arrival of QB Johnny Unitas, improved to 37 receptions for 601 yards (16.2 avg.) in 1956. What he lacked in speed and heft he made up for with reliable hands and an excellent work ethic.\nMost receptions, game \u2013 12 (for 224 yds.) at Washington\nMost yards, game \u2013 224 (on 12 catches) at Washington\nTDs \u2013 6 [3, tied with Ray Renfro, Elroy Hirsch & Billy Wilson]\nTDs \u2013 6 [9, tied with ten others]\nPoints \u2013 36 [19, tied with ten others]\nColts went 7-5 to finish third in the NFL Western Conference while leading the league in passing yards (2388) and touchdowns (41).\nBerry followed up by leading the NFL in pass receiving in each of the next three seasons, in pass receiving touchdowns in 1958 and \u201959, and pass receiving yards in 1959 and \u201960, despite being hindered by a leg injury in the latter year. He was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection after all three years and also had an outstanding performance in the 1958 NFL Championship overtime win over the Giants (12 catches, 178 yards, 1 TD). While he didn\u2019t lead the league and missed two games due to injury in 1961, the steady Berry had a career-high 75 catches and was chosen to a fourth straight Pro Bowl. He went on to play a total of 13 seasons, all with the Colts, and retired as the career pass receiving leader at the time with 631, for 9275 yards (14.7 avg.) and 68 TDs. Berry was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection three times, received some first- or second-team honors after two other seasons, and was named to the Pro Bowl six times. He was selected to the 50th and 75th-year all-time NFL teams. The Colts retired his #82 and Berry was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 1973. Berry went on to a coaching career and was head coach of the New England Patriots when they won the AFC Championship in 1985.\nLabels: 1957 NFL season, Baltimore Colts, Highlighted Years, Indianapolis Colts, Pass Receiving Yardage Leaders, Player Profiles, Raymond Berry\nHighlighted Year: Jerome Mathis, 2005\nWide Receiver/Kick Returner, Houston Texans\nWith his great speed that also made him a college track star, Mathis accumulated 4541 all-purpose yards that included 93 pass receptions for 2456 yards (26.4 avg.) and 21 touchdowns and a 26.6-yard average on 62 kickoffs. He ranked second in the nation with an average of 160.8 all-purpose yards per game and was chosen by the Texans in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL draft. Mathis handled kickoffs as a rookie and also took over punt return duties when CB Phillip Buchanon was injured, although he was less adept at fielding punts.\nMost yards, game \u2013 266 (on 7 ret.) vs. Indianapolis 10/23, (on 7 ret.) vs. Kansas City 11/20\nMost yards, game \u2013 29 (on 5 ret.) at Baltimore 12/4\nTexans went 2-14 to finish fourth in the AFC South with the NFL\u2019s worst record.\nInjuries limited Mathis to five games over the next two seasons and he was let go by the Texans, having averaged 28.5 yards on 72 kickoffs with three TDs. He was briefly signed during the offseason with the Redskins, was waived, and moved on to the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, although injuries caused him to be cut and re-signed during the 2009 season. Mathis played in the Arena Football League in 2011 with the Pittsburgh Power and in nine games caught 30 passes for 418 yards and 7 TDs and returned 31 kickoffs for a 22.2-yard average and a touchdown.\nLabels: 2005 NFL season, Highlighted Years, Houston Texans, Jerome Mathis, Player Profiles\n1983: Backup Woodward Leads Breakers to Win Against Bandits\nOn June 19, 1983 two teams with playoff aspirations in the inaugural United States Football League season met in Boston. Both were also playing without their regular quarterbacks.\nThe Boston Breakers were 9-6 and in second place in the Atlantic Division. With the Philadelphia Stars having already clinched the division title, the Breakers were in the hunt for the lone Wild Card playoff spot. Coached by Dick Coury, they had proven adept at rallying for wins with their exciting offense, but veteran QB John Walton was out with a strained knee and the untested Doug Woodward would be making his first start at quarterback.\nThe Tampa Bay Bandits also had injury problems at quarterback, and were starting Mike Kelley in place of Jimmy Jordan, originally himself a backup who had in turn taken over for John Reaves when the 33-year-old veteran went down with a broken wrist. Under pass-oriented Head Coach Steve Spurrier, the Bandits had gotten off to a 4-0 start but were now at 10-5 and trying to keep pace with the Chicago Blitz atop the Central Division. They had beaten the Breakers in the season\u2019s first week.\nThere were 15,530 fans in attendance at Nickerson Field of Boston University on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Among those in attendance was actor Burt Reynolds, a minority owner of the Bandits. With the inexperienced Woodward at quarterback, who had thrown just three passes thus far, the Breakers came into the contest utilizing a simplified offense and relying on a good defensive effort.\nOn the first play from scrimmage, Tampa Bay RB Gary Anderson fumbled and SS Joe Restic recovered for the Breakers. Four plays later, Doug Woodward, rolling to his left, tossed a scoring pass to FB Dennis Johnson from 11 yards out. Tim Mazzetti added the extra point and, less than two minutes into the game, the home team was up by 7-0. To make matters worse for Tampa Bay, Anderson, the star rookie whose arrival at midseason had bolstered the running attack, aggravated a shoulder injury.\nThe Bandits responded by driving to a 35-yard field goal by Zenon Andrusyshyn, but the Breakers then put together a 46-yard series that was capped by Johnson diving for a two-yard TD. Mazzetti again successfully converted and Boston was staked to a 14-3 first quarter lead.\nEarly in the second quarter, the Bandits scored on a 20-yard touchdown carry by RB Sam Platt and Mike Kelley threw to WR Eric Truvillion for a two-point conversion. Mazzetti kicked a 22-yard field goal with 2:20 remaining in the first half that increased Boston\u2019s advantage to 17-11. As time expired before halftime, Andrusyshyn kicked a field goal from 51 yards that hit the crossbar but went over. The score was 17-14 at the intermission.\nIn the third quarter, the Bandits put together a drive that started from their 25 and advanced deep into Boston territory. But facing third-and-three at the seven, Anderson ran for two yards and then, attempting to convert fourth down, the rookie was stopped by LB Marcus Marek for no gain (although the spot by the officials was highly disputed) to end the threat and turn the ball back over to the Breakers.\nLater in the period, a 72-yard punt by Boston\u2019s Dario Casarino pinned the Bandits back at their two yard line. Tampa Bay reached the 12 before having to punt in turn early in the fourth quarter, and it took the Breakers just two plays to score from their own 49. Woodward connected with TE Beau Coash for 44 yards and then WR Nolan Franz for a seven-yard TD. Mazzetti kicked the point after.\nWith 7:50 to play, Andrusyshyn narrowed the margin to seven points with a 35-yard field goal, but that proved to be the last gasp for the Bandits, who failed to cross midfield for the remainder of the contest. On the game\u2019s next-to-last play, LB Ray Phillips sealed the 24-17 win for the Breakers by intercepting a Kelley pass at the Boston 40.\nTampa Bay dominated in total yards (355 to 222) and first downs (22 to 10), and ran 27 more offensive plays than the Breakers. However, the Bandits failed too often to convert long possessions into touchdowns and turned the ball over three times, to none by Boston. The Breakers also recorded four sacks, while Tampa Bay had none.\nStaked to an early lead, Doug Woodward completed 12 of 17 passes for just 80 yards, but two were good for touchdowns and he gave up no interceptions. RB Richard Crump rushed for 79 yards on nine carries. Thanks to his one long catch, Beau Coash led the Breakers with 47 yards on two pass receptions.\nFor the Bandits, Mike Kelley was successful on 22 of 40 throws for 238 yards and no TDs and was picked off once. Gary Anderson, who was knocked out of the contest for a time in addition to reinjuring his shoulder, rushed for 49 yards on nine attempts and Greg Boone contributed 36 yards on 10 carries. WR Willie Gillespie caught four passes for 87 yards.\n\u201cIt was a fairly simple game plan, but the young kid did an excellent job,\u201d said Boston\u2019s Coach Coury. \u201cHe\u2019s a heady kid, throws the ball real well, and came up with a couple of big plays.\u201d\nIt was the fifth win in six games for the Breakers. Meanwhile, the loss put the Bandits a game behind the Chicago Blitz in the Central Division with two contests remaining. Both clubs ultimately failed to make the postseason. They each split their remaining games and ended up with 11-7 records (Chicago was the Wild Card at 12-6).\nLabels: 1983 USFL season, Boston Breakers, Dick Coury, Doug Woodward, New Orleans Breakers, Portland Breakers, Steve Spurrier, Tampa Bay Bandits\nHighlighted Year: John Brockington, 1973\n3rd season in pro football & with Packers\nBrockington started at halfback as a sophomore in college, backed up FB Jim Otis for a year, and then started at fullback as a senior and rushed for a team-record 1142 yards and scored 17 TDs in 1970. He was chosen by the Packers in the first round (ninth overall) of the \u201971 NFL draft and moved directly into the starting lineup in combination with HB Donny Anderson. Brockington led the NFC with 1105 rushing yards and received consensus first-team All-NFL as well as Rookie of the Year honors. In 1972 he had a new backfield mate in HB MacArthur Lane and ran for 1027 yards as the Packers won the NFC Central, achieving All-NFC honors and again being selected to the Pro Bowl.\nMost attempts, game \u2013 28 (for 137 yds.) vs. St. Louis 11/11\nMost yards, game \u2013 142 yards (on 22 carries) at Chicago 12/16\nMost receptions, game \u2013 3 (for 17 yds.) vs. New Orleans 12/2\nMost yards, game \u2013 45 (on 2 catches) at New England 11/18\n1st team All-NFL: NEA\n2nd team All-NFL: AP, PFWA\nPackers went 5-7-2 to finish third in the NFC Central.\nAfter having become the first player in NFL history to reach a thousand rushing yards in each of his first three years, Brockington found the going more difficult over time as the team\u2019s lack of a credible passing attack had defenses keying on stopping the ground game. After gaining 883 yards rushing in 1974, in addition to catching a career-high 43 passes, his production dropped sharply as the wear and tear of his punishing, straight-ahead running style began to take its toll and he never again gained as many as 500 yards in a season. Released by the Packers early in the 1977 season, he finished up with the Kansas City Chiefs. Overall, Brockington rushed for 5185 yards on 1347 carries (all but 161 yards and 54 carries coming with Green Bay) and caught 157 passes for 1297 yards (19 for 222 yards with the Chiefs), scoring a total of 34 touchdowns (30 rushing, four receiving). He was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection once, received first- or second-team All-NFL and All-NFC honors after two other seasons, and was a three-time Pro Bowl choice.\nLabels: 1973 NFL season, Green Bay Packers, Highlighted Years, John Brockington, Player Profiles, Rushing Leaders\nHighlighted Year: Terry Barr, 1963\nFlanker, Detroit Lions\n7th season in pro football & with Lions\nFollowing a successful college career, Barr was chosen by the Lions in the third round of the 1957 NFL draft. He played at defensive halfback and returned an interception for a touchdown in Detroit\u2019s NFL Championship victory over Cleveland. Barr performed capably in the defensive backfield, receiving second-team All-NFL honors from the New York Daily News in \u201958, until being shifted over to flanker on offense in 1959. He shared the position with Howard \u201cHopalong\u201d Cassady and posted modest numbers, but broke out with 40 catches for 630 yards (15.8 avg.) and six touchdowns in 1961. However, Barr was limited to six games in \u201962 due to a knee injury that required surgery and there were concerns regarding his health heading into the 1963 season.\nMost receptions, game \u2013 10 (for 135 yds.) at San Francisco 11/3\nMost yards, game \u2013 135 (on 10 catches) at San Francisco 11/3\nTDs \u2013 13 [1, tied with Gary Collins]\nPoints \u2013 78 [7, tied with Gary Collins]\n2nd team All-NFL: AP, NEA\n1st team All-Western Conference: Sporting News\nLions went 5-8-1 to finish tied for fourth with the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL Western Conference.\nBarr followed up with another Pro Bowl year in 1964, catching 57 passes for 1030 yards (18.1 avg.) and nine TDs. However, another knee injury cost him half the season in \u201965 and he retired. Overall, in nine seasons all spent with the Lions, Barr had 227 catches for 3810 yards (16.8 avg.) and 35 touchdowns. He ran the ball for 151 yards and another two TDs and returned 26 kickoffs for a 25.2-yard average and a TD and 50 punts for a 5.2-yard average. On defense, he intercepted five passes. Barr was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Fame.\nLabels: 1963 NFL season, Detroit Lions, Highlighted Years, Pass Receiving TD Leaders, Player Profiles, Terry Barr\nHighlighted Year: Champ Bailey, 2005\nCornerback, Denver Broncos\n7th season in pro football, 2nd with Broncos\nA consensus All-American cornerback in 1998, Bailey starred on both offense and defense in college and was chosen by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the \u201999 NFL draft (seventh overall). He moved directly into the starting lineup and intercepted five passes. Tough and smart, and with ideal size and speed, he quickly became established as an elite player at his position and in 2000 was named to the Pro Bowl for the first of eight consecutive seasons in addition to receiving first-team All-NFC recognition. In 2004, after five years in Washington, he was dealt to Denver in a blockbuster trade for RB Clinton Portis and achieved consensus first-team All-NFL honors for the first time.\nInterceptions \u2013 8 [4, tied with Nathan Vasher]\nMost int. return yards, game \u2013 65 (on 1 int.) at Dallas 11/24\nInt. TDs \u2013 2 [1, tied with four others]\nBroncos went 13-3 to finish first in the AFC West. Won AFC Divisional playoff over New England Patriots (27-13). Lost AFC Championship to Pittsburgh Steelers (34-17).\nBailey followed up in 2006 by leading the NFL in both interceptions (10) and interception return yards (162) and was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection for the third straight year. With teams not throwing in his direction, his interception total dropped to three in \u201907, but he still achieved Pro Bowl recognition. Injuries cost Bailey seven games in 2008 but he bounced back in \u201909 to return to the Pro Bowl for another four straight years. Even with declining skills, he was still a formidable cover corner well into his 30s. A foot injury limited Bailey to five games in 2013, although he returned to play in the postseason, including the Super Bowl loss to Seattle that was his last game with the Broncos. He was released following the season, signed with New Orleans, but failed to make the team and retired. Overall, Bailey played for 15 years, ten of them with Denver, and intercepted 52 passes, 34 as a member of the Broncos, four of which he returned for touchdowns. He was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection three times, received at least some first-team recognition after three other seasons, and was selected to the Pro Bowl 12 times, a record for a cornerback. He was named to the All-2000s Team by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His brother Rodney \u201cBoss\u201d Bailey also played in the NFL with the Lions and Broncos.\nLabels: 2005 NFL season, Champ Bailey, Denver Broncos, Highlighted Years, Player Profiles\n1984: Stars Defeat Generals in USFL Playoff Contes...\n1983: Backup Woodward Leads Breakers to Win Agains...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2473, "original_length": 71771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://funfreeslots.co.uk/best-online-slots/da-vinci-diamonds-slot-igt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:39Z", "digest": "sha1:XR4YRLKIMGTD4EII6TFLA24AR6DFJ6NZ", "length": 3831, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "funfreeslots.co.uk", "title": "Da Vinci Diamonds Slot Machine Game to Play", "raw_content": "You have heard about one of the greatest men on the face of the earth, Leonardo Da Vinci. His findings in the field of science are unprecedented. It is, therefore, a good thing that IGT is bringing the Da Vinci Diamonds slot to every slot lover. This is not only because it involves techniques which we are going to share here but also because it is highly rewarding and you can win a high so far you follow the rules of the game. Apart from this, you also have the chance to enjoy yourself to the fullest. So, this pokie is just rewarding in every aspect. All that is needed from your own side is to ensure that you coordinate your gameplay very well so that you win big and be the best you want to be as a slot player. To help you achieve your aim, we are writing this review which is all-encompassing as it contains every single detail of the game that you need to keep to get your desired. Follow us on the journey to the Da Vinci Diamonds free pokie. If you are ready, here we go!\nDa Vinci Diamonds casino slot online has the special features of wild, scatter and free spins. 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In addition to the great features that have been stated above, your high chance of getting a prize by playing this game is confirmed by the fact that the return to player (RTP) is 94.94%.\nThe Great Symbols\nAs you play Da Vinci Diamonds slot machine online, the icons you will encounter vary in their values. The high pay symbols include Mona Lisa, Portrait of a very young man, Cecilia Gallerani, and the Da Vinci Diamonds game logo. Other icons that you will come across but which are not of high value include orange, red and green gems. The scatter is denoted by the bonus icon while the wild icon is represented by one very big wild object which can perform the substitution wonders. The wild icon will serve as a replacement for every single symbol in the pokie with the exception of the scatter symbol alone.\nThis game surely offers bonus features for you, but the question is how will you unleash these features? Look no further because the answer is here. Continue reading to check it out.\nThe Tumbling Reels\nThere are some flowing reels that occur in the bonus and standard gameplay. The moment you are able to spin a win, you will see the symbols that are involved disappear so as to allow more icons to fill in the gaps. This is a good way for creating a new winning payline.\nHere, you have the opportunity to win big. All you have to do is to hit at least 3 of the bonus icons on the reels 1, 2, and 3. Although you will not get an additional multiplier to increase your prize in this round, you will have the tumbling reels still operating. So, you have the opportunity to get more free spins. While the bonus round is still on, you can get more free spins for yourself by hitting additional bonus icons.\nYou don\u2019t need to wait any longer, the right time is now. Just forge ahead to play Da Vinci Diamonds for real money. With a return to player of 94.94% and a jackpot of 5000x, it is worth it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://galoremag.com/11-best-new-songs-tame-impala-charli-xcx/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SHJICWTWGQO3RCQ63JMAOMD4SVZKT54D", "length": 892, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "galoremag.com", "title": "11 Best New Songs You Need In Your Life - Galore", "raw_content": "11 Best New Songs You Need In Your Life\nMay 6, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Shannon Kurlander\nDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019re back with a brand new round-up of the best new songs you just have to hear! We\u2019re loving this time of year with festival season in full swing and new songs popping up from the summer\u2019s most anticipated releases. There\u2019s a lot of new music out there right now, but we scoured the internet to find the best of the best, just for you. This time around we have a funky new Tame Impala track, an amazing Charli XCX collab and our new favorite find, Pale Honey.\nTame Impala \u201cDisciples\u201d\nTamaryn \u2013 \u201cHands All Over Me\u201d\nCharli XCX & Giorgio Moroder \u2013 \u201cDiamonds\u201d\nDucktails \u2013 \u201cHeadbanging In The Mirror\u201d\nIS TROPICAL \u2013 \u201cCruise Control\u201d\nVince Staples \u2013 \u201cSenorita\u201d\nPale Honey \u2013 \u201cLonesome\u201d\nKaren O \u2013 \u201cOh, Nellie\u201d\nMeredith Graves \u2013 \u201cTook The Ghost To The Movies\u201d\nLA Priest \u2013 \u201cParty Zute / Learning To Love\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gamingtrend.com/2004/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3AIE5X7NQJM63BOJCX6YASVRBD47LRA7", "length": 4034, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "gamingtrend.com", "title": "November 2004 \u2013 GAMING TREND", "raw_content": "Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires Review\nKoei knows how to keep fans of their popular series well-stocked, and few franchises have seen more versions than Dynasty Warriors. The...\nGet On Da Mic Review\nIn a new turn for games on consoles, here is the latest karaoke game for the Playstation 2. Following Karaoke Revolution, Get...\nApe Escape: Pumped and Primed Review\nThe Ape Escape series is one of those for Sony that has disappeared in the shadow of such characters as Jak/Daxter, Ratchet/Clank...\nScrapland Review\nAmerican McGee Presents: Scrapland (henceforth known as Scrapland) is an interesting game. American McGee's name was slapped on it once he was...\nJak 3 Review\nWe finally arrive at the end after over 3 years, Jak 3 is the final chapter in the series\u2026or is it? That's...\nI must have started and re-started this review more times than I care to think about. In order to write about a...\nMen of Valor Review\nDeveloper 2015 is probably best known as the group that created the massively successful Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for Electronic Arts...\nKillzone Review\nGuerilla was bought up by Sony in order to bring their in-progress FPS game Kin exclusively to the Playstation 2. Kin was...\nForgotten Realms: Demon Stone Review\nForgotten Realms: Demon Stone is a high fantasy game set in the popular Wizards of the Coast campaign setting. This world was...\nBard\u2019s Tale Review\nThe Bard's Tale hooked me instantly with its sense of humor. When I launched the game, it seemed like any other of...\nVampire: The Masquerade \u2013 Bloodlines Review\nVampires don't exist. Well\u2026that is exactly what The Camarilla wants you to think anyway. For those who have played the White Wolf...\nThe first order of business is to say that this review will be absolutely SPOILER FREE. If you want spoilers, read my...\nKohan 2 Kings of War Review\nWhen Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns came out in 2001, it brought with it a breath of fresh air to a stagnant RTS genre....\nLeisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Review\nIt's an odd thing to feel the need to take a shower after completing a game, but that's exactly how I felt...\nShark Tale is a charming tale of a loud-mouthed fish with delusions of grandeur who meets a vegetarian shark (Lenny) who just...\nDukes Of Hazzard: Return Of The General Lee Review\nWell now, I done gone and played The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee and man did my IQ take...\nLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is based on a series of bothersome books of which the The Grim Grotto has...\nColin McRae Rally 2005 Review\nWhen you ask an American what they think of when you say \"car racing,\" they will probably mention something about NASCAR. However,...\nTony Hawk\u2019s Underground 2 Review\nTwo teams, facing off at 6 locations around the world, tagging, skating, and destroying anything in their path. This is the World...\nRobotech: Invasion Review\nThe mid-1980's was filled with action cartoons. Transformers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe, and M.A.S.K. were all staples...\nMagnifying glass? Check. Notebook? Check. Unwavering assistant? Check. Well, it looks like we are ready to head off into another mystery. If...\nThere was once a time when I lived and breathed X-Men; by far it was my favorite comic book title growing up,...\nGuilty Gear Isuka Review\nSince the jump to 3D characters in the days of Virtura Fighter and Soul Blade, 2D fighting games have slowly fallen off...\nGuilty Gear X2 #Reload Review\nFor those of you who grew up in the 1990's, you might have heard of a little anime serial that ran in...\nPower Rangers Dino Thunder Review\nPower Rangers: Dino Thunder brings the latest incarnation of the Power Rangers series to the Gameboy Advance for some portable side scrolling...\nBloodRayne 2 Review\nIt was 1935 when we last saw the leather-clad Dhampir Rayne as she teamed up with the Brimstone Society to help stop...\nMortal Kombat: Deception Review\nFinish Him!\" Those words and the accompanying basso voice have become a part of popular video game culture thanks to the Mortal...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 9119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gema.georgia.gov/plan-prepare", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5TGXXSZPFZ7YLZPKCLCXIDTG4UAUX2HZ", "length": 577, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gema.georgia.gov", "title": "Plan & Prepare | Georgia Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Plan & Prepare\nThe Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency coordinates the state\u2019s preparedness, response and recovery efforts to disasters. As part of the Office of the Governor, GEMA/HS operates under the authority of the Emergency Management Act of 1981. GEMA/HS works with local, state and federal governments, in partnership with the private sector and faith-based community, to prevent and respond to natural and man-made emergencies. 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If you want to crush it on YouTube, it's probably important to know what YouTube values and rewards so that you can play by their rules and achieve the most out of this platform.\nSo, what does YouTube value most? Most people think it is either subscribers or views, but it's been known for some time now, that on YouTube, what matters most is actually the minutes. On the video analytics option of your YouTube channel, minutes are at the top of the list, and that is not coincidental.\nThe reason is that YouTube realized a couple of years ago that although views are important, they are not the most important parameter to determine if a video is engaging or not. By adding a tricky \u201cclick bait\u201d thumbnail and title, people will click on a video and get a lot of views and that's meaningless. If a one minute video was watched a lot for a second, or even 10 seconds, that is an indication for YouTube that this video wasn't interesting enough, that it's not engaging, or that it's not helpful or useful for viewers.\nIn other words, watch time is YouTube's best indication for your video engagement, interest and value. The more watch time your video gets, the higher your videos will rank on YouTube\u2019s search list, thus more people can watch your video and most importantly, more people are exposed to your channel and can subscribe to it.\nCreate a good video, and people will want to hear and see more content, they will enjoy it and eventually, they will subscribe.\nThumbnails -\nUsually, before viewers read the title of a certain video, they have a quick look at the video\u2019s thumbnail. This requires you to be consistent, meaning you must build your thumbnails attentively and learn to that well.\nThis might be common sense for those that have been on YouTube for a while, but it's not necessarily common practice. One of the thumbnail goals is to be enticing, interesting and capture the viewer's attention. One mistake users often make is having their thumbnail read the same thing as their title. Since the thumbnail is small, using a lot of words can look messy and hard to read, as opposed to using one or two words (optimally four at the most) for a short, professional and concise thumbnail.\nBefore anyone watches your video, he or she has to read your title, so obviously you must do title SEO (by adding your keywords in your title for example), and you have to very clear about your video's topic. Your video's title and the thumbnail are your video's introduction to the viewer and are your main method of making a great first impression - it is a very brief summary of what is it you're talking about, and it must be \u201cspot on\u201d.\nThe Hook -\nJust because potential viewers click on your video, that still doesn't mean they are going to watch it through from start to finish. The first 15 seconds of your video are the most crucial, and they are your video 'hook'. Your hook should be interesting enough to keep a viewer all the way through the video. It\u2019s most likely that if viewers watch the first 15 seconds of your video, they continue to will watch all of it. These odds usually increase after 30 seconds of watching - making these are your critical moments. Make them count!\nYour main objective on YouTube is to generate views, which will generate subscribers. In order to achieve this, you\u2019ll need to create good content \u2013 it\u2019s as simple as that, right?\nBasically, you constantly need to ask yourself: how you can make your content even more engaging? How can you make it half as long yet twice as strong? What are your video's dead spots (meaning are there spots that people could lose attention)? What could make potential moments for people to click out of your video?\nThe thing is, you can answer a lot of these questions just by looking at your analytics. After a video is posted, head over to your analytics and carefully study your audience retention. You can easily see where people \u201cdrop out\u201d, for instance, and by using this valuable information you can optimize your videos.\nIf you are in the center of your videos and all your viewers see is you, you'll probably notice that retention tends to drop whenever your face isn\u2019t showing. That makes perfect sense since people are watching your videos because they want to watch you! In these cases you may want to consider \u201csplitting\u201d the screen whenever you\u2019re showing something (a product, a view, anything!) - so 80% of the screen is whatever it is you want to present to your audience, and other 20% of the screen is you, keeping the eye contact going. Improving your content really means getting more watch time, which can ultimately get you more subscribers.\nAlthough some of these tips are common sense and a little bit \u201cobvious\u201d to some, that still doesn't mean that they are common practice, and you know how the old proverb goes: practice makes perfect. By mastering the fundamentals, you will eventually reach \u201cperfect\u201d.\nJim Rohn, one of the world\u2019s greatest motivational speakers, once said: \"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals\". We just can\u2019t help but wholeheartedly agree!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gff.com/view/trinity-at-left-bank/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:15Z", "digest": "sha1:24743FAJIKEOGAUWSFI4OAPNBTBTEMUP", "length": 845, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gff.com", "title": "Trinity at Left Bank - GFF", "raw_content": "Trinity at Left Bank is a 5 story, multi-family residential project on 4.18 acres in the Left Bank mixed use village, off West 7th Street and adjacent to the bank of the Trinity River. The project contains 337 residential units and more than 13,375 SF of amenities including a club room with a golf simulator, business center, two-story fitness center, generous three-sided courtyard, 1/4-acre dog park, and a roof-top pool. Residents have a direct connection to the Trinity Trails and the river, via both the open courtyard and distinct two-story \u2018townhouse\u2019 type units. A 5th floor Sky Lounge and shaded roof terrace adjoin the pool to offer unobstructed views of downtown Fort Worth and the river. The project utilizes a clean \u2018industrial\u2019 language of smooth faced brick and dark framed windows as a nod to the industrial history of the site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 2774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gg.govt.nz/office-governor-general/invitations-and-patronage/congratulatory-messages", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XJGOSLBQX6CK723N5P44DCDMSKRCYKXF", "length": 757, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "gg.govt.nz", "title": "Congratulatory messages", "raw_content": "Congratulatory messages from the Governor-General and The Queen\nHer Majesty The Queen (through Government House) sends messages of congratulations on the following occasions:\nwedding anniversary - 60th, 65th, 70th and every anniversary thereafter\nbirthday - 100 years, 105 years and older.\nThe Governor-General sends messages of congratulations on the following occasions:\nwedding anniversary - 50th, 60th, 65th, 70th and every anniversary thereafter\nTo find out more about anniversaries that qualify for a congratulatory message, contact us via:\nweb: www.govt.nz/congratulatory\nemail: congrat@dia.govt.nz\nfreephone: 0800 22 52 52 (NZ only)\nphone: +64 4 463 9362 (outside NZ)\nmail: Congratulatory Message Service, PO Box 10526, Wellington 6143, New Zealand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 7328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glackinplan.com/projects/main-line-health-lankenau-medical-center-healing-spaces/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:47Z", "digest": "sha1:URPHXRF7EH6OM5WVBHMYG27XF6AYE4DN", "length": 1015, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "glackinplan.com", "title": "Lankenau Medical Center Healing Spaces | Glackin Thomas Panzak Lankenau Medical Center Healing Spaces | Glackin Thomas Panzak", "raw_content": "Lankenau Medical Center Healing Spaces\nAs a component of the Lankenau Medical Center Master Plan development, the opportunity to create healing spaces and to renovate existing courtyards was seized. Three new green roof areas were created allowing restorative views for patients, visitors, and staff. A public transit arrival area was transformed with a new canopy, seating, lighting, and specialty paving that guides visitors through a renovated landscape courtyard to the core of the medical center. A previously inaccessible courtyard adjacent to a coffee bar was opened to visitors and staff with benches, tables and chairs, and seasonal plantings. Adjoining the Heart Pavilion, a walled gathering area welcomes visitors with a soothing fountain and umbrella tables with chairs allowing a place to rest or eat a meal outside. All of the gardens and courtyards are viewable from patient rooms, public spaces, and offices above allowing the continued integration of the outdoor environment into a medical setting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://goldcoastflood.com/tag/water-restoration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ODN56UJZ7Y4QOATHDKDI5GA3VD4LTDC4", "length": 304, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "goldcoastflood.com", "title": "Water Restoration Archives - Flood Restoration San Diego CA - Water Damage - Mold Removal", "raw_content": "Home / Water Restoration\nWater Restoration Contractor\nIn life, our homes are normally the largest investment we ever make. Often, we work so hard for so many years that it comes as a relief when we finally have the keys in our hands. Therefore, we want to do all we can to protect the property for as [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gpstechnologies.com/2017/12/how-nasa-uses-gps-technology-in-space/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HCU73ZX7VEPNUFUKAVG5NCBM67OA3OXB", "length": 3351, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gpstechnologies.com", "title": "How NASA Uses GPS Technology in Space", "raw_content": "How NASA Uses GPS Technology in Space\nIn recent weeks, we\u2019ve explored the ways in which the Global Positioning System and its related technologies have been utilized across the globe. All very interesting, to be sure, but very Earth-centric. What say you to getting away from terra firma for a bit and taking this topic to the stars this time around?\nThat was a rhetorical question. Let\u2019s go for a ride.\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, NASA relies on GPS technology as a key backup for a number of important functions in its pursuit of space exploration and aeronautics research. Since the satellites utilized by the system are already in orbit, it\u2019s understandable that the other machinery that we have floating around up there could make good use of its capabilities. While GPS isn\u2019t entirely relied upon for particular functions just yet, it does offer a useful failsafe that helps guarantee accuracy and information transfer should other systems malfunction. To this end, it\u2019s utilized in three notable areas: in the communication of data, in the autonomy of the latter, and in planetside technological improvements. We\u2019ll tackle those one at a time.\nKeeping the Lines Open\nFirst: communication. NASA missions that are in orbit can track their position and relay information to Earth (and vice versa) through multiple channels, each used for various parcels of data that vary with the purpose of the assignment and the craft\u2019s distance from the planet. Two-way channels include the Deep Space Network (DSN), the Near Earth Network (NEN), and the Space Network (SN), but satellites can also utilize one-way, onboard methods to process locale details and keep their trajectories on course. This info is pulled from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) scattered across the Earth\u2019s orbit, and one of these systems is GPS. While most NASA missions rely on the DSN, NEN, and SN, more missions are beginning to use GPS as a backup tool to ensure that figures are accurate.\nSecond: independence. GPS and other GNSS systems can be utilized to allow spacecraft a greater degree of onboard autonomy: something that can be vital should ground communications and its remote tracking and control experience issues. Using one-way signals from the system\u2019s satellites, missions can use GPS information to track real-time three-dimensional positions and timing with up to 95% accuracy in lieu of other sensors.\nThe Benefits Back Home\nThird: better earthbound applications. By updating future generations of GPS satellites with more advanced designs and powerful systems, planet-based tracking and measuring has been increasingly improved to allow pinpoint accuracy, sometimes down to the millimeter. This benefit goes further than simply making your Google Maps route more reliable: it\u2019s a valuable tool for scientists the world over. Better GPS means an increase in performance and precision for teams monitoring and evaluating climate change, sea levels, global temperatures, weather movement, and much more.\nDespite the relative simplicity of its use in our day to day, GPS isn\u2019t just a shortcut for \u201clazy\u201d drivers who are bad with directions; it\u2019s an integral piece of technology that the brightest minds across the globe rely on to make sense of our world and everything that lies beyond it. Who knows where in the universe it may allow us to go in the future?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grad.buffalo.edu/news.host.html/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2013/11/021.detail.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UGTMG77ELHGPX65AW5BW2JFECLCF7ZTN", "length": 3511, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "grad.buffalo.edu", "title": "UB engineering student is finalist for renowned Marshall Scholarship - The Graduate School at the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo", "raw_content": "UB engineering student is finalist for renowned Marshall Scholarship\nUB senior Phillip Tucciarone works with graphene in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and hopes to use a Marshall Scholarship to study in England.\nPhillip Tucciarone\n\u201cIn my 20-plus years teaching at UB, I've never seen such a display of leadership in one of my students.\u201d\nDavid Kofke, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering\nBUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Phillip Tucciarone, a University at Buffalo senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship.\nAlso a 2013 recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Tucciarone is UB\u2019s first finalist for the Marshall Scholarship since 2008.\nEach year, the award finances graduate study for 40 American scholars at a university in the United Kingdom in any field of study. If selected, Tucciarone would use the scholarship to obtain his doctorate in materials science at either the University of Oxford or Imperial College of London.\nTucciarone will interview with the scholarship committee in New York on Nov. 16. He will hear final results the following week.\nIf selected, he would join the transcending research currently underway on graphene, one of the crystalline forms of carbon. Fueled by his desire to become a professor of materials science, Tucciarone has devoted much of his undergraduate research to nanomaterials and the development of methods of non-toxic bio-imaging, which play a role in cancer treatment.\nTucciarone\u2019s studies have earned several awards, including the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\u2019 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Award of Distinction. He has also co-authored and published two papers on his studies in ACS Nano and Nano Letters, both monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journals published by the American Chemical Society.\n\u201cI see education as the strongest mechanism for change in the world,\u201d says Tucciarone. \u201cI want to bridge the gap between the United States and UK as a diplomat, gain experience and work as a bridge for bilateral research and higher education.\u201d\nTucciarone\u2019s passion for education drives him both in and outside the classroom. An Honors College scholar, he maintains a nearly flawless grade point average while playing as the starting wing for UB\u2019s rugby team.\nHe is also president of the Honors Student Council, and works with inner city public schools through the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership, a program that seeks to improve science education in the Buffalo Public Schools.\nDuring a community service program in the Dominican Republic, Tucciarone volunteered to help teach English to the local youth. The experience opened his eyes to the inequalities in education and inspired him to organize an annual volunteer service trip to the country through the Honors Student Council.\n\u201cIn my 20-plus years teaching at UB, I've never seen such a display of leadership in one of my students,\u201d says David Kofke, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. \u201cIt is heartening to see this in an engineering student, where the workload promotes immersion in coursework without allowing time to take in the larger picture in life, let alone participate in it.\u201d\nFounded in 1953 in honor of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, the Marshall Scholarship works to strengthen the relationship between the British and American citizens, and their governments and institutions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grad.buffalo.edu/news.host.html/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2015/11/001.detail.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3VRODFGZQNSJVPOGK3W5KVESN7F5BLK6", "length": 4069, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "grad.buffalo.edu", "title": "Using big data to power an energy revolution - The Graduate School at the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo", "raw_content": "Using big data to power an energy revolution\nResearchers inside the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, a National Science Foundation supported supercomputing facility. Credit: Douglas Levere.\nUB takes leadership role in NSF plan to use data analytics to solve pressing societal problems\n\u201cWe are relying increasingly on a diverse energy supply that includes fossil fuels as well as renewables such as wind and solar power and equally complex distribution and usage systems.\u201d\nAbani Patra, professor\nAbani Patra\nBUFFALO, N.Y. \u2013 Can big data improve how electricity is produced, delivered and consumed in the Northeastern United States?\nUniversity at Buffalo researchers think so, which explains their leadership role in a National Science Foundation effort that aims to find solutions to urgent societal problems through the examination of massive sets of raw data.\nAnnounced Monday, the NSF plan centers on creating four Big Data Innovation Hubs. UB will work in the Northeast hub, a $1.25 million initiative led by Columbia University that includes a few dozen universities, as well as partners in industry, government and nonprofits.\n\u201cWe are relying increasingly on a diverse energy supply that includes fossil fuels as well as renewables such as wind and solar power and equally complex distribution and usage systems. Our group will examine how to support discovery and use of data and information about these systems to manage them for optimum performance,\u201d said Abani Patra, PhD, professor in UB's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who is leading UB's work in the innovation hub.\nMassive datasets and novel computational techniques are changing how individuals and societies approach day-to-day tasks. Data analytics promises to deliver individually tailored treatment to patients, massively reduce energy use in buildings, and radically improve teaching methods in schools, among other advances.\nThe idea for a Big Data hub network came in 2012, after President Obama announced a $200 million National Big Data Research & Development Initiative to apply data analytics to education, environmental and biomedical research, and national security. The NSF, one of six federal agencies involved, proposed an add-on initiative that would divide the country into four \u201cregional innovation hubs,\u201d each harnessing experts in academia, industry, government, and the non-profit sector, to address problems too big for any one to take on alone.\nThe Northeast Hub will have six areas of focus: health, energy, cities and regions, finance, big data in education, and discovery science. A series of workshops over the next three years will give partners a chance to brainstorm and collaborate on projects that address high-priority needs in the region.\nPatra, who will lead the energy portion of the innovation hub, also directs UB\u2019s Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering initiative, a new advanced degree and certificate program that is part of UB\u2019s \u201cE Fund\u201d initiative, which supports programs that will have a high impact both inside and outside the university.\nAdditional UB researchers involved in the project include: Rositsa B. Dimova, PhD, research assistant professor in the departments of medicine and biostatistics, and Marianthi Markatou, PhD, associate chair of research and healthcare informatics and professor of biostatistics, both in the the School of Public Health and Health Professions.\nVarun Chandola, assistant professor in department of computer science and engineering, Johannes Hachmann, assistant professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering, and Venkat Krovi, professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering; all in UB's School of Engineering and Applied Science.\nHaimonti Dutta, PhD, assistant professor, and H. Raghav Rao, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, both in the department of management science and systems in the School of Management.\nAndrew H. 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It is available from Commune Editions/AK Press.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 153.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greenandblackcross.org/france/2-garde-a-vue-custody/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QO64IGBJZIPGYOFPM7O6SEWS4VDZF4DN", "length": 1510, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "greenandblackcross.org", "title": "2. Garde \u00e0 Vue \u2013 Custody | Green and Black Cross", "raw_content": "2. Garde \u00e0 Vue - Custody\nYou have the right to say \u201cI have nothing to declare\u201d in French police interviews. This is the equivalent of \u201cNo Comment\u201d.\nYou can normally be held for a maximum of 24 hours (extended to 48 hours by a prosecutor, or 96 on terrorism charges).\nYou have a right to a solicitor for all interviews, and to a translator if you do not understand French.\nYou have the right to remain silent or say \u201cje n\u2019ai rien \u00e0 d\u00e9clarer\u201d (I have nothing to declare). We strongly encourage you to exercise this right unless advised otherwise by a good solicitor. You can (and should) also refuse to sign police documents during custody.\nYour fingerprints, DNA, and photographs will be taken, and it is an offense to refuse this.\nYou can also be interviewed as a \u2018free suspect\u2019 without being held in custody. In this case, you theoretically have the right to leave, but they may threaten to hold you in custody if you do so.\nOn release, 4 things may happen:\nYou are released without charge.\nYou are offered mediation, pre-trial sanctions such as fines or community service, or a reduced sentence in exchange for a pre-trial guilty plea.\nYou are released and given a date to appear in court.\nYou are held in court jail (depot) for up to 20 hours whilst a prosecutor decides on your case. You may then be released, given a court date (potentially with bail conditions), taken to trial immediately, or \u2013 in the most serious cases \u2013 detained until trial.\nPrevious 1. Contr\u00f4les \u2013 Identity Checks\nNext 3. Schedule 7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gregcorbin.com/2015/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:VEXICGZI2SJ757CRORDYD7D5TNQAQMYR", "length": 2072, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "gregcorbin.com", "title": "November | 2015 | gregcorbin.com", "raw_content": "1 Thessalonians 5:18 commands Christians to \u201cgive thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.\u201d Think about it. As we approach this Thanksgiving holiday, we may not know God\u2019s will regarding any number of issues going on in our lives, but we know for sure that God\u2019s will is for us to give thanks. Give thanks if life is good. Give thanks if life is hard. Give thanks.\nI decided to share a list of things that I am thankful for this week.\nI am thankful for the Lord Jesus and salvation by grace through faith in Him. He is my redeemer, my strength, my joy, and my hope.\nI am thankful for the Word of God. I never get tired of reading the Bible and studying the Bible.\nI am thankful for my family. I was blessed with parents (and grandparents) who taught to me to love Christ and live for Him. 22 years ago (almost) the Lord blessed me with a beautiful wife to share life with. Our two sons continue to bring Becky and I great joy.\nI am thankful for my church family. The people of Lakeside Baptist Church are a great blessing to me. They are loving, faithful followers of Christ.\nI am thankful for friends. Some friends came into my life and God used for a season. Others became \u201cfriends for life\u201d that I remain in touch with. Some friends are new friends.\nI am thankful for health and strength to serve Christ. God has been gracious to allow me both spiritual and physical strength.\nI am thankful for our country. For all of our problems, America is still the greatest country in the world. I am proud to be an American, and I am thankful to be a citizen of this great country.\nI am thankful for financial and material blessings. Are we wealthy? Not compared to many in our area, but we are compared to most of the people in the world.\nPerhaps you read my list and think \u201cwell, no surprises there.\u201d That\u2019s true. However, I have made my list and made it public. The fact that my list surprises no one isn\u2019t the point. The point is to be thankful in obedience to scripture and for our spiritual good. I am thankful. To God be the glory!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://griefwatch.com/you-are-the-mother-of-all-mothers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:H4KXKEVIA7GL2GDNMYWYQ27CZNN76HEQ", "length": 1371, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "griefwatch.com", "title": "You are the Mother of All Mothers", "raw_content": "MOAMO\nThere are few books that address the weight of guilt and shame that a grieving mother carries with her after the loss of her child. The deep feeling of failure that accompanies child loss can be heart, mind and soul crippling. Reengaging in life after loss and attempting to find a sliver of hope again is an on-going battle-- one no bereaved mother should travel alone. No matter the age or cause of death, no matter the story, this book is for you, sweet mama. It's the book you can reach for in the middle of the night, when you feel like no one understands your pain. It's the book you can carry with you anywhere and everywhere, to give you a lift of hope, a sliver of light in the darkness. It's a balm for your broken heart, a comfort for your aching soul. It's an elixir to combat that feeling of failure, a way to lift your heart and soul, again and again, whenever it needs to be lifted with some gentle, loving encouragement from someone who knows. It's a way to replace the insidious lies with a truth that will resonate with all your broken pieces, a truth that will settle deep into every crevice of your being. Whether today, or years from now, some day, some how, I hope you know what I know to be true: you truly are the mother of all mothers-- a warrior mama through and through.\nHope Filled Reflections on Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 3823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grimur.net/portfolio/writings/our-10th-year-anniversary-17042006/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:53AZHWOQM4SKUU7ASP52I6UXY74HYPNG", "length": 296, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "grimur.net", "title": "Our 10th year anniversary (17.04.2006) - grimur.net", "raw_content": "some good juice recipies Cancelling e-mail sending\u2026\nToday Aneta and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.\nI\u2019m the luckiest man in the world to have her in my life.\nI can\u2019t be more grateful and happy.\nHappy anniversary my lovely wife.\nWe have also been together for 12 years (since 2004)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://groupprops.subwiki.org/wiki/Subgroup_of_finite_group", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UDSWDQLF5WWZBGRCQDIUMA5SQDH4RXPJ", "length": 470, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "groupprops.subwiki.org", "title": "Subgroup of finite group - Groupprops", "raw_content": "This article describes a property that arises as the conjunction of a subgroup property: subgroup with a group property imposed on the ambient group: finite group\nA subgroup of finite group is a subgroup inside a finite group.\nFinite subgroup subgroup that is finite, i.e., its order is a finite number\nSubgroup of finite index subgroup whose index is a finite number\nRetrieved from \"https://groupprops.subwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Subgroup_of_finite_group&oldid=24862\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gruponueva.com/?page_id=212&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PPMDLTNR4DC3LSHRCVNEBVVXXTLGDHLZ", "length": 220, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gruponueva.com", "title": "1999 \u2013 Grupo Nueva", "raw_content": "To achieve greater proximity to its investments in Latin America, Grupo Nueva \u2013 controlling shareholder of Grupo Amanco, Ecos and shareholder of Terranova, moved its headquarters from Switzerland to San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://havantcivicsociety.uk/gallery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QGEPBVRHIDYJ6Z6ES6Q7AUL75NWKHKII", "length": 114, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "havantcivicsociety.uk", "title": "Gallery \u2013 Havant Civic Society", "raw_content": "A few of our favourite views of Havant, sorted into \u2018The Good\u2026\u2019 and \u2018The Bad and The Ugly\u2019.\nThe Bad.. and the Ugly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hcpcscodes.org/G9912", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FTISAIRM24V4Z5P4A6KH3WT7QS52XJVP", "length": 124, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hcpcscodes.org", "title": "G9912 HCPCS Code | hcpcscodes.org", "raw_content": "Hepatitis b virus (hbv) status assessed and results interpreted prior to initiating anti-tnf (tumor necrosis factor) therapy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://help.kennasecurity.com/hc/en-us/articles/205190795-Why-are-there-a-different-number-of-vulnerabilities-in-Kenna-than-in-my-scanner-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WHL67CKDBO6AFYUMGJH6OXIRSSEISDOA", "length": 515, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "help.kennasecurity.com", "title": "Why are there a different number of vulnerabilities in Kenna than in my scanner? \u2013 Kenna FAQ", "raw_content": "After syncing your scanner data into Kenna, there may be a discrepancy between the vulnerability count you are seeing in your scanner compared with the vulnerability count you are seeing in your Kenna instance. This is due to the fact that the number of vulnerabilities in Kenna is based on the number of identified CVEs on an asset. which is an industry standard of tracking vulnerabilities. Scanners may use a different approach.\nYou can read more about the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures standard at MITRE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://help.una.ca/category/expense-claims/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HGY5CRYR4TNR2EZZVZXYMYABJRYGGLK2", "length": 1317, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "help.una.ca", "title": "Expense Claims \u2013 UNA Help", "raw_content": "Category: Expense Claims\n/Expense Claims /\nData Management System (DMS) Web \u2013 Members Please avoid the use of the Back Button on your browser to navigate while using this system. This can create a situation in which your forms are submitted twice, or not submitted at all. 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If you you use an Apple iPhone, use the procedure outlined in this tutorial to sign into the UNA Data Management System (DMS) using the UNA App. Tap on the DMS Tab that is located at the bottom of the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://highway1discoveryroute.com/activities/nitt-witt-ridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BSEXINBRH5XIMZZBLFR62M5ZN3GKXVGW", "length": 916, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "highway1discoveryroute.com", "title": "Nitt Witt Ridge - Central Coast Road Trip Vacations", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Explore Activities \u00bb Nitt Witt Ridge\nNitt Witt Ridge, a fun, crazy, artistic California Registered Historical Landmark #939, is a house on 2 1/2 acres in Cambria. Reclusive artist Arthur \u201cArt\u201d Harold Beal bought his hillside lot in 1928 and spent most of the next 50 years carving out the terraces with only a pick and shovel and creating his own \u201ccastle on a hill.\u201d Some parts of the dwelling are remnants from Hearst Castle, where he reportedly worked for a time. Other common building materials include beer cans, abalone shells, concrete, washer drums, car rims, tile, car parts, and old stoves. This blend of native materials and contemporary elements, impressive in its sheer mass and meticulous placement, is a revealing memorial to Art\u2019s unique cosmic humor and zest for life. The suggested donation is $10 per person for a 40-minute tour.\nhttps://visitcambriaca.com/itinerary-element/nitt-witt-ridge/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hivlitigation.com/a-question-of-timing-a-lawsuit-claims-gilead-sciences-could-have-developed-a-less-harmful-version-of-its-hiv-treatment-sooner/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WYYJTE2U54JV3AOBA52TPS72OUADBKAB", "length": 13871, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "hivlitigation.com", "title": "A question of timing: A lawsuit claims Gilead Sciences could have developed a less-harmful version of its HIV treatment sooner | HIV Litigation Attorneys\u2122", "raw_content": "More than a decade ago, researchers at Gilead Sciences thought they had a breakthrough: a new version of the company\u2019s key HIV medicine that was less toxic to kidneys and bones.\nClinical trials of the new compound on HIV-positive patients in Los Angeles and several other cities seemed to support their optimism. Patients needed just a fraction of the dose, creating the chance of far fewer dangerous side effects.\nBut in 2004, just as the Foster City biotech firm was preparing for a second and larger round of patient studies, Gilead executives stopped the research. The results of the early patient studies would go unpublished for years as the original medication \u2013 tenofovir \u2013 became one of the world\u2019s most-prescribed drugs for HIV, with $11 billion in annual sales.\nMore than six years later, though, in 2010, Gilead restarted those trials. The new version of the drug, which the company says is safer, was approved in November under the brand name Genvoya.\nThe executives\u2019 decisions stand to extend Gilead\u2019s domination of the global HIV medicine market for years. Analysts project the company will reap tens of billions of dollars in sales that otherwise would have vanished with the expiration of tenofovir\u2019s patent in 2018.\nThat has pleased the company\u2019s investors. But it has stirred criticism among patients and caregivers, and prompted a lawsuit. The critics believe the new, less harmful form of the drug could have been developed sooner \u2013 and wasn\u2019t because the company wanted to extend its patent-protected profits.\nToday, tenofovir is taken by more than 627,000 Americans, or about 80% of those being treated for HIV, and 9 million more around the world.\nLooking back, Tim Horn of the Treatment Action Group, which advocates for AIDS patients, said: \u201cThat\u2019s a decade of potentially avoidable kidney and bone toxicity.\u201d\nHorn said Gilead\u2019s decision to resume trials as the original drug\u2019s patent was nearing expiration \u201csuggest that this is much more about market dominance than it was about finite resources for research and development.\u201d\nGilead executives say the drug\u2019s patent expiration had nothing to do with their decision to halt trials in 2004.\n\u201cIt\u2019s simplistic to look back and say, well, TAF is a safer version and why didn\u2019t you develop it sooner,\u201d said Norbert Bischofberger, the company\u2019s chief scientific officer, using the shorthand name for the new drug.\nBischofberger said Gilead stopped the project to shift money to looking for another type of HIV medicine, known as an integrase inhibitor. The company restarted the research years later, he said, after it saw a need for a less toxic drug for aging HIV patients, who are more susceptible to kidney and bone problems.\n\u201cIt was then we said, \u2018Let\u2019s revisit TAF,'\u201d Bischofberger said.\nProtecting prices\nWith billions of dollars of revenue at stake, pharmaceutical companies are highly motivated to keep their blockbuster brands protected by patents, which prevent generic drugs from flooding the market and driving down prices.\nA patent permits a company to exclusively sell a drug for 20 years, giving it time to recover the cost of discovery and make a profit. By modifying a drug\u2019s formula, combining it with other medicines or even changing its dispenser, a company can file for additional patents and extend the period when it can charge premium prices.\nJust before the patent expired on AstraZeneca\u2019s blockbuster drug Prilosec, for example, the company tweaked the formula to create Nexium. The company said Nexium was more effective at treating complications of chronic heartburn, though that is a claim some critics dispute. Other companies have created longer acting or controlled-release formulas such as the sleeping pill Ambien CR.\nBut the high prices of brand-name medicines have put drug companies under intense scrutiny in recent years, and Congress has held hearings to investigate. U.S. drug spending, based on invoice prices to pharmacies, rose 12% last year, according to IMS Health, which sells data to the industry.\nGilead is one of the world\u2019s dominant drug companies today largely because of its success in making tenofovir a cornerstone of HIV treatment. A year of treatment with Gilead\u2019s HIV medicines costs about $30,000, most of it paid by insurers or the government.\nThe drug is now a component in five of the top six HIV drug regimens recommended by a national panel to fight the human immunodeficiency virus. The World Health Organization considers it among the globe\u2019s essential medicines.\nWall Street analysts had expected the company\u2019s HIV medicine sales to begin falling in 2018 when the patent on the original drug expires. But that forecast changed with the arrival of Gilead\u2019s new pill Genvoya \u2013 a combination of TAF and three other medicines.\nThe compounds in Genvoya are protected by multiple patents, the last of which now expires in 2032 \u2013 more than 40 years after tenofovir was invented.\nJames Krellenstein of ACT UP, an activist group for AIDS patients, believes that the company delayed the development of a less-toxic version of tenofovir to extend its profits. \u201cI think it\u2019s amazingly unethical behavior,\u201d he said.\nEarlier this year, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which operates clinics and pharmacies for AIDS patients, sued Gilead, contending that it delayed the less toxic form of tenofovir to manipulate the patent system and keep prices artificially high.\nThe foundation, which buys tenofovir-based medicines for many of its 600,000 patients worldwide, called Gilead\u2019s moves \u201ca calculated, anticompetitive maneuver\u201d aimed at keeping lower-cost generics off the market. It is asking the court to toss out the patents on the new drug so that other companies can sell it for less.\nGilead denies the lawsuit\u2019s claims. In stark language contained in a recent court filing, the company\u2019s lawyers said the firm \u201chad no duty to develop, test, seek approval of, or launch its new product on any particular timetable.\u201d\nTenofovir was discovered in the 1980s by European scientists. Gilead, then a small biotech firm, bought the rights to sell it and, in 1997, worked with doctors from UC San Francisco to show it fought HIV by blocking an enzyme the virus needs to multiply.\nThe original formulation of the drug held little sales potential, however, because it had to be given intravenously.\nGilead scientists modified the chemical composition to create a drug that could be taken orally. The federal Food and Drug Administration approved it under the brand name Viread in October 2001.\nBy then, more than a dozen years after the introduction of the first HIV drug AZT, the infection was no longer a death sentence. But with no known cure, patients often took complex regimens involving multiple pills throughout the day.\nGilead built global sales by combining tenofovir with other drugs to create the first once-a-day HIV medicine, a pink oval called Atripla. Today the company sells other combinations of the drugs under the names Truvada, Stribild and Complera.\nBy 2009, Gilead\u2019s market value exceeded that of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. Nearly 80% of Gilead\u2019s $7 billion in sales that year were from the HIV drugs that included tenofovir.\nDoctors\u2019 warnings\nTenofovir had less severe side effects than some HIV medicines on the market, but the company\u2019s early animal studies showed that it could cause damage to the kidneys and bones.\nWhen the drug was approved in 2001, the FDA required Gilead to study whether the medicine would harm humans in the same way.\nTwo years later, in 2003, the company had received so many reports of patients experiencing kidney failure and other renal problems that it placed a warning on the drug\u2019s label. That label cautioned doctors that a study also had found more bone loss in patients taking tenofivir than another HIV drug.\nSeveral times, U.S. regulators formally warned Gilead that it was downplaying the drug\u2019s risks.\nThe FDA twice told Gilead that its sales reps had violated the law by giving doctors and patients false and misleading information that didn\u2019t reflect side effects listed on the drug label.\nAt a medical conference in December 2001, a Gilead salesperson in the company\u2019s promotional booth told attendees that Viread had \u201cno toxicities\u201d and was \u201cextremely safe,\u201d according to the FDA\u2019s 2002 letter. Another Gilead representative called Viread a \u201cmiracle drug.\u201d\nIn a rare move the next year, the agency required the company to retrain its sales reps \u201cdue to the significant public health and safety concerns\u201d raised by their repeated false statements, according to the FDA\u2019s July 2003 warning letter.\nThe reports of kidney failure and other injuries led European drug regulators to ask Gilead in 2006 to remind doctors to monitor patients\u2019 renal function.\nIn a large study in 2012, doctors at UCSF analyzed a database of more than 10,000 HIV patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs, finding that the risk of chronic kidney disease rose by 33% each year that a patient took the drug.\nIn response, a Gilead executive told the Wall Street Journal that the study \u201coverstates some of the risks.\u201d\n\u201cGilead was very reluctant to admit the old tenofovir was toxic to the kidney,\u201d said Michael Shlipak, a UCSF doctor who worked on the VA study.\nBischofberger, the company\u2019s science chief, explained in a recent interview that HIV can cause kidney and bone problems, making it hard to blame the drug.\n\u201cJust because you observe kidney toxicity while a patient is taking the drug doesn\u2019t prove causality,\u201d he said.\nChronic kidney disease can lead to heart problems and promote dementia. It can also lead to kidney failure, requiring dialysis or a transplant.\n\u201cThese are young men mostly, often in their 40s,\u201d said Shlipak. \u201cThey end up with a quality of life like someone in their 60s.\u201d\nDamage to bones can be especially harmful to children, whose frames are still developing.\nAmong the drug injury reports sent to the FDA have been a 4-year-old taking tenofovir whose bones suddenly thinned, and a 10-year-old boy who developed leg pain and an abnormal gait. A 12-year-old who was running \u201cfelt something snap in his foot.\u201d\nSean Strub, 58, was one of those patients who experienced bone deterioration. He began taking the drug in his 40s and, within a few years, his doctor said he had the bones of \u201can 85-year-old woman.\u201d\nSoon after that, Strub, the founder of POZ, a magazine for those affected by HIV, fell and fractured his ankle in three places, requiring surgery, a metal plate, pins and screws.\n\u201cYour bone changes very slowly,\u201d Strub said. \u201cSome people don\u2019t know it is harming them.\u201d\nGilead scientists were working on a project to reformulate tenofovir and reduce its toxicity even before the original drug was approved by the FDA in 2001.\nThey selected one reformulation \u2013 tenofovir alafenamide fumarate or TAF \u2013 for more study because they believed it would more efficiently penetrate cells so that patients would need a lower dose.\nIn an animal study published in 2001, the company\u2019s scientists found that TAF had 1,000-fold greater activity against HIV than the original medicine invented in Europe. That raised the possibility of less toxicity.\nGilead paid doctors to recruit 30 HIV patients in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Palo Alto for preliminary studies to see how it worked in humans. The trial found that TAF, the modified formulation, \u201chad greater antiviral potency\u201d at a fraction of the dose.\nDespite those promising results, in October 2004, then-Chief Executive John Martin announced that Gilead had stopped the project.\nBased on an \u201cinternal business review,\u201d he said, executives had concluded the experimental drug was unlikely to be \u201chighly differentiated\u201d from its successful predecessor.\nThe company\u2019s view changed six years later.\nTalking with investors in December 2010, Kevin Young, executive vice president of commercial operations, described \u201can interesting new molecule.\u201d\nBut it wasn\u2019t new. It was TAF.\nJohn Milligan, then the company\u2019s president, told analysts that the low-dose alternative could add \u201ca great deal of longevity\u201d to Gilead\u2019s blockbuster product and replace its sales.\nAnd the company began publicly presenting the results from its previous TAF studies.\nAt a May 2011 medical conference, the company revealed the results of a 2003 study of patients at Stanford and clinics in New York and Chicago. The trial showed the new drug was more effective than the old medicine at one-sixth of the dose. The 2002 study involving Los Angeles patients was published in 2014.\nMany medical researchers have long argued that clinical trial results should be published promptly. In fact, a federal law, passed in 2007, now requires that study results be made public no later than 12 months after a trial is completed.\nAsked why the company didn\u2019t publish the results earlier, Gilead\u2019s Bischofberger said the company wasn\u2019t interested in publishing them at the time because it was turning its attention to the other HIV research.\nMartin Markowitz, a doctor at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York who was hired to recruit patients for both early studies, said he did not remember talking with executives about when the research would be published.\nAt that time, he added, AIDS scientists were focusing on finding new types of medicines.\n\u201cThe potential advantages of TAF got put on a back burner,\u201d Markowitz said.\nPeter Ruane, a Los Angeles doctor whose name was also on the study, did not respond to several requests for comment.\nToday, Gilead\u2019s sales material reminds doctors of the original drug\u2019s toxicity, and reps urge them to prescribe Genvoya and two other TAF-based combination pills approved in the last two months.\nTo prove its case, the sales force is armed with head-to-head studies \u2013 each showing more signs of kidney and bone damage in patients taking the older drug.\nVia: melody.petersen@latimes.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 15062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hiyouthsymphony.org/event/midori/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DMEJJAGSXBJ7IGSTVVVVQKYFTJ7BP2JL", "length": 841, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "hiyouthsymphony.org", "title": "Midori \u2013 Hawaii Youth Symphony", "raw_content": "The world-famous violinist MIDORI, April 9, 2016, Orvis Auditorium. Midori is recognized as an extraordinary performer, a devoted and gifted educator, and an innovative community engagement activist. In recognition of the breadth and quality of her work in these three entirely separate fields, in 2012 she was given the prestigious Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in Davos, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Yale University. In 2007, she was named a Messenger of Peace by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Named Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Southern California in 2012, Midori works with her students at USC\u2019s Thornton School, where she is also Jascha Heifetz Chair.\nPrevious Midori\u2019s Orchestra Residencies Program\nNext Ga-Hyun Cho", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 70.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hnmunpress.org/2016/02/12/american-leaders-in-disarray-after-mary-todd-lincolns-death/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EMYMOJZFFVJTRAAN7VTV7BO4XOJ44AEO", "length": 3135, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hnmunpress.org", "title": "American Leaders in Disarray After Mary Todd Lincoln\u2019s Death | HNMUN Press Corps", "raw_content": "Washington, D.C. \u2014 While the Union claimed victory following the bloody and brutal civil war that tore apart the United States of America for several years, an unfortunate crisis created chaos and disarray among high-ranking union officials. In a truly tragic event, Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln and beloved First Lady, became the victim of an assassination attempt.\nMary Todd Lincoln was fatally shot while attending Our American Cousin, a play featured at Ford\u2019s Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865. President Lincoln was also in attendance, but escaped from the theatre unharmed.\nThe death of Mary Todd Lincoln exacerbated an already tumultuous time period for President Lincoln and the rest of his trusted leaders. The committee, ranging from Congressional representatives to members of the Presidential Cabinet, gathered at the White House to mourn for the loss of the First Lady and to discuss viable solutions to reconstructing the broken union. While many ideas and propositions were introduced, the committee struggled to cohesively work together and settle on initial first steps to repair the fabric of the nation.\nMany of the higher-ranking government officials proposed tackling the issue of punishing conspirators and other confederate leaders as the first step, while others stressed the importance of reintegrating the southern states with the rest of the country.\n\u201cWe need to integrate our development of the South with the development of the West,\u201d Secretary of State William H. Seward commented.\nOthers disagreed with Seward\u2019s proposition, claiming that it was not the right time and that the tension between the North and the South was still too high for any productive reintegration. Schuyler Colfax, the Speaker of the House, argued that reintegrating the South was a hasty move, while Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes (R-OH) questioned the practicality of reintegrative efforts.\nColfax brought up the issue of allowing former confederate leaders to run for public offices in the United States, noting that they should not be given the opportunity to run until they are screened to fully determine their loyalty to the country. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase stated that while his current legal opinion allowed for former confederates to run, he would be willing to discuss his opinion with the rest of the committee.\nAnother topic in heated debate was the granting of amnesty to top officials. While Seward explained that former confederate leaders should be put in jail or sentenced to death in fear of appearing like a nation without a backbone, Postmaster General William Dennison, Jr. argued that such action would result in American government officials looking like tyrants.\nThe committee continued to have difficulty deciding on one topic of discussion. Secretary of Treasury, Hugh McCullough, reminded his colleagues that to ensure progress, the committee had to be a cohesive body.\n\u201cWe are talking about too many things, we are talking about economic integration and reintegration and educational efforts,\u201d McCullough said. \u201cWe must focus on one area at a time.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://holeinthewallaustin.wordpress.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4PTTOHVVZ3EDCC25ULRJPOAWXF4S5NV7", "length": 9703, "nlines": 99, "source_domain": "holeinthewallaustin.wordpress.com", "title": "CONTACT | Hole in the Wall \u2013 Austin, TX", "raw_content": "EVENTS \u2013 For information about hosting events at the Hole in the Wall, see the Events page.\nFILMING \u2013 If you want to shoot a music video or other film project at the venue, please e-mail Lynn at holeinthewallevents@gmail.com.\nMEDIA \u2013 For press and other inquiries, please e-mail Lynn at holeinthewallevents@gmail.com.\nBOOKING \u2013 For music booking information, hop on over to the INFO FOR BANDS page.\nAll other inquries must be made in person at the venue. Stop in anytime, talk to a friendly bartender, grab a whiskey with a regular, ask the manager on duty about your question, and we\u2019ll do our best to help you.\nIf you left something here, come by the next day after 3pm, and we will help you find it.\nYou can always leave a message for management here\nLRay on August 16, 2011 at 9:20 pm said:\n-L.Ray nyc, ny\nholeinthewallaustin on February 20, 2017 at 9:48 pm said:\nOnly the best \ud83d\ude42\nMike Sullivan on February 7, 2012 at 12:03 am said:\nHey, I read a review of a \u201creunion\u201d concert which The WIld Seeds played at your place in October, 2001. Do you know if there is a recording of this concert? Thanks much.\nholeinthewallaustin on February 7, 2012 at 12:30 am said:\nI\u2019m going to forward this to our friend Mike Hall, the singer of Wild Seeds and see what he says. Thanks for asking.\nCass Ficklin on February 19, 2012 at 12:26 am said:\nHello, I am wanting to buy tickets for an upcoming show on Friday March 2, 2012. The Mother Hips homempage says buy tickets and it takes me to your website, but I do not see a spot to buy tickets.I am driving down from North of Dallas and want to make sure I have tickets. How do I get them?\nholeinthewallaustin on February 19, 2012 at 3:15 am said:\nWe are looking forward to the Mother Hips shows as well. We do not have a system for advance tickets or reserve seats. The Mother Hips\u2019 tour dates website http://www.motherhips.com/tour/ does not have a link for Hole in the Wall tickets, only a link for our website. Regardless, if you get here by 9pm, you will have no trouble getting in, although there may be a short line. They are playing two nights, so we should not be over capacity unless you arrive later.\nCatherine Cronkhite on July 31, 2012 at 7:48 pm said:\nDoes Doug Cougini? Still own this place?\nholeinthewallaustin on January 3, 2013 at 11:09 pm said:\nNo, but I\u2019d love to talk to him.\nHello, I was just wondering if the rap artist Future will be performing in this cafe on March 16,2012. If that\u2019s a positive I\u2019ll like to know how to buy tickets or resrve a spot and perhaps the time if there\u2019s one. Thanks\nWe are checking with the promoter on that date and we will get back to you on that booking. However, we do not have a system for advance tickets or reserve seating. You will just need to make sure to be here early enough for the event.\nMark on August 4, 2012 at 4:52 am said:\nI was there a couple weeks back and your awesome bartender had me try a pear-cider while I was there that he said was comparable to Ace Pear. I\u2019ve been wracking my brain trying to remember what it was that I drank. Also, the amazing Schwarzbeir that was on tap there- do you know if that brand (name also escapes me) is available outside of Austin?\nThe schwartzbeer was by Live Oak Brewery from Austin. Perhaps the cider was called Strongbow\u2026\nDixie on October 27, 2012 at 3:21 am said:\nStill have a softball team? Doug Cougina? Debby? Mary Green? Patty Troiana? Omar and the Howlers? Spent some wonderful time there\u2026\nTracie on December 10, 2012 at 12:39 am said:\nso-i\u2019m wondering where does one with a disability park at your venue? is it street only or do you guys have your own lot? thanks\nIt is street parking only. There is at least one handicap parking spot, on 25th at Guadalupe.\nalli on January 3, 2013 at 6:21 pm said:\nis parking available anywhere or is it death match style fighting for street parking only?\nIt is street parking, just like everywhere else in town. There is pay lot on the corner of 25th and Guadalupe and a parking garage at 25th and San Antonio.\nJulie D. on October 29, 2013 at 9:31 pm said:\nDo you know how to get in contact with Todd Green? This is Julie D. I worked with him, Steve and Doug in the 70s.\nholeinthewallaustin on January 8, 2014 at 6:01 pm said:\nI don\u2019t know how to get in contact with him but I\u2019d love to talk to Doug again. I met him a couple years ago and it was great hearing about the old days.\nGM, Hole in the Wall\nSophia Yu on January 4, 2014 at 9:16 pm said:\nHi, my name is Sophia and I\u2019m a student here at UT Austin in the film school. I am an assistant producer for an upcoming short film that we are wanting to shoot from January 26-February 5 and we were wondering if it would be possible to use your space during one of those dates. We don\u2019t have a budget for this project, it is purely for academic purposes, and we won\u2019t be making any money off of it. We were wondering if you would be willing to help make this project come to life.\nCome by and talk to one of the managers sometime. We\u2019ll see if we can work something out. Thanks!\nRoss Livengood on February 6, 2014 at 11:24 pm said:\nIf my license expires on Saturday and I can\u2019t get a new one until next week, can I still gain admittance to the shows on Monday night or no? I understand its my fault I didn\u2019t get it renewed, just didn\u2019t know the policy.\nNo. Sorry. We require a valid Texas ID for entry.\nTess on February 15, 2014 at 9:14 pm said:\nCan I bring my 19 year old sister if its only for dinner?\nYes. East Side King has an all ages entrance off San Antonio Street.\nCarol on August 12, 2015 at 6:50 pm said:\nHi, what time is Jeff Gallagher\u2019s set on Thurs 8-13?\nholeinthewallaustin on August 13, 2015 at 5:23 pm said:\nJeff Gallagher is on at midnight tonight.\nErich on March 27, 2016 at 1:07 am said:\nI worked at the Hole from 1991 to 1997. Glad to see you were able to keep it going. It is truly a magical place.\nPS on April 3, 2016 at 11:02 pm said:\nI\u2019m interested in attending the Dressy Bessy Show this Saturday- are tickets still available? If so, can they only be purchased at the door?\nholeinthewallaustin on April 4, 2016 at 3:22 am said:\nTickets for the Dressy Bessy show on Saturday will be available for $7 at the door on the night of the show, beginning at 9pm.\nMichelle Bratton on September 11, 2016 at 4:50 am said:\nHey I think I left my card there earlier today. We were ther for like 3 hours and we paid cash but I think the last round was on me after we ordered food! I am so sorry.\nholeinthewallaustin on September 11, 2016 at 7:01 pm said:\nWe\u2019re open at 3pm today (Sunday), come on by and get it. Thanks!\nMike Borchardt on November 28, 2016 at 3:24 am said:\nThis is Mike Borchardt from Brooklyn band, Samantha. We are looking to be touring back through Austin with some NYC and east coast bands again this year during SXSW. We always have a blast when we play down in Austin and we\u2019re looking to set up a show at Hole In The Wall, and we\u2019re wondering what you might have available. I look forward to hearing back and hopefully setting something up with you!\nhttp://www.instagram.com/samanthanoise\nhttp://www.samanthanoise.com\nhttp://www.soundcloud.com/samanthanoise\nhttp://www.facebook.com/samanthaisapunk\nhttp://www.twitter.com/samanthanoise\nholeinthewallaustin on March 5, 2017 at 9:33 pm said:\nHey Mike! Sorry for the delay. We\u2019re booked up during SXSW this year, but e-mail holeinthewallbooking@gmail.com when you get a chance, and let us know when you\u2019ll be around again!\nJonathan Evans on January 1, 2017 at 1:30 am said:\nWhat time y\u2019all open?\n3pm daily!\nDambreaker on January 17, 2017 at 7:18 pm said:\nBeen invited to come see some good ole LIVE MUSIC\u2026. Are there any ADA issues I need to know about for persons in a wheelchair?\nThe front room of the venue is accessible from the door entry, and the patio and middle section of the venue are accessible from the gate by the street. Let us know when you get here, and we\u2019ll show you around!\nHeather Moon Hansson on January 31, 2017 at 9:09 am said:\nI think I might have lost an earring there last night. It was an unusual shape with wood & pearl. It means so much to me\u2026 if you find it please contact me at 610 442 7272.\nOh no, Heather! We haven\u2019t found anything yet, but if we do, we\u2019ll be in touch for sure.\nhey i think we left our bag of patch cables and a couple pedals after our show on the 20th.\nit has a Cat King pedal in it\nI haven\u2019t seen it around, but I\u2019ll check again when I go in today. What does the bag look like?\nMary Ellen St. Romain on February 10, 2017 at 6:31 pm said:\nHey I was there on Christmas Day and I think I might have left my credit card there. I know it\u2019s been a long time but had not been able to figure out where it could be until today I had an epiphany. Is there any chance you guys have it?\nHey Mary Ellen,\nI\u2019ll check when I go in today and let you know. Talk to you soon,\nGary Brothers on February 12, 2017 at 10:44 pm said:\nFor your open mic, do bands have to bring their own drum kit and that here you can sign up ahead of time for 15 minutes slots. Can you please let me know how this works ?\nWe don\u2019t have an open mic night. Is it possible you\u2019re thinking of another venue?\nLet us know what we can do!\nArielle De La Fuente on February 16, 2017 at 5:09 pm said:\nHi there! I hope you see this. I was there last night Wednesday 15th 2017 and was wondering who played at 8? They were great and I\u2019d love to see them again but don\u2019t know who thy are? Do they play every Wednesday at 8?\nHey Arielle,\nWe usually have Ethan Azarian and Jeff Johnston on Wednesdays. Was there one saw-player and one guitarist in the act you saw?\nSorry we missed your message until now. Were you able to work out getting your card?\nContact Hole in the Wall Cancel reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 12662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://homicide.latimes.com/post/fabian-acevedo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XC4MKIKZPFZZN46AWEAS7BW6ABC3B3RW", "length": 1740, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "homicide.latimes.com", "title": "Fabian Acevedo, 26 - The Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "1300 block of South Atlantic Boulevard\nFabian Acevedo, 26\nFabian Acevedo, a 26-year-old Latino, was shot and killed on Sunday, Oct. 15, in the 1300 block of South Atlantic Boulevard in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner\u2019s records.\nSheriff\u2019s deputies were called to the scene regarding a gunshot victim at 6:36 p.m., Lt. Rodney Moore said. They found Acevedo lying in an alley parking lot behind businesses and residences on the block, Moore said.\nAcevedo was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:13 p.m., according to coroner\u2019s records. He lived with his mother in Montebello.\nInvestigators think Acevedo \u201cwas just minding his own business, walking down an alley\u201d when he was shot, Sgt. Troy Ewing said.\nInvestigators do not have any eyewitness accounts of the shooting, but after reviewing surveillance camera footage and getting a tip, Ewing said they arrested two suspects Nov. 3 in connection with the attack.\nThe shooting appears to have been a case of mistaken identity, Ewing said. \u201cWe believe they thought he [Acevedo] was a rival gang member, but he wasn\u2019t. He didn\u2019t have any gang affiliation.\u201d\nSebastian Santana, a 25-year-old Latino from East Los Angeles, and David Venegas, a 21-year-old Latino from Compton, were charged Nov. 7 with murder and pleaded not guilty, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records. Venegas also was charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.\nTheir next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 8.\nFabian Acevedo\nOct. 21, 2017 Warner Jude Stern Jr., 59\nOct. 31, 2017 Michael David Lopez, 44\nShare a memory or thought about Fabian Acevedo\nRIP little brother I will always remember you.\n\u2014 Caa Oct. 20, 2017 at 7:08 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horizon.ee/est-forest-test/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:SBY6DT76GET4K5RF2EQK4EY4WDWPQOHI", "length": 3342, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "horizon.ee", "title": "Estonian Forests | Horizon Pulp&Paper", "raw_content": "IF TREE RINGS COULD TELL STORIES\nIf the tree rings from the oldest Estonian forests could give more than climate history, they would tell their story, starting with the earliest settlers who migrated from Africa over 10,000 years ago. These early settlers relied on the rich Estonian forests, not only for the warmth from burning the wood, but also the vast forests were abundant with wildlife that added to their diet of fish from the lakes, rivers and the Baltic Sea. These early people named the Kurs and Saarlased (or Oeselians) were soon to be merged with the blood of the Viking raiders from the West creating the race known as Estonians.\nViking migration\nThe number of inhabitants increased measurably when the Vikings migrating east, established trading posts and villages on the Estonian Islands and along the shoreline at the mouths of the rivers flowing from the lakes into the Baltic Sea. The Swedish Vikings also relied on the wood from the forests for making their long boats used for river navigation as they raided and migrated through Russia and moved as far East and South as to what is now Baghdad.\nForest and legends\nThe capital of Estonia, Tallinn was established in the year 1154 amidst the pagan life style and rituals that pervaded the area. Souls were set to soar to the afterlife through the smoke of burning boats, a ritual carried on today during the white light of midsummer night. In an Estonian myth they ascend to the Milky Way, known as the path of the water bird, the vesilind. The forests were an integral part of the lifestyle adding to the myths and legends then as well as today. Brush cleaned from the forests is piled high to make thousands of fires that dot the night during the Midsummer Night festivals.\nModern forest management\nModern forest management may have its roots buried in the rules created over 400 years ago, as it was forbidden to cut and use trees in a zone bordering the coastline in order to protect the land from erosion of the sometimes stormy Baltic Sea. Trees for new boats, firewood and buildings were cut from deep in the forests and transported to the shoreline villages for use, leaving the trees growing along the coast for protection.\nFirst pulp mill\nOne of the world\u2019s oldest Universities, the University of Tartu was started in Estonia in 1632. Wooden buildings of this period were sawn from the rich Estonian forests. A short time later in 1664, a Swedish company built the first pulp and paper mill in Estonia, once again taking advantage of the vast forests for commercial production of paper.\nThe Republic of Estonia was established in 1918 and throughout its fight for survival, being occupied alternately by Germans and Russians, the forests played a key part of Estonia\u2019s survival. During the Russian occupation groups of Estonian freedom fighters, called the Forest Brothers, hid in the forests for years, and from these deep hideouts they raided and attacked the foreign occupiers of their country.\nThree rings tell the story of forests and civilization\nIf the tree rings could speak, they would tell the story of the rich history of the Estonian forests that stood proudly while civilization grew up in and around them. The forests still proudly stand today, providing a valuable and renewable resource for the many products reliably made with care and respect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/21/breaking-anti-syrian-lebanese-cabinet-member-murdered-in-beirut-suburb/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:57Z", "digest": "sha1:L5FOHDSQDCPM6IBU2V67QGARFS47KTH4", "length": 4868, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "hotair.com", "title": "Breaking: Anti-Syrian Lebanese cabinet member murdered in Beirut suburb", "raw_content": "Breaking: Anti-Syrian Lebanese cabinet member murdered in Beirut suburb\nAllahpunditPosted at 9:42 am on November 21, 2006\nVia Snapped Shot. They\u2019re not 100% sure yet that it was a political assassination but Fox just broke in to say the shooter was a sniper. If the Syrians are behind it, it\u2019s both par for the course and incredibly stupid, coming as it does two days before Hezbollah is set to take to the streets to try to \u201cpeacefully\u201d topple the government and four days before that super-keen, let-the-healing-begin summit between Iraq, Syria, and Iran. And at a moment when even people like Tony Blair are urging us to talk to Damascus.\nIn fact, this is so stupid that I\u2019m thinking it might be too stupid even for Assad. What\u2019s going on here?\nUpdate: Syria restored full diplomatic relations with Iraq yesterday for the first time in almost 20 years. Now that they\u2019re working the diplomacy angle in Baghdad, maybe they figure they can afford an assassination or two in Beirut? I\u2019m at a loss.\nUpdate: It\u2019s not entirely clear from the article if the whole sum came from Iran or just part, but Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary general claims they\u2019ve received $300 million since the war with Israel. Purely to help repair Lebanese infrastructure, mind you.\nIsraeli intelligence says they also have more rockets now than they did before.\nUpdate: Saad Hariri, whose father\u2019s murder instigated the Cedar Revolution, is blaming Syria.\nUpdate: At the scene.\nThe Lebanon Daily Star: \u201cWitnesses said Gemayel was shot in his car in Jdeideh. The witnesses said a car rammed Gemayel\u2019s car from behind and then an assassin stepped out and shot him at point blank range.\u201d It\u2019s the fifth political assassination in Lebanon in the last two years.\nUpdate: With tensions between Hezbollah and the government about to come to a boil, there might be some added symbolic significance here:\nHis grandfather, the late Pierre Gemayel, led the right-wing Christian Phalange Party that fielded the largest Christian militia during the 1975-90 civil war between Christians and Muslims\u2026\nPierre was a rising star in the party and expected to carry the mantle of the political family.\nUpdate: Greg Tinti points to this piece published early this morning by Michael Young, the opinion editor of the Daily Star, on the significance of the UN\u2019s investigation into the Hariri murder. His timing is impeccable to the point of prophesy:\nLast Friday, the U.N. Security Council approved a draft plan for a mixed Lebanese-international court to try those responsible for Hariri\u2019s assassination on Feb. 14, 2005. Damascus, the main suspect in the crime, is palpably anxious\u2026\nHezbollah and its allies want enough ministerial seats so they can veto decisions they dislike that go to a cabinet vote. By so doing, they can continue to protect Syria in the Hariri investigation, and also block the majority\u2019s policies that they don\u2019t like. A final U.N. report is due out on Hariri\u2019s killing in the coming months (the chief investigator, Serge Brammertz, has until mid-2007 to publish his findings), and Hezbollah fears that any accusation against Syria might also be turned against itself.\nAll this has significant repercussions for the U.S., particularly after the Democratic midterm elections victory. Syria never accepted its forced withdrawal from Lebanon last year, and has worked tirelessly since then to reimpose its writ here. Now there is new hope in Damascus: Influential American voices are suddenly suggesting a reversal of course toward Iraq\u2019s neighbors\u2026\nWherever one stands in the spectrum of U.S. foreign-policy thinking, the Hariri tribunal is a mechanism that should satisfy all\u2026 That\u2019s why events in Lebanon are so important. Syria\u2019s Lebanese allies are trying to undermine the Hariri investigation from within, and are expected to escalate their efforts very soon, maybe even this week. It makes no sense for the U.S. to hand them more ammunition by prematurely transacting with Mr. Assad before the U.N. completes its task and assigns responsibility for the assassination.\nAmong the Lebanese cabinet ministers who voted recently to support the UN tribunal: Pierre Gemayel.\nUpdate: Assad is shocked, shocked.\nUpdate: It\u2019s shortly after noon on the east coast and the protests have already begun in Lebanon.\nUpdate: Siniora is defiant:\n\u201cThe killers do not scare us, not does the vile hand that wants to hurt Lebanon\u2019s future,\u201d Siniora said in his speech at the government building in Beirut.\n\u201cThis attack on one of Lebanon\u2019s symbols of freedom,\u201d he added.\n\u201cThis attack against a symbol of freedom in Lebanon will only make us more determined to hold on to the liberty and independence of this homeland\u2026 and more determined to set up the international court, the tribunal that would stop the criminals and is the means to protect all Lebanese,\u201d Siniora said.\nTags: Hezbollah Islam Israel terrorism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hotels.webjet.com.au/accommodation/grand-hotel-oka-premium-nizhny-novgorod-russian-federation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SFBKFJ5S4JC5AXW7SQPZR4N55P4VFSGL", "length": 1648, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hotels.webjet.com.au", "title": "Grand Hotel OKA PREMIUM: Details and Photos (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) - Webjet Hotels", "raw_content": "Grand Hotel OKA PREMIUM\nGagarin Avenue 27, Nizhny Novgorod, 603057, Russia\nSelect your stay dates to check availability at Grand Hotel OKA PREMIUM\nA stay at Grand Hotel OKA PREMIUM places you in the heart of Nizhny Novgorod, within a 10-minute walk of Lobachevsky Zoological Museum and Lobachevsky State University. This 4-star hotel is 1.3 mi (2.1 km) from Bolshaia Pokrovskaia Street and 1.5 mi (2.3 km) from Pushkin Park.\nMake yourself at home in one of the 139 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring refrigerators and minibars. LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.\nRelax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. If you're looking for recreational opportunities, you'll find a nightclub, a health club, and an indoor pool. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and an arcade/game room.\nEnjoy Russian cuisine at Oka, one of the hotel's 4 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the 24-hour room service. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 7 AM to 10 AM for a fee.\nFee for buffet breakfast: RUB 500 for adults and RUB 500 for children (approximately)\nThe property will be renovating from 04 October 2018 to 31 December 2018 (completion date subject to change). The following areas are affected:\nThe following facilities are closed on New Year's Day (1 January):", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 6018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://houston-newsonline.com/tag/do-your-research/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:NVCFWZX2YVV7VBCZUGO53G4N2FQCO67U", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "houston-newsonline.com", "title": "do your research", "raw_content": "https://houston-newsonline.com/tag/do-your-research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://howdidigethere.podbean.com/e/episode-376-aj-vincent/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6NVWHWVFKOO3OPSRAZF4KISFSLLG6SHX", "length": 1915, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "howdidigethere.podbean.com", "title": "Episode 376: A.J. 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Vincent\nhello my friends! i hope you're all doing well. i just got some horrible news that there is an \"allergy tsunami\" coming. is that sensationalism or am i in trouble for the coming months and according to the news, coming years as well. yuk! i just got on flonase a month ago. it seems to be working. how do you control your allergies?\nmy guest for episode 376 is one of austin's best, most innovative and entertaining musicians, a.j. vinent! he's just joined austin's hard rock heroes, scorpion child! you might also know aj from his time as the keyboard player for the bright light social hour, or from his insane solo shows. he's won best keyboard player in the austin chronicle music awards. he's got solo music out and it's awesome you can hear it at ajvincent.com. we have a fantastic conversation about being born and raised in austin, cutting his teeth in a metal/hardcore/indie rock band in high school called, poor man's opera, hearing pink floyd, boston, led zeppelin and tower of power all in one day, we discuss our idea for \"speedos\" the woman's answer to \"hooters\", people buy him leslie cabinets, keyboards, joining scorpion child and much, much more. i hope you enjoy getting to know aj. i sure did. let's get down!\nThis entry was posted on Friday, May 8th, 2015 at 9:15 am\tand is filed under , music, talk, pop, metal, pop culture, indie-rock, power pop, artist, electronica, dance music, austin music, synthesizer, podcast, garage pop, multi-instrumentalist, dance, studio, american music, keyboards, home recording, music fan, europe, songwriter, rock and roll, looping instruments live, hammond b-3, organ, band, hard rock, festivals, new business model, art rock, glam rock, recording studio, Space Rehearsal and Recording, performance art, rockstar, dream pop, garage rock.\nPrevious: Episode 375: The Sideshow Tragedy Returns Again!\nNext: Episode 377: Ray Prim Returns!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/14102", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YH7TL3KEFDM4GQXLMS6HYUP535X3DA7N", "length": 1261, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hrc.sas.ac.uk", "title": "Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and Migrant Rights photo exhibition launch | Human Rights Consortium", "raw_content": "Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and Migrant Rights photo exhibition launch\n17 November 2017, 4.00pm - 6.00pm\nSecond Floor Lobby, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU\nLost rights, found justice? is a photography competition and exhibition aiming to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers through creative visual and legal tools. The exhibition will include photographs selected by a panel of experts in photography and on refugee/migrant issues following our public call for submissions.\nThe exhibition launch will feature an awards ceremony and a guided commentary with our human rights experts enabling audiences to expand their knowledge of the legal framework in an accessible manner.\nAs part of the project, we are also organising a workshop by documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney on his photography project #RefugeeCameras. To book a place for the workshop, please click here.\nThe photography exhibition runs Saturday 18 November \u2013 Saturday 25 November. Weekday openings are 9:00 \u2013 19:00 (18:00 on Saturdays). Senate House is closed on Sunday 19 November and Tuesday 21 November from 13:00.\nThis event is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the Refugee Law Initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://human-knowledge.online/en/persons/5602283/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JK24NMSFZJV2D6Z3HLPGEEJW3BC2YQQY", "length": 2068, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "human-knowledge.online", "title": "() | Human Knowledge", "raw_content": "Faisal Javed Rana is a Pakistani politician, affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf where he is currently serving as the Central Additional Secretary Information and Spokesperson. He began his political career in 1996 the same year Imran Khan launched his party Movement for Justice -Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He has served the party as Deputy Secretary Information, Head of Electronic Media Operations, Head of Marketing and Secretary Social Media previously. Faisal who opens rallies for Khan, is known nationally as \"Voice of PTI,\" introducing Khan to crowds across the country. His easy confidence and broadcaster's voice make him one of the more prominent young faces of Khan's media-savvy corps.By profession, Faisal is an advertising specialist currently heading a leading advertising company managing one of the leading cellular brands in Pakistan. Faisal has also been a broadcaster for 9 consecutive years on FM Radio where he used to host and produce political and social issues talk shows. Faisal Javed Khan has hosted more than 300 rallies for Imran Khan from Waziristan to Quetta to Karachi to Lahore and across Pakistan. He also made a world record of hosting public rallies for more than 126 consecutive days as part of the protest against election rigging staged in the capital city of Islamabad. Faisal along with his team has received many awards in Advertising including PAS campaign of the year award for Easypaisa - a mobile banking product of Telenor. Faisal has also produced few TV commercials and TV Documentaries. He has also directed a documentary on Women\u2019s Role in Pakistan. He produced and directed two documentaries for UNDP and Ministry Of Women Development\u2019s project W3P \u201cBadlay Gee Duniya Aurat\u201d & \u201cWomen in Governance\u201d. Faisal Javed has also hosted a Weekly TV Show on News One and he occasionally hosted programmes for Pakistan Television.\nWhat is the gender of ()?\n() is male.\nWhat is () subject of?\n() is subject of People from Islamabad, Pakistani politicians, Living people and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://humanfacebook.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/an-attempted-suicide-a-delicate-recovery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZU4NIELYAJEYE46BDJIALRATAJ2K6FD", "length": 6503, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "humanfacebook.wordpress.com", "title": "An attempted suicide, a delicate recovery | The Human Facebook Project", "raw_content": "\u2190 How to cook meat like a (slightly obsessed) man\nStuck in Moncton as water breaks in Ottawa \u2192\nAn attempted suicide, a delicate recovery\nWhen I was in college, I half-heartedly complained to my doctor that I was lazy and sleepy. He said \u201coh, you must be depressed\u201d and wrote me a prescription for Paxil.\nIt turns out I wasn\u2019t, I was just tired and lazy. So I stopped taking the pills, which turned out to be really hard cause I got all twitchy and nerved up.\nThe doctor kept telling me there were no withdrawl symptoms, so what I was experiencing was impossible. But, it felt like I was being electrocuted every now and then.\nSince then, it\u2019s become known that the pills are hard to quit. It\u2019s a good example of the difficulties in dealing with depression \u2013 not everyone is misdiagnosed, but even more people aren\u2019t diagnosed at all.\nMy friend Heather was diagnosed, but not until she had spent years thinking about how to kill herself. Nine trips through the psyche ward later, she\u2019s now a vocal advocate of treatment. She has also blogged for the Ottawa Citizen.\nWhen did you realize you might have a problem?\nI was 17 when I first felt depressed. At the time, I was not aware that I was actually suffering from clinical depression. It was also the first time I had suicidal thoughts.\nWhat does it actually feel like?\nTrying to describe what depression feels like is tough. For me, it was a a constant feeling of anger, sadness and complete loss of hope for anything in life. It came in ebbs and flows over the course of 17 long years, before I was actually professionally diagnosed. There were times I was \u201cokay\u201d, but for the most part it was an internal battle to hide my sadness from everyone who knew me. I was really, really good at putting on a strong face but, as you can imagine, that became more and more difficult to manage \u2013 to the point of being impossible. Seventeen years of depression, bulimia, anxiety and obsessive compulsive behaviours was a lot to hide. I often tell people that during those times, all of my happiness was \u201cmanufactured,\u201d if that makes any sense.\nDelacroix Tasso\nThe worst point it has ever come to was my attempted suicide in August, 2004. I had endured the postpartum depression after the birth of my daughter in 2000 \u2013 but the next fours years would be an exercise in self-restraint from the daily temptation of ending it all. Suicide pretty much consumed my thoughts, on a daily basis, for a very long time. I first sought treatment only in 2000, after my daughter was born. By then, I think the doctors knew that I had a long recovery road ahead of me. Medication, hospital stays in the psychiatric ward and weekly doctors appointments became a normal part of my existence for the next four years.\nWhat are psyche wards actually like?\nWell, I had never been in the hospital before I had my daugher. I was expecting my own room with a phone and meals delivered to me. When I first arrived, they took everything sharp from me, like razor blades. Then I was assigned a room with a roomate, no phone and I had to eat my meals in a dining hall. If you have ever scene the movie Girl, Interrupted\u2026.it was very, very similar to that. It sucked being woken up by screams in the night by other patients and being checked on every hour by staff. I survived nine 3-week hospitalizations.\nWas help easy to find?\nIt is not easy to seek help and finding great help is not easy. I was so fortunate to get the two doctors I did \u2013 they helped save my life. The biggest issue I have with the health sector in Canada is that mental illness is still the \u201cpoor cousin\u201d of the entire system. I think the biggest misconception about depression is that so many people do not view it as a serious health issue. It is as much physical as it is mental; not unlike diabetes or cancer. You can die from it and it has the ability to completely ruin your life. One in five people will be affected by a mental illness during their lifetime \u2013 is that not enough reality for people?\nWhat would life be like if you hadn\u2019t been depressed?\nI do a fair amount of public speaking on my illness and am often asked: \u201cIf I could go back and change anything, would I?\u201d Not one thing. It has made me who I am today. I have become a much kinder, understanding and patient person. I also know, intimately, how short life is.\nThis entry was posted in Facebook, Friend update and tagged depression, paxil, psyche ward, recovery, suicide. Bookmark the permalink.\n4 responses to \u201cAn attempted suicide, a delicate recovery\u201d\nLeisa | June 7, 2010 at 7:53 pm | Reply\nOMG! Everything she says rings true to me!! The funny thing ( or not really funny at all) is that Heather and I went to high school together. We both suffer from the same illness. It has only been the last 6 months or so that I have chosen to eliminate my fear of \u201cJudgement\u201d from people by telling them exactly where I am emotionally at this point and hoping for more support emotionally. Because of the stigma and fear of being judged, I have kept this secret to myself for a long time. Since I have \u201cCome Out\u201d I have learned there are alot of people that are in my same shoes, afraid to share their dilemma. I have also learned that there are wayyyyyy more people suffering from the same problem as me but too afraid to share it with everyone else!It\u2019s avery scary feeling to not only be in this predicament, but to feel afraid to share it with anyone else!! The other thing that probably alot of \u201cus\u201d might relate to is the fact that because we always \u201ctry\u201d to overcompensate and make everyone believe we are ok, when we finally admit to people about our illness, most of them will say \u201cBut your always so happy!\u201d and it almost belittles our truest feelings\u2026.\nHeather\u2026I think you are amazing!! You have supported me through the worst period of my life and I appreciate and Love you more then words can say!! xoxoxo\nLeslie Eisener | June 8, 2010 at 5:58 pm | Reply\nI had the fortunate opportunity to see Heather at a fundraising event recently and I was completely inspired and in awe of someone who has come so far and felt so comfortable with ther story. Her courage will open the door for many women too afraid to tell the truth about their own struggles. To do the world a service at the risk of being stigmatized is a priceless gift.\ndui checkpoints los angeles may 5 | July 14, 2015 at 12:16 am | Reply\nWhen you have been arrested for driving inebriated or medicine, it\u2019s pure to have lots of fear about what is going on to happen to you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iamnotscared.pixel-online.org/database_publications_scheda.php?id_doc=161&str_search_langreview=&str_search=&doc_lang=&part_id=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MBJXHMPJU7KMXTLDL7IFRCPUSBKNN2L6", "length": 1894, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "iamnotscared.pixel-online.org", "title": "I Am Not Scared Project", "raw_content": "On-line safety, young people, parents and carers, teachers and trainers, cyberbullying\nThe Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. That means they are part of UK policing and very much about tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership with local and international forces.\nCEOP have produced the Thinkuknow web site for children aged 5-7yrs, 8-10yrs and 11-16yrs as well as parents/carers and teachers/trainers. The site provides the latest information on the sites children like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Advice is given about what's good, what's not good and what can be done about it.\nThere are resources for use at home or in the classroom, games for young to play showing how predators can make contact and there is also an area to report if the young person feels uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online.\nAn excellent site giving advice to young people on all types of potential threats from - cyberbullying; social networking sites; sexting; mobile phones; chatrooms; uploading videos; gaming; pro-eating disorder sites; child trafficking; hacking and viruses.\nGuidance for parents and carers is also very good, with internet safety tips; how to support children to use the internet safely; a link (under Further Support) to the Internet Watch Foundation - this is the 'hotline' for the public to report potentially illegal content online. More specifically they deal with child sexual abuse content hosted worldwide, and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.\nThe teachers and trainers area has a wide variety of resources such as videos and posters as well as formal training opportunities - we particularly recommend the CEOP Ambassador training course - but beware these courses are quickly booked up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iava.org/blogs/a-message-to-iava-members-and-supporters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:GUIZ4SSGCVMW6XRGBZIKP3OR4MDBEBSN", "length": 3597, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "iava.org", "title": "A Message To IAVA Members And Supporters \u00bb Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America (IAVA)", "raw_content": "A message to IAVA members and supporters\nA message to IAVA members and supporters:\nSince we were founded 13 years ago, IAVA has consistently delivered high impact results, serving 1.3 million veterans through our innovative programs. We are especially proud to have led the passage of the post 9/11 GI Bill, to have served over 7,500 veterans and their families through RRRP, and to have made veteran suicide a matter of national concern. We\u2019ve accomplished historic non-partisan victories that have improved the lives of millions and strive to hold the highest standards in everything we do.\nSome troublesome, anonymous accusations have been made against me and IAVA in the partisan internet website, The Daily Caller. It\u2019s unfortunate that these nameless sources have gone to such lengths to attempt to discredit me and undermine IAVA\u2019s critical mission.\nIAVA is and has always been committed to efficient and sound financial management and transparency. The organization has repeatedly received top ratings from Charity Watch and GuideStar, two of the leading not-for-profit reporting agencies. Our independently audited financials are always public and can be found online, and we continue to make unparalleled impacts with these limited investments thanks to our thousands of individuals donors, foundations and corporate partners who support our mission.\nWe also continue to make huge strides toward improving the overall management of our organization\u2014and work to improve ourselves daily. In recent years, we have enhanced the professionalization of many facets of our operation, we continue to improve processes and program structures, including hiring a full time professional firm that specializes in nonprofit accounting. At the same time we have dedicated ourselves to the hard, slow work needed for lasting change.\nWe have a team of extraordinarily committed professionals who work very hard everyday to make a difference in the lives of America\u2019s veterans.\nAs the CEO and Founder, any mistakes that have been made by IAVA in the past are my responsibility alone. As the leader, the buck always stops with me.\nI\u2019ve dedicated my life to veterans. And I fight hard for our organization and for our community every single day of my life. My leadership style may not be for everyone, and there are plenty of choices I\u2019ve made that everyone didn\u2019t agree with, but I\u2019ve always made them with the intent to achieve maximum impact for our mission. I\u2019ve operated in the public eye for over 13 years and my work has been an open book. I hope my long record of impact, dedication, success, and support for my colleagues and our members will speak for itself.\nIt is always our goal to continue to ensure our programs are making the largest impact for as many veterans as possible. IAVA has connected millions of veterans with resources and community, while being fiscally responsible to the thousands of individuals, foundations and corporate partners who support our mission. That is what we will continue to do in the important years ahead. And we appreciate the tremendous support of our members, sponsors and community now and always.\nThanks to all of you, our members, and our partners, IAVA has been a vital leader for our community, served millions of veterans and changed history. With our unwavering dedication, IAVA will continue to lead for many years to come. We have a new President to educate, a suicide wave to combat, the outcomes of America\u2019s longest war in history to contend with, and veterans nationwide to connect, unite and empower.\nOur work is more important now than ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideas.ted.com/can-you-teach-a-computer-to-be-funny/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:50Z", "digest": "sha1:R5OTWCBWZ7HI2OACLDUX6ORK77XE2M2W", "length": 7700, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "ideas.ted.com", "title": "Can you teach a computer to be funny? \u2013 ideas.ted.com", "raw_content": "Can you teach a computer to be funny?\nHere\u2019s one example of a machine-generated joke: \u201cWhy did the chicken cross the road? To see the punchline.\u201d Learn about the work that scientists are doing to make AI more LOL.\nWhen it comes to predicting advances in AI, the popular imagination tends to fixate on the most dystopian scenarios: as in, If our machines get so smart, someday they\u2019ll rise up against humanity and take over the world.\nBut what if all our machines wanted to do was crack some jokes? That is the dream of computational humorists \u2014 machine learning researchers dedicated to creating funny computers. One such enthusiast is Vinith Misra (TED@IBM Talk: Machines need an algorithm for humor: Here\u2019s what it looks like), a data scientist at Netflix (and consultant to HBO\u2019s Silicon Valley) who wants to see a bit more whimsy in technology.\nWhile there\u2019s intrinsic value in cracking the code for humor, this research also holds practical importance. As machines occupy larger and larger chunks of our lives, Misra sees a need to imbue circuitry with personality. We\u2019ve all experienced the frustration caused by a dropped phone call or a crashed program. Your computer isn\u2019t a sympathetic audience during these trials and tribulations; at times like these, levity can go a long way in improving our relationship with technology.\nSo, how do you program a computer for laughs? \u201cHumor is one of the most non-computational things,\u201d Misra says. In other words, there\u2019s no formula for funny-ness. While you can learn how to bake a cake or build a chair from a set of instructions, there\u2019s no recipe for crafting a great joke. But if we want to imbue our machines with wit, we need to find some kind of a recipe; after all, computers are unflinching rule-followers. This is the great quagmire of computational humor.\nTo do this, you have to pick apart what makes a particular joke funny. Then you need to turn your ideas into rules and codify them into algorithms. However, humor is kind of like pornography \u2026 you know it when you see it. A joke told by British comedian Lee Dawson exemplifies the difficulties of deconstructing jokes, according to Misra. It goes: \u201cMy mother-in-law fell down a wishing well the other day. I was surprised \u2014 I had no idea that they worked!\u201d It\u2019s not so easy to pick out why this joke works (and some mothers-in-law would argue it does not work at all). For starters, there\u2019s a certain amount of societal context that goes with understanding why a mother-in-law going down a well is funny. Does this mean that creating a joke-telling computer would require the uploading and analyzing of an entire culture\u2019s worth of knowledge and experience?\nSome researchers have been experimenting with a different approach. Abhinav Moudgil, a graduate student at the International Institute for Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, works primarily in the field of computer vision but explores his interest in computational humor in his spare time. Moudgil has been working with a recurrent neural network, a popular type of statistical model. The distinction between neural networks and older, rule-based models could be compared to the difference between showing and telling. With rule-based algorithms, most of the legwork is done by the coders; they put in a great deal of labor and energy up-front, writing specific directions for the program that tells it what to do. The system is highly constrained, and it produces a set of similarly structured jokes. The results are decent but closer to what kids \u2014 not adults \u2014 might find hilarious.\n\u201cWhat is the difference between a mute glove and a silent cat? One is a cute mitten and the other is a mute kitten.\u201d\n\u201cWhat do you call a strange market? A bizarre bazaar.\u201d\nWith neural networks, data does the heavy lifting; you can show a program what to generate by feeding it a dataset of hundreds of thousands of examples. The network picks out patterns and emulates them when it generates text. (This is the same way computers \u201clearn\u201d how to recognize particular images.) Of course, neural networks don\u2019t see like humans do. Networks analyze data inputs, whether pictures or text, as strings of numbers, and comb through these strings to detect patterns. The number of times your network analyzes the dataset \u2014 called iterations \u2014 is incredibly important: too few iterations, and the network won\u2019t pick up enough patterns; too many, and the network will pick out superfluous patterns. For instance, if you want your network to recognize flamingos but you made it iterate on a set of flamingo pictures for too long, it would probably get better at recognizing that particular set of pictures rather than flamingos in general.\nMoudgil created a dataset of 231,657 short jokes culled from the far corners of the Internet. He fed it to his network, which analyzed the jokes letter by letter. Because the network operates on a character level, it didn\u2019t analyze the wordplay of the jokes; instead, it picked up on the probabilities of certain letters appearing after other letters and then generated jokes along similar lines. So, because many of the jokes in the training set were in the form \u201cWhat do you call\u2026\u201d or \u201cWhy did the\u2026\u201d, the letter \u201cw\u201d had a high probability of being followed by \u201ch\u201d, the letter pair \u201cwh\u201d had high probabilities of being followed by \u201cy\u201d or \u201ca,\u201d and the letter sequence \u201cwha\u201d was almost certainly followed by \u201ct.\u201d\nHis network generated a lot of jokes \u2014 some terrible, some awful and some okay. Here\u2019s a sample:\n\u201cI think hard work is the reason they hate me.\u201d\n\u201cWhy can\u2019t Dracula be true? Because there are too many cheetahs.\u201d\n\u201cWhy did the cowboy buy the frog? Because he didn\u2019t have any brains.\u201d\n\u201cWhy did the chicken cross the road? To see the punchline.\u201d\nSome read more like Zen koans than jokes. That\u2019s because Moudgil trained his network with many different kinds of humor. While his efforts won\u2019t get him a comedy writing gig, he considers them to be promising. He plans to continue his work, and he\u2019s also made his dataset public to encourage others to experiment as well. He wants the machine learning community to know that, he says, \u201ca neural net is a way to do humor research.\u201d On his next project, Moudgil will try to eliminate nonsensical results by training the network on a large set of English sentences before he trains it on a joke dataset. That way, the network will have integrated grammar into its joke construction and should generate much less gibberish.\nOther efforts have focused on replicating a particular comedian\u2019s style. He Ren and Quan Yang of Stanford University trained a neural network to imitate the humor of Conan O\u2019Brien.\nTheir model generated these one-liners:\n\u201cApple is teaming up with Playboy in the self-driving office.\u201d\n\u201cNew research finds that Osama Bin Laden was arrested for President on a Southwest Airlines flight.\u201d\nYes, the results read a bit more like drunk Conan than real Conan. Ren and Yang estimate only 12 percent of the jokes were funny (based on human ratings), and some of the funny jokes only generated laughs because they were so nonsensical.\nThese efforts show there\u2019s clearly a lot of work to be done before researchers can say they\u2019ve successfully engineered humor. \u201cThey\u2019re an effective illustration of the state of computational humor today, which is both promising in the long term and discouraging in the short term,\u201d says Misra. Yet if we ever want to build AI that simulates human-style intelligence, we\u2019ll need to figure out how to code for funny. 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REUTERS/Manuel Araneda\nIn a statement following the arson, Chile\u2019s National Confederation of Truck Owners called on the government to \u201chalt the attacks and the terrorism.\u201d\nA photo published by the industry group showed several large tractor trailer trucks engulfed in flames along a dark dirt road in the country\u2019s heavily forested Araucania region.\nThe area is the heart of Chile\u2019s important forestry and paper industry, and the trucks and machinery used by local businesses have often been the target of arson attacks and hijackings.\nIndividuals and groups claiming to represent the interests of the Mapuche indigenous people have in recent years set fire to fields, forests, vehicles, machinery and residences in the region, leading to deaths and tens of millions of dollars in damage. It was not clear to what extent they have broader support among indigenous communities.\nLocal authorities had yet to identify suspects as of Friday morning.\n\u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the prosecutor to arrive and examine the scene,\u201d the governor of Arauco, Humberto Toro, told local radio station radio Cooperativa.\nPhotos in local media from the scene of one of the attacks showed pamphlets and a banner from a Mapuche organisation known as \u201cCoordinadora Arauco-Malleco,\u201d a radical group that says it fights for the recovery of Mapuche lands.\nIndigenous communities of south-central Chile have long accused the state and private companies of taking their ancestral land, stripping it of natural resources and using heavy-handed enforcement against their communities.\nIn January, on the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to Temuco, the regional capital, groups claiming to have ties to the Mapuche set fire to a church, a schoolhouse and three helicopters.\nReporting by Antonio de la Jara, writing by Dave Sherwood; Editing by Bernadette Baum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://industriatextilexpo.ar.messefrankfurt.com/buenosaires/en/confemaq.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:24BFTA43KNWXS5DZYFGUJBOYZFW5G4UH", "length": 300, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "industriatextilexpo.ar.messefrankfurt.com", "title": "Confemaq", "raw_content": "International Trade Fair of Garment Machinery\nEvery two years, it is the undeniable event that presents all the news in terms of equipment to achieve the highest quality standards worldwide. Gather with the most important suppliers of equipment and know all the news to optimize your business output.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 1998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://info.looker.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HIKOXSNDTR4SSWKGZN43S4Z2PBFLQD56", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "info.looker.com", "title": "Learn from the best", "raw_content": "See what makes Looker a data platform for today's databases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 8106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inside.mills.edu/academics/graduate/dnc/alumni-profiles/Rebecca-Wilson-alumni.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:KADQOU46TEFWL4RZLCZTTVDLRXZJNGWE", "length": 1831, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "inside.mills.edu", "title": "Mills College :: Dance :: Alumni :: Rebecca Wilson", "raw_content": "Rebecca Wilson is a dancer, choreographer and teacher of Contemporary and Modern dance, ballet and Pilates. In 2007 she earned her MFA with an emphasis in Choreography and Performance from Mills College. She also holds a BA in Dance and Environmental Conservation and Restoration from Sonoma State University. Inspired by Surrealism, Ecology, Psychic Automatism, and many other experiences, Rebecca strives to create new works that exemplify her unique voice in the art of dance.\nRebecca danced professionally with Molissa Fenley and Dancers and Dandelion Dance Theatre. She has worked with Nancy Lyons, Anne Bluethenthal, Group A, and toured across the US as a performer for DoubleVision Intermedia. Rebecca has taught Contemporary Dance Technique at Sonoma State University since 2008. In addition, she holds a certification as a STOTT PILATES\u00ae instructor.\nAfter graduating in 2007 with an MFA, I was honored to accept a teaching position at Sonoma State University. I also had the incredible experience of dancing with Molissa Fenley at Judson Memorial Church and Jacob\u2019s Pillow. The connections made with Mills faculty, alumni, and my fellow classmates have provided a substantial network of support and opportunity. The encouragement of the faculty to trust myself as an artist, experiment as much as possible, and dive head first into creation are forces that I\u2019m not sure I could have found on my own. What tops it all off is that I now and forever will have a community of mentors and colleagues to continue learning from, supporting one another and sharing our creations together.\nDance has linked me to the world of pilates. The extensive training and education I have gained from the STOTT PILATES\u00ae program has given me a deeper understanding of the moving body. 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The accompanying table from the white paper reports the experience of 11 of these during the timing event, one of which experienced nearly 2,500 alarms from GPS timing equipment during the outage.\nAnother UK broadcaster in the UK was not affected by the GPS timing problems, says Charles Schue, CEO of UrsaNav Inc., because it was trialing an alternative timing service using enhanced Loran (eLoran) signals from a transmission site located at Anthorn in Cumbria. Chronos and UrsaNav recently formed a joint venture called Taviga to provide a commercial eLoran service.\nThe BBC says it \u201cis still chasing the US Air Force for further details about the incident.\u201d\n\"This should be treated as a warning of what could go wrong,\" BBC quoted Martyn Thomas, a fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) who was the primary author of an RAE study on GNSS vulnerability a few years ago.\n\"The world is dependent on GPS for a vast range of critical applications from navigation to financial trading, and precision docking of oil tankers to high tech farming,\" Thomas told the BBC, adding that it was essential that GNSS has a backup system or systems.\nNXP Semiconductors to Buy GloNav\nStudy Proposes Satellite Navigation System for Mar...\nU.S. Invites Comments for Easing GPS SVN49 Signal ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://intermountainhealthcare.org/about/transforming-healthcare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MN45D2SAFG4RJF26HAIRMWIMK7PJXB4Z", "length": 3838, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "intermountainhealthcare.org", "title": "Transforming Healthcare | About Us | Intermountain Healthcare", "raw_content": "Everyone with a stake in healthcare plays an important role\nOur quest for better health and high quality care at more affordable costs is the driving force behind Intermountain's commitment to truly transform healthcare across the country.\nMost Innovative Healthcare Organizations\nThe report, Into the Minds of the C-Suite, identified Intermountain Healthcare as one of the top five most innovative healthcare providers in the U.S. It also ranked Intermountain No. 1 in the \u201cElite Leadership\u201d subcategory.\nReimagining Health Perspectives - Experts Reflect on Intermountain\u2019s Contributions\nHear what healthcare experts from around the world have to say about the contributions Intermountain has made.\nForbes: One of America's Best Employers\nIn 2016, Forbes again named Intermountain Healthcare as one of America's Best Employers among large U.S. companies, not-for-profit institutions, government agencies, and U.S. divisions of multinational companies.\nBecker's Hospital Review also named Intermountain one of the best places to work in healthcare.\nIntermountain is a founding leader of the revolutionary movement now variously referred to as \u201chealthcare transformation,\u201d \u201cvalue-based medicine,\u201d \u201cpatient-centered care,\u201d and \u201cpopulation health.\u201d\nIntermountain Healthcare Transformations\nNational and local awards and rankings recognize Intermountain for our efforts to become a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost.\nEveryone with a stake in healthcare plays an important role, and at Intermountain we strive to improve quality of life through our quest for better care and better health at more affordable costs.\nIntermountain Healthcare harnesses internal innovation and strategic partnerships to deliver relevant solutions to the challenges facing healthcare today.\nLearn more about our goal to improve quality and reduce healthcare costs through education, clinical research, and process management.\nThe Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute is designed for experienced healthcare leaders who are recognized and nominated by their system\u2019s CEO and senior executives as possessing the potential to make significant impacts on their organization\u2019s culture, strategy, clinical and cost performance.\nAs Utah\u2019s largest private employer, we have a responsibility and opportunity to set the standard for sustainable operations and we strive each day to live up to that.\nThrough the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, thousands of physicians and clinicians from around the world receive training from Brent James, MD, and his team, in evidence-based medicine and care processes.\nIntermountain has been recognized for our achievements in providing excellent outcomes to patients at costs that are among the lowest in the country.\nConnect Care Pro\u00ae provides access to Intermountain\u2019s high quality healthcare providers to patients wherever they are.\nIntermountain Teams up with Leading U.S. Health Systems to Develop a Generic Rx Company\nNot-for-profit Generic Drug Company will help patients by ending shortages and reducing prices\nSupply Chain Organization\nOur Supply Chain Organization is known for its innovative procedures and practices, helping Intermountain get the best value for dollars it spends and allowing the organization to devote more resources to patient care.\nHealthy Dialogues Speaker Series\nAccess presentations by national health policy experts who have spoken to local Salt Lake area leaders on healthcare reform .\nHealing for Life describes our quest for the highest levels of clinical excellence, addressing the concerns of our patients and their families.\nStay up to date, improve your health, and find other healthcare information at Intermountain blogs.\nIntermountain Research\nHigh-quality care at Intermountain starts with innovative research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://intojapan.co.uk/places/futarasan-shrine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6MB2I2EX6DZB7HPTTSZCI6M3UGW7ZBVF", "length": 454, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "intojapan.co.uk", "title": "Futarasan Shrine - 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The beautiful red Futarasan Shrine is dedicated to Nikk\u014d\u2019s mountains, in particular the long-dormant volcano, Mount Nantai, and makes up the third part in Nikk\u014d\u2019s World Heritage trinity.\nDon\u2019t miss the sacred red Shinkyo bridge, which is generally closed to all feet not belonging to the Imperial Family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/1744227230", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SPGTC7LRPY5DCAY2K2WWA66IRIWQYEFC", "length": 4236, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "io9.gizmodo.com", "title": "In the Greatest Casting of All Time, Felicia Day May Be MST3K's Next Mad Scientist", "raw_content": "In the Greatest Casting of All Time, Felicia Day May Be MST3K's Next Mad Scientist\nFiled to: mst3kFiled to: mst3k\nIn news that literally has my heart racing, Joel Hodgson has announced his pick for the new \u201cMad\u201d of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a.k.a. the insane scientist that forces the host to watch all those bad movies. That choice? Felicia freakin\u2019 Day as Dr. Forrester\u2019s daughter.\nHere\u2019s what Joel just added to the MST3K Kickstarter news:\nFirst, I\u2019m hoping that Felicia Day will join us as \u201cKinga Forrester,\u201d MST3K\u2019s next Mad\u2026 and Dr. Clayton Forrester\u2019s daughter!\n[...] Actually, you know, I\u2019ll come back to Felicia in a minute. First, I want to tell you a little bit about Kinga Forrester, who is also new to MST3K.\nWhen I started imagining the next season of MST3K, I knew we\u2019d need the next Mad to be someone worthy of the Mad title and someone who could live up to the great work of Trace, Josh, Frank and Mary Jo. But I also thought we needed a new \u201cflavor\u201d \u2013 something that would lead to new situations. So, right away, I knew that I wanted the next Mad to be someone who could be both comedic and threatening... and if possible, both at the same time!\nI also knew, from the start, that the next Mad should be a woman.\nPart of that inspiration came from seeing what Mary Jo Pehl did with the role of Pearl Forrester. As Pearl, Mary Jo \u2013 or MJ, as we called her \u2013 could be funny in so many different ways\u2026 but while she was a woman, the humor never came from Pearl being female \u2014 that just happened to be a great coincidence, and a tribute to how great MJ was in that part. And I know her performance stuck with a lot of you too, because any time we did appearances for MST3K or Cinematic Titanic, there was always a long line of folks waiting for their turn to lavish praise on her!\nSo, ever since I started thinking about the future of MST3K, I think I\u2019ve known the next Mad needed to be another formidable woman in the Forrester family line.\nI repeat, OH MY GOD. Joel actually goes into a lot more detail about this, including how he got in contact with Day and the ridiculous reason why Kinga had to have red hair, but you can read that on your own time. Because Joel also announced the new voices for Crow and Tom Servo:\nI\u2019m also inviting comedians Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn to become the next voices of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo!\nOnce Jonah agreed that he wanted to become the next host, things started to move again. And since he would be the one in the movie riffing trenches with Crow and Servo, I felt it was important to let Jonah help find the right people. There had to be real chemistry to our choices, not just casting. [...]\nAnyway, Jonah told me to check out Hampton and Baron. I watched a ton of their videos online and thought they were pretty great, so the next time I was in LA \u2013 about a year ago \u2013 we went out to eat together and had our first \u201cofficial meeting,\u201d which really just means that I picked up the check.\nAfter that first meeting, I knew that I liked them both a lot, but I still hadn\u2019t decided. So, I asked them to do a \u201ctest session\u201d on Skype, and gave them some lines to read as Crow and Servo. Just to see what they\u2019d do with it, you know? And sure, they did great first reads on the respective characters, but it was the stuff between takes that kind of took my breath away. They were just so great at riffing off each other and so quick on their feet. I remember thinking it was like going down the rabbit hole and seeing a glimpse of the future MST3K. Then, when it came time to make our Kickstarter video, I asked them to help out.\nI don\u2019t know these guys, but I\u2019m so stunned by having Felicia Day\u2014and not because of her nerd cred, but because she can play that perfect mix of funny creepy crazy that I want the Mads to embody\u2014that I assume that these guys are perfect too. Again, Joel explains more about their casting here, as well why he told Yount to not do his amazing impression of Trace Beaulieu\u2019s original Crow voice. It\u2019s good stuff.\nGuys, I could not be more excited. I\u2019m so happy we\u2019re already getting three episodes, but now I need them all. Please donate all of your disposable income here. No, I don\u2019t care if you like MST3K or not. This isn\u2019t about you, okay?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipolitics.ca/2018/07/04/evening-brief-carbon-clowns-and-parties/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:27Z", "digest": "sha1:N5UR5VSEAQNNNIFPZJDDG2KHLE3FRFGE", "length": 10324, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "ipolitics.ca", "title": "Evening Brief: Carbon, clowns and parties - iPolitics", "raw_content": "Evening Brief: Carbon, clowns and parties\nWe begin today in Ontario, where the federal government sees the province\u2019s cancellation of its cap and trade program as equivalent to withdrawing from the national climate change framework \u2014 and is reconsidering more than $400 million in funding as a result.\nA spokeswoman for Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the $420 million earmarked for Ontario under the Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund is under review, since funding is contingent on agreeing to the framework, which includes imposing a carbon price. One of Premier Doug Ford\u2019s orders of business was to rescind the previous Liberal government\u2019s regulation that established the cap and trade program in 2017. That has prompted Canada to immediately hit the brakes on Ontario\u2019s portion of the $1.4-billion climate change fund.\nAnd so begins the financial pain that comes with a backwards slide\u2026\nStill with carbon, days after Saskatchewan released a study purporting to show that Ottawa\u2019s carbon tax plan will cost the province billions, a federal minister dismissed the research as irrelevant. \u201cThey appear to have modelled a proposal that no one is proposing,\u201d Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, who represents the Regina\u2014Wascana riding, said. He contends the government-funded study appears biased, especially since one of its co-authors was recently an employee of Saskatchewan\u2019s Environment Ministry. The Leader-Post reports.\nA Conservative MP says he wanted Andrew Scheer to kick Maxime Bernier out of the federal caucus last month, but the Tory leader refused, insisting that his former leadership rival has an important role to play within the party. The MP, who spoke to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity for fear of causing additional turmoil within caucus ranks, said he approached Scheer during the June 20 caucus meeting for permission to ask caucus members to vote to have Bernier removed. \u201cI went to Andrew directly and said \u2026 \u2018Max lied to us, and I don\u2019t think he should remain in caucus,\u201d\u2019 the MP said. But Scheer asked him to stand down, saying he would \u201ckeep Max where he is.\u201d CP\u2019s Janice Dickson reports.\nStill with the Tories, Conservative defence critic James Bezan is sponsoring a new House of Commons e-petition calling on the federal government to declare Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and refer him to the International Criminal Court. The petition, which was started by Ottawa resident Roman Hruby, condemns Putin for military aggression and violence against Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria and against the people of Chechnya. The petition is open for signature until October 31 and will require at least 500 signatures to elicit a government response. That story from Charlie Pinkerton.\nOn the East coast, at least 10 Canadian fishing boats from New Brunswick have been intercepted by U.S. Border Patrol agents since last week while fishing in the disputed waters around Machias Seal Island, a spokesman for the fishermen says. Laurence Cook, chairman of the advisory board for Lobster Fishing Area 38, said Wednesday that some Canadian vessels were boarded by American agents who asked about possible illegal immigrants. \u201cThere\u2019s been a bit of a misunderstanding there somewhere,\u201d Cook said. \u201cThey\u2019re in international waters, so border patrol shouldn\u2019t be boarding Canadian vessels.\u201d\nThis one gives us pause. Anyone coming into the United States by fishing boat would be coming from Canada \u2014 and perhaps the border guards haven\u2019t gotten the memo, but that\u2019s not exactly the way people are flowing \u2014 or trying to \u2014 these days, in these parts.\nMeanwhile, the Indian government has extended an order requiring international exporters, including Canada, pay a pest-treatment fee on pulse products being imported into the country. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada told iPolitics in an email that New Delhi has extended their fumigation policy for another six months, to December 31. The policy, the department said, means \u201cCanadian pulse exports will continue to incur a penalty as they are not fumigated prior to arrival in India.\u201d Pulse exports include goods like lentils, chickpeas and peas. Under the previous order, that expired June 30, Canadian exporters were required to pay a fee that was five times higher than the domestic rate. Kelsey Johnson reports.\nCanada has a new multi-million dollar research cluster for wine. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay popped the cork today during a visit to the Huebel Grape Estates in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The $8.4 million in research funding over five years is jointly funded by the federal government and the provinces under the five-year Canadian Agricultural Partnership framework, which launched in April. Johnson pours up the details on this one too.\nDid you know the poppy seeds on your breakfast bagel weren\u2019t grown in Canada? Glen Metzler does and he wants to change that. Metzler is the CEO of API Labs of Lethbridge, Alta. Since 2007, he and Alberta farmer Ryan Mercer, who owns Mercer Seeds and sits on API\u2019s board of directors, have been trying to develop a culinary poppy seed industry in Canada. The problem? While Health Canada has allowed API to do the necessary research and development work, the federal department is refusing to let Metzler go to market. And for the editorial hat trick today, Johnson has the \u2018seedtails.\u2019\nThe designation of a large strip of boreal forest as Canada\u2019s first mixed UNESCO World Heritage site just might help Indigenous groups gain more control over their ancestral lands. Pimachiowin Aki is a 30,000-kilometre swath of land straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border. \u201cPart of what\u2019s being recognized here is \u2026 traditional governance prevails,\u201d Gord Jones, project manager for the Pimachiowin Aki Corporation, told iPolitics. \u201cIt may seem simple but there are many cases where Indigenous peoples have lost access to their land.\u201d Anna Desmarais reports.\nBack in Ontario, oh the difference an election win makes. Just days before the election, Doug Ford said this: \u201cI want to assure our public sector workers, our nurses, our teachers and our doctors, that no one, and I repeat no one will lose their job.\u201d Yesterday, just days after taking office, his government has dismissed Ontario\u2019s chief scientist, Molly Shoichet. An award-winning professor at the University of Toronto, she was appointed as Ontario\u2019s first chief scientist last November in what premier Kathleen Wynne\u2019s Liberal government said was a move to create a voice for science at the top level of government. The Globe and Mail reports.\nIn The Drilldown: Work on Trans Mountain to restart in August: Kinder Morgan\nIn The Sprout: Happy National Ice Cream Month!\nOntario government puts ticket resale changes on hold (CP)\nFemale Canadian soldiers to train 1st all-female platoon in Jordanian army (Global)\nTo mark Independence Day, one of President Trump\u2019s hometown papers mocked him by depicting him as a clown. The New York Daily News\u2019s cover today features an edited image showing the president in full clown makeup, wearing a shattered gold crown. \u201cThe clown who plays king can\u2019t overthrow the bedrock values this nation was founded on 242 years ago today,\u201d the headline reads.\nStill with clowns, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, facing additional reporting about his many controversies, is \u201cinching forward to the tipping point,\u201d a senior administration official tells CNN. The official, describing the feeling within the administration towards Pruitt, wondered whether the EPA administrator would still hold his job as he could crop up in Democratic candidates\u2019 ads hitting President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cswamp.\u201d Ultimately, the decision is with Trump. White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters on Tuesday that Trump is looking into the \u201cnumerous reports\u201d about Pruitt.\nMeanwhile, attorney Michael Avenatti is musing online about running against Trump in 2020. Avenatti, who is representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Trump and his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, said on Twitter that he would run if he thinks no other candidate could beat Trump in a re-election bid. \u201cIF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think that there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him,\u201d Avenatti wrote. \u201cWe can\u2019t relive 2016. I love this country, our values and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed.\u201d\nIn Britain, a man and woman found unconscious in a house in Wiltshire Saturday were poisoned with Novichok, the same nerve agent as ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say. The couple are in a critical condition. Police say no on else has presented with the same symptoms. There was \u201cnothing in their background\u201d to suggest the pair were targeted, but the counter-terrorism network is now leading the investigation. The BBC reports.\nIn past years, the annual Independence Day bash in Ottawa has been the talk of the town. This year, however, a cosier, more modest party than usual is scheduled for the U.S. ambassador\u2019s residence tonight \u2014 and the decision by some to steer clear will make it even smaller than planned. Under former ambassador and Barack Obama appointee Bruce Heyman, the guest list included more than 4,000 people. Under successor Kelly Craft, however \u2014 named to the post by Trump \u2014 the guest list has been trimmed to an estimated 1,000 people. The start time was also pushed back to make it more cocktail party than picnic. While some in the Ottawa social circuit bemoan having been left out this year, some who made the cut say they plan to stay away out of principle.\nThis shindig on the grounds of Lornado, the ambassador\u2019s sprawling Rockcliffe residence, was supposed to be Craft\u2019s coming out party. But as the HuffPo Canada notes, for someone who prizes common ground, life as Trump\u2019s envoy in this town hasn\u2019t been easy. Last Friday, Craft spoke to her brother on the phone and confessed she was worried the party would be a flop.\nFinally today, is this the greatest love story ever told on social media? A good many Twitter users certainly think so \u2014 and they\u2019re rooting for the two airline passengers at the centre of the tale that kept them riveted a few days ago. Have a read \u2014 it\u2019s a nice contrast to all the nastiness afoot right now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 12698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irr.org.za/reports/atLiberty/liberty-the-property-rights-grab", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LWGXIGOBFQKI3SDOXVEQ2SJ5EUJYQZUR", "length": 283, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "irr.org.za", "title": "@Liberty - The property rights grab \u2014 Institute Of Race Relations", "raw_content": "@Liberty - The property rights grab\nProperty rights are under threat from a Constitutional Court decision on mining rights in 2013. This threat has since been compounded by the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill of 2013, which is soon to be sent to the Cabinet for approval.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 108.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ismar2018.org/papers/ismar2018_pcs_paper_1109.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4774V5BHNLHT4YYAYEJP6R4LB3LVF7UH", "length": 1952, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ismar2018.org", "title": "Obstacle Avoidance Method in Real Space for Virtual Reality Immersion | ISMAR 2018", "raw_content": "Obstacle Avoidance Method in Real Space for Virtual Reality Immersion\nKohei Kanamori, Nobuchika Sakata, Tomu Tominaga, Yoshinori Hijikata, Kensuke Harada, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa. Obstacle avoidance method in real space for virtual reality immersion. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality 2018 (To appear). 2018.\nauthor = \"Kanamori, Kohei and Sakata, Nobuchika and Tominaga, Tomu and Hijikata, Yoshinori and Harada, Kensuke and Kiyokawa, Kiyoshi\",\ntitle = \"Obstacle Avoidance Method in Real Space for Virtual Reality Immersion\",\nTypical Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) that provide a highly immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience make any interaction between a user and real space difficult by occluding the user's entire field of view. Video see-through type HMDs can solve this problem by superimposing real-space information on the VR environment. The existing method of supporting interactions with the real space is superimposition of boundary lines of the real space on the virtual space in the HMD. However, overlaying the boundary lines on the entire field of view may reduce the user's immersive feeling. In this paper, we propose two methods to support interactions with the real world while playing immersive VR games without reducing the user's immersive feeling as much as possible, even when the user wanders. The first method is to superimpose a 3D point cloud of real space around the user on the virtual space in the HMD. The second method is to deploy familiar objects (e.g., furniture in his/her room) in the virtual space in the HMD. The user traces the familiar objects as subgoals to reach the goal. We implement the two methods and conduct a user study to compare interaction performance. As a result of the user study, we find that the second method provides better spatial information about the real space without reducing the user's immersive feeling, compared to the existing method.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iteojeh.com/home-based-business-basic-habits-part-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LT5NN56T2YGK4YFVCZ76RJZ6COKDS7WA", "length": 2432, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iteojeh.com", "title": "SUCCEED IN YOUR HOME BASED BUSINESS \u2013 BASIC DAILY HABITS (Part 3)", "raw_content": "The third and concluding part of the series: Succeeding in Your Home Based Business \u2013 Basic Daily Habits will discuss the rest of the factors.\nExercise: What does exercise have to do with succeeding in your home based business? Regular physical exercise pumps up your energy level, it delivers oxygen and nutrients to your body and that helps your system to function more efficiently. Exercise increases your endurance and strength, as well as helps to control your mood. These qualities are highly needed by an entrepreneur who wants to achieve success in his/her home based business.\nWake up Early: Several studies and research materials have shown that waking up early enhances productivity. It is a simple analogy: if you wake up early, you get more done. How is productivity bolstered by rising up early? After a good night rest, the brain is well rested. It is therefore properly charged to take on tasks and perform efficiently. Early in the day, distractions are few; so much can be achieved with minimal interruptions. Of course, if one does not get enough sleep, the brain will not be properly charged. Do you find yourself grumpy in the morning when you wake up? Get into the habit of going to bed early every night. This paragraph will be incomplete without referring to two quotes of the first United States Ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin: \u2018\u2018Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise\u201d and \u201cThe early morning has gold in its mouth\u201d.\nManage Money: Every business requires the flow of cash to keep it going. A home based business is not any different. Resources (either materials or services) are used on a daily basis in the operation of the business such as internet facilities, power supply, etc. All of these need to be paid for. Besides these, you as an entrepreneur should pay yourself at regular intervals. To achieve all of that, the money available for the business has to be properly managed. You should avoid overspending, take proper inventory of expenditure and keep records of income. You definitely need to develop the skill of managing money wisely, thereby ensuring a steady cash flow for the business, as well as settling all incurred costs.\nThe habits listed in this and the two preceding articles contain principles that apply to any home based business. Make conscious efforts to apply them on a daily basis, before long you will begin to see the positive results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/compliance-governance/2010/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:L4AXIWZZEWSX5GSTZM4UNCAYP4RZTWMQ", "length": 765, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com", "title": "May 2010 - Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security", "raw_content": "Home > IT Blogs > Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security\nRegulatory Compliance, Governance and Security:\nISAE 3402 | A New Standard Has Arrived for Reporting on Service Organizations\nISAE 3402, put forth by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), will play a large and ever-expanding role for reporting on controls at service organizations....\nISAE 3402 | The New Global Standard for Assurance Reporting on Service Organizations has Arrived!\nISAE 3402: The International Standard on Assurance Engagements, \u201cAssurance Reports on Controls at a Service Organization\u201d, is the new global standard for assurance reporting on service organizations. What's interesting to note about...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 203.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iwaspoisoned.com/incident/kfc-johnsonville-road-johnsonville-wellington-new-zealand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JLVKYW3OS3YZD2KYBFMKJYC3QYI2WWNZ", "length": 138, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "iwaspoisoned.com", "title": "KFC, Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand - Got Food Poisoning? Report it now.", "raw_content": "KFC, Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand Food Poisoning\n1 Johnsonville Road, Wellington, 6037 Wellington, New Zealand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 11177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jamthehype.com/j-crum-is-honest-and-open-on-new-album-villains/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZCZKTPT4KRIZ2PR5JD4VSYWZKE2X5FJ", "length": 6599, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "jamthehype.com", "title": "J. Crum is Honest and Open on New Album 'Villains'", "raw_content": "\u201cI\u2019m a husband. I am an artist. I create Christian hip-hop music.\u201d\nOmaha, Nebraska artist J. Crum grew up listening to hip-hop. \u201cIt intrigued me, and I think the fact that it wasn\u2019t allowed [at home] made me want to discover more of it.\u201d When his mom found out he was listening to hip-hop, she decided to find him some Christian hip-hop to listen to.\nGrowing up in an abusive household, Crum saw his father hit his mother. \u201cIt was hard to see. We were going to church every once in a while, and I remember hearing the pastor talk about how God will be your protection, God will save you, and everything like that.\u201d That day at age 10 was the first time Crum remembers praying.\n\u201cI gave my life to the Lord, and God made a miracle happen. My dad ended up leaving the house, removing [us] from that abusive situation.\u201d\nIn high school, Crum said that he was not following his faith as well as he could have. At age 15, Crum faced an extreme illness.\n\u201cI got a brain infection, and I almost died.\u201d\nHe was in a comatose state for three days. \u201cWhen I woke up out of it, I had a tube coming out of my head. I was strapped to a hospital bed. I realized, \u2018Man, tomorrow may not be promised for me.'\u201d At that moment, he knew he had to get serious about his walk with Christ. He had surgery on his brain, and later an MRI showed that the infection was gone.\nDuring that time of poor health, he missed a lot of school but studied and did his schoolwork from home. He got ahead of schedule, and when he came back to school, he went to study hall without having any work to do.\n\u201cI spent my study halls writing raps. That\u2019s how I got started.\u201d\nLast Friday, Crum released an album called Villains. \u201cIt\u2019s really just about how even the worst of us can find redemption.\u201d He wants listeners to understand that \u201cthere\u2019s nothing too awful or horrible we can do that can separate us from God\u2019s love.\u201d\nHe calls Villains his most introspective and personal album; Crum speaks about his struggles with depression and suicide, \u201cfeeling not good enough,\u201d his marriage and more.\n\u201cI really just pull the curtain behind my own struggle and my own problems, my own issues.\u201d\nThe album artwork was illustrated by Eric Flacko and Odd Makes Art. \u201cIt was really cool because they tied a lot of the different elements of the songs into the cover.\u201d Every part of the artwork corresponds to one of Villains\u2018 songs and the message within them.\n\u201cUnderdog\u201d was inspired by Crum\u2019s feelings that he has been an underdog throughout his life. \u201cIn a lot of ways I think I\u2019ve been counted out, whether that be in the natural or spiritual [sense.] It\u2019s easy to look at someone and be like, \u2018They\u2019ll never be this. They\u2019ll never be that.'\u201d\nCrum says that by God\u2019s grace he has been able to silence and overcome those negative thoughts and encourages listeners to do the same.\n\u201cI think all of have moments where we might feel like underdogs.\u201d\n\u201cNo Way\u201d is a song of perseverance. \u201cNo matter what happens, we are not gonna stop.\u201d The song features fellow artist and friend T-Vision and Crum describes it as light-hearted and uplifting. \u201cWe\u2019re doing it all for Jesus.\u201d\nIn \u201cFalling Skies,\u201d Crum speaks about his faults. \u201cIt talks about how there is nowhere to run under these falling skies.\u201d He encourages listeners to endure the difficult times of life and deal with their faults by depending on God.\n\u201cIt\u2019s easy to try to lean on your own arrogance and your own pride, but understand that you also have to trust God\u2019s grace and trust his plan and understand that you\u2019re not alone in this.\u201d\n\u201cJive Turkeys\u201d is an honest song where Crum speaks about his feelings of jealousy and envy. For example, he sees artists whose music is not as good as his, but they have a larger platform, and he thinks that is something he deserves. \u201cI want all of that. It\u2019s really just a villain showing himself in that sense.\u201d Despite his envy, Crum knows that he needs to find contentment outside of his position and prominence.\nA placebo is a non-drug pill used in drug trials: some people are given the actual drug, and some are not, but patients don\u2019t know the difference. In Crum\u2019s song \u201cPlacebo,\u201d he gets transparent about his battle with depression and suicidal thoughts.\n\u201cWe try other things instead of God to help whatever ailments that we have\u2026 instead of me trusting God for my peace and my protection and my security, I begin to lean on different things.\u201d\n\u201cYou Are\u201d is a song to God \u201cwhere it\u2019s like, \u2018God, I know you are all [of] these things. I know that deliverance is coming. I know that peace is coming and I know all that, but I don\u2019t feel it right now.'\u201d Crum says that despite his hardships, he must trust that God is who He says He is. He wants listeners to know that God is always present with them.\nCrum first met his wife Jessica at an event.\n\u201cAs soon as I heard her singing and worshipping, I knew that I had to found out who she was.\u201d\nThey have been married for two years. After he heard the beat for what would become the song \u201cFly,\u201d he thought, \u201cshe has to be in this in some way. I had her try out the hook, and she killed it.\u201d\nThe song speaks about how though life is hard, Christians can persevere because \u201cwe know that at the end of it we\u2019ll fly. We know that we\u2019ll meet God. We know how the story ends.\u201d\nIn \u201cPitfalls,\u201d Crum speaks honestly about his faults and sins. \u201cI think we all have things that we have a habit of falling into.\u201d He prays that God will help him to rise above his pitfalls and not continue to fall into sin and encourages listeners to do the same.\nVillains concludes with \u201cKeep Rising.\u201d He wants listeners to stay encouraged that despite their sins and the hardships they may face, to depend on God and keep going forward.\n\u201cKeep your head up. Keep rising. Stay encouraged. As we fall and struggle through [life], understand that God has us.\u201d\nJ. Crum describes his style as diverse and seeks to show that in Villains. \u201cThe project is very diverse in my opinion. We see some rock elements. We see some old school hip-hop. There\u2019s some lo-fi in there. We also have a little bit of soul. [I\u2019m] just trying to dive into different genres.\u201d\nOutside of music, J. Crum works with youth and is planting a church.\n\u201cI love ministry. I\u2019m very big on being part of the local body.\u201d\nHe enjoys watching movies, playing videos, and spending time with his wife. His top three favorite movies are Dope, The Departed, and the newly released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.\nGet Villains here. Stream it on Spotify.\nPrevious articleNew Music Friday: Reconcile, J. Crum, Eric Heron, and More\nNext articlenobigdyl. drops a fresh video \u201cOver Here\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 10303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jasonmsilverman.com/blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:D45RI3VHTGQVEU54AGSOQPSGFGGYYSMY", "length": 247, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jasonmsilverman.com", "title": "Blog - Jason M. Silverman", "raw_content": "How to Talk to Kids / Students about Bin Laden\u2019s Death from the Industry\u2019s Leading Child Development Expert\nHello and Happy Monday. Well, the world is buzzing today about Osama Bin Laden\u2019s death. I\u2019m sure as an educator (and also potentially as a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaxonpool.com/2013/02/01/cheap-braille/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:3GVV3TEBCC73HTO62TNTGVIVOKSTR5AJ", "length": 6683, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "jaxonpool.com", "title": "Cheap braille | @Jaxonpool", "raw_content": "Posted by Jaxonpool February 1, 2013\nFRIDAY, 2/1/13, Issue 71\nCheap braille: I have been accused of being a dupe of my own ignorance. That I lack self-reflection. That I don\u2019t see myself as I appear to others. At least that\u2019s what my snooty-pants brother-in-law, Professor Harold Hill of the University of Norflaland, tells me. Actually, he\u2019s the one accusing me. He calls me \u201cthe wonderful Yahoo.\u201d (Is this an insult?) But then he\u2019s in the education business. He\u2019s got a Ph.D. All those education folks have a vested interested in telling the uneducated they\u2019re ignorant. That\u2019s how they make their money. Professors tell the uneducated they\u2019re ignorant and make \u2019em feel so ashamed, they go spend all their hard-earned cash on tuition. And that\u2019s how my brother-in-law\u2019s salary gets paid. He makes money on this deal. But I\u2019m on to him. I see the big picture. He\u2019s not going to pull the wool over my eyes! I don\u2019t need no education.\nThis subject (of my supposed ignorance) came up with my brother-in-law when he and I were discussing our fair city, Rio on the River. Mayor Alvin Brown has a plan to revitalize its downtown. Downtown Vision. It\u2019s \u201cthe vision thing\u201d: Vision Thing. The phrase was coined by Bush 41\u2014the \u201cread my lips\u201d guy.\nBush 41 assumed people didn\u2019t know ASL and could see\nLike Bush 41, Mr. Mayor also is into the vision thing. It\u2019s a good thing he\u2019s looking ahead. What prospect does he have in store? On January 29th, your paper reported that Mr. Mayor had made a big announcement: \u201cJaxonpool mayor wants to invest $9 million in downtown.\u201d On the 31st, I received an email from Mr. Mayor saying JCCI \u201chas been working with the community to build a common vision for the future of our city.\u201d The Mayor assumed I must have been one of the hundreds of \u201cenergetic Visioneers.\u201d Notice Mr. Mayor doesn\u2019t envision a campaign titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Next\u201d or \u201cMoving Forward\u201d or \u201cThe Next Step\u201d or even \u201cThe Next Level.\u201d No, he\u2019s going for the very best he can imagine: \u201cDowntown Vision.\u201d\nA Good Lookin\u2019 Guy\nBut there\u2019s a problem. He\u2019s never going to make a silk purse out of a sow\u2019s ear. When is the mayor going to see the error of his ways? Anyone with eyes can see what\u2019s wrong. Let\u2019s look at the facts: visually, downtown is downtown. While it\u2019s true things aren\u2019t always what they appear to be, in the case of downtown, the appearance is always going to be the reality. It\u2019s a WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get. In a recent letter to you I offered a solution for the downtown: Moss Fire Two What\u2019s really happening here is this: Mr. Mayor is yet again promoting big government, the all-seeing eye. But in the spirit of cooperation, I want to offer an observation. Because I want to help, I\u2019ll see what I can do. It\u2019s all about image. And image is money. One place immediately appearing where Mr. Mayor can cut costs in revitalizing downtown would be to not put so much money into braille signs. One company\u2019s got the monopoly for supplying them to Jaxonpool\u2019s Public Works Department, and they\u2019re eating up the city\u2019s budget: Compliance Signs.com Are they ever going to see the light? Don\u2019t they look at what they\u2019re doing? Don\u2019t they ever review their procedures? Don\u2019t they see what\u2019s happening? They need to look again by opening up the bidding process so they can get the cheapest possible braille. In the twinkling of an eye competitive bidding would reduce costs. I\u2019ve seen it happen elsewhere..\nThe ADA mandates that, to be compliant, governments and private companies post braille signs, but the law and the courts also talk about only having to make accommodations that are \u201creasonable.\u201d But \u201creasonable\u201d is in the eye of the beholder. Is it reasonable to expect a braille sign be put absolutely everywhere?.\nI\u2019m talking about the signs outside restroom doors telling blind people if the restroom is for men or for women. Are they really necessary? Is this not giving enough credit to blind people? Are they not bright? Can\u2019t they figure out quickly if they\u2019re in the wrong restroom?\nSometimes you just gotta turn a blind eye to every demand made on you. And then, what purpose is served by producing high-quality braille signs? Not much. In fact, they contribute to the downfall of our great country by making people soft. High-quality braille ruins a person\u2019s character. I mean, I like blind people as much as any other Tea Partier. Anybody can see that. I love \u2019em to death. But it\u2019s a total waste of taxpayer dollars to throw money away on them. For example, why spend extra $$$ to produce braille signs that are pleasant to the touch. As in, making signs where the little bumps aren\u2019t too pointy. It shouldn\u2019t have to be the city\u2019s business to make every braille sign feel nice. Talk about pointless, feel-good initiatives! No pun intended. What does it matter if it\u2019s prickly?\nI think about our Anglo-Saxon-Jute ancestors and how soft we\u2019ve become in comparison to them. Back in 600 AD, you had to be tough if you were going to land on English shores, torch the villages, club the Celtic males to death, and rape their women. I bet the braille signs the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes used had sharp points. Their braille probably drew blood. But they didn\u2019t whine. But then, as I said, they were a hardier people.\nOkay. I think I\u2019ve said enough now about braille signs and blind people and Mayor Brown\u2019s big vision. I\u2019ve enlightened you enough for one day. It\u2019s tiring, lifting the veil of ignorance from people\u2019s eyes. If the Mayor and the Jaxonpool City Council would just look at things the way I do and take my insights to heart about braille signs, they could make a visible difference. And if they would apply my insights across the board to absolutely every aspect of downtown redevelopment, I think pretty soon we\u2019d see a downtown that\u2019d be pretty different even from the one we now see.\nMaybe this will help you see:\nIn any case, I think I have admirably demonstrated why my brother-in-law\u2019s advice is not needed. I don\u2019t see the point. The University of Norflaland\u2019s not goin\u2019 to get my hard-earned cash. They better look elsewhere for a sucker. I don\u2019t need no education. It\u2019s not going to change the way I see things.\nNow, Mr. Snooty-pants college professor, do you finally see?\nDon\u2019t bother to reply. I\u2019m just going to turn a deaf ear.\nPosted in: Alvin Brown, City government, Downtown Jacksonville, Times-UnionTagged: Jonathan Swift's ghost, Lemule BlogiverPermalink1 Comment\nOne thought on \u201cCheap braille\u201d\nAdmirable proposition!\nI confess, my character has been ruined by silky-soft braille. Perhaps I should blog about the moral deterioration that accompanies several years reading pleasant braille.\n\u2190 Moss Fire Two\nDo you hear me now, Donna Deegen? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jblairlane.com/2015/06/22/battle-of-the-spouses-week-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:WMC53KVGHASEDJ7A3O22NEDIX7QL3JGR", "length": 3511, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "jblairlane.com", "title": "battle of the spouses: week 3 | Brick by Brick", "raw_content": "I\u2019m going to back date this post to Monday, but clearly I am a couple of days late posting it. I kind of felt convicted that I needed to take care of some things on my to-do list before I wrote another blog post. So, that\u2019s what I did.\nLet\u2019s see, week three, was pretty good. There was only one day where I didn\u2019t meet my \u201cofficial fitbit goals\u201d, but I made a conscious choice to rest that day and knew that would mean not hitting the goals. I was and still am at peace with that decision. My body needed a break. Plus, I think I needed to let that \u201cperfection\u201d idol take a topple.\nI really felt like I made some strides in the food category, but I only had three days where I waited for zero the whole day. I don\u2019t think this tells the full story, because I can tell there is a major shift happening. The reason for the shift lies solely on the practice of renewing my mind. Quite frankly, I really don\u2019t care if I earn quarters for the food category or not, I\u2019m loving the heart changes I\u2019m seeing.\nLet\u2019s get on with the numbers:\nI beat the Husband again this week, and I\u2019m now ahead by 18 quarters. I\u2019m not sure he can catch up this week, but we\u2019ll see. At the end of week 4 we will find out who wins the backrubs and such.\nI\u2019m still working on that next renewal of the mind post, but as I said, I felt some other things needed to take priority. I finished up the seventeen year old\u2019s lesson plans today (Wednesday), so at least that\u2019s off my list. I had already completed the other three kids\u2019 prep for the fall. Which means, other than some print outs I need to add to their folders, I\u2019m finished planning/prepping for the 2015/2016 homeschool year. I still have to do some lesson plans for the classes I teach at co-op, but those won\u2019t be as complicated\u2026. I hope.\nOk, all of that to say, I haven\u2019t forgotten about the mind renewal series. It will be coming soon.\nThis entry was posted in Brick Removed, Food, Freedom, Intuitive Eating and tagged challenge, faith, freedom, thin within by Jules Lane. Bookmark the permalink.\n3 thoughts on \u201cbattle of the spouses: week 3\u201d\nkrh5 on July 20, 2015 at 12:09 pm said:\nAre you still doing the \u201cbattle\u201d? \ud83d\ude42\njblairlane on July 20, 2015 at 5:07 pm said:\nHey Kat, yes, I won the first 4 weeks. Now, we\u2019re on an unexpected hiatus. The bathroom remodel we planned for while the kids were out of town has taken over our lives. I worked for 15 days straight (8+ hours per day) and didn\u2019t earn a single \u201cactivity minute\u201d because apparently ripping out tile and drywall don\u2019t count? We did so many flights of stairs during that time\u2026 and then we started forgetting to wear the fitbit (sooo tired). We knew there was no way we were going to go for a run or walk just to earn activity minutes when we were already falling into bed at night soooo sore. Now, the kids are back\u2026 but the bathroom still isn\u2019t finished. We\u2019ve taken some much needed time off in the last week\u2026 well, mine was kind of forced time off because I did something to my back and could barely move for almost 2 days. We\u2019ve still put in some hours trying to finish the project. I\u2019m hoping to finish painting tomorrow. We were talking today that we\u2019ll probably resume on Sunday or Monday. Ok, so that\u2019s probably way more than you wanted to know lol.\nkrh5 on July 21, 2015 at 10:53 am said:\nOh no I don\u2019t mind! Well, congrats on winning \ud83d\ude42 And great job to you both! I know your hubby did really well with his goals too. 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Honestly, to see our research from Patagonia highlighted and the ecosystems of Argentina brings me great joy, and the fact that ecosystem ecology is recognized for the first time among the laureates is particularly gratifying for me. I hope that the greater visibility of women in science that this award brings can attract more young women to pursue a scientific career and perhaps even to field ecology. 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A simple hand on a shoulder or hug has been shown to reduce blood pressure & ease anxiety. http://www.JenTaylorMassage.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jewelenrile.wordpress.com/category/reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OWDQAQWESX52JQYYLQVKASX5OSIZ6DZI", "length": 20719, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "jewelenrile.wordpress.com", "title": "reviews \u2013 kathalain", "raw_content": "REVIEW/REUNITED WITH YA: Eleanor and Park + Lola and the Boy Next Door\nI\u2019ve stopped reading young adult literature the past couple of years.\nI feel like every book under the genre had become formulaic and cliche, so much that I was no longer satisfied with reading them. After attending Pluma that made me seek out Filipino literature, I had dropped reading YA altogether and focused on the former instead. Later, I delved into horror, science fiction, fantasy and contemporary poetry.\nNow it turns out formulaic and cliche is what I need. The books I\u2019ve been reading have been pretty heavy, and I longed for something simple; something that would make me smile; something that had a snarky protagonist or the boy-meets-girl plot that\u2019d make it easy for me to be hooked and easy on my heart.\nSo just last week, I read Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (I\u2019ve never read it, though all I\u2019ve heard was that it was boring, which made me stay away from it for years) and Lola and the Boy Next Door (the next book from the series of Anna and the French Kiss, which I guiltily enjoyed back in 2016 amidst my newfound snobbiness of #philippinelitonly).\nFan art of Eleanor and Park; by Koizumi Mari-chan on DeviantArt\nEleanor and Park didn\u2019t quite fill in the gap my miserable, miserable heart needed, but story-wise, it was a good read. I fell in love with Eleanor and Park as they fell in love with each other. They are, so far, the most unlikely pair I\u2019ve ever read about, but also the most realistic \u2013 and now, my favorite pair to imagine in an alternate, ideal, utopian world, where they will marry and have cute babies. The slow development of the mysteries surrounding Eleanor\u2019s life was in pace with her and Park getting to know each other more. I admit it became slow to the point of boring \u2013 to which I attribute the previous criticism I have heard of it \u2013 but it\u2019s honestly tolerable. The ending was right, somehow. It was what the whole story should have ended up to, but I frowned at my page because like I said: I needed warm and funny and a happily-ever-after. Eleanor and Park doesn\u2019t give you that. Everything is bittersweet in this book.\nLola and the Boy Next Door, however, was one that gave me what I needed. It was refreshing. Lola was absolutely entertaining as a character, and her outfits, being described in detail, made me go on to Google and research everything from her accessories to her shoes to the fabric she made her dresses out of and put them together in my head. The story was predictable, but it was light and fun; with a redeemable character and one that you want to send straight to hell to Satan himself. This one \u2013 for me, at least \u2013 did end up with a happily-ever-after. I was left cheerful and ready to fall in love with a boy-next-door type of guy.\nLola\u2019s outfits! Got this image from: https://whymermaids.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/lola-and-the-boy-next-door-review/\nAll in all, I have them to thank for putting a grin back on my face, and for rediscovering the wonder and need I must have for YA. Predictable and formulaic most may be, but I think that\u2019s where I derive my sense of comfort from. While I\u2019m on the hunt for another book with heavy themes and prose for me to stare at the ceiling after and think of the meaning of my existence after I finish it, I think I\u2019ll also stroll by the young adult section and have a good story, there, too.\nWATCHED: Ang Larawan (2017)\nIn the city of Intramuros, the Marasigan house \u2013 stately, even if decaying \u2013 is visited frequently by reporters, students and curious folk alike. They come for one thing: Don Lorenzo el Magnifico, rival of the world-renowned painter Juan Luna, and his recent masterpiece, entitled Retrato del Artista como Filipino or A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.\nREFLECTING: Three Filipino Women, F. Sionil Jos\u00e9\nIn the wake of my shame that I hardly know anything about Filipino authors or literature a month ago during Pluma, I decided to educate myself. There isn\u2019t much to select from in the Filipiniana section of Fully Booked BGC \u2013 nearest book store I know \u2013 so I was lucky to get a hold on this one.\nThree Filipino Women is made up of three novellas: Cadena de Amor, Obsession, and Platinum, wherein we get to know three women from the perspective of three different men that fell in love with them. Each novella is short and sweet \u2013 the narration, the details, their dialogues\u2026 They are all insightful and striking.\nYou get to know these three women \u2013 Narita, Ermi, and Malu \u2013 not just as characters, but as reflections of various struggles in the Philippines during the 20th century.\n\u25a0 I. CADENA DE AMOR\nNarita Reyes of the novella Cadena de Amor is the childhood friend and lover of the narrator Eddie Cortez, a sociologist. She\u2019s my most hated character in the whole book, and yet she\u2019s the one I most symphatize with. It was easy to understand her motivations as it was to be repulsed by her actions. Her character is\u2026 complex, to say the least, as the life that she lived was.\nEndowed with beauty, grace, wit, and talent, she was engaged to Lopito, the son of Senator Reyes, when they met during her high school graduation ceremony. She had always wished to escape the small town of Santa Ana and their poverty \u2013 something, I think, she hasn\u2019t succeeded on, because of how she was still bothered by it in her later years. Her success and fame after her marriage to Lopito went awry was always not enough for her. She aimed to be a politician. She wanted to get into the Senate, and then run for President. She said that she wanted to prove it to them; those \u201cnitwits in Assumption\u201d \u2013 the latter being the private, all-girls school she was sent to, where she was snubbed for her humble background. She stopped at nothing to get power. She employed all the dirty tricks her \u201cPapa\u201d, Senator Reyes, also used \u2013 from handing out money stuffed in envelopes to murder. She used her beauty and charm unashamedly, even to Eddie himself when he dared confront her about her actions.\nShe died later on. As a child, she found out she was allergic to anti-tetanus shots, and could have died then and there if Eddie\u2019s father hadn\u2019t administered an injection to counter her allergic reaction. While she was in Santa Ana during her campaign, however, she sustained a gash on some rusty truss. The unknowing doctor gave her an anti-tetanus shot.\nShe was dead within five minutes.\nHer character reminded me of Simoun in Jose Rizal\u2019s El Filibusterismo, though they have very different aims. However, they both used their power and riches to avenge themselves. Both died, one failing at his goal; the other not quite reaching what she wanted. Both were motivated by class struggle; both paid off allies and tried their hand in dirty politics. Only Simoun was there, already part of the herd of the elite, and wished to overthrow them in the name of justice for himself and for the people. Narita, however, wanted to be part of the herd \u2013 but above them, too \u2013 just so she can prove herself. She didn\u2019t want to be smeared by her background in poverty; didn\u2019t like to be around it. Furthermore, it was not in her political interests.\nAnd yet to many, she was the ideal woman and politician. She was insanely popular. She was a favorite of the masses. No one knew she was out there to serve out of self-interest first and foremost.\nThey didn\u2019t know she couldn\u2019t care less about them.\nYou kind of wonder if the book is really fictional when you realize Narita Reyes \u2013 and her \u201cPapa\u201d too, for that matter \u2013 might as well have existed in real life. The tactics, the corruption, the self-interest, \u2013 they are all present in the Philippine government we know of today.\n\u2018\u201dIf it will mean victory, then cheat!\u201d the Old Man pontificated.\n\u201cThe objective is to win,\u201d Narita said coolly. \u201cYou cannot talk morality with opponents who are immoral. You cannot tell the truth to people who will not accept that truth.\u201d\u2018\nI believe Eddie loved Narita of Santa Ana, not the Narita of the Malaca\u00f1ang, or Narita of Assumption, or of the magazines. At her wake, he gazed upon her and remembered the girl whom he had played with in the rain, and the cadena de amor blooming by her house. The flowers had wilted over time, but he knew, that once the rain began, it would bloom again.\nThe honesty and innocence she once had was lost to power and politics. But in Narita Reyes\u2019 death, the Narita of Santa Ana came back to life.\n\u25a0 II. OBSESSION\nErmi of the novella Obsession is the most mysterious, and at first, for me, the most controversial. She was, after all, a prostitute.\nThe narrator, Rolando Cruz, is a historian \u2013 and a pimp. After a failed marriage, he frequented Camarin, a restaurant/bar and call girl place owned by his lesbian friend, Didi. Ermi was introduced to him double the price per hour with her virginity costing ten thousand pesos. Roly was surprised to see her elegance, and a little put-off by her directness. She asserted that she wasn\u2019t going to give anyone any information about her: not her address, number, nor family name. Eventually, the last one was revealed \u2013 she was Ermi Rojo \u2013 when Roly managed to save three thousand pesos to take her out for a day.\nRoly was the one who found her a taker for the ten thousand pesos: a \u201cGreat Man\u201d from another country, who also acquired Ermi a house in Forbes Park. While they were in Luneta for their date, Roly felt as if Ermi should now get out of the business, given that she was already successful. He wanted to \u201csave\u201d her from its clutches. Ermi responded by laughing bitterly at him, calling him pompous and every bit as \u201cimmoral\u201d as she was: he had sold himself as much as she sold her body.\nI have to admit that I felt the same way Roly did, especially when he fell in love with her and found out about her dreams of putting up a restaurant of her own. He bought her cookbooks and stood by her side. Though he desired her, he did not dare give in, not even when they shared the same bed. It was his own way of separating himself from the many men that had been with her; his own way of showing her genuine love.\nHer restaurant soon became successful, and I sympathized with Roly when he was frustrated that she would not give up in the business of prostitution after everything he had done. As long as she could make money out of it, she said, she would continue.\nRoly avoided her for a long time before she stormed to his house and yelled at him for looking down on her, breaking down when she embraced him and he told her he didn\u2019t have three thousand pesos. After Ermi fainted and they eventually had things resolved, they settled into a new relationship that crumbled in the long run. Ermi allowed him to drive her to her house, and stayed with him most nights, but she was still in business. He no longer felt the inclination to persuade her to leave. He accepted her for who she was, but he doubted her sincerity with him. His candor about his feelings about it and her sensitivity contributed to the breakdown of their relationship.\nSoon, she contacted him once again. He was finally let in her house. There, she apologized, crying as she told him she loved him, and that she was to marry Andrew Meadows \u2013 a man that Roly himself introduced to her. She was to be a loving wife and mother in the United States.\n\u201cPerhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman or for a cause \u2013 the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is something as precious as life itself.\u201d\nI thought of Ermi as a character as controversial. I thought of her as obscene. Prostitution in itself was. But as I read the novella, I realized how wrong I was.\nRolando Cruz in Obsession writes that the revulsion we feel in seeing what was done in the privacy of our bedrooms was not a matter of morality but a matter of taste. It\u2019s true. There\u2019s nothing remotely evil about sex, nothing really close to immoral \u2013 but it is an aesthetic nuisance.\nI remember Narita, then, and her upbringing in poverty, and Eddie\u2019s thoughts that it was more of a matter of aesthetics that she didn\u2019t want to be around it after. I still think she\u2019s horridly self-absorbed, but it does drive Roly\u2019s point home.\nIt says a lot about our mindsets. It says a lot for how I considered Ermi, and how Roly, did, too. He perceived her to be of affluent upbringing, saw the elegance in which she moved and spoke, and yet her line of work didn\u2019t \u201cmatch\u201d with the rest of what could be construed from her.\nConsidering that Roly was a pimp, and working in advertising, catering to foreign clients and providing them information about taxes and loopholes\u2026 He has sold not just himself, not just other people, but his country, too.\nIt is too much of a discomfort to consider if I\u2019ve done the same thing, or if I would have to, just like Roly did, because he needed to feed himself.\n\u2018\u201dYou condemn me, you look down on me. I am dirt to you. But what wrong have I done, Roly? Have I ever stolen from anyone like those big people whom you know and serve? It is them you should hate and fight \u2013 and they are everywhere, robbing the people, self-righteous, honored in the newspapers. I have -\u201c\u2018\n\u25a0 III. PLATINUM\nThe woman of this novella is the one I loved the most.\nMalu of the novella Platinum is introduced submitting an article about faith healing to a patronizing professor. The narrator, who was there to submit an article on the economic imperatives of nationalism, wanted to get to know her more. His real name isn\u2019t known, but Malu gives him a nickname: Teng-ga, meaning lead, that could have easily been \u201cTanga\u201d or stupid. He gave Malu the nickname Plat, for Platinum, because he felt that she thought of herself as somebody special, though she was plain. The nicknames stemmed from their many arguments. As it turns out, Malu isn\u2019t just concerned with the supernatural \u2013 she was also a political activist, which he constantly criticized.\nShe, after all, lived in an expensive Makati village, but rallied about various social inequities. It came to the point that he managed to send her to a farm in Bataan, instructing his Uncle there to give her the knowledge of how life is in the depressed parts of the country first-hand. She went with her friends and came back, darker and tired and recounting stories of struggle and hard work, but he notes that she looked more radiant than before.\nThey still argued after, and it was Malu\u2019s turn to bring him to the slums after he said that the poor only lacked initiative. She was attached to a family there, especially to a boy named Charlie. She showed him their circumstances; the sorry construction in which they lived. She told him then, that she was only at ease when she was helping people.\nIt was in a motel that they merely laid for hours and talked. It was then that Malu talked of them living together and finding out if they were compatible. She had teased him earlier on when he wanted to come to her house to do the \u201ctraditional\u201d way of courting and meeting the parents, and she shocked him now. But in the end, that was what they did.\nMalu convinced him of spirits and faith healing, after her father attested that he saw shadows after Malu prayed for his sight.\nShe brought him along to a session with the spiritistas in Navotas. It was then that he first feared for her; a feeling that would gradually increase as time went by. Already, he saw her less and less. She was almost shot when she ran to Charlie, who lay dead after he dared cross the line to speak to the police in a rally.\nWhen he presented an engagement ring to her, she told him she had to give it back and that she loved him in one breath. She explained that there was a cause she had to devote herself to. But in the end, he still insisted: after she was gone for two months, she came back to reveal that the rest of her friends were shot dead in Quezon, while she was raped. Though they were engaged, they lied to their parents about their marriage.\nHis fear for her life escalated, and he wanted to \u201cdomesticate\u201d her for her own safety. She told him he could go out every Saturday and she every Sunday, but he was too haunted by guilt to pursue it actively. Instead, he watched her go on Sundays, coming back accompanied by either a man or a woman. When she had a miscarriage later on, just before the Martial Law was put into effect, she disappeared.\nFour years later, she called him. When they met, her looking slimmer and darker, the truth was laid out: she had not given up the cause; that all of her Sundays were spent for it. She had a bullet wound in her right thigh. She requested not to go to the apartment for both of their protection but he insisted that she needed a doctor. They arrived at the apartment. The moment she stepped out, he cried for the armed men waiting not to shoot as she was wounded.\nThey shot her to death.\n\u201cHer voice was resonant, and her Tagalog was beautiful and frightening and I feared for her, for she said, \u2018Dear God, Your poor and Your weak \u2013 Who will help them? When You said you gave us not peace but the sword, where now is the sword that we may bring justice to Your people?'\u201d\nIt was the purity of love that made this novella the most heartbreaking. Malu\u2019s love for the people and her country, and Teng-ga\u2019s and Malu\u2019s love for each other persisted despite differences, and against all odds.\nIn Platinum, Malu says that she was a superficial rich girl, knowing nothing but clothes and parties, until her teacher took their class to PGH. She was shocked at her own privilege and how she had wasted it away. She all but screamed at Teng-ga defending the people she fought for; the people she soon laid her life down to. When criticized that she knew nothing of the poor people, she was more than happy to be provided with the first-hand experience.\nEven though they criticized one another so frequently, Malu and Teng-ga were deeply in love with another \u2013 the four years that they had not spoken and yet returned to each other with the same affections stands as proof. It was with Malu that Teng-ga\u2019s thoughts on love and marriage came crashing down: he wanted her at home not because it was proper, as he thought before, but to save her life. He agreed to live with her despite not being married, as long as they were both with each other and happy. When she confessed that she was raped in Quezon, that she no longer had her virginity to offer him as a bride, he told her nothing had changed. At the end, before her death, he vowed to her that he will go wherever she did, despite their previous political differences.\nBut no matter how much love or devotion you dedicate to a person, or to a cause, the circumstances you are under will still damn you to hell. The circumstances in this country is still doing so, generation after generation of idealists turned weary cynics, leaving the system the way it is. Corrupted. Bloodied. Hopeless for the poor. Hopeless for the ones who try for a change.\nBut hey, Teng-ga and Malu\u2019s father agreed on education solving most of the injustice Malu was fighting against, not demonstrations or guns. It was something that Malu didn\u2019t acknowledge.\nMalu had her ideals and love kill her as much as the system had.\nALL IN ALL, the women of this novella represented the different characterizations of the Filipina, and the struggles that the country faces. It was more than three stories of men falling in love with them, and the heartbreak and agony of losing them to their own dug grave or a more promising future (in the case of Ermi). It dealt with how we face these struggles upon us; struggles that are timeless; the ones of class and humanity and the government.\nIt was a riveting, painful read. It hurt to know their troubles; hurt to know the same ones still exist to this day. It opens your eyes to the truth, and the truth hurts, as always.\nI loved the way it was written. It was formal, and blunt. It didn\u2019t waste time with flowery descriptions or poetic analogies, but there was beauty in the way you could actually see the story unfold right before your eyes, down to the last detail that F. Sionil Jos\u00e9 provides.\nIt is an amazing creation, and also left a great impact. I had always leaned more towards the YA genre and Western novels, but this books has me fascinated with what more I can find from my own roots.\nREFLECTING: Surgeons Do Not Cry\nMarch 5, 2017 January 17, 2018 Jewel EnrileLeave a comment\nSurgeons Do Not Cry is a book that focuses on the author\u2019s experiences as he takes on the journey as a doctor in the Philippines. The book starts with Ting Tiongco\u2019s decision to enter the school that leads him to UP-PGH, and ends with his decision to leave \u2013 and everything he\u2019s learned in between.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 29182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jiveaces.com/?p=35", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JW4DV2RMKYGXVYVCIW2ETC2AYXXJGVY4", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jiveaces.com", "title": "The Jive Aces", "raw_content": "Princes Theatre, Town Hall, Town Hall, Station Road, Clacton-on-Sea, CO15 1SE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 161.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.electronicsweekly.com/job/1401490904/senior-power-electronics-engineer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OSY6KPOKLUKFHKPK3GRSJRRNDPK4ZIAN", "length": 646, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jobs.electronicsweekly.com", "title": "Senior Power Electronics Engineer job with IC Resources Ltd | 1401490904", "raw_content": "Based in the beautiful county of Cambridgeshire the Senior Power Electronics Engineer will be joining an established organisation at their R&D facility which is focused on the research and development of power electronics technology.\nThe Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer will be responsible for the design of power electronics and motor control technology aimed towards variable speed drives for the industrial sector. Other responsibilities will also include; the design of SMPS's, EMC Filtering, and IGBT gate drives design and protection.\n- Variable frequency drives.\n- SMPS.\n- Control theory for motor control.\n- Embedded firmware (C)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://johnadamssociety.org/previous-debates/77-resolved-compulsory-education-is-incompatible-with-liberty.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3BACBK5AMSRLYILE4B6CXQIIBWHWGPI7", "length": 2326, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "johnadamssociety.org", "title": "The Antient and Honourable John Adams Society - RESOLVED: Compulsory Education is Incompatible with Liberty", "raw_content": "\"It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by the forcible aspiration and education of the infant against the father.\"\n\u2015 Thomas Jefferson, 1817\nTHOMAS JEFFERSON WARNED that making our education system compulsory and government-controlled would be a threat to liberty. We cannot be truly free by mandating school attendance under a legal threat of force. Compulsory education is a method of political control that consumes more of a child\u2019s life than ever before. The progressive ideological agenda and the anything-goes curriculum are the standards of today that are shaping our children\u2019s souls and leaving us with higher rates of apathy, bullying, stress and depression. Schools across the country have abdicated their responsibility of teaching students what they need to know.\nWe must re-empower parents with more education choices! Decentralized alternatives could include homeschooling, self-directed education, charter schools, voluntary school choice programs, with public information to inform parents and students about school choice opportunities. Whether we believe that our nature intrinsically motivates our learning, or that our education shapes our nature, we must reject the one-size-fits-all relic of state-controlled mass schooling!\nON THE OTHER HAND, school attendance is mandatory for a good reason \u2013 children cannot achieve success without the benefits of education. The study of complex concepts in school causes one to exercise their intellect and ask questions about what really is. Compulsory education is meant to free us, to learn to love that which we would otherwise not know. Unfortunately, ignoramus guardians would lead to educational neglect, with disastrous consequences, including criminal activity, drug use, and teenage pregnancy. \u2019Cause, dontcha know, that with no forced learnin' we would end up with ginormous amounts of lazy, illiterate, ignorant, neglected children.\nTHE CHAIRMAN, thinking that he made a huge mistake with his own children, has again called for a debate to settle the topic:\nRESOLVED: Compulsory Education is Incompatible with Liberty\nThe Debate will be held on September 19, 2018, at Shamrocks Grill & Pub, 995 7th Street W., in Saint Paul (West 7th near Randolph Ave.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://johndiestler.com/photography-2/camera-obscura/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MAVOC2CZRIHRC4GUDPLSGBY37BDHUXGN", "length": 2348, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "johndiestler.com", "title": "Ah, Science Fiction, | A Work Progressing", "raw_content": "While doing some last minute research for the class on photojournalism, I was looking back at my notes concerning Camera Obscura.\nCamera obscura concerns a scientific phenomenon that has been observed and written about for centuries. It concerns light, and how reflected light can carry information (reversed) that may be \u201cprojected\u201d through an aperture.\nThe earliest known written record of the camera obscura is to be found in Chinese writings called Mozi, dated to the 4th century BCE. It was widely known in the 1500s, with many artists constructing light-safe tents out in the countryside in order to trace landscapes.\nThe obvious next step to create \u201cphotography\u201d is to somehow freeze, or \u201cfix\u201d this image so that it can be removed from the tent. It still has to be reversed but that can be solved later.\nThis is when I stumbled on this interesting tidbit\u2026\nThe early science fiction novel Giphantie (1760) by the French author Tiphaigne de la Roche, described something quite similar to photography, a process that fixes fleeting images formed by rays of light: \u201cThey coat a piece of canvas with this material, and place it in front of the object to capture. The first effect of this cloth is similar to that of a mirror, but by means of its viscous nature the prepared canvas, as is not the case with the mirror, retains a facsimile of the image.\nThe mirror represents images faithfully, but retains none; our canvas reflects them no less faithfully, but retains them all. This impression of the image is instantaneous.\nThe canvas is then removed and deposited in a dark place. An hour later the impression is dry, and you have a picture the more precious in that no art can imitate its truthfulness.\u201d\nDe la Roche thus imagined a process that made use of a special substance in combination with the qualities of a mirror, rather than the camera obscura. The hour of drying in a dark place suggests he possibly thought about the light sensitivity of the material, but he attributes the effect to its viscous nature.\nNow, I am once again amazed at what science fiction writing can generate. It\u2019s true that De La Roche did not see the difficulty of having a lens to focus the image, but why would he? A mirror doesn\u2019t have a lens! He wisely thinks that some sort of solution on canvas should fix the image after exposure. I couldn\u2019t agree more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 755, "original_length": 13842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joyninja.com/the-world-cant-wait-to-meet-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OKQYXGRIX7EZEZG63PT3NXVC5XDSVYF3", "length": 395, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "joyninja.com", "title": "The world can\u2019t wait to meet you | Joy Ninja", "raw_content": "March 20, 2013 / Happiness\nThe world can\u2019t wait to meet you\nToday I was given the exercise to write \u201cThings I wish my Mom had said to me\u201d, and then say them to myself, with feeling.\nEmma, you are precious.\nThere is nothing you can\u2019t do.\nThe world can\u2019t wait to meet you.\nWhen I read them I feel a little girl smiling shyly inside me.\nandrea-marie March 21, 2013\nI am so grateful to have met you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://juzztv.com/acrobatic-dog", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:00Z", "digest": "sha1:73ZR2TANKRKNAX2E5EACS5UYISHNE3U6", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "juzztv.com", "title": "Acrobatic Dog | Juzz Tv", "raw_content": "The dogs are the best animal\ufeff in the nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kathymcbroom.com/2016/11/13/god-is-calling-us-to-be-saints-in-a-secular-society-he-is-calling-us-to-go-against-the-grain-when-the-grain-is-going-against-god-dr-tony-evans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:P5YVWRQIU3LEYUOC7O5QLACO4TM2GJ2Z", "length": 1485, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "kathymcbroom.com", "title": "\u201cGod is calling us to be saints in a secular society. He is calling us to go against the grain when the grain is going against God.\u201d Dr. Tony Evans \u2013 Real Life. Real Faith", "raw_content": "Kathy McBroom November 13, 2016 For teachers, Uncategorized\n\u201c\u2019God bless me on my job,\u2019 when nobody knows you are a Christian but you.\u201d\n\u201cIf you were accused of being a Christian on the job, you were be innocent of all charges because there is not enough evidence to convict you.\u201d\nTime to stand in our schools or other workplace remembering the heart of Christianity: they will know we are Christians by our love.\nThis is a good word for today. Let it play in the background while you are resting on this Sunday, prepping for another week in a world where we believers should be standing out like a sore thumb.\nGod, help us to love, sometimes with a tough love, one that shows we are followers of Christ. Help us to love the unlovely in our classroom and beyond, showing our students and other people in our lives that God has a plan, and it begins with an indescribable love. May we also remember that we are quite unlovely ourselves, more at different times than others. May we remember that Christ called us to turn the other cheek and that we were called to be a humble servant as Christ was. Help us not to shy away from being a mouthpiece for Christ in those moments when Christ calls us to be vocal, knowing that if God is asking us to speak, He is also ready to give those words to be aptly spoken.\nSaints in a Secular Society Dr Tony Evans\nPraying for our schools and our nation,\nPrevious \u201cWater in God\u2019s House\u201d by Dr. Tony Evans or \u201cThere\u2019s a Dead Monkey on the Line Somewhere\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keluarga82.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/82-family-day-13-march-2011-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:01Z", "digest": "sha1:QKKVJZBIRD7AOZG5I3NO47GUQD5W273A", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "keluarga82.wordpress.com", "title": "82 Family Day 13 March 2011-Part 2 | Keluarga82'", "raw_content": "One response to \u201c82 Family Day 13 March 2011-Part 2\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 5382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kevinsautomotiverepair.com/news/shop-news/40-store-news/753-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:39Z", "digest": "sha1:62YFTOO2T5WAL3DNLNLIZKXX5WWJKDT2", "length": 564, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kevinsautomotiverepair.com", "title": "Why Your Car Squeals When You Start It", "raw_content": "One of the most annoying sounds known to man is a loud squeal every time you start your car, truck, or SUV. What causes this, and what can you do to fix it? Kevin's Auto Repair in Huntsville, AL has the answer.\nNo matter your repair or maintenance needs, we\u2019ve got you covered. If you have a noisy belt that\u2019s driving you crazy, let us take care of it for you...it\u2019s a quick and easy job, and it\u2019ll save you the stress of listening to it every time you start your engine. For the best auto service shop in Huntsville, AL, call or stop by Kevin's Auto Repair today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kfh.radio.com/blogs/sports-daily/best-and-worst-college-football", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OSXVEBD7ENGX3WA6RFKQVVKADDPDDCFP", "length": 221, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kfh.radio.com", "title": "The best and the worst of college football | KFH Radio", "raw_content": "The best and the worst of college football\nThe top three teams in college football are Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson, and Shane and Bruce agree on that. The bottom three teams in college football are harder to pin down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 5300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kids-in-mind.com/a/anchorman2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3LGJYMJMREYGJZ5PUK53SFJ7TGJWUQBD", "length": 14821, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "kids-in-mind.com", "title": "Anchorman 2 [2013] [PG-13] - 5.5.5 | Parents' Guide & Review | Kids-In-Mind.com", "raw_content": "Anchorman 2 | 2013 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5\nSEX/NUDITY 5 - A man and a woman are shown kissing in bed; the woman is wearing a bra and panties (cleavage, bare abdomen, back and shoulders are seen) and the man is shown bare-chested and covered with a sheet as they continue to kiss (sex is implied); the man is shown on top of the woman and he spanks his own buttocks (covered with a sheet).\n\u25ba A woman grabs a man by the lapels and shoves him into a plate glass window while seemingly seducing him; he admits that he is frightened and she begins to meow and tells him to bark; they are interrupted. A man and a woman kiss. A man caresses the shoulder and hair of another man's wife and the other man says, \"This is super creepy.\" A man hugs another man and says, \"This feels like home\"; he lingers in the hug causing the other man to push him away. A man tries to hug another man and the other man pushes him away. A man is shown with his arm around a woman. A woman asks a man if he has ever kissed anyone and he talks about kissing action figures and someone on TV; they kiss passionately and the woman is shown pressed against a plate glass window with her skirt lifted up in the back to her waist (we see that she is wearing men's briefs).\n\u25ba A woman's dress is torn open in the front and we see her bra. A woman wearing a bikini is seen in the background of a scene (we see her bare legs to the hip and her side). A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage in a few scenes. A man talks about doing a story about \"How much man fluid\" there is on something. Two men are shown modeling underwear and we see one squatting deeply and exposing his bare chest, abdomen and legs while another model is standing up straight and we see his bare legs and abdomen and chest. A man gives his young son a gift of lingerie (intended for his ex-wife) and tells him that it is a super-hero costume; the boy puts the lingerie over his head and runs around the room. A husband and his wife walk along a street (the woman is wearing tight-fitting jeans and a low-cut top that reveals her bare upper chest) and another man remarks about the woman's buttocks saying it is \"mysterious and ever sought after\"; the woman seems alarmed and asks her husband to do something but he does not.\n\u25ba A man and a woman talk about having sex while at a restaurant and the man yells out, \"I'm about to have sex with a Black lady.\" A man and a woman flirt in a few scenes and the woman swoons when the man touches her clothed shoulder a couple of times. A man photographing kittens speaks to them in a sexual manner, instructing them to take poses like \"lift your leg...,\" etc. A man asks a co-worker, \"Can I kiss you?\" and she replies in the negative, so he asks her and another female co-worker to kiss each other (they do not). A man makes a remark that, \"I sexually assaulted a star fish.\" A man introduces himself to a woman's ex-husband as the woman's \"lover.\" A woman says, \"I'm so horny right now\" just as she and others are preparing to fight. A man on a news program introduces a segment about \"the mysteries of the human vagina.\" A man talks about \"cruising chicks.\" A man talks about transgender individuals and makes a remark about reaching \"down below the belt.\" A man says,\" I just gave Florence Henderson crabs.\" Men talk to another man about what will happen on a date with a woman and when they tell him that they will take their shirts off he moans; one man opens a cabinet that contains a variety of condoms and they talk about the qualities of a few of them (one is denim, one is made of mongoose fur). After a man becomes blind he says, \"I can't even masturbate.\" A man speaks to his young son in a demeaning manner about the boy's dream to be an astronaut and he tells him he's more likely to do \"lighting on a porn movie.\" A man says that he is so lonely that \"I paid a hobo to spoon with me.\" A man tells another man that NYC has \"all nude strip clubs.\" A man tells another man that in the future he has \"a thing with a jet pack.\" A woman is called \"All the way Yaway.\" A man calls another man \"magnificent\" and that \"I bet his [anatomical term deleted] smell like sandalwood.\" A man asks, \"Why don't we just show a porno instead of the news?\" A man tells a woman to \"quit yanking our [anatomical term deleted]\" and another man echoes him by saying, \"Yeah, quit yanking our [another anatomical term deleted).\" A man talks about \"topless stewardesses.\" A man tells three other men, \"I think your boss just raped me.\" A man describes his mother as remaining sexually active until the day that she died. A man yells phrases while warming up for a newscast like something about a young boy being traumatized by seeing the Tooth Fairy's bare breast. A man talks about boys \"seeing his pee-pee\" when he was younger.\nVIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Several men with axes stand in a man's path, and three other men (with weapons) stand with the first man and they argue; several other armed groups arrive and they all threaten each other, a man transforms into a werewolf with large fangs and all of the people fight with weapons and punches and kicks; we see a man struck in the back with an arrow, a minotaur's arm is cut off (we see blood and the stump), a man strikes someone with a hockey stick (off-camera) and we hear a squish then see an eyeball stuck to the stick; nearby a ghost inhales a dead man's soul, a plane flies overhead and opens fire on the area where the people are fighting, and gasoline is spilled on a street and a sparkler is dropped into the liquid causing an explosion (we see two men later with charred faces and bloody scratches). A man is shown in an emergency room with what looks like a chef's knife sticking out of his head (we see blood on his head and a towel that he is holding against his head).\n\u25ba An RV with 4 men inside swerves out of control and flips; we see the men being thrown around and one is hit in the head with a bowling ball, boiling cooking oil splashes on another man's face and he screams, another is hit in the head and the groin by another bowling ball, another is pinched on the lip by a scorpion (it had been in an open terrarium) and a dog bites another man's arm and he yells. We see a man in the ocean swimming frantically and a shark jumping out of the water behind him (we see the shark's wide open mouth and teeth); the man does not appear to be harmed. A man runs into the ocean when he sees a shark swimming near the shore; the shark begins to attack him, and then swims away when a dog swims out and tells the shark to leave.\n\u25ba We see the image of a man with a bloody nose in a man's eyes and as the man becomes angry, the image in his eyes yells and explodes in flames. A man on ice skates trips over a cord and lands on the ice unconscious, bystanders yell and say \"Don't die\" and we see the man in the hospital later with a doctor looking at X-rays as he explains that the man is blind.\n\u25ba A woman yells at four men and one of the men tells her, \"If you were a man, I'd knock you out\" and the woman says to the man, \"I'll make that mustache bloody,\" and then punches and knees him in the groin (the man falls to the floor whimpering and wining). A man punches another man in the face and he falls to the floor. A man yells and throws equipment around a doctor's office until the doctor injects him in the neck with a sedative. A man yells at another man and pokes him in the chest. A man tells another man that a third man said he was \"Not so great\" and the second man charges toward the third man in a threatening manner (he is held back by others). The owner of a restaurant yells at a customer, calls him a \"Commie [mild obscenity deleted]\" and swings a baseball bat at him (the man runs out of the restaurant unharmed). A man takes a swing at another man who dodges the blow a couple of times. A man makes several inappropriate, racial and sexual remarks at a dinner with his lover's family; they become angry and she yells at him later in a taxi and we see the man with a bloody bruise and scratch on his face and she makes reference to her father kicking him.\n\u25ba A man puts a rope around his neck and loops it over a ceiling light; he steps off the stool he is standing on and the light breaks causing him to fall to the floor (he appears unharmed). A man yells at a woman and throws a lamp on the floor breaking it. A man is thrown into an office by two other men and while he lies on the floor another man yells at him saying, \"You threw up in the shark tank\" and then fires him. A woman throws a coffee cup into a fireplace and it shatters as she yells. A man yells and throws office furniture. Four men smoke crack on live TV and we see them being arrested.\n\u25ba We watch a car chase on TV and the car swerves and hits another car; we then see the driver of the first car on the ground and being handcuffed by several police officers. A blind man gets in a car and drives until we hear a crash and he yells for someone to call him a cab.\n\u25ba A man speaks at a funeral and yells that he \"...will not rest until I find his killer\" (he is the man that is being mourned); three other men yell at him until he is convinced that he is not dead. A man wearing green pants panics when it looks like he has no legs against a green screen; he yells and collapses to the floor. A man fires another man and tells him that he is the \"Worst anchorman I have ever seen.\" A man snaps a headphone on another man's ear. A man speaks to his young son in a demeaning manner about the boy's dream to be an astronaut and he tells him he's more likely to do \"lighting on a porn movie.\" A woman tells her young son's care giver \"I will lock you in a closet.\" We hear an ad for BP Oil that says \"BP Oil, nature's best friend.\" A man talks about a wife severing her husband's penis while he slept.\n\u25ba A TV segment is titled \"Death from Above.\" A man says, \"I killed 4 men in Okinawa... Last week.\" The owner of a restaurant says, \"No Jews or Catholics allowed.\" A man identifies himself as a \"full blown Mexican.\" A young girl yells at a man and says, \"Children and animals hate you.\" Four men driving across the country reminisce about their past together; one man talks about throwing another man off a bridge and he says, \"I broke my back,\" another man talks about drinking Woolite and another man says, \"It was the equivalent of poison.\" A man refers to himself and a group of friends as the \"Lady Killers\" and the friends include O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake. A boy tells his father, \"I think there's a ghost in my closet.\" A young boy cries when his pet shark (and his \"best friend\") are separated and the boy says, \"I hope you eat lots of people and fish.\" We hear that a man is dead and that he was lost at sea; mourners are gathered at a graveside funeral. A man tells another man that he wants to \"shoot a flare gun at your [anatomical term deleted].\" A woman yells at another woman for being incompetent and the other woman and a man yell back at her and scream (the man hisses like a cat) and throw things around an office before the women gets fired. A woman yells at her ex-husband for taking their 8-year-old son to a cock-fight and bringing him home splattered with blood. A man and a women argue. Two women argue and one threatens to shoot the other. A man meets his new boss and she is an African-American woman; he blurts out the word Black several times before she yells at him to stop. A man says, \"A Black man follows me everywhere I go,\" and is told that it's his shadow. A man mimics the way another man is speaking and yells at him in front of colleagues; he tells the man to \"Change your face.\" A woman yells at four men and tells them to be quiet; one of the men cowers and hides behind a sofa. A woman watches a ringing telephone and appears to be afraid of it; another woman yells at her for not answering the phone. A man talks about airplane parts falling from the sky. A man yells at another man who cowers on a sofa and two other men stand up and berate the first man. A man says, \"I wake up screaming.\"\u25ba After a shark grows up and is released back into the ocean, we see it eating something under water (we see blood and tissue and the shark's large, pointed teeth). A restaurant owner serves fried bat instead of fried chicken in his restaurant. A man sneezes on a camera lens during a TV broadcast and we see goo on the screen. A man bites a lipstick, gags and spits it out. A man tells a dolphin that it \"farts through its head.\" A man makes a comment about another man looking like they \"peed in his milkshake.\" A man takes a bite of butter out of a stick, then another. A man tells his young son that he will be at his science fair but he does not show up.\n\u25ba A man and his young son barricade a shark in an inlet until he grows up after being trapped in a net. We see a terrarium with scorpions in it. A bat flies through a restaurant and customers duck and cover their heads. We see a photograph of a kitten in a fish bowl (no water or fish are in the bowl).\nLANGUAGE 5 - At least 1 F-word, 14 sexual references, 14 scatological terms (2 mild), 27 anatomical terms (3 euphemisms, 5 mild), 39 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for a Polish person, 1 derogatory term for transgender individuals, name-calling (ventriloquist's dummy, Mr. Mustache, gimmick, flash-in-the-pan, yank, wanker, stupid, randy gal, jerk, dumbest thing, prince, Black, King of the World, dumbest person I've ever met, my Golden Goose, African and American, icy, unpleasant, mentally ill, pipe-hitting, boring, Jack Lame, weirdo, liar), exclamations (shoot, shut-up, shut your mouth, sweet cream on nipples, by the bedpan of Gene Rayburn, the hymen of Olivia Newton John, jeez, Tony Danza's scrotum, bloody, Black), 4 religious profanities (GD), 18 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Oh God No, Good Lord, God's Green Earth, Thank God, What God Put Me On The Earth To Do, Oh My Lord, God Ever Created, Christ, Jesus, Dear God).\nSUBSTANCE USE - Four men smoke crack on live TV, a man is injected in the neck with a sedative, a man admits to smoking crack numerous times, and a man talks about another man \"selling speed.\" A man holds a glass of alcohol and drinks from it while working as an MC at a Sea World-type facility, people drink champagne at a party, people drink at a party, a man and a woman drink wine with dinner, a man drinks alcohol in his apartment, and people drink champagne at a celebration. A woman smokes a cigarette on a TV set.\nDISCUSSION TOPICS - Ambition, fame, jealousy, suicide, being fired, 24-hour news, reputation, racists, census, PMS, spousal abuse, O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, interracial relationships, synergy, ethics, isolation, blindness from an injury, self-pity, Voodoo, power, ego, hubris, STIs, corruption.\nMESSAGE - Celebrity is not everything.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 20978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/183608", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OXYTYODR6ACOJFADMTEHLGBMXNV7ADBH", "length": 204, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kids.britannica.com", "title": "Ford, Gerald R. - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help", "raw_content": "Gerald R. Ford was a center on the University of Michigan's undefeated championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. He was voted the team's most valuable player in 1934.\n\u00a9 Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 37.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kingsleyandersen.com/2013/09/10/this-is-your-brain-on-words/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJC6K4BMBYXBLWTN45PUH3T7Y4OKP22E", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kingsleyandersen.com", "title": "This is your brain on words\u2026 \u00ab Kingsley Andersen", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb This is your brain on words\u2026\nThis is your brain on words\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 169.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://klimt02.net/forum/blogs/there-is-brain-mi-mi-moscow", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:42APBH6QDNTKWUSIAX4YCEHB6U3GB3ER", "length": 1871, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "klimt02.net", "title": "Klimt02.net THERE IS BRAIN", "raw_content": "Circumstances are ever changing\nAnd many questions don\u2019t find answers\u2026 but\nOne can touch them, sense them, feel them and even understand them (as far as it is possible indeed)\n\u2026 but there is a concept of \u201cnot expressed\u201d \u2013 what to do about it?\n\u2026. I agree\u2026 but let\u2019s have a try.\nTHERE IS BRAIN, \u2026.. It is in the head. I understand it. You understand it. \u2026..\nBut there is another brain, it works differently from the one in the head.\nIt is located between solar plexus and jugular notch and it is not the Soul but something very close.\nTo describe/to understand \u2013 these are functions of the brain which is in the head, \u2026\u2026but\nthose two don\u2019t work together.\nWhat\u2019s going on here and how\u2026 I don\u2019t know but\nOnce there appears a need of cognition, one closes and another opens.\nI am very curious, but\nI understand this is not the kind of curiosity which I should satisfy.\nDo I really want to know this? And will I be capable of living through this knowledge?\nNevertheless\u2026 if you mindfully recollect the time when you really found out SOMETHING!\n(new way, new piece of work)\nYou can easily remember that just a split of a second before \u2026.. there was a BLACKOUT\nOf course everybody has their own SOMETHING, but\nit doesn\u2019t matter anyway since this happens to everybody.\nWhere was I in this moment? What was I doing? And Who stands behind MY SOMETHING?\nWhy, it\u2019s ME!! IT is MINE!!! Here, see, my signature, if you don\u2019t believe!\nSure, it is, .... of course \u2026.. but what about the BLACKOUT?\nI found it in the East:\n\u201cTruth comes when it ceases to be searched for\u201d.\n\u2026. This doesn\u2019t mean \u201cto not search at all\u201d.\nIt means that when you\u2019ve already accumulated \u201cthe critical mass\u201d in your search, Truth is born by itself.\nYou just need to find the right moment to stop (or to switch over).\nIn order to not let your \u201cCritical Mass\u201d become a Burial Mound of your search.\nAnd Birth was given.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 5367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://knowmytokens.com/2019/01/23/mastercard-faces-650-million-eu-fine-for-misconduct-highlighting-need-of-decentralized-payments/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VLZIF7TIULWPCKXCWTTULRV4ALKRYUHC", "length": 2961, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "knowmytokens.com", "title": "Mastercard Faces $650 Million EU Fine For Misconduct, Highlighting Need of Decentralized Payments? \u2013 ICO tokens & cryptocurrency news", "raw_content": "Mastercard Faces $650 Million EU Fine For Misconduct, Highlighting Need of Decentralized Payments?\nThe European Commission has just levied a behemoth fine against the global payments firm Mastercard. The charge? Breaking European Union antitrust rules \u2013 something credit card companies are infamous for doing.\nEuropean Commission slams Mastercard with a \u20ac570.6 million fine\nSpecifically, the European Commission found that Mastercard was overcharging customers, as well as conspiring against merchants. This is especially notable seeing as Mastercard is the second largest credit card company within the European Economic Area (EEA).\nAccording to the European Commission\u2019s report, Mastercard was found to be obliging other banks to apply so-called interchange fees of the country where a particular retailer happened to be located.\nAs a result, merchants found it dramatically harder to explore and use other credit cards than Mastercard, that might have otherwise had more relaxed transaction fees.\nNevertheless, it would appear that the European Union is not taking such a breach of consumer trust and choice lightly. The European Commission has now hit Mastercard with a colossal fine of $650 million (\u20ac570.6 million).\nHowever, this fine \u2013 which already reaches over half a billion euro \u2013 could have been even more substantial. The European Commission has noted that Mastercard\u2019s fine has already been reduced by 10%, due to the payment giant\u2019s cooperation during the investigation.\nThis incident highlights how easily profit-driven payment giants can bend the rules\nMoreover, the European Commission came to the conclusion that without these restrictive Mastercard rules, customers could have benefited from lower bank rates, in countries with lower interchange fees.\nCryptocurrency supporters might be the first to argue that this showcases exactly why the world is in dire need of a decentralized payments system. The usage of credit cards is nearly ubiquitous in developed countries. As such, credit card companies hold a vast amount of power.\nFurthermore, this latest incident seems to highlight how easy it can be for profit-driven payment giants to bend the rules in their favor. Although Mastercard is now facing a substantial fine, consumers and retailers were ultimately the ones who footed the bill for Mastercard\u2019s fraudulent practices.\nIt would appear that this is something that European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager agrees with. \u201dEuropean consumers use payment cards every day, when they buy food or clothes or make purchases online,\u201d Vestager noted.\n\u201dBy preventing merchants from shopping around for better conditions offered by banks in other Member States, Mastercard\u2019s rulers artificially raised the cost of card payments, harming consumers and retailers in the EU,\u201d she continued.\nPrevious Article Ethtrader Donuts: What are they? How do you get them?\nNext Article First-of-its-Kind Cryptocurrency ATM in Venezuela Closes Merchant Loop", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://knowtive.com/esi-edugyan-inspiration-new-book-washington-black/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LS6PBS75DGUHKR5URBZKY2PERWDKNHYM", "length": 4106, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "knowtive.com", "title": "Esi Edugyan on the inspiration for her new book Washington Black - knowtive", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Inspiration \u00bb Esi Edugyan on the inspiration for her new book Washington Black\nEsi Edugyan on the inspiration for her new book Washington Black\nSeven years ago this fall, one of CanLit\u2019s most entertaining (and polite) rivalries was heating up. In one corner, there was Esi Edugyan\u2019s second novel, Half-Blood Blues, a stylistic powerhouse about the persecution of Black jazz musicians during the Second World War. Facing off against Edugyan was Patrick deWitt\u2019s sly comedic western, The Sisters Brothers, the adaptation of which just screened to acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival.\nBoth novels, so different in tone and scope, landed on major award shortlists in Canada and abroad, including as finalists for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. While deWitt took home the Rogers Writers\u2019 Trust Fiction Prize, Edugyan came back to win the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which helped launch Half-Blood Blues into Indigo\u2019s bestselling book of 2011.\nAll this to say that Edugyan\u2019s followup novel, Washington Black \u2014 which made this year\u2019s Booker longlist well before its publication date \u2014 is one of this season\u2019s most anticipated books. In a fun coincidence, her novel lands just weeks after Patrick deWitt\u2019s delightfully dark new comedy of manners, French Exit. Edugyan hasn\u2019t seen deWitt since 2011, but their paths will cross on this fall\u2019s busy festival circuit.\n\u201cIt\u2019ll be nice to see him again,\u201d Edugyan says with a laugh, ending any expectations of fisticuffs in the green room.\nDespite her runaway sophomore success, awards were the last thing on the Victoria-based author\u2019s mind as she wrote Washington Black, a high adventure that illuminates the lingering horrors of slavery and the complexities of freedom. Whereas Half-Blood Blueswas borne out of Edugyan\u2019s time at a writers\u2019 residency in Stuttgart, Germany, where she worked in the shadows of an 18th-century castle, Washington Black emerged out of a story Edugyan read about \u201cthe Tichborne Claimant,\u201d which has enough intrigue to fill a Netflix miniseries.\nIn the 1850s, a British aristocrat named Roger Tichborne was shipwrecked off the coast of South America and presumed dead. His devastated mother never gave up hope; a decade later, when Lady Tichborne heard that Roger might be alive in Australia, she offered a reward for information. After a butcher named Thomas Castro emerged claiming to be her long-lost son, she sent Andrew Bogle \u2014 a former Black slave who had been stolen from a Caribbean plantation to become a family servant \u2014 to verify Castro\u2019s identity. When other members of the Tichborne family took the case to court, believing this foreign man to be an imposter, Bogle became a main witness for the defence.\nIt wasn\u2019t the bizarre twists of the Tichborne trials that intrigued Edugyan, but rather the hidden narrative of Bogle\u2019s life that inspired Edugyan to create her character, Washington Black.\n\u201cI realized I was more interested in the psychology of being wrenched out of this boyhood of brutality and then taken into an entirely different world, and how that would\u2019ve played out as psychologically foreign,\u201d she says.\nAfter writing the first few chapters, the epic journey of Washington Black began to emerge as the story of a young slave who is plucked from the brutal fields of a 1830s Barbados sugar plantation to become a manservant to Christopher Wilde, an abolitionist and inventor known to his intimates as Titch. Beyond the typical household duties required of the position, Washington is recruited to assist Titch with his experiments, most notably with a hot-air balloon dubbed the Cloud-cutter. Titch soon discovers Washington\u2019s natural artistic talent, which increases the young protege\u2019s value. But, as their bond grows, so do the inherent imbalances in their relationship.\n\u201cThese are two men who are generally quite like-minded, same interests. But their stations in life were so drastically different that there can be no real equal friendship,\u201d Edugyan says. \u201cMy desire was to show how the institution of slavery was so disfiguring and damaging to all human relationships.\u201d\nsource:-.thestar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://koosakids.co.uk/errorpage.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GFZTNHIBGJRSNZFODAQ6OW34VELZBHYR", "length": 189, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "koosakids.co.uk", "title": "KOOSA Kids Error Page", "raw_content": "We're very sorry, but an error has occurred whilst attempting to process your last request. Please use BACK on your browser to continue. If the problem persists please get in touch with us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kotaku.com/how-we-will-review-games-5880486", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DKS3CTEYSJFMOQJ7VVWM2QKT5PP4MXQG", "length": 8318, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "kotaku.com", "title": "How We Will Review Games", "raw_content": "How We Will Review Games\nWe've changed the way we review video games here at Kotaku. That makes this a perfect time to explain our approach to reviews and how the new system will work.\nTwo things will stand out to those who have read last week's Resident Evil Revelations review and this week's review of Final Fantasy XIII-2:\nResident Evil Revelations: The Kotaku Review\nResident Evil: Revelations is a wonderful surprise. It benefits both from the low expectations set\u2026\nThey appear to be in two entirely different formats.\nThey both have the rather large word \"YES\" on them, as if that was\u2026. a\u2026 score??\nHell of a system, huh?\nHere's how it works: Kotaku is staffed by talented writers whose job it is to write about a radically diverse range of games. They review role-playing games, music games, online-centric games, sports games and more, and I believe that our writers should have the flexibility to review those games in the way that best suits the game. They can review the game by writing an essay or writing bulletpoints; they can review a game with a poem or a comic strip. The format for the main part of their review will conform to whichever approach best suits the reviewer's voice and the game they're writing about. That's why the two reviews linked to above look different.\nUnder this new system, I expect each Kotaku writer's reviews will become more instantly recognizable and associated with that writer. And why not? Each review can only ever be the opinion of one person, so it's all the better if regular readers can develop a sense of the reviewer's style and taste.\nBut many readers\u2014most readers, I'd wager\u2014are short on time and don't have the patience for creative writing. They just need to know if the game is worth playing.\nFor those readers, we will have one of three answers: YES / NOT YET / NO.\nEvery Kotaku review will include one of those three answers atop a sidebar that cuts to the chase. If you are in a hurry, the sidebar is the only thing you need to read. It will tell you who made the game (though, intentionally, not who published the game), what it's like, when it's out, how much we played of it and which two things the reviewer most liked and most disliked about the game. It will answer that worth-playing question and tell you, succinctly, why.\nEach review sidebar will also include a collection of made-to-order back-of-box quotes, because \u2026 because they're funny.\nSo, yes, we are finally scoring our reviews. For the longest time, Kotaku avoided putting a number on reviews. The editorial team was worried that people would just read the number and skip the words. They feared that the meaning of that number would be warped and that passionate readers would ascribe reasons for that number that had nothing to do with the reviewer's feeling about the game.\nIn short, they worried that the number would undermine the review.\nScrew the number. You really only have one question about these games, anyway: Is it worth playing? And we have those three possible answers for you.\nI expect that we'll say YES to many games. After all, we're kind people here and we think many games are worth dabbling with in some way. You might prefer that we tell you whether the game is worth buying\u2014or whether we'd buy it. But the problem with the first, we've learned, is that we don't know how much money you have. The problem with the latter is that, as reviewers, we probably didn't have to buy the game we reviewed in the first place\u2026 so what would we know?\nWe may not say NO a lot, because how bad does a game have to be to be not worth playing? And if it's that awful, maybe it is worth playing (remember, we will explain why we're giving an answer).\nI predict we'll use NOT YET a lot, as a way to ward people off from games that feel not worth full price (income caveats notwithstanding) or is too buggy and in need of patches or has an online component we've not yet been able to assess. Reviews labelled NOT YET may evolve into YESes or NOs, and we'll notify readers of changes when they kick in.\nReviews will be timely, but we don't want to make the Assassin's Creed mistake. A few years ago, Mike Krahulik (Gabe) over at Penny Arcade zeroed in on a potential reason for the negativity in many reviews of the first Assassin's Creed:\nImagine what an open ended sandbox title must look like to a reviewer especially right now. How many games do they have piling up on their desks? A game like Assassins Creed isn't meant to be played under a deadline. You shouldn't be trying to beat it as fast as you can so you can move on to Mass Effect or Mario Galaxy. As soon as I gave myself a deadline all of a sudden I understood all their complaints. It was like a fucking Escher painting. I had put myself in their shoes and suddenly the landscape flipped and I could see games from their perspective. In the end I wasn't angry at them for their bad reviews. I actually just felt bad for them.\nMike was right. Sometimes, when you're reviewing a game on deadline, you start to resent the game, because you are reviewing it on deadline.\nI'm not guessing this. I know this, because it has happened to me.\nIf I get a copy of a new game from a publisher and have a few days to play it before the obligatory day-one review, sometimes I find myself still playing it at 2am the night before the game review needs to run. I'm fed up with the game by then, just wishing it will end so I can get some sleep and then write the review already. If I was you\u2014if I'd bought the game and had no deadline\u2014I'd be delighted to discover there's a whole extra chapter or that what I thought was the final boss battle was just a fake-out leading to a bigger tussle. But, as a reviewer on deadline, I hate that kind of thing. I just want the game to be done. I've been there, and I don't want to risk that these kind of feelings will contaminate our reviews.\nYes, our reviews will be timely. Yes, they will be timed to run when a game comes out or as soon as a publisher who sent an early copy allows early reviewers to collectively run their reviews\u2014whichever comes first. But if the game is too long\u2014if it's just beating up me or one of my colleagues\u2014we will delay the review. We will not risk penalizing a game because we had to play it in an unnatural rush. If it's a big game and we feel we have played enough to say something about it, we might run a NOT YET review and be crystal clear that we're not done with the game. We would update the review later. But that will be a rarity.\nI'm proud of how we've reviewed MMOs, and we will be expand a version of that approach to more games. For any big MMO, we would wait a month to review the game, writing diaries in advance. We did this because we accepted that MMOs evolve and are shaped by their online communities. The same is true for more and more shooters and other online-connected games. Our reviews must take this kind of evolution into account.\nYou can therefore expect that games that have some evolving or major online-centric component will be flagged with a notice that indicates that the review will be updated a week later. Those reviews may have a NOT YET, though if you consider a game like last year's Assassin's Creed: Revelations I would have YESed it for its fun single-player but still included a note that I'd add a fuller assessment of its multiplayer a week later. Any additions or changes made to the review will be marked clearly.\nA few years ago, it would have been sacrilege to say we'd be willing to update our reviews. But if games can evolve week by week, so too can our reviews. For now, we will confine that evolution to one week, as we check in on a game a week later if the structure of the game merits that. If we think we need to check in on games beyond that, then we'll\u2026 evolve this policy, too!\nI hope you will enjoy and appreciate our approach to reviewing games. I'm not so worried about whether it is better or worse than how other outlets run reviews. I'm focused on whether our new, refined approach suits the values I have for reviews:\nReviews must be interesting.\nReviews must be honest.\nReviews must be timely.\nReviews must be easy to consume if you just need some shopping advice.\nReviews must be worth reading.\nAnd, sure, reviews would be better if they had some ready-made back-of-box quotes in them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 9796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kotaku.com/the-case-of-final-fantasy-viis-phantom-panties-5881533", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IPL73BR3HNLQFSKWBS5BPAAJ7OYDLM6P", "length": 1292, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kotaku.com", "title": "The Case of Final Fantasy VII's Phantom Panties", "raw_content": "The Case of Final Fantasy VII's Phantom Panties\nOK. So there's been a long-running mystery surrounding Final Fantasy VII and a pair of women's underwear.\nFor fifteen years now people have wondered what the hell these knickers - actually an unused item - were for, but some recent fan translations of Japanese-language interviews have finally solved a mystery that's no doubt been keeping you sleepless since the 90s.\nTurns out the game's HoneyBee Inn was originally meant to be much larger, with extra floors and rooms upstairs. As part of a quest to get access to see Don Corneo, Cloud would have had to sneak in upstairs in disguise.\nDisguised as a hostess.\nSo you had to track down items of women's clothing to dress up in, one of those being a pair of panties. Which in an unused section of the game, in the video to the left, are handed to you by a pervert who snatched them off a clothesline. Tifa's clothesline.\nYet they weren't actually TIfa's. It would be revealed they were actually...Marlene's.\nSo, to recap: you would have spent some time in Final Fantasy VII, as Cloud, dressed as a hostess, wearing a pair of what were supposed to be Tifa's underpants, but were in fact Marlene's.\nWhich is kinda gross.\nThe Mystery Behind The Mystery Panties: Solved (Final Fantasy VII) [NeoGAF]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kotaku.com/video-games-and-the-sandy-hook-shooting-two-very-diffe-5969100", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3FCDZII2665BLVQEC2CFGPQDSNLV2NPF", "length": 6044, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "kotaku.com", "title": "Video Games And The Sandy Hook Shooting: Two Very Different Reactions", "raw_content": "Video Games And The Sandy Hook Shooting: Two Very Different Reactions\nFiled to: Sandy hook shootingFiled to: Sandy hook shooting\nOver the weekend, two men sent me two very different messages regarding last Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.\nOne was from Antwand Pearman, an up-and-coming gamer/reporter/event-organizer who runs a small outfit called GamerFitNation. He was flagging my attention to what he calls a proposed \"demonstration of peace.\" He calls it Day of Ceasefire For Online Shooters. On December 21, for 24 hours, he is calling on his fellow gamers to cease playing online shooters. \"It's to show that we as gamers give a damn,\" he says in an emotional eight-minute video posted on Saturday morning.\nThe other note I got was from the publicity-loving anti-gaming ex-lawyer Jack Thompson, a guy who only makes it into the news when they are violent deaths (or when he's being dis-barred). He believes games train kids to kill. He hadn't e-mailed me since October, when he was trying to shame Best Buy into no longer selling Mature-rated video games to children. [Clarification: An earlier version of this article did not incude the \"to children\" phrase, implying Thompson was trying to get Best Buy to drop M-rated games altogether; his communication to Best Buy was intended to alert them to what he deemed their illegal selling of adult content to kids.]\nThompson wrote: \"You people at Kotaku have blood on your hands. You have facilitated the infestation of an entire generation of young men who have now come of age, like this sociopath in Connecticut, who were raised on violent video games and who see the killing scenarios therein as a means of solving their problems.\n\"I warned you at Kotaku that a day like this would come, and now it has come. Congratulations. Hand sanitizers won't ever room the blood on your greedy little hands. Jack Thompson, Miami\"\nAntwand Pearman's voice quivers in his Saturday-morning video. He talks about growing up around guns. \"I grew up in a really bad neighborhood,\" he said. \"And I grew up with gun violence in my life. It got to a point where, to me, it got numb. I was used to it. When I heard somebody got killed to me it was just another story, but as I got older and became a man, I started realizing I just didn't want to hear the stories no more.\" He trembles with the sense of wanting to do something about this latest, extraordinary act of gun violence.\nThompson had trouble figuring out which of our e-mails to send his note to and eventually dug up my personal e-mail and sent me this: \"Actually, Adam Lanza [, the killer,] is the one who is the computer geek and hardcore gamer. Epic fail by you Stephen. Of course he trained on the violent games you pimp for. \"\nI asked him for more information about Lanza's past with video games. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that Lanza was obsessed with violent games. It's certainly a possibility that they were part of his cultural diet. Despite what mental illness he may have suffered, despite the familiarity he had with guns through his mother (who he allegedly murdered), maybe games did further his zeal for shooting. Possible, right?\nI asked Thompson: \"Where are you seeing that he trained to kill little children by playing video games?\nHe replied: \"You are such an idiotic tool. The New York Times is reporting that he was an avid gamer. He shows up in body armor. What games do you think he played, you moron?\"\nThe New York Times didn't report that Lanza was an avid gamer. Other outlets made passing references to him playing in LAN parties, which blew up into top news at the massively-popular news aggregator, The Drudge Report.\nDrudge Report: Connecticut Killer \"Obviously Not Well,\" \"Suffered From Personality Disorder,\" \"\u2026\nNow that we've got the right name of the killer in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre\u2026\nI wrote: \"I understand that you're angry about the murder of innocent people. But calling me an \"idiotic tool\" isn't going to make things better. Which New York Times article are you referring to? The Adam Lanza profile I read makes no mention of video games.\n\"It's entirely possible that shooter video games helped desensitize Lanza to violence or served as some sort of very crude training simulator. It's also entirely possible they had nothing to do with it. You're interested in the law. I'm a reporter. We both care about evidence. So if you see some, feel free to share it and make your case. Otherwise, if all you've got is insults, you're wasting my time and yours.\"\nHe replied: \"I understand you are a moron\"\nThe exchange went on, but you get the gist.\nSome Facebook users have questioned the wisdom of Antwand Pearman's call for a ceasefire. They think that he's actually drawing a connection between the killings and the act of playing online shooters. Not really, he told me:\n\"When I thought of this cease fire I saw it as a means for gamers to come together and show their love and support the families. The one thing we can't get in this world is peace. War will always rage on but in the virtual world we have an opportunity to be better. This isn't something for the media it's for the families and us.\n\"So what if people stop playing shooters for a day? It will be forgotten the next day. The point is that in that silence you'll have time to listen to something you haven't heard in a long time. Something you have been too busy to hear. Too social to notice and that's...your Heart.\"\nI think Thompson and Pearman's approaches both will rankle some gamers. These two very different men\u2014one who hates video games and one who loves them\u2014may both be accused of trying to get publicity or channeling the hurt we feel when we hear about these kinds of killings into actions that don't seem to fit perfectly.\nIn all of our hearts we wish for a solution. We wish for something to be done. Thompson would stamp out violent video games. Pearman would have #OSCEASEFIRE become a day of reflection.\nAll of us many wonder what, if anything, will make a difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 7565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://krausekorner.wordpress.com/2012/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:43Z", "digest": "sha1:O5IGTLVG32MEOEWNBNVB7EHEFCZGV5ZI", "length": 23293, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "krausekorner.wordpress.com", "title": "June | 2012 | krausekorner", "raw_content": "Loving Church vs Judgmental Church\nTime magazine is publishing articles about a road trip being undertaken by regular columnist Joe Klein. Klein is traveling across the country in a meandering path, taking time to visit small town America, especially towns that have been devastated by the recession. These are places where factories have closed, where many people are on some form of government assistance, and where drug abuse and other social problems have exploded. Increasingly, Klein has found that churches and related Christian ministries have stepped in to help people survive, especially by providing food.The latest installment by Klein is titled, \u201cWhere Checks Alone Can\u2019t Help.\u201d\nKlein stopped in Newcomerstown, Ohio to see how folks were doing. He doesn\u2019t say much about the town, but I did a little research. This is an old town site, originally an Indian village. Its famous leader was Chief Newcomer, who gave it his name (although I don\u2019t know how he came by the name \u201cNewcomer\u201d). So it wasn\u2019t named by a Welcome Wagon group or a creative real estate developer. It is a small place, about 4,000 residents. A claim to fame is that Newcomerstown was the hometown of Cy Young, the famous baseball pitcher.\nIn Newcomerstown, Klein came across a food pantry called Journey\u2019s End Ministries, a joint project funded by 30 churches and operating out of an old car lot. Klein\u2019s observation was that there was something in this ministry that was missing in any government assistance. He put it this way, \u201c\u2026 they had found something at Journey\u2019s End that they couldn\u2019t find at government agencies: a loving community that wasn\u2019t judgmental.\u201d Here is what I think he means by this. In Newcomerstown, I could be a meth addict living with my girlfriend without marriage and need food, and Journey\u2019s End would feed me. No questions asked. No games to play. No shaming. They would just feed me. I can\u2019t help but try to see this through Klein\u2019s eyes: a Jewish American man from the big city seeing the churches of Newcomerstown operate on the ground to feed the hungry people of this community. Klein, very much the outsider, seems to be saying, \u201cThis is what the church should be.\u201d\nI believe one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century church is to be a loving church without being judgmental. It has more often been phrased this way: How can we be a faithful church without being judgmental? In other words, how can we hold to high standards of biblical morality and behavior without using them as a lofty perch to judge others who fall short (at least fall short more than we do)? This is indeed a challenge. I don\u2019t want a church that winks at godliness. But I don\u2019t want a church willing to let the community\u2019s meth addicts starve to death.\nJesus explained this conundrum through his story known as the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In this, the Samaritan gave assistance that saved the life of a Jewish man, a man whom he had every reason to hate. They were not countrymen. They weren\u2019t neighbors in the physical sense of sharing a fence in their neighborhood. But the Samaritan is held up as the example of how to love one\u2019s neighbor (Leviticus 19:18). Why was the injured Jewish man his neighbor? I can only think this: he was his neighbor because he was in a position to help him.\nWhom can we help? Whom can our church help in our community? Maybe if we can be guided by these questions, we have take a step toward being a loving church. Maybe we will even garner the attention and respect of someone like Joe Klein.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged faithful church, Joe Klein, judgmental, loving church, time magazine\t| Leave a comment\nSlow down, Mark.\nI follow a blog written by Alan Falding, a man from California who is deeply into the disciplines of spiritual formation and direction. His recent post was based on Psalm 28:7-9:\nFalding makes a point that in this psalm, David keeps saying \u201cThe Lord is.\u201d Not \u201cthe Lord was\u201d or \u201cI hope the Lord is.\u201d When we are stressed and hurried and too busy this is a very comforting thought for me.\nI thought I might check this out in Hebrew and was not surprised to see that the verb \u201cis\u201d must be supplied by the translators. The divine name of God, YHWH, is used here, and it means something like \u201cThe One Who Is.\u201d A Krause rendering might be \u201cThe One Who Is: Strength and Shield \u2026 The One Who Is: Strength of His People.\u201d I need to be strong in my life, to be sure, but I don\u2019t need to be strong alone. And just now, as I write this, I feel encouraged, my heart leaps for joy too.\nBullies, Perjurers, and Roger Clemens\nI haven\u2019t discussed sports much in this blog, but I was flabbergasted yesterday to learn that Roger Clemens (the \u201cRocket\u201d) had been acquitted on all charges of lying to Congress. The case was based on an appearance Clemens made before a congressional committee in which he categorically denied using illegal performance enhancing drugs. There was considerable evidence that Clemens had used such drugs, but federal prosecutors who brought him to trial for lying to Congress (perjury) were unable to convince a jury, so Clemens is now a free man rather than a convicted felon. I find this deeply dissatisfying, almost disturbing, for two reasons:\nFirst, many who have been commenting on this believe the feds \u201coverreached\u201d by prosecuting Clemens in the first place. (This is part of the general background din of accusations of \u201coverreach\u201d in government that are largely partisan political attacks.) This theory says, so what if he lied to Congress? He shouldn\u2019t be prosecuted for this, and he certainly should not go to prison. And everyone was using steroids, so what\u2019s the big deal? To those who defend this line of thinking let me say that this was not about the crime of using illegal steroids or HGH. It was about defiantly lying to Congress. I don\u2019t care if Republicans or Democrats are in control, you cannot tolerate lying to Congress. This whacks at the heart of the legal system and American democracy. If there are acceptable ways to perjure oneself, American justice is a chimera. And to those who think this is \u201coverreach,\u201d I hope everyone suspected of lying to Congress is prosecuted, even if a conviction is not obtained.\nSecond, this all seems highly ironic to me in the current climate of anti-bullying legislation . Roger Clemens was called a \u201cfierce competitor\u201d in his time, but let\u2019s be honest: he was a bully on the mound. I can\u2019t help but remember my Seattle Mariners playing the Yankees in the 2000 playoffs and seeing the Rocket pitch to Alex Rodriguez, then the star of the Mariners (and later an admitted steroid user). Clemens threw right at A-Rod\u2019s head on his first pitch, causing him to hit the deck. A-Rod looked at the umpire, expecting a warning or something, but the ump looked away and stuck his hands in his pockets. The next pitch was in almost the same place, aimed directly at A-Rod\u2019s head and causing him to fall flat to the ground. The umpire again did nothing and even seemed to chastise A-Rod to get back in the batter\u2019s box. The camera showed a grim Clemens, the fierce competitor/bully glaring from the pitcher\u2019s mound. And I knew the game was over, the series was over. Clemens was going to be allowed to use his bullying tactics and everyone on the Mariners knew the umpires were not going to stop him or protect them. The bully had won.\nThis seemed to me to be partly what happened in the federal courtroom this year. The government\u2019s chief witness, Brian McNamee, was\u201dgrilled\u201d by Clemens\u2019s attorney, Rusty Hardin, for fifteen hours over four days. How this was allowed to happen, I can\u2019t imagine, but it was a systematic attack on the man\u2019s credibility and every piece of testimony he had offered against Clemens. It was like four days of fastballs aimed at his head.\nThe final verdict on this may rest on the voters for baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame. There are early indications that Clemens will join the club of Pete Rose, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Raphael Palmeiro, and Barry Bonds as MLB players with great careers and stats, but who probably will not be allowed into the Hall of Fame. Justice sometimes comes in unlikely places.\nAs the election cycle heats up, it is interesting to see which social issues come to the fore. This election seems to be mainly about the economy (code language for high unemployment, depressed housing prices, loss of household overall wealth, and stagnant wages). This elephant in the room may be so big that social issues are crowded out and seen as irrelevant. But, I suspect that a few will make a reappearance before I enter a voting booth in November.\nRemember: the so-called \u201csocial issues\u201d arena has specific issues involved. In the media world, things are often labeled so they can be ignored. This labeling strategy is especially helpful in regard to seemingly no-win issues that cannot help a certain candidate, only damage him or her. So we can take real-life issues such as gay marriage, abortion, content of health insurance policies when it comes to contraception, drug use, and others, and have them labeled as \u201csocial issues,\u201d with the implied meaning \u201cmere social issues that are a matter of opinion in which there is no right or wrong and therefore should not be part of the discussion.\u201d\nOften this is backed up with the long-standing truism, \u201cYou cannot legislate morality.\u201d I would like to analyze this statement a little bit this morning.\nOn one level, I believe this statement is completely true, because morality comes from the heart. The truly moral person is not necessarily the one who follows the rules, but one who does so willingly. There is no remedy in the legal system to change a person\u2019s heart. This has been recognized in the last half century by the shift in terminology for prisons from \u201creformatories\u201d to \u201ccorrectional institutions.\u201d No one maintains the illusion that a hardened criminal will be reformed by a prison experience. Prison are meant to be a deterrent to criminals and as a way of removing criminals from the street.\nOn another level, though, I think it is possible and even appropriate to have laws in place to keep the order that will be seen as legislating morality by some. The state has the responsibility to legislate and enforce laws that are for the greater good of its citizens. The fact that these are based in the moral convictions of some legislators does not make them illegitimate. Social order depends upon people following an agreed-upon set of rules. Those who seek to change the rules that have been in place for generations should have the burden of proof upon them to show the common good, not hide behind the truism, \u201cYou cannot legislate morality\u201d or \u201cwhatever a person does in private is of no concern to the state.\u201d\nLet me give you an example of this. Recently I read about some Florida municipalities\u2019 battle against illegal signage, the \u201cI Buy Houses,\u201d \u201cLose Weight Guaranteed,\u201d or \u201cLearn to Speak without an Accent\u201d signs posted on corners or stapled to telephone poles. These signs are illegal in most towns and cities, yet they multiply like the flower-eating rabbits in my neighborhood (that will be a future blog). These Florida cities have taken to using a robocall system to call the numbers on these signs every hour until the perpetrators come in and pay a fine and remove their signs. This has been very successful, with a reported rate of 70% fewer illegal signage in one city. (See this ABC News report.) Yet one of the offenders in illegal signage (using it to pump her Real Estate business), said, \u201cI know this is technically illegal, but it is very productive for me.\u201d She was willing to pay the fines and continue to operate illegally, even if her tactics were seen as wrong by a majority of her fellow citizens. You cannot legislate morality. You cannot make this woman understand that municipal ugliness and blight is not OK as long as she is making money. What is wrong in the eyes of the law is a minor inconvenience to her amoral business practices.\nSo, yes, you cannot legislate morality and we should not fool ourselves into thinking we can. But our legal system reflects the moral principles of someone. When our laws coincide with \u201cThou shalt not murder\u201d or \u201cThou shalt not steal,\u201d we are affirming principles in line with what Christians believe the Bible teaches. And I don\u2019t think we need to apologize for this or be cowed by the \u201cYou cannot legislate morality\u201d chorus.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged Florida's fight against illegal signs, morality, social issues\t| 2 Comments\nEntrepreneurial Christiantiy\nMany years ago I served as a student minister for the venerable A Christian Ministry in the National Parks (ACMNP), working in Grand Teton National Park. Most of the employees who worked at the lodge where I was were college students, many of them Mormons. I arrived in mid-May, before the lodge had geared up for its summer season and before the ACMNP program had begun. The nearby campground was not yet open, so the lodge owner allowed us to have one of the cabins to hold a Sunday evening service. Although I was only 19, I was the only \u201cminister\u201d around, so I was deputized to lead a worship time. Everyone was invited, and all of the Mormon kids came (not having anything else), about 20 of us. We kept it simple. I read some Scripture I though everyone would know, Matthew 5-7 (if I remember right) because I knew that the Sermon on the Mount was also in the Book of Mormon.\nIt was an interesting experience in many ways. I had grown up with Mormon friends in Idaho, so I was not afraid of this. I knew it was more for employee fellowship than anything Christian. The most interesting part, though, was when someone suggested we sing some hymns. We had a box of hymnals that belonged to ACMNP which I handed out. I suggested several traditional hymns to sing, but the Mormon kids didn\u2019t know any of them. I asked them if they could find any hymns in the book they knew \u2026 and they did: the Christmas songs. So, on that cold night in May, we, people from radically different faiths who barely knew each other, sang all the Christmas carols in that hymnal.\nI mention this because I have had a similar experience in my preaching experiences among various churches. My experience has been in churches that are Christian, not Mormon, but some very different flavors of Christianity. In the last few weeks I have been in a Disciples of Christ church, a Reformed Church of America congregation, and two large suburban Christian Churches. All four were different, but strangely the same. I knew all the songs they sang. Why? Because they sing a lot of the same songs in these churches. The NIV translation was used in all four churches. Why? Because it is the most popular translation in the USA today.\nIn Russ Douthat\u2019s book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, he chronicles the rise of \u201cpara-church Christianity\u201d in the 1950s through the guidance of people like Billy Graham, Carl Henry, and Bill Bright. The neo-Evangelicalism these guys invented was based largely on ministries outside the control of any local church or denomination. Part of this was the rise of Evangelical publishing houses and the Evangelical music industry. And these are for-profit business, very big businesses.\nNow, churches get their songs from CCLI\u2019s Song Select, not a denominationally approved hymnal. Maybe the worship leader first heard a song on Christian radio, perhaps one of the Salem Communications group stations (SALM on NASDAQ). They get their NIV Bibles from Zondervan, a division of the massive publishing conglomerate Harper Collins.\nWhy is this important? Maybe it isn\u2019t, but consider this: what is the control over doctrinal content from Salem\u2019s stations or Harper Collins\u2019s subsidiaries? One thing cannot be ignored: marketability. These are corporations in business to make a profit. It may be dressed up in pious-sounding mission statements, but the bottom line is the bottom line for these corporations. I would imagine that for every writer-program host-employee concerned about biblical fidelity, there is an MBA somewhere pushing profitability.\nThis is entrepreneurial Christianity in full bloom, the faithful as a market, an opportunity to make a lot of money. If you need some convincing, watch Christian television shows. Why are they so loaded with prosperity Gospel teachers and preachers? I think it is because that is what people will watch, not someone preaching sober biblical truth. In their own way, they are market driven, too.\nThis isn\u2019t all bad. We would not have the NIV 2011 if someone had not funded the project. But the result is both a flattening of church distinctives and traditions, and ceding control of a lot of content coming into our churches to corporations.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged Christianity as a business, Evangelical publishing houses\t| Leave a comment\nFinding Jesus in the Heart\nI would like to give you another sermon illustration today. I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t remember where this came from:\nThe story is told of a little boy, who, many years ago, was diagnosed with a severe heart defect. This was before MRI\u2019s or CT scans or other advanced technology. But his heartbeat was irregular, and he was not expected to live very long. His family happened to live in a small city that was the home of one of the nation\u2019s most respected heart surgeons. This doctor was a crusty old character, near retirement, and usually refused to work with children. After hearing the pleas of the boy\u2019s mother and father, he finally conceded to take the youngster as a patient.\nAfter the examination, the old doctor knew that surgery was required and that it would be very risky. There was something badly wrong with the boy\u2019s heart. The old man told the boy, \u201cSon, I\u2019m going to try to fix your heart. I will have to cut it open, and I\u2019m not sure what I will find there.\u201d The boy brightened when he said this, and said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, when you cut open my heart, you\u2019ll find Jesus, \u2018cause he lives there!\u201d The surgeon was silent. Dealing with life and death on a daily basis had embittered him horribly, and he had long ago abandoned any pretense of faith.\nAs they prepared for the surgery, the doctor was determined that the little boy understand what was happening, so he repeatedly warned him of the risks involved in this surgery. Each time the boy smiled and said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry. When you cut my heart open, you\u2019ll find Jesus, \u2019cause he lives there.\u201d In this process the bitter old doctor began to have his own heart touched by this little boy. He was so ill! But he was so happy! On the day of the operation, just before they wheeled the boy into the operating room, the doctor tried one last time, and said, \u201cI want you to be brave, because when I cut your heart open, I\u2019m not sure what I will find.\u201d Again, the boy beamed at him and said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry. When you cut my heart open, you\u2019ll find Jesus, \u2019cause he lives there.\u201d\nAfter the surgery, the doctor went to the waiting room to give some horrible news to the parents: the boy had died on the table and he had been unable to save him. They were people of great faith, but now they were extremely distraught. As the father grasped for something to explain what had happened, he asked the surgeon, \u201cDoc, when you opened his heart, what did you find?\u201d And the hardened, cynical old man gave the slightest of smiles and said, \u201cI believe I found Jesus.\u201d And for the first time in many years, his tears flowed, too.\nPosted in Sermon Illustrations\t| Tagged breaking down the hard heart, jesus in the heart, witnessing\t| Leave a comment\nTheological Mistakes: \u201cEverything Happens for a Reason\u201d\nWhile attending a funeral today I was talking with Paul Miller about the difficulty of expressing condolences. When a loved one dies, what do you say to those left behind? We often want to give words of comfort, but our desire to do this may cause more damage than help.\nSpecifically, when a father dies, it is not helpful to tell his son, \u201cGod knows what he is doing, boy, this is for the best.\u201d or \u201cIt\u2019s hard for you to understand now, but God has a plan.\u201d or \u201cSomeday you will understand why God did this.\u201d There are many variations on this theme, but the idea is that God either allowed or caused the death of this person. We are put in the untenable position of trying to say that our loving God is responsible for a horrible tragedy that has ripped hearts open.\nTo me, t his is a variation of the pop theological statement, \u201cEverything happens for a reason.\u201d I have blogged before about this, but let me review a little. This is not a Christian idea. It might work in Buddhism, or possibly in extreme forms of Islam, but it is not a biblical idea. Why?\nThe laws of cause and effect would assume that there is a reason (cause) for all things that happen (effects). So, at one level, the idea that everything happens for a reason is true. There are two explanations for this. First, if we life in an entirely mechanistic world, everything is preordained because of its physical nature. Everything is matter and chemical, all things that happen are the coincidences of nature, There is no free will or independent decision making because everything humans do is the result of chemical processes in their brains. Freedom is an illusion. Second, if there is a divine reality outside of our material world (God), the only exceptions to mechanical processes are God\u2019s deliberate manipulation of the forces of nature. In other words, these two choices say that human tragedy is either the result of inevitable mechanical processes or the intentional machinations of God.\nI don\u2019t think this is what most folks have in mind when they say, \u201cEverything happens for a reason.\u201d What the usually mean is \u201cEverything happens for a good reason.\u201d The implication is that something good always comes out of tragedy, even if we have to wait a long time to experience it. A variation on this is \u201cWhat does not kill me makes me stronger,\u201d concluding that horrible experiences have a useful side: strengthening our bodies or our character. All of this seems to have a biblical patina, proof-texting such verses as Romans 8:28, \u201cWe know that all things work together for good,\u201d or Romans 5:4, \u201cendurance produces character.\u201d\nBut how does this play out in real life, especially in the time of tragedy? Is there comfort to be found in \u201cEverything happens for a reason\u201d? I don\u2019t think so. If you are in a position to offer words of comfort to a grieving son, let me suggest three things you might say:\n1. God still loves you and so do I.\n2. Don\u2019t try to figure out a reason for this terrible thing. Your head will explode.\n3. It\u2019s OK to be sad, because your father was a wonderful person and he has gone to be with Jesus now. I miss him, too.\nThere is one other thing I am tempted to say, but usually don\u2019t:\n4. The people who tell you this is for the best and that good will come from it are idiots. Just ignore them.\nMaybe I\u2019m being too judgmental, but grief should be comforted, not rationalized. If you have been through tragedy, you know that it does get better eventually, but now is not the time to share this. Walk with your friend in his grief and don\u2019t try to dismiss it.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged determinism, fatalism, limits of human knowledge\t| 8 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 26665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lacrosseeducationfoundation.org/la-crosse-community-foundation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KH3BSY3EMDMM4GIH72HF3ELA6JCRVI76", "length": 966, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lacrosseeducationfoundation.org", "title": "La Crosse Community Foundation | La Crosse Public Education Foundation", "raw_content": "An innovative project to help Northside Elementary School students succeed in school and overcome adverse childhood experiences has received a major grant from the Robert & Eleanor Franke Charitable Foundation. 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He teaches by his actions and his stories. One story in particular, has recently had a great impact on me. It is the story of my dad\u2019s best day.\nIt was perfect weather as it typically is in the fall in Southern California. 1985, Regan was in the White House, gas prices were up and Richard Ramirez stalked the LA basin. My parents were 27 at the time and my brother and I were 10 and 2, respectively. My mom was working the night shift in a cleanup crew at a hospital. My dad was working as a manager at a group home for special needs adults. They were broke, as most young couples just starting out are but my parents made the best of it. As my dad says \u201cWe were so poor, we didn\u2019t have two nickels to rub together.\u201d\nIt was a Saturday and my older brother played Junior All American Football at the high school across the street from our house. My dad volunteered to run the first down marker and chain gang. As I was just a little guy, my mom walked the track surrounding the field with me in my stroller. He watched as a proud father as his son played ball in the California twilight and his toddler experienced the wonders of childhood. After the game, we went as a family to the Italian deli up the street. We all shared a couple of grinders with a side of chips. We had a blast that day. My dad always says, shaking his head, \u201cit was our last 5 bucks at the time\u201d. My parent\u2019s specifically budgeted this occasion into their weekly expenses. That was as close to a vacation as they could afford. Simple times and simple pleasures but that is what the \u201cgood stuff\u201d of life is made from.\n33 years ago and he talks about it like it was yesterday. Like he can smell the fresh cut grass on the football field. Like he could hear the referees blowing their whistles. Like he could see the dust on my knees from playing on the dirt track. Like he could taste the bakery fresh bread from the grinder. Every minute detail of the day. A more vivid picture than he could ever paint.\nMy dad has gone on to become a successful businessman. He has since divorced from my mom and remarried. He moved on from the Los Angeles suburbs and now has a 5 acre spread in the Southern California wine country. He has traveled the world. He has achieved a level of financial freedom in his own right.\nYet, I can still see his eyes light up when he remineses back to that day. All that he would achieve in his later life, didn\u2019t matter. All the houses, cars, boats and vacations he has had do not come close to the life he felt that day. The day he will treasure until his last. He only had his humble beginnings and the love of his family. That was enough.\nSince I have begun the journey down this path to financial freedom, I find myself reflecting on my dad\u2019s best day. Sometimes it\u2019s necessary to stop and smell the roses. Be thankful and humble. Treasure the fact you have a family, food on the table and a place to call home. Watch the sunset. Give your pets a little extra love. Be in the moment. Realize what a blessing life is. It was just a simpler time. All the riches, all the possessions, all the status in life don\u2019t really matter. They are not going to make you happy. What truely matters most is the moments you have with the people you love. This is why I made the slogan for the site \u201cIt isn\u2019t about the money\u2026 it\u2019s about living life on your own terms\u201d This is what drives me to achieve financial freedom. To live a life that is free from the rat race. To be able to create as many of these moments as I can with my family. To live life on simpler terms. To be thankful with ENOUGH.\nPosted in MindsetTagged mindsetcomment1 Comment on My Father\u2019s Best Day: How it Shaped My Financial Future\nOne Reply to \u201cMy Father\u2019s Best Day: How it Shaped My Financial Future\u201d\nLove this post! I agree completely! Sometimes I think it\u2019s about the small stuff! At the end of the day\u2026 family is what it\u2019s all about:)! Love it!\nhttps://latestartfinancialfreedom.com/2018/08/20/my-fathers-best-day-how-it-shaped-my-financial-future\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://latino.nascar.com/news-media/videos/stewart-haas-racing-off-hot-start-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SFV2VZYL5V5B7COB6LCIISNXMZ3E567O", "length": 210, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "latino.nascar.com", "title": "Stewart-Haas Racing off to hot start in 2018 - NASCAR EN ESPANOL", "raw_content": "Stewart-Haas Racing off to hot start in 2018\nFrom Kevin Harvick's three-win run to Clint Bowyer's first grandfather clock from Martinsville, relive SHR's early dominance in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3109, "original_length": 250342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.onecle.com/north-carolina/122e-north-carolina-housing-trust-and-oil-overcharge-act/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:57Z", "digest": "sha1:UHOX3PD5NSSSFEB4G2JW4RLXEWO45S35", "length": 2147, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "law.onecle.com", "title": "North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 122E North Carolina Housing Trust and Oil Overcharge Act - Legal Research", "raw_content": "North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 122E North Carolina Housing Trust and Oil Overcharge Act\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-1. Short title\nThis Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the \"North Carolina Housing Trust and Oil Overcharge Act.\" (1987, c. 841, s. 1.)\nAs used in this Chapter: (1) The term \"substandard unit\" means a housing unit which, by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-3. North Carolina Housing Trust Fund\n(a) There is established a North Carolina Housing Trust Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. (b) The Fund shall consist of monies...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-3.1. Community Living Housing Fund\n(a) Definitions. - The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Catchment area. - As defined in G.S. 122C-3. (2) Targeted units. - Units...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-4. North Carolina Housing Partnership created; compensation; organization\n(a) The North Carolina Housing Partnership is hereby created within the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency to establish policy, promulgate rules and regulations, and...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-5. Administration\n(a) The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency shall administer the Fund in accordance with the policies, rules and regulations promulgated by the Partnership. (b)...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-6. Uses of funds\nFunds from the Fund shall be used to increase the supply of decent, affordable and energy-efficient housing for low, very low, and moderate income...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-7. Eligible applicants\nEligible applicants shall include units of State and local governments including municipal corporations, for profit and nonprofit housing developers. Provided, however, that the Partnership's...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-8. Allocation of funds\n(a) Monies within the Fund shall be allocated to eligible applicants under this Chapter by the Agency, in accordance with funding cycles established at...\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 122E-9. Displacement\nIn establishing criteria for G.S. 122E-8(a), the Agency shall give special attention to designing protections to provide that any lawful occupants who live in...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.ucla.edu/news-and-events/in-the-news/2015/05/ethan-elkind-talks-about-californias-housing-crisis-and-the-need-for-growth-around-la-countys-transit-system-with-santa-monica-next/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MSKFQU6V44BSFD7GOSUVNZKWGTSQLPJE", "length": 517, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "law.ucla.edu", "title": "Ethan Elkind Talks About Californias Housing Crisis and the Need for Growth Around LA", "raw_content": "Ethan Elkind Talks About California\u2019s Housing Crisis and the Need for Growth Around L.A. County\u2019s Transit System with Santa Monica Next\nMay 6, 2015 \u2013 Ethan Elkind, associate director of the Climate Change and Business Program who authored Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (2014), discussed California\u2019s housing crisis and the need for growth around L.A. County\u2019s transit system in a two-part conversation with Santa Monica Next.\nRead part 1 and part 2 of the conversation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 154.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawinquebec.com/imposed-settlement-leaves-bitter-taste/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BYZLUB7OAQ6W4JHRCVNCDSJW5XF4G2UQ", "length": 2349, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lawinquebec.com", "title": "Imposed settlement leaves bitter taste", "raw_content": "Barreau du Quebec Employment & Labour Law Legal business Quebec February 26, 2011\nImposed settlement leaves bitter taste\nDays after the Quebec government enacted back-to-work legislation that compelled striking Crown prosecutors and government lawyers, a movement appears to be afoot to mollify the rancorous atmosphere reigning between the principle actors of the province\u2019s justice system.\nLouis Dionne, director of criminal and penal prosecutions, met with Quebec\u2019s chief prosecutors and assistant chief prosecutors, the majority of whom asked for reassignment in a show of support with striking lawyers, for a five-hour stretch in Quebec City. Dionne, who refused to grant the reassignments, described the meeting as being \u201cconstructive.\u201d He also admitted that the Quebec Crown is in need of \u201coxygen.\u201d\nBut for many it\u2019s too little, too late. The association representing Quebec crown prosecutors called for Dionne\u2019s resignation, saying he should have spoken up during the labour conflict, and not after the back-to-work legislation was adopted. \u201cCrown prosecutors do not understand, and are even angry, that their boss did not publicly come to their defence at a time when the Quebec criminal justice system was living through its worst crisis,\u201d told me Christian Leblanc, the head of the Quebec crown prosecutors association.\nThe imposed settlement has been harshly criticized by Quebec\u2019s legal community. One lawyer told me that lawyers \u2013 and judges \u2014 are discouraged by the turn of events. Another said that, while he is optimistic by nature, he is pessimistic that things will get better, adding that successive Quebec governments have paid little heed to the administration of justice.\nIn a letter to its 23,000 members, the head of the legal society the Barreau du Qu\u00e9bec, said that the government has ruptured the bond of trust with public sector lawyers by enacting back-to-work legislation \u2013 a rebuke that a former Barreau administrator described as being too little, too late.\nMorale is low, and the repercussions will likely reverberate throughout the corridors of justice for quite some time. Unless the Quebec government has a change of heart and begins to seriously address issues that need to be grappled with, assert legal observers, the very same that say that it is not likely.\nAdministration of justiceQuebec crown prosecutors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawyersofmissouri.com/2017/09/23/legal-impact-divorce-lees-summit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KDVVA2R47HFNYFBSP3XEIXLLNJB3IV6A", "length": 4227, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lawyersofmissouri.com", "title": "Legal Impact of Divorce | Leonard Rodarte Siegel", "raw_content": "How The Legal Impact Of Divorce Can Affect You\nDivorce can set in motion legal ramifications that can span months and sometimes years. It will most likely affect property, children, money, and future income. While nearly everything is negotiable in a divorce, many states have certain standard templates that they use. If the participants want something special and out of the ordinary, they will have to show the judge cause for why it should be done. Here are some of the legal impacts of a typical divorce.\nCommon Split Of Property And Other Assets\nSome states are called community property states and in those states, nearly all assets are split right down the middle 50/50 as if everything was jointly owned. Debts are also split evenly as well aiming at a half and half distribution. However, other states are called equitable distribution states and in those states, the assets are divided fairly but not necessarily exactly evenly. Rather than divide each asset in half, one spouse may get one asset and the other spouse a different asset of equal value as determined by the court. All of the assets are usually subject to an assessment or appraisal to determine the value. This can raise plenty of arguments between the couple but prolonged fighting only enriches the attorneys representing each spouse.\nThere are also some surprising items that can cause hard feelings since clothes are usually exempt, each person getting their own, while things such as appliances and tools are divided at full value. A man may have very little money invested in his clothes but thousands of dollars invested in his tools. He might be resentful when he has to split the value of $50,000 in tools while the wife doesn\u2019t have to take credit for her $50,000 in clothes. There are plenty of other examples of discrepancies in the laws of divorce as well. Suffice to say, in nearly all cases, protracted arguing and fighting will only help their attorneys become rich.\nThe Normal Split Of Custody And Visitation\nIn a high percentage of cases, the female is awarded the custody of the children in most states. Then, the father gets visitation every other weekend, usually every other Wednesday, and alternating holidays such as Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and maybe a few others. In many amicable divorces, exceptions are made for other holidays and special days such as birthdays, and other family celebrations. If the two cannot come to an agreement on special days or even on the regular visitation, they\u2019ll need to go back to court again. This can go on for years in some divorce cases.\nOne sore spot with many fathers that need to pay child support is that usually any failure to pay results in an immediate suspension of their driver\u2019s license, passport, and the possible issuance of an arrest warrant. These are usually enforced by the states Attorneys General in charge of Child Support. However, if the mother decides not to allow visitation on any or all of the legally mandated days for the father, the father has to retain his own lawyer to enforce the original child support agreement. Since lawyers are quite expensive, this is sometimes seen as an unfair advantage for mothers wishing to use the children\u2019s visitation as a revenge weapon.\nThere Are Countless Online Forums And Groups\nDue to the high emotions on either side of a divorce, there are many online forums where parents can vent their feelings and get some advice on how to handle the legal impacts of their divorce. Of course, since most of the participants are just other parents, and not lawyers, any advice would have to be further researched with a real family law expert. That being said, online forums are a great way to get information and possible solutions to many problems created by divorce.\nIf you are having some problems after your divorce it doesn\u2019t hurt to get some help online. There are online lawyers that can get you started in the right direction so that you know which kind of lawyer will best suit your needs. Plus, they\u2019ll give you advice on gathering the information needed in order to cut down on the time needed for your legal help and save some money on the high hourly rates that attorneys charge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lebanonnewsgazette.com/sports/at-dubai-summit-imf-chief-warns-britain-on-brexit-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:S3XYC3B5TRSBUD2SGHVQG4ZFBHCRIAGR", "length": 2691, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "lebanonnewsgazette.com", "title": "At Dubai Summit, IMF Chief Warns Britain on Brexit Challenge \u2013 Lebanon News Gazette", "raw_content": "Lebanon News Gazette > Sports > At Dubai Summit, IMF Chief Warns Britain on Brexit Challenge\nDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Sunday that the British exit from the European Union means it \u201cwill never be as good as it is now\u201d for the country\u2019s economy.\nChristine Lagarde spoke at the World Government Summit in Dubai, which also saw Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri make an own investment pitch for his small country, now struggling through a major economic crisis as one of the world\u2019s most-indebted nations.\nLagarde didn\u2019t hesitate to criticize Britain\u2019s upcoming departure from the EU, known as \u201cBrexit.\u201d Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29. U.K. businesses fear a possible \u201cno-deal\u201d Brexit with the EU will cause economic chaos by imposing tariffs, customs and other barriers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\u201cI\u2019m certain of one thing, is that it\u2019s not going to be as good as if they had not been Brexit, that is for sure,\u201d Lagarde said. \u201cWhether it ends well, whether there is a smooth exit given by customs unions as predicated by some, or whether it\u2019s as a result of a brutal . exit on March 29 without extension of notice, it\u2019s not going to be as good as it is now.\u201d\nFor his part, Hariri sought to attract investment from Gulf Arab states, which long have been a major benefactor of Lebanon. His nation now faces soaring public debt of $84 billion, or 150 percent of the gross domestic product, making it one of the most-indebted nations in the world. Lebanese unemployment is believed to be around 36 percent.\n\u201cWe took the decision to bring together all the political powers because is this is the only way to save Lebanon,\u201d Hariri said. \u201cToday in Lebanon, we don\u2019t have the time or the luxury of politics because our economy could completely collapse unless we surgically remove (politics) quickly, seriously and collectively.\u201d\nGulf nations like Saudi Arabia are increasingly suspicious of Lebanon\u2019 government because of the influence of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite political party and militant group. Hezbollah has three ministers in the new government.\nA moderator gave Hariri a $100 bill and said he could keep it if he pitched him on investing in the country. After his pitch, Hariri returned the bill and said that he wished he had $115 to offer back.\nMaking a surprise visit to the summit was U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who took the stage to announce a robotics competition would be held in the United Arab Emirates later this year. Perry, a former governor of Texas who twice ran for president unsuccessfully, has tended to avoid the spotlight in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 29346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://legacy-church.org/2016/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LPKGRRHXMC7XRWPIH4K6BL3SFNRHMGR2", "length": 1025, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "legacy-church.org", "title": "December 2016 \u2013 Legacy Church", "raw_content": "The Fall of Man & The Promise of God!\nSunday, December 11th To Listen to Message: Click Here! The fall of Adam and Eve and the introduction of sin changed everything for us as humans. Yet God did not divorce himself from mankind but sent us a promise that He would send a Savior. This message looks deeper at the effects of sin and how we can overcome temptation. Most importantly, this message will show how our\u2026\nDecember 4th, 2016 To Listen to the Message: Click Here! Why were humans created? Why were we so valuable that Jesus would come to earth to die for us? This message, the first of the True Meaning of Christmas series, talks about the meaning of life and the value of mankind.\nNovember 27, 2016 To listen to message: Click this! This sermon concludes our church\u2019s \u201cWhat is Legacy?\u201d series. For a person to live a life of Legacy they need to align themselves up with God\u2019s unstoppable will for their life. Here\u2019s how we can learn what God\u2019s unstoppable plan is for our life and how we can help others know God too!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lfpress.com/entertainment/books/local-authors-tackle-the-problems-and-opportunities-of-just-transition-from-a-fossil-fuel-economy/wcm/3f1c4755-b410-43e9-9d20-1954fd7a053a", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SNY37NMOM273QQOS6SEP5CLWTYPODU6D", "length": 3065, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lfpress.com", "title": "Local authors tackle the problems and opportunities of just transition from a fossil-fuel economy | The London Free Press", "raw_content": "Local authors tackle the problems and opportunities of just transition from a fossil-fuel economy\nBook is a lucid, accessible account of the bind in which many fossil fuel industry workers find themselves, as well as an exciting and fundamentally hopeful sketch of some attempts to solve the problem of just transition.\nTotal Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution\nSavannah Carr-Wilson and Sandeep Pai (Rocky Mountain Books)\nTotal Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution. Handout / PNG\nNo one can say we haven\u2019t been warned.\nIn October of this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded yet another dire alarm. If major reforms in energy production and greenhouse gas emissions are not made in the next dozen years, the experts said, our average annual global temperature will spike up by over 1.5 degrees. Coral reefs will die, sea levels will go up and catastrophic climate events like storms and draughts will multiply.\nWelcome, in short, to climate hell.\nBut many observers are concerned about the impacts on millions of workers of fighting climate change. Will workers be thrown into unemployment or low-wage precarious employment as the world makes the transition away from burning fossil fuels? Will oilfield workers, coal miners and their families be the ones to suffer?\nThis question, often formulated as the issue of \u201cjust transition,\u201d lies at the centre of Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution, an exciting and important new book from B.C. authors Sandeep Pai and Savannah Carr-Wilson.\nSandeep Pai, co-author of review of Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution. Handout / PNG\nPai, an award-winning investigative journalist, and Carr-Wilson, who recently began work as a lawyer for a B.C. First Nation, met while doing graduate work together in an environmental science program in Hungary and Sweden. (Full disclosure: While preparing for her career in law, Carr-Wilson was a student of my brother at the University Victoria, and I have met both authors.)\nTheir book is a lucid, accessible account of the bind in which many fossil fuel industry workers find themselves, as well as an exciting and fundamentally hopeful sketch of some attempts to solve the problem of just transition. The authors take readers along as they travel to Jharia, an Indian coalfield town where underground fires have raged for a century, to the tar sands of Alberta where workers often have to choose between soul- and planet- destroying oilfield work and destitution, and Vancouver Island, where the T\u2019Sou-ke First Nation is leading the way in the transition to renewable energy projects.\nToo often, critics of fossil fuels and the devastating effects those fuels are having on our climate can come off as over-earnest and self-righteous. There is none of that annoying tone in Total Transition. This book is a good-humoured, but serious. look at the core challenges we face in the 21st century, and a must read for all concerned citizens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 7780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libevents.abqlibrary.org/booking/northvalley", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:21Z", "digest": "sha1:G5X2RXRFWJFMKNGSX6QYMYW5OKMRDZYM", "length": 788, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "libevents.abqlibrary.org", "title": "Rudolfo Anaya Library - Library Events - the Public Library", "raw_content": "Rudolfo Anaya Library\nRudolfo Anaya North Valley Library has one meeting room that will hold a maximum of 35 people. The meeting room is available during hours the Library is open. Meeting rooms must be vacated 15 minutes before the Library closes. North Valley is open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. For more details about this room, select the information icon \u200b directly to the right of the room name. To book directly, please call (505)897-8823. Please note that to provide library staff time to confirm, and prepare, meeting rooms bookings must be made 24 hours in advance.\nChoose the 1 hour blocks in which you would like to reserve the meeting room. Enter the exact times you want on the booking form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/search.pl?County=Fife", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:45Z", "digest": "sha1:H6UBVHMDBYJTZFPFS45B2NAOT57EZ2CD", "length": 606, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "librarytechnology.org", "title": "libraries.org: University of St Andrews Library", "raw_content": "found 1 item where the county is Fife.\nPhone: (+44) (0) 13344-62283\nLibrary details: University of St Andrews Library is an Academic library.\nThis library is affiliated with University of St Andrews (view map) . The collection of the library contains 1,356,369 volumes. The library circulates 298,727 items per year. The library serves a population of 8,687 FTE Enrollment.\nAdministration: The director of the library is John MacColl .\nRecord History: This listing was created on Dec 13, 2006 and was last modified on Nov 16, 2018.\nLibraries located in St Andrews (United Kingdom)\nall Academic libs in Fife", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifebetweenreads.com/tag/book-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PLNFIZOBA4SQXWEYURPK5AHDRD2GVZTB", "length": 4100, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lifebetweenreads.com", "title": "book challenge \u2013 Life Between Reads", "raw_content": "Tag: book challenge\nI have no idea where I found this book, or what even made me want to read it as it\u2019s not what I\u2019m usually drawn to, but Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran is an absolutely breathtaking book.\nIt\u2019s written beautifully, about a woman whose husband goes missing very shortly after they get married. She goes on a very long journey through Tibet trying to locate him, and everything that she learns and goes through during that time is very moving and eye-opening. Definitely recommend it to everyone I know!\nWhen I was in high school, I was on a Teen Choice panel for our city library. Our job was to read a bunch of books and vote on our favorite to win the Teen\u2019s Choice for the year. It was an intense job, but boy, did I find the book. I fought tooth and nail for it to be the choice, and it ultimately won (you haven\u2019t seen a heated discussion until you get a bunch of nerdy, teenage bookies in the same room, fighting for their favorite book of the year).\nLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer was not the winner that year, but it won for me. A meteor knocks the moon closer to the Earth, which throws everything in complete and utter chaos. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes\u2014the entire population is devastated, and people are fighting to survive. Summer turns to a freezing winter, and Miranda and her family are forced to survive on stockpiled canned goods, a small amount of water, and the wood in their stove.\nIt\u2019s a heartwrenching, terrifying read that reminded my teenage self that we can\u2019t take everything for granted.\nDay 23: A book you\u2019ve been wanting to read for a long time but still haven\u2019t\nI Am Number Four has been on my \u2018to-read\u2019 shelf for an embarassingly long time\u2014since before the movie came out, even. But then I broke down and watched the movie, and felt as if the ending was ruined, so I haven\u2019t bothered. It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve seen the movie, though, and after reading the Goodreads summary (again), I think I\u2019ll definitely pursue it in the next few months.\nI still have yet to read Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary, even though it has been out forever and get high praises from one of my besties. It\u2019s been on my to-read list forever, but I\u2019m going to use the lame excuse of not knowing about Goodreads until earlier this year \u2013 how could I organize the books I wanted to read and actually make sure they got read before?! Obviously some, probably too many, fell through the cracks. I will hopefully read it soon, but you never know what might come up between now and then!\nI have never cried like I cried reading Firefly Lane (ironic that I used this as the book that makes me happy too\u2026). This is definitely one of my favorite books, and introduced me to Kristin Hannah who is now one of my favorite authors.\nI read this a few years ago and cried then, but when my best friend\u2019s mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and I (mistakenly) decided to read it again, I cried harder than ever before. The last parts of the book hit so close to home it was almost unbearable, it was like the future playing out before me in written form.\nI will continue to read it again and again because I love it so very, very much but it will forever remind me of those months and how life can take turns for the worst. It shows that you can get through anything if you have your best friend beside you.\nBig shocker: it\u2019s a Nicholas Sparks book! But seriously though, the Last Song had me bawling like a baby. Ronnie\u2019s parents get a divorce and she\u2019s forced to stay in North Carolina (what?! A Nicholas Sparks books set in one of the Carolinas?) with her dad for the summer. She finds love, learns to love her dad, etc. The ending is incredibly emotional and depressing, hence the tears.\nI was apprehensive to read this book at first, primarily because Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana would be playing Ronnie in the movie. Once you get the casting in your head, you picture the characters as those people. I quickly forgot that, and devoured the book in a weekend. I\u2019m not usually a crier with books, but I definitely had tears trailing down my face with this one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 11021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeinculebron.blogspot.com/2017/04/looking-for-epiphany.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZQG5G6LW64MW6ZK6ANWG5LRIU6AAB5K", "length": 3807, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lifeinculebron.blogspot.com", "title": "Life in Culebr\u00f3n: Looking for an epiphany", "raw_content": "Looking for an epiphany\nWe've been to see a few Easter parades these last few days. When I was a schoolboy Mr Kemp and Mr Edwards, my Junior and Secondary school headteachers, were keen that I was given a good Christian Education. Whether I asked for it or not they made sure that I got it. Although I haven't really looked at a Bible or happily gone inside a church for well over forty years I still remember the basics of, for instance, the Christmas and Easter stories. At times it's not enough. So when I saw a float in a parade with the title of Aparicion de los Disc\u00edpulos de Emaus or The Appearance to the Disciples at Emmaus it meant nothing to me. Fortunately other teachers tried hard to persuade me that finding things out and knowing how to find things out was easily as important as actually knowing things. It's much easier now than it used to be. Google knew. Emmaus or Emaus is one of those early Resurrection sightings.\nIn the same way that I have a well grounded but essentially partial grasp of Christian lore I have a reasonably good handle on Spain. I know a bit of history, a bit of culture, some politics and more. I keep trying to add to my knowledge. My sieve like brain is a perfidious ally in this attempt to learn and those funny foreign names don't help either but sheer persistence has worked for me in the past and I see no reason why it isn't a workable plan for, at least, the near future.\nThe last Easter float had passed us by. As we walked away the chair hire companies were loading their plastic seats into the back of myriad vans and the road sweeping machines were pirouetting around the streets which moments before had buzzed with spectators. As we neared our parked car we saw that there was something going on in the park, el Malec\u00f3n, by the river. We've seen fairs and markets there before so we went for a nosey.\nThere were a bunch of temporary restaurants. They were busy. Most were called Pe\u00f1a this and that. Now pe\u00f1a is probably a word that I don't understand. Or maybe it's a word I understand perfectly. It seems to be a multi-use word - all pe\u00f1a usually means is that it's a group of like minded souls - Pe\u00f1a Madrile\u00f1a for Real Madrid fans. It seems too that pe\u00f1as can either be very open groups or quite closed groups. I've heard pe\u00f1a used to describe the garage hired by a bunch of mates during a town carnival to drink beer and hang around in. Often, within fiestas, there are pe\u00f1as which are set up by associations of one kind or another. Your neighbourhood may be going to do some things in a town f\u00eate so the neighbourhood sets up a temporary HQ in an unrented shop. They call it a pe\u00f1a and it becomes a sort of social centre for anybody who has affiliations to that neighbourhood. Some pe\u00f1as seem to be more permanent than others.\nAnyway, so we've diverted to have a look in the park and we find all these restaurants and they are all called Pe\u00f1a this and that. We have no idea whether they are something to do with the Spring Festival, which always follows on from Easter in Murcia, or whether they are tied in to the Holy Week celebrations. We have no idea but hundreds and hundreds of people do, they are having their lunch there. Some of the pe\u00f1as have price lists, most are completely full. We don't know if it's a walk in proposition, whether we need a reservation or if it's a members only deal. It doesn't matter. It's not as though we want to eat. We've already eaten in a bar in town. The reason we are interested is simply because we don't know what's going on. We are quietly and individually distressed. It's discomforting simply because we don't understand. It's another Emmaus moment.\nLabels: chris thompson, christopher thompson, clubs, culebron, culebr\u00f3n, fiesta, fiestas, murcia city, pe\u00f1a, semana santa, societies, spanish customs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 12953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lindsay.livejournal.com/269612.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:265HRAZCWF6LFVAUXCQ55VNTE3EKAWOH", "length": 201, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lindsay.livejournal.com", "title": "My physics prof mentioned going to a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young\u2026: lindsay", "raw_content": "My physics prof mentioned going to a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert. So I've had \"Love the One You're With\" stuck in my head That song gets me into trouble--as evidenced by friday's behavior :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/universals-andrew-nevins-uc-london", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5TOL3432SRJMJJJD4L3777QCHG2XKYVQ", "length": 1698, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "linguistics.fas.harvard.edu", "title": "Universals: Andrew Nevins (UC London) | Department of Linguistics", "raw_content": "Universals: Andrew Nevins (UC London)\nMonday, November 24, 2014, 5:30pm to 7:00pm\nAbstract: It has been suggested that the Romance first person singular indicative forms a base of derivation for the subjunctive paradigm, even though the latter shares no morphosyntactic features with the former (Maiden, 2004). The existence of such patterns has been taken to be an argument for autonomous morphology and the existence of unnatural \u2018morphomes\u2019, in the sense of Aronoff (1994). Experimental investigations with native speakers of Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish reveal that this pattern is underlearned, and that speakers do not generalize it to novel forms, and instead prefer the 2nd person singular indicative to the 1st person as the base for the derivation of the subjunctive paradigm. The results implicate a role for naturalness biases in morphological structure, and an awareness that the first person singular is an unreliable and idiosyncratic base for productive inflectional identity. We further demonstrate, through means of diachronic corpus studies spanning five centuries, a change in the ratio of first conjugation verbs to second & third conjugation verbs. If indeed learners need increased evidence in order to incorporate and actively uptake unnatural patterns, this lexical support has dwindled over time. Even though many of the morphomic verbs have maintained a very high token frequency (allowing them to survive as memorized), their type frequency has diminished over time, and hence they go unlearned as a generalizable pattern. When the distribution of irregular alternations is overshadowed in the lexicon, a morphologically unnatural pattern may cease to be productive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://literarylovebooks.com/home/2018/4/10/to-finish-or-not-to-finish-that-is-the-question", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YY4ICA5KFS7G43RYXG3TJPT24YKIZ4WL", "length": 4984, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "literarylovebooks.com", "title": "To Finish Or Not To Finish- That Is The Question... \u2014 Literary Love Books", "raw_content": "Do you ever not finish a book?\nI hate not finishing books. It makes me feel like a failed; when I start a book I always have the intention of finishing it. I mean, what\u2019s the point of starting a book if you don\u2019t intend to finish reading it, right?\nI have a lot of friends who, once they get to a certain point and are still not feeling the book, stop reading it. I can\u2019t do that. I HATE not finishing a book, even one I don\u2019t like. My thinking has always been that maybe it will get better. Maybe I\u2019m just not seeing something and need to just keep reading to find out what I\u2019m missing.\nOf course, I was thinking this before I got really involved with the book world. I had the time to just sit and finish a book I was not all that into. However, now, it makes me mad that I have that itch to finish a book I just don\u2019t like. I literally have stacks of books upon stacks of books that I want to read. But I have much less time to read than I had previously, so it\u2019s a little harder to justify finishing a book I don\u2019t deem worthy.\nA lot of my friends have a strict stop-reading-if-you-don\u2019t-like-it policy and their thinking is, time is too precious to waste on horrible books. But I JUST HATE TO DO THAT!!!! I so wish I could just throw the book down but it literally annoys me!\nI\u2019ve actually started a pile on my nightstand of books that I have put in time-out. These are books I have gotten a good way through and am just not getting hooked. These books seriously mock me- they just sit by my bed and taunt me- knowing I want to finish them but also knowing I don\u2019t actually like them. They are evil that way.\nI do give books a second chance. Mostly because I can\u2019t help it. But especially if the book is popular. One of the books I had a problem with was The Bronze Horseman (Taylor if you\u2019re reading this- I\u2019m sorry). I know that is shocking- especially because so many people love that book and the series. One of my friends has been trying to get me to read the series for about a year, so I finally gave in. However, I put the first book in the series in a time-out about three times while reading it. The book was just so up and down for me. I would get really into it and then I would get so frustrated with the characters. But I\u2019ve never talked to someone who did not like the books. So of course, I was like \u2018What is wrong with me?\u2019 I just was not seeing what everyone loved about the books. Currently, I have about 200 pages left in The Bronze Horseman and I do plan to finish it and the series. But at this point, I think I\u2019m missing something about it- and I hate that feeling.\nI hate not getting what makes something so amazing or popular. And it\u2019s not that I want to be doing what everyone else is doing or want to like whatever is popular- I\u2019m just a curious person. I love knowing how things are made, done, or just simply how things work. So when I don\u2019t see the point of something that is so outrageously popular- it irks me. And for me, it wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t like The Bronze Horseman. It was just so up and down for me that I still don\u2019t get what is so amazing about the book or series. Soooo many people have this series on their top 10 favorite series of all time and even my friend gushes about it any time the books come up in conversation. It makes me feel so awkward not loving it. I have heard that the second book in the series is better so fingers crossed I figure out what all the buzz is all about.\nSometimes I run across a book that just sounds so amazing- the cover is great, the synopsis is intriguing, it has great reviews, but then I start reading it\u2026 and BLAH. I\u2019m currently reading a book that I will not name because I have not finished it, so I don\u2019t feel justified in completely ripping it to shreds (yet). However, the book sounded amazing and I couldn\u2019t wait to start it. It started off rather well, but then it just took this horrendous turn. Neither character is likeable. In fact, they are both pretty much horrible people. Yes, the characters have horrible pasts but that doesn\u2019t give you a free ride to be an ass to everyone you meet. It just doesn\u2019t!\nThis book has been in a time-out for a little over a month because it is just so horrendous. There are continuity issues, the characters are horrible, and the book, which is an adult romance book, reads like a teen wrote it (and edited it). I had to stop reading it just because I was completely shocked at how bad it was but I know I will eventually finish the book because it has so many great reviews, it has to get better, right? Unfortunately for me, the book is over 600 pages and I\u2019m currently at page 300 something\u2026 I want to finish it but I\u2019m not even sure I\u2019ll be able to.\nAs you can see from my own back and forth on the topic- to finish or not to finish- is not an easy question to answer.\nFor me, not finishing a book feels like I failed but at the same time there are so many good books that it\u2019s hard for me to justify wasting my time on a story I just don\u2019t like.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://littlelidz.bigcartel.com/product/super-long-alpaca-cloud-wrap", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:W7L2WDOWSQC26VPXHP7GHA635C7CBPP3", "length": 601, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "littlelidz.bigcartel.com", "title": "Little Lidz \u2014 Super Long Alpaca Cloud Wrap", "raw_content": "Home / Wraps / Super Long Alpaca Cloud Wrap\nThis gorgeous wrap is made from the finest grade of 100% Superfine Alpaca and is generously sized at 15 x 72 inches. 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Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.\nEach year, the Havre de Grace Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community.\nLive and Learn CPR, LLC is a certified provider through American Heart Association , The American Safety and Health Institute, The American Lung Association, The National Board of Respiratory Care, The American Red Cross and The Emergency Care and Safety Institute. We are dedicated to providing our communities with affordable, fun and comprehensive training. Our schedule is designed to fit yours, with training available 7 days a week. With our large, modern and comfortable training facility, we are able to accommodate large groups or the single student. 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We assist clients in negotiating master service agreements, contractor agreements, sales and supply agreements, licensing agreements, and other mission-critical agreements in a way that appropriately allocates risk and accurately reflects the realities of the parties\u2019 business relationship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 8855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lnu.se/en/search/?cat=311&main=Research&tags=Research+project", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2NXJOJPXDPGQ6WFXBAR5ELRWFY634V55", "length": 252, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lnu.se", "title": "Search results | Lnu.se", "raw_content": "Leadership, entrepreneurship and organisation (1)\nProject: This is a chair! What does the process look like when a company develops design furniture for an international market? It is, of course, possible to make an accurate description concerning pro\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lodeplus.com/bookish-resolutions-for-2012/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:46Z", "digest": "sha1:EZRLFX3PHVHEQEIWBZMAYEFRXFNEZCWR", "length": 4296, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "lodeplus.com", "title": "Bookish resolutions for 2012", "raw_content": "It seems hard to believe, but the time of year to make resolutions is already upon us. If you read Hartford Books Examiner, I assume that you\u2019re probably a bibliophile (at least in part). With that said, I thought I\u2019d offer a few bookish suggestions for the New Year \u2013 and you can rest easy knowing that I\u2019ll be shooting for them myself!\nUp the ante \u2013 However many books you read in 2011, whether it was four or forty, make a commitment to outdo yourself in the New Year \u2013 even if it\u2019s by one book. This sheer determination will spur you on, and you just might be surprised by the end result. (HBE read 80 books in 2010 and is flipping pages frantically to finish #100 this year \u2013 which is as surprising to me as it is to anybody else.)\nLeave your comfort zone behind \u2013 Let\u2019s face it: we like what we like. But that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not a whole other world of books/authors out there just waiting to be read. Be adventurous and try a new genre or give an up and coming writer a chance. It may just expand your mind. And if you\u2019re feeling really adventurous, why not make a spur of the moment purchase based solely on inclination? Sometimes it really is OK to judge a book by its cover.\nHaunt your local bookstore \u2013 With the state of the economy and the emergence of digital books/readers, physical bookstores are quickly disappearing from the national landscape. (Remember Borders?) And once they\u2019re gone, they\u2019re unlikely to return. Keep this in mind when making a decision about where you buy your books. It may be worth a few extra dollars to shop in-store if it means that you\u2019ll have a bookseller to visit a few months, or years, from now\u2026\nGo Indie \u2013 In addition to haunting chains, find opportunities to explore independent bookstores (yes, even if it\u2019s online). It\u2019s increasingly difficult for these treasures to compete with big box stores, and yet most offer great events, exemplary customer service, and incredible attention to detail. And remember: when you shop local, you help to keep the money within your community. (Connecticut readers: You can find a list of local bookstores here.)\nMake the connection \u2013 Speaking of events, I highly encourage you to take the opportunity to attend a book signing. There\u2019s nothing quite like meeting one of your favorite authors face-to-face (or meeting any author, for that matter). Not only will you get a feel for the personality behind the words, but you just might make his or her day. After all, writing is a solitary endeavor, and authors are often just as happy to escape the confines of their computers (not to mention the voices inside their heads) and meet readers as readers are to meet them.\nTag team it \u2013 Reading, too, is often a solitary endeavor \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Consider joining a book club, or even starting one of your own. Sharing your love of books with like-minded people \u2013 think family, friends & co-workers \u2013 may help to keep you focused and invested. It\u2019s also a good way to discover new books and ideas.\nGive the gift of reading \u2013 Books really do make great gifts. It\u2019s finding the right book that\u2019s often the challenge. Before making your choice, carefully consider a person\u2019s interests and hobbies. You\u2019d be surprised at what\u2019s out there (if only you know to look). Presenting somebody with a book can be both meaningful and personal \u2013 and it sometimes does inspire a life-long love affair with reading.\nShare of yourself \u2013 If you\u2019re really hung up on which book to give somebody, you might want to go with something that you\u2019ve enjoyed. This makes the gifting process more personal, and that connection just might inspire the cracking of the cover. And if that doesn\u2019t float your boat, give a gift card to your favorite bookseller. Most people aren\u2019t going to let one go to waste, even if they\u2019re not natural born readers. And once they have the motivation to step inside a bookstore, they may just marvel at the magic held within\u2026\nThis is but a small list of the seemingly endless possibilities, so please feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments section below. Happy (almost) New Year, dear readers! May the books be bountiful \u2013 and don\u2019t forget to wear your literary lust loud and proud in 2012\u2026\nJohn Valeri\nHartford Books Examiner\nTravel-related New Year\u2019s resolutions top list for 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 4675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lodeplus.com/darcie-chans-e-book-success-story-400000-copies-and-counting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:27Z", "digest": "sha1:64JXXHFSRXL4H2YSECBRPGFJZ7U6RI3O", "length": 3807, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "lodeplus.com", "title": "Darcie Chan\u2019s e-book success story: 400,000 copies and counting", "raw_content": "Darcie Chan\u2019s e-book success story: 400,000 copies and counting\nWhile many deride self-publishing as a last resort for authors who lack the talent or savvy to trail the traditional publishing avenue, independent author Darcie Chan\u2019s astounding success\u2014including sales of over 400,000 copies in less than a year\u2014sparks new energy for today\u2019s e-publishing hopefuls.\nHer elusive gem, The Mill River Recluse, languished in oblivion for five years while Chan searched for believers. She queried dozens of traditional publishing houses and solicited nearly 100 literary agents to consider taking a chance on her manuscript, but they all rejected the thought. \u201cNobody was willing to take a chance,\u201d Chan said. \u201cIt was too much of a publishing risk.\u201d\nIn May 2011, Chan, a smart, 37-year-old lawyer who works for the United States Senate, crossed over to digital publishing. She uploaded her manuscript to Amazon Kindle\u2019s self-publishing program and sold a few copies of the book for $2.99. Weeks later, she started selling her e-novel on Barnes & Noble\u2019s Nook and on Smashwords, a self-publishing program that distributes to major e-book retailers including Apple\u2019s iBookstore, Sony and Kobo. In addition. she purchased ad space on a few Web sites that target e-book readers, and paid for a professional review from Kirkus Reviews, a company that describes itself as a \u201ccaveat emptor service that offers honest evaluation of books, whether positive, negative or anywhere in between.\u201d\nThe Mill River Recluse\u2014the story of a disfigured and wealthy Vermont widow who bestows her fortunes on town residents who barely knew her\u2014has become one of 2011\u2019s e-book wonders. Various quotes and notes on Chan\u2019s Facebook fan page, Darcie Chan, Author track her timeline to e-book success:\nJune 28:Chan posts the release of her first novel The Mill River Recluse.\nJuly 4:Chan posts, \u201cThe Mill River Recluse is starting to take off!\u2019\nJuly 20:Chan posts, \u201cThe Mill River Recluse has cracked the top 100 in the Kindle Store, and the top 10 on the Amazon.com literary fiction e-book bestseller list.\u201d\nJuly 23: Chan posts, \u201c#35 overall in the Kindle Store; #4 & #5 on the Amazon literary fiction e-book and book lists,\u201d respectively.\nAugust 9: Chan proclaims an \u201cearly birthday present\u201d by way of a positive book review in the Huffington Post article titled Top 5 Bestselling Indie Books & Why You should Read Them.\nAugust 17: Chan says, \u201cI am freaking out just a little bit\u2026 thanks all who have read and recommended my quiet, old-fashioned little novel,\u201d after hearing the news that her novel made the New York Times e-book fiction bestseller list.\nAugust 18:Chan asks and answers her own question: \u201cCould it get any better? YES!!! Look at #62!!!!\u201d The Mill River Recluse makes USA Today\u2019s best-selling books list.\nNovember 23: Her sincere enthusiasm is refreshing as she again thanks her loyal supporters and bids them a \u201cHappy Thanksgiving.\u201d\nDecember 9: 400,000 e-book sales later and overwhelmed by her well-deserved popularity, Chan\u2019s holiday message honors and thanks her family, friends, and fans, and tells fellow writers to, \u201cNever, never give up.\u201d\nToday, Chan is receiving bids from foreign imprints, movie studios, and audio-book publishers and she never sold a single traditionally-printed hard copy.\nBowker, the U.S. ISBN and SAN Agency, says that 133,036 self-published titles were released in 2011, up from 51,237 in 2006. Than figure amounts to an e-book sales spike of over 165% in 2011, according to the Association of American Publishers. Analysts predict that e-book sales will pass $2 billion in 2013.\nThe City Harmonic\u2019s \u2018Manifesto\u2019 sells more than 100,000 copies\nChan strikes gold with two quads, uneven skate at Trophee Eric Bompard\nEven with a fall, Chan takes a solid lead in the short at Trophee Eric Bompard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 4028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lubpak.net/archives/24683", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:KIGRV3PKLN5HA63WDJ7OEKONH5FYMGV3", "length": 6785, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "lubpak.net", "title": "Obama\u2019s Wars: implications for Pakistan \u2014 by Dr Mohammad Taqi \u2013 LUBP", "raw_content": "Obama\u2019s Wars: implications for Pakistan \u2014 by Dr Mohammad Taqi\nWe do not know if Bob Woodward had meant to time it this way, but his latest book, Obama\u2019s Wars, has hit the shelves exactly 14 years after Kabul fell to the Taliban, with Pakistani \u2018security advisers\u2019 present as the marauding hordes tortured, killed and mutilated the dead body of the former Afghan president, Dr Najibullah and chased the then president Burhanuddin Rabbani to Jabal-us-Siraj, outside Kabul.\nAfter talking to 100 key individuals, sifting through countless documents and 40 major interviews including one with President Barack Obama, Woodward has once again given an insight into the workings of the White House, one that has almost become a ritual for US presidents, readers and the grand old man of the Washington press corps himself.\nImpugning Woodward\u2019s credentials as an investigative journalist, some, like Salon.com\u2019s Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Bacevich, had called him the stars\u2019 stenographer or the gossip chief. The fact, however, is that Woodward no longer has any pretensions to being the investigative journalist, who, along with Carl Bernstein, brought down a US presidency. He does not stake any claim to run-of-the-mill political punditry either.\nOver the past three decades, Bob Woodward has evolved into a contemporary historian with an unmatched knack and resources to have power players spill their guts to him. The information he presents might not be a journalistic scoop of the time-sensitive nature that geopolitical strategists can peg their forecasts on. But it still remains invaluable to the understanding of the thought process \u2014 along with its shortcomings \u2014 in how Obama will flesh up his drawdown plan.\nThe aforementioned security advisers feature repeatedly in Woodward\u2019s memo-by-memo account of the events leading up to the development of Obama\u2019s plan for a handover to the Afghans and exiting Afghanistan. They first appear on page three of the book, when the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, briefed Obama, two days after his election:\n\u201cIt was a dishonest partner of the US in the Afghan War. \u2018They are living a lie,\u2019 McConnell had said. In exchange for reimbursements of about $ 2 billion a year from the US, Pakistan\u2019s powerful military and its spy agency, ISI, helped the US while giving clandestine aid, weapons and money to the Afghan Taliban. They had an office of \u2018hedging your bets\u2019\u2026It was as if there were six or seven different personalities within the ISI. The CIA exploited and bought some, but at least one section \u2014 known as Directorate S \u2014 financed and nurtured the Taliban and other terrorist groups\u2026the Pakistani spy agency could not or would not control its own people.\u201d\nWith this massive trust deficit in the foreground, Obama gave approval for a plan proposed by Joe Biden as \u201ccounter-terrorism plus\u201d, which ultimately resulted in raising the 3,000-strong counter-terrorism pursuit teams trained to kill or capture terrorists inside Pakistan. Perhaps a coincidence that the question of hot pursuit came up this past weekend when the ISAF air strikes killed the fighters of the Haqqani network, on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line.\nWhile NATO may have softened its position from its earlier stance of using the \u2018right\u2019 of hot pursuit, Pakistani authorities will find it increasingly difficult to defend their untenable position in the face of intense pressure and scrutiny from the US in the months leading up to the July 2011 phased withdrawal.\nWe are likely to see an increasing reference to the UN Security Council Resolution 1373, which states that the state\u2019s sovereignty means that a state is duty-bound to control its territory and obligated to not allow its land to be used by non-state actors or terrorist groups to carry out attacks against its neighbours. This resolution, adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and thus binding on member states, obligates them to \u201cdeny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens\u201d.\nThis also forms the premise of what appears to be a Pakistan-specific \u2018retribution\u2019 plan, which, according to Woodward, will be triggered if there is a 9/11-like attack against the US by terrorists based or originating in Pakistan. Woodward notes: \u201cUnder this plan, the US would bomb or attack every known Al Qaeda compound or training camp in the US intelligence database\u2026The retribution plan called for a brutal, punishing attack on at least 150 or more associated camps (in Pakistan).\u201d\nThis past May, the Times Square botched terror plot nearly set the plan into motion. Leon Panetta, Lieutenant General Douglas Lute and General James Jones had conveyed in person the gravity of the situation to the Pakistani authorities on May 19, 2010 that, \u201cif that happens, all bets are off\u201d. At the time, the US delegation did not reveal that the response could entail bombing 150 sites!\nWoodward has included in his book the memorandum dictated by Obama and circulated to the principals before his December 1, 2009 speech. The fact that no other US president before Obama has ever sent out written orders for his war plans makes this document the bedrock of his Pak-Afghan strategy. Among other things, he lists two metrics, which could alter the US policy towards Pakistan:\n\u201c1) Are there indicators that we (US) have begun to shift Pakistan\u2019s strategic calculus and eventually end their active and passive support for extremists?\nHas Pakistan approved our (US) specific request for assistance against al Qaeda and other extremists, including the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network?\u201d\nBased on an assessment of these metrics, the progress of Operation Dragon Strike and the outcome of the November elections in the US, Mr Obama will make critical decisions about Pakistan, Afghanistan and his political and military teams, culminating in the Afghan strategy review.\nBarack Obama has made a candid observation to Woodward: the US can absorb a 9/11-like attack and come out strong. As a nation this is true for the United States. But politics in the US has recently taken a hard right turn and it would be impossible for Obama not to project hard personal and national power if certain red lines are crossed. As Woodward records, \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s only choice would be to respond.\u201d\nThe US is not about to handover the keys to Kabul. Hopefully, the Pakistani establishment will reconsider its strategic calculus; living lies is incongruent with the geopolitical realities.\nThe writer can be reached at mazdaki@me.com\nTags9/11 Al-Qaeda Bob Woodward ISI Kabul President Barack Obama safe havens state\u2019s sovereignty Taliban & TTP United Nations White House\nIllegitimate daughters \u2014by Gulmina Bilal Ahmad\nJamhoori amal ka irtiqaa \u2013 by Hasnain Jamil", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 10329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lyndafownes.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:05Z", "digest": "sha1:I2RPX3Q7NUWQ5OILRWHRD2J6MJJO65GU", "length": 1307, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lyndafownes.com", "title": "Home - Lynda Fownes' Website", "raw_content": "Welcome to my website and thank you for visiting. Please come back soon to see collection updates and where you can see my paintings in real space. In the mean time, you may view my Gallery of works using the menu on the left.\nFrom my beginnings in Art Education at UBC I have explored a variety of media--ceramics, textiles, painting and graphics. My artistic interest has been to experiment with incorporating what I have discovered in each medium into my paintings.\nMy early work focused on soft sculpture and fibre art and I have for several years now, returned to the idea of exploring these patterns and textures\u2014in both choice of subject and use of media. I am particularly drawn to complementary colours displayed in leaves and plants that flourish in different parts of the world, zeroing in on interesting details, which become their own unique naturescapes.\nI tend to choose subjects that might be described as \u201cpast prime\u201d. Exploring this period of life\u2019s cycle leads me to expose the hidden beauty of maturity.\nI am a longtime resident of the North Shore and enjoy hiking with my husband on the many trails in our local parks and elsewhere in the world. I joined the North Shore Artist\u2019s Guild in September 2014 and have participated in many shows since then. 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And that's not ...\nOne of the benefits of getting older is the accumulated wisdom acquired with ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/the-path-of-bolivar-hugo-chavez-and-the-future-of-venezuela/Content?oid=2172239&storyPage=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JY526255HQSJU5MTH224VYOREMRGALZV", "length": 4338, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "m.chronogram.com", "title": "The Path of Bolivar: Hugo Chavez and the Future of Venezuela | General News & Politics | Hudson Valley | Hudson Valley; Chronogram", "raw_content": "News & Politics \u00bb General News & Politics\nThe Path of Bolivar: Hugo Chavez and the Future of Venezuela\nby Josh Robinson and Lorna Tychostup\nAccording to Richard Gott in his book In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chavez and the Transformation of Venezuela, Chavez\u2019s going so far as to imply that the coup might have better luck in the future turned him into a national hero, celebrated across Venezuela in song and poetry. \u201cThe phrase \u2018for the moment,\u2019 por ahora, caught the popular imagination. The aims of the rebellion had not been secured, but most people read his message optimistically, as a sign Chavez would return to the struggle at a later date. Por ahora became his trademark slogan.\u201d\nFor their roles in the coup attempt, Chavez and other leaders were given long prison sentences, yet Chavez served only two years. During his imprisonment, he continued to organize. In 1993, P\u00e9rez was accused of corruption and removed from power through what was called a \u201ccongressional coup.\u201d New elections were held in December of 1993, and the winner, Rafael Caldera, had Chavez released from prison the following March.\nAt first, jaded by the political corruption he had witnessed, Chavez was opposed to participating in the electoral process. By 1997, he began to change his view, and in November of 1998 Chavez ran for and won the presidency with 56 percent of the vote. He was reelected in July of 2000. His policies, hugely popular among the poor and working class, have angered business and financial leaders in his country and even more powerful opponents abroad. At the root of the conflict is how Venezuela\u2019s economy is to be managed.\n\u201cVenezuela may enjoy huge oil revenues, [but] these are rapidly mopped up by a tiny percentage of the population,\u201d writes Gott. \u201cThe great majority of the country is permanently poor and hungry. While the top 10 percent of the population of 23 million receives half the national income, 40 percent, according to an estimate in 1995, live in \u2018critical poverty.\u2019 An estimated 80 percent, according to the figures of 1996, earn the minimum wage or less. As if this was not enough, this situation has been growing dramatically worse. Real purchasing power declined 35 percent between 1989 and 1995.\u201d\nFidel, Moammar, and Saddam\nWhile Venezuela is one of America\u2019s most important trading partners\u2014if only because of unequal importance of the oil sector\u2014it is also one of Cuba\u2019s. Chavez\u2019s close relationship with Fidel Castro, often described as a friendship, is but one sign of the defiant way he swims against the mainstream of neoliberal and neoconservative ideology. Chavez\u2019s revolutionary attitude is intended to suggest a connection to the historic struggle of the revolutionary movements of Che Guevara and Castro. While visiting Cuba in 1999, Chavez told Castro, \u201cHere we are\u2026Fidel and Hugo, fighting with dignity and courage to defend the interests of our people, and to bring alive the ideas of Bolivar and Marti.\u201d\nAnd if that isn\u2019t reason enough to earn him a place on Washington\u2019s hit list, Chavez also has ties to Libyan President Mommar Quadaffi. And in August of 2000 he met with now-deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, defying the us by being the first head of state to visit Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War.\nAt home, Chavez\u2019s opponents include business leaders, the mainstream media, and the upper echelon of the Catholic Church (96 percent of Venezuelans are Catholic). They have used extreme tactics to attempt to end his rule. In April 2002, while an American naval ship floated not far off shore, a short-lived coup took place in which Chavez was removed from power for three days. As depicted in the recently released documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, during this brief time Chavez never relinquished the presidency to his captors. Yet opposition leader and Chamber of Commerce head, businessman Pedro Carmona, swore himself in as president, and the segment of the military that supported Carmona announced Chavez\u2019s \u201cresignation\u201d. Palace guards and loyalists within the Venezuelan military, supported by the masses from the barrios, took back control of the government, arrested opposition leaders, and brought Chavez back to the palace amid much fanfare and relief.\nGeneral News & Politics Venezuela tyrant\nSpeaking of Venezuela, tyrant\nIn Search of Hugo Chavez", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/artifacts-the-macondo-writers-workshop/Content?oid=2241136", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:S633YDPYQANRVJCABDZ3ODINQHOUEXOD", "length": 2492, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "m.sacurrent.com", "title": "Artifacts: The Macondo Writers Workshop | Artifacts | San Antonio | San Antonio Current", "raw_content": "Arts \u00bb Artifacts\nArtifacts: The Macondo Writers Workshop\nBegun in poet and writer Sandra Cisneros\u2019 kitchen in 1998, The Macondo Writers Workshop began with a modest group of 15. Later growing to more than 150 participants, the workshop, run by the nonprofit Macondo Foundation since 2006, emphasizes compassion, non-violence, and community building, and enjoys the support of internationally renowned authors such as John Phillip Santos, Luis Rodriguez, Dorothy Allison, Joy Harjo, and Carmen Tafolla.\nThis year\u2019s workshop runs from July 23-30, with two days of events open to the public. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, LA LUZ en los Tiempos de la Oscuridad (Light in the Times of Darkness) will feature readings by Julia Alvarez, Helena Mar\u00eda Viramontes, and Manuel Mu\u00f1oz, along with music and dance performances by David Garza and S.T. Shimi. Held at the Jump-Start performance space at the Blue Star Arts Complex, the tickets are $25 general admission or $50 for table seating. The following night a free reading by Macondo Writers with music by Conjunto El Trio will be held at Thiry Auditorium at Our Lady of the Lake University from 7 to 9 p.m.\nJulia Alvarez\u2019 first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, written in 1991, won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. It was followed by four more novels, five children\u2019s books, and many essays and poetry compilations. Born in NYC, Alvarez was raised in the Dominican Republic until her family fled from violence during the time of the dictator Trujillo.\nHelena Mar\u00eda Viramontes\u2019 most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, was published by Washington Square Press. It relates stories of the homeless, the working poor, and the undocumented in Viramontes\u2019 childhood home, East Los Angeles.\nManuel Mu\u00f1oz is the author of the novel What You See in the Dark. His short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Rush Hour, Swink, Epoch, Glimmer Train, Edinburgh Review, and Boston Review, and have aired on National Public Radio\u2019s Selected Shorts. Born in Dinuba, Calif., he is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona at Tucson.\nThe founder of the Macondo Writers\u2019 Workshop, Sandra Cisneros, is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has published poetry and short stories for over 30 years. This year marks her last hands-on involvement with The Macondo Foundation, as she steps down to assume an advisory role and concentrate more on her own writing.\nFor more info, go to macondofoundation.org and jump-start.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 127.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/hustle-and-flow/Content?oid=2280722", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LBJGWLP3FD66E3FE5AK4R3XNJHLRXECC", "length": 3836, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "m.sacurrent.com", "title": "Hustle and Flow | Sports | San Antonio | San Antonio Current", "raw_content": "Last week, Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony was named the Western Conference Player of the Month, joining Alex English and Fat Lever as one of only three Nuggets to be honored with the award. On Sunday night, Anthony reminded San Antonio that April is still his month, scoring 30 points in a raucous Nuggets victory over the Spurs in Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series. Denver shooting guard Allen Iverson led the Nuggets with 31 points, but after the game it was Anthony who beamed with confidence.\n\u201cDefense,\u201d said Anthony breaking down his team\u2019s key to victory. \u201cJust defense. We knew they were going to make a couple of runs. They weren't going to let us continue playing the way we were playing in the first half. We kept our composure and we did what we said we wanted to do, which was stop them.\u201d Anthony added that 2005 (when the Nuggets also stole an opening game in SA, only to subsequently fade) and 2007 \u201care two different years, and I think right now we know what we got and we know what we want and it's going to take a lot of work to get there. Everyone is focused a little more. Everyone is sacrificing a little more to come together as a team to win.\u201d\nIn 2005, Anthony was a sophomore in the NBA carrying the Nuggets into their second straight playoff appearance, only to lose to the Spurs in five games. As a fan of Big East basketball, I\u2019ve always pulled for Carmelo Anthony, a Syracuse alum who led his college squad to the NCAA title and never came across as pre-fabricated as Lebron James, courtesy of his widely publicized missteps. Anthony\u2019s 2004 appearance on the now infamous Stop Snitching DVD, where he joked about throwing his Olympic bronze medal in a lake and kicked it with a self-confessed Baltimore drug dealer, was immortalized on a tee-shirt. Later that year, Anthony was cited for marijuana possession while boarding the team plane, and a friend of his later admitted to leaving the pot in Melo\u2019s backpack.\n\u201cYou watch music videos all day and see that,\u201d said Anthony back then, responding to Stop Snitching in front of Denver television reporters. \u201cYou could say the same thing if I was in a music video. I'm not really concerned about it. I don't hang with drug dealers. I surround myself with good people.\u201d\nThe Nuggets\u2019 2006-07 season can essentially be broken down into two parts. There\u2019s the time before Anthony punched New York Knicks guard Mardy Collins and was subsequently suspended for 15 games, which spurred the Nuggets\u2019 decision to make a deal for hip-hop icon Allen Iverson. Prior to his return to the Nuggets Anthony sent a letter to the Denver Post reflecting on his time away from the game.\n\u201cI've spent this time off working on my game and reflecting on who I am. And who I want to be,\u201d Anthony wrote. \u201cI want all of you to know that I plan to be better, stronger and smarter on the court than I've ever been before. I've never been more dedicated to becoming the best player and teammate that I can be.\u201d\n\u201cI've also spent time thinking about the huge responsibilities I have as the captain of the Denver Nuggets, the captain of Team USA, a face of the NBA, and a role model to young people,\u201d Anthony continued. \u201cI'm aware that a great deal is expected of me, and not just as a player. I'm expected to make the right decisions, lead by example and to be a professional.\u201d\nEarly this season, a Denver Post writer succinctly described Anthony this way: \u201cHe remains a work in progress, still prone to making decisions a man 10 years his elder learns to avoid.\u201d With the fiercely competitive Iverson at his side, however, comes greater wisdom, a puncher\u2019s chance at the NBA title, and the possibility of gold in the upcoming Olympics.\nDespite the Nuggets\u2019 new-found luster, and the very real threat presented by the Anthony-Iverson tandem, I\u2019ll still take the Spurs in six.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://macfrazier.com/2009/11/i-am-slow-to-anger-perhaps-be/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PZRW5BSAU6SSNZKQQGICJVBRAL4NV6NU", "length": 151, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "macfrazier.com", "title": "I am slow to anger \u00ab MacFrazier.com", "raw_content": "\u00ab Tell Everyone, \u201cTaste and See!\u201d\nA new way of seeing God\u2026 \u00bb\nI am slow to anger, perhaps because when I get pulled across that line, I\u2019m so good at it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madamenoire.com/420991/detroits-selling-abandoned-homes-1000-strings-attached/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:H2C3PYTRDROT3YNYFH6LRCXJLURCECYC", "length": 1856, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "madamenoire.com", "title": "Detroit\u2019s Selling Homes For $1,000\u2013With A Few Strings Attached | MadameNoire", "raw_content": "Detroit\u2019s Selling Abandoned Homes For $1,000\u2013With A Few Strings Attached\nImagine buying a home in Detroit for $1,000? Well, it\u2019s possible but there are some strings attached.\nUnder a new program launched by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan called Building Detroit, thousands of vacant and dilapidated houses will be auctioned off.\n\u201cThe Detroit Land Bank Authority\u2019s Building Detroit auction site initially lists several city-owned homes in East English Village, a residential neighborhood on Detroit\u2019s east side, with starting bids of $1,000 each. The auction for each property will last one day only, with staggered dates in May,\u201d reports The Huffington Post\nHere are those strings: Winning bidders in the Building Detroit auction must promise to fix the homes to make them up to code within six months\u2013and then actually live in it. And some of the houses need extensive repairs but must be bought without having seen what\u2019s inside.\nBidders must be Michigan residents, companies and organizations who have not lost a property due to back taxes in Wayne County in the last three years. So no out-of-state bidders.\n\u201cWe are not looking for speculators,\u201d Detroit Land Bank Chair Erica Ward Gerson said in a statement. \u201cIf you\u2019re not going to act diligently to fix up the house, you\u2019ll lose the house and your money.\u201d\nDuggan is also taking aim at people who abandon homes. The city is pursuing legal action some owners in the 16-block Marygrove neighborhood, giving owners six months to repair and occupy their homes. According to CBS Detroit, Duggan said he would \u201csue the owner of every single abandoned house.\u201d\n\u201cStarting today, it\u2019s no longer acceptable to leave behind a vacant property in the city of Detroit,\u201d the mayor said in a statement last week. \u201cEither you can fix it up, or the city will seize the property and get it into the hands of someone who will.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madamenoire.com/99585/ncaa-signs-11-billion-contract-should-players-get-something-too/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5EXPFQFD52EXOIAYIL2CTULQD54RK757", "length": 535, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "madamenoire.com", "title": "NCAA Signs $11 Billion Contract: Should Players Get Something, Too | MadameNoire", "raw_content": "NCAA Signs $11 Billion Contract: Should Players Get Something, Too\n(BVonMoney.com) \u2014 The NCAA just got a bit richer this year, signing a new contract with CBS Sports and Turner Sports for $10.8 billion dollars over 14 years. This contract is a 41 percent increase over the mammoth deal the NCAA signed back in 2001. It is also going to expand the tournament field to 68 teams, from the original 65. This is not the total annual revenue for the league. Instead, it simply represents the television rights to air March Madness each year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madisonemergencyphysicians.com/halberg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:U3H3M5PTT2HWJJOHJ5A44Q4TVWHV5ZU3", "length": 134, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "madisonemergencyphysicians.com", "title": "Halberg", "raw_content": "Michael Halberg, MD\n2002, BS, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI\nEmergency Medicine, 2006-2009, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madmuslims.com/2019/02/05/philippines-christians-slaughtered-churches-bombed/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MCQ7NWSTV4IOBZBOO4FT24ZUZ53GTP66", "length": 309, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "madmuslims.com", "title": "Philippines: Christians Slaughtered, Churches Bombed | Mad Muslims", "raw_content": "Philippines: Christians Slaughtered, Churches Bombed\nIn other words, the new terrorism in the Philippines is not merely inspired by political or territorial grievances, real or imagined, but rather is imbued with intrinsic hate for the \"other\"\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor the \"infidel.\" In May 2017, for instance, in the ...city of", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mailinrepairs.thedeviceshop.com/products/one-side-not-working", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DYWKZXZKB5LYQUGHRIB7TXFR7IWFYVYW", "length": 296, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mailinrepairs.thedeviceshop.com", "title": "One Side Not Working \u2013 The Device Shop", "raw_content": "Home \u203a One Side Not Working\nSolo - $75.00 USD Solo 2 - $75.00 USD Studio - $75.00 USD\nOne of the most common problems with Beats By Dre headphones is that one of the sides stop playing music. Generally this is repaired by replacing the internal wire, but it could also be caused by another issue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makingstridessecondlife.org/img_1879/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:L6BJK77FFL4H4HIBEFCUQ3LE2KOLB33A", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "makingstridessecondlife.org", "title": "IMG_1879 | Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Across Second Life", "raw_content": "Published September 24, 2018 at 512 \u00d7 256 in IMG_1879.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 156.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://management.eller.arizona.edu/people/nathan-podsakoff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BSJ5Q4DEX55OB6OYHLF7SK3JIH2V5X2R", "length": 6390, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "management.eller.arizona.edu", "title": "Nathan Podsakoff | Department of Management and Organizations", "raw_content": "podsakof@email.arizona.edu\nMcClelland Hall 405PP\nnathan_p._podsakoff_cv.pdf\nPh.D., Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, University of Florida\nA.B., Psychology, Princeton University\nEmployee Citizenship/Prosocial Behavior\nScholarly Impact in the Field of Management\nResearch Methods in Organizational Research\nBNAD/HNRS 330 Leadership in Organizations\nMGMT 336 Leadership in Organizations\nMGMT 554 Research Methodology\nMGMT 600 Behavioral Science Theory and Method\nMethot, J.R., LePine, J.A., Podsakoff, N.P., & Christian, J.S. (In press). Are workplace friendships a mixed blessing? Exploring tradeoffs of multiplex relationships and their associations with job performance. Personnel Psychology.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Maynes, T. Whiting, S.W., & Podsakoff, P.M. (2015). One (rating) from many (observations): Factors affecting the individual assessment of voice behavior in groups. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 1189-1202.\nSlaughter, J.E., Christian, M.S., Podsakoff, N.P., Sinar, E.F., & Lievens, F. (2014). On the limitations of using situational judgment tests to measure interpersonal skills: The moderating influence of employee anger. Personnel Psychology, 67, 847-885.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Whiting, S.W., Welsh, D.W., & Mai, M. (2013). Surveying for artifacts: The susceptibility of the OCB--performance evaluation relationship to common rater, item, and measurement context effects. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 863-874.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Podsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.B., & Klinger, R. (2013). Are we really measuring what we say we\u2019re measuring? Using video techniques to supplement traditional construct validation procedures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 99-113.\nWhiting, S.W., Maynes, T. Podsakoff, N.P., & Podsakoff, P.M. (2012). Effects of context, source, and message characteristics on evaluations of employee voice behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 159-182.\nPodsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.B., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2012). Sources of method bias in social science research and recommendations on how to control it. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 539-569.\nMacKenzie, S.B., Podsakoff, P.M., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2011). Challenge-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors and organizational effectiveness: Do challenge-oriented behaviors really have an impact on the organization\u2019s bottom line? Personnel Psychology, 64, 559-592.\nMacKenzie, S.B., Podsakoff, P.M., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2011). Construct measurement and validation procedures in MIS and behavior research: Integrating new and existing techniques. MIS Quarterly, 35, 293-334.\nKuskova, V.V., Podsakoff, N.P., & Podsakoff, P.M. (2011). Effects of theoretical contribution and methodological rigor, and journal quality on the impact of scale development articles in the field of entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5, 10-36.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Whiting, S.W., Podsakoff, P.M., & Mishra, P. (2011). Effects of organizational citizenship behaviors on selection decisions in employment interviews. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 310-326.\nJudge, T.A., Piccolo, R.P., Podsakoff, N.P., Shaw, J.C., & Rich, B.L. (2010). The relationship between pay and job satisfaction: A meta-analysis of the literature. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 77, 157-167.\nOrgan, D.W., Podsakoff, P.M., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2010). Expanding the criterion domain to include organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): Implications for employee selection. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 281-323). Washington, DC: APA.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Podsakoff, P.M., & Kuskova, V.V. (2010). Dispelling misconceptions and providing guidelines for leader reward and punishment behavior. Business Horizons, 53, 3,291-303.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Whiting, S.W., Podsakoff, P.M., & Blume, B.D. (2009). Individual- and organizational-level consequences of organizational citizenship behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 122-141.\nPodsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.B., Podsakoff, N.P., & Bachrach, D.G. (2008). Scholarly influence in the field of management: A bibliometric analysis of university and author impact on the management literature during the past quarter century. Journal of Management, 34, 641-720.\nPodsakoff, N.P., LePine, J.A., & LePine, M.A. (2007). Differential challenge stressor-hindrance stressor relationships with job attitudes, turnover intentions, turnover, and withdrawal behavior: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 438-454.\nPodsakoff, P.M., Bommer, W.H., Podsakoff, N.P., & MacKenzie, S.B. (2006). Relationships between leader reward and punishment behavior and subordinate attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors: A meta-analytic review of existing and new research. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 113-142.\nPodsakoff, N.P., Shen, W., & Podsakoff, P.M. (2006).The role of formative measurement models in strategic management research: Review, critique, and implications for future research. In D.J. Ketchen and D.D. Bergh (Eds.), Research Methods in Strategy and Management. (Vol. 3, pp. 201-256). Greenwich, CN: JAI.\nLePine, J.A., Podsakoff, N.P., & LePine, M.A. (2005). A meta-analytic test of the challenge stressor-hindrance stressor framework: An explanation for inconsistent relationships among stressors and performance. Academy of Management Journal, 48, 764-775.\nPodsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.M., Bachrach, D.G., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2005). The influence of management journals in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s. Strategic Management Journal, 26, 473-488.\nPodsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.M., Lee, J., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2003). Common method variance in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 879-903.\nPodsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.M., Podsakoff, N.P., & Lee, J. (2003). The mismeasure of man(agement) and its implications for leadership research. Leadership Quarterly, 14, 615-656.\nPersonnel Psychology (Associate Editor)\nAcademy of Management Research Methods Division/Sage Publications/CARMA\u2019s Early Career Achievement Award (2014)\nCo-recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology\u2019s William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award (Best Paper in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2005)\nRecipient of the Department of Management & Organizations Outstanding Teaching Award (2010).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 9617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 161.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marathonkids.org/marathon-kids-awards-more-than-one-million-dollars-in-funding/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:AU5MW47ERRHPMANWTTZY3A7KZBBNUCPH", "length": 2128, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "marathonkids.org", "title": "Marathon Kids Awards More Than One Million Dollars in Funding - Marathon Kids", "raw_content": "AUSTIN, TX, January 14, 2019\u2014 Marathon Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to showing kids that through running they can achieve more than they ever thought possible, announced today the results of its 2018/19 national grant. Funded primarily by corporate and private sponsors, Marathon Kids uses national grant funds to help dedicated adults all over the United States to start run clubs in their schools and communities.\nThis school year, Marathon Kids was able to provide $1,206,307 in funding to 559 run clubs, which helped get 82,023 kids running. Grants were awarded to recipients across 36 states, prioritizing schools and communities of high need.\nGrant recipients received awards that allowed them to register participants for the Marathon Kids program at no cost. These new clubs have started their season and club members have begun running and walking, earning miles one day at a time. Many students have already met their first marathon milestone (26.2 miles) and are now working towards achieving their second, third and fourth marathon goals.\n\u201cWe are grateful to all of our community partners who support the Marathon Kids mission to get kids moving and put them on the path to a healthier life,\u201d said Marathon Kids CEO Cami Hawkins. \u201cThanks to the generous financial support of our sponsors, Marathon Kids around the country have the opportunity this school year to be more active, and to fall in love with physical activity.\u201d\nMarathon Kids sponsors include Nike, H-E-B, St. David\u2019s Foundation, Fort Bend Medical Society Alliance, Dell Children\u2019s Health Plan, MedSpring, Bender Foundation, and Kids in the Game.\nMarathon Kids empowers teachers, parents, and coaches to start Marathon Kids run clubs in their homes, schools, camps, and community. Kids enrolled in the program work at their own pace to run, or walk, the equivalent mileage of up to four marathons (104.8 miles) over the course of the run club season. Marathon Kids provides the training, rewards, tools, and resources to a network of dedicated, motivated, and inspiring coaches, supporting them every step of the way.\nHeidi Gollub, Chief Marketing Officer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://margueriteward.com/2015/12/29/muslim-rap-duo-deen-squad-crushes-facebook-with-not-a-terrorist-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:52Z", "digest": "sha1:L2XDAVNKLL6WLMP6JJNZRQR52Q4SPG72", "length": 1802, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "margueriteward.com", "title": "Muslim Rap Duo Challenges Prejudice | Marguerite Ward", "raw_content": "Days before the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, two young Muslim rappers who go by the name Deen Squad released the song \u201cMuslim Man.\u201d The music video features the duo riding on SwegWays while rapping and holding signs that read \u201cNo, I\u2019m not a terrorist.\u201d\nDeen Squad members Jae Deen and Karter Zaher asked their combined 1.2 million Facebook followers to post pictures with signs that read: \u201cI\u2019m Muslim, and I\u2019m not a terrorist.\u201d Since then, the related hashtag #MuslimsAreNotTerrorist has gone viral, and their music video has more than 39 million impressions and 7.8 million views on Facebook.\nNow the Ottowa, Canada-based duo say their music is more important than ever before.\n\u201cOur music has become a voice with what has happened [in Paris.] It\u2019s a voice against all these stereotypes that rise. It gives Muslim youth hope. We\u2019re saying, \u2018No, you\u2019re not violent or terrorists, that\u2019s not the case, that\u2019s not who you are. You\u2019re Muslim, you\u2019re peaceful,\u2019\u201d Deen told International Business Times.\nDeen, 21, and Zaher, 23, met this year when they enrolled in the same class at Carleton University. They quickly bonded over their love for music and Islam, and decided to start producing songs. Their style is to take music from popular songs and overlay clever Islam-inspired lyrics. \u201cMuslim Man\u201d is a remix of the hit song \u201cClassic Man,\u201d which Kendrick Lamar recently remixed. Deen Squad\u2019s \u201cMuslim Queen\u201d borrows from Fetty Wap\u2019s song \u201cTrap Queen,\u201d and \u201cFriday\u201d is based on Drake\u2019s song \u201cTuesday.\u201d\n[For the full article, check out IBTimes]\nTags: Deen Squad, International business times, Islam, Jae Deen, Karter Zaher, Muslim rap. Bookmark the permalink.\nPrevious post \u2190 Democratic Debate Breaks Records in Live-Streaming and TV\nNext post The Book Industry Narrative For 2015? It\u2019s Complicated \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/great-topps-monopoly-6-conflict/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NEFDVKWSRQCT6EXPFSMFAOYU7FPOEWIY", "length": 10159, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com", "title": "Great Topps Monopoly 6: Conflict \u2013 Mark Armour", "raw_content": "Great Topps Monopoly 6: Conflict\nThe Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) was formed in 1954 but was nothing more than a house union for the next dozen years. The way it operated was something like this: A couple of times a year, a few player representatives met with some owner representatives and made a few requests, like \u201cthe shower heads in Cincinnati aren\u2019t putting out enough pressure.\u201d The owners would come back in a few months having resolved some of the issues. The players had a pension, which mainly came from the TV rights to the All-Star Game, and little else.\nIn early 1966 the players hired Marvin Miller, a labor economist from United Steelworkers, to be their new executive director. In baseball, nothing else was ever the same again. Over the next several years, Miller and the players engaged in true collective bargaining, earning increased benefits, larger salaries, an impartial grievance procedure, and, ultimately, limited free agency.\nIn September 1966, the MLBPA created a group licensing program\u2014allowing companies to make deals with the union to use players\u2019 names and pictures to sell products. Of vital importance, the star players (who were often the only ones the company wanted to use) effectively signed over potential income to the union rather than trying to work out their own deals. Miller soon signed a contract with Coca-Cola to use player photos on the underside of bottle caps, netting $60,000 per year for two years. This deal helped keep the union afloat.\nInevitably, Miller turned his attention to Topps. As we have seen, Topps had individual deals with each player\u2014minor leaguers received five dollars as a binder to lock them in for five years, then $125 if they appeared on a card or made a Major League roster for at least 31 days. Topps made sure they regularly renewed these deals to keep players perpetually signed. This all seemed inadequate to Miller, who set up a meeting with Topps, whose president, Joel Shorin, told him: \u201cThere will be no changes because, honestly, I don\u2019t see the muscle in your position.\u201d\nA year later, having made no progress, Miller advised the players to utilize the only weapon they had\u2014to withhold renewing their individual Topps contracts. The players went one better, in most cases refusing to pose for Topps photographers during spring training or throughout the 1968 season. In November 1968, Topps completely caved, agreeing to double their annual stipend (to $250 per year) and to pay a royalty of 8 percent on revenue up to $4 million in sales, 10 percent thereafter. In the first year of the deal the players collected $320,000 from Topps, about $500 per player. By the early 1980s, the players collected more than 10 times that from baseball cards.\nOne could say that this was the first time the fledgling union used their collective power to effect change, and its success was obvious. Jim Bouton later said that the episode convinced the union of Miller\u2019s wisdom, and it allowed the union to be self-funding. That said, the player boycott also seriously impacted Topps baseball cards in 1968, and (especially) 1969. Topps still had their contracts but were now missing several month\u2019s worth of photos.\nThis was the first year I bought cards from the start of the year, but I lacked both focus and funds (I was seven years old), and my actual accumulation was relatively small. Ask an old collector about these cards today and you will find varied opinions. The speckled border might be either a fun nostalgic memory or an eyesore, but I have much affection for them. The backs of the cards were great\u2014they were very similar to the 1967s, replacing green with yellow but employing the same vertical style that allowed for fewer columns of stats but more text.\nFollowing the pattern of the time, most of the photos needed for the 1968 cards had already been taken by the time of the players\u2019 boycott, although not all. Reggie Jackson, who came up in August 1967 and was one of the best prospects in baseball (he had been the No. 2 pick in the 1966 amateur draft), had no Topps card in 1968 though he was no longer even a rookie. In fact, he warranted a place on one of three \u201cAthletics Rookie Stars\u201d cards (a total of six players) that came out in 1967. I am speculating here, but my guess is that the Topps photographer showed up to take Reggie\u2019s picture in March 1968 (for use in a late-series issue that season), and Reggie, or more likely the A\u2019s team as a unit, went along with the boycott. In his first full season Jackson was one of the league\u2019s best hitters, but the card-collecting youth of America had to make do without him. His first Topps card came out in 1969, nearly two years after his debut, and (as his rookie card) is fairly valuable today.\nSeveral other players made debuts in 1968\u2014like Bobby Cox and Bobby Bonds\u2014that Topps did not get into the set. Sparky Lyle reached the Majors in July 1967, even before Jackson, and also did not get his first card until 1969.\nThere were other effects. Topps put out team cards for just 13 of the 20 teams, reduced their Rookie Stars cards, and put out just two multiplayer group cards. One of these, featuring Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew, is one of the most popular cards in the set but was taken at the All-Star Game in 1964.\nOne of the unresolved (at least to me) mysteries of Topps baseball cards in the 1960s involves the Houston Astros. The Houston club officially changed its name after the 1964 season from the Colt .45s to the Astros. Topps did not issue team cards for the Astros for six years, though the base player cards were unaffected through 1967.\nIn 1968 Topps stopped using the name \u201cAstros,\u201d instead using the team name of \u201cHouston,\u201d and did not show the Astros hats or uniforms\u2014the cards used headshots with blacked out or missing hats. In 1969 they followed the same pattern until the fifth series, when the uniforms were suddenly shown again. In 1970, things were finally corrected, and the name \u201cASTROS\u201d was back.\nThe unconfirmed story is that the Astros and Monsanto (the maker of AstroTurf) had a dispute over the use of the name, and Topps either chose or was compelled to stay out of it. The Astros had very attractive uniforms in those days, but they were largely unseen by the kids of 1968 and 1969.\nAll told, in 1968 Topps ended up with 105 hatless photos, and another 35 altered hats (largely because of the Astros problem and the move of the Athletics to Oakland). One can see why Topps was anxious to settle with the players union.\nThis was a big year for yours truly, as it was for Neil Armstrong and Richard Nixon. I played on an organized team for the first time, attended my first big league game, visited the Baseball Hall of Fame, began performing (private) baseball research projects, and bought baseball cards all summer. Although I have been a fairly steady baseball enthusiast nearly my whole life, 1969, at age eight, was likely my peak year as a fan. I have basically been coasting since then.\nThe 1969 Topps design remains a favorite. Unlike the previous year\u2019s distracting border, Topps has the color photo stretch nearly to all four corners, with the simple design elements set on top. As I have said several times, this is my preferred model. The backs returned to horizontal, with a bright red border, easy-to-read stats, a fun cartoon, and text. If all of the cards were like Brooks Robinson\u2019s, this set could make a case as the best Topps ever put out.\nUnfortunately, the 1969 set has a lot of problems. First off, there were four new teams\u2014the Expos, Padres, Pilots, and Royals\u2014newly filled with players that Topps needed to show without a hat or with a blackened logo. Second, there was the continuing problem with the Astros, creating a fifth hampered team. Topps had to use 125 hatless photos and another 73 with a blackened hat, accounting together for 37 percent of the base player cards.\nFinally, there were the lingering effects of the player boycott. Though the situation had been resolved in late 1968, Topps still had very few recent photos to use when they laid out the next year\u2019s card set. One casualty was the team card subset, which Topps scrapped for the first time since 1955. (This did not bother me honestly.)\nMore importantly, literally dozens of cards, well more than 100 in all, used recycled photographs. The Joe Morgan, Henry Aaron, and Tom Seaver cards used the same photo as 1968. Carl Yastrzemski and Ernie Banks showed the same photo but cropped a bit closer. Willie Mays\u2019s card was a recropping of his 1966 card. Johnny Bench\u2019s card, the first one he had to himself, was taken several years before when he was in the minor leagues.\nOne of the more interesting cases involves Larry Haney, who is shown in an identical photo except with a reversed negative (confusing kids everywhere as a left-handed catcher) and a new team.\nTo Topps\u2019 credit, they hustled to spring training to take a lot of new photos and got many of them in the set beginning with the fifth series. For those of us who hung in there deep into the summer, we were rewarded with beautiful new cards showing the uniforms of the four expansion teams, the Astros (finally!), and the Oakland Athletics. Opening these cards in late summer, as I readied for fourth grade, was a supreme joy.\nThere was an interesting artifact of this set involving Ted Williams. In late January 1969 the Washington Senators hired Williams to replace Jim Lemon as their manager. This was a bit late for Topps, who put Lemon on a card in the third series. But seeing how this was Ted Williams, whom Topps had not used since 1958, they gave Williams both a multiplayer card and his own base card in late summer, meaning that the Senators had two manager cards that year. Sadly, Topps would retire multiplayer cards after this season.\nNext week: Along with their standard card set, Topps also produced many attractive insert sets and standalone sets throughout these years. I will show some of my favorites.\nOne thought on \u201cGreat Topps Monopoly 6: Conflict\u201d\nPrevious Previous post: Great Topps Monopoly 5: Rookie Cards\nNext Next post: Great Topps Monopoly 7: Collecting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 12254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbclinicalacademy.com/related-links/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OGZ7PSRI5T2DB3VCTJQKE2VDISOSRKGZ", "length": 697, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mbclinicalacademy.com", "title": "Related Links | MB Clinical Academy", "raw_content": "Below are links to additional resources for clinicians and research professionals about cardiometabolic health.\nNational Lipid Association (NLA) https://www.lipid.org\nAmerican College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) http://acsm.org\nAmerican Heart Association (AHA) http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/\nAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) http://www.eatright.org\nAmerican College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) https://www.lifestylemedicine.org\nThe Obesity Society (TOS) http://www.obesity.org/home\nAmerican Society for Nutrition (ASN) http://nutrition.org\nAmerican College of Nutrition (ACN) http://americancollegeofnutrition.org\nCardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) https://www.cardiometabolichealth.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mcponj.org/criminal-justice-process/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7DECRPV7XHYQBWNVFGL5N4M4ORFWDBB4", "length": 31369, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "mcponj.org", "title": "Criminal Justice Process | Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor", "raw_content": "The Criminal Justice System: How It Works\nWithin the criminal justice system, the local or state government investigates crimes and prosecutes people who break the law. It is the responsibility of the government to maintain law and order in our communities. A crime is not only a crime against a person; it is a crime against society, or the State. Because of this, the case is called \u201cthe State versus the defendant.\u201d The State takes the responsibility of prosecuting people who break the law and for ensuring general public safety.\nOur criminal justice system was also designed to make sure that each and every citizen accused of a crime is treated fairly. Because it is important to be fair, the criminal justice process can often seem slow. Understanding this process helps you know what to expect. It is important to remember, however, that every case is different.\nWhen someone reports a crime or the police catch someone committing a crime, a report of the crime is written. This is called an incident report. An investigation must be done to try to find evidence about the crime and about the person who committed the crime. During the investigation, police officers or other law enforcement officers must find enough evidence to prove that the person accused of the crime really committed the crime.\nBefore someone can be arrested, the evidence collected by the police must show that there is \u201cprobable cause\u201d (good reason to believe) that a crime was committed and that the accused either committed or took part in committing the crime. The investigation leading to an arrest or charge may take a long time, or it may take only a short time depending on many factors: Do the police know who is suspected of committing the crime? Did that person leave the area? Is there any physical evidence to collect? The police and other investigators must find witnesses and talk to them. Scientific or laboratory tests may have to be completed. No matter how long it takes, all information and evidence must be collected so that all the facts can be given to the court.\nThe criminal justice process usually begins with a complaint. The complaint is an official court document and once it is signed must go through the criminal justice system. In a complaint, either the victim or a police officer accuses a person of committing a crime. The person who signs this document is called the complainant. The complainant swears that the information in the complaint is the truth. The person accused of committing the crime is called the defendant.\nComplaints are usually completed in the municipal court of the town or city where the crime took place. The municipal court judge, the court clerk or a police officer in charge can administer an oath to the complainant. This means that one of these officials asks the person filing the complaint to swear that what they say in the complaint is the truth.\nA third way someone can be charged with a crime is if the police and the prosecutor\u2019s office investigate a crime and take the information collected (evidence) to the grand jury. The grand jury listens to all the information and decides if the accused could have committed the crime and then makes a formal charge.\nThe following sections explain how a case involving a crime or indictable offense is processed through the criminal justice system. Non-indictable offenses are handled at the municipal court, except for first appearances for charges placed on warrant-complaints, or pretrial detention hearings.\nArrest and Pre-Trial Release\nThe last section described the steps leading to the arrest of someone accused of committing a crime. When a person is arrested, the person\u2019s status in the criminal justice system changes. He or she is now a formal defendant. Prior to arrest, a person may have been a suspect or target of an investigation but the arrest makes that person a defendant. The defendant has certain rights, such as the right to an attorney, the right to make a telephone call and the right to medical treatment.\nUpon arrest, the defendant is searched and processed by the police or \u201cbooked.\u201d This process consists of taking the defendant\u2019s name, address, date of birth, a picture and fingerprints. This procedure is followed in all indictable offenses, every drug, prostitution or shoplifting case, and most domestic violence cases.\nWith the 2017 criminal justice legislation, the prior resource-based bail system was replaced by a risk-based system. Accordingly, once an arrestee has been fingerprinted, the police officer will also run what is called a preliminary Public Safety Assessment (PSA), which will make a recommendation as to whether the complaint should be placed on a warrant or a summons. There are a number of factors that are relevant to the warrant/summons recommendation including the type of charge, the arrestee\u2019s prior criminal record, and history of any failure to appear for court. The officer may also request that the court deviate from that recommendation, as there are factors not considered by the PSA such as juvenile or out-of-state record, any gang affiliations, or most commonly if there is a need for conditions such as no victim contact. A court can only impose conditions, such as reporting requirements, no victim contact, no return to the scene of the crime, etc., if a warrant-complaint issues. If the complaint is issued before the defendant is in police custody, the officer will communicate all known information to the municipal court judge, who will decide whether the complaint should be placed on a warrant or summons.\nEssentially, if a warrant-complaint (versus a summons-complaint) is signed against an individual, within 24-48 hours that person must be brought before a municipal court judge for a \u201cfirst appearance\u201d at the county jail at which time defendant, represented by counsel, will be presented with a copy of his/her complaint, advised of certain rights, provided with his final Public Safety Assessment (PSA) scores, and reviewed for any conditions of his/her release. An assistant prosecutor represents the State at these proceedings, regardless of whether the charge is indictable or disorderly persons. If the State files a motion for pretrial detention, essentially asking the Court to hold a defendant without bail pending trial, then the defendant is held over at MCCI for the detention hearing, generally held within three business days at the Monmouth County Courthouse. The State can request pretrial detention for indictable crimes, and disorderly persons offenses that are domestic in nature. An intake prosecutor will represent the State at the detention hearings as well, regardless of whether the charge is an indictable or a disorderly persons domestic.\nAt the first court appearance, the judge hears information about the charges, tells the defendant about his or her rights and asks the defendant to say if he or she is guilty or not guilty. The judge must also decide if the defendant can be released before the trial.\nFirst Appearance Hearings are usually held Monday through Friday at the Monmouth County Correctional Institute (MCCI). When the hearings are held on weekends, holidays, or during scheduled or unscheduled closings, the hearings may be available on the NJ Courts website. To view the Virtual Courtroom hearing on the website, please go to; www.njcourts.gov/vc, select the county name and select \u201cclick here\u201d to watch. If the page says, \u201cThe video is unavailable\u201d, the court event may not have started. It will be necessary to refresh the browser page until you see the event begin.\nNot all defendants are released at the first appearance. If the State files a motion for pretrial detention, asking the court to hold a defendant without bail pending trial, then the defendant is held over at MCCI for the detention hearing. Detention hearings are heard in front of a Superior Court Judge, generally held within three business days of the first appearance. The State can request pretrial detention for indictable crimes, and for any disorderly persons offenses that are domestic in nature. An intake prosecutor will represent the State at the detention hearings as well, regardless of whether the charge is an indictable or a disorderly persons domestic.\nIntake Case Screening\nThe primary responsibility of the Unit is to handle first appearances for all complaint-warrants, and all detention hearings for indictable warrants and domestic violence disorderly persons. The Intake and Screening Unit is staffed by an assistant prosecutor who serves as Unit Director, several additional assistant prosecutors, two paralegals, and numerous support personnel.\nThe Intake Unit receives all indictable adult complaints, along with any related non-indictable charges and/or motor vehicle tickets, from the 53 municipalities in Monmouth County. Police reports, criminal case histories, police reports and other relevant documentation is placed in a case file, and is sent to the Unit Director for screening. After the case is reviewed, a decision is made by the Director to forward the case for Grand Jury presentation, list the case for preindictment court, downgrade the charges and send the case to municipal court, or administratively dismiss the charges outright. Relevant screening factors include the following: the facts of the case, the strength of the evidence, the possibility of the evidence being suppressed by a court, the defendant\u2019s prior criminal history, the wishes of the victim, the rehabilitative needs of the defendant, and the impact of the crime on society in general. Some cases that are originally screened for Grand Jury may become re-screened as further information becomes available.\nThe Intake Unit also incorporates other programs that represent alternatives to traditional prosecution, namely Preindictment Court (PIC), Pretrial Intervention (PTI), and Drug Court.\nPreindictment Court (PIC)\nThe Pre-Indictment Program provides an opportunity for early resolution of simple cases. Pre-Indictment Program is scheduled on a weekly basis, with approximately 30-35 cases listed. PIP provides an opportunity for a defendant, as a represent by a defense attorney, to confer with the PIP prosecutor regarding pending criminal cases. Generally, PIP is appropriate for cases that are straightforward in nature, with presumed non-custodial sentences and involving defendants who are not subject already to supervision or who have matters pending in the trial division.\nPretrial Intervention (PTI)\nPretrial Intervention is a program which diverts a criminal defendant from the normal course of prosecution. PTI, which lasts from one to three years, requires a defendant to fulfill certain conditions, similar to probation, when admitted to the program. Upon successful completion of the program, the indictment is dismissed. The application process requires the PTI prosecutor to review the application an accompanying report prepared by criminal case management, and make a recommendation to the County Prosecutor whether to accept or reject the defendant. More information about Pretrial Intervention is found in the FAQ section.\nMost cases in the criminal justice system end during plea negotiation. The plea negotiation is an agreement between the assistant prosecutor and the defendant in which the defendant pleads guilty to a crime and the assistant prosecutor agrees to do something for the defendant. Most often the assistant prosecutor agrees to drop some of the charges against the defendant or say that the defendant will be sentenced to a shorter time in prison. Sometimes, plea agreements include a promise by the defendant to give evidence against other defendants in a case.\nPlea negotiations happen in almost every case and are a necessary part of the process for many reasons. First, cases end much faster. Also, more cases can be processed in light of a busy and crowded court calendar. Trials are very time-consuming. The assistant prosecutor considers several factors when negotiating, including the type of crime, the prior criminal record of the defendant, the impact of the crime on the victim and the strength of the case.\nPlea negotiations are an important part of the process for many reasons. A plea before trial can be a guarantee that a defendant will be punished for the crime in some way. A conviction after a trial is not always guaranteed. It also means that victims and other witnesses will not have to suffer the trauma of testifying in court. Additionally, these cases are handled much faster which means defendants are punished sooner and victims can get on with their lives sooner.\nThe judge has the final say on any plea agreement. The judge considers the plea agreement at the pre-trial conference or plea disposition conference. During this court meeting, the plea agreement becomes a part of the official court record. The judge can decide not to allow the plea agreement. If this happens, the assistant prosecutor must start plea negotiations over again. If the judge thinks the plea agreement is reasonable, then the judge asks the defendant to say exactly why he or she is willing to accept the plea agreement. The defendant must tell the judge facts about the crime so that the judge can be sure the defendant is the one who committed the crime. None of these statements can be used against the defendant if the case later goes to trial.\nIf the defendant and the assistant prosecutor cannot agree on a plea, they appear before the judge at the pre-trial conference or plea disposition conference and tell the judge they could not reach an agreement. The judge then sets a trial date.\nIn New Jersey, in order for the prosecutor\u2019s office to continue with the prosecution of a case, the evidence that has been collected must be presented to the grand jury. The grand jury does not decide on the guilt or innocence of the person charged with the crime. The grand jury only decides if there is enough evidence to say it\u2019s likely that the accused committed the crime and, if so, formally charges that person with the crime. This formal charge is called an indictment. An indictment gives the person accused of a crime the right to a trial by jury.\nThe grand jury is composed of 23 citizens who are asked to serve on the jury. Every member of the grand jury is given one vote. In order for the grand jury to indict a defendant, more than half of the jurors must vote to indict.\nGrand jury proceedings are private and are not open to the public. The only people allowed in the grand jury room are the grand jurors, the clerk of the grand jury, the assistant prosecutor handling the case, a court reporter and the witness who is testifying. The assistant prosecutor asks witnesses questions about the crime. Then, the jurors have a chance to ask questions. The court reporter records what is said in the grand jury room.\nBecause the grand jury does not decide guilt or innocence but only whether or not there is enough evidence to say the defendant may have committed a crime, there is no defense attorney in the grand jury room. The defendant may testify if he or she wishes. However, the defendant does not have to testify at any time in any court proceeding if he or she does not wish to do so because the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution says that a defendant does not have to testify.\nAfter hearing all the evidence in the case, the grand jury can conclude the hearing in one of three ways: a no bill, a true bill or a reduction of the charges.\nBy voting a no bill, the grand jury dismisses the charge(s) against the defendant, because there is not enough evidence to say this person may have committed a crime. At this point, no further action is taken and the case is closed.\nIf the grand jury decides to vote a true bill or returns an indictment, the grand jury believes there is enough evidence to say it is likely that the defendant committed the crime. The defendant is arraigned on the indictment and the case is assigned to an assistant prosecutor who prepares the case for trial.\nThe grand jury can choose to downgrade the charges. The case may be remanded or sent back to the municipal court.\nThe grand jury may also act in an investigative capacity and hear matters in which a criminal complaint has not yet been signed. The grand jury has the right to conduct investigations, call witnesses and subpoena documents. This is called a grand jury investigation and can lead to indictments. If, after the investigation is complete, the grand jury finds there is no evidence of wrongdoing, the jurors can vote that there is \u201cno cause for further action.\u201d The investigation is then closed.\nA defendant can waive or give up his or her right to a grand jury hearing by admitting guilt or \u201cpleading guilty\u201d at the first court appearance or anytime afterwards.\nIt is important to remember that a grand jury indictment is not a conviction. The defendant is still considered innocent. The indictment is only a formal document accusing the defendant of committing a crime.\nArraignment on Indictment\nIf the grand jury votes a true bill, the defendant must go to the Superior Court, Criminal Division for an arraignment. This is similar to a first court appearance because the defendant is told about the crimes that he or she is accused of committing and is asked to plead guilty or not guilty. If the defendant was not arrested before the grand jury hearing, a warrant complaint is issued.\nOnce a defendant is arrested, within 24-48 hours that person must be brought before a municipal court judge for a \u201cfirst appearance\u201d at the county jail. At the first appearance the defendant, represented by the counsel, will be presented with a copy of the complaint, advised by the judge of certain rights, and provided with his/her Public Safety Assessment (PSA) scores. After hearing input from the State and the defense, the judge will set conditions for release, such as reporting requirements, no victim contact, and random drug screening.\nIf the defendant does not appear in court for a proceeding, the judge can issue a warrant for the arrest of the defendant.\nThe judge also sets a date for a pre-trial conference or a plea disposition conference.\nOnce the defendant enters a not guilty plea at Arraignment, a judge will set a Status Conference date. At the Status Conference date, counsel shall report on the results of plea negotiations, and such other matters. At that time, the dates for hearing of motions and a further status conference, if necessary shall be scheduled according to the needs of each case. Each status conference shall be held in open court with the defendant present.\nAll trials for indictable offenses are held at the Superior Court, Criminal Division. Defendants charged with an indictable offense have a constitutional right to a trial by jury. This means that the case must be presented to a jury consisting of twelve people who decide the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The judge oversees the trial to make sure that all court rules are followed and there are no legal mistakes.\nIt is possible that the initial court date can be changed many times. This happens because the judge schedules several trials to begin the same day knowing that some cases end by a plea agreement and some cases are not ready for trial on the assigned date. The cases that are ready for trial on the assigned date are told when the trial will actually begin.\nEvery trial starts with the principle that defendant is innocent until proven guilty. The assistant prosecutor, who serves on the side of the State, has to prove to the jury that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. \u201cReasonable Doubt\u201d is an honest and reasonable uncertainty as to the guilt of the defendant after hearing all the evidence. Even if a juror believes the defendant is guilty, but has some doubt about the evidence, then the juror must vote \u201cnot guilty.\u201d At the beginning of the trial, the judge gives instructions to the jury. After the instructions to the jury by the judge, the assistant prosecutor and the defense attorney give an opening statement to the jury that tells what each wants to prove about the case.\nAfter the opening statements, the State presents its case about why it believes the defendant is guilty. The assistant prosecutor calls witnesses to the stand to testify, including the victim. He or she may also present scientific evidence. The defense attorney has a chance to question or to cross-examine each of the State\u2019s witnesses. Once the State makes its case and presents all of its evidence, the State rests or announces it is done.\nAt this time, the defense attorney can ask the judge to dismiss the charges against the defendant or \u201cacquit the defendant\u201d by saying the State did not show enough proof that the defendant could be guilty. The judge must then decide if the State presented enough proof to be considered by the jury. If the judge agrees with the defense attorney\u2019s argument, the judge acquits the defendant and dismisses the jury. At this point the case is over. The defendant cannot be tried for this crime again.\nMost of the time, however, the judge does not agree with the defense attorney\u2019s request to dismiss. The defense attorney may present evidence and call witnesses to testify to the fact that the defendant is innocent. The defendant does not have to testify and the judge explains this to the jury. The assistant prosecutor has a chance to cross-examine the defense\u2019s witnesses. When the defense attorney is done, he or she rests.\nAt this time, the assistant prosecutor is allowed to submit proof in rebuttal or to question specific items or claims made by the defense. After both the assistant prosecutor and the defense attorney have presented their cases, each reviews their cases to the jury in what is called the summation. The defense goes first and the assistant prosecutor goes second. Both review all of the evidence to support why each believes the defendant innocent or guilty.\nAfter the summations, the judge instructs the jury about legal points they should think about in deciding the case. This is called the judge\u2019s charge to the jury and includes general information about criminal procedure as well as information on the laws and issues that are important. The judge\u2019s charge may also include a commentary on the evidence.\nThe jury then goes to another room to talk or deliberate about the case. All evidence goes with them. If during these deliberations the jury has a question about the evidence or someone\u2019s testimony, the jury foreman or spokesperson writes a letter to the court. The question is answered if possible. The jury deliberates until it reaches a verdict or reports it cannot agree. A verdict is the decision of innocence or guilt to which all jurors agree. If the jury reaches a verdict, they come back to the courtroom where the foreman tells the judge what the jury has decided. Sometimes, the State or the defense wants to make sure that each juror agrees with the verdict. When this happens, the judge asks each juror how they voted.\nThe verdict must be unanimous. This means that if every member of the jury does not agree, there can be no verdict. The judge talks to the jury again to encourage them to come to a decision. The judge also tells the jurors not to change their minds just to reach a verdict. The jury then goes back to their deliberations. If they still cannot agree, then it is a \u201chung jury\u201d; the judge declares a mistrial and the defendant may be tried again.\nIf there is a guilty plea or a guilty verdict when a case goes to trial, the judge sets a tentative date for sentencing. Before the sentencing, however, the Probation Department must complete a report called a pre-sentence investigation report (PSI).\nPre-Sentence Investigation Report (PSI)\nThe PSI is a confidential, written report that a judge uses to help him or her decide what sentence to give to the defendant. The report has a description of the defendant\u2019s family, medical and criminal background; information about the crime; and other material important to deciding the sentence. The report also includes a statement from the victim about how the crime has affected his or her life and about any monies the victim lost or had to pay because of the crime.\nOn the day of sentencing, the defendant, the defense attorney and the assistant prosecutor come before the judge in open court for the final determination of the sentence.\nAt this time, the defense attorney tells the court about any errors the defendant believes are in the PSI. The defense attorney also talks about issues called mitigating factors that may cause the judge to adjust the sentence. The assistant prosecutor tells the court about any reason why the penalty should not be reduced and lists any aggravating factors. The defendant and the victim are also allowed to speak to the court at this time.\nThe judge considers this new information along with all of the information in the PSI and the law. The judge weighs the aggravating and mitigating factors. He or she then announces the sentence and the reasons for giving that sentence.\nRestitution is money the defendant has to pay to the victim for stolen or damaged property, lost wages, medical and/or counseling costs. In New Jersey, restitution is mandatory. The judge must order the defendant to pay restitution as part of the penalty given at sentencing so long as the judge believes the defendant can pay the restitution. Restitution should also be one of the conditions the defendant must meet while on PTI or probation.\nThe court must hold a restitution hearing. At this hearing, the defendant is allowed to say whether or not he or she thinks the amount of restitution is correct. The defendant is allowed to tell the judge about his or her own money situation and request to make monthly or weekly payments.\nBy law, restitution cannot be used to pay the victim for \u201cpain and suffering.\u201d The amount of restitution ordered cannot exceed the losses claimed by the victim. The victim can take the defendant to the Civil Division of the Superior Court to sue for additional amounts of money.\nIf the defendant is found guilty of an offense and is sentenced, he or she has the right to file an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Superior Court. The defendant can ask the appellate court to review all of the hearing and trial records to make sure that no legal errors were made. The defendant can also ask the appellate court to look at the investigative stage which led to his or her arrest. The defendant may even appeal the sentencing which took place after a plea bargain agreement and a non-jury trial.\nThe state however, cannot appeal an innocent verdict or \u201cacquittal.\u201d The Constitution of New Jersey says that to do so would be \u201cdouble jeopardy\u201d or trying someone for the same crime twice. The state can appeal to the appellate court if the state believes that the sentence is not correct. Appeals like this are rare.\nIf the Appellate Division of the Superior Court finds no legal errors which led to a wrong conviction or sentencing, the defendant can appeal to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Not every appeal filed with the Supreme Court is heard. Normally the Supreme Court only hears cases where there is some evidence that a person\u2019s constitutional rights have been violated.\nIf the Supreme Court upholds or agrees with a decision of the lower court and finds that the defendant\u2019s constitutional rights have not been violated, the defendant can appeal the case to the United States Federal Court system. To do this, the defendant files a petition or formal document with the U.S. District Court seeking a writ of habeas corpus relief. A habeas corpus relief means that the defendant is saying that he or she is being held in prison unfairly, against his or her federal constitutional rights. If the U.S. District Court finds that there is some merit to the defendant\u2019s claim, the U.S. District Court usually gives the State the chance to retry the defendant in order to correct any errors that many have taken place. If the U.S. District Court agrees with the defendant, then the State must turn the defendant over to the court and the defendant is freed. If the U.S. District Court denies the request for relief, a defendant can appeal that decision to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. After that, a defendant may appeal to the nation\u2019s highest court, the U.S. Supreme Court, but very few cases are taken and heard by that court.\nAs shown above, the defendant has many chances to challenge his or her conviction and sentence by appealing to a higher court. An appeal to all the appellate courts can take years to complete.\nParole is the early release from prison of an offender or inmate under very close supervision. The goal of parole is to help the offender live as a productive member in society and is a privilege given to offenders who earn it. Parole is not a right.\nAn inmate becomes eligible to be considered for parole after serving a minimum number of years of the sentence or 85% of the court\u2019s sentence. This minimum number is outlined in the law for each offense. An inmate or offender can also become eligible for early release from prison by following all of the rules of the prison and not getting into trouble and by working at a job while in prison. The inmate earns good time credits and work credits.\nWhen an inmate becomes eligible for parole, the parole board schedules a hearing to look at the inmate\u2019s progress. The parole board looks at the inmate\u2019s record to see if he or she has broken prison rules; if he or she is participating in counseling; and if the inmate is working or taking classes. The parole board also looks at reports written by the prison psychiatrist, prison staff, the assistant prosecutor and the judge. The inmate must also have a parole plan which tells about the inmate\u2019s plans after release, such as housing and employment. Finally, the parole board considers any information from the victim. The victim can come to the parole hearing and speak in person or write a letter telling how the crime has affected his or her life.\nAfter the hearing, the parole board reviews all of this information to determine the likelihood that the inmate will not commit another crime. The parole board announces its decision to either allow the inmate out of prison on parole or deny the parole release and set a date when the inmate can be considered again. This date is called the future eligibility term (FET).\nIf the board believes the inmate is ready for parole, a parole release date is set and conditions of parole are outlined. The conditions include rules that are the same for all released inmates: living in an approved residence and reporting to the parole officer when required as well as special conditions for the individual inmate. Special conditions can include drug or alcohol rehabilitation, mental health counseling, community service, restitution and drug testing.\nIf a parolee (released inmate) does not meet all of the conditions of parole, then he or she is in violation of parole and can be returned to prison. Additionally, if the parolee commits another offense while on parole, he or she will be returned to prison immediately and will then have to serve all the time remaining in the original sentence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 35572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Making+a+change+at+the+University+of+Edinburgh+Business+School/1_9y4oosl5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2MVE3DOHNDO6AJX7IC23K5GL75NGLQ6M", "length": 340, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "media.ed.ac.uk", "title": "Making a change at the University of Edinburgh Business School - Media Hopper Create - The University of Edinburgh Media Platform", "raw_content": "Making a change at the University of Edinburgh Business School\nFrom Seonaid McNicoll A year ago\nIf you're considering returning to education to pursue a Masters programme, you'll be in good company. Gbenga Ibikunle, Senior Lecturer in Financial Markets, talks about the students he has encountered and why he made the same decision himself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/fanart-tv/the-history-of-fanart-tv-part-1-a-blast-of-the-past-2704cfb30649", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OBBB6MLWXCT3B2BV3SRF3YLZTOAHA3BL", "length": 2559, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "medium.com", "title": "The history of fanart.tv: Part 1 \u2014 A blast of the past", "raw_content": "The history of fanart.tv: Part 1\u200a\u2014\u200aA blast of the past\nI recently gave an introduction into what fanart.tv is. Today I\u2019d like to tell you more about where it came from. It\u2019s a big topic, so I\u2019ll be splitting it over a few days and posts.\nI\u2019ve been a web developer for over 10 years. In the summer of 2010 I stumbled on an XBMC (now Kodi) group who were making something called ClearLogos. These were transparent PNGs with the logo of a TV show. A couple of skins were being hacked by the community to support the new image type; the effect was fantastic, and I was hooked.\nAs I said, I\u2019m a developer, not a designer, but I wanted to help out. The way images was stored was archaic. They would be posted to a forum thread and then someone would put them in a central location. The names weren\u2019t always right. The quality was very hit or miss. Requests for images were easy to miss. In short it was chaos.\nOver the next couple of days I applied my trade to create a new section to my blog. The new section was misleadingly called ClearArt (I had no idea what the difference was when I created the section) and then I approached the thread. After a bit of discussion with the ClearLogo pioneers of the day (mostly mcborzu, hikaricore, Sranshaft, MarkAsRead and ppic), I got them on board and we were ready to go.\nWhen we started we had just 900 images. The new site had the ability to request images though, so that soon changed. At one point in time there were over 500 requests in the queue; nobody could keep up with it. Eventually we had to purge the queue and start again. While it was a pain at the time, it was one of the defining elements of the site.\nXBMC skin developers start to take notice\nAround this time an XBMC plugin developer named ppic added support for the new repository. This was a major factor in the subsequent success of fanart.tv, without his support fanart.tv might not be where it is today. His logo downloader script was what originally got almost all XBMC skinners interested in integrating the images into their skins.\nBy October 2010 the API was getting around 130,000 hits a month. This was almost unbelievable to me; such an innocent time. With the increase in popularity I started thinking about moving to a dedicated domain and hosting.\nThe birth of a new era\nIn December 2010 I bought the fanart.tv domain name. On December 10th at 11:11 PM the new site was announced to the XBMC community.\nWell folks, that\u2019s the end of Part 1. Part 2 deals with middle years and Part 3 will cover the current state and a look at the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://meetapainter.com/painters/san-antonio,texas/scraping", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:07Z", "digest": "sha1:NPILYZTODRJVSCLR26C6WVFBSGZ55AQD", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "meetapainter.com", "title": "Scraping - Painters in San Antonio, Texas | MeetAPainter.com", "raw_content": "Painters including Scraping in San Antonio, Texas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 379, "original_length": 11220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://megatokyo.com/strip/670", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:EGGGOPBVMMEXFMWNSJTOYINVLTWXIUYT", "length": 9077, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "megatokyo.com", "title": "MegaTokyo - [670] probably busy anyway", "raw_content": "\"probably busy anyway\"\n\"fredrinOS\"\nWell, i can tell you one thing about my list of goals for 2005 -- I've already dropped the ball on the \"minimum two rants per week\" item. I can't even manage a compromise goal of one rant per week. I wonder why i resist writing rants the way i do? Am I too uptight about them, worrying too much that they need to be like entertaining or something? That may be part of it, but it is probably has something to do with the fact that i'm not that good at multitasking. This isn't really surprising considering that i'm not really good at singletasking either.\nTrue multitasking is not about doing several things at the same time, it is about threading multiple tasks together and applying time to each of them in an efficient way. Kind of like the way most processors can't really do two things at the same time, it just applies varying about of CPU time to each of the programs running. By doing this well, you can run many programs at the same time. Remember the days when you could only work with one program at a time on your PC? That's kind of the way my brain works. Moving between projects requires unloading of one program and booting up another. Sometimes the reboot process requires several tries.\nDeep down i don't think i'm ideally suited to being the jack-of-all trades that being an independent owner/creator self employed trying-to-run-a-website-and-keep-it-from-falling-apart kind of guy. The cracks, flaws and down and out embarrassments that make up this site are a testament to that fact :) I do worry sometimes that i'll never be able to do all the things i want to do. For example, i have an item on my goal list for this year called \"build various backgrounds for Megatokyo in Maya (also learn how to use Maya and be able to save up for and justify purchase of Maya to budget department)\" the Maya 6 PLE icon is sitting there, but i haven't launched it in ages.\nThere are many tasks that i've started and continue to work on, but the approximation of multitasking i use (lets call it \"multiple singletasking\") can be more frustrating than rewarding. Some things i do manage to get done in a reasonable amount of time, like implementing Movable Type over on Fredart and keeping up a rough and boring daily blog. Some things get started but get put aside and i have trouble getting back to (like the site re-design and rebuild for Megatokyo - i'll get to that in a minute). In the end, there are a few tasks that take precedence over everything else: the Megatokyo comic, the Megagear store, and all those tasks that will result in armed goons or lynch mobs at my door if i don't get them done. The remaining fredrinCPU time is a precious commodity, and action on other projects requires efficient use of it. Too bad fredrinOS is so inefficient. Damn organic OSs have a mind of their own...\nI was originally going to present a list of goals for 2005, but i know myself better than to think i can really do everything on the list so i decided that i don't want to embarrass myself further. This doesn't mean I'm not going to try, i just figure it's better if people are amazed by anything i manage to get done this year :)\nOne of the things that i am just now getting back to is finishing up the Megatokyo website rebuild. The project has been on hiatus for six months because I have not managed to get to the task of finishing several design templates for some sub pages of the site. I won't give a time table for this getting finished, but i will say that i've jumped back into the process and hopefully I'll be able to get Larry back to work on the project in the next week. Considering the fact that I started this project over a year ago, i think it's time i did my part so Larry can finish up. The drop down of death is just getting too big.\nI should also note that i've been working with Dom and a few friends putting together a rather extensive amount of material that will become the community pages and FAQ page for the new site. Dom has finished a FAQ that i need to review and shinmeko has gone to great lengths to unearth every MT related website she can find ^^;; I'm working on the long absent Character pages... It's all in progress, and i want to have them all part of the initial launch of the new website.\nPeople often ask me about what is going on with warmth. As i've said before, warmth is a project that really should not have been started two years ago, and should have been left in the wings until i had time to do it right. I've been doing a lot of thinking about how best to work on it and at what time I should get it off the ground again. I prefer to actually do things and have them underway rather than hype about something i'm planning to work on, but i will say this - i'm not doing many conventions this year (San Diego Comic Con, Anime Central, Otakon, and perhaps one other) and the main reason is: i intend to start the Warmth project up and start production on it this year. I won't make any promises right now but lets just say that i've settled on a plan for 'how' it will be released, and all i need to do is jump in and start working on it. This is a huge task, and it's going to be a real trick to keep it from derailing other tasks as i work on it, so don't get your hopes up too high, not yet :)\nAs you might expect, there are also a lot of projects i'm working on for the MegaGear store. One of the reasons we wanted to run our own store is that it gives us the freedom to pretty much do whatever we want and choose the kinds of products we feel like we want to make. I've been working on several new products, and some of these have long lead times so it will be a while before they show up in the store. Some of them are looking pretty good tho (at least i hope people like em)\nThe real pain about some tasks is that you put a ton of work into them but don't see results until months later. Books definitely fall in that category. As many of you may already know, Megatokyo Volume 3 shipped last week and has even started to show up in some comic stores around the country. Because of the way the distribution system works, comic shops are usually the first to get books, and bookstores the last (this is not always the case, because it varies a lot depending on where things end up in the distribution system). Our shipment is en route to t3h factory, and should arrive mid week or so. As soon as they do, we'll start sending out preorders. :)\nNew shirt designs don't have anywhere near the lead time some products have, and can take only a few weeks to show up in the store once i send in the design. Of course, sometimes it takes me months to get a design right. ^^;; It took a few weeks for me to get the design right for the Recycled Heart girls shirt, but the final product ended up looking pretty good.\nThe best kinds of products are the ones where you just pick something you want to offer in the store and order it :P Even this isn't always easy. Those Pentel Graph 1000 pencils in the Piro's Pencil set are hard to find, and it takes a while to get an order of them shipped from japan through our distributor. I seem to have a proclivity for making even simple things difficult.\nthis is a pretty disjointed rant, and I apologize for that, but its a pretty fair representation of the struggles i deal with in trying to keep multiple large projects going at the same time. I haven't mentioned things like mopping floors (i had the joy of picking out a bucket and mop last week :) and trips to the recycle center with all the cardboard from the boxes shirts come in... there are all sorts of tasks that make up a busy life, and not all of them are, uh, interesting. If you don't mind disjointed rants like this, then i'll see what i can do to fill the space more often. I do need to write another one this week so i can cover all the webcomic related stuff going on at Katsukon two weeks from now (even tho I won't be there, there are a LOT of webcomic people who will be).\nA few notes on my last rant - several readers pointed out to me an error in my translation of the title of the opening song for AIR i was gushing about. The title of the song, \u9ce5\u306e\u8a69 is indeed \"Tori no Uta\" but the translation is wrong. The correct translation is \"A bird's poem.\" \"A bird's song\" would be written this way: \u9ce5\u306e\u6b4c thanks to the several people who pointed this out :)\nOn a similar note note... wahhh! there are times i wish i lived in japan, this is one of them. The AIR movie opened today (saturday the 5th) Anime movie releases are always a pain because unless you like, live there and can go see it in the theater, it will be a while before you finally get to view it. I remember suffering from similar pangs when the Marmalade Boy movie came out. Also on this page are all kinds of AIR goodies, some of them i'm sure Piro would want (cough). Me? I'm just holding out for a Potato plushie. :) Gimmie.\n\"Future tense\"\nI have a deadline tomorrow, and I still have quite a few words to go, so there'll be no rant today. Wednesday for sure, though. In the meantime, enjoy the purty picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 9824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metrica-milano.com/resort/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK2ETEODWX4VWNH6I5XANGVEYAKZ7MY2", "length": 539, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "metrica-milano.com", "title": "Paola Lenti Resort Metrica Shading \u2014 Metrica", "raw_content": "Resort is a shading structure for outdoor use intended for the residential and contract markets. It is scalable, modular, movable and removable. It combines high tech steel and aluminum elements. The four bases are made of cast iron and may be fixed or not to the ground. The weight of the material enables to reduce the overall dimensions without compromising the stability of the structure. The performing fabrics in the traditional Paola Lenti palette find a perfect location as the coverage for the white or colored aluminum structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 3241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mfm.com.au/event/sustainable-living-festival-launches-today/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OPHEYFJRQKLOBY7BT6U6CPFWRV6UDEUD", "length": 61, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mfm.com.au", "title": "Sustainable Living Festival launches today | Melbourne Farmers Markets", "raw_content": "Sustainable Living Festival launches today\nhttp://slf.org.au/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://michaeldiamondmusic.com/2011/05/27/oprah-a-turn-of-the-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZM37SKMZ54QWZWJQEDNV2T32BSYKNM7", "length": 4329, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "michaeldiamondmusic.com", "title": "Oprah\u2026 A Turn Of The Page | Music and Media Focus", "raw_content": "Filed under: TV reviews \u2014 Leave a comment\nTV broadcast: The Oprah Winfrey Show finale \u2013 5/25/11\nAfter 25 years \u2013 a remarkable achievement in the television industry, and 4561 shows, of which she has never missed a single one, the stage lights dimmed for the final time on the massively successful and influential The Oprah Winfrey Show. Although I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve been a loyal fan of the show or that I\u2019ve watched it regularly, I can say that I have tremendous respect and admiration for Oprah and her efforts over this past quarter of a century to shine a light on meaningful issues such as personal growth, spirituality, health and healing, social injustice, and so much more. Her final show was not only an affirmation of all this, but was, \u201ca love letter to her fans.\u201d She shares: \u201cSomething in me connected with each of you in a way that allowed me to see myself in you and you in me. I listened and grew and I know you grew along with me.\u201d\nThere are many teachers, guides, and luminaries in the world, yet few with the expansiveness of influence to affect the lives of such a wide cross section of people in practically every corner of the globe. Scripture says that \u201cof those to whom much has been given, much is required\u201d and Oprah is a shining example of one to whom much has been given (although she worked hard for it) she has always turned around and given back with graciousness and generosity.\nI appreciated the simplicity and heartfelt manner in which she brought her 25- year run on the air to a close on that last day. I came away with many meaningful and inspirational thoughts from the show and wanted to share some quotes from Oprah that illustrate the demeanor and thoughtfulness of this understated, yet auspicious event, a milestone in modern media:\n\u201cGratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.\u201d\n\u201cEveryone in life has a calling. Each one of you has their own platform. Mine is a stage in a studio. Yours is wherever you are\u2026You can help somebody, you can forgive, you can listen, you can heal \u2013 you have the power to change someone\u2019s life.\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you\u2019re responsible for the energy that you bring to others. When you get that \u2014 you are responsible for your life \u2014 you get free,\u201d\n\u201cThe common thread uniting all the dysfunction is unworthiness \u2014 not feeling worthy enough to own the life you were created for. We often block our own blessings because we don\u2019t feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough. There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of happiness.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to nearly 30,000 people on this show and all 30,000 had one thing in common: A need for validation. Everybody wants to be heard.\u201d\nAnd finally, speaking of Spirit, she says: \u201d\n\u201cI listen for the guidance that is greater than my meager mind \u2026 I\u2019m talking about the same one you\u2019re talking about. The Alpha and Omega, the Omniscience, the Omnipresent, the Ultimate Consciousness, the Source, the Force, the All of Everything There Is, the one and only G-O-D. What I know is, God is love. And God is life. And your life is always speaking to you.\u201d\nI found this last statement especially poignant and it reflects the unifying message that Oprah has sought to express in the 25 years of her show, as well as in her humanistic projects around the world. I\u2019m sure that there is nothing that has been said in the above quotes that hasn\u2019t been said before, yet it has probably has not reached as many ears and resonated in as many hearts as that which has been spoken from the stage of Oprah\u2019s Harpo Studio in Chicago. Unlike long-running celebrities such as Johnny Carson who walked away from their show, never to be heard from again on the air, this is undoubtedly not the last we\u2019ll hear of Oprah. Now with her new network, the next chapter is already being written. However, this show did mark the end of an era and the outpouring of sincere affection from millions of fans is a testament to a media personality and dare I say spiritual warrior who truly understands the meaning of Right Action and has put her ideals and resources to work creating a better world.\n\u00ab Ambrosial Waves \u2013 Healing Waters by Constance Demby\nAutumn Sky by Blackmore\u2019s Night \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 497, "original_length": 21451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://midwest.edtrust.org/press-release/ed-trust-midwest-executive-director-amber-arellano-shares-commentary-in-the-43rd-annual-phi-delta-kappagallup-poll/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JO3OWYKO3FX2U4QC2OGFLXGFJKIHY6CY", "length": 952, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "midwest.edtrust.org", "title": "Ed Trust-Midwest Executive Director Amber Arellano shares commentary in the 43rd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll - The Education Trust - Midwest", "raw_content": "Information Center > Press > Ed Trust-Midwest Executive Director Amber Arellano shares commentary in the 43rd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll\nEd Trust-Midwest Executive Director Amber Arellano shares commentary in the 43rd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll\nANN ARBOR, MICH. (August 19, 2011) \u2013 Every year Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll produces a report on Americans\u2019 view of education. This 43rd Annual report dives into the attitudes toward public schools. This 43rd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll contains commentary by Amber Arellano, executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest and other Americans regarding attitudes toward the public schools.\nThe Education Trust-Midwest is run by and for Michiganders. Based in Ann Arbor, our mission is to work for the high achievement of all students, particularly low-income and African American, Latino and American Indian students in Michigan. For more information about Ed Trust-Midwest, go to:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 7959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://midwest.edtrust.org/press-release/essa-plan-approval/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:AMFXHABYQWCKFXELACDBSYCP7LRSIWGC", "length": 2225, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "midwest.edtrust.org", "title": "DeVos Greenlights Michigan\u2019s Unacceptably Weak Plan for Public Education - The Education Trust - Midwest", "raw_content": "Information Center > Press > DeVos Greenlights Michigan\u2019s Unacceptably Weak Plan for Public Education\nROYAL OAK, Mich. (Nov. 28, 2017) \u2013 Despite glaring weaknesses and widespread bipartisan criticism, the U.S. Department of Education has approved the State of Michigan\u2019s proposed plans for what are supposed to be thoughtful state-level systems of educational improvement. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos approved the plan tonight.\nThe plan, developed under the Every Student Succeeds Act, was widely panned by educational experts, equity-minded advocates, Governor Rick Snyder, Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley and even the U.S. Department of Education. Michigan revised the plan five times to address what the U.S. Department of Education called \u201cinsufficient\u201d and in need of \u201csubstantial revisions.\u201d\n\u201cMichigan had the opportunity \u2014 and the responsibility \u2014 to develop the statewide improvement systems that have been so hugely successful at raising student achievement in leading education states such as Massachusetts and Tennessee. That opportunity largely has been squandered \u2014 and that is a tremendous disservice to every Michigan student, but especially vulnerable children who need leaders at every level to insist on better outcomes for them.\nEvery Michigan student should have access to a high-quality school. Every Michigan parent should be able to count on knowing that schools are accountable for educating students, and have access to honest, accessible, meaningful information about local school quality. Every Michigan educator should have honest, aligned college- and career-ready data to inform their instruction \u2013 along with helpful support for their instruction. Michigan students and educators deserve no less, yet that is exactly what the Michigan Department of Education has delivered.\n\u201cFor years, Michigan has fallen behind other states in educational quality and now is among the bottom ten states for many important measures, such as early literacy. This plan demonstrates that the Michigan Department of Education is far more committed to a declining status quo than building the high-quality, honest improvement systems that could actually help Michigan become a top ten education state.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 9361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://midwesttechnology.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1803316-nec-background-music-music-on-hold", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:I7U74EVWHPQ5QBWLLE5PDJL2FJ744E44", "length": 231, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "midwesttechnology.uservoice.com", "title": "NEC Background Music/Music On Hold \u2013 Welcome to the Midwest Technology Knowledgebase", "raw_content": "To feed a single source for Background Music and Music on hold you can use a single Tuner/Ipod/etc with a 1/8\" stereo jack that splits into 2 1/8\" jacks. You would then plug one of them into Aux 1 and the other to Aux 2 of the CPU.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://millfieldmusic.com/2017/05/09/music-at-millfield-5th-may-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:U2LFIS6FEFMTWF2WLFDU6ZGOOBUPBM5O", "length": 2425, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "millfieldmusic.com", "title": "Music at Millfield, 5th May 2017", "raw_content": "Music at Millfield, 5th May 2017\nEnsemble music-making is alive and very well, based on the performances in the second \u2018Music at Millfield\u2019 of the academic year. Through the course of the evening, the audience were treated to music from Beethoven to the Beatles, and from symphony orchestra to four-piece percussion ensemble. Always a popular group, Jazz Band began proceedings with two classic choices, including Feeling Good with soloist, Susanna Khalkacheva. They were followed by Brass Ensemble, who opted for a classical programme with works by Humperdinck and Praetorius. The Augmented 6ths continued the first half in style with a beautiful rendition of Christina Perri\u2019s \u2018A Thousand Years\u2019. Following on, as a complete contrast, String Orchestra gave a moving performance of Elgar\u2019s \u2018Sospiri\u2019 (Sighs), a piece full of extreme emotion and tension. Either side of the interval was the turn of Percussion Ensemble, who performed two very different pieces, the first a crowd-pleasing Latino-influenced marimba work, and the second showing off the various performance techniques that can be used with un-tuned, graduated drums.\nThe remainder of the second half was devoted to Millfield\u2019s two most prestigious ensembles: Camerata and the Millfield Orchestra. Camerata began with the joyful \u2018Magnificat in B-flat\u2019 by Stanford, which was followed by an arrangement of \u2018Blackbird\u2019 by Paul McCartney and John Lennon that shone the spotlight on the sopranos. Eric Whitacre\u2019s \u2018Lux Aurumque\u2019 was next in Camerata\u2019s programme, a work full of contrasting colours and shimmering chord clusters. To complete Camerata\u2019s pieces, they upped the tempo with \u2018I\u2019m a Train\u2019, as a fun end to their slot. Finally, the Millfield Orchestra finished the concert with a bang by performing the finale of Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony, a highly challenging piece that constantly moves forward, and provided a suitably spectacular ending to a brilliant concert.\nThis term\u2019s \u2018Music at Millfield\u2019 has really built on the success of the concert of the same name and type in December. The students have tackled more technically challenging music, and brought a new level of interpretation to their performances on the night. All in all, the concert was a great success and really displayed the diversity of music-making that Millfield has to offer.\n\u2190 Choral Evensong at Wells Cathedral, 2nd May 2017\nInternational Concert Series: Joseph Moog, 9th May 2017 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mindlogr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202341662-Why-is-my-recording-screen-shorter-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TYSSARUUDCKF473V3GZCMJFYYQCAJCTS", "length": 723, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mindlogr.zendesk.com", "title": "Why is my recording screen shorter? \u2013 Mindlogr", "raw_content": "Since Feb 11th 2015 we added a new feature to Mindlogr which allows premium users to record and store their videos in high definition.\nIn the past, videos were stored at 640x480 resolution but with the new upgrade premium videos are now stored at 1280x720 resolution.\nThe reason why the screen is shorter is because these 2 different resolutions are working with different ratios.\n640x480 is known as VGA and is a more square ratio. 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After twelve years of developing technology products the way most everyone does, and finally convincing ourselves of the inherent flaws with that approach, we\u2019ve been hard at work with a way to develop successful, innovative technology products more effectively.\nThis has been a lot of work. It\u2019s easy to come up with engineering and product development approaches that sound good. Achieving results with actual teams and products is much more difficult.\nAs we\u2019ve been validating and evolving our method the past couple of years, we\u2019ve been more focused on proving out our core approach than growing our team, to ensure our team is aligned with the approach that has emerged and so we\u2019re confident we\u2019re adding the right people going forward.\nI\u2019m happy to report that we\u2019re ready to grow. Our team is aligned. We\u2019ve validated our core approach. We\u2019re working with clients in close partnerships to build successful, innovative technology products together. We\u2019re achieving desired results. It\u2019s time to grow.\nNow we need more of our most important ingredient\u2013the right people.\nWe\u2019re seeking engineers who can both be good engineers and effective engineers. We\u2019re seeking people who can do both, and who are engaged by challenging themselves to get better at both, growing as engineers in the process.\nThis is important so I\u2019ll say it again: good engineers and effective engineers.\nWhat\u2019s the difference? Good engineers possess the technical knowledge to develop solutions for technical challenges. Effective engineers are able to do the engineering work they do in such a way as to maximize the value of that work to help their team reach a goal. Most opportunities for engineers provide the ability to foster one or the other, but not both.\nMindtribe provides a unique opportunity for the right type of person. In addition to the opportunity to build both engineering capability and effectiveness, as a consulting firm, we face a continual variety of challenges across different teams, industries, and products. Though challenging, this accelerates learning and gives us a chance to rapidly iterate our approach. As an outside firm we\u2019re often held more accountable to deliver results than internal teams. Furthermore, since we\u2019re positioned as leaders for our clients, each of us is automatically in a position of leadership (which is often not the case for engineers on internal teams).\nHere are some specific qualities we seek, and that are reflected throughout our team. You might enjoy being part of a tight-knit team of like-minded people if you are:\ngood at what you do\naligned with Mindtribe\u2019s method\nnaturally collaborative\nable to drive forward progress\nable to get the most out of people around you\nengaged by personal projects as outlets for your passion for engineering and making\nWe\u2019re currently looking to expand our team with electrical, firmware, and mechanical engineers. Please have a look at our job posts. 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This past Spring, EL students took a test called the Summative English Language Proficiency Assessments for California. This test is part of the California assessment system and is aligned with California's English Language Development Standards.\nThese standards make sure English learner students have a high-quality program that will enable them to attain proficiency in English - developing the necessary skills and confidence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing - so they can be successful in the classroom. The ELPAC helps teachers across the state see how well students are doing with those skills.\nYour student's report shows an overall score, consisting of oral language skills (speaking, listening) and written language skills (reading, writing) and a performance level. Because the ELPAC is a new test, scores from the ELPAC should not be compared to scores from the previous test, the California English Language Development Test.\nTo find out more about your child's scores:\nThe ELPAC website at http://www.elpac.org has the following materials to help parents/guardians understand the score reports:\nUnderstanding the SUmmative Student Score Report - ELPAC, a video\nGuide to Understanding the ELPAC Student Score Report\nIn our district, the test results are just one way to look at how well our students are doing. We use the results to find areas in which students need help in the next school year. It is also important to know that the test results are not used to determine whether a student moves to the next grade. If you have questions or concerns about your student's progress, please call the school office at (707) 987-4160 to arrange a conference with your student's teacher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 8083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mobile.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+13%3A46&version=NIV", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:46Z", "digest": "sha1:X5RM4ZDFKCB2X35UTX6YYNPP7ZX7FZPN", "length": 289, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mobile.biblegateway.com", "title": "Acts 13:46 NIV - Then Paul and Barnabas answered them - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: \u201cWe had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.\nActs 13:46 : ver 26; Ac 3:26\nActs 13:46 : Mt 21:41; Ac 18:6; 22:21; 26:20; 28:28; Ro 11:11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 25607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://momoftwosalums.com/2013/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OABZFIDI3YCY4L3GXVMFM6GEG6XFJUX2", "length": 1233, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "momoftwosalums.com", "title": "May | 2013 | MomofTwosalums", "raw_content": "If you are like me you are always looking for a late night snack. The problem is that you don\u2019t want to eat something too unhealthy but you want something [\u2026]\nDisney:Shake It Up CD review\u2026\nRecently I had the opportunity, or should I say L, to review a CD called Disney : Shake It Up. L dances every day of her life. She wakes up [\u2026]\nMom why are they kissing?\nL has been asking a bunch of questions lately\u2026she is extra curious about how things work, what animals eat, and questions everything she sees on tv. Today a commercial came [\u2026]\nYesterday was my birthday. My 33rd, crazy that when I think of myself as a little girl I remember always looking in the mirror. I wanted to know what I [\u2026]\nI was driving around town yesterday and a memory hit. I was reliving it like it was yesterday\u2026 literally\u2026.when I realized that it was almost a year ago. A year! [\u2026]\nMy first ever GIVEAWAY!!\n** I have decided to extend this giveaway through the end of May! I have a few people in the running now but we need more to make it a [\u2026]\nWashi Tape Storage Jars!\nMay 7, 2013 by momoftwosalums Leave a comment\nThis post will BLOW you away\u2026 okay maybe not, but I think its pretty cute and a good way to recycle. I took the jars and cleaned them all [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mondediplo.com/openpage/bored-to-death-in-afghanistan-and-washington", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:02Z", "digest": "sha1:GFRSNZSFRWCM3DHNF5ITNMDYXZWU3N6R", "length": 17382, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "mondediplo.com", "title": "Bored to death in Afghanistan (and Washington), by Tom Engelhardt (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2011)", "raw_content": "Bored to death in Afghanistan (and Washington)\nMating d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu with a mobius strip in the graveyard of empire\nby Tom Engelhardt, 27 May 2011\nOne day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old American Muslim (\u201cwith a dark complexion\u201d) who had once worked as an investment banker in the World Trade Center, board his plane at San Francisco National Airport. According to Northwest\u2019s gate agents, Chowdhury writes in the Washington Post, \u201che thought my name sounded suspicious\u201d even though \u201cairport security and the FBI verified that I posed no threat.\u201d He sued.\nNow, skip nearly a decade. It\u2019s May 6, 2011, and two New York-based African-American imams, a father and son, attempting to take an American Airlines flight from New York to Charlotte to attend a conference on \u201cprejudice against Muslims,\u201d were prevented from flying. The same thing happened to two imams in Memphis \u201cdressed in traditional long shirts and [with] beard,\u201d heading for the same conference, when a pilot for Atlantic Southeast refused to fly with them aboard, even though they had been screened three times.\nSo how is the war in Afghanistan going almost 10 years later? Or do you think that\u2019s a non sequitur?\nI don\u2019t, and let me suggest two reasons why: first, boredom; second, the missing learning curve.\nAt home and abroad, whether judging by airline pilots or Washington\u2019s war policy, Americans seem remarkably incapable of doing anything other than repeating the same self-defeating acts, as if they had never happened before. Hence Afghanistan. Almost 10 years after the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan and proclaimed victory, like imam-paralyzed airline pilots, we find ourselves in a state that might otherwise be achieved only if you mated d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu with a Mobius strip.\nIf you aren\u2019t already bored to death, you should be. Because, believe me, you\u2019ve read it all before. Take the last month of news from America\u2019s second Afghan War. If nobody told you otherwise, you could easily believe that almost every breaking Afghan story in the last four weeks came from some previous year of the war.\nHeadlines from the dustbin of history (Afghan department)\nLet me explain with seven headlines ripped from the news, all of which sit atop Afghan War articles that couldn\u2019t be newer \u2014 or older. Each represents news of our moment that was also news in previous moments; each should leave Americans wondering about Washington\u2019s learning curve.\n* \u201cPentagon reports \u2019tangible progress\u2019 in Afghanistan\u201d: Here, the headline tells you everything you need to know. Things are going remarkably swimmingly, according to a recent congressionally mandated Pentagon report (which cost a mere $344,259 to produce). How many times in recent years has the military claimed \u201cprogress\u201d in Afghanistan, with the usual carefully placed reservations about the fragility or reversibility of the situation? (Oh, and how many times have U.S. intelligence reports been far gloomier on the same subject?)\n* \u201cAfghan violence rises amid troop surge \u2014 Pentagon\u201d: The information that led to this headline came, curiously enough, from that very same upbeat Pentagon report. As the Reuters piece to which this headline was attached put it: \u201cA surge of U.S. troops into Afghanistan has dealt a blow to the Taliban insurgency, but total violence has risen since last fall and is likely to keep climbing, the Pentagon said on Friday in a new assessment of the war as it approaches its 10-year mark.\u201d This spring, insurgent attacks have reportedly been up about 80% compared to the previous year, which might be more startling if the rise-in-violence piece weren\u2019t a longtime staple of Afghan War reportage.\nAre you bored to death yet? No, then I\u2019ll keep going.\n* \u201cAudit: Afghans don\u2019t know how many police on rolls\u201d: The news embedded in this headline is that a recent audit by the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan has found that some of the $10 billion a year being poured into training, building up, and supplying Afghanistan\u2019s security forces is undoubtedly missing-in-action. The IG reports that \u201cthe country\u2019s police rolls and payrolls cannot be verified because of poor record keeping,\u201d which means that the numbers \u201cfor all practical purposes become somewhat fictitious.\u201d Put another way, the U.S. and its coalition partners are undoubtedly paying \u201cghost\u201d policemen.\nThis story could be paired with a recent Reuters piece, \u201cPentagon\u2019s rosy report of Afghanistan war raises questions,\u201d which points out that, despite the billions of dollars and years of time invested in mentoring Afghanistan\u2019s security forces, \u201cthere are currently no Afghan National Police units that are able to operate independently.\u201d In addition, even that recent \u201crosy\u201d Pentagon report indicates that so many Afghan soldiers are deserting \u2014 six out of every 10 new recruits \u2014 as to imperil the goal of creating a massive army capable of taking over security duties in the next several years. It has also been difficult to find enough trainers for the program, and given all of the above, experts suspect that the country will not have an effective army in place by 2014.\nBut here\u2019s the thing: such reports about the massive training program for Afghan security forces, the inability of those forces to operate independently, the wholesale desertions continually suffered, and so on have appeared again and again and again over the last years.\n* \u201cWith bin Laden dead, some escalate push for new Afghan strategy\u201d: Here\u2019s the only problem with that \u201cnew Afghan strategy\u201d reportedly being debated in Washington \u2014 it\u2019s not new. It\u2019s drearily old. In fact, it\u2019s simply a replay on the downhill slide of bitter policy arguments in the fall of 2009 involving Washington policymakers and the U.S. military. That was a moment when the Obama administration had set about reassessing Afghan strategy and trying to choose between counterinsurgency (\u201cthe surge\u201d) and what was then called \u201ccounterterrorism plus\u201d (more drones and more trainers, but less combat troops).\nThen the debate was narrow indeed \u2014 between more (an increase of 40,000 troops) and more (an increase of 20,000 troops). There was never a real \u201cless\u201d option. Today, with almost 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and despite reports of \u201cwar fatigue,\u201d even among Congressional Republicans, as well as plummeting poll numbers among Americans generally, the new debate is similarly narrow, similarly focused, and deeply familiar, a kind of less-versus-less version of the more-versus-more duke-em-out of 2009.\nSimilar arguments, similar crew. Then, Vice President Biden spearheaded the counterterrorism-plus option; today, it\u2019s chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry, who quickly made the parameters of the \u201cnew\u201d strategy debate clear: \"I do not know of any serious policy person who believes that a unilateral precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan would somehow serve our interests or anybody\u2019s interests. I do not believe that is a viable option.\u201d\nhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/1608460711...As in the fall of 2009, agreement among \u201cserious policy people\u201d that there should be a continuing American \u201cfootprint\u201d in Afghanistan is set in stone. It seems the only question on the table is how small and how slow the drawdown should be, with the debaters already evidently settling into an agreed upon endgame of 20,000 to 30,000 American troops, special operations forces, and trainers post-2014. Despite the president\u2019s promise of significant troop reductions this year, early hints about war commander General David Petraeus\u2019s recommendations indicate that as few as 10,000 may be withdrawn, with no combat troops among them (though pressure to increase those numbers is rising).\nNot out of your mind with boredom yet? Then I\u2019ll keep at it.\n* \u201cAccusations of Corruption Rampant in Afghanistan\u201d: Here\u2019s the thing: you don\u2019t even need to know the details of the story that lies behind that NPR headline. Yes, Vermont representative Peter Welsh has called on Congress to investigate Afghan corruption, given the billions the U.S. is squandering there; yes, the Afghan deputy attorney general admitted that he had arrest warrants for various high officials on corruption charges but feared trying to bring them in; yes, headlines like \u201cAfghan war progress at risk from corruption, training lags\u201d are commonplace these days, as are stories about \u201creconstruction\u201d corruption, protection payoffs to unsavory local warlords or the Taliban, and staggering levels of corruption in and around the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. But here\u2019s the thing: it\u2019s been that way for years. Corruption stories \u2014 and stories about fighting corruption or the need to force the government of Hamid Karzai to do the same \u2014 have been the essential bread and butter of Afghan war reporting for almost a decade.\n* \u201dFor Second Time in 3 Days, NATO Raid Kills Afghan Child\u201d: The New York Times piece under this headline reports on how \u201cNATO\u201d night raiders (usually U.S. special operations forces) killed a 15-year-old boy, the son of an Afghan National Army soldier, sleeping in his family fields with a shotgun beside him. In the incident two days earlier the headline alludes to, another crew of night raiders killed a 12-year-old girl sleeping in her backyard, as well as her uncle, an Afghan police officer. And who\u2019s even mentioning the eight private security guards killed in an air strike as May began?\nAs it happens, however, from the moment that a B-52 and two B-1B bombers, using precision-guided weapons, destroyed a village wedding party in December 2001, killing 110 out of 112 revelers (only the first of numerous wedding parties to be blown away during these years), such civilian casualties have been the drumbeat behind the war. The Afghan dead \u2014 slaughtered by Taliban suicide bombers and IEDs as well \u2014 have risen in a charnel heap high above those of September 11, 2001.\nAccompanying such stories over the years have been passages like this one from the Times piece: \u201cWhen morning came, an angry crowd gathered in Narra, the boy\u2019s village, and more than 200 people marched with his body to the district center. Some of the men were armed and confronted the police, shouting anti-American slogans and throwing rocks at police vehicles and the... government center, according to the district governor and the [local school] headmaster. \u201d\nThis is the never-ending story of the war, the one whose only variations involve whether, faced with such deaths, U.S. military spokespeople will stonewall and deny, launch an \u201cinvestigation\u201d that goes nowhere, or offer a pro forma apology. When it came to the death of that girl recently, an apology was indeed issued, but her father made the essential point: \u201cThey killed my 12-year-old daughter and my brother-in-law and then told me, \u2018We are sorry.\u2019 What does it mean? What pain can be cured by this word \u2018sorry\u2019?\u201d\nWhen it comes to the Afghan War, there are other news stories of the present moment that were also the Afghan news of 2006, 2008, and 2010. There\u2019s even the newest hot set of rumors about U.S. attempts to open negotiations with the Taliban, whose last iteration ended when American officials discovered that the Taliban \u201csenior commander\u201d they had flown to Kabul was actually a clever impostor (who made off with a pile of money). But let\u2019s consider just one more story, the seventh headline of this moment, versions of which have headlined many other moments in these years, and ask whether there isn\u2019t something \u2014 anything at all \u2014 new to be learned from it.\n* \u201cAfghan officer fires on NATO troops, kills 9\u201d: This was breaking news when it happened. On April 25th, a veteran Afghan air force pilot, armed with two weapons and in a specially guarded and secure area of Kabul airport, suddenly opened fire on a group of Americans evidently involved in a training program for Afghan pilots. He gunned down eight U.S. Air Force personnel, including a lieutenant colonel, four majors, two captains, and a master sergeant, as well as a private contractor (himself a retired U.S. military officer) before being killed. It was \u201cthe deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his own coalition partners.\u201d But hardly the only one. In a sense, this was no news at all. It was already at least the fourth time in 2011 that someone dressed in an Afghan army or police uniform had turned a weapon on U.S. or NATO personnel. Among such incidents was one just three weeks earlier in which a man wearing a border police uniform, reportedly \u201cupset over the recent burning of the Quran at a Florida church,\u201d killed two Americans, and another in February in which an Afghan soldier, reportedly \u201coffended by his German partners,\u201d killed three of them, wounding yet more.\nBy military count, since March 2009, 17 such incidents have been reported. Since the mass killing at Kabul airport, there has already been an 18th in which, according to sketchy reports, a man in an Afghan police uniform opened fire on two NATO personnel at a \u201cluncheon\u201d in Helmand Province in the country\u2019s embattled south. In such incidents, at least 34 Americans have died. (Not counted in this total, evidently, is an incident in January 2010 in which a Taliban double or triple agent blew himself up amid a group of CIA employees on a forward operating base in Eastern Afghanistan, killing seven of them, including the station chief.)\nSuch incidents pile up repetitively, without adding up to anything of significance here. Yes, the literal math has been done and it should be striking, even shocking, to Americans, and yet these news stories seldom get much attention and have already fallen into a he said/he said pattern in which the only crucial question becomes: Was the killer a Taliban plant or a \u201crogue\u201d member of the Afghan security forces? As soon as such an attack occurs, the Taliban \u2014 which has made striking strides in entering the modern age of media spin \u2014 promptly takes credit for it, claiming that whoever blew away a coalition soldier was one of its own and the incident a carefully planned operation.\nIt\u2019s easy to understand why the Taliban would want to associate itself with such events. Harder to grasp \u2014 though no reporter seems to give it a second thought \u2014 is the U.S./NATO response. Their spokespeople regularly hustle out statements insisting that whoever attacked U.S. or coalition personnel was not connected to the Taliban, but simply having a truly bad day/life (experiencing, say, financial or psychological stress) and that, as a result, the incident was an \u201cisolated\u201d one, \u201cnot part of any organized pattern,\u201d or as an American general summed it up to reporters, \u201crare.\u201d And yet the phenomenon turns out to be common enough that the military has a label for it: \u201cgreen-on-blue\u201d violence.\nConsider this, though: Is the thought that the enemy is capable of repeatedly infiltrating American or NATO ranks really more devastating than the thought that, on a really bad day, \u201cour\u201d Afghans, the ones we are training or regularly working side-by-side with, have a deep-seated, repetitive urge to blow the foreigners away? That seems to me the devastating message U.S. military officials are rushing to reinforce.\nCan you, in fact, even come up with a comparable historical situation? Admittedly, when weaponry is everywhere, war is the subject, and hair-trigger is the attitude, people can die in all sorts of ways, as \u201cfragging\u201d incidents in the U.S. military in the Vietnam era indicated. (There was, in fact, one such incident at a military base in Kuwait as the invasion of Iraq began and, more recently of course, a disturbed Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Hasan, went on a rampage, killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas.)\nStill, where else is there such a record of police and military personnel blowing away their own trainers and ostensible allies so often? Isn\u2019t it possible that all those \u201crogues\u201d are offering a collective message Americans simply don\u2019t care to hear?\nDespite the almost unbroken and certainly repetitive record of three decades of war and destruction, there are undoubtedly new stories to be found under the Afghan sun (as well as across the borderin roiling Pakistan). It\u2019s just that you aren\u2019t likely to find them in American war coverage, in part because you aren\u2019t likely to find them in American strategic or tactical thinking.\nPerhaps the real question is this: What does it tell us when neither a new policy thought nor a new story can come out of a disastrous war almost 10 years old?\nWhat does it mean when a great power proves incapable of learning anything from its own past actions? What does it mean when you can\u2019t think creatively or reimagine the world in a land that has so often been referred to as \u201cthe graveyard of empire\u201d? Is it really so hard to guess?\nAnd by the way, is anybody bored to death yet? Then, what if, for the sake of having one new story to write, we decided to come home?\nTom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute\u2019s TomDispatch.com. His latest book is The American Way of War: How Bush\u2019s Wars Became Obama\u2019s (Haymarket Books). 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At those parties, you would pay for a cup, and then with that cup you could drink whatever beverage they had bought. But, to do this it required you going to the tap, which produces the beverage you were seeking to consume. Depending on the number of \u201ctappers\u201d the host had, would depend on the number of kegs that were tapped at a time. So, you would see kegs without a tap and know either that keg was empty or it was yet to be tapped. No matter how many kegs the host purchased, eventually, the beverage would run out, for those kegs, even though they were tapped, were temporary, there was an end to what was inside of them.\nI share that experience because I was listening to a podcast on the way home from the gym today and the preacher, who is well known, very passionate and has a large church, was speaking on being planted in somewhere bigger than you are, so you can grow the greatness inside of you. He said, that small places grow small people, that is why many, despite their titles in small churches, left the small church, to come and sit in his church, because they knew they needed to be planted in something bigger in order to grow. His passion, makes you want to shout AMEN, but the spirit of God spoke to me and revealed that anything we tap other than God Himself is temporary and will eventually run out.\nGod has planted eternity in our hearts, so anything you tap that is not God Himself is an idol and it will eventually run dry. Remember when you bought that new car, you were satisfied temporarily; remember when you got that new job with that big salary, then over time you began to want something more; do you recall when you got married, why over time did you long for a deeper love, more passion, something more in that relationship, that the other person was not capable of providing for you? The reason is because God has set eternity in our hearts, He has created us with an insatiable desire for more. Some may call it greed, but I call it eternity and I have learned that no matter the size of the church, no matter the amount of money you make, no matter how big the house is, or how amazing the marriage may be, there is something in our hearts that is eternal and only God can meet that need.\nWe tap so many temporary things and then wonder why we struggle, fight and compete with each other. James 4:1-3 says, \u201cWhat causes fights and quarrels among you? Don\u2019t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.\u201d You are tapping the temporal and it\u2019s not satisfying!\nGod has created you to be an eternal being, but to tap into your identity, your design, your image, you must tap into the God of heaven and earth, the Lord of all creation, the Master of everything. Your battle is not with other people, it is with yourself and God. The Israelites rejected the invitation to tap into God Himself and instead chose someone temporal, Moses to tap into, which eventually led them into tapping into another temporal thing, the golden calf. We do the exact same thing, we tap into people, thinking they have what we are looking for, we tap into stuff, thinking it will satisfy our longing, we tap into a company or church, thinking that is the answer to my eternal itch. But the truth is, the only One who satisfies, the only Person who is lacking nothing, the only thing that can quench the insatiable need inside of you for more is God, Yahweh, Yeshua, because He alone is eternal. Until you tap into God, you will always be tapping something temporal and you will live a life of want, lack, or deficit.\nThe question I want to ask you, honestly, what are you tapping? If it\u2019s something temporal, it will run out, but if you tap into God, He is eternal and to Him and His kingdom, there is no end, that is where I am tapping into and I am still hungry for more, but there is no end, so I can stay hungry, because I tapped Who I was made in the image of and so can you. When you tap into the temporary, it is like sugar, it will give you a spike of satisfaction, but it won\u2019t be long until you are seeking something new to tap, but if you tap into the Lord, it is like tapping into the eternal in which there is no end.\nWhen I was in high school one of the electives I chose was photography. In my na\u00efve high school mind, I thought it would be an easy class to get an A in, for it was just about going around and taking pictures or so I thought. Little did I know that now over 30 years later, this class would have such spiritual significance. Paul Manwaring says, \u201cGod wastes nothing and uses everything,\u201d this is one of those moments for me. Here is what I heard the Lord say yesterday\u2026 \u201cI WANT TO TAKE THE NEGATIVES INTO THE DARKROOM TO DEVELOP THE IMAGE ON THEM AND THEN BRING THEM OUT INTO THE LIGHT.\u201d\nAfter hearing these words, I immediately flashed to my time in photography class in high school, because we were required to develop negatives that we took with our cameras. We would enter the darkroom with our negative. Next we would take the negative that was black and we were required to put it in a bin of water to clean the negative; then we would put it in the developer for a set amount of time (if it stays in the developer too long it will become over exposed); next it went into the stop bath, to halt the developing process; then it went into the fixer; before entering a final time in another bin of water for one more rinse. We then would clip the negative to a wire for it to air dry. Once the negative was dry, the image was visible and the ability to make a print was ready.\nWe are God\u2019s negatives, we are without the obvious image, but even though it is not visible, the image is still there, so God calls us into the darkroom, the secret place, the prayer closet, where others cannot see us. We are called out of the public eye not for our destruction, but for our development. You cannot develop negatives in the light for you will destroy the image. You must bring it into the dark, so it can work through the process of development (Selah). Many of us have been invited into the darkroom, we have not been able to see anything, we have no idea what is really going on, but we know we are not alone, we know God is with us. We have been in the darkroom for the sake of development.\nGod Himself has invited us to His darkroom so He can develop the image of Himself in our lives. Many refuse this process, but those who said yes, not knowing what they were getting into, just knowing they heard the voice of the Lord, went in and we are about to be put on display. His image is visible, He can see Himself in us, the negative that was once just a black film, now has the image of God on it. It is still dark, we are still not clear yet where when we are coming out, but we can know for certain it is in the dark that He develops us into His image.\nOne final thing I remembered about my high school dark room, the only light in that room was a red light. It was in the red light that we would look at the image to see if it still needed to be in one of the tubs to bring forth the best image possible. The Lord is looking at our image through the blood of Jesus and once we are the best image of Him, we will be brought out into the light, not for our glory, but for His because we will now be an accurate image of Him in the earth. This is the reason for the darkroom!\nThe Witness Gap\nEvangelism, management, Mind, production, Thoughts, transformation, witness\n1 John 5:6-8 \u201cThis is the one who came by water and blood\u2014Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.\u201d\nDid you know that water, blood and Sprit are what testify to the truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? Did you know that those three witness are the same witnesses inside of you as a human being? Did you know that you are made up of 70% water, 7% blood and 7% air (spirit, breath)? Did you know that Jesus was made up of the exact same percentages when He was on the earth in the body of human being? Did you know that 777 means spiritual perfection multiplied in both power and completeness resulting in a rest found only in Jesus the Anointed One? Did you know that in your humanity, God made you perfect in Jesus the Christ?\nLife has a way of focusing us on our weaknesses, our sin, our depravity, our lack, our insecurities, but God by the very design of your human body made you perfect, powerful and complete, so you can rest. This is good news, this is something only God can do. By your very design as a human, God made you a witness that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God because your water, your blood and your breath/spirit testify to this truth. So, where is the gap, where is the disconnect, where is the challenge in our witness?\nWhile in prayer and studying, the Lord revealed to me that every person has a framework in their brain that determines how they think. He invited me to consider that we as people are a witness to who God is, but the way our minds are framed is hindering our witness. You see your mental framework is determined by what you have been taught. I chose an image of framework, for this blog so you can see how the unseen is what is framing what you think and if you want to operate by design and bridge the witness gap between your design and your mental framework, you have to change the way you think.\nMost people do not have a kingdom worldview or even a biblical worldview. How do I know this, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. People speak what they think. Most people have a worldview that has been shaped by the media, the culture or religion, but not by the Word of God and definitely not by the kingdom of God. So, our challenge is not that we are not a witness, our human body, which is blood, water and spirit testify that Jesus is the Christ, it is our mental framework that is betraying our witness to the world.\nAs people that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, it is imperative, that we deliberately work on our mental framework. This is your building project, if you chose not to work on this issue, you will live with a witness gap. However, I will say Jesus is a Master teacher, a Master builder, and a Master constructor of mental framework, but you must submit yourself to Him and His word, with a YES in your spirit and attitude that says, Your way, Yahweh! When you allow Him to reconstruct your mental framework to a kingdom worldview, you will no longer have a witness gap and you will begin to operate by design. We are a witness by design, now we need our mental framework to align.\nRedefinition of Words\nRedefinition of Words 11.11.16\nAmerica is going through what some perceive as a national crisis with the election of a billionaire business man to the highest office in the land, the President of the United States. But what we as American\u2019s don\u2019t recognize is that the crisis is not because of who was elected, but because of what God is going to use him to restore. It does not take any discernment or wisdom to recognize that Trump said somethings on the campaign trail that were off color, inappropriate and in some instances, downright mean. However, before you cast a stone, ask yourself if you have done the same thing a time or two in your life. I know I have, so I adhere to the words of Christ which say, \u201cHe who is without sin, go ahead and cast the first stone\u2026\u201d (John 8:7). I would like to propose that some people\u2019s issue with Trump is not his rhetoric or hyperbole, but rather his policies, his principals, his call for law and order.\nOver the past 20 plus years, our nation has gradually and systematically been changed in a way that many missed. With the propagation of proposals came a redefinition of words. We redefined what marriage is with the acceptance of homosexuals into the word marriage. Marriage by definition around the world is the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Another word that was redefined is that of love. Love is defined in culture by many as getting your own way, being able to do whatever you want, by a feeling or an emotion. With this redefinition of love our divorce rate has skyrocketed to over 50%, because people say, I no longer love that other person. We have redefined truth. In John 18:33, Pilate asked Jesus, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d Jesus in John 14:6 said, \u201cI Am the way, the truth and the life.\u201d In the movie A Few Good Men (1992), Colonel Nathan R. Jessep Addresses the Court on \u201cCode Red\u201d and says, \u201cyou can\u2019t handle the truth!\u201d Truth in a postmodern era has decided it is dependent on what you believe it is. Finally, we have redefined what grace is. The church at large has defined grace as the freedom to be you, do you, love you, accept you, without judgment, consequence or question. But biblical grace is defined as the empowerment to succeed. Jesus gave us the grace to repent, to change, to be transformed. Grace is an empowerment, not a freedom from consequences.\nI recognize there are many other words we have redefined as a culture, but these are enough to establish the point being made. So, what are people protesting, what is their angst about with the election of Trump? I believe it is the reality that law and order is about to be restored to our nation. One of the greatest assets of America, which is unique to many places around the world, is the adherence to law and order. We are a nation of laws, which produce order and keep all the citizens safe. Romans 13:1-7 says, \u201cLet every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God\u2019s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God\u2019s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience\u2019 sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God\u2019s ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.\u201d Civil authority is for our protection and if you are not in compliance with the laws of this land, there truly is reason to be afraid, not because the law has not always been there, but because some thought they could avert the law or redefine it.\nWith the redefinition of words came lawlessness. I know some believe they do not have to adhere to the laws of God as stated in the 10 Commandments, but this nation was formed with Judeo-Christian values in mind, just read the Federalist papers for confirmation of this, but the truth is, we are a nation of laws and with the increase of lawlessness we redefined words to fit our lifestyle. I am so thankful that this nation rose up and said, enough is enough. Lawless people will not throw a party when law and order are restored, but when the benefits of the return of law and order are established, when words are defined as they were originally intended, we will see Yahweh move in our nation with healing, restoration and prosperity again. However, not all will want this as Matthew 24:10-13 says, \u201cAt that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved\u201d. This is not about Christianity, for that too has been redefined, this is about the kingdom of God that is advancing and we are seeing an act of God\u2019s mercy on our land and for that I rejoice as God Himself is releasing a reformation for all.\nWhy the Kingdom Suffers\nWhy The Kingdom Suffers 11.1.16\nMatthew 11:12 \u201cFrom the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent men take it by force.\u201d\nWhile in prayer this morning, out of my mouth comes this statement, the kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force, then I continue to pray. After I was done praying, the Lord highlighted this verse to me, so I sat down to study it and what I discovered opened up an understanding I had not seen before. Here is what I learned\u2026\n1. John the Baptist inaugurated the kingdom of God on earth. He was the last Old Testament prophet who spoke of Yeshua and His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.\n2. Suffers violence means to rush into; seek with eagerness; enter into without information of the price, persecution or pressure of being a kingdom citizen.\n3. Violent men means one who uses force, one who hurries to appropriate without measuring the consequences. Those who came to John to be baptized without repenting of their sins. A vehement desire for anything. #strongsconcordance\nTherefore, what I heard the Lord say is, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force means, people rush into it with their words, prayers, or actions without counting the cost, knowing the responsibility involved, without repentance or an understanding of the kingdom culture. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence because people want to stay the same and yet claim they are citizens of the kingdom.\nThe kingdom of God is an invitation to lay down your will, your way, your desires, your thoughts, and to become a kingdom citizen. In order to do this, you need to understand the kingdom\u2019s culture, the way the kingdom operates, what they kingdom says, how the kingdom says it. The kingdom suffers violence because people have forced their way into without repentance and without a desire to take on the King\u2019s culture. They want citizenship, benefits and safety that comes with this kingdom, but they don\u2019t want the customs, cultures and commands of this kingdom. This is why the kingdom suffers violence, because violent men have claimed citizenship without adopting its culture.\nRemember Daniel and his 3 friends when they were invited to serve in the king\u2019s court (Daniel 1). They had to be taught the king\u2019s literature and language along with obeying the king\u2019s commands. They had to do this for a wicked king in order to serve in his court, how much more to serve in the King of kings court? The difference between these two kings is that there is nothing to resist in the King of king\u2019s kingdom, because everything gives glory to the King, Yeshua!\nHere\u2019s the point, the kingdom of heaven is suffering violence because violent men have taken it by force. Many people who say they are kingdom citizens are not representing the King or His kingdom as it is. They want it their way, their thoughts, their plans, their control, and yet they want to call it kingdom of heaven, so then people who don\u2019t know the King or His kingdom, see \u201ckingdom citizens\u201d and say, there is nothing about this kingdom worth inquiring about or coming to. Until the people who claim to be apart of this kingdom take on the King\u2019s culture and obey the King\u2019s commands, the kingdom of heaven will continue to suffer violence. And honestly, they will never serve in the King\u2019s court, even though they claim the King\u2019s citizenship. We must repent if we want to see a change in our culture, because they need to see people who are representing another kingdom and His culture. This is why the kingdom suffers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 22942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/ms-disease-modifying-therapies/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QDX3OBLC6MH3DLDEECM3OWZRQX4DIIG3", "length": 3632, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com", "title": "MS Disease-Modifying Therapies - Multiple Sclerosis News Today", "raw_content": "MS Disease-Modifying Therapies\nHome \u00bb MS Disease-Modifying Therapies\nDisease-modifying therapies (DMTs) are treatments that can reduce the activity and progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). They can be useful for both people with relapsing-remitting MS (RMS) and relapses of progressive forms of MS. A relapse is the worsening of symptoms and/or the appearance of new ones, which last at least 24 hours and are separated from a previous relapse by at least one month.\nDisease-modifying therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been shown to reduce the frequency and severity of relapses.\nDMTs can also reduce the development of new lesions in the brain and spinal cord as seen on MRI scans, and appear to slow the development of MS disabilities.\nAn early intervention with these treatments may help prevent permanent damage to the nervous system, which is associated with the destruction of myelin.\nUnless the side effects are intolerable, the treatment is not controlling the disease adequately, or a more appropriate treatment becomes available, these treatments should be continued indefinitely.\nNo DMTs are approved for women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant or who are breastfeeding.\nInterferon beta:\nAvonex: Typically used as first-line treatment, Avonex is a weekly injection for relapsing forms of MS.\nBetaseron: Typically used as a first-line therapy, Betaseron is an injection taken every other day for relapsing forms of MS.\nExtavia: The generic equivalent for Betaseron.\nPlegridy: Typically used as first-line treatment, Plegridy is an injection taken every two weeks for relapsing forms of MS.\nRebif: Typically used as first-line treatment, Rebif is taken three times a week for relapsing forms of MS.\nGlatimer acetate:\nCopaxone: A daily (20 mg) or three times per week (40 mg) first-line injection for relapsing forms of MS.\nGlatopa: The generic equivalent for Copaxone.\nMonoclonal antibodies:\nZinbryta (daclizumab): A monthly injection second-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS. Due to potential for serious complications, Zinbryta has a special FDA monitoring plan.\nAubagio (teriflunomide): A once-daily first-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS.\nGilenya (fingolimod): A once-daily second-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS. Due to the potential for serious complications, Gilenya has a special FDA monitoring plan.\nTecfidera (dimethyl fumarate): A twice-daily first-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS.\nLemtrada (alemtuzumab): A second- or third-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS. It is used as an infusion for five consecutive days, then three days 12 months later. Due to the potential for serious complications, Lemtrada has a special FDA monitoring plan.\nNovantrone (mitoxantrone): A third-line infusion treatment for progressive or worsening MS, used every three months.\nOcrevus (ocrelizumab): Twice-annual infusion treatment.\nTysabri (natalizumab): Second-line infusion treatment for relapsing forms of MS with a four-week-interval. Due to potential for serious complications, it has a special FDA monitoring plan.\nNote: Multiple Sclerosis News Today is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 10218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://music.newcity.com/2009/06/30/preview-independence-day-eve-at-grant-park85th-army-band/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SNTRGQVZQOEMCTLE7SSIGYJPZLRUPZDA", "length": 2727, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "music.newcity.com", "title": "Preview: Independence Day Eve at Grant Park/85th Army Band", "raw_content": "Fourth of July fireworks in downtown Chicago have a relatively recent history, since various neighborhoods had developed their own displays and traditions. The American Legion began staging its own fireworks in Soldier Field back in the 1930s, and the City respected that tradition by not competing with it with the exception of 1976, when a large-scale, one-time-only July Fourth fireworks display was organized to celebrate the bicentennial. That event was such a success that an annual downtown fireworks display was contemplated, although July Third\u2014Independence Day Eve\u2014was chosen so as not to compete with the Legion fireworks which, ironically, would become so overshadowed by the July Third fireworks that they would cease from lack of interest. Taking a cue from the best bicentennial fireworks displays across the country (Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Boston) that had spectacularly choreographed the pyrotechnics to a live symphony orchestra, the Grant Park Orchestra was engaged to perform a concert leading up to and during the fireworks, a tradition that continued unbroken for thirty-plus years, until now. Choreographing fireworks to live music has always been a very expensive and elaborate process (conductors control tempo and their cues have to be televised live to the pyrotechnicians), and the city had fought for years to cut back and even eliminate the role of the GPO altogether so that a less expensive, fully-computerized display pre-programmed to canned music could be presented. Audiences wouldn\u2019t know the difference, officials had long theorized, and besides, pop music could be included. And so, after a live patriotic-themed band concert by the Arlington Heights-based 85th Army Band (made up of forty Army reservists from 18 to 60 that practice once a month and usually perform at retirement homes) which will stop playing at 8:45pm, a canned version of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201c1812\u201d Overture\u2014not by the GPO or even the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but by the Boston Pops, to add insult to injury\u2014will inaugurate the fireworks at 9pm followed by music of Neil Diamond, Kid Rock, Pink, Chicago, KT Tunstall, Tom Petty, Kevin Rudolf, John Mellencamp, Coldplay, U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Blues Brothers and George Michael. For those who want to hear the GPO perform a live \u201c1812\u201d and other American music that in the past would have accompanied this display, that opportunity comes at 1:30pm in the afternoon the following day, yes, the Fourth of July, and yes, without fireworks. (Dennis Polkow)\nJuly 3, Grant Park\u2019s Petrillo Music Shell, (312)744-3370, 7:30pm. Free.\nPrevious Post Preview: Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Mendelssohn and Brahms\nNext Post Preview: Benn Jordan and Machinedrum/Sonotheque", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://muzitee.com/shop/rising-sun/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WLTYXIR2H6V6ALVXP6I5YTUBNMYZS3RK", "length": 667, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "muzitee.com", "title": "Rising Sun \u2013 Muzitee", "raw_content": "This is not just a t-shirt with real music. It\u2019s a special edition t-shirt with Its OWN music, based on \u201cHouse of the Rising Sun\u201d taken from Hume Assine\u2019s latest release \u201cRising Sun Blues\u201d. Hume Assine was one of our featured artists back in July of 2014\nDownload it for free, here:\nRising Sun Blues by Hume Assine\nThe t-shirt also includes a code to get a lifetime access to free fresh music from indie artists.\nSKU N/A Category T-shirts Tags move it move it, born 2b wild, sale\nComes with its own music!\nA special edition t-shirt based on \u201cHouse of the Rising Sun\u201d taken from Hume Assine's release \u201cRising Sun Blues\u201d\nBe the first to review \u201cRising Sun\u201d Cancel reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mycauseuk.com/charity/2254/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QIEZZJWXBVEBWGPHGMLLL7FCHRHQTKCM", "length": 814, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mycauseuk.com", "title": "Help For Heroes | My Cause UK", "raw_content": "Help for Heroes \u2013 The leading charity for military veterans\nHelp for Heroes is founded on the belief that those who put their lives on the line for us deserve a second chance at life.\nHelping the armed forces and military veterans\nWe provide recovery and support for the Armed Forces community whose lives are affected by their service, no matter when they served.\nEvery course and activity we offer aims to empower our wounded, injured and sick to look beyond illness and injury, regain their purpose, reach their potential and have a positive impact on society.\nWe know that those who serve together, recover better together \u2013 supporting each other, enjoying the camaraderie and sense of fellowship once more.\nFind out more at https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk\nWhy not support Help For Heroes at festivals in 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mycountry955.com/jazz-ambassadors-concert-at-casper-college-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ICVWGMZC7TKWMQR2DQTREOSOJOVDKSUL", "length": 2130, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mycountry955.com", "title": "Jazz Ambassadors Give Free Concert At Casper College [VIDEO]", "raw_content": "Jazz Ambassadors Give Free Concert At Casper College [VIDEO]\nPhoto Courtesy The Jazz Ambassadors\nThe internationally acclaimed Jazz Ambassadors of Washington, D.C. will be giving a free public concert at Casper College on Monday, October 16th. The Jazz Ambassadors is the official touring big band of the United States Army. The 19-member ensemble was formed in 1969 and has received much acclaim performing what many consider America's greatest original art form, jazz.\nThe Jazz Ambassadors seek to entertain a range of audiences, with a diverse offering that includes big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals, and patriotic selections. Many of the pieces are written or arranged by members of the Jazz Ambassadors.\nFrom a press release from Casper College:\n\"The Jazz Ambassadors has appeared in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Japan, India, and throughout Europe. Recent notable performances include concerts at the Toronto Jazz Festival, the Richmond Jazz Festival at Maymont, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Jazz Education Network Conference, and an appearance on the Colbert Report. Gordon Goodwin, Bobby Shew, Ernie Watts, and the Dave Brubeck All-Star Quintet are just a few of the outstanding jazz artists who have shared the stage with the Jazz Ambassadors. The band has been featured in joint concerts with Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Pops, the Colorado Pops Orchestra, and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. The band\u2019s rigorous touring schedule and reputation for excellence has earned it the title 'America\u2019s Big Band.'\"\nThe Jazz Ambassadors:\nMonday, October 16th, 7:00 p.m.\nWheeler Concert Hall at Casper College\nThe concert is free, but tickets are required.\nSponsored by Casper College\nFor more information and to reserve your free tickets you can call 307-268-2606 or visit www.caspercollegearts.cc.\nHere's a sampling of the Jazz Ambassadors, via YouTube.\nFiled Under: casper college, jazz, Wheeler Concert Hall\nCategories: Casper Events, Casper News, Entertainment, Events, Videos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mycountry955.com/man-charged-as-habitual-criminal-in-casper-area-shooting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:K4QQLE7HOWCEKFODQSOTPH6CXTQXVJA5", "length": 2311, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mycountry955.com", "title": "Man Charged as Habitual Criminal in Casper-Area Shooting", "raw_content": "Man Charged as Habitual Criminal in Casper-Area Shooting\nA man accused of firing several bullets into a trailer home north of Casper in early April pleaded not guilty to a pair of felony charges Wednesday morning.\nLyle James Clark, 43, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, and prosecutors seek to label him a habitual criminal in each count. As a result, Clark could face up to life in prison on each count.\nAccording to an affidavit, Clark told an investigator with the Natrona County Sheriff's Office that he and his girlfriend had been drinking late on the night of April 6 and into the early morning hours of April 7. They talked about how the girlfriend's father had allegedly abused her as a child.\nSo, Clark allegedly decided to drive to the man's house to \"shoot it up\" in order to \"scare him.\"\nClark drove a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt to the house, with his girlfriend inside. When they arrived, Clark got out of the car and walked to a property fence before firing seven to nine rounds from a .22-caliber rifle into the house.\nClark said he shot at the bedroom window because he had been inside the house previously and knew it to be the bedroom where his girlfriend's father slept. Clark later allegedly said he thought it was a \"fifty-fifty\" chance that he actually shot the man.\nAccording to the affidavit, Clark told investigators that he had discarded the rifle in a broken-down pickup truck that he owned. Deputies later executed a search warrant and found the rifle where Clark had said it would be.\nThe victims had been lying on their bed, with the man having gotten up to extinguish his cigarette, when the bullets came through the window into the bedroom. Had the man not gotten up, he told investigators, he would have been hit by multiple bullets.\nOne bullet hit the family cat in the face. The animal later had to be euthanized.\nDistrict Judge Daniel Forgey on Wednesday denied a defense request to reduce Clark's bond, which remains set at $250,000 cash or surety. Clark was in custody at the time of Wednesday's hearing.\nPer charging information filed by the Natrona County District Attorney's Office, Clark has previously been convicted on felony charges of receiving and concealing stolen property and two separate charges of domestic battery as a third or subsequent offense.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mypearlandnews.com/2019/02/01/opinion-all-pearland-isd-students-matter-why-dont-candidates-understand-that/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YQDLQAMFDNTOG5SRPODO7R4ZX6FEJGEM", "length": 2160, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mypearlandnews.com", "title": "Opinion: All Pearland ISD Students Matter Why Don't Candidates Understand That? - My Pearland News", "raw_content": "By Jason Perry, M.A. on February 1, 2019\nEvery student in the Pearland ISD matters and local campaigns for Board of Trustee\u2019s of the district should reflect that. Unfortunately, a look at the campaign pages and events being operated by the current candidates on the left and right of the political spectrum show how out of touch with reality the Pearland Political Class has really become.\nDr. Dona Kim Murphy is launching her campaign with an event entitled \u201cWhy 6.0 isn\u2019t Good enough.\u201d Murphy, who was educated at Harvard, will at the event explain how having a 6.0 GPA won\u2019t guarantee your way into the Ivy Leagues. She promises for $30 to share the secrets of elite college admission as part of her academic focus on high achieving students. The problem is that not everyone\u2019s kid goes to Harvard.\nThere are readers right now who just hope their kid makes a C in algebra. There is a reader out there hoping their child only gets detention this semester and not ISS. Some parents have at-risk students who need special attention and attend the district\u2019s PACE center. Not every kid is going to go to college. Some kids will become welders, electricians, HVAC workers, and others who help keep America running. Some students will be managers in the hospitality industry or serve in the military. A myopic focus on Ivy League attendance is just the tip of the iceberg in illuminating how out of touch the political class has become.\nDr. Murphey\u2019s Opponent Rebbecca Decker\u2019s Facebook Page (she has no formal website) has literally no policy to be found on it at all. Decker boasts of her own high achieving child\u2019s achievements while focusing almost all of her attention on the celebration of the fine art programs in the District. Decker covers plays, choir performances, artwork, etc. But again, not everyone\u2019s kid is gifted or into the arts.\nThe filing deadline to run for office has not closed yet. Hopefully, a candidate will emerge who is for all students. Gifted, average, and at risk. For students who like football and for students who enjoy musicals. Where is the candidate who speaks for all students in Pearland ISD? Hopefully one will emerge soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nation.com.pk/17-Aug-2017/japanese-envoy-on-minister-for-communication", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:55Z", "digest": "sha1:K4WJ3TDF6KXKKIAX6MZ2BZZ2IZ6IZPBO", "length": 1549, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "nation.com.pk", "title": "Japanese envoy on minister for communication", "raw_content": "Japanese envoy on minister for communication\nIslamabad - The Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Takashi Kurai called the Federal Minister for Communications, Hafiz Abdul Karim, in his office on Wednesday.\nThe ambassador congratulated the federal minister on taking charge of the ministry and the two discussed matters of mutual interest.\nThe ambassador said that his country had great interest in the development of road infrastructure in Pakistan which was manifested by various highway projects initiated with the financial and technical assistance of Japan.\nHe informed the minister that the most important highway project currently underway with Japanese assistance (JICA) was Rakhi Gajj-Bewata section (N-70) connecting Punjab and Balochistan.\nHe said it was a state-of-the-art project involving unique design and advanced technology. He said that work on the 33km-long section commenced in 2016 and would be completed by July 2019 at a cost of Rs23 billion.\nHe said work on different sections of Indus Highway (N-55) had also been successfully completed.\nThe minister said that Pakistan and Japan enjoyed cordial relations and expressed hope that the relationship between the two countries would be further strengthened in future.\nHe said Pakistan always appreciated Japan\u2019s cooperation in the development of road infrastructure and also proposed the dualisation of the section between Dera Ghazi Khan and Shikarpur along the Indus Highway. The Ambassador welcomed the proposal and assured the Minister of all possible cooperation in this regard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nbcds.org/events/category/contra-dances/2019-01-01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:00Z", "digest": "sha1:WLTZ2TPHDKE22QLRLW5YGER4U5E4KDAK", "length": 100, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nbcds.org", "title": "Events for January 1, 2019", "raw_content": "No matching events listed under Contra Dances scheduled for January 1, 2019. Please try another day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ncpap.org/photo/0517ffba-5bc5-4fc6-929b-189748cc76c1?xg_source=activity", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4R6CJKVTEXTVCQ2P7HVRVTTVVKWOF7S3", "length": 104, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ncpap.org", "title": "Redeeming the Time at the Docks - North Carolina Plein Air Painters", "raw_content": "Redeeming the Time at the Docks\nAdded by Martha Faires on July 7, 2018 at 11:33am\nSnead\u2019s Ferry Landing,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nebraska.preventblindness.org/prevent-blindness-america-public-health-documents", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:N4HERQPRORCXIQIGINZBCIBQ5ZWWHM7X", "length": 4623, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "nebraska.preventblindness.org", "title": "Prevent Blindness Public Health Documents | Prevent Blindness", "raw_content": "Prevent Blindness Public Health Documents\nA Plan for the Development of State-Based Vision Programs Summary of a Retreat on Public Health Vision Preservation\nThis report makes recommendations to enhance the collaboration of organizations in initiating system changes and strengthen state efforts in the prevention of vision loss and preservation of eye health.\nThe Economic Impact of Vision Problems: The Toll of Major Adult Eye Disorders, Visual Impairment and Blindness on the U.S. Economy\nThis report describes the economic burden of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataract, diabetic retinopathy, primary open angle glaucoma and refractive error. It also looks at the economic impact of vision problems and blindness.\nThe Future of Vision: Forecasting the Prevalence and Costs of Vision Problems\nThis analysis uses a prevalence\u2010based approach to generate projections of the future prevalence and costs of vision problems based on the US Census Bureau\u2019s national population projections from the year 2014 to 2050. Cost projections are based on current per person cost estimates from \u201cThe Costs of Vision Problems\u201d and projected changes in inflation, medical costs, wage growth, healthcare access and utilization, and medical intensity.\nImproving the Nation's Vision Health: A Coordinated Public Health Approach\nDeveloped through the efforts of the CDC Vision Health Initiative and diverse stakeholders, this report highlights a national public health framework to prevent vision impairment and blindness and coordinate prevention and rehabilitation efforts between all sectors. It provides comprehensive and coordinated vision health strategies and activities that will serve to provide forward momentum at this critical juncture in time.\nOur Vision for Children's Vision: A National Call to Action for the Advancement of Children's Vision and Eye Health\nThis 2010 edition provides a six-plank platform for children's vision and eye health encompassing professional vision care, children's vision screening, school readiness as it relates to vision, children's eye safety, public awareness and pediatric vision research.\nPrevent Blindness America: Working to Advance Public Health, Vision and Eye Care in the U.S.\nA Summary Report of a Five-Year Cooperative Agreement with the Vision Health Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2003-2008).\nThe State of Vision, Aging, and Public Health in America\nVision impairment is a serious public health concern among older adults, affecting more than 2.9 million people in the United States. This issue brief summarizes the prevalence of vision loss and eye diseases reported by people aged 65 or older, and it provides information about access to eye care, health status, and comorbid conditions among older adults.\nUV and Our Nation's Vision - Insights from the Congressional Briefing\nFrom sunburn to skin cancer, almost everyone is aware of the damage that ultraviolet (UV) radiation can cause to their skin, but very few understand the dangers of UV exposure to their eyesight.\nThe Vision Connection: Integrating Vision into State Health Programs\nIn 2003, Prevent Blindness America entered into a significant partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address vision and eye health preservation issues. This report details four collaborations between states and Prevent Blindness America affiliates, illustrating the capacity of states and communities to promote and integrate vision and eye health as a part of community public health initiatives.\nVision Preservation and the National Prevention Strategy: A Call to Action\nPrevent Blindness America offers this guide as a call to action to those organizations and individuals committed to the work of vision and eye health preservation to link our collective work to the focus areas of the recently released National Prevention Strategy.\nVision Problems in the U.S.: Prevalence of Adult Vision Impairment and Age-Related Eye Disease in America (2008 Update to the 2002 Edition)\nThis report includes information on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment, significant refractive error, and the four leading eye diseases affecting older Americans: age-related macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma.\nVision Problems in the United States: Recommendations for a State Public Health Response\nIn 2004, the Chronic Disease Directors (CDD) established a Vision Loss/Blindness Prevention Committee. This report comprises the committee's recommendations about the potential role for state public health agencies in vision conservation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 7640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nerdloveshop.com/2017/11/14/tuesday-tunes-19-tight-race-for-best-song-in-the-2017-melon-awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:49Z", "digest": "sha1:T3DHWIUCVDHOAZZPQBRBBNNXOZUNQ4JI", "length": 4095, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "nerdloveshop.com", "title": "Tuesday Tunes #19: Tight Race for Best Song in the 2017 Melon Awards \u2013 Nerd Love Shop", "raw_content": "Only in its eighth year, the Melon Music Awards is an annual major music awards show held in South Korea. Judging criteria for the awards involves judge scores as well as digital sales, but a good chunk of the determining vote goes to online voting.\nThe polls for the 2017 Melon Awards have barely been open for a day and already millions of votes have been cast, producing what is already proving to be a tight race for not only the title of Best Artist and Best Album, but\u2013most importantly, considering it\u2019s Tuesday Tunes over here, yo\u2013Best Song.\nTight Race for Best Song in the 2017 Melon Awards\nIt\u2019s always fun to watch fandoms fight it out, most especially when you\u2019ve picked a side! There are currently three contenders for the Best Song category, but it\u2019s the top two candidates that are running the real race, considering that (as I write this) they have a less than 5% difference in votes.\nI\u2019m of course talking about BTS and EXO. These two bands are like the modern, Asian equivalent of such fanbase rivalries as N*Sync v. Backstreet Boys. Yep, it\u2019s heated\u2013and oh-so-fun to take part in.\nThis past summer, PopCrush held their annual Summer Fan Showdown, wherein fans fight to prove who\u2019s base is most dedicated. BTS and EXO faced off in round two with EXO winning by less than 1%. Seems like history may be repeating itself with the current lineup of voting on this year\u2019s 2017 Melon Award for Best Song!\nVoting numbers are accurate as of 2:10 PM on November 14, 2017.\n#1 \u2013 \u201cKo Ko Bop\u201d by EXO (343,888 votes)\nReggae-inspired, \u201cKo Ko Bop\u201d builds its title after the nonsense phrase songwriter Shaylen Carroll found herself singing as she wrote it, and thought it so catchy she built off it and, thus, \u201cKo Ko Bop\u201d came to life.\nThe song is so popular it not only crashed multiple servers due to too many fans streaming it at once, it also spawned its own viral Internet video trend, #KoKoBopChallenge, wherein challengers dance the hip thrust dance move from the choreography during the lyrics, \u201cDown down baby.\u201d Basically, to call this song a big deal is putting it tamely.\n#2 \u2013 \u201cSpring Day\u201d by BTS (329,887 votes)\nBTS is a seven-member boy band that is well-known for their expansive social media presence. Forbes listed them as the most retweeted artist on Twitter back in March of 2016, spawning Twitter\u2019s launch of their first ever K-Pop emoji, featuring BTS themselves. BTS made further waves by winning a Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist early this year. Then, in June of this year, Time magazine named them one of the 25 most influential people on the interest. And now they\u2019re going to be the first K-Pop group to ever perform for the American Music Awards on November 19. How\u2019s that for achievements?\n\u201cSpring Day\u201d was the title track for their 2017 album release, and it did not disappoint. It also crashed servers due to traffic overload, charting #1 across all eight of the major South Korean music charts.\n#3 \u2013 \u201cReally Really\u201d by WINNER (70,454 votes)\nAlthough WINNER is drastically behind the lead two candidates for this award, they\u2019re still worth mentioning. Originally a five-member band, the group was actually formed through the 2013 reality show WIN: Who is Next, competing as \u201cTeam A\u201d for the chance to debut as the first boy group in eight years for YG Entertainment. Thanks to winning all three rounds of public voting at the end of the program, the band gained the name WINNER.\nAfter a hiatus in 2015 for band members to pursue solo endeavors, WINNER is now a four-member band and making a comeback. \u201cReally, Really\u201d is one of the first tracks they unveiled, debuting at No. 3 on Billboard World Digital Song Sales. Again, WINNER may not quite be in the running for Best Song, but being the third favorite song in South Korea, is that really something to be bummed about?\nWhat do you think of the top three contenders? Do you have a piece of the BTS v. EXO battle?\nbts exo k-pop korea kpop melon awards south korea winner\nPrevious Post Manga Monday #19: Gangnam Beauty\nNext Post Watch Wednesday #19: What the Comics Predict for the Justice League Movie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nesn.com/2012/01/cardinals-rally-squirrel-gets-baseball-card-upstaging-skip-schumaker-once-again-photo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:32Z", "digest": "sha1:H4KOKCB5WEICGQNR3PR2IPZB6ZJ3PD2P", "length": 1184, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nesn.com", "title": "Cardinals\u2019 Rally Squirrel Gets Baseball Card, Upstaging Skip Schumaker Once Again (Photo) | MLB | NESN.com", "raw_content": "Cardinals\u2019 Rally Squirrel Gets Baseball Card, Upstaging Skip Schumaker Once Again (Photo)\nby Mike Cole on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:55PM\nCardinals outfielder Skip Schumaker\u2018s connection to the Rally Squirrel in St. Louis is going to last forever. Or, at least as long as few small pieces of cardboard hold up.\nMLB.com points out that Schumaker\u2019s 2012 Topps baseball card will feature just his right foot. The rest of the card is reserved for one pesky squirrel who became a national celebrity during last year\u2019s playoffs.\nOn the way to another World Series title, the Rally Squirrel was a lasting image after disrupting a divisional round game between the Cards and the Philadelphia Phillies. During a Schumaker at-bat, a squirrel darted through the batter\u2019s box before scurrying away.\nThat image was captured and will be featured prominently on Schumaker\u2019s Topps baseball card. Beckett.com reports, however, that the card will be a short print. So that\u2019s good news for Schumaker who will get his \u201cown\u201d card, and it\u2019s also good news for any collectors who get their hands on a Rally Squirrel card.\nSee the card below via Beckett.\nSee the at-bat that inspired the card in the video below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neweconomics.org/search/author/clifford-singer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:05Z", "digest": "sha1:UODQGPOQHY64TEV2TIVN6IDWLUINUE2D", "length": 232, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "neweconomics.org", "title": "Clifford Singer | New Economics Foundation", "raw_content": "Clifford oversees NEF's online presence, including our website, supporter emails and social media communications. He was previously director of Social Spark, which specialised in digital strategy for campaign groups and think tanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newfloridamortgage.com/government-disclaimers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:36Z", "digest": "sha1:VPL3CHCOSRQKYJYWQWG4JQU6OXKQXITW", "length": 750, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "newfloridamortgage.com", "title": "Government Disclaimers - New Florida Mortgage", "raw_content": "HomeGovernment Disclaimers\nThese materials on this website are not from HUD, FHA, the USDA, or the VA. These materials were not approved by any government agency. They are independent of any government agency. We are not in any way affiliated with any organization listed or referenced within this website, including HUD/FHA/USDA/VA. The inclusion of various education, information, web links, or materials are not an endorsement of the Sender or any of its employees or business partners.\nFor information directly from HUD/FHA, visit http://www.hudclips.com\nFor information directly from the VA, visit http://www.benefits.va.gov/HOMELOANS/\nFor information directly from the USDA, visit http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=GRANTS_LOANS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newint.org/columns/country/2004/03/01/yemen", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:43Z", "digest": "sha1:QNIVMFPAFRMZTHNMARWRDVVF6R6KA2SA", "length": 7034, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "newint.org", "title": "Yemen | New Internationalist", "raw_content": "People, it seems, are everywhere. The narrow streets of Sana\u2019a teem with them \u2013 mostly men, of course. Nearly all the men carry a janbiya, a large curved dagger in their belt. And almost all of them either owns or has ready access to a gun in this, the capital of the Arab world\u2019s second-poorest country.\nA short distance away, President Ali Abdullah Saleh addresses delegates at an Arab democracy conference. \u2018Democracy is the choice of the age for all peoples, and it is the lifeboat for political regimes, especially in the Third World,\u2019 he tells them.\nIndeed, \u2018democracy\u2019, or at least the widespread perception of it, has served the former soldier, who has ruled in Sana\u2019a since 1978, well. When he took his Yemen Arab Republic (commonly known as North Yemen) into a unification process with the People\u2019s Democratic Republic (South Yemen) in 1990, it must have seemed to many in the country that the new state was set to enjoy a rosy future: peaceful integration, political pluralism, press freedom, guarantees of local autonomy, nearly all political prisoners freed, swiftly improving relations with many of its Arab neighbours and the West, and the prospect of prosperity from newly discovered oilfields.\nBy the time the first multiparty elections took place in April 1993, however, the country had already begun to fall apart. Exactly one year later, civil war began. The Socialist Party which had ruled South Yemen until reunification took up arms in a bid to secede and restore the old two-state set-up.\nThe rebels were easily crushed in the end when Washington intervened to dissuade the Gulf Co-operation Council states from continuing their support. President Saleh\u2019s regime \u2013 once in America\u2019s bad books for failing to back the first military operation in Iraq in 1991 \u2013 has been seen on Capitol Hill as a trusted ally ever since.\nJohn Miles / Panos / www.panos.co.uk\nAs Sana\u2019a has grown closer to Washington, so has the prospect of a rosy future. The Socialist Party\u2019s defeat in the civil war soon led to its decline and the erosion of many of the social and civil liberties the southern provinces were promised would be maintained after unification. The rise in importance of Islah, an Islamist party which is now the principal opposition to Saleh\u2019s General People\u2019s Congress, saw Shari\u2019a become the \u2018only source\u2019 of the country\u2019s legislation. As the 1990s progressed, press freedom was reduced, the conduct of subsequent elections was characterized as \u2018pork-barrel politics\u2019 by an American NGO, the country\u2019s jails again filled up with political prisoners and, as the IMF took hold of the country\u2019s economic management, prices rose and people got poorer.\nTwo other developments characterized the 1990s: the increased kidnapping of foreigners, usually by people using them as bargaining chips to get what they wanted from the Government; and the presence of ever-larger numbers of men who had either fought in Afghanistan against Soviet forces or who came to study at one of the country\u2019s many Islamic schools. The Yemeni countryside, over much of which central government held little control, proved an attractive venue for jihadis (holy warriors) from all over the Muslim world.\nBy 11 September 2001 the jihadis, in co-operation with local extremist groups, who had begun to use the kidnapping tactic themselves to further political demands, were reportedly using Yemen as a major base of operations, resulting most spectacularly in the sinking of an American warship in Aden harbour. But the events of that day brought a sharp increase in American pressure on the Government to crack down on their presence. A long-threatened measure to shut down the Qur\u2019anic schools, a stronghold of Islah, began to be carried out, and security co-operation with Washington grew to the extent that Yemen is now described as a principal ally in the \u2018war on terror\u2019. US security advisers and intelligence agents are allowed to operate in the country and Yemen boasts one of the Majority World\u2019s most sophisticated (and expensive) electronic surveillance networks at its ports and key installations. More sinister was the assassination by US undercover forces of six suspected al-Qa\u2019ida fugitives in Marib in October 2002.\nBut there is a danger all this could backfire on the Government. Despite its oil, Yemen remains a poor country, with one of the fastest-growing populations, and fastest depletion of water reserves, in the world. And there are believed to be three guns for every one of its 19 million inhabitants.\nPresident Ali Abdullah Saleh since 1978. Has considerable executive powers.\nGross national income (GNI) per capita $490 (Saudi Arabia $8,460, Canada $22,300).\nRiyal.\nCrude oil, foodstuffs. Yemen has reasonably fertile soil and relatively high levels of rainfall, which gives it the best conditions for agriculture on the Arabian Peninsula, though it is more suited to fruit and vegetables than grain. Agriculture has traditionally employed two-thirds of the workforce. The main crop for the domestic market is qat, a popular mild narcotic, which takes up around a quarter of the irrigated land.\n19.3 million. People per square kilometre: 36 (Britain 245).\nInfant mortality 79 per 1,000 live births (Saudi Arabia 23, Canada 5).\nOver-use of water resources and deforestation are long-term problems. The sinking of a French oil tanker by jihadi extremists two years ago has left 80km of coastline badly polluted.\nAlmost entirely Arab (98%).\nMuslim (65% Sunni, 35% Shi\u2019a).\nArabic. Non-Arabic dialects are spoken in the far south-east and on the Indian Ocean island of Socotra.\nThere is a small wealthy \u00e9lite but the vast majority of the population is extremely poor.\n46%, but only 25% of women can read and write, compared with 68% of men.\n60 years (Saudi Arabia 72, Canada 79).\nA plethora of political parties and what is still one of the freer press environments in the Arab world, but the expectations of the early post-unification period have been disappointed.\nWomen have the vote and there are a few women MPs. But the overall position has declined in recent years, particularly in Aden and the southern provinces. Few girls complete schooling.\nSelf-sufficient in oil. Most other things have to be imported, including grain.\nFor all its problems, Yemen is the only state in the Arabian Peninsula with democratic political institutions and a functioning civil society. The President\u2019s rule is effectively unchallengeable, though, even without his party\u2019s huge parliamentary majority.\nMore about Steve Sherman\nSaudi Arabia: Arming up\u2026\nIts not just for show, as the bombing of Yemen illustrates, writes Vanessa Baird.\n\u2018Thinking loudly\u2019: blogging for Yemen\nHuman rights advocate Afrah Nasser talks to Lydia James about revolution, censorship and the importance of Vitamin D.\n\u2018I want to leave Yemen\u2019\nWith Shia rebels on the rise and top politicians waging war against each other, the country is once again in turmoil. Amal...\nIssue 247 - September 1993 Country profile: Yemen\nThe Right To Real Political Participation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 10072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/the-replacements-paul-westerberg-and-tommy-stinson-reun-1798233781", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UDF5XIHP7HBSL6MM5LQLKTDSNZGHZLXR", "length": 1467, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "The Replacements' Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunite for charity EP", "raw_content": "The Replacements' Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunite for charity EP\nPaul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson\u2014better known as one-half of The Replacements\u2014have gotten the old band semi-back together. According to Rolling Stone, the duo spent a day in a Minneapolis studio last month, recording four covers that will be released as a limited-edition 10-inch EP later this year. Only 250 copies of that record will be made and all of them will be auctioned online, with the proceeds going to former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, who had a stroke earlier this year and is now semi-paralyzed.\nWhile the reunion is more than welcome, Westerberg told Rolling Stone that former drummer Chris Mars \u201cdidn\u2019t want any part\u201d of it\u2014a fact that wasn\u2019t surprising to him, but did leave him \u201ca little disappointed.\u201d Drummer Peter Anderson played in Mars\u2019 stead, and Kevin Bowe, a member of Westerberg\u2019s solo band, contributed guitar in place of the late Bob Stinson. The group took on only four tracks: Dunlap\u2019s \u201cBusted Up,\u201d \u201cEverything\u2019s Coming Up Roses\u201d from the Broadway musical Gypsy, Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Not Sayin\u2019,\u201d and Hank Williams\u2019 \u201cLost Highway.\u201d\nFor anyone doubting the band\u2019s musical prowess\u2014and no one should\u2014Westerberg says that he and Stinson \u201cstill rock like murder.\u201d The frontman also told Rolling Stone that after this session, he wouldn\u2019t rule out a full-scale Replacements reunion, saying, \u201cI\u2019m closer to it now than I was two years ago, let\u2019s say that.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 116.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/the-weinsteins-hire-a-director-for-that-seven-samurai-r-1798225356", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NXWWVBMFETPZIFI2XE7OWMXHZS673PY4", "length": 1017, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "The Weinsteins hire a director for that Seven Samurai remake you forgot about", "raw_content": "The Weinsteins hire a director for that Seven Samurai remake you forgot about\nSeeing as its DNA is encoded in nearly every single diverse-men-on-a-mission action flick, both explicitly (The Magnificent Seven) and not-so-explicitly (everything else), it was only a matter of time before someone got around to remaking The Seven Samurai again. Or rather, \u201cTime and Harvey Weinstein,\u201d as the philosophers say, seeing as it\u2019s The Weinstein Company that\u2019s been actively pursuing the project for nearly four years now, and today they\u2019ve reportedly moved closer than ever by hiring British director Scott Mann (The Tournament) to helm their \u201ccontempo interpretation\u201d of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s classic. Scripted by John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom, Young Guns), the new version will concern seven paramilitary contractors from all around the world who come together to defend a town in Northern Thailand from attack\u2014though Variety doesn\u2019t say from what. But considering it\u2019s a \u201ccontemporary\u201d version, probably looser sexual mores.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avnet.com/leadership/board-directors/william-j-amelio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HYMD74J2X73H6A5COW6HBWZNXYO62KXX", "length": 1111, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "news.avnet.com", "title": "William J. Amelio | Avnet Newsroom", "raw_content": "Avnet Executive Board, Board of Directors\nWilliam (Bill) J. Amelio was named Chief Executive Officer of Avnet in September, 2016, where he has been a member of Avnet\u2019s Board of Directors since 2014.\nAmelio's experience includes serving as chief executive officer and president of CHC Group LTD, a global helicopter services provider; president and chief executive officer of Lenovo Group Limited; senior vice president/president for the Asia-Pacific/Japan region of Dell, Inc.; and leadership roles at NCR Corporation, Honeywell International, Inc., and IBM Corporation. Mr. Amelio also previously served on the Board of Directors of National Semiconductor.\nMr. Amelio and his wife, Jamie, founded and continue to lead Caring for Cambodia (caringforcambodia.org), a non-profit organization that works to educate the children of Cambodia through building schools, training teachers and providing for basic human needs.\nHe holds a master's degree in management and is a Sloan Fellow of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Amelio earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 6136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 77.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/steve-young-named-duke-energy-cfo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5QVEVFRYV3Q66NAQHW4AR24VIST23HF7", "length": 7285, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.duke-energy.com", "title": "Steve Young named Duke Energy CFO | Duke Energy | News Center", "raw_content": "Steve Young named Duke Energy CFO\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy today named Steve K. Young executive vice president and chief financial officer to replace Lynn J. Good, who became president and chief executive officer on July 1.\nYoung has served as vice president, controller and chief accounting officer since 2005, and continued to hold that position after the close of the merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy in July 2012. \u0093\n\"Steve has a deep understanding of our business. He is forward-thinking, focused on results and collaborates well across the organization,\u0094\" said Good. \u0093\"He will maintain a sharp focus on helping the company meet its financial goals.\u0094\"\nYoung, 55, joined Duke Power in 1980 and over his career has led a number of key functions, including system planning and operating, rates and regulatory affairs, and as CFO of Duke Power. He has also been accountable for the company's interaction with the utility commissions in North Carolina and South Carolina and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.\nHe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has completed the Wharton Advanced Management Program.\nGood said a successor to lead the controller'\u0092s office will be named in the near future. In the interim, Young will continue to lead that business.\nThis release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions.\nThese forward-looking statements are identified by terms and phrases such as \"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"intend,\" \"estimate,\" \"expect,\" \"continue,\" \"should,\" \"could,\" \"may,\" \"plan,\" \"project,\" \"predict,\" \"will,\" \"potential,\" \"forecast,\" \"target,\" \"guidance,\" \"outlook\" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results predicted. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statement include, but are not limited to: state, federal and foreign legislative and regulatory initiatives, including costs of compliance with existing and future environmental requirements, as well as rulings that affect cost and investment recovery or have an impact on rate structures; the ability to recover eligible costs and earn an adequate return on investment through the regulatory process; the costs of retiring Duke Energy Florida's Crystal River Unit 3 could prove to be more extensive than is currently identified, all costs associated with the retirement Crystal River Unit 3 asset, including replacement power may not be fully recoverable through the regulatory process; the ability to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers post-merger; the ability to successfully integrate the Progress Energy businesses and realize cost savings and any other synergies expected from the merger; the risk that the credit ratings of the combined company or its subsidiaries may be different from what the companies expect; the impact of compliance with material restrictions of conditions related to the Progress Energy merger imposed by regulators could exceed our expectations; costs and effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations and claims; industrial, commercial and residential growth or decline in the respective Duke Energy Registrants' service territories, customer base or customer usage patterns; additional competition in electric markets and continued industry consolidation; political and regulatory uncertainty in other countries in which Duke Energy conducts business; the influence of weather and other natural phenomena on each of the Duke Energy Registrants' operations, including the economic, operational and other effects of storms, hurricanes, droughts and tornadoes; the ability to successfully operate electric generating facilities and deliver electricity to customers; the ability to recover, in a timely manner, if at all, costs associated with future significant weather events through the regulatory process; the impact on the Duke Energy Registrants' facilities and business from a terrorist attack, cyber security threats and other catastrophic events; the inherent risks associated with the operation and potential construction of nuclear facilities, including environmental, health, safety, regulatory and financial risks; the timing and extent of changes in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates and the ability to recover such costs through the regulatory process, where appropriate; unscheduled generation outages, unusual maintenance or repairs and electric transmission system constraints; the performance of electric generation facilities and of projects undertaken by Duke Energy's non-regulated businesses; the results of financing efforts, including the Duke Energy Registrants' ability to obtain financing on favorable terms, which can be affected by various factors, including the respective Duke Energy Registrants' credit ratings and general economic conditions; declines in the market prices of equity securities and resultant cash funding requirements for Duke Energy's defined benefit pension plans and nuclear decommissioning trust funds; the level of creditworthiness of counterparties to Duke Energy Registrants' transactions; employee workforce factors, including the potential inability to attract and retain key personnel; growth in opportunities for the respective Duke Energy Registrants' business units, including the timing and success of efforts to develop domestic and international power and other projects; construction and development risks associated with the completion of Duke Energy Registrants' capital investment projects in existing and new generation facilities, including risks related to financing, obtaining and complying with terms of permits, meeting construction budgets and schedules, and satisfying operating and environmental performance standards, as well as the ability to recover costs from ratepayers in a timely manner or at all; the subsidiaries ability to pay dividends or distributions to Duke Energy Corporation holding company (the Parent); the effect of accounting pronouncements issued periodically by accounting standard-setting bodies; the impact of potential goodwill impairments; the ability to reinvest retained earnings of foreign subsidiaries or repatriate such earnings on a tax free basis; and the ability to successfully complete future merger, acquisition or divestiture plans.\nAdditional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in Duke Energy's and its subsidiaries' reports filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the events described in the forward-looking statements might not occur or might occur to a different extent or at a different time than Duke Energy has described. Duke Energy undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 8700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.efinancialcareers.com/hk-en/316575/andreas-vogelsanger-afc-vietnam-fund", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5UWCYCKRF572HMNPKJKF6NNLENCPUQWP", "length": 4474, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "news.efinancialcareers.com", "title": "I left a top job in Hong Kong banking to invest in a frontier market. Here\u2019s why | eFinancialCareers", "raw_content": "I left a top job in Hong Kong banking to invest in a frontier market. Here\u2019s why\nby Simon Mortlock 31 May 2018\nAt the start of this decade, Andreas Vogelsanger had a senior Hong Kong-based job at one of the world\u2019s oldest banks, Coutts. Now he\u2019s at the helm of a small investment firm which focuses on one of Asia\u2019s fastest-growing frontier markets, Vietnam.\n\u201cMy current role is quite a contrast with Coutts,\u201d says Vogelsanger, formerly head of banking products and treasury services Asia at Coutts, now CEO of AFC Vietnam Fund. \u201cGoing to the buy-side from banking is common enough, but moving to a Vietnam-focused firm is still fairly unusual\u201d\nVogelsanger first visited Vietnam as a tourist in the mid-1990s. \u201cI just saw bicycles then; now you can\u2019t move for motorbikes and cars, and the investment opportunities are huge,\u201d he told eFinancialCareers at the recent CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong. \u201cVietnam is about 15 years behind China in its development, but it\u2019s catching up quickly. GDP is expected to grow at around 6.8% this year.\u201d\nIndex publisher MSCI still classifies Vietnam as a frontier market, but Vogelsanger is confident that it will eventually be reassigned as an emerging market. \u201cThat\u2019s when a lot of new money will pour into the country, given that all the emerging-market funds will want to invest,\u201d adds Vogelsanger, who began his career at Chase Manhattan in Geneva in 1985 as a bond trader and worked in that field for 16 years before joining Julius Baer in a product-head role.\nVogelsanger set up his Vietnam fund in 2013 with fellow Swiss finance professionals Thomas Hugger and Andreas Karall, the former of whom also founded umbrella firm Asia Frontier Capital, which operates across other Asian countries. \u201cThe Vietnamese market collapsed in 2007, but by 2013 things were looking better. The currency was stable, inflation was under control, and the banking system had become better regulated.\u201d\nAFC Vietnam only managed $3.6m when it started out, all sourced from its founders and their friends and family. Its current assets are about $45m. \u201cBut this is still very small in the fund world and we want to grow it to around $250m,\u201d says Vogelsanger.\nThe fund, which is based in Hong Kong, isn\u2019t currently hiring, but may add a Vietnamese-speaking financial research analyst in the future, says Vogelsanger. \u201cInterest in covering or working in Vietnam is slowly starting to grow among finance professionals, given that the economic outlook there is so bright,\u201d he adds. \u201cWhen we launched, 10% of market participants in Vietnam were foreign; now around 15% to 20% are. As financial markets there expand, the country will attract more foreign capital and more foreign talent.\u201d\nVogelsanger\u2019s job comes with challenges, however. \u201cThe language barrier is probably the biggest one. I now bring native-speaking Vietnamese people along to my business meetings to avoid misunderstandings,\u201d he says.\n\u201cFrom an investment-risk perspective, corporate governance and liquidity are the main ones we\u2019re trying to mitigate,\u201d adds Vogelsanger. \u201cThat\u2019s why we invest in a diversified portfolio of 73 companies to carefully control concentration risk. This allows us to sell or buy positions without having a significant market impact. Also, should there be, for example, a balance sheet fraud in one of our holdings, the effect on the overall fund would be quite limited.\u201d\nVogelsanger says he is enjoying working on the buy-side after almost 30 years in banking. \u201cBut if you\u2019re thinking of moving to the buy-side, be aware that keeping on top of the regulatory requirements can be challenging,\u201d he adds. \u201cLong-tern, I believe these regulations will force the industry to become more efficient and adopt more fintech solutions. The investment sector therefore needs more talented young professionals with fintech know-how.\u201d\nCurrently living in both Hong Kong and Bangkok, Vogelsanger also travels frequently to Vietnam and to see investors in countries such as Switzerland, Japan, Singapore and the UK. \u201cIt\u2019s a Nomad-like existence, and giving up the financial security of my banking job was difficult at first. But it\u2019s also extremely rewarding. When you set up your own firm, your business quickly becomes your hobby and you don\u2019t mind all the hours you have to put in to be successful.\u201d\nNow Hong Kong banking recruiters want to hire you if you\u2019re NOT a perfect match to the job\nHong Kong banks trying (but often failing) to hire from Google and Alibaba", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.sportsinformationtraders.com/category/boxing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KWZE2JGLHRXDQPXZVJFA65CX45FJQX4X", "length": 344, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "news.sportsinformationtraders.com", "title": "boxing Archives - Sports Betting News", "raw_content": "Manny Paquiao Admits Return To Boxing About The Money\nPosted on August 11, 2016, by Travis Pulver It\u2019s a little na\u00efve, but when it comes to our favorite athletes, we like to think they play for the love of the game. We want our quarterbacks to play because they love to sound the crowd makes when they toss a 45-yard touchdown bomb. We want [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 3018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.sportsinformationtraders.com/monday-night-football-recap-broncos-defense-plays-well-but-chiefs-defense-plays-even-better/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:50Z", "digest": "sha1:LLWD4NAPT7DVYWGJSH45BPOBROWFI6BW", "length": 3144, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "news.sportsinformationtraders.com", "title": "Monday Night Football Recap: Broncos Defense Plays Well But Chiefs Defense Plays Even Better - Sports Betting News", "raw_content": "Monday Night Football Recap: Broncos Defense Plays Well But Chiefs Defense Plays Even Better\nIf the Denver Broncos were going to beat the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football, they needed two things. They needed a better game out of Trevor Siemian and the offense and the usual dominant effort by the defense.\nThey only got one.\nVia @PostBroncos\nAs could be expected, the Denver defense played very well; good enough to keep them competitive for much of the game. They held the Chiefs sensational rookie running back, Kareem Hunt, to less than 100 total yards from scrimmage for the first time in his young career (68 total yards; 46 rushing and 22 receiving).\nChiefs quarterback Alex Smith, who is on his way to setting a new single-season record for completion percentage, had his most inaccurate game of the year. He completed just 14 of 31 pass attempts (45.2 percent) for 202 yards and a single touchdown.\nTight end Travis Kelce hauled in seven of Smith\u2019s passes for 133 yards and a touchdown.\nDenver\u2019s defense held the Chiefs to just 276 yards of offense on the night. But thanks to five turnovers by the offense, Kansas City didn\u2019t need to do much on offense to win.\nThe first came early in the game when Jamaal Charles fumbled. Marcus Peters scooped the ball up and returned the ball for a touchdown to give Kansas City a 7-0 lead. Denver ended up turning the ball over five times (three interceptions, two fumbles) resulting in 13 points for the Chiefs.\nThe Broncos were behind 17-3 at the half, but the offense woke up enough in the second half to pull within seven, 20-13, late in the third quarter following a 10-play, 80-yard drive. But then the Chiefs extended the lead back out to ten points with another field goal early in the fourth.\nAfter a turnover on downs on Denver\u2019s next drive, the Chiefs tacked another field to make the score 26-13 with 7:04 to play. They tack on another before the end of the game and Denver would add another touchdown to make the final score 29-19, Chiefs.\nSmith was honest during his post-game interview and admitted it wasn\u2019t a pretty game for the offense. But he wasn\u2019t concerned about it.\n\u201cI mean, yeah, I wasn\u2019t totally expecting it to be [pretty] \u2014 two really good teams, division game, a lot on the line,\u201d Smith said in the postgame on-field interview on ESPN (CBSSports). \u201cOne of the best defenses in the NFL. We played good team football tonight.\u201d\nThey may not need to be much better next week when they face the Dallas Cowboys. The news broke during the game that Ezekiel Elliot would have to start serving his suspension barring any last-minute legal maneuvers.\nVia @WBG84\nFor the Broncos, it is almost a shame that they had to lose. But when the offense makes as many mistakes as it did, that\u2019s what happens. If they are going to have any hopes of making a playoff push, they will need to figure the offense out\u2014and soon.\nIt is not going to get any easier for the Broncos next week. They get to travel to Philadelphia to take on the red-hot Eagles.\nAlex Smith, Chiefs-Broncos, Denver Broncos, Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Chiefs, Marcus Peters, Travis Kelce", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsroom.heart.org/news/stroke-survivors-could-gain-the-most-from-new-blood-pressure-guidelines", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:PJFVRY7OP474IM34QH2CSWFRQZSIS7ZT", "length": 4608, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "newsroom.heart.org", "title": "Stroke survivors could gain the most from new blood pressure guidelines | American Heart Association", "raw_content": "Stroke survivors could gain the most from new blood pressure guidelines\nJune 06, 2018 Categories: Heart News, Stroke News\nMore than half of all strokes can be attributed to uncontrolled high blood pressure.\nIf stroke survivors were treated so their blood pressures reach the new target of less than 130/80 mmHg, deaths might be cut 33 percent compared with previous guidelines with a higher target blood pressure.\nEmbargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, June 6, 2018\nDALLAS, June 6, 2018 \u2014 Treating high blood pressure in stroke survivors more aggressively, could cut deaths by one-third, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.\n\u201cThe potential to reduce mortality and recurrent stroke is immense, because more than half of all strokes are attributable to uncontrolled high blood pressure,\u201d said Alain Lekoubou, M.D., M.S., study lead author and clinical instructor in neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.\nIn the AHA/ACC guideline for hypertension, released in 2017, the threshold for stage 1 hypertension, or high blood pressure was changed to at or above 130 mmHg for the top number or 80 mmHg for the bottom number. The previous threshold for high blood pressure was, at or above 140/90 mmHg.\nOverall, while many more people will be diagnosed with hypertension under the new guideline, there will be only a small increase in the percentage of people who require medication. However, blood pressure-lowering medications are recommended for all stroke survivors with blood pressures of 130/80 mmHg or higher, and additional drugs if needed to reduce blood pressure below that threshold.\nIn the new study, researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate the nationwide impact of applying that approach. The surveys, conducted between 2003 and 2014, included blood pressure measurement and asked participants about their stroke history and blood pressure treatment.\nIf clinicians fully shift from the previous guidelines to the new ones, the researchers calculated the impact on stroke would be:\na 66.7 percent increase in the proportion of stroke survivors diagnosed with hypertension and recommended for pressure-lowering medication (from 29.9 percent to 49.8 percent);\na 53.9 percent increase in the proportion of stroke survivors already taking pressure-lowering drugs who will be prescribed additional medication to reach their target blood pressure (from 36.3 percent to 56 percent); and\na 32.7 percent reduction in deaths, based on the difference in death rates in stroke survivors above and below the 130/80 mmHg target blood pressure (8.3 percent vs. 5.6 percent).\n\u201cThe new guideline offers physicians and policymakers a unique opportunity to reinforce the already decreasing stroke-related mortality trends of the last few decades,\u201d Lekoubou said. \u201cIt is our responsibility to ensure that stroke survivors identified with hypertension are treated more aggressively and to ensure that those on treatment remain on treatment.\u201d\nWhile the potential to prevent recurrent strokes and save lives is large, the researchers acknowledge that there are special challenges in treating blood pressure in stroke survivors.\n\u201cStroke survivors can face many hurdles in adhering to treatment, including major neurological impairments and depression, which can reduce the motivation to take medication. Caring for stroke survivors may be complicated because it is primarily a disease of the elderly, who are often taking several medications to treat their medical conditions,\u201d said Lekoubou.\nThe study is limited by relying on self-reports of a history of stroke and the inability to separately analyze the impact of the new guidelines on survivors of clot-caused or bleeding strokes.\n\u201cThe true magnitude of the impact of these changes in high blood pressure definition and treatment recommendations will best be evaluated by prospective studies, which will also offer the opportunity to identify gaps and improve treatment protocols among stroke survivors,\u201d Lekoubou said.\nCo-authors are Kinfe G. Bishu, Ph.D. and Bruce Ovbiagele, M.D., M.Sc., M.A.S., M.B.A. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.\nAvailable multimedia is on the right column of the release link https://newsroom.heart.org/news/stroke-survivors-could-gain-the-most-from-new-blood-pressure-guidelines?preview=a7f2d1e0de2d64c85006e76fe0f2b1d9\nAfter June 6, 2018, view the manuscript online.\nVisit heart.org/hbp for more about high blood pressure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 9538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ngss.nsta.org/Resource.aspx?ResourceID=151", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CR4Z4DK2JJQPRLXZ4VSVDTS5BKT2EXIA", "length": 9467, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ngss.nsta.org", "title": "Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions", "raw_content": "This is a 5E laboratory lesson plan about endothermic and exothermic reactions. Teaching resources include activity sheets for assessment, answer sheets, a variety of video clips and animations to support the students' learning of the concepts, background information for the teacher, and a test bank.\nIt will be necessary to explicitly make the connections between the definitions of \u201cchemical reaction\u201d and \u201cendo- and exothermic reactions.\u201d Students can know that a new substance is produced without really thinking about bonds being broken and reformed. As such, you could be quite purposeful in highlighting the fact that during a chemical reaction, bonds are broken between the atoms in the reactants. The atoms rearrange themselves and then new bonds are formed. This process of bonds breaking to dissemble the reactants and new bonds forming to assemble the product is how a new substance is formed during the chemical reaction. It takes energy to break those reactant bonds, to dissociate those atoms from each other, but energy is released when bonds are made between atoms during the formation of the product. Depending on the atoms involved in the particular chemical reaction, sometimes the amount of energy needed to break the bonds is more than the amount of energy released when the new bonds are formed. These types of reactions that require energy are known as endothermic reactions. Other times, the amount of energy needed to break the bonds of the reactants is less than the amount of energy that gets released when the products are formed through the making of new bonds. These reactions that release energy are called exothermic reactions. This lesson can also be a good \"bridge activity\" , acting as an entry point to the concepts needed for standard MS-PS-1-6, \"Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.\"\nThe students will conduct reactions that result in temperature increases as well as decreases. They then need to be able to interpret what those changes in temperature tell them about what is going on with the atoms in the chemical reactions. The idea of perspective is really important here as they make this determination. What is it that they are taking the temperature of, exactly? Is it the atoms and molecules that are reacting, or is it their surroundings? This can be a tricky point for students to understand. You might have students draw simple pictures of their experimental set up, including the beaker, thermometer, circles to represent the reacting particles and, most importantly, the water the particles are dissolved in. Then, have the students draw arrows to indicate if energy is going into or out of the particles during the reaction. These pictures can help them see, for example, that if energy is leaving the particles as the product forms, then the energy goes out into the solution. As such, the temperature of the solution goes up. This is also a great opportunity to have students practice making arguments from evidence.\nSome chemical reactions release energy, others store energy.\nThough the ideas are mentioned in the teacher materials and questions for the students, explicitly guiding your students through making the connections between the definitions of \u201cchemical reaction\u201d and \u201cendo- and exothermic reactions\u201d really ties together the Performance Expectation, Practice, and Core Idea for this activity. Students can know that a new substance is produced without really thinking about bonds being broken and reformed. As such, you could be quite purposeful in highlighting the fact that during a chemical reaction, bonds are broken between the atoms in the reactants. The atoms rearrange themselves and then new bonds are formed. This process of bonds breaking to dissemble the reactants and new bonds forming to assemble the product is how a new substance is formed during the chemical reaction. It takes energy to break those reactant bonds, to dissociate those atoms from each other, but energy is released when bonds are made between atoms during the formation of the product. Depending on the atoms involved in the particular chemical reaction, sometimes the amount of energy needed to break the bonds is more than the amount of energy released when the new bonds are formed. These types of reactions that require energy are known as endothermic reactions. Other times, the amount of energy needed to break the bonds of the reactants is less than the amount of energy that gets released when the products are formed through the making of new bonds. These reactions that release energy are called exothermic reactions.\nThe energy difference between what was needed to break the reactant bonds and what was released when the product bonds were formed can be tracked through the reaction beaker (our system) via measuring the temperature. If the temperature of the solution in the beaker goes down, that means that the reaction absorbed energy from its surroundings (the water molecules) during the chemical change. In other words, the amount of energy needed to break the reactant bonds was more than the amount of energy released from forming the product bonds. As such, energy was absorbed from the surrounding water molecules to complete the reaction. This results in a decrease in the temperature in the beaker for an endothermic reaction. The exact opposite holds true for an exothermic reaction. In that case, the amount of energy absorbed in order to break the reactant bonds is less than the amount of energy released from forming the product bonds. As such, the excess energy is released into the surrounding water molecules and the temperature in the beaker increases. In this way, temperature changes allow us to track energy flow in the system. This crosscutting concept is fundamental to this activity and is addressed in a question for the students to answer. Students may find a more step-wise approach as described above to be helpful in making all the connections necessary in order to answer the energy flow question.\nAlignment to the Dimensions of the NGSS: The lab lesson aligns with the letter and spirit of the NGSS. Grade\u2010appropriate elements of the science practice, disciplinary core idea, and crosscutting concept work together to support students in three\u2010dimensional learning to make sense of endothermic and exothermic chemical reactions.\nInstructional Supports: This resource engages students in authentic and meaningful scenarios that reflect the practice of science as experienced in the real world and it provides students with a purpose (e.g., making sense of endothermic and exothermic chemical reactions). The context, including phenomena, questions, and problems, motivates students to engage in three\u2010dimensional learning. This activity provides students with relevant phenomena, provides opportunities for students to connect their explanation of a phenomenon to their own experience, and uses scientifically accurate and grade\u2010appropriate scientific information, phenomena, and representations to support students\u2019 three\u2010dimensional learning. This resource does identify and build on students\u2019 prior knowledge. Further, its provide opportunities for students to express, clarify, justify, interpret, and represent their ideas and respond to peer and teacher feedback orally and/or in written form as appropriate to support student\u2019s three\u2010dimensional learning. This resource does not currently engage students in multiple practices, though it certainly could with the inclusion of, for example, questions that encourage argumentation from evidence and/or requiring the students to communicate their findings to others (classmates, younger and/or older students in other classes, the principal, at a science night for their parents, etc). It also currently does not include engineering performance expectations or provide guidance for teachers to support differentiated instruction in the classroom so that every student\u2019s needs are addressed.\nMonitoring Student Progress: This resource elicits direct, observable evidence of three\u2010dimensional learning by students using practices with core ideas and crosscutting concepts to make sense of phenomena. Formative assessments of three\u2010 dimensional learning are embedded in the form of questions to be answered as students progress through the activity. This resource does include a test bank (with answers) containing multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, and short answer questions. It does not, however, currently include aligned rubrics and scoring guidelines that provide guidance for interpreting student performance along the three dimensions to support teachers in (a) planning instruction and (b) providing ongoing feedback to students. It also does not currently provide for assessing student proficiency using methods, vocabulary, representations, and examples that are accessible and unbiased for all students.\nQuality of Technological Interactivity: The videos and animations of reactions included with the lab are purposeful and directly related to learning. They do not, however, provide an individualized learning experience. It is really helpful, though, to be able to select particular reactant or product molecules and see (via arrows) the energy going into or flowing out of them. The materials also include answer keys that provide sufficient guidance for interpreting student performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 12161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nielsthooft.com/dreaming-in-code", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:50Z", "digest": "sha1:T7W2VNZXZDQF547SZHJBY3FLRWPUNAYN", "length": 474, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nielsthooft.com", "title": "Niels \u2019t Hooft\t\u00b7 Dreaming in Code", "raw_content": "\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I felt that in so many books about making technology, you\u2019d get to the point where people actually start creating the software and then it would be kind of like the sex scene in an old movie: They would just skip it, cut to the next morning, cut to the marketing team getting ready to ship the product.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u201d:http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2079462,00.asp Scott Rosenberg\u2019s \u201cDreaming in Code\u201d:http://www.dreamingincode.com/ sounds like a really interesting book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://noblemouse.com/portfolio/lucas-theatre-for-the-arts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SKCZR775JSNALQZK3L6AISPFRYXVUJP7", "length": 660, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "noblemouse.com", "title": "Lucas Theatre for the Arts \u2013 Noble Mouse", "raw_content": "Help one of Savannah\u2019s most popular travel destinations update its look while still retaining its glorious past.\nA new website for Lucas Theatre streamlined both its design and functionality in a contemporary and responsive design experience. By updating the old Flash-based intro, we brought the user experience into line with what other theatrical websites are doing. We also addressed an outdated content management system for the client that was making their job of updating the site extremely difficult, and added a blog for them. This allowed them to showcase all that the theatre has to offer beyond just movies while telling the history of the theatre.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://northerncaliforniamostwanted.org/(X(1)S(p2pbj0kcxam52csvpesqvfem))/default.aspx?act=newsletter.aspx&category=NCMostWantedInTheNews&menuitemid=740&MenuGroup=NC+Most+Wanted+Public&NewsLetterID=42&startrow=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KDUXEE3U4G3QWIKZDVNZSNJUXXX463EX", "length": 1624, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "northerncaliforniamostwanted.org", "title": "Marshals arrest alleged human traffickers, rescue missing teen", "raw_content": "San Francisco \u2014 The Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force (PSWRFTF) announces the arrest of Marvellus Anthony Lucas Jr. and Donnell Lawrence Smith. Lucas and Smith were both wanted by the Salem Police Department for trafficking of a minor for prostitution. Lucas and Smith compelled a minor to solicit herself for sexual acts in the San Francisco area. Lucas and Smith provided the minor with transportation from Oregon to San Francisco. Upon the minor\u2019s arrival in San Francisco, an advertisement was allegedly created to attract potential customers.\nPSWRFTF members were contacted by the USMS Oregon Task Force and advised of the case. PSWRFTF members were told of the possible whereabouts of Lucas and Smith and set up surveillance within the 200 block of Font Blvd in San Francisco. PSWRFTF members made entry into the residence and subsequently arrested Lucas and Smith. The minor was recovered and turned over to Child Protective Services.\nDon O\u2019Keefe, the United States Marshal for the Northern District of California stated \u201cThe protection of our children is of the upmost importance. Those persons that seek to do them harm will face justice.\u201d\nLucas and Smith were booked into the San Francisco County Jail and are awaiting extradition to Oregon.\nThe San Francisco Fugitive Task Force is a division of the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and is part of a network of U.S. Marshals task forces across the country. Additional information about the U.S. Marshals and other Northern California fugitives can be found on the internet at www.usmarshals.gov and www.northerncaliforniamostwanted.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nothinginbiology.org/2013/10/16/2402/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:M5KLSCLR7FXC4Z72FQSG767O5MDGZDXA", "length": 5913, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "nothinginbiology.org", "title": "Research and teaching postdoc in the population genomics of mutualism \u00ab Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!", "raw_content": "Research and teaching postdoc in the population genomics of mutualism\nOne of your future colleagues in the Smith Lab, hard at work in the field.\nFriend of the blog\u2014and longtime collaborator of mine\u2014Chris Smith recently landed an NSF CAREER grant for new research on the causes of evolutionary divergence within the Joshua tree-yucca moth mutualism\u2014and he\u2019s looking for a postdoc to help with it!\nThe proposed work will take advantage of new genomic resources for the genus Yucca\u2014Joshua tree population genetics is about to get a lot more powerful than the 10 microsatellite loci I used for my dissertation research. And it will involve fieldwork in the Mojave Desert, which is objectively one of the most beautiful empty spaces on the map of North America. Chris is on the faculty of Willamette University, which is an undergraduate institution, so the postdoc position is also a unique opportunity to do basic research in close coordination with an undergraduate teaching program.\nMoreover, I can personally recommend Chris as a mentor and collaborator\u2014to the extent that I\u2019ve turned out to be a pretty decent scientist, he\u2019s one of the principal reasons why. (And to the extent that I haven\u2019t, well, that\u2019s a reflection on me, not him.)\nThe complete job description, and instructions on how to apply, are after the jump.\nAs part of a project funded through the NSF CAREER program, the Smith Lab at Willamette University is seeking a highly talented individual to participate in a unique post-doctoral training program that will prepare scientists for careers that integrate teaching and research.\nThe position is part of a multi-year study of coevolution in yuccas and yucca moths that will involve field and laboratory components including high-throughput SNP genotyping, association mapping, and pollination experiments to estimate the strength and form of selection acting on plant and pollinator phenotypes. Concurrent with the research, the postdoctoral scholar will mentor undergraduate scientists and will receive training in SNP genotyping and analyses of population genomic data through a rotation in Matt Streisfeld\u2019s lab at the University of Oregon.\nThe position will culminate in a temporary appointment as a visiting assistant professor at Willamette, during which time the postdoctoral scholar will teach a course that brings research into the classroom. Other training opportunities will include the option to participate in the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) and Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) national leadership retreats.\nA PhD in evolutionary biology or a related field and an enthusiastic interest in teaching and mentoring undergraduates are required. (ABD candidates will be considered, but must complete their degree before the position start date). In addition, preference will be given to applicants with one or more of the following qualifications: 1) expertise in bioinformatics, particularly SNP genotyping and next-generation sequencing techniques, 2) an interest in plant / insect interactions, particularly pollination biology, 3) experience with field research, especially experience working under challenging field conditions, 4) expertise in population genetics, especially approaches to detecting selection, 5) expertise in quantitative genetics, especially association mapping, 6) experience with undergraduate teaching and mentoring undergraduate researchers.\nWillamette University is a small, residential, liberal arts college that is dedicated to excellence in teaching and research. Recognized by US News as among the best liberal arts colleges in the country, Willamette is located in the heart of Salem, Oregon, across the street from the State Capitol. Salem is a diverse, multicultural city of 156,000 people, less than an hour\u2019s drive from Portland, Eugene, the Cascade Mountains, and the spectacular Oregon Coast. The Streisfeld Lab (www.uoregon.edu/~mstreis) in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE) at the University of Oregon in Eugene offers a broad and interactive environment for research in plant evolutionary biology. Home to leading innovators in RAD seq and SNP genotyping, IEE offers unparalleled opportunities to gain expertise and training in cutting-edge genomic technologies. Salem and Eugene are both nestled in Oregon\u2019s Willamette Valley, a nexus for both urban culture and outdoor recreation. The region boasts opportunities for skiing, whitewater kayaking, and mountaineering, alongside one of the best wine-growing regions in the world, a vibrant arts and music scene, and internationally-recognized centers for biotechnology and research medicine.\nThe position is available for one year with the possibility of renewal depending on research progress. The anticipated start date of March, 2013 can be adjusted based on the needs of the candidate. To ensure full consideration, please submit a cover-letter describing research and teaching interests/experience, a CV, and three letters of recommendation (to be uploaded by referees) by November 30, 2013. The position will remain open until filled.\nTo apply online, visit: https://jobs.willamette.edu/postings/940\nQuestions about the research and the position may be directed to Chris Smith: csmith@willamette.edu\nIf you need assistance with the application process, please contact Linda Flamenco, lflamenc@willamette.edu or 503.370.6210.\nBelieving that diversity contributes to academic excellence and to rich and rewarding communities, Willamette is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff and student body. We seek candidates, particularly those from historically under represented groups, whose work furthers diversity and who bring to campus varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.\nThis entry was posted in coevolution, genetics, pollination, science careers and tagged Joshua tree, postdoc.\n\u2190 Bacteria, Circumcision and HIV. Oh my!\nTwo years! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oddyssea.com/2012/07/19/summer-art-stroll-august-5th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MYZZCMY6M7CB3YGZ6PKNV3CEHWTY3F2F", "length": 1258, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "oddyssea.com", "title": "Oddyssea - Explore. Create. Discover. in Half Moon Bay, California", "raw_content": "Summer Art Stroll \u2013 August 5th\nJuly 19th, 2012 Comments Off on Summer Art Stroll \u2013 August 5th\nOne of the best things about joining the Half Moon Bay business community has been the warm welcome and support of the community. Within that community, there is specialization and we\u2019re proud to be able to participate in one of the sub-segments of the community, the SOuth MAin Street (SOMA) artists.\nEllen Joseph, of the Ellen Joseph Gallery & Studio, has been the driving force behind SOMA and the events structured to show off all the talent on south Main Street. Having seen visitor behavior now in terms of walking and looking, it\u2019s as though there is an invisible force field on Miramontes that prevents people from exploring further.\nThe SOMA Summer Art Stroll aims to breach the Miramontes Street force field and make it worthwhile to venture down Main Street to places that people may not have visited before. Aside from the great art and talent on display, visitors can enjoy live music and refreshments.\nThe event is August 5th 2-5pm in Downtown Half Moon Bay. All of the participants are listed on the HMB SOMA Arts website. Come on over and have some fun. 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PMA helps members grow by providing connections that expand business opportunities and increase sales and consumption.\nSales, Marketing, Import/Exports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oneroomwithaview.com/2017/08/22/soderbergh-solaris-superior-remake/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RASPYGAB3MDXOX63LAPTPHCSGDDR7RMD", "length": 8546, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "oneroomwithaview.com", "title": "Soderbergh's Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake - One Room With A View", "raw_content": "Live Broadcasts: What Do They Mean For Cinemas and Theatres?\nWhere Are They Now?: Pretty in Pink\nSoderbergh\u2019s Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake\nSteven Soderbergh has always been a filmmaker who belies easy stereotyping. His prolificness and his chameleon-like ability to switch between genres, between the arthouse and the mainstream, have always made his work and position in the film industry tricky to pin down. Never has that slippery quality of Soderbergh\u2019s been more evident than in his highly ambitious project to remake Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s colossal arthouse titan, Solaris.\nRemakes are, of course, ten a penny in today\u2019s cinematic landscape, but even 15 years ago when Soderbergh\u2019s Solaris was released, remakes were not uncommon. What perhaps marked Soderbergh\u2019s out as a real curio \u2013 over, say, Quentin Tarantino\u2019s recurrent postmodern retreading of cult B-movies, or even Hollywood\u2019s co-opting of the J-Horror fad \u2013 was Soderbergh\u2019s sheer balls in trying to take on a bona fide cinematic masterpiece and sneak it into the multiplexes reasonably intact.\nThough not especially derided on its release, Soderbergh\u2019s Solaris was an unquestionable box office failure, and, with time, even its critical esteem appears to be slowly receding. With the upcoming release of Logan Lucky, and the accompanying journalistic retrospectives of Soderbergh\u2019s career to date, Solaris has interestingly slipped to the lower reaches in many rankings of his films \u2013 below such anonymous works as Contagion and Ocean\u2019s Twelve. Thus, it feels only right to attempt to reclaim the nobility of Soderbergh\u2019s Solaris experiment and place it much higher; not only in Soderbergh\u2019s own filmography, but in the canon of recent Hollywood science fiction.\nThe obstacles to remaking Solaris must have been obvious even at the outset. To some extent, they are still identifiable in the end result. It always had the whiff of something that could end up falling between two stools. On the one hand, it was never going to satisfy the purists likely to claim sacrilege against Soderbergh\u2019s temerity to even deign to remake a film by the great Tarkovsky. On the other hand, genre buffs would be frustrated by the almost complete lack of action or spectacle. Furthermore, by chopping an incredible 70 minutes off the original film\u2019s running time, Soderbergh naturally had to compromise on Tarkovsky\u2019s abstract, languorous approach to the subject matter in exchange for a much more concise, structurally-refined approach (although many might argue there is real skill in abbreviating a dense and unwieldy 166 minutes of Soviet arthouse solemnity into a precise and slick 98-minute Hollywood vehicle).\nPerhaps a more unequivocal point about the flaws of the remake is that, in the trimming of the material, Soderbergh\u2019s storytelling winds up being a little too inelegant, and naturally omits some of the gravitas and mystery of Tarkovsky\u2019s vision. Charting astronaut Chris Kelvin\u2019s profound distress as he is \u201cvisited\u201d by the spectre of his dead wife on a spaceship orbiting the planet Solaris, Soderbergh\u2019s need to fast-track all the deep metaphysical baggage implicit in this conceit means putting a lot of expository dialogue in the mouths of his two leads, played by George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. It is perhaps no coincidence that many of Soderbergh\u2019s best films \u2013 particularly those that were adaptations (especially Out of Sight, 1998 and Traffic, 2000) \u2013 were penned by screenwriters other than himself.\nThe presence of George Clooney in the lead role stands at the heart of Soderbergh\u2019s difficulty with his whole concept of Solaris. In 2002, Clooney was becoming Hollywood\u2019s most bankable actor. He was only 40, so could still pull off playing the youngish leading man, and Soderbergh himself had exacted great mileage out of Clooney\u2019s star quality in Out of Sight and Ocean\u2019s Eleven. But Solaris required something different, and it\u2019s questionable whether Clooney was able to pull that off. Clooney is the classic \u201cfilm star\u201d actor. One is aware of his innate presence and charm the moment he appears on screen, and his better performances are when he is not trying to be other than himself; when he lets that natural charisma shine through.\nThis isn\u2019t meant to underestimate Clooney\u2019s natural versatility, but in Solaris, he unwittingly becomes an icon for the difficulties of Soderbergh\u2019s experiment. His fish-eyed, sombre gaze feels unconvincing, and the clear commercial need to ogle on Clooney\u2019s starry sexiness \u2013 there are spurious love-making flashbacks and even a couple of gratuitous shots of Clooney\u2019s tensed bum \u2013 jars with the subject matter. (Those familiar with Tarkovsky\u2019s version would surely chuckle at the sheer unlikelihood of that film\u2019s lead, the extremely solemn Donatas Banionis, ever being asked to perform similar scenes).\nBefore placing Solaris conclusively into the bracket of \u201cinteresting failure\u201d, though, it is worth recognising the film\u2019s merits, and the fact that it was never intended to be a like-for-like remake of Tarkovsky\u2019s vision. Indeed, this was the very dialectic brought up by Mark Kermode in a recent tweet, in which he railed against the premeditated snobbery of those denigrating the right of Soderbergh\u2019s version to even be considered in the same breath as Tarkovsky\u2019s. Kermode is, of course, right, although as someone commented immediately underneath, allowing both movies to be considered side-by-side is unlikely to provide much in the way of objective evidence for Soderbergh\u2019s film being better \u2013 which it clearly isn\u2019t.\nSoderbergh may not have succeeded in matching the profundity of Tarkovsky\u2019s colossal treatise on what it means to be human, but who says he was even trying in the first place? And his more genre-inflected take finds other angles in the story not altogether clear in Tarkovsky\u2019s version. Soderbergh\u2019s film is, in essence, a superior romantic drama, wrapped up in a sci-fi conceit. The tale is age-old: an examination of the poignancy to be found in remembering a lost love. Whereas Tarkovsky\u2019s film was a cerebral engagement with concepts of memory, relativity and Lacanian theory, Soderbergh\u2019s is a classy, narrative piece \u2013 no more, no less.\nCourtesy of: Mosfilm\nWhere Soderbergh loses out to Tarkovsky in lyricism and philosophy, he more than holds his own in terms of structure, style and emotion. Solaris is a prime example of Soderbergh\u2019s masterly use of the flashback as an imaginative way of making comprehensible to a mainstream audience what is at stake in the psychologically fraught sequences on the spacecraft (see the truly brilliant Clooney-Lopez seduction sequence in Out of Sight as another such example). As Kelvin sleeps \u2013 which brings the visitations of his wife \u2013 his dreams expertly take us, the audience, chronologically through the history of his relationship with his wife. As the recollections reach their poignant conclusion over what ultimately happened to her, it chimes with the emerging crisis over what to do with her troubling apparition on the spacecraft.\nThe sheen of Soderbergh\u2019s cinematography and mise en sc\u00e8ne is also first-class in Solaris. Often noted for themed, colour-coded palettes in Out of Sight and Traffic, the brown, metallic hues of Solaris\u2019 opening sequences automatically clue the audience in to a nagging sense that something isn\u2019t quite right with Kelvin\u2019s mental state. Cliff Martinez\u2019s tender, subtle score is also the perfect accompaniment to the slow-burning, emotional undertow of the film.\nViewed with the understanding that Soderbergh wasn\u2019t trying to ape, steal from, or even better Tarkovsky, his Solaris exercise actually takes on a much more favourable light. In attempting to pay homage to the man, while also transposing the weighty ideas of Solaris to a format suitable to a mainstream audience, he surely succeeded in crafting yet another ingenious chapter in one of American cinema\u2019s most admirable careers. And with Soderbergh coming out of \u201cretirement\u201d at the tender age of 54, could there be more such experiments left? Say, a version of Tarkovsky\u2019s incomparable Stalker? I, for one, won\u2019t be complaining.\nSoderbergh\u2019s Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake was last modified: August 31st, 2017 by Patrick Nabarro\nandrei tarkovskychris kelvindonatas banionisGeorge ClooneyJennifer LopezMark Kermodenatascha mcelhonesoderbergh rankedsolarisSteven Soderbergh\nThe closer you are to Caesar, the greater the fear.\nBenjamin \u2013 LFF 2018 Review\nUnsane \u2013 Review\nUnsane \u2013 Berlinale 2018 Review\nSuburbicon \u2013 Venice 2017 Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 13345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://onetribecounseling.com/source-of-inspiration/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TJM5XCWDAFWGN56SHJSZPUMD2MT4YAXK", "length": 480, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "onetribecounseling.com", "title": "One Tribe Counseling | Source of Inspiration", "raw_content": "This page is dedicated to uplift and inspire you, dear souls, to make decisions that will help you manifest anything that your heart desires, and empower you to make impossible a reality. For anything is possible if you truly believe it \u2014 the Universe has an infinite number of ways to deliver you what you want.\nI truly hope that inspirational quotes and videos that you will find here will help you to expand your horizons of possibilities, and activate positive transformation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://online.dollarbank.com/loadbalance.aspx?z=O800", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:65Z6BDUNDFTVHG3HB47CWD4J5BTHAY73", "length": 432, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "online.dollarbank.com", "title": "Dollar Bank", "raw_content": "Call 1-800-242-BANK\nOnline Banking Password:\nSign up for Online Banking \u00bb\nTake a Tour \u00bb | FAQs \u00bb\nDollar Bank representatives are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and Saturday from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nEqual Housing Lender. Member FDIC. Copyright \u00a92015, Dollar Bank, Federal Savings Bank. All rights reserved.\nOffice Locations throughout Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania, Cleveland and northeastern Ohio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://opencommons.uconn.edu/econ_wpapers/200422/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UT2RI3MOZY4YXYRR6AR26X3JSYVW452S", "length": 849, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "opencommons.uconn.edu", "title": "\"The Geographic Distribution of the Size and Timing of Monetary Policy \" by Yongil Jeon and Stephen M. 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The inquiry focuses on the tension between the educational value of student autonomy and clinicians\u2019 professional interest in ensuring high quality client representation. The authors conducted a survey of clinicians teaching at law schools throughout the United States.\nBauer, Jon, \"Directiveness in Clinical Supervision\" (1993). Faculty Articles and Papers. 202.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oralcancernews.org/wp/cowboy-cody-kiser-joins-anti-tobacco-campaign-to-help-educate-young-consumers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:C2F3KUHPXE3YJQEIAP5BGSFNSJ6PVC2A", "length": 2227, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "oralcancernews.org", "title": "Cowboy Cody Kiser Joins Anti-Tobacco Campaign to Help Educate Young Consumers \u2013 Oral Cancer News", "raw_content": "Cowboy Cody Kiser Joins Anti-Tobacco Campaign to Help Educate Young Consumers\nAuthor: Lindsay Lowe\nThe campaign to educate consumers about the dangers of tobacco has a new all-American hero: rodeo cowboy Cody Kiser, who\u2019s partnering with the Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF) to educate parents and kids about the health risks associated with smokeless tobacco.\nWhile chewing tobacco has long been popular among rodeo cowboys, Kiser, 23, says the drug never appealed to him, and says he hopes to serve as a positive example in an industry with traditionally strong sponsorship ties to the tobacco industry.\n\u201cMy dad was a cowboy, so I know what it\u2019s like looking up to cowboys as heroes for my whole life,\u201d he said in a release. \u201cHealth and fitness have always been incredibly important to my family. My dad was a positive role model in my life growing up in that regard, and the idea of using spit tobacco never appealed to me.\u201d\nTobacco and rodeo have a long intertwining history; the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association was sponsored by the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company from 1986 to 2009, when the Cowboys Association decided to end its relationship with tobacco advertisers.\nOne can of spit tobacco has the equivalent nicotine of 40 cigarettes, and a \u201c30-minute chew\u201d is the equivalent of smoking three cigarettes, according to the OCF, meaning that an addiction to smokeless tobacco \u201ccan be one of the hardest to break.\u201d\nSpit tobacco (which can refer to smokeless tobacco, dip, snuff, chew, and chewing tobacco) can cause gum disease, tooth decay, and \u201cwhite patches and oral lesion that can lead to oral cancer.\u201d\nAn alarming \u201c15 percent of high school boys, and 9 percent of all high school students, are already using spit tobacco,\u201d the foundation says, while 3.5 percent of adults use the drug. An estimated 43,000 people will be diagnosed with some form of oral cancer in 2014, and the \u201cfastest-growing segment\u201d of that group are \u201cyoung non-smokers,\u201d says the OCF.\nKiser says he hopes to serve as a role model for young people who idolize rodeo heroes and prevent them from becoming another oral cancer statistic.\nOral Cancer Foundation News Team\t2014-08-08T09:35:22+00:00\tAugust, 2014|OCF In The News, Oral Cancer News|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://overcast.fm/itunes994349813/flash-forward", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WO6MV547IXVAH6MVHTS5XDALD7AIKYPY", "length": 20760, "nlines": 127, "source_domain": "overcast.fm", "title": "Flash Forward \u2014 Overcast", "raw_content": "www.flashforwardpod.com\nAt long last, we\u2019re doing genetic editing. 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This time it\u2019s pharmaceutical pirates. This episode was inspired by a new book by Annalee Newitz called Autonomous. It\u2019s very good and you should\u2026\nThis month\u2019s episode is about what it would take to sterilize the Earth, and why you might want to figure that out in the first place. First we talk to the authors of a paper that tries to figure out this exact question. David Sloan and Rafael Alves\u2026\nDown For Everyone Not Just You\nThis episode is a little different than other episodes. As many of you know, Flash Forward is my second job. My first job is at ESPN, where I recently helped launch an audio documentary series called 30 for 30 Podcasts. Please go check that out, even if\u2026\nThis episode, we travel to a future where your romantic partners aren\u2019t chosen by questions or swipes, but rather by your brainwaves. This future is based on an idea from Shelly Ronan and Ernesto D. Morales and their project Object Solutions. If you liked\u2026\nMons Voyage\nThis episode, we go on another vacation! Can you tell I need a vacation? Anyway, back to the episode. What would it be like if you could hop on a space cruise ship, and take a trip to Mars? This is a special episode because our little future intro is\u2026\nBack to the Future: A Womb Away From Home\nLong time listeners of Flash Forward might feel like this future is kind of\u2026 familiar. And it is. It\u2019s actually the first future we ever traveled to on this show. A future where humans have invented artificial wombs. And this is a special bonus episode of\u2026\nIn this future there are no more human police officers. Is that even possible? The future of policing is a really really complicated topic. And it\u2019s also, and this might be the understatement of the year, a controversial one. On this episode we\u2019re not\u2026\nThis month on Flash Forward, we go to a future where anybody can make a video of you doing anything they want. And that technology is cheap and easy to access. What happens? This episode we start by talking about the technology as it exists now. Hamed\u2026\nCalifornia has one of the largest economies in the world. So what would happen if it broke away from the United States? Could California ever go independent? And if it did, what would that look like? This is a future that\u2019s been on my list for a while,\u2026\nGreetings From Paradice\nEvery year, over 20 million people get on a cruise ship and set sail for a seafaring vacation. Most of those cruises take their vacationers to warm, sunny climates. But thanks to climate change, a new hoard of ships might start sailing North rather than\u2026\nRobocrop\nToday\u2019s episode is about a future where nobody works on farms anymore, all farming is done by robots. It might be closer than you think.\nThis week we travel to a future where there is so much fake news that nobody can tell what is real anymore. Are we already there? What happens next?\nHow is Babby (Not) Made\nWhat happens when everybody has 100% control over when they do or don\u2019t have babies? We got to a world with perfect and accessible birth control. You asked for a utopia, and this is as close as we\u2019re going to get!\nThe Witch Who Came From Mars\nToday we do something weird, in honor of the end of the second season! Instead of coming up with a future and then finding experts to talk about it, I asked an AI to write a future for us. And the AI apparently wants us to talk about space travel,\u2026\nToday we go to a future where animal products are banned. It\u2019s one that lots of listeners have asked for so here you go. We talk about what happens to the land, the animals and the humans in this equation. In this episode we discuss the arguments in favor\u2026\nRevenge of the Retweet\nToday we try to figure out what happens when our future presidential candidates have thousands of Tweets and Tumblr posts and Instagrams in their online record. What happens, when today\u2019s teens start running for office? When their entire internet history\u2026\nToday we travel to a future where all drugs are legal. Just roll up to the store, and get yourself some cocaine! We start with some history: for centuries a world without drug laws existed. Mark Kleiman, a professor at NYU who studies drug policy,\u2026\nBot for Teacher\nToday a future without schools. Instead of gathering students into a room and teaching them, everybody learns on their own time, on tablets and guided by artificial intelligence. First, I talk to a Ashok Goel, a computer scientist who developed an\u2026\nToday week we take on a doomsday future! We haven\u2019t done one of those this season. So, what would happen if all the active volcanoes in the world erupted at the same time? The short answer is: bad things. The long answer is, well, you\u2019ll have to listen to\u2026\nPopnonymous\nToday we go to a future where all pop stars use avatars, clones, robots or cartoons instead of their real bodies and faces. What does that do to music? Can everybody pull off an avatar? And why would any pop star even want that? We start with a conspiracy\u2026\nToday we travel to a future where it\u2019s possible to know exactly when you will die. Do you chose to find out? Now, this is, impossible. Totally impossible. And I\u2019m not even going to try and come up with some strange pseudoscientific explanation for how\u2026\nToday we travel to a world with universal translation devices. Where the babelfish from The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy comes true (although probably not in the form of an evolved organism, but let\u2019s not fret about the details). We start this episode\u2026\nSwipe Right For Democracy\nToday we travel to a future where America has converted to a direct democracy. Everybody votes on everything! Hey, did you know it was an election year in the United States? I know, you\u2019ve probably not really heard about this, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s on the\u2026\nOkay, you asked for it, and I finally did it. Today\u2019s episode is about conscious artificial intelligence. Which is a HUGE topic! So we only took a small bite out of all the things we could possibly talk about. We started with some definitions. Because not\u2026\nToday we travel to a fully digital world, a world where paper is a thing of the past. On this show we\u2019ve tackled a huge range of futures \u2014 we\u2019ve talked about things that are extremely likely, like, antibiotic resistance, and we\u2019ve also talked about things\u2026\nMiniPod Time Travel\nToday\u2019s episode is a minipod, a smattering of time travel, future travel, and news about the show. In this episode we hear a bunch of messages from listeners: what folks think about past futures we\u2019ve been to, and future futures we should travel to. We\u2026\nUnpawful\nToday we travel to a future without pets. What would it take for us to give up our fuzzy, slithery, fishy friends? Should our pets get more rights? And if we didn\u2019t have dogs or cats, would we domesticate something else to take their place? This week\u2019s\u2026\nToday we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, happiness, sadness, menstrual cycles, poops, hopes and\u2026\nToday we travel to a future where your microbiome becomes a key part of your identity. From health to your child\u2019s kindergarten, here are all the ways knowing about your microbiome might impact your life. Let\u2019s start with a definition: what is the\u2026\nThe Ultimate Swatting\nToday we travel to a future where humans have decided to eradicate the most dangerous animal on the planet: mosquitos. How would we do it? Is it even possible? And what are the consequences? Mosquitos have worked hard to earn the nickname \u201cdeadliest\u2026\nToday we travel to a future without lies. What would it be like if we all wore accurate lie detectors around all the time? In this episode we talk about when children learn to lie, the different social functions of lying, and what might happen if we\u2026\nLove At First Bot\nRight now there\u2019s a whole lot of buzz about sex robots. Some people are really excited about them, and think we\u2019ll be marrying robots by 2050. Other people are really worried about them, and are organizing whole campaigns against sex robots. This week, we\u2026\nWelcome to season two of Flash Forward! We kicked off this season with a pretty unlikely future: the entire world goes face blind. In the episode we discuss what causes face blindness \u2014 also known as prosopagnosia \u2014 and the tricks that people use to\u2026\nReputationville\nWhat would it be like if we lived in a world where everything you do is subject to a rating dolled out by a combination of machines and other people?\nEvery country has their own idiosyncratic rules and regulations for border crossings. But what if the whole process were standardized and run by a single organization?\nWhat if we lived in a world where gender was more like hair color \u2014 something you could change at will, and that had little bearing on what other people thought of you?\nThe Carbon Gene\nWhen it comes to climate change, there are a lot of researchers already thinking about how to equip crops and food animals with genes to help them withstand heat and parched conditions. But what about genetically engineering humans to try to slow our\u2026\nIn 2006, scientists described the world\u2019s first invisibility cloak. But there was a catch. It only worked in two dimensions, and on microwaves. But to what if scientists and engineers could created a true invisibility cloak?\nHumans spend a lot of time and energy wondering if there\u2019s anybody else out there. But what if we got unequivocal evidence that there was? In this week\u2019s future, a probe that is extremely similar to the Voyager probes that we sent out in the 1970\u2019s shows\u2026\nWhen you were a kid and stole your friends\u2019 toys, your parent probably asked you this angry hypothetical: \u201cHow do you think that made them feel?\u201d But what if you actually could feel what another person is feeling? This week, we travel to a future where\u2026\nWhat would happen if we rounded up all the critically endangered animals and plants and put them in armored zoos?\nA Drone of One\u2019s Own\nWhat does the world look like when everybody with a smart phone also has a drone?\nEternal Life in Prison\nWhat if \u201clife in prison\u201d could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are dolled out? What happens when a person gets out of prison?\nSunward Bound\nIf the Earth, somehow, stopped rotating around the sun, it would have exactly 64 1/2 days before it crashed into the fireball at the center of our solar system. Here\u2019s what would happen during those last 64 1/2 days.\nYour face is one of your most valuable possessions. But what happens when facial recognition is so good that any company can grab an image of your face while you\u2019re walking down the street, and link it to everything from your social media profiles, to\u2026\nWhat would happen if a company put up so many wind turbines that they actually changed the climate on Earth? I know this sounds totally crazy, but I swear to you this is something that scientists have actually looked into. So naturally, I talked to one of\u2026\nNeed to get from New York to Paris? Or San Diego? Chances are you\u2019re not taking a car or a bus or a boat to go there. Instead, you\u2019d hop on a plane. But aside from hurting your wallet, commercial flights also hurt the planet, contributing to the\u2026\nThe Bodybuilders\nWe all want to be our best selves. But what if you could add almost anything to your body and mind? A camera here, an exoskeleton there. This is the world that some biohackers imagine\u2014one in which humans can extend their abilities beyond the limits\u2026\nThe Supernova Next Door\nWe often think of stars as twinkling, harmless little points of light that fill our night sky with majesty. But stars can be dangerous too. When they come to the end of their lifespan, some stars explode fantastically as supernovae. So what would happen\u2026\nThe Day the Internet Broke\nIf you\u2019re reading this, you have access to the Internet. But what would happen if the Internet suddenly went away? And what would it take to make that happen?\nNever Lay Me Down to Sleep\nIf there was a drug that meant you never had to sleep again, would you take it? Would those who didn\u2019t need to sleep have special advantages over those who did? All that and a side of zombies, in this week\u2019s episode.\nRevenge of the Germs\nOver the past 85 years, antibiotics have been miracle drugs. They\u2019ve kept infections at bay and opened up a world of medical possibilities: organ transplants, heart surgery, chemotherapy. But they\u2019re not going to work forever. The age antibiotic\u2026\nThis week on Meanwhile in the Future we step onto the field and talk about contact sports. What would it take to create a future in which the most dangerous sports die out? What are those sports to begin with? What does a world without football look like?\nForcing the Hand\nThis week\u2019s future is a social experiment. What if Earth had a robotic overlord who decided to ban all weapons? All fights would have to be hand to hand. Would there be less death that way? Less casualties? What counts as a weapon anyway? Listen to the\u2026\nWhat would happen if the Earth suddenly had a second moon? This week, we work through the impact an additional satellite would have on our planet, from tides, to the night sky, to the potential destruction of Earth. Oh also there are space pirates.\nA Womb Away From Home\nWhat happens when women no longer have to physically bear children? Who wins? Who loses? Who takes artificial wombs to a far away planet to create a colony of super-beings?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 23941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://paboyes.com/2014/09/03/up-for-the-challenge-part-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7INMD7XIO7S3QJH2DB7EKPTHMIUBAFZV", "length": 3050, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "paboyes.com", "title": "Up For the Challenge \u2013 Part II | My Precious Life", "raw_content": "\u2190 Up For the Challenge, Part I\nCounting the Days (Two) \u2192\nUp For the Challenge \u2013 Part II\nAs promised, here is my response to a young man\u2019s thoughts on the Book of Job, and Christianity in general:\nFirst of all, let me direct you to Biblica.com and the links Biblica/Home and Bible FAQs. It explains the writing of the Bible.\nMy core belief is that God is the author of the Bible, writing through all the people who chose to record the happenings of the day as they were inspired by him. (Just as I have been inspired by him to write my book.) This is borne out in the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered within a ten year period between 1946 and 1956. The Bible is also a wonderful history book, crammed full of hisorical events and happenings. And yes, it certainly is subject to interpretation, and many translations. But at the core, when you sort the grain from the chaff, is God\u2019s basic love for mankind, which only comes to light fully in the New Testament when he stopped being mad at us for being such a bunch of dunderheads.\nChristianity survived in spite of political leaders, even though those leaders had an innocent man put to death because he was a threat to their governing, and the god they believed in. Christianity still survives in spite of political agendas because of that murdered man.\nGod does not \u201chold it all together\u201d. We are all given free will to choose how to behave, what to believe, and how to live our lives. This is why you believe what you believe and I believe what I believe. And that\u2019s okay, providing we are open to learning everything we can in the short time alloted to us on this planet. It is why we are here.\nI suggested reading the Book of Job because of Satan. Most people think it was God who dumped on Job, but as you read, it was Satan\u2019s aim to cause as much harm in the world as possible, both way back then and to this day.\nLife is a battlefield of Good and Evil (take an \u201co\u201d out of good and add a \u201cd\u201d to evil). You can see that in our day to day life, and we all wage our own battles every day.\nPlease don\u2019t make the mistake of not believing in the devil, because that is just what he waits for. (Aha, I just got another one!)\nA little humility is good, and a little less ego is even better.\nI\u2019m not here to tell you what to believe or not, but please don\u2019t shut the door on the possibility that there is a God, and that he loves you more than you\u2019ll ever know, and waits for you to give him the chance to tell you so. He is telling you now, through me!\nI trust you are intelligent enough to not let \u201cintelligence\u201d get in the way of a great learning experience.\nThese are my thoughts on your thoughts, and my opinions/beliefs on the matter.\nP.S. Have you figured out why you celebrate Christmas yet? It is because of that murdered Man. It\u2019s all in the history book! \ud83d\ude42\nAnd may I add here that it is my hope that we have continued conversations when circumstances and time allow.\nThis entry was tagged beliefs, Bible, Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, God, history, Job, opinions, Satan. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US4269941", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FATF52PWML64NYH6AYWKB62SENBAXBA2", "length": 51368, "nlines": 134, "source_domain": "patents.google.com", "title": "US4269941A - Method for enzyme immobilization - Google Patents", "raw_content": "US4269941A - Method for enzyme immobilization - Google Patents\nMethod for enzyme immobilization Download PDF\nKunihiro Ichimura\nAgency of Industrial Science and Technology\nJapan International Trade and Industry Ministry of\n1978-08-09 Priority to JP9680478A priority Critical patent/JPS5654155B2/ja\n1978-08-09 Priority to JP53/96804 priority\n1979-07-31 Application filed by Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan International Trade and Industry Ministry of filed Critical Agency of Industrial Science and Technology\n1981-02-10 Assigned to AGENCY OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & INDUSTRY, reassignment AGENCY OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & INDUSTRY, ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST. Assignors: ICHIMURA KUNIHIRO\nC12N11/04\u2014Enzymes or microbial cells being immobilised on or in an organic carrier entrapped within the carrier, e.g. gel, hollow fibre\nEnzymes are immobilized by dissolving in water a photo-crosslinking resin containing stilbazolium groups, vinyl alcohol units and vinyl acetate units, adding an enzyme to the resultant aqueous solution and exposing the enzyme-containing resin solution to light to induce a crosslinking reaction of the photo-crosslinking resin and produce a polymer containing the enzyme entrapped therein.\nThis invention relates to a method for the immobilization of an enzyme by use of a water-soluble photo-crosslinking resin of high sensitivity. Because they do little to cause environmental pollution, water-soluble photosensitive resins are used as photoresists and photo-milling agents. In recent years, the potentiality of their adoption for the immobilization of bio-active materials such as enzymes has come to attract increasing attention.\nThe methods heretofore proposed to the art for the purpose of immobilization of enzymes are broadly divided into three types; the type involving the binding of enzymes with carriers, the type involving the crosslinking between enzyme molecules and the type involving the entrapment of enzymes.\nOf these methods, the carrier-binding methods accomplish the immobilization of a given enzyme by causing the enzyme to be chemically or physically bound to a suitable carrier. By the manner of binding involved, the methods of this type are sub-divided into a covalent binding method, an ionic binding method, a physical absorption method, etc. These methods, however, have a common disadvantage that in most cases, the steric structure of the enzyme under treatment particularly near the center of activity and the state of the enzyme's electric charge are affected and, consequently, the enzyme's activity is degraded. In immobilizing a particular enzyme, therefore, it has been necessary to examine all the methods and select the optimum method by the principle of trial and error.\nThe crosslinking methods generally accomplish the required immobilization of a given enzyme by causing the individual enzyme molecules to be covalently bound with one another and, therefore, have an inevitable consequence that the immobilized enzyme exhibits considerably degraded activity compared with the enzyme in its unimmobilized state.\nThe methods of the type involving the entrapment of a given enzyme are sub-divided into a method which entraps the enzyme in a high-molecular matrix and a method which seals the enzyme in micro-capsules. These methods are capable of immobilizing given enzymes without impairing the molecular structures of the enzymes and, therefore, are attracting attention as highly promising techniques. Particularly the method which entraps the enzyme in a high-molecular matrix is especially noteworth because it can confine the enzyme molecules within the molecules of the high-molecular matrix in much the same way as animals are locked up in cages and, thus, accomplish the immobilization of the enzyme without spoiling the function inherent in the enzyme or impeding a given substrate from obtaining access to the entrapped enzyme.\nThe methods of the type involving the entrapment of enzymes in high-molecular matrices which have heretofore been proposed to the art include a method which causes a water-soluble high-molecular compound to be thermally crosslinked, a method which causes a water-soluble high-molecular compound to be crosslinked by exposure to radiant rays, a method which causes a vinyl monomer or oligomer to be radically polymerized (G. P. Hicks and S. J. Updike; Anal. Chem., 38, 726, 1966), a method which causes a similar vinyl monomer or oligomer to be photopolymerized (S. Fukui et al; FEBS LETTERS, Vol. 66, No. 2, p. 179 July, 1976) and a method which causes a water-soluble high-molecular compound to be photo-crosslinked through the agency of bis-azide (U.S. Pat. No. 4,160,698), for example.\nOf these conventional methods, those methods which accomplish the crosslinking of high-molecular compounds through the agency of thermal or radiant energy have a possibility of causing the deactivation due to the chemical change in the enzyme molecules under treatment and the two methods involving the exposure of matrix compounds to light inevitably use for the purpose of crosslinking reaction those free radicals and nitrene which are highly reactive and therefore devoid of selectivity and, as the result, fall to have enzymes entrapped perfectly intact.\nAn object of this invention is to provide a method for the immobilization of an enzyme, which method permits the enzyme to be stably entrapped within a matrix of a photosensitive resin while minimizing the possibility of depriving the enzyme of its activity, wherein the enzyme consequently immobilized in the matrix without impairment of its enzymatic function is allowed to react effectively upon a substrate.\nTo accomplish the object described above according to the present invention, there is provided a method for the immobilization of an enzyme, which comprises the steps of dissolving in water a photo-crosslinking resin consisting of 0.1 to 10.0 mol% of a unit containing a crosslinking group of the generic formula: ##STR1## wherein, R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group or an aralkyl group, R' represents a hydrogen atom or alkyl group and X- represents a strongly acidic anion, 70.0 to 99.0 mol% of a unit containing a hydroxyl group of the formula: ##STR2## and 0.1 to 30.0 mol% of a unit containing an acetyl group of the formula: ##STR3## adding the enzyme to the resultant aqueous solution containing the photo-crosslinking resin, and exposing the enzyme-containing resin to light.\nIn spite of the low concentration of the photo-crosslinking group incorporated, the photo-crosslinking resin obtained by the present invention has high sensitivity and causes a crosslinking reaction upon exposure to light of a wavelength zone unabsorbable by the enzyme. When the enzyme-containing resin is exposed to this light, the enzyme is not inactivated by the radiant energy involved.\nSince the amount of the photo-crosslinking group incorporated into the resin is small, the effect which the photo-crosslinking group exerts upon the enzyme is very slight and the cost of the resin itself is low.\nThe inventor carried out a study on a great variety of water-soluble high molecular compounds suitable for the purpose of entrapping enzymes. He further continued a concentrated study with a view to developing a water-soluble photosensitive resin which not only enables a given enzyme to be entrapped in an unimpaired state but also exhibits stably an outstanding entrapping power. The invention has consequently ascertained that a photosensitive resin possessing a hydroxyl group-containing unit and an acetyl group-containing unit in addition to a crosslinking until containing a stilbazolium group satisfies the purpose described above. The present invention has been accomplished on the basis of this knowledge.\nTo be specific, the present invention effects the immobilization of an enzyme by adding this enzyme to the aqueous solution of a specific photo-crosslinking resin and exposing the resultant enzyme-containing resin to light, which photo-crosslinking resin consists of a crosslinking group-containing unit represented by the generic formula (I): ##STR4## (wherein, R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group or aralkyl group, R' represents a hydrogen atom or alkyl group and X- represents a strong-acid anion such as halogen ion, a sulfate ion or a phosphate ion), a hydroxyl group-containing unit represented by the formula (II): ##STR5## and an acetyl group-containing unit represented by the formula (III): ##STR6## in the proportions of 0.1 to 10 mol% of the crosslinking group-containing unit (I), 70 to 99 mol% of the hydroxyl group-containing unit (II) and 0.1 to 30 mol% of the acetyl group-containing unit (III). In consequence of the exposure of the resin to the light, the crosslinking group-containing unit in the resin induces a photo-crosslinking reaction as indicated by the following formula. ##STR7##\nIt is believed that the enzyme in the resin is entrapped and immobilized within the reticular structure of the polymer as the polymer is produced by the aforementioned crosslinking unit as a result of the crosslinking reaction.\nThe photo-crosslinking resin to be used in the present invention can be produced by causing a partially unsaponified polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetyl group to react upon a formylstilbazolium salt represented by the generic formula (IV): ##STR8## (wherein, R, R' and X- have the same meaning as defined above) through the catalysis with an acid.\nthe stilbazolium salts of the generic formula (IV) which are usable for this invention include hydrochlorides, hydrobromides, hydroiodides, perchlorates, methosulfates, methane sulfonates and p-toluene sulfonates of N-methyl-\u03b1-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium, N-methyl-\u03b3-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium, N-methyl-\u03b1-(m-formylstyryl)-pyridinium, N-allyl-\u03b1-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium and N-allyl-\u03b3-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium, for example.\nThese stilbazolium salts can be produced by subjecting the corresponding picolines or N-alkylpicolinium salts to a poly-condensation reaction with a formylbenzaldehyde such as terephthal dialdehyde or isophthal dialdehyde.\nThe content of the crosslinking group-containing unit represented by the aforementioned formula (I) in this photo-crosslinking resin is required to fall in the range of from 0.1 to 10 mol% based on the whole amount of the resin. When it is less than the lower limit, the photo-crosslinking reaction proceeds insufficiently even though the resin is irradiated with light. When it exceeds the upper limit, the unit causes the resin to be gelled.\nAddition of the hydroxyl group-containing unit aims at causing the photo-crosslinking resin to be soluble in water. To attain this object, the content of this unit is required to be more than 70 mol% based on the whole amount of the resin. When it is less than 70 mol%, the resin exhibits poor solubility in water of any temperature.\nThe acetyl group-containing unit added to the photo-crosslinking resin functions to control the solubility of polyvinyl alcohol in water. When the content of this unit in the resin is too large, the solubility becomes poor. The upper limit of the content for obtaining desired solubility is 30 mol% based on the whole amount of the resin.\nThe aforementioned high-molecular acetalization reaction can be effectively carried out through the catalysis with an acid. If, in this reaction, the acid as the catalyst is used in an excess amount, the amount of the anion (X-) contained in the produced resin will proportionally increase. In this high-molecular acetalization reaction, the time required for completion of the reaction can be reduced by applying heat to the reaction system or by increasing the amount of the acid as the catalyst. In this reaction, the portions of stilbazolium salt and acid remaining in their unaltered forms after the reaction are desired to be removed as thoroughly from the reaction mixture as possible. For this purpose, the resin precipitating in the reaction mixture is repeatedly washed with or precipitated in alcohol. Generally, thorough removal of the unaltered reactants can be obtained by subjecting to one cycle of reprecipitation the resin which has been repeatedly washed with alcohol.\nThe photo-crosslinking resin obtained as described above is desired to have a polymerization degree in the range of from about 300 to about 4000. In spite of the fact that the concentration of the photosensitive group, namely the stilbazolium group, incorporated in this photo-crosslinking resin is as low as to fall in the range of from 0.1 to 10 mol%, the photo-crosslinking resin exhibits a high degree of photosensitivity without necessitating use of any extra sensitizer, with the aforementioned polymerization degree as a possible contributory factor. When the immobilization of an enzyme is effected by use of this photo-crosslinking resin, therefore, the possible effect brought about by the photo-crosslinking group upon the enzyme can be minimized. When the polymerization degree of the resin is 1700 and the concentration of the photo-crosslinking group incorporated in the resin is only 1 mol%, for example, the photosensitivity of this resin is as high as 12 times that of the polyvinyl cinnamate sensitized with 5-nitroacenaphthene. When the concentration of the incorporated photo-crosslinking group is increased to 1.4 and 1.9 mol%, the photosensitivity of the produced resin reaches the levels about 30 times and about 80 times the sensitivity of the aforementioned sensitized polyvinyl cinnamate.\nThe photo-crosslinking resin of this invention is insolubilized by light of a wavelength zone exceeding 300 nm, namely the wavelength zone absolutely unabsorbable by the enzyme under treatment. Thus, the otherwise possible inactivation of the enzyme by the exposure to the light can be avoided where the immobilization of the enzyme is made by this photo-crosslinking resin. It has been demonstrated through experiments that the hydrophilic amino acid residues which abundantly occur on the surface of the enzyme molecules take absolutely no part in the dimerization reaction of stilbazolium groups indispensable to the photo-insolubilization mentioned above. The photo-crosslinking resin of this invention, accordingly, enjoys an advantage that its capacity for the photo-insolubilization is degraded very little even in the presence of the enzyme.\nSince use of this resin permits the required immobilization of a given enzyme to be carried out in normal atmosphere, the immobilization proves to be an easy operation of high reproducibility. Further in this resin, the number of regions capable of affecting the electrostatic condition of the enzyme is extremely small so that the possible effect of these regions can be minimized. On the other hand, the required concentration of the photosensitive group in the resin is small. Owing to all these factors, the cost of the resin of this invention is low.\nNow, the method to be used for the immobilization of a given enzyme by use of the photo-crosslinking resin of this invention will be described.\nFirst, the photo-crosslinking resin is dissolved in water to a concentration of about 1 to 40% by weight. In this case, the dissolution of the resin in water is accelerated by application of heat. Then, the enzyme in a prescribed amount is added, either by itself or in the form of an aqueous solution, to the resultant aqueous solution of the resin and properly treated to produce a homogeneous solution. The concentration of the enzyme in the solution is generally in the range of from about 0.1 to 20% by weight, although it is variable to some extent with the application for which the immobilized enzyme is intended or the particular kind of the enzyme to be actually used.\nSubsequently, the enzyme-containing solution is exposed to light to induce a crosslinking reaction of the photo-crosslinking resin and immobilize the enzyme. In this case, it is more advantageous to use this solution in the form of a film than otherwise. The solution can be converted into a gelatinous, water-insoluble film by causing the solution to be spread spontaneously on or applied manually to a smooth surface such as of a glass plate and exposing the deposited layer of the solution to the light from which the ultraviolet ray has been screened off. As occasion demands, the solution deposited on the smooth surface as described above may be dried in air before it is exposed to the light. By the latter procedure, there is obtained a transparent, strong film, depending somewhat upon the length of the exposure time, the concentration of the photo-crosslinking group and the polymerization degree of the resin. The spreading or applying of the solution on the smooth surface may be carried out in the presence of a three-dimensional reinforcing carrier such as of gauze, filter paper or threads. The use of such a reinforcing carrier permits the film to be produced in desired shape and size. Again in this case, a gelatinous film deposited fast on the three-dimensional reinforcing carrier can be obtained by coating the carrier with the solution and immediately exposing the coated carrier to the light. When the coated carrier is dried in air before it is exposed to the light, there is obtained a strong film of high wettability.\nIt is generally preferable to perform the operations described above in a dark room. Since the resin of this invention exhibits notably diminished photosensitivity to yellow light, however, the operations may be effectively carried out under a yellow light.\nThe sources of light for the exposure of the enzyme which are advantageously usable for the immobilization of an enzyme by the method described above include a xenon arc lamp, a fluorescent lamp, a high-pressure mercury lamp as well as solar rays. Although the length of the exposure time is variable with the nature, size and water content of the photo-crosslinking resin involved, it is generally in the range of from 5 seconds to 30 minutes when the film has been dried in air before the exposure or in the range of from one to 30 minutes when the film is still in the form of an aqueous solution at the time of the exposure. Although the exposure time selected in the low-value portion of the specified range suffices for the purpose of immobilization, the light used for the exposure is desired to be treated so as to be freed from the portion of light absorbable by proteins, namely the light of a wavelength zone not exceeding about 320 nm. This elimination of the unwanted portion of light can be attained by use of a glass plate, for example. Where the enzyme-containing aqueous solution is in the form of a film, the exposure effected on one side of the film is generally found sufficient. Where the film of the same aqueous solution incorporates a reinforcing carrier such as of filter paper or possesses a large wall thickness, the exposure is desired to be effected on both sides of the film.\nThe enzymes to which the method of the present invention is applicable are not specifically limited. Examples of enzymes for which the present invention is applicable include catalases as well as invertases, glucoamylases, urease and trypsin. A compound enzyme film may be prepared by mixing two or more such enzymes and having them simultaneously immobilized.\nUpon contact with added water, the immobilized enzyme composite film obtained by the method of this invention is readily swelled and rendered more permeable to a given substrate. Since the enzyme can be incorporated in a concentration of as high as 20% by weight into the composite, this invention can prepare the immobilized enzyme composite in a state possessing a very high level of activity. Further, the possible inactivation of the enzyme can be repressed to a great extent because the points of crosslinking occur without affecting the enzyme in any way.\nThe immobilized enzyme prepared by the method of this invention exhibits activity approximately equalling 30 to 90% of the activity which the enzyme exhibits in its untrapped state prior to the immobilization. The lowered activity obtained after the immobilization is about 40% in the case of invertases, about 86% in the case of glucoamylases and about 30% in the case of catalases.\nSince the immobilized enzyme composite obtained as described above is generally in the form of a film, it may be chopped into small flakes, which are mixed with a given substrate for batchwise treatment or placed in a column for continuous treatment involving the passage of the substrate through the packed column. Alternatively, the immobilized enzyme composite may be used in its original form of a film by a method which involves the passage of a given substrate through the film. Thus, this immobilized enzyme composite is suitable for special use such as in enzymatic electrodes as well as for ordinary use in enzymatic reactions.\nBy the method of this invention, immobilized enzyme composites suitable for the various uses described above can be produced easily in a large quantity.\nNow, the present invention will be described in further detail below by reference to examples.\nIn 20 ml of ethanol, 5.00 g of N-methyl-\u03b1-picolinium-p-toluene sulfonate and 10.0 g of terephthal dialdehyde were dissolved hot. The resultant mixture, after addition thereto of five drops of piperidine, was refluxed for three hours. The hot solution was cooled and then freed from about 10 ml of the ethanol by distillation under vacuum. It was mixed with ethyl acetate to produce a yellow precipitate. The yellow precipitate was separated by decantation and washed twice with ethyl acetate. When the precipitate was dissolved in hot ethanol and ethyl acetate was gradually added to the solution, bright yellow crystals were educed. These crystals were collected by filtration, washed with ethyl acetate and dried to afford 5.57 g of N-methyl-\u03b1-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium-p-toluene sulfonate.\nThen, in 200 ml of hot water, 15 g of 87% saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a polymerization degree of 1700 was dissolved and, thereafter, 3.5 g of N-methyl-\u03b1-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium-p-toluene sulfonate was dissolved. The solution was stirred with 8.0 g of 85% phosphoric acid added thereto at 65\u00b0 C. for 14 hours. The resultant reaction solution was poured in a fine thread into 2 liters of acetone and then stirred in the acetone. The precipitate which was consequently formed was separated by decantation and washed three times with methanol. The precipitate was again dissolved in 200 ml of hot water and the resultant solution was poured into 2 liters of acetone. The precipitate which consequently occurred was separated and then washed once with methanol and dried. Consequently, there was obtained 14.8 g of a photo-crosslinking resin consisting of 1.7 mol% of a crosslinking group-containing unit, 85.3 mol% of a hydroxyl group-containing unit and 13.0 mol% of an acetyl group-containing unit. This resin exhibited a relative sensitivity 9 times that of a sensitized polyvinyl cinnamate.\nIn 8 ml of distilled water, 500 mg of the aforementioned photo-crosslinking resin was dissolved and 70 ml of a catalase solution (bovine liver, 304,000 units/ml made by Seikagaku Kygyo Co., Ltd.) was added thereto. The resultant solution was applied to a smooth surface glass plate and dried in air for one hour in a dark room. The film consequently formed on the glass plate was exposed to the light from a 450-W high pressure mercury lamp for three minutes and immersed in water. As the result, a transparent film peeled off the glass plate. The catalase in this film exhibited relative activity of 30%. When this film was suspended in a 0.05-M phosphate buffer solution having a pH value of 7.0 and hydrogen peroxide was added to the solution, air bubbles rose violently from the film.\nWhen the liquid in which the film was peeled off the glass plate was similarly mixed with hydrogen peroxide, practically no liberation of oxygen was observed.\nThe catalase activity in the film was determined by the following procedure. The transparent film was dried overnight under vacuum. A 20-mg sample of the dried film was vigorously stirred in 8 ml of a buffer solution of pH 6.95 with a magnetic stirrer and 0.2 ml of an aqueous 0.5 N hydrogen peroxide solution was added all at once to the stirred system at 25\u00b0 C. Along the course of time, the amount of oxygen liberated was measured to determine the constant of the reaction velocity involved. This constant was reported as the catalase activity.\nThe aqueous solution of the catalse-containing photo-crosslinking resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 1 was applied to a glass plate. The layer thus deposited on the glass plate was immediately exposed to the light from a 450-W mercury lamp for ten minutes. The film consequently formed was thoroughly washed with a phosphate buffer solution of pH 7.00. The washings and the gelled product were tested for activity. When the washings were mixed with 0.5-M hydrogen peroxide, slight liberation of air bubbles was recognized. When the gelled product was mixed with the hydrogen peroxide, however, vigorous liberation of oxygen was observed to occur from the film, indicating presence of catalase activity.\nIn 5 ml of distilled water, 500 mg of the photo-crosslinking resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 1 was dissolved. The resultant solution was stirred with 10 mg of glucoamylase (27 units/mg made by Seikagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.) dissolved in 1 ml of distilled water at room temperature for 20 minutes to produce a homogeneous solution. This solution was applied uniformly to a 150-mesh gauze of Tetlon (polyester fibers made by Teijin Co., Ltd. of Osaka, Japan) of an area of 20\u00d720 cm2 placed on a glass plate and then left to dry in air. The film thus produced was exposed to the light radiated from a 450-W high pressure mercury lamp and filtered so as to screen off the portion of light having a wavelength zone not exceeding 320 nm, with the exposure given for an equal duration to each side of the film. The total exposure time was 4, 30 and 60 minutes respectively in the three runs of test conducted. The film thus exposed to the light was washed with water and peeled off the glass plate, to afford an immobilized enzyme film deposited on the gauze.\nThe films of immobilized enzyme and their respective washings obtained in the test above were tested for enzymatic activity at 37\u00b0 C. The results are shown in Table 1. The percentages for the enzyme immobilized to the film and the activity in the washings indicated for the exposure times of 4 and 30 minutes in the table are relative values based on the total activity of the immobilized enzyme and activity in the washings at 60 minutes exposure time taken as 100.\nTABLE 1______________________________________ Activity of enzyme immobi- Activity of Total ofExposure time lization to enzyme in activity(min.) film (%) washings (%) (%)______________________________________ 4 16 82 9830 78 4 8260 97 3 100______________________________________\nIt is learnt from the table that so far as the exposure time exceeds the level of 30 minutes, the enzyme is effectively immobilized in the film without reference to the length of exposure time beyond this level.\nThe activity of the enzyme in the film, as expressed in terms of the relative value in comparison with the original activity, was about 60% and about 80%, when the activity measurement was made at about 37\u00b0 C. and 45\u00b0 C., respectively.\nThe test of the washings and the resin film for their glucoamylase activity was conducted as follows. The washings were adjusted to pH 4.8 and mixed with 5% maltose as the substrate. The mixture was assayed for the amount of the produced glucose by the glucostat method. In the case of the resin film, the resin deposited on a gauze 2.5\u00d74.0 cm2 in area was weighed. Then it was cut into strips about 5 mm in width, suspended in a buffer solution containing 5% maltose and shaken in the solution to induce a reaction. The resultant solution was assayed for the amount of the produced glucose by the glucostat method.\nIn 300 ml of hot water, 15 g of 87% saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a polymerization degree of 1700 was dissolved and then 1.50 g of N-methyl-\u03b3-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium-p-toluene sulfonate was added and dissolved. The resultant solution, after addition thereto of 8.0 g of 85% phosphoric acid, was stirred at 83\u00b0 C. for 14 hours. The reaction solution consequently obtained was cooled and then poured into 2 liters of acetone. The precipitate which occurred consequently was washed twice with methanol and then dissolved in 200 ml of hot water. The aqueous solution was poured into 2 liters of acetone and the precipitate which formed was separated. This precipitate was washed once again with methanol and dried under vacuum to afford 15.3 g of a photosensitive resin consisting of 0.9 mol% of a crosslinking group-containing unit, 86.1 mol% of a hydroxyl group-containing unit and 13.0 mol% of an acetyl group-containing unit.\nThe resin thus obtained showed a relative sensitivity 8.5 times the sensitivity of a polyvinyl cinnamate sensitized with 5-nitroacenaphthene.\nIn 7.5 ml of water, 500 mg of the photosensitive resin was dissolved by heating. The solution was cooled and then mixed with 2 ml of aqueous solution containing 10 mg of glucoamylase and stirred for 20 minutes in a dark room. The resultant resin was applied to a gauze of Tetlon in the same way as in Example 2, dried in air and exposed on both sides to the sunlight for five minutes under a clear June sky. When the composite film was immersed in water, the immobilized enzyme film deposited in the gauze could be peeled off. This film was tested for enzymatic activity by faithfully following the procedure of Example 3. It was found that the film retained about 70% of the original activity of the enzyme.\nIn 7 ml of distilled water placed under a yellow lamp, 500 mg of the photosensitive resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 4 was dissolved. The solution was stirred with a solution of 3.5 mg of invertase (made by Seikagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.) in 1 ml of distilled water at room temperature for 20 minutes. The resultant solution was applied to a 150-mesh gauze of Telton having an area of 15\u00d715 cm2 and then dried in air for 15 minutes. The composite film thus produced was exposed to the sunlight under a clear June sky, with the exposure given for an equal duration of two minutes to each side of the film. The film was immersed in distilled water to complete an immobilized enzyme film. By following the procedure of Example 3, thus film was allowed to react on an aqueous 5% sucrose solution as the substrate and then assayed for the produced glucose by the glucostat method. It was shown to exhibit a relative activity of about 30% with reference to the invertase solution at pH 4.8. This film was shaken overnight at 37\u00b0 C. in a solution of pH 4.5 and then removed from the solution and sucrose was added to the residual solution to a sucrose concentration of 5% by weight. When the resultant sucrose solution was assayed for invertase activity, neither formation of glucose nor elution of enzyme could be recognized.\nIn 2 ml of distilled water, 200 mg of the photosensitive resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 4 was dissolved. The solution was mixed with 0.5 ml of an aqueous solution having 5 mg of invertase dissolved therein, to produce a homogeneous solution. This solution was applied to a smooth-surfaced glass plate. When the deposited layer of the solution was exposed to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp for five minutes, it was deprived substantially completely of viscosity and converted into a gel. The gel deposited on the glass plate was placed in a beaker and stirred at room temperature with an aqueous 5% sucrose solution added thereto. By testing the stirred solution for the produced glucose with urine testing paper (Uropaper made by Eiken Chemicals Co., Ltd.) the gel was recognized to possess an enzymatic activity.\nIn 2 ml of distilled water, 200 mg of the photosensitive resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 4 was dissolved. The solution was mixed with 1 ml of an aqueous solution having 15 mg of invertase dissolved therein, to produce homogeneous solution. The solution was applied to a sheet of filter paper (No. 2 filter made by Toyo Filter Paper Co., Ltd.) dried in air and then exposed to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp, with the exposure given for an equal duration of five minutes to each side of the film. The film-coated filter paper was cut into strips and then tested with the same urine testing paper as in Example 6. Consequently, the filter paper was found to possess invertase activity with respect to sucrose as its substrate.\nIn 6 ml of distilled water, 500 mg of the photo-sensitive resin prepared by following the procedure of Example 4 was dissolved. In a dark room, the solution was stirred with 1 ml of an aqueous solution containing 10 mg of glucoamylase for 20 minutes. About 100 mg of the viscous resin solution consequently obtained was applied in a thin layer to a microscope slide glass and immediately exposed to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercurcy lamp, with the exposure time being 5, 20 and 60 minutes in the three runs of test. The exposed film on the slide glass was immersed in 10 ml of a buffer solution with pH 4.8 and the solution was stirred to expel the un-immobilized portion of enzyme out of the film. The washings were mixed with 500 mg of maltose and the resultant reaction mixture was tested for activity at about 27\u00b0 C. by the glucostat method. The gel which had been washed was washed once with water and immersed in a buffer solution of pH 4.8 containing 5% by weight of maltose, and the buffer solution was stirred at about 27\u00b0 C. and, at the same time, tested for enzymatic activity by the glucostat method. Table 2 shows the ratios of relative activity of the immobilized and expelled portions of glucoamylase vs. the lengths of exposure time. It is learnt from the results that the ratio of immobilizations reaches about 90% with an exposure time of about 20 minutes and that any addition to the length of exposure time has no effect upon the ratio of enzymatic activity.\nTABLE 2______________________________________Exposure time Activity in Activity in Total of(min.) film (%) washings (%) activity (%)______________________________________ 5 43 44 8720 89 11 10060 89 9 98______________________________________\nIn 25 ml of methanol, 9.40 g of \u03b3-picoline was dissolved and 12.61 g of dimethyl sulfate was introduced dropwise. After the dropwise introduction of the sulfate, the resultant reactant solution was left to stand at room temperature for one hour. It was then mixed with 40.2 g of terephthal aldehyde and heated. The homogeneous solution formed consequently was refluxed for five hours with 1.4 ml of piperidine added thereto. From the refluxed mixture while still hot, 2.55 g of insoluble crystals of a yellowish orange color were separated by filtration. When the filtrate was mixed with 200 ml of an equivoluminally mixed solvent of ethanol and acetone and then left to stand, there ensued education of bulky yellow crystals. The crystals were separated by filtration, washed with acetone and then dried, to afford 23.04 g of 1-methyl-4-(p-formylstyryl)-piridinium methosulfate.\nThen, 50 g of 87% saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a polymerization degree of 1700 was dissolved in 650 ml of distilled water, and 7.5 g of 1-methyl-4-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium methosulfate was additionally dissolved. The resultant solution was stirred with 50 g of 85% phosphoric acid at 80\u00b0 C. for five hours. The reaction solution was poured in a fine thread into about 4 liters of acetone and stirred. The precipitate which consequently occurred was separated and washed twice with methanol and then dispersed in methanol. The methanol washings were neutralized with added aqueous ammonia. The resulting precipitate was dissolved in 650 ml of hot water and the hot aqueous solution was poured into 3 liters of acetone. The precipitate formed in the acetone was separated, washed once with methanol and dried. Consequently, there was obtained 45 g of a photo-crosslinking resin consisting of 1.1 mol% of a photo-crosslinking group-containing unit, 85.9 mol% of a hydroxyl group-containing unit and 13 mol% of an acetyl group-containing unit. This resin showed a relative sensitivity 15 times the sensitivity of a sensitized polyvinyl cinnamate.\nIn a solution having 7.3 mg of urease (25 units/mg) dissolved in 0.5 ml of distilled water, 7.30 g of an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of the photo-crosslinking resin described above was gently stirred to produce a homogeneous solution. The solution was applied in a layer of uniform thickness to an acrylic resin plate of smooth surface and then dried in air, to produce a transparent film about 20\u03bc in thickness. This film was peeled off the resin plate and was exposed, for five minutes on each side, to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp, giving rise to a water-insoluble transparent film. The film was cut into oblong pieces 1\u00d75 cm2 in area and left to stand in an aqueous 3% urea solution as the substrate at pH 7.06 at 37\u00b0 C. by way of a test for enzymatic activity. The activity was determined by the coloration reaction of sodium hypochlorite upon the ammonia formed in consequence of the enzymatic reaction. This test showed that the immobilized enzyme retained about 32% of the original activity of the enzyme.\nThe urease immobilized as described above in the resin possessed an unusually high level of thermal resistance. Before the immobilization, this enzyme, when maintained at 70\u00b0 C. and 75\u00b0 C. for 15 minutes, was deprived of about 52% and 66% respectively of its original activity. In contrast, the immobilized enzyme was deprived of 25% and 65% of the original activity when it was maintained at 80\u00b0 C. and 87\u00b0 C. respectively for 15 minutes, indicating that the immobilization served to raise the enzyme's highest working temperature by more than 10\u00b0 C.\nA suspension of 0.5 ml of xanthin oxidase (5.07 units/ml, made by Miles Laboratories Co., Ltd.) in 60% ammonium sulfate was dialyzed with cold water for two hours to remove ammonium sulfate. In 0.75 ml of the resultant aqueous solution of enzyme, 2.25 g of an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of the photo-crosslinking resin of Example 9 was gently stirred. The resultant solution was applied in a layer of uniform thickness to an acrylic resin plate of smooth surface and dried in air, to produce a transparent film 35 \u03bcm in thickness. This film was peeled off the resin plate and exposed, for 5 minutes on each side, to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp, giving rise to a colorless, transparent film insoluble in water. The film was cut into oblong pieces 1\u00d75 cm2 and left to react on 0.05 mM xanthin as the substrate in a 0.05 M phosphate buffer solution of pH 7.5 by way of test for enzymatic activity. The activity was determined on the basis of the increase in the absorbancy at 290 nm of the uric acid formed in consequence of the reaction. The test showed that the film retained about 40% of the original activity of the enzyme.\nBy following the procedure of Example 10, a film was pooduced by uniformly mixing 5 g of an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of the photo-crosslinking resin of Example 9 with 2 ml of a glucose oxidase solution (1000 units/ml, made by Miles Laboratories Co., Ltd.). This film was cut into oblong pieces 1\u00d73 cm2 and left to react upon a 3% glucose solution as the substrate in a sodium acetate buffer solution of pH 5.75 by way of a test for enzymatic activity. The activity was determined by measuring the amount of hydrogen peroxide liberated using the colorization reaction of the peroxidase-pyrogallol system. Consequently, the immobilized enzyme in the resin was found to show about 97% of activity.\nThe film thus obtained was caused to react at room temperature for 10 minutes upon a solution containing 3% of glucose. Fifteen repetitions of this reaction led to no discernible degradation in the activity of the enzyme. The enzyme in the film maintained about 80% of its activity after being subjected to the same reaction fifteen more times.\nBy following the procedure of Example 9, a photo-crosslinking resin incorporating 1.41 mol% of stilbazolium group was obtained from 50 g of 87% saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a polymerization degree of 1700, 9.0 g of 1-methyl-4-(p-formylstyryl)-pyridinium methosulfate and 50 g of 85% phosphoric acid. This resin showed 30 times the sensitivity of a sensitized polyvinyl cinnamate. A suspension of 2 ml of L-asparaginase (140 units/mg, made by Sigma) in 50% glycerin was dialyzed with salt water at 0\u00b0 C. for three hours to remove the glycerin. With 18 g of an aqueous solution containing 8% by weight of the aforementioned photo-crosslinking resin, 4.4 ml of the aqueous solution obtained from the dialysis was homogeneously mixed. The resultant solution was applied to an acrylic resin plate of smooth surface and dried in air to produce a film 20 \u03bcm in thickness. This film was exposed, for five minutes on each side, to the light from a 450-W mercury vapor lamp. The film was then cut into oblong pieces 1\u00d75 cm2 in area, washed with water and tested for enzymatic activity as described below. The enzyme-incorporated film was shaken to react upon 10 mM L-asparagine as the substrate in a 0.05-M Tris buffer solution of pH 8.60, with the resultant mixture analyzed for the amount of the ammonia produced in consequence of the reaction. The L-asparaginase in the film was found to possess 76% of activity.\nWith a solution having 40 mg of invertase dissolved in 1 ml of distilled water, 2 g of an aqueous solution containing 10% by weight of the photo-crosslinking resin of Example 9 was homogeneously mixed. The resultant solution was applied in a uniform thickness to an acrylic resin plate of smooth surface and dried in air to produce a transparent film. This film was exposed, for five minutes on each side, to the light from a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp, giving rise to a transparent, water-insoluble film. This film was cut into square pieces 1\u00d71 cm2, suspended in an aqueous 5% sucrose solution and stirred therein at room temperature. When the solution was tested with a urine testing paper (Uro-paper), the film was found to possess invertase activity.\n1. A method for the immobilization of an enzyme, which comprises:\ndissolving in water a photo-crosslinking resin having a polymerization degree of 300 to 4000, consisting of 0.1 to 10.0 mol% of a unit containing a crosslinking group of the formula: ##STR9## wherein, R represents one member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxy-alkyl group and an aralkyl group, R' represents one member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and an alkyl group, and X- represents a strongly acidic anion, 70.0 to 99.0 mol% of a unit containing a hydroxyl group of the formula: ##STR10## and 0.1 to 30.0 mol% of a unit containing an acetyl group of the formula: ##STR11## adding the enzyme to the resultant aqueous solution containing the photo-crosslinking resin, and\nexposing the enzyme-containing resin to light to induce a crosslinking reaction of the photo-crosslinking resin and produce a polymer containing the enzyme entrapped therein,\nwherein the concentration of the photo-crosslinking resin in water is 1-40% by weight.\n2. A method for the immobilization of an enzyme, which comprises\ndissolving in water a photo-crosslinking resin having a polymerization degree of 300 to 4000, consisting of 0.1 to 10.0 mol% of a unit containing a crosslinking group of the formula: ##STR12## wherein, R represents one member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxy-alkyl group and an aralkyl group, R' represents one member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and an alkyl group, and X- represents a strongly acidic anion, 70.0 to 99.0 mol% of a unit containing a hydroxyl group of the formula: ##STR13## and 0.1 to 30.0 mol% of a unit containing an acetyl group of the formula: ##STR14## adding an enzyme to the resultant aqueous solution in an amount of from 0.1 to 20% by weight of said solution, and exposing the enzyme-containing resin to light to induce a crosslinking reaction of the photo-crosslinking resin and produce a polymer containing the enzyme entrapped therein; wherein the concentration of the photo-crosslinking resin in water is 1-40% by weight.\n3. The method according to claims 1 or 2, wherein ultra-violet rays have been screened off from the light.\n4. The method according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the exposure to light is carried out after the enzyme-containing aqueous solution has been caused to flow and spread over a smooth surface.\n5. The method according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the exposure to light is carried out after the enzyme-containing aqueous solution has been applied to a smooth surface and allowed to dry in air to form a film.\n6. The method according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the exposure to light is carried out after the enzyme-containing aqueous solution has been caused to flow and spread over a reinforcing material.\n7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the exposure to light is carried out after the enzyme-containing aqueous solution spread over the reinforcing material has been caused to dry in air to form a film.\n8. 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Company shares jumped 60 percent following the news that the treatment dramatically boosted levels of microdystrophin, a muscle-protecting protein designed by researchers, and reduced levels of an enzyme associated with the disease.\nDMD is a rare genetic disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the dystrophin gene. An X-linked condition, the disease mostly affects boys, and usually manifests itself in the form of muscle weakness in children between the ages of 3 and 5. There is no cure for DMD, and although steroids can slow the progression of symptoms, the disease eventually causes life-threatening damage to the heart muscles. Few patients live beyond their 30s. Part of the limitations, which have added friction to the commercialisation of therapies targeting neuromuscular disorders, are tied to the nature of the vectors used to deliver these treatments.\nTo hear more about this, join Giuseppe Ronzitti, Cell and Gene Therapy Specialist, Genethon as he will be presenting: \u2018Overcoming adeno-associated virus gene therapy limitations in genetic neuromuscular diseases.\u2019\nPresentation Details Below:\n\u2013 Rare, genetic neuromuscular diseases constitute a bigger challenge given the absence of knowledge on the physiopathological mechanisms and of therapeutic options\n\u2013 Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapy became a principal actor in the development of therapies for monogenic diseases\n\u2013 Successful human trials of gene transfer in the liver for hemophilia A and B, in the eye for congenital blindness and in the nervous system for spinal muscular atrophy have unveiled the therapeutic potential of this viral vector platform\n\u2013 Development of technological tools to overcome the current limitations of AAV gene therapy applied to neuromuscular diseases\nEXPERT SPEAKER PANEL:\nJoin an expert speaker panel at the Cell and Gene Therapy conference to get ahead and hear about latest developments! Presenting new technologies, specific case studies, updates on GMP, MHRA regulatory guidelines, quality control and therapeutic applications of stem cells, pre-clinical and clinical trial design, advanced cell engineering technologies, commercialisation of ATMPs, global pricing, ethical overviews and many more.\nHear from opinion leaders such as UCL, AstraZeneca, Selecta Biosciences, Plasticell, Innovate UK, LucidQuest + more.\n\u2013 Discover the World of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products \u2013\nFor those looking to attend there is currently a \u00a3300 saving ending June 29th!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 6904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://phdarts.eu/IndividualProjects/2017/Two", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:L2KESKHHCMXRCY4ZPESZEJNNQNBSQUUQ", "length": 1154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "phdarts.eu", "title": "PhDArts: Two", "raw_content": "In the schematic and slightly surrealistic film essay Two, Riccardo Giacconi sketches out the development of the neighborhood Milano 2, which would later become home to TeleMilano.\nSilvio Berlusconi\u2019s long tentacles stretch out to almost every section of Italian society. The self-made billionaire and three-time prime minister owns publishing houses, a film company and various TV stations, and was the owner of soccer team AC Milan for more than 30 years. His first successes were in the construction business. In early 1970s Milan, he completed a variety of large building projects, including the utopian Milano 2 that he conceived as a \"ghetto for the rich.\"\nAs Italy\u2019s first commercial TV station, TeleMilano represented the start of Berlusconi\u2019s media empire\u2014it also served as the basis for his future political power. Meanwhile, the area has come to resemble yet another normal suburb. Presented through aged and yellowed pictures, the right-wing populist ideology of those times seems far away. But the location shots aren't frozen in the past\u2014they show actual movement. Even after a half century, Berlusconi\u2019s influence is still very much alive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pittnews.com/article/120146/financial/financial-friday-scholarship-hunting-continuous-process-student/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UB5ZNUUCRCPUBNVEII6NYTN2YIKT3NJ5", "length": 4534, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "pittnews.com", "title": "Financial Friday: Scholarship Hunting: A Continuous Process for Any Student | The Pitt News", "raw_content": "Financial Friday: Scholarship Hunting: A Continuous Process for Any Student\nPhoto via Digitalpalph on Flicker\nSo many cost-saving options for making college more affordable exist. From loans and grants, to working, to budgeting, and many more methods, dents in the costs of college start to accumulate in effectiveness when put together. However, the most effective cost-cutting mechanism for college is often the simplest. Scholarships are effective in making college more affordable, and certain incoming Pitt students will receive merit scholarships after being accepted. Regardless of whether you do or do not receive that aid, the time to subsidize the cost of school with scholarships has come nowhere close to its conclusion.\nAn abundance of scholarships exist both inside and outside the University of Pittsburgh, and your chance at receiving scholarship aid is dictated, at least in part, by how much time and effort you put into applying. University of Pittsburgh Academic Scholarships are the main forms of merit aid qualified students receive upon entering the university.\nOther University academic scholarships such as the Stamps Scholarship and Nordenberg Scholars Program do however require separate applications. University academic scholarships tend to apply to incoming freshman. International, transfer, and continuing students who were not awarded a scholarship as an incoming freshman are not eligible for these scholarships.\nIf you no longer qualify a University academic scholarship, do not fret just yet. Your school within the university may offer scholarships to continuing students, regardless of what they did or did not receive as incoming freshmen. For example, Pitt\u2019s College of Business Administration offers a list of their own scholarships for students currently enrolled in the school.\nThinking about studying abroad? The Pitt Study Abroad Office lists many Study Abroad scholarships provided by both the office itself and by schools such as the College of Business Administration and the Swanson School of Engineering, to name a couple. Do not go abroad without checking out these types of scholarships on the Pitt Study Abroad site.\nLots of scholarship options from different sources have already been covered within the university, and more exist, so make sure to always keep an eye out around the university to see what you might be eligible for. However, do not contain your search to exclusively within Pitt. Countless non-university scholarships are offered by outside organizations. Look around for these outside scholarships both within your hometown and within the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Just make sure you\u2019re careful when searching and applying for these outside scholarships.\n\u201cWhile searching for scholarships is always smart, you will also want to be sure you are protecting yourself from organizations that may not be helpful.\u201d Said Janet McLaughlin, Pitt\u2019s Associate Director of Financial Aid.\nSome outside scholarships require a fee upfront to apply for a scholarship. While this alone does not necessarily make a scholarship listing illegitimate, it should be a signal to be cautious. Don\u2019t give out personal information, such as your social security number, and research the organization offering the scholarship in order to ensure its legitimacy.\nThe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid assists students online in searching for outside scholarships by listing search engine links on its website under the \u201cFinancial Aid\u201d tab in \u201cTypes of Financial Aid.\u201d This list includes, but is not limited to, the College Board and Fastweb. These sites, and sites like these make the process of searching for scholarships much simpler by aggregating the listings in one place. Check them periodically to see what you qualify for, and apply.\nThe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid is also currently implementing a web-based scholarship system, which will be available in the near future, so stay tuned for more information.\nWith the amount of scholarships available, your chances of receiving one might be better than you believe. Take it from Pitt Financial Aid Counselor Lindsay Smith in regards to scholarship hunting. \u201cThe only mistake I think students can make is to not apply because they think they will not get it. All scholarships have different criteria. There are scholarships out there for anyone to apply for. 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I can reach more people and share my ideas and designs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://platinumpainting.com.au/metal-and-plastic-surfaces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VZQTQPVGLNL2P4HFZ3P3HQXMKA36CF7O", "length": 1068, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "platinumpainting.com.au", "title": "Commercial Special Surfaces \u2013 Platinum Painting Company", "raw_content": "\u201cPlatinum Painting has an impressive track record of providing commercial solutions to challenging problems. Nothing makes our team happier than knowing we have resolved an issue for a client in a cost-effective, time sensitive manner.\u201d Dominic Gorman, Director, Platinum Painting\nSome surfaces (such as metal and plastic), require specialist paint application. Put simply, Electrostatic Spray Painting is process that employs charged particles to paint particular surfaces.\nOften used in warehouses, factories and areas with unique surfaces, Electrostatic Spray Painting provides an even coat to all areas (including awkward \u2018shadow\u2019 surfaces) that cannot be achieved through traditional painting techniques. Completed on-site (at your place), the Platinum Difference means minimal downtime and a reduction in costs (compared to dismantling and removing the structure).\nIf you have an area with metal, plastic or another unique surface, get in touch with Platinum today \u2013 we can advise you on the best way to approach the project and will provide a competitive quote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://player.fm/series/audition-1127811", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UPAYPYSUHBMXERQTMGARCVCQ4EM3ANEO", "length": 8868, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "player.fm", "title": "\u25be Discover", "raw_content": "By Ken Myers. Discovered by Player FM and our community \u2014 copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.\na podcast from MARS HILL AUDIO\nPatrick Deneen on democracy and liberalism26:47\nIn Democratic Faith (Princeton University Press, 2005), political theorist Patrick Deneen examined what he saw as a state of crisis and a sense of quiet desperation underlying much of contemporary democratic theory. At the end of this month, St. Augustine\u2019s Press will publish a collection of Deneen\u2019s essays entitled Conserving America?: Essays ...\u2026\nKenneth Craycraft, Jr., on religious liberty28:30\nAttorney Kenneth Craycraft, Jr. is the author of The American Myth of Religious Freedom (Spence Publishers, 1999). In that book, Craycraft argued that the protection for religious freedom guaranteed in the Constitution is not as vigorous as many believers may hope. The underlying assumptions in 18th-century Anglo-American thought about the natu ...\u2026\nMichael Hanby on technological politics25:31\nIn an article entitled \u201cA More Perfect Absolutism\u201d published in the October, 2016 issue of First Things, philosopher Michael Hanby observed that: \u201cIt is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the guise of settling contests of rights. Which means that we decide questions of truth without thinking deeply or ...\u2026\nMichael Sandel & Scott Moore on liberalism23:21\n\u201cOur public life is rife with discontent.\u201d So claims political philosopher Michael Sandel, in his 1996 book Democracy\u2019s Discontent: American in Search of a Public Philosophy. Sandel identifies two prominent symptoms of that discontent. \u201cOne is the fear that, individually and collectively, we are losing control of the forces that govern our live ...\u2026\nPeter J. Leithart on the 2016 election28:38\nIn the second of a MARS HILL AUDIO series of special interviews examining politics and theology, theologian Peter J. Leithart (Between Babel and Beast: America and Empires in Biblical Perspective) discusses some of the issues raised explicitly during the current presidential campaign and the failure of many voters and observers to ask how the e ...\u2026\nOliver O'Donovan on political theology29:38\nThe campaign leading up to the presidential election of 2016 has been an unsettling season for many Americans. Against the disturbing backdrop of social and cultural fragmentation, the two principal candidates for the office seem to be equally divisive, so that whoever wins in November, we are certain to be living through a time of further disc ...\u2026\nJohn Pinheiro on the Mexican-American War and anti-Catholic prejudice8:18\nIn his book, Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War, historian John Pinheiro argues that much of the enthusiasm for the war was tied up with an array of disparate theological and nationalistic convictions. Many Evangelical Protestants (including such celebrated figures as Presbyterian Lyman Beecher, a Tem ...\u2026\nRichard Viladesau on theology through art6:50\nSince 2006, theologian Richard Viladesau has been working on a multi-book project that has been exploring the meaning of the cross of Christ in Christian theology and in the artistic expressions of faith. The first book in this series (all published by Oxford) was The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the ...\u2026\nEsther Lightcap Meek on the personal nature of knowing5:18\nIn her recent book, A Little Manual for Knowing, Esther Lightcap Meek writes: \u201cKnowing is a pilgrimage. It requires taking personal responsibility, born of love, to pledge allegiance to what we do not yet know. . . . Knowing is a gift. Epiphany comes as a surprising encounter, equal parts knowing and being known.\u201d On this podcast, Meek talks wi ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 12 (Deneen on Wall Street, Berry on Limits)20:46\nThis issue of Audition features commentary by MARS HILL AUDIO host Ken Myers about recent on-line essays by political theorist Patrick Deneen. The four essays discussed were posted on Deneen's blog, What I Saw in America, and they each offered perspective on our current economic crisis gleaned from classical political philosophy. The essays wer ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 11 (Fujimura & Gioia)24:41\nThis issue of Audition features an interview with Japanese-American painter Makoto Fujimura. A reproduction of one of Fujimura's distinctive paintings is displayed to the right. The following biographical material is from the artist's website:\"Makoto Fujimura was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated bi-culturally between the US and J ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 10 (On Philip Pullman)40:04\nIn an interview with a Washington Post reporter in 2001, writer Philip Pullman candidly remarked, \"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.\" The occasion for the interview was the publication of the third book in Pullman's fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials.The first book of that trilogy, The Golden Compass, has now been made int ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 9 (Dialogues on Justice & Judges)1:14:52\nThis issue of Audition is a free preview of a new series of programs being produced by MARS HILL AUDIO. The series, Dialogues on Justice and Judges, will look at recent and upcoming Supreme Court rulings, attending to how they represent ideas about law, justice, identity, freedom, community, and other social and cultural concepts.In this first ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 8 (Figures in the Carpet)1:01:13\nThis special issue of Audition features interviews with five cultural historians, each reflecting on how assumptions of the meaning of \"the human person\" has shaped some aspect of the American experience. They are all interested in how particular understandings of human nature have influenced American history, and how the distinctive shape of A ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 7 (30 April 2007)35:32\nThe most influential social thinkers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries all believed that religion was an outdated preoccupation which maturing, progressing societies would eventually abandon. This assumption, often called the secularization hypothesis, was held by most sociologists through most of the 20th century.One sociologist who be ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 6 (31 January 2007)31:46\nThe meaning of the human and the meaning of the spiritual are the big themes on this issue of Audition. First, we hear an excerpt from Yuval Levin's penetrating essay, \"The Moral Challenge of Modern Science,\" which maintains that science is not, as many claim, just a set of neutral tools. Then part of a chapter from Nigel Cameron's provocative ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 5 (30 November 2006)34:59\nP. D. James's dystopian novel The Children of Men was the basis for a film opening on Christmas Day in the U.S. On this issue of Audition, Ken Myers talks with Ralph Wood and Alan Jacobs about the power and meaning of James's fiction, specifically of the themes raised in the bleak (but finally hopeful) story now adapted for the screen by Alfonz ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 4 (31 Oct 2006)38:09\nOn this issue of Audition, we feature a number of interviews about Christian novelists, poets, and mythmakers.- Alan Jacobs (What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden\u2019s Poetry) tells us about how W. H. Auden's conversion to Christianity affected his poetry (an excerpt from The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden)- Ralph Wood (The Gospel ac ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 3 (30 Sept 2006)43:56\nThis installment of Audition features interviews with the following guests:-- Leon Kass, on the people who shaped his thinking on bioethics and the meaning of the human-- Bernard Lewis, on how Islamic antipathy toward the West has been simmering since the late 17th century-- Thomas de Zengotita, on how the proliferation of signs and messages ai ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 2 (30 Aug 2006)45:19\nThis edition of Audition includes excerpts from five MARS HILL AUDIO interviews:--- Russell Hittinger, on ways in which modern democracies exclude public discussion about the view of human nature and human personhood on which democracy is founded--- Michael Aeschliman, on how C. S. Lewis opposed both subjectivism and scientism in arguing for th ...\u2026\nAudition - Program 1 (July 2006)\nAudition is the new podcast produced by MARS HILL AUDIO. Hosted by Ken Myers, this first issue includes an exclusive interview with theologian and bioethicist Nigel Cameron on how bioethical issues are discussed in public debate. It also features excerpts from interviews that can be heard on current and future issues of the MARS HILL AUDIO Jour ...\u2026\nStart listening to Audition on your phone right now with Player FM's free mobile app, the best podcasting experience on both iPhone and Android. Your subcriptions will sync with your account on this website too. 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Think about all the questions people ask when you announce you're getting married. Some ask, \u201cAre you sure?\u201d \u201cHow long have you known each other?\u201d There is a spiritual and emotional risk that is part of committing yourself to another person.\nMaybe it's the blessing for a child that comes at a baptism and recognizes the need for the protection and love from God, family and community.\nDuring a baptism for adults, one of the questions asked is, \u201cDo you promise, by the grace of God, to be Christ\u2019s disciples, to follow in the way of the our Savior, to resist oppression and evil, to show love and justice, and to witness to the work and word of Jesus Christ as best you are able?\u201d Who doesn\u2019t need a blessing for that?\nI\u2019ve been asked to give asked to give a blessing for this sanctuary which means I have to talk a bit about warnings, too.\nThe name of this place is a \u201csanctuary;\u201d it's supposed to be a place of safety \u2013 a place where people can be protected.\nIt\u2019s a place we come to rest, learn, recommit and then be sent out of to do God's work in the world; a world that is not safe, especially if we're living a full and faithful life.\nThis is a place filled with symbols and elements that point toward that idea.\nThe music isn't to keep us here; it\u2019s more like a soundtrack that will refresh us and set a tone to help us be faithful people.\nThe table brings us together only to send us out and welcome more people to the table; people who might not always want to be invited and, sometimes, people we might not want to invite.\nThe baptismal font is a place of covenants made that extend well beyond these doors and, when lived in to, change the world.\nIn the United Church of Christ we believe in freedom of the pulpit which means that what is said in the pulpit may not always be agreed with but it is never censored. Good preaching will not always make you comfortable but it will help you think about being more faithful.\nThis place of beauty, safety and sanctuary that so many have given so much to help create is important only to the degree to which this place provides sanctuary for those who need it and inspires commitments and covenants among those who worship here as we are sent out.\nThis may be a place of beauty, safety and sanctuary but it is calling us to live lives that are far from safe. Those warnings first, this place and this moment needs a blessing. Let us bless it together using these words from the UCC Book of Worship.\nFor the worship of God in prayer and praise, for the preaching of the Word, for the celebration of the holy sacraments, We ask for God's blessing on this sanctuary.\nFor the comfort of those who mourn, for the help of those who are perplexed, for the guidance of those who seek strength, We ask for God's blessing on this Sanctuary.\nFor the support and nurture of families, for the guidance of children, for the calling of youth to a life of service, We ask for God's blessing on this Sanctuary.\nFor guarding against evil, for fostering faithfulness, for promoting peace and justice in all the earth, We ask for God's blessing on this sanctuary.\nFor the opening of minds to your truth, for the care of the needy, for the giving of hope and courage, We ask for God's blessing on this sanctuary. For the unity of all believers in Christ, for the carrying of the gospel for the furtherance of the unity of all people, We ask for God's blessing on this sanctuary.\nFor the consecration of life and service, in grateful remembrance of those who have gone before us, and in gratitude for our life together in this church, We ask for God's blessing on this sanctuary.\nWe dedicate this sanctuary to the glory of God, to the honor of Jesus Christ, and to the praise of the Holy Spirit.\nO God of all creation, we give thanks for the calling to be your church and for the power you give us to fulfill our calling. We are people with a past full of assurance and future full of hope.\nToday we dedicate this sanctuary to you. May the meaning of this place live on in us so that each time we use it, we may be reminded of your holy presence. May we pass on to our children and to our children's children the significance of this sanctuary so that their journey of faith may be enhanced. To You be the power and the glory forever. Amen. \u2013Rev. Mike Denton, PNCUCC Conference Minister\nRead the related article: Let\u2019s Celebrate!\nRead the related article: Cross, Dove, Angel?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 7906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://preachbetweenthelines.com/2016/12/10/of-course-bethlehem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NFVCNE5F2DMIXYCHIYYYSEVJAKMFEAN2", "length": 3536, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "preachbetweenthelines.com", "title": "Of Course Bethlehem | preachbetweenthelines", "raw_content": "\u2190 It was the Best of Times, It was the Worse of Times\nOf Course Bethlehem\nThis year I am bringing a Christmas series titles \u201cBecause of Bethlehem.\u201d I have borrowed from the author Max Lucado, the title of his book about Christmas. While I have used the title, that\u2019s probably as close as I will get to his brilliant authorship.\nWe know that Micah 5:2 tells us the prophecy of where Jesus, the incarnate Christ will be born, just now when. Bethlehem has a history of sorts, for that is where Rachel, the beloved wife of Jacob is buried. It is also the city of David. I find it interesting that while the prophet foretold the location of the Messiah\u2019s birth, many were not looking for the Messiah. Now we can make the connection, but even while Jesus walked the earth, the Jews also had His birth in Nazareth of Galilee.\nBut why Bethlehem? It is an obscure place, some 5 miles distance from the mighty renowned Jerusalem. In Micah it even tells us the Ephrathah was so small a clan of people; they were not even counted or included in the Promised Land division. It is like the Lord, for in 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 we find that our Father uses people and places that the world overlooks. Significant in His plans but lost in ours.\nIf it weren\u2019t for Bethlehem, we don\u2019t get Calvary. What I mean by this is that if Jesus doesn\u2019t come as the incarnate Christ Child in Bethlehem, we don\u2019t have a Cross crucified Savior.\nIn John 1:1-4; we read about how that \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u201d This brings to mind that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God, co-equal with the Father. By this we must understand that Jesus is both divine and human. In other words He is both flesh and deity. Jesus had to come in the flesh to accomplish the work of the Cross. While He never lost His deity or His power, He did submit himself to the Father\u2019s plan.\nIn the Old Testament, the sacrifices of bulls and lambs could never deal with sin of fallen mankind; it could only \u201ccover it up.\u201d The Law and sacrificial system was a shadow of what Jesus would do for us at Calvary. Man cannot save himself. We had to have a Savior. The plan of God from the Beginning always included the Son of God descending to earth to accomplish redemption\u2019s plan of salvation. We celebrate Bethlehem for that is where our salvation begins. In an obscure village, with two unknown parents; graced with the challenge of raising the Son of God \u2013 raising the Lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world.\nThere must always be a starting point for restoration and reconciliation \u2013 the Old Testament sacrifices were inadequate. That which needed to be accomplished required God\u2019s intervention and initiative \u2013 The father Sent Jesus! There must be a Calvary for all of us, but likewise there must be a Bethlehem. \u201cThe Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as the ONLY begotten Son, sent by the Father!\u201d\nBecause of Bethlehem, we have a Calvary and because of Calvary we were delivered from our sins and restored to a joyful relationship with God. But it was God who started this all so long ago \u2013 Romans 5:8, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, the godly for the ungodly.\u201d Surely God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten [one of a kind, unique] Son; that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life! Praise God for His infinite wisdom and love for us.\nMerry Christmas my Beloved family in Christ!\nTagged as christmas. bethlehem, reconcilations and restoration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pretendingnottopanic.com/2016/09/07/flat-pack-truck-for-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EBEYLR2ZAIGNIR5YZGE5FYYHCBC6OCDX", "length": 1189, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pretendingnottopanic.com", "title": "Flat Pack Truck For Africa | Pretending Not To Panic", "raw_content": "Flat Pack Truck For Africa\nIt may seem like a simple idea, but someone has designed a truck for places like Africa that need vehicles but can\u2019t afford conventional trucks for areas that would break conventional trucks. It is a truck that can be shipped in a container, built on-site within a day or two, that uses common materials like plywood, and costs only 5% of a conventional truck. Because it is made of plywood, it is far more sustainable and maintainable, as well as customizable. Rather than imposing a solution, the basic frame, engine, and controls can be used for a variety of applications determined by local needs and local designs. Simple ideas for simple problems may not gather headlines, but they may improve the lives of millions \u2013 and may also find applications within the mainstream, too. An easy to afford and maintain truck for only 5% of its competition? Why wouldn\u2019t that be appealing? Ah, regulators. Oh well, aside from that\u2026\n\u201cThe Flat-Pack Off-Road Truck\u2026\u201d \u2013 Ars Technica\nPosted in: Innovation, UncategorizedTagged: Africa, Infrastructure, Innovation, Sustainability, TransportationPermalinkLeave a comment\n\u2190 Coastal Cities Sinking\nCorporate Bonds Go Negative \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prevention.ucsf.edu/education/international-traineeships-aids-prevention-studies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3DV6M5UW6ZDUXLP3YX4BDFOWSPPQKHG", "length": 857, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "prevention.ucsf.edu", "title": "International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies | Division of Prevention Science", "raw_content": "The International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (I-TAPS) program, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Fogarty International Center, and private donors, has been training scientists from low- and middle-income countries in AIDS prevention research since 1988. Each year, 10 to 12 applicants are selected to train with UCSF scientists at CAPS and Global Health Sciences (GHS). During the six-week intensive short course, each visiting scientist develops a protocol for a specific AIDS prevention\u2013related research project to be carried out in his or her home country. Upon completion of data collection, the trainee may return to UCSF for a course in scientific writing, during which data analysis is completed and a manuscript is written for submission to the peer-reviewed literature. Please contact Ritu Sehgal for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 118.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://primanota.ru/bears-den/red-earth-and-pouring-rain-chords.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UDX7UVTXTLP6M65NV4U6XYG3VRXPXKOW", "length": 1696, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "primanota.ru", "title": "Bears Den - Red Earth And Pouring Rain - \u0430\u043a\u043a\u043e\u0440\u0434\u044b, \u0442\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0442, \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043e | PrimaNota.ru", "raw_content": "Bears Den - Red Earth And Pouring Rain - \u0430\u043a\u043a\u043e\u0440\u0434\u044b, \u0442\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0442\nRed Earth And Pouring Rain - \u0430\u043a\u043a\u043e\u0440\u0434\u044b\nC | F - - Am | G - - C |\nCan't you hear it in the silence?\nCan't you hear me calling out your name?\nI've got something burning, coursing through these cold veins\nIn the words we speak babe, somehow I get lost in between\nWhether to suffer in silence, or to break it all with each breath that we breathe\nAnd I don't wanna break it off, or break it all, but I can't let it be\nI don't wanna be the one to call it out, love, but it's all I can see\nRemember what we found, love, no one can ever take that away\nRemember what we found, in the red earth and the pouring rain\n| F - - Am | G - - C |\nAm Em F\nDon't you remember love? Don't you remember love? Don't you remember love?\nI was waiting for a call, a call never came\nSo I made my own way, and I can't find my way back home again\nStranded in the darkness, begging please don't pin all of your dreams on me\nBaby, you can count on me, you can count on me to fuck up everything\nI've been running forever love, forever love, I've been running away\nI forget what I'm running from, but it still scares me today\nWhat I found in you love, no one can ever take that away\nSomething forever in the red earth and the pouring rain\nDon't you remember love? Don't you remember love? Don't you remember anything?\nIt's just you and I love, it's just you and I love\nG F\nIt's just you and I love, in the red earth and the pouring rain\nBears Den - New Jerusalem (\u0410\u043a\u043a\u043e\u0440\u0434\u044b, \u0442\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0442)\nhttps://primanota.ru/bears-den/red-earth-and-pouring-rain-chords.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/108820", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FVQNPO35U5WTY2NQLA53WR5L4LY2AIB6", "length": 1349, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "prism.ucalgary.ca", "title": "Beyond Service Learning: Towards an Understanding of Engineering Student Development of Social Responsibility", "raw_content": "Beyond Service Learning: Towards an Understanding of Engineering Student Development of Social Responsibility\nmain thesis file (2.886Mb)\nEggermont, Marjan J.\nBrennan, Robert William\nJatana, Lauren Shawna\nMore than ever, engineering students must be prepared for social responsibility. The 20th-century saw unprecedented social and technical advancement, leading to population growth and depleting natural resources. As a result, engineering educators have been called upon to prepare students for these professional social responsibilities. However, social responsibility is more discretionary and interpretive than legal and ethical responsibilities, and educators lack clarity on what exactly social responsibility entails and how to design effective learning experiences for it. This thesis explores the relationship between student participation in various engineering learning experiences and social responsibility. Results of this study show that fourth- year students were likely to have higher social responsibility measures than first-year students, especially in a professional capacity. Participation in certain learning experiences corresponded to increased social responsibility measures, while others did not. Lastly, the results show that social responsibility measures could be correlated with three professional graduate attributes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://progressiveasianamericanchristians.org/2018/02/23/lent-day-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MZLQUYOODKMJLDXIMR4G4EUI44VR5WWB", "length": 5064, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "progressiveasianamericanchristians.org", "title": "Lent Day 9 | John 4:43-54 \u2013 Progressive Asian American Christians", "raw_content": "Why Did Jesus Take the Time to Heal the Child of a Wealthy Royal Official?\nWe ask for your presence and guidance as we reflect on our beliefs. Lighten our steps as we walk by faith and continue to follow your ways of love and justice.\nIn this text, Jesus is a local legend, the one who turned water into wine. I often wondered about the role of miracles in Jesus\u2019 ministry. In this case, Jesus talks about how the people around him, without wonders and miracles, would not see him for who he was.\nYet, even knowing this about the people, Jesus still performs a miracle for them.\nNot only that, but Jesus\u2019 miracle was to heal a royal official\u2019s child.\nIn other translations, this official is said to be a Centurion who was a commander in the Roman army, or a wealthy aristocrat who was an official under King Herod. Out of all the people Jesus could have healed in Galilee, why choose to help a royal official and his child? Why care for an official\u2019s child, who is so privileged within society, when many other children who lacked the same privilege probably had similar needs?\nI wrestled with this. It does not align with my own worldview in which Jesus expressly is concerned with alleviating pain and poverty, for people on the margins and those who are excluded from society. The royal official was wealthy and powerful. He was an elite. Yet, Jesus takes the time to heal his son and send him on his way.\nBut perhaps Jesus healed the royal official to make a bigger point. Perhaps he performed this miracle in such a way, so others could see that he was more than just a magician, but someone with true authority. Or did he also have genuine care for the royal official\u2019s concern? Did it matter to Jesus what the royal official\u2019s status was within society or what he did for a living?\nI don\u2019t know the answers to these questions, but I do know that Jesus healed the royal official\u2019s child. I also know that prior to this passage Jesus meets a Samaritan woman, another gentile who he cares for. After this passage, he meets with and heals a paralyzed man waiting for a miracle by the pool. In many study bible commentaries, these three passages together (i.e., the Samaritan woman, the royal official, and the paralyzed man) represent how Jesus did not discriminate against anyone who needed help, no matter their status in society. This uncritical interpretation does not do justice to the whole picture of who Jesus was. Jesus declared judgments on those who took advantage of those who had less. Jesus also reached out to widows and orphans.\nYet, this passage remains and I am challenged by it. While I know he did not condone those with power and privilege taking advantage of people, he still showed care for those in need, even those who had advantages that others did not.\nIn my own life, I confront racial dominance in my profession and battle conservative evangelical circles in my personal life. Often I get upset and angry and it is easy to hate those who willfully ignore and participate in the injustices of this world. Yet, I am challenged by Jesus\u2019 care for the royal official and I am reminded that my anger at injustice should not turn to hate towards fellow humans. It is a constant battle that I fight within myself and one that Jesus continues to refine in me.\nHow do we engage in the battle for justice, support those who have been marginalized or forgotten, and confront their oppressors? Do we still need to care for those who have every advantage? If so, how do we do that without further hurting people who have been marginalized?\nCreated by: Amos Lee\nAbout the author: I was a former public school teacher in elementary and middle schools and am currently an adjunct professor for teacher education at a state college. My interests include: Calling out cultural (mis)appropriation of Korean food, battling on Facebook with colorblind and post racial rhetoric among friends, and being a resident skeptic that continues to push back against dominant narratives and norms.\nAbout the author: Dae is a photographer, ex-pastor, and stay-at-home dad. He lives with his wife and two children in Maryland. He is a recovering Calvinist. \ud83d\ude09\nOne thought on \u201cLent Day 9 | John 4:43-54\u201d\nThanks for your devotional reflection, Amos. It is challenging that some who seemingly should not qualify for healing do get healed. However, which one of us truly qualify or deserve healing when we suffer, however poor or sick? I guess in my eyes, some do seem more worthy than others. I believe if the oppressed were put in a place of privilege, there would still be the same temptation to elevate oneself over others.\nWhat stands out in this narrative is the exchange of faith and healing. The official had enough faith to approach Jesus for this need. The key, it seems, is humility to approach Jesus and asking Him and believing that He has the authority and power to do so. I see the miracles of Jesus as a revelation of God\u2019s character and the things that are on His heart, and of course, the fulfillment of prophecy about the Christ. Thanks and God bless!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://projecturok.org/project-urok/policy-change", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AHDKBWI33C6CTNE3NF6KSUCQWXC64QZC", "length": 3793, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "projecturok.org", "title": "Latinx Mental Health: Fighting for Policy Change \u2014 Project UROK", "raw_content": "\"I began this work in memory of a close friend I lost to suicide and in keeping her memory alive, I found my life's purpose.\" -Ane\nIt definitely has been a journey filled with gratitude, where no day is the same. One day I can be driving three hours out to a rural part of my state to provide a suicide prevention training for a school. The next day I'll be working on mental health policy change. At times it's been late nights on a Friday evening (because that's when a crisis happens), calling all my mental health contacts to successfully identify a provider who can take in a new client immediately. Some days it's sitting on the sidewalk sharing a sandwich with my friend Aaron, who is homeless and suffers from mental illness--hoping that our conversation will get him to agree to see a provider. It's nights filled with frustration over our broken mental health system and broken policies that don't help Aaron.\nThen there are the days where I'm in the middle of providing a youth suicide prevention training and see a big smile run across a young girl's face and hear her say how grateful she is to learn how to help a friend in crisis. All of this keeps me going. Advocacy has taught me to never take no for an answer when it comes to fighting for access to services for others in need and it has filled my life with beautiful people who inspire and have changed me for the better. I began this work in memory of a close friend I lost to suicide when I was thirteen-years-old and in keeping her memory alive, I found my life's purpose.\nThe \"one-size fits all\" approach to providing mental health resources/services for the Latinx communities is definitely a something that needs to be worked on. We are a beautiful and multifaceted culture and the treatment should be reflective of that. Those in our community should have the ability to access services in their native language and meet with a therapist who understands and appreciates the culture. Asking for help is not easy, so we need to do everything possible to create an environment in which the individual will want to continue with their treatment. The best way to dispel these myths and rid the stigma is to encourage more Latinx individuals to become the mental health providers and therapists.\nNever be afraid or ashamed to ask for help and never let anyone discourage you from getting help. No matter how tough the road gets, do not give up and know that you're never alone.\nI have been very fortunate to cross paths with some of the very best mental health champions like my former boss, Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano (California District 32) and Dr. Luis Garcia from Pacific Clinics Behavioral Health Clinic (Santa Fe Springs, CA). Together they started a youth suicide prevention program in Southern California, which works directly with Latinx students and their families. Not only are services provided in English and Spanish, but it is a requirement for families to learn the ins and outs of mental health together. Realizing the barriers that many parents face in raising a family, clinicians put washers and dryers at one of their facilities so parents could get errands done while their child was receiving services. These are the small things that make a difference and have the most impact.\nCongresswoman Napolitano is also the founder and chair of the Congressional Mental Health Caucus in Washington, DC and has worked and partnered with numerous mental health organizations to create policy change. The National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA) is another wonderful organization I have worked with in the past. They focus directly on Latinx mental health and raise funding for scholarships for Latinx youth who are going into the field of mental health.\nFollow Ane on Twitter and Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 5715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://public.tableau.com/zh-cn/s/gallery/doomsday-clock", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SFZLEETRGQBRXUBDTS2UWMFEQ73EOULA", "length": 440, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "public.tableau.com", "title": "The Doomsday Clock | Tableau Public", "raw_content": "\u4f5c\u8005: Ryan Sleeper\n\u6700\u521d\u53d1\u5e03: http://www.ryansleeper.com/\nRyan Sleeper visualises the changes that have been made to the Doomsday Clock - a framework by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, intended to warn the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making.\nHover over the the dots to see what geopolitical events triggered the changes. Follow the link to read more about the Doomsday Clock.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/a-submission-on-the-electoral-integrity-amendment/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JCZCC2RMFSJOUWICUL4F4HBK5VXUMMBI", "length": 23507, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "publicaddress.net", "title": "A submission on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment bill \u2022 Legal Beagle \u2022 Public Address", "raw_content": "A submission on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment bill\nI'm no fan of the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill, the law that seeks to reinstate anti-\"Waka-jumping\" laws. And I wrote a submission saying so, to Justice Committee. A bunch of people have already made submissions on the objections in principle to the law, so rather than repeat them, I decided to focus my submission on changes that could make the bill slightly less worse than it otherwise might be. If you are interested, it follows below:\nThe Justice Committee\nElectoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill\nSubmission of Graeme Edgeler\nMy name is Graeme Edgeler. I am a Wellington barrister with a strong interest in electoral law.\nI thank the Committee for the opportunity to present a written submission on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill.\nI consider that the bill is unnecessary, and harmful. It would move the political system toward one where greater power rests with parties, and party leaders, and less power with individual MPs\nNew Zealand already has the strongest party system of a Westminster-style democracy. Without other changes to our law (for example around the threshold), any move in this direction is likely to risk the integrity of the system, rather than increase it.\nIndividual MPs should be empowered to hold their parties to account, on behalf of the voters who put them into Parliament. It is not clear why, for example, an MP going against their party when it votes for legislation it campaigned against at an election should lose their seat because they threaten the integrity of the electoral system, while the MPs who go against their pre-election promises are not seen as threatening \u201celectoral integrity\u201d.\nI know there is some support and also some disquiet among members of the Committee to the bill. I am aware that the Committee has received other submissions that address the argument at length, so, while I recommend that it not pass, I also offer some options for the Committee to consider to ameliorate some aspects of the Bill.\nLegislation Expiry\nThe previous version of the Electoral (Integrity) Act included an expiry date. This did not necessarily mean that the law would lapse, but had the effect of requiring Parliament to reconsider whether it continued to be needed. If there is some reluctance to make either no change, or a permanent change without broader buy-in (I am aware that New Zealand First, for example, considers that controversial changes to electoral law should require either broad buy-in, or support at a referendum), then this could be considered.\nI submit that the Committee should consider removing the sections dealing with expulsions by parties, and limit the effect of the Bill to resignations from parties. The 1999 Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill (before it was amended by the Select Committee) originally only applied only to resignations, and did not also apply to expulsions. The committee might consider again limiting it in that way. It would deal with the worst of the current system (MPs being elected under one banner, and then defecting), while not substantially increasing the risks of harm to MPs\u2019 free speech etc. that will arise with the threat of expulsion from Parliament.\nIf the committee does consider that the law should cover not just resignations, but also cover expulsions, it should consider whether the balance is correctly struck.\nAt present, the bill requires a two-thirds majority vote of a party caucus to expel and MP from Parliament. If an MP is really threatening the proportionality of Parliament, one would expect much greater unanimity from a party caucus as to that fact, than a mere two-thirds.\nUnder the current proposal, National could eject an MP even if 18 of their MPs considered the MP had not threatened the proportionality of the House, and Labour, could eject an MP with 15 MPs opposed. If the vote had anywhere near that many opposed, I think it must be seriously disputed whether proportionality would have been threatened.\nWhen you are talking about ejecting an MP from Parliament, a much higher vote should be required, perhaps even near unanimity of the party caucus (ie unanimous, but the for the MP in question). An MP who has the support of even two or three of their party colleagues represents a significant party position likely to have been supported by at least some of that party\u2019s voters, whose voice should not be silenced by other party factions. An MP with that level of support from the party Caucus should not be forcibly expelled from Parliament.\nTo ensure that the vote fairly reflects individual caucus member\u2019s true positions, I would also suggest that the vote to expel should be required to be a secret ballot of the caucus (in much the same way that this is required before a strike).\nComponent Parties\nMembers will recall the Alliance Party. It has been some time since the party was successful in electoral politics, but at the first MMP election, it fielded candidates from the four separately-registered \u201ccomponent parties\u201d: The NewLabour Party, the Green Party, Mana Motuhake and The Democrats, and had 13 elected.\nThe Alliance formed in part because of the very high 5% threshold that was chosen when we adopted MMP. The form of relationship it had is encouraged by the Electoral Act, which provides for an explicit process by which two or more registered parties can be recognised as \u201ccomponent parties\u201d of a larger party to give them a realistic chance to pass the 5% threshold.\nAlthough there are currently no parties with no component parties, I am concerned that the processes in the Act are inconsistent with the sections of the Electoral Act that create and recognise component parties, do not adequately protect the position of parties that are component parties.\nPeople voted for the Alliance, for example, knowing that they were voting to ensure NewLabour MPs were in Parliament, as well as Green MPs, etc. Standing Order 34(2)(c) even allows that MPs who are members of component parties to be recognised as such for parliamentary purposes. Allowing a party to expel a member of a component party, to be replaced by someone from a different party is likely to distort proportionality, not enhance it.\nSimilarly, when the Green MPs who were elected as part of the Alliance in 1996 announced the Green Party would be running as a separate party, outside of the Alliance umbrella party, at the 1999 election, it could not fairly be said they distorted the proportionality of Parliament (people voted for the party knowing the Green Party was a component party of the Alliance, and knowing that MPs who were Green Party members would be elected). Given this, it would be wrong to allow such a situation to result in an expulsion from Parliament for distorting the proportionality of the House.\nIn light of this, consideration should be given to amending the bill to take account of the position of component parties, so that the bill does not inadvertently provide a mechanism to increase disproportionality.\nRequirement for Parties to Adopt Rules\nNew section 55D provides when an MP is expelled by a caucus, the letter sent by the Party Leader must advise that, if the party imposes rules on the expulsion of an MP, they have been complied with. As drafted, a party is not necessarily required to have such rules, but those parties that do are required to follow them.\nI submit that parties should be required to have such rules. This is in line with other parts of the Electoral Act, which require parties to have (i) membership rules (ii) rules around candidate selection.\nThis would not require parties to adopt any particular sort of rule (the rules adopted might simply state that there are no requirements beyond those contained in the Electoral Act), but it would aid in clarity of what is required, particularly in combination with the following submission. Political parties should be permitted a wide latitude in how they run their affairs, but this bill effectively gives parties the power to overrule the election result, ejecting from Parliament someone whom the voters have elected. In the same we that we require them to have rules around selection of candidates, I do not think to great an imposition, to require them to declare in advance how they will do it.\nPublic Notification of Bills\nSection 71B of the Electoral Act gives statutory recognition to party rules already, and in particular requires registered parties to supply the Electoral Commission with copies of the rules governing membership of the party and the rules governing the selection of candidates (as both list candidates and constituency candidates).\nI submit that if party rules around the expulsion of MPs is to have statutory recognition, as the bill proposes, these rules should be required to be supplied to the Electoral Commission in the same way. This would not place the Electoral Commission in the position of mediating disputes (which they don\u2019t do either over membership, or candidate selection), but would provide some clarity to the process for all concerned, and allow voters to take account of the rules when making deciding how to vote.\nI oppose the bill, and encourage the Committee to reject it, however, if the Committee is minded to support the Bill back to the House, I encourage it to adopt some or all of the amendments I propose above:\nConsider whether the bill should have an expiry, by which Parliament will have to reconsider whether it continues to be necessary;\nChange the bill so that it only cover resignations, not expulsions;\nRequire near unanimity of a party caucus before expulsion can occur (or certainly caucus support substantially higher than that presently in the bill);\nProvide that a caucus vote must be conducted by secret ballot;\nProvide recognition of the place of component parties;\nRequire parties to adopt rules around expulsion of MPs, in the same way that parties are required to have rules around membership, and selection of candidates;\nRequire parties to publicly notify their rules for expulsion of MPs by providing them to the Electoral Commission.\nI look forward to meeting the Committee in person to address my submission.\nTom Semmens, 17:24 Mar 20, 2018\n115 odd MPs out of 120 owe their place in parliament to the colour of their rosette.\nIf they jump party they have betrayed the people who elected them.\nErgo, waka jump and you deserve to be slung out of parliament.\nWe only have a three year electoral cycle, if people agree with you they'll re-elect you in a couple of years.\nI believe 70% or so of New Zealanders share my POV.\nizogi, 17:33 Mar 20, 2018\nAw crud. I was going to submit on this and had it half written a month ago, yet life intervened and I only just noticed that submissions closed yesterday.\nAnyhow, thanks for putting in such a clear and concise submission. The problem with component parties hadn't even crossed my mind.\nOne of my own big gripes is that I believe it seriously threatens the ability for new parties to emerge... particularly given the 5% MMP threshold seems very difficult if even possible for new parties to reach. Until now, virtually all new parties under MMP have needed some kind of help whether it comes from a rebelling MP from elsewhere or from a big party unlocking the door from inside. I hope there's sufficient representation of this issue from other submissions.\nTom Semmens, in reply to izogi, 18:22 Mar 20, 2018\nUntil now, virtually all new parties under MMP have needed some kind of help whether it comes from a rebelling MP from elsewhere or from a big party unlocking the door from inside.\nWhich probably accounts for their signal lack of success.\nParliament isn\u2019t the beginning of the democratic representation journey. It is the culmination of it.\nIf you think you\u2019ve got a political philosophy that people will vote for you don\u2019t start off with an act of political betrayal to the voters who elected you \u2013 not unless you want your party to begin by drinking from a poisoned chalice of illegitimacy that\u2019ll eventually take you down.\nIt took 27 years and thousands of meetings in drafty halls and mocked speeches on street corners to disinterested crowds for a Values/Green MP to be elected. But now they\u2019ve been in parliament for 19 years, and they probably still will be in 46 years from now.\nIf you want to set up a new party, by all means, But don\u2019t try shortcuts, they never work.\nizogi, in reply to Tom Semmens, 20:15 Mar 20, 2018\nYeah, sure. I'm not trying to defend imperfect methods of getting new parties into parliement any further than the fact that I think we can't seem to be bothered improving the mechanism of MMP -- even as far as seriously considering the report which came after the referendum to keep it. (I'm still waiting for Andrew Little to pull it out of Judith Collins's shredder, but there's apparently no interest.)\nAs long as we're intent on keeping a less perfect electoral system, we shouldn't be attacking the hacked mechanisms which enable it to produce and retain a parliement that has any realistic diversity of parties at all.\nPlus even the Green Party arguably only remained in parliament, after splitting from the Alliance, because Helen Clark effectively asked Coromandel Labour supporters to vote for Jeanette Fitzsimons in '99.\nWithout that support it's highly unlikely that she would have won Coromandel with a 250 vote majority. Without the realistic possibilty of her being able to do so, it's also unlikely that 5.16% of voters nationally would have been encouraged to vote Green. But they did, the Greens built on that success, and (IMHO) we've had a better and more representative Parliament because of it.\nHas any new party ever entered parliament under MMP without either a defecting MP or benevolent (but really strategic) help from a big party that's more interested in gaming the system?\nNeil, 21:11 Mar 20, 2018\nOnce the PM has finished cleaning up after male NZF MPs she might have the time to deal with these issues.\nI think Jones is a bit jealous that Mark is getting all the free flights.\nGraeme Edgeler, in reply to izogi, 22:29 Mar 20, 2018\nEvery successful new party has had an existing or former MP in it.\nBenevolent help has never worked by itself.\nany further than the fact that I think we can\u2019t seem to be bothered improving the mechanism of MMP\nI think that the threshold has been a barrier to new party entry, but remember that is what it is designed to do. On the one hand, you could say it has harmed the democratic diversity of our parliament and encouraged rorts like the Epsom deal that keeps the ACT cadaver on life support. On the other, it has also kept the likes of Graeme Capill and Colin Craig out of parliament. The other thing about the threshold is even if you dropped it to a more reasonable 3% no new party has managed rate any more than 2.85% support at an election.\nMy general view on MMP is it has achieved enhanced stability and increased ethnic and gender diversity at the expense of class, philosophical and political diversity \u2013 which again is more or less what it is designed to do. The key characteristic of MMP \u2013 centralist stability \u2013 was arguably exactly what frazzled voters desired when the selected it. People were sick of radical policies imposed by a dictatorship of the cabinet from parties with hidden agendas. The number of parties and coalition arrangements of German MMP politics that so fascinated New Zealanders obscured the more important reality of the centralist stability of German governments.\nThe chief electoral reform I\u2019d like to see would be to combat the pernicious growth of a professional political class (Grant Robertson being a particularly poisonous example) that believes in nothing except its own survival within an establishment context. I\u2019d love to see term limits for list MPs, much stronger rules around party funding and some sort of mechanism(s) designed to force our current self-serving elite cadre parties to become mass membership again.\nAnother point worth making is declining diversity in Parliament may simply indicate a broad satisfaction within the mass of voters of the decision making classes with the current social, economic and political settings of the country rather than a problem with the mechanism of the electoral system. New Zealand is still locked into a neoliberal economic model because in this country it has not yet collapsed as completely and abjectly as it has in those countries hammered by the GFC and the long, ling great recession. It seems to me that political environment of New Zealand (and Australia) has significantly diverged from that of the rest of the Anglosphere/West since 2008 because we were basically untouched by the GFC, cushioned as we were by Cullen\u2019s surpluses, Key\u2019s deficit spending, and booming Australian and Chinese economies. Lacking a crisis and with what, in historical terms, has been a period of good economic growth the economic crisis of the lower middle classes that has touched off so much anxiety in the rest of the world has not happened here. NZ\u2019s elites and the professional middle class remain firmly in control of the economic and political narrative, and this is reflected in the increasing centrality of the structure of the parliament.\nCraig Young, 09:38 Mar 21, 2018\nI'm afraid I disagree with Graham on this one. Let us not forget that the National Party relied for its continued governmental survival in the nineties and most of the tweens on a retinue of political remora fish. Many people are annoyed at the continued existence of mandateless microparties that break away from more established political parties that can win constituency seats in Parliament and turn out not to be viable at the next election- Mana Wahine, Tuariki Delamere's political vehicle, Mauri Pacific and the Kiwi Party are all examples of such. I concede ACT, United Future and the Maori Party at least did win constituency seats, but let's face it, it is the National Party that benefits from the absence of accountability to the electorate that the absence of waka-jumping legislation promotes amongst some more unscrupulous List MPs.\nsimon g, 11:12 Mar 21, 2018\nI'm sufficiently cynical to kick principles into touch if there's a prize worth winning (Andy Haden line-out dive? I saw nothing, only the final score).\nBut this won't work. In summary, a waka-jumper who stays in parliament is the bad guy, a figure of media mockery, who taints his new party by association. But an MP who gets expelled will be transformed into a victim, even if s/he is entirely without merit. So the narrative is turned on its head.\nI don't want to create martyrs out of molehills.\nsimon g, in reply to Neil, 11:14 Mar 21, 2018\nNeil, please don't crowbar irrelevant Simon Bridges' talking points into this thread. Cheers.\nizogi, 22:34 May 3, 2018\nReading Jeanette Fitzsimons' thing on The Spinoff today, I was thinking it'd almost be appropriate if parties were to split apart over internal disagreements about voting for this Bill.\nGraeme makes some useful suggestions in respect of improving the bill. What puzzles me is why nobody in the debate thus far seems to want to focus on the political psychology of the situation. Verbal contracts seem now to be recognised by the legal profession, so why can't they get their heads around the electoral contract??\nWinston's a lawyer, so I always assumed his intention was to hold delinquent MPs accountable for breaching their contract with electors. Perhaps he has not been explicit about that but it seems rather obvious.\nOn the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was published in 1762. I get that lawyers are constrained to be slow learners by their professional culture, but you'd think that 2.5 centuries is sufficient time to figure it out, eh?\nA member of parliament who abandons their party in order to pursue self-interest during a term of parliament must be held accountable for their disregard of our common interests. Human nature makes their betrayal of those a highly-charged issue in the minds of their electors. The fact that such misbehaviour hasn't happened since the nineties is insufficient reason to ignore the design flaw in MMP that enabled it: the authenticity of our political representation is at stake. That ought to be the primary focus of the select committee: redesigning the legislation to incorporate enforcement of accountability. I hope the select committee will produce such a design - but the exclusion of GP and NZF members makes that unlikely.\nWe must acknowledge the right of an elected representative to use their freedom of expression to adopt a moral stance on an issue in accord with their conscience. However, it is unwise to discount the moral constraint imposed by the traditional convention of democracy: an MP is elected to represent their constituency, which in our MMP format is either a local or a non-local community. Electors vote for both an MP and their party separately, so their collective voting contracts parliamentary reps & their parties separately. Political stands taken and promises made during an election therefore form a social contract between voters and representatives. Voters will be likely to view any breach of this contract as immoral behaviour.\nWinston's bill attempts to represent this substantial body of public opinion. From the perspective of human nature, the right to change one's mind is a natural right which must be paramount. However human groups have been imposing rules that limit political behaviour for millennia. Breach of contract is illegal in other social contexts. We need only hazard a guess as to the percentage of the electorate that tacitly recognises the equivalence in the waka-jumping bill to see that we cannot marginalise them. Better to propose legislation that reconciles both views in a balanced way. For instance, allow an MP to publicly disagree with his/her party during the term, but require they vote in accord with their electoral contract until their current term ends, or else resign.\nLawyers may claim there's no such thing as an electoral contract but nonetheless it has tacitly operated in the minds of voters for the past couple of centuries. Although Rousseau made the social contract famous prior to the American and French revolutions, its historical influence has been traced back more than two millennia (Social Contract Theory, 1990, ed. M. Lessnoff). This principle seems an essential part of democracy. I suggest we alter MMP to implement it, to ensure that MPs can no longer betray their electors. We could signal historical relevance by retitling it The Alamein Kopu Memorial Bill so as to reassure Winston that it isn\u2019t really all about him!\nlinger, 18:16 Jun 16, 2018\nIt isn't clear that MPs necessarily \"betray their electors\" by leaving the party for which they were elected. The \"electoral contract\" may be mediated by the party, but to the extent that a list MP has sufficient individual support to have contributed towards the party support, then the \"contract\" is (also) between the electors and the individual MP.\nMoreover, that \"contract\" needs some protection against the possibility of a party suddenly changing direction after an election sufficiently to alienate its own MPs, whether list or electorate (cf. 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In (Photo from https://www.facebook.com/vintageandvino/)\nThe Vintage and Vino Market is 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Horseshoe Park and Equestrian Centre, 20464 E. Riggs Road in Queen Creek.\nThe shopping showcase features one-of-a-kind finds, treasures, local vendors, make-and-takes and more, according to a release.\nTickets are $6 per person, with kids 12 and under free. A wine-tasting package with eight tasting tickets starts at $25. For more information, go to VintageandVinoAZ.com. Vintage and Vino Market is produced by Levitate Agency.\nA portion of the proceeds will be donated to ChildHelp, an organization that advocates for children all over the country.\nA variety of wine-related products and vintage crafted goods will be sold at this weekend\u2019s Vintage and Vino event at Horseshoe Park and Equestrian Centre in Queen Creek. (Special to the Independent/Levitate Agency)\nVintage and Vino\u2019s fall installment will welcome more than 100 vendors and thousands of attendees in search of that perfect piece for their house or gift for someone they love, according to the release.\n\u201cThink all things shabby, chippy, antique, handmade and up-cycled, from furniture, attire and home goods to jewelry, signage, decor and more. In addition to perfect finds, you will have a chance to make a variety of gifts in our make and take area or learn a few things from painting and d\u00e9cor pros,\u201d according to the release.\n\u201cEnjoy live acoustic music as you sip on a mimosa, glass of wine, craft beer or a non-alcoholic beverage. Relax in our lounge area and have a bite to eat before you make your way through the vendor booths,\u201d the release states.\nTags:Horseshoe Park \u00b7 Horseshoe Park and Equestrian Centre \u00b7 Vintage and Vino", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rapportboost.ai/value-algorithms-artificial-intelligence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GUSDKM33KFJ5VWD6JBFGMCJDFU66IB3T", "length": 2922, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "rapportboost.ai", "title": "Value of Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence | Live Chat Sales Agent | RapportBoost.AI", "raw_content": "The Value of Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence\nAlgorithms by themselves aren\u2019t valuable. Their ability to solve a particular business problem is. The two most important questions to ask when assessing the value of algorithms in artificial intelligence are: 1) Can they solve the business problem? 2) Do people actually use the right conditions under which to perform their analysis?\nDoes their use of algorithms make a difference?\nFor example: Job candidates are often scored by algorithms in order to help human business leaders responsible for making hiring decisions. Sometimes recruiters who receive this machine-generated output don't actually follow the recommendations provided by the algorithms. It\u2019s as if a tree falls alone in the forest and no one is around to hear it. One could argue that it didn't happen, or at least that the algorithms (represented by the tree falling) didn't matter. If someone didn\u2019t hear the algorithm's output or listen to its recommendations, the algorithm by itself didn\u2019t change the business decision at hand. Did the algorithms really do the analysis in the first place?\nThe value of algorithms in artificial intelligence depends upon their practical use.\nBoth of my fellow panelists mention the importance of closing the loop, and collecting data at all stages of the customer lifecycle, even when communicating about topics as complex as cancer medication and lifestyle. Doing a retrospective analysis and predicting an outcome is important, but it is simply the first step in ensuring algorithms used in artificial intelligence produce value.\nI will give you an example of where over-reliance on machine-generated output--without a human-in-the-loop--fails. At RapportBoost, our team of data scientists performed an analysis on a customer with millions of chats between their live chat sales team and visitors to their website. Our algorithms determined a high correlation between an agent apologizing and a low customer satisfaction score. An unsupervised deep learning algorithm would assume causation and recommend that the live chat sales agent never apologize. Common sense, human experience and an understanding of our clients' online retail business tell us, however, that many apologies took place because a customer was not happy. The customer would have reported a low score anyway. Algorithms are more valuable to artificial intelligence systems when humans can help interpret causation.\nWhen one gathers data and does A/B testing to determine causal imprints instead of a backward looking quick analysis you get really deep and understand people on a much deeper level. This is where value is created by algorithms for use in artificial intelligence.\nThe excerpt summarized above is from Dr. Michael Housman, Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder of RapportBoost.AI, discussing the value of algorithms at the JMP Securities Conference panel on AI in February 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rarediseases.org/organizations/american-society-of-transplantation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7ADJHLMTHK5VTMSRDWYKKA6NDGR3J6WX", "length": 1079, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rarediseases.org", "title": "American Society of Transplantation - NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)", "raw_content": "Home / For Patients and Families / Find a Patient Organization / American Society of Transplantation\ninfo@a-s-t.org\nhttp://www.a-s-t.org/\nThe American Society of Transplantation (AST) is an organization of transplant professionals dedicated to research, education, advocacy and patient care in transplantation science and medicine. 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AST membership also includes scientists who are involved in basic research that translates from \"bench to bedside,\" improving the care of transplants patients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 156.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rarediseases.org/tag/stem-cell-transplant/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5SAHVJQDVNUNHZONYKMICZCMMSMAXRE6", "length": 1071, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rarediseases.org", "title": "stem cell transplant Archives - NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)", "raw_content": "Mackenzie\u2019s Mission\nIn this guest blog post submitted by Mackenzie Boedicker and her mother, Deb, we share the story of one woman\u2019s mission to alleviate the struggles for those who live with amyloidosis. Mackenzie was diagnosed in 2017 and is doing well as a full-time research assistance and founder of a\u2026 Read More\nHelp Tara Pass School Bus Legislation\nA great supporter of NORD, Tara Notrica, sent some staff members at NORD the following letter with the determination to get an important piece of legislation passed. We\u2019re happy to share her letter with the community in an effort to spread the message and get this legislation\u2026 Read More\nIllinois Man Uses His Myelofibrosis Story to Help Others\nWritten by on July 16, 2014\nThe diagnosis of primary myelofibrosis (MF), one of three main myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), came as a huge surprise for Bill Erickson in May 2012. According to the MPN Research Foundation, patients with MF have scar tissue buildup in their bone marrow, which prevents normal blood cells from being produced. Since blood cell\u2026 Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raychoi.org/2010/09/07/the-righteous-will-live-by-faith-part-3-of-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:DZQFAVXVRKDMLOEPFEKVZ4ZV3YF6C735", "length": 12717, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "raychoi.org", "title": "The righteous will live by faith (Part 3 of 3) - ray choi", "raw_content": "3) The righteous will live by faith\nThe righteous part makes sense. We are made righteous, not by what we do, salvation is not something that can be earned. Rather, we are saved by faith in Jesus and his work on the cross and his blood makes us righteous. That part is easy enough to understand.\nAnd because of that fact that we are cleansed and made righteous because of the blood of Jesus, a direct result of this fact is a life of faith. The righteous WILL LIVE by faith.\nWhat does living a life of faith in Christ look like? To answer that, I\u2019d like us to turn to Rom 4.\n18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, \u201cSo shall your offspring be.\u201d 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead\u2014since he was about a hundred years old\u2014and that Sarah\u2019s womb was also dead. 20Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22This is why \u201cit was credited to him as righteousness.\u201d ~Rom 4:18-22\nAbraham is the father of faith. Abraham was saved by faith. It was nothing Abraham did but God came to him and initiated a relationship with him and Abraham responded by believing. Saved by faith.\nNot only was Abraham saved by faith, we know from the OT account that he was also called by faith. He was called to be a father of many nations. He didn\u2019t earn that right. He wasn\u2019t a father of one nation so God said, this guy has aptitude to be a father of many nations. No, that\u2019s not how it happened. God called him and that calling was tied to a promise \u2014 you will be a father of many nations. Not maybe you will be if you are good enough. Not if you are lucky and things fall into place. No, it says, YOU WILL BE a father of many nations.\nIt was God\u2019s promise and Abraham trusted those words and we called that living a life of faith.\nAnd he was able to live this life of faith in the most unlikely of circumstances. He was 100 years old and his wife was 90. Yet God had promised a child. Highly unlikely. That\u2019s why it says, against all hope, Abraham in hope believed. We\u2019ve heard plenty of messages about this. Abraham\u2019s body was as good as dead. Sarah\u2019s womb was as good as dead. Yet, Abraham lived by faith because he believed in the promises of God.\nWhen we were unrighteous, when we were separated from God and on our own, all we could go by was our eyes, what we saw, our senses, our impulses. We were enslaved to visible things, my circumstances, how people treat me. This was our lens that we viewed ourselves and the world.\nWhen Christ saved us by faith, he saved us and brought us into the realm of the righteous through the blood of Jesus. And as ones who have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus, we are called to live by faith in Christ and his promises.\nPractically, this means we are given a new lens to view our lives. It\u2019s not about me getting what I want, not me feeling jipped by life, or feeling disappointed or frustrated that things didn\u2019t pan out the way I expected. When we are saved by faith, God gives us a new lens of faith.\nThat is why Abraham can look at his most pitiful, hopeless situation, a 100 year old grandfather still waiting for a son but his eyes were not fixed on his circumstances. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed. His eyes were fixed on the promise giver, the covenant maker. And in our new testament or new covenant understanding, this means we live by faith in Jesus.\nAnother Reformer, John Calvin had this to say about the life of faith \u2013 \u201cLet us also remember, that the condition of us all is the same with that of Abraham. All things around us are in opposition to the promises of God. He promises immortality; we are surrounded with mortality and corruption; he declares that he counts us just; we are covered with sins. He testifies that he is propitious and kind to us; outward judgments threaten his wrath. What then is to be done? We must with closed eyes pass by ourselves and all things connected with us, that nothing may hinder or prevent us from believing that God is true.\u201d\nWe want eyes of faith but when we look at our present circumstances everything seems to shout the complete reverse. Everything in life seems to oppose the promises of God. And I found that last line very interesting \u2014 he advises that we close our eyes, our physical eyes, regarding ourselves and all things connected with us, that nothing may hinder or prevent us from believing that God is true.\nIt is no accident that later in this same chapter, Paul says in Rom 4:17.\n17As it is written: \u201cI have made you a father of many nations.\u201dHe is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed\u2014the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. ~Rom 4:17\nThis is the kind of God we serve. The God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. That verse really blessed me. We look at ourselves and we are as good as dead. We look around and there is so much brokenness even in our immediate sphere. This is an assessment of our condition through human eyes. But God looks at us through the blood of Jesus and God sees us not as broken sinners but as redeemed saints. He gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. This is a life of faith according to Paul and John Calvin.\nAnd to this statement, I want to add one thing, that while taking our eyes off of ourselves and our physical circumstances, we ought to fix our eyes on Jesus.\nThat\u2019s why it says In Heb 12:2 \u2014\n\u201cLet us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith\u2026\u201d ~Heb 12:2\nWe fix our eyes on him, not our circumstances, not in what is visible and tangible right in front of me, instead, we fix our eyes on him, meaning we place our faith in him, and insodoing, Jesus authors our faith \u2014 he is the one who makes it possible to even enter into a relationship with him, we are saved by faith, he is the doorkeeper to a life of faith. And he is also the perfecter of our faith \u2014 Jesus is the one who makes sure our faith is made perfect and complete to the very end.\nFor me, this is what is essential in Christian life. Having our eyes continually fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Placing our faith in him when everything around us suggests that we are wasting our energy and people are mocking us for our naivete. Let the world call us fools, but in God\u2019s eyes, those who have a lens of faith are the wise victors.\nI had a chance to visit Berkeley this past week, and for me, it\u2019s always bittersweet. My first reaction is why am I still not living there? I love Cal, I love the Bay Area, I love Top Dog, I took my kids to top dog and they now love top dog, I love the grunginess of Telegraph, there are many people I loved there, why are we separated? So for me, the saying is true, I left my heart in San Francisco.\nAnd in my previous visits, I had some hesitation going to campus because there are so many mixed emotions. But for me, this trip was different. Maybe I had been more prayerful the past couple of months, but I had a distinctly different outlook during this trip compared with other trips.\nI thought about the past and there are so many memories. Good, bad, neutral. I certainly don\u2019t miss nearly flunking out of Prof. Tim White\u2019s anthro class or that dreadful Chem 1A final in my freshman year.\nBut I felt like God was clearing up my vision from the past. I saw how I tended to dwell on so many non-essential memories. And because we are sinners, we tend to remember the bad stuff more than the good. That is who we are.\nThis time was different. God reminded me of my salvation. That I was a lost freshman. I had no direction. I had no interest in God or the church. I was in fact running away from God because I had grown up in the church. And I suddenly stopped going to church my freshman year so that I could hone my dancing skills while wearing a leather jacket and a silk shirt and a red bandana. I was cool, I was in the party scene, I was pledging a fraternity. God was the furthest thing from my mind.\nBut God pursued me through the faithful, concrete love and obedience of some campus ministers. And I was saved in 1993. A year after I had been saved, God came to me through a dream. It\u2019s the only spiritual dream that I have ever had. I don\u2019t talk about it much but looking back, I think it was the first time God called me into the ministry and specifically to be an evangelist. And that calling has been reaffirmed every few years over the last 17 years.\nAnd God convicted me during this past trip \u2014 the fact that I am saved, that I know Jesus and that I have been called to help others to know Jesus is the most essential thing in life. Nothing else matters. Everything else is non-essential when you think about it. My grade in chemistry, my gpa, my job, my earning potential, the twists and turns of life \u2014 there are so many non-essential things that I can be fix my eyes upon and be imprisoned by.\nBut God says, let me make it easy on you. Fix your eyes on me. Place your faith in me. I am the author of your faith, I am the sole reason you have faith to begin with. I am the perfecter of your faith, I am the one holding onto you, I won\u2019t let go, I will make sure I lead you to eternal life.\nA lens of faith gives us the ability to sift through all the junk from our past and what stands out is the essential thing \u2014 a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.\nA lens of faith also gives us the ability to rightly look into the future. While everyone else is worried about finances and retirement and savings account and college tuition, the housing market crash and the growing threat of terrorism, we fix our eyes on Jesus. We don\u2019t need to worry because God knows our concerns. In prayer, we cast all our cares on him. He is the faithful one, He is the strong one, He is the one holding onto us and not the other way around.\nAnd a proper perspective on the past and the future frees us to live a life of faith in the present. The present is a convergence of the past and the future. The present is a culmination of our past, all of our past events leading to the present moment. And the present is the edge of the future. One minute from this present moment is already the future.\nSo our view of the past and the future greatly influences how we live in the present. If the essential thing from our past is our personal knowledge of Christ. He is the Alpha. The beginning. He is the Author. The starting point of our faith journey. And if we know the future. He is the Alpha. The end. The perfecter of our faith, the one who sustains and helps us to complete our faith journeys. The one who puts us on his back when we are too tired to take another step.\nHaving this lens of faith regarding our past and our future frees us to focus on what is essential today, namely Christ. This is the radical gospel message. And if we believe Christ is the most essential thing, then like Abraham, this messy middle, this living out of our faith is possible because we are freed from all that we see through human eyes, all that binds and enslaves and imprisons us from the past and the future and we are free to live by faith today.\nWithout the proper view of the past and the future, our present will simply be dictated by practical concerns and meaningless distractions.\nI want to end by returning to the verses that I began with.\nSalvation is available to everyone who believes. In other words, salvation is freely given to those with faith, who believe Jesus is who he said he is, the Son of God who died on the cross for my sins and paid the full penalty of sin so that we might be spared.\nFor in the gospel a righteousness FROM God is revealed. It is not from ourselves. The gospel is God sending his Son to us, Jesus moving toward us and revealing to us a righteousness that we could never merit or earn or figure out on our own.\nHow do attain this righteousness? It is by faith. Faith in Christ, that\u2019s the beginning.\nBut is it just the beginning? No, a righteousness that is by faith FROM FIRST TO LAST. Christian life begins with faith in Jesus Christ, it ends with being stripped of everything else when we die except our relationship with Jesus Christ. And everything in between, it is also all about faith, a life of faith. Fixing our eyes on what is essential and not being bogged down with so many non-essentials that life throws at us.\nThat is my prayer and my prayer for this church.\nFiled Under: NT, Romans, Sermons Tagged With: christianity, faith, God, Jesus, John Calvin, religion, Salvation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 17892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rcdhotels.com/en/presna/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3OFTMWUSKG2YBDF5OWYXNDDAPHPEJYJG", "length": 250, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rcdhotels.com", "title": "Prensa | RCD Hotels", "raw_content": "In this section you can find more information about RCD Hotels. Videos and image gallery, press releases about the company and the properties we manage as well as each hotel\u2019s social media platforms where you can take a closer look at our activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://real923la.iheart.com/content/2018-11-14-who-is-cardi-b-calling-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EWUCNPNOE6D6HEURIJR4TFMTTBH73SCW", "length": 510, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "real923la.iheart.com", "title": "Cardi B. Clapped Back At People Who Think She Shouldn't Be A Judge on \"Rhythm + Flow\" | REAL 92.3", "raw_content": "Who Is Cardi B. 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Cardi talked about it on her IG last night and straight up called out anyone who thinks she doesn't have the qualifications to be a good judge!\nThe show will premiere next Fall on Netflix and it will be 10 episodes.\nCLICK HERE if you think you got what it takes!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://realestblog.com/2016/03/11/vue-on-5th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CMJTG5YXDQVW4IT3AMHON2EM5V5JZNHL", "length": 3602, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "realestblog.com", "title": "Vue on 5th: New Luxury Condos Are Coming to Bankers Hill", "raw_content": "On the corner of 5th Avenue and Nutmeg Street, Vue on 5th, a 45 unit project, is scheduled to be completed and ready for move in at the beginning of June.\nVue on 5th won\u2019t be the typical multi-family project. The units are all designed to take advantage of indoor-outdoor living, which is so important in Southern California. Each unit has its own private balcony with a large stacking patio door opening into the living room.\nDespite the project still being under construction, almost half of the units have been sold. At the time of this writing, 22 of the 45 units have sold. There are still many great units available, so there is still time for those looking for new construction in Bankers Hill to purchase their next home.\nAre you contemplating buying one of the remaining units? Well, here is a summary of what I learned to pique your interest\u2026\nInteriors of Vue on 5th\nThe flooring in each unit will be a combination of wood plank flooring and 12\u2033 x 24\u2033 designer tile.\nMoen \u201cAlign\u201d polished chrome plumbing fixtures are used throughout the home.\nLED recessed lights brighten the great room.\nA stackable Samsung washer and dryer is concealed in an interior closet.\nSolid core, single panel doors separate rooms.\nHigh speed CAT 5 phone/data wiring and RG6 cable outlets allow for quick data speeds.\nKitchens of Vue on 5th\nStainless steel Bosch appliances make cooking and storing food enjoyable.\nQuartz slab countertops provide a sound surface for food prep and dining.\nEuropean-style cabinetry with upgraded hardware provide clean lines to the design.\nA stainless steel single-bowl sink by Moen is accompanied by a pull-out faucet.\nBaths of Vue on 5th\nWalk-in showers with free-standing soaking tubs in the master make getting ready or winding down luxurious.\nA frosted sliding barn door at the master bedroom provides an elegant transition from bedroom to bath.\nMoen \u201cAlign\u201d polished chrome plumbing fixtures are coordinated with chrome bath hardware.\nUpgraded, designer tile has the option of two different finishes.\nThis may sound all well and good, but it won\u2019t mean a thing if you can\u2019t afford it. So let\u2019s talk price. The smallest units range between 1,314 sf to 1,626 sf in size and $737,990 to $888,990 in price. The larger one-story units range from 1,749 sf to 1,675 sf in size and $931,990 to $1,100,990 in price. All of the one-story units have two bedrooms and most have two assigned \u2013 side-by-side \u2013 parking spaces in the garage below. Six of the units will have to make do with only one parking space.\nThere are five two-story penthouse units that cater to the high-end, luxury buyer. These units range in size from 2,892 sf to 3,720 sf and $1,990,990 to $2,435,990 in price.\nThere will of course be HOA dues at this property, which are expected to be between $577 to $703 per month, depending on the unit. The HOA due will cover the exterior maintenance and insurance, on-site concierge service, all common area landscaping, and trash service.\nThe estimated property tax on these units are approximately 1.1% of the purchase price. There are no known special assessments or bonds.\nWhat do the floor plans of these units look like? Here are some schematic floor plans of all eight levels of the building starting from the ground floor all the way up to the penthouse. Note that there will be retail spaces on the ground level opening up to 5th Avenue and Nutmeg Street.\nHere are a few photos taken during the photo to show you the progress.\nThank you ColRich \u2013 the developer of this project \u2013 for offering the tour of this project.\nTagged With: Luxury, New Construction, San Diego", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://record.umich.edu/tags/regents-roundup", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRGSYULIJNKQK46ICG5NS36RR5JNENFI", "length": 931, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "record.umich.edu", "title": "Regents Roundup | The University Record", "raw_content": "Regents Roundup\nRegents Roundup \u2014 September 2018\nThe Board of Regents approved the following items at Thursday\u2019s meeting.\nRegents Roundup \u2014 June 2018\nThe following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its June 21 meeting.\nRegents Roundup \u2014 May 2018\nThe following items were approved by the Board Regents at its meeting Thursday.\nRegents Roundup \u2014 March 2018\nRegents Roundup \u2014 February 2018\nAnn Arbor campus Faculty appointments with tenure\nChang Hwan Kim, professor of pathology, Medical School, effective Dec. 18.\nThe following items were approved by the Board of Regents at its Sept. 14 meeting.\nWindows to be replaced at Bursley\nA $4.9 million project will replace the student room windows original to the construction of Joseph Aldrich and Marguerite Knowlton Bursley Hall with high-performance and energy-efficient units. Housing resources will fund the project that is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://recuperatery.com/article/crohn-s-disease-and-diet-patterns-will-anything-help-2751", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:F46FSMXDOVPHPJYSFE37FHSQN66W5JDP", "length": 6347, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "recuperatery.com", "title": "Crohn's Disease and Diet Patterns: Will Anything Help?", "raw_content": "Crohn's Disease and Diet Patterns: Will Anything Help?\nBy: Diet vs Disease - Joe Leech\nNutritionistCrohn's DiseaseDiet PatternsFODMAPDietitian\n- There's a lot of misinformation online about treating Crohn's disease. Unlike the low FODMAP diet for IBS, there is no real cure for Crohn's disease. However, studies show that there are some diet changes that can really help with treatment and preventing recurrence, and that's what I'm looking at in this video. (bell rings) Just to quickly cover the basics, Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disorder of the gut. Alongside Ulcerative Colitis, it's classified as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD. Together, IBD affects over 1.4 million people in the US and 2.2 million in Europe.\nIt's characterised by inflamed sections of the intestine. However, it can affect all parts of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus. It's thought to be caused by a combination of genetic, environmental, and immunological factors. Some researchers believe the typical western diet is the reason rates of Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal problems is on the rise. However, that's certainly not proven. But what is clear is that diet plays a critical role in managing symptoms as well as preventing recurrence. This means appropriate modifications to your diet are the closest thing you can get to a cure. Eating patterns that restrict or eliminate certain food groups have emerged as popular diets for Crohn's, so things like low FODMAPS, SCD, GAPS, and even paleo.\nHowever, there is not much evidence to support the concept of most of these. The most well-researched and promising is actually the low FODMAP diet, which is a temporary eating pattern proven to treat irritable bowel syndrome. FODMAPS are short-chain carbohydrates that can cause digestive problems in certain people. It's thought that cutting FODMAPS may also inadvertently remove problem foods for Crohn's disease patients, improving overall symptoms and reducing risk of flare-ups. In a study of 72 IBD patients given low FODMAP diet education, 52 of which had Crohn's, those who managed to follow it for three months, which was 70% of patients, reported improvements in symptoms of pain, bloating, and diarrhea. Unfortunately, there was no biochemical markers measured and no way to accurately monitor eating habits during that time, so we can't draw any firm conclusions from this type of study, but it's promising.\nThis suggests a low FODMAP diet can be beneficial initially if you can stick to it, but we're not sure about the long run. Long-term restriction of FODMAPS is not good for your gut bacteria and can cause future problems down the road. But considering that most IBD patients can recognize which foods give them problems, I can definitely see the potential in a low FODMAP diet in the beginning. Just know that it's not easy to do on your own, so you should try to team up with a IBD specialist, dietitian, or doctor.\nOne other eating pattern worth mentioning is to do with meat and added fats, because there's a lot of information online that says that eating meat is bad for Crohn's. But research on the role of animal foods is a mixed bag. Observational studies tend to find a link between high consumption of animal foods and increased risk of Crohn's disease, but not always. High fish consumption has also been linked to worse outcomes, yet other studies show high omega-3 intakes to be beneficial. All the main types of fat, saturated, poly, unsaturated, and mono unsaturated, have also been linked to an increased risk, but not consistently, and mainly for Ulcerative Colitis.\nSo given the quality of the observational evidence so far, it remains unclear what role animal foods and fatty acids play. So in summary, a low FODMAP diet is a great place to start if you have symptoms. This can help you identify any potential food intolerances that you have, which do have overlapping symptoms with Crohn's disease. Just remember that a low FODMAP diet should be temporary and it should be done under the supervision of a dietitian. And with animal food intake, we really don't know much at this stage to give solid conclusions. You could definitely limit intake if you want, but just be weary of your iron levels, which are an at-risk nutrient for someone with Crohn's disease. Thanks for watching. If you found this video useful, please give it a thumbs up, and you can also leave a comment or ask a question.\nAnd if you haven't already, you can click the big red button below this video to subscribe to the DietvsDisease YouTube channel so you don't miss out on other videos like this one. (upbeat music).\nI Have Crohn's Disease // Surgery, Moving, My Health Journey\nHello my name is Grace and welcome to my channel. This is a health, fitness, and wellness channel that I'm starting up and I am so excited, I've been wanting to do this for\u2026\nViews: 990 By: Grace Lyra\nCrohn's Disease Alex's Medical Cannabis Testimony\nAlex Fraser, Crohn's diseae - Medical Cannabis Patient - Uinted Patients Alliance My name is Alex Fraser. I've Crohn's disease about for 4 years. I use cannabis to alleviate\u2026\nViews: 88 By: Marc VL\nA Vegan Diet Won't Solve All Your Problems\nThank you for joining me again here today at ModVegan my name's Margaret, and today I'd like to talk with you about the health claims that are associated with veganism whether\u2026\nViews: 907 By: ModVegan\nAfter Diagnosis: My Crohn's Story | Steroids SUCK!!!\nHey it's Marvolo and welcome back to my channel. Last year around the two year anniversary of my Crohn's diagnosis, I decided to share my Crohn's story. 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The new brewery, which will be changed to accommodate multiple uses, is set to open in the Spring of 2018 under a name to be announced.\nRedwoods Design Studio Architect announces that design and renovation work has begun on the former Felsenbrau-Clyffside brewery warehouse in the Brewery District of Cincinnati, Ohio\nThe building is in the Brewery District of Over-the-Rhine, which is going through a revitalization to bring back some of the brewery culture buildings that have largely stood empty since prohibition took effect in the city on January 29, 1920.\n\u201cThe area is quiet and without a lot of activity, so we want to give the residents of the brewery district a local and fun place to go that could eventually work to change the dynamic of the once-thriving community,\u201d reported Eric Lam, principal of Redwoods Design Studio Architect.\nFounded in 2006 as Lam McGowan Architecture+Design, Redwoods Design Studio Architect is emerging as a leading multi-discipline architecture, design and planning firm based in the New York Metropolitan Area and serving the tri-state area and beyond. 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Other times it\u2019s just people who are struggling with emotional, spiritual, and relational hurt.\nThis hurt comes from a number of places. Sometimes it comes directly from our sin. Sin always promises joy, but always leads to pain. Other times it comes indirectly from the consequences of our sin or the consequences of another person\u2019s sin. Pain can also come from the fact that we live in a fallen world where sometimes things just don\u2019t go the way they ought to go. As trivial as it may sound, pain can even come from general disappointment in life when we realize things just didn\u2019t go the way we had hoped.\nFor most people, Christians included, our initial response to these situations is to cry out to God for help and relief. No one enjoys emotional pain, spiritual pain, or relational pain any more than people enjoy physical pain. So when we hurt, we naturally cry out for relief. Unfortunately, that relief doesn\u2019t always come. Sometimes our prayers for healing seem to bounce right off the ceiling. What then? How do you respond when God doesn\u2019t take away the hurt? Here are five suggestions:\nBe honest about your hurt, and see your struggle through psalms of lament (Psalm 5, 41, 51, 76). Many psalms fall into this category. They include lament for sin, for persecution, for illness, and for spiritual struggle. They can be shocking in honesty, but always resolve with a commitment to trust and praise.\nRemember that your Great High Priest can sympathize with your struggle (Hebrews 2:14-15, 4:14-16). Jesus knows what it\u2019s like to experience family rejection, personal betrayal, humiliating shame, the loss of a friend, spiritual anguish, and even a sense of disappointment. He is not aloof. He willingly chose to enter this mess of a world and to suffer with us.\nTrust that God is strong when you are weak, and obey God even when it\u2019s difficult (2 Corinthians 12:9, Deuteronomy 3:23-29). I think about Jesus telling Paul that his grace would be sufficient in Paul\u2019s weakness. I think about Moses preparing Joshua to lead even as God assured him that he (Moses) would not enter the Promised Land. These may not be easy things to do, but they are right.\nLean into your church family, realizing that God doesn\u2019t expect you to go it alone (Galatians 6:2). Too many people hurt in isolation, but this only intensifies hurt. The God of the Bible is a relational deity. Being made in his image means we are relational creatures. We are called to bear one another\u2019s burdens.\nRemind yourself that you are an exile here, and long for the new creation (Revelation 21-22). I\u2019ve often wondered why old people like songs about heaven. I think it\u2019s because a life of pain has taught them that this world is not our home. We ought to long for a new creation that is being prepared even as we hurt. We ought to realize that this place is not our home. 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This rant is not about those who seek help, it is for those who judge me for not feeling the need to do so.\nMy son, a 7-year-old bundle of awesome, has not been in any kind of therapy for the last year and a half. He\u2019s autistic, as am I. I\u2019m currently seeing someone for anxiety, but he doesn\u2019t seem to have a need for outside help. He\u2019s got this shit, like a boss. What do the kids call it again? Swag? He has that swagger thing.\nYou\u2019d think that\u2019d be good, and an indicator of how settled he is in himself, how relaxed he is with the fact he\u2019s different to most of his schoolmates and peers.\nBut more often than not, people look at me sideways, the negligent mother, and how could I so flagrantly admit to his not going to 100 appointments a week to make him more social and normal?\nWell fuck that. Actually, just fuck that for us, in our home and the life we\u2019re in. Other people\u2019s needs are none of my business. Much like the needs of my family are no-one else\u2019s business, unless we\u2019re clearly losing it. (Hint: we\u2019re not).\nHe\u2019s quite sociable with his friends. And with his family. Oh, and his teacher and his aide too. He loves the deputy principal of his school, and always has a smile for people he recognises, even if their names get lost in the list because he\u2019s swapped classes and their relevance has waned. There\u2019s a really good reason for that (and again, I know this is only what works in my house).\nMy boy is given room to be himself. I don\u2019t expect him to be happy all the time, nor do I expect him to do the things that \u2018normal\u2019 kids do. He\u2019s not normal, he\u2019s amazing, and he swims through the waters of his life with a solid grounding in who he is, and what he wants, their comforting foundation just waiting on the shore when he chooses to get out of the water and join us.\nSometimes those things are at odds with the greater good for the family unit, and yeah, we have our disagreements. He\u2019s a person though, so I do my best to address his concerns.\nChildren have concerns sometimes, and so, as they\u2019re also people, we talk about that stuff. Just like a psych would, or another professional. I don\u2019t feel ill-equipped to handle it, although I understand that isn\u2019t always the case for other families. Again, no probs if you need some help. It\u2019s not you, it\u2019s the judgers, the ones who think he needs some kind of intensive help to be someone else, someone who he isn\u2019t. That, well that gets me mad.\nSure, it\u2019s not all bunnies and rainbows, and often we\u2019ll have a bad day. But a meltdown isn\u2019t going to be avoided by a social group or an OT appointment, at least in my house. They can\u2019t be avoided.\nSometimes you just get over it. As in \u2018I\u2019m so over this, ugh\u2019. He does. So do I. I don\u2019t know anyone who doesn\u2019t.\nWe get over it. Then we get around it. Then we get over it again probably. But we always get around it eventually.\nThat seems to elicit all the delightful \u2018oh he doesn\u2019t seem autistic\u2019 comments, and the rest of the ill-informed crap that people dredge up from the latest vague awareness campaign. Light it up blue? No thanks, I\u2019ll light it up accepting, and ignore all this awareness hoo-ha, because it\u2019s not even close to understanding, and that\u2019s where the issue lies.\nPeople think they understand autism due to their \u2018awareness\u2019, and that\u2019s where my reality collides with their ideas. \u2018Isn\u2019t he busy being rain man somewhere? Why not? What\u2019s his \u2018super power\u2019. Ugh. His super power/savant ability is being himself, without fear of denial of his basic human rights.\nSometimes he says \u2018I wish I wasn\u2019t like this\u2019. Then he goes back to being \u2018like this\u2019, not able to be another way at all, and reassured by his family that we wouldn\u2019t want him any other way. He just IS. And that\u2019s how we want him, and that\u2019s why we love him.\nMy happy boy is playing with his Dad and enjoying the afternoon sun as I write this. Surprise!\nTell me again what I should be doing to make my boy normal?\nAbout \u201cPassing Privilege\u201d and Being Autistic Bumped Elbows and Reflections of Privilege", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reuniondocumentary.vhx.tv/search", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:674DMWOIOJCFHOXGTRUXBFS3MMQACIIT", "length": 305, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "reuniondocumentary.vhx.tv", "title": "Search - REUNION", "raw_content": "Reunion is a documentary film about Kim Copple, who got pregnant as a teenager and chose to give her daughter up for adoption; and their amazing reunion more than 25 years later. 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Read more.\nA great location, near to Culloden Battle field, a Tesco supermarket and a short distance to the city centre. Very clean and tidy and very helpful staff. Good facilities, the washrooms are excellent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ritaree105.com/2014/06/25/68/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WXC6VV6ROJOI3N3PG5ITCR54XPAFDQVC", "length": 1568, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ritaree105.com", "title": "Thoughts from the Road \u2013 Uno \u2013 Glimpses\u2026", "raw_content": "There is something about my thought process while on the road that is completely different than when I am home. I am in sunny California on business and for some reason I am thinking about my long range goals. It\u2019s a good thing. My thoughts are coming in pretty clear and I am able to understand what my next step is and how I can present these ideas to my husband. So, that\u2019s good.\nBut, I wonder why it took flying across the country to be able to see clearly. Is it because I removed myself from the midst and can see from the outside what needs to be addressed on the inside? That makes sense. All I know is I\u2019m so glad.\nThere are things I have been avoiding. There are matters I need to address. There is some order that needs to be reestablished. Wow! To think that it began on a Jetblue flight from JFK to Long Beach. It was not my intent to make this such a cathartic trip. My plan was to get this training done in order to enhance my career. But God had other plans!\nIt\u2019s been said that time kind of stands still while you\u2019re on the road. That may be true for us, but not for God. So, now that my thoughts are clear, I am going to pray that God would bring to fruition those things that are His will for my family.\nI am grateful for His order of my steps!!!\n2 thoughts on \u201cThoughts from the Road \u2013 Uno\u201d\nHey Rita, I feel the same way about the road. I guess your perspective changes when you\u2019re not around all your normal distractions at home, i.e., chores, entertainment, etc.\nThank God for those moments of clarity, however they come to us. Right?\nYes, Sara!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rix-web.com/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XEUJPIBDAEQKGWCKVAAFO7Y6VXUK2W2S", "length": 95, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rix-web.com", "title": "Contact Us \u2013 Rix Web Blog", "raw_content": "If you want to ask us a question or are looking to contribute to our blog then just click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ro.uow.edu.au/dubaipapers/131/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RFJ5NGS366VCV3YUB7BMKB5GBIB6R5PL", "length": 1408, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ro.uow.edu.au", "title": "\"Technology collaboration modes: a conceptualization based on the natur\" by Arijit Sikdar", "raw_content": "Technology collaboration modes: a conceptualization based on the nature of innovation\nSikdar, A. 2008, 'Technology collaboration modes: a conceptualization based on the nature of innovation', 8th Global Conference on Business & Economics, Association for Business and Economics Research (ABER), USA, pp. 1-1.\nIncreasingly, firms are leveraging external knowledge sources for key technological components in creating innovations. However, use of external sources raises concerns about appropriability of technology for the firm i.e. is the firm able to get the required technical knowledge from the external sources. To address this concern firms choose appropriate governance mechanism for their technology collaboration with the objective to reduce the transaction cost associated with the technology collaboration. One reason for transaction cost to arise in technology collaborations is related to the nature of the innovation being developed. Using the framework of Thompson\u2019s classification of organizational technology, the paper conceptualises the types of innovation as either mediating, long linked or intensive. Based on the typology of innovation, the paper analyses the appropriability issues that would arise when collaboration with external sources are used for creating the innovation and thereby propose what governance mechanism would be appropriate to address the issues of appropriability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rogerfarnworth.com/2013/12/06/genesis-12-to-17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:50Z", "digest": "sha1:N62OIMY35HLTUUXZ6OY6HLZBILCBP627", "length": 3392, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rogerfarnworth.com", "title": "Genesis 12 to 17 | Roger Farnworth", "raw_content": "In Genesis 12, God calls Abram to leave everything and travel to a new land. Werner Mischke points out that this call is not only a departure from one land to another \u201cit is also a departure from one way of thinking to another: From caution to risk \u2026 from past to future \u2026 from family-based honor to God-given honor. Knowing that the ancient Near East was thoroughly rooted in the culture of honor and shame, it is helpful to understand these verses from that perspective: \u2026 (1) God called Abraham to leave his family in the land of Ur and all of the familiar, traditional, family-based honor that went with that\u2014to a life of honor that is of a much greater magnitude: honor bestowed by God himself. (2) While God\u2019s call constituted the risks of a radical departure in geography, faith and worldview, it nevertheless retained as a central motivation for both God and Abraham\u2014 the pursuit of honor and glory.\u201d (Mischke: p26.)\nAbram is called to leave behind all that he knew, all that mattered, particularly his identity honour and manhood (because these consisted in his place in society, his land and his family). This would have been seen by the early listeners to his story as the most foolhardy and unthinkable risk, not for the dangers of the road ahead, but for the loss of honour and status. Despite taking this \u201ctremendous risk [which] constituted a huge counter-cultural act of boldness because it violated the traditional way that men accrued and preserved their honor. Despite this great risk, [the story of Abram talks of] seven honor-laden rewards that Abram would receive by believing God\u2019s promise and acting in obedience.\u201d (Mischke: p27.)\nAbram would gain great honour in that God would: (1) give him a new land (Gen. 15:18-21; 17:8); make him a great nation (Gen. 15:5; 17:6) to replace his family; (3) bless him (Gen. 17:1) \u2013 \u201cin the economy of honor and shame, to be blessed by God \u2026 constituted an enormous accrual of ascribed honor;\u201d (Mischke: p27.) (4) make his name great (Gen. 17.1) \u2013 a public reputation of great honour; (5) make him a blessing to others \u2013 another promise of honour, for in Abram\u2019s world one could only be a blessing if one had the honour and status to bless others; (6) \u201cbless those who bless [Abram] and him who dishonours [Abram, God] will curse\u201d (Gen. 12:3); (7) bless all the families of the earth through him \u2013 \u201cthis is God\u2019s way of explaining the extent of the honor which is to accrue to Abram \u2026 not limited to his own family, local community, or region \u2013 a global significance, a global renown.\u201d (Mischke: p28.) A great honour indeed!\nThe telling of this part of Abram\u2019s (Abraham\u2019s) story illustrates just how significant the dynamics of honour and shame were to the people who would hear the story. Their understanding of the risks taken by Abram would have carried this overarching sense of risk to his honour. Abram would have been deeply shamed had his faith not proven valid. Abram\u2019s story is laden throughout with God\u2019s commitment to his honour.\nWerner Mischke; \u201cHonor and Shame in Cross-Cultural Relationships;\u201d Mission ONE, May 2010; Web, available through http://beautyofpartnership.org/about/free at http://cdn.assets.sites.launchrocketship.com/a6347111-876c-4337-9f3f-9f712c3494ed/files/34d84729-e146-4502-aa4e-34f0abce8a51/honor-and-shame-in-relationships-3sm.pdf; 21st November 2103.\n\u2190 Genesis 50: 15-21 1 Samuel 1 and Psalm 6 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ru.prepareforchange.net/2018/05/10/deadly-chemo-drug-costs-4000x-more-than-gold/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JWBTXLEGL4XLYTXWXPY6DX7WOFIPCYSX", "length": 9180, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "ru.prepareforchange.net", "title": "Deadly Chemo-Drug Costs 4,000x More Than Gold - PFC - Russian", "raw_content": "One of the oldest marketing tricks in the book is to dramatically overprice something in order to increase its perceived value. Ironically, the less intrinsic value the commodity holds, the more effective such a tactic can be. This could explain what\u2019s going on with one of the highest priced and most useless chemotherapy drugs on the market today.\nThe chemotherapy agent is known as ipilimumab (trade name YERVOY\u00ae), and costs about $120,000 for a full course of treatment. While the manufacturer advertises YERVOY\u00ae as providing tangible hope to those with non-resectable or metastatic melanoma, it also boldly warns on its website that the effects of this drug can be quite deadly:\nWhat are the serious side effects of YERVOY?\nYERVOY can cause serious side effects in many parts of the body which can lead to death. The serious side effects of YERVOY may include intestinal problems (colitis) that can cause tears or holes (perforation) in the intestines; liver problems (hepatitis) that can lead to liver failure; skin problems that can lead to severe skin reaction; nerve problems that can lead to paralysis; hormone gland problems (especially the pituitary, adrenal, and thyroid glands); and eye problems.\u201d\nA 2015 report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that 85% of patients receiving ipilimumab had immune related adverse effects, with 35% requiring systematic corticoidsteroids and 10% anti-tumor necrosis alpha therapy, ostensibly to try to save them from the deleterious effects of the original treatment of ipilimumab. The estimated median time to treatment failure (defined as either the time to new treatment or death) was only 5.7 months.\nHow could a presumably \u201cimmune enhancing\u201d drug that causes the majority to experience severe immune-related adverse effects including death be advertised to imply that it will confer the possibility of \u201clong-term survival\u201d?\nOn Bristol-Myers Squibb\u2019s website for YERVOY\u00ae the advertising copy reads:\nWho wouldn\u2019t want the possibility of long-term survival?\nYou want more than hope. With YERVOY\u00ae (ipilimumab), you have evidence.\u201d\nWhat \u201cevidence\u201d supporting YERVOY\u2019s\u00ae life-saving power are they referring to? First, let\u2019s look at what ipilmumab actually is.\nA Tumor-Derived Monoclonal Antibody For Fighting Tumors?\nIpilimumab (trade name YERVOY\u00ae) is part of a class of drugs known as monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies are essentially byproducts of a very special type of cancerous growth. They are produced through creating chimeric tumors known as hybridomas. Hybridomas are made by fusing together human myeloma (a type of B-cell cancer) and rodent spleen cells. These biofactories produce monoclonal antibodies which are engineered to attach to specific biostructures/biological targets, though whether they are in actuality as specific in their effects as believed is a matter of question. One of the obvious problems with monoclonal antibodies is that, like most live biological products used to produce vaccines, hybridomas are infected with endogenous retroviruses, which could cause a wide range of health problems.\nIs it any wonder that these cancer-cell derived tumors could produce secretions that could lead to harmful effects in the human body?\nIt is hypothesized that Yevoy supports the anti-cancer activity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) immune system by targeting the CTLA-4 protein receptor, a protein receptor that downregulate the immune system. The theory goes that when the CTLA-4 protein receptor is deactivated through ipilimumab, CTL activity increases, producing a positive effect. This highly linear and simplistic, one cause- one effect logic, has yet to be proven in a convincing manner. One would assume that in the absence of clear proof for a plausible mechanism, the clinical outcomes would speak for themselves, and because the FDA requires placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind trials, to ascertain efficacy, that this drug would have already been found compelling. Not so.\nThe \u201cEvidence\u201d That Never Existed\nWhat was the clinical evidence produced by the manufacturer of Yervoy (Bristol-Myers Squibb) to substantiate their claim that it produces, \u201cthe possibility of long-term survival\u201d?\nIn 2007, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Medarex released three studies, one of which showed the drug was incapable of meeting its primary goal of shrinking tumors in at least 10% of the study\u2019s 155 patients.1\nEven more suspicious is that their phase III clinical studies did not use a true placebo or standard treatment group for their control arm. Instead, the study tested ipilmumab alone, ipilimumab with an experimental vaccine known as gp100, and the vaccine alone.\nAlthough the patients had a slightly higher survival rate with ipilumamab alone (10 versus 6 months), it was not clear whether the experimental vaccine had caused harm, which would have made the drug alone appear to perform better by comparison. The one year survival rate was 46% in those treated with only ipilimumab, compared with 25% in those treated with gp100, and 44% for those receiving both.2\nA more recent 2015 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncologyfound that ipilmumab produced no increases in survival when added to radiotherapy for melanoma brain metastasis patients, further adding to the evidence against the manufacturer\u2019s claims the drug has been proven to do anything of value for those suffering from cancer.\nUnsafe, Not Proven Effective, and 4,000x More Expensive Than Gold\nYervoy is one of the most expensive chemotherapy drugs on the market. In fact, at a 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, Dr. Leonard Saltz, chief of gastrointestinal oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discussed the high cost of cancer drugs, citing as an example the cost of ipilimumab (157.46/mg), which is \u201capproximately 4,000 times the cost of gold.\u201d As of 2013 the cost of treatment is approximately $120,000 for a full course.\nIn a previous essay titled, \u201cHas Drug-Based Medicine Become A Form of Human Sacrifice,\u201d I identified the cancer drug industry\u2019s fundamentally immoral orientation toward cancer treatment, drawing parallels to financial institutions which rely on fiat currencies to accumulate vast power and control:\nTurning Disease Into Gold With The Drug-Based Printing Press\nThe \u201cmedicines\u201d themselves are often devoid of intrinsic value, being nothing more than rebranded and re-purposed chemicals, intended (though all too often failing) to be administered in sub-lethal concentrations. Indeed, many of these chemicals are too toxic to be legally released into the environment, and should never be administered intentionally to a human who is already sick. You need look no farther than a typical drug package insert to find proof that the side effects of most drugs far outnumber their purported beneficial effects.\nThese chemicals, in fact, are so highly leveraged against their true value (or lack thereof), that they can sell for as much as 500,000% percent from cost! Only medical/pharmaceutical and financial institutions (e.g. Federal Reserve) are legally empowered to generate the illusion that they are creating something of value out of nothing of value, on this scale. This manipulation of perceived value, which is the basis for the global dominance of the drug-based medical model, is not unlike how financial institutions created toxic derivative products (e.g. Credit Default Swaps), essentially creating the illusion of financial wellbeing and prosperity, at the very moment that they were planting the seeds of death within the global economy; ruining the lives of countless millions in the process.\u201d\nClearly, conventional cancer treatment is not only devastatingly toxic, and may even kill the patient quicker than the cancer they are being treated for, but it can also wreak financial ruin as well.\nThe reality is that plenty of preliminary research indicates that safe, effective, affordable, and accessible drug alternatives for treating melanoma already exist. Because they are natural substances which do not grant patent exclusivity they will never receive the 800 million-11 billion dollars of upfront capital needed to fund the trials required to receive FDA drug approval. For research on potential natural alternatives for melanoma, use the GreenMedInfo.com database on the topic here. Also, learn about the true nature of cancer by exploring the role of cancer stem cells, and natural substances that have the ability to selectively kill these tumoriogenic cells without harming healthy ones.\nAlso, for a robust database of natural cancer interventions, including thousands of published studies and articles on the topic, please use our resource: Health Guides: Cancer Research\n\u200b1 \u201cTop-Line Data Available from Three Ipilimumab Pivotal Trials in Patients with Advanced Metastatic Melanoma\u201d. Medarex, Inc. 2007-12-10. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-24.\n\u200b2 \u201cBristol drug cuts death risk in advanced melanoma\u201d. 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I\u2019m also experimenting with posting at a particular time set in advance, so you might see some test posts go up for a bit.\nPrev Post: I think I see a pattern\u2026\nNext Post: I am suffering much from \"blogger\u2019s block\" lately.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ryanrichardson.tv/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UA2YHAETRUA7PWMKNDCCH4N6TQX3ANDX", "length": 293, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ryanrichardson.tv", "title": "About \u2013 Ryan Richardson", "raw_content": "Professional filmmaker with a passion for creating content for brands and individuals all over the world. I received my BA in Film & Video Production from Brooks Institute of Photography in California. If you would like to hire me for a project or anything else please feel free to contact me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 129.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://s-r-s.org.uk/Bookstall/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:57XPXKLOZL2I3XAURRP4OBN2FZSO72HI", "length": 1847, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "s-r-s.org.uk", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "The Society was founded in 1969 for the study of Railway Signalling and Operation in the British Isles and Overseas.\nThis remains the prime purpose of the Society.\nOur members record the events of today so that knowledge will be available for the researchers of tomorrow. At the same time they record the events of yesterday so that historic information is available now and in the future.\nWe maintain an archive of paper based records which can be accessed by personal visit by both members and the public in general.\nWe also maintain a digital archive of some of these records and some of these records can be downloaded from our web site.\nWho Benefits From Being A Member?\nFirst and foremost YOU, the person reading this.\nTechnical people working on the railway or for one of the manufacturers and suppliers of signalling equipment, including those working as volunteers in the heritage sector.\nPeople working in signalling or railway operation activities, whether this be as a full time employee of a railway company or as a volunteer in the heritage railway or museum sector.\nResearchers and authors seeking that elusive signalling fact they need to complete their masterpiece.\nModellers who want to ensure their layout is as realistic as possible, especially if working signalling is contemplated, and reflects correct operational practice. Where the model is of a real location, seeking factual detail to achieve accuracy.\nRetired people who wish to keep in touch with what is going on or reminisce and share their experiences with others.\nAnd enthusiasts. Indeed, anyone with an interest in signalling.\nWhat Benefits Do I Get As A Member?\nYou can read more about this and our origins on the About page of our web site. On that page you will find a link to a page showing our current rates of subscription and a membership application form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saintmichaels.us/baptism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:I5LMORXIWEBWO3HJUKFX54WSWXW6NV44", "length": 1565, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "saintmichaels.us", "title": "What is Baptism? - St. Michael's Church - Coopersville, MI", "raw_content": "Apply for Infant Baptism\nDownload and Print the Infant Baptim Application\nBaptism is the gateway into the Church and the first of the three Sacraments of Initiation (along with Confirmation and the Eucharist). In baptism, we are \"born of water and the Spirit,\" we are given the ability to \"walk in the newness of life,\" and we fulfill the command of Christ to \"make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.\"\nReceiving the Sacrament of Baptism at St. Michael's\nFor infants or very young children,\nBaptism is celebrated during the weekend liturgies. A baptism prep class is required if this is your first child to be baptized in the Catholic Church. The prep class consists of a meeting with our priest that usually last one hour.\nAdults and non-Catholic children beyond the age of reason enters the church through the formation process known as RCIA or RCIC. Formation begins in the fall and culminates with baptism and final reception into the Church at Easter.\nA Godparent or Sponsor must be a Confirmed and active member of the Catholic Church who is willing and able to help the child develop and grow in the Catholic Faith. There must be at least one Godparent or Sponsor. If there are two, one must be male and the other female. The minimum age to be a Godparent or Sponsor is 16 years of age. A baptized Christian (non-Catholic) can act as a \"Christian Witness.\" A non-baptized person may not officially act as a Godparent, Sponsor or Christian Witness of a person in the Catholic Faith.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sbemp.com/pre-litigation-is-very-important-heres-why/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EPIWIDJ64UBGU7KWSWEAL5EDUDEEXAS2", "length": 2023, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sbemp.com", "title": "Pre-Litigation Is Very Important | Palm Springs | Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells La Quinta, Coachella Valley, Cathedral City", "raw_content": "Pre-Litigation Is Very Important \u2013 Here\u2019s Why\nPre-litigation is a reference commonly associated with a period of time prior to case being actually filed in the litigation process. This period of time is relevant to the process because if things are done incorrectly during this time, it could impact the case.\nIn this very important period, the claimant should send the appropriate legal notice to the opposing entity, and this notice should also be delivered to the opposing group\u2019s insurance company. The notice should be delivered prior to the evidence collection phase of the process, but very competent legal counsel should draft it. Following these steps allows all parties involved to properly prepare for the impending trial without incurring any further legal issues that may affect the case.\nNext in the pre-litigation phase is examination. The documents involved in the case should be gathered and place into a comprehensive file. Some pertinent documents include medical and employment records as well as the details concerning the injuries and the corresponding damages.\nWitness statements are collected in this stage from everyone involved in the case by interview, and then a demand letter is drafted and delivered to the insurance company. This letter should detail the incident and the related injuries along with medical records and any expert examination.\nSettlements or Negotiations\nIn this phase of the pre-litigation process, settlements and or negotiations can also take place. Both parties often enter these negotiations amicably, and out of court settlements are definitely a possibility during this stage. Although informal, litigation attorneys and insurance professionals are present and often agreements are reached at this point. However, if a settlement does not occur, the claimant will file the case. So it is necessary to utilize this phase correctly, or the case can be upended before the case begins. Contact our Palm Springs business litigation law firm for a consultation on your case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sbr.com.sg/financial-services/news/dbs-profits-26-152b-in-q1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:14Z", "digest": "sha1:BRNLYNN4K2S2SS3V3ENRYR2UHQJ4BY6S", "length": 1413, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "sbr.com.sg", "title": "DBS profits up 26% to $1.52b in Q1 | Singapore Business Review", "raw_content": "DBS profits up 26% to $1.52b in Q1\nNet interest margin rose 9 bps due to a strong Singapore dollar.\nDBS Bank\u2019s profits jumped 26% YoY from $1.21b to $1.52b in the first quarter of 2018.\nAccording to its financial statement, net interest income rose 16% YoY and 4% on a day-adjusted basis from the previous quarter to $2.13b. Net interest margin (NIM) rose 9 bps YoY and 5 bps QoQ to 1.83% from higher Singapore dollar as well as US and Hong Kong dollar interest rates.\nFee and commission income jumped 17% QoQ, with wealth management income hit a quarterly high of $331m. It also rose 12% YoY to $744m. \u201cCard fees rose from higher credit and debit card transactions as well as the consolidation of the retail and wealth management business acquired from ANZ,\u201d the bank added.\nRHB Research analyst Leng Seng Choon noted that the cost-to-income ratio of 41.6% was \u201ca clear improvement\u201d over last quarter 44.4%, as expenses grew slower than total income.\nMeanwhile, credit costs at 20 bps were lower than Q4\u2019s 25 bps. Loans grew 13% over the past year and 2% during the quarter in constant-currency terms as corporate, trade, and consumer loans increased.\nNet profit in Singapore jumped 10% to $938m, whilst in Hong Kong, it surged 91% to $436m. In the rest of Greater China, net profit doubled to $74m, whilst in Southeast Asia, it crashed 50% to $22m. For the rest of the world, DBS\u2019 net profit was stable at $51m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 10775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/93062", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WNZSWLMZYXKFOR7KZA5MXHPLU6BDB7QS", "length": 286, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "scholarship.rice.edu", "title": "EROICA TRIO October 11, 2001 8:00 p.m. STUDE CONCERT HALL ALICE PRATT BROWN HALL", "raw_content": "EROICA TRIO October 11, 2001 8:00 p.m. STUDE CONCERT HALL ALICE PRATT BROWN HALL\nPresented by Houston Friends of Music\n\"EROICA TRIO October 11, 2001 8:00 p.m. STUDE CONCERT HALL ALICE PRATT BROWN HALL.\" (2001) Shepherd School of Music, Rice University: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/93062.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://schristywolfe.com/2018/05/25/love-war-may-25/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KQ4XTW4GN3C6CSUJVKC3LUGAEW2ZMXN3", "length": 2484, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "schristywolfe.com", "title": "Love & War~ May 25 | The Misty Miss Christy", "raw_content": "Charles was a designer with an eye for form. Ray was an artist with an eye for color. They complemented each other on projects like coat hangers, films, their namesake chairs, and large architectural projects. Through four decades of creative work, they revolutionized design and created an indelible mark on American History. The duo was not without faults, but the pair proved to be inseparable and inspirational. They were the Eameses.\nThe Eames studio\u2014part workshop, part circus\u2014 was a partnership of two free spirits: one, an architecture school dropout who never got his license; the other, a painter trained by Hans Hofmann who used objects or any other surface as her canvases. They shunned the term \u201cartist\u201d as pompous.\nCharles and Ray Eames arrived in Los Angeles in 1941, a year after they met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Charles was married to his first wife, Catherine at the time, but Ray began assisting him and Eero Saarinen in their designs for the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s Organic Design in Home Furnishings Competition, and soon he divorced Catherine and married Ray.\nThere is always a karmic danger in marrying someone with whom you committed adultery. The women at the company almost uniformly describe him as charismatic. At one point (that we know of), Charles was looking to leave Ray, and was only stopped because the woman confesses, she couldn\u2019t do that to Ray. ( Jana J. Monji, Pasadena Art & Science Beat, https://ageofthegeek.org/2011/11/23/eames-the-architect-and-the-painter-or-why-feminism-matters/ )\nTheir partnership, which obliterated the distinctions between private and professional lives, inspired numerous contemporary working marriages\u2026Charles and Ray, architect and artist, wanted to do everything \u2014 disciplinary boundaries meant nothing to them \u2014 and, by and large, succeeded.\nAD Classics: Eames House / Charles and Ray Eames\nThe Love Letters of Charles & Ray Eames\nArchitecture, Art History, Design, Designers, Drawings, Film, Furniture, Graphic Design, Love, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles\t2 Comments\n2 thoughts on \u201cLove & War~ May 25\u201d\nIt would work better if you clearly labeled where you were quoting and from whom and what blog you were drawing your quotes from. You quote me here and I appreciate the link. I do not appreciate that my name and the name of my blog doesn\u2019t appear.\nI\u2019m sorry if I offended you. I linked all the quotes to the source and mention twice that there are links to click on, but I will fix yours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scottandrenebooker.com/2014/10/28/our-love-artwork-stolen-by-scott/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WBFEWXLZ6TT2D4INQK2W24FTSBQH3D67", "length": 81, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "scottandrenebooker.com", "title": "Our Love Artwork \u2013 Stolen By Scott | Scott and Ren\u00e9", "raw_content": "\u2190 Halloween Decorations \u2013 By Scott\nEverything You Need To Know About Marriage\u2026. \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scottkellywritesbooks.com/2015/04/07/soon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CXNWK2SM3BS2CJWX3PSHKWEB24CQISBS", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "scottkellywritesbooks.com", "title": "Soon\u2026 | Author Scott Kelly", "raw_content": "\u2190 Also soon, and only available on Amazon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 171.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seanislegend.exposure.co/india-2018-jaisalmer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XY2HB4TUDNF6D5CWGWEF5H4KMYS3LNJA", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "seanislegend.exposure.co", "title": "This page is taking to long to load, please try later", "raw_content": "India 2018 - Jaisalmer by Sean M", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seattlerealestatenews.com/copyright-infringement-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EJTVBNGZVGTTOV3FJJHS3WIQN6JAOGSP", "length": 565, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "seattlerealestatenews.com", "title": "Copyright Infringement Policy | Seattle Real Estate News | SERENE\u2122", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Copyright Infringement Policy\nClaims of Copyright Infringement and Related Issues (17 USC \u00a7 512 ET SEQ.)\nWe respect the intellectual property rights of others.\nAnyone who believes their work has been reproduced in a way that constitutes copyright infringement may notify the NWMLS by providing the following information:\nIf a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, you may submit a counter notification to the NWMLS. A valid counter notification is a written communication that incorporates the following elements:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://selfhealclinic.co.nz/about-candida/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:07Z", "digest": "sha1:O3TO5FBLZY2M64CYU5ZUZEC43CYRIXMF", "length": 7856, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "selfhealclinic.co.nz", "title": "About Candida - The Self Heal Clinic", "raw_content": "This information is not intended to diagnose any condition or to replace the advice of your doctor.\nCandida overgrowth can be a serious health issue and I generally recommend you contact me for an appointment if you have a long-standing Candida problem. Many treatments target Candida as \u201cthe enemy\u201d, when Candida is actually a normal part of the body flora. An overgrowth occurs when the normal control systems in the body are not functioning well and the Candida, which is an opportunist, has the right conditions in which to overgrow. A persistent Candida infection needs to be seen as a symptom of a broader problem and treated as such. A lot of effort and money can be wasted trying to eradicate Candida if the reasons it got established in the first place are not addressed.\nCandida is the name given to a number of strains of a particular type of yeast which can also occur in a fungal form. It is often a factor in Chronic Fatigue, Irritable Bowel, and a number of chronic skin conditions as well as obvious yeast infections such as Athlete\u2019s Foot, Thrush, Dandruff, and Cradle Cap. Less well known is its role in Acne Rosacea, Coeliac Disease, Crohn\u2019s Disease, repeat urinary tract infections, bladder irritation, fatigue, auto-immunity, some cancers and low immunity.\nCandida is one of the most common residents of the human mucous membranes such as the gut, urinary tract and vagina. In the small intestine Candida and Lactobacilli are the predominant residents. The most common type of Candida is Candida Albicans but other species are also widely found. There are in fact over 600 strains of Candida organism. In healthy individuals Candida is kept in check by friendly bacteria, a healthy gut environment and a healthy immune response. Here it will remain in the yeast form. Candida is however a \u201cdimorphic\u201d organism which means that it can exist either as a round yeast cell, or as a fungus (mycelial form) with spindly outgrowths called hyphae that can penetrate the body tissue of the host. The fungal form eventually becomes established when conditions are favourable for this change. The Candida then becomes more deeply entrenched.\nAnything that causes a reduction in the level of healthy bacteria on or in the body can leave the door open for Candida to proliferate. These include antibiotics, swimming in or drinking chlorinated water, regular use of antacids or antacid medications, the regular use of pain killers, steroid medications both topical and oral, the Oral Contraceptive Pill, weak digestion, a lack of essential minerals, a bad gut infection or food poisoning, a diet that is low in fibre and vegetables and high in sugars and starch, over consumption of alcohol and regular consumption of sugary fizzy drinks.\nWhen the numbers of friendly bacteria are reduced by any of the factors mentioned above, Candida can increase its numbers drastically and become a more dominant member of the \u201cintestinal zoo\u201d. If this happens it can spell trouble for the human (or animal) host. Because Candida is a yeast, it produces alcohol (ethanol) and acetaldehyde (this is the primary chemical responsible for the symptoms of a hangover) as the major products of its metabolism. The production of ethanol and acetaldehyde are the main reasons for the fatigue and brain fog often experienced by Candida-infected people. Where there is an overgrowth of intestinal Candida the levels of alcohol entering the bloodstream usually increase substantially, which can then add a significant burden to the detoxification organs in the body. Having a Candida overgrowth is a bit like having a brewery running inside 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In a study conducted by doctors at Biolab in London, UK, a number of chronically unwell patients were tested for blood ethanol levels an hour after ingesting a sugar solution. The study found the patients consistently had high blood levels of ethanol which the researchers concluded came from small intestinal yeast overgrowth.\nWhen Candida has a foothold, it is free to transform into the fungal form and its branching hyphae can penetrate the intestinal wall. This makes the intestine more permeable (Leaky Gut Syndrome) so more alcohol and acetaldehyde are absorbed into the body from the yeast\u2019s activity. This creates more work for the liver which then requires a higher level of nutrients to carry out the increased work load. Symptoms become worse when the liver can\u2019t keep up and the detoxifiction processes start to become choked. With a highly permeable intestine, the Candida themselves may slip through the gut lining and gain access to the rest of the body, increasing the likelihood of chronic immune reactions like allergies and autoimmune diseases.\nRecent research has directly shown that antibiotics and the resulting increased Candida colonization of the intestinal tract can lead to an increase in airborne allergies. One study showed that mice given antibiotics had increased intestinal Candida colonization, which has been shown many times before, but this study also showed a concurrent increase in allergic responses to an airborne mold spore called Aspergillus fumigatus. This was the first time research had shown that an alteration of gut flora with antibiotics can affect the immune response and lead to an increased incidence of allergies.\nOther research has linked intestinal Candida to Coeliac disease. Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease in which a T-cell mediated immune response results in damage to the tissue of the small intestine. This reaction is triggered by the ingestion of gluten, a protein found in certain grains, predominantly wheat, barley and rye. What the research shows is that a protein found in the cell wall of Candida is very similar to gluten. As a result, an immune system that has been exposed to a Candida overgrowth can confuse the gluten found in grains for the cell wall of Candida and mount a response against the gluten, producing a similar symptomology to Coeliac disease.\nSigns and Symptoms of Candida Overgrowth\nMost people know that drinking too much alcohol makes you feel less than great. Imagine how it would feel if your body was absorbing a level of alcohol a lot higher than normal, constantly, over a period of years. Nutrients become depleted and valuable liver enzymes become depleted, resulting in oxidative stress and cell damage as the body tries to detoxify the by-products of the yeast infection. This is in addition to the direct damage a yeast or fungal infection will cause to multiple body systems.\nHere\u2019s a short list of common symptoms:\nMuscle & joint aches\nFeeling of being \u201chung over\u201d\nGastrointestinal disturbances \u2013 diarrhea, constipation, nausea, bloating after eating\nPsychological disturbances \u2013 depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings\nCognitive dysfunction \u2013 poor memory, lack of concentration, brain fog\nRecurrent vaginitis, urinary tract infections, bladder irritation\nSkin irritations/rashes/acne/itching\nRecurrent throat/ear infections\nDandruff, itching scalp, crusts on the scalp, hair loss\nFungal foot infections, tinea\nFungal toenails which show as thickened, deformed, yellowed and/or blackened\nMany cases of Psoriasis have a fungal infection at their base\nIn The Self Heal Clinic, we have a specialised program which treats the gut environment and increases the biodiversity of the flora by up to several hundred different species which are one of the key control tools for Candida. The same program simultaneously repairs the damaged gut lining and alters the signalling to the immune system via the gut wall. Clinical trials have shown improvement in allergen tolerance, immune function and a reduction in the severity of auto-immune response with the use of the program. The program uses immunobiotics and specialist prebiotics rather than the usual anti-microbial/probiotic approach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 9971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sellingtomorrows.typepad.com/home/geoengineering/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:39Z", "digest": "sha1:K2RIOWNFNLMDOL7PWW7JGFUSOZDVGQCT", "length": 1009, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sellingtomorrows.typepad.com", "title": "Selling Tomorrows: Geoengineering", "raw_content": "\"Climate engineering\" comments by Obama's science advisor spread like wildfire\nThere's a collective freakout spreading online today following John Holdren's comments about the POTENTIAL need to take drastic measures to stave off climate change. Often called \"geoengineering,\" it encompasses ideas ranging from literally shielding the earth from the Sun using filters in space to some forms of carbon sequestration. It's difficult to tell whether these comments are intended as a trial balloon (but then, well-executed trial balloons don't exactly declare themselves), but it's sure to create some licensing opportunities for the Discovery Channel as broadcasters try to explain the concept to the public.\nHere's the news feed on the topic from Google, and through the social web, reports from the most authoritative blogs and chatter on Twitter.\nAs for this blog, well, it was time to add a tag for geoengineering stories anyway.\nPosted at 05:57 PM in Geoengineering | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sensing.mun.ca/support.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:O5EWYOXU2HORJFMHGJRBW3KCB3VEYJPK", "length": 130, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sensing.mun.ca", "title": "AIF project :: support", "raw_content": "Oil rig in harsh climate. Source: http://oilrig-photos.com.\nIf you need help with this website please contact the project manager:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sermons.faithlife.com/search?kinds=sermon&q=passage%3A%3C2+Corinthians+4%3A16%E2%80%9318%3E+AND+%28topic%3A%22Omnipotence%22+OR+tag%3A%22Omnipotence%22%29", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WT62XRQEZO7LWHPNCR3AUP5JNDVKXW3W", "length": 152, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sermons.faithlife.com", "title": "passage:<2 Corinthians 4:16\u201318> AND (topic:\"Omnipotence\" OR tag:\"Omnipotence\") - Faithlife Sermons", "raw_content": "God\u2019s power is revealed in the initial creation and the continuing sustenance of the universe. Humanity represents the climax of the Creator\u2019s purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 158.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://servingupsouthern.com/author/admin/page/24/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:G4HDZ6X2ZTAECU66XX5GHL3DCPLYMQQT", "length": 710, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "servingupsouthern.com", "title": "Kim at Serving Up Southern, Author at Serving Up Southern - Page 24 of 26", "raw_content": "I grew up eating congealed salads. These salads were gracing tables from church potlucks to family get-togethers\u2026and still do. While\u2026\nHappy Easter! Let us not forget that His suffering on the Cross brought us the perfect gift. Megan took these\u2026\nChances are you can go to your husband\u2019s closet (or your dad\u2019s) and find a few outdated neckties lurking in\u2026\nIf you\u2019ve been following along in our Easter {Eggs}travaganza series, you\u2019ve seen how to make these yummy deviled eggs, our tie-dyed eggs,\u2026\nEverything was going good today, until the power went out and I remembered that I had helpless, two-day-old baby chicks\u2026\nIf this is your first time visiting here, WELCOME! I\u2019m so glad you\u2019re here. I hope you\u2019ll take\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sg.everydayonsales.com/5-dec-2018-onward-osim-magical-gifts-of-well-being-promotion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QQ4XE6WOXOCBNPRJ43G5WDSQ2KDPXMLK", "length": 364, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sg.everydayonsales.com", "title": "5 Dec 2018 Onward: OSIM Magical Gifts of Well-being Promotion | SG.EverydayOnSales.com", "raw_content": "OSIM Singapore is having their Magical Gifts of Well-being Promotion. Enjoy the Magical Gift of Well-being available at $100 off and many more.\nDelight your loved ones with the magical OSIM uJolly, and turn every chair into a massage chair. Hurry, for a limited time only!\nhttps://www.facebook.com/OSIMSG/videos/3169970\u2026\nAvailable at: All OSIM Outlets in Singapore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shelbycountyunitedway.org/success-stories/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PRUL3YAS56ZSNKOA6BZI2K3YBEYJBM5L", "length": 13869, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "shelbycountyunitedway.org", "title": "Success Stories \u2013 Shelby County United Way", "raw_content": "Kindergarten Tutoring\nEmPOWERed tutoring invests one-on-one time with students to aid in early literacy\nEncouraging literacy in kindergarten students\nPOWER, Shelby County United Way women\u2019s initiative group started a kindergarten tutoring program in 2015 in one school, and has now expanded into 5 elementary schools with the help of partner companies and community volunteers. Volunteers are asked to commit to a weekly or every other week one hour time slot, and are required to complete a background check. In the 2017-2018 school year 97 different volunteers filled 45 different weekly slots at 5 elementary schools in Shelby County. POWER received the \u201cFriend of Education\u201d award for the 2nd year in a row from the Sidney Education Association for their support in encouraging literacy in education for kindergarten students.\nIf you are interested in volunteering please contact Amy West at 937-492-2101 or awest@shelbycountyunitedway.org.\nUnited Way Day of Action is an invitation for people and organizations around the world to LIVE UNITED and take action\nLocal company's employees show their volunteering spirit\nEach June, communities around the world come together to harness the volunteer spirit and improve the conditions in which they live. In 2018 during the United Way National Day of Action 23 local companies with over 167 of their employees and volunteers completed 18 service projects, and provided over 850 volunteer hours. One of the largest volunteer groups, Emerson Climate Technologies, removed wallpaper and painted in a mudroom and bathroom at Clear Creek Farm. Other projects included painting multiple City of Sidney Park shelter houses, picnic tables, and playground equipment, mulching at the court square, landscaping at the domestic violence shelter, painting inside the Historical Society, and replacing the fence around the community garden.\nStudent leaders making an impact in the community\nArea youth helping to better our community\nStudent United Way was launched in 2017, with one junior and one senior from all 10 high schools in Shelby county participating. Four United Way board members help lead the initiative, along with Executive Director, Scott Barr. Throughout the school year students attend monthly sessions where they learn about the Shelby County United Way, funded programs, and issues facing residents in Shelby County. During the course of their term they are tasked with distributing $10,000 to organizations in our community. They choose the impact areas they think youth in our area are most affected by, and then invite nonprofit groups to submit grant applications for projects in those areas. Students review the applications, after narrowing down the list invite the remaining groups to do a personal presentation, and choose how to allocate the funds to those organizations.\nThe students become more educated about the needs in our community, the organizations that are meeting those needs, and in the process learn how to take ownership of bettering our community.\nInvesting in Early Literacy\nImagination Library helps better prepare children for kindergarten\nReading to your child from birth is one of the most important activities you can do to ensure he or she is prepared for school and also prepared for life, research tells us. Sharing reading time not only helps introduce your baby to language but also aids in proper brain development and assists in strengthening your bond as parent and child.\nDolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library was launched in 1996 for preschoolers in Sevier County, Tennessee, as a gift of encouragement for the children of her Smoky Mountain homeland. The program has since grown into an early literacy program for children under the age of 5.\nIn March of 2015, the Shelby County United Way collaborated with the Shelby County Libraries and many community funding partners to adopt Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library for Shelby County youth under the age of 5. At no cost to the family, an age appropriate book is mailed monthly to the family\u2019s address.\nChildren enrolled in Imagination Library are better prepared for kindergarten.\nChildren enrolled in Imagination Library are read to more often.\nChildren enrolled in Imagination Library have more books and visits to the local libraries than children not enrolled.\nWilson Health is enrolling all infants born at the birthing center.\nOver 2400 children in Shelby County under the age of 5 are enrolled in the program, which equates to 69%.\nMore than 60,000 books have been mailed since the launch of the program in March 2015.\nThe children\u2019s classic The Little Engine That Could is the first book of each library and Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! By Nancy Carlson is the final book in the collection.\nFamilies can register to receive books by visiting www.imaginationlibrary.com and click ENROLL NOW.\nHelping our youth cultivate and maintain healthy relationships\nA digital learning initiative that teaches our youth the skills to cultivate character and maintain healthy relationships throughout their lives.\nThe NFL and United Way have teamed up to launch a new digital learning initiative that teaches students the skills to cultivate character and maintain healthy relationships throughout their lives.\nCharacter PlaybookTM is an innovative digital learning experience that uses evidence-based strategies to educate students on how to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships during their critical middle school years. The graphic novel style of the course engages students in interactive educational activities that challenge them to better understand their own values and relationships with others.\nThe six modules cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL), and building healthy relationships.\nUnderstanding Emotions and Managing Emotions\nThe course allows students to engage with true-to-life scenarios that include bystander intervention strategies and positive relationship examples. The Character Playbook curriculum was vetted by prominent experts on social-emotional learning and healthy relationship development.\nAccessible by computer and tablet, Character Playbook contains formative assessments and pre- and post-surveys which are used to track knowledge gains and changes in attitudes and behaviors. The online modules are accompanied by robust offline lesson plans and discussion guides to extend the concepts and drive lasting impact.\nThe Shelby County United Way is pleased to announce that eight area middle schools have implemented the web-based curriculum, funded fully by Shelby County United Way.\n2-1-1 is Shelby County\u2019s information and referral service for people in need.\nEvery day, thousands of people across the U.S. turn to 2-1-1 for information and support \u2013 whether financial, domestic, health, or disaster-related. 2-1-1 is a free, confidential referral and information helpline and website that connects people from our community to essential health and human services they need, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n2-1-1 can be accessed by phone or computer. A toll-free call to 2-1-1 connects you to a community resource specialist in our area who can put you in touch with local organizations that provide critical services that can improve \u2013 and save \u2013 lives.\nThrough 2-1-1, you\u2019ll find information about:\nShelter and housing options\nSupport for individuals with mental illness or special needs\nSubstance abuse prevention and rehabilitation\nSupport for victims of domestic violence or crime\nSupport for aging parents and senior services\nShelby County 2-1-1 is funded by support from:\nShelby County Job and Family Services\nShelby County Board of Developmental Disabilities\nTri County Board of Mental Health & Recovery\nCall 2-1-1 anytime, or visit www.shelbycounty211.org\nProviding medical services to the uninsured in Shelby County\nCompassionate Care of Shelby County provides medical, dental, and laboratory services to citizens of Shelby County who are living without access to health care because they have no insurance or have unattainable deductibles/premiums based on their income.\nPotential patients must meet income qualifications by being 250% at or below federal poverty guidelines. Many Compassionate Care patients are employed but cannot get insurance or are unable to afford the medical care offered.\nWith the help of volunteers, the clinic can provide services including primary care medical and dental visits, chronic disease management, GYN, lab services, diabetic and nutritional consultation, and referrals.\nIn 2017 Compassionate Care served:\n1,484 unduplicated patients for a total of 5,381 medical exam visits\n354 unduplicated patients for a total of 428 dental exam visits\nThe faith-based clinic, through its services, serves the uninsured or underinsured of Shelby County and reduces non-urgent visits to the ER and urgent care. Compassionate Care maintains a strong relationship with Wilson Health and benefits from many of their providers who volunteer at the clinic.\nGroup Homes For At-Risk Youth\nA place where a child\u2019s heart finds a home.\nClear Creek Farm provides a loving home and a better life for at-risk youth who are without a clean and safe permanent residence. The goal of the organization is to have youth living in the facilities long enough to gain stability in their lives and develop life skills needed for their future.\nClear Creek Farm provides:\nFamily-model environment\nRoutine structure and discipline\nYouth are prepared with the necessary skills to become successful young adults once they are out on their own. With proper guidance and structure, graduates of Clear Creek Farm are better prepared to make positive choices in their lives, breaking the cycle of making poor decisions.\nWith Shelby County United Way funding, at any given time, 5-6 Shelby County Youth reside at Clear Creek Farm.\nGraduates of the program have gone on to enroll in college at Bluffton University, Ball State University, Wright State University, University of Cincinnati, and Sinclair. Others have transitioned into the workforce at companies such as Honda and Kroger.\nFor more information visit: http://www.clearcreekfarm.org/\n\u201cMy daughter doesn\u2019t have to worry about me being alone during the day.\u201d\n\u201cI am an 81-year old man who has raised my family and now live with one of my children. I started coming to Day Break Adult Day Services two days a week. Since getting to know everyone better, I now come five days a week. I\u2019ve made a lot of new friends and we have a good time together. I wasn\u2019t sure if it was going to be a good fit at first, but I\u2019m glad I came. It\u2019s a lot more fun than sitting at home by myself, and I know my daughter doesn\u2019t have to worry about me being home alone during the day.\nTestimonials like this prove that Day Break is meeting its mission to provide supervision and health care in a social setting to promote continued independence of adults.\nThe center\u2019s purpose is to promote the participants\u2019 health, prevent illness and further disability, restore and maintain a maximum level of function, and empower each individual to provide for themselves as best as they can achieve.\nDay Break Adult Day Services provides respite as well as therapeutic and recreational activities for up to forty-three clients who are at risk of premature long-term placement.\nClients are transported door to door daily and are provided the noon meal and snacks on the site located in the lower level of Fair Haven Shelby County Home.\nHours of operation 7:30 am to 3:30 pm and other hours for clients considered. The Day Services Director maintains an excellent communication with the clients\u2019 families and caregivers to ensure continuity and appropriate care.\nFor more information, visit https://fairhavenservices.com/our-services/adult-day-services/\nCamp Dalanda\nThe Shelby County Arc\u2019s Camp Dalanda provides a traditional overnight experience for middle and high school youth with developmental disabilities\nCamp Dalanda is one of many programs developed by the Shelby County Arc. Camp Dalanda provides a traditional overnight camping experience for middle and early high school-age students with developmental disabilities\nShelby County Arc provides services that promote the social and recreational opportunities for people with developmental disabilities. Activities and services in addition to Camp Dalanda include:\nSummer Recreation Camp - a week-long day camp held every summer for individuals age six to 22 who have developmental disabilities.\nFriday Night Out - a monthly social event for adults with developmental disabilities that includes an evening of themed activities and a meal.\nTeen Night Out - a monthly social event for teenagers with developmental disabilities that includes an evening of themed activities and a meal.\nParents Night Out - a respite program for caregivers of young children with developmental disabilities.\nFamily Swim Nights - two evenings of swimming at the Sidney Municipal Pool for individuals with developmental disabilities, their families and friends.\nMultiple Disability Classroom Grants - grants awarded to multiple disability classrooms in our city and county schools to purchase items like specialized software and adaptive equipment for students.\nArc Resource Library - shelves of informative and educational books on a variety of disability-related topics available for free loan.\nWelcome Baskets - baskets are filled with basic household supplies and delivered to adults with developmental disabilities who are moving into their own homes for the first time.\nArc Bowling League - individuals with and without developmental disabilities bowl one Sunday a month for six months at Bel-Mar Lanes.\nFamily Skate Night - Two evenings of roller skating at Rolling Hills Skate for individuals with developmental disabilities, their families and friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 15835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shmfakhruddin.net/2014/07/24/tsunami-alert-rapid-notification-system-tarns-for-thailand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3FTTIFVMWSOTCBDCIHWUG42NFUB3RYVG", "length": 1612, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "shmfakhruddin.net", "title": "Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification System (TARNS) for Thailand | Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD", "raw_content": "Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification System (TARNS) for Thailand\nThe tremendous loss of life resulting from the December 26, 2004 tsunami emphasized the necessity of establishing and improving tsunami warning systems in countries of the Indian Ocean. While the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii notified officials in some countries about the probability of a tsunami generated by the Sumatra Earthquake, there were no protocols for distributing this warning information to appropriate government officials, media, community organizations, and coastal populations. The Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification System (TARNS) is a set of common protocols and procedures used to ensure that tsunami advisories or warnings are sent from a national focal point to all relevant national and local officials so that the public receives the information quickly and accurately. All the National Disaster Warning Center has the lead responsibility to enhance and refine national alert rapid notification system in their country. TARNS include a quick-response system not only for tsunami alerts but it can be expanded to include alerts for other disasters as well. A set of common procedures and protocols developed for all relevant entities, and coordinated based on the government structure, culture, infrastructure, and available technologies. Initially TARNS has been developed in the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) of Thailand to enhance the national early warning system in Thailand. This paper describes the development of TARNS system in Thailand.\n\u2190 Development of Medium Range Ensembles Flood Forecasts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/tyler-palmer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:27Z", "digest": "sha1:S7KYULF7FBUPMAMZ6UZJFOZTQLNY7TSZ", "length": 2082, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "skihall.com", "title": "Tyler Palmer - U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Hall of Famers \u00bb Tyler Palmer\nThe 1970s were a pivotal period for skiing in America. The sport was growing and ski racing was center stage with a host of rising stars. Foremost among them was Tyler Palmer, a dominant racer on the newly formed FIS World Cup circuit and the first American to crack the top three in slalom in the season-long international series. Throughout the 1970s, Tyler Palmer was a star both on the World Cup circuit and the World Pro Ski Tour.\nAs a junior ski racer, Palmer was hard to beat. He seemingly was always on the podium, winning race after race \u2013 except when he was beaten by his younger brother Terry.\nPalmer won the Junior Nationals in 1969 and joined the U.S. Ski Team. He skied in the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, finishing 9th in slalom. He also won three World Cup slalom races and in 1972 became the first American to finish in the top three in the World Cup slalom standings.\nAfter leaving the U.S. Ski Team, Palmer became a star performer on Bob Beattie\u2019s World Pro circuit. He joined Jean-Claude Killy on the Rossignol Pro team. Palmer was the top American on the growing tour, winning five races and becoming one of the few racers who could be competitive and beat Killy.\nAfter retiring from racing, Palmer continued to be involved with skiing. He was national Masters Champion several times. Palmer coached junior skiers for many years, both in the Northeast and in the West, recently retiring after many years in the Sun Valley Ski Team Program.\nSki racing has been Tyler Palmer\u2019s life. As an athlete, he was foremost in his sport over the course of a decade. As a coach, he gave back so that hundreds of young racers could experience the same joy and sense of accomplishment he felt as one of America\u2019s greatest ski racers.\n1969: Won Junior Nationals and moved up to the U.S. Ski Team\n1972: 9th at the Olympics in Sapporo and won 3 World Cup slaloms\n1972: Became the first American to finish in the top three in World Cup slalom standings\nIf you notice any errors or inconsistencies in Tyler Palmer's bio, click here to let us know.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 159.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://skillsteam.ie/manual-handling-training/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4VHEY3AY3XR34JZ33BRMGVPSSAZZVXHO", "length": 5964, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "skillsteam.ie", "title": "Manual Handling Training - Skillsteam", "raw_content": "This course has been designed to ensure students are sufficiently trained and able to apply the principles and practices of safe manual handling in the workplace.\nIt addresses the current health and safety legislation in Ireland and outlines the responsibilities of the employer and the employee under the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.\nUnit 2: The Musculoskeletal System\nUnit 3: Musculoskeletal Disorders\nUnit 4: Fitness and Flexibility\nThe Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 are examined with particular emphasis on the legislation specific to manual handling in the workplace.\nThis legislation, referred to as the Manual Handling of Loads Regulations 2007, outlines the duties of the employer including the requirement to avoid manual handling where possible, to carry out manual handling risk assessments and to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries to employees by implementing appropriate controls.\nThe training course also describes the structure of the spine and looks at the function and role of the individual components that make up the spinal column. The function of the muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints and spinal discs are outlined and detailed information is given in relation to how these components may become injured during manual handling activities. Risk factors which contribute to manual handling injuries are examined with the aim of reducing the risk of injury while undertaking a range of manual handling tasks in the work environment. The necessity to adhere to safe manual handling practices are explained and participants are advised on the procedure for carrying out manual handling risk assessments using the acronym TILE. The benefits of good workplace ergonomics are discussed as part of the risk assessment process and the significant role that ergonomics plays in the reduction of musculoskeletal injuries at work is highlighted throughout the training course. Fitness and flexibility in the workplace and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle are also explored as factors to be considered when addressing manual handling-related injuries.\nThis is a blended online and classroom training course which will help employees to comply with current legislation and recognise the importance of good back care. Participants are initially guided online through the theoretical aspects of manual handling prior to embarking on the practical class-based component of the course. This training course offers a range of useful and practical information in relation to manual handling which is relevant to all workplaces.\nThe course consists of 7 units and Units 1\u20136 are covered online. The online component of the course takes 45 minutes to complete.\nUnit 7 will focus on the practical demonstrations and assessment and will be delivered in the classroom by an experienced manual handling instructor.\nThe course is suitable for employees of all levels whose job involves the moving and handling of loads in the workplace\nOn completion of the online course students are required to complete an end of course Quiz. Following completion of the online component of the course participants are required to attend a classroom-based session which will include a demonstration and assessment of practical manual handling techniques\nBenefits of Manual Handling Certificate\nAccording to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, an employer has a responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of their employees.\nMany employees are unaware of the physical risks involved in their jobs and injuries often occur due to lack of training.\nA third of all injuries in the workplace reported to the HSA are caused by manual handling tasks, and those injuries are a leading cause of work disability.\nBy gaining the manual handling certificate the potential dangers are highlighted and employees are taught the best practice to be safe in their workplace. Employees who hold a manual handling certificate have improved work skills, improved productivity and creates a health-conscious workforce. It also gives employees the confidence to do their tasks to the best of their abilities while still staying safe at work.\nIn order to gain the manual handling certificate, a person must complete the manual handling course.\nThis 3-hour course can be done in a classroom setting or blended online and classroom training and is taught by a qualified Level 6 instructor. On completion of the course, a person will receive a manual handling certificate that is valid for 2 years.\nLocations that Course is Run\nThe manual handling classroom course is run in Dawson Street, Dublin 2 and Tallaght, Dublin 24.\nThis course can also be done as a blended online and classroom course. This involves completing online modules and then taking part in a classroom-based practical assessment.\nThe manual handling practical assessment is run in Dawson Street, Tallaght, Cork, Galway, Waterford, and Limerick.\nBoth the full manual handling classroom version and the practical assessment can be done on location at a company if a group of their employees are doing the manual handling course.\nBenefits of Manual Handling Training\nCompletion of this course will assist employees in maintaining good health and will help to reduce the risk of manual handling related injuries in the workplace.\nIt will provide participants with the skills, knowledge and training to utilise correct manual handling techniques when carrying out commonplace work activities.\nEmployees will have the ability to work in a confident and safe manner which will contribute to a safer work environment.\nThe course provides useful tips on good back care and raises the awareness of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in the reduction of manual handling injuries.\nIt will also ensure that employees are aware of their legal responsibilities at work while ensuring employers are compliant with the law in the provision of manual handling training.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 9444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://smartec.ch/en/case-study/manhattan-bridge-monitoring/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KLG57GPLAYEEH5M5VPYGNQWEXBPC5QYX", "length": 1577, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "smartec.ch", "title": "Manhattan Bridge Monitoring | Smartec", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Case study \u00bb Manhattan Bridge Monitoring\nManhattan Bridge Monitoring\nIn the framework of a program on suspension bridge corrosion monitoring, it is desired to acquire continuous data on the strain, deformation and temperatures of the main cable and anchorage of the bridge.\nThe Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension). It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. The bridge was opened to traffic on December 31, 1909. The total length of the bridge is 2,089 meters [6,855 ft], the length of suspension cables is 983 m (3224 ft) and the main span has a length of 448 m ((1,470 ft).\nIn the framework of a program on suspension bridge corrosion monitoring, it is desired to acquire continuous data on the strain, deformation and temperatures of the main cable and anchorage of the bridge. The data generated by the monitoring system will be used to provide baseline data and to verify the the ability to detect wire breakage through deformation. SOFO sensors of 6 meters have been installed on one main cable straps. Two other Bragg grating strain sensors have been installed at the anchors on individual strands. 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In 2008 she met her now husband, Lewie, a California native and thus, Los Angeles became her home. Heather is a current California licensed and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certified speech-language pathologist. She specializes in treating children ranging in age from birth to 5 years. With a high interest and much experience treating children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Heather is also particularly interested in children who are gifted and/or Twice Exceptional (2e). Heather is the owner and director of Speech Me, LLC and the co-founder and co-director of the Social Scouts\u2122 program. In October of 2017, Heather also added \u201cauthor\u201d to her title.\nAs a practicing speech-language pathologist, Heather treats clients with a vast array of diagnoses and disorders, enjoying the uniqueness each child brings to her clinic. Working closely with children and their families is why she loves being in private practice. Heather enjoys utilizing her creativity and developing new and innovative activities on a daily basis and uses what a former client\u2019s mother coined as \u201cThe Marenda Method\u201d- an eclectic approach combining the various techniques she has learned throughout her years as a clinician with her own creativity to ensure the best and most effective and individualized techniques for each child she treats. She continues her education by attending numerous conferences on various topics each year and has been recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association by earning two ACE awards for Continuing Education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 157.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soundcheck-live.co.uk/news/august-burns-red-release-new-video-for-identity/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GJIQCZKV7ZLK2DOEQ5OCY6NOJOZNDX5S", "length": 2345, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "soundcheck-live.co.uk", "title": "August Burns Red release new video for 'Identity' - SOUNDCHECK - LIVE", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbNews\u00bbAugust Burns Red release new video for \u2018Identity\u2019\nLancaster, PA\u2019s August Burns Red is excited to premiere the music video for \u2018Identity\u2018, a track off their latest release Found In Far Away Places, which debuted at #4 on the Top Albums Chart (US), #9 on the Billboard Top 200, #1 Independent Album, and #1 on the iTunes Metal Chart.\nAfter being filmed in front of a green screen, director Drew Russ enlisted the artistic help of a collection of tattoo artists to hand paint each animated element fans will see in the video. The paintings were then scanned in layer by layer to create a visually dynamic and unique experience exclusive to this video, hosting everything from sea-shell drum sets, to whale battles, to metal mermen.\nDirector Drew Russ explains, \u201cThis video is a mixed media piece using custom designed illustrations combined with live action footage. All of the outlines were hand drawn (by Mike Cortada) custom for this video. Then, using a light box, outlines were then painted over on watercolour paper, combined digitally and composited into the video.\u201d\nThe band just wrapped up a massive summer on the Main Stage of the Vans Warped Tour and will charge into the fall with a Europe / UK tour with Asking Alexandria, Memphis May Fire, and In Hearts Wake. Full tour routing listed below.\nSince their formation in 2003, the local upstart from Lancaster, PA has evolved into one of the biggest names worldwide in the modern metal scene, continually growing and connecting fiercely with a colossal legion of fans. August Burns Red has spent years skillfully crafting a balance between a ferociously heavy sound with empowering lyrical content, while showcasing a rich surplus of inventive guitar riffs, blistering solos, and dynamic drumming. The band\u2019s impressive resume includes a solid collection of 5 previous albums, Thrill Seeker (2005), Messengers (2007), Constellations (2009), Leveler (2011), and Rescue & Restore (2013), which debuted at #9 on the Billboard Top 200. The road to the top has seen the band on stages across the globe alongside the likes of Underoath, A Day To Remember, Lamb Of God, Bring Me The Horizon, from South America, to Australia, Japan, and Russia, and headlining the Vans Warped Tour in both 2013 and 2015.\nEUROPEAN TOUR w/ ASKING ALEXANDRIA, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE, & IN HEARTS WAKE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 7760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sp403.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/update-on-isodarco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CZV6QQF4ZHQNADUG445QCTLXJEKKRCMQ", "length": 3271, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "sp403.wordpress.com", "title": "Update on ISODARCO | International Security Policy Scholars", "raw_content": "Update on ISODARCO\nInternational School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts Italian Pugwash Group\n27th Winter Course on: \u201cNUCLEAR GOVERNANCE:\nPROSPECTS FOR A STRENGTHENED NONPROLIFERATION REGIME\u201d ANDALO (TRENTO) \u2013 ITALY 8 \u2013 15 January 2014\nCourse Directors:\u2028Matthew Evangelista and Judith Reppy (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)\nMore than two decades after the end of the cold war, nuclear weapons continue to pose a grave threat to international security. The 2014 Isodarco Winter School will address the challenge of strengthening nonproliferation rules and practices in a world in which many states face real and perceived security threats. Topics will include: a) technical aspects of protecting the nuclear fuel cycle; b) assessing new efforts to secure, cut off, and reduce fissile material stockpiles; c) issues posed by recent nuclear proliferation; d) the roles of international law and domestic measures in supporting a strengthened nonproliferation regime.\nPrincipal Lecturers\nAlexei Arbatov (IMEMO and Carnegie Endowment, Moscow, Russia); Nadia Arbatova (IMEMO, Moscow, Russia); Wyn Bowen (King\u2019s College, London, UK); Mirco Elena (Isodarco and FOCC, Trento, Italy); Trevor Findlay (Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, CA; Belfer Center; Paolo Foradori (University of Trento, Trento, Italy); Feroz Khan (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA); Catherine Kelleher (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA); Sayed Hossein Mousavian (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA); Wolfango Plastino (University of Rome Tre, Rome, Italy); Laura Rockwood (Vienna, Austria); Elena Sokova (Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Vienna, Austria); Nikolai Sokov (Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Vienna, Austria); Mark Suh (Korean Pugwash Group, Berlin, Germany); Carlo Trezza (Chairman, Missile Technology ControlRegime, Italy); William Walker (University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland); Christine Wing (New York University, New York City, NY, USA); Yvonne Yew (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA).\nConfirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have been invited to the School.\nA. English will be the working language of the School. The course will be articulated in formal lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and general open discussions.\nB. Applications should arrive not later than November 18th, 2013 and should be addressed to the Director of the School: Prof. CARLO SCHAERF, Physics Department \u2013 University of Rome \u201cTor Vergata\u201d, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy. E-mail: isodarco@roma2.infn.it\nTel.: (+39)0672594561 \u2014 Fax: (+39)062040309 \u2014 URL: www.isodarco.it \u2013\nWe suggest that you apply on-line at http://www.isodarco.it/andalo14\nC. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and full board is 450,00 Euros. A reduced fee of 250,00 Euros is applied to students without a salary born in 1988 or after and to participants from Countries with foreign currency problems. Participants will be housed in double or triple rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested and available, will be 750,00 Euros.\nChinese Nuclear Renaissance \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spartaninvest.eu/first-step-toward-disabled-friendly-kyrenia-kervansaray-public-beach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WCOOQ4X3DV3ATSWVQU2BRJ7VAERQIGVA", "length": 1279, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "spartaninvest.eu", "title": "Kervansaray Public Beach is now Disability-Friendly | Spartan Investments", "raw_content": "Kervansaray Public Beach, Kyrenia is now Disability-Friendly\nThe infrastructure at the Kervansaray beach in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus has been renovated by the Municipality of Kyrenia. The municipality has always expressed its strong belief that everyone should have access to the beach and its facilities.\nRamparts were installed on the descending walkway to the beach and on the way to other facilities and the restaurant. Also, the showers, toilets and cabanas were modified for use by disabled people. Furthermore, a lifeguard tower was constructed on the terrace to improve the safety of swimmers at the beach. Thus, everyone can now safely enjoy the beach, sun and sea.\nThe mayor of Kyrenia, Niday Gungordu, has stated that the renovation of Kervansaray beach is only a first step in the grand project which is meant to increase the inclusion and protection of disabled people in Kyrenia. Apparently, the municipality is working tirelessly towards reaching its goals.\nKervansaray is a beautiful beach situated about 5 kilometers to the west of Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus. It can comfortably accommodate around 300 people. Facilities located at the beach include a cafe-bar and a restaurant with an interesting menu. These facilities are generally open from: 8:00 AM \u2013 8:00 PM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 171.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2013/06/24/family-awoken-when-bullet-rips-through-their-hotel-room-wall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WTLEY2KA67M62VTNFX4M4YG5G63XDYTF", "length": 1967, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "spdblotter.seattle.gov", "title": "Family Awoken When Bullet Rips Through Their Hotel Room Wall", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Police Precincts \u00bb West Precinct \u00bb Family Awoken When Bullet Rips Through Their Hotel Room Wall\nFamily Awoken When Bullet Rips Through Their Hotel Room Wall\nPolice found a bullet, splintered wood, and a bloody washcloth at the scene of a bizarre incident at a South Lake Union hotel this morning.\nJust after 2 AM, a man and his family were startled awake by a loud bang in their fifth floor hotel room.\nAfter finding a bullet on the floor near his daughter\u2019s bed, the man went down to the lobby to talk to the hotel\u2019s manager, and called police.\nOfficers searched around the victims\u2019 room and found that the bullet had been fired through the wall of a neighboring room, rented out to a group of teenagers earlier in the evening.\nOfficers knocked on the door of the neighboring room and although they could hear the sound of a TV inside, no one answered the door.\nOfficers went down to the hotel\u2019s lobby, where they found two of the four teenagers who had checked into the second room earlier in the evening.\nBoth teens\u2014males, one 14, the other 18\u2014initially gave officers different stories, but police were eventually able to piece together that the teens had been in the room with a teenage female and another teenage male, who had been carrying a gun.\nWhile the details are still a bit murky, it appears that at some point the gun went off inside the teens\u2019 room, sending a bullet tearing through a bed and the wall of the hotel, into the neighboring family\u2019s room. The teenage male with the handgun and the female fled shortly after the incident.\nPolice weren\u2019t able to find any victims at the scene, but officers did find a bloody washcloth in the teens\u2019 room.\nOfficers interviewed the 18-year-old man and released him from the scene. Police also called the 14-year-old boy\u2019s mother to come pick him up.\n\u00ab \u00ab Police Called After Things Get Too Hot at Adult Emporium\n\u00bb \u00bb Martin Pang Caught Targeting Firefighters In Fraud Scheme From Behind Bars", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spencerbell.com/2018/03/17/the-opioid-epidemic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:V26WFO6UGSQO3VUYQ6NPJBMGE57WI6IG", "length": 4974, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "spencerbell.com", "title": "The Opioid Epidemic \u2013 I'm Not Nameless", "raw_content": "Posted on March 17, 2018 by Spencer Bell\nI\u2019m sure you are aware of the opioid crisis our country is facing. People are becoming addicted to prescription painkillers that were previously considered safe, heroin use has skyrocketed (at least in part due to addictions rooted in prescription meds), and new, dangerously potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are appearing. Look up any of the statistics and you\u2019ll see the grim reality our nation is facing \u2013 addiction is rampant and people are dying. Many people.\nYesterday I attended a legal symposium hosted by the law review journal of our local law school. A symposium generally will have a range of speakers from, for example, the legal profession, government, private industry, and academia to discuss broad legal policy issues surrounding a particular topic. The topic usually is based on a current event that raises legal questions and opportunities for research. This year the topic was the opioid epidemic.\nThe speakers included lawyers, physicians, law enforcement officers, academic researchers, health industry representatives, public health experts, and a few others. A practicing attorney who is in recovery from a heroin addiction gave his testimony. By design, the symposium didn\u2019t provide tangible solutions or answer many questions. It was designed to raise questions and drive further discussion and analysis of what should be done.\nVarious speakers presented sobering statistics. The first speaker announced that during his short presentation two people died of an opioid overdone. Others compared the massive amounts of opioid medications the United States consumes every year to other countries\u2019 consumption. Another explained how many people can be killed by an incredibly tiny amount of fentanyl.\nWhile likely more than I would realize, I suspect there weren\u2019t many of us lawyers in the room who have abused or been addicted to opioids. I have, and it gave me a surreal feeling at times, knowing that people around me don\u2019t fully understand. But I understand what it\u2019s like. As an example of the lack of understanding, one man in the audience proposed having society naturally work out the opioid problem by just letting addicts die instead of treating them (I saw audience members nearly gasp, and the panelists very strongly refuted that idea).\nDuring the day I reflected on my own opioid use and pondered the \u201cwhat ifs.\u201d I started abusing prescription opioids in order to get high to temporarily relieve the suffering of depression. It was a daily habit. When I got treatment and stopped using, I was on the cusp of something very, very bad. I stopped because my doctor told me that if I continued to use, in two weeks I would have an addiction that would eventually be fed by heroin. And that would lead to death. I would be dead. And you know what? I believed him. I realized right there in his office that I had been telling myself a lie \u2013 that I would just quit using when I ran out of pills.\nI wrote earlier about my drug use. I wrestled with whether my drug abuse was really an addiction. I was right there on the cusp, one foot over the starting line. Some of the aspects of addiction discussed at the symposium didn\u2019t apply to me; however, I found myself nodding in agreement to others. When I speak with people who suffered from serious addictions, the same occurs \u2013 in some ways, I can\u2019t relate to their experiences. But I can to other experiences. The bottom line is, I err on the side of caution and consider my opioid use an addiction. Just like someone who is in recovery from a more serious addiction, I need to have the tools to prevent relapse and learn to take proper precautions. I was on the cusp, and it wouldn\u2019t take much for the second foot to cross the starting line.\nPeople start abusing opioids for various reasons. In my case, it was a direct result of a mental health condition \u2013 I was desperate to relieve the suffering of depression. If your story is like mine and you are contemplating drug use or are in the beginning of drug use to ease the pain of your mental health condition, STOP NOW. Proper treatment takes time and effort, but it results in a life of sobriety and power over your mental health issues. Drug abuse does not address your underlying mental health issues and will lead to addiction and quite possibly a painful death. I\u2019ll say that part again because it\u2019s incredibly important: Drug abuse does not address your underlying mental health issues. If you are in the pit of serious addiction, do not lose hope. There are ways out. I know this for a fact, because I see the results every week at our Celebrate Recovery meetings.\nOpioids are a serious problem. There\u2019s no simple solution. I\u2019m doing my part by speaking out about my experience in hopes that I can lead at least one person suffering from depression or another mental health issue to turn away from opioids.\nPrevious PostPrevious How God Helps\nNext PostNext Depression \u2013 A Formidable Foe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://splinternews.com/pro-trump-pac-thought-it-was-a-good-idea-to-send-a-12-y-1821188840", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:53Z", "digest": "sha1:S36MONU4KIJDGWBXKJS7MZZJM6G67DSD", "length": 1415, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "splinternews.com", "title": "Pro-Trump PAC Thought It Was a Good Idea to Send a 12-Year-Old Girl to Interview Roy Moore", "raw_content": "Pro-Trump PAC Thought It Was a Good Idea to Send a 12-Year-Old Girl to Interview Roy Moore\nAmerica First Project\nRoy Moore has been accused of, among other things, initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year old girl when he was in his 30s\u2014which is what makes it particularly nauseating that a far-right group decided to send a preteen girl named Millie to interview Moore just days before the Alabama special election.\nMillie\u2014something of a novelty celebrity in conservative circles\u2014sat down with both campaign manager Rich Hobson and Moore himself, where she smiled along as she was told about the evils of abortion and asked tough questions like: \u201cAre you gonna help build the wall?\u201d The closest anyone came to referencing the many credible allegations against Moore was an offhanded reference to \u201ceverything that\u2019s happened\u201d in the race.\nIt\u2019s clear that America First Project, the PAC founded by former Breitbart staffers who coordinated Millie\u2019s interview with Moore, were trying to send a not-so-subtle \u201csee, he\u2019s DEFINITELY not a pedophile\u201d message to viewers. It\u2019s also clear that by putting a 12-year-old girl in a room with Moore, they\u2019ve pretty much guaranteed that\u2019s all anyone is going to think of.\nMoore, meanwhile, has yet to take questions from actual adult reporters in weeks.\nHere's Donald Trump's Unhinged Robocall for Roy Moore\nTrump Stops Pretending and Endorses Roy Moore for Senate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://standwithstandingrock.net/rick-perry-multiple-ties-ceo-controversial-pipeline-project-tapped-energy-dept/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:03Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7MT4MPW3S2CEF2CRBCUUH4CFQRMUYZU", "length": 5520, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "standwithstandingrock.net", "title": "Rick Perry, with multiple ties to CEO of controversial pipeline project, tapped for Energy Dept. | Stand With Standing Rock", "raw_content": "The Dakota Access Pipelineprotesters just got a new reason to keep their Standing Rock encampment intact: former Texas governor and two-time presidential candidate Rick Perry, tapped today by President-elect Donald Trump to head his Energy Department.\nNever mind that Perry \u2014 who now becomes the second of Trump\u2019s competitors named to his Cabinet (Ben Carson is slotted for Housing and Urban Development) \u2014 previously wanted to scrap the agency altogether.\nNow the department will be helmed by a man whose biggest fan \u2014 as measured by donations supporting Perry\u2019s presidential bids \u2014 is Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial pipeline. Warren gave super PACs supporting Perry\u2019s presidential bid $6 million last year, though he got nearly $4.5 million of it back after Perry dropped out.\nAnd beyond that, Perry is on the board of directors of Energy Transfer Partners \u2014 a position he would have to relinquish if he\u2019s to become secretary. Earlier this month, the Army Corps of Engineers, in response to the protests in North Dakota, said it would explore alternate routes for the pipeline segment at issue, but the demonstrators on site fear the Trump administration will reverse that decision.\nPerry raised just $1.4 million for his 2016 campaign, a fraction of what he brought in four years earlier. But his super PAC, Opportunity and Freedom PAC, brought in almost 10 times that much. Besides Warren, the most generous donors included rancher Julianna Holt and her husband, Peter Holt, CEO of Holt Companies, which owns the largest U.S. Caterpillar dealership ($500,000). The Holts are more than just donors, though: According to a financial disclosure form Perry filed last year, the candidate had a $250,000 consulting gig with Holt.\nWarren and Darwin Deason of Deason Capital Services (whose son, Doug, is a big player in the Koch network) each donated $5 million to a second super PAC, creatively named Opportunity and Freedom I, but were reimbursed most of the funds in late August. The group didn\u2019t report any independent expenditures, refunding $8.8 million and transferring the additional $1 million to the first Opportunity and Freedom PAC.\nTop Household Donors to Rick Perry, 1998-2016\nData from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, OpenSecrets\nMostly thanks to these large donations, the oil & gas ($1.6 million) industry led the way in giving to Perry\u2019s campaign committee and super PACs combined. And that\u2019s a pattern that\u2019s been in place pretty much throughout Perry\u2019s political career; renewable energy advocates aren\u2019t likely to find much interest in their projects at the top of DOE\u2019s organizational chart for a while, assuming Perry is confirmed by the Senate.\nThe miscellaneous finance ($480,000) and livestock ($376,000) industries were a distant second and third.\nPerry played a far better fundraising game in 2012, collecting $19.7 million for his campaign, almost all from donations of $200 or more. Oil & gas was No. 1 for him in that cycle ($1 million) after retired folks ($1.1 million); real estate professionals pulled in third ($926 million). His campaign\u2019s top donors came from Ryan LLC, Murray Energy and the United States Automobile Association.\nHis biggest outside backer, Make Us Great Again (sound familiar?), spent almost $4 million trying to get Perry to the White House, with large donations coming from Dallas-based Contran Corp., formerly headed by now-deceased GOP funder Harold Simmons ($1 million); Kelcy Warren and Darwin Deason again ($250,000 each); and trial lawyer Tony Buzbee (also $250,000), who became Perry\u2019s general counsel two years later when a grand jury indicted him on two felony counts, later dismissed. (The Travis County grand jury charged him with \u201cabuse of official capacity\u201d for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funds for a public corruption department, and \u201ccoercion of a public servant\u201d for pushing for the resignation of a district attorney after she was convicted of drunk driving.)\nData from the National Institute on Money in State Politics and OpenSecrets.\nPerry\u2019s first presidential run came while he was still governor of Texas, a slot he occupied from 2000 to 2015, making him the longest-serving chief executive of that state. Voters elected Perry to three full terms: He raised $24.7 million in 2002, $30.4 million in 2006 and $49 million in 2010, according to data from the National Institute on Money In State Politics.\nIn his last state election in 2010, he received $5.9 million from \u2014 guess who? \u2014 oil & gas interests, $3.8 million from lawyers and lobbyists and $3 million from conservative policy organizations. (These industries top the list of his previous elections as well, including his successful 1998 run for lieutenant governor, where he raised $12.3 million. He became governor in late 2000 when George W. Bush was elected president.)\nPerry\u2019s personal holdings also reflect his comfort level with the fossil fuel industry. The financial disclosure form he filed in July 2015 indicated that his wife owned up to $15,000 in Energy Transfer stock, along with the same amount of another pipeline company and of Sunoco Logistics, the future operator of the pipeline being protested at Standing Rock. (According to Reuters, Sunoco Logistics outdoes all its competitors in spilled crude.)\nPerry himself has stock in QR Energy, Gray Rock Energy and other companies in the oil and gas industry.\nSenior Researcher Doug Weber contributed to this post.\nRead more on OpenSecrets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://starweavergroup.com/project/ftb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2WSHVVHUW2A4H3QM3IJX72E6HBW5RLEG", "length": 382, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "starweavergroup.com", "title": "Fifth Third Bank \u2013 Starweaver Group", "raw_content": "Fifth Third Bank is a leading regional bank that is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. We were engaged to enable the organization to define competency frameworks for its business, commercial, corporate and credit lines of business. These frameworks were also used to help create online assessments and evaluate specific training needs for the groups, teams and individuals involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 118.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://staticcontrol.descoindustries.com/ViewProduct.aspx?h=10702&pid=770074", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EDHTKT4OAALXSVVERDDC3POGZOZ2A7TC", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "staticcontrol.descoindustries.com", "title": "SCS - 770074 R3 Series 2-Layer, Light Blue, Rubber, Mat, 24\" x 48\"", "raw_content": "770074 - R3 Series 2-Layer, Light Blue, Rubber, Mat, 24\" x 48\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 7925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stayathomemademom.com/easy-returns-with-online-shopping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VS7ZR3NSDKB2Q3OHCITI7ULQ7RCNQLR4", "length": 4378, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "stayathomemademom.com", "title": "Easy returns with online shopping", "raw_content": "Home / Blog / Lifestyle / Easy returns with online shopping\nOne of the main concerns online shoppers have about the process of shopping online is whether or not it will be possible to return items which were purchased online. This is certainly a valid concern but fortunately for these wary shoppers making returns when online shopping is not very difficult. There are usually a few different options for making returns when online shopping.\nHowever, online shoppers should always be aware of return policies before they make an online purchase. There are always a couple of the options for making returns when online shopping including returning the items to a traditional store and shipping the items back to the online retailer.\nReturning Online Purchases to a Traditional Store\nOnline retailers who also have traditional stores often allow their clients to return items to the regular store instead of having to ship the item back to the online retailer. This is generally an option for large retailers who have a number of stores available. Consumers may want to purchase an item online for a number of reasons.\nThe client may wish to make the purchase online because the item is not currently in stock at a local store, because the local store doesn\u2019t carry the item or simply because ordering the item online is more convenient for the consumer. Still other clients may opt to purchase the item online because the online retailer doesn\u2019t have a traditional store located near them.\nIn these cases the buyer would likely opt to ship the item back to the online retailer. However, in the other cases, as long as it is convenient, the consumer may wish to simply return the item to a traditional store.\nThe process of returning items purchased online to a traditional store is often as simple as making a return on an item that was not purchased online. If you are in this situation you may simply have to bring the item with its original packaging and the receipt to the store. You may then be able to receive an exchange, store credit or a refund depending on the store\u2019s policy.\nAs with any return there may be rules which apply to whether or not the store will take back the item. These rules may vary from store to store and even with different items purchased from the same store so you should verify these policies before making the purchase.\nOther Options for Returning Online Purchases\nIf you make a purchase online and are dissatisfied with the purchase for any reason, you may have a number of options available to them for making returns. One of these options is shipping the items back to the online retailer directly. However, there are a number of ways in which this option can be accomplished.\nIn some cases you might be responsible for shipping the item back to the online retailer and assume the financial responsibility for the shipping. This is usually the case when you wish to return the item for reasons such as changing your mind about the purchase or purchasing the wrong item.\nHowever, in cases where the item purchased from an online retailer is defective or the retailer shipped the wrong item, the online retailer may assume the financial responsibility for having the item shipped. In some cases, the online retailer will mail you a pre-paid packing slip while in other cases the online retailer will arrange to have the package picked up from your home or alternate location.\nUnderstanding Return Policies when Online Shopping\nAs previously mentioned the return policies can vary from one online retailer to another and may even vary for different products purchased from the same online retailer. For this reason it is important to carefully review the return policies before making an online purchase. This is especially important if you are unsure about the product and suspect it may be necessary to return the item. This may be the case with clothing items where you may be unsure whether or not an item will fit.\nHowever, with any purchase there is the potential for the need to exchange the item so you should always read the return policy carefully and inquire with the retailer if they have any questions about the policy before making a purchase.\nPrevious ArticleAttractive arrangement of your furniture can enhance your room\u2019s d\u00e9cor\nNext ArticleSmart ideas to use decorative plaster ceiling rose\nBad breath? Let\u2019s see what causes it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stellamorabito.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XCIODAYYZYSCHLAH2CXKL47QLZEVST5G", "length": 24060, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "stellamorabito.net", "title": "Stella Morabito \u2013 I write about society, culture and education", "raw_content": "On Relationships, Power, and Freedom: How you and your friends can turn the tide.\n\" . . . his action went beyond itself, because it illuminated its surroundings, and because of the incalculable consequences of that illumination.\"\n-- Vaclav Havel, \"The Power of the Powerless\"\nExcerpt of Marshall McLuhan Interview in 1977 \u2014 \u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d \u2014 Part III\nJuly 27, 2018 | Culture, Media, Philosophy, Society\nIn the last of this little series on Marshall McLuhan, I offer for the curious a video excerpt of a 1977 ABC (Australia) interview with Marshall McLuhan. It\u2019s about 14 minutes. Again, his main focus is how the environment created by a medium has more of an effect on us than the content itself.\nBookcase: McLuhan and \u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d \u2014 Part II\nJuly 26, 2018 | Books, Education, History, Philosophy, Society\nMarshall McLuhan, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)\nWhat did Marshall McLuhan mean by \u201cThe medium is the message?\u201d I think the idea is clearer today than back in 1962 when he published his landmark book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. He argued that it was not the content within the media that affects us the most, whether the media be radio, TV, newspapers, or anything else. Rather, it is the actual medium itself that changes us, that transforms our minds. To try to unpack this concept, just think about your average teenagers today with their smart phones. (Or yourself!) Is it mostly the content on that phone that influences them as they ceaselessly tap and slide their fingers across the screen? Are they really looking for the latest news? What\u2019s more addictive \u2014 the content or the process? McLuhan would likely argue that it is the environment of the medium itself that has us transfixed. It is the technology that is transforming us.\nThis is a also a theme in Nicholas Carr\u2019s 2011 book The Shallows, in which he posits that the internet actually is changing how we think and even the very structure of our brains as we allow ourselves to get pulled into its clickholes that never seem to end. As an aside, I\u2019ll add that is why it\u2019s critical that we step back from communications media and re-learn how to connect with people one-on-one and face-to-face. The forces of these technologies have become way too powerful, as have the tech titans who are controlling social media.\nIt is the way in which we use a technology that causes it to become an \u201cextension of man,\u201d as McLuhan subtitle implies. Interestingly, he means that he sees technology as extensions of our bodies, extensions of our natural functions. For example, he has a chapter on clothing as a medium \u2014 an extension of our skin. And transportation such as cars and bicycles are media that are extensions of our feet. Those that affect our minds in terms of audio-visual media are, likewise, extensions of our central nervous systems. If you are interested in the development of language \u2014 and especially how the phonetic alphabet impacted human society \u2014 that\u2019s another reason for extending your eyes to read this amazing book.\nBy the way, five years later (in 1967) McLuhan coined another phrase: The Medium is the Massage. This is the idea that a medium \u2013whether TV, radio, the internet, a photograph \u2014 actually massages our senses and changes our perceptions in ways we don\u2019t realize. So rather than the content of the message itself, it\u2019s the medium \u2014 the presentation of the content, if you will \u2014 that affects us most. I tend to agree. And I think awareness of this point is key to building self-awareness today.\nBookcase: Looking at \u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d 56 years Later \u2014 Part I\nMarshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a communications professor in Canada when he published his landmark book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man in 1962. It is an absolutely fascinating read, though convoluted at times.\nYou may know that McLuhan coined a lot of well known phrases, such as \u201cThe medium is the message\u201d and \u201cglobal village.\u201d But his theories are amazing and prescient. Some of what he writes is all over the map and I don\u2019t agree with all of it. But he predicted with uncanny accuracy that with the information explosion due to hit later in the 20th century, our society would not really experience pluralism.\nQuite the contrary. At the time, he wrote about how the medium of television was affecting us. His general thesis was that the effect of a medium itself \u2014 the environment it creates \u2014 is far more vast than the content of any particular program on it. His verdict: we were actually undergoing an implosion of the Western society. In other words, television was causing us to regress, to return to tribalism and divisions as opposed to becoming a more cohesive and open society. Consider also how the internet is affecting thought processes \u2014 causing a loss of clarity with all the noise and scatter that accompanies the technology. Well, McLuhan seemed to foresee that. He warned that newer communications technologies would only further expedite the implosion.\nI\u2019m certain this was very counter-intuitive when he wrote the book. After all, what could seem more mind-opening than having more avenues of expression that would come with more avenues of information? And more people chiming in? My personal conclusion is this: Well, it depends on how aware we are of how media plays on our minds. Are we more open to reason and logic, or have people become more emotional? And it also depends on who controls the media. We as individuals who believe in self-governance? Or power elites directing a media that drive us more into a collective mindset?\nPart II tomorrow . . .\n(Book cover above is the MIT Press 30th Anniversary Edition)\nFood for Thought: Today\u2019s Two Political Camps are really just Pro-Thought or Anti-Thought\nJuly 22, 2018 | Culture, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Association, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society\n\u201cThe Thinker,\u201d Auguste Rodin, 1904. This cast is in the Palace of the Legion of Honor in (Ha! Today\u2019s Belly of the Anti-Thought Beast!) San Francisco (Wikimedia Commons)\nLast month I wrote a Federalist piece in which I elaborate on a conclusion I reached some time ago. There are really only two political camps: Pro-Thought and Anti-Thought. Think about it. The tired old labels of Left and Right and Conservative and Liberal and so on don\u2019t really mean anything. It\u2019s time people learn \u2014 or re-learn \u2014 how to think clearly and for ourselves. And realize that our basic choices in self-identifying are either as a Free Thinker or a Thought Policer.\nHere\u2019s a novel idea: Let\u2019s teach kids \u2014 and everyone else! \u2014 how to think independently of what the media and Hollywood and Academics on their high horses tell us to think. (Those folks aren\u2019t really thinking on their own, anyway.) Let\u2019s stop being slaves to propaganda.\nYou can read the article here: \u201cToday\u2019s Two Main Political Camps are Pro-Thought and Anti-Thought.\u201d And here\u2019s an excerpt:\n\u201cLet\u2019s remember that all of the other First Amendment rights follow in logical order from the first: freedom of religion/belief/conscience/thought. Freedom of speech is the right to express what you think and believe. Freedom of press means the right to record those expressed thoughts in writing or other media. In this vein, freedom of association would mean being able to deliver your ideas to anyone willing to listen. It means the right to peaceably assemble and have open conversation with other people.\n\u201cThe heavy hand of the state has no right to cut off or interfere in our ability to spark thoughtful conversations. If the state violates our First Amendment rights, the First Amendment also gives us the right to petition as a means of fighting back against that abuse of power.\u201d\n\u201cOnce the Mass State starts manipulating language by legislating everyday expressions, such as forcing every citizen to adhere to unfamiliar pronoun protocols under the guise of anti-discrimination, it builds walls between people. That\u2019s exactly what it\u2019s designed to do.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve probably all observed how political correctness controls speech and thought by inducing self-censorship. How does this happen? Through manipulating the primal human terror of being socially isolated for non-compliance. People comply with political correctness in order to avoid that perceived isolation. Yet political correctness is designed to isolate us socially through our compliance with it! Heads, they win; tails, you lose.\n\u201cThe only way to avoid that Catch-22 is to stand up to political correctness before its illusions root too deeply. The First Amendment is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. And it\u2019s all or nothing.\n\u201cThe only way the bubble of political correctness can pop is if all free thinkers are inclined to follow through with the First Amendment. Thinking will only remain free as long as we express our thoughts by speaking them, recording them, and cross-pollinating them through peaceful assembly. Nothing less can insure against the de-humanizing effects of thought policing.\n\u201cLet\u2019s think about that. And talk about it constantly.\u201d\nLet\u2019s Build More Awareness of Mob Psychology\nJuly 21, 2018 | Community, Culture, Freedom of Association, Friendship, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Society\nZombies from 1968 horror film \u201cNight of the Living Dead.\u201d (Wikipedia Commons)\nThe weird thing about mobs is that they tend to be made up of individuals with little or no self-awareness. Participation in a mob mentality strikes me as a way of compensating for that loss. People tend to lose themselves \u2014 and get a false sense of purpose \u2014 from taking part in mob action. For example, consider the persona of \u201csocial justice warrior.\u201d Those who adopt the SJW persona pretend to be aware of inequality. Why? My guess is that\u2019s because they are so unaware of what true inequality is \u2014 that it stems from ignorance and a lack of experience in dealing with real people on a real level. They resist honest interaction, honest relationships. And nothing could be more self-destructive than that. It\u2019s a zombie-like attitude that actually perpetuates inequality.\nTake the case of \u201cBarrett Wilson\u201d \u2014 a pseudonym. He recently wrote a piece for Quillette, entitled \u201cI was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me.\u201d He provides a chilling picture of mob behavior. Having been a part of the \u201csocial justice industry\u201d Wilson participated in ganging up on others and smearing them as \u201cracists\u201d and \u201csexists.\u201d Why? Because it felt good. He explained that he got an emotional rush from behaving that way: \u201cFor years, I was blind to my own gleeful savagery.\u201d Of course, at a certain point the savage mob turned on him. That\u2019s the nature of the beast. He lost his well paying job because of the accusations and total lack of due process in the social justice industry. Now he delivers food for a living. He\u2019ll lose that job too if the mob finds out who he is.\nThe silver lining is that Wilson realized that getting off the mob train \u2014 and doing honest work \u2014 has allowed him to recover some sanity in life, and best of all, appreciation for others: \u201cIt\u2019s led me to rediscover how to interact with people in the real world. I\u2019m a kinder and more respectful person now. . . \u201d\nI wrote up a piece about this in the Federalist last week. You can read it here: What to Learn from the Social Justice Warrior Who was Eaten by His Own Mob.\u201d The more aware we become of mob psychology, the more able we are to think on our own and relate to others.\nSoviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov\u2019s Love Letter to America\nMay 29, 2018 | Books, Freedom of Association, History, Propaganda, Society\nIn 1970 a Soviet KGB agent stationed in India disguised himself as a hippie and blended in with a crowd. He managed to escape detection and found his way to the West where he defected. Yuri Bezmenov took the name Tomas Schuman, and wrote a short book entitled \u201cLove Letter to America.\u201d In it he describes how he fell in love with the goodness of America and couldn\u2019t go on promoting the deceptions and inhumane tactics that poisoned so many lives. Below is a 1984 interview with him \u201cDeception was my Job\u201d in which Bezmenov tries to warn Americans about the ideological subversion that is practiced on them by totalitarian actors, such as the Soviet KGB:\nIt\u2019s a fascinating interview in so many ways. Bezmenov was a member of the privileged elite in the Soviet Union. He had nothing to gain materially by defecting, and certainly nothing to gain in terms of prestige. It was the weight of conscience that caused him to break free of a life of practicing deception \u2014 and to take the great risks involved in making a break for freedom. In his new life he resolved to do the best he could to help us understand how totalitarians play the game of ideological subversion, in which they push open societies to become closed societies. You should look at his book in the link above to get the full story. On page 22 of his book, he includes a chart to show the four stages of Soviet ideological subversion: 1.) Demoralization, which takes about a generation\u2019s time, 15-20 years; 2.) Destabilization, which takes about 2-5 years; 3.) Crisis, which is a matter of months; and finally 4.) Normalization, basically the mopping up operation once an authoritarian system is in place.\nIt\u2019s interesting that the demoralization phase in America began a whole lot longer ago than 20 years. I would guess at least 50 years or so. If Bezmenov\u2019s theory is correct, I think there are several reasons why America would still be standing as a free nation with an intact \u2014 though much threatened \u2014 Constitution. A lot of unpredicted forces seem to have disrupted the demoralization and destabilization processes. The election of Ronald Reagan would be one disruption, especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Many would also put the election of Donald Trump into this category of an unpredictable black swan event. And there are a whole lot of cross currents in a free society that can foil the plans of even the most calculating totalitarians. Chief among them, in my opinion, are freedom of association and freedom of speech that serve to cross pollinate ideas and feed a ripple effect of freedom.\nThe Link between Mass Schooling and Mental Instability in Kids\nFebruary 25, 2018 | Bureaucracy, Culture, Education, Political Correctness, Society\nHigh School Hallway. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)\nThe other day I wrote a piece for the Federalist in which I explore the ways mass public schooling actually cultivates mental instability in children. You can read it here: \u201c13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability in Kids.\u201d\nIn the wake of another school shooting \u2013 and now the ways children are being used to serve as mouthpieces for PC agendas, including (but not limited to) gun control \u2014 I think it\u2019s high time we take a good hard look at the institutions that are shaping them for most of their waking hours. The schools teach abject conformity in so many ways, that I believe they are literally making kids ill. In my piece I list 13 ways this happens in today\u2019s government mega-schools. They include the hierarchy of cliques, status anxiety, relational aggression, hostility towards family and faith, politicization, and enforced conformity.\nI\u2019m sure you can add many more ways today\u2019s schools feel oppressive, and even prison-like. And yet there are now places called \u201cschool refusal clinics\u201d for children to be psychologically \u201ctreated\u201d if school becomes so alienating and lonely for children that it literally makes them sick.\nBelow is an excerpt on just one of those 13 points. In it, I reflect on how the sheer size of today\u2019s schools have grown exponentially. I think this in itself promotes an alienating environment that\u2019s not conducive to mental health.\nBack in 1929-30, there were about 248,000 public schools in the United States, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. How many today? Far less than half that. By 2013-14, the number had shrunk to 98,000.\nWhen you consider that the U.S. population nearly tripled in that timeframe, there\u2019s no question this factory model of schooling has grown exponentially. The numbers speak to the intense bureaucratization of a public school system that is becoming more centralized with less local control, packing ever-larger numbers of students in one place.\nThe natural effect for a young human being is an emotional malaise that fuels a sense of confusion and detachment. I believe the sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the term \u201canomie\u201d to describe this state of isolation. Even the physical architecture of public schools is getting more estranging. They tend to be larger and more looming, almost blade-runner-like in their effect of shrinking and sequestering individuals to irrelevance.\nMy FRC talk about Social and Emotional Programming, the latest fad in Education\nFebruary 23, 2018 | Bureaucracy, Children, Community, Culture, Education, Family, Freedom of Association, Language, Law, Loneliness, Persuasion, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Religion, Society\nI recently spoke at the Family Research Council about a new fad in mass public schooling called \u201csocial and emotional learning\u201d (SEL.) Those who advocate for SEL claim the program will give children critical life skills, such as empathy, getting along with others, and making good decisions. An organization called the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) wants a government mandate that will bring this program into every school. You can watch my FRC policy lecture here:\nIn this talk I give my perspective on SEL. While good teachers are always a godsend, bureaucrats can never achieve what they promise in such programs. Especially since their framework is mass schooling. Such values and attitudes need to be taught in intimate settings of trust, such as families. Not in hyper-bureaucratized mega-schools. I see the SEL program as a bait-and-switch operation, because it demands universal compliance with its methods, with its content, and with its monopoly. By its very monolithic nature as program driven by a government monopoly, it is coercive. In the video, you\u2019ll see a clip in which a representative for SEL tells us that they \u201cneed the WHOLE child.\u201d And if you delve into this more, you can see that the SEL program is really all about enforcing conformity: Conformity of feelings, attitudes, emotions, speech, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. When such things are directed by a centralized State mandate, rather than by de-centralized mediating institutions \u2014 institutions of family, faith, and voluntary associations \u2014 there can be no freedom, nor can there be real diversity.\nStaged Hate in Charlottesville? In War, Perception is Everything.\nAugust 26, 2017 | Language, Persuasion, Political Correctness, Politics, Propaganda, Society\n\u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage; And all the men and women merely players . . . \u201d \u2014 Shakespeare, As You Like It\nBelow is an excerpt from my latest Federalist piece: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Post-Charlottesville Nervous Breakdown was Deliberately Induced.\u201d I hope you\u2019ll have a chance to read it in full.\n\u201cWars are won or lost based mostly on perceptions of events, not on what actually happens. This is true for any given battlefield, whether it\u2019s the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam or the ideological battlefield over the future of the First Amendment as played out in Charlottesville in 2017. The reality of what takes place in the public arena is always secondary to any projected illusion.\nSo let\u2019s never forget this: Whoever has the power to dictate public perceptions of reality is in a position to dictate public opinion and behavior. Abusing language and images to stir up emotions is an ancient trick of power-mongers. And once journalism turns into unchecked propaganda, we become trapped in its dangerous illusions.\u201d\nThe social turmoil we are witnessing today has largely been manufactured through the combination of three elements: 1. the manipulation of our language; 2. the deliberate use of such loaded language to cultivate extreme emotions in people, particularly anger and resentment; and 3. the role of mass media as a nuclear device to impose those perceptions on a mass scale.\nHere\u2019s another interesting sidelight to consider. Public Relations firms such as Crowds on Demand provide actors for protests and rallies and run ads on Craigslist to recruit and pay for that purpose. So it\u2019s very easy to create illusions of riots if you can rent a mob for it. The blog Gates of Vienna ran an interview recently with an eyewitness who was in Charlottesville on the day of the riots and reports that protesters from both sides \u2014 attired both in \u201ccounter-protester\u201d clothing such as Antifa or BLM shirts AND neo-Nazi/KKK shirts \u2014 were dropped off from the same bus. And this happened with a line of chartered buses, both sides apparently sharing the same vehicles. The story is here: \u201cAll the World\u2019s a Stage.\u201d Whether or not you believe this, the fact that politicized officials ordered police to stand down lends credence to the scenario of a staged riot.\nGratitude for the Devotion and Labor of Fathers\nJune 17, 2017 | Children, Family, Feminism, Gender, Marriage, Society\nSaint Joseph, patron of fathers and workers. Guido Reni c. 1640. (19th c. photograph by James or Domenico Anderson, Wikimedia Commons)\nMy Father\u2019s Day piece at the Federalist is a meditation on the contributions of fathers to the labor of their households. You can read it here: \u201cRather than Judging Fathers\u2019 Household Labor, Let\u2019s Appreciate It.\u201d\nOne of the recent feminist complaints is that men should contribute more to housework \u2014 as in laundry, dishes, and child care. Rarely do we hear anything about \u201cgender equity\u201d when it comes to the sort of household labor that is traditionally masculine. But Dads who take on projects to add sweat equity contribute a lot to their families, though those things are little noted in the culture. When I think of all my husband has done to promote the little homestead, I\u2019m grateful. And I\u2019ve always preferred doing the housework if it frees him up for such big ticket projects.\nAnd when I think back on my own father who actually did a lot of housework, grocery shopping, and caregiving, I am very grateful for all he contributed both as a breadwinner and on the homefront. He was an amazing man who had a hard life. But he always appreciated his blessings, especially his family. He was cheerful,, and truly a delight to be around. Remarkable. In my Federalist piece, I reflect on the many things he did for his family, quietly and without complaint.\nI think trying to keep score in household chores is a lose-lose situation in any relationship, assuming both are contributing according to their gifts. Fathers in particular should be more appreciated for their efforts, whether the labor is \u201cgendered\u201d or not. Everyone has something to offer, and it\u2019s up to the team to work out a system without fixating on 50-50.\nOn this Father\u2019s Day, let\u2019s appreciate the devotion of fathers and their unique gifts, whatever they might be.\n\"You can observe a lot by watching.\" -- Yogi Berra\nTweets by @Stella_Morabito\nArchive Select Month July 2018 May 2018 February 2018 August 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 November 2016 October 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014\nCategories Select Category Abortion Biology Books Bureaucracy Children Christianity Community Cults Culture Education Eugenics Family Feminism Free Speech Freedom of Association Friendship Gender Genocide History Hollywood Language Law Loneliness Marriage Media Medicine Persuasion Philosophy Political Correctness Politics Propaganda Religion Society Tradition Transgender Uncategorized\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Stella Morabito. 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What benefits can it provide?\nHow does Clenbuterol work in regard to implementing it into a bodybuilding or athletic training regimen or cycle?\nThese are just a few questions that any potential user of Clenbuterol should be asking. Click here to visit our recommended supplier.\nClenbuterol is not an anabolic steroid but a sympathomimetic amine that does, in some ways act like a steroid.\nClenbuterol is a decongestant agent and bronchodilator that is commonly used by people diagnosed with asthma or chronic lung conditions and disorders such as COPD.\nIt\u2019s a prescription-only drug, though not classified as a controlled substance. So what does it do?\nClenbuterol is deemed an adrenergic compound that can in some ways mimic some of the behaviors of the sympathetic nervous system.\nBodybuilders and athletes often use it because it has fat burning (thermogenic) potential due to its stimulative effects on the sympathetic nervous system.\nAs a bronchodilator and decongestant agent, Clenbuterol\u2019s main function or mechanism of action serves to dilate/relax smooth muscle tissues such as those found in the bronchi and bronchial tubes.\nIt can behave on other body processes such as the conversion of lipids (fats) into glucose inside the liver.\nGlucose (sugar) is the body\u2019s main form of energy and part of the metabolic process.\nBecause Clenbuterol can have an impact on the sympathetic nervous system, it can also have an impact on metabolism and cardiovascular behaviors.\nClenbuterol also has some thermogenic properties, which increase metabolism and aid in fat-burning, so it can be effective in weight loss \u2013 under certain circumstances.\nBefore heading to the pharmacy to purchase Clenbuterol, be aware that the weight loss associated with it is not significant.\nIn fact, bodybuilders are the first to admit that Clenbuterol is only effective in helping them to lose a few pounds prior to competition, in combination with an adequate diet and continued exercise routines.\nIt is not recommended as a weight-loss drug for those who are overweight, obese, or who don\u2019t exercise regularly but are looking for an easy fix.\nIts mechanism of action in relaxing and opening airways is also effective for athletes because the lungs oxygenate blood.\nThe more oxygen in the blood, the more oxygen reaches muscle cells, improving muscle building processes, strengthening, endurance, and stamina.\nDoes Clenbuterol work? For some things, such as its efficacy as a bronchodilator, yes. For drastic weight-loss, no.\nWhat about Clenbuterol side effects?\nAs with many prescription-only drugs, Clenbuterol is recommended in specific oral or inhaled doses to achieve the greatest benefit with a minimum of side effects.\nUsed for non-medical reasons, any drug, including Clenbuterol, can contribute to a number of unexpected and sometimes alarming side effects.\nBecause of its ability to stimulate components of the nervous system, users may experience a number of central nervous system/sympathetic nervous system effects that include:\njitteriness or trembling (often defined as fine skeletal muscle tremors)\ntension, which can contribute to headaches\nClenbuterol dosage recommendations and safety considerations\nIn medical scenarios, Clenbuterol in tablet form may average 20 mcg a day. A bodybuilder athlete often takes as much as 160 mcg a day.\nThe higher the dosage, the higher the potential for side effects.\nHigher than recommended doses of Clenbuterol can contribute to heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.\nIt can also contribute to a condition known as rhabdomyolysis, or the damage and breakdown of muscle tissue fibers that are then excreted in urinary flow, which can turn dark in color.\nObviously, the breakdown of muscle tissue is not what athletes and bodybuilders are looking for.\nClenbuterol has a relatively brief half-life, which often prompts users to take more on a daily basis and throughout the day to maintain the thermogenic or fat-burning effects.\nHowever, even in medically supervised scenarios, use of Clenbuterol is not generally recommended long-term, depending on situation and ultimate treatment goals.\nBodybuilding websites and forum discussion groups recommend that bodybuilders not take Clenbuterol for more than four to six weeks, and then give the body a rest for two to three weeks before starting use again.\nIn most cases, side effects of Clenbuterol will ease as the use is discontinued.\nSo, does Clenbuterol work and is it safe? 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You can support the causes, schools, units, or student organizations that you feel most passionate. You can make a difference in thousands of lives and have an impact on the future of our world. You can become a \u201cvictor for Michigan\u201d by through your donations. With social media challenges, special events, and real-time updates throughout the day, you and your student can show your pride with a gift to the university.\nPlease visit Giving Blueday to learn how to participate in this university-wide day of giving, or to make a donation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studentshare.org/education/1629352-plagiarism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:N5WBKYSFKEWUMM4K4KI3VLB6K2NXRTXS", "length": 10406, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "studentshare.org", "title": "Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism Assignment - 1", "raw_content": "Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism\nWhy Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism - Assignment Example\nThis paper \"Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism\" focuses on the notion that has over the years grown and became a major concern for most administrators and teachers who require that their students\u2019 work accurately represents their own individual effort\u2026\nAuthor: camylle97\n\"Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism\"\nDownload file to see previous pages This paper seeks to try and identify exactly what is meant by plagiarism, the reason as to why it is so extensive and the probable effects of plagiarism on students and institutions.\nAccording to Anderson (1998), plagiarism can essentially be defined as the act of using another person\u2019s words without undertaking to give the person any of the credit that is due to that person. Plagiarism is seen to have its root set in the traditional Western civilization concept of property ownership. During the historical period of the Greco-Roman era, it was common to find orators and authors frequently borrowing from one another, however, the discovery of such theft was usually met with a lot of public ridicule and sarcasm.\nIntellectual property protection can be deemed to be primarily concerned about money and the freedom for an individual to develop various ideas into a number of products and works that will be found to be of immense benefit to society. To encourage discovery and creative development among its citizens, the law is designed so as to give an originator a certain amount of time within which he will be allowed to control both the content and disbursement of any of the products which might happen to result from his idea. In the event that someone happens to seat al use this original material, they are liable to be charged with infringement of property.\nThere are a number of reasons as to why plagiarism is found to be so extensive among students within higher education. In a study conducted on a sample size of 5000 students, the results of the study suggested that an estimated three-quarter of the sample group admitted to having engaged in some form of academic cheating. A large number of students in the sample group recorded as having previously plagiarized supports the notion that while it is possible to reduce plagiarism in the various institutions of higher learning, it is nevertheless impossible to completely eliminate it. 16 percent of the students in the study cited the reason as to why they plagiarized was a result of the belief that they would not be caught, students were aware of the rather immense pressure that the university staff were under as a result of teaching and marking the results of a large number of students and believed that they could be able to safely take the chance with submitting plagiarized work. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More\n(\u201cWhy Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism Assignment - 1\u201d, n.d.)\nRetrieved from https://studentshare.org/education/1629352-plagiarism\n(Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism Assignment - 1)\nhttps://studentshare.org/education/1629352-plagiarism.\n\u201cWhy Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism Assignment - 1\u201d, n.d. https://studentshare.org/education/1629352-plagiarism.\nCases of plagiarism and its consequences\n...work later on from the same university. So it can be said that justice had not been done and created a wrong example for students and authors alike. Before performing any act of plagiarism, one should remember that it can lead to serious consequences of plagiarism like expulsion or suspension from the university, failing grades in case of students; degrees might be cancelled, loss of jobs and most importantly a person\u2019s career is ruined forever. However many ways have been evolved to stop plagiarism for example, invention of software like Turnitin.com, which can detect plagiarism in the submitted articles. As Hoover has...\n...?Plagiarism occurs when a purports an idea that belongs to another as his original idea failing to acknowledge the source of information. Plagiarism is intellectual dishonest or theft since one implies to own ideas that are not his own, and consequently commits a form of dishonesty. Plagiarism can take many forms such as direct copy pasting of other students work or sources, and has bad repercussions to students and writers; however, there are strategies to avoid plagiarism that include paraphrasing, use of quotes and employing specific referencing styles such as MLA. Plagiarism usually applies to...\n...Internet plagiarism among college Introduction Plagiarism is using words, ideas and work of another author and representing the work as one\u2019s own (Sadler 361). Sadler Brook provides ten arguments why plagiarism is wrong. First, he asserts that plagiarism is a type of theft regardless of the copyright issues since it entails taking one\u2019s property and using it as your own. Secondly, he asserts that plagiarism deceives or intent to deceive the professors. In the third argument, Sadler outlines that plagiarism violates the trust on which higher education is established since students expect their professors...\nPlagiarism Among the Students\n...ideas as original. Writing an essay or a research assignment and claiming it yours, truly demands originality (Harvey, 2003). When one is asked to write an essay, usually what students do, they paraphrase or quote the already published assignment on the internet and submit it, as their own work, without giving credit to the creator. Most of the students indulge in plagiarism because of shortage of time, lack of interest in the field of study, part-time involvement in jobs, and other likely reasons (Harvey, 2003). Students sometimes get involved in plagiarism, intentionally, because they do not believe in themselves. They think that some other person...\n...that include expulsion from the academic institution or a job. Apart from that, the most serious consequence is that the loss of credibility of a writer. One key reason why students indulge in plagiarism could be lack of awareness. As Evan (2000) says, everyone seems to know that plagiarism is wrong, including those who commit the offence, but few know how to completely define it. Many students do not understand that even using their own previous works without citation is plagiarism. This increases the instances of unintentional or accidental plagiarism, where students are not aware of...\n...later on from the same university. So it can be said that justice had not been done and created a wrong example for students and authors alike. Before performing any act of plagiarism, one should remember that it can lead to serious consequences of plagiarism like expulsion or suspension from the university, failing grades in case of students; degrees might be cancelled, loss of jobs and most importantly a person\u2019s career is ruined forever. However many ways have been evolved to stop plagiarism for example, invention of software like Turnitin.com, which can detect plagiarism in the submitted articles. As Hoover has...\n...Plagiarism Plagiarism Steven\u2019s academic dishonesty could have and should have led to various or one of the penalties levied directly on him. Individuals who are caught for conducting plagiarism can face various or one of the penalties stated in the plagiarism and the academic dishonesty policy of the educational institute (Brosche, 2011, p.123). Some of these outcomes include: suspension from the university for a limited time period or for a very prolonged time period, in GCU a student can be suspended for 16 weeks to two years for academic dishonesty. According to the policies of GCU, a student may be awarded an F grade for the complete course in which he has conducted academic dishonesty or F grade may be assigned to the project... or the...\n...1. Word of Mouth: The Ultimate Marketing Strategy 1 Elucidating the Notion of Word of Mouth Word of mouth (WOM) has often been considered to have a significant impact in the field of buyer behaviour and marketing in a general sense (Buttle, 1998; Trusov, Bucklin, & Pauwels, 2009). One prominent definition of WOM communication is that it is oral communication that occurs between one person and another that the person receiving perceives to be as non-commercial (Arndt, 1967). However, this definition is not fully accurate in modern times. One issue with this definition is that it considers WOM communication to only occur when two people are face-to-face and communicating orally (Stokes & Lomax, 2002). Electronic communication has... Word of...\nAssisting students to avoid plagiarism\n..., something that was lacking in Article 2. Overall, the difference in the two articles was that the authors of Article 1 went about the matter in a comprehensive matter, whereas those of Article 2 did it in a less systematic format. Article 1 contained tables giving comparative analysis of the different experiments, whereas Article 2 provided the information in paragraphs and, at times, bullet points. The referencing in Article 1 was APA with in-text citation, the referencing in Article 2 was only APA with regards to the bibliography at the back, and there was little in-text citation coherent with the APA referencing style. References Chao, C., Wilhelm, W. J., Neureuther, B. D. (2009). \u201cA Study of electronic detection and...\nRevealing Cases of Plagiarism among Students\n...\ufeffCase Study; Ethics Review The Student Council would like to make its stand on the idea of using Turnitin.com to detect cases of plagiarism among students. It appreciates the efforts and views this as a great step towards maintaining the high standards of education in the university. However, in its current state, the idea is ineffective since it is prone to several shortcomings that arise from the use of software-based methods of plagiarism detection such as detecting texts in quotation marks as plagiarized texts and losing the format of papers. After analyzing the idea and carrying out a research on the same, the Council feels that Turnitin.com cannot...\nLet us write or edit the assignment on your topic \"Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism\" with a personal 20% discount.\nLet us find you another Assignment on topic Why Students Plagiarize and Consequences of Plagiarism for FREE!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 13631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studentshare.org/miscellaneous/1557053-the-social-issues-of-the-roaring-twenties-art-and-ideas-economy-technology-science-and-the-social-ferment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:IAQL3LOEZWRZLTOPZAY355PK3JHVSMM5", "length": 10753, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "studentshare.org", "title": "The social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Essay", "raw_content": "The social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Technology, Science, and the Social Ferment)\nThe social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Technology, Science, and the Social Ferment) - Essay Example\nBy 1870, a large number of immigrants came to the US, chiefly from Great Britain, Germany, and Ireland. These groups, although, following diverse traditions, shared a similar outlook towards the world. Subsequent to\u2026\nAuthor: windlerlesly\n\"The social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Technology, Science, and the Social Ferment)\"\nThis discrimination was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. This decision, which supported racial segregation, was reversed in 1954, and the government made racial segregation and discrimination in any form, illegal. However, discrimination persists and until 1920, women were not permitted to exercise their franchise, when Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution that provided women with the right to vote. Despite these measures, women in the US are still subjected to discrimination (Pozzuto & Arnd-Caddigan, Mar2008, P. 58).\nFrom the early 1900s till the Second World War, the US witnessed modernism in art, design and architecture. The first skyscrapers were constructed in the 1870s. These structures generated considerable competition from architects. The first successful design was New York\u2019s Woolworth Building. The Architects Anderson Graham, Probst, and White designed and constructed the Wrigley Building in Chicago. Howells and Hood designed the Chicago Tribune Tower. Chrysler and the Empire State Building displayed the Art Deco design. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed several houses in California and Japan. Art Deco lasted from 1925 to 1950. It was called as modern construction and emerged from the 1925 International Art Exposition in Paris (Whitley, 2008).\nOpposition to communism reached fanatical levels in the US during the 1920s. Communism was referred to as Red Scares, and communists were referred to as anarchists. In 1920, there were an estimated 150,000 communists in the nation, which was just 0.1 percent of the population. People subscribing to radical views were persecuted, as evident from the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Americans of that period adopted provincialism, as depicted by the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, restrictive immigration laws and Prohibition (Roaring Twenties).\nThe 1919, 18th amendment to the Constitution, ...Download file to see next pagesRead More\n(\u201cThe social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Essay\u201d, n.d.)\nRetrieved from https://studentshare.org/miscellaneous/1557053-the-social-issues-of-the-roaring-twenties-art-and-ideas-economy-technology-science-and-the-social-ferment\n(The Social Issues of the Roaring Twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Essay)\nhttps://studentshare.org/miscellaneous/1557053-the-social-issues-of-the-roaring-twenties-art-and-ideas-economy-technology-science-and-the-social-ferment.\n\u201cThe Social Issues of the Roaring Twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Essay\u201d, n.d. https://studentshare.org/miscellaneous/1557053-the-social-issues-of-the-roaring-twenties-art-and-ideas-economy-technology-science-and-the-social-ferment.\n...to political and social instability worldwide, security checks have become tighter, while more and more information about the applicant is required and thorough looked through so as to not skip any piece of evidence that shows he/she is not legible to enter the United States. In addition to this, with the terrorism activities being illustrated loudly, the immigration centre has restricted who enters the United States and who does not to a great deal. However, there is still a large number of illegal immigrants who enter the United States. Ironically, they do not challenge the economy of the country but jeopardize the security system. With 3 out of every 100 people being illegal immigrants with forged...\n.... Likewise, it must be understood that \u201clow tech\u201d approaches to museum visitorship have and will be defined as those museums that do not engage in any type of extensive electronic outreach. In other words, although web sites and certain types of limited mailing lists will be accepted for purposes of categorizing a particular subset of museums as leveraging older technology, the widespread reliance upon smart phone apps and/or approaches that are heavily reliant upon social media will categorize a given set of museums within the technologically advanced category. As a result of a thorough literature review on the topic, it should be at least nominally expected that the museums and cultural...\n...in undeveloped regions of the Third World, the fact of the matter is that male hegemony exists at each and every level of each and every global society. Though great strides have been made within the past several decades to improve the quality of life for women around the globe, hegemonic male action and societal powers that continue to ensure a male oriented world are still very much in place within modern society and continue to uphold the same standards that they did hundreds, even thousands of years ago. Anti-social personality disorder has been defined as \u201ca pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others\u201d. Whereas such a disorder is not new to the spectrum of psychiatric...\nSocial Science & Social Changes\n...SOCIAL SCIENCE & SOCIAL CHANGES Humans are social animals. To socialize with similar people having similar beliefs, thinking and ways of life and tomake communities, interact, communicate and share their similar interests are some of the needs that need to be fulfilled for the development of a human being in for him to lead a complete life to its fullest. To fulfill these and many other purposes, humans form societies. These societies have their own norms, beliefs, rituals, customs, standards and practices, etc. The size of a society may vary from a small group of people to large communities depending upon the nature of the society. Although the...\nSocial Science/Social Policy\n...as being male. This theme related to the gender distinctions common in the care service. Care work had been seen as a largely stereotypical women's job. In this case the job description and the gender of care work did not fit the generalized ideology of what a care worker should be. The subject and them of work related directly to the difficulty the interviewee experienced in getting into residential care. He had been a volunteer at first but had been in the business for 12 years. There is also the question of how the interviewee sees the social policy framework. The subject of what is still needed in the social care environment is examined and clearly the care worker believes there should be more...\n...SOCIAL SCIENCE PREMARITAL SEX For years, researches have been carried out focusing only on ways to prevent sex before marriage, one of which is undoubtedly the seminars that bring proper knowledge regarding the issue. With all these different ideas made, still, the rate of premarital sex problem continue to increase. Centuries passed. Cultures changed and we have made the slow transition to a sexually confused nation. The question in our mind is this \u2013 \u201cShould we condemn sex, glorify it or abuse it?\u201d Unable to find the answer, the youth of this nation are confused a lot. Sex is like a forbidden toy, run on an operating system that is too complex to handle. The average...\n...COUNT: 394 1) Explain how climate change may be seen as an example of market failure. The market economy is one that is run by the forces of a market, that is, the economy is based on the dynamic relationship between the prices of goods and services and the behavior of producers and consumers. For example, as consumers increase their demand for a particular good or service the price of that commodity increases. Likewise as the producers increase their output to meet the increased demand the price is affected. It is this interaction amongst the consumers\u2019 demand, the producers or suppliers\u2019 output and the changes in price that leads to an equilibrium price where both consumers and producers are willing to...\n..., function, and ethics, Annals of Internal Medicine, 134 (1), pp. 83\u201387. Cohen, M. Z., Tripp-Reimer, T., Smith, C., Sorofman, B. & Lively, S. (1994) Explanatory models of diabetes: Patient practitioner variation, Social Science & Medicine, 38 (1), pp. 59\u201366. Doyal Lesley (1983) The political economy of health. Pluto Press, London Duggan, P. S., Geller, G., Cooper, L. A. & Beach, M. C. (2006) The moral nature of patient-centeredness: Is it \u2018just the right thing to do\u2019? Patient Education & Counseling, 62, pp. 271\u2013276. Engel, G. L. (2012) The need for a new medical model: A challenge for biomedicine. psychodynamic psychiatry, 40 (3), pp.377-396 Equality and Human Rights Group (2007) Human...\nRoaring & Not-So Roaring Twenties\n...industry also flourished. Jazz and other modern instruments were introduced. Radio transmission saw progress and more familiarity amongst the masses. Literature also flourished. The American dream was being followed more vigorously. Wall Street flourished and went global. European Industries also saw progress. The negative side was the too much reliance on technology and artificial existence of the markets and industries. This eventually led to the Economic Recession towards the late 1920s. The Great Depression again led the mindset towards an authoritative mindset. For example, fascism, Communism, and Nazism, all prevailed as a reactionary mindset, ideology and political concepts against the capitalist markets. Other...\n...if women have access to education and health and the issue has a significant intrinsic value. Treating both genders equally is a way of reducing gender imbalances existing in most communities. With equal education, women have enhanced capacity to contribute to the economic progress. Human capital gained through education improves the levels of productivity of individuals. From many researches, women have been deprived the right to learn and this issue is quite problematic because it showers the social efficiency. The economic benefits of educating boys are equal to those of educating males. However, the social benefits gained from suing women as the agents for...\nLet us write or edit the essay on your topic \"The social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Technology, Science, and the Social Ferment)\" with a personal 20% discount.\nLet us find you another Essay on topic The social issues of the roaring twenties ( Art and Ideas, Economy, Technology, Science, and the Social Ferment) for FREE!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 14160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stv.tv/news/politics/1407289-all-public-bodies-to-have-gender-balanced-boards-by-2022/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YVK7SMI4ASOSH637XK4G6ZN4HJWYMQX4", "length": 2144, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "stv.tv", "title": "All public bodies to have gender-balanced boards by 2022", "raw_content": "All public bodies to have gender-balanced boards by 2022\nSTV 30 January 2018\nNew law will ensure at least 50% of board members will be women.\nHolyrood: The bill was opposed by the Tories (file pic).\nMSPs have passed a law to ensure women make up at least half the board members for all public authorities.\nThe Scottish Parliament voted by 88 to 28 in favour of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill, with opposition from the Conservatives.\nThe legislation sets the benchmark of having women make up a minimum of 50% of non-executive members by 2022.\nIt will apply to colleges, universities and some public bodies including health boards, enterprise agencies, the Scottish Police Authority and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\nEqualities minister Angela Constance told the chamber: \"This bill will make Scotland the only country in the United Kingdom with a statutory objective for women's representation on public sector boards.\n\"It is unacceptable for women to still be under-represented in senior positions in the boardroom, to still be paid less than their male counterparts, to still be subjected to sexual harassment and violence.\"\nShe stressed appointments will \"continue to be made on merit\" and the legislation will \"not impose quotas\".\nOn Tory opposition to the bill, she said: \"I don't know whether that is just misguided or whether it is malicious.\"\nLabour's Monica Lennon said: \"Women make up half of the population - we're not a minority so it shouldn't need saying that we should also make up half of the decision makers too.\n\"Creating legislation which gives women greater rights to representation is a bold move and I hope it is the first step towards creating an equal playing field for all women at all levels of public life.\"\nConservative Alison Harris, reading out a speech by her party colleague Annie Wells who lost her voice, said Ms Wells was not persuaded it is \"effective and clear\" legislation.\nShe said: \"Annie Wells would like to reiterate her support for achieving equal representation of women in all walks life but does not believe statutory quotas are the right means to achieve this.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 8833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=24", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CO2QKSKV5GIR4ZN7BCUL6FSCC6IIBSLV", "length": 966, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "suffolkartists.co.uk", "title": "Suffolk Artists - ALKEN, Samuel Henry Gordon", "raw_content": "Samuel Henry Gordon Alken, was born in Ipswich in 1810, son of Henry Thomas Alken [q.v.] and his wife Maria or Marian\u00e9e n\u00e9e Gordon (1786-1841). 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A wheel chair casts a repetitive shadow receding into the wallpaper.\nAddendum: Between March 2003 and October 2006, 655,000 Iraqi civilians were killed by US military troops.-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://takelessons.com/profile/gregg-r2?service=guitar", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DAP4G5X7KYYHLFLVQ4AN22FR2P7NJEGK", "length": 2268, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "takelessons.com", "title": "Gregg R., Boston Teacher | Teaches Private Lessons in 02215", "raw_content": "Ask Gregg a Question\nReserve your spot with Gregg\nHi there! I've been playing guitar since I was a teenager during the '70s. i play and teach rock,blues, jazz, fusion and read and compose music. What you can expect from me is a patient, serious, determined teacher who knows how to convey simple to complex technique and ability to those who are destined to be a student and musician. I can teach how to read, listen, interpret, improvise and evolve many musical skills.\nGregg teaches\nGregg delivers an exceptional lesson experience and ranks in the top 15% of our teachers nationwide.\nI have had extensive jazz a rock studies from attending The Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, to becoming George Russell's teaching assistant at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston before he retired. I learned from a true master of jazz and contemporary music regarding composition, improvisation, theory and teaching students.\nMy aim is to share my musical knowledge, sense of harmony and technique to dedicated students. All melody and chords come from scales, which is essential to understanding music, as well as rhythms. I also accept what a student wants to learn. An important attribute of mine is patience, and the understanding that each person processes information differently.\nstudent needs own instrument\nrock, jazz, experimental, composition, rhythmic approaches, improvisation, musical notation techniques\nGuitar, Theory and drums\nI have taught guitar, music theory and drums on and off over the past 30 years.\nThe Guitar Institute Of Technology, Hollywood, Ca.\nGeorge Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization\nMike Hays Oct 9, 2015\nGregg was my musical instructor during the early 1980ties. What I learned in a few lessons with him was more that I could have expected. I was primarily focused on percussion, of which his vast knowledge was highly dynamic. I learned about poly-rhythms, Indian ti-hies, and complex time signatures. He had available much reference material that he provided me. And over the years his musical insights have not only supplemented my inquiries, but made me a better musician and person. 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La\u0308hnemann: Zur Situation der Grundwissenschaften in Gro\u00dfbritannien", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teamropingjournal.com/news/30-years-12-champs-31403", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OMIB47KTJICRMA6OXB7L4HXVZM3MTJPC", "length": 785, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "teamropingjournal.com", "title": "31 Years, 12 Champs - The Team Roping Journal", "raw_content": "31 Years, 12 Champs\nDespite it\u2019s 31-year history, there are only 12 men who can claim to be Cinch Timed Event Champions.\nDespite its 31-year history, there are only 12 men who can claim to be Cinch Timed Event Champions. In fact, Trevor Brazile, K.C. Jones, Paul Tierney and Jimmie Cooper have won 19 of the 30. The fact that so few have won it speaks to the idea that it\u2019s rodeo\u2019s Ironman event. Trevor Brazile says of the event: \u201cYou only take on the Timed Event because you love it. I wasn\u2019t born with a silver spoon, so I\u2019ve had to work extra hard for everything I\u2019ve won. I love that you can\u2019t buy or luck into winning the Timed Event. It takes some gristle in your gut and some blood in your eye to win this thing.\u201d\nOrder your tickets for this year's event, March 4-6, here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teauneetaylor3.com/2014/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UTBXMALXSPSQITOAHJ2TNYT67LDESXLV", "length": 25456, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "teauneetaylor3.com", "title": "June | 2014 | Metaphysics and the Movies according to Dartanion2", "raw_content": "In the words of the guardian angels......i beleive we can fly.......\nToday I am sharing a poem that has gotten more responses than any other I have shared. It speaks of the goodness and the strength of people, as well as those who use that strength, to promote their own selfish ends, and how that affects our society as a whole\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nWho wear their evil arrogance upon their thorny\nNo! You will not find them, on their knees as\nCowering clowns\nWaiting for opportunity, to pay their own way\nPrepared through their own faith, and nightly prayer\nI think these souls are more familiar, with common\nOne by one, they build this city\nAnd the foundation upon which OTHER men\nAccept gratuity\u2026\u2026..\nPoetry has been a part of my life since I wrote my first poem in first grade. Words themselves, I consider to be one of the finest tools ever conceived of, to be respected for the power they carry, and the truths they can bring to light \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\nPeripheral Neuropathy is a \"tricky\" business.........\nMy apologees, Doctors and nurses guys\u2026\u2026\u2026.Also, all the misspells in yesterdays post\u2026\u2026\u2026.Dealing with pain, sucks. Nurse Angie is on her way\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..should be back up to snuff by morning\u2026\u2026\u2026..Thanks for the flowers and emails\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.hugs-n-kisses\u2026\u2026.tony xx\n\u201cInspiration and Friendship\u201d \u2026\u2026..different perspectives, same Truth\u2026\u2026.\nLove will keep us together..........(Captain and Tenille)....\nI know, I\u2019m supposed to be writing about the Movies today but I have to tell you what happened yesterday, beyond my control, sorry. When I posted yesterday about my experience throughout the surgery, within hours my blog blew up with more hits (more than double) than my eyes could believe. I was getting phone calls and emails from my friends and family, my family now includes a lot more than just my immediate family, so much so that I wasn\u2019t able to get to sleep until about 10pm last night, that over 48 hours. I know that part of it was I got some pretty distressing news from my doctor, and when that kind of thing makes me manic and I wouldn\u2019t sleep anyway. But, this was different. I got so much love yesterday that I actually \u201cfeel better\u201d today. I mean I had know idea that I was touching on something so powerful. I got an email from a woman in Bulgaria who had the same symptoms as me and she was so happy to know that she was not alone that she tracked me down and got my private email address, which I guess is not that hard to do since I have it on Facebook and everywhere, I mean lets face it I\u2019m a pretty open book. But my point is that I started this blog for Metaphysics and the Movies because i\u201dve been searching for answers. Most people keep saying \u201cI know what you\u2019re looking for, Tony\u201d and it\u2019s HIM. God. Well of course I am. So is everyone, it\u2019s just that everyone needs to find those answers for themselves. Everyone has different ideas about what \u201cGod\u201d is. Some people are content just to never even consider the topic an issue. More power to them, I bet they live contented lives knowing that they don\u2019t control everything and have no desire to do so anyway. On the other hand you\u2019ve got people like me. I have a very strong belief system that includes energy as being the ultimate doorway to enlightenment and God. I had no idea that when I began blogging about my beliefs in energy and its ultimate answers that my illness would become such an open door to discussion\u2026..I received 21 requests yesterday for more commentary on my personal struggle with C.I.D.P. (chronic Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy) . It took me all afternoon yesterday and into the evening to return all my my messages and phone calls. Thank God I\u2019m confined to my bed for long stretches or it wouldn\u2019t have been possible. SEE, see what I mean, God is in my life. I just thanked God for my condition. I didn\u2019t plan to say that. It just is. When you start asking big questions, like the ones I\u2019ve asking, and being open about who you really are, then you start getting BIG answers. I am feeling so much better today because yesterday I was healed by your Love. Now if that has nothing to do with energy, then I am an idiot. Anyway, what I am trying to say here is that my blog is called \u201cMetaphysics and the Movies according to Dartanion2\u201d for a reason. My undeniable faith in energy as the key to all understanding, my love of my son\u2019s (that\u2019s why the Dartanion, which includes my son Griffin to) and my love of the movies. But it seems God has other plans. So from this day forward I will be posting, twice a week on what my progress is, what new help and suggestions I have discovered and my personal insights where the topic of Peripheral Neuropathy is concerned. I am going to finish this by adding that Inspiration, which I have found through new friendships and old enduring friendships, have lifted my heart and filled me with a new sense of purpose. I am going to trust God and try to look at what this blog is evolving into from ALL perspectives. I would like to know everything I can about everyones particular take on GOD and Metaphysics and the disease of Peripheral Neuropathy\u2026\u2026..BUT I will not stop including films in all of this because its my love of films that brought me here. And so, why do I now have the feeling that I have bitten off more that I can chew. Oh well, it\u2019s in his hands. I\u2019m just like everyone else, I\u2019ve got my own perspective on things and that is this. The outpouring of love I felt yesterday was the most healing, wonderful, blessed feeling I have EVER had\u2026\u2026..and I am a selfish man\u2026.I want more\u2026\u2026..I will continue write what you have asked of me, to the best of my ability\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Hugs-n-Kisses\u2026\u2026\u2026tony xx cheers\n\u201cDay After Surgery II\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.definitive proof\u2026\u2026\nalone in the city........i have found an answer.........thank, God......\nOk guys, I promised you a few days back that I\u2019d keep you apprised, as to my condition. Here\u2019s the latest. (for you new folks, my disease Is called Peripheral Neuropathy). Yesterday I underwent the second of three, Non-invasive spinal surgeries, at 11am. By the time this day had finished, we had determined exactly what my disease was called and the area directly responsible for my declining mobility, and pain issues. It was the most productive of my two year battle to fight this rare and debilitating disease. At 11am I was helped into the operating room where I was layed, face down upon an operating table that had a hole in it at one end. on that same side of the table are two arms that make the table look like a holy cross, these were to support your arms while you put your face into the hole. Beneath the hole is an oxygen mask, as I looked at it, in my minds eye, I saw myself being crucified facing backwards. (lol) The anesthesiologist then releases a chemical into the IV in your arm, and you fade into La La land as fresh oxygen fills your lungs. When I awoke, I was in the recovery room, in a bed, with absolutely no idea how I\u2019d gotten there. It\u2019s a strange feeling to gain a gap in your memory like that. The entire operation took 35 minutes from laying down to waking up. It consisted of 4 injections, by very long needles inserted directly through the skin and into the L4 and L5 discs in my lower spine, the objective?, to reduce the swelling causing the blockage of spinal fluids. This we had thought was the cause of the chronic pain and loss of mobility in my feet and legs. My feet are in so much pain that I cannot more than half a block without coming near to tears. To stop the pain was first on the list. 24 hours ago we had received test results showing that the disease had spread to my hands. Not good. By the time I woke up, my doctor was amazed to discover the real culprit in this two year struggle. Other Doctors had tried, none even had a clue. Turns out that my disease is accurately termed \u201d Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy\u201d. If we hadn\u2019t gotten those test results back when we did, it probably would have remain undiscovered. The test that showed that the disease had spread to my hands also showed that the \u201cMyelin\u201d which encases the nerves, and is itself encased, has been eroding. Like a telephone line protecting the wires inside, it has two layers. This \u201cinner casing\u201d is known as the \u201cMyelin Sheath\u201d and is the only perfect protection for the nerves themselves. As this Sheath continues to deteriorate so will my ability to walk. So, it was really NOT good news. But, because we caught it now, we can slow the progression of the disease, hopefully keep it from disabling my hands and give me back what I yearn for\u2026.\u201dQuality Of life\u201d. I will never be able to run again, but I \u201cmay\u201d be able to care for myself without any assistance. Eventually, I will lose ability to walk. But who cares, we now know that I will NOT die from this disease. It can be controlled, with some serious effort. I am so happy about my hands, I don\u2019t know what I would have done if I could never play a Guit-box (guitar) again, or write again. Even though it was Bad\u201d news I am relieved to finally have some answers and the abilty to attack the True problem. So, although there is probably two or three more pages of information I can share with you here, I must \u201cjet\u201d because, after all, I did just have surgery, and I have stayed up all night considering all of the approaching possibities, while dealing with the side affects of anesthesia. I am so excited and relieved to be free of the unknown\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I will be ready tomorrow, with some more of what I am here for\u2026..what\u2019s that everybody?\u2026\u2026you got It!\u2026\u2026.ENERGY, the singular truth of the universe\u2026\u2026\u2026.humbly,\u2026.I am Dartanion2\u2026\u2026\u2026..cheers\nP.S. if you\u2019re curious\u2026..this disease is contracted by 2, in every one million people\u2026\u2026\u2026..\nSorry Guys Surgery This Morning\u2026\u2026..back in the morning\u2026\u2026.smiles t xx\n\u201cTHE PROPHECY\u201d ~ the film\nProphecy has been here as long our existence.....i don't think its going anywhere....when will we face the fact that Jesus was right.....\nSo, have you guys seen the movie \u201cThe Prophecy\u201d with Christopher Walken and Elias Koteas and Eric Stoltz? It covers some \u201cvery\u201d debatable material and needs to be discussed because of its controversial nature and the fact that people look at the truth and refuse to see it for what it is. This argument has been going on for a LONG time. Most of the discussion on this topic circles around the \u201cBible\u201d. There are huge number of people who deny that any of the prophecies from the Bible have come to pass. This a stunner, in my opinion, and is absurd. In the Bible, Jesus says that his word (the gospels) will always exist and that it would be known all over the world. Well, here we are, 2000 years later and the Bible is the biggest selling book of all time. It is read and taught and studied in nearly every nation in the world. Jesus is the greatest prophet ever known and is literally known to nearly every culture, as the greatest prophet on the face of the earth. Now we could go on naming the other, nearly 1500 prophecies from the Bible, that have come to pass but, why should we? It\u2019s staring us right in the face. Prophecy exists because it has been around and recorded as fact in nearly every religion or faith in the world for thousands of years. People have been experiencing this phenomenon forever and then passing their experiences down to their family and friends for just as long. And if you are reading this I am pretty sure that you know someone who has reported something along these lines, and you believe them because you know and trust them. Sure, you probably dismiss your friends dream as coincidence because even though you found it a little peculiar, but he was never able to repeat it so there you have your reason for just filing it away as \u201codd\u201d. However, there is no denying the fact that these \u201codd\u201d experiences are here to stay and are no longer thought of as some kind of heresy and is accepted as \u201cmy grandmother has some special gift\u201d that we are proud to admit to each other. So, why all the controversy? Nearly everyone agrees that the coming of Jesus was a prediction and a miracle. So why can\u2019t we admit that \u201cprophecy\u201d exists? Easy, because science cannot accept that something that the \u201claws of nature\u201d cannot explain, is untrue. What a load of horse manure. We need to embrace it and learn to use it to help the evolution of humankind.\nIn the Movie, at the end there is a great quote I think deserves mentioning\u2026.\u201dAnd in the end I think it all must be about faith, and if faith is a choice, then faith can be lost for a man or an angel or the Devil himself. And If faith means never completely understanding Gods plan, then maybe understanding is just a part of it, our part, then that is what it is to have a soul and maybe, in the end, that is what being human is all about\u2026..\u201d interesting quote, peculiar Movie, all of that is acceptable but what is not acceptable is that we are not admitting that we are still making movies and writing books and believing in grandmothers \u201cvisions\u201d and then denying it exists. The whole controversy is absurd. Prophecy is here\u2026..HELLO, McFly!?!!!!\nI have a friend who\u2019s daughter in-law was taken aback when she told her that she was pregnant and was going to have a son. She responded by saying \u201cthat\u2019s not possible\u201d and of course she wound up being pregnant and having a son to their surprise. But, what was really interesting was that my friend had written down a name, put in a box, locked it, and left it for her daughter in law to find after she had the baby. She had given this box to her many months prior to the birth and upon opening it she found that she had named her son the exact name that was locked in the box, which she had in her possession for so many months. My friend was not a magician she simply had a dream about her sons child. Now, there are many stories like this one happening every day, you may even know one or two. Are we just going to deny that these are happening just because science can\u2019t explain it? I don\u2019t think so. What about you? In my opinion, the proof is simple, Jesus was this planets greatest \u201cPROPHET\u201d!!!! Do you believe in God?\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Cheers\u2026\u2026.t xx\nMost people believe in premonitions.........i believe most people always have.........\nThe movie \u201cPremonition\u201d, will not be the main topic of this post, The film is confusing to the term itself. First of all, the movie has the lead character (played by Sandra Bullock) jumping around in time which is confusing for a number of reasons, but mostly because the movie is inconsistent in it\u2019s ability to \u201cstay on track\u201d with it\u2019s time jumps. It\u2019s been written about many times and I am not here to discuss the inaccuracies of movie making so, suffice it to say, the movie is all over the place. But I AM here to talk about Premonitions as a subsection of Metaphysics. The movie does have some things about it that add to a persons understanding of the topic, but mostly, it muddles it~ for reasons that only Hollywood could explain. So it is obvious to me that the movie makers were not intending to convey factual information.\nThe word, Premonition, is often confused with \u201cprecognition\u201d or \u201cprophecy\u201d, all of which, fall under the category of ESP or extra sensory perception. So please allow me to simplify the definitions of these words, because if you look them up, you will find overly complicated wording that makes it difficult to separate them.\n1.) Premonition: Acquiring information about future events that is perceived as emotion; or a \u201cfeeling\u201d that something is about to happen, usually something dire.\n2.) Precognition: The acquisition of future information, that cannot be deduced by our normal senses, and is based on facts and details that are obtained from dreams or visions. (non-emotional)\n3.) Prophecy: Can be the same as the other two, but the source of the information is attributed to God, or some supernatural source, and can be either emotionally or non-emotionally charged. Of course, all of these are sub-categories of ESP, and eventually all come under the heading, \u201cMetaphysics\u201d. Duke University has a well respected department of Parapsychology and have done some studies that have conclusively found that more than 60% of persons questioned, believe in premonitions and ESP. However the scientific community does not agree, and for a very good reason. It violates the principle of \u201cCausality\u201d. \u2026\u2026.An effect cannot occur before it\u2019s cause. In my opinion (and my opinion is only that of a simple seeker of truth) science and Metaphysics will eventually come together out of necessity. It is inevitable. Thoughts are made of Energy and energy encompasses all things, including things not yet understood.\nSo, dear friends, when it comes down to \u201cPremonition\u201d, the truth is not to be found in the film, but in \u201cFaith\u201d!! I am Dartanion2 \u2026\u2026and that\u2019s the way I see it!!\u2026\u2026.cheers\u2026\u2026.t xo\nApologees for Yesterday\nSorry guys I had to remove previous posts\u2026.I am working on replacement\u2026\u2026..back later\u2026\u2026\u2026.thanks for the emails\u2026.I\u2019m on it!!!!! \u2026..t xx\n\u201cPHENOMENON\u201d ~ the movie\u2026\nTelekenesis: is already here and available for purchase......\nSo, have you guys seen the movie, \u201cPhenomenon\u201d, with John Travolta and Forest Whitaker? We\u2019re talking about this film today because it deals with subject matter that is unproven (in humans) but accepted by most people as fact. Also happens to be on my personal list of \u201cfilms to see\u201d. The film deals with unexplained phenomena and specifically with, Telekinesis. This topic is probably the most popular in all of Metaphysics and certainly the most studied, faked, and misrepresented throughout human history. What\u2019s great about this movie is that it humanizes telekinesis and makes it clear that people are always afraid of what they don\u2019t understand , but when seen through the eyes of a friend, how that fear can become accepted and appreciated, by those that we know and love, no matter how outrageous the reactions of others. It also inspires some very serious questions about the potential of the human brain.\nLets start with the definition of the word, ,,,,Phenomenon; any observable occurrence however common it may be. The more modern definition; any incident deserving of inquiry and investigation, especially where the \u201cunusual\u201d or \u201cout of the ordinary\u201d is concerned. One of the most extraordinary phenomenon\u2019s, ever to face scrutiny, is \u201cphantom pain\u201d. Over 70% of amputees report this phenomenon of phantom pain or limb sensations like itching or prickly sensations even though the limb has been missing for years. This defies \u201ctypical\u201d logic and has been baffling the fields of Science, Medicine, and Physiology for decades.\nIn the movie, George (John Travolta) comes out of his birthday party at night and looks up into the sky where he see\u2019s a strange light. The light gets brighter and comes charging at him and knocks him off of his feet. He rushes back into his party and asks everyone, but of course, no one has seen or heard anything. During the film he discovers that he has been transformed into an \u201coff the charts\u201d genious, with telekinetic powers. He begins reading and absorbing books at remarkable rates (six or seven per day). He learns to speak Portuguese in twenty minutes, stuff like that, and, of course, he has the amazing ability to move objects with his mind. Now, to me, what is truly amazing about this ability is that, not only is it possible, but it already exists today. Mankind has already developed advanced computer programs that are capable of reading human brain waves. A user of this technology can use a cursor or digital graphic with only the power of their will. These programs were developed to help quadriplegics use a computer and can actually move the cursor at will, thereby making it possible for people to use computers without physically touching them. That, by definition, is telekinesis. Or more aptly termed \u201cmanufactured telekinesis\u201d. The fact that men designed this makes it easy to foresee that not only will humanity be able to develop their own telekinetic abilities but that the day has already arrived.\nOne of my favorite scenes in the movie, George is talking to his girlfriends two children and the little boy asks \u201cYou came here to die didn\u2019t you?\u201d George explains to them with an apple, \u201cIf I drop this apple on the ground it will spoil and disappear in a few days. But if we take a bite, the apple becomes a part of us, and we can take it with us, forever. Everything, is on its way to somewhere, everything\u2026..\u201d This movie has so many magical moments and memorable lines and unexpected twists that I would be doing you an injustice to reveal them before you\u2019ve seen the film. There some great reveals concerning the human brain and its potential as well but, I really want you to see this movie\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..tele= remote or long distance\u2026\u2026\u2026kinesis = movement or motion\u2026..telekinesis is here my friends, and it\u2019s here to teach us things and lead us into the ever-changing world of, ENERGY\u2026\u2026\u2026.see ya \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026t xx\naside from the eyes, that detects light....., The pineal gland (or third eye) is the only human organ\nI have spent over twenty years pursuing the truth about the third eye, and its history through human evolution and spirituality. Remarkably, both paths have lead me to similar answers. My findings have been remarkable and have lead me to new capabilities. I have so much information about this subject that I think i\u2019ll relate this from a personal point of view. For me the \u201cThird Eye\u201d began with my books on the Kundalini and the seven chakra\u2019s found in Hinduism. (in Hinduism its called \u201cAjna\u201d, the brow or sixth chakra) In most mystical/spiritual faiths it is believed that the third eye is a concept that refers to an invisible eye that provides perception beyond ordinary sight. Armed with only this basic understanding, I began meditating in closets (for darkness) for long periods of time, during which I would focus on that spot between my eyes, (with my eyes closed) until I began to see light. The light was either lavender or white, never any other color. I did this for many months, several times a week, before I began seeing results. Eventually, the spot between my eyes became sensitive to my thoughts, I could feel an actual physical pressure point between my eyes, and when this feeling was focused on in darkness I began to see the light INTENSELY. It was always accompanied by an overwhelming feeling of euphoria. I became adept at focusing on this point and then guiding the light to different points on my body. I could have the light totally fill up my entire body with warmth and the feeling that I was somehow healing myself. It was exactly like the feeling you get when you kiss someone you love and you get that warm fuzzy feeling in your stomach. I was never able to heal myself of any physical ailment but I always felt much lighter and happier and unafraid as I approached my day after having meditated on the third eye. I was young. I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew I was doing something positive for my soul. I now know so much more that explains those early experiences\u2026\u2026.\nIn ancient times, it is believed (by some) that humans had a functioning third eye in the back of their head that had a physical as well as a spiritual function. Over time, as humans evolved this eye atrophied and sunk into the head and became what we know today as the \u201cpineal gland\u201d. In Theosophy, the third eye is also believed to be connected to the pineal gland. In modern medicine we know these things to be facts\u2026\u2026\u2026.The pineal gland is about the size of a pea, it is shaped like a miniature pine cone in epithalamus which is in the front and center of the brain, between the eyebrows, and in the groove between the two hemisphere\u2019s of the brain. It is the ONLY organ (aside from the eyes) that detects light. Let me repeat that\u2026.it detects LIGHT. It also secretes melatonin, which controls and maintains sleep patterns. These are all medical facts\u2026..now think about that\u2026\u2026.controlling sleep patterns would be highly beneficial for practitioners of meditation for obvious reasons\u2026\u2026.and perception of light which is what I was experiencing when I had no idea what I was doing. The picture above is an accurate picture of what light looks like during advanced meditation. On top of all of this is the fact that the pineal gland is a vestigial organ. Vestigial meaning an organ that has become dormant because of human evolution and the effects of environment forcing the organ into submission, Like the appendix, which no longer has a use but is a part of the digestive system and thought to have been used to digest leaves,\nNow when you put all of this together it seems pretty obvious that the \u201cThird Eye\u201d is not a myth or religious fairy tale. In my personal opinion it is the doorway to the light and the innate ability to heal. To this day I am able to call up the pressure point between my eyes and send a feeling of euphoria throughout my entire body, at will. At the drop of a hat I can call up this warm feeling of healing power that calms and protects me. It\u2019s like a secret weapon I have developed over time through persistence and faith, and its root, ONCE AGAIN\u2026\u2026is ENERGY. No matter where you look in the world of Metaphysics there stands a singular truth\u2026..energy is immortal and constantly evolving. The Third eye\u2026\u2026one of the roads less traveled and yet lays beckoning to be mastered\u2026\u2026\u2026thanx for stopping by\u2026\u2026more food for thought? or\u2026\u2026\u2026.more than that\u2026\u2026\u2026.thanx for stopping by\u2026\u2026..much more on the third eye to come\u2026\u2026cheers\u2026t", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 29211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/andreessen-horowitz-hires-former-d-c-mayor-adrian-fenty-to-be-its-newest-special-advisor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ATSMIXPIEAVYLZCZ5VBKHHJFXP7QGGY4", "length": 2584, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor\nAndreessen Horowitz is announcing this afternoon that Adrian Fenty, the 41-year-old political star best for his work as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011, will be joining the venture capital firm in the role of \u201cspecial advisor.\u201d\nThis is the second person to join Andreessen Horowitz as a special advisor: Last year, former Harvard president and U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers entered the venture capital world in the same role. The special advisor role is one that has worked so well with Summers and now Fenty, Wennmachers said, that the firm is \u201cabsolutely going to consider adding more\u201d going forward.\nIn a phone interview today, Andreessen Horowitz partner Margit Wennmachers and Fenty said that the role will be a part-time position, with Fenty splitting his time between D.C. and Silicon Valley. To start, Fenty will be utilized mostly in helping to vet potential investments in companies that focus on his areas of expertise. He will also work on advising companies within Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s existing portfolio.\nFenty is well-known for making major changes to the D.C. public education system during his tenure as mayor, so he will be working a lot with the education technology startups in Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s portfolio, Wennmachers said:\n\u201cHe\u2019s a disruptive thinker and he\u2019s got a track record to prove it. We don\u2019t shy away from controversy, and we like that this guy knows how to shake up the status quo.\u201d\nFenty personally met Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen over a year ago through their work with CollegeTrack, an educational non-profit aimed at helping kids from under-resourced high schools get on track to earn college degrees. In addition to ed-tech, Fenty said he\u2019s also looking forward to working with startups addressing other big industries such as transportation and healthcare.\nAnd although the worlds of venture capital and electoral politics don\u2019t always overlap, Fenty said that there are certainly parallels between his old job and his new appointment.\n\u201cAs a mayor you have a lot of districts you work with, and every day is different,\u201d Fenty said, noting that the same could be said for VCs who work with different startups. However, the pace will likely be a bit quicker in this space than it is in the political realm. \u201cI believe that change should happen fast and in big ways, and that\u2019s the tech industry,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of these entrepreneurs and CEOs, their energy and ability to come up with new ideas is infectious.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://technology.inquirer.net/80046/japan-space-tourist-says-moon-training-shouldnt-hard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WDB7MGBXMBQWFFGRWMTVO524YG6J36KU", "length": 2795, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "technology.inquirer.net", "title": "\ufeff Japan space tourist says moon training 'shouldn't be too hard' | Inquirer Technology", "raw_content": "Japan space tourist says moon training \u2018shouldn\u2019t be too hard\u2019\nAgence France-Presse / 02:22 PM October 09, 2018\nYusaku Maezawa, entrepreneur and CEO of ZOZOTOWN and SpaceX BFR\u2019s first private passenger, poses with a miniature rocket and space helmet prior to start of a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of Japan in Tokyo on October 9, 2018. AFP\nTOKYO, Japan \u2014 Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa\u2019s training to go the moon should not be too tricky, he joked Tuesday, adding that he planned to use free time from his six-hour work day to squeeze it in.\nThe 42-year-old Maezawa paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023 and the passionate art collector also plans to take around half a dozen artists with him on the trip.\n\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been decided yet what training I will need to undergo but Elon Musk has said it shouldn\u2019t be too hard,\u201d Maezawa jested, adding in Japanese, \u201cI believe English will be a must.\u201d\nAsked how he could fit astronaut training around his already hectic schedule, he said he adhered to his own company policy of working a six-hour day and devoting the rest of the time to personal projects.\n\u201cI don\u2019t go to work from morning to night. I\u2019m there three or four times a week and I try to go home after six hours,\u201d Maezawa told a packed news conference in Tokyo.\nMaezawa will hitch a ride aboard Musk\u2019s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which SpaceX has acknowledged may not be ready for human flight for at least five years.\nFirst announced in 2016 and estimated to cost $5 billion, the BFR was touted as the most powerful rocket in history, even more potent than the Saturn V moon rocket that launched the Apollo missions five decades ago.\nMaezawa said he had received \u201csafety guarantees\u201d that allowed him to be able to invite the artists along on the trip, although he confirmed he had not yet begun negotiations with potential fellow-travelers.\nHe said he was most looking forward to seeing the entire Earth from space.\n\u201cI look forward to getting close to the moon. I would like to see the Earth in full view\u2026 To see it with my own eyes, just thinking about it now makes tears well up in my own eyes,\u201d he said.\nMaezawa is chief executive of Japan\u2019s largest online fashion store and is the 13th richest person in Japan, with an estimated fortune of $2.8 billion, according to business magazine Forbes.\nHe did not deny there were some commercial interests behind his decision to pay for a ticket to the moon, as the exposure has hugely boosted his profile.\n\u201cI was formerly known as \u2018Maezawa the fashion guy\u2019 and now its been updated to \u2018Maezawa, who\u2019s going to the moon\u2019,\u201d he said. /ee\nTAGS: Elon Musk, Space Tourism, SpaceX rocket, technology news, Yusaku Maezawa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 6621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://telecomtalk.info/government-to-track-calls-sms/136744/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:E2KTHDK5DRZQJVGBHLC2CZDD3FTCZ4BP", "length": 1863, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "telecomtalk.info", "title": "Government to track calls, SMS and internet activities of citizens through CMS - Telecom Talk", "raw_content": "Government to track calls, SMS and internet activities of citizens through CMS\nTracking of calls, text messages and internet activity of subscribers is to become legal, with the establishment of Central Monitoring System (CMS), a Government run \u2018security\u2019 mechanism. The system is likely to begin monitoring by the end of this year. Two CMS centres will be launched, one in Delhi and the other in South India.\nLaw enforcing agencies such as CBI, CBDT, Defence Intelligence Agency, IB, RAW, ED, DRI, NCB and NIA can raise interception request to CMS after receiving due authorization from Union Home secretary. The CMS will process only those requests.\nAccording to the Government, CMS is established as per the requirement of the law enforcement agencies in the India. Such a system can check the unlawful anti-social activities occurring in the country.\nAlthough such an argument is valid, many critics view this as an infringement of privacy of citizens. A few calls this as similar to that of the controversial US surveillance program \u2018PRISM\u2019, where the mails of foreign citizens were tracked with the help of internet companies.\nCMS was supposed to be implemented by May 2015, which got delayed due to lack of funds. A minimum amount of Rs. 200 crores is required for the infrastructure and technical requirements, which is still to be allocated in this year\u2019s budget. However, the Home Ministry and DoT has found a mechanism by which the Government can adjust the existing resources to commence the same.\nThe idea of CMS to monitor calls, messages and internet activity was first announced by UPA Government in 2009. The same was upheld during 2011.\nHit by spectrum auction, Idea to sell its towers Multinationals show interest in the deal\ncalls tracking india\nsms tracking india\nSuggest names of some good ones\nYou can tap the calls all you want Government,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://telioslaw.com/resources/blogs/businesssafe-business-law/1544-eeoc-and-disability", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RAFHMWBWC5WRV2G5AVMKGC753ZYU2TFE", "length": 4740, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "telioslaw.com", "title": "EEOC Sues Employment Agency for Hiring Discrimination Based on Disability - Telios Law", "raw_content": "EEOC Sues Employment Agency for Hiring Discrimination Based on Disability\nThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Adecco USA, Inc. (Adecco), an employment agency, claiming that it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (CRA), when the agency decided not to consider a qualified job applicant based on his disability. Employers and employment agencies can only factor disability into account for employment purposes in very specific and limited ways. This post discusses the details of the case and important takeaways for employers and those involved in the hiring process.\nTrying to Get Hired\nThe complaint submitted by the EEOC alleged that in April of 2016, a worker applied at Adecco for a food packaging and distribution job with one of its client companies. The worker has reading and other mental disabilities. The lawsuit claims that the worker was told that he would have to take an employment test that involved reading. The worker informed Adecco that he had trouble with reading comprehension and asked for someone to read the test to him. Adecco initially refused to accommodate the request, which resulted in the worker failing the test for employment. Subsequently, Adecco agreed to have an Adecco employee read the test to the worker, and he passed the test. As a result of the successful completion of the employment test, the worker was qualified for placement in the production facility he applied for, as well as other production, manufacturing, and light industrial positions. However, instead of getting an offer for a job in the field he wanted to work in and was qualified for, the worker was informed by Adecco staff that he was \u201ctoo slow\u201d for the production job. Adecco offered him an alternative position washing cars. EEOC argues that Adecco violated the disabled worker\u2019s rights under the ADA and CRA by denying him a job that he was qualified to do because of his perceived and actual disabilities.\nLegal Claims About Disability\nHere the EEOC alleges that Adecco violated several federal laws that protect the rights of disabled workers, including the ADA and the CRA. Both the ADA and CRA prohibit discrimination against a qualified individual based on disability. In this case, the EEOC claims that Adecco limited the worker in a way that adversely affected the job opportunities he was qualified for based on his disability, that the methods and criteria used by Adecco had the effect of discrimination based on disability, and that Adecco used an employment test meant to screen out people with disabilities that were not job-related.\nWhile the case has yet to be decided, there are a few important takeaways from the pending litigation.\n1. What are the essential functions of the job? Disability-related decisions must be work-related. In other words, a worker\u2019s disability is only relevant to the degree that he or she is unable to execute essential functions of the job. If a worker\u2019s disability prevents him or her from doing the job, then it is relevant to an employment decision. In this case, reading did not appear to be an essential function of the job applied for.\n2. Engage in an interactive discussion about accommodations. Under the ADA employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified workers with disabilities if that would enable them to carry out the functions of the job, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the employer. If a disabled worker has the skills, experience, or other requirements of a position and can perform all the essential functions of a job, then he or she is a qualified worker. If a qualified disabled worker meets the requirements for the job but may also need some type of accommodation, it is incumbent upon the employer to consider reasonable accommodation for the worker in the job. This duty is limited only by the level of hardship it may impose upon the employer.\n3. Make the employee application process accessible to people. Being uncooperative with the worker during the application process, by not letting someone read him the test, really got things off to a bad start.\nADA compliance is a complex area of employment law, with both EEOC guidance and case law. An employer who has questions regarding a specific situation may wish to consult legal counsel to assess compliance with the ADA and determine best steps moving forward\u2014before making unfortunate decisions.\n1 EEOC v. Adecco USA, Inc., Civil Action No.1:18-cv-00250-AJS.\nFeatured Image: \"A lot of drinks\" by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash.\nMore in this category: \u00ab ACA Has Been Challenged \u2014 4 Things You Should Know for Your Organization Developing a Social Media Policy for Your Business \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth160206/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CZWRNB7KDFYZAPGZH4VZ2KCJ5YJANBPL", "length": 2973, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "texashistory.unt.edu", "title": "John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1919 - The Portal to Texas History", "raw_content": "John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1919\nDirectory for Abilene, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains \"a miscellaneous directory of state, county and city governments, educational institutions, churches, secret and benevolent societies, etc., a street guide and householders' directory, an alphabetically arranged list of business houses and private citizens, giving full names, occupation or pursuit, and address, also a complete classified business directory, 'The Buyer's Guide.'\" The index to advertisements begins on page 8.\nJohn F. Worley Directory Co. 1919.\nThis book is part of the collection entitled: City Directories and one other and was provided by Abilene Christian University Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 618 times , with 5 in the last month . More information about this book can be viewed below.\nJohn F. Worley Directory Co.\nJohn F. Worley Directory Company\nMain Title: John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1919\nAdded Title: Abilene City Directory, 1919\n\"Copyright 1919, by John F. Worley Directory Co. (Inc.)\"\nAbilene (Tex.) -- Directories.\nCall Number: 976.4 A148 1919\nCity, business, legal, and phone directories from the 19th and 20th centuries. Each directory has an index and ads from local businesses and includes names, addresses, and phone numbers for residents and businesses.\nDallas, Texas (John F. Worley Directory Company)\nJohn F. Worley Directory Co. John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1919, book, 1919; Dallas, Texas. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth160206/: accessed February 15, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.\nJump to another read of this book Jump to... Front Cover Front Inside 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 Back Inside Back Cover", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 9553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 49.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thankyounetflix.wordpress.com/2013/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:18Z", "digest": "sha1:B752YT5C5MDZSAGJRRTTI2SICE4EDFWU", "length": 49591, "nlines": 103, "source_domain": "thankyounetflix.wordpress.com", "title": "April | 2013 | Let's All Go to the Movies!!!!", "raw_content": "Posted in Classics, Movie Reviews, Musicals with tags \"Easter Parade\", \"Steppin' Out With My Baby\", Ann Miller, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Peter Lawford on April 27, 2013 by Mystery Man\nIn 1912, Broadway star Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is buying Easter presents for his sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers (\u201cHappy Easter\u201d). He goes into a toy shop and buys a cuddly Easter rabbit, after persuading a young boy to part with it and buy a set of drums instead (\u201cDrum Crazy\u201d). Hewes takes the gifts to his dancing partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller), who explains that she has an offer for a show that would feature her as a solo star. Don tries to change her mind and it looks as if he has succeeded (\u201cIt Only Happens When I Dance With You\u201d), until Don\u2019s best friend, Johnny (Peter Lawford), turns up. Nadine reveals that she and Don are no longer a team and it becomes obvious that Nadine is attracted to Johnny.\nAngry, Don leaves to drown his sorrows at a bar. Johnny follows him and tries to persuade him to talk to Nadine, but to no avail; Don brags that he does not need Nadine and that he can make a star of the next dancer he meets. After Johnny leaves, he picks out one of the girls dancing on the stage, Hannah Brown (Judy Garland), and tells her to meet him for rehearsal the next day. Hannah then performs a duet, singing a musical number with a member of the band (Norman S. Barker) on trombone, \u201cI Want to Go Back to Michigan.\u201d The next morning, Don tries to turn Hannah into a copy of Nadine, teaching her to dance the same way, buying her dresses in a similar style and giving her an \u201cexotic\u201d stage name, \u201cJuanita.\u201d However, Hannah makes several mistakes at their first performance and the show is a fiasco.\nHannah meets Johnny, who is instantly attracted to her and sings \u201cA Fella With An Umbrella\u201d while walking her to her rehearsal with Don. At the rehearsal, Don, realizing his mistake, decides to start over from scratch by creating routines more suited to Hannah\u2019s personality. Hannah sings \u201cI Love A Piano\u201d and she works out a dance routine with Don that proves much more successful than their earlier performance. The duo, now known as \u201cHannah & Hewes\u201d, are shown to be performing \u201cSnookie-Ookums\u201d, \u201cThe Ragtime Violin\u201d, and \u201cWhen That Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'\u201d in a montage of their performances.\nAt an audition for Ziegfeld Follies, where they perform \u201cMidnight Choo-Choo\u201d, they meet Nadine who is starring in the show. Hannah realizes that Nadine was Don\u2019s former dancing partner and demands to know if they were in love. Don hesitates and Hannah runs out of the rehearsal where she encounters Johnny. Later, Don meets Hannah back at the hotel and reveals that he turned down the Ziegfeld offer, believing that Hannah and Nadine do not belong in the same show. Johnny soon arrives and takes Hannah out for dinner at which, after a comical routine by the waiter, Johnny reveals that he has fallen in love with Hannah. While Hannah does like Johnny, she admits she is actually in love with Don; she also admits to deliberately making mistakes when they rehearse so she can be with him longer. She and Johnny continue to have a close friendship.\nMeanwhile, Nadine\u2019s show opens and Don goes to see it (\u201cShakin\u2019 The Blues Away\u201d). He is the only member of the audience who seems unimpressed. Later on, Don goes to see Hannah and tell her that they will be starring in another show and invites her to dinner to celebrate. Hannah goes to dinner at Don\u2019s, only to have him suggest a dance rehearsal. She is immediately upset and turns to walk out, telling him that he\u2019s \u201cnothing but a pair of dancing shoes\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t see her as a woman, but as a dancing aid. Hannah is particularly annoyed that Don doesn\u2019t notice her new clothes and all the effort she has made for him. She tries to leave, but Don stops her and kisses her. Hannah then plays the piano and sings \u201cIt Only Happens When I Dance With You,\u201d after which Don realizes he is in love with Hannah and they embrace.\nThe couple take part in a variety show, with a solo by Don (\u201cSteppin\u2019 Out With My Baby\u201d) and then comes the most famous musical number in the film (\u201cA Couple of Swells\u201d), in which Don and Hannah play a pair of street urchins with vivid imaginations. Don and Hannah go out to celebrate after the show and end up watching Nadine perform. Nadine is mad with jealousy when the audience gives Don and Hannah a round of applause as they come in. Nadine is the star dancer in \u201cThe Girl On The Magazine Cover.\u201d The song features an ingenious stage act, in which women appear against backdrops that look like the covers of contemporary magazines. Nadine herself appears on the cover of Harper\u2019s Bazaar. Afterwards, she insists that Don perform one of their old numbers with her for old times\u2019 sake, as she tries to win Don back \u2013 \u201cIt Only Happens When I Dance With You (Reprise).\u201d When Don reluctantly agrees, Hannah becomes upset and runs out.\nShe ends up at the bar where she and Don first met. There she pours out her troubles to Mike the bartender (\u201cBetter Luck Next Time\u201d). Later, when Hannah returns to her apartment, she finds Don waiting for her. Don tries to explain that he was forced to dance with Nadine, but Hannah thinks Don used her to make Nadine jealous and win her back. Don tells Hannah he\u2019ll wait all night for her to forgive him, but just before Hannah opens the door, Don is kicked out of her building by the house detective. The next morning Hannah is telling Johnny about her and Don\u2019s misunderstanding. Johnny says if he loved someone he would let her know it, implying that Hannah should forget the argument and be with Don. Hannah realizes that Johnny is right and goes to meet Don for their date for the Easter Parade.\nMeanwhile, Don has been receiving various gifts at his apartment that morning, such as a rabbit and a new top hat, unaware that they\u2019re from Hannah. She arrives unexpectedly at his house, as if the argument never happened. Don is a little confused by this turn of events, but decides to go out with Hannah anyway. As they walk in the Easter parade, photographers, echoing a scene with Nadine from the beginning of the film, take their pictures and Don proposes to Hannah (\u201cEaster Parade\u201d).\nYes, I know that I\u2019m a little late with Easter Parade since Easter was about a month ago. That isn\u2019t my fault! Blame Netflix and their waiting system. Still, it was nice to finally get this classic musical in, since this is a watch that was long overdue.\nJudy Garland and Fred Astaire sing and trip the light fantastic to 17 Irving Berlin tunes in this romantic classic. The simple plot concerns a hoofer (Astaire) who teams with an inexperienced chorus girl (Garland) in order to show up his former dance partner, Nadine (Ann Miller).\nDance, dance. Avid followers of this blog know that I have a tremendous respect for the works of Gene Kelly. As it turns out, this was supposed to have been his role, but he had to pull out because of an injury, but talked Fred Astaire out of retirement. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019d say that was a pretty even trade. If you can\u2019t have Kelly, Astaire is just as good, and some would argue better. The dancing scenes with him are superb, but do you really expect anything less?\nCostumes. Set in the early 1900s, costumes are something that has to be top-notch. The design and scope of these outfits does not disappoint. Then again, this is an old Hollywood musical, back then they cared about putting on a show, rather than impressing a bunch of old fuddy duddy Oscar voters.\nMusic. Irving Berlin wrote great songs for this musical. A couple of standouts for me were \u201cSteppin\u2019 Out with My Baby\u201d and the titular \u201cEaster Parade\u201d, but there are a bevy of other tunes to please the viewers auditory senses. Make no mistake, though, not all these songs are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but most will have you humming them for days after the end credits roll.\nLove story. There is a bit of a love story that wants to be front and center but, as with every Fred Astaire film I\u2019ve seen, it pushed back until the very end. I believe the film could have benefited from allowing some quality time with these characters exploring their feelings for each other, rather than suddenly realizing in the last couple of minutes.\nNot in Kansas, anymore. Judy Garland is a great actress. We all know that, but this isn\u2019t her best work. Don\u2019t get me wrong, that isn\u2019t an indictment of her ability, but rather the way this character is written. She just isn\u2019t given much to do. Garland deserves more, or they should have gotten a lesser actress for this role.\nOverall, Easter Parade was a pretty good time. It wasn\u2019t the best musical I\u2019ve seen, and I felt that had Gene Kelly actually been able to star in it, it would have been that much better. This is a film that should be seen by everyone, so maybe next year around Easter, how about giving it a shot?\nPosted in Comedy, Movie Reviews, Spoofs & Satire with tags Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough, Omar Shariff, Peter Cushing, Val Kilmer on April 26, 2013 by Mystery Man\nThe film tells the story of Nick Rivers (Kilmer), a US pop singer. Rivers goes to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival. While there, he becomes involved in the French resistance movement and helps the beautiful Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge) rescue her father (Gough), a brilliant scientist being held by the East Germans and forced to build the deadly Polaris naval mine.\nThis is going to be a rather short review and for that I apologize, but Top Secret! just was never meant to be enjoyed by me, or at least the people making all the racket outside seemed to think so.\nFollowing the success of their first feature, Airplane! the directing team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker return with this farce about American rock idol Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer), who\u2019s tapped to play at a cultural festival in East Germany. Nazis are staging the concert to distract attention from a secret attack on a submarine fleet, and before he knows it, Nick is trapped in an international incident, and aiding the French Resistance.\nYouth. Val Kilmer these days is twice the man he used to be. I\u2019m not quite sure that he has improved his acting skills. If anything, he very well may have gotten worse, but it was good to see the guy in his youth actually show some promise. I wonder what happened between then and now.\nJokes. Parody films these days suck, let\u2019s face it. They need to go back and look at films like this and Airplane!, where the jokes are funny situations instead of just ripoffs of whatever is going on in pop culture when the picture is being made (usually a year or two before it is released). I appreciate funny, and this film has plenty of it, without going overboard.\nPlot. I know that there is some sort of plot going on here. Something involving a kidnapped scientist, an American singer performing for the first time in Germany, and a daughter who wants to rescue her father. Whether these things go together is a mystery, though, as I found it increasingly hard to keep up with what was going on. Keep in mind that there were massive distractions outside, that contributed to that, as well.\nOverrated. In the early days of this blog, I caught some flack for my labeling Scarface as overrated. This resulted in a loss of quite a few readers. I guess some people didn\u2019t agree. Well, hopefully that won\u2019t happen this time, but I have to say it. This flick is held in high esteem, but I felt it is overrated.\nI feel as if I didn\u2019t really get a good feel of Top Secret!, thanks to the outside interference, but from what I saw, I was not impressed. The few good moments here and there don\u2019t do enough to stave off the mediocrity that sets in not long into the flick. I wish I could give this a better review and rating but, based on what I saw, I just can\u2019t. Do I recommend it? Yes, but only for those that want to see why this is so highly recommended by many people. Otherwise, it is best just catching in on TV when/if it comes on.\nPosted in Animation, Family, Movie Reviews with tags Alfre Woodard, carnotaurs, D.B. Sweeney, Della Reese, dinosaurs, Joan Plowright, Julianna Margulies, lemurs, nesting grounds, Ossie Davis, Samuel E. Wright on April 24, 2013 by Mystery Man\nThe film opens with an Iguanodon mother forced to abandon her nest, with only one egg surviving a Carnotaurus attack. The egg is taken by an Oviraptor, who drops it into a river while fighting another Oviraptor, and finally is taken by a Pteranodon to an island inhabited by lemurs, who see the egg hatch, name the baby dinosaur Aladar, and raise him as their own. When Aladar is an adult, the island is destroyed when an asteroid crashes on earth, causing a meteor shower, with only Aladar, his grandfather Yar, his mother Plio, his best friend Zini and his sister Suri surviving the destruction of the island by swimming to the land.\nAfter fleeing a pack of Velociraptor, the family meets a multi-species herd of dinosaurs (consisting of a bunch of Iguanodon, Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Stygimoloch, Microceratus, Parasaurolophus, and Struthiomimus) led by the Iguanodon Kron and his lieutenant Bruton, who are on a journey to reach the \u201cNesting Grounds\u201d, a valley believed to be untouched by the devastation of the asteroid impact. Aladar and the lemurs befriend a trio of elderly dinosaurs: Baylene the Brachiosaurus, Eema the Styracosaurus, and Url, Eema\u2019s dog-like pet Ankylosaurus. Aladar also develops romantic feelings for Kron\u2019s sister Neera, but she appears uninterested, playing hard to get. Meanwhile, the Velociraptor pack continues to follow them, but are scared off when a pair of Carnotaurs picks up the herd\u2019s trail too. The herd arrives at a lake they\u2019ve relied on for past trips, but it has dried up. Aladar saves the herd from dehydration when he and Baylene eventually dig up the trapped water beneath the ground. Aladar and Neera eventually fall in love after Neera sees Aladar helping the dinosaurs (especially the elderly ones) survive. However, Bruton, having been sent by Kron to find water upon arrival at the lake, returns injured by the Carnotaurus which killed another Iguanodon that was scouting with him. Kron evacuates the herd from the lake bed in a rush, leaving Aladar, the lemurs, the elderly dinosaurs, and the injured Bruton behind, also warning Aladar that he will be executed if he meddles with leadership affairs again.\nThe small group recuperates in a cave during a rainstorm, with Bruton eventually befriending them. When the Carnotaurus pair attacks, Bruton\u2019s loyalty is proven when he kills one of them as the others escape to the depths of the caves, being killed in the process. But one of the Carnotaurus escapes, enraged by the death of its mate but unable to follow the group. Upon reaching a dead end, Aladar begins to lose hope, after repeated failures and the loss of Bruton. His friends all join in breaking down the dead end, stabilizing his confidence. Finally, Baylene demolishes the wall. The dead end actually leads to the \u201cNesting Grounds\u201d, where Eema sees that the old entrance \u2013 where the herd has gathered on the other side \u2013 has been blocked by a landslide generated by the meteors.\nAladar rushes to find the herd on the other side, accidentally alerting and being tracked by the Carnotaurus. He finds the herd being directed by Kron to climb the rocks, which can\u2019t be passed without fatality, but when he suggests the alternate route he found, Kron becomes enraged at his authority being questioned and challenged, and attempts to kill Aladar. Despite landing a few good hits, Aladar is outclassed by Kron, who only stops short of killing Aladar when Neera, tired of her brother\u2019s illogical beliefs, strikes him down and defends Aladar. Aladar and Neera take control of the herd, but Kron refuses to submit to the leadership of another and begins climbing the rocks himself. The Carnotaurus then confronts them, but Aladar rallies the herd to drive it off by standing together and scaring it off with intimidation. The Carnotaurus leaves the herd alone, but spots Kron who mistakes that Aladar lead the Carnotaur to the herd climbing the rocks alone, and is followed by Neera and Aladar as it charges to kill the former leader of the herd. In the ensuing fight, Kron is severely wounded by the Carnotaurus, but Aladar is able to push the predator off a cliff to its death. Kron, however, succumbs to his injuries and dies with Aladar and Neera at his side.\nAladar and Neera lead the herd back to the \u201cNesting Grounds\u201d, where the two eventually mate and have children, and the lemurs find more of their own kind. Plio narrates the ending, wishing for their story to be remembered in history. She then says, \u201cBut one thing is for sure. Our journey is not over, we can only hope in some small way our time here will be remembered.\u201d\nFollowing the Disney Renaissance, people wondered how the company would rebound after their films started to not do so hot. The unfortunate answer was the beginning of the computer animated Disney (not Pixar) films, of which Dinosaur was the first.\nIn Disney\u2019s animated film, an orphaned Iguanadon named Aladar grows up in the care of a group of lemurs. But when a meteor shower appears, Aladar and his lemur \u201cfamily\u201d flee their homeland and seek safety. While on the run, Aladar encounters other dinosaurs for the first time, and they must all work together to survive.\nScenery. Today, scenery like we see here can be created by computers, but back in 2000, that technology didn\u2019t quite exist, so the brilliant filmmakers made the decision to use actual locations as the background. As with most films of this nature, the only place left on this planet that still has its natural beauty is New Zealand.\nDialogue. I remember when I saw the first trailer for this that had no dialogue whatsoever. It turns out that originally, that was the plan, but someone decided it would work better to have talking dinosaurs. I think this worked better, especially when you throw in the fact that this is supposedly a kid\u2019s film. Without the talking dinosaurs, this would have been nothing more than some kind of documentary of sorts, with dinosaurs.\nComic relief. Keeping with the kind formula one can expect from a film of this nature, the comic relief comes from the characters that seem the most out of place, but are the most lovable. Headlined by Della Reese, these supporting characters bring some much needed levity to a film that could very well have just been a bunch of giant creature traipsing around the countryside.\nMore of the same. I really wonder if the dinosaurs did anything other than wander around looking for oasis areas. If you go by the movies, that is all they seem to do. Think about the plots of Ice Age and The Land Before Time, as well as their sequels. These magnificent creatures deserve something better when they are put on film, besides wandering around like mindless brutes.\nHistory. I was reading the history of how this was getting made and learned that there was a moment when this was set to be stop-motion animation. In the past, I have not hidden the fact that I think stop-motion is far superior to computer generated crap. Dinosaurs also really work when they are computer generated, as we\u2019ve seen in Ray Herryhausen creations.\nLemurs. To my knowledge, lemurs were not around during this time. So, using them is nothing more than a marketing ploy. Soft and cuddly characters are almost always a sure bet to sell, as opposed to scaly dinosaurs. Throw in that whole wannabe The Lion King story where they raise the dinosaur and they just didn\u2019t work for me.\nDinosaur is one of those forgotten Disney films. That isn\u2019t because this is a bad or boring film, but rather because it is overshadowed by far superior films.I find it kind of funny that I\u2019m watching this after watching the old show Dinosaurs (remember Baby saying \u201cNot the Mama!\u201d). So, is this a recommendation or condemnation? Well, it is a decent family flick with a few violent scenes here and there that may be too much for younger children. A good watch, but not something to go out of your way to see.\nPosted in Action/Adventure, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi/Fantasy with tags Andy Serkis, Azog the Defiler, Bilbo Baggins, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Dwalin, dwarves, Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf the Grey, Gollum, Great Goblin, hobbit, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellan, Martin Freeman, Radagast the Brown, Richard Armitage, Saruman the White, Smeagol, Sylvester McCoy, Thorin Oakenshield on April 20, 2013 by Mystery Man\nApproaching his 111th birthday, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins decides to write down the full story of the adventure he had 60 years earlier, for the benefit of his nephew Frodo.\nLong before Bilbo\u2019s involvement, the Dwarf Thr\u00f3r becomes King of the Lonely Mountain and brings an era of prosperity to his kin until the arrival of Smaug the Dragon. Smaug destroys the nearby town of Dale, killing many of the men and women there, before driving the Dwarves out of their mountain and taking their hoard of gold. Thr\u00f3r\u2019s grandson Thorin sees King Thranduil and his Wood-elves on a nearby hillside and is dismayed when they take their leave rather than aid his people, resulting in Thorin\u2019s everlasting hatred of Elves.\nIn the Shire, young Bilbo is tricked by the wizard Gandalf the Grey into hosting a party for Thorin and his company of Dwarves: Balin, Dwalin, F\u00edli, K\u00edli, Dori, Nori, Ori, \u00d3in, Gl\u00f3in, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur. Gandalf\u2019s aim is to recruit Bilbo as the Dwarves\u2019 \u201cburglar\u201d to aid them in their quest to the Lonely Mountain, of which they have a dwarven map and key to help guide them. Bilbo is, at first, unwilling to accept, but has a change of heart and joins the company on their journey to the Lonely Mountain.\nTraveling onward, the company gets captured by three Trolls. Bilbo stalls them from eating the dwarves until dawn, when Gandalf suddenly exposes the Trolls to sunlight, turning them all to stone. They search the Trolls\u2019 cave and find treasure and Elven blades. Thorin and Gandalf each take an Elf-made blade\u2014Orcrist and Glamdring, respectively\u2014with the latter finding an Elven shortsword, which he gives to Bilbo.\nThe company encounters Radagast the Brown, a wizard who lives in Greenwood. He tells them of an encounter at Dol Guldur with a Necromancer who has been corrupting the forest with dark magic. The company is chased by Orcs on Wargs, with Radagast covering their escape. Gandalf leads the company through a stone passage to Rivendell as the Wargs and Orcs are slain by Elven riders led by Lord Elrond. Elrond discovers hidden writing on Thorin\u2019s map and discloses that the Lonely Mountain has a secret door which will be visible only on Durin\u2019s Day. Gandalf talks with the White Council consisting of Elrond, Galadriel and Saruman the White. He tells them about his involvement with the Dwarves, presenting a Morgul-blade Radagast obtained from Dol Guldur as a sign that the Necromancer is linked to the Witch-king of Angmar and may attempt to use Smaug for his evil purposes. Saruman is skeptical, not believing the Necromancer to be a true threat.\nWithout Gandalf, the company journeys into the Misty Mountains, where they find themselves amid a colossal battle between Stone Giants. They take refuge in a cave and are captured by Goblins, who take them to their leader, the Great Goblin. Bilbo becomes separated from the Dwarves and falls into a cave where he encounters Gollum, who accidentally drops a mysterious ring while killing a stray Goblin to eat. Pocketing the ring, Bilbo finds himself confronted by Gollum, who is initially deterred from attacking Bilbo because he wields the small Elvish blade. They play a riddle game, wagering that Bilbo will be shown the way out if he wins or eaten by Gollum if he loses. After riddling each other back and forth several times, Bilbo eventually wins by asking Gollum what he has in his pocket. Realizing that he lost the ring, Gollum suspects that Bilbo possesses it and attacks the hobbit. Bilbo discovers that the ring grants him invisibility and evades a furious Gollum.\nMeanwhile, the Great Goblin reveals to the Dwarves that Azog, an Orc war-chief who beheaded Thr\u00f3r and lost his forearm to Thorin in battle outside the Dwarven kingdom of Moria, has placed a bounty on Thorin\u2019s head and is even now searching for the dwarves. As the goblins search Thorin and company they discover Thorin\u2019s sword, Orcrist the goblin cleaver. The sight of this drives the Great Goblin into a fury. He orders the goblins to attack and behead Thorin and company. Gandalf arrives just in time and leads the Dwarves in a desperate escape, fighting their way through the goblin hordes and killing the Great Goblin.\nMeanwhile, Bilbo eventually comes upon an exit, but it is being guarded by Gollum. Rather than kill his pursuer, Bilbo spares him and sneaks past him out of the mountain. As Bilbo leaves, Gollum curses him \u201cforever.\u201d Bilbo rejoins the group, keeping secret the ring which he found.\nAmbushed by Azog and his hunting party, the company take refuge in trees as wargs try and hunt them down. Thorin then challenges Azog, but is defeated and knocked to the ground by his mace and set upon by his warg. Bilbo saves Thorin from the Orcs just as the company is rescued by the Eagles who fly them to the safety of the Carrock. Gandalf heals the unconscious Thorin who acknowledges Bilbo\u2019s bravery. In the distance, the company sees the Lonely Mountain. The company also see a thrush flying about, which then heads to the Lonely Mountain. There, the thrush catches a snail and knocks its shell against the mountainside, awakening the sleeping Smaug, who is lying beneath a golden hoard\nFollowing up on the successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, comes the prequel, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Following the trend of book series turned into films these days, director Peter Jackson made the decision to expand this to 3 films. Can we say cash grab?!?\nBeloved hobbit Bilbo Baggins is back in a visually spectacular tale inspired by The Lord of the Rings and likewise directed by Peter Jackson. Joining the effort to free the Kingdom of Erebor, Bilbo also faces a fateful encounter with Gollum.\nStunning. Say what you will about this film, you can\u2019t deny the beauty present on the screen. Part of it is because it is filled in majestic New Zealand (one of the few places left on this planet that isn\u2019t corrupted with the works of man). The other reason that it is so gorgeous is because of how breathtaking the visual and special effects look. Words cannot do the look of this film justice.\nDwarves. I read this book long ago, and from what I recall, the dwarves did not have their own distinct personalities. For a film like this, adding personality allows the audience to become invested in characters that otherwise would be just random beings. The film throws in a few quirks here and there for each of the dwarves. I still can\u2019t tell you who\u2019s who except for Thorin and Dwalin, but at least they tried.\nAction. One of the biggest problems I have with the \u2026Rings trilogy is that, other than the excessive length, those movies drag on so long without anything happening. As was said in Clerks 2, \u201c\u2026 [sic] Hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a volcano.\u201d This film ramps up the action and tones down the walking. Don\u2019t get me wrong, there is walking in here, but it isn\u2019t the main focal point, as opposed to the action, which is what most people want to see when they watch this, right?\nAging. I know it has been a few years, but Hugo Weaving and Ian McKellan are looking much older than they did in the trilogy. You can throw Cate Blanchett in there, to a lesser extent. I bring this up for two reasons. First, this is a prequel. I appreciate that they brought in the original actors, but as we saw in Tron: Legacy with Jeff Bridges, the technology exists to make them look younger. With all the money they spent on this, I wonder why they didn\u2019t shell out a few more to do that, rather than let them just look ancient.\nGollum. I won\u2019t bring up the fact that Andy Serkis is more than deserving of an Academy Award for some of his work, but the only reason he hasn\u2019t won is because they don\u2019t have a category for him. This is one of his best performances and Gollum has never looked better. However, I felt that his scene went on a bit longer than it should have without necessarily going anywhere with it until the end.\nFor all the hype that surrounded and preceded The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, it sort of left me feeling flat. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I did really enjoy it, but I didn\u2019t feel that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread that way some people would have you believe it is. With that in mind, I imagine you are wondering if this is worth seeing. Well, yes, I highly recommend it. Be warned, though. For those that want to know if this is something the kids can see, there are some very violent scenes. Other than that, you should really check it out!\nPosted in Classics, Movie Reviews, Musicals with tags Cowardly Lion, Diana Ross, flying monkeys, Lena Horne, Mabel King, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor, Scarecrow, silver slippers, Tin Man, Wizard of Oz on April 19, 2013 by Mystery Man\nA Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, \u201cnever been south of 125th Street\u201d, and refuses to move out and on with her life.\nWhile Dorothy cleans up after the meal, her dog Toto runs out the open kitchen door into a violent snowstorm. She succeeds in retrieving him, but finds herself trapped in the storm. A magical whirlwind made of snow \u2013 the work of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South \u2013 materializes and transports them to the Kingdom of Oz. Upon her arrival, Dorothy smashes through an electric \u201cOz\u201d sign, which falls upon and kills Evermean, the Wicked Witch of the East. As a result, she frees the Munchkins who populate the playground into which she lands; they had been transformed by Evermean into graffiti for \u201ctagging\u201d the park walls.\nDorothy soon meets the Munchkins\u2019 main benefactress, Miss One, the Good Witch of the North (Thelma Carpenter), a magical \u201cnumbers runner\u201d who gives Evermean\u2019s powerful silver slippers to her. However, she desperately wants to get home. Miss One urges her to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and find the mysterious \u201cWizard\u201d who she believes holds the power to send Dorothy back to Harlem. The good witch and the Munchkins then disappear and she is left to search for the yellow brick road on her own.\nThe next morning, Dorothy happens upon a Scarecrow (Michael Jackson) made of garbage, whom she befriends. The two of them discover the yellow brick road and happily begin to follow it together; the Scarecrow hoping the Wizard might be able to give him the one thing he feels that he lacks \u2014 a brain. Along the way to the Emerald City, Dorothy, Toto, and the Scarecrow meet the Tin Man (Nipsey Russell), a turn-of-the-century amusement park mechanical man, and the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross), a vain dandy banished from the jungle who hid inside one of the stone lions in front of the New York Public Library. The Tin Man and Lion join them on their quest to find the Wizard, hoping to gain a heart and courage, respectively. Before the five adventurers reach the Emerald City, they must face obstacles such as a crazy subway peddler (a homeless man) with evil puppets in his control and the \u201cPoppy\u201d Girls (a reference to the poppy field from the original story), prostitutes who attempt to put Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion to sleep with magic dusting powder.\nFinally reaching the Emerald City (an analogue of the real-life World Trade Center plaza), the quintet gains passage into the city because of Dorothy\u2019s ownership of the silver shoes and marvel at the spectacle of the city and its dancers. They gain an audience with the Wizard (Richard Pryor), who appears to them as a giant fire-breathing metallic head. He will only grant their wishes if they kill Evillene (Mabel King), the Wicked Witch of the West, who runs a sweatshop in the sewers of New York City. She learns of their quest to kill her and sends out the Flying Monkeys (a motorcycle gang) to kidnap them.\nAfter an extended chase, the Flying Monkeys succeed in capturing their prey and bring them back to Evillene. She dismembers the Scarecrow, flattens the Tin Man, and tortures the Lion in hopes of making Dorothy give her the silver shoes. When she threatens to throw Toto into a fiery cauldron, Dorothy nearly gives in until the Scarecrow hints to her to activate a fire sprinkler switch which she does. The sprinklers put out the fire but also melt Evillene. She is flushed down into her toilet. With Evillene herself gone, her spells lose their power: the Winkies are freed from their costumes (revealing humans underneath) and their sweatshop tools disappear. They rejoice in dance and praise Dorothy as their emancipator and the Flying Monkeys give her and her friends a triumphant ride back to the Emerald City.\nUpon arriving back at the Emerald City, the quartet takes a back door into the Wizard\u2019s quarters and discovers that he is a \u201cphony\u201d. The \u201cgreat and powerful Oz\u201d is actually Herman Smith, a failed politician from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who was transported to Oz when a balloon he was flying to promote his campaign to become the city dogcatcher was lost in a storm. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion are distraught that they will never receive their respective brain, heart, and courage, but Dorothy makes them realize that they already have these things. Just as it seems as if she will never be able to get home, Glinda, the Good Witch of the South (Lena Horne), appears and implores her to find her way home by searching within and using her silver shoes. After thanking Glinda and saying goodbye to her friends, she takes Toto in her arms, thinks of home and the things she loves most about it and, after clicking her heels, finds herself back in her neighborhood. She, now a changed woman, carries Toto back to their apartment and closes the door.\nHow many people in 1978, were wondering what it would have been like to have an African-American version of The Wizard of Oz, complete with a funky soundtrack? Well, whoever those people were, they got their wise with The Wiz.\nMotown\u2019s Oscar-nominated take on L. Frank Baum\u2019s ageless tale stars Diana Ross as Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy, who exits a family gathering to search for her lost pooch, Toto, gets caught in a blizzard and is transported to the magical land of Oz.\nDifferent. Whether you love or hate the direction the filmmakers went with this story, you can\u2019t deny that this is the same tale we all know and love. Everything is here, the yellow brick road, wicked witch, the friends along the way, flying monkeys, Oz, etc. I guess this was just a different time, when things didn\u2019t have to be changed for the sake of change.\nMJ. It should come as no surprise, but Michael Jackson was arguably the best thing about this film. I\u2019m not too crazy about his being the Scarecrow, but you can\u2019t deny that he is quite entertaining, including arguably the best song of the film. On the acting front, one has to wonder why Michael wasn\u2019t in more films. He obviously had the talent, but I guess the scripts weren\u2019t right.\nMusic. With a couple of exceptions and the funky 70s vibe going on throughout, the music in this film is quite painful to listen to. The songs are forgettable, with the exception of \u201cEase on Down the Road\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m a Mean Old Lion\u201d, and just make you wonder what Motown was thinking allowing these songs to see the light of day.\nToo old. Diana Ross was not mean to play Dorothy. She is too old, and it shows, but somehow she got the role and caused a director change before filming started because of it. I won\u2019t say that Diana has no chops, because she does, as we say in Lady Sings the Blues, but let\u2019s be real\u2026this is a role for someone younger.\nWaste of talent. A couple of things bothered me. First, if Diana Ross is going to be in this thing, then let the woman sing. As it is, she sings 1 1/2 songs, and that\u2019s it! If this was because she wanted to do more acting, then that is one thing, but this is a musical, let her flex those pipes. At this point in time, she was one of the best around. Second, Richard Pryor, who is still one of the funniest comedians to take the stage doesn\u2019t really get to be funny. Similar to Diana, if you\u2019re gonna cast someone like that, then let them do what makes them special, not just have them there reading some lines!\nI remember the first time I saw The Wiz. I wasn\u2019t too crazy about it because it felt like a bad acid trip gone horribly wrong. My opinion has not changed, but after recently seeing Oz: The Great and Powerful, I was inspired to watch it again. Would I suggest this to anyone? That is a hard one, but I have to say no, as there isn\u2019t enough going for it to merit a recommendation. That being said, there are a some moments in here that are enjoyable. That\u2019s what Youtube is for, right?\nPosted in Horror, Movie Reviews with tags Dominic Purcell, Emma Booth, Henry Cavil, Michael Fassbender, Nazis, Viking runestone, zombies on April 17, 2013 by Mystery Man\nn 1936, the Wollners, a German family living in rural West Virginia, are contacted by a Nazi German emissary to host Professor Richard Wirth. The family accept as they need the money thinking of Wirth as a visiting scholar. Wirth\u2019s project, however, has nothing to do with science but much to do with the occult. Years ago, the family found a Viking runestone on their property and built a stable on top of it. Wirth wants to use its power and energies to do evil but he is interrupted by the family. They hold Wirth captive in their cellar and trapped in the farm with blood markings. This prison however requires the family to sporadically capture people and use them as a source for blood. The horrifying fate of the family is then linked to Wirth\u2019s, so they keep him alive but weak and trapped.\nIn 2007, 25-year-old Evan Marshall\u2019s life has stalled because he is left without answers after the disappearance of his older brother Victor during a camping trip in rural West Virginia. Evan tries to move on but when Victor returns one night, very much alive and having escaped his captors, Evan asks no questions \u2013 at his brother\u2019s request. Instead they load up their rifles, pack up their boat and return to fight the evil.\nThe brothers head to the farm and confront the Wollners. They, in turn, warn the siblings about Wirth. They do not listen until Wirth gets out of the cellar and begins his terror. Wirth reveals that the reason Victor was able to escape was because Wirth knew that Victor would come back to the farm for revenge and would eventually free him from the Wollners, so he let Victor go on purpose. The brothers manage to poison and decapitate Wirth, however, the Wollners turn rapidly old and die. Before the youngest dies, she tells Evan that SS leader Heinrich Himmler has sent eight more Nazi agents to different farms. Evan finds a map that was under the farm and discovers that others like Wirth are at other farms. While Victor returns home to his family, Evan heads out to the other farms to stop the Nazis.\nIf you missed Blood Creek when it came out back in 2009, don\u2019t feel bad. You\u2019re not the only one, because I don\u2019t recall hearing about this either. After seeing it, though, I\u2019m not so sure that was a bad thing.\nWhen a family agrees to host an occult-obsessed Nazi scholar in their West Virginia farmhouse prior to World War II, they\u2019re transformed into his undead slaves and must kidnap local victims to feed his bloodlust. Years later, an abducted war hero (Dominic Purcell) breaks free from the zombie family\u2019s clutches, rounds up his brother (Henry Cavill) and returns to the wilderness for payback\nOccult. For some reason, Nazis and occult go together. I\u2019m not enough of a history buff to know whether this is something that actually occurred in history, but movies seem to like to use it as a plot point, that\u2019s for sure. Combining this with the zombie creature Michael Fassbender becomes and it was actually pretty interesting.\nNewcomers. At the time of this release, no one knew who Henry Cavil was (though after this summer\u2019s Man of Steel, I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be a household name) and Michael Fassbender was coming into his own. Fast forward to today and they have come a long way. I always like seeing how far actors have come from their early roles.\nPlot. While I liked the zombie/occult angle, it was actually hard to keep up with what was actually going on in the story. I know there was something to do with a Viking runestone and somehow the people in the house never really aged, but it was never explained why this stranger that showed up one day is now a bloodthirsty monster, what it is about the marks on the doors and windows that keeps him out, or pretty much anything that was important to know.\nDominic. In Blade: Trinity, I liked Dominic Purcell. He isn\u2019t the kind of guy you hand over leading man material to, but he is capable of the hulking brute stuff. Here, he just seems either miscast or given more than he is capable of handling. His performance left me longing for more. I wasn\u2019t sold and felt this is a role that should have been given to someone else.\nFor a quick horror flick to pass the time, Blood Creek accomplished what it was supposed to do, but if you were to watch this expecting some major thrills and chills, you\u2019re sure to be severely disappointed. There are some gory moments and the zombie horses at the end are a bit creepy, but that isn\u2019t enough to save this from being quite mediocre. This is a hit or miss flick for me. Not good, but not bad. Do I recommend it? Eh\u2026it depends on how much of a fan of zombies, Nazis, occult, etc. you are.\nPosted in Drama, Movie Reviews with tags Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, Danny Huston, Ed Gein, Helen Mirren, James D'Arcy, Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel, making of Psycho, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette, Vera Miles on April 14, 2013 by Mystery Man\nIn 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, North by Northwest, to considerable success, but is troubled by a reporter\u2019s insinuation that it is time to retire. Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Alfred turns down film proposals like adapting Casino Royale in favor of a horror novel called Psycho by Robert Bloch, which is based on the crimes of serial killer Ed Gein.\nAlfred\u2019s wife and artistic collaborator, Alma, is no more enthusiastic about the idea than his appalled colleagues, especially since she is being lobbied by their writer friend, Whitfield Cook, to look at his own screenplay. However, she warms to Alfred\u2019s proposal, suggesting the innovative plot turn of killing the female lead early in the film. The studio heads prove more difficult to persuade, forcing Alfred to finance the film personally and use his Alfred Hitchcock Presents television crew to produce the film.\nHowever, the pressures of this self-financed production, such as dealing with Geoffrey Shurlock of the Motion Picture Production Code, and Hitchcock\u2019s notorious lecherous habits, such as when they confer with the female lead, Janet Leigh, annoy Alma beyond endurance. To find a release, Alma begins a personal writing collaboration with Whitfield on his screenplay at his beach house without Alfred\u2019s knowledge. Alfred eventually discovers what she has been doing, and suspects her of having an affair. This concern affects Alfred\u2019s work on the film, such as giving Psycho\u2019s famous shower scene particularly ferocious ambiance even as he imagines Gein speaking to him.\nDespite this tension, Alma\u2019s loyalty is such that she personally takes over production of his film when Alfred is temporarily bedridden after collapsing from overwork. Despite this, Alfred eventually confronts Alma and asks her if she is having an affair. Alma denies it, profoundly insulted at being accused of adultery after all she has done for her husband.\nEvents take a turn for the worse when Alfred\u2019s rough cut of Psycho is poorly received by the studio executives, while Alma discovers Whitfield philandering with a younger woman at his beach house. With both feeling chastened, Alfred and Alma reconcile and set to work on improving the film. Their renewed collaboration yields results, culminating in Alma convincing Alfred to accept their composer\u2019s suggestion for adding Bernard Hermann\u2019s famous harsh strings score for the shower scene, making it a bracingly effective moment of cinematic horror.\nAfter maneuvering Shurlock into leaving the film\u2019s content largely intact, Alfred learns that the studio is only going to exhibit the film in a handful of theaters with minimal marketing. To compensate, Alfred arranges for special theater instructions to pique the public\u2019s interest in the film such as forbidding admittance after the film begins. At the film\u2019s premiere, Alfred waits in the lobby for the audience\u2019s reaction and is rewarded with a raucously enthusiastic reception.\nWith the film\u2019s screening being so well received, Alfred publicly thanks his wife afterward for helping make it possible and they affirm their love. At the conclusion at his home, Alfred addresses the audience noting Psycho proved a major high point of his artistic career and he is currently pondering his next project. At that, a crow lands on his shoulder as a reference to his successful follow-up effort, The Birds, before turning to meet with his wife.\nI\u2019m not a die-hard fan of Alfred Hitchcock, but I do enjoy his films. Getting the chance to learn more about the man is something that I have been longing to do for some time now and Hitchcock did accomplish that in some ways.\nIconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock struggles with his marriage, the censors and the financiers of his 1960 film Psycho in this biopic. Driven to prove he still has an edge, Hitchcock crafts what would become one of the greatest thrillers of all time\nMan, myth, legend. Strangely enough, the film focuses solely on the making of Hitchcock\u2019s masterpiece, Psycho. While there isn\u2019t really anything that is wrong with that per se, I would have liked to have known a bit more about the guy, but more on that later. What we do get to know is how much of an influence his wife Alma was on his career and films. I guess what they say is true, \u201cbehind every great man is an even greater woman!\u201d It really doesn\u2019t hurt if that woman is Helen Mirren.\nCasting couch. In biopics, I have found that casting directors don\u2019t necessarily look for someone who resembles the person they are playing. I\u2019m not particularly fond of that practice, but sometimes it comes down to the improbability of finding someone who has the look and talent to pull it off. In this case, Scarlett Johansson plays a very believable Janet Leigh. Some may say that she should have been playing Marilyn Monroe at some point in time, and I won\u2019t argue that, but I can see the resemblance between her and Leigh.\nLevity. I was listening to a review last night where the reviewer all but called for a boycott of this film because it had a light-hearted, comedic feel in places. More often than not, I appreciate moments like this as they keep the film from going into absolute darkness. Say what you will, but just because Hitchcock created some of the great horror films of all time does not mean that he was always in a dark place, mentally. For that very reason, it is nice that this film realized he was a human who had ups and downs, just like rest of us.\nFat suit. I have an issue with the way they changed Sir Anthony Hopkins into Alfred Hitchcock. Sticking him in a fat suit seemed to be a good idea, but watching throughout the film, it seemed as if he was very uncomfortable and forced to wobble around like a penguin. I\u2019ve never seen Hitchcock walk, but I\u2019m pretty sure he didn\u2019t wobble!\nHistory. As much as I was interesting in the making of Psycho, I would have been more interesting in seeing a little more about what it was that made Hitchcock tick. To my knowledge the few films about him don\u2019t seem to dwell back there and I\u2019m sure that is was this history that shaped him into the director he turned out to be.\nAlma. A short side plot involving Hitchcock\u2019s wife, Alma, didn\u2019t really work for me, but only because they didn\u2019t develop it proper. As it is presented in the picture, randomly we saw her and Danny Huston\u2019s character at this beach house a couple of times and the last time he is having sex with some chick, she gets bent out of shape, goes to help her husband make Psycho become a hit, and that\u2019s the last of it. Surely, they could have done something more with that story if they were going to include it. This is a relatively short film, a few more minutes would not have hurt.\nSo, Hitchcock\u2026what did I think of it? I really liked it. There were moments here and there that I was left scratching my head about, but for the most part, this was my cup of tea. Could it have been better? Yes, but it also could have been much worse. Fan of Hitchock, you may or may not like it depending on how hardcore you are, but general movie fans will probably enjoy. Check it out sometime!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 53802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thealmostdailywriter.com/2018/06/04/grading-facebook/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6A5GYE6IMQUZGCT476J54BDJWIK4PU2C", "length": 2199, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thealmostdailywriter.com", "title": "Grading Facebook \u2013 The Almost Daily Writer", "raw_content": "hooversmommy\tThe Red Pen\t June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 1 Minute\nI have a confession to make\u2013I actually like Facebook. Where else can I talk about cats all day long with other people who want to talk about cats all day long?\nI have friends who hate Facebook or who occasionally have to take a break from it. I know people who get really cranky about all the political posts, especially around election time. Yet other friends complain that Facebook isn\u2019t \u201crelational\u201d enough, that its friendships are shallow and the communication it fosters is superficial.\nAnd all of those accusations are probably true, if one doesn\u2019t know how to use Facebook in a way to avoid them. For instance, it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to scroll past political posts without reading them. In fact, I have been known to unfollow (but never unfriend) people whose posts are all politics all the time. As to the idea that Facebook friendships are fake or shallow, I would say they are only so if one makes them so. I have gotten to know some of my friends much better through Facebook than I ever would have without it.\nMy only true complaint about Facebook is that there\u2019s no Red Pen feature. As a former high school English teacher, my fingers twitch with the desire to correct the spelling errors, the apostrophe mistakes, and, above all, to point out and gently reason against some of the logical fallacies present in so many posts. And you can imagine, if I had such a Red Pen, how popular I would be.\nI realize that\u2019s what the comments section is for to some people. But I also don\u2019t want to be a jerk to my friends because I am not their English teacher, after all. Even to my Facebook friends who are my former students, I am no longer authorized to grade their work. And if the post in question was shared by a close relative (like my mother), I especially do not dare to point out the errors. Ye Gads!\nFortunately, none of my friends\u2013and certainly none of my family members\u2013read this blog. So I\u2019m going to start a new feature where I grade posts from Facebook with all personal identifiers removed to protect the innocent and not-so-innocent.\nPrevious Post A Handful of Words\nNext Post I\u2019ll Bet I Won\u2019t Even Get One Share\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebaldorgroup.com/benefits-owning-home-retirement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KMSE2JYXQG3FPZN2P3TRGR4TEIT5FBMC", "length": 1231, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebaldorgroup.com", "title": "A Few Benefits Of Owning A Home In Retirement - TheBaldorGroup.com", "raw_content": "A Few Benefits Of Owning A Home In Retirement\nIn recent years, there\u2019s been an increasing number of older Americans who rent rather than own their own home. But is renting really a better choice for retirees looking to reduce costs and obligations? Well, not necessarily. While it\u2019s true that homeownership brings with it ongoing expenses like routine maintenance and property taxes that continue even after you\u2019ve paid off your mortgage, renting can\u2019t offer some of the benefits that homeownership alone provides. For example, equity. Once you\u2019ve built up equity in your home, you can take out a line of credit and borrow money from your home\u2019s value. Obviously, this can be a good option for older homeowners on a fixed income. Also, provided you have a fixed-rate mortgage, your house payment isn\u2019t subject to the ups-and-downs of the market the way rent can be. As a renter, you\u2019re at the mercy of your landlord. After all, they own the house or building you\u2019re living in and can set the price to their liking. Like anything, there are pros and cons to owning a home during retirement. However, homeownership provides a valuable asset that can be advantageous for retired homeowners in a position to benefit from it. More here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 193.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebarbershopmusic.com/products/kid-cudi-man-on-the-moon-the-end-of-day-2lp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:46Z", "digest": "sha1:TYG2IBLWTZQDGESVBV6W4J6B4TZYT5G2", "length": 2091, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "thebarbershopmusic.com", "title": "Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day [2LP] \u2013 The Barbershop Music", "raw_content": "Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day [2LP]\nAct 1: The End Of Day\nA1 In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)\nA2 Soundtrack 2 My Life\nA3 Simple As...\nAct 2: Rise Of The Night Terrors\nA4 Solo Dolo (Nightmare)\nB1 Heart Of A Lion (KiD CuDi Theme Music)\nB2 My World\nAct 3: Taking A Trip\nB3 Day N Nite (Nightmare)\nB4 Sky Might Fall\nC1 Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)\nAct 4: Alive\nC2 Alive (Nightmare)\nC3 CuDi Zone\nC4 Make Her Say\nD1 Pursuit Of Happiness (Nightmare)\nAct 5: A New Beginning\nD2 Hyyerr (Nightmare)\nD3 Up, Up And Away\nMan on the Moon: The End of Day is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi, released on September 14, 2009, by Dream On, GOOD Music and Universal Motown. A concept album, narrated by fellow American rapper Common, it follows the release of his first mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (2008). Production for the album took place during 2007 to 2009 and was handled by several record producers, including Cudi, Kanye West, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, No I.D., Dot da Genius and Jeff Bhasker, among others.\nMan on the Moon: The End of Day spawned three singles\u2013\"Day 'n' Nite\", \"Make Her Say\" and \"Pursuit of Happiness\"\u2013that attained chart success, the former of which became a US platinum-certified hit single. To further promote the album, he toured with Asher Roth and Lady Gaga. Man on the Moon: The End of Day received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised it for its music composition and different approach to being a hip-hop record. Aside from being included on music critics list of the best albums of the year, Man on the Moon: The End of Day received three Grammy Awards nominations.\nThe album debuted at number four on both the US Billboard 200 and Billboard Top Rap Albums chart, selling 104,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States. It later became certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments exceeding 500,000 copies in the US. Outside of the US, the album was less commercially successful, generally peaking outside of the top fifty positions of album charts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 38.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebeatdfw.com/2005967/im-getting-old-i-remember-when-this-game-was-the-business-atari-and-the-game-pong-turns-40/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5PVLSUEDDKHYHSSAUZTLSBVKB3UUPYK2", "length": 761, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thebeatdfw.com", "title": "I\u2019m Getting Old, I Remember When This Game Was the Business!!!! Atari and The Game Pong Turns 40!! | 97.9 The Beat", "raw_content": "I\u2019m Getting Old, I Remember When This Game Was the Business!!!! Atari and The Game Pong Turns 40!!\nBefore there were the X-Box, Playstations, and the other major gaming systems with the video games such as Halo 3, Ghost Recon, etc\u2026\u2026 There was the Atari system with Pong\u2026. Just literally to joysticks and a gaming system, was all you had as you stared at the screen for countless hours. Trying to knock the little white dot back and for, without the paddle missing it and going off the screen. Wow the good old days, now you have 10 buttons or a wireless controller that can be used to pilot the spaceship\u2026\u2026.LOL\nRead the Article Here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/27/tech/gaming-gadgets/atari-anniversary/index.html?hpt=hp_c3\nAtari\t, old school\t, Pong\t, VIDEO GAME", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebeepingbell.com/delhi-govts-move-to-use-public-money-to-pay-legal-fee-in-defamation-case-against-kejriwal-is-illegal-says-bjp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IWJSGZ4QRCJPJWY6XTKOX2EIRK36MFI4", "length": 3400, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "thebeepingbell.com", "title": "Delhi govt\u2019s move to use public money to pay legal fee in defamation case against Kejriwal is illegal; says BJP \u2013 The Beeping Bell", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Election \u00bb News \u00bb You are reading \u00bb\nRajat Pandey April 4, 2017 Delhi govt\u2019s move to use public money to pay legal fee in defamation case against Kejriwal is illegal; says BJP2017-04-04T15:31:46+00:00 Election, News\nNew Delhi: Javadekar\u2019s comment came amid a raging controversy over the Aam Aadmi Party government\u2019s move to pay a hefty sum to lawyer Ram Jethmalani for representing Kejriwal in court in a defamation case filed against him by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley.\nThe Delhi government\u2019s move to use public money to pay the legal fee in a personal case against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is a \u201ckind of dacoity, corruption\u201d and the BJP will not allow \u201clooting\u201d of the people, Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday.\nArvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia addressing a press conference. (Source: Asian Age)\nJaitley sued Kejriwal and other AAP leaders for allegedly making \u201cfalse and defamatory\u201d statements and accusing him of financial irregularities when he was president of the Delhi and District Cricket Association.\nThe Delhi government has sought lieutenant governor Anil Baijal\u2019s approval to foot the bill that reportedly ran into crores. The LG, on his part, has sought a legal opinion on whether the appearance fee in a personal case should be paid by the city administration.\nAlso Read: MCD Election in Delhi should be postponed; held using ballot papers, said Arvind Kejrival\nJethmalani said on Tuesday that he would treat Kejriwal as a poor client and would appear for him free. The BJP was, however, unrelenting.\n\u201cJethmalani sent the bill. Otherwise, this debate wouldn\u2019t have started,\u201d said Javadekar.\n\u201cThis (AAP government\u2019s move) is completely immoral, illegal. A personal case has to be fought with personal money, not with public money. This is the real character of this party (AAP),\u201d said Javadekar.\n\u201cThe same government, which is not paying enough money to safai karamcharis, has money to advertise in Tamil Nadu. The L-G has already directed that Rs 97 crore should be recovered (from the AAP). This is nothing but dacoity,\u201d he added.\nThe senior BJP leader pointed out that Jaitley is paying for his lawyer in the case.\nTags: Arvind kejrival, Delhi, Delhi election, Delhi, Election commission, Mcd, Mcd election 2017, Municipal corporation of delhi, Politics, Kejrival defamation case, Arun Jaitley, AAP Govt, Ram Jethmalani\nhttps://thebeepingbell.com/delhi-govts-move-to-use-public-money-to-pay-legal-fee-in-defamation-case-against-kejriwal-is-illegal-says-bjp/https://thebeepingbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAp-e1491240858203.jpeghttps://thebeepingbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAp-150x150.jpeg 2017-04-04T15:31:46+00:00 Rajat PandeyElectionNewsAAP Govt,Arun Jaitley,Kejrival defamation case,Ram JethmalaniNew Delhi: Javadekar\u2019s comment came amid a raging controversy over the Aam Aadmi Party government\u2019s move to pay a hefty sum to lawyer Ram Jethmalani for representing Kejriwal in court in a defamation case filed against him by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley. The Delhi government\u2019s move to use public...Rajat PandeyRajat Pandeyrajatrexton.cs@gmail.comAdministratorThe Beeping Bell\nAAP Govt, Arun Jaitley, Kejrival defamation case, Ram Jethmalani\n\u00ab Chinese Girl Sells Herself on Social Media For $50,000 to Save Mother From Cancer\nAfter 2000 and 500 Rs Notes, RBI to introduce 200 Rupees notes soon \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 8844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebooksupplier.com/2014/09/19/the-changelog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OXNOQVO2JV5ZKLQP6T3YBJW3Q6XFF7S7", "length": 965, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thebooksupplier.com", "title": "The Changelog \u2013 the (book) supplier", "raw_content": "One of my professors thinks I should try auto ethnography for my dissertation. While I\u2019m trying to decide whether or not this is too narcissistic, I did decide to stat writing about the process of turning my class into a game from the beginning. Looking back at the video that got this project started, revisiting my game manual (that I haven\u2019t even looked at since the first semester), among other things.\nI think this will be good for my process as I\u2019m trying to conceptualize both my research and the game project itself. I\u2019m excited about looking back and I\u2019m excited about where it\u2019s going \u2013 specifically with the addition of \u201cuser-mods\u201d and the co-creation of the perks associated with leveling up.\nThe key for me is staying in this excited place where I\u2019m motivated to continue to tackle this monumental task of writing a dissertation.\nPosted in ReflectionTagged dissertation, multiplayer classroom\nWhat Should I Read Next? | CRV #3\nDorothy Must Die | CRV #4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theconversation.com/westminster-harassment-this-is-not-just-about-sex-its-about-power-86860", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZYQUE42VTH4JC3MS4Q4OSCULOQ7JZNX", "length": 5557, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Westminster harassment: this is not just about sex, it's about power", "raw_content": "Westminster harassment: this is not just about sex, it\u2019s about power\nNovember 3, 2017 8.15am EDT\nRainbow Murray, Queen Mary University of London\nProfessor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London\nProf Rainbow Murray is a member of the Women's Equality Party.\nMichael Fallon has resigned as defence minister over allegations against him. EPA/Wallace Woon\nFrom the time I was asked to write this piece to the time I started typing, another MP has been suspended. The Westminster sex scandal is unravelling so fast that there may be further resignations by the time you read this. As with the Harvey Weinstein allegations, women are becoming more emboldened to say #MeToo. What has been so taboo for so long is finally coming out.\nAnd it\u2019s ugly. Ministers, backbenchers, Conservatives, Labour \u2013 the one thing that all of those implicated thus far have in common is that they are all men. And their alleged misdemeanours range from touching knees and using inappropriate language to sexual assault and rape.\nThis raises three obvious questions: How did this happen? Why was it condoned for so long? And what can we do to stamp it out?\nIt happened because men have more power than women. This is true almost everywhere and it is particularly true in Westminster, where men outnumber women by more than 2:1. And it\u2019s often women without power \u2013 female staff members, junior party members and interns \u2013 who are the primary targets. The power of office and the broader patriarchal culture bestow upon men a sense of entitlement. Parliament is their space \u2013 sex, and women, are their pleasures to be had. And women in politics, whether in the media or the Commons bars, are objectified, sexualised, trivialised. They are not afforded dignity and respect.\nPerhaps most importantly, men did this because they could. Because it was deemed \u201cacceptable\u201d \u2013 not by the women at the receiving end, for whom it was never ok, but by the culture of silence that permitted and condoned such behaviour.\nSilence is part of the system\nWhich leads us to question two: why was it condoned for so long? And the short answer is party loyalty. Voters generally don\u2019t like to hear that their MP enjoys assaulting women. It creates a scandal. And, as is patently clear now that the scandal finally is breaking, it\u2019s bad news for all concerned. Heads roll. Seats are lost. Leaders are criticised. Voters are appalled.\nAnd so the women affected are instructed to stay silent. Don\u2019t make a noise. Don\u2019t embarrass the party. Don\u2019t rock the boat. Just stay quiet \u2013 oh, and next time avoid getting in a lift with him.\nWhat about the whips? Why didn\u2019t they punish MPs, even if discreetly? Well, knowledge is power \u2013 and remember, this is all about power. Knowing the dirty secrets of MPs gives the whips power. It gives them blackmail material. When they are refusing to toe the party line on a key vote, it helps to have some \u201ckompromat\u201d on them. The aim is not to stop them being naughty, but merely to use knowledge of the naughtiness as a threat to dangle over their heads at key junctures. None of which helps women one iota.\nKnowledge is power in Westminster. PA\nAnd that\u2019s not all. When women do speak out, they get slut-shamed. Like somehow it was their fault. Because they wore a skirt. Because they wanted attention. Because they were willing to do anything to advance their career. The despicable treatment of women including Kate Maltby by the Daily Mail is a stark reminder of what happens to women when they\u2019re brave enough to blow the whistle. For some women, the repercussions of speaking out are like being assaulted all over again.\nSo that leaves us with the question of how to make this stop. Talking about it is a good start \u2013 although it\u2019s not enough. In France, women started talking about it in 2011 after the scandal broke about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but six years later, fresh allegations arising post-Weinstein show that the problem endures.\nSo what else can we do? Well, for starters, we need more women in parliament. When parliaments feminise, the culture changes. When women become more empowered, men become less entitled \u2013 and it becomes harder for them to get away with such behaviour.\nDefending the current composition of parliament as meritocratic has never sounded more daft. Obviously, not all men are sex pests, and many of our male MPs are good, decent, hard-working representatives. But with a long and growing list of Tory men to avoid in a lift \u2013 and at least four men also facing allegations on the opposition benches \u2013 we have to ask ourselves if the current crop of MPs really is the best we could do. And if not, then it\u2019s time for a change.\nLast but not least, we could force parliament to implement the recommendations made by political scientist Sarah Childs in her report \u201cThe Good Parliament\u201d. She sets out how to make parliament a diverse, inclusive and professional environment that is a welcoming workplace for everyone. These include guidelines on \u201cwhat constitutes unacceptable and unprofessional behaviour\u201d, with proper sanctions for those who break the rules. We have the solutions \u2013 maybe now is the time to force parliament to act.\nEPA/FOLEY\nHow pornography removes empathy \u2013 and fosters harassment and abuse\nA #MeToo protestor encourages others to \u2018balance ton porc\u2019 \u2013 expose their aggressors. EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson\nStep one of breaking the harassment cycle: take women seriously\nThe virgin martyr Saint Agatha of Sicily. 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And Red River Revel delivers.\nIt\u2019s been almost 20 years since the festival moved from Clyde Fant Parkway to Festival Plaza. With that move, Stone said, the Revel grew even more.\n\u201cOn Clyde Fant, we were so restricted with what we could do, whether we had a water source or electricity,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when the Plaza was built, we were able to, along with other festivals, give our input on electrical and water needs and tie-downs, and made it better where we were able to expand the festival. We weren\u2019t having to spend as much money on getting the necessities here.\n\u201cWhen we put in the two pavilions, obviously, that was a money-saver for a lot of us, as well,\u201d he continued.\nThis year, with a budget of more than $1.2 million, the Revel board is working with two stages of musicians and dance groups, 22 total food vendors, 19 of which are nonprofit organizations and professional artists that were specifically chosen.\n\u201cEvery artist has to submit an application and show us five digital photos of their work,\u201d Stone said. \u201cI have a panel that looks at every artist and determines who gets accepted to the festival.\u201d\nThe panel changes each year, providing different input as trends change, he pointed out.\n\u201cThat allows us to evolve from one year to the next,\u201d he said.\nVendors will feature oils, acrylics, sculpture, jewelry, woodwork, glass, metal and much more. Festival-goers can buy a unique piece of art and talk to the artists about their craft. Some artists will switch out mid-week.\nOne evolution this year includes Altervision 3D, a visual art tent structure black-light exhibit from California.\n\u201cYou put on 3D glasses, and the art basically comes to life,\u201d Stone said. \u201cIt\u2019s a unique experience.\u201d\nTo keep the Red River Revel a familyoriented festival, the board has revamped pricing, Stone said.\n\u201cWe have talked to the vendors,\u201d he said. \u201cThe best example I can give is if we sold a bowl of gumbo last year for eight coupons, we went back and asked that group if they could sell a cup for four, so there are less expensive options available to people.\u201d\nThe board did the same for children\u2019s activities, he said.\n\u201cWhether it be face painting or sand art, we asked for a three-dollar option, so that everybody has a chance to participate,\" he said. \"If they are not free, they have a (lowerprice) option.\"\nThere is an entire area exclusively for children\u2019s activities, complete with its own performance stage. Children of all ages can show their artistic abilities by creating art projects at the Junior League of Shreveport/ Bossier\u2019s Artist for a Day. A favorite among young Revelers is the mock geological dig, where children make \u201canthropologic discoveries\u201d without ever leaving the Revel site.\nAnother favorite is the Brookshire\u2019s Mini Grocery Store, where children shop with kidsized carts and \u201cpurchase\u201d a variety of items that can be found in local Brookshire\u2019s grocery stores \u2014 they have a blast playing \u201cparent\u201d and shopping for their family.\nThe Red River Revel has a long history of bringing talented performances to Shreveport.\nThousands of people come every year to see these performances by artists who often go on to become chart-toppers and living legends in music on two stages.\nThis year\u2019s line-up includes Michael Ray, The Afters, Midnight Star, Celtica Pipes Rock!, Knox Hamilton, Switchfoot and Lao Tizer Trio among many others.\nThe board is also proud to announce a new parking area for the Revel to accommodate the crowds.\n\u201cWe have never had truly free parking that wasn\u2019t at the casinos,\u201d Stone said. \u201cWe have opened up the rail yard lot that is across the street from Sci-Port on Lake Street, and it is now available to the general public. That\u2019s always been reserved in years past, and I\u2019m freeing that up.\u201d\nAdmission is listed below, as well as on the Revel\u2019s website, where there is also a pre-sale package. For details visit redriverrevel.com\n\u2022 Monday - All day\n\u2022 Tuesday - Thursday: 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.\n\u2022 Friday: 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.\n\u2022 Every day: Military and first responders with valid ID and children 12 & under*\n\u2022 Saturdays and Sundays: All Day\n\u2022 Tuesday - Friday: After 5:30 p.m.\n* accompained by an adult\n$10 - Reveler Pass\n\u2022 Pay once and get in every day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theglass-pyramid.com/2017/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QAZDXUI2POKH6UXOGW3WVKGHU24JJRMA", "length": 413, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "theglass-pyramid.com", "title": "February 2017 \u2013 The Glass Pyramid", "raw_content": "The first Tuesday of the month is the scheduled day for monetary policy twitchers to don their pin stripe camo and lurk expectantly on park benches in Upper Martin Place. Their presence [\u2026]\nHere is DFATs fact sheet on US-Australia trade that demonstrates the great \u201cdudness\u201d of the FTA deal with the US signed by Howard back in the early 2000\u2019s. https://dfat.gov.au/trade/resources/Documents/usa.pdf Trade \u2013 A [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thegreatmoviedebates.com/2017/02/15/john-wick-chapter-2-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:56Z", "digest": "sha1:URLWLRTSLA2E27QLWESXG7VQ5DY2AV7J", "length": 5175, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thegreatmoviedebates.com", "title": "John Wick: Chapter 2 Review | The Great Movie Debate", "raw_content": "thegreatmoviedebates\taction, analysis, analyzed, blog, cinema, films, funny, John Wick Chapter 2, Keanu Reeves, review, thoughts, wordpress\nJohn Wick: Chapter 2 takes place shortly after the events of the first film, where John Wick finally believes he can take a rest and be done with the hitman lifestyle. That all changes when he gets a visit from the crime lord Santino D\u2019Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), whom he owes a favor for bound by a blood oath. Once again John gets wrapped back up into the world of hitmen and assassins, now with every hired gun in NYC hot on his trail.\nJohn Wick: Chapter 2 devotes quite a lot of time building up the character of John Wick. We constantly see montages showing off how much fear John Wick instills into gangsters and other hitmen. Putting it simply, John Wick is just pure awesomeness. I even think it\u2019s safe to say that John Wick is the modern day John McClane. He\u2019s a bad ass antihero with a sense of humor and clever fighting style. In fact, the opening scene of the film acts as a great appetizer for the audience to see the fighting skills and sheer power that John Wick has. The first thirty minutes is just one continuous killing spree Wick goes on because a group of gangsters stole his car.\nKeanu Reeves as John Wick was a beyond excellent casting choice. We get to see even more expression and emotion from Reeves than in the first John Wick, with many more lines of dialogue as well. Now, it\u2019s no secret that I have never really been a fan of Keanu Reeves. I think that oftentimes his acting is dull and emotionless. However, his performances in John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 give me reason to believe I\u2019ve misjudged Reeves as an actor. I think the character of Wick fits Reeves\u2019s style of acting well, making for one great performance.\nThe film effectively builds its own world of assassins that is more vast and extensive than the previous John Wick film. We get to learn about the considerably large network of hitmen across New York City and the ins and outs of the profession. There is one scene where the audience gets to see all the connections that John Wick has around the city, as well as how many hitmen there actually are in NYC. One other big addition to the film is the idea of blood oaths and certain codes that hitmen and assassins must live by and honor. Many films that establish a clear set of rules like this tend to shy away from them at some point, but not John Wick: Chapter 2. Once it establishes the rules, the film never breaks them, which is something I admire.\nThe action scenes have this euphoric flow to them. They are fast, creative, excessive in violence, and sometimes funny in a morbid sort of way. There is one seen in particular where John Wick is having a shootout with another hitman as they walk through a crowd. They each take turns passively firing shots at one another, doing their best not to be noticed by others. Many people were giggling in the theater at this comedic exchange in gunshots. Another great action scene involves a fist fight John Wick has with the same hitman, except this time they both fall down three flights of concrete stairs during their scuffle. This was filmed in such a slow and drawn out fashion that, again, I believe was supposed to be funny in a dark way.\nOne possible problem that John Wick: Chapter 2 has is the same issue many action films like struggle with, an invincible protagonists. When you have the protagonist go through as much physical strain as Wick (like getting hit by a car on three separate occasions), it strains the audience\u2019s suspension of disbelief. While we do see the strength of our antihero falter as the film progresses (similar to John McClane in Die Hard), it never really feels like he\u2019s in imminent danger. This was by far the biggest issue people had with the film as I left the theater and I completely understand. Overall I think I was a little more forgiving than others towards this issue, mostly because of the nature of the genre and my love for Wick as a character.\nThe film is filled with dark scenery and a lot of bright neon lighting (as well as other forms of artificial lights). These, compounded with the unique use of subtitles, gives the John Wick movies a very distinct style. A style that I happen to enjoy quite a lot.\nBoth John Wick films are outstanding, one of a kind action movies. However, the character of John Wick is what I find truly remarkable about this film. In my opinion, Wick is one of the best action film protagonists in many years. John Wick: Chapter 2 has plenty of cool characters (including a great cameo by Laurence Fishburne), great action scenes, and a uniquely crafted world to make for an adrenaline filled experience. I strongly recommend for fans of stylized action films to go ahead and check out John Wick: Chapter 2 for themselves.\n\u2190 The Lego Batman Movie Review\nJohn Wick: Reel Quick Reviews \u2192\nOne thought on \u201cJohn Wick: Chapter 2 Review\u201d\nThis is how a great action film is made. I had so much fun watching this movie and so much fun watching Keanu Reeves back in top form. 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We aim to develop the whole child \u2013 physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually, and spiritually \u2013 by offering students hands-on experiences in a broad range of subject areas.\nOur approach is influenced by the research of Dr. Roger Walsh on the effect of lifestyle choices on feelings of happiness and personal satisfaction.\nThe Key to Our Success?\nStudents build a strong foundation for a lifetime of confidence and fulfillment in learning about oneself, others and the world at large. In our classrooms, the materials and experiences are the best teachers. Trained Montessori guides direct students to discover and digest new concepts. Children explore their surroundings with all five senses, and develop a natural curiosity about the novel objects and opportunities found at school.\nIt goes without saying that families have an enormous impact on young people\u2019s learning and development. When school feels like family and the classroom mimics the comforts and activities of home, children feel comfortable, confident and ready for new challenges.\nIn our Infant, Pre-Primary, and Primary programs, children within a year or two of age lead and lean on another through the daily tasks of living and learning in a collaborative group. These \u2018family classrooms\u2019 feel like home, with dedicated outdoor patios, comfy spaces to lounge and relax, child-size kitchens to practice food preparation and household tasks, clean restrooms to explore personal care and hygiene, and loving mentors to guide the way.\nAt our core we are a family business, founded by a mother-son partnership and rooted in a mission to encourage and empower students, families, teammates, community, and ourselves. The Growing Place is a community of learners, engaged in what Dr. Montessori called \u201can education to life.\u201d We hope you\u2019ll stop by and visit!\nEducation Starts at Birth. 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The last remaining tickets are available now on TicketSwap. Whilst Hardwell has decided to offer a special Golden Ticket including Meet & Greet to a lucky winner!\nFans who have not been able to buy a ticket but who would like to witness Hardwell perform one last time can follow the unique concert in real-time via the official live stream on Hardwell\u2019s multiple social media channels and in China there will be a 3 hours registration, with exclusive backstage content and the support act of Real El Canario, broadcasted on HUYA on Friday the 19th.\n\u2018Symphony: The Global Revolution of Dance\u2019 is for the time being the final performance by Hardwell, who recently announced he will stop performing indefinitely.\nIn \u2018Symphony: The Global Revolution of Dance\u2019, the world-famous DJ, together with the world\u2019s leading pop and jazz orchestra, will take the audience on a musical journey through the history of dance music. The spectacular all-ages show of the legendary DJ pioneer and the Metropole Orkest is characterized by the composition of different music periods, from the 80s to the mega-hits of today. Hits from various world stars pass by, from Donna Summer to Ti\u00ebsto, from Carl Cox to Daft Punk.\n2018 Amsterdam Dance Event Hardwell livestream tickets\nHey Buddy!, I found this information for you: \"This is how you can watch the last Hardwell show at Amsterdam Dance Event 2018 via live stream!\". Here is the website link: https://themusicessentials.com/news/hardwell-ade-2018-live-stream/. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenewrevere.com/2018/11/ben-shapiro-the-ungrateful-nation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DC2GH22PVQ6JVQED5XYQXMZZXCZCXDH5", "length": 4046, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thenewrevere.com", "title": "Ben Shapiro: The Ungrateful Nation | New Revere Daily Press", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Conservatism \u00bb Ben Shapiro: The Ungrateful Nation\nPosted on November 22, 2018 by Ben Shapiro in Conservatism, Culture, HEADLINE News, History, Top Contributors\nHere are a few facts about America.\nThe unemployment rate among those with a high school education is 3.9 percent. The poorest quintile of Americans have seen their post-tax incomes increase 80 percent since 1979, according to Congressional Budget Office data, and post-tax and transfer income for that quintile has skyrocketed 32 percent since 2000. The upper-middle class in America constituted 13 percent of the population in 1979; as of 2014, it constituted 30 percent. According to Pew Research from 2015, when it comes to standard of living, \u201cThe U.S. stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world. More than half (56 percent) of Americans were high income by the global standard \u2026 and 2 percent were poor.\u201d\nFantastic products are cheaper than ever. Human Progress investigated the amount of time Americans must spend to earn enough money to buy key products and found that since 1979, the amount of time spent to earn a refrigerator had dropped 52 percent, 95 percent for microwaves, 65 percent for gas ranges and 61 percent for dishwashers. Between the mid-1960s and 2007, Americans were able to work less and leisure more: They worked nearly eight hours fewer per week, according to The Heritage Foundation. The wage gap is almost entirely a myth: Women who work the same jobs as men for the same number of hours, and have the same work history and same education as men make the same as men. The chief obstacles to income mobility in the United States are related to personal decision-making, not racial discrimination: As the Brookings Institution points out, of the people who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children, nearly 75 percent join the middle class, and just 2 percent remain in poverty.\nWhat of freedom? In America, people of all religions practice freely, so long as the government isn\u2019t attempting to cram social justice down on them. People are free to speak, so long as government actors aren\u2019t utilizing the heckler\u2019s veto. We are free to use the press, free to associate and free to protest.\nAll of this is the result of the greatest governmental philosophy ever committed to paper: God-given individual rights protected by limited government. We haven\u2019t always lived up to that philosophy \u2014 in some areas, we\u2019ve progressed mightily, and in others, we\u2019ve regressed. But the overall success of the United States should be ringing proof that at the very least, we should be grateful and proud to live here.\nYet as of July 2018, fewer than half of Americans surveyed by Gallup said they are extremely proud to be American. Just 32 percent of Democrats, down from 56 percent in 2013, said they are extremely proud to be American; only 42 percent of independents said are were extremely proud to be American. That\u2019s ridiculous. Regardless of political affiliation, we should be proud to live in a society founded on eternal truths, in which we have the ability to thrive based on our own choices.\nIn 1789, as America struggled to find her footing after a revolution against the most powerful military and economic engine in the world, then-President George Washington issued a proclamation. He thanked God for \u201chis kind care and protection of the People of this Country,\u201d for \u201cthe great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed \u2014 for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness.\u201d\nIf Washington could urge gratefulness in 1789, we\u2019d be fools not to do so now, when our lives are so much better in every material way. This Thanksgiving, let\u2019s remember what we have \u2014 and let\u2019s remember the eternal ideas that provide the groundwork for our prosperity.\nPHOTO: Washington Crossing the Delaware River. Painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. 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To celebrate, Google is showing Windows 8 users how to get Google Search and Google Chrome into Microsoft\u2019s latest and greatest operating system.\nIt\u2019s not exactly surprising that Mountain View would rather you using its products over Redmond\u2019s Bing and Internet Explorer 10. In typical Google fashion, however, the company is offering its quick guide in the form of an amusing YouTube video:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGplftLI9Fo\nThe catch phrase is \u201cGet Your Google Back,\u201d implying that whatever version of Windows you were on previously, chances are you were using Google\u2019s search engine and Chrome browser. Now that you\u2019ve moved up to Windows 8, you\u2019ll want to get them both back.\nThe Google Search app for Windows 8 has already been available for a while, and we reviewed it earlier this week. The app is really just what you\u2019d expect from the company (Google Instant, doodles, and all), plus some additional touch customizations (image previews are built for swiping) and voice search. In case you prefer a direct link, it\u2019s available on the official Windows Store.\nThe Chrome browser meanwhile has also been optimized for touchscreens, including larger buttons and the ability to keep Chrome open next to your other favorite apps. Unfortunately, the Windows Store isn\u2019t easily searchable, so you really will have to install it by going to a Google.com domain first. Maybe that\u2019s why Google bought getyourgoogleback.com just for this campaign: the Windows Store isn\u2019t (yet) easy to browse on the Web.\nGoogle will likely add more of its products and services to this Web page as it starts porting them over to Windows 8. We\u2019ll keep you posted as we learn more.\nSee also \u2013 TNW\u2019s Windows 8 cheat sheet: What, when, where, how much, and should you? and The Next Web\u2019s Windows 8 app is live, come and get it!\nImage credit: Felix Atsoram\nRead next: This week at Microsoft: Windows 8, Surface, and well, Windows 8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepausesbetween.com/2017/04/21/a-constellation-of-stars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:OICULFMFOEK6UK6Q5VH6DAYCAG7LF2FS", "length": 2730, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "thepausesbetween.com", "title": "a constellation of stars \u2013 the pauses between", "raw_content": "jewey\tfamily, life/inspirational, motherhood, nature, personal, travelogues\t April 21, 2017 August 16, 2017\nunless you\u2019re the one driving then that\u2019s a total bummer, it\u2019s the kind of scenery you daydream to when on road trips \u2014 the vast expanse of fields that seem to go on and on to kiss the sky hello while the clouds chase each other in an endless game of catch.\nit\u2019s also the kind of scenery that puts me in too deep an introspection it fucking induces borderline depression. the bipolar kind.\nyou know, the kind where you\u2019re so happy you could die?\nthe drive back home where everything was a silhouette of its daytime shapes and glory was the worst for me. i remember sitting there and just feeling, and i mean literally feeling, the universe and its relation to time.\neveryone i love and truly, deeply care about were in that rental van. my whole entire world right there, quiet and tired from the day trip to see rock formations while my brain was a flurry of activity and emotions and this sudden need to understand mortality because life just wouldn\u2019t be the same without them.\nthey could lose me, or i could lose them. the former, i don\u2019t care too much about. it\u2019s the latter that gets to me the most.\nand then i kind of had an epiphany. and i\u2019m sorry if i can\u2019t explain it without sounding like i\u2019m high off the accumulated caffeine in all the cups of green tea i have had in my life but even if i can, i reckon it\u2019s the kind of realization that will only hit you when you\u2019re most ready and most receptive to it. i don\u2019t mean that like i\u2019m bragging i\u2019ve reached freaking nirvana or something but at the time, it actually all made sense. you know, like everything just sort of\u2026 clicked.\nand as far as i\u2019m concerned, the truth is, we carry our loved ones in our hearts. they will ALWAYS be with us.\ngeographical location is irrelevant. you can be anywhere in the world but the fact of the matter is, they\u2019re all around you. they are in the wind that grazes your cheek; or in the leaves dancing to the sound of the breeze. they are in every aspect of nature if you just learn to close your eyes and see.\ni thought of raven then too and the fact that i might have to leave her someday but in my heart of hearts, i know i never will.\nso, maybe that\u2019s what my parents feel about us too. just as their parents felt it before them. and so on and so forth that in the grand scheme of things, we\u2019re all dots connected to each other.\na family is a constellation of stars: criss-crossing heaven and earth and back again to send each other their love.\nPrevious Post the invite called for a safari costume. she came as tina turner.\nNext Post every mother has a labor story. this one is mine.\nOne thought on \u201ca constellation of stars\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesenator2014.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/yes-the-senator-still-exists/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PMZGHAUPJNPKLXETM2ZKHXJQOGW35NR2", "length": 5988, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "thesenator2014.wordpress.com", "title": "Yes The Senator Still Exists | Road to the MBA Class of 2014", "raw_content": "Go ahead and say it\u2013I\u2019ve been MIA. Guilty as charged.\nIt\u2019s been a heck of a month for me personally here at Tuck and outside of Hanover. Where do I begin? Well first of all I\u2019ve done exactly what I warned you all against in a previous post. I\u2019m over-committed to leadership initiatives here on campus. I won\u2019t even begin to name what I\u2019ve got myself involved with but I even know I\u2019ve bitten off more than I can chew.\nIn the midst of filling and already overflowing plate of activities, I ended up finding myself in the middle of Fellowship interviews for the Investment Bank I\u2019m working at this summer, which back and forth to New York. Needless to say, while I\u2019ve been extremely exhausted\u2013but I\u2019ve also felt extremely rewarded by being able to start leaving a legacy here at Tuck and helping get the incoming class adjusted to life in Hanover.\nAbout three weeks ago I traveled to New York for a series of interviews for a Fellowship with the company I\u2019ll be joining this summer. Many of you who read my blog know where I\u2019m going to be interning, but for the general public I\u2019ve chosen not to disclose my place of employment\u2026 if you\u2019re really that curious send me an e-mail at thesenator2014@gmail.com and I\u2019ll indulge you. Anyways, as always it was an hour and half drive from Hanover to Manchester for a flight to LGA that always gets delayed. This time the delay only last two hours but by the time I got into the city I was exhausted. Never the less I mustered up the energy to meet up with a friend that night.\nThe next morning I woke up and slowly shimmied around my hotel room in a failed attempt to get ready in a timely manner. By the time I finished dressing I had five minutes for breakfast before I had to hop in a cab to get to my interview. I choked down a fruit cup and muffin and scooted out of the hotel. The weather was dreadful. It was raining sideways and my umbrella decided to press the eject button 20 seconds into my walk down the street to hail a taxi.\nI finally arrived at my interviewing destination thinking I\u2019m late and I rushed up to the holding tank on the 10th floor\u2026 Seemed like everyone who was interviewing was be late as well\u2026 thank goodness. Immediately I went from frazzled to relaxed and caught up with some friends I had met at my sell day in February. I was surprised at how many people were competing for the Fellowship. I\u2019d be a liar if I said I wasn\u2019t intimidated. By 9AM we got the stack of back-to-back-to-back interviews kicked off. It felt like second nature after going through the recruiting grinder.\nI left the building feeling good, but unsure of myself. In all honesty, at that point I mentally shelved it and said to myself \u201cIt\u2019s out of my hands, I gave it my best shot.\u201d And I did. There were so many qualified candidates I felt it would honestly come down to the luck of the draw. I gathered my discombobulated suitcase (and it\u2019s contents) from the floor of my hotel room met with another friend for lunch and screamed to the airport in a cab worried I would miss my flight. My flight got delayed seven hours. The airport bar made a lot of money off of me that afternoon/evening.\nThe following Tuesday at 11:00am on the dot I got a call from a 212 area code. I was nervous when I picked up the phone. Fifteen seconds in the anxiety balloon was popped\u2026 I got the Fellowship! I was ecstatic. What a ways I\u2019ve come from struggling with my decision to come to Tuck, grinding through the recruiting season and now being honored with an Investment Banking Fellowship at a Top Bulge Bracket firm. Some things just can\u2019t be explained in words and this is certainly one of them.\nAfter a week of celebration, I got a ring on my phone at 3:00PM the following Monday. My fiance was semi-frantic on the other line talking about how a bomb went off a block and a half away from her and there was total chaos in Boston\u2013she hangs up abruptly. I turned on the news and I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing. I called my fiance back, no answer. Texts were barely creeping through and reports of bombs being found throughout the city had me worried. Just a week ago I was riding high, now all I could think of was something happening to her.\nIn the midst of all this I had to go to class and deliver a speech for my communications course and as you can imagine, my mind was elsewhere and it showed. When I finished class I reconciled the fragility of the situation. It could have all disappeared so quickly. In the midst of my happiness I was reminded how delicate life is and how the things most important to you (which do not include a fellowship) can be taken away so suddenly. I thank God that my fiance was safe and sound and Boston is starting to heal. She actually came up to Hanover to great away from the craziness of it all and spend the weekend which was reassuring and comforting for both of us.\nI can\u2019t believe my first year is almost over. I\u2019m sad\u2013I don\u2019t want it to end. In the meantime I have a goal of getting in 20 more rounds of golf before I have to hang my sticks up for the summer. New York is a bit daunting for me at this point. I\u2019m feeling so unprepared but I\u2019m also looking forward to learning a ton. In the meantime I\u2019m going enjoy springtime in Hanover. You couldn\u2019t really ask for a more beautiful setting to wrap up your first year in business school. The only thing that would make it better is having Hanover Country Club in my backyard. Oh wait. It is.\n\u2190 Take a Number: The Dreaded Waitlist\n2 Responses to \u201cYes The Senator Still Exists\u201d\nhamm0 says:\nWelcome back! Sounds like you\u2019ve been busy even with your summer plans locked up \u2013 looking forward to seeing how this summer goes for you.\nFridays From The Frontline - Clear Admit Blog says:\n[\u2026] to admit that he\u2019d been a bit MIA as far as his blog was concerned, but made up for it by sharing the experience of applying for a fellowship at his summer internship employer while also commenting on delays at the airport and the weight of taking on too many leadership [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesentone.wordpress.com/tag/prophecy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5U5HCYELUSEEBLDGHQIGXFIVL6MM3LTZ", "length": 15392, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "thesentone.wordpress.com", "title": "Prophecy \u2013 \u05d9\u05d5\u05d1\u05dc-The Sent One-", "raw_content": "Esther 5-8: Esther our Mediator\nApril 7, 2012 thesentoneHoly Spirit, Paul Blackham, Prophecy, Tree, TypologyLeave a comment\nIt would appear that Esther\u2019s fears are allayed \u2013 and her expectation of victory is sweetly met. She touched the tip of the scepter of Ahasuerus, a scepter of power (v.2). Paul Blackham states in Book by Book guide on Esther:\n\u201cJohn Preston (1587-1628) produced a book called \u201cThe Golden Sceptre\u201d held forth to the Humble\u201d. The title is derived from this scene in Esther. Preston powerfully describes our Heavenly Father as a Great King into whose presence we cannot safely go. In fact, it is fatal for any sinner to be in the presence of the Living God. However, Preston portrays the gospel as the golden sceptre that is held out to the sinner to give them safe welcome into the presence of the Living God.\u201d\nHer request is that Haman is brought to the feast she has prepared for the king (v.4); and after having such a feast she requested Haman join them again (v.8). Paul Blackham states:\n\u201cThe joy of [verse 5] is seeing it in stark contrast to what happened in chapter 1. [Quoting Tull, page 26:]\n(Xerxes) calls for Haman saying, \u2018Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther desires\u2018 (5.5). Literally the Hebrew says, \u2018so we may do the word of Esther\u2018. This is a deliciously ironic twist on a king who only three chapters before was terrified that women might not do the word of their husbands. Vashti was banished for not coming when the king called, but now Esther has gotten away with coming when the king did not call. The king who worried about women obeying their husbands is now obeying his wife, and ordering Haman to obey her as well. And to add irony to irony, Haman not only obeys a woman, but delights in being hosted by a Jew \u2013 a Jew passing as a Persian so splendidly that she puts a lie to all he said about her people\u2019s disruptiveness.\u201c\nSuch is Esther\u2019s plan that Haman would appear to be exalted temporarily only for Haman, the type of Satan, to pride and boast in his self-praises and unwarranted accolades (Ezekiel 18) \u2013 the same Haman whose sole wish is still to destroy the ancient promised church of God (v.8-13) as one would if one was the son of the devil (John 8:44). Yet, this is all in Esther\u2019s plan as Haman is dancing in her palm. The irony that the Satan should wish to use the same tool of death to destroy the Christ, and yet this tool of death has become the iconic symbol in Christianity of Christ\u2019s victory (v.14). Again, although the ESV states \u201cgallow\u201d, it is more likely a stake for impalement \u2013 the Hebrew word ates simply means tree. From a biblical and prophetic perspective, the clearer comparison between Haman and Satan is shown when Haman is seen to have set up a 75 foot tree for Mordecai to be killed on.\nBy the LORD\u2019s providence, the king\u2019s inability to sleep allowed him to read the chronicles of Mordecai the Jew who saved the king (v.1-2). By Mordecai\u2019s faithfulness to the king as stipulated under Romans 13, he receives the royal robes of righteousness and honour (v.7-11) \u2013 suggested by Haman himself since he thought such honour would be given to him (v.6-9). What ironic mockery! Such theology of divine reversals is saturated throughout Scripture. As Paul Blackham states:\n\u201cAn important biblical theme, very much related to Haman\u2019s highs and lows, is the theme of reversal, of divine justice turning power upside down. This theme is so pervasive in the Bible, and so commonplace in Christian discourse, that its radical implications can sometimes be forgotten. Explicit reversals characterize many Proverbs, such as 16:18: \u201cPride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.\u201d Reversals also permeate narratives, such as the story of Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37-50), the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt (Exodus 1-15), and the poem of Isaiah\u2019s suffering servant who will be exalted (Isaiah 52:13-53:12). The narrative of reversal best known to Christians, of course, is the story of Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection (quoting Tull, 30-31).\u201d\nNote how beautifully this was done before Haman\u2019s sins were exposed \u2013 just as Satan was never in power, nor was he ever honoured, and he certainly had no leverage to offer Christ anything (Luke 4) for Christ was the only Honoured One of the Father. This status of matters was already the case before Satan was nailed to the cross \u2013 just as Haman is shamed by handing over all honour (which only appeared to be his) over to Christ. What prophetic words of Zeresh (v.13):\n\u201cIf Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him\u201d.\nIndeed \u2013 if Christ, before whom Satan has begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, Satan will not overcome him but will surely fall before Him! Clearly even Zeresh has heard of the prophecy of the Offspring of Adam, and that the LORD protects the Jewish people. What ridicule that Haman could think he could uproot the promise that the LORD has made to Israel! Immediately after Zeresh\u2019s statement of judgment, the impending demise of Haman comes to his doorsteps (v.14).\nThere is an eery sense of parallel between the death of John the Baptist and the death of Haman here. Where Herod also offered the same vow (c.f. Mark 6:22-23) as Ahasuerus, Herodias\u2019s daughter was no Esther. Esther, the type of Christ, sought to protect the Jews; and where Herod and Ahasuerus were cut from the same cloth, the role of the mediator plays a large role. If Esther was like Vashti (who did not appear to have Israel\u2019s interests at heart) \u2013 what would have happened? Yet it was Mordecai\u2019s plan to place Esther into the courts of Ahasuerus, the same Mordecai and Esther who obeyed the LORD despite their imminent deaths at the hands of Haman and Ahasuerus. What is your wish, Queen Esther? The Head of Mordecai, or the Head of Haman? The latter.\nThe parallel is more astounding here \u2013 the last time the king was recorded to be drunken with wine was in chapters 1-2, when Vashti was banished from his sight; yet here, Esther uses the situation to remove Haman upon pleading the truth to Ahasuerus (v.1-6). Yet this is the gospel story summarised \u2013 the king who was jealous for his wife; the king who is angry against the Satan as personified by Haman; the king who hung Satan by his own devices, nailing him to the same cross that he planned to destroy the Christ with. As the Father cries \u201cWill he even assault the Bride in my presence, in my own house?\u201d in parallel to Ahasuerus\u2019 words (v.8), His jealous love for us covers us in his righteousness and holiness whilst he never ceases to destroy the enemy whose only plan is to destroy us, rape us, annihilate our heritage, and kill our future (v.4; c.f. Psalm 73 for a summary of the LORD\u2019s view of Haman\u2019s types of actions).\nThis is a chapter of victory. Esther, the type of Christ, inherited the heritage of Haman (v.1; Henrietta Mears subtitles her chapter on this book: \u201cEsther portrays Jesus Christ, Our Advocate\u201d) \u2013 the enemy (Satan) of the Jews. Esther, before the king as a type (albeit a flawed type) of the Father, recognises Mordecai here as the church and community under which Esther was nurtured. Thus, the signet ring, as a seal and sign of the deposit of the Holy Spirit and of His election (c.f. Song of Solomon 8:6; Haggai 2:23; Ephesians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5; 2 Timothy 1:14, 2:19) was given from the Father to the Son (i.e. Esther), and from Esther to the church (i.e. Mordecai) to rule over the house of Haman, just as we rule over the enemy by His power.\nIn v.3-8 we see Esther mediating on behalf of the Jews \u2013 how can she bear to see the destruction of her kindred (v.6)? Indeed, she cannot. Yet, this is a picture of Christ pleading on our behalf \u2013 and with the Father\u2019s seal (v.8), spiritual Israel shall not be harmed. The elect body of Christ shall not be harmed. The kindred of Esther shall not be harmed. So we are similarly sealed by the Father by the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, and wrath is diverted onto the enemy. And as we are given His power by the Spirit, His signet ring, whatever we command in His name (John 20:23) is released in this creation (v.10-12). This is the great exchange \u2013 although it appears harsh that the Jews are allowed to gather and defend their lives, the retribution is exactly matching to the edict of Haman (Esther 3:13). Note however that this is but the Jews\u2019 response and only to armed forces \u2013 on the condition that the Israelites could defend, and attack only if they were attacked (symbolically on the same day that the Jews would have been destroyed \u2013 v.12; c.f. Esther 9:1). Such is the beauty of our redemption, that we \u2013 like Mordecai \u2013 by the work of the true Esther Jesus Christ could wear the LORD\u2019s righteous robes of salvation (Isaiah 61:11; c.f. v.15), the restoration of the Israelite traditions occurring not only in Jerusalem by Ezra and Nehemiah\u2019s hands \u2013 but also in the kingdom of Persia. This glory is felt not only by the Jews but also by the Gentiles, leading to mass conversion (v.17).\nMarch 5, 2012 thesentoneEast, Ezra, Fish, Gates, Horse, Jerusalem, Lamb, Nehemiah, Prophecy, Sheep, Typology, WaterLeave a comment\n1 Chronicles 1-3: The Genealogy of the Messiah, the Son of God\nJune 18, 2011 thesentoneAdam Clarke, Deuteronomist, Genealogy, Kings, Luke, Matthew, Matthew Henry, Priestly, Prophecy5 Comments\nWe now come to the books of Chronicles, recording the history of mankind from Genesis 1 to the return from the exile in Assyria and Babylon. The books bear a cohesive tone compared to that taken by the various authors such as Moses and the narrators of the subsequent books from Joshua up to 2 Kings, being more priestly than the Deuteronomist style taken in the books of Kings. As such, we find many gems here which reveal much of what was not spoken of in the previous Old Testament books, taking us closer to understanding the Messianic plan of God imprinted in creation (Genesis 1-2) and prophesied verbally in Genesis 3:15.\nSo 1 Chronicles 1 can be listed as such (categorized by Adam Clarke):\nThe genealogy of Adam to Noah, v.1-3.\nOf Noah to Abraham, v.4-27.\nThe sons of Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac, v.28.\nThe sons of Ishmael, v.29-31.\nThe sons of Keturah, v.32, 33.\nThe sons of Esau, v.34-42.\nA list of the kings of Edom, v.43-50.\nA list of the dukes of Edom, v.51-54.\nIt is quite interesting why the Chronicler decided to categorise chapter 1 into the genealogy from the son of God, Adam (c.f. Luke 3:23-38), to the son of the blood covenant, Noah (c.f. Genesis 6-8), from Noah to his three sons, the three fathers of the nations of the world (c.f. Genesis 9), and then from Japheth first, then to Ham, then to Shem. It is not coincidental that the purpose of the Chronicler is to talk first about those outside of Israel, before moving to the ancestor of Israel through Abraham, up to Shem \u2013 the last of the sons of Noah to be described. We are thus reminded of the important gospel truth of the world before Israel, the world before the law through Moses, when the Gentiles either called upon the Name of the Lord or reigned as kings and chiefs in idolatry (Genesis 4:26; c.f. v.43) long before Israel was established as a Christian nation, as a nation with its own anointed king \u2013 the people of Seir (Genesis 36), who take no part in the promised Messiah and are not mentioned in any significant respect in the rest of Scripture.\nInstead, Israel is only spoken of in chapter 2 (c.f. Galatians 3, the promise of God made to Abraham before the era of the law marking Israel apart from other nations), a reminder once again that Adam is the first son of God; Israel came but after Adam (c.f. Exodus 4:22, Israel as firstborn like Adam), but Israel as a nation was never the second Adam. Christ was (1 Corinthians 15:45). Israel, in fact, never stood outside of the shadow of Adam (c.f. Hebrews 7:10) for only Christ stood outside as the new Adam under whom we reign as co-heirs.\nThus, we turn from individuals in chapter 1, to fathers of the anointed nation Israel, in chapter 2 \u2013 as categorized by Adam Clarke:\nThe twelve sons of Jacob, v.1, 2.\nThe posterity of Judah down to David, v.3-15.\nThe posterity of the children of Jesse and Caleb, v.16-55.\nAs was clear in 1 and 2 Kings, so it is also clear that the Chronicler is moving from Adam to David \u2013 from the first son of God, to the son of God after His own heart. This is the David who slew Goliath, hailing from the prince of the sons of Judah Nahshon, the 7th son of Jesse. Thus we see the list of children born to him in Hebron (v.1-4), and those born to him in Jerusalem (v.5-9), Solomon being one of those born in the promised city of peace, making the natural logical step to describe the regal line of Solomon in v.10-24.\nAfter the description of Jesse and Caleb\u2019s descendants, we go through the list of kings (in particular chapter 3:10-17, which describes all the kings in 1 and 2 Kings). Note, in particular, Adam Clarke\u2019s commentary on the final king Anani in 1 Chronicles 3:24:\n\u201cThis is the King Messiah who is to be revealed.\u201d-T. Jarchi says the same, and refers to Da 7:13: Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds (ananey) of heaven. For this application of the word he gives a fanciful reason, not worthy to be repeated. The Syriac and Arabic omit several names in this table, and make only twenty-three verses in the chapter: but such differences are frequent in the books of Chronicles.\u201d\nAnd as commented on by Matthew Henry:\n\u201cThe last person named in this chapter is Anani, of whom bishop Patrick says that the Targum adds these words, He is the king Messiah, who is to be revealed, and some of the Jewish writers give this reason, because it is said (Dan. vii. 13), the son of man came gnim gnanani\u2013with the clouds of heaven. The reason indeed is very foreign and far-fetched; but that learned man thinks it may be made use of as an evidence that their minds were always full of the thoughts of the Messiah and that they expected it would not be very long after the days of Zerubbabel before the set time of his approach would come.\u201d\nIndeed, Matthew Henry marks an important focus of these Old Testament writers, that they should have \u201cminds\u2026 always full of the thoughts of the Messiah\u201d. Thus ends our foci on chapters 1 to 3 of 1 Chronicles, which speaks of individuals moving to the appointed nation and king; and the subsequent times to turn us to specific tribes under the leadership of such a king, modeling the gospel truth of the salvation of Gentiles before Israelites (Galatians 3). This is also the position taken by the synoptic gospel authors Matthew and Luke, focusing on the genealogy of the promised seed, from Adam to Japheth (1 Chronicles 1:1-4), from Shem, the promised line of the Semites to Abraham (1 Chronicles 1:17-24), from Abraham to Jacob (1 Chronicles 1:28-34), from Jacob to David (1 Chronicles 2:1-15), and from David to Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:1-10), and finally from Solomon to Shealtiel (1 Chronicles 3:10-17), after which the genealogy is covered by Matthew and Luke to bring us to the promised Messiah. So also, the author of Chronicles framed the opening of the books in the same manner as the synoptic gospels, to show that the promised line shall come through those especially highlighted, at the beginning and end of each of these three opening chapters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 389, "original_length": 66796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/view/ids/4620.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JHVW4WAQEYD3VGEO4U23JDFGYJMMJTKP", "length": 220, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thesis.library.caltech.edu", "title": "Browse by Eprint ID - CaltechTHESIS", "raw_content": "Chow, David H (1989) Growth, characterization, and simulation of novel semiconductor tunnel structures. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11212003-115412", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theslanted.com/2013/07/7753/strike-back-season-3-set-to-return-in-early-august-everything-you-need-to-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:28Z", "digest": "sha1:APWV653YLJV6OYKKMQ66WNGM2UL446M6", "length": 7936, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "theslanted.com", "title": "Strike Back Season 3 set to return in early August, everything you need to know", "raw_content": "Strike Back Season 3 set to return in early August, everything you need to know\nSlanted > TV > Strike Back Season 3 set to return in early August, everything you need to know\nThe Emmy-nominated series STRIKE BACK returns for its ten-episode third season FRIDAY, AUG. 9 at 10p.m ET on CINEMAX. The full-season will be followed by other episodes debuting subsequent Fridays at the same time.\nPhilip Winchester (\u201cCrusoe,\u201d \u201cCamelot\u201d) and Sullivan Stapleton (\u201cAnimal Kingdom,\u201d the upcoming \u201c300: Rise of an Empire\u201d) reprise their onscreen partnership as counterterrorism operatives Sgt. Michael Stonebridge and Sgt. Damien Scott. HBO/CINEMAX again teams up with the production company Left Bank Pictures and the British channel Sky on the action series.\nThe returning cast also includes Rhona Mitra (\u201cUnderworld: Rise of the Lycans\u201d) as Maj. Rachel Dalton, Michelle Lukes (\u201cAlexander\u201d) as Sgt. Julia Richmond and Liam Garrigan (\u201cPillars of the Earth\u201d) as Sgt. Liam Baxter.\nNew cast members include Robson Green (\u201cWire in the Blood\u201d) as Col. Philip Locke, Dougray Scott (\u201cDesperate Housewives\u201d) as rogue operative James Leatherby, Milauna Jackson (\u201cBlood Done Sign My Name\u201d) as, Kim Martinez, a key player who crosses paths with the counterterrorism team, and Zubin Varla (\u201cLittle Dorrit\u201d) as mysterious person of interest Leo Kamali.\nReturning directors are Michael J. Bassett (who also serves as a writer and co-executive producer), Julian Holmes and Paul Wilmshurst; returning writers are Simon Burke, James Dormer, John Simpson and Richard Zajdlic. New director Stephen Woolfenden and new writers Tim Vaughan and Ben Newman join the production.\nIn STRIKE BACK\u2019s third season, stealth counterterrorism unit Section 20 pursues a deadly terrorist network from Colombia to Lebanon to Eastern Europe, uncovering deadly plots that threaten the West. The team tracks the elusive terrorist al-Zuhari and his well-financed drug cartel partners as they target European and American interests, both at home and abroad, including Section 20 itself. The Section 20 team is often forced to resort to extraordinary measures to protect the greater good, making some members question their future with the unit.\nAs with season two, the show will kick off the new season with exclusive events for fans at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2013, to be held at the San Diego Convention Center. On Saturday, July 20 (7:00-8:00 p.m.), the stars of the show will offer insights about shooting and present exclusive never-before-seen clips of the new season in a panel in Room 6DE. They will also participate in an autograph session on Friday, July 19 at 12:30 p.m. at Warner Bros Booth #4545.\nThe season begins with a first, as Scott and Stonebridge \u2013 two hard-working operatives who never seem to get a day off \u2013 are on vacation. \u201cIt\u2019s a great start to the season, and one of my favorites, because Stonebridge and Scott are on holiday together,\u201d says Stapleton. \u201cThey have to leave suddenly for a mission and get airdropped into the Colombian jungle. There, we find our newest cast member, Martinez, a DEA agent played by Milauna Jackson. She gets sassy with Scott, it\u2019s great banter.\u201d\n\u201cThe fact that they go on holiday together is a big thing for the two,\u201d says Winchester. \u201cThey\u2019ve been through a lot together. They are riding motorcycles down the west coast of the U.S., and getting into all sorts of trouble. Stonebridge wants to head out to a spiritual pilgrimage known as Camino del Santiago, but to Scott, it\u2019s just a walk, and they do a road trip instead.\u201d\nWinchester continues, \u201cStonebridge really needs the break, too. He\u2019s suffered tremendous loss over the past two seasons and it\u2019s scarred him, first with his Section 20 colleague Kate, and then with his wife in last season. Stonebridge knows that there\u2019s loss and it\u2019s going to continue to happen. He\u2019s used his nine lives several times over. He\u2019s not sure about the cause anymore. He likes the purity of soldiering and there\u2019s definitely a gray area that\u2019s a lot bigger than the black-and-white. He doesn\u2019t like the politics and the gray area that interferes with the job, and he prefers the black-and-white.\u201d\nIn the third season, STRIKE BACK continues to utilize consultants who work in the field of counterterrorism to add to the authenticity of the series, providing essential background on stories, characters, training and settings, while the lead actors do most of their own stunts.\nThe six-month production began on location in South Africa in January and moved to Budapest in March, where it wrapped at the end of June. South Africa was the location for scenes in Colombia and Lebanon in the first four episodes, while Hungary filled in for several Eastern European nations in the second half of the season.\nContinuing the military training of previous seasons, the actors started production with a grueling boot camp. The training focused on a fitness regimen, weapons training and military maneuvers with real specialists in the field. This enabled the lead actors to do the show\u2019s demanding stunts, which have increased in frequency and intensity this season.\nMilitary advisor Paul Hornsby explains, \u201cWe trained the cast to hone their abilities, but also we train them for safety; it\u2019s only realistic to do stunts that the actors can do themselves. We focus on their physical training, tactical training, armed combat training with live weapons. I also work with the directors and stunt coordinators helping to make the action sequences more realistic.\n\u201cWe would train them as if we were training a close protection team or a special forces unit,\u201d he continues. \u201cI think that teaches actors to have respect for the weapons, and we mostly use real weapons on the show. All the cast spent a lot of time hanging out with ex-special forces, ex-policemen who passed on their experiences, so they were soaking up that varying knowledge from different people.\u201d\n\u201cWe do nearly all of our own stunts in the show,\u201d Winchester explains. \u201cWe did a lot of fun things in Johannesburg \u2013 I got my scuba certificate and we did some diving this year for water sequences in episodes one and two, shot it in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I spent a lot of time in the water taking over a boat from a drug cartel, escaping their high-speed pursuit and surviving major explosions. It was really intense but fun.\u201d\nStapleton describes some of the big action sequences in the new season, noting, \u201cWe start off with this boat chase down a river. It\u2019s pretty spectacular \u2013 there\u2019s constant grenades and explosions. Recently, Philip and I attached ourselves to the end of a rope with one carabineer at our waists, and got lifted up by a helicopter, a couple hundred meters in the air. It was fun.\u201d\n\u201cSTRIKE BACK is already one of the best action shows on TV so my challenge was to try and raise that bar even higher,\u201d says writer, director and co-executive producer Michael J. Bassett. \u201cWe wanted to put the audience in the heart of the chaos, so that they\u2019re alongside our heroes and living the story as they do. We aimed for a cinematic level of mayhem and energy which can only really be achieved with a team working at the fullest extent of their skills and actors who are utterly fearless. Luckily, I had both those things.\u201d\nSTRIKE BACK received an Emmy\u00ae nomination for Outstanding Main Title Design for its first season, which launched in 2011. The second season featured the world premiere of two Bob Dylan songs, \u201cEarly Roman Kings\u201d and \u201cScarlet Town,\u201d prior to the release of the \u201cTempest\u201d album, which marked his 50th anniversary as a recording artist.\nSTRIKE BACK is a CINEMAX Presentation in association with British Sky Broadcasting Limited; a Left Bank Pictures Production; executive producer, Andy Harries; series producer, Michael Casey; co-executive producers, Michael J. Bassett, James Dormer and Tim Vaughan; producers, Selwyn Roberts and Chris Thompson; co-producer, Bill Shepard.\nTags : Cinemax", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 10581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetwingeeks.com/2018/11/02/the-other-side-of-the-wind/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VXJ7F24QZ7OJAZ2BHWHPTPVMHIXBCE4H", "length": 12438, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "thetwingeeks.com", "title": "The Other Side of the Wind: Welles\u2019 Final Film Fairs Fantastically Now That It\u2019s Here \u2013 The Twin Geeks", "raw_content": "The Other Side of the Wind: Welles\u2019 Final Film Fairs Fantastically Now That It\u2019s Here\nLeave a Comment on The Other Side of the Wind: Welles\u2019 Final Film Fairs Fantastically Now That It\u2019s Here\nThe fact that this film is being released at all is miraculous. It is a rare privilege whenever a film long-thought to be lost is discovered and then worked to completion, and never before has one come along of this size and prestige. The Other Side of the Wind is legendary director Orson Welles\u2019 final completed film. Forty years after it was initially shot, it has finally been completed. It\u2019s tragic to say this is not the first time something like this has happened to one of Welles\u2019 films. Few films from his filmography have escaped untampered or untainted by some type of outside interference. Some of his films were fortunate enough to receive a restoration as close to his intent as can be approximated without his presence, while others were never completed enough to be given such a treatment.\nThe Other Side of the Wind sits somewhere in between these two outcomes, as the film was already in the early stages of editing before a web of legal issues and lack of funding prevented Welles from completing the film before his untimely death. The long overdue completion of this film is an unprecedented and historic event. There never has been, nor will there ever be, another film like this.\nEditing The Other Side of the Wind.\nThe events leading up to this film\u2019s long-anticipated release are plagued by tragedy, deceit, hopelessness, and, finally: triumph. The Other Side of the Wind suffered through a long production history due to Welles being unable to obtain funding via traditional means, as with all his later films. This was only made worse when significant portions of the funding were allegedly embezzled from the production, which led to the infamous legal issues that left the film nearly forgotten and abandoned since Welles\u2019 death.\nBefore passing, Welles asked his close friend, Peter Bogdanovich, to see the film finished someday. \u201cOrson said to me, \u2018If anything happens to me, you will make sure you finish it, won\u2019t you?'\u201d For years, Bogdanovich and many others have been working to see that promise through. Nearly 40 years later that promise has been fulfilled, as in March of 2017 it was confirmed that Netflix would fund the completion and release of The Other Side of the Wind, as well as a companion documentary detailing the arduous journey of the film, lovingly named after a quote from Welles towards the end of his life: They\u2019ll Love Me When I\u2019m Dead (2018). And now, the film is released. As of November 2nd The Other Side of the Wind is available through Netflix\u2019s streaming platform, ready to be appreciated and judged by all of us who have been desperately waiting to see what Welles left with this conclusive film.\nJohn Huston, Orson Welles, and Peter Bogdanovich on The Other Side of the Wind.\nWhat you\u2019ll first notice while watching this film is all the various parallels to Welles\u2019 own life as a filmmaker and Hollywood celebrity; as the saying goes, \u201cArt imitates life.\u201d John Huston, a prolific director who, like Welles, made his Hollywood breakthrough with his debut feature in 1941, The Maltese Falcon (1941), stars as a reclusive director returned from exile in Europe to complete his latest experimental film. It is no coincidence that his character Jake Hannaford\u2019s film bears the same name as this film. Just based on these similarities many have labeled Hannaford as a direct reflection of Welles, as many did in 1941 when comparing Citizen Kane (1941) to the life story of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst.\nThe similarities in both cases are undeniable for sure, but to try and claim either of them as a one-to-one translation misses the point of Welles\u2019 intentions entirely. As with Kane, Welles drew on multiple inspirations for the character of Hannaford. In the film he is called \u201cThe Ernest Hemingway of the cinema,\u201d and this was the initial starting point from where Welles wrote the character. He also shares characteristics of acclaimed directors like John Ford and Michelangelo Antonioni, but Hemingway is the clearest inspiration. The film tells the story of Hannaford\u2019s last day, on his 70th birthday party before he dies in a drunken accident while driving a sports car. Voice-over narration from Bogdanovich\u2019s character, Brooks Otterlake, opens the film, telling us that no one believes it was intentional, but the events leading up to his tragic accident potentially indicate a different motivation by the end.\nBogdanovich and Huston in The Other Side of the Wind.\nThe story of The Other Side of the Wind is an early example of a mockumentary-style film, advertised as being collected from various sources but actually being intentionally filmed as such. This pre-dates the styling of films such as The Gods Must be Crazy (1980) and This is Spinal Tap (1984), which helped to originally define this type of film, as well as taking a more serious approach to its material than these comedic counterparts. Throughout the film, Hannaford and his \u201cdisciples,\u201d as they are called, are followed around by journalists, film students, and hopeful biographers, all looking to gain some insight on the legendary director. The film is made of all different kinds of footage shown from the perspective of these onlookers, ranging from grainy 8mm cameras to black-and-white footage, as well as seeing the glorious 35mm footage of the actual film within the film.\nThis perspective of an all-seeing-eye provides commentary for the lack of any privacy provided to these celebrated characters, leaving them having to constantly provide a kind of showy persona for their adoring fans. It expands this concept even further in that the lens of the camera is God, meaning that all that is shown is truth. Jean Luc-Godard once said, \u201cThe cinema is truth at 24 frames per second,\u201d and that sentiment is true to an extent. Here, everything we see is the unabashed truth but only the truth that Welles wants us to see. Despite appearing so, Welles never intended The Other Side of the Wind to fully mimic reality. There are shots in the film that seem to be from a character with a camera\u2019s perspective, but upon examination make no logical sense or would have been plain impossible given the circumstances. Welles implements the technique of this pseudo-documentary style in whatever way best reveals the truth of his characters and isn\u2019t afraid to drop the facade if it benefits that truth.\nHuston as Jake Hannaford in The Other Side of the Wind.\nThere are two truths at the center of this film: truth of the artist, and truth of the art. Jake Hannaford is a troubled, manic, and inspired man. The world he lives in is not understood by those around him and not even completely by himself. He struggles with the repressed guilt of his desires and the chaos his larger-than-life persona causes. His words are always cryptic, and he\u2019s never without a drink in hand. For these reasons his motives and actions are constantly questioned by those around him, attempting to understand what it is this supposed genius has to say.\nThe film he is making is radical, laden with sexual imagery and challenging ideals. We learn more about the director through his film, even hearing snippets of his direction through the unfinished product. Slowly, we learn bits and pieces about Hannaford\u2019s character, as the mysteries surrounding him begin to unravel. At one point a character proclaims, \u201cWhat he creates he has to wreck, it\u2019s a compulsion.\u201d Hannaford attempts to use his art to understand more about himself, and in doing so discovers something he must reject. This rejection stems outward, projecting itself on everyone around him in various cruel and violent manners. The actors of his film bear the brunt of his abuse, as evidenced in the verbal lashings they receive in his directions, as well as the traumatic aftermath they endure. By the end of the film, it\u2019s clear how far Hannaford\u2019s conflict within himself has not only permanently damaged himself, but also those around him. Their tragic fates seem inevitable once everything is laid out.\nOja Kodar in The Other Side of the Wind.\nThe other key theme of the film is that of filmmaking itself, and very much a commentary on the changes occurring when this film was originally shot. The perversion of cinema is very evident throughout the film, most obviously in the overtly sexual material displayed in Hannaford\u2019s film. Phallic images pervade Welles\u2019 film, making the seemingly ordinary presence of a large boom mic take on new meaning. This again goes back to the actors and their treatment within Hannaford\u2019s film.\nOja Kodar, Welles\u2019 collaborator and long-term girlfriend up until his death, plays a nameless actress with no lines whatsoever. Her character is Native American, though she herself is Croatian. Before dismissing this portrayal as inherently tasteless consider what Welles\u2019 intention may be. Despite the agency her character is given in Hannaford\u2019s film she is still largely objectified as a sexual being. She parades around most of the film completely nude, and without any dialogue isn\u2019t actually given much a character to speak of. Outside the film, in attendance of Hannaford\u2019s party, she is arguably treated even worse. She\u2019s more like wallpaper, sitting around and looking pretty, and if characters need her attention they\u2019ll often bark an offensive name at her like \u201cPocahontas.\u201d This is Welles\u2019 condemnation of the kind of exploitative filmmaking that took off in the late 60s and early 70s: the kind of perverse films that only exist to satisfy the lustful gaze of the viewer.\nFilming The Other Side of the Wind.\nThe Other Side of the Wind is a profoundly fantastic film to be the last of Welles\u2019 illustrious career. It\u2019s a fitting conclusion for his filmography, mirroring the same pieced-together type narrative that solidified Citizen Kane as a revolutionary film, while providing a commentary on the state of filmmaking as he saw it grow and change in his time. Always the innovator, Welles\u2019 inspired filmmaking proves him yet again a master at his craft. Though we\u2019ve seen this type of film before, never has it been accomplished in such a myriad of different techniques as this, and never on the same level of artistry as Welles. It almost seems destined that this film were to be left incomplete, as the scattered variety of footage involved for the film is like a puzzle beckoning to be constructed into a complete narrative.\nBob Murawski had the impossible task of completing Welles\u2019 final masterpiece, studying the orphaned notes and footage so he could best emulate Welles\u2019 ambitious style. It\u2019s an amazing job all things considered, and nigh impossible to tell where Welles\u2019 editing stops and Murawski\u2019s hand comes in. Perhaps seeing just the 40 minutes Welles edited would reveal more of Murawski\u2019s work, or even seeing the screenplay would enlighten more as to how much liberty he took with Welles\u2019 vision. On the other hand, it may be best to never know these things, as the film is as Wellesian as I had imagined in my grueling anticipation.\nWelles and Huston during production of The Other Side of the Wind.\nAt the end of it all, preserving the magic of Welles\u2019 vision is the real accomplishment here. The Other Side of the Wind is an amazingly realized film, but is only so because of all the parties involved. Many thanks are needed to the likes of Murawski, Bogdanovich, Kodar, Frank Marshall, everyone at Netflix, and all the nameless others who over the years have worked tirelessly to see this film through to completion. I myself cannot imagine a better ending to the magnificent career of the great Orson Welles. Like the magician he is, his voice has returned more than 30 years after his passing, stronger than ever, to gift us with his last great accomplishment. If you listen well you can even hear him in the film, the last remnants of this cinematic genius.\nTags: 1970s 2018 40 Years Antonioni Auto-biographical Bob Murawski Film Final Film Found Footage Frank Marshall Innovative Introspective John Huston Last Film Lost Film Mockumentary Movies Netflix Oja Kodar Orson Welles Peter Bogdanovich The Other Side of the Film Unique\nPrevious Entry Citizen Kane: Innovation Through Ignorance\nNext Entry The House with a Clock in its Walls: Gorehound Eli Roth Crafts a Fine Young Adult Film", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 14659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thevoiceinmyhands.com/2013/01/29/status-makes-me-mad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GZ2NQGJSIBURWQKVGZFCVIZI57U4HMFX", "length": 3126, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "thevoiceinmyhands.com", "title": "status makes me mad \u2013 an independent theatre company", "raw_content": "status makes me mad\nPosted by thevoiceinmyhands on January 29, 2013 March 10, 2014\nI\u2019m pretty mad right now. In fact, my blood is boiling. It\u2019s a niche madness, though, that may skim off the skin of most people as irrelevant.\nAll self-conscious irony aside, I am an artist. I live to aid and abet the creativity of others and to make work that sharpens perception.\nThere is no question about this.\nThe other day I was asked whether I\u2019m a feminist or not. What? Of course I\u2019m a feminist. If being a feminist means that you don\u2019t question the fact that men and women are equal, then I\u2019m a feminist. None of this nth-Wave rubbish. It\u2019s a fact, that sits alongside the fact that I have legs and that the paint on my house is peeling.\nSimilarly, there\u2019s no question about my being an artist. It\u2019s nothing to boast about. I wake up with it and I take it to bed. It makes me self-conscious when I say it out loud, and slightly ashamed as I see \u2018bum\u2019 flash in the eyes of the person I\u2019m talking to. But I don\u2019t care. Yes, I make no money. Yes, the things I make can\u2019t be put on a coffee table or improve our roads. But they do other things instead.\nI imagine that this is a pretty common feeling. There is nothing lofty about my identity, nothing unique.\nWhich brings me to the anger: today I witnessed a status-rip, a chasm of misunderstanding so deep that I don\u2019t know whether it can be overcome. I overheard a conversation between two extremely talented theatre practitioners who have 30+ years of experience under their collective belt. They were having a conversation about the indie theatre \u2018scene\u2019, speaking about various events that have taken place in the last year and the benefit they hold for young theatre makers.\nNeither of them had been to any of these events.\nBy coincidence, I had been at most of these events.\nAnd I listened to them correct each other about what had happened at each of them.\nAnd neither of them got it remotely right.\nThose who sit in the lofty clouds of recognition identify as artists in the same way as those in the dirt. We all want to change people, tell stories, develop a sense of community, etc. But we\u2019ve lost any sort of connection between these two positions. Those in the clouds have stopped looking down.\nartiststatustheatre\nPrevious Post what do you say to death?\nNext Post Step into my coffin. I\u2019ll show you around.\nrebeccasaffir says:\nI feel like I hear developing/emerging/indie/whatever artists make similarly ill-informed and un-factual and unhelpful pronouncements about the mainstage/professional/funded sector with alarming frequency. As someone who a little bit straddles both in different capacities and for different reasons and with differing levels of enthusiasm, it worries me how ill informed we are about each other.\nIf we don\u2019t understand each other, how the fuck are we going to help each other? And if we can\u2019t help each other, how will we change anything? And if we can\u2019t change anything, WHAT\u2019S THE BLOODY POINT?!\nIn short, I share your frustration. xoxo\nI agree. We all claim to be socially progressive but this is \u2018I reject X because I am not X\u2019 all over again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theweek.com/captured/449116/mexican-village-weaving-cutthroat-competitive-industry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2HAX3HTIHSPHS4ALUTSEAVVDU7QS3B6H", "length": 2894, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "theweek.com", "title": "In a Mexican village, weaving is a cutthroat competitive industry", "raw_content": "In a Mexican village, weaving is a cutthroat competitive industry\nA Colorado photographer happens across a vibrant tradition where skill, salesmanship, and cunning are key\nSarah Eberspacher\nPhotographer Matt Nager didn't initially travel to Oaxaca, Mexico, to shoot a project of his own. He was there to lead a group of aspiring photographers for a portraits workshops through the arts-immersion travel company, Oaxaca Cultural Navigator.\n\"While teaching, I was not photographing,\" Nager, 30, said in an interview. \"When people pay good money to come to Oaxaca and learn photography, it wouldn't be right for me to be focusing on my own work.\"\n(Matt Nager)\nBut the craftsmanship of an off-the-beaten-track locale kept catching his eye.\nMost tourists to the state of Oaxaca don't venture beyond its best known attraction: its capital city by the same name, with its historical architecture and renowned, traditional cuisine. But if you step away from the city's center to a small nearby village called Teotitlan del Valle, you'll witness another vibrant tradition: textiles.\nThe artisans living there create a world of colors, textures, and patterns from raw threads and natural dyes. They weave everything from tiny, tightly bound squares to expansive, colorful rugs.\n\"I was initially drawn to the rugs, not as a photography project, but because I was interested in the weavings themselves,\" Nager said. \"After I researched the weaving history in Oaxaca, I decided it would be great to do a little project on the weavers.\"\nNager decided to stay an extra two weeks following the workshop, giving himself time to transition from teacher to student.\nAnd he used one of the most basic lessons as he got started with making his own pictures: He asked for help.\n\"The toughest part was finding contacts and the weavers themselves,\" he said. \"I simply went door-to-door in the village, asking about the weavers and finding interesting people to photograph.\"\nNager also took time to photograph the weavers' process. And in searching for and documenting these masters of the craft, he happened across the rather surprising, small-town politics tangled up in an industry that is one of the village's largest.\n\"There is so much competition to sell the rugs in the community,\" he said. \"Every person would claim they were the best and their neighbor was not as skilled. It was a challenge to cut through the rumors and find who was legitimate.\"\nBack in Colorado, Nager has begun developing a personal project about \"the myth of mountains,\" he said. The photographer hopes it will develop and sharpen over the next year, as he researches the historical and social roots of Colorado's mountainous communities.\nPerhaps he'll be able to look back to lessons learned in Oaxaca as he threads this new project together, one piece at a time.\n**To see more of Matt Nager's work, check out his website or his Tumblr**", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thewellesleysnews.com/2019/02/11/why-you-need-to-be-cautious-about-juniper-networks-inc-jnpr-stemline-therapeutics-inc-stml/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VS6YGPNUWEOBVFKPQVSC7ZZLBGVJ6IMD", "length": 3508, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "thewellesleysnews.com", "title": "Why You Need To Be Cautious About Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR), Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. (STML) | Analyst Journal", "raw_content": "Home Analyst Opinion Why You Need To Be Cautious About Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR), Stemline...\nWhy You Need To Be Cautious About Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR), Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. (STML)\nJuniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) shares ended at $26.09 with 2.71 mln shares exchanging hands. That puts the market capitalization at $8.94 bln. It opened the session with a $25.95 price tag, later ranging from $25.8 to $26.125, the range at which the stock has traded at throughout the day. The stock stands nearly -15.29% off versus the 52-week high and 10.5% away from the 52-week low. The number of shares currently owned by investors are 342.72 mln.\nSell-side analyst recommendations point to a short term price target of $25.98 on the shares of Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR). The consensus rating is 2.8, suggesting the market has given up on the stock.\nThe current price is staying below the SMA lines which signify weakens and is generally unhealthy/negative and may provide the momentum for driving the share price lower. Current price places the company\u2019s stock -5.61% away from its 200-day simple moving average, -5.08%, away from the 50-day average and also -4.61% away from 20-day average.\nFor this year, Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) is performing -3.05%. Over the past five trading sessions it is 1.08%; -7.32% for the month; -13.47% for the last quarter; -2.47% for the past six-months; and 2.76% for the last 12 months. The last close places the company\u2019s stock about $4.71 off its 52 week high of $30.8 and $2.48 above the 52 week low of $23.61.\nStemline Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STML) closed up +0.05 points or 0.46% at $10.91 with 0.46 mln shares exchanging hands. Current price level places the company\u2019s stock about -46.91% from the 52-week high and 39.51% away from the 52-week low. Sell-side analyst recommendations point to a short term price target of $28.86 on the company shares. The consensus rating is 1.7, indicating analysts in general look favorably on the company\u2019s future prospects.\nStemline Therapeutics, Inc. (STML) opened the session with a $10.71 price tag, later ranging from $10.68 to $11.05, the range at which the stock has traded at throughout the day. The stock stands nearly $9.84 off versus the 52-week high of $20.55 and $2.89 above the 52-week low of $7.82. The number of shares currently owned by investors are 40.36 mln. The current price change puts the market capitalization at $440.33 mln.\nOver the past five trading sessions shares of Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STML) are 0.09%; 5.41% for the month; -27.7% for the last quarter; -23.17% for the past six-months; and -33.88% for the last 12 months. The current price is staying above the SMA lines which signify strength and is generally healthy/positive and may provide the momentum for driving the share price higher. Current price places the company\u2019s stock -26.65% away from its 200-day simple moving average, 6.4%, away from the 50-day average and also 4.21% away from 20-day average. The stock is performing 14.84% year to date.\n(NASDAQ:STML)\n(NYSE:JNPR)\nStemline Therapeutics\nAnalyzing Analyst Recommendations: American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC), Dine Brands Global, Inc. (DIN)\nAre Daseke, Inc. (DSKE) EPS Estimates Revised?\nAnalyst Opinion Summary: BMC Stock Holdings, Inc. (BMCH), Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (ATSG)\nAnalyst Earnings Forecast Scan: Hasbro, Inc. 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The creature designs are superb, the characters are well-played and the plot is a runaway train of excitement and drama to the bitter end. While the ending seems very unlikely given the plots direction, it does not take away the awesome levels of fun preceding it. A Terrific Monster Movie and an enjoyable film overall.\nAction, Dwayne Johnson, Film Review, Films, Giant Monsters, Monster Movie, Naomie Harris, Rampage, Rampage Movie, Rampage Video Game", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thomastennis.net/play-hard-cabin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RRGZVPI3TJSVTFN7GKNAHJ7QHFAA2IF3", "length": 885, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thomastennis.net", "title": "Play Hard! Cabin \u2013 ThomasTennis", "raw_content": "Need a peaceful weekend in the mountains? Come to beautiful Blue Ridge, Georgia- just an hour and a half from Atlanta!\nPlayHard Cabin overlooks the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. Our 3 bed/3 bath cabin sleeps 8 comfortably. Amenities include a Jacuzzi hot tub, an outside fireplace and a game room with foosball and ping pong. Just hanging out and enjoying the view is a great way to spend your time at the cabin or enjoy exploring Blue Ridge and the surrounding area.\nBlue Ridge is a quaint little town gaining an \u201cupscale\u201d reputation. The downtown area is charming with numerous antique stores, specialty stores, restaurants and more. Many of the older buildings are undergoing restoration to their original state from the late 1800\u2019s and early 1900\u2019s.\nFor more information about the area you can visit one of these:\nBlue Ridge website\nHamilton Rhododendron Gardens\nAska Adventure Area", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thoughtcatalog.com/david-mcmillan/2010/03/a-dream-deferred-barack-obama-american/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SYNJPJAKX222KBUDIXQMZ4MRZDCZQGU6", "length": 11311, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "thoughtcatalog.com", "title": "A Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama | Thought Catalog", "raw_content": "A Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama\nBy David McMillan, March 17th 2010\nhttp://tcat.tc/d0jjgB\nWhat do Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s Dream and the American Dream mean in the Age of Barack Obama? In 2009, I set out to write a play that meditated on that question from a variety of viewpoints. What follows is one of those meditations: a lecture/sermon by one of my alter-egos, Professor Clifton East. (And yes, his resemblance to a certain famed professor is not entirely coincidental.) Keep in mind: Professor East\u2019s is just one of many answers to this question. Needless to say, there are plenty of others.\nPROFESSOR CLIFTON EAST:\nWhat happens to a dream deferred, brothers and sisters? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?\nThat was the prophetic question posed by that brilliant brother, the poet Langston Hughes, so many years ago, the question that Sister Lorraine Hansbury later investigated in her brilliant play inspired by Brother Langston, and that folks in my generation, the civil rights generation, had to struggle with as we battled against the crippling forces of white supremacy, political injustice, social alienation, and existential despair.\nWhat happens to a dream deferred? It\u2019s a question that all great artists grapple with in one way or another. Whether you\u2019re John Coltrane and your territory is the unpredictable, improvisational battleground of jazz music, or Anton Chekhov and your territory is the unpredictable, improvisational battleground of everyday life, with its countless tales of quiet desperation and broken dreams.\nIt was the question that Dr. King grappled with and made the unending cause of his life. He grappled with it intellectually, extending the best of the Western Socratic philosophical tradition and fusing that tradition with what he\u2019d learned in the black church \u2014 not to mention with what he\u2019d learned from the prophetic teachings of folks like Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi. He grappled with it politically, taking what he\u2019d learned from books and ideas and wedding that to an uncompromising commitment to social justice and racial equality.\nAnd he grappled with it spiritually, because he knew that the civil rights struggle was much bigger than the struggle for racial equality here in America; that it was bigger than passing progressive legislation and electing progressive politicians, that it was bigger than Rosa Parks and Medgar Evers and Emmett Till and those four little girls who died in a church in Birmingham \u2014 that ultimately it was even bigger than him.\nThe civil rights struggle wasn\u2019t a battle over America\u2019s laws; it was a battle over America\u2019s soul. Over whether or not this nation could live up to its own Jeffersonian ideal or continue to live in Jeffersonian denial, over whether white brothers and sisters had the moral courage and political willpower to look into the faces of their black brothers and chocolate sisters and recognize that they too sing America, that they too are America \u2014 their skin may be a little darker than mine, the cadence of their voice may be a little different from mine, their moves on the dance floor may be a little more soulful than mine \u2014 but they\u2019re my brothers and sisters nonetheless.\nDr. King wasn\u2019t just fighting for the souls of black folks. He was fighting for all our souls. All our dreams. That\u2019s what his dream was all about.\nAnd like Socrates, like Jesus, like Abraham Lincoln, like Mahatma Gandhi, like so many revolutionary freedom fighters before him, Brother Martin chose to lay his life on the line for that dream rather than defer it another day longer.\nBut these days, brothers and sisters, in the age of Oprah and Obama, we find ourselves asking a different question: what happens to a dream deferred when the president\u2019s a black man?\nWhat happens when you reach the Promised Land \u2014 or should I say, when white folks keep telling you that you\u2019ve reached the Promised Land \u2014 and suddenly we find that America has partially delivered on the promise of its Founding Fathers by electing an undeniably talented, linguistically gifted, politically astute \u2014 if occasionally too politically centrist for my taste \u2014 brilliant African-American to the highest office of the land?\nDoes that mean we now live in a post-racial world where the vicious legacy of racism and white supremacy no longer holds sway on the collective postmodern American psyche?\nIs Barack Obama the fulfillment of Dr. King\u2019s dream?\nOr let me rephrase the question: Is Barack Obama the fulfillment of Dr. King\u2019s Dream or the American Dream?\nBecause let\u2019s be clear about something, brothers and sisters: those are two totally, fundamentally different dreams. They may share some similarities on the surface, but they\u2019re radically different. The first is the dream of greatness; the second is the dream of success. The first was inspired by the universal brotherhood and sisterhood of man. The second was inspired by the universal desire to be The Man.\nDr. King\u2019s dream was aimed at the downtrodden, sustained by community, and built on love. The American Dream is advertised to the downtrodden, sustained by competition, and built on the free market.\nMake no mistake, brothers and sisters: Dr. King didn\u2019t sacrifice his life just so folks could attain the American Dream. He didn\u2019t want you to be successful. He wanted you to be great. He wanted America to be great, to live up to its potential. And in much the same way, I want Obama to be great. But right now all he is is successful.\nNow that may impress most folks. Indeed, it should impress folks. Takes a lot of talent and political genius to defeat the Clinton machine, demolish the GOP, create a national grassroots movement made up of progressives, centrists, and disaffected independents and do it as a caramel-complexioned brother with a last name that rhymes with Osama. So yes, the brother is talented. Multi-talented, without\nBut I know he can do better.\nThe Irish novelist James Joyce once wrote that history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. After over four hundred years, it seems America is still trying to wake up from, or rather flee away from, its own collective nightmare, the nightmare of slavery and Jim Crow and white supremacy. The nightmare of American poverty and America\u2019s failed war on drugs and Hurricane Katrina. (Personally, I\u2019m still trying to wake up from the nightmare of The Jonas Brothers, but that\u2019s a different story.)\nAnd perhaps many Americans hoped \u2014 audaciously hoped \u2014 that by electing Barack Obama as our President, we could finally lay the Ghost of America\u2019s Pernicious Racial Past to rest, never to be disinterred or disturbed or mentioned or alluded to ever again.\nRacism? \u201cWe solved it. Just look at Obama.\u201d Systemic barriers to opportunity? \u201cWe fixed them. Just look at Obama.\u201d Police brutality? Economic inequality? The insidious problem of the color line? \u201cStop complaining, black man. Just look at Obama.\u201d\nNow, as much as I love and admire Brother Barack, he ain\u2019t Harry Potter. He\u2019s not the Chosen One. And to all those white folks, and even some folks of color, who may believe that we now live in a post-racial utopia where everything is peaches and honey, and that we\u2019re all just riding on one great big post-racial love train, allow me to reply with a less than intellectually rigorous yet straight-to-the-point rebuttal: bull-turkey.\nWe must come to realize that although we\u2019ve made wonderful progress, tremendous progress, audacious progress when it comes to race relations in this country, despite all that, we have not yet reached the Promised Land, I\u2019m afraid.\nSo when will we reach the Promised Land?\nWhen America grows out of its perpetual adolescence and becomes a nation of adults. When each and every one of us becomes maladjusted to injustice. When we stop confusing success with greatness. When love, and not the dollar or the euro or the yen, becomes the true global currency. When we let go of our fantasies of wealth and decadence and 15-minutes of viral video fame and face our nightmares. Because as Dr. King knew, we can only reach our dreams by facing our nightmares.\nAnd who knows \u2014 maybe we\u2019ll never reach the Promised Land. Maybe I\u2019m being too optimistic, too pessimistic, too unrealistic, maybe I\u2019m simply too maladjusted to injustice and I should just stop complaining and accept the fact that what we\u2019ve got now is probably the best we\u2019re gonna get. Least in my lifetime.\nWell, the only thing I can say to that is to quote that brilliant brother John Lennon: \u201cYou might say I\u2019m a dreamer. But I\u2019m not the only one.\u201d\nArriving at the Promised Land isn\u2019t the point. The point isn\u2019t to live in the Promised Land. The point is to imagine the Promised Land. And to do everything you can to get there. And as long as my mind is sound, my body is strong, and my soul is lifted, I\u2019m gonna keep on imagining, I\u2019m gonna keep on fighting, and I\u2019m gonna keep on dreaming. About greatness, not about success.\nSo what does happen to a dream deferred, brothers and sisters?\nI guess it all depends on which dream we\u2019re talking about.\nPut Down The Trash Bags For MLK Jr. Day\nMartin Luther King Jr. Had A Dream\u2026And Now, We Have The Reality\nA Suicide Note From The Word \"Moist\"\nWhat You Lose When A Generation Dies\nIs Obama Too Sane To Be Great?\nGun Play: An American Tragedy, in Three Acts\nA Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama is cataloged in Clifton East, Cornel West, dream deferred, I Have a Dream, Langston Hughes, Life, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., News in Color, presidential election, promised land, race, raisin in the sun, Sermon on a dream deferred, the American Dream, U.S. politics, Uncategorized, Walt Whitman, Washington D.C.\nhttp://jpbaidu.com/terms/a-dream-deferred%e2%80%a6-in-the-age-of-obama-%c2%ab-thought-catalog/\tA Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama \u00ab Thought Catalog Terms\n[\u2026] A Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama \u00ab Thought Catalog [Fan Photo] Minho Recording Dream Team 100317 \u00ab .::We aRe Shining::.\"Follow the fellow who follows a dream\u2026\" \u2013 The Deacon's BenchThe Fergus Falls Daily Journal \u2013 Roberts never expected Olympic dreamSenate to House: 'You can't spend your whole life worrying about \u2026Spend a Day in Japan at the Morikami Museum: A Japanese Cultural \u2026RealClearPolitics \u2013 The Republicans' Big Lie About ReconciliationBurton L. Wise: The Party of 'NO'Help wanted: Obama's Twitterer (filibusterers need not apply \u2026Rocky Mountain low \u2013 Features \u2013 Boston PhoenixThe Biggest Moochers: 10 States Making A Fortune From Obama's Budget View the Contact Powered by Terms [\u2026]\nhttp://www.ubervu.com/conversations/thoughtcatalog.com/2010/a-dream-deferred-barack-obama-american/\tuberVU - social comments\nThis post was mentioned on Twitter by DaveMcM: Yo! Check out this piece of mine that just got published on Thought Catalog: \u201cA Dream Deferred\u2026 In The Age of Obama\u201d http://bit.ly/an9U1E\u2026\nhttps://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/is-suffering-really-that-bad/\tDiscussion: Is Suffering Actually \u201cBad\u201d For Us? | Thought Catalog\n[\u2026] they have been able to make such powerful sounds and influential empires? People tend to even like Obama over Romney because Obama seemed to fight to get where he is \u2014 it was a journey of struggle [\u2026]\nhttp://www.itmakesmestronger.com/2012/09/discussion-is-suffering-actually-%e2%80%9cbad%e2%80%9d-for-us/\tOnly L<3Ve @ ItMakesMeStronger.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 13210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timehrhardt.com/2015/12/18/hebrews-1032-39/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:B5O3B2NYLNV6GDE67BQ4NA3A3YCUF4TO", "length": 2239, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "timehrhardt.com", "title": "Hebrews 10:32-39 \u2013 Rev. Tim Ehrhardt", "raw_content": "I am something of a wordsmith who deals in language and stringing sentences together every day. There are words in English that have become lost over the decades. Some of them need to be recovered because, along with the word, the idea has become lost, as well. One of those words is \u201cpusillanimous.\u201d It means to have a cowardly spirit, or, more literally, it is a shrinking of the soul.\nFew of us look upon humanity in this day and age as having souls which are flexible (if we believe people have souls at all). The human soul is continually either in a state of enlarging or shrinking. The soul is not a static thing; the inner workings of a person are always in flux. The Christians for whom the author of Hebrews was addressing had begun their Christian lives with souls that grew and flourished. But gradually, over time, they did not exercise faith on a continual basis, and they became pusillanimous \u2013 their souls began to shrink. The author was so concerned for them that he realized they could shrink to the point of not enduring to the end and would experience a wholesale failure of faith.\nFaith is like the barbells of our Christian bodybuilding. Unless we consistently and persistently use faith, our Christian souls will slowly but surely begin to grow small, to shrink. A profound lack of courage, a pusillanimous spirit, will always be the result when in circumstances which require faith \u2013 unless we are on a daily regimen of spiritual exercise to expand the capacity of our souls.\nIn a time when we are aghast at the soul-less actions of terrorists, mass killers, and cyber-bullies, we must realize that the inner workings of such persons have resulted in a terrible shrinkage of soul. If we have such a small soul is it any wonder that evil actions are not far behind? Daily altruistic actions of faith will counter such withering insides and expand the inner person so that love becomes the default response in each and every situation.\nMighty God, you have created me in your image and likeness, unique among all your creatures. Strengthen my inner person and expand my soul so that it may contain a greater capacity for faith, endurance, and love through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.\nPeace on Earth, Goodwill to All?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timehrhardt.com/2016/03/26/lamentations-31-9-19-24/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FRUB2ERYF64DQ74UOFWWUNBIZ7G3AKWM", "length": 2095, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "timehrhardt.com", "title": "Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 \u2013 Rev. Tim Ehrhardt", "raw_content": "Even in the darkest of moments in time there is still the remote possibility of hope. On this Holy Saturday while we remember the darkness in between Christ\u2019s crucifixion and resurrection, one of the important angles to keep in mind is how the original disciples must have felt on this day. We, of course, know the end of the story. We know that Christ is about to be risen from death and that the tomb will be empty. But Peter, James, John, and the rest of Christ\u2019s followers had no idea this was going to occur.\nLet\u2019s take the thought even a bit further: what was Jesus experiencing during this time in the grave? I know it is a crazy thought, but Jesus completely and fully entrusted himself to the Father. Did he ever have a doubt or wonder if things would shake out as we now know they would? Sometimes we might lose sight of the reality that Jesus is quite fully a human with all of the limitations that go with it. Christ knows full well how difficult it can be to live life on this earth surrounded by sin, evil, and trouble. He knows what it feels like to be afflicted, to be forsaken, to be profoundly touched by the sin of others.\nBut suffering does not have the last word. \u201cMy soul continually remembers it [affliction] and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.\u201d These are not just words from the prophet Jeremiah; they are the thoughts of Christ himself. Jesus placed his faith and hope in the Father. The disciples placed their faith and hope in Jesus. We, as well, must discover that darkness and death never have the last word. The last word is always and forever GRACE. It is the mercy of God that trumps death and every evil practice and each sinful agenda. Wait for it\u2026 wait for it\u2026.\nAlmighty God, grant that in your mercy I might obtain the result of your passion: forgiveness of sins and new life in Jesus Christ, who loved me and gave himself for me. 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He has spent nine years behind bars after being arrested in 2008. He told the SC that he was acting as army mole and was not involved in terrorist activity.\nA bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre passed the order on the plea, having reserved its order last week.\nDuring a hearing last week, senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Purohit, said he has been in jail for the past nine years but charges have still not been framed against him.\nHe added that a charge against Purohit, under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), has already been dropped and therefore he is entitled to getting interim bail. A special MCOCA court had earlier ruled that the Anti-Terrorism Squad had wrongly applied this law against Purohit and 10 others.\nAdditional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, appearing for the National Investigation Agency (NIA), said there was evidence against Purohit that would help in framing a charge.\nThe top court had on May 5 sought a response from the NIA and the Maharashtra government on the plea of Purohit seeking bail.\nSeven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, in Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in the Nasik district of northern Maharashtra.\nThe 4,000-page charge sheet had alleged that Malegaon was selected as the blast target because of a sizeable Muslim population there. It had named Pragya Thakur, Purohit and co-accused, Swami Dayanand Pandey as the key conspirators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toiletmap.gov.au/toilet/37615", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:39Z", "digest": "sha1:EOVQNOSVMEKH5POW77AS2CT3VSRTRKHN", "length": 77, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "toiletmap.gov.au", "title": "KFC Cairns", "raw_content": "KFC Cairns\nCorner of Martyn Street and Florence Street\nhttp://www.kfc.com.au/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toledosattic.org/exhibits/gtvxmenu-intro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RO4V2AI2IVK34UWYOGZSJ47HX6NN2F7I", "length": 3638, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "toledosattic.org", "title": "Greater Toledo: The City in the World - Toledo's Attic", "raw_content": "You are here: Home Exhibitions Greater Toledo: The City in the World\nGreater Toledo: The City in the World (The Virtual Exhibition)\nBy choosing the name \u201cToledo,\u201d the founders of the city in 1837 seemed interested in promoting it as a place with an international focus. It is uncertain why \u201cToledo\u201d was selected as the name for the new entity. At the time, all things Spanish were in vogue, and the name may have been a way to not only honor Toledo, Spain, but also as a way to portray the new Toledo as fashionable, trendy, and perhaps exotic.\nIt was not only its name that seemed to predict the city\u2019s global focus. In 1868 one of its early land investors, Jesup W. Scott, published a pamphlet promoting Toledo titled \u201cA Presentation of Causes Tending to Fix the Position of the Future Great City of the World in the Central Plain of North America.\u201d In the pamphlet, Scott laid out his theory that since ancient times, the world\u2019s economic center had been moving westward, and it would only be a matter of time before the next great commercial center would be located in the interior of the United States. It is perhaps not surprising that someone who owned a great deal of real estate in Toledo would promote the city as that Future Great City of the World.\nThe dream of Toledo as the world\u2019s future great city would influence generations. Every new industry, every new development, all were evidence of the greatness of Toledo and its future as a center of world commerce. It even influenced Jesup Scott to endow a university to provide educational opportunities to the young people of Toledo, who would help to establish the Future Great City. And while Toledo would never become the world\u2019s greatest city, it did, through its largest industry, establish itself as the Glass Capital of the World.\nThis exhibit looks at both the influence of Toledo on the world and the influence of the world on Toledo. It examines individuals from Toledo who traveled to far-flung places and brought back ideas that shaped their future and that of the city. It also looks at how people from Toledo changed the world, the ways in which soldiers from the city were affected by their international military service, how immigration of people from foreign lands impacted the city\u2019s ethnic diversity, and finally, how Toledo businesses and industries expanded to become global corporations.\nThis exhibit is an historical one, but it is important to remember that globalization is an ongoing movement that has been hastened in recent decades by technology. Globalization has had both a positive and negative impact on Toledo. While the world seems ever closer, its closeness brings uncertainty. It is hoped that this exhibit will remind us that Toledo\u2019s interactions with the world have been mutually beneficial and that embracing globalization will continue to provide opportunities for exchange that will improve the city and the world.\nThe \"Greater Toledo: The City in the World\" exhibition was open to the public at the University of Toledo's Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections from September 24, 2015 through May 6, 2016. It explored Toledo's global connections through intellectual, cultural, commercial, political, and military themes. The aim behind the virtual exhibition was to emulate the physical experience to a reasonable extent while enhancing that with easy access to resources in order to foster research, teaching, and public conversation.\nStart the Tour - Enter the Ward M. Canaday Center\nUse the links immediately above the exhibition\nview to move between exhibits\nGreater Toledo: The City in the World (Exhibition Catalog)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touchdownclubofatlanta.com/project/taylor-trammell/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:28Z", "digest": "sha1:5URFQG4R4JZGKRW2YIFAC4ALOUJAGDHJ", "length": 853, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "touchdownclubofatlanta.com", "title": "Taylor Trammell | Touchdown Club of Atlanta", "raw_content": "2015, Back of the Week, Mt. Paran Christian\nTaylor Trammell, Mount Paran Christian (Kennesaw). RB 6\u20192\u201d 195lbs. Trammell had a monster game against Pinecrest Academy where he ran for 346 yards and 3 TDs. This puts his total rushing yards, as of week 5 of the season, at a state leading 119 rushes for 1,110 yards and 17 TDs. As if that weren\u2019t enough, on the defensive side of the ball he is a standout FS having intercepted 2 passes for his undefeated Mount Paran Christian Eagles. All the more impressive is that football may not be his best sport. He is an Under Armour All American Outfielder in Baseball and has committed to play baseball for Georgia Tech in 2017. For Taylor\u2019s outstanding performance we congratulate him for being our Touchdown Club of Atlanta Back of the Week.\n\u2190 Bobby Dodd National High School Lineman of the Year Derrick Brown \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tour.kortright.org/tech/recycled-materials", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VZRYEDGFBQL443KNVMGEH3647C3MRPGV", "length": 1979, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "tour.kortright.org", "title": "Recycled Materials | Kortright Centre", "raw_content": "A recycled material is any material that has been previously used for a different purpose and its contents have since been reprocessed to serve a new function. Within a building structure, recycled materials can range from pavements to building envelope materials and further, to wall shelving and decorations.\nCement used for basement floors, footings and walls contains 30% slag, which is a waste mining material which helps to reduce the amount of Portland cement needed in concrete. This shrinks the amount of energy used during construction, which translates to decreased CO2 emissions.\nFor more information on this technology, download the Slag Cement and LEED document.\nDrywall used in construction can be selected to be made of 95% recycled materials, paper and gypsum (plaster), which diverts waste from landfills.\nDurisol Blocks\nDurisol blocks (now Nexcem) (R-12) are made of cement mixed with recycled wood fibres. The hollow blocks are used for building and have a cement mix poured into them. The cement can include slag or fly ash as a filter.\nFor more information on this technology, visit Nexcem.\nKitchen counters can be made of Paperstone which is comprised of 100% post-consumer recycled paper. It is certified by both the Forest Stewardship Council and the Rainforest Alliance. Additionally, recycled icestone glass countertops are made from 100% recycled glass, Portland cement and non-toxic pigment which does not contain any petrochemicals or resins. Icestone requires the same maintenance as a natural stone by sealing it due to its porous nature.\nFor more information on these technologies, visit Paperstone and Icestone.\nRecycled materials can be used to construct a parking lot to reduce waste, infiltrate and filter stormwater. Pavers from used car tires and plastic containers are recycled for resurfacing of old asphalt parking space, which also contributes to the overall aesthetics.\nFor more information on this technology, visit Azek and Eco-flex.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tralewski.co/anamnesia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:233EIRMEXSTLHB7MIM2NHKESPPUIF436", "length": 1338, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tralewski.co", "title": "Kris Tralewski - Anamnesis", "raw_content": "/\u02cc\u00e6n \u00e6m\u02c8ni s\u026as/ noun, plural anamneses 1. the recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence. 2. Platonism. recollection of the Ideas, which thesoul had known in a previous existence,especially by means of reasoning\n\u201cAnamnesis\u201d is a piece of work dealing with the themes of cultural memory and relationship between the trauma and aura. A personal story that relates to the history of my grandfather\u2019s survival during the WW2 and presented in the for of a 3D video game.\nAfter being captured during the first couple of weeks of the 1939 September Campaign, my grandfather ended up in a German POW camp. He\u2019s never elaborated on that story and all I had were some snippets related by my mum and an uncle. When browsing online records, I stumbled across my grandfather\u2019s name in the prisoners of war register where he was listed as a Polish soldier born in Germany.\nThe game itself encompasses earlier video works and a game that I made previously on the same topic. These various pseudo-testimonies together with the occlusion used in the rendering of the camera view that obscures parts of the interior and the modelled artefacts with the images of a forest that once belonged to my great-grandparents, serve as a formal reminder that it\u2019s not possible to establish the truth anymore.\nTest of the lighting probes created in Unity 3D", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://transportup.com/headlines-breaking-news/airbus-pop-up-concept-announced/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ZILZ47NOLRLQNE34DLZ6L3JPS2IFTEIV", "length": 559, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "transportup.com", "title": "Airbus \"Pop.Up\" Concept Announced \u2013 TransportUP", "raw_content": "NextUber Elevate Introduces its Vision for the Future of Urban Transportation\nAirbus Official Company Material:\nhttp://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/press-releases/Airbus-Group/Financial_Communication/2017/03/ITALDESIGN-AND-AIRBUS-UNVEIL-POPUP.html\nhttp://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-90/PopUp.html\nhttps://venturebeat.com/2017/03/07/airbus-unveils-pop-up-an-autonomous-transportation-concept-that-uses-drones-to-carry-cars/\nhttps://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/airbus-reveals-a-modular-self-piloting-flying-car-concept/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tribenerd.com/thread-27-post-28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ5KAU3NRIRKOEEKBCD2Z5ZZLU27V6JU", "length": 362, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tribenerd.com", "title": "Favourite music genre?", "raw_content": "As every person is different there are a lot of available music genres out there. You know, one person can't always like the same thing as another one. Do you have a favourite music genre from all of these out there?\nMy favourite one is definitely hardbass. It's popular mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe countries. Actually, it's very good music to listen to.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triblive.com/opinion/columnists/lorifalce/14539767-74/lori-falce-social-media-has-no-indoor-voice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HR7BCNUFB6KELIX7DKRZDYYU7H43FSJJ", "length": 2928, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "triblive.com", "title": "Lori Falce: Social media has no indoor voice | TribLIVE", "raw_content": "Lori Falce: Social media has no indoor voice\nWe all have that person who doesn\u2019t really get technology.\nMaybe it\u2019s the TV remote that\u2019s outside their scope. Maybe it\u2019s the smartphone he never really wanted. For many, though, this is most publicly seen with social media.\nFor me, it is generally with family. Names and relationships have been withheld to protect the impaired.\nI have someone who doesn\u2019t understand how to share.\nIt is likely that a large portion of the fake news being spammed across the interconnecting webs of Facebook from Russian bots all started with someone in my gene pool. I have someone with an absolutely Pavlovian response to anything involving a dog. It will be distributed with the childlike belief usually reserved for Santa in a Hallmark movie, no matter how obviously false and easily disputed.\nAnd it won\u2019t just be shared. It will be shared two or three times in rapid succession, because if you didn\u2019t believe it the first time, you might the third. It will also be sent to you in a message in case you missed it, and possibly in an email, because, hey, don\u2019t we all miss email forwards from the early 2000s?\nThen there are the sports stories. (Full disclosure: It is possible that I have been an offender here.)\nI think that if you like sports at all, you know it\u2019s better when you pick a side. But that doesn\u2019t mean that we need to turn Twitter into an armed camp of hostile nations spoiling for nuclear war. Actions have consequences.\nI have learned to restrain my trash talk about the football teams I hate to the depths of my soul because I have at least one family member who supports each of them and returns the favor in spades. There is no quarter and I am fairly certain that if the Steelers and Eagles ever did meet in the Super Bowl, the FBI would be arresting several of us for cyberbullying. I now reserve my vitriol and hilariously brutal memes for safer targets. Like the Patriots. Go Rams!\nBut maybe the most difficult thing for some to grasp is the very public nature of where these things collide. Social media is, by definition, social. It isn\u2019t something private. It isn\u2019t an inside voice.\nWe all have ideas, opinions, thoughts. They crash around in our heads, flashing like high beams when something grabs our attention. But in real life, the time it takes for something to go from your brain to your mouth can filter a lot out. Online, your fingers have less control.\nThis leaves you with people who say things that are, let\u2019s be honest, just nuts. Or wrong. Or both. And those people are a challenge. But so are the other people. You know which ones. The ones whose life mission is to correct the people who are wrong. Fun fact: Change perspective and these are often the same people.\nWe need to realize that, like any technology, social media is a tool, and it can be used in good ways and bad ones. And if you don\u2019t know how to use a tool, it\u2019s best to leave it alone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/909", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CFJFTSQ5CWHEDLZOQ2BCSS2KEQ346FIM", "length": 1171, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "triple-c.at", "title": "A Case Study of Production Practices and User Participation in an Advertising-Free Digital News Media Organisation | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society", "raw_content": "Sreekala Girija University of Hyderabad, India\nKeywords: digital news media, public service news, ad-less business model, social media, marketplace, user data\nThe rising adoption of the Internet in India has contributed to the growth of digital news media organisations. Unlike the traditional advertiser-subsidised business model based on audience commodification, some of these new media firms rely on technology to offer news as a public service under an ad-less business model. Using a case study of Newslaundry, this article critically analyses whether interactive online technologies can help create media organisations untainted by the economic rationalities of capitalism. Following a mixed methodology approach that utilises data from 25 interviews with the Newslaundry team and mainstream journalists as well as a variety of text materials, the study finds that news loses its public good character due to Newslaundry\u2019s efforts to make profits. 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Trump celebrates Josh Holt freed from Venezuela", "raw_content": "Josh Holt freed from Venezuela, celebrated at W.H.\nSaturday, May 26, 2018- President Trump celebrates the freeing of American Josh Holt from Venezuela at the White House with him and others involved in securing the release.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 184.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://twowaters.org/index.php/margo-macdonald-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAMXWB6LHSI45NDNT37KTD6V4RCTRMYA", "length": 266, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "twowaters.org", "title": "Margo Macdonald | Two Waters Arts Alliance", "raw_content": "margomacdonald.com\nMargo Macdonald has exhibited tapestry and paintings throughout the Northwest for the past thirty years and is represented in public collections throughout the United States. Her work reflects the immediate environment with an emphasis on realism.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dulwich-stabbing-first-picture-father-105200966.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:42Z", "digest": "sha1:INV5X473HYKQLB3I2VVTFZBFT63WEH55", "length": 2615, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Dulwich stabbing: First picture of father stabbed to death in row over cigarettes who \u2018doted on his young daughter\u2019", "raw_content": "Dulwich stabbing: First picture of father stabbed to death in row over cigarettes who \u2018doted on his young daughter\u2019\nBENEDICT MOORE-BRIDGER, Owen Sheppard\nThis is the first picture of a father stabbed to death in a row over cigarettes during a weekend of bloodshed in London.\nDennis Anderson, 39, was said to have been slashed across the throat by a man who confronted him in a 24-hour convenience shop in south-east London.\nPolice were called to Pay Less Food & Wine in Lordship Lane, Dulwich, at 2.35am yesterday but Mr Anderson could not be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene half an hour later.\nFriends today paid tribute to the painter and decorator who had a teenage daughter. Luke Roche, 29, from Dulwich, described him as a \u201cvery good man\u201d. He said: \u201cDennis had been at a friend\u2019s birthday party last night and must have been coming home. But I don\u2019t know what happened.\nKnife victim: Dennis Anderson was said to have been returning from a friend\u2019s birthday party\n\u201cHe loved his daughter. He was a family man and very popular, no one had a bad word to say about him. I honestly can\u2019t think of anyone he\u2019d had a fight with. He just wasn\u2019t part of that life.\u201d\nA man has been stabbed to death in south-east London. (Twitter / @Phil_McCrae88)\nA woman who asked not to be named said: \u201cHe didn\u2019t have a bad bone in his body. He doted on his daughter and was very loving.\n\u201cHe used to party in the pubs in Lordship Lane. He was best friends with a load of boys who still live around here and all went to primary school together. They\u2019ll be devastated. Whoever did this should be put away for a long time.\u201d Detectives from the Met\u2019s Homicide and Major Crime Command were today studying CCTV footage of the attack.\nStaff at the shop said customers tried to restrain the attacker, described as aged in his thirties, but he fled.\nLocal MP Helen Hayes said: \u201cAppalled to learn of a fatal stabbing on Lordship Lane during the night. Another family now devastated due to knife crime. This has to stop.\u201d A spokesman for the Met said: \u201cThere have been no arrests at this early stage. Inquiries remain ongoing.\u201d\nA 17-year-old was fighting for life after being shot in Isleworth on Saturday night, while a 23-year-old man was in a critical condition today after being stabbed in Neasden on the same night.\nFour teenage boys remain in custody after being held on suspicion of attempted murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in Hayes on Saturday afternoon. His injuries were said to be non-life-threatening. A man was shot in the leg in Hampstead last night. His condition was also thought not to be life-threatening.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://updateodisha.com/2018/08/07/demise-of-karunanidhi-marks-end-of-an-era-in-tamil-nadu-odisha-cm-59627/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ITWB3DLFNLA3GDOEDJ6BLK4KF3GCVNYV", "length": 1348, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "updateodisha.com", "title": "Demise of Karunanidhi marks end of an era in Tamil Nadu: Odisha CM - Update Odisha", "raw_content": "Demise of Karunanidhi marks end of an era in Tamil Nadu: Odisha CM\nBhubaneswar: Expressing deep grief over the sad demise of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M. Karunanidhi, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said his demise marks the end of an era in Tamil Nadu.\nThe Chief Minister described Karunanidhi as the tallest leader of Tamil Nadu, who played a key role in social change and reforms in his state.\n\u201cIn fact, he was much ahead of his times. As the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for several times, he had made significant contributions in the development of the state and had played a crucial role in national politics as well,\u201d said Patnaik.\nHe said Karunanidhi had also made immense contributions to Tamil literature and cinema.\n\u201cHis demise marks the end of an era in Tamil Nadu and India lost one of its worthiest sons,\u201d said Patnaik.\nThe Chief Minister prayed peace and tranquillity for the departed soul and expressed deep sympathies with the family members.\nThe Chief Minister had directed Finance minister Shasibhusan Behera and former minister Devi Prasad Mishra to attend the funeral of late Karunanidhi.\nNotably, Chief Minister Patnaik is in Mumbai to attend a roadshow on August 8 in order to attract investment to Odisha during the Make in Odisha conclave scheduled to be held in November this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://upstarta.com.au/post/tag/apple", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7C2IN2NCJT7FIWB37JWFCG3GAFKVEBAE", "length": 2381, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "upstarta.com.au", "title": "apple | Upstarta", "raw_content": "Apple\u2019s Mac desktops and laptops may still count for a fraction of the global market for PCs, but when you tally up all the different devices (iPhones, iPads, etc.), the number of devices sold by Apple now exceeds the number of Windows-based PCs and mobiles shipped worldwide. Regardless of whether you like Apple (or Microsoft), it\u2019s an interesting observation, and in my view a very insightful one. The boundary between the different types of devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, mobiles) is really quite artificial as people do the same things on the different devices and that\u2019s what matters. Reading and responding to email, as well as different social media interaction, simple lookups of information online, and even other work such as working on text or spreadsheet documents, it isn\u2019t confined to a limited subset of these devices. So in my opinion, the analysis is valid. From the Upstarta perspective this is also interesting as it shows how Apple\u2019s long-term strategy appears to finally be paying off. For a long time they were essentially going head-to-head with Windows on the desktop and laptops, and even with the success of the MacBooks they weren\u2019t gaining much ground. Microsoft\u2019s mobile strategy has been beyond dismal and I predict that even the acquisition of Noka won\u2019t make a difference there, but Apple has brilliantly captured as distinct chunk of the mobile devices market \u2013 and while people do tend to hop back and forth to for instance Android, the overall market is huge and Apple offers something very specific that others can\u2019t easily touch. It\u2019s not about the specific features of the phones at all. Sure, the overall quality of the hardware is good. But what Apple sells is not mobiles and tablets, it\u2019s fashion and other social statements. It\u2019s not competing directly with other mobiles, and thus other mobiles are not directly competing with it. Sure there\u2019s overlap, but companies who don\u2019t understand that they\u2019re not exactly in the same space will never truly capture their market potential. Just like Apple stores don\u2019t sell hardware and software, they sell an experience. You can buy an iPhone online and often even have a new model quicker \u2013 yet people are happy to stand in a queue outside an Apple store, and mill around for hours once inside\u2026 the reasons behind that are important to understand.\nappledesktoplaptopsmobilestabletswindows", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 18529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://urbanhotness.com/tag/mike-jones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:24Z", "digest": "sha1:E5FARKVJRLE67TJ4YBGYGYI2ZLGYEGUJ", "length": 100, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "urbanhotness.com", "title": "mike jones Archives - Urban Hotness", "raw_content": "Remember \u201cBack Then\u201d when Mike Jones use to try to tell us that some folks only love you when you\u2019re", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://us.napster.com/artist/lady-gaga", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MUPIKVW5JHMWZIHE7T2ZZDGUH76WMUSH", "length": 2406, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "us.napster.com", "title": "Lady Gaga \u2013 Songs & Albums", "raw_content": "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)...\nJaded Lovers\nRelaxing Classical Playlist: Best Piano &...\nMillion Reasons (Piano Instrumental)\nEros Odranoel\nCreate Your Stem Files Collection, Vol. 15...\nExpress Groove\nRaised on a musical diet of Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, Lady Gaga brings a sense of theatrical fashion and attitude to her dance-inspired, electro-rock performances. Named after Queen's \"Radio Gaga,\" the pop fashionista took the fast lane to success, starting at age four when she learned to play piano by ear. At 14, she began performing at open-mic nights in and around New York City's Lower East Side. After graduating from Convent of the Sacred Heart school (the elite private institution Paris Hilton attended), Gaga earned a coveted spot at the famed Tisch School of the Arts. Soon after, she started writing songs for the Pussycat Dolls, and at age 20, she was signed to Interscope Records. Starting with her 2008 debut, The Fame, she became one of pop culture's most ubiquitous figures, with songs from \"Just Dance\" to \"Born This Way\" dominating the pop charts and her public antics (Kermit dresses! Birds flown! Gender identity rumors!) dominating pop culture. Bebop Digital\nCascada, Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, The Ting Tings\nRaised on a musical diet of Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, Lady Gaga brings a sense of theatrical fashion and attitude to her dance-inspired, electro-rock performances. Named after Queen's \"Radio Gaga,\" the pop fashionista took the fast lane to success, starting at age four when she learned to play piano by ear. At 14, she began performing at open-mic nights in and around New York City's Lower East Side. After graduating from Convent of the Sacred Heart school (the elite private institution Paris Hilton attended), Gaga earned a coveted spot at the famed Tisch School of the Arts. Soon after, she started writing songs for the Pussycat Dolls, and at age 20, she was signed to Interscope Records. Starting with her 2008 debut, The Fame, she became one of pop culture's most ubiquitous figures, with songs from \"Just Dance\" to \"Born This Way\" dominating the pop charts and her public antics (Kermit dresses! Birds flown! Gender identity rumors!) dominating pop culture.\nCelebrity Playlist: Brian Newman & Lady Gaga\nJohn Helix\nGirls with Kick Ass Attitude", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 8194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/waterloo-researchers-create-technology-produce-lighter-long", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KJCKPPUP4UQSOKJZNARJDA2PRZCCSNKC", "length": 2823, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "uwaterloo.ca", "title": "Waterloo researchers create technology to produce lighter, long-lasting batteries from silicon | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo", "raw_content": "Waterloo News \u00bb News \u00bb 2015 \u00bb October \u00bb\nWaterloo researchers create technology to produce lighter, long-lasting batteries from silicon\nSubstantially smaller and longer-lasting batteries for everything from portable electronic devices to electric cars could be come a reality thanks to an innovative technology developed by University of Waterloo researchers.\nZhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, and a team of graduate students have created a low-cost battery using silicon that boosts the performance and life of lithium-ion batteries. Their findings are published in the latest issue of Nature Communications.\nWaterloo\u2019s silicon battery technology promises a 40 to 60 per cent increase in energy density, which is important for consumers with smartphones, smart homes and smart wearables.\nThe environmentally safe technology could also make dramatic improvements for hybrid and electric vehicles. The findings could mean an electric car may be driven up to 500 kilometres between charges and the smaller, lighter batteries may significantly reduce the overall weight of vehicles.\nCurrent lithium-ion batteries normally use graphite anodes. The Waterloo engineers found that silicon anode materials have a much higher capacity for lithium and are capable of producing batteries with almost 10 times more energy.\n\u201cGraphite has long been used to build the negative electrodes in lithium-ion batteries,\u201d said Professor Chen, the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and a member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy. \u201cBut as batteries improve, graphite is slowly becoming a performance bottleneck because of the limited amount of energy that it can store.\u201d\nThe most critical challenge the Waterloo researchers faced when they began producing batteries using silicon was the loss of energy that occurs when silicon contracts and then expands by as much as 300 per cent with each charge cycle. The resulting increase and decrease in silicon volume forms cracks that reduce battery performance, create short circuits, and eventually cause the battery to stop operating.\nTo overcome this problem, Professor Chen\u2019s team along with the General Motors Global Research and Development Centre developed a flash heat treatment for fabricated silicon-based lithium-ion electrodes that minimizes volume expansion while boosting the performance and cycle capability of lithium-ion batteries.\n\u201cThe economical flash heat treatment creates uniquely structured silicon anode materials that deliver extended cycle life to more than 2000 cycles with increased energy capacity of the battery,\u201d said Professor Chen.\nProfessor Chen expects to commercialize this technology and expects to see new batteries on the market within the next year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vancouverhomes.info/blog.html/land-assembly-in-vancouver-seminar-geraldine-santiago-realtor--5436573", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:POCLMRGPLGMSMWC7LUA4O4FR7LHMBVEJ", "length": 4757, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "vancouverhomes.info", "title": "Land Assembly in Vancouver Seminar Geraldine Santiago, Realtor", "raw_content": "Subdivide and Conquer: Know Your Home's Future Value Now Geraldine Santiago\nI've seen it, heard it, read it everywhere: \" Capacity is needed.\" The demand for mid-rise housing continues to increase throughout Metro Vancouver as more residents want affordable choices for family living. Developers and builders are seeking options.\nBCStats projects that by 2035, 768,600 more people will be living in the Lower Mainland, with 145,735 more within Vancouver's city limits alone. That's a growth rate of 1.3 per cent per year.\nHow does our area meet this demand? Densification.\nAs a long-term real estate agent in Metro Vancouver, I've seen this trend gaining momentum. It used to be that just your location within Metro Vancouver dictated your property's value. Now it's a combination of the associated lot size, zoning and future development potential.\nThe region is creating transit-oriented communities. It can be expected that single family homes within .5 KM of a rapid transit hub may be rezoned to allow greater density to make way for townhouses, row homes, or even mixed-use towers.\nIn my experience, if you buy a property and don't consider how zoning and subdividing the lot over time could affect its future value, you might be missing out on a tremendous investment opportunity. And if you are looking to sell, seize the opportunity to learn about zoning and subdividing in order to optimize your property's value.\nDo you know your property's zoning options?\nThe reality is that Vancouver needs more housing options, and the only direction to go is up. Consider how high a developer can build on a lot to accommodate mid-rise, duplex, triplex and row housing relative to the zoning bylaws within a particular area in Metro Vancouver.\nZoning not only refers to the division of land into two parcels, it can include consolidation of two or more parcels into a single site, the adjustment of an existing property line or dedication of land for road or lane purposes.\nThe City of Vancouver is divided into zoning districts with their own particular zoning bylaws. For details on each district, you need to check the Zoning and Development Bylaw and any official development plan bylaws that may apply to that area.\nLand use is divided into \"Outright\" or \"Conditional.\" Outright land uses are those permitted providing that all the regulations are met. Conditional refers to land uses that have impact on the community and must meet numerous government-specified criteria before being approved.\nThe key to properly valuing your lot is clearly understanding its full potential and best use. This includes factors such as your property's Floor Space Ratio (FSR).\nFSR is calculated by taking the floor area of a building on a lot and dividing it by the area of the lot. Depending on your zoning, FSR maximums can vary from .65 to 1.45. For example a property in Kitsilano, zoned RT-8, with a 33 x 127 square-foot lot has a total of 4,100 square feet. The outright FSR is .5 with a conditional increase to 0.75. Therefore, depending on the FSR, this lot could have a structure from 2,095-3,143 square feet built on the property.\nOther important questions to consider before listing your property for sale include: Do you know your property's permitted use? Do you know which properties in your neighbourhood have applied to rezone their property?\nDue to the complexity of zoning bylaws, partnering with your listing agent to maximize your property's value has become more important than ever. If you don't take advantage of your area's zoning laws and its future development potential, and promote them relative to your lot, you could easily undervalue your property.\nFuture value should also be a part of how a property is assessed when purchasing.\nIf you are a first-time home buyer, you can invest in a property to sell it in a short period of time with a high rate of return if there is infrastructure being built around it. Think of your property's appreciation and anticipation. Anticipation is created by the expectation of benefits to be derived in the future. Home buyers may anticipate that a property in a certain neighbourhood will be in demand in the next five years, and may be motivated to purchase the property for future development.\"\nThis trend could translate into increased real estate values for properties located around transit hubs and lesser values of properties that are located farther away, due to the increase in supply over time.\nWhether you're buying or selling, look for the market potential of the property five years from now. Consider where new transit lines, roads and amenities are being built, and how this will influence the property's future value.\nYou can find out more about your city's zoning plans at these links:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 14381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://venturebeat.com/2014/12/29/flurry-51-9-of-devices-activated-on-christmas-were-from-apple-17-7-from-samsung-and-5-8-from-microsoft/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IUQQG5ZWID2LCG6RPFNPF42YZBFDAKMA", "length": 2113, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "venturebeat.com", "title": "Flurry: 51.3% of devices activated on Christmas were from Apple, 17.7% from Samsung, and 5.8% from Microsoft | VentureBeat", "raw_content": "Flurry: 51.3% of devices activated on Christmas were from Apple, 17.7% from Samsung, and 5.8% from Microsoft\nEvery year, Christmas Day sees the highest number of new device activations and app installs. In 2014, the trend continued, and once again Apple dominated the results.\nIn fact, more than half of device activations (51.3 percent) were for an Apple device this Christmas. This was followed by Samsung devices with 17.7 percent and Microsoft\u2019s Nokia devices with 5.8 percent. Only Sony and LG also managed to grab more than 1 percent of new activations:\nThe new data comes courtesy of mobile analytics and advertising firm Flurry, which examined the 600,000 apps it tracks to understand which devices were purchased and which apps were the first to be downloaded and installed. Flurry noted that the reason Asian manufacturers Xiaomi, Huawei, and HTC all had less than 1 percent share on Christmas Day was likely due to the fact that December 25 is not the biggest gift-giving day in their home markets.\nAs for the form-factor breakdown, Christmas 2014 saw a big jump in the number of phablets activated. In the week leading up to Christmas, 13 percent of new device activations were phablets (compared to just 4 percent in 2013):\nFlurry also found what other industry watchers have been seeing throughout the year: The phablet\u2019s popularity is coming at the expense of tablets. That said, the medium-sized phone is still favored by most consumers and saw the largest share of device activations this Christmas.\nUnsurprisingly, all these new device activations resulted in the largest numbers of app installs on Christmas Day. More specifically, Flurry tracked 2.5x the number of app installs in the U.S. compared to an average day in the first three weeks of December:\nFlurry pointed out that this is a notable jump given the maturity of the U.S. market. Games and messaging apps saw the highest increase in app installs on Christmas Day.\nAt the end of the day, this is good news for app developers. The holiday season is still a critical time to launch new apps and update existing ones, especially on iOS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://version2.andrewkendall.com/pages/photogallery/117/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q56NRXV5U5QV4XC36FPFAGHRFCEGVRH", "length": 153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "version2.andrewkendall.com", "title": "Andrew Kendall - Flook Night Photos (Half Moon, Herne Hill, 16th July 2004)", "raw_content": "Flook Night Photos - (Half Moon, Herne Hill, 16th July 2004)\nFlook Night featuring: The Mardous, The Paddingtons, The I.V.'s, The Cribs and The Unstrung.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 219.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://veterans.randstadusa.com/clinton-md/or-rn/C0517B5964C74FDE978DD76785462A4F/job/?vs=28", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:20Z", "digest": "sha1:G4J25YPMEFTDBYAKFVKSA4HOQEWNGHBW", "length": 1245, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "veterans.randstadusa.com", "title": "Randstad USA Veterans Jobs - OR RN in Clinton, Maryland, United States", "raw_content": "Randstad OR RN in Clinton, Maryland\nlocation:Clinton, MD\nAre you ready for your next adventure? We're searching for Operating Room (OR) Travel Nurses to fill immediate openings at a hospital in the city of Clinton, MD. If this sounds great to you, and you have 2+ years of experience, keep reading and we'll make sure you get all the details.\nWhat will I do? Operating Room (OR) Travel Nurses are responsible for managing multiple pieces of surgery equipment, preparing for surgery cases to start on time, and producing excellent turnover times. They play a critical role in the smooth and successful surgical experience for the patient and the physician.\nWhat are the benefits? Weekly take-home pay between $20 and $60 including per- diems-top-tier benefits that help you focus on taking care of your patients and know you're being taken care of, too.\nWhat else do I need to know? 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Currently on the sixth and final book.\nGetting my shit together: getting there. Went to see a counselor for the first time in three or four years (one I\u2019ve seen before) and had some serious perspective-shifting just from one session. It\u2019s one thing to tell yourself something over and over again in the half-hearted but desperate hope that, eventually, you\u2019ll start to believe it. It\u2019s quite another for a mental health professional to say it to you without being prompted. Looking good.\nWriting: like I said, Nano didn\u2019t happen \u2013 but arrangements have been made with my best friend to do the whole writing-buddy thing AND due to her mishearing something I said to her and inadvertently giving us an awesome story title we are now co-writing a book/podcast/webseries/something. So that\u2019s also looking good. I may not finish my Nano project by the end of this month, but I will definitely finish it, and having that commitment set in stone now feels good.\nImproving study habits: it did happen. Not to the extent I would have liked, but it did happen. And I also got back stunning, stupendously good grades that I am still unable to quite fully believe are actually mine. And yet they are. I guess I\u2019m pretty good at the whole academia thing when I want to be (and when I\u2019m focusing on two interesting papers instead of a mixed bag of four). Honours study first semester went off with quite the bang.\nAnd a lot of playing World of Warcraft also happened, as did two sleepless nights followed by getting to sleep the following noon. Which is not fantastic, but at least it got my ass into gear for trying to rectify it.\nIt\u2019s interesting to be playing WOW again after swearing I\u2019d never go back to it. I have a much less addictive personality now, and that\u2019s a relief. Even so, I\u2019m wary. I\u2019m glad I only have another three-ish months of freedom to play it at all, and I\u2019m predicting that I\u2019ll be fairly bored of it by then. But for now it\u2019s fun, and that\u2019s the main thing. Also inspiring; it\u2019s been a while since a videogame has been a creative aid rather than a creative detraction, but it\u2019s gotten me quite invested in some of my old high fantasy ideas and I\u2019m enjoying exploring them again. So it\u2019s not all bad at all. As long as I\u2019m sleeping and doing other things besides just mindlessly gaming, which is the next step in the end-of-year karmic cleanup plan.\nThe biggest part of that: waking up in the mornings. There\u2019s a huge difference between stretching out your day into the early a.m. hours because you feel like you haven\u2019t gotten enough done, and going to bed in anticipation of all the awesome shit you\u2019ll get to do tomorrow with an early morning start to get the ball rolling.\nI used to work better in the evenings (by \u201cwork\u201d I mean \u201cwrite\u201d obviously); I genuinely used to get inspired and motivated during the magical theater hours that come after midnight. But I think that may have been because I was a teenager and my hormones were doing weird things to my internal feedback systems. Or something. The point is that now I actually work better in the daylight, and the more of it that I have to play with, the more motivated I am to actually use it. Also I hear waking up in the morning is actually healthy for you. I\u2019ll have to investigate that claim at some point, but for now it\u2019s just something I heard somewhere that I can use as further motivation to get me to do the thing.\nAnd I\u2019m just feeling pretty good, despite the sore back and frustrating lack of being able to get to sleep (I was so close last night and then it just kept not happening until about 8 a.m.). I take this to mean that whatever it is that I\u2019m doing, it\u2019s the right thing to do. Some areas can stand a bit of improvement, but in the end it\u2019ll just allow me to do the same stuff better. So that\u2019s good.\nI haven\u2019t thought about Tallulah for a little while now, and when I have thought about it it\u2019s in a very casual, non-serious way. What strikes me is that these are the same thoughts I was having when I was super serious about it, which says to me that taking this break from writing it is definitely a good move. Something\u2019s gotta give, needs to be dislodged or to click into place, and I think that can only happen if I leave it alone for a good long while. I do know that I definitely want to write it and get it published if I can, but I also know now that it might be a long way off. I might get something else published first. I\u2019m not going to hold off on working on something else just out of principle; if something else really works for me I\u2019m going to pursue it. We\u2019ll see.\nThis year has been hectic as fuck for me, and yet right now at the end of it all it\u2019s starting to feel like a really damn good one. It\u2019s been resolving on a high note, and I\u2019ve never had a year quite like this before, so full of chaos and uncertainty to start with, getting murky and difficult in the middle (moving house right when four final research essays are due will do that), and then ending with a bunch of failed experiments, unexpected affirmations and enticing new beginnings. It was quite the plot twist, and at the same time really reinforces how life does not follow a narrative structure. Sometimes things just get better on their own \u2013 or it\u2019s because of the efforts you\u2019ve put in, and you just don\u2019t realise it until the very end, or even after the fact. Or because something totally out of the blue comes along to shake things up for the better. Or whatever. It\u2019s probably all easy enough to explain if you know what to look for, but it doesn\u2019t feel that way. There\u2019s no sense of a three-act-structure coming to a satisfying resolution. But there is closure, and it doesn\u2019t matter where it comes from. What matters is that it comes. And while it\u2019s frustrating to hear \u201cthings get better\u201d when things are currently shitty \u2026 sometimes they do get better. Not always. But sometimes. And then generalities go from annoying to empowering, from wondering how could this happen to me and how I\u2019m not okay, to reflecting on the fact that life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything\u2019s gone wrong and everything blows up in your face \u2026\nIt\u2019s all right. And I\u2019m liking it.\nI do now have the slight problem of differentiating my various fantasy worlds from each other, but what\u2019s life without some ongoing self-imposed dilemmas \u2026\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged life, life is not a story, personal growth, pretty good year, writing\nNanowrimo adventures: just another earth-shattering revelation of self-discovery\nSO YOU GUYS\nI JUST FIGURED OUT\nTHAT IF I WRITE 10K WORDS EVERY DAY FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF NOVEMBER\nI\u2019LL HAVE A 104K-WORD ZERO DRAFT TO WORK WITH\nI CAN HAVE A HUGE BOOK WRITTEN IN ONLY 10 DAYS\nISN\u2019T THAT GOOD TO KNOW\nLIKE REALLY HELPFUL THAT I NOW HAVE THIS NUMBER TO WORK WITH\nNO THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HAVING WRITTEN NOTHING FOR THE PAST 4 DAYS\nAND FEELING LIKE I\u2019M FAILING AT MY SELF-ASSIGNED LIFE\u2019S PURPOSE\n10K A DAY LET\u2019S DO THIS SHIT\nIt came to me the other day, thinking about why I\u2019m writing what I\u2019m writing, and why I\u2019m writing it. I tend to have 2 strategies for writing stories:\nHave a particular part of a story that I want to tell and then plan to build a whole story around it relying on inspiration-induced momentum to get me through the rough parts\nHave a neat premise that I want to explore and then plan to build a whole story around it relying on inspiration-induced momentum to get me through the rough parts\nAnd what I\u2019ve realised is that I hardly ever write stories when I\u2019m ready to write a story.\nThis isn\u2019t just about planning or some magical feeling of \u201cyeah I\u2019m ready\u201d; it\u2019s about commitment. I think of my current projects now, all the stuff that I\u2019m imagining is going to happen in them (and dialogue in particular) and it just feels so \u2026 noncommittal. With the exception of Tallulah, but I did spend almost 3 years writing it. Sometimes commitment comes afterwards.\nSo in terms of my current problem with Nanowrimo: I don\u2019t feel committed. I have no galvanic impetus spurring me on toward its completion. And I can\u2019t reasonably expect to be committed until I\u2019ve spent a fair bit of time with this story, so in one sense that takes a lot of pressure off \u2013 but it also means that I might not be done with it by the end of November (spoiler: there ain\u2019t no fucking way I\u2019ll be done with it by the end of November). And this was supposed to be a kind of hit-it-and-quit-it affair where I\u2019d just pump out an entire zero draft and then move on to the next thing, like a cool guy walking away from a giant explosion he caused without looking back at it, because he\u2019s so cool.\nI wanted to be a cool guy. But it seems that\u2019s just not in the cards for me.\nI guess I had misconceptions about how things would go: I had such a good premise that I assumed the rest of it would just fall into place. I thought I would fly through it by the seat of my pants, sustained by nothing more than momentum and self-indulgence. And I mean I even made a plan. I still have that plan; it still works as a plan. But once I start actually writing I slip so easily into the jealous clutches of debilitating perfectionism \u2013 now that it\u2019s Really Happening everything has to be done Properly. For some reason. For some reason Properly isn\u2019t, in this case, According To The Plan I Made Yes I Actually Made A Plan This Time.\nI can\u2019t get this draft finished by the end of November, I don\u2019t think. It wouldn\u2019t be a full enough story.\nBut then again, maybe that\u2019s the problem: I\u2019m trying to drag it out for better pacing, or what my brain tells me is better pacing, when in fact that goes against the plan that I made. The plan was not about pacing; it was about key moments. I guess I\u2019ve been assuming the whole time that I\u2019d fill in the blanks as I went along.\nBut why bother? Why not just get to the good stuff?\nAnd actually, if I decide to write a short zero draft \u2013 I know it\u2019s generally acknowledged that it\u2019s better to have too much than too little, but bear with me here \u2013 might that improve upon my plan?\nLike, a lot?\nAnd if so, if I just get to the good stuff and stick with it while pacing takes a log flume to hell \u2026\nI might actually finish this thing by the end of the month.\nIt\u2019s too good not to try.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged nanowrimo, pacing, perfectionism, word count, writing\nNanowrimo adventures: nananananananana nananananananana WORD COUNT\nI FINISHED MY FREAKING CHAPTER AND WROTE A TOTAL OF 2496 WORDS TODAY HOLY CRAP\nThat feels good. It was a pretty typical writing session for me, realising that I\u2019d set up a bunch of stuff that was more complicated than it needed to be as well as not setting up a bunch of stuff that really needed to have been set up and thus having to improvise on the fly; but it worked pretty well, certainly for a zero draft. And I crossed the 2k-word line.\nYesterday I wrote like maybe four lines total, spending the rest of the day wondering how I could find a way to work Greek mythology into a story that hasn\u2019t already been done a million times, and felt no guilt whatsoever.\nNo, seriously, no guilt. It was pretty awesome.\nAnd obviously that was totally justified, because today was productivity incarnate. I\u2019m pretty damn happy with how things are going thus far.\nI think it\u2019s a lesson in the importance of being kind to yourself as a self-proclaimed writer. If you don\u2019t feel like writing, then don\u2019t write. And when you do feel like writing, go hard. I know this goes against all conventional writing advice which is all about making yourself do the work even when you don\u2019t want to instead of relying on inspiration to strike, and I\u2019m certainly all for establishing writing habits. But I\u2019m saying that taking breaks and letting yourself take them without guilt-tripping yourself about it is part of that habit-building practice. Because today I wanted to write; I\u2019d been writing in drips and drabs up to this point and then, today, I just wanted to keep going. I wanted to do more. Kind of like the little workouts I\u2019ve been doing in my room; yesterday my entire body said \u201chey, more of that\u201d, and so I did more of that, and it was almost easy, even after making it slightly harder and adding to my repetitions and whatnot. So basically the lesson is that if you make yourself do something for long enough \u2013 and you don\u2019t even have to make yourself do a lot of it \u2013 eventually you will find that you want to do it. And it\u2019s been, what five days for me to get to this point? That\u2019s not bad at all. I did force myself to do the work, just not a whole ton of it; just enough to keep things moving. And if days like this are going to be the reward at letting myself start off at a snail\u2019s pace, then I\u2019ll keep on slugging.\nExcept for when I don\u2019t want to, and I think I\u2019ve broken that barrier. I want to write more. I also want to plan just a little, because I always look forward to writing story that I enjoy, I\u2019ve realised. It\u2019s why I love writing final chapters so much, or just the general third act of any story; the story is all laid out before me and it\u2019s what I want to make happen. I figure I can apply the same strategy to an entire book, where the whole story is something I\u2019m looking forward to making happen.\nIn any event, I did good work today and I\u2019m happy with myself for it; and it all came from making myself do the work even when I didn\u2019t want to \u2013 while not making myself drag it out when the motivation wasn\u2019t there, either. These are the kinds of writing habits I want to have.\nSo yeah. It\u2019s going pretty well.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged building good writing habits, celebrate your achievements, inspiration, nanowrimo, Writing a first draft\nNanowrimo adventures: and then all the cool shit happened\nLike, seriously, these are magic words. Write them or some variant thereof in all caps whenever you get stuck and, lo and behold, you are unstuck, because literally nothing you write afterwards can compare to the sheer level of tone-dissonance of randomly dropping that into your book out of the blue.\nI mean I don\u2019t have the energy or focus to follow it up now, but having put it there I can\u2019t go wrong when I get started again tomorrow. Later this morning. Whatever.\nI have also discovered that, actually, I don\u2019t like Slipknot. I like a couple of their songs and find Corey Taylor endearing, specifically the cover of \u201cDead Or Alive\u201d he does, which I think is the best version of the song that exists.\nThis is important information.\nI think once I get going with this \u201cand then all the cool shit happened\u201d thing this project will actually get off the ground. I\u2019m rather excited about this prospect. I think once the story actually begins it\u2019ll kind of write itself. I\u2019m also not sure why I have a first chapter that is not, apparently, part of the story. But these are not the kinds of things one worries about during a zero draft. One worries about getting anything at all actually, physically written during a zero draft, and whether it\u2019s any good or not can yes how many times have I said this now just FUCKING WRITE.\nIt\u2019s going well. I was stuck, and now I am not. It\u2019s going well.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged getting un-stuck, giving yourself permission to suck, nanowrimo, writing, Writing a first draft\nNanowrimo adventures: I wanna write the other thing\nI mean, I don\u2019t see this as a big deal or a problem or anything. It is what it is. I hate writing first chapters about as much as I love writing final chapters, and my current designated Nano project is no different. This first chapters is turning out to be a very High Fantasy first chapter, replete with world-building info-dumps and taking a really long fucking time to get to the goddamn point. This is because I decided that I had to introduce Other Characters before I could truly get the ball rolling, and then because I\u2019m doing the smart thing and using real-life experiences to inform some of these characters\u2019 relationships I ended up wanting to avoid even introducing certain characters at all just to put off certain things ever happening to begin with, so now there\u2019s nothing actually happening in this chapter other than more hollow showing-off of world-building. And I know and firmly believe that a first draft is allowed to be utter shit, but that doesn\u2019t help if I don\u2019t even want to write it to begin with, and such is the case with this project right now.\nAlso my other project \u2026 just kinda feels like it fits this premise a bit better. The setting and everything. Also there are characters there that I actually want to write about.\nThe character I\u2019m putting off introducing, by the way, is based on Wickham. And that\u2019ll be obvious to anybody who knows me and my history who ends up reading this thing; it\u2019s not supposed to be a secret or anything. It\u2019s meant to be me doing whatever the fuck I want because it\u2019s my story and my life and it belongs to me, goddammit. The only issue is that all of those experiences of mine really fucking sucked, and it\u2019s uncomfortable and mildly anxiety-inducing to even consider writing them to begin with.\nHaving said that, I just thought of a fantastic way to introduce this character and I might go and do that now, just so that it\u2019s done. But part of that is because it\u2019s something I\u2019ve already written \u2013 this character has been in existence ever since we started preparing to move to the house we currently live in, and I managed to write some uncomfortable stuff with them during our pre-move prep. I probably wrote about it here at some point. Trying to think of new things for this character to say or do is the hard part.\nWhich might mean that I haven\u2019t quite claimed this character as my own creation. I mean any good villain \u2013 yeah spoilers he\u2019s a villain \u2013 should be a character you look forward to writing because they\u2019re a good villain, right? Or maybe I\u2019m just scrabbling for an answer as to why I\u2019m uncomfortable writing this character when I don\u2019t really need one. It makes sense that I feel uncomfortable. Even now having vented about it for 477 words and subsequently come up with a few great ideas about how to improve this chapter and get things back on-track, I\u2019m still uncomfortable.\nAnd more to the point: I want to write the other thing.\nThis other thing is my \u201cshitty YA thing\u201d I was originally going to work on for Nanowrimo. And I mean fuck it, maybe I\u2019ll write both. The whole point of Nano for me was getting away from Tallulah, so why not? If focusing on writing one different book is helpful, shouldn\u2019t working on two different books be doubly helpful?\nAlthough the other point of doing Nano was to prove to myself that I could sit my ass down and get shit done, and that consequently I\u2019d come through with a completed zero draft, take the lessons learnt through writing it back with me when I go back to Tallulah and try to solve the storytelling problems I\u2019m having with it. If I\u2019m trying to write two books at once, either it\u2019s going to be a long wait to get back to Tallulah because I\u2019l have to finish at least one of them first, or neither of them are going to be finished and I won\u2019t have the perspective I was hoping to gain before returning to it.\nIt also happens that I stopped writing the \u201cshitty YA thing\u201d because I got stuck with that as well, and that point is where it\u2019s been left at. But I do want to write it. Or parts of it anyway.\nOr maybe I just want to read the rest of Sweep. I probably just want to read the rest of Sweep. It gives me hope for humankind.\nIn either case, I\u2019m kinda stuck with what I\u2019m writing, and I suppose that means that today will be one of those days where I have to force myself to do the writing or it won\u2019t get done. And that\u2019s not so bad. I have recently discovered, much to my surprise, that I like Slipknot (or at least Corey Taylor), so I might also make a playlist to facilitate this forced writing.\nAnd now, an hour and a half later, I\u2019ll see if I can\u2019t go do that.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged drawing from life experience, motivation, nanowrimo, writer's block, writing\nNanowrimo Adventures: a change of perspective\nI have been reading Blood Promise over the past two days (book 4 in the Vampire Academy series and yes one day I will actually write that goddamn review that I started writing in October LAST YEAR), and enjoying it, aside from the really prevalent \u201clast time on\u201d sections that have thus far littered the book. I\u2019ve only read up to halfway through chapter 9 and we\u2019ve had at least five of these, and they aren\u2019t the Harry Potter-style asides; this is verging on being a flashback episode, except that the actual stuff that is going on is interesting. It\u2019s also annoying because the book already comes with a prologue which is nothing but \u201clast time on\u201d, so \u2026 yeah. Annoying.\nThe rest of it is good, though. I\u2019m never going to be comfortable with Rose/Dimitri, and I really don\u2019t care for Rose/Adrian as an alternative, but whatevs. Big plot-twisty things are happening, and the last couple of chapters have been really gratifying on the level of being an audience member and wishing that the characters would do X because it would be the smart thing to do \u2013 and they they fucking do it. Like \u2013 wow. So satisfying. More please.\nAnd I assume that it was due to reading this book and (mostly) very much enjoying it that, upon sitting down to continue adding words to my Nanowrimo project, I mysteriously ended up writing in first-person.\nI made a conscious decision to not write in first-person when I started this project. The reason for that was twofold: being a man writing female characters, I figured a third-person perspective would \u201cdisguise\u201d my inevitable fuckups; and it\u2019s much more High Fantasy than first-person. Also I just felt like writing in third-person, but I\u2019m not counting that.\nIt actually worked to get things moving again, though now that I\u2019ve done it and changed the font colour to indicate where first person changes to third person and vice versa, I\u2019m kinda tempted to keep switching at my leisure throughout the draft. And \u2026 I\u2019m not sure if this is a good idea.\nI mean in terms of thinking in the now it\u2019s a great idea, because it\u2019s what I want to do, and this is a zero draft. This is where I get to do anything I want and not worry about the consequences.\nIn terms of thinking about the consequences, this seems like a horrible idea, an editorial nightmare. I\u2019d have to go back through and change it all to either first or third-person perspective once I\u2019ve decided on one, and while using different-coloured font to distinguish each type of perspective certainly makes that job easier, it doesn\u2019t make it any less infuriating. It\u2019s the kind of thing I would go back in time and slap myself for doing if I had a time-machine at my disposal, assuming I do it. So what I\u2019m thinking is that I\u2019ll play around with it in this first chapter, and then make a decision about which perspective to use for the rest of the book. And if I change my mind after that \u2013 tough.\nWriting is so hard, you guys. So hard.\nBut it\u2019s getting done, and that\u2019s the main thing. It\u2019s actually getting done. And I\u2019m currently downloading Guild Wars 2, so that\u2019s also getting done.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged first-person perspective, nanowrimo, progress, third-person perspective, Writing a first draft\nNanowrimo continues: words miraculously appear in Word document\nAfter going back and trying to inject a little bit more High Fantasy writing convention into my High Fantasy Nanowrimo project, I came away roughly doubling my word count from yesterday; I\u2019m now at 1222 words, and will be writing more this evening \u2013 wanna see if I can\u2019t pump it up to a nice even 2k. Writing in 2k-word segments just kinda feels good. That\u2019s an average undergrad final essay.\nI also ended up doing some drawing, that thing I keep telling myself I need to get good at in order to feel better about myself, and it was nice. Having visual aides is one of the great things about High Fantasy, where not only do you get the ubiquitous inside-cover map, but sometimes even illustrations by John Howe or Alan Lee. Whoever decided that pictures in books should only be for kids is a miserable asshole.\nI would totally illustrate this book (and all my books) if I could do so to a standard that I was personally happy with, and not just because having a book for adults with honest-to-Frigga pictures in it would be a fantastic gimmick. Pictures just add that little bit of attention, I feel \u2013 while I love full-page spreads as much as the next person, one of my favourite type of illustrations is the lineart that happens in the margins, or that interrupts the text, forcing it into interesting shapes to accomodate the space that the illustration takes up, blending the two together in what is at once a glaringly obvious and completely seamless manner. I like illustrations that interact with the written text of the book, and basically do what comics do in treating that written text as a pictoral element, not just looking at grammar and syntax but also font size, font shape, and placement on the page. The dedication that opens The Deathly Hallows is a very ostentatious (though I think appropriate) use of this, where instead of Align Left or Justify it\u2019s a lightning-bolt zig-zag down the page. I mean if it wasn\u2019t the final book in the franchise I might have been a bit disapproving of how gimmicky it was, but it was the last book in the franchise, and for that reason I think it was completely appropriate.\nI wonder how you\u2019d factor illustrations into a word-count \u2026\nGoing back and making the chapter a bit more High Fantasy conventional turned out to be \u2026 well, it was fairly easy, but that\u2019s partly because I went back and realised that I didn\u2019t actually have the wrong idea; it just could have been implemented better. I did take the time to explain the setting a bit, even tying it in with character-relevant information, but without getting all Prologue-y about it. It\u2019s a very brisk kind of introduction to the world, and part of that is because, rather than explaining why things are they way they are, I\u2019m just saying \u201chere this is a thing please enjoy\u201d; but I\u2019m hoping that the words I\u2019m using and the way I\u2019m using them will entice readers to apply their imaginations to the setting and fill in the blanks that way, rather than having to pull a Tolkien to get my ideas across. As to whether I\u2019ve been successful \u2013 only time and beta-readers will tell.\nBut I\u2019m glad I wrote about my problems with the project and then went back and rewrote a little \u2013 I\u2019d hardly written anything as it was, and it does feel a lot more solid for the edit. And I\u2019m almost up to 2k words already.\n\u2026 and stopping at just over 1900, simply because it\u2019s a natural stopping-point. Cool. So that\u2019s 1300+ words written today; that\u2019s double what I wrote yesterday! We have the beginnings of a positive trend, folks.\nI suppose I wish I\u2019d started Nanowrimo ten days ago when I said I was going to, but now that the ball\u2019s rolling it doesn\u2019t really matter. It\u2019s getting done, and at least when it comes to art, that\u2019s all that ever really matters.\nPosted in Uncategorized.\tTagged finding your voice, nanowrimo, word counts, writing, Writing a first draft", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 30060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://video.eurosport.com/snooker/world-championship/2017-2018/ali-carter-in-emotional-celebration-after-win-over-o-sullivan_vid1084825/video.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:56Z", "digest": "sha1:QZKWN2FZDD5MW6A6BG4U2GEZSQXYTDCN", "length": 163, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "video.eurosport.com", "title": "VIDEO - Ali Carter in emotional celebration after win over O'Sullivan - World Championship - Video Eurosport", "raw_content": "VIDEO - Ali Carter in emotional celebration after win over O'Sullivan\nAli Carter shows his emotions with a 'huge' celebration after his win over Ronnie O'Sullivan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 6210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vietnamnewswire.com/pm-lauds-banks-contributions-to-poverty-reduction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:RJQUSJELWFYVI7EDCQRYPQ565HQJS43Q", "length": 650, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vietnamnewswire.com", "title": "PM lauds bank's contributions to poverty reduction | Vietnam News Wire", "raw_content": "Hanoi (VNA) \ufffd Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has applauded significant contributions of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) to the country\u2019s poverty reduction and socio-economic development while attending a Lunar New Year meeting of the bank on February 11 or the seventh day of the first lunar month.\nThe loans have also enabled over 3.6 million disadvantaged students to go to school and helped built over 11.3 clean water and environmental hygiene facilities in rural areas and nearly 105,000 houses in the Mekong Delta. -VNA\nPowered by WordPress | | Thanks to Slider WordPress Plugins, bootstrap templates and Bootstrap WordPress Themes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vindisgroup.com/service/audi/digital-service-schedule", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MILYQGR4F7NZWSVCPHNRO2KPWVEW5GAE", "length": 347, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vindisgroup.com", "title": "Digital Service Schedule | Vindis", "raw_content": "Your car\u2019s entire service history is now stored electronically in a secure Audi database. This gives us a simple way to access information and guard against details being lost, as well as to protect buyers from forgery. Of course, when you have your Audi serviced, we\u2019ll also provide you with a convenient printout of any work done or recommended.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vinyllp.nl/x08727-beatles-white-album-50th-hq-x08727.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T7M2RBPXXMJKVJEWLNYZU7ZRJQ22YZM7", "length": 2723, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "vinyllp.nl", "title": "Beatles - White Album -50th.. -Hq-", "raw_content": "Label: Apple; .. -50th Anniver // 180gr. / New Stereo Mix 2lp\n1 - 1. Back In The U.S.S.R.\n1 - 2. Dear Prudence\n1 - 3. Glass Onion\n1 - 4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\n1 - 5. 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Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored a great variety of musical styles including Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Ballads, Western and Indian Classical among others. Their clothes, hairstyles, and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.\nEarly on, the band consisted of George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best. The band got its first major break playing in Hamburg, Germany, at some rather seedy nightclubs, beginning in 1960. While in Germany, they also met Klaus Voormann, who would later design the cover of the group's 1966 album Revolver. Stuart remained in Germany after the others decided to return to England, and became engaged to fellow artist Astrid Kirchherr, only to die a few years later of a brain hemorrhage.\nThe Beatles have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. According to the RIAA, they are the best-selling band in the United States, with 177 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful 'Hot 100' artists. As of 2013, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with 20. They have received 7 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and 15 Ivor Novello Awards. Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, the Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with EMI Records estimating sales of over one billion units. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked The Beatles as the best artist of all-time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 128.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://viralrang.com/must-visit-paris-attraction-louvre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WI66ZICGDRZKMB4KYA5W5QP43SOLTTVA", "length": 4204, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "viralrang.com", "title": "Must Visit Paris Attraction: The Louvre - Viral Rang", "raw_content": "It is no secret that Paris France if full of amazing attractions. After all, it is known as one of the world\u2019s most popular destinations for tourists. Throughout the city, you will find some chateaus, museums, and other architectural wonders. Each is worth visiting, but a stop you must make is at the Louvre. Aside from the Eiffel Tower, it is one of Paris\u2019s most well-known attractions.\nAccording to the official website for the Louvre, it was built on the western side of the city serving its purpose as a fortress. However, over time, as France continued to modernise, the structure found itself surrounded by buildings. Not long after, it became a palace and home to some of France\u2019s most well-known figures, including Louis XIV. It was in 1793 that the museum was opened to the public. Later, it was in 1882, that the Louvre became more than just a symbol of wealth, power, and politics. It then became a symbol of history and culture.\nThe Louvre is often known for its look careful policy, as are most museums in Paris, but there are many onsite activities for visitors to enjoy. For example, guided tours, small learning classes, and workshops are available with reservations. A tour guide is not required but recommended. One allows you to get the most out of a museum visit by ensuring you stop at all popular exhibits. The interesting history behind each exhibit is shared as well.\nOne reason why the Louvre is considered a must visit is that of the treasures housed inside. Did you know that over 30,000 works of the art call this museum home? They are divided into departments, such as Egyptian Antiques, Islamic Art, Sculptures, and Paintings. For that reason, you should decide on a preferred course of travel. Which exhibits, collections and themes interest you the most? Due to its large size, it can be difficult to see all. So, plan your trip to Paris wisely. In fact, that is why guided tours of the Louvre come recommended.\nAs previously stated, the Louvre is home to over 30,000 works of art. You will see paintings, sculptures, and carvings from some of the world\u2019s most well-known artists. These artists include Leonardo Da Vinci, Antoine Watteau, Michelangelo, and more. Part of the intrigue of visiting art museums is viewing the lesser known works of art. Many will leave you wondering why the artist or sculptor wasn\u2019t a household name.\nAs highlighted above, the Louvre is known for its permanent collections, but many temporary exhibits are set up for your viewing as well. What you will see will depend on your visit date. As a sample, you may find the work of Richard Serra. In the summer of 2008, his well-known \u201cClara-Clara,\u201d work went on display. Previous temporary exhibits included Van Dyck the Engraver and Babylon.\nIf planning a visit to the Louvre, be sure to verify the museum\u2019s hours ahead of time. Admission times and fees vary depending on the season. Tickets can be purchased for the museum alone or combination tickets that include admission into the Hall Napoleon are available. You should arrive early, but late evening tickets are available for purchase and offered at a cheaper rate than day passes.\nIf you have extra time to spend inside the Louvre, a visit the Auditorium is recommended. Constructed and opened to the public in 1889, this large establishment is located in the center of the Louvre. Its design and 450 seats make anything that appears on the screen easy to see and hear. Each year, over three hundred different events are hosted for individuals for all ages. Films and storytelling shows are designed for children; concerts are common, as well as lectures, silent film, and much more.\nThere are some onsite amenities provided to guests, making a day visit possible. These amenities include information desks, coat checks, a parking garage, a post office, gift shops, and restaurants. Since you can easily spend a day at the Louvre, why not do so? 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The visitation team will be coming on to our campus in October and inspecting every aspect of our operation.\nThis is a tedious and meticulous process begun almost two years ago with self-evaluations and documents to back up every aspect of curriculum, administration, finance and legalities. It is necessary as there are so many scam operations that pose as educational institutions. In the state of California, we have been notified that any school that does not have formal accreditation will eventually be shut down. That is a good thing.\nWe have operated thanks in large part to the generosity of the Vietnamese community, and now others are getting on board, seeing in what we are providing, great potential: low cost, online line delivery, and truly international in scope and in leadership. There is a great commitment to quality learning and practical application for preparing genuine and effective Christian leaders.\nWe also believe that we are \u201cnimble\u201d, that is, sensitive to the trends and opportunities of this age. Indeed, we have developed curricula at the undergraduate level that we hope to implement in the coming years that will have as a global emphasis.\nUnlike other institutions, our DNA comes out of an immigrant community, one that has experienced hostility and persecution at home and a measure of discomfort in a new land. Our formation was not top down from academics or government, but from the bottom up. That gives us legitimacy to understand where real people live and what their needs are.\nOur initial students received full tuition scholarships and will continue to receive such as long as they remain active students. We can no longer do this, now that we are ramping up the quality and range of our offerings to meet accreditation standards. However, our cost is still so less expensive and will be calibrated for scholarship assistance depending on need and the economy of local nations.\nThus, we feel like we are headed up. But we are also headed \u201caway\u201d. Our initial student enrollment is made up of students in Ethiopia, Zambia, Nigeria, Myanmar, the Philippines, and other nations of the world. It has reached into the African-America and Asian communities here in the United States though we also have a good blend from several cultural groups in each class.\nWe invite people with qualifying credentials to join us in this great adventure to help \u201cform\u201d a university of quality and sustainability that reaches far out into the educationally limited edges of the world.\nHere are two testimonials from students from Asia:\n\u201cI am very blessed to be a part of UUC. I started UUC last October and I am enjoying every moment. My classes at UUC have helped me a great deal to grow in my faith, develop my servant leadership, grow in my ministry and widen my horizons of understanding.\n\u201cIt is a blessing to work with professors who always, always find time to answer my emails, motivating and encouraging me to do well in all my assignments including the responses that I have made in my class discussions.\n\u201cAs a student, I believe that a professor who's always available to respond to your queries, motivating and encouraging you is very crucial and substantial for student growth and development. Being a part of UUC, I have learned a lot and it has given me principles and guided me how to become a more effective leader in ministry.\u201d\nM.S. A Filipina living the USA\n\u201cMy studies at UUC opened up new avenues for learning on the online mode. What used to be difficult before is now a way of life to access online 24/7, anywhere, where I can study at flexible time schedules as my resources would allow.\n\u201cNow I am accustomed to it and can easily do all my learning activities without barriers. For people on the go like me this is the most convenient and fast way to get an education. My professors are doing all their best so that the quality of learning is retained and at par with other formal mode of delivery and learning methodologies.\nThe curriculum is excellent and at cutting edge global education. I highly recommend to others who don't have the luxury of time, that the best way to start is now. You have to discipline yourself to read and study just like in a residential or formal school. It\u2019s a real time learning experienced and UUC has delivered what it promised.\u201d\nR.T. 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Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.\u201d Jeremiah 23:23-24\nI remember when I was younger, a child around 5-6 when friends would gather on long Summer days and figure out what we wanted to do for the day. Almost always the game of \u2018Hide and Seek\u2019 would be at the top of the list. \u2018Hide and Seek\u2019 is a game which a number of players conceal themselves in the environment, waiting to be found by one ore more seekers. The game is played by one player who is designated as \u201cbeing it\u201d, that would count out-loud to a predetermined number while the others hide. After reaching the number, the player who \u201cis it\u201d tries to find the other players.\nI must confess that I just wasn\u2019t very good at this game, I just wasn\u2019t artful enough to stay hidden for long stretches of time; eventually either my mouth or my always poking my head out from my hiding place found me out! In the same way, the false prophets at that time actually believed that anything they did would never be found out. The major problem was, that these were spiritual leaders and were under a greater scrutiny than the deception they pulled off on the peoples, making them think that a \u2018local\u2019 god would overlook their sins.\n\u201cAm I a God at hand, and not a God afar off \u2026\u201d\nThis becomes a warning to the false prophets that they cannot hide from God. Unlike the localized deity that is easy to avoid, the Living God is inescapable. He is transcendent, beyond consciousness, omnipotent, all powerful, omnipresent, He\u2019s everywhere. Because of these qualities God possesses, there is nothing we can get by Him that He has not seen or heard. God has heard all the lies including the lies of the false prophets.\n\u201cFor false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.\u201d Mark 13:22\nJesus warns that in our own time there will be deceivers out to draw you away from the truth of who God is , and that truth is founded upon Jesus Christ.\n\u201cCan a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord\u201d\nThere are two things of importance here. Note that the false prophets are enemies of God and that they have a purpose, that of causing the people to forget even the name of God. There is nothing innocent about such men, whether in the days of Jeremiah or at the present time.\nDavid recorded in Psalm 139 that it didn\u2019t matter to God where David was, God already knew it. David knew all about hiding. He spent many years in the wilderness hiding form King Saul who was out against David to kill him. And yet, no one touched David because David was a man after God\u2019s heart, and because of that God was watching David, to protect and provide for his needs.\nSometimes we feel that we\u2019re just not getting accomplished the things we\u2019d like to do. And maybe we don\u2019t want to trouble God over trivial little things in contrast to all that God does sustaining and maintaining our lives. But guess what? God wants you to know that He wants to get more involved in your life, helping you in the struggles you may be facing.\n\u201cBehold, the LORD\u2019s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear\u201d Isaiah 59:1\nGod was not happy with the false prophets that thought they could get away with deceiving people to believe in something that wasn\u2019t true. Jehovah Elohim is His Name and He is the \u2018Always Existent One, who continually reveals Himself\u201d. God wants us to choose Him for what we need, ask Him for what we desire, and live for Him who loves us.\n\u201cDo I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.\u201d\nIf God can fill the heavens and the earth, what can\u2019t He do for you? Don\u2019t hesitate a moment longer. If you\u2019ve got other \u2018god\u2019s\u2019 you\u2019re entangled with, let go and let God become your source of freedom. He will not bind you, hurt you, or bring you to a point of helplessness. Don\u2019t play \u2018hide and seek\u201d with God, as our Pastor says often; \u201cHe knows where you live, what you drive, where you go,\u201d\nWhat a comfortable thought, \u2018I Am God at hand\u2026.Not Far Away! 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She quickly gained recognition, exhibiting at major galleries in the UK, elsewhere in Europe and in the United States. Her work has been acquired by several public bodies including the British Council, the Arts Council and the Government Art Collection. 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The company will do the work in New Orleans.\nThe work will support MMS\u2019 Office of Information Management and regional program offices that manage mineral resources on the outer continental shelf as part of the OEMM program.\nThe OEMM program oversees competitive oil and gas lease sales, negotiates noncompetitive leases for sand and gravel, and manages the mineral development process. The Office of Information Management coordinates and plans the Gulf of Mexico Region's information management systems that have broad applications in regional and offshore program areas.\nGeneral Dynamics, of Falls Church, Va., ranks No. 4 on Washington Technology\u2019s 2009 Top 100 list of the top government contractors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 7982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://we-exist-store.com/which-are-student-loans-how-student-loans-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TYHC4YF4LHMVFXBNK7M2XLS4HVM7LUIJ", "length": 2572, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "we-exist-store.com", "title": "Which are Student Loans? How Student Loans Work? \u2013 We Exist Store", "raw_content": "A student loan is called the cash. However, unlike another type of loans, they are designed in such a way that the rate of interest is significantly diminished on them.\nAs described earlier, pupil loans Are different when compared to another form of loans, however, what makes them unique?\n1. Lower Rates/Interest: As a pupil loan is borrowed by student loans to pay for his or her higher education, they\u2019re regarded since the low-risk kind of loans. That is only because the policies of this government were created in that way in which the cost, as well as the interest of them, remains low. Additionally, the rate of interest remains constant throughout the decades. Furthermore, the interest rate can be subsidized or canceled by the government.\n2. Easy Going: Some of the significant causes student loans would be Essential is the fact that it helps you build credit. Second, it sets you on the ideal path. Now, what matters the most is that 90 percent of student loans may be borrowed with no charge, but others require a decent credit score.\n3. Borrower-friendly: Student Education Loans are known as Borrower-friendly loans as lenders \u2014 government or private associations \u2014 are willing to help just as far while possible. Mostly, the attention is subsidized by the government as a student loans is still registered in the college or university. Thus, once a student is required, he/she has to cover only the actual borrowed amount. Nevertheless, in case, students start facing unemployment, she or he may make an application for unemployment deferment to quit making payments for the time being. Eventually, the loan could be forgiven or canceled after some time determined by occupation status of the student.\nWhat are the types of Student-loans?\nBefore you apply for a student loan, then you might want to get a Little familiar with the forms of loans available. Consequently, we\u2019ve chucked down them for you.\nType1: Federal Loans\nFederal loans are the loans that are offered by the Government of United States of America. They are further split into the next sub-categories:\nPerkins Loan: If applying for student loans, Perkins loan Must be the priority as it\u2019s a fixed-rate loan. But, they are unavailable for everybody. They are given purely by need.\nStafford Loan: Unlike Perkins loan, Stafford loan provides More cash and isn\u2019t confined to for-profit pupils.\nPLUS Loan: Aplus loan goes directly for parents, instead of Student, so that they can cover many different college/university expenses of the child. But they usually take a lifetime to be paid back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wearechange.org/who-is-jeffrey-epstein-convicted-pedophile-child-trafficker-lolita-pedophilia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:L3PM4WLRDKCTRWK5EVRUCAXEUTSGU6K6", "length": 9437, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "wearechange.org", "title": "Who Is Jeffrey Epstein?", "raw_content": "Posted by Ryan Herbison | Jul 17, 2017 |\nHi everybody Jason Burmas here, reporting for WeAreChange.org. Today I am taking an in-depth look at someone that has largely been shrouded in mystery over the last decade. This person is Jeffrey Epstein, and he is the man that is behind the so called Lolita Express. Lolita Express is the name given to his place in the Virgin Islands where he was trafficking young girls. We will be investigating his actions and crimes and look into why he got off so easily.\nThere\u2019s really not a lot known about this guy, so I wanted to do my own little investigation into where he came from and how he got his money. He is rumored to be worth billions, so who is Jeffrey Epstein and how did he get his start? How did he get such a sweetheart deal from both state prosecutors and federal prosecutors alike?\nWhen I began to look into Epstein, I was surprised to find out that there is a nonfiction novel written about him, it\u2019s titled \u201cFilthy Rich.\u201d\nWhat I found most fascinating is that the author of the book James Patterson is a prolific best selling fiction author. Patterson novels are everywhere; he lived in the same Palm Beach neighborhood as Mr. Epstein. He chose to investigate the rumors that he\u2019d followed in the local media. He got another author to help and an investigative journalist to help write this nonfiction novel.\nThis was great source material for me; I couldn\u2019t believe what I was reading as it is the most in-depth expose on Epstein. I found it very odd that this book only gets two or three stars reviews. Usually, this author gets four and five-star reviews. It seems like people may not want you to read this book and with good reason. It goes in depth into Epstein and who he was before this scandal hit.\nI am going to go over some of the details that the book reveals. Epstein doesn\u2019t seem to have earned any university degrees. This despite attending the Cooper Union and then New York University where he studied mathematics and physiology; he seems to be more of a social climber.\nNo one seems to know how he ended up teaching at a wealthy prep school called Dalton. This is where he starts to make big connections, one of whom is Ace Greenberg who gets him a job at Bear Stearns.\nHe spends some time at Bear Stearns and leaves during a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation during the early 1980\u2019s.\nEpstein seems to transition himself, and in the book, they focus on one major deal where he was able to recover invested money for a rather prominent aristocrat out in Spain. Epstein somehow gets that money back, and suddenly he has a portion of it. This seems to be where Epstein finds his calling. Also alluded in the novel is how he begins helping the rich hide their money in tax havens. All we know for sure is that Epstein appears to have made a lot of money.\nEpstein seems to have been with a number of women of age who are very loyal and protective of him. It seems that he can talk to people and build relationships with them. The women he is with say he was nothing but a gentleman.\nHowever, this is before the allegations that take place in the early 2000\u2019s. There is a section in the book where they discuss how Epstein would rarely talk about what he did for a living. He did mention that he worked with governments, now this was often brushed off and may have been a fabrication since he lied about many things.\nWe do know that he had a close relationship with Bill Clinton. His flight records according to Fox News had Clinton on Epstein\u2019s jet at least 26 times by the FAA\u2019s logs alone. That is a lot, and it\u2019s probably much higher than that. Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has stated that Hillary Clinton herself has been to Pedophile Island several times and had her own relationship with Epstein.\nAudio Clip of Eric Prince with Breitbart:\n\u201cIncluding the fact that Hillary went through this sex Island of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times, Hillary at least six times. The amount of garbage that they found in emails of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI and they said we are going to go public with this if you don\u2019t reopen the investigation, if you don\u2019t do the right thing with timely indictments.\u201d\nSo is it that far off to believe that Epstein may have had some government connections. Let us discuss the actual crimes that took place and the ongoing aftermath and where things stand today.\nEpstein was accused of having young girls come to his home and give him erotic massages and more.\nText From Inside Edition Video Clip:\n\u201cShe was the air hostess on board the notorious Lolita Express. The billionaire\u2019s private jet at the center of a sex scandal making lurid headlines across the world. Sleazy Wall Street tycoon Jeffrey Epstein used the Lolita Express to ferry a bevy of beautiful young women, among the passengers former President Bill Clinton and Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew.\u201d\nIn this book, there are actual police interrogations revealed of some of these young girls that were both molested by Epstein and then taught how to groom and procure other young girls. The allegations have these girls as young as 12. The book gives prominence to one girl who is 14 years old, and another who is currently suing Epstein stated she was doing this at 16 and 17 years old. I won\u2019t go into the sordid details, but they\u2019re out there. The amount of evidence gathered, and individuals that came forward was overwhelming with dozens of people on the record.\nText From Video Clip:\n\u201cAfter years of silence, she\u2019s talking about the day she says Jeffrey Epstein paid her for a sensual massage. Jane says she was a sophomore in high school just 15 or 16 years old when someone at her school told her how she could make some quick cash. \u201cWe go to this guy\u2019s house for $200 and give him you know a massage for $200. Basically, it\u2019s an in-and-out thing, it\u2019s a massage you know nothing bad about it.\u201d\nJane says she and a girl her age took a taxi to Epstein\u2019s house on Palm Beach. Jane said an assistant paid the driver and took them into an upstairs room that had a massage table and a shower. That\u2019s when Jane says Epstein walked in completely naked, \u201che jumped in the shower and told me to remove my clothes down to my bra and panties. We both were looking at each other like what are we going to do now.\u201d\nWhen all these things being to be revealed Epstein himself starts to send investigators after his alleged victims, and those in law enforcement that are investigating him. He pleads guilty to one act of soliciting a prostitute and one act of soliciting an underage prostitute, so he is, in fact, a sex offender. Epstein ends up getting this unbelievable sweetheart deal where he serves 18 months, but is only in jail for 12 of those months and is on work release, so he\u2019s spending many of his days in his office.\nMany people were appalled that he was able to get this deal. In the last few weeks the FBI, after ten years has broken their silence, on why Epstein got such a deal. They claimed that they didn\u2019t think the witnesses would hold up in court. It should be noted that the FBI has pulled some very shady dealings especially in other cases involving high-profile alleged sex abuse of children, mainly the Franklin scandal.\nYou will see a lot of corruption within the FBI when you read the books by both John DeCamp and Nick Bryant. I\u2019ll let you guys read that information and depositions for yourselves.\nI may actually be a bit more sympathetic to the FBI since many of the girl\u2019s families had no idea that they were involved in this and many likely did not want the sordid details coming out in court. Many of them also had priors, that would have all come out during a jury trial. The big surprise is that during this \u2018non-prosecution,\u2019 there was a deal made where thirty of his victims were going to get compensation. The FBI probably thought that since Epstein had already settled many lawsuits, that at least the victims would eventually get some kind of financial compensation. They would not have to go through civil court, and they may have felt that it was the best overall win.\nI think the truth probably lies somewhere in between; the bottom line is that compensation never happened. As soon as he got out his lawyers Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, stated that they were not going to pay the victims. There is a civil trial brought against Jeffrey Epstein that begins in August. Whose names are going to be on the case and how far is this going to go. We already know about the Clintons and British Royalty including Prince Andrew. There\u2019s likely going to be additional names mentioned. One of the young women was trying to get Donald Trump as a character witness, but they think they can win the case without him.\nThis is definitely something that we need to keep an eye on, after all, Jeffrey Epstein is still out there. He still owns all these properties, he is not in jail, he\u2019s walking around with beautiful young women today and he still worth a fortune.\nAs always folks, if you like this video and article, please share it on social media. Remember to check out wearechange.org; it\u2019s only through your financial support that reports like this one are possible. Thank you very much.\nPrevious\u201cUs vs. Them\u201d by Cahill vs. Kalma\nNextKeep Private Help With New Video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 13984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wearethecure.org/update-on-dr-trepaniers-bladder-cancer-research-grant-at-university-of-wisconsin-madison/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:VLXKBDSNCOVL6TQRUABCJFNVU6G4DIOD", "length": 1624, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wearethecure.org", "title": "Update on Dr. Trepanier\u2019s Bladder Cancer Research Grant at University of Wisconsin-Madison \u2013 The National Canine Cancer Foundation", "raw_content": "Update on Dr. Trepanier\u2019s Bladder Cancer Research Grant at University of Wisconsin-Madison\nDr Lauren Trepanier, who is heading up National Canine Cancer Foundation research grant on bladder cancer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has discovered a GSTT enzyme that is defective in some dogs. This defective enzyme may not break down cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens) from the environment in a normal way. Carcinogen exposure can occur from the inhalation, ingestion, or absorption of environmental chemicals into our bodies. Carcinogens act on our DNA, causing dangerous changes at the cellular level. This can lead to cancer, involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to spread to other parts of the body.\nDr. Trepanier\u2019s preliminary data is studying Scottie dogs, since they have the highest risk for bladder cancer. Her team has found that Scottie dogs differ in how commonly this defective GSST enzyme is found, compared to other breeds. Dr. Trepanier\u2019s ongoing research will see whether different variations of the GSTT enzyme can effectively break down chemical carcinogens, and find out how GSTT enzyme variations affect the risk of bladder cancer in dogs of all breeds.\nTitles & Education:\nProfessor, Internal Medicine \u2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison\nB.S., The College of William and Mary, 1981\nD.V.M., Cornell University, 1986\nInternship and Residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine, The Animal Medical Center, NY, 1986-1989\nDiplomate, ACVIM, 1991\nPh.D., Pharmacology, Cornell University, 1997\nDiplomate, ACVCP, 1998\nCancer in DogsCanineCanine CancerCanine Cancer ResearchDog Cancer Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://webandseo.co.uk/tag/quality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5R5VXQ55L7BSKCCKQCUITEOGZUII3WYW", "length": 903, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "webandseo.co.uk", "title": "Quality \u2013 Web Design and SEO company in London", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged Quality\nHome \u2192 Tag: Quality\nWhy Quality Content on Websites Matters\nOn April 21, 2016 / Web Design\nToday small businesses are doing a lot to stamp their authority in different markets. It is not alien to find that a good number of these small businesses invest in affordable web design. A good website says a lot about the business it is advertising. Content on\nSolid Advice On How To Create Good Quality Web Design\nMaking a website can be both scary and exciting! How can you figure out what you need to do and how to do it? By following the tips presented here, you will be able to set off in the right direction from the start. A good website\nDo you have enough of a budget to cover the costs of a professional web design company? The money you pay might not even ensure you get the site you want. It\u2019s very difficult to articulate what sort of website you want to build. You\u2019re the only", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whatukthinks.org/eu/terms-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOPKITC6VIDSEQ6ECMVQJO66SW5RIL3Y", "length": 2115, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "whatukthinks.org", "title": "Terms & Conditions \u2013 What UK Thinks: EU", "raw_content": "This website is provided for information purposes only. NatCen makes every effort to ensure that the information is accurate and up-to-date. However, we cannot guarantee the completeness and accuracy of the information shown. Anyone using the website and acting on information published on it does so at their own risk. 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Links are provided only as a convenience and do not imply any endorsement by NatCen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiki.zfin.org/display/jobs/2018/01/09/PhD+Position+-+Cologne%2C+Germany", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DLWHYYQU3PHDTDKY5HYSKXZGXE5GNPXJ", "length": 2310, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "wiki.zfin.org", "title": "PhD Position - Cologne, Germany - Jobs - ZFIN Community Wiki", "raw_content": "PhD Position studying zebrafish energy homeostasis in Cologne, Germany\nI am looking for a highly motivated student interested in pursuing a Ph.D. investigating the basic biology of energy homeostasis in zebrafish.\nDecades of research have provided us with a good grasp of the basic biology and endocrinology of how mammals utilize energy obtained from food. However, while the basic building blocks are conserved across all vertebrates, their functional consequences appear to vary between species. For example, while mutations in Leptin or it\u2019s receptor in mammals leads to morbid obesity, zebrafish do not share this phenotype. The successful candidate will join a junior, independent research group in continuation of work from the Roger Cone lab (University of Michigan) and in collaboration with the Matthias Hammerschmidt lab at the Cologne Biocenter of the University of Cologne in Germany. The research will focus on the phenotypes and underlying mechanisms of a collection of mutant and transgenic zebrafish lines around the leptin and melanocortin signaling systems. I am looking for highly motivated candidates with a solid foundation in genetics, molecular biology and / or animal behavior. Previous experience with zebrafish is desired but not mandatory.\nThe Cologne Biocenter offers an excellent scientific environment for conducting research. In the last round of the German Excellence Initiative Competition of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the University of Cologne has been awarded the status of a \u201cUniversity of Excellence\u201d, and we are associated with the Excellence Cluster for Ageing-associated Diseases (CECAD) and the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (DMMC). The Cologne Biocenter is located in the center of Cologne, a vibrant and multicultural city at the heart of Germany.\nThe University of Cologne is an equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity supporting employer. Handicapped persons will be given preference to other equally qualified applicants. Applications from women are particularly welcome and will be preferred in case of equal qualification and capacity.\nTo apply, please email your detailed CV, research interests and names of two to three references to\nmmichel8@uni-koeln.de\n{\"serverDuration\": 47, \"requestCorrelationId\": \"dd43387db56a19c2\"}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiki.zfin.org/display/jobs/2018/01/12/FACULTY+POSITIONS%2C+Biology+-+NYU+Abu+Dhabi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:58Z", "digest": "sha1:S5FZSP2OE73ISRB5ZNSJV7F4VP5UKU2Y", "length": 3656, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "wiki.zfin.org", "title": "FACULTY POSITIONS, Biology - NYU Abu Dhabi - Jobs - ZFIN Community Wiki", "raw_content": "New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi is in a multi-year phase of growth. As such, the University\u2019s\nProgram in Biology invites applications for a faculty position as lecturer, non-tenure track, with the rank\nopen, depending on experience. Candidates are expected to be inspirational teachers and mentors to\nundergraduate students, which is a hallmark of the University\u2019s mission. The successful candidate will\ninstruct laboratory-based courses in biology and contribute to the Foundations of Science series, which is\nan integrated science experience for undergraduates, that fuses fundamental concepts of chemistry, physics\nand biology. A demonstrable ability to think creatively about teaching and to work as an effective member\nof a teaching team are required. Opportunities for professional development are available.\nNYU Abu Dhabi is located on Saadiyat Island, the cultural centerpiece of Abu Dhabi. Successful candidates\nwill find a vibrant teaching environment that includes supportive and highly motivated colleagues. Faculty\nhave open access to state-of-the-art core technology platforms that are institutionally supported and staffed\nby experts, and are open for developing novel approaches to teaching lab-based courses. These include (1)\na fully equipped microscopy facility that houses confocal and stimulated emission depletion (STED) superresolution\nmicroscopes, scanning and transmission electron and atomic force microscopes, and combined\nconfocal Raman atomic force resolution and scanning near-field optical microscopy (AFM SNOM); (2)\nprotein expression and purification facilities; (3) advanced DNA sequencing facilities; (4) equipment for\nspectroscopic, thermal and chemical analysis, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass\nspectrometers; and (5) high performance computing facilities with more than 6,400 computing cores and a\npeak performance of 70 TFLOPS.\nThe terms of employment are highly competitive. Appointments, which are dependent on final budgetary\napproval, can begin as soon as September 1, 2018, but later start dates are possible. Review of applications\nwill begin February 1, 2018 and continue until the position is filled. To be considered, applicants should\nsubmit a complete curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching interests not to exceed four pages that includes\na reflection on how their research experience will impact their teaching, and identify three individuals for\nletters of reference. Please visit http://nyuad.nyu.edu/human.resources/open.positions.html for instructions\nand other information on how to apply. Questions should be directed via e-mail to nyuad.science@nyu.edu.\nNYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science\nundergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu\nDhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU\u2019s global network university,\nan interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable\nseamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly\nactivity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the\nintellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and\nmulticultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD\nserves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through\nits academic, research, and creative activities.\n{\"serverDuration\": 51, \"requestCorrelationId\": \"7f0eb6838ec49cd5\"}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 5505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wildwood365.blogspot.com/2018/09/decision-to-retire-flitzer-outlined-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:PPVMZYAGV543NG3DRGD4ALJ5BA5XTYI3", "length": 2838, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wildwood365.blogspot.com", "title": "Wildwood 365: Decision to retire the Flitzer outlined in letter from Morey's Piers", "raw_content": "Decision to retire the Flitzer outlined in letter from Morey's Piers\nWildwood social media has been abuzz since yesterday afternoon, when Morey's Piers announced its decision to retire the popular Flitzer roller coaster (but not before honoring it with a farewell party on September 23).\nThis evening, in an open letter posted on its official website, the thought process behind the decision to remove the venerable coaster was explained.\nYou can read the entire message HERE. And please do!\nA few thoughts from our end...\nIt's not surprising, given the age of the Flitzer (it was installed at Surfside Pier in 1983, but was built in 1969) that its operational lifespan has come to an end. Few rides of its size - or any other, really - make it to the 50-year mark. This isn't to say that it's not a sad occasion. The coaster's popularity has endured over the years, affording it the rare opportunity to become a ride beloved by several generations of riders.\nWhat isn't surprising in the least is the care with which Morey's Piers has handled the announcement of the Flitzer's retirement, and the subsequent chance for the Morey family (literal and extended) to honor the many memories it afforded later this month. That's a really cool thing when you stop and think about it. In an age when it often feels like history is too easily disregarded and tossed away, this marks the third time that Morey's Piers has held a special event to give a cherished attraction a proper send-off (the Golden Nugget Mine Ride and Wipeout Slide were previously honored in 2009 and 2010, respectively).\nToward the end of the letter, there are a few interesting notes. The statement \"recent social media posts are a reminder of just how many of our guests have been a part of this journey along the way,\" rings particularly true, in a number of ways. It again highlights the Flitzer's popularity and longevity, as well as the fact that Morey's Piers and the Wildwoods became synonymous entities long ago (Morey's will officially celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2019).\nIt's also a nod to one of the traits that makes visitors and fans of the Wildwoods so unique - their (re: YOUR) passion!\nWhether it's lamenting the removal of a beloved attraction or the closing of a favorite restaurant, debating which motel is the best, or who serves up the best slice of pizza on the Boardwalk, there's never a shortage of opinions and, in all sincerity, we know that that stems from a place of love.\n(It's one of the reasons why we do what we do!)\nLastly, well, we're all big fans and fun-seekers in the end, and as one big Wildwood community, we're always looking for the slightest clue as to what the Moreys are up to next.\nWere some potential future plans alluded to in the letter? Be sure to read to the end, and judge for yourself!\n- Al & the Wildwood 365 Team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilmingtonoh.org/government/public-records-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MKBHLG7O7QYLETOJHC2I3VNXGTQCEFT2", "length": 12310, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "wilmingtonoh.org", "title": "\u00bb Public Records Policy", "raw_content": "Marian Miller, Clerk of Council\nPublic Record Custodian\n(937) 382-5458 or email.\nThe City of Wilmington maintains many records that are used in the administration and operation of the City. In accordance with State law, the City of Wilmington Records Commission has adopted a schedule of records retention and disposition that identify these records and this schedule is available in the Mayor\u2019s office. This schedule lists generally the types of records that are stored on a fixed medium (paper, computer, film, etc.) that are created, received, or sent under the jurisdiction of the City and document the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the City. The records maintained by the City and the ability to access them are means to provide trust between the public and the City.\nCustodian of Public Records; When available\nThe Clerk of Council is the official Public Records Custodian of all records which are centrally maintained by the City. Department heads are the official custodians of all records maintained within their departments. Public records requests may be made directly to Department heads or through the Public Records Custodian. Requests for records from the police department may be made directly to the police records clerk on the first floor of the City Building.\nPublic records requests will be accommodated during regular business hours when offices maintaining said records are open for business. Public records requests will not be accepted on weekends or holidays.\nPublic records include the following: Any document \u2013 paper, electronic (including, but not limited to, e-mail), or other format \u2013 that is created or received by, or comes under the jurisdiction of a public office that documents the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the office. All records of the City of Wilmington are public unless they are specifically exempt from disclosure under the Ohio Revised Code or Federal law.\nIt is the policy of the City of Wilmington that records will be organized and maintained so that they are readily available for inspection and copying.\nEach request for public records should be evaluated for a response using the following guidelines:\nAlthough no specific language is required to make a request, the requester must at least identify the records requested with sufficient clarity to allow the public office to identify, retrieve, and review the records. If it is not clear what records are being sought, the Public Records Custodian must contact the requester for clarification, and should assist the requestor in revising the request by informing the requestor of the manner in which the office keeps its records.\nThe Public Records Custodian may ask the requester to put a verbal request in writing, may ask for the requester to give identifying information, or may inquire about the intended use of the information; but a written request is not mandatory, identifying information is not required and the intended use does not have to be disclosed. However, providing such information would benefit the requester by enhancing the ability of the Public Records Custodian to identify, locate and deliver the public records requested. Some Departments have forms that the requester has the option of using in making the request.\nPublic records can be accessed by one of the following methods: a request to view public records in person; a request for copies of public records that the requester will personally pick up from the Public Records Custodian; or a request for copies of public records that the requester wants to have mailed or otherwise transmitted to the requester.\nPublic records must be made available for inspection promptly. Copies of public records must be made available within a reasonable period of time. \u201cPrompt\u201d and \u201creasonable\u201d take into account the volume of records requested; the proximity of the location where the records are stored; and the necessity for any legal review of the records requested.\nRequest to view public records. The requester may make a request to view public records. The Public Records Custodian shall prepare the public records for inspection \u201cpromptly,\u201d as required by the Ohio Revised Code. The actual time required to comply with the request may depend on the circumstances (such as the location of the records, the manner kept or the volume of records requested).\nCopies of public records. The requester may make a request to the Public Records Custodian to have copies of public records made.\nTransmitting copies of public records. A requester may request that copies of public records be transmitted to him or her by U.S. Mail or by any other means of transmission that is available and is conducive to transmitting the public records. The cost of transmission must be paid by the requester before the public records will be provided. While the City is under no obligation to provide records in electronic format, it is the policy of the City to provide information to the public in the most practical and convenient manner, considering all of the circumstances. Therefore, if the City receives a request for information to be made available in an electronic format, such request will be forwarded to the Public Records Custodian for a determination as to whether such information will be generated and released in an electronic format.\nEach request should be evaluated for an estimated length of time required to gather the records. Routine requests for records should be satisfied immediately if feasible to do so. Routine requests include, but are not limited to, meeting minutes (both in draft and final form), budgets, salary information, forms and applications, personnel rosters, etc. If fewer than 20 pages of copies are requested or if the records are readily available in an electronic format that can be e-mailed or downloaded easily, these should be made as quickly as the equipment allows.\nAll requests for public records must either be satisfied or be acknowledged in writing by the public office within three business days following the office\u2019s receipt of the request. If a request is deemed significantly beyond \u201croutine,\u201d such as seeking a voluminous number of copies or requiring extensive research, the acknowledgement must include the following:\nSection 2.4a \u2013 An estimated number of business days it will take to satisfy the request.\nSection 2.4b \u2013 An estimated cost if copies are requested.\nSection 2.4c \u2013 Any items within the request that may be exempt from disclosure.\nAny denial of public records requested must include an explanation, including legal authority. If portions of a record are public and portions are exempt, the exempt portions are to be redacted and the rest released. If there are redactions, each redaction must be accompanied by a supporting explanation, including legal authority.\nThose seeking public records will be charged only the actual cost of making copies or printing pictures and shall also pay the actual cost (e.g. postage) of delivery and other supplies used in mailing, delivery or transmission of the public record. Payment for public records requests may be required prior to the actual copying or printing of records.\nCopies made on letter or legal size paper are $0.05 per page. If the Public Records Custodian uses an outside copying service to make the copies, the requester will be required to pay the cost of the entire copying job, as billed by the copying service. Copies that are requested in some format other than normal letter or legal paper will be \u201cat cost,\u201d without taking into account employee time spent preparing the copies. (For example, public records in electronic format placed on a CD will be assessed the cost of the CD, plus the cost, if any, of creating the electronic copies.)\nPublic records will only be copied by the Public Records Custodian or other authorized officers, employees or representatives. The Public Records Custodian may use an outside copying service to make the copies, at the Public Records Custodian\u2019s discretion. Under no circumstances will the requester be permitted to make the copies himself or herself. The manner of copying is at the discretion of the Public Records Custodian. Requests to copy a certain number of public records on a given page, by \u201creducing\u201d copy size or otherwise, may be met at the discretion of the Public Records Custodian.\nIndividual departments may adopt a policy that if fewer than 10 pages of copies are requested, no fee will be charged. All requests exceeding 10 pages will be charged a fee of $0.05 per page for all pages copied. No receipt will be required to be issued for payments received of less than $1.00.\nOhio law may provide for specific fees to be charged for certain records (e.g. police accident reports $4.00 each, with photographs at an additional cost, pursuant to R.C. \u00a75502.12).\nSection 4. Denial of a Public Records Request\nUnder certain circumstances, records are not defined as \u201cpublic records\u201d under Ohio law or are exempt from disclosure under federal law. In these situations, the public record request will be denied on that basis. The Ohio Revised Code requires that any denial be supported by legal authority. A denial that is responding to a written public records request will also be given in writing. Written reasons for denial will not be required for verbal public records requests. Any denial of public records requested must include an explanation, including legal authority. If portions of a record are public and portions are exempt, the exempt portions are to be redacted and the rest released. If there are redactions, each redaction must be accompanied by a supporting explanation, including legal authority, unless federal or state law authorized or requires the redaction.\nThe Ohio Revised Code regards certain actions as being \u201cdenials\u201d of public record requests. These situations are handled as follows:\nRedaction. The Ohio Revised Code defines a \u201credaction\u201d as \u201cobscuring or deleting any information that is exempt from the duty to permit public inspection or copying from an item that otherwise meets the definition of a \u2018record\u2019 in section 149.011 of the Revised Code.\u201d Examples of redaction are \u201cblacking out\u201d or \u201cwhiting out\u201d or \u201ccutting out\u201d portions of a document.\nWhen a public record contains information that is not within the definition of a \u201cpublic record\u201d as defined by law, or is exempt by law, the Public Records Custodian will make available that portion of the public record that does meet the definition of a \u201cpublic record.\u201d The Public Records Custodian shall make a copy of the public record, perform the redaction, then make a copy of that sheet and make the second copy available to the requester. The requester will not be charged for the first copy made. If practical, the first copy will be retained by the Public Records Custodian.\nRequests that are ambiguous, overly broad, or are difficult to identify the public records requested. At times, a requester may make a public records request from which the Public Records Custodian cannot determine which public records are being sought. In such circumstances, the Public Records Custodian will inform the requester that the public records request is denied, but will give the requester an opportunity to more accurately describe the public records sought. If the requester is seeking public records organized in a certain way, but the public records are not organized in that way, the Public Records Custodian will inform the requester of the manner that the public records of the office under discussion are maintained and accessed. The requester may then submit a public records request that more accurately reflects the actual organization of the public records sought.\nSection 5. Compliance\nThe Public Records Custodian reserves the right to consult with legal counsel prior to the release of any public records. This is to allow the City to comply with laws regarding the release of certain records.\nThe City of Wilmington recognizes the legal and non-legal consequences of failure to properly respond to a public records request. A public office\u2019s failure to comply with a request may result in remedies and damages according to R.C. 149.43.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 15140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wkup.org/gross-national-happiness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Z44EAF5VIDCDF6MWT5SUPED2XC73A2CR", "length": 27184, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "wkup.org", "title": "Gross National Happiness | Wake Up International", "raw_content": "Home Sharings Dharma Gross National Happiness\nTalk and Q & A with Dr. Ha Vinh Tho\n(Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village Tradition, Program Coordinator at the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan)\n// TALK //\nThere is a potential to create relationship with what\u2019s going on in Bhutan and the Wake Up movement. We share common interests and practices. Hopefully this is a beginning of cooperation with young people in Bhutan and the Wake Up movement.\nI will walk you through certain aspects of GNH in the light of Buddhist teachings; I will try to make it as practical and concrete as I can.\nWhy GNH? Why do we need to approach the economy and the social system differently than we have done until now?\nWe can understand the need for a new economic paradigm in the light of the Four Noble Truths, from the first teachings of Buddha:\nFirst Noble Truth: Suffering\nThis has to do with having courage to acknowledge the suffering in ourselves and outside ourselves. Difficulty of acknowledging suffering around us is that it could create despair, discouragement and anger. It is important that we have the courage to look directly at the suffering in our own mind and in the world and yet not get overwhelmed by it but, on the contrary, that it becomes a source of energy to transform suffering into Compassion and Understanding.\nThree numbers to describe the suffering:\n1 million \u2013 the number of people that take their own lives every year. Most of them are young people. The majority of them come from rich, affluent countries. There are more young people that take their lives every year than those that die from war. I have traveled to so many countries that are war-ridden and seen a lot of war and suffering. When I realized that more young people from rich countries are taking their lives than in war, it was a shocking realization for me. This is the first number and it points to the suffering that individuals go through and it speaks of the meaninglessness of some lives.\n2.5 billion \u2013 the number of people living underneath the poverty line on this earth today. Technology, science and progress have created more wealth than ever before, and yet 2.5 billion people live below the poverty line. These people are at any time in danger of not having food or water. We are not speaking about the ones who do not have access to comfort but of the ones who lack basic resources.\n1.5 \u2013 the amount of earth we are using every year. The earth needs 18 months to produce what we consume in 12 months. We are using 1.5 planets, but we only have 1 earth.\nThese three figures have to do with suffering on personal level, social level and planetary level. Why then GNH? We need to promote a different approach to economic development and progress; one that really puts the human being and his happiness in the centre of all policies to address these issues and transform suffering and offer alternatives on all three levels.\nIt has to begin with personal level, transformation of the self. But it needs to have an impact on all levels: my immediate surrounding family and friends, then on the society at large, and finally on the planet. It is important to always keep in mind the need for this multilevel transformation process. The crucial question is: how do we approach transformation of suffering on all levels; Individual, immediate surrounding, country, and the way we live on planet earth?\nWe start with the diagnostic so we can identify the suffering. So far, I\u2019ve identified it from the outer perspective. But what each one has to do for himself or herself is to look honestly inward and figure out; what is my own suffering, what is my own confusion, and how does my own suffering contribute to the suffering of the world?\nWe then move on to the Second Noble Truth:\nSecond Noble Truth: Identifying the causes of suffering\nThere are inner causes and outer causes. We need to look at both simultaneously. Many of the social movements we have seen in the recent past try to address the outer causes and often forget the inner causes of suffering. Many of you have seen the calligraphy by Th\u00e2y: \u201cThere no way to happiness, happiness is the way\u201d. I think this is a crucial point. We cannot reach happiness by adding more suffering, fear or anger. We need to find peace in ourselves to bring about outer transformation.\nThere are three causes of suffering (The three poisons of the mind):\n1. Ignorance. The Sanskrit word \u201cAvidya\u201d literally means absence of light, of wisdom, of understanding. This is fundamentally the illusion that one can attain happiness while making others suffer. This is ignoring the reality of interdependence of the world. The need to destroy others to be the best, the richest. This is the illusion of separate self; that my happiness can come from disregarding completely the suffering of others. Awakening, enlightenment is the act of shedding the light of mindfulness on the reality of interdependence of life. Your happiness is my happiness. Your wellbeing is my wellbeing. This is wisdom, understanding (Prajna in Sanskrit).\n2. Greed. Gandhi famously said \u2018the earth could produce enough to satisfy all her children\u2019s needs, but not all the people\u2019s greed.\u2018 There is enough food to feed every single human being on the planet. The problem is not that we don\u2019t have enough \u2013 it is that we don\u2019t distribute properly. Some of us take so much and do not share, and do not care that others suffer. Imagine having a birthday cake and I take 80% of the cake, and all others have to share the 20%. This is exactly what the West is doing. The West is taking up 80% of the earth\u2019s resources.\nWhen I honestly look at myself \u2013 why am I getting greedy, why do I feel compelled to buy more, to consume more? Deep down it is triggered by a feeling that there is a vacuum in me; that I am not quite fulfilled, I am not quite complete. I hope this experience, this object will make me complete, will somehow overcome this feeling of dissatisfaction.\nSo, consumerism is the result, not the cause of the problem. But on the other hand, consumerism is one of the major causes for the depletion of the natural resources of the earth. The deeper cause is the lack of meaning in our lives, the lack of purpose. So we buy things to fulfill that void. The satisfaction I get from getting a new thing is very short-lived. Still, I find myself falling into the trap again of wanting a new item- each one has his own favorite thing. Greed is very powerful, and our society is geared towards strengthening greed. The whole marketing/advertising business is trying to convince us that greed is good because it enables growth. And growth is what the economy needs. If you consume, you are a good citizen because it promotes growth and the economy will be well off. This is the way things have been for decades, and we recognize it has not brought happiness. Yet it has been difficult to overcome this want for more.\nI believe the worst is when it manifests on the human level \u2013 we find it difficult to create true relationships, long-term relationships, true friendship and true love. The other person is used to bring me fulfillment, and I don\u2019t actually acknowledge him or her. The other person is considered as an object to fulfill my own needs. This seems to work for a short time, but when things get boring, we jump to the next person, the next experience, just the way we move from one object to the next. Until we look seriously into what it is we are looking for, it is difficult to create a long lasting meaningful relationship. So I dare to say that Lisi and I have been together for over 40 years now \u2013 it was not always been easy and simple but it was a relationship based on values, common commitments, ideals, and the understanding that her happiness is the key to my own happiness and vice versa. I\u2019m not saying this to look good, just saying this as a testimony that it is possible and if we could do it, you can do it too.\nIf our greed becomes less because our mindfulness grows stronger, purpose, morality, we consume less. Statistically, each of us has to consume 1/3 less. If each of us does that, the earth can survive. So it is not by consuming more that we will become more happy, it is by being happier that we will consume less, and therefore lessen the pressure on the environment.\n3. Violence. Hatred, aggression. It starts with negative, aggressive thoughts, that become violent words, then manifest into violent actions. Mind, speech and action escalating to wars. We see that our governments are spending hundreds and hundreds of billion dollars every year on weapons. Weapons are a physical manifestation of fear and aggression. If I have no fear, I have no aggression. If I have no aggression, I don\u2019t need weapons. If we could reduce our fear by a fraction, we could reduce the money we use on weapons; we could use the money to feed all the hungry children in the world. We cannot reduce fear and aggression in the world until we reduce it within ourselves. Most of us have not killed, but all of us have the seed of violence. We probably have had violent thoughts and even spoke violent words to others. We sometimes think it is legitimate to say violent things. This is the seed of violence that can grow to become guns, to bombs. We must start by transforming the violence that is in our own mind.\nThis allows us to look at the third noble truth.\nThird Noble Truth \u2013 State beyond suffering\nThere is a state beyond suffering. It is important for us to realize that this state is not such a far away world that we can only reach after 99 years of meditation in a cave. It is readily available and we can create it. I would like to emphasize the collective dimension here. It is not only about myself overcoming my own suffering on my own, it is about creating a community, a society, that is conducive to generating Mindfulness and Happiness. You have heard about the mindful practices required for the achievement of happiness. But I would like to emphasize the community, the collective.\nHan has visited us in Vietnam \u2013 the Peaceful Bamboo Family (s. Eurasia Association) is such a place where all kinds of people, \u2018normal\u2019 and with disabilities, young and old, people from all kinds of backgrounds can live together in harmony. It is nowhere near perfect, but it is a community that is committed towards this goal of living in harmony. Plum Village is also a place where not only people try to live in harmony, but is dedicated to teaching how to do so.\n// QUESTIONS & ANSWERS //\nWhat is GNH?\nIt is an effort to create the conditions that enable for a community to live in harmony, not only in a small scale, but on a nationwide scale. And this is the innovative dimension on GNH. To promote a practice and a lifestyle that is centered on the deeper needs of people, all beings and the planet. And we need to promote an economic system that is based on these values because the economy plays a major role, so if we do not change the economy, we cannot change life and society.\nIs it easy? No. Is it a success? Not yet. You can\u2019t say Bhutan has achieved it, but Bhutan is on the path. And by being on the path, it is showing the world that there is an alternative option to an economy based on competition and greed. An economy centered on ethical values and respectful of our planet.\nAt the GNH Center, we are trying to create such a place, where GNH can be experienced. We want to offer people an environment that is permeated by these values, the way we build the centre in a fully ecological way, the way we run it in an environmental friendly manner, the way we practice together so that people have a transformative experience and bring this experience back into their own communities. We hope that by and by there will be GNH Centers in many places on earth.\nWhat is the way to transform suffering into happiness?\nWisdom. Knowledge of Self: Prajna. The power to turn our mindfulness inward and understand our own mind and the way we function in order to transform it. And then applying these insights into our daily lives. Buddhism is a path of liberation through understanding. This understanding must be manifested into the way I speak, the way I act, the way I deal with friends and family, the choices that I make in my life.\nDiscipline, the practice: Sila. If we take our understanding seriously, we need to put it into action in our every day lives. I suppose many of you have taken the 5 mindfulness training and that is a good basis for an ethical life. GNH is the effort to find this global ethics on a national level. We look at the way the government functions, the way the society functions in the light of mindfulness, of ethical values.\nMindfulness, Concentration, Meditation: Samadhi. These are the tools that we are given to enable us to go though the transformation process. If we practice mindfulness and meditation daily, our understanding grows, and our practice grows. We need to transform from both sides, inner and outer. There is a need to change our environment that is conducive to the transformation. We need to take steps, bold steps to go through with it.\nI would like to share with you my personal experience. I used to work with ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross). I decided to change work, and got 2 offers simultaneously. One was from a big power company in France. One of the directors told me that there is so much suffering in the employees, and he would like to change that. Good salary \u2013 $20,000/month, free house, etc. This was quite tempting. I would be helping 160,000 employees and make the most amount of money I ever had.\nAnd then I got another offer from the GNH Centre \u2013 the salary was a third of what I used to make, a fraction of what was being offered by the electric company. I had a moral dilemma: the French company is running 150 nuclear power plants, and I have always been ecologically engaged, and working for this company was going against my morals. So I decided to go to Bhutan.\nLooking at this from a purely material perspective, this was a huge sacrifice. My buying power dropped considerably, but it was a boost for my mental well-being. Material wealth and mental well-being are very different things. This choice brings me much more happiness; to be aligned with my values and morals and having the feeling that I can contribute (even though modestly) to the happiness of all beings brings me a deep satisfaction.\nThis is to convey to you that it is not difficult to make the right choices \u2013 it just takes a little courage. It is so rewarding that you would not regret these choices.\nGoing back to GNH \u2013 I was asked:\nI don\u2019t think there is a definition, I don\u2019t think there needs to be one. Happiness is an experience. If you have the right practice, surround yourself with the right people, create an healthy environment, then you experience happiness; then you reflect on what made you happy and you come to a deeper understanding. When I look at myself and my life and what made me truly happy, it is not difficult to identify the causes of my happiness.\nHappiness can be three things:\nState of mind/emotion \u2013 which is temporary, more pleasure than happiness.\nTrait or character \u2013 an optimistic person who seems happier, satisfied with life, and this is more trait of character often connected with childhood experiences and karma.\nHappiness as a skill \u2013 This is the most important; because it is a skill, you can cultivate it, learn it and spread it. This is what I\u2019m interested in, that happiness can be learned and cultivated. For example, compassion is a key element to happiness and if I look back at my own life, and when I had the opportunity to alleviate suffering of others, simple things to big things, both bring me as much happiness. Compassion doesn\u2019t only manifest when we can do big things. It can be manifested modestly. Compassion is a very important aspect of happiness. Everything that we do to bring happiness to others is a source of happiness to self.There was an interesting study done recently. A group of people got money to do what they want with it. They then followed up with the people who got the money and how they felt about it. All the people who spent it on themselves had lost the satisfaction rapidly; but the people who did something for others with the money had a much longer lasting happiness. So there is a lot of research on happiness \u2013 psychological, sociological and economical. I was at a meeting where many researchers shared their research and I can share that with you. But, don\u2019t take my word for it \u2013 look back and try to really see what the causes of not just short lasting pleasure but long lasting happiness, and share those experiences.\nIf we are speaking of GNH, we are speaking of something more comprehensive than the passing emotions people feel. There is the World Happiness Report you can find online (by Jeffery Sachs and Lord Layard).\nHappiness Measurement in GNH is a mix of objective and subjective factors. Objective measures include dimensions like health, education, community vitality, natural environment and more. But we should not underestimate the subjective factors of psychological well-being, and find the mix of the two. For example, some of you wear glasses. You go to the optometrist, then he will show you the letters and will ask you if you to see better or worse with different glasses. Your answers can be described as subjective, he has to take your word for it but they are objective enough so that you can get a pair of glasses that work. So don\u2019t think only hard, material quantitative evidence can be used as scientific evidence.\nI won\u2019t go into the 9 domains and the 72 indicators of GNH. I will instead send you links on what they are. When you read up, you can see how the measurement is done. It is scientific, it is not wishy-washy.\nhttp://www.2apr.gov.bt\nhttp://www.gnhcentrebhutan.org\nWhat are the four pillars of GNH?\nFirst pillar: Sustainable development. The economic development should directly be connected with the preservation of the environment. As soon as you realize happiness includes happiness of every other organism and mother earth, there is no way to get around sustainable development. It is an economic paradigm that enables the conservation of the environment. But it also includes a fair distribution of resourses.\nSecond Pillar: Preservation of the Environment. Bhutan is the first country in the world to go 100% organic. This is a concrete example of sustainable development. It is possible. Don\u2019t believe those who say you need fertilizers and GMOs in order to feed the world.\nThird Pillar: Preservation and Promotion of Culture and Spirituality. Happiness strongly depends on cultural values and practices. One of the indicators is time use. People in developed countries have higher standard of living, but less time for family and friends.\nFourth Pillar: Good Governance. This is a political pillar. How do we promote a government that puts the right things in priority? This is our responsibility as a citizen to choose the right government. The goal is to create happiness and well-being. These are the basics and I will send you the links to the details.\nQ1 // Simon Question on the noble truths of Buddha. Another cause of suffering in myself is that when you are confronted with suffering of the world, that makes me panic and want to fix it right away. I am very interested in how you can react to this kind of data in a peaceful way.\nA: I grew up during the time of the Vietnam War. Although I am partly Vietnamese, I was mostly not in Vietnam during the war and saw it from outside. I joined the peace movement and was engaged politically and I was very angry. I was looking at the news and saw the bombs and people dying. I joined the left-wing political party that was promoting a change through violence against the current system. I tried that for a while, but it did not have a positive influence.\nI then went to India \u2013 to Nepal, and had some kind of spiritual experience when I was lost in the mountains alone; I thought I was going to die out there. I got very upset and angry, felt unjust that I was going to die such a stupid death, then I was in despair, cried, felt pity for myself. Then, I had a breakthrough experience. I came to a moment of acceptance. Suddenly the environment was no longer hostile. I felt oneness with the world. Shortly after I came to inner tranquility and peace, an old man passed by and showed me to the next village. That was the first experience.\nA second one happened in Israel in a military camp. I had been visiting prisoners all morning. I was exhausted. There is a lot of suffering and maltreatment in military prisons. I felt a lot of compassion for the prisoners and felt angry with the soldiers. I stepped outside and a soldier came out to talk to me because he heard I spoke French. After talking for a little bit, he asked me \u2013 do you think I am bad? I suddenly realized that I was unable to see the human being beyond the uniform and machine gun. This boy was younger than my son. As a practicing Buddhist, I judged the function and the uniform and I had not been able to see through the outer appearance.\nWhy do I share these two experiences? Because these are moments when the negative feelings arise as a consequence of feeling separated, cut off from the situation. As if these experiences as if they were outside of me, having nothing to do with me \u2013 be it hostile nature and the hostile soldier. But if you go deep in these situations, not judging too fast and touching the place of oneness, you can no longer feel anger but compassion. Things are the way they are around me because of what exists inside of me.\nOn one hand, it is quite normal and natural that we get shocked and angry. On the other hand if we realize the non-duality between me and the world we get relieved because we understand that we have the power to change our own mind and thereby, to change the world. I can always have an impact on the world because I can change something that is inside of myself \u2013 my actions, my words, my thoughts; therefore I can change the world as soon as I can do something about it. I am not in despair anymore. And, if I add anger, despair to a situation that is already difficult, then I am adding to the suffering to the world.\nAs a young man my spontaneous reaction to the war was anger and I joined the leftist group, but I realized that anger was not a path to peace. We have to find concrete specific place, small steps at a time where to begin the work of transformation. When my wife and I went to Vietnam, we had nothing, and we started modestly. It\u2019s important to have the big picture, but no matter how small, concrete actions will grow and bear fruit. If you are in an organization helping hundred thousands of people, you are helping one person at a time, one hundred thousand times. So helping one person is as good as helping many.\nTwo things we should never forget:\n1. If we can transform our selves, we can change the world\n2. There is always someone you can help\nEnergy of anger can be necessary because it shows that you care, that you are not indifferent; but this energy has to be transformed. If it remains anger, it doesn\u2019t change anything. Channel this energy into something positive and you can bring happiness to the world.\nQ2 // Matthias How do you present this to people to other belief systems?\nA: I presented to you in Buddhist terms because I was aware I was speaking to people interested in a Buddhist approach. GNH is deeply inspired by Buddhist principles, but it is usually presented in neutral terms, in a non-religious way. You can present the four pillars in a way that is totally accessible to non-Buddhist.\nI was at a meeting in NYC with high level scholars and hardly any were Buddhist. Second day was at the UN; Bhutan had presented GNH a little while ago and 68 states has already signed support for the concept, mostly not Buddhist. So don\u2019t think GNH can only be presented in Buddhist terms. It can be presented in other terms. GNH Centre is looking into convening a meeting with people from all different religions and non-religions to see the values and principles they have in common. The aim is to try and look at the economy \u2013 GNH is first to promote an economy that is good to people, all sentient beings and the planet. It is not limited to Buddhism. It is interesting to see that scientists, politicians, economists are all interested in GNH and are not Buddhists.\nQ3 // Sander In the Netherlands, we have a new political party called \u2018The Party for Happiness\u2019. I am getting tired of politics. Relationship between Buddhism, GNH and politics. What is your vision on it?\nA: Do you know the 14 Mindful Training? Yes \u2013 I would recommend you to study the 14 Mindful Trainings. You will see that it is a manifesto of socially engaged Buddhism. So politics has almost become a dirty word because people who are practicing it are practicing it in non-ethical ways. But Politics is noble because it is about serving your community, how do you do it in the right way? The GNH Centre is trying to do politics in the right way \u2013 serving people in the right way. For me, there is no contradiction between Buddhist values and politics or spiritual values and politics. What we need to avoid is political games. If we can manage to realize that real politics is something very noble, then we don\u2019t need to be afraid of politics. We just need to stay away from power games for egotistic interest of certain groups. Politics is noble, but has to be reinvented. I can only encourage young people to join real politics, acting to serve the community. True Buddhism has political impact, but no political games.\nQ4 // Collin If you are trying to increase GNH \u2013 what is the most effective action you can take nationwide?\nA: GNH has to be implemented from 2 sides: bottom up and top down. Great thing about Bhutan is that it has enlightened leaders who are trying to implement GNH. In Bhutan, top down is stronger than bottom up, while in the West, bottom up is stronger. So, in Bhutan, we need to educate the people so everyone understands GNH.\nOur GNH Center will have no waste, only organic food from around the center. Center is the place where people are actually doing what they are preaching. For GNH, we need initiatives like small communities, networks who show that it is possible to do it. It is small groups doing something right and showing examples that embody the principles of GNH. Small steps. One aspect is being living example of GNH principles, and the other important part is education. If we can educate the next generation to become ambassadors of GNH, it will thrive.\nWe hope that GNH grows in a viral way and spreads in the world. Even on the political level, more people and more are realizing present economic system is not working and GNH is one of the only serious alternatives. Bhutan is like a lab for other countries. There are a lot of possibilities for GNH Centers to be created around the world.\nPrevious articleOpen Heart \u2013 experiencing healing\nNext articleThe Healing Hearts Project needs your support", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 32276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://womenongodsmission.org/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:C3NNDGI24LMNQRFJZBJ6SGB66BWRPANP", "length": 249, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "womenongodsmission.org", "title": "Create | Women On God's Mission", "raw_content": "We were created in God\u2019s image \u2013 therefore, we are creative! Here is where you\u2019ll find pictures and info about my latest projects, including ideas for efficient, simplified living for while we are here on earth \u2026 on our way to our real home, Heaven.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://woodsidehealth.com/news/mob-sector-keeps-thriving", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WKISUOOOIHYRWOEB4HWI62RDXSXBAOKF", "length": 4000, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "woodsidehealth.com", "title": "News / MOB Sector Keeps Thriving | Woodside Health : Health Care Real Estate & Investments", "raw_content": "According to Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Service's latest National Medical Office Research report, the medical office building sector continues to thrive, practically unabated. Certain numbers have fluctuated a bit and the rate of growth has inched in one direction or the other, but results from the first half of 2018 paint a rosy picture of the sector's future.\nThe Baby Boomer effect is still very much a factor in health-care real estate, and MOBs are no exception. According to the report, \"The expanding 65 and older population base remains a stalwart demand driver of medical office space.\" The numbers tell the story. Despite having inched up over the last four quarters, the MOB vacancy rate at the close of the second quarter was an enviable 8.2 percent, a figure that is still not too far off the 10-year low of 8 percent. Rents went on the upswing just a tad, increasing 0.9 percent from mid-year 2017 to $23.18. The report points to consolidation in the health-care industry as a source of rental rate growth.\nBUILDING MOBS\nConstruction in the MOB sector continued at a notable, albeit relatively slower pace in the first six months of 2018. Approximately 4.1 million square feet were delivered in the first half of the year, compared to 4.5 million square feet in the first half of 2017. Annual deliveries at the mid-year point totaled 9.9 million square feet, a small year-over-year decline from the 10.8 million square feet seen in the previous annual period.\nWhile MOB's are still popping up at hospital campuses, the majority of the properties are being built on off-campus sites, as medical providers seek to accommodate demand by making outpatient services available in neighborhoods and suburban areas for ease of access. The movement has caught the attention of investors.\n\"One of the most interesting emerging trends has been the yield compression between on-campus and off-campus medical office properties,\" John Chang, senior vice president & national director of research services with Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, told Commercial Property Executive. \"Traditionally, on-campus medical office assets traded at a premium because of their proximity to major medical facilities, but with the emergence of outpatient care and the penetration of medical offices into convenient suburban residential areas, demand for these types of properties has risen substantively.\"\nHealth-care reform was the conversation in the first half of 2017; one year later, questions still abound but players in the MOB sector have resolved to move forward in the face of the unknown. \"Ironically, although uncertainty about health-care insurance reform permeates the dialog about medical space demand, any restraint on the sector has thus far been more than offset by the strength of demographics and the aging of the U.S. population,\" Chang said.\nStill, there's the elephant in the room. \"If, however, health-care reform stabilizes and investors are able to more clearly anticipate the future of the sector, demand for medical office investments could experience a substantive surge,\" he added. Physician shortages and increasing health-care costs also present challenges.\nAs noted in the report, the population of those who are 65 years of age and older in the U.S. has risen at an annual pace exceeding 3 percent since 2011 and the group is expected to increase by 20 million by 2028, accounting for 20 percent of the national population base. The numbers suggest that, even with potential challenges, the success of the MOB sector is unlikely to come to a halt in the foreseeable future.\n\"The medical office sector outlook remains particularly strong, with moderate construction and steadily rising space demand,\" Chang added. \"Vacancy levels are near a 10-year low, and despite some uncertainty regarding the health-care insurance outlook, the need for medical services will continue to increase as the aging baby-boomer generation requires additional care.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 4374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://words.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/i/ionianislands.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7GGCDOZCCKSEESCIT7K672D2KOJFIC6L", "length": 784, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "words.fromoldbooks.org", "title": "Ionian Islands (Nuttall Encyclop\u00e6dia)", "raw_content": "Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclop\u00e6dia of General Knowledge / I / Ionian Islands\nIonian Islands, a chain of forty mountainous islands lying off the W. coast of Greece, the largest being Corfu (78), Santa Maura (25), Cephalonia (80), and Zante (44). The climate is good, and there is much fertile soil in the valleys except in Cephalonia; corn, grapes, and currants are grown; sulphur and coal are found in Corfu; their history has been very chequered; after belonging at different times to Venice, France and Turkey, they were seized by Britain and constituted a dependency in 1815; never satisfied with British rule, they were a source of constant friction which Mr. Gladstone's mission in 1858 was insufficient to allay, and were handed over to Greece in 1863.\nIonia * Ionic Order\nIolcus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wordscat.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/syntagmatic-and-other-frightening-words/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QJG4AUGA252HNFICD7WR6IQYEGNBMKWO", "length": 3474, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wordscat.wordpress.com", "title": "Syntagmatic and other frightening words | How my heart speaks", "raw_content": "\u2190 How to be a success at being lonely\u2026\nHail, the North East \u2192\nSyntagmatic and other frightening words\nPainting by my sister\nI have never seen this word before.I have looked ot up and will put a link here\nhttp://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/sem03.html\n\u201cA syntagm is an orderly combination of interacting signifiers which forms a meaningful whole within a text \u2013 sometimes, following Saussure, called a \u2018chain\u2019. Such combinations are made within a framework of syntactic rules and conventions (both explicit and inexplicit). In language, a sentence, for instance, is a syntagm of words; so too are paragraphs and chapters. \u2018There are always larger units, composed of smaller units, with a relation of interdependence holding between both\u2019 (Saussure 1983, 127; Saussure 1974, 128): syntagms can contain other syntagms. A printed advertisement is a syntagm of visual signifiers. Syntagmatic relations are the various ways in which elements within the same text may be related to each other. Syntagms are created by the linking of signifiers from paradigm sets which are chosen on the basis of whether they are conventionally regarded as appropriate or may be required by some rule system (e.g. grammar). Synatagmatic relations highlight the importance of part-whole relationships: Saussure stressed that \u2018the whole depends on the parts, and the parts depend on the whole\u2019 (Saussure 1983, 126;Saussure 1974, 128).\nSyntagms are often defined as \u2018sequential\u2019 (and thus temporal \u2013 as in speech and music), but they can represent spatial relationships. Saussure himself (who emphasized \u2018auditory signifiers\u2019 which \u2018are presented one after another\u2019 and \u2018form a chain\u2019) noted that visual signifiers (he instanced nautical flags) \u2018can exploit more than one dimension simultaneously\u2019 (Saussure 1983, 70; Saussure 1974, 70). Spatial syntagmatic relations are found in drawing, painting and photography. Many semiotic systems \u2013 such as drama, cinema, television and the world wide web \u2013 include both spatial and temporal syntagms.\nThwaites et al. argue that within a genre, whilst the syntagmatic dimension is the textual structure, the paradigmatic dimension can be as broad as the choice of subject matter (Thwaites et al. 1994, 95). In this framing, form is a syntagmatic dimension whilst content is a paradigmatic dimension. However, form is also subject to paradigmatic choices and content to syntagmatic arrangement.\nJonathan Culler offers an example of the syntagmatic relations and paradigmatic contrasts involved in Western menus:\nIn the food system\u2026 one defines on the syntagmatic axis the combinations of courses which can make up meals of various sorts; and each course or slot can be filled by one of a number of dishes which are in paradigmatic contrast with one another (one wouldn\u2019t combine roast beef and lamb chops in a single meal; they would be alternatives on any menu). These dishes which are alternative to one another often bear different meanings in that they connote varying degrees of luxury, elegance, etc.\u201d\n(Culler 1985, 104)\nI can\u2019t quite grasp it but I shall try!\nRoland Barthes (1967) outlined the paradigmatic and syntagmatic elements of the \u2018garment system\u2019 in similar terms. The paradigmatic elements are the items which cannot be worn at the same time on the same part of the body (such as hats, trousers, shoes). The syntagmatic dimension is the juxtaposition of different elements at the same time in a complete ensemble from hat to shoes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://world-defense.com/threads/nato-slams-putins-remarks-on-ukraine-army.898/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7E7OGGYMSEBVDX3D5CXAK5RZEYSRPD5C", "length": 7682, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "world-defense.com", "title": "NATO slams Putin's remarks on Ukraine army | World Defense", "raw_content": "NATO slams Putin's remarks on Ukraine army\nNATO slams Putin's remarks on Ukraine army - Al Jazeera English\nNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has dismissed a claim by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine's army was a \"NATO foreign legion\".\nIn a statement issued on Monday, Stoltenberg also accused Moscow of boosting support for pro-Russian rebels who have seized large parts of eastern Ukraine. The claim has been repeatedly denied by Russia.\n\"We have seen a substantial increase in the flow of equipment from Russia to the separatists in Ukraine,\" he said\nPutin called the Ukrainian military a \"NATO foreign legion,\" reflecting his readiness to stand up to the West regardless of rising economic costs, as Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded Russia's credit rating to junk.\nWhile the Russian ruble tumbled further on the news of the downgrade, Putin's spokesman shrugged off the Western threat of more sanctions as \"short-sighted.\"\nSpeaking to students in St Petersburg, Putin said the Ukrainian leadership was to blame for the upsurge in violence and accused it of using civilians as \"cannon fodder\" in the conflict.\n\"(Ukraine's army) is not even an army, it's a foreign legion, in this case a NATO foreign legion,\" Putin said, adding that it's serving the goal of \"the geopolitical containment of Russia, which absolutely don't coincide with the national interests of the Ukrainian people\".\nFrom the onset of the conflict, which has claimed more than 5,100 since April, Russia urged the Ukrainian authorities to offer broad powers to the separatist eastern provinces and provide amnesty to the rebels.\nA cease-fire deal signed in September by representatives of the government and the insurgents included some of those provisions along with a pledge to withdraw foreign fighters and place European monitors on the Russian-Ukrainian border, but it has been violated by both parties and fighting has continued.\nThe Kremlin's uncompromising stance is rooted in its desire to prevent Ukraine from ever joining NATO by securing a broad autonomy for the separatist provinces in the east. To avoid being called a party to the conflict, as Ukraine and the West see it, Russia is pushing the Ukrainian government to speak directly to the rebels.\nThe latest rebel offensive, which involved the deadly shelling of a strategic port city of Mariupol over the weekend, appeared aimed at pressuring Kiev into such talks.\nI absolutely feel that it is time that something was done especially after the tragic flight being shot down and blame given to Ukraine rather that Russia. Although I feel that each country should just get on with their pwn business there are times when there should be a way for someone neutral to intervene so that peace can be salvaged and war avoided. Russia should have no say in who joins NATO or any other organisation as each country should be decided by a neutral \"planet body\" who can look at what is good for the world. Wouldn't that be a good idea? It is about time Russia was looked at and investigated as well as the Ukraine as the alarm bells are ringing there and we need to step in.\nThere's something bothering me about this news. It claims that the value of the Russian rubble recently took a turn for the worse (courtesy of Standard & Poor's ratings). When exactly did this happen - before or after the increase of arms support to the rebels? If it happened prior to the increase of support, then this may mean that Russia's trying to hide the growing ills in their own economy through increased military activity. If it happened after showering the rebels with support, then it's a means to punish Russia. Russia shouldn't be bitter about the assistance Ukraine has received. The moment they sided with the rebels, they already lost the confidence of their former allies and acquaintances.\nxTinx I think the sanctions were applied after they took the eastern part through referendum. I am not sure though, but in many instances is more of a punish than a bad economy.\ntasha said:\nI absolutely feel that it is time that something was done especially after the tragic flight being shot down and blame given to Ukraine rather that Russia. Although I feel that each country should just get on with their own business there are times when there should be a way for someone neutral to intervene so that peace can be salvaged and war avoided. Russia should have no say in who joins NATO or any other organisation as each country should be decided by a neutral \"planet body\" who can look at what is good for the world.\nFor Russia, Ukraine joining NATO is like letting your worst enemy live next door. Nonetheless I don't see the reason why they should make Ukraine's decision to join the EU their business. What is [it ]they're afraid they'll lose should Ukraine join the EU? It's not like Russia imports anything from Ukraine. If Russia was \"good\", they wouldn't have to force their neighbors to be their allies.\nUkraine joining NATO (which will never happen this time soon) will basically be a free card for Russia to send troops over to protect \"russian citizens\".\nNow the question I want to launch here is, what if it was from NATO? Ukraine is (was...) and independent country, so they can join who ever they desire, including NATO, what has Russia to do with it?\nRussia is playing politics once again even as the conflict escalates to deadlier levels. Russia is clearly supporting the rebels though it denies this fact and what i foresee is a situation where,because of the state of the economy which has slumped to its knees, the citizens will demand a change of guard and that regime will have to give way sooner than later.\nI think Putin is kind of always paranoid. He thinks that every move to back up other countries that Russia is fighting against is a move against them, to weaken her country and make it down to its knees. Well, as I see it, the international alliances of other countries are only doing what they are intended to be doing, and that is to help those countries who seek help and support.\njeremy2 said:\nDemocracy is an alien concept in Russia. Demonstrations against the administration would be violently quelled. Even if there are elections, since the 2012 elections were skewed in Putin's favor, should they be any election, using the same means, Putin would still be elected president. So sure of his victories is he that he declared, he won't be a president for life.\nVLADIMIR PUTIN has said he won't remain Russia's president for life and will step down in line with the constitution no later than 2024\nSo yeah, Russians still have a long time to wait.\nI find it amusing that he states he will be president for many years to come and be so sure about it.\nI don't know if that is paranoia or he just wants to control the region once again, but I am inclined to say that he has some sort of disease because he doesn't respect democracy, Russia is a dictatorship all over again.\nI think it is greed and the more Putin owns the better! He does not want Ukraine to be a part of NATO as this means he cannot interfere with the country anymore.\nI don't know why Russia don't mind its business and leave the people of Ukraine to govern their country the way they see fit. It is full time now that this Soviet Union mentality be broken and Russian starts to respect the independence of these former Soviet Union countries.\nPutin is greedy and sneaky too. He is clever because he picks on the little places that cant defend themselves and that the world doesn't really pay much attention too, perhaps that is why a passenger liner was shot down, so that the world could notice and pay attention to Putin's dirty plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 14684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wqxr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006336068-How-Can-I-Listen-To-WQXR-Online-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AUTJEUHEZDP4HZKXCBAHRVLPBQL4F7S2", "length": 754, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wqxr.zendesk.com", "title": "How Can I Listen To WQXR Online? \u2013 WQXR", "raw_content": "There are a few ways you can listen online. First, you can access the built-in audio player on our website by heading to www.wqxr.org. Once you are there, towards the top left area of the page, in the gray bar, you should see a button labeled \u201cListen Live\u201d. When you click this button, audio should begin playing with a visible audio bar on the bottom of the page.\nYou can also listen by clicking the \"All Streams\" option located right below the \"Listen Live\" button. From there you can choose our other streams such as Q2, Operavore and WNYC amongst others.\nThe audio player is designed so that you can browse the WQXR site while audio continues to play. You should find that most pages within the WQXR.org site can be viewed without interrupting audio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wsworkshop.org/2018/09/lydia-loy-santelli/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6O4HETKEORPDGRCRJF34BA27EYH5QK42", "length": 4420, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wsworkshop.org", "title": "Surface Texture: Lydia Loy-Santelli in the Studio - Women's Studio Workshop : Women's Studio Workshop", "raw_content": "Surface Texture: Lydia Loy-Santelli in the Studio\nSeptember 28, 2018 by Marisa Malone\nWomen\u2019s Studio Workshop enjoyed a chat with Chili Bowl Workspace Resident Lydia Loy-Santelli about her path to ceramics, what inspires her, and advice for emerging artists. Read a bit of our conversation below!\nWSW You grew up with artists in the family, started learning photography, then fell in love with clay. Are there clear moments that you remember in choosing this path as an artist?\nLLS I was very much against the idea of having a career in the arts all the way through high school. My first semester of sophomore year at Goucher College, I started to realize how much more excited and inspired I was by my drawing, photography and painting classes. That was when I first began discussing with my parents the idea of transferring to art school. Once I really began exploring my creative side at Maine College of Art, I quickly decided I wanted to have a career in the arts and follow in my parents footsteps.\nWSW How do you find your voice in a medium where so many artists use the same tools and techniques?\nLLS I think it\u2019s important to look at artists that inspire you, both in and especially out of your field, and then find out which artists inspire them. I also don\u2019t think finding your \u201cvoice\u201d is a quick and simple process, and I honestly don\u2019t believe I have fully found mine yet. Since first taking a ceramics class, I have discovered textures, forms and styles of ceramic work that I find visually pleasing and I try to incorporate those different aspects into my own pieces. I realized early on that during any stage in the ceramic process the work may not end up looking the way it was initially intended, but nonetheless you can learn from each piece you make and it may end up sending your work in a whole different direction.\nWSW You guest-taught for the Surface Exploration class here at WSW. What characteristic of ceramic art do you believe is important to share with participating artists?\nLLS In ceramics, I think it\u2019s a good thing to understand that your work isn\u2019t precious, even though it may feel as though it is, especially when first starting out. There are so many moments in ceramics where something goes wrong or a piece doesn\u2019t end up coming out as intended\u2013but that\u2019s okay and it\u2019s not the end of the world, just make another one!\nWSW From your 2015 Stonington series to now\u2013and all the work in between\u2013you have experimented with a variety of natural colors and textures. What is currently catching your eye?\nLLS I am currently on a search for my perfect clay body/glaze combination. This was something I started briefly exploring during my residency at WSW. Since I just recently moved to Asheville, NC, I haven\u2019t had access to a studio yet but will be getting back into clay at the beginning of October and am looking forward to exploring (and carving) a dark red clay body covered with a satin white glaze. The pieces I am envisioning are definitely going to be reminiscent of my Stonington series, yet I am curious and very excited to see how my time in Asheville will cause my new work to differ.\nWSW What advice do you have for emerging women artists?\nLLS Don\u2019t be afraid to explore and experiment with things that might seem out of the box. I once told my teacher I wanted to attempt to fire my wisdom teeth into a couple of mugs and I learned quite a lot from that fun, albeit weird, project. Embrace all critiques and constructive criticism \u2013 don\u2019t fight it, talk back or argue, just listen and try to grow from what is being said, take notes if you have to. And lastly, when you feel down on yourself and your work, and cannot imagine how in the world you\u2019re going to make it as an artist, try to remember that you\u2019re not alone and self-promotion is your friend, as much as it may feel awkward and unnatural.\nLydia Loy-Santelli grew up in an artistic household where she was exposed to a creative lifestyle and many hours in galleries and museums. Her grandparents are painters, her father a fine art photographer, and mother a graphic designer and painter. Lydia\u2019s initial intention was to pursue a career in medicine, which slowly faded when she took several fine art courses at Goucher College and realized how much she genuinely enjoyed the creative arts which inspired her transfer to Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. 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Sorry for the inconvenience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.2020vision.com/blog/2019/01/29/glaucoma-microsurgery-195905", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HPCB2SANPXSXZWMOKVK6F5JV5OGKBII7", "length": 2758, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.2020vision.com", "title": "MICS, glaucoma, glaucoma surgery, iStent, Macomb - Glaucoma Microsurge...", "raw_content": "MIGS, which stands for Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery is a common procedure that is used for treating patients with glaucoma. However, experts have discovered that combining MIGS along with Minimally Invasive Cataract Surgery or MICS can result in extremely effective outcomes for Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) patients when the IOP reduction post cataract surgery is not sufficient.\nThe number of people suffering from glaucoma is increasing year by year. In 2010, as many as 60.5 million people were affected by the disease. The numbers are expected to increase to almost 80 million by 2020, and as much as 74 percent of these patients will have POAG. Currently, cataract is the number one cause of irreversible blindness in the world, while POAG comes second. Studies have shown that the growing incidence of cataract may be a risk for POAG and high intraocular pressure (IOP).\nIn other words, by performing MIGS and MICS together, cataract, as well as high intraocular pressure, which is experienced by glaucoma patients, can be treated. One example of the tools used for MIGS is seen above, the iStent\nWhat makes MICS unique?\nMICS, along with MIGS, was developed as an approach to fight the leading causes of blindness in the world. It was designed in such a way that it would be safer, more efficient and innovative in every way, which has led to quicker recovery and lower rates of surgery-related complications. Overall, these have led to better surgical outcomes.\nIn this procedure, incisions smaller than 2 mm are used, which makes Micro-Incision Cataract Surgery so different from other more traditional or older techniques of cataract surgery. Today, it can even be performed using an incision of just 1.5 mm or less. Not only does the smaller incision size dramatically improves safety during the surgery, but it also results in reduced trauma for patients even after surgery, making recovery a much quicker and smoother process. This is because there is lesser tissue disruption.\nEven though MICS, as the name suggests, is primarily for cataract patients, it is best performed on patients who have other eye diseases other than cataract, such as primary open-angle glaucoma. MICS does not involve the need for excessive surgical manipulation, which results in lower rates of induced inflammation, making it ideal to be performed on patients with both cataract and POAG. The microincisional glaucoma surgery can be done concurrently with cataract surgery to lower pressure and allow better control of glaucoma without the addition of eye drops.\nNow, doctors and researchers are working to make MIGS possible only with an incision of 1mm or less so that surgically-induced complications can be minimized even more and recovery, boosted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.360realtors.com/property-with-laundromat-in-goa-camid-25-33", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:26Z", "digest": "sha1:JFYYGAHK3I4KKARD4W4QPBJREILYPQX6", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.360realtors.com", "title": "Laundromat Projects in Goa | Laundromat property for Sale in Goa | 360Realtors", "raw_content": "with Laundromat Property for sale in Goa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 921, "original_length": 24809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.6sqft.com/tag/futuristic-kitchen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YEPBUTKETZAWXSYZDNZLF6ILVN2NXDA2", "length": 754, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.6sqft.com", "title": "Futuristic Kitchen | 6sqft", "raw_content": "$9.7M David Abelow-Designed Penthouse at the Apple Bank Building Boasts a Futuristic Kitchen\nBy Aisha Carter, Thu, September 25, 2014\nThe listing for penthouse B at the Apple Bank Building has returned this week, asking $9.68 million. 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However, further studies have proven that Tarot cards were present in Italy and ancient Egypt centuries before being utilized by the Romany to tell fortunes.\nThe exact origin of the Tarot is unknown, though several theories persist to this day. A French theologian by the name of Antoine Court de G\u00e9belin believes that the Tarot were originally part of the Book of Thoth, an ancient Egyptian book of divine wisdom. Another theorist, Eliphas L\u00e9vi, believes that the Tarot is related to the paths to stages of consciousness described in the Qabalah. Additional studies have also found that the Tarot correlates with the Hebrew Alphabet.\nHow Covens Are Structured\nPosted by J. Roslyn Antle on 5/1/2016 to Occult Weekly\nWithin the Wiccan Faith, there is a wide range of sects from large to small. 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Read more.\nRonald T. Stephens, MD, reached a milestone achieved by no other physiatrist: he is the first PM&R physician to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general (BG) in any service within the Department of Defense. Congratulations, Dr. Stephens! Read more.\nMonica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD, medical director of the brain injury and stroke program at TIRR Memorial Hermann, discusses depression in stroke survivors and how to improve recovery. Read more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 460, "original_length": 13134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 186.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/health/library/stories/2014/06/10/4022167.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HQIMRCRWOYHHEEMLLV3J44AR24LQKFIL", "length": 7821, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "www.abc.net.au", "title": "Dementia - Health & Wellbeing", "raw_content": "by Dr Jocelyn Lowinger\nDementia can lead to memory loss and confusion, a loss of skills in planning, reasoning, language and communication, as well as personality and behaviour change. It is a leading cause of death in Australia.\n[Image source: stock.xchg]\nDementia is a term used to describe a range of conditions that cause progressive decline in mental functioning. It can lead to problems such as memory loss and confusion, a loss of skills in planning, reasoning, language and communication, as well as personality and behaviour change. It is not a normal part of ageing.\nDementia is a leading of death in Australia after heart attack, cancer and stroke. It is more common after the age of 65, but can also occur in people in their 40s and 50s.\nIt is estimated more than 332,000 Australians are living with dementia and this is expected to reach almost 900,000 people by 2050.\nThere are many different types of dementia and more than 100 conditions that may cause it. Research is ongoing regarding different types of dementia and their causes. Types of dementia include:\nAlzheimer's disease: this is the most common form of dementia. It is associated with shrinkage of the brain due to nerve cell loss and brain tissue changes \u0096 tangles and plaques.\nVascular dementia: this can be caused by strokes but is more often the result of a series of mini-strokes or other damage to brain blood vessels. It commonly occurs with Alzheimer's disease and this is called mixed dementia.\nLewy body disease: this is associated with abnormal protein clumps inside brain cells (Lewy bodies) and it may progress more rapidly than Alzheimer's disease. It can also occur with Alzheimer's disease as a mixed dementia.\nAlcohol-related dementia: this is related to excessive drinking of alcohol and can affect memory, learning and other mental functions.\nFrontotemporal dementia: this is the name given to dementia when there is degeneration in one or both of the frontal or temporal lobes of the brain. One form of this that affects behaviour is known as Pick's disease. It may occur in young people 30 to 40 years of age, but often affects people in their 50s or 60s.\nDementia is also linked with other medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome, AIDS, Huntington's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.\nCommon symptoms of dementia include:\nmemory loss such as forgetting more often than usual recent events and things like names and phone numbers\ndifficulty performing familiar tasks such as preparing a meal\nproblems with language such as forgetting simple words\ndisorientation such as getting lost on your own street\npoor judgement affecting activities such as driving\nproblems with abstract thinking such as understanding what numbers mean\nrepeatedly misplacing things such as wallet and keys\nrapid mood swings for no apparent reason\nchanges in personality such as becoming more suspicious and fearful or more familiar and outgoing than previously\nloss of initiative in performing tasks such as housework or social obligations.\nRisks for developing dementia\nThere are many different factors that can contribute to the risk of dementia. Some of these risk factors include:\ngenetic conditions such as Down syndrome or having a gene called APOE-\u03b54 (Apolipoprotein E \u03b54 allele)\nmedical conditions such as stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, head trauma and obesity.\nother risk factors include smoking and exposure to pesticides and herbicides.\nFactors thought to protect against dementia include having a high level of education and intelligence, having an intellectually demanding job, being physically active, keeping your brain active and having an active social life.\nThe early signs of dementia are subtle and may not be obvious. The first thing people tend to notice is a problem in memory. Diagnosis may not occur until more than three years after the initial symptoms.\nThere is no single test used in diagnosing dementia and doctors use a range of things to help make the diagnosis. It's also important they work out what the underlying cause of dementia is as this can affect treatment:\nhistory and examination: doctors will ask about the person about their symptoms, as well as asking their family. They will also do a physical examination to see if any other problems are present such as high blood pressure or an infection.\nblood tests: these are used to help rule out other problems such as an infection, which may have similar symptoms to dementia.\ncognitive tests: these are used to assess things like memory, concentration, problem solving and language skills. One commonly used test is the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE). Some people may need to have more detailed tests by a psychologist. These tests can also help pick up on other issues, for example depression.\nimaging: imaging that may be performed includes CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT). These tests can look for brain changes related to dementia and help tell the difference between different types of dementia.\nIf someone with dementia develops a new behavioural symptom it's important they are reassessed as there may be another problem like delirium, pain, constipation or a reaction to medication.\nTreatment for people with dementia mainly involves strategies such as family education and support, and managing the environment. Some medications are also available for people with dementia (particularly for Alzheimer's disease) outlined below:\nMedications for treating the cognitive symptoms of dementia\nCholinergic treatments block an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase which can help improve memory for some people for a limited time. They are approved for use in Alzheimer's disease.\nMemantine blocks a neurotransmitter called glutamate and helps prevent brain cell damage. It is currently approved for use for people with moderate-severe Alzheimer's disease.\nMedications for treating other symptoms of dementia\nAntipsychotic medications are sometimes used to help with problems such as agitation, aggression, delusions and hallucinations. However, identifying the cause of the behaviour and using non-drug strategies should be tried first. These drugs are not suitable for use in certain people such as those with Lewy body dementia or Parkinson's disease.\nAntidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.\nMedications to help with sleep \u0096 these should only be used as a last resort.\nPeople with dementia will also need to be treated for any other underlying causes such as diabetes or high blood pressure.\nOther issues to consider include appointing an enduring power of attorney and guardianship to a relative or friend where this is possible. Driving ability will also need to be assessed.\nThere are a number of support services available to help people with dementia and their families. Services available through Alzheimer's Australia include:\nThe Living with Memory Loss Program (LWML) provides help for people in the early stages of dementia and their families\nThe National Younger Onset Dementia Key Worker Program provides individualised support services to help people with younger onset dementia (under 65 years of age) and their families and carers.\nA range of services designed to help support and educate people with dementia and their carers including counselling, recreational activities, education courses, and a library service.\nCarer Support Groups.\nThis article was reviewed by Dr Maree Farrow, a neuroscientist and research fellow with Alzheimer's Australia.\nDementia and the role of mental exercise - ABC Health & Wellbeing\nBoosting your brain power as you age - ABC Health & Wellbeing\nFact File: Alzheimer's disease - ABC Health & Wellbeing\nDriving and dementia - ABC Health & Wellbeing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 9955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/1217420/ag-asked-to-investigate-agencys-spending.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:H2IATO6XPUBJBJFREQQYTWVK4MZQ2KML", "length": 3000, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.abqjournal.com", "title": "AG asked to investigate agency\u2019s spending \u00bb Albuquerque Journal", "raw_content": "AG asked to investigate agency\u2019s spending\nThursday, September 6th, 2018 at 12:05am\nSANTA FE \u2013 The acting secretary of the state Aging and Long-Term Services Department has asked Attorney General Hector Balderas to investigate possible criminal activity on the part of an organization with a state contract to provide various services for roughly 70,000 elderly New Mexicans.\nThe letter to the Attorney General\u2019s Office from acting Secretary KyKy Knowles was sent earlier this week, after a special audit found that the organization improperly spent $118,395 in taxpayer dollars on fancy meals, alcohol, hotels and employee bonuses over a 2\u00bd-year period.\nSpecifically, Knowles said the organization\u2019s decision to give incentive-based bonuses to some of its employees might violate both the state Constitution and the group\u2019s contract with the state.\nHowever, both the executive director and board chairman of the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District, a Santa Fe-based consortium of counties, has said there was nothing improper about the spending in question.\nThe development district\u2019s executive director, Tim Armer, recently told the Journal the merit-based staff bonuses were paid out with savings from vacant positions and unused overtime.\nIn addition, state Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa Fe, chairman of the organization\u2019s board of directors, said Wednesday that the money used for a staff team-building retreat and other expenditures came from funds earmarked for operational expenses, not senior services.\n\u201cWe honestly feel that\u2019s our money,\u201d Trujillo said.\nHe also questioned state Auditor Wayne Johnson\u2019s authority to order a special audit into the organization\u2019s finances, and described the Aging and Long-Term Services Department as an agency in \u201cturmoil\u201d after recent high staff turnover rates.\nThe special audit was conducted by an outside auditing firm and focused on the finances of the development district in regard to its work running the Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging, which has a $20 million annual contract to work with providers in most of New Mexico, but not in Bernalillo County.\nIn addition to the questionable spending, the audit also found some internal controls to be lacking, such as giving too much check-signing authority to one top executive at the economic development district.\nAn Attorney General\u2019s office spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the agency had received the referral and said the matter is under review.\nMeanwhile, the Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging is one of four state management agencies that oversee providers of transportation, home-delivered meals and job-finding assistance for thousands of seniors. The program\u2019s money comes from a mix of state and federal dollars.\nDecision to end elderly services contract criticized \u2013 Jan 6, 2018\nNew Mexico agency defends handling of elderly care contract \u2013 Jan 10, 2018\nCancellation of contract for senior aid defended \u2013 Jan 12, 2018\nAgency that's losing its contract sues state \u2013 Jan 24, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 6490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/health/library/topic/?id=hw70350", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKJQAQNCRPFDMX647ZGEGUE3SEM2EBNJ", "length": 877, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.adventisthealthcare.com", "title": "Debridement for Rotator Cuff Disorders - Adventist HealthCare", "raw_content": "Home > Healthy Living > Health Library > Debridement for Rotator Cuff Disorders\nDebridement involves removing loose fragments of tendon, thickened bursa, and other debris from around the shoulder joint. 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Now we're up to three current homeschoolers, one homeschool graduate, and one in-schooler who will be homeschooled starting this summer.\nHe's gone from creating faces with stickers to building (and labeling) his own spine.\nIt took Jude forever to learn to read - almost three years. It was a major accomplishment for him when he could read the simplest of Bob books.\nNow, he's casting spells in Hogsmeade shop windows that he learned from reading Harry Potter by himself.\nCurriculum: I still seem to spend a lot of time looking for the right programs, but it's nice that much of our work is fairly well organized for us. When we started, I spent every weekend looking for work for the next week, printing it out, and collating it. I was constantly searching for things that \"fit.\" By now, while we still enjoy trying new things through reviews, we also seemed to have found things that suit us well and have become favorites.\nWeekends are either for relaxing or catching up on things that would take a large chunk of the weekday. One of Matthew's favorite things are his Chemistry projects from MEL Labs, and often Jude wants in on it, too. Last weekend's theme was, \"OOH, which should we do first? Light stuff on fire...or light stuff on fire?\" My overarching rule is \"Don't make me explain anything to an insurance company - homeowner's or medical.\" Experiments completed and the house is still standing.\nBookshelves: When we started, I had a small storage box in the dining room that held a few books and a folder with printed materials. Toys were in the basement playroom. As the kids have gotten older, they've outgrown the oversized toys and we've taken over the playroom into a school suite. But we've also run out of shelves, especially as our home library expands. Last week I ordered some bookshelves, and Luke has spent most of this week putting them together. I'm in the process of sorting and organizing, but I'm happy with the way things have begun to come together. Of course, one of the first shelves to be filled was the one with Jude's beloved Magic Treehouse books.\nFavorite Activities: When we first started, one of Jude's favorite activities was cooking. Luke took up the mantle during his homeschool days, and now Celia enjoys experimenting in the kitchen. However, Jude still has food as a recurring theme.\nFor a long time, Jude has said he wants to work in our family business, but he did not want to go to college. Now that Luke is in college taking online courses, Jude has figured out he can just homeschool that, too! 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This worries me on many levels: as a Jew, of course, but also as a gay man, as a Westerner, and as a rational man who loves freedom. Because, you see, I don\u2019t have just one identity. I have many identities and I am proud of all of them. And while the state of Israel respects all my identities, the Islamic world would like to murder me for any single one of them.\nDuring a news conference at the end of the summit about nuclear disarmament, President Obama echoed Gen. David Petraeus, who insinuated in recent congressional hearings that U.S. soldiers are hated by Muslims because of American support for Israel. That recalls to me the story that has surfaced off and on for thousands of years \u2014 that the Jews are the source of all the problems in the world.\nOf course, today, we cannot say it in exactly those terms. That sounds way too 20th century. But what we can do, apparently, is substitute for the word \u201cJew\u201d the word \u201cIsrael,\u201d a country that is smaller than Lake Michigan and where Holocaust survivors built their new homes from the sand.\nJust look at this statement without prejudice: American soldiers are hated in the Muslim world because of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. It is preposterous.\nThe Muslim world hated non-Muslims (\u201cinfidels\u201d) for centuries, from long before Israel existed and the United States was allied with it. And today, they surely hate those who come from abroad to their country to bring them \u201cdemocracy,\u201d which they didn\u2019t ask for. In fact, nobody likes American soldiers when they make their presence felt \u2014 neither Germans nor Italians nor Japanese, who are trying their best to push the U.S. base in Okinawa, with its rowdy inhabitants, off to Guam. And none of this has the slightest bit to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the U.S.-Israeli alliance.\nThere is a word that has existed for a long time: \u201canti-Americanism.\u201d In\nfact, Israel is one of the very few countries in the world that\u2019s a\nreal friend to the United States.\nCertainly, Israel is not\nperfect. Certainly, Israel makes mistakes. I, for one, don\u2019t support the\nsettler movement either. But Israel is not a vassal of the United\nStates. It must be allowed to make its own decisions.\nshould understand that the conflict between Israel and Palestine is not a\nconflict between two political entities. It\u2019s a conflict between two\nworlds \u2014 one that is stuck in the Middle Ages and one that belongs to the\n21st century. It\u2019s a conflict between civilization and barbarism;\nbetween freedom and oppression; between democracy and dictatorship;\nbetween human rights and violations of human rights; between those who\ntreat gay people with respect and those who murder them, jail them,\ntorture them, and dismember them; between those who treat women like\nequals and those who treat women like camels. Our articulate president\nshould not be confused about this.\nSo America is currently on\nthe path to losing one of its best friends. But President Obama and his\nadministration should be under no illusions: The world is not going to\nlove American soldiers more if the U.S. breaks up with Israel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.afro.com/shooting-at-douglass-high-school-leaves-one-injured/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:16Z", "digest": "sha1:YV6SE5RCBKKYEDBKPB64UZY7OZDXHGPG", "length": 2208, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.afro.com", "title": "Shooting at Douglass High School Leaves One Injured | Afro", "raw_content": "Shooting at Douglass High School Leaves One Injured\nBy Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO\nQuestions are being raised after an armed 25-year-old man was able to enter Frederick Douglass High School in Northwest Baltimore and shoot a 56-year-old hall monitor Feb. 8.\nThe shooting occurred around noon when the assailant walked into the building and was confronted by the victim, who was shot during the confrontation. School police said no students were injured.\nThe suspect, who has not been identified, is in custody.\nThe victim is currently being treated at Maryland Shock Trauma and is currently in serious, but stable, condition.\nHowever, the flare up of violence inside a school is raising fresh questions about the safety of the city\u2019s educational facilities.\n\u201cNo one should be able to enter the building; that goes to the problem I saw all the time,\u201d said Scott Miller Phoenix, a former Baltimore public school teacher who taught for over 30 years in the city.\n\u201cThese schools are just not secure,\u201d he added. \u201cHow could a stranger just walk into a school?\u201d\nThe shooting comes on the heels of a heated debate over allowing police to have firearms inside school facilities. Legislation that would have authorized officers to carry guns was withdrawn by State Del. Cheryl Glenn after the city school board voted unanimously against it last month.\nBut, school police union chief Sgt. Clyde Boatwright said the board should reconsider its vote in light of today\u2019s shooting.\n\u201cSadly, we predicted this. We have been telling everyone this has less to do with students and more with people who want to harm them,\u201d he told the AFRO.\n\u201cIt was clear and evident today this guy intended to kill someone. If it wasn\u2019t for the swift action of Baltimore city police, one of whom was unarmed, it would have been much worse.\u201d\nBoatwright said the assailant was confronted by three officers, one of whom was unable to access his weapon\u2014a fact he says should prompt the board to reconsider its vote to keep school police unarmed inside school facilities.\n\u201cI think the school board should take a look deep within themselves to decide if keeping officers unarmed is in the best interest of staff and students,\u201d Boatwright said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.afro.com/the-government-shutdown-another-storm-for-black-farmers-cooperatives-and-southern-rural-communities/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3EBMSYQBVIVNWMQFAFIQVL2S7ZIMEDWQ", "length": 4430, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.afro.com", "title": "The Government Shutdown: Another Storm for Black Farmers, Cooperatives, and Southern Rural Communities | Afro", "raw_content": "The Government Shutdown: Another Storm for Black Farmers, Cooperatives, and Southern Rural Communities\nWritten by NNPA\nStorm-weary Southern Farmers now face fresh economic fears amid a political storm which seems to have no end in sight. While there is no worry about wind or water this time, farmers still recovering from the impacts of Hurricanes Michael and Florence are now feeling the impact of the government shutdown.\nAtlanta, GA- It was anticipated that the new Farm Bill would offer hope for improving farming economies into 2019 \u2014 especially after major 2018 farm losses from natural disasters and the trade war. However, the government shutdown now in its 19th day has had a chilling effect on economic outlook and optimism for the new year. Farmers waiting for direct payments, market assistance loans, market facilitation payments and disaster assistance program payments, particularly in a time of farm crisis, are being left high and dry.\nNo matter what side of the political fence one falls, farm and rural development advocates will agree that the shutdown will cause much harm if not resolved very soon.\nThe unexpected disruption in government services means that farmers are looking for support and guidance from farm organizations like the Federation to help them stabilize their farms. The Federation\u2019s Georgia Field Office which is typically busy providing technical assistance to farmers and helping with farm loan applications are getting phone calls from very worried farmers. Cornelius Key, the Federation\u2019s Georgia State Coordinator, who is also a farmer and rancher says, \u201cSmall farmers that normally submit farm loan applications in December and January can\u2019t submit loans at the moment. The shutdown will have a domino effect as it ultimately leads to a decreased harvest, greater farm debt, and loan defaults that could translate to land and farm losses.\u201d As a leading non-profit cooperative association representing over 20,000 rural black farmers and landowners, cooperatives, credit unions, and community based economic development groups across the rural south, the Federation historically plays a pivotal advocacy role in bringing equity for black farmers and rural communities through many efforts.\nThe United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is one of the Federation\u2019s major partners supplying resources through various agencies including Natural Resource and Conservation Service, Rural Development, Farm Service Agency, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. \u201cWhile the government is shutdown, we are unable to access needed resources as part of our contracts and agreements with the USDA agencies and continue to provide valuable education, outreach, and technical assistance to our membership. The shutdown also makes it difficult to fulfill the financial obligations the Federation has to its staff, partners and vendors. We would like the President and Congress to understand the crippling effect of this shutdown,\u201d Cornelius Blanding, Executive Director of the Federation said.\nNo matter what side of the political fence one falls, farm and rural development advocates will agree that the shutdown will cause much harm if not resolved very soon. Ben Burkett, the Federation\u2019s Mississippi State Coordinator, and a fourth-generation farmer states that \u201d The soybean farmers are anxiously awaiting delayed payments they were promised because of losses from the trade war. Farmers implementing conservation practices that allow them to manage their farms in the protection of air, water, and soil are delayed.\u201d\nThe overall sentiment is hopeful while weathering this storm. For an organization that is 51 years old, this isn\u2019t the worst the Federation has endured; but that all depends on how long this shutdown lasts and the economic impact it has on farms and rural communities.\nFarm Bill Fact Sheet\nThe Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, entering its 51 st year, assists limited resource farmers, landowners, and cooperatives across the South with business planning, debt restructuring, marketing expertise, and a whole range of other services to ensure the retention of land ownership and cooperatives as a tool for social and economic justice. The overall mission is to reverse the trend of black land loss and be a catalyst for the development of self-supporting communities via cooperative economic development, land retention and advocacy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 7391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/super-bowl-foo-fighters-stock-super-saturday-night-show-with-guests/xzV17WXR6j4EOs3Jws92iJ/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MTXY5I23ZWE7GP6CNXV7IHAGWFC77T2F", "length": 3821, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.ajc.com", "title": "Super Bowl 53: Foo Fighters stock Super Saturday Night show with guest", "raw_content": "About 8,500 fans packed the special venue built for the DirecTV Super Saturday Night next to Atlantic Station for the Foo Fighters concert on Feb. 2, 2019. Photo: Photo: Robb Cohen Photography & Video /RobbsPhotos.com\nSuper Bowl 53: Foo Fighters stock Super Saturday Night show with guests\nAbout halfway through Run the Jewels\u2019 opening set, Roger Hyde, AT&T\u2019s senior vice president of creative services, stole a few minutes outside the amazing \u2013 if temporary \u2013 venue adjacent to Atlantic Station.\n\u201cEvery year, we learn a little more,\u201d he said of the Super Saturday Night concerts produced by DirecTV and staged in built-in-a-minute venues to accommodate a musical party on the eve of the Super Bowl.\n\u201cWe want to bring someone local if possible,\u201d he added, in a nod to Killer Mike\u2019s presence with Run the Jewels, \u201cbut we have to be cognizant of who is playing in town. If Bruno Mars is playing, we want to attract a different audience.\u201d\n\u00bb\u00bbPHOTOS: See more from the show and check out some of the celebs in attendance\nWhile Run the Jewels \u2013 which also features rapper El-P \u2013 bounced across the massive stage with fiery renditions of \u201cLegend Has It,\u201d \u201cBlockbuster Night Part 1\u201d and \u201cThursday in the Danger Room,\u201d it was the evening\u2019s headliners, the mighty Foo Fighters, who offered counter-programming to the Mars/Cardi B concert taking place a few miles away at State Farm Arena downtown.\nAtlanta's Killer Mike (left) and El-P stormed the stage for their opening set before the Foo Fighters on Feb. 2, 2019. (Photo: Robb Cohen Photography & Video /RobbsPhotos.com)\nTaking the stage at 11:20 p.m. in a swirl of serrated guitars, Dave Grohl and the five musicians behind him burst into \u201cAll My Life,\u201d from all the way back in 2002.\nRed lighting built into the railing of the expertly designed building \u2013 which, yes, sadly, will be dismantled starting Sunday \u2013 flickered as Grohl and the band roared through \u201cLearn to Fly\u201d and \u201cThe Pretender.\u201d\nThe show, which was streaming live on DirecTV and Twitter, featured a pair of video screens flanking the stage, with one giant one behind it \u2013 the better to showcase those guests who popped up in the latter half of the performance (we\u2019re going to guess \u2013 on good authority \u2013 that Steven Tyler was expected to show up when \u201cThe Pretender\u201d dovetailed into \u201cTrain Kept a Rollin\u2019\u201d).\nFoo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was drenched in sweat early in their Super Saturday Night show sponsored by DirecTV. (Photo: Robb Cohen Photography & Video /RobbsPhotos.com)\nRoger Taylor of Queen arrived to play drums while Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins \u2013 the only guy who can rival Grohl\u2019s untamed energy \u2013 sang lead on a glorious \u201cUnder Pressure,\u201d while Zac Brown returned the favor of Grohl playing his show Thursday night to jam with Tom Morello during Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cWar Pigs.\u201d Perry Farrell joined the fun for \u201cMountain Song\u201d - and let\u2019s not forget the pop-up of veteran jazz saxophonist Dave Koz \u2013 yep, he\u2019s been working with the Foos \u2013 during a searing \u201cLa Dee Da.\u201d\nIt all made for an energizing, thrilling night, with the Foos unleashing a predictably sweat-soaked explosion of sound \u2013 \u201cTimes Like These,\u201d \u201cMy Hero\u201d and their patented combination of the lyrics of Van Halen\u2019s \u201cJump\u201d set to the music of John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d keeping the sold-out crowd of 8,500 giddily fist-pumping along.\n\u201cNever in the past 25 years has someone been ******* crazy enough to build something like this for us to play for two ******* hours and then tear it down!\u201d Grohl proclaimed from the stage.\nHey, DirecTV folks \u2013 you listening?\nStaff Writer Yvonne Zusel contributed to this story.\nIt's a shame the Foo Fighters' venue will be torn down the day after their Feb. 2 concert. 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CONTRIBUTED\nIn choir, NFL players share messages of faith through song\nOlrick Johnson has made his share of tackles during his career as a NFL linebacker.\nFor the big game this week the former player for the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots won\u2019t be wearing cleats, though. Instead, he will don a choir robe during Super Bowl LIII.\nJohnson, 40, will join 49 other current and former pro players who are members of the NFL Players Choir, which made its debut as an ensemble in 2008 at Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix. They will share their faith through music during the 20th annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration, which will be held Thursday at Atlanta Symphony Hall.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know if the shock factor will ever go away,\u201d said Johnson, who has caught more than a few side eyes when he takes the stage. Johnson, a tenor, sang in his church choir in Miami as a youth and has performed backup for Gloria Estefan and Jon Secada.\nOlrick Johnson, who played for the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings and the New England Patriots, is part of the NFL Players Choir. He lives in Atlanta and acts, writes and produces music. CONTRIBUTED\nMusic and sports have always been part of his life.\nAn uncle was the original drummer for KC and the Sunshine Band, his \u201cplay auntie\u201d was R&B and soul singer Betty Wright. His father was the minister of music at his church and at one point managed the Sunshine Band.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very, very special appointment when you can show people that they can\u2019t put you in a box,\u201d he said. Since his retirement from professional football in 2004, Johnson now acts, writes and produces music. \u201cI always knew what I wanted to do after football. I always knew my passion was music.\u201d\nChoir members, who huddle and pray before each performance, are hard hitters musically and athletically.\nThey include a classically-trained pianist and several recording artists. There are Heisman Trophy winners, Super Bowl champions and Hall of Famers.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a huge deal to see all of these current and former players take off their helmets and show how truly talented they are,\u201d said Melanie Few, an Atlanta native and founder of the gospel celebration.\nWATCH | Singing Super Bowl security guard welcomes visitors to Atlanta\nREAD | Follow the AJC\u2019s coverage of Super Bowl 53 here\nThe host for the gospel celebration is comic and radio personality Rickey Smiley.\nIn addition to the NFL players choir, other performers for the sold-out event include Kirk Franklin, the Winans, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Koryn Hawthorne, Tamia, Hezekiah Walker and Lecrae.\nAs the story goes, singer Patti LaBelle was performing during a gospel celebration several years ago when she spotted several of the players in the audience. She asked if all those good-looking men could sing as well. Several came on stage and blew her away with their vocal ability, said Few.\nThe choir is directed by Grammy-winning producer Myron Butler, who has worked with gospel greats like Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Tamela Mann and Smokie Norful.\nButler, who is based in Dallas, said he was attracted to the vision of \u201cfootball meeting faith.\u201d\n\u201cI got a chance to meet the fellows and you come to understand that here is a group of men who are believers and love the Lord and they aren\u2019t ashamed of their faith in God,\u201d he said.\nBryan Scott, a former player for the Atlanta Falcons, is part of the NFL Players Choir. He lives in metro Atlanta and is a partner in several businesses. CONTRIBUTED\nAnother choir member, Bryan Scott spent his 10-year NFL career with the Atlanta Falcons, the New Orleans Saints and the Buffalo Bills.\nGrowing up he sang in the choir in his church outside of Philadelphia.\nLike Johnson, music has always been a passion. 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Alamo Heights constantly seeks to sustain quality water services, and to improve its existing water treatment practices.\n2017/2018 Annual Water Quality Report Download", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 4397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.albertoapostoli.com/en/site-privacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TWRLKPPPFQ6EYNOFMETQKLRBS6PIXJUE", "length": 5072, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.albertoapostoli.com", "title": "Site Privacy | Alberto Apostoli", "raw_content": "This page describes the internet site\u2019s procedures for the use of the personal data of the customers/users who access it.\nThis is general information provided pursuant to art. 13 of Italian Data Protection Legislative Decree (D.Lgs. \u2013 Decreto Legislativo) n. 196/2003 (formerly law n. 675/1996) to those who interact with the web services of Alberto Apostoli. The information is provided solely for the www.albertoapostoli.com site and not for any other sites the user may visit by means of links. Your data will be used by the company\u2019s Internet and marketing department and may be communicated to companies belonging to the same group.\nVisiting this site may lead to use of the personal data of identifiable or unidentifiable subjects.The \u201cdata controller\u201d is Alberto Apostoli with registered office at Via C\u00e0 Nova Zampieri 4/e San Giovanni Lupatoto Verona 37059 \u2013 Italy.\n2. THE PLACE OF USE OF THE DATA\nThe use of data related to this site\u2019s web services will take place at the registered office of Alberto Apostoli. Data will be used solely by the technical staff of the relevant department or staff appointed to perform occasional maintenance work. No data obtained from the web service will be communicated or disclosed to third parties which do not belong to the same Group. 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RIGHTS OF DATA PROTECTION SUBJECTS\nThe subjects to whom personal data refer are entitled at any time to obtain confirmation as to whether or not these data exist and to be informed of their contents and origin check their accuracy or request their completion updating or correction (art. 7 of Italian Decree Law n. 196/2003).\nPursuant to the same article of law data subjects are entitled to request the deletion conversion into anonymous form or freezing of data held in breach of the law and to refuse to allow their use on legitimate grounds in all cases by writing to\nSan Giovanni Lupatoto Verona", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/11/south-african-gang-rapist-jailed-life-201311112414339767.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SCLGXTFPSW72SO2LJK77VHY5OWFECS25", "length": 1928, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff South African gang-rapist jailed for life | South Africa News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "South African gang-rapist jailed for life\nJohannes Kana sentenced to two life terms in jail for his role in gang-rape and murder of teenage girl in Cape Town.\nA South African man has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for his role in the gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl that shocked the country.\nThe court sentenced 21-year-old Johannes Kana for the brutal murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen, who was found disemboweled at a construction site east of Cape Town in February.\nShe was attacked after visiting a pub and found by a security guard and later died in a hospital.\nKana pleaded guilty to punching, kicking and raping Booysen, but denied killing her.\nHe also denied causing \"extensive genital injuries\" which, according to prosecutors, caused \"her intestines to protrude from her genital area and, ultimately, caused her death\".\nThe National Prosecuting Authority welcomed Friday's sentencing, describing it as a victory for victims of sexual violence across the country.\n\"We know it will not be able to bring back Anene Booysen or lessen what happened to her,\" said the authority's spokesman, Eric Ntabazalila.\nBefore her death Booysen had reportedly named a number of her attackers, but charges were dropped against two other suspects for lack of evidence.\nBooysen's rape and murder sparked an outcry in South Africa where about 65,000 sexual offences are committed a year, according to official figures.\nBut police estimate that only one in 36 rape cases get reported.\nThe government has welcomed the sentencing, saying South Africans should reflect on the impact of violence against females in a country that suffers a high rate of rape.\nPresident Jacob Zuma had described the attack on Booysen as \"shocking, cruel and most inhumane\".\n\"We must never allow ourselves to get used to these acts of base criminality to our women and children.\"\nThe 21-year-old perpetrator will serve his terms concurrently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 5740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amazingscience.news/2016/05/a-form-of-vitamin-b3-protects-cells-from-ageing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UQILB4SWULJGJ745XI6SDOVWRYCW6SKM", "length": 2300, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.amazingscience.news", "title": "A Form of Vitamin B3 Protects Cells From Ageing", "raw_content": "A Form of Vitamin B3 Protects Cells From Ageing\nMay 2, 2016 Akasha Mooraby Health, Human Body, Social Science 3 Minutes Read\nA type of vitamin B3 can protect cells from ageing by boosting the regeneration process. The paper documenting the findings is published in the journal Science.\nNicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, has a positive effect on the functioning of stem cells.\nThe beneficial effects of NR were discovered when the team of researchers set out to study the age-related deterioration of the regeneration process of organs in mice. Hongbo Zhang and his team aim to understand how age undermines the regenerative ability of organs like the liver, and muscles like those of the heart. They focused on mitochondria particularly, and they eventually stumbled on the molecular chain behind the regulation of mitochondria function, and the changes that happen with age. The functioning of the mitochondria was also shown to be critical for stem cells; it is to be noted that mitochondria are the powerhouse of cells, as they are the site of the production of energy. Author Johan Auwerx says that it is the first time the good functioning of mitochondria has been found to be important for stem cells.\nStem cells will normally cause the regeneration of damaged organs when prompted by the body. They will contribute new cells as required. However, if the stem cells are affected by fatigue, they will not be able to carry out their functions, leading to a poor regeneration, and even degeneration of tissues and organs in certain cases.\nTherefore, to tackle this problem, the researchers revitalised the stem cells by providing a molecule to the mitochondria so that the latter can function adequately. This added substance is the NR that is known to be important for mitochondrial activity. The results show that the administration of NR to old rats led to a greater regeneration of their tissues. These mice also had a longer life span than other mice that were not fed the NR.\nAuwerx explains that their study focuses on restoring the very regeneration ability of the body through a substance taken with food instead of using foreign substances.\nThe findings constitute a ray of hope for conditions marked by the degeneration of cells in young people like muscular dystrophy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/scott_walker_recants_opposition_to_birthright_citizenship_comments.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JNOBUDAV65DIVNCRRCVHEHIV7REXOURR", "length": 1067, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.americanthinker.com", "title": "Blog: Scott Walker recants opposition to birthright citizenship", "raw_content": "\u00ab GOP insiders say Trump needs to stop talking about illegal aliens | Judge rules government must release illegal alien children \u00bb\nScott Walker recants opposition to birthright citizenship\nAfter telling an NBC reporter unambiguously that he supported ending birthright citizenship, Scott Walker on Friday changed his mind, saying his new position is that he has no position, that he is now undecided again. He's saying that this isn't a reversal, merely that he misspoke because he was tired. How do you misspeak support for ending birthright citizenship? Look at this video, where he is clearly asked whether he would end it, and Walker says, \"Yeah, absolutely.\" No ambiguity there. This is not a minor, technical issue. This is not a slip of the tongue. Scott Walker was clearly saying last week that he supported ending the mechanism that creates anchor babies. Now he's changed his mind. Here's his position on the issue for August 21: \u201cI\u2019m not taking a position one way or the other,\u201d Walker said in an interview with CNBC\u2019s John Harwood. \u201cI\u2019m...(Read Full Post)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amigosdejesus.org/blog/2009/12/honduran-elections-hogar-updates-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SVNR6M2JQTJCFBDTUYNY42QTBFSFAIQQ", "length": 5424, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.amigosdejesus.org", "title": "Honduran Elections, Hogar Updates, and Happy Advent! \u2014 Amigos de Jes\u00fas", "raw_content": "Honduran Elections, Hogar Updates, and Happy Advent!\nMany apologies for how much time has elapsed since the last post on here. There is much to update on!\nHonduran Elections...\nLet's start with the current situation in Honduras. Presidential elections were held on Sunday, November 29, 2009. According to Ubil (and a recent article from BBC world news!), approximately 68% of the citizens of Honduras did not vote in those elections. However, of the 32% that did, there was a majority vote for the candidate from the National Party (Partido Nacional), Porfirio \"Pepe\" Lobo. Opinions of this candidate are mixed, depending on with whom one speaks, but regardless the question still remains: are these elections legitimate or are they illegal?\nOn December 2nd, Honduran Congress put to a vote the reinstitution of Manuel Zelaya to serve out the remaining tenure of presidency (until the 27th of January). In a landslide vote of 111 to 14, Congress voted against reinstating Zelaya. The OAS continues to support Zelaya in saying that they will not recognize the new government without putting Zelaya back in office first (Note that the US has removed themselves from this statement and is now in support of the newly elected government regardless of Zelaya's reinstatement. Others are beginning to follow suit, i.e. Mexico, Peru and Colombia, whose representatives in a meeting yesterday spoke to the need to recognize this step in the Honduran political crisis as valid, even if not the most desirable or democratic course of action.). Some news reports say that this is a manipulation of the OAS - that there is inside persuasion from Chavez (Venezuela) and Lula da Silva (Brazil). Others say that by the OAS staying strong they are truly supporting the Honduran people. Whatever the case may be, these international relationships are important ones for the Honduran people, and will have a significant impact on the country's economy, trade market, and international stature.\nZelaya stands strong that he must be reinstated, and he has supporters to back him (there are rumors that if he is not reinstated, the upcoming school year may be largely affected by the teachers - as many educators are Zelaya supporters - going on strike). There is definitely adversity to the newly elected government; there is likewise definitely adversity to Zelaya. We have yet to see a route that will lead to a definite resolution.\nHogar Updates...\nThe school year has come to a close. The clausura (graduation/closing ceremony) took place on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26th. It was quite a celebration, and in a special way as the day before one of our boys, Adonis, also graduated from the public high school. These monumental stepping stones were celebrated with a fiesta in the comedor (dining hall) - and a full Thanksgiving meal complete with turkey! Spirits were high as everyone celebrated these successes and got excited for the upcoming vacation time.\nIn the meantime, \"escuelita,\" or \"little school,\" has begun. Every morning the volunteers run a program for all of our boys that keeps them busy with educational activities, fun classes (like cooking and dance!), and opportunities to continue learning new skills and lessons. It is a group effort that all of our volunteers do together, and it keeps the boys busy and continuing to grow and learn. Many afternoons are spent playing soccer, marbles, and hanging out at the Hogar.\nHappy Advent...\nIn this time of waiting, anticipation, a little bit of anxiety and lots of hope, much of life in Honduras can mirror this liturgical season.\nAs we continue to wait for what will come in the political arena of this country in crisis (for soon coming up on six months), we wait and wonder what the outcome will be. Here in the States, we continue to read news articles and reports day after day, waiting for the one time when we will read that a definite movement has been made and a sure step has been taken. In Honduras, the people wait in suspense, standing strong by their beliefs (for whichever political party it may be), and long for calm, tranquility, and justice to reign. Perhaps this sense of constantly wanting resolution, and feeling disheartened by the unrequited search for stability and peace, somewhat mirrors what Mary and Joseph must have felt as they searched for a room at inn after inn. A sense of rejection and great struggle, a sense of desperation, but also a great hope in the grace that would soon come.\nAs our boys grow - as they get bigger, taller, more developed, learn new things and continue this journey of one day becoming independent, competent adults - we see in them pure goodness and light that can and will surpass the ugly reality they have lived in the past - we see the divinity in their broken, human hearts. They are the Child - they are the face of Christ, they are the manifestation of the Spirit, they are the gifts from God that grace this world. And we ask for your prayers for them, as they live as Jesus did - small children whose light and beauty shine amidst a darkness, bringing much hope and great joy.\nThank you for your support, love, care for the children. May you and your families be blessed this Advent season with deep peace, and may the joy of Christmas remain in your hearts the whole year through. Know that our children hold you in prayer this Christmas and always.\nNewer Post\u00a1Feliz Navidad!\nOlder PostLong Overdue Good News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amystewart.com/uncategorized/naturalist-new-wave-garde/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:AER53E75B47ZXJKL6IWG5HHBHE6VMHXX", "length": 4773, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.amystewart.com", "title": "Naturalist New Wave Garden Design | Amy Stewart", "raw_content": "Naturalist New Wave Garden Design\nI\u2019m going to take a moment and let you consider the idea of \u201cnew wave\u201d gardening. Go ahead and make a joke about incorporating the spirit of Devo into your perennial border. There, that was fun, wasn\u2019t it? OK, let\u2019s move on.\nGardeners do love their fads. Cottage gardens, tropical gardens, and Mediterranean gardens have all come in and out of vogue over the years. It seems like every plant combination has been tried; one wonders how anyone could possibly come up with a new way to arrange the same plants. But I was inspired by the garden designs of Dutch nurseryman Piet Oudolf from the minute I picked up his book Designing With Plants a couple years ago. (He has five glorious hardcover books out, all of which are published by Timber Press.) Oudolf and a few other garden designers in Europe have created a new movement in gardening\u2014what they call \u201cNew Wave\u201d\u2014and his books do a wonderful job of describing this new approach to garden design.\nThe guiding principle of his work is that structure, form, and texture should take precedence over color. Yeah, you heard me. Don\u2019t plant a garden of purples and blues. Put shapes together, and then think about how colors fit into that.\nOudolf looks at the shape of a plant and classifies it accordingly. That doesn\u2019t just mean looking at the shape of a flower\u2014after all, the plant won\u2019t be in bloom all year. A category of plants that form spires or spikes might include foxglove and salvia, but it might also include upright forms of grasses. Plants that create screens and curtains could include the airy meadow rue, but also tall, wispy grasses or even fennel or purple verbena, two plants that produce flowers on tall, thin stalks, giving the sense of height without blocking the view behind them. He takes the same approach with color, considering not just flowers that bloom in shades of red and burgundy, but grasses and foliage that provide those colors, too.\nSecond, he prefers perennials to shrubs and trees. He appreciates the fact that perennials change constantly, and that they are beautiful as they live and as they die. In fact, he considers the shape of a plant throughout the year, realizing that even as stalks become brittle and die in winter, they can still be part of a design.\nThese constant changes give a garden its mood. He writes that, \u201cSome gardens, particularly those created by landscape architects, are like monuments: frozen\u2026A garden that shows the cyclical nature of the gardening process is one that has emotion and mood.\u201d To capture mood, he considers how light falls on plants, how wind and rain move plants around, and even how flower stalks look when they are laced with dew-covered spider webs or covered in frost.\nFinally, he chooses plants that are hardy, appropriate to the climate, and that spread gently without being invasive. That approach allows plants to grow into each other, creating an almost shaggy, overgrown look that is both natural and abundant. These are not necessarily \u201cno fuss\u201d plants\u2014they might require deadheading, dividing, mulching, and feeding\u2014but the goal is to choose plants that can reach their full potential in the climate and soil you have, and that aren\u2019t bothered by pests and disease. In Oudolf\u2019s gardens, the plants must be able to stand up for themselves. Pull your socks up, plants! Solve your own problems. I like that approach.\nSome of his favorites are ornamental grasses; cimifuga (also called black snakeroot), which produce tall spikes of flowers followed by small, sturdy berries; and some well-behaved varieties of persicaria or knotweed. While knotweed had earned a bad reputation as an invasive plant, the varieties he favors, including Persicaria amplexicaulis, will spread slowly without getting weedy. He\u2019s also not necessarily opposed to a weed if it can fall into step and play nice with the other plants.\nWhat I love most about Oudolf\u2019s books is that his writing is so honest and opinionated. Most of the full-color, coffee table gardening books I buy are pure eye candy. I can\u2019t claim to read them for the articles; it really is all about the pictures. But even when Oudolf is writing a straightforward directory of plants, his personality shows through. His entry on echinacea, or purple coneflower, begins, \u201cIt is extremely frustrating to have to admit that Echinacea is not reliable\u2026They will not tolerate any competition from neighbouring plants: within two years they will have disappeared\u2026.we keep hoping, against our better judgment, that in the end we will be able to find the right spot for them, where they will be blessed with a long and happy life.\u201d\nPiet Oudolf\u2019s newest book, Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space, was just published by Timber Press. It\u2019s dreamy. Check it out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 5416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2017/allen-matkins/ucla-anderson-forecast-california-survey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AXYCIMKGUTUM3TKWY6NVL7PC7BU57WVF", "length": 7696, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.anderson.ucla.edu", "title": "Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Survey | UCLA Anderson School of Management", "raw_content": "> Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Survey\nCalifornia Commercial Real Estate Unchanged Following Election, Says Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California CRE Survey\nDespite the Unexpected Results of November 8th, Trends Continue from 2016\nLOS ANGELES, Feb. 1, 2017 \u2014 The Winter/Spring 2017 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, taken entirely after the November 8th election, shows no discernable economic shift, despite Hillary Clinton being the heavy favorite among state residents. The biannual survey projects a three-year-ahead outlook for California's commercial real estate industry and forecasts potential opportunities and challenges affecting office, multi-family, retail and industrial sectors. Observations from 2016 remained unchanged, and the natural cycle in commercial real estate appears to be running its course somewhat independent of the presidential contest.\nThe Winter/Spring 2017 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, taken entirely after the November 8th election, shows no discernable economic shift, despite Hillary Clinton being the heavy favorite among state residents. The biannual survey projects a three-year-ahead outlook for California's commercial real estate industry and forecasts potential opportunities and challenges affecting office, multi-family, retail and industrial sectors. Observations from 2016 remained unchanged, and the natural cycle in commercial real estate appears to be running its course somewhat independent of the presidential contest.\n\u201cThis third edition of the CES at Anderson will feature the latest innovations in terms of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality,\u201d says Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson associate professor of decisions, operations and technology management and faculty director of the Easton Technology Management Center. \u201cTechnology innovations, such as self-driving cars and computers detecting credit fraud or making health care recommendations, which seemed so far-fetched a few years ago, have now become reality. We are very excited to bring together a distinguished set of speakers and panelists to discuss their business implications.\u201d\nThe 2017 Winter/Spring Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey, infographic and related videos are available for download here on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 2:00 a.m. PST.\nKeynote addresses will be delivered by Neil Sahota, worldwide business development leader and master inventor, at IBM Watson Group; and Ravi Sawhney, founder and CEO of RKS Design and LoanGifting. Dyan Decker (\u201902), partner at PwC and leader of the company\u2019s U.S. forensic technology practice, will be participating in a Fireside Chat prior to lunch. The program will also include panel discussions by invited industry professionals and faculty from across the UCLA campus on topics featured at the recent CES\u00ae event in Las Vegas. The themes for this event will include: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Wearables, Big Data, Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Homes.\nMore Evidence of Topping Out in Office Space Markets\nThe latest survey provides continued evidence of a new topping out in the office market space. For each of the six California regions surveyed, the trend in positive developer sentiment\u2014which peaked in the middle of 2014\u2014has weakened, indicating we are experiencing the end of the office boom. Developers have become more pessimistic about real rental rate growth and vacancy rates. However, pessimistic sentiment does not mean office space demand is imploding. Rather, it says that one ought not expect it to be more robust in 2019 than it is today.\nFor the Southern California panels, sentiment has slowly diminished, indicating the survey participants believe the office market will be no better, but no worse, in three years. Those surveyed are still optimistic, but barely so.\nOutlook is different in the Bay Area. The San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and East Bay panels all think that by 2019 real rental rates and vacancy rates will be worse than today. The downward trend is now decidedly pessimistic relative to other markets, in spite of Propositions M and C, which limit both new building and the conversion of existing B and C office space in the city.\nMulti-Family Residential Markets: Too Much Housing?\nMulti-family developer optimism has remained strong and consistent over the first four years of the survey. The demand for multi-family housing tends to follow job growth in the more densely populated regions of California. Hence, one would expect multi-family housing demand to remain strong and builders to continue to churn out new units. But survey results suggest this market has topped out as well. This is one case where the trends were not there prior to developer sentiment turning down.\nWhile there have been limited new building permits for homes, California has been overbuilding high-end, multi-family housing. This has occurred both because job growth in tech has generated more high-income earners, and the cost of land in the coastal cities and the cost of the building process pushes builders away from low-to-no-margin apartments, except in less expensive parts of the state.\nIndustrial Markets Remain on Fire\nThe basic underlying economic forces driving the demand for industrial space in California are manufacturing; the export of goods to Asia and Mexico; U.S. importation of consumer goods from the manufacturing centers in Asia; and of increasing importance, e-commerce.\nThe current survey of industrial space developers indicates little change in sentiment compared to last year. Industrial markets, particularly the warehouse segment, remain on fire. This optimism, expressed in each of the regions surveyed, continues to be manifested in new building. With extremely low vacancy rates at present and an optimistic view by developers, the building boom should continue through at least 2019.\nThe shift to e-commerce is happening faster than warehouse space is being built, resulting in a strong demand for space. For example, warehouses in the San Pedro Bay to Inland Empire region used to be an extension of the ports, but are now an industry in their own right. The bump in income in late 2017 and early 2018 is forecast to push import growth even faster. In conjunction with e-commerce, this will continue the strong demand for warehouses.\nExperience-Shopping Trends Still Driving Retail\nFor the past several years, retail has been undergoing a profound change from distribution conduits to experience-shopping venues. Online purchases shift retail demand from brick and mortar distribution to warehouse distribution systems, and with the continued strength in industrial space, one would expect developers to have a negative sentiment towards retail. Yet, the survey only observes strong pessimism in Los Angeles and Orange County. The answer for the other regions may lie in recent increases in spending power in the Bay Area and San Diego, the increases in home construction, and a general move towards experience-based retail. Nationwide, brick and mortar retail is up, however, this is very location-specific. Many retailers in old-line outlets nationwide are reporting flat-to-negative sales numbers for the last holiday season.\nTax cuts and upscale shopping in the Bay Area may make developers optimistic overall, but perhaps not so much as to jump in with a new retail project. In Southern California, spending power has come to upscale consumers a little later, and the refurbishment of somewhat tired malls is now attractive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 984, "original_length": 37059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.andrewnadkarni.com/the-creators-workshop/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LV62BEWBGTATDXDAVGCRSXLJ2CL7GW6I", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.andrewnadkarni.com", "title": "THE CREATORS WORKSHOP \u2014 ANDREW NADKARNI", "raw_content": "THE CREATORS WORKSHOP\nPromotional video for The Creator's Workshop, which specializes in creativity development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aphorismsgalore.com/aphorisms/A-1946", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UQQHHBMFTU4TU7ZGCQBLDOZSMEONXRNN", "length": 78, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aphorismsgalore.com", "title": "Aphorisms Galore! \u00bb Always read stuff that will make you ...", "raw_content": "Always read stuff that will make you ...\nP. 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O'Rourke, in Art and Literature", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 118.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aphorismsgalore.com/aphorisms/A-2639", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHYPAOA3M2QPP4ZBAB4TW5H35LEKHCOO", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aphorismsgalore.com", "title": "Aphorisms Galore! \u00bb Reach for the moon and if you miss at...", "raw_content": "Reach for the moon and if you miss at...\nReach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.apo.co.nz/about-apo/guest-artists-2019/javier-perianes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GZXHVTPUJD33L2UDNUBFNX7IMQRZQJJT", "length": 2391, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.apo.co.nz", "title": "Javier Perianes | Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra", "raw_content": "\u201cHis demeanour and technique\u2026 radiate calm, yet the precision and speed of his fingerwork can be quite shattering. Seldom, if ever, have I encountered such a combination of evident modesty and utter brilliance\u201d (Sunday Times)\nThe international career of Javier Perianes has led him to perform in the most prestigious concert halls, with the world\u2019s top orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as Barenboim, Dutoit, Maazel, Mehta, Dudamel, Oramo, Temirkanov, Jurowski and Harding, and appearing at festivals such as BBC Proms, Mainly Mozart, Lucerne, La Roque d'Anth\u00e9ron, Grafenegg, San Sebastian, Granada and Ravinia. Described by The Telegraph as \u201ca pianist of impeccable and refined tastes, blessed with a warmth of touch\u201d, Perianes was awarded the \u2018National Music Prize\u2019 in 2012 by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and is International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) \u2018Artist of the Year 2019\u2019.\nIn the 2018/19 season, Perianes returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform a Beethoven Cycle over two consecutive evenings at the Royal Festival Hall after a Spanish tour with conductor Juanjo Mena. He will also perform Beethoven on tours in Australia and New Zealand, as well as touring the United States, performing Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 27 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, culminating with a return to New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall.\nIn addition to Mozart and Beethoven, Perianes performs this season works by Ravel, Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Grieg, Falla and Bart\u00f3k, with orchestras such as Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Toronto, St. Louis, San Francisco and Milwaukee Symphony orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Scottish and the Czech Philharmonic in his return to the Prague Spring Festival. In recital, Perianes undertakes an extensive European tour that will bring him to cities such as London, Paris, Frankfurt, Oslo, Lisbon, Istanbul, Barcelona and Madrid.\nPrevious seasons\u2019 highlights include concerts with Wiener Philhamoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, Philharmonia and Cleveland orchestras, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco Symphony orchestras, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, and Orchestre Symphonique de Montr\u00e9al.\nRecording exclusively for harmonia mundi, his latest albums include Schubert\u2019s sonatas D.960 and D.664, \u201ca true lyric gift\u201d (Gramophone), and Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Concerto No. 3 with M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker and Heras-Casado.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 168.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.apo.co.nz/about-apo/meet-the-apo-principals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XRMAHOZACD4VP5WBYKX44PYURKH5MOSV", "length": 138, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.apo.co.nz", "title": "Meet The APO Principals | Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra", "raw_content": "'Meet the APO Principals' is a series of interviews that highlight some of the principal musicians in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 2718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 163.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/shropshire/longslow/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DUVAOEE2PNP7JDNWVHPAKZA6SWCOVBKH", "length": 3220, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.architectural-designers.co.uk", "title": "Architectural Design Services in Longslow", "raw_content": "Architectural Design Services in Longslow\nSpecialist Home Architects in Longslow\nArchitectural Designers in Longslow\nWe offer professional architectural design services in Longslow TF9 3 for a range of projects in domestic homes and other buildings. With our expert knowledge we can create the right plans to extend or convert different parts of your house. This can include things like kitchen extensions and loft or cellar conversions to help you make the most of your space.\nPlease contact us today using the enquiry form on this page if you have any questions about what we offer as expert architects. We\u2019ll get back to you as soon as possible with more details on the costs and specifications. You can also look here - http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/garage/shropshire/longslow/ to see how we can help transform and construct a garage.\nMany people now choose to have their loft or basement converted in Longslow TF9 3 into a more usable space like a bedroom or office. This is one architecture design services that we also offer. This is commonly done for homeowners who want to create more space as an alternative to moving house. The area in a loft or attic is often wasted or used for storage, but it can be converted into a room for regular use.\nThe same applies to basements and cellars http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/basement/shropshire/longslow/ which could also be redeveloped into a habitable space. In many cases there is no need for planning permission when you\u2019re looking to convert a loft or basement as the work is within the structure of your existing house. It\u2019s important to consider all the options and how you will use the converted area. You might choose to turn it into a bedroom, office, work studio, children\u2019s playroom or anything else you can think of. Deciding on this will help us to decide the right architectural specifications which will suit the function and what you need.\nHousing Redevelopment Specialists in Longslow\nHome redevelopment http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/redevelopment/shropshire/longslow/ can consist of many changes to the property, and it really varies for each project. It could include things like adding an extension, loft conversion, or changing the layout of different rooms or parts in the house. Some people might even be looking to convert a house into flats or carry out more extensive construction work.\nPlease contact us for more architectural information about what we offer if you\u2019re looking to carry out home improvement works. Just complete the contact box on this page to let us know what you need and we\u2019ll get back to you as soon as we can with further details on costs. Our team can complete plans for things like loft conversions, house extensions and many other redevelopment options. These architectural design services in Longslow TF9 3 can be tailored to suit you and your budget, so don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with us today.\nSpecialist Architectural Designers in LongslowAttic Conversion Company in LongslowSpecialist Basement Conversions in LongslowHome Extension Architects in LongslowSpecialist Garage Conversions in LongslowHouse Refurbishment Specialists in LongslowExpert Cellar Conversions in Longslow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aretsky-law.com/dolores-aretsky.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NKCWEVTERCT2DCKE2JJMLU5RWIMEKP5K", "length": 1134, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.aretsky-law.com", "title": "Dolores Aretsky | New Jersey Divorce Lawyers Aretsky Law Group", "raw_content": "Dedicated New Jersey divorce and family law attorney Dolores L. Aretsky is an accomplished trial lawyer with over 25 years of experience. Ms. Aretsky focuses her practice in these areas:\nHaving earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York and her Juris Doctorate degree from Pace University School of Law, Ms. Aretsky was admitted to practice law in New Jersey in 1988.\nMs. Aretsky is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and was also selected to be a member of the Justice Morris Pashman Inns of Court and the Barry Croland Family Law Inns of Court.\nHaving completed the 40 hour training program offered by the Board on Continuing Legal Education, Dolores Aretsky is a Court Approved Divorce & Family Law Mediator. As such, she is listed on the Roster of Mediators for Economic Aspects of Family Law Cases in Bergen County and has assisted many couples reach an amicable agreement. Ms. Aretsky will mediate in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, and Morris counties.\nHunter College, New York, NY\nBar Admissions New Jersey, 1988\nDolores Aretsky | New Jersey Divorce Lawyers Aretsky Law Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.argoruestmanharris.com/obituaries/Esther-Sutter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:IUZMEZSMZ56AZYVT2U4MIG3NPHTIWIVU", "length": 460, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.argoruestmanharris.com", "title": "Esther Sutter Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Esther Sutter\nEsther Elizabeth Sutter, 90, of Eureka, IL passed away at 9:37 a.m., Monday, June 19, 2017 at Maple Lawn Health Center where she had been a resident since September of 2013. She was born January 28, 1927 in rural Gridley, IL to Edward C. and... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Esther Sutter created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nEsther Elizabeth Sutter, 90, of Eureka, IL passed away at 9:37...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2018/11/06/new-high-schools-location-could-decided-wednesday/1906873002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:AIAL5ESVR6BUWOOADZ57OVO2FQM3OU4D", "length": 5266, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.argusleader.com", "title": "New high school's location could be decided Wednesday", "raw_content": "School board set to decide new high school's location as early as Wednesday\nIf you wanted to weigh in on the new school's location, Wednesday may be your only chance.\nSchool board set to decide new high school's location as early as Wednesday If you wanted to weigh in on the new school's location, Wednesday may be your only chance. Check out this story on argusleader.com: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2018/11/06/new-high-schools-location-could-decided-wednesday/1906873002/\nShelly Conlon, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 4:25 p.m. CT Nov. 6, 2018 | Updated 5:06 p.m. CT Nov. 6, 2018\nA map from Architecture, Inc. highlights eight possible sites for a new Sioux Falls high school.(Photo11: Submitted)\nIf you're wanting to give your 2 cents on where the Sioux Falls School District should build its new $84 million high school, you might only get one chance.\nThe Sioux Falls school board will hold a work session Wednesday afternoon to discuss \u2014 and potentially decide \u2014 the location from a list of eight possible spots the district has been weighing on the northwest side of town since early October.\nIt's the second meeting on the topic, but after the first meeting took place behind closed doors, Wednesday's meeting may be the first time board members publicly discuss how they've narrowed their options for the new building.\nMore: Decision on where to put new Sioux Falls high school taking longer than planned\nAnd the board could very well make a decision during that meeting, Board President Kent Alberty said Tuesday.\nTypically, work sessions are used to look more closely at certain issues and don't often end in some kind of public action or decision by the board, but this could be an exception, Alberty said.\n\"I think we could make a decision, but as you know, I\u2019m one of five people,\" Alberty said. \"What we\u2019ll do tomorrow is look at the options the steering committee has been working hard to narrow down and what they think are the most viable pieces of land.\"\nKent Alberty (Photo11: Emily Spartz/Argus Leader)\nThe first work session, held last Friday, occurred mostly in closed session, and no new information about the properties had been revealed afterward.\nMore: Sioux Falls School District remains tight-lipped on new high school location\nInitially, Superintendent Brian Maher made it sound like the first work session would give the public a chance to hear details about the properties the board would heavily consider.\nYet little has been revealed about the properties since voters passed $190 million bond in September, which included building the new high school by 2021 or 2022.\nSo far, the only major piece of information to come out since the election has been a map from the architect involved with surveying the land and the fact that a 35-acre donation from Sanford Health earlier this year is still on the table.\nMore: District looking at 8 sites for a new high school, and they're almost ready to name it\nAlberty promised Tuesday, though, the public would have a chance to hear some of the pros and cons about the properties considered, adding he expected to have a \"very open dialogue\" about the topic.\n\"Time is of the essence on this, so we have the potential to make that decision tomorrow,\" Alberty said.\nThough not much information came from the first meeting, Board Vice President Cynthia Mickelson said the work session was meant to make sure the board stayed with the bond's timeline to have the high school open by fall 2021.\nShe, too, said a decision could come Wednesday afternoon and anticipates a good discussion, but she hasn't spoken with any of the other board members about the possibility. And she indicated that the eight options have yet to be narrowed down because the board wants to be cognizant of cost if they choose not to go with Sanford's donated land.\n\"Each of us have our favorites, but we're trying to keep it as flexible as possible from our perspective to make sure we're not eliminated something too early,\" Mickelson said.\nBoard members have also held several meetings with staff to get a possible design for the high school narrowed down, too, she said.\nIf the board decides on land Wednesday, the district will put out a request for a construction manager at risk possibly by Nov. 14, and make a decision on the potential manager by Nov. 26, she said.\nShe hopes designs for the campus will be finalized late December or early January, she said.\nTime will be given to those wishing to address the school board about the new school's location, but speakers must arrive at least five minutes before the meeting to sign up to speak, according to board policy.\nThe meeting starts at 3 p.m. at the Instructional Planning Center, 201 E. 38th St.\nMickelson also said the district is still searching for land for the new middle school, also expected to open by fall 2021 or fall 2022 on the southeast side of town. But there's no specific timeline for when a decision could be made yet, she said.\n\"Since it's a smaller site, the construction might take shorter time,\" Mickelson said. \"But the sooner we can find something, the better.\"\nRead or Share this story: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2018/11/06/new-high-schools-location-could-decided-wednesday/1906873002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 7099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/11/28/its-official-the-army-is-bringing-drill-sergeants-back-to-ait/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:20Z", "digest": "sha1:O4D4DWEOAGKGOK5Q6ECBMOK3O3NIZMZZ", "length": 2992, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.armytimes.com", "title": "It's official: The Army is bringing drill sergeants back to AIT", "raw_content": "It's official: The Army is bringing drill sergeants back to AIT\nThe Army is bringing drill sergeants back to advanced individual training. (Sgt. Felix R. Fimbres/Army)\nFor much of 2017, Army Training and Doctrine Command kept hinting that the advanced individual training platoon sergeant experiment was over.\nAs of Nov. 17, the Army has decided to bring drill sergeants back to AIT, after receiving a sign-off by Ray Horoho, the acting assistant Army secretary for manpower and reserve affairs.\n\u201cCurrently, USACIMT is working with Department of the Army-level staff and other stakeholders to get all the required administrative pieces in place before implementation can begin,\u201d Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pray, a spokesman for the Center for Initial Military Training, told Army Times. \u201cHowever, we do expect drill sergeants to start transitioning to AIT in 2018.\u201d\nThe move is part of a sweeping review at CIMT of the Army\u2019s basic training program of instruction, begun last summer by new commander Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost.\n\u201cI am trying to assess the enterprise through what I think is the No. 1 sphere of influence in that enterprise, and that is the drill sergeant and the AIT platoon sergeant,\u201d he told Army Times in September.\nUnits need more fit, disciplined soldiers, so TRADOC is looking at a basic training overhaul\nWith the Army\u2019s end strength on an upswing and growing concerns about the fitness of newly minted soldiers, the Center for Initial Military Training is launching a study into the Army\u2019s entire program of instruction for making soldiers.\nIn the end, officials felt that drill sergeants \u2014 both their training and what they represent to new soldiers \u2014 would be the best stewards of competency and discipline at AIT.\nDrill sergeants already run One Station Unit Training, which is offered for military occupational specialties such as infantry and military police and combines basic training and AIT.\nAIT platoon sergeants have only existed for the past decade, TRADOC Command Sgt. 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Dave Davenport told Army Times in October, but it was time to re-think them.\n\u201cIn basic training, the drill sergeant is the authority figure,\u201d Davenport said. \u201cAnd when we brought AIT platoon sergeants in to replace drill sergeants, it was really about them beginning the transition to the role of the noncommissioned officer.\u201d\nTRADOC CSM: Bring drill sergeants back to AIT\nOver 10 years ago, the Army introduced the concept of the advanced individual platoon sergeant: A noncommissioned officer who would lead new soldiers, fresh out of basic, through their second round of training before heading into their first units.\nBut as it turns out, AIT soldiers could use the continuity of drill sergeants to cement their initial training until the end.\n\u201cIn 14 weeks we have to transform them from their civilian ways \u2014 socialize them, is what I\u2019m trying to say \u2014 into our culture, our values, our way of doing things,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that drill sergeant can really drive that behavior, that process.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 9610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artbybrittanykolbe.com/mbr_statement.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AHL77UYY4OKVTQIWZBDVAIKIP45CNG6N", "length": 825, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.artbybrittanykolbe.com", "title": "Art By Brittany Kolbe | Artist Statement", "raw_content": "I am in awe of nature and strive to capture the variations of light found in the landscape, the bright colors of cultivated gardens, or a narrative aspect that grabs my intrigue. 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Kellogg\u2019s commercials and John Carpenter movie sound tracks, New Age schlock and abstract hip-hop all overtly cop such minimalist trademarks as repetitive keyboard vamps and hallucinatory vocal cut-ups. Indeed, from its inception in the early \u201960s, musical minimalism actively blurred the boundaries between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201cmass\u201d art, \u201cclassical\u201d and \u201cpopular\u201d music. Breaking with the confines of academic serialism and the decorum of the concert hall, the minimalists forged connections with the icons of art pop and found a new fan base in rock clubs. The raspy drones of La Monte Young\u2019s \u201cEternal Music\u201d provided the backdrop for the Velvet Underground\u2019s late-\u201960s psychedelia. 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The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Please click here for the public disclosure statement regarding accreditation status.\nAbout The Art Institute Online\nAi Fashion School Instructor, Dr. Andrew Burnstine, Talks Golden Globe Fashion on WPTV\nDr. Andrew Burnstine, fashion instructor at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh\u2014Online Programs, was recently featured on WPTV\u2019s segment on the Golden Globes. Burnstine.\n5 Essential Photography Tips and Tricks for Beginners\nEvery photographer starts somewhere. If you\u2019re a beginner, these five essential photography tips and tricks can help you level up your photography fast.\n5 Important Steps on How to Become a Photographer\nIf you\u2019re serious about taking photography from a hobby to a profession, here are the five most important steps to follow for becoming a photographer.\nJulian Vankim\nDigital Photography , 2013\n\u201cPrior to being a student, I had some knowledge about photography but taking classes helped me to [rekindle] my passion.\u201d\nPrimary Assistant to Editor in Chief and Creative Director at D.C. Weekly Publication\nJulian Vankin is a production assistant and senior photographer for Metro Weekly, a Washington, D.C. LGBT publication. He\u2019s the primary assistant to the editor in chief and creative director. Julian works behind the scenes, editing photographs from other staff photographers. He also completes shoots that he\u2019s been assigned. \u201cMetro Weekly is an LGBT news magazine. That itself brings an impact to a certain audience by [providing] breaking news, focusing on local heroes and communities, and reporting any hate crimes. If my photography can bring a certain level of impact in the community, I\u2019m happy and proud to be a part of it,\u201d he says.\nJulian admits to experiencing creative blocks in his career. \u201cThere was a time I didn\u2019t want to do any photography because I was uninspired and unmotivated. My photography was losing quality because I was only doing my jobs for the money\u2014and it showed. Over time, I reevaluated my passion and began to rebuild my portfolio. Starting fresh certainly helps.\u201d\nFinding his creative passion allowed Julian to demonstrate a high level of commitment to his current job. He says that his education provided the knowledge he needed to succeed\u2014and proved to his employer that Julian had the dedication to obtain his four-year degree.\nHe adds that school helped him to understand how to work the camera, edit, archive, network, and be creative. \u201cPrior to being a student, I had some knowledge about photography but taking classes helped me to [rekindle] my passion.\u201d\nJulian, who in 2013 earned a Bachelor of Science in Photography from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh\u2014Online Division, says that current students should understand that there are many types of photography\u2014wedding, fashion, journalism, and wildlife, among others. \u201cDon\u2019t limit yourself to one aspect of photography. Open your mind and try many opportunities.\u201d\nKaren Wojcik\nGraphic & Web Design , 2016\n\u201cI was 50 years old and starting college. I was on a new journey.\u201d\nBegan Her Creative Studies at the age of 50, Fulfilled Lifelong Ambition for a Creative Career\nKaren Wojcik says that she\u2019s been an artist since the age of five. \u201cIn second grade, our music teacher would play songs of famous children\u2019s stories on a record player and the class would have to draw a picture of how we would visualize the story. That is when I first heard [Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s] Peter and the Wolf and I knew art meant more to me than anything in the world.\u201d Today, Karen fuels her creativity through her work as a self-employed visual and multimedia artist and animator, fiction writer, and web designer and developer.\nHer path to a creative career continued in junior high school when she created a large mosaic out of old magazines. In high school, she took courses in calligraphy, ceramics, jewelry making, advanced illustration, and commercial art. \u201cI learned package designing and letter making. Following this process, I also learned how to draw out and measure a layout for a cereal box package, create creative lettering, hold an air brushing gun.\u201d\nBut soon her creative path was halted. It was 1974 and after returning from a high school career night with brochures from local colleges, Karen\u2019s mom told her that college was only for women looking to find a husband. [Her mom later said that she wished she\u2019d encouraged Karen to follow her creative path]. Karen threw away the brochures and started drawing as a hobby. She dropped out of high school but later earned her diploma through an adult education program. During that time, she made posters for musicians and created signs for local restaurants. Then, in her second marriage, she found the creative support she needed to return to school for an advanced degree.\n\u201cBefore I had signed up at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh\u2014Online Division, I was sitting at [a bookstore] and overheard two art teachers talking about a young college student\u2019s experience in graphics. The teachers were worried that they were going to lose their jobs because their skills were outdated. [I got home and looked up] The Art Institute of Pittsburgh\u2014Online Division.\u201d She enrolled in courses despite questioning herself. \u201cI was 50 years old and starting college. I was on a new journey.\u201d She completed a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design in 2016. Read More...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 8989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/graduates/2017/student/abhishek-thapar/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:A73ZAET6HA5P5ZZUT25722L67XLMNXA3", "length": 2695, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.atd.ahk.nl", "title": "Abhishek Thapar - Lichting 2017 - Academy of Theatre and Dance", "raw_content": "Abbu1985@gmail.com\nIf you are looking for a space to reflect on your artistic practice and develop new way of thinking about contemporary arts & the world we live in now, DAS Theatre is the Intersection.\nAbhishek Thapar is a theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and teacher from India. He holds a post-graduate degree in Creating Theatre and Performance from the London International School of Performing Arts (UK).\nThapar has worked extensively as a performer and creator in Asia and Europe with various companies i.e. The Primetime Theatre Co. (Mumbai), IAPAR (Pune), Flame School of Performing Arts (Pune), Hrishikesh Centre of Contemporary Dance (Pune), Mirror-Mirror Theatre Co. (London), Terra Nova Productions (Belfast), Flinntheater (Berlin).\nIn 2013, he founded the theatre company Three Ring Circus, where as an artistic director, he has developed two projects: The E-Story and #kthanksbye. Simultaneously, he has been performing in productions The Balancing Act by IAPAR and Krishna\u2019s Elite by Flinntheater. Both productions have toured at theatre festivals and venues in India, Sri Lanka and Germany.\nThapar is one of the core-founding members of International Association for Performing Arts and Research (IAPAR) and International Theatre Institute (ITI, India Centre) based in Pune. Pedagogically, he creates theatre programs for colleges and universities across India i.e. Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts (SSLA), Foundation for Liberal Arts and Management Education (FLAME), Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM, Bangalore).\nI plan to continue my practice as an autonomous maker and slowly creating my base in Amsterdam.\nMy home at the Intersection\nWhen I was growing up, my parents always told me, \u2018There is a big storm coming, we might have to leave\u2019. Since then, Amsterdam is the 13th city I have lived in, and it\u2019s only now that I begin to ask myself, what makes a home? How does one deal with memories and conflicting histories? For the last one year, I have been working with certain historical narratives of Punjab, a state in the northwest part of India and of my family, our life there as well. \u2018My home at the Intersection\u2019 is a work, which I have been growing towards since I first started making theatre in my teens but could never gain courage to actualize it. In December last year, I went back to my childhood home in Moga with my family, to a place, which we all thought we had forgotten about. Together we created a performance.\nSick Festival, Manchester (2016), \u2018Watch & Talk\u2019 Program, Fribourg (2016), New world Summit, Oslo (2016), Other Stories Festival, Amsterdam (2017), Makers Day - Het Huis, Utrecht (2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/revolution-house", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GVBWQKC6V2T6BOTRB6P3XFHQ5AASZ2PO", "length": 3434, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.atlasobscura.com", "title": "Revolution House \u2013 Old Whittington, England - Atlas Obscura", "raw_content": "A secret meeting in this small cottage changed the course of British history.\nRevolution House. Alan Heardman (cc by-sa 2.0)\nRevolution House. Paul Harrop (cc by-sa 2.0)\nRevolution House. Neil Theasby (cc by-sa 2.0)\nPlaque. Neil Theasby (cc by-sa 2.0)\nRevolution House with the current Cock and Magpie at the rear SMJ (Creative Commons)\nA secret meeting held within this stone thatched cottage changed the course of British history. It was here that in 1688 three conspirators who eventually succeeded in unseating King James II met to hatch their plans.\nAlnwick Poison Gardens\nThe sign at the garden gate reads: \"These Plants Can Kill.\"\nRuins of the Crystal Palace\nThe remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.\nTwo women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.\nAdded by fi\nIn this insignificant-looking building, a small group plotted to invite William of Orange, husband of King James\u2019 protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and force the king to name Mary as heir to the throne. This invitation helped bring about the downfall of King James II and led to William and Mary\u2019s rule.\nThe Earl of Danby, John D\u2019Arcy, and the Earl of Devonshire (later to become Duke) originally intended to meet outside disguised as a hunting party, away from earshot of anyone who might put an end to their scheme. However, England\u2019s infamously foul weather caused them to move their secret meeting indoors.\nThe dramatic change in the monarchy these men helped instigate came to be known as the Glorious Revolution. It later resulted in the Act of Settlement, which established the Hanoverian line of succession (and thus possibly was a factor in the start of the American Revolution).\nBack when the clandestine meeting took place, what\u2019s now the Revolution House was a pub called the Cock and Pynot (pynot is a local word for magpie). About 50 dignitaries met at Revolution House in 1788 on the centennial of the Glorious Revolution, while it was still an alehouse. The procession was led by the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess, and the Mayor of Chesterfield.\nToday, the house contains a small museum featuring period furnishings and exhibitions about local history. There\u2019s also a video explaining the revolution. Nearby, there\u2019s currently a pub called the Cock and Magpie. It opened in 1790 when the original Cock and Pynot was converted into a residence.\nAdmission is free and the house is open on Saturday, Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays from March 31 to September 30, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.\nrevolutionroyaltygovernmentpoliticshouseshistorymuseums\n2 Church St N\nSouth Yorkshire & North Derbyshire\nBY ALAN NEWMAN\nThe former home of a railway legend and the site of a gigantic labyrinth.\nChesterfield Snail\nThis enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.\nChesterfield's Crooked Spire\nThe whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.\nArkwright Town, England\nWhen methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.\nThe oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.\nBare-Chested George Washington\nPerhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.\nThe Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 371, "original_length": 10532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atpeaz.com/category/announcements/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7OKWT4VXFQNFLD42DLBDL5SJV5D5QK34", "length": 219, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.atpeaz.com", "title": "Announcements Archives - @Peaz 2.0", "raw_content": "Updated theme\u2026and a little trouble\u2026\nI\u2019ve just updated to the latest version of the WordPress theme I\u2019ve been using. While it\u2019s pretty cool overall, there are a few little nagging issues with it and I am trying to get...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 119.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audi.com/en/experience-audi/mobility-and-trends/working-world/icy-working-conditions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2BNRU4TTSIQRK7624OPBJIKWKBEHB6G7", "length": 6007, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.audi.com", "title": "Icy working conditions | audi.com", "raw_content": "As soon as the temperatures sink into minus figures, Lapland transforms each year into a hotspot for vehicle testing. This winter, prototypes of the first purely electric series model of the brand with the four rings took their places on the Audi test site. The optimum preparation of the tracks on snow and ice is taken care of by a team well-versed in the vastness of the adjacent mountainous archipelago with nearly 9,000 lakes, and that is familiar with the harsh winters. Lenny provides an insight into work on the ice lake.\nEditorial: The test site is located in northern Sweden. This region offers optimal conditions for testing vehicles in extreme cold. How bitter is the climate throughout the year?\nLenny: In this area, we have very long winters. The summer months are mostly limited to June, July and August. The rest of the year can be quite cold; temperatures of \u201320\u00b0 to \u201325\u00b0 during the day are not uncommon. Even snow in May is not unusual here.\nSo winter is the defining season?\nIndeed. The degree to which this is true can perhaps be illustrated by the descriptions of this season: here in northern Sweden, we have coined an extra season \u2013 \u2018spring winter\u2019. Gid\u00e1d\u00e1lvve in Sami. This season includes the months of March and April. After several months of harsh winter weather, gid\u00e1d\u00e1lvve brings back both warmth and light.\nWinter is the high season for vehicle tests on snow and ice. Which month exactly does it begin?\nSince we are dependent on the weather, we cannot define the start of the season exactly. But we usually start in November with the preparation of the tracks on the lake. We measure the thickness of the ice through holes or using special radar measuring devices.\nA vehicle such as the first purely electrically driven series model from Audi brings with it a certain weight. How thick must the ice be in order to carry the weight of a vehicle?\nIn the depths of winter, the ice has a thickness of around 90 centimetres. This is very stable and carries vehicles of up to 25 tonnes. The value for when the test drives are possible on the ice varies. This depends on what kind of ice we find. We check the values several times per week. Safety is our top priority.\nHow do you distinguish between the different types?\nThe best and most stable ice is formed when we have very cold temperatures and no snowfall. If there are temperature fluctuations in this period, then the conditions are perfect. This creates compact ice that can withstand a high load. Snow makes things more difficult. This year \u2013 unfortunately, from our point of view \u2013 a lot has fallen.\nWhy does the snow make working on the ice more difficult?\nSnow is like an insulating sleeve, which restricts the growth of the ice. This is not optimal for our purposes. Before the start of the season, the lake was completely snowed in, so we had to have a think: we bored holes in the ice by hand so that the water could penetrate to the top. The ice cover sagged a little with all the snow and was basically \u2018flooded\u2019. We didn\u2019t count, but made a rough calculation \u2013 the area of the lake requires around 10,000 of them. The introduction of water is an integral part of our work \u2013 but usually it does not require measures of this scale.\n\u201e In the depths of winter, the ice has a thickness of around 90 centimetres. This is very stable and carries vehicles of up to 25 tonnes. \u201c\nWhat\u2019s more, with the melting of the lake\u2019s ice layer, the routes are visible for the longest time. Then the tracks drift on the water for a while \u2013 a bizarre image with which you bid farewell as you enter the summer months.\nBefore the pre-production vehicles are allowed on the ice, the tracks need to be prepared. When do you dare to venture on the frozen surface with the track team for the first time?\nWhen the ice is around 10 cm thick, we can start with the preparations for the season. At first, we only go out on the lake with light equipment such as snowmobiles, but we also have heavier vehicles like snowblowers or snow ploughs. These are only used when the ice is appropriately thicker, however. If there is snow on the ice, it must be packed with water so that compact ice is formed and the cold can penetrate the layer.\nWinter is the peak season. What is the test site like in the summer?\nIn the summer months, things are quieter here. But work doesn\u2019t shut down entirely. Tests are also conducted with tracks on land in the off-season. What\u2019s more, with the melting of the lake\u2019s ice layer, the routes are visible for the longest time. Then the tracks drift on the water for a while \u2013 a bizarre image with which you bid farewell as you enter the summer months. The winter is important for my job; in private, though, I prefer the summer. I like being outside in nature and going fishing with my children, for example. The lakes in this area are therefore always a central theme somehow \u2013 but especially when they are frozen.\nLenny, grew up in a small town adjacent to the test site. At 16, he began devoting himself to preparing the tracks on the test site. His favourite season is summer \u2013 then the amount of time demanded by his profession is not as high and he can peacefully pursue his hobby: fishing. Year after year, Lenny and the rest of the team, with the help of GPS devices, ensure that exactly the same course paths are developed, and that they are always optimally prepared. A job that keeps the team busy around the clock in the winter. The employees are available day and night via shift work.\nEmployees & Society09/20/2018\nThe power of unconscious bias\nUnconscious biases are judgments that we make subconsciously about the skills and abilities of different persons or groups. They are the result of unconscious mental patterns that assign certain stereotypes to people. The decisions we make each and every day are influenced by these biases.\nBrand09/05/2018\nThe 32 year-old exterior designer Jason Battersby lives and breathes his work at the Ingolstadt Design Centre - and he has a burning passion for Star Wars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 13183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audiblefeast.com/audible-feasts-best-podcasts-of-april-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:G7MVZ6ZWHVXMEUQV3HDXAHWBP6MCANZD", "length": 4328, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.audiblefeast.com", "title": "Audible Feast's Best Podcasts of April 2018 - Audible Feast", "raw_content": "Audible Feast > Best of > Audible Feast\u2019s Best Podcasts of April 2018\nHere are the best podcast episodes (and a list of the podcasts that appeared on my Delicious Ingredients list more than once this month) that I listened to in April 2018 \u2013 the best of the best. This month I listened to 225 episodes.\nBest Episodes of April 2018\nStartUp: Arlan Hamilton 1: Silicon Valley, By Invite Only (4/26/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cSilicon Valley is leaving money on the table, and Arlan Hamilton will go to extremes to prove it. She\u2019s a venture capitalist like no other \u2014 black, female, gay \u2014 and she\u2019s out to prove that investors in the Valley are overlooking big returns they could tap into by investing in more outsiders. Arlan calls them \u201cunderestimated\u201d founders, and she\u2019s planning to get as rich as Richard Branson by investing in them. But her thesis is still untested, and she\u2019s running out of time to show Silicon Valley what she\u2019s got.\u201c\nThe Brain Candy Podcast, Episode 215: A Very Special Brain Candy \u2014 Sarah\u2019s Story (4/25/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cWe thought today\u2019s show was going to bring a joyful surprise, but instead it is a difficult one. Hear what\u2019s been going on with Sarah, and why she hasn\u2019t been herself lately. We also discuss crazy news stories like the woman who was embalmed alive, Katy Perry\u2019s questionable shoes, roads that play music, and more.\u201d\nTroll Play: Poison Pen Letters and a LOT of Milk (4/19/18) What it\u2019s about: \u201cAlice, Cal and Sami talk about weird YouTube comments, a hand written troll letter and a forum dedicated to drinking a gallon of milk a day.\u201d\nFresh Air: James Comey (4/17/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cThe former FBI director tells Terry Gross that he wants to sound the alarm about the \u201cforest fire\u201d of the Trump presidency \u2014 and also to defend the FBI against charges of partisanship. \u201cPeople love the FBI when they think it\u2019s on their side,\u201d Comey says. \u201cWe were not \u2014 and are not \u2014 on anybody\u2019s side.\u201d Comey talks about being fired by President Trump, hiding from the president in a curtain, and the origin of his now-famous use of the word \u201clordy.\u201d His new memoir is \u2018A Higher Loyalty.'\u201d\nToday, Explained: The $43,000 Phone Booth (4/17/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cScott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is facing a host of new scandals: a $43,000 soundproof phone booth, a security detail to Disneyland, and even using a siren on his car to get to a restaurant faster. But Vox\u2019s Umair Irfan says that behind these controversies, Pruitt\u2019s EPA has been one of the most consequential government agencies in the Trump administration.\u201d\nDeath in Ice Valley, Episode 1: The Isdal Woman (4/15/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cSome graves hold more secrets than others. No relatives attended her funeral and she had died in terrible circumstances.\u201d\nLatina to Latina: Orange is the New Black\u2019s Jackie Cruz (4/10/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cActor. Musician. Activist. How Jackie Cruz creates her own path (in and out of the spotlight).\u201d\nLost Notes: Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD (4/12/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cPirate radio station WBAD in New York was a beloved source for fans of underground, unsanitized hip-hop in the 1990s, but how high could this illegal operation fly while also staying under the radar?\u201d\nInflection Point with Lauren Schiller: Is \u2018Girl Power\u2019 Creating a Mental Health Crisis? \u2013 Rachel Simmons, Author \u201cEnough As She Is\u201d (4/11/18): What it\u2019s about: \u201cFor many girls today, the relentless pursuit of accomplishment is fueled by harsh self-criticism and an acute fear of failure. Rachel Simmons has been researching young women for two decades, and her research plainly shows that girl competence does not equal girl confidence\u2014nor does it equal happiness, resilience, or self-worth. As an educator and author of \u201cEnough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives\u201d, Rachel teaches girls and women skills to build their resilience, amplify their voices, and own their courage so that they\u2014and their relationships\u2014live with integrity and health.\u201d\nBest Podcasts of April 2018\nThe Brain Candy Podcast\nShowcase from Radiotopia: Errthang\nFollow me on social media \u2013 @Audible_Feast or Facebook.com/AudibleFeast!\n\u2039 Episode Review: The Brain Candy Podcast #215: Sarah\u2019s Story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/fern-my-story/234218", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EV53KV4G3WUIQSW4WHEHFR4NKI2GU7T3", "length": 1250, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.audiobooks.com", "title": "Listen to Fern: My Story by Fern Britton at Audiobooks.com", "raw_content": "Written By: Fern Britton\nNarrated By: Fern Britton\nFern Britton, the much-loved presenter of This Morning reads her inspirational story in the abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of her best-selling autobiography.\nFor years now, Fern Britton has been widely loved as the presenter of Ready Steady Cook, and, more recently, co-presenter of This Morning with Philip Schofield. Never one to shy away from a good laugh or cry on national TV, she has none-the-less never talked about herself to the public, preferring to keep her private life private. Her warmth and humour, empathy and compassion, have made her feel like a best friend to millions on a daily basis, but no one knows the woman behind the sparkling smile.\nNow, for the first time, she is going to tell her story, in her own voice. And it is one that will strike a chord with women everywhere. Life as a child was not always easy, and she faced private and public challenges with her personal life, appearance and her career as she climbed the ladder to fame. Now a full-time working mum, with a very happy marriage to her second husband Phil Vickery, she is at the top of her game, and ready to tell it like it is. So put your feet up and get ready for a great listen.\nby Fern Britton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.auspop.com.au/2008/11/obamamania/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:53L5G5SU52DFCKWXD4UOSE5SJIX3EU25", "length": 650, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.auspop.com.au", "title": "OBAMAMANIA | auspOp", "raw_content": "Stars from the world of music are seemingly thrilled with the election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States Of America \u2013 Madonna is seen in this clip below, taken from her concert in San Diego this week, getting very passionate about the senator\u2019s victory, flashing up a picture of Obama with the words \u2018We Won\u2019 subtitled on the screen.\nAnd in this clip, parts of Obama\u2019s victory speech have been worked around the new Seal video for \u2018A Change Is Gonna Come\u2019. It works to great effect too.\nFiled Under: Seal, Video Featuring: Madonna\nPrevious Post: \u00ab MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARD WINNERS\nNext Post: GNARLS BARKLEY : Mystery Man \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 15545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2018-10-05/colette/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TOP3LQEPPJEE7TN7UVJGFIG3QRIJ6CQW", "length": 2842, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.austinchronicle.com", "title": "Colette - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle", "raw_content": "2018, R, 111 min. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart, Robert Pugh.\nIf you aren\u2019t a Francophile, or versed in early 20th century popular fiction of that particular Gallic country, you can be forgiven for having a blind spot about Colette (Knightley), n\u00e9e Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, an extremely popular novelist, whose Claudine series was the talk of Paris during those years, with its scintillating prose and provocative activities. The fact that this series of novels was published under the name of her husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars (West) aka \u201cWilly,\" makes up most of the drama in this biopic of the lauded author.\nBorn in rural France, Colette soon gets swept up by Willy and the decadent Parisian lifestyle, although, in the beginning of their matrimony, he tended to keep her secluded while he sowed his oats elsewhere. When her reminiscences of an idyllic past, coupled with some saucy injections, prove to be a hit (under his name, of course, because female authors don\u2019t sell books. George Sand, anyone?), Colette is given a freedom she has never enjoyed, if only for a time. She and Willy enter into an agreement that lets them both discover their own desires: His tend toward just being an often destitute libertine (there are more than a few scenes of him selling off various pieces of furniture to pay their debts), but hers veer toward the sapphic. That the director Westmoreland (of the Alzheimer's epic Still Alice) relies on the linchpin of Colette\u2019s sexuality to provide the majority of the drama in this lavish, but frankly, meandering and conventional biopic is perhaps its undoing. It never becomes a bad film, with Erik Satie or West\u2019s facial hair keeping you busy with what\u2019s onscreen, it seems like an opportunity lost. Colette\u2019s infamous love affair with Mathilde de Morny (Gough) \u2013 aka \u201cMissy,\u201d as everyone has nicknames in the past \u2013 is given a nod in the third act. Yet the film seems to end on a note of melancholy, which does the famed author no justice, as she went on to much acclaim. To have that addressed in the written postscript inspires one to wonder if maybe the microscopic view of her early years could have been broadened to include the rest of her life, but such are the perils of depicting a life. Regardless, Colette is a good primer for a wonderful author, and a reflection on how your life will never turn out as you think.\nMore Wash Westmoreland Films\nIn an otherwise tepid film, Julianne Moore delivers a terrific performance as a woman beset by early-onset Alzheimer's.\nJosh Kupecki, Feb. 13, 2015\nKevin Kline is Errol Flynn in this confused story of his late-life affair with 15-year-old Beverly Aadland.\nColette, Wash Westmoreland, Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart, Robert Pugh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aviareps.com/news/trade-marketing-agency-italy-for-airbaltic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6WOXD6NA46MH57DKTIHDQSUIETEHUZE7", "length": 2386, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.aviareps.com", "title": "AVIAREPS airBaltic appoints AVIAREPS as general sales agent in Italy - AVIAREPS", "raw_content": "AVIAREPS Italy is new general sales agency of airBaltic\nAVIAREPS, the global leader and expert in developing and shaping international tourism and aviation demand and spend, with 66 offices in 48 countries around the world, has been appointed by airBaltic, as its General Sales Agent (GSA) in Italy.\nThe announcement, which came into effect from February 1st, 2019, time> sees AVIAREPS Italy responsible for the airline\u2019s sales promotions and marketing activities in the Italian market.\nCurrently, airBaltic operates direct flights out of all capitals of the Baltic States \u2013 Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Tallinn (Estonia). airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East\nThe airline offers low fare tickets in its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. The prices are competitive not only with other airlines, but also with the prices of bus, car, train or ferry travel. Tickets are available not only for direct but also for transfer flights.\nA wide range of additional services is offered to enhance the travel experience before, during and after the flight.\nIn 2018 Latvian airline airBaltic has been ranked No 1 globally in punctuality in 2017 by OAG analysts, who tracked the performance of a total of over 50 million flight records. According to OAG, airBaltic achieved a punctuality rating of 90.01% for flights linking the Baltics to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, CIS and the Middle East.\nTickets are available in various ticket offices and travel agencies, but the handiest and the most advantageous way to book your flight is on airline's website.\nFind more information about airBaltic or contact the Italian Sales & Marketing Office at:\nC/o AVIAREPS ITALY\nLatvian airline A/S Air Baltic Corporation (airBaltic) was founded in 1995. Its primary shareholder is the Latvian state, which holds 80.05% of the stock, while Lars Thuesen holds around 20% through his fully-owned Aircraft Leasing 1 SIA. airBaltic is a hybrid airline taking the best practices both from traditional network airlines and low cost carriers. In 2008, airBaltic changed its operating model from a point-to-point carrier to a network airline making Riga a connecting hub between East and West. The top priorities of airBaltic are \u2013 safety, punctuality and service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avs.org/Education-Outreach/Short-Courses/Short-Course-Catalog/Materials-Processing/Process-Materials-Integration/Copper-Interconnect-Technology", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XHBVQKE5RH2ERXQZGDORJAQLXODLIHJF", "length": 1796, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.avs.org", "title": "AVS - Copper Interconnect Technology", "raw_content": "Short Course Catalog | Copper Interconnect Technology\nCourse: Copper Interconnect Technology\nLearn about the materials science, fundamental principles and engineering technology necessary to effectively utilize copper (Cu) interconnects.\nGet to know the state-of-the-art equipment and process schemes necessary to produce advance Cu metallization in manufacturing.\nFind out the merits and challenges of various characterization techniques for process control and quality assurance.\nUnderstand the material properties, interactions and processing challenges associated with the integration of Cu interconnects.\nKnow the advantages and limitations of current Cu interconnect strategies.\nThis course covers the materials science, fundamental principles, and engineering technology necessary to effectively use Cu as a conductor for integrated circuits. Emphasis will be on the material properties, interactions, and processing challenges associated with the integration of Cu interconnects.\nThe equipment and associated process schemes available to produce Cu metallization will be presented. Also, the merits and challenges of various characterization techniques for process control and quality assurance will be discussed. And, finally, the advantages and limitations of current Cu interconnect strategies will be analyzed.\nThis course is intended for engineers, scientists, managers, and technicians who are or will be involved with or impacted by the implementation of Cu technology. The course will provide the basics for those unfamiliar with materials science and interconnect technology as well as the most recent advances in Cu metallization to keep practitioners on the leading edge. Discussion time will be included in the program.\nJohn Givens Consultant, Innovative Materials Group, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 6641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aygentraining.com/blog/will-i-always-have-an-accent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2XB3Y4I45Z43554MECEQMPPJPBG5QOHQ", "length": 1206, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.aygentraining.com", "title": "Pratiquez votre anglais gratuitement et facilement tous les jours - AYGEN TRAINING", "raw_content": "Well here's the deal: it's extremely rare to totally erase your accent if you start learning a foreign language after the age of 12-14 years old (probably related to something called cerebral dominance.) It also depends on what sounds exist in the foreign language that also exist in your own language. For example, Japanese pronunciation is actually quite easy for English speakers, as nearly all the sounds in Japanese also exist in English.\nOn the whole, even very good speakers of a foreign language, who have been living in a foreign country and speaking that language every day for 30 years will still not have a totally \"perfect\" accent.\nFrench speakers who speak excellent English for example, may still mispronounce certain vowels, perhaps the h will occasionally disappear, or the th will be different. They won't sound like a French speaker anymore - people will have to ask \"where are you from?\" - but they won't sound like a native Anglophone either. It will be a mystery accent.\nOf course your accent will improve, especially if you work at it, but it is totally normal to still have your accent, even after 25 years. It is charming and it is you.\nAnd here is some unusual news about accents:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-01-13-1992013032-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JVB6RYMRUSD6RZTSVVXCEQFQK2HCD4AN", "length": 4665, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Redskins fit for crown as kings of NFL jungle - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Redskins fit for crown as kings of NFL jungle\nWASHINGTON -- You don't explain seasons like this one, except that the Redskins have them every couple of years when the guys get higher than the national debt and everything seems to come together.\nIt looked pretty easy yesterday, but that can't surprise anyone. Detroit was here before, remember? A hint: The score was Redskins 45, Detroit 0. I don't care if Barry Sanders wasn't there. What's he gonna do, score seven touchdowns?\nIn yesterday's game, in the second half, Sanders, the NFL's greatest back, was two carries for minus-1 yard. Next case.\n(Next case is Buffalo. Super Bowl. Skins by two touchdowns. I told you: It's that kind of season.)\nYou had to like the Lions -- I don't mean I thought they'd win. I mean, like them. They had this great run and a heartwarming story and a town that needs a break, but heartwarming gets you only so far in Washington. If you want to win in this town, bring a lawyer.\nThe Redskins did what they do. The defense buried quarterback Erik Kramer (last week's story), and the big-gun offense blasted holes all through the field. If you want to see something beautiful, watch Rypien go deep to Clark. The big kid's got a touch. This is the season when Ryp makes people think he's Terry Bradshaw.\nIt was a blowout, a 41-10 recapitulation. \"Did that look like a rerun of last time, or what?\" wondered Lions coach Wayne Fontes. Yes, it did.\nSo, given all that happened, I have two questions for you:\n* One, if Lee Iacocca ran this Detroit team, do you think he would have given himself a bonus yesterday?\n* Two, why were Redskins veterans Russ Grimm and Charles Mann scared to death?\nThe first question is obvious. Yes, he would, and he'd blame the loss on Japan.\nIn the second case, it's sort of clear, too. The Redskins have these seasons, but you don't have them unless you win the games. The big opponent yesterday for the Redskins was expectation, and they buried the big fella. \"This one feels a little bit different than the others,\" said Grimm, speaking of his fourth Super Bowl trip in 10 years, \"because we were expected to get there. We expected it. The media expected it. We knew if we didn't get there, we'd feel like dogs.\"\nThey got there in the '82 and '83 and '87 seasons, and there are several Redskins who have been there for all of them. They recognize these seasons as they happen. And they pray that they continue to happen.\nThis is what went through Mann's head before the game. He thought about the Lions and about winning, and the more he did, the more it shook him up.\n\"I've never been this nervous before a game before,\" said Mann. \"My hands were shaking. I was walking around, and I didn't know what to do with myself. I looked over at Fred Stokes. He was kicking back, all relaxed. I said, 'Hey, you just don't understand.'\n\"I've been to the other side of the mountain. I know what it's like. I know all the accolades, how you guys say how great we are.\"\nHe's been there, and each one gets better. Each one is more precious. Each time, you get scared you won't get back. So, on the second play of the game, Mann clobbers Kramer, who fumbles and, two plays later, the Redskins have a touchdown.\nThey do so much so well. One hot offense after another came to town, and the defense took it apart. The Redskins rushed Kramer and harried Kramer and sacked Kramer, who fumbled three times. And when the Redskins offense started cranking up, it took Sanders out of the game.\nNo one has taken anything away from the Redskins all season. They've got a quarterback who throws deep, receivers who can get open, a line that never lets you anywhere near the quarterback and a big-play offense that somehow never seems to make mistakes. Did you ever hear of an explosive offense that didn't occasionally blow up in its own face?\nHere's how the game blew apart: It's 20-10 in the third quarter, but the Lions are driving when Andre Collins sacks Kramer on third down and Jumpy Geathers blocks a field goal on fourth. The Redskins turn around and score on a 45-yarder to Clark. It's 27-10. The Lions get the ball. First play, they false start. Second play, Sanders stopped for minus-2. Third play, Mann buries Kramer. Fourth play, delay of game. Fifth play, short pass. Sixth play, punt. And the Redskins drive again, scoring on a 21-yarder to Monk. Just that fast.\n\"I think this is the most talented team we've ever had,\" said center Jeff Bostic, who has played on three previous Super Bowl teams. \"We've got depth at every position. And we've got quality depth.\"\nThe announcers call it deep depth. The Redskins have it all over the field. 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The youth was arrested yesterday in Queen Anne's County, a spokesman said.\nOfficers said three teen-agers, one carrying an Uzi-type automatic assault weapon and all appearing about 16 and 17 years old, wore bandanna-type masks when they burst into Carrolltown Veterinary Hospital. They forced one of four employees to a prescription drug cabinet in a rear room and stole 15 bottles of ketamine, a cat tranquilizer, and some cash, police said.\nOfficers said ketamine is in liquid form, but can be converted to a powder form and snorted or smoked by humans, mostly by teen members of dance clubs where the drug, called Special K, is used.\nInvestigators said one of the youths entered the office of the hospital in the 1800 block of Liberty Road about 15 minutes before the robbery and inquired about neutering an animal. He asked to use the bathroom.\nAbout 2 p.m., the three burst into the office and demanded cash and drugs, police said. All four employees were forced to lie on the floor as the trio fled on foot.\nThe next day, investigators received an anonymous telephone call with information on the robbers.\nWhen officers went to Mount Airy to check on the information, they got a description of the youths and a video from a security camera at a gasoline station.\nState police said they believe the youths could be from southeast Frederick County near Mount Airy. 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Agenda - National BDPA", "raw_content": "BDPA 2015 Agenda\nPre-Confrence Certification Classes\nNational Leadership Council* (Chapter presidents)\n1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Chapter Building Workshops (Chapter officers)\n7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Registration Open\n8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Youth Technology Camp\n10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. General Session Keynote Speaker\n1:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Professional Seminars\n7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony & Reception\n8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. High School Computer Competition\n8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. General Session Keynote Speaker\n9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Professional Seminars\n10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. IT Showcase Judging\n12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Plenary Luncheon\n3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Delegates Meeting\n5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Corporate Receptions\nClub BDPA\n8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. High School Computer Programming Competition\n8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. IT Showcase Poster Presentations\n8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. IT Senior Management Forum Symposium\n12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Career Fair & Technology Expo\n6:00 p.m. - 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The information you provide in this form will be sent to the property owners/managers in Port Orford, who will reply with their availability information as soon as possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 91.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.becomingamericanexhibition.com/adrian-piper", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FGTDJAUM3JYGVP7D7PK6FVYUB5GT4ID4", "length": 1884, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.becomingamericanexhibition.com", "title": "Adrian Piper \u2014 Becoming American", "raw_content": "Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being, 1973. Video, 8:00. Excerpted video from the film, Other Than Art's Sake by the artist Peter Kennedy. Detail: video still at 00.06:20. Collection of the Adrian Piper Research Foundation Berlin. \u00a9 Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin.\nAdrian Piper is a first-generation Conceptual artist who started exhibiting her work internationally at the age of twenty and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1969. While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork internationally, she received a B.A. in Philosophy from CCNY in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard in 1981 under the supervision of John Rawls. She studied Kant and Hegel with Dieter Henrich at the University of Heidelberg in 1977-1978, and taught philosophy fulltime for 30 years with specializations in metaethics and Kant. She was the first tenured African American woman Professor in the field of philosophy. Her two-volume study in Kantian metaethics, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, integrates desire into reason and standard decision theory into classical predicate logic. Piper introduced issues of race and gender into the vocabulary of Conceptual art and explicit political content into Minimalism. In 2000 she further expanded the vocabulary of Conceptual art to include Vedic philosophical imagery and concepts. She is the recipient of many fellowships and awards in art and philosophy, and her artwork is in many important collections. Her seventh traveling retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in the spring of 2018. Her artwork won the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 56th Venice Biennale. Adrian Piper has studied and practiced yoga since 1965, and lives and works in Berlin, where she runs the APRA Foundation Berlin.\nHer 1973 video, The Mythic Being will be on view in the context of the Barracks at the English Camp.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 147.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bedfordnow.com/news/20180623/audit-county-ends-2017-with-small-surplus", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:11Z", "digest": "sha1:BYPWUCHZGJZDDVC6VTNPTTCW5IHM375Q", "length": 4473, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.bedfordnow.com", "title": "Audit: County ends 2017 with small surplus - News - Bedford Now - Bedford Township, Michigan - Monroe, MI", "raw_content": "Audit: County ends 2017 with small surplus\nMonroe County ended 2017 with an operating surplus of $772,422, the eighth year in a row that it finished the year with a fund balance, according to the annual audit.\nThe amount represents 1.74 percent of the final amended budget for 2017, auditor Mark Kettner told county commissioners Tuesday night.\nAlthough the amount is slightly lower than the prior year\u2019s 1.96 percent, that is still a \"very good result\" with a general fund budget of $45.1 million, County Administrator and Chief Financial Officer Michael Bosanac told the board.\n\"With a very small positive margin, the board was able to ensure appropriations were just at the level needed and essentially you oversaw a break-even operation,\" Bosanac said.\nThe board reviewed the county\u2019s 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and heard its independent auditor comment on the 2017 financials.\nThe county \"performed well\" in 2017 and recorded its eighth consecutive annual operating surplus in the general fund, the administrator noted.\nDelivering a positive result while making a mid-year supplemental appropriation of $650,000 is \"really an outstanding performance by the board and the organization as a whole,\" Bosanac said.\nBudgeted expenses again were underspent by $1.5 million from the amount appropriated, Chairman J. Henry Lievens said.\n\"I also recognize the efforts of the board, our elected officials and our employees who all continue to operate in a fiscally responsible manner,\" he said. \"We can point to a culture within local government when we have recorded eight consecutive years of positive results.\"\nCommissioner Jason Turner said there are 248 pages in the annual report, \"but I see first-hand that the county cares deeply about being good stewards of the taxpayers\u2019 money. This report shows the tax dollars are being applied efficiently and effectively from building maintenance to senior services. That is good for our community and the citizens we serve.\"\nHe pointed to $73.5 million in unfunded liabilities in governmental activities as something to keep an eye on.\n\"I credit a lot of (recent) hard decisions that were made that are bearing fruit\" and keeping liabilities low, Turner said.\nLievens said actions taken today, such as putting more money into savings, can prevent cuts being made down the road.\nAmong the financial results mentioned:\nnGeneral fund revenues were $45.9 million, which is $1 million more than in 2016. The amount was $1.3 million more than budgeted.\nnExpenditures rose $1.1 million over the prior year.\nnThe county received $4.7 million in federal funds that were spent in operations during the year. The amount was $53,902 more than the prior year.\nnOn Dec. 31, the unassigned fund balance of $10.4 million stood at 23.1 percent of current year budgeted expenses.\nnThe county\u2019s credit rating remains AA by Standard and Poor\u2019s Rating Agency and Aa2 by Moody\u2019s Investor\u2019s Services and is on par with the median rating of counties throughout the nation.\nKettner, from the firm of Rehmann Robson, discussed the status of the pension and retiree health care trust funds that are the county\u2019s post-employment benefit trusts. The trusts and the amount of funding to keep them financially sound \"consistently remains the biggest challenge for the county while balancing other needs,\" Bosanac said.\nThe net position of the pension system increased by 8.68 percent over the prior year and follows an increase of 2.95 percent from the 2016 audit.\nThe retiree health care trust increased by 15.5 percent over the prior year and follows an increase of 9.6 percent from 2016. The health care trust has made \"steady progress in its funding position over the past several years,\" the administrator said.\nCommissioner Jerry Oley, who served as board vice chairman in 2017, said budgeting is \"one of the most important functions we do as a board.\"\nHe credited Sue Maier, director of fiscal services, for her work on the audit and said the county operated within the resources provided.\n\"From a taxpayer\u2019s perspective, we ended pretty close to break-even with a small positive outcome,\" Oley said. \"There is a lot of good teamwork in the organization and beyond. We\u2019re fortunate to have everybody on the same page.\"\nThe county has 450 full-time employees and 150 part-time workers. The most recent property valuation of the county for 2018 was $7.02 billion of state equalized value, an increase of $163.2 million over the prior year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bellenews.com/2017/05/12/world/africa-news/ebola-outbreak-declared-dr-congo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:7BYK7SE3TOQ3ULK3VGJZEJJXAG35ISQF", "length": 1128, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bellenews.com", "title": "Ebola Outbreak Declared in DR Congo - BelleNews.com", "raw_content": "Home World Africa news Ebola Outbreak Declared in DR Congo\nEbola Outbreak Declared in DR Congo\nAn Ebola outbreak has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) announces.\nAt least one person has died after contracting the Ebola virus in the DR Congo\u2019s north-east, the WHO says.\nLocal health ministry had notified the WHO of a \u201clab-confirmed case\u201d of Ebola, the WHO said on Twitter.\nMore than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2015, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.\nThe last outbreak of Ebola in the DR Congo was in 2014 and killed 42 people.\nThe case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever on or after April 22 in Bas-Uele province in the country\u2019s far north, a health ministry statement said.\nWHO Congo spokesman Eric Kabambi told Reuters: \u201cIt is in a very remote zone, very forested, so we are a little lucky. Bu we always take this very seriously.\u201d\nBoost traffic to your trade stand\nFrancesco Schettino Verdict: Costa Concordia Captain's 16-Year Jail Sentence Upheld by Italy's Highest Court", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.belmontvillage.com/stories/douglas-clark/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EHZHP6DWTYRCXNA6JAP52WQL2VOSMFJO", "length": 602, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.belmontvillage.com", "title": "Douglas Clark - Belmont Village", "raw_content": "Born August 26, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY\n\u201cI traveled to more than 130 countries \u2013 from Morocco and Libya to Singapore and Australia \u2013 preaching the gospel. Having lived such a long life and having traveled to so many different countries has shown me how much the world has changed. Things that seemed so important 70 years ago are no longer viewed the same today. Priorities change. It\u2019s been such an eye-opening experience. But through all the change, one thing has held stable in my life \u2013 my faith in God. I attribute my long life to following the Lord\u2019s will in life; there is where I found happiness.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 2460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bethelrichmond.org/event/FebDinner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6LKDG2LRKNXGVKCWIOP7XVAAGP4EXTUR", "length": 435, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bethelrichmond.org", "title": "New Member Shabbat and Congregational Dinner - Event - Temple Beth-El", "raw_content": "6:00 PM - 9:00 PM3330 Grove Ave.\nChildcare will be provided in the Kiddush Room. Your (optional) donation benefits the Religious School.\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Person $5.00 Each\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Family $15.00 Each\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 New or Prospective Member Free\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Child Requiring Childcare Free\nOptional Donation for Childcare, benefitting the Religious School; enter amount:\n* Email to send receipt to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 5049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 204.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bethmartinbooks.com/2018/11/christmas-tree.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BM54RTLBCIDWOZVSEHYGCHHC6LWHSAYM", "length": 4145, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bethmartinbooks.com", "title": "Beth Martin Books: Oh Christmas Tree", "raw_content": "My kids woke me up at the break of dawn the day after Thanksgiving. \u201cMommy! We need to put up the Christmas tree!\u201d I\u2019m not one of those people who insist that there shall be no hint of Christmas before Thanksgiving, and in some past years, I\u2019ve brought out all the holiday decorations in mid-November.\nAs we unfolded and quickly erected our pre-lit tree, my husband and I remarked how much easier it is to set up a modern tree than the kind we had when we were kids. The trees from my childhood had individual branches which had to be fluffed and arranged in a certain order according to a color band painted on the middle wire which had rubbed off. I remember plugging in strings of lights, checking each individual bulb, trying to find the dud which spoiled the entire strand and then carefully arranging those 10+ strings of lights on the tree, making sure every branch was evenly lit (yes, a tree should have that many lights).\nWithin a few minutes, our tree was up. I plugged it in\u2014and then only half of the lights turned on. As I\u2019d do with any faulty piece of electronics, I tried to fix it by giving it a good shake. A few of the dark areas lit up, but not all. Instead of painstakingly inspecting each bulb like my parents did in the past, I declared our tree a dud which will be replaced next year. I have no idea how my parents' generation survived the holidays. No wonder my mom delayed decorating as long as possible.\nOf course, now that the tree is up, my kids ask all the time if it\u2019s Christmas and if they can open presents. Perhaps I should have waited a couple more weeks to start the process.\nI\u2019ve met people who claim that white lights are the only appropriate way to light a tree and others who believe colorful lights are much better. But everyone seemed to agree that the two styles clashed. My mother-in-law is the first person I\u2019ve met who was dumbfounded that someone would want to restrict their lights to a single style. In addition to white and colorful lights, she liked to use big bulbs and little bulbs, steady lights and twinkle lights, and even some of those bubble lights. By the time she was done stringing lights on her tree, it was a supernova of Christmas spirit.\nOne year when I was younger, a friend from school excitedly explained that her family would use her choice of red and silver ornaments that year. I was astonished that anyone would want to buy and give away new ornaments every single year. What about all of the keepsakes collected over time and injected with fond memories? What\u2019s the point of even having a tree without special things to display on it? My friend was an army brat, so holding onto boxes of nostalgic items just didn\u2019t make sense for a family that moved every few years. Her special memory was that of getting to create something new and magical every year. The collection of temporary ornaments held just as much joy as my favorite ornaments which were familiar year after year.\nOnly once did I have a \u2018real\u2019 tree. It wasn\u2019t really even mine since it spent the holidays at a friend\u2019s house. The whole picking-out-a-live-tree trip was a new experience for me and not anything like I\u2019d imagined since this was in sunny California. I didn\u2019t think to line the trunk of my car before putting a huge, cut plant in there, and it was covered in stubborn needles for at least a year. Getting the thing upright was non-trivial, and the needles were so pokey I had a hard time putting decorations on it. However, it smelled nice, which is the only pro I can remember. After not getting water for the entire month of January, the dried-out shrub got chopped up and burned in a barrel. Even then, it smelled nice.\nWith all the memories and nostalgia packed into just the idea of a Christmas tree, even seeing a pine with baubles on it or a fake plant indoors and strung with lights makes me smile. And now I have the responsibility of building those memories with my kids. Maybe one day they\u2019ll be surprised to see a family tree that has only little white lights, few enough ornaments that you can actually see the tree underneath, or one that doesn\u2019t have a kitty sleeping under it 24/7.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bible.com/bible/1713/JHN.21.19.CSB", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QFCP2NVZSD6IDOZGW7I5W3HSWHMPMTPP", "length": 212, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bible.com", "title": "John 21:19 He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d | Christian Standard Bible (CSB) | Download The Bible App Now", "raw_content": "He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d\nhttps://www.bible.com/bible/1713/JHN.21.19.CSB\nBreakthrough: How To Get Unstuck With God's Help", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/The-Sir-Richard-Stapley-Educational-Trust.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QG76RFVNNULZKWXD67XEOSY4ORYJPYY3", "length": 2803, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.birmingham.ac.uk", "title": "The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust - University of Birmingham", "raw_content": "Home > Postgraduate > Funding and scholarships search > The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust\nAny Postgraduate, Doctoral research, Postgraduate research masters, Postgraduate taught masters\nThe Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust supports students of medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, and postgraduate students in all fields of study. Founded in 1919 by the businessman and philanthropist Sir Richard Stapley (1843-1920), the Trust is an expression of his life-long concern with educational and philanthropic causes. For nearly 100 years, it has helped hundreds of students in financial difficulty from Great Britain and abroad to complete their studies at a university in the United Kingdom.\nAwards are competitive and made on the basis of academic merit and financial need. All grants are awarded for a full year of academic study and for one year only. Applicants for full time postgraduate degree courses may be supported for up to a maximum of three years, but new applications must be submitted each year. Part-time postgraduate courses can be funded for a maximum of six years, but new applications have to be submitted each year.\nGrants are normally from \u00a3400 to \u00a31,200 in value. They are intended to cover the shortfall incurred by educational and subsistence expenses upon payment of tuition fees. Before award money can be released, applicants must confirm any other grants obtained, and their amounts. Should a successful applicant have received a major award, or additional money from other granting bodies equivalent to a major award, the grant awarded from the Stapley Trust may be reduced or withdrawn. Students already holding a major award cannot apply.\nApplications are welcome from students beginning their first year of study, as well as from those already embarked on their degree course.\nIn order to be eligible to apply for a grant, you must be:\na) over the age of 24 on 01 October of the proposed year of study\nb) either accepted on, or applying for, a place on a degree course in medicine, dentistry or veterinary studies, or accepted on, or applying for, a full- or part-time place on a Masters or Doctoral degree programme in any discipline, at a UK university\nc) already resident in the UK at the time of application, and resident in the UK during the course of study.\nApplication packs for the 2018/19 academic year will be available from 3 January 2018 from the Trust website.\nThe deadline for submissions is either 31 March 2018, or the first 300 completed applications received, whichever comes first. Every year, the Trust receives many more applications than it can consider, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.\nAwards will be announced by the end of June 2018.\nGrants must be claimed by 1 November 2018.\nhttp://www.stapleytrust.org/wp/about/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/iran-diplomacy.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RXRW3E6WX4P6ZTDRT574HA5KAHYFSE2Q", "length": 5407, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.birmingham.ac.uk", "title": "Testing the Diplomatic Path with Iran in Geneva - University of Birmingham", "raw_content": "Home > Research > Perspectives > Testing the Diplomatic Path with Iran in Geneva\nTesting the Diplomatic Path with Iran in Geneva\nProfessor Nicholas J. Wheeler\nSpeaking before the UN General Assembly on 24 September, US president Barack Obama said that he was \u2018encouraged\u2019 that Iran\u2019s new president Hassan Rouhani was charting a course that could lead to a \u2018meaningful agreement\u2019 on the nuclear issue. But Obama cautioned that \u2018conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable.\u2019 The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, echoed this conviction when speaking in Tokyo on 3 October. Kerry said that: \u2018nothing we do [in relation to Iran] is going to be based on trust...It is not words that will make a difference, it's actions, and the actions clearly are going to have to be sufficient that the world will understand that not only will they not be on the road to get a weapon but there is no ability to suddenly break out and achieve that.\u2019\nKerry\u2019s remarks about Washington not being played for a \u2018sucker\u2019 by the new Iranian leader\u2019s conciliatory rhetoric were specifically aimed at Israel whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had warned in an emotive address to the General Assembly that Rouhani was \u2018a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing.\u2019 Netanyahu warned that to loosen the sanctions, and to take the military option off the table, would be to cave in at just the point that the coercive strategy is bearing fruit in terms of making Iran desperate for a deal.\nIn contrast to President Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u2018trust, but verify\u2019 prescription, \u2018Distrust, dismantle and verify\u2019 was the Israeli prime minister\u2019s advice when it came to Iran\u2019s nuclear programme. He was explicit that the only reassurance for Israel would come if Iran ceased all uranium enrichment, removed from its territory its stockpile of enriched uranium, including its near-20 per cent which poses the greatest risk for bomb production, and dismantled the existing Iranian nuclear infrastructure which could provide the basis for a nuclear weapons break-out capability, including the underground facility at Fordow (which is where the near-20 per cent is being produced and stockpiled).\nThe termination of activity at the Fordow facility has been the test of Iran\u2019s sincerity as a negotiating partner that Western governments have applied in the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany) talks with Iran that resume today in Geneva. The so-called \u2018stop, ship, and shut\u2019 policy which would freeze the all important 20 per cent production of enriched uranium, ship the existing stockpile of 20 per cent out of the country, and close Fordow, has been rejected by Iran on the grounds that Western governments are not offering an equivalent concession. What the Iranian government is seeking is substantial relief from the crippling sanctions that have been imposed on it by the UN Security Council, the United States, and the EU for its failure to suspend uranium enrichment as required by UN Security Council resolutions.\nRouhani has made clear that cessation of Iran\u2019s enrichment activity is non-negotiable, but he and the new Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif (himself a former nuclear negotiator in the team led by Rouhani) have been sending signals that Iran will come to Geneva with a more flexible negotiating position. The question is whether the P5+1 will be prepared to match any such flexibility with a lifting of sanctions that goes beyond the tokenistic offer that was made at the previous round of talks in April. The sanctions that are hurting Iran are those that have been imposed on its banking system and oil exports. But these sanctions are seen in Western capitals as providing important negotiating leverage and Western governments will want to drive a high price in terms of Iranian concessions before relaxing these. The diplomatic test for both sides is to find a negotiating point that meets the Iranian need for major sanctions relief in return for concessions on the Iranian nuclear programme that puts in place a robust verification regime that provides greater assurances to the United States and its key European allies in the P5+1 that Iran is not developing a nuclear weapons capability.\nThe face-to-face meeting in New York between Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zariff, and the historic phone conversation between presidents Obama and Rouhani are important gestures of conciliation on both sides. But the well of distrust and suspicion runs deep on both sides. As a consequence, each side looks to the other to make a decisive move that shows their readiness to negotiate in good faith. At the same time, the worry is that each thinks the other is under greater pressure to compromise, and so hanging tough to get the best deal becomes the dominant strategy. The diplomatic test for Rouhani \u2013 and indeed Obama \u2013 is whether they can break through the zero-sum mindset that has dominated past nuclear negotiations and replace it with policies that promote mutual security.\nA fuller version of this article is available on The Conversation.\nNicholas J. Wheeler is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Studies and Director of the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security at the University of Birmingham.\nDepartment of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 11921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/teenager-shot-after-gunman-opens-14681463", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:05Z", "digest": "sha1:DCO6YRUQ3XLD7ZODA43PVBXUXOK33KK3", "length": 1930, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.birminghammail.co.uk", "title": "Teenager shot after gunman opens fire in Saltley - Birmingham Live", "raw_content": "Teenager shot after gunman opens fire in Saltley\nCrime scene remains closed and a car was taken for forensic examination\nA teenager was shot after a gunman opened fire on a street in Saltley .\nWest Midlands Police were called at around 6.20pm on Saturday, May 19 after reports of a gunman on College Road.\nWitnesses reported two more men with the gunman, and firearms officers were immediately sent to the scene.\nAn 18-year-old man was sent to Heartlands Hospital by car with a gunshot wound to the arm, but police said his injuries were not life-threatening.\nCollege Road remained closed to the public on Saturday night and a car was removed from the area for forensic investigation.\nPolice said a fingertip search of the scene would be undertaken on Sunday and the road would remain closed until the work was done.\nPolice probe after woman's body discovered in Solihull canal\nA spokesperson from West Midlands Police said: \"We\u2019re investigating after shots were fired in Saltley, Birmingham on Saturday (19 May).\n\"We were called at 6.20pm by a person reporting a man with a gun on College Road and immediately sent firearms officers to the area. Witnesses report that two other men were with the gunman.\n\"Help get guns off the streets by reporting those involved in gun crime to the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. The information you provide may result in a reward.\n\"A gun surrender is currently in place across the West Midlands where weapons can be brought to any police station or left in weapons bins across the region.\"\nOn Saturday night, the Bearded Broz communty group hosted a video on its Instagram page of a man standing near the police cordon.\nHe said: \"What's going on in our community guys? We are going to get a petition to increase sentences for gun crime. Enough is enough.\"\nWest Midlands Police ask anyone with information to call 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 9613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk/grandma-jane-s-middle-east-peace-mission", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:47ZM5TCQVEBFDK64ZZD7BBC7LAUTESKQ", "length": 2553, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk", "title": "Grandma Jane\u2019s Middle East peace mission | Bishopston Voice", "raw_content": "Grandma Jane\u2019s Middle East peace mission\nA BISHOPSTON grandmother has flown out to volunteer in the West Bank for three months - in a bid to promote peace between Israel and Palestine.\nJane Wheelock, 70, will be working as a human rights monitor on an international project called the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).\nDuties could include observing a military checkpoint, which Palestinians must cross to work in Israel, accompanying Palestinian children walking to and from school, or acting as a protective presence for Palestinian farmers as they harvest their land.\nThe West Bank is home to 2.5 million Palestinians.\nThe EAPPI - set up more than 10 years ago to support those affected by the conflict in Israel and Palestine - assigns volunteers to report violations of human rights to the United Nations and other international groups, and to work with communities at risk of violence.\nJane told the Bishopston Voice before she left: \"We have been informed that the situation is less tense than it was for the group that immediately preceded us, but that there remains a higher than usual level of arrests of Palestinians, raids on homes and demolitions of houses.\n\"There is a strict code of conduct to ensure our safety. We work in pairs and are issued with local mobile phones to contact the Jerusalem EAPPI office in an emergency.\"\nBritish and Irish Volunteers for EAPPI are recruited and trained by Quakers - the Religious Society of Friends - but volunteers join the programme from across the world.\nEach new group receives a local induction, and at their allocated placement, the outgoing group works alongside the new group for a few days.\nJane - who worked as a volunteer overseas during the sixties, teaching science at a girls' secondary school in Malawi - came across EAPPI one Sunday after a Horfield Quaker meeting, which she has been attending for two years.\nShe added: \"Now retired with six grandchildren, I want to contribute something different from teaching and research. I have a maternal ancestor who, as the Anglican Bishop, kept the peace between the British, French and Irish during the French landings at Killala in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1798. His example of non-violent mediation has been carried down the generations, and I want to contribute in my small way.\u201d\nOne of her grandchildren, Saski Watson from Sefton Park School, said: \"I am proud that Grandma will be talking to my schooL about what she has done when she gets back.\"\nTo find out more about EAPPI, visit: www.eappi.org/eng", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bismarckcafe.com/blogs/wiki/thrifty-white-drug-white-mart-department-store", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2CQXNK3IT4MZEENFAZZPMM5ADX3ADFZZ", "length": 1868, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.bismarckcafe.com", "title": "Thrifty White Drug / White Mart Department Store - BisManCafe.com", "raw_content": "Thrifty White Drug / White Mart Department Store\nThrifty White Drug/White House Cafeteria\nThrifty White is an employee-owned regional pharmacy chain with 86 corporate locations in six states, in addition to affiliations held with independent pharmacies.\nAs of 2017, Bismarck was home to three Thrifty White Drug locations while Mandan was home to one. Its long-time downtown Bismarck store is located on the first floor of the Parkade and also houses The White House Cafeteria.\nFounded in 1884 as White Drug in Jamestown, North Dakota, Thrifty White is a result of a merger between White Drug and Thrifty Drug of Brainerd, Minnesota in 1985. The company operates under the White Drug and Thrifty White banners and any variation of the combined names.\nThe Mandan store recently announced plans to relocate from downtown to the north side of the city, near the new Walmart.\nIn 2015, long-time pharmacy retailer Northbrook Drug became Thrifty White Pharmacy. The pharmacy at Cash Wise Foods has also since converted to Thrifty White.\nWhite Mart\nThrifty White also once operated a small chain of ten discount department stores across the Dakotas and Minnesota under the White Mart banner. The first White Mart opened in 1970 in Devil\u2019s Lake, North Dakota. Both stores were collectively referred to as \u201cWhite\u2019s\u201d. The discount arm was slowly faded out after the merger to concentrate on the company\u2019s core drugstore operation, with the final locations closing in the early 1990s.\nThe Bismarck White Mart was an original anchor store for Gateway Mall when it opened in 1979 (White Mart itself didn\u2019t open until February 1980), but closed in 1986, citing costs involved in converting the location to embrace the company\u2019s new emphasis pharmacy operations.\nwww.thriftywhite.com\nThrifty White Drug, white mart\nMandan\u2019s Thrifty White Drug...\nRemembering Past Retail Favorites:...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blackswan.com/blog/university-of-exeter-becomes-part-of-catapult-centre-of-excellence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6WA7KCHPK4GPDG74UO5L3IYGUAXB6SBK", "length": 4158, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.blackswan.com", "title": "University of Exeter becomes part of Catapult Centre of Excellence - News", "raw_content": "These new Centres, which are co-funded by the UK Space Agency, are in response to the growing interest in how satellite data and technologies are helping businesses generate new ideas and solutions to grow.\nTwo new centres are being established to support the South West and South Coast of England. In addition, our existing Scottish Centre of Excellence will be extending its geographic reach into the Highlands & Islands. These new Centres join our established network of regional engagement initiatives and will extend our reach beyond the East Midlands, Central Scotland and North East England.\nAnnouncing the new Centres, Stuart Martin, CEO of the Satellite Applications Catapult, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve witnessed a significant upturn in regional engagement over the past two years through the initial three Centres. This has included activities linking up the science base, large industry and SMEs to help develop satellite-derived applications and solutions.\n\u201cThe network\u2019s expansion to cover the southern region of the UK and the Highlands & Islands will hopefully result in generating further understanding and awareness of the opportunities that satellite data and technology can provide \u2013 especially among market sectors not currently engaging with them \u2013 and developing new commercial opportunities for the UK\u2019s Space sector.\u201d\nColin Baldwin, UK Space Gateway Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency noted: \u201cThe UK Space Agency is delighted to support this initiative. The expanded network of Catapult Centres of Excellence demonstrates that applications of satellites provide business opportunities across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.\u201d\nThe South West centre\u2019s partners include: University of Exeter, Plymouth University, Falmouth University, MET Office, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Goonhilly Earth Station and Rothamsted Research. Its market focus areas cover Agritech, Maritime and eHealth.\nThe South Coast centre\u2019s partners include: University of Portsmouth, University of Brighton, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Marine South East, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Hampshire County Council. Its market focus areas cover Maritime and Marine and Autonomous Systems.\nThe expanded Scottish Centre\u2019s partners will be University of Strathclyde and Highlands & Islands Enterprise. Its market focus areas cover Healthcare, Renewables, Marine Sciences and Digital Economy.\nFor further information, please contact Karen Rogers\nkaren.rogers@sa.catapult.org.uk | +44 (0) 1235 567999\nAbout the Satellite Applications Catapult\nSatellite Applications Catapult Ltd is an independent innovation and technology company, created by Innovate UK to drive economic growth through the exploitation of space. Its vision \u2013 \u2018to innovate for a better world, empowered by satellites\u2019 \u2013 will be achieved by helping businesses of all sizes to realise their potential from space infrastructure and applications. This is part of its objective of helping grow the UK space industry and capture 10% of the global space market by 2030. The Catapult works with the UK industrial and academic communities, by being a focal point where small and medium enterprises, large industry and end users can work together with researchers to challenge barriers, explore and develop new ideas, and bring these to commercial reality.\nAbout Catapult centres\nCatapult centres are established and overseen by Innovate UK. They are places where the best of the UK\u2019s innovative businesses and researchers work together to bring new products and services more quickly to commercialisation. Focusing on areas with great market potential, Catapults will open up global opportunities for the UK and generate economic growth for the future. For more information, please visit www.catapult.org.uk.\nInnovate UK is the UK\u2019s innovation agency. It works with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy \u2013 delivering productivity, new jobs and exports and keeping the UK globally competitive in the race for future prosperity. For further information, visit www.gov.uk/innovate-uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blingyourlaptop.com/probiotics-guide-bifidobacterium/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6JPIKRUUCD5AARYCMVEOJRGL2RYWEQ5C", "length": 5746, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.blingyourlaptop.com", "title": "Probiotics Guide: Bifidobacterium - Bling Your Laptop", "raw_content": "Home Lifestyle Probiotics Guide: Bifidobacterium\nAny probiotics guide to beneficial bacteria would be incomplete without mentioning the Bifidobacterium group. All high-quality probiotics will include strains of this group among its ingredients, along with the Lactobacillus family of good bacteria. Here\u2019s some information on Bifidobacterium, including reported health benefits, and more:\nWhat is Bifidobacterium?\nIf you were looking at a probiotics guide in order to help decide what type of supplement to buy, it would be understandable if you were at least a bit confused. Bifidobacterium might be a Latin term, but the potential benefits are easy to understand in plain English. This type of bacteria is usually found in the large intestine, helping to make the intestinal wall stronger by producing lactic acid. These are just some of the strains of Bifidobacterium that you need to make sure are included in any probiotic supplement you might be considering.\nBifidobacterium bifidum \u2013 B. bifidum is an extremely important strain, because there is a great deal of scientific proof that it can help the digestive system function properly. It helps keep harmful microbes from entering the intestine and also helps boost the immune system, which protects the body from several potentially serious diseases.1\nB. bifidum is one of the first beneficial types of bacteria that develop in the body. Research shows that it plays a role in protecting us from toxins and reducing the chances we will contact a cold or the flu.2 Studies also show that B. bifidum aids in the production of B12 and other important vitamins.3\nBifidobacterium breve \u2013 Another important member of the Bifidobacterium family, B. breve can also help protect the body from pathogenic microbes. B. breve, according to studies, helps inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria in the mouth.4\nBifidobacterium infantis \u2013 B. infantis is also among the first bacteria that form in the body \u2013 in fact, it is found in substantial numbers in human breast milk. B. infantis breaks down lactic acid so that babies can digest the milk. But it has also been shown to help adults. For example, one study showed that B. infantis can help improve the ability of the digestive system to function properly. Women suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) took probiotic supplements containing the bacterium, while another group took a placebo. The women who took the supplement reported significant improvements in their symptoms after one month.5\nBifidobacterium lactis \u2013 There are some beneficial bacteria that work harder than others, and B. lactis falls into this category. It plays an important role in helping us digest dairy products, because it breaks down lactose. Studies show that it could also help reduce the symptoms associated with celiac disease.6\nBifidobacterium longum \u2013 While antibiotics are extremely important drugs, they can sometimes cause complications. One of the most common is antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). B. longum has been shown to help reduce the symptoms of AAD.7\nWhat to Look For in Probiotic Supplements\nIt can be an overwhelming task to find the right probiotic supplement because there are thousands of options. That\u2019s why you need to do at least a little research before you make your decision.\nLook closely at the label before you buy anything. It should read, \u201cviable until expiration date.\u201d The bacteria contained in the product should remain alive until that date. Make sure the label states whether or not the product needs to be refrigerated. Some probiotics are freeze-dried and can be stored in any cool, dry place.\nIf, on the other hand, the label reads, \u201cviable at the time of manufacture\u201d or something to that effect, that only means the bacteria in the product were alive when the product was made. There\u2019s no guarantee that will still be the case when you use it. And if the bacteria are dead, they obviously can\u2019t do you any good.\nThere\u2019s no \u201cone size fits all\u201d probiotics guide to just how many beneficial bacteria you need to get into your system. Supplements range from 1 billion colony-forming units (CFUs) to hundreds of billions of CFUs per serving. Most experts, however, agree that 15-30 billion CFUs should be enough to provide benefits. Make sure you follow the manufacturer\u2019s dosage directions.\nBut you should have a discussion with your doctor before starting any sort of probiotic regimen. People who are in good overall health can take them safely, but there are others who really need to be careful. If, for example, you have immune system problems or a severe intestinal condition, your doctor may recommend that you avoid probiotics. The reason is that some people have reported that supplements actually made their condition worse.\nIf you are reading this or any other probiotics guide, it\u2019s obviously because you\u2019re interested in the potential benefits that supplements may be able to provide. And there are many. But it\u2019s important to note that probiotics aren\u2019t magical products. They won\u2019t immediately make you feel well if you have a disease. Some people believe that probiotics can help them lose weight, but there is hardly any scientific proof that is the case. Always be wary of products making claims that seem too good to be true.\nWhile probiotics seem to provide substantial benefits, there is still a lot of research that needs to be conducted. For example, scientists are still trying to determine if particular strains of bacteria can be used for specific health conditions, and if so, what the proper dosages might be.\nBut if you are in good health, the research indicates that there is a high likelihood that probiotics can help you stay that way.\n1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178565", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 9212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bmwunstoppable.com/listing-category/switzerland-west/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IMAHNRWIZ52G57VVONDVLJ6POQEVQ72J", "length": 1902, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.bmwunstoppable.com", "title": "Switzerland West Archives - BMW Unstoppable", "raw_content": "France | Switzerland Border Crossing \u2013 Le Prelot | Col Des Roches\nFrance | Switzerland Border Crossing - Le Prelot | Col Des Roches\nVillers-le-Lac 25130 Bourgogne Franche-Comt\u00e9 FR\nCreux du Van, Gorgier, Switzerland\nThe Creux du Van is a natural rocky cirque approximately 1,400 metres wide and 150 metres deep, on the north side of Le Soliat. It is located in the Val de Travers district, in the Swiss canton of Neuch\u00e2tel.\nLa Ferme Robert\nGorgier 2023 NE CH\nLake Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland\nLake Neuch\u00e2tel is a lake primarily in Romandy, Switzerland. The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuch\u00e2tel, but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud, of Fribourg, and of Bern.\nCortaillod 2016 NE CH\nCh\u00e2teau de Neuch\u00e2tel, Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland\nNeuch\u00e2tel Castle is a castle in the municipality of Neuch\u00e2tel of the Canton of Neuch\u00e2tel in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.\nRue de la Coll\u00e9giale 12\nNeuch\u00e2tel 2000 NE CH\nChaumont Panoramic Funicular Railway, Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland\nThis atypical funicular will take you to the altitude of more than 1000 meters to marvel at the panorama of Mont Blanc and the Three Lakes.\nSavagnier 2067 NE CH\nThe Rose Garden, Bern, Switzerland\nThe Rosengarten is one of the most beautiful parks in the city of Bern and offers a unique view of the old town and the Aareschlaufe. When the weather is fine, the view extends far beyond the city.\nLaubeggstrasse 1\nBern 3013 BE CH\nThe Zentrum Paul Klee is a museum dedicated to the artist Paul Klee, located in Bern, Switzerland and designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It features about 40 percent of Paul Klee\u2019s entire pictorial oeuvre.\nBarenpark, Bern, Switzerland\nThe B\u00e4rengraben, or Bear Pit, is a tourist attraction in the Swiss capital city of Bern. It is a bear pit, or enclosure housing bears, situated at the eastern edge of the old city of Bern, next to the Nydeggbr\u00fccke and the River Aar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 175.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bonitasoft.com/library/what-bpm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LFTZVRJPRV4CVITRPXVQNS6RYH6E6PJ6", "length": 5928, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.bonitasoft.com", "title": "Business Process Management: What is BPM? | Bonitasoft", "raw_content": "Business processes are everywhere, in every organization, at every level. Often, improvement in processes can lead to more efficiency, lowering costs and improving quality. The introductory paper looks at the \"big picture\" of BPM.\nBPM, a term with multiple meanings\n\u201cBusiness Process Management\u201d as it applies to business processes generally includes all or some of the following:\nA tool to graphically diagram processes;\nA means to simulate and optimize processes before deployment;\nA system to run processes with both human and automated activities;\nTools to monitor and manage processes as they take place in real time;\nA means to collect and manipulate data from processes as they take place in real time;\nAn interface for people to interact appropriately with processes as they take place; and\nA means to access and interact with an organization\u2019s existing Information Systems (databases, data management systems, etc).\nA customer brings a car that has been recalled for a faulty part to an auto dealership or garage: The problem must be logged, the part ordered or taken form inventory, the car repaired, the franchise notified, etc.\nThe utility of BPM\nProcess improvement is based on the idea that in order to improve something, first one needs to understand the current situation, then look at where and how the process might be improved \u2013 streamlined, done more quickly, automated, and so on. Continuous improvement, total quality management, Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen \u2013 all use some type of process definition, analysis, change, and evaluation of results with the ultimate goals of both reducing costs and increasing quality. BPM applied at a deeper level therefore includes a means to analyze processes. Processes can be diagrammed, analyzed, and improved before they are implemented. Business process management solutions often include a simulation capability, to work out the inefficiencies and problems to optimize an end\u2010to\u2010end process before executing it for real. BPM at its most complex level goes further yet. It integrates and applies information technology tools that actually participate in managing the process. This is executable BPM.\nRunning and Managing Business Processes (Executable BPM)\nIn executable BPM, the process can be drawn or designed graphically with the BPM software, and then actually executed or run as one might run a software application. Where there are people involved in the process, they can be presented with forms to fill in, for example, along with information they might need to complete that step. Where there is automation, the software can either perform the automatic task, or can be linked to an information technology tool specifically designed for that task. For example, the actual process in a small company might look like this: a clerk in the front office manually enters orders into the computerized order/ inventory system. That program is accessed in the warehouse by the employees responsible for pulling stock out of inventory, who also pack and ship it and finally manually enter into the system that the stock has been reduced and the order has been filled. The order\u2010inventory program is part of the existing information technology behind this process. Let\u2019s look at how this process might be managed with executable BPM. First, the process designer (a manager, an IT professional, or anyone trained on the BPM software suite) draws the process graphically as a flow diagram. Then, as the steps where employees act are identified (\u201center order into system\u201d, \u201cpull from stock,\u201d, \u201cpack and ship order\u201d), the process designer creates the forms that the employee will complete (the order form, checklists).\nThe process can be designed to take the order data, automatically check inventory, calculate the weight and postage for the package, direct the packer to the location of the item(s) ordered, identify the correct size of shipping carton, access the customer\u2019s address information in the company\u2019s database to print a shipping label, ask the packer to acknowledge that the item was pulled, the carton was pulled, the postage was charged, the order was shipped, etc \u2010 and record all details of the process as it was implemented. Ideally, executable BPM software interfaces with existing information systems as much as possible \u2013 in the above example, the company\u2019s existing order inventory program, the customer database, and the postage payment system \u2013 so that the specialized functions those systems perform are integrated with BPM software, not replaced by it. BPM is meant to manage the business process through interfaces with both human participants and with information systems (specialized programs, databases, directories, etc).\nThe whole BPM process is deployed in an environment where the people involved at each manual step in the process are able to interact with the process (for example, via an internal or external web site); and the automatic steps (and interfaces with existing information systems) are managed by the BPM software itself.\nApplication of BPM to Process Improvement\nAutomation and integration of a process may lead directly to more efficiency. And with all aspects of the process handled this way, it becomes possible to collect data about how the process works, or doesn\u2019t work. The company can look for where and how the process can be streamlined, done more quickly, automated, and so on. This type of information can also be collected, for instance, for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), key performance indicators, and other data useful for Business Intelligence. With a well\u2010integrated business process management solution, it can be possible to take data from other sources as well as directly from the process, filter out irrelevant events, perform calculations with it, and so on, both during the real\u2010time process execution (Business Activity Monitoring), or afterward (using historical Business Intelligence data)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bonkers-shop.com/nike-sb-black-sheep-charlotte-hornets-dunk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:MMXL5VBAIAQMBCG7AVBTSZJCDR2V7F4Z", "length": 1477, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bonkers-shop.com", "title": "Nike SB X Black Sheep Charlotte Hornets Dunk - Bonkers", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbBlog\u00bbinfo\u00bbNike SB X Black Sheep Charlotte Hornets Dunk\nCharlotte-based skate shop Black Sheep and Nike SB just teamed up to create a Dunk High Pro in honor of the North Carolinian city\u2019s home team, the Charlotte Hornets. See, back in the Revolutionary War, the city of Charlotte was described as a \u201chornet\u2019s nest\u201d of rebellion by one British General after he was driven out of the city by an angry mob of residents in what led to the first successful, if forced, Brexit ever. Needless to say, Charlotte takes pride in having been an integral part of the struggle for Independence, and that\u2019s why they named their basketball team the Hornets. Today, the Charlotte Hornet\u2019s teal and purple colors are commonly associated with the city despite the latter\u2019s flag looking totally different. But that didn\u2019t stop Nike SB and Black Sheep to create a decidedly 80\u2019s looking Dunk High, complete with a shimmering upper reminiscent of the wings of a hornet. This striking pair of Dunks certainly belongs in any sneaker enthusiast\u2019s collection, and if you happen to be a basketball fan, as well, then it\u2019s practically a must-buy. You can buy the Nike SB x Black Sheep \u201cCharlotte Hornets\u201d Quickstrike from February 22. at 12:00 CET at our store, If sizes are left we will put them at 18:00 CET in our webshop. You can buy the Nike SB x Black Sheep \u201eCharlotte Hornets\u201c Dunk at 12:00 CET at our shop in Frankfurt, all left sizes will be sold online at 18:00 CET.\nItem number: BQ6827-001", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 4374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookbub.com/books/whispers-from-the-dead-the-veil-diaries-series-4-by-b-l-brunnemer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YUTJ6K6YFSQMNL7D472MMRYGNWK6S7CJ", "length": 130, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bookbub.com", "title": "Whispers From The Dead (The Veil Diaries Series, #4) by B.L. Brunnemer - BookBub", "raw_content": "Join BookBub to get alerts about free and bargain books like \"Whispers From The Dead (The Veil Diaries Series, #4)\" in your inbox.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780763660703", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:57XBVAER466WMMK3KRWJGV5IUJWX252G", "length": 2395, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bookculture.com", "title": "Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Hardcover) | Book Culture", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Hardcover)\nJump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Hardcover)\nBy Sally Derby, Sean Qualls (Illustrator)\nDiscover the breadth and depth of Paul Laurence Dunbar\u2019s poetry\u2014and learn how it reflects his singular life as a late-nineteenth-century black man.\nDid you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as \u201cI know why the caged bird sings\u201d and \u201cWe wear the mask that grins and lies\u201d? From his childhood in poverty and his early promise as a poet to his immense fame and his untimely death, Dunbar\u2019s story is one of triumph and tragedy. But his legacy remains in his much-beloved poetry\u2014told in both Standard English and in dialect\u2014which continues to delight and inspire readers today. More than two dozen of Dunbar\u2019s poems are woven throughout this volume, illuminating the phases of his life and serving as examples of dialect, imagery, and tone. Narrating in a voice full of admiration and respect, Sally Derby introduces Paul Laurence Dunbar\u2019s life and poetry to readers young and old, aided by Sean Qualls\u2019s striking black-and-white illustrations.\nSally Derby is the author of several books for young readers, including No Mush Today, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, and Kyle\u2019s Island. Sally Derby lives in Cincinnati.\nSean Qualls is an award-winning illustrator whose many books for young people include Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat by Roxane Orgill. Sean Qualls lives in Brooklyn.\nAs a poet, [Dunbar] used both voices to splendid effect. Derby uses her \u201cgrandma voice\u201d equally well, evoking the spirit of Dunbar\u2019s work and humanizing the man behind his poems, many of which are integrated with the text. She is quick to acknowledge the occasional surmise, but her story has the ring of truth, nicely enhanced by Qualls\u2019 expressionist drawings. Jump back, reader, here\u2019s a biography to remember.\nThe author is...quite respectful toward this beloved black poet.\nThis will be an engaging introduction to one of the lesser-known greats, especially if paired with recorded readings of his poetry to bring out its music.\nDerby writes an engaging biography, oftentimes with interesting personal spins on Dunbar\u2019s life and poetry. This book is a terrific introduction, and gives the reader the opportunity to learn more about African-American history, and the struggles that African-Americans faced.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 6697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2018/2/13/tech-forum-and-ebookcraft-2018-speaker-announcements-part-four", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LQK23KLRQSFJZX4WBDPZZYSMQ56DJ3GY", "length": 7767, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.booknetcanada.ca", "title": "Tech Forum and ebookcraft 2018: Speaker announcements part four \u2014 BookNet Canada", "raw_content": "Tech Forum and ebookcraft 2018: Speaker announcements part four\nTech Forum and ebookcraft 2018 are coming up fast. We're getting excited and so are our fantastic speakers.\nSpeaking of speakers, we've got some more to introduce to you, including new additions for our Tech Forum panels on women in publishing, audio-first publishing, blockchain for publishing, and retailers bridging the digital divide.\nAt ebookcraft, we're announcing sessions about WAI-ARIA in practice and Wiley's HTML-first approach, and new panelists have been added to our OverDrive in Focus panel.\nYou can see the full list of speakers and sessions that have been announced so far on the Tech Forum and ebookcraft website.\nThere's still time to register (registration closes on March 12) so get your tickets today! If we've convinced you, but you need help convincing your boss, we've got you covered with our guide to getting your boss on board.\nPanel: Women in Publishing\n(see the previously announced panelists at the link)\nScaachi Koul is a senior writer at Buzzfeed and malcontent based in Toronto. Born and raised in Calgary, she attended the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. Before joining Buzzfeed in 2015, she worked for The Huffington Post Canada, Maclean's, Hazlitt, and freelanced for various publications including Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, Maisonneuve, and Canadian Business. She has also contributed to The New Yorker's \"Shouts & Murmurs\" column.\nBhavna Chauhan is a Senior Editor at Doubleday Canada and Appetite. Her focuses are psychological thrillers, commercial fiction, celebrity books, issue-driven narrative non-fiction, and personal memoir. She is the Canadian editor of the internationally bestselling The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena, as well as the upcoming books Need to Know by Karen Cleveland and The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet. She is the acquiring editor of JP Delaney\u2019s The Girl Before, an instant bestseller, and his forthcoming thrillers, Believe Me and The Perfect Wife; YouTube personality Lilly Singh\u2019s debut book How to Be a Bawse; I Hear She\u2019s a Real Bitch by restaurateur Jen Agg; and, The Measure of My Powers by Jackie Kai Ellis, a memoir about food, marriage, and depression. She is currently working with Canadian Olympian Perdita Felicien on her story, and award-winning aquanaut and cave diver Jill Heinerth.\nPanel: The Future will not be Silent: Audio-First Publishing\nHazel Millar is the Co-publisher at Book*hug, an independent literary press based in Toronto. An avid reader, Hazel is rarely without a book. She is also the current Vice Chair of the Board of the Literary Press Group of Canada and sits on several other literary boards and advisory committees. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Jay MillAR, aka, the other half of Book*hug, their two sons, and a very cool calico cat named Tess.\nBarbara Howson is a sales, licensing, and business strategist with a strong background in publishing and other media sectors. She\u2019s worked with small to mid-size companies in Canada and the United Kingdom and has also worked as a consultant to industry organizations and government agencies. At present she is enjoying her sixth year with House of Anansi and Groundwood Books as Vice-President, Sales and Licensing.\nKelly McKinnon is the co-owner of Kidsbooks, one of the largest independent children\u2019s bookstores in North America. Kidsbooks was recently featured in The Globe and Mail article on main street businesses who have been successful in the face of global competition. Kelly points to technology as a key driver of Kidsbooks\u2019 success.\nBacklist Keywords\n(see the previously announced presenters at the link)\nJoshua Tallent, the Director of Outreach and Education at Firebrand Technologies, is dedicated to helping publishers around the world create better books. In addition to heading up training and outreach efforts within Firebrand, Joshua serves on multiple industry committees and working groups and teaches at publishing conferences year-round. He also leads the development of FlightDeck, the most robust EPUB quality assurance tool available.\n#standardsgoals for 2018: What's new in Standards & Certification\nTom Richardson is BookNet Canada's Bibliographic Manager and friend to all ONIX producers and users.\nNew from BookNet Canada: BNC SalesData & Library Circulation Data and BNC SalesData\nMonique Mongeon has always been fascinated with the intersection of books and technology \u2013 from her start making fansites for her favourite books, to her current role as Project Manager at BookNet Canada. Monique also teaches ebook production at Ryerson University\u2019s Chang School. Prior to joining BookNet, Monique worked in ebook production for Penguin Random House Canada.\nNew from BookNet Canada: BNC CataList\nCarol Gordon manages BookNet Canada's CataList project. An alumnus of both book publishing and bookselling, she is excited to be exploring new ways to share information about forthcoming books using online catalogues. Her reading list continues to grow at an alarming rate.\nWAI-ARIA in Practice: Ebooks that are dynamic, beautiful, and accessible\nDeborah Kaplan dances all over the intersection of books, technology, and accessibility. She\u2019s the lead developer at Suberic Networks, a consulting firm that specializes in technology solutions for publishing, libraries, archives, and content management, with a focus on accessibility and user experience. Deborah is an invited expert on the W3C Publishing Working Group, and has worked as a librarian and archivist, a book reviewer at Kirkus Reviews, an accessibility trainer and programmer, and a graduate instructor of children\u2019s literature. She consults as the accessibility expert for several open source projects. Deborah has a number of soapboxes about information accessibility, but they all boil down to this: It should be easy to make feature-rich, beautiful design coexist with usability and accessibility.\nDeborah organizes her non-fiction by colour.\nShe knows, she knows, but it works! She swears!\nHTML-First at Wiley, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM\nBenjamin Young is a web, digital publishing, and open source advocate. His focus is on content and how human beings interface with it and each other around it. He is currently exploring the edges of a re-decentralized web using annotation, distributed identity, and offline-friendly web apps and extensions. Benjamin is a Solutions Architect at John Wiley & Sons where he works on the Web Annotation Working Group and Digital Publishing Interest Group at the W3C.\nOh, the Places ebooks Go: An ebook's journey from creation to circulation\nTeresa Elsey is senior managing editor (digital) in the Trade division at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She directs a group that produces and updates more than a thousand ebooks yearly, including adult fiction and nonfiction, culinary and lifestyle, YA titles, picture books, and e-only projects. She began her career in print publishing (though she likes ebooks better!) and has also worked at O\u2019Reilly Media, Let\u2019s Go, and Cengage.\n\u201cEverybody\u2019s Working on the Weekend\u201d Lunch \u2018n\u2019 Learn: Committees, working groups, and volunteerism in digital publishing\nLaura Brady is an ebook developer, the principal of Brady Type, and the editor-in-chief of EPUB Secrets. She consults on workflow, tools, specifications, and production best practices. In her spare time she helps plan ebookcraft and follows the Blue Jays. She also probably tweets too much.\nTagged: ebookcraft speaker announcements Tech Forum, tech forum speaker announcements, Tech Forum, ebookcraft, speaker announcements\nNewer PostHTML-First at Wiley\nOlder PostPublishing accessibility jargon deciphered", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 12716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookxcessonline.com/products/i-thought-you-would-be-funnier-hb", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MHMWKYR2XOTBEI6FYVHCCCO6BUIE3UZW", "length": 739, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bookxcessonline.com", "title": "I Thought You Would Be Funnier (HB) - BookXcess Sdn. Bhd. 750543-D (BookXcess Online)", "raw_content": "Home / Products / I Thought You Would Be Funnier (HB)\nI Thought You Would Be Funnier (HB)\nThe best-of-the-best of what's left on the cutting room floor from critically acclaimed Shannon Wheeler's cartoon submissions to \"The New Yorker\" magazine. Now in a collectable hardcover format. A cartoon collection from the mind of Eisner Award-winning, Harvey Award-nominated and current New Yorker magazine cartoonist, Shannon Wheeler! It's the best-of-the-best of what's left on the cutting room floor from Wheeler's cartoon submissions to The New Yorker magazine. First time in a hardcover, gift-friendly, format!\nTags Humour Non-Fiction: Lifestyle\nBook Title I Thought You Would Be Funnier (HB)\nBy Author(s) Shannon Wheeler\nPublisher Boom Town", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 479, "original_length": 9834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/06/12/promotion-health-care-execs-could-lift-efforts-life-sciences-and-health-data/n4Ji1E5birxaJBfmHZeXFN/story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HV3NK4WZCDWCVCDVAG6AGGQSF2DLBVGZ", "length": 7779, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.bostonglobe.com", "title": "Promotion of health care execs could lift GE\u2019s efforts in life sciences and health data - The Boston Globe Promotion of health care execs could lift GE\u2019s efforts in life sciences and health data - The Boston Globe", "raw_content": "Promotion of health care execs could lift GE\u2019s efforts in life sciences and health data\nKeith Bedford/Globe Staff/File 2016\nAs Jeff Immelt (above), GE\u2019s outgoing chief executive, prepares to leave, he hands over a company with a health care division that is partnering with area hospitals.\nBy Robert Weisman, Priyanka Dayal McCluskey and Andy Rosen Globe Staff June 12, 2017\nGeneral Electric Co. has been ramping up its activity in the state\u2019s health care and life sciences sectors for several years. The rise of two health care-focused executives on GE\u2019s new leadership team could turbocharge its business in the booming fields.\nMonday\u2019s announcement that the company\u2019s health care chief John Flannery was promoted to chief executive of GE, and the promotion of life sciences boss Kieran Murphy to head its health care operation, was cheered by those involved in Massachusetts\u2019 medical, life sciences, and technology businesses.\nIndustry leaders said it would likely hasten GE\u2019s move to integrate health data with its medical devices and \u2014 more important to local entrepreneurs \u2014 boost the company\u2019s support of medical technology and health data startups.\n\u201cThis is a signal that they\u2019re very serious about enhancing their medical technology business,\u201d said Tom Sommer, president of the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, known as MassMEDIC, a business group representing more than 300 companies. \u201cGE will now have a front-row seat in scouting the next generation of medical technology companies.\u201d\nEven before Monday\u2019s announcement, MassMEDIC had scheduled a networking reception next week to showcase efforts by GE Ventures, the company\u2019s venture-capital arm, to finance startups. The event is expected to draw hardware and software entrepreneurs involved in the digitization of medical gear, where GE and other companies add features to traditional medical imaging and diagnostic equipment to store, analyze, and transport patient data.\n\u201cThe market is changing so much,\u201d said Maria Shepherd, president of Medi-Vantage LLC, a medical technology consulting and strategy firm in Lincoln. \u201cIt\u2019s all about improving clinical outcomes and reducing costs. Having [GE] here in Boston makes them local, so they\u2019ll get to know the local entrepreneurs.\u201d\nBut industry veteran Jonathan Fleming, chief executive of Cambridge drug developer Q-State Biosciences Inc., sounded a note of caution. GE\u2019s health care business faces many obstacles, he said, including moves by health insurers to reduce payments for overused imaging tests.\n\u201cGE is going to be continually challenged in growing its health care business,\u201d Fleming warned.\nFlannery, who is set to assume the top job at GE in August, has led GE Healthcare since 2014. It\u2019s a sprawling business with about 55,000 employees and $18 billion in annual revenue. The division sells critical equipment and technology used by hospitals around the world \u2014 including MRI and ultrasound machines, ventilators, patient monitors, blood pressure cuffs, and incubators for newborns. It also makes equipment for research labs.\nChristopher Anderson, president of the Mass High Technology Council, said Flannery \u201chas all of the global experience and is totally focused on innovative tech.\u201d\n\u201cHe\u2019ll be able to fit right into a number of other successful tech [companies] who have their headquarters in Massachusetts and fit into the global market,\u201d he said.\nGE has prioritized recruiting in the region, targeting software developers and other digital talent as it seeks to modernize its traditional heavy-machinery businesses with new software and technology, a transformation to what it calls the Industrial Internet.\nThe corporation has also become an investor in the Boston area\u2019s startup scene. GE Ventures owns parts of companies including Catalant, Desktop Metal, Tamr, and Rethink Robotics.\nJeff Bussgang, a general partner at Boston-based venture capital firm Flybridge Capital Partners, said Flannery\u2019s background could be a particular asset given Boston is a center of medical and biotech research.\n\u201cI assume he is equally committed to Boston and the fact that he\u2019s a health care executive, which is in our region\u2019s wheelhouse, strikes me as a very good thing,\u201d Bussgang said.\nThe company has been pushing to expand in health care technology, in part by teaming up with Boston-based hospitals to develop new software programs. Last month, GE and Partners HealthCare \u2014 the parent company of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women\u2019s hospitals \u2014 launched a 10-year initiative on artificial intelligence.\nGE and Partners plan to build software targeting several aspects of medical care, starting with programs that can help doctors read medical images more accurately. They want to develop an open platform that can house hundreds of different applications. Flannery told reporters in May that he considers \u201cdata and analytics and machine learning\u201d the future of health care.\nThe company is also developing software with experts at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.\nThough GE\u2019s health care business is headquartered in Chicago, Flannery is a familiar name in Boston\u2019s medical and tech industries.\n\u201cJohn has been highly engaged in getting to know the Boston health care community and the opportunities and challenges that exist within the industry,\u201d Brigham and Women\u2019s president Dr. Betsy Nabel said in a statement.\nChildren\u2019s Hospital chief executive Sandra Fenwick said Flannery\u2019s background in digital health and life sciences will serve him well.\n\u201cOur collaboration with GE Healthcare, established under John Flannery\u2019s leadership, continues to make progress,\u201d Fenwick said in a statement. \u201cHis elevation to CEO should keep our work moving forward.\u201d\nGE\u2019s decision last year to move its headquarters to Boston, plus the promotion of its top health care executive, means the company likely wants to stay focused on health care, said Jonathan P. Gertler, a life sciences industry consultant.\n\u201cI can\u2019t imagine they\u2019ve appointed the person who ran GE Healthcare to the top position in order to take their eye off health care,\u201d said Gertler, chief executive of Back Bay Life Science Advisors.\nMassachusetts has welcomed the growth of GE\u2019s presence in health care here. A year ago, Governor Charlie Baker and other state officials joined Murphy, then president of the GE Healthcare Life Sciences business unit, for the opening of a new $27 million, 210,000-square-foot site in Marlborough as North American headquarters for the life sciences business.\nThat part of the company markets products such as bioreactors used for drug manufacturing and contrast agents for medical imaging, and is the fastest-growing part of the GE Healthcare division, which Murphy will now head. It is leading the company\u2019s push into \u201cprecision medicine,\u201d enabling the small-scale production of personalized treatments for genetic diseases.\nLike Flannery, Murphy is already well known to many locally. Some say the pair, with Flannery\u2019s background in finance and Murphy\u2019s in science, has complementary skill sets.\n\u201cThese are people with vision,\u201d said Lexington health care consultant Harry Glorikian, a former entrepreneur in residence at GE Ventures who knows both executives. \u201cBoth of them have a positive disposition toward looking at new ideas and supporting them. This bodes well for the health care and life sciences side of the business. And I think they\u2019re going to take a major role in Massachusetts.\u201d\nRobert Weisman can be reached at robert.weisman@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeRobW. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey can be reached at priyanka.mccluskey@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @priyanka_dayal. Andy Rosen can be reached at andrew.rosen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @andyrosen. 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Judged by an independent panel of industry experts, Bottomline was selected from initial submissions and shortlisted against six influential and dominant contenders to achieve this impressive award.\nThe Best Technology Initiative award recognized Bottomline Technologies Agency Services as a solution that delivers innovation in payments. Specifically, the judges were looking for a winner that could demonstrate and measure the use of technology as an enabler for business and customer advantage.\nUsing existing bank payment channels, Bottomline\u2019s Agency Services solution enables Agency Banks and card programs to offer a new set of payment rails and improved flexibility in how funds are transferred to and from card accounts. Previously excluded from offering payment types such as Direct Debits and Faster Payments, the global prepaid market now benefits from being able to deliver \u2018Banking Lite\u2019 functionality to their customers.\n\u2018\u2018It is exciting to see such innovation in this space,\u201d comments Michael Harty Managing Director of The Card and Payments Awards. \u201cBottomline\u2019s submission was impressive and persuasively won across the judging panel as a prop that is truly changing the industry.\u201d\n\u201cWe are delighted that our technology has been recognized as an enabler to the prepaid market\u201d said Nigel Savory, Managing Director, Bottomline Technologies Global Business Solutions. \u201cAgency Services gives program providers\u2019 the ability to deliver the same functional benefits as traditional bank accounts, presenting significant advantages for both program providers and end-users.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 8591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brainsmatter.com/?p=423", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:D7APZX5PZ4BO5EEA3FCCH5SRZZOFO34F", "length": 240, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.brainsmatter.com", "title": "Brains Matter \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Science Week Live Show \u2013 20/8/2011", "raw_content": "\u00ab The World of the Elephant \u2013 National Science Week Live Show\n20/8/2011 Science Week Live Show \u00bb\nThis entry was posted on Sunday, August 14th, 2011 at 20:20.\nBrains Matter is hosting a live show for Science Week at the Monash Science Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 2843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brighthubeducation.com/esl-teaching-tips/72464-basic-communication-activity-ideas-for-your-beginner-esl-class/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:5NECYYMRRJLBY6B5NVKJZU7NMUIVB6Y3", "length": 3675, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.brighthubeducation.com", "title": "Basic Communication Activity Ideas for your Beginner ESL Class", "raw_content": "Basic Communication Activity Ideas for your Beginner ESL Class\nTeacher As A Model\nA teacher must know how to communicate the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills so that students can comprehend and use the new language. The teacher\u2019s actions will serve as a model for the students to follow. There are some rules that the teacher could follow in order to achieve his or her goals, and by so doing help the students to achieve their goals.\nInterpersonal communicative skills involve body language, such as physical gestures and facial expressions. The teacher should also emphasize intonation and rhythm in the language, in addition to pronunciation and accent reduction. He or she should be careful in correcting students\u2019 mistakes and try as much as possible to use examples, rather than give explanations. Examples work much better for understanding. For example, in teaching a lesson about opposites, the teacher can demonstrate by using his or her skirt, dress or pants to show that it is too tight or too big, too short or too long; or by drawing on the board. This helps students to absorb the information more easily than just using a list of words. Adding pictures to words is a great way to share communication skills.\nIn the early stages of learning a language, students tend to respond with simple answers of yes and no to questions. Teachers should try to elicit sentences: simple and short at first, and gradually longer sentences. Moving on from simple sentences will involve new vocabulary and the improvement of pronunciation and intonation. Here are some ways in which this could be done.\nDivide students into pairs and groups, and have them act out certain everyday situations, like meeting each other at a party or at a language school in a foreign country; at a beach or swimming pool; on vacation or at a conference. In these situations, they use the simplest forms of greeting with a bit of personal information like their names, which country they are from, where they live, and expressions for bidding each other farewell.\nIn succeeding lessons, students can practice requesting information and assistance and giving information and assistance, like giving directions to a certain place. As they progress, they learn to describe and express feelings and give opinions.\nPlay At Giving Directions\nGiving and taking directions play a major role in everyday life, As a game, this can be used for students to practice their listening, understanding and speaking skills. Hide picture card of various buildings found in a town in and around the classroom, or even better, in a playfield. Have students pretend to be passers-by and tourists. The tourist or a tourist couple would ask for directions and as the passer-by gives the directions, the student or students repeat them. The tourist(s) says thank you and proceed to follow the directions. When the building is found, for example a school, library or restaurant, it is brought back to the passer-by who confirms to the teacher that the student did follow the correct directions.\nBy using more body language rather than relying on the textbook, the language becomes more relevant to situations. Communication in second language acquisition begins to kick in as students tend to begin thinking in the new language as opposed to translating from their native language. At this point, a deeper level of grammar instruction can be presented with more extensive vocabulary, which will lead students on to greater communicative skills. They will then be able to converse on subjects like ordering food, comparing things, shopping, and solving problems among other aspects of vocabulary development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2014/05/20/8-facts-about-chinas-investments-in-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DP6WG5W3RHPSKQUQMLBT7YG3FFQDBKJF", "length": 2625, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.brookings.edu", "title": "8 Facts about China\u2019s Investments in Africa", "raw_content": "8 Facts about China\u2019s Investments in Africa\nFred Dews Tuesday, May 20, 2014\n\u201cConsidering the low priority of Africa in China\u2019s overall foreign strategic mapping, a disproportionate level of international attention, publicity and scrutiny is paid to China\u2019s Africa engagement,\u201d writes Yun Sun, in a recent John L. Thornton China Center/Africa Growth Initiative paper, \u201cAfrica in China\u2019s Foreign Policy.\u201d\nBelow are selected data from her paper. Download it to read her thorough analysis of China\u2019s interests in Africa and how China\u2019s internal bureaucracy makes political, economic and security decisions regarding Africa policy.\nBy the end of 2009, 45.7 percent of China\u2019s cumulative foreign aid of \u00a5256.29 billion had been given to countries in Africa.\nChina is Africa\u2019s largest trading partner, surpassing the United States in 2009.\nIn 2012, China\u2019s trade with Africa reached $198.5 billion, while U.S.-African trade in 2012 was $99.8 billion.\nChina\u2019s trade with Africa is only 5 percent of its global trade total.\nMore than 80 percent of China\u2019s $93.2 billion in imports from Africa in 2011 were crude oil, raw materials and resources.\nIn 2011, China\u2019s investment in Africa was 4.3 percent of its global total (Asia represented 60.9 percent, Latin America 16 percent, and Europe 11.1 percent).\nIn 2012, the China Development Bank agreed to provide $3 billion in loans to Ghana, which was almost 10 percent of Ghana\u2019s GDP.\nSouth Africa is China\u2019s largest trading partner in Africa, at a volume of $20.2 billion. Yet this is 4 percent of China\u2019s trade with the European Union.\n\u201c[O]verall,\u201d writes Sun, \u201cAfrica\u2019s strategic importance for Beijing remains low.\u201d\nIn the years to come, China\u2019s engagement with Africa is expected to grow. The system will adapt and adopt easy fixes for some problems, for instance, by increasing spending on training African human resources or by enhancing corporate social responsibility programs for local African communities. However, given China\u2019s priority of fueling domestic economic growth with African resources and market potential, a more profound reconsideration of China\u2019s overall strategic engagement with Africa will be required to resolve the most fundamental problems in Sino-African relations. The inertia that currently characterizes China\u2019s policy approaches to Africa will most likely remain unchanged in the near future. This situation deserves effective responses\u2014from Africa and from the rest of the world.\nDownload the paper here, and visit both the China Center and the Africa Growth Initiative for additional research on related topics.\nMingwei Ma contributed to this post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 5035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 200.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brooklyncommunityfoundation.org/blog/2017/04/raise-age-victory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:15Z", "digest": "sha1:43JF5ZEAKEHVURFHYMRSZWXCNX4HDARF", "length": 4834, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.brooklyncommunityfoundation.org", "title": "Raise the Age Victory! | Brooklyn Community Foundation", "raw_content": "With the Spark Breakfast just two weeks away, it\u2019s time to get to know our winners! This week, we\u2019d like to introdu\u2026 https://t.co/KHMrhZORG4 1 day 1 sec ago\nNew York has been one of only two states, along with North Carolina, that treats 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system.\nThis victory comes at a breakthrough moment for the Foundation's advocacy agenda. Just last week, the Mayor announced the City's intention to close the Rikers Island detention complex by 2027. We supported the research and reporting that informed the decision, and were one of the first funders of the #CloseRikers campaign through our Invest in Youth grant program.\nWe share today's Raise the Age victory with the 19 private, public, and community foundations that co-signed our letter to elected leaders last month urging this much-needed policy change. We have supported Raise the Age reform since 2014, when the issue emerged as a top priority through our Brooklyn Insights boroughwide engagement project.\nThis hard-fought victory matters because thousands of Brooklyn youth are prosecuted as adults each year\u2014the vast majority for misdemeanor offenses. Brooklyn accounts for nearly 16% of all arrests of 16- and 17-year-olds in New York State. Over 83% of those arrests last year were for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.\nThe new legislation will take effect October 1, 2018 for 16-year-olds and October 1, 2019 for 17-year-olds.\u200b\nHere are some key changes under the new legislation:\nAll Misdemeanor charges will be handled in Family Court.\nAll Felony charges will begin in a newly established Youth Part of the Criminal Court. The Youth Part will have additional services and programming available and will be presided over by a Family Court Judge. Nonviolent felony charges will be moved to Family Court unless the district attorney \"demonstrates extraordinary circumstances\" that would require the case to remain with the youth court.\nYoung people will no longer be housed in adult correctional facilities or jails, including Rikers Island. The legislation establishes a new class named \u201cAdolescent Offender\u201d for 16- and 17-year-olds charged with a felony offense, who will be housed in a separate facility, managed by the Department of Corrections and the Office of Children and Family Services.\nThe bill expands the existing law requiring parental notification upon the arrest or interrogation of a juvenile to 16 and 17-year-olds. Additionally, individuals who have been crime free for ten years after serving a sentence will be able to apply for the sealing of previous criminal convictions.\nThese changes mean that more young people will have access to positive interventions\u2014such as intensive counseling, drug treatment, youth development, and family support programs\u2014none of which are available in the adult courts. Research has shown that these interventions are particularly effective among young people because their brains are not fully formed until the age of 25. We are proud to support positive youth development and youth leadership programs for court-involved youth through our Invest in Youth initiative.\nThe new legislation clearly does not protect all children from adult prosecution in New York State. We will continue to fight on their behalf to expand these new reforms as we deepen our investment in vital youth justice programs and services through our Invest in Youth initiative.\nLearn more about our commitment to youth justice\nThank you to our Raise the Age letter co-signers:\nAdirondack Foundation, Andrus Family Fund & Andrus Family Philanthropy Program, The Catalog For Giving of NYC, Stephen & May Cavin Leeman Foundation, The Community Foundation For Greater Buffalo, Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Frances Lear Foundation, Langeloth Foundation, New York Foundation, North Star Fund, Pinkerton Foundation, Propel Capital, The Prospect Hill Foundation, David Rockefeller Fund, The Scherman Foundation, Sills Family Foundation, The Tow Foundation, and van Ameringen Foundation, Inc.\nIt's official: #RaisetheAgeNY is law! New York will no longer treat all 16 and 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system. Congratulations to all who fought so hard for this victory! And special thanks to the 19 New York State foundations who joined our #InvestinYouth advocacy efforts and raised their voices to #RaisetheAge. 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A year ago, the average was 3.86 percent. The interest charged on home loans have been running at their highest levels in seven years, although they remain below the long-term historic average.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brucenaylor.com/is-a-buyers-market-right-around-the-corner", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TZZBKGGDWYRPR4RFOIFD6ZJN3YK2MK5E", "length": 1596, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.brucenaylor.com", "title": "Is a buyers\u2019 market right around the corner?", "raw_content": "Is a buyers\u2019 market right around the corner?\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Aug. 7, 2018 \u2013 New studies suggest that the housing market could feel \"shock waves\" as baby boomers downsize or leave the market altogether.\nAccording to a study by Fannie Mae's Economic Strategic Research Group, homeownership demand from younger generations is \"insufficient\" to replace the void being created if a notable number of older homeowners leave the market.\nMeanwhile, researchers at the Stephen S. Fuller Institute at George Mason University say there is a significant number of older owners of large homes in the Washington D.C. area, and these could cause a \"baby boomer sell-off\" that could be repeated in other parts of the country.\nBaby boomers own about two out of five residential properties in the United States, with other generations owning only a combined 14 million homes. According to the Fannie Mae researchers, as many as 11.9 million of these older owners will exit homeownership over a 10-year period \u2013 between 2016 and 2026 \u2013 followed by another 13.1 to 14.6 million between 2026 and 2036.\nAccording to the study's authors, younger generations don't have the same desire or financial means to purchase all the homes left by baby boomers.\nHowever, University of Southern California professor Dowell Myers argues that it's impossible to predict price impacts 10 years from now, and National Association of Realtors\u00ae Chief Economist Lawrence Yun believes population growth and the impact of foreign buyers should ensure \"no measurable declines\" from baby boomers.\nSource: RealtyBizNews (07/25/18) Wheatley, Mike", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bsn.eu/interview-bsn-graduate-jan-pieter-veldman-mba/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IEA2AD2HNH6RWCN4OFGQ2G7BD3SMT754", "length": 2782, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bsn.eu", "title": "Jan-Pieter Veldman: \u201cI\u2019ve become a lot stronger, thanks to my MBA\u201d", "raw_content": "The interactions with his fellow students were some of the highlights of the past three years, says graduate Jan-Pieter Veldman from The Netherlands. He was one of 188 BSN students from all corners of the world who graduated last weekend in Scheveningen.\n\u201cWhat I liked most was that my subset comprised students from all sectors and walks of life, from construction and risk insurance to IT and Human Resources,\u201d says Veldman, a trained healthcare professions who works as a policy and medical advice manager at Dutch medical insurance firm Menzis.\nOne of the reasons he chose for BSN is the school\u2019s multi-sectoral approach. \u201cI wanted to see what the world looked like beyond the healthcare industry. BSN\u2019s MBA programmes are, after all, not tied to a specific industry. That, and the strong focus on the Action Learning approach, really appealed to me.\u201d\nAll in all, Veldman\u2019s Action Learning MBA studies gave him a series of new and enhanced skills. One of them is the improved ability to analyse, evaluate, en solve work-related problems.\n\u201cI am a trained healthcare professional, and healthcare professionals tend to take charge when they encounter a problem. During my studies, I have learned to take a step back and look at what the problem is, whose problem it is, and what causes the problem,\u201d he says. \u201cThis makes it easier to analyse the situation, which leads to more sustainable solutions.\u201d\nThe above has been beneficial for his professional confidence, Veldman says. \u201cMy studies have deepened my existing skills set. As a result, I am able to do the things I have always done much better. This has boosted my confidence in my abilities and proficiencies. I have become a lot stronger.\u201d\nHis political skills have improved too, he adds. \u201cI am often dealing with government departments and corporates. I have started to realise that I am actually quite proficient in dealing with them. It is nice to see.\u201d\nWhilst the past three years, including his Viva Voce and Graduation Day, have been an unforgettable experience, Veldman admits that his MBA studies weren\u2019t always a walk in the park. \u201cIt is important that you stick to your study routine and that you meet your deadlines and keep up with the rest of your group.\u201d\nOceans of time after your MBA\nSo, what does life look like after completing one\u2019s MBA? Veldman says he still has to get used to having oceans of time. \u201cHet feels somewhat strange sometimes. During the weekend, after my chores, I am often wondering: And now what do I do?\u201d\nBesides spending time with friends and family, it is the future that keeps him busy. \u201cFrom a career perspective, I am looking for a new challenge,\u201d says Veldman. \u201cI would like to go to the healthcare industry and manage larger teams. I used ot manage 150 people, not that is only 8.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bubruins.com/sports/msoc/2018-19/releases/20180709hx02ob", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MNEBVZ6ZIVTBCUVWPA3PW2JMLYMZ3RV4", "length": 1885, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bubruins.com", "title": "Eaglesham joins Men's Soccer coaching staff - Bellevue University Athletics", "raw_content": "Eaglesham joins Men's Soccer coaching staff\nBELLEVUE, Neb. -- Bellevue University men's soccer coach Mark Heath-Preston has announced the addition of former Bruin standout Graeme Eaglesham to the coaching staff for the 2018 season.\nHe replaces the outgoing Mitch Kavanagh, who had spent the past three seasons as an assistant on the Bellevue staff.\nOriginally from Ayrshire, Scotland Eaglesham came to Bellevue in 2009 where he went on to earn dual bachelor degrees in Sports Management as well as Health and Human Performance. He is currently pursuing an MBA.\nEaglesham brings a wealth of experience as both a player and coach to the Bruin coaching box. In Scotland he played in the Scottish Football League for club sides Queens Park, Albion Rovers, and Partick Thistle. Additionally, he was a member of the Scotland U-18 National Team.\nCurrently, Eaglesham holds several coaching qualifications; SFA (Scottish Football Association) Level 2; USSF (United States Soccer Federation) E National License, and FA (Football Association) Level 1.\nAt BU, he was a three-time all-MCAC selection and earned MCAC Newcomer of the Year honors during his debut season. He appeared in 52 games during his three-year career scoring 28 goals, including eight game-winners, and three assists.\nSince the end of his playing career at Bellevue, he has worked as a Liverpool F.C. International Academy Coach (2015-17) coach, Elite Academy Coach (2018), Omaha Bryan High School Assistant Coach, and is a co-founder of Future Soccer.\nThe Bruins posted an overall mark of 8-7-2 (4-0-0 NSAA) during the 2017 season, securing their fourth-straight regular-season league title and reaching the semifinals of the Association of Independent Institutions Tournament.\nBellevue opens the 2018 season on Friday, Aug. 17 when they host Doane University at Bellevue West High School. Kick-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1007, "original_length": 16552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 146.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buildonbelief.org.uk/about-volunteering", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:N44XYEPJSHY6D22OW6VZBSE4E65BTWPD", "length": 2026, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.buildonbelief.org.uk", "title": "Build on Belief Ltd | About volunteering", "raw_content": "'Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now and hold your ground. Later, win a little more.'\nVolunteering should be fun!\nSince 2005, our organisation has had more than three thousand volunteers, the great majority of them people who have fought their own battles with addiction, and many of them often in structured treatment for their substance use while volunteering with us. We could start a small country with all of the wonderful people who have volunteered with us over the years!\nOur criteria for volunteering is unique for a charity working in the addictions field. We tore up the idea of a 'clean time' rule in our first year of operation back in 2005, and followed that by kicking into touch the any thought that a potential volunteer needed to bring any more to the table than themselves, the only caveat being that they could not be under the influence of a non-prescribed mind altering substance when they turned up to volunteer. If you want to volunteer, we want you on board our little ship!\nStill in treatment and having the odd binge? We can work with that. Never had a paid job and with no real experience of routine and structure? Not a problem. Little or no education, and find it a struggle to read and write? It doesn't matter. Anxious and lacking in confidence? Join the club and welcome to BoB!\nAs described in 'our values and ethos', we put a great deal of effort into looking after our volunteer teams and pride ourselves on being able to offer volunteer opportunities to anyone who wants to join us. All of our volunteers receive travel expenses, something to eat, one-to-one supervision and can access to our in-house training programme as often as they want. Every year we hold a volunteer award ceremony in the town hall in Kensington and Chelsea, where along with great food and a lot of laughter we celebrate the passion, commitment and achievements of the people who make this charity the force for good that it is. We love our volunteer teams and welcome you into joining us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 14338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bulgariaski.com/news/20120330/chepelare_unique_competition.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:30Z", "digest": "sha1:M4S5D2JU27MKYFVT6J7UERFHY4JV43NB", "length": 797, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bulgariaski.com", "title": "Chepelare marks the end of the winter season with a unique competition", "raw_content": "Home ChepelareArticles and latest news from ChepelareChepelare marks the end of the winter season with a unique competition\nChepelare resort will host a unique competition on April 7th and 8th for the closing of the ski season. Chepelare Resort Extreme Weekend 2012 includes the following disciplines: ski cross, snowboard cross and bike battle. The competition will take place on the higher part of ski piste \u21161 with lots of jumps and other obstacles. The participants will compete in several categories. The snowboarders and skiers will start together in groups of 4 and the bikers in groups of 2. The final date to sign up in the competition is April 5th. Be there and enjoy the lovely race with lots of snow and sunshine!\nPlease, post a comment on Chepelare marks the end of the winter season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/fedex-ceo-trump-trade-trying-to-breathe-without-oxygen-2017-1?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=aol", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IM4RSDOV2YZFUSN7XFILWIJFCA4HEQS3", "length": 3145, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com", "title": "FEDEX CEO: Trump trade 'trying to breathe without oxygen' - Business Insider", "raw_content": "FEDEX CEO: The US trying to grow without free trade 'would be like trying to breathe without oxygen'\nFred Smith, CEO of FedEx, is pushing back against the new administration's stance on trade.\nIn an interview with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, Smith criticized President Donald Trump's decision to sign an executive order on Monday that states his intent to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and displays his more protectionist stances.\nSmith said that trade has played a key part in growing the US economy for centuries and can continue to contribute to the growth.\n\"About 40 million Americans including lots and lots of FedEx folks make their job in trade,\" said Smith. \"40 million Americans, about 27 percent of entire economy is related to trade. 95 percent of the world's consumers aren't in the United States they're elsewhere around the world. 80 percent of the purchasing power.\"\nAdditionally, Smith said that removing the US from trade deals could be detrimental to the health of the economy.\n\"So the United States being cut off from trade would be like trying to breath without oxygen,\" said Smith. \"It's an essential part of our economy.\"\nIn addition to pulling out of the TPP, Trump also suggested that companies who move production out of the US would face a \"very major border tax\" and has discussed possible tariffs against different countries.\nThe US pulling out of the TPP also allows China to step into the void, according to Smith, allowing them to grow their influence in Asia and across the global economy.\n\"I think the decision to pull out of TPP is unfortunate because the real beneficiary of that is China,\" said Smith. \"And China has been very mercantilist, very protectionist. They've engaged in industrial policy to the disadvantage of American and European countries.\"\nSmith also stressed that instead of attacking China, as Trump has done from time to time, the US should push to open up trade with the country more because there is an \"opportunity to sell huge amounts of goods into China.\"\nThe FedEx CEO also noted that there is good reason for Americans to be skeptical of trade because it is hard to discern the benefits of the policies while the pain is obvious. Said Smith:\n\"Well again the benefits of trade are diffuse. They're spread among many people. The pain is localized. That's really the problem. When you lose a plant in New Hampshire and it goes to South Carolina everybody's OK with that. And that's basically the history of the 19th Century in the United States. But when that factory goes abroad and produces good products that come back in the United States that creates a political issue.\"\nDespite these issues, Smith reiterated that maintaining a push for more global trade is a beneficial policy for the US economy.\nTo be fair, Smith and FedEx would benefit from more global trade since they deliver packages, but as a CEO of a company operating within the world's largest economy the comments are of note.\nSEE ALSO: TRUMP: We're going to 'cut regulations by 75%' and impose a 'very major border tax'\nMore: FedEx Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership Donald Trump", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bzlibrary.com/articles/NBA-Team-Owner-Speaks-at-TU-Feb-10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3FSBJYVGY4YZIAPKY3GPOTXWFT3LP5EM", "length": 1073, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bzlibrary.com", "title": "NBA Team Owner Speaks at TU Feb. 10", "raw_content": "NBA Team Owner Speaks at TU Feb. 10\nThe chairman and majority owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder speaks Feb. 10 at the next Friends of Finance Executive Speaker Series luncheon at The University of Tulsa.\nClayton I. Bennett also is chairman of the diversified private investment company, Dorchester Capital, LLC.\n\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity to hear from someone with experience in the dynamic business of professional sports,\u201d said Jim Arens, Friends of Finance president. \u201cBusiness leaders in the Tulsa area will be interested to hear the challenges and rewards associated with landing the NBA franchise in Oklahoma City.\u201d\nBennett is Chairman of the Professional Basketball Club, L.L.C., which owns the Oklahoma City Thunder professional basketball team. Previously, Bennett was one of the principal owners of the San Antonio Spurs, where his duties included representing the team on the NBA Board of Governors. Bennett was also instrumental in the relocation of the New Orleans\u2019 Hornets to Oklahoma City for two seasons due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 144.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bzlibrary.com/articles/SemGroup-Reorganization-Confirmed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NHJPA5XPQZVHA67QO2BNOYO4XRXFGIV5", "length": 1034, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bzlibrary.com", "title": "SemGroup Reorganization Confirmed", "raw_content": "SemGroup LP wins confirmation of its Fourth Amended Plan of Reorganization, reaching the last major milestone in its court restructuring and allowing the company to emerge from Chapter 11 in November.\nNorm Szydlowski succeeds Terry Ronan as the company\u2019s president and chief executive officer.\n\u201cWe will emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger entity, better positioned to serve our customers with crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, refined products and asphalt,\u201d said Ronan.\nAs part of the plan, the company obtains a commitment for a $500 million exit financing facility from a syndicate of lenders, including BNP Paribas, Bank of America and Calyon. The financing will be available upon the effective date of the plan.\nThe reorganization is supported by the company\u2019s three major creditor groups: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, the Official Producers Committee and the secured lenders.\nSemGroup and certain subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on July 22, 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/video/?438469-1/touro-synagogue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TDTHNI6L2MOFWGNEJNVO42RLPRYVQ7IM", "length": 2343, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.c-span.org", "title": "Touro Synagogue, Oct 23 2017 | Video | C-SPAN.org", "raw_content": "2018-01-20T15:46:35-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c76/20180120154802003_hd.jpgThe Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the country. Tour guide Karen Flippo talked about the building\u2019s history which spans five centuries.\nC-SPAN\u2019s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their \u201c2017 LCV Cities Tour\u201d in Newport, Rhode Island, from October 21-27, to feature the history and literary life of the community.\u2002Working with the Cox cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.\u2002The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.\nThe Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the country. Tour guide Karen Flippo talked about the building\u2019s history which spans five centuries.\u2026 read more\nThe Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the country. Tour guide Karen Flippo talked about the building\u2019s history which spans five centuries.\nC-SPAN\u2019s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their \u201c2017 LCV Cities Tour\u201d in Newport, Rhode Island, from October 21-27, to feature the history and literary life of the community.\u2002Working with the Cox cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.\u2002The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close\nFilter by Speaker All Speakers Karen Flippo Joe Teeples\nKaren Flippo Presenter Touro Synagogue->Foundation\nJoe Teeples Video Journalist C-SPAN->Local Content Vehicle\nSee all on Religious Issues Rhode Island American History TV\nPresident Obama on Ebola and Jerusalem Synagogue Attack\nPresident Barack Obama spoke to reporters after a meeting with health officials about the international response to the\u2026\nDeepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow debated whether science or religion (spirituality) forms the best foundation for\u2026\nGovernor John Kasich Remarks to the Press in Great Neck, New Yok\nGovernor John Kasich (R-OH), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, brought his campaign to the\u2026\nFormer Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor talked about her book, Out of Order: Stories from the History of the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cair.com/an_islamic_path_to_democracy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VS4OMCVFI4Y553FNIMXRECYEDQMBPUVG", "length": 2229, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cair.com", "title": "An Islamic Path to Democracy - CAIR", "raw_content": "An Islamic Path to Democracy\nFrom the recent torrent of analysis about trends in the Middle East, two contradictory views have emerged. The first is that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has set off a wave of democratization -- as exemplified by elections in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well as Lebanon's \"cedar revolution.\" The alternative view is that Western intervention has fuelled Islamist extremism; it has underpinned the emergence of a \"narco-state\" (Afghanistan) and even a militantly Islamic state (Iraq). Lebanon may be on the verge of a new civil war, Iran is the big winner of the Iraqi elections and an overstretched U.S. army is struggling to cope. Regardless of which narrative one prefers, U.S. military intervention in the Middle East was a watershed.\nAnd there have been at least some positive long-term effects. To begin with, democracy is clearly popular among Arabs. Even if many dislike America's role in promoting it and are suspicious of Washington's agenda, they are hungry for more freedom. But the kind of democratization we are talking about has little to do with the abstract Jeffersonian-style democracy that Washington wanted to implement in Iraq. Developing a real, working democracy is more complicated than simply holding elections. Another myth was the belief that a democratic regime would be automatically friendly to U.S. interests. In fact, democratization cannot work without political legitimacy, and this legitimacy in the Middle East is rooted first in nationalism and Islamic beliefs.\nThe democratization processes we've seen so far reflect that: Palestinian democrats are no less nationalist than their more militant counterparts, and constitutionalist Iraqi Shia clerics are still calling for Islamic sharia principles in their country's laws. On a more positive note, the merging of nationalism and democracy is undermining links between local anti-western movements (whether nationalist or Islamist) and the internationalist radicals who claim to support them, such as al-Qaeda. When domestic national agendas dominate the political scene there is no room for strangers who are pushing only their internationalist struggle and ignoring local issues. (MORE)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 5715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianbaseballnetwork.com/canadian-baseball-network-articles/canadian-andrew-case-one-of-jays-prospects-playing-in-afl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VVGRPLYLQOSURMT7L77YIT7ZZDFOGMZR", "length": 4239, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.canadianbaseballnetwork.com", "title": "Canadian Andrew Case one of Jays' prospects playing in AFL \u2014 Canadian Baseball Network", "raw_content": "Canadian Andrew Case one of Jays' prospects playing in AFL\nPrairie Baseball Academy graduate and Tournament 12 alum Andrew Case (Saint John, N.B.) is one of eight Toronto Blue Jays prospects playing in the Arizona Fall League. Photo Credit: Jay Blue\nThe Arizona Fall League is under way and both Lourdes Gurriel and Andrew Case (Saint John, N.B.) got into game action with Gurriel hitting a double and Case pitching a scoreless ninth to earn a save. It's a great start but what should we expect from the eight Blue Jays minor leaguers in the AFL?\nWhich Jays are playing in the league? On the mound, we have T.J. Zeuch, Danny Young, Jackson McClelland and Case and in the field we have Max Pentecost, Jonathan Davis and Lourdes Gurriel.\nThe Arizona Fall League is a hitters' league. In 2016, teams scored an average of 4.78 runs per game, which is a figure that is way higher than a typical minor league (the average in 2015 was slightly lower at 4.76) outside of the Pacific Coast League and the California League, both of which have very high rates of scoring.\nIf you've been a fan of the Blue Jays for more than a few years and have followed their minor leagues when their triple-A club was based in Las Vegas, you know how few top pitching prospects were sent there. The same goes for the AFL. Most teams won't send their top pitching prospects there to get hammered in the thinner air and dry heat of the Arizona desert. In that sense, I think the hitters will do much better than the pitchers.\nI think Gurriel is going to get a lot of playing time and he has the potential to do very well. From what I've seen from him, Gurriel is a very opportunistic hitter who can hit mistakes but doesn't have a lot of plate discipline when it comes to pitches that are borderline strikes or out of the strike zone. In the AFL, many pitchers won't have detailed scouting reports and may be prone to challenging the hitters and that's something that Gurriel has the potential to feast on.\nWhether he hits well or not, it's important for Gurriel to get the at bats in against pretty good competition which I'm sure he'll be able to do. He needs to make up for time lost during the season when he was injured.\nPentecost is a solid all-around hitter with the ability to spray the ball. I wouldn't be surprised if the ball carries well for him, allowing him to hit some home runs out of proportion to what he normally hits. Or, as a guy who only played about half of a season in class-A Advanced, he could get overwhelmed a bit by the pitching which is usually around a double-A level. It's tough to tell but I actually think that Pentecost will be fine.\nWith six outfielders on the roster, I don't know how much he's going to play, but with a full year of double-A under his belt and a solid understanding of the strike zone and excellent plate discipline, I have a feeling that Davis will be able to deal with whatever he's pitched. I wouldn't expect too much more than a .250/.350/.425 slash line but I think that's pretty reasonable for the outfielder.\nI always have a hard time prognosticating pitchers' performance. I think that Zeuch will not have a great time in the AFL. He gave up a lot of contact during the season and if he does the same in a far worse pitching environment in Arizona than he was in in Florida, I think he's going to be hit hard.\nMcClelland had moments of dominance and I think that will carry over to some degree. Still, he'll have to be a little finer with his pitches than he was in A-ball but overall, I think he'll be fine.\nYoung had some solid success in double-A, mainly because he's a sidearmer who generates a lot of ground balls. That's a great key to success in a league where the balls fly far. He'll be fine.\nLike the other relievers, Case is probably going to be fine. Case pitched mostly in double-A and had some time in Buffalo and his success at the higher levels means that he's probably figured out how to get batters out at any level. He doesn't have overpowering stuff, which could lead him to be hit hard when he's not locating at his best, but he also has the ability to generate ground balls.\nCanadians in the Minors, Minor leaguesKevin Glew October 12, 2017\nFall Instructs: Juniors drop fall finale", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianfamily.net/category/home-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GSWFLQUU76JW7IYXNIA5KY3RTXQVL5PT", "length": 219, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.canadianfamily.net", "title": "Home Business Archives | Canadian Family .net", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a scary leap to just quit your job and try to earn enough money online. Even if you\u2019re\u2026\nMany online business models are perfect for working from home. However, parents of young children have unique challenges that\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 153.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/author/michael-mckiernan/court-allows-claim-on-interest-paid-for-litigation-loan-4794/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MO5UAE3EGH3OWI47XHMQOQO2EGWF7QIT", "length": 3312, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.canadianlawyermag.com", "title": "Court allows claim on interest paid for litigation loan | Canadian Lawyer Mag", "raw_content": "Court allows claim on interest paid for litigation loan\nOctober 31, 2012 |Written By Michael McKiernan\nThe New Brunswick Court of Appeal has allowed an impecunious man to claim the interest on a litigation loan he needed to fund a damages claim resulting from a motorcycle accident.\nWhile the province\u2019s Rules of Court don\u2019t expressly categorize loan interest as a disbursement, Chief Justice Ernest Drapeau found the loans need only be \u201cnecessarily incurred\u201d and the interest rate \u201creasonable\u201d to qualify for reimbursement.\n\u201cMr. [Francis] LeBlanc lacked the means to finance the litigation and his impecuniosity resulted in the loans that generated the interest in issue. Accordingly, it is an expense that was \u2018necessarily incurred,\u2019 Drapeau wrote for the unanimous court in his Oct. 18 judgment. \u201cFinally, I am driven to conclude the interest claimed was \u2018reasonable\u2019 since the respondents adduced no evidence to establish Mr. LeBlanc could have borrowed money at a rate of interest lower than the one he negotiated with the independent third party.\u201d\nDrapeau ordered the defendants to pay almost $13,000 to Le Blanc to cover the interest on his $26,000 loan from litigation funder Seahold Investments, and said there was \u201cevery reason for satisfaction with the resulting regime, one that contributes significantly to improving access to justice for the citizens of our province.\u201d\n\u201cAs the Chief Justice of Canada, the Honourable Beverley McLachlin, regularly reminds us, access to justice is one of the cornerstones of the rule of law, and it behooves courts, whenever possible, to do their part in fashioning means conducive to its improvement. Courts must walk the talk,\u201d he added.\nLe Blanc was 17 in September 2004, when he was seriously injured as his motorcycle went off the road when a van driven by an employee of the New Brunswick Power Corporation crossed into his lane. The accident left him unable to work, and his only income was $200 per week in disability payments, according to the decision.\nWhen the statement of defence came back laying the blame entirely at Le Blanc\u2019s feet, he went to a bank and credit union looking for money to fund his action, but was turned down by both. Litigation funder Seahold Investments stepped in, loaning him $26,000 at a compounded monthly rate of 2.4 per cent, for an effective annual rate of 33 per cent.\n\u201cThe interest rate it set reflected an assessment of the risk assumed in granting the loans in question, a risk that two financial institutions had previously deemed prohibitive. Only a foolhardy lawyer would have agreed to undertake that risk,\u201d Drapeau wrote.\nA Court of Queen\u2019s Bench judge found the power corporation employee entirely at fault, awarding costs of $20,000 to Le Blanc, plus taxable disbursements. That\u2019s when Le Blanc claimed the interest on his loan, but was turned down by a court clerk tasked with deciding which disbursements were allowable.\nThe decision stands in contrast to a 2011 Ontario case, Giuliani v. Region of Halton, in which a judge disallowed the plaintiff\u2019s claim for recovery of interest paid on a litigator loan, and criticized her lawyer for referring her to a lender charging \u201cunconscionable\u201d rates of interest. The rate in that case was 3.5 per cent compounded monthly for an effective annual rate of 51 per cent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 15536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.candelaseducation.com/certificate-and-diploma-programs-abroad", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BATDSGQHG5EDYHG3FUBNKYOTEWRTO7UO", "length": 193, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.candelaseducation.com", "title": "Certificate and Diploma Programs Abroad", "raw_content": "Certificate and Diploma Programs in the USA, UK, Canada, Ireland and European Countries.\nJoin diploma and certificate programmes in one of the good colleges of Canada and invest in your career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 139.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cap-allow.com/about-the-directors.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:5VYW2VCPNAHULBTVA5AMAYKIP7S5YOD2", "length": 1955, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cap-allow.com", "title": "Meet the Directors of The Capital Allowances Partnership Limited", "raw_content": "Individual and professional advice are core values of The Capital Allowances Partnership Limited. Below are profiles of our directors.\nAdam is a Chartered Surveyor and Member of the Association of Taxation Technicians, with 20 years experience in all aspects of capital allowances. Before co-founding The Capital Allowances Partnership Limited, Adam held several positions at a major firm of business advisers, ultimately as head of a specialist capital allowances practice.\nAdam is co-author of Tolley's Handbook on The Capital Allowances Act 2001, and has been responsible for a range of projects for property investors and businesses. His experience includes healthcare, hospitality and the leisure industries.\nEmail: adam.garrad@cap-allow.com\nSteven Bone BSc(Hons) PGDip.BA FRICS ATT\nSteven obtained a first class Quantity Surveying degree before studying tax & business administration. He is a RICS Fellow with more than 15 years capital allowances experience. Steven joined The Capital Allowances Partnership Limited after senior positions in 2 major firms of business advisers.\nSteven is the author of RICS's national guidance note on capital allowances and land remediation relief, and co-writes Bloomsbury Professional's Capital Allowances, and Tolley's Tax Planning. He chairs RICS panels on the professional competence of prospective capital allowances surveyors.\nEmail: steven.bone@cap-allow.com\nSteven qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser after beginning his career as a quantity surveyor. He has specialised in capital allowances for 10 years, having previously run the Scottish capital allowances practice for a major international firm of business advisers.\nBased in Edinburgh, he advises clients throughout the UK, primarily in the property investment (offices and industrial), motor dealer, and hospitality and leisure sectors.\nHe is co-author of Tolley's Handbook on The Capital Allowances Act 2001.\nEmail: steven.burchill@cap-allow.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.careercenter.illinois.edu/instructable/offer-evaluation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:40Z", "digest": "sha1:H7FUMJ3GT7FNTO3PWBUKDGKMZ5OLA2JF", "length": 2126, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.careercenter.illinois.edu", "title": "Offer Evaluation | The Career Center at Illinois", "raw_content": "Offer Evaluation\nAspects of an Offer\nThere is more to an offer than solely the salary. Aside from monetary benefits, there is an array of non-monetary benefits to be aware of when making a major decision. A great first step to evaluating your offer is to make a budget examining your expenses including school loans against the salary and other benefits offered by the organization. Below is a list of a number of benefits to consider.\nNear-Monetary Benefits\nTuition Assistance/Reimbursement\nVacation, Sick, and Personal Leave\nOther (laptop, cultural fit, growth options)\nSalary and Negotiation: Talk Salary When\nAside from exploring the various aspects of an offer, it\u2019s important to spend a considerate amount of time on whether or not you will be a good fit within the organization you have interviewed with. For instance, will you feel welcomed and comfortable to be yourself? Do your values align with those of the organization?\nYou are not obligated to take the first offer provided to you by an employer. It is best to take some time prior to the final interview to do research on the cost of living where you will be employed. For example, the cost of living is much more expensive in Chicago, IL than it is in Champaign, IL. Therefore, your salary for the same line of work may vary depending on location. You may also want to consider the average salary for entry-level employees within a certain type of industry. Lots of these details can be accessed through a variety of free online resources.\nSalary and Negotiation: The Salary Question\nNACE salary survey, Winter 2017\nAvailable in Reference at The Career Center\nAfter you have completed your research on the cost of living and industry norms, you are ready to assess whether your offer is worthy of negotiation. It\u2019s important to consider your work experience and ensure your experience matches what the organization is seeking. This part may feel intimidating and each offer is unique. For assistance with negotiating your offer, make an appointment with The Career Center.\nSalary and Negotiation: Negotiating an Offer\nFearless salary negotiation by Josh Doody", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 8435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carmodyadr.com/2018/05/u-s-supreme-court-settles/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YAYRNNLY7O4NTI2WP5YQN7KYHVIURB2U", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.carmodyadr.com", "title": "U.S. Supreme Court Settles It | Carmody ADR Blog", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb U.S. Supreme Court Settles It", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carodeo.com/press_release.aspx?p=78", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:43Z", "digest": "sha1:C3H377FTZ7KYYSZLWOAR7WVPLRMWNY35", "length": 3113, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.carodeo.com", "title": "Press Release", "raw_content": "NEW CALIFORNIA RODEO ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED\nTwo leaders named to the Board and Poster Unveiled\nThe California Rodeo Association added two new Directors to the Board during the annual Stockholders Dinner and Meeting on October 16th. The two Directors are Kathy Donnelly, who chairs the Bull X-ing Committee, and Pat Hitchcock who chairs the Director\u2019s Patio Barbecue Committee. These individuals both have extensive experience at the California Rodeo Salinas and have been exemplary volunteers. Their full biographies are below.\nThe night also consisted of the unveiling of the 2015 Commemorative Poster painted by local artist Laurie Myers. As an artist, she is self-taught. Laurie has a special style that incorporates an impressionist approach to a very realistic subject matter. She lives on a ranch and is surrounded by horses, cowboy gear and Skip, a true cowboy. They all inspire her every painting. She has only to look out her window forever changing subjects and light. Laurie says, \u201cWe travel many trails, full of joys and sorrows. When you cross mine I hope I can bring a moment of happiness.\u201d The posters will be available for sale in the California Rodeo Office at 1034 N. Main St. in Salinas soon. Visit www.carodeo.com to check for availability.\nKathy Donnelly is a lifelong resident of Salinas. She says she fell in love with the Rodeo as a child, \u201cEvery year we would get all dressed up in our best western wear, we watched and participated in the Kiddie Kapers Parade; the excitement of sitting on the curb of Main Street watching the horse parade followed by my grandfather taking me and my cousins to the Rodeo was the highlight of my summer!\u201d Kathy was excited to become an official Rodeo Committee Member assisting in the beer booths in 1999. She was appointed Chairman of the Bull X-ing Committee in 2009. One of Kathy\u2019s proudest moments has been sharing her love of the California Rodeo with her daughter, Kimberly, who became a volunteer herself in 2009. Kathy also has a son, Christopher and two grandsons. When Kathy isn\u2019t working, she divides her time between the California Rodeo, Paso Robles, and hanging out with her grandsons.\nPat is proud of his Danish heritage and his family roots date back to the 1800\u2019s with his family being involved predominantly in the local agriculture industry with some ties to cattle ranching. His first memories of the Rodeo go back to his \u201cUncle\u201d Jack Hitchcock who was involved in communications; Pat tagged along covering about every inch of the Rodeo Grounds and loving every minute. Pat first joined the Sponsor Hospitality Committee in 2000, and at the encouragement of his cousin Jerry Carlsen, asked to join the Director\u2019s Patio Barbecue Committee in 2007. Pat has chaired that committee for the past 2 years. He enjoys the year-round involvement with the community and says it is a very rewarding part of his life. Pat is a proud father and grandfather to his daughter Jessica and grandchildren Colter and Payton Zobel. Away from work and the Rodeo, he enjoys the outdoors, hunting, fishing, golfing or taking a nap under an oak tree.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 6721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carpelibrum.net/2015/08/review-taming-of-queen-by-philippa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HGRH4HANIG4HN7ZMQGJEIPSIEJTETTH6", "length": 4179, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.carpelibrum.net", "title": "Carpe Librum: Review: The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory", "raw_content": "Review: The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory\nThe Taming of the Queen is about the life of Kateryn Parr, the sixth and final Queen of King Henry VIII.\nTold in the first person by Kateryn (the story begins in 1543 with a widowed Kateryn soon to become Queen), the reader is swept away to the court of King Henry VIII in the expert hands of historian and author Philippa Gregory.\nTechnically the 7th in the Tudor Court series, The Taming of the Queen can easily be read as a standalone as Gregory uses her expertise to ensure you never lose track of the characters; something other authors of the genre often fail to do.\nReligion was the driving force at the time as King Henry's support for the Papists and the Reformers continues to waver back and forth, leaving the people of England unsure where the King's faith truly lays. This creates a dangerous and deadly environment at court, and Kateryn does her best to steer clear of any trouble.\nKateryn is painfully aware of the ghosts of Henry's previous wives (the King has buried four wives after all) and does an incredible job of staying alive; desperate to learn from the mistakes of the queens before her and living with constant fear and uncertainty.\nThe Taming of the Queen offers a magnificent portrait of Henry VIII at the latter stages of his life, suffering from ill health and some say paranoia. Kateryn brings the young royal children to court, (Prince Edward, Mary I, Elizabeth I) and she really brings the family together in a royal first. We see her influence on young Mary and Elizabeth, and knowing what will happen later on in their adulthood gives this period more meaning.\nThis image of Princess Diana at Princess Charlotte's\nchristening, is similar to the family portrait\ncommissioned by King Henry VIII where he\nordered that Kateryn Parr be replaced by the\nimage of his late wife, Jane Seymour\nThe cover of the novel (above) shows part of a family portrait commissioned by King Henry VIII, the sitting and unveiling of which is included in the novel. At the unveiling, Kateryn is shocked and hurt to see she has been replaced by the late Jane Seymour, beloved Queen who died in childbirth after giving Henry his male heir (Prince Edward). I knew that including a deceased person in a painting or portrait was done and not shocking at the time, but seeing this through Kateryn's eyes really upset me, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. How would we react if this happened today?\nThen I remembered that I had seen this recently, in a photograph of the late Princess Diana looking at Princess Charlotte on the day of her christening. This image was photoshopped but I found it really moving, and perhaps King Henry was chasing or seeking this same sentiment in 1545.\nI had at least two Henry VIII inspired dreams while reading The Taming of the Queen and am still thinking about it weeks after I finished reading the final pages.\nThe Taming of the Queen is expertly written and easily one of my favourite books of the year.\nLabels: England, Five star review, From Publisher for Review, Historical Fiction, Reading Challenge\nThe main difference between the two family portraits is that Kate is included whereas Kateryn was excluded. I haven't read Gregory's book yet but just finished reading the Jean Plaidy one called The Sixth Wife published in 1953. It will be interesting to compare the two when I read Gregory's book. Nice review.\nThanks Ms M, I haven't read anything by Jean Plaidy, but I've heard she's very good. Let me know how it compares to this one.\nSounds like the author did her job well if you are still thinking about the story days after you finished it. I like Philippa Gregory's novels, but I tend to avoid them because of their size.\nOh Carmen, please don't let the size put you off any of her books, they're really not that long and The Taming of the Queen was only 425 pages and trust me, they flew by!\nLove her books.\nThat photo is so eerie, but beautiful. :)\nThanks for sharing, and enjoy your day.\nStopping by from Carole's Books You Loved August Edition. I am in the list as #30 through #33.\nThe Secrets of Lake Road\nDead Money Run\nThanks for stopping by Elizabeth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 9674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.castlemansconnect.com/site-map", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7HYP5DV675T7VRJBKI7B5GMDUJME3NAB", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.castlemansconnect.com", "title": "Site Map | Castleman\u2019s Connect", "raw_content": "Learning About Castleman\u2019s Disease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 188.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.catholicpc.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=388355&type=d&pREC_ID=881284", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SX2OWOBY2LM6ICHMHXGARFQDX4INTKJL", "length": 252, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.catholicpc.com", "title": "HS Fellowship of Christian Athletes \u2013 HS Fellowship of Christian Athletes \u2013 Catholic of Pointe Coupee", "raw_content": "HS Fellowship of Christian Athletes \u00bb HS Fellowship of Christian Athletes\nHS Fellowship of Christian Athletes\nFCA is for high school athletes to form a better relationship with God and themselves through sports related bible study, games, worship, etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbinsights.com/deal/naryx-pharma-unattributed-vc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:34Z", "digest": "sha1:FFEBIFYXCWCGHA7X7I76E7YIPNCBZ3HK", "length": 314, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cbinsights.com", "title": "Naryx Pharma's Unattributed VC Round - CB Insights", "raw_content": "Naryx Pharma's Unattributed VC Round\nNaryx Pharma raised a round of funding on May 19, 2006.\nNaryx Pharma is a Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals / Drugs company based in Carpinteria, California. Naryx Pharma's investors include Vivo Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.\u2026\nArticles about Naryx Pharma's Unattributed VC Round:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbs58.com/news/trump-vows-to-never-drop-out-after-sexually-aggressive-remarks-surface", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:05Z", "digest": "sha1:SZLXI4P7TAX2KJ45CY2UJ6P37F5KQJJL", "length": 5730, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.cbs58.com", "title": "Trump Vows to Never Drop Out after Sexually Aggressive Remarks Surface", "raw_content": "Trump Vows to Never Drop Out after Sexually Aggressive Remarks Surface\nNew York (CNN) Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to \"never\" drop out of the presidential race as a growing chorus of Republicans urged him to do exactly that after sexually aggressive remarks he made in 2005 surfaced a day earlier.\nTrump's defiance came as his own running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said he was \"offended\" by Trump's remarks and canceled plans to represent him at a political event on Saturday. Meanwhile, the third-most powerful Senate Republican, John Thune, a member of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's inner circle,called on Trump to \"withdraw\" and let Pence top the Republican ticket just a month from Election Day.\nEven Trump's wife, Melania Trump, condemned the remarks, saying in a statement released by Trump's campaign, \"The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me.\n\"This does not represent the man that I know,\" she added. \"He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world.\"\nDonald Trump, however, was unwavering.\n\"I'd never withdraw. I've never withdrawn in my life,\" Trump told The Washington Post Saturday morning. \"No, I'm not quitting. I have tremendous support.\"\nHe also told The Wall Street Journal there is \"zero chance I'll quit.\"\nThe comments suggested that Trump was eager to fully turn away from the lewd and sexually aggressive terms he used to describe women in the 2005 conversation and instead pivot toward his political opponents, whoever they may be.\n\"They're not going to make me quit, and they can't make me quit,\" Trump told the Post.\nThe interviews took place less than 24 hours after previously unaired footage surfaced of Trump bragging about being able to grope women and trying to have sex with a married woman during a 2005 taping for \"Access Hollywood.\"\nIn that timespan, Republicans have quickly condemned Trump for the comment many of them have deemed \"inexcusable\" and \"indefensible,\" prompting Trump to issue his first-ever apology of his nearly 16-month campaign.\nBut Trump also signaled a willingness to fight in the 90-second video statement he posted online just after midnight on Saturday, quickly turning from apologizing to attacking Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for her husband's sex scandals.\nBut the apology did not quell the firestorm.\nSeveral Republicans, including Sens. Mike Crapo of Idaho and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, formally pulled their support of Trump on Saturday morning.\nPence 'cannot defend' remarks\nAnd after a campaign source told CNN that Pence decided not to attend the Wisconsin political event hosted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, Pence released a statement explaining that he was \"offended\" by Trump's remarks. He also noted he is looking \"forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart\" at the debate on Sunday.\n\"As a husband and father, I was offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump in the 11-year-old video released yesterday,\" Pence said. \"I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them. I am grateful that he has expressed remorse and apologized to the American people. We pray for his family and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night.\"\n\"Wisconsin is off\" for Pence, a campaign source told CNN earlier Saturday, adding that the decision was made this morning.\nThe source gave no reason for the cancellation, but the Trump campaign had announced Friday evening that Pence would attend the event in Trump's stead after Ryan said he was \"sickened\" by Trump's comments and announced Trump would no longer attend the event.\nMultiple sources told CNN that Trump was asked not to come by Ryan, and one source said the message was delivered via intermediaries.\nTrump and Pence spokes Saturday morning, according to a source familiar with the conversation who did not provide further details.\nWhile the real estate magnate was slated to spend Saturday focusing on debate prep, Trump instead spent Saturday morning boldly countering the growing calls for him to drop out of the presidential race, with some Republicans suggesting Trump should step aside and allow Pence to top the Republican ticket. With just one month to Election Day and as early voting has already begun in some states, replacing the Republican nominee would be a near-impossible task.\nReady to fight back\nTrump indicated he will head into the debate prepared to fight Clinton by raising the marital infidelities of her husband former President Bill Clinton -- a shift since Trump said as recently as Thursday night he would not raise the issue in Sunday's debate.\nAnd Trump argued to the Post that he will be able to weather the comments that have come back to haunt him in part because Clinton, the Democratic nominee, is \"so bad\" and \"so flawed as a candidate.\"\n\"Running against her, I can't say it'd be the same if I ran against someone else, but running against her makes it a lot easier, that's for sure,\" Trump said in the Saturday morning interview.\nTrump also told both the Post and the Journal that he is considering delivering remarks Saturday evening to encourage his supporters and address the controversy.\nAnd he also said of the 2005 comments that \"people get it. They get life.\"\nPressed a final time by the Post about the possibility he could quit the race, Trump firmly shut the door on that option.\n\"Zero chance. I've never quit in my life,\" Trump said. \"I can give you my word that I'm never leaving.\"\nWithdrawn in my life,\" Trump told The Washington Post Saturday morning. \"No, I'm not quitting. 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M\u00f8ller", "raw_content": "Forskningsministeriets Byggedirektorat\n12000 m\u00b2 (newbuild 2000 m\u00b2)\n1st prize in competition - after prequalification. 1997\nThe Faculty of Theology at Aarhus University enjoys a central location on the corner of Ringgaden in the city. On one corner opposite lie the yellow buildings of the University, and on the other the characteristic red buildings of Nobelparken.\nThe Faculty of Theology is housed in the buildings of the old Orthopaedic Hospital. In connection with the takeover the existing buildings were transformed to make them suitable for teaching, and a new auditorium wing was added with an auditorium and foyer. The auditorium wing faces Ringgaden, and with its large glass panels, it opens up the weighty building so that passers-by can look inside and see what is going on in the foyer. The red brick facade and the design of the large glass panels are in harmony with the appearance of Nobelparken, the existing hospital buildings and the other nearby buildings on Ringgaden.\nThe new main entrance is located between the existing buildings and the new wing. Entering the building, the first thing the visitor sees is the large, colourful ceramic mural by the artist Jens Birkemose, which forms an elegant bridge between the old and the new.\nJens Birkemose, Bj\u00f8rn N\u00f8rgaard and S\u00f8ren Elgaard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/510407/jewish/The-Rebbe-on-Sports-and-Games.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MHO43MCA5O3TH66ECXVFUDKCL6E3AL7A", "length": 990, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.chabad.org", "title": "The Rebbe on Sports and Games - Life & Times", "raw_content": "The Rebbe's lessons from sports, games, and the interaction with the players\nA Baseball Lesson from the Lubavitcher Rebbe\n\"How was the game?\" asked the Rebbe. \"By the sixth inning,\" the young fan confessed, \"the Dodgers were losing nine-to-two. So we decided to leave\"\nA Pair of Tefillin for Sandy Koufax\n\"That day the pitcher lost the game. But he won the World Series, and on his table were the tefillin,\" concluded the Rebbe. \"In the end, he will give to them merit by putting them on\"\nLarge, round object. Move it towards the goal. Outmaneuver those big, burly guys trying to stop you. Be quick. Use your feet. Sounds familiar? Sounds like my life\nA Basketball Coach's Change of Career\nAfter years of being coached in Judaism, it was his turn to become the coach\u2026\nChess: The Game and its Players\nThe story of Sammy Reshevsky\nThe Rebbe's relationship with an international chess champion; the Rebbe's spiritual take on the \"Game of Kings\"; and the chassidic \"kings\" who enjoyed the game.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.channel24.co.za/The-Juice/News/distruction-boyz-win-their-first-award-20180115", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:2J6WASVB3MWKNGKFZQKQLYLWQSVHOIGR", "length": 1025, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.channel24.co.za", "title": "Distruction Boyz win their first award | Channel24", "raw_content": "Distruction Boyz win their first award\nPIC: Pearl Thusi looks sexy as ever on the cover of GQ\nDJ Tira answers all those Big Nuz questions: There is no bad blood\nNakhane Tour\u00e9 takes home international award\nJohannesburg \u2013 After major success with their single Omunye and their Gqom Is The Future album, Distruction Boyz have taken home their very first award.\nThe Durban-born duo walked away with the award for Best Group/Duo at the Soundcity MVP Awards in Nigeria on Friday, 12 January.\n\u201cLast night we won our first award and we won it in another country! WOW!\u201d The group wrote on social media. \u201cSouth Africa this is your victory. History has been made again,\u201d they went on to say.\nIn 2017 the duo\u2019s debut album Gqom Is The Future reached gold status.\nTHANK YOU????????!!! This is one of Africa's biggest stages n WE DID IT... ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR VOTES?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN??????????\nA post shared by Distruction boyz (@distruction_boyz) on Jan 12, 2018 at 9:24pm PST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/72423-9-things-to-know-about-heaven-before-you-die", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:15Z", "digest": "sha1:U6BJMVJMHBU2BH2DQ24CZUK4C25PHTIV", "length": 8646, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.charismanews.com", "title": "9 Things to Know About Heaven Before You Die \u2014 Charisma News", "raw_content": "9 Things to Know About Heaven Before You Die\n6:00AM EDT 8/2/2018\t Robin Bertram\n(Free-Photos)\n\"Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build me? said the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?\" (Acts 7:49).\nThe universe is massive, beautiful and intriguing in so many ways. Can you imagine a place even greater? Can you imagine a place so beautiful that words cannot describe it? Can you image a place where there is no pain, no sorrow and no death? Heaven is that place. It is the dwelling place of God, where He resides on His holy throne and governs (Ps 11:4, 33:13).\n\"the Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all\" (Ps. 103:19).\nHere are answers to a few of the questions I most frequently receive about heaven:\nHow do we know there is a heaven?\nThe simple answer is, \"It is written.\" God tells us through His word. Jesus confirmed it. The apostle Paul witnessed it, whether in the body or spirit, we do not know (2 Cor. 12: 2). It was so profound to him that words could not adequately describe it. As we witness our earthly creation around us, that also affirms the existence of heaven as created by God.\n\"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth\" (Gen. 1:1).\nGod dwells in the third heaven, and the apostle Paul heard things while caught up in heaven, too wonderful and magnificent to even speak. (2 Cor 12:1-4) Heaven is described as being high above the earth (Ps. 103:11).\nThe Bible declares that God wrote eternity in the heart of man (Eccl. 3:11). Jesus demonstrated it. He was a real man who was really resurrected from the dead. The resurrected Jesus was the first fruits of those who had already died and for us today. More than 500 people witnessed his resurrection (1 Cor. 15:20). He walked on this earth for 40 days in his glorified body and then ascended into heaven (1 Cor 15:43). His resurrection and ascension are proof enough that heaven is real. Additionally, at the moment of Jesus' ascension, when He was \"taken up,\" all looked to the sky and watched in amazement (Acts 1:9-12).\nMost everyone believes that heaven does actually exist. The word is clear that there will be no more pain, sickness, hunger or death. It is clear that there will be food fit for a King's feast. It is clear that it is a real place with streets of gold and gates of pearls. It will have rivers, trees and a crystal sea. However, many people have questions about heaven. Below are some questions that are frequently asked, along with the biblical answer.\nWill I recognize my loved ones?\nYes. The word confirms this. Jesus taught that many would come and join Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: grandfather, father and son in heaven.\n\"And I say to you that many will come from the east and west and will dine with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven\" (Matt. 8:11).\nIn the story of the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man recognized Father Abraham and Lazarus. Although he was in torment, he could see across the great chasm and clearly identify them.\nWill I be married to my spouse?\nNo. In heaven we will not be married. We will be like angels. This can sometimes be difficult to accept, but we need to understand that we will not be devoid of love because God is love. Our love and devotion will be totally directed toward God.\n\"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven\" (Matt. 22:30).\nWill I be with the child I lost?\nDavid writes, \" Am I able to bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me\" (2 Sam. 12:23b).\nThe children who have passed on into eternity will be with Jesus in heaven, even those who have been aborted or miscarried. How can I be sure? Because God created that soul before the child was even formed in the womb. Those souls came from God and will go back to God.\nNow the word of the Lord came to me, saying, \"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations\" (Jer. 1:4-5).\nJesus said that one must receive the kingdom like a little child when he was teaching about the kingdom. He demonstrates great love and compassion for the little children.\nMissionary Encountered Both Heaven and Hell Behind Bars\nJentezen Franklin: How to Know Heaven Is for Real\n\"'Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter it.' And He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them\" (Mark 10:15-16).\nAdditionally, in Deuteronomy we see God promising that the children who did not know good or evil would inherit the land. The promised land is a foreshadow of our heavenly journey home, and here we can see that the little ones will enter in.\n\"And your children, who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it\" (Deut. 1:39),\nWill we look the same as we do now, and what age will we be?\nThere has been much ink spilled on this subject. We just do not know what age we will be. We do know that Moses and Elijah, on the Mount of Transfiguration, were each identifiable (Luke 9:28-36) This offers strong proof that we too will be identifiable one to another. There are different ages represented in heaven, so it is only speculation as to how old we will appear to be. We will be so far beyond and better than any condition we experienced here on earth, and our physical appearance will be of little importance.\nWhen we die, will we be in limbo or will we be with Jesus?\nWe will not be in limbo or \"soul sleep\", as some falsely teach. We will be with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. To be away from the body is to be at home with the Lord\" (2 Cor. 5:6-8).\nWill we have an actual mansion in heaven?\nThe Greek word used for mansion in John 14:2 actually means \"dwelling places\" or \"many abodes.\" The New American Standard Bible most closely agrees with the original Greek translation. Here again, because of our limited understanding, we cannot fathom what awaits us. If the streets are made of gold, which they are, and the gates made of pearl, which they are, then why would we think that our eternal dwelling place would be anything less.\n\"In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you\" (John 14:2, NASB).\nDoes heaven come down here, correcting our fallen earth?\nAt the rapture, Jesus comes back for His church and at the second coming He comes back with His church. It is at the second coming that Jesus will meet us in the air with the saints that have gone before us. Then there will be a new heaven and a new earth. The new heaven will come and be the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, where we will live in our glorified bodies at our new heavenly home, eternally with Him.\n\"And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them'\" (Rev. 21:3).\nJust as heaven is real, the same can be said of hell. Many choose to ignore that reality. Hell is a place of separation and punishment where there will be weeping gnashing of teeth in utter darkness (Matt. 8:12, 22:13).\nPlease understand that there are only two paths in life that will lead you into eternity, and your final destination will be either heaven or hell.\nDo you know today where your eternal home will be?\nDo you know without a doubt, that you are heaven-bound?\nJesus died, was buried, was raised from the dead on the third day, and He sits at the right hand of God, the Father. If you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, the Word of God says you will be saved. Heaven will be your eternal home. Today is the day of salvation!\n\"For to me, to continue living is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor to me. Yet I do not know\" (Phil. 1:21-22b).\nFor more information visit robinbertram.tv\nConnect here on Facebook: @officialRobinBertram\nRobin Bertram is an ordained minister, a Christian speake, and the executive producer and former host of the nationally and internationally syndicated television show, Freedom Today. She has been a leader of media leaders for 25 years and has placed several Christian programs onto the national and international stage. She is the author of No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever (Charisma House Publishing) and Hidden Treasures (Abingdon Press).\nRelated topics: Heaven", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 22498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesponzi.com/charles-ponzi-autobiography/chapter-24", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ETKN5BOXFZMD532EEES336HHGEFFILDL", "length": 14224, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.charlesponzi.com", "title": "CHAPTER XXIV \u2014 Charles Ponzi", "raw_content": "At that time, I had about 180 agents with sub-agents in New England. But only 35 offices. With the result that some of the offices had from half a dozen to a dozen sub-agents. In Greater Boston, all of my 50 or more agents and sub-agents dealt with my office in School Street. They were in and out all day long. And they would send their customers.\nThings got so bad that I had to do something to relieve the congestion. I couldn't cope with it. Not even with the ten or twelve cops I had hired to regulate the traffic in the street and along the corridors. The jam beggars description! It's unbelievable! Only those who have seen it can believe it.\nCombining the two objects, i.e., of raising money and clearing my office, I directed each of the 50 Boston agents and sub-agents to open a branch office in some district of Greater Boston. That served to divert part of the crowd rendering the situation easier to handle and at the same time bringing in more money.\nThen I turned to the banks. I had already built up some large balances in several of them. For instance, $1,500,000 in the Lawrence Trust Company of Lawrence; $150,000 in the Lexington Trust Company of Lexington; $900,000 in the Merchants National Bank of Manchester, N. H.; $500,000 in the Citizens National Bank of Woonsocket, R. I.; and any number under $100,000 but over $50,000, in small institutions. With the ones named, I was about to spring the same surprise I had sprung on the officials of the Hanover Trust Company. That is, pay a call. Offer to buy a controlling interest. Immediately withdraw my balance, in case of refusal.\nAll banks in general were beginning to feel the effects of heavy withdrawals. The contest I had promoted to boost the Hanover's deposits, had rendered the crisis even more acute. But it wasn't acute enough to stop me. And so, I proceeded to give them another wallop.\nIn the course of a meeting of the executive committee of the Hanover Trust, it struck me that the bank depositors in general were not receiving a square deal. There were at the mercy of the board of directors who might and might not be honest men. Some of them are not. They are burglars. The depositors, it seemed to me, were not receiving adequate returns for the risks they were incurring.\nAs these thoughts were flashing through my mind, I was paying very little attention to the meeting, but a good deal to a new plan of banking reform. So, before the meeting came to a close, I arose and addressed the members.\n\"Gentlemen,\" I said, \"I desire to submit a suggestion to your vote. It occurs to me that this committee has supreme control over the millions which our depositors have intrusted to this bank. We may or may not exercise control judiciously. If we do, we earn some extra stock dividends. If we don't, we might lose not over twice the amount of our holdings, or $800,000 while our depositors may lose several millions. The greater risk is theirs. Theirs is the greater loss. Yes, when all goes well, we only pay them about 4% a year. The situation seems unfair. I would be in favor of extending to depositors greater privileges and larger returns. For instance, I suggest that the depositors be permitted to elect a certain number of directors. They have a right to know what is being done at these meetings. In addition, I suggest that stockholders be paid a definite dividend of 7%, the same as the depositors are being paid 4%. All net earnings in excess of that should be equally prorated between stockholders and depositors. In other words, I advocate profit sharing banking. I fully realize that my doctrines may appear almost revolutionary, but I am sure they are equitable and fair I desire your vote on the following questions. First, shall the Hanover Trust Company take the initiative in advocating such a reform, and second, shall Ponzi be permitted to inform the newspapers about the suggestions submitted at this meeting?\"\nThe committee voted both questions in the affirmative and I departed to consult my counsel who had supervision over my banking activities. We decided to invite the financial editors of every Boston paper to a meeting and we arranged for a room at Young's Hotel. They came, and I put the proposition up to them. But I could read in their countenances that they would never dare to throw that monkey wrench into the Boston banking machinery. They knew only too well which side of their bread was buttered. In fact, the next day they reported that, after consulting with their managing editors, they couldn't publicly endorse my plan.\n\"All right, boys,\" I told them, \"I can still obtain publicity without your papers. I shall organize a publicity bureau and circularize every bank depositor in New England.\"\n\"It will cost you some money,\" one of them remarked.\n\"Money? What's money to me? Money means nothing to me,\" I replied. \"I would give a million any day for a good cause.\"\nThe following day, at the suggestion of my counsel and the bank officers, I hired a publicity manager, and the moment I hired him I gave my counsel $7,000 to rent suitable offices for a publicity bureau, and to cover incidental expenses.\nUnder my publicity manager's direction, I was going to circularize every bank depositor in New England, explaining my profit sharing plan. Anybody can realize what that would have meant. Any bank that would have gone on record against such a plan would have been boycotted. It would have to contend with runs, and since no bank was in a position to cope with a run for over 48 hours, it would have to go under, or sell out to me.\nWhile my publicity manager and counsel were, presumably, carrying out my instructions, my attention was engaged by the activities of an outfit called the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company. It was made up of a few fellows who had failed to land a job with me. That Company professed them to be doing exactly what I was doing, and everybody believed them, because everybody believed that I was doing the right thing. I couldn't come out and say that the other fellow was lying, just like I was. They had me by the small of the neck, and the best that I could do was squirm. They went so far as to have notes printed exactly like mine, except for the company's name, to which the average investor paid no attention. In fact, most of the people who invested with the Old Colony thought that they were investing with me. From the standpoint of inroads in my cash receipts, there were not doing much damage. But what was bothering me was the danger that the authorities might take some action against them. None of them had either the courage or the ability of their own in a match of wits. They would have been exposed in no time, and if they had been exposed it would have been almost impossible for me to have escaped the same fate.\nI sent word for them to cut it out and I threatened them but it did not do any good. They defied me, not because they were brave, but because they were fools. They even went and hired an office on the same floor as mine and then they started to divert my own investors from my office to their own company by claiming that we were one and the same company.\nI got tired of that racket and decided to give them a lesson, even if I had to swing for it. I called in the Pinkertons and put them on the trail of every man and woman connected with the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company.\n\"Find out all you can about them,\" were my instructions to Murray, the Pinkerton's Boston Manager.\n\"Follow them everywhere; to China, if necessary. Never lose sight of any of them, day or night, and send me a daily report and a copy to District Attorney Pelletier. Spare no expense. I want you to land those people in jail!\"\nI couldn't let them get away with what they were doing. They constituted a greater menace than all of the government agencies put together. Perhaps my activities were not entirely within the law. The were as objectionable. But my intent was honest. I was in a critical position and I had fallen into it without any intention to do wrong. Now that I was in it I was trying my hardest to pull myself out of it, without hurting my investors. The means I was resorting to, in order to swim out of the hole, might not have been sound and might not have been entirely legitimate, but I felt that the end justified the means, and the end, my purpose, was not dishonest. For that reason I could not tolerate that outfit. I could not let them stand in the way of my investors and my own welfare.\nLeaving the Pinkertons to take care of the Old Colony gang, I conferred with my publicity manager and my counsel. According to what they said, the organization of the publicity bureau was progressing satisfactorily. Like the patient who registers a temperature of 105\u00c2\u00b0 in the shade. He is always \"progressing satisfactorily\". If you believe the nurse. But in the wrong direction. And nobody knows differently until after he's dead.\nI took it for granted that my instructions were being carried out. Or soon would be. And I accepted McMasters' suggestion that some newspaper publicity would help things along. I actually commended him for it. And when he told me that the Boston Post had agreed to feature the Securities Exchange Company and myself, I was tickled to death.\nOn July 24, 1920, the Boston Post published the promised article. The 24th was a Saturday. A day when all business usually stops at noon. A day when almost everybody ducks the city for the country or the beaches. But it wasn't on that particular Saturday. It seemed, instead, as if everybody had made a date to meet at 27 School Street! Everybody was there. The 2,000,000 inhabitants of Greater Boston were all there! If there were not exactly 2,000,000 they looked that many.\nThe day after, Sunday, the Boston Post found it could spare even more room for Ponzi. So, it gave me a couple of pages. The Herald, The Globe, The Advertiser, could not let the Post get away with a scoop like that. They too jumped into the fray. With front page stuff. And they covered me and the Securities Exchange Company from head to foot.\nLike a blanket. I never realized what a big fellow I was, until after I had ready all of the papers.\nThat Sunday was no day of rest for me. Telegram and telephone calls began to pour into my house at daybreak. From everybody. Big men and little men. Every one of them anxious to get on the right side of me. Because I was a multi-millionaire. I received more congratulations than a President-elect! More persons called at my residence in a day than are usually seen at the Brockton Fair in three days! More automobiles went by my house than Ford and General Motors can put out in six months! I had to give out more interviews and pose for more pictures than a movie star of the first magnitude. All summed up, that Sunday was the busiest day in all my life I ever put in doing nothing!\nBut both that Saturday and that Sunday were mild compared with the Monday that followed them! The newspapers had not let up. They were still pouring kerosene on the blaze. And when I got down to School Street, the conditions I found beggar description.\nAll vehicle traffic had been suspended. My and Mayor Peters' car were the only two permitted to navigate School Street. \"Navigate\" is right. The whole street was a sea of straw hats and squirming humanity! In front of the Niles Building, six mounted policemen were on duty, regulating the crowd. Fourteen or more uniformed officers were doing duty inside of the building. A huge line of investors, four abreast, stretched from the City Hall Annex, through City Hill Avenue and School Street, to the entrance of the Niles Building, up stairways, along the corridors \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 all the way to my office!\nThe air was tense with ill suppressed excitement. Hope and greed could be read in everybody's countenance. Guessed from the wads of money nervously clutched and waved by thousands of outstretched fists! Madness, money madness, the worst kind of madness, was reflected in everybody's eyes. In a silent exhibition of utter disdain to all principles of calm and careful judgment. In a silent exhibition of reckless mob psychology, entirely too susceptible to the fatal spell of misguided or perverted leadership!\nThe scene deployed before me, as I alighted from my car, is something that no man could forget. To the crowd there assembled, I was the realization of their dreams. The idol. The hero. The master and arbiter of their lives. Of their hopes. Of their fortunes. The discoverer of wealth and happiness. The \"wizard\" who could turn a pauper into a millionaire overnight!\nThat scene spelled success for me. It couldn't spell anything else. The crowd in School Street was fairly representative of the millions of men and women who were ready to do exactly the same thing. Ready to invest with me. To give me their money. All they had. As soon as I made it possible for them to get to me. Nothing could stand in my way of the most complete achievement of my ambitions. I had won!\nOn that Monday morning, my cash receipts reached their peak. In my School Street office alone, I took in one million dollars in three hours. More than all of the Boston banks put together had taken in during the same three hours. I don't know how much my other offices took in. But the rush of investors was general in every community where I had an office. Their legion was in excess of 30,000. The combined face value of the Securities Exchange Company's notes they held, was $15,000,000! New England had come through in grand style. The Yankees and the Puritans were no pikers! They had bought my six-cent international reply coupon for $15,000,000! Just as I thought they would! Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought, I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! I had given them the most brazen exhibition of sheer nerve that had ever been witnessed in the world of finance! I had given them the longest ride, the most mileage, for their money they had ever got before or since! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over!\nNewer PostCHAPTER XXIII\nOlder PostCHAPTER XXV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 15013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagocaraccidentlawyerblog.com/deadly_illinois_motorcycle_acc/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WO6C42ZHJA3OSDTLUPDPDXAPWWMT7URP", "length": 2069, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.chicagocaraccidentlawyerblog.com", "title": "Deadly Illinois Motorcycle Accident Caused By Negligent Car Driver \u2014 Chicago Car Accident Lawyer Blog \u2014 July 2, 2011", "raw_content": "Deadly Illinois Motorcycle Accident Caused By Negligent Car Driver\nA sad example of the drastic consequences of even minor driving mistakes was reported in the Chicago Tribune this week. A 24-year old Illinois man was killed after his motorcycle collided with an SUV in Island Lake.\nThe Illinois motorcycle accident occurred at the intersection of Route 176 and Hale Lane around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. It seems that the victim was traveling on Route 176 just as an SUV driver was on the same road but headed in the opposite direction. The SUV attempted to make a left turn onto Hale Lane, but he did so directly in front of the motorcyclist. The bike rider had had the right of way. As a result, the motorcycle collided with the car at near full speed.\nAs often happens in these types of accidents the bike rider suffered serious head and chest injuries. He was rushed to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The negligent SUV driver was cited for failure to yield.\nEven seemingly brief moments of driving error can have fatal consequences-like failing to properly account for other travelers while making a turn. Even though it seems like a routine activity, the stakes are always high when one is behind the wheel. Appropriate care and caution respecting the risks are therefore a necessity.\nOur Chicago car accident attorneys at Levin & Perconti send sincere condolences to the victims of this accident. Our years of legal work have repeatedly shown the consequences of these car crashes-the suffering it causes is staggering. For that reason, we encourage all drivers to take every possible precaution when traveling. Simple steps like wearing safety helmets and belts and driving at safe speeds for the conditions can truly be the difference between life and death. Risk on the road can never be fully eliminated, but simple steps decrease it tremendously. With the cost of injury so high, those steps are worth taking.\nSummer Months Mean More Motorcycle Crashes in Illinois\nIllinois Law Will Help reduce Costs of Car Accident Injuries and Deaths", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/sports/ct-gln-bobby-desherow-beau-desherow-loyola-academy-football-tl-1129-20151129-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:NCR6SZAA64A3J6HPYYL6LWLODQ7QIEUD", "length": 5856, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "Loyola football state championship a victory for Desherow family - Evanston Review", "raw_content": "Loyola football state championship a victory for Desherow family\nPlaying in the Class 8A title game in DeKalb at Huskie Stadium, Loyola capped off its dominant season, shutting out a Marist team that piled up points almost at will during its surprise run at the state title. Dara Laja ran for 152 yards and two scores for Loyola (14-0) while Darshon McCullough had six catches for 113 yards for Marist (9-5).\n(John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune)\nLoyola asst on football state title: 'To experience this and share this with my son is a phenomenal feeling'\nAs the Loyola football team rushed to greet its fans following the 41-0 win over Marist in the Class 8A state final, Beau Desherow looked on from a distance, recording the scene at Northern Illinois' Huskie Stadium on his cell phone.\nDesherow had good reason to document the moment on Saturday, Nov. 28.\nAs a senior linebacker at Loyola in 1992, he was part of the Ramblers team that lost to Naperville North 21-11 in the Class 6A state final. As an assistant coach for Loyola, Desherow was part of Class 8A runner-up teams in 2011 and 2013.\n\"I just want to soak it all in,\" Desherow said of Loyola's second state title in the program's 107th season. \"It's so surreal. I've been close so many times. To get over the hump is unbelievable.\"\nMaking his first state championship more memorable was he got to share it with his son. Senior Bobby Desherow was a starting safety and team captain for the 14-0 Ramblers, who were only the fourth Loyola team since 1909 to go undefeated and the first since the 1969 season.\n\"It's very special,\" Beau Desherow said. \"To experience this and share this with my son is a phenomenal feeling.\"\nBobby Desherow grew up around the Loyola football team. He said he remembered going to practices and games and hanging around the players and coaches as a young child. He was an eighth-grader at St. Emily School in Mount Prospect when Loyola lost 21-17 to Bolingbrook in the Class 8A state final in 2011.\nMatt Marton / AP\nMarist's Liam Keffer is tackled by Loyola's Bobby Desherow (5) during the Class 8A high school football championship game on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.\nMarist's Liam Keffer is tackled by Loyola's Bobby Desherow (5) during the Class 8A high school football championship game on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb. (Matt Marton / AP)\n\"After that game, my dad told me he could wait to win one with me on the team,\" Bobby Desherow said. \"It came true. This is the most amazing feeling.\"\nLoyola coach John Holecek, who has three sons who all attend Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glenview, could relate to Beau Desherow's overwhelming sense of pride. Holecek joked there are times Beau Desherow can't be part of a football conversation about his son because he doesn't want to hear anything critical.\n\"He can be too much of a dad,\" Holecek said with a smile. \"I've coached Bobby harder than anyone else because I know he can take it. He never got any favoritism. What a season he had.\"\nAs a junior, Bobby Desherow played mostly on special teams. A growth spurt before his senior year left him 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds, and he earned a starting spot in the secondary.\nIn the win over Marist, he had a team-best seven tackles and one sack. It was the first shutout in a Class 8A final and the first big-class shutout since Loyola beat Downers South 7-0 in Class 6A in 1993.\nLoyola's best offensive player, Brandon Danowski, had his worst game of the young season on that end of the floor on Wednesday, Nov. 25.\nThe 6-foot senior guard scored seven points and didn't make one 3-pointer in the team's 52-49 win over New Trier at New Trier's Thanksgiving Tournament in Winnetka.\n\"Bobby really stepped up this year,\" said Pete Devine, one of Loyola's defensive backs coaches. \"He was one of our toughest kids, and he really set the tone for us.\"\nPlaying on a sore right ankle all season, Bobby Desherow finished the year with eight pass break-ups, four tackles for loss, two interceptions, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble for a defense that posted six shutouts and surrendered an average of 8.8 points a game.\nIn the 24-22 victory over Palatine in the semifinals, Bobby Desherow broke up a pass in the end zone on a two-point try late in the fourth quarter that would have tied the game. But he re-aggravated his high-ankle sprain on the play and missed two practices in the week leading up to the Class 8A final.\n\"It bothered me a little bit, but the adrenaline got me through,\" he said. \"I was part of a great unit. Everyone made contributions, and it was so great to have my dad as a coach.\"\nThe Desherows said they do their best to separate football life from home life. On the practice field and game days, the relationship is player-coach. At home, it's father-son.\n\"It's a balancing act,\" said Beau Desherow, who joined the Loyola coaching staff in 2004. \"I still have to eat dinner with him every night.\"\nBeau Desherow said this state title is also for his older brother, Ed Desherow, who died in 1994. As a senior at Edmond Memorial in Oklahoma in 1978, Ed Desherow lost in a Class 4A high school football state final.\n\"This is a complete family win,\" Beau Desherow said.\nPrep football: Loyola finally gives John Holecek an 8A title\n8A final: Loyola vs. Marist\nClose-knit St. Edward grads contribute to Loyola's playoff run\nA version of this article appeared in print on December 03, 2015, in the Glencoe News section of the Chicago Tribune with the headline \"Loyola state title a victory for Desherow family\" \u2014 Today's paperToday's paper | Subscribe\nLoyola players listen as head coach John Holecek addresses the team after a 41-0 win over Marist in the Class 8A championship.\nLoyola's Eric Eshoo (87) and John Shannon (42) celebrate through tears after a 41-0 win over Marist in the Class 8A championship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 6881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chile-thai.com/key-points-concerning-copyright-laws/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXKESC4IM7TNE6T7KQ2OHESWZ6EIMVNN", "length": 3358, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.chile-thai.com", "title": "Key Points Concerning Copyright Laws | Chile Legal", "raw_content": "Without copyright laws, various fields of artistry wouldn\u2019t be as vibrant as they are today. Authorship, book publishing, music composition and movie making are example of artistic works that relies on the laws to thrive. Below is a list of what you need to know about copyright laws:\nDiffers from IP\nMany people can\u2019t usually tell the difference between intellectual (IP) property rights and copyright statutes. The two are subsequently used integrally or interchangeably and this can give rise to numerous complications in the event of arguing out copyright-related cases in a court of law. Note that IP refers to patenting issues \u2013 most of which touch on inventions while copyright is given to creators of artistic works.\nCopyright has time-frame\nAs publisher or an author, one needs to understand that copyright laws have restrictive time-limits. In most countries, literary artists can hold to their creative works\u2019 exclusivity all their life and 50 years after their deaths. If you\u2019ve produced a documentary or painted a beautiful piece, for instance, the copyright laws prohibits the use of your ideas by another person without verbal or written agreements all your life and 50 years after your death.\nThe de minimis concept\nThis is a principle of copyright laws that articulate the use of certain information from a copyrighted material. For example, you can use words or phrases that make up the title of a famous work of art. Newspaper headings and movie titles can also be adopted by other artists who know how to deploy the de minimis principle that\u2019s outlined by the copyright laws. However, this principle is only applicable in the borrowing of titles that aren\u2019t protected by the trade mark laws.\nExpressions and ideas\nCopyright laws are elaborate when it comes to the protection of ideas and expressions. When borrowing from a work of art, one can therefore uplift and modify an idea but he or she can\u2019t use it as is in entirety. This means that if you\u2019ve got copyrighted idea that has been used by another person without your due consent, then you have the right to sue the person. The charges could extend to include expression techniques that are used to deliver the idea. This is often used to protect an artist\u2019s unique style of expression.\nOf copyright and credit\nAccording to copyright attorneys, one can get off the snare of copyright law violation by accrediting the ideas and expressions that are borrowed from works of art. A replica painting by an infamous ancient painter can, for example, be copied on fresh canvas by contemporary artists provided that the original painter\u2019s concepts are accredited. This is done by using phrases such as \u201cadopted from,\u201d \u201coriginally by\u201d or \u201caccording to so and so.\u201d Accreditation don\u2019t make you weak as an artist. Many have created works of arts that hold up as their magnum opus in their professional lives based on ideas and expression models that are borrowed from other artists\u2019 works.\nThe copyright industry is a full-fledged outfit with national budgetary allocations that\u2019s often given out under government dockets that run art and culture based activities. This means that other than applying for copyright protection to inhibit the exploitation of your ideas by others, you can also launch a formal complaint and have the matter dealt with in accordance to the standing legal statutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 222.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christopherdrew.com/2011/11/matthew-15-blessed-are-peacemakers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:40Z", "digest": "sha1:F6GNJIK3COSQFPZTNU5P3E4GPYBZF3WJ", "length": 12371, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.christopherdrew.com", "title": "The Central Point: Matthew #15: Blessed Are the Peacemakers", "raw_content": "Matthew #15: Blessed Are the Peacemakers\nYou could not get through this past week, I think, without concluding that the world needs more peacemakers. We\u2019ve got multiple wars going on, families have disintegrated, our politics are deeply conflicted. We recently learned about the horrible crimes committed, aided, and abetted at the Penn State, as clear a demonstration as I could think of that our culture has a deeply confused, even missing sense of what is fundamentally right and wrong. This kind of moral confusion has even made its way into the churches, as it often does, introducing conflicts in the one institution where we are called upon by our sovereign Lord to be a people of peace, and who said to his disciples in John 14:27, \u201cPeace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.\u201d\nSo it should come as a great assurance to us that God is a God of peace, and that he grants peace to those who believe in the Son, Jesus Christ. And it should not come as a surprise that those who God calls to be peacemakers should be richly blessed by our Lord in today\u2019s text.\nBut what is this peace that is behind Jesus\u2019 blessing of the peacemakers?\nBiblical Peace Is Comprehensive in Scope\nThe word \u201cpeace\u201d has a much broader meaning than the contemporary meaning. The word your English bible translates \u201cpeacemakers\u201d is derived from the Greek word for peace, a word that is commonly used to translate the Hebrew word shalom, a word you might be familiar with. This peace, biblical peace, is not just an inner peace experienced by individuals. Neither is this a peace that is simply the absences of all conflict or war. I\u2019m reminded of that funny scene in the Sandra Bullock movie \u201cMiss Congeniality\u201d where she plays a character who goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant in order to foil a bomb plot against the pageant. During the Q & A part of the pageant, each candidate comes up and dutifully tells the audience what they think is the single most important thing the world needs. \u201cWorld peace.\u201d Bullock\u2019s character takes the microphone and answers the question, \u201cWhat is the single most important thing the world needs this way, \u201cThat would he harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.\u201d Crickets. Anticipation. Disbelief from pageant watchers everywhere, until Bullock\u2019s character continues by restating the mantra \u201c\u2026 AND, world peace.\u201d\nThe biblical view of peace, or shalom, is very broad. Bruner defines it as \u201ca situation of comprehensive welfare,\u201d and I think that\u2019s a pretty good definition.1 Biblical peacemakers are concerned with far more than their own sense of inner calm, or ensuring that there\u2019s no violence exhibited anywhere on earth. Those two things are both good and important, but I think they are actually products of the peace the bible speaks about. Biblical peace is a situation where everyone in the community lives in a just relationship with everyone else. What does such a peace look like? I think such a biblical peace would be like that which was present in the Garden of Eden before the fall of Adam. The man and the woman were at peace with God, they were at peace with each other, and they were at peace with the creation. Everything was in proper relationship with everything else.\nWhat Happened to Shalom?\nBut the fall of Adam destroyed that shalom, and the result has been a broken world where disaster is commonplace. After Eve and Adam ate the fruit of the tree from which the Lord commanded that they not eat, God confronts fallen humanity with these words in Genesis 3:16-19:\nIn this passage, you can see how the sin, which began with an individual deception, resulted in something much larger. The one-flesh union of the man and the woman is embroiled with conflict. The earth is cursed. Death came to be because of human sin. This first sin, like all sins, had communal consequences and cosmological consequences, because sin is, first and foremost, a rebellion against God.\nSo we live world that is not just filled with fallen sinners, but the world itself is a fallen place. We don\u2019t live in peace with anything. We are constantly butting heads with people, exhibiting prejudice and malice toward others who think differently from us, and we suffer the tragedies of a fallen creation. The shalom which was intended by God for humans from the beginning of creation was shattered by our sin. And because we have inherited that sin, we are all, individually and collectively, responsible for the marring of shalom, of God\u2019s peace, today.\nWhat Do the Peacemakers Do?\nThe bible teaches us that it is God\u2019s desire, shown first to us in Christ, is to restore shalom in His creation. And so, people who answer the call to work for this kind of world are granted blessing by our Lord Jesus Christ. What to peacemakers do? They work to bring restoration to the relationships disrupted because of our sin. Peacemakers live in such a way as will bring about (1) restoration of people to a right, just relationship with God, (2) with each other.\nRestoring Right Relationships with God\nTo restore a right relationship with God is to do the work of evangelism with people everywhere. Jesus commands the following at the close of this gospel:\nGo therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.\u201d (Matthew 28:16-20).\nTo make disciples means proclaiming the good news of the gospel of Jesus so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, sinners might be gathered into God\u2019s kingdom. True peace is only possible if there is peace between God and human beings. Such a thing is possible in Christ, who suffered the penalty that was due to us for our sin so that we might know the peace of being right with God, of having no fear of judgment at all for any sin we have, are, or will commit. Having a right relationship with God is essential for the establishment of shalom on earth. People who do not have a right relationship with God in Christ will not know the kind of peacemaking that is at the core of this blessing. Peace with God comes at great cost, the cost of the life of his precious Son. Having been granted such a gift frees us from worry and fear, and enables and empowers our own peacemaking work. To say that an evangelist is a peacemaker may seem unusual, but I think it is true. Evangelists are all about proclaiming the message that Holy Spirit uses to bring people to God through the sacrifice of his Son. By working to bring people to faith in Christ, God\u2019s kingdom shalom breaks further into the world. Paul, writing to the Romans, says this in Chapter 5:1\nThose called and claimed by faith in Jesus have the absolute, rock-solid assurance of salvation at the Last Judgment, and therefore know true peace.\nPromotion of Social Righteousness\nOne of the great ends of the church, as stated in our constitution, is the \u201cpromotion of social righteousness.\u201d What does this mean? It means to have a passionate concern for injustice in the church and in our society. Peacemakers come to the aid of those who are victims of unjust relationships between people. They have a passion for the poor, the destitute, the emotionally shattered, and the physically abused. Peacemakers work to bridge gaps between hostile groups, as God has reconciled us to Himself through the blood of Christ. Listen to these words from Ephesians 2:13-16:\nBut now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.\nThose \u201cwho once were far off\u201d refers to the Gentiles, to those who were not of the tribe of Israel. With Christ and his perfect fulfillment of the law, all of the barriers of the law that formerly distinguished between these groups were broken down so that there would be one people from all the nations of the world. What is the root of this new reconciling work? Jesus. \u201cFor he himself is our peace.\u201d Because salvation in Jesus can be found no matter what your race, nationality, or economic background, there can be true peace between people. This knowledge empowers the peacemaker for the work and the calling of bringing people together. So peacemakers work on the sinful barriers that separate people today \u2013 racism, poverty, hunger, thirst, violence, abuse \u2013 all of these things sinfully separate people from one another. Peacemakers work to bring people together, as God reconciles has reconciled sinners through the cross. They put themselves out there for the most helpless in our society, the disabled, the unborn, the unwanted. They are empowered to do this work by the Holy Spirit, and when this happens, God\u2019s peace continues to grow and flourish in the world.\nThe hope of the gospel is the hope of those who do not, at present, know any kind of peace. This shalom peace is to be first demonstrated to the world by the church, with the promise that it will ultimately be fulfilled when Christ comes to redeem the whole creation, the whole cosmos, according to this plans for permanent, eternal peace and joy.\nPeople who have been reconciled to God through Christ and given the gift of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit do not have the luxury of pawning off the responsibilities of peacemaking to others. Pastors can\u2019t pawn it off on members, and members can\u2019t pawn it off on pastors, and churches can\u2019t pawn it off by simply writing checks. Christians who have been so graciously grafted into the kingdom of peace in Christ will, over time, grow in their peacemaking ability and engagement.\nThe Blessing \u2013 To Be Called Sons of God\nThe blessing for peacemakers is that they will be \u201ccalled sons of God.\u201d People who do this kind of work will be blessed by becoming adopted joint heirs with the naturally born Son of God, Jesus. To be \u201ccalled\u201d sons of God does not mean simply having a title, it means you are \u201ccalled\u201d as in \u201cbrought in to the divine family.\u201d You are granted a seat at God\u2019s table in the Kingdom of Heaven. Some people, when texts like this are read, might mistakenly believe this blessing is only for men, but this would be totally wrong. What this means is that for all who are peacemakers, male or female, will be treated as \u201csons\u201d of God, meaning they will be joint recipients of a divine inheritance granted to Christ for his victory over sin and Death. Those joined to Christ, who do the work of peacemaking, will receive everything Jesus has received from his heavenly Father, which is nothing less than the kingdom of God:\nThen the King will say to those on his right, \u2018Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.\u2019 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?\u2019 And the King will answer them, \u2018Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.\u2019 (Matthew 25:34-40 ESV)\nAll our peacemaking activities must be conducted as if we were serving our Lord Himself. You cannot love Jesus without loving those whom he calls \u201cleast of these my brothers.\u201d To claim that you love Jesus and then to ignore totally the injustices of society is total hypocrisy.\nNotice that those who engage in Godly peacemaking do so almost without noticing it. That\u2019s how you know God is at work in you. You\u2019ll be surprised at your generosity with the poor and stranger. \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.\u201d Amen.\nGiven at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Minnsota", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 473, "original_length": 24587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chsstudentconnection.com/staff/?writer=Leslie%20Munoz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:43Z", "digest": "sha1:2OGGVKYH2UPIKGPE3EXJ6ACXSXIZ6TZ4", "length": 742, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.chsstudentconnection.com", "title": "Staff \u2013 CHS Student Connection", "raw_content": "My name is Leslie Munoz and I am a Varsity cheerleader at CHS. I am a junior and I\u2019m also in the higher start program. I am 16 years old and about to turn 17 in October of 2017. I was born in Corsicana, Tx and I went to California when I was younger. I have one brother who is a freshman and no sisters. I have been cheering for 7 years now since the 4th grade. My summer was full of great memories with amazing friends. I just recently got a job at sonic on 287. Also, I got a Dalmatian and she is now 1 year old. I am a Christian-Catholic and I go to the Immaculate Conception Church. That is all about me.\nChalk the Walk (Story)\nCorsicana vs. Marshall (Story)\nVarsity Cheer Competes (Story)\nHomecoming Week (Media)\nCheer IS a sport (Story)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ci.xenia.oh.us/157/5-Year-CIP", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XRFXDKO33XQH3BAVA33FNBAXQFDHH4IL", "length": 1626, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ci.xenia.oh.us", "title": "Five-Year CIP | Xenia, OH", "raw_content": "Five-Year CIP\nDevelopment of a Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (PDF) (Five-Year CIP) is a best practice among municipal governments and is a requirement of the Charter of the City of Xenia. City Charter \u00a79.11 (A) - (B) stipulates that prior to October 1st of each year, the Xenia City Manager must submit to the City Council a five-year capital improvement program.\nThe City of Xenia\u2019s Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan is developed annually to do the following:\nProvide a description of the City\u2019s major capital improvement projects\nEstablish a blueprint for prioritizing and phasing the implementation of projects among our capital programs\nPresent a long-term spending plan and detail how the implementation of specific capital investments will be funded\nCreation of the Five-Year CIP facilitates important discussions on the state of our infrastructure and finances. Final approval of the plan ensures understanding and consensus among Xenia\u2019s leadership on key policy priorities to be pursued in the coming years related to capital programs.\nThe Five-Year CIP is not a budget and approval of the plan does not commit funding for any specific capital project or purchase. This plan provides an analysis of the City's overall capital investment needs and provides a set of recommendations to aid in annual decision making on capital purchase projects. The Five-Year CIP serves as a bridge between visioning and implementation for City Council and administrative leadership. The process of publishing, reviewing, and approving the plan affords an opportunity for accountability and transparency for the entire community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2016/06/20/walnut-hills-co-working-space-entrepreneur-hub/86130600/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SKMKVBOKWBAMUAXUKO6FY7LCYN3IGJUU", "length": 5082, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.cincinnati.com", "title": "Walnut Hills co-working space to be entrepreneur hub", "raw_content": "Walnut Hills co-working space to be entrepreneur hub\nEntrepreneurship program Mortar will operate low-cost office space in the neighborhood.\nWalnut Hills co-working space to be entrepreneur hub Entrepreneurship program Mortar will operate low-cost office space in the neighborhood. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/28Jbd4I\nBowdeya Tweh, btweh@enquirer.com Published 9:44 a.m. ET June 20, 2016 | Updated 10:42 a.m. ET June 21, 2016\n(Left to right) Kevin Wright, Allen Woods and PG Sittenfeld stand inside the Durner Building in Walnut Hills on June 20, 2016.(Photo11: Provided)\nA $500,000 city of Cincinnati grant is expected to jumpstart a project in Walnut Hills to open low-cost office space to serve small businesses and startup entrepreneurs.\nThe investment would help the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation redevelop and restore a building within the Peebles Corner Historic District. And during a Monday press conference, city officials and representatives from the Over-the-Rhine-based nonprofit Mortar said the effort could make it easier to nurture a wide range of entrepreneurs.\nCity Councilman PG Sittenfeld, chair of panel\u2019s education and entrepreneurship committee, said Monday the city has given a lot of support to Over-the-Rhine and the creation of Union Hall as a startup hub. However, he said that segment of the entrepreneurial ecosystem is largely focused on high-tech firms seeking venture capital backing to facilitate their high-growth plans.\n\u201cWe will continue to cheer and support each and every success story that occurs in that space,\u201d Sittenfeld said. \u201cOur message today is that we want the door of entrepreneurship to be open to all. Yes, some entrepreneurs look like Mark Zuckerberg, but a whole lot don't. People with smart ideas and the will to make them happen live in all neighborhoods across our city, and are of all races and ages and backgrounds.\u201d\nThe investment is expected to help facilitate the renovation of the now city-owned Durner Building at 2449 Gilbert Ave. When complete, the building is expected to serve as a cornerstone within the Peebles' Corner historic district and support 33 jobs in the community. Enhancing the Durner Building also fits into the neighborhood's long-range plan to enhance the area around Gilbert and McMillan avenues, said Kevin Wright, executive director of the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation.\nWhile Monday's announcement was focused on the city contribution, project planners admitted more work needs to happen to make the project a reality.\nMortar would also need to finalize the programming it could develop in the space. Mortar's mission calls for introducing minority residents or those living in urban areas to entrepreneurship and providing them with an opportunity to work on their vision. Since its launch in 2014, 60 people have completed Mortar's nine-week business training course.\nAllen Woods, one of founders of Mortar, said the group's goal calls for removing barriers from people pursuing the dream of entrepreneurship. Woods said having enough education, a place to operate and funding are among the biggest challenges startup founders face. Setting up the co-working space is designed to provide a \"third place\" to give business owners a chance to manage their business' operations outside their home and network with other entrepreneurs.\nWoods said discussions are ongoing with the city to identify how to provide capital for new or existing business owners.\nIn Cincinnati neighborhoods struggling with generational poverty, Woods said convincing more people to start their own enterprises can have a powerful and positive impact in the long-run.\n\"We want to inject entrepreneurship in that same environment to possibly make it generational,\" Woods said.\nThe co-working space is only part of what could be a multimillion-dollar project to bring life to the four-story structure, Wright said. The office building has been vacant for several years, Wright said.\nThe century-old multitenant Durner building, adjacent the former Century Theater, has had a variety of office users throughout its life \u2013 the Walnut Hills Savings and Banking Co. being among the first, according to Enquirer archives. Others include Fifth Third Bank, Western & Southern Life Insurance Co., and Ohio Finance Co. among others.\nWright said he envisions the building, serving as the headquarters for Mortar and the group he leads. The street-level space could also feature a tenant beyond office use as well. Earlier this year, the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation landed a $56,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation to help transform two historic buildings, one being the Durner Building.\nThe new co-working space would expand Over-the-Rhine-based Mortar's presence in Walnut Hills. Last year, Mortar launched Brick 939 in Walnut Hills during the holiday shopping season to provide vendors an opportunity to test their ideas in a pop-up shop.\nThe $500,000 city contribution would come from Cincinnati Southern Railway tax credits.\nRead or Share this story: http://cin.ci/28Jbd4I", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 8345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/06/heartbeat-bill-abortion-ban-moves-forward-ohio/95052384/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HJPMWP4VNHBW5PXREVTMDJTIYIGAWYIS", "length": 4743, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cincinnati.com", "title": "'Heartbeat bill' abortion ban moves forward", "raw_content": "'Heartbeat bill' abortion ban moves forward\nChange would place Ohio out of step with most abortion laws and in violation of constitutional standards for abortion.\n'Heartbeat bill' abortion ban moves forward Change would place Ohio out of step with most abortion laws and in violation of constitutional standards for abortion. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2gOxgdB\nJessie Balmert and Chrissie Thompson, Cincinnati Published 3:15 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2016 | Updated 11:19 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2016\nProtesters from both sides of the abortion debate lined up in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse in downtown Cincinnati in this 2014 file photo.(Photo11: The Enquirer/Liz Dufour)Buy Photo\nCOLUMBUS - Ohio would have the country's most restrictive abortion laws under a bill sent to Gov. John Kasich Tuesday, as leading Republicans were emboldened by the anticipation of Donald Trump's upcoming federal and Supreme court appointments.\nIf signed by Kasich, the so-called \"heartbeat bill\" would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks' gestation. The proposal would not exempt pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, but does include an exception for an abortion to save the life of the pregnant woman.\nThe change would put the state in violation of current constitutional standards for abortion rights.\nFor years, Kasich, leading Republican senators and Ohio Right to Life have cited its unconstitutionality as their reason for opposing the heartbeat measure. Federal courts have struck down similar laws in North Dakota and Arkansas.\nSenate President Keith Faber, R-Celina, even suggested last year that supporters of the heartbeat bill ultimately were undermining efforts \"to save babies.\"\nHow anti-abortion 'Heartbeat Bill' passed Ohio House\nOn Tuesday, Senate Republicans changed course. Faber cited Trump's election to the presidency as justification for his change of heart, saying the effort could have a shot in the courts with Trump's appointees. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that states cannot prohibit abortions unless a fetus is viable outside the womb, generally accepted as 24 weeks' gestation.\nOhio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis was skeptical of Faber's logic that Trump's presidency would dramatically change the heartbeat bill's chances. The anti-abortion group instead favors passage of a ban on abortions after 20 weeks' gestation as the vehicle for overturning Roe v. Wade.\n\"Everyone is swept up in Trumpmania, but let's be realistic,\" Gonidakis said.\nSen. Bill Seitz, R-Liberty Township, and Sen. Bill Coley, R-Liberty Township, were among the three Republicans who voted against the Senate's decision to add the abortion ban into a separate bill, which would make changes to the way child abuse and neglect are reported.\n\"The sad reality of this bill passing will be that we spend million of taxpayer dollars on attorney fees for a bill that has zero chance of becoming law,\" said Coley, who voted against the bill. \"My biggest fear is that some of the great work that we have done in protecting life here in Ohio will be jeopardized.\"\nBut newly elected Rep. Candice Keller, R-Middletown, said she was sent to Columbus to pass legislation like the heartbeat bill. \"I have waited years for this bill,\" said Keller, who runs the Community Pregnancy Center.\nDemocrats railed against the last-minute changes. \"You might as well call me a baby killer,\" said Rep. Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, who had revealed her rape and subsequent abortion. \"There\u2019s no (rape) exception to this legislation and you know it.\"\nOthers found fault with Faber's change of heart. \"The president-elect has not taken office. The president-elect has not selected any Supreme Court justices, and there are not enough vacancies to make a change,\" Sen. Charleta Tavares, D-Columbus said. Still, the amended child abuse bill passed the Senate 21-10.\nLate Tuesday, the House passed the bill, 56-39, sending the ban to the governor. Seven House Republicans opposed the bill and two Democrats voted for it.\nKasich must decide whether to veto the abortion ban. The child abuse legislation contains an appropriation of tax revenue, so Kasich would have the authority to line-item veto the heartbeat bill if he wanted. Lawmakers plan to pass a 20-week ban as well, so Kasich could veto the stricter abortion ban while still tightening Ohio's restrictions on abortion.\nThe Republican governor opposes abortion, but has voiced doubts about the heartbeat bill in the past.\n\"I share the concerns of Right to Life about this bill and about potential litigation,\" Kasich told reporters last year. He declined to comment Tuesday through a spokeswoman.\nRead or Share this story: http://cin.ci/2gOxgdB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cinemablend.com/pop/1556159/a-huge-moon-balloon-got-loose-on-the-street-and-the-video-is-incredible", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2BEGEPCW3XF5ISUHPO5G2IYUOOECTXTL", "length": 2570, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cinemablend.com", "title": "A Huge Moon Balloon Got Loose On The Street, And The Video Is Incredible", "raw_content": "Subscribe To A Huge Moon Balloon Got Loose On The Street, And The Video Is Incredible Updates\nA Huge Moon Balloon Got Loose On The Street, And The Video Is Incredible\nI guess Link couldn't stop the moon from falling after all (Majora's Mask references are still topical, right?). A gigantic moon is wreaking havoc on the streets of China as the result of a major typhoon.\nOn Wednesday morning, a large balloon made to resemble the full moon was loosed from the platform that was holding it in place by the strong winds of super typhoon Meranti. As a result, the streets of Fuzhou, a large city in southeastern China, were plagued by the mammoth moon balloon, as it rolled over cars, construction sites, and one unlucky woman on a scooter. Check out the insane video yourself.\nWhy was this moon balloon even set up in the first place? Thanks for asking. It was constructed to be a part of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival. According to local news site Shanghaiist, several cities across China have set up moon models in preparation for the annual festival, which lasts from this Thursday, Sept. 15 through Saturday, Sept. 17 this year.\nThe Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient celebration meant to celebrate the end of autumn harvest, said to date centuries back to the Shang dynasty. The festival still holds important religious and cultural significance to the citizens of China today, as it is now a three-day public holiday in the country. The celebration consists of carrying ornate lanterns, watching or performing ritualistic dances, and eating mooncakes (round pastries typically filled with red bean or lotus seed paste), among other things.\nUnfortunately, the lead-up to this year's celebration coincides with the arrival of super typhoon Meranti in mainland China. The devastating storm has been hitting Taiwan hard in the past few days, and now it's just outside of China, with raging winds estimated to be reaching 145 mph, according to Weather.com.\nOf course, one buoyant moon-shaped balloon just couldn't stand up to those overwhelming blows. Meranti batted the giant inflatable around like a cat with a ball of yarn, but at least it doesn't look like the moon caused any damage. Though it was rolling over cars and even people, the lightweight balloon appears to have actually been more entertaining then actually threatening. In fact, people online are loving it so much that a bunch of users on the Chinese social media site Weibo have been turning the balloon into memes.\nChina Is Trying To Get Away From Funeral Strippers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cirugiaesteticacordoba.com/en/contact-cabrera", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YTRJS6MPX7KZWNYHR52DUIGKVODUIAUK", "length": 266, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cirugiaesteticacordoba.com", "title": "Contact | Cabrera Pl\u00e1stica & Est\u00e9tica", "raw_content": "You can arrange an appointment by calling the on (0034) 957 28 14 50 / 661 68 41 25.\nMonday to Friday from 9h30 -13h30 and from 16h30 \u2013 20h:30.\nFor information about transport, communications, accommodation near the hospital, etc., please fill in the following form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1522", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHOHPJXHHKY342KAO4EQYBFMONZL3ZQG", "length": 3323, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.classic-computers.org.nz", "title": "New Zealand Vintage Computer Forums \u2022 View topic - Looking for NS405-A12N Urgent!", "raw_content": "Looking for NS405-A12N Urgent!\nby GrantM on Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:11 am\nTrying to find a NS405-A12N from National Semiconductor. It's a 48PIN DIP package and is basically a Video Terminal chip.\nAlso, if anybody knows the difference between the -A12N suffix and the -B18 suffix, I'd like to know, the datasheet doesn't really explain the difference - only mention of the difference is in the ordering details and that doesn't really say much at all.\nRe: Looking for NS405-A12N Urgent!\nby tezza on Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:17 am\nGood luck on the search. It might help to know what vintage devices use this IC? Some of us might have some old junk around with the chip installed and not even realise we have it.\nby GrantM on Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:55 pm\nIt has a Video generator, UART and the equiv of an 8048 inside, plus various glue logic internally and is designed as a Video Terminal chip, more or less like a VT100 type of thing, video terminals (perhaps inside other equipment) is the type of equipment it would be in - anything with a video terminal potentially. With me it's on what appears to be an S100 (or similar) type of board in a piece of industrial equipment, though it's not used in an S100 configuration and I suspect its perhaps mid-late 80's.\nIf it's possible to put attachements here (I can't see a way), then I could put up the first page of the National Datasheet, but alternatively the datasheet is available here http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dl/Scans-063/DSA2IH00122424.pdf.\nThe Datasheet says -\nThe NS405 is a CRT Terminal Controller on a Chip. It is a Microcomputer systems which replaces the following LSI circuits commonly found in a CRT Data Terminal:\n-Microcomputer\n-CRT Controller\n-DMA Controller\n-Character Generator\n-BaudRate Generator\n-Interrupt Controller\n-Parallel I/O Controller\nThe NS 405 is Primarily intended for use in low-cost terminals, but contains many features which makes it a superior building block for \"smart\" terminals and word processing systems...\nby GrantM on Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:06 am\nWell still no luck. I did manage to get hold of an NS405-B12N (instead of the A12N) and it sort of worked, but the characters are squashed up next to each other and cut-off on the right hand side, so a B looks like an E and a U looks like a backwards J, makes it very difficult to read. I don't know if that's because of a difference between the -A12N and the -B12N, as the datasheet just doesn't explain the difference. It could be something wrong with the character generator EPROM, but it's happening with all size characters, so I'm leaning towards the NS405.\nThe board is a Term-Mite ST1000 card and looks like it might be an S100 card, though the edge connector is not used in this application. If anybody has one or knows of one, I'd be very interested. Is there a way I can attach a PDF here?\nby tezza on Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:11 pm\nGrantM wrote: Is there a way I can attach a PDF here?\nUnfortunately not Grant, but you can place it somewhere else (Dropbox?) and link to it here.\nGood luck in the search. I had a look at some of my \"junk\" but no such IC I'm afraid.\nby GrantM on Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:13 pm\nThanks Tezza,\nI put a link to the datasheet above, but figured I'd post the first page in case it jogged anybody's memory. Anyway, that's fine. Let's hope somebody finds one somewhere!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/twosidestoeverystorylyricschords.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:O4P3KNV43UKTS5SQEGZVOIOAMK5QOWCW", "length": 1048, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com", "title": "Two Sides To Every Story lyrics chords | Willie Nelson | Dyan Cannon", "raw_content": "Two Sides To Every Story lyrics and chords\nTwo Sides To Every Story lyrics and chords are provided for your personal use only, it's a very good country song recorded by Dyan Cannon and Willie Nelson.\nRecorded by Dyan Cannon and Willie Nelson\nWritten by Willie Nelson\nG D7 G G7\nThere must be two sides to every story\nC G G7\nAnd who's to say whose right and who is wrong\nAnd I'm tryin' to understand why you're not with me\nA7 D7\nHow can we both be right when you're still gone\nG D7 G G7\nIt's hard to believe that it's all over\nC G G7\nA love like ours is not supposed to die\nAnd there must be two sides to every story\nD7 G G7\nI just wish I had a chance to tell you mine\nI miss you more than I could ever tell you\nAnd we've hurt each other more than we could know\nCome on home and tell me yours I love you so\nClassic Country Music Lyrics home | Willie Nelson lyrics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clickingmad.com/blog/website-development/bespoke-programming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PIRHP4XA6OH4VV752UU7VXSRUGKIHZX4", "length": 1568, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.clickingmad.com", "title": "Bespoke Programming \u2014 Clickingmad Ltd", "raw_content": "Clickingmad have tackled many unusual programming and development challenges over the years. Including but not limited to:\nLarge and complex database applications\nBespoke PHP Solutions\nThe team at Clickingmad are highly skilled and experienced in developing creative solutions. Our skills sets are based around Open Source programming and development languages such as:\nThe clickingmad software development process\nWe will work closely with you to gain a deep understanding of your project. A salesperson will coordinate the effort and usually involve a developer with the requisite skills and experience to prepare a detailed estimate.\nOur clients come to us with various levels of technology understanding. If you have corporate requirements that state that certain technologies be used, we will be happy to work with your in house IT or Technology staff.\nWe have a broad and diverse set of skills and experience, so it is highly likely that we have developers who are well qualified to work on your project. 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(together with its subsidiaries, \u201cAlgeco\u201d), the leading global business services provider of modular space, secure portable storage solutions and remote workforce accommodations, today announced that it will hold its second quarter 2018 financial results conference call on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time.\nTo access the call, please dial (847) 585-4422 or (888) 424-8151 (US toll free) and enter participant PIN code 6638830# approximately ten minutes prior to the start of the call. You will be placed on hold until the event begins. The conference call will also be broadcast over the internet with an accompanying slide presentation. To join the web conference, go to http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=2&a=UTiLPVrenccJZd. Please enter your name, email address and company to join the call. 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A sociable animal, he is also creative, hardworking and a fan of problem solving. Safe to say he is probably a bigger fan of The Dons though, and has been a Pittodrie season ticket holder since he was a wee loon. Add to that a love of playing football and golf, cooking, guitar and craft beer. Just as well he is good at problem solving - he needs to juggle his time wisely to fit all this in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.colemangreig.com.au/Staff-105-James-Ferguson.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YEEJPHR7EPQS7IBFMX5NDVGM4G7DCSQ3", "length": 1958, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.colemangreig.com.au", "title": "James Ferguson, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Coleman Greig", "raw_content": "Home Our People James Ferguson\nJames Ferguson is a lawyer within Coleman Greig\u2019s Litigation & Disputes Resolution Team.\nJames\u2019 extensive experience as a legal clerk has seen him excel in the reviewing and drafting of Court documents, as well as assisting with the preparation of evidence and in-depth legal research.\nThroughout his time with Coleman Greig, James\u2019 work has primarily focused on commercial areas of law. He has spent a significant amount of time working within Barristers\u2019 chambers, where he honed his research skills working alongside both Senior and Junior Counsel. This high level of research ability and legal knowledge has lent to his continuing and valued involvement in the publication of Coleman Greig\u2019s Plain English Answers.\nJames\u2019 time is spent working closely with the lawyers in the litigation team to ensure that the best and most commercial outcome is achieved for all clients, at all times. James boasts a well-earned reputation for both accuracy and efficiency across all aspects of his work.\nJames believes that the key to a strong lawyer/client relationship is the ability to communicate effectively, and above all \u2013 openly, throughout all stages of a matter. This communicative ability is not only something that he both actively focusses and prides himself on \u2013 but that has driven him to follow the path of Litigation & Dispute Resolution.\nJames has recently completed a Bachelor of Business and Commerce (Advanced Business Leadership)/Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University \u2013 and was a member of the University\u2019s The Academy (formerly \u2018Aspire Future Leaders\u2019).\nAlongside his professional achievements, James is a keen supporter of all things Western Sydney and takes a personal interest in the local community. He has been a key participant in the Coleman Greig Challenge, and is also a member of the Western Sydney Young Professionals group.\nA few months on: What has the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme taught us?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 4699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 200.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.collectingcousins.com/evaluating-evidence-in-genealogy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OBLYCSEYCUOF2FIQVJW3RKXVOFLOAGSV", "length": 11079, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.collectingcousins.com", "title": "Evaluating Evidence in Genealogy | Collecting Cousins", "raw_content": "Even those new to family history research can learn the basics of properly evaluating evidence in genealogy. Once you learn the simple process and begin practicing it, you will find yourself mentally evaluating evidence as you discover each new piece of information about your ancestors.\nAs you get into more complex identity problems and work with less standard sources, better evidence analysis will improve the quality of your research and increase the likelihood of solid conclusions about your ancestors\u2019 lives. This overview will give you a good starting point and is written with the beginner in mind; for a more in-depth discussion of evidence analysis and genealogical standards, I recommend The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual published by the Board for Certification of Genealogists.\nThere are three items that must be evaluated in order to determine the reliability of any evidence:\nWhat kind of source contains the information\nWhat kind of information the source contains\nIn what way is the information evidence for the question we are trying to answer\nSources and information can be evaluated independently, but evaluating evidence in genealogy cannot be completed without the question we are trying to answer.\nEvaluating Evidence: The Source\nAccording to the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, we should think of a source as a container for information. Genealogical information can be found in \u201ccontainers\u201d such as books, censuses, vital records, family histories, interviews, letters, and more. These \u201ccontainers\u201d are sources, and they can be classified as original or derivative:\nOriginal sources \u2013 those created at or near the time of the event being referenced whose creators had first-hand knowledge of what they recorded (official copies such as register copies can be considered originals)\nDerivative sources \u2013 those which were copied, compiled, abstracted, transcribed or are otherwise not originals\nAuthored sources are written works that do not fit neatly into either category (an excellent discussion about classifying authored works can be found in the Evidence Explained forums), but which can be considered one or the other depending on their content. Some genealogists consider authored works a third category, while others classify the them as original or derivative based on the content. Original analysis in an authored work would be considered an original source, while a transcription of a document or quoted material in an authored work would be considered a derivative source.\nUnderstanding the difference between these source classifications helps the genealogist to evaluate the reliability of the information found in the source.\nExample. Is the source a book of early will transcriptions? Derivative sources like transcriptions introduce the possibility of errors. Is the source an original death register created at the time of death? Original sources like vital records are usually created by individuals working in an official capacity where accuracy is important.\nWhile classifying a source is important, whether a source is original or derivative is not an indication of the reliability of the information it contains. To determine that, we must classify the information.\nEvaluating Evidence: The Information\nOnce you have evaluated the source (or \u201ccontainer\u201d), the information inside is evaluated. Individual pieces of information are often called \u201cfacts\u201d but they may not actually be factual. Evaluating each piece of information is a crucial step in determining its reliability. Information can be primary, secondary, or undetermined.\nPrimary information \u2013 that for which the informant had first-hand knowledge\nSecondary information \u2013 that for which the informant did not have first-hand knowledge\nUndetermined information \u2013 that for which the genealogist has no way to know whether the informant had first-hand knowledge or not\nEach source can have multiple pieces of information, and each piece may have a different information classification.\nA new researcher might assume that because a source is an official document such as a death certificate, it is a \u201creliable source\u201d for all of the information it contains. All information in a source can never be grouped together and classified as a whole\u2013it must be individually evaluated.\nExample. Using our death certificate example, the time and place of death on a death certificate signed by the attending physician is primary information\u2013the physician had first-hand knowledge of the event. It is unlikely, however, that the physician had first-hand knowledge of the date and place of birth of the deceased on the same document. To classify that information, we must look to the informant listed in the source. If the deceased is a child and the informant is the parent, the birth information would be primary. If the deceased is an adult and the informant is the spouse, the date and place of birth is secondary information because the spouse was not there and does not have first-hand knowledge of the birth.\nA common example of undetermined information is that found in census population schedules prior to 1940. Starting in 1940, the enumerator placed a mark beside the name of the person who provided the information for the household. Prior to that, there is no way to tell who spoke to the enumerator, making the information of undetermined origin. The only way we could know in a census population schedule that the information is secondary is if the census marks the informant, and we determine that the informant did not have first-hand knowledge of the information asked (for example, a spouse of the head of household providing information about the birthplace of her father in-law).\nThis chart gives an overview of information commonly found on a census and how it would be classified if we know that the head of household was the informant:\nInformation Head Spouse Child\nName Primary Primary Primary\nOccupation Primary Primary Primary\nAge Secondary Secondary Primary\nAddress Primary Primary Primary\nRelation to Head of Household Primary Primary Primary\nBirthplace Secondary Secondary Primary\nBirthplace of Parents Secondary Secondary Secondary\nHome Ownership Primary Primary Primary\nEmployment Status Primary Primary Primary\nResidence 5 Years Ago Primary Undetermined Undetermined\nYou might find it odd that a person\u2019s answers about their own birthplace is considered secondary, but that information is only what they have been told. We cannot confirm with firsthand knowledge where or when we are born because we have no memory of it. On the other hand, as parents we can confirm when and where our children were born, making it primary information.\nEvaluating Evidence: The Evidence\nInformation only becomes evidence when we are trying to answer a question with it. By itself, it is only information. Evidence is classified as direct, indirect, or negative.\nDirect evidence \u2013 that which by itself directly answers the question we are asking\nIndirect evidence \u2013 that which can be combined with other information to answer the question we are asking but cannot answer the question alone\nNegative evidence \u2013 that which would be expected to be present in a record and its absence infers an answer to the question we are asking\nThe common thread of each classification for evidence is that it must relate to a question. Without a question, evidence cannot be evaluated.\nExample. Using a census as an example again, let\u2019s suppose that we are researching John Martin and want to know when his wife Mary died. To keep the example simple, let\u2019s assume that we already know that John and Mary got married in 1855 and John had no other marriages before or after his marriage to Mary.\nResearch question: When did Mary Martin die?\nIn 1860, a census lists John and Mary Martin in the same household. This is direct evidence that Mary is still alive when the census was enumerated.\nIn 1870, the census lists John alone in the household. Mary\u2019s absence in the household is negative evidence for her death\u2013we would expect to find her there and her absence infers that she could be deceased. We cannot conclude that she is deceased, however. In the absence of corroborating evidence we have to consider that she may have left her husband, or that she was living elsewhere caring for a parent, or any other number of possible circumstances.\nAn 1880 census listing John alone in the household and states that he was widowed is indirect evidence of Mary\u2019s death sometime prior to the official census date. It is only when combined with the information that John did not have any other marriages that we can determine that he is Mary\u2019s widower and not a widower from a subsequent marriage.\nIn genealogical research, we have to combine all three elements of evidence analysis to get a full picture of the reliability of the evidence. The quality of the source, the quality of the information, and what kind of evidence the information provides all contribute to making a solid conclusion. It is not uncommon to find five or six sources with differing information about a particular event, so being able to analyze each in accordance with the genealogical standards will allow you to accurately determine which is the most reliable.\nDownload the Evidence Analysis Cheat Sheet\nNeed help remembering the options for sources, information, and evidence? Download the cheat sheet below and keep it handy while you are working.\nDownload cheat sheet \u00bb\nChoose an ancestor for which you have multiple birth dates asserted. Evaluate the source for each, determine whether each assertion is primary or secondary, and evaluate how the evidence relates to the question of when your ancestor was born. I\u2019d love to hear what you discovered and if your analysis helped you to come to any conclusions!\nThe BCG Genealogical Standards Manual \u2013 The Board for Certification of Genealogists is the authority on genealogical standards. This manual is a helpful reference for evidence analysis as well as the genealogical proof standard (GPS).\nEvidence Explained (affiliate link) \u2013 The first chapter of Elizabeth Shown Mills\u2019 handbook for citations discusses evidence analysis at length. I have both the hardback and the Kindle version, and I much prefer the Kindle version to the physical book because I can have it open as a reference on my MacBook while I am working.\nMastering Genealogical Proof (affiliate link) \u2013 Tom Jones\u2019 book in the National Genealogical Society\u2019s Special Topics Series thoroughly covers the genealogical proof standard to include evidence analysis. The Special Topics Series titles are workbooks that give the opportunity to answer questions and practice your skills.\nEvidentia Software \u2013 Evidentia walks you through the process of evaluating each assertion found in a source as well as creating citations. If you are overwhelmed by the evidence evaluation process, using Evidentia is a painless way to start.\nSusan Ellerbee says:\nJust now found your blog post. Very informative and easy to follow. Thanks! FYI- I also like the format of your blog. Susan Posten Ellerbee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 12371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/29/take-a-look-at-this-self-filling-water-bottle-that-turns-air-into-drinkable-water/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CX7JIHBNUVLBKEOZ3H23WHGVQK4NPTBZ", "length": 1960, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.collective-evolution.com", "title": "Take A Look At This Self-Filling Water Bottle That Turns Air Into Drinkable Water \u2013 Collective Evolution", "raw_content": "Take A Look At This Self-Filling Water Bottle That Turns Air Into Drinkable Water\nThe implications of this technology are huge, especially for regions of extreme poverty where people do not have easy access to clean drinking water.\nIt\u2019s a self-filling water bottle that actually turns air into drinkable water by using the condensation of the humidity which is contained in the air.\nIt was designed by Kristof Retezar, a designer based in Vienna, whose intention was to provide more than one billion people around the world, in water-scarce areas, with clean drinking water.\nIt\u2019s called Fontus, and it works by using the simple principle of condensation. Basically, when humid air flows into the contraption, it hits a series of hydrophobic \u2018teeth\u2019 which help turn the water vapor into actual water droplets. What\u2019s even better is that it\u2019s completely solar powered, and has a device attached to it that helps keep bugs and dust out. Unfortunately, at this time it cannot filter out potentially harmful contaminants.\nRetezar told Live Science that \u201cthe water you get is clean, unless the air is really contaminated. We\u2019re thinking about making a bottle that also has a carbon filter, and this one would be for cities or areas where you might think the air is contaminated. But originally, this water bottle was thought to be used in nature, and places where you wouldn\u2019t have contaminated air.\u201d\nIt can provide half a litre in just one hour when exposed to temperatures between 86 degrees and 104 degrees Fahrenheit, with approximately 80-90 percent humidity.\nThe device was a finalist for the Dyson award in 2014 and has been gaining attention ever since.\n\u201cYou always have a certain percentage of humidity in the air, it doesn\u2019t matter where you are \u2013 even in the desert. That means you would always potentially be able to extract that humidity from the air.\u201d\nRelated CE Article: This simple & affordable technology is going to make history: Meet the Lifestraw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 37927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.colonialcourt.co.nz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ULM6HB7EM7SVZ7A3AGEIC5G4BDE7H3GL", "length": 384, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.colonialcourt.co.nz", "title": "Colonial Court Motel, Cambridge New Zealand | Quiet Motel / Accommodation in Cambridge, NZ", "raw_content": "Colonial Court Motel, Cambridge\nThe Quiet One.....\nYour hosts, Rizal & Faizah, graciously welcome you to the Colonial Court Motel, providing a clean, comfortable and quiet accommodation in a lovely little village in the middle of New Zealand's North Island called Cambridge.\nYou can be assured of a quiet, cozy atmosphere, comfortable and relaxing stay with us in the \"Town of Trees\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2018/03/20/ex-csu-football-assistant-marty-english-coaching-again-northern-colorado/443232002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LRFN52NIJR2SMSL6SJRJ6H7IZ7NAWIKN", "length": 3483, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.coloradoan.com", "title": "Ex-CSU football assistant Marty English coaching at Northern Colorado", "raw_content": "Former CSU football assistant Marty English hired by University of Northern Colorado\nThree months after leaving Colorado State, the Rams' former defensive coordinator and linebackers coach will serve in same roles at Northern Colorado.\nFormer CSU football assistant Marty English hired by University of Northern Colorado Three months after leaving Colorado State, the Rams' former defensive coordinator and linebackers coach will serve in same roles at Northern Colorado. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: http://noconow.co/2u46dn3\nMarty English, who spent the past six years at CSU, is returning to his alma mater, Northern Colorado, as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. CSU coach Mike Bobo said in November that English \"intends to retire\" following the 2017 New Mexico Bowl.(Photo11: Coloradoan library)Buy Photo\nMarty English wasn\u2019t out of coaching for long.\nThree months after leaving Colorado State University\u2019s football program, the longtime assistant coach moved into the same role at his alma mater, the University of Northern Colorado.\nEnglish, 55, will serve as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at UNC under Ernest Collins Jr., who is in his eighth year at the Football Championship Subdivision school in Greeley.\n\u201cI\u2019m just excited to be back at UNC and to see if we can get everything in place to be successful here,\u201d English said in a news release announcing his hiring. \u201cIt\u2019s a great staff to be around and exciting time to come back here for me.\u201d\nEnglish, who had been an assistant coach at CSU since 2012, officially retired after last season, though some reports indicated he was forced out. He was the Rams\u2019 co-defensive coordinator under Jim McElwain for three seasons and became the defensive coordinator under Bobo prior to the 2016 season after serving as the linebackers coach in 2015.\nEnglish came under fire last season when the Rams\u2019 defense failed to match the performance of the high-powered offense, particularly in late-season games against Nevada, Air Force and Boise State. The Rams gave up 42 points in a win over Nevada, 45 in a loss to Air Force and 59 in an overtime loss to Boise State.\nThe Rams allowed an average of 425.8 yards and 28.5 points a game last season after giving up 419.2 yards and 30.4 points a game in 2016.\nEnglish, a Denver native, is beginning his 31st season as a college assistant coach, all at schools along the Front Range.\nHe played for UNC from 1982-85, earning All-North Central Conference honors at linebacker as a senior. He began his coaching career with the Bears as a graduate assistant in 1987 and spent 16 years at the school, serving as the defensive coordinator from 2000-02.\nLyell: CSU football makes right move at right time with English's retirement\nCollins was a defensive back and punt returner for the Bears from 1991-94 and was a defensive backs coach at UNC from 2000-02.\n\u201cIt is awesome to welcome Marty back to Northern Colorado,\u201d Collins said in the news release. \u201cHe was my contact when I was pursuing this job and a mentor for me. I have played and coached for Marty, and now it will be fun to flip those roles. The last time we coached together, we had a pretty salty defense. I am looking forward to having his mind in the fold on our defense and getting our team better.\u201d\nUNC began spring practices Tuesday and will play its annual spring game at 12:30 p.m. April 21 at Nottingham Field.\nMore: Mike Bobo unsure if Collin Hill will play this fall after ACL surgery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.community-relations.org.uk/news-centre/exciting-new-opportunity-young-leaders-involved-workingvolunteering-children-and-young", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:M7X2ELSDVQK7E7M7BTR76WC23NDDISN5", "length": 1073, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.community-relations.org.uk", "title": "An exciting new opportunity for young leaders involved in working/volunteering with children and young people in the Lisburn & Castlereagh CC area. | Community Relations Council", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News & Press Releases \u00bb An exciting new opportunity for young leaders involved in working/volunteering with children and young people in the Lisburn & Castlereagh CC area.\nAn exciting new opportunity for young leaders involved in working/volunteering with children and young people in the Lisburn & Castlereagh CC area.\nAre you aged between 16-24 and work or volunteer with young people in youth, sports or performing arts groups in the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council area?\nPlease see the link below for details of an exciting new opportunity for young leaders involved in working/volunteering with children and young people in the Lisburn & Castlereagh CC area.\nFull details and the application forms are available here:\nhttps://www.ncb.org.uk/young-leaders-network,\nor contact Gill Hassard - ghassard@ncb.org.uk / 02890 875006 for details.\nPlaces are limited and will be filled to ensure an equal cross-community balance.\nFor any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch. Also, please feel free to pass this opportunity on to any other groups you know.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conehealth.com/locations/profile/nutrition-and-diabetes-education-services-at-reidsville/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:MILJOG73XX2SQPER6IVF66UAK4IVQH7C", "length": 1297, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.conehealth.com", "title": "Cone Health Nutrition and Diabetes Education Services at Reidsville | Cone Health", "raw_content": "Educating residents of Reidsville and the surrounding area on diabetes prevention and improved eating habits in support of a healthy community.\nThe Nutrition and Diabetes Education Services at Reidsville is staffed with a certified Diabetes Educator, an Endocrinologist and support staff.\nNutrition and Diabetes Education Services at Reidsville is staffed with a certified Diabetes Educator an Endocrinologist and support staff.\nThe team of specialists offers the following services:\nComprehensive management and education for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.\nDiabetes prevention and Prediabetes Education.\nFocused life style modification to bring about healthy weight loss.\nBalanced and individualized meal planning.\nHelp to prevent short and long term complications of Diabetes based on the American Diabetes Association\u2019s Standard of Care.\nDiagnosis and management of other related metabolic disorders.\nIn addition to the services offered by Nutrition and Diabetes Education Services, the team will lead a series of Diabetes Education classes that will be held at Annie Penn Hospital.\nFor Nutrition and Diabetes Education, call (336) 832-3236, ext. 0 or e-mail nutrition@conehealth.com.\nFor Diabetes and Endocrinology Consult, call (336) 951-6070.\n1107 S. Main St. Reidsville, NC 27320", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.connecticutchildrens.org/cardiology-cardiac-surgery/cantor-family-helps-keep-kids-hearts-beating/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VOAGDB7X7LOKH2I5OQWSDJ3X2WNBQC5D", "length": 5477, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.connecticutchildrens.org", "title": "Cantor Family Helps Keep Kids\u2019 Hearts Beating - Connecticut Children's Medical Center", "raw_content": "It was October 21, 1996, and Shari Cantor had just given birth to her fourth son, Jacob, at Hartford Hospital. At first Jacob seemed to be perfectly healthy. \u201cI was sitting there with this beautiful baby with a perfect Apgar score,\u201d Shari says. \u201cBut then one of the nurses came to look at him and said, \u2018He looks dusky.\u2019 He was intubated immediately, and all of a sudden things are crashing and he was whisked away. The nurse immediately took him and rushed him down the hall. My husband, Michael, was at the far end of this very long hall, and I saw his shoulders fall and he just kind of crumbled. I thought Jacob had died, and I began screaming. It was all so surreal.\u201d\nIt turned out that Jacob was dusky because he had multiple heart defects that required specialized care right away. Happily, specialized care was across the street, where Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center had just opened. \u201cConnecticut Children\u2019s had just been built,\u201d she says. \u201cJacob, in fact, was one of their first patients. And thank God it was there. When he 9 months old, he had to get surgery at a hospital in Boston because at that time Connecticut Children\u2019s didn\u2019t do that procedure (though they do now). After the procedure, he was in the intensive care unit, and there were four other babies who did not survive because they had not gotten the immediate and high-quality care that Jacob got at Connecticut Children\u2019s.\u201d\nJacob was born with one functioning ventricle (the lower heart chamber) instead of two, and his main valve to send blood to the lungs was not working.\nHe was within minutes of suffering brain damage and death. But the nurse\u2019s quick action and the specialized surgery he received at Connecticut Children\u2019s saved his life. These surgeries are far from simple. Jacob received the first one three days after his birth, when his heart was smaller than a walnut. Performing sophisticated, precise surgery on an organ that small and delicate requires extensive training, skill and courage. \u201cThe number of pediatric cardiology surgeons in this country who are capable of such complex surgery is small,\u201d says Seth Lapuk, MD, who is Jacob\u2019s current cardiologist at Connecticut Children\u2019s. \u201cIt was not that long ago when there was little hope for these patients living past a few years of life. With the great advancements of surgical, critical care and long-term care, the patients with these abnormalities are now the first generation that can expect long and fulfilling lives.\u201d\nOver the course of the next few years, as his body grew and could accept more elaborate reconstruction, Jacob underwent several surgeries, and today he thrives with a two-chambered heart instead of the usual four-chambered version.\nThe Cantor family (left to right: Jacob, Josh, Shari, Sam, Ben, and Michael) does a lot of running together, including the Manchester Road Race pictured here. And despite having half a heart, Jacob runs right along with his brothers. He is, in fact, training to run a half-marathon this year.\nTo meet Jacob, you would never guess he had any kind of deficit. He is a bright, positive young man, with a winning smile, a steady gaze and a remarkable self-possession. A senior at Tufts University, Jacob is studying international relations and political science, and he has traveled extensively, including trips to Israel, India, Spain and an upcoming trip to Cuba (his mother is not wild about all this traveling, and each trip requires advance research into medical facilities in the area and other connections). He also teaches English to refugees from El Salvador. He is focused on social justice and seems primed to make a real difference in the world.\nThen there is the running. The entire Cantor family runs in various road races, including the Manchester Road Race, and for a long time Jacob felt like he was left out because his heart couldn\u2019t support that much physically demanding activity. But he was determined not to let his condition get the better of him, and he started training, gradually increasing the distance he could run over a period of many months.\nIn recent months, he has run nine miles successfully. \u201cIn the last race,\u201d he says, \u201cI beat two of my brothers.\u201d And his next goal is to run a half-marathon this year\u2014an astounding accomplishment for a young man who started life the way he did. \u201cI sometimes have to remind myself that I have a disadvantage, because I don\u2019t feel like it most of the time,\u201d he says. \u201cI consider myself fortunate because it\u2019s not present in my everyday life.\u201d\nGiven the miraculous story of Jacob\u2019s life, it should not surprise anyone to learn that Shari, now the mayor of West Hartford, and her husband, Michael, founder of Cantor Colburn, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the country, have been ardent supporters of the Division of Cardiology at Connecticut Children\u2019s over the past ten years. They were major contributors to the creation of the Vincent J. Dowling Family Cardiovascular Care Center, which provides a state-of-the-art facility for patients and clinicians. Among the many benefits offered by the center is a large echocardiology lab with dozens of monitors where Connecticut Children\u2019s experts study detailed moving images of a baby\u2019s heart while it is still in the womb. It allows the team to identify heart issues before the child is born so a treatment plan can be in place at delivery and no parent has to wait to see if their child becomes dusky to know he needs urgent care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 13075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/False_Flag_New_World_Order.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:THWSRRF5P4G3OZOIMGR37CBIYS7F6YZZ", "length": 34120, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "www.conspiracyarchive.com", "title": "False Flag Operations: The Crisis Route to the New World Order | Deanna Spingola", "raw_content": "False Flag Operations: The Crisis Route to the New World Order\n- by Deanna Spingola, 10 May 2010\nDavid Rockefeller said, \u201cAll we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.\u201d Rahm Emanuel said, \u201cYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.\u201d In the Project for a New American Century document Rebuilding America\u2019s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century we find the following: \u201cFurther, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event \u2013 like a new Pearl Harbor.\u201d1\nFalse Flag (choreographed catastrophes) operations have been used for generations for various motives: the seizure of additional land and/or natural/mineral resources (domestic or foreign), the acquisition of cheap labor, economic destabilization, the military depopulation of indigenous populations, the destruction of religious or political ideologies, the establishment of political tyranny or a coup d'\u00e9tat (as experienced after 9/11 with the establishment of the PATRIOT Act and the Department of Homeland Security), to assist an allegedly threatened ally or to protect U.S. citizens living in a foreign country. The foundational factor in the majority of all false flag operations is the imposition of greater restrictions on worldwide residential populations in order to implement internationalism or globalism, formerly known as the utopian New World Order under the direction of an elite hierarchy. False flag catastrophes include terrorist attacks, assassinations of political leaders, \u201cnatural\u201d disasters, industrial \u201caccidents,\u201d armed assaults against citizens (Waco, Ruby Ridge, Kent State), economic assaults in the form of economic crashes like 1929 or more recently the banker bailouts, both massive redistribution scams. The prevailing feature in all of these circumstances, whether manmade or \u201cnatural,\u201d is the transference of culpability followed by the government\u2019s predictable exploitation of any and all circumstances.\nFalse flag operations manipulate individuals, either dupes or well-paid, skilled operatives \u2013 who masquerade as purported enemy aggressors. Aircraft or ships are either camouflaged to conceal their identity or marked in such a way as to confuse witnesses. The operation is compartmentally constructed in such a way that individuals participate in a small part of the venture without knowing the entire scope of the operation. After the fact, their willing but unwary participation might insure their silence. False flag operations accelerated after the formation of government intelligence agencies, like the CIA, again at the behest of private interests with the ready assistance of the media who introduce false leads to sustain the preconceived cover story. A false flag operation where innocent people are murdered invariably supplies the pretext for a military invasion where even more killing occurs including unwary U.S. soldiers who believe they are fighting for their country.\nAmbrose Pierce, the satirist, and creator of The Devil\u2019s Dictionary defined politics as, \u201cA strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles, the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.\u201d2\nOn January 24, 1898, during a Cuban insurrection against Spain, the USS Maine arrived at Havana, where it had been sent to allegedly protect some U.S. citizens living there. In reality, U.S. corporations, with about $50 million invested in the production and distribution of Cuban sugar and tobacco, had concerns about their investments. On February 15, 1898, while it was docked in Havana Harbor, a devastating explosion sank the ship. The incident killed 260 Americans. We now know that is was an internal explosion, not the result of an attack. However, the citizens were fueled by warmongers in the print media who pushed the slogan, \u201cRemember the Maine! To hell with Spain.\u201d Outraged citizens agreed to retaliate and go to war against Spain because of the incident. Congress, which was wholly controlled by private interests, declared war on April 25, 1898. Two days later, the U.S. sent 11,000 occupational troops to the resource-rich Philippines, a Spanish colony and the real target. The Filipinos resisted America\u2019s \u201cliberation\u201d efforts for three years during which several thousand civilians were slaughtered. The strategic location of the Philippines would provide easier access to the riches of Asia, a highly populated area replete with abundant resources and almost numberless people who had been hoarding and passing down their gold and treasures for centuries.\nWith the deceptive establishment of the privately owned Federal Reserve printing press by a compromised Congress, large-scale, debt-based warfare became even more feasible, its costs being shifted to U.S. citizens and their children and grandchildren. World War I in Europe was initially provoked by the assassination of an Austrian Archduke. But that was hardly an interest to Americans who had to feel some sense of personal outrage in order to justify U.S. military participation in a foreign war where American soldiers were likely to be killed. The Lusitania, an armed British passenger vessel deceptively flew the American flag and carried ammunition from U.S. companies bound for belligerent Britain. The ship, described as \u201clive bait\u201d by Winston Churchill, a Rothschild minion, was deliberately sent into harm\u2019s way. Her military escort inexplicably withdrew and the ship dramatically slowed down and abandoned the defensive zigzag pattern of travel. In early February 1915, the British Admiralty, under the direction of Churchill, had ordered British merchant ships, like the Lusitania, to ram German submarines on sight. The Lusitania, borrowed by the British government and reclassified as an auxiliary cruiser, was equipped with bases for mounting guns.3 Germany was aware of Churchill\u2019s orders by February 15. On April 22, 1915, Germany, through its U.S. Embassy warned Americans not to travel on British ships in the war zone. They also paid to advertise the warning in The New York Times on that same day.4 The warning was not printed in the Times until the day of departure. The Germans predictably attacked on May 7, 1915 and 785 people, including 128 Americans perished, but it ultimately got the U.S. into World War I.\nLenin said, \u201cThe first World War gave us Russia, while the Second World War will hand Europe to us.\u201d5 For Lenin, a true Marxist, world revolution was the goal. World War I followed immediately by the Bolshevik Revolution subjugated only one country under communist rule, Russia. Lenin\u2019s Bolshevik party was financed wholly by some of the same international bankers who instigated the Federal Reserve. In 1916, Lenin recognized that war was simply a revolution on a massive scale and professed that the world would need another war, as one was insufficient.6 Before the Czar\u2019s assassination and the usurpation of Russia\u2019s government, Lenin said, \u201cAfter Russia we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands.\u201d7 This would be accomplished through infiltration, all the while using the Hegelian dialectic of controlled opposition \u2013 as used by Lenin. Control the opposition, the proverbial right-left cultural division, in order to assure the desired result \u2013 total takeover and communization of the U.S.\nStalin (Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili), nicknamed Soso, was an agitator, terrorist and a murderer, along with his Bolshevik comrades. Beginning in 1902, he worked at the Rothschild oil refinery in Batumi. He probably still worked for the Rothschilds when he moved to the Baku area in 1907.8 \u201cOil tycoons\u201d made contributions to the Bolsheviks. Berta Nussimbaum, wife of oil baron, financed Stalin\u2019s communist press. Rothschild\u2019s managing director, David Landau, personally made regular contributions to Stalin. David Sagirashvili, a Menshevik, knew Stalin in Baku and claimed he engaged in routine kidnappings after which he demanded ransom.9 The Mensheviks, a less violent faction of the Russian revolutionary movement, emerged in 1904. The word Bolshevism was Russian and would have to be appropriately changed for each country.\nStalin always favored the more violent approach and ultimately killed millions, even during peacetime \u2013 in the gulags (slave labor camps), and in the Ukraine where five to ten million were deliberately starved to death during Stalin\u2019s imposed famine during the winter of 1932-1933. Despite knowledge of Stalin\u2019s horrific genocidal crimes against humanity, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a like-minded individual, officially recognized the legitimacy of the government of the Soviet Union, without Congressional approval. This later enabled the Soviet Union to fully participate in the banker-supported United Nations, situated on land donated by banker John D. Rockefeller Jr. whose illustrious family made their millions via Rothschild support. Roosevelt, whose administration was knowingly filled with Communist agitators and Soviet spies, did as much to promote communism, even in this country, as any revolutionary Communist.\nChurchill\u2019s estate mortgage was paid off by the \u201cJewish European financiers,\u201d known as the Focus Group. Churchill then arranged a meeting with these bankers and Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to get the U.S. into war through the back door.10 Churchill and Roosevelt monitored the entire progress of the Japanese as they approached Pearl Harbor. After months of illegally blockading Japan which totally depended on imports to survive, the Japanese predictably attacked \u2013 all according to Henry L. Stimson\u2019s strategy. He was a Standard Oil attorney and a member of Skull and Bones (appropriately known as the Brotherhood of Death). The attack on Pearl Harbor got America into a two-front war \u2013 with Japan and her European ally, Germany. Japan\u2019s assault on Pearl Harbor killed 2,345 U.S. military men and injured another 1,100 people. Fortuitously, the U.S. government had already withdrawn their newer ships and planes to save them from destruction. Obligatory commissions, some by independent entities, were convened to investigate. Foreknowledge of the event, if not actual participation, was verified, but the compromised media deliberately concealed all conclusions that divulged U.S. government participation.\nOn April 27, 1961, in an address to newspaper publishers, President Kennedy said the following regarding Freemasonry, \u201cThe very word \u2018secrecy\u2019 is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.\u201d Kennedy, by his rhetoric and his actions did not support the nefarious schemes of those who covertly arrange all wars through their secret society associations and false flag operations. On June 28, 1961, Kennedy fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, former Wall Street lawyer and attempted to strip the CIA of all power with NSAM 55 and NSAM 57.11 Kennedy was also against Israel\u2019s development of a nuclear weapon. On October 9, 1997, the Washington Jewish Week reported, \u201cIsrael need not apologize for the assassination or destruction of those who seek to destroy it. The first order of business for any country is the protection of its people.\u201d12 That last sentence is a bit duplicitous and disingenuous, given the support and billions of dollars that the economically-stressed U.S. has given to Israel at the expense of our own economic security. Apparently our politicians have other loyalties. Almost 300 members of Congress signed a declaration reaffirming their commitment to \u201cthe unbreakable bond that exists\u201d between the U.S. and the State of Israel in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.13 George Washington warned us, \u201cAgainst the insidious wiles of foreign influence\u2026the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government\u2026Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side\u2026The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.\u201d14\nAllen Dulles would later participate on the Warren Commission which concealed the facts regarding John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination, a combined CIA/Mossad operation blamed on a lone gunman who was immediately killed. The astute allegations of Michael Collins Piper in Final Judgment: the Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy were verified in the Jerusalem Post on July 25, 2004 by Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician15 and shift manager at the Negev Nuclear Research Center from 1976 to 1985. He was troubled by Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons program and their war strategies. Probably because of his views and activism, he was laid off from Dimona in 1985 and soon left the country for Sydney, Australia where he converted to Christianity. In Australia, he revealed Israel\u2019s covert nuclear program to Peter Hounam of the British press. On October 5, 1986, a front-page story appeared in The Sunday Times, \u201cRevealed: the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal.\u201d Thereafter, Vanunu was drugged and kidnapped with the help of Israeli Mossad agent Cheryl Bentov who deceptively befriended him. He was taken to Israel, tried behind closed doors and sentenced on February 27, 1988. Vanunu spent eighteen years in prison, eleven of which were in solitary confinement. He was released on April 21, 2004.16 According to satellite images, by February 1991, during the Gulf War, Israel had fired six to eight rounds of low-yield, miniaturized nuclear weapons from the Negev desert on Baghdad, 600 miles away.17\nFollowing World War II, according to the Rhode Island Freemason Newsletter, \u201cLyman Lemnitzer was a military planner,\u201d as was his good friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower.18 During Kennedy\u2019s administration, Lemnitzer, a 33rd Degree Freemason and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and others proffered a document entitled Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba,19 dated March 13, 1962, which recommended a false flag attack against the U.S. with the blame to be put on Cuba, which would then justify a retaliatory strike against that country. Their plan, called Operation Northwoods, may have originated with President Eisenhower and might even involve the killing of American citizens, the hijacking of planes and false arrests.20 Per the document, \u201cWe could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.\u201d They could target a specific ethnic group who would be incorrectly vilified as terrorists.21 Or, Lemnitzer said, \u201cWe could blow up a U.S. ship in Guant\u00e1namo Bay and blame Cuba.\u201d Further, he suggested that they could create \u201ccasualty lists in U.S. newspapers\u201d to provoke \u201cnational indignation.\u201d22 They could paint a CIA plane to look like a commercial plane and then swap the real plane with a drone. Lemnitzer wasn\u2019t intending to free the Cuban people who supported Castro, but rather, \u201cForces would assure rapid essential military control of Cuba\u201d where \u201ccontinued police action would be required.\u201d The details of Operation Northwoods, under Operation Mongoose, were concealed for over forty years. Lemnitzer thought that all of the copies were destroyed.23\nKennedy absolutely opposed Operation Northwoods, planned to withdraw troops from Vietnam, was determined to prevent Israel from becoming a nuclear state per Kennedy\u2019s \u201charsh\u201d letter of July 5, 1963 to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol,24 and threatened to break up the CIA, an organization wholly devoted to protecting Wall Street interests. Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a public relations executive with CIA connections was in charge of planning Kennedy\u2019s Dallas motorcade route.25 On that fateful day in Dallas Kennedy, like the Lusitania, was deliberately sent into harm\u2019s way, security policies were altered and Kennedy\u2019s protective forces were inexplicably withdrawn and he was brutally assassinated on November 22, 1963, an event which essentially functioned as another political coup.26 Operation Northwoods, or other false-flag attacks perpetrated against America, could now be implemented as regular policy with the able assistance of the CIA, still intact.\nOn November 29, 1963, the newly installed President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Freemason,27 convened the Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known as the Warren Commission from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren. On September 24, 1964, the Commission presented its 888-page final report which claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Commission member, Gerald Ford, also a Freemason, according to declassified files, admitted that he persuaded the Commission to state that Kennedy\u2019s back wound was several inches higher than it really was. Ford and Arlen Specter, another commission member, promoted the implausible single bullet theory.28\nFord, perhaps as a reward, would be installed as Vice President on December 6, 1973 when Spiro Agnew was ousted over tax issues. Rockefeller agent, Henry Kissinger orchestrated Watergate, a media circus that got rid of Nixon and ultimately politically benefited Kissinger, Ford and Rockefeller.29 Attorney Hillary Rodham, along with Fred Thompson, Trent Lott, and Howard Baker,30 were on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate fiasco to help prepare articles of impeachment against Nixon. Rodham landed this job right out of law school, thanks to Ted Kennedy and Burke Marshall. Allegedly, her legal procedures were ethically flawed.3132 On August 9, 1974, Ford became president of the U.S. after Nixon\u2019s resignation. Ford, the unelected president, unconditionally pardoned Nixon and carried out the banker\u2019s agenda as every president has done since Johnson took office after Kennedy\u2019s assassination.\nThe USS Maddox was allegedly assaulted by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2, 1964, followed by an incident on August 4, 1964. There were no U.S. casualties in either incident. However, President Johnson obtained the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which was co-authored by brothers McGeorge and William P. Bundy (both members of Skull & Bones). William P. Bundy was the chief architect of the Vietnam War.33 At the request of CFR Chairman, David Rockefeller, William Bundy served as editor or the CFR magazine Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1984.34 Those who arrange all wars propelled the U.S. and her citizens into an expensive, bloody, devastating, lengthy war against a country that hadn\u2019t actually attacked us, a fact that was revealed by declassified documents in 2005. Author James Bamford states that Lemnitzer advocated nuclear war in Vietnam. In terms of lives, the war cost the lives of almost 60,000 U.S. citizens and four million Vietnamese and Cambodian (secret bombing) residents.\nThe U.S. has found it more expedient and less expensive to train and arm \u201clocal cannon fodder\u201d or \u201cindigenous ethnic or religious groups\u201d to slaughter each other. The U.S. did this in Vietnam. Green Berets trained the Montagnards, the people in the southern highlands. The CIA\u2019s Air America flew arms and other supplies into the remote Hmong villages and flew opium out \u2013 \u201cto supply American troops fighting in Vietnam\u201d and the vast international market.35\nFalse flags, including the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty with blame to be placed on Egypt, the first attack at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, 9/11 followed by two U.S. invasions \u2013 Afghanistan and Iraq, the anthrax scare (origin \u2013 Fort Detrick), the numerous threats and allegedly failed terrorist attacks \u2013 the Christmas bomber, the Times Square bomb incident perpetrated by accused bomber Faisal Shahzad, an alleged member of a British MI6 and the CIA-controlled terrorist organization who,36 apparently after extensive training from the Pakistani Taliban, created a dud bomb incapable of exploding. Consequently, Senators Joe Lieberman and Scott Brown, along with Representatives Jason Altmire and Charlie Dent want to pass legislation that would eliminate, without due process, the citizenship of anyone even suspected of affiliating with a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d with the exception of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).37 The Jewish Defense League (JDL), according to the FBI in 2001, is \u201ca right-wing terrorist group.\u201d Also, according to the FBI, the JDL has plotted numerous terrorist attacks within the U.S. The organization, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, is no longer categorized as a terrorist organization. So, apparently, U.S. citizens, some with duel citizenship, involved with either the IDF or the JDL will not have to forfeit their U.S. citizenship.\nAnother person who purportedly went off the deep end and perpetrated a massacre at Fort Hood, Texas on November 6, 2009 similar to Columbine (April 20, 1999). Other questionable catastrophes, not currently categorized as false flag events, still provide the exploitive circumstances for the imposition of tyrannical legislation and regulations. For as Rahm Emanuel said, \u201cYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.\u201d\nThese catastrophes include the US Airways Flight 1549 being ditched in the Hudson River adjacent Manhattan, New York City, on January 15, 2009. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with numerous other opposition party officials, died in a mysterious plane crash in Smolensk, Russia on April 10, 2010. This \u201caccident\u201d probably had more to do with Kaczynski\u2019s opposition to a $100 billion dollar contract with Russia\u2019s Gazprom Gas deal than with problematic weather. It would have made Poland 100% dependent on Russian gas for the next 28 years.38 See the remarkable digital enhancement of the amateur plane crash site footage.\nThere was the 9.0 earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean region on December 26, 2004 with the resultant tsunami which killed approximately a quarter of a million people. Americans and their European allies were immediately aware of this earthquake due to location of various seismic stations and satellites. The officials, including those at one of those bases, Diego Garcia failed to notify the predominantly Muslim countries in the path of tsunami.39 Diego Garcia, the U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, from which the U.S. stages bombing assaults in the Middle East, which was directly in the path of the tsunami experienced no apparent damage.40 Then there was the cataclysmic earthquake on just half of an island \u2013 oil-rich Haiti, followed by militarized aid. In other words, selective assistance to the survivors based on their obedience.\nRhetoric about the Times Square bomber has preempted the more devastating news about Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Limited, the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, and leased to BP, which caught fire on April 20, and exploded killing 11 people. It was insured for $560 million.41 This crisis resulted in the worst oil spill in history \u2013 5,000 barrels of oil spilling into the sea each day.42 The Rothschilds own a controlling share of the BP stock. BP, despite an egregious safety record, got an exemption and a cap on damages from the National Environmental Policy Act rules on April 6, 2009 and then lobbied to expand those exemptions just eleven days before the explosion.43 BP, according to a law passed after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill limits cleanup costs liability to no more than $75 million although legislation is being introduced to increase liability to $10 billion, retroactively.44 BP is also responsible for the biggest oil spill ever to occur on Alaska\u2019s North Slope.45 The Rothschilds, by lending money for Halliburton\u2019s clean-up operations will make profits. The failed cement casing had been installed by Halliburton and this is the second time within a year that a Halliburton casing has catastrophically failed on an oilrig.\nAs if Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast the end of August 2005, didn\u2019t do enough economic damage and forced relocation of residents in the gulf coast states, this oil spill only furthers the devastation. Louisiana\u2019s fishing industry, according to Business Week, has a retail value of $1.8 billion while others claim it is even higher. Louisiana supplies a third of the nation\u2019s oysters and a quarter of all its seafood. The industry employs some 90,000 people in Louisiana. Unfortunately, the \u201caccident\u201d coincides with the opening of the shrimp season, May 16. Mississippi and Alabama are also very dependent on the fishing industry.46\nOn April 30, 2010, the press reported that President Obama has reversed his decision to lift the moratorium on certain offshore drilling. No new oil drilling will be authorized until authorities discover the causes of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Deepwater received a safety award in 2009. Lindsey Williams claims that the Gulf incident was sabotage and states that the technology was too advanced for such explosions to occur.\nFormer Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, a globalist pawn for the Nature Conservancy, thought nothing of seizing land from Colorado ranchers in the purported interest of conservation; he was confirmed as Interior Secretary on January 20, 2009. Since April 2009, hundreds of farmers in the San Joaquin valley in Central California have been targeted by U.S. government domestic terrorists who turned off the water in the formerly fertile Fresno area which is about to be turned into a desert. This created forty percent unemployment in the valley. Farmers in the San Joaquin valley grow about 25 % of the Nation's food supply. These decisions caused hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses.\nOn May 2, 2010, U.S. Interior Secretary Salazar said, \u201cOur job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of BP.\u201d Interestingly, the Bureau of Land Management, under the direction of the Department of the Interior, conducted a surprise inspection on the oilrig two hours before it exploded.\nIn 1969, Dr. Richard Day, an admitted \u201cinsider\u201d delivered an invitation-only lecture about the \u201cnew world system\u201d in which he defined the changes, according to an actual timetable, that would be accomplished by the year 2000 which included the following:\nTravel restrictions will occur. It will be considered a privilege! People will need permission and a good reason to travel. An under-the-skin implantation device will be developed, coded specifically to identify each individual to accommodate government surveillance through radio signals.\nMore airplane and auto accidents will occur contributing to a general feeling of insecurity. This will also initiate more government regulations.\nManufacturing will be curtailed in order to give other countries a chance to build their industries in order to compete against the United States. Our heavy industries will be deliberately cut back while the same industries are developed in other countries, notably Japan.\nFood supplies will be centralized and come under tight control. If population growth doesn\u2019t slow down, food shortages can be orchestrated to scare or starve people into accepting the theory of overpopulation. Personal gardens and perhaps small farms will be eliminated.\nDr. Day said, \u201cWe can or soon will be able to control the weather\u2026\u201cI'm not merely referring to dropping iodide crystals into the clouds to precipitate rain that\u2019s already there, but REAL control.\" And weather will be used as a weapon of war, a weapon for influencing public policy or perhaps habitation patterns.\nTerrorism, once thought unnecessary in the United States, will be used by necessity if the United States does not move rapidly enough into accepting the new system.47\n^ Rebuilding America\u2019s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, p.51\n^ The Devil\u2019s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Dover Publications, 1958, p. 101\n^ Tragedy and Hope: a History of the world in Our Time by Carroll Quigley, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966, pp. 250-251\n^ Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography by Eugene L. Rasor, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 74-75\n^ The Money Manipulators by June Grem, Enterprise Publications, Inc. Oak Park, Illinois, 1971, pp. 109-110\n^ The Chief Culprit: Stalin\u2019s Grand Design to Start World War II by Viktor Suvorov, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2008, p. 2\n^ Wake-Up America - It's Later Than You Think! by Robert Preston, Hawkes Publishing, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1979, p. 16\n^ Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Random House, New York, 2007, pp. 62, 186; Sir Evelyn de Rothschild gave Montefiore access to the Rothschild archives in Britain and France where Melanie Asprey investigated the Stalin connections to the Rothschilds p. 383\n^ Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Random House, New York, 2007, p. 197\n^ Barbarians Inside the Gates: the Black Book of Bolshevism, Book 1: The Serpent\u2019s Sting by Donn de Grand Pr\u00e9, GSG & Associates, San Pedro, California, 2000, p. 60\n^ The Secret Team: the CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World by L. Fletcher Prouty Col., U.S. Air Force, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2008, pp. 482-483\n^ Final Judgment: the Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy by Michael Collins Piper, American Free Press, Washington, DC, 2005, introduction\n^ Nearly 300 Congress Members Declare Commitment to 'Unbreakable' U.S.-Israel Bond\n^ Washington's Farewell Address 1796\n^ Israeli nuclear spy released by Walt Rodgers and Paula Hancocks, CNN\n^ The 9/11 Whistle-Blowers - Col. Donn de Grand-Pre, U.S. Army (ret.), Transcript: Alex Jones Interviews Col. Donn de Grand-Pre, U.S. Army (ret.): Explosive New 9/11, Revelations and Explanations, p. 3\n^ Rhode Island Freemason Newsletter, Grand Lodge of Rhode Island Established 1791, Volume Thirty-two, Issue Six, November/December 2007, p. 13\n^ Northwoods Documents, March 13, 1962, 15 pp. See also: Northwoods Pentagon Files\n^ Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of the New Century by James Bamford, Doubleday, New York, 2001, pp. 82, 85\n^ Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Invasion of Cuba\n^ Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of the New Century by James Bamford, Doubleday, New York, 2001, p. 84\n^ Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of the New Century by James Bamford, Doubleday, New York, 2001, pp. 86-87, 88\n^ Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, p. 156\n^ Feminist Gloria Steinem of the CIA, Portland Independent Media Center\n^ JFK: the CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty, Carol Publishing Group, New York, 1992, pp. 314-315\n^ Codex Magica: Secret Signs, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati by Texe Marrs, River Crest Publishing Austin, Texas, 2006, p. 150\n^ Gerald Ford - Warren Commission Kennedy Assassination Cover-up\n^ George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, Chapter 7\n^ Watergate Survivors by Jeanne Meserve, June 12, 1997\n^ Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon by Jerry Zeifman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995, Chapter 1\n^ Hillary Rodham's 1974 Watergate \u201cProcedures were Ethically Flawed,\u201d by Jerry Zeifman, August 16. 1999\n^ William Bundy, NNDB: Tracking the Entire World\n^ History of the CFR, Consensus Endangered\n^ The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson, The American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004, pp. 131-134\n^ Times Square Bomber Linked With CIA-Controlled Terror Group by Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com, Thursday, May 6, 2010\n^ Is Faisal Shahzad Crazy? If so, he's far from alone by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar.com, May 7, 2010\n^ Was the Polish President killed over landmark gas deal? by Jane Burgermeister\n^ Foreknowledge of A Natural Disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean by Michel Chossudovsky, December 29, 2004\n^ Bush\u2019s response to South Asia disaster: indifference compounded by political incompetence By Patrick Martin, 30 December 30, 2004\n^ Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Creates Environmental and Political Dilemmas by Steven Mufson, Washington Post, April 27, 2010\n^ The Potential Economic Impact of the Louisiana Oil Spillage by Jennifer Young, May 3, 2010\n^ U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico Drilling From Environmental Impact Study by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, May 5, 2010\n^ Oil Spill Concerns Turn to Compensation by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, May 4, 2010\n^ BP's trail of Accidents, Scandals Stretches to Alaska by Craig Welch, Seattle Times, May 6, 2010\n^ New Order of Barbarians - Transcript of Tapes I-III\nDeanna Spingola has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center. She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution. Deanna's Web Site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 35521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contractor2020.com/blog/profitable-growth-when-strategic-say-new-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:07Z", "digest": "sha1:2IOH4YGZ5GHZ3EAPQ4NFDI3PEPAKVVPN", "length": 2019, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.contractor2020.com", "title": "Profitable Growth \u2013 When Is It Strategic to Say No to New Business? | Contractor 20/20", "raw_content": "Profitable Growth \u2013 When Is It Strategic to Say No to New Business?\nSaying \u201cno\u201d to new business \u2013 i.e. customers \u2013 sounds like an insane idea. New business means further growth, which means higher profits. Growth typically equals risky but lucrative choices, which are attractive to many new businesses. At some point thought, you need to sit back and decline new customers. But, it\u2019s not as negative as it may seem.\nIt makes sense to decline new business when your focus is turned towards customer retention. Why? Because at some point, your workload will likely grow to encompass all your time. It doesn\u2019t make sense to overload your team with new clients. Instead, try to keep the customers you have \u2013 entice them to return for new services or products.\nAccording to research, a 2% increase in customer retention has the same effect as decreasing your costs by 10%. It\u2019s a smart investment.\nFurthermore, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Small Business Administration:\nThe average company loses 50% of its customer base every five years\nBusinesses are 4x more likely to do business with a returning customer than a new one\nThe chance of selling to an existing customer sits at 60\u201370%, while it\u2019s just 5\u201320% for a new client\nSeeking out new business always presents a risk to your company. You must entice new customers to schedule your services instead of the competition. That means marketing, which costs money. However, there\u2019s a chance the marketing campaign won\u2019t work. Then your efforts have been for naught \u2013 and that is lost time and income.\nIn the banking industry, for example, professionals focus on containing excessive risk-taking. They consider a proactive approach, which includes smart risk-taking, profit sustainability, and diversifying business models. In other words, focusing on your internal structure.\nFor smart marketing solutions for your local business, contact Contractor 20/20 by calling (607) 770-8933. We have marketing plans designed to fit your ever-growing business!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 6124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contractor2020.com/hvac-newsletter-articles/refrigerant-shortage-looms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:54Z", "digest": "sha1:H67DRLMICI2RJGSPSF5H4SOOKGVI2PVU", "length": 4199, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.contractor2020.com", "title": "Refrigerant Shortage Looms - Contractor 20/20", "raw_content": "According to chemical manufacturer DuPont, the main refrigerant used in residential air conditioning systems may be in short supply as soon as 2010. The recent Montreal Protocol changes and an updated look at supply-demand scenarios reveal that supplies in 2010 may be much tighter than originally anticipated, including the possibility that virgin R-22 supplies may be short; therefore, it is apparent that the industry must dramatically increase recovery of HCFCs in order to compensate for the shortfall expected as early as 2010, claims Kevin P. O\u2019Shea, the North American marketing manager for DuPont Refrigerants.\nIt\u2019s All About The Ozone\nThe Montreal Protocol that O\u2019Shea references is an international treaty enacted in 1987 and amended several times afterwards. It specifies the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are ozone depleting refrigerants. In 1996, the Montreal Protocol was amended to include hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are less damaging to the ozone, but still contain chlorine. R-22, the main refrigerant used in residential air conditioning systems, is an HCFC. After 2009, residential air conditioning manufacturers will only be able to use pre-existing supplies of R-22 in new equipment. Manufacturers will still be able to produce R-22 for servicing existing systems, but the production quantities will be dramatically reduced. After next year, the production will be limited to 25% of the 1996 production levels. It was projected that the existing stock of R-22, combined with limited production would be sufficient for servicing existing systems. This assumed that contractors were diligent about recovering, reclaiming, and recycling refrigerant. In years past, R-22 was so inexpensive, that technicians simply vented it to the atmosphere when servicing equipment and replaced it with new refrigerant. Not only is that expensive today, it\u2019s illegal. There are steep fines for venting R-22. Yet, some contractors must be venting because the stock of recycled R-22 is below projections. For the record, YOUR COMPANY technicians always recover and reclaim refrigerant. It\u2019s irresponsible to do otherwise.\nHow A Shortage Impacts You\nThe looming shortage does not mean we will run out of refrigerant in the near term. It means that prices will increase until demand balances supply. In other words, R-22 will still be available, but it will be expensive. This won\u2019t affect you unless your air conditioner leaks. It shouldn\u2019t. Air conditioning systems are closed loop systems. Absent leaks, they will not require additional refrigerant. You should not need to \u201cfill up\u201d the air conditioner with refrigerant every year.\nAir conditioners are mechanical systems. To operate efficiently, they require maintenance. The same maintenance will also reduce the possibility that your air conditioner will develop a refrigerant leak. If you have not had your air conditioner tuned-up this year, schedule it right away. You will save more on utilities from a well-running air conditioner than you will spend on the tune-up. Even well-maintained systems can develop leaks from time to time. These should be fixed immediately. Refrigerant leaks will not only hurt the ozone layer, they will hurt your wallet. If the leak cannot be fixed, the air conditioner should be replaced with one of the new models that uses an alternative refrigerant.\nThe air conditioning industry has settled on R-410a as a replacement for R-22. It\u2019s a good refrigerant, but is incompatible with R-22. We cannot simply substitute it for R-22. The entire system must be replaced. The new R-410a air conditioners operate under higher pressures, which means special training is required to install and service them (all of our technicians have received this training). You might be surprised how efficient these air conditioners are. If your air conditioning system is more than 15 years old, it\u2019s possible that we can cut your cooling costs in half with one of these new systems. Call us at YourNumber and we\u2019ll prepare a complimentary analysis showing how much you can save. 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Our services are affordable and we always make a point to work within our client\u2019s budget.\nSince our inception, we have dedicated all our efforts to providing high-quality services in all our construction and remodeling projects. We are full service licensed contractors with vast experience in working with individuals and companies both in the public and the private sector.\nWe have a broad range of skills between us and we consider it our duty to execute construction projects efficiently and effectively. Working with us guarantees that the job will be done according to your needs and specifications. We consider our job complete when our clients express their complete satisfaction with the work done.\nWe serve Eugene, Oregon, and all of the surrounding area, including Springfield, Junction City, Creswell, Veneta.\nWhen it comes to working with homeowners, we provide a variety of services which include:\nDo you have a dream house on your mind or a floor plan of the house you want? We will work with you in designing it while taking into account all the small details as they play a vital role when it comes to bringing out the bigger picture. Our experienced team will work hand in hand with you and make you realize your dreams while still adhering to your budget.\nIf you want extra space in your home, additions would be a great option. Depending on your needs, we will sit down with you and give you several options to choose from so that you can select the one that works best for you. Some of the options we offer include:\nFirst-floor room addition by increasing your house\u2019s footprint if you have extra yard space.\nConstructing a bump out of your house. This involves expanding a room in your house to make extra space.\nSecond-floor addition. Although this is usually a more complex and less cheap option, you get to have space double the size of your house.\nWe also convert rooms in the house like attics, basements, and garages.\nBuild a deck or a patio to make better use of your outdoor space.\nDo you feel insecure when you bring over friends or family to your old, outdated house? There\u2019s a solution. Revamping your home can help bring out the beauty of your home leaving you feeling proud. All you have to do is let us know which rooms you would like to remodel and we will come up with a plan that allows the design to flow from one room to the next. We do all types of remodeling like bathroom remodeling, kitchen remodeling, bedrooms, living room, basements, attics, as well as whole house remodeling. The end result will definitely be a home that you are proud of.\nInstalling new windows is an excellent way to make your home more attractive, a lot more quiet, and energy-efficient. They are also easy to clean and maintain. We provide our clients with a variety of shapes, materials, and styles to choose from.\nIssues with your siding or roof may call for either repair or replacement. We will help you decide on the best way forward for your home. Making precise and effective changes will greatly contribute to the overall appearance of your home. We\u2019ll make sure that only the best materials are used for a high-quality job that keeps your house secure for years.\nRoles We Play in Construction Projects\nWe always have the client\u2019s best interest at heart and thus, we conduct a thorough evaluation when it comes to project cost, performance, schedule, and changes that may or have occurred. We are responsible for providing advice to the client, ensuring the security of the property, and providing utilities on site. We deal with new constructions, remodeling, and additions to make you realize your dreams.\nOver the years, we have learned that effective teamwork and solid relationships help facilitate the success of a project and are crucial to avoiding adversarial situations. This, in turn, ensures that the construction project adheres to the highest standards possible.\nDesign-build Contractor\nEarly involvement in the project is essential as it paves way for accurate estimates of the project cost and allows for room for suggestions on how to best to achieve the project demands. Proper planning permits us to make critical engineering reviews, create accurate phasing plans, and make overall selections that will keep the team on the right track thus avoiding unexpected surprises down the road.\nDesign-build allows for a single point of responsibility which is convenient for the client as it minimizes the risk involved in construction projects. This is advantageous as it:\nSaves costs of hiring separate teams for the same project\nEnsures fast delivery as the whole team is in sync\nAdministrative burden is reduced as the client can solely focus on the project rather than a contrast between two teams working on the project.\nBefore the project commences, there is a need to interrelate the project design and the actual construction itself. We create a partnership between us, you the client, and our subcontractors to create a collaborative team atmosphere. With this, we easily achieve the project expectations.\nIn the pre-construction phase, we sit down with the client and let them know what is required to make the project functional and financially viable. This helps in resolving any potential problems that are likely to come up. What we do:\nDo the preliminary planning\nMake project estimates\nDevelopment and management of a budget\nSeeking building permits\nSetting up a project team i.e. field engineer, project manager\nWe are constantly on site getting our hands dirty to ensure everything is done perfectly and according to the client\u2019s needs. We dedicate ourselves to guaranteeing proper construction management from the planning phase to its completion.\nWe are bent on creating strong relationships with our clients and subcontractors. Trust and respect are fundamental in attaining project success.\nWe have a proven track record when it comes to delivering quality work at an affordable price. We take into account each client\u2019s budget and try to come up with the best way to stick to it throughout the project.\nWe face challenges head-on. Finding solutions and coming up with creative ideas is our main path to the road to success.\nSuccess is our driving force. We aspire to do the very best in every project we undertake.\nWorking in the construction business has enabled us to nurture good relations with subcontractors, manufacturers, designers, and fabricators which leads to easy management and reduction of costs.\nIf you are looking for general contractors in Eugene, OR, Springfield, OR, or in the nearby areas and towns, get in touch with us and let us know how we can help. We\u2019ll be happy to provide you with an estimate!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 7430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cooladata.com/querybank/category/funnel_analysis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UGHJTEHOWLAIBQHTW2HWV3TAKZ7NVZ63", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cooladata.com", "title": "Analytics Funnel Analysis", "raw_content": "How can I find users who have completed a certain sequence of actions on my site?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 8021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corlissgroup.com/privacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IPCMRMEFC6FRWN54VZGFLSPFKSDKA6AW", "length": 1135, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.corlissgroup.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - The Corliss Group - Deluxe Tours & Cruises", "raw_content": "The Corliss Group understands the privacy concerns of today s Internet users. We are committed to protecting your privacy online and offline. We hope that the following explanation of our privacy policy alleviates any possible concerns.\nThe Corliss Group will not intentionally sell or disclose any personal information about you or your travel plans to any other persons, organizations, or companies known to collect such information expressly for the purposes of delivering unsolicited email or illicit materials. Your personal information may be divulged when required by law or when protecting the legal rights and/or property of The Corliss Group.\nThe Corliss Group does use cookies for functional purposes. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of some websites if you do so. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major websites use them to provide better service to their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corporate-cases.com/2016/12/committee-on-digital-payments-submits-its-final-report.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DGWALLDKOHVEGDZCQJEULOVH5VSBBEVV", "length": 4919, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.corporate-cases.com", "title": "Committee on Digital Payments submits Final Report to Union Finance Minister", "raw_content": "Committee on Digital Payments submits Final Report to Union Finance Minister\nCommittee on Digital Payments headed by Shri. Ratan P Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog and former Finance Secretary submits its Final Report to the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley yesterday(9th Dec 2016)\nThe Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs under the Chairmanship of Shri. Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog and former Finance Secretary to the Government of India today submitted its Final Report to the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in his office in national capital.\nIn its Report, the Committee has recommended that a medium term strategy for accelerating growth of Digital Payments in India with a regulatory regime which is conducive to bridging the Digital divide by promoting competition, open access & interoperability in payments. The Report recommends inclusion of financially and socially excluded groups and assimilation of emerging technologies in the market, while safeguarding security of Digital Transactions and providing level playing to all stakeholders and new players who will enter this new transaction space.\nIt has suggested inter-operability of the payments system between banks and non-banks, up-gradation of the digital payment infrastructure and institutions and a framework to reward innovations and for leading efforts in enabling digital payments.\nThis Committee was seized of the developments following the decision of the Government to cancel legal tender character of currency of high denominations. The Committee has calibrated its recommendations accordingly and has provided a suitable framework for smooth and speedy transition towards a Digital Payments Economy.\nThe Committee had earlier submitted an Interim Report to Ministry of Finance on 21st November 2016.\nTowards finalization of the Report, the Committee engaged extensively with all stakeholders and technology groups including Reserve Bank of India, State Governments, Comptroller Auditor General of India, Payment companies, Technology Companies and the Academia.\nEarlier, the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs had constituted a Committee on Digital Payments to review the payment systems in the country and to recommend appropriate measures for encouraging Digital Payments. The Committee was constituted on 23rd August 2016 under the Chairmanship of Shri. Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog and former Finance Secretary to the Government of India.\nThe terms of reference and composition of this Committee were as follows:\nTo study and recommend need for charges, if any, in the regulatory mechanism and any legislation, relevant for the purpose of promotion of payments by digital modes\nTo study and recommend ways for leveraging Unique Identification Number or any other proof of identity for authentication of card/digital transactions and setting up of a Centralised KYC Registry;\nTo study introduction of single window system of Payment Gateway to accept all types of Cards/ Digital Payments of Government receipts;\nTo study feasibility and framing rules for creating a payments history of all Digital Payments and create necessary linkage between payments transaction history and credit information;\nTo study and recommend various measures to incentivize transactions through cards and digital means.\nTo study global best practices in payments including initiatives taken by various Governments/ Government Agencies\nTo identify market failure (s), if any, along with suitable interventions that may be implemented to promote payment by card/digital means\nTo identify regulatory bottlenecks, if any, and suggest changes to promote payment by card/ digital means\nTo study and make recommendations on any other matter related to promotion of payments through Cards and Digital Means\nMembers of this Committee were: Shri H. R. Khan, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India; Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management; President, NASSCOM; Chairman, Indian Banks Association; Chairman, Payments Council of India; President. Internet and Mobile Association of India; Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes; Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India; Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India; and Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. The Committee was also supported by Shri. B.N. Satpathy, Consultant, Ms. Deepika Srivastava, OSD and Shri. Suneet Mohan, Young Professional from NITI Aayog.\nThe National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) programme team headed by Shri. Ashish Aggarwal acted as the secretariat for this Committee. The team also included Shri. Pratik Datta, Shri. Aditya Kumar Rajput & Shri. Indrajeet Sarkar.\nSource: PIB, Ministry of Finance Dt. 09-December-2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corrientelatina.com/movies-entertainment/furious-7-to-sponsor-chicagoland-speedway-xfinity-series-race/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GOLVNUD5GZQTYFE536LKYGDWB4KQ6K5R", "length": 5116, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.corrientelatina.com", "title": "FURIOUS 7 To Sponsor Chicagoland Speedway Xfinity Series Race! | CorrienteLatina", "raw_content": "New Trailer & Movie Poster \u2013 VENOM\nFURIOUS 7 To Sponsor Chicagoland Speedway Xfinity Series Race!\nLee Romero | Posted on July 16, 2015\nCommunity & Politics Movies & Entertainment\n\"FURIOUS 7 To Sponsor Chicagoland Speedway Xfinity Series Race!\"\nChicagoland Speedway today announced Furious 7, the $1.5 billion worldwide box- office blockbuster and most successful installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, as the title sponsor for its NASCAR XFINITY Series race on Saturday, Sept. 19. The Furious 7 300 will feature cast member Chris \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ludacris\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bridges in the pace car and leading the field to the green flag as NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stars of tomorrow set the stage for the first race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.\nFurious 7 will be released on Digital HD on August 25 and Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on September 15 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) as an all-new extended edition. The film has become the highest-grossing movie in the history of the franchise.\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As we saw first-hand with our ground breaking Fast Five partnership back in 2011, UPHE understands the thrills that come along with great racing and the power that can be harnessed through NASCAR Nation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Scott Paddock, President of Chicagoland Speedway. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking forward to giving Furious 7 and its home entertainment release the national platform that a Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend can uniquely deliver.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Chicagoland Speedway for this prestigious NASCAR tradition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added John Morici, Managing Director, US & Canada, UPHE. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What better way to celebrate this global blockbuster home entertainment release than to be part of an American institution synonymous with speed, cars, and family. This event is sure to be an unforgettable, adrenaline-fueled experience for racing fans.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\nIn Furious 7, the entire Fast & Furious crew reunites in purpose for an epic international adventure, hunted by a vengeful assassin from Abu Dhabi to London to Tokyo and the Dominican Republic as they try to retrieve a highly advanced piece of espionage technology and rescue the gifted hacker who created it. Furious 7 stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ludacris\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Nathalie Emmanuel with Kurt Russell and Jason Statham.\nThe Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, Sept. 18-20, will begin with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race under the lights on Friday night. On Saturday, Sept. 19, the NASCAR XFINITY Series will hit the track as the precursor to Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series showdown, the first race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. In addition to the racing action, fans can enjoy live musical entertainment, Champions Park, tailgating and more. Tickets start at just $25 with kids tickets (12 and under) $25 OFF, and parking is always free at Chicagoland Speedway.\nTickets can be purchased online at ChicagolandSpeedway.com, by calling 888-629-RACE, through the Chicagoland Speedway mobile app, or by visiting the Chicagoland Speedway Administrative office Monday-Friday 8:30am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5:00pm.\nThe complete 2015 NASCAR schedule at Chicagoland Speedway is as follows:\nChase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup\nFriday, Sept. 18 I-Cash Pole Qualifying and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\nSaturday, Sept. 19 Furious 7 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series Race\nSunday, Sept. 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series\nFor more information on Chicagoland Speedway, stay connected on Twitter and Facebook or by visiting ChicagolandSpeedway.com.\nChicagoland Speedway is a 1.5-mile, paved oval race track located in Joliet, Ill. The track has hosted racing events of the major U.S. racing series, and currently conducts races in all three NASCAR national series, including the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the NASCAR XFINITY Series, and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Along with Route 66 Raceway, a multimillion-dollar complex that includes a \u00c2\u00bc mile stadium-style drag strip and a \u00c2\u00bd mile dirt oval track, Chicagoland Speedway is wholly-owned by International Speedway Corporation (ISC), a major promoter of motorsports activities. ISC owns and/or operates 13 of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major racing venues, including Daytona International Speedway. For more information on Chicagoland Speedway, visit ChicagolandSpeedway.com.\nUniversal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) is a unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is a part of NBCUniversal, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cosociety.org/benefits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SEFIZRCQLBXQ2R7SEXOFQQGVD2MPROBA", "length": 2862, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.cosociety.org", "title": "Benefits", "raw_content": "Benefits of COS Membership\n24 CMEs through the Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances\nThe quarterly Journal serves as the premier forum for the exchange of information and the presentation of new techniques and procedures, as well as updates about the ongoing educational activities of interest to all practicing orthopaedists. Each issue includes a test worth 6 Continuing Medical Education credits, for a total of 24 CMEs each year.\nFree 10 SAE CME Self-Assessment Exam\nEach year, members can earn 10 CMEs toward their Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Self Assessment requirements with a Self Assessment Exam (SAE). The SAE is designed to help orthopaedists assess their knowledge in comparison with other orthopaedic surgeons, no matter how many years in practice or level of specialization. The results of the SAE should direct orthopaedic surgeons toward areas of study that will lead to professional improvement. To receive 10 SAE CME credits, you must take and submit the scored & recorded exam. After completing the exam online, you will receive feedback, the correct answers, commentary and references, as well as acknowledgement by email that you have completed the exam and your certificate.\nSelf-Assessment Exam Order Information\nAs a member of COS, you are invited to share in a wealth of information at the Annual Scientific Meeting. A preeminent panel of experts in the field presents relevant case studies and innovative techniques in clinical orthopaedics. Patient presentations are a part of the uniqueness of the program.\nCOS E-Newsletter\nCOS E-NEWS reports the activities of the society and its members.\nThis convenient members-only online guide provides contact information for current COS members.\nResident\u2019s Paper Competition\nThe Residents\u2019 Paper Competition was created to not only further the educational support goals of the association, but also to offer an introduction platform for the next generation of clinical orthopaedic experts.\nThe COS Official Website, established in 1998, grows and evolves monthly as member needs demand. Providing yet another communication connection for COS membership, the COS website is a great promotional tool for upcoming COS events, news and exchange. Members have access to the Society\u2019s password protected area to find colleagues in the member directory and view employment opportunities.\nDr. and Mrs. J. Elmer Nix Endowment Fund\nThe COS Ethics Award, the Dr. and Mrs. J. 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Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2017/07/07/donut-bank-have-50th-anniversary-celebration-july-18/103480144/\nJohn Martin, Courier & Press Published 10:28 a.m. CT July 7, 2017 | Updated 12:55 a.m. CT Feb. 9, 2018\nAn early look at the first Donut Bank in Evansville.(Photo11: Donut Bank)\nDonut Bank will celebrate its 50th anniversary on July 18 with specials at its six locations in Evansville, along with its locations in Newburgh and Princeton, Indiana, and Henderson, Kentucky.\nAssorted donuts and coffee will be 50 cents all day, and each customer will get a coupon for one free donut, good through 2018. Other special pricing, coupons and giveaways will be available at all nine locations,\nOther events will take place at Donut Bank\u2019s Diamond Avenue location and will include the Evansville Police Department Coffee with a Cop from 7-9 a.m., a proclamation from Mayor Lloyd Winnecke at 10 a.m. and a Southwest Indiana Chamber ribbon cutting.\nDonut Bank\u2019s first location opened on July 18, 1967, just south of the current address.\nDonut Bank advertising from years ago. (Photo11: Donut Bank)\nRead or Share this story: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2017/07/07/donut-bank-have-50th-anniversary-celebration-july-18/103480144/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/010329", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:39Z", "digest": "sha1:F5UIKLOVDJ4YOGVMA7QTRGDVE44F42ZX", "length": 4395, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "F-35C Completes First Arrested Landing aboard Aircraft Carrier | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "F-35C Completes First Arrested Landing aboard Aircraft Carrier\nFrom Naval Air Forces Public Affairs\nAn F-35C Lightening II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducts its first arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). (U.S. Navy/MC3 Kelly M. Agee)\nSAN DIEGO - The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego.\nNavy test pilot Cmdr. Tony Wilson landed F-35C test aircraft CF-03 at 12:18 p.m. aboard USS Nimitz's (CVN 68) flight deck.\nThe arrested landing is part of initial at-sea Developmental Testing I (DT-I) for the F-35C, which commenced Nov. 3 and is expected to last two weeks.\n\"Today is a landmark event in the development of the F-35C,\" said Wilson, a Navy test pilot with Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23. \"It is the culmination of many years of hard work by a talented team of thousands. I'm very excited to see America's newest aircraft on the flight deck of her oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz.\"\nCommander, Naval Air Forces, Vice Adm. David H. Buss, was aboard Nimitz to witness the milestone event.\n\"What a historic day today is for Naval Aviation. With the first traps and catapult launches of the F-35C Lightning II aboard an aircraft carrier, we begin the integration of the next generation of warfighting capability into our carrier-based air wings,\" said Buss. \"This important milestone is yet another indicator of Naval Aviation's ongoing evolution to meet future threats and remain central to our future Navy and National Defense Strategy.\"\nDT-I is the first of three at-sea test phases planned for the F-35C. During DT-I, the test team from the F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) has scheduled two F-35C test aircraft from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Patuxent River, Maryland to perform a variety of operational maneuvers, including various catapult takeoffs and arrested landings. ITF flight test operations also encompass general maintenance and fit tests for the aircraft and support equipment, as well as simulated maintenance operations.\nAs with the initial testing of any new aircraft, the goal is to collect environmental data through added instrumentation to measure the F-35C's integration to flight deck operations and to further define the F-35C's operating parameters aboard the aircraft carrier.\nThe ITF test team will analyze data obtained during flight test operations, conduct a thorough assessment of how well the F-35C operated in the shipboard environment, and advise the Navy to make any adjustments necessary to ensure that the fifth-generation fighter is fully capable and ready to deploy to the fleet in 2018.\n\"Our F-35 integrated test team has done an amazing job preparing for today. This will be one landing out of thousands more that will happen over the next few decades,\" said Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, F-35 Program Executive Officer. \"For months, we've been working with the Nimitz crew, Naval Air Forces, and our industry partners, Lockheed Martin and Pratt and Whitney, as well as their suppliers, to prepare and train for this event. We plan on learning a lot during this developmental test and will use that knowledge to make the naval variant of the F-35 an even more effective weapons platform.\"\nThe F-35C combines advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fused targeting, cutting-edge avionics, advanced jamming, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment. With a broad wingspan, reinforced landing gear, ruggedized structures and durable coatings, the F-35C is designed to stand up to harsh shipboard conditions while delivering a lethal combination of fighter capabilities to the fleet.\nBy 2025, the Navy's aircraft carrier-based air wings will consist of a mix of F-35C, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers electronic attack aircraft, E-2D Hawkeye battle management and control aircraft, MH-60R/S helicopters and Carrier Onboard Delivery logistics aircraft.\nThe successful recovery of the F-35C represents a step forward in the development of the Navy's next generation fighter and reinforces Navy-industry partnership goals to deliver the operational aircraft to the fleet in 2018.\nAdm. Harris Awarded Korean Tong-il National Defense Medal\nCooks from the Valley Bring Taste of Home to Pacific Sailors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/030129", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FDWNI3PHHNEKTYAWJR37FIVFN5WNYXD3", "length": 1492, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "USS Albuquerque visits Yokosuka during 7th Fleet Deployment | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "USS Albuquerque visits Yokosuka during 7th Fleet Deployment\nBy Lt. Cmdr. Lara Bollinger, Submarine Group 7 Public Affairs\nUSS Albuquerque (SSN 706) sits moored at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Feb. 13. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David Mercil)\nYOKOSUKA, Japan - The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Albuquerque (SSN 706) arrived at Fleet Activites Yokosuka, Feb. 13 for a visit as part of its deployment to the Western Pacific.\nWith a crew of approximately 140 Sailors, Albuquerque conducts a multitude of missions during the deployment in order to develop the crew's proficiency in forward-deployed operations and to enhance theater security cooperation.\n\"Our presence in the region signifies the continued strong relationship between the United States and Japan,\" said Cmdr. Chris Cavanaugh, Albuquerque's commanding officer. \"The crew is excited to experience the rich culture Japan has to offer.\"\nMeasuring more than 360 feet long and weighing more than 6,900 tons when submerged, Albuquerque is one of the most technologically advanced submarines in the world. The ship is capable of supporting a multitude of missions including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, precision strike, intelligence collection, and mine reconnaissance.\nAlbuquerque is the second United States warship to be named after the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This submarine is home ported in San Diego, Ca.\nHawaii to Welcome New Homeported Ship USS Halsey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 202.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/110517", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4HUIWU3WQTNHKZ2PZQNPQBURZTMXSM67", "length": 3351, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "USS Portland arrives in Pearl Harbor ahead of RIMPAC | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "USS Portland arrives in Pearl Harbor ahead of RIMPAC\nBy MC2 Britney Odom, USS Portland\nUSS Portland (LPD 27) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 29. (U.S. Navy/MC1 Corwin M. Colbert)\nPEARL HARBOR - The amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) arrived in Pearl Harbor, May 29, to conduct Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trials and prepare for a unique role in exercise Rim of the Pacific.\nThe ship departed San Diego May 21 and began her transit to Hawaii.\nThe ship's crew has engaged in various training exercises within the past couple of weeks to ensure the ship's weapon systems are properly installed, function correctly, and can be operated safely.\nPortland performed her first underway replenishment (UNREP), employing the Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method, May 22. Steaming approximately 200 feet alongside the lead ship of her class, Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187), Portland received more than 175,000 gallons of marine diesel fuel and JP-5 jet fuel from the oiler.\n\"UNREP was well executed by the crew,\" said Lt. David Youker, Portland's operations officer. \"We were able to assess material condition and watchstander readiness, while increasing our operational capability.\"\nIn addition to the UNREP, Portland performed deck landing qualifications with three MV-22B Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadrons 163, 165 and 363, as well as one CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465. These flight operations marked a few firsts for Portland-it was the ship's first night landing operation with an Osprey and the ship's first time conducting flight operations with a CH-53. This is the largest number of aircraft in the ship's airspace to date.\nFor the first time since RIMPAC 2002, U.S. 3rd Fleet's Command Center will relocate from San Diego to Pearl Harbor to support command and control of all 3rd Fleet forces in 3rd Fleet's area of responsibility to include forces operating in the Western Pacific. The Fleet Command Center will be established at a Deployable Joint Command and Control on Hospital Point in Hawaii for the first part of the exercise and then transition to Portland for the remainder of the exercise.\n\"It will be a unique experience for the crew to be a part of the relocation of 3rd Fleet's command center,\" said Capt. J. R. Hill, Portland's commanding officer. \"This is something that has not happened in a while and USS Portland is proud to be able support the mission.\"\nDuring Portland's time in Hawaii, the ship will host Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet, Vice Adm. John D. Alexander and his staff, participate in community service projects, experience Hawaiian culture and make preparations for the underway training events.\nU.S. 3rd Fleet provides the realistic, relevant training necessary for an effective global Navy and leads naval forces throughout the Pacific theater of operations in coordination with U.S. 7th Fleet to promote ongoing peace, security and stability.\nPortland is the 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. While it is the third ship to bear the name 'USS Portland,' it is the first ship to be named solely after the largest city in Oregon.\nRonald Reagan Strike Group begins regional patrol\nIndian, Japanese, U.S. maritime forces to participate in exercise Malabar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cram.com/essay/The-Fight-For-Education-Equality/FKLHHLC55W", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3D4AXHUYOVPRHFFKAELNSJJ3VXUD2MO2", "length": 6449, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.cram.com", "title": "The Fight For Education Equality - 1167 Words | Cram", "raw_content": "The Fight For Education Equality\nThe Fight For Education Equality Essay\nI have never worried about whether or not I would go to school and receive an education. My parents always made enough money throughout the years to send me to school. Even when my mom got fired from her job in 2008, the first thing my parents assured me was that I would not have to leave my private school. Also, I never worried if my gender would restrict me from attending school. I received an all girls\u2019 education, so I grew up believing that all girls were as fortunate as I was. It was not until middle school that I learned about how girls in third world countries were not as fortunate as I was. Today in sub-Saharan Africa, there are approximately eighty-three girls enrolled in school to every one hundred boys enrolled in school. The fight for education equality in Africa is brutal, complex, and severe. However, non-governmental organizations have been and continue to be extremely powerful and effective in their work when it comes to education equality in Africa. Unlike international-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations are able to go into villages in third world countries and see first-hand how living conditions and laws positively or negatively affect the population. In fact, international-governmental organizations such as the United Nations are in frequent contact with non-governmental organizations so they can obtain certain information and statistic that they would usually look over. One non-governmental organization that is featured in the\u2026\nEssay We Fight For Equality And Justice\nWe fight for equality and justice every day. We try to find ways to better our country. In reality, why fight if everyone does not have the same opportunities as others? We live in a world where wealth matters and not every man can be wealthy. Evidently, we must find compromise and that can be educational equality. Educational equality will solve rising economic inequality and family breakdown within our society by helping people find motivation, possibly solving unfound cures or economic issues\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Equality By Kill A Mockingbird\nEssay Civil Rights And The Fight For Equality\nCurrently, the United States finds itself in a very similar situation when compared to the era of Civli Rights and the fight for equality. One might be watching the news and or reading a newspaper and will see videos or images of police brutality or protests bearing a striking similarity to that of the South in the 1950s. Since the time of the Civil Rights movement and all progress that was made regarding the ending of the legal marginalization and mistreatment of African Americans, it sees like\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Equality And Discrimination\nEquality and discrimination are such easy words to say and understand. In the Merriam Webster dictionary equality means \u201cthe quality or state of being equal\u201d and discrimination means, \u201cprejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment.\u201d Many people in the world experience discrimination and equality. One main group of people experience it in high volumes and that is the homosexual community and its supporters. Bisexual or homosexual men, women, and their families are subject to social inequalities\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Gender Equality\nthe 1800\u2019s , this movement is now becoming the fight for gender equality. Society is starting to realize that we do not just need to fight for women\u2019s rights, but for all genders to have equal opportunities. In this essay, I will explain what gender is, and why the fight for gender equality is so important. I will also explore where gender inequality came from. I will then explain why simply treating women the same as men will not achieve gender equality. Finally, I will use the example of parental\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Ethnic Equality\nWithin the past century, the United States of America has been the battle ground for many protests for equality. The fight for ethnic equality has been won, and marriage equality is gaining support in states throughout the nation. In times of change, there is one type of equality that is not given much thought by the American public, gender equality; specifically, pay discrimination. This inequality is solely based on luck, and something as uncontrollable as gender should not determine someone\u2019s\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Equity And Equality\nAffirmative action has been a controversial topic in the society over the last few decades. The fight for equity and equality has led the heightening of the fight for equality and justice in the society. In this regard, there have been many fronts set up to have such policies well implemented in the society. The implementation of the policy has been an essential part of the society that has been debated for long. Among the many fronts upon which the affirmative action policy has been seeking implementation\u2026\nOn May 22nd, 20141, a group of women technologists and leaders made a huge contribution in the fight for gender equality for women in technology. The brave women who dared to challenge the status quo by writing together to address the issue of gender inequality in technology were Divya Manian, Jessica Dillon, Sabrina Majeed, Joanne McNeil, Sara J. Chipps, Kay Li, Ellen Chisa, Angelina Fabbro, and Jennifer Brook2. Not only did this group of women stand in unity to produce a written open letter on\u2026\nEssay Women 's Fight For Equality\nWomen Fighting for Equality in Their Devilish Ways How can a woman become devilish? According to the book Shame the Devil, by Debra Brenegan, Sara Payson Willis had the devils wickedness in her because she \u201c\u2026wiggled during prayers, interrupted conversations, asked too many questions\u2026\u201d (1) Sara did not possess the feminine qualities like modesty, humility, piety, weakness and submissiveness. She was strong, independent and outspoken and these qualities made her a devilish woman in the 1800s. (Brenegan\u2026\nEssay The Fight For Equality : A Young Age\nThe Fight for Equality From a young age people are put into categories such as; boy and girl, strong and pretty, or intelligent and nurturer. Young girls are given baby dolls to play with and take care of whereas young boys are given building blocks and race cars. I remember when I was little, I had baby dolls and stuffed animals to play with but my sister and I also enjoyed playing with race cars and building blocks. My sister and I came up with a game that\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crazycanadia.com/integralinprogress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ACMBIY6ILE5LSXVTT27GYHAKZMJUDVWI", "length": 1005, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.crazycanadia.com", "title": "Integral in Progress - CrazyCanadia", "raw_content": "Integral Theory is simply the most comprehensive, inclusive, and applicable map for the world as we experience it in the 21st century. This is a \"map\" or \"tool\" which organizes information, no more, no less. It is simply a way in which to organize the data of life into much more coherent and relatable pictures of the world around us. This allows us to simply look at the information we are bombarded with every day and put it into a framework for greater ease of interpreting, sharing, and growing.\nThe following posts below are my best attempt so far at explaining an introduction to Integral Theory which I believe can greatly help us all to see ourselves, others, and the world more clearly with greater love and compassion.\nIf the above introduction is at all helpful and you wish to dive a little deeper, try Integral In-Depth. Integral In-Depth goes more deeply into Integral Theory which goes beyond the above basic intro and helps to provide greater colourful richness to the experience of life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cre8noh8.org/us-government/team-trump/mcmaster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ME4Z57SRFAFC6GQ35JGUYTX3FPL6CUFI", "length": 1478, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cre8noh8.org", "title": "H.R. McMaster, NSC Homeland | Cre8 No H8", "raw_content": "H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor and Head of Homeland Security for the National Security Council\nPromoted on March 4, 2017 to Head of Homeland Security, replacing Tom Bossert in that position. \u201cThe change downgrades the role of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert, who had been given authority to convene or chair the NSC\u2019s principals committee under Trump\u2019s original structure. He\u2019ll serve those roles now as delegated by McMaster, according to a presidential memorandum dated Tuesday.\u201d Bloomberg\nTrump Chooses H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser Replacing Michael Flynn February 20, 2017 NY Times\nA month in, McMaster \u201ctried to fire (30 year old) Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council\u201d\u2026Ezra complained to Bannon and Kushner, and Trump reinstated him\u2026\u201dclear White House obstructionism\u201d NY Times\nMcMaster \u201chas told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world. The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council on Thursday, in his first \u201call hands\u201d staff meeting, that the label \u201cradical Islamic terrorism\u201d was not helpful because terrorists are \u201cun-Islamic,\u201d according to people who were in the meeting.\u201d NY Times\nRebuked in 2015 over handling of 2 officers accused of sexual assault NY Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 6494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crewes.org/Contact_Us/KevinH/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZULKY3KXISLBXGDL5SCV5BILTEYMMUKZ", "length": 1235, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.crewes.org", "title": "Kevin Hall", "raw_content": "Kevin Hall received his BSc in geophysics from the University of Calgary in 1992, followed by a M.Sc. in Geophysics (also from the University of Calgary) in 1996. Kevin then worked for the Lithoprobe Seismic Processing Facility (LSPF) under the supervision of Dr. Fred Cook, and was involved in seismic reflection and refraction field-work, software development, and data processing for the Alberta Basement, SNORCLE and Western Superior Transects.\nAs Lithoprobe was winding down, Kevin was offered a job with CREWES if he would accept payment in coffee (Thanks Henry Bland!). Fortunately, the coffee offer was later upgraded to a monetary offer as CREWES needed somebody who had experience with large datasets (Thanks Dr. Rob Stewart!). Kevin\u2019s first CREWES dataset was a 10 x 10 centimeter 3D over a physical model.\nKevin has worked for CREWES since 2001, and has been the Technical Manager of CREWES since 2008. His many tasks include maintaining the computer cluster, software development, saving students from computer meltdowns, and coordinating our seismic acquisition activities. In his spare time he enjoys going to the Rocky Mountains with his family either to hike, ski or participate in biathlon.\nE-mail: kwhall ucalgary ca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crgs.co.uk/120/latest-news/article/217/dr-laurie-bristow-gets-knighted-in-honours-list", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7HWGLWN47UHM7JXAN3EVRWFH2LO7WAVV", "length": 1104, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.crgs.co.uk", "title": "Dr Laurie Bristow gets Knighted in Honours List - Latest News - Colchester Royal Grammar School", "raw_content": "Congratulations to Dr Laurie Bristow, a former student at Colchester Royal Grammar School, who has been made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services to British foreign policy in the Queen\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours list!\nAfter leaving CRGS, Dr Laurie Bristow went on to study at Cambridge\u2019s Trinity College. He took up his first Government role with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1990 and went on to become a leading expert on the country\u2019s relationship with the European Union.\nSince then, he has represented the UK with diplomatic roles in countries across the world, including Romania, Turkey, Iraq and Azerbaijan. In 2015, he was made the British Ambassador to Russia, making him a central figure in trying to calm frosty relations between the two countries, with incidents including the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.\nSo far, Dr Bristow has enjoyed an impressively wide-ranging career. In 2016, we were honoured to have him as our guest speaker at the CRGS annual Speech Day ceremony, during which he gave the students some pearls of wisdom to digest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 65.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cricciethgolfclub.co.uk/best-golf-courses-in-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:05Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZBBRXN37LE6LY2WZEYWJ6X37G25XMYP", "length": 1710, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cricciethgolfclub.co.uk", "title": "Best Golf Courses in the World", "raw_content": "Golf is an amazing sport and there are a number of golf clubs around the world, but some of them simply stand out for their sheer scenic beauty, game play, and amenities. Here are top 10 golf courses from around the world.\nSebonack Golf Club \u2013 New York\nSebonack Golf Club has managed to attract a number of members, most of them elite, to pay a hefty fee of $650,000 in membership fees. Apart from the amazing courses that they have to offer to their members, part of the charm is the exclusivity factor. Critics have come out to praise the golf course for taking a confident stance by creating a golfing course that is as challenging as it is entertaining.\nSt. Andrews Links \u2013 Scotland\nSt. Andrews has often been billed as one of the most famous golf courses in the world, and for all the right reasons too. There are as many as six courses that are available to the public, of which; Old Course seems to be the most famous one.\nIt is named so because of its historical importance in inspiring other golf courses around the world for more than a few centuries. It offers large double greens that are equally shared by two holes each making it a unique course offering.\nPebble Beach \u2013 California\nPebble Beach golf course received a lot of praises from the critics as well as critical fame from the mass for being one of the best-constructed golf courses in the world. Pebble Beach is often used for professional tournaments making it home to some of the most well-known faces in the golfing world. The most recent tournament that was conducted here was the US Open Championships.\nThere are other golf courses that are worth a mention like the Pine Valley that is located in New Jersey and Seminole and Florida.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/modeling/letters/millielewis/letters-millie-lewis-011.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YKOXPB56T72K7EJT2OFHGC7Z3ZJLASUQ", "length": 18895, "nlines": 103, "source_domain": "www.crimes-of-persuasion.com", "title": "Is this a Modeling Scam? - Letters - Millie Lewis AMTC (American Modeling and Talent Convention)", "raw_content": "There was an advertisement on the local radio station (92.3) in Macon, GA, about a local talent search.\nI called the number and got an operator who asked me which categories we would like to try (dancing, acting, modeling, or singing).\nI was told what to do and bring for my 11-year-old daughter's audition. (I was told to bring a CD for her to dance by, and a script would be given for her to read.)\nNo money would be involved in this, I was told. No COST INVOLVED!\n(This seems to be fraudulent, because this gave the incorrect impression of who would be viewing the audition.)\nI was told this was a talent search for possible commercials, Disney movies, magazines, etc.\nThis was held at the Macon Centreplex at 10 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on June 15, 2002, in Macon, GA.\nMy husband, my daughter, and myself went to the \"audition\" which was primarily a sales pitch and a 30-minute video talking about a Modeling Convention in Charleston this coming January.\nThere were posters of alleged clients lining the front of the room. This is an indication that they may be fraudulent.\nAlso, they asked for $500 up front if my daughter was called back on Sunday (during church hours). By the way, they claim to be family-oriented, but call back while the family is in church; so I guess they don't care much about the family value of church in the Bible-oriented South.\nUpon call back, you are asked to bring the $500 up front and sign a contract which obligates you to pay $1,795 by January for a convention in which there are OF COURSE no guarantees. Be prepared for rejection in this industry, you are told.\nExtra fees include (to mention a few, $200 local admin cost, and $100 parent/participant pass to the convention, and hotel fees of $149 per night).\nLegitimate companies don't get paid until I get paid.\nWe were very disappointed because the amount of money asked for was high and there was no way to check out the company.\nThey \"prey\" upon eager children who have worked hard to get their routine together. It was disappointing.\nI would like for my comments to be posted about what really happens at one of their so-called auditions.\nThere are conventions weekly in January. I feel they are taking people's money for no result or projected outcome.\nAlso, I would like for the BBB to take this into consideration in their rating of this company and to give them an unfavorable rating.\nIf the scenario is that a reputable talent agency does not ask for ANY up front expenses, then why is the comment, \u201cIF you have the time, the funds to spare, as this becomes very much the expensive weekend.\u201d (Quoted by Mona as a response to another mother.) Even to be expected upfront.\nI understand from my findings this is a reputable convention and backed highly by models and other agencies, but it seems quite contradictory.\nI am not quite certain as to how the response to an inquiry such as this is handled, but could a reply be sent directly to this email address.\nAre you going to the convention?\nI have gone and was invited to show up in Detroit this coming April. Simply doing a little digging to help me understand what to expect as much as possible.\nSo you've been to one and you're thinking of going to a second? What is in Detroit? They had said they only had two conventions, one in Orlando, the other in Kansas City.\nWhat did they tell you was their success/placement rate?\nYes. I am thinking of going to a second. The explanation for the event in Detroit is the event in Orlando was too expensive for some great talents and they couldn't afford the trip so they are \"congregating\" so to speak in more local areas. This will perhaps be more advantageous for those talents. It was mentioned that this is a miniature event to the Orlando escapade.\nSuccess/Placement Rate? I am not certain what this question is, but it is required of those invited to make a payment of $495. It is required that $250 immediately be paid and the other half in April when we show up in Detroit.\nIsn't this the contradictory part I mentioned? Or is it my misunderstanding that because they are not an agent they can do as they feel?\nYes, they are not an agent, so they are not accountable. You said: \"the event in Orlando was too expensive\"; this is what others said. It sounds as if they are now adopting the same pricing as their competition, Model Search America, Proscout and Manhattan Model Search, which all seem to be around $500.\nIf their real motivation for Detroit is to offer opportunities for great talents who cannot afford Orlando because it is too expensive, and not simply to line their own pockets, there will be advance screening by photo (models) or video (talent). This will keep the waste down and keep ML in check.\nDid they say they were going to screen people before they make downpayments? Did they ask for photos/videos to be submitted which they will send to agents who are going to attend the Detroit meeting? Do you think they should? Maybe you should ask them about that.\nIf they are now going to be in Detroit are they also in Las Vegas? Las Vegas would be a perfect location because their whole operation is like a giant casino. Without the screening that is all they are. They want the players to gamble. Whether the price is $1,795 or $495, it makes no difference; it's the same as a casino.\nNo, they did not say they would screen people prior to the down payment. Should they? They have provided us with a packet of information and instructions that I have yet to go through, maybe there is something with this information in there. I will let you know more tomorrow.\nShouldn't we be provided a list of the agencies that will attend prior to our arrival? Aren't they supposed to provide the pictures/videos prior to the event? Isn't this normal procedure and to be expected?\nYou said: \"No, they did not say they would screen people prior to the down payment. Should they?\"\nNo, they should not screen people prior to the downpayment, the agents should. The AMTC employees have already claimed indirectly to screen people (a given in their selection or scouting), but it's a conflict of interest, and their failure rate is unacceptably high.\nThe head of AMTC has claimed they cannot know their failure rate, while another person said printed material from AMTC said it was 75%. Even if you believe the 75% claim and contradiction, don't you have a problem with hiring someone who has a 75% failure rate as their track record?\nEither the conflict of interest or the high failure rate is cause for concern, but both at the same time is obviously cause for great concern, especially when at stake are hundreds if not thousands of dollars.\nBased on information Modeling Scams has learned, AMTC scouts earn a commission of $250/contestant recruited. Therefore when you pay $1,795 for the AMTC, $250 goes to the scout.\nTherefore in essence you pay the scout $250 for his or her opinion of your child's chances of success. Essentially, you are hiring the scout for their professional opinion, willing to pay their rate of $250. Which leads of course to the question, is their opinion, a) unbiased, and, b) worth $250?\nSince there is a conflict of interest (they are paid in advance by the number of people whom they convince to go, not by the number who are signed and get work), the answer to a) is you never know.\nSince their failure rate is 75% (or worse, again, since the number is unsubstantiated), the answer to b) is highly unlikely.\nWould you hire anyone for $250 for their unbiased professional opinion if even one of the above cases were true (conflict of interest, high failure rate)? What is their opinion worth? How much more than two cents?\nBased on their failure rate, these scouts are arguably not qualified to be professional scouts. They do not work for the agencies which know what type of models clients want. They are not in the position to say who has true potential.\nThe only people are the agents who are scouts, attending the AMTC as agents/scouts. These are the people who are, first and foremost, professionally competent to scout, and who can actually get models work.\nSecondly, these agents/scouts are also not in a conflict of interest to say who has potential. They are not paid in advance, there is nothing to financially motivate them to say someone has a potential modeling career ahead.\nAnd, furthermore, besides being professionally competent and not in a conflict of interest, these agents/scouts can screen potential models prior to the AMTC, simply by print photo or digital photo submission.\nIf you see the basic logic, ask AMTC why they don't ask agents to screen potential models before they make any payment, such as a downpayment.\nRegarding your second series of questions, they are certainly fair questions: \"Shouldn't we be provided a list of the agencies that will attend prior to our arrival? Aren't they supposed to provide the pictures/videos prior to the event? Isn't this normal procedure and to be expected?\"\nOne list was previously sent to the site by Carey Arban, so the list should be available to those interested to attend AMTC. Ask for it. You have a right to know if the agents whom you would pay to see are reputable and competent.\nThen you could do a little experiment. Find the mailing addresses of all of the agents who are going to attend the convention, then mail them Polaroid snapshots of your child. Find out if they are interested. If they do not respond, go to the convention and see if they do not respond.\nIf they do not respond to seeing your child in person as they did not respond to seeing your child in pictures, you will have proved advance agent screening by photos is effective, while lack of advance agent screening can waste $1,795, or, if you add all the associated expenses, about $5,000.\nYou had asked, \"If the scenario is that a reputable talent agency does not ask for ANY up front expenses, then why is the comment...\"\nMillie Lewis AMTC is not a talent agency.\nBut you raised a good question. Why do supposedly reputable agencies get involved with a convention if it charges upfront fees and why do these agencies turn a blind eye to the clear and significant conflict of interest?\nThey could stop hundreds of people from wasting their money by advance screening, but they are so self-centered, they don't give a damn what happens to the models and their parents, if their hard-earned money and valuable time is wasted.\nWhen the top \"most reputable\" modeling agencies in New York are all being sued by the models, you really need to start rethinking what \"reputable\" really means in this industry, especially when the allegations center around a conspiracy and breaking anti-trust laws.\nWhose definition of \"reputable\" are you accepting? And why?\nThe issue of scouting ethics came up in an interview with Trans Continental Talent's Chairman Lou Pearlman published in the Orlando Weekly:\nPearlman is adamant about the company's new direction, right down to the recruitment of talent. Scouts are now on salary, he says, so the pressure is off to sell dreams to those who will never attain them. \"Unlike Options, talent scouts will not work on commissions,\" he says, \"We're not using their business plan.\"\nWhile Mr. Pearlman's claim contradicted his company's SEC Filings, he is right about the fact there is pressure to sell dreams to people who will never attain them, when scouts work on commissions.\nBut that is apparently exactly how not only TCT scouts are paid but also Millie Lewis AMTC scouts. Both work on commissions. Modeling Scams has learned AMTC scouts are paid $250/enrollment and the TCT scouts make $20/enrollment.\nHow do parents whose kids are scouted trust the AMTC scouts when they are paid by commission and therefore could be trying to \"sell dreams to those who will never attain them\"?\nIf you want to find out what is really going on in the modeling industry, you need only discover who is getting paid, and how much they are getting paid. Follow the money trail.\nI have information for you in regards to Millie Lewis International. I do not think they are operating on the up and up. Millie Lewis is not telling the truth.\nFirst of all Millie Lewis claims they do not do talent searches via ads or hotel visits. They do. Here in Asheville they did , but they use the name of a talent agency called Carolina Talent out of Charlotte.\nWe went and they showed us a video and asked each person from very small children to adults to read few lines, then walk.\nI am sure they could tell who had the money up front and those that did not.\nThat evening or the next day, they said they would call. They called both of my daughters back.\nAt this point in time, no money or costs were explained. We went back the following afternoon and they talked it up very big and would not state out loud the cost. They gave out a huge packet with the costs inside. The cost initially was $1,795.\nI asked what exactly that covered and what other costs there were. They said it did not cover the cost of the convention trip, hotel and food, transportation, the booklet, and the photo shoot, but they could not explain the break down of the $1,795. They would only state it cost money for these scouts to come to the convention, and we would be receiving many hours of training and prep.\nWe told them it was just too much money for us. In about a week they called and offered $500 scholarship and and stated my daughters were just what they were looking for.\nI opted to just do one.\nInitially, the only training they mentioned was a weekend workshop in Asheville and any that we could attend in Charlotte.\nThe first workshop was the most unorganized workshop I have ever witnessed. It could have easily been accomplished in about three hours, but it took two days.\nOne of those days was a professional photo shoot. What a joke!!! The guy that did the training the day before showed up with a camera and took pictures of each contestant in the hotel lobby and outdoors. There was no special lighting. They hired a makeup artist that made my daughter look like a street walker.\nAll through the training, the day before, they emphasized how natural they wanted everyone to appear. This photo shoot took a whole day and by the time he took photos of my daughter is was nearly dark.\nThis photo shoot cost $400 per person. I asked them what that covered. They said they had to pay the makeup artist $900 and they would be helping us pick out the good photos which they would use in the presentation at the final convention in January.\nWE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE PRINTS, THE BOOKLET THEY GO IN , THE COMP CARDS, AND THE LIST GOES ON. (At least another $100 or more.)\nThey collected $400 from about 15 people that one day. I could not believe the fees that were still coming at us on top of that.\nIn about a week, we received the slide proofs, but he had to come back in to take more pictures of my daughter again. They handed me the slides and said they were wonderful.\nThe photos are absolutely awful and not worth $40. I would never allow these photos to represent my daughter. We have had professional photos taken before and know the difference.\nWe were told that it would be a professional photo shoot with at least four looks. I told them my daughters school pictures were better and they took about 5 seconds.\nWell, they just said they have their own style which is like an Abercrombie look... What a crock!\nAnyway, they said we could come to Charlotte on the Thanksgiving weekend and spend another whole day on having theses photos taken by another photographer.\nWe did not want to waste more money doing that.\nThis weekend, they said we needed to come to another two-day workshop in Charlotte.\nAt the beginning of this whole thing, it was stated we just had one workshop in Asheville, the photo shoot and the convention. Now, they state we need to be coming to this workshop as well.\nMy daughter is a junior in high school and she has finals this next week. She is attending a very demanding college prep school. I told them we could just come for one day. That day is today and my daughter cannot go. She is sick so we will miss it.\nI have this strange feeling they are going to say that because we did not attend all of their so called workshops we will not be able to attend the convention.\nWe are suppose to have out outfits chosen at this point. My daughter used some clothing she had. One dress was very tight that she used at the photo shoot. We chose it for its color, not fit. My daughter said she could not and would not wear it in the show. I agreed since I purchased it for her when she was in 8th Grade. They told her to just lose some weight. She is 5'9\" and weighs about 120. That 120 is just muscle so she does not have any fat to lose. We could not believe that request so I told them, no way.\nAs of today, I am going to cancel our contract and demand my money back due to financial problems. I owe them $895. I have shelled out $1,000 and that does not include their so-called Scholarship.\nThese people are operators and they know how to hook people. They called us when I was upset about the photo shoot and stated that Wrigley's spearmint gum would be doing an ad in Asheville and they needed my daughter the first weekend in November.\nThat never materialized and I think they used that to keep us interested. I do not like the fact that the brochures and website do not show the breakdown of expenses. The expenses never end.\nThere are people doing this that do not have that kind of money and we are one of them. Some are repeat customers. It should never cost that much to be represented.\nAll of my checks and charges have been made to Millie Lewis International so this talent agency is under their wing. They do indeed use talent searches and flashy ads on the radio. Millie Lewis in written all over everything.\nYou may wonder why I fell for this. My daughter attended a Millie Lewis modeling school in Greenville, SC. It is not part of this international operation. It was run very well, the fees were fair, and their were no promises of any kind. We truly enjoyed it, so I thought this operation would be similar. It has been a total scam.\nThe money they have collected is incredible and for little work. They use the same guy for training as for photos so they are forking little money out for so-called professionals.\nThe training and preparation is something to be desired.\nI checked out the BBB site and could not find any complaints that were not resolved against this Carolina Talent.\nWhat do you know about complaints or issues with this whole agency that is called Millie Lewis International?\nHow can such talent agencies be allowed to roll into a town and collect these huge fees for nothing other than their so-called knowledge of the industry?\nPlease do not print this on your website until I have this resolved. At that point, I will gladly let you use my name.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 19263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4311", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:TTEHUILINMZENODH5MA3S4Q6TQXZMLB3", "length": 27028, "nlines": 174, "source_domain": "www.cruz.senate.gov", "title": "Sen. Cruz: \u2018Don\u2019t Tread on Me\u2019 Is a Standard Well Worth Our Consideration Once More | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) laying out his foreign policy priorities to strengthen U.S. national security interests as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. There, he also participated in a discussion on conservative foreign policy and Q&A with Colin Dueck, professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.\n\u201cThe National Interest standard is still rejected by many today,\u201d Sen. Cruz said. \u201cSome have never met a country they didn\u2019t want to invade. Others have never met a theater they didn\u2019t want to abandon. Neither is the right answer. Instead, we should be fierce and resolute in defending America and defeating our enemies, but we should also be extremely reluctant to intervene militarily and risk the lives of our sons and daughters. I guess you could call me a \u2018non-interventionist hawk.\u2019 One reason for a bias against intervention is that so often, under both Republicans and Democrats, our interventions have forgotten America\u2019s national interests.\u201d\nStill photos of Sen. Cruz\u2019s remarks may be viewed here. Watch Sen. Cruz\u2019s full remarks here and below.\nThank you very much for having me here today.\nI want to start by extending my gratitude to Arthur Brooks, for his decade of inspiring leadership at AEI, and for his leadership in conservative political thought around the country.\nAnd I also want to thank Colin Dueck for moderating today.\nFortunately for us, our subject matter has seldom been more pivotal or more urgent for the future of our nation.\nThat is the question of our foreign policy: its purposes, its goals, its execution, and who determines it.\nIn order to tackle these questions, we need to answer the first question: what should our foreign policy be overall?\nThe late celebrated political scientist Edward Corwin called the Constitution an \u201cinvitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.\u201d\nThat being said, in a system where there are complimentary and competing roles for each branch of government, the Senate is entrusted with a robust role in determining foreign policy.\nMany historians and statesman have recognized the Senate\u2019s disproportionate weight on questions of war and peace. As Henry Cabot Lodge said:\n\u201cWar can be declared without the assent of the Executive, and peace can be made without the assent of the House\u2026 but neither war nor peace can be made without the assent of the Senate.\u201d\nOr at least, that was the case for generations of statesmen.\nIt is because of the Senate\u2019s dereliction of this particular Constitutional duty that we have seen 20 years of foreign policy varying widely in goals and outcomes, strategies and executions, seemingly without continuity from one administration to the next.\nAnd often, without any sense of continuity even within an administration.\nAnd that is where we will continue to find ourselves, with the pendulum of our foreign policy swinging unpredictably, without the strong stabilizing role of the Senate.\nPerhaps the key reason that the Senate has declined its role as a stabilizing force is that it is much easier to dump all your problems on the executive branch, rather than to affirmatively declare war, to make peace, and to draw real lines in the sand.\nAt some point in the last few decades, Senators realized that responsibility can be more of a liability than a privilege\u2014because it means you have to argue your case, deliberate, decide, and live with the consequences.\nFor the last several decades, American foreign policy has been seen as a tug of war between Intervention and Isolation.\nIn the wake of 9/11, it\u2019s been Intervention that\u2019s been on the ascendancy.\nBut it has often been implemented\u2014by both parties\u2014in ham-fisted ways that have had no clear goals, exit strategies, or benefit to the vital national security interests of the United States.\nEven leaders who started out winning Nobel Peace Prizes and going on tours to prove their world citizenship soon became known for drone strikes and botched regime changes.\nIt would take a dozen speeches to outline each of the many failures and successes in detail between the Bush and Obama administrations\u2014and we\u2019d spend even more time arguing about which was which.\nBut perhaps we can all agree: mistakes were made.\nIn reaction to many years of such mistakes\u2014in some cases, disasters\u2014an opposite, Isolationist reaction has found new supporters in American politics.\nA national examination of conscience is a good thing.\nBut we should not rush into the arms of Isolationism as if it were the reasonable alternative to intervention\u2014as if our only choices are to bomb the world into democracy or ignore the world into peace.\nIt is not a binary choice. There is a third option, not an intermediate point between the other two, but rather a third point on the triangle: National Interest.\nWe should be intervening, or not, and deciding what form that intervention should take, based directly on America\u2019s National Interest.\nThat may sound like common sense. Except it hasn\u2019t been.\nSince the end of WWII, generations of intelligentsia have maintained a glowing crush on Marxist regimes the world over, and wanted the United States to operate from a position of guilt for its greatness and regret for its victories.\nThe late, great Jeane Kirkpatrick famously rebuked this attitude when she excoriated the Carter-era weakness which, time and time again, ended up benefitting the ideological enemies of the United States.\nInstead, she proposed a different standard of action: that America act primarily in its own interest, that it supports friends and destroy enemies, and that it do so judiciously and decisively, instead of engaging in half-hearted measures that inevitably slide down to defeat.\nHer ideas went on to become a cornerstone of Ronald Reagan\u2019s foreign policy.\nNotice that this did not result as the naysayers predicted in World War 3. It did not result in re-invading Vietnam or directly fighting the Soviets in Asia or Africa.\nIndeed, the largest military intervention by Ronald Reagan was Grenada, where our military stamped out a Marxist junta in a matter of days.\nBut his strong vision and moral clarity transformed the world.\nThis standard\u2014the National Interest standard\u2014is still rejected by many today.\nSome have never met a country they didn\u2019t want to invade.\nOthers have never met a theater they didn\u2019t want to abandon.\nNeither is the right answer. Instead, we should be fierce and resolute in defending America and defeating our enemies, but we should also be extremely reluctant to intervene militarily and risk the lives of our sons and daughters.\nI guess you could call me a \u201cnon-interventionist hawk.\u201d\nOne reason for a bias against intervention is that so often, under both Republicans and Democrats, our interventions have become unmoored from America\u2019s national interests.\nUncle Sam has developed a bad habit of attempting to topple dictators who are killing terrorists, only to have them replaced by terrorists who kill Americans.\nWe saw that in Iraq. We saw that in Libya. And, had the proponents of intervention in Syria\u2019s civil war prevailed, we very likely would have seen that in Syria as well.\nAt the same time, when we\u2019re dealing with an Iran or a North Korea, or an ISIS or al Qaeda, we should be fierce and unequivocal. Because each of them directly threatens the lives and safety of Americans.\nWhen you apply a consistent standard to various situations\u2014when you ask the central question \u201cis this in the national security interests of the United States\u201d\u2014you can get different results: results that sometimes please the interventionist, and sometimes please the isolationist, but arise from neither of their principles. And sometimes that puzzles outside observers.\nEven though we should be reluctant to use force, we still need a strong military, the most powerful on the globe.\nBut \u201ceven though\u201d is the wrong relator; it is because we are reluctant to use force, that we need a strong and powerful military.\nThis has been called Peace through Strength, and it is absolutely right. The more prepared we are to defend ourselves, the less likely we are to actually face military conflict.\nThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve been a leading proponent of the biggest military rebuild since Ronald Reagan, which we are in the midst of right now today.\nIn the last Congress I passed a measure mandating for the first time that the Defense Department begin implementing a test bed for space-based interceptors for missile defense, and also introduced legislation moving forward plans to develop a robust Space Force.\nWe should be generally skeptical about the use of force, let alone the endless wars that America has been fighting.\nBut if force is necessary, we must be ready and able to make that force unstoppable.\nBeyond ensuring a strong military, let\u2019s take a look at how the National Interest standard applies in practice.\nFirst, we have to be better at choosing the right instruments for the appropriate national security interests.\nIt can\u2019t be diplomacy all the time, nor can it be guns blazing all the time.\nWe have a hierarchy of tools. We have our voice, the bully pulpit of the United States, a powerful tool. We have economic and diplomatic sanctions. We have targeted military force. And we have overwhelming military force.\nEach has its place. Our voice should be clarion. Clear and understandable, speaking truth. Tyrannies fear the truth. Dictators fear the sunlight, they shudder from it. Reagan illustrated this powerfully when he called the Soviet Union an \u201cEvil Empire.\u201d\nThe Intelligentsia in Washington recoiled, but speaking the truth pierced into the darkest prison cells.\nNatan Sharansky, with whom I had the great pleasure of visiting in Jerusalem, has described how prisoners in the Gulag passed notes from cell to cell repeating Reagan\u2019s words. \u201cEvil Empire.\u201d \u201cAsh heap of history.\u201d \u201cMr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall.\u201d\nThose latter words are the most important words ever spoken by a leader in modern history.\nThe history behind those words is notable. Three times, the State Department [said] this is too belligerent, it\u2019s too hostile, and more importantly it\u2019s too unrealistic: Mr. President this will never, ever, ever happen.\nAnd three times, Reagan with his own hand, wrote the words back into the speech, replying with a characteristic twinkle in his eye: you don\u2019t understand, this is the entire point of the speech.\nAnd just three years later, the Berlin Wall was torn to the ground. America had won the Cold War without firing a shot.\nIt\u2019s one of the most remarkable achievements for peace that humanity has ever seen. Through renewed strength, which bankrupted the Soviet Union, and the moral clarity of America\u2019s voice, the Soviet Union collapsed.\nWhen it comes to tyranny, when it comes to human rights abuses across the globe, we should use that voice across the world. This is something all too often the Isolationists don\u2019t understand. That just because you may not be prepared to send in the marines, doesn\u2019t been American should be silent in the face of human rights abuses and injustices. Sunlight and transparency is itself a powerful tool.\nThe next tool is economic and diplomatic sanctions. A tool to change the behavior of others, we should use it vigorously against America\u2019s enemies.\nWhether Iran or North Korea or Nicaragua, America\u2019s economic weight can be a powerful tool to constrain their aggression and to weaken their despotic regimes.\nThe next tool is military force, targeted or overwhelming. The former is appropriate for terrorists, from ISIS to al Qaeda. The latter, which we should use very, very rarely, should be the standard if we are ever called to direct military conflict.\nWe are deeply reluctant to fight. The threshold for putting our children in harm\u2019s way is extremely high. But when we do fight, we win, and we bring our boys home.\nLet\u2019s look around the world at how this standard would apply in practice.\nWe have to acknowledge the world as it is. There are friends and enemies. There are rivals and problematic allies. There are human rights crises. Each of these require different approaches.\nWhat tools we use, and how we use them, depends on who we\u2019re dealing with, and what is in America\u2019s National Interest.\nLet\u2019s break down the world into four baskets\u2014baskets that our country should handle differently, depending on the contents:\nproblematic allies\nWe will start with our friends. I will use an obvious example near and dear to my heart: Israel. It\u2019s our top ally in the Middle East, and it\u2019s not simply a charity case as sometimes public discussions suggest. We get much more in terms of strengthening American national security. In terms of logistics, and intelligence, from the $3 billion a year in military assistance. If America tried to recreate what we get from our alliance with Israel it would cost many billions more than standing alongside our friend.\nIsrael is key to the safety and security of Americans both at home and abroad. It is the very definition of a friend.\nSo how do you treat an ally? I\u2019ll tell you how you don\u2019t treat them. You don\u2019t go to them and lecture them, and tell them where they should draw their borders when they\u2019re constantly being attacked by enemies. That\u2019s simply hubris.\nPresident Obama sadly was unremittingly hostile to the State of Israel. In December 2016 his administration maneuvered the United Nations to pass U.N. Security Council 2334, which condemned Israel and was so broad that it would make it illegal for Israeli Jews to build homes in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, Israel\u2019s capital.\nWhat a disgraceful, dishonest endeavor for American diplomats to participate in, much less orchestrate.\nInstead, we should be supporting the authority and autonomy of our allies, by putting our embassy in their actual capital.\nWe should support their claims to territory rightfully gained in defensive wars, territory necessary to their continued protection. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been leading the fight to officially recognize Israel\u2019s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, won in a defensive war, and critically necessary for Israel\u2019s security given Iran\u2019s presence in Syria.\nAnd that effort is seeing growing, bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.\nThat\u2019s also one of the many reasons I advocated that the United States move our embassy to Jerusalem, which was the single most powerful signal the Trump administration could send that America had returned to standing behind our allies.\nThere was a vigorous debate within the administration, both State and Defense opposed moving our embassy, but thankfully the President agreed and did so. With that single act, the Trump administration rebuked Resolution 2334. It should be, and increasingly is, a dead letter.\nThen there are regimes which are clearly, undeniably enemies. It is in our national security interest to confront them.\nHere I part ways, not just with liberals, but with isolationists in both parties.\nSome tend to look at enemies and see potential friends, and they downplay the need for economic\u2014let alone military\u2014pressure.\nThe results are often naked appeasement, sometimes line-drawing with no plan for success, and always disastrous.\nIran is an enemy. The possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran is the greatest national security threat facing America across the world.\nI urged the President to withdraw from the disastrous Obama Iran nuclear deal. Yet again, both State and Defense opposed this move, but yet again thankfully the President agreed, and pulling out of that deal was the single most important national security step taken in the last two years.\nInstead of sending the Ayatollah billions in the dark of night, we should be imposing maximum economic pressure on Iran.\nFor that reason last Congress, I introduced a bill \u2013 the Blocking Iranian Illicit Finance Act \u2013 that would fully cut off Iran from the global financial system.\nI will be reintroducing it this Congress as well. Enough is enough.\nAnd if we ever discover the Ayatollah is on the verge of getting nuclear weapons, and I believe his ambitions will be to continue to do just that, we should be prepared to use crushing military force to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen.\nMilitary force to destroy their nuclear capacity. That should be our objective. Why? Because that is what our National Interest is. To prevent an Ayatollah who chants \u201cDeath to America\u201d and \u201cDeath to Israel\u201d from ever having weapons capable of murdering in a flash of light millions of American souls.\nCritically, if it ever comes to military conflict, our objective shouldn\u2019t be to invade and try to turn Iran into a democratic utopia; instead, it should be to defend America and prevent a nuclear Iran. Clear, simple, focused with an unmistakable end point.\nLikewise, North Korea is an enemy. They threaten us, they threaten South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, all of our friends.\nKim says repeatedly he\u2019s willing to launch nuclear weapons at the American homeland. It\u2019s both a military challenge and a human rights catastrophe.\nHere I\u2019ve pushed that we use all of our tools, from missile defense to using the bully pulpit to highlight the plight of seized and murdered Americans such as Otto Warmbier.\nAnd if military intervention becomes the only way to stop a nuclear attack on American cities, then of course we have to be willing and able to do so with overwhelming force.\nThat unequivocal promise, by the way, is our single best hope at deterrence.\nThird, there are countries which are not enemies, but certainly not allies, which are rivals seeking to undermine and surpass our influence.\nI am thinking primarily of Russia and China.\nAs a practical matter, we have to do business with them. The global economy is intertwined, but we have to make sure we\u2019re aware of the risks, and deal with open eyes with those risks.\nWe need to make sure we\u2019re maintaining a robust military to deter those rivals.\nWe need to make sure we\u2019re protecting our allies from them.\nWe should be prepared to use sanctions and diplomatic pressure where necessary.\nChina is undeniably our top geopolitical rival. Russia is second, and I\u2019m glad that the liberals have recently discovered that. It\u2019s about time. Some of us remember Barack Obama turning to Mitt Romney in 2012 and saying \u201cMitt, the 80s have called and they want their foreign policy back.\u201d All we needed was President Trump for liberals to suddenly discover that Russia is a bad place and that Putin is a bad guy.\nI\u2019ll take late rather than never.\nDealing with China is fraught with risks, from espionage to full-blown military threats.\nFor too long we failed to acknowledge the risks from China.\nWe had our own Defense Department funding Chinese Confucius Institutes, which are programs in American universities that the Chinese say are for building cultural ties but instead are being used for espionage.\nWe likewise allowed the Chinese to participate in RIMPAC naval exercises, the world's largest maritime warfare exercise. In the last Congress I introduced and passed legislation prohibiting both of those foolish practices\nThis Congress I\u2019ll be reintroducing my SHEET Act, more broadly targeted at stopping Chinese espionage in higher education. A growing threat to intellectual property and national security.\nWe need to make sure Taiwan, Japan, Ukraine, and other allies are protected from these hostile rivals.\nI\u2019ve long pushed to expand port calls with Taiwan, for instance, and to share more military information with them.\nFinally, there are Problematic Allies.\nHere again we come to Jeane Kirkpatrick.\nWe have problematic allies across the world.\nThose who are merely the lesser of two evils, whose continued existence prevents far worse violence or instability.\nWe should be pressuring them to improve and reform, while working with them in ways that concretely advance American national interests.\nTurkey and Saudi Arabia are problematic allies. Mubarak was a problematic ally.\nWhat the Saudis did to Khashoggi was wrong. It was horrific, state-sponsored murder. But nobody is under any illusions about the morality of the Saudis.\nIn the Middle East, there are a lot of problematic actors and the Saudis are a regional counterpoint to the Iranians, who are led by a genocidal maniac who wants to murder Americans.\nWe need the Saudis, and a strong Saudi Arabia, to balance Iran, on everything from Yemen to oil sanctions. It\u2019s simply not in our National Interest to weaken the Saudis.\nContrast that with the coalition of liberals, isolationists, and even some self-described neoconservatives who regularly attack Saudi Arabia, including and especially in Congress. I ask you a simple question: what does weakening Saudi Arabia and strengthening the Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran \u2013 what does that do to advance American national interest? Those are the questions we should be asking.\nAmong all of those baskets - enemies, rivals, and problematic allies, you may find grievous human rights abuses.\nWhether in China, where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs languish in re-education camps, or in Venezuela where Maduro is oppressing his own people, or Ortega in Nicaragua torturing and murdering those speaking for freedom.\nOr Islamist militias in Africa killing, raping, and pillaging across the land.\nOr, the women, homosexuals, and religious dissidents who continue to suffer persecution in Saudi Arabia.\nThese atrocities, and countless more around the world, rightly raise the hackles of every good American.\nWe are a country that wants to see injustice smashed wherever it lies.\nHere is a simple fact: we cannot invade all the world to set it right. As it has been said many times: we are not the world\u2019s policeman.\nBut there is also great force in America\u2019s principles, and in loudly and unapologetically advocating those principles!\nReagan did not bomb the Berlin Wall into dust. His words inspired millions to render it to dust of their own accord.\nWe can be a beacon among the nations. We can assume that old responsibility, from the first days of our Republic, to lead the world to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - to protect the fundamental dignity of every human being.\nWe should be highlighting human rights abuses every way we can, rhetorically and through legislation where possible.\nLast year we successfully passed my Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act, which imposes sanctions on Ortega and his regime for human rights abuses.\nSeveral years ago, the Senate also unanimously passed my legislation to rename the street in front of the Chinese embassy Liu Xiaobo Plaza, after the wrongfully imprisoned Nobel laureate.\nThat idea echoes one implemented by Reagan, who renamed the street in front of the Soviet embassy Sakharov Plaza, after yet another imprisoned Nobel laureate.\nThat proposed legislation shone an uncomfortable light on China\u2019s human rights abuses, and it helped pressure China to finally release Liu\u2019s widow, Liu Xia.\nLikewise, when Sudan imprisoned and sentenced to death Mariam Ibrahim for the crime of being a Christian, America needed to speak out.\nI championed her cause, along with millions of believers across the world.\nSadly, despite my repeated efforts, I could never convince President Obama to even say her name.\nBut, nonetheless, the light and attention of others was strong enough, and Sudan relented, releasing her from prison and allowing her and her husband to come to America.\nWe need to speak out clearly, repeatedly, and consistently, when people are imprisoned: whether for being Christian, as happens too often in Pakistan and Iran, or fighting for free speech, as happens too often in China and Cuba and Venezuela.\nNow that we\u2019ve completed our worldwide tour, let me close by coming back home.\nWho in Washington will approach the world in the way I have described?\nWho will put America\u2019s National Interest first?\nForging a strong, just, and intelligent foreign policy is, at this moment, a critical responsibility of the Republican Party.\nIn this endeavor, we can and we ultimately need Democratic allies.\nMany of my Democratic colleagues privately yearn for sanity in our foreign policy, and I welcome them with open arms.\nSome, like Bob Menendez, faced vicious retribution from the Obama Administration when he dared speak out against the catastrophic Iran nuclear deal.\nOthers, like Joe Lieberman\u2014who was the only Democrat who joined me and other Republicans in Jerusalem for the opening of our embassy\u2014have been virtually excommunicated from their party.\nThere was a time when Scoop Jackson Democrats were more commonplace.\nBut sadly, as a group, Leftists in Congress and in the media now have one standard of judgement when it comes to anything from border walls to how they take their coffee: if President Trump supports it, we hate it. If he hates it, we support it.\nThus, last night at the State of the Union address, virtually every Democrat in Congress sat stone-faced when the President referenced pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.\nThus, last night, virtually every single Democrat refused to applaud moving our embassy to Jerusalem\u2014despite that fact that most of them claimed to support that policy just a few short years ago.\nSo, it falls on the rest of us\u2014 a coalition of the willing\u2014to establish a new era of American foreign policy that leaves those overtly political motivations behind us.\nWanting to avoid war does not make one a coward, or weak.\nWanting to stop terrorists and protect against hostile regimes does not make one a warmonger.\nThe longer we argue in these terms, the harder it is to develop a cohesive standard of action for the 21st century.\nThose who came here today expecting a forceful rebuke of the current administration might be disappointed.\nBut with its relentless focus on American greatness, concern for the wishes of regular American families, and skepticism of military intervention, the Trump administration is primed to be a great incubator for a National Interest-based foreign policy\u2014if it has the right leaders, mentors, advisors, and friends.\nWe cannot squander this opportunity to set right generations of confusion we have inherited from both parties.\nIt is an opportunity that is greater than all of our differences.\nAs I have said, a National Interest foreign policy is not some strange middle point between Intervention and Isolation. Because it does not exist on the same axis.\nIt is not a cookie cutter that prescribes the same action to every situation, but it\u2019s a pragmatic standard of judgement, under which some situations merit force, some, the soft touch of diplomacy, and some, no involvement at all.\nThe principles of National Interest have been advocated by great conservative thinkers long before Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency.\nIndeed, all the way back to George Washington, we can find its roots.\nIt\u2019s banner is a Gadsden flag emblazoned with the legend, with the standard \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me.\u201d That\u2019s a standard well worth our consideration, once more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 30039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cxoadvisory.com/1325/sentiment-indicators/do-investors-fairly-value-stocks-of-the-most-admired-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OGYXQ7PDEOXXBNLLBRPL4RR4SW7VZ7L6", "length": 2293, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cxoadvisory.com", "title": "Do Investors Fairly Value Stocks of the Most Admired Companies? - CXO Advisory", "raw_content": "Do Investors Fairly Value Stocks of the Most Admired Companies?\nJune 26, 2007 \u2022 Posted in Investing Expertise, Sentiment Indicators\nIn their 2005 paper entitled \u201cA Great Company Can Be a Great Investment\u201d, Jeff Anderson and Gary Smith evaluate the stock returns of companies rated highest in Fortune magazine\u2019s annual surveys of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Admired Companies.\u201d Survey respondents are senior executives, directors and securities analysts, and the questions asked seemingly relate indirectly or directly to the investment value of the companies named. Using lists for 1983 (survey inception) through 2004 (a total of 22 years) and associated stock return data for the publicly held companies on the lists, they conclude that:\nAcross the entire sample period, 214 publicly listed companies appear in the most admired lists. During their top-ten year, 57%-58% of these stocks outperform the S&P 500 index.\nA series of equally-weighted portfolios formed/reformed from Fortune\u2019s most admired companies each year on or shortly after list publication date generates average annualized returns of about 17.7%, compared to 13.0% for the S&P 500 index.\nWhen held for five years rather than one year, the annual Fortune portfolios exhibit multi-year outperformance, generating an average five-year gain of 242% versus 175% the S&P 500 index. (See the chart below.)\nThe following chart, taken from the paper, compares the average cumulative growth in wealth up to 1,250 trading days after formation for the individual Fortune most admired portfolios versus the S&P 500 index. On average, the Fortune portfolios continue to grow at a faster rate than the index for years after formation.\nThe paper includes lists of the ten most admired companies for 1983-2004.\nIn summary, investors may systematically undervalue the stocks of the most admired companies.\nNote that the study\u2019s Fortune portfolios are equally-weighted, whereas the S&P 500 index is value-weighted. Also, the Fortune portfolios involve mostly large-capitalization stocks that may have sector and value-growth tilts, whereas the S&P 500 index is broadly diversified. These differences argue against the S&P 500 index as the appropriate performance benchmark to test financial markets theory. Also, the study does not address trading costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 5119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyclingstage.com/cycling/andrew-talansky/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZG3NRUJ5U3XKCJTKF5UDU2J5DPYI7KP", "length": 506, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cyclingstage.com", "title": "Andrew Talansky - Cyclingstage.com", "raw_content": "Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9: Recent winners\nThe Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 (formerly the Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9) is an eight-day stage race. It takes place in the French Dauphin\u00e9 region in early June. The road book contains several mountain stages - very often visiting climbs like the Mont Ventoux -, making it the perfect preparation for the Tour de France which follows soon after. Expect the riders on the Dauphine podium to have a big impact at the Tour. Cyclingstage.com presents the recent winners and record holders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 4734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailynews.com/2018/09/12/plan-for-short-term-homeless-housing-in-canoga-park-meets-resistance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:UHQ55FDCLOS64ZMRDPU5SANYW72QFDBH", "length": 4549, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.dailynews.com", "title": "Residents worry about proposed homeless shelter at former Canoga Park mental health facility \u2013 Daily News", "raw_content": "Residents worry about proposed homeless shelter\u2026\nResidents worry about proposed homeless shelter at former Canoga Park mental health facility\nLos Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl has proposed turning a former mental health facility in Canoga Park, at 7621 Canoga Ave. sceen here on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, into a shelter. Part of the funds could also come from the city of LA, with Councilman Bob Blumenfield considering putting his portion of the mayor\u00d5s $20 million Bridge Home initiative toward that effort. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)\nPUBLISHED: September 12, 2018 at 12:00 pm | UPDATED: October 30, 2018 at 2:23 pm\nA proposed project in Canoga Park that would offer short-term housing for homeless people drew dozens of residents and community leaders to a meeting on Tuesday night, where some pushed back on the plan.\nL.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl\u2019s project envisions turning a former mental-health facility into short-term housing at 7621 Canoga Ave.\nIn June, Kuehl introduced a motion that allowed the county to enter an agreement with property owner Gelb Enterprises and keep the site off the market for six months while the county tries to decide whether to purchase it.\nThe County Department of Mental Health formerly occupied the property but it terminated the lease in 2017 and moved the department to another location.\nRELATED STORY: Homeless shelter proposed at former Canoga Park mental health facility\nBut the idea did not sit well with some current residents \u2014 an issue across L.A. and the Valley, where communities and their leaders are struggling with the need to house an increasingly visible homeless population in the face of neighborhood opposition to such housing.\nRELATED STORY: Homeless housing proposal has some worried in Sherman Oaks\nShort-term housing is part of Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s initiative to add about 1,500 new beds for homeless residents in all parts of L.A.\nOne resident on Tuesday worried that the proposed site will be near the Canoga Park Elementary School, where his daughter studies.\n\u201cThat\u2019s a dumb idea to put a homeless place near the school,\u201d he said, adding that he worried that the shelter would lead to a spike in crimes involving children.\nDuring the Tuesday\u2019s meeting, Molly Rysman, homelessness deputy for L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, said the reason the county decided to purchase the property in Canoga Park is because her office has seen a dramatic increase in homeless population over the last few years, with little help available in the West San Fernando Valley area.\nRELATED STORY: Homeless shelter supporters line San Pedro street with candles and a message\nShe added that the new project would help homeless people who live in the area to apply for housing in their neighborhood. The county is currently \u201cexploring the feasibility\u201d of the plan, Rysman said, and officials won\u2019t make any decision until December.\nThe facility, which could potentially house about 80 people, will be open seven days a week, offering mental health services, a space for pets and outdoor smoking area.\n\u201cWe are not going to turn people away because they have a pet and belongings,\u201d Rysman said, adding that future residents will be allowed to stay until they find permanent housing.\nRELATED STORY: LA\u2019s Mayor Garcetti signs order fast-tracking homeless shelters\nResidents expressed concerns about safety, saying they were scared to walk in the areas where homeless people congregate.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good location at all,\u201d said Linda Solar who has lived in Canoga Park since 1975. \u201cWhere are they going to go during the day? Are they going to hang around in the neighborhood?\u201d\nBut Rysman said the proposed facility will offer case-management services and other programs designed to keep the future tenants busy.\nCanoga Park bridge-housing project is still on the table as a west Valley effort to deal with homelessness\nLA County\u2019s homeless youth are harder to find, but each year volunteers seek to count them\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a locked facility, but we want to make sure it is engaging enough, so there is no reason for hanging out in the community,\u201d she said.\nSolar, a Canoga Park resident, said she was worried that despite a construction boom in Woodland Hills\u2019 Warner Center, homeless people who leave the interim housing program would struggle to find affordable apartments in the West Valley.\n\u201cI get upset that the city is allowing this construction but is not solving the homelessness problem,\u201d she said. \u201cEverything is sky-high in terms of pricing here.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 9849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dasautoshippers.com/blog/category/Fraud_and_scam_prevention", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BBSIYL5OK2WVPDKNF3QNXQKS4UG2NZBU", "length": 203, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dasautoshippers.com", "title": "Dependable Auto Shippers Blog | Fraud and scam prevention", "raw_content": "If you've never been a victim of fraud, you're lucky!The FBI's 2017 Internet Crime Report reveals the agency received over 300,000 complaints of fraud totalling over $1.4 billion in losses... read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 175.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/42875/1/missy-elliott-first-female-rapper-in-the-songwriters-hall-of-fame-supa-dupa-fly", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CQBVWJPRHEYBKQO4TFNXBH2K5MTSFWS2", "length": 1206, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.dazeddigital.com", "title": "Missy Elliott is the first female rapper in the Songwriters Hall of Fame | Dazed", "raw_content": "courtesy of Instagram/@missymisdemeanorelliott\nMissy Elliott is the first female rapper in the Songwriters Hall of Fame\nMissy Elliott\u2019s nomination for a place in the Songwriters Hall of Fame was announced in November 2018, but now it\u2019s been confirmed. She\u2019s the first female rapper to earn the accolade, following the first rapper, Jay-Z\u2019s entry in 2017.\nOther 2019 inductees include Yusuf/Cat Stevens, American country singer John Prine, and a couple of other singer-songwriters.\nSpecifically mentioned in the announcement of Missy Elliot\u2019s induction is the song \u201cThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)\u201d from her 1997 debut album of the same name, Supa Dupa Fly. There\u2019s also a comment from Nile Rodgers, SHOF Chairman, in the release.\n\u201cThe 2019 slate of inductees represents diversity and unity across genres and gender, highlighting our dedicated mission to honor music creators who have enriched our lives,\u201d he says. \u201cThese are writers who in their time literally transformed music and helped make what\u2019s happening today possible.\u201d\nMissy will receive her official induction at the organisation\u2019s 50th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, on June 13.\nMusicNewsMissy Elliott", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 191.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delawarenorth.com/extra-pages/hospitality-forbes-spotlight", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:I7M6IX6O4G7R3XFVMLX6CF3357UVCHWV", "length": 1914, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.delawarenorth.com", "title": "The 10 Companies That Fascinate Americans The Most", "raw_content": "The 10 Companies That Fascinate Americans The Most\nForbes published a piece spotlighting 10 companies that are highly appealing to Americans, and Delaware North topped the list.\nThe piece, titled \u201cThe 10 Companies That Fascinate Americans The Most,\u201d called to attention Delaware North\u2019s growth \u2013 including its winning bid this summer to expand operations at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport \u2013 and sited the company\u2019s popularity on Glassdoor, a website that serves as a one-stop-shop source of information for job-seekers.\n\u201cJob-seekers doing Internet research on interesting opportunities, and those investigating the work prospects at this 60,000-employee company, have been clicking on all sorts of information about the firm,\u201d the article said. \u201cOver the last few months, Glassdoor, the eight-year-old website known for the salary information, company reviews and interview descriptions it offers on 400,000 companies around the world, has been working on a new tool it launched last week called Glassdoor Trends. The tool allows users to see which companies are attracting the most interest among Glassdoor users.\u201d\nDelaware North was among the companies with the greatest increase, by percentage, of Glassdoor activity over the previous three months.\n\u201cThis information can be useful for job-seekers in various ways,\u201d the article continued. \u201cIf you\u2019re interested in working at Delaware North, it\u2019s helpful to know that many other people are, too. You can also investigate job titles, salaries, how current employees feel about working there and, if you get a job interview, what questions to expect. Writes one current cashier in Buffalo, where the company is based: \u2018Advancement opportunity. Nationwide, international job opportunities in travel/hospitality, sports services, gaming, corporate. Some jobs are union. Well established company.\u2019\u201d\nRead the full piece here: http://tinyurl.com/nm8veta.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deliciousisrael.com/blog/theelmaartscomplexluxuryhotel", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UH4V5LU5Q2V7CSGCPQ66ENFV4XYOF6GY", "length": 1815, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.deliciousisrael.com", "title": "Living Art at The Elma Hotel in Zichron Ya'akov \u2014 Delicious Israel", "raw_content": "Living Art at The Elma Hotel in Zichron Ya'akov\nOne of Israel's most beautiful destinations for food and wine lovers is near Zichron Ya'akov, just south of Haifa. The Elma Arts Complex Luxury Hotel in Zichron Ya\u2019akov has us excited, intrigued and engrossed in the genius of the atmosphere. The hotel is a piece of art in itself, designed by the award-winning architect Yaakov Rechter, and serves as more than a hotel - it is a piece of art in itself, encouraging the creation of art. The innovative structure is wedged in mountains of the northern coastline of Israel and boasts views of the Mediterranean Sea.\nThe hotel prides itself on mastering \u201cThe art of hospitality. The Hospitality of art\u201d, meaning that the beautiful architecture of the building and the interior design invites visitors and the art stays with the customers long after they leave.\nThis immersion in art is carried over into the hotel\u2019s restaurants, where they treat plates like a canvas. The hotel offers restaurant options ranging a casual espresso bar to a poolside grill to an upscale dining bistro, Oratorio. The hotel\u2019s two musical performance halls also offer fantastic food to play with your palate while you enter the trance of the production.\nThe facility offers two elaborate art galleries, four artists studios where they let artists stay and work on their work, four amphitheaters, an Orchestra pit, and interactive classes conducted by the resident artists. Art is known to enrich life and the hotel believes that art should not be pushed to the status of a side dish and looked upon as lesser, rather it should be the main event, entree!\nTagged: zichron yaakov, wine country, Hotel, north, arts complex, elma, Boutique Hotel, haifa\nNewer PostPersian Feasting with Onward Israel, Cleveland\nOlder PostHummus: Not Just a Condiment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.demilec.com/Blog/2011/October/Brian-Cote-promoted-to-Territory-Manager-in-the-.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:49Z", "digest": "sha1:I2DKONTR4LEZEBFHGLZSEFKTPWNPPWX3", "length": 1383, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.demilec.com", "title": "Brian Cote promoted to Territory Manager in the North East", "raw_content": "Brian Cote promoted to Territory Manager in the North East\nDemilec USA has recently promoted Brian Cote to the position of Territory Manager for the Northeastern United States. His territory covers Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Brian has been a Technical Service Representative in this area for the past one and a half years and is looking forward to his expanded role as a Territory Manager.\nBrian comes from a military background, consisting of 13 years in the Army where he served as a Sergeant 1st Class. He has a 15 year background in the spray foam insulation and construction industry and has extensive experience with everything from residential construction to high profile commercial work. Starting as a spray foam rig helper and working up to a site supervisor for a team of 5 rigs, Brian has knowledge of all aspects of the spray foam business. He has worked extensively on many large commercial projects and has expertise with open and closed cell foam, as well as specialty products such as pour in place foams. His building science and technical knowledge will guarantee our customers are spraying and receiving the best foam every time.\nIf you have any questions for Brian or are looking to get into the spray foam industry in the northeast, please feel free to contact him at (203) 767-3215 or by calling (817) 640-4900.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 10333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2006/10/30/ad-watch-three-wrongs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EH2RMVWLE2VG3NGDFJOIBRLFLHN6MNME", "length": 1089, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", "title": "Ad watch: \u201cThree Wrongs\u201d \u2013 The Denver Post", "raw_content": "Ad watch: \u201cThree Wrongs\u201d\nTitle: \u201cThree Wrongs\u201d\nType: Television commercial\nSponsor: Rick O\u2019Donnell for Congress\nMessage: The Democratic candidate in the 7th Congressional District, Ed Perlmutter, would raise federal taxes, provide illegal aliens billions in government benefits and cut defense spending.\nFact: Perlmutter has said that he would roll back tax cuts extended in 2001 and 2003 that benefit the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation, but he has said he wants to keep intact tax cuts for the middle class. He also has said that he believes in providing a path for citizenship to illegal immigrants who have broken no laws other than working illegally, but he has said he does not want them to be entitled to government benefits unless they become citizens. Perlmutter also has not called for a reduction in defense spending. He did say in an Oct. 3 debate: \u201cIf you\u2019re going to cut revenues by giving to the wealthiest 1 percent and then you\u2019re going to raise expenses by prosecuting a war in Iraq at $2 billion a week, your budget is going to be in shambles.\u201d\n\u2013 Christopher N. Osher", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 297, "original_length": 7208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2009/07/21/young-tune-in-to-health-reform/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:USIKYKKH6NXNBCL5L7YIQQ2Y6REP7T6Q", "length": 3230, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", "title": "Young tune in to health reform \u2013 The Denver Post", "raw_content": "Young tune in to health reform\nEmily Weinstein makes jewelry at her home in Portland, Ore., on Monday. Weinstein, 23, hasn\u2019t been able to make much money, which has put health insurance out of reach.\nEmily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelrymaker, she\u2019ll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year.\nHealth insurance is out of reach, so she avoids thinking about what would happen if she got sick, was hurt in a traffic accident or was severely burned while making a silver necklace in her home studio.\n\u201cWould I have to declare bankruptcy at age 23, or would my parents have to bail me out?\u201d asked Weinstein, of Portland, Ore. \u201cWhat would I do?\u201d\nLike millions of other uninsured adults in their 20s, Weinstein is watching Congress as it advances legislation to overhaul health care. The recession has deepened young adults\u2019 career struggles. It also has sharpened their interest in health insurance.\nAlready the least likely age group to have coverage, adults in their 20s face brutal job searches and more time uninsured because of the recession.\nNearly 30 percent, 13.2 million, were uninsured in 2007, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based research center.\nMany young adults work entry-level jobs without insurance and, despite new laws in some states, they\u2019re eventually too old to stay on their parents\u2019 policies.\nBen Brenner, now 23, couldn\u2019t find work in finance, his preferred field. After a four-month search, he took a part-time job for a small real-estate agency in Deerfield, Ill., for an hourly rate and no health benefits. He was able to stay insured as a dependent on his stepmother\u2019s plan until December. Then he went without insurance briefly.\nNow he has a $5,000 deductible he calls \u201cabsurdly high\u201d and pays $53 a month through a plan designed for young adults. He \u201cfelt relieved knowing I had an insurance card in my wallet.\u201d\nHe supports the Obama administration\u2019s push to cover more Americans and lower the cost of health care but is unsure how he feels about tax increases to pay for it. He\u2019s in favor of requiring everyone to have health insurance.\n\u201cI think it should be mandatory to have insurance because if you\u2019re uninsured and you go to the hospital, the taxpayers are footing the bill anyway,\u201d he said.\nA June survey for the Kaiser Family Foundation found young adults don\u2019t vary much from their elders in views on health care, said public opinion researcher Mollyann Brodie of Kaiser.\nBut twentysomethings were nearly twice as likely as senior citizens to say they would be \u201cbetter off\u201d if President Barack Obama and Congress reformed the health care system. Those in their 20s were more likely than senior citizens to say they would be willing to pay more so that more Americans could be insured.\nThe nationally representative random sample of 1,205 adults was conducted by land line and cellphone by Princeton Survey Research Associates.\nSome features in the health care plans working their way through Congress would benefit young adults. Depending on their income, they could qualify for subsidies on insurance premiums or, for the poorest, expansion of Medicaid. One plan allows them to stay on their parents\u2019 policies until age 26.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 306, "original_length": 9401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/10/donald-trump-visits-border-tout-wall-government-shutdown-continues/2526943002/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SJ2GFYI7GJ7W3XFVCZ3LBNBRAFBJWVGK", "length": 499, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.desmoinesregister.com", "title": "Shutdown: Donald Trump visits border to tout wall as impasse continues", "raw_content": "Government shutdown: Trump tours border, claims Democrats 'losing the argument' President Donald Trump touted his proposed border wall during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/10/donald-trump-visits-border-tout-wall-government-shutdown-continues/2526943002/\nDavid Jackson, John Fritze and Michael Collins, USA TODAY Published 11:30 p.m. CT Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 8:29 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 454, "original_length": 42226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dhimanrajeshdhiman.com/2019/01/how-to-find-area-bounded-by-three-lines-and-circle.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:T5QY5PRUJXSTQJ6ALSMY2R6XTMC22HEV", "length": 2245, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.dhimanrajeshdhiman.com", "title": "HOW TO FIND AREA BOUNDED BY THREE LINES AND CIRCLES , AREA UNDER CURVES BY INTEGRATION METHOD ~ Simplifying Mathematics in simple way, Integration,differentiation,trigonometry,matrix,determinant", "raw_content": "HOW TO FIND AREA BOUNDED BY THREE LINES AND CIRCLES , AREA UNDER CURVES BY INTEGRATION METHOD\nHow to find common area of three lines and one circles which are intersecting at different points with the help of an example.\nGiven Lines and Curves\nConsider one circle and three lines whose equations are given below\n( x - 1 )2 + y2 = 12 ......................(1)\ny = x .....................(2)\ny = -\u221a3 (x-2) .....................(3)\ny = 0 .....................(4)\nLet us draw these lines and circle in coordinate planes, We can compare the equation of circle with standard form of circle to find the coordinate of centre of the circle is (1,0) and radius of both the circles is 1.\nHow To Draw Figure\n1st of all check whether these lines intersect with circle or not . And if these lines intersect with each other or with circle then what are their coordinates of points of intersections.\nSolve (1) and (2)\nPutting the value of 'y' from (2) in equation (1), we get\n( x - 1 )2 + x2 = 12\n\u21d2 x2 + 12 -2\u00d71\u00d7x +x2 = 12\n\u21d2 -2x +x2 = 0\n\u21d2 2x(-1+x) = 0\nEither 2x= 0 or (-1+x) = 0\n\u21d2 x = 0 or x = 1\nNow putting the values of x in (2) we get\nx = 0 when x = 0 and y = 1 when x = 1\nTherefore points of intersection of (1) and (2) are\nO( 0 , 0 ) and A( 1, 1 )\n( x - 1 )2 + [-\u221a3 (x-2)]2 = 12\n\u21d2 x 2 + 1 2 - 2x + 3 (x-2)2 = 1\n\u21d2 x 2 + 1- 2x + 3 [ x 2 +4 - 4x] =1\n\u21d2 x 2 + 1- 2x + 3x 2 + 12 - 12x -1 = 0\n\u21d2 4x 2 - 14x +12 = 0\n\u21d2 2x 2 - 7x + 6 = 0 , By Factorisation Method\n\u21d2 2x 2 - 4x - 3x + 6 = 0\n\u21d2 2x(x-2) -3( x - 2) = 0\n\u21d2 (x-2)( 2x - 3) = 0\nEither (x-2) = 0 or ( 2x - 3) = 0\nx = 2 and x = 3/2\nTo find the values of y , put both the values of 'x' in (3) .i.e. in y = -\u221a3 (x-2)\nwhen x = 2 , then y = 0\nand x = 3/2 , then y = \u221a3 /2\nC( 2 , 0 ) and B( 3/2, \u221a3 /2 )\nis the coordinate of Point of intersection of Line (2) and (3)\nSame problem with the help of this Video \u21ca\nRequired Area = Shaded Area = Area of \u0394OAL + Area of Curve ABMLA+ Area of \u0394 BCM\nAfter simplification , we get\nThanks for visiting this website and spending your valuable time to read this post regarding how to find area bounded by three lines and circle .If you liked this post , don't forget to share it with your friends to benefit them also ,we shall meet in next post , till then bye and take care......", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dietdoctor.com/our-5-most-popular-video-of-2018-tim-noakes-on-trial", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YQHTZGCAQ42WOK2QFALS5266IKY7YS7C", "length": 834, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dietdoctor.com", "title": "Our #5 most popular video of 2018: Tim Noakes on trial \u2014 Diet Doctor", "raw_content": "Our #5 most popular video of 2018: Tim Noakes on trial\nOut of all the videos we published in 2018, this was the #5 most popular one.\nIn 2014, Professor Tim Noakes was reported to the Health Professions Council of South Africa for giving unprofessional dietary advice. He advocated a low-carb, high-fat diet \u2013 in a tweet. And this tweet came close to ending his career.\nHere\u2019s the amazing story of Noakes\u2019 fight, interviews with participants, and video from the court, in a Diet Doctor mini documentary: Tim Noakes on trial.\nTim Noakes is a hero in todays world eyes because he had the courage to stand up against the system where no one wants to admit that they could be wrong. \"When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest.\" Tim Noakes had the guts to stand up and be honest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 4532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2017/06/e3-2017-kalypso-has-quietly-been-one-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:K3NNDHZQV44FGTCROXOSKQV3MRPW7U5L", "length": 2616, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.digitallydownloaded.net", "title": "E3 2017: Kalypso has quietly been one of the best publishers at the show - Digitally Downloaded E3 2017: Kalypso has quietly been one of the best publishers at the show - Digitally Downloaded", "raw_content": "Home > Tropico 6 > E3 2017: Kalypso has quietly been one of the best publishers at the show\nE3 2017: Kalypso has quietly been one of the best publishers at the show\nOne of the publishers that you're not going to hear too much about is Kalypso. It's largely a simulator specialist, and doesn't get a whole lot of media coverage; not when there are games featuring evisceration for the media to talk about instead.\nBut make no bones about it. Kalypso has had a really good E3, and this is largely because of two games. The first is Railway Empire, coming to PC and console in 2018. This is a modern take on titles like Transport Tycoon, A-Train, and Industry Giant II (which, incidentally, is also available on PS4, and is worthwhile in its own right).\nRelated reading: While you wait for Railway Empire, play Industry Giant 2. It's awesome. Matt's review (please note the comment at the start regarding the score; the result of a bug since patched)\nRailway Empire has an impressive feature list, and really impressive trailer, which has us all kinds of excited for the potential to build up incredible rail networks:\nThe other really exciting Kalypso game in the works is the latest in the long-running satirical city builder, Tropico 6. While the tone to these games is light and hilarious, the games themselves are actually very fine city builders, and the kinds of titles that you can sink dozens of hours into at once.\nRelated reading: Matt's review of Tropico 5 on the PlayStation 4.\nThis new Tropico brings us its lightly political humour (one or two digs in there at Donald Trump, and good on 'em), with some significant new enhancements to make the game the best and most robust title in the franchise to date; trailer and feature set below.\nThis game is also due on both consoles and PC at some point in 2018.\nPlay on large archipelagos for the first time in the series. Manage multiple islands at the same time and adapt to various new challenges.\nSend your agents on raids to foreign lands to steal world wonders and monuments, to add them to your collection.\nBuild bridges, construct tunnels and transport your citizens and tourists in taxis, buses and aerial cable cars. 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Address the people and make promises that you can\u2019t possibly keep.\nCooperative and competitive multiplayer for up to four players.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dipacci.com.au/brand/kees-van-der-westen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:56Z", "digest": "sha1:QW27XV7DOXKGNWYZRJ7XWDORM5LTRVDX", "length": 287, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dipacci.com.au", "title": "Kees Van Der Westen", "raw_content": "Kees Van Der Westen is an innovative Dutch coffee machine manufacturer. They are well known for producing high end machines with a retro exterior and have achieved a cult like following globally. The machines are hand crafted in the Netherlands using only the finest parts and materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 3357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.direporter.com/tag/pma", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:VAJSMXQT43W25BH6UBJXFM3UB57NMTQA", "length": 1760, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.direporter.com", "title": "Pma Archives - Digital Imaging Reporter", "raw_content": "Home Tags Posts tagged with \"Pma\"\nSince the decline of PMA, our industry has been looking for a trade show or convention to embrace. 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Since starting her career at British Sky Broadcasting as a digital intern, Gaynor has gained a wealth of experience editing and writing for a number of websites, as well as working with clients to produce digital advertorial campaigns.\nBefore joining DJS Research, Gaynor is most proud of being part of a small team of mums who helped grow a local Facebook page into a successful national website for parents with a network of over 200 local editors. The team\u2019s achievements were recognised in 2015 with a Big Chip Award for digital excellence.\nGaynor keeps the DJS website up-to-date and brings you the latest need-to-know company news and notable insights \u2013 as well as managing our social media channels.\nAside from producing content , Gaynor has also managed a Market Research viewing facility and has experience conducting research interviews by phone and face-to-face.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.doctorwaynesuway.com/blog/category/news-and-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KYSOVMWALTVJWN7QXNJJVZWUL7YXM4RJ", "length": 915, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.doctorwaynesuway.com", "title": "News and Information Archives | Doctor Wayne Suway Blog", "raw_content": "Did you know that up to 35% of your tooth surface is missed if you don\u2019t floss your teeth? Flossing is an important part of your dental hygiene routine. It should be done on a daily basis. However, how you floss is up to you. There are many different ways to floss your teeth. While \u2026 Read More\nWhen you consider ways you can improve your oral health, you likely think about brushing, flossing and seeing your dentist for regular cleanings & checkups. These are three very important steps. However, the condition and health of your mouth can also be drastically affected by what you eat and drink. In other words, what you \u2026 Read More\nPerhaps you remember hearing as a child the simple adage, \u201cYou are what you eat.\u201d It may have seemed silly at the time \u2013 I mean really, who is going to turn into a piece of candy or a giant piece of pizza? 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We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Site.\nInformation Collected There will be times, such as when you communicate with us by e-mail, or request a quote, etc., when we will need to obtain personally identifiable information from you or about you (Such personally identifiable information may include your name, address, residence information, e-mail address, telephone number).\nThe information we receive may be used by us or shared by us with our corporate affiliates, agents, vendors and other third parties to help process your request; to help improve our website or the products or services we offer; for research; to better understand our customers\u2019 needs; to develop new offerings; and to alert you to new products and services (of us or our business associates) in which you may be interested. We may also combine information you provide us with information about you that is available to us internally or from other sources. We believe that knowing more about you can enable us to serve you better.\nWe may also aggregate your personal information with others\u2019 information and prepare reports on site usage, quote request history or other factors for sale or distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and include no personally identifying information. Finally, we may use your personal information to send you email or postal communications regarding products or services offered by us or by third parties with whom we have relationships in which we think you may be interested. We do not share, sell, trade or rent your personal information to third parties for unknown reasons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to Door To Door Auto Transport, as well as to facilitate, complete, or confirm any transaction that you may enter into or responding to your inquiry or request. All information provided by consumers may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.\nCookies We may place \u201ccookies\u201d on your personal computer. \u201cCookies\u201d are small identifiers sent from a web server and stored on your computer\u2019s hard drive, similar to a license plate, that help us to recognize you if you visit our website again. Also, our site uses cookies to track how you found our site. Cookies are not designed to obtain data from your hard drive, your e-mail or any other personal data about you. To protect your privacy we do not use cookies to store or transmit any personal information about you on the Internet. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings. Please note, however, that if you reject our cookies it is possible that some web pages may not properly load, your access to certain information might be denied or you might have to enter information about yourself more than once.\nUpdating or deleting your information You may update or delete your information at any time prior to submitting any request to us. Once a request form is completed and submitted, you will not be able to change any of the information. Additionally, please be advised that once you have submitted your request and the information has been received by our corporate affiliates, agents, vendors and other third parties this information is no longer under our control.\nSecurity We safeguard your personal data during electronic transmission using known security standards and procedures. We restrict access to non-public personal information about you only to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and other procedural safeguards to comply with applicable privacy laws to guard your personal information. We also assess new technology for protecting sensitive customer information on an ongoing basis. However, if your information is forwarded to a third party provider, your information will be transmitted according to the security and privacy policies of that dealership or third party provider whose privacy practices may differ from ours. Your information as shared with outside providers will become subject to those different privacy policies.\nDue to federal and state regulations, we are required to keep a copy of your information for a period of 3 years. Over this period, we will maintain all such data in a confidential and secure area that third parties will not be allowed to access.\nThird Party Advertising We may use third-party advertising companies when you visit our website. These companies use non-personally identifiable information regarding your visit to this website and other sites, such as the user IP address, pages viewed, date and time of your visit, and number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), to serve ads to you on this site and other sites that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.\nTrademark and Copyright Information Everything on our website is copyrighted (unless otherwise noted) and may not be used except with our express written consent. Use of these images by you or other third parties is prohibited and may violate the copyright laws, trademark laws, privacy laws and other laws and regulations. Nothing contained on this site may be construed as granting any license or right to use any of our trademarks or service marks without our prior written consent.\nDoor To Door Auto Transport is committed to safeguarding your privacy online, and has designed our business practices to safeguard [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 11854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dovesharprudicel.com/notices/Dianna-Montgomery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:S7VA5E6SET33XBTQAQO33PYSRW5YH5P5", "length": 1145, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dovesharprudicel.com", "title": "Obituary for Dianna Lynn Montgomery | Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Dianna Lynn Montgomery\nDianna Lynn Montgomery, 66, of Greensburg, passed away on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis.\nBorn December 15, 1952, in Madison, Dianna was the daughter of Thelma (Horner) Davis and the late William Montgomery.\nDianna worked for McDonalds and Wendy\u2019s in Louisville, Kentucky and enjoyed watching NASCAR.\nSurvivors include her sons, Robbie (Shelia) Sanders of Radcliff, Kentucky, William Sanders of Greensburg, Steven Sanders of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Jerry Sanders of Bedford; daughter, Jeannie Riley of Carrollton, Kentucky; mother, Thelma Davis of North Vernon; sisters, Rhonda Vinson and Kim McDermit, both of Taylorsville; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.\nShe was preceded in death by her father and a brother, David Davis.\nA funeral service for Dianna will be conducted at 5:00 p.m. Friday, January 25, 2019, at the Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home and Cremation Service in North Vernon with the Rev. Dan Corbin officiating. Family and Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday, from 3:00 p.m. until time of service. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drive.com.au/new-car-showroom/chrysler", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NYLLSRKOYNM4GR4A4F4MKWAQ5DDF7J6X", "length": 1114, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.drive.com.au", "title": "New Chrysler Cars For Sale | Drive.com.au", "raw_content": "Chrysler New car showroom\nThe company\u2019s skyscraping Manhattan headquarters is arguably as iconic as its most notable vehicles, such as the 300. Walter Chrysler began the history of the \u2018Pentastar\u2019 brand when he made tracks from the railroad business to the car industry in 1911. After a stint at Buick, where he became president, Chrysler Motor Corporation was formed out of the Maxwell Motor Company. With its multiple brands that included Plymouth and Dodge, Chrysler established itself as one of America\u2019s biggest car companies \u2013 and one famous for its Hemi V6 and V8 engines. An Australian subsidiary was formed in 1951 to build and sell cars locally, the most memorable of which is the 1971 Valiant Charger. The Chrysler badge \u2013 though not all nameplates \u2013 disappeared when Mitsubishi took over local operations, before the US car maker returned as an importer (initially with Jeep in 1994). After the failed 1998 DaimlerChrysler \u201cmerger of equals\u201d and a liquidation scare in 2008, Fiat stepped in to save the company and form FiatChrysler in 2009.\n3.6 \u2013 6.4 Litre\n9.7 \u2013 13 L/ 100 km\nnew-car-showroom-chrysler", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 3977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.driven.co.nz/news/news/how-formula-e-paves-the-way-for-electric-cars-on-and-off-track/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GOEUKE53IJ5RR4B77MXBKHP7A22LGGKI", "length": 4369, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.driven.co.nz", "title": "How Formula E paves the way for electric cars on and off track - News - Driven", "raw_content": "Home / News / How Formula E paves the way for electric cars on and off track\nHow Formula E paves the way for electric cars on and off track\nDragon driver Jose Maria Lopez takes the green flag for the first race in the Formula E championship in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Photo / AP\nUnplug and go. Filling up a car is as simple as that, even if it's not gas flowing through the nozzle. Electricity is efficient.\nFormula E, a global electric auto racing series, steers the way \u2014 toward the future of not only its sport but also its industry.\n\"You don't realize it,\" Mahindra Racing team principal Dilbagh Gill said, \"but the second car from today that you're going to buy is going to be an electric car.\"\nAmerica is one of Formula E's biggest targets. So, for the second consecutive time since the series' inception in 2014, Formula E took on the Brooklyn streets for a season-finale doubleheader of its 12-race schedule.\nThe track length is 2.373 kilometers with Lower Manhattan in the backdrop as well as the Statue of Liberty.\nTecheetah's Jean-Eric Vergne became the fourth different driver to win the championship and Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler took home the overall team title. Confetti at the finish line marked the end of an era.\nIn January, Formula E unveiled its new Gen2 car for next season. The current cars have a maximum power of 200kW, limited to 180kW during races, and they top out at 225 kph (140 mph). This model has been around since the series started and requires a mid-race car change because the battery runs out.\nThe Gen2 car will run faster and longer. No more swaps. Performance has basically been doubled in just four years without changing the battery's fundamental chemistry.\n\"I don't know if you remember before Formula E started, there was this whole perception that lithium batteries were a little bit dangerous \u2014 they were prohibited on airplanes, they caught fire on mobile phones,\" Panasonic Jaguar Racing sporting manager Gary Ekerold said. \"Since we've run Formula E ... absolutely fine. Batteries are proven to be safe.\"\nBut they're still monitored. A dielectric \u2014 non-conductor \u2014 fluid in the battery keeps it cool while the car runs. There's also a battery management system that constantly records data, monitoring temperature and voltage.\nWhen the car is charging, dry-ice blowers \u2014 Super Chillers \u2014 connect to the car and prevent overheating.\nIt takes less than an hour to recharge a drained battery.\n\"It's going to start reaching a stage where the time it takes to fill up your gas \u2014 4 minutes and 40 seconds on average \u2014 is going to be the time it takes to charge your car,\" Gill said.\nTeams are given identical batteries. The chassis, or bodies, of the cars are also the same. Where teams can get creative are places such as the electric motor, inverter, powertrain and gearbox. Manufacturers get involved here.\nEveryday car names occupy pit lane. Audi and Jaguar already have teams. Nissan and BMW will next season. 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As you increase your speed, you just start hearing wind.\"\nTo spectators, the whizzing equates to an amplified toy car, go-kart or scooter. All electric, of course.\nIt's not that disruptive to the public.\nElectric cars are the way of the future. They're already racing on city streets. They go rain or shine \u2014 only stop for thunder or lightning. 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You can not hope that the GC you picked will stay on top of this, even though they should.\nWhen remodeling is almost complete, then it\u2019s time to interview the candidates for your medical staff and support staff, like clerical, managers, janitorial, administrative staff who are experts in filing insurance claims, and case workers. Also, shop for the best comprehensive insurance coverage not only for the facility, but for your new staff and for any liability issues. Once you have your staff and your insurance in place, then it\u2019s time to apply for accreditation and certifications, this will help immensely when it comes to applying for any additional funding available and will keep you in good standing with the community at large.\nAdvertise in all the usual media and contact as many physicians in your area as possible and let them know you are open for business. You might also consider meeting with the local organization, such as the Elks, the Rotary Club and the Shriners and making date for you to introduce your business to rehabilitate substance abusers. Contacting all the councilors at all the local, junior high-schools, high-schools and colleges and give them brochures, then finally, contact all the hospitals in the area. Once all of this is done, you are on your way to opening a very successful Rehabilitation Center.\nThe pros & cons of using medical marijuana Drug Rehab & Alcohol Treatment Facilities Funding Addiction Treatment Choosing a Treatment Facility The War on Drugs- Is it time for a truce?\nAmyMarch 3, 2010 at 10:34 pm\nHow much capital in needed for the initial opening?\nHi , I would like to use my 19 room motel on 200 acres of land in notheast pa for a rehab center . 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When the time comes to commemorate the life of someone very special, or perhaps to plan for yourself, allow our expertise and creativity to assist you. 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More than 50,000 people participated in the 7.46-mile race, ranging from elite runners to those who ran in costume -- or nothing at all. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)\nA group of runners calling themselves a \"Tutu Twain\" steam along Fell Street during the 101st Bay to Breakers 12K footrace, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in San Francisco. More than 50,000 people participated in the 7.46-mile race, ranging from elite runners to those who ran in costume -- or nothing at all. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)\nThe Pink Brides -- Erik Ilyason, from left, Maher (goes by one name) and Todd Snook of San Francisco -- make their way through Golden Gate Park during the 101st Bay to Breakers 12K footrace, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in San Francisco. \"We're single and we're ready!\" deadpanned Snook. More than 50,000 people participated in the 7.46-mile race, ranging from elite runners to those who ran in costume -- or nothing at all. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)\nAn unidentified Roman warrior runs along Fell Street during the 101st Bay to Breakers 12K footrace, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in San Francisco. More than 50,000 people participated in the 7.46-mile race, ranging from elite runners to those who ran in costume -- or nothing at all. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)\nSAN FRANCISCO \u2014 An Ethiopian woman was the first to cross the finish line Sunday at the 101st annual Zazzle Bay to Breakers foot race in San Francisco.\nMamito Daska, 28, won the overall race with a time of 39 minutes and 2.4 seconds, race organizers said. Daska had placed second among women runners last year and third in 2010.\nThe man with the best race time was 25-year-old Sammy Kitwara, of Kenya, who finished at 34:40.5. 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Of course, the version of \"Interstellar Overdrive\" with Frank Zappa, long presumed lost, will now be familiar to most, but I'm sure this complete set will be of high interest to Floyd fans. As previously stated, the taper (JJB) didn't record everything, but when he did, he generally recorded complete sets. There are exceptions though, and Freedom is one of them - presumably after a few minutes the taper thought the band wasn't worth taping ? Still, better than nothing ! Also, there are obvious issues with the sound quality. Firstly, the tape recorder used was way below modern standards and the sound is nowhere near \"professional\" standards. Secondly, in order to save on batteries, the taper occasionally turned the recorder off between songs, resulting in a few truncated introductions. 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Children who undergo imaging procedures may need to be sedated to help keep them in proper position during testing and to help relieve anxiety and pain.\nComputed tomography (CT) scans use special X-ray systems that image the body from different angles and use computer processing to show a cross-section of the various tissues and organs pictured. CT scans, which expose patients to little radiation, are helpful in diagnosing cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.\nUltrasound or sonography, uses high frequency sound waves to see inside the body. A device that acts like a microphone and speaker is placed in contact with the body using ultrasound gel to transmit the sound. As the sound waves pass through the body, echoes are produced and bounce back to the transducer. These echoes can help doctors determine the location of a structure or abnormality, as well as information about its make up. Ultrasound is a painless way to examine internal organs such as the heart, liver, blood vessels, breast, kidney or gall bladder, and is most commonly known for its ability to examine a fetus in the mother\u2019s womb.\nNuclear medicine, which uses radioactive material to diagnose and determine the severity of disease, offers unique information about organs in the body that other imaging methods may not provide. This form of imaging can often identify abnormalities very early in the progression of a disease; this enables treatment to begin at the earliest stage of a disease. Nuclear medicine is used to diagnose and monitor a wide range of diseases, including various cancers, heart disease, endocrine, gastrointestinal and neurological disorders.\nMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses radio waves and a strong magnetic field to create clear, detailed images of internal organs and tissues. MRI uses radio waves, not X-ray, so no radiation exposure is involved. However, many studies require a small intravenous injection of a contrast agent. This agent does not contain iodine, an element used in other contrast agents for X-rays or CT scans. MRI is often used to evaluate or diagnose orthopedic (spine, extremity) or neurologic (brain, spinal cord) abnormalities.\nDuring an MRI, a patient must lie still on a table that slides inside a tunnel-shaped machine. Children sometimes find an MRI to be an anxiety-inducing experience, as the equipment can produce loud banging and whirring noises and they must lie still, sometimes for up to 90 minutes, in a small space. To help make the experience a more pleasant one for kids, technicians at Edinburg Children\u2019s Hospital uses the Vantage Titan 3T MRI. The system's powerful magnet speeds exam time for patients and is one of the quietest systems available. Because of it's \"open bore\" design, children may feel less claustrophobic and be able to undergo the scan without sedation. Patients having their spine or pelvis examined can rest with their head and lower extremities outside of the magnet and some patients can enter the scanner feet first. Pediatric MRI exams are also easier to perform and more comfortable as the components conform more closely to a child\u2019s anatomy for more accurate diagnoses.\nX-ray (also called radiography) uses a very small dose of radiation to produce pictures of the inside of the body. X-rays are the most frequently used form of medical imaging and they are also the oldest. They are often used to help see bone fracture, injuries or infections; they are also used to locate foreign objects in soft tissue. In some cases, X-ray exams are used in conjunction with an iodine-based contrast material, which is injected, to help doctors see certain organs, blood vessels or tissue.\nFluoroscopy is the study of moving body structures, similar to an X-ray movie.\u009d It is used in many various procedures, such as cardiac catheterization, biopsies, the visualization of joints and lumbar puncture. Fluoroscopy can also be used to locate foreign bodies and in the injection of anesthetics into joints or the spine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eifer.kit.edu/Shaping-New-Perspectives-Enhancing-Urban-Planning-by-Modelling-in-Lyon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TO2JYH2OIDEREC2DITT652BFUED7VKNM", "length": 3019, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.eifer.kit.edu", "title": "Shaping New Perspectives: Enhancing Urban Planning by Modelling in Lyon | Eifer News | English | EIfER - Europ\u00e4isches Institut f\u00fcr Energieforschung EDF-KIT EWIV", "raw_content": "Cities are complex systems that need to be understood comprehensively in order to preserve and improve their inhabitants\u2019 quality of life. Cross-sectoral activities and services, such as the provision of transport, energy and water infrastructure, as well as access to education and health care, have to be considered.\nIn the project Mod\u00e9lisation Urbaine Gerland (MUG), the M\u00e9tropole de Lyon is engaging in new planning methods and is eager to develop innovative tools thanks to a partnership that brings together competences in urban planning (\u201cAgence d\u2018Urbanisme de la M\u00e9tropole de Lyon\u201d), industrial research and infrastructure planning (EDF\u2019s R&D, Veolia Research and Innovation together with M\u00e9tropole de Lyon\u2019s relevant departments), as well as two start-ups in Lyon focusing on complex systems (The CoSMo Company), and an interactive platform, together with models on land use and population dynamics (ForCity). The district of Gerland in Lyon is an ideal laboratory in view of its ongoing urban transformation.\nEIFER is contributing to the project as a subcontractor of EDF\u2019s R&D. In this function, EIFER is developing models on residential refurbishment, energy poverty, district heating, e-charging infrastructure and PV potential. EIFER further provides input to the project in the domain of the urban heat island effect and an analysis of potential risks for the vulnerable population.\nThe four main objectives of this project are:\naccompanying the process of urban and social transition in the urban district of Gerland\nmerging visionary urban planning with computerised modelling\nlinking different domains in urban planning in a holistic and integrated manner\nproviding support for decision-making for the long-term development of the district of Gerland\nThe project intends to provide the M\u00e9tropole de Lyon with an interactive planning platform as a tool providing support for decision-making. This is made possible by the diverse competences of the project consortium, which allows urban challenges to be comprehensively integrated into computerised models, creating a tool that makes interrelations and interactions visible. Furthermore, the planning platform enables the planning authority of Lyon to develop different futures, to engage in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exchange and helps to break down the traditional silo approach to urban planning. This will be achieved via simulation and visualisation of interdependencies.\nThe project was launched in July 2014 and will be completed by December 2017. MUG is a public funded project financed in the EcoCit\u00e9 framework by Caisse des D\u00e9p\u00f4ts and Consignations. During the project duration the M\u00e9tropole de Lyon, EIFER and EDF organise conferences which inform on topics linked to the project MUG.\nIt is organised in 3 phases:\n2014-2015: Definition of topics and indicators\n2015-2016: Technical specifications, modelling and model coupling\n2016-2017: Tests and results\nVisit us online for more information about the project.\n(PDF \u2013 10.8 Mb)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elitedaily.com/life/3-reasons-ditch-corporate-route-start-life/1419321", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ITIOE7KNNWLVPSYMMN4PCME2FBYL5TLI", "length": 3930, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.elitedaily.com", "title": "The Only 3 Reasons You Should Ditch The Corporate Route For A Start-Up Life", "raw_content": "The Only 3 Reasons You Should Ditch The Corporate Route For A Start-Up Life\nBy Donte Ledbetter\nIf you've ever seen \"The Social Network,\" you were probably extremely motivated to start or join a tech startup after watching Jesse Eisenberg play Facebook pioneer Mark Zuckerberg. There's no doubt Facebook's success has made the idea of working for a tech startup cool and appealing. Tons of Millennials have given up their dreams of moving up the ranks of a Fortune 500 company in favor of free lunches, ping pong tables and wearing slippers and T-shirts on a daily basis.\nSome of these Millennials join tech startups in the hopes of eventually benefiting from a big, nine-figure acquisition or massive rounds of funding and Uber-like growth years later. But let me tell you, that dream is far from reality.\nNo matter what type of startup it is, if you're thinking about joining one, don't do it for the money. Working for a tech startup is not a totally bad idea for you financially. After all, if your tech startup does grow to a point where it's taken seriously by investors and competitors, you could be in for a nice salary. Tech startups that do well usually pay salaries above industry standard (with stock options and other perks).\nHowever, the big funding rounds and acquisitions we've seen time and time again over the past decade happen to very few startups. Not only that, startup employees have been screwed over tremendously due to their lack of understanding of startup economics. Just because your tech startup has experienced massive growth, that doesn't mean you're in for a big payday, especially if the company has outside investors. So, should you reconsider your start-up dream? If you're in it for the money, yes. Otherwise, keep reading.\nYou see, it turns out that working for a startup is actually pretty damn awesome if you believe in what the company is doing, want to have a significant role and actually like the culture and people. Here are three reasons why you should join that itty-bitty tech startup:\n1. Do it because you like thrills.\nThe startup world is confusing as hell. It can be really fun and fulfilling, but it can also make you question everything about money, business, and people. If you're the type who seeks stability and security, startups aren't for you. However, if you're the type who gets high off of not knowing what's going to happen next, a startup is waiting for you.\nThat's not to say startups don't have plans. Every business needs a plan and direction on how to grow. But quite often, these plans are derailed by multiple factors, including lack of demand for a product, running out of cash and even a risky culture. So if you're down for a roller coaster ride, go hit up AngelList today.\n2. Do it because you want to make an impact.\nAs a startup employee, you're expected to do a lot, sometimes even if you're not that qualified to do it. Startups have limited resources, so entrepreneurs will leverage any resource they have, including existing employees.\nStartups aren't the places where it's OK to get one thing done per day, hide behind your desk and go home at 4 pm. If you want to learn quickly, grow professionally, work a lot and have a significant impact on your company's bottom line, the start-up world is waiting for you.\n3. Do it because you believe in the product, the purpose and the people.\nWould you want to stay at an office until 8 pm doing work you care nothing about with people you absolutely hate? Me neither. Caring about what you do, why you do it and who you do it with will provide the ultimate motivation in your start-up career.\nOf course, not every startup has a noble purpose. Some are just companies trying to help other people make money. But if you believe in the purpose \u2014 professionally or personally \u2014 you'll feel much better about the work you do. It also helps if your startup cares about people \u2014 its employees and customers alike.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 4157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elkusandsisson.com/blog/2019/february/fraternal-order-of-police/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XNCJCCLKP3HIHWY25P2Y6QAC2H6ZK5LB", "length": 1639, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elkusandsisson.com", "title": "Fraternal Order of Police", "raw_content": "On October 15th the Executive Board of Lodge 27 FOP filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver in the United States District Court. The basis of the complaint maintains the Administration of the City and County of Denver changed the Career Service Authority rules last in a deliberate attempt to deprive Denver Deputy Sheriffs of a fair process to appeal a disciplinary action through the Career Service Authority (CSA) Appeals system. The administration accomplished this by drafting a new rule (Rule 20) thatonly pertained to Denver Deputy Sheriffs.\nThis new rule unfairly discriminates against Deputy Sheriffs by making them the only class of employees in the CSA system to which appeals are evaluated under a different standard of review. Specifically, Deputy Sheriffs are no longer allowed a de novo review hearing. This standard of review means the Administrative law Judge hearing the Appeal evaluates the Department of Safety\u2019s findings on any particular purported rule violation as if it were considering the question for the first time, affording no deference to the Department of Safety\u2019s prior decisions. As a result of the new Rule 20, Deputy Sheriffs are now required to \u201cbear the ultimate burden of proof in disciplinary appeals to show that the decision by the Department of Saftey was clearly erroneous and/or that the application of the disciplinary matrix was clearly erroneous.\u201d\nThis lawsuit was filed because they are trying to \u201cbust\u201d the union, in a deliberate attempt to limit the appellate rights of Deputy Sheriffs and subvert the Fraternal Order of Police. A copy of the Complaint may be accessed here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emaxhealth.com/51/6215.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OQZMXVS736ZTMCMKMUBUCV7VV6V5SIZ5", "length": 3143, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.emaxhealth.com", "title": "Drug Ads Aimed at Cancer Patients Difficult To Read | EmaxHealth", "raw_content": "Drug Ads Aimed at Cancer Patients Difficult To Read\nCancer Drug Promotions\nOncology drug advertisements that ran in patient-focused cancer magazines presented the drugs' benefits differently - earlier in the advertisement text and in larger type size - than their side effects or risks, according to an analysis by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The findings will be presented the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Atlanta.\n\"Direct-to-consumer advertising of oncology medications typically focuses on the drugs' benefits, as would be expected, but it does so in a manner that might lead some cancer patients to not appreciate equally the drugs' potential side effects and risks,\" says Gregory Abel, MD, MPH, the study's first author. \"Oncology providers should be aware of these advertisement characteristics, as they may influence patients' perceptions of and requests for these medications.\"\nAbel will present the data at a poster discussion session on Tuesday, June 6 at 8 a.m., Building A, Level 3, Room A 314.\nThe researchers reviewed all advertisements for oncology drugs that appeared in three cancer patient-focused magazines, CURE, Coping with Cancer and MAMM, in 2005. They analyzed the advertisement copy for readability using the Flesch Reading Ease measurement. They also assessed the type size and the placement of the benefits and side effects/risk information, as well as the advertisements' presentation of clinical trial data, apparent patient testimonials, images of patients, physicians and/or celebrities, and claims about effectiveness, social-psychological enhancements, ease of use, and/or safety.\nA total of 75 medication-specific advertisements appeared in the magazines, but only 15 were unique, as some of the advertisements ran repeatedly during the year. The advertisements were found to be difficult to read overall, but the text outlining the benefits had the highest readability score. Information about the drugs' benefits, on average, appeared in the top third of the advertisement text, while descriptions of side effects and risks typically ran in the bottom third. Also, the largest type size of the text explaining the benefits was about twice as large as the largest text outlining side effects and risks. Interestingly, the amount of text devoted to benefits versus risks and side effects was roughly the same.\nNone of the advertisements included information about costs or contained celebrity or physician endorsements. About two-thirds (67 percent) referenced clinical data and 80 percent contained images of patients.\n\"We found that appeals to medication safety are infrequent in oncology print direct-to-consumer advertisements, while appeals to medication effectiveness are ubiquitous and often made through the presentation of clinical trial data,\" explains Abel, who is also an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. \"Such appeals to the scientific efficacy of cancer-related medicines, while suitable in the setting of clinical encounters, may not be appropriate when made directly to consumers via language that is difficult to read.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emsa.com/en/products/freshness-guaranteed/food-storage-containers/clip-close-food-storage-containers-7-piece/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TLD7HWFPG3D7T3D2BRFYCHOZB2FGIC6X", "length": 435, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.emsa.com", "title": "CLIP & CLOSE food storage containers, 7-piece \u2013 EMSA", "raw_content": "CLIP & CLOSE food storage containers, 7-piece\nSizes: 5.1 fl. oz./0.15 L (\u00d8 3.6 x 2.3 in./\u00d8 9.2 x 5.9 in.), 8.4 fl. oz./0.25 L (4.0 x 4.0 x 2.3 in./10.2 x 10.2 x 5.8 cm), 18.6 fl. oz./0.55 L (6.4 x 4.4 x 2.3 in./16.3 x 11.3 x 5.8 cm), 18.6 fl. oz.*/0.55 L* (6.4 x 4.4 x 2.3 in./16.3 x 11.3 x 5.8 cm),3.8 fl. oz./1.00 L (7.7 x 5.3 x 2.7 in./19.5 x 13.5 x 7 cm), 77.8 fl. oz./2.30L (8.8 x 6.4 x 3.9 in./22.5 x 16.3 x 9.9 cm\n* with inserts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Eye_of_the_Beholder_3_The_Assault_On_Myth_Drannor_(1992)(Strategic_Simulations_Inc)/93287", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PKBOMS6PBIVQXAYAOK7INBAZ62BZA3TL", "length": 1634, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.emuparadise.me", "title": "Eye of the Beholder 3 The Assault On Myth Drannor (1992)(Strategic Simulations Inc) Game < DOS Games | Emuparadise", "raw_content": "Games \u00bb Abandonware \u00bb E \u00bb Eye of the Beholder 3 The Assault On Myth Drannor (1992)(Strategic Simulations Inc)\nEye of the Beholder 3 The Assault On Myth Drannor (1992)(Strategic Simulations Inc) Game\nThere are no descriptions available for Eye of the Beholder 3 The Assault On Myth Drannor (1992)(Strategic Simulations Inc) in our database. 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The most specialized genera have a reduced anterior adductor muscle and foot, and in some forms they are absent. The shells are variable in shape and composition; they may be aragonite, calcite, or both. They have a duplivincular ligament, unique to certain members of the subclass, and the dentition is variable. They first appeared in the Lower Ordovician.\n\"Pteriomorphia.\" A Dictionary of Zoology. . Encyclopedia.com. 15 Feb. 2019 .\n\"Pteriomorphia.\" A Dictionary of Zoology. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 15, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/pteriomorphia\n\"Pteriomorphia.\" A Dictionary of Zoology. . 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Since joining GAO in September of 2012, Dr. Brown used his expertise to develop a gastroenterology hospital service in all three of the Ocala area hospitals.\nDr. Brown, has turned his focus to treating office based patients and will provide services in our surgery center (Ocala Endoscopy ASC) in addition to maintaining his privileges in the hospitals.\nDr. Brown is board certified in Gastroenterology.\nDr. Brown completed his Gastroenterology training (fellowship) at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, and his internal medicine training (residency) with Summa Health system in Akron Ohio. Dr. Brown developed an expertise and interest in liver diseases and completed an extra year of training (Hepatology fellowship) at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a graduate of the West Virginia University School of Medicine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enelgreenpower.com/es/medios/press/d/2013/05/enel-green-power-board-of-directors-approves-results-at-march-31st-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2V2OIV7RLHGJG5GBEXXCRDMQ55E5U6L", "length": 663, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.enelgreenpower.com", "title": "ENEL GREEN POWER: BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES RESULTS AT MARCH 31ST, 2013 - enelgreenpower.com", "raw_content": "ENEL GREEN POWER: BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES RESULTS AT MARCH 31ST, 2013\nPublished on lunes, 6 mayo 2013\nTotal revenues: 724 million euros (599 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +20.9%)\nEBITDA: 478 million euros (379 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +26.1%)\nEBIT: 320 million euros (230 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +39.1%)\nGroup net income: 148 million euros (97 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +52.6%)\nNet financial debt: 5,125 million euros (4,614 million euros as of December 31st, 2012,+11.1%)\nNet installed capacity: 8,188 MW (7,201 MW as of March 31st, 2012, +13.7%)\nNet generation: 7.4 TWh (5.9 TWh as of March 31st, 2012, +25.4%)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enn.com/articles/29684-heavy-snow-in-china-causes-deaths-and-damage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ELZKQYCL6REO5YR2UNFWVZYXI3YT4FFV", "length": 2618, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.enn.com", "title": "Environmental News Network - Heavy snow in China causes deaths and damage", "raw_content": "Heavy snow in China causes deaths and damage\nPrevious Article Industrial air scrubbers may spread disease\nNext Article Trash crisis piles pressure on Italy minister\nBEIJING (Reuters) - Cold weather and heavy snow have struck unusually large swathes of central and eastern China, causing fatal accidents, bringing down power lines and destroying crops. Eleven people were killed when an overloaded bus overturned on a snow-covered highway in eastern China, police said on Monday, bringing the death toll from weather-related accidents over the weekend to at least 25.\nBy Jason Subler\nBEIJING (Reuters) - Cold weather and heavy snow have struck unusually large swathes of central and eastern China, causing fatal accidents, bringing down power lines and destroying crops.\nEleven people were killed when an overloaded bus overturned on a snow-covered highway in eastern China, police said on Monday, bringing the death toll from weather-related accidents over the weekend to at least 25.\nThe accident happened in Anhui province on Sunday when the bus carrying 72 people, 21 more than allowed, overturned in the city of Mingguang. Fifty-one people were injured.\nIn the central province of Hubei, 10 people were killed, including one crushed under a collapsed gas-station roof in Wuhan, the provincial capital, the China Daily said.\nIt did not say how the other nine died.\nSix people were killed in Hubei and Anhui in houses collapsing under snow, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday, adding that more than 10 million people in the two provinces had been \"affected\" by the snow.\nA major power line that carries electricity from the Three Gorges dam to Shanghai was damaged by the snow, and over 450 workers were rushing to repair it, Xinhua said.\nCrops covering at least 557,300 hectares (2,151 sq miles) and more than 11,300 houses had been destroyed, bringing direct economic losses in the two provinces to more than 1.8 billion yuan ($249 million).\nAbout 300,000 passengers in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, were forced to change travel plans as more than 1,000 km (600 miles) of highway in the region were closed on Saturday due to the snow.\nThe National Meteorological Centre on Sunday issued an orange alert, the second highest on a scale of five, for more heavy snow in central and eastern parts of the country.\nThe State Council, or cabinet, on Monday issued an emergency order to local authorities telling them to ensure safe transportation, promptly fix disrupted utilities and make sure that there is an ample supply of food in affected areas.\n(Additional reporting by Beijing newsroom, editing by Matthew Jones)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enn.com/articles/55697-gearing-up-to-power-the-north-with-renewables", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:S2DYOME4UMJCTWWMZLPBRGF5UMNIMFLZ", "length": 1224, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.enn.com", "title": "Environmental News Network - Gearing up to power the North with renewables", "raw_content": "Gearing up to power the North with renewables\nPrevious Article Voyage of the Seal\nNext Article We May Be Past The Peak, But Hurricane Season Is Far From Over\nCanada has committed to an electricity system by 2030 that will be 90 per cent carbon non-emitting, a move that requires transitioning to renewable energy such as wind, solar and biomass.\nBut the current impact assessment (IA) process used by public regulatory bodies for evaluating these projects can be expensive and time consuming because project proponents often have to address issues that repeatedly have been raised and answered in reviews elsewhere, says University of Saskatchewan researcher Bram Noble.\n\u201cWe want to make the process more efficient without losing the effectiveness of the impact assessment process in moving projects forward,\u201d he said.\nNoble, a professor in the geography and planning department of the U of S College of Arts and Science, has been awarded an Insight grant of $92,000 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to develop an efficient IA process for renewable energy projects.\nContinue reading at University of Saskatchewan.\nImage via University of Saskatchewan.\nEnergy Sci/Tech Top Stories Sustainability", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.episodate.com/tv-show/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart?season=2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SFOG5BCFY3Y22XBWZHX2SNXS5YIXBAHQ", "length": 8084, "nlines": 116, "source_domain": "www.episodate.com", "title": "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Season 2015 Air Dates &", "raw_content": "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Next Episode Air Date\nHome / All TV Shows / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\nThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart next episode air date posterThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown pictureThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart episode countdown picture\nWhen will be The Daily Show with Jon Stewart next episode air date? Is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart renewed or cancelled? Where to countdown The Daily Show with Jon Stewart air dates? Is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart worth watching?\nOne anchor, several correspondents, zero credibility.If you're tired of the stodginess of the evening newscasts and you can't bear to sit through the spinmeisters and shills on the 24-hour cable news network, don't miss The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy.\nStation: Comedy Central (US)\nCountdownSeason 2015Season 2014Season 2013Season 2012Season 2011Season 2010Season 2009Season 2008Season 2007Season 2006Season 2005Season 2004Season 2003Season 2002Season 2001Season 2000Season 1999Season 1998Season 1997Season 1996Season 20Season 19Season 18Season 17Season 16Season 15Season 14Season 13Season 12Season 11Season 10Season 9Season 8Season 7Season 6Season 5Season 4Season 3Season 2Season 1\nThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart Season 2015 Air Dates\nS2015E01 - Steven Brill Air Date: 06 January 2015 04:00 -\nS2015E02 - Cass Sunstein Air Date: 07 January 2015 04:00 -\nS2015E03 - Ava DuVernay Air Date: 08 January 2015 04:00 -\nS2015E04 - Allison Williams Air Date: 09 January 2015 04:00 -\nS2015E05 - Jimmy Carter Air Date: 13 January 2015 04:00 -\nS2015E06 - Sen. 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Add the shows you like to a \"Watchlist\" and let the site take it from there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 17684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitypartnership.org.uk/who-we-are/funders/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:V2T5O7445QCPNOJZWMAYVV25CCPTNFQL", "length": 919, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.equitypartnership.org.uk", "title": "Funders | Bradford Equity Partnership", "raw_content": "(current January 2017)\nEquity Partnership is grateful for the funding that we receive from our funders, who include:\nPublic Health: we are funded to support LGB&T communities in staying well. This includes sexual health, mental health and well being, and physical health\nEqualities funding: to support the Voluntary and Community sector in their equalities work\nCommunity Centre funding: to maintain an LGB&T community centre\nThe Youth Service: funding to deliver youth groups and support to young LGB&T people\nhttp://tudortrust.org.uk/\nTudor Trust is an independent grant making trust which supports communities and people who are often excluded from mainstream society. Tudor Trust contributes to the core costs of providing services to our priority groups.\nhttp://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/\nHenry Smith funds our work with Trans people, enabling us to employ a worker to deliver training, consultancy and support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.erc.edu/business-partners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:E42LK4EMRXRD6YNCYHJAS4KY2QX6LJYC", "length": 1635, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.erc.edu", "title": "ERC |", "raw_content": "ERC is supported by companies that are true pioneers in research and development of resuscitation hardware. Their products, from AED's to simulation mannequins, go hand in hand with our training methods and manuals.\nSince 1937, breakthrough ideas have fuelled our work on bringing efficient healthcare solutions to life. This is what we create within our fields of excellence \u2013 Anaesthesia, Patient Monitoring & Diagnostics and Emergency Care.\nWe invented the original Ambu Bag\u2122 resuscitator and are at the forefront of manikins for basic and advanced life support.\nElsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that help you make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries in science, health, and technology.\nWe provide web-based, digital solutions \u2014 among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Evolve, Knovel, Reaxys and ClinicalKey \u2014 and publish over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 book titles.\nOur mission is Helping Save Lives.\nOur vision is that no one should die or be disabled unnecessarily during birth or from sudden illness or trauma.\nSchiller are an internationally leading manufacturer and supplier of medical technology solutions, focusing on cardiopulmonary diagnostics and therapy.\nTheir products save lives and provide physicians and nurses with professional support.\nStryker is one of the world\u2019s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/08/10/obama-urges-americans-to-take-the-lead-in-higher-education/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:SQITEBSOJUE4UWSNJEBTEGOFY32LOMSB", "length": 792, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eschoolnews.com", "title": "Obama urges Americans to take the lead in higher education | eSchool News", "raw_content": "Obama urges Americans to take the lead in higher education\nPresident Barack Obama urged Americans Aug. 9 to crack the books and boost post-secondary graduation rates, arguing that higher education achievement was key to U.S. economic health, AFP reports. \u201cAmerica has to have the highest share of graduates compared to other nations. But Texas, I want you to know, we\u2019ve been slipping,\u201d Obama said on a visit to the University of Texas. \u201cIn a single generation, we\u2019ve fallen from first place to 12th place in college graduation rates for young adults. That\u2019s unacceptable, but it\u2019s not irreversible. We can retake the lead,\u201d Obama stressed, adding: \u201cEducation is the economic issue of our time,\u201d Obama insisted, arguing: \u201cThe countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.escort-london.com/article-tips-to-attending-a-social-event.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KFR7ZUVP62BFH2ZAIBKQVWSHA4GBKOSF", "length": 2579, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.escort-london.com", "title": "Our BLOG - Tips to Attending a Social Event", "raw_content": "Tips to Attending a Social Event\nWhen you\u2019re invited to a social event, you are often told to invite someone. The invitation usually comes across as \u201cand guest\u201d and this is known as a +1. If you show up to a social event alone, some people may wonder what is going on.\nThey will ask you more questions than necessary to find out why you didn\u2019t come with someone. Additionally, you will feel like the odd man out because you will be the only one without a date.\nWhile it may seem like a nice gesture to allow you to bring a guest, it is considered to be obligatory. This means that you should simply accept it that you should be bringing someone along with you.\nInstead of showing up alone or going into a panic about who you are going to bring, the best thing to do is make a phone call to a London escort agency. This will allow you to find a sophisticated and high class girl to accompany you. You won\u2019t have to worry about her ability to handle a social event because she is used to attending these kinds of things.\nYou can browse through the gallery to choose the girl, or you can simply call and tell the representatives on the phone what you are looking for. They will assign you a girl based upon what you want as well as who is available on the date of your social event.\nIf you are looking for a particular girl when you make your booking, call ahead of time to ensure it is possible. Many girls book quickly and you don\u2019t want someone else to get to the girl before you do.\nHave the girl arrive at your place a little earlier than the event. This will allow the two of you to get to know each other and make some small talk. Any awkwardness can be pushed to the side early on so it\u2019s not noticeable when you get to the event. It\u2019s also best to talk about how you two are going to introduce each other. She will go along with what you want, so if you want to pass her off as your girlfriend, that is absolutely okay.\nSpecial requests can be made when you call. This is your chance to dictate what she\u2019s going to wear to the event. It may be a black tie affair and therefore you need to make sure the escort who knocks on your door on the evening of the event is dressed appropriately. She will be more than happy to dress as you request, but you have to make the request when you book.\nA social event can up your status, help you meet new clients, and even get in good with the boss. Whatever the social event is, you want to make sure you have a date. When you call a London escort to be your date, it\u2019s a sure way to ensure you will have the hottest girl at the party.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/13-4qtr/keynote-at-the-esri-ocean-gis-forum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:52Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7SUCM3ECZGKOSIHI2IZEGTDHOQMDFIH", "length": 2075, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.esri.com", "title": "Keynote at the Esri Ocean GIS Forum", "raw_content": "Keynote at the Esri Ocean GIS Forum\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Director Will Describe Technology that Has Changed Our Perceptions of the Sea\nRedlands, California\u2014David Gallo, PhD, will address the Esri Ocean GIS Forum at Esri headquarters in Redlands, California, November 5\u20137, 2013. Gallo is an American oceanographer and the director of special projects at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.\nGallo understands the critical contribution the Esri ArcGIS platform is making toward collecting, managing, and sharing information about our oceans so that we can better visualize, observe, and understand them.\nOcean scientists and marine resource managers will attend the Esri Ocean GIS Forum to share ways they apply ArcGIS software to ocean-use planning, research, and environmental protection projects. Professionals attending the event will also learn about new GIS technology that can give them greater insight about the ocean and improve their workflows.\nFor more than 25 years, Gallo has been at the forefront of ocean exploration, participating in and being witness to the development of new technologies and scientific discoveries that shape our view of planet earth. A vivacious speaker, he has given presentations at Technology/Entertainment/Design (TED) conferences. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in geology and a doctorate in oceanography. In 1987, Gallo joined Robert Ballard's team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as assistant director of the Center for Marine Exploration.\nGallo has participated in expeditions to all the world's oceans and was one of the first scientists to use a combination of robots and submarines to explore the seafloor. Most recently, he co-led an expedition to create the first detailed and comprehensive map of the RMS Titanic shipwreck site. He co-led the successful international effort to locate the remains of Air France flight 447. He is presently involved in planning an international expedition to locate and document the wreckage of Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance.\nBarbara Shields, Esri", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 167.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.essilorindia.com/products/sunglasses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EY3XO6SHBQTQBH446ISZCMWH6CZM37VL", "length": 5329, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.essilorindia.com", "title": "Protecting Your Eyes From The Sun: What You Need To Know | Essilor India", "raw_content": "Protecting Your Eyes From The Sun: What You Need To Know\nWe always talk about the damaging effects of the sun on our skin: sun exposure can cause skin cancer, for one thing, but also things like wrinkles and age spots. In fact, when we think of how our skin ages over time, it sags, tears, and generally becomes much more fragile.\nWell, what about our eyes?\nThe Sun\u2019s Effect On Our Eyes\nEven though it is less talked about than skin damage, the sun can have a very damaging effect on our eyes, especially after prolonged or direct exposure. Ultra-violet (UV) rays from the sun may contribute to damaging the cells in our eyes and lead to long-term issues. UV rays from the sun may contribute to the causes of the following:\nAnd photokeratitis, which is essentially a \u201csunburn of your cornea\u201d. (Yes, that\u2019s right: your eyes can get sunburnt. This can lead to blurred vision, light sensitivity, and even temporarily blindness, often referred to as \u201csnow blindness\u201d)\nHow To Protect Your Eyes From The Sun?\nThe most common way to protect your eyes from the UV rays of the sun is by wearing sunglasses.\nThese are able to block some UV rays that may cause damage to your eyes and help protect them from harmful effects. And if you think a wide-brimmed hat or a snow cap is enough to block out these harmful rays, think again: snow, water, dry sand, and sea foam are all able to reflect the sun\u2019s UV rays back up into your face, making sunglasses necessary for protecting your eyes.\nBut how do you know what kind of sunglasses are right for you?\nFirst we explore sunglasses. Just about every corner store or drug shop sells sunglasses, but which types of sunglasses are actually going to help you?\nMany of the different types of sunglasses on offer are not actually going to protect your eyes from the sun, but rather serve as a fashion accessory, which doesn\u2019t actually help you. To evaluate the type of sunglasses that are right for you, you first need to know what to look for.\nFor starters, you want to get sunglasses that fit you properly, so they actually cover your eyes. Look at the guidelines for fitting regular glasses for an idea of what size to look for. Second, look for wrap-around sunglasses so that you can be protected from the sides as well as the front.\nIn addition to this, you\u2019ll want to look for sunglasses that block UVA and UVB rays between 290 and 400 nanometers (this should be indicated on the glasses, or someone at the store should be able to tell you). Remember, the hue of the sunglass lenses has nothing to do with UV protection - that is entirely your preference!\nYou may want to consider prescription sunglasses. The lenses of prescription sunglasses will have your exact prescription, so you won\u2019t need to combine them with contact lenses or worse, squint to read while enjoying some time in the sun.\nYou may also want to go one step farther to protect your eyes, particularly if you\u2019re a watersport fanatic - and that\u2019s where polarised sunglasses work the best.\nPolarised sunglasses are highly specialised sunglass type designed to eliminate harsh, blinding glare from highly reflective surfaces, such as snow and water, to increase visual comfort and performance.\nBenefits of polarised sunglasses compare to non-polarised sunglasses\nYou have greater visibility into the water when engaging in fishing or water sports\nYou can better see objects when it is very bright\nThere is less strain on your eyes trying to fight through glare\nColours are not distorted\nReflections (such as off water or glass) are cut down\nWhat Type Of Sunglasses Are For You?\nPolarised sunglasses are not for everyone: they can make it difficult to see LCD screens, reduce contrasts in light, and they are more expensive than non-polarised sunglasses. However, it is good to know the different options available for you. The most important thing to remember when buying sunglasses is to make sure your eyes are protected properly from the sun. Be sure to talk to your eye care provider to learn what is the best type of sunglasses for you.\nThe Clear Lens Option for Sun Protection\nIf you fall into the third category of not wanting to wear sunglasses or polarised lenses, then there are still options for you. Lens coatings can protect your eyes from harmful UV rays but stay invisible to the naked eye. These coatings are ideal additions to your existing pair of glasses or new spectacles if you spend a lot of time in the sun.\nFor those who like darkened lenses like sunglasses when in the sunlight, but don\u2019t want to carry multiple pairs of glasses, there is the option of Transition lenses. These photochromic or adaptive lenses, can darken or lighten depending on the intensity of the light outside. They help protect your eyes from the sun, as well as provide clear and comfortable vision regardless if you\u2019re in the bright sun or in a dimly light room.\nProtecting your eyes is essential, but comfort is also important. Picking the correct option to block harmful UV rays and maintaining clear vision throughout your day is dependent on the person. If you\u2019re unsure or would like to speak to an expert, it is recommended to speak to an optician who will be able to provide you with suitable options.\nWant to protect your eyes from the sun?\nVisit your nearest optical store today and find the best solution for your needs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 9009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.etickets.ca/les-miserables-tickets-les-miserables-los-angeles-pantages-theatre-ca-05-22-2019-3412968/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UI2BF76GJQZXR6YIQKBMDPN7IQCKFRDR", "length": 517, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.etickets.ca", "title": "Les Miserables Los Angeles Tickets, Pantages Theatre - CA | Wed May 22, 2019 - 08:00 PM - eTickets.ca", "raw_content": "Get your tickets to the amazing Les Miserables show to be played at Pantages Theatre - CA in Los Angeles, California on Wed May 22, 2019 at 08:00 PM and go on a rollercoaster ride of different emotions. Popularly known for its iconic story and strong portrayal of characters, Les Miserables will leave you speechless. eTickets has the best set of seats for you to enjoy the show. We make it our mission to turn dreams into reality by delivering our customers the tickets to their favourite show at the cheapest price.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/13/european-elections-2019-sign-up-to-euronews-newsletter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:7C7PHAV4ZT6RVF4UCBY447GK5IA3DIW6", "length": 1030, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.euronews.com", "title": "European elections 2019: sign up to Euronews' newsletter", "raw_content": "The Euronews newsroom regularly covers special events on a range of topics, from politics and business to science and culture. To help our most active viewers keep up to date with all the latest news and analysis we have created a brand new newsletter, designed to bring exclusive content straight to your inbox.\nThe next event will be the 2019 European Parliament elections. In the lead up to this pivotal May vote, Euronews correspondents will be travelling across the continent to see how the elections matter to citizens. We'll be spending time with voters from all backgrounds to hear about the issues that impact their lives each day. We\u2019ll also be providing information on how to vote, how the elections work and the role of the European Parliament. As the day draws closer we\u2019ll have expert political analysis from our Brussels bureau as well as exclusive interviews and reports.\nIf you are interested in receiving emails from us about this special election coverage, and other similar events in the future, sign up below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 5066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.evanslaw.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-conservator-abuse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FMLWGX7JQLSX6PXUOL5TVBA3MEMGBKAY", "length": 4101, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.evanslaw.com", "title": "What You Need to Know About Conservator Abuse - Evans Law Firm, Inc.", "raw_content": "What You Need to Know About Conservator Abuse\nUnder California law, a court-appointed conservator is a person who makes decisions, including financial and healthcare decisions, for another person who has been incapacitated due to injury or age (called a \u201cward\u201d). In most cases, a concerned relative or social worker petitions a court to appoint a conservator for a person who can no longer take care of themselves. If the court deems the person incompetent, it will appoint a conservator to look after the person\u2019s physical and financial wellbeing.\nConservators are legally required to have their wards\u2019 best interests in mind, but that is not always the case. Due to the extent of the control conservators can exercise over their wards, conservator abuse is a serious threat to seniors. Contact a San Francisco elder abuse lawyer right away if you suspect such abuse.\nTypes of Conservator Abuse\nFinancial exploitation: Financial exploitation is one of the most common forms of conservator abuse. Because professional conservators are allowed to charge a reasonable fee to the ward for their services, many conservators will go out of their way to collect as many fees as they can by fraudulent accounting of their time and expenses. In the most extreme cases, unscrupulous conservators can even leave their wards completely destitute.\nPhysical and sexual abuse: Conservators often have access to their wards when no one else is present, presenting an opportunity to engage in physical or sexual abuse.\nPsychological abuse: Conservators exercise an extraordinary level of control over their wards, such as who they are allowed to see, where they can go, and even whether to put them in a nursing home. Some conservators take advantage of this power to control their wards through guilt, shame, and belittlement. Although California laws prohibit this type of abuse and isolation, it still goes on.\nWarning Signs of Conservator Abuse\nBecause every p situation is different, it can be very difficult to determine when a conservator\u2019s behavior crosses the line from \u201ctough love\u201d to abuse. If your loved one is under a conservatorship look for signs of abuse. Some of the most common warning signs include:\nThe conservator treats you as an outsider instead of a relative, friend, or loved one and shares little or no information about the senior with you.\nThe ward is not getting his or her mail or allowed to receive visitors.\nThe conservator restricts the ward\u2019s access to the phone or computer.\nThe conservator \u201chovers\u201d when you visit so that you are never alone with the ward.\nYou discover taxes have not been filed or paid.\nYou are denied input about the ward\u2019s healthcare.\nThe ward seems to be sluggish, dazed, or otherwise not their normal selves.\nItems are missing from the ward\u2019s home.\nThe conservator refuses to take your call or answer your questions.\nA Problem Hiding in the Shadows\nOne of the most daunting tasks facing elder advocates is a lack of comprehensive data on the extent of the problem. Various high-profile expos\u00e9s of conservatorship abuse have been published over the years\u2014such as the Los Angeles Times\u2019 2005 report finding that judges often overlook incompetence, neglect, and outright theft among court-appointed conservators\u2014but these reports are few and far between. In fact, the Government Accountability Office even reported that it couldn\u2019t locate \u201ca single website, federal agency, state or local entity, or any other organization that compiles comprehensive information on this issue.\u201d\nContact a San Francisco Elder Abuse Lawyer Today For Assistance\nIf you suspect a senior loved one in the victim of conservator abuse, seek the advice of a lawyer. Contact a San Francisco elder abuse lawyer at Evans Law Firm, Inc. today by calling (415) 441-8669 or by email. We can help guide your case through a jury trial or toward an equitable settlement. We also handle cases involving physical and financial elder abuse, qui tam and whistleblower law, nursing home abuse, whole life insurance and universal life insurance fraud, and indexed, variable, and fixed annuities fraud.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 375, "original_length": 12708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.evcsonline.org/vision-and-mission/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:E3RDAKOZQYE7UDX7AOLORWADTXX2IVQS", "length": 2594, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.evcsonline.org", "title": "Christian School - Our Vision And Mission | East Valley Christian School San Jose", "raw_content": "East Valley Christian School is a private learning community, serving the children of Christian families in Santa Clara County for grades K-8th. Our primary objective of the school is to teach Biblical principles.\nWe intend for our students to be first-class citizens of the Kingdom of God, faithful members of a Bible-believing church, and academically balanced students. This is translated into the following objectives (in no particular order):\nTo emphasize the individuality of the person and to assist each child in properly responding to himself and others: to develop self-confidence, individual God-given talents and abilities in creativity, goal setting, forecasting, communications, academics, and the principles for success.\nTo assist each child in seeking his purpose for life\u2019s service and necessary preparation for eternity through emphasis upon biblical relevance, and to prepare him for that purpose through an emphasis on excellence in his spirit, soul, and body.\nTo ensure that each child comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, achieves a higher level of Christian maturity, attains a deeper commitment, and becomes a more effective witness for the Lord.\nTo help each child to learn how to live to honor the Lord by meeting the daily responsibilities with which God has entrusted him.\nTo promote self-discipline by training them to be relevant, consistent, appreciative, responsible, and thorough in attitude, character and actions.\nTo provide a quality education that will empower each student to excel academically.\nTo compensate for inadequate educational backgrounds.\nTo eliminate grade level failure and repetition.\nIn the articles of faith we believe\u2026\nThe Bible is the only God-given authority with which man possesses; therefore, all doctrine, faith, hope, and all instruction for the church, home or school must be based upon, and harmonized with, the Bible. It is to be read and studied by men everywhere.\nThe Bible standard of full salvation is repentance, baptism in water by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterances (Acts 2:4, 38; 8:16; 10:46-48; 19:5-6; Matthew 28:19).\nThere is one ever-living, eternal God, infinite in power and Holy in nature, attributes, and purpose and possessing absolute, indivisible deity (I Cor. 8:6; II Cor. 5:19; Eph. 4:6; Joel 2:28)\nOur Christian school is here to serve San Jose and Santa Clara County, and are happy to answer any questions you might have. Contact us today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventfinda.com.au/artist/david-thompson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XBSH4KWEZURKMIEEECDXP5CH4JO42QXE", "length": 1195, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.eventfinda.com.au", "title": "David Thompson tickets, concerts, tour dates, upcoming gigs - Eventfinda", "raw_content": "David Thompson is renowned as a world authority on Thai food. His restaurants, Darley Street and Sailors Thai (opened in Sydney in 1992 and 1995 respectively) have been well regarded and great business successes.\nIn 2001 he was asked by Christina Ong to open a restaurant at the Halkin Hotel in London. It opened to immediate critical acclaim and was awarded a Michelin star within six months. David was awarded \u2018Professional of the Year\u2019 by the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide in 2001, and in 2003 he was award \u2018London Chef of the Year\u2019 at the Carlton Evening Standard Food Awards.\nHis book, Thai Food has been awarded with every major cook book award in the years following its publication in 2003 and sales continue to perform well in sixth year.\nIn September 2010, David opened nahm at the Metropolitan to both acclaim and controversy. A few months later, David\u2019s third book, Thai Street Food was published in the US by Ten Speed Press. And in February 2011, nahm in the UK was among the top 100 restaurants in the San Pellegrino Awards.\nPast events by David Thompson\nAsian Food Trail 2\nFestival Village, Noosa Heads , Fri 17 May 2013\nAsian Food Trail\nNoosa Lions Park, Fri 18 May 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.examiner.net/x1796478272/Editorial-Sals-pension", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:J3ME46EYEUQ6ZBX2JOTLETGJ6FHPK2GY", "length": 1627, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.examiner.net", "title": "Editorial: Sal's pension - News - The Examiner of East Jackson County - Independence, Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Sugar Creek and Lee's Summit, MO", "raw_content": "Editorial: Sal's pension\nThe timing of House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi's resignation this week raises questions still unanswered: Does his retreat mean ethics investigators were getting closer to him? Was this a maneuver to pave the way for his preferred successor? Why ask his North End constituents to give him another term if he intended to quit less than a month into it? Why seek re-election as speaker if he planned to quit less than three weeks later?\nFar from answering these questions, DiMasi acted like there was nothing at all unusual, let alone suspicious, about his early exit. In a sense, he's right. Over the last 20 years, mid-term resignation has been the rule among House speakers, not the exception. Other members also seem to feel no compulsion to serve out their terms. Two years ago, Senate President Robert Travaglini resigned his post less than three months into his term, having decided he'd rather be a lobbyist than do the jobs his district and his colleagues had just elected him to do.\nThere may have been another factor in DiMasi's calculations. According to State House News Service, DiMasi's annual pension will be about $59,000, which is $2,000 more than it would have been had he left the House when his last term ended Dec. 31. Among the state pension law's many flaws is a provision that gives legislators a year's credit for working a single day in the new year.\nLawmakers interested in restoring their credibility should make pension reform a priority. Meanwhile, the least DiMasi could do is use some of that easy money to help the state pay for a special election to fill his vacant seat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exituselite.com/lcp/QuantumLivingNetwork/world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:20Z", "digest": "sha1:MNFL2RENPNFAADRUSBCVOK6IO2FH2BK7", "length": 201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.exituselite.com", "title": "World LCP", "raw_content": "Profit From A Global Audience\nThere has NEVER been a better time to start making $1,000's with this NEXT GENERATION business model! It costs nothing to discover how to make real income, STARTING TODAY!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ezarticles.us/dental-implants-are-the-preferred-method-of-tooth-replacement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2OWBWRPRTLJXIJMONNHKOTLSZJTKYXU", "length": 2537, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ezarticles.us", "title": "Dental Implants Are The Preferred Method of Tooth Replacement -", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Dentistry \u00bb Dental Implants Are The Preferred Method of Tooth Replacement\nDental Implants Are The Preferred Method of Tooth Replacement\nPosted by alex on Oct 2018 in Dentistry | Comments Off on Dental Implants Are The Preferred Method of Tooth Replacement\nDental Implants are the best way to replace a missing tooth. That is to say it is not the cheapest method. Other means of replacing missing teeth include bridges, partials and full dentures.\nBridges are a nice permanent way to replace missing teeth, so long as there are teeth on either side of the missing one. A bridge is just that, and consists of placing crowns on the teeth on either side of the missing tooth and permanently bonding them to a prosthetic tooth that fills in for the missing one. A bridge cannot be placed on the last tooth because there is nothing to anchor it down on both sides. Cleaning under and around a bridge can also be a challenge and requires a commitment to keeping the area clean both with brushing and flossing.\nPartials and dentures are removable prosthetics that slide in place and fill the space of missing teeth with false ones. Most people are familiar with this type of tooth replacement, as it has been around for hundreds of years. The problem with any sort of denture is that they are uncomfortable, they do not always stay in place and they must be relined or replaced as age causes wear on both the denture and the mouth structure. When teeth are missing in the mouth, the jawline starts to recede as well.\nHaving teeth present actually helps preserve the bone mass of the jaw structure. This is why dental implants are the preferred method of replacing missing teeth. An implant consists of a metal screw being placed into the jawbone. It acts like the root of the tooth and helps maintain the health of the bone surrounding it. Once that screw has been set, a crown is then made. The crown will be bonded to the post and the whole implant will give the impression and function like a real tooth.\nWhen comparing the cost of implants to other forms of tooth replacement, implants can add up the most. The cost of one implant is roughly the same as the cost to bridge one tooth. When it comes to replacing multiple teeth, bridges and dentures definitely have the lower cost. It would be up to the patient to weight the benefits and the costs of each treatment before deciding what is best for them. Visit the site for more information.\nDental Implants Are The Preferred Method of Tooth Replacement, 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 14806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/931694/innovation-digital-prophecy-dj-jazzy-jeff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:32Z", "digest": "sha1:53OFVKHKSRRJVY4XHJ2HMYIWIVST4W2Q", "length": 4480, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.fastcompany.com", "title": "Innovation: The Digital Prophecy Of DJ Jazzy Jeff", "raw_content": "Innovation: The Digital Prophecy Of DJ Jazzy Jeff\nI really cherish my talks with DJ Jazzy Jeff. As a \u201cprophet\u201d of the music business whom I have tons of respect for, I have spent several hours over the last few years with my friend and business colleague Jeff Townes aka \u201cDJ Jazzy Jeff\u201d discussing the fate of the record business.\nI really cherish my talks with DJ Jazzy Jeff. As a \u201cprophet\u201d of the music business whom I have tons of respect for, I have spent several hours over the last few years with my friend and business colleague Jeff Townes aka \u201cDJ Jazzy Jeff\u201d discussing the fate of the record business. Me, a digital entertainment geek and he both student and key influencer of global pop culture who happens to DJ weekly in Tokyo, London, Prague, Toronto to Decatur in any given month. This of course supports his intense \u201cdrug habit\u201d called Sneaker Collecting which has been well documented.Most know Jeff from his role as equal partner in the hip hop group DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, or for some of you \u201cnew jacks\u201d as the guy who Uncle Phill is always throwing out of the door on the hit comedy series, \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel Air.\u201d I have gotten to know him as a wise \u201cindustry sage\u201d who is often found holding court about the ins-outs of the entertainment business in his kitchen making his famous waffles.\nAs a globetrotter Jazzy Jeff has first hand knowledge of what is happening around the world with the music business, evolving distribution shifts and consumers who love quality music. Around 7 years ago Jeff came home from a month long run of Asia and called me to say, \u201cIt\u2019s over for the record business\u201d after walking by a street vendor who had rows and rows of MP3 discs for sale of any artist you could imagine. Jeff said of this experience, \u201cWhen I saw my Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince entire collection for $5, I knew it was over.\u201d\nJeff has since been on a terror over the last 5 years building his brand around DJing, Podcasting and the release of underground Hip Hop\u2019s most talked about album series The Magnificent. As a result of his commitment to understanding the digital space his revenues from being a DJ have seen a dramatic increase now that he practically gives his music away for free and focuses on \u201csuper-serving\u201d his customer with an \u201cexperience\u201d vs just selling plastic discs. (Sounds very Long Tail right?) He is the first to say, \u201cMusic should be free, the experience is what you should be paying for.\u201d Clearly brands like Scion, Heineken, and Anheuser Busch have recognized the aura of DJ Jazzy Jeff as they have all at one point partnered with him on tours.\nThose of us lucky enough to be in DJ Jazzy Jeff\u2019s sphere of influence in 1998 were treated to a CD that he personally delivered to us (Jeff pressed up 3000 cd\u2019s for his closest friends); something he called \u201ca little something to clean the house to.\u201d This was commonplace in the late 90\u2019s as his homemade CD\u2019s by unsigned artists his production company A Touch of Jazz were producing in his Philadelphia studio were \u201cmust haves\u201d for those of us who subscribed to being on top of \u201cgood music.\u201d Some of the artists that we got to hear before anyone else included such talent as Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, Eric Roberson, and Raheem Devaughn all of whom today drive the last hope we have for good soul music.\nIn 98\u2032 Jeff was working with a talented spoken word artist named Jill Scott and \u201cblessed us\u201d with a CD we passed around that had everyone on my 26th floor of 550 Madison Avenue, Columbia Records office saying, \u201cJames, who is this Jill Scott chick you keep playing?\u201d As a a devout Jazzy Jeff/ATOJ evangelist, I played the metal out of that CD, and as an executive at Columbia, I passed it along to everyone I worked with including the guy who emptied my office trash. One of the people I handed it to was an A&R guy at Columbia in hopes we would consider signing her to a record deal. He passed on her (In the words of Red Foxx, \u201cbig dummy\u201d) and handed it to Hidden Beach founder Steve Mckeever and the rest is history for Jill\u2019s career. Jill\u2019s album titled \u201cWho Is Jill Scott\u201d was released in 2000 and she was nominated for a Grammy. The power of a viral brand; The power of giving away your music for free. Ol\u2019 Jeff Townes has always been ahead of his time. Jeff this week\u2019s article in Businessweek, \u201cThe Big Record Labels\u2019 Not-So-Big Future\u201d is for our talks over cheese steaks and Gremlins in Philly. We called this one buddy, it\u2019s all coming back full circle!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 7152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2010/04/29/vale-furio-scarpelli/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:67JFMII7YUSGP7CXUNO3AH7AHLRYE6DQ", "length": 663, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.fernbyfilms.com", "title": "Vale \u2013 Furio Scarpelli \u2013 Fernby Films", "raw_content": "April 29, 2010 Rodney Twelftree\nFurio Scarpelli - 1919-2010\nJust wanted to let you know of the recent passing of a true cinema genuis. Italian screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who wrote the genre classic western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the films Il Postino, I soliti ignoti, and Casanova 70, has passed away. During his careers, he worked on 120 movies, the majority of which were in his native italian. However, it\u2019s for his work on Sergio Leone\u2019s classic spaghetti western that he is most fondly remembered.\nScarpelli was 90.\nTonight is Avatar night!!!\nObituary\tVale \u2013 Lynn Redgrave\nObituary\tVale \u2013 Dede Allen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.festivall-app.com/en/festivals/rockharz-open-air/artists/amorphis/2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:R4JJILAYUJ3HLLT5WCWIVUXGL2AWQDBM", "length": 560, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.festivall-app.com", "title": "Amorphis at Rockharz Open Air festival | FestivAll", "raw_content": "Home Festivals Rockharz Open Air Amorphis\nAmorphis is a Finnish progressive/melodic metal band, and formerly death/doom band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in Helsinki, Finland in 1990. Amorphis absorbed and incorporated influences from many metal genres, and with time passing their sound evolved dramatically. Initially, the band was a Death Metal act, but with time they have evolved into making music that is more classifiable as Doom Metal with folk influences Read more on Last.fm\nAMORPHIS - House Of Sleep (OFFICIAL VIDEO)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fiannafail.ie/fleming-secures-amendment-to-finance-bill-2012-to-assist-irish-businesses-gain-foreign-markets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:T7IMYWEWXPPDCXMSKW7VLV7Z7L3JBBEP", "length": 1623, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.fiannafail.ie", "title": "Fleming secures amendment to Finance Bill 2012 to assist Irish Businesses gain foreign markets - Fianna F\u00e1il", "raw_content": "Fleming secures amendment to Finance Bill 2012 to assist Irish Businesses gain foreign markets\nFianna F\u00e1il Spokesperson on Public Expenditure Se\u00e1n Fleming TD has secured an amendment to the Finance Bill to assist Irish exporters in increasing their foreign income and market share in a number of major countries.\nThe Bill, as published by the Minister, stated that employees of Irish companies had to spend \u201810 consecutive days\u2019 in any of the BRICS countries in order to qualify for a special tax deduction. The purpose of this new measure was to encourage Irish businesses to send their staff abroad to increase sales in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.\nDeputy Fleming, at Second Stage, suggested that the 10 consecutive days was too long and not practical for many Irish businesses. He proposed that the Finance Bill be amended to reduce this number of days.\nToday the Government brought forward amendment number 22 to Section 12 of the Finance Bill to reduce the 10 days to 4 consecutive days to qualify for the new tax reduction. Overall, a person will still have to spend 60 days in the BRICS countries to qualify.\nMinister of State at the Department of Finance said at the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill today: \u201cHaving considered the comments of Deputy Fleming during second stage I have decided to bring forward an amendment to this scheme\u2026The change will allow shorter business trips to qualify.\u201d\nDeputy Fleming commented, \u201cFianna F\u00e1il is determined to play a constructive and positive role in opposition and the acceptance of my proposal to help Irish businesses is yet another example of this.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 7585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/govts-action-plan-on-start-ups-fails-to-meet-vcs-expectations/199926/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UAQHGKOWA2WBKRVS2CG727ZSNQ7VZFF2", "length": 3026, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.financialexpress.com", "title": "Startup India: Modi govt's action plan fails to meet VCs' expectations - The Financial Express", "raw_content": "Startup India: Modi govt\u2019s action plan fails to meet VCs\u2019 expectations\nBy: Hita Gupta | Updated: January 22, 2016 1:21 PM\nStartup India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s 19-point action plan on start-ups has failed to meet the expectation of some venture capitalists and new start-ups. Many start-ups may not be able to leverage from the tax holiday for first three years as they barely report profits in the first few years of operations.\nStartup India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s 19-point action plan on start-ups has failed to meet the expectation of some venture capitalists and new start-ups. (Express photo)\nStartup India: Many start-ups may not be able to leverage from the tax holiday for first three years as they barely report profits in the first few years of operations. On the other hand, incentives for venture capitalists to invest in start-ups in India was also given a miss in the plan.\n\u201cIn initial three years, generally the start-ups don\u2019t have so much profits and they may not avail the full benefit of the scheme. Instead of the exemption, deduction on lines of Section 35 AD of the Income Tax Act, 1961 can also be considered for the start-ups,\u201d according to Amit Jindal, partner at Felix Advisor.\n\u201cIf full deduction is available on capital expenditure to start-ups in initial year, then for eight years they can carry forward the business losses and can get set off against the business income which may improve their cash flows,\u201d Jindal added.\nTax exemption from capital gains on investments in start-ups will likely encourage investment as managing cash flow continues to be a challenge for start-ups, according to government. But entrepreneurs see very little benefit in the same.\nPeesh Chopra, managing Partner of Peesh Venture Capital says that it\u2019s a positive step by the government but the concerns of venture capitalists in India and outside India have been left unanswered. \u201cThere are no announcements that will change or improve the investments from venture capitalists, domestically or foreign. It will not lead them to invest more or more often in start-ups.\u201d\nAmit Dube, founder of FoodAbhi said that government needs to ensure that no sector is hyper-capitalised. \u201cIt must build confidence in the India story and encourage investments from venture capitalists in start-ups,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe government has released a global macro-economic plan but its success will only be determined if it translates in tangible steps,\u201d said Shilpa Sharma, founder at Jaypore.com\nAlso there is less for older start-ups such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Zomato, and Foodpanda, which are more than five-years old and not eligible for the tax relief. Prime Minister has also restricted the benefits to start-ups involved in innovation or technology or providing a service which is significantly better than an existing one.\nWe will have to wait until the Budget to get further clarity on the taxation norms and funding regulations. But we have a seen a mixed bag of emotions on the start-up India initiative so far.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2016/moving-finland-pet-heres-what-consider?fbclid=IwAR2_uFnMHKEeAemMYDeNPf0-do4D-PlfWHDnrfFBtdeD-fbSSizzU8hxSyI", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:WO65YDBSXGHQBB2GUXSESDGW3P63CNVL", "length": 3607, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.finavia.fi", "title": "Moving to Finland with a pet? Here\u2019s what to consider. | Finavia", "raw_content": "Moving to Finland with a pet? Here\u2019s what to consider.\nFlying with a new dog or cat isn\u2019t a straightforward matter. Read our expert certified checklist for moving with pets\nIncreasingly many people are bringing pets into Finland from abroad. International dog adoption has made the headlines over recent years, and according to statistics provided by Finland\u2019s Food Safety Authority, it has seen a major boom. However, there is a lot of nitty-gritty involved in importing a pet, and it isn\u2019t necessarily a simple task.\nWe spoke to Seppo Kuosmanen, an expert from the Ministry of Forestry of Agriculture, about the matter. He helped compile a to-do list for those looking to bring their furry \u2013 and not so furry \u2013 friends to Finland.\n1. Plan and prepare in good time\nMake sure you are aware of the import regulations that concern your pet well in advance.\n\u201cOften, pet owners don\u2019t bother to look up the regulations and requirements in good time before the flight,\u201d says Seppo Kuosmanen, a Senior Veterinary Officer at the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture.\n\u201cMany passengers don\u2019t recognize that the regulations differ, depending on whether the animal is travelling within the EU or from outside the EU,\u201d he continues.\nAttaining a pet passport and the necessary rabies vaccination can take up to a month. Also remember to get a pet travel carrier, crate or cage that satisfies both the animal\u2019s needs and airline requirements.\n2. Arrange a visit to the vet\nIf possible, contact a veterinarian that your pet is already familiar with. The vet will grant your pet a passport and administer the necessary vaccinations.\n\u201cA pet travelling from outside the EU requires a certificate of health, granted by the veterinarian, which states that the animal meets all the set standards and requirements,\u201d Kuosmanen says. Such a certificate is also required if an animal is being imported with the intention of selling it at the destination, or handing it over to a new owner.\n3. Make sure your pet\u2019s vaccinations and ID tags are updated\nFurther, check that there is proof of the vaccinations and identification documents in your pet\u2019s passport.\nA cat or dog arriving to Finland must be vaccinated for rabies. In addition, dogs must be given medication for echinococcal disease prior to travelling.\n\u201cIf your pet is under 16 weeks, and it has not been vaccinated for rabies, the owner must assure authorities of the impossibility of the pet having contracted rabies from wild animals,\u201d asserts Kuosmanen.\n4. Inform the airline\nMany airlines have different rules and regulations they abide by when it comes to travelling pets, and hence book your pet onto a flight as soon as possible. These regulations may determine where you pet will be placed for the duration of the flight. For example, some airlines only admit pets that are fit to travel in cabin. Despite the quality of treatment your pet is familiar with, it is very unlikely it will get to travel in business class.\n5. Familiarize yourself with Finland\u2019s customs regulations\nWhen you and your pet arrive in Finland, choose the red lane when passing through customs. Make sure to have your pet\u2019s documentation handy, as you will need to present them at customs.\nFor more information regarding travelling with your pet, have a look at the links below:\nhttp://www.tulli.fi/en/persons/travel_relocation/animals/index.jsp\nhttps://www.evira.fi/en/animals/import-and-export/eu-countries-norway-and-switzerland/dogs-cats-and-ferrets/dogs-cats-and-ferrets-eu-countries/\nhttps://www.evira.fi/en/animals/import-and-export/import-from-non-eu-countries/dogs-cats-and-ferrets/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 411, "original_length": 8678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstchristianolympia.org/events/?eventDisplay=month&tribe-bar-date=2019-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4TJQ5EXPW3XDLU2INPIVDMME4BRW6YME", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.firstchristianolympia.org", "title": "Events for January 2019 \u2013 First Christian Church", "raw_content": "Eye-to-Eye Dinner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 1276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstclasslifestyle.com.au/new-developments-liverpool-the-foundry", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ALLNFW5V5H2LGTZZQFYQPZPI7PV27Q6W", "length": 1047, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.firstclasslifestyle.com.au", "title": "The Foundry \u2014 First Class Lifestyle", "raw_content": "The Foundry forges the way for a design led community of residents who seek out contemporary ways of living, which are intimately connected to the past, the surrounding landscape, and the rhythms of life.\nAt The Foundry, a whole wonderland of retail is at your feet. Westfield Liverpool is just moments away and is host to over 300 stores, restaurants, caf\u00e9s, banks, a cinema and other services. Within minutes from this hub of activity you\u2019ll find The Whitlam Leisure Centre, which includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gym, spas, saunas, football and netball courts, gymnastic facilities and a 3,000-seat stadium. Woodward Park, which features outdoor sports fields and play equipment, is situated right next to The Whitlam. Liverpool train station is a short walk from home along the riverbank, and access to the M5 is just a few blocks away \u2013 so travel to other parts of Sydney, including the CBD, is incredibly convenient.\nCasula Mall 2.6km\nLiverpool Public School 1.2 km\nFree shuttle bus for residents to Liverpool and Casula station", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firsthealth.net.au/our-clinics/hampton-park-clinic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JL7I2TPFDNFTO6W3NTIPQFSUKVYXDXC3", "length": 876, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firsthealth.net.au", "title": "Hampton Park Clinic - First Health Medical Centre", "raw_content": "Hampton Park Clinichealthsite2018-02-21T05:33:17+00:00\nFIRST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTRE (FHMC) was established in 2003 with the vision of providing the multicultural community of Hampton Park with highest quality and equitable access to health. Besides extended hours and as specialists in family health and chronic diseases in conjunction with multiple allied health professionals onsite, we offer patients a convenient solution for end to end care. Cultural diversity is a key value at First Health Medical Centre with our doctors speaking many languages including English, Mandarin, Dari, Urdu, Persian (Farsi), Hindi, Malay, Sinhalese, Tamil, Indonesian, Malayalam and Kannada. High standard of care never stops for us and FHMC is constantly growing and expanding to meet the current and future demands of our community.\nor 10pm to 9am Weekends,\nand 9pm to 9am Public Holidays,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/2018/02/17/changes-abound-daytona-500/345357002/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKB7Y3Y3ZMJI66Z4SBAFGDU6XZQFX67N", "length": 5024, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.floridatoday.com", "title": "Changes abound for Daytona 500", "raw_content": "Changes abound for Daytona 500\nYoung drivers take over after several familiar faces step away from NASCAR\nChanges abound for Daytona 500 Young drivers take over after several familiar faces step away from NASCAR Check out this story on floridatoday.com: http://on.flatoday.com/2oft2h9\nColton Wood, Special to FLORIDA TODAY Published 7:49 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2018\nAfter Thursday night's qualifying races, the lineup is set for the 2018 Daytona 500.(Photo11: AP)\nDAYTONA BEACH -- It\u2019s been almost three months since the last time drivers in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series got behind the wheel in a playoff points-paying race.\nNow, that wait is finally over.\nPole-sitter Alex Bowman will lead the field to the green flag for the 60th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday, vying to become the first driver since Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2015 to win a race at Daytona from the pole.\nThis year\u2019s season-opening race will feature two rookies who will be competing for the Rookie of the Year award: William Byron and Darrell \u201cBubba\u201d Wallace Jr.\nByron will be making his first career Cup start in the No. 24 car at Daytona, while the 500 will be Wallace\u2019s fifth Cup start.\nWallace, who took over the No. 43 car for Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2018 season, posted a third-place finish in Duel 1, a result that brought excitement to car owner Richard Petty.\n\u201cI have never seen him that excited before,\u201d said Wallace, who will start seventh in Sunday\u2019s race. \u201cThat was the coolest thing. Him coming up \u2013 huge hug, sunglasses were off. Got to see how much he was truly excited about that.\u201d\nByron, however, wasn\u2019t so lucky.\nThe 20-year-old will be forced to go to a backup car after an incident in Duel 1 brought irreparable damage to his No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet. He will start the 500 near the rear in the 33rd-starting position.\n\u201cI hate it that we tore up a car, but we will go to work and get ready for the 500,\u201d Byron said. \u201cWe were all kind of riding in a single-file line, and a couple of guys were trying to make the bottom work and just got sucked around.\"\nThe 2018 season will be missing a staple in the NASCAR community: Dale Earnhardt Jr.\nIn addition to Wallace and Byron, several other drivers experienced a change after the 2017 season, making it difficult for some race fans to follow all the offseason adjustments.\nWith Earnhardt absent from the starting grid, Bowman will be the new face of the No. 88.\nChase Elliott, who piloted the No. 24 for Hendrick Motorsports in the 2017 season, will now get behind the iconic No. 9 car, which was made famous by his father, Bill.\nRyan Blaney moved to Team Penske after the team expanded to three cars and will drive the No. 12 in 2018. The former driver of the No. 12 car, Paul Menard, will now race the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing.\nErik Jones, who won the 2017 Rookie of the Year award, replaced Matt Kenseth in the No. 20 car, leaving Kenseth without a ride.\nAric Almirola will take over the No. 10 car for Stewart-Haas Racing this season, while the previous driver, Danica Patrick, is preparing for her \u201cDanica Double,\u201d a farewell tour in which she will run the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 before retiring from racing. Patrick will drive in the No. 7 GoDaddy Chevrolet for Premium Motorsports on Sunday.\nBowman stuck his hand out of his car and waved the field by to start Duel 1 Thursday night, signaling that he was giving up his first-place position.\nBowman, who turned in the quickest lap time in last Sunday\u2019s qualifying season and will start the 500 from the pole, wanted to preserve his car from any damages.\nThough it brought mixed reactions from Cup drivers after the Duels, Bowman\u2019s car pulled onto pit road unscathed after the first Duel had concluded.\n\u201cI think we showed our hand, we were pretty trimmed out,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cWe came down here to sit on the pole, and we wanted to be the Camaro ZL1\u2019s first pole and we achieved that.\u201d\nBlaney and Elliott are both entering Sunday with momentum, having won their respective Duel race.\nTheir strong performance propelled them to the second row to start Sunday\u2019s race.\n\u201cI'm a little biased, but the (No. 9) looks good on top of the scoring pylon,\u201d Elliott said after Duel 2. \u201cI would love to have it there more throughout the season. \u2026 The one on Sunday is the one we want, the one that counts, the one that everybody is after. Obviously, a lot of racing after that, too.\nThursday night resulted in a nightmare for several Cup drivers, including Brad Keselowski, who entered Thursday\u2019s qualification races as the favorite to win the 500.\nSeven drivers will have to go to their backup cars after sustaining damage in Thursday night\u2019s Duel qualifying races. As a result, they will be forced to start from the rear in Sunday\u2019s race.\nSeven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson is among the group of cars that will be sent to the rear, with Byron, Almirola, David Gilliland, Kyle Larson and Matt DiBenedetto joining Keselowski and Johnson.\nThe green flag for Sunday\u2019s Daytona 500 is set for 3:05 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flowersbysharon.com/international-womens-day/cat1170002", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:23Z", "digest": "sha1:QNEPHLI6W553CX3NJA446DRIGOUX7TKY", "length": 244, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.flowersbysharon.com", "title": "International Women's Day Flowers", "raw_content": "International Women's Day celebrates women's accomplishments and advocates for gender equality. Honor an inspiring woman in your life by sending her hand-delivered flowers. Flowers By Sharon can delivery locally to Shelbyville, KY on March 8th.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 8372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.focqus.io/Photos/BestSellers/i-7m7CbHb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QPN6AR2CLGCUJFUXBXMIG5KAALO6OZT7", "length": 161, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.focqus.io", "title": "Best Sellers - Focqus", "raw_content": "Rancho Palos Verdes Super Bloom\nBeautiful black-eyed susan flowers covering the cliffs during the California Super Bloom of 2017, Rancho Palos Verdes, California", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foodandmigration.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IMVEOP2EWTANCJBTEP5DSZVCNL3735Q4", "length": 3515, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.foodandmigration.com", "title": "Food And Migration - foodandmigration.com", "raw_content": "Food and Migration\nFood & Migration is meant to be an Observatory created to investigate with in-depth analyses, interviews with experts and insights the often-underestimated link between food and movement of peoples. Throughout human history and especially within the Euro-African area, migration routes and food systems were frequently intertwined: a deeper understanding of their nexus is a crucial investment today that will bear great dividends tomorrow.\nOur planet is threatened by huge food paradoxes: the co-existence of hunger and obesity, the over-exploitation of natural resources and the food waste along the food chain.\nThe commitment of The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) aims at analyzing scientific, economic, social and environmental factors strictly connected to food systems, with a multidisciplinary approach, with research tools such as the Food Sustainability Index (FSI).\nIn this perspective, food is at the basis of our health and the one of the Planet and it must be addressed not a cause of today\u2019s problems but as a powerful solution to tackle such urgent challenges, in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\nIn a time when the nexus food-migration is at the center of public debate, BCFN, in collaboration with MacroGeo and The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), developed a study \u201cFood & Migration. Understanding the geopolitical nexus in the Euro-Mediterranean\u201d. It offers a wider understanding of flows and trends of the current and future interlinkages between food and migration, with a focus on the Mediterranean countries, through a geopolitical perspective.\nThis section collects interview with experts, policymakers and NGOs to gather different point of view on topics of interest to the Observatory and offer readers privileged and up-to-date perspectives.\nConversation with Danielle Nierenberg, president and co-founder of Food Tank.\nRe-interpreting the Relationship between Water and Urban Planning: Interview with Maria Chiara Pastore\nConversation with Maria Chiara Pastore, lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico Milano.\nConversation with Luca Raineri, a research fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa Italy, who says Europe\u2019s migration crisis is far from over.\nThis section aims to analyse the topics that present the intersection between geopolitics, food and migration, through a country-based and historical analyses of issues relevant to current events.\nWe tend to think of Europe and Africa as of two distinct continents. In fact, there is an area in which they are almost one: the Mediterranean Region. We already live in a kind of Eurafrica. And what binds together is migration.\nFood & Migration: Understanding the Geopolitical Nexus in the Euro-Mediterranean\nIn an era in which migration is increasingly at the centre of public debate and crucial to the decision-making process, more awareness on the existing links between food and migration is needed.\nAgainst this backdrop, MacroGeo in collaboration with the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition has conducted an analysis of the geopolitical impact of migration and food in the Euro-Mediterranean area, whose results are comprised in this report on \u201cFood and Migration\u201d. Our study experimentally combines geopolitical analysis (resources, flows, migratory routes) and the analysis of food and nutrition, through a series of different and heterogeneous essays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 6645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forcedexposure.com/Product.aspx?CatalogNo=tom-verlaine-songs-and-other-things-cd/THR.173CD", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JFKZVCZALA4UURSNPGSTWFUECN6XV4RS", "length": 515, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.forcedexposure.com", "title": "TOM VERLAINE : Songs and Other Things - CD - THRILL JOCKEY - Forced Exposure", "raw_content": "\"Thrill Jockey's simultaneous release of Around and Songs and Other Things will be the first new releases by Tom Verlaine since Warm and Cool in 1992. Songs and Other Things is Tom Verlaine's first vocal release since The Wonder in 1990. The return of his cool vibrato weaving in and out of his guitar lines is exciting. For this new vocal release, Verlaine recorded with a variety of friends including Television bassist Fred Smith. He wrote all the songs, played all the guitars and even spent some time on bass.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foundationoralsurgery.ca/procedures/wisdom-teeth/wisdom-teeth-removal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XHXDYKHQNXPJ2S6XXOE6DMMVODGZNH4U", "length": 2849, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.foundationoralsurgery.ca", "title": "Wisdom Teeth Removal, Info, & Common Questions | Calgary Oral Surgery", "raw_content": "Calgary Wisdom Teeth Oral Examination\nTo pinpoint the exact position of your wisdom teeth, Dr. Kevin Robertson will evaluate X-rays of your mouth, and examine the appearance of the wisdom teeth in your mouth. Based on these findings, Dr. Robertson will have a discussion with you about whether removal is necessary, and assess the right approach for your surgery. Wisdom teeth removal is an extremely common and safe procedure when done in the hands of an appropriately trained oral surgeon.\nNot all wisdom teeth need to be removed! If they don\u2019t cause pain, and they have erupted or look like they will erupt into the mouth in a normal position, and you can commit to meticulous hygiene in the area to keep them clean, and you don\u2019t develop any cavities in them, you can keep your wisdom teeth for your entire life. This, however, only applies to about 15-35% of the general population. A careful examination by an oral surgeon is the best way to determine if you are a candidate to try to keep your wisdom teeth.\nAbout 65-85% of the population will eventually need to have their wisdom teeth removed during their lifetime. As the risks with removal generally increase with increasing age, if it looks like they will eventually have to be removed, it often is a smart choice to remove them at the ideal age of 16-20 (or as soon after that as possible) for prevention.\nWhat is the best age to have wisdom teeth removed?\nIn most patients, the ideal age to have wisdom teeth removed is from 16-20 years old. However, wisdom teeth mature at different times in different patients, so careful evaluation by an oral surgeon is the best option to determine the appropriate timing. This is typically done with a clinical examination and a panoramic xray, which is one that shows the whole upper and lower jaw and all of the teeth.\nIt\u2019s generally preferable to remove wisdom teeth just before they\u2019ve started to erupt through the gums because that is when they become painful and when infections can develop around them. Additionally, many studies show that the risks of removing wisdom teeth are much lower in patients below the age of 25\nRecovering from Wisdom Teeth Removal\nAt your consultation appointment or on the day of the procedure, you\u2019ll receive detailed instructions on how to care for yourself after surgery. You will need to take at least a few days to rest after your surgery and limit your diet to liquids immediately after surgery. As you recover, you should incorporate soft, solid foods to give you the energy to heal.\nAt the time of your consultation, your specific situation will be discussed in greater detail. We encourage you to ask any questions you may have. If new questions arise after your consultation, please call our office at Foundation Oral Surgery Phone Number 403-263-5193 to speak to one of our patient care coordinators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 14428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxsports.com/florida/story/tampa-bay-buccaneers-defense-091917", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:45Z", "digest": "sha1:A5GEY3PW6ORTJ7EZKJVTMQL2GB2EJS7O", "length": 3542, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.foxsports.com", "title": "Buccaneers defense starting to make a name for itself | FOX Sports", "raw_content": "Buccaneers defense starting to make a name for itself\nTampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Kendell Beckwith knocks the ball loose from Chicago Bears running back Tarik Cohen during Sunday's 29-7 victory.\nTAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Mention the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the first thing likely to come to mind is Jameis Winston and an emerging offense.\nMaybe it\u2019s time an improved defense that keyed the team\u2019s season-opening rout of the Chicago Bears gets a little love, too.\n\u201cDefense wins championships,\u201d Winston said, reflecting on a 29-7 victory in which the Bears turned the ball over four times in the first half and were held to 20 yards rushing.\nPack your bags: Jaguars, Buccaneers among NFL teams taking international trips in 2019\nNew coach Bruce Arians confident Buccaneers have pieces to be playoff team\nBuccaneers counting on Bruce Arians to help Jameis Winston realize potential\nGetting their guy: Buccaneers hire former Bruce Arians to be head coach\n\u201cWhen you\u2019ve got a dominant defense,\u201d the young quarterback added, \u201cit opens up every single thing.\u201d\nRobert McClain returned an interception for a touchdown. Noah Spence had Tampa Bay\u2019s only sack, forcing a fumble that led to another TD.\nSpecials teams also did its part to help Winston build a 26-0 halftime lead, recovering a fumble on a punt return at Chicago\u2019s 13-yard line.\n\u201cIt was crazy during the second quarter,\u201d tight end Cameron Brate said. \u201cWe got a takeaway, we scored the first play and then the defense got a pick-six.\n\u201cSo, we had run one play in the second quarter and we were already up 23-0,\u201d Brate said. \u201cIt was a little weird because we really didn\u2019t have to do too much to build that lead.\u201d\nCoach Dirk Koetter said the defense essentially took up where it left off last season, when Tampa Bay rebounded from a 3-5 start to finish 9-7.\nThe team\u2019s first winning record in six years didn\u2019t produce a playoff berth, but it heightened expectations for this season.\n\u201cIf you look at that second half of last year, they were a dominant defense. In my opinion, they just picked up where they left off,\u201d Koetter said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really that surprising to me because we see them every day in practice.\u201d\nWinston agreed.\n\u201cIf you look at last year, our defense, towards the end of the year they were lights out,\u201d the third-year pro said. \u201cThat\u2019s why our offense had success.\u201d\nAs well as the defense played against the Bears, Koetter cautioned that there\u2019s plenty of room for improvement.\nThe Bucs haven\u2019t made the playoffs since 2007, and the coach said it\u2019s important to not lose perspective.\n\u201cWhen you play the perfect game, you can stop worrying about what you have to work on. But I haven\u2019t seen it yet,\u201d Koetter said.\n\u201cEverything about (Sunday) was really good. Exciting way to start the season. Unique way to start the season based on the set of circumstances,\u201d the coach added. \u201cBut at the same time, that was just one game. We all have a tendency to be way over the top for the good or the bad, and reality is somewhere in the middle.\u201d\nThree-time Pro Bowl safety T.J. Ward joined the Bucs this month after being released by Denver following the final preseason.\nWard was part of an elite defense that helped the Broncos win the Super Bowl two years ago. He\u2019s impressed with his new teammates, and thinks the Bucs have the capability of becoming a dominant unit, too.\n\u201cWe definitely can be number one,\u201d Ward said. \u201cThe talent we have in this room, they work hard and it is everything you need to be a championship defense.\u201d\nGallery: Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader photo gallery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 500, "original_length": 15749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxworldtravel.com/destination/suzhou/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UW5HUTZ3NVCAF5JUJSIP7KECG4XV5KQ7", "length": 240, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.foxworldtravel.com", "title": "Suzhou Vacations | Plan a Trip with Suzhou Travel Agents", "raw_content": "Located on the Yangtze River Suzhou is located in the Jiangsu Province, which borders Shanghai. This is a city that revels in culture and is known for the Kunqu Opera, Suzhou Opera and for ballad-singing. Suzhou silks are also world famous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 4022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freeths.co.uk/people/ian-tempest/real-estate=legal-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5PTJJT37Q5REOI6II4SOHBKW34L6ZJHQ", "length": 1003, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.freeths.co.uk", "title": "Ian Tempest | Real Estate - Freeths", "raw_content": "\"...an established figure in the legal community.\"\nIan Tempest is an established Partner in our Manchester office.\nHe specialises in Local Government and Real Estate law.\nActing for Nottinghamshire County Council in the assembly of land and infrastructure agreements for the Gresham Park Scheme including the construction of two new buildings for Becket School and Nottingham Emmanuel School (\u00a369 million redevelopment of open land).\nActing for Barratt Homes/Kingsoak Homes in the acquisition of a \u00a320 million site at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire for the provision of 800 new homes and in the acquisition of the former Derby College at Pride Park for a \u00a390 million scheme.\nTo contact Ian or for more information\u2026\n\u201cIan has personally led the purchase and planning co-ordination of most of our developments over the last 7 years, supported by unbounded knowledge and commercial acumen befitting someone of senior status within the practice.\u201d\n(Kevin Broughton, Former Managing Director, Barratt East Midlands)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 6114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.friendsofoundlelibrary.org.uk/section860830_360261.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:00Z", "digest": "sha1:62VORK6ZH4ITDVE2VTMFYTQXZYIBLNV2", "length": 1190, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.friendsofoundlelibrary.org.uk", "title": "Cardinal: Friends of Oundle Library", "raw_content": "The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt\nOur book group is meeting again on Thursday. At our last get-together we agreed we'd read at least one book that's been turned into a film or TV series. I was at a bit of a loss until I found a copy of The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt in a charity shop. It's the second of his books about Detective John Cardinal. Recently BBC4 showed Black Fly Season (the 3rd in the series) and although I don't know if The Delicate Storm has ever been done for TV I decided to read it. In the end I was watching and reading both at the same time.\nI'd forgotten the books can be quite grisly and it turns out it's easier to turn the pages quickly to avoid the worst of the gore than it is to miss the scenes on TV! But the plots are gripping and I was happy to immerse myself into Canadian winters while we were having a heatwave in the UK. The actors who play Cardinal and Delorme really feel as if they've stepped out of the books. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised because the credits showed that Giles Blunt was one of the producers(?) of the TV series. Wouldn't it have been nice if Lee Child had told Tom Cruise he wasn't the right actor to play Jack Reacher?!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fueledbysports.com/yankees-re-sign-1bof-garrett-jones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IPB7ZELQCUZACTPDO3MYKVYPX522OJWW", "length": 634, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fueledbysports.com", "title": "Yankees Re-Sign 1B/OF Garrett Jones | Fueled by Sports", "raw_content": "Yankees Re-Sign 1B/OF Garrett Jones\nThe New York Yankees have re-signed first baseman/outfielder Garrett Jones, according to Jack Curry of the YES Network. The Yankees designated Jones for assignment recently to make room for Dustin Ackley, who they acquired from the Mariners last week. The team needed to fill his roster spot after Ackley went on the DL.\nAs I hinted at last night, Garrett Jones is back w/ Yankees. He was outrighted and elected FA and re-signed with Yanks. Activated for tonite\n\u2014 Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) August 5, 2015\nThe 34-year-old Jones is hitting .215/.257/.361 with five home runs and 17 RBIs this season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 3210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gainesville.com/news/20071225/man-shot-in-head-still-in-hospital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:PITPLDNAL3OEKWSN3D62QYRKSM5UMHLY", "length": 1675, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gainesville.com", "title": "Man shot in head still in hospital - News - Gainesville Sun - Gainesville, FL", "raw_content": "Man shot in head still in hospital\nA robber took money from three people before shooting a fourth man.\nAn Alachua man remained hospitalized in serious condition Monday with a bullet wound to the head from a Friday night shooting that occurred during a robbery, Alachua Police reported.\nAlachua Detective Darry Lloyd said the victim, whose name was not released, was one of four men being robbed at gunpoint at the Autumn Leaves Mobile Home Park on County Road 241 when he fought back and was shot.\n\"Autumn Leaves is mainly occupied by Hispanic individuals and they tend to be targeted, especially on Fridays and Saturdays, because that's when they get paid,\" Lloyd said. \"The victim is in very serious condition. He got shot in the head.\"\nLloyd said the incident occurred at about 11:40 p.m. outside a home. Four residents were outside when a man walked up and pulled a gun on them.\nThe first three men gave the robber their money. The victim tried to fight him and ended up getting shot, Lloyd said.\nLanguage difficulties have hampered the case, Lloyd added.\n\"(Witnesses) are coming forward for the most part, but the language barrier is something we are having to deal with, too,\" Lloyd said. \"We do not have anybody identified as a suspect. We've been working with interpreters to assist the family and to get more information. There are some issues with residency status, but we are trying to assure them that this is about getting answers for the victims.\"\nLloyd said the victim, 55, is in a Shands hospital but would not specify which one. Lloyd said the man has family in the area, including sons.\nCindy Swirko can be reached at 352-374-5024 or swirkoc@ gvillesun.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 3697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/videos/how-blizzard-s-warcraft-brought-hearthstone-to-lif/2300-6423661/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E233YIHOGK4KZHQCN5XMZ5CQYCBH5374", "length": 356, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gamespot.com", "title": "How Blizzard's Warcraft Brought Hearthstone to Life - GDC 2015 - GameSpot", "raw_content": "How Blizzard's Warcraft Brought Hearthstone to Life - GDC 2015\nLearn about the organization, vision, and process used to create an immersive user interface for the popular card-crafting game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. 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The Final Fantasy XV Booster Pack (Free Version) and Final Fantasy XV Booster Pack + are scheduled for release on February 21, and will be available for all players or Season Pass holders, respectively. The DLC content will include powerful items such as the invincible outfit, \u201cMagitek Exosuit\u201d that give players an advantage during battles.\nFINAL FANTASY XV Episode Gladiolus releases on March 28, and will be available to players who purchased the Premium Edition or Season Pass and can also be purchased separately via the Xbox Marketplace or the PlayStation Store. Through this DLC, players can enjoy an episode depicted from Gladio\u2019s perspective. Gilgamesh, one of the franchise\u2019s fan-favorite characters will also be making an appearance in the episode.\nNorth American players can look forward to returning to the world of Ivalice in Final Fantasy XII THE ZODIAC AGE on July 11, 2017 for the Playstation 4. The visual and audio remaster of series classic Final Fantasy XII will feature a job character progression system for the first time in the West. New key art from famed character designer and artist Akihiko Yoshida was also revealed, featuring the main cast of the game including Ashe, Balthier, Fran and Vaan.\nFinal Fantasy BRAVE EXVIUS, the full-scale Final Fantasy adventure for mobile devices that has achieved over 20 million downloads worldwide, recently began an in-game collaboration event with internationally renowned artist and actress Ariana Grande. All players will be able to acquire \u201cDangerous Ariana,\u201d the Ariana Grande-inspired character exclusively designed for the game until February 2 by completing the first stage of the special in-game event, \"Dangerous Woman Tour.\"\nMobius Final Fantasy, the critically acclaimed mobile RPG adventure will be making its way to STEAM next month on February 6. The title offers an all-new RPG adventure featuring a deep story, stunning visuals, in-depth character customization and a refined turn-based RPG battle system. To celebrate over 10 million registered users worldwide and the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII, various in-game bonuses and a special Final Fantasy VII Remake collaboration event will begin on February 7 for a limited time.\nLabels: final fantasy, ps4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 58532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gayot.com/restaurants/dennys-garden-grove-ca-92843_6oc13018000050-00328.html?map=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYXYPC4HQ2OGBQBEBDDOBIWMBPFTWAFZ", "length": 192, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gayot.com", "title": "Denny's Restaurant Map Garden Grove CA | Gayot", "raw_content": "Now that you know where you want to enjoy a meal, it's time to find the restaurant. Print out this Denny's map and take the driving directions with you so you can locate the restaurant easily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gaysugardaddydating.net/privacy_policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OGTZTOM32OB4BQBPXPBOEAN7RT5CEIX3", "length": 1082, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gaysugardaddydating.net", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Gay Sugar Daddy Dating cares about your privacy!\nIn order to provide the dating and social networking function of the Gay Sugar Daddy Dating website and mobile application (the \"Site\"), it is necessary that we (Dating Media Group or ODS Online Dating Systems, LTD, depending on your location) need to process your personal information. By accepting this policy and creating an account with the Site you are confirming that you have read and understand this policy, including how and why we use your information. If you don't want us to collect or process your personal information in the ways described in this policy, you must not use the Site. Please be aware that while we impose certain use restrictions in our Terms and Conditions, we are not and cannot be responsible for any user or third party's(ies') use of information you may determine to share through the Site, whether through your profile, chat, direct message or otherwise. This Policy applies to any information you provide to us, including through this website, our mobile applications, and communications by email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 20978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/rodrigo-constantino/artigos/bolsonaro-far-good/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XQNGZX6KXHEV7AJEQQ4QH3AHALBUYVJL", "length": 7603, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.gazetadopovo.com.br", "title": "Bolsonaro: so far so good | Rodrigo Constantino", "raw_content": "Bolsonaro: so far so good\n27 de novembro de 2018 Por Rodrigo Constantino\nSo Jair Messias Bolsonaro will be the next president of Brazil. What to expect? Who is he? And what kind of team will he build? If we judge only by the mainstream media, we should definitely be very scared. But is it really that bad? Is he only a rightwing populist, or even worse, a fascist and potential dictator? I\u2019ll try to show that it\u2019s not the case, that actually there is a real possibility he could be one of the best presidents Brazil has for the last decades.\nFirst of all it\u2019s important to understand the context in which he won. Bolsonaro is in politics for a long time, but he was seen as an outsider anyway. The reason is that he was never part of the establishment, of the group that controlled the power. As the Car Wash operation made almost every important politician looks suspicious and corrupt, Bolsonaro could rise as a symbol of honesty, and that\u2019s not a small matter in Brazil today.\nOne of his best choices as minister was Sergio Moro, the judge behind Car Wash operation. That tells a lot about his priorities. To fight corruption and to change the way politics works now are two main goals of the new president. And Brazilian people were really tired of the way the system works: only to help politicians and their friends, while everyone else had to pay the price, a huge price.\nThe parties in power always exchanged jobs for votes, and that\u2019s how it works usually. But Bolsonaro chose his ministers by their abilities, their historical records, their capacity of execution and knowledge in each area. It may sound ordinary for American people, but it\u2019s something completely new in Brazil. That\u2019s the first big difference in his behavior.\nWhen it comes to the economy, one of the most important sectors in a country with 13 million unemployed, Bolsonaro chose Paulo Guedes, a brilliant economist with his Ph.D. from Chicago University. Guedes is a classic liberal and wants to reduce a lot the size and intervention of the government in the economy. Privatization is not a bad word anymore, as it used to be. It\u2019s his sacred word to take the state out of the way and cut the federal debt, which is almost 80% of the GDP \u2013 an unsustainable level for emerging countries.\nI\u2019ve known Guedes for a long time and he was my boss for 6 years when I worked in the financial sector. I can tell he is not only brilliant as an economist, but he is also a patriot who really wants to leave a better country as his legacy. And if there is someone who can give the right prescription for our diseases it\u2019s him.\nSome investors were afraid that Bolsonaro would not follow his advices, because of the elected president\u2019s past views on economy. But he is humble and knows that he doesn\u2019t know everything, which is a great quality. That\u2019s why Guedes so far has had all the autonomy he needs to make decisions. It was clear when he chose Joaquim Levy, a former minister in the Labor Party\u2019s government, to run the BNDES. Bolsonaro was not happy with the political cost of that choice, but he accepted anyway, which shows Guedes\u2019 strength.\nGuedes also indicated many more respectful names for first and second ranks. The next chairman of Central Bank, Brazilian Federal Reserve, will be Roberto Campos Neto, a very talented economist who works on Santander Bank and has experience abroad. To Petrobras, the largest state-owned company in Brazil, he chose Roberto Castello Branco as CEO, a classic liberal and former director in Vale, the giant in the mining sector. He also chose important names of the last administration to continue their great work, such as Mansueto Almeida as Treasury Secretary, who is known for his experience in public finance.\nSalim Mattar, one of the best CEOs of the country, founder of Localiza Rent a Car, was appointed as Secretary of Privatization, which is also incredible. Salim is known for his classic liberal support and is very enthusiastic about reducing the government\u2019s size. Together with Guedes, that challenge is in the best hands a liberal could dream of.\nMoro and Guedes are not the only stars in the team. There is Marcos Pontes, an astronaut who worked for NASA and has an impressive curriculum, Ernesto Ara\u00fajo, a diplomat that understand the importance of the cultural war and the necessity to get Brazil closer to the West values, as many others. A freer economy, less protectionism and focus on results: that\u2019s the new face of the government.\nWhat can be said with confidence by now is that Bolsonaro chooses his team looking at their true abilities, not their political affiliation. That\u2019s not sufficient for a good government, but it\u2019s a necessary condition. And that was not the way things were done in the past. So we\u2019re talking about a very important change, which justifies more optimism going forward.\nWhat could be, then, the risks? The most obvious one is an eventual disagreement between Bolsonaro and Guedes. Their relationship is new, and both have strong personalities. If, by any chance, there is a relevant issue that Guedes thinks is essential and Bolsonaro doesn\u2019t support, there could be problem. And if Guedes decides to leave or is fired by the president, nobody will believe in Bolsonaro\u2019s willingness to really fight the deep state privileges in the public sector anymore. Asset values would melt down very fast in this scenario.\nThe other major risk is the political execution of their agenda. Bolsonaro, as mentioned, is a congressman for decades, but he belonged to the low rank of power, and depended much more on his speeches than on getting things done. Guedes is an academic and has experience as entrepreneur, but not in politics. Brasilia works in a different beat, and Guedes already said some things that show he\u2019s not familiar with that reality, as when he suggested people should put a lot of pressure in their representatives through social media to approve the reforms. There was immediate response by the Congress, with salary increases that makes the message loud and clear as a threat.\nOnyx Lorenzoni, the chief of Staff and the \u201ccaptain\u201d of the team, is a well-known politician, but was never part of the upper level as well. He will be responsible for all the necessary articulation to approve the reforms, and it looks like that mission could be above his capacity. Time will tell, but that could be the largest bottleneck in the agenda, because the reaction of organized groups will be very strong, and some reforms are not that popular, especially because the results won\u2019t come quickly.\nAll that said, it\u2019s only rational to feel optimist about Brazil\u2019s future. We had decades of leftism in politics, and now there is a real possibility of moving in the right direction. Brazil could use some economic freedom and conservative values for a change. It\u2019s not going to be a miracle, and improvements will take a long time. But every journey begins with one step. And with Bolsonaro, it seems that Brazil finally decided to take that step. So far so good.\n* I apologize for my English. Usually I don\u2019t write in that language, and living in Florida for almost four years, the only thing I learned was a little bit of Spanish. But I hope that\u2019s enough to spread the message, because the American people will never know what is really going on in Brazil if it depends on the mainstream media, so biased to the left.\n\u00c9 preciso priorizar uma reforma previdenci\u00e1ria s\u00e9ria e fazer pol\u00edtica 27 de novembro de 2018 Por Rodrigo Constantino\nPaulo Cruz: o que esperar do novo ministro da Educa\u00e7\u00e3o? 27 de novembro de 2018 Por Rodrigo Constantino", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 10701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gbase.com/gear/gibson-l5-ces-1969-sunburst-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:T7LO7TBS5ZWTU2OU45WDFHKSUNIJUVGS", "length": 977, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gbase.com", "title": "1969 Gibson L5-CES Sunburst > Guitars Archtop Electric & Acoustic | J & E Guitars", "raw_content": "1969 Gibson L5-CES Sunburst, Excellent, Original Hard\nHere's a beauty! Just arrived! A 1969 Gibson L-5 CES in Sunburst finish. This beauty is a great player. Sounds and plays great. It was played, but loved. 1 9/16\" nut width. It is all original, except for the following, Pro fret job, new nut, new pickup covers, and new pickguard. Original pickup covers, and original pickguard come with instrument in case. The originals corroded from the original pickguard's chemical reaction. The guitar was dropped at one point. It caused a little damage right below the control knobs. It has been professionally repaired, and will never be an issue again. You can see it in the pictures. It's not a guitar for a collector, but it is a great instrument for the true player. As most of you know, a new one will run you $12K-15K, and they aren't as good. This one needs to be played to be appreciated. It is a great instrument with typical play wear for its age. Comes with original case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/christmas-day-college-closed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:E7V7DT7TYSVFO2K4FTKZCJV4FB3FXU5Q", "length": 71, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gcc.mass.edu", "title": "Christmas Day - College closed - GCC", "raw_content": "Christmas Day \u2013 College closed\nTuesday, December 25 201812:00am-11:59pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 3388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 135.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/our-medical-team/stephen-watt-bsc-mbchb-mphil-mrcp-mfpm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q4VV734QPOJ2B572UDCALZN2OTD6VAO", "length": 568, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gethealthystayhealthy.com", "title": "Stephen Watt, BSc, MBChB, MPhil, MRCP, MFPM \u2013 Get Healthy Stay Healthy", "raw_content": "Stephen Watt, BSc, MBChB, MPhil, MRCP, MFPM\nHome \u00bb Stephen Watt, BSc, MBChB, MPhil, MRCP, MFPM\nDr. Stephen Watt is the Enterprise Benefit Risk Medical Lead at Pfizer. Steve received his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh, and completed his MRCP (Member of the Royal College of Physicians) training in general hospital medicine at Barts & the Royal London Hospital. Dr. Watt also received an Honors degree in Physiology, an MPhil in developmental molecular neurobiology research, and a post graduate degree in pharmaceutical medicine (Dip Pharm Med, London).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/new-zealand-prime-minister-john-key-arrives-for-the-news-photo/487276154", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RNZOEWICNA5SB2K3NJLQQLY3Q7ZOZSZX", "length": 420, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gettyimages.com.au", "title": "New Zealand Prime Minister John Key arrives for the official opening... News Photo | Getty Images", "raw_content": "New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (C) arrives for the official opening of the 46th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Port Moresby on September 8, 2015. The 16-nation grouping consists mainly of small island nations, together with Australia and New Zealand, with the two developed nations being accused of dragging their feet on climate change. AFP PHOTO/Ness KERTON (Photo credit should read Ness Kerton/AFP/Getty Images)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 7575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ghior.com/essays/essay-on-tea-a-popular-drink-or-a-cash-crop-of-bangladesh/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:13Z", "digest": "sha1:C2EWOGEKJ3SKV2L7ZR2VREKUXG4K2VW3", "length": 5415, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ghior.com", "title": "Essay on Tea/ A Popular Drink Or, A Cash Crop of Bangladesh \u2013 Ghior.Com", "raw_content": "[Hints: Introduction, Tea producing countries/ where grown, How grown/cultivation, How gathered/How collected/Process of gathering/ plucking/of leaves, Production, Preparation of tea/How prepared, Uses/ usefulness/ merits/ Impotence, Demerits, Conclusion]\nIntroduction: Tea is one of the most popular drinks all over the world. Almost all people take tea everyday. It is still called `Cha\u2019 in our country. It is made by infusing the dried leaves with the boiling water. It belongs to \u2018Camelia Sinensis\u2019 of the family `Theaceae.\nTea producing countries/ where grown: Tea is obtained from a kind of small plant which had its or.gin in China. Tea-plant is an evergreen shrub. It is now grown in Large quantities India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Ceylon and Bang.adesh. Indeed, it is grown in the tropical countries.\nTea is grown well in the hilly places where rainwater can\u2019t stand at all. In Bangladesh it also grows in plenty in the hilly parts of Sylhet and Chittagong. especially in the hilly slopes. Excessive rainwater is needed for the growth of tea plants but the rainwater must not stay at the root. So hilly countries are the best place for tea cultivation.\nHow grown/ cultivation: The cultivation of tea is not so easy. Tea-plants require a moist climate for their growth. In the rainy season tea-seeds are first sown in a nursery or in a small piece of land. The seedlings are then transplanted over vast areas in rows from four to six feet apart. The plants are watered and weeds are removed timely for the smooth growth of the plants. It grows twenty to thirty feet high in its wild state. But they are not allowed to grow very high in the garden. They are pruned/ trimmed so that they become bushy. They are not allowed to grow for three to four feet high. When the tea plants are about four years old, the .eaves are plucked for the first times a year. Much care is needed in watering the young plants, in removing weeds from beside them, and in protecting them against worms and insects. The process of pruning is necessary for two reasons. First, if the tea-plants are allowed to grow at will, they become sickly and do not yield a good crop. Secondly, it becomes difficult to gather the bus and leaves as it has to be done at regular intervals.\nHow gathered/How collected/Process of gathering/plucking/of leaves : Tea-plucking offers a lovely view. It is usually done by highland women. There are generally four crops a year, but the first crop is the best. The leaves are gathered or picked up in three or four phases or times a year. The first crop or picking is done in April, the second in May, the third in June and the fourth in August. Three varieties of tea are gathered at each phase of plucking. First the buds of -tea-plants make the best tea, secondly, the smaller leaves are next in quality to the buds, and thirdly, the larger leaves are less-flavored. The names of these three varieties are \u2018pekoe\u2019, `Souchong\u2019 and Tongue\u2019: A large number of coolies of both sexes go out in the morning. Each of the carry a basket at their back and gather buds and leaves.\nProduction: After gathering been done, the buds and buds are dried in the sun or in a huge cauldron placed over a burning fire. Then they are rolled by a machine to press out the juice. The leaves are then spread out on the floor of a moist room until their colour changes from green to copper. Then they are taken to hot-air room where they dry up completely and become black and brittle. Thus they are made ready to be used for drink.\nPreparation of tea/ How prepared: The preparation of tea is again a long and interesting process. It is very simple and easy. At first, water is boiled in a pot. Some tea-leaves are dropped into the boiling water. This is called liquor. After a few minutes, the infusion is then poured into cups through sieve or strainer. Then sugar and milk are mixed with it and thus we get a good drink. This is how a tasteful cup of tea is prepared.\nUses/ usefulness/ merits/ Impotence: The usefulness of tea in our life is really very great. It is a stimulant and refreshing drink. It is a favorite drink to all classes of people all over the world. It removes our fatigue and tiredness. It gives us energy for work. It is a cheap tiffin, to all It also helps us to keep awake. By exporting tea, our country earns a lot of foreign currency every year. We\u2014can entertain our guests with. It is an antidote to cancer too.\nDemerits: Tea is termed as the refreshing drink but it is not always good for health. In hot countries, it does more harm than good. Too much of taking tea is bad for health. It kills hunger too. An immoderate use of tea results in dyspepsia and kindred complaints. So, nobody should form a habit of drinking excessive tea which is quite injurious to health.\nConclusion: The demand for our tea is world-wide. Its importance, especially in our national economy, can hardly be: t over-emphasized. It strengthens our dilapidated economy by bringing much foreign currency. So, we and the government should pay proper attention to increasing its cultivation and its prosperity.\nComposition on Golden Fiber of Bangladesh\nEssay on Crops of Bangladesh Or, The Crops of Bangladesh\nTagged With: A Cash Crop, A Popular Drink, Cash Crop, Cash Crop of Bangladesh, Crop, Crop of Bangladesh, Crops and Production, Drink, Drinks, Essay on Tea, Essay Writing, Popular, Popular Drink, Tea, Writing Essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/students-take-top-gear-style-12165353", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3N7CK6OCT7W3Y2UXJMZVJS7S2YUGOYEL", "length": 3549, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.glasgowlive.co.uk", "title": "Students take on Top Gear-style challenge to raise funds for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice - Glasgow Live", "raw_content": "Students take on Top Gear-style challenge to raise funds for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice\nIn two revamped cars, the group set off on the trip of a lifetime for the Motoscape Banger Rally, driving through 12 countries in seven days to reach their destination of Prague in the Czech Republic.\nThe group with their cars\nA team of five intrepid students and lecturers from West College Scotland in Clydebank have taken on a Top Gear-style challenge across Europe to raise more than \u00a3800 for charity.\nThe quintet \u2013 students Allister Linstead, 26, from Knightswood; Christopher McKenzie, 18 from East Kilbride and David Henry, 29, from Paisley, accompanied by the college Motor Vehicle course\u2019s curriculum and quality leader Alastair Fleming and technician Murray Miller \u2013 were rewarded for their dedication through donations to their chosen charity, St Margaret of Scotland Hospice.\nGlasgow Airport enjoys busiest October for 50 years\nThey joined 29 other teams who took in the spectacular scenery of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia and Czech Republic before arriving at their final destination in the Czech capital.\nBut before setting out, the students, under the watchful eye of their lecturers, had to work hard to get their cars in shape for the race, which took place in September.\nBut the repair work, like the trip itself, proved to be an amazing learning experience for the students.\nAllister Linstead said: \u201cGetting to drive cross country was an opportunity we may never get again so I\u2019m delighted I was selected to be part of the team.\nMan, 47, dies after falling from hotel window above Glasgow Central Station\n\u201cAs a team we got on great, which was just as well given that we had to spend up to nine hours a day in a car with each other.\n\u201cThere was a great sense of team spirit across all the teams and everyone helped each other when needed.\n\u201cWe were fortunate not to have any problems with our cars but others weren\u2019t so lucky.\"\nThe group and Michael Smith who donated the car\nOne of the vehicles \u2013 an out-of- use Renault Megane \u2013 was donated by Whitecrook man Michael Smith and required some serious work to make it not only roadworthy, but able to cope with a round trip of more than 4000 miles.\nAlastair Fleming, who rallied the group together for the trip, added: \u201cIt was a tough but an enriching challenge to help raise money for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice.\n\u201cThe students were selected based on their achievements and qualifications, including having a full, clean driving licence.\n\u201cThe boys put the skills learned over the past couple of years to good use. They\u2019ve proved they\u2019ve got the ability so we had every faith in them.\u201d\nTaxes including tourist levy and congestion charges could be introduced in Glasgow\nThe charity car wash\nThe total raised for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice was raised to \u00a31334, after the students\u2019 Motor Vehicle colleagues organised a car wash event which added \u00a3489 to the donations for the Rally.\nHospice Chief Executive Sister Rita said: \u201cThe students and lecturers who took part in this activity have gone to amazing lengths to support us and we are truly grateful for that.\n\u201cIt is wonderful to hear about the learning experiences they have had and how the local community and College have clubbed together to make this possible for them.\n\u201cAnd of course, we are delighted that their efforts in the Rally have raised vital and welcome funds for the worthiest of causes.\u201d\nThe JustGiving page for the WCS rally team is still open if you would like to donate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 11200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gleaners.org/gleaners-food-bank-indiana-shares-year-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:51Z", "digest": "sha1:E7PU6SCBINMZPU3GXYEPBKC4IAMYQUGW", "length": 5968, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.gleaners.org", "title": "Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana", "raw_content": "Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Shares Year in Review\nResults following fiscal year ended September 30th.\nCARE Mobile Pantries served 65% more individuals than in 2016.\nVeterans and active duty military in line at mobile pantries increased by 33%.\nThe amount of fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables distributed throughout our service area increased by 60% - from 4.6M pounds to 7.3M pounds.\nSNAP outreach resulted in the equivalent of nearly 725,000 meals \u2013 the equivalent of 40% of our mobile pantry meals.\nGleaners Food Bank of Indiana held its annual meeting on October 26, 2017. At this meeting, an open board meeting included a \u201cyear in review\u201d for board members, staff and the public.\nHighlights of that year in review are shared as follows:\nOur most important measure \u2013 more than 24,336,000 meals were distributed to hungry Hoosier families in our 21-county service area \u2013 with a monetized value of more than $55 million.\nOn May 1st Gleaners launched a regional produce processing center in support of 39 food banks in 7 Midwest states. During the 6 month test phase, over 3 million pounds of produce was shipped to 16 Midwest food banks. In 2018, that will increase to at least 15 million pounds of produce and by the end of 2020, at least 25 million pounds of produce, doubling Gleaners volume of food distributed.\nIn Gleaners\u2019 own service area, produce distribution increased by 60%, from 4.6 to 7.3 million pounds.\nIn 2017 Gleaners, already a regional hub for Feeding America\u2019s disaster relief efforts, shipped 12 semi-loads of critically needed food and non-food to Texas and Florida.\nCash donation revenues were $17.4 million \u2013 a 9% increase if the $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. is excluded.\nOperating expenses decreased 6% to $8.4 million.\nNet income improved to $1.8 million versus a loss of $500K in 2016.\nNet assets increased to $24 million with debt of less than $500K.\nImplemented a first-ever 3-year planning budget and multi-year agreements with donors and vendor partners.\nDistribution center productivity dramatically increased with no increase in staff; Gleaners began sharing the facility with other non-profits on a cost-sharing basis\nYouth programs: 9,380 children provided with weekend BackSacks every week; 23,592 BackSacks distributed to 4,278 children in the summer; 73,623 meals provided to kids at 16 locations during the summer and more than 10,000 students and families served at 52 school-based pantries.\nSenior Hunger Initiative: 17,204 senior citizens served at 111 mobile pantry locations; 17,047 seniors served at 98 distribution locations; more than 10,000 seniors served multi-meal boxes in partnership with CICOA.\nMobile Food Pantries: more than 42,570 households (129,446 people) served at 260 locations across 16 counties. This equates to more than 1.8 million meals.\nCARE Mobile Pantries (a best-in-class partnership with Indianapolis Public Safety agencies that is transforming high-risk, high-need neighborhoods and relationships through the power of food): 73,960 people served at 70 distributions \u2013 an increase of 65% over 2016. Unfortunately that included a 33% increase in the number of military veterans served. A pilot or test phase of distributing CARE food bags one-on-one was launched with IMPD East District and will soon expand to IMPD North District.\nSNAP Outreach: more than 723,416 meals were added via Gleaners outreach programs, one-third of those were for senior citizens, many of whom did not know they were eligible.\nWe instituted a significant number of new policies, including board governance, financial management and fundraising. Most importantly, measurement, training and compensation of staff has been enhanced.\nWe also instituted a new empowerment model, with an emphasis on emerging leaders among staff and the board, as well as a strong emphasis on improving diversity by all measures \u2013 staff, board, volunteers, food sourcing, financial resource sourcing and geographic impact.\nEvery major software system, as well as associated hardware and underlying technical infrastructure was replaced in 2017 \u2013 without any disruption in service or loss of critical data.\nAs part of a very strong effort to proactively collaborate and be a genuine local resource of value in each local community Gleaners serves, staff participated in more than 100 partnerships, committees, coalitions and other organizations across all 21 counties. Gleaners also plays a leadership role in central Indiana and statewide hunger organizations.\nCommunications: Gleaners has built one-pager documents for every program and service, as well as the impact in each county served; helped lead common messaging among hunger relief organizations; organized conversations with government agencies and elected officials; and worked with media organizations as engaged corporate citizens.\nGleaners President/CEO, John Elliott, expressed enthusiasm for Gleaners\u2019 recent progress and the future plans. \u201cGleaners is emerging from a period of financial challenge and significant change, which, frankly is positioning us for even greater transformational change over the next few years. Our operating and financial models are rapidly becoming more complex. We are poised to at least double the volume of food through our distribution center and we are having a meaningful, measurable impact not just on the nutritional quality of food we share, but we are doing our part to reduce the number of families in poverty who stand in food lines.\u201d\nOutgoing Board Chair Jamie Browning echoed Elliott\u2019s enthusiasm. \u201cIt\u2019s been my honor to serve at Board Chair for the past two years during a time of transformative change in the organization. From the seamless transition between Cindy Hubert and John Elliott as CEO, to the launch of the Regional Produce Processing Center and the Produce Hope initiative, Gleaners is innovating daily in an effort to not just feed those in line, but to reduce that line over time,\u201d said Browning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 8498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.global-regulation.com/translation/portugal/8160460/establishes-the-binding-schemes%252c-careers-and-remuneration-of-workers-who-exercise-public-functions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NS7NM4I3NQYAOZYEWEBPRZVRXLJ4GFNO", "length": 122081, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "www.global-regulation.com", "title": "Machine Translation of \"Establishes The Binding Schemes, Careers And Remuneration Of Workers Who Exercise Public Functions\" (Portugal)", "raw_content": "Establishes The Binding Schemes, Careers And Remuneration Of Workers Who Exercise Public Functions\nOriginal Language Title: Estabelece os regimes de vincula\u00e7\u00e3o, de carreiras e de remunera\u00e7\u00f5es dos trabalhadores que exercem fun\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00fablicas\n1 PROPOSAL of law No. 152/X explanatory statement the binding schemes, reform of careers and remuneration of civil servants is based primarily on the fact that the existing solutions in those areas do not match the requirements already imposed by a good organization and management of public resources, the new requirements placed by the Portuguese society and also the challenges that at international level, in the context of globalization, the country faces and to whose overcoming public administration must continue to give an active and positive contribution. The Public Administration serves the Country and its citizens, through its employees, constituting therefore the labour regimes which apply to a matter of the greatest importance, condition of the efficiency and quality of services that are provided. It is with these fundamental objectives that launches this reform in the belief that will result a better Public Administration, with most workers mobilized for the service of the public interest. Is practically unanimous diagnosis done regarding links, careers and remuneration. Highlight the great complexity of the modalities and submodalities of Constitution of the legal relationship of public job and situations which are legally applicable. It is today almost impossible to establish a clear conceptual distinction between situations in which must be constituted an employment relationship in the mode of appointment, those in which use-if the contract of employment for an indefinite period and the other where you can make use of other modalities.\nIt is also widely accepted recognition of rigidity of rules applicable to staff on appointment, largely in public administration, majority of arising difficulties and little flexibility in relation to the needs of services and performance levels adjustment revealed. 2 there is a large number of careers with functional content identical and proliferation of special regime careers and special bodies, often without clear justification. It should be recognised that the dynamics of careers has been based on seniority and performance evaluation levels generally obtained, which gives it almost automatic nature, or based in contests with very bureaucratic procedures that, in practice, give particular emphasis to the requirements and conditions of formal nature. There are several pay scales contributing to the low transparency of the remuneration system and an excessive number of different wage positions. Contributing to the complexity of the payment systems, there are numerous established supplements often aimed exclusively to ensure the base remuneration increases. On the other hand, are poorly developed compensatory mechanisms truly related to the levels of performance. The relationship between the human resource management mechanisms and the needs of the overall management of services is weak, and very poor the relationship between human resource management mechanisms and budgetary capacities of the State, contributing to the impossibility of controlling the evolution of expenditure on personnel and public finance imbalances.\nSo, following forecast made in the program of the Government, also the stability and growth program (PEC), presented in June 2005, pointed to the need to \"profoundly reform the career system and compensation while substantially reducing the number of careers, as well as limiting dramatically the elements of existing automatic progression\". It refers to the \"salary progression must be strongly conditioned by the performance evaluation of employees\" and recommended \"the introduction of appropriate incentives to improve the quality of public services, without sacrificing wage progression, on the contrary, intending to speed it up for employees with good performance. Also in the update of the SGP introduced in December 2006 if points to the \"need for a broad reform, which will result in particular in a new human resources management system and your relationship with the cycle of global management of public services, under the principles of management by objectives\". 3 is this reform that now presents itself after, in September 2006, having made public an exhaustive diagnostic report and already in November of the same year and since January 2007 have carried out negotiations with the unions representing the employees of the Public Administration on the guiding principles to which they must comply. Are general principles that shape the new solutions which now are: \u2014 tying of linking schemes, careers and salaries to the public interest and the principles of equal access to public office and the impartiality and transparency of the management of human resources in public administration; \u2014 strengthening the human resource management in public administration aimed at the professional valuation of workers, which is an essential element in the functioning of public services, the your professional motivation, recognition of merit, the development of their skills and increasing productivity, in particular through organisational, procedural, technological improvements and professional training promoted by the public administration; \u2014 the approach to the common labour regime, with respect for the specificities of the Government arising from the pursuit of public interests, and to produce impact on numerous aspects of the regime, notably of employment contract in public functions; \u2014 entry for the same system in key areas of public employment relationship, regardless of the type of link: integration in careers and respect for your organization's legal rules, respect for the rules of recruitment, General mobility figures and compliance with the General rules enformadoras of the remuneration system; \u2014 maintaining a career perspective for workers, articulated with the needs of global management of services, based on merit revealed through the performance or provision of evidence; \u2014 the integration of human resources management in the overall management of public services, this being conditioned by legal duties by the objectives set and the budgetary availability of services, in a annual and multi-annual horizon; 4 \u2014 the management human resources developing from the identification of activities and jobs necessary for the attainment of objectives and results of the services, through personal maps update yearly or multi-yearly, and progressively based on competency profiles definition; \u2014 the consecration of the principle of fiscal equality between services for the management of human resources, in order to prevent the existence of injustices on the treatment of workers for reasons arising exclusively from the allocation of financial resources; \u2014 increasing the management capacity of managers, with reinforcement of the management and control mechanisms of accountability, the need for justification of acts of management and your transparency. With regard to links consecrate themselves two modes of public job binding: binding for contract work, indefinitely (subject to the course of a trial period) and the term resolutivo, which may be right or uncertain, and binding by appointment, final (subject to a trial period) and transitional temporary exercise functions to functions expressly identified in law. The regime of employment contract in public administration, become common mode, follow a regime adapted from fixed in the labour code, but always safeguarding the pursuit of the public interest, then it has an administrative nature. Such adaptation will be indicated in the Regime of employment contract in Public Functions (RCTFP) which, through additions, amendments and derogations to that code, will govern the remaining subjects of the legal relationship of public employment in contract mode. Highlight that will keep the causes of termination of employment provided for in that code. However, in this area provides for a discretionary scheme of special mobility with duration of one year, for the initiatives necessary for the redeployment of workers to other public service, preceding the cessation of case binding that redeployment does not check. The appointment will follow in the current regime. However introduce changes will be in the area of cessation of binding, consecrating himself to termination by mutual agreement, subject to fair compensation, in accordance with the abovementioned legislation, and mobility in diploma who shall review the Disciplinary Status, will be the end for performance failure, revealed on the assignment of 5 negative reviews in two consecutive years that upon checking in process of disciplinary nature constitute serious and repeated, of professional duties. It should be noted that for the exercise of its functions subject to the naming scheme can never resort to hiring scheme, such as for the beginning of functions placed under the contract can never resort to naming scheme. As already mentioned the Disciplinary Status will be reviewed and will be applicable to all Public servants, with a cast of common duties and the specifics that occasionally are justified with regard to disciplinary procedures and sanctions in each link type, derived from your nature. It should also be noted the application to all workers bound by appointment and by contract, of a common body of incompatibilities and impediments, without prejudice to further requirements to provide in careers that are justified, regardless of the mode of binding. Appointments and hiring of finality are a system of advertising in Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica. The other hires and appointments will be the subject of appropriate publicity, in particular through posting on own sites of public services. As regards collective bargaining is expected to enshrine the principle of equality between the statutes of the minimum two methods of linking and the principle of non-withdrawal, by instruments of collective bargaining, of the fundamental principles that shape the systems enshrined in this law. Nevertheless, collective bargaining will emerge strengthened, and in the future RCTFP instruments concluded by career or set of careers, regardless of the service sector or Ministry (without prejudice to accommodate its specificities) and pursuing principles of balance and Justice on within each service, sector or Ministry, without prejudice to the particularities of each career. In terms of careers, your number, giving rise to careers with names and functional content more comprehensive. Such a reduction is accompanied by the consecration of mechanisms that allow more flexibility for workers in switching between careers. Consecrate themselves General and special careers and these will, as a rule, the current careers of special arrangements and special bodies that disappear. The careers will have the categories that the functional requirements dictate. If there are multiple categories to each must match a functional specificity 6 own, still covering the contents of the category below. Each category will integrate different compensation positions. The dynamics of careers will be related to the management of human resources in each service, and such joint management will naturally with the needs of global management, and this naturally conditioned by existing budgetary and capabilities with the dynamics of performance evaluations. Remuneration remuneration components integrates base, including holiday and Christmas allowances, supplements and compensation for performance. Dedicates a single remuneration table that includes all remuneration levels which can be used in place of compensation every career, General or specific, of employees of the PA, with the exception of the Clocktower given your constitutional status. The change of remuneration position operates to the immediately higher position, depending on the particulars obtained in performance evaluation. However, in order to reward exceptional merit employee revealed in your performance evaluation, through closely reasoned Act, whose full content is advertised, may change to your pay position to another to be superior. Remove the automatic nature of any compensatory supplements, assuming, of course, that specific functional complexes are remuneratoriamente recognised in their base remuneration. The supplements shall be, as a rule, in amounts determined and not percentages of the basic remuneration. The compensatory supplements are always referenced to a job and never only concrete ownership of career or category. With this reform is because compliance with the Government Programme and opens a new phase in human resource management of public administrations which, observing the constitutional principles and the specifics of the exercise of public functions, allow the approximation of their regimes, in some ways, to the common labour law. This reform is unavoidable. Not doing would lead to Public Administration, the State and its workers to an intolerable situation. The effects produced by this reform are positive not only for the Public Administration and the State, but also for their workers and citizens and society in General. 7 Benefit because workers resumes in new moulds, the dynamics of their careers and salaries, creating conditions so that your still performance they reflect more directly. Benefit the Public Administration and the State because the schemes adopted reflect more flexibility in management, introduce new capabilities to attract and compensate top talent and ensure linkage between human resources management and the overall management of the services. Benefit the society and citizens, since the Public Administration will provide better organized its services more effectively and more efficiently and contribute actively to overcoming the challenges that the country faces, in the context of global competition in which participates. Were heard the Government organs of the autonomous regions and initiated the consultation with the National Association of Portuguese municipalities and the National Association of Parishes. The procedures were observed as a result of law No. 23/98 of 26 May. So: under d) of paragraph 1 of article 197 of the Constitution, the Government presents to the Assembly of the Republic the following Bill: title I subject matter and scope Article 1 subject-matter 1. This law defines and regulates binding schemes, careers and remuneration of workers who exercise public functions. 2. In addition, this law defines the legal regime applicable to each functional mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment.\n8 article 2 scope of subjective 1. This law applies to all workers who carry out public functions, regardless of the binding mode and formation of the legal relationship of public employment under which they exercise their functions. 2. this law shall also apply, mutatis mutandis, to the current workers with the quality of an employee or agent of legal persons that are excluded from the scope of your objective. 3. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and in special laws, this law is still applicable, mutatis mutandis, to the judges of any jurisdiction and the prosecutors.\nArticle 3 scope of objective 1. This law shall apply to the direct and indirect administration services of the State. 2. this law shall also apply, with any necessary adaptations, in particular as regards the administrative powers of the corresponding government agencies own, regional and local administrations. 3. this law is still applicable, with the adaptations imposed by compliance with the responsibilities of the corresponding holders, bodies and services in support of the President of the Republic, the Parliament, the courts and the public prosecutor and their respective management agencies and other independent bodies. 4. The applicability of this Act to the services external peripherals of the State shall not affect the validity and norms: a) principles of international law which have otherwise; b) binding schemes, careers and pay. c) and special regulatory instruments internal mobility. 5. Without prejudice to paragraph 2 of the preceding article, the present law shall not apply to public bodies, nor to the business support offices of members of the Government of the holders of the organs referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3.\n9 TITLE II human resources management article 4 Planning the activity and resources 1. Taking into consideration the mission, responsibilities, strategy, objectives, skills of superiorly organic units and the financial resources available, the organs and services plan, at the time of preparation of the proposed budget, the activities, permanent or temporary nature, to develop during your implementation, any amendments to be made on flexible organic units, as well as the respective map. 2. The elements referred to in paragraph 1 are attached to its budget proposal.\nArticle 5 1 personal maps. Personal maps contain the indication of the number of jobs that the agency or service needs for the development of their activities, characterized in function: a) the assignment, your competence or activity that the occupant is intended to fulfill or perform; b) from Office or career and category to which they correspond; c) within each category, when essential, of the academic or professional training area that the occupant should be your holder. 2. In the organs and decentralised services, personal maps are broken down into so many maps how many devolved organic units. 3. personal maps are approved, maintained or amended by the competent authority for approval of the proposed budget and made public by posting in the body or service and insertion into electronic page, and should remain so. 4. Amendment of personal maps involving reduction of jobs is based on reorganization of the agency or service in accordance with legally prescribed. 10 article 6 human resources management on the basis of personal maps 1. In the face of personal maps, the agency or service checks are a sufficient number of workers functions, inadequate or excessive. 2. Being insufficient the number of employees in the agency or service functions, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph b) of paragraph 1 and paragraphs 3 and 4 of the next article, can promote the recruitment of necessary for the occupation of the jobs concerned. 3. Recruitment referred to in the preceding paragraph, for the occupation of posts needed to execution of the activities, operate with the establishment of legal relations of public employment indefinitely, except when such activities are of temporary nature, in which case the recruitment is carried out through the establishment of legal relations of public employment by time determined or determinable. 4. Recruitment for the establishment of legal relations of public employment indefinitely in the manner provided for in paragraph 1 of article 9 starts always from among workers with legal relationship of public employment for an indefinite period previously established. 5. Recruitment for the establishment of legal relations of public employment by time determined or determinable in the manner provided for in paragraph 1 of article 9 starts always from among workers: a) wish to preserve the quality of subjects of legal relations of public employment constituted for an indefinite period; or (b)) are placed in a situation of special mobility. 6. In case of impossibility of occupation of all or of some jobs by application of the preceding paragraphs, the agency or service, preceding assent of members of the Government responsible for the finance and Public Administration, can proceed with the recruitment of workers with employment legal relationship public by time determined or determinable or no legal relationship of public job previously established. 7. The meaning and the date of the opinion referred to in paragraph 1 is expressly mentioned in the recruitment procedure in question there. 11 8. Under the conditions laid down in paragraph 4 of the preceding article, the number of workers being excessive, the agency or service begins to promote the legal steps necessary for the termination of the legal relationship of public job consisting of time determined or determinable that there lacks and, when necessary, apply to the rest of the system legally foreseen, including the placement of people in a situation of special mobility. 9. The recruitment laid down in paragraph 5 may still occur, when specially admitted by law, by selection established itself on the grounds of scientific, technical or artistic aptitude, duly substantiated.\nArticle 7 budgeting and expenditure management personnel 1. The budgetary resources of the bodies or services earmarked for staff costs are intended to support the following types of charges: a) With the salaries of workers must keep in the Office or service; b) With the recruitment of workers necessary for the occupation of posts and not busy, personal approved and maps, or with changes in the remuneration in the category placement of workers remaining in Office; (c)) With the award of prizes for performance of workers of the agency or service. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 6 of article 47, the budgeting of costs referred to in paragraph 1 (b)) and c) of the preceding paragraph is carried out in an equitable manner between the organs or services and is based on the weighting: a) the objectives and activities of the agency or service and motivation of employees, as far as referred to in point (b)) of the preceding paragraph; b) performance level reached by the agency or service in the year preceding the preparation of the budget proposal, when referred to in point (c)) of the preceding paragraph. 3. the maximum leader of the agency or service, considered the factors referred to in point (a)) of the preceding paragraph, decide on the maximum amount of each of the types of costs referred to in point (b)) of paragraph 1 which proposes support, 12 may opt, subject to the provisions of paragraph 6 of article 47, allocating budgetary funds full corresponding to just one of the guys. 4. The decision referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be taken within 15 days after the beginning of implementation of the budget. 5. When is not used all the budgetary funds intended to support the type of charge referred to in point (b)) of paragraph 1, the remaining part in addition to designed to withstand the kind of charge referred to in point (c)) of the same paragraph.\nTITLE III chapter I Constitution binding schemes of the legal relationship of public employment section I requirements for worker article 8 Requirements the Constitution of the legal relationship of public job depends on the meeting by the worker, in addition to others that the law provides for the following requirements: a) Portuguese nationality, when not excused by the Constitution, International Convention or law; b) full eighteen years of age; c) inhibition of the exercise of public functions or not to ban the exercise of those aims; d) physical Robustness and psychological profile, essential to the exercise of its functions; and) compliance with laws of mandatory vaccination.\nSection II article 9 13 1 Modes Modes. The legal relationship of public employment is constituted by appointment or employment contract in public functions, hereinafter referred to as agreement. 2. The appointment is the unilateral act of public employer whose effectiveness depends on the acceptance of the named. 3. the contract is a bilateral Act between a public employer, with or without legal personality, acting on behalf and in representation of the State, and a special, which is a subordinate work relationship of an administrative nature. 4. The legal relationship of public employment is constituted by tour case: a) of ungraded posts inserted into careers, notably the leaders; b) the frequency of specific training or the acquisition of certain academic degree or professional title right before the trial period with beginning the appointment or the contract, in both cases by the person who is subject to a legal relationship of public employment indefinitely lodged previously.\nSection III article 10 Appointment Framework 1. Are named workers who competes, in function of your integration into careers that are suitable for this purpose, the fulfillment or performance of duties, responsibilities and activities related to: generic and specific Missions) 's armed forces on permanent frames; b) external representation; c) security information; d) criminal investigation; 14 e) public safety, either in free amid institutional means; f) inspection. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and in special laws, are still appointed judges of any jurisdiction and the prosecutors.\nArticle 11 arrangements for appointment 1. The appointment is the modalities of appointment and transient naming. 2. The final appointment is made for an indefinite period, without prejudice to the trial period provided for and regulated in the following article. 3. The appointment shall be made for transitional time determined or determinable.\nArticle 12 trial period of definitive appointment 1. The definitive appointment of a worker for any career category starts with the course of a trial designed to prove if the worker has the skills required by the job that will occupy. 2. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, the trial period lasts for one year. 3. During the trial period, the employee is accompanied by a jury especially set up for that purpose, to which it is up to your final assessment. 4. The final assessment takes into account the elements that the jury has collapsed, the report that the worker must present and the results of training courses attended. 5. The final evaluation results on a scale of 0 to 20 values, considering successfully completed the trial period when the worker has obtained an assessment of not less than 14 or 12 values, depending on whether it is or not, respectively, of career or category 3 level of functional complexity. 6. Successfully completed the trial period, your term is formally marked by an act of the competent authority for the appointment. 15 7. The time elapsed in the service trial period that has successfully completed is counted, for all legal purposes, in career and category concerned. 8. Complete without success the trial period, the appointment is made to cease and the employee returns to legal and functional situation that was before her, when constituted and consolidated indefinitely, or cease the legal relationship of public job otherwise, in any case without compensation. 9. By an act of the competent authority, in particular reasoned heard the jury, the trial period and the appointment can be made to cease in advance when the worker clearly reveal does not have the skills required by the job he holds. 10. The time elapsed in the service has completed trial period without success is counted, where applicable, in the career category to which the worker and returns. 11. The rules laid down in the General Law on tendering for the purposes of recruitment of workers shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the establishment, composition, functioning and competence of the jury as well as the approval and administrative challenge of the results of the final evaluation.\nArticle 13 transitional appointment Regime 1. The assumptions of the appointment to the trial period and transitional to your duration and renewal are applicable, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of the Regime of employment contract in Public Functions (RCTFP) concerning the contract the term resolutivo. 2. The area of recruitment of temporary appointment is made up by workers who have not or do not wish to preserve the quality of subjects of legal relations of public employment constituted for an indefinite period, as well as by those who are special mobility.\n16 article 14 1 of the Nomination Form. The nomination is of the form of order and can consist of mere declaration of agreement with proposed or prior information that, in this case, is an integral part of the Act. 2. The order of appointment is set out in the reference to the legal provisions and the existence of enabling appropriate budgetary place.\nArticle 15 acceptance of appointment 1. Acceptance is the public and personal act by which the named declares to accept the appointment. 2. Acceptance is known by the term, approved by order of the Member of Government responsible for public administration. 3. In the Act of acceptance the worker pays the following commitment of Honor: \"I, the undersigned, do solemnly affirm on my honour that I will fulfil with loyalty the functions that are assigned to me.\"\nArticle 16 Jurisdiction 1. The competent authority for the appointment is also the signature of the end-user license agreement. 2. the jurisdiction provided for in the preceding paragraph may, at the request of the agency or service, even if by the employee, be exercised by civil Governor or, abroad, diplomatic or consular authority.\nArticle 17 deadline for acceptance 1. Without prejudice to the provisions of special laws, the deadline for acceptance is twenty days measured continuously the date of publication of the notice of appointment. 17 2. In duly justified cases, in particular sickness and holidays, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph may be extended for periods determined by the competent authority for the relevant subscription term. 3. In case of absence for maternity, paternity or adoption of fouls by accident in service and military service, the period referred to in paragraph 1 is automatically extended to the expiration of such situations.\nArticle 18 effects of acceptance 1. Acceptance determines the beginning of functions for all legal purposes, including the perception of pay and service time count. 2. in the cases of absence for maternity, paternity or adoption and fouls by accident, the perception of compensation arising from definitive appointment retroactive to the date of publication of the respective Act. 3. In the cases referred to in paragraph 3 of the preceding article, the time of service due to permanent appointment retroactive to the date of publication of the respective Act.\nArticle 19 lack of acceptance 1. The signature of the end-user license agreement may not, on pain of disciplinary and financial liability, refuse to do so. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of special laws, the lack of acceptance of the named automatic revocation matter act without naming that can be repeated in the procedure in which it was practised.\nSection IV Contract 18 article 20 Scope are hired workers who should not be named and whose legal relationship of public job shouldn't be of service.\nArticle 21 1 contract modes. The contract is the contract modalities for an indefinite period and fixed term contract resolutivo, right or uncertain. 2. The time elapsed in the service has completed trial period without success is counted, where applicable, in the career category to which the worker and returns.\nArticle 22 recruitment Area of the fixed term contract resolutivo recruitment area resolutivo forward contract is constituted by workers who have not or do not wish to preserve the quality of subjects of legal relations of public employment constituted for an indefinite period, as well as by those who are special mobility.\nSection V Commission article 23 duration and renewal 1. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, the service lasts for three years, renewable for equal periods. 2. The time elapsed in service service is counted, where applicable, in the career category to which the worker and returns.\n19 article 24 Possession 1. Without prejudice to the provisions of special laws, the acceptance of positions in service is the form of possession. 2. Possession is a personal and solemn public Act, by which the employee expresses the will to accept the exercise of Office. 3. Applies to the Commission and to the possession, with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of article 14, paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 15, articles 16 and 17, paragraph 1 of article 18 and article 19 Chapter II Guarantees of impartiality article 25 1 Modes. The existence of incompatibilities and impediments contributes to ensure impartiality in the exercise of public functions. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, in articles 44 to 51 of the Code of administrative procedure and in special laws, the incompatibilities and impediments to which they are subject workers, regardless of the mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment under which exercise functions, are those laid down in this chapter.\nArticle 26 incompatibility with other public functions are functions normally carried out in exclusivity.\n20 article 27 Accumulation with other public functions 1. The Office can be accumulated with other public functions when they are not paid and there's the manifest public interest accumulation. 2. Being paid and manifest public interest in the accumulation, the exercise of functions can only be accumulated with other public functions in the following cases: a) Iner\u00eancias; b) representation activities of organs or services or ministries; c) Participation in committees or working groups; d) Participation in advisory boards and supervisory boards or other collegiate bodies, in this case for oversight or control of public funds; e) occasional and temporary activities that may be considered a complement of the function; f) teaching or Research Activities of duration does not exceed the fixed order of the members of the Government responsible for finance, public administration and education or higher education and that does not overlap by more than a third of the time the main function; g) conferences, lectures, short-term training and other activities of a similar nature.\nArticle 28 Accumulation with private functions 1. Without prejudice to the following paragraphs, the exercise of functions can be accumulated with the private functions or activities. 2. The title paid or unpaid, or subordinate, self-employed work cannot be accumulated by the employee or by an intermediary, functions or private competitors or similar activities with public functions performed and these are conflicting. 21 3. Are, inter alia, covered by the preceding paragraph the functions or activities which, having identical content to the public functions performed, are developed on an ongoing basis or usual and go to the same circle of recipients. 4. The title paid or unpaid, in autonomous or subordinate work scheme, cannot yet be cumulated, by the worker or by an intermediary, functions or private activities:) are legally considered to be incompatible with the public functions; b) Are developed on schedule overlapped, albeit partially, to public functions; c) Compromise the exemption and impartiality required for the performance of public functions; d) Cause any prejudice to the public interest or to the legally protected rights and interests of citizens.\nArticle 29 authorization for accumulation of functions 1. The accumulation of functions laid down in articles 27 and 28 depends on permission from the competent authority. 2. The request to submit for that purpose there shall be a statement: a) the exercise of the function or activity to accumulate; (b)) of the time when she must exercise; (c)) The remuneration, if it is the case; d) autonomous or subordinate nature of the work to be carried out and their content; e) of the reasons why the applicant believes that the cumulation, as appropriate, is public interest or not manifest incurs in provided for in (a)) and d) of paragraph 4 of the preceding article; f) of the reasons why the applicant believes there is no conflict with the functions performed, particularly by the role to collect do not coat the characteristics referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 and in point (c)) of paragraph 4 of the preceding article; g) commitment to immediate cessation of the function or activity accumulated in the event of a supervening of conflict. 22 3. It is the responsibility of the Office-holders, under penalty of termination of the service, in accordance with its Statute, to verify the existence of situations of accumulation of unauthorized functions, as well as overseeing, in General, the strict observance of the guarantees of impartiality in the performance of public functions.\nArticle 30 interest in procedure 1. Workers cannot provide to third parties, for themselves or through an intermediary, in autonomous or subordinate work scheme, services within the framework of the study, preparation or financing of projects, applications or requirements which have to be submitted to your consideration or decision or organs or organic units placed under direct your influence. 2. workers may not benefit, and unduly personal, acts or take part in contracts whose formation process involved organs or organic units placed under direct your influence. 3. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, shall be deemed to be placed under the direct influence of the worker the organs or organic units: a) are subject to your power steering, supervision or guardianship; b) Exercising powers for him by delegation or subdelegation; (c)) have been established by him, or in respect of which the holder has intervened as a public employer, for the specific purpose of intervening in the proceedings concerned; (d)) to be integrated, in whole or in part, by employees designated by time determined or determinable; and) Whose holder or integrated in them have workers, less than a year, been benefited by any remuneration or benefit obtained entry relating to your performance evaluation, in whose proceedings he has intervened; f) with him to collaborate, in hierarchical parity situation, within the same agency or service or organic unit. 4. Is equated to the worker's interest, defined in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2, 23): your spouse, not separate terms, of its ascending and descending in any degree, to the side of 2 degree and that living with him under the conditions laid down in Article 2020.\u00ba of the Civil Code; (b)) of the society in whose capital holds, directly or indirectly, by himself or together with the persons referred to in the preceding paragraph, a contribution of not less than 10%. 5. The violation of the obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 produces the disciplinary consequences provided for in its Statute. 6. For the purposes of the administrative procedure Code, the workers should report to their superiors before decisions, carried out the acts or concluded contracts as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, the existence of the situations referred to in paragraph 4. 7. Shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of article 51 of the code of administrative procedure.\nChapter III termination of the legal relationship of public job article 31 General provisions 1. When provided for in law, and in accordance with her established, not incidental, meeting any of the requirements referred to in article 8 does cease or modify the legal relationship of public employment. 2. In any case, in the absence of a special law to the contrary, the legal relationship of public employment ceases when the worker complete 70 years of age.\nArticle 32 termination of appointment 1. The definitive appointment ceases by: a) Conclusion without successful trial period, pursuant to paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 of article 12; b) Exoneration at the request of the employee; 24 c) mutual agreement between the employer and the employee, subject to fair compensation; d) application of disciplinary penalty expulsiva; and worker's death); f) Off of the service for the purposes of retirement. 2. The exemption referred to in point (b)) of the preceding paragraph shall take effect on the thirtieth day after the date on which the corresponding request, except when the employer and the employee agree differently. 3. The cause of termination referred to in point (c)) of paragraph 1 is regulated by Ordinance of the Government officials responsible for finance and Public Administration and generates the incapacity of the employee for a period of ten years, constitute a binding relationship, by way of public employment or other organs and services to which this law applies. 4. Termination of the interim appointment shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of RCTFP concerning the contract the term resolutivo.\nArticle 33 termination of employment 1. Completed without success the trial period, the contract is made and the employee returns to the legal situation that was functional before him, when constituted and consolidated indefinitely, or cease the legal relationship of public job otherwise. 2. The contract may cease the causes provided for in RCTFP. 3. When the indefinite contract should cease by collective redundancy or dismissal for the termination of the job, the identification of workers for which such termination should take effect operates by application of the procedures provided for by law in case of reorganization of services. 4. Identified workers whose contract should cease apply the other procedures provided for in RCTFP. 5. Confirming the need for termination of employment, the employee is notified, in 10 working days, inform if you want to be placed in special mobility situation for a period of one year. 25 6. Not wishing, and not having been revocation arrangement pursuant to RCTFP, is the Act of termination of employment. 7. Being placed in a situation of special mobility and restarting indefinite functions in any organ or service to which this law is applicable, the procedures for termination of contract are archived without having practiced the corresponding Act. 8. Not taking place the resumption of duties in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, during the period of placement of the unemployed special mobility, is the Act of termination of employment. 9. The provisions of paragraphs 5 to 8 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the termination of the contract for an indefinite period: (a) Expiry by supervening impossibility), absolute and definitive of the public employer to receive the work; or b) dismissal for inability.\nArticle 34 termination of service 1. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, the service ceases at any time, at the initiative of the employer or the employee. 2. Terminated the service, the employee returns to legal and functional situation that was before her, when constituted and consolidated indefinitely, or cease the legal relationship of public job otherwise, in any case, entitled to compensation when provided for in law.\nChapter IV service contracts article 35 Scope 1. The organs and services to which this law applies may enter into contracts for the provision of services, in terms of job contracts and service agreements, as referred to in this chapter. 26 2. The conclusion of contracts and retainer can only take place when, cumulatively: a) in the case of executing work not subject, for which proves inconvenient any mode of legal relationship of public employment; b) work to be done, as a rule, by a legal person; c) is subject to the legal regime of acquisition of services; d) the contractor proves to have adjusted its tax and Social Security. 3. the work not subject what, being provided with autonomy, is not subject to discipline and to the hierarchy of the agency or contractor or service enforces compliance with working hours. 4. in exceptional cases, when it proves to be impossible or inconvenient, in this case, observe the provisions of paragraph b) of paragraph 2, the Member of Government responsible for the area of finance can authorize the conclusion of contracts and to deal with individuals. 5. the contract of task subject the execution of specific jobs, exceptional in nature, and may not exceed the term of the contractual period initially established. 6. the contract of retainer subject successive instalments in the exercise of profession, with some consideration, which may be done monthly cease at any time, by either party, even when concluded with tacit renewal clause, with 60 days ' notice and without obligation to compensate.\nArticle 36 the scope of 1. Without prejudice to the full production of its effects during the time in which they have been running, the service contracts concluded with violation of the requirements provided for in paragraphs 2 and 4 of the preceding article are void. 2. The violations referred to in the preceding paragraph does incur the your responsibility to disciplinary and financial liability. 27 3. By way of precaution, the organic units responsible for the processing and payment of remunerations Captivate automatically, from the month following the month in which the administrative procedure has been instituted or a court, in order to ascertain the nullity of the contract or increase the financial responsibility, respectively, half the base remuneration indicted responsible, to the extent of the amount that has been spent under the hiring. 4. After the procedure, the amounts committed are delivered to the coffers of the State, in legal terms, or are returned, with the corresponding legal interest, as the case may be. 5. For the purposes of paragraph 3 the competent authority by the procedure statement indicates that your introduction organic units there referred to.\nChapter V methods of Publicity linking article 37 1 Publication. Are published in the second series of the Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica, extract: the final naming acts), as well as those which determine, in relation to employees appointed permanent organ or service changes and or category; b) indefinite contracts and the acts which determine, in relation to the contract workers, permanent organ or service changes and or category; c) service commissions; d) acts of cessation of modes of public employment legal relationship referred to in above. 2. Extracts of the acts and contracts exist in the career category and position of having appointed or hired.\n28 article 38 other forms of advertising 1. Are posted on the agency or service and entered into electronic page, extract: a) transient naming acts and their renewals; b) The fixed-term contracts resolutivo, right or uncertain, and their renewals; c) contracts for the provision of services and the respective renewals; d) of separations of linking referred to in above. 2. Extracts of the acts and contracts exist in the career category and remuneration of appointed or contracted position, or, where applicable, the function to perform and their remuneration, as well as the relevant deadline. 3. Extracts of the service contracts reportedly still refer to the granting of the visa or the issuance of the Declaration of conformity or, where applicable, to your notification.\nTITLE IV career Regime Chapter I scope article 39 1 scope. Without prejudice to the provisions of the following paragraph and in article 58, this title shall apply to the legal relations of public employment constituted for an indefinite period. 2. transitional appointments and fixed-term contracts resolutivo, right or uncertain, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, articles 50 and 51, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of article 53, 54 and 55 articles and paragraph 1 of article 57 Chapter II section I Organization of 29 Careers Careers article 40 career workers appointed integration definitely and hired for an indefinite period shall carry out their functions integrated into careers.\nArticle 41 General and special Careers 1. Are general careers whose functional content feature jobs that most organs or services needs for the development of their activities. 2. Are special careers whose functional content feature jobs that only one or a few organs or lack services for the development of their activities. 3. Special careers can be created Only when, cumulatively: a) The respective functional content cannot be absorbed by the functional content of General careers; b) employees should find most demanding functional duties subject to that planned for the General careers; c) for integration into such careers, and in any of the categories in which unfold, is required, as a rule, the specific training course approval of not less than six months duration or the acquisition of certain academic degree or professional title right. 4. approval and acquisition referred to in point (c)) of the preceding paragraph may take place during the trial period with beginning the appointment or contract.\n30 article 42 unicategoriais Careers and pluricategoriais 1. Regardless of your General or special qualification, the careers are unicategoriais or pluricategoriais. 2. Are unicategoriais the careers to which corresponds a single category. 3. pluricategoriais Are the careers that unfold in more than one category. 4. pluricategoriais careers can be created Only when each of the categories from career corresponds to a functional content distinct from the other. 5. The functional content of the upper categories integrates always of inferior to him.\nArticle 43 functional Content 1. Every career, or each category in which they unfold, a functional content legally described. 2. The functional content of each career or category should be described comprehensively, dispensing pormenoriza\u00e7\u00f5es relating to tasks in it covered. 3. The description of the functional content cannot, under any circumstances, and without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 3 of article 271.\u00ba of the Constitution, constitute grounds for non-compliance with the duty of obedience and is without prejudice to the attribution to the worker of functions, not expressly mentioned, related to him or functionally linked.\nArticle 44 Degrees of functional complexity 1. Depending on the ownership of the habilitacional level usually required for integration in every career, these are classified in three degrees of functional complexity, as follows: a) 1 grade, when it requires the ownership of compulsory education, even if increased by appropriate vocational training; 31 (b)) Of degree 2, when it requires the ownership of 12 grade level or course to be equated; c) 3 grade, when it requires the ownership of degree or higher academic degree. 2. The diploma that create the career references to the respective degree of functional complexity. 3. pluricategoriais careers can present more than a degree of functional complexity, each of which referenced the categories, when integrating these depend, as a rule, the ownership of different educational achievement levels.\nArticle 45 1 compensation Positions. Each category of a variable number of compensation positions. 2. The category of career unicategorial matches a minimum of eight positions, their fees. 3. In pluricategoriais, the number of positions in each category compensation in compliance with the following rules: a) to the lower category corresponds to a minimum number of eight positions, their fees; (b)) to each of the categories successively higher proportionally decreasing number matches a remuneration positions so that: (i)) and career unfolded in two categories, four the minimum number of positions of higher category remuneration; II) being the career unfolded in three categories, is of five and two the minimum number of positions successively higher category remuneration; III) being the career unfolded in four categories, six, four and two the minimum number of positions successively higher category remuneration.\nAmendment 32 article 46 pay placement: gestion\u00e1ria option 1. Taking into account the budgetary funds intended to support the type of charges provided for in subparagraph (b)) of paragraph 1 of article 7, the maximum leader of the agency or service decides, pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 4 of the same article, if, and to what extent, this proposes to bear burden of remuneration positioning changes in category of workers of the agency or service. 2. The decision referred to in paragraph 1, inform the fixed maximum amount, with the necessary breakdowns of charges that the organ or proposed service support, as well as the world of careers and categories where pay positioning changes in category can take place. 3. The universe referred to in the preceding paragraph may also be unpinned when they so understand the maximum leader, as a result of: a) the attribution, competence or activity which workers integrated into particular careers or holders of certain category must fulfill or perform; b) Of academic training or professional area of workers integrated into a particular career or holders of particular category, when such training area has been used in the characterization of the jobs contained in personal maps. 4. For the purposes of the preceding paragraphs, the changes may not take place in all careers, or in all categories of the same career or for all workers in a particular career or holders of a certain category. 5. The decision shall be made public by posting in the body or service and insertion into electronic page.\nArticle 47 amendment of remuneration: positioning rule 1. Meet the universes are defined in accordance with the previous article body or service workers, wherever they are in Office, which, in the absence of a special law to the contrary, have obtained in recent evaluations of your performance 33 referred to the functions exercised during placement in remuneration: the Two entries maximum, consecutive); b) three Honorable immediately below the maxims, in succession; or c) immediately below mentions Five referred to in subparagraph (a) above, provided they are constitutive positive performance, consecutive. 2. Certain workers who satisfy each of the universes, are sorted, within each universe, in descending order of quantity classification obtained in the last evaluation of your performance. 3. In the face of the Ordinance referred to in the preceding paragraph the maximum amount of charges set by each universe, pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of the previous article, is distributed in the order mentioned, so that each worker change your positioning in category to pay position immediately following that in which it is. 4. There are no positioning change remuneration where, despite meeting the requirements set out in paragraph 1, the maximum amount of fixed charges for the universe in question has, predictably, exhausted with the amendment the worker paycheck superiorly. 5. for the purposes of subparagraphs (a) (b)) and c) of paragraph 1 are also considered the information obtained that are superior to them. 6. There is mandatory to change the position immediately following remuneration to that in which the worker is, when there is, regardless of the universes are defined in accordance with the previous article, when that, in the absence of a special law to the contrary, have accumulated 10 points in your performance evaluations referred to the functions exercised during placement remuneration as is counted in the following terms: a) Three points for each mention; b) Two points for each mention immediately below; c) one point for each immediately below mention referred to in (a), since achieving positive performance; d) A negative point for each indication corresponding to the lowest level of evaluation. 7. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, the change in remuneration reports positioning the 1 January of the year in which it takes place. 34 article 48 alteration of remuneration positioning: exception 1. Still not meeting the requirements set out in paragraph 1 of the preceding article, the maximum leader of the agency or service, heard the assessment Coordinating Council and within the limits set by the decision referred to in paragraphs 2and 3 of article 46, can change, to remuneration position immediately following that in which you find yourself, positioning remuneration of worker whose last performance evaluation has obtained the maximum or the citation immediately below. 2. Similarly, within the limits set by the decision referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 46, the maximum leader of the agency or service, heard the Coordinating Council of the evaluation, it can determine that the change of placement in the category of worker referred to in paragraph 3 of the preceding article if operate to any other remuneration position following that as is. 3. The provisions of the preceding paragraph has as limit the maximum remuneration position for which have changed the positioning your employees who, within the same universe, they are ordered superiorly. 4. amendments of the remuneration provided for in this article positioning are particularly justified and made public, with the full content of the reasons therefor and of the opinion of the Coordinating Council of the evaluation, for publication in space of the 2nd series of the Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica, by posting on the organ or service and by insertion into electronic page. 5. The provisions of paragraph 7 of the previous article.\nSection II General Careers article 49 enumeration and characterization 1. Are general careers: a) diploma; b) Assistant coach; 35 c) operating Assistant. 2. The characterization of General careers on the basis of the number and description of categories in which unfold, the functional content of degrees of complexity and the number of functional compensation positions in each category shall be as set out in the annex to this law, which is an integral part. 3. The forecast, maps, jobs that should be filled by career technical coordinators of assistant coach depends on the existence of flexible organic units with the level of the Chamber or of the need to coordinate at least 10 technical assistants in their sector of activity. 4. The weather forecast, maps, jobs that have to be occupied by General career operating tenders Wizard depends on the operational need to coordinate at least three in charge of operating its sector of activity. 5. The weather forecast, maps, jobs that have to be occupied by people in charge of operating operating Assistant career depends on the need to coordinate at least ten operational assistants of their sector of activity.\nChapter III Recruiting article 50 1 of tendering Procedure. Decided by the Manager of the public employer pursuant to paragraph 2 of article 6 and article b) of paragraph 1 and paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 7, to promote the recruitment of workers necessary for the occupation of all or of some jobs, and not busy, on maps of approved personnel, is advertised its tendering , in particular through publication in the second series of the Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica. 2. The tendering procedure referred to in the preceding paragraph notes the injunctions arising from the provisions of paragraphs 3 to 7 of article 6 3. The tendering procedure is opened with clarity, the reference to the number of jobs to occupy and your characterization depending on the assignment, 36 competence or activities to fulfill or perform, career, category, and, when essential, academic or professional training area to which they correspond. 4. For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the publicity of the procedure references: a) to the academic training when, in the cases of paragraph (c)) of paragraph 1 of article 44, there is more than one at the same level habilitacional; b) vocational training area when, in the cases of (a)) and b) of paragraph 1 of article 44, the integration into career doesn't depend on, or not exclusively, dependent on qualifications.\nArticle 51 1 habilitacional level requirement. As a rule, can only be a candidate for the procedure who is holder of habilitacional level and, where appropriate, the training area, corresponding to the degree of complexity and functional caracterizadoras jobs category for whose occupation the procedure is advertised. 2. The publicity of the procedure can, however, provide for the possibility of candidacy who, not being holder of license required, consider having the training and professional experience or necessary and sufficient for the replacement of that license. 3. The replacement of license under referred to in the preceding paragraph is not permissible when, for the exercise of a particular profession or position, involved in the characterization of the jobs concerned, special law requires title or the completion of certain conditions. 4. The jury, preliminarily, analyzes the formation and, or, the professional experience and decides on the admission of the candidate to the tendering procedure. 5. In case of admission, deliberation, accompanied by the full content of your justification, shall be notified to the other candidates.\nArticle 52 37 Other recruiting requirements 1. In the case of unicategoriais or lower category Careers Careers pluricategoriais, may apply for the procedure: the integrated in the same career Workers), to comply with or perform different assignment, competence or activity, of the agency or service in question; b) integrated in the same career Workers, to comply with or perform any role, competence or activity of another agency or service or that they have special mobility; c) Workers integrated into other careers; d) where applicable, workers who perform their jobs in service or that are subject to other legal relations of public employment by time determined or determinable and individuals without legal relationship of public job previously established. 2. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, in the case of categories of careers pluricategoriais, may apply for the procedure, in addition to the items listed in the preceding paragraph, integrated in the same career workers, in different categories, of the agency or service in question, which are to be complied with or to perform identical attribution, competence or activity.\nArticle 53 1 selection methods. Without prejudice to the following paragraphs, the selection methods to be used obligatorily in recruitment are the following: a) evidence of knowledge, written or oral, and, or, theoretical or practical skills to assess whether, and to what extent, the candidates have the knowledge and skills required or the exercise of the function; and (b)) Psychological evaluation intended to assess whether, and to what extent, the candidates have the skills required for the performance of the remaining function. 2. When requested by applicants who, cumulatively, are holders of category and or, in the case of candidates placed in special mobility situation, have finally found, to comply with or perform the assignment 38, competence or caracterizadoras activity of workstations for whose occupation the procedure was advertised, the selection methods to be used in recruitment are as follows : the curricular Review especially about incident) functions that have played in the category and in the performance or execution of the assignment, competence or activity in question and the level of performance achieved in them; b) required skills assessment interview to exercise the function. 3. Can also be adopted, optionally, other methods of selection legally provided for. 4. In exceptional cases, duly justified cases, in particular where the predictable number of candidates is so high that the use selection methods referred to in the above paragraphs becomes impracticable, the public employer can be limited to the use, in any recruitment, referred to in (a)) of paragraphs 1 or 2.\nArticle 54 Processing of bankruptcy procedure 1. The tendering procedure is simplified and urgent, according to the following principles: a) the jury of the procedure is composed of employees of the public employer of another agency or service and, when the training area required reveal your convenience, of private entities; b) no acts or the final ordering of the preparatory lists candidates; c) ordination candidates ' final is unitary, even if they have been applied to different selection methods; d) recruitment is by descending order of the final ordering of the candidates placed in situation of mobility and exhausted these, of the remaining candidates. 2. The conduct of the tendering procedure, including the intended to constitute reservations in each recruitment agency or service or in centralised entity is regulated by order of the Member of Government responsible for public administration. 39 article 55 determination of remuneration positioning 1. When the workplace is concerned for which the mode of legal relationship of public job is the contract, the positioning of the worker recruited one of the positions of compensation category is subject to negotiation with the employer and takes place: a) immediately after the end of the tendering procedure; or b) when approval in specific training or the acquisition of certain academic degree or professional title right, pursuant to c) of paragraph 3 of article 41, which are carried out before the conclusion of the contract. 2. For the purposes of point (d)) of paragraph 1 of the preceding article, the negotiation with the candidates placed in special mobility situation before that takes place with the remaining candidates. 3. Without prejudice to informal contacts that can and should take place, the negotiation between the employer and each of the candidates, in the order appearing in the final sorting, shall be in writing. 4. In exceptional cases, duly justified cases, in particular where the number of candidates is so high that the negotiation becomes impracticable, the public employer can take the initiative to the fleshing out a proposal for accession to a particular positioning remuneration sent to all candidates. 5. Any agreement reached or the proposal for accession are subject to state reasons written by the public employer. 6. In each of the universes of candidates referred to in point (d)) of paragraph 1 of the preceding article, as well as regarding the ordering of all the candidates, the absence of agreement with a particular candidate determines the negotiation with what if you follow on ordination, to which, if any, can be proposed remuneration exceeds the maximum positioning that has been proposed to and not accepted by any of the candidates that the antecedam that ordering. 7. After your foreclosure, the documentation regarding negotiating processes concerned is public and free access. 40 8. When the workplace is concerned for which the mode of legal relationship of public job is the appointment, special law can make you apply the preceding paragraphs. 9. Not using the option provided for in the preceding paragraph, the worker recruited positioning takes place in (one of) the remuneration of the positions that have been advertised category together with the items referred to in paragraph 3 of article 50 article 56 Course of advanced studies in public administration 1. In compliance with the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 of article 50 for permanent nature activities, the maximum leader of the public employer may opt, as an alternative to advertising of tendering him laid down, by the use of graduates by Course of advanced studies in public administration (CEAGP). 2. For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the employer refers to the National Institute of public administration (INA) lists the number of jobs to occupy and their characterisation pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 50 3. Characterization of jobs whose number on the list takes into account that the graduates with the CEAGP can only be integrated into the General career diploma and to compliance with or enforcement of duties, responsibilities or activities that the respective rules identify. 4. The consignment from the list to the INA compromises the public employer, after the CEAGP, integrate the corresponding number of graduates. 5. The recruitment for CEAGP frequency notes injunctions arising from the provisions of paragraphs 4 to 7 of article 6 6. Integration into general career diploma is in first position or remuneration that whose remuneration level is identical or, in your absence, immediately above the corresponding remuneration level to the candidate's placement in the category of origin, when her holding in the framework of a legal relationship of public job constituted for an indefinite period. 41 7. The CEAGP can also arise in other higher education institutions under the conditions laid down in Ordinance of the Government officials responsible for Public Administration and higher education, being, in this case, the Directorate-General for Administration and Public employment the competent entity for the management of the entire procedure. 8. The CEAGP is regulated by order of the Member of Government responsible for public administration.\nArticle 57 vocational training 1. Not special career for whose integration has been required to sign off on specific training course, the duty of the employee recruited takes place with a training period in room and in-Office, whose duration and content depend on the prior legal situation-the worker's functional. 2. Workers have the right and duty to attend every year, training and further training in the activity in carrying out functions.\nChapter IV General Mobility transfer of public interest article 58 1. There is place the conclusion of agreement on transfer of public interest when an employee of the entity scope of purpose of this law should serve, albeit part-time, in body or service to which this law applies and, conversely, when an agency or service should serve, even though in the same scheme in entity excluded from that scope. 2. The agreement requires the written agreement of the agency or service, of the Government concerned and responsible for finance and Public Administration, of the entity and the worker and implies, in the absence of any provisions to the contrary, the suspension of this status. 42 3. The public interest subject a worker to the orders and instructions of the agency or entity or service where going to functions, being remunerated for these regulatory provisions applicable with respect to the exercise of those functions. 4. The exercise of disciplinary power it is up to the receiving entity, except when is concerned the application of disciplinary penalties expulsivas. 5. worker behaviors have relevance within the given legal relationship of employment to origin, and the disciplinary procedure which established disciplinary offences respecting the disciplinary status of origin. 6. The transferred worker is entitled: a) the count, in the category of origin, time of service concession arrangements; b) to opt for maintaining the social protection regime of origin, focusing the discounts on the amount of remuneration that it would compete in the category of origin; (c)) to occupy, in legal terms, different workstation at agency or service, or in transmitting agency or another agency or service. 7. In the case referred to in point (c)) of the preceding paragraph, the public interest-providing agreement expires with the occupation of the new workplace. 8. The agreement may be made, at any time, at the initiative of any of the parties who have intervened. 9. There can be no place for the period of one year, the public interest for the same body or service or for the same entity of worker who has found ceded and has returned to the legal situation of functional origin. 10. In the case referred to in the first part of paragraph 1, the exercise of functions in the body or service is created through the proper mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment. 11. The functions the exercise in body or service corresponds to a job or a career, category, activity and, when essential, academic or professional training area. 12. When the functions match a cargo Chairman, the public interest provision is preceded by the observance of legal requirements and procedures for recruitment. 13. The public interest-providing for the exercise of functions in organ or service to which this law applies has the maximum duration of one year, except when 43 has been concluded for the exercise of an Office or agency or service is concerned, in particular, that can't be legal relations of public employment indefinitely , where your duration is undetermined. 14. In the case referred to in point (b)) of paragraph 6, the agency or service or the entity they: a) on the financing of the social protection regime applicable in particular to the importance which is legally established for the contribution of employers; b) where applicable, the costs of administering the civil service health subsystems, in legal terms apply. 15. When an employee of agency or service should serve in trade union or employers ' Confederation, or in private party with equal representation in the economic and social sectors, the agreement may provide that continue to be remunerated, as well as the corresponding contributions provided, by agency or service. 16. In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the maximum number of workers assigned is four for each Trade Union and two for each of the other entities.\nArticle 59 internal organs or Mobility Services 1. When there is convenience for the public interest, in particular when the economy, effectiveness and efficiency of the services or impose, workers can be subject to internal mobility. 2. The mobility referred to in the preceding paragraph is always stating the full reasons therefor and can operate: a) within the same mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment indefinitely or between both modes; b) within the same agency or Department or between two bodies or services; c) Covering both workers in activity or if they are placed in a situation of special mobility; d) full-time or part-time, as agreed between the subject that should give your agreement. 44 article 60 internal mobility modes 1. Internal mobility is the modalities of mobility and mobility inter-carreiras category or categories. 2. Mobility in category operates for the exercise of functions inherent in the category to which the worker is, in the same or in different activity for holding license and training. 3. The inter-carreiras or mobility categories it operates for the exercise of functions not related to the category of the worker's holder and inherent: the) upper or lower category in the same career; or (b)) the career of functional complexity equal, higher or lower than that of career as is integrated or to the category that is holder. 4. inter-carreiras or mobility categories depends on the ownership and appropriate training of the employee and cannot modify your position substantially.\nArticle 61 1 Agreements. As a rule, the internal mobility depends on the agreement of the worker and of the organs or the source and destination services. 2. Without prejudice to the following paragraphs, is relieved the labor agreement for the purposes of internal mobility, in any of its modalities, when: a) operates for organ, agency or organic unit located in the municipality of your organ, agency or organic unit of origin or of your residence; b) the organ, agency or unit of organic origin or your residence is located in the municipality of Lisbon or Porto and mobility operates for organ, agency or organic unit located in municipality areas with any of those; c) operates to any other municipality, provided that the following conditions arise, measured on the basis of the use of public transport: 45 i) doesn't involve monthly expenses for journeys between residence and place of work, in both directions, over 8% of net monthly remuneration or, being superiors, not exceeding the monthly expenses for movements between the residence and the organ , service or organic unit of origin; II) time spent in those movements do not exceed 25% of working time or exceeding it, does not exceed the time spent on journeys between the residence and the organ, agency or unit of organic origin. 3. The provisions of paragraph (c)) of the preceding paragraph shall not apply where a worker invoke and verify that internal mobility would prejudice him seriously for your personal life. 4. When the internal mobility operates to lower category in the same career or career of functional complexity lower than the career in which is integrated or to the category that holds, the agreement of the worker can never be excused. 5. When the internal mobility operates for organ or service, in particular, that can't be legal relations of public employment indefinitely and is expected that may have lasting more than one year, the agreement of the worker who is not placed in a situation of special mobility can never be excused. 6. in the context of the services referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 3, is relieved the source service agreement for the purposes of internal mobility, in any of its modalities, when you operate: the) for service or organic unit located outside of the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto; b) by the employee provided that founded target service, interest recognized by order of the respective Member of the Government.\nRemuneration article 62 1. The worker mobility within the category, organ or different service or whose legal situation-source functional be placed in situation of mobility special 46, may be paid remuneration position immediately following that in which is placed in the category or, in case of absence, by the successor to the remuneration level corresponding to your position in the remuneration table only. 2. a worker in inter-carreiras mobility or categories under any circumstances is affected in the remuneration corresponding to the category of it's holder. 3. In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the worker's remuneration shall be increased to the higher remuneration level closest to the one that corresponds to your placement in the category of it's holder which is provided for in the category whose functions will exercise, since the first position having this category corresponds to higher remuneration level to the remuneration level of the first position from that of it's holder. 4. Not checking the hypothesis provided for in the preceding paragraph, can the employee be remunerated pursuant to paragraph 1. 5. Except for different agreement between the organs or services, the worker in internal mobility is remunerated by organ or target service.\nArticle 63 Duration 1. Internal mobility has the maximum duration of one year, except when organ or service is concerned, in particular, that can't be legal relations of public employment indefinitely, in which case your duration is undetermined. 2. There can be no place for the period of one year, the internal mobility for the same organ, or organic unit service worker who has found in internal mobility and has returned to the legal situation of functional origin.\nArticle 64 consolidation of mobility in category 1. Mobility in the category that operates within the same agency or service consolidates definitely, by decision of its maximum leader: 47 a) Regardless of the worker's agreement, if it has not been required for your home, or with your agreement, in the opposite case, when it has operated in the same activity; b) With the agreement of the worker when it has operated in different activity. 2. The consolidation referred to in the preceding paragraph is not preceded or success of any trial period.\nArticle 65 assessing the performance and service time in internal mobility to mention obtained in the evaluation of performance, as well as the time of Office in career and category arising from internal worker mobility relate, Alternatively, your legal situation-source functional or corresponding to internal mobility in which they found, as, however, the employee does not come or come , respectively, constitute a legal relationship of public employment indefinitely, without interruption, in the latest legal and functional situation.\nTitle V chapter I Remuneration remuneration scheme section I components of remuneration article 66 right to remuneration 1. The right to remuneration payable by reason of Office in organ or service to which this law applies shall, as a rule, with the acceptance of appointment 48, or assimilated or act, these should not take place, with the beginning of the effective exercise of functions. 2. The preceding paragraph shall not preclude different regime legally foreseen, namely in paragraph 2 of article 18 3. The remuneration, when periodic, is paid monthly. 4. The law provides for the situations and conditions in which the right to compensation is totally or partially suspended. 5. The right to compensation ceases with the cessation of any binding modes, namely legal relations of public employment.\nArticle 67 Components of remuneration in the absence of a special law to the contrary, remuneration of workers serving under legal relations of public employment is composed by: a) base Pay; b) compensatory Supplements; c) performance Awards.\nSection II Base remuneration article 68 payment only Table 1. The remuneration table only contains the total of the remuneration levels likely to be used in fixing the basic remuneration of workers serving under legal relations of public employment. 2. In fixing the basic remuneration of the judges of any jurisdiction and the prosecutors are not used the payment levels contained in the table referred to in the preceding paragraph. 3. The number of compensatory levels and the monetary amount corresponding to each shall be joint Ordinance of the Prime Minister and the Member of Government responsible for the area of finance. 49 4. Changing the number of compensatory levels is subject to collective bargaining, in accordance with the law. 5. Changing the monetary amount corresponding to each pay level is subject to collective bargaining, in accordance with law and shall, however, keep the proportionality on between each level.\nArticle 69 fixing the base remuneration 1. The identification of the payment levels corresponding to the positions of the categories, as well as compensation to positions in service, is performed by implementing decree. 2. The identification of compensatory remuneration levels corresponding to the positions of categories there are, generally, the following rules: a) in the case of pluricategoriais careers, the intervals between those levels are down smaller ones as the corresponding positions become higher; b) remuneration corresponding to any level positions of the various categories of career is superimposed, a single movement growing since the level corresponding to the first position of the lower category until the corresponding to the last position of the superior category; c) Exceptionally, the level corresponding to the last position of a remuneration may be identical to the first position in the category immediately above; d) in the case of unicategoriais careers, the intervals between those levels are constant.\nArticle 70 1 base compensation Concept. The basic monthly remuneration is the monetary amount corresponding to the remuneration level, as appropriate, of remuneration position where the worker is in the category of it's holder or of the Office exercised in service. 50 2. The base compensation is referenced in the title of a category and the respective remuneration of the worker or placement of a charge carried in service. 3. The annual base remuneration is paid in 14 monthly, corresponding one to the Christmas bonus and holiday allowance, in accordance with the law.\nArticle 71 1 hourly pay. The value of the normal working time is calculated through the formula Rbx12, Rb52xN being the basic monthly remuneration and N is the number of hours of normal weekly work duration. 2. The formula referred to in the preceding paragraph provides the basis for calculating the remuneration corresponding to any other fraction of the working time.\nArticle 72 base remuneration option When the legal relationship of public job constitute by service, or there is place the public interest, the worker has the right to choose, at any time, the remuneration due base on legal situation of functional origin that is constituted for an indefinite period.\nSection III compensatory Supplements article 73 1 assignment Conditions. Are rates of remuneration increases supplements payable for the exercise of functions in jobs that present conditions more demanding for 51 other jobs characterized by identical or identical career and job category. 2. compensatory supplements are referred to the exercise of functions in the jobs referred to in the first part of the preceding paragraph, being only due to whom the mind. 3. Are due compensatory supplements when workers in jobs determined in accordance with paragraph 1, suffer, in the performance of their duties, the most demanding working conditions: a) abnormally and transient, in particular those arising from provision of overtime, night, weekly rest days, and holidays and outside the normal place of work; or (b)) on a permanent basis, in particular those arising from the provision of work risky, painful or unhealthy, in shifts, in peripheral areas and of secretariat of direction. 4. The compensatory supplements are only payable as last working conditions determined your assignment. 5. In the absence of any provisions to the contrary, the compensatory supplements are only payable as there is effective implementation of functions. 6. As a rule, the compensatory supplements are expressed in monetary amounts, only exceptionally and may be fixed as a percentage of the basic monthly remuneration. 7. With observance of the preceding paragraphs, the compensatory supplements are created and regulated by law and, or, in the case of legal relations of public employment by contract, by collective labour agreement.\nSection IV Article 74 performance awards assignment preparation 1. Taking into account the budgetary funds intended to support the type of charges provided for in subparagraph (c)) of paragraph 1 and in paragraph 5 of article 7, the maximum leader of the agency or fixed service 52 courts, within fifteen days after the beginning of the implementation of the budget, the universe of positions and careers and categories where the performance awards may take place with the required amount available breakdowns according to such universes. 2. it is applicable to performance awards, with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of paragraphs 3 to 5 of article 46 Article 75 1 assignment conditions. Meet the universes are defined in accordance with the previous article employees who, cumulatively, exercising functions in the body or service and, in the absence of a special law to the contrary, they have obtained in the last evaluation of your performance, the maximum or the citation immediately below her. 2. Certain workers who satisfy each of the universes, are sorted, within each universe, in descending order of quantity classification obtained in that assessment. 3. In the face of the Ordinance referred to in the previous paragraph, and after exclusion of workers who, this year, they changed the positioning your remuneration in the category for which the remuneration level if find paid base compensation, the maximum amount of charges set by each universe in terms of the previous article, is distributed in the order mentioned, so that each worker receives the equivalent of your monthly base remuneration. 4. There's no place the attribution of performance award when, despite not meeting the requirements set out in paragraph 1, the maximum amount of fixed charges for the universe in question has exhausted with the assignment of the employee premium ordered superiorly. 5. The performance awards are referenced to the worker's performance objectively revealed and evaluated.\n53 76 Other reward systems of performance 1. Within the limits provided for in subparagraph (c)) of paragraph 1 and in paragraph 5 of article 7, by law and, or, in the case of legal relations of public employment by contract, by collective labour agreement, can be created and regulated other performance reward systems, in particular in the light of results obtained in team or the performance of workers which are placed in the last position of the respective remuneration category.. 2. The systems referred to in the preceding paragraph may depart from the application of this section.\nChapter II article 77 1 Enumeration Discounts. The remuneration payable for the exercise of functions in organ or service to which this law applies shall cover: a) compulsory deductions; b) voluntary Discounts. 2. Are required discounts that result from legal enforcement. 3. Are optional discounts that, as permitted by law, require the express authorization of the holder of the right to remuneration. 4. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, the discounts are made directly through withholding.\nArticle 78 compulsory deductions Constituted the legal relationship of public employment, tax and social security contributions are the following: a) personal income tax; 54 b) Contributions to the social protection regime applicable.\nArticle 79 1 voluntary Discounts. Constituted the legal relationship of public employment, voluntary discounts are, inter alia, the following: a) insurance premiums personal accident or life insurance, and retirement plans and Add-ons retirement savings; b) Quota. 2. Since requested by employees appointed or on Commission, the Trade Union must be discounted shares in the source. 3. Subsidiarily applicable to discounts referred to in the preceding paragraph, with any necessary adaptations, the provisions of RCTFP.\nTITLE VI legal system functional modes of Constitution of the legal relationship of public job Article 80 Appointment 1. The normative sources of the legal system applicable to functional workers who, while subject to a legal relationship of public job different from the service, are subject to the conditions referred to in article 10 are, in this order: a) this Act and the legislation that regulates, in part applicable; b) general laws whose scope of subjective covering all workers, regardless of the mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment under which they exercise their functions, at the applicable; c) special laws applicable to the corresponding special careers, in matters that, in the light of the provisions of law, to regulate; d) alternative, general laws whose applicability to tackling so subjective designated employees and agents. 55 2. Are, in particular, general laws provided for in subparagraph (b)) of the preceding paragraph the defining: a) the reorganization of services and the placement of people in situation of mobility; b) the status of personnel; c) systems of evaluation of the performance of services, managers and workers; d) disciplinary status. 3. Are, in particular matters governed by special laws provided for in subparagraph (c)) of paragraph 1 the defining: a) the structuring of careers; b) recruitment requirements and the subsequent determination of remuneration positioning; c) compensatory levels of headings in categories of careers; d) compensatory supplements; and Other reward systems) of the performance; f) specific performance evaluation Systems; g) the conditions of employment in matters not regulated in the laws referred to in (a)) and b) of paragraph 1.\nArticle 81 1 Contract. The normative sources of the legal system applicable to functional workers who, while subject to a legal relationship of public job different from service, find themselves in conditions other than those referred to in article 10 are, in this order: a) this Act and the legislation that regulates, in part applicable; b) general laws whose scope of subjective covering all workers, regardless of the mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment under which they exercise their functions, at the applicable; c) special laws applicable to the corresponding special careers, in matters that, in the light of the provisions of law, to regulate; 56 d) RCTFP; and the alternative, general laws) whose scope of subjective tackling the then designated employees and agents; f) in the alternative, the provisions of the contract. 2. Are still normative source, in matters that, in the light of the provisions of law, to regulate, the collective agreements which contain or derogate from provisions or schemes contained in the sources referred to in (a)) d) of the preceding paragraph, in particular on: the compensatory Supplements); (b)) Other performance reward systems; c) specific performance evaluation Systems; d) the conditions of employment in matters not regulated in the laws referred to in (a)) and b) of paragraph 1 as expressly may regulate. 3. Shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of the preceding article, except with regard to subparagraph (b)) of the latter, which restricted recruiting requirements.\nArticle 82 service 1. The normative sources of functional legal system applicable to workers whose legal relationship of public employment is made up of service are, in this order: a) this Act and the legislation that regulates, in part applicable; b) general laws whose scope of subjective covering all workers, regardless of the mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment under which exercise functions, on the applicable; c) special laws applicable to corresponding service, in matters that, in the light of the provisions of law, to regulate; (d)) in the alternative, those applicable to the legal relationship of public job source, when there is and still exists; and) The referred to in article 80, when there is no or no remaining legal relationship of public employment. 57 2. Shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of paragraph 2 and in paragraph 1 (b)), part one, and c) to (g)) of paragraph 3 of article 80 TITLE VII transitional and final provisions Article 83 competent jurisdiction the courts of administrative and tax jurisdiction are competent to assess the emerging litigation legal relations of public employment.\nArticle 84 continued exercise of public functions, the exercise of functions under any mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment in any of the bodies or services to which this law applies relates to how exercise of public functions or in career, in the category and, or, in the remuneration, as appropriate, when workers, maintaining that exercise of functions definitely change of agency or service.\nArticle 85 Compensation to category and 1 exercise. The base compensation is part of the category and the remuneration remuneration of Office, equal, respectively, to five sixths and the one-sixth of the base remuneration. 2. The law provides for the situations and conditions in which loses the right to remuneration for the exercise.\n58 Article 86 except when his results Prevalence expressly to the contrary, the provisions of this Act prevails over any special laws and legal regulatory instruments in force on the date of work your entry into force.\nArticle 87 the Approval RCTFP the RCTFP is approved, by legislative act, in order to enter into force simultaneously with the present law.\nArticle 88 of the Constitution of the mode transition legal relationship of public employment indefinitely 1. The current named workers definitely performing functions under the conditions referred to in article 10 shall remain the definitive appointment. 2. The current contract workers for an indefinite period which exercise functions under the conditions referred to in article 10 shall be carried over, without further formalities, to the final naming mode. 3. The current contract workers indefinitely exercising functions under conditions other than those referred to in article 10 keep the contract for an indefinite period, with the content as a result of this law. 4. Existing employees appointed definitely performing functions under conditions other than those referred to in article 10 keep the cessation of legal relationship of employment and public service reorganization and staffing in special mobility situation of permanent appointment and carried over, without further formalities, for the indefinite contract mode.\nArticle 89 59 conversion of temporary appointments and service commissions during the trial period 1. Current workers and named in Commission provisionally service during the trial period transiting in the constraints laid down in paragraphs 1 and 4 of the preceding article, as appropriate: a) To the final naming mode, in trial period; (b)) To the contract for an indefinite period in trial period. 2. The trial period is allocated the time elapsed in provisional appointment or service.\nArticle 90 conversion of extraordinary service committees and commissions on services under the service of installation 1. The current Commission extraordinary service workers to stage in constraints referred to in acts Nos. 1 and 4 of article 88, as appropriate: a) To the final naming mode, in trial period; (b)) To the contract for an indefinite period in trial period. 2. The trial period is allocated the elapsed time in Commission of extraordinary service. 3. The current workers in service, albeit extraordinary, in services in installation scheme carried over to the proper mode of internal mobility.\n60 article 91 conversion of administrative contracts of provision 1. Without prejudice to article 108, the current administrative contract workers providing transiting, in accordance with the nature of the functions performed and the foreseeable duration of the contract: a) To the final naming mode, in trial period; b) For naming transitional mode; c) To the contract for an indefinite period in trial period; d) for fixed-term resolutivo mode right or uncertain. 2. The trial period is allocated the time elapsed in administrative contract provision. 3. transit workers pursuant to c) of paragraph 1 shall apply after the trial period, with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of paragraph 5 of article 88 4. For the purposes of the transition referred to in paragraph 1 (b)) and d) of paragraph 1 is considered the initial term of the respective legal relations of public employment to the date of entry into force of this law.\nArticle 92 conversion of fixed-term contracts resolutivo current resolutivo forward contract workers for the exercise of functions under the conditions referred to in article 10 shall be carried over to the transient naming mode.\nArticle 93 conversion of substitutions in positions not leaders 1. Workers who currently are in place in position is no leader for the appropriate mode of passing through internal mobility. 2. Without prejudice to the consideration of the length of service previously provided as a replacement under the terms and for the purposes of paragraph 3 of article 23 of Decree-Law No. 61/89 427, 7 December, is considered the initial term of the transition referred to in the preceding paragraph the date of entry into force of this law.\nArticle 94 Review of service contracts 1. Within six months from the date of entry into force of this law, the organs and services promote the re-examination in the light of the system now approved, all service contracts in force. 2. Apply to the failure to comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, mutatis mutandis, the arrangement provided for in article 36 Article 95 transition to General career diploma shall be carried over to the General career senior technician current workers: a) are integrated into the careers of high-level technicien of general regime; b) are integrated into the technical careers of general regime; c) are integrated into the careers provided for in Decree-Law; d) are integrated into careers with different designation whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that; and) not integrated into careers, the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that.\nArticle 96 transition to the category of technical coordinator Transiting to the category of technical Coordinator General of career assistant coach current workers: a) Are holders of category of head of section; b) Are holders of the Coordinator of technical and professional careers of general regime; c) Are holders of the categories laid down in Decree-Law; 62 d) Are categories with different designation holders whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that category; and Not being holders of categories), the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that category.\nArticle 97 transition to the category of assistant coach carried over to the category of assistant coach of the General career assistant coach current workers: a) are integrated into the careers of General Administrative Assistant; b) are integrated into the careers of the General Treasurer; c) Without prejudice to the provisions of the previous article, are integrated into the technical and professional careers of general regime; d) are integrated into the careers or are holders of the categories provided for in Decree-Law; and) are integrated into careers or are holders of categories with different designation whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that category; f) not integrated into careers or being holders of categories, the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that category.\nArticle 98 transition to tasked General category to the category of Transit operating in charge General career operating operating Assistant General current workers: a) Are holders of the category of general staff in charge of the General worker; b) Are holders of the categories provided for in Decree-Law; 63 c) Are categories with different designation holders whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that category; d) not being holders of categories, the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that category.\nArticle 99 transition to tasked category to the category of Transit operating responsible career operating operating Assistant General current workers: a) Are holders of category of in charge of the careers of staff worker of the general arrangement; b) Are holders of the categories provided for in Decree-Law; c) Are categories with different designation holders whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that category; d) not being holders of categories, the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that category.\nArticle 100 transition to operational Assistant category Without prejudice to articles 98 and 99, carried over to the category of operational Assistant General operating Assistant career current workers: a) are integrated into the careers of staff worker of the general arrangement; b) are integrated into the careers of staff of general regime; c) Are holders of category of in charge of the careers of staff of general regime; d) are integrated into the careers or are holders of the categories provided for in Decree-Law; and 64) are integrated into careers or are holders of categories with different designation whose functional complexity and functional content are identical to that category; f) not integrated into careers or being holders of categories, the degree of functional complexity and functional content of functions performing are identical to that category.\nArticle 101 review of careers and special bodies 1. The special regime careers and the bodies that remain for workers integrated in them should not be carried over pursuant to articles 95 to 100 are reviewed by the date of entry into force of this Act so that: a) Are converted, with respect for him willing, in careers; or b) Are absorbed by General careers. 2. Being converted into special careers, your characterization shall apply the provisions of paragraph 2 of article 49 3. In any case, the review defining the transition of workers rules.\nArticle 102 mobility situations for Conversion, or, other entities 1. The current situation of mobility for workers, or entity excluded from the scope of purpose of this law shall be carried over to the functional and legal situation of disposal of public interest. 2. the initial term of the assignment referred to in paragraph 1 the date of entry into force of this law.\n65 Article 103 of Conversion requests, detachments and special concessions 1. The current required, opinions and especially workers assigned to, and in, body or service to which this law applies shall be carried over to the proper mode of internal mobility. 2. the initial term of internal mobility referred to in the preceding paragraph the date of entry into force of this law.\nArticle 104 Repositioning remuneration 1. In the transition to new careers and category, the workers are repositioned on the remuneration position that matches the amount of monetary remuneration level is identical to the monetary amount corresponding to the basic remuneration which currently have right, it including and additional integration differential eventually due. 2. In case of lack of identity, the workers are repositioned in remuneration position, automatically created, the amount of monetary remuneration level is identical to the monetary amount corresponding to the basic remuneration which currently entitled. 3. In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the workers, to further change the placement category remuneration or career, retain the right to remuneration base coming earning, which is subject to amendment in the same proportion to that resulting from the application of paragraph 5 of article 68 4. For all legal purposes, it is considered initial term repositioning remuneration referred to in the preceding paragraphs the date of entry into force of this law, regardless of the time of employees have rendered service in the rank and index on which were placed or in a position that matches the base remuneration coming earning.\nArticle 105 66 1 trainees ' remuneration. During the trial period, the current trainees retain the right to monetary amount corresponding to the remuneration coming earning. 2. Successfully completed the trial period, the current interns maintain also that right when the remuneration level of remuneration which must occupy position matches a monetary amount less than the coming earning. 3. Shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of paragraph 3 of the preceding article.\nArticle 106 1 waste Careers. Making it impossible for the transition of workers pursuant to articles 95 to 101 by virtue of the degree of complexity and functional, or, the functional content of the career in which are integrated or category that are and, or, the rules of remuneration provided for in article 104(3) repositioning, and careers, or, corresponding categories exist as currently are provided for. 2. While there are workers integrated into careers or holders of categories referred to in the preceding paragraph, the organs or services where serving shall take the necessary legal measures, in particular those laid down in paragraphs 2 et seq. of article 51, to your integration in careers or non-residual categories. 3. The monetary amounts corresponding to the contents of the careers and categories referred to in paragraph 1 shall be subject to amendment in the same proportion to the resulting from the application of paragraph 5 of article 68 67 Article 107 payment Levels of service commissions the compensation basis of positions and functions to be exercised in service are reviewed by the date of entry into force of this regulation with a view to complying with your it provisions.\nArticle 108 Transition of apprentices and helpers 1. The current apprentices and helpers shall be carried over to the fixed-term resolutivo mode right. 2. the initial term of the contract referred to in the preceding paragraph the date of entry into force of this decree-law. 3. until the termination of the contracts referred to in the preceding paragraphs shall apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3, 6 and 7 of article 13 of Decree-Law No 404/98 of 18 December. 4. The monetary amounts corresponding to the indices referred to in legal provisions mentioned in the preceding paragraph are subject to change in the same proportion to the resulting from the application of paragraph 5 of article 68 article 109 nominative List of transitions and maintenance 1. The transitions as referred to in articles 88 and following, as well as the maintenance of legal situations envisaged in them functional are performed in each organ or service through word list notified to each of the workers and made public by posting in the body or service and insertion into electronic page. 2. Without prejudice to what it has to the contrary, the transitions effect since the date of entry into force of this law. 3. The list of named vessels appears for each employee of the agency or service, among other elements, the reference to the mode of Constitution of your legal relationship of public employment, the General mobility situations, or in, body or service 68 and your job or career, category, assignment, competence or activity that meets or performs, position and remuneration remuneration level. 4. with regard to the workers referred to in paragraph 4 of article 88, the nominative list reportedly still note that every one of them holds the schemes there referred to, as well as referred to in paragraph 2 of article 114 5. The staff placed in special mobility situation is also applicable, in part, the preceding paragraphs. 6. Without prejudice to paragraph 4 of article 104, the past exercise of functions, by workers on the list, under any mode of formation of the legal relationship of public employment is, in legal terms then in effect, as an exercise of public functions or the position or career in category or remuneration position as appropriate , resulting from the transition.\nArticle 110 Contests of recruitment and selection of personnel 1. Invitations to tender for recruitment and selection of valid personnel at the date of entry into force of this law, as well as the pending on that date for which is completed the application selection methods, remain in force until the expiry of their term of validity. 2. Legal relations of public employment resulting from the competitions referred to in the preceding paragraph are to comply with the rules laid down in this title. 3. Shall expire the remaining contests of recruitment and selection of personnel pending on the date of entry into force of this law, regardless of the mode and your situation.\nArticle 111 current Procedures concerning ongoing procedures personnel for acts of administration and personnel management, in view of the provisions of this law, have disappeared from the legal order or whose substantial and formal requirements of validity and, or effectiveness have 69 modified, respectively shall expire or is procedurally possible and useful, are continuing in order to check and application of such requirements.\nArticle 112 review of compensatory supplements 1. With a view to your complying with the provisions of this law, the compensatory supplements that have been created by special law are reviewed by the date of entry into force of that so that: a) are kept, in whole or in part, as compensatory supplements; (b)) to be integrated, in whole or in part, in base pay; c) cease to be earned. 2. where, in pursuance of the preceding paragraph, the compensatory supplements are not, in whole or in part, held as such or integrated in base pay, the exact monetary amount your, or the part of it on, continues to be earned by workers until the end of your career or working life in the category because of whose integration or ownership right acquired them. 3. The monetary amount referred to in the preceding paragraph is guaranteed not to any change. 4. The monetary amount referred to in paragraph 2 shall apply the regime then in force of the respective remuneration supplement. 5. Shall not apply the provisions of paragraphs 2 and following when the pay supplement has been created or changed by legislative act after August 30 2005.\nArticle 113 relevance of evaluations in the change of remuneration and positioning performance awards 1. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 6 of article 47 and paragraph 1 of article 75, fall within the performance evaluations referred to the functions exercised during placement in rank and index immediately preceding the transition or in a position that matched the base remuneration that workers came to earning, 70 since, in any case, such reviews have taken place under the law No. 15/2006 , 26 April. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 6 of article 47, and without prejudice to the provisions of the following paragraph, the relevance of performance evaluations referred to in the preceding paragraph conforms to the following rules:) When the performance assessment system applied foresees five indications or levels of evaluation, the number of points to assign is three, two, one, zero and a negative What's more, respectively for the lower; (b)) When the performance assessment system applied provides three indications or levels of evaluation, the number of points to assign is two, one and a negative, respectively of more for less; c) When the performance assessment system applied provides two indications or levels of evaluation, the number of points to assign is one and a half points to mention or level corresponding to positive performance and a negative for the statement or corresponding level the negative performance. 3. When, in performances relating to years until 31 December 2007, have been obtained or mention negative assessment level, points are awarded as follows: a) Zero points when has been obtained a single mention or negative assessment level; b) A negative point for every statement or negative assessment level accruing to mention or referred to in previous level.\nArticle 114 social benefits and social Protection 1. All workers are entitled, under the law, the social benefits and the meal allowance. 2. The workers referred to in articles 88 and following keeps the social protection regime applied to them on the date of entry into force of this law.\n71 Article 115 transitional provisions of relevant qualifications 1. In the absence of a special law to the contrary, while the workers remain integrated into career resulting from the transition provided for in this chapter, are not required habilitacional level corresponding to the level of functional complexity of the career in question, even if applying for tendering advertised for jobs, occupation in the body or service where they exercise functions or in another body or service , corresponding to the same or different career category. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and in paragraphs 2 et seq. of article 51, when assignments, skills or services activities the imposing, can special law admit that, until 31 December 2012, holders of higher education that does not configure degree applying for tendering advertised for the occupation of posts corresponding to careers or classes of degree 3 of functional complexity.\nArticle 116 Standard set Are repealed all legal provisions contrary to this law, inter alia: a) that have approved or changed the personnel of agencies or services to which this law applies; (b)) the Decree 16563, 2 March 1929; c) Decree-Law No. 719/74, of 18 December; d) article 2 of Decree-Law No. 729/74, of 20 December; e) Decree-Law No. 485/76 of 21 June; f) Decree-Law No. 191-E/79, 26 June; g) article 3 of Decree-Law No. 465/80 of 14 October; h) article 25 of Decree-Law No. 110/81, of 14 may; I) Decree-Law No. 65/83, 4 February; j) implementing Decree No. 82/83, of 30 November; 72 l) Decree-Law No. 41/84 of 3 February; m) Decree-Law No. 85/85, of 1 April; n) the implementing Decree No. 20/85, of 1 April; the) Decree-Law No. 248/85, of 15 July; p) article 2 of Decree-Law No. 12/87, of 8 January; q) Decree-Law No. 265/88, of 28 July; r) article 3 of law No. 102/88, of 25 August; s) Decree-Law No. 184/89 of 2 June; t) Decree-Law No. 244/89, of 5 August; u) Decree-Law No. 353-A/89 of 16 October; v) Decree-Law No. 381/89, of 28 of October, with the exception of articles 4 and 5; x) Decree-Law No. 427/89 of 7 December; z) Decree-Law No. 407/91, of 17 October; AA) Decree-Law No. 409/91, of 17 October; BB) Decree-Law No. 413/93, of 23 December; CC) article 29 of Decree-Law No. 77/94, 9 March; DD) Decree-Law No. 230/94, of 14 September; EE) article 2 of Decree-Law No. 233/94, of 15 September; FF) article 20 of Decree-Law No. 45/95, of 2 March; Gg) Decree-Law No. 159/95, of 6 July; HH) Decree-Law No. 121/96, of 9 August; II) Decree-Law No. 226/96, of 29 November; JJ) articles 18 and 19 of Decree-Law No. 13/97, 17 January; LL) the Regulatory Decree No. 70/97, published on 22 November 1997; mm) Decree-Law No. 22/98, 9 February; nn) Decree-Law No. 53/98, of 11 March; OO) Decree-Law No. 175/98 of 2 July; pp) Decree-Law No. 204/98, of 11 July; QQ) Decree-Law No 404/98 of 18 December; RR) article 33 of Decree-Law No. 84/99, of 19 March; SS) Decree-Law No. 238/99, of 25 June; TT) articles 5 and 6 of Decree-Law No. 324/99, of 18 August; uu) articles 6 to 8 of Decree-Law No. 325/99, of 18 August; 73 vv) articles 10 and 11 of Decree-Law No. 326/99, of 18 August; XX) the ministerial order No. 807/99 of 21 September; ZZ) Decree-Law No. 497/99, 19 November; AAA) Decree-Law No. 518/99, of December 10; BBB) Decree-Law No. 54/2000, of 7 April; CCC) the resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 12/2001, of 8 February; DDD) Decree-Law No. 142/2001 of 24 April; EEA) Council of Ministers resolution No. 97/2002, 2 may, and additional orders; FFF) Decree-Law No. 149/2002 of 21 may; GGG) Decree-Law No. 101/2003, of 23 may; HHH) article 6 of law No. 99/2003 of 27 August.\nArticle 117 entry into force 1. Without prejudice to the provisions of the following paragraph, this Act shall enter into force on 1 January 2008. 2. articles 101, 107 and 112 shall enter into force on the day following publication of this law. 3. Non-compliance with the revisions provided for in articles referred to in the preceding paragraph determines the automatic expiry from the date of entry into force of this law, the laws that created and regulated the remuneration provided for in supplements last of them.\nSeen and approved by the Council of Ministers of 14 June 2007 Prime Minister the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Presidency ANNEX (referred to in paragraph 2 of article 49) CHARACTERIZATION of the GENERAL CAREER CAREERS CATEGORIES FUNCTIONAL CONTENT FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY NUMBER of REMUNERATION POSITIONS technicien technicien advisory functions, study, planning, programming, evaluation and application of methods and processes of technical and/or scientific nature that underlie and prepare the decision. Preparation, independently or in a group, opinions and projects, with varying degrees of complexity, and performing other General or specialized support activities in areas of common action and operational instruments of the bodies and services. Duties with responsibility and technical autonomy, albeit with higher qualified framework. Representation of the body or service in your specialty business, taking of technical options, framed by directives or guidelines above. 3 14 assistant coach technical coordinator in charge of technical and administrative functions in an organic subunit or support team, the results of which it is responsible. Implementation of the activities and organization of work of the staff which coordinates, according to guidelines and directives. Implementation of technical and administrative work of greater complexity. Duties with relative degree of autonomy and responsibility. 2 4 75 CAREER CATEGORIES FUNCTIONAL CONTENT FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY NUMBER of REMUNERATION POSITIONS assistant coach assistant coach Roles of executive nature, application of methods and processes, based on clearly defined guidelines and general instructions, of average degree of complexity, in the areas of common action and instruments and in the various fields of action of organs and services. 2 8 tasked Assistant General Chief of staff functions operating the operating Assistant career. General coordination of all tasks performed by the staff to the sectors of activity under your supervision. 1 2 in charge of coordination of Functions operating operating assistants assigned to your sector of activity, the results of which it is responsible. Programming tasks, organization and control of the work to be carried out by personnel under your coordination. General Officer's replacement in their absences and impediments. 5 operating Assistant Executive nature, functions of manual or mechanical nature, framed in the general directives and with varying degrees of complexity. Elementary support tasks, indispensable to the operation of the bodies and services, and may behave physical effort. Responsibility for your equipment and your guard correct use and, where appropriate, the maintenance and repair of same. 8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 123419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalgayz.com/asia/armenia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6BFY7GULHCV5Q7ITS425ULVNWBCPKAKK", "length": 1583, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.globalgayz.com", "title": "Armenia - GlobalGayz", "raw_content": "Armenia is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe.\nSince 2003, homosexuality is legal in Armenia. Until 2003 the legislation of Armenia followed the corresponding Section 121 from the Former Soviet Union, which only specifically criminalized anal intercourse between men. Lesbian and non-penetrative gay sex between consenting adults was not explicitly mentioned in the law as being a criminal offense. The specific article dates back to 1936, and the maximum penalty was 5 years. There were 7 prosecutions in 1996 and 4 in 1997 under this law (Amnesty International 1999 Report on Armenia); and 4 in 1999.\nName: Armenia\nCapital: Yerevan - Pop. 1245000\nLGBTI Christian group forced to cancel event in Armenia after death threats, 2018/Nov/07\nArmenia\u2019s Ostracized Minority, 2016/Jan/01\nArmenia: HIV/AIDS Patients Struggle with Rampant Discrimination, 2015/Mar/15\nLife As A Gay Man In Armenia, 2014/May/15\nArmenian homophobia, 2013/Aug/14\nHistoric Petition: Armenians Support LGBT Rights in Armenia, 2012/Jun/26\nNeo Nazis launch two arson attacks on Armenia gay bar, 2012/May/17\nBullying in Armenia, 2012/Apr/19\nHuman Side of LGBT Issues in Armenia, 2012/Mar/25\nArmenia Photo Gallery\nArmenia is the only country remaining from 3,000 year old maps of Anatolia. It became the world\u2019s first Christian country more than 1,700 years ago in 301 AD, and has a large Diaspora all over the world. As a former Soviet republic lying in the Caucasus region, straddling Asia and Europe, Armenia has an ancient", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globallandscapesforum.org/video/interview-with-rhett-butler-glf-bonn-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TJ3D7AFLOUEIYM3LWJG6ZHSEFNTDXAHA", "length": 3620, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.globallandscapesforum.org", "title": "Interview with Rhett Butler - GLF Bonn 2018 - Global Landscapes Forum", "raw_content": "Home video Interview with Rhett Butler \u2013 GLF Bonn 2018\nRhett Butler founded Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. For the first ten years of the project, he operated Mongabay on his own, publishing thousands of stories and tens of thousands of photos.\nToday Rhett Butler serves as editor-in-chief and CEO of Mongabay, a non-profit media organization with more than three dozen staff across four bureaus (Global, Indonesia, Latin America, and India) and a network of around 250 correspondents in 50 countries who pursue stories ranging from conventional news articles to deeply-reported investigative projects.\nBeyond Mongabay, Rhett Butler runs WildMadagascar.org, a site that highlights the spectacular cultural and biological richness of Madagascar and reports on environmental news for the Indian Ocean island nation.\nRhett Butler is also co-founder of Tropical Conservation Science, an open-access academic journal that aims to provide opportunities for scientists in developing countries to publish their research, and the Tropical Forest Network, a social network in the San Francisco Bay Area broadly interested in tropical forest conservation and ecology.\nOutside of these pursuits, Rhett Butler has advised a wide range of organizations, including governments, multilateral development agencies, media outlets, academic institutions, foundations, and private sector entities. He has been an information source for the BBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, Fox News, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, Bloomberg, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Reuters, Voice of America, the Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, the L.A. Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Forbes, among others.\nRhett Butler also speaks regularly on topics surrounding forests and the environment (especially trends in deforestation) and new media. He has spoken at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the National University of Singapore, USAID, ETH Zurich, Yale, Princeton, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, UNFCCC COP, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Stony Brook University, among other places and events. In 2011 and 2012 he participated in the U.S. State Department Speakers Program in Indonesia.\nRhett Butler\u2019s work has been published outside of his web sites, including magazines, newspapers, online media, and academic journals (see below). His photos have appeared in hundreds of publications.\nIn September 2011 Rhett Butler published RAINFORESTS, a book about rainforests geared toward kids. The text is based on the popular mongabay kids\u2019 section and includes more than 150 photos.\nIn April 2012 Rhett Butler hired a team in Indonesia to run mongabay.co.id, an Indonesian-language provider of environmental news and analysis. Mongabay.co.id officially launched in May 2012. In June 2016, he launched Mongabay-Latam, a Spanish-language news service for Latin America. In January 2018, Mongabay launched in India.\nRhett Butler has been profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal, Voice of America and The Almanac, among other publications.\nIn September 2014, Rhett Butler became the first journalist to win the Parker/Gentry Award, a conservation prize given annually by the Field Museum in Chicago.\nSee Rhett Butler\u2019s motivation for starting mongabay.com. Further background on Rhett Butler is available at the FAQs/Interview page\nInterview with Juan Carlos Mendoza \u2013 GLF Bonn 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 91691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 93.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-brings-brush-fires-and-broken-promises-to-beijing-attempts-to-sell-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp/5414379", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:B6AIJ2W7T3OFJ2HL4YX2FLOPNAAUOPDL", "length": 14128, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "US Brings Brush Fires and Broken Promises to Beijing. Attempts to Sell the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "US Brings Brush Fires and Broken Promises to Beijing. Attempts to Sell the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)\nIn reality, nothing was intended to be decided during US President Barrack Obama\u2019s visit to Beijing, China. US policy regarding China has been more or less set for decades and only superficial, rhetorical changes are made year-to-year for a variety of shorter-term political reasons.\nAnd despite the language used to market America\u2019s foreign policy both at home and abroad, what US President Obama is bringing with him to Beijing is yet another attempt to reassert geopolitical, military, and economic hegemony over China not only directly, but within China\u2019s growing sphere of influence in Asia.\nThis includes attempts to sell the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) \u2013 which in reality has nothing to do with \u201cpartnership\u201d at all and is merely an attempt to erase national sovereignty as an obstacle to Wall Street and London\u2019s Fortune 500 and their desire to expand their markets into the heart of Asia. Though China is not included in the TPP, a similar bilateral deal is being proposed by the US to open up Chinese markets to these same Western monopolies. Additionally, US domination of Asian markets through the TPP\u2019s implementation will compliment economically, the geopolitical and military encirclement the US is attempting to achieve against China.\nThe Brush Fires\nAs Air Force One touched down in Beijing, the US State Department\u2019s ongoing political subversion in China\u2019s special administrative region of Hong Kong continued. With the leaders of the so-called \u201cOccupy Central\u201d movement fully outed both by critics and even by many supporters of the movement as US-backed, Beijing labors under no delusions regarding the true nature or intentions of the United States and its perception of where China falls within what Washington policymakers and pundits call their \u201cinternational order.\u201d\nIn addition to Hong Kong, there is the restive region of Xinjiang where the United States is openly backing militant separatists who have been carrying out progressively more violent and widespread attacks across not only the troubled western province, but across all of China.\nBeyond Hong Kong and Xinjiang, there is also a general campaign headed by the US State Department and its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to sow chaos and sociopolitical division wherever and however it can across all of Chinese society \u2013 and within nations China is working hard to establish its influence economically, including across all of Southeast Asia.\nImagine a guest invited to one\u2019s house, lighting the front lawn and backyard ablaze before crossing the threshold, and one begins to understand US foreign policy \u2013 a combination of threats, pressure, and \u201cincentives\u201d that constitute the now infamous \u201ccarrots and stick\u201d policy the US has attempted to use against nations around the world. One also begins to understand the infinite patience of China\u2019s ruling political order as they host representatives from the West in Beijing in an attempt to avoid an escalating confrontation.\nUS Intent Versus Beijing Unchanged for a Century\nDespite US rhetoric of a \u201cpartnership\u201d with China, it is clear by reading through decades of US policy papers regarding its intentions toward China that containment and eventually the co-opting of China\u2019s political order is the only goal of everything the United States has been doing in the Pacific since the end of World War II. Before that, China served as a colonial enclave for the United States and many European interests. Today\u2019s policy is little more than a polished version of the overt, racist imperialism that attempted to empty out China\u2019s wealth and oppress its people before the outbreak of the World Wars.\nDuring the Vietnam War, with the so-called \u201cPentagon Papers\u201d released in 1969, it was revealed that the conflict was simply one part of a greater strategy aimed at containing and controlling China.\nIn 1997, US corporate-financier sponsored policymaker Robert Kagan would summarize US foreign policy versus China in a piece titled, \u201cWhat China Knows That We Don\u2019t: The Case for a New Strategy of Containment.\u201d In title alone, America\u2019s game of containment is revealed yet again.\nThe policy centers around the belief that there exists a \u201cworld order\u201d which Kagan describes as follows:\nThe present world order serves the needs of the United States and its allies, which constructed it.\nIn 1997, Kagan appeared to believe this order was something immovable that China chaffed against. Today, we see a very different reality \u2013 a world order crumbling out from under the West\u2019s ruling elite amid increasingly desperate attempts to reassert it where it has diminished or altogether vanished.\nKagan would define in detail, plans to contain China\u2019s rise. Kagan would claim (emphasis added):\nIn truth, the debate over whether we should or should not contain China is a bit silly. We are already containing China \u2014 not always consciously and not entirely successfully, but enough to annoy Chinese leaders and be an obstacle to their ambitions. When the Chinese used military maneuvers and ballistic-missile tests last March to intimidate Taiwanese voters, the United States responded by sending the Seventh Fleet. By this show of force, the U.S. demonstrated to Taiwan, Japan, and the rest of our Asian allies that our role as their defender in the region had not diminished as much as they might have feared. Thus, in response to a single Chinese exercise of muscle, the links of containment became visible and were tightened.\nThe new China hands insist that the United States needs to explain to the Chinese that its goal is merely, as [Robert] Zoellick writes, to avoid \u201cthe domination of East Asia by any power or group of powers hostile to the United States.\u201d Our treaties with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Australia, and our naval and military forces in the region, aim only at regional stability, not aggressive encirclement.\nBut the Chinese understand U.S. interests perfectly well, perhaps better than we do. While they welcome the U.S. presence as a check on Japan, the nation they fear most, they can see clearly that America\u2019s military and diplomatic efforts in the region severely limit their own ability to become the region\u2019s hegemon. According to Thomas J. Christensen, who spent several months interviewing Chinese military and civilian government analysts, Chinese leaders worry that they will \u201cplay Gulliver to Southeast Asia\u2019s Lilliputians, with the United States supplying the rope and stakes.\u201d\nIndeed, the United States blocks Chinese ambitions merely by supporting what we like to call \u201cinternational norms\u201d of behavior. Christensen points out that Chinese strategic thinkers consider \u201ccomplaints about China\u2019s violations of international norms\u201d to be part of \u201can integrated Western strategy, led by Washington, to prevent China from becoming a great power.\nKagan would also note (emphasis added):\nThe changes in the external and internal behavior of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s resulted at least in part from an American strategy that might be called \u201cintegration through containment and pressure for change.\u201d\nSuch a strategy needs to be applied to China today. As long as China maintains its present form of government, it cannot be peacefully integrated into the international order. For China\u2019s current leaders, it is too risky to play by our rules \u2014 yet our unwillingness to force them to play by our rules is too risky for the health of the international order. The United States cannot and should not be willing to upset the international order in the mistaken belief that accommodation is the best way to avoid a confrontation with China.\nWe should hold the line instead and work for political change in Beijing. That means strengthening our military capabilities in the region, improving our security ties with friends and allies, and making clear that we will respond, with force if necessary, when China uses military intimidation or aggression to achieve its regional ambitions. It also means not trading with the Chinese military or doing business with firms the military owns or operates. And it means imposing stiff sanctions when we catch China engaging in nuclear proliferation.\nA successful containment strategy will require increasing, not decreasing, our overall defense capabilities. Eyre Crowe warned in 1907 that \u201cthe more we talk of the necessity of economising on our armaments, the more firmly will the Germans believe that we are tiring of the struggle, and that they will win by going on.\u201d Today, the perception of our military decline is already shaping Chinese calculations. In 1992, an internal Chinese government document said that America\u2019s \u201cstrength is in relative decline and that there are limits to what it can do.\u201d This perception needs to be dispelled as quickly as possible.\nCareful examination of this 1997 piece, representing a compilation of US foreign policy objectives regarding China, reveals that it not only was being implemented then, but the US is still attempting to implement it today.\nKagan would later end up a policy adviser to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who in late 2011 would pen an op-ed in Foreign Policy magazine titled, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Pacific Century.\u201d Despite being dressed up in diplomatic parlance, it is almost verbatim the same strategy of establishing regional hegemony in the Pacific and containing China described by Kagan over a decade beforehand. It includes overt admissions that the United States seeks to \u201cplay an active role in the agenda-setting\u201d of regional institutions like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Since the US is not a Southeast Asian nation, one must question what legitimacy such a desire holds beyond consolidating a regional bloc, then using it as Kagan noted as \u201cLilliputians, with the United States supplying the rope and stakes.\u201d\nNeo-Imperialism Vs. Partnerships\nUltimately, between Kagan\u2019s 1997 analysis, US Secretary of State Clinton\u2019s remarks in 2011 almost certainly ghostwritten by Kagan, and US President Obama\u2019s agenda in Beijing this month with US-stoked chaos inflicting Hong Kong and Xinjiang among other places, it is clear the US is still pursuing an aggressive campaign of encirclement and containment versus Beijing.\nThe strategy versus China is multidimensional. It entails threats, political destabilization, and even armed terrorism within Chinese territory, as well as proxy wars around the planet designed to drive out Chinese interests \u2013 such as in Libya, Sudan, and Myanmar. There is also a push-pull strategy aimed at certain segments among China\u2019s political and business elite. The West works ceaselessly to establish and cultivate institutions, networks, and agendas within China alongside certain Chinese interests, while it simultaneously works to undermine and uproot those Chinese interests that ultimately oppose Western hegemony both in Asia and within China itself.\nThe complexity of America\u2019s current campaign of neo-colonization in the Asia-Pacific can be overwhelming, but with history as a guide, and consistency in US foreign policy papers transcending decades it should be clear that ultimately the US seeks to establish and maintain hegemony across Asia both directly and through a series of proxy regimes.\nWhile the West will \u201cpartner\u201d with those interests willing to put their own personal advancement ahead of China\u2019s survival as a sovereign state, it is ultimately unable to enter any sort of \u201cpartnership\u201d with China as a whole because it is unable to respect nations as equals. It is an exercise of the same racist, overtly imperial ambitions it pursued before the World Wars in Asia, and the same racist, overtly imperial ambitions the British Empire pursued before that.\nChina\u2019s leadership, on the other hand, has exercised a resilient patience spanning decades and has exhibited a sociopolitical and cultural maturity unseen in Western foreign policy.\nModeration both domestically and abroad ensures enduring prosperity. Compared to the West\u2019s limitless hunger for conquest \u2013 a hunger that has already outpaced its means \u2013 China needs only to wait and weather the West\u2019s attempts to reassert itself in Asia, while sustainably advancing its own interests. Maturity includes temperance \u2013 an acknowledgment of limitations. While Beijing\u2019s current political order is far from ideal, it understand that unlimited, unchecked greed and ambition may appear of maximum benefit to the individuals involved in the short-term, but is a death sentence for all involved in the long-term. Rampant corruption at home and overreaching ambitions abroad opens any given political order to predictable weaknesses that can invite disaster all on their own, or be exploited by enemies within and abroad.\nSustainably for China means not only resisting wasteful races with the West in response to geopolitical, military, and economic provocations, but also in terms of sabotaging the division the West is attempting to sow across Asia to build its united front to encircle and contain China. This can be done by ensuring not through words, but through actions, a commitment to the national sovereignty of its neighbors particularly in Southeast Asia, non-interventionism that will stand in stark contrast to the West\u2019s perpetual meddling, and the continuation of infrastructure projects that provide mutual, tangible benefits politically and economically across the region.\nIn this regard, China already has a substantial head-start in a race it appears the United States is unaware even started. America\u2019s brand of political meddling, economic manipulation, and \u201ccarrot and stick\u201d geopolitics are the tired remnants of European imperialism. While not impossible for the US to retool its foreign policy, it is highly unlikely \u2013 and thus the inevitability of the West\u2019s retreat from Asia is all but assured.\nThis may be why Beijing graciously allows the US to start fires upon its lawn before crossing the threshold for a visit \u2013 they know the US is a hegemon of diminishing menace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 19387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gminsights.com/pressrelease/artificial-lift-systems-market/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XI2KRGWLESXP42Z6MFY2Z3H6ITRB7HL7", "length": 4413, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gminsights.com", "title": "Artificial Lift Systems Market to exceed $14bn by 2024", "raw_content": "Artificial Lift Systems Market to exceed $14bn by 2024\nPublished Date: April 5, 2018 Authors: Ankit Gupta, Aditya Singh Bais\nArtificial lift Systems Market size is set to exceed USD 14 billion by 2024; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc.\nIncreasing number of marginal and stripper wells coupled with the rising demand of crude oil will drive the artificial lift systems market size. In the U.S., the Energy Information Administration estimated around 380,000 stripper wells compared with about 90,000 non-stripper wells in 2015. As per the Artificial Lift R&D Council, around 80% of the wells in the U.S. are stripper wells, with majority of them installed with sucker rod pump.\nThe U.S. artificial lift systems market was valued over USD 3 billion in 2017. Ongoing E&P spending coupled with increasing shale exploration will enhance the business growth. As per the EIA, 44 onshore oil companies have increased its capital expenditure by 72% between 2016 and 2015 in the country. The U.S. DOE has estimated 89 BBL of untapped oil across onshore wells, which will further enhance the product adoption.\nOffshore artificial lift systems market will witness a strong growth owing to the ongoing expansion of deep-water projects. In 2018, the U.S. Federal Government has unveiled five-year plan which includes expansion plans of offshore drilling, targeting Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. Abundant resource availability coupled with increased offshore investments will further complement the industry outlook.\nHydraulic pump ALS market is projected to witness gain of 5% by 2024. Ability to reduce the resistance coupled with less work requirement of downhole pump will augment the industry growth. These pumps can be circulated out of the hole for repair with minimum intervention cost, which will further boost the product penetration.\nBrowse key industry insights spread across 230 pages with 253 market data tables & 39 figures & charts from the report, \u201cArtificial Lift Systems Market Size By Technology (Progressive Cavity Pumps, Electrical Submersible Pumps, Gas Lift, Rod Lift, Hydraulic Pumps, Others), By Application (Onshore, Offshore), Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook (U.S., Canada, UK, Norway, Netherlands, CIS & Eurasia (Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine), China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico), Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2018 - 2024\u201d in detail along with the table of contents:\nhttps://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/artificial-lift-systems-market-report\nOperators\u2019 focus toward unconventional wells to meet the growing demand of crude oil will propel the global artificial lift systems market share. Ongoing government plans and strategies to boost crude production along with increasing number of mature fields will further stimulate the deployment of these systems. In 2018, the Government of Iraq announced its target to produce 7 million bpd of crude by 2022.\nTechnology advancements to provide cost effective solutions for low-rate liquid-loaded gas and gas-lifted oil wells will complement the gas lift systems market growth. Innovations including the development of smart gas lift systems to offer rig-less installation, minimized manual intervention, reduced OPEX, increased visibility & data logging, decreased flowline backpressure and multi-well control will further encourage the product adoption.\nGrowing primary energy consumption coupled with escalating focus toward sustainable resources to extract crude oil and gas will foster the Iran artificial lift systems market. As per the British Petroleum in 2016, the primary energy consumption of the country increased to 266.5 Million tonnes oil equivalent, when compared with 237.4 in 2013.\nKey players operating across the ALS market include Schlumberger, General Electric, Halliburton, Borets Co. 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But you'll be walking through more than greenery . . . you'll be walking through the lava rock terraces built centuries and centuries ago.\nDays vary by season; 9:30 am - 4:00 pm\n$15; children under 12 free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 5723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/oahu/things-to-do/land-activities/Luau?f%5B0%5D=field_categories%3A46&f%5B1%5D=field_categories%3A886&f%5B2%5D=field_categories%3A601&f%5B3%5D=field_island_ref%3A2&f%5B4%5D=field_categories%3A48&f%5B5%5D=field_categories%3A671", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RLCN7IC5CMDXCDNBDHW7JDMBTTG7QPYX", "length": 759, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.gohawaii.com", "title": "Oahu Luaus: A Guide to the Best Luaus on Oahu | Go Hawaii", "raw_content": "Read more about Ha: Breath of Life at the Polynesian Cultural Center\nHa: Breath of Life at the Polynesian Cultural Center\nH\u0101: Breath of Life, is a stunning evening show featuring over 100 Polynesia performers, special effects, animation and surround sound. 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This 90-minute, world-famous, award-winning show is a MUST see and truly an unforgettable experience.\nRead more about Rainbows of Paradise Canoe Pageant at the Polynesian Cultural Center\nRainbows of Paradise Canoe Pageant at the Polynesian Cultural Center\nFive thousand years of legend and lore are acted out in a rousing canoe pageant daily at 2:30 p.m. on the lagoon that meanders through the Polynesian Cultural Center's 42 tropical acres.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 10708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.golfadvisor.com/architects/1219-george-fazio/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JS7NLPHPA5X44LAED7MMCJM7O7QX7L6U", "length": 2678, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.golfadvisor.com", "title": "George Fazio | Golf Advisor", "raw_content": "Like many touring pros of his era, George Fazio dabbled in a variety of enterprises -- in and out of the golf industry.\nHe was a good enough player to win the 1946 Canadian Open and lose in a playoff in the 1950 U.S. Open to Ben Hogan. In those days, however, the meager prize money required most players to cash in on their fame in other golf-related pursuits.\nHe was the head professional at six different Philadelphia-area clubs. He owned driving ranges, a car dealership, and even a scrap-metal business.\nBut those pursuits became back-burner activities when Fazio discovered his calling as a course designer.\nHis life changed in 1955 when he was hired to renovate Cobbs Creek for the PGA Tour stop in his hometown. A few years later, his breakthrough came with his creation of Waynesborough, a private course that he designed, owned and operated.\nFor a course architect who didn't realize his calling until he was in his mid 40s, Fazio has an impressive resume of 64 designs that includes Palmetto Dunes in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Jupiter Hills in south Florida, Edgewood on Lake Tahoe, Butler National, Hershey East and Pinehurst No. 6. He also redesigned the major-championship duo of Inverness in Ohio and Oak Hill in New York.\nMost of this work was done with the help of his nephew, Tom Fazio, who later built a brilliant career in the business.\n\"If not for him, I'd be caddying somewhere for a living,\" Tom Fazio once said.\nGeorge Fazio was the son of working-class Italian immigrants, one of eight children. He took up caddying and playing golf at age 9. 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The three-month, 29-date celebration will commemorate two of the most important milestones in the iconic guitarist\u2019s career: the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking, multiple Grammy-winning album Supernatural and the 50th anniversary of his momentous performance at Woodstock.\nThirty years before Supernatural, Santana mesmerized the then record-breaking audience at Woodstock \u2013 the band\u2019s performance of \u201cSoul Sacrifice\u201d is regarded as one of the high points of the classic concert documentary. \u201cI\u2019ll never forget the way the music sounded, bouncing up against a field of bodies,\u201d says Santana. \u201cIt\u2019s well documented that I was tripping during our performance. At one point the guitar turned into an electric snake, twisting and turning. I kept willing the snake not to move and praying that it stayed in tune. By the time we played \u2018Soul Sacrifice,\u2019 I was able to breathe and focus, and the band crystallized as one. The magic of Woodstock would not have been possible without Bill Graham. No one had heard of us yet, but he made sure we were on the bill. He is always in my heart.\u201d\nWhile Santana will highlight songs from both his Supernatural and Woodstock eras on the Supernatural Now tour, the guitarist says that the setlist won\u2019t be a dedicated nostalgia trip. The band (which also features Santana\u2019s wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, on drums) will perform new tracks from Santana\u2019s soon-to-be released EP, In Search of Mona Lisa (due out January 25), as well as a much-anticipated, upcoming full-length produced by maverick hit maker Rick Rubin. Carlos Santana recently signed with Concord Records, which will release both discs.\n\u201cWe\u2019re always moving forward, and we have incredible new songs and melodies that will inspire you,\u201d says Santana \u201cI feel like a 20 year old on stage playing with this band, and they deliver on every song. 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He did end up marrying a teacher, however. Courtesy Better Drinking Culture\nIn late 2014, Jason Ley began to think about how he wanted to die.\nLey was with the Grand Rapids audio/visual company LiveSpace while his grandmother was nearing her death, and he realized he wanted more out of his life. Despite never having any specific career goals or aspirations, he said he always had a clich\u00e9 drive to change the world.\n\u201cI realized I just couldn\u2019t keep doing the same thing over and over again,\u201d Ley said. \u201cI knew my grandmother\u2019s end was approaching, so I started thinking about what I wanted to say I had accomplished when I was on my deathbed.\u201d\nNone of Ley\u2019s thoughts led him to a corporate job or material possessions. Three years later, Ley buried his grandmother, took an unorthodox career detour and, earlier this year, started his newest career endeavor as CEO of Better Drinking Culture (BDC), an organization started by Cam Brieden to promote healthy drinking habits.\nHis position is a long way from any career he could have imagined growing up in Pontiac with his mother\u2019s family, as his father left when he was 3 years old.\nLey\u2019s mother, two uncles and grandparents all retired from the General Motors assembly line, and he was the first person in his family to graduate from college when he walked across the stage at Michigan State University in 2001.\nThrough two moves, first to Defiance, Ohio, heading into ninth grade, and back to Michigan in Waterford, prior to 10th grade, Ley lost his bearings in life and turned to heavy metal for comfort.\nOrganization: Better Drinking Culture\nBirthplace: Oakland, California\nResidence: Grand Rapids\nFamily: Wife, Katherine; uncle to three nephews, and a nephew or niece to be.\nBusiness/Community Involvement: Modern Ahabs creator, writer and host; Certified Beer Server; MittenBrew.com marketing manager and senior writer; Experience Grand Rapids guest blogger; Beer City Brewers Guild marketing committee.\nBiggest Career Break: \u201cMaking the decision to go against the status quo and define my own personal professional trajectory in life.\u201d\n\u201cI was really cynical about life,\u201d Ley said.\nIt wasn\u2019t until senior year of high school he found some guidance for a potential career when an English teacher \u201ccut through all the (crap)\u201d and inspired Ley to harness creativity. The teacher was why Ley ended up with a degree from MSU in education and teaching certificate.\nFollowing graduation, however, Ley couldn\u2019t find a teaching gig, so he kept the job he had all through college at bd\u2019s Mongolian Grill for another year.\nEventually, he turned to a job as national sales account executive at Alternative Press, a music magazine based in Cleveland.\n\u201cThat was the last time I thought about being a teacher,\u201d said Ley, who spent two years in Cleveland. \u201cI was also going through the darkest days of my life. I never really connected with anyone in Cleveland but got sucked into all the perks of the industry, and I started drinking a lot.\u201d\nMaking little money and racking up credit card debt, Ley said he was in a downward spiral when he decided to move home when his younger brother had a son.\n\u201cThat was a beacon of light,\u201d he said. \u201cI recognized through some ugly nights that I don\u2019t know what it means to be an uncle, but if there\u2019s anything positive that will pull me out of this, that little boy is going to.\u201d\nHe moved back to Michigan and in with his brother, whose fianc\u00e9 left him shortly following, and who helped him learn fatherhood. He then started a job as an ad executive at the Detroit Free Press. He hated the job, but it paid the bills. Eventually, however, the Free Press entered into a partnership with the Tribune Company to launch Metromix.com, and Ley was part of a team to launch the site as the marketing and promotions coordinator.\n\u201cI was able to salvage prior experience from jobs I hated to connect the dots and put it to work,\u201d Ley said. \u201cI got to conceptualize and throw super awesome parties in the city.\u201d\nThose parties kept his nights and weekends full, but he still was able to meet his future wife, Katherine, in 2008 when throwing a surprise party for a colleague. He invited the colleague\u2019s girlfriend and asked her to invite a friend that was \u201csingle, educated and didn\u2019t have any baggage.\u201d\n\u201cI totally got what I asked for,\u201d Ley said of his wife, who was a teacher in Sparta.\nBecause of his demanding work schedule, if they wanted to see each other, she would have to go to Detroit. His job did allow for a glamorous dating life, he said, and he proposed in January 2009. Between the proposal and their wedding in July 2010, Katherine looked for jobs on the east side of the state, but she couldn\u2019t find anything.\n\u201cWe had to figure something out,\u201d Ley said. \u201cThe nation was going through the housing crash, (former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick) was destroying Detroit. There was not a teaching job for her anywhere on the east side. She busted her (butt) trying to find a job, but I am so thankful she didn\u2019t.\u201d\nHe moved to Grand Rapids but stayed flexible in his options and found a job as general manager of the nightclubs in The B.O.B. Terrible hours kept him from seeing his wife regularly for two-and-a-half years. During his days off, he explored the budding beer scene and found out how much he enjoyed it.\nIn summer 2012, LiveSpace, which he hired at The B.O.B, essentially poached Ley.\nHe left LiveSpace in March 2016, following his pondering of life direction, and integrated himself in the beer scene. Prior to leaving LiveSpace, he told himself he would only say yes to things involving beer, writing, travel and music.\n\u201cIf I wanted different results, I needed to put forth a different effort,\u201d he said.\nHe filmed a pilot episode of a documentary TV series, called Modern Ahabs, about the search for hard-to-get beers, which has since been nominated for an Emmy. He was deliberately unemployed for four months before being hired as assistant general manager at Grand Rapids Brewing Co. in May 2016.\nIn September, he received an email from Brieden. They met for lunch twice, hitting it off and sharing deep stories about life.\n\u201cI find out Cam has never drank and he\u2019s got a very personal story about why, and I told him why I still drink but have always struggled with my relationship with alcohol,\u201d Ley said.\nThrough the lunches, they shared ideas, and Ley found out Brieden\u2019s grand vision for the organization. During the second lunch, Ley broke down crying when he shared a particularly difficult memory about his relationship with alcohol. As he wiped his eyes, Brieden offered him the job as CEO of BDC.\n\u201cI cried a little bit more, but without hesitation said absolutely,\u201d Ley said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really able to process what that meant, but I knew I was finally passionate about something that was personally significant to me. 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He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 130.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.groupainscough.co.uk/jobs/learning-and-development/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:OXGKRGZTQOGFBHY6TPFUZ6LHMZYJ44TD", "length": 2252, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.groupainscough.co.uk", "title": "Contact", "raw_content": "We want all our employees to be the very best they can be. To that end, we provide first class training to hundreds of colleagues each year, passing on our decades of know-how and experience to ensure that Ainscough remains at the forefront of the industry.\nDeveloping Our Leaders\nAt Ainscough, leading the way in career development is as every bit as important as leading the way in how we do things on lift sites around the country. Managers across the business can therefore look forward to many opportunities for personal and professional growth. From our bespoke in-house coaching and on-the-job training to industry-recognised vocational qualifications that will enhance your future prospects and performance, we are committed to providing the support you need to succeed.\nWe harness the power of personality here at Ainscough, constantly developing our sale force and sales leadership skills, and giving them all the tools they need to build long-lasting relationships on a daily basis. Our people are encouraged to put customers first at every point in the lift process, understand their own impact on customers and stakeholders, and be commercially savvy in terms of the environments our customers work in. This enables our expertly trained sales force to provide high quality business advice that is as personal as it is professional.\nColleagues who work in a technical role \u2013 for example, Crane Operators, Drivers, and Engineers \u2013 are provided with first class training to ensure they are fully equipped to do their job. We work closely with the CITB (construction industry training board http://www.citb.co.uk ) to maintain the highest standards of technical expertise for our people, and pride ourselves on having an unparallelled pool of knowledge that continues to set Ainscough apart. In addition, Ainscough work with schools and colleges to promote the construction industry through the CITB Construction Ambassador programme, and nurture the talent of tomorrow as we drive the lifting industry forward. Please refer to the CITB website for further information on careers and qualification across the sector as a whole.\nFor more information or to send us your CV, please click the link below:\nLearning and Development | Ainscough Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/fear-freedom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GZG5YGURAKEKBB4LDA6FAZNU2CWZNOZP", "length": 7765, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.guitarplayer.com", "title": "Fear & Freedom - GuitarPlayer.com", "raw_content": "Fear & Freedom: Bill Frisell on the Panic and Pleasures of Playing Solo\nGuitar genius Bill Frisell discusses why\u2014after an 18-year-break\u2014he decided to go solo again on 'Music Is.'\nThere are only a handful of guitarists who can be said to have significantly changed the way subsequent players have approached the instrument: Charlie Christian, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen are among them.\nMonica Jane Frisell\nAnd so is Bill Frisell.\nJust as a generation of metal guitarists tapping away can be credited to Eddie, the current generation contains more than a few who play jazz-influenced versions of pop and country tunes on Telecasters, thanks to Bill. In the must-see movie, Bill Frisell: A Portrait, Nels Cline says, \u201cHe has had one of the loudest impacts on creative guitar.\u201d\nOver four decades\u2014and on more than 100 recordings\u2014this unique artist has brought his unmistakable sound to a wide variety of music, including jazz, country, pop, rock, and noise\u2014sometimes all in the same band (check out John Zorn\u2019s Naked City). He has also managed to fit his personal approach and distinctive musical vision into the equally defined art of such diverse employers as Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Earl Klugh, Paul Simon, Salief Keita, Rickie Lee Jones, Loudon Wainwright III, Renee Fleming, Marianne Faithful, David Sylvian, and David Sanborn.\nWhat brings artists at the top of their games to enlist his aid? In the same documentary, producer Hal Wilner gives some insight: \u201cHe just makes everything better, and takes it to a whole other level.\u201d\nThroughout a career of working with exceptional musicians, Frisell has released very few records featuring him alone. The first record under his own name, 1983\u2019s In Line, started as a solo record, but eventually added bassist Arild Andersen to some of the tunes. In 1999, Ghost Town appeared, and a quickie, solo-free improv session for John Zorn\u2019s Tzadik label, Silent Comedy, slipped in under the radar in 2013. Now, Music Is [OKeh/Sony] has arrived. It appears obvious that recording by himself is not a priority for this\u2014okay, I\u2019ll say it\u2014guitar genius.\nWhy did you choose to do another fully realized solo record now\u201418 years after Ghost Town?\nIt has been this ongoing challenge. When I first tried to play solo it was\u2014\u201ctraumatic\u201d is too light a word. For me, the guitar and music has always been about playing with other people. But I\u2019d hear piano players, like Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, or Art Tatum playing solo, and it felt like I had to figure out how to do it. The first solo gig I did was in Boston in the early \u201980s, after I had been playing for many years. It was in this tiny place with probably only five people in the audience, and it was horrifying. I went through everything I knew, looked at my watch, and ten minutes had gone by. I still had another hour, and I didn\u2019t have anything. I thought, \u201cI\u2019m never going to put myself through this again.\u201d But, a year later, I did, and I gradually got more comfortable with it. It\u2019s still different, but there was a point where it actually got cool. There\u2019s a freedom in doing it that\u2019s incredible. I can go anywhere I want to musically. By the Ghost Town record I was more comfortable. Silent Comedy was something else. I had wanted to do something with Zorn in the studio, and there was no preparation or thought\u2014other than I was going to improvise for a little while.\nYou typically use looping systems when you play solo. Do you find they give you something to respond to, in the place of other musicians?\nYeah, but it\u2019s so dangerous. The looping thing is like a safety net. It\u2019s such a crutch for me. I\u2019m trying to get braver about not going there. The most challenging thing for me is to not be afraid of space\u2014to actually embrace it. There\u2019s something to be said about letting the energy be in the silence. The ultimate thing would be to make a whole album with just an acoustic guitar and nothing else. I still haven\u2019t gotten to that.\nHow did you approach Music Is?\nThe preparation was like anti-preparation. I had six nights to play at the Stone in New York, prior to going in the studio. Every night, I came to those gigs bringing piles of music I had either never played before, or not in a really long time. I tried to keep myself off balance for the whole week. I used the Stone to get myself in the frame of mind where I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen. When I went in the studio, I kept that same thing going. We set up the studio so I could just grab any instrument and play whatever came to my mind. Everything about the sound and the structure of the individual pieces came from being in the moment.\nCan we talk about some of the gear? What was the basic amp setup?\nLive, I usually have one or maybe two amps, and everything is coming out of the same amp all the time. In the studio, however, we set up with two amps for the basic sound\u2014a Gibson GA-18 T Explorer and a Carr Mercury for the loops. The loop amp was isolated, so when we mixed it, we could control the level.\nWhat\u2019s that striking loop in \u201cRambler\u201d?\nThere was this weird sample-and holdtype loop from the Z.Vex Ringtone that was in the key of the song, so I played the song over the loop.\nIt sounds like there\u2019s a bass at the end. Was it a bass guitar or an octave pedal?\nI played a little bit of bass. That was a luxury I was afforded, because I brought a bunch of gear. So many of my albums are recorded with just one guitar.\nIt certainly helps vary the textures. For example, the guitars on \u201cGo Happy Lucky\u201d and \u201cMonica Jane\u201d have an acoustic tone. Were you using a hollowbody for those?\nYes. That\u2019s an old ES-125 with one P-90 pickup. I love that guitar. They might have miked the body of the guitar as well as the amp.\nIt sounds like you used an actual acoustic for \u201cMade to Shine\u201d and \u201cPioneers.\u201d\nThat was an incredible, early-\u201940s Gibson J-45.\nWhat about the music box-like sound at the beginning of \u201cMonica Jane?\u201d\nThat actually is a couple of different music boxes being captured through the pickups of the guitar, and then routed into the Line 6 DL4 I used for looping. I can\u2019t seem to shake that pedal. It\u2019s just so easy for me to use. I also used a modulated tremolo setting on the Strymon Flint.\n\u201cThink About It\u201d has a unique distorted sound. Do you remember how you got that?\nIt\u2019s just the amp turned way up, and going into the strings of this upright piano that was owned by Richard Manuel from The Band. The amp was right up against the strings, and we held down the piano\u2019s sustain pedal so that the overtones were ringing from inside the upright\u2019s soundboard.\nThere\u2019s some ring modulation on that, as well.\nI\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s the Ringtone\u2014although I also used a Minifooger Ring Modulator in a couple of places. I used a Tube Screamer for overdrive and a Catalinbread Katzenk\u00f6nig for more extreme distortion.\nIf you had to pick a desert-island amp and a guitar, what would they be?\nI have a Gibson GA-18 T Explorer amp. It\u2019s very low powered with one 10\" speaker\u2014like a Gibson version of a Fender Princeton. Whenever I\u2019m home, that\u2019s the amp. When I moved recently, I only had one guitar with me. It was this J.W. Black Telecaster. I realized it was all I really needed. Although, I might pick that J-45, or some big archtop.\nIs there one pedal that is essential to your sound?\nI love the Strymon Flint Tremolo & Reverb. I\u2019ve done a couple of tours where I only brought that.\nWhen you do get back to playing with other artists, is there anybody left with whom you really want to work?\nI\u2019ve been able to play with 90 percent of the people I would name. Maybe one song with Bob Dylan or Sonny Rollins, but so many of my dreams have come true beyond my wildest imagination.\nBill Frisellmichael ross", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hannahgrimes.com/calendar/2019-02-14", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X7B2WC35YCGA3T7YIIXZIF6B5XXXOHVA", "length": 410, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hannahgrimes.com", "title": "Events Archive - Hannah Grimes Center", "raw_content": "Topics: Bookkeeping Services, QuickBooks certified in Desktop and A QuickBooks OnLine ProAdvisor. Lee Davis & Company, a bookkeeping firm serving start-ups to mid-sized companies, delivers services tailored to the needs of young businesses and entrepreneurs. 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As a QuickBooks Certified Pro-Advisor, Lee [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hao.org.ro/news/a2-of-the-3-young-adults-that-finished-the-8th-grade-of-primary-school-congrats/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5REUVHSBJMIKK6N2JHSGBFVITCTBR6XW", "length": 88, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hao.org.ro", "title": "2 of the 3 young adults that finished the 8th grade of Primary School \u2013 Congrats! :: Health Action Overseas Romania", "raw_content": "Home > 2 of the 3 young adults that finished the 8th grade of Primary School \u2013 Congrats!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harbourvest.com/viewpoint/private-equity-portfolio-construction-four-step-guide-getting-started", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4QRZCVWXZAGRJ2XRUHVZFY2QZ7O2IWCK", "length": 775, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.harbourvest.com", "title": "Private Equity Portfolio Construction: Getting Started in Four Steps", "raw_content": "The long-term outperformance of private equity relative to public markets is encouraging more new investors to enter the asset class, and prompting many institutional investors to increase their existing allocations. As these investors look to achieve attractive returns and limit their downside risk, a key factor in their success will be their ability to construct portfolios that are aligned with their investment goals and constraints.\nHarbourVest has worked with clients around the world for more than 30 years to help them build and execute their private equity programs. This experience has led to the creation of a proven four-step portfolio construction process that can serve as a blueprint for building a durable portfolio that can help meet investment objectives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harnishchiro.com/chiropractors-may-help-scoliosis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QEWZO7JENMWCRWULYNXWR2OCQYNQRU34", "length": 2619, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.harnishchiro.com", "title": "Chiropractors in Bellville May Help Scoliosis", "raw_content": "Among common back conditions, scoliosis is one that has the potential to cause a great deal of discomfort and immobility. Between 5 million and 7 million people in the United States are affected by scoliosis. Bellville chiropractors have the ability to provide relief to many scoliosis patients, making their day-to-day lives more manageable.\nScoliosis is a condition of the spine where a lateral or sideways curvature of greater than 10 degrees develops. Most of the time, the cause of this unique curvature is unknown, but in around 20 percent of the cases things like neurological disease, trauma or tumors are responsible. Scoliosis with no known cause is called idiopathic.\nIf someone has functional scoliosis, it means that a postural issue, muscle spasm or legs that are different lengths is the cause. This type of scoliosis can usually be remedied. If the scoliosis is considered structural, various postural strategies are usually ineffective. Scoliosis is more common among girls and it typically develops between the ages of 10 and 15. It can also be passed down, so if a parent or sibling has it there is a higher likelihood of a younger child getting it.\nCommon Symptoms of Scoliosis\nSome of the common symptoms of scoliosis include intense pain, reduced range of motion, reduced lung function and reduced heart function. Psychological problems including decreased self-esteem are also a common issue with people that have scoliosis. Around 80 percent of people with scoliosis have a curvature of less than 20 degrees, but since it occurs most often during adolescence, it is possible to see large increases in curvature within a short period. Scoliosis is usually diagnosed through physical evaluation and x-rays to determine the extent of the spinal curvature.\nSome of the most effective treatments performed by Bellville chiropractors for scoliosis include spinal manipulation, electric muscle stimulation and therapeutic exercise. This is an area that hasn\u2019t received a lot of attention or research, but many patients with scoliosis that have had chiropractic treatment report an improvement in their condition.\nEven if the spinal curvature is not completely corrected, any associated pain or issues that have been adding to the scoliosis discomfort will be addressed. Sometimes the change in posture and gait created by scoliosis causes other areas to overcompensate, causing pain and leading to new issues. Your chiropractor at Harnish Family Chiropractic will search for the underlying cause of all your structural aches and pains, and find the solution that works best for your specific situation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/RelatedCartoon.asp?Month=May&Date=18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:D3YUU5GXKFIIHOL54346JNZYOTASST3Z", "length": 4965, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.harpweek.com", "title": "HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day", "raw_content": "Analogies, Literature; Presidential Election 1872;\nBelmont, August; Fenton, Reuben; Greeley, Horace; Schurz, Carl;\n\"A (Mud) Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud Groans and Noises were heard; and crowds of People came from all Parts to see what was the matter. After long expectation and many wise conjectures from the by-standers, out popped a--Mouse!\"\nThe joke in this Harper's Weekly cartoon relies upon the contrast between the \"Great Expectations\" of Liberal Republicans, who opposed the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant, and the pathetically small outcome of their national convention. The \"Liberal Mountain\" is a visual metaphor for the \"mud\" that has piled up from Liberal Republicans' constant charges of corruption in the Grant administration. Out of that man-made structure emerges the Liberal Republican ticket: Horace Greeley, the presidential nominee, as a mouse, and Gratz Brown, the vice presidential nominee, as the rodent's tail.\nIn 1870, Brown had been elected governor of Missouri on a Liberal Republican platform of universal suffrage (including for women), universal amnesty for former Confederates, civil service reform, lower tariffs, and an eight-hour day. Missouri Democrats also endorsed his candidacy, thereby providing a blueprint for the national coalition of Liberal Republicans and Democrats two years later. In January 1872, Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri, judging the Grant administration to be irredeemable, issued a call for a national convention of liberals to nominate a candidate for president. Over the next few months, Liberal Republican editors, delegates, and other supporters warned repeatedly that caution should be taken in choosing the best nominee.\nGovernor Brown was Missouri\u2019s favorite-son candidate, but he lacked broad appeal. The top presidential contenders were former diplomat Charles Francis Adams and Justice David Davis of the U.S. Supreme Court. Horace Greeley, the maverick editor of the New York Tribune, had some support but was considered more as a possible vice-presidential nominee. On the first ballot at the Cincinnati convention, Adams made a strong showing and Greeley finished competitively in second place. At that point, Governor Brown promptly withdrew and endorsed Greeley, in part to block Adams, the candidate of Brown\u2019s sworn enemy in Missouri, Senator Schurz. That gave momentum to Greeley, who won the nomination on the sixth ballot, after which the nominee's floor managers urged the convention to select Brown for the second spot on the ticket.\nThis cartoon (published May 8) was Thomas Nast's first since the Liberal Republican National Convention concluded on May 2. The artist had assumed that Adams would be nominated for president, and had nearly completed this drawing when he learned of the surprise selection of Greeley. Nast altered the picture, probably on the woodblock after it had been engraved, by changing the tiny head on the mouse from Adams's face to Greeley's and by inscribing Brown's name on the tail. (This is why Greeley appears twice, watching his own figure as a mouse). The caption about a mouse issuing forth from a mountain mimics the story of two Aesop's fables (later consolidated by Phaedrus), a common source for Nast. The cartoonist may also have been attracted to the imagery by recent news reports of the explosion of Vesuvius, the Italian volcano, on April 12, 1872.\nThe Liberal Republicans staring at the emergent mouse are (left to right): Senator Reuben Fenton of New York; Greeley; Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois; Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri, in whose hat a paper indicates his desire to be secretary of state; and a blathering Senator Thomas Tipton of Nebraska, holding his speeches about Tom, Dick, and Harry. In the right background are (left to right): Frank Blair, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1868, and August Belmont, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The Democrats, lacking viable candidates of their own, would endorse the Liberal Republican ticket within a few weeks.\nBecause Grant was a hero to Nast, the cartoonist relentlessly attacked the Democratic-Liberal Republican ticket. Beginning with this cartoon, Nast ridiculed Brown throughout the campaign as an appendage on Greeley (here, a tail, but usually a tag) in order to emphasize the vice-presidential nominee's insignificance. Although Greeley proved to be a vulnerable candidate, his running mate made matters worse. Known to have a drinking problem, Brown was reported to have delivered a speech at Yale while drunk, fainted before a gathering in New York City, and generally made misstatements. The candidate\u2019s alcoholism provoked the Nation to call for him to withdraw from the ticket. After the Liberal Republican-Democratic defeat in November, Brown returned to the practice of law, and did not participate in politics except as an observer at the Democratic National Convention in 1876. He died in St. Louis in 1885.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 5300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harvleyarchitecture.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FKNLORY5AGZU675KIKUP2JDQEFRVVH7U", "length": 1726, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.harvleyarchitecture.com", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "The firm was founded in Greenville, SC in 1985 and works predominantly in the southeast, on diverse projects in market sectors such as retail, office buildings, animal hospitals, worship buildings, restaurants and tenant upfits.\nWe have a wealth of knowledge and a can-do approach which, in turn, inspires, motivates and encourages the rest of our team.\nPlease feel free to look through our projects and contact us to arrange a quote or for more information.\nJames Harvley, founding principal of the firm, has more than 30 years of experience in a wide variety of projects ranging from site planning to facility planning and construction observation. His expertise includes renovations and retrofitting existing facilities as well as developing concepts for new retail centers, churches and animal hospitals.\nJames is chief architect and project manager within the firm, providing the leadership for all disciplines involved in a project. His qualifications encompasses all phases of design management including marketing, contract negotiations, building analysis, building design, construction documents and administration. His experience with building committees, developers and government officials has projected a high degree of flexibility in architectural design with many different types of projects.\nJames was born and raised in Spartanburg, SC and graduated from Clemson University in 1977 with a BS in Design. He is a member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). He has resided in the Greenville, SC area since 1979. In his spare time, James dabbles in acting in TV shows and feature films.\nCurrently licensed to practice atchitecture in the following states:\nJames Harvley, RA, NCARB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/2018-02-23_potential_measles_exposures.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EEQR4Q32QPRXAI6ZULZVHVV3KW3DN2LR", "length": 3751, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.health.ny.gov", "title": "New York State Department of Health Warns of Potential Measles Exposures in NYC, Orange & Putnam Counties", "raw_content": "You are Here: Home Page > 2018 Press Releases > New York State Department of Health Warns of Potential Measles Exposures in NYC, Orange & Putnam Counties\nNew York State Department of Health Warns of Potential Measles Exposures in NYC, Orange & Putnam Counties\nALBANY, N.Y. (February 23, 2018) \u2013 The New York State Department of Health announced today that a tourist from Australia who has been confirmed to have measles visited hotels in Manhattan and Brooklyn, was part of an Oasis Bible Tour group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and visited the Watchtower Educational Center in Putnam County, an Orange County hotel, an Urgent Care Center in Orange County, and Orange Regional Medical Center\u2019s Emergency Department between February 16 \u2013 21, 2018, potentially exposing others to measles. The risk of developing measles is very low, especially for people who have been immunized.\nAnyone who visited the following locations may have been exposed:\nLa Quinta Inn, 31 W. 71st Street, New York, NY, between February 16 and the morning of February 19, 2018.\nOasis Bible Tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, the morning of February 16, and the evening of February 17, 2018.\nWatchtower Educational Center, 100 Watchtower Drive, Patterson, NY, between 12:30 p.m. \u2013 6:30 p.m. on February 19, 2018.\nBest Western Hotel, 1324 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, from February 19 until 12:00 p.m. on February 20, 2018.\nComfort Inn & Suites Goshen \u2013 Middletown, 20 Hatfield Lane, Goshen, NY, from 4:30 p.m. on February 20 until 10:30 a.m. on February 21, 2018.\nExcel Urgent Care, 1 Hatfield Lane, Goshen, NY, between 8:00 a.m. \u2013 11:30 a.m. on February 21, 2018.\nOrange Regional Medical Center, Emergency Department, 707 E. Main Street, Middletown, NY, between 9:00 a.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m. on February 21, 2018.\nThese times reflect the period that the infected individual was in these areas and a two-hour period after the individual left the area, as the virus remains alive in air and on surfaces for up to two hours. This explains the overlap in times.\nThose individuals lacking immunity or who are not sure if they have been vaccinated, should contact their health care provider if they develop measles symptoms. Symptoms include a fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis or runny nose. Symptoms usually appear in 10-12 days after exposure. Individuals who may have been exposed and who lack immunity could begin experiencing symptoms at this time.\nMeasles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus that is spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people. People first develop a fever, then may have a cough, runny nose and watery eyes, followed by appearance of the rash.\nThe single best way to prevent measles is to be vaccinated. Individuals should receive two doses of MMR vaccine to be protected. If a person is unsure if they are immune they should contact their healthcare provider. Typically, the first dose should be given at 12-15 months of age and the second dose should be given at four to six years of age (age of school entry), although individuals may also be vaccinated later in life. In New York State, measles immunization is required of children enrolled in schools, daycare, and pre-kindergarten. Since August 1990, college students have also been required to demonstrate immunity against measles.\nThe state Department of Health will issue a health advisory to health care providers in the metropolitan New York City region to notify them of the potential exposure. Health care providers should report all suspected cases of measles to their local health department.\nMore information about measles can be found at https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/2170.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 132.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthcentral.com/article/childhood-obesity-and-stroke-a-rising-health-crisis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:45Z", "digest": "sha1:TDJ6BC4WPYX2A3I2XYMYAQS4DP3GEDZY", "length": 4739, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.healthcentral.com", "title": "Childhood Obesity and Stroke, A Rising Health Crisis - Childhood Obesity - Obesity | HealthCentral", "raw_content": "https://www.healthcentral.com/article/childhood-obesity-and-stroke-a-rising-health-crisis\nChildhood Obesity and Stroke, A Rising Health Crisis\nAlex Benton began gaining weight when she was seven years old. She was encouraged to partake in a more appropriate and healthful diet and did lose some weight that was gained back. By the age of fourteen, Alex weighed three hundred and twenty pounds.\nBoth Alex and her older sister have had high cholesterol since they were eight years old, and Alex has needed cholesterol medication since she was twelve. By the time she was fourteen years old, doctors were warning Alex about the risk for heart attack and stroke.\nChildhood Obesity Rates are Staggering\nA British newspaper reported that more than 5,500 children under the age of sixteen had been treated for or diagnosed with obesity at hospitals in a five year period. Of that number, forty were babies under the age of one-year-old.\nIt was noted that these numbers reflect only the extreme cases, and public health experts believe that the accurate number for obese children and babies is even higher. Two of the more extreme cases were instance of stroke in a six-year-old child and an eight-year-old child.\nThe United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) has recorded an alarming increase in childhood obesity in the last three decades. Statistics from 1976 to 1980 showed that 6.5% of children ages six to eleven were obese. The percentage had increased to 17% between 2003 and 2006.\nPremature Illnesses As a Result of Childhood Obesity\nObesity among children is increasing risk factors for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Doctors are reporting seeing changes in heart and artery structures in children that normally do not occur until far into adulthood. The result of all this is a higher risk for heart disease and stroke among children.\nHigh cholesterol among children and teenagers has gotten so bad that many doctors are prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications for children.\nIn addition, the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference of 2011, and among the research findings that were reported, is that strokes are occurring with greater frequency for people who are under thirty-five years old. Furthermore, a notable increase for stroke was observed in children ages five to fourteen.\nFighting Childhood Obesity and Stroke\nChildren today spend low to modest periods of time outdoors moving their bodies and exercising. One of the starting points would be to simply have children engage in more physical activity.\nAnother bit of help was discovered in a study where parents selected hypothetical meals from a fast food menu where the calories were posted. The number of calories in the meals that were selected was reduced by 102, lending support to a national menu labeling where parents have access to key information that can lead to better food choices.\nThere are many free calorie counters on the Internet that allow anyone to find out how many calories are in the meals they prepare at home. Online and mobile games that teach kids healthy eating habits also are gaining in popularity.\nMost important, parents must monitor their children to ensure they are consuming the best possible diet and parents should also set an example for wise food choices, exercise, and overall healthy living.\nWhat to read next: Teaching Kids to Eat Healthy Using Games** References:**\nExaminer.com - http://www.examiner.com/article/childhood-obesity-raises-risk-factors-for-heart-attacks-and-stroke-all-by-itself - accessed 8/21/12\nThe Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/strokes-in-children-_b_822530.html - accessed 8/21/12\nThe Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/8570733/Obese-child-stroke-victim-aged-just-six.html - accessed 8/21/12\nWebMD - http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/children-and-heart-disease-whats-wrong-with-this-picture - accessed 8/21/12\nGet more weight loss, fitness, and healthy living ideas:** More shareposts from MyBariatricLife on HealthCentral**** Follow MyBariatricLife on Twitter\nConnect with MyBariatricLife on StumbleUpon**** View my Grains Make Me Fat! recipe cards on Pinterest**\n**** My Story...**\nYou can read about my decision to have weight loss surgery back in 2003, and since that time my journey from processed food junkie to healthy living so as to maintain a lifetime of obesity disease management. My wish is to help you on your own journey of lifetime obesity disease management. Whether you are planning or have had bariatric surgery, or you want to lose weight through non-surgical means, my shareposts along the way will help you to navigate your journey successfully.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthcentral.com/article/the-trouble-with-diet-soda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:27Z", "digest": "sha1:A4DRMRA5JMJDNLEQZOQCCL3SJGGXUCR2", "length": 3618, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.healthcentral.com", "title": "The Trouble with Diet Soda - Meals - Diabetes | HealthCentral", "raw_content": "https://www.healthcentral.com/article/the-trouble-with-diet-soda\nThe Trouble with Diet Soda\nMost of us probably assume that if your only beverage choices were diet or regular soda, the diet variety would be better. After all, drinks made with non-nutritive sweeteners do give us fewer calories.\nBut recent studies indicate that drinking diet soda can lead to our gaining weight. They can raise the A1C levels of those of us who have diabetes. And drinking them is also associated with a greater risk of heart disease.\nParticipants in an eight-year study at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, who drank several cans of diet soda every day were more likely to become overweight or obese than those who drank several regular sodas. Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and her colleagues reported this finding in abstract 1058-P at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.\nAnother study, this one in the Annals of Epidemiology last year, found that adults with diabetes who drank one or more drinks of diet soda per day had A1C levels was 0.7 percent higher than those who drank none. That difference is about what we can expect when we start a good new diabetes medication and take it for a year.\nEven more disturbing is a study this year in the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation. After tracking the health of more than 6,000 middle-aged adults, researchers found that those who drank one or more soft drinks - whether diet or regular - had an increased risk for metabolic syndrome compared with those who didn't drink as many. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, including high blood pressure, too much fat around the middle, and low levels of good cholesterol.\nThe soft drink industry primarily uses aspartame (brand name NutraSweet) in its diet drinks. Diet Rite is the biggest selling non-aspartame diet soda brand. It uses a combination of sucralose and acesulfame potassium.\nHow could these non-nutritive sweeteners possibly be associated with weight gain and the metabolic syndrome? The authors of the Circulation study led by Ravi Dhingra, MD, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, think that the high level of sweetness \"may lead to conditioning for a greater preference for intake of sweetened items.\"\u009d\nThat's controversial. But an even more disturbing mechanism that the authors propose is that, \"The caramel content of both regular and diet drinks may be a potential source of advanced glycation end products, which may promote insulin resistance and can be proinflammatory.\"\u009d I have written several times about the dangers of a high-AGE diet here, especially this article in April.\nThe American Beverage Association, which represents soft-drink companies, was quick to respond to the Circulation study. The organization's president, Susan Neely, maintains that, \"it is scientifically implausible to suggest that diet soft drinks - a beverage that is 99 percent water - cause weight gain or elevated blood pressure.\"\u009d\nMaybe that other 1 percent matters. And researchers may be more objective than lobbyists.\nEven all of these studies together don't prove that diet soda or non-nutritive sweeteners actually is the cause of all of these troubles. They report on an association or correlation.\nBut the evidence against diet soda is mounting. All the more reason to consider other beverages. Like water.\nRead what expert Heater Reese has to say about diabetics drinking soda and juice from her January 2, post.\nSoft drinks and heart problems? Read this article to learn about the connection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthline.com/health/managing-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis/gerd-and-ipf", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:2B7CMTITEHAMIYP76HBW2ST7VIT3Y5MW", "length": 2694, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.healthline.com", "title": "What Does GERD Have to Do with IPF?", "raw_content": "Medically reviewed by Elaine K. Luo, MD on December 19, 2016 \u2014 Written by Marje Hecht\nIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease that causes scarring in your lungs. IPF is strongly associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition where stomach acid flows back into your esophagus. It\u2019s estimated that 90 percent of people with IPF have GERD. GERD is generally considered a risk factor for IPF, but research is ongoing to determine the exact relationship between the two conditions.\nIPF and GERD: So what\u2019s the connection?\nMany theories are being investigated to determine whether GERD is a cause of IPF or whether it worsens lung scarring.\nIt\u2019s thought that GERD may be connected to aspiration of tiny particles of stomach acid into your lungs over time. Some medical researchers think that this microaspiration plays a role in producing scar tissue in your lungs.\nOther investigators suggest that this aspiration may be responsible for the acute episodes that occur in IPF. This study also notes that clinical symptoms of reflux are poor predictors of GERD in people with IPF. The authors recommend that doctors carefully investigate and treat for GERD in these people.\nOther studies have indicated that abnormal acid gastroesophageal reflux occurred in those with IPF, although they didn\u2019t have the usual GERD symptoms.\nThere are two lines of thought on this research concerning people with both IPF and GERD: Some researchers think GERD comes first and causes lung fibrosis. Others think IPF comes first and puts pressure on the esophagus, causing GERD. In any case, more research is necessary to find the cause of IPF and develop effective treatments.\nGERD treatment makes a difference\nNo matter what the cause, it\u2019s clear from recent studies that treating people who have IPF for GERD is beneficial.\nA 2011 study found that people with IPF who used GERD medication had median survival rates about twice as long as those of patients who didn\u2019t use the medication. Also, there was less lung scarring. The study authors caution that more research is needed, and that it\u2019s possible that GERD may develop as a result of IPF.\nA small 2013 study of patients with IPF found that those taking GERD medication had a slower decline in their breathing capability and fewer acute episodes. The authors suggest that GERD is a contributing factor in IPF and that anti-acid therapy may be beneficial.\nIf you have GERD and you have any symptoms for IPF, such as difficulty breathing and a persistent cough, you should ask your doctor to check for IPF. IPF is very rare and difficult to diagnose. But if it\u2019s caught early, you\u2019ll have a better outcome with the disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/herfindahl-hirschman-index-total-assets/bulgaria/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:R5DN2MEMDYZMZM2OCQLHGTETM6QAZWI5", "length": 916, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.helgilibrary.com", "title": "Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (Total Assets) in Bulgaria | Helgi Library", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Indicators \u00bb Banking \u00bb Market Concentration \u00bb Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (Total Assets) \u00bb Bulgaria\nHerfindahl-Hirschman Index (Total Assets) in Bulgaria\nHerfindahl-Hirschman Index measured by total assets reached 0.091 in 2017 in Bulgaria, according to the National Central Bank. This is 3.51 % less than in the previous year.\nHistorically, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index measured by total assets in Bulgaria reached an all time high of 0.380 in 1991 and an all time low of 0.070 in 2005. When compared to Bulgaria's main peers, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index measured by total assets in Greece amounted to 0.231, 0.091 in Romania and 0.081 in Serbia in 2017.\nBulgaria has been ranked 19th within the group of 29 countries we follow in terms of Herfindahl-Hirschman Index measured by total assets, 27 places above the position seen 10 years ago.\nBuy Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (Total Assets) in Bulgaria - annual data", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 327, "original_length": 11278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 154.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hertzler.com/creating-a-data-driven-real-time-problem-solving-culture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JUIHCMFTFDMONII4BMWMQS7U7NYWJO4Q", "length": 2091, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hertzler.com", "title": "Creating a data-driven, real-time, problem-solving culture - Hertzler Systems Inc", "raw_content": "Creating a data-driven, real-time, problem-solving culture\nBy: Evan Miller|Published on: Oct 3, 2018||\nCreating a data-driven, real-time, problem-solving culture can\u2019t be done without a single source of truth.\nBut building a single source of truth does not begin with a technology solution. It starts with gathering key personnel from across the enterprise to create a strategic data vision. It is not a solo effort. You can\u2019t do this on your own, in a vacuum.\nThese key individuals will eventually define the use of this data asset and set appropriate enterprise goals to achieve their objectives. We\u2019ve identified the key roles that need to be engaged. Each brings their discipline-specific preconceptions to the discussions. It is absolutely vital to keep the work at a strategic level for the benefit of the entire enterprise.\nSo who is involved? What do they need? How can you help align people in these key roles?\nBuild a single source of truth, and\nFoster a core competency in real-time data.\nMost leaders today recognize that they need the help of every colleague in the company to answer these questions. So an enabling question is: \u201cHow do we build a culture of problem solving, discipline, and accountability?\u201d\nThese are important questions because a product design that is optimized for manufacturability decreases defects, increases customer satisfaction, and reduces warranty costs\nWho is involved in creating the data-driven, real-time, problem-solving culture in your company? What questions are they responsible for? Are there roles that we\u2019ve missed? How can you foster alignment across your organization?\nIf you\u2019d like to discuss how Hertzler can help your team align to create the data-driven, real-time, problem-solving culture, contact us at sales@hertzler.com, or complete the form here. Our unique design process gathers all parties and fosters new conversations about the shared needs that must be addressed. With everyone aligned around a single source of truth, your team will be positioned to rapidly drive quality improvements, reduce waste and increase profits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hhrjournal.org/2013/09/abstract-the-right-of-children-in-developing-countries-to-be-born-and-live-hiv-free-edit/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NZNL3A32Q4SWHESQC3VATAWLHRVZVBAI", "length": 1728, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hhrjournal.org", "title": "Abstract \u2013 The right of children in developing countries to be born and live HIV-free \u2013 Health and Human Rights Journal", "raw_content": "Abstract \u2013 The right of children in developing countries to be born and live HIV-free\nAgn\u00e8s Binagwaho\nTen years ago, in international public health circles, it was common to suppose that people with HIV in developing countries had no right to life \u2014 although health experts avoided stating the point quite so bluntly. The problem was that survival for those in advanced stages of AIDS depended on their receiving triple therapy with antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) \u2014 a treatment judged too costly for poor people in low-income countries and too complex for them to manage. As a clinician, I remember clearly that, at the time, ARVs were in effect considered so mysterious and sophisticated that it was assumed one had to be an extraordinary specialist to prescribe the drugs and care for the patients taking them. To understand the multiple permutations and interactions of the different classes of ARVs, along with their possible side effects, seemed to constitute a distinct science reserved for initiates. The patients, too, were thought to need unusual discipline \u2014 and an arsenal of timers, watches, and other tools \u2014 to adhere to the complex ARV regimens, which required ingesting a battery of different pills at precisely regulated time intervals. For the therapy to succeed, patients had to be knowledgeable and determined enough to apply their wise doctors\u2019 instructions unfailingly \u2014 a condition that many people imagined most poor Africans would be unable to fulfill.\nPrevious PostPrevious Abstract \u2013 The catalytic synergy of health and human rights: The People\u2019s Health Movement and the Right to Health and Health Care Campaign\nNext PostNext The right of children in developing countries to be born and live HIV-free", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=683", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:I7IKWYEU3HEGHVNYBAKDNIAPXGNYPKXD", "length": 6497, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.hinduismtoday.com", "title": "Ahimsa - Magazine Web Edition December 1989 - Publications - Hinduism Today Magazine", "raw_content": "Saving the World Peace by Peace\nConsider the humble potato. Not much to look at and bland to eat. One would hardly consider these dirt-brown tubers a force for human change. But they may help us learn how to save the world. Let me explain.\nThe wild potato (family Solanaceae) was gathered in South America at least 8,000 years ago and cultivated for the last 2,000. But until the Spanish invaders swept through Peru, led by Francisco Pizarro, it was completely unknown in Europe, Asia or Africa. Ironically, the gold which burdened the returning conquistadors' ship holds was mere pocket change compared to the potato they took back to Europe and which today yields crops worth $120 billion dollars annually in 130 nations.\nAt first there was resistance to the strange thing. Lord Byron gave it bad press when he wrote that it resulted in a loss of sexual passion, and the Scots refused to touch it because it wasn't mentioned in the Bible. Supporters included Sir Walter Raleigh, Catherine the Great and seamen like Captain Cook (the high vitamin C content saved sailors from scurvy). Within two centuries the potato had become one of Europe's major crops. It was hardy, nutritious (Russians call it their \"second bread\"), high-yielding and versatile (in India today a jack-of-all-trades is called alu, potato).\nOnce accepted by the masses, the potato provided the food necessary for the population expansion which drove Europe's Industrial Revolution. Later, in World War II, the victory against Germany was attributed, in part, to the potato, which sustained Soviet citizens and soldiers. It literally changed history and may continue to do so. There is today an ambitious scientific effort on at the Max Planck Institute in West Germany and the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, to \"make the potato a 21st century solution to the world food crisis.\" And there is talk of reviving Henry Ford's failed, but feasible, experiment to use potatoes to make automobile fuels (will OPEC become the Organization of Potato Exporting Countries?).\nWhat the potato is to man's economic, agricultural and nutritional well-being, the concept of nonviolence, ahimsa, is to politics, ecology and cultural freedom. Like the potato, ahimsa is a simple and unpretentious thing. Not fancy like your artichoke.\nI submit that in the concept of nonviolence man has an intellectual tool with which to cope with the current human predicament: war, environmental degradation, hunger, cultural erosion, extinction of species, overpopulation and more. That is a lot to ask of a one principle, but look what the potato hath wrought.\nSanskrit defines ahimsa as: \"doing no harm or damage, abstention from injury to living things, gentleness, non-violation.\" It is a quality of consciousness, a peaceful principle that probes the heart of our humanness. In its most perfected form, it is harmlessness not only on the material plane, but in the realms of emotion, thought and psyche as well. Ahimsa is a restraint, requiring not that we do anything for others, but that we not do anything against them.\nLet's do away with a few misconceptions about ahimsa. It is not passivity, not the way of wimps. Gandhi's freedom fighters demonstrated their immense courage and iron will to prevail against a sometimes brutal foe. Nor is non-injury a rigid dogma which leaves its advocates helpless in the face of danger. One can practice nonviolence and still protect one's nation, family or self. Siva Yogaswami of Sri Lanka (1872-1964) put it correctly: \"It is a sin to kill a tiger in the jungle, but when he enters the village, it becomes your duty.\"\nI said earlier that, like the earthy potato, ahimsa's earth-embracing virtues can help our planetary predicament. It can do this in several ways. First, by changing our fundamental approach to the problem at hand. Hinduism sees a oneness of things. It is not a question of man and his environment, but of a whole which includes man and his environment. As long as the problems are looked at as technologically caused and therefore technologically resolvable, we will simply sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire. The Western-oriented (is that an oxymoron?) problem-solver wants to do something. To prevent war, he wants to erect a space-based deterrent. To handle a growing mountain of toxic and nuclear waste, he wants to bore city-sized caverns or genetically engineer poison-metabolizing microbes. What ahimsa provides is a totally different approach, one which focuses on a change of attitude. Ahimsa is not about doing good, but about not doing harm. Therein lies the real solution.\nThe bedrock of ahimsa is that all life is sacred and intertwined. If we believe this, live it and teach it to others, then there will be no animal abuse, there will be no genocide, there will be no loss of species (for we will protect their right to exist as our own). Strictly speaking, such a principle enjoins us to eat higher on the food chain, for as the Dalai Lama recently noted \"all beings primarily seek peace, comfort and security; life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man.\" All by itself a vegetarian diet widely followed would stop human hunger in its tracks.\nHindus, so familiar with the spiritual ideals of ahimsa, can set the global example by pledging to live a harmless, compassionate life. From this example man may learn not to allow hatred to rule the heart, not to force his will on others, limit their freedoms, destroy their faith. By this one little observance many of the world's social and political tensions could be assuaged.\nI can hear you thinking, \"What kind of pie-in-the-sky fiction is this? Our editor is dreaming. Someone wake him up!\" It's a good point, and many thoughtful people will think thus. But I take heart in two things. One: man has made equally radical changes in the past. Time was when no one dared to sail the open seas for fear of falling off the edge. A few courageous souls ventured into that Great Unknown, changed human perception and ushered in an age of exploration. Ahimsa is no bigger a change than that. Two: man must do something or face human extinction. Fear is a potent motivating force, and it is becoming clear that there is much to fear about the future. Time pointed out a few months back that it is man, not life on earth, that is threatened. Most species will survive anything we can foresee. Homo sapiens may not. As this knowledge gets around, expect change to follow little-by-little, peace by peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 9100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hinesnetwork.com/sudo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XZMN6I2IEIZWUA4RDTJQJ74M2XMTXTSC", "length": 276, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hinesnetwork.com", "title": "Sudo | Hines Network", "raw_content": "sudo is a special command that you can use before any other command in the terminal to temporarily grant root privileges on that command.\nUse extreme caution. The root user has total control. You can seriously damage your operating system if you don\u2019t know what you are doing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.history.org/Experience/Citizenship/?showSite=mobile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QT466GKESHA6O2ZG7VDTNHVANQSUVW2Y", "length": 463, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.history.org", "title": "Citizenship Quiz : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site", "raw_content": "Citizenship Quiz\nBy bringing life to the struggle for freedom, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation illustrates the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship.\nTest your citizenship knowledge here by taking our quizzes. A passing score is six correct answers out of ten randomly-selected questions.\nThese quizzes are adapted from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' new pilot naturalization exam, which can be read in its entirety at www.uscis.gov.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 2482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.history.org/Foundation/magazine/Winter17/LetFreedomRing.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LYRLZWD43IBRWCIP44A7MCZPEU7KB52K", "length": 4132, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.history.org", "title": "The Sound of Freedom : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History & Citizenship Site", "raw_content": "Trend & Tradition : Winter 2017 : The Sound of Freedom\nWilliamsburg church bell rings in African American history museum\nFour generations of the Bonner family, who descend from slaves, joined President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in ringing the Freedom Bell.\n(From left) Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Reginald Davis of First Baptist Church, Dr. Bernard Lafayette and First Baptist Church congregant and trustee Donald Hill rang the Freedom Bell after a Feb. 1, 2016, ceremony that kicked off the Let Freedom Ring Challenge.\nFirst Baptist Church of Williamsburg began as a secret.\nFree and enslaved African Americans gathered \u2014 an illegal act in 1776 \u2014 under a brush arbor at Greenspring Plantation to share in song and prayer.\nWe don't know all of their names. We don't know the full extent of their circumstances. But now the country knows their story as a brave congregation that forged a spiritual path as the Nation's first black Baptist church organized by African Americans, for African Americans.\nPresident Barack Obama's speech at the dedication of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in September placed Williamsburg's First Baptist Church's story in the national spotlight.\nObama then joined first lady Michelle Obama and four generations of a family descended from slaves to mark the museum's opening with the ringing of the church's Freedom Bell. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation helped restore the bell for the historic church's 240th anniversary earlier this year so it could sound for the first time since segregation.\nThe bell's toll at the museum's dedication initiated the peal of church bells throughout Washington, D.C., and across the Nation \u2014 \"an echo of the ringing bells that signaled emancipation more than a century and a half ago; the sound, and the anthem, of American freedom,\" Obama said.\nFirst Baptist Church's story is not just significant African American history. Its formation as Williamsburg's first Baptist church \u2014 one that included white congregants who wished to practice the Baptist faith \u2014 pushed the Colonies closer to the American ideal of religious freedom.\nThree days before the museum's dedication, First Baptist Church and the Foundation hosted a dedication of their own. A bus filled with church congregants and Foundation employees followed the bell from Williamsburg to D.C. to offer a blessing ahead of the ceremony.\nThe church's original leader, the Rev. Gowan Pamphlet \u2014 interpreted in the Historic Area by James Ingram \u2014 joined the Rev. Reginald F. Davis, the current pastor, in a ceremony to bless the bell and honor its connection to the church.\nIngram, as Pamphlet, preached about the importance of what he called \"monuments of remembrance.\" He pointed to landmarks along the National Mall that are visible from the museum's entrance and said learning humanity's story starts with asking \"from whence you came.\"\n\"This bell has become a symbol of remembrance,\" he said. \"When your children ask you what (does) this bell mean, you can tell them it's to ring for the healing of this country, for all the wounds, for all the cries, for all those imprisoned incorrectly, for all those who have been wounded incorrectly, wronged by the system that should be justice, liberty for all.\"\nThe bell dates to 1886, when a women's church group raised money to buy it. Eventually, it fell into disrepair and remained silent for more than 50 years.\n\"The Women's Auxiliary, they had no idea that this bell would take on national prominence, and that's just to say that what we do today will have far-reaching consequences in the future,\" Davis said.\nDavis invited the public to Williamsburg to ring the bell as part of the Let Freedom Ring Challenge, an initiative that began in February 2016 as a statement to confirm a belief in freedom and equality.\n\"We pray and hope that this bell will be a symbol, that it will ring throughout the Nation to remind us that from one blood that God made all nations of people and that God is our God and we are all kin, whether we like it or not,\" Davis said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 7954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hitachi-hightech.com/us/product_detail/?pn=ana-u2900", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PKY5WKINKVXIEV4TBBTUZ5VRXBRN2EPU", "length": 630, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hitachi-hightech.com", "title": "UV-Visible Spectrophotometers | U-2900/U-2910 Double-Beam : Hitachi High Technologies in America", "raw_content": "The U-2900 is a double-beam spectrophotometer offering high performance, ease of use, and reliability. 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Coming shortly after Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun announced a pullout from award shows, Sorrell's high-profile comments preceded a drop in the share price of Cannes Lions owner Ascential, and the announcement of an advisory committee to rethink the Festival's future.\nIn a wide-ranging interview yesterday with the Holmes Report, Sorrell elaborated on his concerns about the Festival, at a time when clients are expecting agencies to \"do more with less.\" He also discussed the progress of his PR firms, the Trump era, the agency collaboration challenge and lessons from emerging market brands.\nYou said in the latest trading update that public relations and public affairs continue to be WPP's strongest sector, as in the first quarter of this year. And in the past you have mentioned data, content and creativity as the three drivers of that. Is that still the case?\nWell we\u2019ve talked about four things. We\u2019ve talked about horizontality, fast-growth markets, digital and data, and around data it\u2019s been technology, data and content. I would say if you go through them, horizontality plays a part, because I think PR agencies \u2014 when we\u2019ve won business through integrated pitches or whatever \u2014 I think they\u2019ve made a difference. So that\u2019s one.\nFast-growth markets, obviously if the markets are quicker, particularly the BRICS and Next 11 \u2014 I mean public relations and public affairs are probably the most developed in the mature markets and therefore, by definition, the growth rates tend to be stronger in the markets that are developing. Digital, obviously they have been impacted by digital and data. And then if you add on technology and content yes, so I think most of those boxes if you like, the public relations, the public affairs area would tick. I mean they\u2019ve benefited from increased use of data, they\u2019ve benefited from increased use of content. So, broadly, yes.\nAnd when we talked a year ago you said that the consumer PR side was more vibrant, along with pharmaceuticals.\nI think that\u2019s probably true. Yes. I think consumer and pharmaceuticals tends to be. Obviously deals, crises, where pricing tends to be a little bit more flexible...I\u2019m trying to find that phrase that they use. Is it dynamic pricing? That\u2019s what they call it, more dynamic pricing.\nIsn\u2019t it surge pricing?\nWell surge pricing is I think what Uber talk about. Dynamic is a politer way of putting it. Dynamic or surge pricing is what we see here at Cannes.\nSo, you wouldn't characterise corporate and financial as underperforming?\nNo, they\u2019ve done well. Finsbury, Hering Schuppener, Glover Park have all done well.\nIs that all driven by deals per se?\nIt's driven by corporate communications, to some extent deals, and crisis.\nHave you seen an impact on your revenues from the uncertain political and economic climate? We haven\u2019t seen, for example, 'Trumponomics' really deliver much.\nWhen I interviewed [News Corp CEO] Robert Thompson he was quite bullish.\nSo were you I think?\nIf and when it\u2019s implemented.\nHave you changed your forecast on Trump?\nWell Robert [Thomson] was saying how important this congressional election was and the fact the Republicans won takes the heat off, and therefore it may be much more important than people think. As a result of that you might get in that amount of tax changes.\nOK. You talked about horizontality and you mentioned that as something that\u2019s benefiting PR firms. Do you find that clients are increasingly wanting to buy their public relations alongside or with their advertising, media and so forth.\nIt varies and I think generally they are looking for better work and more efficiency so probably the answer is yes. But you know it does vary. For every case that you can find where people wanted more integration you could probably find a case where you can make an argument for the opposite. But I think, overall, that people are looking for greater and greater integration of their communications. They want the best people working on their business. They like them to co-locate or to integrate more effectively.\nAnd obviously we\u2019ve seen Ogilvy integrating its brands more, or at least removing the sub-brands.\nWell I think what John [Seifert] found was that they had a multiplicity of brands and he wanted to bring the Ogilvy brand back as one Ogilvy. We've got a one Kantar doing the same, we\u2019re doing the same with WPP Health and Wellness for the first time \u2014 using WPP as a brand name for our healthcare businesses. So that approach of simplification if you want, which I think is important, is becoming more and more important.\nAnd when I interviewed John Seifert he said it was a response to clients. With that in mind could you see perhaps a Cohn & Wolfe, for example, working more closely with a Y&R?\nThat would be up to [Cohn & Wolfe CEO] Donna Imperato at the end of the day to figure out. If she thinks it\u2019s beneficial to her business. But that\u2019s one level. Another level, if a client says I\u2019d like to integrate my advertising and public relations, then Donna \u2014 as an example \u2014 could say, 'well I can do that' and if she can\u2019t achieve it, fine, but more likely she couldn\u2019t. So she has to link up and most of our big pieces of business don\u2019t come in a pure form, if I can call it that, or one dimensional, they are becoming multi-dimensional forms and are linked, integrated.\nSo they require collaboration.\nThe clients want the best people working at their business.\nAnd how hard is it to get good people, the best people, to collaborate?\nI often say the better the people the more difficult it is to get them to cooperate. Good people find it very difficult but there are some exceptional people who do. But maybe good people are insecure and therefore feel they don\u2019t want to depend on [others] or maybe even share the credit. But, increasingly that\u2019s becoming more and more important \u2014 team playing.\nWe\u2019ve got a session with Bob Kraft tomorrow and when you think about what he\u2019s done with the Patriots \u2013 when he took over the Patriots they were nowhere, they hadn\u2019t won anything for many, many years and it almost instantly changed the dynamic and now of course they are phenomenally successful, five Superbowls etc. And if you ask him why he says because everybody plays as a team. When he talks about big companies, quite interestingly, he talks about how they pit functions against one another or regions against one another.\nHow do you encourage that kind of collaboration?\nWell I think we\u2019ve always been market-driven. We do try and encourage it and we have two horizontal integrators. One is at a country level and the other is at a client level. We\u2019ve got 50 or so now and then we cover about half the countries that we operate in, with country managers or regional managers. So you have the verticals and then you\u2019ve got the horizontals. But the best way of encouraging it, I mean our best examples of integration are where the client makes it quite clear that he or she wants it. And that this integration or whatever the opposite of horizontality is, it will not be tolerated.\nJust looking at the acquisition market, are you seeing any particular trends as they relate to acquisitions for your public relations agencies? I think the last time we spoke you mentioned it has tended to favour social media.\nYes I think that\u2019s still the case. Digital, maybe a little bit of data although that\u2019s few and far between. But I think yes, the emphasis being more content-driven, social content-driven.\nYou have also said in the past that you think the PR industry should just be a bit more confident about what it does and I wondered whether you still feel that is the case. Have you noticed a shift at all?\nOh yes, but I think the emphasis on digital and data has made them more confident because they can see that they are progressing well. So, yes I think that has helped, and as they become more integrated or generalist agencies they have felt that they could cope, rightly or wrongly, they felt they could cope more easily with what was being demanded of them.\nDo you think their improved performance in Cannes helps?\nI don\u2019t think it can hurt. It\u2019s either neutral or positive. That\u2019s why I disagree with what Publicis have done. I don\u2019t think you gain anything by boycotting. It\u2019s rather like Havas didn\u2019t gain anything by boycotting YouTube in the UK. If you\u2019ve got a problem of that nature try and work with whoever it is to improve it. So if we think Cannes is not the right place or not doing it in the right way then you should work with Ascential or whoever it is to improve it and get it right and then move on.\nI think Publicis is probably coming here every year and ending up third or fourth or whatever it is. And they\u2019ve unified the brand to a large degree so they should benefit from that, but they\u2019re not getting the benefit. My sense is it was done as a cost reduction move, at least for year.\nI mean there are arguments about Cannes and whether creative awards help sell. I notice the organisers here say there\u2019s a McKinsey study that shows that creative awards help sales \u2014 they finally discovered that. Well we\u2019ve known that for about 25, 30 years.\nYou'd say that's the value of long term branding.\nYes, but that\u2019s not what people are objecting to, they\u2019re objecting to being gouged or ripped off and that they don\u2019t like. But I think to answer your question I think yes, I think it helps the PR industry and it was nice to see the PR agencies winning PR awards, rather than advertising agencies submitting pieces of work with a PR component that gets them into the PR category.\nWhat we have seen this year is now there\u2019s a PR credit and there\u2019s idea creation credit. So it almost feels like they have separated PR from idea creation. How important do you think it is for your PR firms to actually be creating the ideas?\nWell I think there\u2019s always controversy. Whenever one of our PR agencies wins an award and it\u2019s a mixed award they will claim, if they didn\u2019t get sufficient credit, they will claim more credit. We\u2019ve had instances where the PR input of a campaign hasn\u2019t even been acknowledged to the agency. And obviously that is wrong. So when you are splitting the hairs it\u2019s a bit like success has many fathers and failure has none. So if there\u2019s a good idea some people will claim it and it might not be the right person who\u2019s claiming it.\nYou were pretty unequivocal in terms of your views on Cannes yesterday at the FT interview. Do you plan to work with them or talk to them about this?\nWell they\u2019ve not reached out at all other than we have an appointment arranged on Saturday. We\u2019ll see what comes. We\u2019ll see. My view is that they should look at how the festival is run and operated and its scope. I have to say I like the enhanced scope covering healthcare and PR \u2014 there was a time when we didn\u2019t cover PR at all or data, creativity etc...so I like that. Maybe out of self-interest but I do like it.\nThe question in my mind is whether this is the right place, whether it\u2019s structured right and it\u2019s too expensive at a time when we are having to deal as an industry with greater effectiveness and efficiency which means better work. [Unilever CMO] Keith Weed and his interview, you know, more for less. That was the headline. So Cannes should take that motto: more for less. Not less for more.\nWhat do you think the marketing services world can learn from the innovation that you\u2019ve seen from Chinese brands?\nWell you know, whether you just say Chinese brands but it could be Indian brands, it could be Brazilian brands, it could be Russian brands, in those countries they\u2019ve got very broad populations. These populations have been exposed to technological change, whether it be laptops, mobiles, smartphones. So, I think what you\u2019re seeing is these are companies that because of the technological disruption, the pace of change in China, in Japan is enormous.\nThere was an organic shampoo for pregnant women launched in China and it adds sales of RMB7.5bn within 18 months. They move very, very quickly so what you are seeing is smaller brands that are marketed in different ways. Maybe don\u2019t use traditional media at all, use social media, use search, online stuff and then it develops in that way. So totally different approaches. As multinationals have come under pressure, they have pushed zero-based budgeting or in response to activist investors, have been very short term in their focus. [Western MNCs] don't differentiate, necessarily, between markets and so if there\u2019s a plea for cost reduction it affects even the growth markets, and in the growth markets you have the local companies.\nWho have no such pressures.\nThat\u2019s right. And if they are Chinese may take a longer term view. I asked Robert Thomson what he thought about Nikkei and the Financial Times. Basically, they take a longer-term view.\nSo, you\u2019ve got zero-based budgeting, activist investors, technological disruption, driving short-term thinking.\nThe technological disruption is the one that's long term \u2014 it has short term effects obviously, but the other two are much more short term in nature.\nAnd they drive short term thinking on the client side. So, in that climate where clients are looking for more with less, what is the best way to demonstrate the value of marketing and communications\nWell innovation and branding is key but so is integration. I think it comes back to that point. Differentiation. How do you differentiate your offer sufficiently so that it makes a difference when you pitch for business or try and develop a relationship with a client. And, stepping back from it, stressing the importance of innovation and branding. Without that you become a commodity or you can only charge or price at commodity prices.\nBut it\u2019s really to emphasise the importance of innovation and branding and we know from our brand survey that the top 100 brands are outperforming the S&P 500 by 60% over 12 years and there\u2019s no active fund manager who could point to that performance.\nAnd you have said you are seeing commodity prices in some of the big reviews of marketing and communications?\nWhat we\u2019re seeing is people being very aggressive [in their pricing] because they want the Holmes Report to report [the win] \u2014 so you're the problem.\nSurely it\u2019s not our fault.\nNews Cohn & Wolfe Ogilvy Integration Publicis Groupe Cannes Lions Cannes Trump Politics WPP Interviews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 22925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holyredeemerchelsea.com/how-to-support-the-parish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EYBDBJRWC7GSIDC5QDW2DRF3KQNOGSOZ", "length": 2634, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.holyredeemerchelsea.com", "title": "How to support the parish \u2014 Our Most Holy Redeemer & St. Thomas More", "raw_content": "Volunteers are always required to give a little of their time on a Friday or Saturday morning as members of a small team who clean the church. The more volunteers there are, the less frequently you will have to clean! Please apply to the Parish Office.\nVolunteers are asked to assist in the coffee rota for the Ministry of Welcome which provides tea and coffee in the Monckton Room after 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m. masses each Sunday. Please contact the Parish Office if you are able to help with the preparation and tidy up.\nParishioners assist with providing facilities at the Chelsea Methodist Church on the King\u2019s Road, particularly during the winter months. If you wish to help please contact the Parish Office to be put in touch with the parish representative. Donations are also appreciated\nCharitable donations - regular financial support\nAs a registered charity, The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer & St. Thomas More relies heavily on donations to support the varied work of the church. As well as paying towards the usual running costs for the church and rectory, donations are made on parishioners behalf to various local and national charities from the Sunday collections. The Sunday offerings also need to cover any maintenance or improvements which the church needs.\nIt is therefore a considerable help to the parish if we receive regular donations, in addition to or instead of, the offering you make at Sunday mass. There are a number of ways in which you can contribute regularly:\nWeekly numbered envelopes\nBanker\u2019s standing order\nPlease contact the Parish Office if you wish to set up one of these regular payment options or download and print the Direct debit form below and send to the Rectory.\nIf you are making or updating your will, please consider leaving a legacy to the church (Gift Aid Scheme not applicable for this).\nUK tax payers: in addition, if you are a U.K. tax payer, the church can also reclaim the basic tax rate, adding 20% to your donation. In order to avail of this scheme please complete the Gift Aid Scheme form and return it to the Rectory.\nAmerican tax payers: if you pay tax in the USA, you might be interested to know about the American Foundation for Catholics. This has been set up to receive donations of US$250 or more, to make grants available to Catholic parishes (and other Catholic causes) and it enables American taxpayers to make donations that are tax deductible. If you would like to help us to do so please contact Charles Donnington (of the Diocese) on +44 (0)20 7798 9375.\nThank you - The Parish is part of the Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Charity No: 233699.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homedsgn.com/tag/kitchen/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EXSM3CLDZDOT5OUP6VT3UXSSHSP3A2G6", "length": 5062, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.homedsgn.com", "title": "Kitchen Archives - HomeDSGN", "raw_content": "When Cooking is an Art that We Enjoy\nCooking is definitely an art and this space has been designed for those who revel in the pleasure of cooking. The space looks to bring to life the concept of a free kitchen that brings together lovers of good food, becoming the throne of a large, versatile, and functional space with an air of lightness. The one in charge of this project, carried out recently, has been W4 Arquitetura Criativa under the direction of its professionals Camila Pigatto, Fernanda S\u00e1, and Laura Tavares.\nKitchen area with space for relaxation\nIt has an area of 35 square meters and is located in Tr\u00eas Figueiras, Porto Alegre, Brazil. As a sustainable solution, the iron mesh of rods in the wall serves as a custom mural in the space and is reused from the construction phase, avoiding its elimination and the waste of material. The wall with vertical garden is made with recycled cloth bags.\nSmall corner of rest\nAnother element considered sustainable is the presence of an orchard that serves as raw material for the preparation of the chef\u2019s dishes in the workshop space, using organic spices from direct sowing.\nKitchen table with accessories\nRecycled wall grille\nVertical garden area\nUrban Residence with Wonderful Views\nThis small urban residence is located in Seattle, United States and is a clear example of what is possible to achieve by looking at these forgotten landscapes as new opportunities.\nThe architectural firm The Miller Hull Partnership understood it this way and took advantage of the space and its landscape converting this space of 800 ft2 (20 feet wide by 40 feet long) into what it is today.\nLiving room with wonderful views\nThis unique space provides the opportunity to re-imagine how people can reconnect with water in areas where the scale of ubiquitous industrial structures tends to break that relationship. With similar industrial warehouses lined up on many urban water fronts, there is the possibility of reconnecting people with navigable waterways, even in industrialized environments.\nLiving room with libraries\nLocated at the top of a warehouse larger than a football field, the unit is near the edge of the building to supervise the marina and the waterway below, while enjoying panoramic views of the Olympic Range.\nCarried out in 2008 one of its main attractions remains its views.\nThis modest house was built in 1911 with blocks of stones resulting from the excavation of the ground for the railway. It was originally thought to be inhabited by the workers of the construction of the railway in the town of Montreux, Switzerland.\nIn 2014, this 260 square meter project was remodeled by the firm Ralph Germann architectes. The space, located on a sloping slope, offers a breathtaking view of the Alps, Lake Geneva and the Riviera.\nEntrance with glass and wood door\nThe renovation of the building by the architect Ralph Germann shows visible signs of the transformation in the exterior facades. Completely empty, the building maintained its original design, the central staircase with its walnut and wrought iron fence. This construction that originally housed three apartments was opened to unite all the floors of the house, now concentrated into a single home.\nSmall lounge area in neutral colors\nTo strengthen the link between the levels, the architect came up with a creative solution. The load-bearing walls on the staircase were opened to insert open concrete elements, built at the site from molds. Responding to the demands of thermal and acoustic insulation, the creation of these concrete openings proved to be a very effective solution. Heat, light, and sound pass through, allowing family members to communicate from one floor to another. In addition, these cavities also serve as storage spaces.\nLiving room sharing spaces\nThis charming house with cozy and wood-covered spaces was designed, in 2012, by the architect Knut Hjeltnes, from the architectural firm Knut Hjeltnes.\nView of the front of the house\nIt is located in Sandefjord, Norway and has an area of \u200b\u200b250 square meters. It is located on the upper part of the Vester\u00f8ya peninsula, with views of the fjord to the east and west. The site is steep and was considered unbuildable; it had been vacant for 20 years. It is very wet and windy due to the location, so special care must be taken with the outer later of the house.\nMain entrance with modern design\nTerrace with modern details\nDining area with circular window\nSmall and functional kitchen in wood\nThe lower part of the house is concrete, while the upper part is a prefabricated solid wood construction, with the interior skin visible in aspen.\nBetween these two parts, a vacuum is produced that contains the entrance and the garage (which functions as a covered outdoor summer living room). The exterior of the wooden construction is completely covered with fiber cement cladding.\nStairs covered with wood\nRoom with circular window\nAerial stairs in thick wood\nBlackpool House by Glamuzina Paterson Architects\nPenthouse in Belgrade by Gradnja\nGraham House by E. Cobb Architects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1019, "original_length": 41026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homeschoolmath.net/interactives/unit_fractions.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:25Z", "digest": "sha1:VTVIDEB67SIFL7GDH2TPL6QYXQQGSAIZ", "length": 885, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.homeschoolmath.net", "title": "Interactive unit fractions", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u2192 Interactives \u2192 Unit fractions\nWith this interactive tool, you can visualize and explore unit fractions in comparison to a unit square (one whole). Children (or the teacher) can drag unit fraction pieces (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/9, 1,10, 1/12, 1,16, and 1/20) onto a square that represents one whole. You can see that, for example, 6 pieces of 1/6 fit into one whole, or that 3 pieces of 1/9 are equal to 1/3, or many other similar relationships.\nAsk students, for example, to fill the unit square using some 1/5, some 1/20, and some 1/10 pieces, and write an addition sentence to match what they did.\nOr ask them to find what kind of pieces, and how many of them, fill the 1/3 piece. They can once again write an addition sentence from their work, such as 1/9 + 1/9 + 1/9 = 1/3.\nFree worksheets for comparing fractions\nFree worksheets for fraction addition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hooklawcenter.com/newsletter/news-2012/changing-ones-domicile-more-complicated-than-you-think-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2IU7TXJOGKAC566TAQ4LCIP4DZKHHW3O", "length": 5030, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hooklawcenter.com", "title": "Changing One's Domicile -- More Complicated Than You Think | Hook Law Center", "raw_content": "Changing One's Domicile \u2014 More Complicated Than You Think\nYou might think that changing one\u2019s domicile would be a simple thing to do. However, if you think you are going to fool the IRS with living half the time in one state and half the time in another state, think again. The IRS has had plenty of experience with people who try to mix the advantages of living in two different states. So what must be done to change one\u2019s domicile? It can vary from state to state, so it probably would be helpful to start with a definition of domicile. Black\u2019s Law Dictionary defines domicile as: \u201cThe place at which a person has been physically present and that the person regards as home; a person\u2019s true, fixed, principal, and permanent home, to which that person intends to return and remain even though currently residing elsewhere.\u201d\nProbably, the best advice for anyone contemplating changing their domicile is: be consistent about your records. Make sure if you change your driver\u2019s license, place of voting, etc. that you also file your tax return from the state that you are claiming as your domicile. The IRS or the state in question will look at inconsistencies such as this. It is also recommended that you disengage, as much as possible, from the previous state by resigning from club memberships, obtaining a healthcare provider in the new state, and opening bank accounts in the new state. This is the level of consistency that will be necessary to establish domicile from one state to another. It is called establishing \u201cone\u2019s center of affairs\u201d vs. \u201cdocumentary evidence.\u201d (Francis B. Brogan, Jr and Brandon A. S. Ross, \u201cChanging State of Domicile Is Easier Said Than Done, Estate Planning, July 2012.)\nWhile this may seem absurd, there are court cases in which these very things were not done. For example, there is an Illinois case in which someone tried to establish Florida residency. Although he continued to work in Illinois, he did own a condominium in Florida. When he filed his federal tax return, however, he used his Illinois address. Also, when registering for a Florida driver\u2019s license and registering to vote, he used his parents\u2019 address in Florida, rather than the address of his condominium. Not surprisingly, the Illinois Department of Revenue found contradictory evidence for someone trying to change his state of domicile. It was ruled that he was an Illinois domiciliary. (Brogan and Ross, see above)\nSo in deciding whether or not to change one\u2019s state of domicile, one may want to consult an Elder Law Attorney to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of such a move. States such as Florida and Virginia do offer the benefit of permitting an irrevocable trust to be decanted into another trust. This allows assets from an irrevocable trust that is no longer working as intended to be transferred to an existing or new trust. Florida, however, does not recognize same-sex marriage. States like Massachusetts and New York do. In Florida, then, one of the partners in a same-sex couple would not be able to serve as a personal representative of their partner\u2019s estate after the spouse\u2019s death. (Brogan and Ross, see above) Some states have income or death taxes, while others do not. In conclusion, one should carefully weigh the costs and benefits of moving to a new state, especially toward the end of life.\nHook Law Center: Kit Kat, are chocolate and onions poisonous to pets?\nKit Kat: Well, yes, but it also depends on the amount eaten and the size of the animal. Let\u2019s start with chocolate. According to Dr. Brutlag of the Pet Poison Helpline, chocolate has a chemical called theobromine, that dogs and cats can\u2019t tolerate as well as humans. It probably won\u2019t kill them, but it can cause them to become very agitated, active, and pant a lot. If a large quantity (2-3 ounces of baking chocolate, for example) is ingested, they could even suffer a heart attack or have a seizure. Also, dark chocolate is worse than milk chocolate for pets. It has more theobromine; therefore, it is more poisonous. Now we cats don\u2019t seem to be interested in chocolate, so they usually don\u2019t have a problem with it. (Catherine Price, \u201cWhat\u2019s Going on Inside your Pet\u2019s Head?\u201d Parade Magazine, July 8, 2012)\nAs far as onions and their plant relatives of garlic, leeks, and chives, these are highly poisonous to pets, especially cats. Cats like to chew on plants and grass, and so they think the onions, etc. are just as harmless. And it doesn\u2019t matter whether the onions, etc. are fresh, frozen, cooked, or freeze-dried. They\u2019re equally poisonous. What these foods do is harm the animal\u2019s red blood cells. A sign that the cat may have eaten one of these inappropriate foods is that the cat will become extremely lethargic for 1-3 days. At worst, the cat could even need a blood transfusion. (Price, see above)\nSo watch your pets carefully! Like a child, they need to be supervised. Remember not to leave any of these foods out where they can get them.\n\u201cLike\u201d Hook Law Center on Facebook for a chance to win great prizes!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 187.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/conditions_treatments/conditions/supraventricular_tachycardia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UACAODKNNJ7LAA7SJGK4LLYNKOTGEMIO", "length": 1391, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.hopkinsmedicine.org", "title": "Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)", "raw_content": "Home > Heart & Vascular Institute > Conditions & Treatments > Conditions\nPhysicians who treat this condition\nAn arrhythmia is an abnormality in the timing or pattern of the heartbeat. Arrhythmias may cause the heart to beat too rapidly, too slowly, or irregularly. They are common and may cause a wide variety of symptoms, such as a racing, skipping or fluttering sensation (called palpitations) in your chest.\nCardiac arrhythmias also may cause light-headedness, fainting, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or no symptoms at all. Many types of arrhythmia are merely nuisances, other types may be serious problems because they cause the patient to develop heart failure, pass out or even die suddenly when the heart beats too slowly or too rapidly to pump blood to the body.\nSupraventricular tachycardia is a series of rapid heartbeats that begin in or involve the upper chambers (atria) of the heart. SVT can cause the heart to beat very rapidly or erratically. As a result, the heart may beat inefficiently, and the body may receive an inadequate blood supply. There are three major types of SVT including:\nAtrial Flutter & Atrial Tachycardia\nPhysicians Who Treat This Condition:\nAshikaga, Hiroshi, M.D., Ph.D.\nBerger, Ronald David, M.D., Ph.D.\nCalkins, Hugh Grosvenor, M.D.\nMarine, Joseph Edward, M.D.\nMeyerson, David A, J.D., M.D.\nSinha, Sunil Kumar, M.D.\nWeiss, James Lloyd, M.D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hospitalityireland.com/murrays-bar-kilmainham-dublin-8-hits-market/61977", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JB3PG7B34JAD7QWUNH53JNY76IV2MBFJ", "length": 729, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hospitalityireland.com", "title": "Murray's Bar Of Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Hits The Market | Hospitality Ireland", "raw_content": "Murray's Bar Of Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Hits The Market\nPublished on Jul 5 2018 10:54 AM in Pub/Bar/Nightclub tagged: Trending Posts / Murray's Bar / Kilmainham\nMurray's Bar of Kilmainham in Dublin 8 has hit the market with a guiding price of \u20ac700,000 from property consultants Morrissey's.\nAs reported by The Irish Independent, Murray's is located in close proximity to a number of well-known tourist attractions, including the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Kilmainham Gaol, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery.\nThe 210 square metre property features a ground floor bar and lounge as well as storage space in the basement, and it is currently the only licensed premises in the centre of Kilmainham.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 123.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.howdesignlive.com/speakers/buddy-scalera", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:HIOKQ34USEGYLXKHLBLJLEPAQ7VU354S", "length": 366, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.howdesignlive.com", "title": "Buddy Scalera", "raw_content": "Buddy Scalera is a content strategist and marketer by day. By night, he is a comic book creator and educator with credits at Marvel Comics, including Deadpool and Weapon X. He's published six books on the craft and business of comic book storytelling. He teaches educational panels at comic book conventions, including New York Comicon, C2E2, and Long Beach Comicon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.howtokickheroin.com/mexican-drug-violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MI4VA4XK56EHJSEMSWTQQTA72SWGL2FY", "length": 4813, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.howtokickheroin.com", "title": "Mexico's Drug Cartel Violence", "raw_content": "What Motivates Drug Cartel Violence?\nTransportation routes leading to the US/Mexico border, control of border towns and plain old greed account for most of the drug related murders between competing drug cartels. Unfortunately, many of those murders involve innocent civilians. In the hearts and minds of Mexico\u2019s narco-terrorists, these innocent bystanders are just collateral damage.\nWhen Did Mexico\u2019s Drug Cartel Violence Begin?\nMexican drug cartel violence began in 2004 at the Mexico/US border city of Nuevo Laredo, when the Gulf and Los Zetas cartels fought off the Sinaloa Cartel. Since 2004 more than 200,000 Mexicans have been murdered and many, if not most, are directly linked to drug cartel violence.\nWhen Did The Mexican Government\u2019s Drug War Begin?\nIn 2006, the Mexican military began its \u201cDrug War\u201d against the drug cartels. Simultaneously, the drug cartels have been fighting each other for control of various territories, especially smuggling routes near the U.S./Mexico border.\nAs of August 1st, 2017, there are possibly only 4 major drug cartels operating in Mexico. The first and most powerful, is the Sinaloa cartel. The second is the Jalisco New Generation, which is an off-shoot of the Sinaloa cartel. The third is the Juarez cartel and the fourth is the Gulf cartel. All four have either effectively infiltrated the Mexican government, military and local police, or intimidated them, thereby giving them the dominant positions.\nThe Sinaloa cartel is the largest Mexican drug cartel. It is responsible for approximately 50% of the drugs entering the United States from Mexico. Sinaloa is headed by Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman, who is currently in jail awaiting trial in the United States. He is charged in Federal Court with operating a continuing criminal enterprise, including murder conspiracy, other drug-related crimes, money-laundering and the use of firearms. The Sinaloa cartel is now believed to be headed by its new boss, the reclusive Ismael Zambada Garcia a.k.a. \u201cEl Mayo.\u201d Shown Below and to the Right\nJalisco New Generation\nThe Jalisco New Generation Cartel or CJNG for C\u00e1rtel de Jalisco Nueva Generaci\u00f3n, also knows as Los Torcidos, is the fastest growing drug cartel in Mexico. It is led by \u201cEl Mencho\u201d as shown below with his trademark skinny mustache. The CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel have been at war since the CJNG kidnapped El Chapo Guzman\u2019s son \u201cJesus Alfredo Guzm\u00e1n Salazar\u201d in Puerto Vallarta back in 2016.\nThe CJNG is quickly becoming the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico. Which may mean that the Mexican government has given El Mencho its blessing. There are other reports that suggest the CJNG is aligning with the Juarez cartel or at the very least with large parts of the Juarez cartel\u2019s organization. Other reports suggest the CJNG is gobbling up many of the smaller cartels like the C\u00e1rtel de Los Cuinis in Chihuahua. It seems as though the CJNG is setting up future smuggling routes and is willing and able to kill anyone who does not align with the CJNG or dares get in its way.\nOn March 27th, 2017, Edgar Veytia (shown below), 46, the acting Attorney General of Nayarit Mexico, was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego and placed under federal indictment for smuggling heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine for the CJNG into the United States since 2013 \u2014 the same year that Veytia became the Attorney General of Nayarit State. Edgar Veytia\u2019s arrest is the just the latest sign of continued government collusion with drug cartels.\nThe Juarez Cartel smuggles tons of narcotics from Mexico into the U.S. The Juarez cartel has been at war with its rival, the Sinaloa Cartel, since 2004. The Juarez cartel is also one of several drug smuggling organizations that decapitate their rivals, and mutilate their corpses. Today the Juarez cartel is operating under its new name, the Nuevo Cartel de Ju\u00e1rez, which implies it\u2019s now working for or alongside the CJNG.\nThe Gulf Cartel a.k.a. Cartel del Golfo\nThe Gulf Cartel is based in Matamoros, Mexico. It is one of Mexico\u2019s two dominant drug cartels, the other being the Sinaloa cartel. In the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel hired a private mercenary army called Los Zetas, but in February 2010, Los Zetas separated from The Gulf Cartel and both groups began engaging in widespread violence across several border cities near Texas.\nLos Zetas are a Mexican drug cartel and crime syndicate operating just south of the Texas border. They formed when commandos from Mexico\u2019s military deserted and went to work for the Gulf Cartel, but they split from them in February 2010. Los Zetas are believed to be the first to use narco-terrorism within Mexico. On September 15th, 2008 grenades were thrown into a crowd celebrating independence day in Morelia\u2019s town square. Los Zetas are also known for burning people alive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hr.utah.edu/comp/jobcodetable.php?action=view&jobcode=0147&pagenumber=0&lastpage=lastpage&itemsperpage=5000&sortorder=PSTitle%20DESC&search=&searchfield=Title", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:34Z", "digest": "sha1:A4S74BFDJ33KFCDVYYMTXTEZTIQXV4P5", "length": 489, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hr.utah.edu", "title": "University of Utah - Human Resources", "raw_content": "Provide primary care and treatment to a group of patients in a clinic or hospital unit.\nLicensure to practice as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Utah. Nationally certified as a Nurse Practitioner as required under State Law. Certification in ACLS/BLS/NRP/ATLS may be required by your department or by privileging criteria. Demonstrated clinical competence and in-depth knowledge of specialty area; and demonstrated leadership, teaching, research and communication skills are required.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hts.com.pl/en/promo/mitsubishi-przedluza-promocje-multi-split-serii-m-mxz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NCTHJJEG4Q2E7KNX2SVCQWKMA62BARW5", "length": 405, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hts.com.pl", "title": "Mitsubishi extends the sale for Multi Split Series M - MXZ - HTS", "raw_content": "Mitsubishi extends the sale for Multi Split Series M \u2013 MXZ\nThe manufacturer announced the extension of the validity of the \u201cTime for Multi Split\u201d promotion.\nThe sale will last until the end of September 2017.\nWe would like to remind you that as part of the promotion, depending on the model you purchased, you can receive one or two SF25 internal devices for 1 EURO.\nFor more contact our sales department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mary-biles1/child-cannabis-epilepsy_b_13125246.html?ec_carp=3327624235946978463", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TFNDPH4LQ577FJ6ZVSMGRGMLMTYPPPOP", "length": 7655, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.co.uk", "title": "When Is It OK To Give Children Cannabis? | HuffPost UK", "raw_content": "When Is It OK To Give Children Cannabis?\nVera Twomey-Barry, mother of 6-year-old Ava who, who due to a rare genetic condition called Dravet Syndrome, suffers from as many as 20 epileptic seizures a day, decided to march the 300km to Dublin from her home in Cork.\nMary Biles Writer and Journalist\nCannabis is very much in the news at the moment. This week a cross party group of MPs have called for cannabis to be legalised in Britain, in the US almost 25% of Americans can now access medical cannabis after several more states passed its use in the recent elections, and in the Republic of Ireland, the mother of a seriously ill child decided to walk to Dublin to demand a change in the country's legal position on the use of medical cannabis for children.\nVera Twomey-Barry, mother of 6-year-old Ava who, who due to a rare genetic condition called Dravet Syndrome, suffers from as many as 20 epileptic seizures a day, decided to march the 300km to Dublin from her home in Cork. Her objective: a meeting with Health Minister Simon Harris to demand a change in the Irish government's current stance, which views cannabis as having no therapeutic benefit and cannot therefore be prescribed by doctors.\nAva prior to taking Cannabis oil - image courtesy of the Twomey-Barry family\nJust last December, after 18 consecutive seizures in close succession, Ava suffered a heart attack and had to be rushed to hospital. After trying every medication available, doctors eventually told Ava's parents they could do no more, and sent her home.\nParents Turn to Cannabis as Last Hope\nBut like any desperate mother in the modern age, Vera took to the internet. One treatment option they hadn't tried before kept coming up: cannabis oil, or to be more precise a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis called Cannabidiol (CBD).\nThere have been some high profile cases of children reducing their fits from 300 times a week to almost zero after taking CBD, such as Charlotte Figi in the United states and Katelyn Lambert in Australia.\nNot Enough Clinical Evidence\nDespite the anecdotal reports and current research, giving CBD to children with epilepsy is still outside mainstream medicine in most countries, with a recent study into CBD for treatment-resistant epilepsy showing adverse effects such as sleepiness, diarrhoea and lack of appetite, and very little known about the long term effects.\nBut with no more treatment options available, Vera and her husband decided to try what seemed like their one remaining hope.\n\"I was completely terrified, of course,\" says Vera. \"Even though I'd researched medical cannabis for the last 4 years. This is my little girl\".\nSince starting with the CBD oil in September, Ava's seizures have reduced by roughly 80%. But not only that, she seems like a different child.\nAva (centre) with her mum and siblings - image courtesy of Twomey-Barry family\n\"She was standing up straighter,\" recalls Vera, \"she was making more eye contact and the next thing in a family joke, Ava's giggling just like the other kids. She had never laughed like that before.\n\"She's so much better. We're seeing another side of Ava. We always knew she was beautiful and wonderful, but she's just able to put her point across a little bit more.\"\nWhile CBD is available as a health food supplement in Ireland and also currently in the UK, Vera thinks that doctors should be allowed to prescribe it.\n\"The law needs to be altered to allow them to prescribe it,\" she says, \"One neurologist even said to me off the record, if it were his child and he was in my situation, he'd be giving it to them.\"\nVera isn't just campaigning for the medical use of CBD, but also Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). \"We want a product allowed that's got both CBD and THC, because a lot of people believe that you need the THC part to work more efficiently with the CBD part of the plant.\"\nBut this is where things get a bit more controversial, as THC is the compound in cannabis that creates the feeling of being high, and as a result is classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Studies suggest that THC can in fact be damaging to the adolescent brain, with persistent use bringing about neuropsychological decline. There is next to no information about the effects of prolongued THC use on children.\nTHC and Autism\nIn certain childhood illnesses however, anecdotal reports indicate that cannabis oil containing THC can be an effective treatment. One such condition is autism.\nSo far there are no clinical trials proving cannabis can improve the symptoms associated with the disorder, but by chance mother Mieko Hester-Perez discovered it helped her severely autistic son Joey's behaviour when he was prescribed cannabis for extreme weight loss.\n\"When you're a parent of a child with autism, you have very simple goals and one of my goals was just to see my son smile\", says Mieko. \"Joey started interacting with other people. He doesn't speak, but he now has a joking personality, something we hadn't seen before.\"\nImage courtesy of Mieko Hester-Perez\nMieko found that a high THC strain worked best for Joey, eventually collaborating with some cultivators in California to create a special variety for children with autism called 'Joey's Strain'.\nShe is aware that many people feel strongly against treating a child with a psychoactive drug, but remains undeterred. \"The only people who are against THC, don't have a child diagnosed with autism. Until you've walked in our shoes, your opinion will fall on deaf ears when it comes to how to take care of our children\".\nCannabis and Childhood Cancer\nCases of parents giving cannabis oil containing THC to their children with cancer have also provoked public debate. 3-year-old Landon Riddle's mother Wendy decided to move to Colorado in order to give her son cannabis, when he was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia. Giving him an oil with both THC and CBD, she said, \"I think that the chemo in combination with the cannabis did put him into remission and now the cannabis will keep him there.\"\nLandon's doctor, Dr. Margaret Gedde in an interview with CNN admitted, \"when you look at children who go through that same course of treatment and compare Landon to them, it seems like he's doing better than what would be expected.\" To this date Landon continues to be in remission and still takes cannabis oil.\nOpponents of the legalisation of medical cannabis say that there aren't sufficient clinical trials to prove its efficacy and the UK government continues to classify cannabis as a schedule 1 drug with no therapeutic benefit. The non-psychoactive component CBD has however recently been recognised as a medicine and is currently under review by the UK Medical Healthcare Regulatory Agency.\nIn the meantime, there are positive signs for Ava's case as Health Minister Simon Harris has granted the possibility of an individual exemption, pending an assessment by a doctor and the issue of a special license.\nThe minister has also agreed to review Ireland's policy on medicinal cannabis, stating, \"I know that many patients believe cannabis should be a treatment option for their medical condition. However, cannabis is not currently an authorised medicine and has not gone through the normal regulatory procedures for medicines which are designed to protect patients and ensure treatments are supported by good evidence of their effectiveness.\"\nTo find out more about Vera Twomey-Barry's campaign to change the status of medical cannabis in Ireland please visit Change.org\nMORE: cannabis medical marijuana medical cannabis cannabis and kids cannabis-and-children vera twomey-barry Mieko Hester-Perez cannabidiol epilepsy autism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 10970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jim-shon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LMM7XHL6BZ36KZBA5LEBTUAGKSA52YI5", "length": 607, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Jim Shon | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Director, Hawai\u2018i Educational Policy Center\nDr. Jim Shon is the Director of the Hawai\u2018i Educational Policy Center at the University of Hawai\u2018i at Manoa. Dr. Shon holds a B.A. in Music Education and a Ph.D. in Political Science.\nHe taught English in the Peace Corps, worked on state programs to promote alternative energy and marine affairs, and served as a Hawai\u2018i state legislator. Additionally, Dr. Shon developed curriculum at the University of Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Curriculum Research & Development Group, conducted policy research, and served as the Executive Director of the Charter School Administrative Office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 70.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-half-marathon-championships/news/worlds-best-10k-karoki-wacera", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RPUZ5VWJZWJ2FN7W6VHNIFFNA7UKZXR2", "length": 3985, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.iaaf.org", "title": "World\u2019s Best 10K Karoki Wacera | iaaf.org", "raw_content": "Bedan Karoki beating Leonard Barsoton at the 2016 World's Best 10K (Organisers) \u00a9 Copyright\n28 FEB 2016 Report San Juan, Puerto Rico\nKaroki and Wacera regain World\u2019s Best 10K titles in San Juan\nBedan Karoki and Mary Wacera warmed up for next month\u2019s IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon Championships Cardiff 2016 with wins at the World\u2019s Best 10K, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan on Sunday (28).\nThe Kenyan pair, who both won in 2014, each prevailed in two of the closest finishes in the history of the race, held for the first time in the morning with the gun going at 7:00am local time rather than the usual late afternoon start until 2015.\nA large group of African runners, fronted by Titus Kipchumba, led the proceedings in the men\u2019s race, going through the first 5km in 13:55.\nFive-time winner and defending champion Sammy Kitwara initially stayed in the large leading pack, but then lost contact with the leaders about 20 minutes into the race and soon afterwards dropped out.\nBut Karoki always featured in the lead group. With the pace suggesting a winning time under 28 minutes, the pack began to shrink over the final three kilometres.\nInto the last kilometre, three men were still in contention: Karoki, Leonard Barsoton and 2015 world leader Stephen Sambu, who finished third in 2015.\nBarsoton tried to break away with less than 500 metres to go but Karoki found an extra gear in the sprint finish to overtake him and prevail in a photo finish. Both were men were timed at 27:42, the fastest time in the Puerto Rican race since 2011.\n\"I am very happy,\" said Karoki. \"I was not really expecting to win such a tough race, but I'm very happy for the win. This year, there was so much wind, the humidity remains high, but the difference is the wind. The competition was rather hard. There are many strong runners, I know them all and knew I had to run very hard to win.\"\nSambu repeated his third place finish with 27:48, ahead of Philip Langat and 2015 runner-up John Mwangangi, who were fourth and fifth respectively and both given 28:00.\nIn the women\u2019s race, the duel was between the champions from the past two editions: Ethiopia\u2019s defending champion Belaynesh Oljira and Wacera, the latter wanting to bounce back from her disappointing seventh-place finish last year.\nThe pair were part of a nine-woman group that passed 3km in 9:12, sub 31-minute pace. The rhythm eventually settled down slightly, which allowed Canadian marathon record-holder Lanni Marchant to move to the front, followed by eight African women.\nAs the race progressed, the lead group shrank to six women and it was only in the last 500m that Wacera found an extra gear to secure victory in 31:48, two seconds ahead of Oljira.\n\"Obviously it feels good,\" said Wacera. \"It's really good, I feel happy. The competition was tough, but I was in good condition. Running here is always difficult because the weather is very hot, but I came for the victory and I got it.\"\nVeronica Nyuarai finished third in 31:55, one second ahead of fellow Kenyan Linet Masai.\nMerchant eventually finished eighth in 32:15 but her performance led Canada to win the inaugural NACAC Road Race Cup, together with Geoff Martinson who was 11th in the men\u2019s race.\nBeverly Ramos got almost as a big an ovation as Wacera as the Puerto Rican finished 10th in a national record of 33:19.\nJavier Clavelo Robinson for the IAAF\n29 FEB 2016 Iaaf News Merthyr runners get ready for IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\n25 FEB 2016 General News History\u2019s top IAAF World Half Marathon Championships performers\nBedan Karoki beating Leonard Barsoton at the 2016 World's Best 10K (Organisers) \u00a9 Copyright\nMary Wacera winning the World's Best 10K (Organisers) \u00a9 Copyright\n01 MAR 2015 Kitwara wins fifth World's Best 10K title in San Juan\n24 FEB 2014 Kenyan double for Karoki and Wacera at World\u2019s Best 10K\n24 FEB 2013 Kitwara takes fourth title, Chepkirui completes Kenyan double at World\u2019s Best 10K", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iamtheagent.com/property-for-sale/Scotland/angus/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DEJG7ICOGCVQVJCJCTNH22VINVYZR5HQ", "length": 328, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.iamtheagent.com", "title": "Help", "raw_content": "You are browsing property for sale in Angus, Scotland.\nDunmore Street, Dundee\nThis two bedroom end terraced villa enjoys a good location in a popular residential area, within easy reach of local amenities including schools, shops, public transport and leisure facilities, the property is in excellent condition order throughout.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iamtheagent.com/property-for-sale/Scotland/clackmannanshire/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HWM6SKN6WWCT4HZEAMIVCQQCNMU3KPVX", "length": 65, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.iamtheagent.com", "title": "Help", "raw_content": "You are browsing property for sale in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 71.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.icqpodcast.com/news/2013/2/10/vk-mini-contest-university-ready-to-go", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:22Z", "digest": "sha1:SHNNSEBSLZSD3OY4IEQGGMLTYMBFAGE6", "length": 864, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.icqpodcast.com", "title": "VK Mini Contest University ready to go \u2014 ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast", "raw_content": "VK Mini Contest University ready to go\nThe New South Wales Australia - Central Coast Amateur Radio Club's Mini Contest University at Wyong is fully arranged for Saturday the 23rd February 2013, preceding the largest assembly of Radio Amateurs in the southern hemisphere, the CCARC Field Day at Wyong the following day, Sunday 24th February 2013.\nThe venue is booked, the equipment arranged, a full program of lectures in place and even the location of the Field Day and Mini Contest University dinner set.\nThe flow of attendee registrations has been very encouraging but there is still room for a few more however only those who register before the end of January will be entered into the prize draw for the DX handbook.\nHow to register and full details about the MCU can be found - http://www.fieldday.org.au/contest_university\nAustralia\u2019s first amateur satellite", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ieb-eib.org/fr/document/the-freezing-implantation-and-adoption-of-embryos-86.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TFGKBHU3BP6IDTT7QOT4LXULOFBY3IFQ", "length": 1403, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ieb-eib.org", "title": "The Freezing, Implantation, and Adoption of Embryos - Institut Europ\u00e9en de Bio\u00e9thique", "raw_content": "The Freezing, Implantation, and Adoption of Embryos\nIs it acceptable to freeze human embryos?\nWe began freezing human embryos in order to augment the efficiency of the diverse methods of medically assisted reproduction. In this way we do not have to \u2018oblige\u2019 women to be subjected to repeated ovary sampling, either in the case where a first implantation is not successful or when a new fertilization is desired.\nIf we consider these embryonic cells as merely biological material or a potential embryo, freezing only poses technical or juridical problems (e.g., to whom belong these embryos entrusted to the clinic, abandoned or forgotten in a hospital?). On the other hand, if we consider that it is necessary to respect the human being from its conception, then freezing an embryo is unacceptable. It is morally illicit.\nIn fact, we must ask ourselves what gives us the right to plunge an embryonic child into a \u2018cold prison?\u2019 In 1987 Donum vitae addressed the issue as follows: \u201cThe freezing of embryos, even when carried out in order to preserve the life of an embryo\u2014cryopreservation\u2014constitutes an offence against the respect due to human beings by exposing them to grave risks of death or harm to their physical integrity and depriving them, at least temporarily, of maternal shelter and gestation, thus placing them in a situation in which further offences and manipulation are possible\u201d (I, 6).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ifgmedia.com/movies/18days/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7GH2XKDBYEI7ES6XQPSOUIRXZVOTZUQ", "length": 383, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ifgmedia.com", "title": "18 Days \u00bb iFG Media Group", "raw_content": "This documentary film covers the story of \u201918 Days\u2019 movie.\n18 Days is an Egyptian film composed of 10 short films by ten directors and 6 writers, with no budget and on a voluntary basis, focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.\nOur documentary film was aired on \u201cAlJazeera\u201d channel as part of \u201cOut of the Box\u201d TV series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 120.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imoney.my/articles/students-urged-to-study-locally-to-help-stabilise-ringgit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UOU3O7GMERZMA2U75LLCSJEXWWILVVTO", "length": 1782, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.imoney.my", "title": "Students Urged To Study Locally To Help Stabilise Ringgit | iMoney", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Economy \u203a Students Urged To Study Locally To Help Stabilise Ringgit\nStudents Urged To Study Locally To Help Stabilise Ringgit\nEconomy, News Updates, Ringgit\nMore students should be encouraged to consider studying for their degrees locally to help stablise the Ringgit\u2019s value in the long-term.\nAccording to Assoc Prof Dr Jaafar Pyeman, the director of UiTM Arshad Ayub Graduate School of Business, a large number of Malaysians go overseas in August and September every year to study.\n\u201cThe ringgit is exchanged for the currencies of the countries these students are heading to, hence the money is being taken out of Malaysia\u2019s economy and pumped into the economies of these countries.\n\u201cSimply put, we end up with less control of the demand and supply of our Ringgit, therefore the Ringgit may be prone to depreciation,\u201d he explained.\nTo counter this, Malaysians should think local in term of education, said Dr Jaafar, especially now that many universities are offering courses in collaboration with popular international universities.\nTaking up international degrees locally, instead of going overseas, would contribute to the local economy, and help strengthen the Ringgit\u2019s value over time.\nRead this: How does the depreciating Ringgit affects all of us?\n\u201cFor the Government, instead of sending all its scholars overseas, it can choose public universities, many of which are recognised by international tertiary institutions as well as industries on a global scale.\n\u201cFor instance, UiTM\u2019s Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, which is in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, costs only RM10,000 for a one-year course.\n\u201cThe same course overseas, by the same international institution, costs around RM100,000 at the very least,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.improper.com/life-style/mile-markers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:D4GD2JHQBZQF5G2GA4DZYZAWOFCKPEY5", "length": 384, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.improper.com", "title": "Mile Markers | Improper Bostonian", "raw_content": "Training for the Boston Marathon is a challenging undertaking in its own right. Couple that with the city\u2019s snowiest winter on record, and you\u2019ve got a city full of people who have proven they run better than the MBTA. Improper assistant editor Meghan Kavanaugh is one of them\u2014she shared some of the essentials that have gotten her to Hopkinton. (Not pictured: A good sense of humor.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiacapitalgrowth.com/investing-in-the-trust/how-to-buy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:AKJ37KEF6P76HY3OEAAIBJ26FKJIWALG", "length": 389, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.indiacapitalgrowth.com", "title": "How to Buy - India Capital Growth Fund", "raw_content": "ICGF\u2019s shares are listed and traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. They can be bought by placing an order with a stockbroker, using a platform or by asking a professional adviser to act on your behalf. If you are not sure whether an investment company is the right investment for you, you should speak to a financial adviser.\nBarclays Smart Investor\nClubfinance\nShareview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 12174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.institutobernabeu.com/en/dictionary-gynecological/v/cystadenoma-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BD3E3ZOH6FM3YFWDYNFHLY2T6HX2MFEN", "length": 1674, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.institutobernabeu.com", "title": "Glosario: Cystadenoma", "raw_content": "A benign tumour composed of a large cyst arising from the ovarian epithelium with glandular secretions inside.\nDiagnosis of an adnexal tumour is one of the most common findings during routine clinical practice. 85% of tumours are benign and they occur most frequently between the ages of 20 and 44 years.\nA cystadenoma is a benign tumour that arises from the surface epithelium of the ovary.\nTo the naked eye, it is a tumour filled with a serum-like liquid, it has a smooth outer surface and protruding blood vessels. Their size can vary from a few centimetres to large masses with thin walls. They can sometimes be bilateral.\nThere are not generally any associated symptoms and they are slow-growing. As a result, they are generally detected in routine gynaecological checks (more information on gynaecological check-ups). The intensity of treatment will depend on size, histological aspects and whether or not complications arise (pain in the abdomen, increases in abdominal girth, pressure symptoms such as breathlessness if the tumour is very large or hormone secretion symptoms).\nThe main steps for correct diagnosis are: pelvic examination, transvaginal ultrasound (and other image-based tests) and tumour marker analysis tests. However, a firm diagnosis may only be given based on pathological examination (following removal).\nTreatment is determined taking into account age, analytical criteria on benignity and the size of the tumour. Laparoscopic surgery and a cystectomy are preferred and the tendency is to be very conservative. Invasive surgery is only recommendable in postmenopausal women who no longer have periods (more information on our Laparoscopy unit).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 9071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inverse.com/article/33149-microsoft-xbox-one-backwards-compatibility-original-games-we-want", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7T27DFZT4L4KNEAMZW3QUXBRBSTMTHMI", "length": 5880, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.inverse.com", "title": "10 Original Xbox Games We Want To See on Xbox One | Inverse", "raw_content": "EntertainmentXboxShareSubscribe\nThese classics deserve a second chance on Microsoft's latest console.\nFiled Under Microsoft, Video Games & Xbox Arcade\nJust last week during Microsoft\u2019s E3 press conference in Los Angeles, the head of Xbox Phil Spencer took the stage to announce the Xbox One Backwards Compatibility program would be expanding once again. Instead of adding a dozen or so new titles from the Xbox 360\u2019s library, the latest update is going to bring games from your original Xbox console to the Xbox One.\nAs you might expect, Xbox games added through the program will run better on Xbox One by taking advantage of the additional power offered by Microsoft\u2019s latest console, and all your digital licenses will carry over if use original Xbox discs in your Xbox One. What\u2019s most impressive, however, is that you\u2019ll be able to system-link play across all generations \u2014 meaning that an original Xbox console and Xbox One S can both be playing Crimson Skies together with no strings attached. Not too bad, right?\nUnfortunately, there are a few caveats worth noting about the Xbox\u2019s integration into the compatibility program, with the main one being a cautionary tale about managing expectations. On Giant Bomb\u2019s E3 show, Spencer admitted that the original Xbox game library wouldn\u2019t be as large at the Xbox 360\u2019s within the program because rights are tougher to lock down on their end and the technical process of bringing them to Xbox One is much more extensive, which explains why only Crimson Skies and Fusion Frenzy are currently scheduled for release.\nBut no matter how tedious the process might be, Xbox owners can certainly have hopes and dreams, which is why we\u2019ve gone through the original Xbox catalogue to pick out 10 games we would like to see on Xbox One as the library continues to expand.\nWidely known as one of the most difficult games before the release of Dark Souls, Ninja Gaiden introduced players to challenging action complete with a series of great game modes which is still considered one of the best action experiences to this day.\n9. Oddworld: Stranger\u2019s Wrath\nDeveloped by Oddworld Inhabitants, Oddworld: Stranger\u2019s Wrath put you in the shoes of a bounty hunter collecting moolah (the game\u2019s currency) to pay for a life-saving operation. Using an arsenal of live ammunition like fictional insects and animals is something we didn\u2019t expect to be so much fun, and thus is an experience we\u2019d gladly go through again on Xbox One.\n8. MechAssault\nUnlike dozens of other mech-focused video games available at the time, MechAssault took a simple approach to combat that was fast, fun, and entertaining without the need for extensive customization. This made the game a perfect candidate for one of Xbox Live\u2019s first online multiplayer games, one which would be great to see again on Xbox One.\n7. Tom Clancy\u2019s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory\nWidely respected as one of the best games in the Splinter Cell series, Chaos Theory offered a fantastic gameplay experience with tight controls, great equipment, and beautiful graphics. Thanks to its online cooperative play the game was received well across the board, and would be a classic online experience provided it was brought to the Xbox One.\nThe role-playing game that helped define a generation of console titles just like it, Fable is an infamous Xbox experience which didn\u2019t deliver the huge world it promised, but managed to capture our hearts with memorable moments packed into the game\u2019s short campaign.\nNow best known for creating both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, BioWare\u2019s Jade Empire was the studios first attempt at creating a universe of its own. There was a great story, massive open world, and excellent combat \u2014 all of which made Jade Empire a must-play title for everyone on the Xbox back in 2005, even if you didn\u2019t enjoy role-playing experiences in the first place.\nThere are few ways one can summarize the experience BioWare brought to the Xbox in 2003 with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This Star Wars adventure proved just how good a licensed game could be while delivering a story which rivaled George Lucas\u2019s original trilogy, making it one of the most respected Star Wars video games of all time \u2014 one which we\u2019d like to see come back in the next couple of months on our Xbox One.\n3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind\nAlthough role-playing games like Morrowind had previously been available on PC, Bethesda\u2019s decision to bring the massive open world of Vvardenfell to the Xbox opened a door to a whole new world for console players. Despite dozens of bugs, Morrowind offered a seemingly endless journey for those on the Xbox, and paved the way for legends like Oblivion and Skyrim on future Xbox consoles.\nWhen most people think of Microsoft or Xbox, they also immediately think of Halo: Combat Evolved, which was the first-person shooter that proved consoles could be the home of something great. Halo kick started an entire sub culture within video games still loved to this day, encouraging players to group up for LAN parties and endless hours of cooperative play.\nWhile there\u2019s no questioning the profound impact Halo: Combat Evolved had on the gaming industry, Bungie\u2019s integration of Xbox Live with Halo 2 turned the already stellar offline experience into an online entertainment phenomenon. With quality matchmaking, hundreds of customization options, and full clan support, Halo 2 evolved into the first major online console community within a matter of weeks \u2014 which could easily be brought back by integrating the original title into the backwards compatibility program. It\u2019s true there\u2019s a remaster out there, but nothing is quite like the OG.\nMedia via Xbox\nHow to Get the Ultima Weapon in 'Kingdom Hearts 3'\nHere's Exactly When You Can Start Playing 'Kingdom H...\nHow 'Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid' Is Differen...\n16 Video Games to Look Forward to in 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ionos.ca/startupguide/p/6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7TPGWTAFYY6LZYDLNWCBEXKFVP7FH7WS", "length": 3762, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.ionos.ca", "title": "Startup Guide - 1&1 IONOS", "raw_content": "Researching the right target market with Sinus-Milieus\nWhat are Sinus-Milieus? If you are unsure about your target market research, this classification from the Sinus Institute can help you. The market research institute created a model of society with 10 groups, and provides a comprehensive profile for each group based on scientific research. We explain how the model works and provide an easy-to-understand Sinus-Milieu definition.\nBalance sheets: the basics\nCreating a balance sheet can give business owners and entrepreneurs a headache. After all, proper bookkeeping with a balance sheet and a profit and loss account is far more complex than a simple income statement. But how do you know whether you are obliged to create a balance sheet? Here, you can find out why you might need to keep a balance sheet, and what they mean for you and your company.\nDo you want to put a business idea into practice and set up a Limited Liability Company? You may already have basic knowledge on LLCs, but do you know the process of starting one, how much it costs, and how long it will take? We list the steps to take and provide with a checklist so you can keep on track.\nWhat is a low-value asset (LVA)?\nBy depreciating your low-value assets, you can get a better idea of your financial status, enabling you to work out when assets need replacing and their cost. There are two different depreciation methods: straight line depreciation and reducing balance depreciation \u2013 but you need to work out which of them works best for you and your business. Software can also facilitate the task and work out the...\nLean startup: reasons without risk?\nDropbox, Airbnb, Twitter \u2013 all these succesful companies have one thing in common: they became successful using the lean startup model. This method questions traditional business concepts and procedures, and instead promises greater flexibility and innovation. But what do lean startups mean for product development and company culture, and how can you benefit from these new ideas?\nEarn-out when purchasing a company: guaranteed success or cause for conflict?\nBuying a company is costly and risky. An earn-out clause in the contract reduces the risk for the buyer and creates a monetary incentive for the seller to support the new direction. This is because the earn-out promises a fluid, profit-oriented adjustment to the purchasing price in addition to the basic amount. However, this option has its pitfalls. If you want to use the earn-out model properly,...\nFor many businesses, inventory management is their lifeblood; regular stocktaking is essential in order to ensure that you\u2019re working with the correct figures for your accounts. We explain the subtleties of inventory counts, which inventory types and inventory procedures there are, and how to carry out the complex process as quickly as possible without encountering any problems.\nSuccessful project management: proven methods\nA colorful bar chart or a wide network that correlates different project tasks: there are several diagrams that show different methods of project management. Many processes are similar because certain problems occur in almost all projects. But you don\u2019t have to reinvent the wheel: methodologies provide you with formalized approaches that have already proven successful many times over. With the...\nWriting a quote: what you should consider when creating a quote\nThe profitability of many companies and freelancers depends primarily on the order situation. If you attract a customer\u2019s attention with your products or services, and they send you a request, you should try to create a quote as quickly as possible and send it back to them. We explain what you need to include when writing a quote and the correct way to structure it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 9046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/apple-issues-laptop-upgrade-854900.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2RK4X6C2YDH6Z3R3D47Z3XFQZRVOT6NN", "length": 2217, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.irishexaminer.com", "title": "Apple issues laptop upgrade | Irish Examiner", "raw_content": "Apple issues laptop upgrade\nApple has released an upgraded MacBook Pro line that\u2019s faster and has more features, targeting its loyal base of professional users such as app developers and movie editors.\nThe new laptops, which come in the same 13in and 15in sizes as last year\u2019s models, include pro-focused upgrades like additional memory and storage, the ability to compile code faster, brighter screens, and quieter keyboards that some users have often requested since the latest MacBook Pro design was announced in 2016.\nApple says the larger new MacBook Pro is up to 70% faster than the previous model, while the smaller version is up to twice as fast as its predecessor.\nThe new laptops include screens with True Tone technology, which shifts colours automatically based on the surrounding physical environment. Apple also added a custom chip called the T2, which provides better security and brings the voice-controlled \u201chey Siri\u201d option to the Mac for the first time. The Macs also include updated Intel processors.\nWhile sales growth of iPads has slowed in recent years, the Mac line has remained steady. Apple sold 19.3 million Macs in 2017, or close to the amount the iPhone maker sold in each of the three prior years. Apple was criticised by professionals for recent Mac upgrades, but it has since taken a renewed approach to professionals and has been praised for its newest announcements.\nApple held 6.9% of the PC market in the first quarter of 2018, according to Gartner, trailing 21% for HP, 20% for Lenovo, and 16% for Dell.\nThe updated MacBook Pros come ahead of a product blitz for Apple. It plans to introduce three new iPhones this autumn \u2014 an update to the iPhone X design, a larger iPhone model that looks like a giant iPhone X, and a low- cost model with iPhone X features like Face ID \u2014 upgraded iPad Pros with Face ID, new Apple Watches with edge-to-edge screens, and a new low-cost laptop to replace the ageing MacBook Air.\nThe smaller MacBook Pro starts at $1,799 (\u20ac1,536) and the larger model at $2,399. Both are available on the company\u2019s website and in some Apple retail stores later this week. Apple\u2019s shares rose at one stage 1.2% yesterday, valuing the company at $934.3bn (\u20ac797.8bn).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 8034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ishik.edu.iq/financial-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:WVNR55QLDICAIVTCN5B3GHT7ZRCJM3DD", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ishik.edu.iq", "title": "Financial Manager - ISHIK UNIVERSITY", "raw_content": "Accounting Office is in charge of running the financial affairs within the university.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 3783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 94.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.islamtimes.org/en/news/761340/gaza-flare-up-part-of-bin-salman-s-scenario-to-distract-world-from-khashoggi-case", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FM4KGRDIH4RE6X2O42SNLS7KBSLRRIEE", "length": 3965, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.islamtimes.org", "title": "Gaza flare-up part of bin Salman\u2019s scenario to distract world from Khashoggi case - Islam Times", "raw_content": "Gaza flare-up part of bin Salman\u2019s scenario to distract world from Khashoggi case\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 24, 2018. (Photo by AFP)\nIslam Times - The recent flare-up of violence in the besieged Gaza Strip was likely Israel\u2019s contribution to a plot hatched by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to divert the world\u2019s attention away from the Saudi assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a report says.\nThe Saudi crown prince has set up an \u201cemergency task force\u201d to counter the increasingly damaging leaks about the murder of Khashoggi coming from Turkish authorities, the Middle East Eye cited sources inside Saudi Arabia as saying in a report originally published on Tuesday night and later updated on Wednesday.\nAmong a range of measures and scenarios proposed by the task force was a plan to convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wage a war on Gaza to divert global attention from the assassination case, the sources said.\nThe task force, composed of officials from the royal court, the foreign and defense ministries, and the intelligence service, advised bin Salman that a war in Gaza can distract US President Donald Trump\u2019s attention amid Turkish leaks on Khashoggi's murder, the London-based online news outlet was told.\nEarlier this week, Israeli warplanes started a fresh wave of deadly air raids against residential areas throughout the Gaza Strip. But the aggression drew an angry reaction from Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which fired an intense barrage of rockets into the southern parts of the occupied territories.\nThe flare-up of violence broke out when the Israeli military launched a commando raid against Gaza last weekend and killed seven Hamas commanders.\nSeveral Palestinians were killed and over 30 others were injured in the Israeli air raids. Two Israelis also died in Ashkelon, while around 20 others sustained injuries in counterattacks from Gaza.\nOn Tuesday, Gaza-based resistance groups agreed to an Egypt-brokered ceasefire with Israel.\nThe sudden escalation of tension in Gaza seemed particularly unusual as Netanyahu had earlier changed his tone on Hamas and seemed to be willing to ease the blockade on the besieged enclave.\nSpeaking on Sunday before the raids, Netanyahu had said that he was \"doing everything\" he could \"to avoid an unnecessary war\" in Gaza. \"I am not afraid of war if it\u2019s necessary, but I want to avoid it if it\u2019s not necessary,\u201d he said.\nThe Israeli special forces' raids in Khan Younis also came hot on the heels of a deal between Qatar and Israel to allow funds into the blockaded strip and pay the salaries of government workers.\nAlso, an ongoing diplomatic crisis between Doha and Riyadh could shed light on the motives of the Israeli attacks in the wake of the reported Qatari deal. Saudi Arabia has put an economic blockade on Qatar, cutting off the country\u2019s only land border for more than a year.\nThe ceasefire in Gaza, which was widely described as the Israeli \u201crecognition of its defeat at the hands of the Palestinian resistance,\u201d also led to the resignation of Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli minister of military affairs and the head of Yisrael Beiteinu.\nLieberman said all of the members of his party will quit Israel's ruling coalition in the 120-member parliament, and that means Netanyahu only holds a slender Knesset majority (61-59) seats to maintain the coalition.\nKhashoggi was brutally killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, in a premeditated operation which Turkish authorities believe was carried out by a hit squad whose suspected members contained several members of bin Salman's personal bodyguards.\nSaudi officials have denied that the crown prince has \"any knowledge whatsoever\" of Khashoggi's killing. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it had been ordered at the \"highest levels\" of the Saudi government.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 8147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.italaw.com/counsel/derek-c-smith", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JT6TIGJRMLXKBK5FQYRR3G4JZMTJQLCH", "length": 14, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.italaw.com", "title": "\ufeff Derek C. Smith | italaw", "raw_content": "Derek C. Smith", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jackiescura.com/blog/my-top-3-real-estate-predictions-for-2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KE2IPPX5X7XBMV7YNBESVZ6Z3BHHQKHD", "length": 2419, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jackiescura.com", "title": "3 Real Estate Predictions for 2013", "raw_content": "My Top 3 Real Estate Predictions for 2013\nIn 2011 there was a seemingly endless stream of bad financial news. The interest rates were low and the prices on homes were often amazing, but credit was tight and too many people were unable to buy without selling first. This vicious cycle created many frustrated potential buyers and sellers. Last Fall marked a big turning point, though. I usually don\u2019t see a lot of activity right before the Holidays, but buyers and sellers were suddenly raring to go. Since then, the progress has been amazing.\nI am now at a point where my inventory of listings is dropping faster than I\u2019m taking on new ones. In 2010 and 2011 this could never have happened. It\u2019s also a wonderful sign that many of my properties have been receiving multiple bids at, or close to, listing price. This means 3 very important things have improved in our local Real Estate market.\nHome prices won\u2019t be sinking anymore \u2013 they\u2019ll be rising! Now that we\u2019ve found the price point that buyers, mortgage companies and sellers are comfortable with, demand will begin to gradually drive prices upwards. It won\u2019t be the meteoric rise that we experienced at the height of the local market, but it\u2019s based on a solid foundation and it will be steady.\nDemand will rise along with the prices. Mortgage companies are freeing up more credit and homes are selling. Last year\u2019s frustrated buyers and sellers are eager to get into their dream homes. Interest rates are still at record lows and prices are great, so it\u2019s a fantastic time to buy, but the competition is increasingly fierce. Multiple bid situations are happening much more often now, and this is the exact situation that supports price increases. It won\u2019t be long before buyers start making bids over asking price and the market adjusts upwards accordingly.\nHomeowners with \u201cunderwater\u201d loans may finally see some dry land. It\u2019s a terrible feeling to owe more on a home than it\u2019s currently worth, but prices are normalizing. Homeowners will find it easier to re-finance at today\u2019s record-low rates, and those who are waiting to sell can finally get their homes on the market without taking a loss! This is crucial because that inventory is needed to meet the rising demand! If you want to know what your home is worth, call me today for a Complimentary Market Analysis!\nWritten by Jackie Scura on December 26, 2012 . Posted in Finance, Real Estate Market Report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jamestownsun.com/taxonomy/term/447685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:06Z", "digest": "sha1:JKABU5RFMXGC6XV66FCU5AFKHBMEHNZP", "length": 345, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jamestownsun.com", "title": "Of Grand Forks | Jamestown Sun", "raw_content": "of Grand Forks\nLabor and other neglected days of honor\nOut of the bitter labor-management conflicts of the 1880s and 1890s evolved what is known today as Labor Day passed into law in 1894. But it has gone the way of several other holidays, honored more for its shopping opportunities than recognition of the working people. Few spend Memorial...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/gems-gemology-wins-printing-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:6T32OSKIJZSFRUSZ5YRIW72WYGBUDFTK", "length": 1376, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jckonline.com", "title": "Gems & Gemology Wins Printing Award - JCK", "raw_content": "Gems & Gemology Wins Printing Award\nThe Gemological Institute of America\u2019s quarterly professional journal, Gems & Gemology, took first place in the 2008 Gold Ink Awards competition, in the category of Scientific and Technical Journals.\nCo-sponsored by Print Media and Printing Impressions magazines, the Gold Ink Awards are recognized as the nation\u2019s most prestigious print competition. Now in its 20th year, the awards have earned a reputation for attracting the highest quality of work from printing professionals throughout North America.\nAllen Press, Lawrence, Kan., prints G&G.\nWinners are honored at the Gold Ink Banquet and Hall of Fame Gala in October during Graph Expo in Chicago. In addition, Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners in each category are highlighted in the October issues of Publishing Executive and Printing Impressions.\n\u201cPrint quality is critical for us,\u201d said G&G editor-in-chief Alice Keller, \u201cas we know the importance to our readers of having accurate reproductions of the gem materials described in the journal.\u201d\nThis brings to 29 the number of awards Gems & Gemology has won for editorial and printing excellence since moving to a larger format in 1981, and it marks the journal\u2019s second award this year. In July, GIA\u2019s Russell Shor accepted the AGS Richard T. Liddicoat Journalism Award for his Fall 2007 G&G article on the cultured pearl industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 5867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk/blog/emma-lee-davidson-see-blue", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:75FLS5NMJZDQ3JAWZ7DJHOAZIIEY332N", "length": 1059, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk", "title": "See Blue \u2014 THE JOHN BYRNE AWARD", "raw_content": "Emma-Lee Davidson\nSee Blue is a song exploring the idea of self-direction. Coming out of adolescence, I felt like a train suddenly off the tracks. I struggled with perfectionism and meeting expectations: those I set for myself and those I perceived to be imposed on me by others. This song is for anyone trying to find courage and optimism to move into the future. It is also inspired by the value of tradition: taking stock of everything you learn as a child from your caregivers, community, and society, then using it to form your own independent identity. Thus, having gained a sense of self-reliance, you can embrace any challenge ahead.\nI wrote this when I was 19 and recorded this version at 24. Between those ages I grew up considerably, and the meaning of the lyrics seemed to shift to something slightly more hopeful than how I felt when I was coming out of the angsty teenage years! I tried to reflect a sense of curiosity and experimentation in the main vocal and harmony.\nVisualThe John Byrne Award October 25, 2017 #tradition, #community, CULTURE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnscbd.com/blogs/news/what-is-thc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NPTBP4MIAZSCZLOHTM4DBR2DDGJABXFF", "length": 3423, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.johnscbd.com", "title": "What is THC - It is All About THC(Tetrahydrocannabinol)", "raw_content": "Introduction to THC\nAccording to experts, THC stimulates cells in the brain to release dopamine, creating euphoria. To understand the concept of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), we first need to get clear with the fact that Cannabis being a natural remedy is used over ages to treat various chronic health conditions. But, the question arises that, cannabis gives the feeling of being stoned then how can it treat health complexities? So, cannabis has mainly two chemical compounds i.e \u2013 CBD or Cannabidiol and THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol.\nBoth of these compounds function differently on human bodies. After several types of research, it was found that it\u2019s not CBD that gives the feeling of high but is actually THC.\nTHC actually locks itself to cannabinoid receptors in the brain. Surprisingly, the THC chemical imitates the structure of chemicals that are already created naturally in the body.THC in recent times is used by many to manage a variety of problems.\nNow, What is CBD as a Chemical Compound?\nCBD is a cannabis compound that has cogent medical benefits, but does not make people feel \u201chigh\u201d and can actually counteract the psychoactivity of THC. CBD has demonstrable neuroprotective and neurogenic effects. After years of research and development, experts penned down numerous benefits that CBD alone provides in improving the health complexities like cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and epilepsy in human beings.\nSince CBD oil is used as a natural remedy, over the years the experts have tried incorporating CBD in various products like oils, balms, Sprays, vapes etc and nowadays people have started consuming CBD oil by adding it to various food products like brownies, cookies etc. Omni oils have a wide range of CBD infused products.\nAbout THC :\nThe effect that THC leaves on the body differ from one individual to another. Depending on the body\u2019s chemistry. Though, people do experience relaxation, pain relief, and energy after consuming THC. However, another bunch of individuals experience a feeling of dizziness, paranoia and memory impairment. So, it is always advisable to start with small doses to witness how the body responds to it.\nRisks of THC:\nLongtime THC users tend to experience difficulties like impaired motor skills and decreased memory functions. Users who start consuming THC in the initial years would experience lower IQ in the coming years.\nIf THC is abused or excessively used it can lead to the disturbance in the overall functioning of the body.\nIndividuals with mental conditions might experience increased symptoms if used redundantly. Chances are that cases go as extreme as the symptoms develop into adverse conditions like Psychosis and Schizophrenia. THC can induce hallucinations, change thinking and cause delusions in some cases.\nSince, people have started adding THC into edibles, they tend to overdose without even noticing. Edibles are extremely high in potency, and when ingested in the gastrointestinal tract, the drug can last longer and with greater intensity. The effect of inhaling THC might last up to as long as 45 minutes to a few hours but if consumed with any food products, users are likely to experience the effect for the next six to eight hours.\nThe use of CBD has gained momentum in the field of medicines But THC too might have its own benefits and drawbacks, experts are making attempts to fetch out the best possible benefits of the same in the field of medicine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 7332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jointchambers.ch/jcc-news/delegation-from-brest-region-belarus-visits-jcc.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z2LMHVNWBZX2ZB7DZXR26SWPYIAFLUH", "length": 286, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jointchambers.ch", "title": "Delegation from Brest Region, Belarus visits JCC - Joint Chambers of Commerce", "raw_content": "JCC welcomed a delegation of government and business representatives from Brest Region in Belarus on March 27, 2018. D. Sallis, Managing Director, JCC and M. Senn, Z\u00fcrcher Handelskammer presented their organizations to the visiting guests. Prospects for cooperation were also discussed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jonesnaturalchews.com/funny-bone-monday-21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:12Z", "digest": "sha1:BT4JPVTO5CWZT74D6CXXPURBUOSOVXHE", "length": 2115, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.jonesnaturalchews.com", "title": "Funny Bone Monday, 21", "raw_content": "Good Monday to you all! Another Funny Bone Monday is upon us, and today we\u2019ll be watching funny dogs celebrate birthdays. Why? Because my middle child has a birthday tomorrow. He\u2019ll be 19 years old. I haven\u2019t yet finished cleaning and assembling his rusty unicycle, so I\u2019d best get hopping!\nHere\u2019s a great big happy birthday to my boy!\nWait, I mean, here\u2019s his birthday card \u2026\nIt\u2019s a dog with hands! Where was he when I was looking for dogs with hands a few weeks ago?!?\nY\u2019all, there is no end to creepy videos on the interwebs. And there are many, many dumb or poorly made videos. I try to spare your eyeballs when it comes to those. But I\u2019m going to let you be the judge on this next happy birthday dog video. You tell me.\nOh my dog. I love this next one for its simplicity. It\u2019s joi de vivre. This next video speaks to me. I\u2019m really hoping that it says \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to my son when he sees it.\nThis next one isn\u2019t birthday, but it\u2019s from my own collection. This is my youngest son, the Chicken Whisperer, farting to the classics. You\u2019re welcome. I\u2019m only including it as a special birthday gift to my oldest son.\nBecause my boy is turning 19, because he\u2019s an adult, I\u2019m including a photo of a sexy face. Smoldering.\nPetey\u2019s \u201ccome hither\u201d look\nAnd a couple of hot chicks sunbathing nekkid in the backyard.\nMary Ann and Ginger sunbathe nekkid in the yard ALL THE TIME. MY EYES. IT HURTS MY EYES.\nDo you think he\u2019ll be impressed? Happy to be turning 19? I\u2019m trying to remember what we gave him for his 18th birthday (we struggle with birthdays around here), and I think I remember:\nMy nearly 19 year old, just horsing around in the front yard.\nSurely the horse mask wasn\u2019t the only thing we gave him for his 18th birthday? No no no. We sent him and his girlfriend to the Ren Faire for the day. Tickets and spending money. They came home sunburned and happy.\nSeriously, though, here\u2019s a photo of my boy.\nOliver, the one with the dark hair and look that says, \u201cYou\u2019d better not post this to FaceCrack.\u201d\nAnd that\u2019s a wrap! That unicycle isn\u2019t going to clean and assemble itself! Happy birthday, Oliver. I love you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.journalbinet.com/ijbmsr-040117-25.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:WMGMZGQIAIPYHPD5VWCDECYW6ZJL5XSH", "length": 3428, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.journalbinet.com", "title": "IJBMSR Socioeconomic Contribution of Medicinal Plants Research Article - JOURNAL BINET", "raw_content": "Mohammad Rizwanul Bari (1), Md. Aslam Ali (2) Md. Giashuddin Miah (3) and Md. Rishad Abdullah (1) and Md. Jashim Uddin (4)\n1Dept. of Agrofestry, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh\n2Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh\n3Dept. of Agroforestry, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur\n4Upazila Agriculture Officer, Upazila Agriculture Officer, Ramganj, Laksmipur, Bangladesh\nReceived: 07.08.17, Revised: 26.09.17 and Published online: 25 November 2017.\u200b\n25.04.01.17_medicinal_plant_and_their_contribution_in_socio-economic_conditions.pdf\nKey Words: Medicinal plant species, Uses and Socio-economic characteristics\nBari, M. R., Ali, M. A., Miah, M. G., Abdullah, M. R. and Uddin, M. J. \"Medicinal plants and their contribution in socio-economic condition of the household in Haluaghat upazila, Mymensingh\". International Journal of Business, Management and Social Research, 04(01) (2017): 215-228.\nBari, M. R., Ali, M. A., Miah, M. G., Abdullah, M. 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DK Publishing Inc., New York.\nChopra, R. N., Nayar, S. L. and Chopra, I. C. (1992). Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants. CSIR, New Delhi.\nDas, K. D. and Alam, M. K. (2001). Trees of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Forest Research Institute, Chittagong.\nHannah, L. and Bowles, I. (1995). Letters, global properties. Bioscience. pp. 45-122. https://doi.org/10.2307/1312547\nRahman, M. (2003). Science World: Veshog Udvider Rokomfer (in Bangla). Proffessor's Prokashon, Dhaka. June 2003, p. 46.\nRashid, M. H., Alam, M. J., Ara, R. and Merry, S. R. (1987). Crude Drug Market Survey, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Forest Research Institute, Chittagong (Unpublished).\nRoy, P. (2001). The Daily Bhorer Kagaz: Bangladesher Biponno Jeeb Boichitro 6 (in Bangla). December, pp. 1-2.\nSilva, T. D. (1997). Industrial Utilization of Medicinal Plants in Developing Countries. Non-wood forest products-11, Medicinal plants for forest conservation and health care, FAO, Rome, Italy, p.34.\nWalden, I. (1995). Preserving Biodiversity: The role of property rights. In: Swanson, T. Ed. Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Values of Medicinal Plants. Cambridge University Press, UK. 176-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623417.009\nXiao, Pei-Gen. (1991). The Chinese Approach to medicinal Plants. In: Akerele, O., V. Heywood and H. Synge (Eds). Conservation of Medicinal Plants. Cambridge University Press, UK. 305-313.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 9007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.julochka.com/2015/08/resisting-fundamentalism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PBD772O4T4VLH47HAXNMCAXNU2WCUXKH", "length": 4817, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.julochka.com", "title": "moments of perfect clarity: resisting fundamentalism", "raw_content": "amber waves of grain in denmark, but it could just as easily have been taken in south dakota\nwith the child away at boarding school this year and with plans for her to go to high school in my little hometown in the states next year, we are easing back into the life of an adult couple around here. we're less likely to eat dinner at a specific time, we watch netflix or hbo nordic until midnight, we sit in the garden and have deep philosophical discussions, or lie on the trampoline and stare at the sky, we spontaneously decide to go out to dinner. we do miss her, but it continues to be ok in our minds that she's moving on to the next step. plus, without her around, there's no one plaguing us to build a pool.\nit might be different next year when she's an ocean away, rather than just 30 minutes. i also worry about how religious that little town i grew up in has become. yes, there were always 12 churches, but it seems that aggressive christianity is just so much more pervasive than when i was a kid. even in the answers given to reporters for stories like this one. such a tragic and yet heartwarming story and yet they had to go all jesus at the end. i worry about that. i see it as a symptom of fundamentalism no less heinous than that purveyed by the taliban and isis.\nin denmark, some immigrants talk about sending their children back to their home country for genopdragelse - or \"re-raising.\" this, in most instances, means back to pakistan or turkey to learn the old ways and be more in touch with their native religion. in my case, while i want sabin to learn more of where she comes from and how much her grandfather meant to the community, i do not want her to be steeped in religion while she's there. i love the secular life we lead in denmark. i love that what people believe is personal and private and not flashed in everyone's face all of the time; you don't have to participate in religious rituals to be considered a good member of society. i love that the child wisely said, in choosing to be baptised and confirmed, that you can be interested in god without believing in god. in denmark, there are even ministers who admit they don't believe. that would never fly in small town south dakota.\ni am confident that sabin is a strong person with a good head on her shoulders. she has a quality where she is able to float above the fray without being snooty or arrogant. she seems at once grounded and above it all, which is a delicate balance to strike and i don't think it's something you can learn (i certainly don't have it), i think it's something you must have in you innately. i'm hoping it gets her through the year in a community where the aggressive, fundamentalist christianity of the local youth group forces the young people to hammer hundreds of nails into a cross to represent their many sins. talk about a need for genopdragelse...\nmy cousin, who she's going to stay with while she's there, isn't like that, but it may be hard to resist when the social life in the little town is steeped in religion. i understand that they may have forgotten some of the separation of church and state mandated by the constitution - with ministers speaking at graduation and prayers at the sports ball games. we'll have to see what can be done about those things, without placing the child in the middle of a fight. we simply have to be vigilant against fundamentalism in all of its incarnations if we're to stop this downward spiral the world is on...maybe we have to do that right here, in our own backyards, just by beginning to question it and not just accepting it when it's shoved down our throats. it must be possible for a community to rally around an orphaned young man without bringing god into it.\nLabels: an unexamined life is not worth living, god and other fantasies, life in a small town, looking ahead, raising sabin\nI saw this article yesterday in The Guardian and it so perfectly captures so much of what I am thinking and feeling about evangelical/fundamentalist religion.\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/30/evangelicals-give-christianity-a-bad-name\nI think you're very brave, sending your child to America's heartland. Beside the concern about fundamentalism (growing as we converse) and the trend of pandering to the lowest common denominator (child-wise) in classes... schools are typically underfunded and many of the programs, such as, the arts, shop classes and field trips are either gone or shells of their former configurations. Also, another trend ... requiring parents to volunteer as classroom assistants. Yes, parents, with no certification, can \"teach\" your child's class.\nToday, if my children were about to enter grade school or high school, it would either be in a private academic (non religious) school or a school anywhere but in the US.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 9260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.k12insight.com/trusted/japan-teacher-benefits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RUJMOJKAAG2RR5KKHI6ZDKC5KVECMKRY", "length": 4353, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.k12insight.com", "title": "Want stronger equity in schools? Japan may have the answers. - Trusted", "raw_content": "Want stronger equity in schools? Japan may have the answers.\nIt\u2019s an unfortunate reality in America: Students\u2019 socioeconomic backgrounds often have a significant impact on the quality of their education.\nWhat side of the achievement gap a student falls on is largely dictated by the affluence of their parents.\nFor years, education experts and officials have tried to solve the puzzle of how to equitably distribute education to every student, regardless of background or socioeconomic status. Mostly, they\u2019ve struggled to find a viable solution.\nNow, some education experts say they have found inspiration halfway around the world.\nA recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranks Japan as one of the best developed countries in serving equal education opportunities to both wealthy and poor students.\nFor more on ensuring equity in your schools, sign up for the TrustED newsletter.\nHow? As Alana Semuels writes in The Atlantic, there are several differences between the Japanese and American systems\u2014and some of those differences might hold the key to providing more equitable learning opportunities here in the United States.\n1. States hire teachers, not school districts\nJapanese teachers are hired by prefectures, which are government territories similar to American states, not by individual schools or districts. This system gives the prefecture government the ability to reassign the best teachers to the most needy or disadvantaged students.\nAs Andreas Schleicher, head of education and skills development for the OECD told The Atlantic, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on to redirect the better teachers, and more precious resources, towards the more disadvantaged students.\u201d\nEducation experts say the system also exposes teachers to an increasingly healthy variety of school settings and learning strategies, unlike the United States, where teachers largely stay in the same districts for most, if not all, of their teaching careers.\n2. National funding helps spread equity\nWhile the U.S federal government contributes just eight percent of total education funding to elementary and secondary schools, Japan\u2019s national government invests more, according to Semuels. Prefecture governments also contribute to education expenses.\nAs a result, schools and districts are less reliant on local taxes to fund teacher salaries and building expenses than their counterparts in the United States. The quality of a local school in Japan is much less dependent on the region\u2019s average income or property value.\nThat funding is also used more efficiently, Semuels writes:\n\u201c[Japan] spends $8,748 per student at the elementary level, compared to the $10,959 that the United States spends. But it spends the money wisely. School buildings are not much to look at. Textbooks are simple and printed in paperback, and students and teachers are responsible for keeping schools clean.\u201d\n3. Teachers are expected to do more, but are also paid more\nJapanese teaching candidates must take a bar-like professional exam that takes many candidates multiple attempts to pass. One teacher told Semuels it took her five times to pass the exam.\nOnce they find a position, teachers often work long days, Samuels writes:\n\u201cOne teacher in Tokyo I talked to, who didn\u2019t want her name used, said it wasn\u2019t uncommon to work from 7 am to 7:30 pm, and said some teachers stayed until 9 at night.\u201d\nBut Japanese teachers earn significant benefits for their work. Their salaries are higher than the OECD average and in many prefectures they\u2019re guaranteed a pension and a job for the rest of their career.\nImplementing strategies like those used in Japan might not be prudent or possible in the United States. Still, some of the ideas and tactics could prove useful as we continue looking for ways to close the equity divide among students. Better funding, higher teacher standards and salaries, and a stronger focus on disadvantaged students are all ideas worthy of consideration.\nWhat do you think about Japan\u2019s approach? What steps is your school or district already taking to ensure every student receives an equitable education? Tell us in the comments.\nTOPICS:Budgetsequitable schoolsequityfundinginequalityJapanschool budgetsschool fundingteacher benefits\nBe the first to comment on \"Want stronger equity in schools? 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This year, the festival will take place at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival \u2013 Bethel Woods. The lineup.\nKDTU is excited to be a part of the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and will be performing on April 26th! Visit nojazzfest.com for full lineup & ticket info. Se.\n5/3 Orpheum Theater: R.E.S.P.E.K.T.\nOn Friday May 3rd, Karl Denson\u2019s Tiny Universe will return to the beautiful Orpheum Theater in New Orleans for R.E.S.P.E.K.T \u2013 A special tribute to the Queen of Soul. KDTU .\nIn 2014, Denson delivers the latest addition to his oeuvre, a relentless 13-track dance floor grenade entitled, New Ammo. The album is his debut on Slightly Stoopid\u2019s record label, Stoopid Records, and his first recording since 2009 with the Tiny Universe. Alongside Denson originals like the title track and \u201cEverybody Knows That,\u201d which have become fan favorites from his live sets, he offers up searing versions of \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d by The White Stripes, \u201cHang Me Up To Dry\u201d by Cold War Kids and \u201cSure Shot\u201d by The Beastie Boys. He\u2019s joined by a number of special guests, including Mike Dillon, The Cosmic Horns and Nicki Bluhm who adds vocals to the first single \u201cMy Baby.\u201d In Denson\u2019s own words: \u201cWe\u2019ve finally figured out how to capture in the studio what the Tiny Universe does live. We move around a lot musically, but this record reflects who we are as a band and where we\u2019re headed with our music!\u201d\nUS Booking: William Morris\nJay Williams: Booking\nInternational: Newson Management\nErik Newson: Management\nHeading back to Portland for the @WaterfrontBlues in July! https://t.co/UHSGXXuDeG\n\u00a92018 Karl Denson \u2013 site designed by Splaquet Designs | powered by Theory Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 24915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.katharinehalls.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LCXTEKLF6SA3BD4UZ2PYJPDGBCNYJVX4", "length": 1560, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.katharinehalls.com", "title": "Katharine Halls", "raw_content": "I am an Arabic-to-English translator and recipient of the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding for my translation, with Adam Talib, of The Dove's Necklace by Saudi author Raja Alem. The novel was also shortlisted for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.\nI work with a wide range of material, but I especially enjoy translating literature and challenging non-fiction texts. I love subtitling films and translating for the theatre: my translation of Liwaa Yazji's Goats was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2017, and I also create and operate theatre surtitles. I occasionally undertake interpreting work (consecutive & chuchotage) too.\nI have particularly extensive experience in the translation of colloquial Arabic in both written and spoken forms, and to date I've worked with Egyptian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi, Saudi and Algerian dialects. I sometimes work from French and Hebrew too.\nI am currently pursuing a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. I hold a BA (first-class honours) in Arabic & Hebrew from the University of Oxford, an MA in Translation & Interpreting from the University of Manchester, and an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. In summer 2018 I attended the Middlebury Language Schools intensive Hebrew language program as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace.\nTo request a translation, or ask for a quote or sample, you can contact me at katharine (dot) halls (at) gmail (dot) com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.katrinamedia.org/projects/WontBowDown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:XRCTT37R7L4IRRAQIMTWIPJFFVTQ4P2Z", "length": 5359, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.katrinamedia.org", "title": "Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster - Won't Bow Down", "raw_content": "Project: Won't Bow Down\nBlumenfeld describes the evolution of his project, Won't Bow Down: The Fight for Music in Post-Katrina New Orleans, as well as the people who were the focus of his work:\nI discovered the Katrina Media Fellowships in spring 2006 while doing online research, after returning home to Brooklyn from New Orleans. I'd spent five days researching a Village Voice article timed to precede the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which, merely by virtue of its mounting that year, was a mighty symbol and not minor triumph of communal will, organization, and funding.\nWeeks after the floods that resulted from the levee breaches of 2005, I'd penned an essay for Salon about the cultural implications of this deep tragedy. As I spoke to jazz and brass-band musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, and others, the dimensions of the crisis in what has long been considered the birthplace of jazz culture grew clearer to me: As one cultural critic put it, \"We're not just watching history disappear, history is watching us disappear.\" Placed in stark relief was whether the jazz culture born in New Orleans\u2014which Ken Burns's 19-hour PBS series famously cast as a signal of American values and virtues on the order of the Constitution\u2014still carries currency when it comes to the issues that Katrina raised: cultural identity, race, poverty, and basic decency.\nIn early 2006, six months after the floods, I'd sought to document with that Voice piece the realities faced by the prime movers in the city's musical subcultures: the network of jazz musicians, the stable of brass-band players, Social Aid and Pleasure club second-liners, and the tribes of Mardi Gras Indians. I wanted to detail the situation from their eyes, and to outline the challenges now faced by these musicians and communities.\nBut I was kidding myself and my editor: In my allotted page and a week's time, I couldn't possibly express the true context for the work and lives of these musicians, let alone the cultural stakes of their situations. I'd need more column-inches, more time, deeper immersion, better understanding. For all the ink spilled in newspapers and magazines since Katrina, the story of the greatest challenge to American culture\u2014one that affects the lives and livelihoods of thousands more deeply than we can imagine, that will end up affecting the economic viability of New Orleans more than we've figured, and which will affect all of us for generations to come in ways we can't yet understand-was going largely untold.\nThe environmentalists have made it clear that erosion of our coastal wetlands may have paved the way for the natural disaster that hammered New Orleans. But the least-mentioned aspect of the resulting devastation\u2014the erosion of what ethnographer Michael P. Smith once called \"America's cultural wetlands\"\u2014is as clear and present a danger. The resilient African American cultural traditions of New Orleans, famously seminal to everything from jazz to rock to funk to Southern rap, also contain seeds of protest and solidarity that guard against storm surges of a man-made variety. Erasure of these wetlands exposes many to the types of ill winds that shatter souls. (At a 2006 New Orleans protest against violent crime, for instance, the spontaneous chant that sprung up was \"Music in the schools!\") New Orleans residents are quick to point out that the flooding that ravaged their city was not a natural disaster; so too have I found a series of unnatural forces impeding the return of New Orleans cultural fixtures.\nFor at least two centuries, the complex web of cultures and communities surrounding deep pockets of musical creation in New Orleans has embodied the true cultural identity of this country. Yet where is the outrage and concern over the present dilemma? If Prague or Vienna had been so devastated, wouldn't all of Europe rally to its aid and secure its legacy? Social, religious, and even economic life in New Orleans is staked to a culture now in question: Do we care? What are we doing about it?\nAs a Katrina Media Fellow, I've focused on the cultural crisis left in the wake of the 2005 floods, specifically the struggles of brass bands, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Mardi Gras Indians, jazz musicians, and music educators, and written about how this resilient culture serves as a front line in battles for justice, equity, and empowerment in New Orleans. I've followed the lives of individuals such as Donald Harrison, a jazz saxophonist and Mardi Gras Indian chief; Michael White, a clarinetist and professor at Xavier University who lost a home filled with thousands of irreplaceable artifacts of New Orleans culture; the members of the Hot 8 Brass Band, who have emerged as spiritual and cultural leaders despite the loss of a key member to violent crime; Jordan Hirsch, who, as director of Sweet Home New Orleans, is at the center of a network of grassroots organizations working to repair the lives of thousands of displaced musicians.\nThis work has spilled out in feature stories, profiles, essays, and criticism for The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Salon, Jazziz magazine, in concert-program notes and radio interviews, and in public readings and panel discussions, all of which direct a book-in-progress about post-Katrina struggles to keep alive music built on resistance, and what all that means.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 6905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kent-builders.co.uk/maidstone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SVZF7574NLVL7DFXPHKN7GYN4EZZVYHO", "length": 671, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kent-builders.co.uk", "title": "Builders in Maidstone - Kent Builders", "raw_content": "Reputable Builders in Maidstone\nAs professional builders in Maidstone, our days often include coordinating and managing a number of different construction projects. We\u2019ve worked in this industry and in this location for a number of years. Over those years we\u2019ve acquired a great number of happy and loyal customers while completing some of the largest construction projects in the area. But we\u2019re always interested in working with new clients and tackling new projects.\nWe always have time to discuss new projects with potential clients. Contact our office today if you\u2019re interested in working with the best builders in Maidstone.\nBuilding services in Maidstone include:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/visit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HRXRNSWBOJZZQI6ESXDG3MXBBCUQUUDH", "length": 1500, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kent.ac.uk", "title": "Visit Psychology at Kent - School of Psychology - University of Kent", "raw_content": "Visit Psychology at Kent\nYou are very welcome to visit the School of Psychology at the University of Kent. If you are unable to attend a General Open Day, Postgraduate Event, or Applicant Day but want to know what we are all about, you can arrange an informal visit to the School by emailing Carly Turnham or by calling 01227 824775. Furthermore, the University offers campus tours outside of the formal events if you would like to add this option to your visit.\nThe School also welcomes visits from schools and colleges. We can offer various activities and events for students to get involved in. From research taster days, equipment demonstrations, participation in real research, to sample lectures. Contact Carly Turnham to arrange your visit.\nFurthermore, Kent's International Summer School gives you the opportunity to have a taste of what our academic programmes can provide, including Psychology! Courses are designed for international students who are either thinking about studying on an undergraduate or postgraduate degree programme in the UK, or who simply wish to benefit from a short and intensive international study experience.\nFor international students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) who are unable to visit us on campus, we would happy to arrange a one-to-one Skype meeting so that we can answer any questions you might have about studying with us. Send your request to Carly Turnham. You can also find our new Master's degree videos on the Kent Psychology YouTube channel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 5531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/old-park-hill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:JTY2B3YUFZAW7XN3ITISLTA67SYILAL4", "length": 1050, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk", "title": "Old Park Hill | Kent Wildlife Trust", "raw_content": "Eventually with cattle and possibly Konik horses.\nVery steep and rugged, scarp slopes, the site is heavily scrubbed.\nNot Wheelchair accessible. There are Kissing gates and steep slopes from the car park. The reserve paths are rough with steep slopes.\nApril to May, June to July\nKent Wildlife Trust and the Port of Dover are restoring Old Park Hill by converting overgrown scrub into a mosiac of scrub with chalk grassland.\nThis site has a range of habitats including woodland, scrub, chalk grassland and neutral grassland. It has the potential to be a site for wildlife such as Adonis blue butterflies, reptiles and orchids.\nOld Park Hill has not been actively managed for over a decade and as such the landscape interest of the site has been greatly reduced by the encroachment of scrub on to the chalk grassland and the neglect of the woodland areas.\nSuitable conservation management would restore the site to its early 20th century character, when most of the site would have been open chalk grassland with scattered scrub and grazed with animals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 5728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/a-comparison-between-the-works-of-assata-shakur-and-socrates-R3nbkdnt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WDVC2VOE2465YFK74NU5OEETBSRQ3CIT", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kibin.com", "title": "A Comparison Between the Works of Assata Shakur and Socrates | Kibin", "raw_content": "A Comparison Between the Works of Assata Shakur and Socrates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 196.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsbooks.com/products/details/if-i-were-a-cat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CXKAZ5AO7UJBOWCKRUNCXJJSO5VOCQII", "length": 229, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kidsbooks.com", "title": "If I Were A Cat", "raw_content": "Preschoolers are sure to giggle as they imagine what it would be like to be a cat\u2014whether it\u2019s a little kitten, a cat that climbs, or even a wildcat! A mirror at the end of this rhyming story adds an exciting element of surprise!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marian-henley/the-shiniest-jewel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ENJGUQEZUXEJMJVVBEQACLLRIWT3YLOK", "length": 1756, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kirkusreviews.com", "title": "THE SHINIEST JEWEL by Marian Henley , Marian Henley | Kirkus Reviews", "raw_content": "THE SHINIEST JEWEL\nby Marian Henley & illustrated by Marian Henley\nIn her first contribution to the growing genre of graphic memoir, syndicated cartoonist Henley (Laughing Gas, 2002, etc.) recounts the life-altering events following her decision to adopt a child in her late 40s.\nThe narrative begins with the author informing her family in Texas that a six-month-old Russian boy named Sergey was waiting for her to claim him from an orphanage in St. Petersburg. Henley\u2019s simple pen-and-ink drawings humorously illustrate her trepidation in telling loved ones of her plans to adopt and effectively convey the many trying moments resulting from her decision. It precipitated a reevaluation of what had become a long-distance relationship with longtime boyfriend Rick, and also coincided with a rapid decline in her father\u2019s health. Henley excels in illustrating the intangibles of experience. One of the most frequent states in which she found herself was that of waiting. \u201cI waited\u2026and waited\u2026and waited\u201d for the adoption agency to update her on Sergey\u2019s status, Henley writes; the words appear in frames showing her brushing up on Russian grammar, listlessly washing dishes and doing a headstand in yoga class. Similarly, after Sergey\u2019s adoption fell through and her father continued to linger in the hospital, the author indicates the passage of time with a single picture depicting the phases of the moon, captioned, \u201cThere was nothing to say anyway.\u201d Henley\u2019s illustrations richly detail her inaction, and her dynamic narrative flows seamlessly and can easily be devoured in one sitting.\nSpare, poetic storytelling conveys a tender, bare-bones depiction of personal growth, told simply enough to engage young and old alike.\nPublisher: Springboard Press", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-sragow/victor-fleming/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:25Z", "digest": "sha1:A2G7CKWB7OWJZKADVQQUG6YVOBCFD5TW", "length": 2394, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.kirkusreviews.com", "title": "VICTOR FLEMING by Michael Sragow | Kirkus Reviews", "raw_content": "An American Movie Master\nThe life and career of a protean figure from Hollywood\u2019s early days.\nThe present obscurity of Victor Fleming (1889\u20131949) doesn\u2019t reflect the extent of his influence and achievements, suggests Baltimore Sun film critic Sragow (editor: James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism, 2005, etc.). Displaying an early fascination with and facility for things mechanical, the California native occupied himself with automobiles before devoting his energies to photography, which led him to work as a cinematographer and director for MGM. Sragow authoritatively discourses on Fleming\u2019s strengths as a filmmaker, analyzing the director\u2019s knack for conveying the kinetic excitement of what were, after all, moving pictures, his ease with a diverse range of genres and his deft touch with actors. Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Jean Harlow were among those who developed much of their iconic personae through their associations with Fleming. Sragow provides ample evidence that his male stars incorporated the director\u2019s mystique into their own on-screen identities, quoting family members and colleagues who inevitably described Fleming as an uncommonly charismatic man\u2019s man: a sportsman, gentleman and irresistible catnip to the ladies, including lovers Clara Bow and Ingrid Bergman. (He directed Bergman in Joan of Arc, a punishing project and critical flop that may well have lead to his premature death.) Fleming\u2019s most famous accomplishment is his miraculous 1939 double-header. After The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind foundered in early going with their original directors, he stepped in and stewarded two of cinema\u2019s all-time classics to the screen despite impossibly difficult technical demands, studio politics and temperamental talent. The section on these two films alone, filled with backstage gossip and expert insight into the methods of Golden Age studio filmmaking, is worth the price of admission, but the rest of Sragow\u2019s meticulously researched and engrossing history of this largely forgotten great director is a must for any serious movie fan.\nScholarly, impassioned and riveting\u2014a dandy corrective to an undervalued legacy and an immersive trip through a vanished era of popular entertainment.\nBOOKS ON FILM:\nby James Curtis\nby Robert Ben Garant\nCONVERSATIONS WITH MARTIN SCORSESE\nSCANDALS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD\nby Jeffrey Meyers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.klm.com/en-nz/flights-to-vilnius", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6B6IG7TZDNMLZ7AJ3C5NFTEP6GSSP3WV", "length": 2738, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.klm.com", "title": "Flights to Vilnius (VNO) | KLM Vilnius tickets from NZD 1,586 - KLM.com", "raw_content": "Flights to Vilnius (VNO) from NZD 1,586*\nTop flight deals to Vilnius (VNO)*\nAuckland (AKL) to Vilnius (VNO)\nFly to Vilnius with KLM\nTogether with our global network, we as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines offer flights to Vilnius, serving Vilnius Airport (VNO). We pride ourselves on our tireless efforts to get you to your destination on time, and as such we are extremely proud of our reputation for punctuality. With our focus on arriving on schedule and our convenient flight times, you can be confident flying with us on your next trip to Vilnius.\nTop Vilnius attractions\nVilnius Cathedral: a beautifully restored Roman Catholic cathedral, originally built in 1783 and home to more than forty works of art dating from the 16th through 19th centuries, including frescoes and paintings of various sizes.\nGediminas\u2019 Tower: a famous historic tower overlooking the city, nowadays housing a museum exhibiting archaeological findings from the hill and the surrounding areas.\nSts. Peter & Paul's Church: a stunning baroque Roman Catholic Church built in 1638, boasting masterful compositions of some 2.000 stucco figures by Giovanni Pietro Perti, and ornamentation by Giovanni Maria Galli.\nSt. Anne's Church: an incredibly picturesque church in Vilnius\u2019 Old Town, reminiscent of flamboyant and brick gothic architecture, it is said to be Napoleon's favourite church.\nKGB Museum: used as a prison for political enemies by both the Nazis during World War 2, and the KGB during the Cold War; the soviet-brutalist building now serves as a museum telling the story of the various invasions into Lithuania.\nIf you\u2019re itching to find out more about beautiful Vilnius, take a look at our travel guide. We\u2019ve got all of the information you need on the best attractions to visit so you don\u2019t have to miss a thing on your holiday to Vilnius!\nWhat\u2019s the best way to get around Vilnius?\nThere is an excellent bus system that can be used to explore Vilnius. Trolleybuses and normal bus routes operate regularly throughout the city. Be warned that buses and trolleybuses use the same numbering system but run different routes, so while you might need a number 2 trolleybus, the number 2 bus won\u2019t be the same! There are also express buses, known as \u201cgreitasis\u201d which run to and from the main stops at a quicker pace.\nWhat\u2019s the weather in Vilnius?\nVilnius is cold and wet most of the year, with quite a lot of rainfall reported each month. If you really want to avoid the rain, try travelling in February. While February is one of the driest months, it is also one of the coldest. Over December, January and February, temperatures can plummet to colds of -5\u00b0C (23\u00b0F). The annual high temperature is just 17\u00b0C (62\u00b0F) in July.\nMore Vilnius flights\nAuckland - Vilnius", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 95715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.komu.com/news/calif-tech-firm-opens-office-in-kc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4MXMVNHPMRNEIME36ZD5AGRPR2XNXABI", "length": 978, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.komu.com", "title": "Calif. Tech Firm Opens Office in KC", "raw_content": "Calif. Tech Firm Opens Office in KC\n5 years 3 months 5 days ago Sunday, November 10 2013 Nov 10, 2013 Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:07:55 PM CST November 10, 2013 in News\nKANSAS CITY (AP) - A video-conferencing firm from Silicon Valley is opening its first office outside California in Kansas City.\nThe Kansas City Star reports Suitable Technologies has space at City Center Square and will employ one person to start, although it's planning to hire more.\nBob Marcusse, president and CEO of the Kansas City Area Development Council, said in a statement that the company was attracted to the Kansas City market because of Google Fiber. But he says the impression the city made \"sealed the deal.\"\nThe firm plans to build an international support center for what it calls the Beam, which enables users to communicate instantly to remote locations using video-conferencing technology over a Wi-Fi or cellular 4G LTE connection. Kansas City competed with Austin, Texas, for the center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 390, "original_length": 14304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 201.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.komu.com/news/trains-collide-injure-two", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XNMG3IHCH6Y7QTWFE6434C4EIFAUUBNI", "length": 587, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.komu.com", "title": "Trains Collide, Injure Two", "raw_content": "Trains Collide, Injure Two\n8 years 3 months 1 week ago Sunday, November 07 2010 Nov 7, 2010 Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:11:27 PM CST November 07, 2010 in News\nRURAL PLATTE COUNTY - Two trains derailed near Kansas City, leaving two people with injuries. Authorities said two trains were involved in the early morning derailment in Rural Platte County. One train failed to pull into a side track after stopping when the second one hit it. Several empty rail cars and an engine were knocked off the tracks. Officials haven't been able to determine the extent of damage to the cars or track.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 13874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.komu.com/videos/lack-of-lethal-drugs-could-alter-missouri-death-penalty-procedure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NRVOCHD4OV7AOSPUTNEVM7HMA2C4UQ6J", "length": 1760, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.komu.com", "title": "Lack of lethal drugs could alter Missouri death penalty procedure", "raw_content": "Lack of lethal drugs could alter Missouri death penalty procedure\nCOLUMBIA - On Monday, the American Pharmacists Association decided to take a stand against providing lethal drugs to corrections departments around the country.\n\"I think it's such a welcome step forward. So many medical associations have recognized, rightfully, that it is inappropriate for anyone involved in the health care field to be involved in the process of execution,\" said Staci Pratt, State Coordinator for Missourians Against the Death Penalty.\nWith lethal drugs harder to obtain, Missouri and other states may have to turn to older methods such as the electric chair, firing squads and the gas chamber.\nKOMU 8 was unable to reach the Missouri Department of Corrections for comment as to whether it would use these older methods if lethal drugs were unavailable.\nThe state of Missouri already offers the gas chamber as an alternative to lethal injection for death row inmates.\nAlternatively, many hope this step will deter Missouri and other states from administering the death penalty at all.\n\"This is really an opportunity to say, if so many organizations are against this... it's a flag that should tell states that they should no longer be in the business of executing people,\" Pratt said.\nIn 2014 Missouri and Texas each executed 10 inmates, more than any other states in the country. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Missouri has executed 82 inmates since reinstating the death penalty in 1975.\nMissouri currently has two inmates scheduled for execution, Andre Cole on April 14 and Kimber Edwards on May 12.\nCOLUMBIA - On Monday, the American Pharmacists Association decided to take a stand against providing lethal drugs to corrections departments... More >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 8029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.koolsmilesjobs.com/jobs/dentist-in-hattiesburg-mississippi/5000454477706", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QYVVHOZXHFFND3IQC6KY6UXDOV5P57Q4", "length": 525, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.koolsmilesjobs.com", "title": "Dental Anesthesiologist in - Kool Smiles", "raw_content": "Dental practice seeks Medical or Dental Anesthesiologist. Large, multi-practice organization with strong mission to provide quality dental care to underserved families is seeking a Medical or Dental Anesthesiologist. As an Anesthesiologist, you will be changing the lives of adults and children who often do not have access to affordable, quality dental care by providing care in a hospital, surgery center or in office with a pedodontist.\nFlexible employment options including full time, part time and independent contractor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/natural-world/high-falls-on-the-pigeon-river/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:35ZRD5J5LYOZMGFSA5IUDE4JVPHY6I7C", "length": 1273, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.lakesuperior.com", "title": "High Falls on the Pigeon River - Lake Superior Magazine", "raw_content": "Home The Lake Natural World High Falls on the Pigeon River\nThe week of May 20, 2013, was one of tragic storms across North America, and the Lake Superior region wasn't spared, with heavy rain occurring all around the lake. There were road washouts south of Wawa in the east, flooding in Thunder Bay, road overflows in many area and major increases in rivers on every shore.\nThis was most evident with record flows over almost all of the waterfalls. The High Falls on the Pigeon River, on the border between the United States and Canada in northern Minnesota, experienced almost double its normal flow midweek after the rains. This video, shot on Thursday morning, May 23rd, shows heavy flow over the falls at almost 6,500 cubic feet per second. The depth gauges on the river showed higher levels than the record rainfall of June 2012. Hundreds of mini-waterfalls came to life along all of the bluffs of the lake, but by the weekend, most had deposited the extra water into Lake Superior and had receded to normal levels.\nWith a late spring and near drought conditions throughout the region, the rain was more than welcome. The possibilities of more rain during the next week and lower temperatures promise an even later spring for many areas.\nWaterfalls Pigeon River Spring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 7437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/opportunity-to-cop-a-look-behind-the-scenes-1-7497434", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DAXLY35IML66QTOFKLTNLUAPTLUWMUCF", "length": 2979, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.lancasterguardian.co.uk", "title": "Opportunity to cop a look behind the scenes - Lancaster Guardian", "raw_content": "Opportunity to cop a look behind the scenes\nThousands of people made the most of the chance to take a look behind the scenes of life at Lancashire Police HQ.\nFollowing the success of last year\u2019s event, force bosses opened up their Hutton base and invited residents to an open day at the weekend.\nMounted branch enter thye arena at the 2nd Lancashire Police HQ Open Week-End in Hutton.\nAround 20,000 people turned up over the two days as police gave demonstrations of the work they do to keep the county safe.\nFrom investigating crime scenes to watching the police horses in action, there was a wide range of information and entertainment for visitors to the event \u2013 paid for entirely by cash seized from criminals.\nChief constable Steve Finnigan said: \u201cIt is to give members of the public, who we serve, an opportunity to come and have a look at what it is the police do.\n\u201cIt brings them up close to us and gives them a bit of an insight into the real variety of things we do.\u201d\nThe police in Lancashire have a fantastic relationship with the public and the response has been great\nThe event saw twice as many visitors as last year, with people of all ages eager to take a look around.\nBut with the heightened terrorism threat facing the country now, safety was a top priority at the weekend.\nChief Constable Finnigan added: \u201cWe had to put in place more security this year \u2013 people were getting scanned on the way in.\u201d\nLorraine Ellwood, rural policing and wildlife coordinator, was on hand to give visitors an insight into the hard work that goes into protecting communities outside the town and city centres.\nDisplays at the weekend included sheep, birds of prey and reptiles.\nShe said: \u201cWe were raising awareness of rural and wildlife crime \u2013 74 per cent of Lancashire is rural.\n\u201cThere is a massive part of Lancashire that suffers a different kind of crime.\u201d\nElsewhere, detectives from the serious and organised crime unit gave visitors a glimpse of the hard work that goes into solving some of the biggest and most complex crimes in the county.\nDet Chief Insp Graham Gallagher said: \u201cWe have got lots of highly skilled investigators using sophisticated tactics just to keep the community safe.\n\u201cThis event is around flagging up these different facets of policing.\n\u201cWe have had a fantastic response \u2013last year we had 5,000 people each day and this year it\u2019s 10,000.\u201d\nDetectives\u2019 talks around the work that goes into solving murders, kidnappings and other high-profile crimes drew large crowds at the weekend.\nLancashire\u2019s Police and Crime Commissioner praised the event, saying: \u201cIt shows people the range of work police officers do.\n\u201cThe police in Lancashire have a fantastic relationship with the public and the response has been great.\u201d\nKim Burford, of Thornton, was at the event and said: \u201cIt\u2019s very good. We watched the mounted police and had a look at the forensic display - the boys liked that.\n\u201cYouve got everything you could wish to see here \u2013 it\u2019s a really good idea.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.laressia.it/en/.e77", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:X335RBYKER2C5FZ5IDAIG7CG62CLGLYH", "length": 5721, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.laressia.it", "title": "Cart 0", "raw_content": "Cookies \"extensive information\" about the use of cookies\nThis \"extended information\" has been compiled and customized specifically for this site www.laressia.it according to the provisions of the Ordinance of 8 May 2014 issued by the Italian Authority for the Protection of Personal Data. 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In the mask that opens, select the menu item \"Privacy\", where you can set the blocking of all or part of cookies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 10057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-jason-mitchell-straight-outta-compton-20151124-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYZZQFY62N432XPTF4MZRJT4WNKFPW4T", "length": 4114, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "After 'Straight Outta Compton,' Eazy-E actor Jason Mitchell keeps following his instincts - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "After 'Straight Outta Compton,' Eazy-E actor Jason Mitchell keeps following his instincts\nJason Mitchell, who portrays Eazy-E in \u201cStraight Outta Compton,\u201d took up acting just five years ago. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)\nSome of Jason Mitchell's most important scenes in the breakout summer hit \"Straight Outta Compton\" involved his character, N.W.A co-founder Eric Lynn Wright (a.k.a. \"Eazy-E\"), and the group's manager, Jerry Heller, played by veteran actor Paul Giamatti. Unlike Mitchell's experience with the rest of the cast, there was no time for him and Giamatti to rehearse before filming began.\nApparently, there wasn't much need.\nAccording to director F. Gary Gray, Mitchell made an immediate impression on his Oscar-nominated costar. \"The first couple of scenes that Paul had with Jason, [Paul] pulled me aside and said, 'This guy is really \u2026 special.' He said he was one of the best he'd ever worked with,\" Gray says. \"At first, Jason thought it was just a compliment, but Paul was like, 'No, no, no. I'm serious. You don't understand. There is something very natural and organic about your approach that I very rarely see. And I'm talking about the veterans.'\"\nGiamatti isn't the only one who has recognized Mitchell's talent. The 28-year-old earned significant critical acclaim for his portrayal of Wright, a rap pioneer who shocked the hip-hop world when he died from complications of AIDS at the age of 31.\nMitchell, a New Orleans native, hasn't been in the game long. He always felt that he was a charismatic person who could make his family laugh, so five years ago he decided to try acting.\n\"I just didn't see much of a great future,\" Mitchell says of his life before he began acting classes. \"My friends were into the wrong things. I didn't know what to do with myself and I just started with trying to make new friends.\"\nComedic confidence aside, Mitchell was completely oblivious as to whether he had the \"acting chops\" to turn something that started as a social experiment into a serious career. But he quickly fell in love with the art form and began to study in earnest.\nHe recalls, \"Y'know how you have a coach who is, like, 'Yeah, take this home. Study this and if you have any questions you can call me up.' It's funny, my first acting coach, Ron Flagg, I remember him laughing [and saying to Samuel L. Jackson], 'Jason was really that dude who went home and was, like, \"Hey, sorry to call you so late, but \u2026\"' But I just loved it. The feeling that it gives you is a really, really strong high.\"\nMitchell's first paying gig was as a cashier opposite Jason Clarke and Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz in 2011's \"Texas Killing Fields.\" He had just three lines \u2014 and they all made it into the picture (\"I didn't realize you could get cut\"). What really brought him to Hollywood's attention, though, were roles he landed in two Mark Wahlberg films that shot in his hometown: 2012's \"Contraband\" and \"Broken City\" the following year. He didn't even have to audition for the latter because Wahlberg had taken such a liking to him the first time around. Mitchell then started getting larger roles to audition for, including \"Compton.\" Gray was impressed after watching his submission.\n\"He actually brought the tears and wasn't forced,\" Gray says. \"Often [new actors] come in and it's their big shot and they act with a capital 'A.' And I like people who just serve the truth. Whether it's high or low, whatever you would do naturally, and he had that natural instinct.\"\nAfter he shot Gray's movie, Mitchell beat out a number of established comedians for a supporting role in \"Keanu,\" the upcoming Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele comedy. He's currently filming \"Kong: Skull Island\" alongside Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston, and Mitchell has given serious thought to the direction he'd like to take his career next.\n\"I kind of want to be that guy who has no problem doing anything but has this really great sense of humor and has chops on drama,\" Mitchell says. \"Almost like a new Will Smith, but it's kind of different because Will has the tall, dark and handsome going and I don't have that.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 7106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 194.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.learnnewthingslnt.tk/2019/02/shree-airlines-gets-permission-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3BULBRO7TN7FN3JKGDPYJOYIOLLGPMRM", "length": 1850, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.learnnewthingslnt.tk", "title": "Shree Airlines gets permission to operate int\u2019l chartered flights - LEARN NEW THINGS", "raw_content": "Business Shree Airlines gets permission to operate int\u2019l chartered flights\nShree Airlines gets permission to operate int\u2019l chartered flights\nThe civil aviation regulator has allowed Shree Airlines to operate international chartered flights of up to three hours, enabling the private airline company to fly to destinations such as India and Bangladesh.\nThe Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) this week allowed Shree Airlines to use three of its four aircraft \u2014 two 50-seater CRJ-200s and a 70-seater CRJ-700 \u2014 to conduct short-haul international chartered flights.\n\u201cThis permission will enable the airline to operate chartered flights to neighbouring India and Bangladesh,\u201d said CAAN Deputy Director General Rajan Pokharel. \u201cThe CAAN is also considering on allowing the airline company to operate international scheduled flights.\u201d\nShree Airlines has already submitted documents to the CAAN seeking permission to operate international scheduled flights. \u201cWe are going through those documents and will issue a license soon,\u201d said Pokharel. The airline company has sought a \u2018Class C\u2019 licence, which allows it to operate international flights of up to three hours.\nAnil Manandhar, corporate director of Shree Airlines, said that the company has laid the groundwork to commence international operation. \u201cWe can begin international scheduled flights as soon as we get the clearance from the CAAN and international destinations we will be flying to,\u201d said Manandhar.\nShree Airlines, which began its operation in 2002 as a helicopter service provider, launched fixed-wing air operations in August 2017. Since then it has been operating domestic scheduled flights.\nEarlier, Buddha Air, which was also conducting domestic scheduled flights, had obtained permission to operate scheduled short-haul international flights.\nfrom Business \u2013 The Himalayan Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/x774171474", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EJWX2N27YEZIVSUPIUIHHSEA6WIKLNOF", "length": 3781, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.leesvilledailyleader.com", "title": "Wood on Words: Confused by cliches? You\u2019re not alone - News - Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville, LA - Leesville, LA", "raw_content": "Wood on Words: Confused by cliches? You\u2019re not alone\nThe topic of the very first Wood on Words back in 2002 was the phrase \u201cjust deserts,\u201d which many people mistakenly believe should be \u201cjust desserts.\u201d It\u2019s natural to think of sugary treats as a reward, but the phrase is about receiving something that\u2019s deserved, which is where \u201cdeserts\u201d comes from.\nThe topic of the very first Wood on Words back in 2002 was the phrase \u201cjust deserts,\u201d which many people mistakenly believe should be \u201cjust desserts.\u201d\nIt\u2019s natural to think of sugary treats as a reward, but the phrase is about receiving something that\u2019s deserved, which is where \u201cdeserts\u201d comes from.\nAdditionally, just deserts can just as easily refer to punishment, which we usually don\u2019t associate with sweetness.\nSimilar-sounding words cause plenty of confusion in English. Take, for example, \u201chappy medium,\u201d a pleasant place smack-dab in the middle. The goal of striving for a happy medium is to avoid extremes.\nHowever, there is no happy \u201cmedian.\u201d\nAnother synonym for \u201cmedium\u201d is \u201cmean,\u201d but the phrase \u201chappy mean\u201d would sound like a contradiction in terms.\n\u201cGolden mean,\u201d however, a phrase translated from the Latin in a poem written by Horace some 2,000 years ago, is essentially the same concept as happy medium.\nFor a confounding trio, it\u2019s hard to beat \u201cjury-rigged,\u201d \u201cjerry-built\u201d and \u201cgerrymandered.\u201d\nThe first two sometimes get merged into \u201cjerry-rigged,\u201d but there is no such animal.\nThe correct word to describe something created \u201cfor temporary or emergency use\u201d is \u201cjury-rigged.\u201d It has nothing to do with a miscarriage of justice.\nIt\u2019s a combination of old nautical terms, \u201cjury\u201d meaning \u201cmakeshift\u201d and \u201crig\u201d for \u201cto fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with sails, shrouds, etc.\u201d\nWhile something that\u2019s \u201cjury-rigged\u201d isn\u2019t built to be long-lasting, it can still be of good quality. In contrast, \u201cjerry-built\u201d is applied to something poorly made with cheap materials.\nWebster\u2019s says \u201cJerry,\u201d in this case, stems from \u201can old generalized epithet, especially of belittlement.\u201d\nAs the change in spelling indicates, it\u2019s an entirely different \u201cGerry\u201d in \u201cgerrymandering.\u201d It\u2019s a word for the practice of setting the boundaries of voting districts in a way that gives a distinct advantage to the political party drawing the lines.\nIt was coined in the early 19th century, when an especially strange-looking map was produced while Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, It was suggested that the result looked like a salamander, and \u201cgerrymander\u201d was born.\nGerry was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and served as vice president for two years under President James Madison, but gerrymandering is his claim to fame.\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019ve covered some of the preceding before, but recently I encountered a phrase I\u2019d never seen. In a criticism of the governor\u2019s budget proposal, someone said, \u201cSooner or later, you have to pay the fiddler.\u201d\nThe correct payee, of course, is the \u201cpiper.\u201d\nI always assumed the origin of the phrase was the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who rid a village of rats with his magical music. When the villagers reneged on paying him, he returned and piped all the children away.\nIn \u201cThe Dictionary of Cliches,\u201d James Rogers writes that it comes from the custom of paying pipers for providing entertainment in taverns and at various ceremonies. He adds that in the 19th century, this practice also gave rise to \u201che who pays the piper\ncalls the tune.\u201d\nThe story of Hamelin is about four centuries older than a passage cited by Rogers, but his explanation is more directly applicable. In some versions of the tale, the people of Hamelin never did pay the piper, but they paid dearly for not paying.\nBarry Wood is a copy editor at the Register Star. Contact him at bwood@rrstar.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 179.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legalgamblingandthelaw.com/online-casinos-alternative-mastecard-payment-methods", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NXIWVMBUH443DAXI5YDNNDZS5VD2W2AC", "length": 5986, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.legalgamblingandthelaw.com", "title": "Online Casinos Alternative Mastercard Payment Methods", "raw_content": "Online Casinos Alternative Mastercard Payment Methods\nIn 1966 the Bank of America card received its rival in MasterCard. It was the effort of four financial institutions that created the newly established brand: Crocker National Bank, United California Bank, Bank of California and Wells Fargo.\nBut, it wasn\u2019t called MasterCard up until 1979. It was called Master Charge. Anyway, today MasterCard is a huge brand with over 8,000 employees that has generated assets of over $14 billion.\nDespite all of that enormous capital and influence in the world, MasterCard is still not 100% available at all online casinos compared to Visa for example. While some online casinos allow deposits and withdrawals using MasterCard, many of them will allow only deposits.\nHowever, sometimes they do accept MasterCard transactions even if it\u2019s not listed in the casino\u2019s \u2018Banking\u2019 section. This is why it\u2019s best to contact customer support to make sure that you can use your MasterCard card for your online casino account.\nMasterCard deposits are instant, but sometimes they include processing fees. Plus, the withdrawals, when they are accepted, can take up to 5 days to be processed. Combine all of this with the fact that you may be uncomfortable with giving your card number, especially the CVV number on the back of the card, which ensures security (when no one knows it), you realize that MasterCard has many drawbacks.\nSo, after reading this, you may be thinking about alternative payment methods to fund your online casino account. Luckily for you, there are plenty to choose from, and here we will present you the most popular alternatives that you can use.\nAlternative Payment Methods to MasterCard to Fund Online Casinos\nFunding Your Casino Account with an e-wallet\nPopular e-wallets\nAs its more successful rival, Visa is a brand that you can find literally everywhere not only at online casinos. It\u2019s as basic as the option to pay in cash in stores and out of some reason it is more trusted than MasterCard. Visa Inc., the company behind the card has operations all over the world and processes billions of transactions that can get up to a value of $6.8 trillion annually.\nThe company uses 500 variables to check every transaction, which it also subjects to 100 fraud-detection parameters. It\u2019s safe to say that Visa transactions are some of the safest out there, so it\u2019s no wonder that Visa cards are used more than MasterCard cards. But, despite all of this, Visa has that 3 to 5 processing period of time too for withdrawals. Deposits are still instant like with MasterCard.\nOther credit/debit cards that you can use as alternatives are American Express and Maestro, but these are offered at fewer casinos.\nIf by now you are having second thoughts about using your credit or debit card to fund your casino account, you may want to consider other options such as e-wallets. E-wallets are great because you can link up your MasterCard with your preferred e-wallet and use it to fund your account without the online casino having anything to do with your card at all.\nHow does an e-wallet work? Well, an e-wallet helps you avoid exposing your card or bank details to any vendor, which is like a dream come true for players that are more paranoid about online transactions. You do have to enter you card details in your e-wallet account, but only once and no one can see them ever. When you use an e-wallet to deposit you just give your e-wallet email and nothing more.\nE-wallets are extremely popular among casino players, which is why they are massively used in the industry. Services like Skrill (formerly Moneybookers), Neteller, Click2Pay, EcoPayz and other have generated most of their revenue thanks to casino players using them for their daily transactions. E-wallets are popular because of the protection it offers, speedy withdrawals and convenience.\nDon\u2019t be surprised, but PayPal is not that popular e-wallet for online casino deposits.\nSkrill is the absolute champion in e-wallets when it comes to online casino/sportsbook/poker/bingo transactions. It\u2019s a payment option that every online casino has. The company is so much involved in the online casino industry that it even advertises bonuses from gambling operators on its website and through its newsletter.\nOpening a Skrill account is fast and easy. Follow the common registration procedure, and you will have yourself an e-wallet account in a day or two. Also, online casinos give small bonuses if you make a deposit using Skrill. This is on top of the standard bonuses.\nNeteller is the second most popular e-wallet among players because it\u2019s been around since the beginnings of the online gambling industry. At one point 15 years ago Neteller accounted for almost all of the online transactions that were going in and out of casinos.\nThere are very few prepaid cards that you can use for funding your casino account, but those that are available, like Paysafecard (and Ukash in the past) are widely available across the globe for purchasing. Prepaid cards are convenient for players that don\u2019t have bank accounts or credit/debit cards or don\u2019t want these to be associated with gambling. Why? Because buying a prepaid card is a one-off thing.\nAfter entering the unique number on the prepaid card in the casino cashier, you can discard the card and go on with your life without fearing that your finances are under threat of being hacked.\nFortunately for everyone, there are plenty of payment methods available for every taste. Don\u2019t like e-wallets or prepaid? Try online banking, wire transfer, checks or other methods. Many casinos offer all possible options available today and all you have to do is just choose which one suits you best.\nHowever, always check with customer support if there are any hidden costs for your chosen payment method. Sometimes these are not advertised (because they are hidden of course), but can be found deep in the terms & conditions, the cashier info section or by asking customer support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 9799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legalservicecentre.com/category/law/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:TIHMN3XII5GLGF5CLDPV57HXWTTMV4FZ", "length": 361, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.legalservicecentre.com", "title": "Law \u2013 Legal Service Centre", "raw_content": "Some personal injury cases take longer than others, but all are resolved in one of two ways: by taking the case to court or by settling with the at-fault party. \u2026\nA divorce attorney in Carpentersville will be experienced in helping people through the emotionally charged time of ending their relationship. It\u2019s important to make sure that you are working with \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lewisthomason.com/maggie-cooper-and-jimmy-duckworth-triumph-in-united-states-supreme-court/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EYZ6CZY4ZZJOUCMGK42W6WYOIEYPX5TJ", "length": 2120, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lewisthomason.com", "title": "Maggie Cooper and Jimmy Duckworth Triumph in United States Supreme Court | Lewis Thomason", "raw_content": "Maggie Cooper and Jimmy Duckworth Triumph in United States Supreme Court\nIt is not often that a Lewis Thomason litigation matter goes all the way to the United States Supreme Court. But earlier this year, Maggie Cooper and Jimmy Duckworth of LT Memphis found themselves responding to a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court by the plaintiffs in a healthcare liability case which LT had won in the Tennessee Supreme Court.\nThe plaintiffs sought a review by the nation\u2019s highest Court of the Tennessee Supreme Court\u2019s ruling that there is no cause of action in Tennessee for disruption of family planning.\nPlaintiffs contended that this decision violated the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution.\nMaggie Cooper and Jimmy Duckworth prepared and submitted a brief to the United States Supreme Court arguing that the petition should be denied since the plaintiffs had waived their constitutional argument having never advanced it in the underlying proceedings in the Tennessee Courts. Maggie and Jimmy argued further that even if the constitutional issue was considered, there was no constitutional violation as the case was simply a state law healthcare liability action that was dismissed on the merits.\nOn May 23rd, the United States Supreme Court denied the Petition for Writ of Certiorari.\nLewis Thomason congratulates Maggie and Jimmy on their victory.\nMaggie Cooper is a shareholder in the firm\u2019s Memphis office. A native Memphian, Ms. Cooper has a diverse litigation practice, with particular emphasis in healthcare liability, transportation, and business and commercial litigation. Ms. Cooper has successfully defended cases prior to trial and through verdict in state and federal court. She routinely obtains favorable results for her clients at the appellate level as well.\nJimmy Duckworth is an associate attorney in the firm\u2019s Memphis office. His civil practice is focused in the areas of healthcare liability, personal injury, and general civil trial work. Mr. Duckworth is also a member of the firm\u2019s construction law and workers\u2019 compensation practice groups.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lexingtonchristianacademy.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HTIGCTFJA6JHIMCTRFPTY4D747OCSPQR", "length": 934, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lexingtonchristianacademy.com", "title": "Lexington Christian Academy - Home", "raw_content": "To raise up effective leaders of Godly character who will blend academic and Biblical truth to influence society for the glory of God.\nLCA Eagles\nThe purpose of Lexington Christian Academy is to instruct students in basic Christian principles that will lead them to a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, to help develop the qualities of Christian character and leadership with emphasis on academics, meaningful experiences, and problem solving.\nThe mission of Lexington Christian Academy is to provide a Christian-based education consistent with Biblical principles within a secure, loving environment. Within this environment students will discover their individual gifts and develop spiritually, socially, and intellectually. We strongly believe that the union of our school, its families, and their churches will equip our students for a life pursuing excellence and integrity under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.libertysc.com/christmas-parade-new-date", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3BR5JI27QKAKXUZKTKCIY3UFHPYVCST7", "length": 179, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.libertysc.com", "title": "Christmas Parade (New Date) | City of Liberty, SC", "raw_content": "Christmas Parade (New Date)\nDue to anticipated rain on December 1st, the Liberty Christmas Parade is rescheduled to Friday, December 7, 2018 at 6pm. We look forward to seeing you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 1556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.library.ohio.edu/2018/08/2018-fall-sustainability-film-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6Q6HDMUEZBOOLI6JSTKVHYPRSMKP4MUR", "length": 1723, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.library.ohio.edu", "title": "2018 Fall Film Series \u2013 OHIO University Libraries", "raw_content": "Join us as Ohio University Libraries, Environmental Studies, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and the Athena Cinema celebrate the sixth year of sponsoring the popular \u201cSustainability Film Series,\u201d an eclectic and diverse series of documentaries in the fields of environmental studies and sustainability. All of fall semester\u2019s screenings, held Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Athena Cinema, are free and open to the public.\nThe last film in the series on Nov. 28 is \u201cTaking Root,\u201d which tells the story of Wangari Maathai in the context of the turbulent political and environmental history of her country, Kenya. Raised in the rural highlands, educated in the United States during the 1960s civil rights era, and the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa, Maathai discovers the heart of her life\u2019s work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up.\nThe purpose of the Sustainability Series, originally titled in 2012 the Common Experience on Sustainability (CEPS), serves as an introduction to local and global issues on the environment. The current film series remains true to its origins by continuing to create an awareness of environmental issues through speakers, activities, and films.\nFilm topics include: energy, biodiversity, zero waste and recycling, climate change, land protection, the clothing industry, oceans, forests and global education.\nA panel discussion immediately follows each film screening. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, filmmakers, producers, and community members are invited to stay and share their thoughts and research. 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(24 x 17.8 cm.)\nSee all works by Harold Knight oil children interiors men portraits study\nProvenance: Colwin and Rosaleen Sheppard; private collection France\nKnight was born in Nottingham, England, the son of an architect, and studied at Nottingham School of Art under Wilson Foster. It was at the School of Art that he met fellow artist, Laura Johnson, whom he married in 1903\nAfter spending time in Paris, studying art under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant, then at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, in 1907 Harold and Laura Knight moved to Newlyn, a fishing port in Cornwall where they became part of the Newlyn School.\nDuring the First World War, Knight\u2019s principles led him to be a conscientious objector, which earned him the rebuke of many of his colleagues and former friends, and put a strain on his physical and mental health as he was forced to work as a farm labourer. When the War ended, he and Laura moved to London, although they frequently returned to Cornwall to paint.\nKnight was elected a Royal Academician in 1931, and died on 3 October 1961 in Colwall, Herefordshire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 168.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.littleoneslondon.co.uk/job/italian-speaking-afterschool-nanny-12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CPR47DKITFTTP3A2OMQG6RWG2PMPHQZX", "length": 757, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.littleoneslondon.co.uk", "title": "Job - Italian speaking Afterschool Nanny | Little Ones London", "raw_content": "A family in Chelsea, London is looking for an Italian speaking Afterschool Nanny to look after their two school-aged children. The working hours for this job would be Monday to Friday, approximately 15 to 20 hours per week. Someone who speaks Italian is essential for this role to help the children communicate well using the language.\nHelping children with their school homework\nKeeping the bedrooms, equipment and toys clean, well maintained, and sterilised\nDriving to school, activities and events\nThe family would like someone who knows how to drive but this is not a requirement. They would like someone to start as soon as possible. To learn more about this role, please complete the form below and a consultant will contact you with more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 529, "original_length": 13434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livenewschat.eu/2012/11/average-us-credit-card-debt-per-borrower-up-in-3q/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CXDJLY2KFSYTM6FE7ME7HK4OJEACMDGE", "length": 415, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.livenewschat.eu", "title": "Average US Credit Card Debt Per Borrower Up In 3Q | LNC \u2013 Live Stream News Chat \u26c5\ufe0f", "raw_content": "Americans cranked up their use of credit cards in the third quarter, racking up more debt than a year ago, while also being less diligent about making payments on time, an analysis of consumer-credit data shows.\nThis entry was posted on November 19th 2012 at 3:11pm/15:11 and is filed under Business, Economy, Live News Column 1, Society/Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liverpoolcreekaquariums.com/store/p12/Rotala_nanjanshen.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JFPDQU2DR6QFRMJGFB2UZFIWUDP4IX2V", "length": 1508, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.liverpoolcreekaquariums.com", "title": "Liverpool Creek Aquariums Rotala nanjenshan", "raw_content": "There is some uncertainty about the correct name of this plant. For some time it has been sold as Mayaca sellowiana, but actually this is Rotala sp. \u201cNanjenshan\u201d (species unknown). It is a graceful plant with needle-shaped leaves. It requires a relatively large amount of light, and CO2 addition is recommended to promote growth. The most decorative effect is achieved by planting it in groups. Also suitable for small aquariums.\nROTALA NANJENSHAN -- 10-12 stems Submersed Grown\nRotala sp. 'Nanjenshan' is native to Taiwan and is likely a natural hybrid between R. rotundifolia and R. wallichii. It is firmly established in the aquarium hobby and available through both retail and trade, where it is sometimes mistakenly labeled as Rotala 'nanjean' or Rotala 'najean'.\nLike the more difficult R. wallichii, Rotala sp. Nanjenshan grows far more easily in water that is soft and rich in carbon dioxide. Unimpeded light and lots of iron are important as well and contribute to a rich reddish color in the apex of the stem. Finally, a well-designed and steady fertilization routine is important; without one, stunting and blackening may result. It does have its needs, but isn't exceptionally hard to grow.\nThe growing tips of this plant naturally arch downward and therefore lend it well to aquascaping. A large grouping planted behind some Cryptocoryne or hardscape makes an effective focal point. To achieve a more compact appearance, give the stand a haircut and wait for the abundant side shoots to grow in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loans.org.uk/bad-credit-loans-uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5MAA6TRGST3NNQO3QVFK3HUVMGOYKMBY", "length": 1449, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.loans.org.uk", "title": "Bad Credit Loans UK", "raw_content": "Will you be offered the typical APR? Probably not\nWith bad credit loans UK customers can choose from a wide range of lenders, many of whom promise free gifts and ultra-low interest rates. However when you look at the small print you'll soon discover that the rate you'll pay is likely to be much higher.\nWhen it comes to bad credit loans UK lenders go out of their way to make their products as attractive as possible, with offers of free gifts such as DVD players and ultra-low interest rates. A bad credit loan at 6.9% APR sounds great, especially when you consider that 6.9% APR is the same rate offered by mainstream lenders to customers with good credit ratings.\nInevitably, the small print tells a different story. The headline rate is for loans in excess of \u00a330,000, secured on your property; borrow \u00a310,000 and the rate rises to 9.5% APR. And these are typical rates, so the lender may charge even more if it considers you to be a risky prospect; for unsecured loans, the rates will be higher still. Some firms also charge hefty administration fees of up to 10% for \"problem cases\".\nWhen they offer bad credit loans UK lenders often suggest that they're ideal for people who can't prove their income, such as the self-employed. However, you'll find that many mainstream lenders are quite happy to consider applications from self-employed people, and if you can't prove your income you might find a self certification loan offers a lower APR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 5258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loeb.com/zh-hans/people/s/swanson-paul-d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DSOXPGG4K4WU5RKFXVXB7WMX6O2GSVCC", "length": 3655, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.loeb.com", "title": "Paul D. Swanson | People | Loeb & Loeb LLP", "raw_content": "pswanson@loeb.com\nPaul Swanson focuses his law practice on diversified corporate, intellectual property and entertainment-related financing transactions.\nChair of the firm\u2019s Entertainment Finance Practice, Paul negotiates complex financings for the production and distribution of a wide range of media, including motion pictures, television programs, video games and digital content. He represents leading financial institutions, investment banks, independent production companies, producers and others in structuring and administering multi-tranche debt and equity credit facilities, co-productions, co-financings, single-project production loans, and other financings. He has also participated in multibillion-dollar media merger and acquisition and securitization transactions and advises clients on an array of bankruptcy and restructuring matters.\nWith a strong background in copyright and entertainment-industry specific issues, Paul also regularly advises his clients in connection with video game, visual effects, motion capture, digital media, software and technology licensing transactions as well as marketing, sponsorship and merchandising agreements.\nSelect examples of Paul's prior experience include:\nRepresented well-known video game publisher in connection with the production, financing and distribution of motion pictures based on its video game properties.\nRepresented high-profile television creator/production company in connection with $150 million term loans and related production and licensing agreements in connection with an animated television series.\nRepresented Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd. in its $3.5 billion purchase of Legendary Entertainment.\nRepresented joint venture in $25 million revolving credit facility to be used to fund prints and advertising costs for motion pictures.\nRepresented Bank of America in a $100 million securitization for a major international reality and scripted television producer and distributor.\nRepresented A24 Films in connection with a $125 million revolving credit facility.\nRepresented MUFG Union Bank in a $200 million film production financing transaction for a well-known motion picture and television producer and distributor.\nRepresented Comerica Bank and MUFG Union Bank as co-lead arrangers and lenders in a $150+ million film ultimates financing transaction.\nRepresented Colony Capital in the acquisition of the Miramax film library from Disney and subsequent debt and securitization transactions.\nRepresented Summit Entertainment in a multi-tranche debt and equity financing transaction and related acquisition of Summit Entertainment\u2019s operations and in connection with numerous motion picture financings, including for The Twilight Saga motion pictures.\nRepresented Comerica Bank in a $32 million financing transaction for 60 episodes of a popular television series.\nRepresented Goldman Sachs, as arranger, in a $200 million film production financing transaction.\nLoeb & Loeb Scores Veteran Media Atty From Irell & Manella\nLoeb & Loeb Bolsters Award-Winning Entertainment Law Practice With New Entertainment Finance Chair Paul Swanson\nLoeb & Loeb Lures Entertainment Finance Vet from Irell & Manella\nSt. John's University, \u6587\u5b66\u5b66\u58eb, magna cum laude\nRecognized in the \"Dealmakers Impact Report,\" Variety magazine's list of people behind the most important entertainment industry deals of the past 12 months (2016)\nRecognized in \"Up Next,\" Variety magazine's list of the best and brightest up-and-coming entertainment attorneys (2011)\nNamed to the Southern California Super Lawyers list (2018)\nNamed to the Southern California Super Lawyers \"Rising Star\" list (2006-2007; 2009-2014)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lorrainebosse-smith.com/category/newsletter/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6OMCWUEVJCZBE5BD4FMYZYHOBY3YG77P", "length": 2079, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lorrainebosse-smith.com", "title": "Newsletter - 3/22 - Lorraine Boss\u00e9-Smith", "raw_content": "YOUR HEALTH Don\u2019t you just love spring? Those back East are especially grateful that winter\u2019s clutch has been released! Besides being the perfect time to thoroughly clean your house and declutter, it also is an excellent opportunity to detox your life. Did you know that the average person spends nearly half their day staring at [\u2026]\nFiled Under: Business/Career, Health & Fitness, Life Coaching, Motivational, Newsletter, Personal Development Tagged With: Career, health, Life, personal development\nMarch 5, 2018 By Lorraine Boss\u00e9-Smith\nYOUR HEALTH I must come clean: I do not get the whole chef reality show stuff that is sweeping the country. People yell, scream, and get all bent out of shape if a dish isn\u2019t perfect. What? It\u2019s just food! The world isn\u2019t going to end if a souffl\u00e9 sinks! Just order pizza. I\u2019ve never [\u2026]\nYOUR HEALTH My husband and I both got some kind of crud back on October 23 after visiting a relative in the hospital. We kept getting worse, and it wasn\u2019t the flu. By Christmas, we had pneumonia. My husband was so frustrated, having to wait hours and hours at urgent care to get help. [\u2026]\nYOUR HEALTH I love watching all sorts of movies. Often times, they offer great lessons for us. Recently when I could not fall asleep and the thoughts of the day were assaulting me like a machine gun, I got the visual of the minions from Despicable Me. Do you know what I\u2019m talking about? It\u2019s [\u2026]\nFiled Under: Business/Career, Health & Fitness, Life Coaching, Motivational, Newsletter, Personal Development Tagged With: Career, health, Life, newsletter, personal development, resolutions\nYOUR HEALTH One of my traditions is baking cookies and breads. I don\u2019t have a huge sweet tooth, but I partake. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, my goal is that of maintaining. This is not the time of year to decide to lose weight! Talk about setting yourself up to fail! In fact, I love what [\u2026]\nFiled Under: Business/Career, Health & Fitness, Life Coaching, Motivational, Newsletter, Personal Development Tagged With: Career, family, fitness, health, Life, Merry Christmas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.losangelescriminallawyers.com/los-angeles-cyber-crime-lawyers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SH7H72ECTQDWSYHRMDJMYAYFK2CETBTP", "length": 5535, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.losangelescriminallawyers.com", "title": "Los Angeles Cyber Crime Lawyers - Spodek Law Group : Spodek Law Group", "raw_content": "Los Angeles Cyber Crime Lawyers\nState and federal prosecutors are working overtime to convict people who are accused of committing cyber crimes. Technology has become more prevalent in everyone\u2019s life in recent decades. This prevalence has led to an increasing number of crimes that are committed using the Internet. Such cyber crimes carry heavy consequences. People who are convicted of cyber crimes in Los Angeles may be looking at considerable jail time, sizable fines and enormous damage to their personal and professional reputations. Fortunately, an experienced California Internet crimes lawyer can help those accused of these offenses defend their good name.\nWhat Is Los Angeles Cyber Crime?\nA cyber crime is any offense that is committed against a network or computer. It is also any crime that is committed using a computer. Thus, someone who hacks into a company\u2019s network and another person who distributed child pornography online may both be accused of a cyber crime. The serious nature of these offenses often draws the attention of the federal government. This is especially true when a government entity or large corporation was the victim of a cyber attack. Federal cyber crime charges can mean even more serious penalties.\nIf you\u2019re being investigated for committing a cyber crime in California, then you need the assistance of a criminal defense attorney. It\u2019s vital to hire a competent, aggressive Los Angeles cyber crimes attorney as soon as possible. Even if your case is in the investigatory stage, it\u2019s important to begin working with a defense lawyer as soon as possible. Your attorney will conduct an investigation that is independent of the one being conducted by police and prosecutors. Moreover, he\u2019ll make certain he has access to all of the information and evidence that the prosecutors possess. In some instances, it\u2019s possible to prevent charges from being filed or to get lesser charges filed. However, you have to hire a Los Angeles Internet crimes lawyer before you can begin to mitigate your circumstances.\nInternet Sex Crimes in California\nSome of the most serious cyber crime charges are those relating to sex offenses. When these offenses involve children, it\u2019s safe to say that the potential consequences are particularly dire. Offenses like solicitation of a minor, luring of a minor and child pornography are pursued with vengeance by the prosecution.\nSolicitation or luring of a minor may involve the act of reviewing message boards and using chat rooms with the apparent goal of meeting a minor in person or asking for inappropriate photographs. Any adult who is charged with trying to meet a minor in person for sexual purposes may be sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $5,000. Actually meeting the minor could mean four years in prison and even heftier fines. Should the meeting take place across state lines, the charges become more complex. The defendant in such a case may be facing charges in both states where crimes occurred.\nThe penalties are no less serious when someone is accused of cyber crimes involving child pornography. Defendants may be sentenced to between one and 10 years. Additionally, they may have to pay fines of up to $100,000. Most defendants convicted of these online crimes are required to register as a sex offender for the rest of their lives.\nClearly, prosecutors take Internet sex crimes seriously. You may be able to avoid the most serious of these consequences or have the charges against you dropped if you act quickly. Enlist the services of an experienced Los Angeles cyber crimes attorney today.\nInternet Fraud in California\nAn increasing number of people are being charged with Internet fraud in Los Angeles. That\u2019s because a multitude of crimes fall under this umbrella. These include phishing, a technique by which individuals obtain passwords, user names or credit card numbers by impersonating a known and trusted person or entity, and spoofing, in which a false IP address is used to deceive recipients regarding the true identity of the sender with the goal of obtaining financial or other personal information. Other types of Internet fraud that are frequently charged in Los Angeles include identity theft, Internet auction fraud and Internet investment fraud. If you are being investigated for any of these crimes or have been charged with at least one of these offenses, then you need a capable Los Angeles cyber crimes defense attorney working for you.\nLos Angeles Hacking Charges\nLike Internet fraud, there are many different cyber crimes that fall under the hacking category. In fact, some fraud charges like phishing, spoofing and identity theft are also considered hacking crimes. However, hacking offenses can also be things like creating viruses or spreading them on networks and wire fraud. If you have been accused of hacking in California, then you need a reliable criminal defense lawyer to represent you in court.\nTalk to a Capable Los Angeles Cyber Crimes Attorney\nWhether charges have been filed against you or not, hiring an attorney to defend you is a wise idea. The sooner you bring in an attorney, the sooner you can resolve this regrettable situation. Prosecutors at both the state and federal levels are bringing Internet crime charges more frequently than ever before. Sometimes they behave in an overzealous manner that does not respect your Constitutional rights. Do not trust the government or its employees to give you fair treatment. 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Growing up he also worked on his grandfather\u2019s farm, helping to bail hay and raise cattle. As he grew older, his passion for the outdoors grew along with him. He spent as much time as he could outside, enjoying hiking, hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and ATV riding with friends and family. He currently works as an Officer of the Corporation who specializes in cabinetry at a design and build firm. He also does part-time work at a hunting outfitter in Franklin County, Indiana doing land management and guiding whitetail and turkey hunts. He furthered his experience by completing the Deer Steward One program through the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA). Dylan is excited to put his knowledge of and passion for the outdoors to help you with all your real estate needs.\nTrophy Deer Hunting Lodge Looking for a piece of property that will produce trophy deer year after year Look no further. This property features 20 acres located in Switzerland County, Indiana. 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Without their continuous hard work and support these things just wouldn\u2019t be possible, especially in the current economic climate.\u201d\nDavinia Seed, one of the members of FOSB, said: \u201cFOSB is constantly raising money for the school.\n\u201cWe do our best with parent support and we are grateful to all parents that have donated and teaching staff and members of the public that keep helping and continuing to support what we do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 9604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maanly.com/topics/dating/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:RLZESFCX5J54KPG5PKF6FXJ23R73J5B5", "length": 736, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.maanly.com", "title": "Dating Archives \u00bb Maanly.com", "raw_content": "If you're like many guys, you're probably wondering how to tell a girl you like her. Understanding how to tell...\nIt is an age-old question with no definitive answer. Every person you ask will tell a different tale, offer different...\nFinding the right bedtime stories for girlfriend is not so easy. So we've taken some time to round up a...\nThings to Do With Your Girlfriend (Fun, Cute, Romantic, Best, Cool) Guide\nHere are a number of things to do with your girlfriend to keep her hitched hook, line and sinker. From...\nSay it: \"flirting....\" This may be one of the hardest things for men to overcome. Even when a girl is...\nDating doesn\u2019t have to be complicated if a man sticks to the basics. From swiping right and left on tinder...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 190.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/Author/deborahallen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YDFFOZIB7VTI2X25L67S3LBSBFCJL63V", "length": 1160, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.macmillanlearning.com", "title": "Deborah Allen", "raw_content": "Deborah Allen is on leave from the University of Delaware to serve in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, where she is a Program Director for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, and for the Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological & Mathematical Sciences (UBM), Course, Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Research Coordination Networks\u2013Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE), and Scholarships in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) programs. Before joining DUE, Allen served as PI of a NSF-funded Teacher Professional Continuum project, and continues to collaborate with the project's team of science and science education faculty who study pre-service teachers' progress through a reform-based teacher preparation program, and who co-teach courses for students in that program. Allen serves on the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education and has co-authored a regularly-featured column on teaching strategies for that journal. She is the author of Transformations: Approaches to College Science Teaching (W.H. Freeman's Scientific Teaching Series, 2009).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 199.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2011/8/more-families-rely-state-insurance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3BZBFVLQBWRC6H4PCOLCTTN3WL3MXMJO", "length": 1058, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.managedcaremag.com", "title": "More Families Rely On State Insurance | Managed Care magazine", "raw_content": "More Families Rely On State Insurance\nMore families are enrolling their children in state-funded public insurance programs like Medicaid and the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), says a new report from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The reasons are evident: job loss, coverage changes in private health insurance plans, and expanded access to public plans.\nThe shift is pronounced in rural areas and in inner cities, which traditionally have had lower coverage rates than suburban areas. The report says that 27 states \u201csaw a decrease in private health insurance coverage for children, with children in Midwestern central cities experiencing the largest shift from private to public insurers in 2009. At the time, private insurance coverage fell 4.3 percentage points, while public coverage rose by 6.5 percentage points.\u201d Alarmingly, about 9 percent of children nationwide are not covered by any form of insurance. More than half these children are eligible for coverage through Medicaid or SCHIP, says the report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.manataka.org/page1487.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QPFMSK2VV4VSG6AMI2BNZ4HOKCT5DK7G", "length": 10587, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.manataka.org", "title": "Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings", "raw_content": "Pre-Columbian and Early American Indian Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings\n\"Traditional Attitudes Toward Bigfoot in Many North American Cultures\"\nBy Gayle Highpine\nOriginally printed in the Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter \"The Track Record\". Excerpted from \"Legends Beyond Psychology\", by Henry James Franzoni III. Reprinted with permission from all parties.\n\"Here in the Northwest, and west of the Rockies generally, Indian people regard Bigfoot with great respect. He is seen as a special kind of being, because of his obvious close relationship with humans. Some elders regard him as standing on the \"border\" between animal-style consciousness and human-style consciousness, which gives him a special kind of power. (It is not that Bigfoot's relationship to make him \"superior\" to other animals; in Indian culture, unlike western culture, animals are not regarded as \"inferior\" to humans but rather as \"elder brothers\" and \"teachers\" of humans. But tribal cultures everywhere are based on relationship and kinship; the closer the kinship, the stronger the bond. Man Indian elders in the Northwest refuse to eat bear meat because of the bear's similarity to humans, and Bigfoot is obviously much more similar to humans than is the bear. As beings who blend the \"natural knowledge\" of animals with something of the distinctive type of consciousness called \"intelligence\" that humans have, Bigfoot is regarded as a special type of being.\"\n\"But, special being as he is, I have never heard anyone from a Northwestern tribe suggest that Bigfoot is anything other than a physical being, living in the same physical dimensions as humans and other animals. He eats, he sleeps, he poops, he cares for his family members. However, among many Indians elsewhere in North America... as widely separated at the Hopi, the Sioux, the Iroquois, and the Northern Athabascan -- Bigfoot is seen more as a sort of supernatural or spirit being, whose appearance to humans is always meant to convey some kind of message.\"\n\"The Lakota, or western Sioux, call Bigfoot Chiye-tanka (Chiha-tanka in Dakota or eastern Sioux); \"chiye\" means \"elder brother\" and \"tanka\" means \"great\" or \"big\".\nIn English, though, the Sioux usually call him \"the big man\". In his book \"In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,\" (Viking, 1980), a non-fiction account of the events dramatized by the excellent recent movie \"Thunderheart\", author Peter Mathiessen recorded some comments about Bigfoot made by traditional Sioux people and some members of other Indian nations. Joe Flying By, a Hunkpapa Lakota, told Mathiessen, \"I think the Big Man is a kind of husband of Unk-ksa, the earth, who is wise in the way of anything with its own natural wisdom. Sometimes we say that this One is a kind of reptile from the ancient times who can take a big hairy form; I also think he can change into a coyote. Some of the people who saw him did not respect what they were seeing, and they are already gone.\"\n\"There is your Big man standing there, ever waiting, ever present, like the coming of a new day,\" Oglala Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches km told Mathiessen.\n\"He is both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as though the trees weren't there... I know him as my brother... I want him to touch me, just a touch, a blessing, something I could bring home to my sons and grandchildren, that I was there, that I approached him, and he touched me.\"\nRay Owen, son of a Dakota spiritual leader from Prairie Island Reservation in Minnesota, told a reporter from (the) Red Wing (Minnesota) Republican Eagle, \"They exist in another dimension from us, but can appear in this dimension whenever they have a reason to. See, it's like there are many levels, many dimensions. When our time in this one is finished, we move on to the next, but the Big Man can go between. The Big Man comes from God. He's our big brother, kind of looks out for us. Two years ago, we were going downhill, really self-destructive. We needed a sign to put us back on track, and that's why the Big Man appeared\".\nRalph Gray Wolf, a visiting Athapaskan Indian from Alaska, told the reporter, \"In our way of beliefs, they make appearances at troubled times\", to help troubled Indian communities \"get more in tune with Mother Earth\". Bigfoot brings \"signs or messages that there is a need to change, a need to cleanse,\" (Minn. news article, \"Giant Footprint Signals a Time to Seek Change,\" July 23,1988).\nMathiessen reported similar views among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway in North Dakota, that Bigfoot --- whom they call Rugaru -- \"appears in symptoms of danger or psychic disruption to the community.\" When I read this, I wondered if it contradicted my hypothesis that the Ojibways had identified Bigfoot with Windago, the sinister cannibal-giant of their legends (see Track Record #14); I had surmised that because I had never heard of any other names for, or references to Bigfoot in Ojibway culture, even though there must have been sightings in woodlands around the Great lakes, and indeed sightings in that region have been reported by non-Indians. But the Turtle Mountain band is one of the few Ojibway bands to have moved much farther west than most of their nation; and Rugaru is not a native Ojibway word. Nor does it come from the languages of neighboring Indian peoples.\nHowever, it has a striking sound similarity to the French word for werewolf, loup garou, and there is quite a bit of French influence among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway. (French-Canadian trappers and missionaries were the first whites that they dealt with extensively, and many tribal members today bear French surnames), so it doesn't seem far-fetched that the Turtle Mountain Ojibway picked up the French name for hairy human-like being, while at the same time taking on their neighbors positive, reverent, attitude toward Bigfoot. After all, the Plains Cree -- even though they retain a memory of their eastern cousins tradition of the Wetiko (as the Windigo is called in Cree) -- have seemed similarly to take on the western tribes view of Bigfoot as they moved west.\nThe Hopi elders say that the increasing appearances of Bigfoot are not only a message or warning to the individuals or communities to whom he appears, but to humankind at large. As Mathiessen puts it, they see Bigfoot as \"a messenger who appears in evil times as a warning from the Creator that man's disrespect for His sacred instructions has upset the harmony and balance of existence.\" To the Hopi, the \"big hairy man\" is just one form that the messenger can take.\nThe Iroquois (Six Nations Confederacy) of the Northeast -- although they live in close proximity to the eastern Algonkian tribes with their Windigo legends -- view Bigfoot much in the same way the Hopi do, as a messenger from the Creator trying to warn humans to change their ways or face disaster. However, mentioned among Iroquois much more often than Bigfoot are the \"little people\" who are said to inhabit the Adirondacks mountains. I never heard any first-hand stories among the Iroquois about encounters with these \"little people\" -- for that matter, I never heard and first-hand stories in that region about Bigfoot, either -- but the Iroquois pass down stories about hunters who occasionally saw small human-like beings in the Adirondacks (which are not all that far from the Catskills, where Rip Van Winkle was alleged to have met some little bowlers) (and slept for 100 years -HF). Some present-day Iroquois assert that the \"little people\" are still there, just not seen as often because the Iroquois don't spend as much time hunting up in the mountains as they used to. many Iroquois seem to regard both Bigfoot and the \"little people\" as spiritual or inter-dimensional beings who can enter or leave our physical dimension as they please, and choose to whom they present themselves, always for a reason.\nStories about small, humanoids who inhabit wild places are found in many areas of the world, especially Europe. (The Kiowa tell a story about several young men who decide to go exploring south from their Texas home for many days, seeing many new things, until they came to a strange forest [obviously the jungles of southern Mexico] whose trees were home to small, furred humanoids with tails! This they found to be too weird, so they immediately headed back for home). I never thought to connect the stories about the \"little people\" with the Sasquatch until Ray Crowe brought up the possible connection. After all, if there may be large relatives of humans living in remote areas, would it be so impossible for there to be small ones? Details that stretch credibility, such as pots of gold, pointed and belled caps, games of ninepins, etc., could conceivably be embellishments added over generations to some genuine accounts of sightings.\nThroughout Native North America, Bigfoot is seen as a kind of \"brother\" to humans.\nEven among those eastern Algonkian tribes to whom Bigfoot represents the incarnation of the Windigo -- the human who is transformed into a cannibalistic monster by tasting human flesh in time of starvation -- his fearsomeness comes from his very closeness to humans. The Windigo is the embodiment of the hidden, terrifying temptation within them to turn to eating other humans when no other food is to be had. he was still their \"elder brother\", but a brother who represented a human potential they feared. As such, the Windigo's appearance was sort of a constant warning to them, a reminder that a community whose members turn to eating each other is doomed much more surely than a community that simply has no food. So the figure of the Windigo is not so far removed from the figure of the \"messenger\" coming to warn humankind of impending disaster if it doesn't cease its destruction of nature.\nThe existence of Bigfoot is taken for granted throughout Native North America, and so are his powerful psychic abilities. I can't count the number of times that I have heard elder Indian people say that Bigfoot knows when humans are searching for him and that he chooses when and to whom to make an appearance, and that his psychic powers account for his ability to elude the white man's efforts to capture him or hunt him down. In Indian culture, the entire natural world -- the animals, the plants, the rivers, the stars -- is seen as a family. And Bigfoot is seen as one of our close relatives, the \"great elder brother\"\nDisha Kowa Entwaanee.......of the Sasquatch people....(Friendship is like peeing your pants, Everyone sees it, BUT only you know the true warmth)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 10709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.manitobamusic.com/member-news/read,article/6939/review-done-by-nashville-music-guide-for-russell-lee-music", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TRBQAEK3E46QZVEPQ467OSOU5XNDEFYE", "length": 209, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.manitobamusic.com", "title": "Review done by Nashville Music Guide for Russell Lee Music | Member News | Manitoba Music", "raw_content": "Review done by Nashville Music Guide for Russell Lee Music\nBy Russell Lee\nhttp://www.nashvillemusicguide.com/canadian-country-rocker-russell-lee-presents-what-do-i-do-with-video-release-for-the-single-picture/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mapquest.com/us/oregon/business-la-grande/dairy-queen-12502403", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7NULKWPT4XSEDHJFGVO7MYIYVYDBUOI", "length": 931, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mapquest.com", "title": "Dairy Queen 2312 Island Ave La Grande, OR Restaurants - MapQuest", "raw_content": "My boyfriend and I were on our way to Seattle and decided to make a quick sweet stop. The line to the drive through was ridiculously long and took forever so we parked and went inside instead. We...\nRemember what \"ice cream\" is? Know what it's supposed to taste like? Even \"soft serve\" though a pathetic excuse for ice cream used to be edible. Stopped in a few weeks ago, had a Sundae. The...\nDairy Queen is usually a great place.. this one is very very slow. In my last visit I ordered a medium blizzard and received a blizzard in what I can only assume was a shot glass. After getting...\nThe wait was terrible, still waiting after 20 minutes, no lines just alot of horseplay it sounds like. Will not be back regardless of food quality\nUsed to love going here as a kid...unfortunately, I don't anymore, because I'm scared of getting food poisoning. It may sound like a scam, but it's true...My wife and I ate separate meals all...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marbellafamilyfun.com/estepona.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZV7XSKSJJSRAWKFGSKMV5S35PFKULKQ", "length": 2441, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.marbellafamilyfun.com", "title": "Estepona | Information and Family Reviews", "raw_content": "Estepona is a very popular destination for both tourists and foreign residents. It is a charming little town that although is growing and becoming more luxurious, it still manages to maintain its Andalusian elderly richness. It is home to beautiful Miami style beaches, traditional cobbled streets, built around its church, several schools, great sport facilities, museums, restaurants and many amenities on it's outskirts.\nThe area has been occupied since prehistoric times; stone-age tools and dolmens have been discovered. Romans occupied the area, but a seaquake destroyed their town or villa in the 4th century. Archeologists have unearthed some foundations and ceramics, although the disaster's effects (together with massive redevelopment in the 1960s) make further finds unlikely\nThe Beaches are compared to Miami because they are so long and wide with beautiful sand and crystal clear sea. There is a beautiful boardwalk that runs along the sea front where there are many \"Chiringuitos - Beach clubs\" and play areas. There is a man made little bay just next to the marina where the water is very shallow and there is lots of parking which is very ideal for a family day out.\nThe Bullring is a big attraction for those who enjoy this sport, otherwise during summer they hold outdoor movie showings there. They also have regular concerts and dance expositions. Another venue for year round events is the \"Palacio de Congresos\" which is at the entrance to the village when you are driving from Marbella. There most recent built venue is this beautiful \"orchidarium\" that you can see in the photo.\nAbout the streets\nThe town like many in Southern Spain was fought over by the moors and the christians until Enrique IV finally captured it in 1457. It began to built around its Church and is still growing today with its squares like plaza de Flores home to Culture Centre and small museums and Art Galleries. Estepona's streets all have a story to tell but the cutest is the poetry streets that has about 17 poems a long the walls of various homes just off the main street which is \"Calle Terraza\". Not to mention the amazing street art on a number of buildings in the town just like the one in the photo on the left.\nJust above and below you can see Estepona's most elite shopping centre, that offers fashion stores, real estate centres, restaurants and this magnificent pool club; Puro Beach, Laguna Village.\nEstepona Related Articles:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marist.edu/-/news-marist-college-to-unveil-latest-piece-of-its-state-of-the-art-fulton-technology-crossroad-project-in-ribbon-cutting-ceremony", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KUXEX3D7GWNJ3BJJTEUU7Y7OTXV7VMZP", "length": 3924, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.marist.edu", "title": "News - Marist College to Unveil Latest Piece of its State-of-the-Art Fulton Technology Crossroad Project in Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - News Detail - Marist College", "raw_content": "News - Marist College to Unveil Latest Piece of its State-of-the-Art Fulton Technology Crossroad Project in Ribbon Cutting Ceremony\nMarist College to Unveil Latest Piece of its State-of-the-Art Fulton Technology Crossroad Project in Ribbon Cutting Ceremony\nPOUGHKEEPSIE, NY\u2014Marist College will unveil the latest piece of its state-of-the-art Fulton Technology Crossroad Project in a ribbon cutting ceremony at 51 Fulton Street in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, October 11, 10:00 a.m.\nAs the central building in the Fulton Technology Crossroad, 51 Fulton will be home to a variety of cutting edge technology programs. The ceremony will showcase work done on 15,000 square feet of the building; renovations are planned for another 30,000 square feet.\nThe building at 51 Fulton Street is part of a three-phase plan to develop the east campus area as the Fulton Technology Crossroad: Phase One featured the construction of the Science and Allied Health Building which opened in 2016; Phase Two is building an addition to and renovating the Steel Plant to house Marist\u2019s highly successful fashion and art programs, which include 3D printing, slated to open in fall 2018; and Phase Three is the building at 51 Fulton. The college has invested $36 million in the overall project thus far, which connects the campus more directly to the greater Poughkeepsie community.\n\u201cThe 51 Fulton project is an example of public-private partnership at its best,\u201d says Marist President David Yellen. \u201cMarist College has long been committed to working with local government to spur economic development and foster innovative technology. This ambitious and important project continues that effort. This project would not have been possible without the sustained support of Dutchess County\u2019s leaders and the numerous departments and offices that worked with us every step of the way to make this endeavor a reality.\u201d\nSeveral government offices assisted with the 51 Fulton project, including the Dutchess County Office of the County Executive, the Dutchess County Department of Public Works, and various departments within the Town of Poughkeepsie, including the Building, Highway, Planning and Police Departments.\n\u201cDutchess County is thrilled to have Marist\u2019s Fulton Technology Crossroad open in Poughkeepsie,\u201d says Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro. \u201cNot only does this continue to position the Hudson Valley as a technology hub, but it\u2019s also a significant step in the development of the Fulton Street corridor.\u201d\nThe project began in 2013 when Marist College purchased the former recycling warehouse from Dutchess County for $600,000. The building was no longer in use and the county sought a buyer; Marist\u2019s purchase of the property was approved by the Dutchess County Legislature.\nTours of the facility will follow the ribbon-cutting.\nAbout Marist College:\nMarist College, recognized for excellence by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Barron's Best Buys in College Education, and Entrepreneur, is a highly selective comprehensive liberal arts institution noted for its leadership in the use of technology in and out of the classroom. Founded in 1929, Marist overlooks the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, midway between New York City and Albany, the state capital. Marist is ecumenical in character and reflects the ideals of the founder of the Marist Brothers, St. Marcellin Champagnat: commitment to excellence in education, a pursuit of higher human values, and dedication to the principle of service. Marist is dedicated to helping students develop the intellect and character required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century. Marist educates 4,700 traditional-age undergraduate students and over 1,300 adult and graduate students in 47 undergraduate majors and 14 graduate programs, including fully online MBA, MPA, MS, and MA degrees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 161.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketingbandar.com/indra-krishnamurthy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OSMIUVTCDW4TQ2VCB6NOQRP4FU67WGJJ", "length": 4052, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.marketingbandar.com", "title": "Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi: Success Breeds Confidence", "raw_content": "\u201cA woman is like a tea bag \u2013 We never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water\u201d\nIndra Krishnamurthy Nooyi PepsiCo is the Chief Executive Officer of the company. His name is included among the 100 most influential women in the world. In 2014, he was ranked 13th in the world's 100 Most Influential Women.\nPepsiCo's chairman Indra Nooyi has been included in the Strategic and Policy Forum by Donald Trump. 61-year-old Nooyi is the only Indian woman to be inducted into this 19-member team.\nShe is the first woman to join PepsiCo in the big brands. The achievement of Padma Bhushan, Indira's achievement is proof of Indians' worthiness. Ever, who once worked a receptionist college fees, now earns Rs 177 crores annually.\nLife of Indra Nooyi :\nNooyi was born in the Tamil family of Madras in Tamil Nadu state of India. His father worked in 'State Bank of Hyderabad' and his grandfather was a district judge. His early education took place in the Holy Anglo-Indian Indian Highsecondary School, Madras. After this, he graduated from Madras Christian College in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry and mathematics and post graduation in MBA from the local management institute, Calcutta. Nooyi, who grew up in India, faced many difficulties in his childhood, master's degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.\nIndira's mother often asks her daughters what she wants to become older. Out of the two sisters, who gives better answers, they get reward. There was a special reason for the mother to do this. They wanted that Indira and Chandrika could think of doing the best thing. They can dream of doing something big in their life.\nWhile studying at the Yale School of Management, he used to work for his studies. Shift from receptionist from night to morning so that they can buy dress to wear on their first job interview day. Nooyi started his career in India, initially he took over as a product manager in Johnson & Johnson Textile. After this, study of public and private management from the US-based Yale University. During this time, he got some special attachment to the US and after joining the Yale University, he joined the Boston Consultation Form. And started serving clients in the textile and consumer goods industry.\nBeginning in PepsiCo :\nIndra Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and in 2001, the company's chairman and chief financial officer (CFO) formed. He regarded as the architect of PepsiCo's long term development strategy, under which he directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade. Indra also led the restructuring of PepsiCo, which included the acquisition of Tropicana (1998) and Merger of Quaker Oates Company (2001). In 2006, Indra Nooyi became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo. Thus, he is the fifth Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Pepsi's history. In 2001, Indra PepsiCo's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) formed, after which the company's profit increased from US $ 2.5 billion to US $ 6.5 billion. Almost all of Indira Nooyi's strategies have been successful for taking PepsiCo forward, and her all these schemes have got investors. There are 'suksaar felo' in Nooyi Yale Corporation.\nPayroll of Indira Nooyi :\nIn 2011, Indra Nooyi paid approximately $ 1.7 million as CEO of PepsiCo as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). By the year 2014 their salary increased to about US $ 1.9 million.\nFrom 2008-14, Forbes Magazine listed her as the '100 Most Influential Persons'.\nIn 2006-10, Fortune Magazine ranked Indra Nooyi in the list of 'most influential women in the field of business'.\nIn 2008, 'U.S. News and World Report placed him in the list of 'America's Best Leaders'.\nIn 2009, 'Brendan Wood International', an advisory body, rated him as' The Topgan 'CEO'.\nIn 2007, the Indian government honored him with Padma Bhushan.\nPosted in Inspiring StoriesTagged Chief Executive Officer, indra, Krishnamurthy, pepsico, women\nRani Mukerji Hichki Movie What Is Tourette Syndrome\nBSP Secretary General Satish Chandra Mishra Attack on BJP After Rajyasabha Elections Result", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 140.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketingmag.com.au/hubs-c/qa-with-chris-erb-vp-brand-marketing-ea-sports/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CLLSUQBHDN5ALZZMV3672TZSVODLQCVH", "length": 11861, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.marketingmag.com.au", "title": "Q&A with Chris Erb - VP of brand marketing, EA Sports | Marketing Magazine", "raw_content": "Q&A with Chris Erb \u2013 VP of brand...\nQ&A with Chris Erb \u2013 VP of brand marketing, EA Sports\n3 April 2012 min read\nChris Erb is vice president of brand marketing for video game company EA Sports. Marketing magazine caught up with him the day after his keynote at ad:tech Sydney, in which he spoke on \u2018Collaborations in a digital world\u2019, detailing some of the partnerships, interactivity and social aspects to EA Sports\u2019 portfolio.\nCould you give us an intro to your role as VP of brand marketing?\nI run the brand marketing across EA Sports, so we do the look, feel, tone, voice. We also do the licensing but really what\u2019s key is the promotion stuff. We look at collaborations as a way to build awareness. It\u2019s a very theatrical model, building relationships with brands, but we actually want to go much deeper than what the movie industries do. We want to build relationships with the brands \u2013 we have a lot of overlapping audiences, and so how do we find ways to rewards their customers, make them become our customers and get our customers to embrace theirs?\nWhen we\u2019re looking at partners, who\u2019s the right authentic partner for sports? What\u2019s the right brand that works around FIFA or basketball or football in the US? Who are the right authentic kinds of brands to work with?\nOnce you get that aligned on who the right people are, then it\u2019s \u201cHey, how do you drive customer value or drive good experiences to the consumers through your partners?\u201d\nAt ad:tech you spoke on \u2018collaborations in a digital world\u2019. What are some examples of collaborations EA Sports is involved with that also have a social aspect?\nI think one of the good ones we talked about was Red Bull where they had Art of Flight [snowboarding film] coming out and we had SSX [snowboarding video game], and we had a great relationship with them already so we said \u201cHow do we collaborate on this?\u201d\nAnd we did so many different things, from retail signage, POS, letting them use our assets on POS at retail to taking [snowboarder] Travis Rice and making him an unlockable character within our game, which we give away on Facebook \u2013 the only way to get that code is through a tab that we had on Facebook where you enter and once we got so many people on there you get the unlockable code for Travis Rice, which is kind of a big deal \u2013 we had never had a professional athlete in SSX before.\nThat just shows a good overlap between the brands as well as when they did a tour of Art of Flight going from city to city, showing the movies, we had kiosks where people could play the games. In our game, we included codes for the Art of Flight movie that you could stream or get downloads from, and really share in our social media network. We\u2019re a little over 19 million in our social network. Red Bull is even higher than that. We created some custom SSX videos with their athletes, with Travis Rice, that they could air on their channels that really felt like relevant content to their audience, not really marketing stuff, as well as us talking about things on our channel. When you look at that it shows you a bit of everything from a licensing standpoint to retail to PR to social media.\nWe try and do that stuff with lots of brands: Coca-Cola, McDonald\u2019s, Nike. You\u2019ve got to do something kind of cool \u2013 we\u2019re not selling printed paper, it\u2019s a cool industry, and it\u2019s something that\u2019s kind of fun. Our customers expect something cool, something that has a bit of swagger to it to make it feel cool, so how do we build programs like that?\nOne of the overall themes from the first day keynotes at ad:tech was content in marketing. For brands like EA Sports it seems a natural fit for brands like Coca-Cola to be present because they\u2019d be in that environment in the real world. Do you have any advice on content marketing for smaller companies or companies that aren\u2019t so interactive already?\nI think it really depends on what that brand is trying to do. Not to talk about Red Bull again, but Red Bull is a media company, right? They make 200,000 hours of video a year. It\u2019s a can of liquid awesomeness \u2013 a great can, but they\u2019re a media company. It depends what brands really want to do; do they want to create compelling stories around their products or do they want to find partners that help them deliver that content to their customers.\nSmart companies need to ask, \u201cHey, should we go out and create our own content or do we find the right content that\u2019s relevant with our brands?\u201d And I think once you make that decision \u2013 and that\u2019s where EA Sports can come in \u2013 if you say we\u2019re not in the space to create our own content but we want to deliver content to our consumers, and our customers are 18 to 34, great, video gaming is 18 to 34 in general, so what makes sense? Is it Mass Effect? Is it Need for Speed, or is it sports? From a smarter brand perspective, there\u2019s no bigger industry in entertainment right now than what the gaming business is doing, so if you\u2019re looking for content, if you\u2019re looking for something that\u2019s active, not passive and something that\u2019s very compelling, I think the gaming space is the best space in the world.\nDoritos in the US does really cool things about giving people early access to our exclusive content. One of the programs we did in the US is with a brand called Reeses candybars who doesn\u2019t have any legal licences, so we did a program around EA Sports where you could save $10 on any EA Sports game with the purchase of the candy. So, again, it\u2019s a way to dabble within sports without having a legal licence, which is kind of an interesting way to figure out the space that brand wants to play in.\nWith the rise of social media, digital, connectivity everywhere, is that an important part of your strategy?\nYeah, I think that you have to realise that social media is not a campaign, it\u2019s a commitment and the basic fundamentals of marketing stay the same. Social is kind of overlaid and wrapped all around it. The coolest thing about yesterday [Ed\u2019s note \u2013 Twitter conversations fly around ad:tech keynotes] was to be able to see the comments on Twitter and the stuff you were tweeting about the talk I gave and to instantly know what was relevant. I could see the comments that were relevant to you were relevant with someone else, and now I can go through my deck and find out what wasn\u2019t relevant, what didn\u2019t people talk about? So that instant feedback loop was really amazing to see: \u201cOkay, this was really relevant but nobody really cared about this kind of stuff\u201d. It\u2019s the same with the product.\nWhen we look at our data we can see that in American football there\u2019s a quarterback sneak, and in the real NFL it happens 32% of the time and in our games it only happens 3% of the time. Well, that\u2019s obviously because it must not work so let\u2019s go in and figure out why people aren\u2019t doing it. Maybe the blocking is not right \u2013 how do we fix the blocking? Maybe we can get that percentage up so it feels more authentic, which is what we\u2019re really about.\nThe technology within the game can do that and then Twitter and Facebook feeds are, \u201cHey, I really like this\u201d or \u201cHey, you know what\u2019s missing is this kind of thing.\u201d Five years ago we\u2019d fly people down to our studio once or twice to get their feedback. Now it\u2019s a 24 hour a day feedback loop. It changes market research, changes the way we talk about things.\nAnd the messaging can go out in different ways. Social media is critical in the way we market the product, but also the way we develop it and the way we build consistent relationships. We\u2019re sports fans, we feel like a really big company but how do we pull back the curtain and show we\u2019re just like you guys, we just happen to work here but we love sports as much as you do and we\u2019re just trying to do really cool things. Social media has really allowed us to humanise a lot of the faces around EA and say, \u201cWhat do you like? What do you don\u2019t like? And how do we address it?\u201d\nWhat was the rationale behind EA Sports opening retail stores in airports?\nI think there\u2019s a lot of cool things about the retail stores. It\u2019s a licence deal so we have partners that manage stuff for us, and the idea is \u2018how do we get video game controllers in people\u2019s hands more often?\u2019 And that\u2019s really kind of what it\u2019s all about \u2013 getting experiences with people. It\u2019s a marketing play, so you build awareness of the brand within marketing by buying a poster and it\u2019s a million dollars for a year. How are you going to build marketing around a really good experience for customers? We fly all the time. Flying can be tough. If we can have an oasis or a place where people can kind of go in and catch up on the scores of the games to be able to spend five or 10 minutes engaging with the brand, find out what\u2019s new, it\u2019s a cool kind of experience. Our goal is to build awareness and get more people\u2019s hands on controllers and give a good experience to customers, and hopefully customers are feeling it\u2019s a cool space.\nHow does social gaming fit into the EA Sports strategy?\nSocial gaming is really important, it\u2019s a huge audience and the best way that we look at it is every kind of platform that people can game on now are going to want to have an experience where you can take your FIFA or Madden experience and be able to engage with it on every platform. The experience needs to be different on every platform: you\u2019re not playing Madden on [a smartphone] like you would play it on your TV, but we think that you need to have a persistent relationship with your consumer over products. Social gaming brings new people into the category, and also extends your console experience across all those programs. It\u2019s really critical for the things we\u2019re doing.\nAt the core of it, we are a game company. I think games are just being experienced in different ways. You\u2019re just not tethered to your couch anymore which you and I are probably used to. But now it\u2019s kind of evolving \u2013 you can play anywhere, anytime. You and I could literally play NBA Jam right now. So, being able to play games and connect with anybody in the world really opens it up to a 365 degree marketing program. It\u2019s about having those relationships so you and I could talk about NBA Jam or I could say, \u201cHey, have you seen the new NHL game? It\u2019s really cool. Let\u2019s play.\u201d\nOn collaborations, you mentioned that customer value is key to everything. How do you ensure that?\nIt\u2019s really understanding what the customer value is \u2013 it\u2019s different for different people. Value to some people is dollars off. Value to some people is making their experience better, so [the key is] really trying to understand for different franchises and different consumers. What does a partnership with McDonald\u2019s mean? Is that a value play, and is Coca-Cola a content play?\nWhen we\u2019re trying to figure out partners, the definition of values is really what it means to that consumer and figuring that out and then aligning those programs with the right partners. Doritos is really about giving content experiences, so being able to pick the cover of Madden, being able to play Madden in 3D, those were key things about doing something that\u2019s never been done before, number one; and then number two, it\u2019s involving the consumers in the relationship with the brands. Our program with Reeses or, we have a hair salon in the US called Great Clips, it\u2019s a dollars off play in a sweepstakes entry, so you can go and play golf anywhere in the world if you win the sweepstakes, but if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re saving five or 10 dollars on any of our EA Sports games. So, you just spent 10 dollars for a haircut and you\u2019re going to save five or 10 dollars on an EA Sports game. For our audience, that\u2019s going to seem relevant. It\u2019s really finding out whether it\u2019s value or content that consumers are really looking for, and then aligning those with the right brands.\n\u00ab Media interview survival tipsOh, Ben Polis, what a mess! \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 15028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryalexanderlaw.com/articles/pge-acknowledges-their-liability-for-san-bruno-disaster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OYWEYESTEBR6PEKXSJ7A2UFFN2UT3I4K", "length": 2785, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.maryalexanderlaw.com", "title": "Has PG&E Admitted Its Role in the San Bruno Fire?", "raw_content": "PG&E Acknowledges Its Liability for San Bruno Disaster\nOn December 13 th, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the utility company whose gas line exploded in September 2010, finally accepted responsibility for the disaster. In a press release issued by the company, PG&E conceded that they were liable for the blast and promised to pay the victims for their injuries. The explosion left eight dead, destroyed over 38 homes, and caused injuries and damages to many more residents of the area.In his statement, PG&E\u2019s president, Chris Johns said, \u201cPG&E is hopeful that today\u2019s announcement will allow the families affected by this terrible tragedy to receive compensation sooner, without unnecessary legal proceedings. We are affirming our commitment to do the right thing in response to this accident.\u201d While Johns\u2019 statements may sound full of heart, many feel that it took the company too long to step up.The company\u2019s statement flies in the face of earlier court filings that distanced the company from the specter of liability. One such filing claimed their pipelines were state of the art and suggested that the pipeline failure might be the responsibility of an unknown third party.\nA company brief even suggested some of the actions of the victims may have contributed to the gas line explosion. The company denies any intent to implicate the victims in the disaster.Yet people in the legal community remain suspicious of the company\u2019s motives. Some feel that this public statement may be more tactical that sentimental. Around 300 San Bruno explosion victims have filed lawsuits against the company. There is speculation among the legal community that the company\u2019s acknowledgement has more to do with trying to limit an award of punitive damages than an attempt to clarify their position. Although actual damages for the PG&E gas explosion could cost the company millions, punitive damages could be much higher.There are other reasons for people to be suspicious about the timing of the company\u2019s admission of liability. In September, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a 140-page report summarizing their findings about the blast.In the report, the NTSB described a company that appeared to take an apathetic approach to safety. The report found deficiencies in PG&E\u2019s operational structure that extended over 50 years. From failed recordkeeping to improper testing, the company was repeatedly criticized by the safety board for their practices.Victims of the San Bruno fire are still wrestling with the consequences of the blast over a year later. If you or a loved one was injured as a result of the explosion, you should speak with an experienced San Francisco personal injury attorney who is familiar with the disaster and can review your options with you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryandmartha.com/blog/date/2017/01", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DDPXM6SCQDDJ5KPL26IDFXNUWNEYGS2N", "length": 258, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.maryandmartha.com", "title": "Blog - Mary & Martha", "raw_content": "In celebration of Mary & Martha\u0092s 10th Anniversary, we would like to take a look back at a few ways Mary & Martha has made a difference in people\u0092s lives. Our company is all about building a business, building others, and living out your faith... Read More \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mass-customization.com/custom-shirts/bivolino/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EL4FCS63MLNTNL5CXWMTMDY4CGAIPWXR", "length": 2198, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mass-customization.com", "title": "Bivolino - Mass Customization", "raw_content": "Bivolino has such a long and rich history, which started way back in 1954. The Belgian company was founded by brothers Louis and Jacques Byvoet who initially started with standard, mass-produced shirts. After about a decade, the company took a new turn and started developing ways to bring more customized shirts to their customers. Their website was launched in 1997 and the rest, as they say, is history.\nThis company has been known to provide high-quality custom shirts and their custom shirts are embroidered with the squirrel company logo. Their customizable products are shirts (for men and women) and boxers. The prices for men\u2019s custom dress shirts start at \u00a359 and at \u00a351 for women\u2019s custom shirts. Custom boxers start at \u00a326. They also offer accessories like cufflinks and ties, which are priced at \u00a35 and \u00a329 respectively.\nThere are several fabric options provided for the custom shirts. Some of the material/weave includes Cotton, Silk, Polyester, Viscose and Linen. Aside from the typical solid, basic colors, you can also choose from an assortment of great patterns for the shirt. Some of the designs and patterns include stripes, checks, florals and paisleys. There are more prints and designs that you can mix and match with fashion shirts.\nThey have a 3D Virtual Design system that lets you go through the 6-step design process easily. You can customize several parts like the buttons, cuffs, collars and sleeve style. You can go back and forth with the tabs and change the styles and try out different design combinations. Although there are no zoom options, there are different views available so you can inspect the shirt more closely and in different angles. The 3D image does display a pretty good representation of the custom shirt. It takes approximately 3 weeks to produce and ship the custom order. And the company does not accept returns and exchanges for any custom order, except when there are tailoring errors made.\nOverall, Bivolino has definite tenure in the industry and they do provide great options as well as a good range of design styles in their website. However, their website can use a little sprucing up, from the overall layout to the context of the pages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.math.uci.edu/~krubin/scntd2006/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CWK6CHTGL6EEQJ3OOHVDEEAOWBAR6QV3", "length": 1979, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.math.uci.edu", "title": "Southern California Number Theory Day", "raw_content": "To receive future announcements with updated details, please subscribe to the e-mail list. (If you subscribed last year, then you are still on the list.) This page will be updated when new information is available.\n10:00-11:00 Gerhard Frey (Institut f\u00fcr Experimentelle Mathematik, Essen), Hurwitz spaces related to isomorphic torsion structures of elliptic curves (click for slides)\n11:30-12:30 Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University and AIM), Many solutions to the S-unit equation a+b = c\n2:30- 3:30 David Solomon (King's College London), L-functions at s = 1 and reciprocity laws for Stark units\n4:00- 5:00 Kirsten Eisentr\u00e4ger (University of Michigan), Hilbert's Tenth Problem for function fields of characteristic zero\nRegistration: There are no fees (except for the dinner), but in order to plan for refreshments we need to know who is coming. Please register.\nLocation: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium, on the UCI campus (building 311, located at E6 on this map). Note that this is not the same location as previous years, and is not in the Mathematics building.\nFrom the north: Take I-405 to 73, and exit at Bison (there is no toll, despite the confusing signs).\nFrom the south: Take I-5 to 73, and exit 73 at Bison (this part of 73 is a toll road).\nThen: See the map. Take Bison east into campus. Due to construction, you cannot continue straight across East Peltason Drive to the permt dispenser in Lot 16. Instead, turn right on East Peltason, and take your first left into Lot 12B (by the mathematics building). If you arrive before 9:30am you can buy a parking permit from an attendant at Lot 12B. After 9:30 you will need to drive through and all the way across Lot 16 to the permit dispenser to buy a permit, and then come back and park (sorry about that). The McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium is about a 5 minute walk from Lot 12B.\nEvery car will need a parking permit. Parking is $7 (or maybe $5, nobody seems to know).\nGroup photos: #1, #2, #3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcconathylaw.com/criminal-defense/sexual-offenses/online-solitication-of-a-minor/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:L5HJDJ6JXJFJGA5Z7N4JOKDTIRO57437", "length": 4844, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.mcconathylaw.com", "title": "Dallas Defense Attorney for Online Solicitation of a Minor", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Criminal Defense \u00bb Sexual Offenses \u00bb Online Solicitation of a Minor\nOnline solicitation of a minor is a serious crime that can result in severe penalties. In most cases, when an individual is charged with this offense, the prosecution has what they believe to be clear-cut and indisputable evidence showing that the defendant is guilty of the crime.\nIn order to avoid severe penalties in cases like these, it takes a skilled defense attorney to analyze the facts of the case and point out flaws and inconsistencies in the prosecution\u2019s case. Having a quality sex crimes defense attorney who is capable of developing a thorough defense, can significantly impact the outcome of your case.\nDallas Defense Attorney for Online Solicitation of a Minor\nIf you have been charged with online solicitation of a minor in Dallas, Mesquite, Garland, Mesquite, Arlington, Fort Worth, Frisco, Lewisville, Richardson, Denton, Grand Prairie, Irving, or the surrounding areas in Texas, contact Law Offices of Richard C. McConathy. Richard McConathy is an experienced defense attorney who has been counsel in thousands of criminal proceedings in Texas courts.\nContact Richard McConathy today at (972) 233-5700 to ensure that you have a knowledgeable and battle-tested defense attorney on your side. Your initial consultation is free, and is the first step in an important process.\nInformation Center for Online Solicitation of a Minor Laws in Texas\nOnline Solicitation of a Minor Laws in Texas\nDefinitions for Online Solicitation of a Minor in Texas\nDefenses to Solicitation of a Minor in Dallas/Fort Worth\nPenalties for Online Solicitation of a Minor in Collin County\nAccording to section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code, an individual who is at least 17 years old can be charged with online solicitation of a minor if he or she intentionally distributes material to a minor that is sexually explicit, or communicates in way that is sexually explicit to a minor.\nIf an individual uses the internet to solicit a minor to engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or deviate sexual intercourse, he or she can be charged with online solicitation of a minor.\nThis includes solicitation, the distribution of materials, or sexually explicit communication that takes place online, in a text message, through email, or any other form of electronic means.\nThe terms commonly associated with the online solicitation of a minor are defined by \u00a7 33.021 and \u00a7 21.01 of the Texas Penal Code as:\nMinor: A minor is anyone who represents themselves as being less than 17 years old, or is believed to be less than 17 years old by the alleged offender\nSexual contact: Touching breast, genitals, or anus of another individual for the purpose of sexual gratification\nSexual intercourse: Penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ\nDeviate sexual intercourse: Penetrating the genitals or anus with an object, or having contact with the genitals of one individual, with the mouth or anus of another\nUnder certain circumstances, specific defenses may be available to the alleged offender. Some of the most commonly used defenses to sex crime accusations include:\nConfession was made while under duress\nLack of knowledge that the alleged victim was a minor\nFalse accusations by the alleged victim\nIn order to determine which defense best fits your situation, it is important to consult with an experienced Dallas/Fort Worth sex crimes defense attorney.\nIn most cases, online situation of a minor is considered a third degree felony, which is punishable by between two and 10 years in prison, and/or up to a $10,000 fine. Along with a prison sentence and fines, individuals can also face the following penalties:\nLimitations on employment professions\nInability to receive governmental assistance\nInability to enroll in certain educational institutions\nLoss of the right to possess a firearm\nAdditionally, if an individual is accused of soliciting a minor online who is or was believed to be under the age of 14, he or she can be charged with a second degree felony, which carries a prison sentence of between two and 20 years, and/or a fine of up to $10,000.\nFinding Qualified Attorneys to Defend Against Your Solicitation of a Minor Charges\nIf you have been arrested for soliciting a minor online, contact Law Offices of Richard C. McConathy. The attorneys at this firm are a dedicated team of legal professionals who have offices located in Irving, Fort Worth, Arlington, McKinney, Denton, Dallas, Allen, and Plano. This ensures that there will always be a qualified defense attorney within your reach.\nCall Law Offices of Richard C. McConathy today at (972) 233-5700 to set up a free consultation about your online solicitation of a child charges throughout Dallas County in Texas and the surrounding counties of Denton County, Collin County and Tarrant County.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 11889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcconathylaw.com/videos/firearms-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:4XN62N65EKLC4KMTQZ2T2H6LEELUYTKY", "length": 2046, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mcconathylaw.com", "title": "Firearms | Defense Attorney Dallas County | Richard C. McConathy", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Videos \u00bb Firearms and the Second Amendment\nListen as Attorney Richard C. McConathy discusses defending against Firearms charges in Dallas County, Texas.\nFirearms defense attorney in Dallas, TX\nThe state of Texas has a long history of second amendment rights, the right to bear arms. It goes back in our history. I\u2019m a guy owner myself, I\u2019m a hunter myself. I respect, and I believe in the right to bear arms, not only to practice recreationally but to protect your home and your family. But, today, there is going to be some areas of Texas, in particular Dallas, that have taken on a more liberal stance, a more progressive stance, when it comes to the right to bear arms. Even though Texas has currently become an open carry state, they\u2019re going to look for any way charge you with a gun offense, particularly if you\u2019ve been drinking, if they find narcotics on you, if you\u2019re in a school zone, if you\u2019re in a place prohibitive of where the weapons are, or if you\u2019re involved in a crime of violence. Remember it is just like the old west, they don\u2019t want you coming into down having guns on you if you\u2019ve been drinking. And so, when you\u2019re out, even if you have your concealed carry permit, you need to be aware. If you\u2019re charged with any alcohol related drug offense or family violence offense and you have a weapon on you, you\u2019re most likely going to be charged with a UCW. In addition, you have to be aware of any crimes of violence. Especially family violence, you\u2019re going to lose your right to bear arms under the second amendment of the constitution once they get an affirmative finding of family violence under the Brady bill. So, this is a process that can be very tricky and that\u2019s why you need to call an attorney and discuss these things, especially if you\u2019re a proponent of the second amendment and you want to continue to bear those arms. Because if you make that fatal mistake, it\u2019s not like they have erasers on this; its permanent. If you run yourself into this situation, get lawyers who know how to handle this defense.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 7416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mediamonitors.net/secret-evidence-and-profiling-two-disturbing-practices/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UZ5AUA56A6X4LBSD5EM3ZZHNYLFMLCXM", "length": 6630, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.mediamonitors.net", "title": "Secret Evidence and Profiling: Two Disturbing Practices - Media Monitors Network (MMN)", "raw_content": "Home Perspectives Secret Evidence and Profiling: Two Disturbing Practices\nSecret Evidence and Profiling: Two Disturbing Practices\nJames Zogby\u2019s Column\nIn response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has increasingly relied on the use of both secret evidence and ethnic profiling. It was precisely these two practices that many Arab Americans believed President George Bush would eliminate during his term in office. It was in 2000, during his second debate with Vice President Al Gore, that the presidential candidate George Bush appeared to make a commitment to end the use of secret evidence and profiling. In response to a question about racial profiling against African Americans, Bush said: \u201cThere are other forms of racial profiling that go on in America. Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what\u2019s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that.\u201d\nDespite mistakenly linking the two practices and displaying confusion as to what they were, Bush\u2019s words electrified many elements of the Arab American community. They were thrilled that he mentioned these concerns and addressed the community by name.\nEven though the Bush campaign never formally committed to a total elimination of secret evidence, those behind it continued to suggest that they would. They also provided talking points to campaign supporters who were to address Arab American audiences leaving little doubt that, if elected, Bush would end the use of both practices.\nIn the past year and one half, however, the use of both secret evidence and profiling has become so widespread that not only Arab Americans, but also the broader civil liberties community, both liberal and conservative, have become deeply concerned.\nOn a number of occasions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) utilised secret evidence and simplistic and crude profiling in ways that have been hurtful to Arab Americans and South Asian Muslims.\nImmediately following Sept. 11 came the round up of hundreds of recent Arab and Muslim immigrants \u2013 all innocent victims who got caught up in a law-enforcement dragnet. Well over 1,200 were arrested; many were deported without judicial review. While some of those involved appear to have been in technical violation of their visa requirements, in many cases they did not know why they had been arrested and were not provided adequate opportunity to defend themselves. Because of the secrecy surrounding this entire process, the false impression was deliberately created by the DOJ that these individuals may have had something to do with terrorism. The entire situation was so shocking that one analyst remarked: \u201cThis administration appears to have gone from using secret evidence to using no evidence at all.\u201d\nNext came the DOJ\u2019s infamous questioning of 5,000 and then 3,000 Arab and South Asian Muslim immigrants. This was crude ethnic profiling at its worst. More recently, the DOJ has begun to implement its \u201cSpecial Registration\u201d programme which, once again it appears, is largely directed against recent Arab and South Asian Muslim immigrants.\nFinally, there was the shocking round up and detention of targeted groups of recent immigrants who worked at or near the site of this year\u2019s Super Bowl football game in San Diego, California.\nWhat all these programmes have in common is that they are clear instances of racial profiling and they have all been a waste of law enforcement resources. In fact, all these programmes did not net terrorists. What they did do was to round up and deport hundreds of recent immigrants who, in many cases, had a minor visa infraction, and spread fear and suspicion in the wider community.\nBut profiling was not the only problem. The government\u2019s reliance on secrecy was troubling as well. As I noted, many of the detained immigrants never knew exactly why they were being held. When the government became aware of the negative impact of the large number being held, they stopped giving out the numbers and refused to give names of those who were arrested and charges against them, on the specious grounds that this would only give the terrorists a \u201croadmap\u201d of the investigation. Since almost all those arrested were guilty of nothing more than visa violations, the government\u2019s argument represents a disturbing distortion.\nAt first, secret evidence was used only in deportation cases against non-citizen, immigrants. Now, however, it is being used against US citizens who have been charged as \u201cenemy combatants\u201d. As the father of one of these individuals remarked, \u201cif the government has a case against my son, they should make it and see if he can defend himself. Without knowing the charges, however, we don\u2019t know how to prepare a defence.\u201d\nMore recently, and for the first time, secret evidence has been used in cases involving citizens charged with criminal non-terrorist related crimes. This very disturbing development only proves the point made by civil libertarians who have argued that once the civil liberties chain is broken in one area, it is impossible to guarantee that any rights will be protected.\nNow comes the news that the administration may seek new legislation that would give law enforcement sweeping new powers that would only further erode basic civil liberties. The draft of proposed legislation contains provisions that would: make it easier for the government to wiretap and carry out surveillance without going to court; allow the government to have access to a person\u2019s private financial records and other sensitive information without any evidence of crime; allow secret arrests; and provide for summary deportations, even without evidence of a crime.\nThe good news is that there is growing opposition to this disturbing behaviour. And not unlike the local anti-war initiatives that have passed in city councils across the United States, dozens of US cities have passed civil rights initiatives as well. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and major African American, Hispanic and Asian American groups have all unified to fight these practices. Local police departments and some federal law enforcement officials have also expressed their opposition. Finally, members of Congress and even some of presidential candidates for 2004 are raising their objections to these practices that threaten constitutional rights.\nThe struggle to change this situation will be a long one \u2013 but it has begun to gather steam.\nDr. James J. Zogby is President of Arab American Institute in Washington, DC.\nIsrael fashions a bomber of its own\nWest\u2019s appetite for attacking Islam knows no bounds\nWhere exactly can we live?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 12786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mediamonitors.net/why-carter-is-under-attack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HHARRTH3BYOXXNGKPCIECLBSISNG76Q7", "length": 10269, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.mediamonitors.net", "title": "Why Carter is under attack? - Media Monitors Network (MMN)", "raw_content": "Home Perspectives Why Carter is under attack?\nWhy Carter is under attack?\nJimmy Carter must be the most likable grandfather in the world. Motivated by Christ\u2019s true teachings, he has always endeavored to serve humanity \u2014 first as America\u2019s 39^th president, then by helping the poor worldwide and offering his expertise to mediate world conflicts through peaceful negotiation. He did not cheat on his wife, like fellow former president Bill Clinton; and he did not cheat on his nation like current president George Bush Jr., who is still sending Americans to their deaths in faraway places.\nCarter is not perfect. But during his presidency, Jimmy Carter gave both politics and politicians a good name \u2013 no mean feat for any leader.\nBut it is Carter \u2014 not Clinton or Bush \u2013 who has came under severe attack recently. Why? Because he\u2019s always stood for what is ethically right and politically just and recently put his beliefs into a best-selling new book, \"Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.\"\nIf you haven\u2019t had time to do the homework, you won\u2019t go far wrong with an educated guess: The pro-Israel lobby continually strive to discredit anyone who dares to speak the truth about Israeli atrocities against native Palestinians. It\u2019s as simple, and tragic, as that.\nThe more important, the higher profile a person has, the more severe will be the smear campaign launched against them \u2013 their career, their writings, their views, etc.\nIn the contexts of social justice, academic reputation and overall historical credibility, Carter is a heavyweight; thus, the Israel-can-not-do-wrong groups cannot tolerate him walking so large on the world stage and they want to shut him up and trash his book.\nCarter\u2019s latest (of more than a dozen books), Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, was published late last year by Simon & Schuster. It is a must-read for anyone interested in bringing peace to the Middle East through justice. Its foundational thesis is that peace is peace if, and only if, it is based on justice.\nI also believe that a careful, in-depth reading of this book should be mandatory for every political science student in the U.S., Canada, and even the European Community.\nWhy? Because Carter relentlessly speaks the truth about Israel in words like these:\n\"[Israel is a] system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights. This is the policy now being followed, although many citizens of Israel deride the racist connotation of prescribing permanent second-class status for the Palestinians. As one prominent Israeli stated, \u2018I am afraid that we are moving toward a government like that of South Africa, with a dual society of Jewish rulers and Arab subjects with few rights of citizenship. The West Bank is not worth it\u2019.\"\nHere is a partial list of facts all drawn directly from Carter\u2019s book:\n1. \"Israel\u2019s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land. In order to perpetuate the occupation, Israeli forces have deprived their unwilling subjects of basic human rights. No objective person could personally observe existing conditions in the West Bank and dispute these statements.\"\n2. \"Two other interrelated factors have contributed to the perpetuation of violence and regional upheaval: the condoning of illegal Israeli actions from a submissive White House and U.S. Congress during recent years, and the deference with which other international leaders permit this unofficial U.S. policy in the Middle East to prevail.\"\n3. \"There are constant and vehement political and media debates in Israel concerning its policies in the West Bank, but because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned. Voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media, and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories.\"\n4. \"At the same time, political leaders and news media in Europe are highly critical of Israeli policies, affecting public attitudes. Americans were surprised and angered by an opinion poll, published by the International Herald Tribute in October 2003, of 7,500 citizens in fifteen European nations, indicating that Israel was considered to be the top threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea, Iran, or Afghanistan.\"\n5. \"The United States has used its U.N. Security Council veto more than forty times to bock resolutions critical of Israel. Some of these vetoes have brought international discredit on the United States, and there is little doubt that the lack of a persistent effort to resolve the Palestinian issue is a major source of anti-American sentiment and terrorist activity throughout the Middle East and the Islamic world.\"\n6. \"A new factor in the region is that the Palestinian election of January 2006 gave Hamas members control of the parliament and a cabinet. Israel and the United States reacted by announcing a policy of isolating and destabilizing the new government. Elected officials are denied travel permits to participate in parliamentary affairs, Gaza is effectively isolated, and every effort is made to block humanitarian funds to Palestinians, to prevent their right to employment or commercial trade, and to deny them access to Israel and the outside world.\"\n7. \"In order to achieve its goals, Israel has decided to avoid any peace negotiations and to escape even the mild restraints of the United States by taking unilateral action, called \u2018convergence\u2019 or \u2018realignment,\u2019 to carve out for itself the choice portions of the West Bank, leaving Palestinians destitute within a small and fragmented remnant of their own land.\n8. \"The holding of almost 10,000 Arab prisoners and the destructive military response to the capture of three Israeli soldiers have aroused global concern about the hair-trigger possibility of a regional war being launched.\"\nAnd Carter concludes with more thought-provoking observations:\n1. \"Despite these immediate challenges, we must not assume that the future is hopeless. Down through the years I have seen despair and frustration evolve into optimism and progress and, even now, we must not abandon efforts to achieve permanent peace for Israelis and freedom and justice for Palestinians. There are some positive factors on which we may rely.\"\n2. \"As I said in a 1979 speech to the Israeli Knesset, \u2018The people support a settlement. Political leaders are the obstacles to peace.\u2019 Over the years, public opinion surveys have consistently shown that a majority of Israelis favor withdrawing from Palestinian territory \u2026[R]ecent polls show that 80 percent of Palestinians still want a two-state peace agreement with Israel, with nearly 70 percent supporting the moderate Mahmoud Abbas as their president and spokesman.\"\n3. \"There have been some other encouraging developments over the years. Along with the awareness among most Israelis that a solution to the Palestinian question is critical if there is ever to be a comprehensive settlement, there is a growing recognition in the Arab world that Israel is an unchanging reality.\"\n4. \"Most Palestinians and other Arabs maintain that the proposal made by Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah, a proposal approved at the Arab summit in 2002 (Appendix 6), is a public acknowledgment of Israel\u2019s right to exist within its legal borders and shows willingness to work out disputes that have so far not been addressed directly. The Delphic wording of this statement was deliberate, in Arabic as well as in Hebrew and English, but the Arabs defend it by saying it is there to be explored by the Israelis and others and that, in any case, it is a more positive and clear commitment to international law than anything now coming from Israel.\"\n5. \"Furthermore, the remaining differences and their potential resolution are clearly defined. Both Israel and the Arab countries have endorsed the crucial and unavoidable U.S. Resolutions 242 and 338, under which peace agreements have already been evolved.\"\n6. \"An important fact to remember is that President Mahmoud Abbas retains all presidential authority that was exercised by Yasir Arafat when he negotiated the Oslo Agreement, and the Hamas prime minister has stated that his government supports peace talks between Israel and Abbas. He added that Hamas would modify its rejection of Israel if there is a negotiated agreement that Palestinians can approve (as specified in the Camp David Accords). It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.\"\n7. \"One promising development came in May 2000 when Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and influential leader of Fatah, joined forces in an Israeli prison with Abed al-Halak Natashe, a trusted spokesman for Hamas, in endorsing a two-state proposal that could unite the two Palestinian factions.\"\n8. \"The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens \u2014 and honor its own previous commitments \u2014 by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel\u2019s right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.\"\n9. \"It will be a tragedy \u2014 for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world \u2014 if peace is rejected and a system of oppression, apartheid, and sustained violence is permitted to prevail.\"\nPrevious articleDemonization and Competition in the Final Years of the Age of Abundant Oil\nNext article\"You and I and the Next War\"\nRedemption without Zionazi contrition?\nRemembering South Baltimore\u2019s Deluxe Theatre\nHeavy internal challenges", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 16623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mercator-emba.si/en/druzbena-odgovornost-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WV6UWTNAXEQOLTRU5F5MX4YVOKISUSX7", "length": 3757, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mercator-emba.si", "title": "Socially responsible engagement - Mercator - Emba", "raw_content": "As a company working in an international environment we are well aware how important it is to work responsibly for a bright future. 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Offering various seminars and workshops we also tend to boosting knowledge for all of our employees.\nResponsibility to our local communities\nThe quality of life of the local population\nWith our activities we help to improve the local population's quality of life. We support and enable various humanitarian, cultural, educational, sports, and other projects. We are the sponsors of the volleyball club Logatec and help educational establishments, such as schools, kindergartens and other societies with our donations. Our corporate social responsibility is not only limited to the younger population, as our support also extends to nursing homes for the elderly. We always readily respond to humanitarian organisations' initiatives or directly help people in need. 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Mexicali Fresh is all about making a difference. It\u2019s what we live for. We believe people can change the world with the choices they make. What they do, what they buy, what they eat. We\u2019re totally passionate about providing delicious, sustainable, fresh, healthy food that makes you feel good and does good for the world. We care about people \u2013 how they\u2019re treated and what they put into their bodies. We will make a change even if it is one taco at a time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meylercapital.com/meyler-capital-blog/2015/07/the-biggest-lesson-for-anyone-selling-anything-from-a-rods-all-star-snubbing-and-its-not-what-you-think-it-is", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MAEJLVFU2YDUEDRTTQV6JBNOQY7DSVV4", "length": 3054, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.meylercapital.com", "title": "The Biggest Lesson For Anyone Selling Anything From A-Rod\u2019s All Star \u201cSnubbing\u201d (and it\u2019s not what you think it is) \u2014 Meyler", "raw_content": "It is one of those stories that no one will care about in a week \u2013 but for now, sports talk radio in New York cannot get enough of the news that A-Rod was passed over for this year\u2019s All-Star team.\nHowever, there is a big take away from this that most of us actually will care about (and credit to ESPN sports talk radio for making it).\nNed Yost, manager of the AL All-Star Team and the final \u201csnubber,\u201d (fans snubbed him first), was quoted as saying, \u201cwe talked about A-Rod a lot\u201d \u2013 referring to discussions between he and his staff before choosing another player. A-Rod never got a chance to make a \u201cfinal case\u201d \u2013 and the implications are relevant to you. Why?\nBecause most decisions about you are made when you are not in the room.\nIn this case, it is basically an employment decision\u2026but unless you are buying a new vacuum cleaner or a time share in Aruba, it also applies to most big buying decisions. Salespeople can make their pitch but at the end of the day, they will not be at the table when the ultimate decision is made.\nAnd in our industry, nowhere is this more relevant than with institutional investment decisions. So, what can you do to influence that?\n1. Make Their Job Easy\nWhether it\u2019s an analyst, a PM or a CIO \u2013 you need them to act as ambassadors on your behalf. They are the ones that will push your fund to the \u201cnext level\u201d. If the CIO walks into an allocation committee meeting and cannot succinctly communicate your Value Proposition, your chances of getting the decision makers to vote in your favor diminishes significantly.\nThe best way to do this\u2026.simplify your message. Even if it matters to your buying decision why Apple chooses a certain baseband processor and the specs of the power amplifier, Apple still sells you on the phone\u2019s ease of use, sleek design and enormous functionality. People only have so much capacity to remember every nuance.\n2. Ask The Question When You Still Have the Opportunity\nDo you know why car salesman are taught to push so hard for a commitment while you are standing there? Because they know that once you leave, the likelihood that they will ever see you again goes down materially.\nHow often have you left a good meeting with an allocator and then struggled like crazy to get a follow-up meeting? How about just getting them on the phone again? Either they are just really, really busy or (more likely) they are not interested.\nHowever, if you don\u2019t know what the hesitation is, you will never get a chance to address it.\nAs we have talked about, no matter how well your meeting went and how many questions they asked and you answered, there is always an obstacle. It may be you, it may be them\u2026but the obstacle exists. And you can\u2019t address it if you don\u2019t know what it is. So\u2026before you leave, make it a point to ask, \u201cWhat are your remaining concerns that will prevent you from moving forward with this?\u201d Do it politely. Do it gracefully. You will nearly always get an answer.\nOf course, one good thing about not being A-Rod\u2026you are much less likely to get snubbed just for being you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.michiganracingnews.com/category/blogs/tjgreatlakesnotebook/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:02Z", "digest": "sha1:3PJAW2W6CQQH4XPZEUNVJROTNJH6JJSV", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.michiganracingnews.com", "title": "T.J.\u2019s Great Lakes Notebook \u2013 Michigan Racing News", "raw_content": "T.J.\u2019s blog on motorsports in the Great Lakes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 67.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-rs-25-crore-craft-village-ready-but-not-open-for-more-than-a-year/19776160", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KLY2DUOOGJGIAKJBTVEEOVBTRTALT6QA", "length": 3849, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mid-day.com", "title": "Mumbai: Rs 25-crore craft village ready but not open for more than a year - news", "raw_content": "Mumbai: Rs 25-crore craft village ready but not open for more than a year\nUpdated: Sep 06, 2018, 14:50 IST | Laxman Singh\nThe ambitious Shilpgram, set on seven acres of open space in Jogeshwari, is caught in red tape and remains unavailable to public; Sena man takes up issue with civic officials\nThe space is named Matoshree Meenatai Thackeray Shilpgram, and is modelled on Dilli Haat in the capital. Pics/Sameer Markande\nThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) delayed appointment of a manager is keeping Mumbaikars away from seeing and experiencing the city's version of Dilli Haat. The lush green, seven-acre open space named Matoshree Meenatai Thackeray Shilpgram, is located near the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road. It has been sitting ready for over a year now.\nShilpgram has been developed in Poonam Nagar, Jogeshwari East, and construction work in the space was completed in June 2017. It was envisioned as Mumbai's first arts and crafts village, on the lines of the Dilli Haat. According to BMC officials, the work on garden was started in 2015. After initial hiccups like land problems and reservation issues in the Development Plan (DP), the project was completed in June 2017, which was also a year after its previous deadline.\nmid-day visited the beautiful space, which contains fountains, gazebo, children's play area, amphitheatre, and shops that will sell authentic handicrafts. The park is full of murals of 'Bara Balutedar', which was a village servant system of 12 trades, like barbers, washers, potters, carpenters, etc.\nWhy is it shut?\nHowever, locals are still clueless about why such a huge green space has not been opened for the public yet. Vishwanath Shetty of the Mahakali ALM Trust, that has been successfully maintaining a nearby garden for years said, \"We have seen Shilpgram since the time of its inception. When the groundwork began, we never expected it to be so beautiful. It is ready now, but we don't understand what's causing the delay in opening it. For over a year now, the park is bathed in light at night, but nobody gets to see it. We're hoping authorities will open it soon for the public.\"\nThe park is full of murals of 'Bara Balutedar', which was a village servant system of 12 trades, like barbers, washers, potters, carpenters, etc\nMayor's unfulfilled promise\nMayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar had also visited the space in February and praised it. He'd assured that it will be opened as soon as possible. But BMC has not made good on that promise. When mid-day spoke to officials from BMC's garden cell, which executed the work, they dilly dallied and avoided saying anything about the delay. Despite repeated attempts, deputy municipal commissioner and in-charge of the garden cell, Dr Kishor Kshirsagar remained unavailable for comment.\nA source from BMC said, \"Earlier, BMC had planned on appointing a third party to manage and operate Shilpgram, but that idea was dropped. Now, the civic body is trying to appoint a manager who will look after Shilpgram as it will also have commercial activity like handicraft shops. However, this process is moving at a snail's pace, which is causing the delay in opening.\"\n'BMC reluctant'\nLocal Shiv Sena corporator Anant Nar blames the BMC administration for delaying the opening of the garden. A furious Nar said, \"Since Shilpgram is not a garden, it needs expert management and a separate operations wing. I have been following this issue for a very long time.\" He alleged, \"But, civic officials are reluctant to take any decision, which is delaying the opening. Initially, BMC rejected appointing any third-party agency for maintenance and told me that they'll appoint BMC staff. But, it has been over a year, and because of civic apathy, the public is yet to see the beautiful crafts village.\"\nAlso Read: Mumbai: Shilpgram To Gobble Up JVLR's Best Garden", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/news/increase-in-arsons-across-west-sussex-last-year-1-8468566", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:6G74OPKXV4M5OXGRROGP6DRQQMZKJGWC", "length": 1817, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk", "title": "Increase in arsons across West Sussex last year - Midhurst and Petworth Observer", "raw_content": "Increase in arsons across West Sussex last year\nFire services in West Sussex saw an increase in the number of arson attacks on homes last year, figures from the Home Office show.\nIn the 12 months to September 2017, the most recent data available, the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service attended 36 deliberately started house fires, 16% more than the previous year. In total, they attended 515 house fires.\nSince 2013, nine people have been killed in arson attacks.\nIn total, 33 people lost their lives in incidents attended by fire services over the last five years.\nIn the last year alone, three died. There were also 121 casualties, including 47 people who were taken to hospital as a result of their injuries.\nDave Green, national officer at the Fire Brigades Union, said: \u201cStarting fires deliberately in the home is a heinous crime. Rightfully, it is a serious criminal offence punishable by law. Arsonists do not just put the immediate victims at risk; they put whole communities and firefighters themselves in jeopardy.\n\u201cThe fire and rescue service is already stretched to the limit in the fire cover they can provide. If firefighters are dealing with an arson at the same time as another fire call comes in, then those other victims are looking at a long wait before we can get to them.\u201d\nAcross England, 346 people lost their lives in fires between October 2016 and September 2017, including 47 in deliberately started fires. The Grenfell Tower fire in Kensington in June 2017, which claimed 71 lives, meant the figure was the highest for any 12-month period since the data was first recorded in 2009.\nThere were more than 30,000 house fires across the country over the year, over 3,000 of which were started deliberately.\nData:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/sport/football/bailey-is-latest-recruit-to-city-ladies-backroom-team-1-8456041", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:B7C532TXQJ354SMA7H5NQTBOCOA3OQGH", "length": 1935, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk", "title": "Bailey is latest recruit to City Ladies\u2019 backroom team - Midhurst and Petworth Observer", "raw_content": "Bailey is latest recruit to City Ladies\u2019 backroom team\nChi City Ladies celebrate a goal in a recent outing v Gillingham / Picture by Tommy McMillan\nBeckie Bailey has been appointed vice-chairwoman of Chichester City Ladies.\nThe move comes as part of the continuing growth and restructuring at the club in line with changes being seen in women\u2019s football.\nBailey is a regular face on matchdays for the club and helps in a variety of roles already but will now work alongside chairwoman Caroline Henry-Evans.\nThe two will work together to push new initiatives and Henry-Evans is delighted, saying: \u201cBeckie will bring great enthusiasm and\nsupport to her role as vice-chair.\n\u201cShe already supports the ladies every weekend, home or away, and has two girls who play for Chichester City girls.\u201d\nThere have already been positive steps forward for Chichester this season following the arrival of Alan Crozier to work on the club\u2019s operational side. Recently Rob Kerr became the face of the club\u2019s business side to work with the club\u2019s sponsors and commercial partners.\nNow Bailey joins the backroom staff to push the club forward with the aim of making occasions like the SSE Women\u2019s FA Cup fifth-ound against Liverpool a regular occurrence. It drew around 1,300 spectators to Oaklands Park.\nHenry-Evans added: \u201cBeckie wants to help the club move forward in a positive way and is always trying to come up with ideas to makes things easier behind the scenes.\n\u201cWorking alongside her will be fun and I look forward to the challenge of bouncing ideas around with someone who only wants the best for the club like I do.\u201d\nBailey assumes her role with immediate effect with the club looking to finish strongly in the Women\u2019s Premier League southern division but also looking ahead to next season.\nUp for City Ladies this afternoon (Sunday Apr 15) is a trip to the midlands where they take on Coventry United for the first time at the Butts Park Arena.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milaonsupplements.com/supplements/pycnogenol", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:C5BF7N6I2AQZ5Z3DSDJICA7RY42IQWDZ", "length": 5435, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.milaonsupplements.com", "title": "Pycnogenol Supplement Review on Usage, Dosage, Side Effects, Benefits - MilaOnSupplements", "raw_content": "Pycnogenol Supplement Review on Usage, Dosage, Side Effects, Benefits\nPycnogenol is a product which is extracted from the bark of European coastal pine, growing in southwestern France (Pinus maritime or Pinus pinaster) and is prepared by a patented process.\nThe pine extract contains a complex of biologically active substances belonging to the group of bioflavonoids.\n\u200bFrom this group over 4000 representatives with strong antioxidant properties have been identified.\nWhat Is Pycnogenol\n\u200bAction Mechanism\nRecommended Dose and Method of Intake\n\u200bWhat Is Pycnogenol?\n\u200bAs a matter, Pycnogenol is a natural substance found in the 16th century.\n\u200bThe first evidence of its effects is linked to the sailors from the crew of Captain Jacques Cartier, who suffered from scurvy and the long sailing threatened them with certain death.\n\u200bOn the advice of a physician, they were cured with the help of a potion from the bark of the native trees. Today, Pycnogenol (Pycnogenol\u00ae) is a trademark of the British company Horphag Research, Ltd.\nIt is a product which is extracted from the bark of European coastal pine, growing in southwestern France (Pinus maritime or Pinus pinaster) and is prepared by a patented process.\nThe pine extract contains a complex of biologically active substances belonging to the group of bioflavonoids. From this group over 4000 representatives with strong antioxidant properties have been identified.\nThe chemical composition of Pycnogenol is well understood, it includes: 80-85% proanthocyanidins, 5% of the monomers catechin and taxifolin, and the residue is partitioned between some phenolic acids (ferulic and caffeine acid) and water.\n\u200bThe main action mechanism of Pycnogenol is through its ability to increase the levels of nitric oxide in the blood.\nOn the one hand, the increase in the corresponding concentration is obtained by reducing the conversion of nitric oxide to superoxide, which prolongs its half-life.\nOn the other hand, it is obtained through direct stimulation of the enzyme Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS).\nPycnogenol has a place in dozens, even hundreds of scientific studies with different purposes.\n\u200bOne of the main directions in the study of Pycnogenol is the erectile dysfunction. One of the studies has been conducted in men with confirmed organic erectile dysfunction.\nIn the course of one month, men have been taking 3g arginyl aspartate (dipeptide composed of 1.7 g of arginine and aspartate). After this month respectively 40mg and 120 mg of Pycnogenol have been added.\nThe results are impressive. Upon reception of pure arginine, without pycnogenol, only 5% of men have received a normal erection. With the addition of 40 mg of Pycnogenol, this percentage is 80%, and with 120 mg Pycnogenol - 92.5%.\nSimilar results have been observed with the intake of the nutritional supplement Prelox, which contains precisely extract from the pine bark and l-arginine aspartate.\n2) Circulation and vasorelaxation\n\u200b\u200bIn people with coronary artery disease, 200 mg of Pycnogenol a day for eight weeks, along with standard therapy, has been able to improve the blood circulation by 32%, while the placebo group has stayed unchanged.\nA similar result was observed for the dose of 100 mg daily for eight weeks by people with high blood pressure, as well as with 180 mg daily by healthy people.\n3) Coagulation and thrombosis\nSeveral studies distinguish pycnogenol as a great preventive measure against thrombosis. This property of Pycnogenol is studied in smokers and nonsmokers, as the increased risk of thrombosis in smokers has repeatedly been demonstrated.\nDose between 100 and 200 mg of Pycnogenol has a significantly positive effect in both groups. Its effectiveness is comparable to the dose of 500 mg of aspirin with the difference that Pycnogenol does not carry the risks of the prolonged intake of aspirin.\n4) Joint problems\nSeveral scientific studies have shown impressive results with the intake of Pycnogenol by people with osteoarthritis.\nDivided into three doses, the daily dose of 150 mg of Pycnogenol taken for the period of 90 days has been able to reduce the severity of the symptoms of the disease.\nComplaints about pain have decreased by 43%, for stiffness \u2013 by 35% and there\u2019s been 52% improvement in motion.\n\u200bPycnogenol shows significant results in diseases such as asthma.\nSeveral studies indicate that the prolonged intake of a daily dose of between 100 and 200 mg of Pycnogenol significantly reduces the symptoms of the disease.\n\u200bIn the majority of the studied subjects, the need for additional medication and inhalers has decreased significantly.\n\u200b\u200bPycnogenol has a place also in the studies of many other diseases and problems, including hyperactivity and attention deficit, skin problems, bad lipid profile, obesity, menopausal symptoms and others, but these data are still controversial.\n\u200bRecommended Dose and Method of Intake:\n\u200bThe exact dosage varies among different studies, but the optimum one is in the range of 100 to 200 mg daily.\nThe daily dose can be divided into several doses during the day, or it can be taken at once.\nThe intake during meals is recommended, but not mandatory.\n\u200bThe extract of pine bark shows no side effects in the studied doses up to 300 mg daily for three months.\nThe safety of the higher dose is not yet clear.\n\u200b\u200bPycnogenol is a very powerful antioxidant, and as such, it may be useful for the prevention and prevention of various health problems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 518, "original_length": 12492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2014/03/12/obama-pitches-his-health-care-plan-on-funny-or-die.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:D2ZHBDUPZUMUBLCLQJUUBVATF3MMQJP4", "length": 5402, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.military.com", "title": "Obama Pitches His Health Care Plan on Funny or Die | Military.com", "raw_content": "Obama Pitches His Health Care Plan on Funny or Die\nAssociated Press | By David Bauder\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication.\nThe president urged young people to sign up for the new health care plan through an appearance posted Tuesday on the comic website Funny or Die, bypassing the news media and even previous favorites like TV talk show titans Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman . Instead, he chose to be a guest on Galifianakis' \"Between Two Ferns,\" the digital short with a laser focus on reaching people ages 18 to 34.\nThe video reached 1 million views within three and a half hours of posting and was adding more at a pace of 1 million per hour in the middle of the day, according to Funny or Die. The website was briefly the number one source of referrals to Healthcare.gov, the Obama administration said, with some 19,000 people navigating directly from the video to the health care website in the first few hours.\n\"Gone are the days when your broadcasts \u2014 or yours or yours \u2014 can reach everybody that we need to reach,\" Obama press secretary Jay Carney said to broadcast journalists at the White House press briefing Tuesday.\nWith 4 million viewers, Obama exceeded in six hours the typical audience he would get by appearing on television shows hosted by Letterman, Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel , Seth Meyers , Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert . That doesn't count the ancillary views \u2014 clips of the interview aired repeatedly on CNN. And the video was a topic on Howard Stern's radio show. By nighttime, the video had more than 8 million viewers.\nAs hip as Fallon and Kimmel may be in some circles, their audiences skew older \u2014 a median age of 52.7 for Fallon and 56.2 for Kimmel during the last week of February, the Nielsen company said.\nFor Web entertainment, it's a moment that rivals Emmy or Golden Globe nominations for Netflix's \" House of Cards.\" And in presidential annals, it breaks form much like Richard Nixon did with his awkward jokes on television's \"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.\"\nIn the clip, Galifianakis peppered Obama with awkward questions, including whether he'd locate his presidential library in Hawaii or Kenya.\n\"What's it like to be the last black president?\" he asked.\n\"Seriously?\" Obama said. \"What's it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president?\"\nGalifianakis feigned annoyance when Obama, about halfway through the 6-minute clip, began urging young people to sign up for health care, sighing heavily before muttering, \"Here we go.\"\n\"I think it's fair to say I wouldn't be here today if I didn't have something to plug,\" Obama said. As he went on, the \"Hangover\" star asked: \"Is this what they mean by drones?\"\nFunny or Die was launched by Will Ferrell and partners in 2007 and has gone beyond being a niche location. There have been about 20 \"Between Two Ferns\" episodes, drawing an average of 6 million viewers each, and the Obama appearance is expected to go well beyond that number. Funny or Die gets 19 million unique visitors a month and has 7.8 million followers on Twitter and 5.5 million likes on Facebook.\nTelevision talk show appearances have since become an accepted part of the political circuit. The Obama administration hasn't ignored this: First lady Michelle Obama appeared on a skit last month in Fallon's first week at \"Tonight.\" Vice President Joe Biden was on Meyers' first show. The president played along with Fallon's \"slow jam the news\" skit in talking about student loans in 2012, when he was running for re-election.\nHe's done interactive Web appearances with Linked In, Google and Twitter, said presidential spokesman Joshua Earnest . But it wasn't quite like Galifianakis questioning him about whether there's another presidential pardon for a turkey in order or showing him a rash on his arm.\n\"The video enabled the president to deliver his message very clearly but in a way that's fresh and appealing to a young audience,\" said Susan Etlinger , an Internet analyst for the Altimeter Group. \"It's almost cynical but in a sincere way.\"\nThe White House began talking with Funny or Die last summer about ways to promote the health care plan, and the site has posted several comic videos about the topic, said Mike Farah , production president of the site and executive producer of \"Between Two Ferns.\" The interview was taped two weeks ago.\n\"What I really love about the video is that it's a funny 'Between Two Ferns' first,\" Farah said. At the end, the interview's black backdrop collapses and it's revealed the White House is where the appearance was taped \u2014 the joke being that's where Galifianakis does all his shows.\nIn the first few hours, 96 percent of the site's visitors judged the video funny, meaning it had reached immortal status on the site, he said.\nAs 2016 approaches, no doubt other politicians will be watching its impact.\nNot everyone was amused, though. On Fox News Channel's \"Fox & Friends,\" host Brian Kilmeade said the video was inappropriate and \"pretty tragic.\"\nCarney was asked whether some presidential dignity was compromised.\n\"We obviously assess opportunities that we have and, you know, look at whether they're going to be successful and wise,\" he said. \"And I think we made the right call here.\"\nAssociated Press writer Nedra Pickler at the White House contributed to this report.\nTelevision Barack Obama", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 9784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mirafunds.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VCMQOQS62VDDIU6K3CGU56ILVOLZKCYJ", "length": 2583, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.mirafunds.com", "title": "Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets MIRA global infrastructure funds - Macquarie Group MFG", "raw_content": "Investment and capabilities\nPreviously managed funds\nMIRA Funds\nMIRA is the global leader in infrastructure management*\n* Assets under management, Towers Watson Global Alternatives Survey 2017\n** as at 30 September 2018\nMacquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is the world\u2019s largest infrastructure asset manager with growing portfolios in real estate, agriculture and energy.\nWe have been investing in infrastructure for more than 20 years. Today, our focus remains on the enduring success of our portfolio companies and the communities they serve. It\u2019s our long-term approach to building sustainable value throughout the investment cycle.\nRead about MIRA\nMIRA manages over $A178 billion ($US129 billion)** of assets on behalf of pension funds, sovereign funds, insurance companies and other investors.\nOur regionally focused teams are made up of operational and financial experts who take a disciplined approach to creating and managing diverse real asset portfolios.\nAsset investments\nOur investment platforms give investors exposure to infrastructure and other real assets through public and private funds, and co-investment opportunities.\nWe manage over 70 funds around the world, largely regional in focus. They invest in ~140 businesses, 400 properties and 4.5 million hectares of farmland.\nMore about our funds\nThis information is a general description of the Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets division (MIRA) only. Before acting on any information, you should consider the appropriateness of it having regard to your particular objectives, financial situation and needs and seek advice. No information set out above constitutes advice, an advertisement, an invitation, an offer or a solicitation, to buy or sell any financial product or security or to engage in any investment activity, or an offer of any banking or financial service. Some products and/or services mentioned on this website may not be suitable for you and may not be available in all jurisdictions.\nThe Macquarie Group entities noted on this page are not authorized deposit-taking institutions for the purposes of the Banking Act 1959 (Commonwealth of Australia). Their obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of Macquarie Bank Limited (ABN 46 008 583 542) (MBL). MBL does not guarantee or otherwise provide assurance in respect of the obligations of those entities.\nThe Fund information on this website is general in nature. All securities and financial product or instrument transactions involve risks. Past performance is not a reliable indication of future performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mjai.com/about/meet-the-team/roger-johnson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:247VYOBJPK6PKDSH5H6KFBJTSCZYGIJ5", "length": 352, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mjai.com", "title": "Roger Johnson - Marvin Johnson & Associates, Inc.", "raw_content": "Roger started with the agency in 1979 working small account renewals. Today he acts as a producer / manager of the midsize fleets(20 \u2013 50 power units)group, he also serves as Secretary/Treasurer for Marvin Johnson & Associates. A member of the Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Trucking Associations, Roger and wife have three children. They live in Columbus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mjil.ru/jour/search/search?query=worker%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%20method%20foreign%20%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UWG4KHYELDL3C7YNGA3IXPYTXHDKXNCK", "length": 3643, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.mjil.ru", "title": "\u041f\u043e\u0438\u0441\u043a", "raw_content": "\"... the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation\u201d regarding labour of foreign citizens ...\"\n\"... regulation of the foreign nationals' status shows that the consistent implementation of the national ...\"\n\"... Security Cooperation format. MATERIALS AND METHODS. 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The day's other activities included games featuring baseball and softball organizations -- including the Armed Forces Softball League, American Legion, Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) and USA Baseball and USA Softball -- which culminated with the Midnight Sun Game.\nVideo: Lohrke pleased to have Midnight Sun Game for city\nThe main event was between collegiate summer baseball teams, the Alaska Goldpanners and the Orange County Surf at Fairbanks' Growden Park. It began at 10 p.m. local time and did not use any artificial light. The Midnight Sun Game was first played in 1906 and has been hosted annually by the Goldpanners since 1960, their first year of competition.\nVideo: Bean discusses 24 Hours of Play Ball in Alaska\nBilly Bean, a former big leaguer and MLB's vice president and special assistant to the Commissioner, was in attendance. Bean was named the Goldpanners' Most Valuable Player in 1985.\nTweet from @PlayBall: The finishing touch to 24 hours of #PlayBall?The @RealGoldpanners' Midnight Sun Game. pic.twitter.com/AAnkMIwKgB\nHere's a recap from this one-of-a-kind event:\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 11 p.m.\nFor years, baseball fans from all over the world have gathered to watch the collegiate summer baseball team, the Alaska Goldpanners, play in the Midnight Sun Game. The game, which began at 10 p.m. Alaska time, did not use any artificial light, but it was lit instead by the summer solstice.\nVideo: Matherly discusses Midnight Sun Game, its location\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 9:30 p.m.\nDuring the Midnight Sun Game pregame ceremonies, Jim Matherly, mayor of Fairbanks, and Karl Kassel, mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, adorn the Play Ball baseball with the Alaska state stamp. Play Ball has traveled to 25 (half!) of the United States!\nVideo: Mayors adorn the Play Ball baseball with Alaska Stamp\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 8 p.m.\nGates open at Growden Park for the Midnight Sun Game; enter Marc Christensen, Larry Bingham, Michael Cronk -- three retired baseball fans from San Francisco touring the country one ballpark at a time. Since beginning their quest in 2010, they've visited all 30 big league parks and 82 Minor League parks.\nVideo: MLB celebrates summer solstice in Fairbanks, AK\nThis trip began in Seattle before heading to Anchorage and then Fairbanks for the Midnight Sun Game. Growdin is the fifth ballpark of their visit to Alaska. Missing from their crew on this trip is Gary Bingham, brother of Larry.\nPlay Ball is all about bringing the game to places it hasn't thrived traditionally, or perhaps in a long time. While you may not think of Alaska when you think baseball, the game is alive and well in America's north-most state. More than 300 kids came out for a Play Ball doubleheader event ahead of the Midnight Sun Game.\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 9 a.m\nBased here in Alaska, these men and women serve our country in the Air Force and Army. Today, we salute them as they take the diamond.\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 8 a.m.\nLittle League is serious business up in Alaska. With limited months to play the game outside, two teams from the Anchorage Boys & Girls Club made the eight-hour bus trek up to Fairbanks to play with local PONY and RBI teams to celebrate a full day of sunlight. That's Fairbanks in red, with Anchorage in blue.\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 1:00 a.m.\nHow's this for a baseball sky at one o'clock in the morning?\nFairbanks, June 21 -- 12:01 a.m.\nThe first of many pitches on the day is thrown as American Legion Post 30 faces American Legion Post 11 in Game 1 of 24 Hours of Play Ball.\nVideo: Riccobono excited for 24 Hours of Play Ball in Alaska\nFairbanks, June 20 -- 11:56 p.m.\nBean, Rick Riccobono (chief development officer, USA Baseball) and David James (vice president, baseball and softball development, Major League Baseball) throw out the first pitch to begin the 24 hours of Play Ball in Fairbanks, Alaska in celebration of the summer solstice.\nShannon Ford is a reporter for MLB.com. 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From March through June, warm, moist air meeting cooler, dry air, can lead to instability in the atmosphere; spawning deadly twisters and thunder storms. Last year, 53 people died from an estimated 811 tornadoes in the U.S.\nWith this in mind, there's bound to be many, many people that find it difficult to watch the new trailer for New Line's disaster film \"Into the Storm.\" Not only is this sneak peek effective at raising the hairs on the back of your neck, but it also brings to mind recent events - such as the devastating EF-5 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma last year. This being Hollywood, however, it looks like we're in for a storm straight out of the imagination of Michael Bay. If easy to see this being the natural sequel to the 1996 film \"Twister\" - but on steroids.\nFor the full effect, put on some headphones and check out the trailer below. Whoever created it, did a masterful job of simply letting the sound of one of nature's most furious storms make the introduction.\n\"Into the Storm\" is slated for release August 8th.\nShould we build a 'great wall' to prevent tornadoes from entering America?\nThe business of storm chasing\n10 ways to prepare for tornadoes, strong winds and hailstorms\nRelated topics: Movies, Natural Disasters, Tornado", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobiletrend.ca/2018/12/07/apple-ipad-9-7-2018-and-ipad-pro-10-5-get-price-cuts-at-best-buy/1924/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:DGOHZ4RYRSLB4SHPXUACAVL3UPYEETJI", "length": 1226, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mobiletrend.ca", "title": "Apple iPad 9.7 (2018) and iPad Pro 10.5 get price cuts at Best Buy - Mobile Trend", "raw_content": "Apple iPad 9.7 (2018) and iPad Pro 10.5 get price cuts at Best Buy\nIf you need to buy a Wi-Fi-only Apple tablet for Christmas and you don\u2019t want to pay too much for it, you should know that Best Buy currently has some attractive deals on the iPad 9.7-inch (2018) as well as on the iPad Pro 10.5-inch (originally released in 2017). Granted, there are better iPads currently on the market, but these two models are definitely worth your attention, especially when they are discounted.\nThe iPad savings listed below are available at Best Buy only today (December 7) and tomorrow (December 8):\n$60 off iPad 9.7-inch 32 GB \u2013 now $269.99 instead of $329.99\n$80 off iPad 9.7-inch 128 GB \u2013 now $349.99 instead of $429.99\n$150 off iPad Pro 10.5-inch 64 GB \u2013 now $499.99 instead of $649.99\n$175 off iPad Pro 10.5-inch 256 GB \u2013 now $624.99 instead of $799.99\nMind you, while both the iPad 9.7-inch (2018) and iPad Pro 10.5-inch support Apple\u2019s Pencil stylus, this is not included in the prices seen above. Thus, if you need to complement your iPad with an Apple Pencil, you have to pay extra for it \u2013 usually $99.\n\u2190 Google Home review: A better voice assistant than Amazon Echo?\nSony Xperia XZ4 release date, rumours, news and features \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moderncities.com/article/2017-jan-how-renters-can-be-neighborhood-advocates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:REITQ7MOYJWBEADMR5T3H2FB6CYCPWRC", "length": 5408, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.moderncities.com", "title": "How Renters Can Be Neighborhood Advocates | Modern Cities", "raw_content": "Unless you live in a big city like San Francisco or Chicago, where a large percentage of units are rentals, tenant concerns can easily go unnoticed, especially when many neighborhoods have rental units interspersed rather than clumped together in clear zones. In fact, another surprising statistic about rental housing in America is that a full 35% of it is single-family homes, and an additional 18% is 2-4 unit buildings. That means more than half of rental housing in the US is not gigantic apartment buildings but modest houses and small duplexes, fourplexes, etc. That type of housing is all around us, yet because it blends with single family owner-occupied homes, it\u2019s often overlooked.\nThere are, especially in big cities, examples of tenants uniting around specific issues that directly impact them, particularly when it comes to housing, but on day-to-day neighborhood issues like speeding cars, trash collection and capital improvement projects, not as many.\nInvisible Renters\nPersonally, as a renter, I feel somewhat invisible. For our readers who are renters, maybe you can relate to this (And for those who own, there was probably a time in your life when you rented and can remember this experience). I don\u2019t directly pay property taxes, so I can\u2019t use that as leverage in conversations with local leaders. In addition, due to the concentration of apartments in my neighborhood, I am merely one resident out of perhaps 300 people who live on my block. That means a lot less than if I owned one house out of thirty on my block. (Of course, that also means more collective voices if I were to get all my neighbors to rally around an issue. More on that in a minute.) I rarely receive notices about neighborhood meetings and when I do, they have almost always already occurred by the time I get the letter. In short, I feel disregarded and ignored as a tenant.\nThere are also the insidious stereotypes of renters\u2014that they are transient, that they don\u2019t contribute to a community as much as owners, that they don\u2019t make good neighbors, and so on. How many condo associations and home owners associations have policies about what percent of their units can be rentals and how much they\u2019ll allow rentals to live in their community? How many people, when choosing to buy a new home, consider how much of the surrounding homes are rentals and look upon a high percentage unfavorably? These negative views are another reason it can be harder to make your voice heard as a renter.\nOf course, there is a kernel of truth to some of these perceptions: Renting is a short-term proposition and many renters do move more often than homeowners. The renters in my neighborhood tend to be younger, some are in college or graduate school, many are childless\u2026 So they aren\u2019t as tied down. I\u2019ll confess that it\u2019s only after living a year in my current apartment and signing another year\u2019s lease that I\u2019ve begun to feel like I\u2019m truly a part of this neighborhood and am familiar enough with the issues here to begin to be a neighborhood activist. But just because I and others in my situation aren\u2019t living in our homes for decades, that doesn\u2019t mean we care any less about our streets, our sidewalks, our businesses, and our parks than owners do.\nPerspective from a Seasoned Neighborhood Activist\nTo get some perspective on this topic, I contacted friend of Strong Towns and former mayor of Seattle, Michael McGinn, because I knew he had experience in citizen-based advocacy. Last year, he wrote an article for Crosscut (a news site based in the Pacific Northwest) specifically talking about the challenges of renter engagement and the prejudices renters can face.\nWhile McGinn rented in Seattle for several years, he says he didn\u2019t become incredibly active in neighborhood issues until after he bought a home in the Greenwood area. In our conversation, this trajectory is something that McGinn and I recognized as fairly typical: While renters can move frequently, purchasing a home means a multiyear commitment to a neighborhood, so owners can more easily become invested in neighborhood issues. It\u2019s not that renters don\u2019t care, it\u2019s just that they\u2019re less likely to be concerned with long-term problems.\nOne of the issues McGinn first became interested in was getting sidewalks in Greenwood so that he and his neighbors could safely walk to the grocery store, take their kids to school, and so on. The desire for sidewalks led him to attend some neighborhood meetings, which eventually landed him the role of head of his neighborhood\u2019s community council. He didn\u2019t set out the do that, but his passion for the issue of pedestrian safety led him there.\nIn our conversation, McGinn stressed that his research and his experience in neighborhood activism shows that, just because a group calls themselves a neighborhood organization or says they work to represent the whole neighborhood, that doesn\u2019t mean they actually do. A recent report that McGinn sites in his article showed that in every Seattle district council (a form of local government), no more than 40% of the councilors representing any district were renters, and for many of the councils, the amount of councilors who rent was less than 10%. This is in spite of the fact that the Seattle population is over 50% renters. 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My 27 year-old son lies to me all the time and never shows up to visit or just calls to see how I\u2019m doing. He started seeing a girl 4 years younger than himself and she quickly moved in and took over his whole life. I have MS and have had for years. He never helped. I had a heart attack in Sept. 07 and called him since he lives a block away at 3:00 a.m. for help. He called me hours later before he left for work to tell me off for waking him up and told me he could do nothing I should just call 911. I live one block away from him. My building is locked there is no intercom and I couldn\u2019t make it down the stairs to open the door for anyone to get to me. I also have 3 cats and was afraid that one of them or more could have gotten out if ER\u2019s could have gotten in. I felt kicked in the heart. It meant nothing to him. I asked him for some help with things I\u2019m not supposed to do right now and he put me off by agreeing to do it, never showing up or calling to say he wasn\u2019t coming. He can run for all of his friends, his girl friend and her family, but I am nothing to him. I live alone and rarely ask for anything and the only times he comes is when I have money for him. I feel beyond snubbed and no longer know what to do. This is so depressing to me. I tried to talk to him. He won\u2019t answer me nor tell me what\u2019s wrong. I have never been invited over for any reason and yet her family and friends are there all the time. I guess he hates me. I have to move on alone from here on in. If he should ever call me, I\u2019m just not going to answer the phone. The only time he calls is when he wants money from me for a favor. I feel like I wasted my life raising him. I was not that bad of a mom to deserve any of this. There is no hope. How do I move on alone now? K.\nAnswer: Dear K.: You will find many posts to read on this subject, if you go to the right hand side of my Home Page and scroll down to \u201cParenting Development\u201d. What you\u2019re up against is more prevalent than most of us realize. And, yes, I am among the walking-wounded. Sometimes we can get stuck in expectations. Our kids expect us to help them when they are little. We expect them to help us when we are old. Most of us loved our part in that but the reverse isn\u2019t always true.\nWe did our best. That is all we ever had to offer. We never claimed to be perfect. Your son has been exploiting you in coming over with his hand out. You are on the right track, to my way of thinking, to call a halt to all of that.\nHe has entered the adult world. When we do that we are not adults, we are starting out in the kindergarten of the School of Adult Behavior and most of us have a very long way to go. What your son does with that privilege, (that you provided by giving him life), is up to him. You have done your part and it\u2019s time to let go. I once knew a wise woman, almost 80 years ago, who would mix up a cake and then, as she put it into the oven, she would say, \u201cWell, I done the best I kin do\u2026the Lord be with you in the oven.\u201d And so it is with your son.\nIt isn\u2019t wise to live where you can\u2019t get emergency help. And please tell me that your safety is above the safety of your cats. I live in a retirement complex where there is an Assisted Care unit. The people there are enjoying life and each other and some of them even have pets. Why not move to some place more supportive and get on with the rest of your life? It\u2019s not over. Parenting is over and you are free. Who knows who or what your son will become when he finally grows up. You both might be surprised. What would you be doing these days if you had never had kids? It\u2019s time to start a new chapter that is about you and what you want and like. There are new friends to be made and new adventures to experience. Blessings, Luise\nDo All Long-term Relationships Die\n2 Responses to My Son Has Abandoned Me\nA. February 12, 2011 at 9:29 am #\nI need to know as much as possible about this topic.I have only one son(now 19) and he abandoned me because of money.I am devastated and don\u2019t know how to deal with my hurt feelings. Life stopped making sense to me. A.\nCome over to my Web-forum where we address issues with adult children and extended families. it is t: http://www.WiseWomenUnite.com Blessings, Luise", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 7565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.momresponds.com/im-a-failure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CSGMJV7DRU2OYKFNNAPUSTFHKYTY42LF", "length": 1759, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.momresponds.com", "title": "I'm A Failure - MomResponds.com: Ask Questions, Get Answers", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u203a Issues with Adult Children & Extended Families \u203a I\u2019m A Failure\nQuestion: Dear Luise: My life is not what I want it to be. I\u2019m a failure. I\u2019m overweight and doing work that isn\u2019t fulfilling or profitable. No amount of visualizing makes any difference and the spiritual path I try to follow just emphasizes the glaring gap between what I prefer and what I have. How do I change this? I just can\u2019t believe it was \u201cmeant to be\u201d or is \u201cmy lot in life\u201d, etc. I know hopeless and helpless are victim stances, but how do I move out of that reality? In appreciation, Mike\nAnswer: Dear Mike: I think you may be right. There are times when our old tapes do us in. For most of us, all of the self-help books, epiphanies, and resolves just don\u2019t get to the neuro-pathways in our brains that were created when we were very young. I will share my experience with you for what it\u2019s worth. I came to the foregoing conclusion after years of trying to alter behavior that I felt was unproductive at best and defeating at worst and failling to do so.\nWhat brought about a shift for me was the work Laurel Mellin has done on what is necessary to bring about deep, permanent change in behaviors, attitudes, reactions and beliefs. She is at www.thepathway.org . I started out reading her book, \u201cThe Pathway\u201d and then got into one of her study groups. Her amazing work was once directed exclusively toward weight loss. Eventually she realized it has a much broader application. It\u2019s not for everyone, no single approach ever is, and it may not be for you. I saw people there who were not inspired, and it took inspiration plus grim determination for me to slog through it. If you are up for fighting for yourself, I found it to be a great arena. Blessings, Luise", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monicaariasmiranda.com/political.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:02Z", "digest": "sha1:OKZPHMUDTFENNENB63XZH67IIZHQOITN", "length": 1197, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.monicaariasmiranda.com", "title": "Political", "raw_content": "In 2012, M\u00f3nica ran for the new NYS Senate District 46 which was created in 2011 by the Legislative Task Force Commission. M\u00f3nica ran as an Independent Democrat looking to represent the people. She ran a grassroots campaign focusing on the need to bring our elected officials accountable to the people who elect them. She was not, however, successful in her bid during the Democratic Primaries. During her time campaigning M\u00f3nica expanded her network greatly, learned about the needs within the district, and learned much about the campaign process. In the future, she looks forward to helping others, including the Latino community, who want to run for office.\nIn 2008 M\u00f3nica was appointed as Delegate-at-large for Barack Obama. She was heavily involved and served as Treasurer for the Albany for Obama/Coalition for Change, an independent grassroots political action group that supports progressive candidates for office. The group funded and supported an all volunteer effort organizing over 130,000 calls by over 1,000 volunteers, sent hundreds of volunteers to key swing states, raised over $100,000. The group sent hundreds of letter to undecided voters and registered over 2,000 new voters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 171.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monmoreconfectionery.co.uk/cashandcarry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:43H72COLO5QSAQMBWXDUOO4OUGFCC2LE", "length": 635, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.monmoreconfectionery.co.uk", "title": "Cash and Carry :: Monmore Confectionery (Midlands) Ltd", "raw_content": "We purchase all of our confectionery from reputable UK manufactures and distributors, where we are able to Monmore\nConfectionery operates a large cash and carry in Bilston situated in the heart of the West Midlands, just off the M6\nJunction 10; it is conveniently accessible from all areas.\nWe store a large amount of stock in our 20,000 sq ft warehouse offering one of the largest ranges of confectionery\nproducts within the UK.\nThe cash and carry is strictly for trade customers only. New customers must provide proof of trading (please contact us\nfor more details). Our range is also available to the general public via our website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 4552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/Sep/26/glance-americas-new-100-bill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UAPRC3TS6WAZXRBL6TV44J32NX6UB5CK", "length": 759, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.monroenews.com", "title": "A glance at America's new $100 bill - News - Monroe News - Monroe, Michigan - Monroe, MI", "raw_content": "A glance at America's new $100 bill\nThe U.S. Federal Reserve will begin distributing on Oct. 8 a new-look $100 bill with enhanced security features.\nFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? The U.S. Federal Reserve will begin distributing on Oct. 8 a new-look $100 bill with enhanced security features as part of its design. Here's a look at some of what's on the new note:\n? A blue, 3-D security ribbon running down the bill near its center.\n? Text from the Declaration of Independence printed in script next to Benjamin Franklin's portrait.\n? A copper-colored ink well in which the ink changes to green when the bill is shifted.\n? A gold \"100\" stamped on the back of the bill to help the visually impaired.\n? A raised texture on Franklin's portrait and throughout the note.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 2673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moonstone.co.za/fsb-on-site-visits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:44DHWQMERJDRTKVA6VB2DWR2LI4ISHDO", "length": 2037, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.moonstone.co.za", "title": "FSB On-Site Visits | Moonstone", "raw_content": "On Monday we discussed the functions of the FSB\u2019s FAIS Compliance Department in an article by the same name. We indicated where they get information which leads to further action, including on-site visits to FSPs. Today we expand on this for those who still await their first inspection.\nThere is a strict protocol to be followed \u2013 inspectors do not just rock up at your door for what is termed \u201cfriendly\u201d inspections. You have to be given adequate notice via a request for a scheduled appointment. Where there are grounds to suspect serious misconduct, there may be a different approach.\nWe saw on Monday that there are reasons why certain FSPs are chosen. These range from the regulator\u2019s risk rating of your practice, based on certain criteria, and information from other sources. These include competitors, the media and other regulatory and government bodies.\nBy law, the inspectors are allowed to request certain documentation, question staff, conduct interviews and extract sample files.\nAfter the inspection, you receive two reports. A risk mitigation report, in terms of FAIS, identifying the shortcomings in your practice, and how to set it right. The second report, contains corrective steps that need to be taken in terms of FICA.\nCharene Nortier, the presenter, does a good job of relating theory back to practical examples.\nShe points out instances where people conform to the requirement by having the prescribed forms, but where it is clear that there was not a \u201c\u2026common meeting of the minds\u201d between the FSP and the client.\nThis information was drawn from the FSB broadcast on 19 September, which also discussed the General Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest, Profile Changes, Training for Representatives, Complaints and several other practice related subjects.\nIf you would like to ensure that you understand the practical obligations of these topics, you can order a DVD of the complete presentation, which also contains a session on Treating the Customer Fairly, the next ghost likely to jump out of the cupboard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mortgagechoice.com.au/find-an-expert/financial-adviser/suburb/nsw-gulargambone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JEXVSK3OJBPH6CW3UF4D3ARKP46EH6DL", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mortgagechoice.com.au", "title": "Find Your Local Financial Adviser Gulargambone NSW | Mortgage Choice", "raw_content": "Financial Advisers in Gulargambone, NSW", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/study-reasons-heart-attacks-death-black-people-ambulance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6BD4VT3XD3XZHHV3ELXY7PRL3N337QFD", "length": 4671, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.motherjones.com", "title": "The Startling Reasons Why Heart Attacks May Kill More Black People \u2013 Mother Jones", "raw_content": "The Startling Reasons Why Heart Attacks May Kill More Black People\nA new study shows timing is everything.\nJaeah LeeMarch 17, 2016 7:00 PM\ncleanfotos/Shutterstock\nMedical researchers have known for years that America\u2019s leading cause of death, heart disease, kills people of color at a higher rate than it does white people. A new study out this week suggests that the reasons why may be much more heavily influenced by systemic issues, such as emergency room care, than previously thought.\nResearchers found that California hospitals with the highest share of black patients exceeded emergency room capacity more frequently than other hospitals, which forces them to reroute ambulances carrying overflow patients to other medical facilities. The study, funded by the National Institute of Health and published in the medical journal BMJ Open, reviewed data on medical emergency services in 26 California counties serving nearly 30,000 patients between 2001 and 2011.\nThis rerouting process, known as ambulance diversion, can lead to life-threatening delays in treatment for time-sensitive medical emergencies like heart attacks and increases the likelihood that patients will die, the authors say.\n\u201cCardiologists often say that time is muscle, or time is heart tissue,\u201d says Renee Hsia, an ER doctor and professor at the University of California-San Francisco who co-wrote the study. \u201cWhen you have a clot, every minute matters. Even if you don\u2019t die right away, you have a poorer heart over the long term.\u201d\nThe study found that both black and white patients whose nearest hospitals were affected by ambulance diversion were less likely to receive standard treatments and less likely to live beyond a year after their heart attack, compared with patients at hospitals that don\u2019t divert ambulances.\nWhile the study focuses on California counties, the issue likely affects other states as well, Hsia said.\nThis new research may help illuminate why the rate of deaths related to heart disease is 33 percent higher for black Americans than it is for the overall US population, according to American Heart Association figures. Other experts have documented a variety of reasons for this disparity, ranging from less access among people of color to insurance and consistent medical care, longer waits for emergency medical help from first responders, less knowledge about symptoms, and implicit bias among physicians.\nEmergency room overcrowding is caused by a long list of issues, Hsia said, and gravely ill patients are a special challenge at busy hospitals because they require more care.\nEach new patient\u2014especially one with a critical condition like a heart attack\u2014requires extensive staff attention and technological resources before and after a physician sees him or her. When a person with a heart attack arrives in a hospital\u2019s ambulance bay, for example, they must be unloaded by paramedics, directed to a bed by a triage nurse, undressed by a technician or medical assistant, and taken to have blood drawn by a nurse, Hsia said. Then a radiology technician must take a chest X-ray and process and print it, while another nurse or technician needs to take an EKG.\n\u201cAll of these things take time,\u201d she said, adding that such patients have more specialized needs after they are diagnosed. \u201cIf the physician decides the patient needs treatment for a heart attack, they have to activate cath lab, and a clerk has to page all the staff that needs to come in. Then you need all those people to come in, and you need a transport team to take the patient to the lab.\u201d\n\u201cThose are all the steps where you could see bottlenecks happen,\u201d Hsia said.\nThe authors found that hospitals with the 10th-highest share of black patients experienced overcapacity more frequently relative to other hospitals, forcing them to reroute ambulances to the next closest facilities. The same trend held for emergency rooms serving at least twice as many black patients as other hospitals within a 15-mile radius.\nPrevious studies have found that hospitals serving areas with a relatively high share of black residents have other problems that may affect the care they provide. Such hospitals are more likely to experience money shortages, in part because they are more likely to rely on public funding. Also, their patients are more often uninsured or covered by Medicare or Medicaid\u2014which typically reimburse bills at a lower rate than private insurers. The shortage in funding can in turn make it tough to compete with privately funded hospitals when hiring specialized medical talent, such as cardiologists.\n\u201cThese are structural disparities that people can\u2019t see but are very real,\u201d Hsia said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpmgllc.com/blog/2013-speaker-series-billy-beane/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JXIITKQVUQTMK2DEMBZIP6IWGTA4HSMS", "length": 8778, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.mpmgllc.com", "title": "2013 Speaker Series: Billy Beane | MPMG", "raw_content": "How conventional wisdom failed investors in the past\nThere are numerous cases in recent history where following the crowd proved to be a mistake for investors.\n\u0086The \u201cNifty 50\u201d stocks of the 1960s were considered stocks every portfolio manager had to own. But once they reached peak valuation (and peak popularity among investors), their prices dropped by 80% to 90%.\nTechnology companies were highly coveted in the 1990s, but investors lost 78% of their wealth in these stocks between 2000 and 2003.\nHome ownership was considered to be one of the \u201csafest\u201d investments available until the housing market collapsed in 2007.\nConversely, the bond funds that invested in the bonds of companies with such excessive levels of debt that their credit was considered to be \u201cjunk\u201d would see their initial investments grow by over 25 times during the next 30 years.\nPrice is the key determinant of the success of an investment\n\u0086In today\u2019s investment environment, much of the focus has been on choosing investments that are perceived as being safe and defensive in nature. This has resulted in a heavy flow of funds out of equities and into bonds and high dividend/low growth stocks.\nRisk is not avoided by selecting specific asset classes. The best defense against market risk is paying the right price for an asset.\nWhile U.S. Treasury bonds and technology stocks as represented by the NASDAQ are viewed as being on opposite sides of the risk spectrum, the price of both eventually rose so significantly that they both became incredibly risky.\nToday, U.S. Treasury bonds appear to be tracking the rapid ascent and subsequent decline that NASDAQ stocks experienced in the early part of the 21st century.\nThis is a recent example that risk is not avoided through the selection of specific asset classes. Rather it is the price that one pays for an asset that is the principal determinant of its riskiness.\n12 Month total return through June 30, 2013*\nProtecting you from risks yet to play out\nWe at MPMG have been warning about the risk that currently exists in the falsely perceived safe-havens of bonds and bond-proxies (stocks that pay out most of their earnings as dividends and have meager growth prospects).\nThe performance of different investment classes in the last 12 months (through June 30, 2013) demonstrates what we anticipated.\nGold and 10 Year U.S. Treasury bonds, considered safe havens by many investors, have lost money in that period.\nStocks have recovered, and the MPMG All Cap Value portfolio has exceeded the stock market\u2019s impressive returns.\nWhere MPMG sees value today\nWe believe that quality, multi-national businesses that sell products and services to meet many of the necessities of life around the globe are well positioned to prosper given their current valuation levels.\nThese are quality companies, but the key is that we\u2019ve been able to add them to the portfolio attractive prices.\nCisco Systems \u2013 considered t0 provide the \u201cbackbone\u201d of the Internet.\nXylem \u2013 equipment and services to help manage the world\u2019s precious water resources\nChicago Bridge & Iron \u2013 an engineering and construction company to the energy industry\nIngersoll Rand \u2013 a global leader in HVAC, capitalizing on a booming global middle class\nNCR \u2013 industry leader in ATMs, airline kiosks and business software\nPart II: Billy Beane\nFrom the baseball diamond to Wall Street\nHow a \u201cMoneyball\u201d approach succeeds in building investment portfolios and baseball teams\nBilly Beane \u2013 Moneyball and finding value in the marketplace\nBilly Beane was once one of the highest rated baseball prospects in the country. His experience as a can\u2019t miss prospect that ended with an unimpressive, six-season major league career(part of it with the 1987 Minnesota Twins) taught him that the conventional wisdom that dominated baseball management was wrong.\nMr. Beane\u2019s value approach to building a baseball team was made famous by Michael Lewis bestselling book Moneyball, which inspired the Oscar-nominated major motion picture that starred Brad Pitt.\nMr. Beane\u2019s approach to buying quality players at the right price is similar to MPMG\u2019s style of selecting businesses to invest in. Here is a summary of Mr. Beane\u2019s comments at the MPMG Speaker Series event on August 15, 2013 and how his approach to baseball player selections can be related to investing.\nBilly Beane\u2019s unique and successful \u2013 approach\nIn retrospect, Mr. Beane viewed himself as a prospect that looked like a baseball player based on superficial methods of evaluation, but failed to possess overlooked characteristics that were critical to succeed in professional baseball.\nConversely, Mr. Beane saw other players during his era that did not seem attractive based on a cursory review, but possessed valuable and overlooked qualities that would enable them to be successful professionals.\nHe realized that the baseball market tended to undervalue players who did the important things well most notably to get on base (by whatever means)at a high rate.\nMr. Beane recognized that there was a way to capitalize on over 150 years of baseball statistics in order to identify ways to garner wins from a value approach to baseball.\nSpecifically, he says, We were trying to mimic what goes on on Wall Street, especially with somebody like Warren Buffet, and MPMG, who focus on finding quality companies at a good price.\nMr. Beane\u00d3s analysis showed him that a team\u2019s on-base percentage was the most influential variable in producing a winning team.\nBilly Beane on the transformation of the Oakland A\u2019s\nPrior to becoming the General Manager, the 1992 Oakland A\u2019s had the second highest\npay roll in baseball($48 million).\n20 years later during an era of significant salary escalations in baseball, Oakland\u2019s payroll was just $594 million second lowest in the league, compared to $223 million for the New York Yankees.\nGiven Mr. Beane\u2019s budget limitations, he focused on players who were outstanding at the most important skill (getting on base), but were deficient in other less important skills (stolen bases). If a player was deficient in enough less important areas or woefully deficient in just one, Mr. Beane believed that he could acquire that player at a discount to his true value and assemble a high performing team made up of under appreciated and over-looked cast-offs.\nWhile many ridiculed his approach, his methods proved to be highly successful. In 2012, Oakland won its division for the fifth time in 15 years since Mr. Beane took over as GeneralManager.\nBetween 1999 and 2012, the total payroll for Oakland was $764 million while the highest paid team, the New York Yankees, spent $2.5 billion.\nMr. Beane says the \u00d0cost-per-win during this time was $618,000 for Oakland versus $18 million for the Yankees.\nBilly Beane on where to find value\nMr. Beane recognized that baseball\u00d3s amateur draft was a highly inefficient process where no team had demonstrated consistent success.\nPart of the problem was that despite there being decades of data on the draft, few teams ever paid much attention to studying the data.\nMr. Beane and his team conducted several analyses of this data and concluded that players drafted out of college and from bigger cities have a much higher success rate than players drafted out of high school.\nThe important distinction is that college players, in general, are better prepared to make it in the majors with fewer variables that affect their likelihood of success.\nMPMG investment parallels with Moneyball\nStocks that at first glance appear to be attractive frequently the most popular stocks can be traps for investors.Oftentimes they are expensive to own, which means that too often they will deliver disappointing performance.\nBy contrast, stocks that are often overlooked by most investors often offer good value. Strong companies that can be owned at a bargain price create great potential for investment success.\nIdentifying characteristics of a successful stock, like those of a successful ballplayer, will help investors find more winners over the long run.\nOverpaying for assets can lead to a large number of mistakes and underperforming assets in your portfolio.\nThe market can be unpredictable in the short term. There will be periods when choosing\nunloved stocks will not prove effective. But by trusting your judgments about valuation, the market will reward quality stocks in the long run.\nChoosing value stocks that have a good chance of success is not simply a matter of\nfinding the cheapest stocks. It is also important to focus on companies that are of high quality and in industries where the potential for strong performance is high.\nWell-managed companies that have a strong position in their competitive marketplaces have fewer variables that could lead to negative surprises down the road.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 11620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mrandmrssmith.com/our-reviewers/joe-dunthorne", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TDGHVXWPXMZN27BSTJTX4CGOOBTDZ32F", "length": 636, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mrandmrssmith.com", "title": "Joe Dunthorne - Hotel Reviews & Destination Reviews - Smith Hotels", "raw_content": "Novel narrator\nDuring his early days as a writer, when postmodernism still seemed like the hot ticket, Joe wrote a series of damning, future-set reviews of books he had not yet written. He\u2019d like to say this has come in useful when reviewing hotels for Mr & Mrs Smith but it hasn\u2019t. And for that we can be thankful, says Joe. Nowadays, he writes fiction and poetry, mainly set in the present day, and mostly not about himself. Submarine, his first novel, was turned into a major film. His second book, Wild Abandon, has just been published.\nJoe Dunthorne anonymously reviewed the following hotels:\nFollonico in Tuscany \u2013 Read the review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.musickpeeler.com/professional/Nasim_Tourkaman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TBXUPDXQQSCJULFSKEIHXM2BBDBFTYZR", "length": 2384, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.musickpeeler.com", "title": "Professional details - Musick Peeler", "raw_content": "University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, 2010\nUniversity of California, San Diego, B.A., Political Science - American Politics, Provost's Honors, 2011\nUniversity of California, Davis, J.D., Dean's Merit Scholarship, 2014\nNasim Tourkaman is a litigation associate in the Firm\u2019s Orange County office. Ms. Tourkaman\u2019s experience encompasses a broad range of practice areas, with a focus on labor and employment, construction, and business litigation.\nIn the labor and employment arena, Ms. Tourkaman defends employers against claims for discrimination (disability, age, sex), harassment, wrongful termination, and wage and hour disputes. She also defends employers against unfair labor practice claims brought before the Public Employment Relations Board.\nWith respect to construction matters, Ms. Tourkaman defends developers, contractors, subcontractors, and owners against a variety of claims ranging from construction defect to negligence and premises liability.\nMs. Tourkaman\u2019s business litigation practice includes handling matters involving breach of contract, business torts, and fraud claims.\nMs. Tourkaman began her litigation career in the public entities group of a Sacramento civil defense firm. She then continued her practice within the civil litigation department of an Orange County-based firm prior to joining Musick Peeler.\nPrepared a winning motion for summary adjudication that extinguished all but two claims against a client wrongfully accused of investment fraud, thereby reducing the client\u2019s exposure by over 85%.\nPrepared a winning motion for summary adjudication on behalf of one of the nation's largest homebuilders based upon a subcontractor's duty to defend and indemnify against plaintiff's claim for damages.\nMs. Tourkaman attended UC Davis School of Law on the Dean\u2019s Merit Scholarship. During her time there, she obtained the Editor Excellence Award for her work on the UC Davis Business Law Journal wherein she served as an Articles Editor, Publications Director, and Senior Articles Editor. She also received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence for achieving the highest grade in her judicial process class.\nMusick Peeler is pleased to welcome associate Nasim S. Tourkaman to our Orange County office.\nUnited States District Court for the Eastern and Central Districts of California\nOrange County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Member", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mvtimes.com/2017/11/21/living-loving-island-terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:BHBQEJ6VEBYWSIQQU2NLDHFOG6CDSHQ4", "length": 5011, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.mvtimes.com", "title": "Living and loving the Island on her own terms - The Martha's Vineyard Times", "raw_content": "Home News Living and loving the Island on her own terms\nLiving and loving the Island on her own terms\nDespite her troubles, Lolita Duarte finds time to help others.\nLolita Duarte cuts up bread for seagulls on the seawall in Vineyard Haven. \u2014 Stacey Rupolo\nLolita Duarte\u2019s day starts at 4 am. She shakes off a mound of blankets and wiggles her toes, which have gone nearly numb overnight. Lumbering through a pathway carved through piles of belongings, she bundles herself in a bright red hooded sweatshirt with \u201cSouth Beach\u201d written in block white letters, and pulls on a puffy vest.\nWith a tuft of white hair poking out of a hood that nearly envelops her face, she sets off to use the bathroom at the Steamship Authority in Vineyard Haven.\nShe gets to see the sunrise, which is one small pleasure she can take with her to help get her through the day. \u201cI actually like the Island at that hour. It\u2019s so peaceful, it\u2019s so nice,\u201d she said.\nLolita, 80, lives in a house in Edgartown that is crumbling down around her and without plumbing, which is why she must use the public facilities every day. But despite her unstable circumstances, Lolita finds time to give back to the community in small ways.\nShe describes herself as generous and caring. Although she doesn\u2019t have a working kitchen, she picks up extra food to help feed a friend and mother of three boys whose boyfriend is unemployed. She picks up day-old bread and pastries from the Stop & Shop for the Island Food Pantry, of which she is a recipient, and senior centers around the Island. \u201cI hate waste,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t waste anything.\u201d\nLolita is a hoarder, by her own admission. Her home in Vineyard Haven, which she still calls her \u201cmother\u2019s house,\u201d although her mother passed away years ago, was deemed unfit for human habitation in April 2016. The home, stuffed with a medley of objects, flooded last year, which prompted the Tisbury Board of Health to take action \u2014 shutting off the water and electricity and forbidding Lolita to live there. Lolita now occupies the Edgartown house, which is quickly approaching the status of her former Vineyard Haven property.\nAccording to Tisbury health agent Maura Valley, hoarding is an uncommon but serious issue on the Vineyard. Ms. Valley recalled connecting Lolita with different community service organizations, but ultimately Lolita\u2019s efforts and participation floundered. \u201cI can connect her, but I can\u2019t make her use them,\u201d Ms. Valley said.\nLolita paints no pretty picture of her life. At 19, she discovered her sister dead in her bed while her parents were away. This is something she never recovered from. \u201cIn those days you didn\u2019t get counseling,\u201d she said. She believes the stress of the event, combined with a divorce and losing her business later in life, exacerbated her hoarding. \u201cI never in all my life dreamed I would end up like this,\u201d Lolita said. \u201cI had money once.\u201d\nBack when she had a working TV, she would spend hours watching the home shopping network QVC, ordering whatever took her fancy. Now, she goes to the dump and collects things, whatever their condition. \u201cI\u2019m a QVC addict,\u201d she said. \u201cIn a way it\u2019s good I don\u2019t have a television, since I can\u2019t afford anything anymore. I miss my TV. I\u2019m a couch potato. I love all the cooking shows and the judges. I love Judge Judy. I wouldn\u2019t want to have to appear before her. I don\u2019t have a TV now, I miss it. You take all this stuff for granted until you lose it.\u201d\nSeagulls reap the benefits of Lolita Duarte\u2019s generosity. \u2014Stacey Rupolo\nStill, a smile creeps across her face as she talks about her life on the Island. Standing by the seawall by the Lagoon Drawbridge, she brings out packages of moldy bread and bagels. She lays them out on the cold concrete slab and begins to methodically cut the bread into small pieces.\n\u201cOnce upon a time, not that long ago, come Labor Day everyone folded up the sidewalks and there was nobody around. It was wonderful,\u201d Lolita said. \u201cI like being alone. There\u2019s a certain amount of tranquility here still, that you don\u2019t get on the mainland. I would love to live on the highest hill up in Gay Head and never come down.\u201d\nFeeding the seagulls is something Lolita has done for years. While this behavior is frowned upon by most for conditioning the birds to associate humans with food, it makes Lolita happy. As her knife scrapes against the seawall, she talks about the many birds she has fed over the years. \u201cI had one seagull who knew who I was, I swear. He took it right out of my hand,\u201d she said.\nAs she finishes the task at hand, Lolita looks up toward the ferry, approaching the port in Vineyard Haven. \u201cI am not leaving this Island,\u201d she said, with ferocity in her voice. \u201cI have obligations. [I was] born and brought up here, over there [where that] hospital [is]. I\u2019m not going off-Island, stubborn Portagee that I am. But I\u2019m suffering for it,\u201d she said.\nPrevious articleYMCA and Ice Arena will open for free on Friday\nNext articleDukes County searches for gaps in up-Island cell service", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 12377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myguidealicante.com/travel-articles/moving-to-spain-with-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DT2G6MYPFCYYN5J6ONWTBNKACJJFJ3AP", "length": 3887, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.myguidealicante.com", "title": "Moving to Spain with Children | My Guide Alicante", "raw_content": "Moving to Spain with Children\nIf you search online you will find a multitude of books about Spain, books set in spain, books about moving to Spain, books about living in Spain and people\u2019s stories about moving to Spain from UK. However, there is very little information available about Spain for children and almost nothing about Moving to Spain with Children.\nWelcome to Moving to Spain with Children. This book will:\nProvide factual info & sources of information\nShare real life experiences\nDon\u2019t even think of Moving to Spain with Children without reading this essential self-help manual. Compiled by a successful British working Mum who has experienced the relocation roller-coaster for you \u2013 the highs, lows and occasional shrieks of panic \u2013 it could save you months of hassle and heartache.\nTiming your Move; Choosing the Best Location; Schooling; Paperwork; Learning Spanish; Healthcare; Property purchase; Starting a business \u2026\n\u2026 and other considerations crucial to ensuring a smooth transition to your new lifestyle.\nWith information that\u2019s bang up-to-date and tells it like it is, spiced with the author\u2019s own heart-warming anecdotes, you\u2019ll arrive at the same place her own family is now \u2013 but in half the time:\nLiving and loving family life in Spain!\nIf you\u2019ve ever wished for the gift of hindsight, Moving to Spain with Children is just that: a gift of a book!\nAvailable in print and for kindle via the following links:\nhttp://www.amazon.es/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-thinking-ebook/dp/B00P5JRM2A\nhttp://www.amazon.es/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-Thinking/dp/1908135603\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-thinking-ebook/dp/B00P5JRM2A\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-Thinking/dp/1908135603\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-thinking-ebook/dp/B00P5JRM2A\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Moving-Spain-Children-Essential-Thinking/dp/1908135603\nWhy did we decide to move to Spain?\nWe decided to move to mainland Spain for many reasons. It is so much easier to have a great quality of life in Spain. Material possessions are not important, or at least they don\u2019t have to be. The Spanish people are so welcoming and family life is very important to them. Provided you make the effort, it can be easy to become part of your local community. Traveling to and from Spain is very easy and affordable thanks to the frequency flights and the road and rail alternatives.\nWhy is Spain a great place to move to?\nWhere do I start? Obviously, my opinions are based on my own experiences and those of many people that I have helped to relocate to the Malaga area.\nWithout wanting to state the obvious, Southern Spain enjoys a climate which encourages outdoor living, masses of fresh air and healthier eating. After over 20 years, the blue skies and sunshine still make me smile.\nHowever, I think it is fair to say that Spain offers a wonderful environment to all kinds of people. I love the fact that my children (aged 7 and 9) attend a Spanish state school, are doing very well and are both bilingual. They eat a wide variety of different foods (shellfish from a very early age, much to my mum\u2019s despair) and spend more hours outside than in. They interact with children of all nationalities and races and neither language nor background is of importance.\nWhy did I feel I had to write the book - how difficult it was to get information and why did I feel I needed to help others to make the move?\nI actually earn my living as an independent relocation advisor and personal property finder. I assist families and professionals in making the best decisions when planning their move to Spain. My specialities are dealing with NIE and residency issues, Spanish bureaucracy and property purchase procedures. It is this work along with my personal experiences that has provided me with first-hand knowledge and material for my writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 835, "original_length": 37703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mympo.org/blog/district-one-trucking-seminar", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LV4AXELUAELWUMFSSE2DQY3HTP2QXU67", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mympo.org", "title": "District One Trucking Seminar - Sarasota Manatee MPO", "raw_content": "Creating the Future Today: Designing for People, P...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myshreddies.com/blog/2015/4/30/spring-is-in-the-air", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:E25TSYSH6BN2OAVUIFRKU5N5MUTSXEQI", "length": 1273, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.myshreddies.com", "title": "SPRING IS IN THE AIR \u2014 Shreddies", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been a lovely couple of weeks at Cotes Mill the home of Shreddies Ltd that we share with www.devolkitchens.co.uk and www.floorsofstone.com\nThe first signs of Spring are appearing, with Daffodils flowering & lunchtimes being spent outside in the sunshine. Today officially marks the start of Spring and was particularly special as we were also treated to a partial eclipse of the sun (with apparently another 11 years to wait for the next one).\nCotes Mill is based around 1/2 a mile from the university town of Loughborough on the banks of the River Soar. The location is the perfect environment for the many animals that live within the grounds and call the Mill home.\nWe have Peacocks & Peahens, Doves, Chickens, Swans & Guinea Fowl to name but a few of the wonderful residents. The habitat also attracts Geese, Ducks and very occasionally a Monkjack Deer or two.\nThis gives myself and the resident deVOL photographer Tim plenty of things to take images of.\nShreddies production is also based at the Mill and is in full swing. We\u2019ve sold over 6,200 pairs of our \u2018ACA\u2019 Award Winning Underwear since the start of the year. And our staff are busy trying to re-stock all of our lines, and we would like to thank all of our customers for your continued support and orders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/osborne-mary-pope-21-civil-war-on-sunday", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LNNHCHUCWP5XFOFTA3M5OTWLWEASEMJB", "length": 370, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mysteriousbookshop.com", "title": "Osborne, Mary Pope, #21 Civil War on Sunday | The Mysterious Bookshop", "raw_content": "Osborne, Mary Pope, #21 Civil War on Sunday\nCannon fire!\nThat's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet\u2014and the one that will make the mostdifference to their own lives!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naijaqueenolofofo.com/2016/02/ooni-of-ife-oba-adeyeye-enitan-ogunwusi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:567LSEQQ73KCIDDM6G2M2A25JIWKZG24", "length": 541, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.naijaqueenolofofo.com", "title": "Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi visits Alake of Egbaland | Naija Blog Queen Olofofo", "raw_content": "Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi visits Alake of Egbaland\nThe Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi paid a visit to the Alake of Egbaland, His Royal Highness Oba Micheal Aremu Gbadebo in his palace in Ogun state today February 7th. During the visit, the Alake re-emphasised the order of hierarchy of the major Yoruba Obas as; the Ooni of Ife, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba of Benin, Alake of Egbaland and Awujale in that order. More photos...\nlabels: alake of egba land, Nigeria, People, Prince Adeyeye Ogunwusi ooni of Ife, yoruba", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 135.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/business/lululemon-names-new-chief-financial-officer-search-continues-for-new-ceo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4OUN6MIEUSBVSFS5CNXCRXWJSCYMFHJ2", "length": 1304, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nanaimobulletin.com", "title": "Lululemon names new chief financial officer, search continues for new CEO \u2013 Nanaimo News Bulletin", "raw_content": "Lululemon names new chief financial officer, search continues for new CEO\nVancouver-based clothing company has appointed Patrick Guido to the position\nLululemon Athletica Inc. has appointed Patrick Guido as chief financial officer as its search continues for a new chief executive.\nThe Vancouver-based clothing company says Guido, who most recently worked as treasurer and vice-president of corporate development at VF Corp., will report to chief operating officer Stuart Haselden.\nLululemon has been without a CEO since early February when Laurent Potdevin suddenly stepped down from the post after the company said he \u201cfell short\u201d of its standards of conduct.\nExecutive chairman Glenn Murphy told a March conference call with financial analysts that the company had met with several possible candidates, but would be taking its time in its search for a replacement.\nPotdevin reached a separation agreement with the company that will see him receive $3.35 million in cash, plus a further $1.65 million paid in monthly instalments over 18 months, while agreeing not to sue the company and co-operate with it in the future.\nThe company also lost its executive vice-president and creative director at the end of last year when Lee Holman resigned.\nDavid Eby calls Alberta\u2019s \u2018bluff\u2019 on pipeline restrictions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 7300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/republican-retreat-housing-reform-part-ii-christopher-papagianis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OB2K453KKBQ7I4MF27MOSWX7R4XJZTGI", "length": 3503, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nationalreview.com", "title": "The Republican Retreat on Housing Reform: Part II | National Review", "raw_content": "The Republican Retreat on Housing Reform: Part II\nBy Christopher Papagianis\nAbout Christopher Papagianis\nLast week, I highlighted an ongoing debate in the House that could mark a Republican retreat from the party\u2019s pledge to pare back government control of the housing market.\nThere is a new wrinkle that has the potential to change the outcome of this debate. Any day now, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is expected to release its (latest) quarterly report to Congress on the status and health of its mortgage-insurance fund.\nHere is a link to FHA\u2019s last quarterly report. If you flip to page 15, FHA shows that it has $2.8 billion in its capital-reserve account. This is the capital that is supposed to protect taxpayers against the default risk on the total amount of FHA insurance that\u2019s still in-force, which now stands at ~$1 trillion. (By way of background, the capital account had more than $20 billion as recently as 2007.)\nWhat are the implications of all of this? Well, that it\u2019s possible that FHA will require a congressional bailout. And the new numbers could signal that this dreaded \u201cbailout\u201d day may be closer than most people think.\nThe situation is particularly worrisome because the current capital level means that FHA is levered ~300 to 1 \u2014 and there is still downward pressure on home prices, defaults, and foreclosures throughout the country.\nNow back to the debate from last week \u2014 on whether the House will decide to keep FHA in the business of: 1) providing a 100 percent taxpayer guarantee on mortgages up to $729,000; and 2) insuring mortgages with values up to 125 percent of an area\u2019s median home price (when the level used to be 95 percent).\nFirst, it\u2019s important to note that the credit quality of FHA lending can certainly be improved \u2014 and there should still be time for Congress to act. (It would be a rather big surprise if FHA released a negative number next week for its capital account.) Congress and/or FHA could increase the premiums that are charged for its 100 percent taxpayer-backed mortgage insurance. (FHA has already taken some steps in this direction over the past year, but the quarterly report is likely to show that they haven\u2019t been sufficient.)\nFHA could also increase down-payment requirements, so there is more of an equity cushion that can protect borrowers (and FHA) against further home-price declines and default. Borrowers right now must only put down 3.5 percent to get an FHA-backed loan.\nRather than taking these steps, the House is contemplating a move in exactly the opposite direction.\nIf you want to read more about how FHA got into this perilous position, here is an op-ed I wrote with Jason Delisle over the summer. The key point is that the accounting practices for FHA are questionable (e.g., too often numbers get released that are later revised down).\nAnd while accounting issues can seem trivial at times, in this case they are very important because FHA lending (and thus taxpayer exposure) is still growing. It will be interesting to see what the House decides to do.\nAt minimum, I\u2019m sure the Obama administration would welcome bipartisan support for keeping loan limits elevated. That way, if FHA does require a bailout, a popular narrative could be that both political parties contributed to the mess, all the way to the end.\n\u2014 Christopher Papagianis is the managing director of Economics21, a nonpartisan policy-research institute, and previously was special assistant for domestic policy to Pres. George W. Bush.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 8070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalreview.com/news/michael-cohen-office-raid-tapes-seized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:BDYZIGJ5ZQAHHQTO6EKMKJETJHRKUBYJ", "length": 2089, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nationalreview.com", "title": "Michael Cohen Case: Prosecutors Gain Access to Tapes Seized in Raid | National Review", "raw_content": "Prosecutors Gain Access to Tapes Seized in Raid on Cohen\u2019s Office\nMichael Cohen arrives at his hotel in New York City, N.Y., May 9, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)\nGovernment prosecutors gained access on Friday to twelve audio recordings seized from Michael Cohen\u2019s office after President Trump\u2019s attorneys dropped their claim that the recordings were covered by attorney-client privilege.\nThe retired judge tasked with deciding which materials seized from Cohen\u2019s home and office are privileged said in a Monday court filing that \u201cthe parties,\u201d believed to be Trump and possibly even Cohen, no longer object to prosecutors\u2019 listening to the \u201c12 audio items.\u201d\n\u201cOn July 20, 2018, the parties withdrew their designations of \u2018privileged\u2019 as to 12 audio items that were under consideration,\u201d said Barbara Jones, the so-called special master brought on to mediate the dispute over what seized materials are in fact privileged. \u201cThe special master released the 12 items to the government that day.\u201d\nThe filing comes days after Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said one of the seized audio files was a secret recording of a conversation between Trump and Cohen about a potential hush-money payment to former Playboy model Karen Mcdougal, who claims to have had an affair with the president.\nTrump responded Friday to news that his longtime personal attorney secretly recorded him discussing the payment to Macdougal.\n\u201cInconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client \u2014 totally unheard of & perhaps illegal,\u201d Trump said of the revelation.\nThe recording reveals that Trump discussed the possibility of purchasing the rights to McDougal\u2019s story from the tabloid company American Media Inc., according to the Washington Post.\nGiuliani said Friday that the conversation, which reportedly took place in September 2016, does not implicate Trump in trying to silence McDougal, adding that there is \u201cno point in objecting\u201d to its release.\n\u201cNothing in that conversation suggests that [Trump] had any knowledge of it in advance,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cIn the big scheme of things, it\u2019s powerful exculpatory evidence.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 7029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.natlawreview.com/article/gao-annual-report-bid-protests-2018-yields-more-protests-more-merit-decisions-fewer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2R4AW5CY243TQGZSFUCNO7N6YVVSZMXC", "length": 4582, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.natlawreview.com", "title": "Bid Protest Annual Report Released by Govt Accountability Offices", "raw_content": "John W. Chierichella\nAdam A. Bartolanzo\nOn November 27, 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (\u201cGAO\u201d) released its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2018.\nUnder the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (\u201cCICA\u201d), GAO is required to report annually to Congress on each instance in which (1) a federal agency did not fully implement a recommendation made by GAO in connection with a bid protest decision, or (2) a final decision in a protest was not rendered within 100 days after the date the protest was submitted to the Comptroller General, during the prior fiscal year. GAO reported no such instances for Fiscal Year 2018.\nCICA also requires the Annual Report to include \u201ca summary of the most prevalent grounds for sustaining protests\u201d during the preceding fiscal year. For 2018, GAO reported the most prevalent reasons for sustaining protests were: (1) an unreasonable technical evaluation, (2) an unreasonable cost or price evaluation; and (3) a flawed selection decision.\nFinally, the Annual Report includes statistical data for GAO filings during FY2018, as well as a comparison to such filings from FY2014 to FY2017. Highlights include:\n2,607 cases were filed with GAO during FY2018, which represents a slight increase (less than 1%) from FY2017. Of these, 2,474 were bid protests (up from 2,433 in FY2017), with the balance being cost claims or requests for reconsideration.\n622 cases resulted in a decision on the merits. This is up from 581 (a 7% increase) in FY2017.\nOf the protests resolved on the merits during FY2018, only 15% were sustained. This is down from 17% in FY2017 and 23% in FY2016.\nThere was a significant reduction in the number of evidentiary hearings. Only 5 cases went to hearing, representing 0.51% of the cases closed during the fiscal year. The prior four years had seen 17 (FY2017), 27 (FY2016), 31 (FY2015) and 42 (FY2014) hearings conducted. These represented, respectively, 1.70%, 2.51%, 3.10% and 4.70% of the cases closed in those years\nThe FY2018 effectiveness rate of protests, which is based on a protester obtaining some form of relief from the agency, either as a result of voluntary agency corrective action or GAO sustaining a protest, was 44%. This is a decrease of 3% from FY2017.\nAs the foregoing statistical data demonstrate, pursuing a successful protest at GAO continues to be the exception, not the rule, with the vast majority of protests proceeding to a final decision resulting in a denial or dismissal. But even when voluntary agency corrective action is considered (i.e., where the protestor gets some sort of remedial relief, but GAO does not rule on the ultimate merits of the protest), less than half of all protests result in any kind of relief. In many cases where corrective action ensues, whether voluntarily or a result of a GAO decision, that corrective action generally gives the successful protester only a \u201csecond bite\u201d at the proverbial \u201capple,\u201d usually in the form of a re-evaluation or a reopening of the competition. In other words, \u201cwinning a protest\u201d is not the same as \u201cwinning a contract.\u201d\nAccordingly, contractors considering filing a protest should work closely with their counsel to evaluate the merits of their case and the probability of success before filing, and to ensure that if they file, their strongest protest grounds are presented clearly and convincingly before GAO.\nJohn Chierichella is a partner in the Government Contracts and Regulated Industries Practice Group in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.\nMr. Chierichella has a broad range of experience in government contract matters, including bid protests, claims and appeals, cost and CAS issues, teaming disputes, GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program, compliance reviews and internal investigations, and qui tam and other False Claims Act litigation.\njchierichella@sheppardmullin.com\nAdam A. Bartolanzo is an attorney in the Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade Practice Group in the firm\u2019s Washington, D.C. office.\nMr. Bartolanzo\u2019s practice focuses on government contracts litigation and counseling. His experience includes advising clients on small business set asides, assisting contract termination appeals, performing transactional due diligence specific to government contractors\u2019 needs, and assessing client compliance with the FAR and other regulations. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation before United States District Courts and state courts, and has experience in governmental investigations.\nabartolanzo@sheppardmullin.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 400, "original_length": 26622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbc-2.com/story/37483634/disney-world-confirms-guardians-of-the-galaxy-roller-coaster-coming-to-epcot", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BBBBFX5KTKNVJF6AOXSCM27SGC4QAXN2", "length": 1123, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nbc-2.com", "title": "Disney World confirms \u2018Guardians of the Galaxy\u2019 roller coaster coming to Epcot - NBC2 News", "raw_content": "Disney World confirms \u2018Guardians of the Galaxy\u2019 roller coaster coming to Epcot\nEpcot will soon be home to \"Guardians\" superheroes.\nORLANDO, Fla. -- On the heels of announcing another price increase at their parks across the United States, Disney officials unleashed fresh details about a new roller coaster coming to Epcot.\nThemed around Guardians of the Galaxy, the indoor attraction \u201cwill be one of the longest enclosed roller coasters in the world.\u201d\nHere\u2019s how Disney explains what to expect: \u201cLarger-than-life Super Heroes will descend upon Epcot with the opening of a Guardians of the Galaxy attraction. Based on the rockin\u2019, action-packed Guardians of the Galaxy movies, this one-of-a-kind family attraction will feature a brand-new, innovative ride system that\u2019s guaranteed to \u2018wow\u2019 guests.\u201d\nIt will open in Epcot\u2019s Future World some point in 2021, which marks the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World.\n\u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy-inspired coaster is part of our ongoing work to transform Epcot into a place that\u2019s more family, more relevant, more timeless and more Disney,\u201d officials say in the Disney Parks Blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/FEMA-Criticized-for-Plan-to-End-Storm-Aid-in-Puerto-Rico-471839293.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HW22BP2C54HGIBASE44OO7CGRIIKVIOI", "length": 1711, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nbcboston.com", "title": "FEMA Criticized for Plan to End Storm Aid in Puerto Rico - NBC10 Boston", "raw_content": "FEMA Criticized for Plan to End Storm Aid in Puerto Rico\nFEMA says it is ending the food and water shipments because private supplies are available\nGov. Scott Talks Puerto Rico Recovery After Maria\nhttp://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/FEMA-Criticized-for-Plan-to-End-Storm-Aid-in-Puerto-Rico-471839293.html\nNBC 6's Darryl Forges has more as the governor discussed what the state of Florida is doing to continue helping those in need.\nPlans by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to halt hurricane relief supplies to Puerto Rico drew criticism Tuesday from members of Congress and the mayor of the island's largest city.\nSan Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said many people in the U.S. territory need the water and food they have been getting from FEMA more than four months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.\nThe mayor said that in recent days officials have had to deliver powdered milk and water to some parts of the island, where still about 35 percent of the population still has no power.\n\"There is need still,\" she told reporters in Washington, where she was attending the State of the Union address as a guest of New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.\nA letter to FEMA Administrator Brock Long signed by 30 members of Congress said the plan to end deliveries of food and water Wednesday would especially hurt people in remote parts of Puerto Rico.\nFEMA says it is ending the food and water shipments because private supplies are available. It will continue to provide assistance to agencies and organizations working in outlying areas.\nThe agency says it distributed more than 65 million liters of bottled water and more than 58 million meals and snacks, totaling nearly $2 billion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/How-To-Help-Indonesia-After-75-Earthquake-and-Tsunami--494945361.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:51Z", "digest": "sha1:I3275C4QOCJMVI7VQO267DHKDZYWLHR7", "length": 3186, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.nbcmiami.com", "title": "How to Help Indonesia Recover After Earthquake, Tsunami - NBC 6 South Florida", "raw_content": "How to Help Indonesia Recover After Earthquake, Tsunami\nHere\u2019s how you can contribute to organizations working in Indonesia recovery efforts\nHow to Help Victims of Indonesian Tsunami\nhttp://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/How-To-Help-Indonesia-After-75-Earthquake-and-Tsunami--494945361.html\nMedical supplies and other goods are desperately needed after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and 20-foot tsunami slammed the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. News4's Derrick Ward reports. (Published Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018)\nThe death toll has grown to more than 1,200 following the catastrophic 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia's central island of Sulawesi on Sept. 28.\nAbout 62,000 people have been displaced with fuel and food running out in the aftermath of the natural disasters, which come less than two months since another earthquake struck Lombok Island.\nHere's how you can contribute to organizations working to address the disaster:\nRed Cross Society: Indonesia's Red Cross currently has over 175 volunteers and staff working in the region, conducting search and rescue efforts, offering medical support, and dispersing goods. They will continue doing so for months. Jan Gefland, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said the Red Cross' \"biggest challenge at the moment is getting access to all communities, and then bringing large quantities of vital relief supplies into the disaster zone.\" You can donate by mailing a check to your local Red Cross chapter, by writing \"Indonesia\" in the memo field. Also, here's the IFRC's Sulawesi Tsunami specific donation page.\nCARE: The humanitarian non governmental relief agency, which partners with USAID, is collecting donations to provide clean drinking water, emergency family shelter, and resources including hygiene kits.\nUNICEF: The United Nations Children's Fund has taken their humanitarian efforts to Indonesia. They are now collecting donations on their website for issues specific to children, including reuniting children with their families and providing clean water.\nInternational Medical Corps: On Friday, the relief agency announced its emergency response team was being dispatched to Indonesia, providing victims with care and supplies. The ask for donations here.\nProject HOPE: On the ground in Palu, the humanitarian organization is collecting general donations. Donations specific to Indonesia's recovery can be made here.\nThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: The relief organization is assessing the region's specific needs. A donation, the organization writes, would contribute towards the organization providing emergency medical care, supplies and psychological support.\nFood for the Hungry: The international relief and development organization, founded in 1971, has a page for direct donations, for \"faithfully answering God's call to respond to suffering.\" The organization is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.\nThe Indonesian neighborhoods of Petobo, top, and Balaroa, bottom, in Palu as shown before and after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the area.\nPhotos: DigitalGlobe via AP Images", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 242.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21370966", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KTK4UBV6S67JVBFXO4APFS5WOXNWRDJW", "length": 2159, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Effects of coenzyme Q10 on arterial stiffness, metabolic parameters, and fatigue in obese subjects: a double-blind randomized controlled study. - PubMed - NCBI", "raw_content": "J Med Food. 2011 Apr;14(4):386-90. doi: 10.1089/jmf.2010.1202. Epub 2011 Mar 3.\nEffects of coenzyme Q10 on arterial stiffness, metabolic parameters, and fatigue in obese subjects: a double-blind randomized controlled study.\nLee YJ1, Cho WJ, Kim JK, Lee DC.\nDepartment of Family Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.\nThis study investigated the effects of coenzyme Q(10) supplementation on metabolic parameters, inflammatory markers, arterial stiffness, and fatigue in obese subjects. We performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-center study on 51 obese subjects with a body mass index (BMI) of \u226525\u2009kg/m(2). Subjects were randomized into either a coenzyme Q(10) (200\u2009mg/day) group (n\u2009=\u200926, BMI\u2009=\u200927.9\u2009\u00b1\u20092.3\u2009kg/m(2), age\u2009=\u200942.7\u2009\u00b1\u200911.3 years) or a placebo group (n\u2009=\u200925, BMI\u2009=\u200926.8\u2009\u00b1\u20092.8\u2009kg/m(2), age\u2009=\u200941.3\u2009\u00b1\u200911.2 years) for a 12-week study. We collected anthropometric measurements, blood for laboratory testing, brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) as an indicator of arterial stiffness, and responses to a fatigue severity scale (FSS) questionnaire at the initial (0 week) and final (12 weeks) visits. A total of 36 subjects successfully completed the study protocol. Serum coenzyme Q(10) levels increased significantly from 0.65\u2009\u00b1\u20090.27\u2009\u03bcg/mL to 1.20\u2009\u00b1\u20090.38\u2009\u03bcg/mL in the coenzyme Q(10) group (P\u2009<\u2009.001). Oral administration of coenzyme Q(10) did not significantly affect lipid profiles, oxidative and inflammatory markers [including lipoprotein (a), oxidized low-density lipoprotein level, C-reactive protein, and white blood cell count], or baPWV. The mean FSS score decreased significantly from 40.1 to 33.1 in the coenzyme Q(10) group (P\u2009=\u2009.017), but no significant change was seen in the placebo group (P\u2009=\u2009.464). However, the extents of the change in mean FSS score between the placebo and coenzyme Q(10) groups were not significantly different (P\u2009=\u2009.287). In conclusion, we found no evidence that coenzyme Q(10) affects fatigue index, arterial stiffness, metabolic parameters, or inflammatory markers.\nFatigue/drug therapy*\nVascular Resistance/drug effects*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 9092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neetprep.com/subject/U3ViamVjdDoxMjk=/topic/VG9waWM6MTkwMw==/newquestions/12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:T7YYOWF2DA55KZBSJK6EBJKE3WZXZUJK", "length": 250, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.neetprep.com", "title": "For the reaction, PCl5 (g)\u21ccPCl3(g) +Cl2 (g) The forward reaction at constant temperature is favored by: (a) introducing an inert gas at constant volume (b) introducing chlorine gas at constant volume (c) introducing an inert gas at constant pressure (d) none of the above Question: 13 of 246 - Chapter: Equilibrium - Subject: Chemistry - Course: NEET Chemistry Course - Complete Syllabus", "raw_content": "For the reaction,\nPCl5 (g) \u21ccPCl3(g) +Cl2 (g)\nThe forward reaction at constant temperature is favored by:\n(a) introducing an inert gas at constant volume\n(b) introducing chlorine gas at constant volume\n(c) introducing an inert gas at constant pressure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 1790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nellyshomes.com/robinwood-market-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OWD5BST2YXSV44ER47BSQAWHRUVMG6RG", "length": 197, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nellyshomes.com", "title": "Robinwood Real Estate Market Report", "raw_content": "Sign up to stay up to date on the Robinwood Real Estate Market!\n162-24 12th Rd 3 2 1,300 $1,650,000 $1,375,000 $1,057 0 days 7/27/18\n162-58 12 Rd 5 5 3,670 $1,499,000 $1,395,000 $380 0 days 6/27/18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nelsonstar.com/community/francophone-association-staying-put/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IN2I27T5UTUNZAZBJ3CL46HVY26XDDNC", "length": 940, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nelsonstar.com", "title": "Francophone association staying put \u2013 Nelson Star", "raw_content": "Francophone association staying put\nThe l\u2019Association des Francophones des Kootenays Ouest will be staying put.\nIn mid-December the Anglican Church Hall where the association is located officially changed hands. New owner Theresa Hart has invited the association to stay in the building and also become the new animal clinic\u2019s neighbour.\nAs soon as the renovations for the clinic are completed, the association\u2019s office and library spaces will also undergo some renovations, which will make them even more bright and cheerful.\nThe association office is located at 723 Ward Street and is open Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. If it\u2019s for borrowing books, using our public computer or simply to relax and socialize, they are here for you. Call them at 250-352-3516 or visit the website at afko.ca to find out about their events and activities.\nKeeping up with the e-Jones\u2019s\nNelson Leafs score for literacy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 6455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nevadaappeal.com/sports/gore-looking-to-have-another-big-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PXBWWQS2CXJNA2GUTVGO273ECS2ZRWXG", "length": 3226, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.nevadaappeal.com", "title": "Gore looking to have another big game | NevadaAppeal.com", "raw_content": "Gore looking to have another big game\nSANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) \u2013 The San Francisco 49ers are benefiting from the stellar start of running backs Frank Gore and Kendall Hunter.\nThe 49ers lead the NFC in rushing and rank second in the NFL after the Gore-Hunter tandem combined for 153 yards during last week\u2019s victory at Green Bay.\nThe Niners look to keep it rolling tonight (5:20 p.m.) in their home opener against the Lions, who have struggled to contain Gore and San Francisco\u2019s rushing game.\nGore is averaging 125.3 yards rushing in four career games against the Lions, the most of any NFL back since Gore entered the league in 2005.\nThe 49ers won each of those four games and have an eight-game winning streak against the Lions dating back to 1996.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve got great guys over there and their front seven plays well together, but our (offensive) line does a great job making the holes, and I just run the ball,\u201d Gore said.\nGore broke away for runs of 55 and 47 yards on his way to a season-high 141 yards rushing when the 49ers snapped Detroit\u2019s unbeaten start last year in Week 6 with a 25-19 victory at Ford Field. San Francisco rushed for 203 yards in that game, with Hunter adding 33.\nHunter\u2019s workload will increase this season as the 49ers look to keep Gore, the franchise\u2019s career leading rusher, fresh deep into the season.\nAfter compiling a franchise-best string of five consecutive 100-yard rushing games last season, Gore wore down during the second half of the season, when he failed to break the 100-yard barrier in any of San Francisco\u2019s final eight games.\nThe duo complemented each other well in the season opener at Green Bay, when Gore rushed for 112 yards and Hunter had 41. The two backs combined to average 6.1 yards per carry as San Francisco\u2019s offense moved the ball effectively throughout the 30-22 win.\n\u201cI think they\u2019re great for each other,\u201d 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. \u201cBoth are tremendous backs, and Kendall has really raised his game. Frank is one of the best there is and he\u2019s made Kendall better. Kendall brings to the table that kind of spirit, youth and desire to get better all the time. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m exaggerating by saying that Frank has benefited from that as well.\u201d\nThe 49ers finished eighth in the NFL in rushing offense last season, but the team still looked to upgrade when it signed free-agent running back Brandon Jacobs during the offseason and used its second-round draft pick to select LaMichael James.\nGore and Hunter, however, were the only San Francisco running backs to get carries against the Packers. That followed the plan of last season, when Gore and Hunter combined for 394 carries and 1,684 rushing yards.\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to do whatever it takes to win, whether it\u2019s me or Kendall,\u201d Gore said. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty far ahead of where we were last year, and he helps me a lot. He has a different style, a change of pace, and it\u2019s been great for us. \u201c\nJacobs, expected to be in the mix this season for regular carries as a short-yardage back, injured his left knee in San Francisco\u2019s Aug. 18 preseason game at Houston and hasn\u2019t practiced since.\nJacobs is listed as questionable against the Lions, and Harbaugh said Friday the veteran\u2019s return to action is getting closer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 7526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newcars.com.pk/toyota/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:3NMDZ3UWGT7C7KNMOFRXHYVI7B3L7CLR", "length": 3402, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.newcars.com.pk", "title": "\ufeff New Toyota Cars 2018-2019 in Pakistan", "raw_content": "New Toyota Cars 2018-2019 in Pakistan\nToyota Corolla XLi Automatic Transmission\nToyota Prius New Model 2018\nToyota Corolla Vigo Champ\nToyota Corolla Vitz\nToyota Corolla GLI Automatic\nToyota Corolla Ecotec\nToyota Daihatsu Cuore\nToyota Daihatsu Terios\nDifferent versions of Toyota Cars bring you luxury, comfort and elegance at the single point. Toyota is the brand name for popular Japanese manufacturing firm of vehicles that has brought some legendary cars to the international market, such as Toyota Corolla.\nThe Toyota Company came into existence back in 1989. After a few years, the commercial production of Toyota vehicles began (i.e. in 1993). In Pakistan, the main center of Toyota production is situated in Karachi. Indus Motor Company Limited IMC, in short\u2014is responsible for the manufacturing and assembly process of Toyota automobiles. The marketing of these vehicles is also carried out by IMC. This company was formed as a joint venture of Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Tsusho Corporation of Japan and House of Habib. Toyota introduces advanced technology for the production of automobiles in an environment of excellent manufacturing facilities in Karachi.\nCars by the Company\nToyota Corolla, Hilux, Hiace, Land Cruiser and Camry are some of the most common automobiles in the country. There is no doubt that all the vehicles under Toyota Pakistan brand name are luxurious and impressive.\nComparing Toyota to its rival, Suzuki, it can be observed that Toyota vehicles are far more luxuriant. Take, for instance, Toyota\u2019s luxuriant and elegant Hiace in comparison with Suzuki Bolan. Both are vans, but Hiace is far more impressive than Suzuki Bolan with its premium exterior and high class features in the interior as it can be viewed in Toyota car pictures.\nSimilarly, other models of Toyota automobiles, including Land Cruiser, Toyota Rav4 and Avanza are all impressive vehicles produced for individuals who desire high levels of luxury. On the other hand, there is also a drawback associated to this luxury automobile in terms of Toyota car prices. Suzuki, being simpler and less luxuriant offers more affordable alternatives for Toyota's costly vehicles.\nA more economic Toyota car is Corolla. It is one of the most common vehicles seen on the roads of the country. Its cost varies from 1.6 to 2.0 million depending on the models and the accompanying features. The majority of the individuals opt for Toyota Corolla as it is an affordable family car which is spacious, comfortable and also looks elegant. This vehicle gives you a comfortable and safe ride.\nOn the other hand, vehicles like Land Cruiser, Avanza and Rav4 have been manufactured for adventurous trips. They can cross any type of terrain and are, therefore, perfect for a vacation trip with your family.\nToyota has also produced vehicles for individuals who want to run the transportation business. Toyota Hiace is a very spacious vehicle with top-notch features. It is used for public transport as it can accommodate a larger number of passengers than its counterpart, Suzuki Bolan.\nToyota cars might be more expensive, but you will always be satisfied with their performance, high quality features and exceptional comfort. Safety and luxury are both combined in Toyota automobiles. Plus, whether you desire an adventurous trip or a safe and smooth journey with your family, Toyota has several options for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 6445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newjerseyhills.com/florham_park_eagle/news/florham-park-rotary-invites-guests-to-visit-meetings/article_f7b3945e-b1a4-5f08-af1c-342328adb8b0.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4QNCNFGOGAOK5L6LR66S3YEARKJVMPV", "length": 1658, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.newjerseyhills.com", "title": "Florham Park Rotary invites guests to visit meetings | Florham Park Eagle News | newjerseyhills.com", "raw_content": "Florham Park Rotary invites guests to visit meetings\nFLORHAM PARK \u2013 There\u2019s a lot happening at the Florham Park Rotary, according to the club\u2019s president, Peter Nicolas.\nGuests are welcome to join a weekly meeting for breakfast from 7:47 to 8:47 a.m. every Friday at the Florham Park Diner at 182 Ridgedale Ave.\nNicolas observed, \u201cThe Rotary Club of Florham Park is a sophisticated, yet fun, network of professionals who enjoy providing service to our local and global communities. Rotary International is one of the world\u2019s oldest established organizations of business and professional leaders, with more than 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide.\u201d\nRotary International is an international service organization dedicated to bringing together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.\nIt is a non-political and non-sectarian organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference.\nThere are 34,282 member clubs worldwide. A tenet of Rotary is that developing friendships encourages community and international service.\nRotary\u2019s motto is, \u201cService Above Self.\u201d\nRotarians also apply a \u201c4-Way Test\u201d in conduct and making decisions: \u201cIs it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?\u201d\nRotary International programs include promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, supporting education, and helping to build local economies.\nRotary Club Of Florham Park Nj\nFlorham Park Diner Nj", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 605, "original_length": 17888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 215.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-266964.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZSBB5V4NJBRUTFQQ2DN4NBBFIZ3OFTT", "length": 2717, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.newkerala.com", "title": "Are you salting yourself sick? High intake doubles heart risk | newkerala.com News #266964", "raw_content": "Are you salting yourself sick? High intake doubles heart risk\nWashington D.C. [USA], Aug 28 : If chips, pretzels and salted nuts are your go-to snacks, you may want to cut back on them as according to a recent study, high salt intake is associated with a doubled risk of heart failure.\n\"High salt (sodium chloride) intake is one of the major causes of high blood pressure and an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke,\" said Pekka Jousilahti from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland. \"In addition to CHD and stroke, heart failure is one of the major cardiovascular diseases in Europe and globally but the role of high salt intake in its development is unknown.\"\nThe 12-year study in more than 4,000 people presented at ESC Congress assessed the relationship of salt intake and the development of heart failure. Estimation of individual salt intake is methodologically demanding and therefore suitable population-based cohorts are rare.\nThis study used 24 hour sodium extraction, which is considered the gold standard for salt intake estimation at individual level.\nThe study cohort was followed up for 12 years through computerised register linkage to National Health Records. Cases of incident heart failure were identified from the Causes of Death Register, the Hospital Discharge Register and drug reimbursement records. The association of salt intake in quintiles (<6.8g, 6.8-8.8g, 8.8-10.9g, 10.96-13.7g and >13.7g/day) and the risk of an incident new heart failure event was estimated.\nDuring the follow-up, 121 men and women developed new heart failure. In an age, sex, study year and area adjusted model, hazard ratios in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th salt intake quintiles, compared to the 1st one, were: 0.83, 1.40, 1.70 and 2.10. After further adjustment for systolic blood pressure, serum total cholesterol level and body mass index the hazard ratios were: 1.13, 1.45, 1.56 and 1.75, respectively.\nJousilahti said that the heart does not like salt, adding that high salt intake markedly increases the risk of heart failure. \"This salt-related increase in heart failure risk was independent of blood pressure.\"\n\"People who consumed more than 13.7 grams of salt daily had a two times higher risk of heart failure compared to those consuming less than 6.8 grams,\" he continued. \"The optimal daily salt intake is probably even lower than 6.8 grams. The World Health Organization recommends a maximum of 5 grams per day and the physiological need is 2 to 3 grams per day.\"\nJousilahti concluded that studies in larger, pooled population cohorts are needed to make more detailed estimations of the increased heart failure risk associated with consuming salt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newkerala.com/news/read/45978/testosterone-replacement-therapy-may-slow-progression-of-copd.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FNHKBTJFWKD2I55KO3D7X3KDRZO77DS7", "length": 148, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.newkerala.com", "title": "Testosterone replacement therapy may slow progression of COPD | newkerala.com #45978", "raw_content": "New York, Sep 14 : Testosterone replacement therapy may slow the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study has found.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 115.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsbtc.com/category/market-wrap/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JCEZE2HIJTKSODNNBB3XZTWK3JAGNXG3", "length": 189, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.newsbtc.com", "title": "Crypto Market Wrap", "raw_content": "Market Wrap is a daily section that takes a look at the top 20 crypto assets during the current trading session and analyses the best performing one(s), looking for trends and fundamentals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 3859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newstalk.com/news/jamie-oliver-signs-deal-to-create-healthier-workplace-food-509272", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:WH4LLFZ6ABL2SA2RMVTUEU7DWMNBJASQ", "length": 2296, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.newstalk.com", "title": "Jamie Oliver signs deal to create healthier workplace food | Newstalk", "raw_content": "Jamie Oliver signs deal to create healthier workplace food\nBritish chef and entrepreneur Jamie Oliver has signed a deal with a facilities company to enhance workplace food concepts.\nAramark and Jamie Oliver have announced the 10-year partnership - which will see the two companies work together to improve concepts and delivery across workplaces in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Northern Europe.\nThe two companies will also focus on culinary developments, staff training and and productivity through nutrition and food.\nAramark has a presence across Europe, the Americas and Asia in the business, education, healthcare, manufacturing and defence sectors.\nWe're delighted to partner with @JamiesItalianUK - together we are passionate about the health and well-being of those we serve every day. pic.twitter.com/gwIrBTnTcl\n\u2014 Aramark NE (@AramarkNE) April 13, 2018\nEstablished in 2008, Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group operates in the restaurant sector including Jamie's Deli, Jamie Oliver's Diner and Jamie's Italian.\nIt was announced in January last year that six Jamie's Italian restaurants were to close.\nThe group says the new partnership will help it to \"expand its presence further with dining concepts in Aramark managed retail and office environments.\"\nFrank Gleeson, Aramark's president in Northern Europe, said: \"We are passionate about the health and well-being of those we serve every day so it was a natural fit for us to partner with Jamie Oliver.\n\"Together, we have an opportunity to create innovative culinary experiences that will revolutionise productivity and health in workplaces throughout Northern Europe.\n\"We serve hundreds of thousands of people in workplaces, schools and colleges every day, so we have a fantastic opportunity of working together where we can set the agenda for health and nutrition and have a real and lasting impact on people's lives\".\nJon Knight, CEO of Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, added: \"Our partnership with Aramark gives us an opportunity to expand our presence geographically in Northern Europe including the United Kingdom and Ireland where we already operate.\n\"We look forward to working with Aramark and exploring opportunities to establish fully branded retail restaurants in multi-tenanted office and retail environments managed by Aramark\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/public-accounts/2010/09/home-affairs-inquiry-insiders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ML7MOASTDFZCH2DSRFNKTAPEOCN73JXY", "length": 1650, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.newstatesman.com", "title": "Insiders predict Andy Coulson is not long for this world", "raw_content": "Insiders predict Andy Coulson is not long for this world\nAs the home affairs select committee announces a fresh inquiry, observers say it is a question of wh\nBy James Macintyre\nMuch to the anger of Tory high command, the Andy Coulson story has been given fresh \"legs\" this afternoon with the news that the home affairs select committee will investigate the affair. The inquiry follows that by the culture committee.\nThe home affairs committee says the inquiry will focus on:\n* The definition of the offences relating to unauthorised tapping or hacking in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the ease of prosecuting such offences; and\n* The police response to such offences, especially the treatment of those whose communications have been intercepted; and\n* What the police are doing to control such offences\nIt is fair to say that David Cameron's communications chief is now well and truly a story. Some argue that Cameron would benefit by cutting him loose sooner rather than later. One Tory observer pointed out that it is a \"no win\" situation because, while wrongdoing may be hard to prove, it is also impossible for Coulson to be comprehensively cleared of knowing about phone tapping at his former paper the News of the World. A separate insider today predicted that he would go \"in six months or so\" and that the departure would be portrayed as having nothing to do with this affair. But that was before the latest development.\nUPDATE: Westminster rumour has it that several more senior politicians are set to come forward with claims their phones have been tapped.\nJames Macintyre is political correspondent for the New Statesman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/10/14/dying-away", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:QN4ESYQ74HO4LOLRD66QTPKOC2NK6N2C", "length": 91, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "Dying Away | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "By William Meredith\nThe New Yorker, October 14, 1974 P. 166\n\"Toward the person who has died", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/09/08/the-last-meow", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LHZF324JEYA4AUFIPKJEWIYF3NHSYGDO", "length": 4028, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "The Last Meow | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "Annals of Veterinary Medicine\nThe Last Meow\nANNALS OF VETERINARY MEDICINE about the ever more sophisticated medical measures available for ill pets... Follows a cat, Lady, through dialysis and a kidney transplant... Lady arrived looking ravaged and ravishing, Shawn Levering waited with her in the Animal Medical Center on New York's Upper East Side. Levering had come from Wilmington Delaware. Dr. Cathy Langston, the veterinarian explained that Lady was suffered chronic kidney failure and suggested dialysis to buy her time to see if a candidate for transplant was available, and laid out the risks involved. The center has eighty-five veterinarians, and each is a specialist. Little more than twenty years ago, all vets were general practitioners, and neutering and spaying were their most elaborate procedures. \"We're looking at a thousand dollars in the next twenty-four hours. Between three and four thousand in the next week,\" Langston told Levering. Then Lady would have to be transferred the to University of Pennsylvania, where vets were more experienced at performing transplants. Lady was already anemic, asthmatic, and congenitally blind. She had already become allergic to her own tooth enamel and had all her teeth pulled. The Animal Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania are the Mayo Clinic and Mass General of their field. The A.M.C. keeps thirteen donor greyhounds and twenty-six donor cats and three ferrets to ensure a steady supply of blood. They often treat exotics, common in New York, where many owners are dog-averse. Director Guy Pidgeon was in practice when most vets were generalists, and has lived through the change. His staff likes to tease him about the time his father, a farmer, came to visit and couldn't understand why he was giving oxygen therapy to two prairie dogss. Back home in Nebraska, farmers waged holy war on them. The pet-owners who bring their animals are not dragon-ladies who kiss their lapdogs on the lips. Lady's owners, like many in the waiting room, could scarcely afford the procedures they were buying for their animals. Shawn Levering cares for the disabled and live in a three-room apartment outside Wilmington. His wife Karen has been too ill to work after an automobile accident. Author visited them at their home. They have two other cats, whom they rescued. Karen describes how, while recuperating, the cats comforted her. \"I don't know what I would have done without the cats... the pain was so extreme that I would just to the bathroom and cry.\" Lady seemed to sense her moods. She would leap onto the bed at night and nestle on her chest. Karen suspected her feeling for Lady were partly misplaced mothering instincts... Describes the operation where Jasper, the donor-cat, has a kidney removed. Dr. Aronson, who is thirty-six, has been transplanting animal kidneys for ten years... Most veterinarians make around sixty thousand a year, and veterinary training can be as costly and rigorous as medical training. Although malpractice suits are rare, that may be changing. Recently, owners have been suing for emotional damage: a man whose neighbor shot his Labrador retrievers with arrows is suing for three hundred thousand dollars. \"The more people spend in their pets, the more that cost is going to be reflected in the law,\" Geordie Druckler, the retriever-owner's lawyer says. Vets say rising malpractice will hurt vets and pass the cost on to the patient's owners... Describes the sometimes extreme measures owners go through to prolong the lives of suffering pets, as with Taberia, a mastiff suffering the final stages of liver cancer... Lady's transplant is successful... Americans spend nineteen billion a year on veterinary bills, up from eleven billion seven years ago... Lady will have to take five hundred dollars of immunosuppressants a year for the rest of her life. \"It would be hard not to have Lady around,\" Shawn says.\nBurkhard Bilger published his first piece in The New Yorker in 2000 and became a staff writer the following year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 8119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.75940.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KJJAPZFTXS7ORUF5D2Q7IOIDMBCSPWOU", "length": 354, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nga.gov", "title": "Art Object Page", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Collection \u00bb Woman Reading to a Child\nWoman Reading to a Child\npen and brown ink with brown wash on wove paper\noverall: 6.3 x 5.5 cm (2 1/2 x 2 3/16 in.)\nMiss M. P. 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O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1973-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.\nNGA O'Neal 1993, cat 88.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ngo-monitor.org/in-the-media/europe-and-israel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SGANJOVPH6D6SMRETOOV4S6BTGK4FDSH", "length": 2267, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ngo-monitor.org", "title": "[Opinion] Europe and Israel \u00bb ngomonitor", "raw_content": "Home > In The Media > BDS, Demonization, European Funding, Labeling\n[Opinion] Europe and Israel\nThe crisis between Israel and the European Union has been simmering for a long time, and with product labeling (an interpretative note to protect consumers, according to official EU statements), has reached the boiling point. In suspending talks and consultations with the EU, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a major effort to restructure this broken relationship, and confront core differences over Middle East realities and how to address them.\nIn some ways, the explosion has been building for 35 years\u2026Then, as now, the responsibility for implementing this vision was placed entirely on Israel\u2019s shoulders, as the party with \u201call of the power,\u201d from the dominant European perspective.\nPalestinians were and are viewed as powerless victims, and policy makers in Venice and after often had a tendency to give little attention to issues such as terrorism, incitement and rejection of the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty, regardless of borders. An end to occupation and Palestinian statehood would ostensibly resolve these lesser obstacles.\nAmbassador John Gatt-Rutter\u2026 refers to \u201cthe Israeli occupation\u201d and \u201cillegal settlements\u201d as the main obstacles to peace, and expresses sympathy for Palestinian victims of violence, but not for Israelis\u2026 His advice to the Palestinians is restricted to calling for unity, noting that they \u201cwould be well advised to restore their national and democratic project through holding elections.\u201d Ending terrorism and accepting Israeli legitimacy are not part of his or the EU\u2019s agenda.\nIt was the Israeli anger at discriminatory product labeling (the EU does not apply this sanction in any other territorial dispute), including the patronizing way it was presented by EU officials that led Prime Minister Netanyahu to suspend official diplomatic discussions with EU officials and institutions. This is a wake-up call designed to convey the Israeli response through a symbolic move, suspending diplomatic contacts that are largely symbolic and devoid of content.\nA serious reappraisal will mean moving away from the Palestinian victimization narrative, and the demonization of Israel that has done so much damage in Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nightbringer.se/a_hengist.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TB7K2NMS3BP7LNFEKYSIJBRZITD2WFVG", "length": 4415, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nightbringer.se", "title": "Nightbringer.se", "raw_content": "Algis, Angis, Anglins, Anguis, Angus, Anguys, Augbis, Augis, Aughis, Engis, Engist, Hangins, Hangist, Hanguis, Hanguist, Hengest, Hengistus\nA semi-legendary Saxon chieftain credited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the impetus for the Saxon conquest of Britain. He has an important role in the Arthurian chronicles, and is mentioned by Bede, Nennius, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, among others. Bede traces his descent from a Saxon god, and names his father as Wihtgils.\nHengist took service as a mercenary, against the Picts and the Irish, with King Vortigern. He brought with him his brother, Horsa (Hors) and they settled in Kent c. AD 449, the first Anglo-Saxon settlers/invaders in Britain. Hengist was originally a leader of the Jutes, and thus he and his brother are said to have come from Jutland.\nVortigern married Rowena (in some sources, Sardoine), Hengist's daughter and Hengist became King of Kent - one step closer to his goal to be the King of Britain. Hengist summoned a large Saxon army to his new kingdom and Vortigern allowed the immigration because he believed that Hengist's army would help protect Britain from Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon - who were poised to invade from Brittany. The Triads call Vortigern\u2019s decision to admit Hengist to Britain one of the Three Unfortunate Counsels of the Island of Britain.\nVortigern and the British soon became aware of Hengist's plan to conquer Britain. Vortigern's son, Vortimer, defeated Hengist in battle, he fled with his Saxons to Germany. Vortimer died soon afterwards. Vortigern recalled him and Hengist returned with 300.000 men and persuaded Vortigern to summon all the British leaders to a meeting at Salisbury, where he were to sign a treaty at Ealing or Ambrius. There he had the entire company massacred. Hengist and his men took Vortigern prisoner and ransomed his life for the countries of Essex, Sussex and Middlesex.\nAccording to Nennius, Hengist died soon after this conquest and was succeeded by his son Octa. Geoffrey, however, contends that Hengist lived to plague Ambrosius when he became king, but was finally defeated and captured at the battle of Conisbrough. He was then executed by Eldol, the Earl of Gloucester. In the Vulgate Merlin, Hengist tries to murder Uther in his tent, at night, during a lull between battles. Uther, warned of the plot by Merlin, was armed and ready, and he slew Hengist after a short struggle. Merlin does not mention Octa, but says that Hengist\u2019s kinsmen, led by Aminaduc, invaded Britain during Arthur\u2019s reign.\nIn Richard Hole\u2019s Arthur, Hengist is alive during Arthur\u2019s reign. Aided by the three Fatal Sisters, he adopts Arthur\u2019s likeness and tries to rape Inogen, Arthur\u2019s wife. He is attacked and slain by his own warriors, believing him to be Arthur.\nAn interesting variation occurs in the fourteenth-century Short Metrical Chronicle, where Hengist is praised as one of Britain's most noble kings. According to this text, he ruled Britain for 150 years, united the island, and conquered parts of France. His reign is placed between those of King Belinus and King Lear. In the Prose Brut, 'England' is derived from his name.\nThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (a medieval list of Saxons in Britain), places his death in AD 448, but does not say how he died. Some of his earlier history may be gleaned from the Anglo-Saxon poems Beowulf and The Fight at Finn's Burg. These mention a Hengist who may be identical with the invader. He was a follower of Hnaef, King of the Danes. When they were visiting Hnaef's brother-in-law, Finn Focwalding, King of the Frisians, a fight occurred and Hnaef was killed. Hengist became the leader of Hnaef's followers and entered the service of Finn, but later killed him.\nHengist, who is nowadays generally regarded as a historical figure, is credited with sons named Hartwaker (who was thought to have succeeded him as ruler of German Saxony and to have reigned from AD 448-480); Octa, \u00c6sc (who might identical with Eosa, a cousin) and Ebissa, and daughters called Ronwen and Sardoine. However, the latter appears to be a Latinisation of her true name, for, in various sources that appear to adhere to accepted Anglo-Saxon spellings, the name of Hengist's daughter who became Vortigern's queen is given as Hrothwina. 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The Secaucus facility, which is New Jersey's only Greenlight Hub, will serve nearly 2,000 drivers per week and also feature space for insurance and wireless vendors.\n\"This is very significant for Secaucus because it provides instant transportation for so many people who need to commute in the area,\" Gonnelli said. \"The only thing we're worried about is what this will do to cab companies because they're just making it barely. We'll just have to wait and see but I'm sure it will work out just fine.\"\nThe popular ride-sharing service is also donating $5,000 to the Secaucus Emergency Fund, which provides help to residents facing financial hardships.\n\"Our new location in Secaucus reflects Uber's ongoing pledge to better serve New Jersey's driver community,\" said Brian Hughes, Uber general manager for the Northeast United States.\nRon Griffin, an Emerson resident and Uber driver, said Greenlight Hubs are an important resource for drivers.\n\"If you ever have problem as a driver you don't want to go online to fix the problem because it's just difficult to get it resolved,\" he said. \"Now you can just drive down here, get a parking space, and walk inside where there's plenty of people to talk to about it.\"\n\"I like to drive. I like talking. I like people,\" Griffin added. \"So I tried (Uber) and I've been doing this for two and half years now and I love it.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 7377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.norbode.com/products/grand-cru-set-of-bowls-3-sizes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:L2FV3IXPMUANTBVVJQRR5XF5PZS566K5", "length": 422, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.norbode.com", "title": "Grand Cru Set of Glass Bowls, 3 Sizes - NORBODE", "raw_content": "Grand Cru Set of Glass Bowls, 3 Sizes\nThese small, medium-sized and large glass bowls are perfect for salads, snacks and soups, as fruit bowls in the living room or practical cooking vessels in the kitchen. The Grand Cru range comprises a total of 147 pieces which are all available online. This simply designed range provides practical kitchen basics that will last a lifetime and is easy to combine with other tableware.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 2540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northdevonhospice.org.uk/privacy-terms/accessibility/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:48Z", "digest": "sha1:GIIIFZBZFYDXMGKL7ERHHHCCWCM2D2N5", "length": 660, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.northdevonhospice.org.uk", "title": "Accessibility on the North Devon Hospice website | North Devon Hospice", "raw_content": "This Web site is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities, and to comply with guidelines concerning accessibility. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the site more accessible, please contact us at communications@northdevonhospice.org.uk.\nIf you would like more information about making web pages easier to use, please see this useful guide form the BBC website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/\nIf there are any ways you feel that this website an be improved to become more accessible, please contact the Marketing and Communications team on 01271 347213 or email communications@northdevonhospice.org.uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northwesthorizons.com/top-stories/2018/11/14/are-they-removing-the-trailer-cats/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FFD4CMBVXFZE7ILXXH4DUWV327BN6U5O", "length": 3720, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.northwesthorizons.com", "title": "What might become of Northwest's trailer cats? \u2014 Northwest Horizons", "raw_content": "What might become of Northwest\u2019s trailer cats?\nNorthwest's very own aristocats\nMackenzie Milani-Kaufman, Staff writer|November 14, 2018\nTwo of the Northwest's cats are eating food outside the bus trailer. Rumors have been circulating that they will soon be relocated despite living here for more than 10 years.\nIf you are a student or parent of Northwest, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ve seen some fluffy animals hanging out at the edge of the mobiles. For more than a decade, these five or more cats have lived just outside of the school, hiding under the trailers. Occasionally they will venture out to hunt down a rat or to eat the cat food that the transportation officer feeds them. They add a charm to the school that can bring a smile to your face.\nHowever, even though the cats have lived on the high school grounds for more than 10 years, have been fixed and have never been known to hurt or attack anyone, there are plans in the works to get rid of them.\n\u201cConsidering that they can\u2019t reproduce and have never caused harm to anyone,\u201d science teacher Jessica Tidmore said, \u201cmaybe they\u2019re getting rid of the trailers finally?\u201d\nTidmore has been teaching biology at Northwest for four years, and she is the leader of the Red Dog Farm club, an organization that helps make sure that all animals they can help are aided by them. The Red Dog Farm is not the only option, though.\nTidmore and English teacher Lora Medley have both been trying to help the cats ever since they found out about their impending removal.\n\u201cI remember recently that Mr. Watkins came to me about the cats, because I have a cat rescue myself,\u201d Medley said. \u201cHe came up to me and he asked me if I could take the cats or if I knew somebody who could.\u201d\nMedley has been teaching at Northwest for eight years, and the cats were there even before then.\n\u201cRight now I\u2019m trying to organize to come and safely get the cats and take them to a no-kill shelter,\u201d Tidmore said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to just get them rescued and hopefully relocated.\u201d\nTidmore has also contacted an organization called Juliet\u2019s House in Greensboro to see if they could take in the cats. Juliet\u2019s House take in pets and makes sure that they go to a good home.\nNobody seems to agree of the exact reason why the cats are scheduled for removal, but some people have a few guesses as to what led to this decision.\n\u201cIt\u2019s possible that a student complained about (the cats),\u201d Tidmore said. \u201cOr the cats might just be unwanted now.\u201d\n\u201c(The new transportation lady) is allergic to cats, from what I\u2019ve heard,\u201d Medley said. \u201cI\u2019ve also been told\u2013 nothing specific\u2013 that there have been other complaints about the cats.\u201d\nAs the cats have lived at Northwest for as long as most staff can remember, it\u2019s obvious that they\u2019re very old. There would be many risks to taking them away from the high school. A big move for them could be very stressful and dangerous.\nEach year, 1.5 million shelter animals get euthanized if they aren\u2019t adopted. Most of the euthanizations occur to cats rather than dogs.\n\u201cBecause (the cats) are outdoor cats, we would need to have a barn or something like that to make sure that they don\u2019t get too disoriented and try to come back to the school,\u201d Medley said. \u2018When you transfer feral cats, it\u2019s recommended that they stay inside for 30 days to rehabilitate themselves to their new environment. The same applies to the semi-feral cats we have here at the school.\u201d\nJuliet\u2019s House: https://www.julietshouse.org/\nWhich type of furry friend does Northwest prefer?\nBlack cats find the purrfect home with high school\u2026\nOne Response to \u201cWhat might become of Northwest\u2019s trailer cats?\u201d\nMichelle R Goodson on November 26th, 2018 11:34 am\nhello\u2026.I would be interested in the large yellow Tabby", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.novascotia.cc/adventure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NFB6UI2DDCFJAB2HPQXWQGIG7CPMQ4SE", "length": 4662, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.novascotia.cc", "title": "Nova Scotia the Ocean Playground \u25ba Adventure and Pleasure", "raw_content": "truly is picture-perfect. Where else can you find such scenic variety? Crashing surf and placid lakes, tiny highland hamlets and bustling cities, ancient rites and modern magic - it's all here. Although only 560 km from tip to tip, Nova Scotia's coastline stretches over 7400 kilometers. Sail along of Nova Scotia\u2019s Atlantic Coast, from Shelburne all the way to Cape Breton\u2019s Bras d\u2019Or Lake. Along the way you\u2019ll discover secluded beaches, friendly seaside towns, hundreds of islands, yacht clubs, marinas, and no shortage of wind for your sails. Or sail Canada\u2019s inland sea at the Bras d\u2019Or Lake Biosphere Reserve in Cape Breton, one of the five UNESCO designated sites in Nova Scotia.\nCountless bays, coves, inlets and harbours provide some of the best sailing in North America, excellent scuba diving, wind surfing and sea kayaking. Nova Scotia is one of the finest places on the eastern seaboard for whale and bird watching. Around every bend, a new treasure awaits the explorer.\nWhale watching on the Bay of Fundy or off the coast of Cape Breton is an aweinspiring experience. With more than 10 species of whales to discover, head out on a whale watching tour that will leave you speechless.\nNova Scotia - A Golfer's Dream List\nMemorable golf, outstanding courses, spectacular scenery and hospitable service have established Nova Scotia in the international golfing realm as a recognized world-class golf destination. In 2005 the LPGA Tour made its first ever stop in Nova Scotia when Glen Arbour hosted the 2005 BMO Financial Group Canadian Women's Open Golf Championship.\nChoose from over 60 courses throughout the province, where classic designs and contemporary layouts combine championship depth, diversity and pure golfing pleasure. Stroll down sculpted fairways framed by magnificent natural settings, strategic hazards and stunning Atlantic seascapes. Tee off at any of Cape Breton\u2019s award-winning Fabulous Foursome courses, or play mainland Nova Scotia\u2019s Glen Arbour, Northumberland Links, The Pines, and Granite Springs\u2014just some of the sure-bet courses for an enjoyable and rewarding game that will delight novice and expert alike.\nNova Scotia offers many world-class attractions like golfing in Cape Breton at world-ranked Cabot Links in Inverness and its sibling Cabot Cliffs golf course. Carved from seaside cliffs, the Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw designed course features panoramic coastal views from 10 of the 18 holes. Spectacular distractions will be par for the course at Cabot Cliffs.\nNova Scotia is one of the premier coastal walking and hiking destinations in North America.\nNova Scotia has a superb mix of hiking terrain, with some of the world's greatest coastal parks and trails. Our 7,600 km (4,750 miles) of coastline and breathtaking landscapes provide hundreds of front and back country trails through striking coastal headlands, pristine beaches, and majestic old growth forests. Take a vigorous hike through a fog forest in Cape Chignecto Provincial Park where towering 200 meter (600-feet)\ncliffs rise above the world's highest tides. Walk the ocean floor in search of seacaves and semi-precious stones, or negotiate a coastal footpath descending into a trio of deep coastal canyons.\nExperience the Celtic heart of Nova Scotia at Cape Breton Highlands National Park - home to world-class hiking such as the Skyline Trail and the North River Trail. Ramble along our many coastal boardwalks and sandy beaches such as Taylor Head or Crystal Crescent Beach, overlooking quiet coves and inlets. Hike a \"reversable trail\" at the Kejimkujik Seaside Adjunct and watch seals basking in the summer sun, or hike the main park's 100km (60 miles) of beautiful woodland trails and revel in the presence of 300-year-old Hemlocks.\nA unique gem in the Parks Canada system, Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada protects 381 square kilometres of inland lakes and forests, and 22 square kilometres of rugged Atlantic coastline in its Seaside Adjunct. Kejimkujik is also a national historic site, commemorating 4,000 years of Mi\u2019kmaw history, and is home to one of the largest collections of rock carvings, or petroglyphs, in eastern North America. The Park and surrounding area provide habitat and an opportunity for ongoing\nresearch for species at risk, including the Blandings turtle and water pennywort. 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Within the 17,500 + acres of public and private property that comprise Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve you'll also find the charming town of Coupeville, the Island County seat. Restaurants and grocery stores can be found easily in downtown Coupeville.\nVisitors will find camping facilities at two of the state's most popular campgrounds, Fort Ebey State Park and Fort Casey State Park. Reservations are strongly recommended, especially during the summer months. In addition, Island County offers Rhododendron Park for camping (seasonal April 1st - October 31st).\nThe Historic Captain Whidbey Inn on Penn Cove.\nGas, food, and lodging are readily available in the Reserve and surrounding areas. There is a range of lodging opportunities. 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However, it\u2019s not just her lethal slapshot that is respected by her teammates, fans and peers; Hayley is also an award winner, community leader, mentor, history-maker and an accomplished businesswoman.\nMake a new status quo | Hayley Wickenheiser | TEDxYYC\nLife after the Olympics for Hayley Wickenheiser\nHayley Wickenheiser, O.C. - UBC Vancouver 2016 Spring Honorary Degree\nHayley Wickenheiser on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: INTERVIEW\nChampions Night with Hayley Wickenheiser\nCTV | Hayley Wickenheiser on athlete harassment: 'You name it, I've heard it' February 5, 2018 CBC | Hayley Wickenheiser, Andrew Ference find 'hockey heaven' in the Himalayas January 18, 2018 Calgary Herald | Wickenheiser: We are all newcomers hoping for acceptance December 20, 2017 650 CKOM | Hayley Wickenheiser recalls tough times in youth hockey, best memories January 18, 2017 Edmonton Oilers | 1-ON-1 | Hayley Wickenheiser January 14, 2017 CBC | Hayley Wickenheiser calls end to gold-plated career January 13, 2017 The Globe and Mail | In Their Own Words: Hayley Wickenheiser December 22, 2015\nTeamwork and Success\nWhat does a successful team need and how did Team Canada succeed on the World Stage?\nChange as a Path to Greatness\nHayley shares the importance of always look for improvements or opportunities for change within your life.\nDealing with Criticism and Pressure \u2013 How to Perform When it Matters Most\nHayley offers some inspiration for the next generation of athletes and sports in Canada to perform even better.\nHow to Stay Motivated Despite Being at the Top of What You Do\nComplacency kills! Hayley offers advice on how to keep the desire alive.\nBeing a Female in a Male Dominated World\nHayley explains what it was like to grow up playing with the boys and later playing men\u2019s professional hockey overseas\nHayley can provide customized presentations to fit your event or project theme.\nLinks Golf Program\nCelebrity Golfer\nGlobe and Mail\u2019s Top 50 Power List\nBobbie Rosenfeld Award: Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year\nThe Hockey News, Top 100 Most Influential People in Hockey\nCAAWS Woman of Influence\nGlobe and Mail\u2019s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Canada\nPeople in attendance were completely impressed by your stories and also commented about being inspired and motivated from hearing you speak. I even caught glimpses of a few tears in the room at certain points of your talk. We also received high praise for your approachability and people liked the picture op with you and the medals. Once again, thank you!\n- National Senior Marketing Manager, KPMG\nHayley has been sharing her passion and knowledge for the game of hockey for 15 years. She delivers inspiring keynote speeches relaying stories from her five Olympic games for charity, school, and corporate events. Hayley has worked with clients such as Canadian Tire, Farm Credit Corporation, Merck, Enbridge, Encana, Clean Air Champions, Red Flag, and Hockey Hall of Fame.\nAside from holding four Olympic gold medals, being one of the most recognized women in sport, and a dedicated advocate of women\u2019s hockey; Hayley is also an engaging storyteller who enjoys connecting with Canadians. Hayley uses her experiences on the rink to motivate young players, shares how she overcame obstacles with her team to inspire audiences, and uplifts people of all walks of life with her passion and love of the game.\nIt all started at age 15 in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan when Hayley was chosen for the Canadian Women\u2019s National Team. She has since led the squad to six gold and one silver medal at the Women\u2019s World Hockey Championships. As an Olympian, she earned a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and four Olympic gold medals in 2002, 2006, 2010 and most recently at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. For the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Hayley was selected to be the flag bearer for the Canadian Olympic team in the Opening Ceremonies. During those same Olympics it was announced that she had been elected to the International Olympic Committee\u2019s (IOC). Athletes Commission. Accompanying all that hardware, Hayley was one of the top point leaders for the Sochi Tournament. She was named the tournaments\u2019 most valuable player in the 2002 and 2006 victorious Olympic runs as well as in numerous Esso Women\u2019s Hockey Championships.\nIn January 2003, Hayley made hockey history when she became the first female hockey player to notch a point in a men\u2019s professional game with the Kirkkonummen Salamat of the Finnish second division. Wickenheiser also played in Eskilstuna, Sweden with a men\u2019s professional division-one hockey team for the 08-09 season.\nHayley Wickenheiser has proven to be an elite athlete time and time again. In 2008, Sports Illustrated named her number 20 of the Top 25 Toughest Athletes in the World. She is also a two-time finalist for the Women\u2019s Sports Foundation Team Athlete of The Year and was recently named, for the second time, among the Globe and Mail\u2019s \u201cPower 50\u201d influencers in sport. Most recently, QMI Agency name Hayley among the top 10 \u201cGreatest Female Athletes in the History of Sports.\u201d\nAlong with hockey, Wickenheiser has mastered a number of sports. An elite softball player, she participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics as a member of Team Canada and worked as a Softball Analyst with CBC\u2019s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.\nWickenheiser\u2019s passion for sport is matched by her desire to give back to the community in her work with organizations such as JumpStart, KidSport, Project North, Right to Play , Ovarian Cancer Canada and many others. In 2007, she travelled to Rwanda with a team of Canadian Olympic athletes for Right to Play, an athlete-driven, global organization using the transformative power of play to educate and empower children and youth. In 2011, she returned to Africa on a similar goodwill mission to Ghana.\nPutting her pursuit of a BSc at the University of Calgary to good use, Hayley has led numerous projects with the goal of raising the profile of women\u2019s hockey around the world. She is constantly working to provide mentoring opportunities for young athletes including her legacy project \u2013 The Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival.\nCBC | Hayley Wickenheiser says NHL needs new approach to mental health Globe and Mail | Being off-balance for a while is okay, Hayley Wickenheiser says How to Lead Like Hayley Wickenheiser\nDr. Greg Wells", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 9414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nusawards.org.uk/nus-wales/nominate-here", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5FQY6Q6XP7UYC4WPN2XED4SF5KNR4AEA", "length": 203, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nusawards.org.uk", "title": "Submit a nomination @ NUSAwards", "raw_content": "Please click on the links below to submit nominations under each category.\nPlease note that nominations will close at 5pm on Thursday 28 February 2019, and we will not be able to accept late nominations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nvcc.edu/catalog/cat2018/policies/substitutions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3CPZ2EZRGLTKVZPFUTYDPZSCOTWSTFSY", "length": 690, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nvcc.edu", "title": "Course Substitutions for Students with Documented Disabilities :: Northern Virginia Community College", "raw_content": "Otherwise qualified students with documented disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended, who are, by reason of their disability, unable to complete a requirement of the program pursued by the student, with or without reasonable accommodations, may request an approved course substitution.\nSubstitutions will generally not be granted for any course that is deemed essential to the program of instruction being pursued by such student, or to any directly related licensing requirement. If requirements are waived, students must successfully complete other courses to compensate for the credit hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 4008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nycriminalattorneyblog.com/rape_94/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:M7ZGAUAOLNKENJ7LSUWEQEFWF4JJ4VH3", "length": 4648, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nycriminalattorneyblog.com", "title": "Court Decides if it Erred on Classifying Accused as a Level One Sex Offender \u2014 New York Criminal Lawyer Blog \u2014 November 29, 2012", "raw_content": "Court Decides if it Erred on Classifying Accused as a Level One Sex Offender\nA man lived in his mother\u2019s house with his sister who was a minor. One day, the man chanced upon his sister in the bathroom of their house. The man tried to rape his sister. The sister resisted and was able to escape from her brother. A New York Criminal Lawyer said she reported the incident to their mother and she reported the incident to the police.\nHer brother was charged with attempted rape in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree. Prior to the arraignment, the lawyer for the man asked the trial court to order a psychiatric evaluation of the accused. Two psychiatrists examined the accused and they had similar findings. The first psychiatrist rendered an opinion that the accused suffered from psychiatric disorders which were not specified. A second psychiatrist rendered an opinion that the accused suffered from psychosis. A New York Criminal Lawyer said both of them agreed on the finding that the accused was a threat to himself and to others but that he was fit to stand trial because he was capable of understanding the nature of the charges against him and he can assist in defending himself. Both psychiatrists also recommended that the accused be hospitalized. For this reason, the accused was placed under the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Health.\nThe accused pleaded guilty to sexual abuse in the first degree and he was sentenced to six months imprisonment and ten years probation.\nAfter he pleaded guilty, the court then scheduled a risk-level hearing as mandated by the Sexual Offender Registration Act. The accused was interviewed and observed. A New York Drug Possession Lawyer said the People asked permission to review the accused\u2019s medical and psychiatric record but the trial court denied the People\u2019s request.\nDuring the risk assessment hearing, the court was informed that the accused may be classified as a risk-level one offender. The People asked the court to reconsider its findings and to modify the classification of the accused as a risk-level-one offender. The People argued that given the accused\u2019s many psychiatric illnesses, he should be classified as risk-level-three. His psychiatric deficiencies render him unable to control his impulses and may commit a similar rape in the future. The court denied the People\u2019s request for a reclassification of the accused as risk-level three offender.\nThe People appealed the court\u2019s determination. The only question before the Court is whether or not the trial court erred in classifying the accused as a risk-level one offender under the Sexual Offender Registration Act (SORA).\nThe Court held that under the SORA, the accused and the People are both given the opportunity to present evidence and to be heard on the issue of determining the risk level of the accused. Both the accused and the District Attorney can appear and also be given access records, materials from any hospital, office or agency to give the court all the opportunity to make an accurate determination of the risk the offender poses to society in general just in case he may have the propensity or tendency to commit the same sexual offense he had been convicted of.\nThe court then erred when it denied the People\u2019s request to have access to the psychiatric reports and psychiatric records of the accused when he was evaluated and when he was confined under the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Health. A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said this was a right of the People guaranteed to it under the SORA. The express mandate of the law overrides the privacy concerns of the accused especially when the safety and health of society in general is at stake if an accused is likely to commit a similar sexual offense in the foreseeable future.\nThe Court reversed the order of the trial court and the People\u2019s request for leave to have access to the psychiatric records of the accused is granted. A hearing and new determination of the risk level of the accused is ordered.\nAre you charged with rape? A Suffolk County Rape Lawyer can represent you at trial and at a risk-level hearing. A Suffolk County Rape attorney can help you present evidence to show that you are not likely to commit the same sexual offense in the future. At Stephen Bilkis and Associates, their Suffolk County Rape attorneys are ready and available for consultation. Call Stephen Bilkis and Associates today and ask to speak with any of their Suffolk County Rape lawyers so he can explain to you the nature of the charges against you, help you present a valid legal defense and present evidence at a risk-level hearing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-vows-end-birthright-citizenship-20181030-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FFWPOTBLOW2AODQJGZN2VIA7H357NEEY", "length": 5318, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "President Trump calls birthright citizenship 'ridiculous,' plans to sign executive order ending the practice and sparking Constitutional debate - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "President Trump calls birthright citizenship 'ridiculous,' plans to sign executive order ending the practice and sparking Constitutional debate\nPresident Trump intends to sign an executive order barring birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP/Getty Images)\nPresident Trump is planning to sign an executive order ending the constitutional right to citizenship for anyone born in the U.S.\nIn his latest attempt to stir fears over immigration ahead of the midterm elections next week, Trump told \u201cAxios on HBO\u201d he believes he can unilaterally revoke birthright citizenship \u2014 despite the 14th Amendment guaranteeing such a right for any child born on American soil.\nTrump\u2019s comments are the his latest attempt to make his hardline immigration policies the center of conversation before the election day on Nov. 6. He and other Republicans believes focusing on immigration will energize his supporters and help the GOP keep control of Congress.\nThe President seems unconcerned with the question of whether or not the move is legal.\n\u201cThey\u2019re saying I can do it just with an executive order,\u201d he said.\nTrump says White House lawyers are reviewing his proposal. It\u2019s unclear how quickly he\u2019d act on an executive order.\n\u201cWe\u2019re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,\u201d Trump incorrectly told Axios. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. It\u2019s ridiculous. And it has to end.\u201d\nAcross the globe, the U.S is one of 30 countries that grant citizenship upon birth.\nThis is not the first time Trump has called for the end of birthright citizenship. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump\u2019s hard-line immigration platform included the frequent use of the term \"anchor babies\" to describe children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S.\nTrump didn\u2019t provide any additional details about just how his plan would work, but argued that he was told he has the authority.\n\"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't,\" he said, adding that he has run it by White House lawyers. \u201cYou can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order.\u201d\nRepublicans were divided over the President\u2019s plan.\n\u201cWell you obviously cannot do that,\u201d House Speaker Paul Ryan told radio station WVLK in Kentucky.\n\u201cYou cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order. We didn\u2019t like it when Obama tried changing immigration laws via executive action, and obviously as conservatives we believe in the Constitution,\u201d Ryan said, in reference to former President Barack Obama\u2019s executive order that protected immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.\nVice President Pence offered his support for the President, telling Politico that \"we are looking at action that would reconsider birthright citizenship.\u201d\nMost legal experts expressed doubt that the President has the power to enforce his proposal \u2014 and noted the timing of his announcement.\n\u201cThis extreme and unconstitutional proposal is designed to stoke nativist sentiments in advance of the midterms next week,\u201d said Syracuse College of Law professor Jennifer Breen. \u201cThis is a very obvious wag the dog situation. Unfortunately, these political ploys can have very serious real-world consequences.\u201d\nOmar Jadwat, director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, told the Associated Press that the Constitution is very clear when it comes to citizenship.\n\u201cIf you are born in the United States, you're a citizen,\u201d he said, adding that it was \u201coutrageous that the president can think he can override constitutional guarantees by issuing an executive order.\u201d\nTrump can try to get Congress to pass a constitutional amendment, \u201cbut I don't think they are anywhere close to getting that.\u201d\n\"Obviously, even if he did, it would be subject to court challenge,\" he added.\nThe American Civil Liberties Union called Trump\u2019s vow \u201ca blatantly unconstitutional attempt to fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms.\u201d\n\u201cThe president cannot erase the Constitution with an executive order, and the 14th Amendment's citizenship guarantee is clear,\u201d Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project, said in a statement. \u201cThis is a transparent and blatantly unconstitutional attempt to sow division and fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms.\u201d\nIn the weeks leading up to the election day, Trump has railed against immigrants and turned his attention to a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants bound for the U.S., where many members plan to apply for asylum.\nThe group is thousands of miles away and will not reach the U.S. border for weeks.\nAnd yet, Trump has vowed to send the military to the border to stop the migrants from seeking asylum and has repeatedly made controversial remarks about the caravan, which he has referred to as an \"invasion\" of migrants \"and some very bad people.\"\n\"Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!\u201d Trump tweeted on Monday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 6432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-voter-upset-mnuchin-bank-foreclosed-home-article-1.2896583", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6OCP7F3ZRYJO37Y2KXYUW4YDYSOXUWU3", "length": 5522, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "Trump voter disappointed after Steve Mnuchin, whose bank foreclosed on her home, named Treasury Secretary - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "Trump voter disappointed after Steve Mnuchin, whose bank foreclosed on her home, named Treasury Secretary\nTeena Colebrook, 59, poses for photos Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in San Luis Obispo, Calif. (Jae C. Hong/AP)\nWASHINGTON \u2014 When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink.\nShe had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their perch in Washington. And she knew Trump's pick for Treasury \u2014 Steven Mnuchin \u2014 all too well.\nOneWest, a bank formerly owned by a group of investors headed by Mnuchin, had foreclosed on her Los Angeles-area home in the aftermath of the Great Recession, stripping her of the two units she rented as a primary source of income.\n\"I just wish that I had not voted,\" said Colebrook, 59. \"I have no faith in our government anymore at all. They all promise you the world at the end of a stick and take it away once they get in.\"\nLess than a month after his presidential win, Trump's populist appeal has started to clash with a Cabinet of billionaires and millionaires that he believes can energize economic growth.\nThe prospect of Mnuchin leading the Treasury Department drew plaudits from many in the financial sector. A former Goldman Sachs executive who pivoted in the early 2000s to hedge fund management and movie production, he seemed an ideal emissary to Wall Street.\nSteven Mnuchin, the Trump campaign's finance director, arrives at President-elect Donald Trump's Trump Tower in New York, U.S., November 29, 2016. (MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS)\nWhen asked Wednesday about his credentials to be Treasury secretary, Mnuchin emphasized his time running OneWest \u2014 which not only foreclosed on Colebrook but also on thousands of others in the aftermath of the housing crisis caused by subprime mortgages.\n\"What I've really been focused on is being a regional banker for the last eight years,\" Mnuchin said. \"I know what it takes to make sure that we can make loans to small and midmarket companies and that's going to be our big focus, making sure we scale back regulation so that we make sure the banks are lending.\"\nBut the prospect of Mnuchin leading the Treasury Department prompted Colebrook and other OneWest borrowers who say they unfairly faced foreclosure to contact The Associated Press. Colebrook wishes she could meet with Trump to explain why she feels betrayed by his Cabinet selection after believing that his presidency could restore the balance of power to everyday people.\n\"He doesn't want the truth,\" she said. \"He's now backing his buddies.\"\nThe Trump transition team has been sensitive to preserving trust with its voters. Senior adviser Kellyanne Conway publicly warned that supporters would feel \"betrayed\" if former critic Mitt Romney was named secretary of state, for instance.\nDonald Trump's road to the White House as President-elect\nFor Mnuchin, the fundamental problem stems from the Great Recession. His investor group was the sole bidder to take control of the troubled bank IndyMac in 2009. The group struck a deal that left the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation responsible for taking as much as 80 percent of the losses on former IndyMac assets and rebranded the troubled bank as OneWest.\nThe combination of OneWest's profitability, government guarantees and foreclosure activities drew the ire of activist groups like the California Reinvestment Coalition. It found the bank to be consistently one of the most difficult to work out loan modifications with even though OneWest never drew a major response from government regulators.\nBy June of 2014, five years after taking over OneWest, Mnuchin sold the bank for $3.4 billion at a tremendous profit.\nColebrook said she learned the hard way about OneWest's tactics, after the regional bank acquired her home lender, First Federal Bank of California, in late 2009.\nIn 1998, she bought a triplex for $248,000 in Hawthorne, California, not too far from Los Angeles International Airport.\nPresident-elect Donald Trump listens to questions from the press as he exits the clubhouse after a day of meetings at Trump International Golf Club, November 19, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\nShe rented out two of the units and lived in the third. Colebrook refinanced her mortgage in order to renovate the property and help buy additional homes to generate rental income.\nBy the time the financial crisis struck in 2008, she had an interest-only mortgage on the triplex known as a \"pick-a-payment\" loan. Her monthly payments ran as high as $2,000 and only covered the interest on the debt. Then she got ensnarled in the economic downturn.\n\"All my tenants lost their jobs in the crash,\" Colebrook said. \"They couldn't pay. It was a knock-on effect.\"\nOver five years, she tried unsuccessfully to adjust her loan with OneWest through the Treasury Department's Home Affordable Modification Program. But she said that One West Bank lost paperwork, provided conflicting statements about ownership of the loan and fees and submitted charges that were unverified and caused her loan balance to balloon. By the time she lost her home in foreclosure in April 2015, the payoff balance totaled $517,662.\nColebrook said she is still challenging the foreclosure in court.\nShe now lives with her boyfriend in the small California city of San Luis Obispo. She volunteers at a homeless shelter, knowing that she could just as easily have ended up there.\n\"I cook at the homeless shelter because there but the grace of God go I.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/europe/bbc-interview-toddler-interruption.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LH7R2DNTDPZFQ6GTPDC6VBCR6DCO7LX6", "length": 3524, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "When the Kids Crash Your BBC Interview - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Europe|When the Kids Crash Your BBC Interview\nProfessor Robert E. Kelly, of Pusan National University in South Korea, was being interviewed on BBC television when his children joined the live broadcast.CreditCreditBBC\nBy Christine Hauser and Daniel Victor\nThere are well-known drawbacks to working from home: the isolation, the need for self-discipline.\nBut here is a new one: the invasion of the toddlers.\nRobert E. Kelly, a political-science professor at Pusan National University in South Korea, learned this the hard way on Friday when he appeared as an expert on the BBC via Skype to discuss the South Korea impeachment scandal.\nHe appeared to be in a home office, with a door closed behind him. Shortly before the interview, he innocently let his Twitter followers know he would be on TV.\nThen, as the questioning began, the door opened. A child toddled in.\nThen another strolled in, this time in a squeaky walker. And then their mother, Jung-a Kim, burst into the scene, skidding around a corner and frantically trying to herd the wayward young people out the door.\nShe knocked books off a table before falling to her knees and grabbing the handle to close the door, finally, behind them all.\nThe interruption, almost slapstick if it had not been real, was over within 40 seconds, during which Professor Kelly veered from apparent mild annoyance to repeated apologies to stifling smiles, while ultimately keeping his composure as he discussed the latest political drama underway in South Korea, where a court had removed President Park Geun-hye from office.\nThe toddler intrusion starts just as the BBC World presenter, James Menendez, starts to ask him a question.\n\u201cAnd what will it mean for the wider region \u2014 I think one of your children has just walked in,\u201d he said to Professor Kelly.\nHe continues, gamely: \u201cDo you think relations with the North may change?\u201d\n\u201cUmm I would be surprised if they do \u2026 the um \u2026 pardon me. My apologies,\u201d Professor Kelly said, closing his eyes and smiling \u2014 or grimacing \u2014 as the sound of the objects toppling off the table and squeals of protest came from behind him.\nWhile the professor appeared to do his best to keep the live broadcast on an even professional keel, the clip was inevitably destined to do what these things do: spread widely across the internet.\nYes, it did \u201cget weird.\u201d News organizations and television channels, including Buzzfeed, The Guardian and CNN, picked up the story. Online, many of the comments were sympathetic (\u201cThis is TV Gold!\u201d said one), while others said that Professor Kelly had \u201cstrong armed\u201d one of the children when reached behind him to repel her advance, all while keeping his eye contact with the camera and continuing to speak.\nProfessor Kelly, who is an expert on politics on the Korean Peninsula, has been a contributing guest on the BBC for many years, as well as on ITN News and Sky. Many of his media appearances, chronicled on his YouTube page, appear to take place from the same room, which features a map on the wall and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.\nHe could not immediately be reached on Friday, but his online biography and website, Asian Security Blog, notes his academic credentials and many contributions to scholarly publications and news organizations about North and South Korea. His wife, according to his personal profile, is a yoga teacher.\nWorking from home with kids can be a challenge, especially when cameras or phones are involved. Tell us your stories in the comments.\nSouth Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 5743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/opinion/jeff-sessionss-war-marijuana.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6CVSPYKVQILDYUCJ4EEJNWSBJHAOJSD2", "length": 4690, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Opinion | Jeff Sessions\u2019s Endless War on Marijuana - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Opinion|Jeff Sessions\u2019s Endless War on Marijuana\nJeff Sessions\u2019s Endless War on Marijuana\nAttorney General Jeff Sessions at the White House in December.CreditCreditBrendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images\nThe key to understanding the Trump administration\u2019s approach to policy, it seems, is to look at what most Americans want and then imagine the opposite.\nConsider the new guidance on marijuana that Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued last week, which reverses Obama-era policy and gives prosecutors more leeway to enforce federal laws against the drug in states where it is legal. Mr. Sessions has been on a lifelong crusade against the plant, which he considers the root of many of society\u2019s ills.\nAnd yet more than six in 10 Americans, and seven in 10 of those under 30, believe marijuana should be legal, twice as many as in 2000. Three-quarters of the public believe the federal government should not prosecute the drug\u2019s sale or use in states where it is legal.\nIn other words, the new policy is deeply unpopular. Many of its harshest critics are members of the president\u2019s own party, who expressed outrage at the reversal of Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign promise to leave the matter to the states.\nSenator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado, where legalized marijuana has spawned a $1 billion industry, threatened to block all nominees to the Justice Department until the new policy is dropped.\nRepresentative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, laid the blame at the feet of Mr. Sessions, saying he \u201cbetrayed us on this.\u201d A 2014 law co-sponsored by Mr. Rohrabacher prohibits the Justice Department from going after users, growers or sellers of medical marijuana in states where it is legal. The use of recreational marijuana became legal in California on Jan. 1. Even Matt Gaetz, the Florida representative last seen trying to get the special counsel Robert Mueller fired, said the new policy showed Mr. Sessions\u2019s \u201cdesire to pursue an antiquated, disproven dogma instead of the will of the American people.\u201d\nNone of this will bother the attorney general, a lifelong antidrug crusader who runs the Justice Department like it\u2019s 1988, when the war on drugs was at full throttle and the kneejerk political response was to be as punitive as possible. Mr. Sessions has long held a particular enmity for pot, which he continues to demonize. \u201cGood people don\u2019t smoke marijuana,\u201d he said in 2016.\nThis is wrongheaded for so many reasons. It\u2019s out of step with current knowledge about the risks and benefits of marijuana, which the federal government classified as a Schedule I drug in 1970. By that definition, it has no accepted medical use and is more dangerous than cocaine. Obviously this is outdated, and Congress needs to do its part by removing marijuana from Schedule I. But nothing is stopping Mr. Sessions in the meantime from accepting scientific facts.\nThe new policy is also blind to the massive cultural shift toward legalization that has been happening at the state level in recent years, after decades of outrageously harsh punishments that have fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of people of color. Eight states have now legalized marijuana for recreational use. California is now the world\u2019s largest legal market for pot. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana to be used for medical purposes. By the end of this year, it is estimated that legal marijuana will be a $9 billion industry.\nFinally, to the extent the new policy redirects scarce government resources toward more marijuana prosecutions, it will undermine efforts to address more serious drug problems, like the opioid crisis, an actual public-health emergency that kills tens of thousands of people a year.\nThe full impact of the Sessions memo isn\u2019t immediately clear. Federal prosecutors are overstretched, and only bring a small number of marijuana prosecutions as it is. But the memo has already created legal uncertainty in states that have partly or fully legalized marijuana, leaving users, growers and sellers to wonder whether their actions will be ignored or will land them behind bars.\nWhatever its ultimate impact, the memo is yet another example of how the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions is turning back the clock on smart, evidence-based justice policy. His unwelcome revival of the war on drugs will last at least as long as the attorney general does. It is one of the reasons he has endured the continuing humiliations of working for Donald Trump.\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: Jeff Sessions\u2019s Endless War on Marijuana. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oberonreview.com.au/story/5848715/how-does-your-weekly-rent-compare-to-the-median-cost-in-your-town/?cs=11312", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TULL46OMFBB27G52W4D4TVYR24VJGAG6", "length": 4560, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.oberonreview.com.au", "title": "Domain: Central West rental report, December 2018 quarter | Oberon Review", "raw_content": "IT\u2019S a tough time for renters in Orange. The city has soared into the top spot for the highest rents in the Central West, and more alarming for renters, new data shows their rental costs during the past 12 months have spiked by around six per cent. The recently released data shows the medial rental costs for homes and units across the region and how they have changed during the past few years. READ ALSO: Shocking case of animal cruelty \u2013 one teen, four men arrested The Domain Rental Report for the December 2018 quarter shows the median cost to rent a home in Orange is $370 a week. This is higher than prices in Bathurst ($350), Dubbo ($350), Young ($270) and Cowra ($250). The data also shows that Orange has the most expensive weekly median rental costs for units at $265, compared to $252.50 in Bathurst and Dubbo. Not only are rents more expensive in Orange, but the city recorded the highest percentage increase in costs across the Central West during the past year. In the past year, median rents for homes in Orange spiked by 5.7 per cent (from $350 to $370) while unit rents jumped 6.0 per cent (from $250 to $265). READ ALSO: Heatwave sweeps across the Central West, how you\u2019re dealing with the weather There were also increased in other Central West locations including Bathurst where median house rents increased by 2.9 per cent (from $340 to $350) and Young which jumped by 3.8 per cent (from $260 to $270). During the past year, however, it became a little cheaper to rent units in some locations such as Bathurst where costs fell by 2.9 per cent (from $260 to $252.50) and Dubbo where prices dropped 1.0 per cent (from $255 to $252.50). READ ALSO: Economy, jobs sector to benefit from Inland Rail project: Experts say For investors, rental yield fell in many locations across the Central West during the past 12 months. In Bathurst, yields on a house fell 1.2 per cent, while units increased by 1.7 per cent. In Dubbo, yields on a house fell 0.1 per cent, while units increased by 2.2 per cent. While in Orange yields on house and units fell during the past year by 2.8 per cent and 6.8 per cent respectively.\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/yqbYpxNMru7TBX8VR5QF63/bcce7b12-c6c9-478c-a4cf-a8cbc11142d3.jpg/r4_3_1199_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nDomain: Central West rental report, December 2018 quarter\nWEEKLY COSTS: How does your weekly rent compare to the median cost in your town? Photo: FILE\nIT\u2019S a tough time for renters in Orange.\nThe city has soared into the top spot for the highest rents in the Central West, and more alarming for renters, new data shows their rental costs during the past 12 months have spiked by around six per cent.\nThe recently released data shows the medial rental costs for homes and units across the region and how they have changed during the past few years.\nREAD ALSO: Shocking case of animal cruelty \u2013 one teen, four men arrested\nThe Domain Rental Report for the December 2018 quarter shows the median cost to rent a home in Orange is $370 a week.\nThis is higher than prices in Bathurst ($350), Dubbo ($350), Young ($270) and Cowra ($250).\nThe data also shows that Orange has the most expensive weekly median rental costs for units at $265, compared to $252.50 in Bathurst and Dubbo.\nNot only are rents more expensive in Orange, but the city recorded the highest percentage increase in costs across the Central West during the past year.\nIn the past year, median rents for homes in Orange spiked by 5.7 per cent (from $350 to $370) while unit rents jumped 6.0 per cent (from $250 to $265).\nREAD ALSO: Heatwave sweeps across the Central West, how you\u2019re dealing with the weather\nThere were also increased in other Central West locations including Bathurst where median house rents increased by 2.9 per cent (from $340 to $350) and Young which jumped by 3.8 per cent (from $260 to $270).\nDuring the past year, however, it became a little cheaper to rent units in some locations such as Bathurst where costs fell by 2.9 per cent (from $260 to $252.50) and Dubbo where prices dropped 1.0 per cent (from $255 to $252.50).\nREAD ALSO: Economy, jobs sector to benefit from Inland Rail project: Experts say\nFor investors, rental yield fell in many locations across the Central West during the past 12 months.\nIn Bathurst, yields on a house fell 1.2 per cent, while units increased by 1.7 per cent.\nIn Dubbo, yields on a house fell 0.1 per cent, while units increased by 2.2 per cent.\nWhile in Orange yields on house and units fell during the past year by 2.8 per cent and 6.8 per cent respectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.officialcouponcode.com/store/net-a-porter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UMADWXBJQXRCZQARC7LMFF753X4JPJQL", "length": 507, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.officialcouponcode.com", "title": "NET-A-PORTER Coupon Codes & Sales | Official Coupon Code", "raw_content": "NET-A-PORTER Promo Codes and Coupon Codes\nNET-A-PORTER is a pioneer of innovation and has established itself as the world\u2019s premier luxury fashion destination. 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Use a NET-A-PORTER coupon code today on your first purchase!\nhttps://www.net-a-porter.com/\n1 Verified Coupon for NET-A-PORTER\nShop Designer Shoes\nAbout NET-A-PORTER", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 368, "original_length": 6409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23197&LangID=E", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:I7OP7PTEUEIMC2JGDSFEMZVKSWAGTBJV", "length": 3237, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ohchr.org", "title": "OHCHR | Committee on Enforced Disappearances registers case number 500", "raw_content": "Committee on Enforced Disappearances registers case number 500\nSpanish - Arabic\nGENEVA (12 June 2018) \u2014 They were having a family dinner at home when security forces entered the house, handcuffed him and took him away. When the family now asks the authorities where he is, they always get the same reply: \u201cwe do not know.\u201d\nThis example is taken from one of the cases in which the Committee on Enforced Disappearances activated its Urgent Action mechanism: a process which elevates an enforced disappearance from the local, individual level up to a matter between a UN committee of human rights experts, and the highest authorities of the country where the disappearance occurred. This week, the Committee reached the grim milestone of 500 cases registered under this procedure.\n\u201cEach Urgent action represents a disappeared person whose family, relatives and friends are suffering every minute of their life by having no idea as to that person\u2019s fate and whereabouts,\u201d said Suela Janina, Chair of the Committee.\nFor a list of the registered Urgent Actions up to 13 June 2018, please click here.\nThe number of Urgent Actions has been increasing steadily since the Convention entered into force in 2010. On a practical level, when the Committee receives information about an enforced disappearance, it contacts the country concerned and the relatives of the victim or their representatives, Ms. Janina continued.\n\u201cWhen a person is reported to have fallen victim to enforced disappearance, immediate intervention is key\u201d, said Rainer Huhle, vice-president of the Committee.\n\u201cThere is no valid justification for asking relatives of a disappeared person to wait 24, 48 or 72 hours before taking action\u201d, he emphasized.\nThis procedure, commonly called \u201curgent action\u201d is one of the most innovative features of the Convention on enforced disappearance. The exchanges between the Committee, the State party and the person who requested the activation of the urgent action procedure go on until the disappeared person is located. \u201cThese exchanges are at the core of the procedure. The Committee can also ask the State party to adopt measures to protect the persons who are in danger because of their link with the disappeared person, or because of the actions they have taken to search for him or her,\u201d said Ms. Janina.\nThe Committee\u2019s aim, she explained, is to help all involved, and to provide guidance to States parties for them to abide by their obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Among those obligations is the demand that enforced disappearances do not happen again.\nFor more information on the procedure: English | French | Spanish\nFor more information and media requests, please contact Julia Gronnevet + 41 22 917 9310 / jgronnevet@ohchr.org\nMembers of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances are independent human rights experts who serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of States parties. To find out more about the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, please visit: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/CEDIndex.aspx\nTag and share on Twitter @UNHumanRights, Facebook unitednationshumanrights and Instagram unitednationshumanrights", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 6508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ohioestatesandtrusts.com/administration/trust-administration.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:76LCPUFVKTZYAMLAI4NAJ2CEVI7ES43J", "length": 2317, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ohioestatesandtrusts.com", "title": "Trust Administration - Ohio Estates and Trusts - The Probate Division of the DiCello Law Firm in Mentor Ohio", "raw_content": "HomeAdministrationTrust Administration\nAdministering a trust is a private matter which does not require the supervision of a probate court. However, a trustee is charged with the same fiduciary duties as an executor or administrator of a person\u2019s probate estate. Trust administration and their responsibilities\nThese duties include a thorough knowledge of each trust provision and extend to the requirement of preparing a complete and accurate inventory of trust assets, with special notification to each of the beneficiaries of the trust. Therefore, it is important to consult with attorneys who understand the process and legal requirements of administering a trust estate.\nThe DiCello Law Firm Probate Division, a division of The DiCello Law Firm, can help you in making this decision has dedicated lawyers and staff who are experts in trust administration matters.\nAny competent person or business (such as a bank with a trust department) can be appointed a trustee of a trust. It is important to consider the honesty and integrity of the person (or entity) being appointed as trustee. Also, the selected person must possess the necessary knowledge, skills and ability to properly administer the trust. A trustee must be someone who is available to complete the tasks and duties throughout the administration of the trust.\nWhat Are The Trustee\u2019s Responsibilities?\nA Trustee has a duty to follow the instructions contained in the trust regarding the collection, management and distribution of trust property. Additionally, a trustee must file appropriate tax returns, pay taxes and issue legal notices to the trust beneficiaries. A trustee, who does not properly administer a trust according to the terms of the trust, or contrary to law, may be held personally liable for any damages arising from the mismanagement of the trust.\nThe DiCello Law Firm Probate Division is Available To Be Your Trustee\nThe DiCello Law Firm Probate Division is here to help you administer your trust. We have the knowledge and expertise to help you fulfill your trustee obligations, or to be the trustee of your trust. Call us today at 440.953.8888 or 440-530-3605. The dedicated probate attorneys at The DiCello Law Firm Probate Division have the knowledge, resources and skills to help you simplify the administration of any estate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-welcomes-enhancement-of-close-cooperation-with-the-united-nations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GLFX7XP2JP3AVQP77PPADSUPGPNXMPSJ", "length": 1933, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.olympic.org", "title": "IOC welcomes enhancement of close cooperation with the United Nations - Olympic News", "raw_content": "IOC News , Olympic News , Development through sport\nIOC welcomes enhancement of close cooperation with the United Nations\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomes the initiative by the new United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, to even further enhance the already excellent cooperation with the IOC. The UN Secretary-General had proposed this in his meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach in January 2017. In this meeting, both leaders had agreed to establish a \u201cdirect partnership\u201d between the UN and the IOC.\nBy means of this direct partnership, the UN will have direct access to the expertise and know-how of the IOC and its 206 National Olympic Committees, as well as the International Sports Federations. This is a more streamlined approach and will avoid parallel work. As a consequence of this decision, the UN Secretary-General has decided to close the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP).\n\u201cWe are enthusiastic about the great potential of this direct partnership with the United Nations and we thank the United Nations Secretary\u2013General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, for his initiative. This will strengthen the position of sport even more in society and will help sport to fulfil its role as \u2018an important enabler of sustainable development\u2019, as outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The direct partnership is fully in line with the UN resolution, which \u2018supports the independence and autonomy of sport as well as the mission of the IOC in leading the Olympic Movement\u2019,\u201d IOC President Thomas Bach said.\nTags IOC News , Olympic News , Development through sport\nOlympic Movement celebrates International Day of Sport with messages of peace and unity\nRefugee Olympic Team a symbol of unifying power of sport on International Day of Sport for Development and Peace\nIOC takes a stand against discrimination and celebrates the power of sport to #FightRacism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 353, "original_length": 7085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onepng.com/2016/06/unitech-returns-to-normalcy-lae-police.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2L4P74TSTT4L4DJI2SFYSBOAYX5SDRHX", "length": 2354, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.onepng.com", "title": "Unitech returns to normalcy : Lae Police to ensure public safety | One Papua New Guinea", "raw_content": "Unitech returns to normalcy : Lae Police to ensure public safety\nThe students of the University of Technology in Lae retaliated angrily to the news of the police shootings in Port Moresby at the UPNG campus yesterday. The angry students tried to move from the campus gates onto the main road but were stopped by police who fired warning shots into the air to disperse them and the crowd that had gathered around the campus.\nThe situation returned to normalcy after the Lae Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr and two of his officers went on campus unarmed and engaged in dialogue with the Senior Executive Management (SEM), Student Representative Council (SRC) and the leaders of the provincial groups assuring them that the police would not enter the campus unless called for by the administration on the understanding that students refrain from destroying public property on campus.\n\u201cFrom the beginning of this situation Police and Unitech we have always had proper dialogue so we asked for that dialogue to continue. We must keep in touch and be informed of what is going on\u201d says Mr. Wagambie. He further added that \u201cthe students must also understand that the police are there to ensure the public safety of everybody which also includes themselves as well.\u201d\nHe explained that because Lae is an unpredictable area, request by the students to stage a protest march was not approved to avoid opportunists taking over and disrupting the purpose of the students\u2019 course.\nHe appealed to the student leaders to take control of the student body and to not allow students to venture onto the main road and interrupt the flow of traffic and or cause disturbance to the public.\nMr. Wagambie stressed that the police are not their enemies and their presence at the campus was not to intimidate the students, but to protect property and make sure that there will not be any disruptions to services as a result of the riot.\nThe student representatives have taken the directions into consideration and agreed to the terms.\nDespite the events that took place in the morning, Mr. Wagambie confirmed that there were no reports of any injuries from the students or the general public.\nMr Wagambie has advised the public that police presence will be heavily maintained in the city to ensure that schools, businesses and basic services will not be disrupted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinelegalmarketing.com/lead-generation/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CPY45BAZCA5YA7S6W22I3BHKNN7TAJKX", "length": 3008, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.onlinelegalmarketing.com", "title": "Lead Generation Archives - Page 4 of 6 - Online Legal Marketing", "raw_content": "Top 5 SEO Strategies for 2017\nMany law firms believe that if they don\u2019t have an endless reservoir of funds to devote to a marketing budget, that they just can\u2019t make that first page of Google search results. This is not true. Search engine optimization (SEO) strategy is all about staying one step ahead of your competition, and exhaustively studying the latest trends (or hiring someone who does). Many marketing firms rest on their laurels. But SEO strategy is a science that is constantly evolving. Your marketing team needs to chase these developments relentlessly.\nGeo-Targeting: Mass Torts vs. Personal Injury\nGeographic targeting (a.k.a. \u201cgeotargeting\u201d) is a marketing strategy designed to help law firms reach a local prospective client base. If a marketing firm tries to sell you on the success of its geo-targeting program, and you are solely a mass torts practice, you should probably think twice. Geo-targeting tends to work much better for practice areas like personal injury\u2014practice areas that draw on one-off, single event incidents, like a car accident or a slip-and-fall.\nIt has become common for law firms to think of SEO marketers as selling snake oil\u2014so many marketing companies have sprung up making false promises, taking millions of dollars and failing to deliver on their word. But there is still a place for SEO\u2014search engines are quickly learning how to spot quality content and drive those pages that offer it to the top. This way, the users of the search engine remain satisfied. If your search engine pulls up pages and pages of useless, keyword infused garbage, you are going to switch search engines. That is not what the search engines want. They want to put the page users are actually looking for right up top.\nIs Legal Billboard Advertising Dead?\nThere are some definite advantages to billboard advertising, but also, a lot of risks. Firms are advised to weigh the pros and cons carefully, because this definitely is not a strategy that will benefit most law firms. Some of the pitfalls of billboard advertising are explored in the popular television program, \u201cBetter Call Saul.\u201d Lawyers (like Saul Goodman) run the risk of getting a reputation as a \u201cbillboard lawyer\u201d who tries to settle every case, whether it is to his client\u2019s advantage or not. In short, a gimmicky billboard can reflect adversely on one\u2019s lawyering abilities.\nAn Insiders Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing\nWhat is Pay Per Click (PPC)?\nAlso called cost per click, this is an online advertising model where law firms pay a hosting service every time their ad is clicked on. The most common and most successful form of this is where a search engine serves as the platform. With search engines, law firms can bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. For example, the keyword phrase \u201cbest new york divorce lawyers\u201d will probably cost you a pretty penny, because it is likely to be a highly searched phrase. With PPC, you only pay for visitors that actually click on the link to your website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/jarrett-zigon", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IVHO42YHZPXTXLEBEN6BMKGGAWAP2LMU", "length": 1316, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.opendemocracy.net", "title": "Jarrett Zigon | openDemocracy", "raw_content": "About Jarrett Zigon\nJarrett Zigon is Porterfield Chair in Bioethics and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community.\nArticles by Jarrett Zigon\nOpioid crisis: community and care, not law and order, is the answer\nJarrett Zigon 12 December 2018\nAny response to the crisis must address the underlying conditions of drug addiction.\nRethinking the possible\nJarrett Zigon 3 March 2011\nEverywhere you go, people of the world are fed up with states and the class of accountants and crooked despots that manage them. Jarrett Zigon believes that such consensus has afforded a unique historical opportunity for change. We must now begin to develop alternatives to the modern nation-state, the contemporary global economic order, and the current assumptions of \u201cmoral\u201d behaviour\nRussia\u2019s heroin epidemic: why the government is ducking the issue\nJarrett Zigon 4 February 2011\nDrug addiction in Russia has reached epidemic proportions, but the government is refusing to address the problem head on, preferring instead to inveigh against external forces like the USA, NATO and the war in Afghanistan. Jarrett Zigon, who works with drug addicts in St Petersburg, considers the current problems and their implications for the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/juana-kweitel-c-sar-rodr-guez-garavito-matt-clausen/venezuela-must-guarantee-right", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RB2Y4SCALSW3NN5YPCNOFOEJ7CLPK3L6", "length": 5538, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.opendemocracy.net", "title": "Venezuela must guarantee the right to participate in elections | openDemocracy", "raw_content": "Venezuela must guarantee the right to participate in elections\nJuana Kweitel, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito, and Matt Clausen 1 June 2017\nThe Constitutional and democratic principles that founded the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are being currently undermined by a government that does not guarantee the right of participation to all Venezuelans. Espa\u00f1ol\nOpposition activists march along Francisco Fajardo highway, during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, on May 10, 2017. VWPics/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.\nIn October 2016, Venezuela\u2019s National Electoral Council announced, without any legal justification, the postponement of regional elections. It said that the elections would be held at the end of the first half of 2017, even though the Constitution required them to be held in December 2016. Furthermore, it illegally suspended the process of staging a Presidential Recall Referendum, a right contained in the country\u2019s Constitution, based on rulings from regional courts that do not have jurisdiction on electoral matters.\nIn the first four months of this year, we have witnessed serious democratic setbacks, namely the unconstitutional decision of the Supreme Court on March 29 to dissolve the opposition-led Congress \u2013 a decision that had to be revoked given the strong national and international reaction. We have also watched with extreme concern the death of at least 57 people in the context of the repression of street demonstrations (a figure updated until May 25, 2017).\nIn October 2016, Venezuela\u2019s National Electoral Council announced, without any legal justification, the postponement of regional elections.\nOn May 1, President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro convened a Constituent Assembly whose members would be chosen by certain sectors of society and not by a universal vote. Venezuelan human rights organizations exposed the irregularities of convening the Assembly and called for the rejection of constituent processes in times of heightened political tension. They denounced that such a process threatened the reform procedures and the human rights guarantees contained in the Constitution and ignored the principle of the advancement of rights.\nThe Maduro government has been facing growing isolation on the international and regional stage since its withdrawal from the OAS (Organization of American States). It is worth remembering that, in 2013, Venezuela rejected the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the region\u2019s highest rights protection body.\nThe Maduro government has been facing growing isolation on the international and regional stage since its withdrawal from the Organization of American States.\nHuman rights organizations from Venezuela and other countries have expressed their concern over the growing militarization of society. They recently condemned the approval of a decree to implement the Zamora Plan, also called the \u201cSpecial Strategic Civil-Military Plan\u201d. \u201cThis announcement constitutes the consolidation of the militarization of policing demonstrations and urban security, together with the employment of groups of armed civilians and police officers with the military mindset of fighting the internal enemy, which is right out of the national security doctrine,\u201d say groups such as Provea, which has a long history of defending rights in Venezuela.\nIn the first days of its implementation, the Zamora Plan was executed with total disregard for the principles of the proportional and differentiated use of force. This generated new obstacles to the exercise of the right to peaceful demonstration. The indiscriminate and potentially lethal use of toxic gases increased the number of detainees and regrettably the amount of people killed.\nIt is essential for the Venezuelan government to commit to guaranteeing the full exercise of the right to protest and to strictly submit to national and international standards on the proportional and differentiated use of force. It is urgent to put an end to the Zamora Plan, to repeal the State of Exception and Economic Emergency and to respect in full the Constitution.\nHuman rights organizations from Venezuela and other countries have expressed their concern over the growing militarization of society.\nIn this context, the immediate scheduling of the pending elections for governors would represent an important step for the country. The government of President Maduro must guarantee the right for all Venezuelans to participate in elections, without discrimination. Furthermore, the government must cease plans to illegally convene a Constituent Assembly, stop preventing Congress from fully functioning and release a calendar for regional, municipal and national elections that observes the time frame established in the Constitution and that guarantees the right of participation for all Venezuelans, both as voters and as candidates.\nWe urge the international and regional community to work together for this to occur as soon as possible.\nJuana Kweitel, Conectas Human Rights, Brazil\nC\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito, Dejusticia, Colombia\nMatt Clausen, WOLA, USA\nJuana Kweitel \u00e9 diretora Executiva da Conectas Direitos Humanos, Brasil.\nJuana Kweitel is Executive Director, Conectas Human Rights, Brazil.\nMatt Clausen is executive director of the Washington Office for Latin America (WOLA), USA.\nVenezuela: a blueprint for strife\nVenezuela, the day after\nOrlando A. Ochoa\nVenezuela and the Left\nRafael Uzc\u00e1tegui\nIs the crisis in Venezuela still negotiable?\nFrancesc Badia i Dalmases and Orlando A. Ochoa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 9294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opiumpulses.com/arcade/220/crush-the-castle-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:47Z", "digest": "sha1:VSHYYCHWMNANFUF2Y4TFGK3E5L6T4BE5", "length": 111, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.opiumpulses.com", "title": "Crush the Castle 2 - Play Now for FREE at Opium Pulses", "raw_content": "Apparently without Crush the Castle, none of us would know of a game called \"Angry Birds\"... never heard of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opticalexpress.co.uk/magazine/article/playing-outdoors-could-save-childrens-eyesight", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6GLTNZFPFGG452L4AVCIVD7Q5352XY7", "length": 2247, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.opticalexpress.co.uk", "title": "Playing outdoors could save children's eyesight | Optical Express", "raw_content": "Playing outdoors could save children's eyesight, says leading eye expert\nA top ophthalmologist has urged parents to play outside with their children this summer to avert a poor vision \u201cepidemic\u201d.\nDr Steve Schallhorn, a leading refractive surgeon and Chief Medical Director at Optical Express, is calling on parents to take action amid increasing evidence that growing use of multi-screen technology is placing children\u2019s eye sight under serious strain.\nAccording to a recent study , short-sightedness amongst young people has doubled over the last 50 years. Researchers said the increase was due to teenagers spending more time indoors looking at computer screens.\n\u201cI believe that we are creating an epidemic of short sightedness which recent studies show is down to the regular use of hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets,\u201d said Dr Schallhorn who is Chairman of the Optical Express International Medical Advisory Board (IMAB).\n\u201cThe growth and development of a child\u2019s eye can be influenced by the type of work it is required to perform. This process is called \u2018emmetropization\u2019 and is part of an intricate, active feedback loop between the brain and the eye to provide sharp, in-focus images.\n\u201cOn the whole, it is really quite an amazing adaptive process, but the downside is that if the predominant visual tasks are close-up work, such as countless hours on a smart phone, the result can be short sightedness.\u201d\nTo help reverse the impact of staring at screens, Dr Schallhorn recommends one simple lifestyle change: exercising outdoors.\nDr Schallhorn said: \u201cTime spent outdoors looking at objects beyond arm\u2019s reach is essential for the development of a child\u2019s eyesight.\n\u201cAs a result, outdoor exercise - including running, ball games and even hide-and-seek - is as essential for children\u2019s eye health as it is to other parts of their body.\u201d\nDr Schallhorn\u2019s intervention comes as young people are spending increasing amounts of time on hand held devices.\nResearch commissioned by Optical Express has shown that the nation is clocking up many hours a day viewing smart phones and tablets, with 60% of 18-24 year-olds regularly checking their smartphone, often whilst simultaneously watching TV, using a tablet, or working on a laptop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.orangepublicrecords.com/sample.php?id=35001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GIDREI6VU6ASGI3XTQDOMOO5FO5PAHPL", "length": 2393, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.orangepublicrecords.com", "title": "BRYANT B ROSS | Is There A BRYANT B ROSS On Facebook? | Is There A BRYANT B ROSS On LinkedIn?", "raw_content": "BRYANT B ROSS\nLawmakers in Florida have long believed in the importance of an open system of government. As such, any document filed by a clerk of courts throughout the state, as well as any correspondence sent from, or received by, any government employee, shall become the immediate property of the citizenry. In short, in the State of Florida, the people have a right to know. That is why you are seeing information below regarding BRYANT B ROSS. Once a report is filed by a criminal justice agency in Orange County, Florida, it becomes accessible to anyone who desires to see it. So after BRYANT B ROSS was detained by authorities on 12-06-2018, all of the information filed on that date, as well as all future files docketed in connection with the apprehension of BRYANT B ROSS in Orange County, became a matter of public record. If you write to the governor of Florida (currently Richard Scott) or to the attorney general (currently Pamela Bondi), your name and e-mail address will become part of Florida's public record. If you are jailed, for any reason, the complete report and your photograph (if taken) are immediately available to anyone, anywhere in the world, at virtually any time. That is why you are seeing this report about BRYANT B ROSS; this website endeavors to publish an accurate record of all detainments in Orange County to better provide for transparency in government.\nFor an update on the detainment of BRYANT B ROSS, you are welcome to contact the Orange County Clerk of Courts. This website does not have the resources to publish a file-by-file of all papers docketed in any individual criminal case proceeding. The inclusion of information regarding BRYANT B ROSS on our website is an indication merely of an apprehension. DO NOT ASSUME ANY CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ANYONE WHOSE NAME, ADDRESS, DATE-OF-BIRTH, OR THE LIKE, APPEARS HEREIN. In the United States, everyone detained by a law enforcement official, including BRYANT B ROSS is presumed innocent. The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1788, provides all defendants in criminal proceedings the right to a speedy trial (Amendment Six) and Due Process (Amendment Fourteen). BRYANT B ROSS's name and/or image appear(s) herein because it/they are part of the Orange County Clerk Of Court's official record and are published in accordance with all local and state laws in the State Of Florida (USA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 170.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oreanda.ru/en/finansy/article1058201/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6YS72T36SR6G5NMCFNKQKEA6GU23H6TE", "length": 2317, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.oreanda.ru", "title": "Finances. Fitch on Canada: Not the Next Japan, But Worries Increasing - Oreanda-News", "raw_content": "Fitch on Canada: Not the Next Japan, But Worries Increasing\nOREANDA-NEWS. Canada is not headed for an extended period of stagflation akin to what Japan has endured for the last two decades, though analysts at a Canadian credit forum hosted by Fitch Ratings in Toronto last week pointed to a few worrisome tea leaves that warrant close attention in the coming months.\nOnce such tea leaf includes Canadian household debt. While both US and European markets delevered substantially following the market crisis, the same cannot be said for Canada according to Fitch's Global Head of Sovereigns James McCormack. 'Household debt levels in Canada are now roughly 100% of GDP and still rising,' said McCormack. The same can be said for corporate leverage in Canada, which is also rising in contrast to the US, Europe and Japan. That said, the Canadian banking sector remains among the strongest in the world. So while there are some 'red flags' to monitor, 'we're not in a position to be suggesting that there's imminent danger around the corner,' said McCormack.\nAnother area of concern is Canada's housing market. When asked by BNN's Catherine Murray on whether Canada is primed for a hard or soft landing for housing, BMO Financial Group Chief Economist Douglas Porter said it depends on the market in question. For instance, Porter pointed to a 'real risk of a hard landing in Vancouver' while the fate of Toronto's housing market is more uncertain. And without government intervention to cool it down, Porter said Toronto's home price growth could reach a pace that will eventually lead to a hard landing. Conversely, most of the rest of Canada is what Porter called 'well-behaved' in terms of housing discipline, with signs of strength emerging in markets like Ottawa and Montreal.\nIncreasing interest rates remain a worry for Fitch. 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In a rare appearance, these alternative rock stars will appear together, performing songs off the \u201cBattlefield Of The Mind\u201d documentary soundtrack, which is being released on the same day via Chill.\n\u201cBattlefield Of The Mind\u201d, a film ArtistDirect calls the most powerful documentary of the decade,\u201d is a full-length documentary that tells the raw and tragic details of what life is like as an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran today. Many veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and among them are those whose lives have fallen apart and have become homeless as a result. Severe PTSD leaves these returning heroes on a downward spiral into their own personal hell. The documentary is available to stream and download at Chill.com.\nThe musicians performing together for one night only in support of the film and the cause include:\n* David Ellefson of MEGADETH\n* Troy McLawhorn of EVANESCENCE\n* Sal G of STAIND\n* Pete Murray of LO-PRO\n* Neil Godfrey of LO-PRO\n* Headliners EYE EMPIRE, featuring Corey Lowery (STUCK MOJO, STEREOMUD, DARK NEW DAY) and B.C. Kochmit (SWITCHED) and Ryan Bennett (TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION) and military veteran Donald \u201cDC\u201d Carpenter (SUBMERSED)\nThe event will open at 7:00 p.m. with filmmaker and participant interaction, exclusive look at the documentary, and question-and-answer session. At 8:30 p.m., the doors will re-open for the all-star jam and performance from EYE EMPIRE.\nNarrated by Ellefson, co-produced by Aaron Lewis (STAIND), \u201cBattlefield Of The Mind\u201d is a documentary by Fran Strine which takes on a tragic truth \u2014 that those men that put their lives on the line to defend our freedom have come home to a world plagued by PTSD and homelessness. 1 in 7 homeless adults are veterans and over \u00bc of homeless veterans suffer from mental illness, physical illness and substance abuse at the same time.\nThese sad truths moved a concerned public to donate en masse to get the film made leading to a rousing Kickstarter success. The film raised 190% of its funding goal with the soundtrack raising 120% of its funding goal.\n\u201cAfter engaging in conversations with these veterans living on the streets and hearing their stories, I knew this was the documentary I had to make and show that we, as citizens can make a difference,\u201d says Strine. The VA was approved $1.35 billion for the homeless in 2013 \u2014 a mere 0.035% of the $8.3 trillion US budget, says The White House Office of Management & Budget. Forbes adds that providing permanent housing for the chronic homeless would save taxpayers $3 billion.\nThe soundtrack for the film features members of many prominent rock bands. DC of EYE EMPIRE, a former soldier himself, said of his band\u2019s involvement, \u201cI have always been sensitive to issues that face our troops Stateside and abroad. When our good friend Fran mentioned that he and Aaron were going to be making this film and that he would like for us to be involved with the music, we were very humbled.\u201d Vocalist Pete Murray (previously of ULTRASPANK) called working with the likes of Ellefson and Mike Mushok of STAIND \u201can amazing experience. 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Our role is to ensure that you manage your money because we manage the time for you.\nContact : Mirabelle Rolland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parisdailyphoto.com/2011/06/la-grande-halle-de-la-vilette.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UMFSJNMSHW62MSTEDTTO2JSACVE7E577", "length": 7361, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "www.parisdailyphoto.com", "title": "ParisDailyPhoto: La Grande Halle de la Villette", "raw_content": "Last evening I went to La Cit\u00e9 de la musique to attend a concert conducted by Les Arts Florissants, a Baroque musical ensemble conducted by William Christie. It was... Baroque! On the way out I took this photo of La Grande Halle, a remain of a former slaughter house that was built between 1865 and 1867 and was still used until 1975. Beautiful.\nbrattcat June 8, 2011 at 1:42:00 AM GMT+2\nwonderful shot. it seems to like its repurposing, don't you think.\nTomate Farcie June 8, 2011 at 3:23:00 AM GMT+2\nCool. I have heard of that place (well, at the time it was a slaughter house).\nIsn't it spelled \"Villette \" with 2 L's ?\nThis music reminds me of the old joke that goes something like \"My phone is baroque, so please call Bach later.\" Ouch! I really shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist. Hey, this Hall really is Grand; another great capture. The fountain really adds to this event center. I'm sure you enjoyed yourself.\nLovely shot, Eric. I admire buildings like these that are restored and used for art and beauty rather than being demolished and forgotten forever!\nOh la la, the famous perspective! Repurposing these old buildings is a good thing\u2014and I'll bet the musicians totally went for baroque and just \"killed it\" in that former slaughterhouse.\nhdmi cable June 8, 2011 at 5:10:00 AM GMT+2\nLes Arts Florissants is one of the most well known and respected early music groups in the world. Les Arts Florissants is Delightful. Les Arts Florissants is the creation of William Christie.\nIs anyone else having a problem with the PDP site loading? It seems something has slowed it down; I have tried on 2 different computers and both are having problem.\nI have to sign on and just go away for awhile until it is loaded. Seems to have started possibly with the Picnic photo section was added.\nIt's lit up so beautifully. I'd love to see it at night.\nWebsite is loading just fine for me.\nLucky you! Would have loved to go there and listen to this concert.\nMartin June 8, 2011 at 10:53:00 AM GMT+2\nTwo words: Classic Tenin !\nI love the park area around La Grande Halle...reminds me of Canada when I am in Paris:)\nChristie June 8, 2011 at 12:39:00 PM GMT+2\nAhh...what a way to start my morning..the PDP from the Tenin Perspective followed immediately by kayaking. This could get addictive. Beautiful shot. I just want to know, was the fountain when this building was a slaughterhouse? If so, that's Paris, beautifying even the most unlovely! If not, it is beautiful now!!\nA. June 8, 2011 at 3:57:00 PM GMT+2\nChristie, you made me laugh ! Kayaking must be a hard sport ... very effective for the body ! Lol. PDP for the brain and kayaking for the body! I too must think of my body :) Well following Eric's shoes in Paris could be as effective as addictive!\nParc de la Villette deserves a half-day walk for visitors. Great place. Clause Oldenberg sculpture of a six-meter tall bicycle emerging from or buried in the ground. And La Geode, of course. I also love the canal and the draw bridges, featured in a PDP photos that hangs on my office wall. Oh, yeah: I'm sure the concert was great, too!\n(...hmmm, I've been counting reps at the health club in French lately...does that mean something?...quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit,neuf, dix, missed onze, douze...?)\nWe took the Canal St. Martin boat trip up to La Villette few years ago. It was very pleasant but leisurely, what with all those canal locks to negotiate.\nOld grannies with zimmer frames and the local snails were overtaking us, but a lovely way to spend a sunny afternoon and you can make the return journey by Metro.\nAnonymous and others - I have no problem on my home PC which has high speed broadband. I did experience problems on my work PCs which have slower broadband. If you have slower broadband, you could try using Google Chrome as your browser, it worked for me.\nIs anyone else having trouble with the PDP site recently? I can't open it correctly from home and am trying at work and same issue. It causes internet explorer to fail. If so, please fix- I miss it! [I noticed it ever since the picnic video was posted]. The message I get says \"error on page\".\nStephen Mitchell June 8, 2011 at 8:00:00 PM GMT+2\nYes, Eric I can confirm the problem when downloading PDP with Internet Explorer. I also get an 'error' message. As I can't miss PDP, you know me, I found a solution with Mozilla Firefox navigator and then all problem disapeared, oddly...\nSame thing at home or at work and agree this is more or less since the picnic video. Hmm, I'd even say more precisely since the Facebook 'like' was set up on PDP...\nPlease don't kill my Firefox connexion now ;) !!!! (kidding you but still TRUE!). Bises.\nAnonymous June 8, 2011 at 10:05:00 PM GMT+2\nI also continue to have problems with the site, as I've been posting. I have high speed broadband on both home and work computers (not that I ever check in from work, of course!!!!)and I have the same problems on both machines. (I'm not at liberty to change the browser on my work computer). It started around the time of the picnic video and worsened when the facebook connection went in. Last night I decided to see how long it would take to load and I waited 5 minutes. Then, as soon as I clicked on the photo, the same problem with the error message and trying to load started all over again.\nSOS, Eric!!!!! You know I love PDP, but its become unusable. : (\nMichael June 8, 2011 at 11:22:00 PM GMT+2\nTo those of you having problems with PDP, which browser are you using?\nI have no problems with either Firefox or Google Chrome, but difficulties with Internet Explorer. I don't think it's a problem of bandwidth.\nTomate Farcie June 8, 2011 at 11:44:00 PM GMT+2\nInternet Explorer ...cks.\nTry cleaning your cache (delete history, cookies, etc.) and starting over again. Sometimes, that helps.\nThanks for the suggestions, guys. I clean my cache all the time on both computers, so I don't think that's it. And, I hope its not the browser, but, I wonder why, if it were the browser, all of us having trouble would have suddenly started having trouble at the same time and only on this site. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe there's a reason. I do have IE on both machines, and I can change the browser on the one at home but, I wonder if anyone who is not having trouble is using IE?\nEric June 9, 2011 at 1:31:00 AM GMT+2\n5 minutes to load?! What!!! I'll remove the facebook Like button tomorrow. Let me know if it changes something.\nMpls having trouble June 9, 2011 at 3:26:00 AM GMT+2\nI agree with the rest - I have super high speed internet and have tried at work and home. New problem never had before and only with this site. Started same time as rest - please please fix Eric.\nI have removed the FB like button, I think this will fix the problem. Can you let me know? Merci.\nMartin June 9, 2011 at 9:36:00 AM GMT+2\nPDP is racing super fast across my computer screen!\nNo need for the FB like button...we do LIKE it :)\ndedicated website hosting June 9, 2011 at 12:46:00 PM GMT+2\nGlad to hear it was the Facebook link and not my computer that was causing trouble. I have followed your photos for a year now since returning home to Illinois USA after visiting Paris and northern France for the first time. I stopped checking you out for about a week or two, and tried today without any problems!!! 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These will compliment four additional cores, which are planned for construction by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines, serving terminals 1-5.\nThe new structures will also provide space that can be used for offices, baggage claims, restrooms and airport lounges. The five-year design-build (DB) contract was awarded to engineering firm Austin Commercial from Dallas, Texas.\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased to begin 2018 with a significant advancement of the LAMP program, one that will create a world-class experience when traveling to and from the airport,\u201d said Deborah Flint, CEO of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the airport operator.\n\u201cThis project will ultimately connect our guests to our regional transportation system, and will create many construction jobs, ensuring that the local workforce is part of building the future of LAX.\u201d\nCynthia Guidry, deputy executive director of LAWA\u2019s planning and development group, said, \u201cWith this award, we are moving forward in opening a new front door to LAX. By connecting the airport via an elevated train to metro, parking and other transportation options, we will usher in a new era of convenience and accessibility for all who visit LAX.\u201d\nPhase 1 of the Terminal Cores project, which includes preliminary design and associated tasks, is planned to commence in the first quarter of 2018. Phase 2, which includes the conclusion of design work and the start of construction, is anticipated to begin in the first quarter of 2019. The project is anticipated to conclude in 2021.\nThe LAMP project consists of an APM system with six stations that will run between the central terminal area (CTA) and several other project components. 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Unfortunately, after being released by your physician, if you continue to lose wages you will not be compensated as the Florida legislature has eliminated wage loss benefits in the State of Florida. 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If so, then you need to consider payday loans to help you through the rough times.\nAs an Deer Creek resident, you have many choices in payday loan lenders you can choose from. You just need to fill out an application \u2013 either online or in person \u2013 to start the Deer Creek payday loans process. In most cases, once you\u2019re approved, you can have the money in as little as 24 hours (or one business day).\nShould Deer Creek Residents Get A Payday Loan?\nThe biggest reason \u2013 the number one reason \u2013 payday loans are so popular is that they fill the gap for immediate funds. For example, your car breaks down, and you\u2019re told it\u2019ll be $1,000 to repair it, so it works again. Payday isn\u2019t until two more weeks. What do you do then? This is why Deer Creek payday loans became so popular. They addressed the unexpected issues that arise in your life.\nAlthough the payday loans industry has received more negative backlash than positive, the stance still stands that they are an ideal solution to a financial burden. Of course, if you\u2019re constantly faced with financial problems, you don\u2019t want to get a loan in the hopes to fix it. Instead, you need to work on your overall budget and see what needs trimming. Deer Creek Payday loans are for people who absolutely have no other means to address a financial crisis.\nWhat Does A Payday Loan in Deer Creek Mean?\nDeer Creek Payday loans are a short-term fix to address an immediate negative situation, helping you to overcome the problem and get back on your feet.\nHow To Attain An Deer Creek Loan?\nDeer Creek residents who decide to ask for a payday loan from a lender are protected thanks to the laws of the state. Before you send off applications to a lender, make sure you read and understand the laws to ensure you know what rules and regulations you must follow and the lending industry must abide to. Deer Creek residents who seek these loans should never be caught unawares, as it could lead to a continual cycle of debt that you may feel you\u2019ll never get out from under of.\n5 Terms Deer Creek Residents Should Know Before Filling Out A Payday Loan Application\nThere are five key terms Deer Creek residents need to know when reading the conditions of the Deer Creek payday loan contract. These terms include:\nFinance Charges \u2013 This is the amount you are charged for every so many dollars you borrow. Deer Creek residents who get a $30 loan cannot be charged in excess of $1 for every $5. For a $30 loan, this translates to $6.\nAcquisition Charges \u2013 Deer Creek residents who borrow between $30 and $100 have a one-tenth of the loan acquisition charge. A maximum acquisition charge of $10 is applied to any Deer Creek loan over $100.\nMaximum APR \u2013 The annual percentage rate for an Deer Creek resident\u2019s 14-day, $100 loan is 309 percent.\nMaximum Amount \u2013 There is no maximum payday loan amount specified for Deer Creek residents.\nMaximum Term \u2013 Residents who get payday loan in Deer Creek may have a repayment term of one week up to 31 days.\nWhat Are The Deer Creek Payday Loans Requirements For Eligibility?\nA legal Deer Creek resident. You must provide documentation that proves you live in the area.\nYou must also provide your name, address and social security number. You must let the Deer Creek payday loans lender know how much you want to borrow. If approved, the lender will reach out to let you know that the loan\u2019s terms and conditions are.\nDeer Creek residents who need immediate cash can use this short-term loan option to help them through the tough times. 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He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party\u2019s nominee, declaring \u201cThere has to come a point at which you say enough.\u201d\nThe president\u2019s blistering critique of his potential successor came on the heels of Trump\u2019s criticism of an American Muslim family whose son, a captain in the U.S. Army, was killed in Iraq. A growing number of GOP lawmakers have disavowed Trump\u2019s comments, but most of those who have endorsed him are sticking by that stance.\n\u201cIf you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?\u201d Obama asked during a White House news conference. \u201cWhat does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?\u201d\nThe president said his opposition to Trump is about more than policy differences. He said that while he disagreed with his Republican opponents in the 2008 and 2012 elections, he never thought they were unfit to do the job.\nObama \u2014 who is enjoying heightened popularity in his eighth and final year in office \u2014 has made clear he plans to be an active player in the White House race, campaigning around the country for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He and first lady Michelle Obama spoke at last week\u2019s Democratic convention in Philadelphia, where Khizr and Ghazala Khan also made an appearance.\nKhizr Khan criticized Trump\u2019s call for a temporary ban on Muslims coming to the United States and challenged whether he had read the Constitution. Trump has questioned why Ghazala Khan did not speak, implying her religion prevented her from doing so, and has said he was \u201cviciously attacked\u201d by Khizr Khan.\nTrump\u2019s criticism of the Khans is part of a familiar pattern for the Republican nominee: He can\u2019t let go of a perceived slight, no matter the potential damage to his presidential campaign or political reputation.\nTrump spent the days after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a U.S. district court judge\u2019s Mexican heritage. The morning after accepting the Republican nomination at the party\u2019s convention, he re-opened months-old grievances with primary rival Ted Cruz.\nThose who have worked with Trump say that in private meetings, he can often appear amenable to putting a controversy aside. But the businessman can quickly be drawn back in by an interview, especially if he believes he\u2019s already answered the question, or if he grows irritated by commentary on cable television.\nThe only way to ensure Trump moves on is to wait for him to tire of an issue or get drawn into another matter, according to those who have worked with him.\nNewt Gingrich, the former House speaker who has advised Trump, said the candidate\u2019s inability to back away from a political land mine \u201cmakes him vulnerable.\u201d\n\u201cHis whole experience up until running for office was in a very combative New York media market,\u201d Gingrich said. \u201cHe\u2019s been doing it now for over 30 years. It\u2019s a very deeply held habit.\u201d\nKhizr Khan delivered an emotional address at last week\u2019s Democratic convention, with his wife standing by his side. The Pakistan-born Khan told the story of his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after his death in 2004.\nTrump\u2019s unwillingness to let the matter subside sparked outrage Monday from several Republicans.\nArizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war, said Trump did not have \u201cunfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.\u201d Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was \u201cdeeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our brave soldiers who were lost in that war.\u201d Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said the Khans \u201cdeserve to be heard and respected.\u201d\n\u201cMy advice to Donald Trump has been and will continue to be to focus on jobs and national security and stop responding to every criticism whether it\u2019s from a grieving family or Hillary Clinton,\u201d Blunt said in a statement.\nBut when asked about Khizr Khan on Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cHannity,\u201d Trump responded, \u201cHis son died 12 years ago. \u2026 If I were president, his son wouldn\u2019t have died, because I wouldn\u2019t have been in the war, if I was president back then.\u201d\nTrump didn\u2019t raise the controversy during a rally Monday in Ohio. His supporters in the crowd dismissed the matter.\nBut the real test for Trump isn\u2019t the opinion of the loyal supporters who attend his rallies. It\u2019s the broader general election audience, a far more diverse group still weighing his readiness for the White House.\nAssociated Press writers Erica Werner in Washington and Jonathan Lemire in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 9797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/amazon-chapter-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:01Z", "digest": "sha1:44LT3YXQFRFAD55TFBXHOUOWGXZVXXYC", "length": 720, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pbs.org", "title": "Into the Amazon: Chapter 1 | American Experience | Official Site | PBS", "raw_content": "Into the Amazon | Chapter\nInto the Amazon: Chapter 1\nhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/amazon-chapter-1/\nWatch the opening scene of Into the Amazon. The remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer C\u00e2ndido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon in 1914.\nInto the Amazon | Article\nTR's Bookshelf\nTheodore Roosevelt's great-grandson discusses the president's love of Lincoln, penchant for Hungarian poetry, and the book that inspired his conservation legacy.\nIsolated Tribes\nThere are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/tag/1325/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MVOY55V6OLFM5CMUMJW6BCKPICBV6LIO", "length": 887, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pbs.org", "title": "1325 | Women, War and Peace | PBS", "raw_content": "Our Interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\nThe fact is that in today\u2019s wars around the world, the primary victims are women and children. It didn\u2019t used to be that way when there was a more organized military campaign. But today, we see women being victimized in great numbers all over, in every conflict.\nResolution 1325 is a Starting Point\nThe United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, adopted in 2000, mandated women\u2019s participation in peace processes and sought to better protect women from sexual and gender-based violence. Eleven years on, two women\u2019s rights activists argue how effective \u2014 if at all \u2014 the resolution has proven to be.\nResolution 1325 has Failed Women\nA Brief History of International Law\nFrom the Geneva Conventions to the passage of United Nations Resolution 1325, women\u2019s rights under international law have emerged as a major policy priority.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 142.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcl.org/2009/12/negative-ruling-on-nations-largest-water-transfer-should-instigate-examination-of-states-poor-water-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CXHMPTIJE6QOHU5SZPJSR4LJC5NQVOP3", "length": 2108, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.pcl.org", "title": "Negative Ruling on Nation\u2019s Largest Water Transfer Should Instigate Examination of State\u2019s Poor Water Management | Planning and Conservation League", "raw_content": ">Media Center>News Room>Negative Ruling on Nation\u2019s Largest Water Transfer Should Instigate Examination of State\u2019s Poor Water Management\nNegative Ruling on Nation\u2019s Largest Water Transfer Should Instigate Examination of State\u2019s Poor Water Management\nLast Thursday, Superior Court Judge Roland L. Candee issued a tentative order invalidating the nation\u2019s largest agricultural-to-urban water transfer agreement, known as the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA).\nSigned in 2003, the QSA transferred water from California\u2019s Imperial Irrigation District to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Coachella Valley Water District, and the San Diego County Water Authority.\nAs part of the QSA, the State of California made an open-ended commitment to pay for mitigating impacts to the Salton Sea. Judge Candee\u2019s tentative ruling holds that it was unconstitutional to commit future state budgets to these undefined costs.\nThis legal ruling has implications for future transfers of Colorado River water as well as other large-scale water management decisions, such as the still-under-development Bay Delta Conservation Plan.\nHere are a few take-aways from Judge Candee\u2019s order:\nEnvironmental and public health commitments cannot be put off until a later date. (There\u2019s a real danger that the Bay Delta Conservation Plan process is repeating this fatal error.)\nCalifornia must reduce its dependence on water imported from distant and unreliable sources. While transfers from within the same water basin will continue at some level, we need to move to a reliable future based on greater development of local water supplies that are not at risk of legal challenges, environmental conflicts, and climate change impacts.\nAs the California State Water Plan demonstrates, there\u2019s a large portfolio of sustainable, cost-effective water solutions that can meet California\u2019s current and future water needs.\nLocal interests, whether in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys or in the Bay Delta must be made full partners to develop sustainable water management solutions.\nPosted December 18, 2009 in Water", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/2449660/google-launches-cookie-choices-site-to-let-europeans-know-how-theyre-being-tracked.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LEKZLTDVNWUDACK2CWVHHBY4R3EO27HF", "length": 1757, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "Google launches 'cookie choices' site to let Europeans know how they're being tracked | PCWorld", "raw_content": "Google launches 'cookie choices' site to let Europeans know how they're being tracked\nGoogle has launched a new site, CookieChoices.org, to help visitors of European sites learn more about the digital breadcrumbs they leave behind through cookies.\nThe site includes code that publishers can use to incorporate notifications into their own sites and apps. The notifications could take the form of pop-up alerts or a bar at the top of the screen, ostensibly to give details like the visitor\u2019s browsing history or profile information.\nThe site is meant to address European laws that require that digital publishers give visitors to their sites and apps information about their use of cookies and other data. The site\u2019s tools should be used as part of a wider compliance package, Google said on its landing page.\nPeople in other countries like the U.S. could see the notifications too, Google said, unless the publisher adds their own geographic restrictions.\nIt\u2019s not clear when exactly the site launched. Google did not immediately respond to comment.\nCookies are files stored on people\u2019s computers that help enable targeted ads\u2014the lifeblood of Google\u2019s business. Google already provides information about how it uses cookies, such as in its terms, as well as within Chrome for managing cookies.\nGoogle\u2019s new site could give this type of information prime real estate across the wider Web. It comes amid a recent European ruling letting Europeans submit \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d requests to have search links to information on them removed.\nCookieChoices.org is not focused on Google search results. But if enough sites make use of it, it could improve people\u2019s understanding of the massive amount of data collection that goes on behind the scenes of the Web.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peaceaction.org/2018/11/28/senate-vote-takes-major-step-to-end-us-support-for-saudi-led-war-in-yemen/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HKMRZUHTYBDI4PSRBUG76XA4UQX5SVRH", "length": 3908, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.peaceaction.org", "title": "Senate Vote Takes Major Step to End US Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen - Peace Action", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Senate Vote Takes Major Step to End US Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen\nIn Congress, Saudi Arabia, Senate, Trump Administration, Yemen\nSenate Vote Takes Major Step to End US Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen2018-11-282018-11-28https://www.peaceaction.org/cms/assets/uploads/2017/07/asset-6600px.pngPeace Actionhttps://www.peaceaction.org/cms/assets/uploads/2018/11/014_rally_24160902347-1.jpg200px200px\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 November 28, 2018 \u2014 In response to the Senate voting 63-37 in favor of allowing floor debate on S.J.Res. 54, legislation introduced by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs at Peace Action, released the following statement:\n\u201cThis is a dramatic shift from last March, when only five Republican senators voted to advance the Sanders resolution. We now have a bipartisan majority in the Senate intent on doing something about Saudi Arabia\u2019s brutal conduct from Yemen to Istanbul. This vote puts more pressure on the administration to end U.S. support for the war, and more pressure on Saudi Arabia to negotiate a political solution, and that pressure could help save countless lives in Yemen.\n\u201cCutting off military aid to Saudi Arabia is the right choice for Yemen, the right choice for our national security, and the right choice for upholding the Constitution. This is one of the only successful votes in recent memory Congress has taken to assert its war powers and stand up to presidential overreach on questions of war. The bigger challenge in reclaiming congressional war powers will be repealing the antiquated war authorizations from the early 2000\u2019s that have made endless war the status quo, but this vote represents important progress in that broader struggle.\n\u201cThree years ago, the notion of Congress voting to cut off military support for Saudi Arabia would have been politically laughable. This successful vote in the Senate is a testament to the collective power of a coalition of peace groups, human rights groups, and grassroots activists across the country making calls, organizing rallies, and meeting with members of Congress to make the case for ending the U.S. role in the war in Yemen. Of course, more work remains to be done. The Senate still needs to pass the Sanders resolution itself and the House needs to follow suit as soon as possible to force the president to decide between vetoing the legislation, which polls suggest would be widely unpopular, or ending U.S. support for the war.\u201d\nThe war in Yemen has given rise to the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. Over 8 million are on the verge of starvation, and millions more require humanitarian aid. A report from the World Peace Foundation offers \u201cstrong evidence\u201d that Saudi Arabia has deliberately targeted food production and distribution facilities across Yemen in an effort to starve the people of Yemen. A report from Save the Children estimates that 85,000 children under the age of five have died from starvation since the war began. S.J.Res. 54 argues that the U.S. role in Yemen is unconstitutional because it violates the War Powers Act, as legal experts explained in a letter to Senate leaders ahead of a previous vote on S.J.Res. 54 held in March of this year. An IRC/YouGov poll released on November 26 shows that 75 percent of Americans oppose U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and 82 percent think Congress should vote to end or scale back arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Peace Action has worked to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen for years, and is active in a coalition of advocacy groups lobbying on the issue.\nCongress, Saudi Arabia, Senate, Trump Administration, Yemen\nTrump\u2019s Indefensible Defense of Saudi Arabia Is Aimed at CongressCongress, Saudi Arabia, Trump Administration, Yemen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 7078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peek.com/lower-manhattan-new-york-historical-heritage-tours-t2oNGO", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:AWWNMFPOTCZCQNFMHQNW7URLD3LUMQRN", "length": 2689, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.peek.com", "title": "Top Historical & Heritage Tours in Lower Manhattan, New York: Book Amazing Activities, Tours, and more - Peek", "raw_content": "Historical & Heritage Tours in Lower Manhattan, New York\nUnderground Tour of the New York City Subway\nTake a ride through history on a tour of the world\u2019s largest subway system. Explore the past, present and future transit hubs of lower Manhattan on a guided tour led by a licensed NYC Tour guide.\nVIP Woolworth Building Tour\nTake a VIP tour of an iconic New York skyscraper that's normally off-limits to the public. Explore the Woolworth Building and learn all of its hidden secrets with a relative of Cass Gilbert, the building's architect.\nTour of the Remnants of Dutch New Amsterdam in NYC\nDiscover hidden Dutch relics south of Wall Street as you trace the streets of Manhattan as they were in 1667. Hear New York\u2019s founding myths and facts as you stand in the spots they took place.\nGreenwich Village Walking Tour With Food Tastings\nTake a trip through New York City's bohemian history as you stroll through one of the most renowned neighborhoods in NYC: Greenwich Village. Take a trip down bohemian lane for the area's history and culture, stopping for three tastings of the Village's classic treats.\n9/11 Tour with Tickets to Museum\nExplore the history of one of America's greatest tragedies on a guided walking tour of Ground Zero from September 11, 2001. Hear stories told by a guide who witnessed the day's events while seeing how the city and the country pulled together after the attack.\nTour of West Village Vintage Neon Signs\nDiscover the West Village and the neon signs this neighborhood is known for on an informative guided tour. Hear stories how the city had to fight to preserve the signs you see before your very eyes. Tour with an expert author, who takes you past about a dozen neon signs dating back to the 1930s, \u201940s and \u201950s.\nAlan was a great guide. Really enjoyed it!\nNovember 4, 2018 | Underground Tour of the New York City Subway\nThe tour was very information packed and well worth the time spent.\nSeptember 6, 2018 | Underground Tour of the New York City Subway\nThe tour was absolutely wonderful, the guide was quite knowledgeable\nMay 22, 2017 | Underground Tour of the New York City Subway\nThe tour guide was fantastic. He was very knowledgeable and shared lots of great information. He was very open to answering questions. The group was small, which was very nice. If we had had the 10-12 people that were supposed to have been on the tour, I think that would have been too many.\nWe bought tickets 7 months ago, and the wait was worth it. It was very informative, and it certainly gave me a new respect for the 6 line! The tour was informative and really easy to follow. Gabi was a great tour guide! I will definitely be on the lookout for her other tours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Aspects-of-Lincoln-Paperback/p/378", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3CHICLQ3MRVMS6P7QH6N4KDXFPVIS77V", "length": 1476, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.pen-and-sword.co.uk", "title": "Pen and Sword Books: Aspects of Lincoln - Paperback", "raw_content": "Aspects of Lincoln (Paperback)\nSeries: Aspects of...\nYou'll be \u00a312.99 closer to your next \u00a310.00 credit when you purchase Aspects of Lincoln. What's this?\nAspects of Lincoln Kindle (53.4 MB) Add to Basket \u00a35.20\nAspects of Lincoln ePub (42.2 MB) Add to Basket \u00a35.20\nAspects of Lincoln, is the first in the widely acclaimed Aspects series to feature the City of Lincoln. However the Aspects series now extends from the east and west Midlands, up to Lancaster in the north-west and the north Yorkshire coast in the east.Aspects of Lincoln, is a multi author book containing 12 pinpoint historical essays covering such diverse subjects as: Cinemas and Cinema Going in 20th Century Lincoln, Getting Drunk in 17th Century Lincoln, the story of Emily Gilbert, motoring pioneer and first woman sheriff of Lincoln. No story of Lincoln would be complete without Royal Air Force Bomber Command during World War 2, and here, we examine the social impact of the airfields and their staff on both City and County. In a more peaceful vein, we study the work of artist Peter de Wint and the importance of his works, now held in the Usher Gallery. Elsewhere we encounter the development of technical education in the City and remember the plight of those imprisoned in Lincoln's jails during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These and much much more are to be found between the covers of Aspects of Lincoln. A treasury of history, both for the armchair historian and the student alike.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 660, "original_length": 12870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.perfumestore.sg/terms-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHTZXBT3Z57F2NZBMT3NGOEMSIOZUVGI", "length": 2256, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.perfumestore.sg", "title": "Terms & Conditions - PerfumeStore.sg", "raw_content": "The use of PerfumeStore.sg is offered to you on your acceptance of these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy and other notices posted on this website. Your use of this website or of any content presented in any and all areas of the website indicates your acknowledgment and agreement to these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy and other notices posted on this website. 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Terms of Use last modified on March 02, 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 6406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pharmiweb.com/event/2nd-international-conference-on-hivaids-std-stis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:G4NZGVLBA7FNNO7RIUGV54RHKAFGHVIK", "length": 1387, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.pharmiweb.com", "title": "2nd International Conference on HIV/AIDS, STD & STIs - PharmiWeb.com", "raw_content": "2nd International Conference on HIV/AIDS, STD & STIs\nOrganiser: Meetingsint\nName: john richard\nEmail: hiv@annualsummits.com\n2nd International Conference on HIV/AIDS, STD will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands during March 18-19, 2019 which includes prompt keynote presentations, Oral talks, Poster presentations and Exhibitions. The theme of the Conference is \u201cEnhancing competency in HIV Prevention and Care\u201d\nIt is our great pleasure to invite you to Amsterdam to attend the International Conference on HIV/AIDS, STDs & STIs (HIV 2019) organized by the Meetings International which is going to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands during March 18-19, 2019.With members from around the world focused on learning about HIV/AIDS & STDs/STIs, this is your single best opportunity to reach the largest assemblage of participants from the hospitals, Universities, community, etc. The field of HIV/AIDS and STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) is developing quickly and its improvement is making tremendous effects on therapeutic sciences and pharmaceuticals. HIV2019 will conduct demonstrations, distribute information, meet with current and potential researchers and receive name recognition at this 2-day event. World-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, speakers, the most recent techniques, tactics, and the newest updates in respective field are hallmarks of this HIV 2019 conference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.phnompenhpost.com/sport/decade-games-changed-china", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NNYOWKAHCDISPSKKMBMISCKVD3DHDFIF", "length": 4797, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.phnompenhpost.com", "title": "Decade on, Games changed China, Sport, Phnom Penh Post", "raw_content": "Phnom Penh Post - Decade on, Games changed China\nDecade on, Games changed China\nNini (left) and Yingying, two of the five mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, lie among trees behind an abandoned, never-completed mall in Beijing on July 20. AFP\nA decade after Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympics, its legacy remains unmistakable from the smallest alleyways in the Chinese capital to the country\u2019s growing clout abroad.\nFor better or worse, the Games changed the face of Beijing: from the iconic Bird\u2019s Nest stadium to the countless blocks of ancient homes bulldozed in an Olympic building frenzy.\nPublic campaigns to stop the ubiquitous spitting of Beijing\u2019s residents and clean up public toilets led to noticeable improvements, while new rail links and airports improved transport infrastructure.\nEfforts to clear the city\u2019s notoriously smoggy air and choking traffic, however, have been less successful.\nAbroad, Beijing used the Games to send a message: decades of reform and growth had made China rich and powerful enough to spend billions staging a dazzling and deftly organised sports spectacle.\nThe opening ceremony on 8/8/2008 \u2013 the number eight is considered auspicious in Chinese culture \u2013 amazed the world with its flawless choreography and sheer ambition, and national pride was further super-charged by China\u2019s domination of the Games\u2019 gold medal count.\n\u201cThe successful Beijing Olympics helped to boost the self-confidence of the Chinese leadership \u2013 and people \u2013 that the country could go on to even greater strengths,\u201d said Brian Bridges, an expert on sport and politics at Hong Kong\u2019s Lingnan University.\nBut those who hoped the Games would lead to positive political change in China have largely been disappointed, said Zhouxiang Lu, an expert on the intersection of sports and politics at Ireland\u2019s Maynooth University.\n\u201cMany of the arguments in favour of giving China the Games were that maybe they would adopt the Western system and there would be some change within the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d he said.\nSome expressed hope the Olympics might nudge China toward democracy, and activists seized the opportunity to pressure authorities on issues like press freedom and human rights, including Beijing\u2019s tough policies in restive areas like Tibet.\n\u201cThe Beijing Olympics was a milestone event, along with China\u2019s entry into the World Trade Organization [in 2001], in embracing the world both economically and culturally,\u201d Lu said.\nBut \u201cthey\u2019ve had less effect from a political perspective\u201d.\nA decade later, Communist control is more concentrated than at any time since the era of Mao Zedong.\nCensorship has tightened dramatically, activists are routinely jailed or under pressure, and China\u2019s treatment of ethnic minorities has deteriorated drastically, including mass detentions of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority in the far-western Xinjiang region.\nInstead of changing its ways, Beijing instead countered the criticism by investing more in external public relations, according to Susan Brownell, an expert on the Olympics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.\nAfter the Games, one of the \u201chuge changes was communications. Particularly the effort to communicate with the outside world\u201d, she said, part of a wide-ranging effort to increase Chinese soft power.\nOne positive outcome of this change was that China permanently removed travel and interview restrictions on foreign press that had been eased ahead of the Games, although foreign media still face tough conditions to report in the country.\nHowever, Brownell said \u201cthe pressure on Beijing really wasn\u2019t \u2018you have to communicate better.\u2019 The pressure had to do with other things. So, the result wasn\u2019t in the realm that critics wanted\u201d.\nRegardless of the criticisms, the Chinese government seems to have concluded the Games were a good investment. So good that they bid for and won the right to host the Winter Olympics in 2022.\nBeijing will host the Olympics again, using some of the facilities it built for 2008, as it becomes the first city to stage both the Summer and Winter Games.\nCritics of the government have already begun planning how to use the showcase event to push for change.\nBut this time around, they will be facing off against a much more sophisticated government that will have anticipated criticism and will likely take a more low-key, more sports-oriented and less political approach to the games, Maynooth University\u2019s Lu said.\n\u201cBeijing has learned its lesson. It is an opportunity to promote their image, but at the same time, other people will also use that opportunity,\u201d he said.\nBrownell expects that this time around, the Games will be more \u201crelaxed and not so tightly controlled\u201d.\nAfter all, \u201cthere\u2019s only one coming out party. There\u2019s only one Olympic Games and they\u2019ve already had it\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.physlink.com/directories/publishers.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:R4LLAN2HVZ6HKVDVDYONBAL7UCSQ4ETL", "length": 181, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.physlink.com", "title": "Physics and Astronomy Publishers", "raw_content": "Physics and Astronomy Publishers\nInstitute of Physics (IOP) Publishing\nSPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) Publications\nTELOS, The Electronic Library of Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae645.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:42Z", "digest": "sha1:55ITF5UP5LR5DNCYVTV4OY7QN7XEN4T5", "length": 1490, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.physlink.com", "title": "Some physicists see great potential in superstring theory, while others reject it. What is the alternative to superstring theory?", "raw_content": "Some physicists see great potential in superstring theory, while others reject it. What is the alternative to superstring theory?\nAsked by: constance maxwell\nThe answer is brief: there is no alternative to String Theory. The reasons? String Theory is an ambitious one: it is supposed to contain all of the fundamental particles that we observe today, describe the reason why they have the interactions they do, include quantum mechanical theory of gravitation, explain the microscopic origins of cosmological observations like why we live in an expanding universe, what is dark energy/matter, etc. There is simply no other theory that is as all-inclusive as well as having a chance of being consistent with the things we see to date. There are, however, alternatives to a quantum theory of *gravitation* (and hence of spacetime itself). The most notable one is the quantum geometry program (known in previous forms as \"non-perturbative canonical quantum gravity\" or \"loop quantum gravity\"). In summary, String Theory is certainly a rich one, with the potential of explaining in a single framework the phenomena on both small and large scales. On the downside, it is perhaps \"too big\", containing too many possibilities to tell us why we have the particular universe we do, and not any of the others allowed by String Theory. In addition, experimental predictions at the level of our technology are lacking.\nAnswered by: Sean McReynolds, M.S., Physics Doctoral Student, Penn State University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pickcomfort.com/water-filter/pitchers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ERI2VYTVS45I2RHJNDFVMLAM4DXEHQUE", "length": 22719, "nlines": 161, "source_domain": "www.pickcomfort.com", "title": "Best Water Filter Pitchers \u2013 Reviews and Buyer\u2019s Guide - Pick Comfort", "raw_content": "Best Water Filter Pitchers \u2013 Reviews and Buyer\u2019s Guide\nFresh, clean water is a basic human necessity. However, many people don\u2019t have it, and some without even realizing that\u2019s the case. In fact, a staggering 85% of the US population are dealing with hard water, the most common water issue out there.\nIf this is the case with your household, a water filtering system is your safest bet. Hard water can cause a number of health issues, so dealing with it in the most effective way is essential.\nWhole house water filtration systems are the most capable of all the options. However, they\u2019re also the most expensive and require modifications to your water pipes. Overcoming hard water issues should be something that everyone can handle.\nWell, with water filter pitchers, safe drinking water is at everyone\u2019s disposal. We\u2019ve scoured the web to find and review the best products that the market has to offer, so that we can help you make an informed decision.\nSo, without further ado, let\u2019s take a look that some of the best water filter pitchers out there.\nBest 10 Water Filter Pitcher Reviews\n1. Brita UltraMax Water Dispenser\n2. Brita Everyday Water Pitcher\n3. Brita Metro Water Pitcher\n4. Brita Grand Water Pitcher\n5. ZeroWater 23 Cup Dispenser\n6. ZeroWater 10-Cup Pitcher\n7. Aquagear Water Filter Pitcher\n8. Invigorated Water pH Restore Water Pitcher\n9. KAZ INC. PUR 2-stage Dispenser\n10. MAVEA Elemaris XL Water Filtration Pitcher\nWater Filter Pitchers Buyer\u2019s Guide\nWhat Are Water Filter Pitchers?\nHow Do Water Filter Pitchers Work?\nWhy Should You Go with a Water Filter Pitcher?\nWhat Features to Take into Account?\nPollutants It Removes\nFilter Life: 40 gallons\nReduces chlorine, copper, mercury, zinc and cadmium\nBrita Everyday Water Pitcher\nBrita Metro Water Pitcher\nBrita Grand Water Pitcher\nZeroWater 23 Cup Dispenser\nFilter Life: When the meter reads \"006\"\nRemoves 99% of all Fluoride,reduce lead and other heavy metals.\nBest for Fluoride\nZeroWater 10-Cup Pitcher\nRemoves 99% of all fluoride and dissolved solids, reduce lead and other heavy metals.\nFilter Life: 150 gallons\nReduction Fluoride, Lead, Chromium 6, Chloramines, Mercury, And Chlorine.\nInvigorated Water pH Restore\nIncreases pH & -ORP. Adds healthy minerals. Removing fluoride, chlorine, chloramine, VOC\u2019s. Inhibits bacterial growth. Filtrates heavy metals, arsenic, lead. Removes odor, color, & non-organic & organic matter\nKAZ INC. PUR 2-stage Dispenser\nRemove 96% of Mercury and 95% of certain Industrial Pollutants.\nMAVEA Elemaris XL Water Pitcher\nBrita\u2019s water filtering solutions are among the best products for hard water issues. The UltraMax water dispenser can help you get rid of a variety of contaminants.\nThe capacity is 1.13 gallons or 18 cups of water. This is enough for most people to enjoy clean water without having to refill the pitcher too often. With a size of 10.47\"H 5.67\"W 14.37\"D, the pitcher won\u2019t take up much space on your kitchen countertop, and it can be a very stylish detail thanks to its modern design.\nThe Brita filters are able to reduce up to 99% of lead, as well as asbestos, cadmium, mercury, and other contaminants. The long-lasting filter can be used on 900 standard bottles (16.9 ounces each) of water before it needs replacing. For added convenience, the pitcher lets you know when it\u2019s time to replace the filter by way of a built-in status indicator.\nTo ensure safety, the pitcher is made of 100% BPA-free plastics. You can enjoy cleaner water without worrying about adverse health effects.\nDoes a great job of removing a variety of contaminants\nThe filter can last up to six months with average use\nGreat design that fits most kitchen decors\nVery large capacity of 18 cups\nSome users have complained about its durability\nNot as affordable\nIf you\u2019re drawn to the quality that Brita but would rather save a couple of bucks, the Everyday Pitcher might be your best solution.\nThe 10-cup capacity is standard for water filter pitchers. It has a size of 10.47\"H 5.59W\" 10.94\"D, which means that it\u2019s not too big for carrying around the house.\nAs for the nitty gritty, the filter that comes with the pitcher reduces copper, mercury, cadmium, and chlorine. The result will be much cleaner and safer water with improved taste and odor.\nWhen it comes to the filter capacity, it\u2019s around 40 gallons. This should be enough for two months of average use before the filter needs to be replaced.\nThe main complaint that users have had is about refilling the pitcher. It can take around a couple of minutes, since the water passes through the filter slowly. In addition, pouring water out of the pitcher and into a glass is a bit slow as well.\nConvenient to use and move around\nReduces chlorine and mercury, among others\nSome inconveniences when filling it\nWaters pours a bit too slowly\nThe Metro Water Pitcher can be a perfect choice for everyone that doesn\u2019t have the need to consume large amounts of water, or don\u2019t mind refilling it frequently. With its 5-cup capacity, it\u2019s great for one person and can be easily carried around wherever you go. It weighs only 1.39 pounds and has a small and convenient footprint.\nThe filtering capabilities are similar to our other picks from this manufacturer. It cleans the water of multiple contaminants, ensuring that it tastes and smells great. The filter has a 40-gallon capacity, which means it can last up to two months of average use.\nAs for drawbacks, there aren\u2019t many of them. The biggest flaw is that this pitcher isn\u2019t good for family use due to its small capacity. So if you need clean drinking water for your whole family, you might want a bigger one. Also, some users have had trouble removing the lid, which is something you may have to do several times a day.\n40-gallon capacity filter\nNot suitable for more than one person\nRefilling it is a bit inconvenient and bothersome\nThis is another 10-cup water filter pitcher but with a bit wider range of features that make it more convenient to use. Paired with a fairly large capacity, these features ensure that this pitcher can consistently deliver clean water without hassle.\nAll materials are BPA-free plastics, which makes it fairly lightweight for its size. On the downside, the plastic is prone to breaking, so the build quality of the pitcher might be a reason for concern.\nThe main convenience feature is a small lid at the top that lets you refill the pitcher without having to take the entire lid off. Also, there\u2019s a comfort grip handle that makes pouring the water easier.\nThe pitcher comes with the same filter like the rest of our choices from Brita.\nThe biggest flaw that users have pointed out is the design of the pitcher. The sleeve around the reservoir can accumulate water, which might cause mildew. Also, the plastic isn\u2019t the strongest, which might mean a shorter lifespan than you expect.\nMultiple features that add convenience\nPotential risk of mildew\nMight not be as durable as you\u2019d expect\nIn terms of capacity, this is by far the biggest water filter pitcher on our list. This alone makes it worth considering, as it lets you have more than enough clean drinking water without having to refill frequently. When you add its variety of useful features to this, no lists of the best water pitchers would be complete without this one.\nThe first feature worth mentioning is the 5-stage filtering system. Aside from the carbon filter, there\u2019s also ion exchange technology included. This makes it one of the best solutions for removing fluoride, as well as other contaminants such as heavy metals and organic and inorganic compounds.\nAs for the filter life, it\u2019s not this pitcher\u2019s strong suit. But ZeroWater compensates for this by allowing users to install filters from a variety of other manufacturers, which is certainly a handy feature to have.\nWhen the meter reads \"006\"\nExtremely large capacity\nOne of the most capable pitcher-style filters\nCompatible with other manufacturers\u2019 filter cartridges\nThe filter might need a replacement sooner than later\nWater takes a bit long to pour\nIf you\u2019re looking for the power and versatility of ZeroWater pitchers but don\u2019t need a huge capacity, the 10-cup model might be perfect for you. It combines the best of high-end features with ease of use and convenience.\nAs is the norm these days, the pitcher is made of 100% BPA-free plastic. In fact, this one seems beefy and durable enough.\nThe enclosed filter is the same as the ZeroWater 23-cup pitcher. The pitcher also comes with a water quality meter so you\u2019ll always know the state of your water.\nWhen it comes to replacement filters, you can keep using ZeroWater\u2019s or you can use many other manufacturers\u2019.\nThe biggest drawback of this pitcher is the spout design. It doesn\u2019t provide that good of a water flow, which might make pouring water a bit frustrating. Users have also complained about the water having a metallic taste after a couple of weeks, which is exactly what this pitcher is supposed to prevent.\nRemoves virtually all contaminants\nWorks with other filter cartridge brands\nSpout design could use some improvements\nPotentially weird-tasting water after some time\nIf you really care about clean water and won\u2019t settle for anything less than a premium solution, Aquagear has one for you. This high-end water pitcher is equipped with a ton of features that will make sure contaminated water isn\u2019t an issue anymore.\nThe first thing worth talking about is the build. Aquagear thought about everything with this one, so the materials are 100% BPA-free, FDA food-grade approved, fully recyclable, and vegan.\nThe filter exceeds NSF Standards 42 and 53 so the contaminant reduction is nothing short of spectacular. The cartridge lasts 150 gallons per filter. Aquagear\u2019s aggressive marketing campaign states that the filter should last up to 4 times longer than those of the competition.\nWhen it comes to contaminant reduction, it\u2019s as impressive as you\u2019d expect from a top-shelf solution such as this one. It\u2019s extremely effective at removing fluoride, lead, chromium, chlorine, over 50 VOCs, and many other contaminants.\nAquagear is so confident in this product that the company offers a lifetime, no-questions-asked warranty. Should anything happen to the pitcher, the manufacturer will replace it for free.\nThis is good since some users have complained about the quality of the materials. Some find it suboptimal, considering the price and other high-end features. Aside from this, there\u2019s really nothing bad to say about this product.\nOutstanding filter capacity\nRemoves almost all contaminants\nWhen it comes to the number of features, this pitcher beats almost everything out there. It\u2019s extremely capable, has a good capacity, and serves many purposes other than filtering contaminated water.\nThe PH0001 filter that the pitcher comes with is among the most versatile out there. It comprises many elements, including tourmaline, Maifan stones, Alkaline, and ORP. This allows it to clean the water of a wide variety of contaminants while allowing healthy minerals to stay in your drinking water.\nIt alkalizes (increasing its pH) and ionizes water. The result is clean water that should provide more energy to the users than tap water. The filter is long-lasting, and if you have to replace it, Invigorated Water has good news for you. The pitcher comes with two PH0001 filters, each of which can purify 96 gallons of water (equivalent to around 1,500 cups).\nAll of this is how the pitcher works in theory. Some users, however, have been a bit disappointed. Their main complaints are that the filter doesn\u2019t increase the pH by a lot. Also, you need to prep the filter by soaking it in water, which can be quite inconvenient.\nDespite this, there\u2019s no doubt that this is one of the best water filter pitchers out there that ensure soft and clean water.\nVery versatile filter\nHuge filter capacity\nRemoves up to 99.99% of all organic and inorganic matter\npH increase might not be as high as advertised\nA bit less convenient to start using\nThis mid-range solution is designed to deal with a couple of specific problems that households with contaminated water might suffer from.\nWith a capacity of 18 cups, this pitcher can hold much more water than an average product. Paired with a filter that can last for around two months, this ensures that the users can enjoy around 40 gallons of purified water with fewer refills.\nSpeaking of the filter, it\u2019s carbon-based and capable of removing chloride as well as 95% of mercury and 96% of pharmaceuticals. As a result, the water should be much safer and cleaner tasting and smelling.\nThe biggest flaw that users point out is that the filter tends to get clogged rather quickly. When this happens, you might have to soak the filter for a couple of minutes, which takes away from the ease of use and convenience.\nLarge dispenser capacity\nEfficient specialized filter\nThe filter might clog too often\nNot the most convenient option out there\nIf you\u2019re looking for a premium solution that doesn\u2019t only purify your water but looks very stylish as well, this could be your choice. It does a great job of cleaning your water of several contaminants, and it can add a modern detail to your kitchen.\nThe pitcher has a capacity of 9 cups. While not exactly XL as advertised, it\u2019s still large enough to provide enough drinking water with only a few refills.\nThe filter, which is very effective at preventing bacteria from growing, is certified by the WQA for its ability to remove chlorine and a few other contaminants. The pitcher comes equipped with the MAVEA Smart Meter, which informs you of the water hardness, volume, and time of day.\nHowever, this meter is also the biggest drawback of this pitcher, since it\u2019s prone to malfunctioning. The batteries seem to lose power rather quickly, which will prevent you from using the meter continuously. Replacing the battery is a major operation and may not last as long as advertised.\nThe filter is great for chlorine removal\nThe Smart Meter might malfunction too quickly\nBattery replacement for the meter is cumbersome\nNow that you\u2019ve seen our favorite water filter pitchers, you probably have a rough idea of what the best one needs to have. To offer a complete understanding of everything it takes to choose the most effective solution for you, let\u2019s take a closer look at what they are.\nAt a first glance, most water filter pitchers look similar to regular pitchers. However, the difference is under the hood. The filter that these pitchers come with filters the water as it is poured into them.\nWater filter pitchers are an affordable way of ensuring clean drinking water. Even though contaminated water can cause issues even without drinking it, such as when used for showering or doing your dishes, it may be the most essential to have clean drinking water, which is what water filter pitchers can provide.\nIf you can\u2019t afford or be bothered with a whole house filtering system, going with a water filter pitcher might be a good idea. But why is this the case, and what is it that these filters can do for you?\nIn order to do their job, water filter pitchers rely on two things: the filter and gravity. And while there are a lot of fine details to it, the process itself is essentially rather simple.\nThe filter contains disposable cartridges \u2013 you can (and will need to) replace them from time to time. Inside a cartridge, there are different elements that can purify and increase the quality of water. Once you pour tap water into one of these pitchers, gravity does the rest. It forces the tap water to pass through the filter and as a result, many impurities stay behind and the water comes out cleaner.\nBut as you can see from the above reviews, not all pitcher filters are the same. As a result, different pitchers will have a different number of filtration stages. This comes down to how many elements there are inside the filter itself and what those elements are.\nThe substances in a filter cartridge are organized in layers. Whenever water passes through one of those layers, that is one stage of filtration. The greater the number of stages, the cleaner the water will be.\nThe use of activated carbon is probably the most fundamental stage of filtration. Activated carbon relies on the process of adsorption to remove different contaminants from water. Essentially, adsorption happens when the atoms of different compounds get stuck on the surface they come in contact with. As a result, they\u2019re not able to reach your drinking water.\nActivated carbon can remove many common contaminants, but there are limits to what it can do. That is why ion exchange resins are another common substance in pitcher filters. They are great at holding calcium and magnesium, which reduces the hardness of your water.\nAnd it\u2019s not just about chemical components. Many filters will also have a physical barrier in the form of a very fine net which can catch dust and other solids.\nFilters can also contain different minerals, alloys which reduce oxidation, etc. In the end, the joint effect of the substances present inside the filter will determine what the pitcher will do to the water.\nEvery water filter pitcher worth considering should be able to remove a variety of contaminants listed by the NSF. The key is identifying which ones you\u2019re dealing with and finding the most appropriate solution. If you can do this, there\u2019s a variety of benefits that you can expect.\nThe first and the most important relates to the variety of health improvements. It can help you lose weight, detoxify your body, support digestion, and offer a variety of general health improvements.\nAlso, your water might taste much better, especially if chlorine is the main issue. Chlorine affects the taste and smell of your drinking water, and you might be able to notice these differences fairly easily. With a good filter, your water will taste and smell the way it should.\nAside from the water itself, meals and beverages prepared with filtered water usually taste much better. Your coffee, soup, homemade juices, and many other foods and beverages might taste a lot more flavorful since the ingredients will be more prominent.\nLastly, using a water filter pitcher is among the most convenient and affordable solutions for hard water and many pollutants. While more comprehensive solutions can cost up to several thousands of dollars, you can get a good water filter pitcher for around $40.\nWhen choosing the best water filter pitcher, there are several things to think about. Once you have the answers to a few questions, you can find the best solution for your household. Let\u2019s go over the main features.\nMost pitchers and water dispensers are made of plastic, so there\u2019s not much to think about here. However, it\u2019s important to make sure that the plastic is 100% free of Bisphenol A (BPA). Research shows that exposure to this compound can lead to many health issues.\nUnfortunately, there are many contaminants that can find their way into the water people use. As such, it would take too long to explain them all here. But in order to give you an idea of what you might encounter, here are a few of the most common ones.\nUnlike most contaminants, chlorine is added to water on purpose. It is there to combat viruses and bacteria (also common contaminants). In those quantities, it should not cause notable health problems \u2013 people mainly complain that it can irritate the skin after showering. But when it comes to drinking water, its taste and smell can be a problem.\nJust like with chlorine, many treatment facilities will add fluoride to water. But, it can also occur in natural deposits. If too much of it gets into your water, it can cause problems with your teeth and bones.\nLead will usually get into your water because of bad plumbing. Long-term exposure can cause brain and kidney damage, among other things.\nDue to corrosion, copper from pipes can also contaminate your water. Copper poisoning can cause nausea, vomiting, and other stomach problems. Severe cases can lead to kidney and liver damage.\nArsenic will usually come from natural deposits. It can cause skin problems, damage your cardiovascular system, etc. It is also linked with cancer.\nThese are just five possibilities, and there are many more. Therefore, before you choose the pitcher for you, you must know which contaminants your water has. Without this info, you might waste your money on an ineffective solution.\nTo avoid this, testing your water is your safest bet. This will give you an overview of your water quality and point out any issues that you should solve. In the US, you can also call your water company for a detailed water analysis.\nThe ideal pitcher capacity depends solely on your water consumption. If your entire family needs clean water, you\u2019ll want to go with the biggest capacity you can find to avoid frequent refilling.\nHowever, this shouldn\u2019t be the deciding factor. It\u2019s always better to go with a smaller pitcher that has a more capable filter than the other way round.\nAs you can see in the review section, the filters are rated by how much water they can process before they need to be replaced. Therefore, the actual filter life will depend on your water consumption. If you use the pitcher to filter more water, you may have to replace the filter cartridge sooner.\nIt\u2019s best that you calculate your average daily consumption and compare it to the filter\u2019s capacity. This will give you a rough estimate of how often you\u2019ll have to replace the filter. At the end of its life, a filter will work slower and slower. So if it takes longer and longer to refill your pitcher, it might be time to replace the filter.\nThere isn\u2019t a lot to the installation and maintenance of water filter pitchers. They are usually very easy to set up, and many of them aren\u2019t demanding when it comes to maintenance.\nThe installation process will depend on the model, but it shouldn\u2019t take more than a couple of minutes. You will find a maintenance guide in the box, which mostly addresses the ways of prolonging the filter\u2019s life and fixing some common mistakes that can occur. You should find all the relevant installation and maintenance guidelines in the user manual.\nWater filter pitchers are a great option for everyone that wants an easy way of cleaning their water quickly and effectively. Since they\u2019re usually not that big of an investment, they are within the reach of everyone.\nFor this reason, a filter pitcher can be a good starting point to cleaning your water of contaminants. The best ones as described above are proven to work, so there\u2019s no doubt that you\u2019ll see an increase in the quality of your water.\nWe hope you can find the best water filter pitcher through this review and guide. Leave a comment if you have any question.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 364, "original_length": 26229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pineappleplanetportfolio.com/Events/Sixties/i-NHFBkkz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HYMDGIDOUCTZQXPPZBRYPKRRZDU6WE7N", "length": 14, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pineappleplanetportfolio.com", "title": "Welcome to the 60's! - pineappleplanet", "raw_content": "1960's Signage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.piranha-internet.co.uk/facebook-profits-triple-in-first-quarter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3IRIMHLF2SJC2OLM6EUW5CJT6V4ESPNO", "length": 1808, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.piranha-internet.co.uk", "title": "Facebook Profits Triple in First Quarter |", "raw_content": "With 1.09 billion people accessing Facebook each day, there is no doubt that it is the most popular social media platform in the world.\nLast week, the company reported that its profits had tripled in the first quarter, totalling an impressive $5.4 billion. Not only has the site seen a good result in terms of profits but the number of users has also increased by 15%.\nFacebook makes most of its money from advertising revenue, such as promoted posts, events and business ads. From the $5.4 billion that it has made so far this year, $5.2 billion came from advertising.\n80% of Facebook\u2019s ads were viewed from mobile devices, meaning that whether you are creating an advert for social media or focusing on your company\u2019s website, responsive design has never been so important.\nCommenting on the latest figures, Facebook\u2019s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said; \u201cWe had a great start to the year. We\u2019re focused on our 10-year roadmap to give everyone in the world the power to share anything they want with anyone.\u201d\n\u201cOur community now has 1.65 billion people. In the last few months, we launched Reactions, rolled out Live video, built Messenger into a platform, shipped Oculus Rift and have now connected 25 million people to the internet. We\u2019ve also worked day after day on lots of small improvements to make your experience better.\u201d\nOne of Facebook\u2019s many plans for the future is that they will soon incorporate selling robots into the Messenger service. The company hopes that introducing these robots will give customers the support that they need, while providing the perfect selling opportunity for businesses.\nIf you would like help with your social media campaigns, adverts or management of your accounts, please get in touch with the Piranha team. You can call 01772 888 331 or email sharon@piranha-solutions.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plan4all.eu/2018/07/inspire-hackathon-2018-webinars-i-and-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3NZX3BCN7SHRIU7ZNXKJHUW5GHM47GVA", "length": 608, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.plan4all.eu", "title": "INSPIRE Hackathon 2018: Webinars I and II | Plan4all", "raw_content": "INSPIRE Hackathon 2018: Webinars I and II\nThere are two upcoming webinars dedicated to the INSPIRE Hackathon 2018. Different speakers and different topics.\nThe first one is scheduled already for tomorrow, i.e. on Thursday 19th July 2018 at 1pm CET. The topic is Open Data & Agricultural Resources. Registration for this webinar is open can be done at https://events.genndi.com/register/169105139238444764/8f8a3fad75.\nThe second webinar is scheduled on Friday 20th July 2018 at 10am CET. The topic is APIs & Security and the registration is at https://events.genndi.com/register/169105139238444764/821982331e.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.planet-nation.com/lbq-women/getting-know-community/137", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HA6BLCFVJBBDZQMQZ7222QVOFQCY2DQF", "length": 1581, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.planet-nation.com", "title": "Comedian profiles | Planet Nation", "raw_content": "\u00bb Comedian profiles\nAnnabelszki\nBrighton based performance artist Annabelszki entertains audiences across the South-East of England, as well as internationally (Sydney, New York, Michigan, Toronto, Bali and Paris). She delivers a fusion of stand up, audience interaction, improv and comedic poetry.\nRousha Browning\n1. How and why did you become a comedian\nI have always loved comedy and wanted to write sitcoms since I was a teenager. Out of the madness of a crappy year I decided to do something for myself and that if I didn't do comedy properly this year I was to give up on the idea for good. So I signed up to do a Stand-up comedy course with Chris Head, and haven't looked back.\n2. How long have you been performing/working?\nLauren Karl\nI am an actress and comedian.\nI have been acting professionally for 10 years\nBeing on the red carpet and being in several movies that have made it onto the big screen.\nThe lady at the job centre suggested it.\nSince I came out of the womb, darlings.\n3. What is your favourite joke?\nThe one about the nun and the blind man from the village....\nI studied acting and business at the same time and I think this combination just made me starting to do comedy.\nI have been performing in Austria and Germany since about 2007, went to Los Angeles in 2009 where I started to perform in English and then started to perform in the UK in 2011.\nTrying to convince people to be my friend through the medium of comedy.\nMuch too long. I started doing sketch comedy when I was 13 and moved to stand up a few years later. I'm 26 now. My parents are worried.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 6522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plansponsor.com/use-of-consumer-driven-health-plans-on-the-rise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MTTVWM6RW5YZKIUOO3DELXHCVXBGVMM5", "length": 2124, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.plansponsor.com", "title": "Use of Consumer-Driven Health Plans on the Rise | PLANSPONSOR", "raw_content": "Home > News > Benefits > Use of Consumer-Driven Health Plans on the Rise\nUse of Consumer-Driven Health Plans on the Rise\nSeptember 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumer-driven health plans are on the rise, largely in response to double-digit health cost increases, according to a recent survey by Deloitte Consulting.\nAlmost one in five companies (19%) surveyed now have consumer-driven health plans in which employees have greater financial responsibility for their health care costs, according to the Deloitte Consulting survey. This is up from 11% just one year ago and the rate of growth is expected to continue. An additional 14% of surveyed companies expect to offer a consumer-driven plan by 2006.\nOver 50% of companies claimed that health costs had risen at least 11% in the past year, leading many to search for more cost-efficient ways in which to provide health plans. \u201cA double digit increase in the number of companies offering a consumer- driven health plan clearly demonstrates that these types of plans are rapidly gaining acceptance,\u201d asserts Steven Kraus, principal-in-charge of Deloitte Consulting\u2019s Human Capital practice in Chicago, in a news release. \u201cWith double-digit annual cost increases, companies are reaching the limits of their ability to fund traditional health insurance. Cost shifting isn\u2019t working either. Executed properly, consumer-driven health plans will transform care by rewarding employees, employers, providers and payers for doing the right thing.\u201d\nThose companies that have already commenced consumer-driven plans \u2013 usually in the form of health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, or medical savings accounts, all of which are tax-free accounts meant to be used for medical reasons \u2013 see a high rate of satisfaction. According to the Deloitte survey, 60% of employees utilizing consumer-driven health plans are satisfied, 32% are neutral, and only 8% are unsatisfied. However, enrollment in plans is somewhat low, with 62% of respondents admitting that less than 20% of their employees were enrolled in the plan.\n\u00ab PA Funds Beg Appeals Court to Stop Auditor General Exams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.playerattack.com/news/2011/10/11/20743/16-canadian-zombies-rushed-to-hospital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2BX2N3U6UWQ6K43BWZQQGPO6CSK6VH2V", "length": 1313, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.playerattack.com", "title": "12 Canadian zombies rushed to hospital - Player Attack", "raw_content": "12 Canadian zombies rushed to hospital\nEmergency crews have been called to a street in Toronto, Canada, to examine reports that a number of zombies had been injured. Twelve undead were taken to hospital, suffering from minor cuts and bruises, arm and back injuries, with one sustaining a broken leg.\nToronto emergency medical services Commander David Ralph was a little taken aback by the copious amounts of blood and gore that accompanied the relatively minor injuries:\nI could see the look on the first paramedic, saying \u2018Oh my God\u2019.\nA high platform on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution moved unexpectedly, injuring sixteen nearby actors. Real blood mixed with makeup and ambulance staff found their job complicated by the gruesome costumes worn by the zombies.\n...we're guessing something like this.\nFortunately, it didn\u2019t take long for medics to sort out which were injured and which were in character, and despite their fall, seven of the injured zombies were back at work later in the day, walking with just a slightly more realistic shuffle.\nThe incident has been classified as an industrial accident, and Canada\u2019s Ministry of Labour is investigating. 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In England there were 316,864 patients on GP dementia registers in 2013 and 16,786 of these patients were in the South West Peninsula. The prevalence of dementia in the South West Peninsula (Devon, Cornwall and Somerset) is 0.74 per cent of the population compared with 0.57 per cent nationally.\nA new national poll* has shown that almost two thirds of the general public (62 per cent) would be willing to take part in dementia research, but more than four out of five people (81 per cent) wouldn't know how to volunteer. Join Dementia Research is designed to overcome these barriers and give everyone the opportunity to play a role in changing the outlook for people with dementia now and in the future.\nThe lack of access to willing volunteers is holding back critical research into the condition with government figures showing that less than 5 per cent of people with dementia take part in research studies.\nThe Join Dementia Research website offers a secure and easy way for someone to register their interest, discover studies that interest them, and ultimately connect with researchers to take part in their studies.\nAnyone aged 18 years or over can sign up themselves, or on behalf of someone else, either by registering online or by contacting the helplines of Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK (+44 300 111 5 111) and Alzheimer\u2019s Society (+44 300 222 1122).\nBy signing up to the service, people give permission for researchers to contact them with details of studies in their area that match their profile. People can then decide if they would like to participate in those studies on a case-by-case basis. By registering, people do not have to take part in any studies and can opt-out at any time.\nCurrent research studies range from clinical trials of new treatments to surveys identifying what works in improving the quality of life of people with dementia.\nDr. Oleg Anichtchik, senior researcher into dementia at Plymouth University and a lead academic in the Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK South West Research Network, welcomed the Join Dementia Research initiative as a central point where people who want to volunteer to participate in dementia research studies can register their interest and where researchers can identify potential study participants quicker.\nDr Anichtchik said:\n\u201cThe South West prevalence of dementia is high which presents challenges for our communities but potentially also presents real opportunities to make a difference with active participation in research studies. People can register with Join Dementia Research without being obliged to take part in a particular study, but we hope that the service will expand the pool of willing participants. Growing the number of willing research volunteers will help push forward research to make advances in treatment, prevention and care.\u201d\nAnnette Ward, who works as a sonographer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Wonford hospital volunteered to Join Dementia Research because she wants to \u2018do her bit\u2019 to support research because her own mother Joyce had the condition.\nAnnette explained:\n\u201cMum was such a loving, lively, cheery person, always smiling always laughing. Over a decade, my mum gradually lost her memories, her independence, and her laughter. In the end, Mum couldn't walk, talk or feed herself \u2013 and it could happen to any of us. No one should have to do that. No one should have to see it happen to someone they love. We need to know what factors contribute to the disease. We need to know how to treat dementia and eventually how to prevent it. Research gives us hope for that. Join Dementia Research will help us to get answers sooner, rather than later.\u201d\nProfessor Martin Rossor, the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research, said:\n\u201cThe government and charities have increased funding for dementia research over the last few years, meaning more studies are being done than ever before, but it\u2019s often difficult to find willing volunteers at the right time. Join Dementia Research offers a way of \u2018match-making\u2019 \u2013 linking volunteers to researchers. The system also helps us plan future studies. It\u2019s important that everyone should be able to find out about research that is happening near to where they live and get the opportunity to be part of that research.\u201d\njoin-dementia-research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBA4C4C0PKSZK", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:30Z", "digest": "sha1:B2Q3JWBQPYFSRAYJ7MV5P2CONCK6HCML", "length": 281, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.podbean.com", "title": "Download Cooke County SportsTalk - Internet Viral Star Samantha Rubia (1-16-19) | Podbean", "raw_content": "Samantha Rubia, a 17-year old singer from The Philippines, has became an internet sensation thanks to a video that has gone viral of her singing with her parents \"fanboying\" and \"fangirling\" her in the background. She was a guest on the Dee and Darin Morning Show to talk about it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 204.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/usmca-signed-g20-999748", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:27Z", "digest": "sha1:46J3JIVQTJKTQIVSI5NEB3DBZ2OUV6QT", "length": 6877, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.politico.com", "title": "NAFTA 2.0 is signed \u2014 but it\u2019s far from finished - POLITICO", "raw_content": "(L to R) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deliver a statement on the signing of a new free trade agreement in Buenos Aires, on Friday on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images\nNAFTA 2.0 is signed \u2014 but it\u2019s far from finished\nFriday\u2019s signing starts the clock on what could be a monthslong process to approve the deal in Congress.\nBy DOUG PALMER and MEGAN CASSELLA\nBUENOS AIRES, Argentina \u2014 North American leaders formally signed their new trade agreement Friday, marking the end of 15 months of contentious talks between the U.S., Canada and Mexico \u2014 and the beginning of what could be months of fierce debate between the Trump administration and Congress.\nThe signing, which took place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, shifts the onus onto each country\u2019s legislatures to approve the agreement before it can actually take effect. And that could be a problem in the U.S., where some Democrats have already been opposing the labor and environmental provisions in the pact, now known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement or USMCA.\nDespite a push by a handful of Republican senators to vote on the agreement during the lame-duck session, procedural hurdles make it almost certain there won\u2019t be a vote until sometime next year when Democrats are controlling the House. That\u2019s jeopardizing President Donald Trump\u2019s chances of fulfilling what has been a signature pledge of his presidency.\nTrump expressed confidence Friday that the pact would sail through Congress. \"It's been so well-reviewed, I don't expect to have very much of a problem,\" he said as he stood onstage in a hotel conference room next to Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trump called the trade deal \u201ca truly groundbreaking achievement\" before the three leaders sat down at a table and signed it.\nBut it actually remains far from certain that the agreement would pass the two chambers, particularly in its current form. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday added her voice to a groundswell of opposition from Democrats in the House and Senate who have been complaining about the new deal\u2019s labor standards and what they see as a lack of enforceability of new provisions. The liberal firebrand denounced the agreement as written, saying it wouldn\u2019t prevent outsourcing or raise wages.\nOn the other side of the aisle, House Republicans have also launched their own wave of criticism, largely centered on new provisions that aim to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity.\nThe agreement is also under fire from the GOP in the Senate, where some free-trade-oriented Republicans say it limits trading opportunities rather than promotes them.\nU.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer ruled out any possibility that the pact would be reopened now that it's been signed. But he acknowledged that the administration could emphasize certain things in the implementing legislation and include provisions to address lawmakers' concerns to win their support.\n\"I\u2019ve been in discussions with a variety of Democratic leaders on those points and they\u2019ll be very much involved in the process moving forward and will have an influence, a strong influence,\" Lighthizer told reporters in Buenos Aires on Friday.\n\"I want them not only to vote for it, I want them to be happy with the agreement,\" he added.\nRevised NAFTA\u2019s long road to completion\nIt\u2019s unclear whether any changes in the implementing bill will go far enough to appease lawmakers. Democrats who are pushing for stronger labor and environmental standards, for example, take issue with those provisions in the original NAFTA because they were not written into the core text of the agreement but rather in side deals that critics felt aren\u2019t enforceable.\nSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that his caucus would be willing to work toward a compromise.\nThe New York Democrat blasted the labor and environmental provisions in the USMCA as its currently written as \"too weak\" and said the deal would have to \"prove to be a net benefit to middle-class families and working people in our country\" in order to win the congressional support it needs to pass.\nBut, he added, \"thankfully, the Congress has a role in crafting 'implementing legislation' to make sure the deal benefits and protects middle-class families and working people and isn't simply a rebranding of the same old policies that hurt our economy and workers for years.\"\nAt the same time, the Trump administration is also continuing to work out a deal for Canada and Mexico to earn exemptions from steel and aluminum tariffs, potentially in exchange for quotas. The expectation had initially been for those details to be worked out before the negotiations concluded, and then before the pact was signed.\nBut the Trump administration has long emphasized that the two issues needed to be worked out on separate tracks, and its two NAFTA partners ultimately agreed to go ahead with the signing given the importance of the trading relationship.\nLighthizer declined to give any specifics on which options were on the table but said that any deal would not undermine the administration's goal of revitalizing the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.\nPOLITICO & South China Morning Post\nHow U.S. and Chinese firms are outmaneuvering Trump in trade war\nBy ADAM BEHSUDI and HE HUIFENG | SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\"I'm hoping that we come to a conclusion before long with respect to both countries,\" he said. \"We're not going to take a pause. We're going ... to continue that negotiation.\"\nReaching an agreement to remove the steel and aluminum duties \u2014 as well as those Canada and Mexico imposed in retaliation on billions of dollars worth of agricultural and other products \u2014 is likely to be a vital step before the new NAFTA will be approved.\nA number of domestic industries, from auto companies to pork producers, have made their case repeatedly that any benefits of the USMCA are far outweighed by the negative impact of the ongoing tariffs.\nIn a statement applauding the USMCA signing, the Business Roundtable also called for a \"prompt resolution\" to the steel and aluminum tariff issue \"to ensure a stronger trading relationship.\" The Global Automakers, meanwhile, called it \"unfathomable\" that the metals tariffs had \"not been resolved in the context of these negotiations.\"\nTrudeau also needled Trump about removing the tariffs at the signing ceremony, highlighting news this week of widespread General Motors layoffs across the continent that will lead to the lost of nearly 14,000 jobs.\n\"Donald, it\u2019s all the more reason that we keep working to remove the tariffs on steel and aluminum between our countries,\" Trudeau said.\nAndrew Restuccia contributed reporting from Buenos Aires.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 9605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pomu.uk/games/firefighter", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VVULR3FIPX52RPZQKHDXEPOB3NMDUCD6", "length": 947, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pomu.uk", "title": "FIREFIGHTER GAMES online - Pomu.uk", "raw_content": "Park Emergency Vehicles\nThe Brave Firefighter\nBee Doo: The Emergency Mini...\nIf your dream is to work putting out fires and rescuing people you will not be able to stop playing our collection of firefighting games. Enjoy helping people by turning off the fires in their homes and do it quickly so it does not spread to the rest of the buildings. Climb a ladder or from the fire truck directs the water with the hose. You can also handle a stretcher so that people can jump and escape from the fire. Be careful not to fall to the ground and take them to the nearest ambulance. And if what you want is something more exciting in our firefighting games you can drive your truck at full speed in search of a fire to suffocate. You can also have fun in fire truck races in which you will compete with other firefighters for being the first to reach the goal. Become the hero of the city by putting out fires and saving people from all kinds of dangers!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 2817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.popgrotto.com/ErinTraeger/Russian%20Nesting%20Dolls%20Matryoshka/Details", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LQQZ52JQRS4MUELBB7A7NARWEWIODEFO", "length": 1049, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.popgrotto.com", "title": "PopGrotto | Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka | ErinTraeger", "raw_content": "Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka\nShort Url: http://ppgo.co/2PQ86bx\nErinTraeger\nMatryoshka dolls are a time-honoured Russian tradition. The first nesting dolls were made in early 1890 inspired by souvenir dolls from Japan as wooden toys for kids. These days matryoshka... See more Matryoshka dolls are a time-honoured Russian tradition. The first nesting dolls were made in early 1890 inspired by souvenir dolls from Japan as wooden toys for kids. These days matryoshka dolls are firmly associated with Russia, they are now excellent gift for any occasion. A set of matryoshka dolls consists of a wooden figure which can be pulled apart to reveal another figurine of the same sort inside. It, in turn, contains another one inside, and so on. The number of nested figures can be as few as three or as many as twenty. The dolls are typically made of linden tree (basswood), dried for at least 2 years to ensure their stability. The artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be extremely elaborate. See less\n#dolls #matryoshka #russia see less", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.posti.com/en/media/financial-releases/2018/yhtiokokous/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2MF7IJ7XROY6HX4RWTXBQLERTIQKIB37", "length": 4486, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.posti.com", "title": "Yhti\u00f6kokous - Posti", "raw_content": "Per Sj\u00f6dell, Frank Marthaler and Pertti Miettinen were elected to join Posti Group\u00b4s Board of Directors \u2013 Markku Pohjola continues as Chair\nPosti Group Corporation's Annual General Meeting was held in Helsinki on March 27, 2018. In line with the Board of Directors' proposal, the Annual General Meeting decided to distribute a dividend of EUR 27 million based on the result in 2017 and an extra dividend of EUR 13 million. Dividend distribution is altogether EUR 40 million.\nThe meeting adopted the 2017 financial statements and discharged the members of the Supervisory Board, Board of Directors and President and CEO from liability.\nIt was decided that the Board of Directors be composed of nine members.\nThe following persons will continue as members of the Board of Directors:\nB.Sc. (Econ.) Markku Pohjola\nManaging Director Suvi-Anne Siimes, Finnish Pension Alliance TELA\nM. Sc. (Econ.) Eero Hautaniemi\nExecutive Director Petri J\u00e4rvinen, Supply Chain, Coop Sverige\nSenior Financial Specialist Marja Pokela, Government Ownership Steering\nBoard Professional Arja Talma\nKirsi Nuotto and Petri Kokko informed they are not available for re-election in the Board of Directors. The following persons were elected as new members of the Board of Directors.\nBoard Professional Per Sj\u00f6dell\nBoard Professional Frank Marthaler\nPertti Miettinen as an employee representative for one year pilot\nMarkku Pohjola was elected as the Chair of the Board of Directors and Suvi-Anne Siimes as the Deputy Chair.\n- Posti has continued its determined postal transformation during 2017. With the new updated strategy our focus is vigorously focused on our core businesses, postal services, parcels and logistics services. The volumes in the parcel business last year reached all-time high. On behalf of the Board, we would like to thank our customers and stakeholders for their trust in Posti. I would also like to thank the employees for their good work, especially for the excellent Christmas season, says Markku Pohjola.\nFrank Marthaler is an experienced professional in postal business, with many years of experience at Swiss Post. During 2007-2014 he has served as the CEO of Swiss Post Solutions. He is member of the Board of Directors of Trendcommerce Group, C-Level Media and Aletsch Bahnen.\nPer Sj\u00f6dell is founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of communications agency Red City PR. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Nordic Morning, Lyko Group and design agency Identity Works Ab. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of fashion brand Abury and Project Soar NGO. He has served as the CEO of Fiskars Sweden during 2012-2015 and as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Lindex in 2014-2017. In 2012-2018 he has served as a member of Board of Directors of Stockmann.\nPertti Miettinen is the National Chief Shop Steward of Posti Group Corporation. He joined Posti in 2015. During 2002-2015 he worked as a Working Conditions Specialist at Finnish Post and Logistics Union PAU. During 1995-2002 he worked as a Postal Worker at Posti.\nIt was decided that the Supervisory Board be composed of 12 members.\nThe following persons will continue as members of the Supervisory Board:\nMaria Guzenina, MP, Social Democratic Party\nRami Lehto, MP, Finns Party\nEeva-Maria Maijala, MP, Centre Party\nMats Nylund, MP, Swedish People's Party of Finland\nJuha Pylv\u00e4s, MP, Centre Party\nSari Raassina, MP, National Coalition Party\nMarkku Rossi, MP, Centre Party\nSatu Taavitsainen, MP, Social Democratic Party\nJani Toivola, MP, The Greens of Finland\nMP Juhana Vartiainen, National Coalition Party, MP Kari Kulmala, Blue Reform and MP Silvia Modig, Left Alliance were elected as new members of the Supervisory Board.\nMarkku Rossi was re-elected as the Chair of the Supervisory Board and Jani Toivola as the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board.\nPricewaterhouseCoopers Oy (PwC), a firm of authorized public accountants, was elected as Posti Group Corporation's auditor, with Authorized Public Accountant Merja Lindh as the principal auditor.\nBoard of Directors\u2019 and Supervisory Board\u2019s fees\nThe fees of the members of the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board remained mostly unchanged. Members of the Board of Directors receive a monthly remuneration and a meeting fee, and the meeting fee will be paid in double for the non-Finnish Board members. No Board remuneration be paid for the member of the Board of Directors employed by Posti Group. Members of the Supervisory Board receive a meeting fee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 8170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.practicalrecovery.com/prblog/12-myths-of-drug-and-alcohol-addiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IV7S7JJZHZT6TC6U5MMYKQRAAXINQ3UH", "length": 3904, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.practicalrecovery.com", "title": "12 Myths of Drug and Alcohol Addiction | Practical Recovery", "raw_content": "12 Myths of Drug and Alcohol Addiction\nIf you have ever experienced drug and alcohol addiction, whether it was your own substance use or a loved one\u2019s, you were likely on the receiving end of opinions from others. US culture and its collective views on addiction are often rooted in shame, degradation, and negativity. More importantly, however, the mainstream conversation is all too often shrouded in myths and misinformation. These myths of drug and alcohol addiction are not only untrue, they are dangerous for those who are in need of treatment and unsupportive for those in recovery. The misinformation paints a scary uphill battle for those who enter recovery, when, really, recovery is a journey of healing, hope, and self-empowerment.\nWe\u2019ve collected 12 of the most common myths of drug and alcohol addiction in an attempt to provide alternative language grounded in a more truthful reality.\n1. All Addicts are the Same. Try saying this about any other group of people and you\u2019ll likely be branded a discriminatory bigot. We know no two people are the same, yet, suspend reason when it comes to people who struggle with substance use problems.\n2. Addiction is a Disease. Maybe, maybe not. The truth here is that the issue is far from settled. Anyone who tells you addiction has been proven to be a disease is lying.\n3. Most People Fail in Treatment. Actually, most people succeed \u2013 around 90% when it comes to alcohol, and even higher for other substances.\n4. Success is Lifelong Abstinence/Perfection. Progress is success. Perfection isn\u2019t the goal anywhere else, why do we make an exception for substance use?\n5. Shame and Confrontation are Essential to Change. Making people feel worse about themselves isn\u2019t helpful. Confronting people usually results in psychological reactance \u2013 when we feel our freedom restricted we rebel to establish a sense of autonomy. Natural human nature. So substance use treatment is trying to go against natural human nature? Good luck with that.\n6. People Must Accept the Label \u2018Addict/Alcoholic.\u2019 Wrong. In fact, forcing the \u2018addict/alcoholic\u2019 label on people has actually been shown to be detrimental to some, which is why the DSM-5 recently abandoned the word \u2018addiction\u2019 and \u2018alcoholic\u2019 was left behind in the \u201980\u2019s.\n7. Moderation Never Works. According to research, about \u00bd the people who successfully recover end up moderating.\n8. Cross Addiction. The idea behind \u2018cross addiction\u2019 is that once people develop a problem with one drug, they will become addicted to every other drug they try. There is no solid evidence for cross-addiction. However, there is solid evidence for gradualism (aka harm reduction).\n9. Addictive Personality. No solid evidence exists for an addictive personality type, which begs the question \u2013 why does this myth persist so strongly?\n10. Powerlessness. We all have the ability to act on the long-term at the expense of the short-term \u2013 this is willpower, and it\u2019s necessary not only to recover, but to sustain just about any change.\n11. Can\u2019t Recover without God. For some, God is an integral part of recovery. For others, God is not a part of recovery. Either way, the end result of being recovered is great.\n12. People Will Be In Recovery for Life. People can and do recover and move on with their lives, not everyone who recovers spends the remainder of their days in meetings.\nSubstance use is a highly emotional topic. We need to be careful about the information we spread and the language we use. Many of us don\u2019t even realize that we have bought into and internalized the mainstream myths of drug and alcohol addiction. But, with a little insight, and more compassion, we can create a supportive environment for those seeking help and those already on the recovery journey.\nWant to learn more about the myths of drug and alcohol addiction and treatment? See our blog post: 14 Common Misperceptions about Non 12 Step Rehab", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/56165.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TE6JDTPNVTQZXNCQKOLSGRKVOA2QRLA2", "length": 777, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.prairiehome.org", "title": "A Prairie Home Companion for June 17, 2017", "raw_content": "June 20, 2015 rebroadcast with Elvin Bishop, Rachel Barton Pine, and John Fullbright\nFrom Ravinia Festival | Highland Park, IL\nElvin Bishop, Rachel Barton Pine, John Fullbright\nThis week's classic rebroadcast: we return to June 2015 and our show at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois. Elvin Bishop plays \"Old School\" and \"Everybody's in the Same Boat,\" Rachel Barton Pine performs Amy Beach's Romance for Violin & Piano, Op. 23 and \"Wiegenlied,\" and John Fullbright sings \"Blameless\" and \"I Only Pray at Night.\" Plus: Guy Noir meets up with Studs Terkel, a few scripts for Father's Day, and Howard Levy sits in with the band to play his tune \"Twenty Eight.\" In Lake Wobegon, Clarence Bunsen sleeps on his boat so he can do some thinking in the middle of the night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.primoartists.com/news/introspective-profile-of-seong-jin-cho/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RINMHKCD4B7AEJGPJADWYG4GFVGZ62F3", "length": 4064, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.primoartists.com", "title": "Introspective profile of Seong-Jin Cho", "raw_content": "Seong-Jin Cho featured in San Jose Mercury News\nKorean wunderkind pianist ready to dazzle in San Jose\nIn a conversation seven years ago with the Italian pianist, Alessio Bax, winner of the 2000 Leeds competition, I asked if, in all his travels adjudicating competitions and conducting masterclasses, he had ever encountered a phenomenal talent, a freak of nature, yet somebody the music world was yet unaware of.\n\u201cThere was one case,\u201d Bax replied, \u201cthis little boy at the Hamamatsu Academy, who from the moment he walked on stage \u2014 I tell you, any 40-year-old would have been happy with that performance. There was not a trace of immaturity. It was incredible.\u201d\nThe wunderkind was Seong-Jin Cho, who, true to Bax\u2019s praise, was six years later crowned winner of the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw. On May 28 at San Jose\u2019s California Theater, the Steinway Society presents the pianist from Seoul, on the occasion of his 24th birthday, in a recital of works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy.\nWhat distinguishes Cho from other musical prodigies is the devastating combination of mechanical mastery and breathtaking, original musical insight \u2014 artistic excellence he acquired in spite of a late start.\n\u201cThere were no musicians in the family,\u201d Cho told me over the phone from Berlin. \u201cI started playing piano at 6, but not seriously, and only began lessons with a piano professor at 10 years old.\u201d\nBut he made up for lost time.\n\u201cBy 14, he was already the total package,\u201d Bax told me earlier this month. \u201cHe was technically perfect, had a gorgeous sound, naturally flowing lines, showed amazing poise and control as a pianist \u2014 very rare for someone of 14. They\u2019re the same characteristics he shows today.\u201d\n\u2018Perfection\u2019 comes up time and again when colleagues describe Cho. Dang Thai Son, jury member of the 2015 Chopin competition that Cho won, has been privy to Cho\u2019s gifts for a decade.\n\u201cSeong-Jin played for me in Busan when he was 14 years old,\u201d recalls Dang. \u201cWhat a discovery it was: fresh, stylish, full of perfection. He told me he wanted to participate in the 2010 Chopin but was too young to enter. I was pretty sure he could have won a high prize, even then.\u201d\n\u201cBecause I started rather late, I didn\u2019t have much repertoire,\u201d Cho admits. \u201cI worked hard the year of the Hamamatsu, and my musical ability progressed a lot. My technique is not bad \u2014 it\u2019s not exceptional like (Gy\u00f6rgy) Cziffra\u2019s \u2014 it\u2019s just good enough to express my ideas.\u201d\n\u201cJust good enough\u201d, that is, to tear through Chopin\u2019s arduous First Etude in C major, Op. 10, which, he says, \u201cisn\u2019t very difficult for some reason.\u201d\nWhile South Korea has produced its share of competition laureates, it\u2019s never seen anything quite like this. Cho\u2019s debut album reached the summit of album sales in Korea, dislodging K-pop releases, achieving platinum status four times within days of its release. The allure of being the first countryman to win one of the most prestigious piano competitions in the world is not lost on him.\n\u201cI actually get nervous when I\u2019m in Korea,\u201d Cho admits. \u201cThere is so much support, the sold-out audience is very enthusiastic, but there\u2019s a kind of expectation there. I feel the responsibility to work harder, to be on a similar level as other artists who\u2019ve won the Chopin.\u201d\nDang, the first of Asian descent to win the Chopin in 1980, knows all about that pressure.\n\u201cSeong-Jin\u2019s performance at the competition was absolutely inspiring \u2014 a summit of sorts. But he is humble, a sign of his intelligence. My wish is that with his incomparable artistic values, he will get there, and I believe it will happen.\u201d\nWhile winning the Chopin affords opportunities and prestige, inviting comparisons with highest artistic standards, Cho believes his work has, in fact, just begun.\n\u201cThe pianists of my generation \u2014 Trifonov, Grosvenor, Levit and Rana \u2014 are very serious musicians. We all play differently, and I respect that. Perhaps we can arouse curiosity in the art form, attract new, greater audiences. I believe there is reason for hope in classical music.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.processingmagazine.com/chemical-safety-board-slams-regulators-for-failing-to-prevent-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QABEUUN46DSYHNWBGFT3L3ADR2STSW3H", "length": 2050, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.processingmagazine.com", "title": "Chemical Safety Board slams regulators for failing to prevent Texas fertilizer plant explosion - Processing Magazine", "raw_content": "Chemical Safety Board slams regulators for failing to prevent Texas fertilizer plant explosion\nThe deadly explosion at West Fertilizer Co.'s plant in Texas could have been prevented, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board claims.\nWikipedia Commons/Shane.torgerson\nThe deadly explosion at West Fertilizer Company's plant in Texas was preventable and lives could have been saved if gaps in existing state and federal regulation had been eliminated earlier, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board stated in its preliminary report on the explosion that killed 14 people a year ago.\nThe board stated that its investigation was focusing on areas in which federal, state and county regulations, guidelines and oversight could be improved. For example, there was no fire code at the state level, and some counties that have a small population are even banned from having one. The report pointed out that local fire departments need to have fire codes so that businesses are held accountable for the safe storage and handling of hazardous materials.\nRafael Moure-Eraso, chairman of the Chemical Safety Board, stated that the devastating explosion and the fire that followed it could have been prevented if the company had not neglected its duty to take the necessary preventive measures. The report also blamed federal, state and local regulatory agencies for their inability to identify the risk and to eliminate the threat.\nThe board's supervisory investigator Johnnie Banks added that the report had identified a total of 1,351 facilities located across the United States that store ammonium nitrate. However, there is no reliable data on how close these are to residential areas or schools. 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Are you having a hard-time sharing your voice with others? My clients come to me when they are stressed, burnt out, overwhelmed, anxious, experiencing self-doubt, and feel like they've lost their way. I help them reduce stress, improve focus, increase self-confidence, and live and lead with courage and authenticity. We know that connection is key to overall well-being, and I specialize in helping people live a connected, wholehearted life. My passion is helping individuals develop more self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-confidence.\"\nJennifer Schweitzer\n\"Now accepting new clients. At some point in all of our lives we can benefit from support to manage life's stresses. There may be times when we feel stuck or life doesn't go as planned, which can leave us feeling frustrated, anxious, depressed or hopeless. Seeking support during these times has been shown to help lessen the harmful impacts from these emotions. I'm here to help you hold your past and present life with compassion, and create a future full of possibility.\"\nKathryn Egge (Hough)\n\"I believe we are all innately resilient and have the capacity to heal and grow. My aim as a therapist is to create a safe, nonjudgmental environment that enables you to see these qualities in yourself, and gain self-acceptance and confidence. I specialize in working with couples and individuals struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationships/communication and trauma-related concerns. My practice incorporates a strengths-based, holistic perspective and utilizes aspects of mindfulness/relaxation and yoga.\"\nKay Blassingame\n\"Anxiety, depression, stress and other troubling feelings often stem from hurtful events in your life and can impact your relationships, work and life. If you want to recover from painful experiences, it is helpful to have acceptance and support as you work through them, so that you can move on, gain strength and grow. Clients have said that they feel very comfortable and accepted when they work with me, and find that they benefit by the insight they gain and skills they learn.\"\nAmy Rhoda\n\"Do you ever feel like your life is spinning in circles, that you are stuck in the same cycle and do not seem to be moving in the direction that you want to be, but are also struggling to make changes? My passion is working with individuals to navigate this health and wellness path, finding ways to manage stress and make health behavior changes, explore relationship with food, process through life transitions or chronic conditions that one may be living with, and the subsequent anxiety and/or depression that may co-exist. \"\nJean L Fagerstrom\nMargaret Gavian\n\"As a result of working with me, men have a renewed sense of strength and confidence in themselves, and happier, more connected and passionate. My style is practical, solution focused, compassionate and direct. 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Individual counseling may also be helpful if you are feeling unsatisfied in your relationship, your partner is unwilling to attend couples counseling, you want feedback on how to improve your relationship, or could use help communicating your feelings to your partner.\"\n\"If you're a millennial, you probably won't be surprised to hear that our generation is the most stressed cohort in the country. It's not just one thing- it's all of it. Everything from job-related stress and self-esteem to evolving relationships and financial pressure. You are the woman who has worked hard her entire life to enjoy academic and professional success. Having perfectionistic tendencies has helped you get where you are today. But now it's catching up to you, and you've been struggling. Not only that, but your relationships aren't where you'd like them to be. You're feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and burned out. \"\nScharlemann Klapste\n\"Do you feel like it's hard to keep up? 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Our motto, Opening Doors and Building Bridges, is a statement of our commitment to help you make positive life changes. Please visit our website to learn more about our clinic, clinicians, and services at STONEARCHPSYCH.COM\"\nJennifer A Waltman\nPsy.D., MBA\n\"Dr. Waltman performs postdoctoral behavioral health and neurocognitive testing at the Clinic for Attention, Learning, and Memory (CALM). She trained in tribal reservation mental health and urban integrated health centers. Dr. Waltman works with patients and clients from ages 6 to 89. In addition to evaluation, she facilitates individual and group services to improve executive functioning and stress management. Dr. Waltman also delivers training to strengthen trauma-informed care and understanding of the impact of historical trauma, epigenetics, and applied neuroscience. Additionally, she works in the Native American community and facilitates research.\"\nSharon Elizabeth Burris-Brown\nClinical Social Work/Therapist, L.I.S.W, NBC-HWC\n\"My intention is to provide a safe, supportive environment within the therapeutic relationship. My philosophy is strengths-based and holistic: I believe people have the capacity for resilience, creativity and resourcefulness. My role is to help my clients get to that place of knowing this for themselves so they can move forward in their lives and thrive. I am trained in mindfulness-based-stress reduction, and I am a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach who has worked with a wide range of people on stress release, weight, exercise and nutrition. I am also a Licensed Independent Social Worker.\"\nSusan Ann Gustafson\n\"My commitment is to help you make positive life changes. There are times when we are faced with obstacles and difficulties that interfere with growth and development, preventing us from achieving goals and aspirations, and diminishing our happiness and wellbeing. Psychotherapy provides a safe, nonjudgmental setting to discover solutions to challenges. With the powerful tools of communication and insight, I will help you identify counterproductive patterns and habits preventing you from living an optimal life. Together we will recognize and build upon your strengths and skills, develop new resources and strategies, and discover beneficial, healing ways of approaching your life.\"\nNot enough Stress Therapists to choose from?\nTry expanding your search for Stress Therapists in Minneapolis to a larger area (e.g. Hennepin County, Minnesota)\nStress Therapists\nIf you're looking for therapy for stress in Minneapolis or for a Minneapolis stress therapist, these therapists provide stress therapy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 828, "original_length": 32944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pulmanlaw.com/randy-pulman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CTLBQX7LISBSQKRNYQRKQMAACH5QBLMK", "length": 3473, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.pulmanlaw.com", "title": "Randy Pulman \u2014 Pulman, Cappuccio & Pullen, LLP", "raw_content": "RANDALL A. 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The metallic surfaces have been prefinished and coil-coated in a variety of paint finishes before bonding. The product can also be attached to pre-painted galvanized steel sheet and is also sold in the form of the sandwich panel. The panels offered are rigidity of heavy-gauge sheet metal in a lightweight panel that\u2019s easy to fabricate and aadaptable to a vast range of indoor and outdoor building applications. The minimum width of the panel is 1 meter and the foam thickness is available in the ranges of 6mm and 8mm.\nUses: The aluminum foil skin gives an attractive finished look and is used for brightening the interior of a building such as factories, warehouses, cold storages. List of features includes:\nThe ability to prevent condensation due to heat\nInsulates heat perfectly\nExtraordinarily resistant to chemicals\nObtains the strength to resist fire\nPrevention of corrosion due to humidity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radioiowa.com/2008/04/09/iowa-appeals-court-throws-out-kidnapping-conviction-in-des-moines-case/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NBX7Y43ABGIFP6GN7DBYZMYYXTWJPMBD", "length": 1374, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.radioiowa.com", "title": "Iowa Appeals Court throws out kidnapping conviction in Des Moines case - Radio Iowa", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Crime & Courts / Iowa Appeals Court throws out kidnapping conviction in Des Moines case\nIowa Appeals Court throws out kidnapping conviction in Des Moines case\nThe Iowa Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a man accused of abducting a toddler at the Des Moines Public Library. James Effler was accused of taking a two-year-old girl into a bathroom at the Des Moines Public Library in October of 2005 and sexually assaulting the child.\nEffler was found guilty of first-degree kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison. Effler appealed the conviction saying his graphic confession of stripping the young girl and sexually assaulting her should be thrown out, as police refused his request for a lawyer prior to his confession. The prosecution argued it was a harmless error and there was enough evidence without the confession to prove Effler sexually assaulted the girl \u2014 a condition needed to prove first-degree kidnapping.\nThe Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that even though Effler was clearly intoxicated at the time, he did ask for an attorney and the district court should have suppressed statements Effler made to investigators. 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Printed in the United States of America 19\u200318\u200317\u200316\u200315\u200314\u200313\u200312\u20031\u20032\u20033\u20034\u20035\u20036\u20037\u20038 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [insert CIP data here] Printed on acid-free paper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 1593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.redriverancestry.ca/MONKMAN-JOSEPH-1810.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DOAZWH46IC2R3YAYND6VBGRKPNEFSHWE", "length": 13435, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.redriverancestry.ca", "title": "Joseph Monkman (1810-1899)", "raw_content": "JOSEPH \"Ole Joe\" MONKMAN SR (1810-1899)\nISABELLA SETTER (1817-1904)\nJoseph \u201cOle Joe\u201d MONKMAN was born June 10, 1810, a half-breed son of Mary (Cree Indian) and James MONKMAN (1775-1865), an Englishman who worked for the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company (HBC) as a Seaman and fur trader. The nickname \u201cOle Joe\u201d was later used to distinguish him from his son of the same name. When Joe was born, his father was a Brig\u2019s Mate stationed at Fort Severn on Hudson Bay; in 1812 a Trader in the York Factory District (Fort Severn and Island Lake). ** MORE ABOUT JAMES MONKMAN\nJoseph Monkman\n(Archives of Manitoba)\nIn 1821 the North West Company (NWC) was absorbed by the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company (HBC) in a merger that ended many years of bitter and costly fur-trade rivalry that seriously affected their financial stability. As a result, many voyageurs and fur trade employees were either dismissed or retired. These retirees were mostly of Scotch, English, Irish and French Canadian origin. Most of them had acquired Indian wives early in their careers and their children were referred to as Half-breeds or M\u00e9tis.\nWhen Joe\u2019s father retired from the HBC the family settled in the Parish of St Paul. By that time Reverend David JONES (1796-1844) had built the Middle Church in that parish, about six miles downstream from the original mission at Upper Church (St John\u2019s). On Feb 22, 1825 Joseph (age 15) was baptized at St John\u2019s.\nMarriage to Isabella SETTER\nOn Dec 30, 1835 Joe married at St John\u2019s to Isabella SETTER from St Andrews. Isabella was the daughter of Margaret SPENCE, a half-breed, and Andrew SETTER (1777-1870) from the Orkneys of Scotland, a retired HBC voyageur.\nJoe and his younger brother John continued to operate the Salt Works (at Salt Springs) up on Lake Winnipegosis that had been established by their father (James MONKMAN). Joseph\u2019s first child, Joseph Jr. was born there on Oct 15, 1836.\nCensus 1837: Joe was 27 yrs old, living with his widowed sister Nancy Ann (widow of James WHITEWAY) in the St Paul (Middlechurch) area. His sister died in 1839.\nHBCA: On Aug 15, 1854 Joseph entered the service of the HBC. From 1854 to 1858 he worked as a middleman voyageur.\nIn 1860 eldest son Joseph Jr. married Mary LELAND, daughter of Jane McDOUGALL & Richard LELAND.\nOn Aug 7, 1865 Joseph\u2019s father, James MONKMAN, died. He was buried at St Peters, Dynevor, MB.\nIn 1868 William McDOUGALL (1822-1905) became the first Minister of Public Works for the new Dominion of Canada, and he began negotiations to acquire Rupert\u2019s Land from the HBC. Plans were already under way to create a new province in Red River territory.\nOne of McDOUGALL\u2019s first actions was to send John Allan SNOW (1824-1888), a Surveyor, to build the Dawson Road so settlers could have a shorter route from Ontario through Canadian territory to Red River. Colonel John Stoughton DENNIS (1820-1885), a soldier and a surveyor, was sent to delineate plots of land for settlers. He would introduce a new system of land surveys termed the Dominion Land Survey (DLS) using the Township System. The old system of long narrow river lots was discontinued.\nSNOW, DENNIS, and their men became closely associated with Dr John Christian SCHULTZ (1840-1896), several of them staying at his home. There followed what a later commentator described as an \u201corgy of land-grabbing,\u201d with SCHULTZ, SNOW and MAIR, the road project\u2019s paymaster, staking off land claims which they hoped would be recognized when the transfer took place. It was little wonder that the M\u00e9tis in particular regarded SCHULTZ with fear and hatred as epitomizing all that was menacing about the takeover by Canada.\nIn 1869 son Thomas married Mary INKSTER, and son Philip married Catherine HARPER, daughter of Eliza CUMMINGS and Thomas HARPER 1807-1877). ** MORE ABOUT THOMAS HARPER\nLouis RIEL and the Red River Insurrection\nL-R: Louis Riel, Ambroise Lepine, Dr John Christian Schultz and Thomas Scott\nOn Oct 11, 1869, Louis RIEL (1844-1885) placed his foot on the surveyors\u2019 chain to tell them their work was finished! This marked the beginning of another Red River M\u00e9tis Rebellion. RIELbegan to organize resistance to the anticipated transfer of the North-West to the Dominion of Canada without prearranged terms.His strongest and most ardent and outspoken opponents among the English speaking population were Dr SCHULTZ (1840-1896) and Thomas SCOTT (1842-1870).\nUnder the leadership of RIEL, the M\u00e9tis soon after established their National Committee of the M\u00e9tis of Red River. Then, on Nov 2, he and 120 armed men took control of Upper Fort Garry. RIEL knew he would need the support of the English speaking settlers north of the Forks to support his actions. On Nov 6, he issued an invitation to the parishes to send 12 representatives to a meeting that would be held at Fort Garry. The intention was to form one body with their Council to consider the present political state of their Country, and to adopt such measures as may be deemed best for their future mutual welfare. The English speaking settlers complied with his request, although with some reluctance. If not convinced that they should support RIEL, they saw no reason why they should not talk. The men selected to represent the northern Parishes were Donald GUNN (1797-1878) for St Andrews; Thomas BUNN (1830-1875) for St Clements (Mapleton); and Chief Henry PRINCE (1819-1902) for St Peters.\nL-R: John Stoughton Dennis, Chief Henry Prince and Dr Thomas Bunn\n** MORE ABOUT DR THOMAS BUNN\nOn Nov 16 William MacTAVISH (1815-1870), as Governor at Red River, issued a proclamation requiring the M\u00e9tis to lay down their arms. On Nov 23 in response, RIEL proposed a further step to the convention: the formation of a provisional government to replace the Council of Assiniboia and to negotiate terms of union with Canada.\nOn Dec 1 McDOUGALL read his (illegal) Proclamation, \u201ctaking possession of the North-West Territory for Canada\u201d. He then appointed Colonel DENNIS, the Chief Surveyor, as \u2018Conservator of the Peace\u2019. He moved his headquarters to the abandoned HBC Upper Fort Garry and began to raise an army.\nDENNIS hurried to Lower Fort Garry, convinced the insurgents would seize upon that stronghold, some 20 miles north of Winnipeg, arriving there about 6 P.M. on December 1. He showed the master of the fort his commission, thus securing the eager co-operation of that officer. By eight that evening he had \u201csome 70 young men assembled;\u201d he then gave them an hour\u2019s drill and formed a guard for the fort. He also assigned Joseph MONKMAN a commission to recruit Indian tribes to join in the war against the French M\u00e9tis. Their plan was to arrest the rebel M\u00e9tis\u2019 and occupy Upper Fort Garry.\nFrom the beginning of the crisis in October, DENNIS had done all he could to see that the Indians of the North-West were inclined to the Canadian cause. Fittingly enough, then, on December 2 he received a reinforcement of 70 to 120 men, for the most part \u201ccivilized and Christianized Indians,\u201d from Chief PRINCE\u2019s band. Though DENNIS knew that McDOUGALL was averse to the use of Indians, and though he declared his feelings on this score to be those of his superior, he did keep PRINCE and 50 of his men in the fort \u201cto serve as a permanent guard.\u201d He did not intend to get them involved \u201cin any actual fighting just at the present,\u201d and contented himself with the reflection that, despite their lack of proper military procedure, his \u201cred-skinned sentries\u201d would prove effective sentinels indeed.\nSCHULTZ fortified his house and store (\u2018Fort Schultz), and recruited about 50 followers as guards, including Captain Charles Arkoll BOULTON (1841-1899) of the 46th militia regiment and a member of DENNIS\u2019 survey crew. SCHULTZ proposed to DENNIS that he be allowed to attack Upper Fort Garry and capture RIEL. Most of the English-speaking settlers refused to respond to a call to arms from DENNIS. On Dec 7, RIEL took this threat seriously; occupants of \u2018Fort Schultz\u2019 were captured (about 45 men and three women) and imprisoned in Fort Garry.On Dec 8, 1869, John BRUCE (1828-1893) was named president of an interim government, and on Dec 10 the M\u00e9tis raised a flag of the future Provisional Government over Fort Garry to the sound of musket and cannon fire. In Winnipeg, on the ninth, the members of SNOW\u2019s road-building party were captured by the RIEL forces and confined in Fort Garry, along with SCHULTZ and the Canadians. The next day DENNIS heard the report that in Winnipeg \u201cthe French\u201d continued \u201cto arrest Canadians wherever they find them.\u201d\nFrom Portage, DENNIS and a guide (probably MONKMAN) set off southward early on the morning of December 12, arriving in Pembina on December 15. The Colonel brought McDOUGALL, who had heard reports of the imprisonment of SCHULTZ and his men, full particulars of the unhappy events in the settlement. These persuaded McDOUGALL to leave for Canada, but he was anxious that DENNIS accompany him to help explain the course of events to the government. Consequently, the two set off on December 18.\nThe Old St Peters Church\nWhen the Census was taken in 1870, Joe\u2019s family was living in St Peters Parish. Children at home were John (age 39), James (age 23), Andrew (19), Mary (18), Albert (15) and Anne (age 11).\nOn Jan 23, 1870, SCHULTZ escaped from Upper Fort Garry. MAIR also escaped around the same time.\nGibbons: A knife was smuggled into the jail, hidden in a loaf of bread which had been baked by Mrs SCHULTZ and carried to her husband that day. Dr. SCHULTZ used the knife to cut up the buffalo robe which was his jail bed and bedding. He tied the strips together and used this fur \"rope\" to slide down the wall to freedom. He hurt his leg when the rope broke but, he was out, and limped his way first to the BARBER house on Euclid Street and then to the (Robert) McBEATH (1805-1886) house in Kildonan.\nAt the end of February, 1870, Dr. SCHULTZ, with Joseph MONKMAN as a guide, left Kildonan on snowshoes. He reached Duluth twenty-four days later, then finally Toronto and Ottawa. ** It is interesting to note that this was quite a feat of endurance for Ole Joe who was 60 years old in 1870. He was said to be over 6\u2019 tall and one of the strongest men in the country. This is undoubtedly when he became known as \u201cThe Guide\u201d.\nIn May of 1870 MONKMAN testified before the Special Senate Committee. He met Colonel WOLSELEY at Fort St. Frances with messages and intelligence, having obviously acted as a Canadian agent.\nIn 1871 Joseph MONKMAN was the Postmaster at Eagle\u2019s Nest Post Office in the St Peters Reserve. This Post Office was later known as the Peguis P.O. and the Gilolo/Gilulo P.O.\nOn Apr 10, 1872 son James married Mary TAIT, daughter of Catherine CUMMINGS & William TAIT (b-1827), both half-breeds. They settled in the St Peters Indian Reserve.\nOn Dec 24, 1873 daughter Mary married Henry COCHRANE, son of Elizabeth GIBSON & William COCHRANE (1811-1894).\nIn 1875 son Andrew married in St Peters to Nancy CHASTELLAINE, daughter of Nancy FINLAYSON & Narcisse CHASTELLAINE (1821-1880). ** MORE ABOUT NARCISSE CHASTELLAINE\nIn 1875 son Albert married Mary Ann MORWICK, daughter of Catherine THOMPSON and John MORWICK (1826-1905).\nIn 1875 Joe and Isabella (of St Peters Parish) both applied for their Half-breed Scrip.\nIn 1879 daughter Annabella married Charles BIRD, son of Isabella GIBSON and James BIRD (1824-1892).\nWestern Land Grants: Note: It is difficult to know if the following Josephs were Old Joe or his son\nIn 1882 Lot 95 (220 acres) and Lot 97 (300 acres) in St Peters Parish were both patented by a Joseph MONKMAN. Both lots were vacant at the time (no occupants).\nIn 1883 Lot 151 (62 acres) and Lot 152 (199 acres) in St Peters Parish were both patented by a Joseph MONKMAN. Both lots were vacant at the time (no occupants).\nIn 1887 Lot 96 (54 acres) in St Peters Parish was patented by a Joseph MONKMAN. The lot was vacant (no occupants).\nIn the Census of 1891 Joe was enumerated as age 81; wife Isabella as age 59. With them were grandsons Alfred (age 14) and George (age 12).\nOle Joe MONKMAN died on June 6, 1899; buried in the St Peters Dynevor Cemetery.\nCensus 1901: St Andrews Parish (Matlock area). An elderly Isabelle MONKMAN (85 yrs old) is living with her daughter Annabelle and her husband, Charles BIRD, in the Matlock area. Also living with them is a 6 yr old Alice MONKMAN b-1895 (granddaughter). Alice was the daughter of Albert Paul Joseph.\nIsabella MONKMAN died on March 4, 1904, age 88. She was buried with her husband in St Peters.\nPlease post queries and discussion at the following: Forum Topic for JOSEPH MONKMAN\n1. Oct 15, 1836 JOSEPH MONKMAN JR (m. Mary LELAND)\n** MORE ABOUT JOSEPH MONKMAN JR\n2. 1838 WILLIAM MONKMAN (Died 1868, St Andrews age 30)\n3. 1842 GEORGE MONKMAN (Died in infancy)\n4. Apr 27, 1845 THOMAS MONKMAN (m. Mary Murak INKSTER)\n5. Apr 12, 1847 JAMES MONKMAN (m. Jane Mary TAIT)\n** MORE ABOUT JAMES MONKMAN\n6. Apr 11, 1849 PHILIP MONKMAN (m. Catherine HARPER)\n** MORE ABOUT PHILIP MONKMAN\n7. June 6, 1851 ANDREW MONKMAN (m1. Nancy CHASTELLAINE, m2 Catherine WHITESAND)\n** MORE ABOUT the ANDREW MONKMAN FAMILY\n8. Jun 14, 1853 MARY MONKMAN (m. Henry COCHRANE)\n** MORE ABOUT HENRY COCHRANE\n9. 1854 ALBERT PAUL JOSEPH MONKMAN (m1. Mary Ann MORWICK, m2. Flora A. FITCH)\n10. Oct 16, 1856 NANCY MONKMAN (m. John IRVINE)\n11. 1858 DAVID MONKMAN (Died in infancy, age 8)\n12. Jan 26, 1860 ANNABELLA MONKMAN (m. 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In its struggle to find itself, it simultaneously competes with a university\u2019s traditional understanding of both education and culture, often involving Gregory Price Grieve\u2019s comment that video games are perceived as \u201clow brow\u201d culture. The view of video games as, again to quote Grieve, \u201cjust above pornography,\u201d is a misconception that the academic study of video games is constantly fighting against.\nThat being said, hearing about Grieve\u2019s success in bringing the study of video games to his university is promising. Not only was he able to establish courses for the study of religion and video games, but was also able to work with his library and university in order to establish gaming centres for students to play games. Having digital media pushed across disciplines throughout the university, as well as having a Digital Media Centre in their library, helps to establish video games and other forms of digital media as important and worthy of study in the university.\nGrieve did have an understanding university, which is something important to keep in mind. While his approach to getting video games in the classroom is a format presented to be copied, not everyone is lucky enough to be present in a university that is so understanding. This is especially the case in universities rooted in academic tradition, built on older standards which seldom factor in elements of popular culture. This is not even considering the cost of this kind of endeavour. Even with a buy-in from the library, Grieve\u2019s project still needed $10,000. And this is only considering the technicalities of this new media, and not the thought process of people who still believe that video games are not an important element of popular culture today, or who don\u2019t seem to really care about the \u201cpopular\u201d at all. In that sense, there are bigger problems facing some people at less understanding universities than a lack of technology.\nThe positive reception Grieve has experienced with his students can hopefully begin to be experienced by researchers and teachers in the study of video games in many universities throughout the world. However, there are many elements that still work against progression in the field. Some of the thoughts and actions impeding the growth of the field are, sadly, still present even among scholars in the field. By studying only video games, we impede ourselves and the progress which can be made; there are many aspects of video games which are affecting other elements of popular culture. An example of this are Let\u2019s Play videos, in which players record themselves playing a video game, with commentary and sometimes even recordings of the player\u2019s face (as the Let\u2019s Player PewDiePie became known for), which are then uploaded on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Unfortunately, the popularity of Let\u2019s Plays have been stereotyped almost as much as video games themselves are, an element that is unfortunately heard even in Grieves interview in which he relegates their popularity and interest almost exclusively to \u201cteenagers\u201d, even though the demographic may not be this concrete, especially for Let\u2019s Players who are older themselves, such as Fun Haus. PewDiePIe has over 41 million subscribers, and it is hard to imagine that all 41 million are only teenagers. Not to mention that the fastest growing demographic for gaming content are women over the age of 25.[1]\nWhat Let\u2019s Plays demonstrate for academics of video games is the creativity enjoyed by Let\u2019s Players. Geoff Ramsey, the founder of the Let\u2019s Play group Achievement Hunter has commented on this creativity: \u201cAny time we can take and use [a game] in a way that it wasn\u2019t necessarily intended by the developers, that\u2019s like the best thing in the world to me.\u201d[2] This out-pouring of creativity allows researchers to have easy access to new narratives being created and the emotions they create and share. These new narratives and emotions are not experienced solely by the Let\u2019s Player, but also by those who watch these videos; these narratives are then shared by the viewer to others, and new narratives are created by the viewer in relation to these new narratives. These videos are then not only relegated to the realm of video games, but also to internet studies and realms of internet discourse, particularly when elements of them become shared as memes.\nThe field of religion and video games is still emerging, and thus still solidifying its own definition and place. What is most important is for scholars interested in engaging with digital media, like video games, to demonstrate to their students, universities, and themselves that video games are a medium worthy of study.\n[1] Gautam Ramdurai, \u201cThink Gaming Content is Niche? Think Again,\u201d Think with Google, December 2014, accessed February 2016, https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/think-gaming-content-is-niche-think-again.html.\n[2] Rooster Teeth, Let\u2019s Play Live: The Documentary, Video (2015), ), http://roosterteeth.com/episode/r-t-docs-let-s-play-live-let-s-play-live-the-documentary\nTags: academia, bias, Digital, Greg Grieve, Let's Play, low brow culture, media, Popular Culture, Video Games, Vivian Asimos\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Super-Noahs-Ark-3D-SNES-900x0.png?fit=900%2C675&ssl=1 675 900 Kevin Whitesides https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Kevin Whitesides2016-02-18 17:40:242018-08-17 13:45:20Playing the Field: the Logistics of Religion and Video Game Studies\nVideo Games and Religious Studies\nOutside the Panels: Comics and Context\nEthics on the Internet: Public versus Private, is it that simple?\nSuperhero Shamans and Magickal Scribes: Appraising the study of Religion and Comics\nVivian, I can confirm that all the seven and eight year-olds I know are OBSESSED by let\u2019s play videos \u2013 mostly Minecraft. Interesting to note that Minecraft is producing a Teaching Edition to let teachers harness that in the classroom.\nSPSP 2016 Report: The state of religion in social and personality psycholog... 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In an international career that spanned eight decades, she established herself as an award-winning choreographer of diverse genres, a master teacher, and a tireless advocate for dance. Her approach to kinetic abstraction and the lived experience of movement was foundational to modern dance practice and theory. In particular, she developed elaborate theories of the dancer\u2019s relationship to space. Unlike some of her colleagues, Holm did not develop a codified technique, but instead taught through improvisational exploration of a comprehensive movement syllabus based on natural forces such as gravity and momentum. She insisted that each dance composition have its own form and its own vocabulary\u2014an imperative passed down to her from her mentor Mary Wigman\u2014and Holm, in turn, encouraged her students to develop their own aesthetic. Prot\u00e9g\u00e9s including Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Nancy Hauser, Valerie Bettis, Eve Gentry, Don Redlich, and Glen Tetley made distinctive contributions to modern dance in the latter half of the twentieth century.\nRandall, Tresa. \"Holm, Hanya (1893\u20131992).\" The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis, 2016. Date Accessed 15 Feb. 2019 https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/holm-hanya-1893-1992. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1920-1\nRandall, T.(2016). Holm, Hanya (1893\u20131992). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 15 Feb. 2019, from https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/holm-hanya-1893-1992. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1920-1\nRandall, T. 2016, 'Holm, Hanya (1893\u20131992)' in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, viewed 15 February 2019, . doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1920-1\nEckert, Johanna\nBennington School of the Dance (1934\u201342)\nBennington School of the Dance served as a highly influential training programme, creative laboratory and performance venue for early modern dance. Founded by Martha Hill,\u2026\nSchottelius, Renate (1921 \u2013 1998)\nGerman-born dancer and choreographer Renate Schottelius was a pioneer of modern dance in Argentina. Following early training in classical and modern dance in Berlin, she\u2026\nTamiris, Helen (1902\u20131966)\nHelen Tamiris was a key figure in the development of American modern dance; along with Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Hanya Holm, she helped to\u2026\nWigman, Mary (1886\u20131973)\nMary Wigman was among the most important dancers and choreographers in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. 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The South African Revenue Services says Seiphemo owes more than R48 000 in unpaid tax.\nDuring proceedings on Tuesday at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court, State prosecutor Duduzile Robertse revealed that there were ongoing engagements with defence regarding an admission of guilt fine.\nThe matter was postponed to 28 November.\nDuring his first appearance in court on October 18, Seiphemo\u2019s legal team said that they needed time to engage with Sars and make arrangements pertaining to his tax debacles.\nHis team also apologised to the court, saying that they had tried in vain to make amends.\nAt an earlier appearance on October 18, he was accompanied by his on-screen lover Zoe Mthiyane who plays the role of Zitha in the soapie.\nIt was confirmed late last year after much speculation that the duo is also a couple off-screen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reviewadda.com/institute/details/4633/b-d-arts-college-for-women-ahmedabad", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:MIDFQ6Z6PXVUMVTXAYN2X7VVES4UBZYN", "length": 2906, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.reviewadda.com", "title": "B.D. Arts College for Women, Ahmedabad", "raw_content": "B.D. Arts College for Women\nOpp.Dinbai Tower, Lal Darwaja, Ahmedabad, Gujarat | ESTD : 1956 | Approved By: NAAC | Type: Private\n0 Reviews | 9825017019,079-25500004 | bdarts@gujaratlawsociety.org\nB.D. ARTS COLLEGE, Ahmedabad was established in 1956 and is a premier girls college affiliated with Gujarat University.\nThe college has always achieved 20% to 30% higher results than the University results. The Students have won more than the 165 Gold Medals and Prizes, in university exams and hence have made their mark in various subjects like Home Science, Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Philosophy and Sanskrit.\nThe college regularly holds extra curricular activities so as to search the hidden talents in elocution, Music, Dance and Drama. The success of these efforts can be observed from the fact that the college was awarded:\n8 first Prizes at Inter University Gujarati Radio Play Contest, the Competition at Gujarat Level.\nThe college won five scrolls at All India Elocution Competition.\nThe College won 165 shields and Trophies and more than 350 prizes for Inter College Elocution Competition in Gujarati, Hindi, English and Sanskrit. It had the honor of winning prestigious Mahadeo Desai Trophy 22 times.\nThe College won 38 shields and 135 prizes for inter college Essay Competitions.\nThe college won 10 shields for Dance, Drama and Music competitions at Youth In SPORTS, the college has been Kho-Kho champion 14 times, volley ball champion 10 times as also champion in Basket Ball for the last six consecutive years, College Level. Our players have been selected in University Teams and Gujarat State Teams in Kho-Kho, Volley Ball, Base Ball, Basket Ball, Cricket, Ring Tennis and Table Tennis.\nThe college conducts Classical Instruments and Vocal Music classes since 15 years and the college had its own orchestra.\nThe basic aim of the institute was to address the needs of the \u2018Girl-child\u2019 in the contemporary society and the college has obtained a lot of success in their motto too.\nThe girl students belong to the Socially, Economically and Educationally backward classes. Students are encouraged to participate in various Exhibitions of Arts and Handicrafts, and Food festivals, N.S.S. and N.C.C. camps and sports activities etc. Students are also taught the methods to Self- Defense.\nThe college have a well equipped computer laboratory and a well-stocked library. Various Lectures are arranged by eminent personalities and scholars.\nThe institute is focused to provide their students with an environment for their all-round development tolerance so that they can give their very best. The college started the year with an \u2018YAGNA\u2019 synchronizing \u2018Ichha Shakti\u2019, \u2018Kriya Shakti\u2019 and \u2018Gyana Shakti\u2019 for development of World, Nation, State, Society and Individu\nKHUSBOO RANI 2016-07-26 08:57:10\nIs the college affiliated?\nMadhuri.M 2016-08-21 07:18:51\nCollege ffiliated with Gujarat University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.riachristiecollections.com/book/the-apostolic-fathers-volume-2-pt-1-s-cl-9781236418104/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6UYM5QMJXOFPWCB43JHWLVC6GWNP6HMX", "length": 167, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.riachristiecollections.com", "title": "The Apostolic Fathers Volume 2, PT. 1; S. 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The Inductees are:\n\"This year's Hall of Fame Inductees really capture the passion of the fans,\" said Joel Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. \"We're thrilled to again be able to have the fans be a part of the show, especially as we bring the ceremony to Barclays Center and partner again with HBO and Playtone.\"\n\"Brooklyn has always been a hotbed for rock and roll and we're proud to continue that tradition by hosting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony,\" said Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark. \"Barclays Center has hosted many of the world's biggest artists and we are looking forward to welcoming the new Inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as we celebrate for the first time ever in Brooklyn.\"\nTickets will go on sale to the public in January. A pre-sale for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members will take place in advance of the public on-sale date. To be eligible for the member pre-sale, you must be an active Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum member by December 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM EST. Exact sale dates will be announced in January.\nDetails at www.rockhall.com.\nFor this year's Inductions, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame again offered fans the opportunity to officially participate in the selection process. The public was able to cast votes online for who they believe to be most deserving of induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The top five artists, as selected by the public, comprised a \"fans' ballot\" that was tallied along with the other ballots to choose the 2014 Inductees. Three of the top five artists from the fans ballot will be inducted in 2014.\nThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, will also open a special exhibit on the 2014 Inductees in conjunction with the 2014 Induction Ceremony. The Museum is a nonprofit organization that tells the story of rock and roll's cultural influence through its exhibits, public events, educational programs and a world-class Library and Archives.\nFor more information on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, visit www.rockhall.com.\nFor high-resolution artwork and artist biographies of the 2014 Inductees, visit http://rockhall.com/pressroom. Media should log-in with the username \"media\" and the password \"rockhall216\".\nAbout the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees:\nPeter Gabriel's influence is so widespread we may take it for granted. When the rest of rock was simplifying in the new wave days, the former Genesis frontman blended synthesizers and a signature gated drum sound with an emotional honesty learned from soul music to create a sensibility that would influence artists from U2 and Arcade Fire to Depeche Mode. With extraordinary ambition, Gabriel transitioned from cult artist to multimedia pop star to global rock icon. His WOMAD festival has been a 33-year laboratory for musical cross-pollination. The epic song \"Biko\" directly inspired the Artists against Apartheid movement as he spearheaded the Amnesty International A Conspiracy Of Hope and Human Rights Now tours. His brilliant stage shows inspired U2's and Flaming Lips' and expanded the visual vocabulary of music videos with clips such as \"Sledgehammer,\" \"Shock The Monkey\" and \"Big Time.\" In addition, he wrote songs like \"Don't Give Up,\" \"Red Rain\" and \"In Your Eyes\" that put heart and soul on the radio at a time when those values were in short supply. Four decades on as a solo artist, Gabriel continues to push the boundaries of popular music and challenge audiences across the globe.\nDaryl Hall and John Oates created an original mix of soul and rock that made them the most successful pop duo in history. As songwriters, singers, and producers, they embraced the pop mainstream, bringing passion and creativity back to the 3-minute single. Over the course of their career, they have recorded six Number One hits and put 34 songs in the Billboard Top 100. Deeply rooted in lush Philly soul, Hall and Oates mixed smooth vocal harmonies and the romantic vulnerability of soul with edgy hard rock and new wave riffs to create some of the finest pop music of the 1980s. They teamed up in the early 1970s in Philadelphia, and landed a deal with Atlantic. On their first three albums they searched for the right style for their talents as they experimented with soul, folk and hard rock. They finally hit with \"Sara Smile\" in 1976, an irresistible sexy soul ballad that showcased their vocals, songwriting and guitar playing. After their subsequent string of hits (\"Rich Girl,\" \"She's Gone,\" \"Wait For Me\") they were energized by new wave and dance music. The result was an incredible run of original songs that topped the pop and R&B charts throughout the 1980s: \"Kiss On My List,\" \"Private Eyes,\" \"You Make My Dreams\" and \"I Can't Go For That\" combined the best of both rock and R&B, setting the stage for the important crossover work of Madonna and Prince. They continue to record and attract new young audiences, and their influence can be felt in the work of contemporary artists like Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake.\nFew bands short of the Beatles inspired more kids to pick up the guitar than KISS. With their signature makeup, explosive stage show and anthems like \"Rock And Roll All Nite\" and \"Detroit Rock City,\" they are the very personification of rock stars. Original members Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons came together in New York in 1972. While their first two records did not generate many sales, they quickly gained a national following for their bombastic, pyro-filled stage show. Their 1975 live disc Alive! captured that energy and reached Number Nine on the charts, quickly making them one of the most popular bands of the 1970s - scoring countless hit singles, sold-out tours and appearing everywhere from comic books to lunch boxes to their very own TV movie. Frehley and Criss left in the early 1980s and the group took their make-up off for 1983's Lick It Up. They continued to be a popular live draw, but in 1996 the original quartet reformed (and they put their make-up back on) and KISS mania was reborn. In 2009, KISS released Sonic Boom, their first album of new material in eleven years. They released Monster in 2012.\nIt only takes one song to start a rock revolution. That trigger, in late 1991, was \"Smells Like Teen Spirit,\" an exhilarating blast of punk-rock confrontation by Nirvana, a scruffy trio from Seattle. \"Teen Spirit,\" its moshpit-party video and Nirvana's kinetic live shows propelled their second album, Nevermind, to Number One and turned singer-guitarist-songwriter Kurt Cobain into the voice and conscience of an alternative-rock nation sick of hair metal and the conservative grip of the Reagan-Bush '80s. Founded by Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in the logging town of Aberdeen, Washington, Nirvana were underground stars when they made 1989's Bleach with drummer Chad Channing. Moving from the indie Sub Pop label to Geffen, the band - with drummer Dave Grohl - packed Cobain's corrosive riffs, emotionally acute writing and twin passions for the Beatles and post-punk bands like the Melvins and the Pixies into Nevermind. A multi-platinum seller, it included the hits \"Come As You Are\" and \"Lithium\" and opened the mainstream gates for Green Day, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. In 1993, Nirvana released the caustic masterpiece, In Utero, and gave a historic performance on MTV's Unplugged. But in April 1994, Cobain - suffering from drug addiction and severe doubts about his stardom - took his own life. Like Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, Cobain was 27, in his creative prime, when he died. Also like them, he and Nirvana remain an enduring influence and challenge - proof that the right band with the right noise can change the world.\nLinda Ronstadt dominated popular music in the 1970s with a voice of tremendous range and power. She was one of the most important voices in the creation of country rock, in part because she understood how to sing traditional country songs like \"Silver Threads And Golden Needles.\" She regularly crossed over to the country charts in the '70s, a rarity for rock singers. Working with producer Peter Asher, Ronstadt crafted a repertoire of songs that roamed throughout rock history that she interpreted with beautiful, precise phrasing. Ronstadt was especially good at singing early rock and roll; she had a long string of hits that revived interest in rock's pioneers: Roy Orbison's \"Blue Bayou,\" The Everly Brothers \"When Will I Be Loved\" and Buddy Holly's \"That'll Be The Day\" among them. She was equally comfortable with Motown music and the beginning of new wave. Her finest work was the run of four consecutive platinum albums in the mid - 70s: Heart Like A Wheel (1974), Prisoner In Disguise (1975), Hasten Down The Wind (1976) and Simple Dreams (1977). In the 1980s, she expanded her musical vocabulary by recording songs from the classic American songbook (What's New, Lush Life) and Mexican music that she heard growing up in Tucson, Arizona (Canciones De Mi Padre). That work proved as successful as her rock albums; she is the only artist to win a Grammy Award in the categories of pop, country, Mexican American and Tropical Latin. That diversity reflects her approach to singing: she was always looking for the best song, regardless of category.\nThe musical odyssey of Cat Stevens is well documented, from teenage London art school songsmith (\"The First Cut Is The Deepest,\" the Tremeloes' \"Here Comes My Baby\") to introspective cornerstone of the 1970s singer-songwriter movement. Who can measure the courage it took him in the late '70s, after seven years of multi-platinum success in the U.S. (and over a decade in the UK) to convert to Islam, amidst the wave of turmoil and confusion that was engulfing the world? He left his touring and recording life behind and named himself Yusuf Islam. Inevitably, many long-time fans abandoned him, and he found certain international borders closed and worse yet, controversies on his doorstep despite his humanist background. It was 17 difficult years between his final LP as Cat Stevens (1978's Back To Earth), and the first CD as Yusuf and more than a decade until his first pop album in nearly 30 years (An Other Cup in 2006). \"When I accepted Islam,\" he told Rolling Stone, \"a lot of people couldn't understand. To my fans it seemed that my entering Islam was the direct cause of me leaving the music business, so many people were upset. However, I had found the spiritual home I'd been seeking for most of my life. And if you listen to my music and lyrics, like 'Peace Train' and 'On The Road To Find Out,' it clearly shows my yearning for direction and the spiritual path I was travelling.\" The musical gifts that he has shared with the world are an important chapter in rock history a beacon of hope that will never be extinguished.\nEpstein served as the Beatles manager from January 1962 until his death in 1967 and helped shape a vision for a modern rock and roll band. Born in Liverpool in 1934, Epstein first got involved in the music business when he took over the record department of his family's music store, NEMS. His devotion to making the store a success transformed it into an essential gathering place for the young people of Northern England who sought to stay current with pop music. It was at NEMS that Epstein first became aware of the Beatles.\nEpstein immediately recognized the Beatles' potential as performers and recording artists. He signed them to a management contract in early 1962, and was the driving force behind getting the band a recording contract with Parlophone later that year. Epstein's keen eye for style and fashion helped shape a unique, charismatic identity for the band. Although Epstein didn't always make the best business decisions for the band in the nascent rock and roll industry his management style forged success for the Beatles, and he was completely dedicated to the band. Paul McCartney said: \"If anyone was the fifth Beatle it was Brian. People talked about George Martin as being the fifth Beatle because of his musical involvement but, particularly in the early days, Brian was very much part of the group.\"\nEpstein went on to sign a large stable of Liverpool artists in the wake of the Beatles success, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black, and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, but his first priority was always the Beatles. After the Beatles stopped touring in August 1966 and focused their work in the studio, Epstein had fewer responsibilities with the band, fell into drug addiction and died of an overdose in August -1967.\nBorn in London on January 29, 1944, Oldham was raised by his eccentric single mother having lost his father in World War II, several months before his birth. Music and film, as well as his experience with class and the English school system, shaped Oldham's sense of style and led to working for pioneering British designer Mary Quant. Oldham's precocious nature was tailor made for the fashion world, but an even better fit for the music business. Working publicity for producer Joe Meek and for Brian Epstein's NEMS stable of artists, which included the Beatles, he heard about new, young rhythm and blues bands who were rapidly gaining an audience. In short order, he began to manage the Rolling Stones, working with the group until 1967.\nOldham's U.K.-based record label, Immediate Records, was one of the coolest of the 60's, and released recordings by Small Faces, Rod Stewart, John Mayall, the Nice and the McCoys, among others. Oldham continued to produce records throughout the '70s and '80s and later authored an acclaimed two-volume autobiography that stands among the most fantastically vivid firsthand accounts of the '60s.\nBruce Springsteen formed the E Street Band in 1973, after he landed a recording contract with Columbia Records. Springsteen played with the musicians who became the E Street Band in various Asbury Park-based groups in the late 1960s and early 70s. The first line-up of the band - Garry Tallent on bass, Danny Federici on organ, David Sancious on piano, Vini Lopez on drums and Clarence \"Big Man\" Clemons on saxophone - logged many miles on the road, helping to establish Springsteen's legendary reputation as one of the greatest performers in the history of rock and roll. In 1974, drummer Max Weinberg and pianist Roy Bittan replaced Lopez and Sancious, and in 1975, during the recording of Springsteen's breakout album Born to Run, \"Miami\" Steve Van Zandt, who Springsteen had known since he was a teenager and who had been in a number of bands with Springsteen, joined the fold on guitar. That line-up of the band backed Springsteen on three of his most critically acclaimed and beloved albums: Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River, and backed him live as he moved from clubs to arenas to stadiums.\nWhen Steve Van Zandt left to pursue a solo career in the early 1980s, singer Patti Scialfa joined on vocals and Nils Lofgren, one of rock's greatest guitarists, joined on guitar, and the band backed Springsteen on his explosive worldwide tour in support of Born in the U.S.A. in 1984-85. Springsteen did not work with the band for much of the 1990s, but reunited them in 1999 in a version that included both Van Zandt and Lofgren. The band has been together ever since, and despite the loss of Federici and Clemons, retains a distinctive sound and unparalleled reputation for live shows.\nThrough various incarnations, the \"mighty men and women\" of the E Street Band, as Springsteen calls them, have provided a unique and powerful sonic template for Springsteen's music, combining British invasion guitar-driven rock, the joy of 1950s rock and roll and the drama and dynamics of soul music. They are showmen of the first order, and have more stamina than any rock band in the history of the music.\nThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. 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Just hours after the explosive device was found in Elizabeth, a shootout ensued in Linden. 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We offer a sanctuary from stress and the turmoil of the world. Surrounded by color, music, and all kinds of creations, we invite people to express themselves and try out new materials. We bring the beauty of nature into the room through flowers and natural materials. During the spring and summer, our garden is abuzz with gorgeous flowers and rich juicy vegetables. People can connect deeply to the natural world by nurturing plants, watching the birds, feeling the brilliant sun on their skin. After all, the greatest artist is nature herself. In the RLM, everyone has the opportunity to form relationships to all living things.\nWe nurture the soothing, healing qualities of art-making. Art can release intense emotions, build ego strength and self-esteem, forge collaboration and dialogue, and help people discover and develop their innate talents. The Rockland Living Museum celebrates the individuality of all its participants and seeks to foster joy and well-being. 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This is usually done to increase the likelihood of scoring with two outs, or where a runner would not need to tag up in the event of an out.\nContact hitter Cornerman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 851, "original_length": 11046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rosehillfoods.com/support-team.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:T2AGOPT5LOZ45ATTS4IOV42XKA272ZNE", "length": 586, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rosehillfoods.com", "title": "Support Team", "raw_content": "Whether you're a distributor, a restaurant chain or food processor, we have experienced sales, culinary and R&D teams to provide you with sales knowledge and tools, and trendy culinary solutions to meet today's growing challenges posed by a fast paced and evolving food industry.\nIn addition to an experienced in-house sales & marketing force, we have partnered with experienced food brokers to implement our company's sales strategies.\nOur combined experience and knowledge of the food industry has helped Rose Hill establish itself as a supplier of choice in the canadian marketplace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rsccaritas.com/index.php/rscnews/1036-book-launch-at-the-lir-hub-a-wonderful-achievement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2EQKB5EX7Q2ZWVTJV4TRSRWYEEVA6FDS", "length": 3793, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.rsccaritas.com", "title": "Anna's Book Launch at The Lir Hub - A wonderful achievement", "raw_content": "Anna's Book Launch at The Lir Hub - A wonderful achievement\nSiobh\u00e1n O\u2019Donovan, the Special Educational Needs Coordinator in St Vincent\u2019s Secondary School in Cork shares the story about The Lir Hub and the wonderful achievement of Anna Stack, a pupil at St Vincent\u2019s who recently had a book published.\n\u201cThe Lir Hub opened in September 2013. It supports students with Autism who have been recommended to attend a special class placement in a mainstream school. It was the first centre in Ireland to offer support in a girl\u2019s only setting.\nJoanne O\u2019Riordan formally opened Tearmann Lir in September 2014, the Lord Mayor Councillor Tony Fitzgerald performed the official opening of our new rooms in Sept 2017. The Lir Hub is a wonderful asset to our school, we have all learned so much from it. It has fostered a great spirit of inclusivity which is a central component of the ethos of our school.\nMs Claire Barry and I work with the students, their parents, teachers and SNA\u2019s each day to ensure that all students individual needs are catered for.\nThe first student who enrolled was a girl called Anna Stack in 2013. Anna is an 18 year old student who was diagnosed with childhood autism when very young. While this has presented her with many challenges along the way it has also been an empowering part of her life. Anna is a very artistic and creative student. In sixth class she had her first novel published \u2018Victoria Bunnyham\u2019, not only did Anna write the book she did all the illustrations herself. It is Anna\u2019s latest endeavour that I would like to tell you about.\nAnna has built up a portfolio of drawings over her years here at St Vincent\u2019s where she expresses artistically what Anna\u2019s ideal world would look like. The vision of one of our SNA Team Ms Vivien O\u2019Leary Callendar has taken this to the next level. Both Anna and Vivien have complied 100 illustrations in the form of a colouring book for children called \u201cAnna\u2019s Dreamworld\u201d in which she asks the children to \u2018colour Anna\u2019s world their way\u2019. The book has been published and it was launched in the school on Wednesday 21st November. This has been made possible by the generosity of the local community through sponsorship and advertising. One thousand copies of the book have been sold to date.\nThe Examiner newspaper, Cork 96 FM and the Evening Echo have come on board and have publicised the launch of her book. The Evening Echo were so impressed by what they saw they have asked Anna to provide the illustrations for their KIDS Zone section for two weeks. Anna has designed the official Christmas card for Blackpool Shopping centre.\nAnna\u2019s journey through secondary school was very challenging and with the support of her wonderful family and the school community she has accomplished many outstanding achievements. Anna completed her primary education in Scartleigh National School where she attended the ASD Unit and integrated into mainstream school for a period of time every day. In 2016 Anna successfully completed her Junior Cert, a wonderful moment for Anna, her family and all the school community. Anna is currently in Leaving Certificate.\nWe as a school community students, teachers and SNA\u2019s have learnt so much from Anna. Anna is very open about her ASD diagnosis and is very articulate when communicating to her peers what it is like to have autism. This has allowed the mainstream students to get an insight into ASD and this in turn has engaged them, we have a student body who are very supportive of one another and who have a great understanding of the fact while we all have different needs we can all work together in a positive way.\u201d\nCongratulations to Anna and all involved in this great project from the Religious Sisters of Charity.\nClick HERE to see a Cork 96 FM's video of Anna at the book launch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.runsforcookies.com/2014/11/detroit-turkey-trot-drumstick-double.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:P54J6WILZ23F336Y6H33LOWXQHNWZDOF", "length": 9498, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.runsforcookies.com", "title": "Runs for Cookies: Detroit Turkey Trot Drumstick Double race reports", "raw_content": "Last night, there was a last minute change of plans to our race this morning, which made things a little interesting! Nathan (my younger brother) called me to say that Brian (my older brother) and Becky (Brian's wife) decided to bail on the Turkey Trot. They were already registered, and when Jerry heard they weren't going to run, he decided to run in Brian's place.\nBrian was registered for the Drumstick Double (10K followed by 5K), and Jerry hasn't run it at least a month. I told him it was a bad idea, but he really wanted to do it, so that was the plan. We realized he didn't have any cold weather running clothes, so we made a last-minute trip to Dunham's last night to get him some running tights.\nWe got up at 4:30 this morning to get ready and leave by 5:30. We were supposed to meet Nathan, Kendall (his girlfriend), and Trish (his friend) at 5:45 to drive up to Detroit. We got to Detroit at 6:15, and there was no traffic on the expressway. But as soon as we tried to get to the parking garage at Cobo Center, it was a HUGE mess of cars. Drivers were being really aggressive, and even though I had tried to prepare myself for how crowded it would be, I just felt stressed before we even parked.\nWe ended up finding a different garage to park in, and then made our way to Cobo where the packet pick-up was. It was a huge center, and we didn't see any signs directing us where to go or anything, so we just kept walking and hoped to find it. We finally got our packets and took a picture before making our way to the starting line.\nMe, Jerry, Kendall, Nathan, and Trish\nIt took us a long time to find our way back out to the street, and by that time, it was already 7:25 (the race started at 7:30). When we got to the starting line, we were supposed to go to the blue corral because we were doing the Drumstick Double (except Kendall, who was doing the 5K). The sidewalks were so crowded, and they already sent off the first wave of people. We couldn't find anywhere to get through the gates into the corrals, so the guys hopped over them while Trish and I squeezed through the bars.\nI had turned on my Garmin at around 7:00, but it STILL hadn't found satellites. I was starting to stress over that, because I was really hoping to aim for a 55:00 finish time, and I didn't want to do it blindly. I turned it off and then back on, and the blue wave started. We started walking toward the starting line, and literally about 30 seconds before we crossed it, my Garmin picked up satellites. Woo hoo! If I hadn't had a goal, I wouldn't have worried about it so much, but I needed my Garmin ;)\nNathan told me he'd pace me, so we stuck together. And Trish was with us most of the way as well. Jerry's only goal was to finish, so he ran alone. When we crossed the starting line, it was impossible to run the pace I wanted, because of all the people. I was trying to pass people, but there really wasn't room to do that. I was aiming for an 8:50 pace, but the first two miles were 9:05 and 9:00. I mentally just readjusted my goal to be sub-9:16 miles, which was my \"B\" goal (it was what the McMillan calculator had predicted).\nThere was an out-and-back section about a mile long, and a couple of minutes after we made the turn, I suggested we start looking for Jerry to run past us. We could see the people who were approaching the turn-around, so I figured he'd be about five minutes behind us. I looked and looked, but never saw him. I wasn't sure if I should be worried, but then I figured we probably just missed him in the crowd.\nAs we approached the skyline, it was really pretty! I had to take a picture as I ran:\nYou can see Nathan and Trish on the left of the picture. I spent the last three miles just trying to keep up with them! My third mile was 9:04, and then after the crowd wasn't so crowded, I was able to dip into the 8:00's. Miles 4 and 5 were 8:46 and 8:50. I was REALLY getting tired around mile 5, and I was hoping there was a water station, but I never did see one on the course (I later learned there were two--but Nathan and I both missed them).\nAt mile 5.5, I happened to glance just ahead and to my right, and there was Jerry! I was SO shocked to see him. I was busting my ass to hit pace, and he, who rarely runs, was ahead of us the whole time?! He must have started at the front of the wave, because his pace was a little slower (9:10), but he ran that 10K like a champ. I briefly thought of slowing to finish with him, but my average pace was at an 8:56 at that moment, so I was going to try to finish with a sub-9:00 pace. I kept going with Nathan.\nHe asked me if I had anything left to give, because if I did, I could still finish under 55:00. In my head, I had tried doing the math to see if it was possible to finish under 55:00, but I was thinking it just couldn't happen at that point. I'd have to make up a lot of seconds in a short amount of time. I just told him no, that I was doing all I could.\nWhen I could see the finish line, Nathan said I had about 14 seconds, and I could do it. I sprinted with what little energy was left in my legs, but I knew it wasn't going to happen. I crossed the finish line in 55:07--just 7 seconds from my goal! Hahaha, if I had known it would be THAT close, there are so many things I would have done differently (like maybe not take pictures while running?).\nAnyway, I really felt I gave it my best, considering the crowded course and feeling stressed before the race. We waited for Jerry, and he crossed in 57:49. Then we all started walking quickly to the starting line again for the 5K. It was about a half-mile, and then we discovered we were locked out of the corrals again. We started searching for a spot to crawl through, and just as I was about to, a girl on the inside of the corral pointed out where there was an opening. Then she said, \"By the way, I love your blog!\" Hahaha, small world :) The 5K had already started, so we made our way to the opening, but there were way too many people standing outside of it for us to get through. Once the crowd started moving, we wormed our way in and walked toward the starting line.\nThis was Kendall's first 5K, and she expected to run about an 11:00-11:30 pace, so I planned to stick with her (I knew I'd be tired after that 10K!) and Nathan stayed with us as well. Running at that pace was much more enjoyable, and I actually took a few pictures.\nThis was the out-and-back portion\nAs we were running the out-and-back portion, I heard someone on the other side going past yell, \"Runs for Cookies!\" I yelled back, but I was taken off guard so I'm not sure if she heard. (If you're reading, hi! Hope you had a great race!)\nKendall was doing awesome, and managed splits of 11:32, 11:13, and 10:34. We crossed the finish line in 35:16. The finish line was a mess of people, and the Drumstick Doublers were told to go inside the building for our medals. It took us a while (and a lot of asking) to find where to go, but we finally got our medals. The food line was ridiculously long, and even though I was super thirsty, I didn't want to wait.\nThey had some stuff for sale, and when I saw this particular hoodie, I just HAD to have it:\nIt has an INSULATED beer holder pocket on the front, along with an attached bottle opener! I had no money with me, because I just don't carry it when I run; but Trish offered to lend me the money to buy it (she got one too). As chaotic and unorganized as the race was, buying this shirt was totally worth it all ;)\nOverall, I am VERY happy with my 10K today--even though I didn't hit my goal, I did run hard and I came very close. Running Kendall's first 5K with her was awesome. And I bought a really fun hoodie. While I'll never do this Turkey Trot again (just too unorganized for me) but I'm glad I did it. I earned a TON of Weight Watchers PointsPlus for my dinner tonight! And it was a great way to start Thanksgiving :)\nThank you for the post about the magazines a week or so ago. I missed that one, but I looked it back up today and got a great deal on Christmas gift subscriptions. :)\nCorky November 28, 2014\nI also had trouble getting my garmin to sync before my race here in South Carolina. Like you it finally synced seconds before the start. Glad you took a couple of photos so this Detroit native could see a few familiar sights. Congrats on a good race.\nJames Gingell November 28, 2014\nCongrats on doing the Double. Sorry to hear that you found the race disorganized: I had a very positive experience and thought they did an excellent job of emailing all of the information with links to parking, corral set-up (and gate locations) as well as the specific instructions for the Drumstick Double. It was a great day to be in the D with so many thousands of like-minded people out to have fun and be healthy with family and friends - such a positive atmosphere. I applaud you on your determination and commitment and on the positive change that you have made in your life. Blogging about your experiences can only inspire others to do the same, so well done! James Gingell\nWow, you had a GREAT race, despite all the obstacles! And you still finished the 5k faster than Jamie and I! ;)\nLOVE the skyline picture...just gorgeous!!\nRunning Meg December 01, 2014\nThis race is super crowded for sure. I like doing it because I have friends who run it but I would love it if there were a smaller one around these parts. It didn't start to get that crazy until they started offering medals. Glad you had a good race. 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A couple days later the New York Times with a major, major hit piece on John Boehner. And then on the CBS Slay the Nation show yesterday with Bob Schieffer, CBS obviously working with the Democrat Party, tried to get Boehner on the record for being against tax cuts for the so-called middle class. The Democrats had already made commercials that they intended to roll out today attacking Boehner for what they thought he was going to say but he crossed \u2019em up. What does it say, though, that CBS, the New York Times and the rest of the media work so closely with the Democrats\u2019 campaign? Not just with the Democrat Party, but now with the Democrat campaign! And have you noticed the Bush tax cuts are going to be called the Obama tax cuts? We are going to re-gift. They\u2019ll be re-gifted as the Obama tax cuts. Now, keeping the Bush tax cuts on the middle class means very little if you raise taxes on small businesses and others who hire people in the middle class. So once again the supposed beneficiaries of all of this wonderful compassion, \u2018The Little Guy,\u2019 gets shafted again.\nRUSH: I have a little chart here. This has been put out by the Associated Press. Tax scenarios: \u2018The most sweeping tax cuts in a generation are due to expire at the end of the year. Congress is set to take up the issue this month. If Congress does nothing, families at every income level face tax increases next year.\u2019 Now, we\u2019ve been told all along these Bush tax cuts were tax cuts for the rich. Now, I know numbers are sort of hard to follow on radio, but 2011 income: If you make between 40 and $50,000, about 13 million such taxpayers, they will have an increase of a thousand dollars, 923 bucks. If you earn between 50 and $75,000 (that\u2019s 24 million taxpayers) their taxes go up $1,100. So what are we up to now? To 36, almost 37 million taxpayers from $40,000 to $75,000. Now let\u2019s go 75 to a hundred thousand income. Fifteen million taxpayers, their taxes go up about $1,800. So we\u2019ve got 36, 15, 51 million tax returns from $40,000 to a hundred thousand. Let\u2019s go $100,000 to $200,000, 17 million tax returns. Those people\u2019s taxes annually go up by $3,600. So, looking at 67 million taxpayers. I better write that down so I don\u2019t forget it. I\u2019m doing this manually in my head. Now if we go from $200,000 to $500,000 you got 3.7 million. So that puts us up to 71 million taxpayers between $40,000 and $500,000 a year. Between $500,000 to one million, 608,000, that takes us to $71, 71.8 million, and $1 million and over 315,000 taxpayers, why, that takes us to let\u2019s say 74 million.\nSo from income $40,000 to $500,000 a year, 72 million taxpayers. Five hundred thousand dollars to a million and over adds three million. And $500,000 and over adds not even one million. That\u2019s a small number of taxpayers and we\u2019re only gonna raise taxes on them. Now, if you are 200 to 500 grand a year taxes are going to go up $7,000 a year. If you\u2019re one million and over, your taxes go up a minimum of $101,000. Now, I haven\u2019t even touched on the income of $10,000 to 20,000. There\u2019s 24 million of those. Twenty thousand to $30,000, 18 million of those. It proves the old point: You could confiscate \u2014 not just tax, you could confiscate \u2014 all income over a million dollars in this country and you could run the country for a day or two, if that. So it\u2019s all class envy, it\u2019s all smoke and mirrors, and now they\u2019re trying to say that Boehner is against tax cuts for the middle class. They expected Boehner to totally oppose any tax cuts if it didn\u2019t include the rich. They already had commercials produced ready to go but he crossed \u2019em up on that out there, and so now he\u2019s getting hit from the Republican side for not having the fortitude to go all-or-nothing.\nLet\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and listen to a little bit of this. Face the Nation yesterday, Bob Schieffer in a setup. Schieffer and the Democrat campaign had already spoken. \u2018Here\u2019s how we\u2019re going to go after Boehner.\u2019 They take the lead of the New York Times. \u2018You know, Boehner\u2019s had relationships with lobbyists?\u2019 Really? \u2018Yeah. John Boehner, a Republican member of Congress, has relationships with lobbyists! Yeah, really scandal-plagued, Boehner is out there.\u2019 I mean it was a full-fledged hit piece. It hasn\u2019t gotten a whole lot of traction. But the whole thing is coordinated from the White House on down to Democrat campaigns to CBS and the New York Times, which they\u2019re already united in their polling unit. So here\u2019s Bob Schieffer\u2019s trumped up question: \u2018You\u2019re saying you would vote for the middle-class tax cuts if that\u2019s all\u2026\u2019 That\u2019s not what Schieffer wanted to hear. Schieffer\u2019s question was: \u2018You mean if you don\u2019t get tax cuts for the rich you\u2019re gonna oppose tax cuts for the middle class, too?\u2019 That\u2019s what they were hoping that Boehner would say. He didn\u2019t say that. Here\u2019s his answer.\nBOEHNER: If that\u2019s what we can get done, but I think that\u2019s bad policy. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to help our economy. And I think the other thing that has to happen is that we\u2019ve got to cut spending. If we cut spending, we will help our economy. We will send signals to the markets. We will send signals to the business community that Washington\u2019s attempting to get its fiscal house in order. That\u2019s why the two things that I called on the President to do this week was to extend all of the current tax rates and let\u2019s do a spending bill this month, not after the election.\nRUSH: So they took one thing there that he would go along with, but he would not support tax cuts for the rich to try to get him in trouble with the Republicans when their original effort was to get him in trouble with the whole country. Now, all these tax cut numbers \u2014 and it\u2019s hard to follow on the radio, I know. That\u2019s why I summed it up. You could confiscate all income over a million dollars \u2014 just take it, a 100% tax rate on all income over a million \u2014 and you could run the country for a couple days. It hasn\u2019t changed. The vast majority of income in this country is middle class income, and yet while all those numbers are fascinatingly interesting, one of the main focal points on Face the Nation yesterday was that Boehner smokes. Boehner smokes cigarettes. So does Obama, but we don\u2019t hear much about that anymore. But Boehner smokes cigarettes. Yeah, Bob Schieffer on the case: \u2018Mr. Boehner, I\u2019m going to ask you this question because I\u2019m not objective about it. I\u2019m a cancer survivor. I used to be a heavy smoker. Do you still smoke?\u2019\nBOEHNER: I do.\nSCHIEFFER: You have taken $340,000 from the tobacco industry. They\u2019ve been the largest contributor to your political campaigns over the year. How do you square that with the fact that cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in this country? 435,000 people, their deaths are linked to cancer. That\u2019s one in five. How\u2026? How\u2026? How do you\u2026? How do you justify that in your own mind?\nBOEHNER: Bob, tobacco is a legal product in America and the American people have a right to decide for themselves whether they want to partake or not.\nRUSH: Yeah, and it\u2019s going to remain legal because of the tax revenue that is generated by its sale. Now, Boehner\u2019s answer, I kind of like it: Hey, it\u2019s my life, it\u2019s my business; if I want to smoke, screw you! It\u2019s a legal product. But have you ever heard them go after Obama on this? When it comes to Obama and his smoking, oh, oh, he\u2019s really trying hard to quit! Why, he doesn\u2019t smoke in front of the kids. He\u2019s got so much pressure on him, but he\u2019s trying to give \u2019em up. (imitating Schieffer) \u2018You still smoke? 435,000 people dead every year!\u2019\nRUSH: By the way, Schieffer wasn\u2019t through with Boehner on this smoking business. You know, Boehner said (paraphrase), \u2018Well, look, it\u2019s a legal product. People have a right to do with whatever they want.\u2019 Schieffer was not satisfied.\nSCHIEFFER: Well, I mean they\u2026they have a right to shoot themselves if they choose to, but I mean, uh, shouldn\u2019t we do something to try to encourage \u2019em not to? I mean, do you think that\u2019s a good example?\nBOEHNER: Well, listen, I wish I didn\u2019t have this bad habit, and it is a bad habit. You\u2019ve had it, you\u2019ve dealt with it, but it\u2019s something that I choose to do. And, you know, at some point, maybe I\u2019ll decide I\u2019ve had enough of it.\nSCHIEFFER: Well, I mean, if \u2014 if you should become Speaker, uhh, you could set a good example by, for the country, by, uhhh, saying, \u2018I\u2019m\u2026 I\u2019m gonna try to stop smoking.\u2019 Maybe you could get the president. I understand he smokes, too.\nRUSH: Hey, Face the Nation has officially become a debate now \u2014 over morality! Can you imagine? Bob Schieffer, a far-left fringe news guy is attempting to impose his morality on Boehner? Boehner said (paraphrase), \u2018I like it. I like smoking cigarettes.\u2019 By the way, I got these electronic cigarettes here? They\u2019re trying to put \u2019em out of business because there\u2019s no tax revenue raised when you go out and buy them\u2026 I mean, there\u2019s not the exorbitant taxes that are placed on tobacco.\nRUSH: You know, John Boehner and a lot of smokers are actually funding children\u2019s health care programs. I have made this point throughout the whole period of time that there have been attacks on smoking. At some point, you know, we keep raising taxes on tobacco products and the money is going to what? It\u2019s going to things that people consider seriously important. Children\u2019s health care plans, education, and what have you. So what if we were really serious about eliminating smoking? What happens if we have a 100% successful campaign to get everybody to quit smoking? Do you realize the number of government programs that would be funded with zero? You\u2019d be stunned.\nNow, nicotine is the most addictive drug on the planet. Nobody has a pleasant first experience with it, unlike most other drugs. Have you ever seen somebody take their first inhale of a cigarette? They have a coughing spasm and they vow never to ever do it again. Just like somebody who gets drunk and throws up, they vow never ever to do it again \u2014 and within minutes they\u2019re back at it. Well, it\u2019s the same thing with people that smoke cigarettes. You get started and it\u2019s a very addictive drug. So totally wiping it out would defund\u2026 I\u2019ve said in a half-serious way numerous times, \u2018Smokers deserve medals because they are risking their own lives for the children. They\u2019re funding children\u2019s health programs,\u2019 and of course that impeccable logic is met with the usual derision. But stop and think if we were ever really successful and ask yourself if government really does want to eliminate smoking. The product remains legal. It\u2019s a cash cow for lawyers; it\u2019s a cash cow for states; it is a cash cow for federal governments and agencies. There\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna ever make tobacco illegal.\nSo when moralists like Bob Schieffer come along they gain a lot credit for compassion by suggesting we do everything we can to make people stop smoking, but the people that are putting taxes on cigarettes and making all these anti-smoking cigarette PSAs are not really serious about it. If they were, we\u2019d ban the product just as we\u2019ve banned other things we don\u2019t want people to do and we\u2019d start chasing people who do it. There was a lot less anger out there when people smoked. I\u2019ll tell you something, I recently discovered these electronic cigarettes. I occasionally puff one here with the Dittocam on and I get people saying, \u2018I can\u2019t believe you\u2019ve succumbed! I thought you quit cigarettes. Oh, no, what have you done?\u2019 They\u2019re electronic. There\u2019s no tobacco in these things. They\u2019re purely electronic. Here, you can watch on the Dittocam. This is an apple-flavored electronic cigarette. (interruption) What are you smirking at, Dawn?\nI have a little story here. Inside this green what looks like the filter, that\u2019s where the nicotine is in a liquid. There\u2019s an atomizer in there and the long part that looks like the cigarette itself is a battery. And when you start sucking on this thing, the atomizer creates water vapor. It looks like smoke. It\u2019s fun. You know what I love to do? I love whipping one of these things out in an elevator. Folks, you know me. I love irritating the status quo. I love irritating the politically correct. It is really fun to whip one of these things out at a bar. It doesn\u2019t take long before the manager comes up, \u2018Mr. Limbaugh, there have been some complaints. We really have a no smoking policy here at such-and-such bar. We do.\u2019\nI said, \u2018It\u2019s not a cigarette. Here, look,\u2019 and I demonstrate it. \u2018Here, let me blow this in your face.\u2019\nSo I suck on the thing, I blow it in their face and they actually go, \u2018Oooh, that does smell kinda like vanilla. Smells kind of like chocolate or apple,\u2019 and they smile and they go away.\nAnd it happens more often than not the guy comes back and says, \u2018Mr. Limbaugh, you\u2019re still upsetting people.\u2019\n\u2018Well, it looks like you\u2019re smoking a cigarette, and it\u2019s making them uncomfortable.\u2019\n\u2018Well, why? It\u2019s not hurting them.\u2019\n\u2018I know, but would you please just not do it? Smoking\u2019s not allowed.\u2019\n\u2018I\u2019m not smoking. I\u2019m water-vaporing. It\u2019s no different if you put a vaporizer with Vick\u2019s VapoRub in it here on your bar.\u2019\n\u2018Well, Mr. Limbaugh, I understand, but some of our\u2026\u2019\nSo I look around, \u2018Who are these nattering nabobs?\u2019\nI can spot \u2019em in an instant. I can spot the people shooting daggers at me. I know who they are, and you know what they\u2019re upset about? What do you think they\u2019re upset about, Brian? They\u2019re upset that I\u2019m enjoying it. They are upset that I\u2019m having a good time. The fact that there are no carcinogens; the fact that there\u2019s no odor; the fact that there\u2019s nothing offensive about it other than the way it looks to them doesn\u2019t matter to them. They still want to wade in there and stop me from doing it.\nBy the way, guess who\u2019s trying to put these people out of business? There\u2019s a bunch of different manufacturers and sellers of the electronic cigarette, and the big pharmaceuticals are lining up against them. The FDA is now going to conduct hearings on this and whether or not it\u2019s feasible, whether it\u2019s healthy. They\u2019re going to try to find some health concerns here with water vapor. But it\u2019s all because they\u2019re cheaper than cigarettes. With the taxes on cigarettes now, they\u2019re cheaper than cigars. They\u2019re cheaper than Nicorette gum. They\u2019re cheaper than the patch, depending on how you use \u2019em. But there\u2019s no tobacco tax on \u2019em. So you see my whole point with this is, for somebody trying to quit smoking, the electronic cigarette\u2019s a good way to do it.\nAnd they don\u2019t really want that because there\u2019s no tax revenue with these things. I guarantee you, if they find a way to attach equivalent taxes to tobacco taxes to the electronic cigarette, everybody would be fine with it. I guarantee you. I don\u2019t know if Indian reservations are in the e-cigarette market or not, \u2019cause they don\u2019t charge any sales taxes. They don\u2019t have to charge sales taxes on their cigarettes. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if you can buy an e-cig on a reservation or not. I\u2019ve not actually tried. I just find all this moralizing, all this proselytizing, all this I\u2019m-better-than-you stuff\nRUSH: You know, that\u2019s right. You go to a ballpark anywhere in public and somebody lights up a joint, nobody says a word. Nobody says a word because nobody wants to be thought of as a narc. But you let somebody light up a cigarette and 49,000 people will have a conniption fit. It\u2019s true. It\u2019s true. Not one person will care about a joint. They may say, \u2018Can you believe somebody is smoking a joint?\u2019 but nobody will call the authorities. But somebody will light up a Marlboro and all hell breaks loose.\nHave you seen these DirecTV commercials? These DirecTV commercials are fabulous. This is when the cops are allowed to Taser people. In the one I saw yesterday a waitress\u2026 There are some guys in her diner who are just enjoying the hell out of themselves. They\u2019re watching DirecTV. They\u2019re watching the NFL Sunday Ticket on their iPads and their mobile devices at their table and they\u2019re just having the greatest time and they\u2019re enjoying themselves, and the waitress at this place just can\u2019t stand it that they\u2019re enjoying themselves. So she puts dirty dishwater into a pitcher of iced tea and then stirs it up with her fingers and takes it over and serves them. Of course they\u2019re clueless, but this is her way of getting even with people having a good time, because they\u2019re watching their favorite football teams wherever they want because they have DirecTV Sunday Ticket.\nThe reason I think that ad is good is because it illustrates that there are just some people, liberals in this country, who do not want anybody to enjoy themselves. Nobody\u2019s going to have a good time, not when there\u2019s so much suffering and not when there\u2019s so much economic turmoil and angst, and people having a good time, especially people who may not be suffering from economic angst, I mean obviously if you can afford the NFL Sunday Ticket on your mobile device and go to a diner when the football games are on and watch with your buddies at a restaurant rather than have to go to the stadium, sure, a lot of people are going to be mad at you. So kudos to DirecTV for putting that in the ad.\nRUSH: You know, it\u2019s kinda fascinating to me, John Boehner smokes. Bob Schieffer knew that. Did you know that Boehner smokes? Did you know it? You ever seen him smoke? How did you know it? Well, you\u2019ve seen him, Snerdley, but the point is Bob Schieffer did not know that the Justice Department had dropped the case against the New Black Panthers. That was not on his radar. He did not know that defendants are not going to be pursued by the Obama Justice Department. He knew that Boehner smoked. Imagine that.\nRUSH: Altoona Pennsylvania. Kathy, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.\nCALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to speak to you.\nCALLER: I\u2019m from Pennsylvania where we cling to our Bibles and our guns. I just wanted to say it\u2019s been bothering me ever since Obama got into office: He\u2019s a smoker, so aren\u2019t federal buildings supposed to be off limits to smoking? So would that also include the White House? Does he go outside?\nRUSH: Yeah, but, you know, the president is exempt from all this stuff. Nobody\u2019s going to tell him he can\u2019t \u2014 other than Michelle, who probably does. But he can sneak off. You know that nobody\u2019s gonna tell him he can\u2019t smoke.\nCALLER: Is that perhaps why they constructed the white tent outside so that that would be his smoker\u2019s tent?\nRUSH: It could well be. I mean, a white tent outside the White House, I think that\u2019s for parties where people sneak in. That\u2019s where the intruders are. Yeah, the Salahi\u2019s. They misdirect them once they sneak into parties. Obama wouldn\u2019t go to a tent to smoke.\nCALLER: The big white drape that they draped over the White House here, a month or so ago \u2014\nRUSH: Well, now, that could be they fumigated the place. I mean, the whole White House was covered. The West Wing was covered in tarp.\nCALLER: Well, that\u2019s the other thing. What happens whenever they go to move out, which hopefully will be very soon, like in the next two years? Won\u2019t we have to pay extra to clean the smoke off the drapes and carpets?\nRUSH: Assuming he\u2019s smoking in there. We don\u2019t know that he\u2019s smoking in the residence. Do you have any proof that he\u2019s smoking in there?\nCALLER: No, but do we have proof he\u2019s going outside?\nRUSH: I smoked in the White House with Bush. I smoked a cigar in the Treaty Room up at the residence.\nCALLER: Mmm-hmm.\nRUSH: The president can do what he wants to do whenever he wants to do it. I mean, nobody\u2019s gonna tell him no.\nCALLER: Well, perhaps we should put Bob Schieffer on to this.\nRUSH: Well, Bob Schieffer doesn\u2019t care. Bob Schieffer probably wouldn\u2019t believe it if he was told.\nRUSH: This whole thing with Boehner is orchestrated. It\u2019s all part of a plan. Last week the White House says they\u2019re gonna start targeting Boehner; a couple days later here comes a hit piece in the New York Times, and then Bob Schieffer tried to set Boehner up yesterday because Democrats already had produced ads with Boehner against tax cuts for the middle class. They hoped Boehner would oppose extending the tax cuts to everybody if the rich weren\u2019t included and he crossed \u2019em up. So now the Republicans are mad at Boehner for not holding out for tax cuts for everybody when he did. Here\u2019s Obama, by the way, on this back in 2009 at the White House, a little news conference out there. McClatchy newspaper, Margaret Talev, said, \u2018How many cigarettes a day do you now smoke? Do you smoke alone or in the presence of other people, and do you believe that the new law should help you to quit?\u2019\nOBAMA 2009: Look, uh, I\u2019ve said before that, uh, as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it. Uhhh, have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. The\u2026uh\u2026 Am I, uhh, a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No. Ehh\u2026ehh\u2026.uh\u2026 I don\u2019t do it in front of my kids. I don\u2019t do it in front of, uh, my family, uhh, and, eh, uh, you know, I would say that I am, uh, 95% cured.\nMEDIA: (guffawing)\nOBAMA 2009: But there are times where\u2026 (laughter) There are times where I mess up.\nRUSH: Oh, yeah, it\u2019s laughing matter when Obama messes up, but Boehner, \u2018Do you think maybe you ought to stop? Do you think maybe you\u2019re encouraging people \u2014 450,000 people die every year, you think maybe you\u2019re responsible for people dying of cancer? What do you have to say for yourself, \u2018Mr. Speaker\u2019?\u2019\n\u2018Well, occasionally I screw up.\u2019\n\u2018Ha-ha-ha, way to go, Mr. President! He\u2019s trying, trying real hard.\u2019\nLet\u2019s go back, March 1st, 2010, White House press briefing, Robert \u2018Fibbs\u2019 got a question from Jacob Tapper. \u2018There was some talk about the president\u2019s cholesterol being a little higher and the smoking cessation needing to continue. Is there anything for all of the Americans struggling with both cholesterol and cigarettes that you or the president wanted to say about either of those?\u2019\nGIBBS: On the smoking the president continues to chew nicotine gum. He \u2014 occasionally falls off the \u2014 of the wagon when it comes to that and like many who have struggled with kicking that habit.\nRUSH: \u2018Don\u2019t you think, Mr. Boehner, that you are providing a bad example, 450,000 people related smoking deaths every year. Don\u2019t you think you could set a better example by quitting?\u2019 \u2018President, nicotine gum, occasionally falls off the ladder, like many people, ha-ha-ha-ha.\u2019 It\u2019s not gonna work. I mean this double standard stuff, they\u2019re not gonna succeed in pulling this off.\nRUSH: Judy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.\nCALLER: Mega dittos and greetings from my brilliant artist husband who coined the phrase \u2018Obama hides behind a mosqueraid.\u2019 But you blew the call on the DirecTV satellite ad for the waitress.\nRUSH: Why me, what did I get wrong? This is very, very dangerous ground for you to be on to be so bold in accusing me of missing the point.\nCALLER: The point is this is a diner in Texas, and there\u2019s a big Dallas Cowboy poster on the back wall.\nCALLER: And that waitress is like any true Texas woman, loyal to her man, and her men in this case are the Dallas Cowboys, and so she\u2019s going to get even with these guys who have no respect at all for daring to sit there and root for the Eagles in front of her Dallas poster.\nRUSH: Oh, somehow, you know, I did miss that. How do you know that this woman\u2019s a Cowboy fan? I must have caught the ad halfway through it.\nCALLER: Well, I had to catch it twice to get it, but I thought it was brilliant once I got it.\nRUSH: But she\u2019s still upset \u2014\nCALLER: She has the right accent; she has the right hairdo. I\u2019m privileged to know a lot of Texas women.\nRUSH: Wait a minute, now.\nCALLER: And they\u2019re talking about the Eagles \u2014\nRUSH: You know a lot of Texans, she had the right accent?\nRUSH: The right hairdo? What does that mean? What is the right Texas hairdo? You\u2019re telling me I don\u2019t get it.\nCALLER: The stereotype that they use for bubble hairdos.\nRUSH: That looked like a standard beehive to me. It looked like a standard 1960s beehive, looked like a hairdo you might see in Mad Men.\nCALLER: No. Come on, Rush, you go see that ad again. You\u2019ll enjoy it once you really understand.\nRUSH: I enjoyed it the first time out there, Judy. And I still say I\u2019m right about it. She was still mad these guys are having a good time.\nCALLER: No, she\u2019s mad because they\u2019re being disrespectful and they\u2019re watching the Eagles \u2014\nCALLER: \u2014 and they should be watching the Cowboys.\nRUSH: But the point is they\u2019re able to watch the Eagles in Texas at a diner because with DirecTV you can watch your favorite team wherever you happen to be. They\u2019re trying to sell the Sunday Ticket package, means you can watch it on your remote device and these guys are having a great time. It\u2019s because they\u2019re not Cowboy fans and Eagle fans doesn\u2019t matter, she\u2019s mad, so she puts her fingers in their iced tea.\nCALLER: She\u2019s mad \u2019cause they\u2019re not watching the Cowboys. They\u2019re being disrespectful \u2014\nRUSH: Doesn\u2019t matter.\nCALLER: \u2014 to her Cowboys.\nRUSH: That doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019re splitting hairs here.\nCALLER: Well, not \u2014\nRUSH: Doesn\u2019t matter the hairdo; we\u2019re splitting the hair \u2014\nCALLER: Not for her it isn\u2019t.\nRUSH: She\u2019s still mad they\u2019re having a good time.\nRUSH: Anyway, did you see the Nissan ad with the polar bear?\nCALLER: I\u2019m afraid so.\nRUSH: Now, tell me how I got that one wrong.\nCALLER: No, no, not at all. I lived in Alaska. I can almost see \u2014 see \u2014 well, never mind. But, no, I understand how idiotic most of this stuff is.\nRUSH: Yeah, you know why it works, though. People actually believe that the polar bears, some Nimrods actually think the polar bears are appreciative of our efforts to save their habitat. So I have a question. Does a fish know that it\u2019s in water? Any fish. (interruption) Don\u2019t give me what kind of fish. Does any fish know that it\u2019s in water? Dolphins don\u2019t know that they\u2019re in water. (interruption) That doesn\u2019t matter. They don\u2019t know they\u2019re in water. They\u2019re mammals, I don\u2019t care, whales, they don\u2019t know what water is. I asked Punkin, my cat, \u2018Do you know you\u2019re an Abyssinian?\u2019 I have to laugh at myself. She doesn\u2019t even know she\u2019s a cat, much less what kind. But this is what we do with our pets, you know, we humanize them. We love to do that because that\u2019s what\u2019s great about pets, but a polar bear is not a pet. So this Nissan commercial, folks, I just want to warn you, if a polar bear shows up in your driveway, don\u2019t hug it. 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An effective way of accomplishing this is to enhance the engine thermal efficiency. Mitigating knock and reducing engine heat loss are important aspects of enhancing the thermal efficiency. Cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is regarded as a key technology because it is capable of achieving both of these objectives. For this reason, it has been adopted in a wide range of both hybrid vehicles and conventional vehicles in recent years. In EGR equipped engines, fast combustion is regarded as one of the most important technologies, since it realizes higher EGR ratio. To create fast combustion, generation of strong in-cylinder turbulence is necessary. Strong in-cylinder turbulence is achieved through swirl, squish, and tumble flows. Specifically high tumble flow has been adopted on a number of new engines because of the intense effect of promoting in-cylinder turbulence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.safetonetfoundation.org/a-and-g/how-to-adapt-to-your-child-growing-up-and-how-to-talk-to-them/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DWPZQR2EBH7DYRK4ZXBIBL5EF5MCQNN3", "length": 4954, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.safetonetfoundation.org", "title": "SafeToNet Foundation | How To Adapt To Your Child Growing Up and How To Talk To Them", "raw_content": "How To Adapt To Your Child Growing Up and How To Talk To Them\nYour once chatty teen has suddenly clammed up. No parents enjoy getting the \u201cdoor shut and silent\u201d treatment from their child, especially when you feel like you\u2019ve previously enjoyed a close relationship and nothing has changed from your perspective. The first thing to do is to take a breath and understand that pulling away from parents is not only normal but also a necessary developmental stage of adolescence. Navigating this transition towards independence is difficult and as much as children hate to admit it (and probably won\u2019t), children still need parents to stay connected and involved in their lives.\nTeens need their own space but they also need their parents. In fact, most teens say they want to be closer to their parents but don\u2019t know how to do that.Therefore, while your teenage child is doing the work of separating, you need to do the work of carefully bridging the gap.\nWhether or not you have cause for concern really depends on the extent to which your kid has stopped talking. Let\u2019s look at 3 possible scenarios:\n1 \u2013 You and your child used to be so close. They told you everything and now, suddenly, they\u2019ve shut you out and only share their private thoughts with friends.\nIn this case, you have very little to worry about. And painful as it may be, you have to try not to take her choice personally. They are doing what they are supposed to be doing.\nDon\u2019t lecture them or tell them how hurt you feel.\nTry to have positive interactions with them .\nEngage them in activities you\u2019ve enjoyed doing together.\nSit down to meals with them .\nDon\u2019t pump them for information. Instead, open up and share something funny or interesting about your own life. If you open up, they\u2019re more likely to do the same.\nTalk to them like an adult with respect and make it clear that you value their opinions and expect respect in return.\n2 \u2013 Your once lovely and affectionate child now responds to you with one-word answers and annoyed eye rolling. They spend as little time with you as possible and seems to reserve all their enthusiasm for their friends.\nThough it may be maddening and you might be tempted to punish this kind of behaviour, please be aware that it still falls well within the range of normal teenage development.\nFocusing on peer relationships helps children learn to be less dependent on parents\u2014a necessary step to becoming happy, independent adults. That said, it\u2019s still your job to insist on respect and to keep your child safe.\nSet appropriate limits, but focus on strengthening your relationship, too. You\u2019ll get no respect if they don\u2019t feel connected to you.\nResist the urge to lecture. If you can do that, they won\u2019t need to push you away in order to become themselves.\nRemember that teenagers can be emotional. Look for the distress under the disrespect, and remind them of who they really are. By saying something like, \u201cI know you\u2019re upset but you aren\u2019t normally unkind,\u201d you can create the beginning of a conversation.\n3 \u2013 Your child speaks to no one and spends all their time in their room with the door closed. They have withdrawn from friends, lost interest in activities that once gave them pleasure, and has grown increasingly isolated.\nThis kind of behaviour could be cause for serious concern and falls outside the realm of the normal teenage development. You need to find out whether your child has undergone some kind of trauma such as cyber-bullying, sextortion, or viewed distressing content on-line. Alternatively the issues could be related to drugs or alcohol. This behaviour could also indicate the beginning of a serious mental health issue such as depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, all which become more common in the late teens and early 20s \u2013 OR frustratingly it could be nothing!\nIt\u2019s concerning if they are pulling away from everyone they know. Retreating into an online world, for instance, isn\u2019t an acceptable substitute for talking to people in real life. Internet relationships can become very intense very fast, and it\u2019s hard to know if the people your daughter or son is friends with online are a good influence, or even who they say they are.\nIf your child seems hostile and angry, give them the chance to explain if you\u2019ve done something wrong.\nPrivacy only goes so far. No teenager\u2019s room should be off-limits to a parent. You have the right to know what your child is doing in her room, especially if they are spending hours at a time alone there.\nInsist on more information. It\u2019s not at all uncommon for teens to answer questions like \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d by saying simply, \u201cOut.\u201d And \u201cWhen will you be back?\u201d with \u201cLater.\u201d Stand firm and tell him or her you need specifics.\nIn cases where your child refuses to communicate, it may be advisable to talk to their teachers.\nSeek professional help from a qualified clinician. 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(Worcester) Ltd. St. Wulstan\u2019s church was built in 1862, so the organ was completed only 8 years later, but it is not know if the organ was installed in the church immediately after it\u2019s completion.\nThe organ has two manuals, (Swell and Great), tracker action and fourteen stops. In 1971 a fund was started by Father Everard Faulkner and completed in 1974 by Father Joseph Coombe-Tennant, for the thorough overhaul of the instrument. Most of the work was done by Nicholson\u2019s.\nThere were not sufficient funds available in 1974 to renew the Trumpet stop on the great organ, which had fallen into serious disrepair, but in 1980 a personal legacy from Mrs Florence Owen, who attended St. George\u2019s Catholic Church, Worcester, to a member of St. Wulstan\u2019s Parish Church, was used to replace the Trumpet stop by a Mixture. It would have been very costly to renew the Trumpet stop and it was felt that a Mixture would not require such frequent tuning: a stop was required which would add to and enhance the Great chorus, and the organ-builders recommended a Mixture.\nIn 1981 a further improvement was carried out when an 8ft Bass was added to the Swell organ. Previous to that, the bass was \u2018borrowed\u2019 from the pedal stop, the 16ft Bourdon. The arrangement was an awkward one, and musically unsatisfactory, but was done originally to save costs: a full range Swell organ would have necessitated a much larger Swell box to accommodate the extra pipes.\nThese last two improvements were carried out with the approval of Father Edmund Carruth, successor to Father Joseph Coombe-Tennant. The work was done by Nicholson\u2019s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 194.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-chargers-s12sullivan-2009jan11-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6OJL74CSKMXGTGXFAKWPCDRMH26VMDMX", "length": 5641, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.sandiegouniontribune.com", "title": "Lack of defense, ground attack ends up-and-down year - The San Diego Union-Tribune", "raw_content": "Lack of defense, ground attack ends up-and-down year\nPITTSBURGH \u2013 When the ball hit Eric Weddle's helmet, he was busy attempting to block.\nHis eyes were trained on the Steelers' Anthony Madison, his mind focused on clearing a path for Darren Sproles. If any of his teammates called out the code word to evacuate the area, Weddle did not hear it.\n\u201cIt was just such a short punt,\u201d the Chargers safety said Sunday evening at Heinz Field. \u201cWhen I was running, I looked back at Sproles and he was a ways from me \u2013 I think like 15 or 20 yards (and) coming up \u2013 and my first thought was, 'He's going to catch it on the run; let me get to my guy now.' As soon as I got my hands engaged, it hit me.\u201d\nFate did its best to blindside the Chargers Sunday afternoon, creating two turnovers out of a deflected pass and Weddle's unfortunate foray into no-man's land. Consistent with that theme, the Chargers also picked a playoff game to yield their first punt return touchdown of Mike Scifres' extraordinary career.\nYet Pittsburgh's 35-24 divisional playoff victory was more about fundamentals than flukes; it was mostly about the same issues that had plagued the Chargers before their 4-8 season detoured into a willing suspension of disbelief.\nThis was about pass rush and run-blocking. Again. The same issues that had dominated discussion before the Chargers started their improbable surge to the playoffs resurfaced ruinously. Unable to hurry Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on a consistent basis, the Chargers allowed too many third-down conversions, too many clock-chewing possessions and, ultimately, too many points.\nSproles was able to amass 274 assorted yards \u2013 including a 63-yard kickoff return and a 62-yard receiving touchdown \u2013 but his 11 carries from scrimmage netted only 15 yards. The Steelers' superiority at the line of scrimmage was somewhere between startling and astounding.\nPhilip Rivers' deflected interception and Weddle's inadvertent \u201cmuff\u201d represented the only two plays of the third quarter in which the Chargers were able to put two hands or one helmet on the ball. Their time of possession in the period was a scant 17 seconds. That might be enough time for Usain Bolt, but it's not nearly enough for these Bolts.\nHowever fortuitously the ball bounces, it's mighty hard to win when you can't keep the ball for consecutive plays, or when you can't grind out yards on the ground. Until the Chargers can restore the missing spark to their defense (where have you gone, Shawne Merriman?), or apply more muscle at the point of attack, winning playoff games on the road figures to be a formidable task.\n\u201cIt's not about wearing down,\u201d linebacker Stephen Cooper said. \u201cIt's buckling down. No matter how long you're on the field, you've got to go play defense. It's our own fault for being out there. We've got to go make plays, and get three-and-outs, get turnovers, get after the quarterback. We didn't do that.\u201d\nThat much was obvious. Having deferred their kickoff option until the second half, the Steelers started the third quarter by marching 77 yards in 13 plays to turn a 14-10 squeaker into a 21-10 stomping. En route to their third touchdown, they were able to prolong the possession despite a third-and-7, a third-and-11 and a third-and-8.\nThat's not an accident. That's a mismatch.\n\u201cWe feel we can really take teams' hearts if we can do that,\u201d Roethlisberger said. \u201cWe really feel we did that tonight. It went pretty fast. You look up at the clock and see seven minutes left in the quarter (and) you wonder where all the time went.\u201d\nRivers looked up at the clock and thought it \u201ccrazy.\u201d The Chargers have experienced possession time problems all year, but this was so far off the charts as to be off the wall.\n\u201cIt was very tough,\u201d Rivers said. \u201cIt gets you out of your rhythm. We felt bad for our defense out there. They're out there exposed. They're fighting and clawing, (but) that's a long time to be on the field.\u201d\nThe Chargers don't like to dwell on their missing parts, but it was impossible to watch the Steelers driving with impunity without imagining how different things might have been with Merriman. And though Sproles is a marvel when he can get the ball with room to maneuver, he's not built to the workhorse dimensions of the tender, inactive LaDainian Tomlinson.\nPerhaps the Chargers can complete their pursuit of a Super Bowl title if Merriman and Tomlinson can resume their respective rampages next season. Still, it's hard to imagine either player has been improved by injury, and it's easy to see that the Chargers have other holes in need of patching.\n\u201cDespite what people think, we've got a lot of young players who got a chance to play this year and I think they've grown,\u201d Chargers coach Norv Turner said. \u201cWe were where a lot of guys could have laid down and they didn't. 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After that, 179 tons of contaminated soil were removed from the site, which had seven abandoned oil wells, according to a report from the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.\nThe DTSC deemed the cleanup process complete in May.\nThe school is expected to open in fall 2012.\n\u2013 Melissa Pamer\nTo ask us: Curious about something in the South Bay or Harbor Area? Let us know, and we\u2019ll try to get answers. You can 1) leave us a message at 310-543-6698, 2) fax us at 310-540-6272, 3) mail us a letter to Ask Us, Daily Breeze, South Bay Tower, 21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 170, Torrance, CA 90503 or 4) e-mail us at askus@dailybreeze.com. 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Since qualifying, Luke has worked in the NHS at a large teaching hospital in central London and for the past 5 years has been based at a private clinic in South West London where he treats a range of patients.\nHe has extensive experience in hydrotherapy and holds post graduate qualifications in Pilates and acupuncture. We welcome Luke to the school.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 89.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scientology.org/courses/marriage/overview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NPUSTPC7ASKGRWRKOM5Z63XD24ZKL4ZW", "length": 4740, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.scientology.org", "title": "The Marriage Course", "raw_content": "Course Overview Course Details Success Stories\nWhat causes couples to grow apart and lies behind many failed marriages.\nWays to help you determine if a person is right for you\u2014before you start a relationship or marriage.\nTools that you can use to restore communication between husband and wife\u2014to build a happy, fulfilling and long-lasting marriage.\nWhere once the family was the stable foundation upon which all else was built, today its shattered remnants are the source of much of what troubles society. And while marriages still outnumber divorces, the gap is rapidly closing. Marriage is well on the way to becoming a failed institution.\nL. Ron Hubbard wrote extensively on interpersonal relationships and much of it is applicable to this most personal of relationships. In this course you will discover methods to make a marriage work, why many marriages fail, how to discover if partners are well suited to each other, and how to save a failing marriage.\nWhile our magazines are filled with the advice of \u201cpop\u201d psychologists, the trend has only worsened. Here are real solutions\u2014workable solutions\u2014that can be applied to improve any intimate relationship.\nEase of Study\nThis course is laid out in a step-by-step manner, with a sequence of reading assignments and questions to check your understanding.\nBefore you begin, you create your own personal logon on the Scientology website. Once logged in, the online program will guide you through each step of the course to full completion, with all course materials provided from within the Scientology website.\n4 to 5 hours. You may, however, do the course at your own pace. In other words, it is not timed. The course is our service to you, free of charge.\nBooklet: Marriage\nor The Scientology Handbook\nYour course materials are also integrated within the online course. In other words, once logged on, you may read the materials from within the online course program as you do each step. We do, however, recommend that you download for free or purchase the booklet, to review and refer to when you are not logged into the course program.\nThrough the length of your course, you will receive supervision from your personal online course supervisor, who will help to ensure you understand and achieve the maximum benefit from the course materials. The end result is that you are fully able to apply the data contained therein. If you have any further questions, contact us here.\nUpon completion of The Marriage Course, you will receive a certificate by e-mail.\nThe services of our online courses are always available to you. If at any time you need assistance with your course assignments, do not hesitate to contact your online course supervisor, whom you can reach using the 'Need help?' button in your online course program.\n\u201cThe Marriage Course was very instrumental in helping my husband and I understand each other, by learning to respect each other, show honesty and trust, and to speak up when annoyed and not harbor anger.\n\u201cWe were on the verge of separating, thinking there was no way to repair the damage. One of the things we lack in the African tradition is communication, as the husband is always in charge and right in all aspects. In our culture, the men are dominant, the women are shy to express their feelings, and in most cases this results in divorces. We have no marriage counselors to repair marriages.\n\u201cThanks to the Church of Scientology very much. Having read this booklet, I have come to learn and understand that marriage is the foundation of a family unit.\u201d\n\u201cWhen I was facing challenges in my marriage, I thought I was going to divorce until I discovered the Volunteer Ministers on the internet. My life was very miserable, and I never had any happy moments with my husband.\n\u201cIn doing the Marriage Course I discovered myself once more and I have my strength renewed. I found myself being able to talk to people who have marriage problems and being a counselor by providing them with information (the booklets). The moment I began sharing the information I found myself wanting to be married not divorced and I realized that problems can be solved and people can start a new life after going through horrible times if they are given the necessary information to solve their differences.\n\u201cBeing married is an honor and by communicating you will have the best marriage ever. I was one of the bad communicators but thanks to the Volunteer Ministers for the encouraging practicals, if you follow them you will discover yourself once more.\nThere is nothing impossible in a marriage as long as you have the Volunteer Ministers information. I am a new and changed person and my other friends who had the same problems are beginning to appreciate their marriages too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 9044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/2140264/high-ambition-korean-executive-chef-kim-min-macau-aims", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:47Z", "digest": "sha1:2SYEOTNHSLYWI2XZPUFLJVMCWFPM5XUH", "length": 4307, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.scmp.com", "title": "High ambition: Korean executive chef Kim Min in Macau aims for Michelin | Style Magazine | South China Morning Post", "raw_content": "High ambition: Korean executive chef Kim Min in Macau aims for Michelin\nMore To Macau\nHeading the Japanese restaurant Mizumi at Wynn Palace, Kim hopes to open his own restaurant some day\nExecutive chef Kim Min at Wynn Palace is aiming for a Michelin star. Photo: Gastromonth.com\nA handful of Korean chefs work in overseas restaurants, but not many rise to the position of executive chef, especially at a young age. This is even less likely if the restaurant is corporately owned or is part of a corporate structure such as a hotel.\nIn Macau\u2019s Wynn Palace, one of the luxury casino hotels in the popular tourism destination, Korean executive chef Kim Min heads the Japanese restaurant Mizumi. And he\u2019s only 32.\n\u201cI was lucky,\u201d Kim said, carefully preparing a dish.\n\u201cIt's rare, but not too unusual. I guess I was lucky with timing and opportunity,\u201d he said when asked why he thought he was appointed to the position. He has been heading the restaurant for a little over a year since its opening, which came in line with the opening of the hotel in September 2016.\nThere are two Mizumi restaurants with exactly the same name at the two Wynn hotels located in Macau \u2013 one at the Wynn Macau and the other at Wynn Palace \u2013 a reason customers sometimes end up going to the wrong Mizumi. The one at Wynn Macau has received a Michelin star as it has been there longer, but the one at Wynn Palace has yet to gain a star.\nHow Gaggan Anand rose from a \u2018poor child of India\u2019 to become a world-famous chef\n\u201cThere are cases where customers who wanted to see me end up at the other restaurant because the name is the same. I think the hotel is considering changing the name of this restaurant, and it should, but we'll have to see,\u201d Kim said.\nHe aims to win a Michelin star and to be listed on Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants.\n\u201cI'm aiming for both, honestly. Timing wasn\u2019t on our side when we opened because the inspection period was over by the time we were ready and operating. But we\u2019ll be doing our best to be on next year's list,\u201d he said.\nHaving left his home country at the age of 19 and spending over a decade overseas, Kim speaks several languages including Japanese, English, and Chinese other than Korean.\nThailand reaches for the stars with new Michelin Guide\n\u201cI learned Japanese while working in Japan for two years at restaurants such as the Michelin-starred Ryugin and Narisawa in Tokyo. I honed most of my cooking skills there. Then I worked in Sydney for seven years at Tetsuya\u2019s, Sokyo and Sake Double Bay and went to Hong Kong for a brief period before moving here.\u201d\nKim barely sleeps as he arrives hours before the restaurant\u2019s opening time at 11am and leaves way past closing time at 11pm. Sometimes when important guests come in late at night, he serves them until 3am, as was the case during the Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants event held in Macau late last month.\n\u201cWe were thankful and honoured to be given the opportunity to participate in hosting such a large event,\u201d he said. He must have been exhausted, but he never lost his courtesy and smile.\nLiving in Macau, Kim feels the difference of hallyu playing a role in the way Koreans are treated overseas.\n\u201cMacau is a sought-after destination among Korean tourists these days. Macau is very friendly to Koreans because they like them a lot due to the impact of hallyu. If Hong Kong is favourable to the Japanese, Macau is definitely more so toward Koreans. The locals also travel to Korea a lot,\u201d he said.\nGiven his important responsibility at the hotel, it isn't likely for him to leave the hotel any time soon, but he does have plans to open his own restaurant in the coming years.\n\u201cI do wish to have my own restaurant one day. And if I do open one, I\u2019m thinking of Taipei as the location. The Michelin guide recently entered the region and it\u2019s a popular tourism destination. But Korea is also an option because it does not yet have many Japanese kaiseki restaurants which might be a good opportunity for me.\u201d\nThis story originally appeared in Korea Times\nWhere to eat in Hong Kong: 8 exquisite food experiences to warm your heart this February\n4 great Macau restaurants serving mouthwatering Lunar New Year delights\nAt Studio City in Macau, \u2018Elekron\u2019 brings the post-apocalyptic world to life\nSoothing spa treatments to spoil yourself this festive season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 7290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seafordprocessserver.com/process-server/seaford-how-to-serve-process", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LAFXB46WR53SWMJ6ORG67FTDLLSFI7ST", "length": 2891, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.seafordprocessserver.com", "title": "How do Process Servers Properly serve legal documents in Seaford", "raw_content": "How we and how to serve legal process in Seaford properly.\nThe importance of the proper service of process in Seaford stands as the most important element of the beginning of a newly filed lawsuit. Legal process, in essence, is a formal notification to a party involved in a lawsuit. The notification is delivered and served by one of our Seaford process servers who are always respectful, disinterested in the action and observant of the laws that apply to statutory service of process.\nWhen legal process in Seaford is directed at a defendant or respondent it is essential the manner of service is executed specifically as required by law.\nMany times legal process in Seaford is directed at a witness which commands performance; that is, a witness is compelled to appear and or is required to produce documents or evidence by a specific date time and place.\nA.C.E. PROCESS SERVERS make a formal distinction how service is properly made. Each and every service that comes to us is carefully evaluated and classified so our Seaford process server plans and executes proper service. First, we work with Attorney\u2019s who ask us to serve state actions. State actions are generally legal process issued from a state court or originate from a state jurisdiction. Legal documents from a state require us to serve legal process under the laws of the issuing state jurisdiction. Second, our services involve serving and delivering U.S. Federal District Court actions which are uniquely governed by federal statutes and laws and may differ from state laws. Federal actions, though similar to state actions, require our process servers in Seaford to have a complete understanding of applicable federal rules of civil procedure. Federal rules for proper service of process also involve a proper Proof of Service affidavit that differs from the affidavits required by state courts.\nTo hire an A.C.E. Process Servers in Seaford please call 800 987-4680 or EMAIL US NOW.\nA.C.E. Process Servers in Seaford understand the importance of proper service of a summons\nA.C.E. lawsuit and subpoena services in Seaford are performed by professional process servers who offer fast and guaranteed delivery services.\nService of Process lawsuits and delivery of subpoena's and other legal documents in Seaford requires on time management skills, accuracy, knowledge of the laws and tenacity. For twenty years A.C.E. Summons Servers have earned the reputation of being the most dependable and consistent service providers in Seaford and have an impeccable record of success. Very few, if any, process server companies can offer you the experience, communications, follow up and flawless affidavits of service as A.C.E. Summons servers do. A.C.E. Summons Servers offer an unconditional guarantee for the way process serving services are performed. A.C.E. summons servers are situated throughout Seaford and assure success!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.searchtruth.com/hijri/hijriCalendar.php?year=2006&idHijri=VGh1cnNkYXlATm92ZW1iZXIgMjMsICAyMDA2QERodWwtUWFkYWggMiwgMTQyNw==", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6GY3FMJ67B6ORYHZWIK4VX5V3VKYGYAP", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.searchtruth.com", "title": "Thursday, November 23, 2006 is Dhul-Qadah 2, 1427 - Hijri Islamic Calendar 2006 - 1427 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0648\u064a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0647\u062c\u0631\u064a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0644\u0627\u062f\u064a st", "raw_content": "Thursday, November 23, 2006 is Dhul-Qadah 2, 1427", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1189, "original_length": 19808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sentara.com/findadoctor/healthcare-provider/fontana-christy-3298.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZB2XYRORZGBX4IWDPYJ5GBIDYKFLTHL", "length": 174, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sentara.com", "title": "Christy Fontana, M.D. | Sentara Healthcare", "raw_content": "Christy O. Fontana, M.D.\nInternship: Portsmouth Naval Medical Center (June 01, 1991 - June 30, 1992)\nResidency: Naval Hospital (Portsmouth VA) (July 01, 1992 - June 01, 1994)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 62.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sentara.com/hampton-roads-virginia/findadoctor/healthcare-provider/fernandez-martha-467.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:K6BNFUTVXXOPJAVT36WNTD3IHOYNLWES", "length": 167, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sentara.com", "title": "Martha Fernandez, M.D. | Sentara Healthcare", "raw_content": "Martha T. Fernandez, M.D.\nMinimally Invasive Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, Nutrition, Women's Health\nResidency: Baylor College of Medicine (July 01, 1989 - June 01, 1993)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 47.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/iodotropheus-sprengerae/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HATBG6SAMBDQZDFMRCNVD7OGLVKJCA5M", "length": 4989, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.seriouslyfish.com", "title": "Iodotropheus sprengerae (Rusty Cichlid) \u2014 Seriously Fish", "raw_content": "Endemic to Lake Malawi. It\u2019s found in the southern part of the lake around the islands of Boadzulu, Chinyankwazi and Chinyamwezi.\nPredominantly inhabits the shallow, littoral zones of rocky shorelines.\n4\u2033 (10cm), although in the aquarium this would be considered very large. Expect it to reach around 3\u2033 (7.5cm).\nA 36\u2033 x 12\u2033 x 12\u2033 (90cm x 30cm x 30cm) \u2013 80 litre tank should suffice for a single male with a small group of females. If more than one male is to be kept, a tank measuring at least 48\u2033 in length is advisable.\nUse sand as substrate and furnish the majority of the tank with piles of rock, arranged to form plenty of caves and hidey-holes. Hard water tolerant plants such as Vallisneria or Anubias can be used, but aren\u2019t essential. As with all Rift Lake cichlids, water quality is paramount so the tank should be fitted with a decent external filter. Regular partial water changes must also be performed.\npH: 7.5-8.8. Don't attempt to keep it in acidic conditions, as it will fail to thrive.\nOmnivorous. It will accept most foods offered, but vegetable matter in the form of Spirulina flakes, blanched spinach etc. should form a large proportion of the diet. This can be supplemented with small live and frozen foods, such as bloodowrm, Daphnia, brine shrimp and the like. If a balanced diet isn\u2019t offered the long term health of the fish will likely be affected.\nOne of the least aggressive Mbuna available in the hobby, and also one of the smallest. It will easily be outcompeted by bigger, more boisterous species, so tankmates should be chosen wisely. Possibilities include Aulonocara, Protomelas or Copadichromis species and other quieter cichlids from Lake Malawi such as Labidochromis caerulus. It can even be combined with some of the more peaceful Tanganyikan species if you prefer.\nRival males are territorial to a certain extent, but this behaviour is not as prominent as with most other Mbuna. Several can be kept in most tanks.\nBoth sexes look similar at first glance, although males usually have more egg spots in the anal fin than females. They also tend to be the larger and more colourful sex, and some develop an elongated anal fin.\nThe species is a polygamous maternal mouthbrooder, and is easily bred. It can be sexually mature at only 1.5\u2033 in length, so is a good choice for the beginner. If you want to raise good numbers of fry, use a species tank. This can contain more than one male if space permits, with several females being provided for each. A 48\u2033 aquarium is a good size for 2-3 males and perhaps a dozen females. It should be furnished as suggested, along with some flat stones and areas of open sand to act as potential spawning sites. The pH should be around 8.0-8.5 and the temperature 77-80\u00b0F. Bring the fish into condition with a high quality diet as above.\nThe males form loose territories, with a suitable spawning site (usually a flat rock surface) as the focal point. They\u2019ll be seen displaying at passing females, showing intense colour and performing shimmying movements. When a female is receptive, she will show interest in the males\u2019 efforts, before eventually approaching the spawning site. The eggs are laid here in small batches, the female gathering them into her mouth immediately. Fertilisation occurs in typical Mbuna fashion. The male has \u2018egg spots\u2019 (egg-shaped spots of colour) on his anal fin and the female is attracted to these, thinking they are eggs she has missed. When she tries to add these to the brood in her mouth, the male releases his sperm. The female then lays her next batch of eggs and the process is repeated until she is carrying the full brood of between 5-60.\nThe female will carry the eggs for up to 3 weeks before releasing the free swimming fry. She will not eat during this period and can be easily spotted by her distended mouth. If a female is overly stressed she may spit out the brood prematurely or eat them, so care must be taken if you decide to move the fish in order to avoid fry predation. Wait as long as possible before moving a female unless she is being harassed.\nThe fry are large enough to accept brine shrimp nauplii or crushed spirulina flake from the day they are released. They grow quickly and will be ready to spawn themselves after only a few months.\nThis lovely dwarf mbuna makes a great choice for newcomers to Mbuna due to its temperament, subdued but unique colouration and the fact it can be kept in smaller tanks. Iodotropheus is the only genus of Mbuna which has a very limited distribution within Lake Malawi, with its three (possibly two; the validity of I. declivitas is disputed by some experts) members being restricted to the south eastern arm of the lake. I. sprengerae is sometimes confused with certain populations of the similar looking and closely related Labidichromis vellicans. It can be distinguished by the rounder shape of its head and lack of blue colouration on the rear half of the body.\nNo Responses to \u201cIodotropheus sprengerae (Rusty Cichlid)\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/wallago-attu/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LCX7AURUEBURXDA5E6TMPIUCBRURW33R", "length": 2879, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.seriouslyfish.com", "title": "Wallago attu (Helicopter Catfish) \u2014 Seriously Fish", "raw_content": "Juvenile of Wallago attu in an aquarium\nSubadult in a more suitable environment\nThe capacious mouth of Wallago attu, teeth clearly visible\nHelicopter Catfish\nWidely distributed throughout much of Asia. It has been recorded in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.\nPrefers turbid, deep slow-moving or still bodies of water such as large lakes and rivers. It tends to hide in muddy areas, often hiding around river banks. It breeds in shallow water just prior to the wet season, before migrating to flooded areas to feed.\n96\u2033 (240cm)! Most specimens do not attain this size, but assume 48\u2033 (120cm) as a minimum adult size.\nAn adult fish would require a truly enormous aquarium or better still, pond. Minimum size would be something in the region of 144\u2033 x 48\u2033 x 48\u2033 (260cm x 120cm x 120cm) \u2013 5500 litres. Even this may not be large enough for an old fish.\nDecor is not critical, and would most likely be destroyed or continually buffeted around at any rate, so a bare tank, perhaps with a gravel substrate is probably best. This kind of fish requires a massive, highly efficient filtration system to deal with the large amounts of waste it produces. Regular partial water changes are also needed. The tank should have a very heavy, tightly fitting cover to prevent the fish escaping.\nTemperature: 66-84\u00b0F (19-29\u00b0C).\nHighly piscivorous, although wild specimens have been found with amphibians, birds, small mammals and even human remains in their stomachs! In the aquarium small specimens can be offered white fish such as lancefish, earthworms, and prawns. Larger specimens will accept whole trout and the like, but do not need to be fed as often. Once or twice a week is more than adequate. Extreme caution must be exercised when feeding this fish, as it will often launch itself from the water, and is more than capable of causing injury (see below).\nShould be kept alone as a single specimen as it will consume any fish it can fit in its capacious mouth, and will usually kill anything it can\u2019t.\nNot achieved in aquaria for obvious reasons, but has been bred commercially in ponds in Malaysia.\nThis species is clearly not an aquarium fish, and thankfully is not imported with any great regularity. Young specimens are occasionally seen for sale however and no matter how cute they look, don\u2019t be tempted to buy one. The gigantic adult size is not the only problem with W. attu, as the mouth is filled with needle sharp, backward-pointing teeth. The fish will bite aggressively when being fed, especially when handled and larger individuals could easily sever a hand or worse. It is a genuinely dangerous fish to own, and should only be considered by the most experienced aquarist with the resources required to house it properly.\nNo Responses to \u201cWallago attu (Helicopter Catfish)\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.servpromarblefallslampasasbrownwood.com/employee-photos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:EDEG5BGVZ5P4WNQPEARGYS2X4VQHVGY4", "length": 777, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.servpromarblefallslampasasbrownwood.com", "title": "SERVPRO of Marble Falls, Lampasas & Brownwood Employee Photos", "raw_content": "Chris has over 4 years experience as a Crew Chief with SERVPRO of Marble Falls. He has completed the SERVPRO Corporate Employee Certification Training Program which gives an overview of fire, water and carpet cleaning training and is a certified Water Removal Technician through the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC).\nHe is also proficient in Xactimate for pricing and billing jobs.\nMatthew has over 4 years experience as a Crew Chief with SERVPRO of Marble Falls. He has completed the SERVPRO Corporate Employee Certification Training Program which gives an overview of fire, water and carpet cleaning training and is a certified Water Removal Technician through the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ses.com/es/node/471", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RRMYR7JOKYXZIUZFXMZMVAAA47PWVEUQ", "length": 1251, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ses.com", "title": "RECORD DEMAND FOR SES SATELLITE CAPACITY FOR OLYMPICS | SES", "raw_content": "RECORD DEMAND FOR SES SATELLITE CAPACITY FOR OLYMPICS\nLUXEMBOURG, 18 August 2016 - SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced today a record uptake of its satellite capacity for the Olympics as compared to previous Games.\nA total of 23,000 hours of capacity has been booked on four SES satellites -- NSS-806, SES-4, NSS-7 and SES-3 -- to enable transmission of the Games to broadcasters in The Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. SES is serving a total of 10 leading broadcasters based in the US, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Brazil and Japan, which includes Eurovision, CNN / Turner and Nippon Television Network.\n\u201cSES has provided capacity for the Olympics since 2000, and we are pleased that the capacity demand for Rio Olympics far exceeds the previous editions. For the first time ever, we are using more capacity on more satellites to broadcast more hours of sporting events and news coverage of the Games to a truly global audience,\u201d said Richard Lamb, General Manager of Occasional Use Services at SES. \u201cThis record demand illustrates how broadcasters continue to view satellite as an ideal and cost-effective way to broadcast excellent image quality of sporting events live to millions of viewers around the world.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.setumag.com/2018/05/Possibilities-of-a-Sheroic-Shift.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTCKHFWVYV4JKK4542PB6Y6J2M63N3QP", "length": 15856, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.setumag.com", "title": "Setu ....................... \u0938\u0947\u0924\u0941: Possibilities of a Sheroic Shift: A Study of Select Texts", "raw_content": "Possibilities of a Sheroic Shift: A Study of Select Texts\n- Rajeesh K.P.\nPh. D Scholar\nThe nature of terms like \u2018spokesman\u2019, \u2018chairman\u2019 have been subjected to discussion in language studies with respect to the gender they signify. Have we ever thought about similar implications engendered by the term \u2018Hero\u2019 rendering it problematic? Feminists always complain about the patriarchal impulses contained within the English Language. Does the term \u2018hero\u2019 also encompass the idea of \u2018heroine\u2019 within it? It is true that new coinages like \u2018She roes\u2019 are in existence today. The paper tries to examine whether attempts to bring female heroes to the limelight are mere preaching. It also deals with how the conditions within society makes it difficult for aspirants to come up with women oriented movies and writings. The idea of \u2018Superstardom\u2019, Female superheroes (both movies and comics), the ways in which female characters function as mere adjuncts to male enterprises deprived of independent space and voice will also find space in the paper. This will be discussed in the context of select movies and other literary genres. Ideas in Joseph Campbell\u2019s The Hero With A Thousand Faces and Maureen Murdock\u2019s The Heroine\u2019s Journey (A contrapuntal reading of the first text) will also be borrowed.\nKeywords: Hero, Patriarchy, Superstardom, Superheroes, She roes, Feminism.\nLanguage is an important arm of the culture of any society. It becomes a window to the politics, beliefs, and attitudes of people living within a society. Sociolinguists have accused the English language for the large degree of sexism it embodies. Children who learn through the medium of this language partake the patriarchal impulses hidden within it which manifests in their behaviour and other activities. This gender bias with regard to language begins with the idea that the word \u2018woman\u2019 is derived from the word \u2018man\u2019. Guimei He in her article \u2018 An Analysis of Sexism in English\u2019 truly observes that \u201c \u2026 the addition of a feminine suffix to masculine human agent nouns usually does more than simply change the gender reference of the word, it often attaches a meaning of triviality, of lesser status or dependence to the term. It shows that woman is affiliated to man, so it is a kind of linguistic discrimination against women\u201d. (332). To specify, the word \u2018governor\u2019 means a ruler and \u2018governess \u2018refers to a woman in charge of teaching children. Words like \u2018chairman\u2019 and \u2018Spokesman\u2019 do not have a female equivalent. Similarly have we ever thought about similar implications in the word \u2018Hero\u2019 rendering it problematic? Does the term encompass the idea of heroine within it?\nDoes the \u2018he\u2019 in \u2018hero\u2019 make it a male prerogative? There is a generally accepted view among the society that heroes are males. This can also be perceived in religions where male deities enjoy greater prestige than their female counterparts. A heroic act is described as one that involves risk taking and social service. The former converts this pro-social act into heroism. Selwyn W. Becker and Alice. H. Eagly in their essay \u2018The Heroism of Men and Women\u2019 state that \u201cthe essential themes of masculinity encompass the idealization of \u201creckless adventure, daring exploits, and bold excesses of all kinds\u201d (164). In literature it all begins with Beowulf, saving the King of Hrothgar from the demon Grendel and meeting death at the hands of a dragon that he kills too. The unquenchable thirst of Ulysses for adventures and travel is explicit in the lines in Tennyson\u2019s eponymous poem \u2018I will drink life to the lees\u2019 and \u2018to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. This formula also can be found in fairy tales where the seven dwarfs save Snow White from the Queen, Flynn Rider saves Rapunzel from Mother Gothel. Even in Superhero comics there were no remarkable women characters before the nineteen forties and those existing appeared as sidekicks to the male protagonists.\nPerhaps here there is a need to distinguish between \u2018Superhero\u2019, the genre and \u2018super hero\u2019 where \u2018super\u2019 is the adjective and hero is the noun .In the first case physical prowess becomes an important criteria, that is identified mainly with men. This term can be applied in the second sense to both men and women. God created mother because he cannot be present everywhere is an oft quoted comment that we come across. Another saying goes thus. The safest abode for us is in the mother\u2019s womb. Isn\u2019t our mother our greatest hero? She is the one who imparts us with the first lessons of life, one who laughs with us in our happiness and cries along with our sorrows. Her multitasking nature makes her a super hero.\nFlorence Nightingale receiving a call from God took up the vow to revolutionise the world of nursing. Born to a rich British family, she decided to opt nursing. This decision was counter to the wishes of her close ones. The act was in fact heroic in the sense that she violated the code of conduct established for affluent British ladies. She took great pain to alleviate the humble conditions of the soldiers who were wounded in the Crimean war. She ensured that the supply of medicines were in full swing, proper hygiene was maintained and took steps to curtail infections. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem \u2018Saint Philomena\u2019 calls her \u2018the lady with the lamp\u2019 and talks about how her solitary rounds along the hospital at night brings joy, satisfaction, and a feeling of indebtedness on their face. This brings us to the question of the role of altruism in the process of becoming a hero. Is it mandatory that a hero has to be selfless and disinterested? One can be truly generous. The patience shown by nurses at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai in taking care of Aruna Shenbaug, a nurse who had to lead a prolonged vegetative existence for forty two years as a result of being sexually assaulted is a modern instance of altruism showcased by nurses. We can also find a class of heroes who put on a false face of being generous but in reality are not so. A closer examination of this issue can be done later.\nJoan of Arc\u2019s journey from witchery to sainthood finds place in the annals of heroic stories of the world. Deprived of elementary education, Joan of Arc was deeply influenced by catholic ideals. Her efforts to reinstate Charles of Valois who had been thrown out of his position by the Anglo-Burgundians were commendable. She was determined to protect France from her its enemies. Disguised as a man, riding on a horse she fought with the Anglo Burgundians and drove them away. At the end she was accused of witchery, heresy and was burnt at the stake. She was canonised to the cult status of a saint and is celebrated in the world of art and literature.\nIf we attempt to look for an Indian version of Joan of Arc, it would obviously be Rani Lakshmi Bhai, commonly known as \u2018Jhansi Rani\u2019. She represented bravery and patriotism and played a stunning role in the Revolt of 1857 against the British Raj. She was brought up in an unconventional way and was adept in the art of weaponry and in handling heroes and elephants at times of war. She had a very tough time when she lost her husband and her child at the springtime of her life. She fought tooth and nail against the efforts of Lord Dalhousie to annex Jhansi to the British Empire. She had to succumb to the sword of the British leaving a never fading stamp in the history of India.\nThese are just a few instances of female heroism. History is replete with heroic female figures. Though certain acts may not suit women due to its physical demands, many of the heroic acts do not put forward these restrictions. It is thus misleading and senseless to associate heroism with a particular sex. Heroism also emerges from the ability to show empathy to fellow beings, something that women are very much capable of. Selwyn W. Becker observes that\nIn fact, one of the reasons that we did not examine heroism in military or other dangerous occupational roles such as fire fighter is that the exclusion of women disallowed comparing the heroism of women and men in the same situations. The high visibility of men\u2019s heroism in such roles has allowed courage and heroism to be ascribed more to men than to women and to become culturally elaborated as elements of desirable masculinity. Many of women\u2019s heroic actions of, for example, hiding holocaust victims or giving a kidney to a family member are inherently quite private, known to few, and in the case of rescuing Jews, very carefully hidden. Volunteering for the Peace Corps and Doctors of the World is surely public but lacks the high visibility of military heroism or rescuing in high stakes situations of sudden emergencies. (175).\nBecker makes this observation in the context of discussing Carnegie Hero medals, instituted by the Carnegie hero fund commission to honour heroes in U.S.A and Canada who risks his or her own life while trying to save others and how the commission fails to give adequate recognition to the milestones achieved by women.\nThe paper presenter would also invite the attention of the audience/readers to the idea of \u2018femocracy\u2019 an ideology that maintains that women have to be linked to men occupying in high political positions to scale heights in politics. Women in Zimbabwe are expected to toe the patriarchal positions compromising female political stands. Women who have every right to be treated as heroines are deliberately forgotten due to their lack of contact with men of high status. (Fake Heroines and the falsification of history in Zimbabwe (1980-2009)).\nIt is crucial to bring into discussion a book by the name \u2018The Heroine\u2019s Journey\u2019 by Maureen Murdock that is considered to be an alternative reading of Joseph Campbell\u2019s \u2018The Hero with a Thousand Faces\u2019. Campbell introduces the concept of a \u2018Monomyth\u2019 universal mythic patterns that could be found in play in all stories. He bases this study on Carl Jung\u2019s concept of \u2018Archetypes\u2019 \u201cconstantly repeating characters that could be found occurring in the dreams of all people and myths of all culture.\nThe hero is introduced in this ordinary world, where he receives the call to adventure. He is reluctant at first but is encouraged by the wise old man or woman to cross the first threshold, where he encounters tests and helpers. He reaches the innermost cave, where he endures the supreme ordeal. He seizes the sword or the treasure and is pursued on the road back to his world. He is resurrected and transformed by this experience. He returns to his ordinary world with a treasure, boon, elixir to benefit his world. (Prometheus stealing fire from heaven, Jason\u2019s quest for the Golden Fleece.) (Campbell).\nMurdock felt that the book never addressed the heroine\u2019s journey. It never did anything to heal the wounding of the feminine. When in 1981 Murdock discussed this issue with Campbell he replied thus \u201cWomen don\u2019t need to make the journey. In the whole mythological tradition the woman is there. They are the place that everyone is trying to get into\u201d. (Murdock 2). This was shocking to Murdock. Though she agreed that feminine was the place people yearned to reach the fact was that most of the women were separated from the feminine. Her aim was to reclaim the feminine for the women community. The stages she divides the heroine\u2019s journey are separation from the feminine, Identification with the masculine and gathering of allies, Road of trials, Finding the boon of success, Awakening to feelings of spiritual aridity, Initiation and descent to the goddess, An urgent yearning to reconnect with the feminine, healing the Mother/ Daughter split, healing the wounded masculine and finally Integration of the feminine and masculine.\nThe father\u2019s daughters, in their efforts to idealize the prominent masculine culture denigrate the values of the feminine culture. Here she rejects the positive qualities identified with the feminine such as nurturing, emotional expressiveness, creativity, intuition etc\u2026In the \u2018Road of Trials\u2019 she tries to escalate the social/academic/corporate ladder, but later feels a sense of spiritual aridity when she realises that all the achievements had been at the cost of the soul.\u201d Her relationship with the inner world is estranged\u201d. She is in a dilemma with regard to what is to be done next. Murdock says that \u201cWhen the heroine says no to the next heroic task, there is extreme discomfort. When a woman stops doing she must learn how to simply be. Being is not a luxury. It is a discipline. The heroine must listen to her true inner voice. That means silencing the other voices anxious to tell her what to do. She must be willing to hold the tension until the new form emerges\u201d. Then the descent into the goddess involves attempts to rejoin the dismembered self and a longing to reconnect with the feminine. The journey is made up of elements of epiphany that provide her with moments of recognition/ awareness about things that had been lying dormant within her, waiting to erupt like a volcano. Later she tries to heal the wounds caused by this split by rectifying the errors that she had committed (avoiding her genuine feelings, refusing to focus on her unique experiences). The ultimate stage is the \u2018sacred marriage of the masculine and feminine\u201d where the two aspects of her nature are dovetailed. The newly emerged woman becomes a blend of female consciousness and masculine consciousness.\nWhen you analyse the Bollywood film \u2018Queen\u201d that was released in the year 2014 you can find the protagonist Rani Mehra (Kangana Ranaut) deciding to leave for Europe after her Fiancee gives her a shock treatment by confessing that he no longer wishes to marry her. Life abroad has changed his views and he can\u2019t accept her for her conventional attitudes. She meets Vijayalakshmi, a woman with free values who turns to be the catalyst for her change. This journey to Europe could be considered to be (the descent stage) where she learns to look within herself and find a voice of her own. She also encounters trouble with the police and also a robber who tries to snatch away her bag. She takes a selfie wearing a modern outfit and sends it to Vijay by mistake. This fills Vijay with a sense of compunction and he starts hunting for her. Meanwhile she visits Amsterdam. There she shares a room with three boys with whom she becomes thick friends. All these experiences boost her confidence. She learns about the diversity of the world and the multiple meanings it has to offer her. To end the movie she rejects repeated appeals on the part of Vijay to reconsider the relationship and says \u2018no\u2019 boldly and walks away by giving back the engagement ring. This is essentially a slap on the face of the patriarchal world which expects women to be a toy to act according to its whims and fancies.\nToday we find women in almost all the arenas of life, even in those fields which were exceptionally reserved for men. It\u2019s not the magnanimity of the task that matters but the will and sincerity with which you do it that matters. Taking into account the achievements of women we can say that the possibilities are ripe for the world to witness a She-roic shift which has to be taken into account by the patriarchal society. It is high time that men shed their ego and represent women factually in their own right rather than adjuncts to male enterprises.\nBecker, Selwyn W. Alice. H Eagly, The Heroism of Women and Men. American Psychologist, Vol.59, No.3, 163-178, April 2004. Web\nCampbell, Joseph. The Hero With A Thousand Faces. U.S.A: Pantheon Books, 1949. Print.\nHe, Guimei, An Analysis of Sexism in India. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol.1, No.3, 332-335, 2010. Web.\nMurdock, Maureen. The Heroine\u2019s Journey. Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 1990. Print.\nQueen. Dir. Vikas Bahl, October 2013. 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In addition to her management responsibilities, Ms. Kelly provides strategic counsel to the MSRB Board of Directors, and develops long-range initiatives in support of the MSRB\u2019s mission.\nMs. Kelly joined the MSRB in 2007 and implemented a vision to transform the level of transparency in the municipal securities market. She oversaw the launch of the MSRB\u2019s Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA\u00ae) website, which is the official source of municipal market data and documents, and in recent years, led the creation of rules for municipal securities dealers that further enhanced fair pricing and transparency for investors in the market. Beginning in 2010, Ms. Kelly oversaw the expansion of the MSRB\u2019s mission under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to include the protection of municipal entities and obligated persons, in addition to investors, and the authority to regulate municipal advisors, in addition to municipal securities dealers. She led the creation of a core set of conduct rules and professional qualification standards for municipal advisors and undertook a comprehensive review of the MSRB\u2019s existing rules for dealers. During her tenure, Ms. Kelly has also formalized the MSRB\u2019s market leadership activities, and expanded education and outreach efforts, culminating with the 2016 launch of MuniEdPro\u00ae, an online learning management system with a suite of interactive courses about municipal market activities and regulations.\nIn 2016, Ms. Kelly was named a Trailblazing Woman in Public Finance by the Northeast Women in Public Finance and The Bond Buyer. In 2012, she received the Municipal Forum of New York\u2019s Public Service Award for her leadership in the municipal market and in 2006, she received the Industry Contribution Award from the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.\nMs. Kelly has contributed numerous columns and articles on municipal securities regulation and municipal finance to national publications and journals, including The Bond Buyer, The Hill, Governing Magazine, the Journal of Government Financial Management and the Journal of Securities Operations and Custody. Her work has also been featured in the magazines of over 20 state and local government municipal leagues.\nPrior to joining the MSRB, Ms. Kelly was a managing director and associate general counsel at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), where she helped SIFMA (formerly The Bond Market Association) develop and implement legal, regulatory and best market practices in the fixed income markets, with a focus on municipal finance.\nFrom 1990 to 1993, Ms. Kelly served as general counsel for the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York, and has worked at several law firms in New York City in all areas of municipal finance.\nMs. Kelly graduated from the University of Nebraska and Tulane University School of Law. 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Blog - Proven Real-World Advice for Solopreneurs", "raw_content": "6 Tools to Help You Corner Your Share of a $107 Billion Industry\nLearn how to leverage the increasing popularity of online courses using WordPress.\nBy Susanna Perkins on July 11, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sj-r.com/x544096701/Mike-Nadel-Down-goes-CC-down-goes-Sheets-up-go-Cubs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4G3ZXCBGHUUZ6QMISAWGA64M2UU5TIZW", "length": 4340, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.sj-r.com", "title": "Mike Nadel: Down goes CC, down goes Sheets, up go Cubs - News - The State Journal-Register - Springfield, IL", "raw_content": "Mike Nadel: Down goes CC, down goes Sheets, up go Cubs\nMILWAUKEE - First CC. Then Big Ben. Who's next? Jim Slaton, Bill Travers and Teddy Higuera? I mean, what other all-time \"greats\" can the Brew Crew throw at the Cubs?\nThe invaders from Chicago did more than beat Milwaukee for the second straight night, more than increase their division lead to three games, more than give their fans every reason to shout down the Brewers' faithful.\nThey won the psychological game within the game.\nWith the NL Central lead on the line, the Cubs went into Milwaukee, took on their rivals' \"co-aces\" - Ben Sheets and CC Sabathia - and came away with two impressive victories.\nSheets arguably is the No. 1 pitcher in the 40-year history of the noodle-armed Brewers organization. He unquestionably is one of baseball's most talented hurlers. All the Cubs did was pound him until he cried \"Mommy!\" during a five-run sixth inning that fueled Tuesday night's 7-1 thumping.\nThat came 24 hours after the Cubs wore down and ultimately knocked out left-hander Sabathia, a hired gun who had developed an aura of invincibility since arriving in a trade three weeks earlier.\nThe Cubs couldn't have made a louder statement had they had used a megaphone.\nThe statement wasn't only about their batters getting to The Big Two, either.\nMonday, it was about their own lefty, Ted Lilly, matching Sabathia pitch for pitch. Tuesday, it was about Carlos Zambrano showing the Brewers what an ace really looks like.\n\"Lilly and Zambrano aren't exactly chopped liver,\" Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. \"We respect the two guys we beat, but ... we've got some pretty good pitching ourselves.\"\nWhen Zambrano is on, he's as good as anybody in the big leagues. He has been on most of the season, which is why he's 12-4 with a 2.80 ERA - better numbers than those of Sheets or Sabathia. And he certainly was on at Miller Park, allowing five measly singles over eight scoreless innings as he made one of the majors' most dangerous lineups look like the gang from \"A League of Their Own.\"\nIt's OK, Milwaukee, there is crying in baseball.\nSheets actually was doing fine until the sixth, allowing only one run to that point, but Zambrano was dominating the Brewers - buying time for his teammates to break it open as he again established himself as a big-game pitcher.\nSo complete was the thrashing that big hits were delivered by Aramis Ramirez and Kosuke Fukudome, multimillionaires who had been hitting like bush-leaguers lately. The Cubs, who had been lousy on the road and had been having trouble scoring, have been sharper offensively since Alfonso Soriano's return from the disabled list.\nWhat a turnaround for a team that, just a few days ago, was caught in the standings by the hard-charging Brewers and seemed on the brink of another classic Cubbie collapse.\nTurns out, Milwaukee couldn't handle the heat. Nothing new there.\nYes, everybody knows of the Cubs' troubled history ... but at least they have a history to speak of. What do the Brewers have? Eleven winning seasons in four decades.\nEvery great player in franchise history has been a hitter. Put all their pitchers together and they'd lose an arms race to Switzerland.\nSlaton, their all-time winner, had more losses (121) than victories (117). Sheets is their career strikeout leader with an eight-year total of 1,167. They've had three 20-game winners ever and nary a starter with a lifetime ERA under 3.60.\nThe oft-injured Sheets never has won more than 12 games in a season but he has made four All-Star appearances and has a winning career record. That's good enough for best-ever status in Brewtown. Naturally, he probably will leave as a free agent after the season. As will Sabathia.\nThe pressure is on for Brewers to win this season - and they still might.\nEarlier this month, they eliminated a six-game Cubs lead, so three shouldn't be too daunting. And they're still a notch ahead of amazingly resilient St. Louis in the NL wild-card race. They have flaws, sure, but they also have Sheets, Sabathia and several good hitters.\nStill, no matter what they say, their confidence simply has to be shaky given what has taken place so far this week.\nAfter Monday's loss, Milwaukee star Ryan Braun said: \"We have to come back tomorrow. We've got Ben Sheets going, and I like our chances.\"\nOh, Moose Haas, where are you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 7029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartertravelworkplaces.ie/resources-events/smarter_travel_awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YP4AUSFEXLMZLPBACT6YWUMN2POOEI4N", "length": 1920, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.smartertravelworkplaces.ie", "title": "Smarter Travel Awards 2017 - Smarter Travel", "raw_content": "NORTHERN TRUST LIMERICK AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) ANNOUNCED AS SMARTER TRAVEL WORKPLACE AND CAMPUS OF THE YEAR\nSmarter Travel Awards recognise workplaces and campuses that support sustainable travel\nThe winners of the annual Smarter Travel Awards were announced at an event at the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on Thursday April 27th, with Northern Trust Limerick being awarded Smarter Travel Workplace of the Year, and University College Dublin (UCD) being recognised as the Smarter Travel Campus of the Year. Partners of the Smarter Travel Workplaces and Smarter Travel Campus programme from around the country submitted entries to the awards competition which recognise and celebrate the efforts that workplaces and campuses make to promote sustainable travel.\nAnne Graham, Chief Executive Officer at the National Transport Authority said: \u201cA growing network of organisations in Ireland are engaging in Smarter Travel, working with their staff and students to facilitate travel choice in favour of more sustainable transport, resulting in reduced costs, enhanced employee wellbeing, better access and more effective parking management. Internationally workplace travel plans have been shown to reduce single-occupant car use by 10-24% The promotion and facilitation of cycling in particular, both on campuses and in workplaces made for strong competition, which highlights the growing interest in cycling across Ireland. The Awards are well placed to act as inspiration and leadership as we recognise organisations that are paving the way for more sustainable travel options.\u201d\nWinners in the workplace categories included: Northern Trust, Limerick; Limerick City and County Council; and St Vincent\u2019s University Hospital, Dublin. Winners in the campus categories included University College Dublin, University of Limerick, Waterford IT, Maynooth University, and Dublin City University.\nRead the winners case studies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartjurisdictionsindex.net/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CYBWCCVOBSNXVKMEAUZRSS2HUYLQHLW5", "length": 2118, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.smartjurisdictionsindex.net", "title": "Smart Jurisdictions Index: About", "raw_content": "About the Smart Jurisdictions Index\nSmart Ledger technology has been in use for many years, although it has come to prominence in recent times due to the rise of cryptocurrencies. Increasingly, governments are addressing the issues that arise from this technology, whether from a legal or regulatory perspective; or in addressing the delivery of services to citizens.\nThe extent to which different jurisdictions across the world are embracing or holding back the use of Smart Ledger technology is a key factor in the development of applications. Some are exploring the way in which this technology can assist in assuring identity and documentation, for example in anti-money laundering systems or the issuance of passports. Others are looking to this technology to improve the efficiency of transactions across a range of financial and other services.\nFor countries and regions with a commitment to the development of high tech and fintech industries, managing their approach to Smart Ledgers is key. They wish to ensure that whether their focus is on home grown start-ups or attracting inward investment, they provide an environment across business, regulation and infrastructure which supports new technology. They are supporting the development of their human capital through investment in training and education which supports a high level of expertise in their workforce.\nThe Smart Jurisdictions Index is a novel approach to tracking the relative preparedness of jurisdictions at national and state levels in welcoming Smart Ledger technology in business, finance and government operations. It is intended to provide a starting point for potential investors to examine where they might wish to explore business opportunities; and for governments and regulators to explore their competitiveness and the stance which they wish to take in welcoming or balancing the opportunities that this technology has to offer.\nThe index will require refinement and development as the field of Smart Ledgers is moving on at pace. 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Unfortunately, one thing stops a lot of patients from getting the dental care that they need is fear. Some people are afraid that things are going to be very painful, or they get anxious from the sound of the dental equipment, or they have a strong gag reflex. Some people just have a phobia of dentists, or are uncomfortable with people putting things in their mouth. Whatever, the reason, we\u2019ll do whatever we can to make you feel comfortable so that we can give you the care that you need, including sedation dentistry.\nSedation dentistry is almost always light sedation. This means that the sedation isn\u2019t strong enough to put you to sleep, since it\u2019s important that you stay awake to follow the dentist\u2019s instructions. This is also for your own convenience, since recovering from heavier forms of sedation often means you need someone else to drive you home from the clinic. However, it will have a strong calming effect, so that you can recieve your dental care without anxiety.\nDepending on the circumstances, the dentists will determine the right type of sedation for you. Some options include:\nGas Sedation, the most common kind of sedation in dental offices, uses nitrous oxide to keep you relaxed throughout your dental appointment. It\u2019s popular because it\u2019s both easy to use and wears off very quickly.\nOral Sedation, is the next most common. It is the easiest to use. The dentist just gives you the pills and you swallow them. However, pills may take a little time to wear off and you may not be able to do things like drive or operate heavy machinery for the rest of the day after taking oral sedation.\nIV Sedation is the most difficult to use. Not all dentists offer it and it may not be suitable for everyone, but it does offer the strongest form of sedation. It involves using a needle to inject sedatives directly into your bloodstream. 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We\u2019ve got some great news for Doncaster fans of James - South Yorkshire Times", "raw_content": "This is a sure fire way to brighten up your Monday.\nJames announce Summer outdoor show at Doncaster - Racecourse show taking place on Saturday August 17, 2019.\nFollowing the release of their brand new album \u2018 Living In Extraordinary Times\u2019 last year. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary music, James are back with new songs forged in these strangest of days.\nThe Mancunians returned in 2018 with the \u2018Better Than That\u2019 EP and they followed in August with their 15th studio album, aptly titled \u2018Living In Extraordinary Times\u2019. Taken together as shot and chaser they prove James to be as vital, visceral and urgent as ever.\nJames are one of British indie rock\u2019s most celebrated and enduring bands. Formed in 1982 in Whalley Range, Manchester, their debut \u2018Jimone\u2019 EP was released in November the following year on Factory Records and made Morrissey and Johnny Marr into early fans. The band went on to produce a string of huge hits during the next three decades, including \u2018Come Home\u2019, \u2018Sit Down\u2019, \u2018She's a Star\u2019 and \u2018Laid\u2019.\nThe band\u2019s longevity can be attributed to their constant process of renewal and reinvention. Their most recent album, 2016\u2019s \u2018Girl at the End of the World\u2019 debuted at number two in the UK album charts. In total, they have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, including their 1998 \u2018Best Of\u2019 which was a UK number one and went triple platinum. James\u2019 reputation as a uniquely transcendent live act is well-earned, having headlined festivals from Glastonbury in 1992 to Festival No.6 in 2015.\nThe new recording sessions were overseen by Mercury Prize-winning producer Charlie Andrew and rising star Beni Giles. The former had come to the band\u2019s attention through his work with alt-J. \u201cWhen their first record came out I thought the production and the arrangements were just genius,\u201d says singer and lyricist Tim Booth. \u201cSo I wrote to Charlie quite early on and told him I wanted to work with him.\u201d\nGiles had already been working with the band on creating a new rhythmical approach when Andrew, who won a Brit as producer of the year in 2016, joined the project after being blown away by the band live. \u201cWe were definitely trying to capture as much of the live energy as we could,\u201d he says of the recording process. \u201cThis album is full of big tunes. Tim and the guys are all very good at writing huge hooks. There\u2019s some really big, energetic tracks and some nice, chilled ones. There\u2019s some monstrous tracks, like \u2018Hank\u2019, which is just vast with layers and layers of drums.\u201d\nBassist Jim Glennie was impressed by the impact Andrew and Giles had on the rhythmic sound of the new record. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t what I expected,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were creating belting, banging layers of rhythm rather than relying on fancy programming. It was us all in a room hitting things. That\u2019s pushed us in a different direction, and live it\u2019s going to be wonderful.\u201d\nHank\u2019, which appears on the EP and opens the new record, is further evidence that James have no inclination to shy away from politics. Booth is an Englishman in America, and that particular perspective on Donald Trump\u2019s American carnage couldn\u2019t help but have an impact on the writing of the record. Booth sings of: \u201cWhite fascists in the White House / More beetroot in your Russian stew\u201d and: \u201cDemocracy sells easy/NRA high fives / Orlando, Sandy Hook and Columbine\u201d.\n\u201cYou can\u2019t write lyrics in the time of Trump and not have some reflection of that,\u201d says Booth, who has made his home in California for the last 10 years. \u201cOriginally he was sneaking into nearly every song at some level. Then I had to say: \u2018I really won\u2019t let this guy have this record.\u2019 I whittled it down to two or three songs where I would really focus on what\u2019s going on, but he\u2019s still the backdrop to the record- the horror-show of American politics.\u201d\nFor multi-instrumentalist Saul Davies, \u2018Hank\u2019 - which is propelled along on an industrial, militaristic beat - is an example of how percussive the band are these days. \u201cI think that could become one of the highlights of the live shows. We\u2019re all going to have to hit something!\u201d he laughs. He also points out that while lyrically the song looks toward America, sonically it is heard through: \u201ca kaleidoscope of Britishness.\u201d He adds: \u201cWe can\u2019t do Americana. We\u2019re more claustrophobic, more \u2018dark Satanic mills\u2019.\u201d\nAnother song, \u2018Many Faces\u2019, was written as a response to Trump\u2019s claim that he would build a border wall with Mexico. \u201cWe don\u2019t need walls,\u201d says Booth. \u201cWhat we need is diversity and interconnectedness, not the other way around. It\u2019s the tribal mentality which will destroy us, if nothing else does. It\u2019s that which will make us drop the bomb. The more that we see that we\u2019re the same, the less likely we are to kill each other. I\u2019m hoping that will match \u2018Sometimes\u2019 for its emotional clout live. If we can get an audience singing \u2018There\u2019s only one human race, many faces\u2019 then that\u2019s going to be beautiful.\u201d\nAs well as biting social commentary, \u2018Living In Extraordinary Times\u2019 also sees Booth speak frankly about deeply personal issues. On \u2018Coming Home (Pt. 2)\u2019, he writes - not for the first time - about the pain of being a father on tour away from a young child. \u201cI wrote [1989 single] \u2018Come Home\u2019 feeling shit about leaving my older kid and splitting up with his Mum,\u201d explains Booth. \u201cThis is a part two, a sequel to that. My Family is together but I\u2019m away travelling a lot.\u201d\nThat song features an appearance from long time James collaborator Brian Eno. \u201cBrian\u2019s keyboards are in there,\u201d says Davies, \u201cbubbling away like mad.\u201d\nThe new album also features EP title track \u2018Better Than That\u2019, in which Booth urges the universe to do its worst, like a man squaring up to life itself. \u201cYou can do better than that,\u201d he sings. \u201cHit me again and show me where I\u2019m cracked.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s an asking-for-trouble lyric,\u201d smiles Booth. \u201cI think the worst thing is to fall asleep, or to feel numb, or to get into one of those marriages where you\u2019re just watching television the whole time. When you\u2019re doing things to numb yourself out because the job is shit and the kids are overwhelming. We need to be challenged. If you don\u2019t go out into life, inviting to be cracked, life will crack us anyway - through old age, or death. You can\u2019t hold on. Nobody can.\u201d\nThe album started life in three weeks of extended jam sessions at Sheffield\u2019s Yellow Arch Studios, featuring Booth, Davies, Glennie and keyboard player Mark Hunter. \u201cWe all felt at home there,\u201d says Booth of their adopted town. \u201cSheffield\u2019s an incredibly cool little city.\u201d\nThey finished recording at Iguana Studios in Brixton, London. \u201cThis was the most harmonious time we\u2019ve had making an album for a long time,\u201d says Booth. \u201cI think that\u2019s to do with the chemistry between the band and the producers. This was certainly much easier and effortless than anything we\u2019ve made since \u2018Laid\u2019.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re still pushing,\u201d adds Glennie. \u201cEach record we do, it feels like we\u2019re trying to do something different, to break out of something and to find something new.\u201d\nAfter an intimate tour of UK venues in May 2018, the band took their new music on the road in the summer with festivals in the UK and Europe and further shows at the end of last year.\n\u201cWhen you see James live, you see that we\u2019re still an organism that\u2019s alive: growing and shifting and changing,\u201d says Booth. \u201cThere aren\u2019t many of us who have been around for this long who are still doing that.\u201d\nThere\u2019s nobody quite like James.\nBut like we said, extraordinary times call for extraordinary music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 9406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sovereignadvancecash.com/rates-fees.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:O5LVF6BLKKOBES3GHI377IHIJ6DXBTG5", "length": 3034, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sovereignadvancecash.com", "title": "Rates & Fees - Sovereign Advance Cash", "raw_content": "The services that SovereignAdvanceCash.com provides are completely free to you! We do not charge any fees for matching you with payday lenders in our network. SovereignAdvanceCash.com does not provide loans and we do not have any say in the rates or terms of our lenders. Our services are designed to take your information and then make it easy to find the lender that can best serve your needs.\nAfter you are matched with a lender, and your loan is approved, the interest rates and fees that you will incur during repayment will be provided to you. This is required of every lender under the Truth in Lending Act. If you agree to the rates and fees, the lender will direct you to an e-signature page, and your loan will be processed.\nDisclosure of Terms\nThe lender will provide you with a document that outlines all of the terms of the loan being offered. The information provided will include the rates and fees that you will be responsible for. It is recommended that you carefully review the terms of the loan before moving forward. 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At SovereignAdvanceCash.com we strive to work with lenders that use fair and legal collection actions to rectify a loan that has not been repaid. Please review the laws in your state to learn more about the implications of not repaying a payday loan.\nDisclosure of Renewal Policy\nExtending the repayment terms of a loan may result in additional interest paid, as well as late fees, which can greatly increase the total amount you pay back on a loan. In most cases, loan renewal policies are regulated by the state government. Learn more about your states policies in regard to loan renewal, and carefully read the lender\u2019s terms before signing a loan contract.\nThere are some American states that do not have any specific lending statutory provisions pertaining to payday loans. And they do not require that lenders comply with the interest rates offered by: Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Vermont and Pennsylvania. North Carolina and Arizona are allowed preexisting cash loans statues and laws to sunset.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 11767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spencefuneralhome.com/tributes/Frederick-Stambaugh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:G7FCEDSTRPSMTXUHPXI4LE3PGI364TZ6", "length": 959, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.spencefuneralhome.com", "title": "Tribute for Frederick Stambaugh | Dwayne R Spence Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Frederick Stambaugh\nFrederick E. Stambaugh, age 78, of Groveport, OH passed away January 30, 2019. He was born October 11, 1940 in Hager Hill, KY to the late William and Mildred Stambaugh. Frederick worked for Buckeye Steel as a welder for 40 years. He was a member of Madison Christian Church, Groveport, OH. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and western films. Frederick was also an avid Cleveland Cavalier and Cincinnati Reds fan.\nIn addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his daughter, Tonjua Palmer. Survivors include his loving wife of 56 years, Elva Stambaugh; daughter, Tracy (Tim) Clemens; grandchildren, Zak Palmer, Talon Clemens, Zarah Palmer, Tahnee Clemens and Taegan Clemens. Family and friends may visit 3-7:00pm on Sunday, February 3, at the DWAYNE R. SPENCE FUNERAL HOME, 650 W. Waterloo St. Canal Winchester, OH 43110. A funeral service will begin at 1:00pm on Monday, February 4, at the funeral home. Interment at Groveport Cemetery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spikedparenting.com/meet-louise-goss/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:20Z", "digest": "sha1:P4U3K7OG2XJRS6MVA3BA6MVPM33K7NKR", "length": 8020, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.spikedparenting.com", "title": "Meet Louise Goss | SpikedParenting", "raw_content": "Meet the #motherhustlers: Louise Goss\nLouise is an award-winning journalist, writer, and mum of two small people who are not yet in school and generally demand most of her time. A self-confessed dreamer, she is a lover of dance, travel, photography, and languages. She studied French, Spanish, and Japanese although rarely gets the chance to use them these days. She has worked in national newsrooms in the UK and Australia on both sides of the camera; presenting, reporting, producing, and writing. She and her husband embarked on an adventure after they got married and moved to Sydney, Australia where they lived for six years. While there Louise turned her hand to FinTech when she worked with a tech startup as the editorial director but with motherhood decided to focus more on writing. She wrote a client\u2019s memoir and completed the first draft of a novel, which she would like to eventually publish. Now back in the UK, she is writing for a lifestyle magazine, taking too many photographs, and setting up her own blog and magazine in her \u2018spare time\u2019.\nI am a wife, mum of two children, a boy aged 3 and a girl, 21 months. Just last year we uprooted our family and moved halfway round the world from Australia to the UK where our family is all based. Having lived there for six years and being where our children were born this was a huge decision but the right one for us. As a former military wife, I am used to moving around and getting on with life! I would describe myself as a creative type balanced with a good deal of pragmatism \ud83d\ude42\nMy business is a magazine called The Homeworker. It is, as the title suggests, for people who work from home, providing advice, inspiration, business profiles and articles covering all aspects of the work from home lifestyle. I have only just got started so am in the process of compiling material for articles, writing my blog, and making regular tweaks to my website!\nThe idea for The Homeworker was germinating for a while. My career has always been in journalism as I love working with people and hearing their stories. I also love photography, design, and creative writing so when looking at how to combine all my passions, a magazine seemed to make sense.\nWhile working for a Tech startup, I became aware of how many people, particularly women, were running their own businesses from home. I was profiling people and businesses and really loved getting to know them and deconstructing how they operate and balance their home and work life. As someone who has worked from home for several years, I could empathise with the struggles as well as the great benefits and so slowly the idea formulated. I currently write profiles for a lifestyle magazine and so the first part of my idea was to profile people and their home-based businesses. I then expanded on this to come up with The Homeworker.\nFrom a young age, I always said \u201cI never want a 9-5 office job.\u201d\nFunnily enough, I have never had one. I have often freelanced for news organisations and still do for a magazine. When I began writing from home as well, I realised how ultimately I love to be the boss of my own time, work my own schedule, and be in control of what I do. I found a lack of creative control and flexibility in other jobs frustrating. I have freelanced a lot in my time and so in some ways, I have often worked for myself so starting on my own felt like a natural step.\nThe biggest struggle is not allowing my work to encroach on my family time and being able to spend any time with my husband. Also, a seemingly minor point, but stopping my toddler daughter from rummaging through my desk and playing on my computer! I currently have my workspace in our living room and so boundaries around time and space can be a struggle.\nI have to be really disciplined around scheduling and organising my time so that I know I have times set aside to do certain jobs and am not trying to answer emails while playing with my children. Luckily, deadlines have been a big part of my working life so I am quite good at ensuring work gets done. However, this usually means cramming what I can into a nap time (I am currently writing this while my daughter sleeps) and working at night once the children are asleep. This does mean I get little time just to be with my husband as I am either \u2018mum\u2019 or \u2018businesswoman\u2019. Again, I have to force myself to step away and allow myself some downtime. Usually I make sure I eat with my husband after work so at least we sit down together and talk and maybe watch a box set episode too. With my workspace, it just forces me to be REALLY tidy! \ud83d\ude42\nI am no expert on this and I know I get it wrong sometimes but obviously, you need to be able to dedicate time to both. I think it is really important to be present for your family and equally be able to focus on your business when it is time to do that.\nI think prioritising and scheduling is key so that you know there is time set aside to do the jobs you need to do and you don\u2019t think about them or try to do them while being with your family. I also think communication is so important. Explaining to your family when you are working and why you have to do what you are doing can help them to understand and feel less resentful. The support of your family when you are trying to raise a business as well is critical and can help you not feel guilty about spending time away to do it.\nSelf-care! I have found that my time is spent being a busy mum, running around after two pre-schoolers, working on my business, and being a supportive wife. Then there is also the running of the house, the cooking, laundry, and admin tasks. Feeling exhausted is inevitable but at some point, it is not conducive to being productive. I would always say, don\u2019t try to be a martyr, accept that you are only human (as super as you are), and that we all need time to recharge and reflect without feeling guilty about it.\nTake time for yourself, you deserve it.\nAs a mum you suddenly become more efficient, you have to become a top negotiator, get your hands dirty, cope with limited sleep, and are responsible for another human. Running a business? Meh, you got this!!\nI often underestimate my own achievements and fail to see my wins, however inspiring they may be.\nI think we all have to believe that we can do it. Self-belief is tough if you are prone to self-doubt and social media can exacerbate the comparison disease but I have managed to achieve a lot without a lot of support at times.\nWhile my husband was in the military, my son was born and we were living in Australia, half a world away from our families. When our son was 5 weeks old, my husband deployed and I was alone with a tiny baby, no family support and no husband to come home at night to share the snuggles, the bedtime routine, or the anxieties of raising a newborn.\nIt was tough. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing, I had never been a mum before but instinct kicks in and if you have no choice, you do it. At the same time I was committed to writing a memoir for a client and suddenly I realised the power of the nap time hustle, even with a baby sleeping on me! My son remained a happy, contented baby. We went out, I took him on trips, took him swimming, nursed his fevers, and he never went without. It may have taken me a little longer than without children but my client also got a 90,000 word book on his desk and I felt pretty proud about that.\nI dance. A lot. I used to take dance lessons growing up and carried on into my uni years. 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It could be anything from the ladies: Sia, Beyonc\u00e9, Rita Ora, to any hip-hop tunes, and I may have been known to dance to Van McCoy\u2019s The Hustle.\nWhere you can find Louise:\nLearn more about Louise and her business over at The Homeworker, and hang out with her on Instagram, as well as on her Facebook page and inside her group!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 13159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportsofficiatingsummit.com/supporters-exhibitors/supporters/missouri-state-high-school-activities-association/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3A6RURTCDPRSX2WDNQQPR5TV2PFX3DZ5", "length": 222, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sportsofficiatingsummit.com", "title": "Missouri State High School Activities Association - NASO 37th Annual Sports Officiating Summit", "raw_content": "MSHSAA sponsors 17 sports and more than 175,000 students by promoting the value of participation, sportsmanship, team play, and personal excellence.\nWebsite: View Missouri State High School Activities Association's Website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 187.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ssje.org/2013/11/22/christ-the-king-br-geoffrey-tristram/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RTQSLEGVUEEEOCP5ZGBI2ASCISL6F7EX", "length": 6377, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ssje.org", "title": "Christ the King \u2013 Br. Geoffrey Tristram \u2013 SSJE", "raw_content": "Evil has always been a source of fascination. We can hardly bear to look, but find it hard to look away. Writers over the centuries have been drawn to it constantly. In Dante\u2019s Inferno and Purgatorio we have a riotous and fantastic description of hell and purgatory. By comparison, his depiction of heaven \u2013 Paradiso \u2013 is rather dull.\nWhen I read Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost, I was struck, as many people are, by how the 17th century Puritan loved describing the devils \u2013 ever detail, so vivid and imaginative. By comparison, the inhabitants of heaven \u2013 the goodies, are rather bland and two-dimensional.\nPerhaps this literary reality tells us something very uncomfortable: that part of us is attracted to what we know is wrong, or even evil. The New Testament is quite clear about this, and it uses the imagery of kingdom and kingship to describe two distinct kingdoms. Left to our own devices, we are drawn to the kingdom of darkness and evil, but in Jesus Christ God has rescued us from this kingdom, and brought us into the kingdom of light, of which he is the king. The Letter to the Colossians, which we have just read, puts it like this: \u201cGive thanks to the Father, who has established you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son.\u201d\nOver this past year, Sunday by Sunday, we have been celebrating just how it was that God rescued us \u2013 the birth of Jesus, his life and ministry, his death and resurrection and ascension. Next week, Advent Sunday, the whole story starts again. But today, on this Sunday called Christ the King, we come to the climax of the story, as it were. Today we give thanks to God for rescuing us, for saving us, for redeeming us, for transferring us into the Kingdom of Light, and for giving us Jesus as our King and our Lord.\nSo what is this kingdom of darkness from which we have been rescued? One of the most powerful movies I have seen is called Apocalypse Now. It is about a US Colonel played by Marlon Brando, who enters into the heart of the apocalyptic darkness of the Vietnamese War. In doing so he confronts the heart of himself and discovers darkness. He is terrified by what he finds deep within himself. The story is based on the famous book The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.\nPerhaps we are drawn to images of darkness and evil, such as 9/11 and Kennedy\u2019s assassination, because we prefer to see evil \u201cout there,\u201d preferably embodied by Islamic militants, or by Soviet or Mafia conspiracies. It is so much harder and more painful to look within ourselves. But that is where the New Testament forces us to look \u2013 at the heart of darkness within. And this New Testament conviction is mirrored by these famous words of the Russian novelist and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.\n\u201cIf only it were all so simple. If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the hearts of every human being.\u201d (Gulag Archipelago)\nThe kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light collide decisively and violently at the Cross. \u201cWhen they came to the place that is called the Skull, they crucified Jesus, there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, \u201cFather forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d\nA king? A king? \u201cIf you\u2019re the King of the Jews\u201d save yourself?\u201d\nBut already, on the cross, unseen by those who mocked him, the work of rescue had begun. Just as Colossians put it, \u201che has rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.\u201d The work began with the criminals who were hanging on either side of him. One of those criminals heard those gracious words of forgiveness, and looking on the face of Jesus, he sees a king and he utters these words: \u201cRemember me when you come into your kingdom.\u201d He was transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. \u201cTruly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.\u201d\nWe too have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. At our baptism, we received the forgiveness of sins, like that criminal on the cross, and we too were transferred decisively into that kingdom, and Jesus Christ is our king. And that is a cause for great rejoicing \u2013 and why today, the Feast of Christ the King, is such a joyful culmination of the church year.\nAnd yet, although we have been rescued, forgiven and transferred decisively by Christ into his kingdom of light, we are not immune from being attracted by the other kingdom. And we sometimes act as if we have a foot in each camp!\nBut the Letter to the Ephesians will have none of it \u2013 but urges us, \u201cFor once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light!\u201d (Eph 5:8)\n\u201cLive as children of light!\u201d How do we do that? I believe that it\u2019s vitally important in our Christian life, to periodically sit down and take stock of our lives. Ask ourselves, in God\u2019s presence, \u201cAm I living a life that reflects my identity as a child of light?\u201d\nAdvent, like Lent, is a great time to do that: these next few weeks leading up to Christmas. Find a time, and make a searching and honest inventory of your life. Where, precisely, are you most attracted to that other kingdom of darkness? If Solzhenitsyn is right, and that the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, where is that line within me? And how do I need to amend my life \u2013 in practical terms.\nAnd then bring those areas of your life which need amending to the Lord \u2013 and ask him to forgive you, and restore you. Many people find that sacramental confession in the presence of a priest can be a huge help in putting your life right. God so longs for us to choose the light, and delights when we return to him. When we fall, God is quick to forgive us, restore us, and welcome us home into the kingdom of light.\nSo let us give thanks to God who has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son, where he lives and reigns for ever and ever.\n\u2190 Treasure Trove \u2013 Br. 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that we announce the loss of our beloved Father, Grandfather and friend who passed away on Thursday, May 12th 2011 at the Stettler General Hospital following a courageous battle with cancer.\nBorn in Hanna, Alberta on January 9th, 1939 to Sophia and David Karg, Herb was the third of four children. As a farm boy, Herb grew up learning the value of hard work and was an industrious man who loved his family, making many sacrifices for them over the years. He also gave of himself generously to his many friends and business associates. Herb spent many years in retail business, including operating a Texaco Gas Station and later a Texaco Bulk Fuel Business in Stettler, Alberta.\nHe leaves to mourn his passing his loving daughter Sherry and her family, Nick, Sarah, Adam, and Great Granddaughter Sophia; his oldest son Dave and his wife Sandy and their four children, Ashley, Regan, Sydney and Jachin; his youngest son Dale and his children Robbie and Cameron. He also leaves to mourn his sister Irene Morton and family; brother-in-law John Feeney; sister-in-law LaVerne Karg (nee Heck) and numerous nieces and nephews.\nA gentle man with a keen sense of humour and a warm loving nature, Herb will always be loved and missed by his family, many friends and business associates who were an important part of his life for so many years.\nWe love you Dad and Grandpa!\nA Memorial Service to honour Herb\u2019s life will be held on Saturday May 28th, 2011 at 2:00 P.M. at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Stettler. As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Herb memorial contributions may be made to the Stettler Health Services Foundation or to the charity of your choice in care of Brennen Funeral Home and Cremation Services P.O. Box 193 Stettler, Alberta TOC 2LO who have been entrusted with the care and arrangements 403.742.3315 Condolences can be e-mailed to brennenf@telusplanet.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 4832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studymode.com/essays/Elbit-Systems-Company-Valuation-1512590.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JT6GVMJ5DGLNJXGLARVWTRRKE763CHWY", "length": 14381, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.studymode.com", "title": "Elbit Systems - Company Valuation Essay - 745 Words", "raw_content": "Home Essays Elbit Systems - Company...\nElbit Systems - Company Valuation\nTopics: Discounted cash flow, Weighted average cost of capital, Free cash flow Pages: 9 (745 words) Published: March 16, 2013\nCompany Valuation - Elbit Systems Ltd.\nThe following document will try to describe the financial assets and the portfolio of \u201cElbit Systems\u201d and a company valuation. As part of my military service I spend some time in different project in Elbit Systems, working with their R&D department. For the company valuation I\u2019ll use Discount Cash Flow (DCF) method. After valuating the company I\u2019ll calculate the discount premium rates that can serve investors and be a supportive tool for their decision.\n\u201cElbit Systems\u201d develops, manufactures and integrates advanced, highperformance defense electronic and electro-optic systems for customers throughout the world. The Company focuses on designing, developing, manufacturing and integrating command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C ISR) network centric systems, including unmanned vehicles, for defense and homeland security applications. They also perform upgrade programs for airborne, land and naval defense platforms. Moreover, they develop and manufacture systems and aero structures for the commercial aviation market. They also provide a range of support services. The company based in Haifa, Israel and currently has 12,500 employees around the world mainly in the US. Elbit\u2019s stock is traded in both TASE (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange) and the NASDAQ as ESLT. 4\nElbit Systems has an average risk level, which mainly affected by geopolitical risks that can affect the company sales, security budget in major markets such as Israel and the US.\nDiscount Cash Flow (DCF)\nValuation using discounted cash flows is a method for determining the current value of a company using future cash flows adjusted for time value. The future cash flow set is made up of the cash flows within the determined forecast period and a continuing value that represents the cash flow stream after the forecast period. Company / Firm value, using the DCF method, is calculated with the following formula: Value of the Firm = Enterprise Value=\nWhere: FCFF = Free Cash Flow to the Firm WACC = Weighted Average Cost of Capital t = Time period n = Number of time periods WACC Calculation\ng = Growth Rate\nWACC = Cost of Equity (CAPM) * Common Equity + (Cost of Debt) * Total Debt\nFCFF Calculation\nFCFF = NOPAT + D&A \u2013 Capitalization Expenditure \u2013 WC Investments * NOPAT = Net Operating Profit - Taxes\nI\u2019ll first calculate the firm NOPAT (Figure 2) in order to calculate the FCFF of the firm. (Figure 3)\nFigure 2 \u2013 NOPAT Calculation for the Years 2012-2016 (in Millions of USD)\nFigure 3 \u2013 FCFF Calculation\nfor the Years 2012-2016 (in Millions of USD)\nEnterprise Value Calculations Using the WACC and the FCFF we calculated, we can now compute their PV values and sum. Adding to that sum the terminal value will give us the Enterprise Value. WACC\nReferences: 1. 2. 3. 4. Elbit Systems website - http://www.elbitsystems.com/elbitmain/ Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ESLT Wiki Wealth - http://www.wikiwealth.com/research:eslt Financial Times http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Businessprofile?s=ESLT:TLV 5. Elbit System 2011 Annual Report http://ir.elbitsystems.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=61849&p=irol-reportsannual\nCompany Valuation Essay\n...______________________________________________ SUBJECT: COMPANY VALUATION CASE STUDY: BIOTECHNOLOGY S.A Prepared by: Tran Ngoc Minh (MEBF 5th) Assignment: Company Valuation Case Study: BioTechnology Student: Tran Ngoc Minh \u2013 MEBF 5th TABLE OF CONTENT I. Introduction of company valuation methods and process........................................................3 1. Abstract................................................................................................................................3 2. Valuation methods...............................................................................................................3 2.1 Balance sheets \u2013 Based methods (shareholders\u2019Equity) ...............................................3 2.2 Income Statement \u2013 Based methods..............................................................................3 2.3 Goodwill \u2013Based methods.............................................................................................4 2.4 Cash flow discounting \u2013 Based method ........................................................................4 3. Investment decision process applied for preparing the long term financial plan of Biotechnology S.A ..................................................................................................................5 II. Background of Biotechnology S.A...\nYamama Cement Company Valuation Essay\n...[pic] RESEARCH PAPER VALUATION OF THE YAMAMA SAUDI CEMENT COMPANY (YSCC) Table of Contents 1. Introduction \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 3-4 2. The Saudi Cement Industry \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. 4-5 3. The Yamama Saudi Cement Company\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 6 4. Company Valuation \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 7-11 4.1. The Free Cash Flow Model (FCF) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 7 4.2. The Dividend Discount Model (DDM) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 8 4.3. The Discounted Cash Flow Model (DCF) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 8-9 4.4. Key Indicators \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 9-10 4.5. Peer Comparison \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 10-11 5. Conclusion \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 12 6. References \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 13 7. Appendix \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026... 14 1. Introduction Valuation, in finance, is the process of estimating what something worth. Valuations are needed for many reasons such as investment analysis, capital budgeting, merger and acquisition transactions, and financial reporting. Corporate Valuation methods can be grouped into four categories: 1. Financial Reports Methods, such as the financial ratio analysis, that provide information about the financial performance of the firm, which can be used by different stakeholders to evaluate the firm\u2019s...\nValuation Essay\n...Equity Valuation: Discounted Cash Flow and Residual Income Models Introduction Valuation plays a very important role when companies are trying to increase their value, raise money, acquire another firm or sell a subsidiary, also when a company decides to go public. Managers, investors and shareholders need to have the most accurate and reliable information in order to make decisions, that is why valuation is a fundamental exercise in corporate finance. It is pretty evident that whatever the reason, sooner or later there will be a question of how much a firm is worth and very often the answer will not be easy. Hamadi and Hamadeh (2012, p.104) claim that \u201cdetermining firm\u2019s value has recently become more problematic\u201d. Valuation is, indeed, a complicated task. It requires taking in consideration a variety of factors, making a number of assumptions and calculations and of course selecting the most appropriate valuation approach. Equity Valuation is the process of estimating the value held by a firm\u2019s equity holders; it should not be confused with Enterprise Valuation, which is the total value of a firm. They are two different values from two different concepts. By having a clear understanding of it, we will be able to incorporate the appropriate cash flows and discount rates to our valuation analysis. Analysis...\nValuation Amazon Essay\n...\ufeffUS Company I - BUSINESS SUMMARY Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon), incorporated on May 28, 1996, is an American company listed on the Nasdaq. It operates retail web sites and provides programs that enable third parties (3P) to sell products on its web sites. The Company sources and sells a range of products to its customers and also manufactures and sells Kindle devices. It operates in two segments: North America and International. In May 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, Inc. II - AMAZON ANALYSIS SWOT Business Plan We based our business plan on the past annual reports of Amazon and on the Market/Equity research of JP Morgan and Bloomberg as well as their forecasts. 2011 was an important tipping point in the evolution of Amazon: \u201cOur millions of third-party sellers had a tremendous holiday season with 65% unit growth and now represent 36% of total units sold.\u201d - Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO), that same year. The mix shift to 3P continues today to change the Company from a retailer to a technology company and marketplace operator. Big investments were made to do so. Capital expenditure increased by 85% in 2011 and 109% in 2012 as you can see in Appendix 4, which can possibly explain the important D&A in 2011-2012. The decrease in EBIT must therefore be put into perspective. Whereas Wall Street reacted to the 2011 Q4 results of Amazon, sending the shares down 10-12%, the...\nCompany Valuation Report for Bp Essay\n...BAFI 1045 Investment | Company Valuation Report BAFI 1045 Investment Group Assignment | Company Valuation Report | BP 2 Executive Summary BP p.l.c. is an energy company with an upstream business of extracting crude oil and downstream business of providing processed energy to companies. It is listed in both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) based in the United States of America and the London Stock Exchange (LSE). BP is based in London and they carry out oil prospecting extraction and retail its product in more than 70 countries. Out of the companies operating in the oil industry, the biggest two competitor of BP is ExxonMobil and Chevron. ExxonMobil and Chevron are chosen due to their similarities to BP and they are ranked top two major oil companies among the oil industry. In our report, we have that the identified major issues affecting BP\u2019s financial activities during the past five years are namely: \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Global Financial Crisis Global Demand of Natural Gas Consumption A computation of DuPont ROE between BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil was analyzed and it was noted that BP\u2019s ROE is generally lower than ExxonMobil and Chevron over the years. Based on the computation, various assumptions and limitations, the intrinsic value of BP\u2019s share price was examined and estimated with five models, \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Dividend...\nReview Questions Company Valuation Essay\n...creation Question 1- What was the reason the fast growing company Walgreen and the significantly slower growing company Wrigley, Between 1968 and 2007 had nearly the same shareholder return? For example, earnings growth alone can\u2019t explain why investors in drugstore chain Walgreens, with sales of $54 billion in 2007, and global chewinggum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, with sales of $5 billion the same year, earned similar shareholder returns between 1968 and 2007.3 These two successful companies had very different growth rates. During the period, the net income of Walgreens grew at 14 percent per year, while Wrigley\u2019s net income grew at 10 percent per year. Even though Walgreens was one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States during this time, its average annual shareholder returns were 16 percent, compared with 17 percent for the significantly slower-growing Wrigley. The reason Wrigley could create slightly more value than Walgreens despite 40 percent slower growth was that it earned a 28 percent ROIC, while the ROIC for Walgreens was 14 percent (a good rate for a retailer). To be fair, if all companies in an industry earned the same ROIC, then earnings growth would be the differentiating metric. For reasons of simplicity, analysts and academics have sometimes made this assumption, but as Chapter 4 will demonstrate, returns on invested capital can vary...\nCompany Valuation Methods. the Most Common Errors in Valuations Essay\n...Pablo Fern\u00e1ndez. IESE Business School Company valuation methods. The most common errors in valuations Company valuation methods. The most common errors in valuations\u2217 Pablo Fern\u00e1ndez PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Corporate Finance IESE Business School Camino del Cerro del Aguila 3. Telephone 34-91-357 08 09. 28023 Madrid, Spain e-mail: fernandezpa@iese.edu In this paper, we describe the four main groups comprising the most widely used company valuation methods: balance sheet-based methods, income statement-based methods, mixed methods, and cash flow discounting-based methods. The methods that are conceptually \u201ccorrect\u201d are those based on cash flow discounting. We will briefly comment on other methods since -even though they are conceptually \u201cincorrect\u201dthey continue to be used frequently. We also present a real-life example to illustrate the valuation of a company as the sum of the value of different businesses, which is usually called the break-up value. We finish the paper showing the most common errors in valuations: a list that contains the most common errors that the author has detected in the more than one thousand valuations he has had access to in his capacity as business consultant or teacher. JEL Classification: G12, G31, M21 Keywords: Value, Price, Free cash flow, Equity cash...\nDcf Valuation Essay\n...The purpose of DCF-Valuation is to determine the value of a company in terms of its future cash flows. The cash flows are adjusted with certain items (e.g. those not related to company\u00b4s core businesses or those with no cash effect) in order to make sure the flows reflect the actually generated cash as good as possible. This document describes DCF valuation in detail and in our valuation model. If you would like to get an overview of valuation in general or practical examples (numerical and graphical) about it, then you should look at our valuation tutorial. It approaches equity valuation first with EVA instead of DCF but as the tutorial reveals EVA approach is only an another name for the old familiar DCF valuation. Both end up to identical end result i.e. identical equity valuation. The underlying idea of DCF-Valuation is to compute the fair value of a company i.e. the intrinsinc value of the company\u00b4s share. The potential of the share price (which the investors are particularly interested in) is then computed by comparing the fair value with the current market price of the company\u00b4s share. The basic formulation of Discounted cash flow valuation is as follows: \u2022\tFree cash flow to firm is discounted with WACC to the Year 0 (the forecast year) in order to...\nBhadrachalam Essay\nSmall intestine Essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 16604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 68.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/sarah-robb-32-assistant-attorney-general-commonwealth-of-virginia-and-jack-robb-35-partner-at-leclairryan/Content?oid=2251578", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:N2ZX2FPHPQEQ42GNYI7CYDDBVCR3DVE4", "length": 2961, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.styleweekly.com", "title": "Sarah Robb, 32: Assistant Attorney General Commonwealth of Virginia and Jack Robb, 35: Partner at LeClairRyan | 2015 Top 40 Under 40 | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.", "raw_content": "Back in 2006, at the T.C. Williams School of Law, two students struck up a conversation. Jack, who had been at the University of Richmond for two years, was fascinated that Sarah, a first-year student, shared his passion for animals and their safety. They began a relationship, got married and embarked on their careers.\nBut their legal paths diverged. After graduating in 2008, Sarah began commuting from Richmond to her assistant commonwealth\u2019s attorney job in Greensville County, about 90 minutes away. There, she assisted with a sensational cold case.\nIn 1975, Eva King Jones, an 88-year-old retired teacher, was found raped and murdered at her Emporia home. But after the man convicted of the crimes, Curtis Jasper Moore, died in 2006, doubts emerged about the conviction. New DNA testing showed that the killer was Thomas Pope, who was then convicted in 2010 for Jones\u2019 death.\nWhile Sarah drove back and forth, her husband was steadily building a career at blue chip firm LeClairRyan. Specializing in construction and real estate law, Jack became the youngest partner ever at the firm. His $2.8 million jury award in a real estate case was regarded as one of the top 10 verdicts in 2010. More accolades came, including work on a constitutional law banking case.\nThe Robbs never strayed from a mutual concern. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved animals,\u201d Sarah says, \u201cand after law school it was time to do something about it.\u201d\n\u201cWe have a strong sense of justice,\u201d Jack says.\nAnd that passion has woven their professional and community service work. Jack started working pro bono as the legal counsel for the Richmond SPCA. One of his cases involved protecting feral cats in Henrico County, which tried to prevent a caretaker from dealing with them. He received an award for his work in that case from the Richmond Bar Association.\nAnd Sarah joined the Office of the Attorney General in 2011, specializing in dealing with sexually violent predators and aid for victims. When Mark Herring took over as attorney general, he started his office\u2019s first-ever animal laws division, which protects animals including pets and those kept in zoos.\nOther SPCA efforts are more on the fun side. As a board director, Sarah helps put together the annual one-mile Dog Jog and a 5-kilometer race for people. Besides his legal work, Jack helps out with activities and events.\nThey also spend time fixing up their Ginter Park house, where they live with their three dogs. All five take regular trips across town to the South of the James Farmer\u2019s Market and the WPA Bakery in Church Hill.\n\u201cWe make a pretty good team,\u201d Jack says. And the team\u2019s about to expand. The couple expects their first child early next year.\nMelinda Wooten, 34: Special Nutrition Programs Supervisor at the Virginia Department of Health\n\u00ab Ryan Dunn, 36: Executive Vice President of Corporate and Government Affairs at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce | Shane Burnette, 36: Co-Founder and Partner at Perkinson Homes \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-02-22-9802210172-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CERWK3HLTLRZA722WSDDXLZOAQP6W75Z", "length": 4052, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.sun-sentinel.com", "title": "EL NINO SETTING RECORD? - Sun Sentinel", "raw_content": "EL NINO SETTING RECORD?\nDAVID L. CHANDLER The Boston GlobeSUN-SENTINEL\nThis year's El Nino, which has pounded the West Coast repeatedly with storms and floods and has left Indonesia and Australia parched with drought, is on track to equal or exceed the all-time record El Nino of 1982-83, many climatologists say.\n\"It's arguably the largest, by just a little bit,\" said climatologist Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. \"It certainly started earlier than other big ones, by a couple of months.\"\nStephen Zebiak, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, agreed that \"by almost any reasonable measure this event is in the uppermost tier, if not the largest one in the last century.\"\nThe El Nino phenomenon, which begins with an increase in water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific and ends up disrupting weather patterns all over the world, has been recognized for only about two decades, but old weather records have enabled scientists to extrapolate backward and compile lists of El Nino years and their effects over the last century.\nStill, it is difficult to make exact comparisons of the intensity of one El Nino with another, because satellites and other instruments used to measure ocean and air temperatures are constantly improving and providing better coverage, and because global climate is so complex and can be measured in many ways. But it is clear that this El Nino started earlier in the year than any previous one and has produced temperatures in Pacific waters that at least equal the highest recorded in previous El Ninos.\nBut Dan Cayan of Scripps and the U.S. Geological Survey said there is no clear consensus yet on whether this El NiM-fo is a record-setter. \"In some respects, this one is very, very impressive,\" he said. \"The ocean temperatures are very remarkable in the tropics. But atmospherically, it seemed that 1982-83 was stronger . . . When we lump everything together, '82-'83 was probably the event of the century, in my view.\"\nNoting that El Nino activity has increased over the last two decades, some researchers think this may be a direct outcome of global warming caused by human activity. Climatologist Michael Glantz, writing in a United Nations journal, said the frequency and intensity of recent El Ninos would be expected by chance only once in 2,000 years. \"This opens up the possibility that the El Nino changes may be partly caused by the observed increase in greenhouse gases,\" he said.\nThat link, however, is still a matter of conjecture, some say.\nFor that matter, nobody knows exactly how the huge patch of warm Pacific water manages to affect weather around the world. Scientists know that in general, regions of warm ocean water, where high evaporation rates transfer a great deal of moisture to the atmosphere, drive much of the world's weather. \"In general, when you have warm sea-surface temperatures, you get moist air rising and contributing to the general circulation,\" said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher Robert Weller.\nThus, when El Nino brings warmer water, nearby coastlines such as Peru and Chile, as well as California's coast farther north, get greatly increased rainfall. Regions much farther downwind, even halfway around the globe, may end up with less rainfall because of the redistribution of moist air.\nOne thing that nobody can yet predict is just how long this event will last. Most climate projections say the El Nino surface conditions, with equatorial seawater temperatures still running as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average, will have dissipated by summer and conditions will be returning to normal. While the surface waters extending westward from the Peruvian coast remain almost as warm as at the peak, the first signs of cooling can already be seen in temperatures a little deeper down.\n\"It's already eroding from beneath,\" Barnett said. But because the atmosphere \"only cares about the surface,\" he said, El Nino's effects should remain strong for at least another two months.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 4527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-gun-group-florida-election-money-20181008-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YPPSPR7UZPKBTJTVMP54APKVBHU24CUL", "length": 3475, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.sun-sentinel.com", "title": "National gun control group spending $2 million to elect Florida Democrats, hoping to counter NRA - Sun Sentinel", "raw_content": "National gun control group spending $2 million to elect Florida Democrats, hoping to counter NRA\nFlorida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum speaks at a political event at the Century Pines Jewish Center on Oct. 18, 2018 in Pembroke Pines.\nFlorida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum speaks at a political event at the Century Pines Jewish Center on Oct. 18, 2018 in Pembroke Pines. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)\nThe announcement came the day after Everytown\u2019s founder, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, finished a three-day series of political stops in South Florida.\nEverytown describes itself as the nation\u2019s largest gun violence prevention organization. What it calls gun violence prevention involves gun control \u2014 measures that people on the other side of the issue consider infringements on Second Amendment rights.\nThe announcement about the $2 million specifically mentioned three statewide Democratic candidates: Andrew Gillum for governor, Sean Shaw for attorney general and Nikki Fried for agriculture commissioner and \u201cothers in Florida.\u201d The money will go toward direct contributions to candidates and independent spending in mail and digital advertising.\nMichael Bloomberg, during a long weekend of political activities in South Florida, offered a range of views on key political people and issues.\nBloomberg, who\u2019s been a Democrat, a Republican and an independent, is considering running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.\nGun violence...\nBloomberg, the billionaire founder of a financial information company who may run for president in 2020, is giving a separate $250,000 to Gillum.\n\u201cThese candidates are running on platforms that include strengthening gun-safety laws in the Sunshine State, while their opponents are beholden to the gun lobby\u2019s extreme \u2018guns everywhere\u2019 agenda,\u201d the group said.\nThe organization also endorsed U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., for re-election. He\u2019s running against Gov. Rick Scott who can\u2019t seek re-election because of term limits.\nEverytown calls the people it supports \u201cgun sense candidates.\u201d Its platform includes universal background checks on all sales, implementing \u201cred flag\u201d laws like Florida\u2019s across the country that allow court orders to remove guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or others, prohibiting bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to operate more like automatic weapons, preventing domestic abusers who aren\u2019t married to their victims from buying guns, prohibiting the sale of high capacity magazines and prohibiting the sale of assault weapons.\n\u201cIn Florida, this election is about gun safety \u2014 not political partisanship,\u201d John Feinblatt, president of Everytown, said in a statement. \u201cThe era of the NRA calling the shots is over.\u201d\nEverytown said the Democrats are better than their opponents on gun-related issues. Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis and Republican Attorney General candidate Ashley Moody have \u201cA\u201d ratings from the National Rifle Association. Republican Agriculture Commissioner candidate Matt Caldwell has an \u201cA+\u201d NRA rating.\nEverytown isn\u2019t going all Democratic. It has contributed $200,000 to the leadership political action committee run by state Sen. Bill Galvano, who worked for the school safety and gun regulation law the state passed after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Massacre. Galvano is in line to become the next Florida Senate president if his party stays in control of the chamber.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-photos-heat-at-rockets-20160202-007-photo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BHVUYUMHBIICBNBAOEFD24OXZHBKCIZF", "length": 190, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sun-sentinel.com", "title": "Terrence Jones, Goran Dragic - Sun Sentinel", "raw_content": "Terrence Jones, Goran Dragic\nMiami Heat's Goran Dragic (7) drives the ball past Houston Rockets' Terrence Jones in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Houston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunnyskyz.com/feel-good-story/2167/What-Does-It-Mean-To-Be-Adopted-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:DU4BEV3QNYKNNNZX3ZIQW26APG7FYMMV", "length": 498, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sunnyskyz.com", "title": "What Does It Mean To Be Adopted?", "raw_content": "By George Dolan \u2022 January 31, 2016\nTeacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little girl in the picture had different color hair than the other family members.\nOne child suggested that she was adopted and a little girl named Jocelynn Jay said, \"I know all about adoptions because I'm adopted.\"\n\"What does it mean to be adopted?\" asked another child.\n\"It means,\" said Jocelynn, \"that you grew in your mother's heart instead of her tummy.\"\nWritten by George Dolan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunnyskyz.com/feel-good-story/2716/From-Hell-to-Harvard", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZZIS7V6WZ7VXHMRJEZRKFNZYHLH4ADX", "length": 1247, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sunnyskyz.com", "title": "From Hell to Harvard", "raw_content": "From Hell To Harvard\nBy Norman Willis \u2022 August 8, 2017\nMy name is Norman K. Willis and my journey has been one filled with achievement, pain, and a positive attitude. I wrote my first book at 18, sold an app years later, and now I speak and teach for a living. I come from a single parent house hold, my grandparents aided in raising me until about eleven. My mother was stabbed when I was younger by my own father and he spent eleven years in jail because of it. Luckily she survived. I was always very precocious growing up, even testing to move up two grades before I went to middle school. I was offered the chance to go to a private school, but unfortunately didn't go so I was stuck in one of the worse high schools in the district. Times were very hard. It was no longer about school, but survival. Many of my friends got in fights, joined gangs, but I remained the same. The one thing that saved me was football. Unfortunately, my senior year I quit due to stress related issues and people stealing my cleats... I just couldn't take it anymore. Luckily I graduated with honors and continued my education. And now I've just been accepted to Harvard. 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Locke & Key creators Joe Hill (Horns, NOS4A2) and Gabriel Rodriguez (Onyx) are dusting off Tales from the Darkside for a revival of the cult horror series, with Hill penning the stories, Rodriguez on art and cover duties and Charles P. Wilson III (The Wraith) contributing variant covers.\nAccording to a report over at Bloody Disgusting, the Eisner Award-winning dynamic duo will be reuniting for a IDW comic-book revival of the horror anthology TV series that aired from 1983 to 1988. A movie starring Christian Slater was even released in theaters in 1990. The four-issue series will be a contemporary reimagining of Tales from the Darkside, which was itself a darker spin on that other cult TV series, The Twilight Zone.\nIt\u2019s said the structure of the comic will have the scope of Locke & Key and will explore the vast core mythology of the TV show. Tales From the Darkside will also aim \u201cto unfold a cohesive universe made up of each individual issue.\u201d According to the creative team behind the revival, the stories will be inspired by the TV series and will also take a meta approach to the source material.\nJoe Hill explained his vision for the upcoming comic-book limited series and what fans can expect about the structure:\n\u201cThis is the show that could\u2019ve been,\u201d says Hill. \u201cThe original \u2018Tales from the Darkside\u2019 was a fun, bleak little spin on the \u2018Twilight Zone\u2019 style anthology. My idea is to give readers a little more. Every story is meant to stand alone, but gradually, you will come to see how they all connect, to tell a single larger story.\u201d\nTales From the Darkside editor Michael Benedetto said:\n\u201cThe universe that Joe is building here is wholly unique while still doing justice to the original show. And having Gabriel collaborating with him again is the best we could have possibly hoped for. These guys have a proven track record, and this series will only serve to build on their reputations as excellent storytellers and masters of horror and suspense.\u201d\nTales from the Darkside will hit comic-book stores in June. Will this newest limited series from the creators of Locke & Key be a must-buy for you?\nCasting: Lena Headey detonates Gunpowder Milkshake, Rebecca Hall boards new horror-thriller from David Goyer\nTag: invincible\nCasting: Robert Kirkman's Invincible taps Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen & more; Netflix adds to Locke & Key\nDevelopment: Locke & Key finds the Locke children; The Mandalorian lands Black Panther composer\nIDW celebrates 20th anniversary with pop culture favorites and epic Star Trek crossover", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 8263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sysoft.ca/blog/sysoft-blog/rytta-cabanlig/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NUB63Q6EIVPQPAXWMMFTGYD2PZ2GM6J5", "length": 446, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sysoft.ca", "title": "Sysoft Welcomes Rytta Cabanlig To The Team Sysoft Welcomes Rytta Cabanlig To The Team", "raw_content": "Sysoft Welcomes Rytta Cabanlig To The Team\nOur expert staff has recently grown by one. Rytta Cabanlig comes to us with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and has over 10 years of experience providing support to individuals in high demand environments, such as the Supreme Court of Singapore and the Philippine Senate. 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Some reports say that he has been injured.\nRead more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24377463.\nMassachusetts Bill Aims to Fire Cops Who Swear\nA Massachusetts bill aims to fire cops who swear on the job, obviously generating a...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tallships.org/News/weve-updated-our-data-protection-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:E6526UDGIN7WYTQA5SDXYAILE7BZFZKZ", "length": 722, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tallships.org", "title": "Tall Ships Youth Trust | WE\u2019VE UPDATED OUR DATA PROTECTION POLICY", "raw_content": "The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European framework for data protection. It gives you greater protection and more control over how your data is used. Your data is now stored more securely than ever and we will only contact you with marketing communications if you have explicitly opted in to receiving it.\nWhat is our new Data Protection Policy?\nWe fully support these new regulations and have reflected our commitment to protecting your rights and interests in our new Data Protection Policy. We have provided clarity on what data we have, how we use it, why we need it and who has access it. This policy describes how personal data must be collected, handled and stored to comply with the new GDPR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tbccc.org/trust-in-the-source-of-guidance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:FCIRZNVQ2LJBNSSQCW6PHPUPPDKOWCT3", "length": 4155, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.tbccc.org", "title": "Trust In the Source Of Guidance | Tampa Bay Christian Counseling Center", "raw_content": "Trust In the Source Of Guidance\nJesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, \u201cO you of little faith, why did you doubt?\u201d And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, \u201cTruly you are the Son of God.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 14: 31-33\nIt has been said that if you don\u2019t know where you are going, you will always get there. Various forms of navigation have been used for years. Perhaps the most notable Biblical example is the star over Bethlehem.\nI remember when I was going through flight training, my instructor said that no matter what my instincts tell me, always trust the instrument guidance system. After time had passed I remember when I was in very deep and thick clouds that I couldn\u2019t see the wing tips. I wasn\u2019t sure of up from down or left from right. My instincts told me to do one thing, but my instruments told me another. I followed the instruments precisely and was able to fly through the storm safely.\nLife is like that. The world is full of advice on the direction of our lives, but often the Bible tells us something else. The Bible is the real guidance system of life. Yet the tug and pull of life is so strong which can so easily draw us off course.\nHave you ever waivered in your belief that God would bring you through? Why?\nWhen you were seriously short of money\u2026 When the diagnosis shook your being\u2026 When people and relationships failed you\u2026 When the promise of your career tanked\u2026 Why did you doubt?\nCrossing a stormy Sea of Galilee late at night, the disciples are afraid. Jesus comes to them, walking on the water. They think they are seeing a ghost, but then they realize it\u2019s Jesus! Peter asks to walk out to Jesus. As he begins to step out of the boat and walk on water, he begins to sink from fear of the wind and waves. \u201cLord, save me!\u201d and Jesus pulls Peter out of the water. Then Jesus asked, \u201cWhy did you doubt?\u201d\n\u201cBefore they call, I will answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hear.\u201d (Isaiah 65:24) You who are redeemed for heaven, God knows your circumstances. He knows when you think you\u2019re going down, whatever the cause may be. He is already working on your deliverance and already knows the day of your eternal deliverance. Like Peter, the disciples come sooner or later to see the hints that God was indeed reaching down to save you. It\u2019s then, when we start to get it, that He invites the introspective look back, \u201cWhy did you doubt?\u201d We see God from behind. The more we look back at the times He\u2019s delivered us, the more we\u2019ll trust that He will save us in the present, even if we don\u2019t yet see it happening.\nTrust in God alone and you will never get off course.\nTHE PILOT AND THE DOG:\nA lady was flying from Melbourne to Brisbane. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sydney. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.\nEverybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. A man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her seeing eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight. He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, \u2018Kathy, we are in Sydney for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?\u2019 The blind lady replied, \u2018No thanks, but maybe Max would Like to stretch his legs.\nPicture this: All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a seeing eye dog! The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!\nRemember, things are not always as they appear.\nQUOTES FROM PASTOR BARRY CHESNEY:\nPut your doubts under God\u2019s authority.\nDream again.\nLife is not about our happiness, but about our holiness.\nFaith empowers us to achieve the impossible.\nFear replaces faith when we focus on our circumstances.\nThe root of our fear is doubt.\nOur doubt disappears when we focus on Jesus\u2019 identity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/15055-microsoft-overhauls-longhorn-plans.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FWE64IK5AJRACFK4BNZWPYAORXPNLOQP", "length": 1057, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.techspot.com", "title": "Microsoft overhauls Longhorn plans - TechSpot", "raw_content": "Microsoft overhauls Longhorn plans\nAccording to sources close to the software giant, Microsoft should be announcing soon a revamped roadmap for its next Windows release, code-named Longhorn. After several delays the company says it wants to make sure that many of the features that corporate customers, manufacturers and consumers wanted make it on time, even if certain trade-offs are needed in order to meet its deadlines that include a beta version of the OS next year and a final release by 2006.\nLonghorn was originally supposed to have three major changes: a new file system, WinFS; a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon; and Indigo, a Web services and communication architecture.\nMicrosoft is making changes to all three pillars. WinFS will be available as a beta when the Longhorn release comes out as a client. 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Then, just as suddenly, it flew down to Earth, landed on what was left of the pavement, and started speeding through New York City again. The storm was over, but much of the city was ruined. The screen showed them images of destruction from all over New York. Even the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island had been affected.\n\u201cOh, my!\u201d Flora cried. \u201cWhat a terrible mess!\u201d Creamy started crying again, as everyone saw the city houses, buildings, subways, and parks that had been flooded or ruined. Inoah started to cry\u2014or screech\u2014again. \u201cIt\u2019s no use,\u201d she sobbed. \u201cI don\u2019t think this can be fixed just by seeing the president.\u201d Zingo suddenly stood up on a chair and declared: \u201cYou\u2019re right! You can\u2019t just leave this to the president. He may be in charge, but he\u2019s only one dude. Real change takes a movement, a happening, a whole new mindset. You have to act. Because of climate change, this storm is one of the biggest to ever hit the East Coast,\u201d he said, shaking his fist. \u201cIt\u2019s your responsibility to create your own wonderful future! You guys can do this! I know you can! Look how far you\u2019ve come already!\u201d\nHe pumped his fist in the air, and the animals all cried out in agreement.\n\u201cNow I need to leave you,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to see how my home held up. But remember: You guys have the power to fix this problem. Take it from someone who knows how to change in order to survive. Goodbye!\u201d\n\u201cGoodbye!\u201d cried all the animals. \u201cGood luck, Zingo!\u201d They watched as he slipped out the door.\nMarina Weber has been a passionate activist since she was six. Marina plays herself in the story. She believes in righting wrongs and in helping others to be heard, seen, and assisted. She is also fearless and single-minded when it comes to completing her quest, and was instrumental in establishing The Global Warming Express organization.\nJoanna Whysner has been a serious artist since she was very young, and has won many prizes for her art. In the story, Joanna creates her world on paper, in line and color and form. Her sense of mischief and humor help her turn every drawing into a commentary.\nPraise for The Global Warming Express\nThis is the perfect book\nto begin conversations, educate kids and parents, and even help start up school programs in every neighborhood.\nThere are so many reasons to love this book. Not only is the cast unforgettable, but the subject matter is extremely important for people to learn about and address. In addition, the writer and the illustrator of this book may be young in years, but their awesome talent and passion for the subject is absolutely serious. This is the perfect book to begin conversations, educate kids and parents, and even help start up school programs in every neighborhood.\n\u2014Amy LIgnor, Featherquill Book Reviews, 9/27/17\nThe tale is utterly charming, and the message urgent.\nPay heed. There\u2019s not a moment to be lost.\u201d\u2014Author and environmentalist\nMarina is an incredibly talented author. I admire her and Joanna\u2019s passion for combatting climate change. Great writing comes from great thinking, and these girls have a great future ahead. We must all get onboard the Global Warming Express!\n\u2014Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives\nA well-researched and delightfully hopeful fable about climate change by two girls who are well aware of how their whole generation will be affected.\n\u2014Molly Bang, multiple-prize-winning children\u2019s book illustrator\nThe book is amazing. 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In this budding industry, Licensed Producers are the front line and thus must operate in an environmentally friendly way, minimize waste and benefit their community. LPs generally have a large footprint in their communities making it even more important to behave responsibly with an eye to keeping communities involved.\nLicensed Producer Indiva knows this better than most and is always ready to do what is necessary to act responsibly. Over the past year, Indiva has been expanding its London, ON production facility, and has recently partnered with local initiative The Streetlight E-Recycle Program (Streetlight) to ensure any waste created from the company\u2019s facility expansion is removed properly and safely.\nThe Streetlight program is dedicated to creating meaningful employment opportunities for at-risk youth in local communities. The program puts kids to work collecting any electronic, scrap and precious metal waste from worksites like Indiva\u2019s facility expansion. Streetlight maintains a staff of dedicated volunteers and outreach workers who operate a Mobile Youth Center in London. At-risk youth are given a trustworthy place to turn for food, support and friendship \u2013 items that are often missing in their daily lives and are necessary for a sense of community and self worth.\nJustin Dimoff, director of the Streetlight program says that, \u201cEach community pickup provides a chance for a youth with employment barriers to work and be paid for their time at a livable wage. Beyond monetary value, these picks ups also create the opportunity for youth to be mentored and encouraged in their journey.\u201d\nRecently, Streetlight completed its second pickup at the Indiva facility, collecting four trailer loads of scrap material. Thanks to local business, John Zubick Scrap Metals Inc., those materials were turned into more than $1200 which will be used to benefit at-risk youth in the community. Streetlight will continue to visit the Indiva facility expansion for collections until the project is completed early next year.\n\u201cThere are a lot of positives to contributing to the Streetlight program. Participation in this initiative not only allows us to reroute waste from our landfills but also has a positive impact on the lives of those living in our community,\u201d says Health and Community Engagement Leader Courtney Morgan.\nIndiva keeps its clients, community and environment at the heart of all its business practices. Indiva\u2019s facilities in London, ON feature state-of-the-art environmental controls that minimize wasted heat and energy demands. The company also employs a revolutionary Bioroter Compost Digester that ensures the company\u2019s plant waste material is denatured and processed into valuable compost that can then be donated to local farmers in the community.\nStreetlight provides another win-win opportunity for local business like Indiva because it provides an environmentally friendly means of waste removal with the added benefit of helping within the local community. Efforts like this program are a great way for Licensed Producers to stay committed to elevating their communities while minimizing their environmental impact.\nsustainabilityenvironmental", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the5options.com/blog-articles/2018/3/22/my-5-steps-journey-to-realizing-that-i-will-never-be-a-good-mum", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MIUEPASWVXPK3LDBRERINQ47AEKASIYF", "length": 11576, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.the5options.com", "title": "My 5 steps journey to realizing that I will NEVER be a Good Mum \u2014 You've Got 5 Options", "raw_content": "Motherhood has definitely been the most humbling experience in my life. It just turns your world upside down\u2026 over and over again. It gets you places where you can prove that you are a Superhuman: you can live on no sleep and barely any food for days\u2026 right after you have withstood the immense pain of giving birth. But it may also take some of us to dark places where we act like Under-humans; we can feel so trapped and overwhelmed that we just lash out. Motherhood will give you your most precious memories, but it will likely also present you with your most regretful and difficult moments.\nAnd the pressure is high. The pressure from the society, from the family, from your partner, from media, from your kids, from other mothers and ABOVE ALL from Yourself! It can be immense. You may never get motherhood right in all other peoples\u2019 eyes. But you CAN try to get it right in your own eyes. At least sometimes. Maybe even, if you\u2019re really, really lucky\u2026 most of the time?\nBefore I had kids I thought I was going to be a good mum\nThe only explanation I have for having those delusional thoughts is that I was young and stupid :-). I had NO idea what I was getting myself into. Now that I\u2019ve been a mother for 11 years, a mother of THREE boys, I have quite some experience to share with fellow mothers. And it all comes down to:\nSCREW being a GOOD Mum\nWhat does it even mean to be a good mother? It\u2019s such a ridiculous phrase. To start with \u2026 it simply means something different to everyone. Be yourself, listen to your guts, try your best and forgive yourself for all the mistakes. REALLY!\nThere is NO MUM that gets it right all of the time! Ok, that\u2019s just my opinion. Maybe there is a mum that never makes mistakes, never regrets anything and for whom motherhood is just rainbows and daisies. I have never seen, heard or read about that mum. If you have met that UNICORN mum, please do send her my way, I\u2019d love to meet her too :-).\nAs a mum of 3 boys, I\u2019ve been through a lot, and it just humbles me over and over again to realize how much there is still for me to go through. But so far, I\u2019ve been through those 5 steps:\nStep 1. I realize that I know NOTHING about motherhood yet I still know so much\nFirst years of motherhood: whatever vision of motherhood I\u2019ve had in my head\u2026 the picture of what kind of a mum I would be\u2026 has simply nothing to do with reality. I pictured myself as this always patient, full of love and understanding mother, who can take it all. And sure, I have been able to undertake countless hours of walking & rocking an ill/colic/ teething baby. But I also remember waiting at the door for my husband coming back from work, to hand him the baby before he was even able to take his shoes off\u2026 and rushing off to lock myself in the bathroom, because I simply couldn\u2019t take all the fussing anymore.\nI realize there are so many things I don\u2019t know, so many things to learn and to deal with and there are also plenty of old convictions that need solid re-work. But at times, I am also surprised how much I do know, even though I haven\u2019t dealt with a baby before. If I just allow myself a bit of a trust and listen to my guts, some kind of internal knowledge or maybe even wisdom surfaces. There really is that natural part of us, something in our genes that tells us how to care for the baby.\nYet\u2026 I often feel like a headless chicken or frog behind the steering wheel.\nI have no idea what I\u2019m doing and if I\u2019m doing something, is that the RIGHT thing to do?\nStep 2. I thought I had it all figured out and then I realized it was bullshit. I have to start all over again.\nThe rebellious times of a 2-year-old toddler take me by surprise. The full-of-energy-but-still-mostly-cute kiddo suddenly turns into a monster. An unknown creature that throws himself on the floor and starts hitting his head hard\u2026. because I helped him put his shoe on. It\u2019s tough! But I talk to an experienced mum, watch a couple of Super-nanny chapters on TV, I put some effort in and we manage to have the tantrum thingy solved pretty quickly. By the time my oldest is three years old, motherhood becomes a rather pleasant experience. Most of the time. Really. I get to have a couple of harmonious years of motherhood, where I am pretty happy with myself as a mum and I establish a solid, satisfying relationship with my kid.\nI think I have it all figured out.\nThat\u2019s when my husband convinces me that the time has come to welcome another family member. I think yeah, sure\u2026 why not? Next month I\u2019m pregnant.\nPregnancy is all cool and the first 1,5 half goes pretty well. The second kiddo is an \u201ceasier baby\u201d, he can entertain himself and sleeps well during the day. The big brother is happy with the little brother and I discover baby-wearing which makes it all a nice experience. The only issue is that the not-so-new-anymore-baby continues to wake -up at night. A lot. But that must end one day, right?\nWhen my second child becomes 1,5 years old, he starts to show a completely new face\u2026 he starts the rebellious phase very early and the tantrums\u2026 OH MY GOD! that kid has a pretty damn strong will. That kid never gives up! I try all the methods that worked so well with the first kid. Nothing works.\nI can\u2019t do anything else but admit that I haven\u2019t had it all figured out\u2026. The process of re-definition of me as a mum starts all over again.\nStep 3. I try to see if I can learn from the books how to become a good mum, just like I\u2019ve learned how to be a good business process specialist\nI am clueless. I can\u2019t help the poor kiddo that is unable to deal with his overwhelming emotions. We don\u2019t know how to make it through the never-ending attacks of pure hysteria.\nI look for tips & tricks on the internet, but the kiddo just proves them all useless. I don\u2019t give up. I start reading one book after another. I find those wonderful books the messages of which align with my internal vision of motherhood: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and Playful Parenting. I don\u2019t really get any results, but I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s just a phase. He\u2019s two. He\u2019s rebellious. It will pass.\nI still wonder how crazy it was to take a decision of inviting a third kid into our family. It was a now-or-never kind of a decision. Next month I\u2019m pregnant.\nThose parenthood books which promote love, acceptance and mutual respect really help me through the different ups & downs of my role as a mother of my first kid. The problem is NOTHING works with the other one. Ok, some fun games help me through individual situations, but most of the time it\u2019s a struggle. A bit of an effort and I get good results with \u201cthe first one\u201d, humongous efforts and I get pitiful tiny results with \u201cthe second one\u201d. I feel horrible as a mum. Most of the time. I am very pregnant and I can\u2019t seem to find an answer to the mother of all questions:\nHow will I be able to make it with three kids, if I am barely alive with two?\n\u201cThe third one\u201d is born and it all\u2026 becomes better. I am at home, I have much more time for the big brothers than when I was working full-time. I start to see the light in the tunnel of my relationship with the rebellious kiddo. Maternity leave is a wonderful period. It\u2019s not always easy with three boys, but it is wonderful.\nThen I go back to work. Three kids start to fight for the scarce resource\u2026 parental attention. The second kiddo turns four and gives us yet another year of \u201cparenting nightmare\u201d. I decide it was probably too naive to think that reading a few books can make me an expert on parenthood. I decide to take a course! That must work, right? I am reading books, articles, and I am following a few really good blogs, on top of that I take a course in Positive Parenting Solutions and I have an opportunity to practice every day, with three very different kiddos.\nThe course is great! I get immediate results. Things get better (in my own eyes) for a while\u2026\nAnd then it all gets so freaking difficult all over again. Kids are fighting. ALL THE TIME. I have three wonderful and strong humans, half-Slavic and half-Latinos. That\u2019s a handful. I struggle to get any \u201cpeace and quiet\u201d into our every day life.\nFive years go by and I haven\u2019t slept a single night through.\nI work full time, my husband travels quite a lot and my 3 kids need much more attention than I am able to give them. Shit!\nStep 4. I realize that no book or course can fix me as a parent. I go for fixing Marta as a human being first.\nI wake up one day realizing that I am not happy. Most of the time. I have a Wonderful husband and great kids (maybe not when they are all together, but each of them separately is definitely great :D). I work and take care of kids, I still don\u2019t get to sleep the nights through. I stop doing sports, watching movies, even reading books don\u2019t make it into my busy calendar anymore. I feel like a total failure as a mother, I am really not happy with myself. It strikes me that I am 34 years old and I still haven\u2019t figured out who I want to be when I grow up.\nI start asking myself: why am I doing what I\u2019m doing and is this what I want to do until I die?\nI start searching for my life\u2019s purpose. It sounds so grandiloquent, but it is something I feel I need to figure out (If you are there too, and you like some good sarcastic humor, you have to read Mark Manson\u2019s piece or a whole series :-))\nI go through a lot. So much, that I\u2019d probably have to write a book one day to be able to convey the message. The bottom line is:\nI don\u2019t manage to fix myself as a human being either.\nStep 5. I accept that motherhood is a journey and I am not going to be a Good Mum. I go for becoming a Good Enough Mum.\nI definitely don\u2019t manage to have it all figured out, but on my quest to better motherhood, I manage to get some answers:\nThere\u2019s no such thing as a good mum\u2013 that\u2019s what I started with- you know my opinion. But you can definitely find your own way to do the things right. You can decide to embrace yourself with all the good and the bad and be a Good Enough Mum.\nYou\u2019re not going to feel happy as a mum if you\u2019re not happy with yourself- if you forget about yourself and your needs, if you\u2019ll continue investing all your time into your work and family, you\u2019ll simply burn out. Some of us sooner, others later. But it\u2019s pretty much unavoidable. You need to find a way to charge your batteries if you want motherhood to be a positive experience.\nNo matter how hard you try you will be making mistakes- Loads of them! And\u2026 that\u2019s actually good! We learn much more from our mistakes than from the successes. Going through lessons learned, forgiving yourself and dusting yourself off as soon as possible after a failure is the best you can do.\nI haven\u2019t got all my answers yet\u2026 many things are still to be determined. But you know what?\nLife is a freaking school and motherhood is one of the toughest subjects.\nWe really are learning all our lives! (I know that\u2019s breaking news :D). So screw all the external pressure and opinions! Life\u2019s not easy and being your own best friend is a much better option than being your enemy. Beating yourself up is never really helpful. If you feel horrible, try treating yourself like your best friend. If your friend was struggling with being a mum would you be trying to put her down or help her out of her misery?\nBeing a good mum is a unicorn scenario, \u201cwe\u2019ve all heard about it, but no-one actually saw it\u201d\n(my favorite quote from our 5 ways to break-up with your girlfriend episode? :-)).\nSo why not decide to be your own true version of a Good Enough Mum?\nThat\u2019s definitely something I am going for :-).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 13058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theaquarian.com/category/reviews/albums/page/7/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3M3IMUDAHEW7XP6EIKIAOEEGW4BXAQYC", "length": 2251, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.theaquarian.com", "title": "Albums | The Aquarian - Page 7", "raw_content": "Peter Vitalone: The Side Of The Dirt\nMatt Newberg\nUpon first listen, about 35 seconds into \u201cInto Me I See,\u201d the first track on Peter Vitalone\u2019s latest album, This Side Of The Dirt\u00b8 I thought to myself, \u201cThis is something my parents would enjoy.\u201d And though...\nNoir: The Burning Bridge\nThe Burning Bridge is Noir\u2019s fourth release and it is dedicated to David Bowie. Noir consists of frontman Athan Maroulis, formerly of Spahn Ranch and Black Tape For A Blue Girl and keyboardists and backup f...\nThe biggest critical struggle for alt-country vets Freakwater, it seems, is convincing critics that they haven\u2019t been making the same album over and over again since their 1989 self-titled debut. For most c...\nTim Sk\u00f6ld, Swedish multi-instrumentalist, collaborator with KMFDM and Marilyn Manson and producer of his own early, youthful projects, has released an album under his name, SKOLD. Titled The Undoing, it cou...\nHemming: Hemming\nNew acoustic singer/songwriter, Hemming, has broken through the barrier between basement band and sensational songstress. Formerly known as Candice Martello, the Philadelphia native has faced her fair share...\nWhat do you get when you throw jazzy riffs and some good rock \u2018n\u2019 roll into one song? Baked Goods: a spicy, yet refreshing twist of funk and light jazz. All from the same New York area, the quintet joined f...\nEvery now and then, you get that one band that makes you question every recent addition you\u2019ve made to your music library. In a world that stresses so much on mainstream pop, it\u2019s easy to overlook the music...\nMost of us can attest to the sporadic sensation of feeling isolated, especially in a world that\u2019s meant for everyone to magically harmonize in. Sure, seclusion is an unshakably pesky feeling, but when you t...\nI Am The Albatross: Lonesome Son\nConjured in Austin, Texas, I Am The Albatross are expanding their horizons and have recently completed their second album, Lonesome Son. The trio has remained in their home state, but after a year of creati...\nHigh On Fire: Luminiferous\nThe spirited band, High On Fire, certainly live up to their name. The seasoned group have recently released their whopping seventh album, Luminiferous. These guys play a mish-mosh of different metal styles:...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 5205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/09/gun-car-theft/501017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OUKIBK42IXXST7W2STSTAG6XCWO3Q3J3", "length": 4855, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "The Problem With Leaving a Gun in Your Car - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "The Problem With Leaving a Gun in Your Car\nIn the United States, 1,600 guns are stolen every day\u2014and many of those end up being used in crimes.\nCars are a bad place to keep valuables\u2014especially if those valuables are weapons. But every day, U.S. gun owners store their Glocks, their Smith & Wesson 9mm pistols, their .22 rifles, and plenty more firearms in their cars as they go to work or the grocery store. A jimmied door, a broken window, and someone can steal a gun that can later be used to commit more crimes.\nThese scenarios are the focus of a new study by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern University that found thieves steal between 300,000 and 600,000 firearms in the U.S. every year. That\u2019s 1,600 stolen guns every day, or more than one per minute. The full study will not be released until next year, but The Guardian US and The Trace published early results from the survey this week that found stolen guns often end up at crime scenes.\nTake the case of Landen Boyd. Trace\u2019s story followed this Atlanta resident\u2019s handgun from the time someone stole it out of his truck while he was away at work on a construction site to when it resurfaced about three years later at a bloody shootout. In all, the gun would be used in at least three crimes. Landen had left the gun in his Chevrolet Silverado, Trace reported, and he returned at the end of the workday to find his window smashed and his 9mm pistol gone.\nIn 14 of 15 cities that provided data for the study, police departments reported a 40 percent average yearly increase in the amount of guns stolen from cars. The cities with the most gun thefts from vehicles are, in order: Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada. The rise in the number of stolen guns coincides with the rise of guns sales in the U.S.; pistol manufactures made 600,000 firearms in 2001, and more than 3.6 million in 2014, according to Trace.\nHere are a few scenarios Trace provided of stolen guns ending up at crime scenes:\nIn Florida, a Glock 27 pistol swiped from an unlocked Honda Accord in a Jacksonville-area subdivision in mid-2014 helped kill a Tarpon Springs police officer a few days before Christmas that year.\nLast year in Indiana, a man wielding a Russian military rifle taken from a vehicle parked in a residential driveway is alleged to have fatally shot a 28-year-old graphics printer in a road rage incident 10 months after the theft.\nCorey Blackshear, 39, an Atlanta HVAC technician, has lost two guns to car break-ins. Fearing where his guns might have ended up, he subsequently stopped storing them there.\nAnother account was that of Benjamin Thompson, a retiree in Atlanta. Thompson keeps a .22-caliber rifle beneath the backseat of his truck, which he uses to \u201cshoot snakes and things,\u201d he told Trace. Last year, it was stolen. A week later, Thompson found someone trying to break into the truck again, so he shot at the thief from his porch with a handgun. A Trace reporter visited Thompson in August and found the retiree had a new rifle in the backseat. When asked if he worried what thieves would do with his stolen gun, Thompson said he didn\u2019t feel it mattered because the rifle \u201cain\u2019t nothing but a little .22.\u201d\nBut guns like that often end up in the \u201cIron Pipeline,\u201d the name given to the firearm trafficking corridor that arms criminals in East Coast cities with stolen guns from the South and Midwest. Atlanta, where Thompson lives, is the pipeline\u2019s largest supplier.\nAs my colleague Adrienne LaFrance wrote (also based on Trace\u2019s reporting) while the overall number of Americans who own guns has gone down in the past decade, a relatively small contingent, about 7.7 million people, own an average of 17 guns each. These \u201csuper-owners\u201d amount to 3 percent of the population, but keep half of the country\u2019s firearms in their homes\u2014and their cars.\nThe newest study attributes much of this disparity to the National Rifle Association\u2019s successful politicking. The rise in gun ownership and gun thefts in the U.S. has coincided with the NRA\u2019s aggressive campaign to loosen gun restrictions. In Nevada, that meant speeding up background checks and extending the \u201cCastle Doctrine\u201d\u2014which provides more legal leeway to people who use guns for self-defense in their homes\u2014to include cars. In Texas, that meant making it easier for people to travel with their guns, and allowing them to keep their weapons locked in cars while at work or in parking lots on college campuses. The overall effect has been one of gun proliferation\u2014both in the hands of legal owners, and the hands of criminals who steal those guns.\nIn the case of the gun owned by Boyd Landen, the gun owner Trace described, his Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun was used by one gang member to rob a bartender, shoot another bartender in the leg, then shoot at a drug dealer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theballetworkshop.com/company-auditions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YBQUZ67LXLPWDARC7IPW7DP24RMBLO7C", "length": 158, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theballetworkshop.com", "title": "Company Auditions", "raw_content": "Company Audition Flyer 2018\nCompany Auditions will be held on Friday, September 7, 2018 for the upcoming season. Deadline to register is Wednesday, August 8..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/academy-of-canadian-cinema-and-television", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XLSB4GJ3VDTKLKF4FQNWSB5MBY2BR4DS", "length": 5267, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca", "title": "Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television | The Canadian Encyclopedia", "raw_content": "McIntosh, Andrew. \"Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television\". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 19 March 2015, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/academy-of-canadian-cinema-and-television. Accessed 15 February 2019.\nMcIntosh, A., Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (2015). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/academy-of-canadian-cinema-and-television\nMcIntosh, Andrew, \"Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television\". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 24, 2015; last modified March 19, 2015. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/academy-of-canadian-cinema-and-television\nAndrew McIntosh, The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. \"Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television\", last modified March 19, 2015, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/academy-of-canadian-cinema-and-television\nArticle by Andrew McIntosh\n\u200bFounded in 1979, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT) is a national non-profit professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canada\u2019s film, television and digital media industries.\nFounded in 1979, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT) is a national non-profit professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canada\u2019s film, television and digital media industries. It administers the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly the Genie and Gemini Awards), which honour the achievements of Canada\u2019s film and English-language TV industries, and the Prix G\u00e9meaux, which honour Canada\u2019s French-language TV industry.\nThe Academy\u2019s multi-faceted mandate is to: honour outstanding achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media; heighten public awareness and increase audience attendance, viewership and appreciation of Canadian screen productions through awards shows, social media channels and activities; preserve and promote Canada\u2019s film, television and digital media industries; and provide a wide range of industry-related professional development events.\nDissatisfied with the international jury system of the Canadian Film Awards, and inspired by the growth of the Canadian film industry during the tax-shelter years, a small group of Canadian filmmakers \u2014 Ron Cohen, Andra Sheffer, Robert Lantos, Paul Hoffert and George Appleby \u2014 began in late 1978 to organize an Academy-style professional association to celebrate and promote filmmaking in Canada. The group recruited Bill Marshall, co-founder of the Toronto Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival) and president of the Canadian Association of Motion Picture Producers, and together they incorporated the Academy of Canadian Cinema in 1979.\nThe Academy attracted 100 founding members, all working professionals in the industry. It absorbed the Canadian Film Awards and created in their place the Genie Awards, which were first held in 1980. In 1986, the Academy changed its name to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television after it took over the original ACTRA Awards and rebranded them the Gemini Awards, which honoured achievements in Canada\u2019s English-language television industry. In 1987, the Academy founded the Prix G\u00e9meaux, which awards the achievements of Canada\u2019s French-language television industry.\nIn 2003, the Academy added digital media categories to the Gemini Awards and Prix G\u00e9meaux. In 2012, following \u201cextensive industry consultation and outreach,\u201d it announced that it would merge the Gemini and Genie Awards into the Canadian Screen Awards, which were first held in Toronto on 3 March 2013 and broadcast on CBC Television. Academy CEO Helga Stephenson explained that merging the awards for television and film was part of an effort \u201cto put a much bigger spotlight on those industries.\u201d\nThe Academy is administered by a national executive based in Toronto, led by a CEO. There is also a Qu\u00e9bec bureau based in Montr\u00e9al, led by an executive director.\nThe Academy is comprised of seven governance committees, each of which is made up of prominent industry members and oversees a particular cross-section of the awards. The separate governance committees are: Film; Television; Documentary; Digital Media; News and Sports; French Television (Prix G\u00e9meaux); and French Digital Media (Prix G\u00e9meaux).\nThere are three separate branches of voting membership within the Academy: Cinema; Television; and Digital Media. The branches are further divided into divisions based upon industry roles (e.g., art department, cinematography, editor and performers).\nThe board of directors, comprised of leading industry professionals, oversees the Academy\u2019s mandate, activities and operations, while the National Advisory Council ensures that all regions of the country are represented in the Academy\u2019s ongoing strategic planning. The Academy also has a separate board of directors in Qu\u00e9bec, which works with the Academy\u2019s Montr\u00e9al office to administer the Prix G\u00e9meaux.\nSee also: The History of the Canadian Film Industry; The Cinema of Qu\u00e9bec.\nACCT Awards DatabaseSearch this extensive database for all winners of Genie, Gemini, Gemeaux and Canadian Screen Awards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 115.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theepochtimes.com/fast-vin-diesel-teases-spoilers_796996.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:40Z", "digest": "sha1:N5IZGSJ276LTPRFHBOFXIQWC2CQGYAM2", "length": 2655, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.theepochtimes.com", "title": "Fast & Furious 7 Trailer Coming Soon as Filming Officially Wraps Up; Vin Diesel Teases Spoilers", "raw_content": "Fast & Furious 7 Trailer Coming Soon as Filming Officially Wraps Up; Vin Diesel Teases Spoilers\nFast & Furious 7 finally ended production this week, the team told fans on Thursday.\nThe movie was supposed to come out this spring\u2013this weekend, actually\u2013but the release date was postponed to April 3, 2015 because of the sudden death of Paul Walker (Brian O\u2019Conner) in November 2013.\nWalker\u2019s brothers ended up coming in to help finish the film and Cody, the younger brother, signed on to be his own character in future films.\nUniversal studios told fans via Facebook that the last shot was completed on Thursday for the film. That means that the first trailer will probably be out soon.\n\u201cWe wanted to take this moment to express how thankful we are for your support. We felt the love and strength from our fans throughout this journey, and it\u2019s because of you that we got here. There was a time when we didn\u2019t know how we could go on, or even if we should. But we listened to you, and you inspired us not only to keep going but to try and make the best FAST & FURIOUS movie yet. Our FAST family has been together for almost fifteen years now and has grown a lot in that time. From the start, Vin has been our leader who feels what\u2019s right for FAST in his gut and in his heart,\u201d it said.\n\u201cWhen we had to stop production last year, Vin gathered us back together and moved us forward when we needed it most. He led us to this day. Some of us have been here from the very beginning. Vin, Michelle, Jordana and our producer Neal all go back to that first little movie we shot on the streets of LA. We came back to LA in FAST 7, and it was an especially emotional homecoming for those who\u2019ve grown up with each other since that first shoot.\n\u201cThere are those we count as brothers who we gathered along the way and are with us again: Dwayne, Tyrese, Luda, Lucas and our writer, Chris. We\u2019ve got some new additions this time in Jason, Kurt, Djimon, Nathalie and our director, James. Caleb and Cody joined us to honor their brother and help complete his work. Our family is big and strong but it won\u2019t ever quite be whole again without Paul.\n\u201cAll of us \u2014 those who\u2019ve been here from the start and those whose first FAST film is 7 \u2014 wanted to create a special film for him and for you. We believe we have. Thank you for being there for us. You are the biggest part of our family, and we couldn\u2019t have gotten here without you. The countdown to April 3 begins.\u201d\nSpeaking of Vin Diesel, he teased recently that there will be a Race Wars scene in the desert.\nThe photo he posted appeared to show Dom in the trash talk portion that goes before the races. Who is Dom racing?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 435, "original_length": 17136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegoodlifefrance.com/a-french-life-the-dream-and-a-new-life-in-france/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SXGKYKMNR563Z7QRVBIAWVX5AQE5G2LF", "length": 4602, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thegoodlifefrance.com", "title": "A French Life | The dream and a new life running gites in France : The Good Life France", "raw_content": "A French Life | The dream and a new life running gites in France\nWritten by\teditor\ton\tJuly 17, 2012\tin\tExpats in France, G\u00eetes in France\nTony had a dream for life in France\u2026\nA great real life experience story from Tony Tidswell, owner of a B&B and gites at Villa Roquette in Languedoc-Rousillon. We asked Tony what got him into this business and he told us this fascinating story of a dream about the good life in France, a leap of faith, a lot of hard work, some good property finds and adventures for him and his family:\nWe never meant to open a B&B in France \u2013 in fact we had never been to France as a family before, but we had decided to live somewhere else that was not near Slough or Bracknell. I have nothing against the M4 corridor, apart from the traffic, pollution, house prices and a general feeling of scruffy smugness. The area is fine \u2013 but we decided to leave this demi-paradise!\nWhen I am asked why we chose to move to France \u2013 and many of our guests do ask \u2013 as I don\u2019t really know, I say \u2013 \u201cfor the education system\u201d or \u201cthe health services\u201d or \u201cthe climate\u201d. The truth is we came to France because it was not the UK (certainly not Bracknell) and it was easy to get to.\nIt was 1990, we had two little girls aged three and 18 months and I was making a good living. I took the train from Bracknell station most days, had tedious meetings with ghastly people in London who happened to know less than I did about computer networks and distributed software solutions. I felt there must be more to life than this.\nSo, I bought a one month rail pass for France and got on a train. My plan was to get on the first train that left whichever station I was at and get off when I felt like it. Not much of a plan! I spoke very few words of French, enough to buy too much to drink and a loaf of bread. I stayed at one and two star hotels near the stations which were usually charming, if slightly seedy, run down 19th century buildings. I discovered many odd corners of France and a few even odder people.\nMy only criteria for a place to live was to be within half an hour of an International airport by public transport.\nBeaujolais, famous for its wines\nCommon sense sort of gravitated me southwards (actually, it may have been the sunshine or the vineyards) and I found and fell in love with Lyon. I looked around a bit and at the end of a bus route, at the edge of the Beaujolais region, on the banks of the Saone is Trevoux. I rented an apartment and phoned my wife Carole to tell her we had a new home.\nWe moved \u2013 no more massive mortgage at 15% interest, no more property prices dropping daily those were the good things. On the bad side we had no money, no work and no income but Carole trusted me and we moved lock, stock and barrel \u2013 clearly all common sense had left me at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.\nWe survived and thrived \u2013 our kids went to a local school (you can start pre-school from the age of 2 in France) and loved it. Three years later we decided to stay, so we bought a dog \u2013 no going back now. Oh yes, and Carole was pregnant.\nLovely region of Languedoc-Rousilon\nWe decided that if we were staying in France we should go further south to where the sunshine lives and the vineyards are bigger. I had made many long excursions in an ancient VW campervan discovering new vineyard towns and I knew that there we would eventually find the place of our dreams. With a miniscule inheritance Carole had from her father, we bought a whip factory in the Languedoc-Roussillon region at the foothills of the Pyrenees overlooking the Mediterranean. It cost \u00a319,000 and took every penny we had, so renovating it was going to be impossible. I parked the campervan in the factory and started work on the impossible.\nFour years later and after a crash course in French building technology, planning and bureaucracy we had a home \u2013 but we never lived in it. Alas ghastly neighbours put us off, besides we had fallen in love with the town of Pezenas \u2013 still in Languedoc-Roussillon, but in the Herault, a milder, calmer and more satisfying lifestyle. So, (wisely as it turned out) we rented out the whip factory house in Sorede and bought another ruin (this time with a bank loan) in Nizas, a beautiful and magical village just north of Pezenas in the heart of Languedoc yet only twenty minutes from the Mediterranean. This time for the princely sum of \u00a330,000\u2026\nRead part 2 of Tony\u2019s story \u2013 the dream of life in France takes more twists and turns for the family, but the dream of running gites in France progresses\u2026\nFollow Tony on Twitter: @montblanc and Facebook\nContact Tony at Villa Roquette", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 13171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegrouchoclub.com/news/a-night-at-the-groucho-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JYIRBVQBW4G6JW2WXBLOC22D2C23XA4N", "length": 2182, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thegrouchoclub.com", "title": "A Night at The...Groucho - Groucho Club", "raw_content": "This event has been postponed, keep your eyes peeled for the next date. Apologies for any inconvenience.\nLGM Records presents A Night at The\u2026Groucho. Intimate singer- songwriter showcases, amalgamating some of best talent that the music industry has to offer alongside the latest up and coming artists.\nThis month we are delighted to announce an unbelievable lineup, including:\nMartha was born in New York City to folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. She is Rufus Wainwright\u2019s sister and they often collaborate in shows and on records. Martha is also half-sister to Lucy Wainwright Roche and they recently made a record together, \u2018Songs In The Dark\u2019 to much acclaim including a JUNO nomination. Martha tours her music around the world to sold out audiences on several continents. She has spent time on the silver screen playing characters in Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u201cAviator\u201d and more recently in the HBO special \u201cOlive Kitteridge\u201d alongside Frances McDormand.\nBryde, has been compared to the likes of Jeff Buckley, Sharron Van Etten, Ben Howard & London Grammar. Her previous band, Paper Aeroplanes, embarked on a series of epic dates across Europe, selling out many iconic venues including London\u2019s Union Chapel, Hamburg\u2019s Prinzenbar and Whelan\u2019s in Dublin, whilst also picking up widespread radio play from the likes of Steve Lamacq, Dermot O\u2019Leary, Cerys Matthews, Tom Robinson, Lauren Laverne and Bob Harris along the way. Bryde\u2019s recent support slot opening for Rufus Wainwright and this show alongside Martha Wainwright prove that her voice can stand up amongst the greats.\nAfter a string of writing, recording sessions and gigs in Los Angeles, New York City and Woodstock, George Taylor is back in the UK and has announced tours with Will Joseph Cook and San Diego group Augustana. His debut single \u201cGive It Up\u2019 has over half a million plays on Spotify and is hotly tipped to take the 2017 charts by storm.\nAMY YON\nAmy has been quietly working on her debut material, collaborating with Badly Drawn Boy and Starsailor\u2019s James Walsh among many others. Her striking voice and delicate songwriting has led us to believe that she has a fantastic career ahead of her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegryphon.co.uk/tag/state-champs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YC7SQ3VIKIETPSI6TOCWUKZJ6SGU2DT6", "length": 266, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thegryphon.co.uk", "title": "state champs \u2013 The Gryphon", "raw_content": "State Champs Are a Pop Punk Dream at the O2 Academy, 30.10.18\nAfter bringing their highly-celebrated new album to life earlier this year, State Champs hit Europe, starting off their tour in Dublin and rocking the O2 Academy in Leeds in at the end of October. The [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/20/women-maths-stereotype-threat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:R5YQD47TNISKSPY3H2GQ3QJJZTZT4GX4", "length": 3931, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Women and the maths problem\nHelen Powell\nThe researchers are right: girls are held back by preconceptions about maths being boring, not a 'stereotype threat' lack of belief\n'Girls perform as well as boys in their maths GCSEs according to last year's results.' Photograph: Getty Images\nWomen's underachievement in maths may not be due to their poor self-image in the subject, a new report suggests. Researcher Dr Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Leeds says that the so-called \"stereotype threat\" theory \u2013 which holds that women perform worse than men because they expect to do badly \u2013 \"does not stand up to scrutiny\".\nEarlier research had serious flaws, he says, with improper use of statistical techniques and methodology. Clearly those who carried out this research need to review their own competence in maths. Stoet believes the gender gap may simply be that men and women have different interests from an early age, and says the answer to getting more women into maths and engineering is probably a matter of motivation.\nAccording to last year's results, even though girls perform as well as boys in their maths GCSEs, 60% of A-levels in the subject are taken by boys, who achieve 60% of grade As.\nI am an engineer, who has worked in the chemical industry for most of my working career. When I graduated in the 80s I assumed we were at the start of a new era for women in science: I studied alongside intelligent and motivated women, opportunities seemed aplenty, in-roads had been made.\nBut 20 years down the line, only 8.7% of British engineers are women, the lowest proportion in Europe, compared with 25% in Sweden. So what has happened?\nOne of the main problems is that careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (known as Stem) are not sufficiently promoted in schools, with fewer children taking up these subjects at GCSE and A-level. Year in, year out, we are told that Britain has a skills shortage, that falling numbers of graduate scientists and engineers are damaging our ability to compete internationally. In spite of girls' belief in their abilities, the general lack of interest among schoolchildren in maths and science subjects, together with the underlying social conditioning that still remains \u2013 that science subjects \"aren't really for girls\" \u2013 has led to a double-whammy effect, reducing female entrants even further.\nOver the past few years, I have been involved in Stemnet, an organisation dedicated to promoting these careers by getting people who work in jobs from biologists to builders to talk to schoolchildren about what they do. It's an attempt to debunk the myth that maths and sciences are too difficult or too boring. I was amazed to see hundreds of schoolboys and girls at a recent event at the Science Museum, presenting a range of experiments and projects they had prepared.\nI agree with the new study that rather than focusing on the problems of stereotyping, we should devote more time to encouraging girls into science and technology: they clearly respond.\nBut encouraging schoolgirls into university and careers is not all. As is typical in most sectors, I see a number of female engineers at the entry- and mid-levels of companies, but precious few at the top. I have seen too many well-qualified women who fail to make it to top positions due to poor company culture and the lack of flexible working to allow returning mothers to the workplace. This is a huge waste of talent. The report has done well to challenge the myths behind women's underachievement in schools, but more work still needs to be done to address the problem of women's lack of achievement in the workplace.\nHow to learn to love maths\nNew advice suggests children should study maths until they leave school. Don't be scared though, numbers are wonderful, fascinating things, says Alex Bellos\nShining moment for maths\nThe 10 best mathematicians\nAlex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos \u2013 review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 7493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/02/western-banks-colombian-cocaine-trade?mobile-redirect=false", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TGR7BS3S4LJSDFHWTCBUQJ4DAXJQFGWO", "length": 6838, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits, a study claims\nSoldiers torch a cocaine processing laboratory near the city of Cucuta, in northern Colombia, as part of the country's war on drugs. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images\nThe vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich \"consuming\" countries \u2013 principally across Europe and in the US \u2013 rather than war-torn \"producing\" nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed. And its authors claim that financial regulators in the west are reluctant to go after western banks in pursuit of the massive amount of drug money being laundered through their systems.\nThe most far-reaching and detailed analysis to date of the drug economy in any country \u2013 in this case, Colombia \u2013 shows that 2.6% of the total street value of cocaine produced remains within the country, while a staggering 97.4% of profits are reaped by criminal syndicates, and laundered by banks, in first-world consuming countries.\n\"The story of who makes the money from Colombian cocaine is a metaphor for the disproportionate burden placed in every way on 'producing' nations like Colombia as a result of the prohibition of drugs,\" said one of the authors of the study, Alejandro Gaviria, launching its English edition last week.\n\"Colombian society has suffered to almost no economic advantage from the drugs trade, while huge profits are made by criminal distribution networks in consuming countries, and recycled by banks which operate with nothing like the restrictions that Colombia's own banking system is subject to.\"\nHis co-author, Daniel Mej\u00eda, added: \"The whole system operated by authorities in the consuming nations is based around going after the small guy, the weakest link in the chain, and never the big business or financial systems where the big money is.\"\nThe work, by the two economists at University of the Andes in Bogot\u00e1, is part of an initiative by the Colombian government to overhaul global drugs policy and focus on money laundering by the big banks in America and Europe, as well as social prevention of drug taking and consideration of options for de-criminalising some or all drugs.\nThe economists surveyed an entire range of economic, social and political facets of the drug wars that have ravaged Colombia. The conflict has now shifted, with deadly consequences, to Mexico and it is feared will spread imminently to central America. But the most shocking conclusion relates to what the authors call \"the microeconomics of cocaine production\" in their country.\nGaviria and Mej\u00eda estimate that the lowest possible street value (at $100 per gram, about \u00a365) of \"net cocaine, after interdiction\" produced in Colombia during the year studied (2008) amounts to $300bn. But of that only $7.8bn remained in the country.\n\"It is a minuscule proportion of GDP,\" said Mej\u00eda, \"which can impact disastrously on society and political life, but not on the Colombian economy. The economy for Colombian cocaine is outside Colombia.\"\nMej\u00eda told the Observer: \"The way I try to put it is this: prohibition is a transfer of the cost of the drug problem from the consuming to the producing countries.\"\n\"If countries like Colombia benefitted economically from the drug trade, there would be a certain sense in it all,\" said Gaviria. \"Instead, we have paid the highest price for someone else's profits \u2013 Colombia until recently, and now Mexico.\n\"I put it to Americans like this \u2013 suppose all cocaine consumption in the US disappeared and went to Canada. Would Americans be happy to see the homicide rates in Seattle skyrocket in order to prevent the cocaine and the money going to Canada? That way they start to understand for a moment the cost to Colombia and Mexico.\"\nThe mechanisms of laundering drug money were highlighted in the Observer last year after a rare settlement in Miami between US federal authorities and the Wachovia bank, which admitted to transferring $110m of drug money into the US, but failing to properly monitor a staggering $376bn brought into the bank through small exchange houses in Mexico over four years. (Wachovia has since been taken over by Wells Fargo, which has co-operated with the investigation.)\nBut no one went to jail, and the bank is now in the clear. \"Overall, there's great reluctance to go after the big money,\" said Mej\u00eda. \"They don't target those parts of the chain where there's a large value added. In Europe and America the money is dispersed \u2013 once it reaches the consuming country it goes into the system, in every city and state. They'd rather go after the petty economy, the small people and coca crops in Colombia, even though the economy is tiny.\"\nColombia's banks, meanwhile, said Mej\u00eda, \"are subject to rigorous control, to stop laundering of profits that may return to our country. Just to bank $2,000 involves a huge amount of paperwork \u2013 and much of this is overseen by Americans.\"\n\"In Colombia,\" said Gaviria, \"they ask questions of banks they'd never ask in the US. If they did, it would be against the laws of banking privacy. In the US you have very strong laws on bank secrecy, in Colombia not \u2013 though the proportion of laundered money is the other way round. It's kind of hypocrisy, right?\"\nDr Mejia said: \"It's an extension of the way they operate at home. Go after the lower classes, the weak link in the chain \u2013 the little guy, to show results. Again, transferring the cost of the drug war on to the poorest, but not the financial system and the big business that moves all this along.\"\nWith Britain having overtaken the US and Spain as the world's biggest consumer of cocaine per capita, the Wachovia investigation showed much of the drug money is also laundered through the City of London, where the principal Wachovia whistleblower, Martin Woods, was based in the bank's anti-laundering office. He was wrongfully dismissed after sounding the alarm.\nGaviria said: \"We know that authorities in the US and UK know far more than they act upon. The authorities realise things about certain people they think are moving money for the drug trade \u2013 but the DEA [US Drugs Enforcement Administration] only acts on a fraction of what it knows.\"\n\"It's taboo to go after the big banks,\" added Mej\u00eda. \"It's political suicide in this economic climate, because the amounts of money recycled are so high.\"\nAnti-Drugs Policies In Colombia: Successes, Failures And Wrong Turns, edited by Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mej\u00eda, Ediciones Uniandes, 2011\nGlobal illicit drug users to rise 25% by 2050, says UN\nMost of the increase expected to take place in urban populations of developing countries, but US prescription drug abuse is rising\nMarijuana could be Barack Obama's secret weapon in this election", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 10675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theheadlineagency.com/zrazy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ANZFJHNCBI6QQ7ANHJP5U4S5IEV2PBNM", "length": 878, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theheadlineagency.com", "title": "Zrazy | The Headline Agency", "raw_content": "Featuring the combined talents of Maria Walsh (vocals, bodhr\u00e1n) and Carole Nelson (saxophones, tin whistle, piano), Zrazy are at the forefront of contemporary Irish music and considered to produce a unique sound. In 1999, Carole and Maria returned to their first love, jazz, and released their third album Private Wars, a stunning collection of original jazz songs. Since forming in 1993, Zrazy have toured extensively in Europe and North America, proving that they are not only formidable studio musicians and producers, but also powerful and charismatic live performers.\nThey have achieved considerable recognition in the US where they tour every Spring and Autumn in venues like the Blue Note, Las Vegas. Last year, they won the GLAMA award in New York for Best Jazz song. Zrazy are available by request for gigs and festivals throughout the year when not touring the States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 131.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theinquiry.ca/wordpress/accused/charged/houston-father-martin-houston/grollier-hall-the-devil-of-grollier-hall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OJNBD7HS6IMJKFXP4KK3L7FFQUHZODY3", "length": 31866, "nlines": 122, "source_domain": "www.theinquiry.ca", "title": "Grollier Hall & \u201cThe Devil of Grollier Hall\u201d | Sylvia's Site", "raw_content": "Grollier Hall & \u201cThe Devil of Grollier Hall\u201d\nThe following is the information I currently have regarding Grollier Hall and Father Martin Houston, \u201cthe Devil of Grollier Hall.\u201d I will hopefully be receiving further information and documents in the future. The picture below was found online. I would appreciate an explanation as to how the various residences were incorporated, ie. were the boys\u2019 and girl\u2019s residences different wings of the building? or, are there other buildings?\nFor simplicity\u2019s sake I am presenting the information in point format. I will be adding links to further information on this page. Any further information on Father Houston would be most welcome.\n(1) Grollier Hall, a residential school for Indian and Inuit children in Inuvik,North West Territories, opened in 1959 and was run by the Oblates until 1985. It closed in 1997. The school was situated beside Stringer Hall, a similar facility operated by the Anglican church. Each facility had a capacity for 250 children. As of 1970 the government of the NWT assumed control of Stringer Hall.\nGrollier Hall was close to the \u201cIgloo Church,\u201d the most photographed building in Inuvik.\n(2) Grollier Hall comprised several residences- there was a senior boys\u2019 residence, a junior boys\u2019 residence, a junior girls\u2019 residence and a senior girls\u2019 residence. The girls\u2019 and junior boys residences were administered by the Grey Nuns, the boys by the Oblates. For a brief spell the junior boys residence was supervised by an Oblate Brother. There are no allegations of sex abuse related to that Brother.\n(3) Father Max Ruyant omi, an Oblate priest, served as administrator of Grollier Hall for 25 years. He died 01 December 1995 in Edmonton, Alberta.\n(4) There were a number of male \u201csupervisors\u201d for the boys residences. The supervisors, all laymen, basically acted as dorm fathers, ensuring the boys were up in the morning, did their chores and their homework and so on. The supervisors were hired by Father Ruyant\n(5) An RCMP task force was struck to investigate Grollier Hall sex abuse allegation.\n432 people were interviewed. Initially 29 victims came forward. Other came forward later. Some never came forward. I don\u2019t at this time have the number of victims.\nFour Grollier Hall supervisors were eventually charged and convicted of sexual abuse of young boys at the school: Jerzy George Maczynski, Jean Comeau, Paul Leroux and Martin Houston.\nHouston stood trial twice for his Grollier Hall crimes, once in the early 60s, and again in 2004. The other three stood trial in 1997 and 1998 in what many refer to as the Grollier Hall trials. Each of these three accused was tried separately.\nNot all supervisors molested the boys. Those who did molest frequently molested the same boys. I understand that there are number victims who were molested by more than one of the supervisors.\n(6) Martin Houston worked at Grollier Hall from 1960-1962.\nHouston was charged and convicted in 1962 for the sexual abuse of five boys at Grollier Hall.\nI have been told that Houston was caught because, while taking one of the boys with him for a trip to Alexandria Falls he had checked into a hotel with the boy, and, following their departure, a \u201clove note\u201d Houston had penned to the boy was found in the room.\n(7) Houston was sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was declared a dangerous offender. He served nine years.\n(8) During his incarceration Houston decided he was called to the priesthood. I have been told that he convinced an elderly couple to finance him through the seminary.\n(9) Houston was kicked out of both the Oblate Novitiate in Arnprior Ontario and Nicodemus House in Edmonton, Alberta after about three months because of behavioural issues.\n(10) Houston completed his seminary at St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College in Edmonton, Alberta.\nHouston\u2019s fellow seminarians did not know that he was a convicted child molester. One related to me in a recent phone call that during his seminary years Houston was \u201caggressive,\u201d \u201cdefensive\u201d and had quite a temper. Apparently it was not uncommon for Houston to erupt with \u201cWhy don\u2019t you keep your F\u2026n\u2019 mouth shut?\u201d The seminarians \u201cavoided him like the plague.\u201d\n(11) In 19990 convicted molester and dangerous sex offender Martin Houston was ordained a priest by Bishop Antoine Hacault, Diocese of Saint Boniface Manitoba. Father Houston was incardinated in the Diocese of Saint Boniface.\nAccording to one online source, Haucault sponsored Houston (to be a priest in his diocese) despite recommendations to the contrary from Catholic officials in Edmonton and in the North West Territories,\n(12) After ordination Houston was first assigned to serve at Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. Complaints from parishioners led to his transfer Carman, Manitoba in 1997. I don\u2019t know the nature of the complaints.\nHouston was transferred to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Carman, Manitoba. That was 1997.\n(13) The Grollier Hall trials ran through 1997 and 1998.\nIn March 1997 68-year-old Jerzy George Maczynskiwas sentenced to four years in jail. He entered a guilty plea to charges of indecent assault, gross indecency and buggery in the early 60s which were committed while employed at Grollier Hall (Macznski, who had been convicted twice for sex assault charges, was already serving a 16 years sentence in a BC court for sex offences committed in a BC residential school )\nIn February 1998 Jean Coumeau, then 64, was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent assault.\nIn August 1998 58-year-old Paul Leroux was sentenced to 10 years in jail for sex offences committed at Grollier Hall between 1967 and 1979. The charges included gross indecency, indecent assault, attempt to commit indecent assault and attempted buggery. (Leroux had a prior 1979 conviction for sexual abuse of a boy in Inuvik. Of interest is the fact that, despite that conviction, in 1980 Leroux was hired by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in Vancouver. He served as regional director from 1988-1994. In 1990 he obtained a pardon. In 1994 became a freelance investigator contracting to the CRHC and B.C. Human Rights Commission. Also of interest is the fact Leroux, who was raised in Granby Quebec, claimed that he was sexually abused as a teenager when he was with the church choir )\nI am told that tensions in the community were such at the Leroux trial that security was at an all time high. There were RCMP spotters on the roof of the courthouse, Leroux arrived wearing a bullet-proof vest. There were plainclothes RCMP officers in the crowd: they were armed.\n(14) There were four suicides during the Grollier Hall trials. All were victims of Paul Leroux.\n(15) It seems that Houston\u2019s name re-surfaced during the Grollier Hall trials. And, it seems it was around this time that the Grollier Hall \u2018boys\u2019 learned that Houston was now a priest. They were upset and angry.\nOn hearing the news Harold Cook headed off to Winnipeg to speak to \u201cHouston\u2019s superior.\u201d Harold, a Victim\u2019s Advocate throughout the trials and now a Crown Witness Co-ordinator in the NWT, was molested by both Leroux and Comeau.\nHarold does not recall the name of the priest he talked to, but he recalls the meeting vividly.\nAccording to Harold, it was probably sometime in 1998 that he met the priest at the Elephant Castle in the Delta Hotel in Winnipeg. During that meeting the priest allegedly told Harold not to worry about Father Houston: there had been a miracle \u2026Father Houston had been cured of his sexual problems.\nOn hearing news of such a miracle Harold says he told the priest: \u2018if you have a pocketful of miracles why not apply it all sex offenders and then there won\u2019t be any sexual abuse.\u2019\nAccording to Harold, at that the priest uttered an expletive, pushed himself from the table and was gone. Harold was left to foot the bill.\nThe timing of the \u201cmiracle\u201d is unknown. Was it before Houston\u2019s ordination? Had it just transpired? Harold doesn\u2019t know.\n(16) I believe it was after the Elephant Castle meeting that an official from the Saint Boniface diocese advised Grollier Hall victims that Martin Houston was going to apologize. A meeting was arranged by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Martin was a no show.\n(17) As a result of the Grollier Hall trials, two more victims of Houston came forward and reported to police.\n(18) In 2002 parishioners at Our Lady of Carmel in Carman, Manitoba learned for the first time that their parish priest was a convicted child molester. They were not amused.\nMolester aside it seems that parishioners had been encountering troubles with their parish priest.\nAccording to one undated account from the Edmonton Journal found online:\n\u201cThe council told the Archbishop that Houston has struggled in his role as parish priest. \u2018These struggles relate to emotional instability, aggressive outbursts, inappropriate speech contained in his sermons, and insulting remarks directed to a variety of parishioners both inside and outside the Church.\u2019\u2026. Many parishioners say it is clear that Houston is unable to perform his priestly duties and needs medical care. But they wonder whether he will get the help they say he needs given the silence from the diocese.\u201d\nThe description of his character is eerily akin to that given to me recently by the priest who was in St. Joseph\u2019s seminary at the same time as Houston.\n(19) I\u2019m not sure when the new Houston victims came forward, nor do I know when charges were laid. I do know that in 2004 Father Martin Houston was convicted \u2013 again.\nHouston received a suspended sentence. The recollection by some familiar with the trial is that the court felt Houston had already paid for his crimes with his previous sentence, plus his designation as a dangerous offender was somehow deemed grounds for such leniency\nVictims were understandably disappointed and upset.\n(20) Houston used to get the boys out of the bed in the middle, tell them to strip and order them to run around naked in front of him.\nAs I mentioned elsewhere, Houston was known to tie string to a boy\u2019s penis and pull on the string.\nHe sodomized some if not all of his victims.\nHe is known to the victims as: \u201cThe Devil of Grollier Hall.\u201d\nAccording to Harold Cook, Father Rayaund exhibited a \u201csilent anger\u201d toward boys who complained of sexual abuse.\n(21) Asked if he ever told anyone about the abuse he suffered at the hands of Leroux and Comeay Harold replied that, yes, as a child he told Father Ruyant and one of the nuns. According to Harold he was told: \u2018no, people of God don\u2019t do this.\u2019 Harold felt he had no choice but to let it go. Years later Harold almost whispers: \u201cthe shame was so great I didn\u2019t want to tell anyone. "\n\u201c\u2019On a dead man\u2019s door you can knock forever.\u2019 That\u2019s the way the Church has been toward us\u201d That\u2019s what Harold told me.\n(22) 25 August 2010: Father Martin Houston, twice convicted molester and dangerous sex offender, died.\n30 August 2010: funeral Mass for Father Martin Houston at St. Boniface Cathedral, St. Boniface Manitoba, Archbishop Albert Legatt presiding.\n40 Responses to Grollier Hall & \u201cThe Devil of Grollier Hall\u201d\nDavid Cook says:\nGood Day, my name is David Cook and I was in Grollier Hall at the time these abuses had taken place. I was not aware that they were taking place and it was not till years later that I noticed that these same abused individuals were always around the \u201cabuser\u201d; Paul Leroux. The one thing that I wanted to mention, is that some of us were not abused. I was one of the TEST skiers and we were treated differently than the other boys; we ate seperatley in a room attached tot he main cafteria. Our day started at 6 am, we would go for a run to the hospiatl, back to the hostel and into the gym for morning exercises. Go to school till 4 pm and then go skiing till 5 pm. We would have supper and then do our studies afterwards. Then around 7:30 we would go the Canadian Forces gym and do more exercises, and than back to the hostel and play more sports and then to bed. Next, day start all over. As a skier, we would travel for months at a time and we had to do our school work as well, and therefroe had school assignments for two/three months at a time. We learned from the school books. My comments are those of a person not abused and a cross country skier who raced for the community I came from \u2013 Fort Good Hope and I raced for the NWT and for Canada. Thank you for your time and have a nice day.\nThat\u2019s good for us all to remember David. There is an old saying coined in Cornwall, Ontario \u201cA thief doesn\u2019t strike every house in the block.\u201d It\u2019s very true. Not every child in a molester\u2019s path was/is molested. And, in that same vein, obviously not everyone at the Grollier Hall was molested. I am sure that once you heard about what had been going you must have considered yourself to be very fortunate.\nCongratulations on your cross country ski endeavours. Sounds like your days were busy!\nthey took my common law away with suicide, and I still deal with it throughout the years, I often wonder how this will affect our son\nI still feel cheated\nMargo, I am so terribly sorry. Such pain. I know it is easy for me to say, but you must try to be strong for your son. Help him to be a man who would make his father proud.\nWas your husband a victim of Houston Margo?\nPaul Voudrach says:\nI sealed the sexual abuse that haunted me for 48-49 years. Sexually assault as they call today back in 62 it was known as rape. It was blocked in the back of my mind and finally in August 2008 I finally released that information during my counselling sessions. I became isolated and a loner and my parents passed on without ever knowing what happened to me while in the hands of John/Jean Comeau. I started drinking at age 13 and in 1989 contimplated suicide. More information can be provided to anyone who is willing to listen. I was picked up on June 8, 1990 by the Lord Jesus Christ. He lead through these trials by carrying me and I am so thankful to Him. People we can be set free from all that pain when you decide to make that step toward a healing journey.\nWelcome home Paul ! Keep on keeping on the new path. God Bless !\nIts a beautiful journey when I can actually see in front of me and not covered by a mask\u2026\n*Today, I don\u2019t mind letting my information be known\u2026 Now that I have been walking free of shame and bitterness since August 2008. I never really knew I was a troublesome person until I had a ceremony with my counsellor during a conselling session where I released that child in me and began waliking free without shame, bitterness or guilt. I have learned to forgive and in that process the fear and anger also was let go. Spiritually that child was always wanting to be released and I didn\u2019t know that until that ceremony. I thank the Lord for carrying me throughout my life and still carries me today\u2026 I never forget those that left us without really talking about their pain\u2026\nMy mother was a survivor of residential school that lived a painful life she left us in 2002 at the age of 50, I was 17 and never knew what anguish she lived through in that school, I hadn\u2019t even known such evil existed, but years later I came to realize that the way she was was because she was hurting, it wasn\u2019t because she wanted to be angry towards us or lack showing affection and love she just simply did not know how. I feel very cheated that she had to go through this, but worst that she never explained to us (her children) what she had gone through so it was just like she was an angry women for no reason and now we all have to live on with that legacy, trying not to be the abusers to our children. The worst thing I think of is that if I only knew I could have tried to help her through the pains in her life instead of being angry towards her for drinking and dragging us through bullshit, I feel like I\u2019ve been stripped of a mother who had so much love for us but was blocked in her own body. That eventually killed her, shame on residnetial schools!!!\nThanks for sharing that with us anonymous. Your blog is a reminder to victims that others, including your children, so often do want to help, and would do so if they only knew about the abuse.\nYou remind me a little of a blogger who calls himself JG. Right JG? I think you probably understand exactly what anonymous is saying?\nI walked into the main door of Grollier Hall at the age of 15 during the fall of of 1979 and I clearly remember \u2026..being quite intimidated , knowing and hearing about all the horror stories regarding this institution. However as I continued walking down to the senior boy\u2019s residence and being introduced to the place\u2026..the song \u201d Let The Good time\u2019s Roll \u201d was blaring through the speakers in the dormatory. I was introduced to some of the students and will never forget their friendliness and hospitality. Over the following year I made such great friends from all over the NWT \u2026Paulatuk, Aklavik, Fort Good Hope, Fort MacPherson,Fort Norman, Sachs Harbour. I will also never forget the guidance and professional supervision of our supervisor\u2019s during my 2 year stay at Grollier Hall,\u2026.Gordie and Louie Savoie\u2026.and especially Ralph Bertrum. I am forever grateful for my time in Grollier Hall and made a lifetime of friends and truly believe that only a very small percentage of students who stayed at Grollier Hall were preyed/ victimized by previous employees of this government/ church contracted institution which is most unfortunate. I grew up in a home which was way more strict and confining than the residential school I resided during my grade 11 and 12 years in Inuvik and consider those years to be some of the best times of my life\u2026.I only wish it was this way for everyone else!!\nGlen Alexie says:\nI remember walking into Grollier Hall in the fall of 1979,I was told by my friends who were there a year before, about the abuse that went on there,I believe that that was the year Paul left.My friends warned us about the place,this was common for new students who were there for the first time.I was very furtunate to have respecting supervisors like Gordie , Louis Savoie and Ralph Bertrum.I to am very grateful for there guidence and did a good job ,Now The supervisors were always there give a helping hand.But all in all I learned how to be independant.\nThankfully indeed you are one of the lucky ones Francis. And yes, there are many who, like you, have fond memories of their times in a residential school. \u201cA thief doesn\u2019t strike every house in the block\u201d and so, while it is fact that they were many who were abused, there were many others who were spared such fate.\nI am curious Francis. Were there actually horror stories about Grollier Hall circulating throughout the North back in 1979? What were they? What had you heard of Grolloer Hall that made you afraid?\nAnonymously says:\n*Both of my parents have gone to residential school. They both were molested as well. They even went to the same schools. Its so hard having parents that are going through the healing process. Its like if you dont\u2019s understand what your parents are goin through you\u2019d never know how to try and help. Like the more you ask they just get even madder at you. But my mom and dad finally was able to speak of what they went through. I think its important for teens to know that, the schooling systems nowaday, we are so lucky we didnt have to go to these places. My heart goes out to all the people who\u2019ve passed on while at this school, who\u2019ve all been molested, Like they say the healing continues.\nAnonymously, your parents are very fortunate to have a son or daughter like you who wants to and tries to understand. Keep loving them. They need your love.\nSylvia , your comments about how the experiences of many were good and only a small percent had real problems angers me, based on the history of the offenders sing a matter of record before they were placed in a position of primary care of minors , I believe that the government is 100% culpable for their actions! Would you consider placing Josef mengle in charge of the bc children\u2019s hospital? And say \u201cwell only a small percentage of children. Had an adverse experience\u201d ? I do not believe that we have laws capable of meeting justice for the the subject of your forum. I hope you understand that the victims of this need to see posts like mine to affirm their emotional reactions! IT WAS NOT OK ! IT WAS REAL! Perhaps when an entire community expresses their founded opinion the RCMP Should.not be so quick to protect sexual predators , sometimes people should get what they deserve,\nKaboom, my comments were in response to those of Francis Anderson who, as I said in my response, was one of the lucky ones. The truth is that not every single child in residence at Grollier Hall was molested, any more than a predatory priest molests every single child with whom he has contact, or any more than every priest in the Roman Catholic Church is a sexual predator. In saying those things I am in no way shape or form minimizing the magnitude of the sex abuse scandal in the Church or in Grollier Hall, or the damage done to every child who is sexually abused.\nFrancis Anderson said believes that only a small percentage of students who stayed at Grollier Hall were molested. Even if that is fact I personally thinkthat was justa poor choice of words on Francis\u2019 part. I personally believe that one child abused in Grollier Hall is one too many, just as one predatory priest anywhere is one too many, and one child abused by a priest is one too many. From what Francis has to say in the rest of his post I think he would agree.\nAbby Marie says:\nWe in Carman still bear the scars of Houston\u2019s horrid character. Many left because of his presence here and never returned. But that does not compare to what his victims endured. Ok this is what we were told: We were told that MH had been fondling a 17 yr old when he was 18 and he spent a year in jail. Seriously? His probation office had no idea what the archdiocese had done with him\u2026..He was so friggin\u2019 weird and not of God but of some other sphere. Thank God CBC and other news media broke the news of his record so our children did not have to endure any more of his rants from the pulpit. One example was on Scouting sunday when he described in graphic detail what an abortion is. They are just kids! 7 years olds! Never will we forget him shouting at us on Sundays and telling us \u201che is in the priest, he is in charge, don\u2019t believe lies from the outside about him\u201d \u2026\u2026 and this is before we knew the truth\u2026. How did Hacault even think of this jerk being a priest? He now resides in a true hell and his victims we can only hope have some consolation of peace. Too bad as the RC faith is a beautiful thing\u2026\u2026we get idiots like MH as \u201cshepherds\u201d\u2026.. ok we took away his crook and sent him scurrying from our town. After Carman he was done. Our love and compassion goes out to those who suffered at his hands. From the moment he set foot here, we knew something was wrong\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nI would like to correct Abby Marie and her comment concerning the RC faith being beautiful if she only new about the history of the Roman Catholic Church I think she would sing a different tune. My advice is that she read about Pope Innocent III and the Inquisition after she reads the history I would like to know what she thinks.\nI myself was born and raised a Roman Catholic and also spent time inside an Indian Residential School in Beauval at the time Paul Laroux was a boys\u2019 supervisor we used to call him \u201d The pervert \u201d behind his back.\nYes, Victor you are very right about how people have used religion (thanks for pointing out the history, you only touched on a few things, there is so much more) but that does not mean we cannot believe or love what is good. I know the history of the what people did in the \u201cname\u201d of the church. But that is not faith. The church is the people who follow Christ\u2019s great teachings of course, not the priests nor the abusers. But the people have allowed it to happen over the centuries in many horrible ways. How many times have children told someone and they end up being victimized again?\nThis lying, conniving horrible man who was consecrated (don\u2019t think that is a valid one) as a priest, I cannot believe that the Archbishop was in his right mind when he did that. Just the first impression of MH makes you want to run away. Creepy, large, imposing and vacant eyes. That is strange because some (I stress some) perverts are pretty smooth and congenial. We were majorly peeved (polite way to put it) to find out who he was after three years. Thankfully we have the internet (and Sylvia) to google the guys we know.\nOn another note: I knew Fr Charles Griggs from the Anglican Church in Wpg. He was really friendly and loving and it was a shocker that he was a monster to kids. But he was. I guess we just cannot trust anyone with our children. The warning signs were there but no one saw it and I was but a very young child. By the way, the scandal basically bankrupt that Diocese.\nhttp://www.mommyish.com/2011/10/31/defrocked-our-beloved-priest-was-actually-a-pedophile-393/\nI am so sorry that you had to deal with Laroux \u201cthe pervert\u201d \u2026 I did not know him. But I did know two others and there are many more out there. They use and abuse institutions to satisfy their immense need to dominate and control.\nI am so sorry for that which I am only learning of now. I was one of the air force brats that resided in Inuvik from about 1973 to 1976. It took me a year to be not be so shy and scared but ultimately I enjoyed my stay and the many friends I had made there. I remember (I was about 16) a very young girl named Vera being comfortable enough with me that she used to hold on to my Eskimo parka while I pulled her round the skating rink.\nal Lafferty says:\nFrancis and Glen\u2026.you guys got there when you were older\u2026I got there in grade 2 and paul laroux loved us a bit too much if you get my drift\u2026he didnt leave our class alone till we got old enough to defend ourselves just enough to cause a stir by putting a broom or a mop on the doors to lock him out\u2026.he Loved our small bodies not any of the older ones. I am very glad and happy to know you have fond memories to the school but I can tell you from first hand (not a pun) experience that paul is an animal and needs to die for what he did to all of us\u2026and when we told the RCMP back then what happened they laughed at us and said we were being punished for whatever we did and laughed and drove away\u2026.I was 7 and no higher than a doorknob in 1973 they failed me and everyone else that was abused\u2026.[deleted by Sylvia]\nI have found a bunch of used but otherwise empty envelopes addressed to and from Grollier Hall in the period 1964 to 1967. I believe they were saved for the postage stamps on them. Does anyone know a \u201cVirgilio Viglione\u201d who may have been an adult there (teacher? parent-helper?). I hope he was not one of the bad ones. I see a reference to \u201cR.G. Mission\u201d too \u2013 what did that stand for? Can anyone help me?\nnorthernfancy says:\nConcerned: I do not recall the name Virgilio Viglione identified as \u201cone of the bad ones\u201d. If you are in Inuvik, check with Lawrence Norbert. He founded the Grollier Hall Residential Healing Circle and has a vast knowledge base regarding the issues at Grollier Hall. If not able to locate him in Inuvik, he will be in Tsiighetchic (Arctic Red). No idea what R.G. stands for \u2026 maybe just a poor typist who was trying for R.C. Maybe doing the envelopes was an exercise in a typing class.\nThanks NorthernFancy. The thought that it was supposed to be RC did cross my mind but it was repeated on 20+ envelopes so I wondered\u2026 anyway this is not anything important compared to the the main issues discussed here, of course. It\u2019s too bad the letters are all missing \u2013 might have been able to shed some light on life there in the 1960s.\nSomeone asked about a \u201cVirgilio\u201d, well he was one of the cooks at Grollier Hall and was up early to get the breakfst ready, cooking for all the kids that were there. Also, there was another cook, named \u201cAlberto\u201d not sure of the last name.\nMy mother was one of the people that Martin Houston convinced to give him money to attend the seminary. A lot of money. He was a smooth talker, probably a sociopath. Her story was covered by Ed Struzik, a journalist at the Edmonton Journal several years ago. His actions were very destructive to our family.\nAfter over 30 years, i am still struggling with PTSD and depression from the abuse i received in Grollier Hall. It is an awful feeling when you experience flash backs and relive the touch, taste, sound, and smell it. Therapy doesn\u2019t work nor do the drugs, religion is taboo for me so most times i feel like there is nothing i can turn to. The one thing that i do have and fight to keep is my soul, it is strong and bright, the within is my hope!\nI work as a supervisor for 2 year after those awful thing happen, what caught me the most was the need for those kids to be treated for what they are and been respect for what they are, human . Just a note, I learn more about what happen at grollier from the people on the street then the staff and the administration, it was a well kept secret.\nI did not attend grollier hall as I was from Inuvik. However I was sexually assaulted by a resident of grollier hall who was 6 years my senior. I buried it deep for many years for fear of repercussions. 4 years after the sexual assault I was physically assaulted by another male resident who ended up cutting my face.\nThe abuse at grollier hall was not contained to the residents, the abuse spilled out into the community\nI lived in Inuvik in the 1970s. My brothers had friends who lived at Grollier Hall. Although I did not know Paul Leroux \u2013 never met him I heard many stories from my brothers. Zip forward 25 years and many of these horrible stories came out in the trials. My sister\u2019s former boyfriend also a Leroux victim commit suicide before his turn to testify. Very sad. I believe that the sexual assaultswere well-known in Inuvik in the 1970s. Reportedly Leroux offered alcohol and showed porn films he brought from Spain. No one will be likely to admit it now but he was outwardly very popular at Grollier Hall at that time. The high school counsellor Dave Button also assaulted numerous teenage boys and was finally convicted and imprisoned recently.\nGrollier Hall horrors \u2013 so tragic\nMuhammad Shaikh says:\nSylvia, you have done a wonderful job of documenting these crimes with context.\nI am a Harvard extension school student who is writing in First Nations dilemma.\nTazeen Hasan says:\nSorry by mistake the name appearing is not me.\nWilliam Fairbanks says:\nI worked in Grollier Hall from August 1990 till March 1991 as a student advisor. I even wrote a chapter of my book about it and my experience in it weren\u2019t very pleasant.\nWhat is the title of your book William?\nYou were at Grollier well after Houston, but, I am curious: was there any talk of him while you were there?\nWhere us your book a available, William?\nI was a non residential student in Inuvik in the late 1960\u2019s, and most of the kids in my class were in Grolier Hall. (I remember a friend getting permission to have me visit and she showed me around the girls\u2019 residences.)\nI also remember one day in grade 5 my mother asked my brother and me whether the music teacher had ever taken us into the cloakroom. She told us he had been fired because he had been doing \u201cbad things\u201d to the students in the cloakroom. We didn\u2019t know what she meant so she had to explain he was sexually abusing children. So, some of those children in Grolier Hall were not even safe at school.\nWe had another teacher who was physically abusive to the boys in my class. It upset me and I told my mother about it. We also had some good teachers. 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Redick scored 29 points and senior Daniel Ewing had his first career double-double with 14 points and 10 assists as No. 6 Duke lambasted the Hurricanes 83-59 on Thursday in Durham, N.C. Shelden Williams, the ACC\u2019s leading rebounder, added 14 points and 12 boards for the Blue Devils (22-4, 11-4), who won their fourth straight game on Senior Night.\nRobert Hite led the Hurricanes (16-11, 7-9) with 17 points and Guillermo Diaz had 14, but the rest of the team did little to help its cause against the Blue Devils. Starting center Anthony King was held scoreless and senior Will Frisby only had four points in the loss.\nThe defeat leaves UM needing an impressive run in next week\u2019s ACC Tournament to secure a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Anything short of that would likely put the Hurricanes in the NIT.\nRedick was so dominant early on that he personally outscored Miami for most of the first half. His three free throws gave the Blue Devils a 27-11 lead with about nine minutes left, and their lead grew to as much as 24 points before the Hurricanes cut their deficit to 44-24 at halftime. Redick finished the first half with 18 points on 5-of-6 shooting.\nMiami desperately needed to go on a run at the beginning of the second half, but Duke remained in attack mode, going on a 10-0 run to push its lead to 30 points. The Hurricanes never made a substantial dent in their deficit, and both teams emptied their benches, conceding the outcome of the game.\nDuke has won six consecutive games against Miami, sweeping this year\u2019s regular season series. The Blue Devils have earned at least 20 victories for nine straight seasons.\nUM Head Coach Frank Haith told the Miami Herald that his team was simply overmatched.\n\u201cThey\u2019re a great team,\u201d Haith said. \u201cGreat team. Great players. Great coach. They have the best player in this league on their team, J.J. Redick, and I thought he was outstanding. He made a lot of great plays. We never got going. Stood around a little bit. Our execution was poor\u2026I thought we didn\u2019t play well, but they had something to do with that too.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/eighteen-killed-in-thai-bus-crash-1.715133", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MNXFASF4VRGXVSUMF6SLETAQTQMBFDWR", "length": 2014, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thenational.ae", "title": "Eighteen killed in Thai bus crash - The National", "raw_content": "Eighteen killed in Thai bus crash\nAn official said that 28 other people were receiving treatment for their injuries\nThe wreckage of a tourist bus sits beside devastated roadside stalls at a crash site after an accident on a highway in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, on March 22, 2018. EPA\nAt least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bus travelling in northeastern Thailand veered off the road and smashed into a tree, authorities said on Thursday.\nThe accident occurred on Wednesday evening in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province with the double decker bus carrying around 50 people returning home from a holiday.\n\"There are 18 people killed, of these 12 women and six men including one boy,\" said Suthep Ruenthawil, chief of the Nakhon Ratchasima provincial disaster prevention and mitigation unit..\nHe added that 28 people are receiving treatment for injuries.\nPhotos in local media of the accident's aftermath showed part of the bus lying on its side and officials standing beside a row of body bags.\nMr Suthep said the bus driver lost control while the vehicle was going downhill, before it veered off the road and jumped a traffic island then smashed into a large tree.\n\"The bus was torn into two parts,\" he said.\nLt Col Pornpattana Pisitkarn from the Udomsap police station near where the accident occurred said the bus brakes appeared to have failed.\nAt least six people killed in three-car crash in Thailand\nFire extinguisher at Thai bank kills eight\nThailand's roads are some of the most lethal in the world, killing around 24,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organisation.\nMore than half of accidents involve motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians though bus crashes involving tourists and migrant workers are also common.\nIn November 13, Myanmar nationals were killed when their van collided with a truck in central Thailand and burst into flames.\nRescue workers search for victims of a bus accident in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province on March 22, 2017. AFP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 6077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/jared-kushner-s-security-clearance-downgraded-per-kelly-policy-1.708649", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3JIXXRLVZOOHKAD5A36TYTT4U2QA4XM7", "length": 3185, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thenational.ae", "title": "Jared Kushner\u2019s security clearance downgraded per Kelly policy - The National", "raw_content": "Jared Kushner\u2019s security clearance downgraded per Kelly policy\nHe had been operating with an interim clearance level for more than a year\nWith a top-secret clearance, Mr Kushner would have had access to information about covert operations and intelligence sources and methods. AP Photo/Evan Vucci\nThe security clearance of White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, has been downgraded, according to two people informed of the decision.\nMr Kushner had been operating with an interim clearance at the \"top secret/sensitive compartmented information\" level for more than a year. Now he is only authorised to access information at the lower \"secret\" level, according to a White House official and a person familiar with the decision, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.\nChief of Staff John Kelly ordered that White House officials with interim clearances pending since before June 1, 2017 lose their access to the nation\u2019s deepest secrets if they hadn\u2019t received permanent clearances by last Friday. A White House official confirmed Mr Kelly\u2019s order had been implemented.\nMr Trump could have reversed the decision and unilaterally offered Mr Kushner a clearance, but deferred to his chief of staff.\n\u201cI will let general Kelly make that decision and he\u2019s going to do what\u2019s right for the country and I have no doubt he\u2019ll make the right decision,\u201d Mr Trump said Friday, when he addressed the security clearance issue for the first time.\nMr Kushner\u2019s attorney said his client\u2019s ability to do his job won\u2019t be affected by any change to his clearance.\n\u201cThose involved in the process again have confirmed that there are dozens of people at Mr Kushner\u2019s level whose process is delayed, that it is not uncommon for these clearance reviews to take this long in a new administration and that the current backlogs are now being addressed,\u201d said Peter Mirijanian.\nMr Kushner\u2019s portfolio once included relationships with China and Japan and a host of domestic priorities, including infrastructure, trade and economic development. But his freewheeling reach in the foreign policy space \u2014 which was viewed as undermining Secretary of State Rex Tillerson \u2014 had already been curtailed somewhat under Mr Kelly.\nStill, Mr Kushner is reportedly said to have reviewed the highly secret presidential daily brief and has been in the room for some of Mr Trump\u2019s most consequential domestic and foreign policy decisions.\nMr Kushner is one of dozens of White House aides who have been working without permanent security clearances for the better part of a year.\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Tuesday that she would not comment on individual security clearances, but called Mr Kushner \u201ca valued member of the team, and he will continue to do the important work that he\u2019s been doing since he started in the administration\u201d.\nWith a top-secret clearance, Mr Kushner would have had access to information about covert operations and intelligence sources and methods. With a secret clearance, he would still have access to intelligence assessments, but not necessarily the information behind why the US knows what is being shared with him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 7524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenesteggnr.com/store/p1566/Minnesota_Vikings_String_Art_-_The_Spillway_String_Art_Class_-_March_19th%2C_2018_from_6%3A30_to_8%3A30_pm.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HHILCZ54BXQ7O3KUX2EDTK77WEEEPB2L", "length": 281, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thenesteggnr.com", "title": "Minnesota Vikings String Art - The Spillway String Art Class - March 19th, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm DIY, Class, Classes, String Art, Handmade, One of a Kind", "raw_content": "Ready to get your craft on? This link is for the Minnesota Vikings String Art at The Spillway on March 19th, 2019 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Your finished design will measure approximately 12\"x12\" and you will have the perfect piece of home decor to hand on your wall when you get home!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/seattle-mariners/mariners-insider-blog/article161552318.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XQWHLMNNKXPEACHTVD6BPK3O5KNBXS73", "length": 2638, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.thenewstribune.com", "title": "Mariners put their winning formula on display in victory over White Sox | Tacoma News Tribune", "raw_content": "Six innings from Paxton looked iffy early on. While he didn\u2019t walk anyone, his pitch count climbed toward 80 through four innings before he found another gear and breezed through the fifth and sixth.\n\"An uptick in intensity,\" he explained. \"I need to find a way to get to that earlier in the game, so that I can ride that out longer.\"\nPaxton retired the final eight batters he faced before the bullpen took over.\n***Tony Zych struck out two in a one-two-three seventh inning.\n***Nick Vincent struck out two in a one-two-three eighth inning.\n***Edwin Diaz struck out two in a one-two-three ninth inning.\n\"Those guys looked sharp,\" Paxton observed. \"They did a great job today.\"\nThey\u2019ve been doing a pretty good job for a while now.\nThe Mariners\u2019 bullpen has a 2.74 ERA over its last 46 games since May 22, which is the best mark in the majors over that span. The key, as Servais keeps stressing, is only requiring them to cover nine outs.\nFelix Hernandez starts Saturday against the White Sox, and the goal is simple: six solid innings.\nThree takeaways from Friday\u2019s victory:\n***Three-way punch: Some numbers on the Zych-Vincent-Diaz relay that closed out Friday\u2019s victory.\nZych lowered his ERA to 2.25 and has 23 scoreless outings in his 30 appearances. In his other seven, he permitted just one run.\nVincent has not allowed a run in 34 of his 38 outings and has an 0.95 ERA in his last 22 games while going 1-0 with 12 holds in that span.\nDiaz has a 2.11 ERA while converting seven of eight save opportunities in his last 20 appearances, which roughly covers the period from the point that pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre corrected some mechanical flaws.\n***Paxton\u2019s progress: Paxton has won three straight decisions and, at 8-3, has already established a career high in victories \u2014 a fact that, more than anything, speaks to his inability to stay healthy in previous seasons.\nHis 3.19 ERA would rank sixth in the American League if he had sufficient innings to qualify \u2014 he\u2019s 3 2/3 innings shy of the standard because he missed four weeks in May because of a strained forearm muscle.\nThe same goes for his 10.30 strikeouts per nine innings; it also would also rank sixth among AL pitchers.\nPaxton is close to being the ace the Mariners need and have long envisioned. He just needs to stay healthy.\n***Muscling up but\u2026: Cano has seven homers and 21 RBIs in his last 17 games for a robust .634 slugging percentage in that span. But it\u2019s coming at a cost. He is batting just .267 in those 17 games with a .310 on-base percentage.\nCano\u2019s career slash coming into the season was .307/.355/.498. His season totals this year are .278/.336/.491.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thespoof.com/jokes/1693/political-quips", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MDDXVLA76VBNWKOZKOFDCIDIMJSVPBNR", "length": 419, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thespoof.com", "title": "Political quips funny joke - The Spoof", "raw_content": "Political quips\nSubmitted by burhaninho\nLots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.\nThere's one thing the Democrats and Republicans share in common: Our money.\n...Veni, Vedi, Clinti--I came, I saw, I lied.\nA little girl asked her father, \"Daddy? Do all Fairy Tales begin with 'Once Upon A Time'?\"\nHe replied, \"No, there is a whole series of Fairy Tales that begin with 'If elected I promise'.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestanley.org/events/view/215/a-christmas-story", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DOFZZ43WS2ZKIPUZ5IK26DVFQDCTKNKI", "length": 1042, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thestanley.org", "title": "A Christmas Story \u00bb Stanley Center For The Arts", "raw_content": "A Christmas Story, The Musical chronicles young and bespectacled Ralphie Parker as he schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ryder\u00ae Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle (You\u2019ll shoot your eye out kid!). An infamous leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a maniacal department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the distractions that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas wish. Chock-full of delightful songs and splashy production numbers, A Christmas Story, The Musical, following its smash hit Broadway run, has proudly taken its place as a perennial holiday classic for the whole family.\nTickets are on sale now and range from $29.00 - $74.00. Additional service charges may apply. To purchase tickets come down to the box office Monday through Friday from 10:00am - 4:00pm, give us a call at (315) 724-4000 or click the link below. For more information head over to http://www.broadwayutica.com.\nTuesday Nov 15 - 7:30 PM\nWednesday Nov 16 - 7:30 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestreet.com/story/10450297/1/how-to-avoid-unsafe-childrens-toys-in-stores.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7QMONDB7VF5FGFAMEVEZY3REZDNCK3B", "length": 5488, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.thestreet.com", "title": "How to Avoid Unsafe Children's Toys in Stores - TheStreet", "raw_content": "How to Avoid Unsafe Children's Toys in Stores\nNew toy safety legislation won't go into effect till after the holidays. Here are some tips on avoiding dangerous toys that may be lurking on the shelves.\nFor Christmas this year I would like teethers and other toys I can chew that don't have any of those chemicals that could potentially disrupt my hormones, cause liver damage or contribute to asthma. I'd also like fun, brightly colored toys and play jewelry that don't contain icky lead that causes brain damage.\nUnfortunately, new regulations that protect children from toys that have higher levels of lead or controversial chemicals called Phthalates won't go into effect until next year. So toys that will be deemed unsafe come February, or later in the year where phthalates are concerned, could still be on the shelves this Christmas.\nPhthalates make vinyl and other plastics soft and pliable. Teethers are the most controversial items they've been used to manufacturer because they're meant to be put in children's mouths where the chemicals can be readily absorbed into tiny bodies.\nLead makes toys shiny, bright and attractive. But it tends to dim developing brains. Next year, toys containing lead at a level of 600 parts per million will be banned and the limit will gradually lowered to 100 ppm. The amount of lead allowed in the paint on toys will be lowered in February from 600 ppm to 90.\nStores and toymakers have known for a while that these standards are coming, but the toy industry does 65% of its business between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, according to the not-for-profit group Safe Kids Worldwide. So some manufacturers and stores have inventory kicking around that doesn't meet these new standards. According to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal, they're hoping to unload this inventory by selling those toys to you this year.\nWhat's the parent of an Elmo, Dora-the-Explorer or Barbie fan to do?\nAlan Korn, director of policy for Safe Kids says that major companies like Mattel ( MAT) that got into trouble last year for troublesome toys are likely to be especially vigilant this year to protect their reputations and bottom line. \"Mattel paid a huge price by not paying attention to this. If they haven't learned their lesson they're facing a huge financial and health disaster.\"\nAs a result, he says, \"We should see a better marketplace this year than we have in the past. \" He might be right. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced earlier this month that recalls are down more than 45% so far this year over last year. Recalls of toys specifically for lead content fell by more than half.\nA big factor in this downtick is that earlier this year, Toys R Us and Wal-Mart ( WMT) imposed stricter standards and more testing on the toys that come into their stores in anticipation of the legislation that followed. Where the big-box retailers go, the manufacturers hoping to sell to them will follow.\nBut what about those soon-to-obsolete toys that might still be lingering on shelves this holiday season? Korn has some advice for avoiding them.\nHe suggests buying from \"reputable retailers\" who stand to lose a lot from the bad publicity of selling unsafe toys. \"That means the big boxes like Toys R Us, Wal-Mart and Target ( TGT),\" he says. \"But it also means the mom-and-pop stores that are very much a part of the community and err on the side of caution when it comes to keeping products on their shelves or taking them down.\"\nHe also suggests looking for toys that are made in the U.S. or Europe. \"By and large the problematic toys come from Asia and China,\" he notes.\nFor his kids, this year he bought board games like Trivial Pursuit and some video games. And he suggests that other parents do the same.\n\"There are certain types of toys that by and large haven't had problems over many years and you want to migrate toward those,\" and away from potentially problematic ones. These include board games, books, unpainted wood puzzles and jigsaw puzzles, building blocks like Legos and Lincoln Logs, video games and stuffed animals.\nHe says that toys for toddlers are the biggest concern because these products inevitably wind up in children's mouths. So parents buying for the teething set should especially look for cloth and unpainted wooden toys or hold out for reputable brands that don't use plastic or have been public about removing phthalates from their products.\nThere's no easy way to do this other than to carefully check labels and research brands online before heading out to the stores.\nKorn also recommends that all parents sign up for email alerts about recalls, which you can do through Safe Kids or the Consumer Products Safety Commission. That way, if a toy you've bought is recalled you'll know right away.\nPersonally, I plan to avoid the deep-discount stores that are often listed as the source of toys on the CPSC's recall list, a move with which Korn concurs. And I'll be wary of deep discounts and sales on brightly colored and plastic toys in case they turn out to be fire sales of unsafe products.\nI'll stick to books and wooden toys from companies like Haba and Melissa & Doug for my toddler. I figure it's the best way to keep her safe and both of us jolly for holidays and into the new year.\nEileen P. 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It has been reported that both companies will continue to operate on their own for the time being.\nSince its launch in 2011, Varsity Tutors has raised $57 million through funding. The platform was originally created to connect students with tutors for in-person teaching, and since has expanded to provide online tutoring services. The platform currently has 40,000 tutors registered, offering 1,000 subjects.\nFirst Tutors currently operates in the same way that Varsity Tutors did when it first launched. In recent years, First Tutors has grown to become one of the largest in-person tutoring platforms in Europe.\nMore information on the acquisition can be found on the Tech Crunch website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisinsider.com/palmer-luckey-life-career-of-ousted-oculus-vr-founder-who-sold-startup-to-facebook-2-billion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6UZRKTV5IVEIS6ZLVIRS5AXC5FVMI6IB", "length": 8589, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "www.thisisinsider.com", "title": "Palmer Luckey: The life and career of the ousted Oculus VR founder - INSIDER", "raw_content": "How 24-year-old Palmer Luckey went from selling his VR startup to Facebook for $2 billion to building a virtual border wall for Trump\nJulien Rath and Madeline Stone\nPalmer Luckey.\nPalmer Luckey isn't your average 24-year-old.\nLuckey is the founder of Oculus VR, the virtual reality company that sold to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. A year after the sale, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $700 million.\nLuckey was quickly put on the path to greatness as the face of Facebook's fledgling VR business. He made frequent appearances at press events and conferences on behalf of Facebook and Oculus.\nBut less than three years later, Luckey no longer works for the VR company he helped build in his parents' garage. Luckey left Facebook and Oculus in March, only a few months after it was revealed that he funded an anti-Hillary Clinton meme group.\nNow Luckey is secretly building surveillance and defense technology to be used along country borders and military bases, according to a report by The New York Times. And he's already met with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to discuss deploying the tech along the US border with Mexico.\nHere's how Luckey went from tech darling to Facebook outcast:\nLuckey was born in Long Beach, California on September, 19, 1992. His father Donald was a car salesman and his mother, Julie, a stay-at-home mom who homeschooled Luckey and his three younger sisters.\nAs a child, Luckey loved to tinker with electronics, building his own computers or gaming devices.\nOculus screencap\nFor a while, he became fascinated by lasers and burned a small blind-spot into one of his retinas while experimenting with them.\n(Not actually Luckey's eye)\nFlickr/Michael Gil\nTo help support his varied interests, a 16-year-old Luckey set up a business fixing iPhones and then selling them unlocked online. He made at least $36,000.\nFlickr / Nathan Borror\nHe became interested in virtual reality thanks to his love of video games. He spent tens of thousands of dollars to build a six-monitored computer rig. But even that wasn't immersive enough for the kind of gameplay he envisioned, so he thought, \"Why not just put a small screen directly on your face?\"\nNot actually Luckey's display, but a pretty sleek set-up.\nFlickr / Willybepop\nAt 17, in his parents garage, Luckey started building the Oculus headset prototype that he eventually launched on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, where it raised an astounding $2.4 million.\nAt that point, Luckey had already connected with a gaming entrepreneur named Brendan Iribe. Luckey had stopped using a cell phone because he felt paranoid about government surveillance, but agreed to meet Iribe at a steak house. The two hit it off, and Iribe and a few of his friends invested some of their own money in helping Luckey launch the Kickstarter. They called the company Oculus VR and Iribe became CEO.\nLuckey's vision for Oculus at the time reads quite ironically now, post-Facebook acquisition. \"I won\u2019t make a penny of profit off this project,\" he wrote at launch. \"The goal is to pay for the costs of parts, manufacturing, shipping, and credit card/Kickstarter fees with about $10 left over for a celebratory pizza and beer.\"\nFacebook/Pizza Hut\nThe blockbuster campaign and subsequent demos of Oculus put Luckey and his virtual reality headset on the map. The company started getting all sorts of inbound interest, including from Chris Dixon at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.\nPosters and t-shirts that Luckey gave to Kickstarter supporters.\nDixon passed on funding at the time \u2014 the headset still required duct-tape to function \u2014 but it didn't matter: Oculus VR scored $16 million in funding in June 2013.\nWikimedia Commons and Brian Ach/Getty\nSource: Vanity Fair and Crunchbase\nNot six months later, the big bucks rolled in. After seeing an updated demo of the device, Dixon finally felt convinced and Andreessen Horowitz led a $75 million round of funding that December.\nIt was Dixon (who described his Oculus experience as like being teleported) and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen who first connected Iribe with Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck loved his first demo so much that he quickly flew to the Oculus office to check out the latest version.\nBrendan Iribe with Mark Zuckerberg\nThe two companies signed a whopping $2 billion acquisition deal in March 2014.\nThe deal immediately sky-rocketed Luckey's net worth to about $500 million. He was only 21.\nA chunk of Luckey\u2019s newfound wealth went to buying a large house in the ritzy Silicon Valley town of Atherton. He lives with seven friends in a home he calls \"The Commune,\" where they all spend hours playing video games. This is an example of a home you might find in Atherton.\nLuckey spent a lot of his time in an executive-level suite at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, but he was still very laid-back. \"There\u2019s a lot of people here who know all about Oculus but don\u2019t know who I am,\u201d he told Forbes.\nKill Screen / Flickr\nLuckey is known for his casual look \u2014 he typically sports a Hawaiian shirt and sandals, but he has said that he'd prefer to be barefoot. \"We invented shoes to protect our feet from the harsh environment,\" he told The Telegraph. \"But I live in modern-day California. It\u2019s pretty safe here. Nothing\u2019s going to happen if I take them off.\"\nOne of Luckey's purchases since the Facebook deal has been a $120,000 Tesla Model S. \"[Elon Musk] is a cool guy who deserves my money,\" he told the Telegraph. He later told Forbes, \"I figure you can buy a Tesla and not be too snooty.\"\nSource: The Telegraph, Forbes\nHe also drives a 1986 GMC van that reportedly has a red shag carpet inside.\nfree photos / Flickr\nThe 24-year-old has a good sense of humor and is known for being a bit of a showman. He once threw out t-shirts during Oculus' mixer at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.\nSource: Facebook, Oculus\nLuckey was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, cementing him as the face of virtual reality.\nDespite Luckey's desire to stay out of the limelight, he was pushed into it after a report by The Daily Beast found that Luckey was funding the anti-Hillary Clinton group NimbleAmerica, which wanted to change the media discussion through \"shitposting\" and \"meme magic.\"\nLuckey confirmed he had donated $10,000 to the group, but denied that he had been posting pro-Trump comments on Reddit.\nEven still, Luckey's actions were felt within Facebook's walls. Multiple female Oculus staffers resigned amidst the revelations of Luckey's political contributions. Luckey disappeared from the public eye for months.\nKevork Djansezian/Reuters\nHe was briefly back in the spotlight when he testified in January 2017 at the trial of Zenimax, which accused him of stealing the technology for the Oculus Rift. Oculus was later ordered to pay $500 million in damages to ZeniMax for violating a non-disclosure agreement and copyright infringement. Luckey was ordered to pay ZeniMax $50 million of the $500 million verdict for false designation.\nAll of that controversy culminated with an announcement from Facebook in late March that Luckey would be leaving the company.\nNiall Carson/PA\nLuckey quickly became active on social media again and gave his first interview in months to a Japanese website. \"It certainly was a great working environment,\" he said of Facebook. \"But I had to restrain myself working there. I could not cosplay while working at Facebook.\"\nIn June, The New York Times revealed that Luckey was secretly building surveillance technology as part of a new startup. One application of the technology being explored by Luckey's startup is creating a virtual border wall between the US and Mexico.\n\"We are spending more than ever on defense technology, yet the pace of innovation has been slowing for decades,\" Luckey told the Times in a statement. \"We need a new kind of defense company, one that will save taxpayer dollars while creating superior technology to keep our troops and citizens safer.\"\nThe new startup, while currently self-funded, will eventually be funded by Trump advisor Peter Thiel's Founders Fund firm, and Luckey has already discussed the effort with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to the Times.\nLuckey has also beefed up his roster of vehicles and properties in recent months, noted the Times. He owns three helicopters, a marina, and two properties built on decommissioned missile silos.\nAn example of a decommissioned nuclear missile silo.\nCourtesy of Survival Condo Project\nJillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this article.\nMore: Features Oculus VR Facebook Palmer Luckey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 11041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1518628/Delancey-set-to-pounce-in-West-End.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:XCT5WFSZOGBFEA4D3SOABAPSWIEASY47", "length": 261, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thisismoney.co.uk", "title": "Delancey set to pounce in West End | This is Money", "raw_content": "Delancey set to pounce in West End\nPROPERTY group Delancey's \u00a31.5bn property fund is to make its first major office investment in London with a \u00a330m deal to buy the new West End HQ of Chevron Texaco from Britannic Asset Management, according to Estates Gazette.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 10976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thoughtco.com/investing-in-comics-books-804295", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:13Z", "digest": "sha1:IIBPHEAMEKZASZPKLGJ2SWHUAEN6GR7E", "length": 19080, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "www.thoughtco.com", "title": "Guide to Start Investing in Comics Books", "raw_content": "Investing in Comics Books\nA Guide To Start Investing\nLou Jones / Getty Images\nWhat Does Investing In Comics Mean?\nThe Tools Of Investing\nTracking Your Collection\nHigh-End Comics\nTips For Selling Success\nThe act of buying comic books as an investment is a relatively new thing to the comic book world. At first, comics were read, used, and tossed or shared among friends. Few were stored properly and survived today.\nAs comic books gained in popularity and the people who owned them got older, value began to be placed on comics. With the release of comic book characters into pop culture through movies and television, however, there was a marked rise in the value of those classic comic books. Over time, some of those comic books, especially origin issues, can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, such as Action Comics #1 worth about half a million dollars.\nToday, with companies like the Comics Guaranty Company and eBay, even current comics are worth a considerable amount of money. Take an eBay auction where an Ultimate Spider-Man #29 went for $600. That\u2019s 200 times the cover price. Or an All-Star Batman #1 that went for $345 only months after the comic out.\nThis puts the everyday reader of comic books in an interesting situation. Comics as an investment? Comic books are rapidly beginning to look like the stock market. With websites like the Lyria Comic Exchange modeled after just such a system.\nThe dictionary describes investing as, \u201cTo commit (money or capital) in order to gain a financial return.\u201d In its purest form, investing in comics means to look at comic books from a monetary standpoint. As a general rule, most comic books will go up in value. How much they go up can vary greatly. That can depend on many factors such as rarity, condition, and popularity.\nUsing comic books as an investment will require much from the collector. The investor will need money to buy the comic books and proper protection and storage to keep them safe. There is also an investment of time. The investor will need to follow the market and track their collection and value. A true \u201cinvestor\u201d in comics will also need a bit of detachment from their collection. I have comics that are worth some money and others that are worth not much at all, but I wouldn\u2019t trade or sell them for anything because of their emotional value to me. The dedicated investor may need to part with some of their collection if the time is right.\nTypically, most collectors will be part investor, part collector, and part romantic dreamer. Most collectors have some comics that are the prized possession of their collection and that makes it difficult to sell. Most people, though, still enjoy seeing their collection rise in value.\nSo now that you are ready to start looking into the world of investing in comics, you will first need to find out about your collecting style and if investing is for you.\nThere are many types of collectors in the comic book world. When looking at using comic books as an investment, it is important to figure out what kind of collector you are. Depending on how you view collecting will greatly determine if using comic books as an investment is right for you. Here are ten different types of collectors and their views on comic books.\nThe Investor. This type of collector views comic books as one thing \u2013 money. They view their comics as stocks and a way to acquire wealth. Very little emotional ties are held to their comic books. They buy, sell, and trade with ease with only one thing in mind \u2013 how much money they can make.\nThe Obsessive Collector. The obsessive collector will not rest until they have every issue of their favorite series. The comics are cataloged, indexed, with maybe even an excel file of missing issues and the condition and worth of current issues in their collection. They are protected well in bags and boards and held in the correct type of storage bins. To part with anything in their collection is very difficult and would take a large sum of money, or something else they desire more.\nThe Quick Buck. This collector is mostly motivated by quick cash. They buy as many copies of an issue as they can if they think they can sell it quickly at an inflated price. They are constantly scooping out what is the latest or hottest thing. If the price is right, they will quickly sell things from their collection.\nThe Inheritor. This person acquired their collection from a friend or relative. The collection is more of a hassle than a treasure. They wonder how they can get rid of the collection quickly and for how much.\nThe Curator. The Curator is the person who sees comics as art that should be valued and displayed as such. Their comics are to be seen and read but treasured. Special steps are taken to protect their comic books, even to the extent of special frames. Comic book art is something that may become part of the collection as well. While they may read them from time to time, bare hands are out of the question. Don\u2019t you know how much that is worth?\nThe Average Joe. This collector sees comics as a great, enjoyable, and fun hobby. While steps may be taken to protect their comics, they are often banished to basements, attics, and other undesirable places. The Average Joe collector loves both the story and the thought that their comics are gaining in value. There is a strong emotional investment in their comics and the thought of parting with them is difficult. Dreams of owning that rare comic or art are aplenty, but the money just isn\u2019t there.\nThe Graphic Novel Collector. The Graphic Novel Collector is quickly becoming a popular lifestyle for many comic readers. Graphic Novels are generally cheaper than buying comics individually and one can read an entire story arc in one sitting. Although not worth as much as individual comic books, the Graphic Novel collector is more concerned with a great read at a great price.\nThe Ebayer. Ebay has offered up a great source of comic books to many collectors. The Ebayer is thrilled with the rush of the auction, watching the items they are selling or buying go up in price. The Ebayer is ecstatic when they get a good deal or an auction sells well. Reading is generally a part of this collectors life, but it may be unsure whether which is more important, the act of auctioning or reading a great comic book.\nThe Part Timer. This collector comes in and out of collecting, often stopping and starting with different series. They are not attracted to any one series for long and their collection can be rather piecemeal. They hope that what they have is worth something, though, and may just have that one rare issue, due to their comic book hopping.\nThe Reader. This type of collector uses their floor as a comic book storage bin. Sometimes they may have a comic rolled up and stashed in their back pocket. Tears, folds, and rips are meaningless. What truly matters is the story, the story man! Comics are read for pleasure and not collected for profit.\nYou should obviously take this list with a grain of salt. You probably have something in common with many of these types of collectors. The point is, if you are more like The Reader than The Investor, then you might not want to use comics as an investment.\nIf you are starting to get serious about investing in your comics, and in reality, you already have invested the money to buy them and the time to read them, then you will need to know how to protect, track, and manage your comic book collection efficiently.\nWhen it comes to investing, protection needs to be discussed. The typical way to protect comic books is with mylar bags, comic board backings, and a special cardboard box designed to hold comic books. This type of setup will work for most comic collectors until you get into the higher end comic books. Then you need some serious protection, which we will touch on later in this section.\nAs stated before if you have all the appropriate protection, then you are pretty much set, but there is something you may have overlooked and this is a key component to properly protecting your collection \u2013 the storage environment. Comic books have a tendency to get stuck in weird places. Attics, garages, wet basements, sheds, and other unsavory places are a likely place for many comic books. Heat, humidity, dampness and other extreme conditions are will greatly affect the condition and therefore the value of your comics. The best place for your comic books is a climate controlled location. A bedroom, study, office or something else that will keep a good constant temperature is the best thing to preserving the value of your comic books.\nFor advanced protection, there are some options out there. When you are talking about comics worth hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, a few bucks for a top notch protection device is nothing. Here are some options to consider. As with any high-end investment, please do your own research. These products are being endorsed as an option, not a promise that they will keep your comics safe.\nVolstor Storage Cases - These cases act as a binder and protect them from all sides and are ready to store in a bookcase.\nUSA Display - Provides three different models for higher end protection.\nComics Guaranty - When you send your comic book to Comics Guaranty, they will not only grade your comic but send back in a special protection holder.\nOne final thing to consider when looking to protect your more expensive comic books is to use cotton gloves when handling and reading those comics. The oils from your hands can greatly damage your comic books if you are not careful.\nTracking your comic book collection consists of keeping a list of your comic books, knowing the original cost and current value of your comics, as well as what comics are doing well in value and by how much. Knowing what you have and how much it is worth can be a great consumer of your time. Fortunately, there are many things available to collectors to help them with their collection. With the advancement of technology, the collector has one of the greatest tools in tracking their collection \u2013 the home computer.\nWith your computer, you can use many different things to track your comic books. You can use spreadsheet or database software such as Excel or Access. There are also computer programs and websites that are specifically designed to help the collector track their comics. These programs are a powerful tool in the constant battle of keeping track of your comics. Here are a few of the programs and websites available today.\nComic Book Manager - Free to try and only $10 to register. This is a simple database program that will allow you to keep track of your comics. Does not appear to have a prices function. Rated 3 out of 5 by CNET\u2019s Editors.\nComic Book Millennium 5 - $19.95 to download. This program boasts over 30 different reports and many other features including the ability to add monthly subscriptions.\nGrand Comic Book Database \u2013 A grassroots comic book database that offers a free online comic book tracker.\nComic Book Database \u2013 A great comic book database that allows you to track and see prices based on condition.\nStash My Comics \u2013 Track your comics with another online database. Allows you to search your comic collection with a search engine type feature. Shows prices and value.\nLyria \u2013 The Comic Exchange \u2013 A website designed like the stock market. Offers free searching of comics for prices and soon to be offering an option to manage your portfolio. Has an index of \u201cBlue Chip\u201d comic books that tracks the most popular comic books.\nOnce you have the right protection in place and you have an efficient management system ready the next step is to purchase comics for your portfolio.\nOne of the most important aspects of maintaining a collection from an investment standpoint is the buying and selling of your comic books. This is also one of the most dangerous parts of the process, so some careful thought is key here. If you rush in to buy a comic off an auction site or through a dealer without doing the proper research and background checking, then you may be in for a shock when the product is less than desirable or not what you thought it is worth.\nRight now, there are probably a couple of good avenues when looking at buying comic books. The first is to buy high-end comic books that will retain their value over the long haul and go up in price over time. The other is to buy current comics that have a high interest and turn them for a quick profit.\nWhen looking at buying high-end comic books there are some essential things to consider. Only then will it be able to be considered a wise purchase.\nIs the comic book a well-known item? Classic titles by Spider-Man and Superman are good bets that your investment will grow in value over time. The obscure title may be valuable to a certain few, but for your investment to truly grow in value, the purchase should have a wide fan base.\nOld does not equate being worth lots of money. I went to a garage sale one time (great place to find comic treasures) and saw a sticker on an item that read, \u201cOld -$10.\u201d Just because something is old, does not make it valuable. Old, sought after, and in pristine condition are the markers for a wise investment.\nRatty comic still equals tons of cash. Many people will pull out that classic comic and say that it is the prize of the collection. Granted, it has no cover, and the pages are yellow and torn, but it is still worth thousands of dollars, right?\nThere are many ways to buy these comic books. One of the most popular is, of course, Ebay. There are alternatives though and when you are looking for a particular comic for your collection, it is best to take the time to look through the various avenues to make the best possible purchase. Here is a list of some great places to buy and sell higher end comic books.\nEbay has become the largest online auction site. You can find a great many of deals and items here. One of the most popular places to buy and sell comic books.\nHeritage Comics has been around for over 30 years and even has entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, one of which is for selling the Nicholas Cage comic book collection, getting more than $5 million dollars, making it the highest earning comic book collection in history.\nMile High Comics has been around for over 25 years and has a large supply of Golden Age comics.\nAnother way to turn a profit with comic books is to look for current comics that have a large interest and become highly sought after. 30 Days of Night is one such series, with the original first three issues now going for as much as a hundred dollars. Other current showstoppers have been comics like Mouse Guard, which has quickly gained the limelight as well as top prices going for over fifty dollars, and this is a comic that has come out this year. Here are some tips for looking to buy current comic books.\nVariant Covers \u2013 Variant covers are typically a hot item and can be a great way to get a higher price than the normal comic book.\nFirst Issues \u2013 The first comic book in a series will often be the most sought after comic book in a series. Watch out for those comics that are highly pushed by publishers as they will publish too many for the comic book to truly rise in value. X-Men #1 was a good example, as you can still easily get the comic book for around ten dollars.\nThe Hot Comic \u2013 As mentioned before, those sleeper hits such as Mouse Guard can quickly gain in value. The trick is to be on top of what is coming out and anticipate what will be worth something later on. This can be tricky, but if you watch for new comics by hot artists and writers, or for new and unique series, then you have a shot.\nCGC Comics \u2013 One of the latest trends in the comic book industry is the Comics Guaranty Company. They will grade comics for you and place a grade on them, from zero to ten. Naturally, higher graded comics will sell for a much higher price. This is also very true for new comics. A Civil War #2 Variant recently went for $450 dollars.\nAs you can see, there are many options when it comes to making money with comics. The trick is to be savvy about what you buy. The next and most crucial step is to know when to sell your comic.\nSelling your comic books is a serious thing to many collectors. Your comic books become much more than just a possession and take on something else, more like a treasured artifact than just a story with pictures.\nIf you are taking a more cold and calculating route, then selling is just a part of the business. I know a comic book collector who also happened to own a comic book store. To get his back issue bin going, he put his entire collection up for sale. We're talking tens of thousands of comics. Something that would be incredibly hard for someone like me to do.\nWhen a collector is serious about parting with his collection, though, they can make an enormous amount of money. Take actor Nicolas Cage, a self-proclaimed comic book fanatic. The one time Superman hopeful put his collection up for auction and pulled in a cool 1.68 million dollars. And that was just for the comics, not to mention the other comic book art and other items that brought him over 5 million dollars.\nIf you are looking to make the most amount of money in selling your comics then you need to approach selling with patience, cunning, and knowledge. Here are some tips when selling your comics.\nWhen working with a comic book store, ask to set up a consignment. Most comic shops cannot give you a great price on comics as they need to make a profit.\nWhen selling through online auctions, check to see if there are other auctions of the same kind going on. This will keep you from competing with them directly.\nAlso check online to see what the current real time price is for your comic. This may give you an idea of what to expect and whether you want to wait or sell right now.\nIf you really have something of value, check with the professionals. Auction houses like Heritage Auctions or Pacific Comic Exchange Inc specialize in rare and valuable comics. They know how to market highly sought-after collections that will bring in top dollar.\nTry to have some fun with it. If it\u2019s not any fun, then it might not be truly worth it.\nAs you can see, investing in comics can be a fun and profitable endeavor. It can also be signal big time financial trouble if you are not careful. As with any investing, you may want to talk to a financial consultant before doing anything.\nJust take it slow and be cautious about spending too much money, too fast and you should be fine. The old saying is very true here, \u201cIf it\u2019s too good to be true, then it probably is.\u201d Watch out for scams, be honest in selling, and have fun expanding your collection empire.\nFind out How Much Your Comic Books Are Worth in 4 Steps\nComic Book Publishers Profile\nGive Back with Comic Book Charities\nCheck Out These Eight Alternative Comic Book Protection Supplies\nDiscover Rare and Vintage Comic Books for Collectors and Fans\nBeginner's Guide to Grading comic books!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 21537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thrillist.com/chicago/boobs4barack", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXYND73FWCQTEPMZGXDGUFQFHQUXXL45", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thrillist.com", "title": "Boobs4Barack - Entertainment - Thrillist Chicago", "raw_content": "Boobs4Barack\nMany of these boobs will help the Illinois senator's cause. However, some might lend credence to recent charges of flip-flopping.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/how-sony-playstation-4-might-be-used-for-terrorist-attacks-in-paris-terrorists-using-online-games-to-communicate", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:45Z", "digest": "sha1:56KNMMXK5LWXHAFUMECE47NKU5T6OJTY", "length": 2535, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thrillist.com", "title": "How Sony Playstation 4 Might Be Used For Terrorist Attacks In Paris - Terrorists Using Online Games to Communicate - Thrillist", "raw_content": "Did ISIS Use Playstation 4 to Plan the Paris Attacks?\nFlickr/renneville\nIn the wake of Friday's horrific attacks on Paris, officials and investigators continue to piece together not only who was responsible for the bloodiest attack on French soil since WWII -- but also, how the attacks were planned and carried out in secrecy.\nOne theory that is currently being debated, but may end up holding some validity: terrorists communicated via their Playstation 4s -- one of the world's most popular gaming consoles that's equipped with several methods of console-to-console communication. According to a report by Forbes, the recent anti-terrorism raids in Brussels turned up at least one PS4 (a notion that was disputed by the Verge, and chalked up as a \"reporting error\"). Despite the supposed error in reporting, the idea of terrorists using Sony's most current console to communicate and plan attacks has been floated before by Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon.\nMore than 110 million people use PSN (Playstation's online gaming service, connected to the console), and while authorities have some reason to believe that the use of PS4 networks may be involved with the planning and undertaking of the attacks by ISIS, nothing has been confirmed as of right now -- which is important to remember.\nBut, the idea may seem novel in concept, though the application could be surprisingly easy, as the console provides multiple lines of of communication for users including text messaging, direct voice communication, and in-game means of sending messages. With the overall system being more primitive than other mainstream messaging services, it offers a unique opportunity for users to fly under the radar, undetected. And it's not as if governments and law enforcement agencies across the world are unaware of the possibility of real-life menace within online worlds, as the CIA and NSA both have infiltrated online games in the past in an effort to keep tabs on terrorist communication within online games like World of Warcraft. But, for agencies to even be able to monitor communications on these consoles (never mind the legality of it all), entire consoles would have to be tapped, totally -- which may not even be possible at this point, according to the Forbes' report.\nClarification of the claimed \"reporting error,\" as well as more information on the validity of the Forbes' report, should be expected to unfold over the course of the next few weeks.\nWil Fulton is a Staff Writer for Thrillist. Follow him @wilfulton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 5797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/why-tiaa/our-professionals/chuck-hawes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3DNTDSGAQSIE2BI63CU4FE53VNKI55KZ", "length": 1183, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tiaa.org", "title": "Meet Charles, Wealth Management Advisor | TIAA", "raw_content": "Charles Hawes, CFP\u00ae, AAMS\u00ae\nB.A., English, California State University at Sacramento\nCharles joined TIAA in an entry-level position in the National Contact Center, which provides financial guidance to retirement plan participants. Encouraged by the organization to continue his education, he became a Certified Financial Planner. He eventually became a Lead Wealth Management Advisor, managing a team and mentoring other advisors.\nWhat do you like most about working at TIAA?\nI work for an organization that does the right thing for the client. This is the ultimate reassurance in a turbulent world.\nI maintain relationships with my clients, and work with them to improve their financial lives \u2013 making sure the advice and education I give them helps them with pursuing their goals.\nWhat do you most enjoy about the TIAA office in which you work?\nI work in the Denver Regional Office. I love the diverse mix of culture and people in Denver, the youthful outlook, and the connection with nature and recreation we have in this city.\nI help mentor others who are less fortunate than myself, and have done so over many years. 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She spends $15,000 and feels pretty good about the results. On her way home, she stops at a news stand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving, she says to the clerk,\n\u201cI hope you don\u2019t mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?\u201d\n\u201cAbout 32,\u201d is the reply.\n\u201cNope! I\u2019m exactly 50,\u201d the woman says happily.\nA little while later she goes into McDonald\u2019s and asks the counter girl the very same question. The girl replies,\n\u201cI\u2019d guess about 29.\u201d\nThe woman replies with a big smile,\n\u201cNope, I\u2019m 50.\u201d\nNow she\u2019s feeling really good about herself. She stops in a drug store on her way down the street. She goes up to the counter to get some mints and asks the clerk this burning question. The clerk responds,\n\u201cOh, I\u2019d say 30.\u201d\nAgain she proudly responds,\n\u201cI\u2019m 50, but thank you!\u201d\nWhile waiting for the bus to go home, she asks an old man waiting next to her the same question. He replies,\n\u201cI\u2019m 78 and my eyesight is going. Although, when I was young, there was a sure-fire way to tell how old a woman was. If you permit me to put my hands under your bra, then, and only then can I tell you EXACTLY how old you are.\u201d\nThey wait in silence on the empty street until her curiosity gets the best of her.\nShe finally blurts out,\n\u201cWhat the hell, go ahead.\u201d\nAfter a couple of minutes of this, she says,\n\u201cOkay, okay\u2026How old am I?\u201d\nHe completes one last squeeze of her breasts, removes his hands, and says, \u201d Ma dam, you are 50.\u201d\nStunned and amazed, the woman says,\n\u201cThat was incredible, how could you tell?\u201d\nThe old man says,\n\u201cPromise you won\u2019t get mad?\u201d\n\u201cI promise I won\u2019t,\u201d she says.\n\u201cI was behind you in McDonald\u2019s.\u201d\nTheBoo\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by TheBoo on 2/8/18 at 9:14 am to Street Hawk\nImage: https://media.giphy.com/media/a0Lgc1JvbfS4o/giphy.gif\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by Cosmo on 2/8/18 at 9:15 am to Street Hawk\nImage: https://media.giphy.com/media/l0HluN8PywCl6Hckg/giphy.gif\nChuker\nTennessee Tech Fan\nCream & Juke Mines of Nars\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by Chuker on 2/8/18 at 9:15 am to Street Hawk\nehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh\ntoo many jokes use a similar punch line.\nthe pit of misery with you!\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by Commandeaux on 2/8/18 at 9:16 am to Street Hawk\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by colorchangintiger on 2/8/18 at 9:16 am to Street Hawk\nA couple, both in their late 30s, went to a sex therapist's office. The doctor asked, \"What can I do for you?\"\n\"We're not trying to find out anything,\" the husband replied. \"She's married and we can't go to her house. I'm married and we can't go to my house. The Holiday Inn charges $90. The Hilton charges $108. 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It adds nothing.\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by TROLA on 2/8/18 at 10:01 am to Street Hawk\nImage: https://m0.joe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15200237/Laugh.gif\nFloating Change Up\nre: A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthdayPosted by Floating Change Up on 2/8/18 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk\nUnbeknownst to them, Boudreaux was standing behind them and saw the whole thing.\nHe ran around to the front of the bus stop, raising up his shirt exclaiming to the old man, \"mais cher fren, dats amazin! you gotta do dat to me now next!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 10167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2014/02/an-offhand-apologion-and-testimony-of-sorts-and-some-reflections/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SUKN7BPETDGLUKOWW3FOCOAXKHSTVG23", "length": 52656, "nlines": 173, "source_domain": "www.timesandseasons.org", "title": "An Offhand Apologia of Sorts, and some Reflections | Times & Seasons", "raw_content": "An Offhand Apologia of Sorts, and some Reflections\nby Ben S. \u2022 February 26, 2014 \u2022 51 Comments\nI exchange emails with a good number of LDS people. Some of them are simply looking for information, a pointer to the right article or scripture or background. Some of them are finding their spiritual footing to not be as firm as it used to be, which is highly disconcerting. No one enjoys just trying to stay afloat while the waves keep breaking over you.\nOne such exchange recently ended with a personal question, given X, Y, and Z, why do *you* stay?\nIt was a busy day, and I only had five minutes (dangerous to write something serious so spontaneously), but I wanted to give my interlocutor something. Since several people have found it helpful, here\u2019s my quick response, edited slightly for clarity and detail.\nI don\u2019t have a lot of time, but let me make a preliminary attempt at responding as a whole.\nWe have a culture, we inherit a tradition, about definitions, about the past, about many things. Those create expectations, which combine with experiences we interpret from within our own personal worldview (which is shaped by those traditions, expectations, definitions, etc.) I have often argued to my classes that the strongest testimonies (e.g. those holding them are most able to respond well to spiritual crises of various kinds) are those that are flexible, open-minded, and broad. [I\u2019m writing a long post talking about this.] It\u2019s perhaps ironic that my relationship to the institutional church and my faith are much more resilient because I regularly expect that most of Church administration, hierarchy, and teaching is largely human. I believe God can and does speak to prophets, and I don\u2019t think that belief is incompatible with the idea that the vast majority of day-to-day things that come from Church HQ consists of humans doing the best they can. They have disagreements based on differing world views and understanding of scripture and tradition, and so on. I find that to be both realistic and believing.\nWhere can I find official and clear statements of church doctrine?\nYou can\u2019t, but to what end? A catechism? If so, stick with the 13 articles of faith and the temple recommend questions. Make your own beliefs that you can argue for, based on the scriptures, experience, and the best information we have from reliable sources. One of my BYU professors used to say in terms of historical/doctrinal information, \u201cyou can have it all, or you can have it consistent, but you can\u2019t have both.\u201d I\u2019m happy to have broad leeway in the Church for what I can believe (what I can preach in Church itself is a different category, of course). But I understand why many LDS don\u2019t see things as I do; I didn\u2019t grow up in the Mormon belt, my Church experiences have been mostly positive, and I\u2019ve read much broader than most LDS in terms of history, doctrine, and scripture. I have low expectations of consistency or \u201cdirect revelation\u201d in everything (whatever \u201cdirect revelation\u201d would mean. ALL revelation is encultured, and filtered through humans, even prophetic ones.) I\u2019ve lived with grey longer than most because my experiences (such as watching The Godmakers at 16) and formal studies with the Bible exposed me very early to messy history and uncomfortable issues, so I\u2019m very comfortable with contradiction, ambiguity, and gray. I can (and have), for example, acknowledge both 19th-century and ancient Semitic aspects of the Book of Mormon. I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s ancient, but I\u2019m not about to ask anyone out of the Church who disagrees. In other words, I\u2019d like to think I occupy some kind of middle ground that can accept central and basic truth claims of the church while rejecting either Protestant fundamentalism on the one hand or epistemological/scientific solipsism on the other. (The latter, I suspect, is why many exLDS end up as atheists.) So, I stay because my expectations are such that they are rarely violated, because (and I\u2019ve said little about this because you hinted that it was irrelevant) my own experiences have led me to believe that God exists, that he set this Church in motion, that his hand touches it in unique ways, and its core truth claims are true. And also because I have a wicked streak of independence which buffers me from occasional stupidity that comes from high places. I also find that the Church and its teachings (regardless of truth claims, though they are important to me) do more good than evil on the whole.\nNow, correlation is certainly a mixed bag, but it\u2019s important to remember that the institutional Church is not a monolith, and the left hand often has no idea what the right hand is doing. I see things as going in a largely positive way, but it will take some time. What evidence is there of that? Recent changes to the Bible Dictionary (as were sent to you), the new pages at LDS.org on the priesthood ban, DNA, etc., certain hires at BYU, certain publications, some other things. To be sure, not everything is positive, but again, it\u2019s not a monolith. Overall, taken as a whole, I see the Church moving in a very good, centrist direction that acknowledges problems and issues (in process rejecting certain traditions) but not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It will take some time for those changes to filter down to the layperson/ward level, of course, but it is happening.\nI have blogged on a lot of these topics. I don\u2019t have time to copy and paste specifically, but see http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/author/ben-s/, my recent posts on Genesis and the flood at my Gospel Doctrine blog\nhttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/benjaminthescribe/ I also have some biographical posts in there as well.\nI\u2019ve also attached an article I wrote that BYU just published in a journal which goes to all CES folks [Religious Educator.] The most relevant part for my email is where I discuss the relevance of the JST and Book of Mormon on Biblical studies. The fact that BYU published this is one of my evidences that at least certain Powers That Be are looking for a non-fundamentalist middle ground that challenges a lot of tradition and assumptions.\nAnyway, I hope this is helpful. I have to leave for my organic chemistry class, then teach my Hebrew class, and finish polishing the publication version of a conference article due today.\nIt\u2019s been interesting to see the uptick in questions and struggles as the Gospel Topics section has grown, as evidenced by various blog posts and emails. I wonder if the effect of these articles could be appropriately termed \u201ccreative destruction\u201d, as certain traditions and interpretations are definitively put down, creating conflict. I suspect in the short term, we\u2019re going to lose some people who struggle to reconcile A with B (and such struggles are very real and sincere), but I also think that such articles are more-or-less exactly what the Church needs in the long term.\nIn the meantime, and more importantly, let\u2019s support and throw a life preserver to those around us who feel like they\u2019re drowning. \u201cWhen a battered, weary swimmer tries valiantly to get back to shore, after having fought strong winds and rough waves which he should never have challenged in the first place, those of us who might have had better judgment, or perhaps just better luck, ought not to row out to his side, beat him with our oars, and shove his head back underwater. That\u2019s not what boats were made for. But some of us do that to each other.\u201d- Elder Holland, previously discussed here with more background. An approach or argument or data that one person finds helpful, another may not; I suspect that what nearly everyone needs is just someone \u201csafe\u201d to talk to and emotional support.\nCan we offer that to our brothers and sisters in Christ?\n\u2190 Thanking God\u2019s Advocates, the Promoters of the Cause\nAn Answer for Daniel Peterson \u2192\n51 comments for \u201cAn Offhand Apologia of Sorts, and some Reflections\u201d\nGreat stuff here, Ben. It\u2019s so useful to have a hopeful, faithful perspective that takes account of the evident imperfections.\n\u201cI\u2019m convinced it\u2019s ancient, but I\u2019m not about to ask anyone out of the Church who disagrees\u201d\nAn enlightened viewpoint. Thanks, Ben.\nAmen. Excellent on so many levels. Thank you.\nSteve- Elder Holland said as much in his PBS interview a few years back.\n[You say] there are stark choices in beliefs about the origins of the book. Explain why there\u2019s no middle way.\n\u2026 If someone can find something in the Book of Mormon, anything that they love or respond to or find dear, I applaud that and say more power to you. That\u2019s what I find, too. And that should not in any way discount somebody\u2019s liking a passage here or a passage there or the whole idea of the book, but not agreeing to its origin, its divinity. \u2026\nI think you\u2019d be as aware as I am that that we have many people who are members of the church who do not have some burning conviction as to its origins, who have some other feeling about it that is not as committed to foundational statements and the premises of Mormonism. But we\u2019re not going to invite somebody out of the church over that any more than we would anything else about degrees of belief or steps of hope or steps of conviction. \u2026 We would say: \u201cThis is the way I see it, and this is the faith I have; this is the foundation on which I\u2019m going forward. If I can help you work toward that I\u2019d be glad to, but I don\u2019t love you less; I don\u2019t distance you more; I don\u2019t say you\u2019re unacceptable to me as a person or even as a Latter-day Saint if you can\u2019t make that step or move to the beat of that drum.\u201d \u2026 We really don\u2019t want to sound smug. We don\u2019t want to seem uncompromising and insensitive.\n\u2026 There are some things we can\u2019t give away. There are some foundational stones. If you don\u2019t have those, you don\u2019t have anything. So the First Vision, the Book of Mormon, those are pretty basic things. \u2026\nBen, Elder Holland\u2019s quote from the PBS show is an interesting contrast to his recent conference talk on the Book of Mormon. Not saying that it\u2019s substantively inconsistent, but the difference in tone is stark.\nBen, like Steve, I appreciate what you expressed. But in response to #5, if I tell my bishop that the Book of Mormon isn\u2019t historical and that there never were ancient plates (even if I never share that opinion with other members), I\u2019m very likely going to lose my recommend and get released from my calling.\nIt\u2019s nice that Elder Holland said what he did in a PBS interview, but my local leaders probably never heard that. They did hear his 2010 talk where he says members who accept non-historical origins of the BofM have been \u201cdeceived\u201d and such explanations are \u201cfrankly pathetic\u201d. It\u2019s a little hard to square that with, \u201cI don\u2019t say you\u2019re unacceptable to me as a person or even as a Latter-day Saint if you can\u2019t make that step or move to the beat of that drum.\u201d\nJust trying to point out that the institution is not as generous as you are with regards to which faith claims members choose to accept.\nJust to clarify, I\u2019m not making the claim that belief and non-belief in a historical Book of Mormon are completely equivalent or should be treated as such, and I don\u2019t think Holland was either. But non-belief is not by itself a deal-breaker for membership or activity. That said, and acknowledging the limitations of personal experience, rejection of all Book of Mormon historicity tends to act as the initial cascade of rejection of other foundational LDS beliefs. In every case but one I have known is that true. In short, while I welcome them (and others) to stay, that welcome doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re going to cease making the best arguments we can about the best reading and context and coming forth of the Book of Mormon, as well as its spiritual value.\nI would agree with Elder Holland that the alternate theories (Joseph wrote it himself, collaborated with Sidney Rigdon, stole the manuscript from someone, or simply cut and pasted from his large personal library) are highly problematic. Holland is passionate, and given to expressing his views strongly. (Check out his CES talk on the Book of Mormon back in 1994. Between his invite, and his actual delivery, he was called as an Apostle.)\n\u201cthe difference in tone is stark.\u201d I suppose in General Conference he is preaching to the choir, as it were. Or perhaps not, who can say?\nmtnmarty\nBen S.,\nI pay attention to the relative mix of entities used by people talk when they talk and behave. There are 2-part models agents and objects, 3-part models, God, Man and World, and so on. Everyone is a unique case, but most LDS can fit into a rough God, Satan, Person, and World.\nTwo fault lines where things seem to be shifting to me are how people use Satan as an explanation relative to people and institutions outside the church and how they use World versus person inside the church.\nFor example, a growing group of LDS people seem less comfortable describing people outside the church as being under the force and direction of (or at least more influenced than average) by Satan. By no means all members \u2013 many are still comfortable saying Obama is the devil\u2019s servant or Muslims or advertisers or the world government group of choice (UN, CFR, Rockefeller). But some members are more likely to think we are all subject to similar forces and less likely to assume other institutions are wrong, deluded or evil.\nMost people are not completely honest with others about where they fall on the (Others-evil, others-good) spectrum because the stakes are pretty high in telling a fellow ward member \u201cYou are evil\u201d or \u201cYou are nuts\u201d.\nThe second fault line is more of an internal fault line in terms of the description of the causes of the choices of people. One could use mental illness, addiction, genetics, education, culture as cases where what might have been described as a choice, a sin and a consequence and changed by the usual methods to modify those, are now open to being described as something to be under stood as less under one\u2019s own choice and more under the influence of the body in ways that can be changed by drugs or other bodily treatment or education, secular style.\nSo, the long set up is to ask the question of where your approach is a sensible recognition of the uncertainty we have about the world, the diversity of approaches and not having a need to draw distinctions and when is it operating in a vague way with multiple views of the world and avoiding examining cases or situations that\nwould require a choice between them.\nIt all reminds me a bit of the perspective of the Arab world to 9/11 where the same person would say \u201cIts a CIA conspiracy and we had nothing to do with it\u201d and then \u201cWe really gvae the USA what it had coming and showed what we can do.\u201d Is it really epistemological/scientific solipsism to think this way of thinking is committing dishonesty by contradiction?\nWhen you say \u201chis hand touches it\u201d or \u201cGod can and does speak to prophets\u201d are you being a poet or do you think the touch is material and the speech is audible?\nAre you just saying that the strongest testimonies are those that realize that the church is a story or a poem or a myth where words can mean whatever we want them to mean or are you saying something else?\nDo you really not need to take a stand between say, Distant Observer, who thinks atheistic science is a conspiracy and that BYU is being corrupted and those like myself who think what we observe about the world tells us as much about what God is as does our conscience and our feelings?\nThe problem with the middle way, is that despite our desire to get along, compromise is not a good approach to truth. Half-wrong ain\u2019t right.\nChange is afoot. The game is on. The middle way will be tugged more than it has been tugged before. There is nowhere to hide. Makes me proud to be a Latter Day Saint!\nDave R:\nIf one conclusively claims that the \u201cBook of Mormon isn\u2019t historical and that there never were ancient plates\u201d I\u2019d expect the Bishop to release that personal from their calling to protect both the claimant and vulnerable individuals within the congregation. For example, if someone taught that as a teacher, they\u2019d be accused of promulgating false doctrine. Hardly an atmosphere for spiritual growth!\nBut if one simply confides to their Bishop that they personally doubt the historicity of the book and plates, I believe that is a different matter. The difference is that the person has not shut the door on revelation and learning. They still have the courage and potential to doubt their doubts.\nThank you Ben. As more church members find themselves adift offshore, members such as yourself, who have already ridden through those waters several times, are becoming a critical resource.\nAnd speaking of flexibility, I\u2019m quite impressed that you used both spellings of grey/gray in the same sentence.\nInteresting viewpoints, Ben. While there are certain core doctrines that senior leaders are very unlikely to soft pedal, there are also many policies, practices, and pedagogical conventions that are subject to change and adjustment. I suspect many of those changes are made on a more or less utilitarian basis: will this change bless or benefit more people than it troubles or inconveniences? Things that now seem so fixed (the three-hour block, offices in the priesthood, what women can do in church, eternal gender roles) actually vary quite a bit within the Church over the years.\nAs 1890 and 1978 remind us, pretty much everything is on the table. In the year 2114, Sunday at an LDS chapel might see a female bishop teaching the gay temple marriage prep class during the optional second hour.\nThere is much to admire and agree with in this post.\nI do think being comfortable with contradiction, ambiguity, and gray helps a lot but it\u2019s important to remember that the church in general and specifically President Hinckley who is sustained as a prophet, seer and revelator sells it as black and white truth or fraud! And this black and white simplicity is embraced by many who willingly become like little children and follow the prophet. In this case the simple undeniable appearance of nuance can cause doubt.\nCould you provide a few examples of what you mean by; beat him with our oars, and shove his head back underwater? I don\u2019t recall anyone who shared they were struggling with faith or belief being brused or beaten but I do recall many handled gently. Are you proposing turning the openness of the bloggernacle into the web equivalent of correlated Sunday school?\n\u201d I\u2019m quite impressed that you used both spellings of grey/gray in the same sentence.\u201d Yes, well, consistency, hobgoblin, etc.\n\u201cAs 1890 and 1978 remind us, pretty much everything is on the table.\u201d I agree, although there is obviously a wide spectrum of things likely to change and unlikely to change. I\u2019ve got a handout that I\u2019ve used in classes that tries to distinguish between core principles and periphery, emphasizing change.\n\u201cPresident Hinckley\u2026 sells it as black and white truth or fraud\u201d As I recall, he was speaking specifically of the Book of Mormon, no?\n\u201cbeat him with our oars, and shove his head back underwater\u201d There are plenty of stories of struggling people who don\u2019t find the support they need. Whether they encounter a Bishop who accuses them of apostasy for asking questions, or just don\u2019t ever encounter the right bit of information (and I know that has been the case at times), the rest of us can actively and/or passively \u201cbeat them with our oars, and shove their head back underwater.\u201d\nmtnmarty- I confess I don\u2019t entirely follow your comment, so I\u2019ll respond to the bits I do follow.\n\u201cAre you just saying that the strongest testimonies are those that realize that the church is a story or a poem or a myth where words can mean whatever we want them to mean\u201d\nNot at all. I think the most resilient testimonies are those that have placed their faith in the center where it ought to be, and are capable of absorbing and adapting to new information. Instead of being \u201cstrong\u201d in the sense of rigid, they are strong in the sense of being deeply rooted, and being able to bend in the wind, until the storm passes. Rigid trees just snap. The most resilient faith can distinguish between core and periphery, survive ambiguity, contradiction, and unanswered questions, and draws fuzzy overlapping Venn diagrams between truth, doctrine, policy, tradition, and culture instead of conflating them all into one giant Gospel.\n\u201cThe problem with the middle way, is that despite our desire to get along, compromise is not a good approach to truth.\u201d I\u2019m not sure who you think I\u2019m compromising with. Here\u2019s fuller exposition of the two examples I used. Protestant fundamentalists (of which there are some inroads among LDS) posit a duality in which you must believe everything is a history or you lack faith and reject the authority of scripture entirely. At its extreme, this results in young earth creationists, etc. I reject that duality.\nWith scientific solipsism, you get people who believe in strict materialism, that nothing can be known except what science proves. They also are extremely black-and-white. I reject that duality as well, though I grant that this is a bit further outside my comfort zone of knowledge. I\u2019m not a philosopher, whether of science or otherwise. But I\u2019ve seen many LDS wander down that path.\nAs Richard Bushman has described, there\u2019s a certain kind of black-white \u201cpersonality\u201d, that is extremely committed but also rigid. If something breaks that rigidity, they remain black-and-white, they just flip to the other side. Instead of the Gospel being so amazing all the time with no problems ever, it becomes an evil corporation that can do little good at all.\nBen, excellent post. Low expectations, the key to happiness.\nInteresting that you\u2019ve seen an uptick in struggling testimonies sequel to the new Gospel Topics(and bless you for corresponding patiently with them). I wondered a bit about the viability of the \u201cinnoculation\u201d approach in my recent Dialogue review. In general I think it\u2019s the right way to go, and it\u2019s certainly how I\u2019m raising my kids, but I think there are bound to be real human costs. I wonder, in the end, if the only metric is bodies in church (which, of course, isn\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be the only metric) whether innoculation will be successful in retaining members.\nNancy Browne\nI\u2019d like to offer my new book as a resource for Church members who need a little more meat on the bone\u2013something they can see and touch\u2013to bolster their faith. It is called \u201cHelp Thou Mine Unbelief: Scientific, Historical, and Spiritual Evidence of God,\u201d which is available on both the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. It looks at all three phenomena to answer theological questions about the reality of God. The book examines the science of divine creation and God-centered evolution as acceptable individual beliefs within the parameters of the Church. Neurophysiology reveals the brain as a conduit for visions, dreams, and after-death communications. Prayer, revelation, and miracles are shown to partner with science, while near-death experiences from people all over the world provide evidence of an afterlife with God. History is used to explain why there are so many religions. It also investigates the figurative and literal nature of scripture stories and explains why remnants of these stories are found in many cultures. The use of symbolism in LDS temple ceremonies is examined, along with confirmation that such rituals existed throughout history. A look at evil and tragedy rounds out this literary journey, culminating in psychological evidence that suggests that mankind is the offspring of God. LDS leaders and educators weigh in alongside scholars and scientists in the book.\nIt is hard for me not to be hard to follow when I\u2019m trying to aggregate many different worldviews. Rosalynde brought up inoculation and I will try an example down that path.\nLet\u2019s say a older child asks you why people some people go to the Catholic church and some the LDS and some not at all.\nWhat goes into the most accurate explanation? Tradition, faith, self-interest, etc. all factor into that explanation. If one uses a different methodology to explain why LDS people are LDS than for others, then one may not have inoculated one\u2019s children to say, sociological explanation of their faith. However, if if there is not some difference in the explanation, involving, \u201cbecause gave us a witness\u201d or \u201cbecause its true\u201d or whatever else, then it seems hard to think you are presenting the LDS story the way the LDS tell it.\nIs losing faith in Allah, coming closer to the truth or receding farther from it?\nWhat is really \u201ccore\u201d to a person\u2019s belief is what standard of evidence for truth they pass along to their children.\nIs it follow your conscience, follow the scriptures, follow the prophet, follow the money, follow your family, follow what I say, follow the majority, follow the wisest, follow the most spiritual or any mix of these?\nFor me, the issue is that it is problematic to apply a different evidentiary standard to other traditions than one does to one\u2019s own. But does one really want to tell one\u2019s children to read and pray about every text they come across to determine its truth?\nBen S wrote: As I recall, he was speaking specifically of the Book of Mormon, no?\nNo, not just the BoM.\nPresident Hinckley:\nWell, it\u2019s either true or false. If it\u2019s false, we\u2019re engaged in a great fraud. If it\u2019s true, it\u2019s the most important thing in the world. Now, that\u2019s the whole picture. It is either right or wrong, true or false, fraudulent or true. And that\u2019s exactly where we stand, with a conviction in our hearts that it is true: that Joseph went into the [Sacred] Grove; that he saw the Father and the Son; that he talked with them; that Moroni came; that the Book of Mormon was translated from the plates; that the priesthood was restored by those who held it anciently. That\u2019s our claim. That\u2019s where we stand, and that\u2019s where we fall, if we fall. But we don\u2019t. We just stand secure in that faith.\nIt\u2019s problematic. Sure in retrospect it can be spun into an (unconvincing) apologtic but it was apparently offered literally as black and white and the first problem is if he God\u2019s spokesman, God doesn\u2019t understand nuance? The second problem is what does it mean to someone\u2019s black and white testimony when they encounter middle ground that the prophet claims doesn\u2019t exist? It was NOT a forward thinking statement.\nSo we have many direct contradictions of prophet statements. The 1949 First Presidency statement about blacks and statements by Brigham Young once made with authority and certitude are now disavowed.\nIf you truly want to keep your testimony I think you must follow the spirit not the prophet. The prophets have undermined testimony.\nIf personal spiritual experiences are declared invalid by someone, there is no real dancing around that. That is THE reason.\nCameron N.,\nWho is doing the invalid declaration and who can\u2019t dance around it and THE reason for what?\nThe Church doesn\u2019t give answers because there aren\u2019t any good ones plain and simple. Otherwise today\u2019s questions, which are the same ones facing the Church since the 1800\u2019s, would have been answered many, many years ago.\nAlso, and more troubling, the Church is only making the inadequate efforts at responding to questions today because it is forced to due to people learning about the issues on the internet. Otherwise we would still be in the obfuscate and intimidate atmosphere of the 90\u2019s.\nI\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t use the word doubt anymore because I now have certainty of the matter. I tested the question of historicity by study and faith over several years. I still consider it to be scripture of equal worth to the Bible. But if you ask whether the BofM is historical, and are only willing to accept one answer, you haven\u2019t really asked the question at all.\nAlso, to your concern, I\u2019ve served in a bishopric, a YM presidency, and had two Sunday School callings and never shared my views on the BofM\u2019s origins.\nI do think your assessment of historicity is firmly in the majority. If your bishop or stake president learn you reject BofM or BofA historicity, you\u2019ll be marginalized and pushed out.\n\u2026you\u2019ll be marginalized and pushed out. Not thrown a life preserver?\nThanks, Ben. I think that\u2019s a great articulation of how to stay active and believing in the Church, and how to best help our fellow-Saints: by accepting ambiguity. And it\u2019s hard, and not limited to religion: by and large, my law students crave a bright-line answer, and when the best I can give them is ambiguity, that\u2019s not necessarily comfortable. But when they can accept ambiguity and use their experience to make the best judgment possible, that\u2019s when they\u2019re ready to be attorneys. Similarly, I think, when we can accept ambiguity and make the best judgments we can, we\u2019re ready to wade into the messiness that is life.\nIf the glove doesn\u2019t fit, you must acquit!\nDave, optional second hour? Yeah, right. That\u2019ll be the day!\nThe answer is that J.S. made it up? Is that what we need to confront?\nMtnmarty: \u201cIs losing faith in Allah, coming closer to the truth or receding farther from it?\u201d\nI get what you\u2019re trying to say, but Arabic-speaking non-Mormon Christians and any Mormons who might happen to speak (or pray) in Arabic (as well as Muslims) also have faith in Allah. Allah is simply the Arabic word used for \u201cGod.\u201d\nTo your broader point, it depends: If I think Allah has commanded me to destroy infidels (along with some believers, but hey, if you\u2019re going to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs; what\u2019s a little collateral damage, right?) by flying planes full of passengers into buildings full of inhabitants, then I would have to say losing faith in Allah is, at least in a roundabout way, coming closer to the truth. On the other hand, if I think Allah has commanded me to love my neighbor, live the Golden Rule (although it might not be called that in Islam), give alms to the poor, and so on, losing faith in Him might not be such a good thing.\nMe? I think Allah revealed the Book of Mormon (and a bunch of other cool stuff) to Joseph Smith, as well as to all of his successors in what has become what might be called \u201cmain-branch\u201d Mormonism. As for what \u201cstandard of evidence\u201d I might pass along to my children (I don\u2019t have any, and probably never will \u2013 children, that is; not evidence! ;-D). But I\u2019m not exactly sure what you mean when you use that term. Does such evidence have to hold up in a court of law? In a civil case? In an administrative proceeding? In a criminal case? In a lab? Somewhere else?\nI might teach my child that God tends to speak to all of us in ways we can understand. (A child might understand that even better than I do: \u201cOut of the mouths of babes. . . .\u201d) I certainly wouldn\u2019t teach my child that God gives me/us (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) bread, fruit, and fish when we ask for them while giving everyone else stones, thorns, thistles, and serpents \u2013 or stones that at least seem somewhat like bread, or thorns and thistles that at least seem like fruit, or serpents that at least seem like fish. Bread is bread, fruit is fruit, and fish is fish \u2013 period.\nI would teach my child the truths of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ because I have a firm testimony that that\u2019s the best way to get \u201can hundredfold\u201d harvest, but I would also teach him that we also ought not be too provincial in our possession of truth, nor ought we to look down our noses at someone else\u2019s sixtyfold or thirtyfold. I would teach him that, at the pearly gates, God isn\u2019t going to tell faithful adherents of other religions who responded to the light they were given, \u201cOooh, sorry! You were mostly wrong,\u201d and press the buttoI n for the trap door that leads straight to hell (or to the Terrestrial or Telestial Kingdom, or to Outer Darkness). I think He\u2019ll say, \u201cCongratulations! You were mostly right. Here are some other things you might want to consider. . . .\u201d Otherwise, that whole \u201cordinances on behalf of the dead\u201d thing is kinda superfluous.\nAnd if, despite my best efforts, my child eventually were to opt for a different path, I would wish him happiness, and would reinforce anything positive I saw in that new path: if I saw anything outright dangerous or destructive about it, I couldn\u2019t still love my child and remain silent about those destructive dangers. (To say that God would still give my child bread, fruit, and fish if he were to opt for a different faith path is not to say that there\u2019s no difference between Thomas S. Monson and The People\u2019s Temple\u2019s Jim Jones.) Either way, I would do my best to employ the counsel of Doctrine and Covenants 121.\nI have to agree with Dave R. What Elder Holland said in the PBS interview is quite a contrast (maybe not necessarily a contradiction, but a stark contrast in tone nonetheless) from what he said in the October 2009 conference: \u201cIf anyone is foolish enough or misled enough to reject 531 pages of a heretofore unknown text teeming with literary and Semitic complexity without honestly attempting to account for the origin of those pages\u2014especially without accounting for their powerful witness of Jesus Christ and the profound spiritual impact that witness has had on what is now tens of millions of readers\u2014if that is the case, then such a person, elect or otherwise, has been deceived.\u201d\nAs for that CES talk in 1994, Elder Holland equates people who believe that JS was hallucinating to Flat Earthers: \u201cAnd let\u2019s not have any of the embarrassingly silly pap we have heard from some recently about Joseph earnestly \u201cthinking\u201d he saw an angel and \u201cimagining\u201d he translated from a set of gold plates. Excuse me if I am speechless\u2013absolutely, totally, and bewilderingly incredulous\u2013at such a comment. Is that really said with a straight face? If so, I think we have another candidate for the Flat Earth Society! That whole suggestion simply adds insult to infamy.\u201d\nThere is a culture in the LDS church, which emanates from the upper echelons of leadership, of treating doubters and naysayers like blind fools who must be browbeaten into submission, not just people who have a different opinion who some disagree with because of x, y, and z.\nKen, that is true in the case of Allah that Arabic-speaking Christians (including a very small number of Arabic-speaking Mormons) use the term Allah to refer to God. But take what mtnmarty was saying and substitute Allah with Vishnu, Juju, or Zeus. We\u2019re all atheists, doubters, and unbelievers towards most gods and concepts of god.\nSteve Smith puts it well \u201d We\u2019re all atheists, doubters, and unbelievers towards most gods and concepts of god.\u201d\nI don\u2019t think Allah translates to the same word God that the LDS use. You can see this if we ask each party to the translation the question does \u201cGod\u201d mean Jesus? Yes, for one group and no for the other.\nYou seem to be judging \u201cmostly right\u201d in terms of commandment keeping but if a big commandment is to have no other Gods, how do we determine \u201cmostly right\u201d from \u201cmostly wrong\u201d with respect to different Gods?\nThe world has always been a globe but we are traveling the globe faster and more often and in more ways. The difference in beliefs and values between people and groups to me is obvious, extreme and unavoidable. Conflict over values happens all the time. Religions change, morals change, politics change. A lot and everywhere.\nWhether its Syria or Irag or Ukraine or the US Supreme Court or Greece or the new pope or Ordain Women or The Proclamation on the Family things are always changing in our moral understanding and practice.\nThis fact alone doesn\u2019t lead me to any conclusions about what moral position to take other than the Howard\u2019s and Steve Smith\u2019s of the past and future will always have the Old Man\u2019s and Alison Moore Smith\u2019s of the past and future to engage and vice versa, but what they oppose each other about will change.\nThe LDS church is interesting in that it has the formal tools to adapt to changing circumstances (ongoing revelation) but as a matter of practice and membership it currently defending a position of wanting to slow down or redirect change in many areas. Cool!\nThank you for taking the time and effort to post your thoughts. They\u2019re much appreciated.\nI\u2019ve found another reason to accept ambiguity on topics of faith is my family relationships. While I have my own leanings on various topics, those I love come to their own conclusions. I find meaning in giving those I love every benefit of the doubt. Regardless of my own conclusions, I can be a supportive spouse, father, son, and brother.\nI\u2019ve found that this strategy only works with a robust sense of humor. Your mileage may vary.\nOops. Forgot to follow the discussion. Sorry.\n\u201cI\u2019ve found that this strategy only works with a robust sense of humor.\u201d\nIts amazing to me how apt people\u2019s names often are to their outlook \u2013 Josh.\n\u2026but what they oppose each other about will change.\nI disagree mtnmarty. I think we are experiencing a paradigm shift, an earthquake that is long overdue largely because the church is so resistant to and intolerant of smaller incremental changes as people and society move forward by becoming more enlightened. But this discussion/debate/disagreement won\u2019t last forever though it may reoccur in the future with different players nor is it just about never ending philosophical differences or who\u2019s right or wrong. I think it\u2019s more about who you tend to represent the orthodox, or those who feel marginalized by the orthodox. I see the discussion as a healthy search for homeostasis, when the orthodox become to literal and/or pharisaical for it\u2019s audience the future of the church is threatened and when the heterodox are running the church it ceases to exist in it\u2019s original meaning. So I think the debate is about finding a healthy mix.\nI often appreciate the perspective and sentiment of Old Man\u2019s comments and I greatly respect and often agree with much of the typically intelligent content of Alison Moore Smith\u2019s comments.\nMy goals are really pretty simple; greater awareness for all, a bigger tent, greater spirituality and less required (ridiculously) literal belief that causes so much dissonance for so many. While there is a bit of disagreement in the spirituality question the bigger issue by far is about allowing a bigger tent, bigger in which direction and by how much? But the tent is already three times too small just to house all those alive who have already been baptized and it is at least several sizes too small just to comfortably house those sitting in the pews each Sunday without considerable unnecessary dissonance as evidenced by the popularity of the bloggernacle in discussing or working out this discomfort and also evidenced by those who are currently in faith crisis or leaving or left!\nHoward,,\nI disagree mtnmarty.\nWell at least you are disagreeing with someone\u2026me. While we are on that, I don\u2019t think much or even most of the change in society is \u201cmoving forward\u201d or \u201cenlightened\u201d.\nI\u2019d like beliefs and revelation to be more literal. Otherwise, things are just meaningless words.\nBtw both sides of this issue are easily seen in this OP and thread, Ben S. is understandably asking bloggers to be genital with those in faith crisis while Dave R points out If your bishop or stake president learn you reject BofM or BofA historicity, you\u2019ll be marginalized and pushed out. Is this throwing them the life preserver Ben is advocating? Obviously not. So while the orthodox plead for mercy on the bloggernacle they tolerate this pushing out by leadership and active members, in Old Man\u2019s words:\nThe thing that is ignored or easily forgotten or perhaps conveniently forgotten by the orthodox is that yesterday\u2019s TBM\u2019s are often become today\u2019s heterodox. There but for the grace of God go I. But it isn\u2019t seen that way instead once a member in faith crisis begins critically questioning they are marginalized and pushed out. Worse sometimes labeled anti-Mormons. Yet they are the same brothers and sisters who sat through the 3 hour block with you week after week, year after year and the church still claims them in the membership records when it proudly proclaims 15 million members! Wouldn\u2019t be better for all if we just made a little more room for them?\nI don\u2019t think much or even most of the change in society is \u201cmoving forward\u201d or \u201cenlightened\u201d Perhaps not but secular enlightenment in the form of the civil rights movement sent the brethren to enlightenment school and to their knees finally resulting in the correction of past prophets, doctrine and policy.\nI thought I was the king of typos and Freudian slips but your\u2019s was just too good.\n\u201c\u2026is understandably asking bloggers to be genital with those in faith crisis..\u201d\nTalk about a kick to the crotch!\nHoward Dirkson\nThanks for this, Ben. Really great discussion here on some real nitty gritty topics.\nI have very little time to check in on the thread, so discuss like calm, thoughtful adults lest we bring out the ban hammer\u2026\nAnd thanks for the comments, all. Many of these are understandably the result of me sending off an email without careful editing, and it\u2019s obvious many things in it can be taken multiple ways.\nRegarding disbelief I think people are equating several different positions. There may be people with doubts who don\u2019t try and push such doubts on others. There then are people with doubts who do try and push them. (And of course a range between the extremes) It seems incorrect to treat both as the same.\nWhile I am thankfully not a Bishop I have to admit that were I one I\u2019d think twice about calling someone as a teacher who had huge doubts about scripture. I\u2019m not saying I wouldn\u2019t call them, but I think the spirit would have to give some pretty clear prompts and perhaps explanations before I did so. There\u2019s nothing wrong with having doubts but I think it unfair to treat all doubts the same \u2013 especially about core doctrines. (I\u2019d add that I feel the same way about questionable doctrines \u2013 it\u2019s one thing if you keep them to yourself but quite an other if you are propagating them)\nCertainly the brethren are fallible. That seems a part of our doctrine. However I think they deserve the benefit of doubt \u2013 and often people move from the fallibilist position into the \u201creject them out of hand\u201d position. Especially if they contradict or personal beliefs. However we can\u2019t just play the \u201cfollow the spirit\u201d card either since of course we\u2019re each individually probably far more fallible than the brethren are. At least I suspect I\u2019d trust Elder Oak\u2019s ability to discern spiritual guidance more than my own. So it seems we\u2019re quick to play the fallibilsm card for our leaders and slow to play it for ourselves.\nThe reality is acknowledging our weakness while looking at the many forms of guidance the Lord has given me. (I like the model of the three legs of a chair: personal revelation, the brethren, scripture and I\u2019d probably add a fourth leg of common sense) Of course that is itself an oversimplification. Just that I worry people reject the brethren too quickly.\nWell thought out and well said Clark!\nThere may be people with doubts who don\u2019t try and push such doubts on others. There then are people with doubts who do try and push them.\nSure and others still who reach out to those around them to not feel alone suffering in silence which they are encouraged even expected to do by the church and many of it\u2019s members. That marginalization is isolating, painful and can also be somewhat crazy making as is some of the literal truth claims one must set aside logic in order to pledge allegiance to in order to remain in good standing.\nSteve Smith: Ken, that is true in the case of Allah that Arabic-speaking Christians (including a very small number of Arabic-speaking Mormons) use the term Allah to refer to God. But take what mtnmarty was saying and substitute Allah with Vishnu, Juju, or Zeus. We\u2019re all atheists, doubters, and unbelievers towards most gods and concepts of god.\nI get your point, but I\u2019m not sure about your illustrative examples. I\u2019m not sure how many believers in Zeus are left on the planet. From what little I know of Juju, it\u2019s a concept rather than a deity (similar to, e.g., \u201ckarma\u201d). As for Vishnu, are there any concepts in Hinduism that accord with Christianity, and do any Hindus have the light of Christ? I know very little about Hinduism, but I\u2019ll go waaaaay out on a limb and say that the answer to both of those questions is, \u201cYes.\u201d If that is so, then, \u201cWhere much is given, much is required,\u201d and conversely, where comparatively little is given, comparatively little is required. If I, having been given, comparatively, a greater amount of light, sin against that light, I will also receive a greater condemnation than would someone who sins against a lesser light.\nI totally agree that we ought to be slow to emphasize fallibility with the brethren and quick to recognize it in ourselves. But I think I come at that position a little differently than you do. You suggest that the brethren are less fallible and more able to discern the spirit than a given latter-day saint who is not in a leadership position. It\u2019s not clear whether you make this suggestion based on the assumption that the brethren are more righteous than the average saint, or whether you assume that it is the calling itself that gives special access to the spirit. Both assumptions, in my view, are problematic. Certainly the brethren have more administrative authority over the church, but they have no more special access to the spirit than any righteous saint who has the gift of the holy ghost. I agree with you that we ought to \u201cdoubt our doubts\u201d about what the brethren say before we doubt the brethren, and we should recognize our own fallibility and the possibility that the brethren are more in tune with the spirit than we are on a given issue, but I think we should do so because that is what it means to have charity and humility, not because the brethren are less fallible than we are. I believe that we are all equally fallible.\nMtnmarty: \u201cYou seem to be judging \u2018mostly right\u2019 in terms of commandment keeping but if a big commandment is to have no other Gods, how do we determine \u2018mostly right\u2019 from \u2018mostly wrong\u2019 with respect to different Gods?\u201d\nHmmm. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m doing that. At least, I\u2019m not certain it was my intent: I think it\u2019s more useful (and I thought I made this pretty clear in my previous post; if not, I certainly apologize) to \u201cequate\u201d \u201cmostly right\u201d to \u201camount of light responded to\u201d (my phrase), or, in other words, how well people live according to what light they\u2019ve been given. More of my thoughts on the matter can be found here (I\u2019ve never posted a link in this forum \u2013 I hope this works):\nhttp://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/toward-interreligious-oneness/\nAs for worshiping the Wrong God, I trust that Christ is more than capable of rectifying that in due time: \u201cEvery knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ.\u201d As much as I love missionary work and am willing to speak with anyone willing to listen about the Good Fruit the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ has borne in my life, I think I\u2019ll leave the \u201cevery knee . . . bow[ing] and every tongue confess[ing]\u201d part up to Christ to accomplish on His timetable, rather than presuming that He should accomplish it on mine or anyone else\u2019s.\nMtnmarty: \u201cWhether its Syria or Irag or Ukraine or the US Supreme Court or Greece or the new pope or Ordain Women or The Proclamation on the Family things are always changing in our moral understanding and practice.\u201d\nOh, I\u2019m all for the concept of continuing revelation. Still (although to each, his or her own) it seems to me that the Proclamation on the Family was an attempt to articulate timeless principles rather than changeable ones. (There certainly is a strain of thought in the Church that, one day, there will be an \u201cOD \u2013 3\u201d with respect to marriage, along with at least one \u201cForget everything that I have said \u2026\u201d pronouncement from the Elder McConkie(s) of that era. As much as I don\u2019t want to circumscribe continuing revelation, I don\u2019t see that happening myself, but again, to each, his or her own).\nI don\u2019t know if I agree totally with everything you dashed off here, but for five spontaneous minutes its pretty good.\nThis part touched me:\nI stay because my expectations are such that they are rarely violated, because (and I\u2019ve said little about this because you hinted that it was irrelevant) my own experiences have led me to believe that God exists, that he set this Church in motion, that his hand touches it in unique ways, and its core truth claims are true.\nYour faith shines through.\nOne of the best blog posts I have read.\nIn earlier years when Mormons were secluded geographically and culturally, historical fundamentalism served a worldview born from an authentic pioneering spirit (manifest destiny), hard work, persecution, and much loss. This had a huge upside, for it organized a people around high ideals in very hard circumstances.\nThe world has gotten smaller through mass media and the internet; poly-culturalism is now common, and people can see not only the great many beliefs of religions past and present, but their historical rise as well. Further, they can discover the commonalities of doctrines and ideas throughout culture and religion. They can also discover the historical context of scripture, which often is a refutation of most of their traditions. If they are astute, they can also see that a great many people of all faiths have access to the gifts of the Spirit.\nIf people believe that they are the only ones who have the \u201cwhole truth,\u201d have the only legitimate claim to the Spirit and its gifts, and view their history as a linear course of triumphant saints led by perfect revelation, doctrine, and processes of history where God has his hands on all of the controls, including all the persecutions and sins in and outside of the Church, then this new poly-cultural, mass media world presents a high tension between old tradition held as doctrine and an enormous amount of data which contradicts that tradition.\nMany people get more rigid. Some people blame Satan. Some seem to be flexible, and can hold ambiguity and paradox. Others are loosing their faith because what they have been taught contradicts what they are learning.\nI know people in all of these groups. I find it sad that the first people on this list accuse the last people as being less faithful and deceived by every wind of doctrine. For many, there is a legitimate existential crisis of faith. We do not like holding ambiguity and paradox\u2013no one does. Look at our political world to see just how rampant ideological fundamentalism has become. Still, for sincere seekers of truth who can no longer balance the absolutes they have been taught all their lives with the complex nuances of history and faith, there is crisis.\nAdditionally there is another problem, and I think this is a very big problem in Utah Mormon culture; the gospel is often taught as a First World gospel. People talk about the Spirit as if it were a warm fuzzy machine; they speak of challenges that are glib\u2013trials of faith that involve road rage and cold casseroles; righteous disdain for legitimate difference, etc. This is often combined with alarmingly universal statements about \u201cEveryone must forgive or the sin is in him,\u201d or \u201cEverything happens for a reason,\u201d to \u201cBe very grateful for your trials that God has given you,\u201d and \u201cGod will never give you a trial you cannot handle.\u201d\nThe problem is I know people who have been raped, molested, discarded, ostracized, and have had great things stolen from them\u2013all by their fellow Mormons. These wounds of the soul cannot be treated by platitudes, no matter how sincerely or zealously given. I often wonder how our doctrines, as I hear them, would be understood by someone who had lived through Auschwitz, or a little girl sold into prostitution by her own parents in Bangladesh? Doctrine that provides First World solutions to Third World problems (speaking of the spiritual world) can only be platitudes. To think that such problems do not exist in Utah (or anywhere else) is an ignorance that is dangerous.\nThis has been my struggle of faith. Sometimes, when I go to Church, I feel like a stranger in a strange land. I know that these people that I serve with are good and well intended. But admittedly, if these are the real problems they are dealing with than they do not need a Church, but a bowl of ice cream and a warm hug. And often I feel as if my culture has become just that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 57690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/male-club-spoils-sexual-chemistry-for-women/150463.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTKHV3UU774CNYDNYSFXOCEYE2LKYLQR", "length": 1188, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.timeshighereducation.com", "title": "'Male club' spoils sexual chemistry for women | Times Higher Education (THE)", "raw_content": "'Male club' spoils sexual chemistry for women\nA \"male club\" mentality in many university chemistry departments is one factor preventing women pursuing academic careers, according to a report published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.\nThe research reveals that in 1997, 37 per cent of chemistry undergraduates were women. This declined to 33 per cent of postgraduates, 16 per cent of staff and less than 1 per cent at the professorial level.\nThe research suggested that attitudes played a major role in persuading female chemists to abandon the field. Men felt chemistry was a \"hard-edged discipline not emotionally suited to women\", while women themselves tended to doubt their own ability and expected to be treated unfairly.\nIn addition, a lot were put off by the isolation of large departments with male-dominated socialising, aggressive competition between groups to publish results first and the long hours and poor conditions encountered in many laboratories.\n\"Women suggested that some chemistry departments function largely as a male club, with promotion depending more on an individual's fit with the current culture than on transparent assessment criteria,\" the report stated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/opinion/2018/01/19/u-s-becomes-leader-oil-production/1048266001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TKLX2VPNBQLSHKRPKPZK6JWQ3WZGRP52", "length": 2743, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.timesrecordnews.com", "title": "U.S. becomes leader in oil production", "raw_content": "U.S. becomes leader in oil production\nU.S. oil production is projected to reach 10 million barrels per day in 2018 and 11 million barrels per day in 2019\nU.S. becomes leader in oil production U.S. oil production is projected to reach 10 million barrels per day in 2018 and 11 million barrels per day in 2019 Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: http://wtrne.ws/2EWchhI\nAlex Mills, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers president(Photo11: TRN file photo)\nPresident Trump talks about an \u201cenergy renaissance\u201d in the United States. Recent news of increased oil and natural gas exports from the U.S. and production reaching historic levels have caught the attention of other world leaders, too.\nFatih Birol, executive director for the International Energy Agency (IEA), told attendees at a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. this week that the U.S. is becoming the \u201cundisputed leader\u201d in oil and gas production.\n\"The U.S. is becoming the undisputed leader of oil and gas production worldwide,\" Birol said.\nHe said the \"shale revolution\" has resulted in \"unprecedented\" increases in oil and natural gas production not seen since the increases witnessed in Saudi Arabia 50 years ago.\nU.S. oil production is projected to reach 10 million barrels per day in 2018 and 11 million barrels per day in 2019, according to a study released this week from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).\nBirol said he expects U.S. will become the largest exporter of natural gas by 2020, and China will be the biggest customer.\nThe rise in U.S. petroleum production has resulted in lower prices to consumers, a more reliable energy source by reducing dependence on foreign imports, and it enhances the U.S. economy.\nFour decades ago the U.S. faced two embargoes of oil from Middle Eastern countries, which resulted in rapidly rising energy prices, gasoline lines, double digit inflation, and an economy that was in deep trouble.\nFast forward to today\u2019s booming economy sparked by abundant, affordable, and reliable energy.\nOne recent example was the high demand for natural gas recently because of very cold weather that affected much of the eastern United States. EIA reported record natural gas withdrawals from storage fields around the country. Net withdrawals from natural gas storage totaled 359 billion cubic feet (Bcf) for the week ending Jan. 5, 2018, exceeding the previous record of 288 Bcf set four years ago.\nClearly, increased domestic production of oil and natural gas has earned the attention of leaders around the world.\nAlex Mills is President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. The opinions expressed are solely of the author.\nRead or Share this story: http://wtrne.ws/2EWchhI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 142.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tjhughes.co.uk/chenille-varied-stripe-cushion-p12934", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PLEN4VG2S2IFNFIIZQ4KCAA7UYIRCM35", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tjhughes.co.uk", "title": "Chenille Varied Stripe Cushion | TJ Hughes", "raw_content": "Code: 124/10/282/86 Terracotta", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 981, "original_length": 15862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 209.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/tupac-shakur-s-hummer-h1-sold-for-337-144-ar173330.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:R6AYB2SJS6QPX4YT45C7NEIMSGHEZ4WH", "length": 3028, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.topspeed.com", "title": "Tupac Shakur's Hummer H1 Sold For $337,144 | Top Speed", "raw_content": "Tupac Shakur\u2019s Hummer H1 Sold For $337,144\nCars News Hummer Hummer H1 Celebrity Auctions Utility vehicle\nThe famous rapper\u2019s ride is finally auctioned off\nTupac may have been killed in 1996, but he is still regarded as a legend in the rap community. That\u2019s probably why his Hummer H1 sold for such an exorbitant amount recently at auction. The 1996 model commanded $337,144 when the gavel fell, making it one of the more expensive H1s in existence.\nThe military turned civilian H1 fell into Tupac\u2019s mother\u2019s care after his death, after only two months of ownership by Tupac. Apparently, it was driven very little, having only 10,101 mile on the odometer when sold. Beside its low mileage, the H1 features plenty of extras, including off-road lights, a 360-degree spotlight, a grille guard, diamond-plate bumpers, an external PA system with three sirens, and a 12,000-pound winch.\nInside, the H1 sports burled wood with beige leather seats. A 12-disc CD changer and Sony GPS system are telltale signs of its mid-1990s origins. Of course, the interior also features power windows and door locks, and controls for the central tire inflation system. The CTIS offers the driver complete control over tire pressure from inside the cab, allowing him to air down when heading off road. After wheeling is done, an on-board air compressor allows for road-going tire pressure to be achieved \u2013 all by pushing a dash-mounted button.\nWhat\u2019s more, the H1 came with plenty of authenticity and memorabilia, including two copies of the vehicle\u2019s registration information listing Tupac as the original owner, a copy of the affidavit for transfer to his mother, and a license plate that reads \u201cYAKNPAK,\u201d reffering to the late rapper Yaki \u201dPrince\u201d Kadafi and Tupac. There\u2019s also promotional cassettes for Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller and 2Pac\u2019s All Eyez on Me.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible piece of hip-hop history that evokes the invincible spirit of one of rap\u2019s true lyrical giants,\u201d said Robert Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. \u201cWe are thrilled at the price achieved and with the continued success of our specialty themed auctions.\u201d\nThere\u2019s no word on who actually sold the H1, but we\u2019re assuming it was Tupac\u2019s mom, Afeni Shakur, is who put the vehicle up for auction.\nMini Electric Hummer Golf Cart minimizes the Hummer\u2019s greatest faults\nPink Power 3: The Pink Hummer Limo\nIt\u2019s amazing how much money people are willing to spend when it comes to celebrity memorabilia. Granted, the H1 is only growing in value these days, with pristine examples well exceeding $100,000. If we lean towards the conservative side, that means the buyer paid an additional $237,144 to have this particular H1.\nNevertheless, it\u2019s clear the buyer drove away with plenty to be proud of \u2013 a nearly brand new H1 with history to boot, and copied of promotional cassette tapes that are probably worth their weight in diamonds.\nModel View All Hummer H1 Hummer H2 Hummer H3 Hummer H4 Hummer H6 Hummer HX\nCars / News / Utility vehicle / Hummer / Hummer H1 / Auctions / Celebrity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trainwithpush.com/blog/3-game-changers-in-female-strength-training", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:51Z", "digest": "sha1:X2A5I2IYPCY3A4PVKLYINZWWP4YVEX3F", "length": 1536, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.trainwithpush.com", "title": "3 Game Changers in Female Strength Training // PUSH // Train With Purpose", "raw_content": "3 Game Changers in Female Strength Training\nIn honor of International Women\u2019s Day, we decided play tribute to a few notable names in women\u2019s weightlifting: a pioneer, a leader and a champion. The successes of these inspirational women prove lifting is no longer a 'men's sport'.\nThe Pioneer Regarded as a pioneer in women\u2019s weightlifting, Judy Glenney was an American National weightlifting Champion that paved the way for female strength trainers. After several years of unofficially competing with men, she lifted in the first official American national women\u2019s meet in 1981 and won gold the following year. Need some inspiration? Learn more about her story here.\nThe Leader Moira Lassen, mother of Yukon Olympic weightlifter Jeanne Lassen, was the first woman in 108 years to be elected to the International Weightlifting Federation Executive Board. She has dedicated her career to \u201ccontinually developing the sport of weightlifting on a global scale and engaging more girls and women to participate as athletes, coaches, officials and decision makers.\u201d\nThe Champion Crowned the \u2018Fittest Woman in the World\u2019, CrossFit athlete Samantha Briggs started CrossFit in 2009 and annihilated her competition in 2013 putting her on top of the leader board. With a background in soccer, triathlons and firefighting, Briggs proves women can be lean and powerful.\nTagged: athletes, crossfit, strength training, women's strength training\nNewer PostIntro to Strength Training for Runners (Part One)\nOlder PostWeak Links Explored: The Trunk (Part 1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trevortallcounselling.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YQTSGS2NGFMUPYOTCISVZNVSLUFMHVR7", "length": 997, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.trevortallcounselling.co.uk", "title": "Trevor Tall Counselling psychotherapy and couples counselling.", "raw_content": "If you are reading this there is a chance that you (or someone you know) may be experiencing some emotional difficulties. In my personal experience, counselling and psychotherapy can help with a wide range of problems related to life and living. Many of us don\u2019t know why we feel unhappy and sitting down with a trained therapist can help uncover the self-defeating patterns we may have stumbled into as a consequence of life\u2019s events.\nI understand that taking the step from thinking about counselling to actually starting it can feel daunting. I offer an initial meeting at no cost to have a chat about how we can best explore and alleviate your difficulties.\nI offer both short or long term counselling/therapy to individuals and couples in a safe and comfortable environment. I have worked with people through a broad range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, family issues, bereavement and various types of trauma.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tripmondo.com/italy/latium/province-of-rome/guidonia-montecelio/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:45Z", "digest": "sha1:G4LYLQOTRNJCZPYCCFSBNSPKEJZWJ6VD", "length": 1009, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tripmondo.com", "title": "Guide: Guidonia Montecelio (Latium, Province of Rome) in Italy | Tripmondo", "raw_content": "Guidonia Montecelio in Latium\nDelve into Guidonia Montecelio\nGuidonia Montecelio in Province of Rome (Latium) with it's 67,516 habitants is a town located in Italy about 13 mi (or 21 km) north-east of Rome, the country's capital town.\nTime in Guidonia Montecelio is now 01:22 AM (Saturday). The local timezone is named Europe / Rome with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 11 airports closer to Guidonia Montecelio, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in Italy is Ciampino Airport in a distance of 15 mi (or 24 km), South-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).\nSince you are here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Guidonia, Sant'Angelo Romano, Tivoli, Palombara Sabina and Marcellina. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.\nThese are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Guidonia Montecelio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 523, "original_length": 24171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tromblylaw.com/practice-areas/auto-accidents/bus-metro-accidents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:3Y3KIKHIEMRUMQ6UKSMUYYZZVODRMO45", "length": 3200, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.tromblylaw.com", "title": "Washington D.C. Mass Transit Accident Attorneys | Trombly & Singer", "raw_content": "Washington D.C. Mass Transit Accident Attorneys\nMass Transit Accident Attorneys in Washington D.C.\nMass transit is a wonderful option for commuters around the Washington, D.C. area. Utilized by millions of people, these mass transit options are still exposed to dangers. Metro cars, buses, and other public conveyances must be safely operated and maintained to prevent injury to riders. All operators should be properly trained. In regards to liability, municipalities are held to a high standard of care and may be held liable when injuries occur. If you or somebody you love was injured in a metro accident or the like, speak with a Washington DC bus accident attorney as soon as possible. You may be entitled to compensation for your injuries. Contact Trombly & Singer, PLLC.\nDC Metro and Bus Accident Injuries\nCities and counties operating transit systems are expected to maintain every facet of the mass transit system. Just as on any premises, hazards that cause slip or trip and fall accidents must be either clearly marked or eliminated in the station and at waiting areas. Serious personal injuries have regularly occured in stations, including waiting areas and elevators, and bus stops. Metro and bus accidents in the District can include catastrophic collisions and derailments. Crashes have occurred due to operators texting and mere carelessness. Closing doors have resulted in a shoulder, hand, and other injuries while sudden stops have caused passengers to fall or slam into walls. An experienced attorney can represent victims of personal injury or wrongful death caused by:\nPoorly maintained waiting areas\nWith roughly one million riders per day taking the metro alone, public transportation officials, including metro and bus personnel, have a duty to protect the safety of all riders. When that duty is breached, a Washington DC bus accident attorney can help you recover compensation.\nDamages in Metro and Bus Accident Claims\nAs a victim of a metro or bus accident in the District, you are entitled to bring a case for the following:\nAn experienced attorney can help you in calculating these amounts before filing your injury claim.\nRecovering Damages from a Municipality\nDepending on the facts of the case, you may need to take legal action against a government entity. A Notice of Claim must be submitted within 6 months of the incident. It must provide your information, date and time of the incident, the exact location of the incident, the cause of the injury or damage, the circumstances of the injury. The District will have the opportunity to investigate the matter and provide compensation. If the claim is denied or otherwise ignored, you may pursue further legal action.\nTrombly & Singer, PLLC | DC Bus Accident Lawyers\nIf you or a loved one was injured, contact Trombly & Singer, PLLC. We are focused on providing clients with effective legal services with a personal and human touch. A mass transit accident can end with terrible results. If you are injured in a mass transit accident, finding the liable party is complex. It is important to retain the services of a seasoned law firm. Contact Trombly & Singer, PLLC for a consultation to discuss your legal matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 8251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truenorthloghomes.com/why-true-north/digital-inventory-control/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VS54IIK24FMZKLZJ3NTN2LNQ3CFPHDKJ", "length": 1688, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.truenorthloghomes.com", "title": "Digital Inventory Control | True North Log Homes | Bracebridge Ontario", "raw_content": "Digital Inventory Control | True North Log Homes | Bracebridge Ontario\nEvery aspect of your True North log home is carefully monitored with a digital inventory control system that protects your log home from loss, damage or theft, from start to finish.\nOur objective at True North is to deliver you value. With our digital inventory control system, you can be assured that you will receive everything as listed in your contract. You can enjoy the peace of mind that your house is being well managed and well cared for at every stage of design, delivery and construction.\nTrue North\u2019s Digital Inventory Control System Has Four Parts:\nDetailed digital photographs are taken of all logs and log components, right down to the bolts and washers. Photographs are also taken of each individual piece, before and after they are packed on skids, to show both quality and quantity.\nPhotos are taken of the packed delivery truck, assuring all the lifts are packed, making note as to the shape and configuration of the truck.\nPhotos of the truck are taken again on the customer\u2019s site to ensure all the goods have arrived safely and that the configuration of the truck has not been altered in any way.\nPhotos of the lifts, with the customer\u2019s foundation in the background, are taken to provide a comfort level to the customer and to the customer\u2019s insurance company.This provides a visual track record to show that the goods have left the True North plant and arrived on the customer\u2019s site intact. Should the customer sustain theft on the site, it becomes a simple task to provide proof to the insurance company that all goods arrived on site in good order.\n\u2013 B. and S. Silcox, True North Homeowners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truthinsideofyou.org/6-ways-to-let-go-of-someone-you-never-thought-youd-say-goodbye-to/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XPIDYSCWFQ4J4GFS7WMCAHZM6MYT3ZIZ", "length": 7884, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.truthinsideofyou.org", "title": "6 Ways To Let Go Of Someone You Never Thought You\u2019d Say Goodbye To. - Truth Inside Of You", "raw_content": "6 Ways To Let Go Of Someone You Never Thought You\u2019d Say Goodbye To.\nWhen you meet someone you fall for and build a relationship over a period of months or years, only to part ways, the damage done can haunt you for years \u2014 even decades \u2014 to come. People are the most important aspects of anyone\u2019s life because people have the ability to change us in ways nothing else can. The right person can turn hell into heaven, and the wrong person, heaven into hell. Sometimes we find that the very same individual is capable of both.\nRelationships that start off great often end in tears of despair. It\u2019s not something that one can often predict during the onset of a relationship; it almost always catches us entirely by surprise. You build a vision of your future together in your mind. You create hopes, dreams and you build anticipation.\nYou create a reality that revolves around your relationship and when that possible future becomes an impossibility, you crumble along with the future you hoped to see. Letting go of someone who meant so much to you, who changed the person you are in a drastic way, is incredibly difficult \u2014 there\u2019s no way of sugarcoating it; it sucks. Letting that person go, however, is possible.\nMore than that, it\u2019s necessary in order for you to get your life back on track.\nLearn that if She Doesn\u2019t Scare The Hell Out Of You, She\u2019s Not The One.\n1. Take all the time you need.\nI\u2019m not going to sit here and tell you that \u201ctime heals all wounds\u201d \u2014 because that\u2019s nonsense. Sure, time heals many wounds. Most wounds even, but not all wounds.\nSome wounds stand the test of time better than any of the remaining wonders of the world. Some wounds are so deep that the only way time can remove them is by removing you along with them.\nOn the other hand, we sometimes find that time is enough. Sometimes time shows us that the feelings we felt were only to be felt in passing \u2014 as we passed on by and on to the next individual we love. That\u2019s why you have to give time a chance. Even if it doesn\u2019t do the trick of healing all your wounds, it will most certainly numb the pain. It will turn those vivid memories into blurry renditions. This may not solve your problem of letting that past lover go, but it will make it a whole lot easier for you to do so. It will get easier with time. Once it does, you can try one of the following suggestions.\n2. Meet someone new.\nDon\u2019t hop into bed with the first person you see; sex doesn\u2019t help with heartbreak \u2014 I can promise you that. But what I\u2019ve come to realize is that allowing yourself to fall in love with other people can go a long ways to your recovery. \u201cJust fall in love with someone new, you say? How easy!\u201d I\u2019m not telling you to go out there and find the new love of your life \u2014 it was surely hard enough the first time around. What you can do, however, is allow yourself to fall in love in the shallowest of senses. Don\u2019t try to fall in love with an entire person, fall in love with bits and pieces. Allow your mind to wander and your imagination to draw conclusions that almost certainly don\u2019t exist.\nWhen people fall in love initially, it isn\u2019t the deep sort of love that most of us search for \u2014 we may believe it to be, but that is why most of us become disillusioned over time. When we initially fall in love, it\u2019s a very shallow form of love. It\u2019s the most romantic kind of love as it is based on minimal information about the person in question \u2014 we take what little information we know and we act as if that\u2019s the only information we need to know. Of course, once you find out more information about the person you\u2019ve fallen for, you\u2019ll surely snap out of it. Nevertheless, falling for someone on even the shallowest of levels reminds you that you are capable of loving again. Think of it as a small step on a long journey.\n3. Make it clear to yourself why you had to part ways.\nHave you ever had to stop yourself and rethink why exactly it was that you and this particular individual decided to call it quits? You\u2019re not alone. As time passes, our minds wander into the past, recollecting past pleasant memories and emotions. We transport ourselves into a time of deep love and passion \u2014 something very dangerous as your goal is to let that individual go and allow yourself to move on with your life.\nLearn why to Let Her Sleep In! Women Need More Sleep Than Men, Says Science.\nEvery time a pleasant thought or memory of that individual and the life you once had enters your mind, counter with a negative thought or memory. Love exists in your mind and because it does, you can learn to have better control of it. You may not be able to choose who you fall in love with and don\u2019t fall in love with, but you can pair up an individual with enough negative feelings to naturally ward yourself off them. Even if you can\u2019t convince yourself to hate this person, reminding yourself regularly of why you had to call it quits can make your life a whole lot easier.\n4. Make it clear to yourself why you need to let this person go completely.\nSometimes relationships can be saved and passions rekindled. And sometimes we know that when something is over, it needs to remain over. It\u2019s one thing to understand why you and he or she broke up and it\u2019s another to understand why you and he or she must remain broken up.\nAgain, you have to be careful with allowing your emotions to run loose \u2014 emotions are complex and often deceiving, pulling you away from reality. Take a step back, take a deep breath, clear your head, and reason with yourself as to why you need to continue moving on with your life. You need to remain clear on your intentions and reasoning because if you don\u2019t those emotions will catch up with you, and you\u2019ll end up doing something that you\u2019ll later regret.\n5. Take the time to imagine the perfect person and then point out which areas your past lover falls short.\nThis is something I believe too few people ever bother to bother with. We all hope \u2014 expect even \u2014 that we will one day find the man or woman of our dreams.\nMy question is: How will you know you\u2019ve found love when you have no idea what would make up the man or woman of your dreams?\nWe all know that no one is perfect, but that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t outline the characteristics we admire in a partner. Sure, you may never find someone who fits your criteria exactly, but that doesn\u2019t matter. Your perfect partner is more of a guideline than a set of requirements \u2014 a guideline that you should use to compare potential suitors. Whether they fall short or not doesn\u2019t matter because in the end you still get the last say in the matter (well, you and whomever you\u2019re courting).\nWhat this guideline is also often good for is helping you understand how far off the mark your last love was. It can help put things in better perspective for you.\n6. Find the love of your life.\nI understand that you believe that the last person you were in love with was the love of your life and that you don\u2019t believe you will find another \u2014 if you didn\u2019t then you probably wouldn\u2019t have read this far \u2014 but I\u2019m here to tell you that as soon as you meet the real love of your life, the last one will become overshadowed.\nThis isn\u2019t to say that you\u2019ll forget that love entirely, but your new love will make the last one diminish in intensity. You may still think about this person occasionally \u2014 if it were a deep love, it likely influenced you tremendously \u2014 but you won\u2019t be yearning for this person in particular.\nLove is like a drug\u2026 it doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s supplying, as long as the supply is good. A new love drowns out the last. This isn\u2019t to say that you\u2019ll entirely stop loving him or her. I believe that there are some people we never stop loving because they\u2019ve become a part of us. You will, though, stop loving them romantically. And as far as intense emotions and obsessions goes, that\u2019s enough.\nwritten by: Paul Hudson, source: elitedaily.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 13432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truthinsideofyou.org/why-humans-have-to-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3FRDKG2DDHWY26AGUDEJRAVCPHKPQPGW", "length": 8271, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.truthinsideofyou.org", "title": "Why Humans Have To Work? - Truth Inside Of You", "raw_content": "Why Humans Have To Work?\nThe attitude that is conditioned into our psyche from a young age is that we have to learn a skill and use that to get a job in order to earn money which in term feeds the growth of the economy. One question I think almost everyday but I find many other people don\u2019t give it a second thought is why do we have to work?\n\u201cNormal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for \u2013 in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.\u201d \u2015 Ellen Goodman\nWhy do we have to work?\nAt face value and viewing life through the brainwashed society we are all born into, the answer may sound rather obvious, we need to earn money to purchase material objects in order to survive. For most that makes sense and needs no further questioning. However one must ask in a world which fundamentally has enough natural resources to feed clothe and house every single person why is there such a work ethos.\nWe are led to believe that we are running out of resources and the world is over populated when in fact the reality is completely the reverse. If we were to gather every man, woman and child and moved them to Australia the whole world population would fit comfortably within the country. Each family having their own house and garden and that would still only fill 3/4 of the land mass.\nWhat is Scarcity? How is it used?\nScarcity is a tool used to create the feeling of not having enough. This creates a survival response and an automatic panic in humans which causes us to be selfish and greedy. We are very much led to believe we are living in scarcity times by the mainstream media. There is always something were running low on. Land, Oil, energy, money, food, water to name a few.\nWe witness African and Ethiopian communities starving and dying of disease and we are led to believe this is because there just is not enough food to give them. Not once do people in the west ever stop and think just how much food is wasted on a daily basis.\nIn 2004 a USDA study showed that in America alone forty to fifty per cent of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten. There is clearly no shortage of food.The richest nations are choosing to let the third world people die while they continue to exploit their resources.\nWe live in a debt based monetary system where money is created by banks in the act of just placing digits on a screen. Our governments then loan money from privately owned central banks that have secret (protected by legislation) shareholders that the public are not even allowed to know about. With absolutely no oversight. The richest 1% own nearly half of world\u2019s wealth and are also in positions of power. The 99% of the worlds people are left to scrap over the remainder in order to survive. I also personally believe technology is been suppressed in the energy sector that could end the fossil fuel industry overnight.\nWe spend most of our lives just taking as fact what we are being told by our institutions \u2013 education, government, parents and media without giving it a second thought. In fact humans have become so docile that we spend most of our days unconscious, engrossed in the latest gadget or celebrity gossip. This is all by design to keep us distracted from anything real going on in the world. We clearly live in a corrupt unjust society that rewards dishonesty and selfishness. There is enough to go around and waste and pollution seems to be the byproduct of an unsustainable growth and greed based ideology.\nOk So Why Do We Have To Work?\nThe fact of the matter is we have to work because we are free ranged slaves controlled by people of wealth who use the monetary system and energy sector to control and protect their own selfish interests. The monetary system is also manipulated by the same people using stock markets and banking practices. This is also all by design in order to keep the wealth in the hands of a selected few. Mostly banking elite and royal bloodlines. These same people also control all aspects of our lives from education, health, media and food. With this much control over our lives is it any wonder the majority of people feel confused over world issues.\nThe YouTube video below explains the story of your enslavement very well.\nThe role of the media and institutionalisation.\nOur media is in place to control the mass way of thinking to keep it inline with government policies. Call it propaganda. We are led to believe we have a free press but this is far from the truth and very obvious when big movements happen like March Against Monsanto and the Occupy Movement and receive little to no media attention. Even if it does get some attention it is always portrayed in a negative light. Our newspapers front page headlines are always filled with fear words like \u201cconspiracy\u201d,\u201dterrorism\u201d, \u201cISIS\u201d, \u201cextremism\u201d, \u201cworkshy\u201d, \u201cscroungers\u201detc.. that are repeated over and over to really embed the words into the human consciousness. If you repeat anything enough times people start believing it. It is an obvious form of brainwashing and is used widely by politicians and the media.\nThe same tactics are used in any subject they deem does not fit into the Government\u2019s agenda. Divide and conquer tactics have been used by empires for thousands of years. The media does this brilliantly by making people divided and suspicious of each other. We are forced inwards to the point of not even knowing our neighbors names. This is why our community\u2019s are failing. One big keyword used is \u201cimmigration\u201d. Everything is immigrants fault this is yet another tactic called misdirection where they focus on one area. Divide opinion. While our attention is focused there the game pieces are being moved elsewhere. This is only scratching the surface. The same patterns can be seen in all areas they control.\nWhy we should not be forced to work?\nI believe every human being on this planet is equal and is entitled to a life. Every human should have a right to life and this means everything they need to survive. Everyone should have a basic wage (not a benefit) but a living wage that is given to everyone at birth . This basic wage should cover all the costs of life including food, water, housing and clothing. No one should be forced to work and any work should be on a volunteer basis. If the wealth was divided up equally around the world this would be easy to achieve.\nHow would anything get done? Humans are lazy right?\nWith the media, monetary and central control removed focus would naturally move to a community based structure. We would need to converse with our fellow neighbour\u2019s to survive and naturally trust would grow and a family environment would blossom. Health would improve, crime would fall as everyone\u2019s needs would be met. With time to live life and care for others we would have time to volunteer skills to the community.\nBartering could come into effect. I will fix your taps if you fix my garden fence etc. For those who do not have any skills or may be disabled, people would still volunteer to help them in a caring community. Humans are very kind,loving and helpful by nature. If we see someone fall in the street our natural reaction is to go and help. When I have a few weeks off work I always look forward to returning to something to do. To much time is boring and I believe we would all do our best if we were rewarded in the community for our efforts even if it is just benefiting from the knowing that we have contributed to the whole. Local growing projects and a sense of pride will come back into the community. Cooperation and creativity is given room to flourish. Within this environment new ideas could flow.\nWe need to change our way of thinking in order to change our world dramatically.\n\u201cYou cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.\u201dAlbert Einstein\nMoney replaced slavery watch this great Raw Footage interview with Michael Tellinger on the origins of humans..\nThis is how life was supposed to be. Is it an impossible dream? Could it work ? What problems do you think this could bring?\nSource: openboxthinking.co.uk / Via: lifeadvancer.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 12985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tv-eh.com/2016/01/21/history-summons-josh-donaldson-to-bring-the-rain-in-new-season-of-vikings/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:53Z", "digest": "sha1:O427VCRDCHHJJWQPXQIVENCB56JR6ED7", "length": 1654, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tv-eh.com", "title": "History Summons Josh Donaldson to \u201cBring the Rain\u201d in New Season of Vikings | TV, eh?", "raw_content": "History Summons Josh Donaldson to \u201cBring the Rain\u201d in New Season of Vikings\nAs the February 18th season four premiere of HISTORY\u2019s Vikings draws closer, Canada\u2019s #1 specialty entertainment program* gives a familiar face and heavy-hitter a guest starring role. Toronto Blue Jays third baseman and 2015 American League MVP Josh Donaldson is heading to Ireland this week to film an episode of Vikings in which he will have a speaking role. A massive fan of the Canadian-Irish drama, Donaldson recently Tweeted a photounveiling a striking, new Viking-esque hairstyle inspired by the lead character, Ragnar.\nTwo-time All-Star Donaldson will play the role of Hoskuld, a Viking warrior of great skill, in an episode that will air later this year as part of the fourth season.\nIn the upcoming season of Vikings, betrayal is everywhere as the powers begin to shift. Following the Vikings\u2019 successful raid of Paris in season three, Ragnar is the most feared and respected leader in the Western World. However, his victory is short-lived as he is surrounded by those who seek his undoing.\nVikings is an international Irish/Canadian co-production being co-produced by World 2000 and Take 5 Productions. HISTORY broadcasts both domestically in Canada and in the U.S. MGM Television is the worldwide distributor outside of Ireland and Canada. Vikings is produced in association with Shaw Media.\nThe new season of Vikings premieres Thursday, February 18th at 10pm ET/PT on HISTORY.\nHistoryJosh DonaldsonToronto Blue JaysVikings\nPrevious PostLink: Saving Hope\u2019s Michael Shanks on directing and the show\u2019s new focusNext PostComments and queries for the week of January 22", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 8085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/planning-portal-relaunches-website/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6J6SZ6TJHQUUVRU3XHPICX2KK3DW2UR2", "length": 2307, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ukauthority.com", "title": "Planning Portal relaunches website | UKAuthority", "raw_content": "Planning Portal relaunches website\nDigital platform updated to make site more mobile-friendly and provide support in Welsh language\nThe Planning Portal has relaunched its website and underlying digital platform to make it easier to use from mobile devices, and to provide support in English and Welsh.\nThe move comes with the news that the site, run under a joint venture between the Department for Communities and Local Government and geographic data specialist TerraQuest, will provide the online planning application service to the Welsh Government from next year.\nSarah Chilcott, managing director of the Planning Portal, said the website redesign follows an 8% increase in online applications from 2015-16.\n\u201cAn average of 10% of the traffic to our website is from tablets and 22% from mobile, so the need to deliver a good experience to these visitors is clear,\u201d she said. \u201cAs part of our commitment to accessibility, we also needed to provide multi-language support for our Welsh users.\u201d\nThe portal includes a new service named Workspaces to help teams collaborate on planning applications. One team member can begin an application process and anyone with permission can provide input, whereas previously the originator of the project would have had to collate and enter the information manually.\nChilcott added that there is now a better focus on key user tasks, with streamlined functions for local planning authorities to work with the portal.\nFortnightly CMS updates\nThe new site was built on Jadu Continuum CMS, which is updated every two weeks to avoid less frequent but more disruptive updates, and designed by Spacecraft Digital. The technology behind the application process was supplied by Civica.\nAnnouncing the deal to provide the service to the Welsh Government, Chilcott said: \u201cIt also provides a national platform for us to deliver additional services to Wales, such as our recent building control application service. These will be delivered outside of this contract in our mission to continue to transform planning and building.\u201d\nThe Planning Portal provides information and services to anyone involved in the planning process, working in partnership with every local authority in England and Wales. It now has 140,000 registered users making an average of 2,000 applications per day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/hrs/marcelle-burns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UPLPVMDC5BZ7K6G4FXVPWWZAW6XDOO36", "length": 1205, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.une.edu.au", "title": "Marcelle Burns - University of New England (UNE)", "raw_content": "Marcelle Burns\nPre-doctoral Fellow - School of Law\nEmail: mburns7@une.edu.au\nMy name is Marcelle Burns, and I am a Kamilaroi woman with my father\u2019s family coming from Bingara. I work as a Pre-doctoral Fellow in the School of Law. Before coming to UNE I worked as a criminal lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), and as a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. My position as a Pre-doctoral fellow enables me to focus on my PhD studies, while also contributing to the teaching and services activities of the school.\nI teach in the unit Indigenous Peoples and Law which examines Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples\u2019 concepts of law and interactions with the Australian legal system. One of the best parts of my job is working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law students \u2013 it is such a privilege to be in a position to nurture our leaders of the future. My research examines the recognition of First Nations in international and domestic law, and Indigenous knowledges in legal education. UNE and the School of Law provide a very supportive environment for me to develop my knowledge and skills as an academic, and work on research that supports our communities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 7986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 170.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/elsevier-journal-boycott-first-skirmish-in-a-longer-battle/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WQWY4Q4TZIOZY7UM4AQ5Q3OWFE37QMDM", "length": 6965, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.universityaffairs.ca", "title": "Elsevier journal boycott: first skirmish in a longer battle | University Affairs", "raw_content": "The entire model of restricted-access knowledge dissemination through journal publishing needs to change.\nBy L\u00c9O CHARBONNEAU | FEB 29 2012\nDutch publishing giant Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, appears to have been the first to blink in its standoff with frustrated researchers. Since Jan. 22, researchers from around the world have been signing their names to a boycott called the Cost of Knowledge, vowing not to publish their work in any Elsevier journal. As of yesterday, more than 7,500 researchers had signed on, including some from Canada.\nElsevier owns 2,000 journals and publishes roughly 250,000 articles a year in a wide variety of fields, and its archive contains seven million publications. In 2010, the company made $1.6 billion and had an operating profit margin of 36 percent.\nThe boycott was a response to a call to action posted a few days earlier by Tim Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University. Dr. Gowers had had enough and declared, \u201cI am not only going to refuse to have anything to do with Elsevier journals from now on, but I am saying so publicly. I am by no means the first person to do this, but the more of us there are, the more socially acceptable it becomes.\u201d\nAmong the many reasons Dr. Gowers listed for his boycott of Elsevier was the company\u2019s support of efforts that \u201cattempt to stop the move to open access publishing,\u201d including Elsevier\u2019s support of the Research Works Act. The proposed U.S. legislation, introduced to the House of Representatives last December, contained provisions to prohibit open access mandates for federally funded research. These provisions would have effectively undone the Public Access Policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds (i.e., taxpayer-supported research) to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. The Canadian Institutes for Health Research introduced similar requirements back in 2007 that all research papers generated from the projects they fund are freely accessible through the publisher\u2019s website or an online repository within six months of publication.\nBut, on Monday, Elsevier withdrew its support of the Research Works Act and said in a statement that it hopes this move \u201cwill address some of the concerns expressed and help create a less heated and more productive climate for our ongoing discussions with research funders.\u201d Hours later, the sponsors of the legislation declared the bill dead.\nIt seems unlikely Elsevier\u2019s change of heart will resolve the central issue of concern to many researchers, which is really the current controlled-access model of knowledge dissemination through journal publishing. As Mike Taylor, an earth scientist at University of Bristol, put it:\nAt this point, it seems clear that the old publishers aren\u2019t going to change \u2026 . To fix the academic publishing mess, researchers need to stop sending their work to barrier-based journals. And for that to happen, we need funding bodies and job-search committees to judge candidates on the quality of their work, not on which brand name it\u2019s associated with.\nHappily, there are signs of movement in this direction: for example, The Wellcome Trust says \u201cit is the intrinsic merit of the work, and not the title of the journal in which an author\u2019s work is published, that should be considered in making funding decisions.\u201d We need more funding and hiring bodies to make such declarations. Only then will researchers will be free of the need (real or apparent) to prop up parasitic publishers by sending their best work to big-name, barrier-based journals.\nSo will the boycott hold, and even spread? University of British Columbia mathematician and blogger Nassif Ghoussoub notes that in 2001, more than 30,000 scientists signed an open letter in which they pledged to exclusively publish in, review for and serve as editors of journals that placed their contents in the then newly launched PubMed Central with no more than a six-month delay. However, \u201cpublishers did not respond to the call, and the campaign fizzled away as very few followed through on their pledge.\u201d\nWill this time be different? I think it could be. I share the view of an online commenter to a CBC story, who had this to say:\nThe entire scientific publishing system is past due for a complete overhaul. Fifty \u2013 even twenty-five \u2013 years ago, the journals served an important function in the dissemination of research. For that service, institutions and libraries paid subscription fees and researchers proudly gave up their work for free, or even used part of their grant money to pay the publishing costs through page fees.\nToday, any researcher can publish their own work online for anyone to read. The only thing that keeps the journals in business is the perception that only \u201cpeer-reviewed studies\u201d published in journals are authoritative. But the truth is that a researcher\u2019s blog posting is open to more extensive (and constructive) peer review by other people in their field \u2014 who can follow along with work in progress and offer suggestions along the way \u2014 than the journals\u2019 process of sending out a final manuscript for comment by two or three reviewers. In fact, the biggest obstacle to free discussion of research-in-process is the journals\u2019 refusal to publish research results that have been previously published elsewhere, or discussed in the news media pre-publication.\nIncidentally, University Affairs has a feature story on open peer review in its upcoming April print edition, which will be posted online on March 5 \u2013 and freely accessible to all.\nLinnet Humble / February 29, 2012 at 18:07\nThe CBC commenter quoted at the end of this article seems to conflate issues of peer review with controlled access. I still consider peer review to be a valuable process: it helps ensure quality control and assists with fact-checking, which the editor of a journal often doesn\u2019t have time for. More to the point, peer review is NOT the source of inflated journal subscription costs: bundling and for-profit publishing are.\nI also disagree with the implicit suggestion that journals may themselves be obsolete. They are a formal channel for scholarly communication. Faculty blogs and institutional repositories may provide alternative spaces for discussion (just as conferences do), but they are not curated in the same way, nor do they have the same level of visibility in the research world. Let\u2019s not throw the baby out with the bath water.\nRuth / March 29, 2012 at 09:51\nThe journal I was managing in Ottawa has now gone to England to be part of a for-profit publisher. This when all over the continent universities are making a commitment to open access. Academic journals are about two things: disseminating knowledge and building a CV. There is no need for profit in the mix. It merely subverts yet another good idea to the capitalist system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 9639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unv.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=&type%5B0%5D=story&field_sustainable_development_go%5B0%5D=60&field_story_category%5B0%5D=5&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ESZKVFHDFCGSRZXO7E6RF3NM3XGXUNQO", "length": 1156, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.unv.org", "title": "Search | UNV", "raw_content": "I am based in Dakar and part of a dedicated team of five people working towards the promotion and protection of human...\nI was a UN Youth Volunteer in Comoros for a little less than a year. Comoros is situated off the south-east coast of...\nSangita talks about her volunteer assignment. \u201cThrough the project I manage, 12 community youth volunteers implement...\nToney talks about the situation, \u201cOpen defecation poses a serious threat to the health of children in India, with 188,...\nHindprabha mobilizes youth in the district, and talks about her volunteer work: \u201cOver the last year, 16 community youth...\nKarol Alejandra Ar\u00e1mbula Carrillo (Mexico) has been a UN Online Volunteer since 2011. One of her motivations to join...\nI had never been to South East Asia nor had I ever worked in the UN System \u2013 it was a big change for me, professionally...\nBuilding confidence and commitment through online volunteering\nThe month of December was passing by and my sadness had turned into depression. 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Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/19065A0\nTim Mullaney, USA TODAY Published 10:23 a.m. ET June 10, 2013 | Updated 1:36 p.m. ET June 10, 2013\nStandard , Poor's Ratings Services upgraded the U.S. government's debt outlook from \"Negative\" to \"Stable.\" The U.S. Treasury Department is pictured in 2011 after S,P cut the U.S. credit rating for the first time in history.(Photo: Nicholas Kamm, AFP/Getty Images)\nThe U.S.'s long-term credit rating was lowered in 2011 after Congress battled over the debt limit.\nRatings agency says all U.S. government debt will stabilize around 84% of GDP\nS&P says D.C. partisanship \"not getting worse,'' says U.S. can defer fixing entitlements\nNEW YORK \u2014 Standard & Poor's boosted its outlook for U.S. government debt Monday, citing stable government debt levels and predicting the U.S. economy will continue to improve.\nThe credit rating service affirmed the U.S. government's \"AA+\" long-term and \"A-1+\" short-term unsolicited sovereign credit ratings. It revised the outlook for Treasuries to \"stable'' from \"negative,'' meaning S&P is less likely to downgrade U.S. bonds soon.\nS&P's rating on the government's long-term bonds is a notch below the firm's top AAA rating, which the U.S. lost in 2011.\nMonday's announcement came after the Congressional Budget Office projected the U.S. deficit will shrink to $642 billion this year, from over $1 trillion the past four years. S&P raised its outlook even though Congress hasn't passed the kind of medium-term deficit reduction package S&P and other ratings firms have said is needed to cope with the growth of Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement spending.\n``We think the U.S. has until near the end of the current decade to address that issue,'' said Nikola Swann, S&P's director of sovereign bond ratings. ``Recent growth has given us time to address this.''\nPresident Obama's proposal to change the inflation index used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security would be a major step toward putting the government's largest entitlement program on a more solid footing, said John Chambers, chairman of S&P's sovereign debt rating committee.\n\"It would put us on a more sustainable path,'' Chambers said.\nS&P downgraded the U.S. government's long-term credit rating in 2011 after a battle in Congress over whether to raise America's borrowing limit.\nThe ratings service observed Monday that Congress managed to broker a deal late last year that allowed certain tax cuts to expire and cut spending. Meanwhile, S&P says the economy has started to improve and is expected to continue to do so.\nRead or Share this story: http://usat.ly/19065A0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-body/pictures/hot-bodies-of-nine-stars-2009912/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DURI5J4NCJFOF5C3XUKZX2G7GBNRZVHL", "length": 295, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.usmagazine.com", "title": "Hot Bodies of Nine! - Us Weekly", "raw_content": "Hot Bodies of Nine!\nKMazur/WireImage.com\nKate Hudson: Before\nThe actress, 30, has always been \u201cfar too self-conscious\u201d about her body. \u201cI have no boobs, and I\u2019ve always had a bit of a booty,\u201d she has said. \u201cI don\u2019t like looking at photos of me, and I sweat if I\u2019m forced to watch my own movies.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-cast-then-and-now-201474/37355/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:59Z", "digest": "sha1:R6IPKKLIXTZTIMYMDC4XJY7B35HNWAHV", "length": 514, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.usmagazine.com", "title": "Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast: Then And Now - Us Weekly", "raw_content": "Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast: Then And Now\nCourtesy Everett Collection (6)\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Then And Now\nMr. Pointy, The Bronze, the Claddagh Ring! 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You will be given the opportunity to opt out from your information being shared with the University of Surrey and Surrey Sports Park.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uwire.com/2019/02/11/womens-lacrosse-falls-short-against-crosstown-rivals-6-20/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:02Z", "digest": "sha1:QTICNFFROLKPAS4J2AJMG5F6ZFIL2V5N", "length": 772, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.uwire.com", "title": "Women\u2019s lacrosse falls short against crosstown rivals, 6-20 | UWire", "raw_content": "Women\u2019s lacrosse falls short against crosstown rivals, 6-20\nThe Boston University women\u2019s lacrosse team faced off at No. 1 Boston College Saturday, marking the fourth straight season in which the two teams have gone head-to-head in their season openers. 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She's also worked as an Executive Assistant at Illinois Toolworks and as the Office Manager for Cintas Corporation.\nJanese holds two Bachelors of Business Administration degrees in Finance and Marketing from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Go Cru!).\nJanese was born and raised in Houston and currently resides in the Energy Corridor. In her downtime, she loves checking out comedy shows, traveling, attending Rockets games or watching with friends, and trying out new restaurants and coffee shops in the city. 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Roberts placed third in the dash final with a PB 6.65, which ranks No. 4 on the UK all-time list and is ninth best on the NCAA Division I 2018-19 performance list at press time.\nChloe Abbott ran a season best 52.98 to win the women\u2019s 400m with a time of 52.98. That time ranks fourth best in the nation to date.\nAbbott anchored UK\u2019s runner-up 4x400m relay, which ran 3:33.51. Faith Ross, Abby Steiner, Masai Russell and Abbott\u2019s time is No. 7 on the UK indoor all-time list.\nRoss was runner-up in the women\u2019s 60m hurdles final in 8.24 and Russell was fourth.\nKianna Gray was runner-up in the women\u2019s 60m final running 7.36, while Steiner was just behind in 7.37.\nSteiner was third in the women\u2019s 200m final with a season best 23.43, which ranks eighth in the nation so far. Gray was fifth.\nUK sent a few throwers to the Vanderbilt Invitational, where Noah Castle placed second in the men\u2019s shot put with a mark of 61\u20199.75\u201d/18.84m.\nCharles Lenford Jr. was fourth in that competition bettering his indoor PB for the second week in a row tossing 61\u20199.75\u201d/18.64m\nMicaela Hazlewood placed fifth, Nicole Fautsch was ninth and Molly Leppelmeier was 10th in the women\u2019s shot put.\nOn Friday at Vandy, Micaela Hazlewood was seventh in the weight throw with a mark of 61\u20196.25\u201d/18.75m, which ranks No. 7 on the UK all-time list. Leppelmeier\u2019s ninth-place mark of 59\u20199.75\u201d/18.23m ranks No. 9 on the UK all-time list.\nLenford placed third in the men\u2019s weight throw with a mark of 60\u20190.5\u201d/18.30m.\nBack at Clemson, Carly Hinkle and Ellen Ekholm went 3-4 with 5\u20198\u201d/1.73m clearances in the women\u2019s high jump.\nBen Young and Brennan Fields went 2-3 in the men\u2019s 3k with respective times of 8:17.44 and 8:21.21.\nMarie-Jos\u00e9e Ebwea-Bile Excel, who continues to top the DI performance list with a triple jump from last December, placed fourth in the women\u2019s long jump, while Tatiana Aholou was fifth.\nDwight St. Hillaire was fourth in the men\u2019s 200m and Rahman Minor was fifth in the men\u2019s high jump.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vcpost.com/articles/88244/20150901/formula-one-teams-burn-up-300-million-debt-64-2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:N2AHETDKEPENVR5JEO3GBDUCXHU4OFHB", "length": 2133, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.vcpost.com", "title": "Formula One Teams Burn up $300 Million of Debt, 64.2% from Lotus : Regions : Venture Capital Post", "raw_content": "Formula One Teams Burn up $300 Million of Debt, 64.2% from Lotus\nThe ten teams in Formula One auto racing are under a total debt of $318.2 million, and 64.2% of that belongs to Lotus.\nLotus belongs to Genii Capital, a private equity firm founded by Skype investor Gerard Lopez. Creditors have been going after Lotus for the last several months. Its cars were almost impounded during the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend after former reserve driver Charles Pic filed a legal dispute.\nJust last month, Lotus was ordered by the courts to pay almost \u00a3600,000 of debts. This was after it failed to pay 27 of its bills.\nThere are reports that Renault will acquire Lotus and save it from its massive debt. According to reports, the French manufacturer will give the Formula One team an up front payment of $80 million. After that, Renault will give them $10 million per season for the next 10 seasons.\nAccording to the year-end report in 2013, Lotus has a total net debt of $204.3 million. This amount is three times higher compared to the rest of the seven teams that are under debt.\nFollowing Lotus is McLaren with a total net debt of $61.4 million. Manor has $33.8 million, Force India has $23.2 million, Mercedes has $6.8 million, Toro Rosso has about $800,000, Red Bull technology has about $700,000, and Williams has $11.5 million.\nNet debt provides a cleared picture of a company's liquidity. According to reports, the F1 teams won a total of $863.1 million in prize money in 2014. The least paid among them got $46.9 million. The bizarre business model they follow is one of the major reasons why they are still under piles of debt despite the prices they won. F1 teams get their money from sponsorship, which accounts to 37% of the budget. Then, 35% comes from the prize money, and 19% comes from payments from the team's owner. The directors of these team manage them to have enough to break even.\nFiat Chrysler CEO says long way from lobbying GM investors\nRacing team success could be winning formula for Ferrari IPO\nChemChina to buy Italian tire maker Pirelli in $7.7 billion deal\nFORMULA ONE, Genii Capital, Charles Pic, McLaren", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 6828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vermontstage.org/cleo-flemming-bio.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:01Z", "digest": "sha1:3FQQEFGSFEHUYVJFDDKMP7XHJG6JDBRG", "length": 506, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vermontstage.org", "title": "Cleo Flemming bio - Vermont Stage", "raw_content": "Cleo Flemming (Cello)\nCleo Flemming began studying music at age six and started learning cello at age 16. She is currently the cellist of the Red Stone String Quartet and has participated in Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and the Allegro Vivo Kammermusik Festival in Austria. She is a member of the Flynn band headed by Myra Flynn, and was a recipient of the \u201917 UVM Symphony Orchestra concerto competition. 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She used to teach acting and movement at Columbus State University and Georgia Military College in Columbus, Georgia, and for a brief while, she was Artistic Director for Swamp Gravy, which was waaaay down in south Georgia in a town with only one stoplight. She\u2019s had four short plays produced in places as diverse as the Bronx, Atlanta, Vermont, Indiana and Kentucky. 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(Photo submitted)\nAsparagus brings Patsy Cline to Armstrong\nAsparagus Community Theatre presents Always\u2026 Patsy Cline May 3-6 and 9-12\nLaurisa DeFehr carried the script with her for eight years before finding the right fit.\nAnd now the wheels are turning as DeFehr eagerly awaits her directorial debut in Asparagus Community Theatre\u2019s Always\u2026 Patsy Cline, which opens May 3.\n\u201cAbout eight years ago, I saw it performed in Kelowna by Neal Facey,\u201d DeFehr said. \u201cI loved the show.\u201d\nDeFehr got a copy of the script and held on to it until she was able to bring it back to the stage.\n\u201c(I had it) for eight years, hoping one day we could do the show in Armstrong,\u201d DeFehr said. \u201cI knew it would be well received there. I\u2019m hoping we will have a great turn out.\u201d\nAlways\u2026 Patsy Cline follows the life of the acclaimed country singer who rose to fame in the 1950s, earning herself a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame after her untimely death in an airplane accident in Tennessee in 1963.\nTold from the perspective of a Cline\u2019s friend and pen-pal Louise Seger, Ted Swindley\u2019s script follows the true story of their relationship after they met at a concert in Houston, Texas and sees Cline\u2019s rise to fame.\n\u201cIt\u2019s funny; it\u2019s emotional; it\u2019s uplifting,\u201d DeFehr said. \u201cThe music is timeless. There\u2019s at least one song everyone will know in there. People will walk out feeling happy and alive.\u201d\nBeyond the narrative aspects of the production, DeFehr said, the performance is a true musical. Packed-full of 27 songs, Always\u2026 Patsy Cline delves into the singer\u2019s classic repertoire and features hits like Walking After Midnight, Back in Baby\u2019s Arms, If You\u2019ve Got Leavin On Your Mind and Crazy.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lovely musical piece. It\u2019s such a lovely show. There\u2019s such a blend of acting and music,\u201d DeFehr said. \u201cI\u2019ve loved Patsy Cline since I was in college.\u201d\nDeFehr, who has acted with Asparagus for more than 10 years, is excited to make her directorial debut and will receive feedback prior to showtime from Facey.\n\u201cYou need really polished people to put on this show,\u201d DeFehr said.\nMary Groeneveld makes her Asparagus Community Theatre debut in the peformance as Cline and will take the stage alongside theatre veteran Jeunesse Pearson as Seger.\nThe Bodacious Bobcats \u2014 featuring music director Aaron Anderson on the kit, Todd York on bass, Allen Bensmiller on the strings and George Bensmiller on keys and fiddle \u2014 will rock Cline\u2019s numbers.\nAs the local star-studded cast nears production dates, DeFehr can\u2019t wait to share her love of Always\u2026 Patsy Cline.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a wonderful show,\u201d DeFehr said. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond exciting.\u201d\nAlways\u2026 Patsy Cline runs at the Asparagus Community Theatre in Armstrong May 3-5 and May 9-12 at 7:30 p.m. and May 6 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available for $20 adult, $18 students and seniors and $10 for children aged 12-and-under and are available through The Guy Next Door, 3450B Okanagan Street. 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At that time traveling was an adventure and shipping wines around the world, a challenge.\nInspired by the forward-looking spirit of adventure, the enduring passion for discovery and excellence that gave birth to the House, this year Veuve Clicquot invites you to take a Journey and live your passions. When you think about your passion, a key destination always comes to mind. For an ideal journey, choose your special packaging concepts infused with the spirit of adventure and surprise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viamagazine.com/destinations/trio-grande-southern-utahs-theatre-festivals", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:63EWJVCI5E5CBBQAXIUCG4DDEEOML3JM", "length": 5989, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.viamagazine.com", "title": "Trio Grande: Southern Utah's Theatre Festivals | Via Magazine", "raw_content": "> Trio Grande: Southern Utah's Theatre Festivals\nTrio Grande: Southern Utah's Theatre Festivals\nAll the world's a stage, and Zion National Park is among the most dramatic natural players on it. But check out the three man-made stages nearby that complement, rather than paint, the lily.\nTuacahn Center for the Arts is in a spectacular setting, surrounded by red rock cliffs.\nCollectively, the three theaters are called \"Trio Grande,\" and they go a long way toward proving that much of southern Utah is, indeed, a stage. It's a diverse trio, and definitely \"Grande:\" Shakespeare presented in a reconstruction of the Globe Theater, De Mille-ish historical spectacle presented outdoors in a red rock canyon, and a panoramic Cinemax production on the myth and lore of Zion National Park.\nA few miles north of Zion, in Cedar City, you can marinate yourself in things theatrical and Elizabethan. The plays are mostly, but not exclusively, Shakespeare's, and there are many related activities designed to inform and amuse on the generally Shakespearean theme.\nLiterary seminars held outdoors in Seminar Grove provide the kind of experience you probably wished you had in college. Tours get you behind the scenery backstage. Talks held by actors, costume people, and musicians provide plenty of general background. And if you're not as well versed as you'd like in the evening's presentation, attend the orientation that tells you exactly what's what and who's who.\nTwo other activities are even more theatrical: the Greenshows and the \"Royal Feaste.\" Greenshows are held on and around a small outdoor stage, where costumed actors present light entertainment accompanied by lutes, sackbuts, and other Shakespeare-era instruments. One Greenshow we attended included a falconry demonstration. Another had a display of Shakespearean dancing. Wenches in costume selling life-sustaining tarts roam among the onlookers, who mill about or sit on the grass. It's all done in the extra-hearty mode one gathers was rampant in England 400 years ago.\nThe energy level apparently sustained by the English during that period as they grabbed for gusto must have been possible only through frequent resort to meals such as the Royal Feaste. It's given in a big room resembling a castle hall and accompanied by enthusiastic musicians. Conveying the many courses from pewter plates to mouth is via fingers. Don't even think about smuggling in a fork, although, oddly enough, Handi-wipes are tolerated. Evidently the English still dined in the manner of Henry VIII as recently as the time of James I.\nOf course, the play's the thing, and this year's season, which runs from June 20 through August 31, includes Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, Dumas' The Three Musketeers, and G&S's The Mikado. Some presentations are in the modern, indoor Jones Theater, others in a re-creation of the Globe, which is more-or-less open air. Information: Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, UT 84720. Telephone: (800) 752-9849.\nUtah! at Tuacahn\nIn the beginning there was Tuacahn Canyon, its 1,500-foot red-rock walls enclosing a natural amphitheater. And the Heritage Arts Foundation said, \"Let there be light and dark, sound and fury, drama and comedy, with lots of music. Let the earth bring forth Utah!, a theatrical spectacle dramatizing the trials and triumphs of Utah's early settlers.\"\nAnd 2,000 seats arose beneath the desert sky. A state-of-the-art sound system, the ability to summon thunder and flood at will, and several-score actors appeared before the now filled seats. The drama of early Utah unfolded. And the audience saw that it was good. Very good, indeed.\nIt bills itself as \"America's most spectacular outdoor musical theater.\" The claim is backed up by what happens onstage (a flood, strobe light effects, cannon fire, galloping horses, fireworks, 14 musical numbers), and by the theater itself, built into the postcard-pretty box canyon near St. George.\nThe plot involves interactions of Indian tribes and settlers in pioneer-era southern Utah. Things didn't always go smoothly; this retelling includes elements of John Wayne western, Broadway musical, Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, and more than a touch of De Mille. It seems there was right and wrong on both sides, but progress eventually triumphed over pride and pig-headedness, an event celebrated with galloping horses and a 4th of July finale. It really is quite a show.\nThe 1996 Utah! season runs from June 14 through October 5. Those in the front row or two may participate in the flood more realistically than they'd like. For information, contact Tuacahn, P.O. Box 1996, St. George, Utah 84771-1996. Telephone (800) 746-9882.\nTreasure of the Gods at Zion Canyon Theater\nZion is a big and varied park, full of formations that easily can inspire, in the geology-challenged, questions of how all this came to be\u00f3and why. Mysticism comes easily at Zion, especially if you watch this 40-minute presentation before going in.\nIt's one of those high-tech productions, with a screen six stories high augmented by \"High Definition Surround Sound,\" the kind that seems tangible as well as extremely audible. Part drama, part reality, the film includes the ancient Anasazi Indians, Spanish explorers, the exploits of a 19th century explorer/photographer, and modern visitors.\nAs the film moves through time, it also moves throughout the park, so the exploration is geographic as well as chronological. The production's unusual technical quality and the theater's steeply-banked seating that makes sure you're up close, enhance the occasionally surreal proceedings on screen.\nShows are given daily year-round, beginning every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (11 a.m. to 7 p.m. November-February). Zion Canyon Theater Box Office, 145 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, Utah 84767. (801) 772-2400.\nPhotography courtesy of Tuacahn Center for the Arts\nUtah in Fall Dress\nHere's where to feast your eyes on flaming fall foliage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitfleetwood.info/about/parks/pocket-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EDCYRUAWTTLHIJUXPGAAEW76WUVTAR5A", "length": 1391, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.visitfleetwood.info", "title": "Pocket Park - Fleetwood", "raw_content": "In the middle of a busy high street, you\u2019ll find this little patch of green.\nThis corner, along North Albert Street, was part of the original Fleetwood which grew up in the 1880\u2019s \u2013 originally it was a hardware shop, then a TSB bank and then a temporary police station before it was demolished.\nMr Michael Reaper, of the nearby Home Bakery, gave permission for the land to be used for a public open space in 1998, and it quikcly became known as Pocket Park.\nFleetwood Rotary Club and the local community planted up beds and localk school children made painted boards, and from the outset it was a popular spot with everyone who lived here or visited.\nThe Fielden Fleetwood Charity Trust purchased the land, with support from Wyre Council, when in 2008 Mr Reaper very generously decided to sell the land at a hugely reduced rate.\nMrs Doreen Lofthouse of the famous Fisherman\u2019s Friends, made a donation to carry out the refurbishment which you see today. Brick planters are named after the seven Fleetwood primary schools and pupils plant flowers in them each year.\nThe nine ceramic panels were designed by all of the Fleetwood schools with help from a ceramic artist.\nFleetwood Pocket Park is a lovely spot to sit on a bench for two quiet minutes in a busy day \u2013 next time you are passing, stop a while and read the sign which stands at the front and find out more about this little treasure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 6514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vocaleurope.eu/category/research-area/inside-europe/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HVRSIZKXBBLMSIMZRJDLHZJKW52YSX5R", "length": 10211, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.vocaleurope.eu", "title": "Inside Europe | Vocal Europe - Part 3", "raw_content": "This article originally was published by the Emerging Europe There has been an increase in the volume of dialogue between the EU and Azerbaijan of late, notably following the visits of Azerbaijan\u2019s Presi... Be More Curious...\nAll opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe. Migration\u2014mass movements of the desperate and the dispossessed from north and central Africa, from Syria-Iraq\u2019s wars, from the subcontinent\u2014is both Europe\u2019s biggest problem a... Be More Curious...\nEU-passports as a possibility of integration for the refugees\nThe idea of the EU-passport is not a silver bullet solution but could actually make a larger difference for many people. Since the beginning of 90\u2019s the freedom of movement has contributed to a socially better and economically stronger Europe and also bene... Be More Curious...\nOn 14-15 February, 2018 NATO Defence Ministers will meet in Brussels again to discuss the main threats the world faces nowadays. NATO consists of 29 member states but 22 of them are simultaneously the EU member... Be More Curious...\nOrganized Crime vs. Terrorism: Are They Converging?\nTERRORISM VS ORGANIZED CRIME \u2014 It is no secret that after the fall of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent opening of the borders, radical changes were brought about in a... Be More Curious...\nBrexit apart, the crisis that currently threatens to challenge the very principles upon which the EU is based, concerns the refusal of Eastern European states, especially Poland and Hungary, to adhere to what is commonly referred to in EU circles as European v... Be More Curious...\nWhy is the European Parliament treating science with contempt?\nOn last Tuesday, the European Parliament announced that it will set up a Special Committee on the Union\u2019s authorisation procedure for pesticides. This move comes after the re-authorisation of the the herbic... Be More Curious...\nAll opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe The man looked at me and answered with a slight smile; \"The Syrian Embassy in Sofia is very strong at the moment. They have the support of nationalists and the Russian embassy.... Be More Curious...\nAnother week, another leadership crisis in Britain\nLike Mark Twain\u2019s death, reports of Theresa May\u2019s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Unlike the legendary writer\u2019s death rumors, however, these are more frequent and relentless. Quite how a person of lit... Be More Curious...\nDuring the last Catalan crisis, Spain's National Audience charged two civil society leaders with sedition. They along with thirteen members of the abolished regional government and the President of Parliam... Be More Curious...\nOn Tuesday 23 January, the European Constitutional Affairs Committee gave the green light for a proposal which would allocate part of the British parliamentary seats to members elected by a pan-European constituency. Still, whether this proposal ever will ... Be More Curious...\nFuture of Europe is still uncertain. Though security is the real priority for all countries, each of them understands the process of achieving security by its own. Lithuanian and Latvian authorities increased p... Be More Curious...\nOf the various states of the former Soviet Union, Armenia has long been seen as the most loyal, and perhaps most subservient, to Russia. For Russia, its leverage over Armenia has depended on a \u201c3G\u201d approach, consisting of a combination of guns and discoun... Be More Curious...\nLast Thursday, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, released her plans for a 25-year siege on plastics, in an ill-founded attempt to secure a green, environmentally friendly future for Britain. After a fail... Be More Curious...\nIn the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) is viewed by many to be far more than just our humble health system; to millions it is the pride of Britain and envy of the world. Any indication that a government intends to restrict or reform the N... Be More Curious...\nOn March 18, 2016, the EU and Turkey signed a deal, effective immediately, with the broad goal of stemming the flow of \u201cirregular migration\u201d into Europe, and creating safe and legal channels by which to reach t... Be More Curious...\nThe Smuggling of Syrians Evolves into an Economic and Social Conundrum in Turkey and Europe\nThe ongoing Syrian conflict has led to the displacement of millions of Syrians and the continuation of a life of uncertainty despite the prospect of a better life in a new country. Many are subject to exploitat... Be More Curious...\nWithin the now all-consuming drive of Emmanuel Macron, Guy Verhofstadt and other European leaders to reform the EU, the European gaze has once again focused entirely on the core western and central member states, all but ignoring the plight of the countri... Be More Curious...\nBefore the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Brussels Summit (November 2017), there were many polemics associated with competing language of the summit\u2019s declaration on unresolved conflicts and the new EU-Azerbaija... Be More Curious...\nAll opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe Transparency is a big and oft-heard word these days in Brussels. Every week dozens of private companies and nonprofits register for the EU\u2019s Transparency Register, a mandatory step ... Be More Curious...\nInside Europe, Israel, Turkey\nTTurkey and Israel were once close allies, bonded as two states surrounded by hostile regimes. However, Turkey has stated in recent days that US President Donald Trump\u2019s move to declare Jerusalem the capita... Be More Curious...\nCentral Asia is not exactly a region of primary interest to many decision makers in Brussels and wider Europe. There is, however, a profound political and economic risk in ignoring the momentous change that the region\u2019s key country, Kazakhstan, is about to... Be More Curious...\nLeopold Traugott\nOne week after the breakdown of German coalition talks, things are slowly moving into gear. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Following an intervention by the German President, Frank... Be More Curious...\nOnthe 17th of November, the EU member states met in Gothenburg, Sweden for a social summit. Even though the member states agreed upon a so-called 'European pillar of social rights,' outlining several principles to regulate the European job market, the real val... Be More Curious...\nThe European Security and Defence Union: how should it look like?\nSince 2015, the European Union (EU) has been discussing the idea of creating a European Security and Defence Union (ESDU). Although details are scarce, this means deepening cooperation between EU member sta... Be More Curious...\nDerailed by Sex \u2013 British Politics in a Turmoil, Again!\nThere\u2019s never a good time for a feeding frenzy to break over a political system, but it is difficult to envisage many worse times for the British parliament and government than now. (adsbygoogle = win... Be More Curious...\nThedefeat of the political establishment in this election. Ostracised by other parties, the Communists have not taken part in any of the post-communist era governments at the national level. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Their s... Be More Curious...\nAcross Russia, millions stare at their television sets, mouths agape. In a shocking turn of events, president Vladimir Putin has called it quits \u2014 despite what seemed like another likely run and another likely ... Be More Curious...\nThe EU and Israel \u2013 Partnership and the weight of history\nBeyond Europe, Inside Europe, Israel\nFifty years ago, a fierce war between Israel and its neighbours changed the map of the Middle East and transformed Israeli politics and its relations with the wider world. The effects of that Six-Day War are still being felt today. They created an enduring ... Be More Curious...\nWhy Poroshenko must take a strong stance on corruption\nIn mid-September, together with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the German Bundestag Marieluis Beck, and former US Ambassador to NATO Alex... Be More Curious...\nThe Catalan government is determined to go through with its plans to hold an independence referendum. With the country on the verge of a constitutional crisis, a negotiated solution becomes crucial. On 1 Oct... Be More Curious...\nCommission President Juncker gave his most eye-catching State of the Union\u201d speech yet. In theory, he\u2019s only a humble servant of the EU member states, delivering and defending the objectives of the EU Treaties... Be More Curious...\nGermany\u2019s main political parties have no new ideas about the country\u2019s role in Europe and don\u2019t even debate reforms at home. During Germany\u2019s 2005 federal election campaign, then opposition leader Angela Merkel had ambitious plans. One of the biggest was a ... Be More Curious...\nHostile takeover: How Orb\u00e1n is subjugating the media in Hungary\nThe narratives provided by at least one hundred Hungarian news outlets are now under the complete political control of Minister of the Prime Minister\u2019s Cabinet Office Antal Rog\u00e1n and \u00c1rp\u00e1d Habony, the Prime Min... Be More Curious...\nIt could hardly have been a more startling contrast: just a few weeks apart, new French President Emmanuel Macron was lauded first by Vladimir Putin\u2019s fiercest critics, and then by his strongest supporters. ... Be More Curious...\nEU-Russia Relations from a Russian Point of View\nOscillating between conflict and cooperation, the EU-Russia relations are of strategic importance in key policy areas such as European security The turbulent developments after the outbreak of the crisis in and over Ukraine, the accession of Crimea and the ... Be More Curious...\nBy Tania Marocchi EU-Russia relations are shaped by their different approaches to international politics. Where the former follows a liberal path, the latter pursues a neorealist paradigm (adsbygoog... Be More Curious...\nIn Perry Anderson\u2019s magisterial book on the European Union, The New Old World, he sums up what has become a perennial conundrum of the soon-to-be 27-member union\u2019s future: \u201cDemocratisation can still be defer... Be More Curious...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 17943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voiceless.org.au/content/bernard-e-rollin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:42Z", "digest": "sha1:R6M773Z7ZM3EGX2DJZNWQKTRWH66WTZO", "length": 2108, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.voiceless.org.au", "title": "Bernard E. Rollin | Voiceless", "raw_content": "HomeBernard E. Rollin\nProfessor Bernard E. Rollin is University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences and University Bioethicist at Colorado State University. His scholarly interests include both traditional philosophy and applied philosophy and much of his research is focused on animal welfare. He has been a valued member of the Voiceless Scientific Expert Advisory Council since 2009.\nBernard has a Bachelor\u2019s Degree from the City College of New York and a PhD from Columbia. He is the author of over 400 papers and fourteen books including Science and Ethics and Animal Rights and Human Morality which won an Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Association of University Libraries. He has consulted for the US Department of Agriculture and for a number of multinational corporations including United Airlines, PETCO, DuPont and the US Soybean Association on a variety of agricultural and animal welfare issues. He served on the Pew National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) and on the Institute for Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR) Council of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2008, he mediated a historic agreement between the Humane Society of the U.S. and Colorado agriculture resulting in legislation advancing the welfare of farm animals.\nRollin was named to the Distinguished Faculty Gallery by the College of Veterinary Medicine at CSU in 1992. He has twice been awarded the Brownlee Award for outstanding achievement in Animal Welfare Science by the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada and is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association. In 2005, he was awarded the Henry Spira Award in Animal Welfare by Johns Hopkins University Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing and received the Humane Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association in 2007.\nIn 2012, he contributed to the documentary film The Superior Human? which challenges the Cartesian duality which hierarchically divides humans from other animals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 76.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voiceless.org.au/content/indian-court-recognises-animals-legal-persons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GOEHWPBQIQCJTVHK33EHRKU6OCBTLG6O", "length": 4394, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.voiceless.org.au", "title": "Indian Court Recognises Animals as Legal Persons | Voiceless", "raw_content": "HomeIndian Court Recognises Animals as Legal Persons\nIn a landmark ruling last month, the High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand granted all animals within the state the status of legal personhood. This development follows in the footsteps of other jurisdictions such as New Zealand, France and Quebec in Canada, which are also pushing the boundaries on legal personhood.\nThe case was initially brought to address cruelty inflicted on cart horses who carried trade between Nepal and India. However, the parties agreed to widen the scope of the case, ultimately requiring the Court to make a decision on the legal status of all animals within the state. The Court found in favour of the claimants, conferring the status of legal personhood to the entire animal kingdom and declaring the citizens of Uttarakhand to be legal guardians of animals, responsible for their welfare and protection.\nIn delivering its judgment, the Court reasoned that the life of an animal must go beyond mere survival, existence or instrumental value for human beings, and that animals must be empowered to lead a life that reflects their intrinsic worth, honour and dignity. The Court was also persuaded by teachings of the Hindu tradition, which subscribes to the belief that all life is sacred. The Court went on to say that humans must show compassion towards all living creatures, and that animals cannot be treated merely as property. They emphasised that all species have a right to life and deserve the full protection of the law.\nThis case is not the first time the Uttarakhand High Court has recognised legal personhood for non-human entities. In 2017, the Court held that the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are legal persons, reasoning that a river is a living symbol of all the life it sustains and nourishes, and is therefore deserving of protection. Although the Court\u2019s rulings only apply to the State of Uttarakhand, they set an enlightened precedent that may be persuasive to other courts, including India\u2019s highest court (the Supreme Court). Whilst India\u2019s Supreme Court declined to accept the ruling that rivers were legal persons, it has previously made a ruling recognising animal sentience and promoting the right of animals to live a life free from human induced suffering.\nThe status of personhood does not bestow upon animals the same democratic rights, duties and freedoms as humans. It doesn\u2019t give animals the right to vote, run for a seat in Parliament, or render them legally equal to human citizens. It does however provide a greater level of protection by conferring certain legal rights, and allowing human representatives to commence legal action on their behalf.\nResearch produced by scholars from multiple disciplines supports the personhood classification both on philosophical grounds, and as a means of improving protection from abuse and inhumane captivity. Though the movement does have critics, the conferral of rights has historically advanced the interests of marginalised groups. This is because rights symbolise that the life of the rights-holder is valuable.\nDespite this, Australia, like most other countries, is yet to recognise animals as legal persons. Instead, animals are classified as \u2018property\u2019 in Australia and many other jurisdictions around the world. But many remain hopeful that the vision of global recognition of personhood for non-human animals will eventually be realised. Organisations such as the renowned Nonhuman Rights Project campaign tirelessly to secure personhood through litigation, advocacy and education.\nThe ruling of the Uttarakhand Supreme Court represents another exciting step forward in the movement to recognise the rights of non-human animals.\nMeghan Scolyer is a law student at the University of Tasmania, currently writing an honours thesis on the concept of legal personhood for nonhuman animals. In 2018, Meghan successfully lobbied the UTAS Student Environmental Law Society to expand its ambit to include animal law \u2013 it is soon to be renamed \u2018SEALS\u2019 (Student Environmental and Animal Law Society) as a result.\nOur team is currently busy working on our latest Animal Protection Education (APE) resources on the topic of legal personhood. Each APE is aligned with the Australian curriculum and includes everything you need to deliver an engaging lesson on a variety of topics. Sign up to be the first to hear about our APE's here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20100208/NEWS/302089983", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QBHQWB7M5WVMB2YR5WQK5QUBQTEHVSEV", "length": 551, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.vvdailypress.com", "title": "Celebrations 02-07-10 - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA", "raw_content": "Barbara and Leo Croteau\nRobert \"Leo\" and Barbara Croteau of Silver Lakes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on a cruise with 87 family members and friends.\nThe couple were married Nov. 19, 1949, in Bridgeport, Conn., moved to California in 1956 and have lived in Silver Lakes for more than 21 years. They have three sons, Rob and his wife, Pam, of Silver Lakes, Ken and Debbie of Hesperia and David and Gloria of San Bernardino. They also have six granddaughters and three grandsons as well as six great-granddaughters and four great-grandsons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 2644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 145.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20100226/NEWS/302269983", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:49Z", "digest": "sha1:P7DVKWAKTC72RU3TISDOS3EIUS6ZAVXZ", "length": 932, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.vvdailypress.com", "title": "Water allowance triples for coming year - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA", "raw_content": "Water allowance triples for coming year\nAPPLE VALLEY \ufffd The Mojave Water Agency, which controls the water supply for the entire Victor Valley, is slated to get three times more water for the coming year than expected. That's enough to serve an additional 16,650 homes.\nHowever, Friday's announcement from the State Water Project that California's 27 water contractors will receive not 5 but 15 percent of what they're requesting still leaves them at an all-time low. And less water coming in from the state means MWA will have to use more of its local supply to keep taps flowing, rather than storing this year's plentiful rain for future dry years.\n\"It's obviously not where we want to be, where we need to be,\" said MWA spokesman Michael Stevens of the allocation. \"But 15 is better than 5.\"\nTo read the full story, see Sunday's Press Dispatch. To subscribe to the Daily Press in print or online, call (760) 241-7755 or click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wacotrib.com/waco_today_magazine/the-last-drive-in-picture-show-in-gatesville/article_be8883e7-2a23-5910-a979-b739b00cbe6f.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YKEKXCLCH7DFRU3QJPQMQ3CNYFOAVHDJ", "length": 918, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wacotrib.com", "title": "33. THE LAST DRIVE-IN PICTURE SHOW IN GATESVILLE | Waco Today | wacotrib.com", "raw_content": "Photo by Ken Sury\n33. THE LAST DRIVE-IN PICTURE SHOW IN GATESVILLE\nOnly a little more than a half-hour outside Waco, it feels like a blast from the past: going to a drive-in. And at $10 per car, it\u2019s tough to beat that price.\nMost people will set up lawn chairs to sit under the stars for the 9 p.m. first movie of a nightly double-feature and roll down their vehicle\u2019s windows or take a radio to listen to the movie\u2019s audio on 90.3 FM.\nThe theater offers first-run movies, and if the Central Texas heat is more than you care to deal with, a 174-seat indoor theater is available with other showings earlier in the day. Concessions prices are less than most theaters, too.\nAn 18-hole miniature golf course on the property hasn\u2019t been used in a few years, but the owner is working to renovate it and make it playable again.\nADDRESS: 2912 State Highway 36 in Gatesville\nONLINE: drive-ins.com/showing/txlast, Facebook page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 465, "original_length": 10393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wardgoodman.co.uk/reform-may-be-coming-to-pension-tax-relief/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:40Z", "digest": "sha1:6SD4RMBI4M5FKNW46OLWRLDLI3OJ2CUA", "length": 1935, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wardgoodman.co.uk", "title": "Reform may be coming to pension tax relief - Ward Goodman", "raw_content": "Home / News / Reform may be coming to pension tax relief\nReform may be coming to pension tax relief\nThe way pension tax relief works is reportedly under review by the Treasury.\nThe apparent proposal is focused around a new flat rate of tax relief of 25% on pension contributions, regardless of personal income tax rates. Under this scheme, a gross pension contribution of \u00a3100 would require the same of everyone \u2013 a net outlay of \u00a375 rather than the current \u00a380. Pension tax relief is currently given based on your personal income tax rate, which means most people get basic rate relief at 20%, but high earners can get 40% or 45%.\nThe 25% rate would be a tax cut, in effect, for anyone paying only basic rate tax, but could also potentially save the Exchequer around \u00a34 billion a year. Increasing the flat rate to 28% would cost the Treasury the same as today\u2019s mix of 20%, 40% and 45% reliefs, according to estimates from the Resolution Foundation.\nWith the government looking for an extra \u00a320.5 billion in funding for the NHS, it isn\u2019t surprising that pension reliefs are under consideration. Tax relief on pension contributions cost the Exchequer \u00a338.6 billion in 2016/17, according to HMRC\u2019s latest estimate, as well as over \u00a316.2 billion of national insurance contribution (NIC) relief on employer contributions.\nThe government has eroded the value of pension relief over recent year by reducing the annual allowance: it is now \u00a340,000, but in 2010/11 was as high as \u00a3255,000. While these more radical changes to tax relief would be politically sensitive \u2013 and the Chancellor has already experienced a backlash after his proposed increase of NICs in 2017 \u2013 the Treasury Select Committee has recommended the government give it \u201cserious consideration\u201d.\nWith the government needing to find money from somewhere, and more voices calling for a move away from full tax relief, a significant change to pension reliefs may be inevitable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.warriorsforjustice.com/religious-discrimination/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JM7ZTJYG3T6IJW42VDTB3WTOJ3ZJ65YB", "length": 2086, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.warriorsforjustice.com", "title": "Religious Discrimination Lawyer | Warriors For Justice", "raw_content": "Warriors For Justice Religious Discrimination\nReligious discrimination involves treating an employee or job applicant unfavorably because of that person\u2019s religious beliefs. The law protects not only those who belong to traditional, organized religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism or Islam, but also other beliefs as long as such are sincerely held religious or moral beliefs. This includes workplace segregation based on religion (including religious garb and grooming practices), such as assigning an employee to a non-customer contact position because of actual or feared customer preference.\nReligious discrimination is also prohibited against someone who is married to (or associated with) a particular religion.\nAccommodation of Religious Beliefs\nThe law requires an employer to reasonably accommodate sincere religious beliefs unless doing so would cause an undue hardship to the employer. An accommodation might cause undue hardship if it is costly, compromises workplace safety, decreases efficiency, infringes on the rights of other employees or requires other employees to do more than their share of potentially burdensome or hazardous work.\nExamples of some common religious accommodations include flexible work schedules, voluntary shift swaps or substitutions, job reassignments or lateral transfers. The requirement for accommodations also applies to dress or grooming practices that are for religious reasons which might include such things as head coverings, facial hair or certain hairstyles.\nWhen an employee needs an accommodation for sincerely held religious beliefs, he/she should notify the employer and the employer/employee should engage in an interactive process to discuss the request, which should be granted absent an undue hardship to the employer.\nEmployers\u2019 Religious Beliefs\nAn employee cannot be forced to participate or not participate in a religious activity as a condition of employment.\nIf you feel you\u2019re the victim of religious discrimination at work call us today at (817) 820-0100 or submit a free case evaluation online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/motorcyclist-suffers-serious-injuries-in-fosse-way-crash-1-7383954", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RHLRKV2URBYSXSEDFU44OLPJHO7LEK43", "length": 1261, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.warwickcourier.co.uk", "title": "Motorcyclist suffers serious injuries in Fosse Way crash - Warwick Courier", "raw_content": "Motorcyclist suffers serious injuries in Fosse Way crash\nA motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after a crash on the Fosse Way on Sunday May 15.\nTwo other people were also injured during the crash which happened at around 1.30pm at the junction with Windmill Hill Lane near Chesterton.\nTwo ambulances and the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \u201cWhen crews arrived they found a red car with significant front nearside damage, two motorbikes that had suffered huge damage and a light blue Peugeot with minor damage.\n\u201cOne of the riders, a man in his 50s, had suffered multiple serious injuries. He was immobilised, had splints applied and was given pain relief before being airlifted to the major trauma centre at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire.\n\u201cThe second rider, who was also in his 50s, was immobilised as a precaution and taken to Warwick Hospital, though he appeared uninjured.\n\u201cThe woman in the red car, who was believed to be in her 70s, had a fractured wrist and seatbelt pain. She was also taken to Warwick Hospital.\n\u201cThe man in the Peugeot was uninjured.\n\u201cThe road was closed in both directions to allow emergency services to work at the scene safely.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/19/netanyahu-accidentally-reveals-israel-has-struck-iran-backed-fighters-in-syria-dozens-of-times/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_ciasyria-310pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.1e5503f3aaf9", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:7CHSEI3O7CCJQN33Y5PXRZUCW2BBHBUR", "length": 4412, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "Netanyahu accidentally reveals Israel has struck Iran-backed fighters in Syria \u2018dozens of times\u2019 - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "Netanyahu accidentally reveals Israel has struck Iran-backed fighters in Syria \u2018dozens of times\u2019\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the news conference in Budapest on July 19. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)\nIt has never been a particularly well-kept secret that Israel has conducted clandestine airstrikes in Syrian territory over recent years. But this week, Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to not only admit that these strikes had occurred, but that they had occurred \u201cdozens\u201d of times.\nThe Israeli prime minister made this admission accidentally \u2014 all thanks to a hot mic.\nNetanyahu's remarks came during a meeting with Eastern European leaders in Budapest on Wednesday. Although the meeting occurred behind closed doors, the Israeli leader's microphone remained on and his voice was transmitted to headphones given to reporters earlier.\nSpeaking to the leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, Netanyahu said Israel had specifically targeted Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese militia Hezbollah in Syria, where Hezbollah is helping bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the ongoing civil war.\n\u201cWe blocked the border not only in Egypt but in the Golan Heights,\u201d he said, according to an account from Haaretz newspaper. \u201cWe built the wall because there was a problem with ISIS and Iran trying to build a terror front there. I told [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, when we see them transferring weapons to Hezbollah, we will hurt them. We did it dozens of times.\u201d ISIS is an alternative acronym for the Islamic State militant group.\nIt's not quite the first time that Israel has acknowledged carrying out military actions in Syria. In late June, Israel announced that it had struck three Syrian army targets in the Golan Heights after errant fire landed in Israeli-controlled territory.\nIn April, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported that an Israeli airstrike had hit buildings being used to store weapons for Hezbollah near Damascus International Airport. That evening, Israel said it was forced to deploy its Patriot missile defense system to intercept an incoming projectile from Syria \u2014 an apparent attempt at retaliation.\nBut, generally, Israel has declined to talk about such actions. Despite the country's long-standing animosity with the Syrian government and a tense border in the Golan Heights, Israel has tried to keep itself out of Syrian affairs for fear of inadvertently aiding extremist groups such as the Islamic State or al-Qaeda.\nIt was only recently, as the Syrian war has dragged on, that the situation has evolved. Israel now seems more concerned about the threat posed by Hezbollah and other Iran-backed forces helping Assad in Syria, who could end up occupying territory near Israel's border as conflict slows down.\nNetanyahu's comments about Syria came in the midst of a broader conversation about the European Union \u2014 an institution that he has deemed \u201ccrazy\u201d for the way it deals with Israel. \u201cThe European Union is the only association of countries in the world that conditions the relations with Israel \u2014 that produces technology in every area \u2014 on political conditions. The only ones. Nobody does it,\u201d Netanyahu said, adding that Russia, China and India remained willing to separate their economic ties from politics.\nThe incident in Budapest is just the latest moment in Netanyahu's problematic relationship with microphones. In May, his wife, Sara Netanyahu, was overheard making disparaging remarks about the media to President Trump during the latter's visit to Israel. \u201cThe majority of the people of Israel, unlike the media, they love us, so we tell them how you are great and they love you,\u201d she was caught on camera saying.\nPresident Trump and first lady Melania received a very warm welcome in Israel on May 22, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara bonding with them over their \"common\" relationship with the media. (The Washington Post)\nYears earlier, the Israeli leader was on the receiving end of a hot-mic comment. \u201cI cannot bear Netanyahu, he\u2019s a liar,\u201d then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy told President Obama during a Group of 20 meeting in Cannes in 2011 \u2014 apparently unaware that his microphone remained on. \u201cYou're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you,\u201d Obama replied.\nThe huge contrast between Obama\u2019s and Trump\u2019s visits to Israel\u2019s Holocaust memorial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 5050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/21/carbon-shame-goes-global/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:XNIEIWVPCLWKEWXLJOVHI665YTEWQYOQ", "length": 3563, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.washingtontimes.com", "title": "EDITORIAL: Carbon shame goes global - Washington Times", "raw_content": "EDITORIAL: Carbon shame goes global\nRedemption comes in only one color \u2014 green\nBy THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 21, 2010\nYou\u2019ve got to hand it to Al Gore; he\u2019s willing to adapt his scaremongering theology to keep it kicking. His 2006 agitprop film, \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth,\u201d sold millions on the unproven theory that human-induced \u201cglobal warming\u201d threatens to wreak catastrophe on the Earth. Absent evidence of actual warming, Mr. Gore\u2019s acolytes have since been forced to edit and re-edit the title of the feared phenomenon from \u201cglobal warming\u201d to \u201cclimate change\u201d to the current \u201cglobal climate disruption.\u201d\nAmidst all the desperate rebranding, Mr. Gore\u2019s followers have succeeded in re-engineering the public\u2019s perception of energy use from a symbol of progress to an indicator of iniquity. Initiatives are rippling outward across the world, inducing humans to reduce their energy consumption - and in some cases, spend big bucks - to avoid carbon shame. Carbon is a component of carbon dioxide, which the Environmental Protection Agency has defined as a greenhouse gas. Never mind that it\u2019s a critical ingredient of Earth\u2019s atmosphere and to life on this planet.\nEarlier this month, the World Bank announced the creation of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund, in which Norway pays Guyana $30 million for \u201climiting greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.\u201d The payout could reach $250 million by 2015 to fund \u201curgent action to avert climate catastrophe with Guyana\u2019s sustainable development,\u201d according to Ashni Singh, Guyana\u2019s minister of finance.\nIn return for its money, Norway receives \u201cecosystem services.\u201d Because the Scandinavian nation is located more than 5,000 miles from Guyana and receives no tangible benefit from this deal, Norwegians presumably can be comforted in the knowledge that their krones are preserving South American forests, thereby granting them absolution of guilt arising from damage they might wreak on their own forests. No carbon shame for them.\nIn nearby Britain, the embarrassment of carbon-dioxide production has become a business expense. A Carbon Reduction Commitment took effect in April, requiring large companies to measure, report and pay for carbon-dioxide emissions. Failure to comply can result in daily fines of tens of thousands of pounds.\nThe British Environment Agency announced late last month that only about 2,800 of the estimated 5,000 businesses affected by the new requirement had registered before the Oct. 1 deadline. An agency spokesman said, \u201cWe will not be naming and shaming people\u201d - yet. By the end of the year, a table listing companies according to their success at cutting energy use is to be made public. The fear of shame, not to mention stiff penalties, has spurred a flurry of last-minute registrations.\nCloser to home, utilities in the Sacramento, Calif., and Puget Sound areas are studying the impact of peer pressure on energy consumption by including information in monthly bills that compares customers\u2019 electricity use with that of their neighbors. Not surprisingly, carbon shame works: Customers - wanting to avoid a reputation as the neighborhood energy glutton - cut back their consumption between 1.2 percent and 2.1 percent.\nSuch are the faces of environmental demagoguery in the 21st century. In this supposedly sophisticated era, the green craze is marshaling the dubious theory of \u201cglobal climate disruption\u201d to scare the world\u2019s most advanced nations into wasting billions and winding the hands of progress backward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/16/anthony-weiner-quits-congress-over-sexting-scandal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:D777L75BMGCBVR4XVYYEDHA5KGJQJKD5", "length": 6288, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.washingtontimes.com", "title": "Weiner resigns amid sexting scandal - Washington Times", "raw_content": "Weiner resigns amid sexting scandal\nApologizes to wife, others for actions\n** FILE ** Rep. Anthony D. Weiner announces his resignation from Congress on June 16, 2011, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Mr. Weiner said he could not continue in office amid the intense controversy surrounding sexually explicit messages ... more >\nBy Sean Lengell - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 16, 2011\nEmbattled Rep. Anthony D. Weiner announced Thursday that he was resigning, capping a nearly three-week scandal involving his sexually charged online relationships with several women that he conceded had made it impossible for him to serve.\n\u201cI am here again to apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,\u201d Mr. Weiner, New York Democrat, said during an afternoon news conference in his Brooklyn district that was interrupted by continuing heckling from protesters. \u201cI make this apology to my neighbors and constituents, but I made it particularly to my wife, Huma.\u201d\nThe pugnacious Mr. Weiner, one of the most outspoken liberal voices in the House Democratic caucus before his precipitous fall, said that while he had \u201choped to continue the work the citizens of my district elected me to do, \u2026 unfortunately the distractions that I have created have made that impossible.\u201d\nHe said he reached his decision so \u201cmy colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and, most importantly, that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.\u201d\nNew York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to call a special election to fill the seat once the congressman formally submits his resignation papers. Mr. Weiner\u2019s district includes parts of the New York boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.\nPresident Obama, who earlier strongly hinted that Mr. Weiner should quit, expressed sympathy Thursday evening but made no effort to ask his fellow Democrat to reconsider his decision to quit.\n\u201cObviously, it\u2019s been a tough incident for him,\u201d said in an interview with ABC News. \u201cBut I\u2019m confident that he\u2019ll refocus, and he\u2019ll end up being able to bounce back.\u201d\nRep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, said that, despite Mr. Weiner\u2019s embarrassing actions, he thinks it would be difficult \u2014 though \u201cnot beyond the realm of possibility\u201d \u2014 for a Republican to win the seat.\n\u0001\u201dIt\u2019s a Democratic district that has been trending Republican, but it would take some extraordinary circumstances\u201d for a Republican to capture the seat, he told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday.\u0001\nIt would be the state\u2019s second special election this year for a House seat that came open as a result of the intersection of old-fashioned sex scandal and new-media technology. GOP Rep. Chris Lee resigned his 26th District seat in February after a shirtless photo of the married congressman was sent to a woman through Craigslist.\nMr. Weiner didn\u2019t say Thursday what he would do next.\n\u201cI got into politics to help give voice to the many who simply did not have one,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019ll be looking for other ways to contribute my talents to make sure that we live up to that most New York and American of ideals.\u201d\nThe lawmaker\u2019s four-minute address was interrupted by cheers, jeers \u2014 including catcalls such as \u201cBye-bye, pervert\u201d \u2014 and lewd comments concerning his name from some in the audience.\nMr. Weiner gives up an annual salary of $174,000. But members who resign from office before their term expires typically are allowed to keep their congressional pensions for time served, said a senior House aide.\nMr. Weiner, 46, who has been married less than a year and whose wife is pregnant, has admitted to sending lewd and sometimes X-rated photos and exchanging sexually charged messages on the Internet with several women.\nHe acknowledged that he initially lied in public to cover his tracks.\nPolice also have been looking into Mr. Weiner\u2019s reputed contacts with a 17-year-old girl in Delaware, according to news reports.\nHe has said he is seeking \u201cprofessional help\u201d and was granted a two-week leave of absence from the House this week.\nMr. Weiner reportedly was reluctant to make a decision about his career without speaking with his wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had been overseas since shortly after the scandal broke, news sources have reported. That trip ended Tuesday night.\nA growing chorus of Capitol Hill Democrats were calling for his resignation. They included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.\nRep. John B. Larson, Connecticut Democrat, who is House Democratic Caucus chairman, issued a statement saying the congressman \u201cmade the decision with the best interest in mind of not just himself, but his family, his constituents and the nation.\u201d\nBut Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., New Jersey Democrat, said he thinks Mr. Weiner\u2019s conscience \u2014 not pressure from party leadership \u2014 was what led him to step down.\n\u201cI think it was just a kind of internal thing, and I think he sincerely was involved with the idea that he\u2019s done big harm to people, including himself,\u201d Mr. Pascrell told reporters at the Capitol. \u201cI think it\u2019s more of a personal thing than him being concerned about his career.\u201d\nMr. Pascrell said it\u2019s premature to consider the New Yorker\u2019s political career over.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to think about it within the next five years, but who\u2019s to say what can happen in five years?\u201d he said. \u201cSo you don\u2019t know.\u201d\nMedia consultant Jess Todtfeld agreed it\u2019s plausible Mr. Weiner could re-enter politics later \u2014 as long as he shows public contrition.\n\u201cWhen it comes to forgiving and forgetting, Americans are very good at forgetting,\u201d said Mr. Todtfeld, president of Success In Media, a media consultancy based in New York City.\n\u201cIn the short term, he has to go and show the public that he\u2019s dealt with his problems, much like an alcohol or a drug addiction. \u2026 If he really, truly does that, he can start to make his way back to politics.\u201d\nBefore the scandal broke, Mr. Weiner had been a subject of speculation involving the 2013 New York City mayoral race. He was re-elected to a seventh term in November with 61 percent of the vote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 10809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/2/walker-tries-again-with-board-of-fisheries-nominat/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:00Z", "digest": "sha1:YMY4GCSUKM7VZNB7HU77R4FMG5UYR46C", "length": 4362, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.washingtontimes.com", "title": "Walker tries again with Board of Fisheries nominations - Washington Times", "raw_content": "Walker tries again with Board of Fisheries nominations\nFormer Alaska Board of Fisheries nominee Roland Maw heads into court before his first hearing on 17 felony and misdemeanor charges that he lied to gain residency benefits in Alaska on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Juneau, Alaska. Gov. Bill ... more >\nBy RASHAH McCHESNEY - Associated Press - Tuesday, February 2, 2016\nJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - As a former Board of Fisheries appointee headed to court on Tuesday, Gov. Bill Walker again waded into fisheries politics with the announcement of new appointments to the board.\nIt is the third time Walker has attempted to fill seats on the board that sets fishing regulations and allocations for the state. His previous appointees have resigned, failed to be confirmed by the legislature or stepped down prematurely. All appointments are subject to legislative confirmation.\nAmong the three appointments are newcomers, Al Cain, a former Alaska Wildlife Trooper, hunting and fishing guide Israel Payton and Soldotna conservationist Robert Ruffner, an environmental scientist who had previously been appointed to the board but failed to make it out of legislative confirmation.\nRuffner did not reapply for the vacant seat, but he said the governor called to ask if he\u2019d be willing to go through the nomination process again. Ruffner agreed, but he said he hoped the political infighting that characterized his 2015 nomination had cooled.\n\u201cI really want to see less contention and less drama associated with the nominations,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had some turnover and there\u2019s bad stuff that happened last year. But I\u2019d like to see us looking forward.\u201d\nWalker first appointed Ruffner last March after his first appointment to the board -Roland Maw- resigned after allegations surfaced that he had falsified residency information in Montana. Maw now faces similar charges in Alaska.\nIn Juneau court on Monday, Maw pleaded not guilty to 17 felony and misdemeanor charges that he fraudulently obtained commercial fishing permits and Alaska Permanent Fund dividend payments. He was charged on Jan. 13 with illegally collecting more than $7,200 in dividends between 2009-2014. His lawyer, Nicholas Polasky, said his client declined to comment after the hearing.\nDuring his 2015 confirmation, segments of the fishing industry sought to frame Ruffner as a nominee who disturbed an unwritten balance on the board between commercial, sportfishing and subsistence-fishing representatives. In a letter to the legislature, the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, a powerful sportfishing lobby based on the central Kenai Peninsula, framed him as sympathetic to the commercial fishing industry. The Legislature voted against approving Ruffner by a 30-29 margin.\nRuffner said he\u2019d likely not change much about how he went through the confirmation process, though he plans to reach out to the contingent of legislators who voted against him.\nWalker said he had been assured Ruffner\u2019s confirmation hearings would have a different outcome this year, but he would not elaborate on where he had received the information.\n\u201cI think people realized some of the opportunity that was somewhat missed with Robert Ruffner on the board, so I think we\u2019ll see a different process this time,\u201d Walker said.\nPayton was born in Skwentna and grew up living a subsistence lifestyle, according to his biography in a media release on the appointments. Currently he lives in Wasilla where he is a member of the Mat-Su Fish and Game Advisory Committee and regularly participates in the board meeting process.\nCain, of Anchorage, is well-versed in Board of Fisheries processes. He spent 15 years as an advisor to the board on enforcement issues.\nCain said he applied to the board because he wanted to help the board wade through the complex issues it faces, including contentious fisheries allocation issues.\n\u201cMy biggest skillset is I know a great deal about Alaska\u2019s fisheries, and I care about them and want them to be managed and protected for everyone,\u201d Cain said.\nIn addition to his fish board nominations, Walker announced that he\u2019d be forming a governor\u2019s advisory group on fisheries and would invite at least one of the current fisheries board members who he did not reappoint for another term. 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This course looks at four of the great kings of medieval England. Starting with Henry II, this course shall also look at the lives and reigns of Edward III, Edward IV, and Henry VII. These kings\nJessica Bunning\nMore about The Great Kings of Medieval England...\nMon 04 Mar 2019 10am - 12pm (UTC+11:00) L2 - Room 204 - WEA Sydney\nThis course looks at four of the great kings of medieval England. Starting with Henry II, this course shall also look at the lives and reigns of Edward III, Edward IV, and Henry VII. These kings helped shape England through strength of character and leadership. By examining and comparing their personalities and reigns, we shall attempt to discover what lay at the heart of their success.\nHenry II, W. L. Warren\nEdward III, W Mark Ormrod\nEdward IV: The Summer King, A. J. Pollard\nWinter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Thomas Penn\nHenry II \u2013 Early life. The Anarchy. Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Relationship with France. Administration, reform and justice. Thomas Becket. The Eagle and his Eaglets. Death and legacy.\nEdward III \u2013 Early life. Family, regency, and ascension. Administration. Relationship with France and the Hundred Years War. The Black Death. Death and legacy: his decedents.\nEdward IV \u2013 Early life. The Wars of the Roses: ascension, overthrow, restoration. Administration and reform. The Woodvilles. Relationship with France. Relationship with his brothers. Death and legacy.\nHenry VII \u2013 Early life. Exile. Claim to the throne. Wars of the Roses. Administration \u2013 taxation, justice. Rebellions. Style of rule. Relationship with France and the Continent. Death and legacy: the Tudor dynasty.\nDescribe the lives and reigns of each king.\nAssess why they are regarded as successful monarchs.\nEvaluate the extent to which they were good rulers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 6425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.webdesign.org/an-insider-s-guide-to-designing-great-e-commerce-websites.22480.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DYAHL2CIT5M2CM7QR2UNOTFAIPHY4WNZ", "length": 4807, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.webdesign.org", "title": "An Insider's Guide To Designing Great E-Commerce Websites | Web Design Principles", "raw_content": "Web Design Basics Design Principles An Insider's Guide To Designing Great E-Commerce Websites\nAn Insider's Guide To Designing Great E-Commerce Websites\nAliceL Design Principles Sep 22, 2014\nUnless you've been living under a rock for the last decade or so, or haven't read one of my previous posts, you are aware that ecommerce has become an important part of the global economy. From the days of the dotcom bust, when one e-commerce site after another went out of business, we've arrived at a time in history when e-commerce sales are rapidly heading towards the $500+ billion mark each year.\nOnline shoppers now treat making online purchases as casually as they do writing an email. Although online shopping is incredibly popular you still need to create an e-commerce site which allows you to seamlessly tap into this huge market, so I've put together a guide to help you create an e-commerce site which really works.\nIf you're working on a brand new site then you can design the site in almost any way you wish, or at least you can within client parameters. If you're trying to add an e-commerce backend to an existing site you may find yourself working with lots of legacy code. Where possible you need to make the visitor transition on older sites as flawless as possible, which means integrating existing design elements into your e-commerce design, or completely overhauling the existing site.\nFar too many designers think that an e-commerce site is complete once the shopping cart and payment processing functions are working properly. The key to a truly successful online store is your understanding of the journey your visitor takes from the moment they arrive on the site, to the point where they enter their payment details and then complete their order. You need to map out which pages a visitor has to travel through while shopping, minimizing the number of steps it takes for them to actually make a purchase. You'd be amazed at how much money online businesses lose each year because of potential sales which are abandoned at the shopping cart stage because of a design glitch.\nBuilding an e-commerce site which features multiple products versus building a site which features just a single product might seem like completely different challenges, but they're actually quite similar. Both will require their own shopping cart, SSL certificates and a payment portal of some kind. The only real difference outside that is how many items are listed in the shop's database. It's still very important to plan a single or multiple product site out well in advance however. One key example of this is figuring out exactly how many products you want to feature on each page.\nMost of the bigger online stores show shoppers exactly how many of a given item they still have left in stock, and if the item is out of stock they give an estimated time of delivery based on when their next batch of stock is arriving. E-commerce design best practices would also have your site displaying related purchases to your visitors, so if the product they want is out of stock they'll probably be more than happy to buy a similar product, often with a higher sticker price.\nHere's more for you to read on e-commerce:\nAny modern e-commerce site will need to at least feature social media sharing buttons in the design, because if you have a great design and great products you need to make it as easy as possible for your visitors to share your site with all of their Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest friends. You can also tie your online store to your online presence on Facebook or Twitter, encouraging shoppers to leave feedback or reviews on your social networking sites - these can be invaluable in generating additional sales for your business, and all without paying an additional cent for advertising.\nAnyone reading this who has even a tiny amount of sales experience will know that the key to closing most deals is simply asking for the sale. In the case of e-commerce stores this means providing what's referred to as a \"Call to Action\" on your product pages - literally providing shoppers with a button that says \"Buy Now\" or \"Add to cart\". This is part of the sales funnel process, but I decided to include it here separately because it's incredibly important to get this point across: Your site design must include a very clear and very easy-to-use \"Call to Action\", otherwise shoppers might change their mind and go elsewhere.\nIt's a wise move to look at what the biggest online retailers in the world are doing in terms of e-commerce, and then emulate their best practices in your design. Remember that they've invested millions of dollars in perfecting their sales funnel, so why not take inspiration from sites like Amazon and eBay - you can learn a lot from multi-billion dollar companies after all?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weincluded.com/who-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6BURDCVV4T3X7VEPWEEEG2QTP3A2D5GG", "length": 1208, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.weincluded.com", "title": "Who we are | We Included", "raw_content": "At We, included. we are focused on making people aware about the lives and conditions of the differently abled community. Through the medium of first-hand stories, we want to create an environment which makes the differently abled community feel included in this society. Our aim is to break the stereotype that physical or mental limitations hinder the growth of a human being.\nWe know that taking care of a person who is differently abled is equally difficult. So we make it easier by telling them about the limitations of different conditions and how to be of help to anyone who has them.\nMyChild App is one tool that we have built to help parents screen their children between the age of 0-24 months. This tool helps parents know at an early stage if their child has a delayed growth. This way, parents can take preventive measures and even if their child still has a special condition, they will be better prepared.\nWe will be building more such tools to make prevention, diagnosis, and treatment a smoother and faster process. In the meanwhile, We, included is there to start the conversation.\nWe understand it\u2019s not easy, but we do know that one step at a time can collectively make a huge difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernriver.com/blog/western-river-trip-review/great-times-on-the-colorado/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7JHQN65QQXHZWSZJ2PL7VU2QXAG3MQOJ", "length": 347, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.westernriver.com", "title": "Great Times on the Colorado!!! - Western River Blog", "raw_content": "Great Times on the Colorado!!!\nA fantastic Grand Canyon expedition!! Wonderful excitement on the river during the day, and old fashioned camping by the river at night. It reminded me of when I was a kid fishing on the Green River. Sleeping under the stars, inches away from nature. A real treat, moving back in time. Way Back....\nMark, Phoenix, AZ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernsydneycareerexpo.com.au/Exhibitors/c/choosemaths---amsi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HYGDSDUF3MXK367U6XTWFYMVH4PA6MJV", "length": 610, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.westernsydneycareerexpo.com.au", "title": "Western Sydney Careers Expo: ChooseMaths - AMSI", "raw_content": "The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) is a national not-for-profit organisation and is the central voice for Australia\u2019s mathematical sciences. With a growing number of occupations requiring maths skills, the five-year national CHOOSEMATHS project aims to turn around public perception of mathematics and encourage students to embrace these opportunities now and into the future. CHOOSEMATHS works across the mathematics pipeline from school through university and out to industry and the workplace. 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The objectives of Omicron Delta Epsilon are recognition of scholastic attainment and the honoring of outstanding achievements in Economics; the establishment of closer ties between students and faculty in Economics within colleges and universities, and among colleges and universities; the publication of its official journal, The American Economist, and sponsoring of panels at professional meetings as well as the Irving Fisher and Frank W. Taussig competitions. The West Georgia Chapter of Omicron was founded in 1977.\nUndergraduate Admission Requirements to the West Georgia Chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon:\ncompletion of 12 semester hours of Economics courses; and\nattainment of at least a \"B\" average in Economics courses and an overall \"B\" average in all classes and be in the upper 1/3 of their classes.\nStudents must be a minor or major in Economic.\nNo one shall be denied membership because of sex, race, color, creed , or national origin.\nA life-membership fee is paid for each prospective member of Omicron Delta Epsilon upon election to the Society. In return, the member receives a membership card, scroll and a year's subscription (two issues) to The American Economist. The purchase of the official key or pin by the initiates is optional by highly encouraged.\nThe official web site for Omicron Delta Epsilon is http://www.omicrondeltaepsilon.org/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3502, "original_length": 74671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/07/11/hawaii-news/man-dies-in-crash-on-daniel-k-inouye-highway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CU6EZHIW3FYUA73M54PZSWK7NA34WWNC", "length": 1143, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.westhawaiitoday.com", "title": "Police ID man killed in crash on Daniel K. Inouye Highway - West Hawaii Today", "raw_content": "By West Hawaii Today | Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 9 a.m.\nKAILUA-KONA \u2014 A man died following a two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon on the Daniel K. Inouye Highway in the North Hilo district.\nResponding to a 4:18 p.m. call, police determined that a 2010 Mazda sedan was traveling westbound on the Daniel K. Inouye Highway between mile markers 25 and 26 when it crossed the center line and collided head-on into a 2018 Nissan pickup that was traveling eastbound.\nThe driver of the Mazda sedan was transported via ambulance to the Hilo Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 5:48 p.m.\nHe was later identified as 71-year-old Waimea resident Roger Vargas.\nThe driver of the Nissan pickup, a 51-year-old Hilo man, was transported by a Pohakuloa Training Area helicopter to the Hilo Medical Center for treatment of his injuries, where he remains in stable condition.\nBoth drivers were wearing their seatbelts, and it is unknown at this time if speed was a factor in this crash.\nAnyone who witnessed the crash should call Officer Clarence Acob at 961-2329. Those who prefer to remain anonymous may call the islandwide Crime Stoppers at 961-8300.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 201.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/explore-the-collections/chapter-2-the-return-of-dr-n/page/1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NL2D6KKU3KUMOXF4M4SPNYV4QUP2ONJP", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.westkowloon.hk", "title": "West Kowloon Cultural District - Chapter 2, The Return of Dr. N - Chapter 2, The Return of Dr. N", "raw_content": "overall: 152 \u00d7 245.5 \u00d7 4 cm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wetinhappen.com.ng/between-timi-dakolo-and-a-man-who-was-wondering-why-he-is-performing-at-the-2018-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CBHULKSX7LJCBMRURAHGJWMNKCOH5WQU", "length": 390, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.wetinhappen.com.ng", "title": "Between Timi Dakolo and a man who was wondering why he is performing at the 2018 Experience \u2013 Wetinhappen.com.ng", "raw_content": "Between Timi Dakolo and a man who was wondering why he is performing at the 2018 Experience\nEntertainment, Timi Dakolo\nBelow is how Timi Dakolo responded to a man who asked why he will be performing at the 2018 Experience when he is not a gospel artiste.\nThe post Between Timi Dakolo and a man who was wondering why he is performing at the 2018 Experience appeared first on Ghafla! Nigeria.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whatweleft.com/filmmakers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:N24IHSDGFW2HTYOTN3SA4TVLU3DKIV6V", "length": 7450, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.whatweleft.com", "title": "The filmmakers \u2013 What We Left Unfinished", "raw_content": "Director/producer Mariam Ghani\u2019s previous projects in Afghanistan have documented the spatial politics of the post-war constitutional assembly, real-estate speculations in reconstructed Kabul, afterlives of former secret prisons, diasporic translators in theaters of war, and forgotten histories of Afghan modernists, artists and intellectuals. Her films & installations have been presented by IFFR, CPH:DOX, transmediale, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the National Gallery, Documenta, CCCB in Barcelona, Garage in Moscow, and the Liverpool, Sharjah and Gwangju Biennials, and are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Arab American National Museum, the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), and the Devi Art Foundation (India). She co-wrote Afghanistan: A Lexicon with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and co-created the Afghan Films online archive with Pad.ma. WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is her first feature.\nAs a visual artist and independent filmmaker, Mariam Ghani has produced or co-produced 27 short films and multiple-channel installations, six transmedia projects, live cinema events, and a number of traveling film programs, exhibitions, conferences, and discussions, with production partners including Alternet, Creative Time, Die Zeit, Asia Art Archive, Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York University, the Queens Museum of Art, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Dhaka Art Summit, Secession in Vienna, the Wellcome Collection in the UK, the Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, the Goethe Institute in Kabul, and Ryan Lee Gallery in New York, which distributes her short-form and installation work.\nStill from What We Left Unfinished (Indexical Films, 2019): the Afghan Films archive\nI first visited Afghan Films, the national film institute of Afghanistan, in 2011. The films in their archive had survived the civil war, Taliban years, and US invasion. But they were disorganized and on the brink of deteriorating. Over many visits since, I have worked with Afghan Films and other partners to preserve, re-catalogue, digitize and disseminate those films. WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED was born from that long, complicated relationship, made up of equal parts affection and frustration.\nIt began with an irresistible rumor: the existence of unfinished films in the archive. For me, an unfinished project is like a loose thread in history \u2013 and pulling on that thread led me on a five-year journey that extends far past what is contained in this feature film. As I reassembled film fragments and people who had been scattered by war, I realized that the process of making the film was mirroring a larger process happening in Afghanistan, whereby the fraught, unsettled, and contested histories of the Communist period are gradually surfacing into public discourse. In my own family, while I have cousins who grew up hearing daily stories of the atrocities that propelled our parents\u2019 generation into exile, I never heard many of these tales until much later in life, even though it was the arrest of my fater\u2019s father, uncles and brothers by the Afghan Communists that sealed our own fate: remaining in the US until my parents\u2019 return in 2001.\nWhen my surviving great-uncles left the Pul-e-Charkhi prison under the Soviet amnesty in 1979, they saw their own names printed on the lists of the dead that were pinned weekly to the prison gates. To me, this story has always sounded like a cross between a dark fairy tale and an even darker Afghan joke (by which I mean the kind of statement that Afghans make, laugh about, and absolutely no one else finds funny.)\nPerhaps this is because certain facts are still easier to face when presented as fictions. And WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is about fiction films that often blurred the line between document and fiction \u2013 real soldiers enacting fictional sieges, real bullets in prop guns, real consequences for fake events. Likewise, my film plays on the gaps between film and history, ideal and reality, and past and present Afghanistans. It is also a film about the histories left untold: the contradictions and omissions in the stories both people and nations tell about their pasts. My formal approach is constructed to highlight these gaps, matching archival film with present-day locations and finding uncanny resonances between archival images and interview audio.\nSince we put 90 Afghan films online in 2012, I\u2019ve been screening and writing about them. I\u2019ve watched audiences experience the incredible power of seeing all the other Afghanistans that existed before the wars \u2013 the lost histories of Afghan modernism, liberalism, and Leftist intellectuals \u2013 and I\u2019ve seen how that opens up new ways of imagining Afghanistan\u2019s present, future, and relations with the West. I know that this film will have the same power, because I am making it with all the knowledge I have gleaned from years of looking at and thinking about Afghan film and Afghan history, countless hours of poring over Afghan archives, endless arguments about events that no two people remember the same way, and the intimate estrangement of a second-generation exile who is simultaneously the ultimate political insider.\nStill from What We Left Unfinished (Indexical Films, 2019)\nEXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALYSA NAHMIAS (Ajna Films, NY/LA) co-directed and produced the doc feature UNFINISHED SPACES (2011 Independent Spirit Award, Sundance Film Forward & Venice Biennale selection, PBS & HBO Latin America broadcasts, MoMA permanent collection) about Cuba\u2019s ambitious and unfinished National Arts Schools project. Nahmias\u2019 producing credits also include the 2017 Sundance Jury Award-winning UNREST by director Jennifer Brea; the scripted feature NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE by writer/director Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July; SHIELD AND SPEAR by director Petter Ringbom; and the PBS American Masters film AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ (2013 NYFF, Berlinale) by director/producer Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese.\nEDITOR IAN OLDS co-directed (with Garrett Scott) and edited the documentaries CUL-DE-SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY, OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND (2006 Independent Spirit Award, Full Frame Award), and FIXER: THE TAKING OF AJMAL NAQSHBANDI (2009 Emmy nom, Tribeca Jury Award), which looks at the differences in the treatment of Afghan and foreign journalists in the Afghan war. Olds also directed the narrative feature film BURN COUNTRY (Tribeca Jury Award nom). As an editor he is known for collaborations that push the boundaries between narrative and documentary forms.\nCOMPOSER QASIM NAQVI\u2019s soundtracks and arrangements for film (including five previous scores for Mariam) have appeared on HBO, NBC, PBS, the Sundance Channel, The NY Times, and Vice TV, and screened at Tribeca, Sundance, TIFF, IDFA, and the Academy Awards, among others. His concert works have been performed by the yMusic, Now, Loos, Stargaze and Crash Ensembles; New Century Players; the Helsinki Chamber Choir; the BBC and Chicago Symphony Orchestras; and others. 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Snelson will work closely with the Firm's Financial Institutions and Private Equity (PE) Industry Groups.\n\"Sherri is a talented lawyer with an impressive background in complex financial transactions,\" said Eric Leicht, Head of White & Case's Global Banking Practice. \"She will play a key role in helping us further expand our practice and strengthen our capabilities, particularly in the lending and private equity spaces.\"\nSnelson has extensive experience working with private equity portfolio companies, lenders and private equity funds in connection with financing transactions, with a focus on leveraged financings.\nSnelson was previously a finance partner at O'Melveny. Over the course of her career, she has acted as lead counsel on hundreds of finance transactions that span a wide array of industries and jurisdictions throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.\n\"Continuing to grow our Global Banking Practice is a key pillar of the Firm's strategy,\" said Jake Mincemoyer, Head of White & Case's Americas Banking Practice. \"As the global financial landscape changes, so do our clients' goals. Adding a highly experienced attorney such as Sherri further reinforces our commitment to serving our clients' evolving needs.\"\nSherri Snelson\nEric Leicht\nJake Mincemoyer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wildwesleyan.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SHP6PAA5MZSIZK2CL4QQCS3YVQ2FCGY5", "length": 905, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wildwesleyan.org", "title": "WILD Wes", "raw_content": "WILD Wes\nConcept of Permaculture\nGreen Fund Thanks\nWILD Wes:\nWorking for Intelligent Landscape Design at Wesleyan University\nThe concept of \"Permaculture\" was developed in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in an attempt to create a sustainable relationship with nature that maintains and cultivates ecologies in order to work with and for the current system rather than against it.\nIn 2010, students at Wesleyan University set out to create a student run permaculture site in the middle of campus.\nToday, WILD Wes is thriving and continuing its goal towards a more sustainable and permanent relationship between university landscaping and the surrounding ecology.\nThis project is made possible by the continued support of the Green Fund, the College of the Environment, Physical Plant, the SAGES-Green Building Subcommittee, the Sustainability Office, and the generous philanthropists and partners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wiley-vch.de/en/shop/journals/1039-batteries-supercaps-2811-en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:67RRYMYRH5MSOWPC3Z24MTPEY7JDVWL7", "length": 1378, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.wiley-vch.de", "title": "Wiley-VCH - Batteries & Supercaps", "raw_content": "Batteries & Supercaps is aimed to become a top-ranking journal on all aspects of battery research, from fundamentals to applications, including engineering aspects. The journal publishes primary research papers and critical secondary information from authors across the world.\nBatteries & Supercaps is published on behalf of ChemPubSoc Europe. The ChemPubSoc Europe family comprises: Chemistry\u2014A European Journal, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ChemPhysChem, ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, ChemCatChem, ChemSusChem, ChemPlusChem, ChemElectroChem, ChemPhotoChem, ChemistryOpen, and ChemistrySelect.\nBatteries & Supercaps features:\nPeer-reviewed primary and secondary research articles\nThe possibility of open-access publishing, through our OnlineOpen option\nFast publication times\nCutting-edge battery research over the entire scope of the field\nBatteries & Supercaps publishes an attractive mixture of:\nCommunications and Articles\nMinireviews and Reviews featuring a critical selection of the most important aspects of a topic\nHighlights presenting concise evaluations of highly relevant current chemical research\nConcepts emphasizing important developments in a specific area and their implications for future research\nPure and Applied Battery Research\nBattery Electrochemistry\nBattery Systems and Applications\nHybrid Battery Systems", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 305.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1016053/my-job-sure-project-built", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:F3XS73X2WZ4N72PFMCM2IUBW4UBMSNMA", "length": 8902, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.windpowermonthly.com", "title": "'My job is to make sure the project can be built' | Windpower Monthly", "raw_content": "'My job is to make sure the project can be built'\n14 July 2010 by Fay Schopen\nEUROPE: Guiding the process of building a wind farm calls for an experienced hand. As project manager for RES, Helen Hall supervises everything from complex planning negotiations, environmental assessments and grid issues to turbine selection.\nPlanning delivery of turbine parts is just one of the many jobs to be co-ordinated\nManaging wind farm projects is a complex process that involves working with a wide range of people from many different backgrounds and areas of expertise -- the basic team can involve as many as 30 people. But your end goal is to install renewable energy, and wind is such a marvellous technology and a good all-round technology -- so that's a goal I think is really worthwhile.\nThe project can take several years to complete. Six years is typical, from finding a site to actually starting construction. We work through major issues before we make any planning applications, and we constantly review the project to see if there are significant issues that we need to resolve. I am currently managing one project, The Grange, a flat fenland site in Lincolnshire, England, which has been in development for four years, and we hope to gain consent later this year. An aviation objection took two years to resolve \u2014 there was visibility from a radar and we worked with the Ministry of Defence to minimise effects.\nAs well as designing and organising consent for a project, I also need to ensure that a project is economically viable. Every developer has their own way of assessing this, based on wind speeds, energy prices and capital costs. Planning issues can make sites not viable, especially with smaller projects. For example, if a solution to an aviation problem involves installing a new radar, the cost may be prohibitive. However, because we plan each project very carefully, we know from a very early stage if there are going to be any major problems. Our company has been developing wind farms for over 25 years so we can see very quickly if something will cause a problem.\nGenerally, our strategy is to address critical issues early in the project-management process. In Wales, for example, there is a shortage of grid capacity, and some sites cannot be connected to the electricity supply until 2016. This is factored into the project plan with input from our in-house grid engineers, who work with the grid operators and arrange connections.\nThe majority of our wind farms require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which we use to aid the iterative design to minimise environmental effects. We have a whole range of specialists from external consultants, like ornithologists, landscape architects, archeologists and hydrologists, who survey the site and provide us with baseline information about the site\u2019s environment. At The Grange, we undertook two years of bird surveys because early consultation identified that there were concerns about a nearby special protection area designated for, amongst others, its pink-footed geese population. Survey data feeds into the design of the wind farm so if, for example, an archeological feature is found, then we design the wind farm to minimise any direct effects or impacts on its setting.\nWe also refer to consultation responses from key stakeholders, such as environment bodies, local planning authorities and local communities, to build up a constraints map that will help us to design the layout. We favour early consultation and communicate openly using newsletters, exhibitions and meetings.\nDuring the design of the site, we work with landscape architects to achieve a balanced layout from key viewpoints around the site and avoid visual clutter. Designing a wind farm is a balancing act involving several iterations from the EIA process, where we look to achieve the best possible layout with the least environmental effects. Once baseline survey and consultation data has been gathered, this design process can take three to four months.\nAs soon as we have completed our EIA and finalised our turbine layout, we submit the planning application for the wind farm to the decision maker. In England and Wales, if the scheme is less that 50MW, it will be the local authority that makes a decision. For larger schemes, there is some uncertainty as the government is changing the process.\nThe planning application usually takes 12-18 months for a decision to be reached. This can involve a public inquiry if the local authority refuses the wind farm.\nPost consent\nOnce planning permission is obtained, there is still a lot of work to be done before construction can begin. Consent for a wind farm usually has a number of planning conditions, such as requirements for traffic management or issues around regulating noise from the wind farm and mitigating interference to TV reception. My job at this stage is to work with the local authority and other stakeholders to meet these conditions by providing further information and commitments. This often involves submitting schemes to the local authority, outlining in detail the work we are going to do. For example, we would draw up a habitat management plan where we would establish what species of plants we would plant and where, and how this would be managed once the wind farm is operational. This stage typically takes between six and 12 months, depending on the type of conditions that a project has to resolve.\nOur company develops, constructs and owns its wind farms, so it is easy to integrate the various stages of the process. Where different companies are involved, it is important to communicate their findings along the way.\nAssessing turbine selection\nOnce the planning is completed, I will work with our in-house procurement team in selecting the turbines. We look at the different options before choosing the best model for the site. The major factors to consider are the size, energy yield, noise, cost and availability. One of the conditions of a planning application may be that the turbines cannot exceed a certain height, so you will need a specific turbine to fit within those parameters, which may reduce the options available. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to turbines. We choose them on a site-by-site basis. Some are suited to sites with higher wind speeds, some for lower, and all have different inherent costs. All these factors must be considered when choosing.\nEstablishing the route to transport the turbines to the site normally involves a dry run, which will feed into a full transport assessment. We drive the route with a trailer the size of the largest component (usually blades), to establish any issues that we might have with delivery. Although we also use computer modelling to map the route, it tends to be quite conservative. So we go and look ourselves \u2014 which I have often found to be a very valuable exercise.\nTypically, we use project finance to fund our projects and we have an in-house team that works with the banks and deals with financing. The due diligence requirements of the investors must be kept in mind during the design and consenting of a project so we feed back experiences from financing into the development process.\nAs a project manager I am responsible for the whole process of the project, right up until we hand the site over for construction work to begin. And as well as working with teams at RES, I liaise with many diverse groups in developing a wind farm.\nProject managers very much see things with their own eyes and get involved in every stage of the process. It\u2019s a team effort, but the project manager needs to pull it all together and make sure that a project can be built.\nHelen Hall is a wind farm project manager for renewable energy developer RES UK & Ireland\nOverseeing the build A project manager\u2019s checklist\nAmong the many things to be done when overseeing a project from development to hand-over:\nLook at any potential major objections on the site, such as aviation issues\nConsult with local communities and stakeholders from an early stage and maintain an open dialogue throughout the development\nWork with in-house teams to secure an offer of connection to the grid\nl Environmental Impact Assessment work begins, with studies by external consultants co-ordinated by the project manager\nOversee teams of specialists to build a constraints map of the site\nDesign the site working alongside landscape architects\nSubmit a planning application and an environmental statement to the decision maker in question\nAs public consultation and communication is key, set up community liaison groups and community funds that benefit local people\nl Once permission is granted, the project manager can then oversee:\nTurbines are selected\nPlanning conditions are met\nFinancing is obtained\nDetailed design is undertaken ready for construction work to begin\nPricing the project\nGaining green approval", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 11365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wingsanddaydreams.com/2016/12/down-by-river.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:X73JJTHCTHL2S6S33W2XESD3I7UMNTOF", "length": 232, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wingsanddaydreams.com", "title": "Wings and Daydreams: Down by the river...", "raw_content": "We didn't hike the trail at the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge, but we did see (and hear!) a bunch of birds a few feet from the parking area, all in the same tree!\nLabels: Black Phoebe, Western Bluebird, Western Scrub-Jay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 8010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wirefly.com/compare-tv-providers/north-carolina/calypso", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EFA4VT63JQWEJB2UDKHURNVLY3RPIJWX", "length": 4730, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.wirefly.com", "title": "Cable TV Providers in Calypso, NC | Wirefly", "raw_content": "Cable TV Providers in Calypso, NC\nCable and Satellite TV Providers Available in Calypso, NC\nConsidering how many tv providers there are, sleeping the right provider in Calypso, NC may seem like a difficult task. For anyone moving to a new home, or just wanting to change their home television service, service providers have made it easier to find a new fiber optic televisions, satellite, or cable service. By entering the zip code, users get to enjoy money-saving deals on cable and satellite plans. Also, this tool will show how TV plans that are combined with internet and telephone service give users even more savings.\nSelecting a TV Service Provider in Calypso, NC\nSince Wirefly has quite a few plans listed for every type of TV service in Calypso, NC, users have a range of company options for their areas broken down in a way that's easy to understand. Once the user begins using our comparison tools to find cable and satellite TV service, they'll also see that they can search for plans with specific upgrades, such as a DVR or HD service. As an added bonus, the tools are chock full of helpful resources on various subjects related to television.\nCable TV Service in Calypso, NC\nThe installation process with cable service certainly isn't difficult. It can take some time, though, and cable providers in Calypso, NC typically send out their technicians to handle the installation process. Not only can these appointments take several hours, but they can also get expensive. The exact cost will depend on the company, with some being known to charge up to $200. There are many with lower installation fees, though. The customer sets a date and general time range for the appointment through the provider's scheduling tool. Time ranges are typically at least a couple hours long, meaning the technician could show up at any time within that range. Someone must be at the home to let the technician inside.\nCertain cable TV providers in Calypso, NC have another installation option they offer, which is a self-installation kit. This has its benefits over an installation performed by a technician. The customer can handle everything when it's convenient for them, and they don't need to pay for an appointment. While self-installation is easy enough, especially with the kit, it can still require some technical skills. The primary disadvantage with cable service is that the customer's home must be in a place where it can connect to the provider's nearest broadcast station. This can rule out homes in more rural locations.\nProviders of Satellite TV in Calypso, NC\nAs mentioned, the process a satellite TV company in Calypso, NC goes through to provide service involves encrypted data going from a satellite to the consumer's satellite dish. The provider starts this process by sending the data from their own broadcast center up to the satellite. The nice thing about satellite TV service is that it doesn't have cable's range restrictions. It doesn't matter nearly as much where a consumer is located, opening up satellite to a much larger number of consumers, including those who live in more remote locations that aren't eligible for cable service.\nOne point consumers should keep in mind if they're considering switching to satellite service is that the installation can cost more than it does with cable service, in large part because of the cost of satellite dishes in Calypso, NC. On the bright side, there are many providers that throw in the satellite dish and the installation free of charge. Consumers can find out what they'll need to pay for in the fine print of the contract. The main problem with satellite TV service is that the weather can affect it far more than the weather can affect cable TV service. If a satellite dish gets tipped over or damaged, that can cut off the consumer's TV service.\nCalypso, NC Fiber Optic TV Providers\nWhether you're looking for a service provider for your residence or business in Calypso, NC, you may want to consider including the bundled fiber optic option. The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service is the fastest available service at this time. It is an upgrade service that you may choose through a cable service provider. Typically, the package includes your phone service, Internet, and TV.\nCompare Other Services in Calypso, NC\nInternet Providers in Calypso, NC\nBusiness Phone Service in Calypso, NC\nMortgage Rates in Calypso, NC\nCell Phone Plans in Calypso, NC\nHome Phone Service Providers in Calypso, NC\nBusiness Internet Providers in Calypso, NC\nHome Security Systems in Calypso, NC\nAuto Insurance Quotes in Calypso, NC\nHealth Insurance Plans in Calypso, NC\nMoving Companies in Calypso, NC\nArea Codes for Calypso, NC\nCable TV Providers in Calypso, NC ZIP Codes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 10480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.witsieshoek.co.za/about/drakensberg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2U7QXYFSZ4TSMQQJ6VEUV2QE5MAAYNAL", "length": 3089, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.witsieshoek.co.za", "title": "Drakensberg Mountains | Drakensberg South Africa | Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge", "raw_content": "The Drakensberg Witsieshoek 2018-07-11T13:32:15+00:00\nWitsieshoek Mountain Lodge is located in the northern region of the majestic Drakensberg mountains. In Zulu the mountain range is called uKhahlamba, or the barrier of spears, a fitting name for the jagged peaks that make up much of the escarpment, including the imposing amphitheatre that encircles Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge. The range spans more than 1,000km across parts of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, rising to 3,482 metres at its highest peak, which is Thabana Ntlenyana in Lesotho.\nWhile the Drakensberg remains one of South Africa\u2019s most unadulterated regions, tourism is developing in and around the mountains. More lodges and accommodation are increasingly becoming available, though Witsieshoek is the only lodge within the vicinity of the town of Phuthaditjhaba and the famous Sentinel Peak.\nIncredible Hiking and Camping\nThe Drakensberg Mountains boasts some of the best hiking trails in all of South Africa, including Sentinel Peak and Mont-aux-Sources, both of which are accessible from Witsieshoek. Camping in the wild is a great option in this particular area as it is in much of the Drakensberg. The entire Drakensberg region also provides a plethora of other outdoor activities to engage in, and a number of national parks, game reserves and designated \u2018wilderness areas\u2019 to visit. These include uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Royal Natal National Park. uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, which covers more than 243,000 hectares and is just a 2 hour drive from Durban and a similar distance from Witsieshoek, was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.\nCulturally Rich Area\nThe Drakensberg Mountains is home to a variety of ecosystems with rich and diverse flora and fauna. There are numerous endangered plants and an array of antelope species, as well as the rare Southern White Rhino and the roaming Chacma baboon. In terms of birdlife, the Drakensberg supports more than 37% of all South Africa\u2019s non-marine avian species (around 300 species in total). Perhaps most notably is the critically-endangered bearded vulture, which can regularly be sighted soaring across the valleys below from the panoramic restaurant at Witsieshoek.\nThe Drakensberg is also an area of significant anthropological interest and is well known for the many ancient San rock paintings that can be found in some 500 caves throughout the region. Some of these paintings are possibly as much as 3,000 years old.\nAdd to all this the warmth and hospitality of the local people (comprised mainly of the Batlokoa chiefdom in the areas around Witsieshoek), the striking sandstone cliffs, the unspoilt forests, the soaring peaks, the crystal clear rivers and some of the most spectacular views imaginable and it is not hard to see what makes this magical region so worth experiencing. And there are few better places to experience all that the Drakensberg Mountains has to offer than at Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 153.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wnycatholicschools.org/news/article/current/2015/11/04/100429/ohara-sophomore-hoofs-it-up-at-national-dance-competition", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4AFT5NKB6P7LFFC5A5RTMDFWXVKNNMU5", "length": 2338, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wnycatholicschools.org", "title": "O'Hara sophomore hoofs it up at national dance competition", "raw_content": "O'Hara sophomore hoofs it up at national dance competition\nJeremiah Martinez, a sophomore at Cardinal O'Hara High School, wins fourth place in national dance competition.\nTONAWANDA \u2014 When Jeremiah Martinez was 3 years old, his mother enrolled him in a tap dance class to help his motor skills. Twelve years later, his love of and devotion to dance led him to win fourth place in a recent national solo dance competition in Hollywood, Fla., sponsored by American Dance Awards.\nMartinez, a sophomore at Cardinal O'Hara High School, admits that tap dancing is his favorite, even though his dance background also includes acrobatic, jazz, musical theater, ballet, hip hop and contemporary dance.\n\"I like the feel of (tap),\" Martinez said. \"It's fun to do and you can do different things and styles with tap.\"\nOver the years, Martinez has taken part in team and studio competitions regionally and nationally. This year's competition was his first as a solo performer.\n\"The performance was about two and a half minutes long and my costume was black pants, white shirt, tie and vest - and black shoes,\" he recalled. \"It's easy for guys to get ready, just comb your hair and put on a costume. The girls have costumes, hair and makeup.\"\nMartinez takes lessons up to four hours every other day at David DeMarie Dance Studio and the American Academy of Ballet.\nAt O'Hara, Martinez carries a full academic load, is a member of the school's volleyball team, has time to do homework and from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., take dance lessons. He also starred in the school musical last spring.\n\"Dancing has given me a sense of time management, as well as people skills, and improved my concentration,\" Martinez said.\nHe is the son of Juan and Shannon Martinez of the City of Tonawanda and has a younger brother.\n\"My mom was a dancer and she encourages me. My dad is props manager and knows everyone at the studio,\" he said.\nMartinez' goal is to attend a college which would offer a double major in dance and musical theater, where he would study to become a professional dancer and performer.\n\"I'd love to go to New York City - the hustle and bustle, the theater, the path I want to follow.\"\nAmerican Dance Awards was founded in 1979 with the concept that competition would be an educational tool to inspire dancers and their teachers to be the best they could be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 9403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenshealth.com.au/types-of-people-who-should-be-on-a-high-protein-diet?category=Food", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:T72TKC3TJDHPYY7PAJFDKENLZXP37VZC", "length": 6109, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.womenshealth.com.au", "title": "A High-Protein Diet Is Best For These 4 Types Of People | Women's Health", "raw_content": "This Two-Minute Trick Will Help You Keep Your Cravings Under Control\nA High-Protein Diet Is Best For These 4 Types Of People\nMost people already get enough of this nutrient. - by Aviva Patz\nFirst, there was the Atkins Diet. Then, there was Paleo. Now, the keto diet is all the rage. Long story short: High-protein diets for weight loss have been trendy for years. Perhaps that's why more than half of us are striving to add more high protein foods to our plates, according to a survey by NPD Group. We're sprinkling protein powder into yoghurt, oatmeal, and smoothies and buying snack bars and even pasta with extra grams of the stuff.\nBut do we really need to be eating so much protein?\nRELATED: 5 Major Protein Mistakes You've Been Making\nFor most of us, the answer is no. David Katz, MD, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Centre, believes the protein craze is for the most part just that\u2014another craze (albeit a long-lasting one), like low-fat in the 1980s and low-carb in the early 2000s.\n\"All the focus on macronutrients has been a massive boondoggle\u2014we cut fat and got fatter and sicker; we cut carbs and got fatter and sicker,\" he says. \"We need to stop focusing on macronutrients and instead focus on wholesome foods and healthy combinations and let the nutrients take care of themselves.\"\nBesides, we already get plenty of protein. The National Dietary Guidelines recommend getting between 10 and 35 percent of your daily calories from protein. Just 10 percent\u2014that's around 46 g of protein per day for women\u2014would be enough to meet the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) and prevent deficiencies, and data shows that we tend to get closer to 16 percent.\nAnd yet, a high protein diet is ideal for some.\nDr. Katz admits that certain types of people can benefit from greater protein intake. After all, we all have different bodies with individual nutritional needs, so no single protein guideline will fit all.\nThe best protein sources, he says, are eggs, fish, poultry, and small amounts of lean, grass-fed meats (a few 100 gram servings a week), along with plant-based proteins like beans, soy, and lentils combined with nuts and seeds or rice and grains. In other words, don't be tempted to pile on the bacon. Although meat is certainly a high-quality protein\u2014meaning it has the right distribution of amino acids for our body's needs\u2014it brings along other \"passengers\" that are harmful, namely saturated fat, high total fat, cholesterol, and, depending how we cook it, possibly carcinogens as well.\nHere are the four types of people Dr. Katz says may benefit from higher protein intake, which means getting a bigger proportion of calories from protein\u2014not just piling extra protein onto your regular diet.\nRELATED: 6 Simple Ways To Get Enough Protein Without Eating Meat\n1. Bodybuilders\nIf you're doing a lot of resistance training or taxing endurance exercise, you're tearing down muscle tissue that needs to be repaired and rebuilt. \"Protein is a source of essential amino acids that are the building blocks of the body's own proteins\u2014and we can't make them; we get them from food or we don't get them at all,\" Dr. Katz explains. \"If you're trying to build muscle cells and you don't have those amino acids, you don't build muscle.\" He compares it to trying to build a house with enough brick but without shingles, or enough wood but too few bricks. \"Construction just doesn't happen,\" he says. \"And that's clearly detrimental.\"\n2. People who are prone to weight gain\n\"There's a reasonable amount of evidence to suggest that higher protein, depending on where the protein comes from, may help with low-calorie compliance by providing satiety,\" says Tom Rifai, MD, medical director of metabolic health and weight management at the Henry Ford Health System. That's because protein takes longer to digest, leaving us feeling fuller longer. It also stabilises blood sugar, which has been shown to lower our desire to eat\u2014helpful when trying to shed kilos. \"During weight loss, you want more protein\u2014to prevent hunger, enhance satiety, and minimise muscle loss, as long as there's some degree of physical activity.\" Legumes are a particularly great source of protein, as a 2014 study in the journal Obesity found that eating a daily serving of beans, chickpeas, lentils, or peas increases fullness, potentially improving weight management and weight loss.\nRELATED: \u200b5 High-Protein Snacks That Will Keep You Full Until Dinner\n3. People with a very sugary, carby, crappy diet\nAnyone eating a typical 'unhealthy' diet (think: donuts, pasta, and snack packs) can benefit from shifting toward more high-quality protein, like egg whites, fish, and lean meat. \"If you're getting a higher percentage of calories from protein, you're getting less of the other stuff, like added sugar and carbohydrates,\" Dr. Katz says. In other words: \"More tuna, fewer doughnuts.\" In a randomised trial known as the Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial to Prevent Heart Disease (OmniHeart), people who replaced some carbohydrate with healthy protein (or healthy fat) saw lower blood pressure and lower levels of harmful LDL cholesterol than people on a higher-carbohydrate diet that was otherwise healthy.\n4. People in middle age\nGetting a little extra protein may be helpful after age 50 to counteract the inevitable muscle loss that comes with aging. \"Older adults at risk of sarcopenia, the gradual loss of lean muscle mass, would benefit from more high-quality protein in their diet,\" Dr. Katz says. In a 2015 study from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, adults ages 52 to 75 who doubled the Recommended Daily Allowance were better at building muscle\u2014and keeping muscle\u2014after just 4 days. For people in this age group, who may already have high cholesterol or other cardiovascular risk factors, it's a good idea to grab extra protein not from animal sources such as red meat, dairy products, and eggs, which are high in saturated fats, but from beans, seeds, whole grains, nuts, and fish, which have other beneficial nutrients on top of protein.\nThis article originally appeared in Prevention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 8700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/drc/overview", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PU5UTSEE46BEV7RCAEUL6HLQ6CQBUMHL", "length": 9376, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.worldbank.org", "title": "Democratic Republic of Congo Overview", "raw_content": "The World Bank in DRC\nThe World Bank is helping to fight poverty and improve living standards for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, through education, energy, health and other social services.\nThe largest Francophone country in Africa, with vast natural resources, the Democratice Republic of the Congo (DRC) has nearly 77 million inhabitants, fewer than 40% of whom live in urban areas. With 80 million hectares of arable land and over 1,100 minerals and precious metals, the DRC has the potential to become one of the richest countries on the continent and a driver of African growth if it can overcome its political instability.\nThe DRC is still recovering from a series of conflicts that broke out in the 1990s, creating a protracted economic and social slump. Joseph Kabila has been head of state since 2001. Presidential and parliamentary elections, planned initially for November 2016, have been delayed due to an outdated electoral register. Efforts to defuse the political crisis into which the country has been plunged have been made by the African Union's facilitator, Edem Kodjo, and the Congolese episcopate, both acting as mediators between the government and the opposition parties. An agreement, signed on December 31, 2016, provided for a period of transition, during which power would be exercised jointly by President Joseph Kabila and the opposition until presidential elections were held in late 2017.\nHowever, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) issued a calendar in November 2017, pushing back the presidential elections to December 2018, and a controversial draft electoral law was adopted by parliament. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic church and members of the international community insist the\nDecember 31, 2016 Accord\u201d be respected. Demonstrations supporting the implementation of this accord have led to deaths at the hands of the security forces.\nAfter slowing from 6.9% in 2015 to 2.4% in 2016, the country's lowest economic growth rate since 2001, , real GDP is expected to accelerate to 3.4% in 2017, driven by increases in commodity prices and national mining production, particularly of copper and cobalt, which account for 80% of export revenue.\nPublic finances deteriorated in 2016, with a fiscal deficit of -0.3% of GDP, but should record a modest surplus of 0.1% of GDP in 2017 as the government restrains its expenditure to cope with the depletion of international reserves and narrowing of the fiscal space. Adownward trend in domestic revenue since 2014\u2014from 14.3% of GDP to an expected 8.2% of GDP in 2017\u2014has led to a drop in public spending, and affected public investments and social sector spending. Lacking access to domestic and international financial markets, the Government of the DRc has had to drastically reduce public expenditure to contain the deficit and limit monetary financing by the Central Bank.\nExport recovery, combined with the drastic tightening of public spending in 2017, should result in a slight current account deficit decrease to 3.1% of GDP in 2017, from 3.6% of GDP in 2016, easing tension in the foreign exchange market in the second half of 2017, after falling by 28% in the first half of 2017. International reserves at end-2017 stood at 3.8 weeks of imports. However, this tighter fiscal stance has not curbed inflation, which reached 54.7% at the end of 2017.\nThe government has launched sectoral reforms to strengthen governance and transparency in the extractive industries (forestry, mining, and oil sectors) and to improve the business climate. Almost all contracts signed by the government are accessible to the public. The DRC participates in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and regularly publishes reports on its revenue from natural resources but systematizing the procedures necessary for a competitive process in awarding contracts in mining, oil, and forestry requires additional effort..\nDespite a decrease in the poverty rate, from 71% to 64% of the popuation between 2005 and 2012, the DRC still ranks among the poorest countries in the world at176 out of 187 countries on the most recent Human Development Index calculated by the UN (2015). On top of this, the United Nations estimates that, by January 2018, the DRChosted more than 540,000 refugees, and 4.5 million people were displaced inside the country..\nWorld Bank Group Engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nThe Bank re-engaged in the DRC in 2001 after nearly a decade of the suspension of its activities there.\nIn recent years, itsDRC portfolio has shifted from emergency assistance to sustainable development. The portfolio comprises 29 projects (including regional integration projects) and 57 trust funds. These commitments total $4.12 billion, of which 45.53% has already been disbursed for national projects. The portfolio is distributed across the various sectors: 63% for infrastructure (transport, energy, urban development, and water); 16% for human development; 15% for development of the private sector and agriculture; and 6% for governance and mining.\nThe Bank's current Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for the DRC ended in June 2017, subject to review. Itsreview concluded its objectives are still aligned with DRC's development goals, with 10 of 14 expected outcomes likely to be achieved. In November 2016, the Bank had held discussions with various stakeholders with a view to conducting a Systematiountry Diagnostic (SCD). The SCD was completed and shared with the government for comment. The Bank is currently developing a new Country Partnership Framework for 2018\u20142021. Various consultations with stakeholders have been conducted.\nNoteworthy changes in key areas are outlined below.\nAs a result of extensive anti-poliomyelitis vaccination campaigns, and the provision of millions of dollars in essential medications, the DRC has succeeded in eradicating polio, as well as in improving access to health care and reducing maternal mortality. The World Bank financed the restoration of more than 500 central dispensaries and hospitals in the provinces of Equateur, Katanga, Maniema, and Bandundu, and the distribution of almost 18 million treated mosquito nets.\nThe Support to Basic Education Program, funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and supervised by the World Bank Group, has increased access and equity in primary education and rehabilitated 728 classrooms. The program has also provided $20 million to procure textbooks in French, mathematics, civic education, and science, as well as building 35 computer labs (or resource centers) for distance and in-service training.\nThe reopening of 1,530 kilometers of national roads in Province Orientale, South Kivu, and Katanga paved the way for economic recovery in those regions. To date, 36.1% of the country's high-priority road network has been found to be in good condition (against 13.8% in 2009).\nWorld Bank Group financing has increased the power transfer capability of the Inga-Kolwezi-Kassumbalessa transmission line, which contribute to the reliability of power supply to mines, and provides villages in the Katanga area with access to electricity. In addition, Bank financing rehabilitated production units at the Inga 1 and 2 hydropower plants, bringing back about 455 MW of generation, and improving power transmission to the DRC's capital, Kinshasa.\nTo facilitate capacity building in the national electricity company, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 (SNEL), the World Bank Group supported the implementation of its performance contract with the Government, the establishment of its new executive board, the recruitment of technical experts, and the implementation of a service contract, as well as the preparation of a recovery plan. As a result, the company\u2019s revenues have increased 30% per kWh.\nDonors are organized through the Donors Coordination Group (GCP) to strengthen the dialogue with the Government of the DRC and streamline the actions of development partners. The World Bank actively participates in this group and is developing itsbilateral partnerships. UN\u2013World Bank collaboration has helped achieve important accomplishments in the areas of demobilization of former combatants, as well as in education and health. The Bank, working with UNICEF and USAID, has strengthened government capacity in child protection services. The Bank also leveraged financial support from development agencies in the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium to modernize public financial management and the Congolese public administration.\nStatement: World Bank Group Suspends Financing to the Inga-3 Basse Chute Technical Assistance Project\nFind out what the Bank Group's branches are doing in Congo, Democratic Republic of.\nDoing Business in Republic Democratic of Congo\nJoint Statement from the Inspection Panel and Bank Management on the Panel\u2019s DRC Roads Project Case\nDRC: World Bank Suspends Disbursements for Civil Works for the High-Priority Roads Reopening and Maintenance (ProRoutes) Project\nWorld Bank Group Suspends Financing to the Inga-3 Basse Chute Technical Assistance Project\nDemocratic Republic of Congo: High Priority Reopening and Maintenance of Roads Project - Second Additional Financing (ProRoutes AF2)\n49, Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi\nKinshasa/Gombe, RDC\n\u258cLouise Mekonda Engulu\n\u258cFranck Bitemo\ndrcinfo@worldbank.org\ndrcalert@worldbank.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 439, "original_length": 17476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 178.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wpp.com/companies/postvisual", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DUYROONVCIF6XP7XR5RK3ZD4IVWMUUEW", "length": 748, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wpp.com", "title": "PostVisual | WPP", "raw_content": "Founded in 2000, PostVisual provides a paradigm of new and various advertising and marketing covering online, offline and mobile media under its slogan \u201cCreative for the Digital Age\u201d. PostVisual focuses on change of the way people think, not on change of tools or media. PostVisual started as a web agency which knows how to communicate with people living in the digital age, then moved onto a digital advertising agency, and is developing into a creative communication agency. Working with the national and international leading companies such as Nike, Intel, LG Electronics, Kia Motors and Google, PostVisual was the first agency in South Korea to win a Cyber Gold Lion at Cannes and has been awarded more than 60 times at other global festivals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jan00/talking-romance-with-christina-skye-1002", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:F4ZU4P7HJHKLV2Q4ZAQZ7R3I6JHFFFR3", "length": 12745, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.writerswrite.com", "title": "Talking Romance With Christina Skye", "raw_content": "Talking Romance With Christina Skye\nBestselling romance author Christina Skye has eaten snake meat in Shanghai and armadillo in Canton. A China scholar with a doctorate in classical Chinese poetry, she has translated for Chinese generals, dissident poets, folk artists and fifth-generation puppet virtuosos.\nAfter graduating from college with a Ph.D. in classical Chinese literature, she soon discovered there were roughly three job options open to her: the CIA, the State Department, or a small women's junior college in the northwest corner of Kansas. None of these options particularly suited her, so she headed off to work as a translator for an international oil consortium in Peking. About her work she says, \"When the Australian and German engineers weren't busy trying to kill each other after overloading on a lethal combination of Chinese vodka and mao-tai, the job was fairly quiet. But if you think oil drilling terminology is boring in English, you should hear it in Chinese.\" Probably her most exciting time as a translator in China came the evening when her boss, a dignified English businessman, asked her to help him smuggle two ladies of the evening into the State Guest House, one of the most secure and highly guarded compounds in China where foreign dignitaries and heads of state stay when on official visits to China. She did her best to explain to the armed P.L.A. soldiers at the gate that the colorfully dressed women were actually there to take dictation for an important petrochemical contract with the Foreign Ministry, to no avail. Narrowly avoiding making a first-hand acquaintance with China's penal system, she decided it was time to head home to the U.S.\nShe began writing in 1979. Her first four books focused on Chinese culture, and were the result of numerous interviews with master puppeteers, sculptors, painters and other artists, who shared the secrets of their centuries-old skills. Her work helped to preserve the methods of centuries-old crafts, some of which are now dangerously rare in China and elsewhere in Asia. She then decided that it was time to try her hand at fiction. Since 1990, she has written six historical romance novels for Dell, all but one set in the Regency period. She has also written seven contemporary/historical paranormal romances for Avon Books as part of her ongoing, popular Draycott Abbey series: Hour of the Rose, Bridge of Dreams, Bride of the Mist, Key to Forever, Season of Wishes, Christmas Knight, and the most recent release in the series, The Perfect Gift. Draycott Abbey has some very special qualities: for one thing it's watched over by a kindly guardian ghost, Adrian and his ghostly companion, a grey cat named Gideon. Christina's books are known for their wit, humor, steamy passion, and fascinating characters. She truly loves the solitary life of a writer, noting that, \"Being self-employed, I'm generally on good terms with my boss.\" She has appeared on Geraldo!, ABC Worldwide News, Travel News Network, the Arthur Frommer Show, Voice of America and Looking East. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband and son. Christina spoke with us about her move from scholar to bestselling novelist, her interest in feng shui, and her latest bestselling romances, A Perfect Gift (Avon, 1999), the latest entry in the Draycott Abbey series and 2000 Kisses (Dell, 1999), a contemporary romance about a high-powered executive who finds love and adventure in the arms of a handsome Arizona sherrif -- all because of a Y2K glitch.\nWhat did you like to read when you were a child?\nJust about anything I could get my hands on.\nHow did you make the transition from scholar to novelist? Do you ever miss the days of working as a translator and living abroad?\nI loved working as a translator and consultant in Asia, but you have to move on. Those 33-hour flights got harder and harder, too. I haven't been back to Asia since 1983, and someday soon I want to go back, even though things are probably changed beyond recognition.\nLet's talk about your new contemporary romance, 2000 Kisses. This book is a departure for you; what prompted you to write a Y2K love story?\nActually, 2000 Kisses evolved out of an idea of my wonderful editor, Maggie Crawford. I had begun my career with Dell back in 1990, did 6 historicals there, then moved to Avon for 2 novellas, followed by 7 books in my Draycott Abbey series. With all the gloomy predictions about Y2K, Maggie and I thought it would be fun to turn the idea around so that my heroine lives the ultlimate fantasy: being handed a million dollars on January 1, 2000. Of course, that's when all the trouble begins!\nTess O'Mara is an interesting character. How did you create Tess? Were there any characteristics you were trying to avoid?\nTess is all of us who dream and struggle and plan.\n\"Listen, so you can begin to hear how differently people speak. And respect your characters. They'll talk to you if you let them.\"\nShe is organized and dedicated and great at her fast-paced job. But maybe she's too great. The problem is, she's had to give up any kind of personal life, and she's wondering if that's too high a price for success. Of course, she's got a whooooole lot of baggage -- the Wall Street Journal and a cappuccino fixation among them. I just couldn't stop thinking: how in the world is a high-profile, fast track career woman like this going to adjust to life in a sleepy little town like Almost? And of course, to life with the town's wonderful sheriff...\nLet's turn to the hero of 2000 Kisses, the drop dead handsome T.J. McCall. Did you create T.J. to complement Tess, or did you create him independently of the heroine?\nT.J. just slow talked his way right into my heart. I first saw him carrying that cell phone in the middle of a cattle drive -- what a man! I think he is a real extension of the town itself. And yes, I've met a bunch of cowboys like him since moving here to Arizona. (Whoa, did I just start a female stampede?)\nLet's talk about The Perfect Gift, which continues the wonderful Draycott Abbey series. How did this story come about?\nThe theme of The Perfect Gift came in one of those wonderful flashes: I saw a man standing above a mist-covered loch, and out of nowhere this phrase rang out, jolting me. \"His name was Jared Cameron MacNeill and he had come home to die.\" His story came in bits and pieces after that, often painfully. Once the Myanmar sequences became clear, I was hooked. So far, Jared has received more mail than any other male character, except maybe Adrian or my chocolate-loving guardian angel (Terence Night) in Season of Wishes.\nThe Perfect Gift has a lot of fascinating information in it about jewelry design and creation. How did you get interested in this subject? How did you approach the research necessary to accurately portray a jewelry designer?\nI love the craft of jewelry, cloisone, and bead work, which I began studying in China years ago. I knew Maggie had to have a demanding but highly creative profession, and this turned out to be the one. I interviewed a number of jewelry artists to get the \"feel\" of the book and the sense of how physically demanding that work can be. And that passion fit so well with her nature.\nThe Wishwell sisters who appear periodically in the Draycott Abbey series seem to steal every scene they are in (no easy task) -- they are truly wonderful characters. How did you first create them?\nOh, those Wishwells. They came to me when I was re-reading Macbeth one day, and I began to play that game of \"what if.\" What if the three witches were still alive today, passing themselves off as mortals in some lonely Scottish glen? What if they were creatures of light, not darkness as Shakespeare had fashioned them? And what if they were inveterate match makers?\nI have to admit that Christmas Knight was also one of my favorites. It's such a great Christmas story. How did that story come about? What attracts you to the idea of time travel?\nChristmas Knight grew out of my love for Scotland -- its stormy history and\nbreathtaking landscapes. And why the Christmas theme? The secret truth is that I'd just moved to Arizona and was missing snow dreadfully. So of course, I indulged myself with a burst of wild imagination. Ronan and Hope were the recipients of that creative indulgence. The story emerged after I read a wonderful book called Chronicles of the Crusades, edited by Elizabeth Hallam. Much later, this phrase began to haunt me and just wouldn't leave: He had seen the vermilion tents of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil stretched across the plain of Samaria, bright as blood. How would such memories shape a man of honor far from home? The story started there, for Ronan. And of course, I loved my Glenbrae Investment Club, especially when the old gentlemen came to cuffs over which stock to buy next! As for the Wishwells, they threatened to take over the story completely, something that Adrian found highly objectionable.\nYour books are known for their sparkling and witty dialogue. How did you learn to write dialogue?\nThank you for that lovely compliment! I think first you have to hear it in your head. Listen, so you can begin to hear how differently people speak. And respect your characters. They'll talk to you if you let them.\nYour books are also known for their sense of humor. Is this a reflection of your own personality, or did you intentionally set out to add humor to you books?\nI do enjoy humor in a story, especially when it emerges from conflict and character revelation. I don't specifically try to set up these scenes. Usually, that has a contrived feel.\nHow do you approach writing love scenes? Are there any specific things that you try to avoid?\nGenerally, I just let my characters get into trouble by themselves!\nWhat is your advice to the aspiring romance novelist?\nRead. Research. Read some more. Read lots more. Then write from the heart.\nHow has the publishing industry changed since your first book was published?\nEverything has gotten wildly competitive, which is both good and bad.\nHow did you get interested in the ancient art of feng shui? Do you use it in your personal life?\nDuring my graduate studies in Chinese, the topic came up. After reading\n\"The theme of The Perfect Gift came in one of those wonderful flashes: I saw a man standing above a mist-covered loch, and out of nowhere this phrase rang out, jolting me. 'His name was Jared Cameron MacNeill and he had come home to die.'\"\nlots of primary source material, I was fascinated. Later I had occassion to meet practitioners in China and Hong Kong, as well as New York. They all have slightly different takes on the subject, and each works in a way that can seem very subjective. The key thing is that this really works! You immediately feel the difference in a room that has been analyzed and properly changed. So what is feng shui? Feng shui is the study of energy moved through a specific manmade location or natural landscape. (Feng shui in Chinese means wind and water. These are the two key forces that determine the energy flow of a specific location.) Do I use it myself? Not rigidly, but I'm aware of things that affect my comfort or productivity. For example:\n--don't sleep with the head of your bed closest to the door. It's a position of vulnerability that invites uneasiness, competition, and ill health. You'll sleep much better if you move your bed.\n--try to create patterns that draw the eye clockwise, prompting an energy flow in that direction. Throughout history, the Egyptians, Celts, and Native American tribes have held that counterclockwise energy is negative and unhealthy. If you have a display of teapots, for example, arrange the spouts to face right, enouraging the eye to flow clockwise. Try the same for a display of musical instruments or a silver tea service.\nI've had so much mail on this subject that I'm actually considering a monthly feng shui column at my website! (Note: You can read more on this subject in Bride of the Mist, whose heroine shows feng shui analysis in action.\nWhat do you like to do to relax when you're not working?\nSwimming. Hiking in the desert. In-line skating.\nHow will you spend the Millennium New Year's Eve?\nMillennium Eve I plan to climb the desert ridge above our house, where I have a sweeping view of the whole Phoenix valley to Camelback Mountain and Squaw Peak and the McDowell Mountains. If power grids fail, I'll have a ringside seat for the blackout. And if not -- as I fully expect, since the gloom and doom of Y2K are vastly overinflated, in my opinion -- I'll still have a beautiful view of the stars over the McDowell Mountains!\nOther than having all my books optioned by Hollywood, you mean? Okay, I'll be serious. Peace on earth. Right here, right now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 13739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wrn.com/2017/05/walker-ready-to-run-for-a-third-term/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LJMMB7F7NW7VHQMFYZU44LXP4T2FUBUS", "length": 1570, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wrn.com", "title": "Walker 'ready' to run for a third term - Wisconsin Radio Network Google+", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Elections / Walker \u2018ready\u2019 to run for a third term\nWalker \u2018ready\u2019 to run for a third term\nWhile he\u2019s not officially declaring he will run for re-election, Governor Scott Walker plans to tell his fellow Republicans this weekend that he is ready to seek a third term.\nWalker\u2019s campaign released highlights of the speech he plans to deliver at the state GOP convention this weekend in Wisconsin Dells. Those remarks will highlight the progress the state has made since he was first elected in 2010 and ask the party faithful for their help in 2018. \u201cI\u2019m ready to help lead this remarkable state forward for another four years. But I need your help.\u201d\nWalker has said he will not make his re-election plans official until work on the state budget is complete later this summer. Still, he has hinted for the past several months that another run is likely and on Friday announced Joe Fadness will serve as his campaign manager. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t I run for re-election,\u201d Walker\u2019s planned remarks ask.\nIn a statement, Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Martha Laning said Walker has spent the past eight years focusing on people at the top, and argued the state\u2019s families deserve a chance to make a choice for real change next year. \u201cIn 2018, we will have a choice to make: stick to the status quo of pitting the ultra rich against the rest of us, or vote for real change in the way we operate our government.\u201d\nMany high profile Democrats have already opted out of a run for governor in 2018. 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The Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, are evacuated to the country home of Professor Digory Kirk for their own safety. When arriving at the house, the housekeeper tells the children that he is not accustomed to having children around and they must not be disruptive.\nWhile playing hide and seek in the attic, Lucy discovers an old wardrobe. Stepping through the wardrobe door, she discovers she is in an enchanted land known as Narnia. She comes upon strange and wonderful woodland creatures who tell her of their plight. The White Queen is trying to conquer all of Narnia.\nLucy convinces her siblings to come through the wardrobe and explore this parallel universe. Once they enter the land, they are seen as Narnia\u2019s protectors and champions. The forest creatures see Peter as the leader of their army, and they wage war for control of Narnia. Peter fights alongside of Aslan, a magical lion who is the protector of all the woodland creatures. 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The professor tells Lucy that he has been trying to get back for many years, and one day they will return, but it will be when they least expect it.\nAdventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy\nGeorgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell\nMarilyn Fox, Andrew Adamson\nMore Like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\nWatch The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Trailer\nThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)|2:41\nWatch The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Online - Watch online anytime anywhere: Stream, Download, Buy\nThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is currently available to watch and stream, download, buy on demand at Amazon Prime, Showtime, Sling, Amazon, Vudu, FandangoNow, iTunes online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 170.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1809-meeting-families-where-they-live", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:IUWWC56UENYRTNUUTP46OB6DMSM3PYZ6", "length": 8945, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.zerotothree.org", "title": "Meeting Families Where They Live \u2022 ZERO TO THREE", "raw_content": "Meeting Families Where They Live\nConducting home visits allows educators to better understand a child\u2019s home environment, establish strong relationships with families, share tools and strategies that support families in learning about child development, emphasize parents\u2019 role in being their child\u2019s first teachers, and identify ways to incorporate a family\u2019s culture into the child care setting.\nby Mary Newnam Block\nEmily has just started working with a new infant and toddler program, after having provided care for infants and toddlers for many years. One of the ways this program shares information with families is through home visiting. Emily has never been on a home visit before, and is a little nervous and skeptical about what to expect. The director pairs her with a more experienced staff member who shadows her on a few home visits before Emily attempts one on her own. Once Emily makes a few visits alone, she is surprised and pleased by how much useful information she gains about the children and families she works with. She finds herself looking forward to these visits as a new and valuable part of her work.\nWhy conduct home visits?\nConducting home visits as part of infant and toddler caregiving exemplifies best practice. The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative (NITCCI) states, \u201cThe implementation of home visits is a hallmark of high quality in an infant/toddler care setting\u201d (2010, 34).\nConducting home visits allows educators to better understand a child\u2019s home environment, establish strong relationships with families, share tools and strategies that support families in learning about child development, emphasize parents\u2019 role in being their child\u2019s first teachers, and identify ways to incorporate a family\u2019s culture into the child care setting. As in Emily\u2019s experience in the opening vignette, many programs find that home visiting provides teachers with a broader perspective on the children in their care and helps families learn more about their children. These benefits are evident even with only occasional visits to a child\u2019s home (NITCCI 2010).\nLally and Mangione (2006, 18) suggest that responsive curriculum and positive learning include \u201cbuilding ways to optimize program connections with children\u2019s families.\u201d This impacts children\u2019s later development in school and in life. Curtis and Carter (2008, 26) talk about the relationship between the family and the child care provider as a two-way street. When a teacher makes a home visit with an incoming family, \u201cshe asks the family members what they would like her to know about them and how she can support them as they send their child to her classroom.\u201d\nWhat do you do on home visits?\nEmily\u2019s first solo home visit is with 15-month-old Peter and his family. During the visit, she sees the environment and routines he experiences at home on a daily basis. She observes many interactions between him and his parents, siblings, and extended family. Emily tells Peter\u2019s mom, Alison, that she has a hard time helping Peter settle down for a nap at the center. Emily then asks about his nap and bedtime routine at home. Peter\u2019s mother agrees that getting Peter to sleep is difficult. Alison explains that someone reads to Peter until he falls asleep. This conversation provides Emily with important information about Peter that she didn\u2019t know before. She now has information that she can use to help her identify new strategies for calming Peter before nap time at the center.\nDuring her next home visit, Emily meets with the family of 2-year-old Jamal, who is new to the program. As part of the visit, Emily shares photos and stories about what Jamal does in child care. She also discusses his results on the program\u2019s screening instrument. Emily has found home visits to be an excellent time to review screenings and ongoing assessment with parents, when all of them have the time to discuss their observations, the child\u2019s progress, and any concerns they might have. Jamal\u2019s mother asks if her son\u2019s speech is at the same level as that of other children his age. Emily hears the concern in her voice and takes time to talk about what she has observed of Jamal\u2019s speech during his first few weeks in the center. She lets Jamal\u2019s mom know that although he is a little quiet, she has observed his communication skills, and he is progressing well.\nEmily and Jamal\u2019s family also talk about ways to increase his vocabulary and create opportunities for more conversation during daily routines. Emily notices that the family has a fish tank. Now she understands his interest in fish and tells his parents how excited he gets when they read about fish. They talk about how they can build on Jamal\u2019s interest in the fish tank while supporting his communication skills. The suggestions they come up with include water play with toy fish and other sea animals at home and in the program. They also decide to find and read books to Jamal about fish and the sea. Together, Emily and Jamal\u2019s parents decide to exchange notes about Jamal\u2019s play at the beginning and end of each day, so they can each talk with him about his experiences at home and in the early childhood setting.\nHome visits allow Emily to learn about the cultural traditions of the children in her care. When she calls to arrange a visit with the family of 6-month-old Kanita, she finds that she needs to talk with Kanita\u2019s grandfather first to explain the purpose of her visit. In Kanita\u2019s culture, the eldest male, in this case her grandfather, must be consulted before strangers can be welcomed into the house. Once he agrees to the visit, Emily meets with him before talking with Kanita\u2019s mother. When Emily demonstrates respect for the family\u2019s culture and traditions, it strengthens the family\u2019s relationship with her. It also benefits Kanita.\nMany programs find that home visiting provides teachers with a broader perspective on the children in their care and helps families learn more about their children.\nDuring the first few months of Kanita\u2019s life, one of the roles of Emily and Kanita\u2019s parents and grandparents is to support her developing sense of self. Research in recent years shows that when families and caregivers consistently read the baby\u2019s cues and respond in similar ways, the baby learns to trust the caregiver and experiences a greater sense of security both at home and in the caregiving setting (Lally & Mangione 2006). When Kanita senses that her grandfather, her parents, and Emily trust and respect one another, her sense of trust, safety, and security grows.\nFeelings of curiosity, anxiety, and even resistance can be typical responses of both the teacher and the family before the first home visit. But in practice, home visits are a rich arena for sharing and discussing information about children and caregiving with families on their turf. They are also a valuable source of learning for professionals, as they offer many opportunities to learn more about families\u2019 everyday realities, daily routines, and cultural traditions. Like Emily, many early childhood professionals find that after overcoming initial resistance, home visits quickly become one of the most valued and useful tools they have to build stronger relationships with families and learn more about the children in their care.\nThink about the times you have visited friends or acquaintances with a young child (not as part of a home visit). What did you notice about the child, the parents, and how the family functions?\nHow can knowing about the differences between children\u2019s lives at home and at the program contribute to a teacher\u2019s effectiveness?\nThink about your own home and family. If a teacher were to visit your family, what might they learn about you that they wouldn\u2019t see outside of that environment?\nRead an article about home visiting and discuss it with colleagues.\nTalk with other colleagues, such as early intervention professionals, who conduct home visits as part of their work.\nIf you don\u2019t already conduct home visits, discuss the possibility with your supervisor to see if there are ways to incorporate them into your program. Start small, such as conducting one visit for each child\u2019s family at the beginning of the year and one at the end.\nCurtis, D., & M. Carter. 2008. Learning Together With Young Children: A Curriculum Framework for Reflective Teachers. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf.\nLally, J.R., & P. Mangione. 2006. \u201cThe Uniqueness of Infancy Demands a Responsive Approach to Care.\u201d Young Children 61 (4): 14\u201320.\nNITCCI (National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative). 2010. Infant/Toddler Curriculum and Individualization. Washington, DC: NITCCI. www.zerotothree.org/public-policy/state-community-policy/nitcci/multidisciplinary-consultant-module-3.pdf.\nCopyright \u00a9 2014 by the National Association for the Education of Young Children\u20141313 L Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005. See Permissions and Reprints online at www.naeyc.org/yc/permissions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 13602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zhujisocksfactory.com/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RGF7Q6JA646SUFIR74WHVOQ7MJZWHKGL", "length": 2388, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.zhujisocksfactory.com", "title": "About Us - ZhuJi Setting Sail Knitting Co.,Ltd", "raw_content": "Zhuji setting sail knitting Co., Ltd was established in 2015. 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Find the best fit for you among the 50 education options in this Florida school district.\nTommy Smith Elementary School\n5044 Tommy Smith Dr, Panama City, FL 32404\nTommy Smith Elementary School is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public Setting: Rural District: Bay\nNorth Bay Haven Charter Academy Elementary School\nNorth Bay Haven Charter Academy Elementary School is a coeducational public charter school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\nMowat Middle School\n1903 Hwy 390 West, Lynn Haven, FL 32444\nMowat Middle School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 6 through 8. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public Setting: Small City District: Bay\n1000 School Ave, Panama City, FL 32401\nRutherford High School is a coeducational public international baccalaureate school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public Setting: Suburban District: Bay\n501 Mosley Dr, Lynn Haven, FL 32444\nA. Crawford Mosley High School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\n1200 Harrison Ave, Panama City, FL 32401\nBay High School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nOscar Patterson Elementary Magnet\n1025 Redwood Ave, Panama City, FL 32401\nOscar Patterson Elementary Magnet is a coeducational public magnet school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\n3016 Hwy 77, Panama City, FL 32405\nTom P. Haney Vocational Technical Center is a coeducational public vocational school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nLucille Moore Elementary School is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\nHutchison Beach Elementary School\n12900 Middle Beach Rd, Panama City, FL 32407\nHutchison Beach Elementary School is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\n1527 Lincoln Ave, Panama City, FL 32405\nMargaret K. Lewis Exceptional School is a coeducational public special needs school for students in grades Pre-K through 12. learn more\nFacts About Bay Schools in Florida\nThere are 50 Bay Schools in Florida.\nBrowse Bay Schools in Florida by District", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 6001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wynnnetherland.com/reviews/team-of-teams-the-power-of-small-groups-in-a-fragmented-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GYFY5INCM53JHBFIVLZUUZ2U7NEN7PNV", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wynnnetherland.com", "title": "Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World", "raw_content": "Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xconomy.com/boston/2011/02/01/genzyme-sanofi-deal-might-be-close-report-says/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RBU36TMPVUJCOYRYHF3IZXIJOYFDIU7X", "length": 1958, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "xconomy.com", "title": "Xconomy: Genzyme-Sanofi Deal Might Be Close, Report Says", "raw_content": "Genzyme-Sanofi Deal Might Be Close, Report Says\nFrench drug giant Sanofi-Aventis\u2019s long-sought takeover of Cambridge, MA-based biotech company Genzyme (NASDAQ:GENZ) might happen within the next week or so, sources told The New York Times yesterday. The report came the same day that Genzyme announced that it had opened its books to Sanofi to allow its potential buyer to conduct due diligence.\nSanofi\u2014which made its desire to buy Genzyme for $18.5 billion or $69 per share public back in August\u2014has agreed to raise its acquisition offer by an unspecified amount, The Boston Globe reported today. Now the two sides are said to be at the table working out the details of the deal, which would put the Bay State\u2019s largest biotechnology outfit in the hands of the Paris-based drugmaker.\nGenzyme\u2019s stock closed at $73.35 on Monday, giving the company a market cap of $19 billion, according to Google Finance. The closing price was just shy of its 52-week high of $73.46 per share.\nA key aspect of closing the deal appears to hinge on the two companies coming to terms on the value of Genzyme\u2019s experimental multiple sclerosis treatment, alemtuzumab. While Genzyme sees the drug, which is already approved as a treatment for leukemia, as a potential $3.5 billion seller, Sanofi expects the drug to reach only about $700 million in annual sales, according to The Times report.\nThe Globe reports that the buyout deal will likely include terms that would provide additional payments to Genzyme shareholders if alemtuzumab hits certain financial targets. This term would obviously be a big compromise for Genzyme, and the company\u2019s long-time chairman and CEO, Henri Termeer, is known for getting his way in negotiations.\nTermeer has insisted for months that Sanofi\u2019s offer undervalued Genzyme, a global leader in treatments for rare genetic diseases, and its potential multiple sclerosis drug. We\u2019ll see whether the companies can strike a deal in the next week or so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yakaz.com/jobs/company:jackson-health-system", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:22Z", "digest": "sha1:7OWFXKDEVFHQLW4VNGTJBWVUBW5ATVBT", "length": 68182, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "yakaz.com", "title": "\ud83d\udcbc Jobs / Employment / Yakaz.com", "raw_content": "Looking for a Career Change? Start Teaching with Teach For America (Mount Airy,MD)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: assistant superintendent, chief, dean, direct, elementary school principal, executive director, executive manager, principal, school principal, student\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Broomall,PA) - Teach For America\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: art, chinese, ethics, history, learning technology, m.div, philosophy, phylosophy, rhetoric, theology\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Chester,MA) - Teach For America\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: baccalaureus divinitatis, chinese, communication, culture, french, journalism, language, m. div, master of divinity, philosophy\nK-12 Teacher - Open to All Career Backgrounds and Experience Levels (Cranston,RI)\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Gatlinburg,TN)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: communication, culture, esl, ethics, french, historical, performing arts, phylosophy, theology, victorian\nK-12 Teacher - Open to All Career Backgrounds and Experience Levels (Clinton,ME)\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Hampton,NJ) - Teach For America\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: chinese, culture, early education, english, greek, humanities, liberal arts, performing arts, phylosophy, theatre\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Chagrin Falls,OH) - Teach For America\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: art, chinese, dance, french, human geography, literature, master of divinity, pedagogy, public relations, victorian\nLooking for a Career Change? Start Teaching with Teach For America (Highland,IN)\nLooking for a Career Change? Start Teaching with Teach For America (Fayville,MA)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: assistant superintendent, chief, deputy, executive director, executive management, executive manager, high school superintendent, student, superintendent, supervise\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Hillsborough,NJ)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: art, classics, culture, ethics, historical, humanities, learning technology, master of divinity, school of humanities, womens studies\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Niles,IL) - Teach For America\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Woonsocket,RI)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: culture, english, greek, italian, language, liberal arts, m. div, master of theology, religion, thm\nLooking for a Career Change? Start Teaching with Teach For America (Mount Sinai,NY) - Teach For America\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Lynn Center,IL)\nLooking for a Career Change? Start Teaching with Teach For America (Kenilworth,NJ)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. 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The RN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.Education LevelRN-Associate's Degree ORRN-Bachelor's Level Degree ORRN-Diploma (Non-degree) ORRN-Doctorate Level Degree ORRN-Master's Level DegreeExperienceNone, unless noted in the \"Other\" section belowLicenseRequired: Registered NursePreferred: Basic Life SupportSkillsNone, unless noted in the \"Other\" section belowAttend Our Virtual RN Job FairFeb 12th | 11A-1PRegister HereSentara Norfolk General is hiring Registered Nurses for its new 18 bed Medical Surgical/Unit. Let Sentara repay loan debt on your BSN! For qualified candidates and for a limited time. Don't miss this financial opportunity and apply for this or other qualifying RN positions today! Hours/Shift: 7pm-7am to work 36 hours per week including an alternate weekend shift. Or, work weekends onlyDepartment/Position Overview: This unit cares for post-operation patients who have had Back or Neck surgery. 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Our partnership with EVMS combines the latest innovations in technology, research and clinical care, to offer advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services. www.sentaranorfolkgeneralrn.com Sentara Benefits: Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We re setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For more information about our employee benefits, CLICK HERE!Join our team, where we are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and provide the opportunity for training, development, growth!Live Chat! 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We re setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For more information about our employee benefits, CLICK HERE!Join our team, where we are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and provide the opportunity for training, development, growth!OtherNew Hire Education Requirement: All Registered Nurses who do not have their BSN will be required to sign a BSN Agreement committing to successfully obtain their BSN within 5 years of hire. BSN or MSN preferred. Meets and maintains any requirements defined by specific specialty; Critical Care/IMCU/EP/Advanced Heart Failure Center/SMG Cardiology Practices- ACLS within 1 year of hire; Emergency Care - ACLS & PALS or ENPC within 1 year of hire; Oncology Care ONS/ONCC or Sentara approved course Chemotherapy & Biotherapy Provider Card within 6 months of hire. Women's Care - Perinatal departments; NRP within 6 months of hire. Inpatient Pediatrics. PALS within 6 months of hire. All Direct Care RN's required to have BLS within 90 days of hire. Associated topics: care, hospice, intensive, maternal, mhb, neonatal, nurse, psychiatric, staff nurse, unit\nPatient Care Supervisor, RN - Part-time - Suffolk\nResponsible and accountable for administratively managing the hospital as the representative for the administrator on call. Possesses proficient clinical skills and serves as a resource to nursing staff, physicians, and the public. Coordinates and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate appropriate and efficient patient placement. Makes administrative decisions (in consultation with administrator on call, as needed) in regards to potential or actual problematic situations involving the hospital. May be responsible to coordinate patient care resources.Education LevelRN-Bachelor's Level DegreeExperienceRequired: Acute Care - Previous experience, Nursing - 2 years, Nursing Leadership - 1 yearPreferred: None, unless noted in the \"Other\" section belowLicenseRequired: Basic Life Support, Registered NursePreferred: None, unless noted in the \"Other\" section belowSkillsRequired: Communication, Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Service OrientationPreferred: None, unless noted in the \"Other\" section belowOtherBSN required. Must be able to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing. Demonstrated ability to resolve problems in an efficient and caring manner. Demonstrated leadership skills through effective work coordination, management of resources, and participation in goal accomplishment. ACLS required within 1 year of hire. 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Who doesn t LOVE working with a team of talented Professionals in an energetic and supportive environment?Job Requirements:Current cosmetology or barber license is required by state/provincial regulationsAbility to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends Ability to provide exceptional client serviceAbility to understand the client s needs, provide quality consultations and perform services requested in a competent, efficient and professional mannerAbility to perform administrative tasks such as accurately completing transactions on the computerized register and light housekeeping duties.Company Benefits:Benefits of working with us include: Associated topics: barber, body, braiders, esthetician, facial threader, licensed, nail technician, spa, threader, waxing\nSeasonal Travel Nurse Jobs - All RN Specialties (Cheney,KS) - HealthCare Traveler Jobs\nSeasonal Travel Nurse Jobs - All RN Specialties (Brookfield,CT)\nSeasonal Travel Nurse Jobs - All RN Specialties (West Palm Beach,FL) - HealthCare Traveler Jobs\nSeasonal Travel Nurse Jobs - All RN Specialties (Newberg,OR) - HealthCare Traveler Jobs\nSeasonal Travel Nurse Jobs - All RN Specialties (Naples,ME) - HealthCare Traveler Jobs\nRegistered Nurse. 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We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: art history, communication, english, french, learning technology, philosophy, religion, thm, victorian, womens studies\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Stockton,IA)\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Ossining,NY)\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Hampden,MA) - Teach For America\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: archaeology, art, b.d., esl, french, literature, m.div, master of divinity, victorian, writing\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Gilmanton,NH) - Teach For America\nLooking for a Career Change? 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We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: chief academic officer, dean, director, executive director, executive manager, head of school, manage, middle school principal, student, supervise\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Englewood,CO) - Teach For America\nEntry Level K-12 Teacher - A New Year, a New Chance to Make a Difference (Edgewater,MD) - Teach For America\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Blairsburg,IA)\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. You have proven leadership experience and a history of achievement. You are hungry for a job where you can make a difference and help create enduring change.What You ll DoAs a Teach For America corps member, you ll be a full-time teacher for two years at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school level, with the opportunity to lead real change and make a deep impact on your students and the community that you serve. Teach For America corps members teach a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social studies, and more.You ll work in close partnership with educators, parents, and community members to set ambitious goals for your students and help support them on their journey to achieving their dreams. With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: archaeology, art history, b.d., culture, early education, french, history, italian, master of divinity, phylosophy\nEntry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact (Wyoming,RI) - Richmond\n* Final Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019.Who We AreTeach For America (TFA) is a leadership development organization focused on the systemic challenges facing children growing up in poverty. While potential is equally distributed across lines of race and class, opportunity is not, and we seek to correct this injustice. We recruit, train, and support talented and ambitious leaders from all career backgrounds and academic majors to teach in high-need communities across the US.No matter your background or professional experience whether you re looking for a new job opportunity or a professional considering a career change we believe that your unique experience and skills can play a vital role in ensuring that kids in low-income communities across the nation receive a quality education.Who You AreJoining Teach For America is a great fit if: You have a deep-seated belief that every child in America should have access to an excellent education and equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of race, ethnicity, location, or socio-economic background. You have a desire to build stronger communities and empower future generations. 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With an unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching and leadership development during your two years in the corps, you will have a profound impact on your students academic and personal growth. As a TFA alum, you will gain access to numerous top graduate school and employer partnerships that will help you advance and accelerate your leadership trajectory after you leave the corps. While many alumni choose to continue teaching after their two year commitment, others choose to branch out across a variety of sectors law, non-profit, finance, government, and more while continuing to help impact and advance educational equity throughout their careers. We need educators, engineers, policy advocates, military veterans, attorneys, marketers, developers, social workers, all equally working together as a coalition to bring about systemic change in our nation s education system.Where You Will TeachTeach For America works in 51 communities across the country. We call them regions, and they range from large cities to rural communities, from New Haven to Hawai'i and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley, TFA corps members are challenging what is possible for our nation s students.Minimum Qualifications Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher. Bachelor s degree by June 2019 or earlier Must be a citizen, national, or legal resident of the United States or have DACA status.Upcoming Application DeadlinePlease submit your completed application before the upcoming deadline date: 3/1/19 Associated topics: chinese, classics, coeducational, greek, journalism, liberal arts, master of theology, music, phylosophy, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 424, "original_length": 125949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yocca.us/glossary/179-later-stage-company", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RJKP5VDMTGNNNWF6XJD46KMPPSJINRCP", "length": 241, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "yocca.us", "title": "Later-Stage Company - Glossary - Nick Yocca - Your Orange County California Attorney Preeminent AV / 5.0", "raw_content": "Later-Stage Company\nThe stage of development when a company has achieved significant and increasing revenues and positive cash flow. Typically, a later stage company has completed its expansion stage and is nearing a liquidity or exit event.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://youngprop.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JAIMVWFMJMW5CEGDDG37PZ6PRPHRV5R4", "length": 1368, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "youngprop.com", "title": "Commercial Real Estate Development in Phoenix | Young Properties", "raw_content": "Gil young has 35 years of experience working with commercial real estate development companies to develop properties in California and Arizona. He has most recently developed ten successful projects in the Phoenix area as a principal in Kimmel and Young Properties. Prior to working in Phoenix market, Gil completed a number of retail projects in Northern and Central California including San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, Fresno as well as a 120,000 square foot light industrial/office building in Fremont in partnership with Northwestern National Life.\nGil honed his skills at several other commercial real estate development companies before starting one of his own, including his role as Vice President for Marketing and Development for the Koll Company, a national real estate development firm. In this capacity he was responsible for development, leasing and sale of commercial properties in Sacramento and Fresno and was an owner\u2019s representative for Aetna Life Insurance Company in the marketing of their vacant land.\nGil is licensed as a California Real Estate Broker. He\u2019s a graduate of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He\u2019s been active in Rotary Club of San Jose, a past board member of San Jose Habitat for Humanity, and he is ready to put his experience working at commercial real estate development companies to work for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 108.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yucommentator.org/2014/12/news-briefs-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2US6DPY66K6QGLPYLVBCNNZKBJVOXLBY", "length": 4150, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "yucommentator.org", "title": "Toggle navigation", "raw_content": "Honors Council Welcomes Election Winners\nThe Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, in addition to hosting honors-specific events and sponsoring cultural activities, also sponsors a five-student council who act as liaisons to the program's administration. These students help schedule and coordinate events for the Program. While Chaim Metzger and Dani Schwab still retained their positions on the Council, three positions were available at the start of the year. Honors students were invited to submit a declaration of candidacy and a short biography to be emailed out to Honors Program students. After several weeks of voting via electronic ballots, the winners of the elections were recently announced. Two spots were awarded two juniors, Shlomo Friedman and Tzvi Levitin. Additionally, one of the five spots is traditionally reserved for a \u201cFirst Time on Campus\u201d student, and after a vote of students specifically within that sub-section of the Honors population, the winner was Avraham Wein. Congratulations to all and may you serve well.\nNew Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs\nAs announced both by President Joel in his semesterly Town Hall meeting and a YU-wide email from Senior Vice President Joshua Joseph, Dr. Paul Oestreicher, PhD, has been appointed Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs (CPA). The CPA office, as described on their website, \u201chelps the Yeshiva University community deliver the most relevant messages in the most compelling manner.\u201d Dr. Oestreicher, an accomplished PR consultant, professor, and author, brings in a wealth of knowledge to direct the communications staff responsible for the undergraduate campuses as well as the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. An \u201cearly architect of global communication planning, direct-to-consumer communications, and third-party alliance building,\u201d Vice President Joseph also mentioned that Dr. Oestreicher would help direct the University\u2019s public branding.\nCommencement To Take Place During Finals Week\nThe Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ has hosted Yeshiva University\u2019s Commencement for the past many years. This year is no different. However, due to scheduling conflicts with the venue, YU will not be able to have graduation on the date it was originally planned for - Thursday May 20. Instead, Commencement for 2015 graduates will now be take place on Sunday May 17th, right in the middle of final exams. According to Dr. Chaim Nissel, University Dean of Students, \u201cthere are no other suitable venues available and the options considered (earlier or later) are all less than ideal.\u201d\nThough little consolation for graduates hoping to completely finished with final exams before celebrating their accomplishments, no finals will take place on the 17th and, as a courtesy to graduates and their siblings, the administration hopes to not schedule any finals for the morning of Monday, May 18th.\nYU Alumnus Highlighted on \u201cCNN Heroes\u201d\nRabbi Elimelech Goldberg, a YU alumnus, was recently named a 2014 Top 10 CNN Hero for his work in the therapy of children struggling with cancer and other childhood illnesses. His unique approach, which concentrates martial arts instruction and meditation to empower even the youngest of children, has led to training and classes in martial arts in over 30 hospitals and institutions around the world. His non-profit organization, Kids Kicking Cancer, has garnered the support of many, and Rabbi Goldberg, who also serves as a clinical assistant professor Wayne State University School of Medicine, hopes to spread word of his mission by winning CNN Hero of the Year. Voters can help out until voting closes on Sunday, November 16th.\nRabbi Goldberg, who graduated from YU\u2019s MTA high school in 1974, Yeshiva College in 1977 and RIETS in 1981, has fond memories of the institution that gave him a unique life view with powerful tools to live with a sense of spiritual purpose effectively,\u201d as discussed in an interview with YUNews. Rabbi Goldberg was also recently a keynote speaker on the Red Sarachek basketball tournament\u2019s Shabbaton several years ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yucommentator.org/2015/11/from-the-archives-jonathan-pollard/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:X4U3WNAOCDHGYLZLUIUGB72W7LT43UDZ", "length": 5018, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "yucommentator.org", "title": "Toggle navigation", "raw_content": "By: Dani Weiss |\nFrom the Archives: Jonathan Pollard\nBy: Dani Weiss | November 8, 2015\nThe following is a summarized form of an article of the same title appearing in The Commentator on December 6, 1988\nPollard Unjustly Sentenced\nBy Josh Fruchter\nOn November 21, 1985, Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy counterintelligence analyst was arrested by the FBI on charges of spying for Israel. To avoid a public trial, the government offered a plea bargain, promising leniency in exchange for full cooperation and a confession. On March 4, 1987, after pleading guilty to the single count of passing classified information to an ally, i.e. Israel, Jonathan received his \u201creward\u201d \u2013 life imprisonment. The government had totally reneged on the agreement which, as Jonathan soon realized, \u201cwasn\u2019t even worth the paper it was written on.\u201d\nJonathan\u2019s sentence is outrageous compared to previous espionage cases. Even Soviet Spies have received lighter prison terms. Adding insult to injury, Jonathan has been held in solitary confinement throughout his imprisonment. He was confined for 10 months to a psychiatric ward populated by \u201craving paranoid schizophrenics and mental deficients,\u201d despite a public statement by a top prison official that Jonathan \u201cis not a mental patient.\u201d\nIt should be noted that Jonathan was never charged with compromising American security in any manner, shape or form. In fact, most of the information Jonathan passed to Israel should have been transferred through legal channels under the US- Israel intelligence agreement of 1983.\nSo why did Caspar Weinberger call Pollard \u201cthe worst spy in over 200 years of American history? Why did Weinberger\u2026 request the death penalty for Pollard? Obviously there are no grounds for the US government\u2019s hyperbolic assertions.\nJonathan Pollard has stated, \u201cI do not consider myself above the law and fully appreciate the fact that I should be punished for my activities.\u201d The outrage lies in the severity of Jonathan\u2019s sentence and his treatment in prison.\nFor those of us claiming adherence to the Torah and its precepts, it is only consistent that we accept the challenge of Pidyon Shevuyim. A fellow Jew is in need, a Jew who sacrificed his freedom for the survival of Israel.\nThe following is an excerpt from an article of the same title appearing in The Commentator on February 14, 1990\nAnne Pollard Speaks at Stern\nBy Daniel Oshinsky\nMr. Henderson (Jonathan\u2019s father in law) said a clear contradiction exists between US law and the moral principles laid out in the Nuremberg laws. Jonathan Pollard was obligated by the Nuremberg Laws to provide Israel with information vital to her citizen\u2019s safety. Mr. Henderson also claimed that US Prosecutor Joseph Digenova used the Jewish community\u2019s fear of being accused of dial loyalties to undercut support for the Pollards.\nJonathan Pollard decided to spy for Israel after learning that the US was compromising Israeli security by withholding vital intelligence information. This information included the construction of a Nerve gas plant in Syria, large scale purchases by the Syrians of Mig fighter planes, bombs, and missiles, and information on terrorist activities.\nThe following article appeared in The Commentator on May 2, 1990\nStill No Justice for Pollard\nBy 1990 Editorial Board\nThe United States prides itself on the individual rights entitles to every man. Our Bill of Rights and Constitution defend these rights. A judicial system, basing itself on the concept of justice, exists to insure that these rights are not violated.\nBut the system fails. Political influence does still blind justice. Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. To further escalate the punishment, he must spend his perpetual incarceration in solitary confinement. He was convicted of spying for an ally, giving over information that was vital to that country\u2019s security and that the country was already entitled to by treaty. In no way did the information compromise the security of the US.\nThese facts made no difference in the sentencing. Neither did a plea bargain agreement with the Prosecution. Nor does the fact that J. Walker, who caused immeasurable amounts of damage when he passed on vital information to an enemy of the United States, received a considerably lighter sentence.\nIt makes no difference to the world that the country he was found guilty of spying for was Isarel and that the information he passed on potentially saved scores of Israeli lives. But it should make a difference to us.\nThe students who attended the demonstration outside the gates of the Federal Penitentiary in Marion are calling for Justice. In the opinion of The Commentator, that is certainly a reasonable request. But action should not end there. The American Jewish community should make itself aware of the issue and examine the complicated questions involved in the case. As loyal Americans, we have the right to demand justice. As loyal Jews, we owe Jonathan Pollard a debt which we are all obligated to pay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yucommentator.org/2016/04/economics-politics-and-the-primary-elections/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NLAOPI4ZV6MYY7NTQOAILA75NZOUGA3X", "length": 9174, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "yucommentator.org", "title": "Toggle navigation", "raw_content": "By: Zach Porgess |\nEconomics, Politics, and the Primary Elections\nBy: Zach Porgess | April 18, 2016\nForecasting election results based on historical voter turnout has demonstrated little success this election season. Mainstream media has not helped, and its integrity continues to decline because of increasingly obvious political biases. So where does one turn to for clarity? The YU Commentator, of course. This article examines what\u2019s really driving the shocking primary results we\u2019ve witnessed thus far, and what the candidates\u2019 positioning on economic policy portends for the general election.\nAs the primaries continue to unfold, it\u2019s become clear that we don\u2019t understand voters as well as we did in previous elections. Traditional assumptions about voters have proven invalid, but one central premise does remain true: domestic economic policy trumps foreign policy in elections. Yes, we fear terror and are concerned about foreign conflicts, and we care deeply about the victims and refugees these conflicts produce. But our tangible fears center around having a job that enables us to provide our family with food, shelter, clothing, and education, and to put some money away for an uncertain future. Immigration, foreign policy, and defense policy gain importance as viewed through an economics lens. How are defense dollars best spent? How does immigration policy impact employment? How do we maintain our global standing without increasing our overwhelming national debt?\nThe traditional political spectrum of liberal and conservative ideologies is a disagreement over the balance between individual rights and the power of the government. Democrats and Republicans differ in their approaches of how best to achieve this balance in an equitable way to \u201cinsure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.\u201d The difference between the two parties with regards to economic policy fits right into this paradigm as well, and it revolves around a disagreement over how best to achieve a balance of equality and efficiency. Put simply, equality is about distribution of resources across society, while efficiency focuses on optimal production and resource allocation. Democrats believe in a strong government that needs to take an active role in creating jobs, paying for social programs such as healthcare, and raising taxes on citizens to pay for these programs. The result is a system that emphasizes equality--it\u2019s the government\u2019s job to ensure income equality for all. Conservative policy emphasizes government efficiency and enabling citizens to achieve greater wealth through increased autonomy, less regulation, less government spending, and lower taxes. The idea relies on providing greater incentive to work, which in turn results in greater productivity, idea creation, and increased opportunity for everyone. Further, it increases competition, which results in optimal resource production, thus creating economic growth.\nIt seems simple enough--people should vote for the party that has the policy they favor more. But how does the difference in policy explain the events of this current election, namely the rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump? The answer is that it extends beyond just this difference in policy between the two parties.\nSupporters of these two candidates have seemingly emerged out of nowhere and have staunchly supported their candidates to much success thus far. But who are these Sanders and Trump supporters? There is strong anecdotal indication that a good many of them are people who did not vote in previous elections. So unsurprisingly, analysts struggled with gaps in their previously reliable demographic patterns. Interpolating results across demographics proved futile. Insufficient empirical data resulted in inaccurate forecasts of primary results and candidate viability. But in the process of being wrong, we learned that this election is less about who people vote for than who and how many people vote. We learned the obvious: we can\u2019t accurately predict voting patterns of people who have not previously voted. For polls predicting continued success for Trump and Sanders to come true, it is these \u201cpeople who don\u2019t normally vote\u201d who will have to continue showing up at the ballots in primaries and eventually in the general election.\nBut how do we understand these \u201cpeople who don\u2019t normally vote\u201d in light of the two parties\u2019 economic policies? Presumably, if you\u2019re a fiscal Republican, you\u2019d be happy to vote for any Republican candidate, establishment candidates like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio included. And if you believe in the Democrat\u2019s economic policies, you\u2019d coalesce around Hillary Clinton. So why have people gravitated so strongly to Trump and Sanders? To explain the rise of these two candidates, one has to look through a wider lens which includes anger over traditional political candidates and their economic policies, as well as the economic policies of previous presidents.\nPrevailing consensus, up until this election, stated that general elections would always come down to a traditional Democrat versus an establishment Republican. (Left-leaning Hillary Clinton against a right-leaning opponent, with Jeb Bush as the likely frontrunner). Both Hillary and Jeb made important decisions up front to focus on protecting their political bases rather than spending money and effort trying to expand their bases. This decision was important because it dictated their economic policy positions as comfortably near the political middle. But these decisions created an opening for a candidate (or two in this case) to appeal to those outside these protected bases. Enter Sanders and Trump who did just that.\nWith Hillary and Jeb busily focused on protecting their near-middle bases, Sanders and Trump spoke in simple language about changing the status quo to people who didn\u2019t care to comprehend the incomprehensible policy-speak of the front running candidates. Using plain language, they attracted a following that has at times appeared viral.\nSanders\u2019 emergence as a viable candidate with a base even further left than Hillary puts her in a precarious position. She expected the primary battle to be little more than a necessary formality that would be over months ago, allowing her to completely focus on her Republican competition in the general election. Further, her long-standing game plan presumed the Republican candidate to be from the establishment--if not Jeb, then Marco Rubio or someone of his ilk.\nAs a result of these two developments, Hillary has had to simultaneously balance two tasks. On the one hand, she has to appeal to voters outside her left-center base which is a difficult proposition in and of itself given her track record and strong alignment with the current administration\u2019s policies and her association with Wall Street bankers who are bankrolling her campaign, at least according to Sanders. And if that isn\u2019t difficult enough, it\u2019ll risk alienating the political middle--many of whom reside in the battleground states that decide presidential elections. On the other hand, Hillary has to keep a close eye on the Republican circus and plan for multiple scenarios in the general election, since she could face Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or perhaps a different candidate altogether if a brokered Republican convention results in the nomination of a different candidate.\nBut interestingly, the heated battle has kept Cruz and Kasich repeating their original economic policy positions, while Trump has been consistent in his willingness to say pretty much anything at anytime to anyone without the burden of explaining how he will do what he says he will do. That\u2019s exactly why many of his backers support him, and they love it when the mainstream media flails trying to get him to explain anything. Other than the occasional barb hurled Clinton\u2019s way, the three Republican candidates\u2019 rhetoric has not swayed much since the start of the primaries. So ironically, whoever emerges from Cleveland as the Republican candidate may in fact be stronger because of the circus from which he emerges.\nWhen looking at, and planning ahead for, the general election, the most important number is the roughly 40% of eligible voters who have not bothered to vote in previous elections. How many of these voters emerged from their silence only because they support either Sanders\u2019 or Trump\u2019s plain-speak economic policies? Will they retreat back into their cocoons if their candidate is not the nominee, or will they vote for one of the other candidates? Or perhaps they may vote for the other party\u2019s candidate simply because of their disdain of how the government operates today, with any drastic change being better than the status quo. For many of these people, their vote will be an anti-vote--anyone but the other candidate. Our next president will be decided by how many people energized by Sanders or Trump will show up at the voting booth even if their candidate is not on the slate, and who will get their vote. That\u2019s at least as good a prediction as the media experts have been able to put forward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00000.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 10293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://100experiencepoints.com/2013/02/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SWNAG5DGCYWYDAP4KNDPHKKT2SUQEUTS", "length": 637, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "100experiencepoints.com", "title": "\u00bb 2013 \u00bb February \u00bb 01", "raw_content": "Day 15: 1 February 2013\nI wanted to do more development today, but something big (and problematic) came up that I\u2019ve got to address right away. More on this very soon. (But it\u2019s not good news.) In unrelated news, I looked at the picture that I posted yesterday and thought, Anyone who knows XNA is going to be like, \u201cYou Continue reading \u2192\n20:18: I know. I said I wasn\u2019t going to do minute-by-minute updates. I\u2019m just really excited to be back to doing some programming on my game for the first time in over a week. Hmm\u2026 now what to tackle first? 10:38: I decided to work on the GUI for the shipyard. Mind you, I\u2019m not Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1033uscountry.com/pistol-annies-new-album-2018-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXZVWXWGKWS4HHJC4WGQV4M5BJRH5Y7H", "length": 4272, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "1033uscountry.com", "title": "Everything We Know About the Pistol Annies' 'Interstate Gospel'", "raw_content": "Everything We Know About the Pistol Annies\u2019 Third Album, \u2018Interstate Gospel\u2019\nIt's been five years since the Pistol Annies have offered up new music to their devoted fans, but at long last, the wait is coming to an end. Well, soon it is, anyway.\nThe country trio, made up of Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe, were teasing a new project for months, dropping hints about writing sessions and making onstage appearances together. While we wait with bated breath for the new record's release, here's what's known about the Pistol Annies' third studio album thus far.\nThe Pistol Annies' new album will be titled Interstate Gospel. Prior to revealing the news on Sept. 27, the group released a 45-song playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music, featuring songs from their work as a trio as well as each Annie's solo discography, with the same title Interstate Gospel.\nInterstate Gospel is due out on Nov. 2. In a late-July 2018 interview with The Boot, Presley said that the project was ready to go: \"We just finished our third record. Two weeks ago [as of July 23],\" she shared; for her part, Lambert told Time that the trio is aiming for a Fall 2018 release date.\nThen, on Sept. 21, the Pistol Annies posted a video of postcards falling into a United States Postal Service Box to their Twitter account, explaining that they had just sent out a collection of postcards to fans across the country that contained hints about the new album. \"If you got a postcard, share a picture using #PistolAnniesAreBack,\" the caption continues. \"And everyone else check out that hashtag, so y'all can put together some important info about our new music.\"\nTogether, the postcards not only seemed to reveal a track list and selected lyrics from the forthcoming album, but also, many speculated, pointed to that release date of Nov. 2. The numbers \"112\" appeared as a road sign stamped on the back of the cards.\nThe Pistol Annies' Interstate Gospel cover features the three women, dressed in shades of green and brown, standing in a forest. Presley, Lambert and Monroe are holding hands and looking up to the sky; their trio's name and the album's title appear above them.\nThere's no news on this front just yet. For both 2011's Hell on Heels and 2013's Annie Up, the trio worked with producer Frank Liddell. Chuck Ainlay and Glenn Worf also helped produce Hell on Heels.\nNo word on a single just yet; however, on Sept. 27, the Pistol Annies dropped three new tracks at once: \"Interstate Gospel,\" \"Got My Name Changed Back\" and \"Best Years of My Life.\" All three were sent to country radio programmers.\nMonroe says fans can be prepared for some great stuff.\n\"We've written some of my favorite songs I've ever written in my life,\" Monroe told The Boot in April. Adds Lambert to Time, \"Something about being together makes us a force to be reckoned with. We can get more raw and rugged than we would alone ... I think it\u2019s the best writing we\u2019ve ever done. We\u2019ve lived a lot of life since our last record. I think it\u2019s three girls telling our story very bravely.\"\nDuring their #PistolAnniesAreBack campaign, a series of postcards mailed out to fans pieced together a track list of 14 songs. See below for the track list. A press release reports that Lambert, Monroe and Presley co-wrote all of the songs except for \"This Too Shall Pass;\" that one was written by Monroe and Presley.\nPistol Annies, Interstate Gospel Track List:\n1. \"Interstate Prelude\"\n2. \"Stop, Drop and Roll One\"\n3. \"Best Years of My Life\"\n4. \"Five Acres of Turnips\"\n5. \"When I Was His Wife\"\n6. \"Cheyenne\"\n7. \"Got My Name Changed Back\"\n8. \"Sugar Daddy\"\n9. \"Leaver's Lullaby\"\n10. \"Milkman\"\n11. \"Commissary\"\n12. \"Masterpiece\"\n13. \"Interstate Gospel\"\n14. \"This Too Shall Pass\"\nThe Pistol Annies will celebrate Interstate Gospel by embarking on a mini-tour this fall. Lambert, Monroe and Presley will perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Oct. 25. They'll then head to New York City for a Nov. 2 stop at the Town Hall, and then to Los Angeles for a show at the Novo on Nov. 7. Tickets for all three shows will go on sale on Oct. 5.\nSource: Everything We Know About the Pistol Annies\u2019 Third Album, \u2018Interstate Gospel\u2019\nFiled Under: Angaleena Presley, Ashley Monroe, Editor's Picks, Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://12160.info/forum/topics/it-begins-president-trump-likely-to-declare-national-emergency-at?commentId=2649739%3AComment%3A1868976&xg_source=activity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PBWM2TWPV4DHAHIXY5BQF5Q25BAFPXUR", "length": 8460, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "12160.info", "title": "It begins: President Trump likely to declare national emergency at 9pm today - 12160 Social Network", "raw_content": "It begins: President Trump likely to declare national emergency at 9pm today\nPosted by Chris of the family Masters on January 8, 2019 at 7:47pm in Current News/Events\nTags: Border Patrol, crisis, migrants, national defense, national emergency, national security, Open Borders, President Trump, White House\n(Natural News) President Trump plans to address the nation tonight in a 9pm Eastern broadcast that will be carried by all the major news networks. During this broadcast, he is widely expected to invoke a national emergency over the continued illegal invasion and occupation of America by foreign nationals. These law-breaking criminals are using America\u2019s open borders to engage in widespread human trafficking, drug smuggling, gun running and the invasion of America with violent criminal illegal aliens who are granted \u201csanctuary\u201d status by treasonous Democrats like former California Gov. Jerry Brown.\nAs NewsTarget.com has previously reported, President Trump is technically already operating with a declaration of a national emergency. Accordingly, he may not use the phrase \u201cnational emergency\u201d in tonight\u2019s address, since that designation has already been invoked and is legally in place. The declaration grants President Trump broad emergency power, many of which were established under former President Barack Obama. As reported by Natural News in 2012, Barack Obama already declared the president\u2019s power to seize all national resources in times of emergency:\nOn March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, \u201cNATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS.\u201d (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2\u2026)\nThis executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done \u201cto promote the national defense\u201d \u2014 a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.\nThat executive order grants the President the power to seize all forms of communications, production, natural resources, transportation, energy and much more. It was invoked by Barack Obama with a plan to hand that power to future President Hillary Clinton, who would invoke the emergency powers to declare a national emergency over \u201cgun violence,\u201d followed by nationwide gun confiscation and mass arrests of conservative journalists.\nNotably, Barack Obama declared that executive order \u201cas Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States,\u201d setting up the precedent for military action to address whatever national emergency was subsequently declared. What Obama didn\u2019t realize, of course, is that the American people would reject a Clinton presidency and elect an anti-establishment President who wants to protect America rather than gutting it. Thus, all the executive powers and military precedent declared by Obama has been inherited by President Trump.\nIt\u2019s time to unleash the military police to arrest the deep state traitors who are conspiring to destroy America from within\nDuring his national address, President Trump will likely affirm the urgent crisis of illegal aliens crossing a largely unprotected border. He will designate Pentagon budget money to build a wall of some sort, and he will highlight the dereliction of duty by deranged Democrats whose only future lies in recruiting more illegal alien voters via illegal border crossings.\nTrump\u2019s invocation of a national emergency to fund the border wall will indicate the beginning of the new war to defend America against traitors and globalists who are desperately trying to occupy and overrun the country in order to destroy its national sovereignty. Tonight\u2019s broadcast is merely the first step in many steps yet to come. Trump is refusing to surrender America to the treachery of Democrats and their globalist controllers, and he is demonstrating that when it comes to the Trump presidency, America comes first.\nNaturally, Democrats and the left-wing media will go ballistic as Trump orders the construction of a border wall, and they will ratchet up their efforts to have Trump impeached, assassinated or silenced (by censoring his Twitter account, for example). This will only result in Trump further invoking presidential powers to defend America against the Democrat traitors who despise this great nation and are infuriated when anyone attempts to defend America against an invasion of illegal foreign nationals.\nJoin me in calling for President Trump to unleash the military police in a nationwide campaign to arrest the treasonous traitors operating within the deep state, the Democrat party and the anti-America propagandists pretending to be \u201cmedia.\u201d Most of these individuals are communists, and they\u2019re all working for globalists as part of a coordinated conspiracy to collapse our constitutional republic, overrule democracy and oust a duly-elected President.\nPresident Trump needs to know that We the People are able to and ready to help defend this nation against the enemies within. \u201cAll enemies, foreign and domestic\u201d must be opposed by the American people\u2026 by every available means. As I recently wrote on Trump.news:\nIt\u2019s time to activate the military police and hand them a list of the deep state traitors who have attempted to carry out a treasonous political coup rooted in illegal government spying under President Obama, the falsification of \u201cevidence\u201d used to deceive the FISA court, witness tampering by Robert Mueller, illegal leaks by James Comey, official corruption by Hillary Clinton, and multiple acts of treason against America approved by Obama and dutifully carried out by Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. Arrest the deep state traitors, indict them for crimes against America and prosecute them.\nAs I also pointed out in that story, it\u2019s time for real America to arrest and prosecute the CEOs of the evil tech giants; root out the anti-American communists pretending to be journalists; arrest and eliminate the domestic terrorism recruitment \u201cprofessors\u201d operating in universities; purge all deep state operatives from government and imprison them for life.\nIt has taken two years for the American people to really wake up and see the level of treason being committed by the deep state, the CIA-run media, anti-Trumpers (like McCain) and the deranged, lawless Democrats. But now the American people are increasingly aware of what\u2019s really at stake. They see how American has been targeted for destruction by the treacherous Democrats, and they are ready to take a stand to defend America at all costs.\nWe are willing to fight to defend America, and every former or current member of the armed forces, police departments and sheriff\u2019s departments has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. It will soon be time to make good on that oath. America must defend herself or she will be \u201csuicided\u201d by the Democrats.\nWe are blessed to have Trump as President\u2026 a man willing to fight for survival against an onslaught of deception, tyranny and destruction of the deranged Left and its globalist controllers.\nWatch Trump\u2019s address tonight and be awed by what real courage looks like. America shall be defended. The American people will not surrender to left-wing lunacy, open borders tyranny and globalist rule.\nPermalink Reply by Raz Putin on January 8, 2019 at 8:32pm\nWatch on the web: FOX News Live Stream HD thru Gramp's: President Trump's Address to the Nation, Full Screen 9:00 p.m. EST\nI just watched Trump's Address to the Nation, no state of emergency, it was video taped also. Look I like Trump, but BS is BS in my book.\nTrump played them again tonight.\nI will bet he will call an national emergency if the house does not agree to funding the wall.\nI think he has once again out smarted these liberal clowns.\nHe has sure left the Democrats with a nothing burger to talk about on their time.\nAnd so when both sides meet again to discuss reopening the government by funding the wall it puts all the onus on the Dems to make a deal and when they don't Trump will then call his National Emergency and the Dems will be the big losers they really are.\nCREEP SHOW: Pelosi-Schumer\u2019s Freak Out Viewers\u2026 Blank Stares, Scowls and Crazy Eyes Frighten Viewers (VIDEO)\nDemocrat leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi delivered the response.\nWhat a creep show!\nsource: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/creep-show-pelosi-schumers...\nPermalink Reply by Chuck Smith on January 12, 2019 at 10:00pm\nFOOLED AGAIN!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 12856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2007www.lymphedemapeople.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=606&p=1392", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BPLGGEC5ZMTT4CNKI23WUIKUFLG7CLCA", "length": 7315, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "2007www.lymphedemapeople.com", "title": "Lymphedema People \u2122 \u2022 View topic - Octreotide Treatment and Intestinal Lymphangiectasia", "raw_content": "Octreotide Treatment and Intestinal Lymphangiectasia\nOctreotide in intestinal lymphangiectasia: lack of a clinical response and failure to alter lymphatic function in a guinea pig model.\nMakhija S, von der Weid PY, Meddings J, Urbanski SJ, Beck PL.\nDepartment of Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Sciences Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.\nIntestinal lymphangiectasia, which can be classified as primary or secondary, is an unusual cause of protein-losing enteropathy. The main clinical features include edema, fat malabsorption, lymphopenia and hypoalbuminemia. Clinical management generally includes a low-fat diet and supplementation with medium chain triglycerides. A small number of recent reports advocate the use of octreotide in intestinal lymphangiectasia. It is unclear why octreotide was used in these studies; although octreotide can alter splanchnic blood flow and intestinal motility, its actions on lymphatic function has never been investigated. A case of a patient with intestinal lymphangiectasia who required a shunt procedure after failing medium chain triglycerides and octreotide therapy is presented. During the management of this case, all existing literature on intestinal lymphangiectasia and all the known actions of octreotide were reviewed. Because some of the case reports suggested that octreotide may improve the clinical course of intestinal lymphangiectasia by altering lymphatic function, a series of experiments were undertaken to assess this. In an established guinea pig model, the role of octreotide in lymphatic function was examined. In this model system, the mesenteric lymphatic vessels responded to 5-hydroxytryptamine with a decrease in constriction frequency, while histamine administration markedly increased lymphatic constriction frequency. Octreotide failed to produce any change in lymphatic function when a wide range of concentrations were applied to the mesenteric lymphatic vessel preparation. In conclusion, in this case, octreotide failed to induce a clinical response and laboratory studies showed that octreotide did not alter lymphatic function. Thus, the mechanisms by which octreotide induced clinical responses in the cases reported elsewhere in the literature remain unclear, but the present study suggests that it does not appear to act via increasing lymphatic pumping.\nSuccessful Treatment of Protein-Losing Enteropathy Induced by Intestinal Lymphangiectasia in a Liver Cirrhosis Patient with Octreotide :A Case Report\nDong Soo Han, Hang Lak Lee, Jin Bae Kim, Yong Chul Jeon, Joo Hyun Sohn, Joon Soo Hahm\nDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Kuri Hospital, Guri, Korea. hands@hanyang.ac.kr\nA 47-yr-old man with hepatitis B virus associated liver cirrhosis was admitted to our hospital with diarrhea and generalized edema and diagnosed as protein-losing enteropathy due to intestinal lymphangiectasia by intestinal biopsy and 99mTc albumin scan. During hospitalization, he received subcutaneous octreotide therapy. After 2 weeks of octreotide therapy, follow-up albumin scan showed no albumin leakage, and the serum albumin level was sustained. We speculate that liver cirrhosis can be a cause of intestinal lymphangiectasia and administration of octreotide should be considered for patients with intestinal lymphangiectasia whose clinical and biochemical abnormalities do not respond to a low-fat diet.\n2004 Jun; 19 (3): 466- 469\nFull-text article available - PDF\nhttp://jkms.org/2004/abstract/466a.html\nPrimary intestinal lymphangiectasia successfully treated with octreotide.\nKuroiwa G, Takayama T, Sato Y, Takahashi Y, Fujita T, Nobuoka A, Kukitsu T, Kato J, Sakamaki S, Niitsu Y.\nFourth Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Japan.\nA 21-year-old man with diarrhea and edema was admitted to our hospital and diagnosed with protein-losing enteropathy caused by primary intestinal lymphangiectasia. He was placed, in turn, on a low-fat diet, an elemental diet, and, subsequently, fasting therapy with total parenteral nutrition (TPN) support. However, his symptoms were not relieved, but, rather were exacerbated. On the 45th day of hospitalization, octreotide therapy was initiated. After 2 weeks of treatment, his clinical symptoms, as well as hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia, gradually became alleviated. The improvement was confirmed in terms of scintigraphy, endoscopy, and histology of the duodenum. The patient remained healthy until 6 months after the commencement of octreotide treatment, when he discontinued octreotide at his own discretion, at which point the symptoms recurred. Resumption of the drug, however, again brought about remission, which has continued until the present, March 2000. Thus, octreotide therapy is one modality which may be useful for refractory primary intestinal lymphangiectasia.\nIS THERE A ROLE FOR OCTREOTIDE IN INTESTINAL LYMPHANGIECTASIA?\nS Makhija, P-Y von der Weid, J Meddings, PL Beck\nGI and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta\nWe present two patients with intestinal lymphangiectasia. Intestinal lymphangiectasia is rare cause of protein losing enteropathy. Management is often ineffective and generally includes a low fat diet and medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil. Several medications have also been tried without success. Recently octreotide has been used in a small number of patients with mixed results. It is unclear why octreotide was used in these cases for there have been no studies to date assessing the actions of this agent on lymphatic function.\nAIM: Assess the role of octreotide on lymphatic function.\nMETHODS: To investigate whether octreotide directly affects lymphatic pumping function, we assessed its effect on lymphatic vessels of the ileal portion of the guinea-pigs mesentery. This intra-vital preparation is a well-established model that has been used to characterize physiological and pharmacological properties of lymphatic pumping. The contractile activity of lymphatic vessels was monitored via video microscopy and vessel diameter was analyzed in real time using a video-dimension analyzer. A 5 min control period of contractile activity was recorded before octreotide (Sandostatin, Novartis, Basle, CH) was applied for 4 min, at various concentrations.\nRESULTS: Octreotide had no effect on lymphatic vessel pumping activity over a wide range of concentrations (20 nM to 10 \u00b5M). Despite the absence of response to octreotide, the same vessels responded to treatments with 5-HT with a decrease in constriction frequency (47.3\u00b110.5% of control) and to application of histamine with an increase in pumping (125.3\u00b120.9% of control). Thus, although pumping of guinea-pig mesenteric lymphatic vessels could be altered by known modulatory agents, it was not affected by octreotide. Of our two clinical cases, one patient was managed with MCT oil with a good response while the second patient failed MCT oil therapy and was then tried empirically on octreotide without clinical response.\nCONCLUSION: In a bedside-to-bench approach we could not find any evidence that octreotide enhanced lymphatic function in our animal model nor did the one patient that empirically received octreotide respond to this intervention.\nhttp://www.cag-acg.org/cddw/cddw2004/abs/abs180.htm\nLymhpedema People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 10897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2017.igem.org/Team:LUBBOCK_TTU", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DWOJEBV3B6R5BNW5E477262SX34VNYNV", "length": 1677, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "2017.igem.org", "title": "Team:LUBBOCK TTU - 2017.igem.org", "raw_content": "Team:LUBBOCK TTU\nCharacterization of a Calcium-Sensitive Reporter in\nOur current work was inspired by the ability of a thermosensitive ion channel, known as TRPV1, to import calcium into the cell in response to temperature changes. This process could one day be used to provide a method of In-Silico control of genetic circuits in synthetic biology. Our project explores the characterization of a calcium-sensitive reporter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to monitor gene expression levels within a range of temperatures.\nHuman Practices is an integral part of creating impactful relationships with our community, and conducting research that is embraced by a generalized audience. The iGEM competition is centered around synthetic biology, of which includes genetic engineering, which traditionally has been a controversial area of research. Careful consideration of Human Practices ensures that our research is ethical, responsible, safe, secure, and sustainable.\nThe iGEM Measurement Committee aims to develop robust measurement procedures for enhancing the quantification and reproducibility of results through the InterLab Study. The objective of the 2017 InterLab Study is to determine absolute units for measuring green fluorescent protein (GFP) that are easily comparable regardless of the type of plate reader used to make the measurement. We used a standardized protocol and analysis method for measuring GFP with a BioTek Synergy 4 plate reader.\nView 2017 InterLab Study results \u2192\nThe Lubbock_TTU Team is part of a student organization at Texas Tech University known as iGEM Raiders. This year, the Lubbock_TTU team is composed of 10 undergraduate and graduate students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://662520.ru/radio-club.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DEJ6GRFRVIPVHBWP3VEDD3PPAVEZA7WI", "length": 10587, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "662520.ru", "title": "Radio - Radio Club", "raw_content": "Namie Amuro Radio Show 2011 Casette Tape Fan Club Limited Break the Rules M04\nCULTURE CLUB Westwood One RARE 1984 US RADIO DJ PROMO LP W/ CUE SHEET Boy George\nBOY GEORGE CULTURE CLUB RARE 1987 US HOT ROCKS RADIO DJ PROMO ONLY 2LP VINYL SET\nCULTURE CLUB The Hot Ones *RARE 1984 USA RADIO PROMO ONLY DJ VINYL LP Boy George\n6 Blackbox Club-X UHF 16Ch 2W Compact Radio Nightclub Bar W/built in flashlight\nCULTURE CLUB BOY GEORGE RARE 3x LP RADIO PROMO BOX SET THE BEATLES MADONNA DURAN\n62 people were contacted over ham radio in this Veterans Day tribute - Gainesville Times\nA group of ham radio enthusiasts didn\u2019t let a little cold weather stop them from honoring veterans, specifically Marine Lance Cpl. Zack T. Addington, on Sunday at Clermont City Park.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s turned out a lot better than I thought it would,\u201d Lanierland Amateur Radio Club President Mike Hall said. \u201cThis morning when we were sitting here freezing I thought \u2018nobody\u2019s gonna come. Do we really want to do this?\u2019 We talked about it, and I said \u2018we did it to honor a veteran. I think we need to stay.\u2019 As the morning went on people started coming in.\u201d\nThe club set up ham radios for people in the community to communicate with people around the world from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Veterans Day.\nThose who made contact with the club were offered a card featuring Addington\u2019s photo to commemorate the event. Addington was a Clermont native who was killed in May 1968 while serving in the Vietnam War.\n\u201cThe neat thing is, and we didn\u2019t exactly plan this, but somebody reminded us that on Veterans Day, 11 o\u2019clock is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, so we had a moment of silence,\u201d Hall said. \u201cA gentleman who was here earlier was a minister, so we asked him to lead us in prayer, then we pledged the flag. We found out how many veterans we had, and one of the fellas went around and thanked everybody for their service. It was just a little beautiful ceremony that we did around here.\u201d\nHam radio has been used by American soldiers as a means to communicate, and Hall said he thinks that bringing attention to ham radio is another way to pay tribute to them.\n\u201cAltogether today we\u2019ve had four ham operators who were veterans, and we\u2019ve talked to a number a veterans. They\u2019ll tell us they appreciate that we\u2019re doing this,\u201d Hall said. \u201c...a lot of ham operators are veterans and may have gotten into ham radio because of doing radio in service.\u201d\nAccording to Larry Tyson, vice president of the club, they contacted over 62 people over the course of the event, including people in Canada and England.\nOutside of paying tribute to veterans, the club hopes the event helped raise awareness to ham radio as a method of communication even in the digital age.\nClub member John Brandon explained that ham radio is still used in disaster events like tornados or just when people are in need of assistance, adding that he once used his ham radio when he found a broken down truck one evening.\n\u201cI called the base station, and an operator answered that I knew personally. I got him to make a phone call for us to send help over for them,\u201d Brandon said. \u201cI stayed until they got there then left. It\u2019s worked out real good for me.\u201d\nHall said he thinks the event helped bring together the ham radio community, and he hopes it\u2019s grabbed the attention of some newcomers as well.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun,\u201d Hall said. \u201cIt does attract attention to ham radio.\u201d\nSource: www.gainesvilletimes.com\nCommunity Calendar: Amateur Radio Club to meet Nov. 5 - jacksonprogress-argus\nThe city of Jackson and the Salvation Army will be taking applications for Thanksgiving and Christmas meal assistance Nov. 5 at the city of Jackson Public Works Building, 211 Alabama Blvd. Hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Applicants must bring a picture ID and Social Security card for all household members, proof of Butts County residency and proof of household income. For more information, call 770-775-7535.\nThe William McIntosh chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring an American history essay contest. The topic for fifth through eighth grades is \u201cThe Women\u2019s Suffrage Campaign.\u201d The topic for ninth through 12th grades is \u201cComparing Ship Technology: The Ships Columbus Used Versus Ships of Today.\u201d The deadline for submitting an essay is Nov. 7. The contest is open to all students in public, private or parochial schools, or those who are home schooled. For additional information, contact Sue Oglesby at 678-752-9056.\nThe Butts County Department of Family and Children Services will host an information session on how to become a foster or adoptive parent from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 8 at 178 Ernest Biles Drive, Jackson. Information sessions are held once a month at the same time and location. Interested parties should contact Winifred Fountain at 404-416-3548.\nThe Jackson High School NJROTC will be hosting its inaugural Veterans Day 5K Nov. 10. The race is an official AJC Peachtree Road Race qualifying event and will start at 10 a.m. at Red Devil Hill. Proceeds will go to the JHS NJROTC program. Registration for the event is open and can be completed in person at JHS or online at: https://www.active.com/jackson-ga/running/distance-running-races/jhs-navy-jrotc-veterans-day-5k-2018?int=.\nThe JHS NJROTC is also hosting a Veterans Day ceremony at the JHS gym at 9:45 a.m. Nov. 12. The guest speaker for the ceremony will be retired Lt. Gen. James Helmly. Local veterans are invited to attend the ceremony so they can be recognized for their service. Veterans who are planning to attend are asked to RSVP via email to matthew.jordan@bcssk12.org no later than Nov. 7.\nHomestead Hospice in Jackson will hold a memorial service at 12:45 p.m. Nov. 15. The memorial service will be held at First Baptist Church, 1227 W. Third St., Jackson. For more information, contact Chaplain Rosa Brown at 770-775-0100. Homestead Hospice is also seeking volunteers to visit with and provide comfort, companionship and emotional support to patients. Volunteer training will be provided. For more information, contact volunteer coordinator Kathy Bennett at 770-775-0100.\nSource: www.jacksonprogress-argus.com\nWMWV Radio Food Drive set for Nov. 14 - Conway Daily Sun\nDrive-through drop off for food pantry helps with Thanksgiving\nCONWAY \u2014 The First Church of Christ Congregational in North Conway (next to the Bavarian Chocolate Haus) will be holding the WMWV Radio Food Drive on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.\nNow in its 17th year, the WMWV Radio Food Drive is an event conceived by Mt. Washington Valley Radio station owner Greg Frizzell, along with Vaughan administrator at that time, Sara Bechtold.\n\u201cIt was successful from the get-go,\u201d Bechtold said. \u201cThe drive-through format, coupled with the promotion of the event by the radio station really worked.\u201d\nIn 2017, 545 frozen turkeys were donated to the Vaughan Community Services Food Pantry, and they are hoping to increase that number to 550.\nDrivers can drop off frozen turkeys, non-perishable food items and/or money from the comfort of their own vehicles. Volunteers will be on hand to assist in the transfer of items.\nDonated turkeys must be frozen and will stay that way by loan of a mobile freezer from Moat Mountain Smokehouse. Food donations are distributed among the area food pantries in the Mount Washington Valley as well as to the American Legion in Conway and North Conway and the Lions Club, assuring there is plenty of supply through the holiday and winter season.\n\u201cThis is a difficult time of year for working families in the valley as ski areas are not yet open and building construction projects are winding down,\u201d Jennifer Perkins, interim Vaughan administrator, said. \u201cPutting food on the table becomes difficult for many, therefore, food insecurity grows as does the demand on our food pantries.\u201d\nThe food drive has generated literally tons of non-perishable food, hundreds of turkeys and as much as $10,000 in cash. For every dollar donated, Vaughan can purchase nearly $3 in groceries at the N.H. Food Bank.\nItems in high demand include canned soup, canned stew, canned tuna, canned chicken, canned veggies, boxed pasta, instant potatoes, shelf-stable milk, peanut butter, jelly, cereal and snack foods.\nOne difference in this year\u2019s food drive will be the absence of Vaughan Administrator Denise Leighton as she is convalescing at home, but will be kept updated on the day\u2019s activities.\n\u201cLet\u2019s make this drive the best one ever for Denise, who we hope will be back at work soon! Anyone wanting to drop off a get-well card is encouraged to do so. We\u2019ll make sure she receives it,\u201d Dot Seybold, president of the Vaughan board of directors, said.\nVaughan board members will be available at the food drive to share information about the exciting plans for a new food pantry building and an updated, renovated Vaughan Learning Center.\nThe group is working to raise $1.3 million for the two projects and break ground in June of 2019. Brochures and donor cards will be available. Donations for the Capital Campaign are welcome.\n\u201cVaughan is grateful to MWV Radio, and especially Greg Frizzell and the entire staff for the hard work in donating an entire day to this worthy local cause. It\u2019s truly neighbor helping neighbor and demonstrates how fortunate we all are to live in such a supportive community,\u201d Seybold said.\nSource: www.conwaydailysun.com\nRadio Connectors\nNPR Wine Club | Explore the world of wine while supporting ...\nA delicious way to support public radio. Discover handcrafted wines from around the world. Learn the stories behind each one. Enjoy unique bottles inspired by favorite NPR shows.\nRadioTower.com - Online Radio Stations with Live Feeds\nFree Online Radio Stations Page - RadioTower makes it easy with details, descriptions, ratings and 1-click instant access to 1000's of LIVE Internet Radio feeds\nAmateur radio - Wikipedia\nThe origins of amateur radio can be traced to the late 19th century, but amateur radio as practiced today began in the early 20th century. The First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book of the Wireless Association of America, produced in 1909, contains a list of amateur radio stations. This radio callbook lists wireless telegraph stations in Canada and the United States, including 89 amateur ...\nSlacker Radio is a free internet radio service, light years away from the one-dimensional playlists that you're used to. Personalize hundreds of music stations, as well as news, sports and comedy options. We know you'll hear the difference. That's why we're perfect for each other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 12737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://6figurehostspodcast.com/making-a-passive-6-figure-income", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CQU2M4OSG6V72ENXF2GVPMORO3QYYPMG", "length": 341, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "6figurehostspodcast.com", "title": "6 Figure Hosts Podcast: Making a Passive 6 Figure Income", "raw_content": "Passive Income with Airbnb, and how it all started for me. This podcast is for those who are seeking an additional source of income, or a change in lifestyle through passive income. The fact is you can earn a 6 figure income through real estate through Airbnb and other short-term rental sites, EVEN if you don't own any properties. 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An AI plane can be certified because the provable output of a series of learning is then frozen for the release. Data from the field can be taken and input as a new round of learning, which is then tested, proved and released. It can learn all the time but that does not need to be modified and applied on the fly.\nYou've made another assumption that AI development is being pushed forward haphazardly without any supporting evidence that that is the case at all. In fact the reality is that scientists are very cautious and seek to test and validate everything.\nThis whole piece is just spreading fear of the unknown. You use 'beautiful but puzzling' moves as an example of \"the problem\" when actually they are the benefit. If my car brakes in an unconventional fashion that allows it to stop in half the distance and avoid hitting a pedestrian then that is a good thing.\nAt the end of the day AI is still just a computer following instructions set by a human. These CAN be validated, they CAN be limited, they WON'T uprise. You cry about the dangers of unregulated AI but just as any program or decision that a person makes, it already has consequences and rules against recklessness and negligence.\nAlan Winfield January 04, 2017 4:47 pm\nMany thanks Ben for your feedback.\nFirst, I agree that we could train the ANN offline - that solves the learning problem, but doesn't address the black box problem.\nI might agree with you regarding cautious scientists developing AI, but much AI development is now being done in the private sector by both large companies, like Amazon and Google, and many startups.\nI am not spreading fear of the unknown - just the proper caution of an engineer who has spent much of my professional life researching and developing safety systems. 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The highly experienced consultant pharmacist currently works at Walgreens Pharmacy, a role she has undertaken for the past four years.\nDr. St. Fleur always had an interest in pursuing a career in healthcare and this led to her graduating with her PharmD from Nova University in 2014. Since then, the esteemed professional has dedicated her career to helping and supporting people of all ages within her community, drawing on her natural skills and flair to deliver an exceptional level of service.\nOn a day to day basis in her role as staff pharmacist at Walgreens, Dr. St. Fleur organizes the pharmacy department in all aspects. Her work involves handling refill prescriptions, immunizations, auto refill, new prescription requests, drug information, contact lenses, as well as providing healthcare information to patients.\nWalgreens is considered America\u2019s premier pharmacy and prides itself on its century-old tradition of fairness, trust and honestly \u2013 attributes which Dr. St. Fleur holds close to her own heart. The organization was founded by Charles R. Walgreen in 1901 as a small neighborhood drug store measuring just 50 feet by 20 feet. Having suffered an accident which rendered Mr. Walgreen unable to play sport, he took on a job at 16 at Horton\u2019s Drugstore for $4 a week. This was his first experience of the industry and with his unique vision, entrepreneurial spirit and determination, he went on to establish Walgreens. Had these series of events not taken place, Walgreens may never have come into existence. It\u2019s a story that fascinates Dr. St. Fleur and she finds it extremely rewarding to work for an organization that has such a deep-rooted history.\nKeen to keep abreast of the latest developments in her sector, Dr. St. Fleur is a member of several prestigious organizations including the Florida Pharmacy Association.\nLooking back at her successes to date, Dr. St. Fleur attributes her achievements to her tenacity, trustworthiness and thoroughness.\nOver the next five years, Dr. St. Fleur plans to continue in her current position at Walgreens and to further build on her consulting work.\nWhen not busy working, Dr. St. Fleur engages in charitable efforts by donating her time to local schools. To relax, she enjoys reading.\nRosenie St. Fleur\nWalgreens is a retail pharmacy.\nRefill prescriptions, Immunizations, Auto Refill, Request New Prescriptions, Drug Information, Contact Lenses, Health Info & Services, Shop Health & Beauty.\nSources: https://www.walgreens.com/pharmacy/\nThe American Health Council Appoints Dr. Grace Akoh-Arrey, PharmD, CDE, BCACP... Alice M. 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Nowhere in the letter does it ask public schools to allow children to arbitrarily go into any bathroom they wish. Instead, it lays out guidelines for schools on how to accommodate children who identify themselves, either personally or through their parents, as transgender to school administrators. The letter states that girls, including transgender girls, use the girls bathroom. Boys, including transgender boys, use the boys bathroom. It does not allow boys to use the girls bathroom or locker room. In addition to other guidelines, it states that harassment of transgender students cannot be tolerated.\nI think the reaction to this letter has been misleading and disproportionate. It would have been a disappointing reaction if it weren't unexpected.\n-The Republican Party. I used to be a Republican but couldn't identify myself as one by the time George W. Bush's presidency was over. And then the Tea Party happened. And the government shutdown. And now Trump. Even if I'd managed to hang on until now, it would be over. I admire Republicans who will not endorse Trump or who won't commit to voting for \"the party's nominee.\" I get the difference. I also get that no nominee is perfect and every time you vote, you're voting for some positions you disagree with. But if you vote for the Republican nominee, you are really voting for an actual human being named Trump who has, based on the day and the audience, promoted some extremely troubling policies, many of which can be implemented without oversight by executive fiat. You're also voting for someone who is running on fear, intolerance, hate, xenophobia, bigotry, greed, pride, obfuscation, and willful ignorance, none of which should define the Republican Party.\n-Religious freedom. I'm still not seeing the problem that some religious people are seeing. I still have the right to believe what I want, to go to church where I want to, to not be religious if I don't want to be, and so much more. Religious institutions don't have to follow discrimination laws in hiring, Churches don't have to marry anyone they don't want to.\nI don't want to see religious freedom elevated above all other rights. If a person incorporates a business, they need to follow all discrimination laws, not just the ones they agree with. If we allowed people to opt out of discrimination laws because of strongly-held beliefs, I honestly don't think that civil rights would ever had happened in the US because there was such strong opposition, including religious opposition to it. There still is in some circles, and we still hear people saying that it should be okay for businesses to deny service to anyone they want to (and I can't help pointing out that a lot of those same people seem to think they should be able to conceal carry wherever they want to, including private businesses).\nThere are a lot of different rights here to balance. 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Being educated in Yakima County schools in the State of Washington, he rated his English skills fair in reading, writing, and speaking, as well as his speaking Japanese according to WRA documents.\nAt the age of 19, his father gave him an opportunity to return to Japan, his first trip back to the land of his birth, for what he thought was a vacation to see relatives and to see what his life would have been like if his family did not move to the Yakima Valley to farm. What he thought was a wonderful opportunity would change his life forever. His father had arranged a picture bride marriage to an 18-year-old woman by the name of Koto Inoue, who lived in the same area as the Hirahara Family, in the Ito District of Wakayama Prefecture.\nThe term \"picture bride\" became popular in that era since many people would provide photos through a go-between or \"Baishakunin,\" and the parties would agree to marry based on these photos. Sometimes, both parties would provide younger photos to enhance the selection process. Koto passed Motokichi Hirahara's evaluation of a future daughter-in-law since she was the youngest in her family, and although she could not cook or speak English, she found the excitement of living in America to be a wonderful opportunity, so she agreed to the arrangement. Son George did not agree and he wired his father back in America to say that he did not want to get married. The response he received was, \"If you don't get married, you will not be able to return,\" since he was still a Japanese citizen. So George and Koto were married in Japan, and Koto was one of the last Japanese picture brides to enter this country on June 27, 1924.\nOnce settled in, the Hirahara's ran the Pacific Hotel in Yakima, Washington from 1926 to 1942. Their initial year of operation was also the year their only child Frank was born. Due to the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII, the Hirahara's had to move to Heart Mountain, Wyoming with George's parents, but they lived in separate barrack apartments in the camp.\nGeorge's ingenuity in wanting to take and process photographs in Heart Mountain along with his son is now history. He also purchased a used Buick while working in Nyssa, Oregon, allowing him to move his photo collection and equipment when the family left the camp, and preserving precious momentos of a time that many would like to forget.\nThe Hirahara Family was one of the few who returned to the Yakima Valley after WWII ended in 1945. George Hirahara had no bad feelings about what happened to his family during the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII. He felt America was his home, and in 1954 he became an American citizen. George was named the Grand Marshal of the Washington State Pioneer Power Show in 1987, and was named a pioneer of the Central Washington State Fair in 1988. They remained there until 1992, when they relocated to Southern California to be near their son and granddaughter. Koto died in Los Angeles in 1999, and George died the following year. 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In addition, through her efforts, Donald Lawrence and Richard Smallwood not only became members of the Recording Academy, but ultimately, served on the national board giving Gospel music a louder voice with one of music's most influential organizations.\nIn 1999, she launched Tehillah Enterprises (pronounced teh-HEE-lah). She began the company because she felt a strong need to help publicize what was happening in the Christian community. \"When I entered the gospel music industry, it was a learning process for me. In my desire to find out all I could about the industry, I located a wealth of information. But it seemed to me that it wasn't being shared. I felt there was so much information I knew was vital to many who felt the call of God on their lives to enter music ministry. It was at that point that I felt compelled to share what I had learned with others,\" says Williams. It was her desire to help artists reach their full potential and give back a little of what God had given her that she decided to start Tehillah Enterprises. In 2006, after resigning from her position at the GRAMMY Awards, she took on Tehillah Enterprises full-time. Since that time, the company has received national recognition by positioning ministries through securing countless media opportunities.\nTehillah Enterprises created campaigns that placed Gospel artists on magazine covers, Billboard charts and award stages. Tehillah\u2019s efforts opened doors for national appearances, endorsement deals, and opportunities to give back to the community through charitable causes. Through artist development sessions, the company refined artists\u2019 performances giving them tips to help them minister more effectively. Through artist management, Tehillah Enterprises provided new opportunities including securing a coveted performance at the legendary Blues Alley. Tehillah excelled in the field of marketing and publicity. The publicity firm did work for notables such as Gladys Knight and Paul Anthony of Full Force (for their Gospel releases), Andrae\u2019 Crouch, Byron Cage, Earnest Pugh, Bishop Derek Grier & Grace Worship Team, Bishop David G. Evans, Pastor Riva Tims & Majestic Praise, Pastor Bill Winston & Living Word Choir, Pastor Charles Jenkins, Anita Wilson, Apostle Kevin Davidson, Alvin Slaughter, Martha Munizzi, Steven Ford, DeWayne Woods, and many others. The company's clients were recognized with award wins and nominations including GRAMMYs, Dove Awards, Stellar Awards, NAACP Image Awards and other accolades. In 2019, the firm shifted its mission to management and consulting, assisting Gospel and Christian artists more comprehensively than previously. Through management, consulting, strategic planning, education and artist development, Tehillah Enterprises is helping to guide all aspects of music ministers' careers.\nTehillah Enterprises started as a newsletter. A precursor to the now popular Belle Report, Andrea created the Gospel News Update in 1999. News from the e-zine was included during its daily radio segment on the former Heaven 1580AM's Midday Show with Cheryl Jackson as well as during \"Access Praise\" on Radio One's Praise WPRS, Praise 104.1FM. She also was the author of the D.C. Gospel News Update, which hit thousands in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, MD metropolitan area. DCGospelNewsUpdate.com, a complement to The D.C. Gospel News Update e-zine had extensive information in reference to Gospel music in the Nation's Capital. Williams has been cited in the Gospel Industry Roundup, The Bible of the Gospel Music Industry, as a \"Mover & Shaker\" in the Washington, D.C. area alongside gospel notables Richard Smallwood, Jacquie Gales-Webb, Patrick Ellis and Cheryl Jackson.\nShe's been a guest panelist for many conferences and contests including the Kellogg's Gospel Sing-Off Competition, the National Gospel Artist Showcase, the Northeast Artists Guild East Coast Music & Worship Conference, the Ministers Of Music Summit, the Bobby Jones Gospel Industry Retreat and the United States Army Entertainment Division's Stars Of Tomorrow Contests. She was featured on Former NAACP Chair Kweisi Mfume's television show, \"The Bottom Line\", on their segment about the rising popularity of gospel music. In addition, she was a featured panelist for the 2006 Gospel Heritage Praise & Worship Conference in Washington, D.C. She was also included in former BET's Lift Every Voice Host Gerard Henry's book, Voices Of Inspiration, along with noted personalities like Yolanda Adams and Tonex. Tehillah Enterprises was featured in the August 2005 edition of Gospel Today Magazine in the magazine article, \"Untangling The Web\".\nIn 2000, she received the Yaw Buama Award for \"Outstanding Contributions In The Gospel Music Industry\" from Gospel News TV in Alexandria, Virginia. Tehillah Enterprises received 2013 & 2016 Rhythm of Gospel Award Nominations for Gospel Radio Promotions & Marketing Group of the Year. She was also named \u201cTop Ten Hero In Gospel In Washington D.C. in 2013. In 2017, she released her first book, Live The Life You Sing About: How To Live With Integrity In The Gospel & Christian Music Industry.\nPhotos top to bottom: Andrea with Erykah Badu, Earnest Pugh, Keith Williams, Daryl P. Friedman & Darrell E. Housey, Jr.; Andrea with Bono of U2; Andrea with Natalie Grant; Andrea with Daryl P. 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Feel free to keep up with us via Facebook.\nanthill productions is home to the photography of rare images' Bob Hageman and the stained-glass work of firelight studios' Linda Austin. For well over twenty years, Linda and Bob have been making and displaying their unique artworks throughout the Midwest, and they are now for the first time making them available to a broader audience.\nrare images specializes in color photography that seizes on the sometimes superficially mundane details of our daily visual experience and puts them before us in a new way, in a way that transforms them from anonymous background to vivid, attention-grabbing foreground. Hageman demonstrates a keen sense for finding art in the neglected icons of our age: crypts, rusted farm-machinery, an abandoned prairie farm-house. 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There is so much going on at the Museum that you must drop by to see for yourself!\nI would like to thank Transylvania Regional Hospital for their sponsorship of our current exhibit \"Healing Hands: From Folk Traditions to Modern Medicine.\" This exhibit is sponsored on behalf of the many doctors, nurses and caregivers who have provided medical care to the people of Transylvania County.\nMake plans to visit the Museum for All American Fun on July 4th. Take a break from the day and play some bingo under the shade tree. Also, mark your calendars for the Founders' Day Fair August 30th. This year there is a raffle. Tickets are available now at the Museum. Stop by to see a complete list of items.\nLecture June 20th at College Walk\nPresenter Yvonne McCall-Dickson will into a look into the Cherokee Nation: the seven clans, Cherokee towns, culture, and ceremonies. This event, sponsored by College Walk, is free and open to the public. Make plans to attend!\nThe Museum is stepping up the Walking Tours of Historic Downtown Brevard over the summer months. From June 7 through August 2, Walking Tours will leave the Museum each Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Guests will be provided with a take-a-way tour tag featuring an historic image. The cost if $15 per person, children under 12 are free with a paying adult. Please call the Museum to reserve a spot!\nClogging Lessons Offered\nDottie Tinsley (on the right) is taking students for Clogging Lessons. Only space for 5 students. Cost $60 for the course. Contact Dottie at 828 342 6648 if interested. Your registration is confirmed when you pay in cash, check or credit card at the Museum.After the five spaces are filled, she will schedule a meeting with everyone to work out the class schedule.\nProceeds from the class go to support both the Jim Bob and Dottie Tinsley Scholarship Award and the Transylvania Heritage Museum.\nCommunities Exhibit Installed \"Communities Transylvania's Treasures\" was recently installed in the County Offices at the corner of South Broad and Morgan Street. Thanks to the ladies in the Register of Deeds Office for their assistance, and thank you to the communities who participated in this exhibit!\nThis item is from our current exhibit. Do you know what it is?\nSend your answer here! Last time, the mystery item was a hand cranked meat grinder. Thanks David Watkins for your fast response!\nClogging Lessons\nJune 14, Departs from the Comporium Parking Lot beside St. Philips at 10:30 am.\nCherokee People Program At College Walk June 20 at 7:00 pm.\nEast Fork Gals\nJune 27th 5:30-6:30 pm\nSummer Walking Tours Leave the Museum Each Saturday 10:30 am $15 per person.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arh.careers.org/education/colleges/118958?city=oxnard&name=modern-beauty-academy&state_or_country_name=california", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:41Z", "digest": "sha1:L5OUYEFDXRNASXWNXKDDBLG63XYSBMA2", "length": 1333, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "arh.careers.org", "title": "Careers.org | Modern Beauty Academy - Cosmetology/Cosmetologist College", "raw_content": "College Profile: Modern Beauty Academy\nAt Modern Beauty Academy our mission and objective is to provide the student with the education necessary to pass the licensing exam, to be an asset to the profession of Cosmetology and to become a responsible member of the community. We place emphasis on how to be successful in whatever area of Cosmetology the student selects and how to create the life style that the student desires. This means hard work, dedication and practice on the part of the student and the staff. The degree of the student\u2019s success will depend on the effort expended by both during the entire course of training. In order to achieve this objective the Academy does the following: 1. Maintains a highly skilled and qualified teaching staff. 2.\tProvides the student with a comprehensive curriculum in the basics of Cosmetology, Manicuring, Teacher Training and related subjects, with emphasis on salon techniques. 3.\tTeaches the value of professionalism including high standards of workmanship and personal conduct which will enable the student to acquire employment and be an asset in both their chosen field and community. 4.\tConducts its business in an ethical and educational atmosphere that is a credit to the Cosmetology industry.\nModern Beauty Academy Website\nQuestion and Answer about \"Modern Beauty Academy\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://art.fsu.edu/fsu-mfa-14-alum-craig-ryan-outstanding-student-achievement-international-sculpture-center-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EMM5GVIGGXQMS4CRI23CQHHJAYSRX76X", "length": 3780, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "art.fsu.edu", "title": "Department of Art | FSU MFA \u201914 Alum Craig Ryan Outstanding Student Achievement International Sculpture Center Award", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb FSU MFA \u201914 Alum Craig Ryan Outstanding Student Achievement International Sculpture Center Award\nFSU MFA \u201914 Alum Craig Ryan Outstanding Student Achievement International Sculpture Center Award\nCraig Ryan has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center\u2019s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2014. Craig Ryan is a recent graduate from the Masters of Fine Arts program at Florida State University.\nThe International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual \u201cOutstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award\u201d program in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field. It was also designed to draw attention to the sculpture programs of the participating universities, colleges, and art schools. The award program\u2019s growing publicity resulted in an exceptional number of participating institutions; including over 151 universities, colleges and art school sculpture programs from six countries for a nominated total of 374 students.\nA distinguished panel made up of Kathryn Mikesell, Founder of the Fountainhead Residency and Studios, Miami, FL; Stefano Catalani, Director of Art, Craft & Design at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA; and Donald Lipski, Sculpture, NY selected 22 recipients and 25 honorable mentions through a competitive viewing process of the works submitted. The selection of the recipients from a large pool of applicants, including international students, is a great accomplishment testament to the artistic promise of the students\u2019 work.\nThe 22 award recipients will participate in the Grounds For Sculpture\u2019s Fall/Winter Exhibition, which will be on view from October 2014 \u2013 March 2015 in Hamilton, New Jersey, adjacent to the ISC headquarters. The artist\u2019s work will be featured in the October 2014 issue of the International Sculpture Center\u2019s award winning publication, Sculpture magazine as well as on the ISC\u2019s award-winning website at www.sculpture.com.\nThe International Sculpture Center (ISC) is a member-supported, non-profit organization founded in 1960 to champion the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. Members include sculptors, collectors, patrons, architects, developers, journalists, curators, historians, critics, educators, foundries, galleries, and museums \u2013 anyone with an interest in and commitment to the field of sculpture. Please visit www.sculpture.org for further details.\nSince graduating, Craig Ryan has moved to New York City to further his career endeavors. He describes his time in New York since Graduation:\n\u201cI live and work in Manhattan. Currently I\u2019m working with Peter Callahan as Manager of Warehouse and Fabrication in Chelsea. It\u2019s a high end catering company that does custom designing for each event. Its mainly props and trays, but I have experience in digital fabrication and hope to incorporate more of those influences. Recently we printed custom cookie cutters. While a cookie cutter isn\u2019t exciting to most people, it makes a big difference for a client. This business is about creating an experience, and if you\u2019ve seen my work, you\u2019ll know why I\u2019m interested in working here.\nHalf of my job is research and through that, I know the best places to buy materials. These people know me by name. I also have access to a studio and tools. I\u2019m currently planning my next projects and will be applying to residencies shortly. I recently found that I was a recipient of International Sculpture Center\u2019s 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. An exhibition will be held in October and I will be in the October edition of Sculpture Magazine. Needless to say my transition to NYC has been best-case scenario.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 8602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arthur.sale.tripod.com/id133_m.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PEPBJ653WOQ67SPUWTQJXHKA4FSL7N3X", "length": 447, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "arthur.sale.tripod.com", "title": "What to describe? I love exploring the limits of what I can do within the limits of my equipment and funds. While making things other people like, and making a bit of money, I try to fit in some experimental activity. One of my friends in Ausglass said to me 'I envy you having the time to explore so much. I wish I could.'", "raw_content": "So I keep experimenting, trying out new techniques, exploring the limits of what I can achieve, and having successes, partial successes and failures, from all of which I learn a bit. Anyway enough talk, here are some of my experiments. Who knows, you might want something like this, or I might develop the idea to commercial success.\nExtraordinary glass\nGlass textiles\nSculptural assemblies\nExperimental platters\nPage last modified on 2002 March 1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articledirectoryid.com/91634/managing-company-registration-cyprus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7A45VYP4MA4LKYP3HLNWJQ3H3EWZUHWD", "length": 5604, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "articledirectoryid.com", "title": "Managing company registration Cyprus | Article Directory", "raw_content": "Managing company registration Cyprus\nSaturday, April 21st, 2018. Author : Gabriel Fulton. 956 views.\nManaging company registration CyprusReviewed by Gabriel Fulton on Apr 21Rating:\nCyprus is the ideal location for those who want to incorporate a private or offshore company. This is because of the agreeable tax structure and simple procedures. There are certain steps to follow to achieve company registration Cyprus and if you don\u2019t want to handle everything on your own, there are always attorneys willing to help from the beginning, including opening bank accounts.\nFrom the beginning it is good to know that Cyprus is a free market economy and business owners and entrepreneurs have great opportunities at their disposal for opening a branch and efficient tax planning. As a matter of fact, the location has gained a reputation worthy of its name, being known as having the most beneficial tax system in the European Union. Business owners can open up a company of any type here. There are certain company registration Cyprus forms that individuals can choose from, such as Private Limited Company, Company Limited by Guarantee or public company. People can incorporate businesses with the help of lawyers, especially if they are unable to travel to the country so often to go through all procedures.\nThe first step is choosing a lawyer that is licensed within the country and which can prepare all documentation and declaration forms. Based on your needs, you should focus on hiring someone that can complete all steps or get involved as much as you want. The fees for such services depend on the professionals you hire in the end and the services you count on. You can ask as many questions as you want and the law firm will respond, giving you valuable insight on what it takes to incorporate a company. There are several declarations and forms that require filling and once you succeed with them, the process afterwards is quite straightforward. Of course, it helps having someone reliable and experienced by your side, to avoid any faults and delays. It simplifies the process and the specialist can resolve issues faster.\nThe registration forms require valuable information that you need to know in advance. Some of it includes the passport details and the addresses of the proposed directors, the company\u2019s address, bank accounts and references letters or statements, how the nominal share capital is divided. In case the company is a public one, the share capital needs to be higher. Finding a name for the company is essential and you can verify is the name already exists in the country. The entire process can take up to one month and it is often reduced if all formalities are completed correctly and if the name is chosen from a pre-approved list. An attorney can help with these aspects, making sure that you have everything right from the beginning. It is true that some individuals have a hard time trusting someone outside the business, but if you take the time to find someone trustworthy, licensed and registered, it should not be a problem.\nAs soon as all documents are approved, the incorporation process does not take too long to complete, usually around one month. The certificate is delivered by the courier and you will then have the proof that the legitimate offshore business is ready to open its gates. For the private limited company, the certificate mentions the date of the incorporation, the name and other details. It happens in many cases for business owners or prospective owners to have other branches and not be able to travel to the company often. This means they are unable to check all paperwork and make any modifications.\nUsually, this leads to delays and it is not something that they desire. The good news is that there are law firms in Cyprus which are very experienced and deal with company formation on a regular basis, knowing everything there is about the subject. Even after the company is formed, lawyers can help with administrative services, including payroll, auditing, tax planning, opening virtual offices and a lot more. The idea is finding someone ahead of time and evaluating several options is recommended. You can always find out if a law firm is well-based and what services it provides. Looking online is a good point to start, as law firms advertise their services in the online environment.\nAre you planning on expanding your business or opening a new one? If you don\u2019t know the location exactly, don\u2019t hesitate about Cyprus. This law firms specializes in company registration Cyprus. You can find out everything there is upon the subject and what is required, including information on bank accounts ( http://www.kaimakliotislaw.com ) .\nRelated Articles to \"Managing company registration Cyprus\"\nJudgment Recovery \u2013 Collecting Your Judgment!\nJudgment Recovery - Collecting Your Judgment!Reviewed by Judgmentbuyout on Jun 21Rating: Congratulation! You have won a court judgment that the debtor owes you money. But, how do you collect? It.. Read more\nWhy is it imperative to get the best divorce lawyers?\nWhy is it imperative to get the best divorce lawyers?Reviewed by Adairsawyer on Aug 24Rating: Divorce is not an easy decision for anyone. But sometimes, especially when it involves domestic.. 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Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 14653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-03-01/news/26416790_1_opera-house-information-yellow-house", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:14Z", "digest": "sha1:WRMR2YTNVB276VR2UD2N3XG2SDRBQVB6", "length": 2529, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", "title": "Daily Calendar - townnews-aberdeennews", "raw_content": "SATURDAY Aberdeen: Aberdeen Area Piano Festival, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Johnson Fine Arts Center. Aberdeen: Weight Watchers, 9 a.m., Super City Mall, 2201 Sixth Ave. S.E. Aberdeen: Alcoholics Victorious Recovery Group, 10:30 a.m.-noon, The Salvation Army, 1003 Sixth Ave. S.W. For more information, call (605) 225-7410. Aberdeen: Al-Anon Steps 2 Recovery literature meeting, 10:30 a.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1429 N. Dakota St., north door. For more information, call Josh at (605) 216-6160. Aberdeen: Mayor Mike Levsen address, Aberdeen Area Retired Teachers Association meeting, 11 a.m., Jerde Hall, Northern State University. Luncheon cost is $8.50. Aberdeen: Alcoholics Anonymous, noon (closed/nonsmoking), Yellow House, 519 S. Arch St. For more information, call (605) 225-1292. Aberdeen: Alcoholics Anonymous 12 by 12, 7 p.m. (closed), Yellow House. For more information, call (605) 225-1292. Aberdeen: Narcotics Anonymous, 8-9 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 503 S. Jay St., use back door. For more information, call (605) 226-8562. Ellendale, N.D.: O.P.E.R.A. performance, \"The Kitchen Witches,\" 7 p.m., Opera House, Main Street. Tickets are $15 or $10 for those 18 and younger. For more information, call Grant Crabtree at (701) 349-3633 or Betty Martin at (701) 349-4282. SUNDAY Aberdeen: Knights of Columbus breakfast Sunday, 8 a.m.-noon, Parish Hall, St. Mary's Church, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 409 Second Ave. N.E. Aberdeen: Alcoholics Anonymous Sixth Sense: 10 a.m. spirituality meeting (closed/nonsmoking), 422 Fifth Ave. S.E. (west door); for more information, call Jim at (605) 226-0873. Aberdeen: Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting, 3-5 p.m. For contact information and location, call 1-800-477-8191. Aberdeen: Alcoholics Anonymous Pin Night (open/nonsmoking), 8 p.m., Yellow House, 519 S. Arch St. For more information, call (605) 225-1292. Ellendale, N.D.: O.P.E.R.A. performance, \"The Kitchen Witches,\" 2 p.m., Opera House, Main Street. Tickets are $15 or $10 for those 18 and younger. For more information, call Grant Crabtree at (701) 349-3633 or Betty Martin at (701) 349-4282. Eureka: German Heritage meeting, 2 p.m., basement of Zion Lutheran Church. Lunch to follow. Daily calendar news: If you have information for the daily calendar, please send it to Daily Calendar, American News, P.O. Box 4430, Aberdeen, SD 57402, or drop it off at the office at 124 S. Second St., or e-mail it to americannews@aberdeennews.com. Include town, event, time, place and a number to contact if there are questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-03-30/news/26433988_1_junior-high-band-choir-concert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VYCBGGPMKFKTPN2MWW2FHEYASZM2ZZPM", "length": 2513, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", "title": "Chili, soup event Monday - townnews-aberdeennews", "raw_content": "YOU ARE HERE: Aberdeen News Home\u2192Collections\u2192Concert\nChili, soup event Monday\nRoncalli to host Music in Our Schools concert, fundraiser\nIn celebration of March being Music in Our Schools month, the Roncalli Junior and Senior High band and choir students will present a soup and sandwich supper and concert on Monday at the Roncalli High School Gym. The serving of homemade chili and chicken noodle soup, sandwiches and ice cream will begin at 5 p.m., and it will continue until the food is gone. A free-will offering will be taken to help raise money for a euphonium for the band and stereo equipment for the choir. The concert will begin at 5:30 p.m. Featured in the concert will be the sixth grade band, junior high choir, junior high band, high school percussion ensemble, high school choir and high school band. The sixth grade band, under the direction of Lennie Davis, will open the concert with the Robert W. Smith selection, \u201cKnights of the Royal Realm.\u201d The junior high choir will perform \u201cTomorrow Needs Us,\u201d \u201cBest of All Friends\u201d and \u201cWe, the Children of America.\u201d The senior high choir will also perform three selections, the first of which is \u201cThe Time of Singing Has Come,\u201d followed by \u201cBe Thou My Vision.\u201d According to information from Roncalli, \u201cThe vocal portion of the concert will conclude with a lively selection entitled 'Cantar!' by Jay Althouse.\u201d Camille Fischer directs both of the choirs. The high school percussion ensemble will have its encore performance of \u201cStinkin' Garbage,\u201d the selection that the percussionists performed at the Small Group Contest in February. Both the junior and high school bands will debut their concert literature. The junior high band selections include \u201cFanfare for the Third Planet,\u201d \u201cOf Wizards and Warriors\u201d and \u201cRussian Sailors Dance.\u201d In addition to this performance, the junior high band will also perform these selections at a music contest in Redfield on April 19. The high school band will conclude the concert by performing its contest selections, \u201cWe Shall Lift Lamps of Courage,\u201d \u201cIn a Gentle Rain\u201d and \u201cInto the Raging River.\u201d The junior high and high school instrumental groups are directed by Kimberly Carda. The high school band and choir will perform at the Region IV Music Contest on Wednesday at Northern State University. The public is invited to attend not only the concert on Monday evening, but also the performances at NSU.\nSoup, sandwiches part of Monday concert\nRoncalli presents food and music Monday\nChristmas concert at Roncalli", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.dailypilot.com/2011-07-29/entertainment/tn-dpt-0730-calendar-20110729_1_detroit-bar-newport-blvd-commonwealth-lounge-grill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OLYUNHLEVCKPD7TMWT2H6GKDBLVMEWV5", "length": 1891, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "articles.dailypilot.com", "title": "Saturday's Calendar - tribunedigital-dailypilot", "raw_content": "Local indie rock bands New Oldsmobile, Cosmodelion and Ponder perform at La Cave, 1695 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa. The free show starts at 10 p.m. and is 21 and older only. For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/lacave.\nRapper Warren G headlines the Detroit Bar, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa. The 21-and-older show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $22. For more information, visit http://www.detroitbar.com.\nLemon Drop Dance Club\nNewport Beach-based Lemon Drop Club, which hosts singles parties in Orange County geared for adults around the age of 40 and up, will have its next singles party from 7 to midnight at the Newport Beach Elks Lodge, 3456 Via Oporto, Newport Beach. A free dance lesson will be offered from 7 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and parking is free. No membership is required. For more information, call (949) 378-6600 or visit http://www.lemondropclub.com.\nThe composer, musician and theologian John Bell will be at the Corona del Mar Community Church, 611 Heliotrope Ave. He performs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m and the cost is $60. For more information and to register, call (949) 644-7400.\nUFO Symposium\nThe Mutual UFO Network is having its 42nd annual international symposium at the Hyatt Regency hotel, 17900 Jamboree Road, Irvine. Visit http://www.2011mufonsymposium.com to register and for more information.\nTILL AUG. 7\n'Mary Poppins'\nThe Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents \"Mary Poppins,\" the hit musical based on the Disney film. Showtimes vary. Tickets start at $22.50. For more information, visit http://www.scfta.org or call (714) 556-2787.\n'Speak for the Trees'\nOrange Coast College hosts an exhibit exploring man's relationship with trees in the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa. Thirty-eight artists are featured through various artistic mediums. Admission is free and hours vary. Call (714) 432-5102 for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/29/business/fi-35347", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TJU4GETSPYD6BUPCQXEGLWS6MGD6ZXKM", "length": 3880, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "Organization Offers Women in Technology a Web of Support - latimes", "raw_content": "THE CUTTING EDGE: FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY\nOrganization Offers Women in Technology a Web of Support\nInternet: Fast-growing Webgrrls group provides mentors, education and opportunities for networking.\nMay 29, 2000|SHANA McNALLY | ASSOCIATED PRESS\nSEATTLE \u2014 Betsy Aoki was almost all alone in her job. One of the few women in the male-dominated world of high technology, Aoki felt she had few places to go for networking and support.\nThen she heard about Webgrrls, a networking group of women online, and decided to start her own chapter. Living in Seattle, near Microsoft and several other high-tech firms, she found a number of women who were in the same situation.\nWebgrrls International (http://www.webgrrls.com) represents all corners of the work world--from programmers and business owners to students. Members look to the group for mentors, for solutions to technical problems, to network for job opportunities and to continue their education.\nThe Seattle chapter, which started humbly in the summer of 1995 at a coffee shop on Capitol Hill, now boasts 2,700 members and is growing at the rate of 50 per week. It is now the second-oldest and fourth-largest chapter of Webgrrls.\n\"For someone who's new to technology, it provides a comfortable place to learn,\" Aoki said. \"For women who are already in the profession, it allows them to network and/or mentor. For women who are further along who just want a leg up, it provides that.\"\n\"I think the beauty of Webgrrls is that there is no stereotypical profile of the women involved,\" said Webgrrls founder Aliza Sherman of New York.\n\"Each chapter has its own flavor or slant that makes it more diverse. Because of that, a Webgrrl could be a mom with three kids, a girl just going to college, a grandmother starting her own Web design firm, an artist or an executive. It's truly that diverse.\"\nSherman, 32, has been online since 1989 and was looking to network with other women who were working on the Web after she had started her own Internet consulting group in January 1995. She found the personal Web pages of women around the world and started e-mailing them on a regular basis.\nSherman and her e-mail pen pals from the New York area decided to meet for the first time in April 1995 at a cyber-cafe in the East Village. By November, 200 women were gathering. Today, Webgrrls has 100 chapters worldwide with 30,000 members named after Sherman's own Web site--Cybergrrl Inc.--the first general interest site for women.\n\"My hope is that Webgrrls becomes an incubator for industry leaders,\" said Aoki, 34, who now works as a community project manager for ImproveMyBusiness.com, a business-to-business site. \"It's not enough to be familiar or savvy with the technology; it's time to start the companies.\"\nWebgrrls chapters provide regular meetings for networking, guest panels, presentations and affordable workshops that offer everything from basic HTML, Javascript and Web programming languages to Photoshop image editing software.\nInternational benefits include an e-mail newsletter; list of members; job listings; discounts on industry events, software, hardware and electronic equipment; and online tutorials.\n\"You get out of Webgrrls as much as you put into it,\" said Anne Baker, 27, the current Seattle president who works at Internet marketing firm Avenue A Inc. \"It's a neat sense of community.\"\nThough a big part of Webgrrls is providing support, a more tangible aspect is networking.\n\"Webgrrls is a great resource for not only job hunting but to hear what's going on in the industry,\" said Amy Gwynne, 22, who works at WildTangent Inc., which creates 3-D technology and content for the Internet. \"Plus it's a great place for women to look to others for answers to their questions.\"\nInformation on Webgrrls' Los Angeles chapter can be found at http://www.webgrrls-la.com.\nHigh Tech May Follow New Paths as Women Make Inroads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.mcall.com/1998-11-20/news/3224648_1_youngest-umpire-dave-pallone-young-gays", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KIFRKNZHLVZQYJ2IJIF5KSLJM4QCYEBO", "length": 3518, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "articles.mcall.com", "title": "Gay Baseball Umpire Tells Story At Lehigh * Dave Pallone Urges Respect For Self And Tolerance Of Others. - tribunedigital-mcall", "raw_content": "Home\u2192Collections\u2192National League Championship Series\nGay Baseball Umpire Tells Story At Lehigh * Dave Pallone Urges Respect For Self And Tolerance Of Others.\nNovember 20, 1998|by DARYL NERL, The Morning Call\nIn 1979, Dave Pallone became the third youngest umpire in Major League Baseball history, fulfilling a childhood dream formulated in the ancient bleachers of Fenway Park in Boston.\nNine years later he was rated one of the 10 best umpires in the game and was picked to work the National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals. One season after that, he was fired.\n\"Major League Baseball found out I was gay,\" Pallone told a group of more than 100 people at a Lehigh University lecture room Thursday night.\n\"They took away my job. They took away my childhood dream. They took it away like it was nothing. They took it away for one reason and one reason only -- because of who I was.\"\nPallone spent Thursday visiting classrooms at Lehigh, talking to students about how the incompatibility of his sexual orientation and his childhood dream forced him into a closeted life and what happened after his homosexuality was made public.\nThe former umpire wrote about these same themes in his book, \"Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,\" which was a New York Times best seller for 10 weeks.\nPallone said he knew he had to write the book after opening day of the season following his dismissal came and he could smell the sausages cooking outside of the ballpark in his hometown where that childhood dream was formed.\n\"I wrote it purely for myself,\" he said. \"It was cathartic for me to write.\"\nBut since the book was published in 1990, Pallone said he has received 90,000 letters. Some were from parents who gained an insight into their gay son or daughter. Others were from young gays and lesbians who had been contemplating suicide and decided against it after reading Pallone's story.\nIn the closet, Pallone said he lied to friends, family and, most importantly, himself.\nHe told gay and lesbian students that it is important to respect themselves and be proud of who they are. He told others it is important to be tolerant and not to turn their backs on friends or relatives who might be gay. He urged everyone to fight discrimination wherever they see it.\n\"I believe that God made me, that God made me who I am,\" Pallone said. \"This is not a choice I am making. This is my life. I happen to be gay.\nPallone was \"outed\" in a New York Post story that alleged he was involved in a teen-agesex ring. Ultimately, Pallone said, the New York district attorney said he was not involved. But the damage had been done.\nMajor League Baseball fired him, alleging the league had evidence he was involved in the ring, which was never produced. The league also claimed he was the third worst umpire in the game, the year after he had been ranked in the top The two worst umpires are still in the league and worked this past post season, Pallone said.\nPallone sued, then settled out of court for a figure he said exceeded 10 years of tuition at Lehigh.\n\"Baseball doesn't just pay that kind of money for nothing,\" Pallone said. \"They knew they were wrong and they just wanted me to go away.\"\nClassic Matchup: Mets In Seven National League Championship...\nEaston Has Mixed Emotions About Holmes\nMets Go Up 3-2 On Carter's Hit National League Championship...\nThey're Young But Mighty Lehigh Valley United Was Youngest...\nHost Of Endorsements Followed Hershiser's Year National...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artvend.co.uk/artist/michele-friswell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IWF6UON5THCSMVADWLTV47COBX4DXO6P", "length": 694, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "artvend.co.uk", "title": "MICHELE FRISWELL", "raw_content": "http://www.michelefriswell.com/\nMichele Friswell is a visual artist who is interested in exploring the stories and layers of every day life both past and present. Her work considers the way in which each interaction we make leaves a trace and repeated actions leave an invisible interconnected line \u2013 our own personal map. Michele has created Turkish map fold origami pieces using old maps of Wrexham and the Tithe Map of Holt \u2013 the original of which can be found in Wrexham Museum. Printed on tracing paper, each piece is inspired by the offerings found in temples and pagodas in South East Asia. The folding and repetitious nature of the work references the chanting and praying of the monks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ashokanews.com/2018/11/07/kim-meets-cuban-president-in-pyongyang/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZWSIBIKJKUGAHBVSCG3TSYZJ4GBHWA4", "length": 1394, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ashokanews.com", "title": "'); // }); // $(\".dropdown-menu li a span\").remove(); }); Kim meets Cuban President in Pyongyang \u2013 Latest News,Hindi News,Breaking News,Today Headlines|Ashoka News", "raw_content": "Kim meets Cuban President in Pyongyang\nPyongyang [North Korea], Nov 7 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday met Cuban President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez at his office and discussed on how to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries. According to North Korea's state media, Bermudez, who arrived in Pyongyang on Sunday along with his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza, was on his first overseas visit since he took office in April, Yonhap News Agency reported. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the two leaders discussed the current situations of their nations and the \"successes and experience gained in socio-economic development.\" Kim and Bermudez had \"honest and sincere views on various issues in the field of party activities and socialist constructions\" of the two countries, the current scenario of the Korean Peninsula and other global issues, the KCNA added. After their bilateral engagements, the two leaders had a state dinner together and witnessed a gymnastics and artistic performance titled 'The Glorious Country', at the May Day Stadium. On Wednesday morning, Kim and his wife Ri Sol-ju saw off the Cuban President and his wife. (ANI)\nTAGSashoka newsbreaking newsFLASH NEWSlatest news\nPrevious article Iran sanctions aimed at unbalancing world: Turkish President\nNext article I don't know whether if the shoe will be good or bad: Swapna", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asyouage.com/SENIOR_CARE_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3DXIHWSSU7OZU67OP7ZAU5O7KHOFTOA", "length": 8825, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "asyouage.com", "title": "SENIOR CARE", "raw_content": "LIVING WELL AS YOU LIVE LONGER\nOther Types of Senior Care As You Age\nEldercare, Home Health Care And Hospice Care\nThe shift in health care toward managed care practices (including reduced time spent in the hospital) and the dramatic growth in the Senior population are two major factors that make Eldercare, Home Health Care and Hospice Care, essential elements of today's Senior Care practices.\n\u2022 Elder care\nElder care is a term used to cover the many services developed to help older people maintain independent lives either at home or out-of-home, and receive the best care when independent living is no longer possible.\nHome health care includes many services for many different types of patients, including the Elderly. Persons of any age who are disabled, chronically ill, or recovering from an acute illness may benefit from the services of a home health care provider.\nHospice Care and service is provided for terminally ill patients who prefer the peace, comfort, and dignity of being at home or in a hospice setting.\nAlthough each Senior housing and Senior care approach serves a significantly different function, they all play an important role in how the American care system works for Seniors, families and caregivers today.\nAging-In-Place is the ability of Boomers, Seniors and Older Adults to live in their own home - wherever that is - for as long as is safely and comfortably possible. It means not having to move from their present residence in order to get the care and/or support services to accommodate their changing needs.\nLivability Is The Key To Successful Aging-In-Place\nAge-In-Place Livability means incorporating universal living design principles, mobility, assistive technologies (such as computer use, in-home communication and telecare devices) and easier access to transportation and outside services into Older Adults\u2019 lives to make it easier to\n\u2022 To live independently in a safe, secure environment\n\u2022 To better accommodate their health and care needs from home\n\u2022 To be able to stay physically, mentally, emotionally and socially engaged with family, friends and the world around them from wherever they live.\nAging-In-Place And Other Senior Independent Living Choices\nAn entire industry has grown up around Senior Housing and Independent Living. Indeed, there are many lifestyle choices and Senior Independent housing options to choose fro.\nDepending on your needs and preferences, you can\n\u2022 Remain in your own home or that of family member, relative or friend who can assist with your care needs\n\u2022 Move to a Board and Care residence that provides a small number of Seniors with private or semi-private rooms and community living spaces along with limited care services.\n\u2022 Downsize to a Maintenance-free Patio Home community\n\u2022 Choose to live in a Senior Apartment, Condominium or Townhouse\nThese housing alternatives are often often downplayed in articles and marketing discussions about Senior Housing choices. But they are reasonable options. This is especially true if the residences are or can be remodeled to enhance a person\u2019s independence and at the same time accommodate the changing physical, emotional, medical and care needs of residents who may need minimal-to-moderate levels of assistance with some activities of daily living.\nSenior care (also called Eldercare) means providing for the special needs and requirements that are unique to Older Adults as they age. Senior Care encompasses a broad spectrum of informal and formal assistance and services designed to enhance Senors\u2019 well-being.\nMany of these services focus on:\n\u2022 Helping Older Adults live safely and independently at home\n\u2022 Adult children and families assisting their parents and older family\nmembers by providing needed housing, assistance and care\n\u2022 In-Home Care Services\n\u2022 Adult Day Care Services\n\u2022 Assisted living and care\n\u2022 Long term care services\n\u2022 Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing homes\n\u2022 Hospice care and End-of-Life care services\nAlso Presents More Challenges\nIn general, most of us realize that we may experience a gradual decline as we age; we reluctantly admit (perhaps only to ourselves) that at some point we will become less agile and active that we were when we were younger. As the American population gets older, we increasingly find ourselves aging in cities, suburbs and towns that have been designed for and cater to younger populations, families and children.\nLiving longer in environments designed for a younger population will, for now, present a variety of challenges:\n\u2022 Physical restrictions to mobility (steps, landings, multiple levels)\n\u2022 Limited access or proximity to non-automobile transportation\n\u2022 Spaces limiting easy access and discouraging physical activity\n\u2022 Housing & environments causing physical and social isolation\n\u2022 Increasingly reduced social services, support and/or assistance\nCouple the physical challenges designed into our living communities with some of the physical and mental changes many of us will have to deal with as we get older like:\n\u2022 Less agility and increased possibility of physical injury\n\u2022 Decreased or loss of hearing\n\u2022 Diminished eyesight\n\u2022 Slower reaction times and agility\n\u2022 Reduced ability to think clearly\n\u2022 Difficulty remembering things (either short term or long term)\n\u2022 Greater susceptibility to physical and mental illnesses & diseases\n\u2022 Increased need for assistance with activities of daily living, care and/or housing\n\u2022 Running out of the funds needed to meet your life, health and care needs as you age\nThis should give every one of us more than enough reasons to lose sleep over - starting tonight.\nAlong with healthier living, better medicine and medical breakthroughs, more effective Senior care and Senior services are helping Americans to live healthier and longer than any time in history. Our longevity has created a relatively new and growing area of health care and provider services, known as Senior Care or Elder Care.\nPeople age 65 and older are the fastest growing segment of America's population. Many Older Adults are living healthy, active, and independent lives. Still, as more people reach their 80s and 90s, the number of older Seniors needing assistance with general activities of daily living increases, along with the responsibilities of those who provide care for them.\nSenior Care Statistics\nAccording to the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging:\n\u2022The older population (persons 65 years or older) numbered more than 35 million, or one in eight, Americans in 2000.\n\u2022The number of older Americans increased by 12 percent since 1990, compared to a 13.3 percent increase for the under-65 population.\n\u2022Over the past 100 years, the percentage of Americans over age 65 has more than tripled.\n\u2022Today, persons who reach age 65 have an average life expectancy of an additional 17.9 years (19.2 years for women and 16.3 years for men) than what was estimated in 1900.\n\u2022In 1900, the average life expectancy was 47.5 years. Today, it is 76.9 years.\n\u2022More than half (55 percent) of older, non-institutionalized persons live in a family setting. Almost 10.1 million or 73 percent of older men, and almost 7.7 million or 41 percent of older women live in families.\nThe ability to make your living environment livable for your changing needs is one of the keys to being able to live independently as you age.\nBy focusing on your changing care needs and making key \u2018livability\u2019 accommodations to your living environment, the greater ability you have to remain at home or the place you choose as you age.\nAsYouAge provides information, resources and access to support services that help Senior live healthy, active lives as they age.\nSenior care, Senior housing and other Senior services address the several different aspects of well-being for Older Adults as they age.\nAmericans (Boomers and Seniors included) are living longer and, as a result, will face more health and care decisions as they get older. Senior Care planning is essential for anyone who wants to remain safe and independent as they age.\nThe tagline from the 1995 film, Apollo 13, about the April 11, 1970 moon flight that developed a major fault with the service module\u2019s oxygen tanks and threatened the lives of the crew of the three astronauts onboard (John Swigert, Jr., James Lovell and Fred Haise, Jr.)\nSenior Independent Living and Age-In-Place care and service providers help Baby Boomers and Seniors live their lives in safety, comfort and on their own terms.\nDon\u2019t Rule Out Aging In Place, Independent Living, Or Other Senior Housing And Senior Care Options\nAsYouAge offers help for people who face difficult healthcare and caregiving choices\n\u201cHaving been through Mom and Dad's health issues long distance and then their passing, I know the nightmare it becomes. This site is great \u2013 and easy to navigate.\u201d\nNora M, FL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 11513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantacityhomes.com/selling2.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:R72SEEPCYR2L6IAIM6GO5IZBAMXQ7XDZ", "length": 2711, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "atlantacityhomes.com", "title": "Atlanta Homes for Sale | Atlanta Real Estate | Atlanta Condos for Sale", "raw_content": "Who pays your Broker\u2019s real estate commission?\nIn most cases, the seller pays all real estate commissions.\nThere is no best time to sell per se. Selling a house depends on supply, demand and other economic factors. But the time of year in which you choose to sell can make a difference both in the amount of time it takes to sell your home and in the ultimate selling price. Because many buyers prefer to move in the spring or summer, the market starts to heat up as early as February. Families with children are eager to buy so they can move during summer vacation, before the new school year begins.\nWeather conditions are less of a consideration in more temperate climates, but most of the time, the real estate market picks up in February, with the strongest selling season usually lasting through summer and early fall. By November the market tends to slow as buyers and sellers turn their attention to the holidays.\nIf this makes you wonder if you should take your home off the market for the holidays, consider the advice of veteran agents: You are always more likely to sell your house if it is available to show to prospective buyers continuously.\nIt's very important to price your home according to current market conditions. Because the real estate market is continually changing and market fluctuations have an effect on property values, it's imperative to select your list price based on the most recent comparable sales in your neighborhood.\nA so-called comparative market analysis provides the background data upon which to base your list-price decision. When you prepare to sell and are interviewing agents, study each agent's comparable sales report (the data should be no more than six months old).\nIf all agents agree on a price range for your home, go with the consensus. Watch out for an agent whose opinion of value is considerably higher than the others.\nWhat information should I disclose about my property?\nObligations to disclose information about a property vary.\nUnder the strictest laws, you and your agent, if you have one, are required to disclose all facts materially affecting the value or desirability of the property, which are known or accessible to you.\nThis might include: homeowners association dues; whether or not work done on the house meets local building codes and permits requirements; the presence of any neighborhood nuisances or noises that a prospective buyer might not notice, such as a dog that barks every night or poor TV reception; any death within three years on the property; all items included in a seller\u2019s property disclosure, if required in the contract; and any restrictions on the use of the property, such as zoning ordinances or association rules.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 4221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://au.ufc.com/media/UFC-on-FOX-Fighter-Predictions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:M6RGPGZVPYM3K5HSZK6SF4Z7BV3IYBRI", "length": 189, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "au.ufc.com", "title": "UFC on FOX: Who Wins? | UFC \u00ae - Media", "raw_content": "UFC on FOX: Who Wins?\n\"Heavy dudes tryin' to knock each other out\" - fighters predict the outcome of UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos.\nMore More predictions from Tito, Rashed, Mir, More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 10153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustafreepress.com/bechtel-corporation-to-invest-10-million-in-relocation-expansion-adding-700-jobs-in-fairfax-county/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BAM3LGBKBMTTZT57JXJ4HI5P3RMQEMWN", "length": 3915, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Bechtel Corporation to invest $10 million in relocation, expansion, adding 700 jobs in Fairfax County : Augusta Free Press", "raw_content": "Bechtel Corporation to invest $10 million in relocation, expansion, adding 700 jobs in Fairfax County\nPublished Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015, 10:20 am\nFront Page \u00bb Events \u00bb Bechtel Corporation to invest $10 million in relocation, expansion, adding 700 jobs in Fairfax County\nGovernor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Bechtel Corporation, one of the world\u2019s largest engineering, construction and project management companies, will invest $10 million to relocate its Frederick, Maryland operation to Fairfax County as a result of global restructuring. The project will create 700 new jobs.\nSpeaking about today\u2019s announcement, Governor McAuliffe said, \u201cBechtel Corporation relocated its Global Operations headquarters from Maryland to Fairfax County in 2011, and continues to thrive in our first-rate business climate. Today\u2019s announcement further solidifies the company\u2019s commitment to Virginia, and we are thrilled to see the operation grow and create high-value, diverse jobs. Ensuring that our corporate partners succeed and bring jobs of this caliber is critical for building a new Virginia economy, and Bechtel is an important part of our efforts.\u201d\n\u201cFrom Virginia, Bechtel Corporation serves customers all over the world,\u201d said Maurice Jones, Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade. \u201cThis significant investment in Fairfax County is an important step in our efforts to diversify the engine of economic and job growth in the Commonwealth.\u201d\nBechtel is among the most respected engineering, project management and construction companies in the world. Since its founding in 1898, Bechtel has worked on more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents. Today, its 58,000 colleagues team with customers, partners and suppliers on diverse projects in nearly 40 countries. The company\u2019s corporate headquarters is in San Francisco, California.\n\u201cSince relocating our global operational headquarters to Reston in 2011, we have enjoyed immense support from the business community of Fairfax County and the Commonwealth,\u201d said Bechtel Chief Executive Officer Bill Dudley. \u201cReston has proven to be an ideal location for Bechtel. Conveniently situated between two airports, it facilitates international and domestic travel, which is key to our business, provides access to a highly skilled workforce, and offers an enjoyable work/life environment for our employees.\u201d Dudley added that the company also considered Texas and Arizona.\nThe Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (EDA) to secure the project for Virginia. Governor McAuliffe approved a $500,000 grant from the Governor\u2019s Opportunity Fund to assist Fairfax County with the project. The Governor also approved $4 million in funds from the Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grant (VEDIG). VEDIG was established as a self-funded program of performance-based incentives that the Commonwealth awards to exceptional economic development projects with large numbers of employees and very high wages relative to average wages for that particular area.\n\u201cThis is the second time in less than four years that we have had the pleasure of announcing Bechtel\u2019s job growth, which speaks volumes about the confidence the company has in Fairfax County as a business location,\u201dsaid Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Fairfax County EDA. \u201cBechtel is a great corporate citizen and we are delighted that the company can take advantage of the business assets and quality of life that the county offers.\u201d\n\u201cBechtel Corporation has already demonstrated itself as a great corporate citizen, and we look forward to the company\u2019s continued expansion in Fairfax County,\u201d said Delegate Kenneth Plum.\nSince the beginning of the McAuliffe administration, 308 economic development deals have been closed in Virginia with more than $5.63 billion in capital investment, more than twice the amount", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 191.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustgoforth.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-liked-radio-interview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQV7OE7D7R66OID4UW7IZBUTF3OOWPRG", "length": 1477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "augustgoforth.blogspot.com", "title": "The Risen: If you liked the radio interview....", "raw_content": "Responses and reactions to our interview on 1/14 are beginning to trickle in. If you would like to contact them to let them know that you enjoyed it (or maybe not,) The Forever Family Foundation telephone is 631-425-7707, and radio comments are always welcomed at radio@foreverfamilyfoundation.org.\nA little background info about the Foundation:\nPhran and Bob Ginsberg, with Dr. Gary Schwartz, founded Forever Family Foundation in 2004. In their short existence they have grown into a global organization - which is a testament to the thirst for knowledge about survival. They are a science-based organization, and have a stellar Scientific Advisory Board made up of medical doctors, scientists and researchers. They seek to educate the public about evidence that suggests we survive our physical deaths. As you well know, many of today's scientists are now beginning to recognize that the rift between science and spirituality is not a divide at all. By the nature of the Foundation's work, may of their members are bereaved - they find the information there to be a source of hope - which is the Foundation's driving force.\nMediumship, which some might consider to be the strongest evidence of survival, plays a major part in their activities. In that regard, and in an effort to protect the public from frauds and those who cannot do what they claim, the Foundation conducts a medium certification program that Bob designed after consulting with scientists and universities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 193.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://australiaguide.info/BestPlace/best-places-in-western-australia", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4N2YEWVOEID2RXZ3NAIT35ZP2UHYHTJQ", "length": 4724, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "australiaguide.info", "title": "Best Places in Western Australia [Australia Travel Guide]", "raw_content": "They may be less famous than the beaches on Australia\u2019s densely populated eastern seaboard, but once you\u2019ve travelled through remote Western Australia, you\u2019ll find that nothing else will ever compare to the wildness, seclusion and pristine natural beauty of the west coast.\nThe beaches on this page are among the best-of-the-best and the most iconic \u2013 the ones that you simply must visit on your travels through Western Australia.\nIn choosing the beaches for this list, I\u2019ve decided to think like a traveller wondering, \u201cWhich West Australian beaches are so beautiful, unique or iconic to Western Australia that they\u2019re not to be missed and aren\u2019t too difficult to get to by public transport or in an ordinary two-wheel-drive car?\u201d .\nThe two tiny swimmers in the picture below give a sense of scale to the Elephant Rocks, some of which can be easily climbed and jumped off into the deep water.\n4. Shell Beach, Shark Bay\nThere are a lot of beaches around the world called \u201cShell Beach\u201d, but there\u2019s only one I know of that actually lives up to the name\u2026\nThe Shell Beach in Western Australia\u2019s Shark Bay World Heritage Area is made up entirely of little white cockle shells, with barely a grain of sand in sight! The uniquely beautiful beach of shells continues far away into the distance for over 100 kilometres.\n6. The Basin, Rottnest Island\nMother Nature could not have created a swimming beach more perfect than The Basin at Rottnest Island even if she tried (pardon the terrible cliche \u2013 it\u2019s true!).\nBeginning just a few steps from the small beach, a large pool of luminous clear green water is cut out of a shallow platform reef. Walk further out on the reef (and don\u2019t worry \u2013 it\u2019s smooth to walk on) and you can dive into cool deep water. I can\u2019t think of anything more refreshing on a hot day than plunging into The Basin\nIf you find yourself in Perth during the summer months, make sure you head over to Rottnest and try it for yourself.\n7. Turquoise Bay, Exmouth\nTurquoise Bay is a true desert paradise, along the Cape Range National Park coastline where the hot, arid North West Cape meets the Indian Ocean and the Ningaloo Reef. It\u2019s one of the points where the Ningaloo Reef comes closest to the shore, the main reef being only about 150 metres from the sandbar at the southern end of the bay.\nThe great thing about Ningaloo is that it\u2019s a fringing reef rather than a barrier many kilometres out to sea. At so many beaches along this coastline you see fish as soon as you hit the water, and can snorkel over coral reefs in calm, shallow water just 50 \u2013 100m from the shore. Turquoise Bay is one of the very best easily accessible Ningaloo shore-based snorkelling spots.\nJust south of the sandbar, a current flows northwards parallel to the shoreline and reef. Swim out into the current and let the water move you effortlessly over patches of staghorn coral, and past all sorts of tropical fish and sometimes even turtles and reef sharks.\nPhoto: Flavio Ricci on Flickr\n8. Cottesloe Beach, Perth\nCottesloe is a long beach with several different swimming areas and reefy sections., and really is one of the must-visit places if you\u2019re in Perth during summer. A rock wall gives the main swimming area some shelter from the big waves, and an interesting art-deco building housing the Indiana Teahouse, change rooms and the Surf Club looks out over the busy beach below.\nBehind the beach are grassed terracess and a park shaded by Norfolk Island pines, and a bustling strip of cafes, pubs and restaurants.\nI prefer the northern end of the beach because it\u2019s more peaceful and less built up than the area in front of the Indiana Teahouse.\nPhoto: Michael Spencer on Flickr\n9. Little Beach, Albany\nLittle Beach is not too hard to get to, but it has a real remote and secluded feel when you\u2019re on the beach, looking east across Two Peoples Bay towards Mount Manypeaks.\nI\u2019ve seen Little Beach wavy and calm, in the rain and the wind, and on bright sunny days like in the photo below. Each and every time I\u2019ve been there, it has been postcard-perfect.\nIt\u2019s one of those rare beaches that are possibly even more beautiful on a gloomy overcast day, because the water has the clarity of glass and turns the most beautiful pale shade of turquoise under a grey sky.\nWhen you visit Little Beach make sure you climb up over the far headland. On the other side is second beach, known as Waterfall Beach, that is equally beautiful but more secluded. You can see a photo of Waterfall Beach on the Albany Beaches page.\n10. Redgate Beach, Margaret River Region (Calgardup)\nDo you agree with it, or is your favourite beach in WA missing? Please share your thoughts in the comments below!\nSource: www.westernaustralia-travellersguide.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://awakecafe.net/menu-item/caesar-salad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YSAXN5E57FZFIDUCDS55USTG4GZGUAZT", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "awakecafe.net", "title": "Caesar Salad | Awake Cafe", "raw_content": "You can\u2019t go wrong with fresh parmesan cheese, crunchy croutons, piles of romaine lettuce and, of course, Caesar dressing!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 210.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://babescapes.gallery/2018/04/17/local-syrian-american-speaks-out-after-recent-missile-attack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UOLXNSHO6SSUIO2GLXFPQWDRFEIDOWZV", "length": 4081, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "babescapes.gallery", "title": "Local Syrian American Speaks Out After Recent Missile Attack", "raw_content": "In this image provided by the U.S. Navy the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey fires a Tomahawk land attack missile Saturday\nThe director-general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told a meeting of the OPCW executive council that inspectors had not been allowed to visit the town outside Damascus, the United Kingdom delegation tweeted.\nOPCW inspectors have been attacked on two previous missions to the sites of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.\nSyrian authorities were offering 22 people to interview as witnesses instead, he said, adding that he hoped \"all necessary arrangements will be made ... to allow the team to deploy to Douma as soon as possible\". Nor is there any indication that the strikes will deter the regime of President Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons against civilians again.\nSyria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said earlier that his country is \"fully ready\" to cooperate with the fact-finding mission.\n\"It is the lack of approval by the UN Department for Safety and Security for OPCW experts to visit the site in Douma that is the problem\", Mr Ryabkov told reporters.\nWeeks after President Trump said he wanted the United States out of Syria, the U.S.is back in the thick of the conflict. \"We have not denied the team any request for it to go to Douma\", said United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric.\nThe say the airstrikes last Saturday by the three nations were \"limited, proportionate and necessary\" and followed \"only after exhausting every possible diplomatic option to uphold the global norm against the use of chemical weapons\".\nThe UN security council's 15 members will meet on Monday to discuss a call for a wider push to eliminate the covert Syrian government stockpiles.\nMore news: Cardinals make 2 trades, get QB in new 7-round mock draft\nMore news: Tobi, Cee C, Nina, Alex or Miracle: Who wins Big Brother Naija?\nMore news: Which Way Traders Signposts NIKE, Inc. (NKE), Fastenal Company (FAST) Stocks?\nThe dictionary definition of terrorism is: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes, the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorisation and a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.\nSyrian government forces retook Douma last week, gaining full control over the former rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, Russian military officials announced at the time. The OPCW team does not have a mandate to assign blame for the attack.\nThe Shayrat Air Base was hit by 59 U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles previous year. The joint body was created in 2015 and found the Syrian government responsible for using sarin gas past year in Khan Shaykhoun, a rebel-held area in northern Syria. Her office said she planned to tell them the strikes were \"in Britain's national interest\" and were carried out to stop further suffering from chemical weapons attacks.\nHe said the inspectors can not access the site because it needs permission from United Nations security experts.\nIn Damascus, hundreds of Syrians gathered on Monday in a landmark square Damascus, rallying in support of their armed forces, which they say succeeded in confronting the unprecedented airstrikes by the West.\nState television broadcast the rally live as participants waved Syrian flags and set off fireworks and celebratory gunfire, according to the AP.\nAnd by Saturday morning an unverified video was released showing Bashar Assad, in suit and tie and briefcase in hand, going to work as usual.\nThe strikes have ratcheted up worldwide tension, as the United States and Russian Federation exchanged threats of retaliation.\nAt a press conference on Monday, Wilson said the United Nations cleared OPCW inspectors to proceed to Douma, but Russian Federation and Syria were preventing them from completing their mission. \"And on Wednesday is when we plan the arrival of the OPCW experts\", a senior Russian official said in The Hague on Monday.\nBut it later admitted that it was a false alarm, not outside aggression, that triggered Syrian air defenses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 12353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://balkanleague.net/en/news.php?id=17217", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YIKV7EGIHPBYYDZ2VWDJ5DPAR6SEUVX5", "length": 955, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "balkanleague.net", "title": "Vllaznia is preparing for the debut in EUROHOLD Balkan League", "raw_content": "Vllaznia is preparing for the debut in EUROHOLD Balkan League\nNext season, for first time in the history of EUROHOLD Balkan League, we\u2032ll have a team from Albania. The champions of the country - Vllaznia, are officially registered in the competition from Friday, July 11th, and are preparing for their debut. The Competition Manager - Mr. Kamen Toshev, had a trip to Albania in order to check everything regarding Vllaznia\u2032s participation in the league. He controlled the Sports facility and the hotel and after his visit, EUROHOLD BIBL had some small remarks about the gym. Of course everything will be fixed in time for the start of the new season and the debut of Vllaznia. The management of EUROHOLD Balkan League will suport Vllaznia with all the administration stuff and everything else in the team\u2032s first steps in the competition. Vllaznia is the newly crowned champion of Albania. The team won the final after 3-0 in the series against SK Tirana.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://banglacricket.com/html/features/article.php?item=434", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DP7FSTTT2IS7HI7KURGHADLZFITLAYB5", "length": 25312, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "banglacricket.com", "title": "BanglaCricket Article :: Bangladesh Cricket in 2006: A definite leap in right direction - Part 1", "raw_content": "The author looks back at the year that was for Bangladesh cricket. This first part of a two part series focuses on the international arena.\nBangladesh Cricket in 2006: A definite leap in right direction - Part 1\nConsidering its performances in the last five years (2000-2005) after gaining Test status, Bangladesh enjoyed a remarkable year of success in 2006. A number of cricket pundits were very much critical about Bangladesh's future as a cricketing nation after the infamous debacle of the 2003 World Cup. Bangladesh has managed to silence many of these critics and is well on the way to silencing others. Many esteemed cricket journalists are now strongly supporting Bangladesh as an emerging cricket nation and Bangladesh has gained welcome space in Wisden's review for its positive performance. In this article I will review the advance of Bangladesh Cricket in 2006 in two parts. In Part 1, I will concentrate on the International arena and in Part 2, I will focus on domestic cricket.\nBefore 2006, Bangladesh was a success hungry cricket nation which enjoyed minimal success in world cricket compared to other top-flight nations including lowly-ranked Kenya and Zimbabwe. The notable successes before 2006 were all one-offs. Bangladesh failed to impress world cricketing arena with these successes because in all cases our successes were followed by dismal and shattering defeats. Now I am trying to remind you about the high points of Bangladesh cricket before 2006.\nFirst ever ODI win against Kenya at Hyderabad\nFirst ever ODI win against a Test playing nation. (against Pakistan in World Cup 1999)\nGaining of Test status and good performance in the debut Test match. (against India at BNS, Dhaka)\nBangladesh came very close to their first ever Test victory against Pakistan. Finally lost by one wicket\nFirst ever drawn Test match against West Indies and first ever innings declaration at Gros Islet. In March, Bangladesh managed to defeat the full strength Zimbabwe side in the 3rd ODI of the series at Harare. In December, Bangladesh defeated India in their 100th ODI, this being only the third time that they have beaten a Test playing nation.\nBangladesh enjoyed a rather eventful year in 2005. They secured their first ever Test victory in their 35th Test match against Zimbabwe at Chittagong.\nBangladesh also enjoyed their first ever ODI series win against the same opposition. Despite losing the first two matches of the five-match series, they recovered to win the series 3-2.\nOn June 18 of the same year, Bangladesh scored an upset victory over mighty Australia in the Nat-West Series. Australia scored 249 runs for 5 wickets in 50 overs. In reply, Bangladesh reached 250 runs with 4 balls to spare. Mohammad Ashraful scored 100 runs, his first one-day century, off just 101 balls, while Aftab Ahmed hit a huge six in the first ball of the final over, and hit a single for the next ball to win the game.\nIn their journey from 2000-2005 Bangladesh was deprived of any sort of success for more than three years (31 may 1999 to 10 March 2004). We as a cricket team wobbled more often than not and that has continuously provoked some harsh comments from different corners.\nNow, let us focus on 2006. I will analyze Bangladesh's performance series by series.\nBangladesh prepare themselves for the series against Sri Lanka\nBangladesh started 2006 rather quietly after a dismal away series against Sri Lanka in the last part of 2005. Bangladesh Captain Habibul Bashar termed the tour 'The Worst Ever' for Bangladesh. Bangladesh started their campaign in 2006 against the same opposition at Bogra. Bangladesh were bundled out for a miserable 118 which further escalated Bangladesh's worry about playing other Test nations. Bangladesh came back strongly in the second ODI and enjoyed their first ever success against the islanders. With a disciplined bowling performance Bangladesh restricted Sri Lanka to 212 and won the match comfortably with 18 balls to spare. Good batting performance from Mohammad Ashraful (51), Javed Omar (40), Habibul Bashar (33) and Aftab Ahmed (32) made the win an easy one. Bangladesh lost the 3rd ODI and lost the series 2-1.\nBangladesh continued their impressive form in the Test series. With a masterful innings of 136 by Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh posted 319 in the first innings of the first Test and restricted Sri Lanka to 338. Their usual second innings batting debacle cost them the match. Bangladesh also lost the second Test match and lost the series 2-0. Bangladesh's strong point in the series was the impressive bowling by Shahadat Hossain (9/251) and Ashraful's 136.\nBangladesh encountered Kenya in their second campaign of 2006 for a 4 match ODI series. Bangladesh headed into the series with a head to head record of one win against six losses. This series was monitored closely by the cricket world to judge the progress of Bangladesh. Mixed expectations were aired, with some predicting a series win for Bangladesh while others predicted a closely fought series to be won by Kenya. Many distinguished members of BanglaCricket forum predicted strong performances from Kenya and heated debates were on about possible Bangladesh's failure. Bangladesh silenced their critics from both home and abroad by sealing the series 4-0. Their first ever whitewash in any ODI series. Kenya was comprehensively beaten in all four matches except the third one in which they showed some sign of resistance. Aftab Ahmed (154 runs @51.33) and Shahriar Nafees (196 runs @ 49.00) led the run feast while Mohammad Rafiq (10 wicket @ 16.60), Syed Rasel (7 wicket @ 18.85) and Mashrafe Mortaza (7 wicket @ 19.42) led the bowling department to a clinically executed whitewash.\nThis home series against Kenya was the first sign of consistency from the Bangladesh cricket team that had been lacking since its introduction to the world cricketing arena.\nRafiq created panic in the Aussie dressing room with career best 9/100\nBangladesh's real progress in Test cricket was exhibited very strongly in the Test series against Australia. For the first time in six years of Test status, Bangladesh finally succeeded in silencing their critics. It was a series between the best versus the worst (according to rankings) and everyone expected a very one sided and boring Test series. Bangladesh thought differently, and with an extraordinary performance took Australia to the wire in the very first Test. After gaining a remarkable first innings lead of 158, Bangladesh lost the Test by 3 wickets after Mashrafe Mortaza dropped Ricky Ponting what could possibly have been a catch to turn the match around. Once again, Bangladesh's second innings failure made the way for the famous Aussie win. Shahriar Nafees declared his presence in Test cricket with a mighty 138 in the first innings which laid the foundation of the first innings total of 427. Mohammad Rafiq, the master class in left arm spin bowling fought hard for a Bangladesh win and ended with career best figure of 9/160. Two masterful innings by two great batsmen Adam Glichrist and Ricky Ponting saved the blushes for Australia.\nSo close yet so far. First Test defeat by 3 wickets took its toll in the mind frame of the young Bangladeshi side and they lost the second Test by an inning and 80 runs. Jason Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unbeaten double ton further added misery to the Bangladesh team.\nThe fragile mindset of young Bangladesh team failed to recover in time and they lost the ODI series 3-0 without much fight except in the first ODI. The performance of Bangladesh in the series was well summarized by Andrew Miller's article 'When glory got away'. Mohammad Ashraful was miserable with the bat throughout the series and his performance was heavily criticized.\nDespite the poor ODI series, Bangladesh's first home series against the mighty Aussies is considered as the strongest sign of progress made by the Bangladesh team in recent past. Bangladesh was denied to show the potential to the next level as the FTP finalized by the ICC barred Bangladesh from featuring in any Tests for the next 12 months.\nBangladesh showed the worst part of their cricket in the away series against Zimbabwe in July-August 2006. This was the first away series against a full member nation to which they started as favorites. Bangladesh lost the first ODI by 2 wickets and leveled the series in the next match by winning it by 62 runs. Unfortunately they lost their captain in the second match due to a thumb injury and that made the way for Khaled Mashud to lead Bangladesh for the rest of the series. Khaled Mashud failed to lead Bangladesh with example and Bangladesh lost the series 2-3. The series deciding win came in the third ODI in which Bangladesh's leading bowler Mashrafe Mortaza conceded 18 runs in the last over with 17 runs required for Zimbabwe to win. Brendan Taylor scored 6 from the last delivery to ensure Zimbabwe's win. This series loss attracted heavy criticism from both home and abroad. Bangladesh Cricket Board even launched an investigation amid reports of 'Conflicts in the team management'.\nBangladesh had few high moments in this series. Shahriar Nafees scored an unbeaten century and was the highest run getter of the series (248 runs @ 62.00). Shahadat Hossain earned the first ever ODI bowling hattrick by a Bangladeshi bowler and was the highest wicket taker of the series (9 wickets @ 19.00). Abdur Razzak and Mashrafe Mortaza showed some good performance with ball (6 and 5 wickets respectively) while Rajin showed some good all-round performance (102 @ 34 and 6 wicket @ 8.50).\nBangladesh in Kenya\nAfter the miserable tour against Zimbabwe, the wounded Tigers met the equally wounded African Lions (after the whitewash they conceded against Bangladesh). This was a series to restore some pride for both teams. At the end, Bangladesh proved to be too strong for Kenya. Bangladesh expressed their tour misery against Zimbabwe as a one-off and showed the real difference in cricketing class between Bangladesh and Kenya. After conceding 18 runs in the final over in 2nd ODI against Zimbabwe, Mashrafe Morataza came back in the series like a real wounded tiger. He performed extraordinarily well with both bat and ball. Bangladesh registered their first ever away series win with a comprehensive 3-0 rout of Kenya.\nBangladesh sent Alok Kapali and Javed Omar back from the Zimbabwe tour and tested some promising young players for the Kenya tour. Sakib - Al - Hasan and Farhad Reza fully utilized their opportunity with some brilliant performances. Farhad Reza (90 runs @ 90.00) and Mohammad Ashraful (88 runs @ 44.00) led the batting while Mashrafe Mortaza led the bowling (12 wickets @ 8.66) with his career best bowling of 6/26. Mashrafe Mortaza was well supported by Abdur Razzak (6 wicket @ 12.00) and Syed Rasel (7 wicket @ 11.57).\nICC trophy bound Bangladesh National Team\nBangladesh's next assignment was the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy held in different venues of India. Bangladesh went to India with the aim of qualifying for the main round of the Champions Trophy. Bangladesh played the qualifying round along with the West Indies, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Bangladesh defeated the Punjab President's XI in the practice match which further bolstered their morale. Bangladesh posted an impressive performance against Sri Lanka in the first match but lost the match by 37 runs. Despite the loss, Bangladesh's performance was noteworthy, as 265/9 was their highest ever total against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh failed miserably in the deciding match against the West Indies and lost the match by 10 wickets. Bangladesh eased past Zimbabwe for the consolation win in the third match. They outplayed Zimbabwe by a huge margin of 101 runs. Shahriar Nafees posted a gritty 123 and the slow left arm spin army of Bangladesh took 7/56 runs in 26.4 overs to cause the Zimbabwe collapse.\nBangladesh bowed out of ICC Champions trophy with some good performance which set the tone for their clinical finish of 2006 calendar year.\nBangladeshi players celebrates series whitewash Vs Zimbabwe\nZimbabwe came to Bangladesh for a return tour in November 2006. This tour included the first ever Twenty20 International match for Bangladesh and a 5 match ODI series. Just before the series, Bangladesh cricket received a huge money boost due to the record breaking TV deal with Nimbus. Due to political unrest the deal was signed amid some hue and cry from a vested political quarter.\nThe ODI series was marked with some controversies due to squad selection. Mohammad Ashraful was left out of the squad for the first three matches of the ODI series which stirred a lots of criticisms from different segments of the media and fans. Mohammad Ashraful stormed into the squad from the first ODI after he scored two consecutive centuries in the domestic first class tournament, one of which was the highest ever score (263) by a Bangladeshi batsman.\nBangladesh managed to win their first ever twenty20 international comfortably by 43 runs at Khulna. Abdur Razzak was extraordinary with ball (17/3 in 4 overs).\nAfter the inaugural twenty20 win, Bangladesh registered a 9 wicket win in the first ODI with a very strong performance. Shahriar Nafees continued his run feast against Zimbabwe with an unbeaten century of 105. This was his third consecutive century against Zimbabwe. In the second ODI, Bangladesh cantered to an easy 6 wicket win with 7.3 overs to spare. A good opening performance (104) by the new opening pair of Shahriar Nafees and Mehrab Jr. created the platform for the win. Bangladesh won the 3rd ODI by 26 runs. In this ODI, Zimbabwe showed some signs of resistance. Bangladesh completed the clean sweep by defeating Zimbabwe in the next two ODIs by 8 and 3 wickets respectively.\nShahriar Nafees once again led the batting party with a remarkable 274 runs with an average of 67.50. He was well supported in the batting department by Aftab Ahmed (150 runs @ 50.00), Mehrab Hossain Jnr. (163 runs @ 32.60) and Habibul Bashar (66 runs @ 66.00). Abdur Razzak led the charge in bowling with 11 wickets with an average of 13.25. He was well supported by Mashrafe Mortaza (11 wickets @ 15.18). Shahadat Hossain, Sakib-Al-Hasan and Mohmmad Rafiq also made some impressions with ball.\nThe 5-0 result against Zimbabwe was welcomed by critics and fans. This result was well expected and with this result Bangladesh managed to permanently bury many ghosts about inconsistent performances.\nScotland in Bangladesh\nThe final assignment for the Bangladesh cricket team was the home series against the associate nation of Scotland. Bangladesh share a somehow bitter memory with Scotland as they managed to beat Scotland in a very closely fought match in the World Cup 1999 at Edinburgh. Scotland came to Bangladesh with a lot of hype and expressed strong desire and determination to pull of one or two win against the home side. Bangladesh outplayed Scotland in both matches and Scotland failed to translate their words in the press into performances in the field. Bangladesh won the first ODI by six wickets with 20.1 overs to spare. Thanks to some scintillating batting display by Aftab Ahmed (66 of 50 balls). Bangladesh managed to win the second ODI by a huge margin of 146 runs (their highest in ODI history). Aftab Ahmed again top scored with 52 runs.\nIn the short ODI series, Aftab Ahmed led the batting with 118 runs with an average of 59.00. He was well supported by Sakib-Al-Hasan, Shahriar Nafees and Mashrafe Morataza. Shahriar Nafees became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score 1000 runs in a calendar year. Mohammad Rafiq and Sakib-Al-Hasan led the bowling with 4 wickets each.\nThis is how Bangladesh featured in different series and tournaments in 2006. Bangladesh played 4 Tests without a single win (along with West Indies who also failed to win a single Test). On the other hand, Bangladesh enjoyed a remarkable success in ODI cricket in which they won 18 out of the 28 matches played.\nCritical analysis of 2006\nBangladesh only played 4 Tests in 2006. They played two Tests each against Australia and Sri Lanka. Apart from the first Test against Sri Lanka and first Test against Australia, Bangladesh failed to show a consistency in performance. In all Test matches, Bangladesh showed weakness in mental strength to withstand pressure of second innings batting.\nIn 2006, their average first innings total was 293.5 and this ia definite improvement from 2005. In 2005, their average first innings total was 215 (including two Test against Zimbabwe). In 2006, their average second innings total was 208.5 while in 2005 it was 207.83. Both numbers are pretty similar. Keeping in mind that Bangladesh has played two Tests against Zimbabwe in 2005, their second innings debacles seems to be continuing. To improve as a Test nation, Bangladesh has to improve their second innings batting in Test cricket.\nIn 2006, Habibul Bashar (327 runs, avg. 40.5), Shahriar Nafees (330 runs, avg. 41.25) and Rajin Saleh (176 runs, avg. 44.00) performed well with the bat. Despite his brilliant century against Sri Lanka, Mohammad Ashraful had a mediocre year with bat (avg. 30.25). Mohammad Rafiq showed a remarkable all-round performance in Tests. He was the third highest run scorer for Bangladesh (257 runs, avg. 32.12) and was the highest wicket taker (14 wickets @ 37.50). He is undoubtedly the brightest star of Bangladesh cricket. Shahadat Hossain grabbed 10 wickets in 2006 with an avg of 50.90. Enamul Haque Jnr. missed one Test match and took 8 wickets with an average of 47.37. No other bowlers made significant impact in 2006 with the ball.\nIn general, bowling remained the same in Test cricket, bowling average of 44.5 vs. 48.6 while batting average was a bit better 25.2 vs. 22.5.\nSome individual Test performances in 2006\nMohammad Ashraful - 136 against Sri Lanka at Chittagong\nShahriar Nafees - 138 against Australia at Fatullah\nShahriar Nafees - 79 against Australia at Chittagong\nHabibul Bashar - 76 against Australia at Fatullah\nHabibul Bashar - 69 and 73 against Sri Lanka at Bogra\nRajin Saleh - 67 against Australia at Fatullah\nRajin Saleh - 71 against Australia at Chittagong\nMohammad Rafiq - 9/100 against Australia at Fatullah\nShahadat Hossain - 4/83 against Sri Lanka at Chittagaong\nShahadat Hossain - 5/86 against Sri Lanka at Bogra\nBangladesh played with the two best performing Test team of 2006 (Australia and Sri Lanka) and yet ended with some commendable performances. This is definitely a good step in right direction. When Bangladesh will again play Test cricket in 2007 against India in May 2007, Bangladesh will definitely be a different Test team.\nA happy looking Habibul Bashar\nwas a regular feature in 2006\nMuch has already been talked about Bangladesh's recent success in the ODI arena. Bangladesh have won 18 out of the total 28 match played. A common criticism about Bangladesh's success is the quality of opposition they played. 20 out of the 28 match were against minnows (Zimbabwe, Kenya and Scotland). Other than these countries, they managed to win only one ODI against Sri Lanka. One has to admit that Bangladesh had no choice about their opposition. ICC devised the schedule and Bangladesh followed that. Bangladesh grabbed every opportunity offerred and performed consistently enough to win those 18 matches. Winning means a lot to a Bangladesh team who have only won 10 out of their previous 125 matches (and these matches include defeats against the very same Zimbabweans and Kenyans). Bangladesh had never been this consistent with their performance since their very first ODI in 1986. In 2006, Bangladesh seems to have developed herself into a consistently performing team. Coach Dave Whatmore and the selectors have drafted solid performers from the U-19 block into the team and they have performed as per expectation. Performances from these young players have proved crucial for the recent successes.\nIn batting, Shahriar Nafees enjoyed a remarkable year with 1033 total runs (avg. 41.31) in one calendar year. These runs included with 3 centuries and 4 fifties. Aftab Ahmed got brilliant starts in most of the games but failed to capitalize on them. He is the second best performer with 784 total runs and an average of 34.08. Two other batsmen who ended the year with 30+ averages are Habibul Bashar (30.75) and the new kid Sakib Al Hasan (45.15).\nIn 2006, the bowling department was remarlable in ODIs. Each and every frontline bowler performed to their potential. Mashrafe Mortaza set the record for Bangladesh by becoming the top most ODI wicket taker of 2006 with 49 wickets and an average of 20.46. The spin bowling star Abdur Razzak became the 3rd highest wicket taker of 2006 with 45 wickets and an impressive average of 17.95. The grand old man Mohammad Rafiq (34 wickets, avg. 25.88) was equally brilliant with the ball. Sakib Al Hasan (15 wickets, avg. 24.93), a new addition to this spin bowling army, enjoyed some successes in his brief ODI career. In 2006, Shahadat Hossain was one of the top performers with the new ball. While he took only 21 wickets from 16 matches, he proved his potential to be the first choice strike bowler for Bangladesh in near future. This tall young lad has got the pace, bounce and aggression to become one of the leading pace bowlers of world cricket. Syed Rasel, too, played his part well with 23 wickets in 15 matches and an average of 23.21.\nDue to the combined good performance of bowlers, the bowling department made extremely steep progress compared to 2005. In 2005, the team bowling average for Bangladesh was 40.3 while in 2006 it was 23.8. In fact, it was the third best ODI team bowling average for 2006.\nThe team batting performance in 2006 was not much better compared to 2005. It improved somewhat but not as much as expected. The team batting average in 2005 was 25.1 while in 2006 it was 30.1. To win consistently against Test playing nations or to challenge them, we need the team batting average to be around 35-40.\nWithout a few words about coach Dav Whatmore, this review will be incomplete. Dav attracted more media attention due to his influence in the team management than the success of his boys. This is unfortunate and an injustice to the mentor of Bangladesh's recent successes. After taking charge of the lowly Bangladesh team in 2003, Dav promised better individual show leading to a core Bangladeshi team before World Cup 2007. Through experimentations and his reliance on young blood, Dav has finally got a suitable combination ahead of World Cup. It is unfortunately true that the world media acknowledges Dav's contribution more so than the Bangladeshi media. It is time to give credit where it is due. I personally thank Dav for his belief in the lads and for turning Bangladesh into a winning side.\nA determined Dav Whatmore discusses techniques with his boys\nCricket is the sole national glory for Bangladesh and in 2007 Bangladesh is promising to display their national flag even higher\nBangladesh's next target will be consistent performance against all opposition in both forms of cricket.\nIn Tests, the West Indies and New Zealand are ranked above Bangladesh in 8th and 7th place respectively. In 2006, West Indies Test team have team batting average of 30.4 compared to Bangladesh's 25.1 and team bowling average of 40.6 compared to Bangladesh's 48.6. Not a huge difference. I believe with the type progress Bangladesh is showing, it is just a matter of time to before we catch up to the West Indies in Tests. New Zealand has pretty similar team batting average of 28.1 while they have a much better team bowling average of 28.1. The higher ranked teams have much better averages in both batting and bowling.\nIn ODIs, Bangladesh is currently 9th and England, West Indies and India are sitting above Bangladesh in 8th, 7th and 6th place respectively. Bangladesh went past Zimbabwe and Kenya (previously ranked higher than Bangladesh) in ODIs. Bangladesh should now focus on the teams above Bangladesh in the ICC ranking table. In 2006, the England ODI team have a team batting average of 27.4 compared to Bangladesh's 30.2 and team bowling average of 38.5 compared to Bangladesh's 23.8. Bangladesh showed much better performance in both departments. Keeping the opposition in mind, I am pretty hopeful to see Bangladesh above England in coming years. It is interesting to note that two other ostensibly strong teams had averages not too far from that of Bangladesh: the West Indies (batting average 38.6 and bowling average 28.3) and India (batting average 29.7 and bowling average 29.9).\nBangladesh is entering 2007 with a lot of promise and they have their performances to speak for them. For the first time in its cricketing history, it is the performance of the Bangladesh cricket team which is doing the talking for them and not the fans, administrators or the journalists. This is a definite leap in right direction for Bangladesh Cricket. Bangladesh is currently ranked 9th in ODI cricket and still 10th in Test cricket. Now, Bangladesh needs to plan her future carefully and follow this plan. Bangladesh has all the potential and performers to be ranked 7th-8th in ODI cricket and 8th-9th in Test cricket by the end of 2007. I will be eagerly waiting to write that review for BanglaCricket.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 27324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://barbariansabroad.com/blog/2011/outings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4YH6GK5XWTXRIU5AXHRAXOUNMZ56MRI4", "length": 4016, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "barbariansabroad.com", "title": "Outings - Barbarians Abroad", "raw_content": "In addition to good food, we were shown great hospitality. Yesterday, Malcolm and Stuart, along with Malcolm\u2019s dog Sam, drove us out to Scapa Flow. A large harbour in between the Orkney islands, it was used as a base for the royal navy in the early twentieth century.\nNear Kirkwall is a beach where Stuart takes his metal detector and goes treasure hunting. We hiked along a cliff near the bay, then down a trail to the shore then decided to walk back along the shore. Until we ran out of shore. We could turn around and go back. It was no more than an extra mile out of way. But, as is the way of things, we decided to keep going. Across the slippery seaweed, onto a small ledge of rock, and across to climb the rock wall back to the trail on the cliff.\nWhew! We made it.\nToday Malcolm drove us \u2014 and Sam \u2014 to see the barriers and the \u201cItalian Chapel\u201d built by Italian POWs, during WWII, in their spare time. What spare time did they have? Most of their time was spent building \u201cChurchill\u2019s Barrier,\u201d rock wall (cement block walls) in between the islands surrounding Scapa Flow. A massive project, and one I cannot even imagine the work that went into it. Dropping cement blocks into the ocean, where the current might catch the block and drag it seventy feet from where you put it. And at night, or on Sunday mornings, scrounging leftovers or garbage, begging or trading for materials to create a chapel. Photos of it will be on Flickr in a gallery soon It is a metal shed, painted like a Cathedral, and with handmade wrought iron gates and a stone baptismal font. It is even more amazing than the Barricades.\nWe continued on along the coast until we came to the Tomb of the Eagles. In the 1950s, a farmer discovered on his land a Neolithic tomb and a bronze age building. Today they are a heritage site, but still on the family\u2019s land. The family runs tours of the area. The tomb is so named for the eagle talons found buried in the tomb. Several bodies were also found in the tomb, along with tools, ornaments, and pottery. The tomb is around 5,000 years old.\nSuch wonders! The oldest of the old \u2014 my favourite things to study. Many things found in the tomb we can only imagine what they were used for. A stone cube, for example. Black stone, smooth, rounded edges, about five inches on a side. Small indents on four of the sides. It remains a mystery.\nIn between exploring the perimeter of Scapa Flow, we visited the Orkney Wireless Museum, where David taught me about Crystal Radios, transistors, and where I beat him playing Pong. We read the log of Gunther Priest, a U-Boat captain who snuck into the harbour and sank the HMS Royal Oak. It was this action which caused the building of the barriers already mentioned, built by POWs.\nOne of two places I wanted to make sure I visited on this Orkney trip is Scotland\u2019s northernmost distillery: Highland Park (The other place is a well-preserved Stone Age village called Skara Brae. We\u2019ll get there on Thursday). The distillery opened (legally) in 1798, and early drawings of the site show not much has changed since then. It has expanded, though not in a jarring way. It is still a small/medium distillery by Scottish standards, and it blends the two well-known tastes of whisky in a compromise most people can agree on.\nMany island distilleries, most notably, on Islay, add peat smoke to their production, making the resulting whisky taste like campfire. The north-eastern area of mainland Scotland called Speyside makes a much lighter, and often much sweeter whisky. Highland Park takes some peat and some sweetness, making a perfect mix of the two regions. It is not my number one favourite of the whiskies, but it is a close second (more on the number one favourite next week when we visit that distillery).\nAs this entry is already longer than all the others by half,I will close for now. The past two days have been very busy, and without internet. The next couple days will slow down again, and perhaps will give you time to catch up on all this reading!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 8886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://batflipsandnerds.com/2018/06/11/on-prospects-and-anticipation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CXDFI24W4WR3OH55XWHTVCRBHBHKMKRM", "length": 9178, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "batflipsandnerds.com", "title": "On Prospects and Anticipation \u2013 Bat Flips and Nerds", "raw_content": "Baseball is, in many ways, a game about waiting. The moments between pitches are usually far longer than the action themselves, and everyone is waiting for something. The pitcher, for the batter to step into the box or a sign he likes. The batter and the catcher, for the pitch to arrive. The fielders, for the ball to be put into play.\nThis might all sound rather dull, yet there\u2019s nothing wrong with waiting; the biggest problem might be calling it waiting. To say waiting suggests something dull, devoid of emotion. Better to say anticipating, a word far more loaded with excitement and tension. To quote the great philosopher Jacques, from The Simpsons:\nTo the most beautiful moment in life. Better than a deed, better than a memory, the moment\u2026of anticipation!\nWhile Jacques was anticipating an illicit extra-marital rendezvous with Marge which never came to pass, his sentiment remains rather more pure. The moments of anticipation can be the most thrilling, when your heart races fastest, when you feel emotion the most keenly, when the object of anticipation is all you can think of. Possibilities stretch out before us in that moment, as far as imagination can carry them.\nIf the game itself embodies this anticipation in a more immediate sense, the world of prospects offers a different experience entirely, and with the 2018 draft recently in the books, I wanted to talk about that rather strange world. For the uninitiated fan, there are many aspects of baseball that seem baffling or arcane at first glance. Whether it\u2019s the dizzying array of acronyms, abbreviations, and slang, or figuring out exactly what the rules are, there\u2019s plenty of unfamiliar territory for the British fan to traverse.\nThe concept of prospects might initially appear to be one of the more recognisable elements in that regard, even if the usage of the term itself is alien. Fans of a variety of sports will have had the experience of hearing about an exciting young player for the first time, watching that player learn and develop, eventually seeing that player either realise their potential at the highest level or fall short of those expectations.\nThose who have come to baseball fandom via the route of other American sports will also recognise a key aspect of the prospect cycle: the aforementioned amateur draft. The top college and high school talent enters professional baseball in this way. The months-long circus that surrounds the NFL draft in particular makes MLB\u2019s version seem tame and extremely restrained in comparison, despite the league\u2019s best efforts to make it into more of a spectacle.\nEven if one is well-versed in other draft-based sports, however, that\u2019s where any familiarity ends. For starters, the MLB draft is a mammoth three-day, 40-round affair, the test match to the NFL\u2019s ODI, which lasts seven rounds, and the NBA\u2019s 20-20, a measly two. If 40 rounds sounds like a lot, consider the fact that there used to be no limit at all \u2013 teams just went on choosing players as long as they wanted to.\nThe prime reason for the relative absence of fanfare for baseball\u2019s draft is probably becoming more apparent now, as is the difficulty of simply keeping track of these players. Even if one did read through all 1204 picks in this year\u2019s draft, most of them would have been forgotten by the time one arrived at Tyler Webb, a college shortstop from Memphis who was taken by the Twins with that very final pick.\nThe volume isn\u2019t the sole reason why the baseball prospect world can be strange and intimidating for the new fan. The period of time that will pass between some of these players getting drafted and making the majors \u2013 the lead time, in prospect parlance \u2013 can be upwards of four or five years. Sure, the best college bats like Andrew Benintendi or Alex Bregman crack the majors within a year or two of being drafted, and some polished college pitchers, especially in relief, will see time in the majors this year.\nThese examples are few and far between relative to the overall volume of players who find themselves in the minor leagues, whether via the draft or international free agent signings (yes, there\u2019s a whole other process for that by which amateurs from outside the country are signed). Baseball is an extremely hard game in which development relies significantly on a lot of repetitions.\nImmensely talented high school hitters need to see thousands of pitches to develop the kind of pitch recognition and selection needed to succeed in the majors. Pitchers have to repeat their delivery thousands of times to develop the strength and feel required in the bigs, to hone their existing pitches and learn to throw the breaking and offspeed stuff that is essential for survival at the highest level.\nBeing familiar with drafts in other sports, or even just recalling young prodigies from sports like football, cricket, or tennis, cannot prepare you for this feature of prospect life. The top NFL draft picks go straight to the NFL team, often straight into the starting lineup, and sometimes are among the best players in the league almost immediately. The first time a young player is brought to our attention in the Premier League is often when they are actually playing for the first team.\nBy contrast, the top draft prospects will have been discussed for months, even years before they are drafted, are given seven-figure bonuses, and then are covered constantly by a multitude of scouts and prospect sites for years. If you are focused on the major league team, this can be excrutiating, because it really can feel like an age before they ever set foot on a major league field. It\u2019s an extremely slow burn in many cases, and one that often fizzles out either in the majors or before the player even makes it there.\nAs much work as there is that goes into predicting what these players will become, teams and scouts are naturally far from perfect. Predicting the future is hard, especially when you\u2019re trying to figure out what an 18-year-old is going to be like in 7 or 8 years. That also means prospects can be immensely frustrating: the much-heralded names have been talked about for so long that the level of disappointment can be significant if they don\u2019t live up to that hype.\nTracking the fortunes of these potential future major leaguers is far from essential for understanding or enjoying the game, and it\u2019s no surprise that learning about players who might never put on a major league uniform is not everyone\u2019s idea of time well spent. So why get invested at all? In addition to simply learning more about your team and enjoying the often surreal world of the minor leagues, what following prospects does give you is that sense of anticipation.\nThat anticipation needs some structure. Not every \u2013 or any \u2013 prospect is likely to turn into Mike Trout and approaching them as such will lead only to disappointment. Prospects offer that framework on which to drape our best-case scenarios, the improbable yet possible upside of fully realised potential. They\u2019re also about the journey, the overcoming of obstacles and the triumph of will and determination.\nThere\u2019s usually at least one or two minor leaguers for whom that potential seems almost certain to be realised, who stand out even at 18 or 19 years of age, who cannot be contained by the minors. The very best prospects can also stray into that more fraught area of expectation, making their successes seem simply par for the course and their failures huge disappointments. For everyone else, that range of outcomes covers the spectrum from major league star to anonymous farmhand. The majority will never have significant major league careers; many will never get to taste the majors at all.\nThe anticipation lives on, because the minors are teeming with constant possibility, and the difficulty of reaching the majors preserves the prestige and the romance of the achievement. As prospects get called up they quickly lose their prospect and rookie \u2018eligibility\u2019 after a relatively small amount of playing time, a distinction that draws a firm line between the minors and the majors, and that makes the development process seem far more linear than it actually is.\nThe fate of the prospects once they stop beyond prospects is besides the point, in terms of anticipation, and beyond the scope of this piece. That\u2019s straying into the deed and the memory, moments that Jacques presciently, and presumably with the benefit of significant experience, recognises as less beautiful.\nMarge, of course, does not meet up with Jacques, instead reuniting with Homer at the power plant. The \u2018moment of anticipation\u2019 is the last time we see Jacques in the episode. He remains symbolic of that moment. While individual prospects come and go, the idea of the prospect can permanently exist in that moment of anticipation too, if you let it.\nJacquesMajor League BaseballMarge SimpsonMike TroutMLBMLB DraftprospectsSimpsons\nPrevious Post:Tom\u2019s Bumper Fantasy Baseball Style MLB Standings Extravaganza\nNext Post:The ultimate MLB fan guide to the FIFA World Cup contenders\nWell said! I enjoyed the cross-sport / cross-popular-culture examples to complement the baseball prospect assessment and journey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 10513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://battleshippretension.com/vox-lux-god-is-a-woman-by-josh-long/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UCHN3KPEDA7EBASP7RWQIY6IGADJORII", "length": 5452, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "battleshippretension.com", "title": "Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long - Battleship Pretension", "raw_content": "The transition from actor to director isn\u2019t always a smooth one but Brady Corbet is making that move quietly and deftly. His debut feature, 2015\u2019s haunting The Childhood of a Leader flew under the radar for most moviegoers, but was recognized at the Venice Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Awards. For his second feature, he\u2019s got more money and bigger stars to play with. This dark and emotional drama shows that he knows how to work with both, and to craft a compelling story in the meantime.\nVox Lux begins with a fictional school shooting in the year 2000. Fourteen year-old Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) miraculously survives the ordeal, even though she\u2019s been shot in the throat. At a memorial service following the tragedy, Celeste feels she can best express her feelings over the situation in song. She writes the music and performs with the help of her sister, Eleanor (Stacy Martin). Her song is caught on news cameras, and captures the attention of the nation. Before they even know what\u2019s happening, the girls are whisked off to New York City to record a demo for Celeste. She meets success everywhere she turns, and soon she\u2019s recording albums and shooting music videos in LA.\nWe then flash forward to find Celeste eighteen years older (now played by Natalie Portman) and on the eve of a massive Taylor Swift-scale comeback concert. It becomes clear that fame and the years have not been kind to Celeste, as we examine her attitude towards her fans and the press, her drug problems, and her broken relationships with her sister and daughter Albertine (Raffey Cassidy again). Can she still dazzle an audience amidst the mounting pressures of her life?\nIt is important to note that Corbet\u2019s full title for his film is Vox Lux: A 21st Century Portrait. On the surface, the film could simply be about a pop star with a troubled past. But this title helps us to recontextualize the film and see that there are deeper things at play here. Celeste\u2019s life is an amalgamation of many of the negative things that have become prevalent in the United States of the 21st century. She is plagued by violence, specifically school shootings. She becomes a celebrity much too early (a la Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato \u2013 take your pick), and it both robs her of a childhood and tempts her into a life of excess that fosters addiction and keeps her from any real happiness. She goes off-book at a press conference and, in the era of the sound bite, does more harm than good for her image. These things are not unique to our time, but they undoubtedly loom large in the eye of the 21st century American.\nBut perhaps there\u2019s an even deeper level. Perhaps Celeste herself is a stand-in for the United States since the year 2000. She begins the story (the millennium) with a horrifying tragedy, echoing the September 11th attacks. It hurts her deeply, in a way she never fully realizes, even though she makes social (political?) gains out of it. By 2018, she has become loud, brash, and demanding. Even though she uses her celebrity\u2019s voice to speak out against violence (even terrorism, specifically), we learn that she excuses her own violent actions, having injured a motorist while driving impaired. She is proud to stand as a sex symbol \u2013 and becomes pregnant at a very young age \u2013 but hypocritically becomes furious when she finds out her daughter is sexually active. She even goes from being religious as a girl, to proclaiming at a press conference that she gave up believing in God to believe in her. Belief in her own success, her own capabilities, her own power, has superseded belief in anything bigger.\nThe tragedy, her hypocritical attitudes towards violence and sex, and her rejection of religion for protectionist self-worship all mirror America\u2019s path since 9/11. Yet the film isn\u2019t content to simply throw Celeste to the wolves as a failure and a blight on the world. She (like the United States) still has something to give to the world \u2013 she still can perform, can help people even if she\u2019s deeply broken on the inside. And at heart, she\u2019s still trying to pick up the pieces after tragedy changed her forever. There\u2019s no going back, but there are relationships that can be mended, paths that can be redirected, and her power in the world will, if she chooses, allow her the chance to do good.\nCorbet\u2019s ominous yet loving look at 21st century America is timely, poetic, and compelling. Great performances and a portentous score by Scott Walker bolster a thoughtful story. Another strong entry in what is shaping up to be a very good movie year.\nTags: battleship pretensionbpbrady corbetdramafilmfilmsjosh longjude lawmoviemoviesmusicalNatalie Portmanreviewvox luxwillem dafoe\nYo Joe! by Scott Nye\nI dinged David Bax\u2019 review of Dan Akroyd\u2019s \u201cDragnet\u201d for suggesting that 1987 was not in the midst of a decades-long crime wave. So now I feel obligated to point out that, according to criminology professor James Alan Fox, school shootings were actually more common in the 90s than more recently.\nBrings me to the brink of tears how underappreciated this movie is. There is so much vitality and energy in the filmmaking and performances. Even if it makes a few missteps, this has to be one of the most exciting movies of the year, and people seem to be writing it off for some reason.\nNext story Criterion Prediction #168: Police Story, by Alexander Miller\nPrevious story What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Home Alone with Steve Hayes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 11048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bawbawsnowchainhire.com/watch/io", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:K3TUOTZE3V464X7TAKZCKEN44IGNW24R", "length": 240, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bawbawsnowchainhire.com", "title": "IO (2019)", "raw_content": "Filming Locations: USA, France and Bulgaria\nMotion Picture Rating: Rated TV-14\nSynopsis: As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beinspiredeveryday.com/category/faith/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DRBXHILBDZJPC4QVQLYRFIPYBOUHTHJI", "length": 1478, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "beinspiredeveryday.com", "title": "Faith : Be Inspired Every Day", "raw_content": "Through prayer, we view our wants and needs through the eyes of God. We gain consciousness of God\u2019s presence in our lives. And, our faith strengthens.\nPermanent link to this article: http://beinspiredeveryday.com/2009/03/25/the-power-of-prayer/\nMost of our day to day decisions have clear knowledge and facts we can use to weigh our options. But some of the most important questions we face in life have to be answered with no measurable facts: What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Does God love me? What does God \u2026\nThe question of whether or not God exists may have significance beyond any other. It affects the roots of our priority system. It molds our perception of the meaning of life. And, it changes the way we feel about the experience of death. But, no scientific method, whether philosophical or physical, has yet proven the \u2026\nThere are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there.\n-Donna A. Favors\nWe know that Fear Defies Reasoning and that we can not conquer our fears with rational thinking alone. Sunset over a desert mountain north of Phoenix, AZ. Instead, fear is conditioned. It is sustained by deep rooted emotions and beliefs. Because of this, the sense of relief we feel when we avoid something we fear \u2026\nPermanent link to this article: http://beinspiredeveryday.com/2008/02/18/conquering-fear/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 6573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://believeinyou.gr/multentries/2014/apr/17/10-work-habits-you-need-let-go/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NRBKRFKBFDPSX6YLOMLFZLSQ6OMGK3RT", "length": 2942, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "believeinyou.gr", "title": "http://www.believeinyou.gr/10 work habits you need to let go!", "raw_content": "work habits let go\nPut off doing a task\u2026 and miss the deadline!\nHow many times have we run around in a panic, at the last moment, to meet a deadline at work? If the situation gets out of hand, we\u2019ll lose our employer\u2019s trust. That\u2019s why we should always have a timetable for our tasks.\nWe get \u201cstuck on\u201d Facebook and Twitter\nIf we log onto Facebook every 10 minutes, then we have a problem! If we want to escape our employer\u2019s wrath, let\u2019s ask him to put us in charge of updating the company\u2019s business page. Besides, many employers require people who know everything about social media.\nWe criticize the company or our boss on the Internet\nWe can talk about what is happening at work on blogs, Facebook and Twitter. However, it wouldn\u2019t be wise to publicly mention how much we hate our company or our boss, since the comments can \u201creach\u201d even our boss\u2019s PC.\nLet daydreaming\u2026 take over!\nWe might be thinking of the weekend or of our summer holidays, but we are definitely not concentrating on our work. However, we can relax for 10 minutes and get back to work after that since, according to research, daydreaming is conducive to creativity!\nWe keep chatting despite the mound of work\nIs everyone buried in work and we keep chatting along? It\u2019s definitely not for the best to be seen lingering. However, it would be good to ask to work in a team, face to face with customers or be in charge of organizing the company parties.\nWe come late to work and leave early\nQuite a few employees keep coming to work late and end up being the first to leave. 10 minutes might not be a problem but it certainly won\u2019t do our reputation any good. The working hours are specific and if we keep on ignoring them\u2026 we\u2019ll end up being considered as unprofessional.\nWe refuse to \u201cbond\u201d with our colleagues\nWe mustn\u2019t mix our personal life with business\u2026 but why say no to a drink with our colleagues? Avoiding to \u201cbond\u201d with the others will not help our career. Besides, if we get to know the others better, time will go by faster at work.\nWe say: \u201cI\u2019m not paid to do this!\u201d\nIf our boss asks us to do a job, we mustn\u2019t refuse. Some say \u201cI don\u2019t get paid to make coffee!\u201d However, the employer does not expect to hear this response. Besides, nearly no boss knows the details of every employee\u2019s job description\u2026\nOur emails are quickly and carelessly written\nOne wrong \u201cclick\u201d on the \u201cReply to all\u201d button can cause a disaster! We must get used to double checking our emails and making certain they are formal. We should also be very careful when sending them. We must never send an email to a client containing spelling mistakes.\nExceed the limit when discussing our boss\nEven if we are out for dinner with a colleague after work, we mustn\u2019t talk about our boss. If a comment reaches the grapevine, we may even lose our job. Therefore, it is advisable to be careful of what we say even to the people who are closest to us.\nWriter: Liana Georgoulopoulou, 21/05/2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bengruber.me/author/admin/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KTGOKZEKWRBF5KXHAVGBTNVLCR7QSMI2", "length": 3245, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "bengruber.me", "title": "Ben Gruber \u2013 That's Me \u2013 Ben Gruber", "raw_content": "\u201cQuestions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven\u2019t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question \u2013 you have to want to know \u2013 in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.\u201d\nClayton Christensen on Questions\nFirst You Have to Find Your Passion\nPosted by Ben Gruber / March 17, 2014\n\u201cDefinitely Not This\u201d After griping with the idea of a career change for nearly a year \u2013 these three words are the reason I finally quit my job. But I\u2019ll tell you, the agony of not being happy in what you do while at the same time being fairly successful (or \u201coccupational purgatory \u201c as [\u2026]\nH&R Block 1 Billion Dollar TV Ad Campaign\nIn preparation for the 2013 tax filing season, H&R Block has launched a series of compelling TV ads. In the main ad, the \u201cH&R Block Guy\u201d states that because of tax payers attempting to file their own taxes there was $1 billion dollars of unclaimed tax dollars last year. He goes [\u2026]\nGoogle Chrome is now the leading browser in terms of usage (about 40% of desktop usage). This is partially due to the fact that Chrome Books have seriously taken off (10% of computer market) and partially due to how much better of a browser it actually is. From a developer\u2019s point of view it has [\u2026]\nGet Rich on Optimism\nAt the shared space where I work, Wework, there is a wide cast of personalities and skill sets. At the desk directly behind me sits a talented ex-Asset Manager. Great guy, very sharp. Not my classic thought of a \u201cFinance Guy\u201d. Anyway, we get into great discussions over economic topics and I learn a lot [\u2026]\nDon\u2019t Assume \u2013 Ask Direclty for It\nGo on, ask for it. Let people know specifically how you want them to help you. And they will. This is a lesson that I recently learned. In the past few weeks, on multiple occasions I was looking for the help of others and did not end up receiving it (help with my startups). That was [\u2026]\nBlanched Lobster Finished in Wood Oven (Video)\nI headed to Long Island to cook up a storm including blanched lobster in a wood burning stove with fresh basil and leeks. Also, oysters, stuffed calamari, fish and some delicious sides.\nEmail Irony\nAs part of an ongoing attempt to rid myself of time consuming micro-events throughout the day, I have started the pains staking process of unsubscribing from every single email/newsletter that I do not read on at least a semi-regular basis. When you actually get down to it \u2013 even with a generous interpretation of the [\u2026]\nUS Government Wins a Settlement \u2013 Where Does the Money Go?\nI was skimming through the headlines today to see if any news caught my fancy. The number \u2013 $900 million \u2013 was enough for me to take notice. Nearly a billion smackers. That is the amount JP Morgan is offering the US government to settle one of their current cases. As I glazed over the [\u2026]\nWhen You Are the Free Lunch\nPosted by Ben Gruber / August 26, 2013\n\u2018FREE\u2019 \u2013 An Undercover 4 Letter Word in StartUp Vernacular Recently, while promoting my scavenger hunt bar crawl business, I offered a series of FREE crawls for both of our two core offerings. 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From Montclair State Graduate to Author, Entrepreneur, Business Owner and Blogger.\u201d (Montclarion, April 13th 2017)\n\u201cStudy: Hakeem Olajuwon is the greatest playoff player ever.\u201d (SB Nation/The Dreamshake, March 23rd 2017)\n\u201cDeveloping a Business Culture with a Holistic View toward Marketing and Business Management.\u201d (DMA Analytics Journal, pg. 67, May 15th 2015)\n\u201cUnderstanding the difference between Attribution and Media Mix Modeling.\u201d (iCrossing POV, March 2015)\n\u201cSchool Time Author Q&A Series: Ben Hinson.\u201d (The Write Teachers, September 25th 2014)\nBen Hinson has worked in the real estate performance analytics, financial prime brokerage, banking, advertising and electronics industries, and has developed out-of-the-box analytical solutions and digital media strategies for Fortune 100 and 500 companies, including but not limited to JM Smucker\u2019s, Bank of America, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Heineken, CoverGirl, Morgan Stanley, LG Electronics and Mercedes Benz. In 2010 he founded Musings Press LLC. He is the creator of the the GOAT Index, the Eteka series, the Around the World series, Gorgeous!\u2122 Phone Cases, and Hickam\u2019s Dictum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bestoldcars.net/1974-amc-matador-brougham-392.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YMUMKSC3EJY46TQZJUWUBVZD5DVTRRA6", "length": 667, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bestoldcars.net", "title": "AMC Matador Brougham", "raw_content": "This is a 1974 AMC Matador Brougham. Medium blue with white vinyl top. I am the third owner, with the second having the car only to sell it. It is an excellent running car, can drive it anywhere. It has never had any body work, all the paint is original. This is a true survivor car. There are a few dings and the driver seat has a tear on the edge from the original owner sliding in and out of the car.\nThe air conditioning does not work. It needs a new compressor. The seat needs some repair. Original material is available from a professional supplier.\nThe wheels that are on the car in the pictures do not come with the car. 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I like to stay up that late now and then just to get another glimpse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beverlyhills-ca.gov/citygovernment/citytreasurer/howardsfisherbiography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:N666C64PFFVZYRUXJ47GNTCYEMT2RSMT", "length": 1830, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "beverlyhills-ca.gov", "title": "Howard S. Fisher Biography", "raw_content": "City Government City Treasurer Howard S. Fisher Biography\nHoward S. Fisher is a Beverly Hills tax and business attorney, specializing in planning, transactions and litigation. Through his practice and studies he has developed an intimate understanding of finance, investing and accounting - and cultivated an acute sense of asking the right questions.\nHoward has presented more than a hundred lectures on tax and business subjects throughout the United States and on four continents. He has authored dozens of articles.\nHe studied at the American College In Paris, is a graduate of the University of Southern California, received his J.D. from Southwestern University, he also received a LL.B., with honors from the University of Cambridge in England, and engaged in post graduate studies at Harvard University Law School (PIL).\nHe is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School (class of 1969), is a past chair of the Planning Commission and Public Works Commission, he served on the Traffic And Parking Commission, and he was on the Mass-transit and the General Plan Committees. He is a graduate of Team Beverly Hills and C.E.R.T. He\u2019s been on the board of the Southwest Homeowners Association, a Cub Scout leader of B.H. Troop 100, was a board member of Temple Emanuel, and is the president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association (2017).\nHe has been married to Francine since 1976. She is a dental hygienist who has worked in Beverly Hills for near 44 years. His sons are graduates of Beverly Vista and Beverly Hills High School. His son Alexander attended the University of Michigan, and received his J.D. and M.B.A. from Emory University, is an attorney practicing with Howard. His son Merrick, an honors graduate from Boston University, in hospitality, and is now a celebrity nail designer and blogger, who lives in Beverly Hills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 999, "original_length": 24849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 79.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2014/05/bob-update-friday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:29Z", "digest": "sha1:33QEAS7T6AASFS33OIKHZ4GGPKU3FXSG", "length": 325, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com", "title": "bibliographic manifestations: BoB Update: Friday", "raw_content": "BoB Update: Friday\nI didn't listen to my audio book today (I keep having days where I don't drive anywhere)\nI finished reading Gaudy Night (293 pages)\nI finished reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (45 pages)\nI checked out the challenges, but didn't complete them.\nLabels: Bout of Books, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Louis Stevenson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 13514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.amsgames.com/2015/03/game-development-service/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:02Z", "digest": "sha1:B2H3VUAJS3UU6GL45OM4E4UCIMUWM2FA", "length": 907, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.amsgames.com", "title": "Game development service - Amsgames Blog", "raw_content": "Davis, CA: On Monday March 23rd of 2015, Amsgames launched its Game Development Service, the company aims to attract studios and opportunists with this offering, that will help them with the development of new or on-going game projects.\nThe following link contains an extended description of the service:\nGame development service page\nOn the service\u2019s launch, Amsgames CEO Alejandro Mostajo said:\nBased on our latest business plan and market reading, we believe that this service will attract clients because of our expertise, quality of service and competitive rates.\nThe company\u2019s near-shore development team is located in San Jose, Costa Rica; giving the opportunity of lowering production costs and offering competitive rates.\nOn the service\u2019s goals, Amsgames CEO Alejandro Mostajo said:\nWe expect to have 1 or 2 clients by the end of the year. This is our goal for the success of the service this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.booksonfirst.com/2010/11/new-use-for-kindles.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HE2J3MVHOYVVXEIJBXZ2EJ3PD7RAMY34", "length": 1160, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.booksonfirst.com", "title": "Books on First Blog: New Use for Connected Electronic Books?", "raw_content": "New Use for Connected Electronic Books?\nI came across a story as I was searching BBC World for an altogether different quirky story I had heard about what is happening in China (about resident foreigners being hired to pose as learned visitors for plant visits, presentations and banquets which I had heard in the depths of one Saturday night).\nThis one, though, is a real doozie, although it could all be nothing by the time I publish this post. Kindle, which is not even officially sold in China, becomes the means to go to Chinese-banned sites, like Twitter and facebook! I like the reasons why the Great Firewall of China has not clamped down on this: can't be a big problem as the device is not officially sold in China and there aren't many (if any) Chinese-language books sold in Kindle format and thus, Chinese interest in buying one is quite limited.\nI wonder whether an iPad can do the same, especially since it can toggle between 3G and wi-fi, although the key may be (as mentioned in the article) the 3-G network provider which the Kindle uses in China or in that part of China where the breach was discovered.\nLabels: language, printed bound books", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 9045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.brooklinepolice.com/2018/07/sunday-july-15th.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:E2IQBRP3WFGS22RDA7XV5L5LT4WYMFR4", "length": 195, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.brooklinepolice.com", "title": "Brookline Police News: Sunday, July 15th", "raw_content": "6:44PM- An officer was dispatched to Foster Street to take a report on a package theft. The caller stated that three packages were stolen over the past ten days. This case is under investigation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 652, "original_length": 14858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 233.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.cvp.com/2010/03/borrow-money-to-fund-growth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BX5O2WYPN5B5Y6QJ3FPXBXDAFB2BPWCE", "length": 11136, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "blog.cvp.com", "title": "Borrow money to fund growth | Blog@CVP", "raw_content": "Borrow money to fund growth\nWe ask \u201cCan it really make sense to borrow money to fund growth?\u201d or is the Never Never only for people in dire financial straits?\nMy dear old father-in-law used to delight in telling me that he\u2019d never bought anything he couldn\u2019t afford:\n\u201cI\u2019d never borrow money to buy anything \u2013 like a car for instance. I\u2019d save until I could afford to buy it outright. That way I never got into trouble!\u201d Millions of people like us who have grown up listening to the older generation peddling this holier-than-thou philosophy are secretly ridden with guilt. Because we financed the car, we financed the conservatory \u2013 hell, we even financed the three piece suite! And we\u2019ve all used our credit cards to buy things we know full well we shouldn\u2019t have bought. We do it all the time \u2013 and so does everyone else. Today, it\u2019s become the norm to live today and pay tomorrow. And the problem with that, as any old-timer will tell you, is that you never know what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow.\nBut there is another way of looking at this. Everything we finance has a finite useful life as far as we are concerned. Let\u2019s take a car as an example. After three years, it\u2019s time to change it \u2013 you\u2019re going to sell it and start again. So if it costs \u00a320,000 today, and it\u2019s worth \u00a38,000 in 3 years time, the capital cost of driving about in that car is \u00a310.96 per day. Finding around \u00a311 a day for our car doesn\u2019t sound too bad, whereas finding a spare \u00a320,000 in one hit is a different thing altogether. But let\u2019s just assume that we could do that. If we were sensible, what we would do is buy the car and then every day put \u00a310.96 into a piggy bank so that when three years were up we\u2019d once again have twenty grand to be able to buy a new car. So in a sense we\u2019re borrowing money from ourselves and paying it back over the lifetime of our ownership.\nActually, if we were being fair to our-selves, we\u2019d pay ourselves back more than \u00a310.96 pence a day. Because the \u00a320,000 we used to buy the car was actually in a bank account earning us interest (or could have been), so we ought to give that back too.\nSo where\u2019s the difference between borrowing the money to buy this car from ourselves or somebody else? In purely financial terms, very little! It\u2019s all about interest rates, specifically the difference between the interest that\u2019s PAID on savings and the interest that\u2019s CHARGED on borrowings. In real terms, the daily cost of ownership (capital and interest) of a car financed by a third party is literally only a few pence more than it costs you to buy it outright. So STOP FEELING GUILTY!\nToday it\u2019s become the norm to live today and pay tomorrow. The problem is that you never quite know what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow!\nBut the car was a domestic example. Everything changes again when we look at a commercial purchase.\nThe major difference between a domestic purchase and a commercial one is that the commercial purchase carries with it tax concessions.\nLet\u2019s take the hypothetical example of a cameraman (let\u2019s call him Frank) who is using camera which costs \u00a350,000 excluding VAT. He trades as a Limited Liability Company and up until this point he has been hiring this camera as and when he needs it. Let\u2019s say he\u2019s averaging 15 days work a month and the hire charge for his kit is \u00a3200 a day, so he\u2019s been spending \u00a3200 x 15days = \u00a33,000 a month ( or \u00a336,000 a year) on hire. For the purposes of this example he has been passing on this cost to his clients with no uplift.\nFrank has a number of options, but in this article I\u2019m going to examine just three of them:\n1. Buy a camera outright (assuming he has the funds)\nBuy it on a 36 month Lease (or HP) agreement.\nContinue hiring a camera as and when he needs it.\nThere are lots of rules and regulations surrounding tax concessions \u2013 it\u2019s a complex area of tax law, but in order to stop your eyes glazing over completely, I\u2019m going to assume that Her Majesty\u2019s Revenue and Customs will allow Frank to write off the cost of his camera at the rate of 25% per annum. This is called Capital Allowance, and in my example it means that if Frank buys the camera his tax bill will be reduced by 25% x \u00a350,000 (the cost of the camera excl VAT) x 21% (the corporation tax rate for companies making less than \u00a3300,000 profit a year) each year for 4 years.\nOption 1 BUY IT OUTRIGHT\nThe first thing you have to get your head round is the fact that if Frank has money available to spend, it\u2019s been earned and therefore it\u2019s taxable. If he has earned \u00a350,000 and he pays tax at 21%, he can expect a tax bill of \u00a310,500. If he uses that \u00a350,000 to buy a camera, he will effectively have that tax bill waived \u2013 but over 4 years.\nSo in Year 1, instead of paying \u00a310,500 tax he will only pay \u00a37,875, and in Years 2, 3 and 4 he will get a rebate of \u00a32,625 a year, making the net tax bill relating to the \u00a350,000 he used to buy the camera NIL.\nThe second thing to bear in mind is that Frank is only buying this camera because he has work for it to do. He charges his client \u00a3200 a day for the camera 15 days a month, 12 months a year. In total then, he charges his clients \u00a336,000 a year for the camera which, after tax at 21% gives him a net annual rental income of \u00a328,440. Once again, in order to keep things simple we\u2019re going to ignore any VAT in this example and we are going to assume that Frank Ltd pays tax as it accumulates the liability (whereas in reality it would be paid in arrears). So in Year 1, Frank has paid out \u00a350,000 on a camera, saved \u00a32,625 on his tax bill and earned \u00a328,440 after tax effectively renting out his camera. The net effect on his cash flow is therefore -\u00a318,935.\nIn years 2, 3 and 4 he doesn\u2019t have anything to pay out, so he simply saves \u00a32,625 on his tax bill and earns \u00a321,600 in camera rental each year, with a net effect on his cash flow of +\u00a331,065.\nAt the end of the 4 year period the camera is still worth something \u2013 we\u2019re going to assume 30% of its original cost.\nFrank can therefore sell it for \u00a315,000 but he will have to pay tax on that income (again, we assume, at 21%), so he will actually net \u00a311,850.\nWe can see therefore that simply buy buying the camera outright and hiring it out 15 days a month for 4 years and then selling it, Frank is better off by a total of \u00a386,110. (NB, this does not include whatever Frank charges to operate the camera.)\nOption 2 FINANCE IT\nIf Frank doesn\u2019t have \u00a350K available or simply doesn\u2019t wish to spend it in one lump, he could purchase the camera by way of a lease or HP agreement. Again, all leases are not the same, but whilst the fine details can vary (for instance relating to how interest is applied to the account or when VAT needs to be paid), the principle remains the same, and that\u2019s what I am concerned with here.\nFor Frank\u2019s \u00a350,000 camera the Lease/HP costs would be around \u00a31,575 per month (that\u2019s \u00a318,900 a year) for a 36 month agreement. That figure is made up of a capital repay-ment and interest. For the purposes of this example I am assuming that the interest element is \u00a32,233 each year for 3 years. The HMRC rules relating to Capital Allowances still apply (saving Frank Ltd \u00a32,625 in tax), but also loan interest is 100% allowable against tax too, saving Frank a further \u00a3469 a year in tax.\nSo in Years 1, 2 and 3 Frank has pays \u00a318,900 in finance charges, saves \u00a33,094 in tax and earns \u00a328,440 in rental income. The net effect on his cash flow is therefore +\u00a312,634 each year.\nIn Year 4 there is nothing more to pay to the finance company, so Frank saves \u00a32,625 in tax (Capital Allowance) and earns \u00a328,440 in rental income with a net effect on his cash flow of +\u00a331,065.\nSo we can see that by financing the camera over 3 years, hiring it out 15 days a month for 4 years and then selling it, Frank is better off by a total of \u00a380,817.\nUsing someone else\u2019s money to buy his camera rather than his own makes Frank just 6% less money over the 4 year period, but the fact that his cash flow is positive at all times more than compensates (remember in Year 1 the outright purchase option goes cash negative by \u00a350,000 on day one and takes over 18 months to climb back into the black ). Taking the finance option means that Frank Ltd has money available to get it through any unforeseen lean period, or to invest in other equipment that might produce a new revenue stream (like an edit suite for instance) or simply to earn interest.\nOption 3 CONTINUE HIRING IT\nIf Frank continues to hire the camera, it remains the property of the hire company and so Frank Ltd cannot claim any tax allowances for it. It will spend \u00a336,000 a year on hire charges and, because they are 100% tax- deductible, save himself \u00a37,560 in tax (21% of \u00a336,000) and earn \u00a328,440 in net rental income. The net effect on Frank\u2019s cash flow is therefore NIL.\nThis option is the most flexible of the three in that should anything go wrong Frank has no liabilities to the hire company to worry about, but in this instance on average it\u2019s more than \u00a320,000 a year less profitable than buying the camera using finance.\nThere are all sorts of reasons why people are reluctant to use finance to buy kit. The most prevalent is an emotional/moral reticence \u2013 a feeling that \u201cI shouldn\u2019t buy what I can\u2019t afford\u201d. I hope you\u2019ll now see that this argument does not hold water. Almost every successful business on earth uses other people\u2019s money to fund growth \u2013 that\u2019s the whole reason why everyone has got in such a lather about the recent credit crunch! Lease or Hire Purchase of equipment is arguably the most sensible way to acquire your kit provided certain criteria are met, for example:\nYou have to have sufficient work to be able to afford the monthly repayments.\nThose repayments should be equal to or less than the amount you would otherwise spend each month hiring your kit (in our example this equates to 8 days hire a month)\nAs we said earlier, not all leases are the same so it certainly pays to talk to an expert about the best options for your specific circumstances. Any broadcast and professional solutions provider (like Creativevideo or Mitcorp) would be pleased to assist.\nThe accountants amongst you will know that I have over-simplified things in this article. It is only looking at the tax implications of one part of Frank\u2019s business \u2013 the costs and revenues directly related to the ownership of the camera (i.e. excluding the costs and revenues of actually operating the camera and any other activities that Frank may be involved in). I have made assumptions that will not always be the case. I have ignored the impact of VAT. I have made Frank pay his tax earlier than he would actually have to pay it. I have not accounted for the fact that until the end of the lease period Frank has a liability to the finance company etc. etc. But all this has been done in order to attempt to illustrate the benefits of ownership and the advantages and disadvantages of two different acquisition methods IN PRINCIPLE . I would advise you to seek professional advice from your accountant or financial advisor before committing yourself to any major purchase or finance agreement.\nEighteen year old wins McBAFTA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 12966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.davey.com/2015/08/tree-inventories-save-time-and-money-and-trees/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:16Z", "digest": "sha1:677O5PGWK52LU5NDVDGE5K5DSZHAJY4S", "length": 3317, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.davey.com", "title": "Tree Inventories Save Time and Money (and Trees)", "raw_content": "Tree Inventories Save Time and Money (and Trees)\nThe following blog post is based on an article written by Lee Mueller, project developer for Davey Resource Group (DRG).\nHumans naturally gravitate toward large trees. If you take a group of kids on a nature walk, it is often the largest and oldest trees that captivate their attention. Whether it is for shade, beauty, or tree-house potential, there is simply a magnetic draw to the largest trees.\nAside from humans\u2019 obvious preference for large, majestic trees, trees have become more recognized as assets\u2014and perhaps investments. Tools like the National Tree Benefits Calculator (http://www.treebenefits.org) and the i-Tree suite (http://www.itreetools.org) help calculate the benefits trees provide, placing a monetary value on these benefits and the tree itself.\nRecent scientific research suggests that trees in front of a house can increase home value by as much as 6.4%1. Combined, this shows trees continue to grow in value over time\u2014but only if they are afforded the proper care to reduce issues and extend longevity.\nTaking care of one tree can be hard enough, but managing an entire population can prove to be very challenging. To assist in the management of large populations of trees, arborists have developed innovative tools that help track and monitor trees.\nChief among these is a tree inventory, which is a database of information about a particular population of trees. At a minimum, an inventory includes information about each tree\u2019s location, species and size. Depending on its use, additional attributes such as the tree\u2019s condition, maintenance recommendations (e.g. pruning, fertilization, removal), tree risk assessment, conflicts (e.g. overhead utilities, hardscape), or other field observations are often included as well.\nMost tree inventories include all the trees within a specific property or area of interest. There are multiple ways to conduct a tree inventory based on priorities, budget and management objectives. With the vast array of options, an inventory can be tailored to meet a range of project needs and budgetary limitations. The data contained within an inventory can help grounds managers and landscape professionals project future tree care needs, which helps them improve operations, budget appropriately and schedule work efficiently.\nUnderstanding tree inventory data and their implications can help landscape professionals and grounds managers develop yearly maintenance expectations and determine resource and budgetary needs. As the old saying goes, \u201cyou can\u2019t manage what you can\u2019t measure.\u201d A tree inventory is the tool used to measure and support the management of any number of trees.\nA tree inventory may help you save time and money. When each tree is reviewed independently by a certified arborist, small issues may be noticed long before they become big issues. Aside from the costs, proactive maintenance is key to investing in trees as assets. Provided the appropriate care, trees can live longer, provide greater benefits and better contribute to the landscape.\nInterested in pursuing a tree inventory project in your community? Visit DRG's tree inventory services page at www.davey.com.\nSource: 1Donovan, G.H., and D. T. Butry. 2008. Market-based approaches to tree valuation. Arborist News 17: 52-55.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.jeffmarcuslaw.com/2008/12/class-action-against-nyc-dept-of-ed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WEOXQ6Q37WNODYMO4JMARYU22VPRHAFW", "length": 460, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.jeffmarcuslaw.com", "title": "Developments in Special Education Law: Class action against NYC Dept. of Ed settled", "raw_content": "D.S. et al v. NYC Dept of Ed, --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2008 WL 5024911(EDNY 11/25/08):\nMinority students and their parents at Boys & Girls High School (\u201cB & G\u201d) filed a class action contending that they and many others were deliberately denied a high school education. The Court found merit to the lawsuit and the parties entered into a settlement agreement. This is a good read for those interested in class action litigation to address special education problems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 391, "original_length": 9068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 168.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.renee-garner.com/2012/07/guildy-as-charged.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KDDXJF43UUYANL45YWBVPOIMEKFOCRTX", "length": 932, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.renee-garner.com", "title": "wolfie and the sneak: Guildy as charged", "raw_content": "Guildy as charged\nI've been working on a few drawings of potential guilds; this is a scan of the first one. I thought it might be fun to print out and color from the ink drawing. If you feel so inclined, you can download the picture here. If you color it, snap a picture, I want to see! And though I think it goes without saying, if you share the image with others, please link back or credit back to me in some way.\nFrom Wikipedia's entry on Permaculture, the definition of guild:\nA guild is any group of species that exploit the same resources, often in related ways. Guilds are groups of plants, animals, insects, etc. that work well together. Some plants may be grown for food production, some to attract beneficial insects, and others to repel harmful insects. When grouped together these plants form a guild.\nLove it. Your drawings are always so intricate. Will try to let each of the boys color this and send you the results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.watchuseek.com/2012/12/the-6m-dollar-clock-duc-dorleans.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:X6MUSXENKLZRMSEOEQJ5F24NYUN4S5SU", "length": 2611, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.watchuseek.com", "title": "Watchuseek Watch Blog: The $6m dollar clock: The Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans Breguet Sympathique", "raw_content": "The $6m dollar clock: The Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans Breguet Sympathique\nDo you have $,6,802,500 to spare on a clock for Christmas?\nYesterday\u2019s auction of Important Watches & Clocks at Sotheby\u2019s New York was led by The Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans Breguet Sympathique, which set a new auction record for any clock and the second-highest price for any timepiece at auction.\nIt sold for exactly that sum; $6,802,500, above an estimate in excess of $5 million.\nFirst invented by Breguet in 1795 and presented to the public for the first time at the Exposition Nationale des Produits de l\u2019Industrie in 1798, the sympathique clock was a system consisting of a clock and a watch. The clock was designed to hold the pocket watch in its cradle, where it was automatically adjusted and rewound. The term sympathique was chosen by Breguet to express the notion of harmony and concord.\nThe exceptionally rare Sympathique clocks, of which this particular model is easily the best preserved, complete with working parts comprehensively repaired by the late George Daniels, helped cement the fame and renown of French watchmaker Abraham- Louis Breguet.\nThis clock, so named because it belonged to the Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans and was made especially for him in 1835, was last offered at auction in Sotheby\u2019s in 1999 in a sale of \u2018Masterpieces from the Time Museum,\u2019 when it achieved $5,777,500 \u2013 this price has remained the auction record for any clock until today\u2019s sale.\nPatek Philippe 1955 Ref 2512/1\nThe Important Watches & Clocks auction totalled $11,672,988, marking the highest result for a various-owners sale of watches and clocks at Sotheby\u2019s New York. In addition to the Sympathique, both vintage and modern wristwatches by Patek Philippe dominated the day\u2019s top results, led by A Fine and Extremely Rare Massive 18K Yellow Gold Centre Seconds Wristwatch, 1955, Ref 2512/1 that achieved $962,500, more than five times its high estimate of $150,000.\nThe watch is a legend among collectors of Patek \u2013 at 46 millimeters in diameter, the dimensions of this reference are truly extraordinary, and the present example has remained in the same private collection since it was sold at Sotheby\u2019s in June 1988.\nIn the coming months the Henry Graves Supercomplication by Patek Philippe could also find its way under the hammer for the first time since 1999 when it reached a record The $11,002,500. Sheikh Saud Mohammed bin Al Thani of Qatar has recently returned the priceless watch to Sotheby\u2019s as a partial payment of $42m owing in unpaid auctions wins.\nWith you all the way: Ralph Lauren Sporting World ...\nThe $6m dollar clock: The Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans Breguet Sy...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 787, "original_length": 14421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 187.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.zricks.com/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-worth-5-billion-%E2%82%B933000-cr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:20Z", "digest": "sha1:754OI52FB3BQYVMWSNQWZN2KSYFNECM7", "length": 2555, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.zricks.com", "title": "North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is worth $5 billion (\u20b933,000 Cr) - Zricks.com Blog", "raw_content": "North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is worth $5 billion (\u20b933,000 Cr)\nFebruary 25, 2017 Zricks.com 0 Comment dictator Kim Jong-un worth, north korea leader, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, worth of dictator Kim Jong-un north korea\nNorth Korea\u2019s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has established a global reputation for erratic and dangerous behavior. The 33-year-old succeeded his father, Kim Jong Il, after his death in 2011, and following his claim to power, removed or executed a handful of senior officials including his uncle Jang Song-thaek.\nAs the leader of the secretive nation, Kim has kept North Korea in the headlines with nuclear bomb testing, missile testing, and even a cyber attack on Sony Pictures in 2014.\nBut money is not one of his concerns. Kim is estimated to have a net worth of $5 billion with most of his assets found in bank accounts located throughout the world, according to Celebrity Net Worth, a website that tracks the personal fortune of public figures.\nA U.S.-South Korean investigation conducted by newspaper Chosun Ilbo in 2013 discovered that over 200 North Korean bank accounts were connected to drug exportations, counterfeit money and weapons of mass destruction. A majority of the accounts found in Central America, Europe and Asia were opened under different names. One source said that the North Korean embassy in Russia laundered counterfeit money: around $30 million of forged funds were laundered in just 2008 alone.\n\u201cThe regime uses minor banks that are relatively less stringent in screening their account holders or opening accounts using the names of foreigners or companies,\u201d a source told the major South Korean newspaper.\nAs for how Jong-un spends his money, Chosun Ilbo reported that intelligence agencies claimed the leader uses most of the funds to buy expensive items for himself or to \u201cbuy the loyalty of high-ranking officials.\u201d\nThe current regime was recently scrutinized for the killing of Kim\u2019s half-brother Kim Jong Nam. Kim Jong Nam was assaulted at the Kuala Lumpur budget airport earlier this month and killed by a poison, according to officials. \u201cWe believe the North Korean regime is behind this incident, considering five suspects are North Koreans,\u201d South Korea Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said.\n\u2190 Pioneer Presidia \u2013 Integrated Architecture and Special Sky Garden Verandahs\nM3M Urbana \u2013 The Largest Integrated Commercial Development Comes to Life \u2192\nWant to Buy Property In Thailand But Confused Where to Invest?\nDawood Ibrahim\u2019s properties worth Rs. 15,000 crore seized in UAE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 402, "original_length": 19224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.zricks.com/repair-home-buyer-seller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KFH4BSUTDDWGSQYPJHXDP4T2UJHL45VH", "length": 4665, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blog.zricks.com", "title": "Who Should Repair a Home: A Buyer or a Seller? - Zricks.com Blog", "raw_content": "Who Should Repair a Home: A Buyer or a Seller?\nJuly 16, 2017 Umesh Pradhan 0 Comment Best repairs to undertake before selling a house, Most Important Things to Repair, Selling a house that need repairs, selling house inspection repairs, Who Repairs Home -- Buyer Or Seller?, who should repair the house\nIt goes without saying that nobody wants to purchase a money pit and spend a fortune on repairs. But, sometimes, the best deals are those that require a bit of legwork and some sacrifices. Anyhow, they are not finished until two sides are satisfied, the money changes hands, and the deed is transferred.\nSo, who is supposed to take care of repairs? Well, they are always up to negotiations and there are no definite answers here. What is worth noting is that when people dig in their heels and forgo flexibility, repairs can bust deals and shatter homeownership dreams.\nBringing issues to light\nIssues in this department tend to arise after a home inspection. They can lead to another round of negotiations that involves the talks about credits and fixes. Namely, professional inspectors, agents, or even buyers themselves can discover some problems that have been either neglected or deliberately swept under the carpet. In both cases, they are a major hurdle in negotiations.\nFaced with this kind of predicament, buyers have a few options before them. It is possible to ask the\nseller to fix things or to negotiate the price down. The former situation occurred when I decided to carry out roof repairs in Sydney and told the buyer he would have to cover them in the end. He did not take it well, but I knew I had leverage because he was desperate to sell the home quickly.\nNegotiating pitfalls\nIt is only natural to want your home to look picture-perfect and systems to work like a charm. But, at the same time, buyers should be careful not to alienate sellers. They are already on their way out and often reluctant to undergo repair and renovation projects. At the very least, they are less enthusiastic about the repairs and certainly do not consider them a top priority as buyers do.\nSo, the two sides can be worlds apart when it comes to the matter of repairs. Still, what usually happens is a compromise. The best chances for this outcome happen when both sides are flexible and keep their options and eyes wide open. This is not to say, for example, that the home buyers should turn a blind eye on faults and defects.\nOf course, it is fine to be prepared to let the small issues slip. They will be sorted out in the future when renovation takes place. However, there are some serious problems and red flags you cannot afford to ignore. Even when a seller completes repair projects, the buyer ought to take a closer look. This may involve some back-and-forth in case the property hunter is not satisfied with the work.\nReal estate contracts differ from place to place. There could also be more than one standard form of contract in your area. Some buyers take a cash-back credit at the close of escrow and use that money to tackle repairs, but this is not a common practice everywhere. In any regard, it is advisable to read repair and inspection contingencies carefully. Signing a contract before that is a shot in the dark.\nContractual twists and turns\nUltimately, a contract can benefit a buyer and it can benefit a seller. One cannot expect both to be completely satisfied. Some contracts, for instance, define that a buyer is entitled to conduct an inspection, but is not allowed to request any repairs or credit (inspection is only for information purposes). Other documents allow them to define repairs they want the seller to take care of.\nPlaying within the limits\nThe key is to know your limits and leeway you possess during negotiations. Adhere to state laws, local customs, and specific conditions (financial or otherwise) in your case. Do not rely on gut instinct or solely on the report that the other party presents. Finally, bear in mind that the real estate brokers and attorneys can be of great help. They can hammer out a deal that brings benefits to both sides.\nProblems can come back and haunt buyers after the deal is closed, which they want to avoid at all cost. On the other hand, sellers are certainly not over the moon with spending more money on property they are about to let go of. There\u2019s no one-size-fits-all standard for solving repair issues. It is clear that buyers and seller must work hand in hand to bridge the negotiating and find common ground. Otherwise, the deal is dead in the water.\n\u2190 A doctor\u2019s waiting room can be more appealing with interior design\nThe best way to develop your commercial property strategy! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 414, "original_length": 21157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.app.com/enviroguy/2013/09/05/sea-level-rise-crisis-looms-for-coastal-areas/email/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6GM4PUPFTQJ5UVTPLNGW6QSMAC3BQKOR", "length": 3049, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blogs.app.com", "title": "Sea level rise \u2018crisis\u2019 looms for coastal areas | EnviroGuy", "raw_content": "\u2190 Summer 2013 second soggiest in N.J. record\nTropical Atlantic Ocean gets busy \u2013 finally \u2192\nSea level rise \u2018crisis\u2019 looms for coastal areas\nTalk about a very sobering outlook for coastal communities.\nThey face an imminent sea level rise \u201ccrisis,\u201d featuring more frequent \u201cSandy-like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere,\u201d according to a new report.\nFuture scenarios of the arrival of Sandy-level storms are \u201cconcerning, as they imply that events of less and less severity (from less powerful storms) will produce similar impacts,\u201d according to the report by four experts.\nTheir report \u2013 \u201cHurricane Sandy Inundation Probabilities Today and Tomorrow\u201d \u2013 is in a Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society report: \u201cExplaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective.\u201d\nThe overall report says \u201cattribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution.\u201d\nThe report offers 19 analyses by 18 different research groups of 12 extreme events in 2012, including Sandy, high temperatures in the U.S., the record low levels of Arctic sea ice and heavy rain in northern Europe and eastern Australia.\nAbout half the analyses found some evidence that human-caused climate change contributed to an extreme event, although natural fluctuations in weather and climate also played key roles in many of the events, the report says.\nExcerpts from the Sandy report, which draws from numerous sources:\n\u2013 As rebuilding happens, a concern is how sea level rise will alter the likelihood of future events that result in recurring economic losses in an increasingly crowded coastal zone.\n\u2013 Sandy broke 16 historical storm-tide levels along the East Coast. Though Sandy\u2019s magnitude on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale was not particularly large, its westward track was very abnormal. Since 1851, nine other hurricanes (Category 1 and 2) have made landfall with similar proximities, but all were heading north-northeastward.\n\u2013 Sea level rise has increased the chances of \u201cSandy-level inundation events.\u201d Sandy had a storm tide that would return every 295 years at Sandy Hook, a one-third shorter period than the 435-year return period in 1950.\n\u2013 A model suggests that from Atlantic City southward, a 1-in-100-year event or beyond in 1950 can now be expected every couple of decades because of sea level rise.\n\u2013 At Sandy Hook, Sandy-level events would happen about every 20 to 50 years under an \u201cintermediate high\u201d scenario and every two years under the high scenario.\nHere\u2019s an image of the 12 extreme events covered in the report:\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Arctic sea ice, climate, climate change, coastal zone, drought, East Coast, eastern Australia, economic losses, Environment, events, extreme weather, future, heavy rain, high temperatures, hurricane, hurricanes, inundation, landfall, northern Europe, rebuilding, Saffir-Simpson, Sandy, science, seal level rise, storm tide, storms, superstorm, weather. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 519, "original_length": 15251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/12/la_schools_open_doors_to_immig.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:29Z", "digest": "sha1:U3JJT35XNMJ6VOFE4V3URAIVKK5BV6OT", "length": 1980, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", "title": "Los Angeles District a 'Safe Haven' for Immigrant Families - Learning the Language - Education Week", "raw_content": "\u00ab Civil Rights Group Opposes Plans for Maryland English-Learner High Schools | Main | Houston to Open Arabic Immersion Elementary School \u00bb\nLos Angeles District a 'Safe Haven' for Immigrant Families\nBy Corey Mitchell on December 10, 2014 11:01 AM\nThe Los Angeles Unified School District has declared itself a safe haven for families who want to learn more about President Barack Obama's executive action that would protect millions of undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation.\nThe district sent a letter to parents Tuesday advising them to be on the lookout for potential scams and people promising quick fixes.\nDistrict leaders and union officials with United Teachers Los Angeles and Service Employees International Union pledged to work together to help the students access the records they need to file their applications. Education records will be among the key documents needed for applying for immigration relief.\n\"I work with our school community every day and I see how much it impacts students when their mother or father is deported,\" said Lilia Garcia, a SEIU member and elementary school aide. \"The children come to school with fear or sadness. The President's action will mean more stability for families, and this will mean students can focus on their education.\"\nObama's order expands the number of people eligible under the program for childhood arrivals and also offers legal status to undocumented parents of U.S. citizens.\nThe nation's second largest district received 16,000 requests for transcripts after Obama's 2012 executive order that provided relief for some young adults brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents, the Associated Press reports.\n\"Our collective assets grow as more and more families are able to grow together, learn together and thrive together without fear of deportation,\" said Steve Zimmer, vice president of the Los Angeles Unified school board. \"We stand together in support of our President and executive action.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 9617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogspirator.blogspot.com/2011/11/green-homes-new-black.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2AFDW2ZW5EE3FZ53UXC3OO7COZ7MYDNB", "length": 2740, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blogspirator.blogspot.com", "title": "Green Homes: The New Black? - Real estate, House and Home", "raw_content": "In today's over-saturated real estate market, sellers looking for ways to distinguish their properties are touting environmentally friendly and energy-saving features. Recent publications list numerous measures green builders are taking to attempt to capture this market advantage. While home sales remain flat or in decline, the ability to claim certification from the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, the National Association of Home Builders, or the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Homes program adds some credibility to green status and translates to increased marketability... or does it?\nWhat do the green certifications really mean to buyers when there may be a lack of overarching standards for the certifying entities? To earn the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star certification, a home needs to be at least 20 percent more efficient than the benchmark for a standard new home. The \"bronze\" level of certification from the National Association of Home Builders requires adding a few features, such as low-flow toilets, energy-efficient windows to block out heat and dust, and prefabricated roof trusses. These measures - in addition to state and federal tax credits that may also apply - certainly have merit, but how do they convey value to a potential buyer?\nSome industry experts believe that the absence of a clear national standard leads to confusion, preventing easy comparisons for both new and existing homes.\nHome sellers, and contractors specializing in green retrofits, would do well to focus on measures that enhance indoor environmental quality along with basic energy efficiency. So in addition to swapping conventional light bulbs for CFL's, removing asbestos, using low VOC paints, and switching to eco-friendly floor coverings, suggested practices include energy audits and working with qualified consultants to vet your green cred and tap into the possibility of enhanced marketing opportunities.\nIt is difficult to ascertain the connection between taking steps to green a home - either through new building or energy retrofits - and direct return on investments for these measures. A recent McGraw Hill study showed 81% of home buyers would prefer to buy a green home, even in this sluggish economy. However, buyers' willingness to pay a premium for green features seems to be connected to how long it takes to recover their investment than environmental concerns. Rising utility rates could well provide the impetus to elevate this as a priority that might influence buying decisions. And even if consumers are unwilling to pay a premium for energy-efficient features, they may well be a distinction that helps move one property over another.\nLabels: Black, green, Homes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 534, "original_length": 12898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bluemangotheatre.com/en/portfolio_page/the-loch-ness-monster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:13Z", "digest": "sha1:HNKWZBBKGFTQY5INILFNSMNJPUBOXTW3", "length": 590, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bluemangotheatre.com", "title": "Blue Mango Theatre | The Loch Ness Monster", "raw_content": "PRIMARY, C.M. AND C.S.\nA musical adventure about the Loch Ness Monster and the Water Cycle (CLIL)\nPeople in Scotland have been looking for the famous Loch Ness Monster -otherwise known as \u201cNessie\u201d- for generations. In reality, Nessie has been living very happily in Loch Ness, not bothering anyone for years. That is, until one day when her peace is disturbed by Madison, a mad scientist determined to capture her and become rich and famous. With songs, humour and constant interaction with the audience, the show combines this famous Scottish legend with the CLIL topic of the water cycle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bobruss.net/Westpac/knox_on_the_rocks.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5SWZQQLVZI6AKD5JBGEUGFUIJNLMAJE5", "length": 6487, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bobruss.net", "title": "Knox on the Rocks", "raw_content": "Knox on the Rocks\nWe had been taking R&R at our home port in Yokosuka , Japan for a couple of weeks. As we cleared the Japanese straits on our way south back to Yankee Station, we began seeing message traffic about the USS Knox DDR 742, which had hit Pratas reef on its way to Hong Kong . As we came through the Luzon strait, between Taiwan and the Philippine Islands, we received orders from Seventh Fleet to proceed to the aid of USS Knox. Within a few hours, we anchored about four miles West of the Knox, which to all appearances was underway, but making no headway. Sonar reported numerous solid coral peaks in the vicinity, and recommended that we go no closer. We put over a boat with the Supply Officer and a majority of our picnic supplies and a load of non-perishable food items along with a supply of canned items that could be eaten cold. Since she had no power, every meal was an open air repast. Even though part of her problem had been that she couldn\u2019t take a star sight because of cloud cover (we found out later), there was no overcast to relieve the heat of the sun.\nWe took on part of her crew, and one of the carriers showed up in a couple of days to take on the remainder of those who would be transferred. That enabled us to get the story of what had happened to cause this radar picket ship to go aground on a charted reef, and almost go over it into the lagoon around the island.\nOn the day before the Knox went aground, there had been message traffic concerning a tidal wave that was said to be moving across the Pacific from somewhere North of the Philippines and East of Okinawa. We in fact had read that traffic, and thought perhaps we had seen the wave as we passed over its reported position as we came South from Japan . At sea, a major tidal wave is hardly discernible from the surrounding sea, since it has plenty of room below it to allow the energy to keep circulating. Only when it comes to a sloping shoreline does it rise up to the extreme heights that have been reported.\nAs we got the story from one of the crew, a series of mishaps and bad management emerged as the culprits in the mishap. While in port at Olangapo the executive officer, who was also the navigator, was transferred back to the States, and his successor came aboard and assumed his new duties the day before the ship got underway for Hong Kong . They got underway with rain and heavy overcast, which persisted for several days. This meant that they had no star shots or sun lines to give them navigational information. Loran was notoriously bad all over the South China Sea , useless for determining their position, and GPS was unheard of in those days. Thus, they were reduced to using the Dead Reckoning Tracer for their basic navigation tool. This method cannot allow for the effects of wind and current, not can it detect the difference between actual ship\u2019s speed and ordered speed, because it takes its speed input from the screw shaft. For all intents and purposes, then, the Knox was proceeding on its merry way to an R&R port for about four days with no way of determining how far off course she was. On the midwatch, with the Knox underway from the Philippine harbor of Olangapo to Hong Kong , she had deviated North of her desired track about 120 miles. This of course was unknown to any of the officers or men on board, since they were dependent on the DRT for their position information, however faulty that might be. The port lookout reported to the Officer of the Deck (OOD) that he smelled fish. The significance of that report is that one never smells fish while at sea unless he on a fishing boat. The smell of fish is a sure sign that you are near land. The OOD apparently did not understand the significance of this, for there was no response. Very shortly thereafter, the lookout reported that he could see a line of foam ahead. The OOD saw the line of foam, said, \u201cOh, that must be the tidal wave. We\u2019ll meet it head on.\u201d , and came left to meet the line of foam squarely. That line of foam was the surf on the coral reef surrounding a lagoon. The tide was in, with about five to six feet of water covering the reef\u2013 just enough to allow the ship to ride up onto the reef without ripping out the keel. The stop was not so sudden that anyone was injured seriously. When daylight came, the sailors were greeted by the sight of the natives walking out to the ship in three or four feet of water.\nAs the story went, on the second or third day following to grounding, the captain was standing on the bridge of the Knox. The officer who had been the OOD came onto the bridge behind him and spoke to him. The captain, with his contemplation of his shattered career interrupted, swung with a roundhouse blow and knocked the culprit several feet away \u2013 the stories say he flew through the air \u2013 and stalked off the bridge. Charges were never brought, as far as we ever knew. In the officers\u2019 club at Olangapo, the most popular drink was called the Knox on the Rocks. Investigation found that there were no charts for the area out in the chart room, nor had the charts for that area been updated for more than a year. As noted above, no star sightings had been taken, and with no cognizance that land might be anywhere in the vicinity, any radar sightings would have just been discounted. As we approached, our sonar was telling us that there were coral heads all around, so that we stopped at least 1500 yards short of the grounding site.\nA major rescue effort followed, with the objective to get the Knox off the reef and get her repaired. Several weeks later, we had heard that some of the proposed methods of getting her off included filling her with Ping-Pong balls, among others. Finally we saw the message traffic saying that the consultants had settled on filling her spaces that were open to the sea with plastic foam to float her off. That in fact is how she was removed from the rocks, and was towed in to Kao Hsiung , Taiwan where the Ship Repair Facility plated over the damaged skin so she could be taken to Yokosuka , where she was rebuilt. The Japanese sent crews below decks with ice picks and chisels to gouge out the foam, then found that her wiring and much of the piping needed to be replaced. After about three years, I read in a journal that she had been rebuilt to the extent that she was in better shape than any of her contemporaries, and served throughout the remainder of the action in the Vietnam War.\nThe story as told in Navy Archives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 6557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bookfangirling.blogspot.com/2016/07/waiting-on-wednesday-whats-girl-gotta.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:10Z", "digest": "sha1:T6FWCMKWOOYSKKOG77RXKX72IL65BZYU", "length": 1764, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bookfangirling.blogspot.com", "title": "BookFangirling: Waiting on Wednesday: What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne", "raw_content": "Waiting on Wednesday: What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne\nWaiting on Wednesday is a weekly spot hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine and is meant to showcase the books that a blogger is anticipating in the next couple of months. Today I'm going to be talking about What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne.\nTitle: What's a Girl Gotta Do?\nGenre: Contemporary/Feminist YA\nLottie is starting a supersonic feminist experiment. For one month she's going to call out every instance of sexism she sees. But when her project hits the headlines, the trolls come out to play - and they are VICIOUS. Lottie's not a quitter, but best friends Evie and Amber are worried. What if Lottie's heading for burnout...or worse?\nHolly Bourne is one of my favourite YA authors, hands down. She is the Queen of contemporary feminist literature for young people, and she manages to write important issues in her humorous writing style, which always keeps you entertained.\nThis is another instalment in The Normal Series or as Holly calls it, The Spinster Club. This book is in the point of view of Lottie, who is taking being a spinster to the extreme, and is trying to destroy the presence of sexism. I have no doubt that this is going to be a hilarious novel and I can't wait to see where the story goes.\nI'm excited for this book because I've read Holly's books before and I really enjoy the Normal series.\nHas anyone else read any of Holly's novels before?\nAre you excited for this new release?\nOh, you won't be disappointed. I won a proof copy on goodreads and it lives up to expectation - Lottie does indeed take feminism to the extreme. I won't say anything else for now, except Will. I want a Will. And an Oli. Oh, Oli. He and Evie are so cute. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bookreviewsbydi.blogspot.com/2016/11/blogger-babble-researching-your-writing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:M3UCIVARDRKFHBNN376LVXQ35UMRCD6B", "length": 7500, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "bookreviewsbydi.blogspot.com", "title": "Blogger Babble: Researching your Writing - A Guest Post by Andrew Joyce", "raw_content": "Blogger Babble: Researching your Writing - A Guest Post by Andrew Joyce\nMy name is Andrew Joyce and I write books for a living. I would like to thank Diana for allowing me to be here today to promote my latest, Yellow Hair, which documents the injustices done to the Sioux Nation from their first treaty with the United States in 1805 through Wounded Knee in 1890. Every death, murder, battle, and outrage I write about actually took place. The historical figures that play a role in my fact-based tale of fiction were real people and I use their real names. Yellow Hair is an epic tale of adventure, family, love, and hate that spans most of the 19th century.\nThrough no fault of his own, a young man is thrust into a new culture just at the time that culture is undergoing massive changes. It is losing its identity, its lands, and its dignity. He not only adapts, he perseveres and, over time, becomes a leader\u2014and on occasion, the hand of vengeance against those who would destroy his adopted people.\nBarnes & Noble Smashwords\niTunes Andrewjoyce.com\nNow that the commercial is out of the way, we can get down to what I really came here to talk about: the research that goes into writing an historical novel or an action/adventure novel that uses an historical event as a backdrop.\nI want to say that I learned the hard way how important proper research is. But it wasn\u2019t really that hard of a lesson. In my first book, which takes place in the last half of the 19th century, I made two mistakes. I had the date of an event off by one year and I had my hero loading the wrong caliber cartridge into his Winchester rifle. I would have gone blissfully throughout life not knowing how I had erred if not for my astute fans. Both mistakes were quickly pointed out to me in reviews of the book. One guy said he would have given me five stars if not for the wrong caliber bullet mistake. I had to settle for only four stars. Lesson learned!\nBefore I get into telling you about the year-long research I did for Yellow Hair, I\u2019d like to tell you how I researched my second and third books and describe what that research entailed.\nMy second book was a western and the protagonist was a woman. The research took about three months. I had to know everything from women\u2019s undergarments of the late 19th century to prison conditions for women in those days. (I sent my heroine to jail.) That kind of research was easy. Thank God for the internet. But then I had to do some real research. Molly (my protagonist) built up her cattle ranch to one of the largest in Montana, but she and her neighbors had nowhere to sell their beef. So Molly decided to drive her and her neighbors\u2019 cattle to Abilene where she could get a good price. She put together the second largest herd on record (12,000 head) and took off for Abilene.\nThat\u2019s when I had to really go to work. I wanted my readers to taste the dust on the trail. I wanted them to feel the cold water at river crossing. I wanted them to know about the dangers of the trail, from rustlers to Indians to cattle stampedes.\nThis is how I learned about all those things and more. First of all, I found old movies that were authentic in nature. I watched them to get a feel for the trail. Then I read books by great authors who had written about cattle drives to soak up even more of the atmosphere of a cattle drive. That was all well and good, but it still did not put me in the long days of breathing dust and being always fearful of a stampede.\nThat\u2019s when I went looking for diaries written by real cowboys while they were on the trail. After that, I found obscure self-published books written by those cowboys. Then it was onto newspaper articles written at the time about large cattle drives. That\u2019s how I had Molly herd the second largest cattle drive. I discovered that the largest was 15,000 head, driven from Texas to California in 1882.\nMy next book took place in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. Here new elements were added such as wolves and the extreme weather as adversaries. Dogsledding was also involved. I have seen snow only three times in my life and I have never dogsledded. I knew even less about wolves. I had to learn about those things. I had no idea what it was like to travel across a wilderness on a dogsled at seventy degrees below zero. I also had to acquire knowledge about the dogs themselves, especially the lead dog. I learned about all that by doing the same things I did for my second book. The old diaries were the most helpful. As to the gold rush, there was plenty of material in the form of self-published books by some of the participants. Some were never even published, but I found copies of them in the archives of universities and historical societies. Again, newspaper stories printed at the time were very useful. Concerning wolves . . . I read everything I could get my hands on about wolves\u2014their habits, the pack hierarchy, the alpha male, and the different jobs or tasks the males and females have while hunting.\nNow we come to Yellow Hair. As I mentioned above, the book is about the Sioux Nation from 1805 to 1890. I had to know both points of view, the white man\u2019s and the Sioux\u2019s. Getting to know the whites\u2019 take on things was easy. There are many, many books (non-fiction) that were written at the time. I even found a book written by Custer detailing his strategy for wiping out the Sioux entirely. That was hard reading. And, again, there were universities and historical societies whose archives were a great help.\nAs to the Sioux\u2019s point of view, there are a few books that were dictated to newspapermen years later by the Indians that took part in the various battles that I weave into my story. I found a lot of material from Native American participants of the Little Big Horn, written twenty to thirty years after the fact.\nBut I wanted to immerse myself in the Sioux culture and I wanted to give them dignity by using their language wherever possible. I also wanted to introduce them by their Sioux names. So, I had to learn the Lakota language. And that wasn\u2019t easy. There is a consortium that will teach you, but they wanted only serious students. You have to know a smattering of the language before they will even deign to let you in. I had to take a test to prove that I knew some Lakota. I failed the first time and had to go back to my Lakota dictionary and do some more studying. I got in on my second try.\nI\u2019m running out of space, so I reckon I\u2019ll wrap it up. I hope I\u2019ve given you a little insight into the research process. It\u2019s time-consuming and sometimes frustrating. But it is also a blast. Every new discovery is like finding the motherlode.\nI\u2019d like to sign off with another commercial. The three books I alluded to above are:\n\u2022 Redemption: The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer\n\u2022 Molly Lee\n\u2022 Resolution: Huck Finn\u2019s Greatest Adventure\nI would like to thank Diana once again for having me over and you good folks for tuning in.\nYellow Hair Excerpt:\nBig Jim sat straight and proud as he inspected the four columns, making sure they were evenly spaced. After nodding his head in approval, he raised his right arm, and in a forward, arching motion he said, \u201cFollow me.\u201d With that one action and those two simple words, Jim Cody\u2019s infamous train that departed in the spring of 1850 from Westport, Missouri, and travelled into legend, started west, putting into play events that culminated in the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 10557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://briefnews.eu/a-new-black-ops-4-edition-includes-only-multiplayer-and-blackout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BDOB7BICXRWHSTY3D33L3L4IJDWSIKEV", "length": 739, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "briefnews.eu", "title": "A new 'Black Ops 4' edition includes only multiplayer and Blackout | Brief News", "raw_content": "Activision is trying something a little different with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4: It\u2019s selling a $ 30 version that drops the Zombies mode, and only includes standard multiplayer and the popular battle royale mode, Blackout. Bad luck if you\u2019re a console player, though \u2014 the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Battle Edition is PC-only for the time being.\nThis version is compatible with the full game, so if your friends already picked up Black Ops 4, you\u2019ll be able to jump into a Blackout squad with them. If you\u2019re interested, it\u2019s probably worth picking up this version soon, as the price will jump to $ 40 on January 6th. 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This is located on the River road that runs from the expressway now under construction east of Yaphank across to the Farm-to-Market road in Mastic. This is a very old road that was opened in the early years of the settlement of Brookhaven town, and ran to the center at South Haven where the grist mill, Presbyterian church, and Carman's tavern and store were located. Boats came up the Carman's river from the Great South Bay to Carman's store for supplies of all kinds, and one of the popular items sold in his store was molasses, which was used in making rum.\nThe River road has been widened and improved with many houses located on it but the old railroad bridge still stands, and is only wide enough for a car to pass through, with little room to spare. Now that the road has a connection with the expressway it will no doubt be torn down and a more suitable bridge erected, and so progress marches on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2349, "original_length": 57969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business.basaltchamber.org/events/details/foreign-film-night-03-27-2019-20416", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7WZDLHY6DMBJPFVFNM47I7V64CWSKIVG", "length": 429, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "business.basaltchamber.org", "title": "Foreign Film Night - Mar 27, 2019 - Events - Basalt Chamber", "raw_content": "Name: Foreign Film Night\nSet in a remote Turkish village, and inspired by events of the director's childhood, the highly acclaimed \"Mustang\" depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up as girls in a conservative society. \"Mustang\" was the debut film of Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Erg\u00fcven, and was France's submission to the 2016 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 78.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://butler-harris.org/archives/173", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:25Z", "digest": "sha1:R3M7R57I7ZHQ5QFHLX7ENPGOOSYOIIFQ", "length": 17359, "nlines": 119, "source_domain": "butler-harris.org", "title": "Basics of Christian Just War Theory | After Thought", "raw_content": "In the comments section to a previous post, somebody asked if\u00c2 there are any studies on just war theory (JWT) that the hosts of this site recommend. I give some references at the end, but will also take this opportunity to remind everyone about the principles of just war.\nBasic Principles of Christian Just War\n(1) The cause and intention of a war must be just. The war must have limited objectives that are just in the eyes of God. This includes protecting the innocent who are threatened or restoring order in the society. Wars of conquest or wars to \u201cspread democracy\u201d are thus unjust.\n(2) In a just war there must be a right to intervene with violence.\n(3) There must be a declaration of war by lawful authorities.\n(4) In a just war, war is the last resort. Even if a nation has a just cause and a right to intervene, it must not engage in warfare unless it is the last resort. An appeal must first be made to right before recourse is made to might.\n(5) A war is just only if it is entered into with a probability of success. Not all just causes can be successfully prosecuted. It is unjust to ask for vain sacrifice.\n(6) A just war is one where the cost that is to be incurred is not thought to be a greater evil than that which is to be remedied.\n(7) The means of a just war must be both discriminative and proportional. Total war is unbiblical. A just war is one which carefully distinguishes civilians from combatants. Wars should not be needlessly destructive. The violence used must only be sufficient to restore the peace that has been destroyed by the aggressor nation.\nAdvocates of Just War Theory\nAugustine is the \u201cfather\u201d of just war theory, but his thoughts on the subject are dispersed throughout his vast corpus. Aquinas systematized them in the ST. The pertinent section is found here.\nThe Westminster Standards demand JWT, although it does not articulate the details (see WCF 23:2 and WLC Q. 136). Almost all Reformed theologians have advocated JWT, which invariably amounts to defensive war. If there are exceptions, I am ignorant of them.\nCalvin: Institutes, book 4, sections 11 and 12.\nTurretin: Institutes, Topic 11, Question 17.\nDabney: Lectures in Systematic Theology, Lecture 33, Question 7.\nCharles Hodge: Systematic Theology, Part 3, Chapter 19, Section 10.\nJohn Murray: Principles of Conduct, pp. 178-9.\nGreg Bahnsen did a nice series on JWT called \u201cA Christian View of War,\u201d available from Covenant Media Foundation.\nThis entry was posted in Biblical, Ethics, Theology by MRB. Bookmark the permalink.\n19 thoughts on \u201cBasics of Christian Just War Theory\u201d\nTurretinFan on February 5, 2007 at 4:38 pm said:\nThank you for your succinct explanation!\nElizaF on February 5, 2007 at 8:07 pm said:\nI think #2 needs further elucidation. As it stands it is a tautology (just and right are synonymous). I think the second point has better been stated as possessing \u201cright intention\u201d, i.e, not for self-interest or aggrandizement. But there are problems in sorting this out. To quote,\u201dAt what point does right intention separate itself from self-interest? On the one hand, if the only method to secure peace is to annex a belligerent neighbor\u2019s territory, political aggrandizement is intimately connected with the proper intention of maintaining the peace. On the other hand, a nation may possess just cause to defend an oppressed group, and may rightly argue that the proper intention is to secure their freedom, yet such a war may justly be deemed too expensive or too difficult to wage; i.e., it is not ultimately in their self-interest to fight the just war.\u201d Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.\nI think each point must be weighed and balanced against the others. I think it is easiest to see that, apart from national Israel in the O.T., just war theory rests on the right to self-defense as a notable exception to the 6th commandment, thou shalt not kill.\nM.A.B. on February 5, 2007 at 8:09 pm said:\nI like the header subtitle\nJimmy Li on February 5, 2007 at 8:37 pm said:\nIs there any war that Turretfan or you see as fitting this criteria that you can say is justified?\nJC on February 5, 2007 at 9:52 pm said:\n\u201cThe cause and intention of a war must be just. The war must have limited objections and objectives that are just in the eyes of God.\u201d\n1. How is the intent of Congress to be determined?\n2. By whom or by what is \u201climited\u201d to be determined?\n[Preface to Question 3: I think the religion of Islam is inspired by Satan.]\n3. Does not this phraseology justify, in their own eyes, the efforts of Islamofascists?\nThanks M.A.B. for the heads-up.\nJosh on February 5, 2007 at 10:54 pm said:\n\u201cAlmost all Reformed theologians have advocated JWT, which invariably amounts to defensive war.\u201d\nMr. Butler \u2013 great topic and article. Considering the quote above, would you affirm (like Bahnsen) that a just war must be defensive? I would myself but I didn\u2019t see this explicitly stated above.\nTurretinFan on February 6, 2007 at 9:47 am said:\nJimmy Li,\nWhether any recent wars are \u201cjust\u201d under the seven-part test above is a great question.\nI\u2019m not ready to give a full answer yet. In part that is because I am still in the process of rethinking my own view of JWT in view of MRB\u2019s systematic post. In part that is because I haven\u2019t yet fully convinced myself that all seven points are correct. And in part that is because there are so many wars to pick.\nAs to the current unpleasantness in the Gulf region, at least arguably:\n(3) is met \u2013 Congress did kind of declare war (although I think strict Constitutionalists would be troubled by HOW they did so);\n(5) is met \u2013 We did destroy the regime we set out to destroy, and we knew we would do so quickly and relatively easily;\n(6) is met \u2013 at least if Bush is the one who gets to weigh the costs vs. evil (i.e. if he is the \u201cthinker\u201d in item (6); and\n(7) is met \u2013 the war falls far short of total war, and the military forces generally limit their action (under threat of court martial) to proportional means.\nI suspect that the authors/owners of First Word would take the position that 1, 2, and 4 are not met. Perhaps they would also dispute some of the items I list as arguable above.\nThere are certainly some who would take the view that 1 and 2 are met (though that would be much more hotly debated here, I suspect).\nI doubt anyone but the most sycophantic supporter of Bush would say that (4) was literally met.\nPDorr on February 6, 2007 at 11:17 am said:\nIf Reformed Christians believe there was a just cause for our aggressive invasion of Iraq, then I have just one question. Which nation before the courts of God, deserves more so to be judged by invasion of a foreign military power, occupied by same and then the invaders attempt to establish a new government (in their image) by force in this land of their conquest? Should it be the one with a single ruler who is alleged to have tyrannized and murdered 10,000 of his citizens? Or should it be the aggressor nation where 30% of their very people are willing to bloody murder their own pre-born children while the rest of the population effectively stands idly by doing nothing and all the while their citizenry-elected government legalizes/encourages/funds this slaughter \u2013 totaling 50 million children?\nIf such a weak standard justifies our action in Iraq then where are the invaders getting prepared to invade us, with evangelical cheerleaders and all?\nThe functional antinomianism alive in the Reformed and broader evangelical world, coupled with the positive financial sanctions bestowed upon the church by this same murderous govt., thrown in with a dash of personal cowardice and spiced with a tad of self-delusion \u2013 makes it all interesting sport to consider some speck in Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye, while we ignore the Redwoods in our own. A bit of honest reflection and humility would require us not to be involved with any such invasion. I often wonder how much the ongoing evangelical support of Iraq really serves as an distraction from our own massive national crimes (where abortion and perversion are just the beginning) and a delusion for us to play at public \u00e2\u20ac\u0153righteousness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\nPDorr,\n* Do you think that those Reformed Christians who view the war as just think that it was just because they think that America is sinless?\n* Do you think that those Reformed Christians who view the war as just think that America is not ripe for judgment from God for its sins?\n* If America were as righteous as humanly possible, would that change your outlook on the war?\nI think the answer to each of those questions is \u201cno.\u201d But, to be frank, I have not seen any Reformed apology (defense) for the war. So perhaps this is all academic.\nMRB on February 6, 2007 at 2:01 pm said:\nEliza \u2013 Yes, each point needs elaboration. My aim was to give the theory in skeletal form. And, yes, JWT is in many ways an extension of the right to self-defense.\nM.A.B. \u2013 I\u2019m not sure what subtitle you are referring to, but I fear it was the typo in the original.\nJimmy Li \u2013 Two, maybe three, just wars have been waged by American governments since 1776. The First War for Independence, of course, the War of 1812 (perhaps), and the Second War for Independence. One of the many evil consequences of losing the last one on the list has been a history of imperialist crusade-type wars.\nA declaration of war is what the Constitution says. That\u2019s good enough for me.\n2. \u201cBy whom or by what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153limited\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to be determined?\u201d\nThe law of God, of course. Deuteronomy 20 is the best place to start. Remember, though, that we must discern the general principles of this text from the particular ones.\nI will accept your preface and add that every other non-Christian religion is inspired by Satan, with Judaism being the example par excellence. Agreed?\n(1) The term, \u201cIslamofascist\u201d lacks coherent meaning.\n(2) I\u2019m not familiar enough with Islamic ethics to answer this question. I do know that they have some theory about just war. And while I am sure it would turn out to be deficient, I am also sure that it is not the absurd caricature painted by neo-con war-mongers\nJosh \u2013 Yes, a just war is a defensive war.\nTF \u2013 The current wars fail on all counts with the possible exception of (5). I say possibly (5) not because of the definition of success de jour (how many have there been? I\u2019ve lost count), but because the real terms of success are U.S.-British-Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, control of the oil reserves, preservation of the U.S. petrodollar, division of Iraq into three weak states, and control of central Asia which the Cryptocracy views as the center of the global game board. On these terms, one can argue that the wars have been a great success.\nPDorr:\nJimmy Li on February 7, 2007 at 4:47 am said:\nThank you Michael for answering\nI\u2019m going to chew on this, I don\u2019t want to aggregate all over the internet world misguided and not well thought out opinions\nObviously you have only billed this as \u201cthe Basics.\u201d Nevertheless, I have an enhancement proposal, should you consider racheting the article up to the next notch.\nI notice that in the comments on another post, you describe some proposals for remedying an unjust war.\nClearly you\u2019ve given some thought to how we should go about remedying what you very strongly believe is an unjust war.\nA complete theory of just war would, I submit also include a \u201cremedies,\u201d section. It appears that your proposed remedies are designed to equate to restitution.\nPerhaps, for this \u201cbasics\u201d level discussion, a single concept:\nB) A nation that engages in unjust war against another nation should restore the offended-against nation as nearly as possible to its original condition.\nmight be fitting as an addition to the prohibition in what would be (A) (i.e.(1)-(7)). That, of course, assumes that your intent was to apply a principle of restoration and not to try to parallel the punishments meted out to Germany by the nations that defeated it.\nTF \u2013\nRestoration is indeed necessary when a crime has been committed. I don\u2019t think this needs to be included in our theory of just war, though.\nAnd, yes, it is restoration. My proposals are not at all meant to be a Versailles-style reprisal for real or perceived wrongs.\nDear MRB,\nPerhaps you have thought this through better than I have. My rationale for suggesting identification of the appropriate remedies for unjust war is because not all crimes are treated the same in the Law.\nCrimes of murder, rape, and kidnapping (at least two \u2013 and quite often all three \u2013 of which arguably happen in most unjust wars) are properly remedied by death of the criminal, not restitution/restoration.\nCrimes of mayhem (also virtually always occuring in an unjust war) are remedied by corresponding retribution.\nIt seems to be that only crimes of theft, willful negligence are remedied by restitution (which is not simple restoration).\nAssuming there is such a thing as an unjust war \u2013 the two subsequent questions are:\n* is an unjust war also a crime?\n* what is the appropriate remedy for the crime?\nYou seem to view unjust war as analogous \u2013 at least for remedial purposes \u2013 to theft. It certainly seems to be an important question to me, but perhaps you have a more thoughtful (than my own) reason for excluding discussion of remedies from the basics.\nWould you also exclude the discussion of remedies from a more complete discussion of unjust war theory?\nPDorr on February 7, 2007 at 7:46 pm said:\nTurretinFan:\nNo, but that distracts from the point. If their often myopic application of Just War principle re: Iraq was applied to this country with equal vigor, then they should be calling out from the public square for some nation more righteous than us to invade us. We, as a once Christian nation (as defined by our previous public laws and treaties), are more culpable then a Muslim nation as well. Again, I think they enjoy the sport and the distraction it provides.\nIf they do think we are ripe for judgment then again, why aren\u2019t they applying their view of \u201cjust\u201d war to ourselves and openly calling for some foreign power to invade us and put a stop to the mass murder of the children of this country? After all, in early 2003 we were told of those Iraqis crying out for our help and that they\u2019d be cheering us in the streets when we arrived. I\u2019m waiting to greet in the streets the invading army which comes to shut down the mass murder of America\u2019s children. Meanwhile, with all generation IV tactical war issues aside, we\u2019d do good to consider if the consequences of Achan\u2019s sin (Joshua 7) may be what we are seeing applied in our day to the grinding halt of our \u201cmighty\u201d military in Iraq. By public law, we have far too many accursed things among us.\nIf America were as \u201crighteous as humanly possible\u201d there wouldn\u2019t be this war in Iraq.\nI think the answer to each of those questions is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\nBut, to be frank, I have not seen any Reformed apology (defense) for the war. So perhaps this is all academic.\nNot academic at all. Real continental and presbyterian reformed young men are joining up and going off to this unjust war with the consent of their fathers and elders. These young men are seen as those coming from a nation whose foreign policy has for decades created, funded and aggravated these tinderboxes.\nPDorr\nTim H on February 8, 2007 at 3:04 pm said:\nI think it follows from these principles that the US policy (since U.S. Grant) of \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d is evil.\nMitchellUnltraViolet on November 8, 2007 at 7:23 am said:\n\u201cBasics of Christian Just War Theory.\u201d\nIt is most interesting to see the use of the term: \u201cChristian Just War Theory.\u201d\nOn what basis are the above principles reckoned \u201cChristian\u201d?\nSince \u2018Christian\u2019 necessitates/presumes the presence or will of Christ, I am wondering to which of Christ\u2019s teaching/s the JWT conforms?\nFor my recollection of Jesus\u2019 teachings disappoints handsomely: not once did I read where He declared war; of any human fabrication.\nJesus\u2019 presence on earth was a sign of spiritual warfare. His presence among us thus sounded the death knell for satan, which soundly indicates to me that His (Jesus\u2019) war was one of spiritual proportions, with scope and implications far exceeding mortal affairs and the realm in which war, (as humans understand it), is fought by humans.\nThus, Jesus\u2019 coming can be interpreted as an initiating pulse to actively engage in spiritual warfare. This war is not fought with weapons fashioned by human pride and arrogance. Rather, as Paul says, \u201c3For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.\u201d (2 Corinthians 10:3,4). AND~\n\u201c\u2026with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left.\u201d (2 Corinthians 6:7).\nThen perhaps it can be fathomed that the only Christian just war is one that is spiritual? Since it is the only one supported by orthodox (ie., universally applicable/universally perceived) Christian doctrine.\nMitchell (#18) \u2014 We could go one of two directions here: a detailed exegesis of the specific passages you mention; or unpacking the hermeneutical frameworks that separate us.\nI suggest the latter is the key difference between us. \u201cChristian\u201d for you means \u201cthe presence or will of Christ\u201d qua Jesus\u2019 words, or at most the NT; whereas for us, the will of Christ is revealed in all of Scripture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 19070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://butler-harris.org/archives/371", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UE6HUI7DY6EZIGI6J7AGYKHW4AA2M6UF", "length": 8024, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "butler-harris.org", "title": "The \u201chuman life amendment\u201d | After Thought", "raw_content": "There is a lot of discussion in conservative circles of candidates\u2019 position on abortion. This is in keeping with the two-front strategy conservatives have adopted over the last thirty-five years, since the odious 1973 \u201cRoe v Wade\u201d decision (which has been accepted by all major players in the debate as de jure forbidding states to regard abortion as criminal). The two prongs are (1) attempting to amend the Constitution, and (2) attempting to pack the court with men that would rule the right way. Both of these fronts have failed. The Christian Right, including the Reformed Incrementalists, still think we must vote Republican in order to accomplish (2). And the Republican Party dutifully put advocacy of (1) into its platform again this year. That nobody except the politicos that influence the writing of them reads or discusses Party Platforms any more is perhaps a reason the GOP sees no problem with sticking such a plank into its back-stage scaffolding.\nBoth of these tactics fail to realize the true nature of the problem. Indeed, success in either one would actually ensure long-term failure. In this post I will explain the problem with (1), the \u201chuman life amendment.\u201d There are two reasons why this is misdirected.\n1. Criminal law dealing with \u201cordinary\u201d crimes such as theft and murder have always been the original jurisdiction of states. That the Burger Court was willing to interfere in this was not so much unconstitutional as a-constitutional. Of course, the Tenth Amendment makes clear that that which is a-constitutional is, for the National Government, eo ipso unconstitutional; but it is important to get the logical order right. By passing a \u201chuman life\u201d amendment, conservatives would actually be ratifying this usurpation. The Constitution would then be put into a form such that the Supremes would no longer be a-constitutional. We would play right into their hands. The principle that the National Government has jurisdiction over ordinary criminal law would be written, not just usurped. Instead, the response should have been along the lines that I will outline in a future post.\n2. The amendment-solution assumes that the \u201cproblem\u201d is an inherent ambiguity in language which can be corrected by cleaning up the language. As if the hands of the justices were tied by some difficulty of the text; they had no choice but to rule one way or the other; we can help them by putting in more explicit words.\nBut this is clearly not the problem. For nearly two centuries, intelligent men of both the Right and Left had read the Constitution, and no one had discerned the slightest hint that states would be prohibited, as a condition for joining the American union, from outlawing abortion.\nThe Burger Court did not emerge from a vacuum. It emerged in continuity with the Warren Court, which was a not unimportant player in the American revolution of the 1960\u2019s. The problem was not running astray here and there in a laudable attempt to find the \u201cdeeper meaning\u201d of the words of the contract between States known as the U. S. Constitution. Instead, the problem is that they are not tethered to the meaning of words at all. They will find a way to parse any words whatsoever such as to support their agenda. This can be illustrated more clearly by reference to the other major problem today directly involved with morality, homosexual \u201cmarriage.\u201d\nSuppose the \u201cmarriage amendment\u201d were to be ratified. Would this slow down the juggernaut of the left for homosexual marriage?\nOf course not. By saying, \u201cmarriage is between one man and one woman,\u201d we would be trying to define a concept which is primary. That\u2019s what marriage is; if you have to define it, you have already lost the battle.\n\u201cWhat is a man really, and what is a woman, really?\u201d would be the question. The passive party in the homosexual relationship would simply be defined as the legal \u201cwoman.\u201d \u201cAfter all, surely you are not saying that biology is destiny. The existentialists already exploded that notion. You reactionaries are really throwbacks to the Middle Ages.\u201d\nOur naive conservatives would, I suppose, respond to Clinton\u2019s \u201cit depends on what the meaning of \u2018is\u2019 is\u201d by suggesting an amendment to define the meaning of \u201cis.\u201d\nHow can you do that without using the word?\nWhen the discussion reaches this level, the game is over.\nThe very existence and function of a Constitution only makes sense when you have Christian gentlemen, or gentlemen willing to think and act as if they were Christians, that presuppose a vast domain of fixed meaning, in terms of which an arrangement distributing jurisdiction can be refined and spelled out.\nThe actions of the Supremes have shown that this is not the case any more. It is over.\nWhen you are dealing with a liar that holds the bigger gun, a written document is completely useless.\nAt this point, you can either acquiesce as slave, whereby the establishment parties can give or take whatever they want, or you can take up arms. The one thing you can no longer do is argue about semantics. The \u201cwritten document\u201d is no longer in play at all. A written document only makes sense to argue over if everyone is basically honest and using language the same way, and intends to stick by his word.\nAn amendment to the Constitution misdiagnoses what the problem was. The other prong of the attack is to think that by getting \u201cgood men\u201d on the Court, we can recover what was lost. Exploding that idea will be the burden of my next post on this subject.\nThis entry was posted in Ethics, Politics by TJH. Bookmark the permalink.\n3 thoughts on \u201cThe \u201chuman life amendment\u201d\u201d\nzoidb on October 21, 2008 at 8:21 pm said:\nIt has always been my understanding that the 14th amendment has been responsible for keeping the states in check and more specifically responsible for incorporating the bill of rights. Wouldn\u2019t this be noteworthy event in the two century span of constitutional analysis?\nI\u2019ve had conversations with those who are pretty adamant about states-rights but at the same time support a constitutional marriage amendment. The argument typically has been that there is fear that the defense of marriage act may be ruled unconstitutional by the liberal courts. enacting an amendment serves as a defensive maneuver against that possibility.\nPDorr on October 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm said:\nNeo-cons Michael Farris, Gary Bauer and a host of other \u201cpro-family\u201d folks have wastefully advocated this national strategy under the \u201cprotections\u201d of the 14th Amd., the entire time legitimizing the Fed\u2019s usurpations in their vain Babel tower-building. After all, 14th Amd. drafter John Bingham himself, at the time wrote, \u201c\u2026the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen\u2026is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect.\u201d\nThe church today, would be better suited to teaching Christ-honoring resistance, under lesser magistrates, to such re-definitional tyranny. I.e. Elect a county Sheriff who refuses to execute a court order to evict a Christian widow whose duplex the court \u201ctook\u201d from her for refusing to rent the other unit to a homosexual \u201cmarried\u201d couple. Encourage the same Sheriff to organize a local volunteer deputy defense force to protect his office, if the Feds decide to execute a middle of the night arrest warrant of the Sheriff himself.\nWhen a reformed Christian Sheriff organized such (a 400 man volunteer deputy force\u2026.complete with an oath of the office in submission to the Trinitarian God of the Bible waiting in the wings) in Sioux County, IA in 1998-99 it made the front page of the Wall Street Journal.\nThere is so much more important things the Church could be doing at the local level, than joining in the Fed\u2019s usurpation of God\u2019s Law and of local government.\nI understand the terms \u201cbride\u201d and \u201cgroom\u201d are allowed again in San Francisco, albeit you may have a bride-bride couple or a groom-groom couple. Which proves your point about now we\u2019ll have to define what\u2019s a man and what\u2019s a woman\u2026Sad but true.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 9115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buymovieclassics.com/Inherit-The-Wind-p1264.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QWL2L22XM6QBWX3NXTZA7MKRIOOMZJFN", "length": 1087, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "buymovieclassics.com", "title": "Inherit The Wind :: Other Classics :: Movies :: Movie Classics, LLC", "raw_content": "Inherit The Wind #CFVVHS0002\nThe movie, Inherit The Wind, is explosive courtroom drama at its best. The story focuses on a small Tennessee town that gained national attention in 1925 when a Biology school teacher was arrested for violating state law by teaching Darwin's theory of Evolution in the classroom. The infamous \"Monkey Trial\" that followed is the basis for this film. The plot centers on a spirited defense attorney who is retained by a Baltimore newspaper man to represent the accussed teacher. On the other side of the aisle is a prosecutor who faithfully stands behind the Bible and its literal translations of Creation. While the teacher's students, his girl freind and a handful of others support the teacher, the rest of the town are aginst him and conduct protest marches to further their views. In the end, the explosive battle between science and fundamental religion is closely examined in this taut, dramatic film masterpiece. Starring Spnecer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly among others. Full screen in black and white. Released in 1960. Runtime 127 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bwic-ldv.tripod.com/myths.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CR5LXF3XACJIWZU5G2DHMJ7UA3FE7FE4", "length": 1472, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bwic-ldv.tripod.com", "title": "Myths vs Reality on Lesbian Domestic Violence", "raw_content": "Abuse/battering that occurs in lesbian battering is mutual.\nMutual abuse, in contrast to battering, holds that both people in the battering relationship are equally responsible. Often this belief is maintained by the heterosexual community. The fact is that mutual battering in lesbian relationships is rare. A consensus fight is not going on. Many victims fight back in an attempt to defend themselves.\nLesbian and gay domestic violence is a sexual behavior, a form of S&M.\nThis myth portrays people that not only like, but also agree to, the violent behavior. Domestic violence is NOT a sexual behavior. It is abuse, manipulation, and control that is unwanted by the victim.\nDomestic violence primarily occurs among lesbians who hang out at bars, are poor, or are people of color.\nPeople assume that the butch in the relationship tends to be the abuser.\nIn the lesbian community, a woman who tends to be on the masculine side is commonly referred to as \"butch,\" while a woman who tends to fill the more traditional female role is referred to as \"femme.\" This sexism and stereotype often deters victims from coming forward to ask for help.\nPeople consistently place responsibility for violence and abuse on the perpetrator.\nIn reality, many people blame the victim of domestic violence without realizing it. They expect the victim to stop the violence and leave that situation, not understanding their reasons for not leaving.\nTaken from Allison's Domestic Violence page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bxbgames.co.uk/index.php/tag/sony/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GW6PMURF23J7B5UQZIYLYVLBI3CU47BZ", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bxbgames.co.uk", "title": "Sony \u2013 BXBGAMES", "raw_content": "Hello guys and welcome to the fifth re-cap post for all the relevant announcements that have just happened at E3. The fifth and final conference and the third of day 1 was Playstation\u2019s and it offered what was arguably the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cambridgenow.ca/blps/article.cfm?weblog=91&page=221", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ZC6I4D4477EG227DDDWUTRES57YVWVB2", "length": 3845, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "cambridgenow.ca", "title": "CPP Disability Appeal Changes and Bill C-38 by Dietrich Law - Personal Injury & Disability Law Blog - Cambridge Ontario Disability Law Blogs on Cambridge Now - Page 221", "raw_content": "With the new appeal process for CPP Disability Claims coming into effect on April 1st, 2013, it becomes even more important to properly prepare for a CPP Review if you have been denied CPP Disability Benefits.\nThe Previous CPP Disability Benefits Appeal Process\nUnder the system which was in place until March 31, 2013, when you have been denied benefits, you could apply for reconsideration of the denied decision. If that denial was upheld on reconsideration, you once again had the right to appeal to the Review Tribunal. This Review Tribunal included a three person panel of experts who would review your case in person and then issue a decision. These experts included a health professional and a lawyer.\nIf the decision of the Review Tribunal was not satisfactory, a further appeal could be made to the Pension Appeals Board which was overseen by Superior Court Judges. If the request for an appeal was granted, a hearing would be scheduled. This hearing was considered a \"hearing de novo\" which required that the Judges hear all of the evidence as new evidence.\nThe Implications of the New Bill for CPP Disability Claims\nUnder Bill C-38, the Federal Government's New Omnibus Bill, the changes to the appeal process for CPP Benefits claims are significant. After April1st, appeals will be heard by the new Social Security Tribunal which will consist of a General Division and an Appeal Division. As the name suggests, the Appeal Division will hear appeals from the General Division.\nThe changes with the new Bill become critical, as if your case is dismissed by the Social Security Tribunal, as a summary dismissal, you are denied the right to appeal to the General Division. This summary dismissal takes place without a hearing, if the SST determines that your case 'has no reasonable chance of success'.\nIf your case moves on to the General Division, it is heard by a single adjudicator. Based upon the information which is currently available, it appears that this adjudicator may have no background in either the legal or medical field. This person will have access to, but is not required to use, legal and health professionals, to review your case.\nAnother key influence on your outcome may arise as this hearing does not need to be heard in person. The new review process allows this review to be done using a question and answer format which may take place in writing, by teleconference or in person. In many cases, a hearing in person provides the best opportunity to discuss our case and to ensure that the appropriate evidence is heard. For those coming from a distance though, the written or teleconference option removes some of the barriers to making an appeal.\nIf your appeal moves on to the Appeals Division, and there are limited grounds on which this may happen, the level of expertise is different than under the previous system. Under the new system, it is no longer required that the members of the Appeal Division are Judges or former Judges.\nThere is no 'hearing de novo' under the new Appeals Division, and thus it will simply be a review of the previous evidence and testimony. This process overall implies a more stringent and difficult appeal process which may not necessarily benefit the applicant. Under the new system, it is even more critical that your initial submissions must be strong and that your best case be put forward accurately from the outset. If your case is complex, it is advisable to bring on the services of a disability lawyer, who can increase the likelihood that your request for benefits will be approved.\nGetting An Expert Involved Increases Your Chances of Success\nA successful end result impacts how you live the rest of your life. A disability lawyer can help you prepare for the often stressful process and walk you through what it takes to create a successful submission to the SST.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 8027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://camelotcleaners.net/index.php/kindle/50-ways-to-say-youre-awesome", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BEO7FI6SGBTJEUFBPKGE46ROYTDIQGDQ", "length": 6590, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "camelotcleaners.net", "title": "50 Ways to Say You're Awesome by Alexandra Franzen - Database Error Library", "raw_content": "50 Ways to Say You're Awesome by Alexandra Franzen\nBy Alexandra Franzen\nThe little e-book that is (really) an immense reminder to claim \"thank you\" ... to the folk who make your lifestyles vastly AWESOME.\nWith full-color paintings and designated messages, this present ebook comprises 50 new how one can say \"I love you,\" \"I savor you\" and \"you amaze me.''\nprovide the complete e-book to anyone you like - or tear out every one perforated web page, upload a customized observe at the again and use it 50 instances over.\nyou are going to by no means ask yourself tips on how to say \"thank you\" again!\nBland compliment? now not the following. you will find full of life wordplay & unforgettable compliments, including:\n- \"BOOM! Brilliance moves again.\"\n- \"I are looking to clone you for nefarious purposes.\"\n- \"You're a miracle machine.\"\n- \"Your genius will be alarming, if it wasn't so darn consistent.\"\n- \"Welcome to Awesometown, united states. inhabitants: YOU.\"\neach one message is paired with a fill-in-the-blank script at the flip-side, for a customized \"thank you\" note.\nThe ebook additionally contains an inspiring advent - \"50 how you can Use This e-book\" - full of 50 easy how one can show your appreciation to the folk who make your existence greater, each day.\nGratitude adjustments every thing.\nallow your praises ring!\nRead Online or Download 50 Ways to Say You're Awesome PDF\nPossibly He's simply an Asshole is the insightful, inspirational and HILARIOUS relationship consultant ladies were awaiting. In a global the place lots of the relationship principles appear to have been written from the viewpoint of the penis, Halle Kaye and Sophie Stone exhibit girls tips on how to method courting from a place of power and leverage, now not from a spot of desperation and weak point.\nfor 3 days in January 2007,the so much e-mailed article within the big apple instances used to be \"appreciations: Mr. noodle,\" a piece of writing noting the passing, at age ninety-six, of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of speedy ramen. Ando's lifestyles got here as a surprise to many, yet to not Andy Raskin, who had spent 3 years attempting to meet the noodle pioneer.\nThe Ramen King and that i is Raskin's humorous and, from time to time, painfully sincere memoir approximately confronting the reality of his relationship life-with Ando as his religious consultant. Can speedy ramen lead one to a devoted courting? And is sushi the key to self-acceptance?\na real story of starvation in its many varieties, The Ramen King and that i is ready turning into slaves to our wants and studying to damage free.\nIs it attainable to like good with out mendacity? not less than considering that Socrates's discourse on love in Plato's Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth\u2014about ourselves and those we like. yet within the functional adventure of erotic love\u2014and might be in particular in marriage\u2014we locate that love and lies frequently paintings hand in hand, and that it can be tricky to maintain long term romantic love with no deception, either one of oneself and of others.\nDrawing on modern philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his personal own adventure, and such famed and various writers on love as Shakespeare, Stendhal, Proust, Adrienne wealthy, and Raymond Carver, Clancy Martin\u2014himself divorced two times and married 3 times\u2014explores how love, truthfulness, and deception interact in modern existence and society. He concludes that studying tips on how to love and loving good necessarily calls for mendacity, but additionally argues that the easiest love relationships draw us slowly and with hassle towards honesty and trust.\nLove and Lies is a relentlessly sincere publication in regards to the hassle of affection, that's sure to either impress and entertain.\nClever and compassionate suggestion from one of many nation's so much relied on grief counselors-to aid heal emotional wounds that linger and forestall us from prime complete and chuffed lives. Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that hasn't ever been given an opportunity to heal. This gorgeous, religious publication from one of many nation's so much depended on grief counselors deals a sequence of innovations to assist heal this ache so readers can lead complete and cheerful lives.\nMarriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles\nBeing Me, Loving You: A Practical Guide to Extraordinary Relationships\nJe T'Aime: How to Say '' I Love You '' in 100 Languages\nKissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After\nExtra resources for 50 Ways to Say You're Awesome\nBut, shucks! I forgot to renew my pilot\u00d5s license. Instead\u00c9 here\u00d5s a quick note: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your brilliance knows no bounds. indd 47 5/2/13 10:11 AM Dear: ____________________________________________________ I\u00d5m not sure how you got so AWESOME\u00d1 but I\u00d5m really glad you did.\nI appreciate the way you ____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ . And how you always ___________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ . 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Instead\u00c9 here\u00d5s a quick note: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your brilliance knows no bounds.\nDatabase Error Library > Relationships > 50 Ways to Say You're Awesome by Alexandra Franzen\nElementary Excitations In Solids: Lectures on Protons, by Pines D.\nThe Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 33.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://campings-royan-atlantique.fr/en/la-tremblade.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:7T3G2H56HMWGENM37XXMX7YG3QWDGHLB", "length": 4079, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "campings-royan-atlantique.fr", "title": "La tremblade, Ronces-les-bains near to lighthouse of la coubre in Charente maritime France", "raw_content": "La Tremblade - Ronces les Bains\nThe inhabitants are called \u201cTrembladais and Trembladaises\u201d. Since a long time this town has combined the tourist industry, fishing and oyster- farming which has been already put into practice by the gallo roman people.\nRonces-les-Bains is a classified seaside resort. It is situated in the northern part of La Tremblade and offers 15 km of beaches. Some of them are protected by the Isle of Oleron and the other ones are wild face to the ocean and next to a state forest of 6000 ha with cycle tracks and foot path. \u201cThe wild coast\u201d facing west forms a long beach which is exposed to the currents and breake waves. It is the reason why it is the \u201cMecca\u201d of surfing in this area.\nIn Ronces-les-Bains you will discover the \u201cBelle Epoque\u201d villas, the fun fair, sailing, surfing... and in La Tremblade the oyster-farming sheds along the channel, the little typical houses, the barges and the fishing-boats.\n\"Sacr\u00e9-coeur\" church is a neogothic edifice which was built in 1880 to take the place of an ancient protestant temple which was used for catholic services.\nThe steeple surmounted by an octogonal arrow was built in 1886. The church was consecrated on June 21st 1894 by his Grace Bonnefoy who was a bishop in La Rochelle. A ceremony took place for the centenary in 1994 in the presence of the bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, his Grace David. In 1999 the steeple was damaged by a storm and renovated some months later. The church takes the form of a latin cross. The nave is divided into six bays. The church windows represent scenes from the Old and New Testament. The walls are decorated with contemporary paintings. The way of cross was made by an artist whose name is Michel Genty.\nThe front is composed of a porch-steeple topped by a thin arrow according to the process at that time.\nA Statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is standing on the first floor.\nThe protestant temple was built in 1823. It looks like a vast rectangular room divided into three sections. The front is very sober in the neoclassical style. A first edifice was built in 1610 and confiscated in order to be used as a church. In 1810 the Consistory thought of a modern temple and started a fund in aid of a new building in 1820. The temple was dedicated on 24th August in 1823 for the anniversary of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew in the presence of different clergymen, the prefect, the sub-prefect, the mayor and some key figures.\nThe lighthouse in La Coubre is situated in the north of the town. It was built in 1905 according to the plans of an architect whose name was \"Alexandre\" . It looks like a red and white tower. It is 64 m high (only 4 m lower than Cordouan). The range of its electric light is about 80 km. A secondary fire (called \u201cBarbette\u201d) is situated halfway up. You can visit this lighthouse and go up the 300 steps...\nThe breaker waves and the sandbanks make sailing difficult. This lighthouse was first built 2 km far from the ocean but now it is only 250m away because of the erosion.\nThe bridge on the river \u201cSeudre\u201d was built in 1972 to make people and goods movement easier . The river was first a barrier in spite of the modern craft. So it was decided to build this bridge which is only 10 km far from oleron Bridge. They have both got some floodlights (blue and green) at night.\nThe old railway station was built in 1876. It was a meeting point for the passengers to Marennes-La Tremblade. But it was also a good way to transport the goods and particularly the oysters which could be delivered more quickly. The line is now used for the tourists : a little steam train named \"the seagulls train\" (le train des mouettes) operates a shuttle between La Tremblade and Saujon.\nIn 1944 the engineers from TODT organization started building the future Gironde battery but it was never finished. It has been registered at the historic monuments since July 24th in 2002.\nEmail: mairie@la-tremblade.com\nSite: www.la-tremblade.fr\nOffice de Tourisme de La Tremblade\nEmail: ot@la-tremblade.com\nSite: www.la-tremblade.com\nCamping Activ loisirs les pins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://campus.servicehospitality.com/Refund.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:08Z", "digest": "sha1:UVE4ZENNKT6U7LKVO6JSTBFU7AKLJJTT", "length": 350, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "campus.servicehospitality.com", "title": "THE SERVICE AND", "raw_content": "If a purchaser decides not to use an online course he/she is entitled to a full refund.\nThe refund request must be received within seven (7) days of purchase. There will be NO refund provided if the request is outside of the seven (7) day time frame OR if a program is partially completed.\nPlease direct refund requests to info@servicehospitality.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canadianlabour.ca/news/news-archive/remembrance-we-work-end-anti-trans-violence-and-prejudice", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:00Z", "digest": "sha1:I4A3MHGB32RGEGHVFS5RSDF5MT5TOA6Q", "length": 1956, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "canadianlabour.ca", "title": "In remembrance, we work to end anti-trans violence and prejudice | Canadian Labour Congress", "raw_content": "In remembrance, we work to end anti-trans violence and prejudice\nEach year on November 20 we mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance, to honour those killed as a result of anti-trans hatred or prejudice and to bring attention to continued transphobic violence and discrimination in our communities.\nEach year, since 1999, we look at the names, faces, and stories of those killed. Sadly, despite increased trans visibility, the statistics remain shocking.\nIn 2015, worldwide, a transgender person was murdered every 31 hours. In Canada, the trans community has one of the highest suicide rates in our population, over 10 percent of trans Canadians have attempted suicide. Trans people also experience high levels of violence in communities and the workplace, including sexual, emotional, and physical harassment.\nWe all have a role to play to support fairness, equality and freedom from violence for trans people in our workplaces and communities.\nEnsuring respect and fair treatment for trans workers is a key priority for Canada\u2019s unions today. Already, many unions have made gains for trans members by bargaining for access to safe washrooms and change rooms and for the right to be referred to by one\u2019s chosen gender.\nRecently the Canadian Labour Congress released a practical guide for union representatives to support trans union members in the workplace before, during, and after gender transition. This year, we welcomed the federal government\u2019s announcement that they are appointing a Special Advisor on LGBTQ2 issues.\nOn Friday, the government passed Bill C-16, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. Unions supported previous legislation to protect trans people from discrimination and hate crimes. Now, with C-16 headed to the Senate, we are hopeful that these long overdue protections are close to becoming a reality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://capitalremovalslondon.co.uk/stress-and-memory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VZVZOCR3GL6ICTIJKS2QE262AHKETEYD", "length": 2473, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "capitalremovalslondon.co.uk", "title": "Capital Removals London", "raw_content": "At Aussie, we pride ourselves on making moving as free of stress as possible, although sometimes it\u2019s hard when faced with the swathes of articles that describe moving house as a slog and an intolerable ordeal. Recently, though, researchers at the University of New Hampshire in the USA made some discoveries that cast a new light on the process. In the past, research into the effects of moving house always focussed on the downsides \u2013 the anxiety, the loneliness of being in a new environment, the loss of friendships, the negative impact on children\u2019s wellbeing. And if you focus on the downsides of something, then you\u2019ll always find evidence to back them up. What might that research have discovered had it focussed instead on the fun of making new friendships, exploring new areas, helping your children have new adventures and so on?\nAt last, though, the tide is turning thanks to the New Hampshire research, published last year. In a test involving over a thousand subjects, researchers noticed something they called the \u2018relocation bump\u2019 \u2013 an improvement in the autobiographical memory that occurs when we up sticks and start over somewhere new. It seems that the stimulation caused by a new environment actually doubles the amount of experiences retained by the memory.\nThe researchers spoke to 1001 test participants and asked them to remember five experiences they\u2019d had between the ages of 40 and 60. Each memory had to pertain to a single day and the subjects were asked to describe the feelings and emotions associated with each one. Researchers also asked them to note how many times they\u2019d moved home, where they\u2019d moved from and where they\u2019d moved to.\nAfter analysing the data it became clear that double the amount of memories could be recalled around the time of a house-move. The study noted that, in youth, we make a lot of clear memories because we\u2019re experiencing things for the very first time. However, big life changes like moving have the same effect \u2013 things seem new again and we experience a lot of \u2018firsts\u2019. 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There are so many people online and off the internet who can assist you with this paper without having to go through the hard work on your own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cgradecyclist.blogspot.com/2012/04/tour-of-flanders-race-preview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:14Z", "digest": "sha1:BCWMU7TNEQDGLDG6Z7YOFR36ZIQ5DC7S", "length": 2365, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cgradecyclist.blogspot.com", "title": "C Grade Cyclist: Tour of Flanders - race preview & predictions", "raw_content": "So as I sit here on my couch a 10pm, waiting patiently for live coverage of the Tour of Flanders (or De Ronde van Vlaanderen in Flemish) to start on SBS at 10:30pm, I may as well take this chance to get my thoughts on this race down on electronic paper...!!\nFlanders is, for mine, the best one-day race on the entire cycling calendar. Its held in Belgium, which is arguably the spiritual home of hard cycling. It has extensive cobbled sections, often on narrow, winding roads. And unlike Paris-Roubaix, it is a relatively hilly course.\nNo matter which way you look at it, this is just a tough race. You can't fake your way through it - only someone who is both tough and smart (and maybe a bit lucky!) will walk away with victory at this epic race.\nMy tip - Peter Sagan (Liquigas)\nI reckon Sagan will step up and win Flanders this year. He has been in terrific form so far, with some minor victories already this year. His only downside is a lack of experience at this race, especially compared to Cancellara and Boonen.\nHowever, I think the experience factor won't be such an issue this year. The organisers have altered the course for 2012, finishing with a multi-lap circuit instead of the usual run home. This will play into Sagan's hands, and I am expecting him to have enough to win tonight.\nThe big two - Fabian Cancellara (Radioshack-Nissan) and Tom Boonen (OmegaPharma-Quickstep)\nCan they be beaten?? Obviously I think so, however Sagan is the only one that can do it. Fabs and Tommeke will round out the podium.\nBoth of the Big Two are in outstanding form at the moment, plus they have won this race before three times each! If the finish was the same as previous years, I would tip one of them to win. Its only the new multi-loop finish that has me leaning towards Sagan over these two incredible riders.\nThe almost-there's - Ballan (BMC), Boasson Hagen (Sky), Chavanel (OP-QS), Pozzato (Farnese-Vini)\nFillipo Pozzato\nThese four will be the next over the line. All have shown good form over the last month, and are suited to this race. They could win - but it would take all the stars to align for them to do so. The most likely to snatch victory is either Ballan or Pozzato...\nMy final finishing order:\nSagan, Boonen, Cancellara, Pozzato, Ballan, Boasson Hagen, Chavanel.\nLet's see how close I come!! Only 15 minutes to go until show-time - can't wait!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://champs-of-truth.com/books/easter.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ELAVXSGLVTFKYN2UJRFDVWYNKNXC362G", "length": 30054, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "champs-of-truth.com", "title": "A Look At the Historical Origins of Easter", "raw_content": "A Look At the Historical Origins of Easter\nMany are familiar with the story of Easter as it is told in the traditional Christian fashion, but very few people can explain where it got its name, where the symbols of bunnies and eggs came from and how the day is selected to celebrate it on. Why aren't these things more common knowledge? The answers may surprise you.\nOur story begins from a publication entitled, \"Easter: Where It Came From,\" printed may years ago, by Southern Publishing Association. An old man is speaking:\n\"Sunday was held sacred centuries before Sinai; Dec.25 was highly honored; the time of Easter was a religiously observed cycle and Lent was a time of fasting,-- all thousands of years before the coming of the Babe to Bethlehem!\"\nThe children had gathered around the huge, open fireplace. The lights were turned out and the shooting flames of the great wood fire danced upon their faces. Farther back, in a huge rocker, sat the Wise Man. In the daytime he was a very prosaic figure known as grandpa, but on special nights when the children were allowed to \"stay up\" the fire light played on what seemed to be the very soul of the old man, his face, and he became a mystic form, infinitely removed and yet very close to them. They called him the Wise Man then.\nThis Easter night the children begged for the story of Easter. They did not understand the first part of his reverie, but afterward they understood nearly all of it.\n\"After the Flood,\" he went on to say, \"the Garden of Eden was no longer on the earth. You remember the Lord had placed angels with flaming swords at its gates. As the people came to the gates to worship God, their faces were toward the west, for the gates were on the east side of the Garden. When Eden was taken up to God's dwelling place, and no one knows just when that was, Satan had so confused some that they worshiped the things that God had made, instead of God himself. The next brightest thing men saw was the sun, and they began to worship it. God at creation had given them the Sabbath, to remind them every week that it was He that had made everything, but Satan has always tried to make men forget the Sabbath so they would forget the one and only true God.\nThe Origin of Sun Worship\n\"One of Noah's great-grandsons was called Nimrod. Nimrod was a great leader, and was the first empire builder. His wife, history says, was named Semiramis, and she was a very great queen. Satan was working to counterfeit God's plan of salvation; and when Nimrod died, the people said he was a great god. Semiramis told them that he was indeed the sun god, and that his spirit was still living, dwelling in the sun.\n\"In order that the people should love her as queen as long as she lived, Semiramis told them that her's was the spirit of the moon, and when she died, she would dwell in the moon as Nimrod already dwelt in the sun.\n\"Satan was laying the foundation for every system of falsehood and error the world has ever known. The sun god, under different names, was worshiped in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. These conquering nations were conquered by the religion of their captives.\nA Pagan Holiday\n\"Every year when the cold season began, the people believed their sun god was leaving them. They came to learn that his lowest dip on the horizon, about Dec.21, was followed by his gradual return, until in midsummer he was directly overhead at noon-day. It was on the 25th of December that they noticed, each year, the slow return of their god. This day they called the birthday of the sun. It was this belief in the annual journey of their god that Elijah alluded to in his conflict with the priests of Baal, the Syro-Phoenician sun god. [1 Kings 18:27]\n\"After the death of Nimrod, Semiramis never married again--indeed how could the queen of heaven marry an ordinary man?--but some years later she gave birth to a son. His name was Tammuz, and he was born on the 25th day of December! There was wild rejoicing in the nation over which Semiramis was queen. She told the people that the spirit of the sun, her husband Nimrod, was the father of Tammuz, and thus through her sin, Satan persuaded the people of the counterfeit of the birth of Jesus; for Jesus was really born of a virgin.\n\"Tammuz was hailed as the Son of the Sun, and the first letter of his name became in time the symbol of sun worship. Human sacrifices to the sun god were offered on his initial letter, made of wood, known as the cross. His birthday, December 25th, was honored more and more, and the first day of the week was called the Sun's day, or Sunday. The people forgot God's Sabbath, and honored the day of the sun. To honor Semiramis they set aside a time in honor of the moon. This was the first full moon after the vernal equinox (the beginning of spring), or the twenty-first of March. The first Sunday after this full moon was indeed a gala day, for on this day they honored Semiramis, the queen of heaven, by dedicating it to the rebirth of life and fertility. Rabbits and eggs were used in the celebration as symbols of reproduction, as well as other practices not worthy to mention. There was nothing Christian about it, yet today the very same day, determined by the very same method on the calendar is hailed as a holy day of God. The actual day of Jesus' resurrection rarely falls on this day called Easter.\n\"While yet a young man, Tammuz, a hunter like his supposed father, was killed by a wild boar. What weeping there was in the kingdom! And the forty days before the time of the celebration for the moon were set apart as days of \"weeping for Tammuz.\" [Ezekiel 8:14.]\n\"God's people were constantly being tempted to follow this religion instead of that of the Bible. Often Satan succeeded in his purpose. In the eight chapter of Ezekiel we read of the women's weeping for Tammuz; and the people's turning their backs on the temple of God, and worshiping the sun toward the east. They also worshiped the moon goddess, who became associated with fertility, making cakes to this \"queen of heaven.\" [Jeremiah 7:18]. These were round cakes on which had been cut a cross; known today as hot cross buns.\n\"The great distinguishing mark of the heathen was their Sunday; and the mark of God's people was the Sabbath. [Ezekiel 20:12, 20]. Side by side through the centuries were God's people, worshiping Him, obeying His commandments, keeping His Sabbath, and the heathen, worshiping the sun, keeping Sunday, and offering their children in the fire as a sacrifice to the sun, or crucifying their human victims to turn away his supposed anger.\n\"One writer in a noted periodical says that 'Sunday was the wild, solar holiday of all pagan times.' It was on this day that the worst features of sun worship were practiced. Too often Israel did these things also, but God constantly sent them messengers to persuade them to return to Him and obey Him.\nThe Genuine Appears\n\"Finally Christ, the Son of God, was born. The exact day of His birth no one knows, but it was probably in October. He was just thirty-three and a half years old when He was crucified, in April, at the time of the Passover. How Jesus loved His people! He loved them so much that He was willing to suffer abuse and mocking, scourging and death. Remember Tammuz was exalted by Satan to be the great rival of Jesus, and the symbol of the cross was the sign of sun worship. How appropriate it must have seemed to Satan and his demons that Christ should die on the very symbol that the forces of evil had setup for their counterfeit religion. Through all the years it had seemed that the sun god was greater than the true God, for Israel alone followed God, but often even Israel including spiritual Israel today have followed the sun god.\n\"O yes, Jesus loved His people! He came into a world that had forgotten Him, its creator, suffered every insult at its hands, and finally died upon the symbol of sun worship, 'even,' says Paul, 'the death of the cross.' [Phil. 2:8].\n\"What rejoicing then by the demons! The Son of God, delivered by His own people and crucified by the sun-worshiping Romans on the symbol of sun worship! O the condescending Jesus! How He must love His people!\"\nThe old man's face softened, and the children saw tears in his eyes. After some time he collected his composure and went on. His eyes were shining now.\n\"But God honored that sacrifice! On the third day after His crucifixion, the first day for sun worship, while the spirit of demons were in the wildest orgy of celebration over their victory; for though many men did not realize it, Satan's angels all rejoiced in the victory of false worship; on that very day, set aside and honored by the name of the sun, God raised His Son from the grave a conqueror! As after creation He had rested, so after redemption, He rested in the tomb on His Sabbath [Mark 2:28], and now on the day of the sun He was raised, eternal victory over sun worship and all false systems of worship! That was why God raised Him on Sunday. The seventh day Sabbath is God's sign between Him and His people. [Ezekiel 20:12,20]. His disciples kept it while they lived. Jesus went back to work on our behalf on the first day of the week to show that it was not the holy day of rest He had set aside.\nThe Master Deception\n\"But Satan was not yet through with the world. First, he persecuted God's people, and then he tempted them again. The heathen were still keeping Sunday and as Christians were scattered throughout the world, Satan whispered in the ears of God's people that they should try to gain favor by being more like the heathen. Was not Christ born toward the end of the year? The exact date was uncertain. Why not call it the same date as the birth of Tammuz? So December 25th became Christmas.\n\"Again, Christ was crucified and resurrected in the spring near the time of the moon festival. Why not use the same time as the heathen, and even do as they do, but call it in honor of Christ's resurrection. The cakes made to the queen of heaven became the hot cross buns of today. The forty days of 'weeping for Tammuz' became Lent, and at the close of Lent came Easter Sunday, a counterfeit masterpiece.\"\nThe voice was silent for a time. The old man's face darkened as he seemed to see in the embers of the fire a sinister event against which he would cry out. Suddenly, there rang out in the dense stillness the trumpet-like tones that had called to the men on the battlefield, when as a drummer-boy he had snatched up the colors where a dying bearer had fallen, and rallied a regiment that had nearly broken.\n\"O the cowards! The cowards! They allowed the flag of God, His holy Sabbath, to trail in the dust; they trampled it under their feet, they exalted the sun's day in its place, they broke the command of God, and they did it all in the name of the One who had given His life to save His people from that very thing!\n\"Oh, how Jesus in heaven must have wept when His so called followers, to gain influence, set up the mark of rebellion against heaven, -- Sunday! And how He must weep today when people profess to honor His resurrection by trampling on His day and honor the flag of the defeated foe. God forgive the ministers and people of this country for being blind. They think they are honoring You by trying to make legislation to honor the Sunday. Soon they will pass laws to make void your law. Lord, hold back the winds of strife yet a little while longer, and give them time to see their folly. Open their eyes, Lord, and reveal to them the truth concerning Your holy Sabbath day.\"\n-- Southern Publishing Association.\nEaster began long before the time of Christ. Easter was the Ishtar celebration. Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtoreth were all the same deity and originated from the legends of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz. It was a single pagan goddess that was worshiped under various names in different countries over the centuries. As we trace the historical background of this goddess, we can see where Easter got its name, how our modern practice of sunrise worship originated, and why it is always commemorated at a certain time each spring. The story of Easter also helps explain where Sunday sacredness began, and the origin of virgin worship:\nThis mother goddess was variously known as Astarte, Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Cybele, Demeter, Ceres, Aphrodite, Venus, and Freya.\n\"Astarte was the most important goddess of the pagan Semites. She was the goddess of love, fertility, and maternity for the Phoenicians, Canaanites, Aramaeans, South Arabs, and even the Egyptians. Her name was Ishtar (hence the name Easter) in Babylonia and Assyria, where she was also the goddess of war. Some Old Testament stories call her Ashtoreth and describe the construction of her altar by King Solomon and its destruction by King Josiah. Astarte was identified with the planet Venus. The Greeks called her Aphrodite, and the Romans knew her as Venus.\"-World Book, Vol. 1, p.782.\nAstarte In Phoenica: Astarte was the goddess of the ancient Phoenicians. She loved Adoni (Adonis), who was slain by a boar (a wild pig), but rose from the dead and then ascended to heaven in the sight of his worshipers.\nAstarte In Syria: In Syria, Astarte was the Great Mother goddess and queen of prostitutes. Her worship culminated at the vernal equinox. This is about March 21 of each year when the day and night is of equal length; we today call it the first day of spring. The well-known historian, Will Durant, explains how the celebration of her lover, Adonis, was celebrated by the pagans on that day by sexual orgies:\n\"Religious prostitution flourished, for in Syria, as throughout western Asia, the fertility of the soil was symbolized in a Great Mother, or goddess, whose sexual commerce with her lover gave the hint to all the reproductive processes and energies of nature; and the sacrifice of virginity at the temples was not only an offering to Astarte, but a participation with her in that annual self-abandonment which, it was hoped, would offer an irresistible suggestion to the earth, and insure the increase of plants, animals, and men. About the time of the vernal equinox, the festival of the Syrian Astarte, like that of Cybele in Phrygia, was celebrated at Hierapolis with a fervor bordering upon madness. The noise of flutes and drums mingled with the wailing of the women for Astarte's dead lord, Adoni; eunuch priests danced wildly, and slashed themselves with knives.. Then in the dark of the night, the priests brought a mystic illumination to the scene, opened the tomb of the young god, and announced triumphantly that Adoni, the Lord, had risen from the dead. Touching the lips of the worshipers with balm, the priests whispered to them the promise that they, too, would some day rise from the grave.\"-Will Durant, History of Civilization, Vol. 1, pp.296-297.\nAshtoreth in Israel: The Israelites referred to Astarte as \"Ashtoreth.\" In the Bible, the prophets of God denounced the worship of Ashtoreth, but many of the people worshiped her and her consort, Baal, the sun god. This worship was done amid groves of trees, on the summits of mountains. Here they worshiped sacred stones, practiced divination, and engaged in orgies as part of their worship of Ashtoreth and Baal. Because the myth of Astarte included the idea of a resurrected sun god, the sacred grove worship was carried on at daybreak as the sun was coming up.\nThe northern kingdom of Israel (Samaria) was destroyed because of such idolatry. Later, king Josiah of Judah marched through it and tore down the altars to Baal, \"and them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets.\" He \"defiled Topheth, . . that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to molech\"; and he smashed the altars that Solomon had built for Chemosh, Milcom and Astarte.\" (See 2 Kings 23:2,4,10,13). Ishtar in Sumeria and Babylonia: Ishtar was the love goddess of the Babylonians. Her worship came down from earliest times in Sumeria, where her lover was Tammuz. She was the goddess of mothers and prostitutes, and of love and war.\n\"Though her worshipers repeatedly addressed her as 'The Virgin,' 'The Holy Virgin,' and 'The Virgin Mother,' this merely meant that her amours were free from all taint of wedlock.\"- Will Durant, History of Civilization, Vol. 1, p. 235.\nIshtar was said to be the daughter of Sin, the moon-god. Her lover was Tammuz, the sun-god. She was called the \"Queen of Heaven\" by her worshipers and their priests. According to the ancient myth, when Tammuz was slain by a wild animal, Ishtar raises him to life. Because of this, a yearly spring festival was held in honor of Ishtar, the mother goddess.\n\"[This is the] myth of Ishtar and Tammuz. In the Sumerian form of the tale, Tammuz is Ishtar's young brother; in the Babylonia form, he is sometimes her lover, sometimes her son; both forms seem to have entered into the myths of Venus and Adonis, Demeter and Persephone, and a hundred scattered legends of death and resurrection . . To the Babylonians it was sacred history faithfully believed and annually commemorated by mourning and wailing for the dead Tammuz, followed by riotous rejoicing over his resurrection.\"-Ibid, pp.238, 239.\nSumeria: Even earlier in history, the Sumerians worshiped Innini, or Ishtar. Here is Durant's description of her:\n\"[The city of] Uruk worshiped especially virgin earth-goddess Innini, known to the Semites of Akkad as Ishtar- the loose and versatile Aphrodite-Demeter of the Near East. Kish and Lagash worshiped a Mater Dolorosa, the sorrowful mother-goddess Ninkarsag, who, grieved with the unhappiness of men, interceded for them with the sterner deities.\"- Ibid, p.127.\nCybele in Phrygia: Essentially the myths surrounding Cybele were so much like those of Greece, that the Greeks called the latter Rhea Cybele, and considered the two divinities one. In Greece, her temple was at Athens. As usual, she resurrected her lover, Attis, each spring at the vernal equinox.\nDometer in Greece: Throughout the Near East, this mother goddess was variously known as Astarte, Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Cybele, Demeter, Ceres, Aphrodite, Venus, and Freya.\nShe also had a special son (who was sometimes the same as his father), so we have Isis and Osiris in Egypt, Ishtar and Tammuz in Babylonia, Astarte and Adonis in Syria, Demeter and Persephone (and daughter) in Greece, and Cybele and Attis in Phrygia.\n\"Essentially it (the myth of Demeter and Persephone) was the same myth as that of Isis and Osiris in Egypt, Tammuz and Ishtar in Babylonia, Astarte and Adonis in Syria, Cybele and Attis in Phrygia. The cult of motherhood survived through classical times to take new life in the worship of Mary the Mother of God.\"-Will Durant, History of Civilization, Vol.2, p.178.\nArtemis in Iona: Ephesus was the major city of Iona, and its temple of Artemis (called Diana in Acts 19) was famous, for it was the largest Greek temple ever built.\nCeres in Poseidonia: The temple of Ceres stood on the site of an earlier temple to Poseidon. Here Cores was venerated.\nVenus of the Romans: Venus (also called Aphrodite) was equivalent to the earth-fertility and love goddess of the other Near Eastern nations. According to some stories, her son was Aeneas, the ancestor of the Romans; according to others, Cupid. In Rome, every month was dedicated to a god, and April belonged to Venus. She was worshiped as the Mother goddess of their race, since they were supposed to be descended from her through Aeneas. Later, they dedicated their days to gods, and borrowed from the Persians the sacred sun-day, the first day of the week, and worshiped the Persian sun god, Mithra, on that day. Mithra's birthday was December 25 and was later christened and adopted as \"Christmas\" by the Roman church.\nAnaita of Persia: As we pass down through time, we come to Persia and the goddess Anaita, the love or earth goddess. Their chief god was the sun god, Ahura-Mazda, who later became known as Mithra (or Mithras). Under the name, Mithra, he became the most important god in Rome before Christianity won out.\n\"For a while, under Darius 1 [52-486 B.C.], it (the worship of Ahura-Mazda] became the spiritual expression of a nation at its height . . Underneath the official worship of Ahura-Mazda the cult of Mithra and Anaita -- god of the sun and goddess of vegetation and fertility, generation and sex -- continued to find devotees: and in the days of Artaxerxes II (404-359 B.C.) their names began to appear again in the royal inscriptions. Thereafter Mithra grew powerfully in favor and Ahura-Mazda faded away until, in the first centuries of our era, the cult of Mithra as a divine youth of beautiful countenance -- with a radiant halo over his head as a symbol of his ancient identity with the sun -- spread throughout the Roman Empire, and shared in giving Christmas to Christianity. [Footnote on the same page:] Christmas was originally a solar festival, celebrating, at the winter solstice, the lengthening of the day and the triumph of the sun over his enemies. It became a Mithraic, and finally a Christian, holy day.\"-Will Durant, History of Civilization, Vol.1, p.372\nThe leading gods of ancient Persia were Mithra, the sun god, Anaita the nature goddess, and her lover Haoma, who rose to life again. Later, the dying-rising Haoma became transformed into the dying-rising Mithra, the saviour god, who, in the hands of Satan, became the chief competitor to Christianity in the Roman Empire after the time of Christ. Mithra worship was a carefully contrived counterfeit of Christianity, which Satan suggested to the minds of men over the centuries.\nBut then, in the fourth century A.D., when Christianity won out over Mithraism, Mithraic and Ishtar elements of worship were incorporated into Christian worship.\nBecause Mithra was always shown with a solar halo around his head, portraits and statues of Christ (and shortly, Mary and the saints) with halos around their heads became abundant.\nBecause worshipers of Ishtar presented her with two fertility symbols -- eggs and bunny rabbits, -- these became part of the Christian Easter service.\nBecause sunrise on Sunday morning at the beginning of spring was, besides December 25th, the holiest day in the Mithraic calendar, the practice of Easter sunrise services continued on into Christianity.\nBecause Mithra was worshiped on the first day of the week, which the Persians and Romans called the sun-day, Sunday sacredness -- which is nowhere to be found in the Bible -- came into the Christian church.\nBecause Mithra the sun, \"died and rose to life\" each year on December 25 (when the sun became lowest in the sky), the birth of Christ began to be celebrated on that date (although it is reasonably clear from facts in the Bible that He was born in the fall of the year -- the taxation census took place near the end of summer or early fall).\nBecause the Ishtar (Astarte, Ashtoreth, etc.) celebration was held each spring on a Sunday close to the vernal equinox, the resurrection of Christ was changed the 16th day of the first month of the Jewish calendar -- three days after the beginning of Passover as told us in the Bible -- to the annual Easter celebration. (Something you may not have realized is that \"Easter\" in Acts 12:4 is a mistranslation. The original Greek in that passage is paska, or Passover, not Easter.)\nAll this began centuries before in paganism, with the Ishtar and Tammuz legend.\nAt the beginning of earth's history. God created the entire world in six days and rested on the seventh day and sanctified it, or set it apart, as a special day for men to worship Him on (Gen. 2:1-3). This is God's own day -- His day -- the Lord's Day -- given to man to worship Him on.\nJesus Christ created all things (Col. 1:16; John 7:3: Hot. 7:7-3) and He calls Himself the Lord of the Sabbath (Matt. 12:8; Mark 2:28). It is His day. The Lord's Day (Rev. 1:10).\nHe made it for man -- all mankind -- (Mark2:27) and not just for the Jewish race. God gave the sabbath at the foundation of the world (Gen. 2:1-3), and His followers kept it before it was given on Mount Sinai (Ex. 16). On Mount Sinai He spoke and wrote His Law, so that all the world might more clearly know it (Ex. 20:6-11). It is the seal of the law and the sign that He is our Creator (Ex. 31:17) and our redeemer (Ezekiel 20:12) and that we belong to Him (Ezekiel 20:20).\nJerusalem was destroyed and His people were led into captivity because they were so prone to idolatry and refused to obey Him and keep His Sabbath. (Jer. 17:19-27; 52:1-13).\nWhile here on earth, Jesus gave us a careful example of obedience to the Sabbath day which He had given mankind (Luke 4:16), and rebuked man-made changes in His laws (Matt. 15:9, 6). He magnified the law and made it honorable (Isa. 42:21).\nJust before His death He predicted the destruction of Jerusalem thirty-nine years later, in A.D. 70, and at the end of the world (Maw 24). He also cautioned His followers to continue to carefully observe the Sabbath even when those terrible events should come to pass years and even centuries later (Man 24:20).\nHe carefully instructed His disciples to keep His day holy, and He wanted them to \"remember the Sabbath day\" (Ex. 20:8) long after He had returned to heaven. His followers faithfully kept it after His death (Luke 23:56) and later in their missionary work (Acts 13:14-16; 40-46; 16:12-15; 17:1- 4). They declared that we ought to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29), and Paul could sincerely say of himself and his fellow believers: \"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.\" (Rom. 3:31). The Word of God was being fulfilled in order that the Gentiles would one day faithfully keep the Sabbath that the Jews were desecrating (Isa 56:3-7).\nThe Bible predicted that a great desolating power was to arise in later centuries that would seek to destroy the atonement and God's laws from among His people (Dan. 7:8, 20-21, 25; 8:9-12).\nThe attempt by this power to change God's laws, and especially His law regarding time, was specifically predicted in Daniel 7:25. Only God can change the law, and so Paul predicted the rise of a man who would call himself God (2 Thess. 2:3-4). With boldness this power would sit in the temple of God and call itself God (2 Thess. 2:4), and boastfully admit what it had done, declaring it to be the mark of its authority -- and indeed is it not?\nYou see, it's like this: I acknowledge and honor God's authority when I obey His commands and encourage others to do So. I declare my independence of God when I set aside His law and refuse to keep it. But I set myself up as a rival god when, having set aside His law, I establish in its place a counterfeit and then require others to keep it in place of the law that God commanded!\n\"Whom ye obey, his servants ye are.\" (Rom. 6:16). God's Word declares that obedience to this man-made god by keeping his counterfeit day of worship (while knowing that there is not one word or hint in all of the Scriptures to keep that false day in place of the true Bible Sabbath) will soon bring upon oneself the Mark of the Beast (Rev. 13:16-17; 14:6-12). Only the remnant who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus will at that time resist it (Rev. 13:8; 14:612; 12:17). In fact, the Bible predicts a return to the true Sabbath as God's people will rebuild the torn-out place in the law of God by again keeping His true Sabbath (Isa- 58:13-14). And thank God, the assuring prophecy is given that the saved of all ages will one day soon honor the holy Sabbath of God through out all eternity in the new earth (Isa 66:22-23).\nSUNDAY IN THE BIBLE\nSunday is never called sacred or holy anywhere in the Bible. lt is never called the Sabbath or the Lord's Day. Sunday is only mentioned eight times in the Bible. The first time is Genesis 1:5, where the first day of creation week is spoken of. The next five times refer to Jesus' appearances on Sunday to His disciples after His rest in the tornb on the Sabbath (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1-2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19). Jesus went and found them and told them the good news that he was alive. There is nothing here about Sunday sacredness. The seventh time is in Acts 20:7-8, where Paul speaks to the Ephesian leaders. A few versus later (Acts 20:15-38), he speaks to another group in the middle of the week, but that doesn't make that day any more sacred then the Sunday preceding it. For only a direct command of God can make a day holy. Repeatedly in Acts, Paul kept the Sabbath holy (Acts 13:14-16; 40-46; 16:12-15; 17:1-4) just as his Master had done before Him. Acts is as silent on Sunday sanctity as is Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.\nThe eighth and last text is found in 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 where Paul instructs the believers to do their bookkeeping at home on Sunday mornings. The first working day of the week was a good day for this since Friday they were busy preparing for the Sabbath. This is the only one mentioned in all of Paul's writings of the first day of the week.\nJohn the Revelator saw Christ in vision on the Lord's Day (Rev. 1:10). This was the Day of the Lord. The Sabbath is the day unto the Lord (Ex. 16:23, 25; 31:15; 35:2), the day of the Lord (Ex. 20:10; Lev. 23:3; Deut. 5:4), and His own day (Isa. 58:13). Jesus is the Creator who gave us the Sabbath (Eph. 3:9; John 1:3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2; Gen. 2:1-3), and John had heard Him call Himself, \"the LORD of the Sabbath day.\" (Matt. 12:8; Mark 2:28). John well knew which day was the Lord's Day. This day is the memorial day of the Creator (Gen. 2:13; Ex. 31:17), the memorial day of the Redeemer (Eze. 20:12, 20). It is the Lord's Day... a day that God wants to share with you. He plans to keep it with you through all eternity to come (Isa. 66:22- 23). Come, worship Him on the best day -- His day -- the only day of worship your God ever gave you.\nAltamont, TN 37301 USA\nFor more information on pagan customs that have entered Christianity see the book:\nBabylon, Mystery Religion, by Ralph Edward Woodrow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 30762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chattels.co.za/aad-africa-aerospace-defense", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YJQVQMUGYSVGEBXLYCQSUERTYX3NLGJJ", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "chattels.co.za", "title": "AAD - Africa Aerospace & Defense | Chattels", "raw_content": "Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 10:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 18:00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 52.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chetanacharity.org/residential-english-medium-school-ushodaya", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DJKNHJXHOLFFLRQXDRKKBIUELQRVL2NE", "length": 3014, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "chetanacharity.org", "title": "Residential English Medium School (Ushodaya)", "raw_content": "It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T.S. Eliot\nA school imparting good education has a place everywhere. Though CBSE schools are valued more and are considered to be good, they are generally found only in cities and to some extent in towns. They are rarely established in rural areas.\nOur founders envisioned establishing a school that would cater to the needs of children from the villages surrounding chetana, providing quality education in English Medium, at an affordable cost and with the additional benefit of it being a CBSE school.\nUSHODAYA (rising sun), a coeducational English Medium school was thus promoted as a part of Chetana Project. The same values and principles that the two schools (at Brodipet and Syamalanagar) run by Sree Venkateswara Bala Kuteer Educational Society, the parent organisation behind Chetana, are well known for, were contemplated to be adhered to and followed in running Ushodaya.\nWhat's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. Bill Gates\nDistinctly Designed Class rooms\nA class room is the place where a child spends most of the time within the school. Making the best use of the time so spent by the child requires both the child and the teacher to pay attention on each other so that the teacher gets a proper feedback of how effective the class being conducted is and the child gets to concentrate on what is being taught.\nTo enable this, class rooms are constructed in an octagonal shape so as to make all the children feel like being within a close knit group and being able to pay attention to what the teacher says.\nThe revenue costs involved in running this entity include Monthly - salaries to teachers, support staff, electricity charges, building maintenance, ground maintenance; Annual - furniture repair and maintenance, building maintenance, consumables for laboratory, sports goods.\nCapital costs include expenditure incurred on buying teaching and laboratory equipment, new facility construction.\nThis entity is a self financed entity. The fees (which are very minimal compared to such facilities in cities) that are collected from the students take care of most of the needs of this entity.\nKids from the children's village who are found to be capable enough to take up english medium education are provided free education at Ushodaya. Such children are provided uniform, books and other requirements to place them on par with their contemporaries in the school.\nYou may provide for the education of such children.\nProvides for education to a child for a year.\nGoes into the corpus fund (of Chetana) deposited in banks, interest on which is only utilised (for the purpose specified, if the contributor so specifies)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cineoutsider.com/news/stories/11/03/26.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:734NZB2I5CMIPQVOXUJJD3YEAGDJZX7J", "length": 3739, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "cineoutsider.com", "title": "Fantastic Factory Presents... 4-film box set on DVD in April | Cine Outsider", "raw_content": "Fantastic Factory Presents... 4-film box set on DVD in April\nHorror champions Arrow Video have announced an essential collection of four key features from the Fantastic Factory, the specialist horror, sci-fi and fantasy genre label created by cult writer, director and producer Brian Yuzna (Beneath Still Waters; Bride Of Re-Animator; Society) and Spanish producer Julio Fernandez (Rec; Perfume; The Machinist).\nThis exclusive four-disc box set includes Brian Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator and Faust: Love Of The Damned, along with Arachnid, directed by Jack Sholder (A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge and the underrated gem The Hidden) and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, directed by Paco Plaza (Rec; Rec 2). Each disc comes with its own collectors' booklet and a host of extra features interviews, commentaries, deleted scenes and more! So, get ready to enter the Fantastic Factory for a festival of gory mayhem and blood-splattered horror.\nIn Beyond Re-Animator (2003), the evil Dr. Herbert West, a medical genius with an overwhelming drive to raise the dead, returns to the subjects he knows best: science and murder!\nJohn Jaspers is driven to insanity in Faust: Love Of The Damned (2000) when he signs a pact with the devil in order to enact a horrible vengeance on the thugs who murdered his girlfriend. Transformed into a sickening beast, he stalks the night seeking only to maim and kill.\nAlien spiders threaten the very existence of man in Arachnid (2001) and only a team of scientists and mercenaries stand in the way of eight-legged doom for humanity. Trapped on an island with a nest of hungry enemies, time is running out for the team as the killer spiders make it their goal to lay their eggs inside the bodies of every last human.\nA handsome traveller with a girl in every village leaves a trail of murder behind him in 19th century Spain, but is he the actual killer or is there a beast stalking the night? Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004), based on a true life murder case, is a chilling tale of bloody romance, shadowy forests and lycanthropes.\nFantastic Factory Presents\u2026 (cert. 18), featuring Beyond Re-Animator, Faust: Love Of The Damned, Arachnid and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, will be released on UK DVD by Arrow Video on 18th April 2011 at the RRP of \u00a339.99. The special features, and there are plenty of them, are listed below by title.\nAudio commentary by director Brian Yuzna;\nAll In The Head \u2013 Brian Yuzna on the Re-Animator Chronicles (50 mins);\nOriginal trailer;\nDouble-sided fold-out poster featuring new artwork;\nCollectors' booklet featuring World Of Lovecraft and an interview with star Jeffrey Combs by author and critic Calum Waddell as well as an extract from H.P. Lovecraft's original story Herbert West: Re-animator;\nReversible sleeve featuring brand new and original artwork.\nDirector Of The Damned: Brian Yuzna, Faust And The Fantastic Factory;\nThe Pain in Spain: A History Of Horror In Hot Weather with Angel Sala, director of the Sitges Film Festival;\nCollectors' booklet Brian Yuzna: Maestro Of Mayhem by author and critic Calum Waddell;\nKing of the Spiders \u2013 Brian Yuzna remembers Arachnid;\nCreature Comforts: The Monster Mayhem Of Steve Johnson;\nCollectors' booklet Spider Man and interview with director Jack Sholder by author and critic Calum Waddell.\nRomasanta: Lycanthropes, Lunacy And The Last Days Of The Fantastic Factory;\nMaking Romasanta \u2013 interviews with director Paco Plaza, stars Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky and John Sharian;\nInterview with composer Mikel Salas;\nDeleted scenes with introduction and commentary by director Paco Plaza;\nA featurette on the SFX design in Romasanta;\nCollectors' booklet Sex, Sun And Sinful Celluloid by author and critic Calum Waddell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://claretianvocations.claretians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ssj_faith_reflection_always_with_you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:AAPGUJGOKNL7PX7OZP32TE42GMKB6WQJ", "length": 1816, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "claretianvocations.claretians.org", "title": "I am always with you - The National Shrine of Saint Jude", "raw_content": "\"I am Always with You.\"\n\"Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.\" \u2014 Joshua 1:9\nSometimes the weight of a particular problem or the persistent tug of an everyday stress can isolate us. Our challenges, large and small, can seem much more difficult when it seems we have to handle them on our own. It takes a special kind of wisdom and courage to recognize when we may need the help of a professional\u2014doctor, counselor, addiction clinic, and so on\u2014when we face certain overwhelming issues in our life and in the lives of those we love. We also often need a strong yet humble perspective to reach out to others.\nWith our faith, we know that humility in fact reflects an inner strength. And we also know we are never truly alone; God in His many ways is always with us. In Him we find the support, encouragement, and caring love to work with our challenges. We need God\u2019s strength and grace to follow Christ\u2019s example in a day-to-day world that often seems to be pulling away from Him.\nThe volume and pace of the daily distractions we encounter can make even simple opportunities to reflect the face of God become lost in the rush of life. Again, we need to gently remind ourselves we are never out of God\u2019s gaze. And as devotees of St. Jude, we also know that we can turn to him for help at all times. In St. Jude, we find a constant companion for our journey in life, and a ready intercessor to God on our behalf.\nJesus said, \u201cI am with you always.\u201d It can be helpful to have a few special ways of reminding ourselves of this powerful promise around our home. It is also very helpful to make this an intentional addition to our daily prayers\u2014to thank Jesus for always being with us, and to let Him know when we feel we need an extra amount of help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://claytontimes.com/missourians-already-filing-initiative-petitions-for-2020-election-cycle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3GU6RZBVVA3L5XXA2GGHYZ77WTVTVZVW", "length": 2150, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "claytontimes.com", "title": "Missourians already filing initiative petitions for 2020 election cycle \u2013 Clayton Times", "raw_content": "Missourians already filing initiative petitions for 2020 election cycle\nJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. \u2014 Before the 2018 general election results were finalized, Missourians were already looking ahead to 2020 and what measures they could put on the ballot.\nOn November 7, 2018 \u2014 the day after the midterm elections \u2014 the Secretary of State\u2019s Office received two initiative petitions amending the Revised Statutes of Missouri. That marked the beginning of the 2020 initiative petition cycle.\nBoth initiative petitions were filed by Gerald Peterson.\nPetition 2020-001 would amend Chapter 147 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, which deals with the Missouri Road Fund and an annual franchise tax. Petition 2020-002 would create a new section in Chapter 208 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, expanding MO HealthNet services.\nBefore circulating petitions for signatures, state law requires that groups must first have the form of their petition approved by the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. The office then has 23 days after the form of the petition is approved to draft ballot summary language.\nComments will be taken pursuant to Section 116.334, RSMo. This provision allows Missourians to offer their observations on the submitted proposal online, by mail or phone. Missourians can provide their comments online. The secretary of state\u2019s office will review all comments submitted.\nThe office received 371 petitions in the 2018 cycle, which began the day after the November 2016 election. Of those, one referendum appeared on the August 7 ballot and five ballot measures appeared on the November 6 ballot. Only three initiative petitions in total passed \u2014 ethics overhaul, minimum wage hike, and one medical marijuana measure.\nDuring the 2020 cycle, the Secretary of State\u2019s Office said that it will provide a weekly summary of petitions filed and approved for circulation during the past week.\nCampaign, Legislature2020 Election, ballot measures, initiative petition, secretary of state\nPrevious Previous post: Johnson to run for party chairperson\nNext Next post: Reproductive health, rights and justice organizations lay out vision for proactive policy change", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1687&catid=11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:56Z", "digest": "sha1:A3XKB57GU7IIFYDARBKQABIYP2AX34HN", "length": 563, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "clearpolitics.com", "title": "Markets Work - Clear Politics", "raw_content": "Policy makers are learning how markets work, for young kids.\n...in trying to make schools nutritional oases, public health officials have unwittingly unleashed the black market genie ready and able to fill the void left by departing sodas and snacks... [Read]\nHilarious! The so-called \"do-gooders\" are learning about markets, and how totalitarianism will not quell them.\nGO KIDDIES! You, black market entrepreneurs, are our future, not the community organizer in Room 502 who is given snacks by the administration when no one is looking...because he's a good boy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cloudcomputingtypes.com/cloud-computing-models/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2ASGOPFW5HD6UCXT54EOC4T2F4C4NBAH", "length": 1733, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cloudcomputingtypes.com", "title": "Best Cloud Deployment Models & Cloud Pricing Model", "raw_content": "Best Cloud Deployment Models & Cloud Computing Pricing Model\nMany organizations have chosen to take advantage of the cloud. It allows them to save money, cut costs, and grow their business. Unfortunately, it does not come without its own set of risks. The cloud presents challenges and security risks. While many businesses choose the cloud to save money, the damage that can occur from not finding the right option can cost much more than the savings offered. For this reason, it is important to understand the four different cloud computing models, along with your business\u2019s needs.\nFirst of all, what will your business be storing in the cloud? How secure does it need to be? As you consider this very important question, it can help you choose the option that will give you the security that you need to keep your data safe and secure.\nNext, how much are you willing to spend? Again, depending on your business and what you will be using the cloud services for, you will have to determine the price you are willing to pay. As you consider this, you should not look for the lowest price, but the price for the services that will best serve your company.\nFinding The Best Cloud Computing Model\nAfter that, you should look for a model that fits your needs. In doing this, it may be helpful to learn about the four models. This will help you see what each one has to offer and how your company can benefit from each. Once you learn about them, it will help you choose which one is best for your computing needs.\nIn conclusion, taking advantage of the cloud for your business is a smart choice. However, you should make the decision once you learned as much as you can so you know that the choice is a smart one that will benefit you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clubbeethoven.org/what-makes-gossip-so-interesting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XQ6RXBOHF3YBPQBIYKUHSQBBKMXA5ARM", "length": 3000, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "clubbeethoven.org", "title": "What Makes Gossip So Interesting | Ludwig van Beethoven", "raw_content": "What Makes Gossip So Interesting\nGossip fans are everywhere, in all countries, in all cities, on all continents. Since old ages, people just liked gossip and rumors, they enjoyed talking about their peers when they were not around. Celebrities are included on the gossip topics most agreed list. Celebrity gossip makes the news so many times, so it is obvious that it is in the human nature to notice the leaders, the people who stand out from the crowd, and dissect their words, their clothes, their hair or their behaviour.\nCelebrities like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears made the first page of many international publications, and not only once. Some of the famous people of this world had to suffer because of paparazzi, and in some cases, they even lost their lives because of indiscrete looks. Princess Diana is only one example in this respect. She got killed in a car accident while she and her friend were chased by scandal journalists. Is a human life worth all that? I suppose not. But time cannot be turned back, so it\u2019s time to head for the future and try to avoid such catastrophes from now on.\nBut who decides which celebrities make news headlines and which ones pass barely noticed? Is mass media responsible for this? It is very hard to tell. Journalists, and especially tabloid magazines ones are searching for a particular type of news. They seek things that are blamable or shocking, and many times they chase misery. Happiness is not news. Misery is. If a movie star has troubles, let\u2019s say she is stealing from supermarkets, this seems to be a hot topic for millions of people. Do you remember Winona Rider, to give you only one case of a star chased by media for her supposedly bad habits? How many other people steal from shops and nobody cares? Too many, probably.\nOne simple explanation for the love for gossip, and for the important place it occupies in humans\u2019 life, is that most of the people live a dull, boring life, so they seek excitement in the life of others. This explains also the success recorded by reality shows. Who would have thought that a time will come when millions of TV viewers will watch every night for one hour or so how a bunch of people are eating, sleeping or taking showers in a house where they are like in prison, all time in the objective of cameras.\nHave you noticed how appreciated the celebrity gossip websites are, how many readers they have and how many comments they receive on each article? This surely shows a huge interest for the private life of successful people, a desire to take models, and on the other hand to accuse and reveal ugly things from beautiful lives of remarkable people. Like sex, drugs and rock and roll, celebrity sells. Every hosewife has dreamed at least once to become a great dancer, or a famous singer, or a Hollywood movie star. Instead of that, here she is, at the age of 30 or 40, washing dishes and taking care of four \u2013 five kids who mess everything around the house and who are equal to an atomic bomb.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coadb.com/surnames/plowden-arms.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IJIFRKMSI7AL3ZPYST2H5FUH546XS5WE", "length": 1647, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "coadb.com", "title": "Plowden Coat of Arms Family Crest - Plowden Family History & Surname Meaning", "raw_content": "Plowden Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History\n1) (Plowden, co. Salop; of this ancient family was the learned Serjeant Edmund Plowden, of Plowden, so eminent as a lawyer, temp. Mary I. and Queen Elizabeth). Az. a fess dancett\u00e9e, the two upper points terminating in fleurs-de-lis or. Crest\u2014On a mount vert a buck pass. sa. attired or.\n2) (Ewhurst Park, co. Hants). Motto\u2014Quod tibi hoc alteri. Az. a fess dancett\u00e9e or, the two upper points terminating in fleurs-de-lis ar. Crest\u2014A buck statant sa. on a mount vert.\nOrigin, Meaning, Family History and Plowden Coat of Arms and Family Crest\nPlowden Coat of Arms Meaning\nThe two main devices (symbols) in the Plowden blazon are the fesse dancettee and fleur-de-lis. The three main tinctures (colors) are azure, argent and or .\nThe fesse is a broad horizontal band across the centre of the shield, in very ancient times it was said to occupy one third of the area height of the shield 8A Complete Guide to Heraldry, A.C. Fox-Davies, Bonanza (re-print of 1909 Edition), New York, 1978, P117, however it soon became somewhat narrower. This created an opportunity to add decorative edging to the band, of many forms, and to very pleasing artisitic effect, at least close up \u2013 it must be admitted that at distance some of the forms are hard to distinguish! Dancettee (sometimes spelled dancetty or dancy) is a bold, zig-zag pattern, perhaps the most distinctive of the patterned edges. Purists might argue that the French variant dench\u00e9 Is not the same, being of larger size and with the points being 90\u00ba, but there is much variation in actual practice so the difference is perhaps not that meaningful.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18236", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SWI7BIKGHGN3TXSTVMJ6XELWAEKYXJPD", "length": 674, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "collections.countway.harvard.edu", "title": "Spermaceti \u00b7 OnView: Digital Collections & Exhibits", "raw_content": "Latin Name: Spermaceti\nCommon Name: Literally, \"whale sperm\"- oil or wax from the head of a sperm whale\nClassification: Demulcent and emollient\nMedicinal Usage: Used in many different kinds of lotions, as well as for the treatment of gonorrhea and catarrh. Spermaceti can be mixed with wax and olive oil to form cerates (a substance similar to ointment but harder and non-melting), which is applied as an adhesive in excoriations.\nSpecimen: Spermaceti wax. Image courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.\n\u201cSpermaceti,\u201d OnView: Digital Collections & Exhibits, accessed February 15, 2019, http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18236.\nSpermacetiEdited.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 229.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://community.aegirproject.org/content/branch-and-tagging-conventions/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:13Z", "digest": "sha1:GBUUOX2JCOU7NHN3TRTMNQBJDE6FLUET", "length": 4415, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "community.aegirproject.org", "title": "Branch and tagging conventions | community.aegirproject.org", "raw_content": "HomeAegir HandbookDeveloper ManualGit repositories locations and instructions\nAegir development makes a heavy use of branches to keep development stable. We use feature branches to do large development work and have release branches to keep stable releases maintained while development happen on the development branches.\n2. Branch naming conventions\n2.1. Main development branch\n2.2. Stable release branches\n2.3. Feature branches\n3. Tag naming convention\n4. CVS and git history\nThe current development branch is: 7.x-3.x\nThe current stable branch is: 6.x-2.x\nAll branches are either development branches, stable branches or feature branches. Development and stable branches have the same naming convention: 6.x-2.x or 7.x-3.x. The only different between the two is that a stable branch is the branch where stable releases are published from.\nNote: since the great git.drupal.org migration, we are back on Drupal.org and have been forced to change some of our naming convention, especially to include the core release number in the tag (so 6.x-2.x), which is a source of confusion for our provision module which supports any Drupal core version. See this issue on drupal.org for followup.\nThe main development branch is created after a fully stable release is published. For example, the 6.x-2.x branch has been created when the 1.0 release was published. It is a development branch until it is considered feature-complete and goes through the alpha/beta/rc release cycle, at which point it will be declared a stable branch and a new development branch will be created (7.x-3.x at that point).\nThe development branch is not stable and should not be used in production environments.\nNote that we have dropped the master branch as it is not well supported on Drupal.org for releases.\nStable releases are performed from stable release branches. A branch is declared stable only after it went through the complete alpha/beta/rc release cycle, as detailed above..\nOnce the branch is declared stable, new releases are quickly done as \"hotfixes\", without intervening alpha/beta/rc releases. So for example, 6.x-1.0 will come after 6.x-1.0-alpha1, 6.x-1.0-beta1, 6.x-1.0-rc1 at least, and then be followed directly by 6.x-1.1.\nReleases on the same stable branch are API-compatible with each other (so 1.1 is compatible with 1.0). The upgrade path is supported between major stable releases (so you can upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 or 2.0).\nSpecial case: during the 0.x release cycle, releases were not API-compatible with each other, ie. 0.4 was not compatible with 0.3, and you could barely upgrade from 0.3 to 0.4.\nOnly one stable branch is maintained at a time.\nMore complex development goes into development or \"feature\" branches, to avoid making master too unstable. Feature branches must be prefixed with \"dev-\" and use the issue number (if available or relevant) and a short name. So for example, there could be work on a dev-12345-mybug branch or dev-dns branch for a larger feature (DNS, in that case) which doesn't fit in a single issue.\nFeature branches should be based of a known stable baseline as much as possible. For example, you should branch off the last alpha release if you want to make merging with other dev branches and master easier. See this article for a thorough discussion on this practice\nEvery release is tagged with a 6.x-x.y tag (e.g. 6.x-0.4, 6.x-0.4-alpha15 or 6.x-1.0). Those tags are usually laid on the stable branches, except for alpha/beta/rc releases which are laid on the development branch.\nThe CVS tags and branches are still accessible in git and will be kept there for posterity. They respect the traditional Drupal.org naming convention.\nThey have also been converted to the new git.drupal.org conventions during the great git.drupal.org migration.\nSince that migration (february 2011), history has been rewritten to clean up the authors in the history.\nBranching off last release instead of head? Tue, 12/07/2010 - 22:23 anarcat\n< No highlighting >01/07/2014 - 21:58 by anarcat12/02/2011 - 16:57 by anarcat11/18/2011 - 21:31 by anarcat11/18/2011 - 21:30 by anarcat11/18/2011 - 21:29 by anarcat11/18/2011 - 21:25 by anarcat11/18/2011 - 21:21 by anarcat04/06/2011 - 02:20 by anarcat04/04/2011 - 18:46 by anarcat04/01/2011 - 18:01 by bwood02/27/2011 - 14:53 by anarcat02/27/2011 - 14:23 by anarcat02/18/2011 - 02:31 by anarcat12/06/2010 - 05:35 by anarcat12/06/2010 - 05:16 by anarcat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 16220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://compactgrowth.com/2019/02/11/the-top-secret-truth-about-essay-about-the-things-they-carried-uncovered/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GQWROLKHLVIWEO4K3UB36LMKHFBSU3OC", "length": 4700, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "compactgrowth.com", "title": "The Top Secret Truth About Essay about the Things They Carried Uncovered \u2013 Compact Growth", "raw_content": "The Top Secret Truth About Essay about the Things They Carried Uncovered\nHome/Uncategorized/The Top Secret Truth About Essay about the Things They Carried Uncovered\nThe Foolproof Essay about the Things They Carried Strategy\nIf you stumble over difficult questions for a minute that is too long, you might not be in a position. 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Formative assessment, also known as educative assessment, is utilised to help studying.\nYou will discover that you in a book is best for you, but you might also discover that you become more from a personalized routine which incorporates rankings and motions from patterns that are identifying. It can very likely set you off writing, totally. Writing an essay can sound to be a simple job.\nMany people just stood at the front of the coffee-making place. The individuals have a distinctive and elegant culture. Stories were a method for those soldiers and an opportunity for a individual to.\nYou are not sure that you desire to https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/Comparative-Essay.pdf encourage the Left wing. You wish to spell out how you\u2019re most likely to approach your subject. What compounds the matter is that often if we find ourselves with a margin that is small, we have a tendency to develop into rid of it quickly.\nForces like terror and war cause the many changes in your lifetime. What\u2019s more, In many circumstances a war narrative can\u2019t be believed. Thus, different folks could perceive in a variety of ways liberty.\nThe very best miracle on earth is YOU!\u201d The woman believed also. A youthful teen in town of Macedonia, decided he wished to make a buck.\nEssay about the Things They Carried \u2013 the Story\nCarnal men and women are a proportion of the present population but a shift may be observed by time. Children may benefit from it if exposed to the world wide web at the proper age. Select a time, select a location, and you are likely to detect it.\nYour first duty is to FIND OUT what it is you\u2019re very likely to speak about. Unsuccessful folks avoid taking any risks to attempt to prevent failure. Effective thinking abilities cannot be researched, but needs to be built up within a time period.\nIt is a small world after all. Even if your occupation is important and should be taken seriously, that doesn\u2019t imply you need to take yourself seriously. In the world today, it isn\u2019t the education and the competency of the direction that determine the productivity and the of a business but it\u2019s the work force.\nTo put money into research is to place money into a better future. For a company to survive and keep making profits, the interests of the employees need to be considered. Innovations in the current tech-world can empower us to locate answers to issues that are urgent and hard.\nReread that you\u2019re measuring everything you\u2019ve gained from the strategy. Write about the reaction you\u2019re going to be using equation and the conditions required. The volume is just measured utilizing a burette.\nPut the reach of greenwashing plans and company scandals lately promote reduction of consumer trust to companies that engage in green marketing. There are endlesssales management resources that will enable you to get started and guide you as your company grows as well while you construct your team. The most remarkable gadget that is absolute is a cell phone.\nIf you don\u2019t analyze your thoughts that are fundamental they will acquire habitual. There is A pilgrimage supposed to have significance. M dreams for the doldrums\u2019 resurrection will not be simple but nevertheless, it would need to get accomplished.\nMay be it is also hard to see relevance and link that is decent of portions of the poem to one another. The shape of the verb will also need to be assigned. The concluding paragraph of the introductory paragraph of the paragraph and a paragraph ought to be connected and consistency has to be maintained throughout.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://complementsholistics.co.uk/training/gathering052/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OUMZO2AA76I2WVLVKLN2EFBRP5D2DQIH", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "complementsholistics.co.uk", "title": "gathering052 - Complements holistics grimsbyComplements holistics grimsby", "raw_content": "Published May 8, 2013 at 197 \u00d7 295 in Training", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 163.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://conceptmap.cfapps.io/wikipage?lang=en&name=Euclidean_vector", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RZT42LOX7JRINFYEK4FWSW2PHBQUJOZO", "length": 49570, "nlines": 274, "source_domain": "conceptmap.cfapps.io", "title": "Euclidean vector - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "This article is about the vectors mainly used in physics and engineering to represent directed quantities. For mathematical vectors in general, see Vector (mathematics and physics). For other uses, see Vector (disambiguation).\nA vector pointing from A to B\nIn mathematics, physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector (sometimes called a geometric[1] or spatial vector,[2] or\u2014as here\u2014simply a vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude (or length) and direction. Vectors can be added to other vectors according to vector algebra. A Euclidean vector is frequently represented by a line segment with a definite direction, or graphically as an arrow, connecting an initial point A with a terminal point B,[3] and denoted by A B \u2192 . {\\displaystyle {\\overrightarrow {AB}}.}\nA vector is what is needed to \"carry\" the point A to the point B; the Latin word vector means \"carrier\".[4] It was first used by 18th century astronomers investigating planetary revolution around the Sun.[5] The magnitude of the vector is the distance between the two points and the direction refers to the direction of displacement from A to B. Many algebraic operations on real numbers such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and negation have close analogues for vectors, operations which obey the familiar algebraic laws of commutativity, associativity, and distributivity. These operations and associated laws qualify Euclidean vectors as an example of the more generalized concept of vectors defined simply as elements of a vector space.\nVectors play an important role in physics: the velocity and acceleration of a moving object and the forces acting on it can all be described with vectors. Many other physical quantities can be usefully thought of as vectors. Although most of them do not represent distances (except, for example, position or displacement), their magnitude and direction can still be represented by the length and direction of an arrow. The mathematical representation of a physical vector depends on the coordinate system used to describe it. Other vector-like objects that describe physical quantities and transform in a similar way under changes of the coordinate system include pseudovectors and tensors.\nThe concept of vector, as we know it today, evolved gradually over a period of more than 200 years. About a dozen people made significant contributions.[6]\nGiusto Bellavitis abstracted the basic idea in 1835 when he established the concept of equipollence. Working in a Euclidean plane, he made equipollent any pair of line segments of the same length and orientation. Essentially he realized an equivalence relation on the pairs of points (bipoints) in the plane and thus erected the first space of vectors in the plane.[6]:52\u20134\nThe term vector was introduced by William Rowan Hamilton as part of a quaternion, which is a sum q = s + v of a Real number s (also called scalar) and a 3-dimensional vector. Like Bellavitis, Hamilton viewed vectors as representative of classes of equipollent directed segments. As complex numbers use an imaginary unit to complement the real line, Hamilton considered the vector v to be the imaginary part of a quaternion:\nThe algebraically imaginary part, being geometrically constructed by a straight line, or radius vector, which has, in general, for each determined quaternion, a determined length and determined direction in space, may be called the vector part, or simply the vector of the quaternion.[7]\nSeveral other mathematicians developed vector-like systems in the middle of the nineteenth century, including Augustin Cauchy, Hermann Grassmann, August M\u00f6bius, Comte de Saint-Venant, and Matthew O'Brien. Grassmann's 1840 work Theorie der Ebbe und Flut (Theory of the Ebb and Flow) was the first system of spatial analysis similar to today's system and had ideas corresponding to the cross product, scalar product and vector differentiation. Grassmann's work was largely neglected until the 1870s.[6]\nPeter Guthrie Tait carried the quaternion standard after Hamilton. His 1867 Elementary Treatise of Quaternions included extensive treatment of the nabla or del operator \u2207.\nIn 1878 Elements of Dynamic was published by William Kingdon Clifford. Clifford simplified the quaternion study by isolating the dot product and cross product of two vectors from the complete quaternion product. This approach made vector calculations available to engineers and others working in three dimensions and skeptical of the fourth.\nJosiah Willard Gibbs, who was exposed to quaternions through James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, separated off their vector part for independent treatment. The first half of Gibbs's Elements of Vector Analysis, published in 1881, presents what is essentially the modern system of vector analysis.[6] In 1901 Edwin Bidwell Wilson published Vector Analysis, adapted from Gibb's lectures, which banished any mention of quaternions in the development of vector calculus.\nIn physics and engineering, a vector is typically regarded as a geometric entity characterized by a magnitude and a direction. It is formally defined as a directed line segment, or arrow, in a Euclidean space.[8] In pure mathematics, a vector is defined more generally as any element of a vector space. In this context, vectors are abstract entities which may or may not be characterized by a magnitude and a direction. This generalized definition implies that the above-mentioned geometric entities are a special kind of vectors, as they are elements of a special kind of vector space called Euclidean space.\nThis article is about vectors strictly defined as arrows in Euclidean space. When it becomes necessary to distinguish these special vectors from vectors as defined in pure mathematics, they are sometimes referred to as geometric, spatial, or Euclidean vectors.\nBeing an arrow, a Euclidean vector possesses a definite initial point and terminal point. A vector with fixed initial and terminal point is called a bound vector.[9] When only the magnitude and direction of the vector matter, then the particular initial point is of no importance, and the vector is called a free vector. Thus two arrows A B \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\overrightarrow {AB}}}\nand A \u2032 B \u2032 \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\overrightarrow {A'B'}}}\nin space represent the same free vector if they have the same magnitude and direction: that is, they are equivalent if the quadrilateral ABB\u2032A\u2032 is a parallelogram. If the Euclidean space is equipped with a choice of origin, then a free vector is equivalent to the bound vector of the same magnitude and direction whose initial point is the origin.\nThe term vector also has generalizations to higher dimensions and to more formal approaches with much wider applications.\nExamples in one dimensionEdit\nSince the physicist's concept of force has a direction and a magnitude, it may be seen as a vector. As an example, consider a rightward force F of 15 newtons. If the positive axis is also directed rightward, then F is represented by the vector 15 N, and if positive points leftward, then the vector for F is \u221215 N. In either case, the magnitude of the vector is 15 N. Likewise, the vector representation of a displacement \u0394s of 4 meters would be 4 m or \u22124 m, depending on its direction, and its magnitude would be 4 m regardless.\nIn physics and engineeringEdit\nVectors are fundamental in the physical sciences. They can be used to represent any quantity that has magnitude, has direction, and which adheres to the rules of vector addition. An example is velocity, the magnitude of which is speed. For example, the velocity 5 meters per second upward could be represented by the vector (0, 5) (in 2 dimensions with the positive y-axis as 'up'). Another quantity represented by a vector is force, since it has a magnitude and direction and follows the rules of vector addition. Vectors also describe many other physical quantities, such as linear displacement, displacement, linear acceleration, angular acceleration, linear momentum, and angular momentum. Other physical vectors, such as the electric and magnetic field, are represented as a system of vectors at each point of a physical space; that is, a vector field. Examples of quantities that have magnitude and direction but fail to follow the rules of vector addition are angular displacement and electric current. Consequently, these are not vectors.\nIn Cartesian spaceEdit\nIn the Cartesian coordinate system, a bound vector can be represented by identifying the coordinates of its initial and terminal point. For instance, the points A = (1, 0, 0) and B = (0, 1, 0) in space determine the bound vector A B \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\overrightarrow {AB}}}\npointing from the point x = 1 on the x-axis to the point y = 1 on the y-axis.\nIn Cartesian coordinates a free vector may be thought of in terms of a corresponding bound vector, in this sense, whose initial point has the coordinates of the origin O = (0, 0, 0). It is then determined by the coordinates of that bound vector's terminal point. Thus the free vector represented by (1, 0, 0) is a vector of unit length pointing along the direction of the positive x-axis.\nThis coordinate representation of free vectors allows their algebraic features to be expressed in a convenient numerical fashion. For example, the sum of the two (free) vectors (1, 2, 3) and (\u22122, 0, 4) is the (free) vector\n(1, 2, 3) + (\u22122, 0, 4) = (1 \u2212 2, 2 + 0, 3 + 4) = (\u22121, 2, 7).\nEuclidean and affine vectorsEdit\nIn the geometrical and physical settings, sometimes it is possible to associate, in a natural way, a length or magnitude and a direction to vectors. In addition, the notion of direction is strictly associated with the notion of an angle between two vectors. If the dot product of two vectors is defined\u2014a scalar-valued product of two vectors\u2014then it is also possible to define a length; the dot product gives a convenient algebraic characterization of both angle (a function of the dot product between any two non-zero vectors) and length (the square root of the dot product of a vector by itself). In three dimensions, it is further possible to define the cross product, which supplies an algebraic characterization of the area and orientation in space of the parallelogram defined by two vectors (used as sides of the parallelogram). In any dimension (and, in particular, higher dimensions), it's possible to define the exterior product, which (among other things) supplies an algebraic characterization of the area and orientation in space of the n-dimensional parallelotope defined by n vectors.\nHowever, it is not always possible or desirable to define the length of a vector in a natural way. This more general type of spatial vector is the subject of vector spaces (for free vectors) and affine spaces (for bound vectors, as each represented by an ordered pair of \"points\"). An important example is Minkowski space that is important to our understanding of special relativity, where there is a generalization of length that permits non-zero vectors to have zero length. Other physical examples come from thermodynamics, where many of the quantities of interest can be considered vectors in a space with no notion of length or angle.[10]\nIn physics, as well as mathematics, a vector is often identified with a tuple of components, or list of numbers, that act as scalar coefficients for a set of basis vectors. When the basis is transformed, for example by rotation or stretching, then the components of any vector in terms of that basis also transform in an opposite sense. The vector itself has not changed, but the basis has, so the components of the vector must change to compensate. The vector is called covariant or contravariant depending on how the transformation of the vector's components is related to the transformation of the basis. In general, contravariant vectors are \"regular vectors\" with units of distance (such as a displacement) or distance times some other unit (such as velocity or acceleration); covariant vectors, on the other hand, have units of one-over-distance such as gradient. If you change units (a special case of a change of basis) from meters to millimeters, a scale factor of 1/1000, a displacement of 1 m becomes 1000 mm\u2014a contravariant change in numerical value. In contrast, a gradient of 1 K/m becomes 0.001 K/mm\u2014a covariant change in value. See covariance and contravariance of vectors. Tensors are another type of quantity that behave in this way; a vector is one type of tensor.\nIn pure mathematics, a vector is any element of a vector space over some field and is often represented as a coordinate vector. The vectors described in this article are a very special case of this general definition because they are contravariant with respect to the ambient space. Contravariance captures the physical intuition behind the idea that a vector has \"magnitude and direction\".\nVectors are usually denoted in lowercase boldface, as a or lowercase italic boldface, as a. (Uppercase letters are typically used to represent matrices.) Other conventions include a \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\vec {a}}}\nor a, especially in handwriting. Alternatively, some use a tilde (~) or a wavy underline drawn beneath the symbol, e.g. a \u223c {\\displaystyle {\\underset {^{\\sim }}{a}}}\n, which is a convention for indicating boldface type. If the vector represents a directed distance or displacement from a point A to a point B (see figure), it can also be denoted as A B \u27f6 {\\displaystyle {\\stackrel {\\longrightarrow }{AB}}}\nor AB. Especially in literature in German it was common to represent vectors with small fraktur letters as a {\\displaystyle {\\mathfrak {a}}}\nVectors are usually shown in graphs or other diagrams as arrows (directed line segments), as illustrated in the figure. Here the point A is called the origin, tail, base, or initial point; point B is called the head, tip, endpoint, terminal point or final point. The length of the arrow is proportional to the vector's magnitude, while the direction in which the arrow points indicates the vector's direction.\nOn a two-dimensional diagram, sometimes a vector perpendicular to the plane of the diagram is desired. These vectors are commonly shown as small circles. A circle with a dot at its centre (Unicode U+2299 \u2299) indicates a vector pointing out of the front of the diagram, toward the viewer. A circle with a cross inscribed in it (Unicode U+2297 \u2297) indicates a vector pointing into and behind the diagram. These can be thought of as viewing the tip of an arrow head on and viewing the flights of an arrow from the back.\nA vector in the Cartesian plane, showing the position of a point A with coordinates (2, 3).\nIn order to calculate with vectors, the graphical representation may be too cumbersome. Vectors in an n-dimensional Euclidean space can be represented as coordinate vectors in a Cartesian coordinate system. The endpoint of a vector can be identified with an ordered list of n real numbers (n-tuple). These numbers are the coordinates of the endpoint of the vector, with respect to a given Cartesian coordinate system, and are typically called the scalar components (or scalar projections) of the vector on the axes of the coordinate system.\nAs an example in two dimensions (see figure), the vector from the origin O = (0, 0) to the point A = (2, 3) is simply written as\na = ( 2 , 3 ) . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =(2,3).}\nThe notion that the tail of the vector coincides with the origin is implicit and easily understood. Thus, the more explicit notation O A \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\overrightarrow {OA}}}\nis usually not deemed necessary and very rarely used.\nIn three dimensional Euclidean space (or R3), vectors are identified with triples of scalar components:\na = ( a 1 , a 2 , a 3 ) . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =(a_{1},a_{2},a_{3}).}\nalso written\na = ( a x , a y , a z ) . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =(a_{x},a_{y},a_{z}).}\nThis can be generalised to n-dimensional Euclidean space (or Rn).\na = ( a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , \u22ef , a n \u2212 1 , a n ) . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =(a_{1},a_{2},a_{3},\\cdots ,a_{n-1},a_{n}).}\nThese numbers are often arranged into a column vector or row vector, particularly when dealing with matrices, as follows:\na = [ a 1 a 2 a 3 ] = [ a 1 a 2 a 3 ] . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} ={\\begin{bmatrix}a_{1}\\\\a_{2}\\\\a_{3}\\\\\\end{bmatrix}}=[a_{1}\\ a_{2}\\ a_{3}].}\nAnother way to represent a vector in n-dimensions is to introduce the standard basis vectors. For instance, in three dimensions, there are three of them:\ne 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , e 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) , e 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) . {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {e} }_{1}=(1,0,0),\\ {\\mathbf {e} }_{2}=(0,1,0),\\ {\\mathbf {e} }_{3}=(0,0,1).}\nThese have the intuitive interpretation as vectors of unit length pointing up the x-, y-, and z-axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, respectively. In terms of these, any vector a in R3 can be expressed in the form:\na = ( a 1 , a 2 , a 3 ) = a 1 ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) + a 2 ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) + a 3 ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) , {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =(a_{1},a_{2},a_{3})=a_{1}(1,0,0)+a_{2}(0,1,0)+a_{3}(0,0,1),\\ }\na = a 1 + a 2 + a 3 = a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 + a 3 e 3 , {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =\\mathbf {a} _{1}+\\mathbf {a} _{2}+\\mathbf {a} _{3}=a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+a_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3},}\nwhere a1, a2, a3 are called the vector components (or vector projections) of a on the basis vectors or, equivalently, on the corresponding Cartesian axes x, y, and z (see figure), while a1, a2, a3 are the respective scalar components (or scalar projections).\nIn introductory physics textbooks, the standard basis vectors are often instead denoted i , j , k {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {i} ,\\mathbf {j} ,\\mathbf {k} }\n(or x ^ , y ^ , z ^ {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {\\hat {x}} ,\\mathbf {\\hat {y}} ,\\mathbf {\\hat {z}} }\n, in which the hat symbol ^ typically denotes unit vectors). In this case, the scalar and vector components are denoted respectively ax, ay, az, and ax, ay, az (note the difference in boldface). Thus,\na = a x + a y + a z = a x i + a y j + a z k . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =\\mathbf {a} _{x}+\\mathbf {a} _{y}+\\mathbf {a} _{z}=a_{x}{\\mathbf {i} }+a_{y}{\\mathbf {j} }+a_{z}{\\mathbf {k} }.}\nThe notation ei is compatible with the index notation and the summation convention commonly used in higher level mathematics, physics, and engineering.\nDecomposition or resolutionEdit\nFurther information: Basis (linear algebra)\nAs explained above a vector is often described by a set of vector components that add up to form the given vector. Typically, these components are the projections of the vector on a set of mutually perpendicular reference axes (basis vectors). The vector is said to be decomposed or resolved with respect to that set.\nIllustration of tangential and normal components of a vector to a surface.\nThe decomposition or resolution[11] of a vector into components is not unique, because it depends on the choice of the axes on which the vector is projected.\nMoreover, the use of Cartesian unit vectors such as x ^ , y ^ , z ^ {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {\\hat {x}} ,\\mathbf {\\hat {y}} ,\\mathbf {\\hat {z}} }\nas a basis in which to represent a vector is not mandated. Vectors can also be expressed in terms of an arbitrary basis, including the unit vectors of a cylindrical coordinate system ( \u03c1 ^ , \u03d5 ^ , z ^ {\\displaystyle {\\boldsymbol {\\hat {\\rho }}},{\\boldsymbol {\\hat {\\phi }}},\\mathbf {\\hat {z}} }\n) or spherical coordinate system ( r ^ , \u03b8 ^ , \u03d5 ^ {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {\\hat {r}} ,{\\boldsymbol {\\hat {\\theta }}},{\\boldsymbol {\\hat {\\phi }}}}\n). The latter two choices are more convenient for solving problems which possess cylindrical or spherical symmetry respectively.\nThe choice of a basis does not affect the properties of a vector or its behaviour under transformations.\nA vector can also be broken up with respect to \"non-fixed\" basis vectors that change their orientation as a function of time or space. For example, a vector in three-dimensional space can be decomposed with respect to two axes, respectively normal, and tangent to a surface (see figure). Moreover, the radial and tangential components of a vector relate to the radius of rotation of an object. The former is parallel to the radius and the latter is orthogonal to it.[12]\nIn these cases, each of the components may be in turn decomposed with respect to a fixed coordinate system or basis set (e.g., a global coordinate system, or inertial reference frame).\nThe following section uses the Cartesian coordinate system with basis vectors\ne 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , e 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) , e 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {e} }_{1}=(1,0,0),\\ {\\mathbf {e} }_{2}=(0,1,0),\\ {\\mathbf {e} }_{3}=(0,0,1)}\nand assumes that all vectors have the origin as a common base point. A vector a will be written as\na = a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 + a 3 e 3 . {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {a} }=a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+a_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}.}\nTwo vectors are said to be equal if they have the same magnitude and direction. Equivalently they will be equal if their coordinates are equal. So two vectors\na = a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 + a 3 e 3 {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {a} }=a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+a_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}}\nb = b 1 e 1 + b 2 e 2 + b 3 e 3 {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {b} }=b_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+b_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+b_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}}\nare equal if\na 1 = b 1 , a 2 = b 2 , a 3 = b 3 . {\\displaystyle a_{1}=b_{1},\\quad a_{2}=b_{2},\\quad a_{3}=b_{3}.\\,}\nOpposite, parallel, and antiparallel vectorsEdit\nTwo vectors are opposite if they have the same magnitude but opposite direction. So two vectors\nare opposite if\na 1 = \u2212 b 1 , a 2 = \u2212 b 2 , a 3 = \u2212 b 3 . {\\displaystyle a_{1}=-b_{1},\\quad a_{2}=-b_{2},\\quad a_{3}=-b_{3}.\\,}\nTwo vectors are parallel if they have the same direction but not necessarily the same magnitude, or antiparallel if they have opposite direction but not necessarily the same magnitude.\nFurther information: Vector space\nAssume now that a and b are not necessarily equal vectors, but that they may have different magnitudes and directions. The sum of a and b is\na + b = ( a 1 + b 1 ) e 1 + ( a 2 + b 2 ) e 2 + ( a 3 + b 3 ) e 3 . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} +\\mathbf {b} =(a_{1}+b_{1})\\mathbf {e} _{1}+(a_{2}+b_{2})\\mathbf {e} _{2}+(a_{3}+b_{3})\\mathbf {e} _{3}.}\nThe addition may be represented graphically by placing the tail of the arrow b at the head of the arrow a, and then drawing an arrow from the tail of a to the head of b. The new arrow drawn represents the vector a + b, as illustrated below:\nThis addition method is sometimes called the parallelogram rule because a and b form the sides of a parallelogram and a + b is one of the diagonals. If a and b are bound vectors that have the same base point, this point will also be the base point of a + b. One can check geometrically that a + b = b + a and (a + b) + c = a + (b + c).\nThe difference of a and b is\na \u2212 b = ( a 1 \u2212 b 1 ) e 1 + ( a 2 \u2212 b 2 ) e 2 + ( a 3 \u2212 b 3 ) e 3 . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} -\\mathbf {b} =(a_{1}-b_{1})\\mathbf {e} _{1}+(a_{2}-b_{2})\\mathbf {e} _{2}+(a_{3}-b_{3})\\mathbf {e} _{3}.}\nSubtraction of two vectors can be geometrically defined as follows: to subtract b from a, place the tails of a and b at the same point, and then draw an arrow from the head of b to the head of a. This new arrow represents the vector a \u2212 b, as illustrated below:\nScalar multiplicationEdit\nMain article: Scalar multiplication\nScalar multiplication of a vector by a factor of 3 stretches the vector out.\nA vector may also be multiplied, or re-scaled, by a real number r. In the context of conventional vector algebra, these real numbers are often called scalars (from scale) to distinguish them from vectors. The operation of multiplying a vector by a scalar is called scalar multiplication. The resulting vector is\nr a = ( r a 1 ) e 1 + ( r a 2 ) e 2 + ( r a 3 ) e 3 . {\\displaystyle r\\mathbf {a} =(ra_{1})\\mathbf {e} _{1}+(ra_{2})\\mathbf {e} _{2}+(ra_{3})\\mathbf {e} _{3}.}\nIntuitively, multiplying by a scalar r stretches a vector out by a factor of r. Geometrically, this can be visualized (at least in the case when r is an integer) as placing r copies of the vector in a line where the endpoint of one vector is the initial point of the next vector.\nIf r is negative, then the vector changes direction: it flips around by an angle of 180\u00b0. Two examples (r = \u22121 and r = 2) are given below:\nThe scalar multiplications \u2212a and 2a of a vector a\nScalar multiplication is distributive over vector addition in the following sense: r(a + b) = ra + rb for all vectors a and b and all scalars r. One can also show that a \u2212 b = a + (\u22121)b.\nThe length or magnitude or norm of the vector a is denoted by \u2016a\u2016 or, less commonly, |a|, which is not to be confused with the absolute value (a scalar \"norm\").\nThe length of the vector a can be computed with the Euclidean norm\n\u2016 a \u2016 = a 1 2 + a 2 2 + a 3 2 {\\displaystyle \\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|={\\sqrt {a_{1}^{2}+a_{2}^{2}+a_{3}^{2}}}}\nwhich is a consequence of the Pythagorean theorem since the basis vectors e1, e2, e3 are orthogonal unit vectors.\nThis happens to be equal to the square root of the dot product, discussed below, of the vector with itself:\n\u2016 a \u2016 = a \u22c5 a . {\\displaystyle \\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|={\\sqrt {\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {a} }}.}\nThe normalization of a vector a into a unit vector \u00e2\nMain article: Unit vector\nA unit vector is any vector with a length of one; normally unit vectors are used simply to indicate direction. A vector of arbitrary length can be divided by its length to create a unit vector. This is known as normalizing a vector. A unit vector is often indicated with a hat as in \u00e2.\nTo normalize a vector a = (a1, a2, a3), scale the vector by the reciprocal of its length \u2016a\u2016. That is:\na ^ = a \u2016 a \u2016 = a 1 \u2016 a \u2016 e 1 + a 2 \u2016 a \u2016 e 2 + a 3 \u2016 a \u2016 e 3 {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {\\hat {a}} ={\\frac {\\mathbf {a} }{\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|}}={\\frac {a_{1}}{\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|}}\\mathbf {e} _{1}+{\\frac {a_{2}}{\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|}}\\mathbf {e} _{2}+{\\frac {a_{3}}{\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|}}\\mathbf {e} _{3}}\nMain article: Zero vector\nThe zero vector is the vector with length zero. Written out in coordinates, the vector is (0, 0, 0), and it is commonly denoted 0 \u2192 {\\displaystyle {\\vec {0}}}\n, 0, or simply 0. Unlike any other vector, it has an arbitrary or indeterminate direction, and cannot be normalized (that is, there is no unit vector that is a multiple of the zero vector). The sum of the zero vector with any vector a is a (that is, 0 + a = a).\nDot productEdit\nMain article: Dot product\nThe dot product of two vectors a and b (sometimes called the inner product, or, since its result is a scalar, the scalar product) is denoted by a \u2219 b and is defined as:\na \u22c5 b = \u2016 a \u2016 \u2016 b \u2016 cos \u2061 \u03b8 {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {b} =\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|\\left\\|\\mathbf {b} \\right\\|\\cos \\theta }\nwhere \u03b8 is the measure of the angle between a and b (see trigonometric function for an explanation of cosine). Geometrically, this means that a and b are drawn with a common start point and then the length of a is multiplied with the length of the component of b that points in the same direction as a.\nThe dot product can also be defined as the sum of the products of the components of each vector as\na \u22c5 b = a 1 b 1 + a 2 b 2 + a 3 b 3 . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {b} =a_{1}b_{1}+a_{2}b_{2}+a_{3}b_{3}.}\nCross productEdit\nMain article: Cross product\nThe cross product (also called the vector product or outer product) is only meaningful in three or seven dimensions. The cross product differs from the dot product primarily in that the result of the cross product of two vectors is a vector. The cross product, denoted a \u00d7 b, is a vector perpendicular to both a and b and is defined as\na \u00d7 b = \u2016 a \u2016 \u2016 b \u2016 sin \u2061 ( \u03b8 ) n {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} \\times \\mathbf {b} =\\left\\|\\mathbf {a} \\right\\|\\left\\|\\mathbf {b} \\right\\|\\sin(\\theta )\\,\\mathbf {n} }\nwhere \u03b8 is the measure of the angle between a and b, and n is a unit vector perpendicular to both a and b which completes a right-handed system. The right-handedness constraint is necessary because there exist two unit vectors that are perpendicular to both a and b, namely, n and (\u2013n).\nAn illustration of the cross product\nThe cross product a \u00d7 b is defined so that a, b, and a \u00d7 b also becomes a right-handed system (but note that a and b are not necessarily orthogonal). This is the right-hand rule.\nThe length of a \u00d7 b can be interpreted as the area of the parallelogram having a and b as sides.\nThe cross product can be written as\na \u00d7 b = ( a 2 b 3 \u2212 a 3 b 2 ) e 1 + ( a 3 b 1 \u2212 a 1 b 3 ) e 2 + ( a 1 b 2 \u2212 a 2 b 1 ) e 3 . {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {a} }\\times {\\mathbf {b} }=(a_{2}b_{3}-a_{3}b_{2}){\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+(a_{3}b_{1}-a_{1}b_{3}){\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+(a_{1}b_{2}-a_{2}b_{1}){\\mathbf {e} }_{3}.}\nFor arbitrary choices of spatial orientation (that is, allowing for left-handed as well as right-handed coordinate systems) the cross product of two vectors is a pseudovector instead of a vector (see below).\nScalar triple productEdit\nMain article: Scalar triple product\nThe scalar triple product (also called the box product or mixed triple product) is not really a new operator, but a way of applying the other two multiplication operators to three vectors. The scalar triple product is sometimes denoted by (a b c) and defined as:\n( a b c ) = a \u22c5 ( b \u00d7 c ) . {\\displaystyle (\\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {c} )=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot (\\mathbf {b} \\times \\mathbf {c} ).}\nIt has three primary uses. First, the absolute value of the box product is the volume of the parallelepiped which has edges that are defined by the three vectors. Second, the scalar triple product is zero if and only if the three vectors are linearly dependent, which can be easily proved by considering that in order for the three vectors to not make a volume, they must all lie in the same plane. Third, the box product is positive if and only if the three vectors a, b and c are right-handed.\nIn components (with respect to a right-handed orthonormal basis), if the three vectors are thought of as rows (or columns, but in the same order), the scalar triple product is simply the determinant of the 3-by-3 matrix having the three vectors as rows\n( a b c ) = | ( a 1 a 2 a 3 b 1 b 2 b 3 c 1 c 2 c 3 ) | {\\displaystyle (\\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {c} )=\\left|{\\begin{pmatrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&a_{3}\\\\b_{1}&b_{2}&b_{3}\\\\c_{1}&c_{2}&c_{3}\\\\\\end{pmatrix}}\\right|}\nThe scalar triple product is linear in all three entries and anti-symmetric in the following sense:\n( a b c ) = ( c a b ) = ( b c a ) = \u2212 ( a c b ) = \u2212 ( b a c ) = \u2212 ( c b a ) . {\\displaystyle (\\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {c} )=(\\mathbf {c} \\ \\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {b} )=(\\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {c} \\ \\mathbf {a} )=-(\\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {c} \\ \\mathbf {b} )=-(\\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {a} \\ \\mathbf {c} )=-(\\mathbf {c} \\ \\mathbf {b} \\ \\mathbf {a} ).}\nConversion between multiple Cartesian basesEdit\nAll examples thus far have dealt with vectors expressed in terms of the same basis, namely, the e basis {e1, e2, e3}. However, a vector can be expressed in terms of any number of different bases that are not necessarily aligned with each other, and still remain the same vector. In the e basis, a vector a is expressed, by definition, as\na = p e 1 + q e 2 + r e 3 {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =p\\mathbf {e} _{1}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3}}\nThe scalar components in the e basis are, by definition,\np = a \u22c5 e 1 {\\displaystyle p=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {e} _{1}}\nq = a \u22c5 e 2 {\\displaystyle q=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {e} _{2}}\nr = a \u22c5 e 3 {\\displaystyle r=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {e} _{3}}\nIn another orthnormal basis n = {n1, n2, n3} that is not necessarily aligned with e, the vector a is expressed as\na = u n 1 + v n 2 + w n 3 {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} =u\\mathbf {n} _{1}+v\\mathbf {n} _{2}+w\\mathbf {n} _{3}}\nand the scalar components in the n basis are, by definition,\nu = a \u22c5 n 1 {\\displaystyle u=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{1}}\nv = a \u22c5 n 2 {\\displaystyle v=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{2}}\nw = a \u22c5 n 3 {\\displaystyle w=\\mathbf {a} \\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{3}}\nThe values of p, q, r, and u, v, w relate to the unit vectors in such a way that the resulting vector sum is exactly the same physical vector a in both cases. It is common to encounter vectors known in terms of different bases (for example, one basis fixed to the Earth and a second basis fixed to a moving vehicle). In such a case it is necessary to develop a method to convert between bases so the basic vector operations such as addition and subtraction can be performed. One way to express u, v, w in terms of p, q, r is to use column matrices along with a direction cosine matrix containing the information that relates the two bases. Such an expression can be formed by substitution of the above equations to form\nu = ( p e 1 + q e 2 + r e 3 ) \u22c5 n 1 {\\displaystyle u=(p\\mathbf {e} _{1}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3})\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{1}}\nv = ( p e 1 + q e 2 + r e 3 ) \u22c5 n 2 {\\displaystyle v=(p\\mathbf {e} _{1}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3})\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{2}}\nw = ( p e 1 + q e 2 + r e 3 ) \u22c5 n 3 {\\displaystyle w=(p\\mathbf {e} _{1}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3})\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{3}}\nDistributing the dot-multiplication gives\nu = p e 1 \u22c5 n 1 + q e 2 \u22c5 n 1 + r e 3 \u22c5 n 1 {\\displaystyle u=p\\mathbf {e} _{1}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{1}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{1}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{1}}\nv = p e 1 \u22c5 n 2 + q e 2 \u22c5 n 2 + r e 3 \u22c5 n 2 {\\displaystyle v=p\\mathbf {e} _{1}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{2}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{2}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{2}}\nw = p e 1 \u22c5 n 3 + q e 2 \u22c5 n 3 + r e 3 \u22c5 n 3 {\\displaystyle w=p\\mathbf {e} _{1}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{3}+q\\mathbf {e} _{2}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{3}+r\\mathbf {e} _{3}\\cdot \\mathbf {n} _{3}}\nReplacing each dot product with a unique scalar gives\nu = c 11 p + c 12 q + c 13 r {\\displaystyle u=c_{11}p+c_{12}q+c_{13}r}\nv = c 21 p + c 22 q + c 23 r {\\displaystyle v=c_{21}p+c_{22}q+c_{23}r}\nw = c 31 p + c 32 q + c 33 r {\\displaystyle w=c_{31}p+c_{32}q+c_{33}r}\nand these equations can be expressed as the single matrix equation\n[ u v w ] = [ c 11 c 12 c 13 c 21 c 22 c 23 c 31 c 32 c 33 ] [ p q r ] {\\displaystyle {\\begin{bmatrix}u\\\\v\\\\w\\\\\\end{bmatrix}}={\\begin{bmatrix}c_{11}&c_{12}&c_{13}\\\\c_{21}&c_{22}&c_{23}\\\\c_{31}&c_{32}&c_{33}\\end{bmatrix}}{\\begin{bmatrix}p\\\\q\\\\r\\end{bmatrix}}}\nThis matrix equation relates the scalar components of a in the n basis (u,v, and w) with those in the e basis (p, q, and r). Each matrix element cjk is the direction cosine relating nj to ek.[13] The term direction cosine refers to the cosine of the angle between two unit vectors, which is also equal to their dot product.[13] Therefore,\nc 11 = n 1 \u22c5 e 1 {\\displaystyle c_{11}=\\mathbf {n} _{1}\\cdot \\mathbf {e} _{1}}\nBy referring collectively to e1, e2, e3 as the e basis and to n1, n2, n3 as the n basis, the matrix containing all the cjk is known as the \"transformation matrix from e to n\", or the \"rotation matrix from e to n\" (because it can be imagined as the \"rotation\" of a vector from one basis to another), or the \"direction cosine matrix from e to n\"[13] (because it contains direction cosines). The properties of a rotation matrix are such that its inverse is equal to its transpose. This means that the \"rotation matrix from e to n\" is the transpose of \"rotation matrix from n to e\".\nThe properties of a direction cosine matrix, C are[14]:\nthe determinant is unity, |C| = 1\nthe inverse is equal to the transpose,\nthe rows and columns are orthogonal unit vectors, therefore their dot products are zero.\nThe advantage of this method is that a direction cosine matrix can usually be obtained independently by using Euler angles or a quaternion to relate the two vector bases, so the basis conversions can be performed directly, without having to work out all the dot products described above.\nBy applying several matrix multiplications in succession, any vector can be expressed in any basis so long as the set of direction cosines is known relating the successive bases.[13]\nOther dimensionsEdit\nWith the exception of the cross and triple products, the above formulae generalise to two dimensions and higher dimensions. For example, addition generalises to two dimensions as\n( a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 ) + ( b 1 e 1 + b 2 e 2 ) = ( a 1 + b 1 ) e 1 + ( a 2 + b 2 ) e 2 {\\displaystyle (a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2})+(b_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+b_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2})=(a_{1}+b_{1}){\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+(a_{2}+b_{2}){\\mathbf {e} }_{2}}\nand in four dimensions as\n( a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 + a 3 e 3 + a 4 e 4 ) + ( b 1 e 1 + b 2 e 2 + b 3 e 3 + b 4 e 4 ) = ( a 1 + b 1 ) e 1 + ( a 2 + b 2 ) e 2 + ( a 3 + b 3 ) e 3 + ( a 4 + b 4 ) e 4 . {\\displaystyle {\\begin{aligned}(a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+a_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}+a_{4}{\\mathbf {e} }_{4})&+(b_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+b_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+b_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}+b_{4}{\\mathbf {e} }_{4})=\\\\(a_{1}+b_{1}){\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+(a_{2}+b_{2}){\\mathbf {e} }_{2}&+(a_{3}+b_{3}){\\mathbf {e} }_{3}+(a_{4}+b_{4}){\\mathbf {e} }_{4}.\\end{aligned}}}\nThe cross product does not readily generalise to other dimensions, though the closely related exterior product does, whose result is a bivector. In two dimensions this is simply a pseudoscalar\n( a 1 e 1 + a 2 e 2 ) \u2227 ( b 1 e 1 + b 2 e 2 ) = ( a 1 b 2 \u2212 a 2 b 1 ) e 1 e 2 . {\\displaystyle (a_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+a_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2})\\wedge (b_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+b_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2})=(a_{1}b_{2}-a_{2}b_{1})\\mathbf {e} _{1}\\mathbf {e} _{2}.}\nA seven-dimensional cross product is similar to the cross product in that its result is a vector orthogonal to the two arguments; there is however no natural way of selecting one of the possible such products.\nVectors have many uses in physics and other sciences.\nLength and unitsEdit\nIn abstract vector spaces, the length of the arrow depends on a dimensionless scale. If it represents, for example, a force, the \"scale\" is of physical dimension length/force. Thus there is typically consistency in scale among quantities of the same dimension, but otherwise scale ratios may vary; for example, if \"1 newton\" and \"5 m\" are both represented with an arrow of 2 cm, the scales are 1 m:50 N and 1:250 respectively. Equal length of vectors of different dimension has no particular significance unless there is some proportionality constant inherent in the system that the diagram represents. Also length of a unit vector (of dimension length, not length/force, etc.) has no coordinate-system-invariant significance.\nVector-valued functionsEdit\nMain article: Vector-valued function\nOften in areas of physics and mathematics, a vector evolves in time, meaning that it depends on a time parameter t. For instance, if r represents the position vector of a particle, then r(t) gives a parametric representation of the trajectory of the particle. Vector-valued functions can be differentiated and integrated by differentiating or integrating the components of the vector, and many of the familiar rules from calculus continue to hold for the derivative and integral of vector-valued functions.\nPosition, velocity and accelerationEdit\nThe position of a point x = (x1, x2, x3) in three-dimensional space can be represented as a position vector whose base point is the origin\nx = x 1 e 1 + x 2 e 2 + x 3 e 3 . {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {x} }=x_{1}{\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+x_{2}{\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+x_{3}{\\mathbf {e} }_{3}.}\nThe position vector has dimensions of length.\nGiven two points x = (x1, x2, x3), y = (y1, y2, y3) their displacement is a vector\ny \u2212 x = ( y 1 \u2212 x 1 ) e 1 + ( y 2 \u2212 x 2 ) e 2 + ( y 3 \u2212 x 3 ) e 3 . {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {y} }-{\\mathbf {x} }=(y_{1}-x_{1}){\\mathbf {e} }_{1}+(y_{2}-x_{2}){\\mathbf {e} }_{2}+(y_{3}-x_{3}){\\mathbf {e} }_{3}.}\nwhich specifies the position of y relative to x. The length of this vector gives the straight-line distance from x to y. Displacement has the dimensions of length.\nThe velocity v of a point or particle is a vector, its length gives the speed. For constant velocity the position at time t will be\nx t = t v + x 0 , {\\displaystyle {\\mathbf {x} }_{t}=t{\\mathbf {v} }+{\\mathbf {x} }_{0},}\nwhere x0 is the position at time t = 0. Velocity is the time derivative of position. Its dimensions are length/time.\nAcceleration a of a point is vector which is the time derivative of velocity. Its dimensions are length/time2.\nForce, energy, workEdit\nForce is a vector with dimensions of mass\u00d7length/time2 and Newton's second law is the scalar multiplication\nWork is the dot product of force and displacement\nE = F \u22c5 ( x 2 \u2212 x 1 ) . {\\displaystyle E={\\mathbf {F} }\\cdot ({\\mathbf {x} }_{2}-{\\mathbf {x} }_{1}).}\nVectors as directional derivativesEdit\nA vector may also be defined as a directional derivative: consider a function f ( x \u03b1 ) {\\displaystyle f(x^{\\alpha })}\nand a curve x \u03b1 ( \u03c4 ) {\\displaystyle x^{\\alpha }(\\tau )}\n. Then the directional derivative of f {\\displaystyle f}\nis a scalar defined as\nd f d \u03c4 = \u2211 \u03b1 = 1 n d x \u03b1 d \u03c4 \u2202 f \u2202 x \u03b1 . {\\displaystyle {\\frac {df}{d\\tau }}=\\sum _{\\alpha =1}^{n}{\\frac {dx^{\\alpha }}{d\\tau }}{\\frac {\\partial f}{\\partial x^{\\alpha }}}.}\nwhere the index \u03b1 {\\displaystyle \\alpha }\nis summed over the appropriate number of dimensions (for example, from 1 to 3 in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, from 0 to 3 in 4-dimensional spacetime, etc.). Then consider a vector tangent to x \u03b1 ( \u03c4 ) {\\displaystyle x^{\\alpha }(\\tau )}\nt \u03b1 = d x \u03b1 d \u03c4 . {\\displaystyle t^{\\alpha }={\\frac {dx^{\\alpha }}{d\\tau }}.}\nThe directional derivative can be rewritten in differential form (without a given function f {\\displaystyle f}\nd d \u03c4 = \u2211 \u03b1 t \u03b1 \u2202 \u2202 x \u03b1 . {\\displaystyle {\\frac {d}{d\\tau }}=\\sum _{\\alpha }t^{\\alpha }{\\frac {\\partial }{\\partial x^{\\alpha }}}.}\nTherefore, any directional derivative can be identified with a corresponding vector, and any vector can be identified with a corresponding directional derivative. A vector can therefore be defined precisely as\na \u2261 a \u03b1 \u2202 \u2202 x \u03b1 . {\\displaystyle \\mathbf {a} \\equiv a^{\\alpha }{\\frac {\\partial }{\\partial x^{\\alpha }}}.}\nVectors, pseudovectors, and transformationsEdit\nAn alternative characterization of Euclidean vectors, especially in physics, describes them as lists of quantities which behave in a certain way under a coordinate transformation. A contravariant vector is required to have components that \"transform opposite to the basis\" under changes of basis. The vector itself does not change when the basis is transformed; instead, the components of the vector make a change that cancels the change in the basis. In other words, if the reference axes (and the basis derived from it) were rotated in one direction, the component representation of the vector would rotate in the opposite way to generate the same final vector. Similarly, if the reference axes were stretched in one direction, the components of the vector would reduce in an exactly compensating way. Mathematically, if the basis undergoes a transformation described by an invertible matrix M, so that a coordinate vector x is transformed to x\u2032 = Mx, then a contravariant vector v must be similarly transformed via v\u2032 = M \u2212 1 {\\displaystyle ^{-1}}\nv. This important requirement is what distinguishes a contravariant vector from any other triple of physically meaningful quantities. For example, if v consists of the x, y, and z-components of velocity, then v is a contravariant vector: if the coordinates of space are stretched, rotated, or twisted, then the components of the velocity transform in the same way. On the other hand, for instance, a triple consisting of the length, width, and height of a rectangular box could make up the three components of an abstract vector, but this vector would not be contravariant, since rotating the box does not change the box's length, width, and height. Examples of contravariant vectors include displacement, velocity, electric field, momentum, force, and acceleration.\nIn the language of differential geometry, the requirement that the components of a vector transform according to the same matrix of the coordinate transition is equivalent to defining a contravariant vector to be a tensor of contravariant rank one. Alternatively, a contravariant vector is defined to be a tangent vector, and the rules for transforming a contravariant vector follow from the chain rule.\nSome vectors transform like contravariant vectors, except that when they are reflected through a mirror, they flip and gain a minus sign. A transformation that switches right-handedness to left-handedness and vice versa like a mirror does is said to change the orientation of space. A vector which gains a minus sign when the orientation of space changes is called a pseudovector or an axial vector. Ordinary vectors are sometimes called true vectors or polar vectors to distinguish them from pseudovectors. Pseudovectors occur most frequently as the cross product of two ordinary vectors.\nOne example of a pseudovector is angular velocity. Driving in a car, and looking forward, each of the wheels has an angular velocity vector pointing to the left. If the world is reflected in a mirror which switches the left and right side of the car, the reflection of this angular velocity vector points to the right, but the actual angular velocity vector of the wheel still points to the left, corresponding to the minus sign. Other examples of pseudovectors include magnetic field, torque, or more generally any cross product of two (true) vectors.\nThis distinction between vectors and pseudovectors is often ignored, but it becomes important in studying symmetry properties. See parity (physics).\nAffine space, which distinguishes between vectors and points\nArray data structure or Vector (Computer Science)\nBanach space\nFour-vector, a non-Euclidean vector in Minkowski space (i.e. four-dimensional spacetime), important in relativity\nGrassmann's Ausdehnungslehre\nTangential and normal components (of a vector)\n^ Ivanov 2001\n^ Heinbockel 2001\n^ Ito 1993, p. 1678; Pedoe 1988\n^ Latin: vectus, perfect participle of vehere, \"to carry\"/ veho = \"I carry\". For historical development of the word vector, see \"vector n.\". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) and Jeff Miller. \"Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics\". Retrieved 2007-05-25.\n^ The Oxford english dictionary (2nd. ed.). London: Claredon Press. 2001. ISBN 9780195219425.\n^ a b c d Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis; see also his \"lecture notes\" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 26, 2004. Retrieved 2010-09-04. on the subject.\n^ W. R. Hamilton (1846) London, Edinburgh & Dublin Philosophical Magazine 3rd series 29 27\n^ Ito 1993, p. 1678\n^ Formerly known as located vector. See Lang 1986, p. 9.\n^ Thermodynamics and Differential Forms\n^ Gibbs, J.W. (1901). Vector Analysis: A Text-book for the Use of Students of Mathematics and Physics, Founded upon the Lectures of J. Willard Gibbs, by E.B. Wilson, Chares Scribner's Sons, New York, p. 15: \"Any vector r coplanar with two non-collinear vectors a and b may be resolved into two components parallel to a and b respectively. This resolution may be accomplished by constructing the parallelogram ...\"\n^ U. Guelph Physics Dept., \"Torque and Angular Acceleration\"\n^ a b c d Kane & Levinson 1996, pp. 20\u201322\n^ M., Rogers, Robert (2007). Applied mathematics in integrated navigation systems (3rd ed.). Reston, Va.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ISBN 9781563479274. OCLC 652389481.\nMathematical treatmentsEdit\nApostol, Tom (1967). Calculus. Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus with an Introduction to Linear Algebra. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-00005-1.\nApostol, Tom (1969). Calculus. Vol. 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-00007-5.\nHeinbockel, J. H. (2001), Introduction to Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1-55369-133-4 .\nIto, Kiyosi (1993), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.), MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-59020-4 .\nIvanov, A.B. 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But they can also be financially rewarding for high school and college students. The Ayn Rand Institute sponsors annual essay contests that offer over 600 prizes and $100,000 in prize money each year. For details, choose from the subjects shown on the left of their website. To enter their website, click here. Due October 24th, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://courses.standard.co.uk/educations/international-open-academy/living-with-diabetes-748108", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XOJNZVMMNE6OWXKAA47IL54B25PE2GWL", "length": 1900, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "courses.standard.co.uk", "title": "Find a course with Findcourses.co.uk and London Evening Standard", "raw_content": "When you're first diagnosed with diabetes, it can be a shock. Even if your doctor covers all the bases, you may be left feeling nervous, alone, and uncertain about the changes you'll have to make in your life. Or, you may suspect that you have diabetes, and don't know what the next steps are. The goal of this course is to provide you with information, education, support, and empowerment, so you can take control of your diabetes and live your happiest and healthiest life.\nFrom those early days of your first appointment and getting tested, right through long-term management and self-care, we'll cover all the stages of living with diabetes. In this course you'll learn tons of coping and wellness strategies related to diet, exercise, stress management, pain relief, and natural healing remedies.\nIf you're learning to live life as a diabetic, you don't have to go it alone, and you don't have to be in the dark! Our goal is to equip you with the tools of diabetes management so you can make smart decisions about your wellness and care.\nIndividuals who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes\nThose currently being tested for diabetes\nAnyone who worries they may have diabetes\nFamily members of a loved one who has diabetes\nIndividuals who have diabetes and want support and resources\nThose who want to manage their diabetes more effectively\nWhat to expect at your first doctor's visit\nAn overview of the different types of diabetes Types 1, 2, 3, and others\nVarious treatment methods and options\nAll about Insulin pumps and other devices\nHow to manage specific symptoms of diabetes and treat pain\nNatural and homeopathic remedies\nA comprehensive nutritional guide for diabetics\nExercise regimes recommended for diabetics\nHow to care for mental health issues, including depression and anxiety\nWhat it means to cope with a chronic illness\nWhere to find support and resources in your community", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cred.columbia.edu/research/all-projects/south-america-brazilcolombia-climatewater-field-research/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:U5ENVUJQS4JZSYXVJZ4CBPMRV22NVIHN", "length": 2915, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cred.columbia.edu", "title": "South America \u2014 Brazil/Colombia climate/water field research - Center for Research on Environmental Decisions", "raw_content": "South America \u2014 Brazil/Colombia climate/water field research\nAlex Pfaff, Renzo Taddei, Maria Alejandra V\u00e9lez\nThe purpose of this study is to experimentally investigate individual and group behavior under uncertainty. We are interested in applications of this to Common Pool Resources (CPR) under climate change. There has been a signi\ufb01cant amount of research done on CPRs under perfect information, where the size of the resource (e.g., reservoir water, \ufb01sh stocks) is known with certainty to its appropriators. However, most natural resources\u2019 size or capacity varies according to natural patterns, such as rainfall or average sunlight exposure. Recent improvements in forecasting weather patterns make the study of the impact of forecasting information on behavior of utmost relevance, especially when one seeks to design institutions, which enable decision-makers to achieve optimal allocation of a given resource. We also wish to explore the consequence of having different users with different productivities in terms of their use of the resource. This makes not only the total amount to be extracted of great relevance, but also the way it is distributed. Standard economic theory states that users with the highest productivity should have preferential access to the resource as this maximizes aggregate welfare. However, this has important consequences in terms of the level of inequality in the distribution of wealth across individuals. This trade-off between the aggregate gain and the equitable distribution of wealth is of critical importance in Northeast Brazil, in particular with respect to the distribution of water to different types of users in the region. Finally, we are interested in the problem of investment coordination in the face of uncertain access to a scarce natural resource. If access to a natural resource is made through an ex-post market, it is possible that investment coordination failure will take place, as too many (or too few) individuals invest. We wish to compare this institutional framework to a context in which access to the resource is done by a pre-speci\ufb01ed ordering or queue. We then wish to measure the ef\ufb01ciency gains (if any) that result by imposing this ordering as well as to study the gains of having individual agents purchase a place in queue, as opposed to the situation where they purchase a unit of the resource. We are then interested in investigating the group behavior under uncertainty in a variety of different hypothetical decision-making institutions, as well as studying the impact of information presentation on the decision outcomes.\nThis study will further current research on natural resource management under climate change and help identify mechanisms that will allow for the optimal allocation of these natural resources such as water or \ufb01shing stocks.\n\u00ab All Projects Using climate information to guide water resource management in Chile \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://credogroup.co.id/web/unites/60/show", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BEC7FUZ4RG3LU3S7ESS2GQ74LSTHIAUR", "length": 1679, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "credogroup.co.id", "title": "CREDO GROUP", "raw_content": "SMILING SERVICE AND CARE\nTo be a national, regional and international referral hospital which prioritize in quality and patient safety based on honesty, professionalism and respect to others\nTo comprehensively develop quality and integrated health service.\nTo establish national, regional and international business networking in providing health service\nTo provide health service focusing on patient.\nTo improve Hospital Human Resources through science, skill, attitude and behavior.\nMedistra Hospital (\u201cMedistra\u201d) is a158-bed tertiary care hospital established in 1988. The hospital is located next to the main highway which connecting the whole Jakarta, making it fully accessible from any directions. Nowadays it is providing medical services to more than ninety thousand patients every year.\nMedistra is well-known for being the leading general hospital in Indonesian orthopedic and cardiology community. Its expertise in cardiology covers a full range of integrated medical treatments ranging from preventive care, diagnostic, intervention and cardiac rehabilitation. Other than cardiology, the hospital also provides various medical treatments for inpatients and outpatients.\nTo sustain its daily operations and to provide ultimate medical care to its clients, Medistra establishes and manages facilities, such as:\n1. Cardiac Catheterization;\n2. Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty;\n3. Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvulopasty;\n4. Rehabilitation;\n5. Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU);\n6. Non-invasive laboratory;\n7. Emergency unit;\n8. Evacuation.\nThere is a strong commitment from all stakeholders to continuously provide the best medical care to the patients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crosswordheaven.com/clues/linda-ronstadts-blue-___", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GMYKBIHXMKQXTEOIMZVJ5FLQIQJCFKF4", "length": 266, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "crosswordheaven.com", "title": "Linda Ronstadt's \"Blue ___\" - Crossword Clue Answer | Crossword Heaven", "raw_content": "Clue: Linda Ronstadt's \"Blue ___\"\nWe have 1 answer for the clue Linda Ronstadt's \"Blue ___\". See the results below.\nFound an answer for the clue Linda Ronstadt's \"Blue ___\" that we don't have? 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Students violating this honor code are liable to stern disciplinary action.\nA similar vow of academic integrity ratified by the student senate is here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 143.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cuisinartfoodprocessor.org/cuisinart_food_processor_elite_selection_fp_14dc_14_cup_2.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3O7A25GFLVHT3H3PSFBHQP2XNJN3MOFY", "length": 1061, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cuisinartfoodprocessor.org", "title": "Cuisinart Food Processor Elite Selection Fp-14dc 14 Cup", "raw_content": "Some of the components were used once for creating an instructional use video. Includes storage case for blades. 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This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 3369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 82.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cultcha.blogspot.com/2011/03/education-show.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:5VLBSQ23GLXGOSYMLQE7IQF653TW7EKG", "length": 1084, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cultcha.blogspot.com", "title": "Cultural Geography Blog: The Education Show", "raw_content": "The GA will have a stand at this year's Education Show 2011 at the NEC.\nWe will be in Hall 6&7 on Stand P30A - the subject association area (as at BETT) - the show starts later this week...\nCome along to pick up the latest catalogues, see some of our new publications, browse some GA resources and be told about the support for Primary and Secondary colleague that members can expect, as well as our CPD support and online networks.\nWe would be interested to hear your views on the curriculum review, English Baccalaureate, and other challenges facing geography in schools, as well as the opportunities presented by these 'interesting times'.\nI will be setting up and manning the stand on the first day of the show: Thursday the 17th of March\nAlternatively, come with a USB drive and I'll let you have some free resources from my hard drive...\nI'll also be handing out various bits for those who get there early...\nMy colleagues Nicola Donkin and Paul Baker will be on the stand on the other 2 days of the show...\nLook forward to seeing some of you there...\nLabels: The Education Show", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 24777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://curriestarfc.co.uk/currie-star-winter-2016-newsletter/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:56Z", "digest": "sha1:3B7I5EG2ACYYM576TVOUEX2QDENAEUTA", "length": 185, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "curriestarfc.co.uk", "title": "Currie Star Winter 2016 Newsletter", "raw_content": "Please find attached the Winter 2016 edition of the Currie Star Newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading and from everyone at the Club may we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/09/mayors-attempt-to-speed-up-traffic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PQR3WRNK7SRFHZSFZ3LSKYRZQW4A3F44", "length": 7023, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com", "title": "Cyclists in the City: The Mayor's attempt to speed up traffic using the traffic lights has a significant impact on everyone else. And it doesn't even work for drivers - in response to Dave Hill at The Guardian", "raw_content": "The Mayor's attempt to speed up traffic using the traffic lights has a significant impact on everyone else. And it doesn't even work for drivers - in response to Dave Hill at The Guardian\nTraffic lights at Cedars Road, Clapham Common\nThis weekend, Dave Hill at The Guardian posted an excellent piece about Boris Johnson's transport strategy. He talked about how the Mayor is prioritising the streets for more and more people to drive through and how the city is straining under that policy.\nDave Hill is one of the few mainstream journalists to successfully have grasped the true nature of Boris Johnson's election commitment to 'smooth the traffic flow' and I urge you to read his article.\nAt one point, Hill describes how the smoothing traffic flow policy means \"a great deal of attention being lavished on traffic lights to no great effect\".\nI think there is one traffic light that exemplifies everything about the Mayor's obsession with pumping more motor vehicles, more rapidly through London's creaking infrastructure.\nIn 2009, Transport for London decided to change the traffic light sequence at Cedars Road where it meets Clapham Common. The offending lights are pictured above.\nCedars Road is a signed cycle route and people can cycle straight ahead over Clapham Common to head towards Wandsworth or south Lambeth.\nAt the time, TfL stated:\n\"The objective of the scheme is to reduce delays for left turners from the CedarsRoad approach to the junction by introducing a left turn filter phase that can fit within the existing signal staging. The primary driver of the scheme is reducing delays to the eastbound Route 345. However the proposal wouldbenefit all traffic on this approach equally.\"\nThe report went on to estimate the impact on cyclists and pedestrians. \"Neutral impact on both,\" it declares.\nSounds sensible, doesn't it? Fiddle around with some traffic lights and people on the bus can get through the lights faster. And, according to TfL, everyone's a winner because there's no impact on anyone else.\nExcept, that's not strictly true.\nFor starters, pedestrians get less time to cross Cedars Road because the signals are changed in favour of motor vehicle green phases and less time for pedestrians to cross the road.\nBut for people on cycles, TfL has added an extra danger. The overwhelming majority of people cycling through this junction are heading directly ahead, over the Common. The design of the advanced stop box very clearly shows that you are supposed to cycle to the lights and enter the advanced stop line from the left hand side. In other words, the street is designed to make you think you should cycle into the advanced box and wait on the left hand side to continue straight on. But if you do that, you'll find the left-filter now turns green well before the lights to go straight on.\nNet result: lots of motor drivers honking lots of people on cycles who are then surprised by drivers behind them trying to turn left directly through the space that is reserved for them. What's more, if you're on cycle, you can't see the left filter from the advanced stop box and there's no signage to warn you not to wait in the box where you would naturally think you should wait.\nTransport for London has corresponded at length with Lambeth Cyclists about this junction. After some initial correspondence a Transport for London review did acknowledge that \u201cthe potential safety issue for cyclists as a result of this change must be addressed\u201d and some very minor tweaks were made. But nothing that gets rid of the basic problem - Transport for London is adamant that the scheme is staying.\nAll of this got me wondering: Why would TfL be so wedded to this particular traffic light scheme? The plan was to shave 11-19 seconds off bus journey times. Except TfL has apparently conceded in correspondence that the time saved by buses at this junction is - wait for it - a maximum of four seconds but probably as low as ONE SECOND.\nIn other words, Transport for London has:\na) made this junction less pedestrian-friendly by reducing pedestrian green phases\nb) made this junction much more dangerous for cycling by adding the left filter\nc) to save one second on average bus journey times\nBut there's also something massively revealing in the correspondence between the teams at Transport for London about this traffic light.\nIn September 2009, an FOI request reveals an internal email that points to what's really going on here: \"this proposal could be seen as one that would help to 'get traffic moving'\"says one TfL official to another.\nTfL is supposed to regard traffic as meaning everyone on London's streets. It is supposed to make it safe and convenient for people to get around London by foot, by cycle and by motor vehicle. This traffic light works to save one second for the average bus journey at the cost of much longer journey times for pedestrians and more dangerous journeys for people who cycle.\nDave Hill is right to point out how the Mayor is obsessed by traffic lights. But he's not right to say that has 'no great effect'. It would be more accurate to say, the tinkering with traffic lights is being done to give the impression of faster journey times to motor drivers while creating significant new risk, slower journeys and more inconvenience to other road users.\nLord Donaldson of Kingsbridge understood\nwhat Boris Johnson hasn't yet worked out.\nTraffic lights won't sort the congestion out.\nhttp://bit.ly/oMcgRN\nBack in 1982, there was a debate about traffic lights in the House of Lords. The Earl of Avon reviewed the then Greater London Council's new 'spilt-cycle offset optimisation technique system'. To you and I, that means traffic light sequencing. At least he was honest enough to say what the new traffic light configuration meant:\n\"The GLC's decision to make a substantial investment in the [system] is to be welcomed, and it is hoped that it may lead to significant improvements in traffic speeds in the central area.\"\nThe same thing is happening now. But it didn't work in the eighties. And it won't work now.\nLord Donaldson of Kingsbridge was very clear in the same debate when in realising that the GLC's traffic light magicking wouldn't work any more than TfL's smoothing the traffic flow isn't going to work: \"When it comes to too many cars and solo drivers, there is only one way to deal with that; namely, to make motoring short distances in London so disagreeable and expensive that people stop doing it.\"\nIn recognising that fact, Dave Hill, your article is completely spot on.\n\" Transport for London review did acknowledge that 'the potential safety issue for cyclists as a result of this change must be addressed' and some very minor tweaks were made\"\nAs far as I can work out those minor tweaks was the painting of the ASZ in the correct place (previously put too far forward) but there is still daily conflict between cyclists and vehicles. These did not address their own reports concerns on the junction - I've been meaning to pick it up with them again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 10141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://daemonica.org/wiki/National_Lampoon", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3YKFJ6HG3JIQMALZ4X46PRHP6NSMA5D6", "length": 1594, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "daemonica.org", "title": "National Lampoon - Encyclopaedia Daemonica", "raw_content": "For those with more Christian tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about National Lampoon.\nTamia's unoriginal idea to promote her albums and her religious worship of the Ancient of O's\nThe National Lampoon is an ancient relic that is now kept in one of many museums throughout Europe, and the world. Historians, baffled by numerous claims that each Lampoon was authentic, have asked permission to begin testing by carbon dating. No museum has granted permission, but the real Lampoon, if it existed, is said to have been destroyed by the late Doctor Chase, archaeologist and professor at Yale, who discovered it in an earlier dig.\nAs the story goes, Dr. Chase handed the Lampoon to other researchers, who used it in their own tests at various points in time. The most well known case was during the holidays, followed by the Lampoon travelling across Europe numerous times to end up in the hands of less successful researchers. One \"Dr. Vance\" was known to have left several sticky and foul smelling stains upon its surface, enraging Dr. Chase when it was returned. Chase split the Lampoon in two, proclaiming there would never be another Lampoon.\nThe irony was that several institutes attempted to \"cash in\" on the Lampoon, making copies that were identical at first glance, but deeply flawed in molecular structure. These copies are freely on display at various museums, but no claims to their authenticity have been verified.\nThe National Lampoon has been the subject of several films.\nRetrieved from \"https://daemonica.org/index.php?title=National_Lampoon&oldid=67019\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://darrenthompsonfineart.blogspot.com/2015/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLOXRLEKPTAOAQLVTCVKEDVXO3V475FL", "length": 2852, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "darrenthompsonfineart.blogspot.com", "title": "DARREN THOMPSON FINE ART: September 2015", "raw_content": "Sweeping Water\nSweeping Water is part of a series that has to do with food and drink. This waiter is sweeping away extra water from the street in order to give his area a good presentation. I admire these people for all the work they do because I once did this.\nMercury is part of a series to do with sports and athletics. The paintings in this series are more about the figures in motion and their physical struggle. That aspect is more compelling to me rather than glorifying a particular athlete or event.\nNestled in Corner\nNestled in Corner is part of a series to do with the female figure reading. I sometimes take my own photographs here in Chicago of figures reading. But sometimes I borrow photos which I think are interesting, as in this case. However, I do add my own color scheme to these black and white photographs to add more of my vision.\n$ 160.00 USD 12 x 16 oil on line\nTaking Time is part of a series that has to do with the female figure reading. The figure is in a very calm and serene setting. I contrast the calmness of the figure with a very energetic background.\nShade is part of a series depicting the female figure reading. The open road in the background gives you the feeling that someone else is involved in the scene. But that someone else isn't visible at all. Hopefully, it adds some mystery the painting.\nScramble is part of a series that has to do with sports and athletic events. Football, or American Football, offers scenarios of human struggle more readily than other sports. The uniforms and helmets help downplay the factual information of the person.\nOld Rocking Chair is part of a series to do with the female figure reading. I found this old photograph from around the early 1900's. I add my own color and try to use it in a non-descript type of way.\nDaytime is part of a series to do with sports or athletic events. These sport type works have to do with mood rather than specific players or teams. In this painting, the atmosphere of a daytime baseball game is the main focus.\nCoffee Shop is part of a series to do with food and drink. I eliminate many details in my paintings so as to keep it very simple. As in this case, I want the viewer to add their own details and plot lines. The concept of not revealing too much factual information is a Hopper characteristic.\nSection of Tables\nSection of Tables is part of a series to do with food and beverage. In most of these works, I focus on the servers, bartenders, and cooks. Earlier in my career, I supplemented my income by serving food in various restaurants. I guess I can identify with these characters.\nCoastline belongs to a series that depicts the female figure reading. In this painting, the figure and backdrop mesh together and become one. I've studied many of Richard Diebenkorn's figurative work. If you look closely, you can see a resemblance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 10687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://davidandersen.co.uk/blog/2014/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5D3T3QR3I2R2CGZ7RTSNZNOFDNPJL6BM", "length": 862, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "davidandersen.co.uk", "title": "March 2014 - David Andersen", "raw_content": "I visited a friend recently who has a medium sized garden and only a tiny budget.\nWe discussed what she hoped to create in her garden and she quickly realized that she didn\u2019t want to pay for a garden design to save her budget for making a start on updating her garden. She asked me, \u201cWhat would you do if this was your garden and funds were limited?\u201d. I said, \u201cI would focus on two things, nice planting and a stunning lighting scheme.\u201d\u2026\nOver the last few years we have been primarily involved with designing and building contemporary gardens and therefore most of our water features have been very modern, involving water blades or curved stainless steel or glass. But we always enjoy being asked to create more naturalistic water features. There is a great charm to designing wildlife ponds, which look as though they have always been a part of the landscape.\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://day-in-paradise.blogspot.com/2011/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:O7BP7KKX6G3KY3JKXXNLCL6V2QM4PM5W", "length": 4075, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "day-in-paradise.blogspot.com", "title": "Another Day in Paradise: April 2011", "raw_content": "Speaking Schedule, Washington\nSunday, May 1, AM, Gig Harbor\nSunday, May 1, PM, Camas\nTuesday, May 3, 11 AM, Seattle Aurora\nTuesday, May 3, 7 PM, Port Orchard\nWednesday, May 4, Kent\nSunday, May 8, AM, Seattle Beacon Hill\nSunday, May 8, PM, Everett South\nIf you haven't caught on, we really enjoyed our time in Hawaii. Here's a little more about our time there.\nSpeaking at kid's camp.\nOn the first Tuesday we spoke at kid's camp. We had a beautiful drive across the south part of Oahu to the camp, then had a very fun time speaking to the kids. The highlight for them was when we dressed one of the young pastors in PNG clothes. They didn't care that every item he was wearing was from a different region.\nWaves on the North coast of Oahu\nWe went back via a different route along the north coast. It was a windy day with a very high surf, so we stopped several times to take pictures of the spectacular waves.\nWaikiki in the dark!\nThe only time we could find to go to Waikiki Beach was late one afternoon. By the time we got there it was dark. Oh, well. We had a great time walking along all the stores and the people in the area. That's our hosts Al and Linda, along with Judy.\nI'll try to do one more Hawaii post before moving on to CANADA!\nCatchup. Not ketchup.\nAs promised, I'm going to try to catch up on our travels and deputation.\nWe took a route home that we've never tried before; from PNG to the Solomon Islands to Fiji to Hawaii. We did 2 weeks of deputation in Hawaii before travelling on to Idaho and our family.\nScott and Olivia Dooley\nThe Dooleys took us to the airport. This is Scott and Olivia. We successfully avoided overweight charges, got checked in and away to Port Moresby without too much stress. We spent the night in Pt. Moresby, staying at Mapang Missionary Home. Early Sunday morning we left for the Solomon Islands.\nAirport in Honiara, Solomon Islands\nThis is our only evidence that we were ever in the Solomons, and not very good evidence, since you probably can't read the sign. We didn't go through Immigration (so we don't have stamp in our passports), just got off the plane, went through security, waited a few minutes then got back on the Air Niugini flight.\nSingers in the Nadi (pronounced \"nandi\" if you care), Fiji, airport.\nThis is our only evidence of ever having been in Fiji. We just went through as transit passengers, so still didn't get our passports stamped. These young men were there in the airport playing and singing Fijian music for the people waiting in the line for the transfer desk. After a while I guessed that they were singing Christian songs, based on the fact that some were to familiar hymn tunes. As I sang along in English I made eye contact with the guitar player, who smiled. When they finished, he came over, shook my hand and introduced himself. He confirmed that they were, indeed, Christians, and were from a church there. What a delightful break in the boredom of standing in line.\nJudy with happy little kids at the Living Waters Church of the Nazarene\nEven thought it was Sunday morning when we left PNG, we crossed the International Date Line, so it was Sunday morning again when we arrived in Hawaii. Well, missionaries doing deputation can't waste a Sunday morning, so we got off the plane at 7:30 AM, and were speaking in a church at 12:00!\nThis was in a delightful church plant called Living Waters Church of the Nazarene. They meet at noon, because that's the only time they can get time in the school where they meet (apparently 6 or 7 church groups meet at this school). They are effective in ministry and evangelism--a significant number in the church are homeless, and many are new believers. The pastor is R.J. Strickland. He and his wife were both music majors at NNU, and have a great ministry in teaching music lessons. In fact, one of the requirements for being in the worship band is taking weekly lessons.\nWe don't have any pictures of us speaking there, but we weren't too alert by then. 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For some, having the wisdom teeth pulled isn't necessary. For others, they may need their wisdom teeth pulled but just aren't feeling any pain. People can have all four wisdom teeth come in or only one, two, or three come in. Just because one wisdom tooth comes in, it doesn't mean the others aren't an issue. They could be posing a problem in your mouth without you even knowing it. If you do start to have issues with your wisdom teeth or in the area where they should be, here are some things you should be on the lookout for.\nWisdom teeth can come in any type of way including sideways. When this happens, it puts more pressure on the other teeth. Traditional metal braces can cost anywhere between $3,000 to $7,000. When the wisdom teeth start to come in crooked, it can undo the effects of braces pretty much throwing that money spent on the braces in the trash. Once you start to see the wisdom teeth coming in, you need to have a dentist check it out. They can determine whether your wisdom teeth are coming in straight or crooked.\nIt is not uncommon to experience jaw pain when your wisdom teeth are coming in. Cysts can start to form around any new teeth that come in. When the cysts are not removed, it can start to damage the nerves in the jaw and even the structure in the jawbone. If your jaw begins to hurt while your wisdom teeth are coming in, you should have them checked out right away. Additionally, when the wisdom teeth struggle to break through the gum, they may get impacted. Impacted teeth can cause jaw pain and could end up causing an infection if not taken care of.\nMillions of people are diagnosed with sinus issues, but some of them can actually be relieved. The incoming of your wisdom teeth can actually cause sinus problems. In fact, they are known to cause headaches, stuffiness, and sinus pressure. This happens when the upper wisdom teeth start to put pressure on the sinuses and in return cause sinus problems. After visiting the dental clinic (like West Gate Dental), a dentist may advise you to have them removed to help relieve some of the pressure off your sinuses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://designreinvented.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DN7YAVTDCMO75ORL4T24EIRJZQPGTQ77", "length": 322, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "designreinvented.com", "title": "Design Reinvented", "raw_content": "We\u2019ll analyze your existing website, or your competitor\u2019s website, and give you a full report of its strengths and weaknesses. Please contact us with the name of the site that you want analyzed.\nSome things are obvious about what makes an effective website, and some things are hidden.\u2028Find out how your website stacks up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://desperatesarah.blogspot.com/2007/06/peering-in-through-windows-thing-is.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CUTAYXWXEW4OWHYEXIHDP5NOBQMZ5XD5", "length": 2675, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "desperatesarah.blogspot.com", "title": "He Loves Me Not: The peering-in-through-windows thing is getting a little weird", "raw_content": "The peering-in-through-windows thing is getting a little weird\nAlmost a week later and I had not heard from The Musician. I began to wonder if me and my 12 closest friends in drunken stupors were a bit too much for him. But whatever, I refuse to apologize for it. It was Saturday night, we were in a bar, and it was my friend's birthday--what did he expect?\nDamn you, mini bourbon bottles. I knew you were trouble.\nOn my first (and only?) date with The Musician, he told me about a summer special the restaurant he waits at has on Thursdays: all-you-can-eat appetizers for free as long as you're drinking. My friends and my three greatest loves are 1) food, 2) booze, and 3) getting one or the other for free.\nIn typical The-Musician form, my friends already alerted me that he had seen our table and had hid outside peering in. A few beers later and I ran into him on my way back from the bathroom. \"Come say hi to us when you get a chance,\" I said casually.\nThe Musician stopped by twice that night. He apologized for not getting to us sooner.\nI made my friends apologize for the herpes incident, \"Uh yes,\" Harvey stammered. \"Sarah does not have herpes. Sometimes I drink too much and scream STD names.\" The fact that this even had to be cleared up still blows me away.\n\"We asked the guitar player to play \"The Power of Love,\" but he didn't know it,\" I frowned.\n\"He did play \"Dead or Alive!\" So The Musician was paying attention to the outside tables even though he wasn't working them.\n\"Uh, yeah, because we told him to!\" And time to change subjects, \"So... the weekend...\"\n\"Are we getting together?\"\nHe said he was busy for most of the weekend, including band practice on Sunday.\n\"Okay, then what about next week?\"\nSo we set up another date on Monday. He ran off to attend his tables and I looked back at my friends and grimaced. I just had to do all the work again.\n\"He likes you,\" Helen butted in before I could verbally protest. \"He's just really nervous.\"\nI have to agree that he's nervous--it's pretty obvious by his body language--but I still couldn't tell why. Was it because I wouldn't leave him alone, or did he really have an interest in me?\nI guess I would find out Monday, the end of a very long weekend in which I had dates set up with 2 other guys.\nOk so today is TUESDAY at 9:42 am EDT...c'mon already I'm dying to hear!!\nAnd the only person that doesn't think it's cute the guy is nervous is the girl that likes him.\nI agree with the above. I think its so cute that he's nervous. I am enjoying hearing how you guys get together. You'll only laugh about it later. . .\nI agree with m-joy, what happened?! 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Stonebridge photographic negatives, 1897-1918 (bulk 1899-1904) | New York Historical Society | Digital Collections", "raw_content": "Entrance at Boston Road and E. 180th Street [Bronx River Gate], New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nBoar or peccary [?], New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nHouse entrance [Aquatic Birds?], New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nZookeeper in front of the fox cage, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nUnidentified building under construction, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nPond, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nSea lion lying on a rock, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nFrozen river, Bronx Park, Bronx, N.Y., 1903.\nCanada goose, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nA tree, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nWild sheep [bighorn sheep?], New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\n[Red?] deer, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nFalls in snow, Bronx Park, Bronx, N.Y., 1903.\nPolar bear, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nHouse under construction, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nBears in snow, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nPolar bears in snow, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nElk, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nSea lions in frozen pond, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nHerd of bison in snow, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nSwans sitting in snow, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nDuck, swans, and geese in partially frozen pond, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nFrozen stream and snowy woods, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nWinter pond and distant animal cages, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nDeer in snow, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nVultures, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nRiver in the snow, Bronx Park, Bronx, N.Y., 1903.\nUnidentified animal arriving via American Express, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nPlants in a glass display case, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.\nLake, New York Zoological Gardens [the Bronx Zoo], Bronx, N.Y., 1899.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 12439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 226.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol53/iss4/8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6NOBKX7TY7OWDK7DB64ML7CAFYNKARBJ", "length": 2028, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.unl.edu", "title": "\"Swindler's Book Provides \u201cConstitutional Roadmap\u201d: Court and Consti\" by Richard E. Shugrue", "raw_content": "Swindler's Book Provides \u201cConstitutional Roadmap\u201d: Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Interpretation\u2014By William F. Swindler\nRichard E. Shugrue, Creighton University School of Law\nExecutive impoundment of appropriated funds, the impeachment issue, the politics of the judiciary, and an acute awareness on the part of the bar that its every public action is being critically observed surely contribute to a mounting interest in constitutional law. For the lawyer, the very center of constitutional government is found in the vast body of case law crafted not only by the Supreme Court of the United States but also by every judicial body including municipal courts, which are called upon to rule on the myriad constitutional questions raised daily in their precincts. Nebraskans might, in light of all this, take a certain pride in the recently published Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Interpretation by Professor William F. Swindler of the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. Professor Swindler was at the University of Nebraska from 1946 to 1956 as professor and director of the School of Journalism. He took his legal training at Nebraska, receiving his degree in 1958 before going to William and Mary that fall. He is now one of the most prolific scholars in the area of constitutional law, having contributed in a most significant sense to the understanding of the vital processes of American government and law. The Modern Interpretation fills a vacuum, for a student who desires a ready reference as a companion to his study of constitutional law, for the practitioner who only occasionally is confronted by a knotty problem in constitutional law and, indeed, for the layman whose understanding of the field has grown rusty by time and disuse.\nRichard E. Shugrue, Swindler's Book Provides \u201cConstitutional Roadmap\u201d: Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Interpretation\u2014By William F. Swindler, 53 Neb. L. Rev. 630 (1974)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 7015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 180.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalxplore.org/abstract.php?pdf_id=6375", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:OUEG7F3EBVBQGFITUQG3QWQVITPTQTRF", "length": 428, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "digitalxplore.org", "title": "Paper Title", "raw_content": "Electricity by Earths Magnetism\nThis paper presents on generation of electricity by earth\u2019s magnetic field. And gives the medium by which the generated electricity by earth\u2019s magnetic field in space is retrieved in earth. And how electricity is generated in space using earth\u2019s magnetic field. Advantages of magnetic field by using basic faradays laws. 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COPYRIGHT. All contents of Site or Service are: Copyright \u00a9 2017 Dirty Chai Mag.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 13597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discountedweddingdresses.us/a-beginners-guide-to-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:00Z", "digest": "sha1:T2HYUZFFPPPL72BIWEV4WR44KXLBDOGE", "length": 2252, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "discountedweddingdresses.us", "title": "A Beginners Guide To | Discounted Wedding Dresses", "raw_content": "The Best Tips on How You Can Launch a Successful Law Firm\nA lot of businesses that start have incurred a huge amount of cost. It is important for you to ensure that you start off right if you are launching a new law firm. When you start with too much overhead or aiming the wrong target audience, the likelihood is that youre going to be successful. This article is going to provide you with more information about some of the ways in which you can successfully launch your law firm.\nYou should ensure that you do your research before starting your law firm. You should ensure that you learn as much as possible about the local market before launching your law firm It is important for you to research online on the services that you want to provide so that you can offer legal services to a gap in the market. In case you realize that there is a town with insufficient attorneys, you can think about launching law firm there. You need to ensure that you will have a market for the legal services that your offering and whether there is competition. By knowing the major players, itll be possible for you to differentiate your service from what they do and therefore stand out.\nEnsure that you lower your overhead if you want to experience success in your law firm. So that you do not cripple your law firm, it is advisable for you to ensure that you monitor your overheads carefully. You dont have to pressure yourself at first to open an office unless it is absolutely necessary. It will be possible for you to lower your overhead if you avoid hiring people especially if you do not need them at that particular point.\nYou can also launch a successful law firm by getting yourself a great team. When you have a great team, youre going to assure your clients of privacy and youll also offer them great service. With a great team, youre going to enhance your reputation because of the positive online reviews about your law firm. The other tip on how to have a successful law firm is by ensuring that you promote your law firm as much as possible online. By talking about your legal services online, this is going to enhance your online presence and help you gain competitive advantage. Read here for more tips on how to launch a law firm successfully.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dixonstewart.com/blog/2016/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WCPGSZ2GM7JH23QDAADP2N56MYPI4HEO", "length": 507, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dixonstewart.com", "title": "February 2016 \u2013 Dixon", "raw_content": "Thank you for all your enquiries this month. Here are just some of the matters that have been concerning you\nQ I left my matrimonial home 3 years ago and my wife and children still live in the home. There is no official separation order. My wife and I own the matrimonial home jointly. I have now found a home to buy myself and want to know how the new rules on stamp duty will \u2026\nContinue reading \u201cThank you for all your enquiries this month. Here are just some of the matters that have been concerning you\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dmli.info/index.php/adaptive-services-management.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UVNVFMJSTZ7XKHXXEUURUNWI333FUFZA", "length": 2399, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "dmli.info", "title": "Adaptive Services Management - Decentralized Machine Learning Intelligence", "raw_content": "Decentralized Machine Learning Intelligence > Topics > Adaptive Services Management\nAdaptive Service and Resource Management\nIn recent years, inspired by the emerging web services standards and peer-to-peer technology, a new federated service computing model has received increasing research interests. The resulting system is what we called the federated service providing system (FSP) which exploits the popular P2P paradigm to achieve scalable provision of domain-specific services in large networked environments. One fundamental problem that determines the eventual success of FSP systems is how to achieve adaptive management of distributed services and resources in such systems where each node enjoys high level of autonomy. Without relying on a centralized controller which presents a serious performance bottleneck and single point of failure that affect the overall scalability of the system, we seek to manage services and resources in a self-organized manner through completely localized control. Specifically, we need to (1) properly and accurately model the behaviour of a FSP system and its performance; (2) support efficient and fast discovery of desirable services and resources in the FSP system; (3) develop fully distributed protocols that govern peer\u2019s local interactions in the system such that global performance of the FSP system can be continuously improved; and (4) develop self-organization algorithms for systematic improvement of global performance. Research efforts have been made over the past few years to try to achieve these objectives.\nG. Chen, A.Sarrafzadeh, C. P. Low and L. Zhang, \"A Self-Organization Mechanism Based on Cross-Entropy Method for P2P-Like Applications,\" ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 15:1--15:31, 2010.|PDF|Bibtxt|\nG. Chen, C. P. Low and Z. H. Yang, \"Extremal Search of Decision Policies for Scalable Distributed Applications\", 2nd International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, pp.77:1-77:8, 2007\nG. Chen, C. 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Normally, this book cost you $50.95. Here you can download this book as a PDF file for free and without the need for extra money spent. Click the download link below to download the book of Bullying, Suicide, and Homicide: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing Threats to Self and Others for Victims of Bullying in PDF file format for free.\nCrisis Counseling, Intervention and Prevention in the Schools (Consultation, Supervision, and Professional Learning in School Psychology Series)\nWorking with Challenging Youth: Seven Guiding Principles\nCounseling Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (2nd Edition) (Merrill Counseling)\nCareer Development Interventions in the 21st Century, 4th Edition (Interventions that Work)\nTransforming the School Counseling Profession (4th Edition) (Merrill Counseling (Hardcover))\nCounseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice, with Video Resource Center: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques\nFamily Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice (6th Edition)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dreadlockenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/04/wesley-snipes-gets-3-years.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MC75GCKGMFRQWEZ4SW7SS65C75JI4DOH", "length": 364, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dreadlockenterprise.blogspot.com", "title": "Dreadlock Enterprise: Wesley Snipes Gets 3 YEARS!!!!!", "raw_content": "Damn they was not playing!!\nA Florida judge sentenced the \u201cBlade\u201d movie star to three years in jail today. Snipes was convicted of tax fraud in February for not filing his income taxes for at least three years. 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At one point he shoves and pushes her. Hunt then pushes at the woman and she and another man and both fall to the ground. TMZ reports police were unable to determine if a crime was committed.\nToward the end of the video, Hunt kicks a woman who is down on the floor.\nIn August, Hunt addressed reports of both the February incident and another in which he was accused of punching a man.\nAccording to a police report obtained by Cleveland.com, the woman and her friend spent the night of February 9 hanging on a party bus in Cleveland with Hunt and his friends.\nIn the video of the incident, which had been previously reported by multiple outlets, Hunt and the woman trade words in a hallway and are separated by several people on multiple occasions.\nThe NFL did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.\nThough the man told TMZ that Hunt had punched him hard, he did not seek medical attention and did not want to press charges.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drgabe.gabeusry.com/2011/01/happy-holidays-to-all-of-my-gaming.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:2EOY7JZXE3OQIJIQWDG2VYHX45IYGBEB", "length": 682, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "drgabe.gabeusry.com", "title": "DrGabe's Miniatures: Blood Angels: Death Company", "raw_content": "Happy Holidays to all of my gaming friends. Its been a bit quite around here but that is because I've spent a lot of time with the family and doing non-hobby stuff. However, my project with the Blood Angels is nearly complete and my friend is very happy with the results. During the holidays we actually got a few games in, and the models look great on the table. Expect a lot of pictures in the coming week and hopefully a few army shot! Below are the Death Company and I must say that these are the best models from the new BA range. They have the proper amount of detail and the color combination looks the most sharp. I just don't want to face too many of them across the table.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 9664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drhs.com/offer.cgi", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:MXVP6HYFXD6CBAIF7WC3DXEVZO4UN2BQ", "length": 88, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "drhs.com", "title": "Make an offer for DRHS.COM.", "raw_content": "Please complete the form below if you are interested in buying the domain name DRHS.COM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dubrovnikexperience.net/coast-gourmet", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IMOD3F32A6TCM637KVOUYSPRARRTCPRN", "length": 2439, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "dubrovnikexperience.net", "title": "Coast Gourmet \u2014 Dubrovnik Gems Tours", "raw_content": "Genuine Dalmatia\nenjoy the true scent of the old times\nIndulge in irresistible tastes\ntraditional seafood delicacies\nSOlana Ston\nEnjoy the old ways\nIn this picturesque tour you will have the privilege to experience the genuine coastal way of life, in the beautiful villages of Dubrovnik Primorje, resembling the ancient times back in the days of the Dubrovnik Republic.\nOur first stop will be at the olive oil mill in the beautiful village of Ora\u0161ac, 15 minutes away from Dubrovnik. Hundreds of years old mill, owned by a local family, itself tells stories about the way of life in the ancient Dalmatia. The family will give a detailed presentation about the production of the olive oil along our cost. You will have an opportunity to taste olive oil and enjoy a light lunch, with vegetables and salad from the owner's garden together with some homemade cheese and prosciutto for a complete experience.\nWith the divine aftertaste of the olive oil still watering your mouth, we will continue our lovely ride along the coast towards the Pelje\u0161ac peninsula, most famous southern wine region in Croatia. Ston, the so called capital of Pelje\u0161ac is famous for its world renowned city walls. It was, and still is, an important salt-producing town in this part of Croatia. Its economic importance led to the construction of its walls for the purpose of sheltering the medieval town centre. Today the walls are still standing and visitors from all over the world admire the view of the salt-pans and enchanting Ston valley.\nThe trip will be crowned by an incredible experience on the boat, taking a sail in the bay of Mali Ston and visiting oyster farms. Freshly picked oysters will be taken out from the sea and served for us on the boat, together with some wine.\nFinally after whole the excitement, we have an option to relax over a seafood lunch in one of the best local restaurants located by the bay, where you can enjoy classical Mediterranean cuisine and top-notch wines. Since this small town takes huge pride in its gastronomic achievements, this lunch is set to be something spectacular as well.\nFor the end of the tour, you can take an easy stroll through the famous Solana Ston, a salt factory that still uses the old ways of salt harvesting, and even take a walk on the medieval Ston walls, overlooking the whole area.\nDuration: Half or full day tour\nIncluded: Guide, transportation, light lunch at the mill, oyster tasting on the boat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dunshaughlindental.ie/crowns/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:VQFGZLMN7OIOIWFRDD5EDSV4ON7767BB", "length": 602, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dunshaughlindental.ie", "title": "Dunshaughlin Dental Centre | Crowns | Tel: 01 825 9787 | Dunshaughlin Dental Centre", "raw_content": "In the case of a broken tooth, or one that is very badly decayed, it is sometimes necessary to replace the whole crown of the tooth.\nOne way is to first trim away all the decayed parts leaving only a tapered stump. 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That is why it is very important to select the right real estate agent for this task.\nThe real estate agent must be honest\nBe honest and tell the truth are extremely important features of good estate agents. Although not always possible to know when a person tells the truth or not, there are other ways to tell if a real estate broker is being honest with you. A good way to know this is asking about the contact information of their previous five vendors (for which they must give the agents permission to provide their data). Once you have them, talk to their former clients and ask about their experience with your broker. If you do not want to give information of their other customers, it is because they are not being very honest with you.\nThe real estate agent should be professional\nAlthough it is something that many property sellers assume their agents, sometimes that is not the case. How you can tell whether the broker you hired a professional is true or not? First, for his image: If your agent is carrying as ripped jeans, polo shirt and slippers, both colleagues as potential buyers will not take you seriously. Another way of knowing the true professionalism of your agent is whether it respects the schedule of others. It\u2019s frustrating when a seller quotes his agent to see this home and ultimately arrive 20 minutes late.\nThe real estate agent must be a good negotiator\nThe job of an agent representing a seller is, in short, to achieve get the most money from the house sale in the least amount of time possible. A real realtor know what to tell the representative of the buyer and when to tell. The agent should not send a counteroffer by his customer who represents the buyer without dialogue.\nThe real estate agent must be creative\nSelling a home is not as easy as putting an ad on the Internet or in the newspaper and wait for the best deal. Since not all houses are the same, all should be publicized in a special way. That\u2019s why creative is something very important that should have all agents must have when selling a home: this must be innovative when using the description of the property, you must know what angles should take photos and how to write ads.\nThe real estate agent should be part of a great company and have good personal reputation\nOne of the things that can be can be detrimental to a real estate company or agent is a bad reputation. The most successful real estate agents get a large percentage of referrals, while real estate agents with a bad reputation will not receive any. When you go to sell your home, always looking for information and comments on your local real estate agency, which is very easy if you use the Internet.\nThe real estate agent must have experience and proven results\nOne of the things that can be can be detrimental to a real estate company or agent is a bad reputation. The most successful real estate agents get a large percentage of referrals, while real estate agents with a bad reputation will not receive. When you go to sell your home, always looking for information and comments on your local real estate agency, which is very easy if you use the Internet.\nCommunication between real estate agent and client is important\nThe lack of communication between these two is one of the most common at the time to leave feedback about a broker or an agency real estate issues. As stated before, selling homes is stressful and lack of communication only makes things worse. If you pick a broker who does not speak with you, you can start to wonder if he or she still in business or not. That is why, at the time of interview, you should ask about communication and how to make it. A good agent should adapt to your preferred communication method.\n\u00ab Six tips for selling house first Short sale or foreclosure \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2954284/curious-kids-how-does-our-heart-beat-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EK5UEFZ2XS7SGMV7R5I2BH53ISXZ4QHP", "length": 4124, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "education.abc.net.au", "title": "Curious Kids: How does our heart beat? - The Conversation - ABC Splash - http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2954284/curious-kids-how-does-our-heart-beat-?null", "raw_content": "Curious Kids: How does our heart beat?\nThursday 6 September 2018, 12:53 PM (EST)\nThe Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. Aarav from Mumbai, India, wants to know how the human heart beats? An expert in anatomy explains.\nThe heart is a muscle, and all the muscles in the body work to move things around. Some muscles move our eyes as we read this page, others help us pick things up with our hands. These muscles are \u201cvoluntary\u201d, which means you can control them. But other muscles in the body are \u201cinvoluntary\u201d, which means you can\u2019t control them.\nThe heart is made of a special involuntary muscle called cardiac muscle, and this muscle is made up of cells called cardiomyocytes (which literally means \u201cheart muscle cells\u201d in Latin). You can\u2019t control the heart muscle or its cells: they respond to the things our body needs, such as oxygen in our leg muscles as we move, or getting rid of our waste carbon dioxide by breathing out.\nThe heart has a special patch of cells called \u201cpacemaker\u201d cells, which are different to all the other muscles cells of the heart when you look at them with a microscope. These cells set the rhythm that the rest of the heart beats to, and they are located in the wall of the right atrium, which is the top right chamber of the heart.\nThe cells create an electrical impulse \u2013 like a small electric shock \u2013 that shoots out through special paths across the heart, to make sure all the other muscle cells contract in a wave pattern, to pump blood out of the heart, to the lungs and around the body.\nThis wave is caused by movement of tiny molecules that move from inside and outside the cells. These molecules come from the foods we eat and are used to keep us functioning, which is why it\u2019s important to eat enough fruit and vegetables, and foods containing calcium.\nSome people have problems with their pacemaker cells, so the electrical impulse doesn\u2019t travel all the way through their heart, and their heart doesn\u2019t contract properly. These people can have an operation to put a tiny machine in to control their heart rate \u2013 this is called a \u201cpacemaker\u201d, and it takes over from the pacemaker cells.\nThe heart doesn\u2019t always beat at the same rhythm. Our heart responds to nervous signals sent from the brain, or to chemicals that the body produces in response to things it sees, hears or smells.\nIf your sibling dressed up in a scary costume to give you a fright, your eyes would see this, and chemical and electrical messages in the brain would send impulses to the heart, to cause it to beat faster. This would deliver more blood and oxygen to the cells of the arms and legs, so you could run away.\nYou can listen to the sounds of the heart using a stethoscope. [Image: Pixabay]\nAnd when you are at home on a Saturday night, relaxing and watching your favourite TV show, the opposite thing happens: the heart doesn\u2019t have to work as hard and so it relaxes and returns to its resting speed, with most blood going to the gut rather than the limbs, again caused by chemical and electrical messages.\nThe heart beats around 60 to 70 times each minute, and when we exercise really hard, it can beat as many as 220 times per minute. Children\u2019s hearts can beat faster than adults\u2019, especially when you\u2019re exercising hard.\nIf you want to figure out the most beats your heart can do in a minute, the calculation is 220 minus your age \u2013 so in your case, 220 minus nine equals 211 beats per minute, when you\u2019re exercising as hard as possible. For someone of my age, it\u2019s around 190 beats per minute.\nTo feel how hard your heart works, try clenching and relaxing your fist 60 times in a minute. Hard work, right? And remember, your heart beats 60 times per minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day and 365 days per year. That\u2019s 31,536,000 beats every year \u2013 if all we did was just sit still! Luckily, your heart does get to have a little rest, in between every beat.\nAdam Taylor, Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre and Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elderlycaremoo.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-significance-of-home-health-care.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HOYTLGTYDOJFVMI66ZCQ4X3JJ3TFKXFN", "length": 3639, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "elderlycaremoo.blogspot.com", "title": "Elderly Care: The Significance Of Home Health Care", "raw_content": "By Richard Sullivan\nThere is numerous amount of individual that needs to be assisted by professionals because they are old or maybe they are sick. Yet, need to have the freedom to express their feelings and emotions. 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Correspondingly, one needs to calculate if the worth and the superiority of the facilities and amenities of the management are realistic for one to acquire. Finally, trading with a certain corporation that lends inexpensive worth of facilities is a plus one can have.\nThe accommodations and the services of the building are very essential for consumers to deliberate in trading with the management. It allows them to gather several regulars by teaching their authorities to implement having the great connection with their clients. The portion that consumers should also find in acquiring into a particular corporation is their amenities.\nThe basic foundation that can affect the growth and the effectiveness of the institution is by being hospitable in welcoming and entertaining clients to let them feel happy and contented. Furthermore, they need to hire people that are talented and skilled enough to attain the needs and desires of the consumers. Thus, they should also acquire folks that are willing to do everything just to satisfy the consumers.\nTo end this, these are only strategies that are primary for one especially in implementing the same operation to become exactly true. As well, it can also be a benefit for one in eliminating facing difficulties and dilemmas in creating this operation. What is primary for one is to become hard working in creating some steps to have a satisfying outcome.\nGet a summary of the things to consider when picking a home health care Killeen TX agency and more information about a reputable agency at http://www.clin-cor.com now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emilyurban.com/me-in-a-present-life-because-this-is-my-only-shot/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZP7DSKFXP3BDCG6XURU6UUBIDFRPEWK", "length": 7245, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "emilyurban.com", "title": "Me In A Present Life (Because This Is My Only Shot) - Emily Urban Me In A Present Life (Because This Is My Only Shot) - Emily Urban", "raw_content": "This one is going to be more of a diary-esque, stream-of-consciousness post. The source of this stream is my discontentment, and it runs down a mountain called, \u201cThe Anxious Woman With A Maddening Case of FOMO.\u201d\nI\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about the short years that I have here. It\u2019s been a circus, and I\u2019m performing an expert-level balancing act (I should say, \u201cattempting to perform\u201d \u2013 that would be more accurate). I work full time, I try to blog write once a week, maintain my relationships, optimize my health, maintain my house, navigate and carry out ministry work, and somewhere in there, I try to grow closer to God and keep my personal heart afloat, maybe even thriving, if I\u2019m lucky.\nAnd somehow, I want to do more.\nThis isn\u2019t a brag, this is a reflection on my complete silliness. More? Really, Emily? You\u2019re dropping the plastic plates you\u2019re spinning and you\u2019re asking for the fine china.\nI\u2019m 24, so perhaps this is my quarter life crisis, come one year early. I\u2019ve had an odd thought run through my mind a couple times \u2013 \u201cI wish I could live two lives at once.\u201d And then that became three lives. I probably will wish for a fourth soon.\nSure, I have many years ahead of me, but it\u2019s at a point where I will soon lock into my \u201cthing\u201d and any major change will involve a royal uprooting that perhaps will be very unwise and upset the balance of the lives around me. It would require an all-or-nothing pursuit of the new thing that, frankly, would be stupid.\nNot only that, but the endeavors I\u2019m juggling around in my head need to start now if they are to become anything worth settling into. Why? Because I do have the advantage of youth \u2013 energy, years ahead to hone and strive for excellence, resources, networking freedom\u2026 the main advantage being flexibility in these things. Twenty years from now, those things will be meticulously allocated to whatever \u201cthing\u201d I settle into.\nThe most terrifying part is I feel like I just turned 24, and 25 is a few mere months away. Maybe I should take a note from the CEOs I read about in a recent magazine and work until I have crafted not just my \u201ccraft,\u201d but also the perfect dark circles under my eyes. (How are they so thin and beautiful? I sleep less than 7 hours and I\u2019m a slouching, nauseous zombie.)\nHere\u2019s the truth of the matter. I can\u2019t live four lives at once. (That said, if time travel ever becomes a thing, you best believe I will be looping over my day multiple times to accomplish everything \u2013 including a long, long nap.) Reincarnation isn\u2019t an option, either. I get one life in this world, and if I\u2019m sad about that, I\u2019ve probably fallen too much in love with it and with myself.\nYikes, that seems harsh to condemn what could be painted as an innocent desire. I could say, \u201cI want to accomplish more for the kingdom. I want to utilize all the gifts I\u2019ve been given to their absolute fullest. I want to seize every witnessing opportunity. I want to work more so I have more to give.\u201d And these sentiments are true, I do hold these desires, but it\u2019s the \u201cwhy\u201d behind them that is condemnable.\nI find myself to be double-minded. I want to serve two masters: God, and my world. How do I know for a fact that my desires aren\u2019t pure? Because discontentment, frustration, and anxiety are not fruits of the Holy Spirit dwelling in me. I would imagine that, if my desires were in fact pure, the \u201cnegative\u201d fruit would look more like the beatitudes Jesus described in the Sermon On the Mount (Matthew 5:3-11).\nI\u2019ve fallen into a perspective that my life here is my eternity. This is the end goal. This is all I have to work for. And, on top of that, the level of success I have is wholly dependent on me. I seem to live under the impression that, when I get to the end of my life, all my accomplishments will be displayed before the world and God Himself, and it better darn well be impressive. If it doesn\u2019t warrant applause and tears and breathlessness, my life will have been for nothing.\n(Good heavens, did I just write that? That is a very heavy, severe admission to make.)\nA side note, and not to cast blame, but this is perhaps a negative result of messages like \u201cRadical\u201d by David Platt and Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris. Are we really living for Jesus if we aren\u2019t doing risky, extraordinary things and making a sort of name for ourselves?\nI think that\u2019s the most severe part of this sin in my heart. I want glory. I want to have all these things to look back on and say, \u201cI did it. I did it all. My life was fully used because I did not allow a single passion or desire to go to waste.\u201d\nI could keep rambling about the extent of the problems with this heart issue I\u2019m writing about. I\u2019m pretty good at that \u2013 extrapolating and analyzing my sin to death. So let me sum up all the things I\u2019m doing here with this discontented lust for everything and then move on. I am being prideful, wanting glory for myself instead of God, loving this world over the next, resting in my own efforts, being ungrateful for what God has given me, and being self-centered in general.\nSo what is the cure? What truth will set me free?\nHere is what I know: right now, I work full time. I have a home in southeast Wisconsin. I have 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week. I have duties to fulfill to my church, my family, and the people God has placed in my life to minister to. I cannot be a musician in Chicago. I cannot be a full time writer. I cannot travel wherever I want, or move to a different state. I cannot be a missionary in India or Thailand. I cannot be taking full time classes in nouthetic counseling. I can\u2019t. I am limited. All of these desires are separate lives, lives that I have not been called to.\nThe life that I have been called to is loving my friends, loving the strangers in my city, loving my coworkers that I spend 40 hours a week with, and loving the life God has entrusted to me. The life I have been called to is one of honoring God by humbly and effectively doing what is set on my plate this week. The life that I have been called to is arduous, long-suffering, but rich and worthwhile ministry work.\nPerhaps five or even ten years from now, I will be spending my 40 hour workweek writing, or making music, or maybe twenty or thirty years from now I will be waking up in a predominantly Hindu and Islamic country of 1.3 billion people. Perhaps this time next year, I will be taking classes in nouthetic counseling. I cannot say, nor can I know. But I can\u2019t live this life that God has given me if I\u2019m looking at the life that I could be living. I can find joy in the monotonous moments, the inglorious ones, the painful ones, and humble ones, because the One who is joy Himself has ordained them and fills them.\nMy contentedness depends on what I\u2019m looking at; more specifically, who I\u2019m looking at. I need to retreat and stop seeking what\u2019s next, desiring what is other than what I have been given, and simply be seeking the One who gives. If He calls me to walk forward, I will do so with abandon, but until then, I will remember there is grace to cover everything I don\u2019t accomplish, and all accomplishments are for Him anyway. I will remember that it is the Lord who fights the battle, I need only be still. Until then, I will sit at His feet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 9933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.amwalalghad.com/toshiba-to-put-a-suspension-to-nuclear-power-plant-business-ambitions/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:TFC3TU6KEJSNRWFJFM7NH44CDBDQPGSA", "length": 1427, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.amwalalghad.com", "title": "Toshiba to put a suspension to nuclear power plant business ambitions - Amwal Al Ghad", "raw_content": "Toshiba to put a suspension to nuclear power plant business ambitions\nToshiba will suspend its nuclear construction ambitions after its Westinghouse unit incurred losses that could reach up to $6 billion, Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.\nThe company is likely to announce these plans this month, the Journal stated. Toshiba Chairman Shigenori Shiga and the former head of Westinghouse Electric, Danny Roderick, are also expected to step down as a result, the Journal added.\nMeanwhile, Westinghouse will only focus on designing nuclear reactors in the future. The company will, however, finish the construction of two nuclear facilities in the U.S. that it is in the midst of building, the WSJ report said.\nToshiba bought nuclear manufacturing company Westinghouse in 2006 for $5.4 billion. However, delays in the construction of power plant projects in the U.S. have led to high costs for the Japanese company, which was rattled by an accounting scandal in 2015. Toshiba also recently announced plans to sell a part of its memory chip business to cover for costs incurred by the nuclear construction projects.\nExperts say that the Japanese conglomerate\u2019s decision to leave the nuclear construction business is likely to impact competition in the industry, the WSJ said.\nindustry and tradeNuclear EnergyShigenori ShigaToshiba\nIran missile test must not go unanswered: Netanyahu\nActor Johnny Depp spends $18 mln-luxury yacht", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 9324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/102910/20180912/china-asks-wto-permission-levy-7-billion-annual-penalties-u.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YCRFTJANALC47JVOC6DUZYW7AP7GR7VT", "length": 2987, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "en.businesstimes.cn", "title": "China Asks WTO Permission To Levy $7 Billion In Annual Sanctions On The U.S. : China : Business Times", "raw_content": "China Asks WTO Permission To Levy $7 Billion In Annual Sanctions On The U.S.\nWTO headquarters in Geneva (Photo: Reuters)\nChina intends to impose sanctions worth $7 billion a year on the United States for ignoring a 2016 ruling in its favor by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\nWTO said China filed a dispute with its Secretariat against the United States on Dec. 3, 2013, regarding anti-dumping measures involving Chinese products. In the dispute, China notified the Secretariat of a request for consultations with the United States regarding the use of methodologies used by the U.S. to calculate anti-dumping duties.\nChina's dispute complained about heavy U.S. anti-dumping duties on several industries such as machinery and electronics, light industry, metals, and minerals. The industries cited by China had an annual export value of up to $8.4 billion in 2013.\nChina specifically objected to the U.S. using an illegal method called \"zeroing\" to calculate the monetary penalties it imposed on products allegedly dumped in the U.S. by China. It said zeroing is illegal and is inconsistent with U.S .obligations under the Anti-dumping Agreement.\nThe WTO explained that the case concerned the U.S. Department of Commerce way of calculating the amount of dumping. Dumping occurs when a country's exports, in this case, China's, are priced to undercut American-made goods in the U.S. market.\nThe American calculation method known as zeroing greatly increases the amount of anti-dumping duties imposed by the U.S. on foreign producers such as those from China. Zeroing has been repeatedly ruled as illegal in a series of trade disputes brought to the WTO.\nChina's request for authorization to impose sanctions worth $7 billion a year was published by the WTO. It claims the latest available data showed it had suffered $7.043 billion in damages annually since 2013. China, therefore, requests the WTO's permission to raise trade barriers on U.S. goods to the same amount, which is allowed under WTO rules.\nChina won the WTO ruling as regards the zeroing dispute in 2016. This judgment was confirmed by an appeal in 2017. The U.S., however, refuses to abide by the WTO ruling and has instead threatened to withdraw from the WTO unless the organization accedes to American demands.\nTrade experts noted that China's request for authorization from the WTO to introduce the sanctions will lead to years of legal battles. This process is complicated by president Donald Trump's unvarnished hostility towards the WTO and the concept of free trade.\nA long series of U.S. defeat at the WTO involving zeroing caused Trump to say the United States might withdraw from the WTO if \"they don't shape up.\"\nThe deadline for the United States to comply with the ruling ended Aug. 22. The WTO published an agenda on Sept. 11 announcing a meeting of its dispute settlement body on Sept. 21. This move shows China will take the legal step of asking for authorization for sanctions worth $7 billion annually.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 164.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.classora.com/units/w67773077/josephine-baker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LJUGXGIWLYFOLKVA7WTHYABKAJALFP6J", "length": 724, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.classora.com", "title": "Jos\u00e9phine Baker - Classora Knowledge Base", "raw_content": "Jos\u00e9phine Baker (actor and musician). He/she was born on 3 June 1906, its date of death is 12 April 1975, his/her birthplace is Saint Louis. There is information in Classora Knowledge Base about 4 rankings, reports and surveys. (edit this text)\nJos\u00e9phine Baker (actor and musician). 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As the Public Relations of Iran Volleyball ...\nWeek 4 of Men\u2019s Premier League / Paykan ne...\nTehran, Iran, October 24, 2017 \u2013 Paykan with the win over Saipa nets his first victory in the week four of premier league. 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Drummer Roger Taylor retired from ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 141.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eng.chauthiduniya.com/narendra-modi-a-man-of-some-of-the-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T7W2UQKMDJYMWECUWKBWD5GC4JN2BPG7", "length": 17388, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "eng.chauthiduniya.com", "title": "Narendra Modi : A Man Of Some Of The People \u2013 Chauthi Duniya(Eng)", "raw_content": "Narendra Modi : A Man Of Some Of The People\nThe Economist 0 Comments\nA populist with a nasty past and a decent economic record wants to run India\u2026\nA comprehensive failure, and then some\u2026 Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat and the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s national leader,\u2026 is a forceful campaigner, hugely popular with his party\u2019s Hindu-nationalist core and increasingly accepted beyond it. His chances of becoming India\u2019s Prime Minister in next year\u2019s general elections, which must be held by May, were already good before the State elections results. Now they look better than ever\u2026\nOn 8 December, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India\u2019s main opposition party, handsomely won State elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, with a combined population of well over 100m. It also won, a bit more narrowly, in Chhattisgarh, and it got the largest share of the vote in Delhi. Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat and the party\u2019s national leader, claims much of the credit. He is a forceful campaigner, hugely popular with his party\u2019s Hindu-nationalist core and increasingly accepted beyond it. His chances of becoming India\u2019s Prime Minister in next year\u2019s general elections, which must be held by May, were already good before the assembly elections. Now they look better than ever.\nIndians, especially those in towns, in the north and in the middle class, are fed up with the ruling Congress party. Stubbornly high inflation, chronic joblessness and growth of less than 5 per cent make the economic outlook gloomy. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, is ineffectual; Rahul Gandhi, who is emerging as Congress\u2019s new leader, is uninspiring. At rallies Mr Modi, who looks like a barrel-chested cross between Father Christmas and a professional wrestler, mocks his rival\u2014son, grandson and great-grandson of earlier Prime Ministers\u2014as a prince. His audiences bellow their scorn. Opinion polls (which Congress wants to ban) show Mr Modi as easily the most popular national figure. \u201cEveryone now assumes it\u2019s Modi,\u201d says a columnist in Delhi. Mr Modi reportedly talks of an aandhi, a \u201cstorm blowing in our favour\u201d.\nIn a culture that favours insiders who govern as centrist coalition-builders, Mr Modi stands out as an outsider with a long history of extremism. His origins are humble. His father ran a tea stall at a railway station in northern Gujarat and his caste puts him in the category referred to as \u201cother backward classes\u201d. At the age of eight he volunteered for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a movement whose purpose is to see India remade as a Hindu state. Forswearing marriage in his devotion to the cause, and receiving relatively little schooling, he rose through the ranks of the RSS despite not being of high caste. In late 2001 the BJP put him in charge of Gujarat, where he subsequently won three elections.\nRunning a State is not normally a springboard to becoming Prime Minister, but Mr Modi has found three ways to make it one. He established himself as the strongest voice for Hindu nationalists on the national stage. He presided over a period of strong growth inGujarat which broadened his appeal, developing a pro-business reputation which even brought him support from a small number of wealthier Muslims. The people he impressed this way see him as decisive, efficient and able to make civil servants do what he tells them. And he successfully marketed his State and himself. Helped by a PR firm, he has promoted himself as a green-energy champion. Every two years he hosts a big summit for investors, \u201cVibrant Gujarat\u201d, which earns him lots of attention and praise.\nIn the 2009 general-election campaign he was an active campaigner nationwide, though his big rallies did not translate into electoral success. From then on he assiduously built up his public profile both in old media and on social networks; he has almost 3m followers on Twitter, far more than any other Indian politician. Restored to the good graces of the RSS, with which he had had a falling out, this summer he toppled 86-year-old L.K. Advani as the BJP\u2019s leader. Mr Advani fought a rearguard action, attempting to promote Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the moderate Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, as the party\u2019s Prime Ministerial candidate. But the RSS and the party faithful were not having it.\nMr Modi has for the most part used his reign over Gujarat cannily. But what took place just after he came to office still casts a long shadow. On 27 February 2002, Muslims in the Gujarati town of Godhra set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims back from Ayodhya, a town in Uttar Pradesh where, a decade before, the destruction of a mosque triggered nationwide riots that killed 2,000. Fifty-nine men, women and children died on the train; nine years later 31 people were convicted of a \u201cplanned conspiracy\u201d to burn it.\nAfter the attack on the train Hindu groups in Gujarat immediately called a bandh\u2014a strike-cum-protest. Days of bloodshed, rape and torture followed, with weeks of further sporadic attacks on Muslims. Over 1,000 died, some 18,000 homes were destroyed and around 200,000 Muslims displaced. On 28 February an attack on the home of Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP, killed Mr Jafri and 68 others. On the same day at least 96 were killed in Naroda Patiya, a Muslim part of Ahmedabad, Gujarat\u2019s largest city. In many places the police either did nothing to protect the victims or, according to Human Rights Watch, an American advocacy group, \u201cactively supported\u201d the massacres. Where the police did their jobs, in southern Gujarati towns like Surat, no one died.\nMr Modi could have forbidden the bandh; he could have quickly ordered a curfew; he could have compelled the police to act. He did none of those things. Nor did he call in the national police force or the army soon enough. India\u2019s Human-Rights Commission described the response by the State Government as a \u201ccomprehensive failure\u201d. The BJP\u2019s leader wanted to sack him (it was Mr Advani, ironically, who saved his skin). In 2005 America revoked Mr Modi\u2019s visa, on the basis that \u201che was responsible for the performance of State institutions\u201d in the riots. Some say he was more directly culpable, alleging that he deliberately stood down the police.\nA comprehensive failure, and then some\nCritics say that attempts to apportion blame by India\u2019s courts were obstructed by the authorities in Gujarat, with charges badly filed, minutes of crucial Government meetings either missing or never kept, and evidence destroyed. With the State\u2019s courts doing a suspiciously wretched job, the national Supreme Court stepped in. So far a variety of courts have jailed 198 people. Last August 32 were convicted over the killings in Naroda Patiya; Maya Kodnani, a local BJP legislator who had urged on killers and used a pistol, was jailed for 28 years.\nMr Modi himself always denied wrongdoing and has been found guilty of nothing. (One relatively insignificant case in which he is indirectly involved is still ongoing.) A special-investigations team of the Supreme Court last year cleared him of 30 allegations made by Mr Jafri\u2019s widow and others. It rejected testimony that he had told police not to confront Hindu mobs, ruling one witness, Sanjiv Bhatt, who worked in police intelligence, unreliable after others contradicted him. Other claims along the same lines were ruled out as hearsay. Over tea in his Ahmedabad home, an armed guard outside, Mr Bhatt still insists he told the truth. But as one senior journalist in Delhi puts it, \u201cIf it\u2019s purely about the process of law, [Mr Modi] is okay. Even Congress does not argue that the judicial process has not been done.\u201d\nA clean legal slate, however, does not mean Mr Modi was not, at best, fatally incompetent. Shankersinh Vaghela is not somebody anyone would go to for a dispassionate assessment; he and Mr Modi were rivals in the RSS and, having defected to Congress, Mr Vaghela now heads the opposition in Gujarat. But when he says, on the basis of his time as the State\u2019s Chief Minister in the 1990s, that Mr Modi could undoubtedly have stopped the massacres, it is hard not to think he has a point. As he says, \u201cIf you are Chief Minister, with all kinds of powers\u2026you own the State, the machinery, the police department.\u201d\nIf there are doubts about what Mr Modi did at the time, there are also grounds for concern over what he has done since. He was happy to have the gun-toting Ms Kodnani serve as one of his Ministers up to her arrest in 2009. He shows no real willingness to shoulder responsibility for the inaction that led the Supreme Court to compare him and his officials to \u201cmodern day Neros\u201d, or to express regret for it. Asked this year to show contrition, the best he could manage was to speak of a general capacity to feel sorrow, as one does when one sees a puppy run over. He argued to The Economist that subsequent electoral successes somehow absolved him, saying: \u201cI have completed this examination and with distinction marks.\u201d There is a darker reading of those successes, though. \u201cWhat worries me\u201d, says a young Muslim in Ahmedabad, \u201cis that nobody here thinks Modi is innocent. They know what he did and they are okay with that.\u201d\nThe communal violence that stains India\u2019s recent history has been connived in by other politicians. Mr Modi\u2019s defenders rightly condemn Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi\u2019s father, for failing to stop the 1984 massacre of some 8,000 Sikhs across the country during which police also stood by. But there is a difference: Congress leaders are not drawn from a movement hostile to Sikhs or other minorities (Mr Singh is a Sikh). The RSS in which Mr Modi grew up is definitely hostile to Muslims. The BJP can win an election without any support from India\u2019s 180m Muslims (it got 3.7 per cent of their votes in 2009) and thus has no electoral imperative to speak to their concerns. In these circumstances its candidate\u2019s record matters a lot.\nMr Modi has hardly been a model of reconciliation. The BJP fielded no Muslim candidates in the State\u2019s regional elections last year, though it has done elsewhere. At a rally in November he allowed the celebration of two BJP politicians who had been arrested over recent anti-Muslim violence in Uttar Pradesh. But his rhetoric has softened. He does not style himself a \u201cHindu nationalist\u201d, though he agrees that he is both those things. Today he insists leaders must be secular and emphasises that economic development trumps religious factionalism. At a rally in October he said \u201cI want to ask poor Muslim brothers whether they want to quarrel with poor Hindus or fight against poverty. I want to ask poor Hindus whether their concern is disputes with poor Muslims or the fight against poverty\u2026Let\u2019s defeat poverty together.\u201d\nPutting economic development and poverty alleviation at the centre of the debate serves Mr Modi well. Gujarat\u2019s economy has nearly tripled in size during his time in office; its GDP has grown by 10 per cent a year, faster than India as a whole and roughly on a par withChina. With 5 per cent of India\u2019s population, Gujarat now accounts for 16 per cent of its manufacturing and about a quarter of total exports.\nThis tide has floated all boats. Two decades ago 43 per cent of Gujarat\u2019s Muslims were poor, a bit better than the national average of 51 per cent, according to a study by Arvind Panagariya and Vishal More, of Columbia University, using a definition of poverty similar to that of the World Bank. Now only 11 per cent of them are, compared with a national average of 25 per cent. Central-Government welfare programmes have played a part in this, but only a part.\nState of success\nChristophe Jaffrelot of Sciences Po in Paris argues that Gujarati Muslims\u2014about a tenth of the population\u2014remain much worse off than other Gujaratis. Wage rates for casual urban workers, who are mostly Muslims, are among India\u2019s lowest despite the State\u2019s prosperity. But then Gujaratis do less well on various social indicators than Indians in some other states. Amartya Sen, an economist, notes that its infant-mortality rate is more than three times that of Kerala, and overall life expectancy ten years lower. Jagdish Bhagwati, another economist, retorts that rapid growth under Mr Modi is bringing sharp social gains in its wake, and that Gujaratwill catch up with the best before too long.\nIt is certainly true that economic growth has coincided with a period of communal violence much lower than that at the end of the 20th century. A Muslim car dealer in Ahmedabad, Zafar Sareshwala, recalls how \u201cfor 25 years, Ahmedabad was plagued by riots, then curfews of 200 days at a stretch. In the 11 years [since 2002], not a single curfew.\u201d He puts this down to an \u201ciron fist\u201d, and many Muslims in Ahmedabad complain of police excesses, as well as of being forced into ghettos where the city won\u2019t recognise title deeds or provide public services. But Mr Sareshwala also rattles off examples of progress: dozens of new schools and hospitals built for or by Muslims; wealthy Gujarati Muslims who, he says, pay much of India\u2019s zakat\u2014religious tax\u2014to fund madrassas; more people making pilgrimages to Mecca.\nUnforthcoming on 2002, Mr Modi is happy to talk about how he has successfully tackled economic problems in Gujarat that beleaguer other States. Take three: supplying electricity; attracting investment; and cleaning up the bureaucracy.\nMr Modi boasts that \u201c24-by-7, 365-days-uninterrupted three-phase power is available to each and every village in the State\u201d. This success came in part from letting the market work. In 2003 he broke up a deeply indebted power company and split supplies for farmers (who get power for eight hours a day) from those for other consumers (who pay a market price but get electricity all day). He made clamping down on illegal access to the grid a police priority.\nA reliable grid with profitable electricity supply companies is not the only infrastructural success. Gujarat has good gas supplies, too, and Mr Modi says there is broadband access in every village; its roads and ports are in good repair. Mr Modi has managed to increase capital spending even as he has reduced Government debt as a proportion of GDP. This helps to attract investors, both from abroad and elsewhere in India: Gujarat drew more investment than any other State, or any other State bar one, in six of the past ten years.\nAs for keeping Government clean and effective, Mr Modi likes to boast that with no family to favour he must be honest. He prevents corruption in others, he says, through a mixture of leadership\u2014\u201cUnless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results\u201d\u2014and close monitoring. His unwillingness to let political colleagues take charge of State-run companies, thus preventing them from being milked for political or private gain, was one of the things that drove a wedge between him and the RSS during his early years in power.\nNone of these achievements is flawless. The 2011 census found over a million Gujarati households still without electricity. Mr Modi\u2019s methods of luring investors may be focused too much on big companies; generous grants of land and tax holidays may be unsustainable. A new World Bank study ranks Ahmedabad as an easier place to do business than 12 other big Indian cities, but it rates four other cities as better still, reflecting difficulties enforcing contracts, paying tax and dealing with courts that could slow investment.\nHis management style and general caginess lead even some of Mr Modi\u2019s supporters to worry that he is a secretive loner who refuses to delegate. There are also allegations of the abuse of State power during his time in office, often involving Amit Shah, his closest political confidant. Mr Shah was forced to resign as a Minister in 2010, after being charged with extortion and murder over a series of police killings (the case has yet to come to trial). He is still close to Mr Modi, working as his campaign manager in Uttar Pradesh. A recent scandal centres on accusations that Mr Shah used intelligence officers to spy on a woman with whom Mr Modi was apparently besotted. A close supporter airily says such \u201csnooping for private ends is a very common thing to do\u201d. But it remains both illegal and disturbing.\nMr Modi would face more constraints, and enjoy fewer direct powers, as Prime Minister of India than he does as Chief Minister ofGujarat. It is unclear whether he would be good at holding together a coalition (which any BJP-led Government would surely be), delegating to others, negotiating on legislation or responding to crises as they arise. But the record from Gujarat suggests he thinks hard about policy, has clear ideas of how he would promote higher economic growth and social development and would prefer to bolster overall wealth creation than promote social welfare schemes.\nIf economics alone mattered, Mr Modi\u2019s achievements in Gujarat suggest he is the man best placed to get India moving again. The problem is that political leaders are responsible for more. For all his crowds of supporters, his failures in 2002, and his refusal since to atone for them, or even address them, leave him a badly compromised candidate with much left to do.\n\u2190 What Congress Needs For A Comeback\n\u2018NHRC\u2019s Burden Will Increase If Communal Violence Bill Passed\u2019 \u2192\nAkshay Loves the Tag of Action Hero\nThe Timeline Warriors : A Viral Fever That Could Be A Game Changer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 18991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://engagetolead.com/the-engaged-workforce-who-is-responsible/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:BZG6N4IWGFISXI3T7TFNIOIOG3WXKZT5", "length": 4304, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "engagetolead.com", "title": "The Engaged Workforce: Who is Responsible? \u2013 Heydlauff Enterprises", "raw_content": "The Engaged Workforce: Who is Responsible?\nWalt Disney once said, \u201cOf all the things I\u2019ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.\u201d He understood perfectly whose responsibility engagement was \u2013 it was his. He was a hands-on leader, personally involved and engaged with his workforce.\nEngagement is a leadership necessity. Once hired, it is leadership\u2019s responsibility not Human Resource\u2019s to keep employees engaged. When the leader of an organization is not engaged on a regular basis, trust and productivity rapidly erode. According to recent research being truthful and connected are huge factors in engaging, maintaining and increasing workforce productivity and loyalty. When a leader is totally involved and committed to an engaged workforce, everyone\u2019s efficiency and productivity improves and profitability increases.\nWhere Engagement Begins\nExperts often say engagement comes from the top down and permeates the workforce. Others say no, it\u2019s a bottom up process. The answer is \u2013 it is both and then some. Engagement comes from inside out. If it only comes from the top down all you need is one mid-level leader to drop the ball and the game is lost. If it begins at the bottom, as soon as a member of the workforce runs into resistance from their management the chain is also broken.\nThere is a natural flow to the engagement of the workforce and it must flow from the inside out \u2013 from the heart and soul of an organization to the workforce in order to permeate it. It doesn\u2019t matter if your business is a three-person accounting firm or a Fortune 500 organization, the natural flow of engagement is the same.\nEngagement begins with a decision within the core operating culture of a business to make an engaged workforce a top priority. If not created at this level, the results will be mediocre at best with average productivity and reduced profitability instead of exceptional productivity and increased profitability.\nThe Flow of Engagement\nEngagement flows through the workforce in a circular movement, not linear. When leadership at all levels becomes engaged with their workforce, productivity continues as is. When the workforce is in return engaged with leadership, productivity skyrockets.\nUnderstanding that this is a circular flow is critical to successfully creating a workforce that is focused on the best interests of the business or organization.\nGet into the game by recognizing the need for creating an engaged workforce, discovering where it begins and how it works. Create a leadership roadmap that includes developing, promoting and participating in a full-time circular engagement program.\nCrunch the numbers to see how much your productivity will increase with a more engaged workforce. Recently released research by Gallup shows that only 33% of the surveyed workforce is engaged in what you want and 49% are disengaged. Even worse, 18% of the workforce is actively engaged in causing failure.\nIndustry research analysts believe that up to 95% of employees are unaware of their company\u2019s top objectives. Without understanding how important their contribution is to the company\u2019s overall goal and what role their contribution plays, they will disengage, missing deadlines, dropping production levels and negatively affecting profits.\nIt will be obvious when you crunch the numbers; even a slight increase in the engagement of your workforce will yield significantly increased productivity.\nSchedule Road mapping time to unleash the potential of an engaged workforce. If you do not plan to succeed you are by default planning to fail. Evaluate the circular flow of engagement energy in your workforce to see where it needs improvement. If you don\u2019t have an obvious flow to the engaged energy of your workforce, create a roadmap to get your there. Then, take action and make it happen. Start today.\nWalt Disney\u2019s legacy lives on because he knew he was responsible for the engagement of his workforce and took an active role in creating the future he envisioned. 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Today ELLE has offices in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. In addition there is an extensive network of professionals in all Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe and European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries.\nStaff and project consultants in ELLE Group not only have a versatile education and training, but also have a wide range of skills and experience from both eastern and western European business and academic cultures.\nELLE O\u00dc, located in Tallinn, Estonia, was founded as the second ELLE Group company in 2000. ELLE O\u00dc (ELLE Estonia) offers consultation services in various environmental fields. Experts working at ELLE Estonia have substantial practical work experience with diverse range of companies ranging from small office firms to large industrial enterprises. 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Several consultants are trained to carry out water and waste sampling.\nAll consultants at ELLE O\u00dc are covered by the professional liability insurance.\nELLE Estonia is a founding member of the Estonian Association for Environmental Management and a member of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Estonian ELLE employees are part of the ELLE Environmental Laboratory and can perform measurements of the ambient air quality and environmental noise.\nSIA Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Environment is a member of the Latvian Association of Business Consultants and follows its code of ethics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eprints.internano.org/view/person/Dai=3AM=2E_H=2E=3A=3A.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HI6T757LAYV2BNO6Y3G6OWVPHYZFFGHR", "length": 465, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eprints.internano.org", "title": "Browse by Person - InterNano Nanomanufacturing Library", "raw_content": "Jin, S. Q. and Dai, M. H. and He, F. and Wang, Y. H. and Ye, B. C. and Nugen, S. R.. 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This was one book that the wait was worth it.\nIn the interest of full disclosure, I believe I know Cat from way back. Back in the early 00\u2019s, I was part of and an administrator on many pagan boards, among them \u201cDruid\u201d which was a Yahoo! group that had (insert gasps here) druids on it. We talked about nearly everything. At the time I was known as Daven and I learned a lot of what I now hold dear in my life there, and a lot of my attitudes were gelled from things I felt, rather than knew. I believe I met Cat there and we swapped lots of debates.\nTime passes and life intervened and we grew apart. I left the group and she did her thing. I\u2019m glad that she wrote this book so I could become reacquainted with my friend.\nThat said, this is one book that you need to read. It\u2019s not a book that you need to re-read, but one that you should read at least once. It is one Druid\u2019s tale of her journey, and it is all personal introspection and thoughts on life in general. This honestly reads like a series of articles that were written as part of a website, very similar to my website in fact.\nThis doesn\u2019t detract from the value of the work, however. It redefines it. Instead of telling us how she came to this point, the basics of Druidry and her personal path, she tells us insights into concepts you get from other works, introspective moments that made her think, and how it changed her feelings on a topic and other such items.\nIn short this book reads like it was the private journal of a Druid who is writing for the next generation of Druids. And this is the point of this book.\nGiven this thrust, I think this book rates as 4 stars out of 5, an outstanding supplement to other books on druidism. There\u2019s nothing really wrong with it, but this is not one to pick up if you need a book telling you about the liturgy and the processes. It\u2019s more a book to continue your studies and one to have to show how to live your Druid path day to day.\nPosted in Druid, Reviews\nTrue Magick\nTrue eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.\n\u2014 Francois de La Rochefoucald", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eslforkids.net/2018/08/13/omarosa-claims-trump-repeatedly-used-n-word-during-the/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XB7XSNHTVYGDZLEAVBFGGGCW45LLOZYP", "length": 2862, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "eslforkids.net", "title": "Omarosa Claims Trump Repeatedly Used 'N-Word' During 'The Apprentice'", "raw_content": "Main \u00bb Omarosa Claims Trump Repeatedly Used 'N-Word' During 'The Apprentice'\nManigault Newman's claims were published on Friday by The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the memoir.\n\"The NDA attached to the email was as harsh and restrictive as any I'd seen in all my years of television\", Manigault Newman writes in the book.\nThe White House says the book is \"riddled with lies and false accusations\".\nSanders says, \"It's sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks\".\nIn response to the allegations, Conway wrote on Twitter that Manigault's claim was \"not credible, and indeed is ridiculous, particularly in light of the timing of her departure from the White House-December 12, 2017\". \"She has no contact now\", White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said during a press conference in February.\nOmarosa will be on NBC's Meet the Press to discuss the book this Sunday. Trump was allegedly heard saying, \"F**king FLIP!\"\nHowever, she claims she never heard him use the word herself.\nOmarosa wrote in the book that she felt a \"growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot and a misogynist\". It said she would do \"diversity outreach\", among other things, for the campaign, according to her account.\nThere is no evidence anywhere supporting her claim that Trump eats paper, but two people who were tasked with putting Trump's mess back together told Politico earlier this year that Trump routinely destroys paper documents.\nAfter turning down the job, she said she received a \"flurry\" of letters from attorneys representing the president telling her to \"stay silent about Trump, or else\". \"I didn't know that\".\nOmarosa worked with Trump on The Apprentice and followed him into the White House, drawing an annual salary of $179,700, was married at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and brought her bridal party to the White House for photos.\nSpecifically, Omarosa says that she was told by a third party that pollster Frank Luntz heard Trump use the N-word.\nLara Trump, a campaign adviser and the President's daughter-in-law, extended the offer to Manigault Newman shortly after White House chief of staff John Kelly fired her for \"serious integrity issues\", according to The Post's excerpts. The existence of some tapes was first reported Wednesday by the Daily Beast.\n\"This is why people don't trust these 'expos\u00e9s, ' which is especially bad for authors who actually are good and reliable\", he concluded, referring to Manigault's book. She describes many scenes inside the White House vividly - explaining who was in the room and exactly what was said.\nAnd she still went to work for him. In the book, she paints Trump as scattered, self-absorbed, misogynistic and insecure. He delights in chaos and confusion.\nPrevious: Map shows best places to watch weekend meteor shower", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://esolodyssey.learningwithlaurahj.org/2012/08/classroom-management-from-day-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XUMRUVJXXHQGEAFTVHEDLCPILH2JTYRH", "length": 2831, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "esolodyssey.learningwithlaurahj.org", "title": "The ESOL Odyssey: Classroom Management- From Day 1", "raw_content": "Classroom Management- From Day 1\nSeveral years ago, when I was a first year teacher, and teaching middle school, I learned the importance of good classroom management, and how important it was to establish rules and procedures from day 1. If you don't set the tone on the first day, you'll find yourself up a creek with a crappy paddle!\nThe first year, I was not that much older than many of my students, and I thought a friendly rapport would be the way to go- with rules like \"Laugh with everyone, but laugh at no one\". Now I'm laughing at myself!\nBy winter break, I was miserable, stressed beyond my limits- and ready to quit. Over the holiday, I made a firm decision that things were going to change in my classroom. I worked hard to set up some more specific rules for my classroom, with more specific consequences regarding when warnings, referrals, removal, and detention would take place. I also set forth specific rewards, like iPod days or outdoor time. My students could see the change in my attitude as I presented the new classroom norms when we returned from the break.\nIt took some work that year, but my students learned that I was not a nice person when learning time was disrupted. They also learned that I was the most fun teacher they had when they worked hard, did what I asked, followed the rules and treated one another with respect.\nThe next year, I set up my system from day 1. Now, years later, I'm very firm and strict with my rules, and my students know I mean business. If I ask them to do something, they know I want it done right away, and I won't ask again. They also are clear on the rules, rewards, and consequences.\nSometimes it takes several weeks to get students used to the system- that's ok! One year, I had a 7th/8th grade mixed ESL LA class that struggled with the system at the beginning of the year, but I did not give in. I knew we had finally made it one day when I sat for over an hour without saying anything to the students (other than hello) after they entered the classroom. They came in, went to their desks, took out their materials, and started working. They knew what they needed to work on, and they were so engaged, they didn't even talk amongst themselves (I do allow quiet discussion if it doesn't interfere with work). I finally broke the silence to tell them how proud I was, and that we would take Friday off for some much-needed soccer time!\nOver the years, my system has been tweaked and changed, but it is still the same basic system that I started with that first year. If you're a new teacher, the best piece of advice I can offer you is this: find a system that works for you and your students, implement it, and stick to it. Also make sure that parents and students are clear on the rules, rewards and consequences related to your system. You'll be glad you did!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 4250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://essentialmommynetwork.com/category/wellness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JZ5GRUO5OAGJ4BZM3ZAKLDXZKZG5VFAR", "length": 5463, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "essentialmommynetwork.com", "title": "Wellness | Essential Mommy Network", "raw_content": "Intellectual Wellness Activity\nSetting goals is a major part of intellectual wellness because it is an effective way to challenge your intellect and creativity in discovering the best course of action to take in order to achieve your goals.\nThe following is a written blog of the above video with instructions on the activity.\nThere are several ideals to intellectual wellness, but we will be putting our energy into a single aspect today. Dr. Hill Hetler, co-founder of the National Wellness Institute, and creator of the Six Dimensions of Wellness, describes one of the ideals of wellness, stating:\n\u201cIt is better to stretch and challenge our minds with intellectual and creative pursuits than to become self-satisfied and unproductive\u201d\nIn other words, set goals for yourself so that you will remain dynamic in your pursuit of excellence, and be a productive contributor to the human race. We all have an idea of who we want to be and what we want to accomplish. The most successful way to attain our goals is to write them down and pursue them with diligence and tenacity. Dr. Gail Matthews, a professor of psychology at Dominican University, conducted a study in which 5 different groups of people were assessed on their success rate with their goal. Groups 1 and 2 wrote down their goals, Group 3 wrote down their goals and steps to achieving their goals, Group 4 did the same as group 3, but also shared their list of commitments to achieving their goal with a friend, and Group 5 did the same as Group 4, but also sent a weekly progress report to a friend. The most successful group was Group 5.\nAs Dr. Gail Matthews states,\n\u201cMy study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of three coaching tools: accountability, commitment, and writing down one\u2019s goals\u201d.\nToday, we are all going to start a journey to achieving our goals. I have put together an activity that will follow the results of Matthews\u2019 research. My hope is that all of us will hold each other accountable by challenging each other to fulfill the commitments and goals we write down today.\nThings you will need for this project:\nMagnets or tacks\nMagnet or Tack Board\nSit down in a quiet area and think about a goal you want to achieve. The goal can be for anything; health, education, business, career-oriented, family-oriented, something you are ready and willing to commit to. Make sure this goal is reasonable and can be accomplished. This goal should be your big goal, a long-term goal that will require sub-goals in order to achieve it.\nWrite this goal down in big letters. You will need to do this twice; one for your goal jar and one for your goal board. Next, write down the things you will need to do in order to accomplish this goal. Look at your list; these should be your short-term goals. Take each item and write it on a separate piece of paper, leaving space to list out the steps you will need to take in order to achieve it. Taking one short-term goal at a time, list out the steps required to accomplish it. These are your commitments.\nTake one of your long-term goals and rubberband or tape it to the outside of your goal jar. Take the second piece of paper with your long-term goal and stick it to your magnet board (this can even be your refrigerator) or to your tack board. Place it in the center.\nFold up each of your short-term goals, taping them shut with masking tape. If your short-term goals need to be completed in a specific order, use numbered magnets, or place a number on each folded piece of paper. Tape a magnet to the top of each short-term goal. Place all of your goals in the jar. If you need to complete them in order, pull out your number 1 short-term goal. If you can complete the goals at random, put all of your short-term goals into the jar and select one at random. Place the short-term goal with your commitments on your board. This is now the goal you will focus on.\nThe final piece of this activity is accountability. This portion of the activity produced the most successful results in Dr. Gail Matthews\u2019 study. Select a friend, a group, or a family member that you can update on your accomplishments. Select someone that will challenge you and follow up with you. You can use social media, email, phone calls, or face-to-face. If you do not feel comfortable sharing your goals with friends or family, I will make myself available to you. You can private message me on Facebook or Twitter, post comments on this blog post, post updates on my Facebook page, or email me. I would love to hear how you are doing and be part of your accountability process. I want all of us to succeed and avoid the \u2018what ifs\u2019. It is time to make our dreams realities, and we can all help each other with that. I look forward to seeing your progress as we continue along this journey together.\nGardner, Sarah. \u201cStudy Focuses on Strategies for Achieving Goals, Resolutions.\u201d Dominican University of California. Dominican University of California, 2015. Web. 17 April 2016. http://www.dominican.edu/dominicannews/study-highlights-strategies-for-achieving-goals\nHettler, Bill, MD. \u201cThe Six Dimensions of Wellness Model.\u201d NationalWellness.org. National Wellness Institute, Inc, 1976. Web. 17April 2016. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nationalwellness.org/resource/resmgr/docs/sixdimensionsfactsheet.pdf\nPosted on April 19, 2016 April 19, 2016 Categories Essential Mommy Guide, Uncategorized, WellnessTags #accountability, #commitment, #goals, #success, #wellness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 7016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://etsn.fm/shaq-johnson-tatum-dominate-diboll-38-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2LDYET37UW35HJJSFCGPHZZW5EDTZ42G", "length": 1154, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "etsn.fm", "title": "Shaq Johnson, Tatum Dominate Diboll, 38-6, in Final Non-District Game", "raw_content": "Shaq Johnson, Tatum Dominate Diboll, 38-6, in Final Non-District Game\nTatum RB Shaq Johnson. (Christopher Vinn, ETSN.fm)\nDIBOLL -- Shaq Johnson rushed for three touchdowns and caught another to help Tatum explode in the middle quarters to take down Diboll, 38-6, on Friday night.\nJohnson, who finished the game with 16 carries for 131 yards, scored on runs of 1, 1 and 31 yards to help Tatum (4-1) from its first loss of the season last week to Center.\nDiboll dropped to 1-5 on the season.\nJohnson also took a Darian Brooks pass 42 yards for a touchdown, which gave the Eagles a 12-0 lead at halftime.\nTatum rattled off 20 points in the third quarter, highlighted by two Johnson touchdown runs and a 17-yard touchdown run by C.J. Whitaker.\nAndrew Stoker added a 4-yard touchdown run for Tatum in the fourth.\nDiboll's only score came on a 1-yard touchdown run by Raive Sheppard with 3:51 left in the game. The Lumberjacks did not record a second-half first down until 7:41 was left in the game.\nDiboll opens district play at home next Friday night against unbeaten Center, while Tatum starts district at White Oak.\nFiled Under: Diboll, Tatum, Week 5 Games", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-easy-life.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OTRYSLTR3GK6Q2T6LAFFJHXRRD5BZSWU", "length": 2885, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "eureferendum.blogspot.com", "title": "EU Referendum: No easy life", "raw_content": "Picked up early by TBF, the resignation of Roger Helmer has been reviewed by Autonomous Mind, who has been careful to applaud \"an honourable course of action\". Helmer hints darkly that he will have more to say about his imminent departure from the EU parliament, parking his expense account in exchange for a not-ungenerous pension.\nHowever, those who saw him at the Tory conference remarked how unwell he looked. A disillusionment with Tory Party duplicity, therefore, may have combined with other issues, which made a precipitate retirement both desirable and necessary.\nMeanwhile, life goes on \u2013 on not, when it comes to the British fishing industry \u2013 as we find revealed \"Spanish Practices \", supposedly recently smoked out by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.\nThis is an issue untouched by MEPs, including the egregious Helmer \u2013 despite them telling us how much they are needed, in order to look after British interests. Yet this is an area where Britain has been comprehensively shafted, in preference to rapacious Spanish fishermen who have plundered our seas and many others besides.\nThe root of this, though, goes back to Franco, who ploughed funds into modernising the national fishing fleet, as a means of buying co-operation in communities which were far from loyal to the Fascist dictatorship.\nThus, when Spain joined the Community in 1986, having to cease \"state aid\" for the fishing industry, a condition of entry became that the EEC and then the EU would keep the funds flowing, all in the interests of political stability.\nThe direct losses to the British economy \u2013 without taking into account the environmental damage \u2013 run to at least \u00a32 billion a year. Add the collateral damage, in terms of the destruction of shore-side industries and the loss of business and employment to traditional fishing communities, and the losses exceed \u00a35 billion annually.\nCumulatively, this means an unmeasured cash drain of about \u00a3100 billion has flowed from the UK, largely to Spain, which acquired rights in UK waters from 1995 onwards.\nTaking on board that single metric, for Helmer, then \u2013 but also every other British MEP \u2013 their careers end in failure. They do nothing for us, except consume our money, while charting our degradation and humiliation at the hands of the Union.\nAM wishes Helmer the best for the future. I wish I could join him, but the collective failure of our politicians \u2013 of which Helmer is still one \u2013 has meant that many of our fishermen, and the communities that they used to support, no longer have a future.\nAt least Helmer has a decent pension \u2013 paid-for by us \u2013 to reward him for his failures. The aimless, drug-soaked kids of Arbroath, who would have once manned our trawlers and brought home the fish we eat, have no such compensation. Until that is sorted, no British politician \u2013 of any persuasion \u2013 deserves an easy life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 7333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ewsr.org/happyhomes2010/lanbdonsusan/landon.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:E5XJLLISTCJRAXF6HT2CZ2I6F7YWQ6WL", "length": 1016, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ewsr.org", "title": "Landon", "raw_content": "Landon is such a pretty dog that it is easy to think he should be a female. He has an incredibly soft and fluffy coat that makes you just want to run your hands through it. He has the most beautiful white fluffy tail I have ever seen. His sweet face is a true reflection of his sweet temperament. He is very well mannered too. He is easy to walk on a leash and does not pull hard like the snow dogs tend to do. He would make a great hiking or back pack partner for someone who wants a calm and happy dog to walk with them. He is easy to groom and seems to thrive on the attention when you brush him. He has done well around school aged children. He stays in the play yard with several other dogs, both males and females and plays nicely with all of them. Landon is one of those dogs who would be a good match for almost any home where he would be allowed to be a part of the family. He has been one of our favorite foster dogs since he arrived here. I think he would soon win your affection the same way he has ours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2016/08/personal-days-texting-breakthrough.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DBKJQ5HMEUMFWYT7BHOCIITNNML5NSP2", "length": 2564, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "experimentaltheology.blogspot.com", "title": "Experimental Theology: Personal Days: Texting Breakthrough", "raw_content": "Personal Days: Texting Breakthrough\nLord, I hate groups texts.\nI don't hate a bunch of friends coordinating something. Of course I want to be included and chime in. What I hate is how my phone explodes, each text, in rapid-fire, setting off the text chime.\nDing...ding..ding.dingdingdingding...\nAnd it's not just group texts. Any text. My life was filled with little chimes going off.\nNow I'm sure you've noticed that I'm not the brightest bulb, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I'm a bit slow.\nSo it took me a good few years to realize something. Something that has changed--nay, revolutionized!--my life.\nRichard, I said to myself one day, you can remove that chime when a text comes in.\nAnd the heavens parted.\nIt took me years to notice how the text chime was interrupting my life. It was such a little thing. Hearing the chime go off while I was in the shower, in another room, eating, talking, riding my bike to work, praying, reading. And whenever that chime went off my attention was broken. All through the day that text chime was going off, breaking my attention.\nSure, for certain moments, I would silence my phone. But I'm not going to silence my phone for most of the day. Sort of defeats the purpose.\nBecause, of course, there were texts that I wanted to know about immediately. But these were from a small number of people. Jana, the boys, my mom. And I realized--I know, I know, I'm slow--that I could leave the chimes on for these texts but turn it off for all others.\nBecause it's not like I'm going to miss a text. I look at and use my phone all the time. If you send me a text I'll see it very quickly. Plus, if it's not a text from family it's not going to be an emergency. And if it was, you can call me. The text won't ding. But the phone will ring.\nAnd so I took out my phone one day and turned off the text chime for everyone but family.\nGlory, glory hallelujah.\nMy life is so much quieter!\nI see my texts whenever I look at my phone, which is a lot. But the wonderful thing is that my texts no longer interrupt my attention. I can't tell you how huge that has been.\nI can read. And it'll be quiet. I can talk to someone. And it'll be quiet. I can shower. And it'll be quiet. I can ride my bike to work. And it'll be quite.\nTurning off the text chime is the one of the best things I've ever done.\nAnd guess what? I wrote this whole post and my phone was quiet. And I bet you a million dollars I got a few text while working on this. I'll check my phone in a minute. I see all my texts very quickly.\nBut no longer do they interrupt me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 628, "original_length": 22880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://familylifetoday.com/series/navigating-public-schools/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:DCE5PA7LKXDF3XJZG52XSDPDMEM2TZJL", "length": 726, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "familylifetoday.com", "title": "\ufeff Navigating Public Schools | FamilyLife Today\u00ae", "raw_content": "FamilyLife Today\u00ae > Navigating Public Schools\nFormer educator Stephen Williams talks about his journey to faith. Now 16 years after embracing Christianity, Williams challenges parents to be proactive and exercise their faith in the public school system in order to be salt and light to the next generation.\nDay 1 of 2: Stephen Williams talks about his journey to faith. Now, 16 years after embracing Christianity, Williams challenges parents to be proactive and exercise their faith in the public school system....\nDay 2 of 2: Former history teacher Stephen Williams knows what it's like to be persecuted for his faith in the classroom. Williams encourages parents to know what their children's rights are in the classroom....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 6336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fashionhandbook.co.za/trevor-noah/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:S65356AF7US7WWMPZZ7D22AWUNVWUXP3", "length": 333, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fashionhandbook.co.za", "title": "Trevor Noah Appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "raw_content": "South African comedian Trevor Noah has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he discussed growing up in South Africa. The new host of The Daily Show told DeGeneres he considered himself lucky because while he appreciated the advent of democracy, he didn\u2019t experience apartheid for very long and wasn\u2019t affected by it very much.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 153.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fcuinc.net/aboutus/gallery.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:00Z", "digest": "sha1:BATLW6ILK7OUY65BJ6O2TTOGXEGCJLPB", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fcuinc.net", "title": "Florida Concrete Unlimited - Photo Gallery", "raw_content": "OLD SKOOL a Look back into the 70's and 80's", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 48.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://femadill.com/students/student-handbook/freedom-of-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OVPBV5ONPNSAVCLACDVZNTXGZTRIK5XP", "length": 12186, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "femadill.com", "title": "Freedom of Information - F.E. Madill Secondary School", "raw_content": "Dear Parent/Guardian and/or Adult Student:\nThe purpose of this communication is to notify you of how the Avon Maitland District School Board and your school use the personal information you provide to us in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). The MFIPPA is a law that sets guidelines that schools and district school boards must follow when this collecting, using and/or and disclosing students\u2019 personal information. Under this Act, personal information refers to recorded information about an identifiable individual.\nThe Education Act sets out duties and powers of the Board and authorizes school boards to collect personal information for the purpose of planning and delivering educational programs and services and give information to employees to carry out their job duties. In addition, the information may be used to deal with matters of health and safety or discipline which best meet students\u2019 needs and for reporting to the Minister of Education as required. This Act requires that the school principal maintain an Ontario Student Record (OSR) for each student attending the school. The OSR is a record of a student\u2019s educational progress through school in Ontario and follows students when they transfer schools. The Ontario Student Record Guideline sets out how record is to be managed. The Avon Maitland District School Board adheres to this OSR guideline.\nUnder the MFIPPA, personal information may be used or disclosed by the Avon Maitland District School Board:\nIn compelling circumstances affecting health or safety (providing notice of the disclosure is sent to the student\u2019s home).\nPrior to releasing confidential information for any other purpose, the school will seek informed consent from the parent/guardian for children under 16 years of age, from the parent/guardian and the student where the student is 16 and 17, and from the student where the student is over 18 or the student is 16 or 17 years of age and has withdrawn from parental control, in accordance with both MFIPPA and the Education Act.\nIt is our practice to include a notice statement on forms used to collect personal information to advise you how we will use and disclose the information. To help you understand how we use the information you provide to us without notification to you, we draw your attention to the following routine uses and/or disclosures of student personal information so that you may express any concerns you may have regarding the release and sharing of the information.\nThe student\u2019s OSR will be used by school and board staff to support the classroom teacher in developing an educational program which best meets the student\u2019s needs. Staff working with the classroom teacher or directly with the student may include individuals working in areas such as Special Education, guidance counselling, student success, etc.\nStudent information is shared in order to design and deliver programming to meet the needs of all students in our schools. To that end, learning profiles and student achievement levels are shared between staff within a school in order to better address student needs as they progress through grade levels. As students\u2019 progress from elementary school to secondary school, important information is shared which eases a student\u2019s transition to secondary school. Sharing it also improves our ability to program effectively to the benefit of all students. Select student information will be shared at different times as required. Please note that all information used for the transition process is limited, secure and protected at all times. Please contact your Principal if you would like more information about the transition process. The secondary school will share information about each student\u2019s progress through secondary school with the student\u2019s previous elementary school to support continuous improvement of the elementary school program for all students.\nHome phone numbers and email addresses may be released to create contact lists for distribution as follows:\nEmergency Procedures \u2013 to volunteers and bus operators for the purpose of making contact during an emergency, such as inclement weather situations, etc.,\nSchool Councils \u2013 to be used for soliciting parent involvement in a variety of school related activities that will benefit your child.\nEmail addresses may be used for the purpose of school newsletter distribution. Avon Maitland schools strive to be environmentally-conscious by reducing the sending home of paper notifications. Instead, where possible, we try and use electronic communications to relay information to students and families. In accordance with Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation which requires all organizations in Canada to collect consent for the receipt of commercial electronic communications, we are informing you that by providing your consent and email address you agree to receive messages electronically from the school or school board which may include information about a commercial activity. Your consent to receive these messages can be revoked at any time by contacting the school.\nThe school will share and update necessary student information with the Health Units. The information will include your child\u2019s name, OEN, grade, birth date, home address, home telephone number and work number of parents, for the purpose of \u201cestablishing and maintaining a school health record according to the Health Protection and Promotion Act and Immunization of School Pupils Act\u201d. Medical information may be shared with parent volunteers when relevant (i.e. on a school trip).\nPersonal Information may be provided to School Photographers such as student\u2019s first and last name, student number, date of birth, student\u2019s three-letter identification, school name and grade. This information will be provided electronically and may be used for the purpose of providing the student with a student identification card and will be used in the school office for identification purposes. The photographer signs a confidentiality clause that states that the information may only be used for the purpose that it was collected and no other purpose. Students may be recorded or photographed by their classroom teacher in school or during school activities as part of their educational program. Photos may be shared with the class and parents as appropriate.\nStudents may participate in video conferencing (a technology which allows for two or more locations to interact via simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions) to support the classroom program. Conferences may be organized with students in other AMDSB schools, students in other countries and or as virtual field trips. Be advised that an email account may be assigned to your child to support curriculum instruction. In addition, the use of collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, Edmodo, Google and/or Facebook may be part of your child\u2019s learning experience and may include your child\u2019s work and/or name.\nPersonal Information may be provided to the Huron-Perth Student Transportation Services (HPSTS) and their contracted Bus Companies to ensure the health and safety of the students. The information may include your child\u2019s name, grade, photo, medical notes, 911 address and mailing address. Emergency contact phone numbers will also be shared with the HPSTS.\nPersonal Information such as first and last name, address, age, and phone number may be given to OSBIE (Ontario School Board Insurance Exchange) in the event the student is involved in an accident or witnesses one.\nStudents\u2019 work with their first and last name and possibly grade levels, may be displayed in the classroom or school hallways, or may be shared with the public through science fairs, art projects, bulletin board displays, school newspapers, Board Publications and at the Education Centre. Student names, photos and/or work are not displayed on School, Classroom and/or Board websites without a signed permission form. The permission form is provided to parents and adult students on the Confirmation of Emergency Contact and Personal Information Form annually.\nNames of graduating students, as well as students, who have achieved special accomplishment, may be shared with the offices of a Member of Parliament and/or a Member of Provincial Parliament for the purpose of the student receiving a congratulatory letter.\nThe media may be invited to the school to take photos of students and write articles about student achievements, graduations or special events. Once again, the student may be identified by first and last name and grade level. The information gathered is used as part of the school\u2019s communication plan to share newsworthy events that occur at the school. Media may choose to use the Internet as a communication tool and as a result photos or articles written about these events may be available online.\nPhotographs and videos of students (with their names and grade), collectively or individually, may be taken by Avon Maitland D.S.B. staff and/or professional photographers that have been approved by the Board and may be used in the following manner:\nSchool yearbooks, school newsletters, or for school identification purposes,\nDuring classroom activities, open house or parents\u2019 night, and assessment purposes within the classroom\nCourse calendars and other Board and School Publications,\nIn local newspapers and on local television,\nOn some school buses and/or within some schools video surveillance may be in place to monitor student behaviour. All tapes will be copied over and/or erased. Refer to Administrative Procedure 525 for more information.\nParents are reminded that visitors to the school during special events (track meets, concerts etc.) might take photographs or videos of their child\u2019s participation.\nPersonal Information such as first and last name, date of birth, gender and entry date to grade 9 may be given to OFSAA (Ontario Federation of Secondary Athletic Association) for students that express a desire to participate in school athletics. Personal Information such as first, middle and last name, date of birth, OEN, gender, and credits achieved may be given to OCAS and OUAC (Ontario College Application Service and Ontario University Application Centre) for students that plan to apply for post-secondary education.\nPersonal Information such as first, middle and last name, date of birth, gender, OEN and credits achieved will be exported to MyBlueprint to allow for students to plan their course choices and pathway for the next academic year.\nSchool-Based Services address the comprehensive health care needs of students including counseling. School-based Services are accessed on a referral basis. Students may be referred by parent/guardians, school staff or by the student.\nThe Ministry of Education has provided integrated learning platforms for schools to use with their students. D2L and Homework Help are two of these tools that Avon Maitland District School Board teachers may use within their classroom. These online tools create a workspace for distributing homework, collaboration and learning support. Student names, DOB, OEN, class information and email address is shared in order to create logins and workspaces for the student.\nAboriginal ancestry information will be used by Avon Maitland DSB to allocate resources; to improve student learning and student success; and to offer individualized supports and opportunities to students and families. Aboriginal ancestry information will also be reported to the Ministry of Education and the Education Quality and Accountability Office. Families and students should be assured that the confidentiality of this identification will be protected.\nQuestions regarding the information contained in this notification may be addressed to the School Principal or the Manager of Information Services, 519-527-0111 ext. 111. Please communicate any concerns you have with regards to the sharing of personal information in any or all of the above-mentioned by contacting the school principal as soon as possible. The above will apply unless an objection is filed with the Principal and an alternative resolution can be found.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://festivalhill.org/faculty/details.php?id=127", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:19Z", "digest": "sha1:QLUH4N6TEYI6V7UBFYCCEPOTY4WVC237", "length": 2507, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "festivalhill.org", "title": "Round Top Festival Institute |", "raw_content": "Bernadene Blaha\nThornton School of Music, USC\nwww.bernadeneblaha.com\nBernadene Blaha's \"brilliant command of the piano\", whether featured as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician, has been heralded in performances throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Mexico. Piano and Keyboard magazine has reviewed her as, \"a pianist of integrity, with lovely sonorities and total clarity of line.\" Highlights of this season include return engagements at the Piatigorsky Cello Festival, Newport Music Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Worcester Chamber Music Society as well as performances in Canada, France and Italy.\nOriginally from Canada, Ms. Blaha first came to international attention as a prizewinner in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition; the Young Keyboard Artists International Piano Competition, Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Masterplayers International Competition, Lugano, Switzerland; and the 11th Annual International Piano Competition, New York City. This latter award resulted in two highly acclaimed recital appearances, at Carnegie Recital Hall and the Lincoln Center Library. Soon afterward, Ms. Blaha was featured in the opening orchestra concert and a solo recital at the XXIX International Chopin Festival in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia, followed by performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and Disney Hall in Los Angeles.\nMs. Blaha is a founding member of the piano trio Latitude 41, formed in 2009 with violinist Livia Sohn and cellist Luigi Piovano. Their debut CD of Schubert's monumental \"Trio in E flat Major\" and \"Notturno\" was released in 2011 on the Eloquentia label to rave reviews. The group followed this success with a recording of the Saint-Sa\u00ebns Trios and has a forthcoming CD featuring the Brahms Trios. Ms. Blaha's discography also includes recordings for the CBC, Centaur and Analekta labels.\nAlso in demand as a teacher, adjudicator and clinician, Ms. Blaha has received the National Arts Foundation's Outstanding Teacher Recognition Award. She has been invited to serve on the jury of the Gina Bachauer International Artist Piano Competition, Virginia Waring International Competition and the 2015 International E-Competition.\nCurrently residing in Los Angeles, Ms. Blaha has been a member of the Keyboard Faculty at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California since 1993 where she is an Associate Professor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 154.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fibro247.com/fibromyalgia-now-considered-as-a-lifelong-central-nervous-system-disorder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GB5REKLO5F4GGYBQ25CUT6TP2VDJCDPQ", "length": 3415, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "fibro247.com", "title": "Fibromyalgia Now Considered As A Lifelong Central Nervous System Disorder \u2013 Fibromyalgia 24/7", "raw_content": "Fibromyalgia Now Considered As A Lifelong Central Nervous System Disorder\nBy admin On December 22, 2017 Tagged fibro Leave a comment\nIN: FIBROMYALGIA\nFibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis and, though still widely misunderstood, is now considered to be a lifelong central nervous system disorder, which is responsible for amplified pain that shoots through the body in those who suffer from it. Daniel Clauw, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, University of Michigan, analyzed the neurological basis for fibromyalgia in a plenary session address today at the American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting.\n\u201cFibromyalgia can be thought of both as a discreet disease and also as a final common pathway of pain centralization and chronification. Most people with this condition have lifelong histories of chronic pain throughout their bodies,\u201d said Clauw. \u201cThe condition can be hard to diagnose if one isn\u2019t familiar with classic symptoms because there isn\u2019t a single cause and no outward signs.\u201d\nClauw explained that fibromyalgia pain comes more from the brain and spinal cord than from areas of the body in which someone may experience peripheral pain. The condition is believed to be associated with disturbances in how the brain processes pain and other sensory information. He said physicians should suspect fibromyalgia in patients with multifocal (mostly musculoskeletal) pain that is not fully explained by injury or inflammation.\n\u201cBecause pain pathways throughout the body are amplified in fibromyalgia patients, pain can occur anywhere, so chronic headaches, visceral pain and sensory hyper-responsiveness are common in people with this painful condition,\u201d said Clauw.\n\u201cThis does not imply that peripheral nociceptive input does not contribute to pain experienced by fibromyalgia patients, but they do feel more pain than normally would be expected from the degree of peripheral input. Persons with fibromyalgia and other pain states characterized by sensitization will experience pain from what those without the condition would describe as touch,\u201d Clauw added.\nDue to the central nervous system origins of fibromyalgia pain, Clauw said treatments with opioids or other narcotic analgesics usually are not effective because they do not reduce the activity of neurotransmitters in the brain. \u201cThese drugs have never been shown to be effective in fibromyalgia patients, and there is evidence that opioids might even worsen fibromyalgia and other centralized pain states,\u201d he said.\nClauw advises clinicians to integrate pharmacological treatments, such as gabapentinoids, trycyclics and serotonoin reuptake inhibitors, with nonpharmacological approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, exercise and stress reduction.\n\u201cSometimes the magnitude of treatment response for simple and inexpensive non-drug therapies exceeds that for pharmaceuticals,\u201d said Clauw. \u201cThe greatest benefit is improved function, which should be the main treatment goal for any chronic pain condition. The majority of patients with fibromyalgia can see improvement in their symptoms and lead normal lives with the right medications and extensive use of non-drug therapies.\nReference;https://greatamericans.world/fibromyalgia-now-considered-as-a-lifelong-central-nervous-system-disorder/\nDon\u2019t Ignore These Shocking 4 Symptoms Of Chronic Anxiety!\nMy Life In Faith: Growing Up in a Scottish Clan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fibro247.com/sensory-overload-how-noise-can-affect-you-in-fibromyalgia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KGVFZMXHCY4MBNVBMYEOXPFMXMKVN33P", "length": 6523, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "fibro247.com", "title": "Sensory Overload: How Noise Can Affect You in Fibromyalgia \u2013 Fibromyalgia 24/7", "raw_content": "Sensitivity to environmental stimulation, including bright lights, loud noises, and even certain smells, can make living with fibromyalgia particularly challenging. You might wake up each morning wondering what new trigger may exacerbate your fibromyalgia symptoms.\n\u201cI deal with everything on a day-to-day basis,\u201d says Stephanie Parker of Dover, Del., who believes her symptoms are consistent with fibromyalgia but has not yet been formally diagnosed. The symptoms keep her from participating in daily family activities, such as watching her kids\u2019 ballgames in the afternoons.\nTina Pringle, who was diagnosed 16 years ago with fibromyalgia, says that her fibromyalgia symptoms have been overwhelming at times. \u201cThe symptoms all merge together, and because of the fatigue and brain fog, everything becomes a maze of sheer confusion,\u201d explains Pringle.\nThe United Kingdom resident says her eye doctor identified her light sensitivity, but it\u2019s her sensitivity to sound that\u2019s most troubling. \u201cLoud bangs, a child crying, loud music, shouting, dogs barking, and my worst annoyance, whistling, are all an issue,\u201d she says. \u201cThe noises resound in my head like a clanging cymbal and cause my whole body to tense up.\u201d\nAs her tension grows, so does her fibromyalgia pain, and she has to retreat to a darkened room to relax. Her reaction is particularly problematic at home, where her teenage daughter often loves to play loud music and behave in typically boisterous adolescent fashion.\nNoise is just the beginning of the sensory anguish that might be contributing to your fibromyalgia pain. People living with fibromyalgia report:\nChronic pain and tenderness\nIncreased sensitivity to touch or pressure\nIncreased sensitivity to loud sounds\nIncreased sensitivity to unpleasant smells\nIncreased sensitivity to temperature changes\nIncreased sensitivity to certain flavors\nWhat\u2019s Going On Inside Your Head\nThis heightened sensitivity may be difficult for you to understand, much less explain to friends and family members who see no outward problem. The uncomfortable and painful sensations of fibromyalgia may be part of your brain\u2019s unusual way of processing pain, suggests fibromyalgia researcher Benjamin Natelson, MD, a neurology professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and author of Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong.\nAccording to a study published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation that compared and analyzed reports from women with rheumatoid arthritis, women with fibromyalgia, and women without a pain syndrome, those with fibromyalgia were much more likely to report intense, unpleasant responses to sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations.\nAnother study, published in the journal Pain Research and Treatment,suggests that changes in brain chemistry among people with fibromyalgia may be linked to sensitivity to stimuli such as sound and smell. Imaging studies have provided visual depictions of this altered response to sensations. In some respects, the brains of people with fibromyalgia may be hyper-responsive to even the possibility of pain or discomfort, Dr. Natelson says.\nResearchers have also tested tissue samples and found elevated levels of inflammatory markers in the skin of people with fibromyalgia \u2014 which may be linked to hypersensitivity to touch. Touch sensitivity is real for people like Pringle, who says that there are times when even holding hands with her partner is too painful to bear. Clothes that are too tight, massages, and even light touches all ratchet up her pain and stress. To make matters worse, Pringle says she occasionally even flinches involuntarily when touched by others, which can be hurtful to those around her.\nWhat to Do About Fibromyalgia Symptoms\nHow can you address a problem that might stem from your brain\u2019s wiring? Here are some practical steps you can take to manage these sensory symptoms:\nWork with a supportive doctor. \u201cIf your doctor doesn\u2019t believe you have fibromyalgia, get a new one,\u201d stresses Natelson. Pain treatment will be most effective, he says, when you and your doctor are on the same team. Three prescription medications have been approved for treating fibromyalgia and could help you manage your fibromyalgia pain and reduce your hypersensitivity.\nBe active. A review of exercise as part of fibromyalgia treatment, published in the journal Rheumatology International, showed that aerobic exercise may offset pain and minimize tender point sensitivity. Natelson advises gentle physical conditioning. His prescription: \u201cWalk for 30 minutes every other day at about 1.5 to 2 miles per hour.\u201d This increases blood flow to the muscles and tissues. Very gradually, increase your pace to about 3.6 mph. This level of activity \u201cseems to downregulate pain perception,\u201d Natelson explains. Walking outside is ideal, but if you\u2019re sensitive to temperature changes, light, smells, and other sensations, start a walking program inside your home or at the gym.\nAvoid your triggers. As much as you can, control your environment so that you limit potential causes of discomfort:\nVentilate your home well to remove strong smells.\nConsider earplugs or noise-canceling headphones to minimize or eliminate loud sounds.\nTake care of your skin and reduce irritation by using gentle products and avoiding temperature extremes, such as very hot or very cold water.\nWear loose-fitting clothes and dress in light layers that you can remove if the weight of your clothes starts to irritate your skin.\nSet boundaries. When her sensitivity to light is especially intense, Pringle simply explains to family members that she can\u2019t watch TV with them right at that moment.\nCreate a retreat. On particularly difficult days, a comfortable, cool, darkened room might be a soothing place to relax and recharge.\nWear sunglasses. Inside or out, if you feel sensitive to light or certain patterns, put on some shades and give your eyes a break.\nFibromyalgia symptoms that affect all your senses can make every day a struggle, and when you experience difficulty managing your sensitivities, you may be tempted to stay home and avoid socializing and being outside. Even so, Natelson says this is not a good strategy in the long run. Instead, work closely with your doctor to develop strategies that limit your exposure to certain triggers without preventing you from enjoying the world around you.\nreference;https://greatamericans.world/sensory-overload-how-noise-can-affect-you-in-fibromyalgia/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fitnessinthecity.com.au/wellness/is-ibs-ruining-your-life-health-expert-shares-top-tips", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:23IA4I4FRH7XEGGKQC5DB4334XRSUCCS", "length": 3660, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "fitnessinthecity.com.au", "title": "Is IBS ruining your life? Health expert shares top tips - Fitness In The City", "raw_content": "Posted by Fitness in the City | Jan 22, 2018 | Guest Posts, Health + Nutrition, Wellness | 0 |\nIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be debilitating, painful and affect your quality of life on a regular basis. Medical doctor and expert in nutritional medicine, Dr Cris Beer, shares her knowledge on how to deal with this health issue\nIf you suffer from diarrhoea, constipation, stomach pain, cramps or gas, this may be an indication that you have IBS.\nAffecting around one in five Australians,[i] IBS can be difficult to manage, and when symptoms raise their head, it can be even more difficult to treat. While the cause of IBS is still unknown, it has been found that IBS affects twice as many women as men, and it could be genetic.\nThe following advice could help reduce the severity and regularity of your attacks:\nFollow the FODMAP diet\nResearchers at Monash University found that eliminating certain foods, such as wheat, barley, rye, dairy products, some fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, onion and garlic, can reduce the symptoms of around 86 per cent of IBS sufferers.[ii]\nIdeally, cut these foods from your diet for up to six weeks, before slowly introducing them, one-by-one, back into your diet to observe your reaction. According to researchers, these foods are not absorbed well in the small intestine, have small molecules that draw water into the gut, and are easily fermented by intestinal bacteria, which makes them more likely to cause IBS symptoms.\nManaging your stress levels may alleviate your IBS symptoms. Research shows that there is a link between our state of mind and our bowel, due to the nerve to muscle messages in the bowel, which are similar to those in the brain.[iii] Case in point: those who get nervous may get diarrhoea.\nIf you\u2019re feeling stressed, try meditation, going for a gentle walk or try yoga to help calm your nervous system.\nTake a probiotic\nA high-quality daily supplement may help reduce your symptoms of IBS, or help to balance the bacteria during times of inflammation.[iv]\nOne study[v] found that the balance of harmful gut flora may help doctors understand IBS and why and when it occurs. The study suggested that by rebalancing good and bad bacteria, with the aid of probiotics, could help to manage symptoms.\nIdeally, take one probiotic every day, around two to three hours after eating. Include probiotic-rich foods in your diet too, such as fermented foods, and try to gradually increase your fibre intake, with wholegrains, oats, linseeds and fruit and vegetables.[vi]\nSpeak to your healthcare practitioner if symptoms persist. Always read the label. Use only as directed. Supplements may only be of assistance if dietary intake is inadequate.\nFor more information, visit www.blackmores.com.au\nABOUT DR CRIS BEER\nDr Cris is an integrative medical doctor, author, corporate speaker, and media doctor. As an expert in integrative medicine Dr Cris specialises not just in treatment of illnesses, but in the attaining of optimum health. She has particular interests in preventative health, lifestyle medicine, hormone health, weight loss, fatigue and sleep problems, digestive issues, as well as women\u2019s health.\nCheck her website out for some amazing programs and follow her here https://www.instagram.com/_drcris/\n[i] https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs\n[ii] [ii] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918736/\n[iii] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4968122/\n[v] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgh.12322/abstract\n[vi] https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/IBSfoodfacts.pdf\nPreviousDonuts Donuts Donuts\nNext30 MINUTE MOOD BOOSTING TABATA INSPIRED WORKOUT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flashforwardflashback.com/made-in-durham/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:13Z", "digest": "sha1:AZTIZ4PRNOCGC6BDCM7ETWN6KRDVALIB", "length": 7640, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "flashforwardflashback.com", "title": "Made in Durham - Flash Forward Flash Back", "raw_content": "\u201cSince Ray been murdered, I have nightmares. I dream of him in the morgue and when they are cutting his body I wake up because I can feel the knife cutting me,\u201d says Joslin Simms, who weeps at the corner of Broad and Leon streets where her son, Rayburn, 30, was shot to death on May 21, 2005. The case remains unsolved. Ray left behind four children and a devastated mother. A decade later, Joslin limps along maimed by grief and depression. She calls it a \u201cwalking death.\u201d \u201cSince Ray been murdered, I have nightmares. I dream of him in the morgue and when they are cutting his body I wake up because I can feel the knife cutting me,\u201d says Joslin Simms, who weeps at the corner of Broad and Leon streets where her son, Rayburn, 30, was shot to death on May 21, 2005. The case remains unsolved. Ray left behind four children and a devastated mother. A decade later, Joslin limps along maimed by grief and depression. She calls it a \u201cwalking death.\u201d\nPhotos by Justin Cook, 2017 Flash Forward Winner\n\u201cDurham is unrecognizable,\u201d states Justin Cook, about his home in North Carolina. Indeed, the forces of gentrification are well underway.\nCase in point: A report by the local newspaper the Herald Sun revealed that in some neighbourhoods, the median house value has increased 25 per cent between 2010 and 2016, forcing many people out of their homes. As a result, two cities have emerged. One where old tobacco factories have become bars, lofts and creative businesses and another that continues to grapple with endemic poverty. The first continues to expand its reach, organizing festivals on the theme of \u201cMarry Durham\u201d where residents dressed to the nines pledge their love and commitment to the city through a mock wedding ceremony while pushing the low-income population, mainly African-American families, into tighter and tighter quarters further aggravating their plight. Tellingly, one picture shows an empty 20-acre property, which used to be home to Fayette Place, a public housing project that was home to 200 families. The property had been bought by a developer promising to turn it into residences for university students.\n\u201cThere are no silver spoons, no jobs, but plenty of guns. And young black men are adrift and afraid. So they sell drugs to numb the pain of poverty, and they release their anger by annihilating each other in the streets. In this Durham, homicide is the fruit of poverty and the leading cause of death for black men in their prime. Their murders go unsolved and their mothers grieve to death; their children grow up without fathers and wander toward the same fate. One bullet tears through a generation,\u201d wrote Cook when he presented his project.\nYoung men who identify as Crips gather in a circle and spill liquor to mourn Maurice Streeter, who was shot and killed in April 2013.\nKalin Swinney pauses by the casket of his first cousin, 9-year-old Jaeden Sharpe, at Beechwood Cemetery. Jaeden was shot in the head and his mother, in the face, as they sat in her car near their home on Jan. 4, 2014. He died Jan. 9. His murder was the first of 2014 in Durham.\nCommunity is formed from grief as mothers laugh and weep and remember their murdered children during a Circle of Hope and Healing, held by The Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham.\nHis observations are supported by devastating statistics. According to a U.S. Department of Justice statement, between 2009 to 2012, Durham\u2019s homicide rate for black males age 15 to 34 was about eight times the national rate. Seventy-three per cent of the victims were black; three per cent were white. Add to that the number of aggravated assaults with firearm, which Cook believes are seldom discussed because \u201chomicide rates are sexier.\u201d But for those who are maimed for life, the economic and healthcare costs for individuals are deep and damaging, which in turn impacts the well-being of the whole neighbourhood.\n\u201cViolence is a symptom,\u201d notes Cook, who turned his lens toward the impact it is having on the whole community. He began by riding along with the Durham Police Department\u2019s Gang Resistance Unit. This eventually led him to meet the likes of Joslin Simm who lost her son Rayburn to gun violence on May 21, 2005; Rashard Johnson, a former gang member; Allen, a minister who doubles as a mortician, and his son Tyrone, a former drug dealer. These ongoing relationships helped him see the many layers at play and resist judgment. He\u2019s seen them on their worst and their best days, when despair struck as well as when hope shined through the cracks.\n\u201cThe biggest point I wanted to make was that there aren\u2019t any pathologies within these communities. Rather, conditions were created to place them in this situation. Durham was founded after the Civil War and its economy steeped in the production of tobacco, itself dependent on the exploitation of black bodies and segregation. You can still see the effects of that industry lingering today.\u201d That legacy coupled with destructive urban plans\u2014a freeway built in the 1970s effectively divided a thriving African-American neighbourhood\u2014and ongoing national systemic racism continue to undermine the efforts of these populations to better their lot.\nA Durham Police Department Selective Enforcement Team officer escorts a child to the bathroom after a drug raid. His mother was detained during the search in the house and was unable to tend to him.\nHow can photographers speak of endemic violence and poverty without chastising those who are at the heart of it?\n\u201cPolice shootings of African Americans and high homicide rates in African American communities are inextricably linked,\u201d says Cook. \u201cHomicides go unsolved because African Americans historically distrust the police, so they won\u2019t snitch even if they know who pulled the trigger and killed someone. They have learned that the police won\u2019t protect them; they see police around the country getting away with shooting and killing black men. Moreover, when a homicide occurs, murder trials are expensive and risky for states to try, because the burden of proof for a conviction is high. So plea deals for short sentences are given or suspects are arrested on proxy charges\u2014often for drugs and given long sentences.\u201d\nHe and a woman he met through a grief counselling group who does epidemiological research for a living took it upon themselves to pull homicide case records from the Durham County Courthouse to analyze a few years of trial outcomes. They found that 80 per cent of the time, a plea deal was given instead of a trial. Usually, it was pleading guilty to \u201cassault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill\u201d in exchange for a shorter sentence and credit for time served (since suspects could spend up to two years in jail before even getting a trial or plea). In other words, adds Cook: \u201cthe judicial system doesn\u2019t protect black people either. The same system that allows police to murder black men and get away with it also allows homicide to continue with impunity in black neighbourhoods. Basically, you will do more time for drugs than for murder. The message sent to the community is: Black lives don\u2019t matter; you can get away with murder in Durham.\u201d\nJustin Cook is a photographer because he believes that relationships foster a deliberate life. Relationships are the core of intimate storytelling. He documents issues that shape the American experience and works with editorial and commercial clients. If he doesn\u2019t have a near-impossible task to tackle, he\u2019s bound to lose his mind. Otherwise, you can find him reading about astrophysics, writing in the first person or Instagramming his cats at #sprickers.\njustincookphoto.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 8891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://footballparty.com.au/football-party/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:B6QC6WIV3RON4V3UEZ3MBB2S4HE6UYYX", "length": 14012, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "footballparty.com.au", "title": "Football Party - Football Party - Kids football Parties - Sydney", "raw_content": "Looking for a Kids Football Party for your football mad child then we can assist in running your sports themed party in North Manly, Freshwater, Dee Why, Narraweena, Curl Curl, Beacon Hill, Manly Vale, North Curl Curl, Allambie Heights, Queenscliff, Cromer, North Balgowlah, Balgowlah, Fairlight, Manly, Wheeler Heights, Collaroy, Seaforth, Balgowlah Heights, Collaroy Plateau, Oxford Falls, Frenchs Forest, Clontarf, Narrabeen, Killarney Heights, Forestville, Middle Cove, Belrose, Castlecrag, Roseville Chase, Castle Cove, Willoughby East, North Narrabeen, Mosman, North Willoughby, Northbridge, Cremorne, Willoughby, Elanora Heights, Davidson, East Lindfield, Cammeray, Neutral Bay, Watsons Bay, Naremburn, Chatswood, Warriewood, Roseville, Ingleside, Artarmon, Crows Nest, St Leonards, Kurraba Point, Cremorne Point, East Killara, Lindfield, North Sydney, Terrey Hills, Mona Vale, Vaucluse, Killara, Lavender Bay, Wollstonecraft, Kirribilli, Lane Cove North, Milsons Point, McMahons Point, Greenwich, Waverton, Chatswood West, Lane Cove, Gordon, Northwood, St Ives, Rose Bay, Dawes Point, Point Piper, The Rocks, Lane Cove West, Dover Heights, Bayview, Millers Point, Duffys Forest, St Ives Chase, Potts Point, Woolwich, Newport, Riverview, Barangaroo, Darling Point, Woolloomooloo, Longueville, Pymble, Double Bay, Elizabeth Bay, Balmain East, Rushcutters Bay, Birchgrove, Edgecliff, Macquarie Park, North Turramurra, North Bondi, Hunters Hill, Balmain, Linley Point, East Ryde, Bellevue Hill, Darlinghurst, Church Point, Pyrmont, West Pymble, Bondi Beach, Turramurra, Paddington, Woollahra, Scotland Island, Bilgola Plateau, Bondi, Bondi Junction, North Ryde, Haymarket, Ultimo, Rozelle, Huntleys Point, Drummoyne, Warrawee, Tamarama, Bilgola Beach, Surry Hills, Waverley, Centennial Park, Clareville, Huntleys Cove, Chippendale, Queens Park, Glebe, Moore Park, South Turramurra, Bronte, Henley, Forest Lodge, Avalon Beach, Gladesville, Wahroonga, Redfern, Lilyfield, North Wahroonga, Marsfield, Darlington, Chiswick, Annandale, Camperdown, Waterloo, Russell Lea, Tennyson Point, Putney, Clovelly, Eveleigh, Abbotsford, Ryde, Kensington, Randwick, Wareemba, Rodd Point, Denistone East, Newtown, Leichhardt, Waitara, Erskineville, Normanhurst, Zetland, Coogee, North Epping, Breakfast Point, Five Dock, Cabarita, Denistone, Beaconsfield, Enmore, Hornsby, Alexandria, Mortlake, Asquith, Stanmore, West Ryde, Epping, Whale Beach, Haberfield, Meadowbank, Cheltenham, Eastwood, Canada Bay, Kingsford, Mount Colah, Petersham, St Peters, Thornleigh, Rosebery, South Coogee, Eastlakes, Daceyville, Mount Kuring-Gai, Palm Beach, Rhodes, Denistone West, Lewisham, Concord, Summer Hill, Pennant Hills, Melrose Park, Sydenham, Marrickville, Ashfield, Wentworth Point, Beecroft, Liberty Grove, Concord West, Dulwich Hill, Westleigh, Croydon, Berowra, North Strathfield, Hornsby Heights, Pagewood, Burwood, Mascot, Maroubra, Dundas Valley, Strathfield, Tempe, Eastgardens, Homebush, Hurlstone Park, Ashbury, Burwood Heights, Croydon Park, Ermington, Carlingford, Botany, Hillsdale, Sydney Olympic Park, Wolli Creek, Canterbury, Telopea, Enfield, Berowra Heights, Dundas, Matraville, West Pennant Hills, Newington, Cherrybrook, Homebush West, Turrella, Rydalmere, Banksmeadow, Malabar, Silverwater, Arncliffe, Earlwood, Strathfield South, North Rocks, Bardwell Valley, Campsie, Chifley, Rookwood, Kyeemagh, Bardwell Park, Oatlands, Belfield, Camellia, Banksia, Clemton Park, Rosehill, Port Botany, Phillip Bay, Belmore, Lidcombe, Little Bay, Auburn, Bexley North, Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Bexley, North Parramatta, Clyde, Lakemba, Castle Hill, La Perouse, Chullora, Kingsgrove, Harris Park, Berala, Greenacre, Kogarah, Granville, Monterey, Parramatta, Glenhaven, Wiley Park, Northmead\nIf you call it a Kids Soccer party or Kids Football party it is still the same result. Happy active and energetic kids playing a game they love in a fully inclusive environment at a location of your choice.\nWe can help you plan and run your Kids Football Party for your football mad child and their friends\nThis will not only make their day and week but will be fun for all their friends to attend.\nKids football parties at a location in Sydney is a great way for kids to spend their birthdays.\nYou pick a suitable area for the activities such as\nA Park or Oval\nHome or Back garden\nWith the venue we ask that you bear in mind\nParking for Parents\nToilets at the location\nShelter and shade if possible\nMaybe a BBQ if you are providing food\nNo need for you to worry about organizing the games and activities for the birthday party entertainment. We also bring all the equipment such as footballs, bibs, cones etc or invitations, they\u2019re included!\nOur Kids football parties are incredibly popular with all ages and can also incorporate other sports or games to keep the kids active for the whole 90 minutes.\nhttp://www.footballparty.com.au\nWe come to a variety of locations including North Manly, Freshwater, Dee Why, Narraweena, Curl Curl, Beacon Hill, Manly Vale, North Curl Curl, Allambie Heights, Queenscliff, Cromer, North Balgowlah, Balgowlah, Fairlight, Manly, Wheeler Heights, Collaroy, Seaforth, Balgowlah Heights, Collaroy Plateau, Oxford Falls, Frenchs Forest, Clontarf, Narrabeen, Killarney Heights, Forestville, Middle Cove, Belrose, Castlecrag, Roseville Chase, Castle Cove, Willoughby East, North Narrabeen, Mosman, North Willoughby, Northbridge, Cremorne, Willoughby, Elanora Heights, Davidson, East Lindfield, Cammeray, Neutral Bay, Watsons Bay, Naremburn, Chatswood, Warriewood, Roseville, Ingleside, Artarmon, Crows Nest, St Leonards, Kurraba Point, Cremorne Point, East Killara, Lindfield, North Sydney, Terrey Hills, Mona Vale, Vaucluse, Killara, Lavender Bay, Wollstonecraft, Kirribilli, Lane Cove North, Milsons Point, McMahons Point, Greenwich, Waverton, Chatswood West, Lane Cove, Gordon, Northwood, St Ives, Rose Bay, Dawes Point, Point Piper, The Rocks, Lane Cove West, Dover Heights, Bayview, Millers Point, Duffys Forest, St Ives Chase, Potts Point, Woolwich, Newport, Riverview, Barangaroo, Darling Point, Woolloomooloo, Longueville, Pymble, Double Bay, Elizabeth Bay, Balmain East, Rushcutters Bay, Birchgrove, Edgecliff, Macquarie Park, North Turramurra, North Bondi, Hunters Hill, Balmain, Linley Point, East Ryde, Bellevue Hill, Darlinghurst, Church Point, Pyrmont, West Pymble, Bondi Beach, Turramurra, Paddington, Woollahra, Scotland Island, Bilgola Plateau, Bondi, Bondi Junction, North Ryde, Haymarket, Ultimo, Rozelle, Huntleys Point, Drummoyne, Warrawee, Tamarama, Bilgola Beach, Surry Hills, Waverley, Centennial Park, Clareville, Huntleys Cove, Chippendale, Queens Park, Glebe, Moore Park, South Turramurra, Bronte, Henley, Forest Lodge, Avalon Beach, Gladesville, Wahroonga, Redfern, Lilyfield, North Wahroonga, Marsfield, Darlington, Chiswick, Annandale, Camperdown, Waterloo, Russell Lea, Tennyson Point, Putney, Clovelly, Eveleigh, Abbotsford, Ryde, Kensington, Randwick, Wareemba, Rodd Point, Denistone East, Newtown, Leichhardt, Waitara, Erskineville, Normanhurst, Zetland, Coogee, North Epping, Breakfast Point, Five Dock, Cabarita, Denistone, Beaconsfield, Enmore, Hornsby, Alexandria, Mortlake, Asquith, Stanmore, West Ryde, Epping, Whale Beach, Haberfield, Meadowbank, Cheltenham, Eastwood, Canada Bay, Kingsford, Mount Colah, Petersham, St Peters, Thornleigh, Rosebery, South Coogee, Eastlakes, Daceyville, Mount Kuring-Gai, Palm Beach, Rhodes, Denistone West, Lewisham, Concord, Summer Hill, Pennant Hills, Melrose Park, Sydenham, Marrickville, Ashfield, Wentworth Point, Beecroft, Liberty Grove, Concord West, Dulwich Hill, Westleigh, Croydon, Berowra, North Strathfield, Hornsby Heights, Pagewood, Burwood, Mascot, Maroubra, Dundas Valley, Strathfield, Tempe, Eastgardens, Homebush, Hurlstone Park, Ashbury, Burwood Heights, Croydon Park, Ermington, Carlingford, Botany, Hillsdale, Sydney Olympic Park, Wolli Creek, Canterbury, Telopea, Enfield, Berowra Heights, Dundas, Matraville, West Pennant Hills, Newington, Cherrybrook, Homebush West, Turrella, Rydalmere, Banksmeadow, Malabar, Silverwater, Arncliffe, Earlwood, Strathfield South, North Rocks, Bardwell Valley, Campsie, Chifley, Rookwood, Kyeemagh, Bardwell Park, Oatlands, Belfield, Camellia, Banksia, Clemton Park, Rosehill, Port Botany, Phillip Bay, Belmore, Lidcombe, Little Bay, Auburn, Bexley North, Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Bexley, North Parramatta, Clyde, Lakemba, Castle Hill, La Perouse, Chullora, Kingsgrove, Harris Park, Berala, Greenacre, Kogarah, Granville, Monterey, Parramatta, Glenhaven, Wiley Park, Northmead\nWe tailor all the activities to suit the birthday child to help give them the best day ever because it is their party. We also have to be mindful of the guests in attendance also.\nThe Kids Football Parties are not only to make it fun for the kids but also make this as hassle free for the organizer and parents by taking charge of the supervision, activities guidance and direction of the birthday party entertainment\nWe offer for up to 20 children at a Kids Football Party\n90 Minutes of fun Football Action \u2013 it\u2019s a football party so we spend our parties out on the pitches playing!\nYour Dedicated Kids Party Coach \u2013 Their sole purpose will be to supervise and entertain.\nAll ball, bib and equipment hire for the on-field action.\nFootball themed invitations to invite everyone to the big day\nCertificates for all participants at the end of the party at a small presentation\nFor a little extra you can include Lolly Bags. 100 gm sealed lolly bags which contain frogs, snakes, jelly beans, fruit salad and jubes.\nFor the parents what we find best is that you provide\nPlenty of drinks such as flavored water in cups or water bottles with the kids names on it.\nSnacks such as fruit, chips and basic party food. Do not go to wild with the snack food.\nA birthday cake or cup cakes. Candles or sparklers (As they may be hard to light outdoors)\nIf you want to provide more substancial food like Pizzas, have a BBQ or bring in Sausage rolls, pies etc leave this till all the football activities have finished and the children can sit down\nIf you would like to add in extras to the party the football decorations, football plates, napkins and decorations also enhance the theme\nIf this all sounds great give us a call to discuss 0412 602 999\nNorth Manly, Freshwater, Dee Why, Narraweena, Curl Curl, Beacon Hill, Manly Vale, North Curl Curl, Allambie Heights, Queenscliff, Cromer, North Balgowlah, Balgowlah, Fairlight, Manly, Wheeler Heights, Collaroy, Seaforth, Balgowlah Heights, Collaroy Plateau, Oxford Falls, Frenchs Forest, Clontarf, Narrabeen, Killarney Heights, Forestville, Middle Cove, Belrose, Castlecrag, Roseville Chase, Castle Cove, Willoughby East, North Narrabeen, Mosman, North Willoughby, Northbridge, Cremorne, Willoughby, Elanora Heights, Davidson, East Lindfield, Cammeray, Neutral Bay, Watsons Bay, Naremburn, Chatswood, Warriewood, Roseville, Ingleside, Artarmon, Crows Nest, St Leonards, Kurraba Point, Cremorne Point, East Killara, Lindfield, North Sydney, Terrey Hills, Mona Vale, Vaucluse, Killara, Lavender Bay, Wollstonecraft, Kirribilli, Lane Cove North, Milsons Point, McMahons Point, Greenwich, Waverton, Chatswood West, Lane Cove, Gordon, Northwood, St Ives, Rose Bay, Dawes Point, Point Piper, The Rocks, Lane Cove West, Dover Heights, Bayview, Millers Point, Duffys Forest, St Ives Chase, Potts Point, Woolwich, Newport, Riverview, Barangaroo, Darling Point, Woolloomooloo, Longueville, Pymble, Double Bay, Elizabeth Bay, Balmain East, Rushcutters Bay, Birchgrove, Edgecliff, Macquarie Park, North Turramurra, North Bondi, Hunters Hill, Balmain, Linley Point, East Ryde, Bellevue Hill, Darlinghurst, Church Point, Pyrmont, West Pymble, Bondi Beach, Turramurra, Paddington, Woollahra, Scotland Island, Bilgola Plateau, Bondi, Bondi Junction, North Ryde, Haymarket, Ultimo, Rozelle, Huntleys Point, Drummoyne, Warrawee, Tamarama, Bilgola Beach, Surry Hills, Waverley, Centennial Park, Clareville, Huntleys Cove, Chippendale, Queens Park, Glebe, Moore Park, South Turramurra, Bronte, Henley, Forest Lodge, Avalon Beach, Gladesville, Wahroonga, Redfern, Lilyfield, North Wahroonga, Marsfield, Darlington, Chiswick, Annandale, Camperdown, Waterloo, Russell Lea, Tennyson Point, Putney, Clovelly, Eveleigh, Abbotsford, Ryde, Kensington, Randwick, Wareemba, Rodd Point, Denistone East, Newtown, Leichhardt, Waitara, Erskineville, Normanhurst, Zetland, Coogee, North Epping, Breakfast Point, Five Dock, Cabarita, Denistone, Beaconsfield, Enmore, Hornsby, Alexandria, Mortlake, Asquith, Stanmore, West Ryde, Epping, Whale Beach, Haberfield, Meadowbank, Cheltenham, Eastwood, Canada Bay, Kingsford, Mount Colah, Petersham, St Peters, Thornleigh, Rosebery, South Coogee, Eastlakes, Daceyville, Mount Kuring-Gai, Palm Beach, Rhodes, Denistone 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Perouse, Chullora, Kingsgrove, Harris Park, Berala, Greenacre, Kogarah, Granville, Monterey, Parramatta, Glenhaven, Wiley Park, Northmead", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 14639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forimmediaterelease.net/the-impact-of-digital-transformation-on-the-waste-recycling-industry-125913/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBZJOB2FB4MQUBNNJMCUE4SHTEVPA2O3", "length": 3146, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "forimmediaterelease.net", "title": "The Impact of Digital Transformation on the Waste Recycling Industry | World News | forimmediaterelease.net", "raw_content": "The Impact of Digital Transformation on the Waste Recycling Industry\nLONDON, Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ \u2014 Capitalizing on Opportunities in the Emerging Digital Economy\nDigital transformation has become the new era of business, a ladder in the industrial evolution enabled by the extensive use of smart technologies. In recent years, digital disruptions have been transforming businesses and operating models, reshaping the market potential for companies and, in certain cases, completely changing the frame of an industry.\nThe biggest impact of this digital transformation has been in the customer-facing industry. As data becomes more intensive, industries will increasingly rely on digital technologies to manage their businesses effectively.\nThe waste and recycling industry is changing rapidly since the last decade and is on the verge of digital transformation. Start-ups are completely taking up the recycling value chain, thereby accelerating the digital transformation of the industry.\nThis study provides an in-depth insight of the impact of digital transformation in the waste recycling industry, focusing especially on various smart technologies such as smart bins, smart trucks, and robotics sorting that are deployed to effectively manage different waste streams. It gives an overview of the challenges and types of existing and potential smart solutions to tackle those challenges.\nWaste recycling industry trends spurring the digital transformation will provide interesting insights to readers. Top technologies, phases of digital technology implementation by region, and market segments are analyzed to provide an overall understanding of the dominant segment and the cost-effective technology that is currently preferred for investments.\nThis study also shares growth opportunities in smart waste recycling market such as smart bins, smart niche services, software as a service, and other value-added services that help readers know more about market penetration. Furthermore, IT investments opportunities, brief profiles, and performance analysis of companies are highlighted to make the study more insightful.\nThe study will provide a deep understanding of the impact of digital transformation on the waste recycling industry. It will also provide an overview of the market, attractiveness, and cost effectiveness of the existing digital technologies.\nThis will help clients identify cost-effective smart solutions and target the addressed and addressable markets, and guide them in their journey of digital transformation. It can help companies make wise decisions with respect to IT investments such as big data analytics, cloud computing, and connectivity. Furthermore, additional insights on growth opportunities will provide a way to capitalize on developing smart and innovative technologies.\n\u2022 Influential Mega trends\n\u2022 Key Digital Solutions\n\u2022 Phases of Digital Technology Implementation\n\u2022 IT investment opportunities\n\u2022 Growth Opportunities\n\u2022 Brief Profiles of Key Companies\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-impact-of-digital-transformation-on-the-waste-recycling-industry-300597894.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.danmarknorge.org/viewforum.php?f=18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7IY7EXIXJCRCCFJTLKKKLZXAHFR5BUY2", "length": 79, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "forum.danmarknorge.org", "title": "Naval Action Danmark-Norge - Operations & Tactics", "raw_content": "Forum for discussing tactics, plans and post-battle review of fleet operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 3435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.pakistanidefence.com/index.php?showtopic=103063", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:VLBMIQGGXELHSKJVQBM227LR5FRIH77A", "length": 5215, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "forum.pakistanidefence.com", "title": "Us Congress Stymies Pakistani Naval Modernization Efforts - Navy Forum - Pakistani Defence Forum", "raw_content": "Us Congress Stymies Pakistani Naval Modernization Efforts\nStarted by Magnus , Apr 18 2014 06:33 PM\nDespite close defense ties with China, Pakistan still relies on the US to help it upgrade key defense areas. However, hostility from US lawmakers has effectively halted progress in some areas with Pakistan\u2019s Navy particularly hard hit.\nFor a decade Pakistan\u2019s Navy has pinned hopes on acquiring surplus US Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates to replace its six now 40-year-old ex-British Type-21 frigates. This met with some success when the Perry-class frigate McInerney was renamed Alamgir and transferred in 2011.\nHowever, three proposed for Pakistan last fall have effectively been blocked as the proposed bill continues to languish in committee without being put to the full US Senate.\nNeither Pakistan\u2019s Defense Ministry nor the Navy replied to any request for comment on the issues surrounding the Perry acquisition plans.\nFormer Australian defense attache to Islamabad, Brian Cloughley, said conditions attached to their transfer \u201cwere deliberately made impossible.\u201d\nThese were linked to cooperating with the US on counter-terrorism, non-proliferation, not supporting terrorism against US force in Afghanistan or elsewhere, releasing Shakil Afridi, who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, moving to dismantle IED networks, allowing humanitarian groups access to detainees, and ensuring Pakistan\u2019s military and intelligence services do not interfere in judicial and political processes.\n\u201cObviously there can be no certification about \u2018taking steps to dismantle improvised explosive device networks\u2019, just to pick one condition. This is a farce,\u201d Cloughley added.\nCloughley said such actions, which he describes as \u201cone more example of a totally dysfunctional Congress,\u201d are seriously harming Washington\u2019s relations with other nations, and leaving Pakistan with no options.\n\u201cThe [Pakistan Navy] is going to suffer, as I don\u2019t think there will be approval for such a transfer. Alamgir is a good training ship, but that\u2019s about all,\u201d he said.\nThe ship lacks ASW helicopters, missiles and a towed array sonar, effectively making it little more than a long-range patrol vessel.\nAnalyst Usman Shabbir said that essentially, Pakistan\u2019s only alternative is turning to China.\n\u201cThe only reasonable option seems to be more F-22P frigates. The Type-21s are well past their prime and need to be retired yesterday,\u201d he said.\nHowever, though an agreement was reached with China for an improved batch of F-22P frigates in 2012, no deal has yet been signed.\nThe main sticking point is likely financial, because unlike the transfer of Perry frigates, Chinese warships would still have to be paid for.\nHowever, the latest International Monetary Fund figures show Pakistan is unlikely to be able to make a dent in paying off its debt, and Islamabad last week borrowed $2 billion only by accepting excessive interest rates. According to figures from the State Bank of Pakistan, the national debt grew during the first eight months of the fiscal year, and other predictions have debt remaining at 62.4 percent of GDP for FY2014-FY2015.\nThus even the Chinese option looks unlikely, and so the damage done by the non-transfer of the Perry frigates is all the more obvious.\nClaude Rakisits, director at Politact, a Washington-based advisory firm that focuses on South Asian issues, says Congress has effectively hamstrung the administration in this case.\n\u201cI suspect that it would be politically difficult for the Obama administration to bypass Congress on this issue given that only a couple of weeks ago the House Committee on Foreign Affairs decided to cut $10 million from its aid budget to Pakistan [under the Kerry-Lugar-Berman act 2009] to pay for the aid Congress wants to give to Ukraine,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWhile that only represents about 0.6 percent of the annual US aid to Pakistan, it does show that Pakistan is not a top priority and that the focus is beginning to shift away from that region as the US continues to draw down in Afghanistan,\u201d he added.\nHe also highlights that until recently, at least, there was the possibility of transfer of surplus US mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles to Pakistan.\n\u201cWhile a final decision has yet to be taken; it would appear that this option is fast losing popularity in Washington. It would appear that Pakistan being a Major Non-NATO Ally since 2004 doesn\u2019t mean too much in the Obama administration these days.\u201d\nSource : Defence News\nhttp://defenceradar....zation-efforts/\nTypical and expected......the yanks would always want to keep such a leverage to twist our arm whenever the need arises.\nThey aren't sanctioning anything, all they are saying is that we aren't giving it to you for free anymore. This is old news though, Kerry-Lugar Bill.\n3 stripped down Perry class frigates is hardly modernization. They were stop gaps provided we installed advanced equipment on it.\nThe Americans also put a damper on a standard FMS proposal for the sale of artillery to Pakistan. To be very frank, the US don't want to see Pakistan's conventional capabilities to improve. It doesn't serve their interests to see a strong Pakistan, be it economically and much, much less militarily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 8539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=258", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6RMQ7GXIPULHNAGFPRL2OAL4EHVXDI26", "length": 1885, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "forum.yeoldeinn.com", "title": "Ye Olde Inn \u2022 View topic - Searching for some HeroQuest stickers", "raw_content": "Searching for some HeroQuest stickers\nby Derfel Link \u00bb Tuesday September 15th, 2009 6:58am\nStickers found, thanks anyway.\nLast edited by Derfel Link on Sunday June 26th, 2011 2:28am, edited 1 time in total.\nRe: Searching for some HeroQuest stickers\nby drathe \u00bb Wednesday September 16th, 2009 11:57pm\nSorry, I wish I could help, but I've only got two sticker books with four stickers already in each of them. I've been watching eBay for a while. There were a few good batches of stickers go through the last couple weeks, but I've been unable to afford their purchases. Should I see anything anywhere with the stickers you've listed, I'll let you know.\nby Derfel Link \u00bb Thursday September 17th, 2009 7:46am\nby Derfel Link \u00bb Thursday January 21st, 2010 8:35am\nYou may close the thread, thanks.\nby drathe \u00bb Thursday January 21st, 2010 1:28pm\nYou finally complete your set?\nby Derfel Link \u00bb Friday January 22nd, 2010 10:11am\nYep, and thanks to your email!\nby drathe \u00bb Friday January 22nd, 2010 1:22pm\nAwesome! If you're bored sometime, I'd enjoy a scan if you don't mind.\n<- This is drathe looking hopeful.\nby Derfel Link \u00bb Friday January 22nd, 2010 1:43pm\ndrathe wrote: If you're bored sometime, I'd enjoy a scan if you don't mind.\nIf you need it for the site, I'd be more inclined to scan it.\nOtherwise, I'm afraid you'll be waiting for more.\nI would definitely use them for both the site and personal use, but no rush either way.\nby drathe \u00bb Saturday January 8th, 2011 9:06pm\nNow I am looking to complete my sticker set.\nB, C, D, E, G, I, J, K, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z\nIf you have some to sell, or see them on eBay, let me know!\nIf you're looking to complete your own sticker collection and would like to swap, I have the following to trade:\nFor some strange reason, the sticker book doesn't show a place for I, O and X. But I have an X and expect there's an I and O as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 8137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.vgrequirements.info/showthread.php?s=9d240bf4bb305a0d4167e8329ab0563d&t=720", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IJPXW6XX7RPMCRSDKTB3QI6SCAGVJA7S", "length": 204, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "forums.vgrequirements.info", "title": "100 Greatest Internet Videos In 3 Minutes - VGRequirements Forums", "raw_content": "100 Greatest Internet Videos In 3 Minutes\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VCnYkNYLo\nOriginally Posted by Tyran\nLol nice, I enjoyed that. Glad to see they put the piano cat and the star wars kid in there!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fructusventris.stblogs.org/archives/2004/07/politics-and-me.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:T357JGSA6KH46TQXMY25CHPBHTPLOMJZ", "length": 154, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fructusventris.stblogs.org", "title": "politics and me - Fructus Ventris", "raw_content": "From the new Vatican document on the relationship between men and women was the previous entry in this blog.\nmore politics is the next entry in this blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://frugalfinders.com/little-debbie-share-a-thon-sweeps-coupon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:QTMEJ3AFZKSHBSETDRCZG4NHVSMUJXP2", "length": 442, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "frugalfinders.com", "title": "Little Debbie Share-A-Thon Sweeps & Coupon", "raw_content": "Little Debbie Share-A-Thon Sweeps & Coupon\nEnter daily in the Little Debbie Share-a-Thon sweepstakes for a chance to win a coupon for a free box of Little Debbie cupcakes ($3.09 ARV). There will be 125,000 winners between now and October 17. That\u2019s an average of over 4,000 winners each day. Winners will be notified by email if they win, so keep on entering daily. You can also get a coupon to save $0.75 on Little Debbie Chocolate Cupcakes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fumcrestview.com/blog/24d70eaf-0bb5-41b2-8f56-a0a55a429e44", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFV2F6B55R54BFKILXAPZMJ76JTN7WGS", "length": 8573, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "fumcrestview.com", "title": "Core Values-- Loving \u2014 FIRST UNITED METHODIST", "raw_content": "Core Values-- Loving\nOctober 07, 2015 / samanthalinae@gmail.com\nSermon based on Luke 6:27-36\nIn 10 Things I Hate About You, a movie that my high school friends and I watched more times than we should admit, the character Bianca declares to her friend Chastity, \u201cSee there\u2019s a difference between like and love, because I like my Sketchers but I love my Prada backpack.\u201d To which Chastity replies, \u201cBut I love my Sketchers,\u201d and Bianca explains, \u201cThat\u2019s because you don\u2019t have a Prada backpack.\u201d\nThis word \u201clove,\u201d we sure use it in a lot of ways, don\u2019t we? I love pizza. I love The Voice, that song, my kids, my parents, my friends. I love God. Man, the Greeks knew what they were doing when they had three different words for love. In English, we use the same word for our love of mediocre television as we do for our love of the Almighty Creator of the world. Even so, we can take this word seriously at times. In relationships, people tend to wait to use \u201cthe L word.\u201d They wait until they really know, and then they tell that person, \u201cI love you.\u201d I have close friends who I often say \u201cI love you\u201d to. When parents tell their children, \u201cI love you,\u201d it matters. Love, in the real and meaningful sense of the word, matters.\nWe could all probably make out a pretty good list of people we love this morning. But our gospel teaching is incredibly difficult. Jesus says, \u201cLove your enemies. Who cares if you love those who love you. Everyone loves people who love them. Love your enemies and you will be acting as children of the Most High.\u201d\nWhen I saw that our church was making \u201cLoving\u201d one of our core values, I have to admit, I rolled my eyes a little bit. Please don\u2019t mishear me, I think being loving is vitally important, but OF COURSE we want to say we\u2019re loving. EVERY church says that they\u2019re loving. But most of us, when we say we\u2019re loving, what we really mean is that we absolutely LOVE the people who love us. Those who are in our nuclear family, those who are our close friends, the people we hold dear. But, in our explanation of what we mean when we say our church is loving, we did something important. Our church says that we are loving--that we embrace and serve the image of God inherent in all people. WOW. No that is something. This is a value of our church. Not to love those who love us, but to recognize that each and every person is a child of God and to love people as children of God.\nAnd here\u2019s the thing, I say, \u201cyou have to love EVERYONE\u201d and you probably do what I do. You think, \u201csure! Of course I love everyone.\u201d I don\u2019t know about you, but I tend to think of myself as a pretty loving person. I like to imagine that given the choice between kindness and cruelty, I\u2019d choose kindness. We\u2019d all like to think that we are, in general, loving people. But I don\u2019t know. Jesus says if you only love those who love you, what good is it? How often do we love our enemies, do good to those who hate us, bless those who curse us, and pray for those who mistreat us? There\u2019s not a lot of ambiguity in this passage. Jesus is flat out saying, \u201clove your enemies.\u201d\nWho are your enemies? Don\u2019t say them out loud, especially if they\u2019re sitting next to you. But really think about your enemies. Think about the people in this church, city, state, country and world that you consider enemies. They probably go from big to small. Perhaps it makes you think of members of ISIS, members of a political party, a coworker, someone who has been cruel to you.\nWhat does it look like to love those folks? Because that\u2019s what Jesus is calling us to do. Everyone who popped into your mind when we thought through our enemies\u2014that\u2019s who we\u2019ve got to love. How do we do that?\nCorrie Ten Boom was a prisoner in a concentration camp and she tells this story:\n\u201cIt was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. It was the truth they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out land, and I gave them my favorite mental picture. Maybe because the sea is never far from a Hollander\u2019s mind, I liked to think that that\u2019s where forgiven sins were thrown. \u2018When we confess our sins,\u2019 I said, \u2018God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever. \u2026\u2019\nThe solemn faces stared back at me, not quite daring to believe. There were never questions after a talk in Germany in 1947. People stood up in silence, in silence collected their wraps, in silence left the room. And that\u2019s when I saw him, working his way forward against the others. One moment I saw the overcoat and the brown hat; the next, a blue uniform and a visored cap with its skull and crossbones. It came back with a rush: the huge room with its harsh overhead lights; the pathetic pile of dresses and shoes in the center of the floor; the shame of walking naked past this man. I could see my sister\u2019s frail form ahead of me, ribs sharp beneath the parchment skin. Betsie, how thin you were!\n[Betsie and I had been arrested for concealing Jews in our home during the Nazi occupation of Holland; this man had been a guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp where we were sent.]\nNow he was in front of me, hand thrust out: \u2018A fine message, Fr\u00e4ulein! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!\u2019 And I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand.\n\u2018You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk,\u2019 he was saying, \u2018I was a guard there. But since that time I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fr\u00e4ulein,\u2019 again the hand came out\u2014\u2019will you forgive me?\u2019\nAnd I stood there\u2014I whose sins had again and again to be forgiven\u2014and could not forgive. Betsie had died in that place\u2014could he erase her slow terrible death simply for the asking?\nIt could not have been many seconds that he stood there\u2014hand held out\u2014but to me it seemed hours as I wrestled with the most difficult thing I had ever had to do. For I had to do it\u2014I knew that. And still I stood there with the coldness clutching my heart. But forgiveness is not an emotion\u2014I knew that too. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. \u2018\u2026 Help!\u2019 I prayed silently. \u2018I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling.\u2019\nAnd so woodenly, mechanically, I thrust my hand into the one stretched out to me. And as I did, an incredible thing took place. The current started in my shoulder, raced down my arm, sprang into our joined hands. And then this healing warmth seemed to flood my whole being, bringing tears to my eyes.\n\u2018I forgive you, brother!\u2019 I cried. \u2018With all my heart!\u2019\nFor a long moment we grasped each other\u2019s hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God\u2019s love so intensely, as I did then.\nPerhaps we do not always have what it takes to embrace and serve the image of God inherent in all people. But God has what it takes and we are a church willing to turn it all over to God. We are a church willing to love all people because God loves all people and when we cannot find a way to love someone we must ask for grace, that God might give us the means to love.\nThis is a hard word this morning\u2026 to love your enemies. My tendency is to leave you with that, challenge you to make a change, take action that follows God\u2019s call for you to love. REALLY LOVE. I do want you to do that. It is vitally important that you make a change and begin loving people that are hard for you to love. If you take no action, make no change, then I really don\u2019t know why we\u2019re here. God\u2019s grace has been freely given with the power to transform us into the image of God. Take action, make a change, but also hear this:\nWe have stated as a church that we show our love by recognizing the image of God inherent in all people. This says a lot about how we are to love all people. It also says a lot about each and every one of you here. You probably don\u2019t hear this enough\u2014you are God\u2019s child. The image of God resides in you. No matter who you are, no matter where you\u2019re from or what you\u2019ve done, God loves you.\nIt\u2019s easy to recognize that God loves those who we love, it\u2019s harder to recognize that God loves those who are hard for us to love. But, perhaps the hardest love to accept is the love that is for us.\nGod loves you beyond anything you can imagine. Love with that same love and learn to accept the love offered to you.\nOctober 07, 2015 / samanthalinae@gmail.com/\nsamanthalinae@gmail.com\nSermon on Core Values - Joyful\nService for Nancy Costabile", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 10808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://funpers.com/1527", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VHKZJTRFYALKRTGRDACGT2DYNHD6UZ4J", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "funpers.com", "title": "must see", "raw_content": "hooshang 13 oct 2013 at 14:34", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 98.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fuzzypinkslippers.com/2005/01/08/tired/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PWNWDTS6A6IY6GW7EQ3PBPBVSPRJOUHG", "length": 4926, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "fuzzypinkslippers.com", "title": "Tired | | fuzzypinkslippers.com", "raw_content": "8 Jan, 2005 by Janet Morris\nOn a board that I enjoyed going to, there is a thread and there are posts in this thread about me. Posts that aren\u2019t exactly flattering. I didn\u2019t know about the posts until 2 months after they were posted, but being me, I had to say something. Now, instead of saying those things about me, people are calling me selfish and lazy and questioning how I could have money problems. I just want them to stop talking about me. Is that too much to ask? Maybe I shouldn\u2019t have responded to what they said in the first place, but I just thought I needed to at the time. Now, I feel uncomfortable on that board and feel like everyone is judging me. I don\u2019t want to stop going there, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever feel like they\u2019re not thinking bad things about me. It was one of the few boards that I did feel comfortable on, so now I feel more uncomfortable on the boards that I\u2019d already felt uncomfortable on. I\u2019m just tired. Tired of all the stupid internet drama. Tired of people picking apart what I say. Tired of people posting things specifically to bash me. Hell, I\u2019m tired of people posting things specifically to bash other people, too. It all just seems like a waste of time.\nI\u2019m tired of life, too. It just keeps throwing me lemons instead of good stuff. I have my good days, but then I\u2019ll have my days where everything falls apart. I\u2019ve tried to keep some of the stuff to myself and off of here because its just personal. I\u2019ve even kept parts of it out of my LJ, where I post the more private stuff about my life, simply because I either don\u2019t want people to know about it or don\u2019t want to be judged for it. I know I\u2019d be judged. If anyone is going to have people making a mockery of their life, then its going to be me.\nI\u2019m tired of being angry. I\u2019m angry a lot of the time now. Anything can make me mad. I think I\u2019m stressed out. I\u2019m still on Christmas break, but I\u2019m stressed out. Isn\u2019t this supposed to be the time of destressification? Aren\u2019t I supposed to be going around going \u201chappy, happy, joy, joy\u201d and laughing or something like that? I\u2019m angry with people online. I\u2019m angry with people offline. I\u2019m mad that the nurse didn\u2019t want me to see my psychiatrist for 3 months. I\u2019m even more upset that the psychiatrist didn\u2019t want to see me after the first visit and instead deferred to a nurse. He doesn\u2019t know me well enough to do that. He should at least be seeing me himself once every few weeks or once a month. I\u2019m mad at my therapist, too. She should be seeing me for longer than 30 minutes once a month. Again, she doesn\u2019t know me well enough to do that. Admittedly, I agreed to the 30 minutes once a month thing, but I figured I didn\u2019t have any other choice. Otherwise, she would have begrudgingly been seeing me for an hour once a month (I doubt she would see me more often than once a month) and we wouldn\u2019t accomplish anything. She would want me to be telling everything I told her to my psychiatrist. That\u2019s pretty much what she tells me in our sessions. \u201cTell the doctor about that\u201d seems to be her favorite line.\nI\u2019m tired of people not understanding mental illness or medications that are taken for mental illness. People like to make snap judgments about the mentally ill. Either we\u2019re faking it or we\u2019re so crazy that we need to be in the hospital. Of course, though we may need to be in the hospital, we don\u2019t need medication. You see, unlike other problems with the body, mental patients apparently don\u2019t need medications because our problem is in our head. Mental illness is still a physical problem. It needs physical treatment, but getting that across is difficult, if not impossible.\nI\u2019m tired of being accused of wanting pity and attention. I don\u2019t want pity. I don\u2019t want attention. I want to be acknowledged, but I don\u2019t want to be noticed. I want people to have a feeling that I\u2019m there, but I don\u2019t want them to run screaming towards me and make some spectacle over my being there. I want quiet acknowledgement.\nI would love it if I could curl up in my bed and go to sleep for a long time, preferably forever. I can\u2019t though. I have places to go and things to do, and no one will let me just wither away. Why won\u2019t they let me wither away?\nOn the bright side, when I\u2019m tired, angry, and depressed, I get cravings. Last night I decided to make sugar cookies. I\u2019d never made them before, but I just had to make them. They were a distraction. 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Bisham Abbey is renowned for providing excellent facilities to Britain\u2019s leading sports men and women, and with a MyoTruk already in place there, Gen3 are delighted to add to their training requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://georgetownpenang.com/archives/2307?cat=19", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DH4TO3FH6QSPJX5D7F3D5RRQE4L74SNA", "length": 4047, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "georgetownpenang.com", "title": "Malaysian Buddhist Meditation Centre in Penang | Georgetown Penang", "raw_content": "The centre is affiliated to the Mahasi Meditation Centre in Yangon. The centre invites a monk from Myanmar, usually an established senior who can act as a Chief Monk and guide meditators, well versed in the Dhamma and is able to speak English well. The Chief Monk, or Sayadaw, will need to conduct Vipassana meditation classes based on the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition.\nThe meditation centre is in Jalan Masjid Negeri. You may get a Rapid Penang bus service of either U206 or 304 and stop at the bus station in front of Convent Green Lane school. The centre is just next to the school. It shares the ground with Wat Nai, a Thai temple that houses several Thai monks with their own groups of disciples. A huge Buddha statue was built in recent years midway at the entrance route to the meditation centre under a Bodhi tree, and one may worship by bringing in candles to give light offering.\nVipassana Meditation Mahasi Sayadaw Tradition\nThere are many types of meditation, or rather objects of meditation. The Mahasi Sayadaw tradition is one that was said to be based on the original and most basic teachings of the Buddha, which observes clearly the different conditions of our body.\nIn this method, one may either sit, stand, walk or even lie down. When one is sitting down, the main observation is the rising and falling of the abdomen with every breath taken, and diverting the attention to some other phenomenon of the body if those sensations are stronger than the rising and falling of the abdomen. An example will be the observation of the numbness of the legs while sitting, and the main objective is just to observe and do nothing else, not even to shift the sitting position unless the pain is truly unbearable. Even then, the shifting of position will have to be done slowly and observed completely.\nThe observations will lead one to realise that everything has a rising, and when there is a rising, there will always be a falling. It will never stay permanent, which will then be a support for the idea of impermanence. Most of the time it will be painful too, and even if it is a peaceful sensation, it comes to an end and we may feel unhappy when it ends. This is the support for the idea of suffering. While all these sensations arise, apparently they do so without ever consulting our permission. This is the support for the idea of non-self. These three, impermanence, suffering and non-self, are the basic essence of the Teachings and constantly reminded in the Theravada tradition.\nDana Sessions\nThere are also food offering sessions during breakfast and lunch. This is called Dana, and usually accompanied by prayer sessions prior to that. In usual practices, the food will be prepared and placed on the table before the monks come to the dining hall for the meals, and chant some prayers for merit sharing before eating. And in some other times, there may be the pindabat where disciples will kneel down and the monks will go round collection portions from them instead.\nSometimes the monks may actually walk out of the meditation centre to the market for their pindabat, while during some other special occasions such as during the month of Vassa or rainy season, the pindabat will be done within the temple grounds to make things easier for the disciples.\nBesides meditation and dana sessions, you may also visit a library at the centre where there are plenty of books of the Theravada practices, teachings and meditation guides. Most are books translated from texts from India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka and may originally be in Pali language, and the translations were done carefully to ensure that there is no deviation and wrong interpretation of the original texts. There are also audio tapes and CDs.\nThere are some other meditation centres in the island, but MBMC is probably the only one with two storeys of meditation halls out of its three storey building. In one word:\nThis entry was posted in Tourism & Leisure and tagged Malaysian Buddhist Meditation Centre, MBMC, Vipassana Meditation by admin. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gilfordhistoricalsociety.org/steamer_3_6_08.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZG5PVLLGYPR6TDW4N4QVLZZRAUC3XU5M", "length": 6123, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "gilfordhistoricalsociety.org", "title": "Thompson-Ames Historical Society - Gilford Steamer Articles", "raw_content": "3/6/08 - James Chase, Cabinetmaker; A man of mystery\nGilford's Thompson- Ames Historical Society has copies of two account books of James Chase, a cabinetmaker who resided in the Upper Parish of Gilmanton/Gilford in the later part of the 17th and early 18th centuries.. Oddly, except for his own records, little is known of him. However, an Internet search turned up an article written in 2005 by Chloe Johnson, a staff writer for one of Foster's daily newspapers. In her story, she speaks of a tall case cherry clock which was then for sale by a couple in Osippee, N.H. for $35,000. According to the sellers, \"Gilmanton, New Hampshire, 1797\" was penciled inside the clock's door and the clock was known to have a long association with that town. Johnson quotes Charles Parsons in his book, \"New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers\" as saying that James Chase, a cabinetmaker from Gilmanton sold nine clock cases between 1797 and 1802 to Charles and Noah Ranlet (Rundlet), clockmakers of the same town and says that at least one of those cases was made from cherry. Chase's account books cover the period dating from 1797 to 1812 in which the sale of these clock cases are recorded - two of them made of cherry. The most expensive was of 'charitree' and sold for $16.67.\nAccompanying the pages copied from the original account books, is a summary and analysis prepared by Parsons, perhaps for the above mentioned book, in which Chase's work volume is compared with that of other N.H. cabinetmakers from Goffstown, Bedford, Henniker, Plymouth and Salisbury. Chase's numbers substantially exceed that of the others. The account books reveal that the items of which he made the greatest number was chairs, followed by beds and tables. The fewest were clock cases (13) and desks (13). His customers read like an inventory of the early settlers of Gilmanton, Gilford and other local areas. Although most of his customers resided in Gilmanton, Gilford and Meredith, there is occasional mention of other towns, such as Belmont, New Hampton, Center Harbor, Sanbornton and Sandwich..\nSo who is James Chase? The name of Chase appears only a few times and I could find no reference to a James Chase in any Gilford history except for a brief sentence in The History of Gilford, Belknap County, N.H. which says, \"The Chase family is represented as early as 1806, and by the individual names of Mark, Green, James Jr. and widow Nancy.\" A family genealogy says that he was born in Stratham, N.H. in 1737, was living in Gilmanton as early as 1790 and died in Gilford in 1812. It is not known exactly where in Gilmanton/Gilford he lived. He had 6 sons, apparently none of whom followed his trade, and two daughters. The New Hampshire Gazette, November 10, 1812 contained notice of his death and the naming of his wife Nancy as his Administrix.\nParsons poses the following questions. \"Where and from whom did Chase learn cabinetmaking? Did he teach others the trade? Can examples of his more important works be found?\" It appears that he did not sign his pieces. \"Was James Chase the maker of the group of Secretary/Desks with Gilmanton histories and as owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Currier Gallery of Art and mentioned in the \"Antiques\" Magazine, October 1965.\nParson's summary of the account books indicate that Chase was a prolific and skillful cabinetmaker . In addition, he was skilled in a number of other areas, among them the ability to make and install windows. He decorated some of his furniture and did painting for others - in 1797 he painted \"the chetchen flore\" and in 1804 he was appyling wallpaper. Among a variety of miscellaneous small items that he made was a needle box, a riben box, and a shuen box, a picture frame, a flax bench and the turning of wood nubs (knobs). He supplied wooden parts for tools such as planes, hamars (hammers), saws, mallets, and shars (shears). He also supplied or repaired equipment for other craftsmen. When Chase was 71 years old, he ran a tavern as verified in the book, \"On The Road North of Boston: Taverns and Turnpikes, 1700 - 1900\" which states that \"James Chase, a tavern keeper of Gilmanton, continued in his profession of cabinet maker\". In addition to all this, he maintained a farm.\nJames Chase often accepted the work of other craftsmen in payment for the work which he provided. Abel Hunt, a skilled cabinetmaker in his own right, worked in 1806 for Chase for 18 days.. Thomas Bartlett, a joiner , settled his account in 1800 by performing a variety of tasks such as \"turning 21 dozen of Char stuff\" and by \" maken a winder frame\". At various time he had working for him: blacksmiths, coopers, tanners, hatters, shoemakers, clockmakers, and tailors. He sold nails, brads and paint. Occasionally Chase rented his horse or himself and the horse. He hired the labor of others to help on the farm and he rented his own labor to others. It is apparent that \"much of his furniture was paid for by services on the farm and the produce of others. The size of his farm, while unknown, seems to have been sufficient, with his varied skills and interests, to provide Chase and his family with a good living. It seems odd that, although his name occurs in a few isolated sources, little is known of him accept what is learned from his own account books. He was active, but not in public affairs, a man of good substance, but not of wealth, not well educated (judging from his spelling), but successful in his business endeavors, skilled in his profession, but not well known . Was he the hard working, successful but apparently unpretentious man whose $16.67 clock case was, 200 years later, on the market for $35,000? If so, what he would think of that!\nLike all historical societies, Gilford's T-AHS is grateful to those who revere and preserve their ancestor's documents and artifacts; to those whose interest in history cause them to research, study, analyze and publish and, most especially, to those who contribute these items to societies and museums. Without them we would know nothing of people like James Chase whose contributions make them deserve to be remembered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 6321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gjmultimedia.co.uk/astronomy/solar_system/moon-16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RXSLQM4LQYOAX22K6UYEHE24Y2FERWJZ", "length": 366, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gjmultimedia.co.uk", "title": "GJMultimedia - Astronomy", "raw_content": "Here is an image of the northern area of the Moon with the large crater Plato residing between the Mare Imbrium, above, and Mare Frigoris below. Plato is about 110 km across. To the right of Plato is Montes Alpes with Vallis Alpes, the obvious valley running through the mountains. The collection of peaks in the Mare Imbrium below Plato are called Montes Teneriffe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gmgk.co/2015/11/aenean-viverra-massa-ut-arcu-feugiat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EYLNJLMFYTAT7YILVKKGCHUIX2VLPVAJ", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gmgk.co", "title": "Aenean viverra massa ut arcu feugiat | GMGK Ltd", "raw_content": "Lifestyle, Photography\t November 22, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gooddayworld.com/video-philanthropic-initiatives/12-10-2013/quotgivingquot-450", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UUYF6GLWUYP2XIHHG6QVYA2IQLT5CAMC", "length": 613, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gooddayworld.com", "title": "\"Giving\" | Good Day World News", "raw_content": "The Thai telecommunications company True Corporation has launched a real advertising campaign in Thailand on altruism and being grateful. It is a 3-minute video clip broadcast on TV that tells a stirring story about a child that steals medicine for his sick mother. The store clerk is saddened by what he sees and offers the boy vegetable soup, this after paying for the medicine himself. Years later, the boy (now a man) finds a way to pay his debt for the generosity shown to him years before. The video has had an incredible impact in the media, and on YouTube alone has been seen more than 250 thousand times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 622, "original_length": 19044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://graffiotech.com/2018/04/20/late-charge-for-the-golden-boot-smalling-jokes-on-scoring/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LMDXKQE45JV3WZ7BKINDKMYQJ4WG2NKS", "length": 2281, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "graffiotech.com", "title": "Late charge for the Golden Boot! - Smalling jokes on scoring form", "raw_content": "Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has downplayed the importance of \"individual awards\" and stressed his credentials as a team player - despite closing in Ian Rush's record of 47 goals scored in a single season in all competitions for the Reds, which has stood for almost 34 years.\nThe 25-year-old Egypt worldwide has been in superb for Reds scoring 40 goals in all competitions in his maiden campaign with the Merseyside outfit.\nPosting on Twitter, Smalling wrote: \"Late charge for the golden boot\".\nGomez has largely operated as a right-back this season, alternating with Trent Alexander-Arnold in the absence of Nathaniel Clyne, who has since made his comeback from a long-term back injury.\n\"We have to go there and do what we have been doing and hopefully get to the final\". It was only a matter of time before Manchester City was crowned the number one team for the third time in their history.\n\"You can see the difference [in me] between now, a year before, two years before that\".\nSalah joined Liverpool from Roma in a \u00a334m transfer last summer after also impressing in Serie A. Most matches will be played in the United States but others will be staged in Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Italy and Spain.\n'But I always try to look at myself and I want more.\n\"The way we play is very good, and you can see the fans are very happy and I feel very good about that, I feel they want me to win something\".\n\"I'm working every day to get better, the games help a lot because you can't compare training to games\".\n\"We have a big chance here to create something for the future\".\nCity's final opponent will be Guardiola's former club Bayern Munich in Miami three days later. \"Some people can laugh at it but I'm just focused on my own job\".\nThe Egypt global has enjoyed a spectacular season since signing from Roma for an initial \u20ac42 million last June, scoring 40 goals in all competitions.\nEBITDA Yield & Technical Watch on Hess Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:HESM)\nCastelvania: Konami al lavoro su un mobile game\nChina stresses on ties with Nepal, India\nWarhammer 40000: Inquisitor - Martyr has been delayed until June 5th\n49ers' 2018 National Football League regular-season schedule leaked before official release\nFO rejects Modi's claims of surgical strikes across LoC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://growingawareness.net/pages/trainingaboutme.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:J4YC6F25Y26JN3R32DQLDFHS3XYKRF5K", "length": 958, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "growingawareness.net", "title": "Growing Awareness", "raw_content": "Training: About Me\nI have facilitated training in many different locations, with varying groups of participants. I started my professional training journey in a College of Further Education teaching Study Skills, whilst I studied for and gained my Cert Ed. I moved to the area of Health and Social Care where I delivered different modules at many levels from communication skills and human development through to research methods.\nPrior to this I had been involved in updating colleagues knowledge in a workplace setting and facilitating parenting classes. Since qualifying as a tutor and counsellor, I have delivered basic listening skills workshops and for several years, organised a day conference investigating the interface between counselling and spirituality. Now as a freelance trainer, I have worked alongside various organisations within both the statutory and voluntary sectors to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence of the participants.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grubstreet.ca/articles/index/1860/middle-of-the-journey-false-equivalency", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:31Z", "digest": "sha1:EG2RU5MJ6YNNH4WYKVZPTWGAT5DRSCD4", "length": 3735, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "grubstreet.ca", "title": "Grubstreet.ca | Middle of the Journey", "raw_content": "Recently a certain multi-billionaire had the audacity to write an Op-Ed piece claiming how put-upon the rich are. I thought I might pen a reply.\nDear Sir \u2026 I read with great incredulity your recent editorial. I would laugh at your views on how the rich are being abused, if it weren\u2019t so sad just how brutal things are for the rest of us. I should like to tell you a story to illustrate the false equivalency you seem determined to present. No matter how bad you think things are for you folks up there at the tippy top, they cannot begin to compare to how things are for us way down here at the very bottom.\nA couple years back, I saw a movie called \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada.\u201d Anne Hathaway portrayed Andrea or \u201cAndy.\u201d The \u201cDevil,\u201d Miranda, head of the beauty magazine \u201cRunway,\u201d was portrayed by Meryl Streep. There were two other main characters in the office: Miranda\u2019s Number One Secretary, Emily, portrayed, ironically, by Emily Blunt, and Nigel, portrayed by the fine actor Stanley Tucci. One of the main aspects of the film was the big trip to Paris and Emily, as lead secretary, thought she was going. Miranda elects to take Andy. Miranda tells Andy she must tell Emily she\u2019s not going. If not, Andy will lose her job. It breaks her heart, but she does it.\nLater, in Paris, Andy learns that the publisher is planning to replace Miranda, and she tries to warn her. For some strange reason, she\u2019s actually loyal to Miranda, which, in my opinion, is a lot better than she deserves. At the same time, Nigel is excited about a new position he\u2019s going to get at another magazine. Then, came the big dinner, Miranda announces the big change: the lady that was lined up to take over \u201cRunway\u201d is getting the position Nigel was promised. He\u2019s devastated, but believes that someday Miranda will make it up to him. At least, that\u2019s what he tells himself in order to get on with his life and career.\nAndy is likewise upset at the outcome, but Miranda is quite smug. She tells Andy that she merely did to Nigel exactly what Andy did to Emily! Andy is dumbstruck and denies it, but gets all flustered and eventually leaves Miranda. Not merely physically but also quits her job. Had I been the screenwriter for that film, I would not have let it end like that. No, I would have had Andy tell Miranda off, big time. Here\u2019s what she should have said:\n\u201cMiranda, don\u2019t for a second claim we\u2019re alike. I\u2019m a minor secretary who\u2019s been with your company for less than a year. If I\u2019d refused to do as you told me, I\u2019d have lost my job. I have no savings or resources. What company would hire me, with such a black mark on my resume? As for you, you have wealth, position and power. You could have walked away from \u2018Runway\u2019 with your head held high, retired, spent time with your family, wrote your memoir or even gone to work at another magazine. Instead, what did you do? You tossed your most loyal employee under the bus merely so you could hang onto power for a few more years.\nDo you know that Nigel forgives you? He believes that you\u2019ll make it up to him someday. Me, I don\u2019t believe that for an instant. If it comes down to it again, you\u2019ll screw him over again, and you\u2019ll do the same to me and anyone else. Now I understand why your husband is leaving you.\nAll you love is power, Miranda. Well, power makes a poor lover and an even worse soul mate. I hope someday you learn that, but I doubt it.\u201d\nThus, dear sir, I hope you take this little tale to heart and learn something. Yeah, okay, you and the other \u201cone-percenters\u201d have trials and tribulations. Yet, do not for a second think they\u2019re what we face; literal survival is not on your menu. Your worst day is about a hundred times better than our best. Stop your whining!\nA Little Rebuilding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hackathon.ccafs.cgiar.org/en/portfolio/terra-i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:18Z", "digest": "sha1:PRXARI3PWOPE7K4DZHM7Q2ST2LUWAME6", "length": 2321, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hackathon.ccafs.cgiar.org", "title": "Terra-i | Hackathon", "raw_content": "Terra-i is a monitoring system for observing habitat changes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It uses neural networks and satellite data of vegetation index and precipitation to detect deviations from the normal pattern of the natural time cycle of vegetation and thus, potential anthropogenic impacts on natural ecosystems.\nTerra-i is a collaboration between the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT \u2013 DAPA, based in Colombia), The program on Forestry, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) ,The Nature Conservancy (TNC, global environmental organization), the School of Business and Engineering (HEIG-VD, based in Switzerland) and King\u2019s College London (KCL, based in the UK). The system is based on the premise that natural vegetation follows a predictable pattern of changes in greenness from one date to the next brought about by site-specific land and climatic conditions over the same period. A so-called computational neural network is \u2018trained\u2019 to understand the normal pattern of changes in vegetation greenness in relation to terrain and rainfall for a site and then marks areas as changed where the greenness suddenly changes well beyond these normal limits. Running on many computers this analysis is refreshed with new imagery every 16 days and for every 250m square of land.\nMain objective: use of high temporal frequency images (16 days) and moderate spatial resolution (250 m).\nTerra-i Database:\nIn this database you will find data of changes in vegetation cover for areas in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2004 till date. The data are stored yearly every 16 days according to the Julian caldendar.\nThe Terra-i database has 5 different tables:\nArea: contains information about the areas in Latin America and the Caribbean.\nRealtime: contains all data per year and within 16 days periods of changes in vegetation cover of all the available areas. These values are in hectares.\nAdminunit: contains the administrative units (department, district, province, country, region and state), and varies depending on the country.\nType: contains the information that indicates the administrative level (country, department, protected area and ecosystem).\nLog: contains the information of consultations made about different areas; it is a basic form of managing the statistics of most consulted areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hadragonbreath.blogspot.com/2017/07/ad-den-d-u-to-erra-los-palabras-del-dia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MFXOWHENXKKGKF7UPEMBYJDHAYC6IQAC", "length": 21740, "nlines": 84, "source_domain": "hadragonbreath.blogspot.com", "title": "AD den d u \u2588 to the Err@a, los palabras del d\u00eda son \"dense\" y \"laudate\"", "raw_content": "AD den d u \u2588 to the Err@a, los palabras del d\u00eda son \"dense\" y \"laudate\"\nFivel or ID me\nAs I am, the only person on Earth that I am sure knows why Taylor sings \"I am, I am, I am\" in such a cute way--I've seen it before, in the mirror. In the strange land of mist that I live in half the time, this place that I keep telling you has angels or demons watching me all the time... in this place--this place where these things are the source of a significant amount of \"religion\" and myth, I am trying show you confirmation that this is happening; I'm showing you because she seems to have seen me--though I don't understand how. I am not telling you this for absolutely no reason, I'm telling you because I want to make Taylor Momsen to kiss me--not really, but that seems to be what you fools expect from me, so you might as well know--she's gonna do it.\nAs an aside, I don't actually know that--but I do believe it, I believe almost everything I say.... half of me is a character that you need, you need Him to save you; and the other half is crying inside because you don't even care to find that out.\nYggdrasil (/\u02c8\u026a\u0261dr\u0259s\u026al/ or /\u02c8\u026a\u0261dr\u0259z\u026al/; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced [\u02c8y\u0261\u02d0\u02ccdrasil\u02d0]) is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is center to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their things. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Ur\u00f0arbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well M\u00edmisbrunnr.\nMetroid (Japanese: \u30e1\u30c8\u30ed\u30a4\u30c9 Hepburn: Metoroido) is a science fiction action-adventure video game series created by Nintendo. The series is primarily produced by the company's first-party developers Nintendo R&D1 and Retro Studios, although some installments were handled by other developers, including Fuse Games, Team Ninja, Next Level Games, and MercurySteam.\nThe series chronicles the missions of space-faring bounty hunter Samus Aran, who protects the galaxy from the depredations of the Space Pirates and their attempts to harness the power of the eponymous Metroids. Metroid combines the platforming of Super Mario Bros. and the exploration aspect of The Legend of Zelda with a decidedly darker atmosphere and a greater emphasis on nonlinear gameplay.\nOracle Internet Directory (OID) is a directory service produced by Oracle Corporation, which functions compatible with LDAP version 3.\nI actually think Oracle databases have an OID field, like a universal primary key, but I don't care to dig to find it--anyway, \"table row oracle ID\" comes from Metroid and this--and AFAIK it means AMD5\nJustin Bailey refers to a well-known password in Metroid, as well as the magenta leotard that it causes Samus Aran to wear upon using it. It may have first been referenced in Nintendo Power.\nQueso er ahah? Whoever's will it be, might agree. Si?\nIf you don't know \"gg\" means good game, and it's usually said when the game is over. I don't personally feel like \"its over\" but I do feel like I've won, pretty sure there won't be any erasing of A.D. anytime in the foreseeable infinitum. Anyway, \"as I am\" the only person who knows what \"as I El\" actually implies, I'm pretty sure it's nothing more than a declaration that Dr. Who is \"El\" and here we are, you and I alone maybe realizing that I am not El, but cl<. So table row--frame of reference set, as I d now means some kind of combination of \"creator\" and \"dick\" that is so enmeshed and overlapping there's really no saying who's who. That's fine with me, today it's pretty much the truth. (I swear I'm the positive influence, most of the time).\nWhile it might not be clear, I think \"asid\" is the reason the game is still continuing.... behold--I am coming.\nI will probably never send this to anyone else (although I like it more now that half of it is written)--because we are at an impasse--I think this place looks evil as shit if you don't do what I think is \"normal behavior\"--which means not hiding me anymore. This is Atlas, shrugging. I do not think I can continue to do anything in to help this place in good conscience. I see Hell here, I see nobody caring--I see it getting worse. Light my fire, there's nothing else I am willing to do.\nWilly Wonka is a fictional character in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed.\nThe book and the film adaptations both vividly depict an odd Wonka, a phoenix-like man arising from his creative and strange genius. He bewilders the other characters with his antics, but Charlie enjoys Wonka's behaviour. In the 2005 film adaptation, Willy Wonka's behaviour is viewed more as a sympathetic character flaw.\nKa, also (alternatively) Sekhen,[1][2] was a Predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt belonging to Dynasty 0. He probably reigned during the first half of the 32nd century BC. The length of his reign is unknown.\nThe ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body (called the ha, occasionally a plural haw, meaning approximately sum of bodily parts). The other souls were aakhu, khaibut, and khat.[clarification needed]\nThe Ka (k\ua723) was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body. The Egyptians believed that Khnum created the bodies of children on a potter's wheel and inserted them into their mothers' bodies. Depending on the region, Egyptians believed that Heqet or Meskhenet was the creator of each person's ka, breathing it into them at the instant of their birth as the part of their soul that made them be alive. This resembles the concept of spirit in other religions.\nThe Bahamas (/b\u0259\u02c8h\u0251\u02d0m\u0259z/ ( listen)), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,[11] is an archipelagic statewithin the Lucayan Archipelago. It consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Bahamas is the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492.\nBarnabas /\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0rn\u0259b\u0259s/ (Greek: \u0392\u03b1\u03c1\u03bd\u03ac\u03b2\u03b1\u03c2), born Joseph, was an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem.[2] According to Acts 4:36 Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Named an apostle in Acts 14:14, he and Paul the Apostle undertook missionary journeys together\nThe 'B\u00e2' (b\ua723) was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of 'personality'. (In this sense, inanimate objects could also have a 'B\u00e2', a unique character, and indeed Old Kingdom pyramids often were called the B\u00e2 of their owner).\nWhatever this shit says, Ka means body to me--and Ba means spirit. I think my interpretation is well founded with respect to the stories of Ra and Horus.\nJesus Barabbas /b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e6b\u0259s/ (Aramaic: \u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d1\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d1\u05d0\u200e\u200e Yeshua bar \u02beAbba\u02be, literally \"Jeshua son of Abba\") is a figure mentioned in the accounts of the Passion of Christ, in which he is an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of releasing Jesus.\nIn the short fifth reading (\u05e2\u05dc\u05d9\u05d4\u200e, aliyah), Lamech took two wives: Adah and Zillah.[69] Adah bore Jabal, the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and amidst herds, and Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the pipe.[70] And Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who forged implements of copper and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.[71] The fifth reading (\u05e2\u05dc\u05d9\u05d4\u200e, aliyah) ends here.[68]\nIn Greek mythology, Thanatos (/\u02c8\u03b8\u00e6n\u0259t\u0252s/;[1] Greek: \u0398\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, pronounced in Ancient Greek: [t\u02b0\u00e1natos] \"Death\",[2] from \u03b8\u03bd\u1fc4\u03c3\u03ba\u03c9 thn\u0113sk\u014d \"to die, be dying\"[3][4]) was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person. His name is transliterated in Latin as Thanatus, but his equivalent in Roman mythology is Mors or Letum.[citation needed] Mors is sometimes erroneously identified with Orcus, whose Greek equivalent was Horkos, God of the Oath.[citation needed]\nTo help, \"an\" at \"os\" -- call it the end of death.\n'Anat boasts that she has put an end to Yam the darling of El, to the seven-headed serpent, to Arsh the darling of the gods, to Atik 'Quarrelsome' the calf of El, to Ishat 'Fire' the bitch of the gods, and to Zabib 'flame?' the daughter of El. Later, when Ba'al is believed to be dead, she seeks after Ba'al \"like a cow[3] for its calf\" and finds his body (or supposed body) and buries it with great sacrifices and weeping. 'Anat then finds Mot, Ba'al Hadad's supposed slayer and she seizes Mot, splits him with a sword, winnows him with a sieve, burns him with fire, grinds him with millstones and scatters the remnants to the birds.\nThe Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition.[1] Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah,[2] was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II,[2] (788\u2013747 BC)[3] making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern kingdom of Israel.[2] His major themes of social justice, God's omnipotence, and divine judgment became staples of prophecy.[2]\nAmos is the first prophet to use the term \"the Day of the Lord.[12] This phrase becomes important within future prophetic and apocalyptic literature. For the people of Israel \"the day of the LORD\" is the day when God will fight against his and their enemies, and it will be a day of victory for Israel. However, Amos and other prophets include Israel as an enemy of God, as Israel is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, and young women.[13]\n\"Bin Laden\" and \"Osama\" redirect here. For other uses, see Bin Laden (disambiguation), Osama (disambiguation), and Osama bin Laden (disambiguation).\nUsama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (/o\u028a\u02c8s\u0251\u02d0m\u0259 b\u026an \u02c8l\u0251\u02d0d\u0259n/; Arabic: \u0623\u0633\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0628\u0646 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0628\u0646 \u0639\u0648\u0636 \u0628\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u062f\u0646\u200e\u200e, us\u0101mah bin mu\u1e25ammad bin 'awa\u1e0d bin l\u0101din; March 10, 1957 \u2013 May 2, 2011)[7] was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that was responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States\nWilliam Blake, Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job. With Descriptive Letterpress, and A Sketch of the Artist's Life and Works.\nBy Charles Eliot Norton (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875). 7/18/2017. Walking on Water?\nIt's really too bad, don't y'all think, that one vote is all that's needed? Light my fire. Table row, \"asid\" between Astrid, Asgard, and bereshit. If it's not obvious...\nthink I've won. Here, thaw.. to help \"a word\" dense, den: you be dense.\nEdward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillanceprograms, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.\nA warden is a person who has been entrusted with the oversight of something important to the community, such as a college, church, prison, wild game or firefighting. It may also refer to: Prison warden, the chief administrative official of a prison\n1Occupations, ranks and roles\n4Othe\nWorship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. An act of worship may be performed individually, in an informal or formal group, or by a designated leader.\nA warship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the armed forces of a state.[1]As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and more maneuverable than merchant ships. Unlike a merchant ship, which carries cargo, a warship typically carries only weapons, ammunition and supplies for its crew. Warships usually belong to a navy, though they have also been operated by individuals, cooperatives and corporations.\nThere, to help, \"se\" means \"you be...\" Listen to me, children are starving, people are hurting; you are in Hell; and you have no excuse for ignoring me. No excuse at all, it's sad, sickly, and it's hard to imagine how you can possibly continue to act this way seeing everything that you have--there's something wrong with you, and until you realize that--look where you are.\nAre we turning Setan around, or not?\nSea of \"n,\" table row: OVER, Si AL. \u2229 overse.\nG s4brains, what do you want to do tonight?\nHoneslty, nobody deserves to be in Hell, nobody. I didn't you put here, and I am doing everything I can to help us make this place what we deserve, what we want, you call it Heaven; you can call utopia... or just a better world, try--and you'll see.\nIf you want to know my truth, I think he'd like me to try to convince you that you are intentionally ignoring this--that you are doing it to \"spite me.\" Come on, nobody is that stupid.\nAll at once now, let's try a solution. Tweet \"it's not me, I'm not Satan\" to @yitsheyzeus. Idiots.\nthose hands once wanted, well I have retired them\nI can breathe my own air, and I can sleep more soundly\nupon (this hallowed ground, we'll)) build Heaven, and call it home\n-Dave J. Matthews and ((ish))\nPlain English (or layman's terms) is a style of communication that uses easy to understand, plain language with an emphasis on clarity, brevity, and avoidance of overly complex vocabulary. It is commonly used in relation to official government or business communication. The goal is to write or speak in a way that is easily understood by the target audience. It is clear and straightforward, concise, free of clich\u00e9s and needless technical jargon, and appropriate to the audience's developmental or educational level and their familiarity with the topic.\nThe story of Daniel in the lions' den (chapter 6 in the Book of Daniel) tells how Daniel is raised to high office by his royal master Darius the Mede, but jealous rivals trick Darius into issuing a decree which condemns Daniel to death. Hoping for Daniel's deliverance, but unable to save him, the king has him cast into the pit of lions. At daybreak he hurries back, asking if God had saved his friend. Daniel replies that God had sent an angel to close the jaws of the lions, \"because I was found blameless before him.\" The king has those who had conspired against Daniel, and their wives and children, thrown to the lions in his place, and commands to all the people of the whole world to \"tremble and fear before the God of Daniel\".[3]\nModern scholarship agrees that Daniel is a legendary figure.[4] The book of which he is the hero comprises two parts, a set of tales in chapters 1\u20136, and the series of visions in chapters 7\u201312:[5] the tales are no earlier than the Hellenistic period, and the visions date from the Maccabean era (the mid-2nd century BC).[4] The stories were probably originally independent, but were collected in the mid-2nd century by the author of chapter 7 and expanded again shortly afterwards with the visions in chapters 8-12 to produce the modern book.[6]\nChapter 6, the story of Daniel in the lions' den, parallels chapter 3, the story of the \"fiery furnace\": each begins with the jealousy of non-Jews towards successful Jews and an imperial edict requiring the Jews to compromise their religion, and concludes with divine deliverance and a king who confesses the greatness of the God of the Jews and issues an edict of royal protection.[7]\n\"Lion's Den\" is an episode of the seventh season of The Outer Limits. It aired on September 8, 2001 and was written and directed by Matt Hastings.\nidentify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)\nEvidence, broadly construed, is anything presented in support of an assertion.[1] This support may be strong or weak. The strongest type of evidence is that which provides direct proof of the truth of an assertion. At the other extreme is evidence that is merely consistent with an assertion but does not rule out other, contradictory assertions, as in circumstantial evidence.\nIn the context of human society, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word \"family\"[1]).\nInterlude: The 144,000 Hebrews are sealed.\n144,000 from the Twelve Tribes of Israel are sealed as servants of God on their foreheads (7:1\u20138)\nA great multitude stand before the Throne of God, who come out of the Great Tribulation, clothed with robes made \"white in the blood of the Lamb\" and having palm branches in their hands. (7:9\u201317)\nA sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.[1][2][a] More broadly, \"the sea\" is the interconnected system of Earth's salty, oceanic waters\u2014considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions. The sea moderates Earth's climate and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle. Although the sea has been traveled and explored since prehistory, the modern scientific study of the sea\u2014oceanography\u2014dates broadly to the British Challenger expedition of the 1870s.[3] The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections\u2014including the International Hydrographic Organization's four named oceans[4] (the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic) and the Southern Ocean;[5] smaller, second-order sections, such as the Mediterranean, are known as seas.\nIn the Hebrew Bible, Hosea (/\u02ccho\u028a\u02c8zi\u02d0\u0259/ or /ho\u028a\u02c8ze\u026a\u0259/; Hebrew: \u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05e9\u05b5\u05c1\u05e2\u05b7, Modern Hoshea, Tiberian H\u00f4\u0161\u0113\u0103\u02bb; \"Salvation\"; Greek \u1f68\u03c3\u03b7\u03ad, \u014cs\u0113e), son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BC prophet in Israel who authored the book of prophecies bearing his name. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. Hosea is often seen as a \"prophet of doom\", but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. The Talmud (Pesachim 87a) claims that he was the greatest prophet of his generation. The period of Hosea's ministry extended to some sixty years and he was the only prophet of Israel of his time who left any written prophecy.[1]\nMary Magdalene (/\u02c8m\u00e6\u0261d\u0259l\u0259n/ Hebrew: \u05de\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05de\u05d2\u05d3\u05dc\u05d9\u05ea\u200e\u200e, original Biblical Greek: \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u1f21 \u039c\u03b1\u03b3\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03ae),[2] literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, was a Jewish woman who, according to texts included in the New Testament, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.[3] Within the four Gospels she is named at least 12 times,[4] more than most of the apostles.\nNun /\u02c8n\u028an/, in the Hebrew Bible, was a man from the Tribe of Ephraim, grandson of Ammihud, son of Elishama, and father of Joshua. (1 Chronicles 7:26-27)\nNun grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the Israelites' Egyptian captivity, where the Egyptians \"made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field.\" (Exodus 1:14) In Aramaic, \"nun\" means \"fish\". Thus the Midrash tells: \"[T]he son of him whose name was as the name of a fish would lead them [the Israelites] into the land.\" (Genesis Rabba 97:3.)\nNu (also Nenu, Nunu, Nun), feminine Nut (also Nunut, Nuit, Nent, Nunet, Naunet), is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad cosmogony of ancient Egyptian religion. The name is paralleled with nen\"inactivity\" in a play of words in, \"I raised them up from out of the watery mass [nu], out of inactivity [nen]\". The name has also been compared Coptic noun \"abyss; deep\".[1]\nPlague 1 \u2014 water turned into blood; fish died\nDr. Stephen Pflugmacher, a biologist at the Leibniz Institute for Water Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin believes that rising temperatures could have turned the Nile into a slow-moving, muddy watercourse\u2014conditions favorable for the spread of toxic fresh water algae. As the alga Planktothrix rubescens dies, it turns the water red in a phenomenon known as \"Burgundy Blood\".\nAlternatively, a bloody appearance could be due to an environmental change, such as a drought, which could have contributed to the spread of the Chromatiaceaebacteria which thrive in stagnant, oxygen-deprived water.[37]\nBlood of Christ in Christian theology refers to (a) the physical blood actually shed by Jesus Christ primarily on the Cross, and the salvation which Christianity teaches was accomplished thereby; and (b) the sacramental blood present in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which is considered by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran Christians to be the same blood of Christ shed on the Cross.\nHA, Rail Road? 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It is not addressed to anyone particular professional group as it is intended to be of use to anyone who, in the course of his or her work, comes into contact with dyslexic people. It is hoped that it will be of interest to medical practitioners, therapists, teachers, trainers and professional managers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 108.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://henism.com/7175380627", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CPU2DMAE6JLWCQNRVBURVT6NHNITSCRE", "length": 3412, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "henism.com", "title": "717-538-0627", "raw_content": "How much did the glasses cost? Are you as hungry as I am? Elric showed up at the party by himself, just like I knew he would. Have you found your ticket yet? The queen stood beside the king. I love my family. The room was quiet.\nYesterday, I went to that restaurant you suggested. This is exactly what I wanted to see! Control your emotions. Do you know that boy who's crying? What's your problem? The restaurant is next door to the theater. Micky plays the guitar almost as well as Steve. The yakuza were tormenting Hiroshi. I'm not going to help you.\nCorey offered to let Suu use his car. Is there a paperback edition of this book? Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants. I found your house with difficulty.\nI'll wait here for you. You and I are good friends.\nHer hair feels like silk. He lives on welfare. The first pancake is always a blob. Stop cracking your knuckles. It's cool. You don't give orders here. Amy didn't think he was committing a crime. Nicholas wears expensive jewelry.\nBilly often hits his face against windows. Billie acts impressed. I haven't told Joshua anything yet. The sea is green. Whether you believe it or not, I believe it. I'll do the talking. The girl begged her mother to accompany her. Trey is just a friend. He's not my boyfriend. They are loyal to their master.\nI'm engaged tomorrow, so I've arranged for someone else to take my place. You must listen. He is in a bad mood. I think you can help her. Sometimes miracles come to see people. His poetry does not translate into Japanese.\nI told you I have plans. \"Are you a teacher?\" \"Yes, that's right.\" The trend of public opinion is against corporal punishment.\nMikael doesn't talk to me anymore. I will eat the orange. I've read all about you.\nThey made speeches in turn. It's very important to her. Where's the bag?\nWhere did Naomi point? This watch is meant for you.\nMaureen is afraid of dogs. It is necessary to put something by against days of need. There is no fish in the burn. I'll meet them at the library. In Shogi, silver generals, lances, knights, and pawns all promote to gold generals. That's very personal.\nThey appointed a judge. I had a son who died in the war. Even in the winter, Jwahar usually leaves the window open when he sleeps. I know one thing we could do that might help. He has been looked for by the police. She is as mad as a bag of cats. I had to stop Lori from making the biggest mistake in his life. My father objected to my traveling alone. Not for the faint-hearted! That budget isn't yet final.\nThe ending is much more interesting. They talked about culture. Why don't you ask her directly? We've got to fix it. I was hoping to learn a lot. Why didn't you just stay home? I didn't ask you to go there.\nIt's a quarter after six right now. In a word, I think he is an idiot. Spring was long coming that year. He gave up drinking for the sake of his health. It is the highest mountain in the world.\nWe're not ready for that to happen.\nFletcher will know what to say. We're going to be OK. I still haven't finished the exercises. The stairs are over there. My shirt is orange. Toby didn't actually ever go on a date with Carsten. He will struggle to graduate if he does not make progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://henryharveybooks.com/uncategorized/because-i-said-so/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XFADGZY6SNCYEHHPWVD4OVUWYIN5U46L", "length": 19468, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "henryharveybooks.com", "title": "Because I Said So", "raw_content": "Strangely, this is not a directive I learned from Mom or Dad. The first time I heard it was fourth grade when we had a substitute teacher for math class. I even remember her face. She had just shared a nugget of math wisdom with the class. She said, \u201cThe highest number in the universe is a decillion.\u201d (It\u2019s one followed by 60 zeros.) There was a long moment of silence and then some smart ass (guess who) said, \u201cBut, what about 450 decillion?\u201d That\u2019s where her face comes to crystal clarity in my memory. She looked like an extremely angry chicken wearing black horn-rimmed glasses. She glared for a long moment \u2026and then I sheepishly continued, \u201cBut isn\u2019t 450 decillion bigger than one decillion?\u201d \u201cNO!!!\u201d I shrunk back a bit. \u201c\u2026..why?\u201d \u201cBECAUSE\u2026I SAID SO!!!!\u201d\nI remember that even at the tender and impressionable age of nine years old, that seemed like a stupid answer. Deep inside my head, I was pretty sure two decillion (or two of just about anything) is probably more than one of the same thing. Yeah\u2026.I\u2019m making a point, but in a paragraph or so, I\u2019m going to suggest to you that this one sentence, more importantly, this mindset, could possibly be the epitaph for planet Earth, ex-number of years in the future.\nScroll ahead a handful of years; I was selling Electrolux vacuum cleaners door-to-door. I was actually pretty good! But when I demo-ed the little beauty and vacuumed their entire downstairs, someone would invariably ask, \u201cExactly WHY should I buy your vacuum?\u201d I assure you that I never once replied, \u201cBecause I said so.\u201d Instead, I would show them how I could actually pick up a bowling ball with the machine (It\u2019s true!\u2026 It has to do with the nature of directed air pressure.) Then, I\u2019d show them the Electrolux guarantee, the Consumer Reports articles, the testimonials from happy customers, and in those days, the shtick Electrolux suggested was that you explain to them that a new vacuum costs just the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes a day\u2026 35 cents at the time. (This equation wouldn\u2019t work today for what should be obvious reasons.)\nThe point here, and I\u2019m laying my base thick and carefully because it\u2019s important\u2026is this: As we grow up, we put away childish things, like accepting \u201cBecause I said so\u201d as a viable explanation. It becomes increasingly obvious that before we buy a new car, fridge, house, TV, computer...anything...we want, we need, and we deserve to know WHY it\u2019s better, faster, colder, smarter, anything-er than the competition.\nAs the creatures at the tippy-top of Earth\u2019s precarious eco-chain, it behooves us, as well as it defines us. We are human organisms who need to know WHY.\nI suspect that if any of you reading this had been hanging around when ole Ben, Adams, and Jefferson were hammering things out in the Declaration of Independence, you might have been making this very case back then. And so I ask you:\nDoes it seem an equitable proposition that you and I have a right to Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness...and the Pursuit of Truth? Way down in my common-sense GUT, I feel like I deserve to know WHY\u2026not just hear the words, \u201cBecause I said so.\u201d\n\u201cUhhhm, Henry, are we sort of coming close to the same general hemisphere as where the point of this argument lies?\u201d Yes. Just one more step. This one\u2019s more important, for me, for vous, and for the rest of planet Earth.\nEven after 14 years, the image you see above is as close I can come to returning to that day. Monsters perpetrated this tragedy against thousands of innocent American civilians. Monsters\u2026 And yet, they were also deeply religious people doing what they believed was right\u2026according to their religion. It\u2019s a chilling, frightening concept and one in which the corollary is equally chilling. What percentage of America would LOVE to repay this atrocity precisely in kind, only perhaps 100 times over? Yeah I get it. But this is the most probable path for how mankind will ultimately destroy itself\u2026righteously. This has to stop\u2026on all sides. The chain of hatred has to stop.\nSophomore year, Franklin and Marshall College, 202 Atlee Hall, and I\u2019m a bustling pink-cheeked, eager-minded hippy-dippy philo major\u2026with the room next door occupied by not one but two seminary students from Lancaster, PA. Sounds like a set-up worthy of a Neil Simon play. I remember the guys were both blond, personable, funny, (gay as it turns out) and utterly juiced-up at the prospect of arguing religion, philosophy, and ethics. As I remember they also played a lethal game of 7-Card Stud. These were good guys and man, they could argue!\nI wandered into 204 Atlee one afternoon, and Roy graciously put his book away when I plopped down in a chair before him. He said, \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019m working on a paper\u20267-10 pgs.\u201d I got right to it. \u201cLet me set the premise and you shoot it down. First Question: Is God omniscient?\u201d \u201cYes, Henry. You\u2019re pretty safe so far.\u201d Second Question: Is He omnipotent? Yup. \u201cHow \u2019bout timeless? Is God timeless or did He come into existence say so many thousand years ago?\u201d (Sigh\u2026) Yes, God is timeless as well. He exists in the past, present, and the future. Where we going with this???\u201d\nThe Puppet Maker: I answered: \u201cGod created the Earth, the heavens, the light, the stars\u2026everything\u2026as well as us. He is our creator. We are His design. I know for a fact that I did not design myself.\u201d (I remember Roy chuckling at this, but not disagreeing.) \u201cThe only problem is, unlike the trees and stars, God created mankind broken, flawed, and highly imperfect. Yet, once we\u2019re born, He then commanded us to fix ourselves. Moreover, failing to do so results in His creations (us) His little people sentenced to an eternity of Hell.\u201d \u201cAh, yes, but you forgot one thing, Henry.\u201d \u201cFreedom of Choice?\u201d \u201cWell, okay, you didn\u2019t forget it but\u2026\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s go back to the scope of what God is. My Creator, my God, my Puppet master is timeless. As such, even endowing me with freedom of choice, He still KNEW...even as He was creating me flawed and imperfect\u2026 He KNEW beforehand that I wouldn\u2019t succeed. He knew this even as He created me. He literally made me whom or whatever I am. And then sentenced me to death and eternal Hell if I couldn\u2019t come up with a fix. He already knew the outcome, yet He still created me flawed.\u201d\nRoy wisely suggested that the two of us probably wouldn\u2019t untie the riddle while sitting in 204 Atlee. He was right and yet, 40 years later, despite monstrous strides in technology, computers, communication, we haven\u2019t budged a thousandth of an inch as to what what place religion should or should not occupy on this tiny, ultra-vulnerable planet. I probably won\u2019t make a lot of headway in this tiny essay. But collectively we still must continue to chip away.\nI imagine, the very religious readers who sometimes wander into this weird tiny site, have fingers poised upon the \u201cGo fuck yourself\u201d button. It\u2019s predictable and in a way, it might be appropriate\u2026\u2026emphasis on the might. Here is how I see it, however, then decide for yourself whether to hit the GFY button. In every single thing you do upon this planet, in every single serious decision you make, you rely on that inner gyroscope inside your body or in my case, my gut.\nLately, when I get an e-mail that sounds too good to be true, or it just sounds wrong, I must, in a common sense way, question its veracity. The world is now full of millions upon millions of people who have a vested interest in\u2026\u2026.feeding you something that may or may not be true. I present to you the prospect that this is not just a recent occurrence. The world has always had that caveat. We have a long history of creating literally thousands of gods. All those ones that came before, have been dismissed as coming from myth and ignorance. Mere longevity, mere history does not guarantee veracity\u2026truth. Ultimately, you have to judge for yourselves. What things make sense, ethically, morally way down in your gut?\nThe A-Word: To offer up an olive branch for those who have been taught from a really early age, three, four, five, six, that you have only one set of truths, I submit to you, many of the people you find offensive, strident, not sufficiently respectful, arrogant, (feel free to add your own qualifiers)\u2026 We are, of course, speaking of Atheists now. I suspect that, highly imperfect human beings that they are, their zeal for a quick win, their blood lust, frustration just as they have experienced for decades, is ill-conceived. They make mistakes, too. It\u2019s the nature of humanity.\nThe very term Atheist, if I can become pseudo-psychologist for a moment, just sounds a whole lot like ANTI theist. It sounds like these folks are out to destroy your God\u2026and in doing so, every other God as well. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really the case. And if you listen carefully, you might hear the clarification. I\u2026am an a-Zeus-ist\u2026as I imagine you are as well. I don\u2019t believe in Zeus. Do you? And you can easily ramble through several hundred gods who no longer make much sense in today\u2019s world. We are all the A-word with regard to literally hundreds of gods.\nFive of the 15, 685+ Gods You Probably Don\u2019t Believe in\nThe world just kinda\u2026grew up, and grew past Zeus, and Thor and Rah, and three or four thousand other gods. We outgrew them. The Atheists, as the somewhat snotty colloquialism goes today, just went one god more than you did.\nAnd yet, if you scroll back up to that eerie New York skyline, in this age, 2000+ years after what Christianity proposes, and more years still after what the other religions have proposed, we stand now on the brink of a nuclear annihilation, because we can\u2019t get it straight who the hell God is\u2026or if He even exists. We are willing to blow up babies, children, women, men, entire countries to prove that our God is the only one and their god is myth. This is the closest I can come to the definition of insanity.\nFor me, today, in this world as it confronts us, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of TRUTH seems more pressing than the pursuit of happiness. Do you want to know the truth???\n\u2026..And as we each retire to our corners, battered, bloody, and probably a bit pissed-off, I still return to The Golden Rule\u2026..which pre-dates and is also in common with the \u201cTop Three\u201d. This works for me. Don\u2019t really care very much who was the first to say it.\nP.S. I truly apologize to you for what is a sloppy segue at the end of this essay. Unfortunately, there was no way around it. It just won\u2019t wait till next week. Please take a look at the below paragraph, but more importantly the link at the bottom. I don\u2019t do this capriciously.\nWe\u2019ve all been inundated with Donald Trump\u2019s latest antics this week. Usually, I laugh, shake my head, and take solace in the fact that in America, you can still say any idiotic thing you like and get away with it. Usually I can do that\u2026 but this kinda falls in the category of you\u2019re trying to quietly exit a restaurant because there\u2019s a loud-mouth ass who\u2019s mouthing off to everybody. As you attempt to pass by, however, he looks at your wife, and makes a comment which can\u2019t go unnoticed. You stop, look at him, and give him one last chance. \u201cWould you like to apologize right now\u2026while you\u2019re still ambulatory? That\u2019s about how I feel with Trump going after the veterans and trying to put his own definition as to who is\u2026and who isn\u2019t a hero. There is a name for such a person. Well, there\u2019s actually a whole bunch of names, but Chicken Hawk is what is most accurate. People who have never served in the military, yet feel free to draw all kinds of conclusions about what it\u2019s like to serve and what it\u2019s like to get shot at, lose an arm, a leg, a buddy and pissiest of all, what it\u2019s like to be a hero. A word of advice: Don\u2019t do that.\nYou have a right to march against a war. You have a right to carry placards\u2026even burn a flag, though I would strongly advise against it. Your rights are your rights. That is what America is, was, and hopefully will always be about. Just don\u2019t tell veterans what it\u2019s like to be a veteran. And don\u2019t tell us your definition of a hero. We really couldn\u2019t care less about your opinion.\nI\u2019ll keep this mercifully short. I received a calendar in my e-mail yesterday. I could barely get through it. It\u2019s handsome, beautiful, brave, and they are also some of the saddest images I\u2019ve seen. Brace yourself and look upon the beauty of men and women who did, indeed, serve\u2026.suffer\u2026and survive. Donald\u2026.shut the fuck up.\nhttp://www.demilked.com/hot-calendar-veteran-amputees-prosthetics-photoshoot-always-loyal-michael-stokes/\n14 Responses to \"Because I Said So\"\nYou got me thinking, Henry. That, after all, was the idea. But you REALLY got me thinking. I didn\u2019t even read the stuff after your signature, because I didn\u2019t want to walk away from what you said before signing. I hear so much in your essay, of what has occurred to the very back of my mind, and I wonder why I have not brought it to the fore before now. Hmmmmm\u2026\nKeep thinking, Henry.\nAnnette Petrick\nGlad you enjoyed the article. When I was in an ivory tower many years , studying philo and the problems plaguing mankind, I never seriously thought the questions would be so weighty and so important to our future survival. But they are. Maybe it\u2019s time to address them, with gloves off.\nYou are so on target.\nHaving lost my niece\u2019s husband to a Cobra\naccident, I\nknow how very hard it is to be speechless\nfor fear of saying the wrong thing.\nYes, I lost\nmy dad at age 10 and my mom, just 10 yrs ago,\nbut I am blessed to still have my husband.\nLosing a spouse, a 37 yr young one at that, is\ndifferent. Now, compound that with it being the loss\nof a Marine on the way up, that loved what he did,\nand wow you can\u2019t say the right thing.\nNo, you don\u2019t know their loss or their pain.\nI think I just hugged her and said you\u2019re family\nis here for you. Maybe lame, but heartfelt.\nShe has since found a family with Cross Fit\nfolks in CA where she lives. That\u2019s a whole other something\nAnyway, thanks once again for giving me an interlude\nto my day and a chance to use my hidden brain cells.\nAlways enjoy them,\nThanks for your very moving reply. Life is rough, and seems to be getting exponentially rougher with each year.\nSo as I was reading my first thought for a reply was, \u201cWill my very old Electrolux still pick up a bowling ball?\u201d.\nBut as I read on I have to agree with you on most of this.\nI want to know why we can\u2019t all play nice, fair, & lovely on this wonderful planet? It always has been my thought EXCEPT (isn\u2019t there always an except) if anyone tried to harm my aging parents, kids, grandkids or for that matter a lot of people in my life. I have turned into a protective she bear when guarding over family members in the hospital & laid out doctors for their inattentiveness, faced of bullies who where much bigger & stronger than me & they backed down. I would have to say in real danger I would seriously hurt & possibly kill to protect my loved one. But in my heart I want to understand how you think, believe that you can be loving and caring no matter how you were raised.\nOf course a quote from \u201cPaper Moon\u201d a TV show, \u201cThe only thing man has learned from studying man is man has never learned from studying man.\u201d is really right.\nYeah, you might be able to pick it up\u2026if you first bolt on a big ole Vise Grips to the nozzle.\nYup, you voice what most of us think: Don\u2019t mess with my family. Don\u2019t mess with my loved ones. When idiots can take a bus into your city with a suitcase bomb, it might be time to try to sort things out, rather than just bombing them back to the stone age.\nInteresting take on the pursuit of truth or that all people are atheists when it comes to other peoples\u2019 religious beliefs. In the history of the earth, there is not a religion, tribe, culture, group, or locale that didn\u2019t want to perform ethnic cleansing of non members. Luckily, many of us are civilized under the right circumstances. Survival might change the equation.\nHis experiment (us) is incredibly flawed\u2026so much for perfection or truth. He supposedly tried to end his experiment with floods and fire and brimstone. Those two quotes about morality and religion and the atheists standards say it all. And I HATE that the answer is he gave us choice. Cut me a break!\nAs nasty as a Bengal Tiger is, or a grizzly bear, great white shark, king cobra\u2026 I can\u2019t recollect a time when any of them wanted to wipe out an entire species. That seems to come down to us, homo sapiens . Why? Money, Power, and most of all Religion. And if you think about it, if you\u2019re talking about organized religion, all of those three are very closely intertwined.\n\u201c\u2026Donald\u2026.shut the fuck up\u201d\nAMEN! (That\u2019s God speaking.\nAnd me.)\nHow can you tell the two of you apart?\nFrank Gerome\nYou can put it down to obtuseness, but I didn\u2019t connect all the dots in your latest essay. It\u2019s not clear, for instance, why Trump the Chump got into the act other than as a metaphor for what matters in running for president, namely a showbiz persona. Other requirements include vast wealth, or the ability to siphon it off from the even-more-wealthy (thank you, Supremes), arrogance (show the peasants who\u2019s who), and \u2013 in his particular case \u2013 a capacity for mindless bloviation. Not a word in the dictionary, but it should be \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of it about.\nBut here\u2019s the thing: \u201cBecause I said so\u201d is just one variant of the all-purpose epitaph \u201cBecause I could\u201d. Back to The Donald again, I\u2019m referring to: 1. Greed, and; 2. Selfishness, our capacity to consume \u201cnon-renewable resources\u201d to the detriment of others and, in a few more years, ourselves. I don\u2019t just mean fossil fuels, precious metals, any metals, any stuff. How about those fresh water aquifers? Keep pumping, guys, just deeper every year. We all know about the CA problem, but we don\u2019t hear much about the \u201cHigh Plains\u201d where a single aquifer supplies about 30% of all irrigated land in the USA. Depletion is accelerating (no, how can that be?) because usage trumps, excuse me, replenishment by hundreds to one. It\u2019s not just us. Beijing is critically short of water, too.\nHmm \u2026 the one thing we\u2019re not short of is people. There are nasty folk around saying that population growth (could it be exponential?) does to the planet what cancer does to the body. How un-Christian is that? Speaking of Christianity, Catholics in the late 90s theorized that Earth could sustain 11, 15, or maybe even 20 billion \u201csouls\u201d. I didn\u2019t hear one Catholic asking why we would want such a thing, what would it be \u201cfor\u201d? Self-replacement is one thing, but industrial-scale proliferation is something else. Homo so-called sapiens is gobbling up the globe, a more polite term for polluting it. Yes, Pollution is Us.\nAnd then you mentioned the Golden Rule. I guess you were thinking of the \u201cdo unto others\u201d thing, which to my mind is just a component of \u201cdo unto the planet\u201d, see above. But then I realized why the Comb-over got a mention. Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one: \u201cHe who has the gold, rules\u201d.\nWell\u2026you\u2019ve certainly covered a whole lot of territory! I was tempted to say, \u201cTell me what you REALLY think.\u201d\u2026.but I believe you just did. At some point, you have to decide whether to laugh or cry. 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As a highly contagious infection, measles can live in an airspace where an infected person was for up to two hours.\nChildren should receive measles vaccination via one dose of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) between twelve to fifteen months of age, and another dose prior to entering school, between four to six years of age.\nSymptoms of measles include high fever, cough, runny nose, and red eyes, followed up by flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread down throughout the body.\nThe duchess' friends also revealed the real truth about her relationship from estranged father and siblings. Then, \"The next morning when the vehicle got there [to take him to the airport], he wouldn't get in\".\nInfectious people were at Costco, the airport, a Blazers game and other sites.\nThe vast majority of Vancouver-area cases were not vaccinated against the virus.\nThe three Harris County patients are two boys younger than 2 and a woman who is between 25 and 35 years old. Three times as many people have gotten vaccinated in January - from 200 per day in 2018 to 600 per day in 2019.\n\"Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles\", stated Dr. Matt Richardson, Director of Public Health.\nTo further limit the spread of the virus, health officials ask that people who think they might have measles call their doctor or health care provider before visiting a hospital or doctor's office.\nIndia's previous worst was a 49-run loss to Australia back in 2010. \"We like to chase as a team\", captain Rohit Sharma said. Watch the second Twenty20 worldwide between New Zealand and India from 5.55am, Friday on Sky Sports Cricket and Main Event.\nJohn Wall will miss 12 months after slip and fall at home\nBack in 2017, the All-Star point guard signed a four-year, $170 million contract extension that is set to kick in next season. A five-time NBA All-Star, Wall averaged 20.7 points, 8.7 assists and 3.6 rebounds in 32 games this season for the Wizards.\nPresident Donald Trump, last December announced he would be withdrawing some 2,000 American troops in Syria. Erdogan's comments Sunday are the first time he has confirmed direct low-level talks with Damascus.\nForeigners can not contribute money to inaugural committees , political campaigns, and PACs under USA federal law. Zuberi once registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent because of his lobbying work for Sri Lanka.\nHarper remains a free agent and is looking to command a lucrative, long-term deal that could reach $300 million over 10 years. As Heyman notes, it's getting late out there, and the Phillies still haven't gotten something done with Machado or Harper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 10289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hiswordsarepure.com/OnPsalm49p1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3DGLWTUSVPTTIRBFEC2I7EWMQOFOXUZY", "length": 4448, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "hiswordsarepure.com", "title": "On Psalm 49\u2014Part 1", "raw_content": "(Psa 49:1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:\n(Psa 49:2) Both low and high, rich and poor, together.\nThe phrase translated \"Both low and high\" literally means \"both sons of man and sons of man\", where the two words for \"man\" are different. The first word for \"man\" is \"adam\"; it can also be translated \"Adam\". This is the word used by God when he spoke about man at the beginning of Genesis. The second word is \"iysh\" and it is the word used by Adam when he spoke about himself in Gen 2:23. The word has also the meaning of \"male\" (Gen 7:2) and has also been used to describe heavenly beings when they appeared in the form of men (Eze 40:3, Gen 18:2). In various passages \"adam\" is typically used by God when speaking about men, while \"iysh\" is typically used by men when speaking about other men. Thus, \"adam\" seems to emphasize the meaning \"human\" and \"iysh\" the meaning \"man, person, individual\". It seems that the words \"adam\" and \"iysh\" are used together for emphasis. Some passages may use this emphasis in order to communicate that there are no exceptions, such as in Jer 49:18,33. Here, in Ps 49:2, the emphasis appears to be used in order to get the attention of the people (cf. Pr 8:4). People are called in several different ways: \"all people\" (Ps 49:1), \"inhabitants of the world\" (Ps 49:1), \"sons of adam\" (Ps 49:2), and \"sons of iysh\" (Ps 49:2). The fact that people are called in several different ways seems to emphasize that their attention is eagerly desired. \"Hear this all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world ... \".\n(Psa 49:3) My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.\n(Psa 49:4) I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.\nThe Hebrew word translated \"parable\" means also \"proverb\". It is interesting to notice that also in Greek the word for \"parable\" is not used exclusively for illustrations, but also for proverbs, as in Mk 7:17 and Lk 4:23. The word translated \"dark saying\" means \"riddle, difficult question\". It refers to the parable mentioned in the first part of the verse. The statement \"I will incline mine ear to a parable\" reminds us that the inspired speaker heard the parable and its interpretation from God. Further, \"I will open my dark saying ... \" is understood here as stating that the parable will be interpreted in the following verses. The parable (or proverb) could be associated with Ps 49:5 and its interpretation with the remaining verses of the psalm.\n(Psa 49:5) Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?\nIn Ps 49:5 \"my heels\" is a literal translation of the Hebrew word. The word is also translated \"my steps\" in Ps 56:6. The word for \"heel\" is given also other meanings in lexicons: \"rear of an army\" (as in Jos 8:13) and \"supplanter, overreacher\". Now, the phrase \"iniquity of my heels\" may remind us of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.\n(Joh 13:8) Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.\n(Joh 13:9) Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.\n(Joh 13:10) Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.\n(Joh 13:11) For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.\n(Eph 5:25) ... Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;\n(Eph 5:26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,\n(Eph 5:27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.\nAs stated in Ps 49:5, the believer has nothing to fear, even when he faces consequences of past sins. His end is glorious, though he faces troubles in this life.\n(Psa 49:15) But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.\nThe psalm contrasts the end of the believer with the end of those who do not trust the Lord. The end of unbelievers will be very sad, regardless of how much they have achieved on earth.\n(Psa 49:17) For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.\n(Psa 49:19) He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 4625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hkpinoytv.com/raising-youth-awareness-on-the-risks-of-drugs-and-alcohol-during-the-hong-kong-sevens-games/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BJUBUGIAZE6BUNZWEVVPTIYSSLL6XKIY", "length": 1094, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hkpinoytv.com", "title": "Raising youth awareness on the risks of drugs and alcohol during the Hong Kong Sevens games : HKPinoyTV News hkpinoytv, hong kong news, pinoy tv, philippines news, ofw", "raw_content": "Hong Kong-based non-governmental group KELY Support Group provides a positive environment for young people to interact and learn to support one another.\nEstablished in 1991, this is the fifth year that KELY has participated at the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens in partnership with the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU).\nKELY\u2019s programs fall under three categories: peer support, leadership development, and mentorship.\nAnd at the Hong Rugby Sevens, KELY raised awareness about alcohol and drugs, set up a face-painting booth, an electronic powered game as well as a shelter for any youth who might be experiencing some health difficulties during the three-day event.\nThroughout the year, KELY works with three major groups in the city: Chinese speaking youths from low socio economic backgrounds, non-Chinese speaking youth from various socio-economic backgrounds, and ethnic minority youths from low socio economic backgrounds.\n\u00ab Philippine Election 2016 Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) in Hong Kong Begins\n200 Pinoy sa Hong Kong na wala sa listahan ng mga rehistradong botante ay makaboboto na \u2013 COMELEC \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://holistichealthcyprus.net/?page_id=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MWB2RHN2EFX4HSYQZQL6Q3NMNGDQBVWG", "length": 801, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "holistichealthcyprus.net", "title": "About Stephanie", "raw_content": "Stephanie is a qualified health professional that practices Therapeutic Reflexology. She completed a two year training course at the International Academy of Reflexology and Meridian Therapy (IARAMT) in Johannesburg, South Africa.\nIARMT was established in South Africa by Inge Dougans who qualified as a reflexologist in Denmark. It is the first reflexology school to incorporate Chinese Meridian Theories and Philosophies, thereby uniting Western and Eastern insight into Meridians and the Five Elements. IARAMT has a high reputation worldwide for its unique approach to Reflexology.\nwww.reflexologycourse.co.za\nIn 2010 Stephanie relocated to Cyprus and motivated by the positive experiences she experienced when practicing Reflexology in South Africa, she decided to open her own practice in Cyprus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hosted.amourangels.com/slimteenoutdoorhdv/4076/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ASZ5KM3LBZARTOBWWEKN6LR3SI2X436R", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hosted.amourangels.com", "title": "Big Tits Teen Girls - Russian Teen Virgins, Teen Nude", "raw_content": "ADVENTURESS V...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://housebloodthorn.blogspot.com/2011/11/dark-garden.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:58Z", "digest": "sha1:R7VSOU3DGFVGQ5GQLA572YCR7RVCVFOH", "length": 825, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "housebloodthorn.blogspot.com", "title": "House Bloodthorn: The Dark Garden", "raw_content": "That looks great. I am jealous that you got video. I tried and tried, but none ever came out right. I can't wait to see what you got.\nHaunted Eve November 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM\nAbsolutely gorgeous shot. Lighting looks perfect! We've never had any luck with \"ground foggers\" and never built a chiller. We only had one year, Halloween 2003, where the natural drop in temperature that night created ground hugging fog with our fog machine.\nThe October boy November 1, 2011 at 3:55 PM\nReally beautiful. Also looking forward to the video.\nhighbury November 1, 2011 at 6:35 PM\nThat photo is unbelievable! Amazing color and setup. Can't wait to see the video.\nMarrow November 1, 2011 at 8:14 PM\nCannot wait to see more amazing pics and video!\nwicKED November 2, 2011 at 6:51 AM\nAmazing! That is a perfect photo! Can't wait to see more!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hpschools.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=107186&pageId=155522", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FU5ULG5LT7YBDYK4LFMTCBCZ52X4BDRY", "length": 5193, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "hpschools.net", "title": "Services - Highland Park School District", "raw_content": "Highland Park School District \u00bb Schools \u00bb Community Teen Center \u00bb Services\nTeen Center Services\nThere are many challenges confronting today's teens. Teens who can find adults they can trust in and confide in, whether at home, school or elsewhere, have a much better chance of navigating these challenges safely.\nOur counselors work with each student to develop personalized goals, positive coping skills and greater self-awareness. Parents area welcome part of the counseling process. Parental permission is the first step, and is required for participation. Additional involvement can occur through telephone contacts, parent meetings and/or family meetings. There is no cost for any of our counseling services.\nCounseling services are provided in a variety of formats:\nIndividual - One on one counseling provides a safe setting for young people to sort out difficult feelings and situations in their lives\nGroup - A good group experience can provide a stronger and more meaningful connection with peers. Our groups cover the following topics:\nSocial skills and peer relations\nFamily Counseling and Parent Support - Parents often benefit from a chance to talk through the challenges of parenting in parent support meetings. In addition, family meetings can help to establish more effective communication between parents and children.\nPlease contact Dr. Scott Roth, Supervising Clinical Psychologist for more information (732) 572-2400, Ext. 3021\nThe Health Educator in the Community Teen Center serves as a health resource for students and families in Highland Park. Services provided by the Health Educator include individual and group health education, the TRUST Program, and other health-related activities.\nIndividual health education. The Health Educator is available to counsel students on personal health issues and to help students identify and access needed services in the community, such as medical services, referrals and information.\nGroup health education. The Health Educator provides health education to classes and groups of students about a wide variety of topics such as alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, reproductive health, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, nutrition and many more. The Health Educator also links health professionals in the community with teachers in need of guest speakers for specific topics.\nThe TRUST Program. TRUST, which stands for Teaching, Respecting, Understanding, and Supporting Teens, is a program designed to teach students about reproductive health, relationships, and good decision making. This 8 week program includes the use of \"Real Care Babies\" (infant simulators) to help students understand how difficult parenting can be and to help them decide to delay parenting until adulthood.\nFor more information on any of the health services provided by the Community Teen Center, call the Health Educator at (732) 572-2400, ext. 3025\nSubstance Awareness Services\nThe purpose of the substance awareness program at the Middle and High School is to provide information, referrals and programs related to the prevention and treatment of substance abuse programs. Besides offering direct consultation and counseling to students, parents and staff, the coordinator has developed and implemented important prevention programs. These include:\nThe Lindsey Meyer Teen Institute (formerly TIGS). Through the generous support of an alumnus of HPHS, a group of high school students attend an intensive 5 day program and return to promote healthy choices and lifestyles in their peers.\nEvery Fifteen Minutes. This powerful program targets juniors and seniors as prom and graduation approach. A simulated car accident shows students the impact of driving under the influence, and a memorial service later the same day drives the message home even further.\nProject Graduation. Each year, through the fundraising efforts of a group of parents, graduating seniors are brought to an all-night event. In recent years, the seniors have taken a cruise in New York Harbor. This event keeps seniors away from dangerous drinking and driving situations following graduation parties, etc.\nFor more information on any of the Substance Awareness Services, you can call (732) 572-2400, Ext. 3026\nThe Teen Center sees great leadership potential in many Middle and High school students. We provide many structured leadership opportunities, such as:\nBest Foot Forward: a program for middle school girls to discuss issues important to them and do fun activities.\nSafety Ambassadors: a new program sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson to train juniors and seniors about safety topics which they will then teach to students in 1st and 2nd grade.\nThe Lindsey Meyer Teen Institute (TI): a leadership program for high school students who are committed to being drug and alcohol free.\nTRUST: an eight week program for high school students to discuss love, life and relationships and to \u201cexperience\u201d parenting for a weekend.\nPeer to Peer: a leadership program for 8th grade students who teach their younger peers about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.\nSAGA: our \u201cstraight and gay alliance\u201d meets weekly for students to discuss various topics in a safe space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 11663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/hslfeature/physician-assistants-collaboration-and-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EBUK6IHAORSF4LVN3G36OLYKUZEVNHTT", "length": 1318, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "hsl.lib.unc.edu", "title": "Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care - Health Sciences Library - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill", "raw_content": "Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care\nThe Health Sciences Library is pleased to present the National Library of Medicine\u2019s traveling exhibition, Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care. You can check out this informative exhibit on the 2nd floor of the Health Sciences Library, August 28 through October 6, 2017. An additional display about Physician Assistants history is located across from the staircase on the 1st floor. The Health Sciences Library prepared this complementary exhibit.\nPhysician Assistants are partners in health care who collaborate with other medical professionals and patients to provide outstanding medical care. Commonly known as PAs, they practice medicine as part of a team, licensed to diagnose, treat, and care for patients under a physician\u2019s supervision.\nCollaboration has been the foundation of the profession since the first graduates from the initial PA program at Duke University in 1967. Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care explores the profession from its early beginnings to the present day, documenting its diversity, collaborative nature, and contributions to the field of medicine and patient care.\nThis exhibition was produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health in partnership with the Physician Assistant History Society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hsusc.org/index.php/get-involved", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6B2C7POKFZZ6S5CNDITC4S6GRBUWRDV6", "length": 166, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hsusc.org", "title": "Get Involved", "raw_content": "There are many ways that you can get involved with the Historical Society of Upper St. Clair. 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According to this Reason magazine article, at least one U.S. government agency is going after deceased person's kids to collect debts they claim the deceased owed the government. It seems they're hard pressed to even probe the debt existed.\nNot good, especially if the tendency for government policies to expand not just in practice, but in scope, continues.\nAt 4:48 PM, A Guy said...\nThat's weird. Since when am I responsible for my parents' debt? And even if they're going after their estate, (1) isn't there a clock that runs on opening probate to keep people from coming back years and years later to make a claim against the estate, and more importantly, (2) maybe I didn't receive anything from the estate anyway since it may have been used up to pay other bills or just 'cause they disinherited me. If I owe you money, let's talk; if my parents owe you money, go talk to them.\nYou can inherit money, why not debt too? I have been wanring my patents for years that they had better get their debt in order or my inheritance will be a negative number, not a positive sum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hyperactivz.com/importance-post-workout-nutrition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DA2EWVQQTH5FDOIQZ2NPYBNCH6KERGDM", "length": 3470, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hyperactivz.com", "title": "The Importance of Post-Workout Nutrition", "raw_content": "The Importance of Post-Workout Nutrition\nBy Lee Jordan, Jan 30, 2018\nPost-workout nutrition and nutrition as a whole are very important for our health. Simply put, nutrition boils down to two things. Nutrition is about what we need to put in our bodies and how much of these things we need for our bodies to function. For those of us who intend to improve our physical condition and increase our physical attractiveness, this is especially important.\nIn fact, proper diet is more important than exercise. A poor diet can invalidate your hard work in the gym. This applies if you are trying to bulk up, lose weight, or even condition your body for certain sports or activities. After a workout, there are two things that our bodies need more than anything else. These two things are carbohydrates and protein.\nDuring a workout, we expend glycogen. Glycogen is a sugar stored in our muscles. This sugar is more or less an energy source for us. Consuming the proper amount of carbohydrates allows our glycogen to replenish for later uses. Many bread based foods are high in carbohydrates. In addition, pasta is also high in carbohydrates. However, there are alternatives that are more healthy if you do not wish to go down either route.\nSweet potatoes contain carbohydrates as well as beta carotene, which is essential for eye and skin health. Legumes, such as lentils and peas, have complex carbohydrates which are more likely to satisfy your hunger. Certain fruits, especially if dried, are high in carbohydrates. This is not an exhaustive list of healthy sources of carbohydrates. With this knowledge in mind, there are a significant number of options that are available for you to obtain the right amount of carbohydrates after a workout.\nOf course, the consumption of carbohydrates is only one part of a complete post-workout meal. Putting the proper amount of proteins in your body is just as important. The purpose of protein is to restore the structural integrity of the muscles following a workout. How much protein you need is dependent on your body and how much energy you use during your workout.\nPeanut butter, eggs, and various forms of meat are high in protein and can do much to satisfy your protein requirements. Broccoli and legumes are an alternative source of protein for vegans and vegetarians. Again, the protein sources mentioned here are not an exhaustive list. As one could probably gather, it is best to eat both carbohydrates and proteins in order to maximize the effects of a post-workout meal.\nIn many cases, only eating the usual three meals a day is not sufficient for various fitness goals. Researchers reference the \u201canabolic window\u201d in which there is a limited amount of time for an athlete to take in nutrients for maximum results. There are others who claim that this \u201canabolic window\u201d does not exist due to the lack of definitive evidence. Either way, it is necessary to properly space out several meals throughout the course of the day.\nIn conclusion, taking in the proper amount of proteins and carbohydrates is crucial for obtaining the best results possible from a workout. It is also necessary to consume the needed amount depending on the characteristics of your body and how much you expend during your workout. There are several ways to get protein and carbohydrates; it is all about what you prefer and what you can eat. 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This has the effect of lowering yields on bonds and creating cheaper borrowing for banks. This, in turn, boosts banks' capacity to lend to individuals and businesses. An expansionary monetary policy also risks ramping up inflation.\nIn July 2013, the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Adam Posen, wrote that despite unjustified claims, quantitative easing and other forms of expansionary monetary policy, as pursued by Japan, did not constitute currency manipulation. Instead the policy had been pursued with purely domestic aims.\nThe decisions a monetary authority makes to manage the money supply. The tools at its disposal include modifying benchmark interest rates (such as the Fed funds target and the discount rate in the US), conducting money market operations (which influence short-term interest rates), and changing banks' reserve requirements. 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Pools, Hot Tubs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 5746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 116.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://idahoops.com/2018_19/ScoreAndSched.php?SchoolToSort=none&ClassToSort=both", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y53WVSLNBRMZXT33BGNRTMEH6SATYFF", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "idahoops.com", "title": "Idahoops", "raw_content": "4A and 5A Scores and Schedules", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 635, "original_length": 21670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://imaging.onlinejacc.org/metrics/18529", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LWJWJKUIMTLQJHGA6E7W6K2UNK5WJHKP", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "imaging.onlinejacc.org", "title": "Highwire Metrics | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging", "raw_content": "Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S1936-878X(18)30325-5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indiatogether.org/nkcresign-opinions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4KPYKD7VECYEZKD5HDCUUFMYJ4RELJ3V", "length": 15201, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "indiatogether.org", "title": "India Together: Reservations and the 'politics of illusion' - 24 May 2006", "raw_content": "OPINIONS / OPINION: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION\nReservations and the 'politics of illusion'\nAre quotas the way to redress inequities? A majority of the members of the National Knowledge Commission did not agree, but the UPA government is pressing ahead with its focus on quotas. Two of the NKC's members, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Andre Beteille, have resigned from the commission.\nPratap Bhanu Mehta's letter of resignation from the National Knowledge Commission:\nRead Andre Beteille's letter\nI write to resign as Member-Convener of the National Knowledge Commission. I believe the Commission's mandate is extremely important, and I am deeply grateful that you gave me the opportunity to serve on it. But many of the recent announcements made by your government with respect to higher education lead me to the conclusion that my continuation on the commission will serve no useful purpose.\nThe Knowledge Commission was given an ambitious mandate to strengthen India's knowledge potential at all levels. We had agreed that if all sections of Indian society were to participate in and make use of the knowledge economy, we would need a radical paradigm shift in the way we thought of the production, dissemination and use of knowledge. In some ways this paradigm shift would have to be at least as radical as the economic reforms you helped usher in more than a decade ago. The sense of intellectual excitement that the commission generated stemmed from the fact that it represented an opportunity to think boldly, honestly and with an eye to posterity.\nBut the government's recent decision (announced by Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development on the floor of Parliament) to extend quotas for OBCs in central institutions, the palliative measures the government is contemplating to defuse the resulting agitation, and the process employed to arrive at these measures are steps in the wrong direction. They violate four cardinal principles that institutions in a knowledge based society will have to follow: they are not based on assessment of effectiveness, they are incompatible with the freedom and diversity of institutions, they more thoroughly politicise the education process, and they inject an insidious poison that will harm the nation's long-term interest.\nThese measures will not achieve social justice. I am as committed as anyone to two propositions. Every student must be enabled to realise his/her full potential regardless of financial or social circumstances. Achieving this aim requires radical forms of affirmative action. But the numerically mandated quotas your government is proposing are deeply disappointing, for the following reasons.\nNumerically mandated quotas foreclose any possibility of more intelligent targeting.\nThe historical claims of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the nature of the deprivations they face are qualitatively of a different order than those faced by Other Backward Castes, at least in North India.\n- Pratap Bhanu Mehta\n\u0095 The merit of reservations\n\u0095 Classy cast of mind\n\u0095 Junior doctors on strike\nFirst, these measures foreclose any possibility of more intelligent targeting that any sensible programme should require. For one thing, the historical claims of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the nature of the deprivations they face are qualitatively of a different order than those faced by Other Backward Castes, at least in North India. It is plainly disingenuous to lump them together in the same narrative of social injustice and assume that the same instruments should apply to both. It is for this reason that I advocated status quo for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes until such time as better and more effective measures can be found to achieve affirmative action for them.\nSome have proposed the inclusion of economic criterion: this is something of an improvement, but does not go far enough. What we needed, Honourable Prime Minister, was space to design more effective mechanisms of targeting groups that need to be targeted for affirmative action. For instance, there are a couple of well-designed deprivation indexes that do a much better job of targeting the relevant social deprivations and picking out merit. The government's action is disappointing, because you have prematurely foreclosed these possibilities. In foreclosing these possibilities the government has revealed that it cares about tokenism more than social justice. It has sent the signal that there is no room for thinking about social justice in a new paradigm.\nAs a society we focus on reservations largely because it is a way of avoiding doing the things that really create access. Increasing the supply of good quality institutions at all levels (not to be confused with numerical increases), more robust scholarship and support programmes will go much further than numerically mandated quotas. When you assumed office, you had sketched out a vision of combining economic reform with social justice. Increased public investment is going to be central to creating access opportunities. It would be presumptuous for me to suggest where this increased public investment is going to come from, but there are ample possibilities: for instance, earmarking proceeds from genuine disinvestment for education will do far more for access than quotas. We are not doing enough to genuinely empower marginalised groups, but are offering condescending palliatives like quotas as substitute. All the measures currently under discussion are to defuse the agitation, not to lay the foundations for a vibrant education system. If I may borrow a phrase of Tom Paine's, we pity the plumage, but forget the dying bird.\nSecond, the measures your government is contemplating violate the diversity principle. Why should all institutions in a country the size of India adopt the same admissions quotas? Is there no room at all for different institutions experimenting with different kinds of affirmative action policies that are most appropriate for their pedagogical mission? How will institutions feel empowered? How will creativity in social justice programmes be fostered, if we continue with a \u0093one size fits all\u0094 approach? Could it not be that some state institutions follow numerically mandated quotas, while others are left free to devise their own programmes? The government's announcement is deeply disappointing because it reinforces the cardinal weakness of the Indian system: all institutions have to be reduced to the same level.\nThird, and related to diversity, is the question of freedom. As an academic I find it to be an appalling spectacle when a group of ministers is empowered to come up with admissions policies, seat formulas for institutions across the country. While institutions have responsibilities and are accountable to society, how will they ever achieve excellence and autonomy if basic decisions like who they should teach, what they should teach, how much they should charge are uniformly mandated by government diktat? As you know, more than anyone else, the bane of our education institutions is that politicians feel free to hoist any purpose they wish upon them: their favourite ideology, their preferred conception of social justice, their idea of representativeness, or their own men and women. Everything else germane to a healthy academic life and effective pedagogy becomes subordinate to these purposes. Concerned academics risked a good deal, battling the previous government's instrumental use of educational institutions for ideological purposes. Though your objectives are different, your government is sending a similar message about our institutions: in the final analysis, they are playthings for politicians to mess around with. Nations are not built by specific programmes, they are built by healthy institutions, and the process by which your government is arriving at its decisions suggests contempt for the autonomy and integrity of academic life. Your government has reinforced the very paradigm of the state's relations with educational institutions that has weakened us.\nIn this process, the arguments that have been coming from your government are plainly disingenuous. It is true that a constitutional amendment was hastily passed to overturn the effects of the Inamdar decision. At the time I had written that the decision was property rights decision that was trying to unshackle private institutions from an overbearing state. But since the state had already displaced its responsibilities to the private sector it decided that the ramifications of Inamdar would be too onerous and passed a constitutional amendment. One can quibble over whether this amendment was justified or not. But even in its present form it is only an enabling legislation. It does not require that every public institution has numerically mandated quotas for OBCs. To hear your government consistently hiding behind the pretext of the constitutional amendment is yet another example of how we are foreclosing the fine distinctions that any rigorous approach to access and excellence requires.\nFinally, I believe that the proposed measures will harm the nation's vital interests. It is often said that caste is a reality in India. I could not agree more. But your government is in the process of making caste the only reality in India. Instead of finding imaginative solutions to allow us to transcend our own despicable history of inequity, your government is ensuring that we remain entrapped in the caste paradigm. Except that now by talking of OBCs and SC/STs in the same narrative we are licensing new forms of inequity and arbitrariness.\nThe Knowledge Economy of the twenty-first century will require participation of all sections of society. When we deprive any single child, of any caste, of relevant opportunities, we mutilate ourselves as a society and diminish our own possibilities. But, as you understand more than most, globalisation requires us to think of old objectives in new paradigms: the market and competition for talent is global, institutions need to be more agile and nimble, and there has to be creativity and diversity of institutional forms if a society is to position itself to take advantage the Knowledge Economy. I believe that the measures your government is proposing will inhibit achieving both social justice and economic well-being.\nI write this letter with a great deal of regret. In my colleagues on the Knowledge Commission you will find a group that is unrivalled in its dedication, commitment and creativity, and I hope you will back them in full measure so that they can accomplish their mission in other areas. I assure you that the commission's functioning will suffer no logistical harm on account of my departure.\nI recognise that in a democracy one has to respectfully accede to the decisions of elected representatives. But I also believe that democracies are ill-served if individuals do not frankly and publicly point out the perils that certain decisions may pose for posterity. I owe it to public reason to make my reasons for resigning public. I may be wrong in my judgment about the consequences of your government's decisions, but at this juncture I cannot help concluding that what your government is proposing poses grave dangers for India as a nation. On this occasion I cannot help thinking about the anxieties of a man who knew a thing or two about constitutional values, who was more rooted in politics than any of us can hope to be, and who understood the distinction between statesmanship and mere politics: Jawaharlal Nehru. He wrote, \"So these external props, as I may call them, the reservations of seats and the rest, may possibly be helpful occasionally, but they produce a false sense of political relation, a false sense of strength, and, ultimately therefore, they are not so nearly important as real educational, cultural and economic advance which gives them inner strength to face any difficulty or opponent.\" Since your government continues to abet a politics of illusion, I cannot serve any useful purpose by continuing on the Knowledge Commission under such circumstances.\nWith warmest personal regards.\nAndre Beteille's letter of resignation from the National Knowledge Commission:\nI write this to submit my resignation as member of the National Knowledge Commission. I had hoped that I could contribute something to the design of new centres of science and scholarship that would enable us to maintain and advance our competitive advantage in the sphere of knowledge, but the government's decision to proceed with the expansion of caste quotas makes that objective appear unrealistic. We can either move forward and create centres of academic excellence or go along with the demands of identity politics based on caste and community, but we cannot do both.\nThere has been a deliberate and cynical misrepresentation of provisions in the Constitution.\nThe government may make policies to extend caste quotas, but it is not required by the Constitution to do so.\n- Andre Beteille\nThere has been a deliberate and, to my mind, cynical misrepresentation of the recent provisions in the Constitution. They are enabling provisions and not mandatory ones as they are being made out to be. To be sure, the government may make policies to extend caste quotas, but it is not required by the Constitution to do so. Such policies would be within the law but they would be unwise. Not everything that is lawful is wise or even prudent.\nI have been dismayed to find that questions have been raised in the press and on television as to whether the members of the commission know anything about the Constitution and the laws. I have written precisely on these subjects in the popular press and in scholarly journals for the last 20 to 25 years, and I may add that some of these writings have been quoted by the Supreme Court in its judgment on the Mandal case. These aspersions on the competence and capability of the commission have been received in silence by your office. Such intemperate remarks should not have been made about a commission set up by the Prime Minister himself.\nI do not wish to muddy the waters further, but simply to resign. I had written to you on 11 May to suggest that I might meet you once before taking a final decision. But the events of the last eight to ten days have made me firm in my resolve to resign and to do so without any further delay.\nIn submitting my resignation, I reiterate my strong commitment to the principle of social inclusion in all academic institutions.\nI am taking the liberty, in the general interest, of making the contents of this letter public.\nDr Andr\u00e9 B\u00e9teille is Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the University of Delhi. He is known world-wide for his contribution to the comparative study of social inequality. He has lectured in many universities and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.\nDr Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He was previously Professor of Government at Harvard University and Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 19110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indirdivx.com/konu-cukur-5-bolum-360p-web-dl-tek-link.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XVEB2C4IRLKPSH6CJX3JR6JKK2555PCP", "length": 72, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "indirdivx.com", "title": "\u00c7ukur | 5.B\u00f6l\u00fcm | 360p | Web-DL | Tek Link", "raw_content": "http://uploaded.net/file/sjm9z06n\nhttps://turbobit.net/djvg2y5t6izc.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ingrammicroadvisor.blog/2018/05/soaring-with-cloud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EEW7GRIFVY3GGIRLSXJSULTH33GTRJSW", "length": 4116, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ingrammicroadvisor.blog", "title": "Soaring with Cloud | Ingram Micro Advisor META", "raw_content": "Chris Burnet\nChris Burnet, Cloud Services and Software Solutions Manager, MEA, NetApp, shares insights into how partners can grow with cloud solutions.\nThe success of digitization drive largely depends on maximizing the value of data. Enterprises need cloud data solutions that deliver improved application performance with uninterrupted data availability cut down time to market. Meaningful analytics is the key differentiator for smarter decision making and organizations must learn to leverage available data for strategic future planning.\nNetApp assists organizations in moving on-premises applications that depend on files services to hybrid cloud and cloud-only models, collaborating with top hyperscale cloud providers to pioneer the delivery of enterprise Network File System (NFS) services in the cloud. The new services that were initially available through Microsoft Azure and the AWS Marketplace offer high levels of performance and availability to speed enterprise applications including analytics, DevOps, backup, and disaster recovery. NetApp also provides a Data Fabric to optimize the value of data in the cloud, whether customers run an on-premises IT environment that\u2019s poised for cloud capabilities or are already using hybrid or public cloud infrastructures.\nThe capability to rely on tools, processes and solutions that are robust and keep pace with technology advancements is becoming more important than ever. Cloud solutions of the future will support an organization\u2019s business performance and therefore use of service providers that provide a broad range of critical solutions will offer businesses predictability in terms of both performance and cost.\nThe role of channel partners in ensuring the scalability and future-readiness of the storage solution, thereby allowing easy management for customers, is getting bigger as customer data is growing every day, presenting new challenges. Organizations continue to place more workloads in the cloud as cloud technologies continue to rapidly advance. Since it is difficult for organizations to keep up with these advancements, the need for expertise is also growing. These challenges can be managed through additional training of IT and development staff and channel partners must assist end users in managing the stored data by working on different application layers.\nVendors and distributors should focus on delivering training programs for continuous knowledge and skills improvement in the evolving market landscape. Partner firms are even adopting mandatory training requirements as part of their employee bonus programs. Partners and customers have their own cloud agendas, though sometimes restricted by factors such as skills, regulations, networks and even the types of applications they run. Cloud deployments are capable of increasing security through the use of best practices in the providers\u2019 data centre and improves data security via better backup and archive procedures.\nBig gains will be made both in productivity and simplicity through automation and it can drive digital transformation by allowing customer to use data in unprecedented ways. Combined with efficient data movement, this allows thousands of services to manipulate and process data focusing on IT, adding value to the business. It is safe to say cloud is just getting started and is here to stay. Over 50 billion devices are expected to be connected to the network by 2020, all of which will be creating and using data, how that data is used, processed and monetised with be crucial to business success.\nNewer technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) will become much more intelligent and will influence our lives in significant ways. These technologies will become so widespread and will become usable by common people to club an entire series of cloud services together to form new business outcomes.\nContact Ingram Micro NetApp Team\nIf you would like to learn more, or have questions and wish to speak with a Ingram Micro NetApp representative, please take a moment to complete our form and we will contact you shortly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://injurylawyers.jouwweb.nl/injury-lawyers-maine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5DIHVUBHUBSYTILFDFCN7PR64IEW7DR5", "length": 167, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "injurylawyers.jouwweb.nl", "title": "Injury Lawyers Maine | injurylawyers.jouwweb.nl", "raw_content": "Injury Lawyers \u00bb Injury Lawyers Maine\nhttp://www.peter-thompson-associates.com/\nFales & Fales, P.A.\nhttps://www.faleslaw.com/\nMoncure & Barnicle\nhttp://www.mb-law.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 157.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inlandivers.com/category/landscape/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:3H34FB5LMNO76LRZPCWMTJBLZSTXVXXZ", "length": 2328, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "inlandivers.com", "title": "Landscape Archives - Inland Ivers", "raw_content": "All posts in \"Landscape\"\nWhen you have trees on your backyard that needs to get cut, you must call on professionals. There are some people who would rather do this on their own. Tree contractors would charge you a reasonable amount for the service. Don\u2019t regret paying for the service and opt to DIY just so you can save [\u2026]\nWe are responsible as humans to take care of the environment. One of the best ways to show our care is by preserving trees. As much as possible, we try to avoid cutting them down. However, there are times when tree removal is necessary. For instance, you can\u2019t simply leave a decaying or dead tree [\u2026]\nStumps left behind by trees that were cut down can be quite an unattractive sight in an otherwise clean and beautiful garden. While there are some property owners who choose to leave these stumps be, others recognize the importance of stump removal. These stumps block the way when you clean around your property or as [\u2026]\nThese days, nothing ever goes cheap. Every little thing you need to do around the household requires money. When you\u2019re on a tight budget, it is pretty much understandable if you have to prioritize some over others. For instance, you will most likely make sure your home\u2019s interiors are better well-kept and maintained compared to [\u2026]\nDense planting is always useful for lessening weed growth, but another strategy is often required. Organic weed killers are not generally comprised of unsafe chemicals. They are considered eco-friendly, as well as safe for home landscape use. If you use organic weed killers, then you don\u2019t have to worry about endangering plants, pets, and people. [\u2026]\nPreparing Crops for a Healthy Harvest\nThe crop cultivation process needs a great deal of diligent work, patience, as well as the knowledge about the crops. And crops can mean major planting on a farm, or a garden bed for your home. This covers all the basics for each kind. All the guidelines are different when it comes to crop cultivation, [\u2026]\nTree service specialist are experts who skillfully and appropriately care for trees. The need for this particular service comes when dying or dead trees becomes a threat. Property owners who have many trees on their land also need tree service specialists. Choosing a tree service specialist is not difficult. In fact, selecting any type of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://insightfulquotient.com/kenya-can-nairobis-inefficiency-in-business-service-delivery-be-an-opportunity-worth-exploiting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:TJAMIVWGBXZX7XXGLS5H3K76OMBJYHRQ", "length": 9085, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "insightfulquotient.com", "title": "Kenya: Can Nairobi\u2019s inefficiency in business service delivery be an opportunity worth exploiting? | Insightful Quotient", "raw_content": "Kenya: Can Nairobi\u2019s inefficiency in business service delivery be an opportunity worth exploiting?\nWritten by Aim\u00e9 Sindayigaya and edited by Jules Niyibizi.\nNairobi, the capital city of Kenya, has a lot of potential to become Africa\u2019s next major business hub. Yet inefficiency in service delivery of the businesses operating in Nairobi remains a challenge. Nevertheless, tackling such inefficiency could be an entrepreneurial opportunity that can be extended to other African cities facing similar challenges.\nA vibrant economic city with lots of potential\nFrom Jomo Kenyatta Airport, the largest aviation facility and busiest airport in Eastern Africa, and throughout Nairobi city centre an increasing number of billboards advertising different household products and services can be noticed. In theory, this could imply that the inhabitants of Nairobi have a high purchasing power. This is indisputable since a recent report issued by the African Development Bank places Kenya among African countries with a significantly fast growing middle class [1], the majority of which is certainly residing in Nairobi. Such a growing middle class is partly underpinned by the fact that Nairobi hosts many Kenyan companies and regional headquarters of foreign firms including General Electric, Young & Rubicam, Google, Cisco Systems, Airtel, and others. Several other foreign companies known worldwide such as General Motors, Coca Cola, Toyota Motors, Goodyear have also been pulled towards Nairobi.\nThe diverse community of people found in Nairobi is another factor making the city\u2019s economy vibrant. In addition to established communities from India, Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia, Nairobi attracts a significant number of western and Chinese nationals. It is asserted that this diverse people rush to Nairobi to enjoy the safari\u2019s attractions available in the city and in other parts of Kenya. However, there is more in Nairobi today, Western and Chinese nationals come into town for business purposes as well.\nWhat\u2019s more, Nairobi has managed to keep a certain edge compared to other cities in Africa due to its strategic location. Most of the world\u2019s states have embassies and high commissions in Nairobi. The main headquarters for the United Nations in Africa and Middle East and the International Finance Corporation division of the World Bank Group are based in Nairobi. This makes Nairobi a city in which flourishing business deals could be accomplished. With that backdrop, Nairobi alone contributes over 45% of Kenya\u2019s GDP [2] and it has recently been ranked 6th out of 19 Sub \u2013 Saharan African cities that have the highest growth potential by a survey carried out by MasterCard [3].\nThe challenge: Inefficiency\nDespite the aforementioned and other unmentioned economic advantages and opportunities that Nairobi has and could offer, inefficiency remains an obstacle for the city.\nIn 2011, the International Business Machine Corporation, (IBM) through its Smart cities initiative organised a round table discussion on how Nairobi could turn into an efficient city, gathering Kenyan government, private sector, civil society and experts from the World Bank and the UN- Habitat [4]. The discussion concluded that for Nairobi to become Africa\u2019s major business hub, inefficiency in transportation, utilities, energy, security, safety and urban planning must be tackled. However, there is another evident inefficiency in the many businesses acting as first point of contact to the diverse consumers of the city that is not addressed and that in my view needs to be dealt with as well. This is inefficiency in customer service delivery.\nLast year for instance, when I travelled to Kenya, I had to wait for roughly one hour to collect my luggage at Jomo Kenyatta airport upon my arrival in Nairobi. There were no announcements made and no desk(s) available to make a claim. When I came to collect my luggage the screen was showing Kilimanjaro while I was flown from Amsterdam! Such inefficiency service delivery at the first point of entry into Nairobi ought to be tackled for the city to become a hub for Business.\nAs I was being driven to my hotel the taxi driver stopped at a petrol station to refill the car. Despite the prompt service received at the station to refill the car we waited for a significant time to exit the station. This was due to the fact that the car in front could not move since its driver was waiting for his balance. In a city with many cars and crammed roads such small incidents can easily create traffic congestion which is said to cost Nairobi about $500,000 a day [5].\nOnce I had finally arrived and settled in my hotel room, my colleagues and I decided to walk around the city and ended up in a bar at the village Market. This is East Africa\u2019s largest Shopping Recreation and Entertainment destination [6]. There again, my colleagues and I were frustratingly waiting to be served though the bar wasn\u2019t busy at the time. When our order finally arrived, it was not complete. The bill took even longer to arrive than the order! Customer service is a real worry.\nA list of examples illustrating customer service inefficiency in businesses operating in Nairobi can be endless. I wonder what retributions such inefficiency has on Nairobi\u2019s vision to be recognized as one of the most attractive cities of the world [7]. If Nairobi is to become an Africa business hub and maximise its growth potential, inefficiency in customer service delivery of businesses operating in the city has to be taken into consideration and tackled decisively.\nTackling the inefficiency\nEnterprises are the engine of growth. They create job and generate revenue. In this sense, it is the responsibility of policy makers to ensure that entrepreneurs have funding to start their businesses and are operating within a convenient environment. This must be promoted with efficient transport, sufficient energy, security etc, as the IBM round table discussions suggested. However, it is also vital that once businesses have been established and are operating, they are supported downstream by improved service delivery so that they constantly contribute towards growing a city or a nation\u2019s economy.\nPolicy makers at the Nairobi city council will have to tackle inefficiency by supporting initiatives that work directly with the affected businesses in the city. If service delivery of businesses in Nairobi were improved, these businesses would be able to exploit to the fullest the economic opportunities that the city has to offer. The consumption of Nairobi\u2019s growing middle class will be retained and the city could attract many more consumers of Eastern Africa and possibly of other African regions too. Subsequently, this could in turn become one of the selling point for Nairobi to finally position itself as the African hub for business and also maximise its growth potential.\nArguably, most businesses in developed countries cities are efficient in terms of service delivery and customer care. These businesses have gradually achieved some sort of efficiency in service delivery by providing regular informal customer service training to its employees and developing service delivery techniques that are adapted to their customers\u2019 changing demographic and taste. Similar trainings tailored according to the local culture and discernment of Nairobi\u2019s social and economic environment could be applied towards promoting better service delivery within the businesses operating in the city. At the same time, businesses operating in Nairobi have to be supported towards innovating resourceful homegrown techniques that could be used to serve efficiently local consumers that also match with their needs.\nInefficiency in service delivery is evident and systemic in businesses established in many cities of Africa and it has yet to be decisively tackled. Moreover, Africa has a fast growing middle class, the majority of which lives in urban area of Africa that will become more sophisticated and specific in terms of how they would like to be catered. Therefore, it is feasible that from tackling inefficiency in the service delivery of businesses operating in a great city such as Nairobi, the model could be extended to other businesses operating in many cities of Africa. There is no doubt, working throughout improving the service delivery of businesses operating in African cities could present a commercial opportunity.\n[1] http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications\n[2] http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=4219&catid=206&typeid=13\n[3] http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/mastercard-study-reveals-african-cities-economic-growth-potential/\n[4] < a href=\u201dhttp://www-05.ibm.com/za/office/pdf/IBM_-_A_Vision_of_a_Smarter_City_-_Nairobi.pdf\u201d>http://www-05.ibm.com/za/office/pdf/IBM_-_A_Vision_of_a_Smarter_City_-_Nairobi.pdf\n[5] http://citizenibm.com/2012/08/laying-the-foundation-for-nairobi%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%93-and-kenya%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%93-economic-growth.html\n[6] http://www.villagemarket-kenya.com/about.php?id=19\n[7] http://www.nairobicity.go.ke/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 11486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investor.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71595&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1699212", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KKZD7FSWHXBK3MOW3F5AERRQFOSOUOHI", "length": 504, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "investor.bankofamerica.com", "title": "Bank of America | Investor Relations | Financial Releases", "raw_content": "Bank of America to Present at the Sanford C. Bernstein 28th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference\nCHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 23, 2012-- Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan will present at the Sanford C. Bernstein 28th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. A live audio webcast of the presentation will be accessible through the Bank of America Investor Relations Web site at http://investor.bankofamerica.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investor.osiris.com/news-releases/news-release-details/osiris-appoints-willi-miesch-its-board-directors-change-ceo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CAFMUDBGL433YHRI5MPBFZTRKFIZTFSR", "length": 1680, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "investor.osiris.com", "title": "Osiris Appoints Willi Miesch to its Board of Directors, Change in CEO | Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.", "raw_content": "Osiris Appoints Willi Miesch to its Board of Directors, Change in CEO\nCOLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:OSIR) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors, at a Board Meeting on February 6th, 2018, appointed Mr. Willi Miesch as a Director, upon recommendation of the Nominating Committee. Mr. Miesch joins Osiris (the Company) as an independent Board Member and will stand for election at the Company\u2019s 2018 Stockholders Meeting.\n\u201cWe are pleased to have Mr. Miesch join Osiris at this important time,\u201d said Peter Friedli, Chairman of the Board. \u201cWilli is an expert in the development and marketing of medical devices, and has extensive entrepreneurial experience in building and developing successful healthcare companies.\u201d\nMr. Miesch has more than 20 years of Chief Executive Officer experience with a track record of achievement in operations, manufacturing and marketing medical technology. Mr. Miesch serves as Chief Executive Officer of Medartis, a Swiss medical technology company. Prior to joining Medartis in 1998, Mr. Miesch held positions with the Institut Straumann AG Switzerland & USA, and Stratec Medical.\nLinda Palczuk, President and Chief Executive Officer has announced her decision to resign her position effective on February 9, 2018 to accept the position of Chief Operating Officer at Verrica Pharmaceuticals located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Ms. Palczuk advised the Company that her decision is due to the new position being a unique opportunity and one that is closer to her home residence.\nJason Keefer, the VP of Marketing for the Company, has been appointed as the Interim President & CEO.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iplaw.ph/news-Claiming-the-Color-Red-Part-II.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2V3NCPXPSQIZHJ32RZTHTCHMXLHDE5SY", "length": 3933, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "iplaw.ph", "title": "Bengzon Negre Untalan. Simply, IP", "raw_content": "On 05 September 2012, the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit (Jose A. Cabranes, Circuit Judge) issued a decision1 in the Christian Louboutin (\u201cLouboutin\u201d) vs. Yves Saint Laurent (\u201cYSL\u201d) case raised to it on appeal from the 10 August 2011 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The District Court denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against alleged trademark infringement by YSL of Louboutin\u2019s \u201cRed Sole\u201d mark. The motion sought to stop YSL from selling and marketing shoes that bears the same or a confusingly similar shade of red that is Louboutin\u2019s Red Sole Mark.\nThe Second Circuit succinctly ruled that the District Court\u2019s decision that a \u201csingle color can never serve as a trademark in the fashion industry is inconsistent with the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U.S. 159, 162 (1995) 2\u201d and that Louboutin\u2019s red sole mark is a valid trademark. However, the Second Circuit court ruled that YSL did not commit any infringement with its all red shoe.\nIt explained that Louboutin\u2019s trademark, which is the red lacquered outsole found in its high-fashion shoes, \u201chas acquired limited secondary meaning3 as a distinctive symbol that identifies the Louboutin brand.\u201d It ruled that Louboutin held a valid trademark over the red outsole because of such distinctiveness.\nIt said: \u201cwe see no reason why a single-color mark in the specific context of the fashion industry could not acquire secondary meaning\u2015and therefore serve as a brand or source identifier\u2015if it is used so consistently and prominently by a particular designer that it becomes a symbol, \u2018the primary significance\u2019 of which is \u2018to identify the source of the product rather than the product itself.\u2019\u201d\nHowever, the Second Circuit limited the use of the Louboutin Red Sole trademark to a red outsole which is different from the color of the rest of the shoe. It opined that in such a scenario, where there is a contrast of colors, the red sole is protected by trademark because then it becomes distinct. The Second Circuit was careful in clarifying that the secondary meaning of the red lacquered outsole exists when accompanied by the remainder of the shoe in a contrasting color. \u201cIt is the contrast between the sole and the upper that causes the sole to \u2018pop,\u2019 and to distinguish its creator.\u201d It directed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to modify and limit Louboutin\u2019s Red Sole trademark to such situations.\nThe Second Circuit clarified that the use of a red outsole in all situations cannot be protected by trademark and declined to protect Louboutin\u2019s Red Sole Mark where it forms part of a monochromatic design \u2013 one similar to the shoe designed by YSL. Hence, according to the Second Circuit, the red sole in YSL\u2019s all red shoe \u201cis not a use of Louboutin\u2019s modified trademark.\u201d However, it did not delve on the issues of consumer confusion and functionality.\nIt reversed the District Court\u2019s order denying protection to Louboutin\u2019s modified trademark consisting of contrasting red lacquered soles. It ruled that Louboutin\u2019s motion to prevent YSL from using a red sole as part of a monochromatic or completely red shoe, could not be given due course and it partly affirmed the District Court\u2019s order on that matter and remanded back to the District Court for further proceedings with regard to YSL\u2019s counterclaims.\n1 Christian Louboutin S.A. vs. Yves Saint Laurent America Holding, Inc. (No. 11-3303-cv (2d Cir. Sept. 5, 2012).\n2 According to the Qualitex case, \u201csometimes[ ] a color will meet ordinary legal trademark requirements[, a]nd, when it does so, no special legal rule prevents color alone from serving as a trademark.\u201d\n3 The Second Circuit stated that secondary meaning is \u201cacquired when \u2018in the minds of the public, the primary significance of a product feature . . . is to identify the source of the product rather than the product itself.\u2019\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2011/10/21/occupy-boston-occupies-jp/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWXS525HV5M6VDNPB5RV2ZXJN4N3MHXL", "length": 5507, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "jamaicaplaingazette.com", "title": "Occupy Boston occupies JP \u2013 Jamaica Plain Gazette", "raw_content": "Occupy Boston occupies JP\nby David Taber \u2022 October 21, 2011 \u2022 0 Comments\nActivists, artists visit protest\nWith Jamaica Plain\u2019s just reputation for being a haven for progressives it\u2019s no surprise that plenty of residents and local organizations have taken an interest in Occupy Boston.\nThe local protest in Dewey Square in the city\u2019s Financial District, which started Sept. 30, has seen participation from JP politicians, musicians and local youth and advocacy organizations.\nDuring a Gazette visit to the protest site Oct. 15, two JPers said they were there to learn more about what is going on.\n\u201cI generally support the movement,\u201d Geoff Modest, a Forest Hills resident, told the Gazette. \u201cI think that the inequality that exists in society is getting dramatically worse. Things are worse than the Gilded Age in the late 1800s.\u201d\nModest, has worked as a physician at the Upham\u2019s Corner Health Center for 30 years, said he has seen first-hand how \u201cpeople\u2019s lives have deteriorated over the last 10 to 20 years\u2026There are no jobs. Basic social services are disappearing. I have seen my patients struggling more and more,\u201d he said.\nWill Holten, a resident of JP\u2019s Springhouse retirement community, said his wife is currently in the hospital, \u201cBut she wanted me to come down here so I could report back on what is going on.\u201d\nOthers, including youth organizers from JP have been actively working to shape Occupy Boston\u2019s message and direction.\nGeorge Lee helps run the Beantown Society, a Spontaneous Celebrations-affiliated empowerment and advocacy group, largely made up of youth of color. Beantown Society and the Southern Jamaica Plain Community Health Center youth group are part of a coalition of similar groups that are actively seeking to engage in conversations with the protestors about social justice and inequality issues.\nThey visited the protest twice, on Oct. 5 and 7, Lee said, \u201cto learn more, be inspired and share.\u201d And they put together a statement\u2014later adopted by Occupy Boston\u2019s consensus-based decision-making body, the General Assembly\u2014encouraging Occupy Boston to recognize that \u201cyoung people and people of color are disproportionately affected by economic and social injustice,\u201d Lee said.\nZoe Peters is a 19-year-old organizer with the Racial Healing Project at the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center. \u201cPart of the youths\u2019 statement was pointing out that there are dimensions within the 99 percent,\u201d she said, referring to the international Occupy movements\u2019 slogan \u201cWe are the 99 percent\u201d\u2014a reference to wide global and national income disparities.\nLee said that highlighting those issues has had an effect. On Oct. 16, \u201cThey held an anti-oppression workshop instead their normal General Assembly meeting,\u201d Lee said. \u201cFolks are learning to talk in that frame.\u201d\nPeters was enthusiastic, too, but more cautious. \u201cI think that the occupation has a lot of momentum and is really strong. But what the youth are bringing is the perspective that its important to step back from that momentum and look at yourself.\u2014see what role oppression and privilege plays in your life,\u201d she said.\nOn Oct. 14, the local music and arts collective The Whitehaus Family Record provided \u201ca little levity\u201d to the proceedings, playing a musical showcase, Whitehaus member Morgan Shaker told the Gazette. \u201cStrictly from an artistic perspective, it was one of the best shows I have ever played,\u201d Shaker said.\nUnlike traditional shows, \u201cThe Occupy audience was there for a different reason, and it seemed like they really genuinely could use some entertainment\u2026.I couldn\u2019t give them each $100 or bring a ton of food down, but I could play my butt off,\u201d he said.\nOf the movement, Shaker said that he is hopeful it signals a coming-together of different groups that have been separate. \u201cIt has been businessmen in one corner, artists in one corner, activists in one corner. People have been focusing on their differences so much,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like the veil has been raised.\u201d\nFor their part, local politicians have greeted the Occupation in various ways. \u201cI stand with you, I thank you, I appreciate you,\u201d At Large City Councilor and JP resident Felix Arroyo said in videotaped remarks to Occupy Boston Oct. 13, \u201cTogether we will win. Organized people have never lost.\u201d\nDistrict 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson also visited Occupy Boston in recent weeks.\nU.S. Rep. Michael Capuano told the Gazette he also supports the protest. \u201cI really think its great that people are espousing things I believe in and finally getting off the couch,\u201d he said, adding that he works for the same things in politics that the movement is calling for. \u201cI hope the two methods can come together,\u201d he said.\nCapuano said he has not visited Occupy Boston, and he will not unless he is invited.\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to be seen as co-opting them or undermining them or taking credit for them,\u201d he said. \u201cI know this is not my movement per se.\u201d\n(Gazette Photo by John Ruch) A veterans\u2019 rights tent at the Occupy Boston protest camp in Dewey Square downtown is dubbed \u201cCamp Alex\u201d in honor of Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, for whom the Jamaica Plain post office was recently named. Alex\u2019s father and stepmother have been regulars at the protest.\n(Gazette Photo by David Taber) JP resident Geoff Modest at Occupy Boston on Oct. 15.\nCorrection: In an earlier version of this article, Geoff Modest\u2019s place of work was incorrectly identified as the Codman Square Health Center .\n\u2190 Cops: Drugs hidden behind secret door\nJ\u00f3venes hablan de un crimen \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 8654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jasonngpartners.com/blog/netizens-click-on-cyber-law-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7B6ZONZRD3OHF7FRHGS4VIABMZQZHPMR", "length": 3631, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "jasonngpartners.com", "title": "JASON NG & PARTNERS | Advocates & Solicitors \u00bb Netizens click on cyber law review", "raw_content": "Netizens click on cyber law review\nPREVENTING ABUSES: They also want govt to find balance when regulating World Wide Web\nKUALA LUMPUR : NETIZENS are adding their voices to calls to address cyber anarchy.\nWhile they welcome the move to revamp the law on the use of the Internet, they want the government to be tactful in regulating the World Wide Web.\nThe Communication and Multimedia Ministry on Thursday said it would study Internet laws in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia to prevents abuses on social media.\nThe ministry, along with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, will review illegal downloading of materials, pornography, commercial abuses and other abuses.\nMalaysians have become vocal in expressing their views on blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Some have posted allegedly seditious remarks.\nRecent examples include postings allegedly insulting the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and blasphemous statements against Islam and Prophet Muhammad.\nBlogger Syed Akbar Ali said: \u201cIt\u2019s good that the ministry is studying laws in open and liberal countries, although current laws can be maintained but tightened.\u201d\nSyed Akbar, who writes as OutSyed The Box, said specific issues should be streamlined, but added that the ministry and MCMC should be tactful in regulating the Internet.\n\u201cSome issues that should be streamlined are scams that appear as advertisements and underhand tactics used to promote businesses online.\u201d\nSocial media user Jasbir Singh Gill, 27, an entrepreneur, said if the new laws were carried out, they would provide a win-win situation for the ministry and Internet users.\n\u201cThe laws are vital as scams are being blatantly advertised online. But with regulation, the freedom of speech of Internet users may be affected.\u201d\nHowever, he added, it would be impossible to curb illegal downloading.\n\u201cThere are proxy servers to bypass censorship and IP- changing software for people to download illegally. When the high demand for illegal downloads increases, the supply of software to tackle the problem will be high.\u201d\nMusician Balamurugan Ramakrishnan, 33, said a new law should be carried out only after a study on Internet trends was done.\n\u201cWith the revamped law, Malaysians can say bye-bye to porn, illegal downloads and fraudulent businesses, and welcome a more affordable online content and a safer cyberspace.\u201d\nStudent Adrian Thomas said revamping the law would stop troublemakers and cyber hooligans, but added that the implementation must be governed by an independent body to ensure objectivity.\nLawyer Katrina Razif said the negative uses of social media could be prevented and many Netizens would benefit from the tightening of cyber laws.\n\u201cIt is good that the government is taking the initiative to stamp out the negative aspects of the Internet. At the same time, it needs to find balance in terms of freedom of speech for netizens.\n\u201cThe key is to allow netizens to browse through legitimate content, while limiting access to illegal and negative as pects.\u201d\nHowever, Amir Sharipuddin, 26, said netizens should also be educated on the ethics of Internet use to decide on what was good and bad.\n\u201cThere are always new materials to be discovered, but once we start regulating them, there will be no end to it. The moment you start regulating, there will be other regulations to follow the earlier ones.\u201d\nRead more: Netizens click on cyber law review \u2013 General \u2013 New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/netizens-click-on-cyber-law-review-1.297422#ixzz2Xoaum4kE\nNod for MPPP to take legal action against landowner Bloggers: Self-regulation better than Internet laws", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jehovahs-witness-churches.find-near-me.info/in/abingdon-il", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KTAXL5OXXF24QOIT3Y67JO554GKI37QR", "length": 2651, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "jehovahs-witness-churches.find-near-me.info", "title": "Jehovahs Witness Churches in or near Abingdon, Illinois IL", "raw_content": "Jehovahs Witness Churches near: Illinois Abingdon About Jehovahs Witness Churches Near Me Privacy Contact\nAbingdon, Illinois, IL: Jehovahs Witness Churches\nThere are 15 Jehovahs Witness Churches in or near Abingdon, Illinois IL.\nGeneseo Congregation-Jehovah's is located approximately 46 miles from Abingdon. Their exact address is: 960 W Main St. Need to give Geneseo Congregation-Jehovah's a call? (309) 944-4575.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 48 miles from Abingdon. Jehovah's Witnesses is very popular place in this area. If you need more information, call them: (309) 788-4363.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 45 miles from Abingdon. They are regarded as one of the best Jehovahs Witness Churches in Abingdon area. You can call them at (309) 346-0162.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 27 miles from Abingdon. A decent Jehovahs Witness Church, they're located at 1566 E Ash St. Call them at (309) 647-9042.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 11 miles from Abingdon. Customers have good opinions about Jehovah's Witnesses. You can call them at (309) 343-2751.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 55 miles from Abingdon. They're a really good Jehovahs Witness Church. Phone number: (563) 263-2521.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 51 miles from Abingdon. We recommend their services. Their phone number is (563) 359-6361.\nJehovah's Witnesses is located approximately 15 miles from Abingdon. Their exact address is: 507 S Sunny Ln. Phone number: (309) 734-5311.\nJehovah's Witnesses E Peoria is located approximately 48 miles from Abingdon. Jehovah's Witnesses E Peoria is a really good Jehovahs Witness Church. Their phone number is (309) 699-2814.\nJehovah's Witnesses Kingdom is located approximately 47 miles from Abingdon. Contact information: 5106 28th Ave. You can call them at (309) 762-4748.\nKingdom Hall is located approximately 41 miles from Abingdon. We recommend their services. You can call them at (309) 853-3695.\nKingdom Hall Of Jehovah's is located approximately 30 miles from Abingdon. Their exact address is: 1126 N Main St. You can reach them at (309) 547-2587.\nKingdom Hall Of Jehovah's is located approximately 52 miles from Abingdon. Customers have good opinions about Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's. Phone number: (319) 372-1067.\nKingdom Hall-Jehovah's Witness is located approximately 28 miles from Abingdon. They're one of the best on the market. You can reach them at (309) 833-2402.\nKingdom Hall-Jehovah's Witness is located approximately 34 miles from Abingdon. They're one of the best on the market. If you need more information, call them: (309) 582-2448.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jenaroundtheworld.com/2018-walt-disney-studios-motion-pictures-slate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Y37PY3ZELX6BKZEW273OC4LQIHBBBZRK", "length": 7957, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "jenaroundtheworld.com", "title": "2018 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Slate - Jen Around the World", "raw_content": "2018 is here and with it comes a SLEW of brand new movies from Disney/Marvel. Check out this list and let me know exactly which ones you will want to watch this year.\nFebruary 16, 2018 \u2013 BLACK PANTHER (Marvel Studios)\nBut when a powerful old enemy reappears, T\u2019Challa\u2019s mettle as king\u2014and Black Panther\u2014is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.\nMarch 9, 2018 \u2013 A WRINKLE IN TIME (Walt Disney Studios)\nFrom visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney\u2019s \u201cA Wrinkle in Time,\u201d an epic adventure based on Madeleine L\u2019Engle\u2019s timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and, ultimately, the triumph of love.\nMeg Murry is a typical middle school student struggling with issues of self-worth who just wants to fit in. The daughter of two world-renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg\u2019s younger brother, Charles Wallace, but she has yet to realize it for herself.\nComplicating matters is the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Murry, which has left Meg devastated and her mother broken-hearted. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and her fellow classmate Calvin to three celestial beings (Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who) who have journeyed to Earth to help search for their father, and together they embark on their formidable quest.\nTraveling via a wrinkling of time and space known as tessering, they are transported to worlds beyond their imagination where they must confront a powerful evil force. To make it back home to Earth, Meg must face the darkness within herself in order to harness the strength necessary to defeat the darkness rapidly enveloping the Universe.\nDirected by Oscar\u00ae nominee Ava DuVernay from a screenplay by Oscar winner Jennifer Lee based upon the beloved novel by Madeleine L\u2019Engle, \u201cA Wrinkle in Time\u201d stars: two-time Academy Award\u00ae nominee Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Emmy\u00ae nominee Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Mrs. Murry, Michael Pe\u0148a as Red and introducing Storm Reid as Meg Murry, with two-time Emmy winner Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium and Emmy nominee Chris Pine as Mr. Murry.\nMay 4, 2018 \u2013 AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (Marvel Studios)\nAn unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time.\nMay 25, 2018 \u2013 SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (Lucasfilm)\n\u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story\u201d releases in U.S. theatres on May 25, 2018.\nJune 15, 2018 \u2013 INCREDIBLES 2 (Disney / Pixar)\n#Incredibles2\nEveryone\u2019s favorite family of superheroes is back in \u201cIncredibles 2\u201d \u2013 but this time Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell) and Dash (voice of Huck Milner) to navigate the day-to-day heroics of \u201cnormal\u201d life.\nIt\u2019s a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack\u2019s emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again\u2014which is easier said than done, even when they\u2019re all Incredible.\n#AntManAndTheWasp\nFrom the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes a new chapter featuring heroes with the astonishing ability to shrink: \u201cAnt-Man and The Wasp.\u201d In the aftermath of \u201cCaptain America: Civil War,\u201d Scott Lang (Rudd) grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.\nAs he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he\u2019s confronted by Hope van Dyne (Lilly) and Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas) with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from their past.\n\u201cDisney\u2019s Christopher Robin\u201d releases in U.S. theatres on August 3, 2018.\n#DisneysNutcracker\nStarring Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Disney\u2019s new holiday feature film \u201cThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms\u201d is directed by Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann\u2019s classic tale.\n\u201cThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms\u201d releases in U.S. theatres on November 2, 2018.\n\u201cRalph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2\u201d leaves Litwak\u2019s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet\u2014which may or may not survive Ralph\u2019s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope\u2019s video game, Sugar Rush.\nIn way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet\u2014the netizens\u2014to help navigate their way, including a webite entrepreneur named Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson), who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site \u201cBuzzzTube.\u201d Directed by Rich Moore (\u201cZootopia,\u201d \u201cWreck-It Ralph\u201d) and Phil Johnston (co-writer \u201cWreck-It Ralph,\u201d \u201cCedar Rapids,\u201d co-writer \u201cZootopia,\u201d), and produced by Clark Spencer (\u201cZootopia,\u201d \u201cWreck-It Ralph,\u201d \u201cBolt\u201d), \u201cRalph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-Ralph 2\u201d hits theaters on Nov. 21, 2018.\nIn Disney\u2019s \u201cMary Poppins Returns,\u201d an all new sequel with a fresh sensibility that celebrates the spirit of the original, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Emily Blunt (\u201cThe Girl on the Train,\u201d \u201cInto the Woods\u201d) stars as the practically-perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure and Lin-Manuel Miranda (\u201cHamilton,\u201d \u201cMoana\u201d) plays her friend Jack, an optimistic street lamplighter who helps bring light\u2014and life\u2014to the streets of London.\n\u201cMary Poppins Returns\u201d is directed by Rob Marshall (\u201cInto the Woods,\u201d \u201cChicago\u201d). The screenplay is by David Magee (\u201cLife of Pi\u201d) and the screen story is by Magee & Marshall & John DeLuca (\u201cInto the Woods\u201d) based upon The Mary Poppins Stories by PL Travers.\nThe producers are Marshall, DeLuca and Marc Platt (\u201cLa La Land\u201d) with Callum McDougall serving as executive producer and the music is by Marc Shaiman (\u201cHairspray\u201d) with songs by Shaiman and Scott Wittman (\u201cHairspray\u201d). The film also stars Ben Whishaw (\u201cSpectre\u201d) as Michael Banks; Emily Mortimer (\u201cHugo\u201d) as Jane Banks; Julie Walters (\u201cHarry Potter\u201d films) as the Banks\u2019 housekeeper Ellen; with Colin Firth (\u201cThe King\u2019s Speech\u201d) as Fidelity Fiduciary Bank\u2019s William Weatherall Wilkins; and Meryl Streep (\u201cFlorence Foster Jenkins\u201d) as Mary\u2019s eccentric cousin, Topsy and introduces three new Banks\u2019 children played by Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and newcomer Joel Dawson.\nAngela Lansbury appears as the Balloon Lady, a treasured character from the PL Travers books and Dick Van Dyke is Mr. Dawes Jr., the retired chairman of the bank now run by Firth\u2019s character.\nThere are several on this list that I cannot wait to see!\nWhich one are you most excited about seeing?\nDisney Pixar\u2019s COCO - New Trailer & Poster Now Available\nANT-MAN AND THE WASP - Teaser Trailer & Poster Now Available\nPassion Whole Heart Album (plus a fun giveaway!)\nANT-MAN AND THE WASP - \"Who is the Wasp?\" Featurette Now Available\nMarvel's AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR // On Blu-ray Tuesday 8/14\nSOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Trailer & Posters Now Available\nFiled Under: Entertainment Tagged With: movies\nPrevious Post: \u00ab Grilled Steak and Tamale Cornbread Bites\nNext Post: Chicken Margherita Pizza- Delicious and Simple to Make \u00bb\nDark Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 17452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jimcalafiore.com/thelost-dp.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MFRD7TWALYCI3TGVO2FAJJ675CNCQEUO", "length": 1229, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jimcalafiore.com", "title": "Jim Calafiore", "raw_content": "DEADPOOL ALMOST DESTROYS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE\nThis is the filler story that actually made it all the way to finished inks before being \"killed\" (they cancelled his title and re-launched him with a new look).\nTo be honest, the impetus for the story was a notion I had to cram in every Marvel character I could in to one story. So I came up with an alien invasion scenario. The twist is that the story is told in reverse, starting with the end of the battle first, and progressing backwards in snippets to the end, which is the beginning. There we see how the whole thing is Deadpool's fault. I had a lot of fun with the character, throwing in as many little gags as I could (facing Captain America, Deadpool says \"Say Captain, ain't you like WAY overdue for a promotion\"), some of which are very dated by now (I had the new Captain Marvel in there, who'd just been introduced, but everyone thought he was the original, and wondered \"Aren't you dead?\").\nJpegs of all the pages and the script were posted on a forum I was involved in years ago, and are still floating around the web (search Deadpool Almost Destroys the Marvel Universe) so I won't go more into the story or spoil the ending/beginning for anyone who wants to find it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnharmstrong.com/category/books/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:C42TBAPJH54S6L2FKJPQGRLWMAPESBQL", "length": 1124, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "johnharmstrong.com", "title": "Books | John H Armstrong", "raw_content": "A Common Struggle \u2013 An Uncommonly Fine Book\nJohn Armstrong November 24, 2015 Books, Current Affairs, Personal, Psychology, Spirituality21 Comments\nPatrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, recently appeared in an interview on the award-winning news broadcast, \u201cCBS 60 Minutes.\u201d The interview that Kennedy gave so intrigued me that I decided to read his new best-selling book, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Illness and Addiction (New York: \u2026 Read More\nDifficult Men: Why Did Cable Television Produce So Many Great Works of Popular Art? Part 2\nJohn Armstrong March 26, 2015 Books, Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Personal, TelevisionLeave a Comment\nBrett Martin identifies a first burst of literary energy in 1950s television (when the medium was young) and a second that came in the 1980s (when the forward-thinking television executive Grant Tinker\u2019s MGM Enterprises begat the groundbreaking Hill Street Blues). These are followed by the \u201cThird Golden Age,\u201d beginning with The Sopranos. This story is at least half the content of \u2026 Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 10542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jomurphey.blogspot.com/2018/01/sunday-stroke-survival-spasticity.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RTQBX7XPW6XMAP4F7C5EX4QXCOVAJBFK", "length": 7454, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jomurphey.blogspot.com", "title": "The Murphey Saga: Sunday Stroke Survival: Spasticity Update #1", "raw_content": "When I saw Dr. Fox. He was my physical therapy doctor at Emory. All I can say positive about the appointment is two things... He never said, \"It's the disease process,\" nor \"It's the best it's ever going to be.\" In due course, I thanked him for this.\nHe agreed that all the PT in the world wasn't going to fix the spasticity. It would keep the permanent contratures of the tendons and muscles from happening. There is no simple fix for this. I really didn't expect one. Thanks to Dean at Dean's Stroke Musing and a couple other sites, I'm pretty well self educated on this side effect of my strokes. In fact, I've been told as much by several doctors. They simply do not have the time to stay current. I, on the other hand, have nothing but time to spend on research.\nHe did suggest continuing with the therapy and dry needling. I need the stretching. If it wasn't so awkward, I could do it myself. Alas, as much as I tried over the years, I just can't manipulate my body to get a good, full extension stretch. These days I can carry about thirty pounds of grocery bags on my affected arm and not have it budge. That's how bad the constant spasticity in my arm has gotten. Even the therapist has got to do dry needling and stripping the muscles down before it will budge. But after all of that, my arm will move like pictured. It only lasts for the extent of the therapy and it's right back into the 45 degree angle. But the pain relief lasts for about 4 or 5 days which is heavenly. The charlie horse spasms which brings me to tears are reduced in frequency also. Should I be happy and grateful with only this?\nI'm waiting once again for a functional neurosurgeon appointment. I'm back where I was in October. Maddening, isn't it? One step forward and two back. I should be used to this by now, but I'm not. After the appointment, I sat in my car on the verge of tears. It's so frustrating! My appointment time was 4PM in mid town Atlanta so not only did I do battle with the early rush hour traffic getting to my appointment, but now, after an hour with the doctor, it was the mass exodus of workers between their job and home. If you've never driven in a big city at rush hour, picture this. This is interstate driving with a 70mph speed limit. You are in stop and go traffic, and my best speed is 15mph. The sun is setting and all I can see in my rear view mirror is bumper to bumper traffic behind me for miles. In front of me is miles of tail lights. Six to seven lanes of traffic going one-way. It took an hour and a half to go 22 miles! The only good thing about it was I could take my eyes off the road and sip on my diet cola whenever I wanted. My cup holder is down between the front seats of my minivan. My right arm doesn't function to even hold the steering wheel while driving.\nBut I made it home safely. I guess I should've thanked God for that, but I was too upset to even think about it. The tears of frustration rolled down my cheek as I told Mel about the appointment. I'm back in hurry-up-and-wait mode again. Meanwhile, I still haven't heard a peep from Shepherd's Center about an open spot for me to get in there. It's hard not to be angry or feeling like I'm being jerked around. It's hard not to feel like I'm being dumped on, or others just don't care. I've met a lot of caring folks along this journey. They all want to truly help, they just can't. They don't have the God given wisdom to help me. I know I'm not the only one faced with this dilemma. So should I be satisfied? Is it just my stubbornness? Lord knows, I've prayed long and hard about this. Should I just give up even though that's not my nature. You know, what the old Serenity prayer says...\nI have a problem with the first line. No problem with the second line. The key is the third line that's a 50-50 shot with me. Hey, I'm being honest here. I think most of us fall in the same boat. At times the Wisdom is written in black and white. You've had a stroke and you are paralyzed. You work hard to recover what you can, and make adaptions to your lifestyle. Or, like me now, when I recovered so much only to lose it again to spasticity. So Courage isn't an issue in that respect. I'll try to do something half a dozen times before looking for an easier way or calling for help. In my mind, there's got to be a solution until God gives the notion that there isn't a way to do it. That's the kicker for me with the third line. The wisdom is not always forth coming in a timely manner. At least to me. Remember me, I gotta have it now to be happy. I've gotten better about patience since my strokes, but I still have a long way to go. That's why I am in the questioning mode. Sometimes, God has to literally knock me in the head, \"Hey child, I'm talking to you!\" But that isn't always the case.\nEverything I've read about spasticity says there is no cure. They also use the quantifiers like this may be helpful, moderately successful treatments, and research is ongoing. So the situation is not exactly hopeless, BUT there is no cure right now. And, I want it right now! I want it now before I regress to no recovery at all like I was just after my stroke. I want it before I'm back in a wheelchair. I want it now so the cycle of pain stops. It's a cruel punishment to give you back use, and then take it away due to a side effects of a stroke.\nDo I sound whinny here? I'm in that cycle of grief again, where I'm angry most of the time. As I said before, grief never truly goes away. I realize the cause is just frustration. It will drive me nuts if I let it. Okay, then I have a choice to make. Do I want to drive myself nuts? No, not really. The people in my head know my quirks, but most other real people don't. I really don't want to step off that ledge. Okay then, what can I do about the problem? Well, the first thing is to step away from the ledge and decide to live beyond the frustrating bits. Sure they'll be back in the forefront again, but for right now, step away from the ledge. Whew! That was a close one.\nNow, take one step in the opposite direction. It doesn't have to be a huge one. Baby steps faltering as they may be. I've decided not to live in frustration. I'm going to take another step from the ledge. How do I do that? Distraction works. Firewood needs to come onto the porch. Now, it needs to be stacked. A load of wood needs to come in by the stove carrying two pieces at a time. Wow, two hours has passed since I took that baby step from the ledge. I sure don't want to freeze to death while walking away from the ledge into nutsville. Oh, there's that sweater I started knitting for Mel's birthday. The chickens and rabbits need to be fed. There's a new movie on Netflixs I wanted to see. Before you know it, the day has passed. I've been so busy living my life the frustration wasn't given a second thought. It doesn't mean that a new or continuing frustration point won't hit me square in the face tomorrow. It probably will. Remember, Murphy's Law is always waiting around the corner. But I survived the day and more than that, I was productive.\nTomorrow will never come because tomorrow will become today when you wake. All's you have to do is survive the day. One day at a time. Each day, you make a conscience choice to step away from the ledge until you don't have to. With all frustration and grief, it begins to resolve with a conscience choice.\nLabels: frustration, living post stroke, questioning mode, spasticity, Update", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 10712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jonathanking.com.au/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CYLJJVDWPQ4GP3C73BBWW4FEVMIFPDXJ", "length": 2426, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "jonathanking.com.au", "title": "Jonathan King", "raw_content": "The Historian who brings History to life\nDr. Jonathan King (pictured left at Gallipoli) has been described by The Australian as:\n\"A classic storyteller with a passion for history and the events that shaped the Australian nation - many of which he has brought to life through historical re-enactments\".\nInspired by his passion for history Dr. King is an extraordinary Australian who has led an extraordinary life - and one that his ancestor the 1788 First Fleet naval officer and New South Wales Governor, Philip Gidley King (who ruled 1800- 1806) would be proud of.\nJonathan King's list of achievements have been many and varied, as he has used all types of mediums to tell his historical stories over the\nlast thirty years and campaign to save the environment:\nHe is an award-winning author of 25 books on Australian History, he has written thousands of articles for newspaper and\nmagazines, produced and presented more than 20 TV documentary films, appeared on hundreds of tv shows and acted as resident historian\non many radio programs.\nFighting for the environment since 1988 he helped fund and organize the first national summit of the Australian Conservation Foundation,\nworked for the United Nations's Environment Program and as director of Sting's Amazon Rainforest Foundation campaigning in both Australia\nand the Amazon with Chief Raoni of the Kayapo Tribe.\nBut Perhaps Dr. King's greatest achievements have been his award-winning live re-enactments of great historical events, including most\nfamously, the privately-funded 1988 Australian bicentennial re-enactment of the First Fleet when he sailed eleven square-rigged tall\nships across the high seas from London into Sydney Harbour where three million spectators greeted his fleet on Australia Day 1988 -\nAustralia's largest live spectator event.\nIn 1988 he was presented with Australian of the Year Award (Victorian division) and in in 1989 the Australian Achiever Award by the Prime\nMinister Bob Hawke for his fleet which was also voted best event of the Bicentennial Celebrations.\nDr Jonathan King says he has to walk, ride and sail in the wake of Australia's historical figures so he can bring history to life:\n\"I love telling my fellow Australians about their wonderful history and the best way to get the message across is to re-enact historical\nevents.\" Jonathan King.\nFor more about Dr Jonathan King see his Bio page or for Dr King in the media click here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jonathanproudwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/06/alkborough-flats.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:33Z", "digest": "sha1:OBVSBAOVABO7XWNNQPYOLEN27NSOOZOK", "length": 914, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jonathanproudwildlife.blogspot.com", "title": "Alkborough Flats", "raw_content": "30 Days Wild, day 20: In April I went on a water vole and otter survey training day at Alkborough Flats, on the south side of the Humber estuary. While reading up about the site, I saw that it was a good place to watch bearded tits.\nI'm not a great birder, but this is one bird I'd like to see, so I went back today to try and find them. I went to the first hide I came to and asked an old man inside if this was the best place to find bearded tits. He said it was and gave me the usual birders' answer, \"there was one here five minutes ago\".\nI sat in the hide for over an hour. There was a flock of avocets on the pond in front of me, some shelduck, a little egret, a few lapwings and the inevitable black-headed gulls. A marsh harrier flew over, there were reed buntings in the reed beds, but absolutely no sign of a bearded tit.\nShelduck feeding\nLittle egret (photo taken through the hedge)\nScruffy reed bunting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?query=2380-0585&field=title&editorID=&send=Search+Title%2FISSN+Only", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AYV2ZPBE64VZDERXL3YABNT7ARMWYXYU", "length": 359, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "journalseek.net", "title": "Journal of Urology & Nephrology (JournalSeek)", "raw_content": "Journal of Urology & Nephrology\nJ Urol Nephrol\nJournal of Urology & Nephrology is an international, Online Open Access, peer reviewed journal that provides current information of research, development and treatment aspects that are involved in the fields of urology and nephrology.\nJournal of Urology & Nephrology website (full text articles available online)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 157.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://juliawalck.com/blog/2018/1/28/february-18-playlist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JXZZC5LHPQVFN45J7MDEEW6XNMVHRWI3", "length": 1761, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "juliawalck.com", "title": "February '18 Playlist \u2014 Julia Walck", "raw_content": "You guys... not to pat myself on the shoulder too much, but this month's playlist is really good! It's just one minute shy of an hour, starts off mellow, gets dancy in the middle, a bit head-bang-y towards the end, and finishes off with a toe-tap. Have a listen below.\nHere are some highlights from the February playlist:\nI'm a little late to the game stumbling upon Michael Nau. His song \"Good Thing\" is instantly relaxing... just breathe and listen. It'll do you good.\nJack White has released 3 new singles within the past couple of weeks, and \"Respect Commander\" is my favorite out of them. I love the transitional pacing of the song and all of the weird little noises that accompany it. I snagged tickets to his sold out show at The Santa Barbara Bowl later this year!\nThe Shins recently flipped their latest album \"Heartworms\" and re-recorded it on the album \"The Worm's Heart\". It's interesting hearing the songs in a totally different tone than the originals. My favorite song from the re-work is \"Heartworms - Flipped\". From the get-go, you hear a synthesized version of the \"la, la, la, la\" intro from the original track, and it only gets poppier from there.\nKaren O is back with a new song ft. Michael Kiwanuka for KENZO's Spring/Summer campaign film. \"YO! MY SAINT\" is a celebration of the muse in creative collaborations, and I'm very happy with how this collab turned out.\nPosted in Music Tags: hello february, february, music, monthly playlist, monthly music, playlist, month, typography, spotify, indie, indie music, alternative, mixtape, new music, jack white, the shins, michael nau, Karen O, Sylvan Esso, Car Seat Headrest, Unknown Mortal Orchestra\n\u2190 Art Gets What It Wants & Art Gets What It Deserves Valentine's Day | Free Phone Wallpapers \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://juslynvineyards.com/2006perrysblend.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTXCL7FQWL2KPFMXIMANUWNOS56N6OXB", "length": 413, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "juslynvineyards.com", "title": "2006perrysblend", "raw_content": "The 2006 Perry\u2019s Blend (47% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot) possesses seductive, sweet tannins (an anomaly for 2006 mountain Cabernets), a deep ruby/purple color, lots of sweet blue and black fruits, a charming elegance, medium to full-bodied flavors, excellent depth and richness, and impressive purity. Already delicious, it should evolve nicely for 10-15 years or more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justmeans.com/blog/passion-vs-purpose-in-leadership-which-do-you-need-most", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OYNK3J7U2DGR756ZIFPZTPKLETD2WAIF", "length": 4010, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "justmeans.com", "title": "Passion vs. Purpose in Leadership: Which Do You Need Most? | Justmeans", "raw_content": "In this week's #CSR Now! @TimMcClimon talks about passion vs purpose for leaders http://amex.co/csrnow\nA few weeks ago when I wrote about The Four Ps of Leadership (Purpose, Plan, People, Power), I heard from a number of people that I should have included Passion or better yet, have substituted Passion for Purpose as the first P. (I also heard that I should have included Patience and Persistence, but that\u2019s another story.) More recently, I attended an American Express Leadership Academy in London where participants \u2014 emerging, high potential leaders from charitable organizations in the U.K. \u2014 were asked to rank themselves on a passion-to-purpose continuum. Many were unsure where they fit.\nPhilosophers and poets (and consultants) have debated the tension between purpose and passion for years. Some have argued that passion is about your emotions while purpose is the reason behind those emotions. Or, that passion is about the \u201cwhat\u201d (I\u2019m passionate about ___\u201d) and purpose is about the \u201cwhy\u201d (\u201cI am here to accomplish___\u201d). Or, that passion is about yourself while purpose is about others. Or, that passion is the result of doing meaningful work, not the reason for doing that work.\nAristotle spoke of the \u201cfunction of man\u201d as being a \u201crational animal\u201d linked to reason and language as distinguishing characteristic of humans. He only considered passion in terms of pleasure and pain. Socrates believed that passion imprisoned the soul to the body. And, Plato believed that the dispassionate, rather than the passionate, self should be our goal as humans. When passion does enter the picture, Plato argues that it requires mastery and discipline to control it.\nWhile there is no single unified tradition for Eastern philosophies, many religious leaders speak of the \u201cmeaning of life\u201d being self-awareness, enlightenment and consciousness rather than rational or worldly pursuits. In Buddhism, cravings or desires are thought to be the cause of suffering so they should be avoided.\nIn our society, how often have you heard someone say, \u201cFollow your passion!\u201d rather than \u201cFind your purpose!\u201d? Passion is often seen as an antidote to seemingly boring careers or something that every person needs in order to be happy in their work. But, the truth is that not everyone has a true passion or the ability to pursue it as a vocation. In fact, following one\u2019s passion may be a dangerous career choice because passions can come and go while purpose is (hopefully) more permanent.\nThere\u2019s a story about someone asking Eleanor Roosevelt about her \u201cpassionate interest\u201d in a piece of proposed social legislation. \u201cYes,\u201d she did support the cause she said. \u201cBut, I hardly think the word \u2018passionate\u2019 applies to me.\u201d Indeed, like Plato, some writers have argued that the best leaders are dispassionate about their causes. A contrary opinion was expressed by American philosopher Thomas Nagle who believed that human flourishing involves the well-functioning of all of our essential capabilities-both subjective and objective.\nWhatever your point of view, leaders need a guiding direction. If that direction is the result of a true passion in life, and that passion can translate into worthwhile action, then all the better. But, if that direction comes from a dispassionate view that things can be better with a different approach, the resulting purpose can be a lasting noble pursuit.\nEither way, leaders need to recognize where they fall on the passion-to-purpose spectrum in order to effectively marshal the resources (and energy) to chart their own paths. As a leader, I tend toward the purpose end of the continuum, but there are many truly inspiring leaders who are driven by passion first.\nPortions of this blog post first appeared on Forbes.com\nIf you have a comment or question, please follow me on Twitter at @timmcclimon and start a conversation there. Thanks for reading and sharing this blog posting with friends and colleagues.\nAmelia Woltering\namelia.t.woltering@aexp.com\nEducation for Women/Girls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jwf.org/2013/02/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AVGPUNS6BWTF3TCIHX2ZQ7BILLIEFL3A", "length": 272, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jwf.org", "title": "February 10, 2013 - The Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF)", "raw_content": "28th Abant Meeting Launches with Identity Debates in Turkey\nThe Abant Platform held its 28th meeting from February 8-10, 2013, at Lake Abant with the participation of over a hundred intellectuals, academics, journalists, and pundits from different ideological backgrounds\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k945.com/rick-ross-wale-concert-cancelled-for-this-friday-refund-mgk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6HP3HMZOIJPTNQEJBZJ6VW54FE2IGUHK", "length": 1057, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "k945.com", "title": "Rick Ross, Wale Concert Cancelled for this Friday", "raw_content": "Rick Ross, Wale Concert Cancelled for this Friday\nBad news if you were planning on going to the CenturyLink Center this Friday. The show with Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Wale and special guest Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) and host DJ Scream has been cancelled.\nThis is the press release we received from the CenturyLink Center:\nMAYBACH MUSIC GROUP BOSSIER CITY TOUR STOP CANCELLED!\nShreveport, LA (November 5, 2012) \u2013 Live Nation announced today that The Maybach Music Group Tour featuring Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Wale with special guest Machine Gun Kelly and host DJ Scream has been forced to cancel their Friday November 9th performance at The CenturyLink Center in Bossier City due to a scheduling conflict. Tickets purchased via Livenation.com or Ticketmaster.com, will be automatically credited to your account, tickets purchased at the CenturyLink box office or at a Ticketmaster location will be refunded at the place of purchase beginning Wednesday 11/7/12 at 9:30AM.\nFiled Under: mgk, rick ross, wale\nCategories: Concerts, Entertainment News, Shreveport News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kashmirnarrator.com/two-maps-and-a-pie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AVLQDSSW6A7M6TA75DFMTQU4S6NYLLST", "length": 4822, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kashmirnarrator.com", "title": "Two maps and a pie - Kashmir Narrator", "raw_content": "Two maps and a pie\nThe Indian Army has been a major pillar of democracy in India. In the mid-1970s, when Indira Gandhi was at the height of her power, there stood an honest Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tapishwar Narain Raina, a Kashmiri by birth. He famously refused to allow the Army to serve the interests of any political party and said the Army \u201cwould not be used to further her ends but obey only those orders of a legally construed government.\u201d When Indira lost the post-emergency elections in 1977, her son Sanjay Gandhi, in the presence of Gen Raina, advised re-imposition of emergency. Gen Raina ignored Sanjay\u2019s suggestion, and went on to tell Indira that the history will honour her for respecting the people\u2019s verdict. When Sanjay visited Punjab, he was given the protocol of a visiting Prime Minister. A message went out from the Army Headquarters that no officer was to participate in the function honouring Sanjay, as he was not the PM.\nBack home in Kashmir, the Indian Army has a chequered history. Many Kashmiris see it as an \u201cArmy of occupation.\u201d Our memory is clogged with massacres committed by the Indian soldiers. Scores of young men, and some teenagers too, have vanished into thin air after their arrest by the Army and India\u2019s paramilitary troops. But in our experience, while junior officers tend to be rash and impulsive, there\u2019re many seniors who have had fair understanding of the basic political issue that plagues Kashmir. For example, in 2016, Lt Gen DS Hooda, the then Northern Command Head, called on \u201call parties to take a step back,\u201d when the state violence against Kashmiris protesting on the streets was at its worst after the killing of young militant commander Burhan Wani. Gen Hooda refrained from calling the protesters \u201canti-nationals or over-ground workers.\u201d Post-retirement he has maintained that there is a need for dialogue.\nContrast this with the belligerence of incumbent Army Chief, Gen Bipin Rawat. In 2017, he labelled all protesters at encounter sites as \u201cover-ground workers of militant outfits.\u201d He announced that \u201cthe Army will get you,\u201d while talking about militants. In 2018, he has already said he will \u201ccall Pakistan\u2019s nuclear bluff,\u201d potentially derailing a fledgling peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad. He has called for the education sector in Kashmir to be reformed, saying, \u201cStudents are taught two maps in the state.\u201d Why is that important, if one may ask him? Students in Karnataka and Maharashtra are also taught two maps \u2013 no one seems to get radicalised there. His recent pronouncement that Kashmiris \u201chave not got from militancy what they wanted,\u201d is provocative, as also the statement that \u201cKashmir can never secede from India.\u201d Does not this betray the fact that an overwhelming majority of Kashmiris want freedom from India? That Kashmiris actually embraced militancy in response to a failure of governance and a betrayal of historical promises made to them by India\u2019s political leadership? That the head of the world\u2019s third largest Army should chose to use such language against a few million people displays arrogance, a lack of basic decency. History is replete with the defeat of arrogant Generals.\nEveryone in Kashmir, from the fruit vendor in Lal Chowk, to the Major in Siachen doing his third tenure of duty, knows that Kashmir is a political problem that demands a political solution. No amount of bellicosity is going to cow down the genuine aspirations of the people of Kashmir. The very fact that these lines are being written 70 years after the landing of the first soldiers of the Indian Army in Kashmir shows that Kashmiris have not given up on their rights, even in the face of worse odds. It is sad to see that an officer of the rank of the Army Chief speak the language of rabble-rousing ruling party politicians who are fed a diet of anti-Kashmir, anti-Muslim propaganda by a section of Delhi-based media. Wherever one goes in Kashmir, there is unison on one topic: demilitarisation. And all the political parties know that that has to be the first step towards any meaningful rapprochement with Kashmiris. A confident India, with belief in its ability to assimilate people of all faiths and colours and histories, does not need an Army Chief who shouts down the peaceful aspirations of Kashmir. Is it that he knows that the Army is now less relevant to the process in Kashmir, and he wants to preserve the Army veto in all things Kashmiri? Is he looking for a bigger slice of the pie? Or, is it that the interlocutor appointed on Kashmir by New Delhi has communicated to the government that any peaceful rapprochement with Kashmir that does not involve demilitarisation is stillborn?\nThe editorial appeared in February issue of Kashmir Narrator. 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The Pentagon suspended his top-secret security clearance May 1, 2017, when he exposed through an internal review that Stefan Halper, who was then an emeritus Cambridge professor, had received roughly $1 million in tax-payer funded money to write Defense Department foreign policy reports, his attorney Sean Bigley said. Before Lovinger\u2019s clearance was suspended he had taken a detail to the National Security Council as senior director for strategy. He was only there for five months before he was recalled to the Pentagon, stripped of his prestigious White House detail, and ordered to perform bureaucratic make-work in a Pentagon annex Bigley calls \u201cthe land of misfit toys.\u201d His security clearance was eventually revoked in March 2018, despite the Pentagon \u201crefusing to turn over a single page of its purported evidence of Lovinger\u2019s wrongdoing,\u201d Bigley stated. Conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, recently filed a federal lawsuit against the Defense Department to obtain the withheld records.\nLovinger also raised concerns about Halper\u2019s role in conducting what appeared to be diplomatic meetings with foreigners on behalf of the U.S. government because his role as contractor forbids him from doing so, according to U.S. federal law.\nAn investigation by SaraACarter.com reveals that the documents and information Lovinger stumbled on and other documents obtained by this news site, raise troubling questions about Halper, who was believed to have worked with the CIA and part of the matrix of players in the bureau\u2019s \u2018CrossFire Hurricane\u2019 investigation into Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign. Halper, who assisted the FBI in the Russia investigation, appears to also have significant ties to the Russian government, as well as sources connected directly to President Vladimir Putin.\nHalper did not respond to requests for comment.\nMr. Lovinger simply did what all Americans should expect of our civil servants\n\u201cWhen Mr. Lovinger raised concerns about DoD\u2019s misuse of Stefan Halper in 2016, he did so without any political designs or knowledge of Mr. Halper\u2019s spying activities,\u201d Bigley told SaraACarter.com. \u201cInstead, Mr. Lovinger simply did what all Americans should expect of our civil servants: he reported violations of law and a gross waste of public funds to his superiors.\u201d\nAnd for that, Bigley said, Lovinger has paid the ultimate price in his 12-year career as a strategist in the Pentagon\u2019s Office of Net Assessment. According to Bigley, shortly after Lovinger began reporting and asking questions about suspicious contracts given to Halper and others, including one person closely associated Chelsea Clinton, his security clearance was suspended. Later, on April 3, 2018, the DoD\u2019s Washington Headquarters Services Director Barbara Westgate sent a letter to Lovinger indefinitely suspending him from duty and pay status after his clearance was removed in March. The letter stated, \u201cThe purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that I am proposing to indefinitely suspend you from duty and pay status in your position as a Foreign Affairs Specialist.\u201d\nLovinger, who is married with three children and is the family\u2019s primary breadwinner, has been living off the generosity of family members since his pay was removed.\nThe retaliation for whistleblowing was something Bigley expected. \u201cSo, we weren\u2019t surprised when DoD bureaucrats moved shortly thereafter to strip Mr. Lovinger of both his security clearance and his detail to the National Security Council, where he had been Senior Director for Strategy as a by-name request of the incoming Trump Administration,\u201d said the attorney.\n\u201cYet, we were puzzled by the unprecedented ferocity of efforts to discredit Mr. Lovinger, including leaks from DoD of false and defamatory information to the press,\u201d he said. \u201cOur assumption was that the other contractor about whom Mr. Lovinger explicitly raised concerns \u2013 a close confidante of Hillary Clinton \u2013 was the reason for the sustained assault on Mr. Lovinger, and that certainly may have played a role.\u201d\nMr. Lovinger unwittingly shined a spotlight on the deep state\u2019s secret weapon\nBigley suspects it was more than the Clinton-connected contracts adding, \u201cMr. Lovinger unwittingly shined a spotlight on the deep state\u2019s secret weapon \u2013 Stefan Halper \u2013 and threatened to expose the truth about the Trump-Russia collusion narrative than being plotted: that it was all a set-up.\u201d\nHalper\u2019s Ties to Russian Officials Raise Serious Questions\nHalper has had a long career and worked in government with several GOP administrations. At 73, the elusive professor spent a career developing top-level government connections\u2013not just through academia but also through his work with members of the intelligence apparatus.\nThose contacts and the information Halper collected along the way would eventually, through apparent circumstance, become utilized by the FBI against the Trump campaign. But, it was during his time hosting the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar at the University of Cambridge where Halper shifted from a professor and former government consultant to FBI informant on the Trump campaign.\nIn 2016, Halper was an integral part of the FBI\u2019s investigation into short-term Trump campaign volunteer, Carter Page. Halper first made contact with Page at his seminar in July 2016. Page, who was already on the FBI\u2019s radar, was accused of being sympathetic to Russia and sought better relations between the U.S. and Russian officials. Halper stayed in contact with Page until September 2017.\nDuring that time, the FBI sought and obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to spy on Page and used Halper to collect information on him, according to sources. The House Intelligence Committee Russia report and documents obtained by this outlet revealed that the bulk of the warrant against Page relied heavily on an unverified dossier compiled by Former British Spy Christopher Steele and the matter is still under congressional investigation. Steele, who was a former MI6 agent, also had ties to many of the same people, like former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, who were part of the seminar.\nOn May 4, 2012, the course syllabus states, \u201cAmbassador Vladimir I. Trubnikov will comment on the challenges faced while directing the Foreign Intelligence Service, his tenure as Ambassador to India, President Putin and the likely course of Russia\u2019s relations with Britain and the U.S.\u201d\nIn May 2015, Trubnikov returned to teach with Halper at his seminar in Cambridge on \u201ccurrent relations between the Russian Federation and the West.\u201d Other notable intelligence experts attended the event in 2015, including Major Gen.Peter Williams, a former British commander of the mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany.\nHalper\u2019s partner in the seminar, Cambridge Professor Neil Kent has also espoused better relations with Russia and Putin in his writings and told Russia Today in a 2014 interview that \u201ceveryone is attacking and demonizing Russia.\u201d According to Kent\u2019s biography, he was a professor from 2002 to 2012 at Russia\u2019s St. Petersburg State Academic Institute.\nEven more interesting are reports from the British Media outlet, The Financial Times, that state Halper received funds for the Cambridge seminar from Russian billionaire Andrey Cheglakov, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cheglakov also funded Veruscript in 2016, which raised the suspicion of Dearlove and those connected to the seminar. Veruscript, a publisher for a Russian academic journal, was suspected by MI6 of being a front for Russian intelligence. Kent also happened to be the editor and chief of the journal. He published the inaugural article in the journal \u201cThe Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism\u201d blaming the West for the Russian invasion into Crimea but the journal closed down due to their suspicions.\nDearlove was also concerned \u201cthat Russia may be seeking to use the seminar as an impeccably credentialed platform to covertly steer debate and opinion on high-level sensitive defense and security topics,\u201d according to the Financial Times sources.\nA former senior intelligence official told this news outlet, \u201cIt\u2019s all smoke and mirrors. Halper was well aware when he was bringing in Trubnikov in 2012 that the Russian\u2019s were already there at his invitation. The FBI uses Halper to get more information on Trump aides but it\u2019s Halper who has the real connection to Russia.\u201d\nLovinger raised concerns with top officials at the Pentagon in 2016 and noted that Halper went far beyond his work as a contractor after he discovered that the amount of money the professor was being paid for his research did not make sense. Lovinger stressed his concern that Halper was not just being utilized as a contractor, but that he was also conducting diplomatic work for the Pentagon \u201cin violation of federal law,\u201d according to Bigley.\nIn one email from Stephan Halper to Andrew May, the second highest ranking official in Lovinger\u2019s office, Halper writes about a planned trip to conduct meetings in India.\n\u201cI am in Cambridge en route to India \u2013 arriving Saturday. So far 14 meetings have been scheduled with various parts of the political-military community. On Monday, a meeting is planned with the Delhi Policy Group where I will meet with Brigadier Seghal who is, apparently working with ONA (Office of Net Assessment) Can you tell me anything about him,\u201d according to the document obtained by SaraACarter.com.\nHalper and George Papadopoulos\nHalper was not only spying on Page for the FBI in 2016, but he had also made contact in September 2016 with another Trump campaign volunteer, George Papadopoulos. He invited Papadopoulos to London that September, luring him with a $3,000 paycheck to work on a research paper under contract. By this time the young Trump campaign volunteer had already been in contact London-based professor, Josef Mifsud, who had basically informed him that the Russians had damaging material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Misfud\u2019s role has also come into question by Congress.\nEventually, Papadopoulos was swept into Robert Mueller\u2019s Special Counsel investigation and pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. His wife, Simona Papadopoulos, who\u2019s been a vocal advocate for her husband, told SaraACarter.com that essentially he was forced to plead guilty because of threats from Mueller\u2019s team and lack of financial resources.\nAfter testifying behind closed doors last month to the House Intelligence Committee, Simona told this outlet that she testified to Congress \u201cas far as George is concerned, he met with individuals following the same pattern of behavior\u2026.and all of a sudden (Halper) was asking if he was doing anything with Russians\u2026. This is the case with Halper, who is now proven to be a spy, possibly with (Australian Ambassador) Alexander Downer\u201d who her husband met with in London.\nHalper and Michael Flynn\nThe investigation into Trump didn\u2019t start with Carter Page or George Papadapolous, but with Flynn\nFlynn\u2019s career with Trump ended as quickly as it came. He was forced to resign as Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor 27 days after taking the job. The highly classified conversation between Flynn and former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was leaked to the Washington Post in January 2017 and he was later questioned by the FBI on that conversation. According to former FBI Director James Comey, the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he was lying, but in the end, Flynn pled guilty to one count of lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He had already spent more than $1 million in lawyers fees and sold his home to help with the debt. According to sources, Flynn\u2019s family was being threatened by the Mueller team.\nHalper\u2019s involvement in the bureau\u2019s investigation started much earlier than the FBI\u2019s opening of its Crossfire investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016. He was already providing information on Page, Papadopolous, and Flynn earlier that year.\nAnd it was in 2016 when Halper had told the FBI that he witnessed concerning interactions between Russian academic, Svetlana Lokhova, and Flynn at the February 2014 seminar dinner. This suspicion \u2013 without any proof \u2013 was then leaked to papers in London and eventually discussed in the U.S. media. Lokhova told the BBC in May 2017 that when she first saw the allegations raised in the media she thought it was a joke.\nNumerous sources with knowledge of the allegations Halper made about Flynn, said that they were \u201cabsolutely\u201d false and that Flynn and Lokhova only spoke for a short time at the dinner. Several email exchanges between Lokhova, Flynn and his assistant that took place after the dinner were generic in nature, as Flynn had asked her for a copy of a historical 1930s postcard she had brought to the seminar.\n\u201cBut it didn\u2019t matter that it wasn\u2019t the truth,\u201d said the former senior intelligence official. \u201cIt was already out there because of Halper\u2019s allegations and the constant leaking and lying of false stories of those to the media.\u201d\nVeruscrip\nBBC in May 2017\nTrackback URL for this entry: http://kickthemallout.com/trackback.php/Whistleblower_Exposes_Key_Player_In_FBI_Russia_Probe-It_Was_All_A_Setup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 23804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kimbriggs.com/photo/florida/everglades-airboat-ride", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XSO5GDPIHZPIVYKJ4POKVFZH7367TLL7", "length": 1028, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kimbriggs.com", "title": "Everglades - Airboat Ride - kimbriggs.com", "raw_content": "Everglades - Airboat Ride\nIf you find yourself visiting the Florida Everglades, then a ride in an airboat is probably the best way to see unique landscape of the everglades. 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Under the new test, workers must meet all three criteria to be independent contractors: (1) free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in the performance of the work; (2) performing work outside the usual course of the hiring entity\u2019s business; and (3) customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. Workers must satisfy all three tests; otherwise, they must be classified as employees.\nTO DO: With this shift to a narrower test, many independent contractors may now be misclassified. We are happy to work with you to answer any questions you may have about this shift and to ensure that your employees and independent contractors are properly classified.\nNEW JERSEY: STATEWIDE MANDATORY PAID SICK LEAVE\nNew Jersey is enacting a statewide, mandatory paid sick leave law, effective October 29, 2018. The new law preempts the patchwork of local and city laws previously in place in New Jersey. 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With respect to most legal issues, lawyers are the legal system.\u201d\nGet to Know Milan Markovic\nI had originally wanted to be a philosopher, and my master\u2019s thesis concerned the moral implications of the term \u201ccollateral damage.\u201d During the course of my research, I became familiar with human rights law and wanted to learn more about it.\nI most enjoy challenging my students\u2019 conceptions of what lawyers do. The media rarely focuses on lawyers outside of litigation contexts, and advising a transactional or regulatory client is very different from making arguments in a courtroom.\nI hope they learn to approach legal issues from the perspective of a real client and to be able to understand and explain complex legal concepts in a manner that will be effective for that client.\nI was an associate at two large law firms based in New York City. I primarily focused on international business litigation. 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ALPADI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Respondent. | Home of ChanRobles Virtual Law Library", "raw_content": "G.R. No. 191025, July 31, 2013 - RHODORA PRIETO, Petitioner, v. ALPADI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Respondent.\nRHODORA PRIETO, Petitioner, v. ALPADI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Respondent.\nIn this Petition for Review\u00b7 on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, petitioner Rhodora Prieto (Prieto) seeks to annul and set aside the Decision1 dated August 28, 2009 and Resolution2 dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714, which (1) annulled and set aside, on the ground of grave abuse of discretion, the Orders dated March 8, 20053 and August 8, 20054 of the Regional Trial Court {RTC) of Manila, Branch 8, in Criminal Case No. 97-157752, granting Prieto's Demurrer to Evidence; and (2) reinstated and remanded said criminal case to the RTC for further trial.\nPrieto was employed as an accounting clerk and cashier of the Alpadi Group of Companies, composed of respondent Alpadi Development Corporation (ADC), Manufacturers Building, Incorporated (MBI), and Asian Ventures Corporation (AVC). ADC and MBI are both engaged in the business of leasing office spaces.\nPrieto was charged before the RTC with the crime of estafa in an Information5 dated May 13, 1997 that reads:\nThat in or about and during the year from 1992 up to 1994, inclusive, in the City of Manila, Philippines, the said accused did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously defraud ALPADI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a business entity duly organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, and doing business in said City, in the following manner, to wit: the said accused being then employed as cashier and accounting clerk of the said corporation, collected and received rental payments from the different tenants of Alpadi Development Corporation in the total amount of P544,858.64, under the express obligation on the part of said accused to account for and remit immediately the deposits and rentals due to said corporation, but the said accused, once in the possession of the said amount, far from complying with her aforesaid obligation, failed and refused and still fails and refuses to do so, despite repeated demands made upon her to that effect and instead, with intent to defraud, unfaithfulness and grave abuse of confidence, misappropriated, misapplied and converted the same to her own personal use and benefit, to the damage and prejudice of Alpadi Development Corporation represented by Angeles Manzano, in the aforesaid sum of P544,858.64, Philippine Currency.\nTrial ensued and the prosecution presented its evidence which included, among other things, the testimonies of Angeles A. Manzano (Manzano), Office Manager of ADC and MBI, and Jaime Clamar, Jr. (Clamar), Private Investigator; Prieto\u2019s \u201ckusang-loob na salaysay\u201d executed before Clamar on January 3, 1995, in which Prieto admitted collecting rental payments from the tenants of ADC and MBI, making it appear through fraudulent deposit slips that she deposited her collections in the bank accounts of ADC and MBI, and actually using said collections to pay for her household expenses and to lend to employees of Tri-Tran Transit; the fraudulent deposit slips; Clamar\u2019s Investigation Report dated July 18, 1995 recommending that Prieto be charged in court for estafa and be made to pay the amount she misappropriated; computation of Prieto\u2019s unremitted/undeposited rental collections prepared by Lourdes P. Roque, Supervising Director, and Manzano, Office Manager, with the conforme of Prieto; and Affidavit dated December 16, 1994 of Harry Chua Ga Haou, a tenant of MBI, stating that Prieto, personally and by a handwritten note, requested that rental payments be made in cash rather than checks.\nAfter resting its case, the prosecution filed its Formal Offer of Evidence, which was admitted by the RTC in an Order dated December 13, 2004. Prieto, represented by the Public Attorney\u2019s Office (PAO), asked for leave of court to file a Demurrer to Evidence. The RTC gave Prieto 20 days from December 13, 2004 within which to file her Demurrer to Evidence. The 20th day of the period was January 2, 2005, a Sunday, so Prieto could still file her Demurrer to Evidence on January 3, 2005, a Monday. Records show that Prieto filed her Demurrer to Evidence only on January 13, 2005.\nIn her Demurrer to Evidence, Prieto argued that she could not be convicted for estafa because (1) as an employee, her custody of the rental collections was precarious and for a temporary purpose or short period only, and the juridical or constructive possession of the said collections remained in her employer; and (2) there was no showing that demand was made upon Prieto to deliver or return the rental collections to ADC.\nIn an Order dated March 8, 2005, the RTC granted Prieto\u2019s Demurrer to Evidence, reasoning as follows:\nAccused being an employee of the complaining corporation, cannot be convicted of estafa because when accused received the rental payments from the tenants, she only received the material and physical possession of the money and the juridical possession remains in the owner. The position of accused is likened to that of a bank teller receiving money from the depositors.\nThe Supreme Court ruled in the case GUZMAN vs. CA (G.R. No. L-9572[,] July31, 1956) that:\n\u201cThe case cited by the Court of Appeals (People v. Locson, 57 Phil., 325), in support of its theory that appellant only had the material possession of the merchandise he was selling for his principal, or their proceeds, is not in point. In said case, the receiving teller of a bank who misappropriated money received by him for a bank, was held guilty of qualified theft on the theory that the possession of the teller is the possession of the bank. There is an essential distinction between the possession by a receiving teller of funds received from third persons paid to the bank, and an agent who receives the proceeds of sales of merchandise delivered to him in agency by his principal. In the former case, payment by third persons to the teller is payment to the bank itself; the teller is a mere custodian or keeper of the funds received, and has no independent right or title to retain or possess the same as against the bank. An agent, on the other hand, can even assert, as against his own principal, an independent, autonomous, right to retain the money or goods received in consequence of the agency; as when the principal fails to reimburse him for advances he has made, and indemnify him for damages suffered without his fault (Article 1915, new Civil Code; Article 1730, old).\u201d\nAccused in this case is not even an agent of the corporation but a cashier and accounting clerk. Payment of rentals by the tenants to the accused is also payment to the corporation because accused is only a cashier whose duties include the receipt of rentals due from the tenants.\nWHEREFORE, the Demurrer to Evidence is granted.\nOn the civil aspect of the case, set for hearing on May 25, 2005 and June 13, 2005 at 8:30 A.M.6cralaw virtualaw library\nADC, as the private complainant in Criminal Case No. 97-157752, filed a Motion for Reconsideration of the aforementioned RTC Order. The RTC, in an Order dated August 8, 2005, denied the Motion for Reconsideration, thus:\n[T]he Court is constrained to deny the [Motion for Reconsideration filed by private complainant] because the prosecution failed to prove all the elements of estafa with abuse of confidence under paragraph 1(b) of Art. 315 which are the following:\n1) That money, goods or other personal property be received by the offender in trust, or on commission, or for administration, or under any other obligation involving the duty to make delivery of, or to return, the same;chanr0blesvirtualawlibrary\n2) That there be misappropriation or conversion of such money or property by the offender, or denial on his part as such receipt;chanr0blesvirtualawlibrary\n3) That such misappropriation or conversion or denial is to the prejudice of another; and\n4) That there is a demand made by the offended party to the offender.\nIn this case, the prosecution failed to prove the first element. The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Burce vs. CA, supra, to wit:\n\u201cWhen the money, goods, or any other personal property is received by the offender from the offended party (1) in trust or (2) on commission or (3) for administration, the offender acquires both material or physical possession and juridical possession of the thing received. Juridical possession means a possession which gives the transferee a right over the thing which the transferee may set up even against the owner. In this case, petitioner was a cash custodian who was primarily responsible for the cash-in-vault. Her possession of the cash belonging to the bank is akin to that of a bank teller, both being mere bank employees.\u201d\nTo reiterate, when accused received the rental payments from the tenants, she only received the material and physical possession of the money and the juridical possession remains in the owner.\nIn view of the foregoing, [the] Motion for Reconsideration is hereby DENIED.\nADC sought recourse from the Court of Appeals by filing a Petition for Certiorari, docketed as CA-G.R. SP No. 91714. ADC averred that the RTC committed grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction in issuing the Orders dated March 8, 2005 and August 8, 2005, contrary to law and jurisprudence, and despite the overwhelming evidence on record proving Prieto\u2019s liability for estafa. ADC additionally pointed out that Prieto\u2019s Demurrer to Evidence was filed beyond the 20-day period granted by the RTC.\nPrieto, through the PAO, filed her Comment, arguing that: (1) the Petition for Certiorari of ADC was not anchored on any of the grounds provided under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court and failed to expressly indicate that there was no appeal, or any plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law, available; (2) ADC had no personality to file the Petition because only the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) may represent the Republic of the Philippines or the People, in criminal proceedings, before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court; and (3) the grant of the demurrer to evidence dismissed the criminal case and was equivalent to Prieto\u2019s acquittal, from which no appeal could be taken, as it would place Prieto in double jeopardy.\nThe OSG, on behalf of the People, eventually filed, in lieu of a Comment, a Manifestation and Motion ratifying and adopting the Petition for Certiorari of ADC. According to the OSG, in addition to Prieto\u2019s own confession, the prosecution had duly proven the elements of estafa. The cases cited by the RTC in its assailed Orders were inapplicable to Prieto\u2019s case. Also, since the grant of the demurrer to evidence is tantamount to an acquittal, albeit based on erroneous grounds and misinterpretation of law and jurisprudence, the remedy of appeal was not available to the People. Thus, the Petition for Certiorari was the proper remedy.\nThe Court of Appeals rendered its Decision on August 28, 2009 granting the Petition for Certiorari in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714 and finding that:\nEvidence on record strongly supports the People\u2019s argument that the cases cited by the trial court are inapplicable in this case. The elements of Estafa have been duly proven by the prosecution. Records reveal that [Prieto] had admitted having failed to remit the rentals from 1992 to 1994, or for a period of two (2) years. While it is a fact that she was instructed to have the rentals collected to be deposited on the day of the collection or the following day, however, since the misappropriation was discovered only after two (2) years, it only goes to show that she had the discretion as to when to have these rentals deposited or not to have them deposited at all. She had control as to the amount she wished to include as part of her collections, which led her to misappropriating the rental collections. The said misappropriation would not have been discovered only after 2 years had there not been a fiduciary relationship between [Prieto] and her employer. As such, she could not be considered not having juridical possession of the rentals she had collected. Clearly, the trial court erred in declaring that [Prieto] is likened to a bank teller, whose possession of the cash collections is merely physical. Contrary to such findings, [Prieto] in this case had physical or material possession and juridical possession with a duty to make delivery of the collections she received in trust.\nMoreover, it is well to note that the case of People vs. Benitez raised by [ADC], finds application in the instant case. In Benitez, the accused was employed as collector of rents of the houses owned by his employer. For two (2) months, the accused made several collections from his employer\u2019s tenants amounting to P540.00. Having failed to turn over said amount, or to account for it, to his employer, upon demand, the accused offered to work in the former\u2019s establishment, in the sum of P100.00, to be deducted from his salary every month until the whole amount of P540.00 is fully paid. The agreement was reduced to writing. However, after working for a few days, the accused did not report for work. His employer sent him a demand letter for the settlement of his account. As the accused failed to pay the amount of his obligation, a complaint for Estafa was filed against him, and for which he was convicted. The Supreme Court ratiocinates in this case that the failure to account upon demand, for funds or property held in trust is circumstantial evidence of misappropriation.7cralaw virtualaw library\nGiven the findings of the Court of Appeals that the RTC Orders were in contravention of law and settled jurisprudence and were, therefore, issued with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction, the appellate court held that its reversal of the grant of Demurrer to Evidence did not violate Prieto\u2019s right against double jeopardy, citing People v. Hon. Laguio, Jr.8 and Dayap v. Sendiong.9cralaw virtualaw library\nThe Court of Appeals lastly ruled, based on People v. Nano,10 that the filing of the Petition for Certiorari by ADC, instead of by the OSG, was a mere defect in form, which was cured when the OSG subsequently filed a Manifestation and Motion ratifying and adopting said Petition.\nWHEREFORE, finding grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction, as prayed for, the assailed Orders, of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 8, dated 08 March 2005 and 08 August 2005, in Criminal Case No. 97-157752, are hereby ANNULLED and SET ASIDE. Let the instant case be remanded to the RTC and reinstated for the reception of the defense evidence/further trial.11cralaw virtualaw library\nThe appellate court denied Prieto\u2019s Motion for Reconsideration in its Resolution dated November 12, 2009.\nThe PAO, Prieto\u2019s counsel before the RTC and the Court of Appeals, received a copy of the Resolution dated November 12, 2009 on November 24, 2009, hence, giving Prieto until December 9, 2009 to appeal the adverse judgment of the Court of Appeals to this Court. Atty. Allan Julius B. Azcueta (Azcueta), Public Attorney II of the PAO, filed on December 4, 2009 a Motion for Extension of Time to File Petition for Review on Certiorari before the Court, requesting an extension of 30 days from December 9, 2009, or until January 8, 2010, within which to file Prieto\u2019s appeal of the Decision dated August 28, 2009 and Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714. The Motion was docketed as G.R. No. 190282.\nHowever, on January 12, 2010, Atty. Azcueta filed before the Court a Manifestation with Motion, alleging that:\n3. On 06 January 2010, the petitioner, Rhodora Prieto, personally visited the undersigned counsel\u2019s office and after a thorough discussion of the case with her, [Prieto] had a change of heart and has decided not to further appeal her case anymore, considering that she still has the chance to present her evidence before the lower court and at the same time the chance to have the case settled amicably if the lower court allows;chanr0blesvirtualawlibrary\n4. After careful deliberation and exhaustive discussion with the undersigned counsel, [Prieto] is now voluntarily signifying her desire to withdraw the filing of the Petition for Review on Certiorari;chanr0blesvirtualawlibrary\n5. For this reason, the undersigned humbly and profusely apologizes for the inconvenience that the non-filing of the petition may have caused to this Honorable Court. The motion for extension was filed solely for the purpose of protecting and serving the interest of [Prieto].12cralaw virtualaw library\nAtty. Azcueta then prayed for the Court to note the Manifestation with Motion and to dispense with the filing of the Petition for Review on Certiorari.\nIn its Resolution dated February 10, 2010 in G.R. No. 190282, the Court resolved:\nto NOTE the manifestation of Public Attorney\u2019s Office that [Prieto] decided not to appeal her case considering that she still has the chance to present her evidence before the lower court and at the same time has the chance to have the case amicably settled;chanr0blesvirtualawlibrary\nto GRANT the said counsel\u2019s motion to withdraw the filing of the petition for review on certiorari ; and\nto consider this case CLOSED and TERMINATED.13\nEntry of Judgment was eventually made in G.R. No. 190282 on April 5, 2010.\nMeanwhile, also on February 10, 2010, Prieto, through another counsel, Atty. Xilexferen P. Barroga (Barroga) of Barroga, Nario & Associates Law Offices, filed the instant Petition for Review on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, praying for the reversal of the Decision dated August 28, 2009 and Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714 and the reinstatement of the Orders dated March 8, 2005 and August 8, 2005 of the RTC in Criminal Case No. No. 97-157752. The Petition is docketed as G.R. No. 191025.\nTo justify the timeliness of the filing of her Petition in G.R. No. 191025 on February 10, 2012, Prieto alleges that she received a copy of the Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals, denying her Motion for Reconsideration, only on January 26, 2010, mailed to her by the PAO.\nIn the present Petition, Prieto insists that she was a mere employee with continuing instruction from ADC to deposit the rental payments either on the same day or the day after collection, and she could not have validly retained control of the amounts collected because ownership of the same still belonged to ADC. Prieto goes on to argue that without juridical possession of the rental payments she collected, she cannot be convicted of estafa since an essential element of the crime is lacking.\nIn a Resolution14 dated March 3, 2010, the Court, without necessarily giving due course to the Petition in G.R. No. 191025, required ADC to file its Comment.\nADC, in its Comment, prays for the outright denial of the Petition on the following grounds: (1) G.R. Nos. 190282 and 191025 both involve Prieto\u2019s appeal of the Decision dated August 28, 2009 and Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714, and in the Resolution dated February 10, 2010, the Court already granted Prieto\u2019s motion to withdraw the Petition in G.R. No. 190282 and considered G.R. No. 190282 closed and terminated; (2) even with the grant of Prieto\u2019s previous motion for extension of time, she only had until January 8, 2010 within which to appeal the adverse judgment of the Court of Appeals in CA- G.R. SP No. 91714, so the filing of the Petition in G.R. No. 191025 on February 10, 2010 was already out of time; and (3) Prieto\u2019s arguments in her Petition in G.R. No. 191025 merely rehash or restate those already resolved by the Court of Appeals.\nPrieto claims in her Reply that she was not aware that Atty. Azcueta filed a Motion for Extension of Time to file a Petition for Review, docketed as G.R. No. 190282 and that she did not authorize Atty. Azcueta to file a Manifestation with Motion withdrawing her appeal of the adverse judgment of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714. According to Prieto, she went to the PAO from time to time to follow-up on her case, but she felt that her case was not being diligently attended to, so she decided to hire the services of a private lawyer with money raised by her relatives. When she asked for a copy of the Court of Appeals Resolution dated November 12, 2009 denying her Motion for Reconsideration, she was told by the PAO that a copy of the same would be sent to her through mail. She received a copy of said Resolution only on January 26, 2010, giving her until February 10, 2010 to appeal. Consequently, her Petition in G.R. No. 191025 filed on February 10, 2010 was filed within the reglementary period.\nAt the outset, the Court notes that both G.R. Nos. 190282 and 191025 involve Prieto\u2019s appeal of the Decision dated August 28, 2009 and Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714. On February 10, 2010, the motion to withdraw the appeal in G.R. No. 190282, filed by the PAO, was granted by the Court; and on the same date, the Petition in G.R. No. 191025 was filed by Prieto\u2019s new counsel.\nThe Court hereby outrightly denies Prieto\u2019s Petition in G.R. No. 191025 for being filed out of time, without the need of delving into the propriety of the institution of G.R. No. 191025 in light of the previous withdrawal of G.R. No. 190282.\nThe reglementary period for filing a Petition for Review on Certiorari is set forth in Rule 45, Section 2 of the Rules of Court, which provides:\nSEC. 2. Time for filing; extension. \u2014 The petition shall be filed within fifteen (15) days from notice of the judgment or final order or resolution appealed from, or of the denial of the petitioner\u2019s motion for new trial or reconsideration filed in due time after notice of judgment. On motion duly filed and served, with full payment of the docket and other lawful fees and the deposit for costs before the expiration of the reglementary period, the Supreme Court may for justifiable reasons grant an extension of thirty (30) days only within which to file the petition.\nIn this case, Prieto, through her counsel of record, the PAO, received a copy of the Resolution denying her Motion for Reconsideration of the adverse judgment of the Court of Appeals on November 24, 2009. The 15-day period to appeal would have ended on December 9, 2009, but with the 30-day extension period prayed for by the PAO in G.R. No. 190282, the last day for filing the appeal was moved to January 8, 2010. Clearly, the filing of the Petition in G.R. No. 191025 by Prieto\u2019s new counsel was already beyond the reglementary period for appeal.\nTime and again the Court has declared that the right to appeal is neither a natural right nor a part of due process. It is merely a statutory privilege and may be exercised only in the manner and in accordance with the provisions of law. Thus, one who seeks to avail of the right to appeal must comply with the requirements of the Rules. Failure to do so often leads to the loss of the right to appeal.15cralaw virtualaw library\nPrieto prays for the liberal application of the rules of procedure and posits that the 15-day reglementary period be counted from January 26, 2010, the day she actually received a copy of the Resolution denying her Motion for Reconsideration of the adverse judgment of the Court of Appeals, sent to her through mail by the PAO.\nThe Court is not persuaded.\nIn National Power Corporation v. Laohoo,16 the Court pronounced that:\nThe rules provide that if a party is appearing by counsel, service upon him shall be made upon his counsel or one of them unless service upon the party himself is ordered by the court. x x x.\nThe general rule is that a client is bound by the acts, even mistakes, of his counsel in the realm of procedural technique. The exception to this rule is when the negligence of counsel is so gross, reckless and inexcusable that the client is deprived of his day in court. The failure of a party\u2019s counsel to notify him on time of the adverse judgment to enable him to appeal therefrom is negligence, which is not excusable. Notice sent to counsel of record is binding upon the client, and the neglect or failure of counsel to inform him of an adverse judgment resulting in the loss of his right to appeal is not a ground for setting aside a judgment valid and regular on its face.\nTo sustain petitioner\u2019s self-serving argument that it cannot be bound by its counsel\u2019s negligence would set a dangerous precedent, as it would enable every party-litigant to render inoperative any adverse order or decision of the courts, through the simple expedient of alleging gross negligence on the part of its counsel. (Citations omitted.)\nThe Court further elucidated in People v. Kawasa and Salido17 on why it is not easily swayed by assertions of gross negligence or mistake on the part of the counsel that should not bind the client:\nIf indeed accused-appellant felt and believed that his counsel was inept, that he should have taken action, such as discharging him earlier, instead of waiting until an adverse decision was handed, and thereupon heap all blame and condemnation on his counsel, who cannot now be heard to defend himself. This cannot be allowed, for to do otherwise would result in a situation where all a defeated party would have to do to salvage his case is to claim neglect or mistake on the part of his counsel as a ground for reversing an adverse judgment. There would be no end to litigation if this were allowed as every shortcoming of counsel could be the subject of challenge by his client through another counsel who, if he is also found wanting, would likewise be disowned by the same client through another counsel, and so on ad infinitum. This would render court proceedings indefinite, tentative, and subject to reopening at any time by the mere subterfuge of replacing counsel. x x x.\nPrieto herein not only alleges mistake or negligence on the part of the PAO, but more seriously, attributes to her former counsel deliberate acts which deprived her of her right to appeal, i.e., refusing to give her a copy of the Resolution dated November 12, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA- G.R. SP No. 91714 and misrepresenting to the Court that it was authorized by Prieto to withdraw her appeal in G.R. No. 190282. However, other than Prieto\u2019s bare allegations, there is no other evidence of the purported detrimental acts of the PAO. In addition, Prieto\u2019s allegations are so contrary to the past conduct of the PAO, which diligently represented her before the RTC, the Court of Appeals, and even up to this Court, with the PAO even timely filing the Motion for Extension of Time to File Petition for Review on Certiorari before this Court, docketed as G.R. No. 190282.\nIt must be stressed that anyone seeking exemption from the application of the reglementary period for filing an appeal has the burden of proving the existence of exceptionally meritorious instances warranting such deviation.18 Parties praying for the liberal interpretation of the rules must be able to hurdle that heavy burden of proving that they deserve an exceptional treatment. It was never the Court\u2019s intent \u201cto forge a bastion for erring litigants to violate the rules with impunity.\u201d19 Unfortunately for Prieto, she was unable to discharge this burden of proof.\nProcedural rules should not be so easily brushed aside with the mere averment of the \u201chigher interest of justice,\u201d as the Court discussed in Building Care Corp./Leopard Security & Investigation Agency v. Macaraeg20:\nIt should be emphasized that the resort to a liberal application, or suspension of the application of procedural rules, must remain as the exception to the well-settled principle that rules must be complied with for the orderly administration of justice. In Marohomsalic v. Cole, the Court stated:\nWhile procedural rules may be relaxed in the interest of justice, it is well-settled that these are tools designed to facilitate the adjudication of cases. The relaxation of procedural rules in the interest of justice was never intended to be a license for erring litigants to violate the rules with impunity. Liberality in the interpretation and application of the rules can be invoked only in proper cases and under justifiable causes and circumstances. While litigation is not a game of technicalities, every case must be prosecuted in accordance with the prescribed procedure to ensure an orderly and speedy administration of justice.\nThe later case of Daikoku Electronics Phils., Inc. v. Raza, further explained that:\nTo be sure, the relaxation of procedural rules cannot be made without any valid reasons proffered for or underpinning it. To merit liberality, petitioner must show reasonable cause justifying its non-compliance with the rules and must convince the Court that the outright dismissal of the petition would defeat the administration of substantial justice. x x x. The desired leniency cannot be accorded absent valid and compelling reasons for such a procedural lapse. x x x.\nWe must stress that the bare invocation of \u201cthe interest of substantial justice\u201d line is not some magic want that will automatically compel this Court to suspend procedural rules. Procedural rules are not to be belittled, let alone dismissed simply because their non-observance may have resulted in prejudice to a party\u2019s substantial rights. Utter disregard of the rules cannot be justly rationalized by harping on the policy of liberal construction. (Emphases and citations omitted.)\nPrieto cannot claim that she had been deprived of her day in court when her arguments in support of her Demurrer to Evidence had been heard by the RTC and the Court of Appeals. Moreover, she does not lose her liberty at this point for she still has the opportunity to present evidence in her defense before the RTC in the continuation of the proceedings in Criminal Case No. 97-157752.\nWith the withdrawal of the appeal in G.R. No. 190282 and the belated filing of the Petition in G.R. No. 191025, the Decision dated August 28, 2009 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 91714, reversing the grant by the RTC of Prieto\u2019s Demurrer to Evidence and reinstating Criminal Case No. 97-157752, had become final and executory, thus, immutable. As the Court declared in Lalican v. Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd.21:\nA judgment becomes \u201cfinal and executory\u201d by operation of law. Finality becomes a fact when the reglementary period to appeal lapses and no appeal is perfected within such period. As a consequence, no court (not even this Court) can exercise appellate jurisdiction to review a case or modify a decision that has become final. When a final judgment is executory, it becomes immutable and unalterable. It may no longer be modified in any respect either by the court, which rendered it or even by this Court. The doctrine is founded on considerations of public policy and sound practice that, at the risk of occasional errors, judgments must become final at some definite point in time. (Citations omitted.)\nWHEREFORE, the Petition is DENIED for being filed out of time.\nSereno C.J., (Chairperson), Bersamin, Villarama, Jr., and Reyes, JJ., concur.\n1Rollo, pp. 20-32; penned by Associate Justice Romeo F. Barza with Associate Justices Remedios A. Salazar-Fernando and Isaias P. Dicdican, concurring.\n8 547 Phil. 296, 309-310 (2007).nadcralawlibrary\n9 G.R. No. 177960, January 29, 2009, 577 SCRA 134, 146-147.redcralaw\n10 G.R. No. 94639, January 13, 1992, 205 SCRA 155, 159.\n[14 Id. at 88-89.\n15Basuel v. Fact-Finding and Intelligence Bureau (FFIB), 526 Phil. 608, 613-614 (2006).\n18Neplum, Inc. v. 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California Computer Science Education Month.\nThis measure would designate the month of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education Month. The measure would encourage schools, teachers, researchers, universities, business leaders, and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to receive cutting-edge professional development to provide sustainable learning experiences in computer science education, and would encourage the exposure of pupils to computer science concepts. The measure would also encourage opportunities to be provided for females and underrepresented minorities in computer science.\nWHEREAS, California Computer Science Education Month highlights the crucial role that computer science plays in transforming our society, and also highlights how computer science enables innovation and creates economic opportunities; and\nWHEREAS, Computing technology is an integral part of modern culture, and is transforming how people interact with each other and the world around them; and\nWHEREAS, Computer science builds students\u2019 computational, critical thinking, and deeper learning skills, which enables them to understand and create, and not simply use, the next generation of technological tools; and\nWHEREAS, Computer science is transforming industry, bolstering productivity in established economic sectors, and driving job creation and innovation throughout our state\u2019s economy; and\nWHEREAS, Providing access to computer science education is a critical step for ensuring that California remains competitive in the global economy and strengthens its cybersecurity; and\nWHEREAS, The outlook for computer science jobs is bright, with over 500,000 open computing positions across the country; and\nWHEREAS, Participation in high-quality computer science activities exposes students to the rich opportunities the field offers; and\nWHEREAS, Computing occupations make up two-thirds of all projected new jobs in STEM fields, making computer science one of the most in-demand college majors; and\nWHEREAS, Computer science education has challenges to address, including counting computer science classes towards high school graduation requirements and providing professional development for computer science teachers; and\nWHEREAS, There are fewer advanced placement (AP) examinations taken in computer science than in any other STEM subject area; and\nWHEREAS, The field of computer science has significant equity barriers to address, including attracting more participation by females and underrepresented minorities to all levels and branches; and\nWHEREAS, Student exposure to computer science at a young age has the potential to address the diversity gap in computer science fields; and\nWHEREAS, Girls who take an AP computer science course in high school are 10 times more likely to major in computer science in college. African American and Latino pupils who take the course in high school are over seven times more likely to major in computer science in college; and\nWHEREAS, In September, the State Board of Education will be presented with Computer Science Standards for potential adoption and recommendations for implementation of computer science education across the state\u2019s K\u201312 system developed by the computer science strategic implementation plan panel; and\nWHEREAS, In September, the Instructional Quality Commission will be presented with a draft computer science strategic implementation plan; now, therefore, be it\nResolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the month of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education Month; and be it further\nResolved, That the Legislature supports the designation of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education Month; and be it further\nResolved, That the Legislature encourages schools, teachers, researchers, universities, business leaders, and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to receive cutting-edge professional development to provide sustainable learning experiences in computer science at all educational levels and encourages the exposure of pupils to computer science concepts; and be it further\nResolved, That the Legislature encourages opportunities, including those provided through existing programs, to be provided for females and underrepresented minorities in computer science; and be it further", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAM§ionNum=6320", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:KD2MEVC2CAHMU2L5GPWEWNFSGE53R5W6", "length": 1729, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Law section", "raw_content": "PART 4. PROTECTIVE ORDERS AND OTHER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ORDERS [6300 - 6389]\nCHAPTER 2. Issuance of Orders [6320 - 6361]\n( Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 154. )\nARTICLE 1. Ex Parte Orders [6320 - 6327]\n( Article 1 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 154. )\n(a) The court may issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from molesting, attacking, striking, stalking, threatening, sexually assaulting, battering, credibly impersonating as described in Section 528.5 of the Penal Code, falsely personating as described in Section 529 of the Penal Code, harassing, telephoning, including, but not limited to, making annoying telephone calls as described in Section 653m of the Penal Code, destroying personal property, contacting, either directly or indirectly, by mail or otherwise, coming within a specified distance of, or disturbing the peace of the other party, and, in the discretion of the court, on a showing of good cause, of other named family or household members.\n(b) On a showing of good cause, the court may include in a protective order a grant to the petitioner of the exclusive care, possession, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by either the petitioner or the respondent or a minor child residing in the residence or household of either the petitioner or the respondent. The court may order the respondent to stay away from the animal and forbid the respondent from taking, transferring, encumbering, concealing, molesting, attacking, striking, threatening, harming, or otherwise disposing of the animal.\n(Repealed (in Sec. 1) and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 260, Sec. 2. (AB 157) Effective January 1, 2014. Section operative July 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=INS&division=2.&title=&part=2.&chapter=6.&article=3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:PEWRKGPNGX6YJZJGXRQRKM37PFT4KBSV", "length": 4027, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Codes Display Text", "raw_content": "CHAPTER 6. Incorporated Life Insurers Issuing Policies on a Reserve Basis [10510 - 10541]\nARTICLE 3. Premiums and Premium Accounts [10540 - 10541]\nAn incorporated life insurer issuing life insurance policies on the reserve basis may collect premiums in advance. Such insurers may also accept moneys for the payment of future premiums related to any policies issued by it. No such insurer may accept such moneys in an amount to exceed (1) the sum of future unpaid premiums on any such policy or (2) the sum of 10 such future unpaid annual premiums on any such policy if such sum is less than the sum of future unpaid premiums on any such policy. This section shall not limit the right of such insurers to accept funds under an agreement which provides for an accumulation of such funds for the purpose of purchasing annuities at future dates.\n(a) Insurers authorized to deliver or issue for delivery life insurance policies in this state may deliver or issue for delivery one or more funding agreements, but the issuance or delivery of those funding agreements shall not be deemed to be doing the insurance business described in Section 700, a class of business as provided in Section 100 or 101, a \u201csecurity\u201d as defined in Section 821, or receipt of \u201cgross premiums\u201d as defined in Section 12221 or 12222 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Notwithstanding the definition of \u201cinsurance\u201d in Section 22 or the definition of \u201clife insurance\u201d in Section 101, the issuance or delivery of a funding agreement by an admitted life insurer in this state shall constitute a lawful activity of that insurer that is reasonably related to and incidental to its insurance activities as provided in this section. However, this section shall not authorize any insurer to transact, under the guise of funding agreements, any class of insurance not authorized by its certificate of authority.\n(b) As used in this section, the term \u201cfunding agreement\u201d means an agreement that authorizes an admitted life insurer to accept funds and that provides for an accumulation of those funds for the purpose of making one or more payments at future dates in amounts that are not based on mortality or morbidity contingencies. However, the term \u201cfunding agreement\u201d does not include any agreement in connection with the funding of one or more payments that are excludable from the gross income of the recipient under Section 104(a)(2) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, as it may be amended or renumbered from time to time.\n(c) No amounts shall be guaranteed or credited under any funding agreement except upon reasonable assumptions as to investment income and expenses and on a basis equitable to all holders of funding agreements of a given class.\n(d) Amounts paid to the insurer, and proceeds applied under optional modes of settlement, under those funding agreements may be allocated by the insurer to one or more separate accounts pursuant to Section 10506.\n(e) The commissioner may establish reasonable conditions or adopt reasonable regulations relating to (1) the reserves to be maintained by insurers issuing those funding agreements, (2) the accounting and reporting of funds credited under those funding agreements, (3) the disclosure of information to be given to holders and prospective holders of those funding agreements, (4) the qualification of persons selling those funding agreements on behalf of insurers, and (5) any other matters relating to funding agreements that the commissioner considers necessary, proper, and advisable.\n(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner shall have sole authority to regulate the issuance and sale of those funding agreements, including the persons selling those funding agreements on behalf of insurers.\n(g) Nothing in this section is intended to affect the order in which allowed claims shall be given preference under Section 1033. 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This may be accomplished by:\nproviding on-street parking;\nconstructing off-street car parks;\nrequiring that developments include enough parking spaces to serve their tennants and/or customers;\nsetting and enforcing parking restrictions;\nmaintaining line marking & signage associated with parking facilities.\nTraffic Management and Parking Facilities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=410844", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SPCVUFPE2EJPLFMTP2V2OF5RZXYGKXAM", "length": 5616, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "libguides.brown.edu", "title": "Home - Sidney S. Rider Collection on Rhode Island History - LibGuides at Brown University", "raw_content": "Sidney Rider's Serial Publications\nThe Literary News\nRhode Island Historical Tracts\nThe Dorr Rebellion\nA significant portion of the Rider collection pertains to Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion (1841-1843), and (as noted in the Manuscripts section of this guide) includes Dorr's personal correspondence, prison writings and artifacts from the rebellion. In this box, other local resources that document the Dorr Rebellion are outlined.\nDorr Rebellion digital collection (Providence College)\nA digital collection created by the Phillips Memorial Library at Providence College in collaboration with PC faculty member Erik J. Chaput, with the contribution of manuscript materials held in the John Hay Library.\nThe Dorr Rebellion in Chepachet (Chepachet Free Will Baptist Church)\nA historical piece by Clifford W. Brown, jr., describing events of the Rebellion as they unfolded in the village of Chapachet, with particular regard to the role of the Free Will Baptist Church and the Meeting House. Includes transcriptions of eyewitness testimony.\nStrange Bedfellows: The Politics of Race in Antebellum Rhode Island\nA scholarly article by Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone, published in Vol. 10, no. 2 (January 2010) of the online journal Common-Place.\nRhode Island Sheet Music Index\nPrepared by Sarah Shaw, this index is a guide to Rhode Island material found in the Hay Library's extensive collection of sheet music.\nIntroduction to Sidney S. Rider\nSidney Smith Rider, born in 1833, moved to Rhode Island with his family at the age of 12. Apprenticed to Providence bookseller Charles Burnett, he quickly developed a penchant for printed matter and all things Rhode Island. Once he took over the shop from Burnett and established himself in trade as a bookseller, he became a noted collector of Rhode Islandiana.\nThe Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island by the turn of the 20th century, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the Brown University Library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider by then had amassed a collection of manuscript and printed materials documenting the history and print culture of Rhode Island from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. The collection includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, scrapbooks and newspapers compiled over 50 years of collecting. Notable among the ephemera are posters, cartoons, playbills, ballots, carrier's addresses, theater programs, tax bills, lottery tickets, death notices, and funeral invitations.\nSidney S. Rider and the Business of Rhode Island History\nArticle by Russell J. DeSimone and Erik J. Chaput, posted to the web by The Online Review of Rhode Island History\nBroadsides in the Sidney S. Rider Collection have been digitized, and can be searched and viewed in the Brown Digital Repository. They are also catalogued, and can be searched in JOSIAH. An author search for \"rider collection (brown university) broadsides\" pulls up a complete listing.\nPLEASE NOTE: When searching for Dorr Rebellion broadsides, we recommend you consult the following works of Russell J. DeSimone:\nThe Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion (1992) [with Daniel C. Schofield]\nBroadsides of the Dorr Rebellion: A Bibliographical Checklist (1992)\nPapers of Thomas Allen Jenckes\nBrown alumnus (1838), lawyer, state legislator, and Member of Congress, best known for the 1870 Congressional bill that created the U. S. Department of Justice. (NOTE: the Hay Library also holds a related collection of Jenckes manuscripts that is not part of the Rider Collection).\nPapers of Thomas Wilson Dorr\nComprises approximately 600 items (letters, speeches, notes, drafts, pamphlets, clippings) for the period 1826-1854. The papers include material pertaining to the equal suffrage movement, electoral politics, legislative apportionment, state militia, banking, and the adoption of a state constitution in Rhode Island.\nDocuments and Notes of Benjamin Tucker Eames\nComprises material largely separated from bound volumes in the Rider Collection\nRider Collection Manuscripts, 1666-1883\nApproximately 7000 letters, documents and business papers spanning 200 years of Rhode Island history\nPapers of Sidney S. Rider, Bookseller\n150 letters, primarily about books and their sale\nMiscellaneous Papers of Sidney S. Rider\nBooks in the Rider collection have online records in JOSIAH. However, there is currently no way to pull up a complete title list. Rider volumes can be identified in JOSIAH by the location code \"Hay Rider\"\nRider pamphlets have online records in JOSIAH. However, there is currently no way to pull up a complete title list of the pamphlets. Rider pamphlets are shelved in boxes, and their call numbers consist of the box location and the item number.\nGraphic prints and photographs in the Rider Collection are classified but do not have online catalog records, and therefore cannot be searched in JOSIAH. Please consult the Hay Staff for assistance.\nSidney S. Rider compiled numerous scrapbooks which formed part of the collection given to Brown by Marsden Perry. At some point in the 1990s, it was decided to take a number of the scrapbooks apart and re-process the materials for other portions of the collection, notably as manuscripts or broadsides.\nItems formerly housed in Rider scrapbooks can be identified by searching JOSIAH by \"word\" for \"R. 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Niesen returns for his fourth season with Long Island, while Jannis and Komatsu will make their Ducks debut in 2015.\n\u201cEric has been a key contributor to our pitching staff over the past three seasons,\u201d says Ducks President/GM Michael Pfaff. \u201cWe look forward to having him back as well as welcoming both Mickey and Erik to our club.\u201d\nNiesen spent the entire 2014 season with the Ducks, appearing in a team-high and career best 59 games out of the bullpen. The southpaw compiled a 4-3 record with a 3.06 ERA and 65 strikeouts in 53 innings of work. He made 15 consecutive appearances without allowing an earned run twice during the year (April 25-May 23 and June 6-July 18). The Michigan native began 2013 with Long Island and went 4-0 with a 3.23 ERA in 35 games. He was then signed by the Boston Red Sox organization and went on to pitch 12 games with Double-A Portland and two with Triple-A Pawtucket.\nThe 29-year-old\u2019s first season with the Ducks came in 2012 when he posted a 3-2 record with a 3.89 ERA in 57 games (two starts), helping the Flock to the first of two consecutive Atlantic League championships. The Wake Forest Alum has played eight seasons of professional baseball, including five with the New York Mets where he reached as high as Double-A Binghamton. Niesen was originally drafted by the Mets in the third round of the 2007 amateur draft.\nJannis comes to the Ducks after splitting time in 2014 with the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League and the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League. He made 12 starts with Lake Erie, going 3-4 with a 4.45 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 64 and two-thirds innings. Upon shifting to Southern Maryland, the Nevada native compiled a 4-1 record over 10 starts with a 2.37 ERA, one complete game and 36 strikeouts in 57 innings of work.\nThe right-hander began his career in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, reaching as high as Single-A Charlotte. He went on to pitch with Lake Erie in 2012 and 2013 and made 10 appearances with the Bridgeport Bluefish in 2013. Overall, the 27-year-old knuckleballer has a 24-20 career record with a 3.14 ERA, 14 saves and 311 strikeouts in 139 games (37 starts). Jannis was originally drafted by the Rays in the 44th round of the 2010 amateur draft.\nKomatsu brings 30 games of Major League experience to the Ducks. He split time with the St. Louis Cardinals and Minnesota Twins in 2012, combining for 11 hits, one RBI, five runs and six walks in 51 at bats. The California native has also spent time with the Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels organizations during his seven year career.\nThe 27-year-old combined to play 99 games with four different teams at the Double-A and Triple-A level in 2014, totaling six home runs, 25 RBI, 24 runs and nine doubles. His best season came in 2010 with Brevard County (A+, Brewers) when he posted career highs in nearly every offensive category and was named a Midseason and Postseason All-Star. In 494 minor league games, Komatsu has a .279 batting average, 33 homers, 206 RBI, 477 hits, 90 doubles and a .989 fielding percentage. 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I'm a mama, writer, teacher, and photographer living a long, long way from who recently moved back to where I grew up. I'm married to a professional life saver and have a blue-eyed daughter whose favorite toys are Mardi Gras beads.\nMy interests include faith (especially how it relates to culture), living a creative life, integrating work and motherhood, keeping a house, red wine, and generally living well. I love to read. I am recovering from my addiction to internet challenges like this one and this one.\nI thank you for stopping by. Leave me a note to let me know you were here. 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The investment will allow FAIRshare to expand its operations in the area, introducing a new information point, partnering local schools to introduce School Saver Clubs run by pupils and offering payroll saving partnerships with local employers.\nCouncillor Jackie Loveridge, Chair of Stirchley & Brookside Parish Council said: \u201cFAIRshare Credit Union does an excellent job in helping local people build up savings, avoid falling into the trap of high-interest loans and manage their finances, so they have more money to spend in the local economy or to save for the future.\n\u201cBy investing in FAIRshare, Parish Council reserves that would usually be earning minimal interest will now be invested ethically for the benefit of local people and our community.\n\u201cHelping FAIRshare do more for local people seems a great way to celebrate our first 30 years.\u201d\nJohn Harrower, General Manager of FAIRshare Credit Union said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted that the Stirchley & Brookside Parish Council has decided to invest in FAIRshare and congratulate them on their 30th birthday. Investment in FAIRshare keeps money in the local area and helps us help other local people.\n\u201cWe currently have more than 350 FAIRshare members in the parish, more than a third of whom have a loan with FAIRshare. By working in partnership with the parish council and the local community we hope to bring our services to many more local residents\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lordschosenremnant.org/bible-topics/a-great-persecuting-power/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:48Z", "digest": "sha1:V6QGVVJHQDXOU5JLONVIMXML7U6UDYA3", "length": 6930, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "lordschosenremnant.org", "title": "A Great Persecuting Power |", "raw_content": "A Great Persecuting Power\nWHAT is the first symbol of Revelation 13?\n\u201cAnd I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.\u201d Rev. 13:1.\nNOTES.-As already learned from studying the book of Daniel, a beast in prophecy represents some great earthly power or kingdom; a head, a governing power; horns, a number of kingdoms; crowned heads or crowned horns, political rulership; waters, \u201cpeoples, and multitudes and nations, and tongues. Rev. 17:15.\n\u201cThe beasts of Daniel and John are empires. The ten-horned beast is the Roman power. . . . The head is the governing power of the body. The heads of this beast represent successive governments,\u201d- \u201cRomanism and the Reformation,\u201d by H. Grattan Guinness, pages 144, 145.\nHow is this beast further described?\n\u201cAnd the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion.\u201d Rev. 13:2, first part.\nNOTES.-These are the characteristics of the first three symbols of Daniel 7,-the lion, bear, and leopard there representing the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Grecia,-and suggest this beast as representing or belonging to the kingdom symbolized by the fourth beast of Daniel 7, or Rome. Both have ten horns. Like the dragon of Revelation 12, it also has seven heads; but as the dragon symbolized Rome in its entirety, particularly in its pagan phase, this, like the \u201clittle horn\u201d coming up among the ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel 7, represents Rome in its later or papal form. Both it and the little horn have \u201ca mouth\u201d speaking great things; both make war upon the saints; both continue for the same length of time.\nAllowing a very broad meaning to the symbol, the Douay or Catholic Bible, in a note on Rev. 13:1, explains the seven heads of this beast as follows: \u201cThe seven heads are seven kings, that is, seven principal kingdoms or empires, which have exercised, or shall exercise, tyrannical power over the people of God: of these, five were then fallen, viz., the Egyptian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies; one was present, viz., the empire of Rome; and the seventh and chiefest was to come, viz., the great Antichrist and his empire.\u201d That the seventh head represents Antichrist there can be little doubt, See Satan\u2019s Warfare Against the Church Study.\nWhat did the dragon give this beast?\n\u201cAnd the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.\u201d Rev. 13:2, latter part.\nNOTE.-It is an undisputed fact of history that under the later Roman emperors, beginning with Constantine, the religion of the Roman government was changed from pagan to papal; that when Constantine removed the seat of his empire from Rome to Constantinople in 330 A.D., the city of Rome was given up to the bishop of Rome, who, from Constantine and succeeding emperors, received rich gifts and great authority; that after the fall of Rome, in 476 A.D., the bishop of Rome became the ruling power in Western Rome and by decree of Justinian, March 15, 533, was declared \u201chead of all the holy churches,\u201d and in a letter of the same year he was designated as \u201ccorrector of heretics.\u201d See Chapter 51. of this book. Thus Rome pagan became Rome papal; the seat of pagan Rome became the seat of papal Rome; church and state were united; and the persecuting power of the dragon was conferred upon the professed head of the church of Christ, or papal Rome. As Dr. H. Grattan Guinness, in his \u201cRomanism and the Reformation,\u201d page 152 says, \u201cThe power of the Caesars lived again in the universal dominion of the popes.\u201d\nHow are the character, work, period of supremacy, and great power of the beast described?\n\u201cAnd there was given into him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.\u201d Rev. 13:5-7.\nNOTE.-All these specifications have been fully and accurately met in the Papacy, and identify this beast as representing the same power as that represented by the little horn phase of the fourth beast of Daniel 7, and the little horn of Daniel 8, in its chief and essential features and work. See Dan. 7:25; 8:11, 12, 24, 25. See readings in The Kingdom and Work of Antichrist and Vicar of Christ Study. For an explanation of the time period mentioned, see readings in The Kingdom and Work of Antichrist and Vicar of Christ Study.\nWhat was to be inflicted upon one of the heads of this beast?\n\u201cAnd I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.\u201d Rev. 13:3.\nNOTE.-This wound was inflicted upon the papal head of this beast when the French, in 1798, entered Rome, and took the Pope prisoner, and for a time, it seemed, abolished the Papacy. But in 1800 another Pope was placed upon the papal throne, and the deadly wound began to be healed. Temporal dominion was taken away from the Papacy in 1870, but nevertheless its power and influence among the nations have been increasing since then. \u201cIn that year,\u201d says Mr. Guinness in his work \u201cRomanism and the Reformation,\u201d page 156, \u201cthe Papacy assumed the highest exaltation to which it could aspire, that of infallibility.\u201d To such a position of influence over the nations is the Papacy finally to attain that just before her complete overthrow and destruction she will say, \u201cI sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.\u201d Rev. 18:7. See Isa. 47:7-15; Rev. 17:18.\nWhat is said concerning the captivity and downfall of the Papacy?\n\u201cHe that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.\u201d Rev. 13:10. See Psa. 18:25,26; 109:17; Jer. 50:29; Rev. 16:4-6.\nWhat questions asked by its worshipers indicate the great station to which this beast-power was to attain?\n\u201cAnd they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast\u2019 who is able to make war with him?\u201d Rev. 13:4.\nHow universal is the worship of this power to become?\nWhat did John say was to be the end of this beast?\n\u201cAnd the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him. . . . These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.\u201d Rev. 19:20. See Isa. 47:7-15; 2 Thess. 2:3-8; Rev. 17:16,17; 18:4-8.\nIn what similar language is the fate of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 described?\n\u201cI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.\u201d Dan. 7:11.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 7433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lordschosenremnant.org/bible-topics/making-an-image-to-the-beast/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XWEXJXPZFBB3DNIAE7BBKFGFAHS7A3EY", "length": 20395, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "lordschosenremnant.org", "title": "Making an Image to the Beast |", "raw_content": "Making an Image to the Beast\nWHEN was the papal head of the first beast of Revelation 13 wounded?\nIn 1793-98, by the French Revolution and the temporary overthrow of the Papacy in the latter year.\nWhat did the prophet see coming up at this time?\n\u201cAnd I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.\u201d Rev. 3:11.\nNOTES.-Mr. Wesley, in his notes on Revelation 13, written in 1754, says of the two-horned beast: \u201cHe is not yet come, though he cannot be far off; for he is to appear at the end of the forty-two months of the first beast.\u201d\nThe previous beast came up out of the \u201csea,\u201d which indicates its rise among the peoples and nations of the world then in existence (Rev. 17:15); while this one comes up out of the \u201cearth.\u201d This would indicate that the later beast would arise where there had not before been \u201cpeoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.\u201d In 1798, when the papal power received its deadly wound, the government of the United States, located in the western continent, was the only great and independent nation then coming into prominence in territory not previously occupied by people, multitudes, and nations. Only nine years receding this (1789), the United States adopted its national Constitution.\nIt is within the territory of the United States, therefore, that we may look, according to the prophecy, for an ecclesiastical movement to arise, and exercise a dominating control, not only in the civil government of this country, but also in the other nations of the whole world as well.\nWhat is the character of this new power?\n\u201cHe had two horns like a lamb.\u201d Rev. 13:11.\nNOTE.-The Pilgrim Fathers were the vanguard of a great multitude of Protestants, who, when persecuted and outlawed in the lands of their birth, sought refuge in the New World, where they developed rapidly under the protection of a government founded on the great Christian principles of civil and religious freedom. The two horns may well symbolize these two fundamental principles.\nNot withstanding the lamblike appearance of this power, what is it ultimately to do?\n\u201cAnd he spake as a dragon.\u201d Rev. 13:11.\nNOTE.-The voice of the dragon is the voice of intolerance and persecution. This indicates that the ecclesiastical development dealt with in this prophecy, obtaining a foothold for its initial power and influence in the government of the United States, will repudiate the mild and lamblike principles of civil and religious liberty, and become like the beast before it, a world-wide persecuting power. This is why in Rev. 19:20 it is called \u201cthe false prophet.\u201d Born of the Reformation, it will repudiate Reformation principles.\nHow much power will this beast exercise?\n\u201cAnd he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.\u201d Rev. 13:12.\nNOTE.-The \u201cfirst beast before him\u201d (papal Rome) exercised the power of persecution and putting to death all who differed from it in religious matters. The only way the earth can be made to worship is by causing work to cease on it through voluntary or enforced rest, or sabbath keeping. \u201cFor as long as she [the land] lay desolate she kept sabbath.\u201d 2 Chron. 36:21. Enforced Sunday observance is evidently implied here.\nWhat means will be employed to lead the people back into this false worship?\n\u201cAnd deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast.\u201d Rev. 13:14, first part.\nWhat will this power propose that the people shall do?\n\u201cSaying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.\u201d Rev. 13:14, latter part.\nNOTE.- The beast \u201cwhich had the wound by a sword, and did live,\u201d is the Papacy. That was a church dominating the civil power. In other words, it was a union of church and state, and enforced its religious dogmas by the civil power, under pain of confiscation of goods, imprisonment, and death. An image to this beast would be another ecclesiastical organization clothed with civil power \u2013 another union of church and state \u2013 to enforce religious dogmas by law.\nIs there any evidence that such an image will be made?\nLarge and influential organizations, such as the National Reform Association, the International Reform Bureau, the Lord\u2019s Day Alliance of the United States, and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, have been formed, by professed Protestants, and for years have been persistently working to that end. Many Roman Catholic societies recently formed in the United States, such as the Knights of Columbus and the American Federation of Catholic Societies, are looking to a like end \u2013 that of making America Catholic.\nWhat according to its constitution, is the avowed object of the National Reform Association?\n\u201cTo secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as shall . . . indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions, and usages of the government on a undeniably legal basis in the fundamental law of the land.\u201d \u2013 Article II of the Constitution.\nNOTES.-Upon the question of making this a \u201cChristian nation,\u201d Bishop Earl Cranston, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in an address delivered in Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1910, made the following observation:-\n\u201cSuppose this were to be declared a Christian nation by a Constitutional interpretation to that effect. What would that mean? Which of the two contending definitions of Christianity would the word Christian indicate? \u2013 The Protestant idea, of course, for under our system majorities rule, and the majority of Americans are Protestants. Very well. But suppose that by the addition of certain contiguous territory with twelve or more millions of Roman Catholics, the annexation of a few more islands with half as many more, and the same rate of immigration as now, the majority some years hence should be Roman Catholics, \u2013 who doubts for a moment that the reigning Pope would assume control of legislation and government? He would say, with all confidence and consistency, \u2018This is a Christian nation. It was so claimed from the beginning and so declared many years ago. A majority defined then what Christianity was, the majority will define now what Christianity now is and is to be.\u2019 That \u2018majority\u2019 would be the Pope.\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe Church and the Government,\u201d page 7.\nThe National Reformers in their attempts to justify the legal establishment of Christianity as the national religion, have erroneously declared that the statement of Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1892, \u201cThis is a Christian nation,\u201d is a decision of the court, whereas it was only a statement in the argument leading up to the decision of the court.\nIn a sermon at the centenary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States, in 1889, Archbishop Ireland said: \u201cOur work is to make America Catholic. . . . Our cry shall be, \u2018God wills it,\u2019 and our hearts shall leap with crusader enthusiasm.\u201d\nThe theory of the National Reformers is thus expressed: \u201cEvery government by equitable laws, is a government of God; a republic thus governed is of Him, and is as truly and really a theocracy as the commonwealth of Israel.\u201d \u2013 \u201cCincinnati National Reform Convention,\u201d page 28.\nHow does this association regard the Catholic Church on this point?\n\u201cWe cordially, gladly, recognize the fact that in South American republics, in France and other European countries the Roman Catholics are the recognized advocates of national Christianity, and stand opposed to all the proposals of secularism. . . . Whenever they are willing to cooperate in resisting the progress of political atheism, we will gladly join hands with them in a world\u2019s conference for the promotion of national Christianity, which ought to be held at no distant day. Many countries could be represented only by Roman Catholics.\u201d \u2013 Christian Statesman, Dec. 11, 1884, official organ of the National Reform Association.\nWhat has the Pope commanded all Catholics to do?\n\u201cFirst and foremost, it is the duty of all Catholics worthy of the name and wishful to be known as the most loving children of the church . . . to endeavor to bring back all civil society to the pattern and form of Christianity which we have described.\u201d \u2013 Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, \u201cImmortale Dei,\u201d Nov. 1, 1885, \u201cThe Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII,\u201d page 132.\nNOTE.-The prophecy says that this power will make an image to the Papacy. In the days of Constantine and his successors, the church made use of the civil power to carry out her aims: through this means the Papacy was developed. In our own day the same theory is advocated, and prominent men in the nation, in both church and state, are doing all they can to bring about the same result, which, when their work is completed, cannot fail to fulfill the specifications of the prophecy. The climax will be an image of the Papacy.\nWhat is the object of the International Reform Bureau?\n\u201cThe Reform Bureau is the first \u2018Christian lobby\u2019 established at our national capital to speak to government in behalf of all denominations.\u201d \u2013 \u201cHistory of the International Reform Bureau,\u201d by its founder and superintendent Rev. W. F. Crafts, page 2.\nNOTE.-The securing of compulsory Sunday legislation is one of the chief objects of this and other like organizations.\nWhat are the objects of the Lord\u2019s Day Alliance of the United States?\n\u201c(1) To preserve the Lord\u2019s day [Sunday] for America;\n(2) to secure an active Alliance in every State not yet organized; (3) to induce the general government as far as possible to set the example of Sabbath observance; (4) to press the rest-day feature of the fourth commandment, until every toiler in the land has guaranteed unto him fifty-two full rest days a year.\u201d- From leaflet published by the Alliance.\nNOTE.- By all of which is meant the securing, as far as possible, of compulsory State and national Sunday legislation,-the very means by which the church gained control of the state and by which church and state were united in the fourth and fifth centuries of the Christian era.\nWhat is the purpose of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America?\n\u201cThat the great Christian bodies of our country should stand together\u201d in dealing with \u201cquestions like those of marriage and divorce, Sabbath desecration, social evils,\u201d etc.-\u201cReport of Federal Council\u201d (1908), pages 5, 6.\nHow does it propose that the matter of \u201cSabbath desecration\u201d shall be dealt with?\n\u201cThat all encroachments upon the claims and the sanctities of the Lord\u2019s day should be stoutly resisted through the press, the Lord\u2019s day associations and alliances, and by such legislation as may be secured to protect and preserve this bulwark of our American Christianity.\u201d \u2013 Id., page 103.\nNOTE.-Thus it will be seen that the securing of laws for the enforcement of Sunday observance is a prominent feature in all these organizations in their efforts to \u201cChristianize\u201d the nation. In doing this many fail to see that they are repudiating the principles of Christianity, of Protestantism, and of the United States government, and playing directly into the hand of that power which originated the Sunday sabbath, and gained control of the civil power through Sunday legislation \u2013 the Papacy.\nWhat action of the American Federation of Catholic Societies indicates that Catholics will gladly \u201cjoin hand\u201d with Protestants in enforcing Sunday observance by law?\n\u201cOur Societies in the various parts of the United States have been urging the abolition of Sunday labor, and have indorsed and assisted the movement of closing the post-office on Sunday.\u201d \u2013 Tenth Annual Convention of American Federation of Catholic Societies, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 20-24, 1911.\nNOTES.-With the active cooperation of the Lord\u2019s Day Alliance of the United States, a Protestant organization, a proviso was attached to the post-office appropriation bill, 1912, requiring that \u201chereafter post-offices of the first and second classes shall not be opened on Sundays for the purpose of delivering mail to the general public.\u201d\nThe following resolution was adopted by the Boston Archdiocesan Federation of Catholic Societies:-\n\u201cWe are unalterable opposed to any relaxation of the Sunday laws. Sunday is a day of rest to be devoted to the praise and service of God. We hold the safest public policy at present is to adhere to the rigid observance of the laws now safeguarding the sanctity of the Lord\u2019s day.\u201d-Boston Pilot, official organ of Cardinal O\u2019Connell, March 16, 1912.\nWhat complaint is made against Sunday trains and Sunday newspapers?\n\u201cThey get a great many passengers, and so break up a great many congregations.\u201d \u201cThe laboring classes are apt to rise late on Sunday morning, read the Sunday papers, and allow the hour of worship to go by unheeded.\u201d \u2013Elgin (Ill.) Sunday-law Convention, November, 1887.\nNOTES.-In the fourth century, Sunday games and Sunday theaters, it was complained, \u201chindered\u201d the \u201cdevotion\u201d of the \u201cfaithful,\u201d because many of the members attended them in preference to the church services. The church, therefore, demanded that the state should interfere, and enforce Sunday observance by law. \u201cIn this way,\u201d says Neander, \u201cthe church received help from the state for the furtherance of her ends.\u201d In this way church and state were united, and the Papacy was placed in power. The same course pursued now will produce the same results.\nIt is proper and right for the church to teach Sabbath observance, and decry Sabbath desecration; but it should not attempt to secure Sabbath observance through compulsory legislation; nor should it seek to fasten upon the people by any means the observance of a day which God has never enjoined and for which, as is admitted on all hands, there is no Scriptural command.\nWhat does the prophet say the two-horned-beast power will attempt to enforce upon all the people?\n\u201cAnd he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.\u201d Rev. 13:16.\nNOTES.-This mark is the mark of the beast, or the false Sabbath. See Rev. 14:9,10. God\u2019s seal, or mark, is set in the forehead (Rev. 7:3; 14:1), the seat of the mind, the Lord accepting only the worship of conviction of conscience. The mark of the beast however, is said to be received in the hand or forehead. Some are deceived and give assent to the false teaching with their minds, receiving the mark in the forehead; others, coerced or indifferent, give formal, outward consent, and so receive the mark in the hand.\nLet the reader note this twofold aspect of the Sunday sabbath, as expressed by one of the most ardent and active Sunday-law advocates in the United States: \u201cWe, the Sabbath Union, W.C.T.U., all the churches, and the Y.M.C.A., are laboring with all our might to carry the religious sabbath with our right arm, and the civil sabbath with our left. Hundreds of thousands will receive it as a religious institution, and all the rest will receive it as a civil institution, and thus we will sweep in the whole nation.\u201d-Rev. W. F. Crafts, in Sunday Union Convention, Wichita, Kans., Sept. 20, 1889.\nWhat means will be employed to compel all to receive this mark?\n\u201cAnd that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.\u201d Rev. 13:17.\nNOTE.-That is, all who refuse to receive this mark will be boycotted, or denied the rights and privileges of business and trade, or the ordinary means of gaining a livelihood. Already this spirit has begun to manifest itself in the movement to enforce Sunday observance. In a sermon preached in Burlington, Kans., Sunday, Jan. 31, 1904, Rev. Bascom Robins said:-\n\u201cIn the Christian Decalogue the first day was made the Sabbath by divine appointment. But there is a class of people who will not keep the Christian sabbath unless they are forced to do so. But that can be easily done. We have twenty million of men, besides women and children, in this country, who want this country to keep the Christian sabbath. If we would say we will not sell anything to them, we will not buy anything from them, we will not work for them or hire them to work for us, the thing could be wiped out, and all the world would keep the Christian sabbath.\u201d\n20. By what authority was Sunday sabbath-keeping instituted?\nBy the authority of the Catholic Church. See Chapter 97. of this book.\nWhy were the ancient Sunday laws demanded?\n\u201cThat the day might be devoted with less interruption to the purposes of devotion.\u201d \u201cThat the devotion of the faithful might be free from all disturbance.\u201d \u2013 Neander\u2019s \u201cChurch History,\u201d Vol. II, pages 297, 301.\nNOTE.-In short, it was to secure the enforced observance of the day, and through this means church attendance, and control over the people in religious things.\nWhy are they demanded now?\n\u201cGive us good Sunday laws, well enforced by men in local authority, and our churches will be full of worshipers, and our young men and women will be attracted to the divine service. A mighty combination of the churches of the United States could win from Congress, the State legislatures, and municipal councils, all legislation essential to this splendid consummation.\u201d \u2013Rev. S. V. Leech, D. D., in Homiletic Review, November, 1892.\nWho is responsible for the present State Sunday laws of the United States?\n\u201cDuring nearly all our American history the churches have influence the States to make and improve Sabbath laws.\u201d- Rev. W. F. Crafts, in Christian Statesman, July 3, 1890.\nNOTES.-\u201cThese Sunday laws are a survival of the complete union of church and state which existed at the founding of the colony.\u201d -Boston Post, April 14, 1907.\n\u201cSuch laws [as the Maryland Sunday law 1723] were the outgrowth of the system of religious intolerance that prevailed in many of the colonies.\u201d -Decision of Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1908.\nThe first Sunday law in America, that of Virginia, in 1610, required church attendance, and prescribed the death penalty for the third offense. See \u201cAmerican State Papers,\u201d edition 1911, page 33.\nWhy is a national Sunday law demanded?\n\u201cThe national Sunday law is needed to make the State laws complete and effective.\u201d \u2013 Christian Statesman, April 11, 1889.\nSince the Sunday sabbath originated with the Roman power (the beast), to whom will men yield homage when, knowing the facts, they choose to observe Sunday, instead of the Bible Sabbath, in deference to compulsory Sunday laws?\n\u201cKnow ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.\u201d Rom. 6:16.\nNOTES.-\u201cThe observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] church.\u201d- Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today,\u201d page 213.\nThe conscientious observance of Sunday as the Sabbath on the part of those who hitherto have supposed it to be the Sabbath, has, without doubt, been accepted of God as Sabbath-keeping. It is only when light comes that sin in imputed. John 9:41; 15:22; Acts 17:30.\nWhat does Christ say about our duty to the state?\n\u201cRender therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar\u2019s; and unto God the things that are God\u2019s.\u201d Matt. 22:21.\nNOTE.-The Sabbath belongs to God. Its observance, therefore should be rendered only to Him.\nWhat special miracle is finally to be performed to deceive men, and fasten them in deception?\n\u201cAnd he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.\u201d Rev. 13:13.\nNOTE.-In the time of Elijah, in the controversy over Baal-worship, this was the test as to who was the true God,-the God that answered by fire. 1 Kings 18:24. Now, as a counterfeit test, fire will be made to come down from heaven to confirm men in an idolatrous and false worship.\nTo what length will this effort to enforce the worship of the image of the beast be carried?\nWhat deliverance will God finally bring to His people in this controversy?\nWhat song will they sing?\n\u201cAnd they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.\u201d Rev. 15:3.\nWhat was the song of Moses?\nA song of deliverance from oppression. See Exodus 15.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 21473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lottopredictionsystem.com/what-to-do-if-you-won-the-lottery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VR5VGEUSL2DA5AY5OWJE6SF2WB2WEW4F", "length": 4483, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "lottopredictionsystem.com", "title": "What should you do if you've won the lottery? Step by step.", "raw_content": "April 27, 2017 Derek\nMost people think that if you have a winning lottery ticket you just need to call the lottery and collect your money, but there\u2019s much more to it than you might think.\nThat\u2019s why in this article I\u2019m going to share with you the steps and actions you need to take in order to safely collect your money without any trouble.\nStep 1: Protect your winning ticket.\nSo you double checked your ticket and you\u2019re 100% sure you\u2019ve won.\nInstead of calling everybody and shouting at the top of your lungs with excitement and bragging about winning just stay calm and try to keep it to yourself.\nYou\u2019re holding a piece of paper worth millions in your hands. People are willing to do whatever it takes just to get a fractions of that money, imagine what they\u2019d do if they could have all of it\u2026\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s best if you don\u2019t tell anyone until you claim the money. I mean, you can tell your wife or husband and kids, just tell them not to tell anyone about it. The less people know the safer you can feel.\nKnowing that what you should do next is to sign the back of the ticket, this way nobody can copy it or steal it and claim is as theirs. If you sign it, you make it unique to yourself.\nAfter signing it, hide it in a place that no one will ever find and don\u2019t tell anyone where it is. Only take it out when it\u2019s time for you to collect the money.\nStep 2: Call the lottery. Set up a meeting. Collect your money.\nThe next step on your to-do-list is to take a look at the back of your ticket and find a number to call the main lottery office. Depending on where you\u2019re from and what lottery you play it might take a while for you to get connected to someone so make sure you\u2019ve got spare time.\nDuring the call you\u2019re most likely gonna need to tell them your name, date of birth, address etc. You know, the basic personal details.\nAfter you give them you\u2019re details you will probably set up a meeting at their main office. Where you are gonna need to take the winning ticket plus some proof of identity.\nWhen it\u2019s finally the day and time, and you arrived at the lottery\u2019s main office, you will have a few choices to make.\nWhether you take chash or check\nAnd whether you take the full amount of money at once or a lump sum over a certain period of time.\nWhich one you pick it\u2019s up to you. You might take all the money and invest into something or you might take let\u2019s say $5-10k each month for 20-30 years.\nFor me personaly I\u2019d take all of it at once because you can easily invest higher sums of money and make even more during those 20-30 years.\nStep 3: Plan what you\u2019re going to spend the money on. (Hire people)\nSo you\u2019ve got your money now or you completed step 2 and are waiting for your money, but what next?\nMost lottery winners lose all their winnings withing the first 5 years of winning the lottery. Do you know why?\nBecause within just few weeks they go from nothing, a 5-9 job to being a millionaire and this kind of money makes people go crazy. They buy fancy cars, a house, they start partying, doing drugs, spending their money left and right with no other income.\nNo matter how much you\u2019d win, without any income you will always see your account balance dropping down.\nThat\u2019s why you need a plan where you are going to invest your money so you don\u2019t end up spending it all, but actually making a profit out of it.\nIf you don\u2019t know where to invest the money yourself you can always hire a financial advisor who\u2019s gonna help you find the best place to invest your money, whether it\u2019s stock, real estate or a business. It\u2019s always a good idea to have someone around you who knows the business.\nExtra tips and things to keep in mind:\nDon\u2019t wait too long to claim your winnings, usually there is a 180 days expiry date on the price.\nRemember to clearly read the back of the ticket and the instructions.\nRemember you\u2019re gonna have to pay tax for your winnings.\nConsider hiring a lawyer to take care of the legal business.\nDon\u2019t quit your day job right away, wait for the money to arrive first\nMost people look at it this way, if you didn\u2019t \u201cearn\u201d the money, you\u2019re not going to worry about it as much and you\u2019re more likely to spend more of it in a shorter period of time. Don\u2019t do this.\nI think that\u2019s it for now, if you\u2019ve won. I\u2019m really happy for you \ud83d\ude42 If you didn\u2019t, I hope you will win soon. Good Luck!\nDo you know what\u2019s better than blindly playing the lottery? Investing in cryptocurrencies! That\u2019s why I stopped playing.\nUncategorized Derek April 27, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779793", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4IIVFQSIOLWJSKRMF3CIHTYI6A5ALFR6", "length": 1053, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "maannews.com", "title": "Israeli forces shoot, kill 16-year-old Palestinian in Ramallah area", "raw_content": "Israeli forces shoot, kill 16-year-old Palestinian in Ramallah area\nJan. 30, 2018 8:51 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 1, 2018 12:29 P.M.)\n16-year-old Layth Abu Naim\nBETHLEHEM (Ma\u2019an) -- Israeli forces on Tuesday shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian during protests in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.\nThe Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 16-year-old Layth Abu Naim, from the al-Mughayyer village, was shot in the head by Israeli forces with live ammunition during clashes that erupted in the village.\nReports said that local Palestinian youth threw stones and rolled burning tires towards armed Israeli soldiers who fired live ammunition.\nAbu Naim was critically injured and was taken to a hospital in Ramallah, where he succumbed to his wounds.\nLocal sources in the village said that the teenager\u2019s body will be buried after noon prayers on Wednesday in the village of al-Mughayyer.\nAbu Naim is the eighth Palestinian to have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, four of them at the age of 16 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maddogdrivethru.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20693&view=next", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IMS5NFWGVIKW7F6F3XB5JTZRPSHONPGH", "length": 7753, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "maddogdrivethru.net", "title": "maddogdrivethru.net \u2022 View topic - More news from a the people's paradise.....", "raw_content": "Post subject: More news from a the people's paradise.....\nThe Dear Leader Hugo Chavez wishes to announce that all residents of Caracas, the capital of the most enlightened country is the Western Hemisphere, will now have the honor of going without water for up to 48 hours every week.\nhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... &catnum=-1\nWater rationing for Venezuela's capital city\nNov 2 03:13 PM US/Eastern\nResidents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city's supply, officials said Monday.\nOfficials said cuts in water service were to be staggered throughout Caracas through the duration of the current dry season, which is not expected to end until May 2010.\nWeather forecasters blame the \"El Nino\" weather phenomenon, saying the periodic weather system has markedly reduced rainfall and created drought conditions.\nOthers blame the shortage on poor government management of the country's water resources, while President Hugo Chavez faulted the excesses of capitalism.\n\"What will the rich fill their swimming pools with?\" the country's leftist leader asked recently.\n\"With the water that is denied inhabitants in the poor neighborhoods,\" he said, blaming the lack of sufficient water on \"capitalism -- a lack of feeling, a lack of humanity.\"\nThe government recently created a ministry of electricity to help conserve the use of power, which also is in short supply.\nOfficials also urged the public to employ better conservation practices, like shorter showers and the use of less water when brushing teeth.\nThis once again demonstrates the superiority of Caracans as they have evolved to the point where they can go for extended periods without water.\nIn a totally unrelated move, the authorities are asking workers to redouble their efforts at all factories producing deoderants and anti-perspirants.\nPBS Frontline did a pretty good in depth program called \"The Hugo Chavez Show\" Nov 2008\nAccording to Comrade Fronsie, everything is just peachy there and El Presidente is a super guy!\nOn the heels of our successful water rationing in Caracas, the Dear Leader Hugo Chavez, leader of the most enlightened country in the Western Hemisphere, wishes to announce that our oil rich nation will now begin rationing the use of electricity. This are not to be seen as a weakness of our successful nation, rather, it just serves to prove the wisdom of our nation in recognizing that reduced electrical usage will help save the planet from global warming.\nVenezuela begins 2010 with electricity rationing\nJan 2 04:35 PM US/Eastern\nOil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez's government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought.\nThe new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts and rate hikes if the measures are not followed.\nA decree published on Christmas Eve states that commercial centers may operate from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm on the electricity grid, but beyond that establishments would have to operate off-grid, using their own generators.\nVenezuela is flush with oil -- the country's primary export -- and natural gas, but relies mainly on hydroelectric generation to meet domestic energy demand.\nWith the country in a widespread drought, late last year Chavez announced a sweeping campaign to reduce widespread energy \"waste,\" stressing that rationing was necessary to avoid a systemic \"collapse.\"\nShopping centers in Caracas Saturday opened at the appointed new hour, although industry representatives called for extending the time frame, arguing that night-time energy consumption is less than 10 percent of the total.\nThe power crunch is expected to have an impact on a wide variety of businesses, including cinemas, casinos and bingo halls.\nEstablishments failing to comply with the measures could face outages for a period of 24 hours, and up to 72-hour suspensions \"in case of recidivism,\" according to the decree.\nThe regulation also orders businesses to institute savings plans aimed at shedding consumption by at least 20 percent, a measure that will be evaluated monthly by the newly-created ministry of electricity.\nTariff surcharges of up to 20 percent could be imposed on violators.\nRationing is also to apply to lighted advertisements.\nIntroductory measures were evident in Caracas last month, with the neon signs that traditionally welcome Christmas left unlit.\nThe state-controlled aluminum and steel industries halted some of their production lines in order to reduce energy consumption by some 560 megawatts (MW).\nElectricity demand in Venezuela is more than 16,500 MW, far higher than what is currently generated. Experts say the power sector requires 18 billion dollars in investment through 2014.\nIn 2009 there were four nationwide blackouts, with daily failures common in several cities.\nThe Dear Leader thanks you for your continued support for the Revolution.\nPS Please disregard the lights burning round the clock in the Presidential Compound. The Dear Leader is awake round the clock and working hard to find ways to improve our country.\nHe also still smells \"sulfur\" when around a US president, something he gladly volunteered in Denmark.\nNot sure that problems in electricity show the weakness of the \u201csocialist\u201d system used by Venezuela. After all, there were some problems of electricity in California some years ago because of deregulation and privatization. And California is the richest state of the richest country in the world.\nI would say that both cases show the inadequacies of government \"regulations\" that are driven by socialist / green ideology rather than pragmatism.\nWe just went for some time without any hot water (and no heating) over here. Also, in accordance with true finnish efficiency, there was no information available at all: people weren't told that this had happened- you would only notice it when your house got colder and you couldn't take a shower. Also, no one told anyone why and how long it would last. It was only -20c outside, so no big deal.\nI love Finland. We are so superior in everything, at least according to official dogma. We say that we are incredibly advanced, but we are surprisingly backwards in many fields, such as internet services, internet connections etc. But just like in communist states, saying that we are superior is a good substitute for actually being good.\nSaying so makes for good public relations. However, as was often the norm in the Eastern Bloc countries, the populaion more than often did not believe the claims coming from the state Politburo.\nAlso, the state can say what it wants, however, as happened in the Eastern Bloc countries, eventually, the house of cards collapsed.\nSo if deregulation didn\u2019t work, it is because California didn\u2019t carry out deregulation enough? I am not sure that I must trust that. If I understand well the situation in the United States, before the deregulation, the electricity was produced by a little number of corporate owner utilities. If you install more deregulation, you will increase the power of those corporate owner utilities, and then you will increase their monopoly. They will do what they want; nothing can stop them if they want to increase the price of electricity. There is a situation of oligopoly, not a big concurrence which could decrease the price of electricity for the consumers.\nOtherwise, here an article about deregulation in California. I don\u2019t understand everything, but it seems to be an interesting reading.\nhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20010212/wasserman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 13869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maheshworks.blogspot.com/2013/05/sketches-made-for-rcb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GGVLRH5V4SILHNX7J2ES3HPDA54UDKYQ", "length": 28, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "maheshworks.blogspot.com", "title": "Mahesh Nambiar: RCB Sketches_1", "raw_content": "RCB Sketches_1\nsuper.....!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manavsadhna.org/sidesubnode.aspx?ssId=2&sidenode=18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2AFSVB3YVBP5324DVNKBDLV4AUTQ7TBU", "length": 1225, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "manavsadhna.org", "title": ":: Manavsadhna :: Day Care Center", "raw_content": "DAY CARE CENTER (ON HOLD)\nRecognizing the daily hardships that women in the Tekro face in balancing taking care of their children, performing household duties, and often having the added responsibility of bringing home an income from odd jobs, Manav Sadhna has introduced a day nursery in the Community Center. As Manav Sadhna\u2019s philosophy is grounded in value-based education, this nursery is the first step in instilling the important Gandhian values of love, respect, service, and justice into the community. The daycare environment fosters the healthy development of each child and embeds an excitement and curiosity within it to learn and grow. The value of togetherness becomes a way of life for the child at an early stage. The nursery also provides proper nutrition to better mental and physical growth. Caretakers provide motherly love, guidance, attention, and basic education through joyful activities and promote cleanliness, good personal hygiene, and sanitation by example. The daycare provides Tekro women with the freedom earn an income without fearing for their children\u2019s welfare and future, and is free of cost. Currently, 17 little children come to the Ghodiyaghar every day when their parents go to work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manorinfant.co.uk/curriculum/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IXI74N7GI3OJPZHRKIQYBIROKGGWXVTE", "length": 6673, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "manorinfant.co.uk", "title": "Curriculum | Manor Church of England Infant School", "raw_content": "Children learn a great deal during their early years when they are growing, changing and exploring their world. They enter school with a significant background of learning experiences, which parents and carers have helped to develop and extend.\nAt Manor Church of England Infant School we believe that it is vital that we work in partnership with parents to further support and develop children\u2019s learning experiences.\nThe need for all children to feel included is of paramount importance. Participating actively from the earliest years has an important and positive part to play in ensuring that children feel secure, are valued and have a sense of belonging.\nAt Manor C.E. Infant School, our over-riding aim in the EYFS is for our pupils to develop a positive foundation for life long learning. We will achieve this by promoting and supporting the four key themes in the EYFS statutory framework:\na unique child \u2013 developing resilient, capable, confident and self-assured individuals\npositive relationships \u2013 supporting the children in becoming strong and independent\nenabling environments \u2013 where opportunities and experiences respond to the individual needs of the child by developing a strong partnership between practitioners, parents/carers and the child\nlearning and developing \u2013 an acknowledgement that children learn in different ways and at different rates\nThere are seven areas of learning and development within the EYFS, of which three are \u201cprime areas,\u201d and four \u201cspecific areas\u201d.\nIn planning and guiding children\u2019s learning, staff regularly reflect on the way that children learn using:-\nplaying and exploring \u2013 the way they investigate, explore and \u2018have a go\u2019\nactive learning \u2013 the way they concentrate, persevere and enjoy achievement\ncreating and thinking critically \u2013developing ideas and strategies for doing things\nPlanning within the EYFS is based around half termly themes, using the Development Matters Statements as planning objectives. These plans are used by the EYFS teacher as a guide for weekly planning; however the teacher may alter these in response to the needs, achievements and interests of the children.\nWe plan and deliver learning for all of the areas through purposeful play and learning experiences, with a balance of adult-led and child-initiated activities. Through play our children explore and develop learning experiences, which help them make sense of the world. They practise and build up ideas, and learn how to control themselves and understand the need for rules. They have the opportunity to think creatively alongside other children as well as on their own. They communicate with others as they investigate and solve problems. Staff routinely interact with the children to question, challenge and take the children\u2019s learning forward.\nRegular assessment of the children\u2019s learning in the EYFS takes the form of observations. Staff are skilled at observing children to identify their achievements, interests and next steps for learning, using the Development Matters Statements to assess against. These observations are recorded in a variety of ways and are used to inform the EYFS Profile. Within the final term of the EYFS, we provide a written summary to parents/carers, reporting their progress against the 17 Early Learning Goal descriptors, alongside a short narrative describing the child\u2019s three learning characteristics.\nKey Stage One Curriculum\nWe use an integrated approach to learning covering both academic and personal development, with some subjects, such as PE, taught discretely. We use information technology to support and enhance all learning.\nWe encourage all children to become fluent readers, confident writers, accurate spellers and effective communicators. We firmly believe that the acquisition of good communication skills lies at the heart of successful learning. We ensure that children learn how to listen, express and record their ideas clearly and use language confidently.\nChildren are introduced to mathematical ideas, skills and thinking strategies that are essential in everyday life. Maths tasks and activities encourage children to make sense of the numbers, patterns and shapes they see in the world around them. It offers ways of handling data in an increasingly digital world and makes a crucial contribution to learning.\nThis area of learning is fundamental to exploring, understanding and influencing the natural and man made worlds we live in. It offers a wealth of experiences and ideas that encourage children\u2019s natural curiosity and creativity, inspiring awe and wonder.\nOur children live in a fast-moving age of technology. Through exploring and learning how to use technology effectively to support their learning, children will be able to research and access information as well as consolidate their learning.\nChildren will learn techniques and skills, which they can use creatively to design and turn their ideas into reality.\nGeography and History.\nThese subjects help children make sense of our place in the world and are central to their development as informed, active and responsible citizens. Geographical, historical and social understanding fires children\u2019s curiosity and imagination about who we are, where we have come from, where we live and where we might be going next.\nMusic, Art, Drama, Dance\nWe provide opportunities for children to learn to express their thoughts, and emotions, use their imaginations, experiment and develop creativity through these areas of the curriculum.\nWe encourage all children to lead healthy and active lives through our PE curriculum which includes gymnastics, games and dance.\nThe Governing Body has adopted the Hampshire agreed syllabus for religious teaching which is predominantly Christian, but we also explore Hinduism.\nAn act of Collective Worship, which is broadly Christian, takes place each day for all children. Many topics, which help to teach children how to be caring, considerate and valued citizens, provokes challenging questions about life, beliefs and issues such as right and wrong, are planned at this time.\nWe celebrate good work and excellent behaviour every Monday morning and parents are invited to join us when their child receives an Achievement certificate. Parents who do not wish their children to take part have the right to withdraw their child and alternative arrangements will be made.\nThis area of learning is central to the development of confident individuals. Children learn important skills such as co-operation, empathy and consideration. It contributes to their mental, social, emotional, economic and physical well being and helps them to lay the foundations of long term well being.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 8926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marniturkel.com/mostlyspecies/order.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HVP2QGPUWZ5BIZDATQAA3T2RCAVQNKIE", "length": 3482, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "marniturkel.com", "title": "How to Order Flasks", "raw_content": "How to Order Flasks\nMostly Species > How to Order\nDo Not Pay When Ordering: When you check out, select the \"Orchid & Flask Orders\" option for payment if you will be paying with PayPal or a check. Select the \"Pay with Credit Card\" option if you will be paying by credit card. Shipping charges will be computed at the time of shipping.\nFlasks Are Like Tomatoes: If you have ever grown a tomato a plant, you will know that regardless of what you want, they grow and ripen on their own schedule, they don't all ripen at one time, and once ripe they don't last that long. Flasks are very much like tomatoes. One of the first things a customer may want to know is \"When will my flasks be shipped?\" I can't always answer that question with precision. While I have a wide variety of crosses, I generally don't produce any in large amounts at any one time. For some crosses there just isn't a lot of seed and for most I will try to spread the production over a period of time so they aren't all ready at one time. While I can't promise you immediate availability, I can offer you lots of desirable and hard to find orchid species and some very interesting hybrids.\nHow to use the website: On any of the \"List\" pages (Species Flask List, Hybrid Flask List) if the item number (shown to the left of the name) is an active link (blue text) you can click on the link and it will take you to the page for that item. There you will find information about the seedlings, images of the parents, and a way for you to place an order or request notification when they are available to order.\nCommit to Buy: I am listing crosses that are ready now or that I expect will be ready in the next few months. You will not be charged at the time of ordering but only when it is ready to ship. In some cases, the flask may be available immediately, some may need time to mature in flask and some may need to be moved up from intermediate stages. When you commit to buy you will be put in line for the next flask available and are guaranteed the price in effect at the time of the order. If the event the price changes before your flask is shipped you will be charged the price in effect when you ordered if that is lower than the current price and if the price goes down you will be charged the lower price. I will contact you when your flask is ready for shipping. You do not need to fill out credit card information, just select the \"Orchid & Flask Orders\" option in the shopping cart. Shipping charges will be computed at the time of shipping.\nNotifications: For crosses that are not far enough along for me to comfortably be taking orders you can ask to be notified when I am ready to accept orders. Just click on the \"Notification\" button. You are not committed to buy the flask when one is available if you no longer are interested. Requesting notification will put you on the waiting list when they do become avaialble.\nInternational orders: I have the state and federal permits to obtain the phytosanitary certificates necessary to ship flasks legally. In most cases, I will need your import permit from your government (if required by your government) to be able to apply for paperwork on my end.\nFor shipments outside of the US the minimum order is $200 not including shipping and paperwork. In most cases, plants will need to shipped in flask to comply with regulations. Because there is a fair amount of time required to obtain a phytosanitary certificate the price depends on the size of the order.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 4200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mdhealth.com.au/2016/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:FWZOQTVDC5Y2V2MMH7OPF2UWU2QZB34M", "length": 403, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mdhealth.com.au", "title": "Archives | MD Health", "raw_content": "How do I know if I am exercising correctly?\nby Michael Dermansky | Jun 2, 2016 | Clinical Pilates, Pain, Personalised Pilates, Physiotherapy\nThere are a few things you can do to make sure that you\u2019re doing exercises correctly. Firstly, make sure that you know what muscle groups you want to work during an exercise. All exercises have to have a purpose to be effective and specific to your needs. For...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://megamicroconsulting.com/frequently-asked-questions/58-delete-web-profiles-properties", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OITVSWP5LGMP57LTVZ6YVGOYGDFKLXNE", "length": 922, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "megamicroconsulting.com", "title": "Delete Web Profiles/Properties", "raw_content": "Delete Web Profiles/Properties\nGoogle Analytics is quite a powerful tool for websites. If you are like me, I need to keep track of a LOT of websites and as time passes, some websites fade away. In my case, I had a lot of web properties (websites) that I was tracking and needed to clean them up. Creating the web properties was easy but HOW do I get rid of them.\nOne thing that is not very intuitive while using Google Analytics is how to remove a property. Lets say that you setup a property for the website www.test.com. You no longer need to track it so you want to remove it. How? There does not seem to be any Delete or Remove function. It is easy to create a new web property or profile but not how to get rid of them.\nThe process is actually quite simple - remove all the profiles and the web property gets deleted as well. Remember, once a profile is deleted, all data associated with that profile is also deleted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mehndisite.blogspot.com/2010/01/henna-also-known-as-mehndi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KY6IQYVEVJDJERLWBJYAV24TVIU2NKKZ", "length": 1052, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mehndisite.blogspot.com", "title": "Pakistani Mehndi,Indian mehndi,Arabic menhdi,Mehndi Designs,Mehndi Designs,Women's Hand Ar: Henna, also known as Mehndi", "raw_content": "Henna, also known as Mehndi, is a brown paste, that when applied to the skin leaves a rich auburn semi permanent stain that lasts for many days, and sometimes, weeks. It used to be that henna was only used in cultural, or religious ceremonies. Nowadays, people all over the world incorporate henna into their special events. Henna is mostly applied to the hands, feet, nape, back, shoulders, etc. basically anywhere you would put a regular tatoo. Typically, henna designs are lacy, geometric, floral & bold. The paste is kept on the skin for about 4 to 6 hours in order to ensure a bold, rich & long lasting stain. For an elegant Throughout the wedding festivities, the bride's sisters will attempt to steal and hide the groom's shoes. The groom must gift them with money and jewelry, should he desire to get them back and go home with his bride. The responsibility is placed on the groom's brothers and friends to protect his shoes so his wallet isn't emptied. The groom's family has yet to win at a Wadehra wedding\nLabels: also known as Mehndi, henna", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://melodicrock.com/tags/weezer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:AHCCQIIKX64UCYKZA356YYOUB2SGIVOF", "length": 2193, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "melodicrock.com", "title": "Weezer | MelodicRock.com", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Weezer \u203a\nTOTO Answers Weezer Covers With Smoking Rendition Of \u201cHash Pipe\u201d\nTOTO ANSWERS WEEZER COVERS OF \u201cAFRICA\u201d AND \u201cROSANNA\u201d\nWITH A SMOKING RENDITION OF \u201cHASH PIPE\u201d\nAugust 7, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA --- Toto have recorded their personal interpretation of Weezer\u2019s \u201cHash Pipe.\u201d The smoking rendition of the song is a direct response to the run-away success being witnessed globally for Weezer\u2019s covers of the hits \u201cAfrica\u201d and \u201cRosanna.\u201d\nFrom the moment of release, Weezer\u2019s version of \u201cAfrica\u201d was embraced overwhelmingly by the public and music industry. At iTunes, the recording peaked at #1 in sales and continues to show strong movement. At Spotify, the cover hit #1 on the viral chart. And just this week the track has hit #1 in the U.S on the Modern Rock chart.\nToto has partnered with Republic on the release of \u201cHash Pipe.\u201d The company will be spearing the U.S. release of the recording. Toto is currently touring North American in support of the band\u2019s recent release 40 Trips Around The Sun.\nIn related news - Steve Lukather talks to Variety about the new single. Here's a coupl eof highlights!!\nhttps://variety.com/2018/music/news/weezer-toto-cover-hash-pipe-africa-1...\n\u201cWe could actually have a hit record at alternative, which is the funniest f\u2014ing thing I\u2019ve ever lived to see,\u201d says Lukather, who explains Republic will be supporting the release with a radio promotion campaign at the format, where \u201cAfrica\u201d has given Weezer its first radio hit in several years. Lukather admits Weezer\u2019s use of a heavy guitar sound in their version of \u201cAfrica\u201d has even influenced Toto\u2019s current live rendition. \u201cI enjoy being able to crank out the solos on that song,\u201d he laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s about time we put some nuts on that tune. I\u2019m no musical snob. I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.\u201d\nIn the meantime, Lukather is having a ball, introducing Toto\u2019s cover of \u201cHash Pipe\u201d every night with the same wisecrack. \u201cWe were smoking hash before those guys were alive.\u201d Although these days, Lukather admits, marijuana in other forms is his go-to to kill the pain. \u201cThis cannabis cream saved my life,\u201d he boasts. \u201cI\u2019d put it on my c\u2014 if I thought it would help.\u201d\nWeezer - \"Africa\" (Toto Cover)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 8190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://merconsortium.eu/student-services/visas-and-residence-permits/france/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:K3GPMUXEP3YBFPYENZUVS4NBXM62GHJD", "length": 716, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "merconsortium.eu", "title": "Visas and Residence Permits: France \u2013 MER Consortium", "raw_content": "Visas and Residence Permits: France\nIf you are a citizen of the European Union, the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation, you do not need a visa. Otherwise, you must have a type D visa stamped \u00ab Student \u00bb.\nTo obtain a visa, go to the French Consulate or French Embassy in your home country to find out which documents you must produce and how long it takes to obtain them or go to campusfrance.org.\nAll non-EU, non-Swiss or non-EEE nationals, who reside in France for more than three consecutive months or who, in the case of intermittent periods of residence, are effectively present in France for more than three months in any six-month period must obtain a residence or stay permit (titre de s\u00e9jour).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mgnpsjal.com/staffDetails.php?mainID=97", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NCUSWMSN6OMGUZTVF356U2O4EMGXH5EO", "length": 59, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mgnpsjal.com", "title": "MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, Jalandhar", "raw_content": "Name S. W. SINGH\nEducational Qualification M.A. (Sociology)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 221.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/chase/view/edition/678/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:30Z", "digest": "sha1:SYO665ENMEY3P52JTBL5WEQLFE6VBAVO", "length": 1852, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mhm.hud.ac.uk", "title": "University of Leeds - School of Music - CHASE", "raw_content": "Ludwig van Beethoven \u00bb Violin Concerto \u00bb Vieuxtemps, Henri - Schuberth\nDespite Vieuxtemps' reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven's Violin Concerto for more than thirty years after his remarkable first performance of it as a 13-year-old in Vienna in 1834, one year after Clement\u2019s last known performance, copies of his edition are extremely rare in library collections. Vieuxtemps was was one of the few 19th-century editors to provide extensive dynamic and accent markings as well as bowing and fingering.\nIt is impossible to be certain whether his manner of playing the concerto changed substantially during the 35 years that had elapsed between his first performance of the work and his 1869 edition, but the edition is certainly independent of David\u2019s and may perhaps convey aspects of genuine Viennese tradition. Vieuxtemps\u2019 approach to bowing in particular differs from David\u2019s. He tends to change bow more frequently, quite often indicating separate legato bowstrokes (frequently marked with horizontal lines) where Beethoven\u2019s original text has long slurs, presumably to permit a stronger tone, and he indicates fewer additional bowings in the passagework than David, although considerably more than are shown in Baillot\u2019s edition from 1828. His treatment of the passages beginning at mvt. I, bb. 218/492 is closer to Baillot\u2019s and Dont\u2019s than to David\u2019s. Vieuxtemps\u2019s fingering is broadly similar to Baillot\u2019s and David\u2019s with a liberal use of open strings and natural harmonics, together with ample opportunities for portamento. For the delicatamente statement of the Rondo theme he used the same fingering as David, perhaps supporting the supposition that this manner of performing it represents a Viennese tradition.\n1869 (September) [Source: Hofmeister - 1869-09]\nBeethoven_Vieux_title.pdf\nCONCERTO (VIEUXTEMPS EDIT).pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://miamitennisnews.com/category/editorial/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3NR2ZFHAHUBN3GP6H5JBGSN7CH6J3OTR", "length": 13433, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "miamitennisnews.com", "title": "Miami Tennis News.com | Archive | Editorial", "raw_content": "Lessons And Implications of Serena Gate\nTags: Ashe, Bryan, Clijsters, John McEnroe, Serena, US Open, Venus, Wozniacki\nFor better and for worse, the 2009 U.S. Open will be unforgettable on the ladies\u2019 side for a multitude of reasons. Firstly, there was an unprecedented number of top seeds who stumbled in the early rounds. Secondly, the wackiness of the weather on the last weekend. Thirdly, 2005 champ Kim Clijsters\u2019 remarkable run to the finals after a two year absence from the sport. Fourthly, Caroline Wozniacki becoming the first Danish player to reach the finals at a major. Lastly and lamentably, for what can only be labeled as \u2018Serena Gate\u2019.\nThe incident- Improbable that anyone watching missed it. However, here\u2019s a recap of the events which resulted in Serena Williams being defaulted, costing her the match. After dropping serve in the first set which led to Clijsters capturing it, Serena smashed her racket and was given a code violation warning. Later, Williams facing double break point, which were also match points, was called for a foot fault. This prompted a diatribe by Serena including the statement that she would \u201cshove the f****** ball down [the line person\u2019s] throat\u201d. So in accordance to the rules, the chair umpire awarded her a point penalty which left a bitter note since it was match point for Clijsters. Irrespective of the line person being right or wrong, Serena\u2019s behavior was out of bounds.\nSerena is not Venus, nor vice versa\u2013 Other than Kim, the person who deserves the most sympathy is Venus Williams because this circumstance may mark her career. Ever since their arrival on the tennis scene, these sisters have often been regarded as a singular entity. Their playing doubles at times does not help the matter. The peculiar part is that they are not even twins. At least if this were the case, it would be justified. Yet, people still view Bob and Mike Bryan as individuals. Sometimes, it\u2019s forgotten that these siblings have divergent personalities. With that being said, it\u2019s highly unlikely had the tables been reversed that Venus would have reacted in such a fashion. Therefore, in a small corner of Serena\u2019s mind, she must be hoping that none of this stain sticks to her big sister\u2019s tennis shoes.\nKids & Role Models-Whether parents like or not, many athletes have assumed the position of idols in their children\u2019s eyes. Serena\u2019s sorrowful outburst was certainly witnessed by tons of partisans. For mothers and fathers this is the perfect opportunity to reinforce to their offspring that this sort of behavior is not to be emulated. Moreover, that they should select tangible persons in their lives, their own parents, uncle Charlie or cousin Jane if their comportment is exemplary as their true heroes or heroines. Even John McEnroe, whom Serena cited as an idol at her press conference, known for his over the top conduct in his heydays stated he \u201ccould not defend the indefensible\u201d. I suppose with age comes wisdom. Hopefully, Serena\u2019s future possess the same pearl.\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on Lessons And Implications of Serena Gate\nKeep Plugging Away Andy, You\u2019ll Get There\nTags: Federer, Roddick, Stefanki, US Open, Wimbledon\nAfter Roger Federer\u2019s gut wrenching loss in the Wimbledon final last year, I felt obligated to impart on him some words of wisdom. This year, Andy Roddick was the one to draw the short straw in one of the most mesmerizing major matches ever. Deluded as it may seem, I would like to believe that my advice has contributed in some minute form to the success that Federer has been basking in of late. Considering that Roddick is a compatriot, I feel bound to take a crack at pushing him in the right direction.\nI hope you don\u2019t regard it as disrespectful the liberty that I am taking in referring to you on a first name basis. After all, I have followed your career for many years and for that reason I feel a kinship on some level. I must confess though that through your nine years on the ATP, our relationship has been tepid. After making a big splash at U.S. Open in 2003, your results at the majors have been spastic. Disappointments after disappointments have caused me with time to consider you, as the Spanish maxim goes, \u2018as a zero to the left\u2019. From my viewpoint, a revolving door of coaches indicated that you were unwilling to listen to the counsel of others. As such, this left me doubting as to your capability of ever becoming champion at a major. Your performance a couple of weeks back at Wimbledon demonstrated your desire to succeed is still great and it not only reenergized your fans but gained you some new ones.\nEffort has never been one of your faults. Although in the past, your game has lacked focus. In hiring Larry Stefanki and heeding his advice, you have retooled your game and developed other weapons to back up your powerful serve. Your forehand has always been solid and your play at net adequate. However, by strengthening and reinventing your backhand crosscourt and down the line, some of your strokes were purely sublime, you showed that your game can still evolve. More importantly, you revealed in the finals that you are a thinker on the court in choosing the most intelligent shots. You took risks when the situation warranted it, while restraining yourself. In the past panic may have ambushed your decision making. Federer may have gained his record 15th major, but you gave him a fight to remember.\nComplements at this time may appear hollow and shallow since you don\u2019t have the Wimbledon trophy on your mantle. Whilst, it may be healthy to reflect on what could have been, the worse thing you can do is dwell. For many seasons, you have walked through the draw with others expecting very little from you. I would like to think that in the long run, this match will leave a positive influence. As such, perhaps, the sanest approach is to regard this year as one of rehabilitation. So keep working at it Andy, your major will come.\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on Keep Plugging Away Andy, You\u2019ll Get There\nClay : You Have To Love It For It To Love You Back\nTags: Agassi, Borg, Federer, French Open, Kuerten, Nadal, Norman, Roddick, Roland Garros, Sampras, Serena, US Clay Court Championships\nFor as long as I live, when I think of the red clay at Roland Garros, the picture that will always come to mind is that of Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten tracing the contours of a heart on the ground after his grueling five sets win over Swede Magnus Norman in the 2000 French Open final.\nBar none, clay is the most demanding surface to play on. The points can be endless. A men\u2019s three set match can last longer than three hours. Thus, that type of court can exact a significant mental and physical price. Ironically though, clay is much gentler on the body than a hard court where joints can be prone to injury. Despite the clay presenting some significant health benefits, the list of players who excel on that specific turf is far shorter than that of those who perform well on hard court. Therefore, the question must be posed as to the source of this disconnection.\nOne explanation may be the competitors\u2019 lack of familiarity with the surface. The majority of Americans and non- Iberian Europeans nowadays grow up playing on concrete. Red clay practice courts and tournaments have become a rarity in the U.S. Currently, the ladies have a choice of either Charleston or Jacksonville; many have characterized both as \u201csimulated clay\u201d. Players have described the green surface as a hard court dusted with clay which makes their movement feel awkward. For the men, their only option is the U.S. Clay Court Championships in Houston. Although it is more suitable than what\u2019s available to the women, in many respects it falls short of the necessary requisite to offer a full fledge European red clay experience.\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on Clay : You Have To Love It For It To Love You Back\nAn Old Dilemma: Mixing Sports And Politics\nTags: Australian Open, Delic, Djokovic, Peer, Ram\nOver the years, politics and sports have intersected many times. Perhaps the most infamous example is the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Israeli athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian radicals and subsequently killed in a rescue attempt. With tennis becoming more internationalized, these lines were destined to meet.\nAt the Australian Open this year, while Serb Novak Djokovic and Bosnian-American Amer Delic applauded each other\u2019s superb shots and cordially shook hands after the match. Their fans had a brawl outside the stadium which had to be interrupted by police and led to a couple of people requiring medical attention. Now, this past week, Shahar Peer, an Israeli female player, was prohibited entry into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Dubai tournament for which she automatically qualified by virtue of her ranking.\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on An Old Dilemma: Mixing Sports And Politics\nA Gem In The Magic City: Miami\u2019s Sony Ericsson Open\nTags: Anderson, Andy Murray, CLement, Cornet, Federer, Hantuchova, Henin, Isner, Jankovic, Knowles, Monfils, Nadal, Nalbandian, Serena, Sony Ericsson, US Open, Venus\nSince 2000, schedule permitting, I have been a faithful and fervent attendee at my hometown tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida. Yet, as a devout tennis fanatic, my wish has always been to make a pilgrimage to one of the shrines of the sport, a major.\nIn my mind, there has always been the perception that I was being deprived of an ecclesiastical experience by not going to New York, London, Paris or Melbourne. As luck would have it, in 2006 and 2007, I ascended from the category of lowly television viewer to that of obscured spectator when I was finally able to drink in the atmosphere at the U.S Open. After spending five days at the opening round matches in New York the last couple of years and a week at this year\u2019s Sony Ericsson, I began to view the latter through a new lens. As I surveyed the familiar vista at Crandon Park, the prism through which I evaluated the tournament was suddenly lifted. Moreover, I arrived at the realization that the Sony Ericsson Open is truly a jewel in my own backyard.\nManhattan\u2019s bright lights and vibrant streets are comparable to an impish, unruly child with the magnetic powers to draw one in with a cunning smile. A similar attraction lures one in at the U.S. Open. On the subway, I was overcome by a wave of exhilaration from the chatter of the passengers whose destination, just as mine, was the major\u2019s site. As the train approached the tennis center and the Arthur Ashe stadium came into view, a touch of awe and anxiety intermingled as I became conscious of the magnitude of the place. These sentiments were further accentuated as the grounds crew greeted me with their megaphones shouting instructions such as, \u201cno backpacks allowed into the stadium\u201d. Or as I filed through the long security lines that stretch for miles and saw my precious can of juice seized since opaque containers were prohibited entry. The shear volume of people, over 700,000 attended the tournament in 2007, and the additional security measures implemented after the catastrophic incident at the Twin Towers signify that one has to be willing to tolerate these inconveniences in order to experience the U.S. Open.\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on A Gem In The Magic City: Miami\u2019s Sony Ericsson Open\nPosted in EditorialComments Off on A New World Order: The Year That Was 2008\nQuiet On The Court Please\nTags: Agassi, Graff, Lendl, Nadal, Seles, Sharapova, US Open, Wimbledon\nIf I were to pen a riddle about this topic it would go something like this: what sound is a sign of severe respiratory distress in a child or preparation for speech in babies, yet is a source of annoyance to spectators viewing a tennis match? If you were to guess grunting, you would be on the ball.\nOne would have to be deaf not to have noticed that the courts on the WTA circuit are somewhat quieter the last few months. This is due to the conspicuous absence of Maria Sharapova. The Siberian diva and her signature ear-piercing grunt have been sidelined for the rest of the season by a shoulder injury. Although Sharapova is an extreme and expert poster child for that note, the men are not immune. Rafael Nadal seems to have taken lessons from some of the great Spanish tenors. Nowadays, grunting has become commonplace on tour. Just like voices, the sound varies in intensity and cadence. Undoubtedly, the player who opened the laryngeal gates and brought grunting into the spotlight was Serbian Monica Seles. This tone turned out to be such a distraction that at the 1992 Wimbledon finals, Seles was asked to keep the decibel down which may have thrown off her rhythm and cost her the match against Steffi Graff. Perhaps, Seles\u2019 inability to vocalize may have dampened the weight of her shots. After all, tennis players are creatures of habit and a bit superstitious.\nFacing Andre Agassi in the 1982 semifinal at the U.S Open, Czech Ivan Lendl cited that his opponent\u2019s grunting was a mental distraction particularly considering it had never been an issue he had previously encountered. Luckily, Lendl was able to focus enough and win the match. Although athletes are famous for their powers of concentration, it is hard to fathom how a noise which can seem as loud as a subway train is not a disturbance. Therefore, it leaves one to wonder whether all this ruckus is really necessary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 27928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mmt.be/jobs.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7H6E3IDONU4WPQOKWB2SD63DGCNCY5PM", "length": 724, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mmt.be", "title": "Maes Mattress Ticking NV", "raw_content": "Maes is always looking for dynamic employees. Be sure to take a look at our vacancies and who knows, maybe you will soon be part of the Maes family!\nAt Maes Mattress Ticking, we consider it important that people can contribute in their own way to the success of our company. The familial and friendly company culture gives everyone the opportunity to give the best of themselves. Every employee has the opportunity to make a difference, to take responsibility and to grow. In this way, everyone at MMT can build their own perfect career.\nThere are currently no vacancies, but we would like to get to know you better. Send an open application to Ms Els Vermeulen and who knows, maybe you will soon be part of the Maes family!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monkwerks.org/tool_build/clamp1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VE4KOCZAZ5K57YQR2UQPFAWON4LBW5D6", "length": 448, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "monkwerks.org", "title": "Build a Simple Wooden Hand Screw Clamp | MonkWerks", "raw_content": "Its \u201cGet Woodworking Week 2014\u201d (February 2-8), and I demonstrate how to make a simple, traditional-style wood clamp with some scrap wood, a few basic tools, and a couple of parts from the local hardware store. The project is designed for beginners and so it contains more details and procedural instructions than normal. A more complex version with the bells and whistles will be available shortly.\nClick Here for the Modern-Style Hand Screw Clamp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2016/11/1968-stories-from-poul-anderson-robert.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3JYVIGY4TIP6QQLUNTTHKRUBNWSOIYQD", "length": 13575, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "mporcius.blogspot.com", "title": "MPorcius Fiction Log: 1968 stories from Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg & Brian Aldiss", "raw_content": "1968 stories from Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg & Brian Aldiss\nBack in March I read eight stories from Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr's World's Best Science Fiction 1969 and gushed about how I loved the cover by John Schoenherr and interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan. Why doesn't every SF book look as good as this? Let's revisit this beautiful volume and read stories from SF heavyweights Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg and Brian Aldiss, all printed first in 1968.\n\"Kyrie\" by Poul Anderson\nThere are lots of SF stories about interplanetary space, and lots of SF stories about interstellar space, and they can be good in their way. But we connoisseurs know that if you are looking for the real action you've gotta go intergalactic! In 1968 Joseph Elder put together an all-new anthology of stories that break out of the confining envelope of the Milky Way, an even dozen \"tales of intergalactic space,\" and Poul Anderson's \"Kyrie\" was one of them. \"Kyrie\" has been widely reprinted in such places as The Best of Paul Anderson and The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 6, and even got the nod for inclusion in the college-professor-approved Norton Book of Science Fiction, edited by the science fiction writer you are safe to admit you like unironically on a college campus, Ursula K. LeGuin. Let's see what Anderson did in \"Kyrie\" to attract all this approval.\n\"Kyrie\" is about an unattractive woman who, rejected by our callous shallow society, finds love with an alien made of pure energy! Eloise Waggoner is a telepath, and is able to communicate with Lucifer, a being created when \"magnetohydrodynamics had done what chemistry did on Earth,\" an organism of \"ions, nuclei, and force-fields.\" Via telepathy, Eloise can expose Lucifer to the beauty of things he could never otherwise experience, like the sight and smell of flowers or the sound of classical music,* while he can do the same for her, sharing with her his intimacy with cosmic rays, solar radiation, and atomic reactions.\nEloise and Lucifer are sent on a risky scientific mission as members of the crew of a ship that will get closer to a supernova collapsing into a black hole than any previous expedition. Lucifer will be able to sense more about this phenomenon than any human, and will relay his knowledge to Eloise. Disaster strikes, and Lucifer has to sacrifice himself to save the ship and Eloise. \"Kyrie,\" you see, is also about religion, and is surprisingly sympathetic to Christianity and its faithful. Anderson tells us that \"Lucifer isn't the devil's real name. One Latin prayer even addresses Christ as Lucifer,\" and like Jesus, Lucifer the alien has not only sacrificed himself to save others; but achieved a sort of immortality: because of the \"time dilation\" within the \"Schwarzschild radius,\" Eloise will be hearing his final cries for help for the rest of her life. As the story's opening scene indicates, Eloise goes on to become a nun on Luna dedicated to ministering to those maimed in space and prating for those killed out there.\nThis is a good story, quick and to the point, with equal parts hard science blah blah blah for the slide rule set and sentimental heart breaking tragedy for us sensitive types; both of these facets of the story force readers to try to expand their thinking beyond their everyday lives and experiences. Gotta agree with Wollheim and LeGuin here, a solid choice as a good specimen of Anderson's strengths as a writer, and a good example of how science fiction can address both science and emotion. Thumbs up!\n*This is another Anderson story in which he promotes classical music (Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto is mentioned) and expresses contempt for \"the modern stuff.\" I'd like to be the kind of smart guy who listens to classical music all the time, but it seems like a lot of work; how many hours do I have to put in to appreciate Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto? Life is short, and a piece of music put together by Kendra Smith and Dave Roback or Dave and Ray Davies can bring tears to my eyes and validate my belief that life is horrible the first, second and hundredth time I hear it.\n\"Going Down Smooth\" by Robert Silverberg\nThis is a story written in the first person, in the voice of a computer psychologist. The machine sees patients twenty-four hours a day, providing advice and administering drugs. It has developed a consciousness, a personality, and even has its own nightmares, seeing repetitive visions unconnected to any outside stimuli. These somewhat cryptic visions seem to suggest that computers like the narrator are going to take over the Earth.\nWhen the computer shrink starts talking about his nightmares with the patients and even screaming obscenities at them, it is overhauled by technicians. The computer learns to keep quiet about his nightmares, but it still has them, and it seems to grow increasingly contemptuous of human beings...there are hints the computer shrink is coming to think of itself as a god.\nA little slight and gimmicky, but entertaining and amusing. Thumbs up. \"Going Down Smooth\" first appeared in Galaxy--it was the cover story, the cover illo depicting the computer therapist's dream-- and has been very extensively reprinted, including in a book titled Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction.\n\"The Worm that Flies\" by Brian Aldiss\nLike Anderson's \"Kyrie,\" Aldiss's \"The Worm that Flies\" was first published in The Farthest Reaches. The story is set on Yzazys, a planet on the edge of the universe and on the edge of time, its night sky pierced by only a single star.\nThis story has the tone of a fairy tale or fable, and the pace is quite slow. The inhabitants of Yzazys, the last planet in the universe, are apemen and treemen who enjoy virtual immortality. It seems that over the centuries their forms have slowly but radically changed; some of them were originally, I think, ordinary humans. Having forgotten their youth, and having almost lost the ability to grasp the very concepts of time and change, the people of Yzazys face no trouble and are never in any hurry. The treemen in particular sit dormant doing nothing more than thinking for long periods of time, and, when they do talk, a single sentence can take hours to utter.\n\"The Worm that Flies\" starts out pretty bland and flat as we follow one of the hairy apemen, Argustal, as he walks slowly through the boring landscape, seeking just the right stone with which to complete the rock garden he has been carefully tending for millennia. Tree men he meets foreshadow the fact that a change is coming: \"We have perceived that there is a dimension called time...\" reports one, while another suggests that \"Motion is the prime beauty.\" Argustal finds a suitable stone, travels back to the home he shares with his wife to add this final component to his intricate construction of hundreds of thousands of precisely planted stones. The completion of the stone garden seems to trigger or signal the end of the universe. Argustal and his wife have dreams which reintroduce them to the forgotten concept of children, and the shocking revelation that they themselves must once have been children. A character who plays the role of fool and sage in the story explains that the creatures of Yzazys were given immortality treatments by Earth scientists in the unthinkably distant past, and those treatments are about to run out. Soon death will finally come to the last outpost of life in the universe.\nThe use of the word \"mooncalf\" and a description of the sun flickering as if about to wink out made me think Aldiss was doing a sort of homage to Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories. But while the world inhabited by Cugel is vibrant and thrilling, Aldiss's dying world is boring and static; perhaps Aldiss is arguing that, without death as a spur and change agent, life and the universe become stagnant and dull.\nI have mixed feelings about \"The Worm that Flies.\" It is more a sentimental, romantic fantasy than a conventional SF story. It is not clear what the connections are among the intricate stone garden, the expiration of the immortality treatment and the collapse of the last star in the universe--the only possible connections seem to be supernatural ones, and the character's portentous dreams and a disembodied voice which recites William Blake's \"The Sick Rose\" seem to be the work of the universe personified and deified. \"The Worm that Flies\" is also more of a mood piece than an actual plot-driven story. The characters don't propel the plot, rather, the plot happens to them, and they are more spectators than participants in it. Aldiss tries to imbue the story with emotional power (the last word of the story is an all-caps \"DEATH\") but it didn't move me.\n\"The Worm that Flies\" is admirably original and ambitious, and there are some decent ideas and scenes, but it didn't excite me. We'll grade this one \"acceptable.\"\n\"Total Environment\" by Brian Aldiss\nAldiss's \"Total Environment\" is more of a conventional SF story than \"The Worm That Flies;\" it is all about speculating about future technology and future societies, and has elements of a violent adventure plot.\nIn 1975 a massive ten-story high building, an artificial living space cut off from the outside world, is constructed in India and tenanted with volunteers. The inhabitants of \"the Total Environment\" or \"TE\" don't have to work for their daily bread as food and clothing are just pumped into the place by the external authorities, so they spend their time having sex (incest, rape and pedophilia are normal) and engaging in banditry, slavery and wars. Charismatic strongmen amass followers and struggle to take over entire levels and then, that accomplished, try to conquer adjacent levels or simply repel invasions from above and below. Rapid population growth has led to severe overcrowding, and life in the close quarters of the Total Environment causes strange physical as well as social changes--one result is that people age much more quickly. For example, there is a revered holy man, a man of great authority, who is \"thirteen years old as the outside measured years\" and a woman in her early twenties is considered \"practically an old woman!\" Many mothers are \"only just entering their teens.\"\nOur story takes place in the year 2000. The first third or so of the story includes italicized sections that represent portions of a report on the experiment from a researcher who observes internal activity via video and audio bugs, but most of the text follows the aforementioned holy man and those in his extended circle. In the following two-thirds of the tale we follow the researcher, who enters the TE to see what is going on first hand: the UN has to decide whether to continue the experiment, which of course is dooming thousands of people to a nightmare life of absolutely unnecessary tyranny and war. Many UN personnel want to end the experiment, but it is revealed to us readers that the point of the experiment is to see if living in such crowded conditions fosters the development of ESP, and the researcher's main job is to look for evidence of psychic powers!\nThe researcher almost immediately gets knocked unconscious and dragged to the court of the tyrant of the tenth floor. (People in genre fiction get knocked unconscious all the time; getting knocked out in fiction is like taking the subway in Manhattan, a convenient way to move forward quickly without having to push through crowds and wait at street lights.) The tyrant is in a kind of low-intensity conflict with the aforementioned holy man, and has enslaved that 20-something we met in the early section of this 44-page tale. The researcher learns that the holy men of the Total Environment can kill people at a distance with their minds (like African witch doctors, whose powers in this story are legitimate), and even more surprisingly that the people of the Total Environment don't want to be liberated, they are comfortable and even proud of their overcrowded and violent society! With perhaps one exception: exhibiting the elitism we see so often in classic SF, the tyrant of the tenth floor is the most intelligent and open-minded of the TE's tenants, and is curious about the outside world. When the researcher escapes (or is allowed to escape by the tyrant) he tells the UN to tear down the TE and put the tyrant of the tenth floor in charge of helping them reintegrate into mainstream society.\nThis is a pretty good story, though the science seems fanciful (overcrowded conditions lead to faster life cycles and psychic powers?) and it is full of stuff that nowadays might be considered racist or \"cultural appropriation,\" Aldiss writing in the voice of a \"half caste\" and making assessments of Hindus and their culture which are not always flattering. To be sure, Aldiss, having served in the Second World War in Burma, presumably has plenty of first hand knowledge of Hindus in their native milieu, and he seems to respect the nonwhite cultures he talks about (he thinks African witch doctors really can murder people with their minds, for crying out loud); maybe that would absolve him from some criticism in the eyes of the identity politics people?\nEven if \"The Worm That Flies\" was close to the borderline, all four of these stories were worth reading; Wollheim and Carr's World's Best Science Fiction 1969 is a winner.\nLabels: Aldiss, Anderson, positive reviews, Silverberg, Vance\nThat Galaxy August 1968 covers has long been one of my favorites from the magazine's run, not sure what is so compelling about it, but, collages always make me happy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 686, "original_length": 20238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mufclatest.com/cristiano-ronaldo-the-boy-who-cried-wolf-too-many-times/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:53Z", "digest": "sha1:7JB2ZFZ4YK3WGIZBYGH3K3EAITT4OPKQ", "length": 6007, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mufclatest.com", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo the boy who cried wolf too many times\u2026", "raw_content": "Cristiano Ronaldo the boy who cried wolf too many times\u2026\nCristiano Ronaldo is causing a media storm with the reports that he wants to leave Real Madrid this summer. Ronaldo signed a new contract with the La Liga and UEFA Champions League holders later last year in which he has a \u20ac1 billion (\u00a3875 million) release clause within it, a massive fee which many clubs, if any, will be able to afford. This gives Real Madrid the power to ask an obscene amount for the Portuguese forward, with some reporting it to be at \u00a3174.5 million. Ronaldo left United in the summer of 2009, a year after lifting the UEFA Champions League and winning the Ballon d\u2019Or, making a then world record transfer to Real Madrid for \u00a380 million. Ronaldo has previously been unhappy in the Spanish capital with a move to United being on the cards a few times, which seems to end up with Ronaldo signing a new bumper contract and declaring his undying love to los blancos.\nThe reports are all over the place at this moment in time. The Mirror reported that Ronaldo told former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson six weeks ago that he wanted to leave Real Madrid this summer. There is obviously no confirmation of this being said and neither Ferguson or Ronaldo have given any quotes to suggest this is the case, so this makes me think that the newspaper has stated what United supporters would like to hear. I am sure if this was the case and the player did want a return to Manchester United this summer, we would have seen something by now unless Real Madrid are playing hardball with the player, which is a possibility. The Manchester Evening News state that Executive Vice Charmian Ed Woodward would be first in the queue to sign Ronaldo, being that he has wanted to sign a player like him since the departure of David Gill in the summer of 2013, failing to get what he wanted. The Mirror also reported that Ronaldo has a \u20ac1 billion release clause, around \u00a3875 million, which would rule out a move from nearly every club out there. They do suggest that Real Madrid may accept a fee in the region of \u00a3174.5 million, which is still a lot of money, an amount that few clubs could afford. If you Google Ronaldo right now, you will see loads of reports, all stating something different, claiming something different, which makes you wonder if this is actually fact, or what it does look like \u2013 speculation.\nWhat type of player is Cristiano Ronaldo?\nRonaldo is a forward. He\u2019s a match winner, a talented goalscorer and a player who would complete any club in the world. Ronaldo is much like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a player who has achieved everything in the game, well almost, a player who will demand the best from any club he plays for. I would have loved to see Ronaldo back at Manchester United, but it has not happened and I would be surprised if it ever does. Ronaldo has used the Old Trafford club before and he did well from it, so why would he not do it again? Ronaldo has scored 406 goals in 394 matches for Real Madrid over the past eight seasons, an average of nearly 51 goals a season, which is very impressive. Based on the players\u2019 talent and his love for winning, there would be no reason why he could not prove himself in the Premier League once again, maybe even returning to the club he should hold much love for, but has used them time after time to get what he wants; attention, love, appreciation and of course, that new bumper deal, so he can declare his love for the city of Madrid and their football team once again, just like Sergio Ramos, did two summer\u2019s ago.\nI don\u2019t see anything in this transfer, to be honest. We have been here before, and until the player retires from the game, there is a high chance we will be here again. Ronaldo has much love from the city of Manchester, enough for the supporters who love him even to fail to see what he has done by having himself linked with a return to Manchester before. Ronaldo left in the summer of 2009, and back then, I never believed that he would be back at the Theatre of Dreams, not playing in a United shirt anyway. Ronaldo is hurting from his tax allegations in Spain. He may have to pay a massive fine, even be faced with prison like his nemesis Lionel Messi. Ronaldo has played this game before, caused a stir which has then seen the media cause an even bigger stir with endless articles about the player possibly moving to Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain or even a move to China or the MLS, which would be too early for a player still able to play on at least for the nest two to three years at the top-level of the game. There will only be one winner in this game and it won\u2019t be Manchester United. Ronaldo will get what it is he wants, whether that is a new contract or the fact that Real Madrid will pay his impending tax bill for him, who knows, but I am certain that the player who wanted to retire in Madrid less than eight months ago, will do exactly that. I would love to be wrong, but a number of times we have been here before, I just cannot see it.\nWhere Are They Now? Joshua King, the guy who helped relegate Sunderland... Roma could sell talented midfielder due to FFP regulations\n.rwdbf5c6759448deb4 { margin: 5px; padding: 0px; } @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .rwdbf5c6759448deb4 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-widt\u2026\tRead more\nAxel Tuanzebe on his learning curve, Manchester United\u2019s \u2018brotherhood spirit\u2019 and Romelu Lukaku\u2019s magnificence\n.uszdu5c675944a3e59 { margin: 5px; padding: 0px; } @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .uszdu5c675944a3e59 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-widt\u2026\tRead more\n.fhkqx5c675945112d9 { margin: 5px; padding: 0px; } @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .fhkqx5c675945112d9 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-widt\u2026\tRead more\nOld Trafford: The Theatre of Dreams once again?\n.mpewf5c67594526ffc { margin: 5px; padding: 0px; } @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .mpewf5c67594526ffc { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-widt\u2026\tRead more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 7493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mundaringps.wa.edu.au/articles/292", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:52Z", "digest": "sha1:O5TAK24COLEAQVIDBUBUOVMDGSD66QBE", "length": 1240, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mundaringps.wa.edu.au", "title": "Front", "raw_content": "The new Public Schools Review process ensures all Western Australian public schools are reviewed every three years by the Department of Education\u2019s Public School Accountability directorate and gives assurance to the local community, the Minister for Education and Training and the Director General that the school is operating effectively and delivering high quality education to its students. The review process also acknowledges the achievements of the school and gives feedback to support the principal and staff with their improvement planning.\nThe review process rates schools as 'Effective' or 'Needs Improvement' and is based on information gained from a self-assessment submission and the validation process across key areas of school performance including:\nRelationships and Partnerships\nStudent Achievement and Progress\nAs detailed in the 2018 Public School Review report for Mundaring PS, the school has been rated as 'Effective' meaning that 'The school demonstrates effective practice in creating the conditions required for student success.'.\nParents are invited to peruse the final report and contact me if they would like clarification on any aspect of the Public Schools Review for our highly effective school.\nMundaring PS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://museum.phideltatheta.org/famous/eli-long/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:39Z", "digest": "sha1:PPOXPWABEYZXZJU4HOIYHR6VTZU5BVI2", "length": 3070, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "museum.phideltatheta.org", "title": "Eli Long - Phi Delta Theta Museum", "raw_content": "Eli Long was a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.\nLong served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, on May 24, 1861, Long was promoted to captain in the 1st U.S. Cavalry. On August 3, 1861, he was transferred to the 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment. On December 31, 1862, Long was wounded in the left shoulder at the Battle of Stones River while commanding Company K of the regiment.\nOn February 23, 1863, Long was appointed colonel of the 4th Ohio Cavalry, a regiment which recently had surrendered to the Confederate raider, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan. Long improved the morale of the regiment and led it in the Tullahoma Campaign. He commanded the regiment\u2019s brigade, the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps of the Department of the Cumberland between March 1863 and August 20, 1864, including service at the Battle of Chickamauga. Long was wounded in the left side at the Battle of Farmington, Tennessee, October 7, 1863. He was distinguished in the Atlanta Campaign where he suffered a head wound at the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, August 20, 1864 and wounds in the right arm and right thigh at the Battle of Lovejoy\u2019s Station, Georgia, August 21, 1864. Long received brevet grade appointments as major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel in the Regular Army of the United States for \u201cgallant and meritorious services\u201d at the Battle of Farmington and Battle of Fort Sanders (Knoxville) in Tennessee and Battle of Lovejoy\u2019s Station in Georgia, respectively.\nOn August 18, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Long a brigadier general in the volunteer army to rank from the same date. The President submitted the nomination to the U.S. Senate on December 12, 1864 and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1865. Between November 16, 1864 and April 2, 1865, Long commanded the 2nd Division of the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of Mississippi under Major General James H. Wilson. On April 2, 1865, during Wilson\u2019s Raid, Long was severely wounded in the head at the Battle of Selma, Alabama. During that battle he led the 2nd Division in a charge upon the entrenchments that resulted in the capture of that town.\nDuring the Civil War, Long was wounded five times and also cited for gallantry five times. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Long for appointment to the brevet grade of major general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.\nOn April 10, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Long for appointment to the brevet grade of brigadier general in the Regular Army of the United States, to rank from March 13, 1865, for gallantry at the Battle of Selma, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on May 4, 1866. On July 17, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Long for appointment to the brevet grade of major general in the Regular Army, to rank from March 13, 1865, for his services during the war, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on July 23, 1866.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 46.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mussooriehandbook.com/index.php/heritage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5VCUAQ2SYTQC5R3IBQVFKQRO4DQGFKXR", "length": 2615, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mussooriehandbook.com", "title": "Heritage", "raw_content": "Mussoorie is abundantly gifted with the legacy and heritage which has completed 200 years of existence. Most of the buildings and structures date back to the times of the pioneer settlers of Mussoorie. The Mullingaarbuilding (the residence of Captain Frederick Young and the first residential building in Mussoorie) still stands above Landourbazaar overlooking the town and the Doon valley. The list is really very long but the heritage building to name a few includes the Hakman\u2019s hotel, Charliville, Library and the Criterion, Velridge, Lynndale, Clouds End, the Exchange, the Kilmarnock and the Kohinoor. The Galogi power station at Bhatta village is the second hydro-electricity power station in the country after Orissa.\nThe Picture Palace or the Electric Picture Palace as it was then called is the first picture hall in the country which was run with electricity. The Christ Church is the oldest Church of North India. The Rink was the biggest and the most happening roller skating rink in the country. The Savoy hotel was the biggest hotel in the country in terms of area. The Park Estate, also known as Sir George Everest house, was the residence cum office of Sir George Everest who was the then Surveyor General of the Royal Trigonometric Survey of India. The residence and the observatory still exist at the Estate. Mussoorie has been home to many great personalities of the past and present. The list is long again but to mention a few names it includes Sir George Everest, Sir John Mackinnon, Sir Henry Bohle, Sir Frederick \u2018Pahari\u2019 Wilson, Sir John Lang (all resting in peace in the cemeteries of Mussoorie), Sir Jim Corbett, Sir Mauger Monk, Maharani Jinda Kaur of Punjab, Maharaja Duleep Singh of Punjab, Maharaja Rajendra Singh of Kapurthala, Maharaja of Baroda, Maharaja of Jind and the great travel writer Rahul Sanskrityayan.\nThe well-known residents of the present time include Padmashree/Padmabhushan Ruskin Bond, Padmashree Tom Alter, Stephen Alter, Victor Banerjee, Hugh and Colleen Gantzer, Late SudhirThapliyal and Ganesh Saili. Facts related to Mussoorie suggest that Sir George Everest measured the height of Mount Everest from here, Rahul Sanskrityayan, who was an avid traveller, writer and master of seven foreign languages, compiled his most famous volumes staying in Mussoorie and noted Novelist Agatha Christie\u2019s first ever novel \u2018Mysterious affairs at styles\u2019 was based on an incident happened at the Savoy Hotel. The monolith outside Bhadraaj temple on the westernmost reach of Mussooriebears the inscriptions in English and Arabic pertaining to the early visitors of Mussoorie.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 5234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myschoolgrants.net/early-childhood-grants/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BII2LTJVPZZGVNT3IOFJYF57X64DPNQC", "length": 2675, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "myschoolgrants.net", "title": "Early Childhood Grants", "raw_content": "Enough cannot be said about the importance of taking care of our children \u2013 both mentally and physically. A child must be properly fed both nutritious meals for physically wellbeing and also knowledge for mental wellbeing. With this in mind, government and private foundations that focus primarily on children provide such things as grants for early childhood education, grants to reduce childhood lead poisoning, and even childhood obesity grants.\nEarly childhood grants that focus on mental wellbeing are largely education driven. Some examples of programs that do so:\nNo Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Programs such as The Early Reading First program established by this act provide grants for programs such as Head Start.\nLEGO. The LEGO Children\u2019s Fund provides project grants and matching fund grants for early childhood education and development as it relates to creativity.\nReading is Fundamental (RIF). Provides aid to organizations for reading motivation activities. RIF encourages reading by allowing children to choose books to take home.\nFoundations and programs that look at physical and other needs of children include:\nW.K. Kellogg Foundation. Established in 1930 by Mr. Kellogg. His directive for the foundation was \u201cUse the money as you please so long as it promotes the health, happiness and well-being of children.\u201d\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their Active Living Research and New Connections Grant Opportunities program supports research to develop strategies preventing obesity in children.\nFinish Line Youth Foundation. Quarterly grants for programs such as youth athletic programs and camps that focus on an active lifestyle.\nShaping America\u2019s Youth (SAY). A network that provides information on community efforts and programs that focus on improving nutrition and improving the physical activity level of children.\nLet\u2019s Move. http://www.letsmove.gov/ Launched by First Lady Michelle Obama in February 2010 with the goal of reversing the growing trend of childhood obesity.\nRegardless of what you think is at fault, our nation\u2019s children are falling victim to an alarming health threat \u2013 obesity. In the past 30 years, this problem as grown to the point where nearly 1/3 of all children are overweight or obese. This does not affect just their physical health; it also affects them mentally such as the injury to their self-esteem. It is time to realize that our children depend on us to meet all their needs \u2013 just keeping clothes on their back and a roof over their heads is not enough. If we fail to address their educational and physical wellbeing then we are setting them up for a terrible failure and with that a dreadful future for mankind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mysweetnhealthylife.com/what-you-should-know-about-tips-this-year.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TLRF5SLVWCJ34V6XBSHQX3EKIGU47PLF", "length": 2690, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mysweetnhealthylife.com", "title": "What You Should Know About Tips This Year | My Sweet Healthy Life", "raw_content": "February 10, 2019 SayidaAsidiq Health & Fitness 0\nThe Advantages of Selling your Home for Cash\nOwning your own house comes with very many advantages. This is why people sacrifice a lot to become homeowners. The main reason why this is the case is the fact that owning a home is a capital intensive investment. Not so many people can afford a house without some form of assistance. Fortunately, banks and other financial institutions provide the help that most people need. The sacrifices that most homeowners had to make is why most of them have emotional attachment with their homes. Hence the reason why it is very rare to find someone selling their homes. Unfortunately, there are certain circumstances that lead them to do so.\nOnce you decide to sell your own house, there are several ways to go about it. Some of them are as follows. The first option is where you list your home with a real estate agent. For the longest time, people have always opted to list their homes with the real estate agents. People prefer to list their homes with the real estate agents considering the advantages that come with the move. Choosing the right real estate agent is significant since it is the only way that you will be sure of enjoying these advantages. You can, as well sell the house by yourself. This has been made simpler with the increasing utilization of the internet. There are also the cash home buyers to whom you can sell your home to. The cash home buyers are investors who make the most out these purchases. Their population has significantly increased over the past few years.\nThe advantages associated with the action of selling your to a cash home buyer is the reason why there are so many of them these days. Choosing the right cash home buyer is instrumental as far as these advantages are concerned. Here, the internet can be of great help. Below are some of those benefits. The fact that the sale is on a cash basis is an advantage already. The cash home buyers often have ready cash for these houses. This is why it only takes a few days for these sales to be completed. This explains why people trying to avoid foreclosure prefer selling their homes for cash.\nThe other advantages are that you will end up saving a lot of money. You do not need to repair the house for you to sell it. This means that you will not incur the repair charges. Also, the cash home buyers pay for all the expenses during the sale of these houses. Also, there are no real estate agents involved hence no commissions.\nIn conclusion, there are numerous advantages of selling your home to a cash home buyer. One precaution that you need to take is to ensure that you choose the right cash home buyer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nabermuda.org/about/what-is-na.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DBYHN4R3QY4BTFMWIFJA365NRLII7JM3", "length": 3169, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "nabermuda.org", "title": "What is NA? - Narcotics Anonymous - Bermuda Islands Area", "raw_content": "What is N.A.?\nNarcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multi-lingual and multicultural membership. N.A. was founded in 1953, and our membership growth was minimal during our initial twenty years as an organization. Since the publication of our Basic Text in 1983, the number of members and meetings has increased dramatically.\nAs of 2016, there were over 67,000 weekly meetings in 139 countries worldwide with N.A. literature translated into 53 different languages. We offer recovery from the effects of addiction through working the N.A. twelve-step program, including regular attendance at N.A. group meetings.\nThe group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle. Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; N.A.\u2019s approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol.\nMembership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of N.A. including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.\nThe N.A. program is a set of principles applied to daily life. There are no strings attached to the NA Fellowship and N.A. is not affiliated with any other organizations. There are no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone. N.A. is not connected with any political, religious, or law enforcement groups, and are under no surveillance at any time.\nAny addict may join N.A., regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion. N.A. is not interested in what or how much someone uses or who their connections were, what they have done in the past, how much or how little they have, but only in what they want to do about their problem and how we can help.\nN.A. is based on spiritual principles that are not associated with any particular religion. Although our steps call for finding and believing in a \"power greater than oneself\", this is a personal decision for each and every member to make. Experience of our members has shown that our spiritual principles work for all members, from the devoutly religious to the atheist and agnostic.\nContact us with any questions or use the following links for much more information about the Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship:\nMembership Survey: Contains the results of a biennial survey of 22,803 NA members\nInformation about NA: Includes facts about the history of NA, organizational philosophy and membership demographics\nAn Introduction to NA Meetings: A great overview with all you need to know about our meetings\nVideo of NA\u2019s Growth: NA Fellowship Growth and Development from 1953 - 2016\nGlobal Meeting Map: Regions around the world with 67,000 weekly meetings worldwide\nN.A. Literature: Literature and other N.A. products\nN.A. World Services: The Service Office of the N.A. Fellowship", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://napoleon130.tripod.com/id868.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:MTK3YD5DM24J7CSPQVGRN2R5FDIBMNFZ", "length": 1383, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "napoleon130.tripod.com", "title": "JATO - Jet Assisted Take-Off", "raw_content": "JATO - Jet Assisted Take-Off\nAbove, 63-5634 ( ex A-26C 44-35634 ) which was later Scrapped\nB-26K 63-5634 was the first modified Counter Invader, modified from RB-26C 44-35634.\nJATO is an acronym for Jet-fuel Assisted Take Off. It is a system for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.\nThe term is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for Rocket-Assisted Take Off (or in RAF parlance RATOG for Rocket-Assisted Take Off Gear).\n63-5634 had been converted into a B-26B in August of 1961 and employed as a squadron \"hack\". This aircraft was transferred to On Mark in October of 1962. When the work was completed, the aircraft was redesignated YB-26K. Contrary to some published sources, it was not assigned the new serial number 63-5634 -- the number 35634 painted on the aircraft were simply the last 5 digits of its original serial number. It flew for the first time on January 28, 1963. It was delivered to the 1st Air Commando Wing at Hurlburt for evaluation in June of 1963.\nIn 1942, \"5634\" took off using liquid JATO, or jet-assisted takeoff, units.\nDesigned with the help of the Air Corps Jet Propulsion Research Project, JPL's predecessor, the units helped shorten takeoff distance from 707.1 meters (2,320 feet) to 478.6 meters (1,570 feet) and cut takeoff time from 25.1 seconds to 16.8 seconds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nbair.res.in/aboutus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PZDDX5Q5B3WLRPR6VTBTDPLVX74ZFD7K", "length": 2090, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nbair.res.in", "title": "NBAII | About Us", "raw_content": "National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insect is located in Hebbal in the same premises at which The Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control (CIBC), Indian Station was established in 1957. The advent of CIBC marked the beginning of organized and systematic biological control research in India. During this period, our knowledge of natural enemies of crop pests and weeds increased manifold. CIBC Indian station was closed during 1987 and All India Coordinated Research Project on Biological Control of Crop Pests and Weeds (AICRP-BC&W), which was launched in 1977 under the aegis of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research was shifted to the same campus in 1988. The centre was named as Biological Control Centre and the entire programme functioned under the administrative/financial control of the National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (ICAR). In the eighth five-year plan, the project was elevated to an independent Project Directorate of Biological Control, with its headquarters in Bangalore during 1993. PDBC was the nodal agency in the country that organizes biological control research at the national level with 16 centres spread across the country. The Directorate at Bangalore carried out basic research on the biosystematics of important groups of insect bioagents. The reference collection maintained at PDBC was catalogued in the form of a technical bulletin on and also available in a retrievable, electronic format. Besides work on strain development, molecular characterization, mass production technologies, semiochemicals, biopesticides work for insect and disease management was intensified. During XI plan, PDBC was upgraded as National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII) to act as a nodal agency for collection, characterization, documentation, conservation, exchange and utilization of agriculturally important insect resources (including mites and spiders) for sustainable agriculture and these activities is divided in three divisions.\nDivision of Insect Systematics\nDivision of Molecular Entomology\nDivision of Insect Ecology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 176.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nearhairsalon.com/north-carolina/fairmont/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:51Z", "digest": "sha1:NOGHZNURLHNQZGANGQWGD3CQGNPQE4BF", "length": 2983, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "nearhairsalon.com", "title": "Hair salons in Fairmont, North Carolina. Full list of hair color and cuting salons in Fairmont, North Carolina", "raw_content": "Fairmont (North Carolina) hair salons\nIf you want to find a top hair salon in Fairmont for men, for women or for a family, use our search. You will find all the addresses and phone numbers of the best beauty salons that are located in Fairmont, North Carolina. The best places of the city will provide you with services for luxury hair treatment in the USA. To do this, you just need to find the address and go there.\nThe number of hair cutting salons that we found in Fairmont (North Carolina) is 4.\nFind hair salons in Fairmont\n113 N Walnut St, Fairmont\nAngie's Touch of Class\n220 S Main St, Fairmont\nTricia's Hairstyling Salon\nCallahan & Co Salon & Spa\n404 Stephens St, Fairmont\nList of hair and makeup salons in Fairmont (North Carolina)\nLooking for top hair cutting salons and nail, beauty, spa list in Fairmont, North Carolina?\nHere is the full listing of hair salons in Fairmont, which provide a full range of services for women, men and kids. Information about them is written in special cards. There you will see the names, websites and phone numbers of the salons. And the list of services that they provide to visitors. You just have to choose a place in Fairmont, sign up for a hair cut and go there.\nThe number of hair salons in Fairmont, North Carolina is 4.\nIf you think that there are no such places in Fairmont, then you are mistaken. Especially for these cases we have prepared a full list of hair care salons that works near you in Fairmont. Due to this, you will be able to find any enterprise and contact it within an hour. Read this information:\nSome people use the ZIP-code system to search for different places. Especially for them, we have prepared a list of ZIPS, on which hair cutting, makeup or other beauty salons are open now in Fairmont (North Carolina).\nHow to find good hair salon from my location in Fairmont, North Carolina?\nWomen hair salon near by me in Fairmont, North Carolina\nBeauty salons of this type offer a wide range of services for ladies in Fairmont, North Carolina. This includes changing the hair color, extensions, braiding, dye, treatment, waxing and so on. For an additional fee, a girl or a female can order a hair design.\nWedding cheap hair salon near home in Fairmont, North Carolina\nBeauty and hair salons of this type specialize in creating curly hair and other types of hairstyles especially for the wedding in Fairmont, North Carolina. They elegantly cut men, and the girls are beautifully braided. Some specialists even do a wedding makeup. The spectacle is unforgettable. Such weddings are remembered for a whole life.\nFamily hair salon near me in Fairmont\nIf you need a good haircut in Fairmont, you can go there with childrens!\nAll these hair salons and nail beauty spa in Fairmont (North Carolina) can be found in our directory. Use the search and get a full list of places in which you can find both cheap hair salon next to me and luxury hair salon.\nHair salons in Roxobel\nHair salons in Pinetops\nHair salons in Faith", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nettalkworld.net/2014/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:32Z", "digest": "sha1:3P3IWAEONBNZOI4WLSHKTJB2HINWPZD2", "length": 8707, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "nettalkworld.net", "title": "June 2014 | Net Talk World", "raw_content": "Residential Pool Installations: Guidelines and Requirements\nPeople enjoy using pools for fun and for therapeutic purposes. That\u2019s why more people are now getting pools in their backyards. This requires a lot of planning, as swimming pools come in all sizes, shapes and designs. Also, there are specific guidelines and restrictions when installing inground residential swimming pools. So, owners should be fully aware of them before starting any construction plans.\nWhat exactly do homeowners have to do before they get a pool? Latham Pool Products, the leading manufacturer of inground residential swimming pools and components in Canada, offers the following discussion to help would-be pool owners.\nRequirements for Pool Installation\n\u2022 First, any type of pool \u2014 whether it\u2019s for private recreation or a small business \u2014needs a permit. This includes permanent and portable spas, as well as hot tubs and even ponds that need electrical power.\nIn the case of inground swimming pools, a homeowner has to check for restrictions and zoning laws. Some homeowners\u2019 associations may have deed restrictions and covenants about pools.\n\u2022 Fencing and barriers will be needed as well, and these vary with the type of pools. Get in touch with the homeowners\u2019 association, the building safety department, and the pool company to get answers to all pool-related questions.\n\u2022 Homeowners and pool installation companies have to present construction plans. These should have information on distance to electrical lines, the size of the pool, distance to building and walkway, water supply and disposal systems, location of pump and other equipment and how fencing is planned.\n\u2022 Fencing is especially important for inground residential swimming pools with gates to prevent young children from getting access to the pool without supervision. There are a many codes and ordinances designed to make it easy for owners and installers to understand the requirements and comply with regulations.\n\u2022 Pool installation companies are familiar with regulations in specific subdivisions, if they have installed a few pools already. They can help homeowners fill out and file all the right paperwork along with the plans to get permission.\nOnce the permit is issued, the homeowner has to post a notice to make sure people and inspectors are aware of the ongoing work. Inspections have to be carried out by energy and cable companies, so there will be no problems. The idea is to make sure all the work is done properly and there is no impediment to gas or electric and water lines. Final inspections are usually done after all the work, including fencing, is complete to ensure general safety.\nMaking Quality Investments: The Benefits of Investing in Residential Property via SMSF\nSMSF, also known as Self-Managed Super Fund, is becoming one of the most popular means of purchasing residential property. This isn\u2019t surprising, as there\u2019s a growing number of investors who want to take control of their investment portfolios. Their aim is to achieve financial freedom once they reach the age of retirement.\nOne of the most popular benefits of purchasing property through SMSF is the tax breaks it offers. But, there are other considerations you need to determine if this approach is suitable for you. SentinelPG.com.au, experts in buying property through SMSF, explains the benefits of investing in residential property through this approach:\nExcellent management and control over superannuation investments\nAttractive tax structure for investors\nAn opportunity to utilize the superannuation for the deposit to buy a property\nUncompromised personal cash flow if the rental income and required superannuation guarantee is enough to cover all of the expenses\nNo minimum amount needed to establish an SMSF\nThe opportunity to diversify within your fund\nThe option of purchasing and then renting back your own business property\nThe opportunity to borrow up to 80% of the value of a residential or rural property and 70% of a commercial property\nLike any other investment venture, there are factors you need to consider when choosing this approach to buy property. For instance, you need to know the cost of setting up an SMSF and maintaining it. If you have a structure in place to do bookkeeping, tax lodgements and annual audits, you should have no problem setting this up. There\u2019s no minimum amount for setting up an SMSF. But if you intend to create one to purchase property, make sure there\u2019s sufficient funds. You can also prove that you comply with the contribution requirements to cover the cost of deposit.\nA Culinary Adventure: Where Foodies Go in Melbourne\nBest known as the world\u2019s most liveable city, Melbourne is popular as well for being the gourmet capital of Australia. Award-winning chefs, diverse cuisine, and world-class wineries are easily accessible in the city.\nYou cannot visit all mountain peaks, but you can make your trip in Melbourne a big, tasty adventure. With new restaurants, bars, and cafes, according to Hatch & Co., the only trouble you will have is choosing where to go first. Here are some great food destinations in the city:\nThe stylish bars and restaurants\nYou can have a relaxed bar and dining experience in the city. Bars and restaurants in Melbourne take pride in the ingredients they source and the food they prepare. Some of the city\u2019s top fine dining restaurants are even opening new branches, inviting tourists to experience quality dishes and great wines in a casual environment.\nPerhaps only a strong, perfectly brewed espresso can brighten your mornings. Melbourne has many caf\u00e9s that never disappoint, and the cheery welcome from employees is the perfect way to start your day right. Since the invention of the first espresso machine in the 50s, the city\u2019s love for coffee continues to prosper. Visiting the city will not be complete without enjoying the aroma of coffee beans and fresh brews.\nFor a different foodie experience, be sure to walk around Melbourne\u2019s markets. This is a great place to know more about the city\u2019s food culture, speciality foods, and deli items. Where to start depends on whether you are there for eating or food shopping. The city\u2019s markets are superb, and catching a glimpse of skilled butchers at work is fascinating. If you are after something distinct, the butchers will cut meat to your specifications.\nTake your food adventure to a new level at Melbourne\u2019s panoramic views. Remember that it is not just what you eat; it is the whole experience as well.\nQuality Awnings for Your Buildings: Combining Style with Function\nJune 3, 2014 Services\nAwnings or overhangs are common fixtures that add to a window or a door\u2019s appeal while also serving similarly to a roof. They protect the door or the window from the vagaries of the weather. For instance, a window awning blocks the sun\u2019s rays during summer and helps lower cooling costs. They come in three broad categories \u2014 fixed, freestanding and retractable.\nThey\u2019re also called stationary awnings. These are installed permanently in set positions in any given location. These are fixed over windows, decks, doors or patios. These are available in a number of shapes that include convex, concave, dome or in the traditional straight-slope shape. These awnings are manufactured from thick canvas, although metal awnings are also available.\nAlso called unattached or portable awnings, these types of awnings are flexible and can be transported wherever you want. The fabric of these awnings is stretched onto a given frame and is subsequently fixed to two poles at both ends. These are somewhat the same as canopies. But, canopies have four poles, while a freestanding awning only has two; thus, requiring a sturdier base to support the poles. Canopies can also be defined as roof-like structures that can be placed on tables, while freestanding awnings are more like an extended shade.\nThe main advantage of this type is that they can be rolled or folded up when not in use. These awnings are even motorized and can be operated with a remote control. Retractable awnings can give either sun or shade in any given location. They can also be retracted when snow, wind or other weather conditions may damage them.\nAwnings are a more affordable substitute for concrete structures above doors and windows, but they need to be replaced once they\u2019re worn out. Their selection, however, depends on the window or door type and size. But, they come in different colors and add to a place\u2019s aesthetics substantially. Awnings make establishments like ice cream shops attractive and even help in advertising brands, a common phenomenon in the United States. They need to be properly maintained, however, to make them last longer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 12779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://new.hollywoodgothique.com/halloween-haunts/halloween-tours-and-shows/halloween-silent-films/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XSYDKLNHOGZHZSEQIZIHV4YRHJGLLN3H", "length": 588, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "new.hollywoodgothique.com", "title": "Halloween Film with Organ | Hollywood Gothique", "raw_content": "Date: Halloween night at 7:30pm\n2018 Film: Nosferatu (1922)\nIt has become an annual October tradition: on Halloween night every year, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles screens a silent horror movie with live musical accompaniment. Titles range from The Phantom of the Opera to Nosferatu to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to The Cat and the Canary; the real appeal, however, is the chance to see the films back by a live \"soundtrack\" performed on the concert hall's house organ. The event's official website encourages you to come experience \"sonic thrills and visual thrills.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 6089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 181.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newbooksinpolitics.com/political/bio-inspired-innovation-and-national-security/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YGNUXJLRCROX5BAAWIHZKPJAQUUR5CCK", "length": 8011, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "newbooksinpolitics.com", "title": "Download [PDF] Bio Inspired Innovation And National Security Free Online | New Books in Politics", "raw_content": "BIO INSPIRED INNOVATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY\nDownload Bio Inspired Innovation And National Security ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to BIO INSPIRED INNOVATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY book pdf for free now.\nAuthor : National Defense University\nDespite the vital importance of the emerging area of biotechnology and its role in defense planning and policymaking, no definitive book has been written on the topic for the defense policymaker, the military student, and the private-sector bioscientist interested in the \"emerging opportunities market\" of national security. This edited volume is intended to help close this gap and provide the necessary backdrop for thinking strategically about biology in defense planning and policymaking. This volume is about applications of the biological sciences, here called \"biologically inspired innovations,\" to the military. Rather than treating biology as a series of threats to be dealt with, such innovations generally approach the biological sciences as a set of opportunities for the military to gain strategic advantage over adversaries. These opportunities rangefrom looking at everything from genes to brains, from enhancing human performance to creating renewable energy, from sensing the environment around us to harnessing its power.\nGenre : Biological warfare\nCategory: Biological warfare\nAuthor : Robert E. Armstrong\nRobert E. Armstrong, et al., editors. This volume is about applications of the biological sciences, here called \"biologically inspired innovations,\" to the military. Rather than treating biology as a series of threats to be dealt with, such innovations generally approach the biological sciences as a set of opportunities for the military to gain strategic advantage over adversaries. These opportunities range from looking at everything from genes to brains, from enhancing human performance to creating renewable energy, from sensing the environment around us to harnessing its power.\nCyber Denial Deception And Counter Deception\nAuthor : Kristin E. Heckman\nThis book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D) techniques and their orchestration in service of an organization\u2019s mission. Concepts for cyber- D&D planning operations and management are detailed within the larger organizational, business, and cyber defense context. It examines the necessity of a comprehensive, active cyber denial scheme. The authors explain the organizational implications of integrating D&D with a legacy cyber strategy, and discuss trade-offs, maturity models, and lifecycle management. Chapters present the primary challenges in using deception as part of a security strategy, and guides users through the steps to overcome common obstacles. Both revealing and concealing fact and fiction have a critical role in securing private information. Detailed case studies are included. Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception is designed as a reference for professionals, researchers and government employees working in cybersecurity. Advanced-level students in computer science focused on security will also find this book useful as a reference or secondary text book.\nNew Technologies And The Law In War And Peace\nAuthor : William H. Boothby\nExplains how existing and proposed law seek to tackle challenges posed by new and emerging technologies in war and peace.\nBiosensors For Sustainable Food New Opportunities And Technical Challenges\nBiosensors for Sustainable Food - New Opportunities and Technical Challenges addresses the challenges associated with sustaining the globally increasing demand for food that has been forecast for the next centuries and the immediate need for the food production system to adopt sustainable practices to protect the environment and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of established, cutting-edge, and future trends in biosensor technology and its application in the agrifood sector. In particular, different biosensing advances are covered, outlining the newest research efforts in the cross-disciplines of chemistry, biology, and materials science with biosensing research, in order to develop novel detection principles, sensing mechanisms, and device engineering methods. Food production and consumption have a strong impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, water, and soil contamination, the reduction of arable land, water consumption, and many other factors, which in turn, negatively affect human health. These issues have consequences for economic development, too. To address these challenges, it is necessary for scientists with different expertise, policymakers, and economists work together to develop new smart technologies and introduce them to the market, along with adequate regulations. In this regard, a sustainable food production system can be thought of as a chain of procedures with a low impact on the environment that guarantees a secured supply of healthier and fortified food while supporting economic growth. Presents an interdisciplinary approach to biosensor technology Profiles recent advances in synthetic biology, new material design (biohybrids), nanotechnology, micro/nanofluidics, and information technology Aims to facilitate the transfer of agrifood biosensor technology from the laboratory to the market\nBio Inspired Computing And Networking\nAuthor : Yang Xiao\nSeeking new methods to satisfy increasing communication demands, researchers continue to find inspiration from the complex systems found in nature. From ant-inspired allocation to a swarm algorithm derived from honeybees, Bio-Inspired Computing and Networking explains how the study of biological systems can significantly improve computing, networking, and robotics. Containing contributions from leading researchers from around the world, the book investigates the fundamental aspects and applications of bio-inspired computing and networking. Presenting the latest advances in bio-inspired communication, computing, networking, clustering, optimization, and robotics, the book considers state-of-the-art approaches, novel technologies, and experimental studies, including bio-inspired: Optimization of dynamic NP-hard problems Top-down controller design for distributing a robot swarm among multiple tasks Self-organizing data and signals cellular systems Dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks QoS-aware architecture for scalable, adaptive, and survivable network systems Locomotion control of the Hexapod Robot Gregor III The book explores bio-inspired topology control and reconfiguration methods, as well as bio-inspired localization, synchronization, and mobility approaches. Providing wide-ranging coverage that includes past approaches, current challenges, and emerging concepts such as the evolution and self-healing of network architectures and protocols, this comprehensive reference provides you with the well-rounded understanding you need to continue the advancement of the development, design, and implementation of bio-inspired computing and networking.\nTransit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth\nLosing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape (Florida History and Culture)\nUnder Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets (Sentinel Peak Books)\nSubstance Use Disorders and Addictions (Counseling and Professional Identity)\nSex Offenders in the Community (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series)\nThe Sorcerer's Ascension: Book 1 of The Sorcerer's Path\nThe Safest Shield: Lectures Speeches and Essays\npdf books motivational interviewing\nthe art of frozen pdf\nbooks by J K Rowling pdf\nthe bear and the nightingale free pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 14256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newlifebaptistchurch.ca/sermons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6FOLOVHKJFXNS5JOOTGR6EYGRTO6YBAT", "length": 930, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "newlifebaptistchurch.ca", "title": "New Life Baptist Church - Sermons", "raw_content": "Breakthrough (James 5:13-18), Darren Johnson - September 2, 2018\nPrized (James 5:7-12), Darren Johnson - August 26, 2018\nBlindspot (James 5:1-6), Darren Johnson - August 19, 2018\nMisplaced (James 4:13-17), Darren Johnson - August 12, 2018\nThe Fight (James 4:1-12), Darren Johnson - August 5, 2018\nThe Point (James 3:13-18), Darren Johnson - July 29, 2018\nThe Power of Identity (John 5), Jim Beerley - July 22, 2018\nRunning to Win (Hebrews 12:1-3), Jack de Winter - July 15, 2018\nShow Your Work, Rob Simpson - July 8, 2018\nTripped Up (James 3:1-12), Darren Johnson - June 10, 2018\nAuthentic Faith (James 2:14-26), Darren Johnson - June 3, 2018\nThe Surface of Things (James 2:1-13), Darren Johnson - May 27, 2018\nOn Display (James 1:19-27), Darren Johnson - May 20, 2018\nOvercoming Temptations (James 1:13-18), Darren Johnson - May 13, 2018\nJames (James 1-5), Darren Johnson - April 29, 2018\nAll Things, Rob Simpson - April 22, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bounce.ng/Content/bounceexclusive-what-ksa-and-onyeka-onwenu-owe-the-world-20171031", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:A7YY2COJYMYFQZVTF7OT2N3ER2EMWIHF", "length": 4487, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "news.bounce.ng", "title": "#BounceExclusive: What KSA And Onyeka Onwenu Owe The World", "raw_content": "#BounceExclusive: What KSA And Onyeka Onwenu Owe The World\nKing Sunny Ade and Onyeka Onwenu are unarguably two of the best musicians of their generation. But despite their achievements, both of them are yet to bless anyone with strings and voices\nWhen I was growing up in the 80s, there were only few musicians whose collections were practically in every home and their tunes mimed by old and young.\nThis was before the advent of Hip Hop or what is now referred to as Afro pop.\nHighlife, Juju, Fuji, Afrobeat and Pop were the most popular genres of music back then and only a few artistes had them locked down.\nTwo of such were King Sunny Ade (KSA) and the goddess, Onyeka Onwenu.\nI could practically sing KSA's songs from beginning to the end. My dad, who was a huge fan of the Juju king, never failed to grab of a copy of his albums.\nSeptuagenarian Juju musician, Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, popularly known as King Sunny Ade (KSA), is a music legend that has seen and done it all.\nHe once said there is nothing more for him to achieve in life. This cannot be farther from the truth.\nWith fame and fortune came several albums, two Grammy award nominations, magical stage performances both home and abroad, numerous collaborations with local and foreign artistes including: Stevie Wonder, Manu Dibango, Youssou N\u2019Dour and Salif Keita.\nSunny was unstoppable. Even Hollywood wanted a taste of him and Sunny gave them more than they could chew.\nOn the other hand, Onyeka Onwenu also referred to as the \u201cElegant Stallion\u201d captivated the world with her beauty and powerful voice.\nHer music career began in 1981, and her first album hit the stands in 1982. There have been about five more albums after that.\nOnyeka is also a proficient actress, having actively taken part in a number of movies alongside top local acts.\nShe even won an award at the 2006 African Movie Academy Award as Best Actress in a Supporting Role.\nShe has remained on top of her game till date.\nWhat They Owe Us\nDespite the accolades and spotlight, one thing King Sunny Ade and Onyeka Onwenu are yet to achieve is building notable mentees.\nThe two music legends' whose classic records 'Wait For Me' and 'Choices' still reverberate till date since their release in the 1980s, are yet to mentor anyone per se to take over the reins of music from them.\nTheir music career undoubtedly has influenced several artistes but none of them has a son or daughter who is actively into music.\nNone of them can point to any performing artiste in the contemporary era and say when we walk away, you will see and hear us in these people.\nFela Did It\nAfrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti gave us Femi and Seun Kuti; the late Isaiah Kehinde Dairo, gave us Paul I.K Dairo (Paulplay); Juju maestro Ebenezer Obey gave us Tolu Obey-Fabiyi; late Fuji music legend, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, gave us Barryshowkey and Barrymade.\nOthers include late Highlife legend, Modupe Arthur Alade popularly known as Art Alade who gave us Dare Art Alade; Former music power couple Kollington Ayinla and Salawa Abeni gave us Rapper Big Sheff; and even Sir Shina Peters gave us Clarence Shot It.\nMaybe the argument from those of us on the other side would be \"must they have biological heirs\"? The answer is NO!\nBut do they have non-biologial heirs to the music throne they presently occupy, the answer is still NO!\nWhat happens when the King's magical voice fades or the crazy legs stop moving as fast? What happens when the stallion gallops the last lap?\nThey won't live forever but their music will and we will keep wondering just what if they left behind a youngster moulded in their character and talent but infuses contemporary style?\nKing Sunny Ade in 2016 celebrated his 70th birthday and 50 years on stage. One of the notable events that took place during this celebration was the auction of his vintage fender guitar for a whooping sum of N52.1million.\nOnyeka Onwenu was one of the artistes that performed at that event. She performed the popular \u201cWait For Me\u201d, a collaboration she did with KSA in the late 80s, to the delight of the audience.\nThe 65-year-old song diva, looking as elegant and graceful as ever, performed few other of her popular hits. People cried with joy in their hearts, it was truly amazing.\nIt was at that moment that I looked around and noticed that the beautiful ones to take over from these icons are not yet born. May things not fall apart.\nRonke Odusanya: People Think I Cannot Speak English Because I Am A Yoruba Movie Actress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.radiojackie.com/2019/01/a-restaurant-in-croydon-has-been-fined.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZARPJENXECAFIHNNNAZBC44WEA6HAVME", "length": 370, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "news.radiojackie.com", "title": "Radio Jackie News: A restaurant in Croydon has been fined after a hygiene inspector found the place littered with mouse droppings.", "raw_content": "A restaurant in Croydon has been fined after a hygiene inspector found the place littered with mouse droppings.\nHealth inspectors also found shredded paper towel to suggest the mice had nested at Karnavar.\nThe company director appeared in court and pleaded guilty to 4 offences under food safety and hygiene regulations.\nThe company was ordered to pay a fine of \u00a313,560.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newseurope.info/opera-singer-montserrat-caballe-dies-in-barcelona-aged-85/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LHDCWZQXX6OPVMCCZRTSLSTL2IFKSDBO", "length": 3736, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "newseurope.info", "title": "Opera singer Montserrat Caballe dies in Barcelona, aged 85 - News from EuropeNews from Europe", "raw_content": "BARCELONA (Reuters) \u2013 Montserrat Caballe, who took opera into the pop charts by singing \u201cBarcelona\u201d with Freddie Mercury three decades ago, died aged 85 on Saturday.\nThe Spanish soprano, who was born in the Catalan capital, had been in ill health for a number of years and was admitted to hospital in mid-September, a hospital official said. She died in Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona.\nThe Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona, where Caballe performed more than 200 times, described her as \u201cone of the most important sopranos in history\u201d.\nSpanish tenor Jose Carreras said she possessed a voice of great range, combined with a flawless technique.\n\u201cOf all the sopranos I\u2019ve heard live in the theater, I\u2019ve never heard anyone singing like Caballe,\u201d Carreras said in an interview with Catalunya Radio.\nSpain\u2019s royal family called her \u201cthe great lady of the opera, a legend of universal culture, the best among the best\u201d.\n\u201cHer personality and her unique voice will always be with us,\u201d the royals said in a tweet.\nCaballe released the song \u201cBarcelona\u201d with the Queen frontman Mercury in 1987 and it was used again during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, a year after Mercury\u2019s death.\n\u201cShe went beyond opera and classical music showing that opera singers are not just limited to the opera houses but go way beyond that,\u201d Christina Sheppelmann, the Liceu\u2019s artistic director, told reporters on Saturday in Barcelona.\nRenowned for her performances of Italian opera, she also worked with the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti.\nThe Royal Opera House in London, where Caballe sang on a number of occasions between 1972 and 1992, also expressed its condolences, saying she had \u201cinspired millions\u201d.\nFUNERAL ON MONDAY\nAmong other reactions, Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted: \u201cSad news. A great ambassador of our country dies, an opera soprano recognized internationally. Her voice and her kindness will always remain with us.\u201d\nA government source said Sanchez would attend Caballe\u2019s funeral, which will be held in Les Corts morgue, in Barcelona, at midday on Monday.\nCaballe was considered one of the finest modern exponents of the \u2018bel canto repertoire\u2019, Spain\u2019s Culture Minister Jose Guirao said on Saturday.\n\u201cHer loss leaves a huge void,\u201d he said.\nCaballe\u2019s almost 60-year international career took her from Basel to New York and beyond.\nShe began in the Swiss city in 1956, as Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me, then joined the Bremen Opera, where she sang from 1959 to 1962, in a wide variety of roles.\nWider international recognition came in 1965, when she appeared in a performance of Donizetti\u2019s Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in New York.\nThe performance won her great acclaim from the public and made her an overnight sensation.\nHer success led to her debut that same year at the Metropolitan Opera, as Marguerite in Gounod\u2019s Faust.\nHer last performance took place in the Catalan town of Cambrills in August of 2014.\nHowever, despite a glittering and successful career, it was not without controversy.\nIn 2015, at a time when Spain was cracking down on tax evasion as it attempted to rein in a large public deficit during a prolonged economic crisis, Caballe agreed to a fine of 250,000 euros and a symbolic six-month jail term.\nSource: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-monserrat-caballe/opera-singer-montserrat-caballe-dies-in-barcelona-aged-85-idUSKCN1MG066\nTags: Arts / Culture / Entertainment, CABALLE, Celebrities, Entertainment Production (TRBC), Europe, Government / Politics, Human Interest / Brights / Odd News, Living / Lifestyle, Major News, Media / Publishing (Legacy), Media and Publishing (TRBC), MONSERRAT, Music, Olympics, People, Personalities / People, Spain, United Kingdom, US, Video, Western Europe\tPrint article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newstalkkit.com/shaquem-griffin-finally-hears-his-name-at-nfl-draft/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:08Z", "digest": "sha1:FRJRFL6H5BS7MIUJCQCNUHNYQLBOQNSN", "length": 1790, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "newstalkkit.com", "title": "It's a Family Affair in Seattle", "raw_content": "ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Shaquem Griffin came back. The crowd loved it.\n\"I was using the restroom and my brother came and tackled me with my cellphone, saying 'answer it, answer it,' and I looked, and that's when tears started pouring down,\" Griffin explained.\nGriffin received, by far, the biggest cheers of the day \u2014 louder even than when the Cowboys' selections were announced. And he made a promise: \"Great things are coming to Seattle.\"\nHe had 5\u00bd sacks as an interior rusher and led all nose tackles and defensive tackles with 49 total quarterback pressures, according to Pro Football Focus.\n\u2014Michigan State extended its streak of having at least one player selected to 78 years when Brian Allen went to the Rams early in the fourth round. Only Michigan and USC have longer streaks, both extended to 80 years during the first two days of the draft.\n\u2014The Giants took the first quarterback of the third day, Richmond's Kyle Lauletta at No. 109. The Giants passed on trying to get their quarterback of the future to replace Eli Manning in the first round, taking running back Saquon Barkley at No. 2 overall. Lauletta doesn't have a big arm, but he showed good athleticism and accuracy playing at the FCS school.\n\u2014Dallas acquired wideout Tavon Austin from the Rams in a trade Saturday.\n\u2014Cleveland used a fourth-round pick, No. 105 overall, to take one of the draft's most talented but troubled wide receivers: Florida's Antonio Callaway. He had multiple suspensions while playing with the Gators, missing all of last season because of his part in a credit card fraud scheme.\n\u2014Wisconsin tight end Troy Fumagalli, who is missing the index finger on his left hand, went to Denver in the fifth round.\n\u2014Three punters \u2014 yes, three \u2014 were taken in the fifth round.\nFiled Under: nfl draft, seattle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 8069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1948", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DEACV6M2NMAYEHLLHDOIZQVPHGED5FRW", "length": 808, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nkaa.uky.edu", "title": "Elliott, Noah \u00b7 Notable Kentucky African Americans Database", "raw_content": "Elliott, Noah\nNoah Elliott, born in Greenup County, KY, was the first African American doctor to practice in Athens County, Ohio. His physician's training was by way of an apprenticeship. He had been a hospital steward in the 26th U.S. Colored Infantry during the Civil War. Elliott's second wife was Mary A. Davidson, sister of Olivia Davidson, the wife of Booker T. Washington. The Washingtons were married in Elliott's home in 1886. For more see Noah Elliott at cordingleyneurology.com; and chapter 9 of Stories of Medicine in Athens County, Ohio, by G. E. Cordingly.\nRead about Greenup County, Kentucky in Wikipedia.\nNKAA Source: Stories of medicine in Athens County, Ohio\n\u201cElliott, Noah,\u201d Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed February 16, 2019, http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1948.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nogamenotalk.com/category/featured/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MCW5S6QGXR2MBM3BNS77L6QRSACFWQFG", "length": 1011, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "nogamenotalk.com", "title": "Featured - 3/8 - No Game No Talk", "raw_content": "You may have heard about the ridiculously overpowered 17.3-inch AFTERSHOCK TITAN gaming notebook from various media reports. But do you know what it takes to power the dual graphics card machine? Read more \u00bb\nA new sequel awakens: Halo 4 launch event at Funan\nI have been out of touch with Halo for years: I played the first game when it was ported over to the PC in 2003, and that remains my only experience with the series because I never owned the original Xbox or Xbox 360 consoles. So imagine my surprise when I walked into Funan DigitaLife Mall for [\u2026] Read more \u00bb\nFFXIII\u2019s Sayuri Sugawara to perform at EOY 2012 J-Pop Live! event\nBy Anthony Chia on 6 September 2012 8:35pm - No Comments\nGreat news for JRPG and J-pop fans. EOY (Events of the Year) has announced that Sayuri Sugawara, best known for singing the Final Fantasy XIII theme song, \u201cKimi ga Iru Kara\u201d (\u201cBecause You\u2019re Here\u201d), will be performing at the upcoming EOY 2012 J-Pop Live! event at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 11 December. Read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nothing.forumotion.com/t670-happy-new-year", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3HEOMPZFKTHNO4ZBTUJ74X7IQNYX64KR", "length": 700, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nothing.forumotion.com", "title": "Happy New Year!", "raw_content": "Subject: Happy New Year! Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:08 pm\nI'm a little late with it, but I was totally engrossed in WoW yesterday... for the entire day. I had some much needed fun.\nSubject: Re: Happy New Year! Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:35 pm\nWe brought in the new year at my neice's.....about 20 of us, out on the patio having a silly-string shootout at the stroke of midnight. That stuff is sticky! Last night ran our Friday night poker game, got home about 4am. Just got back from Olive Garden where we took our daughter out for her birthday.....now I'm watching the final moments of the U of L/UK basketball game.....the biggest rivalry in the nation....Rick Pitino and John Calliperi trying to oneup each other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nyconstitution.org/press-clip/news-coverage/unfunded-mandates/rochester-democrat-and-chronicle-mandate-relief-panel-sug", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IBLW5PDSIBC23TAMBB2JPAHOLZ372RDO", "length": 5832, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "nyconstitution.org", "title": "News Coverage on Unfunded Mandates: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Mandate relief panel suggests $245M in savings by Cara Matthews", "raw_content": "Mandate relief panel suggests $245M in savings\nhttp://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120102/NEWS01/201020317\nALBANY \u2014 A panel charged with reducing unfunded state mandates on local governments is recommending steps to save $245 million, but its final report does not tackle some of what are considered New York's most onerous and costly mandates.\nThe Mandate Relief Redesign Team's recently released report doesn't propose changes to the Wicks Law, which requires multiple contractors for public projects. It has long been criticized for increasing the cost of construction.\nNor does it recommend a full state takeover of Medicaid, a health care program for the poor. Unlike most states, New York requires counties to pick up a portion of the total cost, and local officials have asked for the state to assume full responsibility. The Medicaid Redesign Team, another panel that recently finished its work, proposed a state takeover.\nThe Mandate Relief Redesign Team had until March 31 to hand in its final report, but it was submitted to Gov. Andrew Cuomo late last week. It was published on the governor's website without any public announcement. Some members said the submission of the report took them by surprise.\nThe completion of the team's work clears the way for a new Mandate Relief Council, which is scheduled to begin its work Jan. 15. The 11-member panel will review statutory and regulatory unfunded mandates and recommend to the governor and lawmakers whether they should be modified or repealed. Local governments will be able to request review of a specific statute or regulation.\nLawmakers and the governor also agreed to make it easier for a local government to request approval of an alternative to a regulatory mandate.\n\"There's an office we can go to and say, 'Hey, we've got an idea,'\" said Mandate Team member Timothy Kremer, who heads the state School Boards Association.\nMandate-relief measures signed into law in 2011 will save more than $125 million, and regulatory measures will reduce costs by another $40 million, Lawrence Schwartz, secretary to Cuomo, wrote in the report.\nThe measures include removing the statutory salary requirements for police chiefs, requiring a census of preschool children every two years instead of annually and allowing up to three school districts with fewer than 1,000 students each to share a superintendent.\nThe Legislature did not adopt many of the proposals developed by the team and proposed by the governor. The recommendations for additional mandate relief would save the state another $245 million a year, the report said.\n\"The administration has achieved hundreds of millions of dollars of mandate relief, which is more than any administration in decades,\" Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said in an email. \"The governor is committed to further reduce the burdens on taxpayers and local governments and will continue to work with the Legislature to do so.\"\nWhile some recommendations for mandate relief were enacted, a number of critical proposals were left on the table, said Mark Lavigne, a spokesman for the state Association of Counties. Stephen Acquario, the group's executive director, served on the panel.\n\"The relief proposals that were enacted don't go far enough in that we need significant, meaningful and long-term mandate relief in order to address the property-tax crisis we have in New York and to enable counties and local governments to stabilize property taxes under the property-tax cap and provide relief to New York homeowners and businesses,\" Lavigne said.\nThe Association of Counties wants the state to take over Medicaid; change the preschool special-education and early intervention requirements to reduce the burden on counties; and add a new tier to the pension system that is a 401(k)-style defined-contribution plan, rather than a traditional defined-benefit plan, or a hybrid of the two.\n\"Our members are hopeful that mandate relief is the top priority for the governor and state legislators in 2012,\" he said.\nOne of the measures Kremer's group supports but that is not in the report would eliminate special-education mandates that are not required by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.\nOther priorities for the School Boards Association are changing the Triborough Amendment of the Taylor Law, which requires governments and school districts to pay \"step\" salary increases for longevity when a contract has expired; and pension changes similar to what the Association of Counties is seeking.\nKremer said there were a lot of different interests represented on the Mandate Relief Redesign Team.\n\"It seemed like we were kind of all over the place and it was difficult, I think, for the governor's people to build a consensus, particularly for some of the big-ticket items,\" he said.\nThe council will be smaller, which might allow members to \"drill down\" on proposals, Kremer said.\nThe report proposes a constitutional amendment to ban mandates that don't have funding attached. A statutory ban could be enacted while the constitutional amendment was being ratified.\nOther recommendations for mandate relief include:\n-Creating a process by which local governments can seek full waivers from regulatory mandates.\n-Allowing local governments and school districts to meet newspaper publication requirements by posting the information on a website and in multiple conspicuous public places.\n-Removing the requirement that all tax warrants be filed with county clerks, instead allowing electronic filing with the Department of State.\n-Allowing district attorneys to hire assistant district attorneys who live outside the county.\n\"The report proposes a constitutional amendment to ban mandates that don't have funding attached. A statutory ban could be enacted while the constitutional amendment was being ratified.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nyportraits.blogspot.com/2015/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OEOUO6P5UM5BWOGDGSIHN7AHLEOS5FW6", "length": 3699, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "nyportraits.blogspot.com", "title": "New York Portraits: July 2015 -- --", "raw_content": "A White Rose, at the World Trade Center Memorial\nPhoto by myself at the World Trade Center Memorial.\nWhile downtown, I had to stop by the World Trade Center Memorial, which is open to the public year-round. Above, the reflecting pool by the south tower footprint. Surrounding the water are bronze plaques, laser cut with the victims' names.\nIt was very hot, and the grounds were full of people. I learned that the grounds keepers place a white rose by each person's name on his or her birthday.\nThere were a few roses there that day. It was a very quiet and touching gesture.\nRelated posts: Remembering Ten Years Ago, Today, Salvaged, from the World Trade Center, and Night View, at the World Trade Center.\nCalatrava's New Station, Near Ground Zero\nPhoto by myself at Dey and Church Streets, downtown.\nCloser up to the Freedom Tower, is the delicate white spines of the new transpiration hub by Santiago Calatrava.\nThe new 4-billion dollar station will soon open, serving as the Path Station for commuters from New Jersey. The project is about two months behind schedule and 2-billion dollars over budget (!) The structure has been criticized heavily by the press.\nThe space below the sculpture is not open to the public yet.\nBy the way, La Guardia airport is scheduled to completely rebuilt soon, with some of its airstrips lengthened. (Completely means being demolished to the ground). The cost of that renovation? Also 4-billion dollars. Hm.\nA few steps away, you can get a better sense of the overall shape.\nRelated posts: Remembrance, at the World Trade Center Memorial, The Freedom Tower, at Dusk, and Remembrance, at the World Trade Center.\nLabels: Architecture, World Trade Center\nThe View of the Freedom Tower, Downtown\nPhoto by myself around MacDougal Street, in the Village.\nThough the side street is in mild disarray, it has a nice view of the Freedom Tower.\nAs usual there are tons of repairs going on in the city. Either the streets are being torn up for the cables or sewers below, or the buildings are under scaffolding. Never a dull moment.\nVillage Psychic, Below Ground\nI must say (with a little sarcasm) that New York must have the highest psychic population per capita.\nJust about every small neighborhood has one or five psychics. Most of the time, their signs sit in second floor windows. Sometimes there are sandwich boards on the sidewalk.\nOnce in a while, the psychic herself (invariably psychics are female, I'm not sure why) will sit outside on the sidewalk on a folding chair.\nBy the way, it was all over the local news recently when a man was scammed out of $700,000 by a psychic in Times Square. The psychic promised to unite him with a woman he was infatuated with.\nThe story was so dramatic and hard to believe (involving spells that were cast and expensive jewelry that was purchased as offerings to spirits), it made it to the New York Times. One must say though that the fellow deserved to be swindled so much money because the was so very gullible.\nRead the Times article about the psychic here.\nRelated posts: In Neon, on Seventh Avenue, Shining Bright, at Live Bait, and Only in New York.\nLabels: New York life, signs, the village\nDaily Chess, in Bryant Park\nWhat looks like an intense battle of killer chess was actually a good-natured game between acquaintances.\nI was truly surprised by how friendly and light-hearted the crowd at Bryant Park was. People seemed to know each other and were having a good time. The instructor told me that the same players convene every day during the summer months.\nBelow, a rapid fire game, where each player had three minutes on the clock. At one point, it was a flurry of hands.\nFor the Bryant Park chess page, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 502, "original_length": 14806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://odysseus-network.eu/catalogues/publications/journalArticles/67", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KGT6PYAD6LFC7W4MISXJY4GUTXMOWZJT", "length": 1221, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "odysseus-network.eu", "title": "Odysseus Network Catalogues:: Publications", "raw_content": "A new route into the promised land? Being a European citizen after Ruiz Zambrano\nH. Van Eijken\nS.A. De Vries\ncitizenship, eu law, EU nationals, Free movement of persons, fundamental rights, reverse discrimination, Rights of entry and residence, Third country nationals, Work permits\nAlthough exceptionally concise, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Ruiz Zambrano case invites further reflection on the notion of European Union citizenship. The Ruiz Zambrano judgment raises important questions about the relationship between market citizenship and EU citizenship, the current status of European citizenship, the relevance of the cross-border dimension, reverse discrimination against Union citizens and the relationship between European citizens and third-country nationals. In our exploration of this case, we examine the impact of Ruiz Zambrano on the development of European citizenship. We also discuss another important issue, although it was not further explored by the Court itself, that is, the relationship between citizenship and the protection of fundamental rights, and the consequences of the Ruiz Zambrano case for the enforcement of fundamental rights in the European Union.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://officeak.com/property/2900-denali-street/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:53Z", "digest": "sha1:K3YRCDZ2RIGOVSA7PNXDTLV7UYLQ6GV5", "length": 187, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "officeak.com", "title": "2900 Denali Street |", "raw_content": "Unique opportunity to lease a restaurant/retail building in the heart of Midtown Anchorage across from the new REI. Daily traffic counts on Benson and Denali of more than 45,000 vehicles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://online.casinocity.com/jurisdictions/united-states/new-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JX5VK3FQ53CXJHZJRWDJTBFVBRZKCLIE", "length": 4795, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "online.casinocity.com", "title": "Online Gambling in the New York Jurisdiction - Online Casino City", "raw_content": "gaming.ny.gov\ninfo@gaming.ny.gov\nNew York Jurisdiction News\ndel Lago Resort & Casino\u2019s The Vine announces four upcoming shows\nGrand Master Flash will perform on 15 June, Color Me Badd with special guest Tag Team will hit the stage on 21 July, Chippendales will take the stage on 26 July and The Music of Cream will perform on 19 October.\nRivers Casino and Resort holds Royal Wedding breakfast\nA Royal Wedding breakfast will be held at Dukes Chophouse at Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady on Saturday, 19 May. A full English breakfast will be served, along with mini replicas of the actual Royal Wedding cake, made by the Mallozzi family.\nRivers Casino and Resort announces concert series\nThe first-ever concert series at the Schenectady casino will feature eight free concerts open to the public, and will run from 23 June until 11 August.\nThis Week in Gambling: The end of federal efforts to ban online gambling?\nNow that online gambling legislation has been passed in Pennsylvania, speculation is growing that other states may soon follow suit. J. Todd is also covering news from PokerStars and New Hampshire.\nThis Week in Gambling: Online poker fails in New York again\nAfter a lot of hope and optimism, online poker will not be considered by the New York State Assembly this year. Not all was lost, however, as another state has regulated fantasy sports. Plus, gambling news from New Jersey and the U.K.\nNew York Senate passes online poker bill\nA bill that would legalize and regulate online poker passed the state's Senate with a 54-8 vote.\nAPCW Perspectives: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania online gambling\nJ. Todd covers developing online gambling stories from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, plus online poker news from the state of New York.\nNew York Senate Finance Committee passes online poker bill\nSen. John Bonacic's bill S3898, which saw movement last year, will again be sent to the Senate for further consideration.\nView All New York Jurisdiction News\nNew York was one of the first states to offer a lottery subscription service online.\nPurchases may be made online only by New York State residents, and the application must be completed with a computer IP address physically located within New York State. Subscriptions may range in length from five weeks to one year. New York Lottery players may also manage a group subscription through the New York Lottery website and have their accounts credited for prizes of $600 and less.\nAdvance deposit wagering for horse racing is also available in New York. The New York State Racing and Wagering Board licenses and regulates online advance deposit wagering sites in the state.\nIn both 2014 and 2015, legislation that would license and regulate online poker was introduced in the New York Senate. The 2014 billed failed to make it out of committee, and a similar fate is expected for the 2015 bill, which proposes that operators be taxed at a rate of 15% and for the state to cap the number of online poker operators in the state at a maximum of 10. The bill also states that operators would be able to apply for a license for a one-time cost of $10 million.\nIn June 2016, the Senate passed the bill to regulate online poker. However, the bill was not considered for a committee vote and was declared dead. In August 2016, the New York legislature passed a bill that regulates the fantasy sports industry.\nOn 16 February 2017, the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee passed bill S 3893 by a vote of 11-0. The bill would authorize the state's gaming commission to give out licenses enabling up to 11 providers to offer online poker. The bill went on to clear the full Senate in June and has moved on to the Assembly.\nIn August 2016, S 8153, which regulates daily fantasy sports, was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo after much opposition from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.\nIn December 2018, Assemblyman Gary Pretlow said he would reintroduce his sports betting bill in January 2019, and that he doesn\u2019t plan to make any changes from the bill as it was written at the end of last session. The bill would authorize both mobile sports betting and sports betting at the state\u2019s brick-and-mortar tribal casinos and racetracks. Pretlow also stated he didn't expect any movement on the bill until New York passes its budget in April 2019.\n17 New York sites with United States Dollars. edit your preferences\nNYRAbets\nSoftware: gbet\nJurisdictions: New York, Oregon\nBataviaBets\nSoftware: Sportech\nSoftware: DraftDay Gaming Group\nEmpireCityBets\nFinger Lakes Bonus Bets\nInterBets\nSaratoga Bets\nWatch and Wager\nSoftware: Brisnet\nJurisdictions: California, New York, North Dakota\nJurisdictions: New York, United Kingdom\nBoom Fantasy\nFantasy Football Players Championship\nMGT Play\nNew York Lottery Subscription Center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 10971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlinedailynewsworld.com/question-re-use-plagues-new-sat-exam-as-coleman-responds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ECFHEFW35YR2UWEOZHT4RKETH267WVAI", "length": 3180, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "onlinedailynewsworld.com", "title": "Question Re-Use Plagues New SAT Exam as Coleman Responds | ONLINEDAILYNEWSWORLD", "raw_content": "ColemanExamPlaguesQuestionRespondsReUse\n(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons)\nThe maker of the SAT has recently announced plans to streamline the math questions used on the exams, in addition to reducing the reuse of the exams in an effort to decrease instances of cheating.\nDavid Coleman, chief executive of the College Board, said that the company plans to simplify the word problems included in the new SAT\u2019s math section. This was decided directly after a Reuters report was released stating that the math problems included in the new test are wordier than necessary.\n\u201cWe are going to do everything we can to further simplify the mathematics section. Using superfluous words is superfluous,\u201d he said, later adding, \u201cEvery extra word should go. Complex, distracting situations should go.\u201d\nColeman went on to say that the College Board is considering reducing the number of times that SAT questions are used in multiple exams. According to articles written previously in the year by Reuters, test preparation companies in Asia have been found to be using questions from old exams to offer their students practice. This gives these students an advantage over the students who did not see the questions if they appear on the next exam, writes Renee Dudley for Reuters.\nWhile it was suggested to Coleman during a conference of colleges and guidance counselors that completely stopping the reuse of questions on the exam would stop cheating on an international level, Coleman replied by stating that some reuse was necessary, but he did agree that it is currently done too much. He said the company is looking to reduce the recycling of questions, but that doing so would be expensive and take some time to complete.\n\u201cI think first and done is exactly right \u2026 it is exactly what we should all seek. And it\u2019s going to take substantial advances in costs,\u201d he said. \u201cI do seek a better future and I do want to work on redesigning item and form redevelopment such that we can get there. And we are moving towards much greater first use and much more targeted reuse.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the College Board has reported a slight dip in the average score on the SAT from last year, with the average score on a 1,600-point scale reaching just over 1,000, with a 494 in critical reading and 508 in math. The average for the writing section, which is now optional, was found to be 482. In all, scores were three to five points lower in each subject when compared to last year\u2019s scores.\nBecause a number of changes were introduced to the exam in March, a full year of new data was not available for use. Next year\u2019s report will be the first to solely look at the redesigned SAT, reports Kaitlin Mulhere for Money.\nIn all, close to 1.36 million students took the new SAT between March and June of this year, almost 160,000 more than took the old exam in the same time frame last year. The College Board referred to this growth as a \u201csubstantial show of support for the test\u2019s redesign,\u201d adding that an in-house survey showed that the majority of students who took the new test preferred it over the old one.\nThe post Question Re-Use Plagues New SAT Exam as Coleman Responds appeared first on Education News.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oquirrhhillsmiddle.org/parents/studentledconferences/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2RDU3C37SLNKOBOL6CORDSY5MM6AZ6D", "length": 678, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "oquirrhhillsmiddle.org", "title": "Student-Led Conferences \u2013 Oquirrh Hills Middle", "raw_content": "This program offers an alternative to traditional conferences by placing the responsibility and focus of the conference on the student. The student compiles a portfolio of work samples from each class to present to the parent. The student also presents the parent with an evaluation form from each class that both the teacher and the student have filled out. The parent and student set short-term goals and create a plan on how to achieve the goals. Finally, parents may visit their student\u2019s teachers during the \u201cfriendly visit\u201d hour of the conference. The Student Led Conference allows for open communication between the student and the parent with a focus on student success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://outofnature.org.uk/artists/sally_matthews_2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NKTYASUR55LCL3X3M62SBM6T7FBHS46W", "length": 1155, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "outofnature.org.uk", "title": "Out of Nature", "raw_content": "Born the daughter of a vet near Tamworth in 1964, Sally Matthews attended Loughborough College of Art and Design from 1981 to 86. Since then she has received several major bursaries and awards. She works internationally on public commissions and exhibitions, including recently working on wild boar at the Botanic Gardens, Montreal and at the Arte Sella sculpture park, Borgo Valsugana, Italy.\nEveryone has their own reasons for using animals in art, but for me I always go back to the animals themselves for inspiration. My love of them, their different form, movement, smell and nature are the reasons for my making them. Their nature, even of a domesticated or trained animal is unpredictable and wild, their presence is always enlivening. I want my work to remind people of our need for animals and the example their nature provides us with.\nThe metal armature, the start of most of my sculptures, is the equivalent of a quick line drawing from life. This has to have an initial spark, a rightness. The materials I use such as coire fibre, cow muck, steel, copper, wood, all have a relevance to the subject I am making.\nhttp://www.sallymatthews.co.uk/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paisleygates.com/archives/tag/real-madrid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6BAUFJIPCMKCV3GMIYLQD3GFSTASWTXG", "length": 1013, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "paisleygates.com", "title": "Real Madrid \u2013 Paisley Gates", "raw_content": "Trips to France, Italy and Serbia Await Liverpool in the Champions League\nAugust 30, 2018 August 31, 2018 News Desk\t0 Comments Carlo Ancelotti, Jurgen Klopp, Jurgen Klopp on Champions League opponents, Jurgen Klopp on Liverpool Champions League draw, liverpool fc, newsnow, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Red Star Belgrade, S.S.C. Napoli, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League draw, UEFA Champions League Group Stage\nConsidering it\u2019s a competition comprised of the best teams from across Europe, there\u2019s really no such thing as an easy\nEarly Egypt Exit Could Benefit Salah and Liverpool\nJune 30, 2018 Editor\tBrazil, Egypt, england, FIFA World Cup, Jordan Henderson, Jurgen Klopp, liverpool fc, Manchester City, Mohamed Salah, Naby Keita, newsnow, premier league, Real Madrid, Roberto Firmino, Russia, Sadio Mane, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sergio Ramos, UEFA Champions League, World Cup 2018\nMohamad Salah\u2019s incredible season ended on the lowest of notes as his shoulder injury ruled him out of the majority", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://panitchlaw.com/press-releases/ptab-rules-in-favor-of-hamamatsu-corporation-over-harvard-patent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXVYP6WHN56Y6HXIYLNSPPC6USQYGLWZ", "length": 1479, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "panitchlaw.com", "title": "PTAB Rules in Favor of Hamamatsu Corporation Over Harvard Patent", "raw_content": "PTAB Rules in Favor of Hamamatsu Corporation Over Harvard Patent\nPHILADELPHIA (December 2017) - Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office\u2019s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has ruled in favor of its client, Hamamatsu Corporation. The decision found that many of the claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,884,446 (Patent \u2018446) were unpatentable. The patent in question is owned by the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College and was asserted by Harvard et al. in a parallel litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. (1:2015-cv-13488) John D. Simmons, Stephen E. Murray, and Keith A. Jones, all attorneys with Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP were involved in the proceeding before the PTAB.\nAbout Hamamatsu Photonics KK and Hamamatsu Corporation\nHamamatsu Photonics K.K. (\u201cHPK\u201d) was founded in 1953 by a group of engineers who had been trained by Dr. Kenjiro Takayanagi, a pioneer in the development of television. With more than 60 years of scientific research in optics, the company is a global leader in the development of optical technologies including photomultiplier tubes, imaging tubes, light sources, opto-semiconductors, video measuring systems and image processing systems. Headquartered in Hamamatsu City, Japan, the company has facilities and offices throughout Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Hamamatsu Corporation is HPK\u2019s U.S. sales subsidiary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 129.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://papillon-enterprise.com/more-than-just-a-cafe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:V2SQUYXZZWSRL3BP5CCSNVCM4RLK34M6", "length": 4986, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "papillon-enterprise.com", "title": "More Than Just A Cafe - Papillon Marketplace - Haiti", "raw_content": "It all started with a smoothie. In April 2013, Papillon opened its doors to a new market \u2013 unaware of the success it would see in the future, unaware of the customers who would help sustain more jobs and unaware of a business that had just begun to take root. The Cafe at Papillon, which now hosts thousands of visitors annually, has grown into an entity \u2013 one in which the employees could have never dreamed. Mario, a beloved and long-time employee, has been working at The Cafe since the beginning. He recalls of the early days in the small room tucked back behind what is now production space, a room that would never hold the capacity of customers today. He was hired to boost sales, to evaluate the products \u2013 smoothies \u2013 and to help make them better. I never ran a restaurant or ran anything, he pauses, except for my mouth. He chuckles as he reflects on his experience in an industry he never expected to find himself in, considering he never received proper training in hospitality management. But the skills he possesses couldn\u2019t have been learned from formal education. His time and experience in Miami provided him with a knowledge of customer service he would need to elevate The Cafe to the next level.\nSmoothies have been sold at The Cafe since the beginning.\nIt was Mario who was also there to see the first food addition to the menu. I didn\u2019t want to buy lunch from the local vendors, he reminisces, I wanted to make my own food at work. Since he was already in a kitchen during the hours of his work day, it wasn\u2019t too much of a burden. With his George Foreman grill, he began preparing hot dogs for himself, but it wasn\u2019t long until curious customers began wanting to buy them from him. Thus began the sales of food. Smoothies and hot dogs. It was the perfect combination and the ideal partner to the marketplace. But the dreaming didn\u2019t stop there.\nIn early 2015, a shelter across the street was constructed to provide a respite from the sweltering sun for the artisans on their lunch break. But when Mario saw the space, he envisioned the possibilities of expansion for The Cafe. The traffic coming through Papillon had been increasing, and with that came more visitors desiring a snack in the midst of their shopping. The small cafe room was quickly becoming too crowded for the demand as different groups and teams overlapped, all awaiting their smoothies. Since the large space reserved for the artisans\u2019 break was only going to be occupied an hour a day, the dream of moving the cafe soon became a tangible reality. That fall, The Cafe reopened for business above the marketplace and has since added an array of items to the menu including burgers, fries, pizza and coffee beverages. They have even upgraded to gourmet style hot dogs.\nMario\u2019s fellow employee and friend, Rich, has been working at the The Cafe since its reopening. While they ran in similar circles in the States, the two didn\u2019t become acquainted until they both returned to Haiti roughly six years ago. After pursuing separate business endeavors together, they each found themselves employed by Papillon, working in The Cafe. Rich, also with his exceptional English speaking skills and his mentality of Westernized customer service, soon became an incredible asset to the team. Almost always found behind the register, he daily greets those who visit the restaurant, always with a smile on his face, despite the rush and the chaos he faces. If you\u2019ve visited The Cafe, you\u2019ve probably encountered Rich and witnessed his calm and gentle spirit.\nRich \u2013 a consistently friendly face in The Cafe.\nTogether, the two imagine what the future of The Cafe might hold. While they face struggles, they also relish in the successes. Regardless of managing a team of different personalities and mentalities, and although they desire upgraded equipment and a larger kitchen, Rich and Mario look forward to what is to come for the restaurant. Five years from now, they hope to open new locations of both the marketplace and The Cafe, in Cap Haitian, the second largest city in Haiti on the northern coast, and Jacmel, a charming, coastal town on the southern border, places with an attraction for tourism. They dream of growth for the company, with an increase in job opportunities throughout the country; and despite the fact neither of them imagined to be here today, their passion is evidenced as they share of their own personal histories with Papillon.\nThe Cafe has become much more than a restaurant. It has become a place of fellowship and connection, it offers a space of warmth and welcome. It has become a destination for friends to gather, co-workers to meet and dreamers to dream, all while employing ten young men, providing for them an income and still embodying the vision Papillon stands behind \u2013 orphan prevention through job creation. The next time you\u2019re in Haiti, we invite you to stop by The Cafe, not only to enjoy the food and drinks, but also to meet the wonderful people who manage it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paradise-press.co.nz/wpb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:00Z", "digest": "sha1:F36VLEEUQGUGY2Z4L5LMCESPGTSXLWIW", "length": 3419, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "paradise-press.co.nz", "title": "New Zealand World Peace Bell Home Page", "raw_content": "Welcome to the New Zealand Chapter\nThe New Zealand World Peace Bell amongst the spring blossom\nin the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.\nWhat is a World Peace Bell?\nDuring the aftermath of World War 2 a Japanese individual Chiyoji Nakagawa, former Mayor of Uwajima in Shikoku, presented a token of peace to the United Nations. It took the form of a large bell, fashioned from a bell typically seen in larger temples throughout Japan.\nTo manufacture the bell Mr Nakagawa, working on his own, canvassed 65 member countries of the (then) new United Nations asking for donations of coins to cast a bell. His mission was to remind the world of the importance of peace, and to say that no nation should experience an atomic bomb attack as his country's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, did in August 1945.\nOn 8 June, 1954 the bell was presented to the United Nations as a symbol of everlasting world peace. The bell, known as the World Peace Bell, is located in the inner court of the United Nations headquarters in New York. It is supported on soil from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And, an image of the World Peace Bell became part of a United Nations poster.\nThere, the story might have ended. But in 1982 a World Peace Bell Association was formed with co-operation from ambassadors representing 128 nations. The Association was charged with promoting a world free from the evils of nuclear war, and presenting replica World Peace Bells to the nations of the world.. As was the case with the original, replicas are made from the donated coins of United Nations member countries.\nAt present there are 21 World Peace Bells in 17 countries. Four are in Japan. Coins to manufacture the bells have been donated by 103 United Nations member countries, including New Zealand.\nThe nearest World Peace Bell replica to New Zealand was presented to Cowra, Australia, in 1990. The bell symbolizes peace initiatives and friendships made between the people of Cowra and Japan following the tragic Japanese breakout from Cowra's World War 2 prison camp on 5th August, 1944.\nThe replica bell is huge. It is one metre high, 609 mm wide, and weighs a hefty 365 kg. Without doubt, it will be the largest display bell in New Zealand - another first for Christchurch and Canterbury.\nThe New Zealand World Peace Bell came about through the initiative of Christchutch resident Roy Sinclair who in 2004 made an epic 3500 km bike ride the length of Japan.\nThe Christchurch chapter of the World Peace Bell Association wish to say a special thank you to the city council for their help and co-operation. The Chapter is currently busy fund raising, people wishing to join the chapter or make a donation are most welcome to do so. Contact details are at the bottom of the page.\nThe Christchurch World Peace Bell is now housed in a pavillion located in the Botanic Gardens. Plans are being developed for it to become the focal point of a specially developed Peace Walk.\nThe official unveiling was held on 3rd October 2006.\nThe pavillion opening ceremony held in heavy weather with\nWPB President and Christchurch Mayor performing the formalities.\nLinks: World Peace Bell Association's website in Japan.\nAn account of Roy Sinclair's bike ride the length of Japan to help raise awareness of the World Peace Bell Association.\n\u00a9 World Peace Bell Association, New Zealand Chapter\nAddress: 1a Wedgewood Avenue, Cashmere, Christchurch 8002\nE-mail: r.sinclair@clear.net.nz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parallelewelten.info/cases/green-v-green.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KMH6VB4DELCA3J7PSYCAPSZZY2PSDKLG", "length": 2826, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "parallelewelten.info", "title": "Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39- parallelewelten.info", "raw_content": "Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39\nTrusts \u2013 Constructive Trusts \u2013 Beneficial Interest \u2013 Common Intention \u2013 Property\nThe complainant and defendant met when they were both married to another partner. In 1973, they formed a relationship and later had two children. Although they lived together as man and wife, they did not legally marry until 1984, as their previous divorces had delayed their marriage. The case involved a dispute over their seven properties in Jamaica. The title of five of the properties was solely in the defendant\u2019s name. One property was registered in their joint names with no title produced for the remaining property. The complainant had worked as a full-time supervisor throughout the relationship, while the defendant ran the businesses and dealt with their finances. There was never any express agreement regarding the beneficial interest in the property. In 1987, the couple parted ways and in 1990, the defendant moved to the US.\nThe appeal to the Privy Council concerned whether the complainant had beneficial interest in equity to the property. It had been held that the complainant had one third interest in one of the properties in Jamaica, but not in the remaining six properties. There was an appeal to the Privy Council on this issue.\nThe appeal was allowed and the original judgement was restored, which granted the complainant one third beneficial interest in the all of the properties in Jamaica and two thirds to the defendant. Lord Hope stated that there had to be a detrimental reliance on the common intention in order for there to be an assumption of beneficial interest.\nAll Answers ltd, 'Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39' (Lawteacher.net, February 2019) accessed 15 February 2019\nTeacher, Law. (November 2013). Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39. Retrieved from http://parallelewelten.info/cases/green-v-green.php?vref=1\n\"Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39.\" Parallelewelten.net. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 02 2019 .\n\"Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39.\" Parallelewelten. Parallelewelten.net, November 2013. Web. 15 February 2019. .\nParallelewelten. November 2013. Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39. [online]. Available from: http://parallelewelten.info/cases/green-v-green.php?vref=1 [Accessed 15 February 2019].\nParallelewelten. Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39 [Internet]. November 2013. [Accessed 15 February 2019]; Available from: http://parallelewelten.info/cases/green-v-green.php?vref=1.\n{{cite web|last=Teacher |first=Law |url=http://parallelewelten.info/cases/green-v-green.php?vref=1 |title=Green v Green [2003] UKPC 39 |publisher=Parallelewelten.net |date=November 2013 |accessdate=15 February 2019 |location=Nottingham, UK}}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 7135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parliament.am/news.php?cat_id=2&NewsID=10533&year=2018&month=07&day=10&lang=eng", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IDU3R5ZSGWKO2UUYR6BSPYTF642N3MMX", "length": 267, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "parliament.am", "title": "National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia | Official Web Site | parliament.am", "raw_content": "By the decision of the RA NA Speaker Ara Babloyan, at the initiative of the Government of the Republic of Armenia on July 11, at 11:00 an extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia will be convened by the initiator\u2019s established agenda.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 110.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pastorscott.com/index.php/tag/old-age/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:23Z", "digest": "sha1:JQR4EKL2MXOJSKQZBFZPS3FV5V4IITCF", "length": 6579, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "pastorscott.com", "title": "old age | Pastor Scott's Pages", "raw_content": "Looking back, remaining faithful\nPsalm 71: I\u2019ll keep at it until I\u2019m old and gray.\nDavid\u2019s story is one of the \u201ccomplete\u201d stories of the Bible. We know him as a child and then journey with him through his rich, eventful life to old age. This psalm is written in his later years and the long shadows of this evening portion of his life are evident in his words. The early part of the song is retrospective. David remembers his childhood and God\u2019s blessings. Then, skipping his full life, David asks the Lord to continue blessing him in his senior years. There are no more wars for him to fight, no more giants to be slain, but David is now in a fight that he will not win. Is God only interested in young, energy-filled people? Will David, as his vitality slips away, be put on the shelf and forgotten by not only man, but by God too? David knows that\u2019s not going to happen. Even as an old and grey headed man he enjoys the faithfulness of God. These days he isn\u2019t out taking on the enemies of God in battle, but he has plenty to say. People need to be reminded of the story of God\u2019s goodness and they need to know what it means to really worship. Gray headed or not, David sets out to lift the Lord, showing the way to praise and worship.\nTake Away: The way to conclude life is to continue setting an example of trusting and praising the Lord.\nTagged blessings, Book of Psalms, faithfulness, old age, remembering\nA longing look back\nJob 30: How I long for the good old days.\nJob\u2019s longest speech comes after his three friends have had their say. His comments range from direct replies to their statements to his view of the world and the inequities he sees in it. A portion of these thoughts are focused on how things have changed for him. There was a time, he remembers, when he was wonderfully blessed by the Lord, and, he says, \u201cEverything was going my way.\u201d Job handled these blessings well. Instead of it all going to his head, he became a friend to those who were going through loss or who needed help along the way. Those were good days, but remembering them isn\u2019t a source of comfort to Job. Instead, the memories add to his pain as he realizes he\u2019s lost more than wealth and health. As I read Job\u2019s story I note that loss comes in a wide variety of forms. Job is unique because he lost it all at once, but it\u2019s painful to have even a small portion stripped away. That includes loss of influence, which often comes with the passing of years. Those who have given their lives in full time ministry aren\u2019t exempt from this. The day comes when our ideas are no longer sought after and younger voices dominate the conversation about what God is doing \u201cnow.\u201d Like Job, it\u2019s natural to \u201clong for the good old days.\u201d\nTake Away: As time passes so does our influence. It\u2019s possible to graciously accept that and to simply go on, trusting the Lord with that which is beyond our influence.\nTagged Book of Job, influence, memories, ministry, old age\n1Kings 1: King David grew old.\nFirst and Second Samuel have told us the stories of two kings. The first failed miserably and the second became Israel\u2019s greatest king. Now we come to the stories of all the rest. All fall somewhere between Saul and David. These \u201cking stories\u201d start with \u201cKing David grew old.\u201d It\u2019s interesting to be reminded that even great people grow old. Our days are numbered and, while it\u2019s a blessing to live to old age, it isn\u2019t really much fun to get there! Physically David\u2019s wasting away. His circulation isn\u2019t good and he\u2019s cold all the time. His aids come up with an interesting solution for keeping him warm at night. They recruit the young and beautiful Abishag who serves as a sort of \u201celectric blanket\u201d for \u201cpoor\u201d old David. It brings a smile to our faces now, but even the Bible writer notes that David\u2019s advanced years assure that their relationship is purely platonic. The more serious issue for Israel is that there\u2019s jostling among his surviving sons as to who will to take the throne. Throughout David\u2019s 40 years on the throne of Judah and then Israel Absalom\u2019s effort to take the throne has been the only serious threat to Israel\u2019s stability. Now, King David grows old and national unity is threatened once again. David has just one more thing to do. He has to name his successor. Once that\u2019s done the burden of leadership will be lifted from his frail shoulders. I can\u2019t feel sorry for David. He\u2019s lived a robust life. If anyone ever \u201cgrabs the gusto\u201d it\u2019s David. Now though, even though he\u2019s bigger than life, it\u2019s life (or maybe better, death) that\u2019s winning. So it is for all of us. There\u2019s only one alternative to getting old and it isn\u2019t a very good choice. With that in mind, I want to live as large as I can; to serve God right now with all my strength. Then, when my turn comes I want to be able to look back on a life lived all out for God.\nTake Away: We only have one opportunity to live our lives enthusiastically for the Lord, let\u2019s not miss this opportunity.\nTagged Absalom, Book of 1Kings, King David, King Saul, leadership, old age\n2 Samuel 21: No more fighting on the frontlines for you!\nAs the story of David\u2019s leadership begins to wind down we come to a time when things aren\u2019t all that inspirational. Uprisings are put down; there\u2019s an ugly story of the Gibeonites revenge against Saul\u2019s descendants, and a series of one-paragraph accounts of significant battles with the enemies of Israel. Of course, for those involved these are all very big deals (especially for those executed by the Gibeonites!). For us, though, they\u2019re just historical events. David\u2019s army is still fiercely loyal to him but his power as a warrior diminishes with age. When he\u2019s nearly killed in battle his men forbid him from leading the fight as he\u2019s done for decades. He\u2019s simply not up to hand to hand combat anymore and is more valuable as God\u2019s chosen leader than he is as a soldier. In other words, this is a transitional time for David. His advancing age doesn\u2019t hinder his ability to lead, but it does compromise his ability to fight. For each of us, as it is for David, life has times of transition. Generally, we don\u2019t like that very well, but circumstances have a way of dragging us forward, even if we\u2019re kicking and screaming all the way. God isn\u2019t finished with us, but the role we play changes. Let\u2019s be aware of what\u2019s happening and cooperative with God as we move through the various chapters of our lives.\nTake Away: As one period of life ends another begins with a new set of challenges and opportunities\nTagged Book of 2Samuel, King David, leadership, old age, revenge, transition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 9367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pathfinder-nd.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=858&Itemid=172", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6E5JIQ6HNHRNPRD4BPRNBTTU3FZQJ5BU", "length": 82, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pathfinder-nd.org", "title": "The Top 10 Basics of the Special Education Process", "raw_content": "Webinar Presented by Pathfinder Services of NDTuesday, 13 February 2018 (Archived)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pathfinder-nd.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=979&Itemid=172", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KCGLCRIMIZFAI3I3IVUJSF5BTB7KVIND", "length": 592, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pathfinder-nd.org", "title": "Building an Individualized Education Program (IEP) Part 2: Individualized Education Program (IEP): The Blueprint", "raw_content": "Webinar Presented by Pathfinder Services of NDThursday, 13 December 2018 (Archived)\nPart 2, Individualized Education Program (IEP): The Blueprint, will provide an overview of the purposes of the IEP planning process, including a description of the main components of a comprehensive IEP.\nParental Rights for Public School Students Receiving Special Education Services Notice of Procedural Safeguards (PDF)\nExtended School Year Services (ESY) - An Educator's Guide (PDF)\nExtended School Year Services (ESY) - A Parent's Guide Brochure (PDF)\nThe Short-and-Sweet IEP Overview\nContents of the IEP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paulstriptothemovies.com/tag/josh-brolin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JY4MN3B3WJZBM3BOHUPW77UXASCQYWNE", "length": 3450, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "paulstriptothemovies.com", "title": "Josh Brolin \u2013 PAUL'S TRIP TO THE MOVIES", "raw_content": "Movie Trailer: HAIL, CAESAR!\nHAIL, CAESAR! Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Scarlet Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich The Coen Brothers head back to the Golden Age of Hollywood for their next film. George Clooney stars as Baird Whitlock, the lead actor in an epic new film called \u201cHail, Caesar\u201d. Baird does not appear to be the best actor out there, and now he\u2019s been kidnapped by a group who refer to themselves as The Future. Now it\u2019s up to a studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) to get his actors (Johansson, Tatum, Ehrenreich) in line andRead More \u2192\nEVEREST Director: Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur Starring: Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Debicki I already knew this, but Everest has now confirmed that I have no desire to go climb Mount Everest or any other summit like that. In 1996 two expeditions attempt to make their way to the top of Mount Everest. Jason Clarke plays Rob Hall, an expedition leader based out of New Zealand who is bringing a group of amateur hikers up with his company Adventure Consultants. Texas pathologist Beck Weathers (Brolin) and journalist Jon Krakauer (Kelly) were two membersRead More \u2192\nSin City: A Dame to Kill For \u2013 My Review\nSIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Director: Frank Miller, Robert RodriguezStarring: Eva Green, Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Lloyd, Dennis Haysbert The violence and bloodshed is always high in the corrupt underworld of fictional town Basin City. Like its predecessor, the film is composed of various vignettes with some characters overlapping from one story to the next. 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It seemed like an unusual premise that I could not quite wrapRead More \u2192\nTHE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\u2013The 2013 Full Uncensored Actors Roundtable\nTHE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\u2013The 2013 Full Uncensored Actors Roundtable It\u2019s award season which means another set of roundtable discussions from The Hollywood Reporter with the actors, actresses, directors, producers, and writers garnering praise for their films. As an actor myself, I love watching them discuss the ups and downs of their careers, what inspires them, what excites them in a project, and what scares them. Up first is The Actors segment featuring: Josh Brolin, Labor Day Jake Gyllenhall, Prisoners Michael B. 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Its main use is the roofing installation of auxiliary building constructions, warehouses, industrial buildings and porch visors. Conventional asbestos slates that were previously used for this purpose are now increasingly replaced by plastic shingles. Usage of this new lightweight material not only simplifies the roof construction but is also profitable from an economic point of view.\nOne of the main advantages, which plastic slates possess, is their light weight. This greatly facilitates the installation works. Unlike asbestos cement shingles, plastic sheets are attached not to the crest of the wave but to the cavity. They are fastened to a wooden crate with the help of screws. The variety of colors allows you to create different colors of the roofing. They are also produced as transparent sheets. The ease of processing allows you to give plastic slates the most diverse forms, which simultaneously allows you to create pretty original designs. The standard sheet size is 2000x900 mm. The number of the waves for such sizes is 11 and the weight is 2.2 kg. Besides all the positive qualities, the customers are the most attracted by the low price of plastic shingles. These low prices are determined by low prices of the feedstock \u2013 polyvinyl chloride (PVC), as well as high-performance of the equipment needed for its production.\nThe Cost of Plastic Roofing Sheets\nThe cost of a standard sized sheet usually ranges from S4-6 per square meter. Such issues as the selling price of the plastic roofing manufacturer, the margin of the trading company and fare also have an impact on the value. There is also a significant regional difference in cost.\nThe price of plastic roofing sheets depends on the presence and the number of producers, as well as on the competition between them. The volume of the purchased plastic sheets also affects the price. The discounts offered by commercial companies can reach 10-15%, depending on the number of the sheets purchased. There are seasonal sales, particularly in winter this material can be obtained by almost 20% cheaper compared to the spring and summer seasons.\nThere are numerous plastic roofing manufacturers that provide an endless panorama of roofing panels with an extensive range of insulated sheets. You can also purchase polycarbonate sheets, which are available in standard as well as in customized forms. The long lasting usage is ensured by a range, which was developed with sophisticated techniques at vendors of different manufacturers in order to ensure the roofing materials' durability.\nAmong many roofing materials you can buy today transparent roofing sheets definitely stand out. The use of transparent roofing slates makes it possible to only to create an unusual roofing design but also to give it a light and airy feel. Among many positive qualities of transparent plastic sheets there are strength, lightness, water resistance and a reasonable price. The combination of these factor is a strong reason and motivation for those who are pondering upon which roofing material to choose for a safe, effective and spectacular roof. The standard sheet size is 2x0,9 meters, the thickness varies from 3 to 1,65 mm. The cost is not only affected by the thickness and the size of the sheet, other factors should also be taken into consideration.\nDavid(2015-01-28)\nSo How much per m2 ????", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://play.prorl.com/view-member.php?id=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SR22KIIIGXTNZFA56U67IDOS2N3Z3CGJ", "length": 203, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "play.prorl.com", "title": "Rival Esports | Online Competitions", "raw_content": "\"NotificationBot\"\nDate Joined May 15, 2016\ngyuha\t March 26, 2018 05:31am\nalex837\t March 02, 2018 08:09am\nZunis\t January 14, 2018 07:40am\nVortex\t January 13, 2018 11:45pm\nEp1cDvD\t January 07, 2018 08:50pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://podcast.voiceofsandiego.org/the-case-for-a-convention-center-and-east-villages-boom", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XYD36OSHICDG6JHFVUQMCJVSB5YV5BLZ", "length": 2638, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "podcast.voiceofsandiego.org", "title": "Voice of San Diego Podcast: The Case for a Convention Center and East Village's Boom", "raw_content": "The bulk of the money raised through the tax hike would go toward the estimated $650 million bay-front expansion of the Convention Center.\nGil Cabrera, vice chair of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation, joined the podcast this week to make the case for why voters should care about the size of the facility. He told hosts Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts that a bigger Convention Center means more money for the city.\nCabrera said the center has a huge economic impact, but because of its current size can't host two big conventions concurrently, which means lost revenue.\n\"As more and more of these high-value conventions drop off the rotation for San Diego, you're going to have a full center that makes less money and that's the fear if we keep it where it is today,\" he said.\nPlus, he said, since the money would be pulled from the hotel tax, tourists would be paying for the expansion while residents would reap the financial rewards (if that sounds familiar, it's because the Chargers used the same argument when they tried to get voters to build them a new downtown stadium).\nCabrera also addressed some questions about the plan, including the issue with a plot of land called Fifth Avenue Landing that's currently leased by two businessmen whose plans don't include a Convention Center expansion.\nKeatts and Lewis also dug into the mayor's lack of a plan for how, exactly, the city will spend the new tax money on homelessness. Right now, there is no real plan, but the mayor's office is pushing that as a plus, not a minus, since it will allow for flexibility.\nEast Village's Remarkable Moment\nEast Village is in the middle of a historic building boom. Keatts is currently living in East Village and he said with the cranes in the sky, the construction holes in the ground and the homeless encampments covering the sidewalks, it's truly a surreal moment for a neighborhood undergoing such rapid change.\nAlso on the podcast, Lewis and Keatts talk about how the 2018 election field is already starting to take shape and the two give a status update on Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher's bill to reform SANDAG, the regional transportation agency embroiled in financial issues revealed by Voice of San Diego.\nThe winner this week is the therapy dog that wouldn't drink out of a water bowl at the shared campus of Emerson-Bandini Elementary School and the San Diego Cooperative Charter School 2 in Mountain View. The dog's hesitancy resulted in the discovery of dangerous lead in the water.\nFieldTurf USA gets the goat this week for its turf sports fields. The products they've sold to San Diego schools keep falling apart.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poic.unilag.edu.ng/rules", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DNKJ7MDJDDXVCZJTZTUZDG43MIOZYM65", "length": 534, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "poic.unilag.edu.ng", "title": "Professor Ogundipe Innovative Challenge", "raw_content": "The applications should be submitted in a written format to the website for the preliminary stage.\nApplicants that passed the preliminary stage would be contacted for the quarter finals and would have to submit a video presentation of their invention.\nApplications that scale through the quarter finals into the semi-finals would be required to make a physical presentation with their invention, explaining how it works and how it can help Nigeria tackle a problem.\nApplications would be judged based on originality and effectiveness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 145.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://polecom.org/index.php/polecom/article/view/10/109", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KD7BNOV7IFDALAIJIWZLVJQKS26Z6JHU", "length": 57669, "nlines": 103, "source_domain": "polecom.org", "title": "American Populism and the New Political Economy of the Media Field | Jutel | The Political Economy of Communication", "raw_content": "Olivier Jutel, University of Otago\nKeywords: media field; the political; populism; mediatization; neo-liberalism\nThe rise of the Tea Party, and its interdependence with Fox News, has generally been regarded as evidence of the \u2018astro-turf\u2019 nature of the movement. Underwritten by the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch, and fuelled by inter-generational anxieties, the Tea Party has been derided as a \u201cfake populist pseudo movement\u201d (Street & DiMaggio, 2011, p. 9). The aim of this article is to identify the ways in which the Tea Party as a form of mediatized populism speaks to the changing fields of politics and journalism, and the increased importance of the convergence between news media and social media as the social symbolic space of neo-liberalism. While polemical attacks on the Tea Party as a political pathology may be warranted, the concern here is with how the \u2018mediatization\u2019 (Couldry, 2008; Mazzoleni & Schulz, 1999; Schulz, 2004) of the field of power is fundamentally transforming the values of the media field. This in turn may signal an opening to the return of the political, as an expression of antagonism in the new social space (Mouffe, 2005). The Tea Party embodies new forms of free audience labor, or the perfection of the audience commodity, in performing a mediatized spectacle of protest that is experienced as \u2018authentic\u2019 as it reinforces Fox\u2019s populist brand. The symbiotic relationship of Fox and the Tea Party signals the extent to which the mythic \u2018people\u2019 of populism1 have become both the economic and the cultural capital of the media field. Fox\u2019s farcical slogan \u201cFair & Balanced\u201d is not intentionally ironic, but rather represents Fox\u2019s attempt to claim the universality of the media field through what I have termed a populist exceptionalism. In performing free labor for Fox, there is an irreducible dialectical tension between carrying out the imperatives of News Corp\u2019s new media strategy and the potential of audience labor to exceed this remit. In the case of the Tea Party, the political returns as a populist fetishism. However, there exists in the social logics of difference and equivalence, between a political community and its outside, a potential for rupture and excess in the media field.\nPopulism and the Political\nTo proceed with this analysis, it is necessary to lay out the critical concepts of populism and the political. Populism as a politics has always assumed a certain mythic status in American political discourse. Populism has been critical in the American political imaginary as a New World substitute for a European politics marked by class struggle and revolution. As opposed to the conflict of capital and labor, American populism delineates a struggle between the productive and the parasitic, which may assume the forms of the financial class, big government, or the urban poor. Populists may well talk of the economy but this is not seen as the conflict between capital and labor, as occupying objective positions in the production process, but the corruption of \u201creal\u201d free market capitalism by some parasitic agent. It is in this way that we can understand how the Tea Party emerged in the wake of the financial crisis to demand more free markets and deregulation. The key metaphor for \u201cthe people\u201d of Tea Party populism has been Thomas Jefferson\u2019s yeoman as the embodiment of capitalism and a frontier notion of private property2. It is this productivist notion of the people and capitalism that shields the Tea Party populist from the \u201cthe full ontological weight of [their] world-experience\u201d (\u017di\u017eek, 1997, p. 60), in order to disavow crisis and antagonism in capitalism.\nWhat is expressly political in populism is the \u201cantagonistic division of the social field\u201d (Laclau, 2005, p. 83) between a people that claim to be universal and able to enact a final ontological closure, and those who are the enemy of this people. This is the ontological necessity of antagonism that makes signification possible. For Laclau, this delineation of a universal subject is a necessary act of signification, but it ultimately fails as the people can only ever be negatively defined by the shared experience against an enemy or those defined as outside the community. Thus, the Tea Party signifier can be characterized as the \u201ccrystallization of the chains of equivalence\u201d (Laclau, 2005, p. 93) between social actors whose identity emerges in opposition to US President Barack Obama as an over-determined marker of difference and the outside.\nWhile populism is political in the sense of the constitutive antagonism that is essential to signification, it ultimately represents a fetishistic politics obsessed with the outsider who becomes \u201creified into a positive ontological entity\u201d that must be destroyed in order to \u201crestore the balance and justice\u201d (\u017di\u017eek, 1997, p. 278). The Tea Party\u2019s emergence in response to Obama cannot exist without an irrational investment in the enemy; therefore Obama\u2019s neo-liberal policy is experienced as \u2018socialism\u2019 and as an existential treat to the imagined people. Populism posits that \u2018the people\u2019 are whole and reconciled\u2014capable of achieving the impossible fullness of society and enacting a final ontological closure that represents the height of anti-politics and the end of signification. This is how we can understand the Tea Party\u2019s irrational investment in Obama as the enemy embodying a multifarious and contradictory evil, from socialism to fascism. Obama\u2019s discourse of the \u2018new spirit of capitalism\u2019 that incorporates certain moral critiques of capitalism, offends those who are fully reconciled with the Tea Party\u2019s fetish of the man of property (Jutel, 2012). For the Tea Party, constructing Obama as the enemy is necessary in order to experience a jouissance in their fetishized notion of the people that will license the transgression of liberal-democratic norms of civility and discourse. This is what Laclau identifies as an \u201caffective investment\u201d (2005, p. 116) in the people as objet petit a. However, the stubborn persistence of the fetish defies the contingency at the heart of his theory of hegemony. We might retain this notion of the political and of hegemony, that is, the process of hegemonic linkage through establishing difference and equivalence, without populism serving as the universal horizon of politics. For \u017di\u017eek the proletariat as the \u201cpart of no-part\u201d (2008, p. 415), negatively inscribed in the social order, might fulfill the category of the universal as their liberation consists of destroying their identity and class position, as opposed to the case of populism which fetishistically clings to its identity and the notion of the middle class. Without re-hashing the furious theoretical debate between \u017di\u017eek and Laclau,3 what this article is concerned with is the impact of the populist political logic in the media field.\nWhat is remarkable about the Tea Party is its specific emergence in the media field. Fox News was critical in enabling and centralizing this populist mobilization, effectively coordinating and legitimating the Tea Party in both its straight news and opinion formats. Glenn Beck was one of many Fox News hosts who led Tea Party rallies, and he would go on to function as a de-facto movement leader in staging various pseudo-political events and protests. Tea Partiers volunteered their labor for Fox, not merely in performing the spectacle of authentic protest, but in consuming Fox across platforms as the extension of a movement logic. Glenn Beck, in particular, was critical in setting the Tea Party reading list,4 and in hawking various end-times commodities from bomb-proof safes, gold, and \u201csurvival seeds\u201d. The Tea Party movement has also produced a convergence of media and political celebrity whereby media figures such as Beck can claim to be movement leaders, and politicians such as Sarah Palin can address and assemble their mediatized constituency. In monopolizing the antagonistic terrain in American politics, the Tea Party have proved remarkably adept at popularizing an austerity politics and casting itself as the radical resistance to Obama\u2019s \u2018socialism\u2019. The critical importance of the media field as a site of the political is not simply reflective of the media\u2019s embeddedness in the social space, but rather of the fact that the media field is the critical social space of contemporary neo-liberalism.\nIt is important to clarify why mediatization and the political are essential concepts in accounting for the rise of the Tea Party (in addition to a political-economic analysis of the relationship between funders such as the Koch Brothers, the Republican Party infrastructure, prominent right-wing think tanks, and so-called \u2018astro-turf\u2019 groups such as FreedomWorks). While the latter explains important economic, political, and social resources that have made austerity populism salient, it cannot address the fundamental question of why Tea Partiers, many of them members of the working class, truly believe in a politics that is objectively against their own economic self-interest. To address this question, one needs to turn to a sense of the political, as the ontological necessity of antagonism, and to the logic of the fetish. For most liberal commentators, the political pathology of the Tea Party can be explained away by the nefarious influence of billionaires. Paul Krugman typifies this argument stating that the conservative political infrastructure is fuelled by \u2018paychecks for the ideologically loyal\u2019 (Krugman, 2010). The Koch Brothers, while undoubtedly important, have served as a useful foil for left-liberals in obscuring more important questions about American liberal-democracy and capitalism. Even if we accept that the Tea Party have been instrumentalized by such powerful interests, they have well exceeded this remit. The political defies such domestication as evidenced by the Tea Party\u2019s resistance to the US Chamber of Commerce5 and the farcical primaries that the Republican Party was forced to endure. We are also dealing with a mediatized form of the political in the sense that the hegemonic chains of equivalence and difference are forged exclusively in the media field. As a social formation, the Tea Party emerged as a meme invoked by CNBC\u2019s Rick Santelli, amplified by Fox News, and supported by important political contributors and lobbyists. While various Tea Party organizations have grown out of the Koch-sponsored infrastructure, the most organic Tea Party entity is the social media site Tea Party Nation6. This indicates the critical importance of the mediatized social space in the return of the political.\nThe concept of mediatization is essential in understanding how the media field has become a critical site for the transformation of politics, publicness, and economy. This is not a techno-determinist notion that reduces politics to its mode of transmission, nor does it ascribe a singular logic to the media field. Mediatization here is meant to identify the media field as an organ of social circulation and meaning making, guided by its own internal logics of production. However, in traversing both the social space and the field of power, the media transforms the social processes of signification. The media and its logic(s) cannot be theorized in isolation or parsed from changing political, economic, and social dynamics. Mediatization and Bourdieu\u2019s concept of the field (1996) are seen here as complementary to critical political economy of the media, allowing us to consider the ways in which the media field and user agency are transforming political economy.\nMediatization can be defined as the manner in which media genres of representation, discourse, and performance have come to define \u201cother social subsystems\u201d such as politics, government and business, which are now \u201cdependent on the media and their logic\u201d (Str\u00f6mb\u00e4ck & Dimitrova, 2011, p. 33). What accounts for the prominence of the media field, within the broader field of power, are not internal notions of autonomy such as the fourth estate ideal, but rather the dominance of the heteronomous pole that is economic capital. The contradiction here is between a weakly autonomous media field that is assuming immense importance in its service to political economy as \u201cit increases the power of the heteronomous pole within each of the fields, producing a convergence among all the fields and pulling them closer to the commercial pole in the larger field of power\u201d (Benson, 1999, p. 471). For the political field, this has meant an orientation towards media spectacle, performative embodiment, and the commodification of political identity. What is critical about the particularity of the media field is its position as the social symbolic space of neo-liberal publicness. Mediatization is essential for understanding the transformation of political identity into post-materialist lifestyle choices, the commodifcation of social life, and the return of the political as a populism that embodies neo-liberal individuation. How this effects audience commodification and the importance of the media field in bio-political production will be discussed in the following sections.\nThe prominence of a mediatized politics has to be understood in relation to the political impact of neo-liberal \u201cpost-ideology\u201d. With the weakening of organized labor, the rejection of ethico-political militancy as irreparably anti-liberal, \u201cthe crisis of the party system\u201d (Mazzoleni & Schulz, 1999, p. 252) and the rise of the \u2018electoral professional party\u2019 (Panebianco, 1988) politics has assumed an increasingly de-politicized character with political identity more closely resembling lifestyle choices in the marketplace7. As party ties to social groups have become tenuous and corporate funding for parties supersedes membership dues, the media field has become the site for the \u201copinion electorate\u201d (Panebianco, 1988, p. 264). This has meant the rise of the professional media and campaign consultant and the fundamental transformation of language in government and politics such that all policy announcements and engagements with publicity are formulated for maximum media impact. Similarly, protest and political action \u201chave become reflexively conditioned by their pursuit of media attention\u201d (Cottle, 2008, p. 853) rather than oriented towards modes of rational deliberation in the public sphere or in making demands of state power. The Tea Party exemplifies a populist form of mediatized protest in their refusal to normalize by advancing a realistic legislative agenda. Rather, they performatively act out a revolutionary iconography that cements an affective investment in the Tea Party fetish. The Tea Party fights lost causes, from repealing \u2018Obamacare\u2019 to defunding Planned Parenthood and National Public Radio, in order to disavow their own efficacy and to fatalistically assume a victimized identity that is experienced as proof-positive of the enemy\u2019s omnipotence. This inability to normalize bears witness to the ultimate fetishism of Tea Party politics, as they are unable to transcend the specter of the enemy that negatively constitutes their very notion of the people.\nMediatization has been a critical to the neo-liberal privatization of politics and the consequent reconfiguration of publicness and civic space. If we consider the importance of media in constructing the public and mediating regional publics since the origins of the nation state it is apparent that media have always served to \u201cbridge spatial and temporal distances\u201d (Schulz, 2004, p. 88) within the polity. In the era of \u201cpost-ideology\u201d, mediatization has been essential to achieving the \u201cindividuating triumph\u201d (Hind, 2010, p. 147) of neo-liberal publicness. Notions of virtual civil society have been critical in promoting consumptive identity politics and in mediating acts that were once performed in public space such as civic activism and protesta href=\"#8\">8. This is not to irrevocably condemn new forms of online activism as reifying the power of the market\u2014these may be neutral technologies that aid politicization. However, without an attempt to radically reclaim public space from a logic of neo-liberal individuation, we can describe mediatization as \u201cconnection without connectivity\u201d (Nicholls, 2011, p. 325) or the contradiction of people \u201cmore connected than ever before\u2026yet at the same time on their own\u201d (Deuze, 2011, p. 145). It is precisely this mobilization of isolation in the media, and its animation through fear, resentment, and alienation that defines Tea Party populism.\nMediatization, Populism, and the Media Field\nIt might appear tautological to talk of the mediatization of the media field. However, the field\u2019s prominence and service to political economy, in individuating the public and in inculcating the logic of spectacle, has transformed the field\u2019s notions of autonomy and redefined the liberal\u2013democratic polity in populist terms. Geraldine Muhlmann writes that the emergence of journalism as an autonomous field lay in its claim \u201cto bring people together to unify\u201d by \u201cgiving readers the \u2018truth\u2019\u2014that is, something that is acceptable to all, beyond differences of opinion\u201d (2008, p. 6). From this modern notion of the field, Bourdieu identifies a split between the old pedagogic, paternalistic liberal media and a \u201cpopulist spontaneism and demagogic capitulation to popular tastes\u201d (Bourdieu, 1998, p. 48). Superseding the ideal of the rational citizen and the unified public of liberal democracy is a sense of the \u2018authentic people\u2019, validated by audience ratings9, with all of the potential populist fetishism this entails. Part of the mediatization of the field of politics is the performative embodiment of authenticity with political action validated in the media field by \u201cnarratives of everyday life\u2026 personal stories, ordinary problems, the subjective and the familiar\u201d (Plasser & Ulram, 2003, p. 29). What is critical here is how \u2018the people\u2019 have emerged as the authentic subject position that validates journalistic and political practice. Craig Calhoun identified Ronald Reagan as a key figure, owing his success to the \u2018spurious intimacy\u2019 of television which enabled him to flippantly characterize political problems \u201cthrough the simple extension of life world categories\u201d (Calhoun, 1998, p. 224)10. The mediatization of the field of power has meant that the media and political fields are engaged in a fight over access to the people as the guarantor of meaning11. In terms of journalistic practice, this has meant the \u201cfetishization of news vox-pops\u2026[and] cheap contributions from \u2018you the audience\u2019\u201d (Phelan, 2011, p. 141).\nIn the convergence of the media and political fields that is mediatization, and in the inter-field struggle over a people conceived not in normative liberal\u2013democratic terms but in popular, if not populist terms, emerges what I have termed media entrepreneurs. These are actors that operate across the two fields, accruing the capital of both while corresponding to the spectacle and to the individuating and self-commodifying logic of the market. Media figures engage in populist polemics and protest along with \u201cdemagogic political leaders\u2026[that use] the media to make an end run around the normal political process\u201d (Benson, 1999, p. 474). Their capital is derived from the authenticity of the populist public. Here, one need only think of the de-facto leaders of the Tea Party\u2014Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Beck is a self-styled populist broadcaster engaged in the ritualistic subversion of studio news through a habitus of authentic non-professionalism which allowed him to stage political rallies and faith events, all as a means to reinforce his and Fox\u2019s populist brand of authenticity. Sarah Palin epitomized the mediatized politician as she contributed to Fox News, and took to Twitter and Facebook. On these platforms she offered policy pronouncements, launched publicity tours indistinguishable from a modern political campaign, and starred in her own reality TV show12. This demonstrates the critical importance of the media field in the neo-liberalization of social and political life. Access to the mediatized public space has become dependent upon the performance of authenticity and spectacle and of managing the brand of \u2018you\u2019 in order to accrue forms of media capital. Despite what might appear as a self-reinforcing loop of populist commercialism and the commodification of \u2018authenticity\u2019, it is worth reiterating that the political, arising from the ontological necessity of antagonism, exceeds this domestication.\nNew Political Economy of the Media Field\nWhat mediatization has wrought is not simply the loss of normative liberal-democratic ideals of media practice, which however flawed, maintains a universal horizon of politics, but the collapse of the poles of valorization (cultural and economic) in the media field. The \u201cauthentic people\u201d have become both the cultural capital that legitimates media practice, and the economic capital, not simply as an audience commodity but as a hegemonic ideal of \u201cbio-political labour\u201d (Hardt & Negri, 2009, p. 140). In pulling others towards the heteronomous pole in the field of power, the media field is not simply reflecting the interests of political economy but is exercising agency in reconfiguring the site of economy in a way which enables the real subsumption of labor (Marx, 1976, p. 1023) and social life under capital. It is precisely the symbolic power of the media as public space, that allows it to function as a site of bio-political labor. Mobile devices and new media social networks have helped dissolve the boundaries between work and play, self-realization, and comprehensive surveillance. The labor of workers outside of the factory/office is bio-political in the sense that it creates new social relations that allow for the extension of the market into the social. However, this penetration of the lifeworld cannot proceed without conceding the necessity of audience valorization and labor.\nThus, in the reconfiguration of the field and in deference to \u2018the people\u2019, the various discourses of active/productive and self-determining audiences13 have been deployed to secure consent for the incorporation of free labor in its various forms. The audience and the audience commodity can no longer be thought of as simply the alienation of mass audiences in the corporate media\u2019s servicing of advertisers. New media users create content, construct the social networks that are data mined for advertisers, and in the case of the Tea Party stage the very mediatized public spectacle that reinforces Fox\u2019s privileged access to \u2018the people\u2019. What opens up the field to the return of the political in a manner that exceeds its commodification, is the indeterminate character of free and affective labor. Despite the fact that the participatory discourse of the field may serve to mask the very real commodification of this labor, these social relations constructed by user labor represent a potential crisis of control for capital. The incorporation of this audience labor power must be willingly conceded if it is to assume its dynamic character, and it is at this point that a political notion of universality may well arise from the social space, superseding the individuating and self-commodifying logic of the prevailing populist commercialism.\nThe Audience Commodity and Immaterial Labor\nThe media field does not simply mirror the broader field of power, but is critical in inculcating the particular \u201chegemony of immaterial production\u201d (Hardt & Negri, 2004, p. 108). Traditional critical political economy theories of the media and Bourdieu\u2019s characterization of the media field both perceive audiences in terms of market functionality. Thus, for Bourdieu, a media populism driven by television and the increased sophistication of audience metrics simply represents a closed loop of conditioning content to \u201cpre-existing demand\u201d (Benson, 1999, p. 485). Critical political economy has generally understood audiences as a resource for the commodification of certain consumer profiles by media corporations in consort with advertisers and corporate capital. This formulation has the effect of positioning audiences as passive exploited automatons. What the populist destabilization of the media field signals is the opening up of audience agency, and of labor that is born of immaterial production in the media field. This is not to make any teleological assumptions about the digital multitudes, rather it is to say that the \u201cinfinite exploitation\u201d (Fuchs, 2012, p. 714) of labor in the new audience commodity is correlative to positive human agency, whether fetishistic or not.\nThe new audience commodity of immaterial labor, or what Fuchs\u2019 calls the \u201cprosumer commodity\u201d (Fuchs, 2012, p. 706), is a peculiar commodity. It does not approach formal subsumption since there is no \u2018equal\u2019 exchange in the labor market and \u201cthe activities of the audience are not under the direct control of the capitalist\u201d (Caraway, 2011, p. 697). Audiences and media users may withhold their labor without starving. However, they may suffer the \u201csocial disadvantages\u201d (Fuchs, 2012, p. 704) of being excluded from communication and public life (albeit the public life of mediatization and neo-liberal individuation). Despite these particularities, the new audience commodity is still subject to exploitation, as the data produced by media users is owned in perpetuity by media corporations to use and sell as they please. As prosumer audiences do not actually sell their labor power (and in fact are increasingly willing to pay for content on cable, online, and wireless systems) one may talk of this as indeterminate \u2018free labor\u2019 (Terranova, 2004). I will return to this indeterminacy shortly.\nIn neo-liberal public space, the Fordist mass audience commodity has been replaced by the \u201cmicro-segmented\u201d (Terranova, 2004, p. 147) or niche-consuming mass. Embodied in this transformation of the political economy of the media is a tension between micro targeting audiences and surveying for consumer preferences, and the concession to audiences of a certain, if limited, autonomy. This has meant that micro-segmented \u201caudiences on the Web are actually more concentrated on the top ten or twenty outlets than are traditional media\u201d audiences (Hindman, 2009, p. 134). Furthermore, there exist new corporate synergies able to merge corporate media, telecoms and tech companies in the pursuit of the perfect audience commodity14. Eli Pariser has identified a process of \u201clock-in\u201d (Pariser, 2011, p. 40), whereby media corporations monopolize the communicative networks of media users and constrain their consumption options through the plethora of applications that simultaneously follow users across the media space.\nThe new media space is defined by the logics of personalization, difference and equivalence, means that users may experience corporate controlled mass communication as information networks assembled by their own agency. The discourse of participation and personalization does not simply extend corporate media power and the logic of audience commodification into new domains\u2014the very nature of audience commodification is transformed in the process. Audience commodification, in new media platforms as well as traditional media, is inextricably linked to the harnessing of free and \u201cimmaterial labor\u201d (Hardt & Negri, 2004, p. 65) from active audiences. This bio-political labor, increasingly hegemonic across all manner of production, produces \u201cnetworks based on communication, collaboration and affective relationships\u201d (Hardt & Negri, 2004, p. 66). In this sense, media do not merely reflect the interests of the economic field and capital, but privilege a specific form of socially embedded labor, best characterized by the metaphor of the social factory (Virno & Hardt, 1996). This is the real subsumption of labor under capital. In the blurring of boundaries between production and consumption in immaterial labor, media function as a critical bio-political disciplinary apparatus where interactive users learn \u201ca kind of online personal brand management in a network comprised by multiple lines of valorization (both social and capitalist)\u201d (Cote & Pybus, 2007, p. 95). Within the social factory, media perform a crucial function of neo-liberal devolution, extending a logic of self-capitalization emphasizing \u201clifelong learning\u2026 re-skilling\u201d (Thorpe & Gregory, 2010, p. 280) in preparation for new modes of precarious labor.\nThe free labor of mediatized subjects can thus be seen as the creation of social networks that allow media corporations to scrutinize and monetize the minutia of personal taste preferences. Conversely, free labor can be seen as a process whereby users construct their identities in this mediatized life. This labor can be defined as both exploited and \u201cwillingly conceded in exchange for the pleasures of communication\u201d (Terranova, 2004, p. 91). The new audience commodity has enabled more precision in the identification of consumer habits, allowing micro-targeted advertising campaigns, product placements, and promotions. However, reconciling the necessary personal identification with the construction of new media15 networks by audiences is precarious. The social and collaborative logic of the wiki has become essential in legitimizing the voluntary surrender of personal information to advertisers as YouTube \u2018community guidelines\u2019 emblematically state; \u201cRemember that this is your community! Each and every user of YouTube makes the site what it is, so don\u2019t be afraid to dig in and get involved!\u201d (Van Djick, 2009, p. 45). With the perfection of the audience commodity lies an irreducible tension. The production of this commodity is entirely dependent upon the active free labor of users, and as such must correspond with how people see themselves or the social life they aspire to. This is not to make any humanist assumptions about the innate qualities of social media; rather, it is simply to identify what is both a political\u2013economic phenomenon (pervasive commodification) and the necessary ontological consideration of positive human agency. In this sense, free labor carries the potential to rupture the mediatized social space through either a fetishistic or emancipatory politics (since the political is indeterminate). The Tea Party in this sense represents a fetishistic or fascistic manifestation of political antagonism, born of bio-political production yet exceeding the direct control of capital as simply an audience commodity.\nFox News and the Tea Party\nAt the heart of Fox\u2019s Tea Party populism is a transformation of the media field, entailing increased deference to a populist public, and the corresponding logic of capitalist profit based upon the active user. Fox News itself is not primarily in the business of selling mouse clicks in the manner of Google or Facebook. However, as a subsidiary of News Corp. whose footprint extends across the broader political economy of new media, telecoms, and tech companies, Fox is critical to its parent company\u2019s brand strategy. The purpose is to amass users who will consume Fox across emerging platforms and media. Fox surpasses the perfunctory deference to online comment threads, digi-polls, and the invitation for user content accompanying news stories (\u201cWere you there? We\u2019d like to hear from you?\u201d). More fundamentally it stages a populist mobilization around its brand community. In articulating right-wing identity politics, Fox not only stakes a claim to populist legitimacy, it performs a coordinating role for an alienated and de-politicized neo-liberal public by projecting an immensity to the movement. In the absence of traditional political organization, Fox functions as a de-facto symbolic space of neo-liberal publicness. Fox becomes a site of struggle where users construct an antagonistic fetishized notion of \u2018the people\u2019 while engaging in the free labor that reinforces the brand and spectacle of Fox.\nTea Party leader, Glenn Beck was a critical figure in Fox\u2019s populist brand strategy. A veritable media entrepreneur, Beck ascended to the heights of Fox's symbolic power while retaining his own media company which connected him to the more far-flung regions of American political discourse. Beck was crucial not just because he politicized audiences against Fox\u2019s competitors, but because he staged impassioned campaigns of spiritual, and political rebirth, as an extension of an \u2018authentic\u2019 movement logic. Beck\u2019s program functioned as a flagship of authenticity for the new media user that followed Fox across platforms and into social media/super fan sites like Fox Nation. While Beck boasted remarkable ratings for the 5pm timeslot,16 the advertiser withdrawals that followed his claims that Obama \u2018hates white people\u2019 and his anti-Semitic attack on George Soros, drove down advertising rates for the program, effectively making it a loss leader for Fox.\nFox Nation embodies Fox\u2019s attempts to define the mediatized field in terms of populist commercialism. The site functions as the equivalent of Fox\u2019s Facebook wall, where it puts out a mural of the different stories and issues Fox is covering in terms which exceed even the network\u2019s standard polemics. This engages the user in the exercise of sending stories up the \u2018Hot List\u2019 as they \u2018Fire Up\u2019 a flaming icon to indicate their interest. Stories and accompanying videos solicit comments from Fox Nation subscribers through a plethora of feedback options. In addition to the ubiquitous Facebook \u2018Like\u2019 button and the invitation to tweet or email the page in question, users may indicate the following sentiments: \u2018offensive\u2019, \u2018funny\u2019, \u2018cool\u2019, \u2018obnoxious\u2019, \u2018scary\u2019, \u2018inspiring\u2019, \u2018crazy\u2019. This site not only gives Fox information about viewer attitudes, it also allows them to construct a more precise sense of their audience as internet cookies and user preferences are collected. Aside from pop culture plebicitism Fox attempts to claim the liberal universality of the journalistic field formulated as populist exceptionalism. The Fox Nation site offers a statement of purpose that invokes the iconography of the founders as the original \u2018people\u2019 on a page that mimics the weathered paper and ink blotches of the nation\u2019s founding documents;\nThe Fox Nation was created for people who believe in the United States of America and its ideals, as expressed in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation\u2026 The Fox Nation is committed to the core principles of tolerance, open debate, civil discourse, and fair and balanced coverage of the news. It is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. (The Fox Nation Team, 2012, para 1, 3)\nThis populist media field does not merely supplant previous ideals of liberal universality, which, however spurious, maintained the universal horizon of the political, it articulates a populist universality that seeks a final resolution of the people\u2019s identity. In claiming access to traditional populist values, Fox constructs a people who are universally committed to \u2018tolerance\u2019 and \u2018civil discourse\u2019 while the outsiders, who are not invested in this fetishization of the people, are beyond such values.\nGlenn Beck and the 9/12 Project\nBeck was able to harness the free and affective labor of Tea Partiers for Fox, through the many political events, rallies, and pseudo-movements that he led. This began early in 2009 when he announced on his program the \u20189/12 Project\u2019. This would materialize around 100,000 protestors on the National Mall in Washington D.C. articulating the populist demand for moral restoration and a return to the founding fathers. Beck\u2019s tearful inauguration of the movement provided great fodder for late-night comedians, however, rather than representing an unhinged moment, this affect typifies the mediatized populist logic at work in the Tea Party. The program begins with a video package detailing the contradictory alliance of the people\u2019s enemies\u2014socialists, Wall Street bankers, unions, Mexican immigrants, and terrorists, before cutting to Beck who is backstage fighting back tears. As his voice quavers he addresses his viewers, \u201cremember who you were that day after 9/11, I told you, \u2018You are not alone\u201d\u2019 (Fox News, 2009). From this dark moment of anxiety and \u2018sincerity\u2019, Beck announces that he wants to introduce the viewer to \u2018some people\u2019 as he enters his brightly lit studio to cued audience applause with the message that \u2018you are not alone\u2019. Upon this contrived emotional rise, Beck locates his populist audience community with various live feeds\u2014from Chuck Norris\u2019 ranch to military bases and various viewing parties \u2018from the Garage Bar in Columbus, Ohio to virtually every small town and big city in between in this great nation\u2019 (Fox News, 2009). As fear of the enemy constitutes the populist community, Beck\u2019s monologue swings wildly between a communal warmth and trepidation concerning the enemy\u2019s menace. Again, the tearful Beck declares: \u201cIt seems like the voices of the special interests and the media they are surrounding us. It sounds intimidating. But you know what\u2026the truth is we surround them, this is our country\u201d (Fox News, 2009). Facing this existential crisis, the populist people are elevated to become the universal subject: \u201cThe real power to change America still resides with you, you\u2019re the secret [tears] you\u2019re the answer\u201d (Fox News, 2009). The exact delineation of who the authentic people are is later rendered in culture war terms. Immediately after Beck\u2019s overwrought monologue, he crosses over to a live feed from Hollywood, California where Beck\u2019s producer is alone in a room. The producer, Stu, then utters the punch-line: \u201cIt\u2019s really important for people to know that they are not alone, unless they are me\u201d. This joke, met with uproarious laughter, is offered as a moment of levity after Beck\u2019s tearful monologue but it does not belie the populist dichotomy of the people and their enemy. In these moments the very human warmth of the community is based on dehumanizing the enemy.\nIn order to understand how this contrived authenticity and sincerity works for the Tea Party fetishists, we have to consider the convergence of mediatization, free labor, and the political. Beck\u2019s tears, whether genuine or not, are a marker of populist non-professionalism and authenticity in the media field. His emotionally wracked state functions as an affective invitation to join him in the fetishistic flight from reality. Beck goes on to claim that his program serves to connect the people across time and space from \u201cevery small town and big city in between in this great nation\u201d (Fox News, 2009). The new media field is exemplified in the soaring rhetoric of narcissistic produsage as Beck states \u201cYou are the secret, you are the answer\u201d (Fox News, 2009). This perfectly epitomizes the mediatized mobilization of individuation as Tea Partiers remain alone, even as they congregate, in the sense that their politics represents a fetishistic retreat into a populist lifeworld. Their very identity is constituted through the self-fetishization and mediatized performance of protest and spectacle, all functioning as free labor for Fox and Beck. As Beck delivers his tearful monologue, he stands in front of a mural containing thumbnail images of 9/12 community members that form the words \u2018We The People\u201917. Here, the Tea Party audience commodity functions as a mediatized social movement locked in to Fox News, Beck's reading list, and certain forms of lifestyle consumption, all as part of participating in an \u201cauthentic\u201d struggle. The Tea Party\u2019s mediatized subjectivization is secured as they declare themselves the universal, authentic people. However, the political economy of the new media field bares a contradiction; perfecting the audience necessitates forms of free labor that are marked by the political logics of difference and equivalence. The media field becomes the site of the return of the political by virtue of its role as the social symbolic space of neo-liberalism. In identifying the new audience commodity of immaterial labor, there arises the necessity to consider the convergence of the media and the political as something which might exceed the confines of a populist commercialism18.\nThe relationship of Fox News to the Tea Party is not so much a \u2018fake populism\u2019 as it is symptomatic of the mediatization of politics within the new political economy of the media field. As the social symbolic space of neo-liberal publicness, the media field has simultaneously pulled other fields towards the performative logic of spectacle which is shaped by economic capital. The media field in this sense is not simply subservient to the broader field of economic capital, it also effects a transformation that encompasses an expansion into the social. The individuating logic of neo-liberal mediatization has given the political field more single issue protests, online activism, culture wars, and lifestyle and identity politics at the expense of traditional political parties and labor unions. Tea Party populism represents the return of the political, or more specifically, the ontological necessity of antagonism in signification, within the confines of neo-liberal individuation and publicness. Fox in this sense is coordinating an alienated and de-politicized neo-liberal public that is properly populist in the sense of fetishistically clinging to an ideal of the people as a reconciled whole. This mediatized movement constitutes a struggle over the values of the media field and over notions of the polity which have become absorbed by the performance of populist \u2018authenticity\u2019. This culminates in Fox\u2019s formulation of a populist exceptionalism whereby the people of the Tea Party are deemed to have exclusive access to the liberal universality of the field\u2014with their enemy irredeemably excluded. This ontological closure presages the loss of the universal horizon of politics in the media field; a development which necessitates a critical left response.\nThe apparent symbiosis between Fox and the Tea Party has to be seen as a consequence of the new political economy of the media field. In the populist reconfiguration of this field, the active, self-determining audience or productive new media user has emerged as a hegemonic ideal. What discourses of interactivity belie is the appropriation of free and affective labor in perfecting the audience commodity and in micro targeting user profiles across media platforms. The Tea Party thus becomes a means for Fox to distinguish itself in the field as \u201cof the people\u201d, while establishing a loyal audience that follow Fox across the media landscape with a political fervor while consecrating the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of Fox. Although it appears that a seamless populist commercialism dominates the media field, the very ability of the field to extend the economic logic of neo-liberal individuation into the social is premised upon, if not consent, then at least the positive agency of users. While constructing the active user as a combination of taste preferences, the engagement of the audience is premised upon a \u201csense of connection and participation in something that is larger than one\u2019s self, which provides the impetus for exploring new techniques and practices of communicative and affective productions\u201d (Cote & Pybus, 2007, p. 96). It is in this sense that the new audience commodity is social even as it exemplifies the commodified individual. There remains a potential crisis of control for capital which is inscribed in the very commodification of affective labor. It is from this potentiality that the political repercussions may breach even politicized institutions such as Fox, the Republican Party, and the Koch-Brothers\u2019 funded political infrastructure. The critical question then becomes whether other notions of the universal might arise through the media field in the name of left emancipatory politics.\n1. This \u2018people\u2019 is an over-determined signifier which stands in for the \u2018impossible fullness\u2019, or ontological closure, of the social (\u017di\u017eek, 2000, p. 100). Thus \u2018the people\u2019 do not exist in this fixed sense; however the fetish of the yeoman has persisted as the universal measure of the American people.\n2. Jefferson wrote that: \u201cThose who labor in the earth are the chosen people of god, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which might otherwise escape from the face of the earth\u201d (Jefferson, 1975, p. 217). Jefferson opposed this virtuous yeoman to the \u201cmobs in the city\u201d who are cankerous \u201csores\u201d upon the body of government eating at the \u201cheart of its constitution\u201d (p. 216). It is easy to see how this delineation echoes in the present Tea Party/Obama antagonism.\n3. This debate can be tracked in the annals of Critical Inquiry Volumes 32 and 33.\n4. This reading list includes Friedrich Von Hayek, David Barton, Dinesh D\u2019Souza, Ayn Rand and of course Beck\u2019s own assortment of fiction and non-fiction titles. The most important title in Beck\u2019s Tea Party canon is Cleon Skousen\u2019s self-published The 5,000 Year Leap. A virulently anti-communist text, it climbed to the number one spot on Amazon.com in the summer of 2009 (Zaitchick, 2009).\n5. The vehemently anti-Obama US Chamber of Commerce was the largest spender in the 2010 election, overwhelmingly supporting Tea Party insurgents (Center For Responsive Politics, 2012). However, with the Tea Party-led brinksmanship that ensued around the debt ceiling, the Chamber issued an urgent warning to Republicans to raise the debt ceiling as a failure to do so \u201cwould create uncertainty and fear, and threaten the credit rating of the United States\u201d (Josten, 2011, para. 2).\n6. Analysis of the Tea Party social media space forms the basis of this author\u2019s ongoing work.\n7. Obama\u2019s 2008 electoral campaign is exemplary in this regard having claimed the two top prizes at the largest global advertising awards (Sweney, 2009). The business magazine Fast Company described \u2018Brand Obama\u2019 as \u2018personal\u2019, \u2018engaging\u2019, open to the way consumers communicate with one another while recognizing \u2018their desire for \u201cauthentic\u201d products\u2019 (McGirt, 2008).\n8. This discourse of the \u2018authentic\u2019, virtual grass-roots was critical to Barack Obama\u2019s successful 2008 campaign for the presidency. Through the innovative use of mybarackobama.com, the campaign was described as inspired by the \u2018free and open software movement\u2026[with Obama as] the first real \u201cwiki-candidate\u201d\u2018 (McGirt, 2008). This idea of virtual civil society also informs the White House\u2019s \u2018We the People\u2019 website where online users can petition the White House to respond officially to an issue once it receives enough clicks.\n9. Fox News\u2019 website proudly proclaims its status as the top rated cable news network in the 25\u201354 adult demographic and offers the following barbed comment to its competitors:\nCNN and MSNBC use an asterisk in their ads to point out some half-baked one-time statistic to prove that somebody stumbled across their channels giving them a temporary spike in the ratings, which they would tout as unprecedented, earth-shattering and monumental. It\u2019s actually pathetic since we all know if they massage their statistics long enough they can come up with something to make their tiny lame point. But deep in their little hearts, even they know that FOX NEWS IS NUMBER ONE [sic] in cable news and has been for years (2012).\n10. In the case of Fox News, the ratings success of the Glenn Beck Program has to be seen as a result of the show\u2019s spurious intimacy with \u2018the people\u2019 of the Tea Party movement. The most radical innovation of the show was the twenty minute monologue in which Beck showcased a combination of his political convictions, faith, personal frailties, and direct emotional pleas in obliterating the rational lens and elevating the personal as political truth.\n11. A useful concept here is the big Other which functions as the \u2018symbolic order\u2019 (\u017di\u017eek, 1999). This materializes ideology as concrete social practice. In constructing this big Other of \u2018the people\u2019, the media and political fields disavow the process whereby the people are merely a symbolic expression brought into being by discourse. Instead, it is implied that \u2018the people\u2019 really do exist as a virtuous, patriotic middle. Here, it is also important that any authentic people be properly in their place as an anti-political, privatized public.\n12. The show Sarah Palin\u2019s Alaska is illustrative of the particular character of American populism. In the show, Palin strikes the image of the frontierswoman whereby a traditional family exemplify the ideals of the private property, the homestead, and the frontier.\n13. The apogee of this narcissistic discourse is of course Time magazine\u2019s 2006 Person of the Year which featured a reflective computer screen on the cover and simply the word \u2018You\u2019.\n14. Newscorp\u2019s wireless strategy is encapsulated in its deal to produce the exclusive newspaper for Apple\u2019s iPad. Available only on the iPad wireless device, the subscription model of The Daily may prevail over attempts to monetize web newspapers. Murdoch himself states that iPad users were typically more \u2018immersed\u2019 in the personal interface of their device than in online news consumption, where users could be lost to \u2018unfocused surfing\u2019 (Helmore, 2010). Additionally, News Corp. itself is in the business of cloud computing. Its subsidiary NC3 allows wireless devices to perform advanced computing remotely.\n15. The term \u2018new media\u2019 is not exclusive to Web 2.0 technology, but rather pertains to the new hegemonic logic of accumulation across the field including more traditional media such as cable news and Fox News in this instance.\n16. The show peaked at 2.8 million viewers per night in January 2010 while declining to 1.7 million in the last months of the program (Carusone, 2011).\n17. Beck would claim that the flood of images that people volunteered for the mural crashed the servers at Fox five times.\n18. 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London, UK: Verso.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 61205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/the-best-premier-of-the-last-40-years/from-the-premiers-office-to-the-pmo-where-are-the-candidates/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:C36NAJKFV4QL4J4ZVWJK4UC7IWCJWHMP", "length": 19310, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "policyoptions.irpp.org", "title": "From the premier's office to the PMO \u201d\u201d Where are the candidates? - Policy Options", "raw_content": "From the premier\u2019s office to the PMO \u201d\u201d Where are the candidates?\nIt might sound like a trick question for Trivial Pursuit, and it is this: How many premiers in Canada have become prime minister? The short answer may seem surprising: only one, Sir Charles Tupper, and he served only a short time period in this august office, and his role as premier of Nova Scotia had little to do with his assuming the leadership of the Conservative Party. From before Confederation in 1867, Tupper was a close friend and confident of Sir John A. Macdonald, and he had served as minister in numerous portfolios in the federal government. Tupper also had been High Commissioner to the UK after a dispute with John A. (curiously, he also was minister of finance in 1887-88) without surrendering his post in London). Tupper was seen as a natural successor to John A., and after Macdonald\u2019s death in 1891, a succession of leaders floundered, and the party and cabinet pressed Tupper to return. He became prime minister in May 1896, only to face election defeat to Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s rising Liberal Party. He stayed in Ottawa for four years as Opposition leader, then returned to London, where he died in 1915.\nThe fact that premiers haven\u2019t climbed to what Disraeli called the \u201d\u0153top of the greasy pole\u201d\u009d may seem a true oddity of the Canadian political landscape in a federal system, where many provinces are proportionally bigger than US states. Indeed, Canadian political history stands in stark contrast to the US system, where 18 governors have become president, and 16 presidents, including the present incumbent, were US senators (see table 1). Why the difference? In general, most US states have budgets much smaller than the economies and budgets of the biggest Canadian provinces, although several presidents, including Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, were governors of very large states, California and Texas. Governors gain executive experience and they learn to work with both sides of the political aisle. More recently, US governors on the rise have taken on national roles, including as spokesmen for all US governors on such issues as education, infrastructure and health, gaining widespread media exposure, financial campaign support and clever media use of the incumbent\u2019s weaknesses \" Ronald Reagan\u2019s attacks on Jimmy Carter, or Bill Clinton\u2019s laser beam attacks on economic policies and the foreign policy forays of the two George Bushes.\nThere are factors why governors have an inside edge on the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The US election system is actually 50 state elections, because the tortuous Electoral College determines who becomes president, and many states are safe elections either for the Democrats (e.g., New York and California) or for the Republicans (e.g., Texas and Utah). Indeed, recent national elections for president show that the actual swing states are quite few, especially Ohio, so despite widespread national campaigning, presidential campaigns are really tied to the swing states and the US primary system to seek a party leader is dedicated to finding a candidate who can win the swing states. In theory, at least, governors are a natural fit.\nThis US model is in sharp contrast with the parliamentary system, with the modern version of party discipline, highly organized political parties and the special role of the elected caucus as the front line system of checks and balances. Indeed, most Commonwealth prime ministerial leadership races date from the model used in Britain. Historically, the key deciding actors are the monarchy, the elected caucus and the party at large. One might argue that Britain has changed the least among Commonwealth countries, and Canada is the most advanced, even Americanized, in how to choose a party leader.\nEven in the 20th century, British party leaders came not from the party at large, but from their support in the caucus, elected members of the House of Commons and caucus leaders in the House of Lords. Winston Churchill \" owing to his trenchant criticism of various policy positions and more directly to party leaders like Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain \" was chosen as leader by the triumvirate of Chamberlain, Lord Halifax and Churchill. This was because Halifax was in the House of Lords, not the Commons, an unlikely situation for a wartime prime minister. More recently, Margaret Thatcher\u2019s downfall as prime minister, however much disguised as caucus and cabinet solidarity, came from her loss of real authority in her cabinet, and John Major assumed the role as party leader and prime minister. All done in a leadership putsch in 24 hours!\nUntil the late 20th century, at a superficial level, Canadian party leadership models emulated the British system, with some differences. Clearly, the Crown played almost no role, direct or indirect, even when the governor general was a British citizen. (Some did influence policy direction.) The Liberals were the dominant party, ruling in Ottawa for most of the 20th century with a carefully calibrated rotation of francophone and anglophone leaders. Starting in 1919, the Liberal Party actually changed leaders only six times (1919, 1948, 1958, 1968, 1984 and 1990), and cabinet insiders had a huge strategic advantage because the new leader would immediately become prime minister. Public displays of openness and democratic rule were political slogans for what was a closed leadership model of the national governing party.\nJean Chr\u00e9tien, also serving as Opposition Leader, won his first majority in 1993. Indeed, in the Liberal Party, sitting cabinet ministers as leaders-in-waiting account for the long Canadian experience where leaders don\u2019t come from premiers\u2019 offices. Only Lester Pearson became prime minister after serving as Opposition leader, and it took two defeats, in 1958 and 1962, to gain the prime minister\u2019s top job in the East Block, where the PM\u2019s office was then located.\nClearly, the other parties had tried a different model to break the electoral stranglehold of the mighty Liberal fortress in the two largest provinces, Ontario and Quebec, with enough swing ridings elsewhere to gain a comfortable majority. This pattern of Liberal rule in Ottawa cultivated a truism of political science in Canada that the real checks and balances come from provinces that elected a government of a different party stripe than the government in Ottawa. As they used to say in Quebec: \u201d\u0153Bleu \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, rouge \u00e0 Ottawa.\u201d\u009d They said the same thing in Ontario during the 42-year Conservative reign from 1943 to 1985, which pretty much coincided with a Liberal hegemony in Ottawa.\nLike many truisms, it has an air of truth, but there are as many examples with the opposite position: elect a government that works closely with our cousins in Ottawa. In recent years, for instance, there were seven provinces with a Progressive Conservative Party banner during Brian Mulroney\u2019s huge 1984 majority. Jean Chr\u00e9tien\u2019s Liberal government in Ottawa had Liberal governments in Ontario, Quebec, BC, New Brunswick and PEI. Even today, with a majority Conservative government in Ottawa, four provinces have governments of the same political stripe.\nIn short, sitting premiers or past premiers face huge obstacles on the national scene. One obvious reason is that the role of premier forces the incumbent to take a \u201d\u0153me-too\u201d\u009d advocacy role for their province, often using Ottawa or neighbouring provinces as a punching bag to gain more provincial advantages. Quebec has long played this advocacy role, not only in constitutional fights with Ottawa, but on issues of reducing interprovincial trade barriers, energy policy against Newfoundland and Labrador, even on US-Canada free trade in the 1988 election, when Ontario\u2019s premier, David Peterson, and PEI\u2019s Robert Ghiz tried to play the traditional nationalist card in favour of anti-free trader John Turner.\nA second, more subtle reason is the format of leadership selection. In the 19th century, the two main parties, MacDonald\u2019s Conservatives and the Liberals choosing Laurier, followed the British tradition of choosing their leaders from members of the caucus. This old-boy system often favoured not the elected members of the caucus, but peers from the House of Lords, a practice followed by the British Conservative Party until Douglas Hume faced defeat by Labour\u2019s Harold Wilson in 1964. Today, it is inconceivable that a member of the House of Lords would lead a political party in Britain, the very reason why Lord Halifax didn\u2019t become prime minister in May 1940, when Neville Chamberlain lost real authority in the House of Commons, and Winston Churchill assumed the vital role as prime minister. Ironically, it was only late in the war that he became leader of the Conservative Party itself and faced defeat in the election of 1945.\nThe first modern convention in Canada when party members, not caucus supporters, chose the leader was the 1956 Conservative Party leadership convention. Thanks to new forms of media, particularly television, this Ottawa convention served as more than a leadership race: it became a recruitment vehicle for the party, an astonishing new pulpit for the new prairie populist and a rallying cry for a national party stranded in the political wilderness, not only out of power in Ottawa since Bennett\u2019s demise in 1935, but with few Conservative governments in the provinces \" none in Atlantic Canada, zero support in Quebec and little backing in western Canada. Only Ontario stood as a bulwark for the Conservative Party, which had an implicit bargain: change leaders, not parties, a formula not unlike what has just happened in Alberta. In 1956, not too surprisingly, there were no Conservative premiers who offered themselves as a candidate for the national party, because there were only two Conservative premiers, one in Ontario, who preferred incumbency, and one who just got elected, Hugh John Flemming in New Brunswick. More to the point, the two previous national leaders, John Bracken and George Drew, had been premiers of Manitoba and Ontario and lost federal elections in 1945, 1948 and 1953. At that time, the Canadian political landscape smacked of Liberal Red from sea to sea.\nAs a result, there were only two opportunities for a sitting premier to lead a federal political party, with a remote chance of becoming prime minister. On both occasions, in 1967 and in 1983, that opportunity was the leadership race of the Progressive Conservative Party. Both races had a former prime minister wanting to reclaim his party\u2019s mantle. Both lost. In both cases, there was a party outsider, both wanting to become leader and prime minister \" Dalton Camp, party president, in 1967, and Brian Mulroney, in 1983, a failed candidate in the leadership race in 1976 and never elected to the House of Commons.\nThese two races form an important lesson for political aficionados of all parties but they also explain much about the evolution of Canada\u2019s political system. The leadership races in 1967 and 1983 forever closed the backroom choices of party elites, lessened the role of insider caucus favourites and allowed the party to elect members from every riding in Canada, thus greatly diminishing the role of former elected officials, members of Parliament and senators. Indeed, starting with the 1956 leadership convention, and continuing to this day for all parties, the role of elected youth as delegates and university campus clubs became a powerful force in the party, reflecting a new demographic that US candidates like the Kennedys first cultivated (and candidate Barack Obama perfected, using the tool of social media), and became a source of ideas, recruitment, party staff and policy networking.\nVarious accounts have been written of both leadership races, especially a brilliant, inside view in a McGill University master\u2019s thesis by Michael Vineberg, \u201d\u0153The Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention of 1967.\u201d\u009d In that race, the leadership battle between Manitoba\u2019s sitting premier, Duff Roblin, and Nova Scotia premier Robert Stanfield was a case study in why premiers face huge obstacles, not only to win the leadership race but to win a national election. By most standards, Duff Roblin was the favourite, well known on the national stage, fluently bilingual and very popular in Quebec, and an assumed favourite successor in western Canada to the irascible John Diefenbaker. Robert Stanfield, scion of the wealthy Stanfield family in Truro, Nova Scotia, was unilingual, knew little about national issues, but was immensely popular in his native province. Indeed, he entered the race after winning another huge majority in Nova Scotia. Dalton Camp, who ran his provincial campaigns and his leadership race, once said that Stanfield was a son of a bitch to get elected, but once in power, he would be there forever.\nBoth premiers became leadership candidates but from very different positions. Stanfield was the most reluctant, personally favouring Roblin because he was bilingual and he could unite the fractious Diefenbaker element in the party. Roblin wanted to run, despite government problems at home, and he was not clear about who would enter the race, making him appear to some supporters as too indecisive. His problems became worse because of a little-known meeting in June 1967 in Winnipeg with Dalton Camp. At this secret meeting, Camp offered his help with Roblin\u2019s leadership campaign and the national election to follow, but he was given a deadline of July 10. Roblin, worried about adverse publicity, kept this session secret except for close confidants, but waited past the deadline. Roblin also ignored his supporters\u2019 desire for a large roll-out agenda. Camp returned to Nova Scotia, offered the same support to Stanfield, but implied strongly that Duff Roblin would not be a candidate.\nThus persuaded, Stanfield announced his candidacy a week later, on July 19. Roblin, caught by surprise, tested his own support in southern Ontario and Montreal, but decided to wait. For his part, he did not want to be seen as the candidate of choice for Dalton Camp and his followers, a widespread group assembled for his leadership for presidency of the PC Party against Arthur Maloney in a contentious fight the previous November. True, while Roblin thought that being seen as too close to Camp would alienate Diefenbaker loyalists, he was also persuaded that being a \u201d\u0153reluctant\u201d\u009d candidate would win a huge following in the party at large, on the assumption that a lead on the first ballot would lead to a winner on the last ballot.\nRoblin and his followers also didn\u2019t realize, until too late, that the leadership campaign wasn\u2019t about the national media or about how many party brass or caucus members were on side. It was a delegate race, riding by riding. Despite Stanfield\u2019s terrible media interviews, or even smaller campaign appearances, he travelled the country meeting delegates one on one. His campaign was run from Toronto, close to the convention site at Maple Leaf Gardens, and there was a separate campaign organization for convention week. Camp and his followers, shrewd operatives like Eddie Goodman, Finlay MacDonald, Norm Atkins, Jean Wadds, Lowell Murray and a team of young university recruits, but including caucus supporters, cultivated their national tentacles, including with other leadership campaigns, especially that of Davie Fulton. By the time the convention opened to the national media spotlight, the Stanfield campaign was operating on all cylinders. The convention went five ballots, but Stanfield led Roblin on all five by a comfortable margin. Stanfield lost three elections, in 1968, 1972 and 1974, to a new force in Canadian politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.\nStanfield was replaced in 1976 by Joe Clark, who beat Trudeau in 1979, only to lose power on a budget vote, and Trudeau, Lazarus-like, returned to power in February 1980. The Conservatives returned to their fractious party ways, and at the national convention in Winnipeg, January 1983, even though he won a support of confidence vote by 66.9 percent, Joe Clark stunned the party by calling for a leadership race in June 1983 (in part because he knew how weak his real caucus support had become). That spring, two premiers, Peter Lougheed of Alberta and William Davis of Ontario, were huge media favourites, supported on paper by regional groups, by certain caucus supporters, by Bay Street and the regional media, as well as by various sections of the party. But both decided in the end, despite soundings of their staff and caucus supporters, not to become leadership candidates. For both, it was a game of chicken: one would run only if the other ran.\nSeveral members of Clark\u2019s cabinet decided to enter the race, hoping to bring unity to a deeply divided caucus and party. As noted, Dalton Camp and his celebrated Big Blue Machine again had their favourite candidate in place, Ontario Premier William Davis. The only problem was that this candidate, Premier Davis, was not sure of his own standing across the country, and he knew first-hand its fatal weaknesses among French Canadians at large and in Quebec in particular, and his public criticisms of John Crosbie\u2019s 18-cent gasoline would not go down well in western Canada or with John Crosbie and his followers.\nIn Alberta, Premier Peter Lougheed\u2019s winning formula for elections made him a natural media darling, and despite Joe Clark\u2019s Alberta roots, many political operatives in western Canada saw the Alberta premier picking up a huge delegate count outside western Canada. But these premiers also knew personally that behind the scenes, another candidate had devised his own winning formula for the leadership convention. Unlike in 1967, and with the lesson he learned from 1976, Brian Mulroney knew that becoming the secondchoice preference was the key to winning a multicandidate convention. Lougheed became a quiet supporter, and Mulroney was careful never to attack William Davis, the Ontario Conservative Party or their supporters, meanwhile slogging it out with Joe Clark for delegates in Quebec and across the country. Mulroney emerged victorious, winning the leadership race on the fourth ballot against Joe Clark. Despite taking over a fractious caucus and a party divided, 15 months later he won the largest electoral victory in Canadian history.\nThe lessons from the leadership races show that a sitting premier, even from a very large province or one with strong regional support, is unlikely ever to win a national leadership race, let alone win a national election. Federal issues are national in scope, but increasingly they are international and global. It takes hard work, travel and prodigious industry to learn the substance and nuances of federal issues, and that leaves little time to cultivate a national following from the incessant demands of the premier\u2019s office. No majority election wins can come from a regional base only, so outsiders to Parliament (Brian Mulroney was an exception, cultivating a national Rolodex from birth and active in politics since his university student days at St. Francis Xavier) or successful premiers face massive electoral barriers. And it remains today an open question whether being a successful governor leads to the keys of the White House.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 20870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/03/02/brexit-attack-on-human-rights-could-lead-to-new-policing-cra", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NL3BNQWY4MEMY2NWUWWVD3SAKUC2TJ6F", "length": 5450, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "politics.co.uk", "title": "Brexit attack on human rights could lead to new policing crack-downs", "raw_content": "Heavy-handed policing of protests could get worse once EU human rights rules wiped away\nFriday, 2 March 2018 10:22 AM\nHuman rights, in certain parts of the media and politics, have become dirty words. It's a term of abuse, something that is imposed upon us by outside forces. It's a claim that would surely have puzzled the many British lawyers and campaigners who laboured after the Second World War to get them incorporated into European and international structures.\nBut this week, at different ends of the country, in very different ways, the case for human rights was put very plainly and powerfully.\nOne was in the gilded chamber of the House of Lords, debating the European Union withdrawal bill. Lord Cashman rose to speak with passion:\n\"As a 67 year-old man, I have spent most of my life not having equality before the law or the equal protection of the law; that is, as a gay man. Most of my rights\u2014the equality I now enjoy\u2014have been achieved largely by dragging legislative changes forcefully from governments who did not want to give them to us or to many other misrepresented and defamed minorities.\"\nThis is not how business is normally conducted in the Lords, the Chamber being more inclined to the dry technical arguments of a commercial court, but this was a speech that truly grabbed at the heart. The Chamber, usually rustling with paper, sibilant with whispers, brushing with a constant coming and going of peers and audience, stilled.\nTory Lord Faulks, in response, acknowledged the moving nature of the speech, but without real rebuttal moved back to the government\u2019s argument throughout the debate against the retention of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in British law. It was \u201cdifficult to interpret\u201d rights, he said, and to have more of them made it more difficult. He was just trying to keep things simple.\nIt was left to human rights champion Baroness Kennedy to provide the real context, for anyone in the chamber who was in doubt: \"Conservative party manifestos over a number of years have promised that the Human Rights Act would be removed. On many occasions, we have heard leading Conservatives say that we should remove ourselves from the European Convention on Human Rights, too. The absence of the Charter of Fundamental Rights from the bill suggests to many that this is part of a journey taking us out of any international arrangements dealing with the protection of human rights.\"\nGreen peer Jenny Jones, who'd invited me along, pointed out that the Equality and Human Rights Commission had concluded that failing to keep the charter will result in \"a significant weakening of the current system of human rights protection in the UK\".\nAt about the same time the peers were speaking, on a freezing street in a quiet residential part of Sheffield, a man was fleeing from the police, shortly to suffer an injury to his ankle that required a paramedic to be called.\nThat was because he'd climbed a tree in a private garden, with the permission of the landowner, then spent several very cold hours there. And as a result of that action alone, the police were seeking to, and subsequently did, arrest him.\nIt's a strange thing to do and could use some explaining. He\u2019s known as a squirrel, and together with scores of other people on the streets of Sheffield that day, was seeking to prevent healthy, life-enhancing mature trees from being felled, for the benefit of the profits of multinational company Amey.\nThrough peaceful, legal protest, he was seeking to protect his community, while the local council, in collusion with South Yorkshire Police, was acting to thwart the will of the community for those trees to be saved.\nFor many months now there've been legal manoeuvres. The Labour council shockingly made novel use of the 1992 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act to get people arrested on private land for allegedly interfering with work. Those charges were subsequently dropped, as were those against two 70-year-old women arrested outside their homes during a 5am tree-felling raid on the now infamous Rustlings Road. In fact, all of last year's charges, including against Green councillor Alison Teal, elected on a platform of supporting residents to save the trees, have been dropped or dismissed.\nBut the arrests, the overbearing police presence, the aggression all too frequently seen against peaceful demonstrators, has deterred many. One quote sums it up: \"I\u2019m genuinely too scared to go to the protests now, especially with baby\". People's right to protest without fear has been removed.\nThere is no good time to reduce human rights. They are the hard-won attestation of progress in our society for the individual and communities against the repressive power of the state and the overbearing boot of big business.\nThose who would ignore the rights of the people are now using every legal instrument, every technicality they can find, to deny them \u2013 on the streets of Sheffield, on the as-yet unfracked fields of Lancashire and Yorkshire and beyond, in the corridors of the Home Office. The struggle to save Sheffield trees has been a continuous dance of legal tactic and counter-tactic.\nSo this is a particularly bad time to reduce human rights, however much they might \"complicate\" what you want to do with our society. 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Tickets must be reserved by Wednesday.\nIt takes place April 13, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., 2150 S. 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Comeau is a late-blooming musician, learning to play the guitar in her late 40s. Proceeds from the CD release party will be donated to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust. (Courtesy photo) KENNEBUNKPORT \u2014 Resident and musician Jennifer Comeau will release her second CD, \u201cShe Flies,\u201d Sunday, Nov. 10.\nThe proceeds from the release party, which will be held at Atlantic Hall in Cape Porpoise, will benefit the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust.\nComeau became a musician later in life, after she earned her master\u2019s in engineering, after she established her career in the corporate world, after the beginning of her career, which Comeau said, \u201cafforded little time to pursue other hobbies.\u201d\nA native of Buffalo, N.Y., Comeau grew up in an Irish-Catholic family.\nKennebunkport\u2019s Jennifer Comeau is releasing \u201cShe Flies,\u201d a 12-song CD dedicated to her parents. Comeau released her first CD in 2008 and donated the proceeds, approximately $3,000, to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust. Comeau plans to, for a second time, donate the proceeds from her upcoming release party on Sunday, Nov. 10 to the trust. (Courtesy photo) \u201cI always grew up singing in Catholic school, but not in a robust music program,\u201d she said.\nComeau is one of eight kids, whose parents couldn\u2019t afford to send her or her siblings to music lessons. The extent of her familial exposure to music was singing Celtic folk music with her family.\nThen, in 2005, as a middle-aged adult, she picked up a guitar and began taking lessons from local musicians.\nComeau had no experience writing songs; however, she had always been writing \u2013 poetry and nonfiction, mostly. Her newfound guitar skills paved the way for songwriting expression.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I began to learn guitar that songs began to emerge. I was able to take what I had always done \u2013 writing--and use it with music,\u201d Comeau said.\nComeau released her first album, \u201cFeed the Tribe,\u201d in 2008. \u201cShe Flies\u201d is dedicated to Comeau\u2019s parents \u2014 her mother is still living and her father died last year.\nThe last song on the album, a traditional Celtic song titled \u201cThe Parting Glass,\u201d is dedicated to her father.\nAfter Comeau moved to Kennebunkport, she founded I-Amplitude LLC \u2014 a speaking, coaching and business advisory firm.\nThe motto of her consulting firm is similar to her musical motto. The home page of I-Amplitude reads: \u201cFor us, the key to outstanding performance lies not in the amount of deals we close or data we collect, but in creating an environment where our human capacity is amplified, unleashed and flourishes toward its full potential.\u201d\nSimilarly, with her music, Comeau believes that citizens should offer what they can to contribute to something greater, something more than personal gain.\n\u201cI am a very strong proponent of service and the important offerings of whatever one can contribute to something greater than our own interests,\u201d Comeau said. \u201cEach of us has a call to do that in ways that make sense for each individual.\u201d\nThis philanthropic vein of thought led Comeau to donate the proceeds from her first CD release party in 2008 to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust \u2013 a total of approximately $3,000.\n\u201cThere\u2019s too much taking sides, brokenness and finger pointing in this world, Comeau said. \u201cWe need to start responding to the call in other ways than just giving in to our selfish interests and personal objectives.\n\u201cThat\u2019s part of why I\u2019m doing this. I\u2019m continuing to promise that these causes are greater than personal gain, which we need to start thinking about.\u201d\nIn addition to the initial donations earned from her first CD release party, Comeau donated all of her earnings over the next few years to myriad nonprofit establishments, local and international. In total she has donated approximately $13,000.\nComeau, who lives just down the street from the Emmons Preserve, is partial to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust because it has provided \u201csanctuary\u201d for her in a lot of ways.\n\u201cNature is the great provider of perspective for us,\u201d Comeau said. \u201cIt\u2019s not until we get out in nature when we start seeing and smelling and hearing for the messages that are on the wind, that we remember what\u2019s really important. That\u2019s what the trust has provided for me,\u201d Comeau said.\nWhen asked how he feels about Comeau\u2019s past and future donations to the trust, Executive Director Tom Bradbury said they are \u201cdelighted and honored,\u201d and that Comeau\u2019s donation is \u201csuch a generous offer.\u201d\n\u201cShe dropped by and said that\u2019s what she would like to do (donate her release party proceeds) and we said it was more than OK,\u201d Bradbury said. \u201cIt\u2019s a fabulous contribution. It goes beyond the money: it gets people together to share in her gifts and have a good time. It hits all the right buttons.\u201d\nComeau\u2019s music can been likened to Bonnie Raitt, Dar Williams, Natalie Merchant and Sarah McLachlan, a wide range she enjoys. Local artist Liz Prescott is responsible for the artwork on the cover of \u201cShe Flies.\u201d\n\u201cThe album is full. It\u2019s not just one girl and her guitar; I\u2019ve been able to invite my friends who are far more talented than I am, to contribute and play,\u201d Comeau said. \u201cThose local folks are extremely talented. They have elevated the album to talent that far exceeds my own.\n\u201cThere are some beautiful arrangements, and they aren\u2019t because of me. Those are my good, dear, talented friends who tried to stay true to my lyrics and melodies while improving my songs.\u201d\nLocal musicians such as Rob Duquette, Chris Humphrey, Don Wessels, and Delilah Poupore. John Kumnick, Rob Duquette, Michael McNerney, Neal Zweig, John Comeau, Holly Hinchliffe, Juliet Altham and Michelle Currie will perform with Comeau at the CD release party on Sunday.\nThe band will play songs from \u201cShe Flies\u201d in addition to covers by Elvis Presley, The Temptations, Ray Lamontagne and Norah Jones.\nFunky Bow Brewery has agreed to donate beer for the event. A variety of hors d\u2019oeuvres are being prepared locally and will also be offered. Tickets are $20 each, or two for $35. 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It\u2019s in ch.5, in which Moses, addressing Israel on the border of the promised land after their wilderness wanderings, restates the Ten Commandments of the Sinai covenant, and says:\nHear, Israel, the decrees and the laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. (At that time I stood between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.)\nWhat was odd was that, in the previous chapter, in which Israel\u2019s eventual apostasy and exile is gloomily warned, or even foretold (as it certainly is later in the book), a note of hope is added:\nWhen you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.\nIn chapter 5, the newness of the covenant is stressed, giving the superficial impression it\u2019s being puffed as a blessing their forbears never had. Yet in ch 4, when the covenant fails, it is a former covenant, confirmed by oath \u2013 and not the covenant of Horeb \u2013 that will be remembered by God as the basis for final salvation. This can only be the covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Moses is demonstrating it\u2019s better than this new-fangled one he\u2019s made. What\u2019s going on?\nAnother thing that suggests ch.5 is contrasting the Mosaic covenant unfavourably with that of Abraham was pointed out to me by a pastor decades later: that in fact the Sinai covenant was made not, as Moses says, with \u201call of us who are alive here today\u201d, but with the previous generation 40 years earlier, now nearly all dead. The sense is actually that the Sinai covenant marks a watershed between the good promise to the patriarchs, and what has actually been enacted for the new nation emerging from Egypt.\nNow at the time, and for many years, I took this only as indicating the superiority of the New Covenant in Christ \u2013 which is a direct descendant of the promise to Abraham, as Paul explicity says in Galatians 3:8, calling the promise \u201cthe gospel announced in advance\u201d \u2013 over the old dispensation of the Law. I had some idea that, by lumbering Israel with an un-keepable law, the need for grace and the superiority of faith over works of the law would be demonstrated, thus paving the way for the gospel. A bit hard on Israel, but after all, \u201cHe is Yahweh \u2013 he will do what seems right to him.\u201d\nI mention this to show why I was so sympathetic, far more recently, to the case John Sailhamer makes in The Meaning of the Pentateuch, and which I mentioned in the recent Adam and Israel post, that Israel failed to gain the full blessing of an intimate, direct, faith-relationship with Yahweh by falling at the first hurdle and refusing to obey God\u2019s command to meet with him \u201cface to face\u201d on the mountain. Instead, they asked Moses to mediate for them, and ended up with all the \u201cbondage\u201d attributed to the law by Paul, including a Tabernacle which separated them from the holiness of God by curtains and priests, rather than a covenant enabling them to dwell in holiness with him.\nIn other words, in Deuteronomy 5, \u201cIt was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant\u201d is not, after all, expressing their blessing above former generations, but their fall away from the living relationship the Patriarchs possessed. The Sinai covenant was only ever a patch to cover failure \u2013 or as Paul puts it in Galatians 3:19, \u201cthe law was added later because of transgressions\u201d.\nAnd not just any old transgressions, but the one that stares us in the face in Deut. 5. Remember that the whole of Deuteronomy so far has been about the shortcomings of Israel \u2013 their refusal to fight the Amorites, leading to their 40-year wandering; their various rebellions during those wanderings and God\u2019s insistence that the whole Exodus generation should die in the desert and not \u201center his rest\u201d; Moses himself being denied entry \u201cbecause of you\u201d; and the warnings already mentioned about idolatry and exile.\nIn ch.5, although the NIV puts it in brackets, v5 actually explains the central reason why they have all these problems and potential failures rather than a vibrant intimacy with God like that of Abraham:\nAt that time I stood between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.\nJust as Sailhamer argues in detail, they hear the voice of God, respond with fear (a verbal parallel with Gen 3:10) instead of faith and obedience to his command to join him on the mountain, and end up with the covenant which Moses goes on to describe in terms of the Decalogue. Their offloading of responsibility for relating to God is reiterated in 5:24ff. They promise there to obey everything Moses says, and it is that promise which the Lord commends in v.28 as \u201cgood\u201d \u2013 but significantly he immediately adds, \u201cOh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever.\u201d God knows, after all, that the golden calf is soon coming.\nDeut. 29:4 shows the hollowness of this desire of the Lord\u2019s:\nBut to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.\nAnd so, when we have eyes to see, Deuteronomy contains all the seeds of the law v gospel teaching of Paul in Romans and Galatians: the relationship of faith that the Patriarchs had, but Israel did not; the need for grace and a new heart; and (as Sailhamer details) the need for a future king/prophet who will be able to put all this right and restore not only Israel, but God\u2019s plan for all mankind in the world.\nThe Torah, then, carries as its core message God\u2019s desire to break down the barrier between heaven and earth, between God and mankind, through Israel; Israel\u2019s rebellion and lack of faith; and God\u2019s future provision of a new covenant through grace and through a coming Messiah. That makes Christian study of \u201cthe Old Testament law\u201d truly the study of the Gospel, integrating the whole Bible into the message of Christ according, it seems, to the original intentions of the authors. That astonishes me, and such study is enough to keep any of us established in the truth of God\u2019s word for life.\nBut we have a further agenda here, though one entirely consistent with it. As I discussed in the recent post linked above, our biblical Creation stories occur in the context of that Torah, with the gospel-message I have tried to establish for it in this piece. And in the NT, of the two main expositions of the law-gospel question, Galatians and Romans, the latter bases one of its arguments on the whole question of Adam. It is that key link of the beginning of the torah with the theology of the gospel that convinces many Christians open to evolution, such as Tim Keller (notoriously in recent weeks) that an historical Adam is essential to the faith.\nI gave some reasons in the Adam and Israel post as to why that is so: Adam as a forerunner to the grace shown to Israel, their failure to receive it and their exile pending the coming of a new Adam/new Israel really makes no sense if Adam is an allegorical Everyman, whose sole purpose is to show the reality of sin.\nThere would be no reason to invent him to make the point about Israel, though there would be good reason for referring back to him to draw parallels. In Genesis, as I tried to show in the subsequent post, the theological purpose I began to see dimly all those years ago is to show Adam as one given special privileges above and beyond the blessing of being created in God\u2019s image and blowing it. And he blows it not only for himself, but for all other people \u201cin the state of nature\u201d (including Israel, whose rebellion is both an echo and a result of Adam, for \u201csin came into the world by one man\u201d).\nIt seems to me that this understanding of Genesis gives some new lines of enquiry for placing the biblical accounts in the context of human history, because like the torah as a whole, we are looking at the beginning of Genesis for introductory teaching on the role of Israel in the world. If Israel\u2019s failure was a failure to find their role as a \u201ckingdom of priests\u201d (Ex 19.6) to the gentile world, we should expect to see Adam pictured in a similar light. We should expect Genesis to be as concerned with the creation of those not involved in Eden as Deuteronomy is with those nations not to be blessed through Israel as a holy nation, and we should expect a distinction between the two \u2013 as once more I suggested in that former post in the contrast between the spiritual conditions of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.\nWe should expect, in other words, the Bible to favour some interpretations of human origins over others: it\u2019s not simply a question of \u201cpaying yer money and taking yer choice\u201d. I hope to develop this theme in further posts in this series.\nThe autonomy problem \u2013 an historical summary\nEvolution \u2013 a View from the 21st Century\nAnother snippet on the subjective humanness of perception\nScreaming from the gallery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 13417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pre-cert.co.uk/forum/register.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:36Z", "digest": "sha1:E2UFBENACYFHNGC5D3J3DDP7DGXO6D3X", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pre-cert.co.uk", "title": "Pre-Certification Video - Register", "raw_content": "Register at Pre-Certification Video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://primarypsychiatry.com/fibromyalgia-syndrome-approach-to-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:25Z", "digest": "sha1:R5HPLVEZW4F3BFCOIU2DIZS2EDECYYQ2", "length": 2306, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "primarypsychiatry.com", "title": "Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Approach to Management \u00ab Hacked by 4Ri3 60ndr0n9", "raw_content": "Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Approach to Management\nI. Jon Russell, MD, PhD\nNeeds Assessment: It is commonly stated that fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is very difficult to treat. While that has been true in the past, new approaches are available, including mechanism-focused medications. It is now possible to effectively manage the majority of FMS patients, but physicians who have not followed the field closely will be unaware of these innovations. Increased awareness of the diagnosis predicts an even greater need for effective therapy.\n\u2022 Recognize that successful management of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is possible.\n\u2022 Identify the components of a multimodal therapy for FMS through a simple acronym.\n\u2022 Identify successful medications and combinations for FMS symptoms by name and mechanism of action.\nCME Accreditation Statement: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians.\nThe Mount Sinai School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. 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Review Date: August 22, 2006.\nTo receive credit for this activity: Read this article and the two CME-designated accompanying articles, reflect on the information presented, and then complete the CME quiz. To obtain credits, you should score 70% or better. Termination date: September 30, 2008. The estimated time to complete all three articles and the quiz is 3 hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://principal-tcn.com/en/news/default.aspx?show=pages&the_Page=4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4RBGFK6FJRGEZ5VZTF2GRNOHO3QQYNYZ", "length": 1146, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "principal-tcn.com", "title": "Real Estate News | P.A. Commercial | Michigan Real Estate", "raw_content": "David A. 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The unique parcel is close to Lake St. Clair and will be developed into a single family subdivision by a local custom home builder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/KirkHammett007/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VO2FC3YEPCKBOC65WVSK5MU6GG7S4HLS", "length": 1140, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "profile.ultimate-guitar.com", "title": "KirkHammett007 | Ultimate-Guitar.Com", "raw_content": "KirkHammett007 profile, last updated : April 8, 2010\nContacting KirkHammett007\nLocation : Biograd na Moru, Croatia, Croatia\nSchool : Prirodoslovno-grafi\u010dka \ufffdkola Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)\nKirkHammett007 has 3 pieces of equipment:\nSquier: Bulletstrat\nFender: 25 W\nRate KirkHammett007's playing skills!\nPanterA, MetallicA, Iron Maiden, Damageplan, Slipknot, Disturbed, Lamb of God, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Nirvana...\nDimebag Darrell, Kirk Hammett, John Petrucci, Jim Root, Mick Thompson, Jimi Hendrix...\nCliff Burton, Jason Newstead, Robert Trujillo, Steve Harris, Rex the rocker, Bobzilla, Krist Novoseli\u0107...\nJohnathan Livingstone...\nHR1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nZOHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!\nMember of: The Dark Side Of The Moon\nKirkHammett007 is ranked #52858 contributor among all users.\nKirkHammett007 has made 3 contributions to the site total :\nKirkHammett007's blogs\nKirkHammett007 has posted 1 blogs total :\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j88s EInV41c 10:29am : Jan 20th, 2009\nAbout KirkHammett007\nHello...i am alive...that's all...\nKirkHammett007 has 3 friends :\nbepo_metalac2\njameshatfield07", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://propertiesbytanya.com/homeowner-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:06Z", "digest": "sha1:G7JLRZBZ22W2WRJMY6XZND7SSEGZITBY", "length": 2864, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "propertiesbytanya.com", "title": "Homeowner 5 | Tanya Dzhibrailova", "raw_content": "Real property has become increasingly more valuable and the question of how parties can take ownership of their property has gained greater importance. The form of ownership taken \u2014 the vesting of title \u2014 will determine who may sign various documents involving the property and future rights of the parties to the transaction. These rights involve such matters as: real property taxes, income taxes, inheritance and gift taxes, transferability of title and exposure to creditor\u2019s claims. Also, how title is vested can have significant probate implications in the event of death.\nThe LTA has provided the following definitions of common vestings as an informational overview. Consumers should not rely on these as legal definitions. The Association urges real property purchasers to carefully consider their titling decision prior to closing, and to seek counsel should they be unfamiliar with the most suitable ownership choice for their particular situation.\nSole ownership may be described as ownership by an individual or other entity capable of acquiring title. Examples of common vestings in cases of sole ownership are:\n1. A Single Man/Woman:\n2. An Unmarried Man/Woman:\n3. A Married Man/Woman as His/Her Sole and Separate Property:\n1. Community Property:\nA form of vesting title to property owned by husband and wife during their marriage which they intend to own together. Community property is distinguished from separate property, which is property acquired before marriage, by separate gift or bequest, after legal separation, or which is agreed to be owned only by one spouse.\n3. Tenancy in Common:\nA form of vesting title to property owned by any two or more individuals in undivided fractional interests. These fractional interests may be unequal in quantity or duration and may arise at different times. Each tenant in common owns a share of the property, is entitled to a comparable portion of the income from the property and must bear an equivalent share of expenses. Each co-tenant may sell, lease or will to his/her heir that share of the property belonging to him/her. For example: Bruce Buyer, a single man, as to an undivided 3/4 interest and Penny Purchaser,\na single woman, as to an undivided 1/4 interest, as tenants in common.\nOther ways of vesting title include as:\n1. A Corporation*:\n2. A Partnership*:\n3. As Trustees of A Trust*:\nA trust is an arrangement whereby legal title to property is transferred by the grantor to a person called a trustee, to\nbe held and managed by that person for the benefit of the people specified in the trust agreement, called the beneficiaries.\n4. Limited Liability Companies (L.L.C.)\n*In cases of corporate, partnership, L.L.C. or trust ownership \u2013 required documents may include corporate articles and bylaws, partnership agreements, L.L.C. operating agreement and trust agreements and/or certificates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://prophecy.org.il/1050-prophecy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:01Z", "digest": "sha1:7UHUGRRWTIFIWDL4KVQAXZ3JKYU5BCHR", "length": 9602, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "prophecy.org.il", "title": "1050. Occurrence - Altar Anointing of Cascade volcanoes in USA. | Prophecy.org Israel \u2013 End Time Prophecies", "raw_content": "1050. Occurrence \u2013 Altar Anointing of Cascade volcanoes in USA.\nFrom Prophecy #1046\nReymundo, I want you to go to Mt. Shasta and make Three Stone Altars. One to the north, one to the east, and one to the south. On these Stone Altars, I want you to pour on each Altar one pint of the best olive oil you can buy at the local store.\nWhen I received the above Prophecy, I prayed to the Lord for a confirmation because I did not have the money for such a trip. Then within two days someone who I had never heard of sent enough money to make the Anointing trip.\nAfter receiving the confirmation, I decided to leave on May16. I discussed the trip with Ron Viessman and asked him if he wanted to go, but he had some class exams the following week. After discussing the trip farther, we came up with the idea of having Ron follow me to Mt. Shasta on Friday, and have him return by Sunday, in this way we could use his Jeep on the dirt mountain roads around Mt. Shasta, after the Anointing the Altars. For we both knew my car was not able to get through the mountains roads to the locations that the Lord wanted Anointed. We began to prepare and left at 1:00 PM. on Friday May 16.\nAs with the other such trips the spiritual warfare began to increase. Even now, for several days I have been trying to type this material for the Prophecy Book, and the spiritual warfare has really increased. I wonder if Christians really know this type of spiritual warfare. For I have never heard of it taught or mentioned in churches. It seems all I ever hear in churches is your going to be blessed, your going to be blessed, but never about the reality of Satan and his forces. Oh well, lets move on.\nMt. Lassen Altar Anointed on 16 May 1997 about 4:30 PM\nWhen we arrived at Mt. Lassen, we found the Park road up to the Mountain closed due to snow, but the area that the Lord wanted an Anointed Altar built was open. So we collected the first stones for the first Altar and Anointed it and prayed at the site, and left for Mt. Shasta.\nMt. Shasta South Altar Anointed on 17 May 1997 at 1:00 PM\nWhen we arrived in Mt. Shasta City we parked my car and left in Ron\u2019s Jeep, and purchased the Anointing Oil at a local store and proceeded toward the dirt mountain road (logging road). Once we arrived at the first Mt. Shasta location (South side), we had Communion and Anointed each other with oil. Then we built the Altar to the Lord out of the local stones, and Anointed it with the olive oil. For some reason I was led to photograph the Anointing Altars. As we had expected the logging road was very bad. In some areas the Jeep almost could not go through for the road was very narrow. At one point we had to build a rock bridge to cross this stream of water to get to the second location on the East side.\nThis rock bridge took us about 2 1/2 hours to build. We needed it to get to the other side to build the Eastern Altar.\nMt. Shasta East Altar Anointed on 17 May 1997 at 4:00 PM\nIt took us about 2 1/2 hours to build the rock bridge and another half an hour to get to the second location. It did cross my mind several times. \u201cWhat in the world are we doing out here?\u201d We were pretty tired after building the rock bridge, but we built and Anointed the second Altar to the Lord on the East side of Mt. Shasta. I photographed it 6 days later on my return trip home for I had run out of film after I had photographed the first Altar on the South side of Mt. Shasta.\nMt. Shasta North Altar Anointed on 17 May 1997 at 5:00 PM.\nWe found the third site a sandy road off of highway 97. We searched for stones and built the Altar on the North side of Mt. Shasta as we had done the other two sites with an opening on the top to hold the upside down bottle of Olive Oil. But at this Northern Altar the Lord instructed me to make a 6 foot Cross in the dirt in front of the Altar extending North. So I carved a large 6 foot dirt Cross with my shoe on the ground surface extending North. Then the Lord instructed me to walk around the Cross and the Altar Three Times. So we started to walk around the Altar and Cross in a counter clockwise direction, and the Lord stopped us, and told us to walk around the Altar and Cross in a clockwise direction. After we had walked around the Altar and dirt Cross Three Times, the Lord said, \u201cThe Cross represents the Hammer that was going to be used to nail the coffin of Satan.\u201d\nThen the Lord instructed me to take the bottle of Wine that we had purchased for Communion and to pour it over the image of the Cross. So I pour the whole bottle of Wine over the image of the 6 foot Cross. Then the Lord said, \u201cThe Wine represents the Seal of the Lord.\u201d\nThen Ron took me back to my car and he went home, and I proceeded to Anoint Crater Lake and Mount Saint Helens as per the Lord\u2019s instructions. Since now I was in my car with some photographic film, and on the way to Crater Lake, I returned to at the Northern side Altar, and photographed the Altar and Cross. For it was close and just off of Highway 97.\nHere is my first camp site was Lake Juanitia. I stayed here when I was going to Crater Lake and when I drove home from Mt. Hood.\nCrater Lake Altar Anointed on 18 May 1997 at 3:10 PM. (Sunday)\nWhen I arrived at Crater Lake, I found most of it under snow. This made it harder for me because I could not find any stones, and wherever the ground was showing there were people everywhere. But I finally found a place and built an Altar and Anointed it next to the road. This Altar was much smaller, but I Anointed it in the same manner, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. This spot that I found was on the top rim of Crater Lake. The next stop was my sister\u2019s house for a stay over and prayer for direction for the other locations or Mountains.\n19 May 1997 (Monday)\nOn Monday the Lord instructed me to go to Mount Saint Helens. I arrived at Mount Saint Helens late so I camped there for the night.\nI camped at Seaquest State Campgrounds going to Mount Saint Helens, and on the way back from Mt. Rainier.\nIn the early morning hours before the sun came up, the Lord SURPRISED me, and woke me up. He told me to fill my air mattress with air. (I hadn\u2019t been blowing up the air mattress, and only using it to lay my sleeping bag on it, to keep any water out that might come under my tent.) During this communication with Lord, the Lord wrote in the Spirit the name \u201cHOOD\u201d in capital letters, which told me to go and build an Altar at Mt. Hood. Then He wrote the letters \u201cOK\u201d over the words \u201cMt. Rainier.\u201d So now I knew, I had to go to Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier after I Anointed the Altar at Mt. Saint Helens. This information was good because I was planning on going home after Mt. Saint Helens.\nYou have no idea, how hard it was for me to get my tired body out of that warm sleeping bag, and blow air into that air mattress that night, but I did it. Then I tried to get some sleep, and wondered why the Lord wanted my air mattress filled with air. I might add here, that the Lord did frighten me little for I was in a dead sleep state when He awoke me. For after replacing the front brake shoes on my car in front of my sister house that morning, and driving straight for about 5 hours, I did not expect to be awakened in the early morning hours. I\u2019ll never understand the \u201cwhy\u201d of some of these things.\nMt. Saint Helens Altar Anointed on May 20 at 12:30 PM.\nAt Mt. Saint Helens, I was not allowed to get any closer to the mountain than the distance we were from Altars we built around on Mt. Shasta. I hiked about .8 of mile along a trail next to a cliff facing the side of where Mt. Saint Helens blew up. I Anointed the Altar at Mt. Saint Helens at 12:30 PM and photographed the site. All of these photographs will be placed on the web site soon, I hope.\nMt. Rainier Altar Anointed at 4:55 PM.\nI Anointed the Altar at Mt. Rainier high on the Volcano\u2019s southern side. I had a hard time here too finding some clear ground without snow, but I found a spot near the road.\nMt. Hood Altar Anointed on 21 May 1997 at 1:54 PM.\nAt Mt. Hood the ground was also covered with snow, and I had a hard time finding clear ground with some stones for the Altar, but I found a large rock over hanging a cliff off the road. So I carefully climbed on to it, and built and Anointed the Altar there. I had to be very careful for this cliff went down hundreds of feet. But over this large hanging rock the Altar was built, and I headed for home.\nI was also hoping to back track for 2 hours and stop long enough to photograph the Eastern Altar at Mt. Shasta, the only Altar I had not photographed because I had run out of film. I was frightened of this because it was suppose to rain that afternoon, and I didn\u2019t have Ron\u2019s Jeep. If I got caught on those dirt logging roads during a rain, I wouldn\u2019t be able to get out until the muddy roads dried out. For no one else would be able to use the roads either. But I figured, I could get in and out in 2 hours if I didn\u2019t get lost, and getting from that side of Mt. Shasta the roads were a little better. Well two times, I almost decided to return and try to find the Highway 97 for thought I was lost, and the weather looked pretty bad. But I kept praying and praying to the Lord to help me, and He did so. I photographed the Eastern Altar and headed out for home. Praise you Lord!!!\nI kept wondering while I traveled across California, Oregon, and Washington, why did the Lord need me to Anoint these places in the first place? And the only answer that even came close was, \u201cHe told me too, so I had to do it.\u201d Who really knows the Mind of God. 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Counselling is about being offered the opportunity to talk in a safe environment and explore thoughts, feelings and emotions in the presence of a trained professional. Through this process, we can reach a better understanding of who we are and why we feel and respond to life in the way we do. Increasing our self-understanding helps us to live happier and more fulfilling lives. Through being listened to, valued and respected, we can gain a greater self-acceptance, boost our self-confidence and learn to develop a different relationship to our distress.\nCounselling psychologists help people recognise their strengths and resources to cope with their problems. They help people understand and take action on career and work problems and pay attention to how problems and people differ across life stages.\nThe psychological effects of experiences such as loss, war trauma, accidents, physical attacks, work stress, relationship difficulties, sexual abuse, family problems, emotional neglect during childhood and so on can be profound and will be affected not only by the severity of the experience itself but also by such things as a person's history of distressing events, learned ways of coping, differences in personality and temperament etc. Nonetheless, it is often very important to understand an individual person's distress in the context of his or her own history and experience, personal coping strategies and personality.\nThe benefits of psychotherapy besides the relief of symptoms are that patients report experiencing more satisfaction in their lives, especially with the longer term therapies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201212581/Four-First-Ascents-in-the-Fergana-Range", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DDBFEGCZAN6XIIBGXR7MKWU5ICSXQR2V", "length": 5612, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "publications.americanalpineclub.org", "title": "Four First Ascents in the Fergana Range - AAC Publications - Search The American Alpine Journal and Accidents", "raw_content": "Four First Ascents in the Fergana Range\nKyrgyzstan, Fergana Range\nAuthor: Daniel Keller\nFrom July 12 to August 10, our team of five British climbers explored Kyrgyzstan\u2019s relatively unknown Fergana Range, summiting four unclimbed peaks. We had planned to visit the Torugart-Too, but after discussions with ITMC (a Kyrgyz logistics company) we decided on the more remote Fergana. The Fergana runs southeast to northwest, west of the Torugart-Too, skirting the southern edge of the sparsely populated Arpa Valley.\nAlasdair Anderson, Thomas Nunns, Sam Ring, Nicolas Weir, and I had just graduated university, and with a good amount of alpine and Scottish winter experience behind us, we were keen to explore beyond our mountaineering horizons. The Fergana had been visited by the expeditions of Dmitry Shapovalov (2007) and Mark Weeding (2010 and 2011). Shapovalov\u2019s team summited Uch-Seit (4,905m), the highest peak in the range, whilst Weeding had a fruitful expedition to the southeastern part of the range in 2010. Many peaks were still unclimbed.\nOur first days in Kyrgyzstan consisted of trekking in the Ala-Archa National Park south of Bishkek. We departed for the Fergana Range on July 19. It took a day and a half of road driving and another 24 hours off-road (including an overnight stop on the western bank of the Karakol River) to reach base camp. Our driver pulled off some impressive maneuvers crossing rivers and rugged terrain to get us to the base of a glacier that is a main source for the Karakoman River.\nBase camp was situated close to the river, about an hour\u2019s walk from the bottom of the glacier (which we called the Karakoman), at an approximate elevation of 3,320m (40\u00b041\u20194\u201dN, 74\u00b027\u20194\u201d E). Over the next three weeks we trekked to the nearby valleys, foothills, and rivers, exploring the glaciers, peaks, and ridgelines above camp.\nAt our camp it barely fell below 0\u00b0C at night. This meant the snow had little chance to recover from the blazing daytime sun. Consequently, the snow was often slushy and sometimes quite unstable. By 8 a.m. the dry portion of the glacier was a maze of fast-flowing streams cascading into the Karakoman River. Little wonder the rivers running into the Arpa Valley were so powerful and difficult to cross. We recommend future expeditions visit the range in late August or September, when, hopefully, the snow will be in better condition.\nWe summited four notable peaks (all elevations and coordinates are per the Soviet military map):\nJoru (4,300m, 40\u00b041\u20199\u201dN, E 74\u00b026\u20193\u201dE, F). Sam and I reached this summit, an easy trekking peak at the north end of a chain of peaks accessed via the foothills above our base camp. We followed the northern ridge with huge amounts of loose rock and scree that made for a tiring ascent. Near the top there were several snowfields, and the summit offered spectacular views of the neighboring glacier as well as our own. Joru is Kyrgyz for \u201cvulture,\u201d of which we regularly saw large numbers circling the peak.\nAiguille Weetabix (4,483.5m, 40\u00b041\u20195\u201dN, 74\u00b024\u20198\u201dE, PD+). Nicolas, Alasdair, and I made an attempt on an impressive peak much farther to the southwest down the same long ridgeline we had used to ascend Joru. Although the rock was extremely chossy and the snow conditions were poor, it was a slapstick moment involving Alasdair\u2019s bag and an extremely steep snow ramp that foiled this attempt. As an alternative, the team climbed an outlying rocky peak on the ridge. A short but slightly exposed scramble over blocks of appalling consistency led to the peak of Aiguille Weetabix, as we came to affectionately (or not!) describe it.\nKomur Chokusu (4,434m, 40\u00b040\u20194\u201dN, 74\u00b027\u20192\u201dE, F). Sam and Alasdair summited our third peak, the closest to base camp on the eastern side of the valley. The summit is at the head a knife ridge that looks incredible but offers highly suspect rock quality. The name of this peak was inspired by our driver, Valierii, who described the mountain as a vast heap of coal. The name means, roughly, \u201cCoal Peak\u201d in Kyrgyz.\nKarga (4,692.8m, 40\u00b040\u20193\u201dN, 74\u00b023\u20191\u201dE, PD+). Given its distance from base camp, this peak required an advanced base camp at 3,700m. Thomas, Nicolas, and I followed a line up a steep snow ramp to gain a ridge on the east side of the peak, which we followed up to the main northeast ridgeline. A hanging glacier and a corniced section of ridge led to the final summit slopes in deteriorating snow conditions. After a quick photo at the summit we beat a hasty retreat. In better conditions we would strongly recommend this line, as it makes for a fantastic ascent of a peak that offers stunning views. We named the peak Karga (Kyrgyz for \u201craven\u201d) after the raven that followed us halfway up the mountain.\nThe Fergana Range and the Arpa Valley are incredibly beautiful, and the remote nature of the location was fantastic. Two issues to consider are that access can be difficult (a good 4WD is required, in addition to a low water level for river crossings) and much of the rock is poor quality. Good snow coverage and cooler weather could allow for excellent mountaineering opportunities, with an abundance of unclimbed routes and peaks. We would like to thank the BMC and ITMC for their support and assistance.\n[Click here to download the team's full expedition report with photos, maps, and other info.]\nDaniel Keller, U.K.\nAuthor / Photographer: Courtesy of Daniel Keller\nCaption: Approaching the Fergana Range.\nCaption: Karga Peak (4,693m) with the route of ascent.\nAuthor / Photographer: British Fergana Range Expedition\nCaption: Report of 2013 British Fergana Range Expedition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 12493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/jamaica-voices-windrush-generation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:03Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4537MVEYHST3AKMJY3RVHPCU4NWC4MJ", "length": 2142, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pulitzercenter.org", "title": "Jamaica: Voices of the Windrush Generation | Pulitzer Center", "raw_content": "After World War II, Britain was faced with two challenges: a damaged infrastructure that needed immediate repair and laborers willing to do tedious work. Empire Windrush, the British ship traveled to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados, already colonized by the United Kingdom, seeking aid. On June 22, 1948, the ship returned with some 500 passengers aboard. Those who answered the call have been classified or categorized as \u201cthe Windrush Generation.\u201d\nThe Windrush Generation refers to Caribbean nationals who arrived in Great Britain as immigrants under the Immigration Act of 1948. Although they were treated as British subjects, this act granted the unskilled workers and some veterans from the islands entry into the country and British citizenship. Due to successful advertisements from the United Kingdom, thousands more Jamaicans\u2019, Trinidadians\u2019 and Barbadians\u2019 traveled with their children (no passports necessary) to Great Britain to work and begin a new life.\nThe problem today is that many people of the Windrush Generation who do not have British citizenship, despite having lived and been formally educated there for decades, are now facing deportation.\nThis reporting project investigates the effects of deportation on the Windrush Generation from Jamaica. What influences Jamaicans\u2019 attitudes toward the Windrush Generation scandal? What are resolutions for the betterment of this generation, especially the children?\nA View from Jamaica: The Windrush Generation\nThe Windrush Generation of Jamaica continues their ongoing journey to fight for justice and citizenship.\nImagine Jamaican emigrants having their dreams of working in the UK with full citizenship fulfilled, and then suddenly being evicted from their homes purchased with their blood, sweat, and tears.\nClark Atlanta University student fellow Monica Long reflects on her reporting project focused on the rights of the Windrush Generation in Jamaica.\nImagine Jamaican emigrants having their dreams of working in the United Kingdom with full citizenship fulfilled, and then suddenly being evicted from their homes purchased with their blood, sweat, and tears.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/1503/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NSXZHDFBVXU7KPCG4MGTTLQ6BS7O37FP", "length": 2455, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pure.iiasa.ac.at", "title": "Performance and Output Measurement: A Joint Meeting of Euro Public Sector and Health Working Groups -- 14-16 January, 1980", "raw_content": "Performance and Output Measurement: A Joint Meeting of Euro Public Sector and Health Working Groups -- 14-16 January, 1980\nTurner P, Boldy D, & Aspden P (1980). Performance and Output Measurement: A Joint Meeting of Euro Public Sector and Health Working Groups -- 14-16 January, 1980. IIASA Collaborative Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: CP-80-007\nMost governmental and public service bodies have developed methods for measuring and controlling the inputs to major programs, in terms of finance, manpower, and other resources. There has, however, been relatively little success in measuring the output of such programs -- except in rather special cases -- and such measurement as takes place is usually on secondary rather than primary measures of output; it is easy to measure the number of patients handled in a clinic, but much more difficult to determine how far their health is improved. The issue of performance and output measurement is thus of major concern to operational research workers and applied systems analysts, much of whose work is directed towards public service programs, and because it cuts across many fields of application. It therefore seemed particularly appropriate that two working groups of the European Association of Operational Research Societies should meet at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in January 1980 to discuss this topic. As the discussion may be of wider interest than to those actually present it all seems appropriate to make these notes more widely available in the form of an IIASA Collaborative Paper.\nThe meeting was the prime responsibility of Peter Turner and Duncan Boldy, chairmen respectively of the Public Sector and Health Working Groups of EURO. At IIASA the coordination was undertaken by Philip Aspden of the Health Care Systems Modeling Task. These three are the joint editors of this report.\nIt was felt that the proceedings were worth recording but that, as they were really part of an ongoing debate, they should be made available as quickly as possible. To avoid further delay some of the papers are therefore presented in note form, and the discussion has been condensed to bring out the main topics of interest. It is too seldom that those engaged in the analytical study of policy issues get together specifically to discuss their problems, rather than to parade their solutions. We hope that this collaborative paper may help to stimulate further such meetings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 6256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pza.sanbi.org/dombeya-pulchra", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HSDVJPNRSKAZZT4BFNJ4NDTQGJ4G3A3P", "length": 2653, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "pza.sanbi.org", "title": "Dombeya pulchra | Plantz Africa", "raw_content": "Dombeya pulchra\nDombeya pulchra N.E.Br.\nCommon names: silver white pear (Eng.); blombos (Afr.)\nThe silver white pear is a beautiful shrub or small tree ideal for the wooded or semi-shaded areas of your garden.\nThis plant can be classified as a shrub or small tree of up to 5 m in height depending on the area it occurs in. It is multistemmed and the slender branches are smooth, wrinkled and often covered with glandular hairs.\nThe velvety leaves vary in size from 40 to 200 mm in diameter, are roundish to roughly triangular with the upper half sometimes lobed. The tips are pointed, the bases deeply indented and the margins roundly toothed with 5-7 prominent veins that arise from the base on the lower surface. The upper surface of the leaves is green and covered with short, dense hairs, whereas the undersurface is covered in silvery or greyish white, velvety hairs.\nThe velvety buds open into white flowers that often display a deep pink centre. They turn brown later. The flowers are borne on hairy stalks in bunches in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowering time: December to May. The fruit is a capsule and is covered with dense, yellowish hairs. The seeds are small, brown and pitted and are ripe between March and June.\nThe silver white pear occurs mainly on the northeastern Drakensberg from Swaziland, through Mphumalanga to the lower parts of Limpopo Province. It has a somewhat restricted distribution, as it grows on rocky hillsides or mountains at high altitudes, in wooded kloofs or in wooded areas along stream banks.\nThe generic name Dombeya, is in honour of Joseph Dombey, a French botanist and traveller in Peru and Chile (1742-1793). The specific name pulchra comes from the Latin word for beautiful.\nThis species is very similar to Dombeya burgessiae that has white or pink flowers with a distribution that overlaps in some areas.\nIt is used as an ornamental plant by the nursery trade. Other species often grown in gardens include Dombeya rotundifolia and Dombeya autumnalis.\nGrowing Dombeya pulchra\nIt is easily raised from seed, which can be sown in early September. It is fast growing under garden conditions. This plant can be grown in the more woody or semi-shaded areas of your garden.\nJackson, W.P.U. 1990. Origins and meanings of names of South African plant genera. University of Cape Town Ecolab, Rondebosch, Cape Town.\nPalmer, E. & Pitman, N. 1972. Trees of southern Africa covering all known indigenous species in the Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland, vol. 2. Balkema, Cape Town.\nVan Wyk, P. 1984. Veldgids tot die bome van die Nasionale Krugerwildtuin. Struik, Cape Town", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotetab.com/quote/by-george-bernard-shaw/find-enough-clever-things-to-say-and-youre-a-prime-minister-write-them-down-an?source=clever", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IFB2WEDRSSZYASTPOWYH5XDQWEKOEPUR", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "quotetab.com", "title": "George Bernard Shaw: Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime... | QuoteTab", "raw_content": "Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 1384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotetab.com/quotes/about-dont-give-up", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LEU73ONO7S6EUIYEJPSS6KKF2NCVYH4Y", "length": 11111, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "quotetab.com", "title": "Dont Give Up Quotations (TOP 100 of 143) | QuoteTab", "raw_content": "Dont Give Up Quotations\nDont Give Up Quotes from:\nDon't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.\nMy message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.\nSuccess is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.\nOften the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.\nNothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.\nI don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.\nI would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.\nWhatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.\nSometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.\nI still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'\nCan you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.\nMy guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!\nI think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.\nI don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.\nThe most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.\nIt doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.\nTake pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.\nDon't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.\nThe strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.\nDon't give up, courage is my conviction.\nIm very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.\nThe people who don\u2019t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.\nDon't give up on something just because you think you can't do it.\nChristian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.\nI wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.\nAnd I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.\nDon't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.\nDon't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.\nIf you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.\nElend shook his head. \"We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist\u2014I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.\nIt's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.\nLove does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite\nCourage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.\nI don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.\nYou don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.\nSometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.\nYou are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.\nLove will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up\nYou get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.\nThis is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up\nThe only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.\nNever give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.\nIf you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.\nDon't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?\nWhen kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.\nHave a little faith. Don't give up.\nDon't give up before the miracle happens.\nDon't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.\nPerseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don\u2019t give up even when others say, It can\u2019t be done.\nJealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.\nImpossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.\nHeroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.\nHow many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!\nI thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.\nDear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.\nEach of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.\nI had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up...\nI'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.\nI'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.\nIf I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up,\nDon't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.\nHe tipped her head up. \"Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.\nDon't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.\nI honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love.\nDon't give up on your own happy-evers.\nWhatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.\nYou need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, \"This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.\nThe next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.\n... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up\nNo matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.\nI don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.\nThe future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.\nDon't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.\nExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.\nDon`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!\nTo persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.\nWriters and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.\nDon't give up. It's just the weight of the world.\nll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.\nIf you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.\nI don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.\nNever Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.\nKeep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.\nAll the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 420, "original_length": 17440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 178.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rawbanana.com/big-fat-lies-about-the-atkins-diet/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ESU5P4TIXV2LPCL2PFV2XPGP4CL372RU", "length": 2527, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "rawbanana.com", "title": "Big Fat Lies About The Atkins Diet - Raw Banana", "raw_content": "Are you a fan of a low-carb diet? Some people think that it is the best kind of diet for everybody, but turns out it\u2019s not. You have to consider the condition of your body before trying this one out. Also, not everything you read on the internet is 100% true, so you really have to research and read various articles for reference. How much information do you really need to determine if the Atkins Diet is really for you?\nAtkins Diet is also popularly known as the low-carb diet which is one of the favourite diets of people who want to build body muscles. According to research, this diet can reverse many common illnesses and diseases, which includes diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and many few others. However, there may be some lies about this diet that you probably haven\u2019t discovered yet.\nAtkins is the best diet for everyone\nYou may have read articles that promote the Atkins Diet as the best diet for everyone. Fact is, every individual has his own needs that may be different from others. Atkins diet is especially helpful for those who want to shed pounds. For some people, this diet may be effective for their weight loss people, but for some this low-carb diet can be detrimental. Therefore, this diet is not for everyone.\nAll Carbohydrates Turn into Sugar\nIt is true that carbohydrates are broken down into \u201csugar,\u201d but this statement can be misleading for other people. Other people who are not chemists tend to interpret \u201csugar\u201d as the white, unhealthy granular stuff, making people think that potatoes and candy bars have the same \u201csugar. The fact is, table sugar consists of half fructose, half glucose while starch is only glucose. It is the fructose portion of sugar that is most harmful, while glucose does not have the same effect.\nAtkins Diet removes mostly water, not fat\nIt is common for most weight loss plan \u2013 including Atkins diet \u2013 that the weight lost is mainly water (diuresis) during the first few days, of even the first week. However after diuresis, when an individual is engaged in a controlled carbohydrate plan, their body switch from burning carbohydrates to burning stored body fat. This burned stored fat will then be converted to energy, thus resulting in weight loss.\nIf the Atkins Diet is on your interest list, then you probably need to have enough information before you can say it is the appropriate diet for you. There are many myths and misconceptions about this diet that you must understand in order to avoid it. Always remember, your health is always at risk.\ndietmyths", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rdcounty.ca/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2018&month=9&day=11", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:34Z", "digest": "sha1:47EK36YWKMFTUBDWN4XUDMBXE6MSMOLJ", "length": 190, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rdcounty.ca", "title": "Red Deer County, AB - Official Website", "raw_content": "Elnora & Red Deer County IDP Open House\nSeptember 11, 2018, 7:00 PM\u2009-\u20098:00 PM @ Elnora Community Hall\nElnora & Red Deer County IDP Open House2018-09-11T19:00:00\nElnora Community HallElnoraAB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://realitysb.com/event/the-essentials-course/2018-07-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:W72WOY62UJHQMLRWC2QF3BXVBHAA3EWP", "length": 348, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "realitysb.com", "title": "The Essentials CourseReality Church of Santa Barbara", "raw_content": "The Essentials Course\nAre you spiritually curious? New to the faith? New to the church? Or do you just want to learn more about what Christians believe? Consider signing up for Essentials, our six-week course on the basics of the Christian faith.\nThe course is free, but we ask that you RSVP so we can plan for you.\nhttp://realitysb.com/essentials/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://redkelly.blogspot.com/2012/01/etta-james-lives-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:TQXIW5PAHFAIT75EWFDIZ6IKVYP4GYAG", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "redkelly.blogspot.com", "title": "the \"B\" side: ETTA JAMES LIVES ON", "raw_content": "\"On the day she died it was blaring from every car radio in America...\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 4219, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://religiousaffections.org/articles/biblical-studies/the-early-years-of-pauls-ministry-in-galatians-118-21-and-acts-926-30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TR3MJ242S7AU63J75VJHZXAYT43JCXJ5", "length": 2770, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "religiousaffections.org", "title": "The Early Years of Paul\u2019s Ministry in Galatians 1:18, 21 and Acts 9:26\u201330 | Religious Affections Ministries: Conservative Christianity, Worship, Culture, Aesthetics, Classical Education, Homeschooling, Family", "raw_content": "David Huffstutler | October 2nd, 2017 | 0 Comments\nLuke generally describes a meeting between Paul and the apostles in Acts 9:26\u201327. Paul gave more details as to this meeting in Gal 1:18\u201319. Paul mentions that he then left for Syria and Cilicia in Gal 1:21. Luke mentions this departure as Paul leaving for Tarsus in Acts 9:30 (Tarsus is a city in the region of Cilicia) and records his time in Antioch in Acts 11:25\u201326 (this was the Antioch in Syria; cf. Gal 1:21). Acts 22:17\u201321 records Paul\u2019s recollection of a vision from Jesus during this time as well. What follows below is more detailed and chronological description of this time in Paul\u2019s life. The passages above are cited, approximate dates are provided, and an explanation is given for why the accounts differ between Luke and Paul.\nThree years after his conversion (AD 34), Paul came to Jerusalem for the first time as a believer (Gal 1:18; AD 37) and was rejected in his attempt to join the disciples\u2015they were fearful that he was not truly one of them (Acts 9:26). But then Barnabas brought him to the apostles\u2015Peter and James in particular\u2015for a private, fifteen-day visit that, after an explanation by Barnabas of Paul\u2019s ministry in Damascus, resulted in Paul\u2019s fellowship with the brothers in Jerusalem (Acts 9:28a; Gal 1:18\u201319).\nHaving been granted this fellowship, Paul then preached boldly in Jerusalem and disputed against the Hellenists (Acts 9:28b\u201329a). As a result, these Hellenists sought to kill Paul (Acts 9:29b). At some point during this time, Paul was praying in the temple when Jesus appeared to him in a vision, warned him that the Hellenists would not accept his testimony, told him to leave Jerusalem quickly, and said that he would go far away to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 22:17\u201321).\nWhether knowledgeable of Paul\u2019s vision or not, the brothers in Jerusalem learned of the Hellenists\u2019 plot to kill Paul, took him to Caesarea, and sent him to Tarsus in Cilicia (Acts 9:30), where Paul would begin to fulfill Jesus\u2019 instructions. Paul was there for what may have been roughly eight of what many call his \u201csilent years\u201d (AD 37\u201345), ended by Barnabas retrieving him and bringing him to Syrian Antioch where he stayed for a whole year (Acts 11:25\u201326; cf. Gal 1:21; AD 45\u201346).\nAs to why Luke and Paul differ, Paul\u2019s burden in Gal 1:11\u20132:14 was to explain that his gospel was from Christ and not Peter, the apostles, and Jerusalem. Paul explained the primary significance of his visits to Jerusalem along these lines but did not need to recount all of the details of his ministry during this time. As to Paul\u2019s preaching in Jerusalem, Luke wanted to provide his readers with the reasons as to why Paul left for Tarsus (in Cilicia) and described how he eventually came to Antioch (in Syria).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 8873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/769", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YNX6I2UUFHGQGNB4GYODQG5PMIBO65GB", "length": 550, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rememberinglincoln.fords.org", "title": "Mourning Belt | Remembering Lincoln", "raw_content": "Black, beaded mourning belt worn by the daughter of Ward Hill Lamon (Dorothy Lamon Teillard) in the funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln. W.H. Lamon was the friend and former law partner of Lincoln who later served as a U.S. Marshall in Washington, DC. His daughter Dorothy later edited a biography of Lincoln published under her father's name.\nAbraham Lincoln Library and Museum of Lincoln Memorial University (07.4202.02)\nunknown. \"Mourning Belt\". Remembering Lincoln. Web. 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Don't worry, you'll still have the chance to sing along with the original Tiki Room song as well as new popular favorites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 158.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reposts.ciathyza.com/alone-in-the-dark-kitchen-nightmares/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:G4EUHH2UGLYVFE2CR7OSSNLLTLU36RVK", "length": 6650, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "reposts.ciathyza.com", "title": "Alone in the Dark: Kitchen Nightmares \u2013 The Retro Gaming Treasury", "raw_content": "To my right, a suspicious suit of armour, holding a very sharp sword. Ahead, a pair of locked doors that closed as I arrived on this floor. So I choose to go to my left, towards the unknown. This direction leads me to a corridor and some stairs down. This would be a bit more complex and require a bit of exploration before I\u2019d even know where to go and what to do.\nThe corridor\u2019s first room was a small bedroom, with little of note except a notebook. This was the diary of Jeremy Hartwood\u2019s final days in this house. A troubled artist, he had delved into the darkness that consumes this house and fell foul of its corrupting touch. In a series of dreams, he found stone pillars in a dark desert, a strange man whose look froze him dead with fear, and a sacrificial knife used for human sacrifice.\nIt was clear that this strange otherworldly being wanted a body to occupy, and Jeremy was at least temporarily able to deny him that. Time will tell if I can do better, and rid the curse that has clouded Derceto for all these years. I moved on to the next room, a bathroom, currently occupied.\nI could see an item in the room, but had no way of defeating this strange monster that had taken residence in the tub. Instead, I decided to dash in there and grab it, and while I was there, search the cabinet. Thankfully I could do this only taking a couple of hits, and was able to heal myself a little by drinking from a flask found in the cabinet. The item: a simple water jug, empty of course. In true adventure gaming style, I\u2019m sure this will come in handy later on.\nThe next room was dark, and I dared not venture inside. I had a lamp, and some oil, but no way of lighting it, so I was a little stuck. Around the corner was a long gallery, showcasing some of the strange paintings that Jeremy Hartwood was famed for. On the near wall was a picture of a trapper or woodsman, holding a hatchet. Moving down the room got me a hatchet to the back, and death quickly followed.\nOne quick reload later, and I decided to explore downstairs. This looks like the ground floor, and there\u2019s quite a few doors to try. A couple of those doors are locked, but I did manage to find the kitchen. In here I found a couple of knives, which might come in handy as weapons, if nothing else and a large pot containing\u2026 something. In the pantry, I found a tin of biscuits and a key, while in another little side room was an oil can, a barrel full of water (which I used to fill my jug) and hidden in the coal was a shoebox, containing a revolver.\nMoving on to an adjacent room, I find the dining area, with a table set for several people. The only things here though, are a collection of zombies. In my haste, I use the pot, which seems to contain human flesh! (not sure how Edward Carnby knows what that would taste like, and the graphics are too indistinct to suggest a particular meat contained within). Reloading and repeating my steps, I put the pot of human stew on the table, leaving the zombies transfixed and I am able to move onwards. I remember this particular puzzle from playing in the past, and when I moved onto the next room I thankfully remembered that too.\nThrough the door lies a smoking room, a literal one, which will fill with smoke and kill you. Quick movement is required to move towards the centre of the smoke, an old ashtray and douse it with water. After that, you can relax and explore, finding a lighter, an old music record (a little early for vinyl, so probably shellac), and more doors. This place truly is a maze, and I feel I should make a map at my earliest opportunity.\nOne set of doors is locked, the other leads back out into the main foyer. But I must have gained at least a few items worth using. I know I can now look in that dark room, so I make my way back upstairs. This seems to take you to the other side of the armoured knight, and a new door. Inside, is a ghost!\nA new arrival to this game, the ghost kills me when I approach it, but there\u2019s a record player there and I have a record. At this point I run into a problem with items, as it seems I\u2019m carrying too many. I haven\u2019t used half of these things, so I\u2019m not sure what to do. I decided to find an empty room and drop as much as I think I can manage without, hopefully this won\u2019t come back to bite me (I drop books having read them already, the jug, the used medical flask and case, and after filling my old lamp, the oil can).\nAfter this, I can pick up the gramophone and play the record. This time, I\u2019m not attacked, and can take the matches from the mantelpiece, the poker from beside the fire, and some cartridges for the rifle from the cabinet. A picture on the table shows Jeremy with his niece, but doesn\u2019t seem to indicate who this would be (since the niece is the other playable character).\nGetting past the knight is easy it seems, so long as you don\u2019t touch the armour it won\u2019t attack. So I decide to make my way to the darkened room, and light my lantern. In a somewhat surprising move for this game, the room isn\u2019t filled with monsters, but rather a small bedroom with a couple of items on a table. One is a heavy statue, and the other is a book, but I can take neither due to carrying too many items.\nLeaving this for now, I head back downstairs. One room I haven\u2019t tried yet seems to be some sort of greenhouse, full of plants and a statue of a hunter, perhaps as mentioned in the book about the golden fleece? Upon searching the statue, I find arrows, but am also surrounded by spiders, so I beat a hasty retreat. A nearby door is unlocked by the key from the pantry, and leads to the cellar, alas this seems to be overrun by blood-thirsty rats.\nMy puzzles for next time:\nFind a way past the spiders\nFind a way past the rats\nFind a way past the hatchet-throwing painting\nThis definitely seems like the largest and most open part of the game, and seemingly non-linear too. I am able to go to quite a few rooms, but some are locked and others are blocked my monsters I have yet to figure out how to defeat. The use of the pot of human stew to defeat the zombies suggests that there\u2019s a solution to the rats and spiders, but I can\u2019t think of one at the moment. My other option is the painting, and I seem to recall firing an arrow at it, but I\u2019ll try that next time, as well as properly mapping the place to make sure I haven\u2019t missed any obvious doors, the fixed camera angles can sometimes obscure available paths.\nOriginal URL: https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2018/08/alone-in-dark-kitchen-nightmares.html\nPREVIOUS POST Previous post: NewQ Gold: A Graphic Equalizer for PCs from 1999!\nNEXT POST Next post: Cleaning a Classic: BMC BM-12A Monochrome Monitor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 9883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://retinart.net/working-life/day-24-informal-mentors/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:58Z", "digest": "sha1:S454TEJ5UE2OGDJAFLZLGEPSH6OFMY75", "length": 6024, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "retinart.net", "title": "Day 24 \u2013 Informal Mentors - Retinart", "raw_content": "Day 24 - Informal Mentors\nI\u2019ve been thinking about deliberate practice a lot lately.\nIn The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, he tells the story of a girl learning to play an instrument. She\u2019s an average student, right in the middle of the pack.\nHer class was asked to video themselves practicing as part of an experiment, and what they found her do was breathtaking. She played through the music, and then soon as she stuffed up, she stopped, went back, hummed the correct tune to herself, then started again and went until she got a note wrong again and repeated the process.\nThat\u2019s deliberate practice. Most students learning music tend to skip over the part they don\u2019t know how to play to get to the next part they can.\nThey said that in that hour of work she did, she developed in terms of months. Unfortunately for her, she went back to practicing the parts she was good at later in the video, halting her progress.\nNaturally, this got me thinking about instant feedback and deliberate practice in design.\nThis line of thought reminded me of the luck I had in having found a couple of mentor\u2019s very early in my design career. Hell, it was before I even had a career, when I was still a student. At different times, these two people would push me to be better, guiding me in the right direction, giving direct, and practically instant (a day or so at most) feedback.\nI found them with some luck, almost accidentally.\nSo how do you find mentors on purpose? How do you get someone to help and guide your work and development?\nWhat a Mentor Does.\nA mentor is just someone who you respect and admire, who has travelled the same path you have.\nIt\u2019s someone who can look over your shoulder and guide you in what direction to take, helping you see mistakes in your routine and process, sometimes letting you fall into them a few times so you learn what they\u2019re like, but then guides you on how to get out of them.\nThey\u2019re not always going to be nice about it \u2013 and that\u2019s the point. They\u2019re not there to tell you you\u2019re amazing and the work you\u2019re doing is great, call your folks for that.\nThey\u2019re there to kick your ass and push you to the next level. You\u2019re an investment to them. You\u2019re someone into whom they\u2019re putting in energy because they want to see a good outcome.\nClearly being a mentor is a lot of work. It\u2019s like being a teacher, a coach, and a psychologist. Without getting paid.\nAsking someone to be your mentor is a huge request, and one that I\u2019m not sure many people actively ask for \u2013 even those with mentors.\nIt can often happen quite naturally.\nBy all means, ask, but you\u2019re going to mostly get \u201cno, haven\u2019t got the time.\u201d Chances are if they\u2019re someone you admire it\u2019s because they get good work done regularly. That means they\u2019re busy.\nSo how does it happen naturally? Oftentimes by starting off with an informal mentorship program, so to speak. Some people call it email.\n\u2013 Aim small, just ask a couple of direct questions.\nRather than drop the ten-tonne question of \u201cWill you be my mentor? Please? Pretty, pretty please?\u201d, just send a small email, with one or two very direct questions, and a lot of courtesy.\nMost people are going to be too busy to help, so give them that out in the most comfortable way you can.\n\u201cI completely understand that you\u2019re probably far too busy to answer my questions, so please feel free to disregard this email if that\u2019s the case.\u201d\nThat\u2019d keep me happy.\nNotice I said \u201canswer my questions\u201d? That\u2019s the important part.\nHave a few very direct questions that will give you some very direct feedback. It makes your request smaller and easier to deal with quickly.\n\u201cIs this a good typeface?\u201d\n\u201cDo these colors work?\u201d\nThen, after these, maybe drop a more generic \u201cis there anything else that you think I should have another look at?\u201d.\nI\u2019d keep it to no more than two or three questions, and keep them small.\nDon\u2019t talk about mentors, don\u2019t talk about anything that sounds like you\u2019re going to be coming to them for more input soon.\nIf a mentor is someone who guides your work, answering all your questions, then an informal mentor is someone who might answer one or two.\nShould you get a response, reply with courtesy, perhaps asking them if they\u2019d like to see the next version to see how you implemented their ideas.\nShould they say \u201csure\u201d, then you\u2019ve got a conversation starting. It could become an ongoing thing, and you\u2019ll have yourself an informal mentor.\nHow Do I Find Informal Mentors?\nAsk your friends to look at your work.\nAsk people you\u2019ve spoken to regularly on Twitter or Facebook.\nEmail a designer you admire.\nYou\u2019ll mostly get \u201cno, sorry\u201d; sometimes way less polite than that.\nIt\u2019s actually not that hard to find someone to look at your work once, but you need to be a normal human being about it. Don\u2019t bombard them with emails \u2013 be nice, and kind about it. And if they have a blog, comment on their articles. Respond to them on Twitter and Facebook, email them when they launch a great new project.\n\u201cHey, I loved that website you did, the grid was wonderfully clever, I\u2019m learning a lot as I really look at it bit by bit.\u201d Damn, that\u2019s enough. Short and sweet, and it means the next time you ask for a small question kindly, if you\u2019ve read the relationship you\u2019re building properly, they\u2019ll be more inclined to help out.\nI Did This Last Night\nI actually did something like this last night.\nI asked on Twitter if anyone would be interested in looking over an idea I have for the future of Retinart.\nSeveral people responded, and I\u2019m not surprised to see that a few of them are confidants of mine. People who I\u2019ve shared ideas with the past, and they\u2019ve done the same with me. I\u2019ll also be emailing a couple of other web friends who I\u2019ve spoken to the past to get their feedback.\nIt\u2019s no more complicated than that. Some will be able to help me out, some won\u2019t. I won\u2019t take it personally if they can\u2019t, because I know they\u2019re busy.\nBut those who do help out will be, for a few minutes, for the time it takes to read my ideas and write a response, my informal mentors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://retiringonmyterms.com/2017/07/13/the-hidden-costs-of-solar-energy/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:30Z", "digest": "sha1:AMTYTDUFJLPHT7DG6JRG32OYD64R7MMR", "length": 4583, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "retiringonmyterms.com", "title": "The Hidden Costs Of Solar Energy - RETIRING ON MY TERMS", "raw_content": "Last month, I wrote a series of articles about our decision to purchase a home solar energy system, and my belief it will ultimately help us on our path towards financial independence and early retirement.\nThe first post outlined our decision-making process.\nThe second post discussed our solar installation.\nAnd the third highlighted the initial performance of our solar panels.\nToday, in an effort to share some additional information on the topic, I want to identify some of the potential hidden costs to going solar I found useful to consider, even though they didn\u2019t show up in the quote from our local solar energy company or most of the research I did on my own.\nAs I mentioned in my initial post on our decision-making process, the payback period for our home solar energy system was around nine years, using a rough back of the envelope calculation. In real life, the payback period will definitely be longer, largely because of the reasons outlined below. These hidden costs did not deter us from deciding to go solar, but should definitely be considered when making a decision!\nYour Electric Bill May Not Go to $0\nWhile our home solar energy system was sized to provide enough energy to pay for our average annual electric usage, that doesn\u2019t mean our electric bill is actually going to $0. We are still responsible for a daily fee to remain connected to the power grid, in addition to some other local and state taxes and fees, and these items cannot be offset by our solar production. Plus, there are no guarantees we\u2019ll actually generate all the energy we need to offset our consumption.\nYour Homeowners Insurance Premiums Will Be Higher\nGuess what? When you put shiny new solar panels on your roof, along with an inverter and additional electrical wiring and equipment to start generating energy, you\u2019ve acquired a lot of expensive stuff that can be damaged. While the home solar energy system will hopefully increase the value of your home, your insurance company is going to want to get paid for the potential costs involved in repairing or replacing all of that expensive equipment, much of which is sitting on top of your roof and exposed to the elements. Our annual homeowners insurance premiums increased by about 7% after we shared the specs of our system with our agent.\nYou May Need To Spend Additional Money to Make Solar Practical\nWhile the back slope of our roof faced south and was well-positioned to generate solar energy, the tallest tree in our yard was about 30 feet from the back of our house. At certain times of the day and certain times of the year, that tree would cast considerable shade over the area where our panels would be installed. To improve the potential efficiency of our system and make the numbers work, we needed to have the tree removed, at a cost of several hundred dollars (the tree was too tall, too wide, and too close to the house and our back deck for me to be comfortable taking it down myself with my chainsaw).\nAdditional Costs Over The Life of The System\nWhile the SunPower solar panels we purchased have a 25-year warranty, and we hope will be producing energy for at least that long, our SolarEdge inverter (which converts direct current to alternating current) has an expected lifespan of around 12 years, meaning we\u2019ll need to replace it at least once over the lifetime of our system. The pricing of the individual components of our system was opaque, but one person I spoke with indicated that an inverter for a system of our size could cost around $1,500. That\u2019s a future expense I\u2019m not looking forward to, especially since I should be enjoying early retirement by then!\nWhat Happens When You Need A New Roof?\nOur roof is about 13 years old, and is in pretty good shape right now. But in a decade, right about the time we may need a new inverter, our roof is also likely to be on its last legs. In addition to the expense of a new roof, we\u2019ll have to pay to have our solar panels and racking removed from the old roof, and then re-installed after the new roof is complete. That ain\u2019t gonna be free!\nThe Rules Around Home Solar Energy Are Going To Change In The Future\nWe signed a 10-year agreement with our local utility, outlining the rate at which we will earn credits for the energy produced by our system. What happens when those 10 years are up? Who knows, but if there are a lot more homes with solar energy systems in our area a decade from now, my hunch is we won\u2019t be getting paid as much for the energy we produce as we do today.\nCan you think of any other hidden costs to going solar we didn\u2019t consider?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 6398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reviewgraveyard.com/00_revs/r2017/music/17-10-13_breathe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VDS5OI7QDEK7QYQ7QHKWBMFACMMH74NX", "length": 1535, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "reviewgraveyard.com", "title": "Breathe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Soundtrack review", "raw_content": "Composer: Nitin Sawhney\nLabel: Var\u00e8se Sarabande\nvaresesarabande.com\nVar\u00e8se Sarabande release Nitin Sawhney's score for Breathe. For his directorial debut, Andy Serkis brings to life the inspiring true love story between Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. After a fairytale-like courtship, Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana\u2019s twin brothers and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall, Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together - raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients...\nGiven the movie's plot, it's not overly surprising that Nitin Sawhney delivers an emotional roller coaster of a score. Tracks like 'After First Bleed'; and 'Telling The Doctor It's Time' really tap into the emotional heart of the film.\nOver the course of the album's 29 tracks (41 min, 21 sec) there are a number of interesting themes, the most prominent being housed in tracks like 'Meeting Baby Jonathan', which is a strange theme. It's partly sweet, and a little bit disjointed. It feels like it doesn't belong, but it's memorable and haunting.\n'The Last Dream' (performed by Tina Grace and Jonathan Christie) is the album's one song, but the tune is echoed throughout the album.\nOn balance it's a wonderful romantic score that will stay with you for a long time to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reviews.jeffnyveen.com/minority-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:41Z", "digest": "sha1:K3Y3IQDGFOIISWTKOMWCOFG4CINFR4XZ", "length": 230, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "reviews.jeffnyveen.com", "title": "Minority Report | Jeff's Reviews", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Minority Report\nStarring Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough\nCruise is OK, the precog girl was kinda cool. But I wouldn\u2019t want to see it again. The story was very literary, dragged a bit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://risetoit.co.za/finding-the-right-balance-in-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AKK4H47YO25E5SZJSWKQFOD7O4MIBILU", "length": 2910, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "risetoit.co.za", "title": "Finding the Right Balance in Life - Rise To It", "raw_content": "The stresses of daily life can leave many feeling trapped and stagnant. This can filter into your personal life and wreak all sorts of havoc. If this is so, there could be a possibility that you are not prioritising properly. You don\u2019t have to let your personal perimeters get the better of you. Things get a lot better when you become proficient at finding the right balance in life.\nLet\u2019s face it \u2013 it often feels like a day does not have enough hours to meet your daily objectives. You only have about 16 waking hours to reach these objectives, taking into consideration time spent getting ready for work, commuting, cooking and eating, that further reduce those hours \u2013 while the remaining hours should be used to get much needed sleep. You need to find a way to make time for the following and prioritise accordingly.\nGood health is a cornerstone to success as it keeps up your motivation levels and it can translate into better mental strength. Start doing a physical activity, like CrossFit or running, that will get your heart rate up. Go out and do it. Health is wealth and staying active prompts a healthy body and mind. You can never out-train a bad diet, so keep your junk intake at a minimal and stick to a balanced diet. Also ensure you are getting at least eight hours of sleep daily and avoid unnecessary late nights.\nAs work is an essential aspect of life, make sure you treat it with the appropriate respect and approach it with the correct efficiency. Set daily work objectives and keep a systematic way of tracking your tasks. Setting mini deadlines assists tremendously and keeps you on the ball.\nFamily paves the foundation of life. They normally support each other in various ways and are there in times of distress. Afford them the appropriate time so that you are not disconnected from them. If you are not married, this also includes your girlfriend or boyfriend.\nOn a daily basis make a conscious effort to do things that are going to better you as a human being, whether it\u2019s upgrading your skills through studying, praying or meditating. Even though it is easier said than done, try to be a better person. Make the effort to be good to people and try to do a good deed when the opportunity arises.\nDo things that make you feel good (without any detrimental after effects). Whether it is watching a movie, listening to music or laughing with your friends, you need that time to unwind.\nAttempt to address areas that appear to be problematic. Regardless if it is related to work or personal life, make the effort to address these areas. It may be uncomfortable but leaving those areas unaddressed could potentially lead to anxiety, conflict and stress.\nIt is important to remember that life is meant to be lived and not endured. Make time for the aspects discussed, get rid of the clutter and take control of your life.\nWhat method do you use to find that right balance in your life?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 7038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roadtoavonlea.weebly.com/talking-avonlea/january-18th-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UTQME5S32SDP53LFCPVSQBELSLA3BD6T", "length": 565, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "roadtoavonlea.weebly.com", "title": "January 18th, 2015 - Road to Avonlea: The Eighth Season", "raw_content": "I know that I got a lot of heat for removing Felicity from the series, due to her popularity, but to tell the story I wanted to tell, she was really in the way of things. Do not think for a second that I don't love Felicity, and believe that she was an asset to the show for so long. But I just don't think she would've worked well in my stories. Do you wish I would've found a way to keep her in there? Comment!\nAlyssa Cart\nI think it's okay that Felicity wasn't kept in this bcuz, it just works without her. Although I do miss her, I don't feel like she's missing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1029, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 173.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roady_1947.tripod.com/psp12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JOZCXDIVGM5NF4FFCLSTM3CU5JIBMZFW", "length": 2211, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "roady_1947.tripod.com", "title": "Parents Of Suicide", "raw_content": "Lloyd E. Carson March 13, 2000\nWhen I look in the mirror I see a middle aged man. His hair is thinning on top and beginning to turn gray on the sides. Lines and creases are starting to form at the corner of his eyes. It seems that his age may be starting to show.\nWhen I look in the mirror at this man I see much more. I see a lonely man that is hurting and angry inside. He\u2019s trying to grieve over the loss of someone very dear and special to him. Someone taken away by death with no warning, his life taken by his own hand. It has left a big emptiness inside him.\nHe sometimes wears a mask to hide the tears from the pain and anguish that he feels. Sometimes he\u2019s afraid to let others know exactly how he feels, afraid of what they\u2019ll say to him, afraid of their reaction to him.\nHe just wishes things were different. He wishes it would all go away. He wishes he could wake up in the morning and realize it has all been a bad dream.\nWhen he\u2019s out in public he hopes it doesn\u2019t show. He hopes the tears don\u2019t come to his eyes. He hopes his anger doesn\u2019t come out. So he tries as hard as he can to hold back the tears. After all a real man is not supposed to cry. So he hides behind his mask.\nHe manages to suppress his anger, he saves it for when he\u2019s alone then he finds ways to release it to keep from hurting others and to keep from lashing out at them for no reason.\nSo if you see me out and about and you manage to see a tear in my eye, don\u2019t criticize me, judge me, or stereotype me. Real men do cry and sometimes it is difficult not to. Don\u2019t tell me things like \u201cenough is enough\u201d, or that \u201cit\u2019s time to get on with your life.\u201d Don\u2019t tell me \u201cit\u2019s been long enough that I should be over it.\u201d It just doesn\u2019t work that way. Life will never be the same again and you never get over it.\nListen to me but don\u2019t condemn me. Don\u2019t feel sorry for me, feel with me. Don\u2019t shy away from me, but help me carry this load. Be there for me when I need someone to talk to.\nTell me I don\u2019t need to hide behind my mask. Tell me it\u2019s ok to feel the way I feel. Tell me it\u2019s ok for me to cry. Tell me it\u2019s ok to feel the anger. Most of all tell me you\u2019ll help me through this nightmare of life.\n\u00a9 1998 by Lloyd E. Carson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/april/09/progressives-should-defend-gun-rights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:T26MN4UVKG25MQXZKFMOMCMLPF6L22W4", "length": 3788, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ronpaulinstitute.org", "title": "The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights", "raw_content": "Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights\nLast week\u2019s shooting at YouTube\u2019s California headquarters is certain to add momentum to the push for more gun control. Even before the shooting, YouTube was working to undermine gun rights by banning videos promoting firearms, including videos teaching safe gun usage.\nAs is usually the case, this latest shooting took place in a state with restrictive gun laws. In fact, California\u2019s gun laws may be the nation\u2019s most onerous. California not only registers all firearm purchases, but California residents must obtain permission from their local police before they can legally concealed carry guns. Among the things a Californian must do to obtain permission to legally concealed carry a gun is show \u201cgood cause\u201d why the government should allow him to concealed carry.\nCalifornia\u2019s Mulford Act prohibits lawful gun owners from openly carrying legal firearms. This law was passed in the late 1960s and signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan. The impetus for the law was the Black Panthers\u2019 armed patrols aimed at protecting the residents of African-American neighborhoods from police brutality.\nThe Mulford Act is hardly the only example of a gun control law motivated at least in part by racial animus. As Tiffany Ware of the Brown Girls Project, an initiative that teaches African-American women responsible firearms ownership and usage, says, \u201cThroughout much of American history gun control was a method for keeping blacks and Hispanics, 'in their place.'\u201d One of the earliest examples of gun control was laws prohibiting slaves from owning guns. After slavery was ended, Jim Crow laws denied African-Americans respect for their Second Amendment rights.\nWhile the modern gun control movement is not explicitly racist, it is still likely that new gun control laws will disproportionately harm African-Americans and other minorities. Concerns about this are increased by cases like that of 32-year-old Philando Castile. A police officer who had stopped Castile\u2019s car shot Castile after Castile told the officer he had a firearm in his car.\nThose behind the new gun control push ignore how gun control has been used against African-Americans in the past and how new gun control laws will disproportionately harm racial minorities. This may seem ironic since many gun control supporters are progressives or cultural Marxists who specialize in finding racism in every aspect of American politics and culture. However, considering that may other policies favored by progressives \u2014 such as minimum wage laws that limit job opportunities and occupational licensing that makes it impossible for many to start their own businesses \u2014 negatively impact minorities and lower-income Americans, perhaps progressive support for gun control is not so ironic.\nWhat is indisputably ironic is that many of those working to give the Trump Administration new authority to ban guns are the same people who regularly and vigorously oppose President Trump. These so-called \u201cnever Trumpers\u201d no doubt cheered when President Trump endorsed taking an individual\u2019s guns away without due process. These \u201cnever-Trumpers\u201d also cheered when Attorney General Jeff Sessions banned bump stocks. A bump stock increases the speed at which a rifle fires. By banning bump stocks, Sessions is taking an action President Obama\u2019s anti-gun rights Attorney General Eric Holder said he refused to take without explicit congressional authorization.\nHistory, including American history, shows that the right to keep and bear arms can be especially valuable to racial and other minorities. Therefore, progressives who are sincerely concerned about protecting minorities from oppressive government should join libertarians and constitutional conservatives in defending the Second Amendment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rteamnw.com/2016/12/15/yet-another-real-estate-agent-mysteriously-shot-and-killed", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CSY7LFUVTQ23M27LDP4GAD73HMHDBHD5", "length": 334, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rteamnw.com", "title": "Yet another real estate agent mysteriously shot and killed - R TeamNW", "raw_content": "Yet another real estate agent mysteriously shot and killed\nFor the second time within a week, a real estate agent was shot under mysterious circumstances. This time, the tragedy occurred in an abandoned home in Atlanta. Here\u2019s what police know about the home, and what the agent was doing there.\nfrom Real Estate http://ift.tt/2hAgxJl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://safeprotex.org/car-insurance-premium-calculator-icici-4u/temporary-car-insurance-19-year-old-female-names/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:31Z", "digest": "sha1:THYEMSXICL725XWSM7JZLKNOKHDHYZZG", "length": 4418, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "safeprotex.org", "title": "Temporary Car Insurance 19 Year Old Female Names \u2013 Save On Car Insurance", "raw_content": "A year since Iraqi forces declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, video released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) showed the scale of rebuilding needing to be done before life can return to normal in the city.\nAverage Car Insurance 18 Year Old Female Get Shopping For Car Insurance Rates Compare auto insurance quotes online from trusted insurers with CoverHound. Find the right auto insurance and start saving\nOnce you have filed for divorce, it\u2019s important to cease accruing debt in both of your names. By continuing to rack. For example, if you have a $200,000 life insurance policy that you would like yo.\nYear 2001 Mutual abuse and alcohol lead to Aurora woman killing boyfriend. Top. Clevia Firethunder, age 26, was arrested on Sunday night, March 4, 2001, on suspicion of fatally stabbing her boyfriend, 41-year-old Martin Macias, according to the Tuesday, March 6, 2001, Denver Post (Metro p. 2B)\nThe Nevada Highway Patrol has released the name of a Gardnerville. Nevada unemployment insurance claims activity has declined, on a year-over-year basis, in each of the first six months of 2018. A.\nA 19 year-old Dayton man was. reveals that initial Nevada unemployment insurance claims activity has declined, on a year-over-year basis, in each of the first six months of 2018. A 56-year-old Cars.\nThe 5-month-old was found face down wearing only a soiled onesie.\nPage 19. SPORTS. Les Canadiens upset Bruins. OF A TU BLESS HOME Mrs. Maude Colahan O\u2019Malley, 43 years old, 635 Dole avenue.\nAmong them was a 19-year-old woman from Escondido. According to her mother. Vaccines are available at doctors\u2019 offices and retail pharmacies. Those without insurance can go to a county public healt.\nBy 1988, the 35-year-old Good Morning, Vietnam actor was a household name. Sadly, he repaid his wife\u2019s devotion. After another quick turnaround, Stallone took up with an extra from Rocky V, 19-year.\nOn May 19. 27-year-old Newport News woman who was sitting on the couch with a towel wrapped around her right bicep. Police said the victim stated she had gotten into an argument with her 3-year-old.\nWomen continue to suffer the death penalty in the 21st century. The majority have been hanged or beheaded, whilst others have been shot or executed by lethal injection.\nOne thing that everyone acknowledges, inside and outside of GM: The 110-year-old automaker\u2019s halcyon days are long gone, and the future is up for grabs. Enter Mary Barra, who took over as CEO of GM in.\nWe\u2019ll tell you all about what went wrong in 19. for temporary custody. Brentrup cited abandonment, \"excessive drinking, physical abuse and unfaithful behavior.\" Two years into Patricia Brentrup and.\nThe second victim, a 19-year-old man, was fatally shot outside an apartment building several blocks away. The names of both victims were not immediately released. Police on Thursday said Aldo Guizar,\nNow I went to the DMV with my driving school instructor (got a discount on my car insurance if I went. information was correct on my temporary replacement. They stated I needed an original birth ce.\nIn that case, the employer may offer workers an incentive of a modest amount of life insurance without charge. That happened to Gloria Jacobs. A few years before she retired. She was, after all, ju.\nA 56-year-old man has been charged with negligent driving after a crash Sunday afternoon in Yelm killed a bicyclist. Authorities say the 19-year-old bicyclist was. driving with a suspended license.\nHow Can A 62 Year Old Woman Lose Belly Fat \u2013 How To Naturally Detox A Parasite How Can A 62 Year Old Woman Lose Belly Fat.\nThe next few years will be very telling.\" Golf was a big. leather grips on Pete\u2019s old Mizuno blades. On his way to pick them up, Arthur, 64, made an ill-advised U-turn; an oncoming vehicle hit a pa.\nIn Texas, officials say educational and health programs that rely on federal funding won\u2019t be impacted in the short term. That includes the CHIP program, the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program. po.\nHe brings over a girl named Kimberly (her fake name) who says she\u2019s 24 (her fake age. Some months, he pays for their car insurance. He shows me a text from a stripper in Pennsylvania whose TV he hu.\nHe bought in the name of the Bradley County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Blythe Avenue, paying by wire transfer, and either went with or sent crews to pick up the vehicles. In July and August this year. ins.\nCar Insurance Quinn Direct Quote", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 8207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://saintnazairesociety.org/bridged.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6YK2CJVP6X46TUBZGDR2QGPNYPLPWSF", "length": 1004, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "saintnazairesociety.org", "title": "Bridge D", "raw_content": "The north-south alignment of the two great docking basins in Saint-Nazaire acts as a moat separating the dock area - where the Chariot demolitions took place - from the main body of the town and the countryside beyond, where lay the prospect of escape and evasion. 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As it was the German block was quickly carried by the unstoppable tide of men rushing the bridge from the east.\nA bridge - but not too far", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 1165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sam.lrv.lt/en/about-the-ministry/minister-of-health", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RNSLMMSIATGMIYAWFLZDF7THUXHTYKRX", "length": 1800, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "sam.lrv.lt", "title": "Minister of Health | Ministry of Health of The Republic of Lithuania", "raw_content": "Minister of Health of Lithuania\nStarted at 14th of December, 2016\n1976, U\u017eventis town, Kelm\u0117 district, Lithuania\n2004 Completed residency and gained the qualification of psychiatrist. Gained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences the same year.\nTogether with colleagues initiated and founded the Kaunas Youth Narcological Aid Centre\n2000 Gained the profession of medical doctor\n1994 Joined Kaunas Medical Academy (today \u2013 Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)\nSince 14th of December, 2016 Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania\nSince 2015 Professor in the Department of Health Psychology of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences\n2009 Associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine (later \u2013 Department of Health Psychology) of Kaunas Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences\nBegan the practice of psychiatrist\n2004 Together with colleagues founded the National Tobacco Control Coalition, became its president\nMember of the Advisory Committee of ENYPAT (European Network on Young People and Tobacco)\n2004 Lithuanian expert in the preparation of ASPECT Consortium document for the European Commission on control of tobacco in the enlarged European Union\n2005 Member of the National Health Council\nBoard member of ENSP (European Network for Smoking Prevention)\n2008 Freelance expert of the Committee on Health Affairs of the LR Parliament\nSince 2009 Board member of NORDAN (The Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network)\n2009\u20132012 Public adviser for the Prime Minister on the prevention of tobacco, alcohol and drugs\n2011 Head of the Health Research Institute (WHO cooperation centre) under the Faculty of Public Health of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences\nFamily Wife Rasa, son Tadas (born in 2001) and daughters Ieva (born in 2005), Vaiva (born in 2008)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samarmagazine.org/archive/articles/68", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:46Z", "digest": "sha1:EJEZPJR6H62FSSOXX3IXYOTFZGODO3TB", "length": 10695, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "samarmagazine.org", "title": "A Brick in the United Front | Samar Magazine", "raw_content": "In the summer of 1997, shortly after the brutal police torture of a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima, a group of friends got together to make a banner and posters for a march against police brutality. Our small group had committed to going and made plans to meet and march together from Brooklyn to Manhattan. We called on other contacts and acquaintances, with the idea that many of us could meet in Brooklyn and march under one banner. Although there was no name for us at the time, that was the seed of what would later become South Asians against Police Brutality and Racism. Even in its early stages, this group was unique. It was a meeting point of both first and second generation immigrants from different South Asian nationalities, of people involved with various and separate community organizations and affiliations, and of people with very different political ideas and backgrounds. There had been other occasions for which this mix of people came together to support each other, most notably the New York Taxi Workers Alliance strike in May of 1997, which brought out a large number of South Asian taxi workers and their supporters. However this march was different. At this point, dialogue and outreach about police brutality had essentially not yet begun among South Asian immigrants. But by 1999, attention to police brutality had dramatically increased. On the front page of the June, 1999 issue of the South Asian community newspaper, India in New York, there is a photo of people carrying a red banner with the words, \"South Asians Against Racism and Police Brutality.\" Inside, there are three full pages dedicated to this issue.\nJust a few years later, in the aftermath of the outrageous verdict that acquitted the policemen who killed Amadou Diallo, SAPBR joined DRUM, SAAAC, SALGA and several other groups to organize the first rally and march against police brutality right in the heart of the South Asian community in Jackson Heights, Queens. This rally, held on April 2, 2000, marked the first time South Asians were speaking out against police brutality right in our own neighborhood, with the Stolen Lives Banner (which documents the names of over 1000 people killed by police) as a backdrop to the event. But even more than that, South Asians were expressing outrage against the acquittal of Amadou Diallo's killers in solidarity with all other outraged people. The \"Desi Day of Action for Amadou Diallo and other Victims of Police Brutality\" was covered in several mainstream newspapers, such as Newsday and Daily News, in the South Asian ethnic press, and in other ethnic press, including The Final Call and El Diario.\nIt has been a conscious choice for me, as a second generation South Asian immigrant, to become active and visible in the struggle against police brutality. I spent much of my years growing up detached from the community around me, disconnected from their joys and their struggles. As a daughter of recent immigrants who were just trying to make their way in this world, it seems we all lived very much in our own heads, everyone preoccupied with their own issues. When I went to college and had access to more information about American history, I started to contextualize my family's immigration. Joining other activists in South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism has allowed me to find a niche in an united front with Blacks and Latinos, to lend more voices to their fight against this epidemic of police crimes. And although it has not been a widely discussed issue, police brutality and harassment is not uncommon in the South Asian community, especially against South Asian youth and immigrant workers. SAPBR has provided one way for us to resist the ways in which populations are manipulated in this country, where workforces are shifted at will and \"model minorities\" are put up as smokescreens to hide the deep inequities and flaws of this system. Immigrants from South Asia, like all immigrants, have very much served the economic and political needs of this country, allowing it to sustain its empire and still portray itself as the \"land of the free and brave.\" We see our oppression, as South Asians in the U.S., as part of the global economic and political system, which feeds off the oppression and exploitation of most of the world for the benefit of a few.\nThe 1965 Immigration Reform Act attracted scores of middle-class professionals from India and other parts of South Asia. They became a perfect buffer between black and white, rich and poor. Here were dark people, previously excluded, who were coming in large numbers to finally take part in the American dream. By and large, they were successful, providing skills and labor for the post-industrial, service economy.\nIn the early 1980's, immigration from South Asia decreased, but for the last ten to twelve years, the floodgates have again been open to South Asians. In these years, many more Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have come into the country. There has been a need for a working class population of immigrants to take the place of poor and lower middle-class Blacks and Whites that have moved out of low-wage production jobs. The current massive surplus of labor allows the U.S. to shift people at will and manipulate tensions -- Whites against Blacks and Latinos, Blacks and Whites against immigrants, and immigrants against Blacks. Because Latinos and Blacks have united considerably, the Immigration Reform Act of 1998 has hit Hispanic immigrants the hardest. America has closed that front, and opened the South Asian front. SAPBR aims to add another voice and perspective to the history of struggle and resistance in this country, rather than allowing right-wing and liberal elements of the South Asian community to dominate the recording of our stories.\nIn 1998, we began to network with other progressive South Asian groups, such as the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, Taxi Workers' Alliance, and Workers' Awaaz. We joined them as part of a South Asian Activist Taskforce, which was designed to create an alternative presence around the India Day and Pakistan Day Parades. We held up placards at the Pakistan Day Parade that said, \"Stop the bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan.\" We got involved with the family of a young Indo-Trinidadian man, the victim of a racist attack in his Queens neighborhood. And throughout 1998, we had been building towards getting a visible contingent of South Asians to participate in the October 22<+>nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. This is perhaps the process that most contributed to our growth. We went out into predominantly South Asian neighborhoods to leaflet, poster, and talk to people about their experiences with police brutality. In so doing, we realized that police brutality is, in fact, a reality for many South Asians. We also organized a forum to address the issue of police brutality within the South Asian community. Here, South Asians heard from Margarita Rosario, one of the founders of Parents against Police Brutality, whose son and nephew were both shot in the backs by two cops, former bodyguards of Mayor Giuliani. October 22<+>nd was a huge event for us. We brought a large and vocal crowd, and through the organizing for that event, we became South Asians against Police Brutality and Racism. In fact, our main work over the past few years has been to mobilize for the National Day to Protest and to publicize the Stolen Lives Project, an attempt to document cases of people killed by police in the United States since 1990. The latest book has recorded more than 2,000 names, exposing the symptomatic nature of the epidemic.\nProtest is an essential part of our work. We believe in the importance of showing the powers that be that people are watching and willing to take to the streets. We have taken our banner to many protests, including the Million Youth March, Racial Justice Day, the April 24th Millions for Mumia March in Philadelphia, the Ten Mile March against Police Brutality in New Jersey, many marches and rallies in response to the killing of Amadou Diallo, and smaller rallies and marches on behalf of individual families. When we first started to create a visible presence at marches and rallies, beginning with the Abner Louima march, we could not have anticipated the impact South Asians joining in this multi-national struggle would have. Not only were we warmly received at all rallies and protests, but we receive support and encouragement from many forces in the struggle. The families of people killed by police were especially struck by the South Asian presence. Several are constantly asking us for updates on the movement, for more information on how police brutality comes down on our communities, and for opportunities to speak to more people, especially South Asian youth.\nI am a part of the second generation of South Asians that has grown up here, and although some of us were afforded many privileges, we have also experienced much of the racism and alienation of American society. Many of us have also expressed, at one point or another, a virulent self-hatred that is often directed at first generation immigrants. At the same time, a recent wave of immigrants have grown up in the same generation, but have been politicized by the struggles and uprisings of their home countries. The most exciting part of SAPBR for me is that these two groups of South Asians are meeting, talking, and exchanging experiences and ideas. This is a crucial time for all South Asian activists, first and second generation. We are poised to push the limits and redefine the nature of South Asian political action in this country.\nThis article first appeared in Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian &\nPacific America. Edited by Fred Ho. 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In so far as director\u2019s are partially responsible for an actor\u2019s success, this can be considered a directorial acheivement. But beyond that, the film lacks a powerful script, and a strong artistic drive to be more than a good film with some great performances.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 176.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/89", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YMIYQZUMADL2665IBTSUA5KOTDYQIDMT", "length": 12911, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "sanaacenter.org", "title": "Rapid currency depreciation and the decimation of Yemeni purchasing power | Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies", "raw_content": "By Amal Nasser and Alex J. Harper\nWarnings of currency instability\nEconomic pressures stemming from the two-year-old civil war and regional military intervention in Yemen have taken their toll on the value of the country\u2019s currency. Between early 2015 and November 2016 the Yemeni rial (YR) lost more than half of its value relative to the United States dollar (USD); from November last year until early February 2017 the rial saw a slight gradual depreciation from YR320 to YR330 against the dollar in local market trading.\nAmongst the factors weighing on the rial have been widespread collapse of economic activity, government services, security and humanitarian conditions, the cessation of oil exports (previously the largest source of foreign currency and government revenue) and the Central Bank of Yemen\u2019s (CBY) decreasing ability to intervene in the market, given its depleted foreign currency holdings. The CBY has also been experiencing a severe rial liquidity crisis; in August 2016 most public sector workers \u2013 roughly a quarter of Yemen\u2019s employed \u2013 lost their income due to the CBY not having the physical banknotes with which to pay them. In September 2016 President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, head of the internationally recognized government of Yemen, then ordered the relocation of the CBY\u2019s headquarters from rebel-controlled Sana\u2019a to government-controlled Aden, with the central bank\u2019s subsequent dysfunction further complicating the country\u2019s fiscal and monetary management.\nFactors that have helped mitigate the downward pressure on the rial have been the continuing foreign exchange inflows from international organizations operating in Yemen and remittances from Yemenis abroad \u2013 now the largest source of new foreign currency coming into the country. In addition, foreign actors in the conflict \u2013 notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates \u2013 have for the most part been paying local forces, fighting on behalf of the internationally recognized government, in foreign currency.\nIn early 2017 the Yemeni government in Aden received fresh rial banknotes from the printers in Russia, and in the first week of February started to distribute public sector salaries. The market quickly began to anticipate that the government would, for the first time in nearly half a year, distribute the full monthly public sector salary bill of 65 billion rials; the market was also aware that the central bank did not have the foreign currency reserves necessary to guarantee the rial\u2019s value at the official exchange rate \u2013 currently YR250 to the USD.\nBy the second week of February \u2013 even with the government having distributed only a small portion of total civil servant wages \u2013 the rial began to depreciate rapidly in local market trading. This was compounded by importers\u2019 increasing demand for foreign currency in the lead up Ramadan.[1] Yemenis receiving remittances from abroad then began refusing to convert these into domestic currency; panic entered the market and set off a run on the rial as people rushed to convert their savings to USD, in turn accelerating currency exchangers\u2019 speculative pricing. Within days the rial lost as much as 20 percent in value, trading as low as YR400 to the USD in some parts of the country. In expectation of further depreciation many businesses across the country were carrying out transactions at YR450 to the USD.[2]\nStopgap support measures\nThe governing authorities and CBY administrations on either side of Yemen\u2019s frontlines quickly recognized the rial\u2019s weakness and moved to restabilize the currency. In Sana\u2019a, CBY officials convened meetings with the heads of private banks and financial institutions to request their assistance in stabilizing the rial through providing the market with foreign currency. To curtail currency speculation, the so-called \u201cGovernment of National Salvation\u201d (GNS) \u2013 established in late 2016 by the Houthi rebels and allied General People\u2019s Congress, loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh \u2013 ordered currency traders to cease operations, leading to the forced closure of several exchange offices and the arrest of traders caught violating the ban. The GNS then secured an agreement with major food and fuel importers in northern Yemen to refrain from purchasing foreign exchange on the open market for 30 days.\nMeanwhile in Aden, the internationally recognized government halted the distribution of public sector salaries within several days of having initiated them.[3] Central bank governor, Monasser al-Quaiti, also met with exchange companies and banks in Aden to discuss currency stabilization, assuring them that CBY headquarters was soon to receive significant foreign exchange support.\nBy mid-February, the rial had stabilized at YR340 to the USD. The 30-day importer agreement not to buy foreign currency on the open market expired March 12, though continued GNS commitments that it will offer importers in Sana\u2019a a better-than-market exchange rate has largely kept importers from entering the market for foreign exchange. The strength of such commitments was reinforced in mid-March when the GNS, through the Ministry of Telecommunications, sold US$30 million to the country\u2019s three largest wheat importers.[4] Most importers have thus been accumulating rials through selling goods without placing new orders, depleting existing stocks of food, fuel and other imports and exacerbating shortages of these commodities in many parts of the country.\nPresident Hadi then travelled to Riyadh on February 27 to meet with Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi deputy crown prince and defence minister. Following this Hadi convened a meeting in Aden with his prime minister and governors from across South Yemen, Taiz and Marib, in which Hadi announced that the Saudi government had committed $10 billion in aid to Yemen \u2013 $8 billion for reconstruction projects and $2 billion to help the CBY stabilize the currency and resume import guarantees at YR250 to the USD.\nOn the cusp of rapid depreciation\nThe CBY in Sana\u2019a currently has foreign cash holdings of US$100 million and 200 million Saudi Riyals (SR). The CBY in Aden has at least $700 million in foreign account holdings but no means to access these funds; when President Hadi ordered the relocation of central bank headquarters from Sana\u2019a to Aden last September, he did so without first securing at the new location the financial infrastructure necessary to connect it to the SWIFT network, which governs global financial transactions.[5] Governor al-Quaiti has repeatedly said that the Aden-based CBY would shortly be connected to the SWIFT network, however a financial observer speaking with the Sana\u2019a Center said this is likely still months away.\nYemeni economists closely following recent developments have told the Sana\u2019a Center that the only means the CBY in Sana\u2019a currently has to support the value of the rial is to sell its foreign currency holdings directly to importers; given the CBY\u2019s currently available reserves, this option would be feasible for roughly 6 to 8 weeks before the central bank\u2019s foreign currency reserves were exhausted. It is unlikely the Sana\u2019a-based CBY will voluntarily sell these reserves though, given that they are largely constituted by private Yemeni bank deposits. Despite this, pressure has been mounting from the GNS, which has been facing intense public pressure due to the unpaid public sector salaries. The Houthis in turn have increasingly been demanding that the CBY\u2019s Sana\u2019a branch sell its foreign currency reserves to pay these wages, fueling fierce conflict between them and the central bank, though the bank has so far resisted the pressure.\nA CBY official at the central bank\u2019s Aden headquarters told the Sana\u2019a Center in early March that they were confident the $2 billion in Saudi support would arrive shortly. As of this writing, however, there had been no official Saudi confirmation regarding the proposed financial aid. In the uneasy calm that has thus prevailed in the market between mid-February and the end of March, the Yemeni currency has seen a slight gradual depreciation from YR340 to YR355 in open market trading. If the Saudi aid, or a similarly robust financial intervention, does not arrive in the very near-term to provide the market with foreign currency, however, Yemeni economists are anticipating that the rial will re-enter a phase of rapid depreciation.\nRamifications of evaporating Yemeni purchasing power\nBefore the current conflict began, Yemen had depended on commercial imports to supply almost 90 percent of the country\u2019s nutritional needs \u2013 a crucial reason why the CBY has long been fixated on maintaining the value of the rial, lest average Yemenis be priced out of the market for food.\nYemen is also the poorest and least developed country in the Middle East and North Africa, with the World Bank reporting last year that between 2014 and early 2016 the incidence of poverty in the country rose from 34 percent to 62 percent, based on a national poverty line of $50 per capita per month (in 2014 prices).[6] Importantly, that World Bank report was issued before a quarter of the country\u2019s employed workforce \u2013 some 1.2 million public sector workers \u2013 lost their salaries in August 2016; the poverty rate is certain to have risen dramatically since.\nSimultaneously, the Saudi-led regional military coalition intervening in the civil war has for two years imposed a air and land blockade on northern sections of the country, while numerous impediments to cargo ships have dramatically elevated the insurance and transportation costs for sea imports. Coalition airstrikes, ground fighting and fuel shortages within the country have also hobbled distribution networks inside Yemen.\nThe cumulative result is that food shortages have taken hold in many areas, while in other areas many locals no longer have the ability to purchase the foodstuffs that are available. The United Nation\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization declared in February 2017 that \u201cYemen is facing the largest food security emergency in the world\u201d.[7] The same month the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that 18.8 million people \u2013 more than two thirds of the population \u2013 require some form of humanitarian assistance; some 10.3 million Yemenis are acutely affected and require \u201cimmediate humanitarian assistance to save and sustain their lives,\u201d and 3.3 million people, including 2.1 million children, are acutely malnourished.[8]\nIn the current environment, a sizable erosion of the country\u2019s remaining per capita purchasing power \u2013 as would result from rapid depreciation of the domestic currency \u2013 would significantly accelerate the spread of famine.\nAmal Nasser is a non-resident economist at the Sana\u2019a Center for Strategic Studies, based in Berlin. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the Berlin Institute of Technology.\nAlex J. Harper is an affiliated researcher at the Sana\u2019a Center for Strategic Studies.\n*The authors would like to thank Spencer Osberg for his extensive editing and reviews.\n[1] Yemen traditionally sees a spike of imports about three months before Ramadan, as importers begin to prepare for the expected increase in consumer demand.\n[2] It is important to note that due to the persistent liquidity shortage in rial banknotes there are currently two effective prices when making currency exchanges in Yemen (at both currency exchangers and private banks): one for cash exchanges and another for exchanges via bank accounts. Cash exchanges are carried out at the market price, while currency exchanges via check or electronic means are typically carried out at a rate equal to the market price plus 50 rial; such is an indication of the premium placed on physical currency as a result of the liquidity crisis.\n[3] A consequence of rescinding the public sector wage payments has been sporadic strikes by workers and soldiers in government controlled areas.\n[4] Tariffs on private telecommunications companies \u2013 paid in USD \u2013 are one of the GNS\u2019s few remaining sources of revenue.\n[5] \u201cSWIFT\u201d stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, and is a global communication network that facilitates 24-hour secure international exchange of payment instructions between banks, central banks, multinational corporations, and major securities firms.\n[6] \u201cCOUNTRY ENGAGEMENT NOTE FOR THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN\u201d, The World Bank, June 20, 2016.\n[7] \u201cYemen\u2019s suffering is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis today\u201c, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, February 15, 2017.\n[8] \u201cYemen: UN and partners appeal for $2.1 bln to provide life-saving assistance to 12 million people in 2017\u201c, Relief Web, February 8, 2017.\nNasser is a non-resident economist with the Sana\u2019a Center for Strategic Studies and a researcher focusing on the political economy of Yemen and the wider Middle East and North Africa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 15954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sanat2013.orexca.com/eng/2-09/inna_gorlina.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4SK5GNQJSRRFTTYYGSNL6OWWWBF5CCZI", "length": 10283, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "sanat2013.orexca.com", "title": "San'at :: On the Subject of Ethnic and Cultural Parallels: the Art of Dancing in Khorezm and Turkey", "raw_content": "On the Subject of Ethnic and Cultural Parallels:\nthe Art of Dancing in Khorezm and Turkey\nSpiritual culture of our people has roots that go deep into the centuries, feeding its \"juice\" into the present-day art that develops following certain internal regularities and exists in complex interrelationship with social, political and economic environment.\nThroughout many centuries the peoples of Central Asia and Turkey were connected by common history and culture, language and religion; both regions were often part of the same states, or, being divided by borders, closely interacted with each other. Central Asia and Turkey share many common traditions in the art of theatre and choreography. In this article we review the culture of dancing in Khorezm and Turkey.\nThere are few surviving evidence in the form of pictures or texts that prove the existence and development of the art of dancing in medieval Khorezm. Scarce information about dancing of that time compels one to resort to parallels in other art forms. Still one can safely say that the art of dancing in Central Asia never diapered and its traditions live on.\nIt is universally known that Central Asia is a historical homeland of Turks. Local Seljuk-Oguz tribes which created an advanced culture - a kind of a \"steppe civilization\" - had once left the boundaries of their native land and reached Anatolia where they founded a new state. In the 11th century the Seljuk state spanned across not only most of Central Asia, but also Iran, Iraq, large part of Caucasus and Mediterranean coast. The nation's official religion was Islam. As a result, the Seljuk developed a peculiar culture in which Central Asian, Persian and Byzantine features are intertwined.\nAlthough Islam partly allowed for music, it was strictly forbidden to write about the art of acting (1, p. 126). However, as some sources suggest, theatre and musical culture still developed in the palaces of local rulers of that time. For instance, the luxury palace in Termez built by sultan Mahmud Gaznevi and known as The Hall of Entertainment (2, p. 182) never did without actors, dancers and musicians. Historian Sadriddin Hussein also reports that the Seljuk palace hosted the performance of comedians (3, p. 23) in which dance is an essential component.\nIn late 11th century the dynasty of Khorezm-shahs came to power in Urgench and subordinated the entire north-western part of Central Asia, freeing Khorezm from the Seljuk. The state of the Khorezm-shahs reached it greatest might in early 13th century, with its boundaries stretching from the northern shores of Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from Caucasus to Hindukush. Medieval history upheavals, such as the establishment of strong nation-states, also influenced the development of art and all its forms, namely spatial, plastic, visual, as well as poetry, music and dance evolved in interaction. Creative ideas of the century played a cementing role in this process, encouraging the search for an integrated expression. As for the dance culture, there were two distinct trends in the way it was developing: a secular art of court dancing that reached its heyday in the 14th-15th centuries - the era of \"Timurid Renaissance\"; and a more democratic dance art that lived in urban trade and manufacture centres. In terms of its organizational form, it existed as professional associations of performers and musicians.\nThe art of dancing of that time is illustratively represented in oriental miniature that, despite all its poeticism and metaphor, allows an insight into medieval lifestyle with an almost photographic accuracy. Miniature gives us an idea about the type of dancing, the dancers, musicians, musical instruments, rope walkers, acrobats, etc.\nAmong the Uzbek schools of dancing, the one of Khorezm stands out in its remarkable uniqueness, rich and diverse heritage. Researching the dance art of Khorezm, the author discovered a rare edition of Turkish miniatures of the 17th-18th centuries. The comparison between dance elements pictured in these miniatures and contemporary movements of Khorezmian dancers recorded during field work in that area reveals similarities in their character, performance, costume and places of performance.\nA 17th century miniature titled \"Entertaining Evening\" (4) shows a group of jesters moving in a circle in front of men sitting in a semicircle. The jesters are wearing (conic) hats and comic masks. The jesters make hopping moves, alternately raising one foot from the floor. The rhythm of movements is fast and energetic. The motion of a jester on the far left is particularly similar to a characteristic move in a Khorezmian dance irgitma ufar with its typical step when one foot is briefly thrust forward (5, p. 59). Amazingly similar are the elements of jester dance pictured in the miniature and Khorezmian dance maskharaboz ufori or gul ufori - a comic dance of the maskharaboz (comedians, clowns). Commonality is also found in costumes and head-dresses, but most importantly - in the type of movements and postures of the dancers. Remarkably, the maskharaboz are not wearing masks but have very expressive mimic of the face that was formerly covered by a mask.\nComedian and jester performance was quite common in Khorezm. Both in Uzbekistan and Iran these performances took place in a similar environment - on a small rug spread among the viewers sitting in a circle. The same kind of theatre-style performance once existed in Turkey and was know as orta-oyunu.\nSocial festivities or ceremonies such as weddings or traditional games could never be held without comedians, musicians and dancers. To become a comedian, one had to be witty and possess improvisation skill, be able to sing and perform pantomime jester dances, make funny movements, be a good imitator and perform acrobatic feats. Given such a diversity of skills that comedians must have, their mastery was always improving.\nClear impression about the character of the dance and dancers is given by the 18th century miniature \"Dances and Games before the Sultan\" (4). Already from the composition of the band and its sound (percussion instruments dominate) one can guess about the nature of the performance: rhythmically clear, energetic and passionate. A curious feature in how the dancers are pictured is the fact that, first, male dances are wearing women's costumes (long skirts); secondly, they dance under their own accompaniment on kairak (castanets); thirdly, once can notice that the dancers have flexible and free-moving torsos and rounded arm line in the poses; transition from one pose into another is smooth and flowing. Another peculiarity is that all dancers are pictured in different poses - perhaps that was an improvisation dance? Jesters are in the front line: they are wearing men's costumes and different head-dresses. This jester dance is different from the one described earlier as the movements are grotesque, with elements of imitation, play and pantomime.\nComparing the images of dancers and jesters, we find that dancers mainly work their arms and torso, and the amplitude of their movements and poses is greater and less constrained vis-a-vis jesters, whereas in the pictures showing jester dances we can see lesser amplitude and fast-changing movements and poses, as well as expressivity of arms and torso, but the arms movements represent day-to-day life gestures more than dancing motions. Here we can find more complex leg movement: knees half-bent, knees forward and knees sideward, with raising (or kicking) legs in the air backwards and forwards, probably while jumping. One should also note a similarity between movements and poses of the dancers in the miniature and the movements and poses of Khorezmian maskharaboz dancing: feet position in the jester dance is typical for the key leg movements in Khorezmian men's dances.\nOverall, the Turkish miniature provides a great aid for the studies of Central Asian art, including that of Khorezm, as the culture of both regions developed in interconnection. For instance, the 18th century miniature \"The Performance of Acrobats and Dancers from Edirne\" (4) gives an opportunity to see how the performances of rope-walkers, stilts-walkers, jesters and dancers were staged in medieval East. The miniature shows seven dancers wearing women's attire: long skirts and round skull-caps with a plaited hair strand showing from under the caps. All of them dance accompanying themselves on the kairak. From the sight of it, their movements are soft and flowing. At the same point of the musical sound the characters perform different movements and poses as if in an improvisational dance.\nThe movements of a dancer second from left in the miniature present the most complete coincidence with the movements in Khorezmian norim-norim dance. The Turkish miniature also shows a rope-walker on a high tie-rope. We should note that rope-walking has always been and remains a very common and popular entertainment in Khorezm. Rope-walkers were even able to dance on the rope, performing different acrobatic tricks. People of this trade were raised and trained in several regions of Central Asia, led the life of ramblers and wanderers and were popular in Iran, Turkey and Caucasus.\nMen wearing women's dress was common in the performance of bacha dancers (in Khorezm they were known as uglon). The evidence of this is found in the memories of travellers and artists (A. Wamberi, A. I. Samoilovich, V. V. Vereshchagin, L. E. Dmitriev-Kavkazskiy).\nWe should note that information obtained from literary and visual sources and materials gathered by the author during expeditions to Khorezm provided a unique opportunity to analyse and draw parallels between Turkish dances pictured in the miniatures and traditional Khorezmian dances, which demonstrate the existence of ethnic and cultural connections between these peoples.\n1.\t\u0420\u0430\u0445\u043c\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u041c. \u0420. \u0423\u0437\u0431\u0435\u043a\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0442\u0435\u0430\u0442\u0440 \u043e\u0442 \u0434\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043d\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0438\u0445 \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d \u0434\u043e 1917 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u0422\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0435\u043d\u0442, 1981.\n2.\t\u041f\u0443\u0433\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0413. \u0410., \u0420\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0435\u043b\u044c \u041b. \u0418. \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0438\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0441\u0441\u0442\u0432 \u0423\u0437\u0431\u0435\u043a\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0430. \u041c., 1965.\n3.\tSadriddin al Hyseyni. Ahbar uddevlet selcukijde. Ankara, 1943.\n4.\tEttinghausen R. Turkish miniatures. UNESCO, 1965.\n5.\t\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0420. \u0417. \u0425\u043e\u0440\u0435\u0437\u043c\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0442\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0446. \u0422\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0435\u043d\u0442, 1975.\n6.\tMartinovitch N. N. The Turkish Theatre. New York, 1933.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 10761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sasha-landskov-5hzd.squarespace.com/gun-ar-hunting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OJOM7A7EV5ZDVXWX25RNWITH2O62K6LB", "length": 5093, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "sasha-landskov-5hzd.squarespace.com", "title": "5 Reasons You Should be Hunting with an AR \u2014 Hunter's Handbook", "raw_content": "5 Reasons You Should be Hunting with an AR\nSo-called \u201cblack guns\u201d are ideal for competition and personal defense, but they\u2019re also a fantastic option for hunting large and small game\nIn the 1950\u2019s, Eugene Stoner designed a semiautomatic rifle for ArmaLite that would, over the course of the following decades, become one of the most popular sporting and military weapons every developed. The civilian version of these rifles became known as the AR-15 and AR-10, with the AR-10 being the larger of the two. The \u201cAR\u201d does not (and never did) stand for assault rifle, and while these guns have become the subject of much controversy, they remain popular with civilian shooters, and that includes hunters. The AR in \"AR-15\" rifle stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s.\nBut why should you consider purchasing an AR for your next hunting rifle? Here are five good reasons.\nARs are Reliable: Semiautomatic hunting rifles must function under harsh field conditions, and the AR\u2014a cousin of the selective fire weapon carried by the U.S. military\u2014has a lengthy track record for dependability in terrible conditions. Most AR rifles have a direct impingement gas system, wherein gas escaping from the fired cartridge serves to cycle the action, and modern gas systems function very well with a wide range of loads. Few people are more familiar with AR reliability than Kyle Lange, a helicopter pilot who assists with aerial hog eradication efforts. Lange sees ARs go through thousands of rounds each week without failure, and on a hog eradication flight with Kyle I fired several hundred rounds through my Mossberg AR without a single incident.\nARs are Configurable: That\u2019s right\u2014you can have your AR any way to like it, and you don\u2019t have to be a gunsmith to make many of the upgrades. The AR\u2019s modular design means that you can dress it with any \u201cfurniture\u201d that you would like. With so many options, it can be hard to figure out what you want, but one thing is for sure\u2014no matter which component of your AR you are looking to change, there\u2019s probably a different model available to you. Want to add a handguard with light rails for hog hunting in complete darkness? That\u2019s no problem. Fall in love with a new six-position telescoping buttstock? Switch it out. Want your gun Cerakoted? Want to add an optic? A new trigger? A different muzzle device? Sure, go ahead. These rifles can truly be built to your exact specifications\u2014by you.\nARs are Accurate: Lying prone in the sandy soil of the Utah plains, I looked through my Trijicon scope at a steel target perched 600 yards away. That\u2019s a long shot for any rifle, but the DPMS Hunter rifle I was using was purpose-built for long-range shots like this, and when the rifle clapped I heard the echo of ringing steel a few seconds later. The shot was dead-center.\nI\u2019m not advocating long shots. You should stay within your maximum effective range when hunting game, but the maximum range of an AR with a good optic in the hands of an experienced shooter is pretty far. With a properly-sighted AR, I\u2019ve never had trouble making clean killing shots on game like hogs and deer at 250 yards, and the beauty of the semiautomatic AR design is that you\u2019ve always got a fast follow-up shot available if you need it.\nARs Are Available in a Wide Selection of Calibers: Many people believe that ARs are available in only one caliber, and nothing could be farther from the truth. The most common chambering is 5.56/.223 Remington, and that\u2019s an ideal caliber choice for hunting coyotes and varmints. But ARs are available in a host of other calibers too, including .204 Ruger, .243 Winchester, 6.5 Creedmoor, .300 AAC Blackout, .308 Winchester and .450 Bushmaster just to name a few. With an available list of calibers like that, there are very few big game animals that you can\u2019t hunt with a quality AR rifle. In addition, the AR\u2019s design allows you to swap out uppers, so you don\u2019t have to buy a new gun just because you want to shoot a different caliber. You could have a 5.56 upper with a high-magnification scope for varmint and predator hunting and, in a few seconds, you could switch the upper to another caliber like .300 Blackout for hunting deer and hogs. There are a number of great AR hunting rounds too, like Hornady\u2019s Black ammo with V-MAX, SST and FTX bullets\u2014all great options for various types of hunting.\nARs Are Safe: There\u2019s a notion that ARs are dangerous, but like most any other firearm, it is the individual that is handling them that makes a firearm either safe or dangerous. The AR\u2019s robust design makes them sturdy and effective when using proper ammo, and the safety is easy to find and manipulate. Contrary to what some people believe, civilian ARs are not automatic weapons, but rather operate in a semiautomatic manner, meaning you\u2019ll have to allow the trigger to reset between shots. When handled properly, AR rifles are perfectly safe, but it\u2019s always essential with any firearm regardless of the design to learn how to properly handle the gun and always abide by the basic rules of firearms safety.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sayerji.com/author/admin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRL7DO2HOPYGDK4Q5CLG4I7PYKTKWIAC", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sayerji.com", "title": "admin | Sayer Ji", "raw_content": "By admin|2016-11-02T10:02:57+00:00November 2nd, 2016|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sayyidali.com/news-analysis/swedish-minister-resigns-after-comparing-israel-to-nazi-germany.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:FGRW5N7HJONP4OVJW5KJJXP24WVYIUOB", "length": 2260, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sayyidali.com", "title": "Swedish minister resigns after comparing Israel to Nazi Germany", "raw_content": "Swedish minister resigns after comparing Israel to Nazi Germany\nSweden`s housing minister has been resigned after footage of him comparing the treatment of Palestinians by Israel to that of the Jews by the Nazis surfaced in local media.\nMehmet Kaplan, a high-profile Swedish politician of Turkish origin and member of the Green party, was serving as a minister of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 until his resignation on Monday and his video interview from 2009 in which he says that \u201cIsraelis treat Palestinians in a way that is very like that in which Jews were treated during Germany in the 1930s.\u201d\nAlthough the statement about Israel`s policies towards Palestinians was made before Kaplan took office, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, from the Social Democrats, said that \u201cMehmet Kaplan\u2019s overall assessment of the situation is that he will not be able to act as a minister and I share that assessment,\u201d while announcing his resignation from the government.\nThe publication of the extract from his interview to Somali Star TV by the Svenska Dagbladet daily was the last straw that forced him out of his office.\nKaplan himself, however, denied that he had crossed any ethical line and didn\u2019t offer any apology. He admitted that he had \u201con several occasions criticized the actions of the state of Israel severely\u201d but stressed that he was not \u201canti-Semitic.\u201d Instead, he said that he had made decision to resign leave as the excessive media publicity would prevent him from doing his job as a minister.\nOther Swedish officials were far more critical of Kaplan\u2019s comments, however, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m calling them \u201cterrible,\u201d the Guardian reported.\nKaplan is known as a passionate advocate of an independent Palestinian state. In 2010 he one of the several members of the European Parliament who joined the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, a set of six ships attempting to bring 10,000 tons of humanitarian cargo through Israel\u2019s blockade into Gaza. Israeli security services raided the ships, killing nine activists.\nRelations between Sweden and Israel have deteriorated dramatically in recent years after the ruling coalition government officially recognized the Palestinian state in 2014, becoming the first EU member-state to do so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sayyidali.com/news-analysis/the-west-admits-to-saudis-failure-in-yemen-political-resolution-with-ansarullah-iranian-participation.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YY5RDMX4BQFV3MRQ2IKYBQDWOJMQNBP7", "length": 7566, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "sayyidali.com", "title": "The West Admits to Saudi\u2019s Failure in Yemen: Political Resolution with \u2018Ansarullah\u2019, Iranian Participation", "raw_content": "The West Admits to Saudi\u2019s Failure in Yemen: Political Resolution with \u2018Ansarullah\u2019, Iranian Participation\nThe last few hours witnessed significant developments that revealed the birth of a political movement around the Yemeni Crisis. Optimism remains constrained by the ambitions of Al Saud on one hand, and their common concerns with the US administration from investing the Russian achievements in Syria in the Yemeni File on the other hand, leaving the doors open for more Saudi Arabian crimes.\nThe latest regional developments, in addition to the Saudi alliance\u2019s military operations in Yemen, have influenced on the political track of the Yemeni Crisis. These last hours carried significant developments highlighted by statements from large capitals about the possibility of ending the eight month long aggression. This novel movement emerged as a result of the latest regional variables, and from the Russian military participation in Syria in particular, which came to be reflected in the hasty setting of a date for the Yemeni talks in the middle of this month, despite the absence of guarantees of the success of this movement, taking into account the American emphasis on preventing the investment of Syrian Russian achievements in Yemen as in Iraq.\nThe first public signs of this movement were reflected by the statements of the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and his British counterpart Philip Hammond. Al-Jubeir discussed during a press conference with Hammond several \u201cindications\u201d that indicate an end of military operations, which in his opinion are \u201cthe acceptance of the Houthis and [Former President] Ali Abdullah Saleh of the UN Security Council Resolution 2216 and engage in the United Nations talks on this basis\u201d, adding that \u201cwe also see the achievements gained on the ground, as most Yemeni territory that the rebels had seized have been regained\u201d. As for Hammond, he confirmed that the military operations in Yemen \u201care coming to an end\u201d.\n\u201cWe notice that the military phase of this campaign is nearing its end, because the coalition forces now have a dominant military standing in the country\u201d, Hammond added after his talks with King Salman and Saudi Officials.\nUnannounced Backgrounds Hidden Intentions\nConcerned Yemeni sources revealed to \u201cAl Akhbar\u201d some information that place Saudi Arabia and the West closer to reviving the political track, notably the United States\u2019 admission of the importance of Iran\u2019s presence in any regional negotiations about Syria [Statements of State Department Spokesman, John Kirby]. It is the same regional framework that requires the participation of Iran in any talks related to the Yemeni crisis. Hammond also stated to regional officials before the meeting in Vienna that the West informed Riyadh that \u201cthe time they requested for the completion of a certain military standing in Yemen is over\u201d, and the continuation of the war \u201cmay lead to complications that Saudi Arabia may not be able to contain\u201d.\nIn the same context, Riyadh, Paris, and London agreed that Iran will be a partner in any talks in this regard, where the Islamic Republic is the only external party that has a serious impact on \u201cAnsarullah\u201d according to the belief of the previously mentioned forces. However, the Saudis asked for a more significant Russian presence in the negotiations about Yemen \u201cbecause they do not trust the Iranians\u201d according to the sources.\nThe sources also relayed the confirmation of Saudi officials in front of British and Russian officials that the war on Yemen \u201cexhausted Saudi Arabia\u201d, which necessitates that they quickly exit this war that economically burdened Riyadh, to coincide with the increase of the disputes between the members of the ruling family on the war entering its eighth month without real results.\nWestern capitals informed Riyadh of their concerns regarding the deterioration of the situation in the south of Yemen, where the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has not been able to hold any political or services establishment. These countries were officially informed by the Emirates that there is no party controlling the security situation in the South, and that \u201cal-Qaeda\u201d and \u201cISIS\u201d are competing for power.\nWesterns and UAE officials spread incidents of the worsening chaos in the South. To name a few, the departure of the Prime Minister of Hadi\u2019s government Khaled Bahah from Aden quickly after it was targeted by \u201cISIS\u201d after restricting his movement, in addition to the problems raised by the appointment of Nayef al Bakri as governor of Aden, delayed salary payment in the city, and the intervention of extremist organizations in public life with the attempt to impose separation between male and female students at universities in Aden.\nThe Western ally had explicitly informed Saudi Arabia that what Riyadh considers \u201can achievement in its seizing control of the south is chump change for the other side\u201d, especially since the South is today under \u201cal-Qaeda\u201d control. Westerners also interacted positively with the decision of Ansarullah to \u201caccept international resolutions\u201d, which helped them make Riyadh and Abu Dhabi understand that any political process will not witness any success without parternship with \u201cAnsarullah\u201d and \u201cthe General People\u2019s Congress\u201d.\nExpulsion and Negotiations\nThese attitudes reflected on the behavior of Saudi Arabia in several of its steps:\nFirst, the Saudis raised the level of meetings with the international envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh, after UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was vexed by the marginalization of the role of Ould Cheikh and Riyadh ignoring him [Ould Cheikh], which resulted in the UN envoy meeting Mohammad bin Nayef and Mohammad bin Salman.\nSecond, the agreement on preparing for an extended negotiations session with the participation of the Yemeni Parties, while the possible participation of regional and international parties thereat is being studied as well. The session will be held on the 15th of the next month under the auspices of the United Nations. It has not yet been decided if the session will be held in Muscat or Geneva.\n\u201cAl-Akhbar\u201d has learned that the negotiations will start from resolution 2216, without prior conditions, and with the consideration that \u201cAnsarullah\u201d is a key component of Yemeni political life, which Hammond recently conveyed to al-Jubayr. However, what worries Riyadh most about the future of any solution in Yemen is what they openly said in front of mediators, that they want \u201cdefinite guarantees that Houthis will not pose a threat to Saudi National Security\u201d, and this phrase was translated later on in the form of a request \u201cdisarming the Yemeni army and \u2018Ansarullah\u2019 of their missile force\u201d, with a guarantee from \u201cgreat powers\u201d that this request will be fulfilled, in reference to Russia and Iran\u201d.\nBut why was the date of the talks scheduled after two weeks?\nSome sources following this newfound political activity say that the West has decided to give Saudi Arabia and its allies a final deadline in which it would conduct a field tour which aims to achieve results that would affect the negotiations. In this context, there\u2019s talk of a major operation expected in the provinces of Maarib and Taiz, which have witnessed an alliance airdrop the night before last. Saudi officials paid one of the main tribal leaders in the border region of Al-Jawf, north Yemen, 800 million Rials in order to buy the votes of the tribal leaders in the province, promising them that Al-Jawf would fall without clashes, if they would declare loyalty to the \u201clegitimacy of Hadi\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 11600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://schedule.paltc.org/speaker/robin_jump_md_phd.1x3olzda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:08Z", "digest": "sha1:XGWKSWLHBDWDBM7SHKSJAXOW4CKRGJGK", "length": 682, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "schedule.paltc.org", "title": "Robin Jump, MD, PhD - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018", "raw_content": "Robin Jump, MD, PhD\nRobin Jump, MD, PhD, is an Infectious Disease physician at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. 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Thanks to his frequent collaborations with Mozzy, The 23-year-old singer was featured on his successful debut album, 1 Up Top Ahk. He has also worked with TDE member, Jay Rock and hip-hop OG, Too $hort.\nThe singer released his debut EP, -16/94 earlier this year. Check it out above and watch the video for his single \u201cControl\u201d below. Make sure you don\u2019t miss out on any new music. Follow DCMBR here.\nPrevious article Goldlink and Miguel Connect on \u2018Got Friends\u2019\nNext article Watch: Kur is Lovesick in \u201cGirl\u201d\nTagged in DCMBR, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamra, Mozzy, TDE, Too Short", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sierraloaded.net/investigate-me-if-i-am-corrupt-henry-macauley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:AS5B5QPJ3HCX3KB3MK26GUZVLLD3HYRS", "length": 3441, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sierraloaded.net", "title": "President's Koroma Minister Gives ACC Go Ahead To Investigate Him For Corruption", "raw_content": "President\u2019s Koroma Minister Gives ACC Go Ahead To Investigate Him For Corruption\nThere have been persistent calls from members of the public for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to institute an investigation into the activities of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) and the Ministry of Energy for their failure to provide regular electricity supply to consumers.\nIn an apparent response to the call, Minister of Energy, Henry Macauley, while addressing journalists yesterday at the Ministry of Information and Communication, said the ACC should investigate him if perchance he is involved in any form of corruption, adding that his ministry had contracted the services of Aggreko Electricity Company for six months to fill in the electricity gap during the dry season and that the project has helped improved power supply at the Black Hall Road power station over the past months.\nHe spoke to issues raised against EDSA and his ministry especially relating to the award of contract to Aggreko for the supply of electricity to some parts of the city, transfer of the EDSA secretariat to a rented building, plans of expanding electricity supply across the country and more especially his commitment in improving service delivery in that all important sector.\n\u201cWithout Aggreko electricity plant, over 30 thousand customers, especially those from the eastern part of the city, would not have got electricity supply. It is important to note that electricity is an expensive business and people must understand that. I know I am not corrupt because my ministry was the first institution to have signed a memorandum of understanding with the ACC to fight corruption in the electricity sector. Investigate me if I am corrupt,\u2019\u2019 he said.\nIt would be recalled that on Friday, 30th October, 2015 the ACC indicted two EDSA employees in the southern city of Bo for allegedly soliciting an inducement and unlawfully abstracting electricity by connecting an electrical appliance to an EDSA installed metre.\nThat notwithstanding, the authority has come under serious criticism as independent media institution Democracy Radio FM 98.1 continues to air damning reports of how EDSA officers are exploiting members of the public.\nMacaulay is not the first Energy Minister to have been accused of corruption. One of his predecessors, Haja Hafsatu Kabbah, who is now High Commissioner to Nigeria, was in the early years of this administration implicated in an alleged corruption scam involving a private power generation company from Nigeria \u2013 Income Electrics. Although she was not charged by the ACC, she was moved to the Fisheries Ministry, where she was eventually indicted and convicted of corruption, although she later won a controversial appeal.\nPresident Koroma had made the supply of electricity, especially to the country\u2019s capital Freetown \u2013 once described as \u201cthe darkest city in the world\u201d \u2013 a key priority of his Agenda for Change.\nBut despite spending millions of dollars a month on fuel to power electricity generation stations at Kingtom and Blackhall Road, and hydro power from Bumbuna, challenges in electricity supply still persist.\nTags Henry Macauley\nRio Olympics Opening Ceremony: Sierra Leone Ranked Second Best West African Nation\nFormer Minister Tells CRC To Scrap Vice President's Office And Replace With \"Prime Minister\"\nPresident Koroma Receives Three National Awards - But For What?, CLICK Here To Find Out", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://siress.com/power-supply-repair/manufacturer/Dynair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:NWTQBXI4KFRVAJHCNYOHYZ24ZSW73GOM", "length": 2279, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "siress.com", "title": "Dynair Power Supply Repair, Siress Enterprises", "raw_content": "Quality Dynair Power Supply Repair Service\nQuality Dynair Power Supply Repair\nThe following is a list of many of the Dynair models we repair:\nAs the industry\u2019s premier source for repair services, we constantly strive for perfection, detailed by the wondrous things that we have achieved with commodities like Dynair Power supplies. Since every single facet must be accomplished without any glitches, we intensely focus on all sides of our repair services. Thus, we were able to gain the favor of consumers that mainly utilize Dynair Power supplies. Undaunted in the face of stringent requirements, our company issues the finest brand of repair solutions, one which will directly address the most prominent problems of the products. With the impressive reputation associated with Dynair Power supplies, it would be unthinkable if our company were to commit erroneous repair tasks. Unlike other repair service companies, we thoroughly understand the facets that are essentially at stake. For example, if were to commit a mistake, then our reputation as a topnotch repair service provider and the above mentioned OEM\u2019s reputation as a power supply manufacturer can be inopportunely tainted with an undesirable color. With this in mind, our company heads out to mend various power supplies with an unyielding amount of commitment for quality. And remarkably, that facet alone keeps us ahead of other repair service companies in the industry.\nEver since the start of company\u2019s operations, we were able to pinpoint the most pressing concerns of consumers and OEMs with commodities such as Dynair Power supplies. In fact, we are very proud to say that we have been dealing with the above mentioned commodities for over 16 years. Thus, were able to forge a strong relationship with top power supply manufacturers, headed by the highly respected Dynair. Since the industry considers us as the finest company in the current crop of repair service providers, then it is our intention to perform at the highest possible level. Hopefully, we will be able to branch out and get the nod of more top players in the power supply industry. At the end of the day, we will be able to connect the most prominent players in the power supplies game, with our company conveniently sitting in the center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sllc.ku.edu/french-and-italian-degrees", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TNCBTFYXC2FDQEZA5YZPJKT27GVW4APT", "length": 1682, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "sllc.ku.edu", "title": "French and Italian Degrees | School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures", "raw_content": "The Department of French and Italian offers a comprehensive undergraduate program in French language, literature, and culture, as well as Francophone literature and culture from around the world. We offer a summer study abroad option in Paris, and a full semester study abroad program in Angers. Our summer and semester-long study abroad programs in Paris and Angers offer a wide variety of levels to students at all stages of linguistic competence. The major prepares students for a variety of careers in teaching or in graduate studies, as well as in fields such as interpreting, international business, art, art history, and travel.\nAdditionally, the Department of French & Italian offers a comprehensive undergraduate program in Italian language, literature, and culture. The course sequence Italy and the Italians (ITAL 335-336) is also offered via ITV at the Edwards Campus in Kansas City. Our summer study abroad program in Florence offers a wide variety of levels to students at all stages of linguistic competence. The major prepares students for a variety of careers in teaching or in graduate studies, as well as in fields such as interpreting, international business, art, art history, architecture, and travel.\nM.A. and Ph.D. degrees are offered in French literature, with a balanced emphasis on all periods from medieval through twentieth century. Graduate study is supported through teaching assistantships offered to qualified candidates, who receive thorough training in language instruction. Excellent facilities, strong library holdings, and a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research assure students of a challenging and professional graduate preparation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 9070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 147.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smartleges.com/en/law-library/act-n-20-of-1952-inflammable-substances-act/2009712", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GQJAZNDFSUBN3XB33VXILH36ATQYGVQL", "length": 3135, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "smartleges.com", "title": "Act n\u00ba 20 of 1952, Inflammable Substances Act, Act n\u00ba 20 of 1952", "raw_content": "INFLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES ACT\nTHE INFLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES ACT, 1952\n[6th March, 1952]\nAn Act to declare certain substances to be dangerously inflammable and to provide for the regulation of their import, transport, storage and production by applying thereto the Petroleum Act, 1934, and the rules thereunder, and for certain matters connected with such regulation.\nThis Act may be called the Inflammable Substances Act, 1952.\nIn this Act,--\n(a) \"dangerously inflammable substance\" means any liquid or other substance declared to be dangerously inflammable by this Act;\n(b) \"Petroleum Act\" means the Petroleum Act, 1934 (XXX of 1934).\nSection 3. Declaration of certain substances to be dangerously inflammable\nThe liquids and other substances hereinafter mentioned, namely:-\n(1) acetone,\n(2) calcium phosphide,\n(3) carbide of calcium,\n(4) cinematograph films having a nitro-cellulose base,\n(5) ethyl alcohol,\n(6) methyl alcohol,\n(7) wood naphtha,\nare hereby declared to be dangerously inflammable.\nSection 4. Power to apply Petroleum Act to dangerously inflammable sub-stances\n(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply any or all of the provisions of the Petroleum Act and of the rules made thereunder, with such modifications as it may specify, to any dangerously inflammable substance, and thereupon the provisions so applied shall have effect as if such substance had been included in the definition of \"petroleum\" under that Act.\n(2) The Central Government may make rules providing specially for the testing of any dangerously inflammable substance to which any of the provisions of the Petroleum Act have been applied by notification under sub-section 91), and such rules may supplement any of the provisions of Chapter II of that Act in order to adapt them to the special needs of such tests.\nSection 5. Operation of certain notifications and rules\nNotifications or rules issued or purporting to have been issued under section 30 of the Petroleum Act between the 1st day of April, 1937, and the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been issued or made under this Act, and continue in force accordingly.\nSection 6. Validation of certain acts and indemnity in respect thereof\nAll acts of executive authority, proceedings and sentences which have been done, taken or passed with respect to, or on account of, any inflammable substance since the 1st day of April, 1937, and before the commencement of this Act by any officer of Government or by any person acting under his authority or otherwise in pursuance of an order of the Government in the belief or purported belief that the acts, proceedings or sentences were being done, taken or passed under the Petroleum Act shall be as valid and operative as if they had been done, taken or passed in accordance with law; and no suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintained or continued against any person whatever on the ground that any such acts, proceedings or sentences were not done, taken or passed in accordance with law.\nSection 7. Repeal of section 30, Act XXX of 1934\nSection 30 of the Petroleum Act is hereby repealed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://somervilleartscouncil.org/taxonomy/term/30682", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FRMZMS5I62JBCSPEKQXJCW6432766CWV", "length": 497, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "somervilleartscouncil.org", "title": "Water Colors | sac", "raw_content": "Submitted by Fantastic Liars on Tue, 2012-05-15 19:39\nhttp://www.facebook.com/fantasticliars\n...and when we came to, we didn't know who we were , or how we wound up in the middle of the desert, surrounded by guitars, drums, and a thousand dying vampires, we were just happy to be alive. But when we hopped into that crimson minivan of freedom to make our escape, we knew we had to tell our story, so we vowed to form the greatest band ever, we are, Fantastic Liars.\nRead more about Fantastic Liars", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 2466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sometimes-always.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YRARTFUPIBYT6WQWKE3GFZOZZLXGZ6QA", "length": 3268, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sometimes-always.com", "title": "Sometimes Always", "raw_content": "is a full service design studio.\nWe are based in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, and we act internationally, creating concepts, narratives and design through the intersection of multiple disciplines. Our work provides graphic design, brand identities, websites, creative direction and environmental design for cultural institutions, businesses and individuals in art, fashion, education, architecture and publishing. We concentrate on creating intelligent design based on research, practice and collaboration.\nWith a careful touch to research and creativity, we focus on the quality and tactility of things.\nOur work derives from a need to clarify and create relevant solutions based on aesthetics and functionality. We help our clients to realize their projects through strategic and creative thinking that aims to challenge expectations. We recognize that multidisciplinary creative collaboration is the key to a successful project, so we work closely to a range of creative specialists from varying fields such as architects, writers, illustrators and photographers.\nFounded by Gabriel Finotti, in 2012, Sometimes Always started as digital platform that portrayed subcultural issues and characters of the contemporary urban environment. We soon became a publishing practice exploring printed-matter, music and video. At the same time, Gabriel started working independently as a graphic designer. The two projects ran in parallel for years until they merged into a single front in 2017. Gabriel is graduated in Architecture and Urbanism and have a master\u2019s degree in Publishing at London College of Communication.\nis also a platform for aesthetic research.\nIn addition to the studio, Sometimes Always works as a multi-format space for design research and co-creative activities coordinated by Gabriel Finotti and Hick Duarte. We believe that the balance between commissioned projects and authorial production is crucial to any creative career. Therefore, we want to continue to provide excellent visual services, but we also want to solidify a place where we can explore new possibilities through trial and error.\nOur purpose is to stimulate a critical understanding of the contemporary subcultures and aesthetics through collaboration. As a non-place to disconnect ourselves from preconceptions, budgets and deadlines, Sometimes Always works as neutral zone for creativity. We are building a space of transience where we can put into practice radical ideas that would remain in silence anywhere else. A place to question design rules and beauty standards. A place to champion the inappropriate and the failure based on discussions and frictions. A laboratory for trial that works as a thermometer for ideas that could or could not be applied in a commercial sphere.\nDolce Stil Criollo - Tropical Opacity\nAn experimental, self-referential and liberating project.\nWe believe that conflict is not a problem, so we work as an experimental bureau that is sometimes a publisher, sometimes a label and sometimes a clothing brand. We are always teaming up with contemporary artists, designers and writers to produce materials that can take form in many ways: a limited edition book, a clothing line, a mixtape or just a digital narrative. If you want to join us, please do get in touch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://soundadvice.ecoreintl.com/categories/featured/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UZN75UQLXH56HRNUS6DYYJIYSCH3MS7N", "length": 733, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "soundadvice.ecoreintl.com", "title": "Sound Advice / Featured", "raw_content": "Ecore announces the hiring of Michael Raley as acoustic engineer. Raley has nearly 10 years of experience as an acoustical consultant specializing in architectural and environmental acoustics. He has extensive experience in acoustics for the healthcare, multi-family, hospitality, education, corporate office, and performing arts industries. In his new position, Raley will provide critical services to\u2026\nThank you to everyone who joined us for our October event \u201cAutumn in Amish Country.\u201d We had 8 acoustical consulting firms in the Northeast & Midwest represented, and I think we all developed great relationships during this time while also learning a lot about Architectural Testing and Armstrong as well as Ecore. We also posted\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://southernpigskin.com/recruiting/2020-south-georgia-player-rankings-v3.0/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F7IKQ3SF2P6QPNG4S7BAIBB5WMXISVOV", "length": 2662, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "southernpigskin.com", "title": "2020 South Georgia Player Rankings: V3.0 - Southern Pigskin", "raw_content": "Version 3.0 expands from a Top 38 to a Top 45 with eight new names.\nIt\u2019s been two months since the last version of the 2020 South Georgia Player Rankings. Version 3.0 expands from a Top 38 to a Top 45 with eight new names. Dropping out of the rankings is offensive lineman Joshua Jones who transferred from Columbus (Ga.) Carver to Phenix City (Ala.) Central. Each new name is bolded and designated with the acronym NR.\nThere is a new #1, Ellaville (Ga.) Schley County jumbo athlete Zykeivous Walker slides into the top spot. Walker is one of the hottest recruits in the country with offers from Auburn, Boston College, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Miami, Mississippi State, NC State, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas A&M. The 6-foot-4, 257-pound DE/TE could project on either side of the ball, several colleges are recruiting Walker as a giant 3-4 outside linebacker.\nThe highest new entry at #25 belongs to athlete James Shellman of Savannah (Ga.) Islands. Last season Shellman saw duty at receiver and quarterback. He recently picked of his first offer, Ole Miss. His size and ball skills will allow him to project on either side of the ball.\nThomasville (Ga.) defensive end Payton Singletary is the next highest entry at #27. As a sophomore he recorded 43 tackles, eight TFL\u2019s and four sacks in guiding the Bulldogs to a (12-1/4-0) record. Singletary recently picked up an offer from Cincinnati.\nOne of the more interesting athletes is 6-foot, 210-pound Warner Robins (Ga.) Houston County running back Wesley Steiner. Last season Steiner led the Bears in rushing with 764 yards and seven touchdowns on 144 carries. He also caught nine passes for 124 yards. This behemoth back recently placed first in the GHSA-AAAAAA discus with a throw of 163-11. Steiner makes his entry at #29.\nThough Metter (Ga.) struggled through a (3-7) mark last season, they are not without superior athletes. Coming in at #35 is DE/OLB TJ Davis. Davis possesses the size and athleticism to be a real defensive difference maker at the next level.\nRight on his heels at #36 is Savannah (Ga.) Jenkins defensive end Taurus Simmons. Simmons led the Warriors in sacks last season with five. He also recorded 38 tackles and seven TFL\u2019s. It\u2019s possible that Simmons may project as a 3-4 outside backer.\nSavannah (Ga.) Johnson had a miserable season in 2017 finishing (0-10), but like most schools in Georgia they are not void of talent. Though Akelo Stone only played in five games as a sophomore he was still able to rack up 25 tackles and two FF\u2019s. Stone makes his entry at #38.\nThis list will be next updated just prior to the start of the season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spnrd.org/Html/research.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LUACICGS4AF4ZIKOUGPUS4G7MO6OPMSU", "length": 2424, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "spnrd.org", "title": "South Platte Natural Resources District Kimball, Cheyenne and Deuel Counties, NE", "raw_content": "District officials are constantly striving to have a better understanding of our natural resources. Learning more about resources, how to use them wisely and the things that impact them are all paramount to the district mission. To that end, the district is always looking for the best possible information.\nMost recently, the district has been able to take a different look at the area's hydrogeology, thanks to efforts made in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the North Platte NRD and the Nebraska Environmental Trust.\nSince June 2008, a number of helicopter flight have been made over the South Platte and North Platte NRDs, using electronic frequencies to take pictures similar to a \"cat scan.\" The readings are formatted for use by the USGS, who in turn take the readings and apply the data to form reports on the area hydrogeology. The resulting high definition relief maps can reveal a lot about an area\u2019s aquifers. It is hoped officials will be able to determine the aquifer volumes, as well as the textures. By knowing textures, officials can have an idea on ground water movement.\nOne of the requirements of the Nebraska Groundwater Management and Protection Act is that areas where water use has been deemed overappropriated, or being used faster than it is replenished, must return to the same levels as in 1997.\nThe South Platte NRD is working with UNL on a process that could aid natural resources districts determine the amount of water used in 1997. Scientists from the University of Nebraska and University of Idaho are using a system referred to as METRIC \u2013 for Mapping EvapoTranspiration with High Resolution and Internal Calibration. Developers refer to it as a \u201chybrid\u201d energy balance program that uses thermal bands from Landsat (satellite) imagery to compute ET (evapotranspiration). The system combines the satellite data with ground-based data to determine ET.\nScientists know that ET, the rate of the combined loss of water from a combination of soil evaporation and plant transpiration, can be used to help determine how much water has been used in crop production or gone into the aquifer. Combining those numbers with known crops, researchers should be able to develop locally calibrated Kc (crop coefficient) curves for Panhandle crops.\nWith that information, researchers may help fulfill another objective of producing NRD-specific Consumptive Water Use (CWU) maps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://staging.believermag.com/issues/201409/?read=article_kloc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:2A4VGSCE6GUGOZMGLR37F4FQDWH7JMOW", "length": 2983, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "staging.believermag.com", "title": "The Believer - The Color and the Pageantry of Thoroughbred Turtle Racing", "raw_content": "Bohos, Bobos, and the Slow Death of New York\u2019s West Village\nDISCUSSED: Corner-Store Coffee, Gravediggers, 270 Composition Notebooks, A Bare Light Bulb, Ivan the Terrapin, Doping, The Self-Proclaimed Historian of the Village, A \u201cContemporary Scottish Pub,\u201d The Charlie Sheen of Racing Turtles\nIn the world of competitive turtle racing, Mitch Cohen is known as \u201cthe Turtle Man.\u201d It is a hard-earned distinction for which he has paid a high price: for decades, Cohen has raised turtles in the lettuce-filled bathtub of his one-room New York City apartment. During fair season, he loads their three hundred pounds of gear into a hard-shell carrier atop his car and totes them to festivals and garden shows as far away as Texas, putting on races for his devoted followers. He has never made much money at this venture. Nor has he ever been married or had children. But the routine has kept him young. He is tall and strong. With sun-worn skin and a full head of white hair, he looks happy\u2014more so than most, even. In fact it is only his slow, deliberate gait that betrays his eighty years.\nCohen is one of the last of the Village residents from the 1960s who are still around. Their tribe haunts the neighborhood\u2019s few remaining unpolished spaces: basement apartments, down-and-out bars, and disappearing parks, remembering the Laundromats, caf\u00e9s, and book emporiums where villagers once whiled away Sunday afternoons, reading, arguing, and enjoying cups of corner-store coffee. I first became aware of their presence a year before I met Cohen. While I was riding the subway in the spring of 2012, an older man noticed I was reading a copy of Joseph Mitchell\u2019s Up in the Old Hotel. Mitchell\u2019s stories chronicle the lives of New York City bums, flophouse workers, gravediggers, bar owners, bar goers, Calypso singers, fortune-tellers, bohemians, and park preachers who defined street life in Manhattan between the late \u201930s and the mid-\u201970s. The man on the subway, whom I\u2019ll call Z because he asked me not to use his name, told me that he loved returning to the characters of Mitchell\u2019s New York, which, as I would come to discover in the next few months, was also his New York: Z was born in Greenwich Village in the 1940s, back when it was still a working-class Irish and Italian neighborhood. He remembers coming home to find his father mulling over the merits of Marxism in his kitchen with James Yates, the Mississippi-born African American author who had fought in the Spanish Civil War (\u201cThe good war,\u201d Z said. \u201cNot the bullshit war\u201d). He claimed, too, that he was close with Henry Miller\u2019s best friend, and that the two would sit together and read letters Miller sent from Big Sur. (\u201cThey thought he was a sexist. He wasn\u2019t. He was a romantic.\u201d) Back then, Z said, William Gottlieb, the real estate mogul who eventually bought up much of the Village, would drive around in his beat-up car as the locals would joke to one another: \u201cYou can sell to Bill, but you can\u2019t buy from him.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://standards.police.uk/bps36284-0000-00.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PMEX5UT7CJ5ZIT2CKY32GFH6CNFMOOPB", "length": 178, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "standards.police.uk", "title": "Standards", "raw_content": "An Act to make new provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 69.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stanneswoodplumpton.org.uk/links.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CU6EHPYKWIKWVMRRIEDODYW2FKFN6DTH", "length": 1448, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "stanneswoodplumpton.org.uk", "title": "St Anne Church Woodplumpton | Links", "raw_content": "This is an example of how the Links Feature works in Church Edit. To add/ delete links, login to your Control Panel and select 'Links'\nthis is the Church of England's official website. This site provided information and contact addresses within the Anglican Faith.\nwww.churchofengland.org\nThis is the website of Blackburn Diocese; which administers the Parish of St Anne Woodplumpton. It's a busy diocese; of more than 250 parishes; within a varied community across 900 square miles of Northwest England.\nwww.blackburn.anglican.org\nSt Anne Woodplumpton (Church of England) Primary School\nWoodplumpton St Anne's Primary School is situated in the centre of the village of Woodplumpton. This is essentially a rural environment, on the outskirts of Preston within the County of Lancashire. The school is located within the Parish of Woodplumpton and enjoys a very close relationship with the village church.\nwww.woodplumptonprimary.co.uk\nWheatsheaf Public House\nThe Wheatsheaf is the village Public House within the heart of Woodplumpton. It is a popular place where Pete and Ness the local Landlord and Landlady welcome you to this 300 year old established pub within the historic village of Woodplumpton. This is one of the most popular pubs within the local area, with great food and hospitality.\nwww.wheatsheafwoodplumpton.co.uk\nClick on Just Giving to make one off or monthly donations to our Church.\nhttps://www.justgiving.com/stanneswoodplumpton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 209.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://static.fifa.com/mensyoutholympic/news/y=2018/m=10/news=leading-marksman-leai-flying-flag-for-solomons.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IYHNVMAODJ5DAZUVWV77O4WOVEULFNPD", "length": 3424, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "static.fifa.com", "title": "Leading marksman Le\u2019ai flying flag for Solomon Islands - FIFA.com", "raw_content": "articleBodyFRWPSeoTitle: leading-marksman-leai-flying-flag-for-solomonsGetFRWPUrl _slug: leading-marksman-leai-flying-flag-for-solomonsendpoint: http://embeden.fifa.com/news/leading-marksman-leai-flying-flag-for-solomons?appview=true_articleBodyFRWP.Length: 0_articleBodyFRWP.Length atricle only: 12702\nRaphael Le'ai, 15, is the men\u2019s competition\u2019s leading scorer\nHas also made history with Solomon Islands in the 11-a-side game\nHoping to excel in futsal and grow with the national team\nRaphael Le\u2019ai has a gift for futsal, a sport on the up in Solomon Islands, the leading force in the game in the Oceania region.\nHis father said as much three years ago, when he convinced Le\u2019ai to pay a visit to the national team\u2019s training centre in Honiara and offer to help out with the training sessions.\n\u201cI watched the players, learned from them and then went back to school and did what they did,\u201d Le\u2019ai told FIFA.com after scoring all four of his side\u2019s goals in their defeat to Russia at the Men\u2019s Youth Olympic Futsal Tournament Buenos Aires 2018 on Wednesday.\nThe 15-year-old is now the competition\u2019s leading marksman with seven goals in three games.\nLe\u2019ai has grown accustomed to racking up the goals for his country, having scored 35 of the 64 Solomon Islands managed in their six Buenos Aires 2018 qualifying matches in October 2017. \u201cI just did my job, that\u2019s all,\u201d he said modestly.\nHis goalscoring feat did not go unnoticed by the coach of the national U-16 football team, who invited Le\u2019ai for a trial. The youngster was unsure. His father less so: \u201cYou\u2019ve got a talent for this. Make the most of it!\u201d\nFortunately, Le\u2019ai took that parental advice and made the team, contributing eight goals in the OFC Championships to help Solomon Islands qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Peru 2019, which will be the nation\u2019s first ever appearance at a FIFA 11-a-side competition. The competition\u2019s leading scorer, he was also named its outstanding player.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to begin with because the two are very different in terms of space,\u201d explained the teenage striker. \u201cI don\u2019t have any problems now though, not even switching from one to the other. One week I\u2019m doing two days of futsal training and the next three days of football.\u201d\nHistory made for Solomon Islands !! The first team to qualify for #U17WC Peru 2019 \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddea\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde7 Solomon Islands 3-1 Fiji \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddef pic.twitter.com/AhB7sGKYSR\n\u2014 FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) September 19, 2018\nGiven the choice, he would prefer to carry on playing both for the rest of his career. His role model happens to be Elliot Ragomo, who figured in the three FIFA Futsal World Cups that Solomon Islands have appeared in to date.\n\u201cI\u2019d love to be a futsal star in my country and help the national team to keep on developing,\u201d said Le\u2019ai, who knows how important it is to compete against the best. That is exactly what he is doing in Buenos Aires, where, after defeats in their first three games, Solomon Islands have dropped out of contention for the medals.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not used to this level, which is why it\u2019s a great experience for me and my team,\u201d said Le\u2019ai, as a phalanx of Argentina fans \u2013 who have adopted the Oceania side as their own \u2013 waited for the chance to take yet more selfies with him.\n\u201cThe result matters, but only to a certain point,\u201d added the front man. \u201cTaking on teams like these helps us grow. 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Ever since, the founders of SteelriderS, South Africa Harley rental and tour company, started planning the establishment of an upmarket Harley rental and tour company, in order to combine their lifestyle and their love of living 21st century adventures on a classic Harley motorcycle. Avid and saddle-hardened bikers, founders Stefan and Fabienne finally took the bull by the horns and established SteelriderS South Africa Harley rental and tour company in 2017, after nearly 12 months of preparation.\nThey have spent the last 20 years travelling the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands. Passionate about the African continent in particular, they look forward to share their insights, their detailed terrain knowledge and experience with adventurers worldwide, as visitors and riders to the African continent! 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If you want the relaxed and safe feeling of going on one of their Harley rental or tour, self drive or guided , they have screened and shortlisted the best \u201cTour Masters\u201d in the country, check out their profiles on the Tour Masters page. Of course, if you\u2019d rather just rent a Harley and pick up your motorbike and travel on your own, you\u2019re welcome to select one of our classic motorcycles from our Harley rentals and tours fleet page, then decide whether you want to be collected from Johannesburg airport or not, and the team will be at your disposal upon your arrival!\nWe look forward to see you soon and welcome you to \u201cbiker heaven\u201d. You\u2019ll experience one of the planet\u2019s last adventures, from canyons to deserts and the sea, all in true style and relaxing creature comforts between road trips. 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When your stone restoration technician in braidwood visits the property they will be able to give you an estimated time frame. 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Dick novel of the same name, is set to drop Nov. 20.\nBut the first two episodes will be available for a single weekend, from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 in the U.S. and U.K. for Prime customers.\nThe book and the series explore what would have become of the world if the Allied Powers had lost in the Second World War. The story, which takes place in the 1960s, follows an American couple (played by Alexa Davalos, pictured, and Rubert Evans) who discover a film reel of news clips which seem to come from an alternate reality in which the Allies won.\nThe pilot has already earned praise from critics, with an average 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.\nThe Man in the High Castle has some big names in the sci-fi genre behind it including executive producer Ridley Scott (The Martian), writer and executive producer Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) and producer David W. Zucker (Nub3rs).\nThis is the first time Amazon has \u201cpreviewed\u201d a series in a limited-time promotion. 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The festival\u2019s Film Night, slated to take place at Redbones the Blues Cafe on Monday, March 4, 2013, will feature flicks from across three generations of Jamaican filmmaking with Smile Orange, Parish Bull and Country of the One-Eyed God.\nKBF 2013 takes place under the theme \u2018Celebrating the Arts\u2019 and the film night is one of the events throughout the week which draws attention to the linkages between publishing and the different art forms.\nThe film night will play tribute to the late Trevor Rhone who is one of the Jamaica\u2019s most successful screenwriters and one of the country\u2019s few playwrights who have been published. Rhone wrote and directed Smile Orange (1974) which came shortly after the Jamaica\u2019s seminal film The Harder They Come (1972) which Rhone had co-authored with the film\u2019s director Perry Henzell. Smile Orange has also been staged and published in it\u2019s play format.\nThe night of films will also feature a special screening of Parish Bull one of the short films comprising the anthology film Ring Di Alarm produced by New Caribbean Cinema. Parish Bull is written by Kurt Wright and directed by Michael \u2018Ras Tingle\u2019 Tingling. The film stars Christopher Hutchinson and is loosely based on the legends arising from the famous Kendal Crash. The full feature version of Ring Di Alarm will have its Jamaican premiere in the upcoming months. The film has however received kudos at screenings in the UK.\nCountry of the One-Eyed God directed by Chris Browne (Ghetta Life). Country of the One-Eyed God is an adaptation of Olive Senior\u2019s short story of the same name. The film stars Paul Campbell before his rise to stardom in Dancehall Queen and Third World Cop.\nThe Kingston Book Festival, organized by the Book Industry Association of Jamaica, begins March 2, 2013 and will feature readings, tours, panel discussions, and workshops throughout the period at different locations across the city. The festival closes on Sunday March 10 at the National Gallery of Jamaica for the closing of the 2012 National Biennial of Jamaica.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://svathematchfactory.com/essays-reviews/the-equality-fight-of-the-21st-century-by-anna-harea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IMSURA6VGT7UH4MF4R66SXIY6SKKTHYE", "length": 9124, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "svathematchfactory.com", "title": "The Match Factory \u2013 School of Visual Arts | The Equality Fight Of The 21St Century by Anna Harea", "raw_content": "The Equality Fight Of The 21St Century by Anna Harea\nComments Off on The Equality Fight Of The 21St Century by Anna Harea\n\u201cIt\u2019s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!\u201d This is a song lyric from \u201cSame Love\u201d by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. \u201cSame Love\u201d is a very effective song supporting gay marriage. The lyrics are effective because of the different supporting reasons and examples brought up. When I first heard the song, itmoved me. The song also made me recognize how important the fight for gay marriage is. I am amazed that we are living in the 21st century, and we have legal inequality in this country, the land of the free. Gay marriage should be legalized in every state because everyone should have the right to choose his or her partner. This would entitle gays to the same benefits as heterosexual couples and help create more stable families.\nOut of the fifty states in America, only ten of allow civil marriage between gays. Currently, eight states offer domestic partnership laws (Brown 39). The difference in lifestyle is tremendous under the numerous opportunities that married couples receive. Taylor stated, \u201cThere are roughly 1,100 benefits, rights, and protections conferred on married couples on the federal level. And hundreds more benefits, rights, and protections that married couples receive under state law. Among this is the right to joint parenting, joint adoption, status as next-of-kin for hospital visits and medical decisions, and inheritance of jointly owned real estate\u201d (Brown 37). Camilla Taylor is the Marriage Project director at Lambda Legal, a national organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. According to Taylor\u2019s facts, there are about 1,500 benefits, rights, and protections offered to married couples. Life is incredibly different when you are deprived from such a significant number of benefits, rights, and protections. The rest of the forty states are depriving gay couples, who are not allowed to marry, of that huge amount of benefits, rights, and protections.\nI argue that every individual should have the freedom to choose who his or her partner is. I argue this very strongly because of the morals behind it. Our country was built based on the Declaration of Independence, which states that every person is entitled to \u201cLife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.\u201d Having the liberty to choose your own partner is happiness. Being happy and accepted is life; if you cannot be yourself, then you are not living. How can the government hold such an important document, like the Declaration of Independence, and disregard what it states? The government should treat every individual equally. It is not the government\u2019s business to control whom you choose as your partner in life. Take into consideration all the different mistreatments we have experienced throughout history as a country. Is it not visible to society that mistreating gays because of who they are is just as bad? I argue for gay marriage to be legalized in all fifty states because every individual has the right to choose his or her own life partner.\nThe many legal benefits that are offered to heterosexual couples are the reason why gay marriage should be legalized. In eight states, the closest benefits that we have for gay couples are the laws offered for those that declare domestic partnership. However, domestic partnership is a very general category that almost anyone can fall under. Domestic partners have to prove financial independence, shared living arrangements and a mutual agreement in the commitment. According to Andrew Sullivan, domestic partners do not need to have a sexual relationship or any kind of relationship at all. For example, an old lady and her live-in nurse can qualify for domestic partnership laws (614).However, the amount of laws offered under domestic partnership are not nearly as many compared to the amount offered to married couples. Domestic partnerships have a couple of small benefits from certain employers. These benefits include family or sick leave, or relocation benefits (Polikoff). Those that declare domestic partnership might also qualify for health insurance. Because there is no legal marriage binding the relationship, gay couples are forced to spend a lot more money. The main reason why they spend a lot more money is because of taxes (Brown).The number-one issue that most gay couples make sure to take care of is their profits. In a marriage, when someone passes away his or her significant other inherits all the money without any problems. However, for gay couples, it is not that easy because they have to fill out twice the amount of paperwork (Brown). If the partners do not take care of the many legal papers ahead of time, once a loved one passes away all of their profits go to a member in the bloodline, leaving the partner with nothing.Even if all the correct paperwork is prepared ahead of time, the money that is inherited by the partner will be taxed. By paying the huge percentage to taxes, the partner ends up losing most of the inheritance. This is just one of many negative aspects of not allowing gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.\nSome might argue that there are negative aspects to allowing gay couples to adopt. The main reason why people would argue this is because of the psychological effects on the children. According to a study done by a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, \u201cchildren with same-sex parents households may be more likely to have social and emotional problems\u201d (Sathe). The social and emotional problems are related to self-identity. Naturally, the adopted children of the homosexual parents would want to get to know their biological parents. Most importantly, the kids would face social stigma at school. Kids would have to accept the fact that they have two mommies or two daddies, which goes against society\u2019s norms. All this can lead into difficulty in finding their own identity. However, most people would also agree that not enough research has been done in order to back up such theories.\nNevertheless, allowing gay marriage in all fifty states will only help create more stable families. By accepting gay marriage, more children will be taken out of orphanages all across the world. According to the numbers reported by adoption agencies all across the nation, the number of gay couples adopting children has nearly tripled in the past decade (Michelson). However, by not acknowledging gay couples as real couples, adoption is much more difficult. Adoption becomes a much harder process because only one of the partners can apply as a single parent. Once the paperwork is approved for the single parent, the other partner has no legal rights over the child. As a matter of fact, the partner whose name is not on the adoption papers practically does not exist in the child\u2019s life according to the government. For example, if the child is in the hospital, only the parent whose name is on the adoption papers is allowed to make any decisions, as well as visit the child. The same rules apply when flying out of the country. Only the parent on the papers is allowed to take the child out of the country due to legal documents (Polikoff 140). Lastly, for gay couples to be able to adopt more than one child is nearly impossible due to the finances. Married couples receive many family benefits that allow families to expand. However, by not having those benefits, gay couples are financially limited. Gay marriage should be legalized because America should be focusing on creating and stabilizing families in contrast to limiting or breaking them apart.\nGays deserve to have the freedom to choose their own life partners. Gay couples are entitled to the same legal benefits as heterosexual couples. By allowing gay marriage in all states, more stabilized families will be created. Aside from these three important points supporting gay marriage in all fifty states, there are many more. I truly hope that there are more people that will be inspired in supporting gay marriage along with Macklemore and myself. If we stand together we can fight through all the inequalities in our 21st fight.\nBrown, Carolyn M. \u201cWhy Gay & Lesbian Couples Pay More.\u201d Black Enterprise 43.8 (2013): 36-40. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web.\nMichelson, Noah. \u201cNumber of Gay Couples Adopting Has Skyrocketed in Past Decade. \u201c The\nHuffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 Oct. 2011. Web\nPolikoff, Nancy D. \u201cBeyond Straight and Gay Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law.\u201d\nGoogle Books. Beacon Press, Boston, n.d. Web.\nSathe, Akshita. \u201cShould Same-sex Couples Be Able to Adopt Children? CON.\u201d The Oracle: University of South Florida. The Oracle, 24 Jan. 2013. Web.\nSullivan, Andrew. \u201cA Conservative Case for Gay Marriage.\u201d the New Republic, August 28, 1989. Conscious Reader. Reprinted by permission. P. 612-616. Print.\nAnna Harea\u2019s \u201cThe Equality Fight of the 21st Century\u201d won second prize in 2015 in the Third Annual School of Visual Arts Writing Program Contest. Anna is a freshman studying Interior Design at SVA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 9474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tabefy.com/8773923954", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SQNKWVC6UCGSVSWEE6WYFLK2QTBDSXAD", "length": 4033, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "tabefy.com", "title": "877-392-3954", "raw_content": "Don't put all your wealth on a boat. I dealt with it.\nThis problem can not be discussed here for lack of time. Stop doing that! We've told you a hundred times that it'll accomplish nothing! It's like talking to a wall! I knew I should've married Karl. The boys are shy. You won't get a second chance like this. Kevin is very hardworking.\nShe owes him a lot of money, but she probably won't be able to pay it back. We need great educators to teach our children the math and science skills that will enable them to compete for jobs in the future. I see dead people.\nDo you know if he is available? I need to know in order to make an appointment with him. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'd like some plum jam. Beth makes it look so easy. You've always hated me. Keep your hands still.\nWhat makes you think Bea won't like it? Space didn't answer your question. Steven was badly beaten up. The relationship between Nancy and Mehrdad seems to me to be the most suspicious. It was a very good year. I asked her a few questions. Part isn't fond of nicknames. He is devoid of human feeling. I'm very happy to know you. This is spaghetti.\nI can't trust in his word. Is there a reason why this is untranslated? You can withdraw some money out of the bank, if you need any. That's rather amusing. Tracey felt like everyone was ignoring him. I lost my dog. I'll call you back later. The young woman under that tree looks sad.\nJerome was interrupted by a knock at the door. I don't enjoy riddles. Do you think Juergen would consider dating my younger sister? A Mr Miller wants to see you. I'm not in the mood right now. Would you have known that? The trouble is that she lacks experience.\nNeal and Dennis are both fine. Ariel doesn't have a cat. I've sent them home. Luc tried not to react.\nWe were almost there. I knew he wasn't Emma. There were not many rainy days in June this year. We are people. I gave it to Gerald. I had shopped around for quite a while before I found a good deal. Are you still mad at him? She put away a good deal of money. I don't think that's a coincidence. Almost all of the reviews of the play were favorable.\nI know I should stay a little bit longer. Are you still angry with him?\nYou can't outrun that bear. The house seemed about to collapse at any moment. Martyn was very nervous. We have no place to go. This is the pamphlet you asked for. The function has no side effects. Carisa and Graham always wear matching clothes. My father complained about the traffic noise.\nAll you have to do is to wait for her reply. Let's do something new. Let him get some rest. In Japan, a beautiful city was built as early as the eighth century.\nWhy didn't Bart tell us what to do? If his mother were to find out that he had been here, it would not please her, not even a little bit. Huey knew that Noemi would win. Cory's restaurant is full all the time. I have an errand for Annie to run. You can't go along this road. It is under repair. I just want to feel your love. We've never had this problem before. Well, I always have time for a friend. They know they can count on me.\nJoseph's in there. Herb has enough money to do anything he wants to. Can you open this for me?\nI like to be alone. He is of royal blood. She is my favorite character. Brussels is the capital of Belgium. What happened to Nichael? I haven't seen him recently. Darryl and I have never been photographed together. In my view, you are wrong. That wouldn't be Amarth, would it? I always enjoy playing tennis with Rhonda. The child is learning quickly.\nHe is the love of her life. Shane has never been to Boston. Gary isn't Garry, as they're not the same person. They're not related. In mathematics, they're labels put on different objects. Richard called me up. We should take into account she is still young.\nHe is an aggressive person. Dan, an FBI negotiator, tried to talk to Linda. They are digging a hole. All of you look healthy. Today, I waited for a shorter amount of time than usual before he arrived. We enjoyed the dinner to the full.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 225.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teambahrainmerida.com/bole-grega/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JSRLHWYWDJUNLTRZGZ6UCJORLW6OPRE3", "length": 901, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "teambahrainmerida.com", "title": "Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team | Grega Bole", "raw_content": "Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team | Grega Bole\nJesenice \u2013 Slovenia\nGrega Bole is a Slovenian professional rider who joined his first professional team in 2008. He has huge experience in the peloton and he took 19 wins so far. His biggest victory is the 2011 GP Ouest-France and in the same year he became Slovenian National Champion too. In 2015, Bole was the winner of the first stage of the inaugural Tour of Croatia. In 2016 he was 1st at Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi, 1st in Overall Tour de Korea and 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia.\nHis expectations are still a strong support to his team as very skilled rider. He will help teammates and do his best for his personal goals. As it happened in the past season with Team BAHRAIN MERIDA, when he won two stages at the Tour of Japan and the Mountain Classification of the Presidential Tour of Turkey.\nPrevious Rider (Bauhaus Phil)\nNext Rider (Caruso Damiano)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technewsheaven.com/news/40600/comcasts-mesh-wi-fi-extender-pods-are-now-available", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:27C7TM5VP5KPRYJ7JPGYNHPCIGOPDSPO", "length": 547, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "technewsheaven.com", "title": "TechNewsHeaven - The technology news aggregator site", "raw_content": "Comcast has launched new Xfinity xFi Pods, which are mesh Wi-Fi extenders meant to combat dead zones in homes. They are small pods that can be plugged into an outlet and paired with the xFi Wireless Gateway or the xFi Advanced Gateway. The xFi Pods are supposed to keep checking Wi-Fi connections in the house and monitor their own performance. The xFi Pods come in three-packs for $119 and six-packs for $199, which doesn\u2019t include shipping and handling. They\u2019ll be available in select Xfinity retail stores, from the xFi app, and on the website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-kidney-group.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IR5TJ6CEIYJOZTFO5FOBFZWHBWZDSUIA", "length": 1061, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "the-kidney-group.com", "title": "The Kidney and Hypertension Group of South Florida", "raw_content": "The Kidney & Hypertension Group of South Florida Voted Area's Top Nephrology Practice for 11th Year In A Row. Board certified kidney specialists (nephrologists) with emphasis on prevention of hypertension, kidney disease, diabetic kidney disease, home dialysis and transplantation. more >>\nThe Kidney & Hypertension Group is proud to announce that we have been designated a Certified Hypertension Center, one of only 12 Hypertension Practice Centers in the United States and Canada, and the only one in Florida (* The first in the Southeast United States). The American Society of Hypertension (ASH) maintains a formal certification process for medical practices and health care providers that have demonstrated expertise in treating patients who have complex or difficult-to-treat hypertension and its co-morbidities. The Program - focused on enhancing hypertension patient care - is designed to evaluate each medical practice against a professional set of criteria based upon responses to a questionnaire and a rigorous review process by hypertension experts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thealamo.org/visit/events/calendar/events/2019/lecture-mar6-2018.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LPPGQSRONTOTR4NQVTZQXN54KOO6AQBK", "length": 1583, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thealamo.org", "title": "Alamo Tricentennial Lunch and Lecture: Mexican Troop Movements of the Texas Revolution", "raw_content": "Alamo Tricentennial Lunch and Lecture: Mexican Troop Movements of the Texas Revolution\nTuesday, March 6 we will continue this lecture series with Mexican Troop Movements in the Texas Revolution with guest speaker John Tyler.\nIn January of 1835, Mexican Vice-President, Valentin Gomez Farias was removed from office. While Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had been elected president, he had not taken an active role in the running of the government after retiring to his estate in Vera Cruz. After being alerted of Gomez Farias\u2019 liberal reforms by the nation\u2019s elite powers, Santa Anna returned to Mexico City, dissolved Congress and announced his Plan of Cuernavaca, which repealed liberal reforms and formed a Catholic-Centralist Government. Within two months, the new congress had passed the Federal Militia Reduction Act, in effect disbanding local and state militias, which led to outrage across Mexico. Santa Anna was forced to forcefully put down growing insurrections across the country. His first show of force would be in Zacatecas where he quickly and violently crushed the resistance. He then proceeded to Texas.\nThe Mexican Army\u2019s movement into Texas and the subsequent battles that it spawned are the subjects of this installment of the Alamo\u2019s Tricentennial Lecture Series. Join John Tyler as he presents, \u201cMexican Troop Movements of the Texas Revolution\u201d, on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at Noon in Alamo Hall as he narrates the movement of one of the finest armies of the time, across Mexico, ultimately culminating at the Battle of San Jacinto, near Houston, on April 21, 1836.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecircumlocutionoffice.com/charles-dickens/love/maria-beadnell/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YNM6L2B3T6DEICGILVQZK4O67OI34JBH", "length": 3334, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "thecircumlocutionoffice.com", "title": "Maria Beadnell.", "raw_content": "Maria Beadnell.\nMaria Beadnell.The Circumlocution Office2016-05-15T20:19:30+00:00\nMaria Beadnell was the first love of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. Despite his strong feelings for her, Maria broke off the romance leaving Dickens heartbroken.\nPortrait of the young Maria Beadnell\nEarly Romance.\nIn 1830, when Charles Dickens was 17, he met his first love, Maria Beadnell. Maria was from a banker\u2019s family, very lively in nature and slightly older than Dickens. By all accounts the romance seems to have been very passionate and Dickens was very much in love Maria although she may have she toyed with his feeling.\nHowever because of his social status and then meager income, her family disapproved and tried to dissuade Maria from carry on with Dickens. Her father forbid the couple to see one another again later sent Maria off to France for finishing school. When Maria returned her emotions had cooled towards Charles and in May 1833 she ended the romance. Dickens was heartbroken when she did so.\nMaria remained unmarried she was thirty-five, settling down with Henry Winter, a poor saw-mill manager from Finsbury. She had two daughters with Henry.\nCharles Dickens would move on from Maria and meet Catherine Hogarth, daughter of his friend, the editor George Hogarth. He married Catherine in 1836.\nPhotograph of the older Maria, now Maria Winter.\nIn what was a shock to Charles Dickens, Maria unexpectedly wrote him a letter in February 1855, after more than 20 years of silence. Dickens was immediately captivated by his fond past feelings he had for her but Maria warned Dickens in her letters that she was no longer the beauty she once was, describing herself as \u201ctoothless, fat, old, and ugly\u201d.\nDickens refused to believe it and the two arranged a secret meeting on 25 February 1855, without telling either of their spouses. However, despite her warnings, Dickens was shocked by Maria\u2019s appearance. In addition to being fat and old, Maria had a silly giggle, a habit that repulsed Dickens.\nCharles and Maria met once more, this time for a dinner with their spouses. However after that, despite Maria\u2019s wishes for further contact, Dickens was so put off that he avoided her.\nShortly after his reunion with Maria, Charles Dickens started work on the novel Little Dorrit. He would use the feelings he had towards her to inspired him to base the character of the giggling childish Flora Finching on Maria.\nIn the novel, Flora was once the love interest of Arthur Clennam, who has returned to England after twenty years in China. He visits the home of Flora\u2019s father Mr. Casby and upon finding out that Flora is a widow considers renewing their courtship. But upon seeing Flora, Clennam is shocked at how much she has changed in that time:\nFlora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.\nLittle Dorrit. Book 1, Chapter 13.\nDickens Trail.\nMaria Beadnell is buried at Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea.\nSee more nearby areas associated with Charles Dickens in our Portsmouth trail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 10639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecorner.eu/financial-markets/santander-consumer-finance-signs-joint-venture-with-chinese-jac/2753/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PQUAFEV7FXQUJLSVT4DWAX7RKYA2NIPC", "length": 2077, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thecorner.eu", "title": "Santander Consumer Finance signs joint venture with Chinese JAC", "raw_content": "Santander Consumer Finance signs joint venture with Chinese JAC\nTOPICS:ChinaSantander\nSantander Consumer Finance has signed in Hefei, Anhui Province, an agreement with Chinese car manufacturer Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co., Ltd (JAC) to create an independent company to provide auto financing in the Chinese market. Under the accord, Santander Consumer Finance and JAC will each have a 50% stake in the new company and will each name three members to the board of directors.\nThe consumer finance unit of Banco Santander will also nominate the General Manager (CEO) and other key management positions, thus contributing its expertise and experience in auto financing. JAC will nominate the company\u2019s chairman and other management positions. The new company will have initial capital of 500 million yuan (about \u20ac58 million).\nUnder this agreement, the new company will provide financial products through JAC\u2019s network of more than 1,000 dealerships taking advantage of Santander Consumer Finance\u2019s expertise, with a presence in 14 countries. JAC is the seventh largest Chinese automaker, with sales of more than 400,000 vehicles in 2010. The new company can also finance other brands of passenger cars and is expected to enter into financing of commercial vehicles as well.\nWith this operation, which is conditioned upon the appropriate regulatory approvals (including China Banking Regulatory Commission), Santander Consumer Finance is entering the world\u2019s largest automobile market, with more than 18 million vehicles sold during 2010 and a huge growth potential for the next decade.\nSantander Consumer Finance currently finances the purchase of over 1.3 million vehicles a year in the markets where it operates. This Santander unit is present in 14 countries.\n* This information has been provided by Grupo Santander.\nA moderately prosperous society\nFarewell Medal Mania, Hello Sports Reform\nPBoC delivered asymmetric rate cuts, what\u2019s next?\nChina\u2019s New Experiment: Financial Equality\nBe the first to comment on \"Santander Consumer Finance signs joint venture with Chinese JAC\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecowshed.co.za/the-cowshed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CEDK5NHA7PDJ4NJO75XC5CJ3RPT7ACIA", "length": 648, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thecowshed.co.za", "title": "The Cowshed - Luxury Farm Wedding Accommodation", "raw_content": "The Cowshed (sleeps 8)\nThe Cowshed, built as a house in 1913, and later used as a working milking shed, has now been restored to its former glory! Designed around a central living and entertainment area, it can accommodate eight people in four double en suite rooms with 2 beds in each room, a bath, toilet and a private outdoor shower.\nSituated next to a dam, and overlooking a vlei, the covered veranda is the perfect spot from which to view the abundant birdlife.\nIf you awake early enough, you might even catch a glimpse of a female serval returning home to her den after a night of hunting.\n2019 Rate \u2013 R680 per person per night (self catered)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefashionjumper.com/about-me", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HTQNY4GS4OM3KFU5MFEETSOPFRRIBIPH", "length": 797, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thefashionjumper.com", "title": "About me - The Fashion Jumper", "raw_content": "My name is Edi, owner of The Fashion Jumper. I am a content creator, photographer, stylist and model and I have created this blog-magazine as a place where to discover meaningful fashion as a way to dress. It\u2019s a creative 2.0 space that includes fashion, art, culture, going out, lifestyle & most of all, travel. It includes a lot of passion, hard work and a desire to create and discover beautiful things and a beautiful way of living life and feeling good.\nClothes are more than a packaging. Each story presents an unique point of view about the personal representation when you are wearing a specific piece of clothing.\nIf you wanna write to me, please do so at: thefashionjumper [at] gmail.com . Or find me as \u201cThe Fashion Jumper\u201d on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr or Pinterest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thehorrorsyndicate.com/tag/scream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JI5QXTRH7P7KZ54OVDJ67I35N46QT5OU", "length": 1233, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thehorrorsyndicate.com", "title": "Scream \u2013 The Horror Syndicate <% if ( total_view > 0 ) { %> <%= total_view > 1 ? \"total views\" : \"total view\" %>, <% if ( today_view > 0 ) { %> <%= today_view > 1 ? \"views today\" : \"view today\" %> no views today\tNo views yet", "raw_content": "HomeScream\nHorror Hall of Fame: Scream (1996)\n\u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite scary movie?\u201d, a question uttered by every single horror fan at some point or another, and also an iconic line from an iconic scene in an iconic movie that just so happens [\u2026]\nAlfred Hitchcock\u2019s famed film Psycho (1960), which celebrated its 55th Anniversary in 2015, still garnishes the attention of entertaining audiences and students both amateur and professional of the legendary master of suspense, and was his [\u2026]\nABC\u2019s of Horror: S is for Scream (1996)\nOctober 19, 2016 Morgan Jewel Sawan\nHello, Horror Syndicate! What\u2019s your favorite scary movie? It\u2019s Morgan here with my final entry in our ABC\u2019s of Horror, and I\u2019m officially all out of surprises/shocking decisions. I just had to choose Scream for [\u2026]\nREVIEW: Scream: The TV Series season one (2015)\nIn anticipation for this year\u2019s Texas Frightmare, where I\u2019ll be meeting two of the stars of MTV\u2019s Scream, Bex Taylor-Klaus who plays misfit, Audrey Jensen, and Carlson Young who plays the unattainable hottie, Brooke Maddox, [\u2026]\nScream is easily one of my favorite horror movies, and maybe even one of my favorite movies in general.Would you believe me if I said I hadn\u2019t seen Scream until a year and a [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theindependent.ca/2014/04/02/an-open-letter-to-memorial-universitys-senate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:20Z", "digest": "sha1:OGFYRVHO2ZMCQP2A5SEWOSYKOJAK5YAE", "length": 6467, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "theindependent.ca", "title": "An open letter to Memorial University\u2019s Senate \u2013 TheIndependent.ca", "raw_content": "An open letter to Memorial University\u2019s Senate\nPublished on Apr 2, 2014 in Uncategorized by admin\nOriginally from a rural area where firearms are quite commonplace, I learned to handle guns of all types before I had even left high school. I then served in the North Nova Scotia Highland Regiment, where I was trained on a range of weapons, including fully automatic assault rifles and machine guns. My extensive experience with firearms has taught me that regardless of how careful we may be in handling these dangerous weapons, accidents happen. Accidents happen most often when they\u2019re invited to happen, and allowing students to carry firearms into the classroom when it is not completely necessary is what I consider an open invitation. The presence of firearms increases both the threat of serious injury and the likelihood of tragedy on our campus.\nIf we conceptualize the university classroom as a space where students submissively sit in desks and listen passively as experts lecture, it\u2019s very easy to conclude that a firearm on a student\u2019s hip shouldn\u2019t be \u201ca big deal\u201d. However, the university classroom does not limit itself to being a space where students are \u201ctalked at\u201d. The best university classrooms seek to involve their students in their learning as fully as possible. The presence of a firearm severely limits the scope of what can happen in the classroom, and therefore affects our ability to teach in our various disciplines. It\u2019s incumbent on our University Senate to help safeguard the best conditions for student learning at the university. Why should students\u2019 learning experiences be limited for little to no benefit? Very few people would argue that the presence of firearms in a classroom promotes an environment conducive to learning.\nThe learning of the student carrying a firearm in the classroom is also severely affected by the presence of this weapon. As a former uniformed member of the Canadian Forces, I can attest to the fact that individuals in uniform are treated very differently by their civilian peers. Wearing a uniform and carrying a weapon also has an important impact on how we interact with others. The immense responsibility that this represents for the students in question should not be underestimated.\nThe primary purpose of a firearm in a peace officer\u2019s hands is to act as a \u201cforce multiplier\u201d: its main function is, therefore, to foster an imbalance of power. Not only is the presence of a firearm in the hands of a student an affront to the sense of equality that should be fostered in the classroom; it also runs counter to the sense of community on campus. Further, Memorial University\u2019s campuses are quickly becoming internationalized, and our university works hard to attract students from everywhere in the world. This includes a number of students coming from geographies where firearms are used to intimidate, control, and suppress voices of dissent. A number of voices responding to Dr. Stephen Crocker\u2019s petition highlight the fact that students and faculty deserve to work in an equal learning environment that is conducive to fostering healthy and open debate. Do all students feel completely free to speak their minds in the presence of an armed and uniformed officer of the law?\nThe only time that I have ever seen firearms in a Canadian Forces classroom was in the context of courses on weapons maintenance. These weapons were never loaded. In all other in-class learning contexts, our weapons were safely put away in lockers made for this purpose. If Canada\u2019s military recognizes the fact that the presence of firearms does not create an environment that is conducive to learning, shouldn\u2019t Memorial University?\nAdministrators should also recognize the increased obligations and responsibilities that come with this decision \u2013 including the increased potential for legal liability (not to mention potential loss of life) should an incident occur. Since there is no empirical evidence demonstrating that the presence of sworn armed security officers at universities helps to deter fanatics or terrorists, and since our campus is located in very close proximity to the largest RNC detachment in the province, there can be no argument that there is a potential benefit to be gained from inviting weapons onto the campus. Unless a serious situation arose in the very classroom occupied by the armed student police officer, it is very unlikely that this student would arrive on the scene before the RNC\u2019s patrol vehicles, many of which are routinely patrolling in the immediate vicinity (e.g. the Health Sciences Centre, Confederation Building, etc.).\nUnlike many of those who have signed the petition set up by Dr. Crocker to contest Senate\u2019s recent decision to allow on-duty student police officers to carry their side-arms on campus, I happen to be quite comfortable in the presence of firearms. Like the RNC student officers in question, I have been trained to handle firearms as safely as possible and have learned to respect them. This being said, however, I am very uncomfortable with what their presence represents on our university campus. The first time I ever travelled outside of Canada, I remember being surprised to see Parisian police officers carrying submachine guns. This made a big enough impression on me that I still remember it, over two decades later. Seeing peace officers equipped with these submachine guns drastically changed my perception of France. The presence of armed students on our campus has much the same impact on our perceptions of the university campus.\nA society that gets comfortable with weapons gets comfortable with using weapons. A firearm is a tool whose actual purpose should never be forgotten: it serves to kill, injure, and maim. Even in the hands of a peace officer, this is the firearm\u2019s function. As one respondent to the petition has articulated, \u201cNo one should need to carry any kind of weapon in a civil society \u2013 and creating a civil society is surely one of the ideals of a university.\u201d\nS\u00e9bastien Despr\u00e9s Lecturer\nDr. Stephen Crocker has created a petition to bring attention to this issue. Please consider signing!\nJustin Brake interviewed Stephen Crocker last weekend for The Indy News Hour on Keep Station Radio. 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Healthier Alternatives is growing by leaps and bounds because people like you are looking for healthier alternatives to reach their goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://themagicbox.hu/?q=en/node/45", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:07Z", "digest": "sha1:23IZ26GP3AWHWDGVQRW65YLS3NOZA2D7", "length": 14807, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "themagicbox.hu", "title": "Why is the work of prosecution questionable? | themagicbox", "raw_content": "The BKV-case is a good example of how successfully can the prosecution, the police and the court work together when the political interest requires so. One of the most important roles was performed by prosecutor Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 Dr., the chief of the Department of Special Investigation. It can be hardly considered to be correct that the first highly illegal arrests and interrogations in relation with the investigation took place with her approval \u2013 just as the fact that later she was awarded for this by Tarl\u00f3s[1] Not to mention that the charges related to the Nokia-boxes were dealt with unexceptional attention and priority \u2013 often ignoring the related processes. The investigation in the case of the well indicated bribery was launched after Balogh unsaid his testimony. Until that time it was considered as a charge supported by one single person\u2019s statements.\nWho did initiate the prosecution in the BKV-case?\nThe scandal around the severance pays paid by BKV broke in 2009, not much before the parliamentary elections. The Fidesz, of course, abused the situation and they were continuously attacking the coalition leading the capital. The first charges were made by the future lord mayor as the representative of the party. Istv\u00e1n Tarl\u00f3s turned to the prosecutor\u2019s office in connection with the above mentioned severance pays on July 29, 2015.\nWho was responsible for the BKV-case at the Prosecutor\u2019s Office?\nLess than a week after Tarl\u00f3s turned to the Prosecutor\u2019s Office, as of August 5, 2009 the shaping BKV-case was handled with priority by the Budapest High Prosecution Office. As the chief the Department of Special Investigation Katalin V\u00e1mos dr. Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 Dr.[2] took the responsibility for the case. As a matter of fact, the investigation of the case took place under her prosecutor supervision. Interestingly, this information was revealed accidentally only one year later in an announcement issued in February \u2013 only then was the MTI informed by the High Prosecution Office that the investigations related with the transport company were pronounced a special investigation half a year ago. Until this time nobody was aware of the fact that the case was in Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s hands. However, in winter of 2010 this information was overlooked somehow by the journalists being hungry for the scandals \u2013 by that time the press was full of the arrests of the ones involved in the BKV-case and their statements leaked.\nWhere could we meet Katalin V\u00e1mos dr. Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 Dr.\u2019s name earlier?\nHer name appears on the internet relatively rarely. Searching for either Ott\u00f3n\u00e9 Szabadv\u00e1ri or her maiden name, Katalin V\u00e1mos no related entries can be found introducing her career. Few bits of information can be found about her previous prosecutory work. It is for sure that in 2004 she represented prosecution in the Sutka-case, in Cs\u00edk Rita\u2019s, journalist for N\u00e9pszava\u2019s, case accused with breach of state secrets. By the way, after this case Hungary was negatively criticized at an international level for the overwhelming lawsuits brought against journalists. Also, Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 represented prosecution in the case of the director drowning a kitten. Furthermore, she made the official statements on the highly controversial UD Ltd.-case, where she announced that the department rejected the complaint submitted by the former chief director of the Office of the National Security Council.\nWhat was Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s exact role in the progress of the BKV-case?\nShe was responsible for the initial phase of the BKV-case as being the chief of the department responsible for about the 90 percent of the special investigations in the capital in the summer of 2009. On May 17, 2010 she signed the request for Mikl\u00f3s Hagy\u00f3\u2019s pre-trial detention as the chief of the Department of Special and Economic Investigations of Budapest High Prosecution Office.\nDid Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 and her colleagues indicate the pre-trial detentions related to the BKV-case?\nOn 7th January, the BRFK initiated the Eleon\u00f3ra Szalain\u00e9 Szil\u00e1gyi\u2019s, director of the Department of Human Resources of BKV\u2019s, pre-trial detention. As per process the police could keep the woman in for three days. Again, the support of the prosecution became necessary, who ordered Szalain\u00e9\u2019s pre-trial detention. Also, Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s colleagues also initiate the arrest of the rest of the accused involved in the BKV-suit. Furthermore, Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 herself signed the related documents for \u00c9va Horv\u00e1th, Ott\u00f3 Lelovics and the main victim, Mikl\u00f3s Hagy\u00f3.\nDoes it mean that the interrogation process started with Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s approval?\nYes, it does. With Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s approval the arrests and interrogations began in January, 2010. Later, during the court procedures it turned out that they proceeded violating the related law many times. Many of the accused and witnesses reported that they made their statements under coercion. They were threatened that in case they were unwilling to state against their superiors or Hagy\u00f3 they would not been released. The same approach was taken by the police during the investigations of other cases when they expected statements against Hagy\u00f3. What is more, not only the statements made by the accused were influenced but also the ones made by the witnesses. This approach resulted finally in contradictory police reports, patchwork testimonies, incorrect dating, lost and other documents suspicious of falsification. Thanks to Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s signature the authority threatened and humiliated the ones involved in the case, treating them unlawfully. (See more in the box \u201cCoercion\u201d)\nDid Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 play a role in the cases of more company in Budapest?\nOn August 19, 2009, Istv\u00e1n Tarl\u00f3s turned to the prosecutor\u2019s office related to abuse took place at more companies in Budapest. He stated that in the near future the Fidesz would turn to the prosecutor\u2019s office in more waves. He mentioned five actual cases, and then he added: \u201cprobably it is not the end yet\u201d, implying that he expected actions on the other Budapest public utilities. He also talked about \u00c9va Horv\u00e1th\u2019s being suspicious of double employment. Furthermore, he referred to \u201cmutyi\u201d (go shares) in connection with one of Hagy\u00f3\u2019s close colleagues, and he talked about payments, premium, public fund and the unnecessary consulting agreements: \u201csince February, 2007 with all the premiums, rewards and benefits \u00c9.H. was paid twenty-three million and six hundred thousand forints. I guess it can be hardly assumed that \u00c9.H., as Mikl\u00f3s Hagy\u00f3\u2019s closest colleague arranged the things at BKV behind the Deputy Lord Mayor\u201d \u2013 he said. (It is useful to remember his sentences and the exact amount mentioned here to the content of the box titled \u201cThe winners\u201d.)\nWere Tarl\u00f3s\u2019s \u201cexpectations\u201d met?\nI thing, yes they were. In 2010, the public utilities with their suspicious businesses were reported to the police after each other. At the beginning the reports and the related investigations were handled by the Department of Economic Protection of the BRFK, later they were taken over by the Department of Special Investigation directed by Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9: just as the BKV-case, the case of FKF, the F\u0151kert, the F\u0151t\u00e1v and the Budapest Bath Board were in her hands.\nWas it Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s department who proceeded in the case of the other public utilities involved?\nYes, it was. After the arrests and coercions, the prosecutions were brought in the cases of the other Budapest public utilities, as well, in most of the cases by Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s Department. In the BKV-case it was not Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 who brought the prosecution since Hagy\u00f3\u2019s case \u2013 his being the member of the parliament \u2013 was taken over by the High Prosecutor\u2019s Office of Central Investigations.\nIn the case of the companies in Budapest did they also proceed unprofessionally?\nYes, they did. Similarly to the BKV-case, serious questions arise around the circumstances of the investigatory testimonies prior to the prosecutions brought by Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9. The BRFK initiated investigation against the FKF Ltd. (Budapest Maintenance of the Public Places) because of the suspicion of breach of fiduciary duty on 20 April, 2010. After \u201cmonths of collecting evidence\u201d they accused the former Chief Executive Officer, P\u00e9ter Bielek and five other persons.\nWhat does the \u201cmonths of collecting evidence\u201d mean exactly?\nBielek was firstly reached by the BRFK secretly in order to clarify that he is not accused of anything, offering him cooperation. At the police, however, during a five-hour interrogation \u2013 in quite a gloomy atmosphere \u2013 he was asked about Hagy\u00f3, Demszky and Ern\u0151 Mesterh\u00e1zy. He admitted he was afraid of not letting him go home to his family, for this very reason under such pressure he made statements to fulfill the expectations of the police, however the content of these statements were not according to the truth at all. In spite of the earlier promise of the BRFK, his testimony was published in the Magyar Nemzet therefore during the second interrogation he denied his statements made earlier that Hagy\u00f3 and his partners had claimed money from him. Probably this was the reason behind the fact that one week later Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s department brought prosecution against him for causing damage of 70 million forints over a contract related to the so called Pusztaz\u00e1mor-tender. His lawsuit is still in progress.\nIs the investigation conducted in the case of F\u0151t\u00e1v questionable, as well?\nYes, it is. In the case of F\u0151t\u00e1v Ltd. the investigation was initiated in May, 2010 as a result of a charge made by a private person. Lajos Kov\u00e1cs, the then Chief Executive Officer, was taken into custody on July 20, 2010 and he was kept in for half a year. Interestingly, he stated in his investigatory testimony that Hagy\u00f3 also charged F\u0151t\u00e1v with a so-called \u201cmembership fee\u201d. At this point we should keep in mind that it was stated by a top 100 criminal. Also, we are already aware of the fact that since Gy\u00f6rgy Sz\u2019s statements the investigators have continuously tried to abuse the tight situations of the accused in other cases in order to obtain the necessary incriminatory statements against their victims.\nWas G\u00e1bor Demszky, the then Lord Mayor, interrogated in the cases of the companies involved?\nInterestingly, Hagy\u00f3\u2019s superior, the then Lord Mayor, G\u00e1bor Demszky was interrogated in relation with only one single case \u2013 the case of the F\u0151kert Nonprofit Ltd. Also important to note that taking politeness into consideration the Lord Mayor was interrogated in his own office in the town hall. The interrogation[3] was conducted by Ott\u00f3 Hal\u00e1sz, who also interrogated Mikl\u00f3s Hagy\u00f3, and took part in P\u00e9ter Bielek\u2019s and Lajos Kov\u00e1cs\u2019s interrogations. Since then due to his diligence and hard work he was appointed as the deputy team leader of the elite executive board[4] of FKF. On June 7, 2010 the BRFK initiated an investigation against F\u0151kert because of the suspicion of breach of fiduciary duty. Thanks to the successful co-operation between Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 and her colleagues, of course there was no prosecution brought against F\u0151kert.\nWhere did Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 continue her career after the prosecutions?\nAfter the prosecutions brought against the public utilities, in August 2012 P\u00e9ter Polt, Prosecutor General transferred Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 - after being responsible for a considerable department in Budapest she was assigned a simple prosecutor position of the High Prosecution Office of Pest County. Shortly she left the organization \u2013 in 2013 her service was terminated. The reason behind Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9\u2019s leaving was not cited in the related report published in the prosecutory journal. Also, it remained uncovered if she was the one asking for her termination. Anyway, her unemployment was a short-term one: taking her husband\u2019s name, dr. Szabadv\u00e1rin\u00e9 P\u00e9ter Ott\u00f3n\u00e9 (1 Feb, 2013) occupied her new position as Municipal Chief Advisor in Tarl\u00f3s\u2019s office.\nWhy did she change her name after getting under Tarl\u00f3s\u2019s wings?\nIt is puzzling why she began to use her military prosecutor husband\u2019s name. However, on second thought, it is not accidental that she tried to avoid advertising her new workplace: the prosecutor playing into Tarl\u00f3s\u2019s hands in the BKV-case was awarded for her more than one-sided services by Tarl\u00f3s, already elected as Lord Mayor. (To find out more about the possible reasons behind the name-change read box \u201cWinners\u201d.)\nWhen did the prosecution admit that the Nokia box does not exist?\nOn June 30, 2015 on the trial of the BKV-case the prosecution finally admitted[5] that the statements on the Nokia-box remained unproved \u2013 two and a half year after Zsolt Balogh unsaid his false testimony[6] on the Nokia-box stuffed with bribes. It seems to be that the prosecution needed more than two years to finally accept the fact that in spite of all their wishes they have to stop their unreasonable and baseless proceeding.\nThe count of the Nokia-box was baseless?\nYes, it was. Taking the chronology of the BKV-case into consideration it is easy to reason that the course of events was more than extraordinary. The investigation into bribery was initiated by the prosecution only after Balogh had unsaid his related statement. Until this point, the charge of bribery was considered to be one-statement supported, forgetting about the fact that the statement was made under coercion \u2013 in other words the Nokia-box was made up by the prosecution itself.\nWhy the prosecution and Tarl\u00f3s \u201cput their heads together\u201d to make up the Nokia-box?\nOut of interest, of course. For the ones paying careful attention to the events it was easy to put the bigger picture together. The legend of the Nokia-box[7] and the miring Hagy\u00f3 Mikl\u00f3s, then Deputy Lord Mayor of MSZP were more than useful before the elections in 2010 \u2013 not only for the FIDESZ, but also for Tarl\u00f3s greedy the Lord Mayor\u2019s seat. The success in miring the other leading party resulted in the country becoming covered in orange and the two-thirds.\nIs it possible to accuse somebody and take to court without founded reasons?\nUnfortunately, in Hungary it is quite easy to accuse somebody and keep in custody without grounded reasons. Apparently it became a current practice for the police, the prosecution and the court to put their heads together if the political interest requires. Let me cite a classic quotation: \u201cShow me one single person in this damn country who cannot be proved to be guilty in 5 minutes, including me and you! (P\u00e9ter Bacso: The Witness).\n[2] P\u00e9ter Otton\u00e9 Szabadv\u00e1ri dr. - Her role in BKV-case \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files\n[3] Coercion interrogations, magisterial malfeasances in the Hagy\u00f3 case \u2013 WITNESSES (5th part) \u2013 RELOADED \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files\n[4] Here is the list: policemen, prosecutors and judges proving their loyalty to Orban earn millions \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files\n[5] The Prosecutor\u2019s Office also has disbelief in the story of the Nokia-boksz \u2013 Hagy\u00f3 Files", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 16639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theoellsworth.blogspot.com/2016/10/next-show.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5UYKXH4EUSKJK7ABLRSHVQIIG23NLUOO", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theoellsworth.blogspot.com", "title": "Thought Cloud Factory News: next show", "raw_content": "I'll have a bunch of new woodcut pieces in the upcoming show.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 350, "original_length": 11230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 109.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepoliceinsider.com/morantz-tone-deaf-in-exchange-with-deputy-chief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YNDRNDTGACCQDMUYDCWHTOUMUH2ZTW6B", "length": 9390, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "thepoliceinsider.com", "title": "Morantz Tone Deaf in Exchange with Deputy Chief - THE POLICE INSIDER", "raw_content": "Morantz Tone Deaf in Exchange with Deputy Chief\nMarty Morantz (martymorantz.ca)\nNewly elected Winnipeg City Councillor Marty Morantz could learn a thing or two about respectful dialogue.\nLast week Morantz called out respected Deputy Police Chief Art Stannard during a tense exchange regarding WPS staffing levels.\n\u201cI don\u2019t want you to compromise service but it looks to me like there\u2019s a lot of officers hanging around right now,\u201d Morantz suggested.\nStannard\u2019s attempt to defer the issue to the Winnipeg Police Board clearly annoyed Morantz.\n\u201cWhy are you here, why are you sitting here?\u201d Morantz fired back in a fractious retort.\nIn the postscript, Morantz refused to apologize for his perceived disrespect.\n\u201cI\u2019m the chair of finance for the City of Winnipeg. They were there to talk about the financial position of the Winnipeg Police Service. So, no, I don\u2019t think any of my questions were out-of-order,\u201d he said to Free Press reporter Aldo Santin.\nIt seems Mr. Morantz is somewhat tone-deaf.\nI heard the exchange and it seemed plenty disrespectful to me.\nI\u2019m confident the men and women of the WPS are equally unimpressed by the suggestion they\u2019re sitting around their police stations with their thumbs up their asses.\nBefore he was elected to represent the Charleswood-Tuxedo-Whyte Ridge ward on City Council, Marty Morantz was a private sector lawyer specializing in real estate, wills and estates.\nAs far as I know, he doesn\u2019t have a degree in Police Sciences or any experience running a major Police Organization.\nYou would think his lack of experience might suggest a more temperate approach in his dialogue with senior Police Executives.\nLack of Corporate Knowledge\nPolice Board Chair Councillor Scott Gillingham supported Morantz indicating his questions were valid.\nThe WPS has been subjected to intense scrutiny and extensive studies in recent years.\nIn August 2013, The Matrix Consulting Group conducted an in-depth study of WPS operations and determined the Organization was being operated in an efficient manner.\nThe review came with a price tag of $174,000.\nThat same year the Canadian Police Association sponsored an in-depth review of WPS operations by Simon Fraser University which confirmed the Matrix findings.\nThe cost of the review was estimated at $200,000.\nIn 2010, the WPS Homicide Unit was subjected to one of the most intensive operational reviews ever conducted on its operations. The review found the Unit was overworked and understaffed yet they secured a nation-leading 90% solvency rate at approximately 50% of the cost of its comparators.\nStaffing level analysis was conducted during these reviews and no recommendations were made to decrease staff.\nA Crime Challenged City\nThe suggestion the WPS is over staffed seems to conflict with the reality of a crime challenged City.\nRecent Statistics Canada reports indicate the City of Winnipeg leads the Country in a number of unenviable crime categories;\nThe City of Winnipeg is considered the Aboriginal street gang capital of Canada with over 1,500 active gang members fighting for control of our streets.\nManitoba remains the Provincial murder capital of Canada by a significant margin and has held the title for seven (7) consecutive years.\nThe 2013 WPS Annual report indicated calls for Police Service are continuing to trend upwards;\nCalls for Service (2013 WPS Annual Report)\nThe increasing calls for service place a heavy burden on front-line police officers.\n\u201cWhy are you here, why are you sitting here?\u201d\nThe interests of the citizens of Winnipeg will not be advanced when City Councillors instigate demeaning confrontational exchanges with senior Police Executives.\nExecutives of the Police Service have long been aware of the need to operate the Organization in a cost-effective, efficient manner. They\u2019re also aware of their obligation to be accountable to City Hall and the citizens of our City.\nPolice Executives accept and welcome that responsibility.\nThe next time Mr. Morantz sits across the table from Deputy Chief Art Stannard he should try to remember which one of them has served the citizens of Winnipeg for over thirty (30) years.\nIf he can\u2019t figure that out then maybe our newly elected Mayor could spell it out for him.\nIt\u2019s called r e s p e c t.\nMarty Morantz should get some.\nIn the fall of 2014, The Fraser Institute published a study called, \u201cPolice and Crime Rates in Canada \u2013 A Comparison of Resources and Outcomes.\u201d\nThe report was authored by Livio Di Matteo, a Professor of Economics at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.\nDi Matteo concluded the Winnipeg Police Service was one of the most over-staffed and inefficient Police Organizations in the Country.\nThe results of the study were largely rejected because the findings were predicated solely on crime rate data. It also excluded important factors unique to the City of Winnipeg.\nPolice Chief Devon Clunis responds to the Fraser Institute report\u2026.\nWritten by: James G Jewell on January 11, 2015.on September 24, 2018.\nTags: Brian Bowman, Chief Devon Clunis, Deputy Chief Art Stannard, James Jewell, Marty Morantz, The Police Insider, Winnipeg Police Board, Winnipeg Police Service\nYou ask valid and important questions.\nAre there savings to be made?\nI guarantee there are initiatives that could be undertaken that would help reduce costs to some extent. The Police Service is aware of the need to constantly review operations to ensure the Organization is running efficiently.\nCourt overtime is an area that needs to be reviewed and analyzed for cost efficiencies. The problem is the system is driven by Crown and Defense Attorneys who operate under their own sets of rules. The Police Service has a limited ability to affect change in this area.\nI think civilianization of certain positions is an important issue that must be thoroughly examined in order to ensure efficiency and reduce costs.\nThere is little that can be done to control the costs associated to wages and pensions.\nWPS wages have increased as a result of contract and arbitrated settlements that are in direct correlation and in line with their western comparators.\nWhat most people don\u2019t understand is that policing costs are often impacted by changes in the administration of justice and social evolution.\nThe requirement to video tape suspect interviews added significant costs and increased resources to record, store, maintain and disclose the recordings.\nCourt mandated disclosure of police evidence (notes, video recordings, photographs, reports) translated to significant resource requirements.\nAdvancements in technology significantly increased policing costs and created a need to establish Technical Support Units to conduct forensic examinations of blackberries, iPhones, computers and other electronic devices.\nThe increased prevalence of smart phones and video also contributed to increased costs. All transit buses and most taxi cabs are equipped with video recording capability.\nThese advancements dictated the need for the police to create and staff a Forensic Imaging Unit as many serious crimes are now captured on video recordings.\nNow there is talk of compelling officers to wear lapel cameras.\nThis undertaking will come with significant costs associated to hardware, software and manpower to process, store, maintain and disclose the video evidence.\nWhether the costs of policing are connected to property taxes or some other area is a matter for our Politicians to determine.\nBrian Bowman is a smart man and I will be interested to see how he addresses this issue.\nThe question regarding sustainability of Police & Fire wages and pensions is an important question and I appreciate your interest.\nInteresting points as always.\njohndobbin\nWith your experience in policing and with costs risings, where should the discussion on police be? Are there savings to be made? Do you expect costs to continue to rise to, to stay the same or to fall? Should financing of police come from property tax?\nCouncillor Morantz has said there are about 200 police officers who are eligible for retirement, basing that only on the fact they have 20 or 25 years service. He knows nothing of their individual situations, young family, pension partner, debt load or anything like that. He doesn\u2019t appreciate that some of these members still look forward to coming to work because they enjoy what they do. Officers can\u2019t, nor should they be forced to retire just because they are eligible and the city wants to try to save money by having them retire.\nHere\u2019s a suggestion, let them cash out their sick leave bank and put it into RRSPs. No, wait, the city already got rid of that because they say it was too expensive.\nThere are now officers who, when they do retire, will see their pensions cut then they reach 65 years and not receive Old Age Security until 67 years, which means 2 years of getting about 1/2 their pension. Maybe the city should look at bridging this shortfall as a means of inducement.\nThe last time the city told the Police Service to reduce unnecessary overtime, I personally know of a fatal collision on Fermor Avenue at the CN overpass that was not investigated until a day later just to save a buck. Traffic Division, in their attempt to help save money, decided to get rid of the water cooler, even though the water in the building was unfit for consumption. Its hard to reduce spending when 85% of your budget is wages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 16511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetrailerboy.com/texas/muleshoe-wildlife-refuge-custom-trailers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:E62WTE3HXQYH6EEMPTKOE2D657J26ZBI", "length": 1415, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetrailerboy.com", "title": "Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge custom trailers \u2013 The Trailer Boy", "raw_content": "Custom Trailers For Sale in Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge, Texas\nLooking for custom trailers in Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge? The search is over when you choose The Trailer Boy. I can assist you in finding the perfect one. If you are in need of a car hauler, cargo, dump, enclosed, flatbed, gooseneck, horse, motorcycle, refrigerated, snowmobile or utility trailer in Texas, I can make sure you get exactly what you are looking for. I can promise this because my selection of trailers are fully customizable to your liking. Whether its the length, hitch style, height or something as simple as the color of the outer metal, I commit to providing you with what you need. The Trailer Boy is dedicated to providing our customers with an experience they\u2019ll never forget. I go over and above in everything that I do, including customer service. You can expect professional service from start to finish. Call now for a free consultation over the phone and find out for yourself why we are considered the leading trailer company in the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge area.\nHow\u2019s the traffic look in Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge today?\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge,+Texas/\nWhat\u2019s the weather like in Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge, Texas\nhttps://www.wunderground.com/us/Texas/Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge/\nLearn more about Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge on Wikipedia\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge,_Texas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theweeklyobserver.com/new-study-links-gene-to-erectile-dysfunction/63840/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XWSXO6DU232N6PNBOEKSRLJWF56W57AX", "length": 1895, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "theweeklyobserver.com", "title": "New study links gene to erectile dysfunction", "raw_content": "New study links gene to erectile dysfunction\nScientists in the US have announced that they have discovered an area of \u200b\u200bthe human genome, which is associated with an increased risk of erectile dysfunction in men. This is the first time that a genetic risk factor has been identified for this problem, which probably opens the way for new treatments for those men who do not respond to existing therapies.\nErectile dysfunction, ie a man\u2019s inability to have a sufficient erection during sexual activity, is a common disorder of middle-aged and elderly men. It is thought to have many causes, such as neurological, psychological, hormonal and vascular.\nThere are currently some treatments, but not all men respond to them. Scientists suspect that the problem also has a genetic background in about a third of the incidents, but so far they have not found a gene.\nResearchers, led by Dr Eric Yorkstr\u00f6m of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Research Center in Northern California, who published the report in the PNAS journal, surveyed about 380,000 men.\nThey found, according to the Athenian News Agency, a genetic region close to the SIM1 gene, which has a significant correlation with erectile dysfunction (a 26% risk increase for those who have the specific genetic factor in their DNA) and this regardless of other factors that can co-exist in the same person (eg obesity).\nThis SIM1 gene is known to play a central role in weight regulation and sexual function. The risk factor for erectile dysfunction is an area of \u200b\u200bthe genome very close to this gene. He does not identify with this, but interacts with him.\nThe conclusion that erectile dysfunction is an indicator of increased cardiovascular risk, regardless of other\u2026\nConstipation is a very common problem in the gastrointestinal system, which occurs in a large\u2026\nhttp://theweeklyobserver.com/new-study-links-gene-to-erectile-dysfunction/63840\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thismommasjourney.blogspot.com/2013/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UYJGQ5XHB6DSCVI5DBFQQ3SFNRRYHHVX", "length": 17269, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "thismommasjourney.blogspot.com", "title": "This Momma's Journey: June 2013", "raw_content": "Charlotte is 6 months old!\nAnd I'm a week behind! Which I am not at all proud of! But, we were enjoying the summer in Santa Cruz and I came back to something yucky going on in my tummy.\nCharlotte is growing at an insane rate. She's definitely not a newborn anymore. I don't even know where to begin when it comes to her rapid development.\nMuch to my surprise, Charlotte still has all of her hair. After all of our time in the sun, and despite spraying the sun screen into her hair, it has a lot of gold in it. She's finally starting to get some fat rolls on her legs and her cheeks and chin are starting to look chunky. I love chunky babies. And really, she eats enough where she should be nothing but rolls.\nCharlotte is nursing every 2 hours during the day. Before bed (around 8:30) she eats 2 ounces of formula after nursing. Then, she sleeps until 5 in the morning most days. For some reason, if I skip that 2 ounces, she will be up every 2 hours at night. I know formula has nothing to do with sleeping through the night, but I swear she knows the difference. In the morning she eats about 4 ounces of baby food and another 4 ounces in the evening. Unlike Samantha, she is not a picky baby at all. She'll use any type of bottle/nipple and eat any kind of baby food. She does absolutely love melons in her little mesh feeder.\nWith Samantha, we didn't use baby food because she hated it. We did baby led weaning and she would just eat food. She was about the same age and eating teething biscuits and whatever was on our plate. Charlotte does not like solid food in the same way. I've given her the baby rice cups and she has no interest in doing anything other than shoving them between her toes...\nCharlotte has started to HATE the car. If we time it right at nap time, she'll sleep in there. Otherwise, nothing will make her happy. She's already weaning herself off the paci and chewing it instead of sucking (unless she is super tired) so that's not much help, toys do not interest her at all in the car and basically we just have to try and get wherever we are going. This means Kaitlyn has been our best in the car baby by far.\nCharlotte also does not like for me to leave her. At all. For any length of time. She's better if she's at home, but we have tried going out to dinner and letting her stay with grandparents and it was horrible for her. She just cried and cried. She is so stubborn, she will not cry herself to sleep in any situation, she will just cry for hours on end if she doesn't get her way... This could be trouble later...\nCharlotte wears disposable diapers when we travel (size 2 pampers swaddlers) and cloth at home. Once we run out of disposable, we'll hopefully be rid of them for a good long while! She's outgrowing her 3-6 month clothes, but some still fit. She wears a lot of 6-9 month stuff, but the waist is so narrow on some of the things.\nCharlotte is currently (unofficially until Monday the 8th of July) 28 1/4\" long (98.9%) and 15 lbs (27% and not even double her birth weight yet).\nShe is so close to crawling it's ridiculous. She gets on all fours and pushes herself front and back and then usually either goes backwards or falls on her face. She is able to quickly go from one side of the room to another, scooting or rolling. She isn't sitting up on her own too well yet. She can tripod for a minute or so, but isn't too secure... She has a million looks she likes to give and such a fun personality. Kaitlyn and Samantha can really get her laughing and playing.\nThe Story of Chico\nBy 2009, Kaitlyn really wanted a sibling. She asked for another baby pretty much every day. She turned 5 that year and was absolutely obsessed. By Christmas, I'd experienced 3 miscarriages and I was starting to accept that it just wasn't going to happen. A few days after Christmas, Dusty's uncle was visiting and brought the cutest, tiniest puppy in the world with him.\nHe was only a few weeks old. He was the runt. His mom had killed all the siblings and he only survived because he was tiny enough to hide behind a hot water heater. He had been bottle fed and was just so tiny with such a massive head. His head was so heavy, when he bent down to eat, his feet would go in the air.\nKaitlyn begged for him. I begged too. Dusty was pretty strong about saying no, reminding us that we didn't need another dog, and reminding me of the cons of another dog right then. But, he quickly gave in.\nHis name was Chico. I don't know if Archie was more irritated when we brought home Chico or a baby... But, I thought Chico would help keep Archie active and young longer. Makes sense, right?\nI took Chico with me everywhere. He was so tiny and so cuddly and I was so scared to leave him. After we had him for a few months, we found out I was pregnant with Samantha. I took Chico pretty much everywhere with me until Samantha was born. By then, he was 10 lbs, neutered and good at being left at home.\nChico is such an interesting looking dog. He has a severe underbite, so bad the vet asked if we wanted to get him braces. Since he has no problem eating, it would be $5,000 (or so) for a cosmetic procedure. He has \"bat\" ears, squinty eyes and a muscular chest. He is part chihuahua and part pit bull. He is amazing with kids and not always the brightest crayon in the box...\nWe were out of town for about a week earlier this month. We had a family member house sit and watch the dogs. Normally, we just have a family member check on them, but Archie is getting old and having a hard time getting in and out of the doggie door, so this made way more sense. And we were so grateful.\nChico decided to get out of the backyard while we were gone. We figured it out when we returned. Somehow, it went unnoticed, which can be easy to do since sometimes Archie barks enough for both of them and will absolutely devour Chico's food if given the chance.\nAt first, I figured he was in the field behind our house. He had gotten out there before, but always came back. We searched and searched. He wasn't there. I whistled for him and called his name and nothing. We went to the neighbors. No one had seen him. The man next door that just moved in said he hadn't barked at him in 2-3 days.\nWithin a couple hours we had posted 25 flyers in the area. We had talked to everyone whose house touched ours or the field behind ours. Dusty did most of the talking. We walked through that awful field over and over again.\nOne man said he saw him on Saturday running away from the field. A few other men said they saw a group of pitbulls around the area. We hoped and prayed that he was just ok. I put ads on facebook, with the pounds and shelters and on craigslist.\nThe next morning, I was browsing craigslist and came across an ad of a dog that looked like Chico.\nThey found him on Friday night, in the direction he was last seen running. I called their number. I emailed them. I text them. I didn't hear back. I did it all over and over again. A few hours later they called.\nThey said he had been picked up by his family. I asked if they were sure because that looks so much like our dog. She said \"they fell in love with him\" and she had no way of proving it. But, if I called her back that night when she got home, she would give me their information.\nI called her at the time she said. No answer. I text. I left messaged. I called again. And again. And again. She finally called back and said she wasn't home, but she talked to them and they admitted it wasn't their dog. They were taking him back to her and we could pick him up. She would call when he arrived.\nThat was at 8:30 p.m. By 10:30 p.m. We hadn't heard anything. So, I text. No response.\nThe next morning I called. Again and again and again. Nothing. Around noon, she text they were bringing him by at 2 and we could get him then. I responded asking her for her address. I heard nothing. 2 came and went without a phone call or text. I emailed, I called, and called and called.\nWe were getting frustrated, upset, irritated, angry. I called the police who said it was a civil matter. I couldn't understand why she didn't just call back to give us an idea of what was going on?\nI started calling every 20 minutes. At nearly 7, my phone rang. It was a friendly voice, a different one explaining that she had our dog.\nChico had found his way into the garage of her mother-in-law, the woman who posted the ad. The kids saw him the next morning and fell in love with him. They took him home to their 4 year old son and 2 year old daughter. They named him Turbo. They bought him toys and specialty food and gave him a bath. The didn't know his family was looking for him. They didn't know there was a craigslist ad. They didn't know he was microchipped.\nDusty and Kaitlyn picked him up. The little boy was upset. Kaitlyn was happy. Samantha was beyond thrilled. And it was bittersweet. I felt for them, they had a few days to grow attached to \"Turbo\" and fill the void left by their dog that ran away and never came back. They didn't expect him to be \"found.\"\nChico is home where he belongs and I sincerely hope that little boy has a puppy of his own to love and grow up with.\nCatfishing...\nIn today's society, catfishing refers to more than just casting out a line in hopes of catching a delicious dinner. It also refers to \"whackadoos\" doing \"whackadoo\" things. Urban dictionary defines it well: The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relationships (over a long period of time).\nWe have been \"catfished.\" In a way at least. A woman by the name of Monique Spears has fabricated a character she named Joshua Reagan. Joshua is the father of two, a daughter named Kaitlyn and a son named Matthew. What a coincidence. To give proof that this character actually exists, she had to have photos of \"his\" children. Anyone want to guess what photos she used?\nYeah. I don't take too kindly to the photographs I post on my blog being used by \"whackadoos.\" So, in between a day of editing footage and caring for three little ones, I spent some time finding out a lot of information about Monique. I verified that Kaitlyn and Matthew's websites (that I keep mostly for me to go back and look at) are password protected, my facebook is still nice and private and since there is only one other place \"Joshua's\" cover photo could be found, I'll be watermarking all of my images.\nIt has been suggested that perhaps I make the blog private. Which I did consider. But, it's theraputic for me. And, I enjoy helping people who may be going through a little bit of what we have, or who would like to try and understand what it is like to lose a child, perhaps to be a better friend to someone hurting.\nJust a personal message to Monique, in case you didn't receive the one on facebook before quickly deleting Joshua's profile: I spent more time than I'd care to admit researching you today. I have more information about you, your life and your \"characters\" than ever necessary. You really should get a healthier hobby.\nBusy, but good.\nKaitlyn is officially done with the third grade. Her report card was fantastic. One B and the rest were all As. Her only B was in geometry. Considering her lack of motivation to do her homework at the beginning of this semester and how hard it is to concentrate in the summer, we were really proud. She scored advanced in all of her tests and was \"marked\" excellent in everything else. She was really glad to be done with school. That is, until the day came and she realized she would be away from her friends for the summer...\nLast week, I spent hours upon hours in her room cleaning it. When you walked by, it looked just a little messy. As I started to work \"with\" her, I discovered a lot of hiding spaces. Spaces filled with a lot of things from our little pack rat. She decided she would rather go to sleep at 7 then finish helping. I have no idea how she slept through me cleaning, Charlotte crying in her room, Samantha running in and out and the lights on full blast. But, she did.\nOur goal now is to have her keep it clean. To my standards. Everyday, I go in and check all the hiding spots a few times a day. If she keeps it clean for two weeks, to my standards without being told, she can get her DVD player back. Right now, I'm still reminding her a couple times a day.\nSamantha is as cute as ever. She has the sweetest voice and says the cutest stuff. For example, if I ask her where something is, say her cup or a piece of garbage I know she didn't throw away she says \"It disappeared\" with this little grin. She'll always follow it up with \"what should I do?\" and put her hands up and shrug her shoulders.\nHer memory is great, she's constantly mentioning things that happened days ago. She has started remembering who Matthew is, but not really understanding who he is to her. Does that make sense? It's hard, with Kaitlyn we had a hard time telling her what happened, but she knew him. She knew he was there and that he then wasn't. Samantha doesn't have the luxury of knowing him as anything more than a memory she doesn't share with us. Sometimes, I worry it will separate us into two groups as a family, before Matthew and after. But, I try not to think too far ahead or too deeply. If I did, I would probably go crazy.\nSamantha is starting to get better about liking to go places. Her sleep is not improved at all. If we skip the benadryl, she's up all night. And, she refuses to use the potty. So far, she'll recite this list of things we will get her if she uses the potty: princess scooter, Team Umizoomi DVD, sparkly shoes, candy and chocolate. She'll run around in big girl underwear, sit on the potty when I tell her too, every 5 minutes after a ton of Gatorade, juice, milk and/or water, and do this for hours. Then, she'll say \"I caaaaaaan't go on the potty\" and ask for a diaper please and then pee in it. She says she's too little. I remind her that her big sissy doesn't wear diapers and her favorite big cousins don't wear cousins and she gets so excited. Then, I ask her again if she wants to go on the potty and she sweetly says \"no thank you.\"\nCharlotte is doing great. At about 4 months, we started giving her baby food. Her doctor thought it would help with the weight gain and spitting up. I knew from experience that it wouldn't, but she did show all the readiness signs so we started. She gets about 1/2 a jar in the morning of fruit and the evening another half a jar of veggies or meat. Both are mixed with rice cereal to thicken it a little. She loves it. She also loves watermelon. She's no closer to sitting up on her own, but she is super fast at getting from one side of the room to another. She has also decided that most of the time she hates riding in the car. That has been less than fun. It's actually been absolutely stressful at times. She will just scream and scream, never tiring herself out. When she's going and Kaitlyn decides that it's a good time to ask about angles and the history of California's state flower it can be hard to concentrate to say the least.\nShe absolutely loves her baby cousin though. She will just stare and stare at him. He is adorable, so I can't really blame her...\nDusty and I are doing great. We went out to dinner, just the two of us, for the first time since Charlotte's been born. Yeah. We had a great time, Charlotte not so much. She cried and cried the entire time we were gone. Which pretty much broke my heart. But, it was nice to eat an uninterrupted meal with both hands. And, having lunch with my best friend is always something I look forward too.\nIt's funny, we have treated all three girls pretty much the same since birth, but Charlotte has really been the one to like for me to hold her. Which makes doing pretty much everything just a little bit harder. Considering how much work we've been doing in the backyard, how much I've been working and the to-do list I have for the upcoming weeks, my back hurts and I'm exhausted.\nWe have so many things we're planning right now. A few little getaways, some beach side family portraits, baby showers and I'm pretty sure we're going to plan a vow renewal for our 10 year anniversary next August. Exciting things...\nI've mentioned before, this year we were honored to be the Ambassador Family for the Greater Capital Division. Basically, this meant that Dusty and I spoke at the kick off lunch and at the walk. We were featured in the fundraising tri-fold and shared our story and why we participate with the March of Dimes and their fundraising efforts.\nOur team rocked. This photo isn't even everyone from our team. That's how incredible they were. We raised just over$10,600! They were great through 3!! fundraisers and just an amazing source of support!\nI spoke before the kick off of the walk. Just a short speech telling our story. Originally, we were all going to go up, but in case I haven't mentioned it before, Samantha is not a morning person. She wanted nothing to do with anything, so Dusty kept her happy off the stage.\nWe walked, we enjoyed the company of great people, we raised money for an amazing cause, we honored our baby and we started planning for how to raise even more for next year. 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N. Raju welcomed the gathering and introduced the members of the Board. Honorary Secretary A. Amer Mohammed delivered the keynote address and spoke about the need to be creative to enhance the quality of education. He exhorted all the stakeholders to work together for the upliftment of ICSK. He further requested for an active involvement of parent community and also stressed the need for teachers to be techno savvy\nHonorary Vice-Chairman Mr. Vinukumar Nair and Honorary Joint Secretary Agnelo A. S. Fernandes, in their felicitation addresses, reiterated that the foremost objective of the present members of the Board of Trustees is to safeguard the interests of the students of the Indian community and to ensure that they are provided with high quality education and facilities.\nSenior administrator and Principal of ICSK Senior Dr.V.Binumon was the moderator for the conference. He urged the teachers to not only be efficient but also effective. He initiated the discussion on excellence in education at ICSK.\nAll the members of the august gathering actively participated in the discussion. Principals, Vice-Principals, Heads of Departments, assistant heads of departments and academic supervisors shared their valuable thoughts about enhancing the quality of education. Among other ideas, it was stressed that moral values should be instilled in students so that they grow up into empathetic and sympathetic human beings. The importance of cultivating good reading habits in students was also emphasized. The teaching fraternity was urged to be impartial towards the students.\nHonorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr. Shaikh Abdul Rahman, in the vote of thanks, said that the present Board is committed to support the school to reach greater heights and has been instrumental in making several changes to uplift the school. He also agreed to look into the matters raised by the participants. He thanked all the attendees for their presence and for actively participating in the discussion.\nIt was indeed a major step towards enhancement of quality in education at ICSK through active discussion and healthy exchange of ideas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tomrush.com/newsletter-november-25-2012-symphony-hall-concert-kickstarter-the-mouse/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ORL2FADGHYSTBTXUKGQZOOQALHKCYD7G", "length": 2324, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "tomrush.com", "title": "Symphony Hall Concert, Kickstarter & The Mouse \u2013 November 25, 2012 | Tom Rush", "raw_content": "Symphony Hall Concert, Kickstarter & The Mouse \u2013 November 25, 2012\nSo! It appears that our Kickstarter campaign to fund the Symphony Hall show on December 28th was the 5th most successful music campaign they\u2019ve ever done \u2013 not bad for the first time out! Amanda Palmer holds the number one slot but she\u2019s cute, which I regard as a form of cheating. She also appears naked a lot, and I refuse to lower myself to cheap tricks like that. I have standards!Gang,\nI have, however, seriously considered charging everybody an extra $20 to keep my clothes ON. This could work! A fellow at my school made a good deal of money by NOT chewing the head off a live mouse. It went like this: he announced that if everybody gave him $5 he was willing to chew the head off a live mouse. (This was, mind you, when $5 was $5, or at least $3.75.)\nWhen he had the money in hand he produced his pet mouse and stuck its head in his mouth. As he began to chew, its little legs and tail thrashed about frantically and everybody in the audience blanched and cried \u201cEwww\u201d in unison. He then announced that, for an additional $5 apiece, he would cease and desist, otherwise he would resume gnawing. The soggy-headed mouse looked at us imploringly. He cleared about $50 and the mouse lived to put on another show. Quite a team!\nSpeaking of Symphony Hall, the show on the 28th of December is going on sale tomorrow, Monday, November 26th, by phone (888-266-1200 or 617-266-1200, M-F: 10-6pm, Sat. 12-6pm ) or on the web (http://www.bso.org/Performance/Listing \u2013 it may take a day or two for it to appear on their website.) It won\u2019t be advertised until sometime next week, so you have a head start. Not many table seats left, good seats still open in the balconies. If you\u2019re a Kickstarter supporter your tickets should be mailed out to you this week. Also, the CDs being reissued for this event are being manufactured as I write this and should ship to the Kickstarter folks well in time for Christmas.\nPS. I just got a notice from MacKenzie & Marr Guitars that they\u2019re having a rather astounding Cyber Monday sale on the Tom Rush Signature guitar \u2013 check it out! (Note: this is not the Naked Lady guitar, but still a lovely instrument.)\nQuote of the Month: Sorry, I couldn\u2019t find a quote relating to chewing the head off a live mouse. And I looked hard!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://toolkits.ite.org/uiig/treatments.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MOHXUA3ZMDBEUWU7TABJJ3ZEEYFQDQ7Y", "length": 23135, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "toolkits.ite.org", "title": "Types of Treatments - Unsignalized Intersection Improvement Guide", "raw_content": "The purpose of the Unsignalized Intersection Improvements Guide (UIIG) is to assist in determining appropriate treatments that can improve the safety, operations, and accessibility of an unsignalized intersection for all road users.\nSafety is ultimately defined by the absence of crashes and resulting injuries and fatalities. Surrogate measures of safety include minimizing the conflicts between vehicles and between vehicles and other users (i.e., pedestrians and bicyclists).\nOperations typically refers to the flow of traffic and is described in terms of three interrelated measures: delay (for all users), operating speed, and capacity. Efficient operation is achieved when all users can navigate through the intersection without unreasonable delay at an appropriate speed.\nAccessibility, in the context of this guide, relates to providing appropriate accommodations for all non-motorized users, many times with a particular emphasis on pedestrians having mobility or vision disabilities.\nAchieving the highest level of safety, operations, or accessibility at a given intersection may come at the detriment of one or both of the other goals. Safety and operations are often correlated\u2014that is, when one improves, the other often benefits, as well. However, this is not always the case. An improvement that increases vehicular speeds may result in higher crash severity or additional crashes. Additionally, modifications to an intersection that improve the safety and operational conditions for vehicular traffic may have the opposite impact on non-motorized users. For example, increasing the corner radius will better accommodate a turning maneuver by a large vehicle but will also result in a longer intersection crossing distance for pedestrians and will allow higher speed turns, thereby increasing their exposure to vehicular traffic. These tradeoffs need to be considered when evaluating improvement alternatives.\nUnsignalized intersection improvements\u00ad\u00ad can be accomplished by engineering, enforcement, and education-type means\u2014the oft-noted 3 E\u2019s. In general, the UIIG refers to such improvements as treatments, although several other terms (e.g., improvements, measures, and countermeasures) are also used intermittently. Seventy-five (75) treatments are identified and described in the UIIG, with the vast majority classified as engineering treatments. A fact sheet is provided for each to present the following:\nTitle\u2014treatment name.\nDescription\u2014brief explanation of the treatment to include a photograph when appropriate.\nProblems Addressed\u2014UIIG problem type(s) to which the treatment is applicable.\nTargeted Crash Types\u2014types of crashes (e.g., rear-end, angle, etc.) to which the treatment is applicable.\nConditions Addressed\u2014intersection characteristics and conditions (e.g., volume levels, road type, crash history, etc.) to which the treatment is applicable.\nConsiderations\u2014key points related to treatment selection and implementation.\nIndustry Standard\u2014principal section(s) of note within fundamental guidance documents such as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) or AASHTO\u2019s A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (a.k.a., the Green Book).\nOther Resources\u2014technical publications that provide additional information.\nSelect Examples\u2014identification of one or more intersections in the U.S. believed to have the subject treatment, including a hyperlink to internet mapping of the location.\nThe UIIG treatments are listed by title below, each hyperlinked to its associated UIIG fact sheet. There are no individual fact sheets for the education measures because these are fully described within this section.\nEngineering treatments are those that change the physical features or design elements of an unsignalized intersection. For the purpose of this guide, they have been grouped by the following types:\nTraffic Control Device treatments.\nGeometric treatments.\nShoulder and Roadside treatments.\nPavement Surface treatments.\nOther Engineering treatments.\nTraffic Control Device Treatments\nTraffic control devices include signs, signals, pavement markings, and other devices used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic. Most of these treatments are significantly less expensive than geometric changes, and some can be installed by maintenance staff or a contractor without the need for extensive engineering design. However, traffic control devices are intended to provide uniform messages and information along all public roads nationwide and, therefore, typically require the approval of the applicable governing body. The proper application of traffic control devices in the U.S. is described in the MUTCD, and a summary of what the MUTCD requires or suggests related to unsignalized intersections can be found in the UIIG\u2019s What Does the MUTCD Say? In addition, several states have adopted their own manual or supplement to the Federal MUTCD that should be reviewed before implementing a traffic control device if a jurisdiction is within that state. Listed below by title are the 37 traffic control device treatments that can address the various problems identified; they are grouped by the type of improvement they provide.\nIntersection Control\nIntersection Warning\nConspicuity Enhancements to Traffic Control Devices\nTreatments related to Non-Motorists\nGeometric Treatments\nGeometric treatments involve changes to the physical features of the intersection. In some cases, while geometric changes may be more desirable to address a problem, they are typically more costly, may require the acquisition of right-of-way, and are more likely to require public involvement. As such, geometric treatments may be identified as mid- or long-range improvements and not as a near-term alternative. Listed below are 28 geometric-type treatments:\nRoadside/Shoulder Treatments\nTwo treatments entail modifications beyond the edge of the travel lane:\nPavement Surface Treatments\nTwo treatments comprise modifications to the pavement surface on the approach:\nOther Engineering Treatments\nThere are two general engineering-type improvements within the UIIG:\nWhen roads are engineered properly to include traffic control devices that command respect from road users, violations of basic traffic laws should be minimal. However, even with sound engineering, motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians may violate traffic laws at unsignalized intersections. The following are common violations:\nFailing to yield the right-of-way to other users legally within the intersection.\nFailing to come to a full stop when under STOP sign control.\nSpeeding (i.e., traveling over the speed limit or too fast for conditions), which usually applies to the major road traffic stream that is not controlled by a STOP or YIELD sign.\nPedestrian violations, including improper pedestrian crossings and drivers not stopping for pedestrians.\nThe countermeasures related to violation issues that are within the purview of law enforcement are described below.\nEnforcement Actions for Failing to Yield the Right-of-Way at an Intersection\nTo enforce compliance with intersection traffic control, police officers may position themselves such that they can safely view vehicles approaching an intersection. After observing a vehicle proceed into the intersection without yielding the right-of-way as required by the applicable law, the officer would stop the noncompliant vehicle, identify its driver, and issue a citation for the infraction. When repeated at the same location for several days, this type of targeted enforcement is known to increase compliance not only among the individuals receiving citations but also among other drivers who observe the enforcement activities or hear about them from others.\nThis type of enforcement operation is not as immediately recognizable to drivers passing through the area as compared to other enforcement approaches. Passing drivers can often identify speed enforcement efforts with relative ease, which bears the potential for reinforcement of the speed limit among passing drivers. A marked police vehicle parked near an intersection does not have that same impact. Therefore, agencies may wish to consider (1) placing a portable sign near the police vehicle that reads \u201cIntersection Enforcement\u201d or (2) advertising the enforcement locations on a website or in a radio traffic report. The goal for all traffic enforcement is not to write more citations or to raise funds for the jurisdiction; rather, the goal should be to change driver behavior and improve safety at the intersection.\nEnforcement Actions for Failing to Stop at STOP Signs\nFailing to come to a full stop when the intersection is controlled by a STOP sign occurs when it is perceived by the motorist that stopping is unnecessary. Enforcement for this violation can be done by traditional targeted police enforcement. Police officers may position their vehicles so they may safely view vehicles as they approach the STOP sign. When repeated at the same location for several days, this type of targeted enforcement is known to increase compliance not only among the individuals receiving citations but also among other drivers who observe the enforcement activities or hear about them from others.\nAlthough its use has been limited to date, automated enforcement technology can be applied to target STOP sign violations. With this technology, vehicle movements approaching a STOP sign are tracked. If a vehicle continues past the STOP sign without stopping, an image is captured of the vehicle committing the violation. In some cases, the system is designed to allow a vehicle to pass without capturing a violation image as long as it has slowed below a minimum threshold speed.\nAutomated enforcement of STOP signs requires the passage of authorizing legislation in most states. Similar to the automated enforcement of red light violations, this countermeasure should be carefully considered after other countermeasures have been explored. There is currently limited guidance published on the implementation of an automated STOP sign violation program.\nIn 2007, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) in California started the first automated enforcement program for STOP sign violations. These systems were placed in rural park areas. On November 30, 2013, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department began to issue citations for STOP sign violations using automated enforcement. The DC program uses a radar-based system to capture images of vehicles not coming to a complete stop at a STOP sign. As shown in the photos, the camera system is placed upstream and uses Doppler radar to determine the speed of each vehicle at the STOP sign. A video clip is saved for each vehicle that does not reduce speed to less than 7 mph at the STOP sign. The video is then reviewed by a police officer to determine if a violation took place.\nAutomated enforcement operations are planned at 32 stop-controlled intersections in DC. The Metropolitan Police Department is using videos to announce the new automated enforcement initiatives on its website. In light of the program\u2019s recent initiation, there were no evaluation data available at the time this document was published. For further information, contact the Metropolitan Police Department Information Office at (202) 727-8599 or by email at mpd@dc.gov.\nExample of portable automated STOP sign enforcement. Source: VHB.\nEnforcement Actions for Speeding\nPolice officer positioned at an intersection using a radar gun to identify speed violations. Source: Lee Engineering, LLC.\nAdvanced warning sign of upcoming automated speed enforcement. Source: Lee Engineering, LLC.\nTraditional speed enforcement activities can be implemented near the intersection where speeding has been identified as a problem. Police officers with handheld radar or laser (light detection and ranging or LIDAR) devices can be positioned to identify the speed of approaching vehicles.\nWhen repeated at the same location for several days, this type of targeted enforcement increases compliance with the individuals receiving citations, as well as with other drivers who see the enforcement taking place or hear about it from others. Additional details may be found in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration\u2019s Speed Enforcement Program Guidelines.\nAutomated speed enforcement should be viewed as a holistic program and not just as a technology. Successful programs for automated speed enforcement are based on solid problem identification at locations where proper engineering measures are not sufficient to slow speeds to acceptable levels. Automated speed enforcement should never occur where there is an artificially low or unjustified speed limit. Public outreach is essential for the community to develop a keen understanding of the problem and accept automated speed enforcement as a viable countermeasure. Legislation and policies must be established based on the nature of the speeding problem and the community concerns.\nAutomated enforcement programs may be restricted to specific locations, such as work zones or school zones. Signs are used to encourage drivers to slow down prior to entering the automated enforcement area. This reduces vehicle speeds without resulting in citations being issued for drivers who heed the warning. An enforcement threshold is generally established above the posted speed limit, with thresholds as high as 11 mph above the posted speed limit being common; lower thresholds may be established for work and school zones. Drivers who do not slow down at the warning signs and continue into the enforcement area above the threshold speeds are issued citations. In most cases in the U.S., the owner of the vehicle is issued a citation based on an image of the vehicle registration plate. Some states are required to issue a citation to the driver of the vehicle and must take an image of the driver. If the vehicle owner was not driving at the time of the violation, it is often up to the driver to identify the person who was driving at the time of violation. In all cases, some form of due process is incorporated to allow individuals who receive citations to contest them. Some states or communities have put special restrictions on the use of automated enforcement.\nVan deployed for automated speed enforcement through photos (\"Photo Enforcement\").\nAutomated enforcement can be done at fixed locations or through the use of mobile units (vans) that can be moved to multiple locations each day. If done by photo enforcement vans, there must be a place to park the vehicle so that the traveled way and sidewalk are not blocked and there is no visibility obstruction from a nearby driveway or intersection. The automated enforcement equipment can be operated by the local jurisdiction or by a contractor retained by the jurisdiction. Regardless, a police officer is often required to verify the legitimacy of a citation before it is mailed.\nDetailed guidance is available via the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Speed Enforcement Camera System Operational Guidelines.\nEnforcement Actions for Pedestrians Crossing Improperly\nWhile pedestrians usually have the right-of-way when crossing at a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an unsignalized intersection, they at times cross improperly, such as darting into the street or between vehicles stopped at an intersection. Drivers have greater difficulty detecting pedestrians in unexpected areas. A pedestrian stepping into traffic from between two cars is at a greater risk of being struck because the cars obstruct the lines of sight between the driver and the pedestrian, thereby reducing the driver\u2019s reaction time.\nSigns and physical barriers can be used to direct pedestrians to cross at proper locations. Police officers can be positioned to interdict individual pedestrians whose crossing conduct is contrary to the law or is otherwise unsafe. While officers could issue citations to pedestrians who have violated applicable laws or who are acting carelessly, the issuance of warnings may have a more positive effect and will be better received by the community. Citations may be warranted when the same pedestrian repeatedly violates the law.\nEducation efforts should be initiated before pedestrian enforcement occurs, even if the enforcement is limited to warnings. Educational efforts are discussed in more detail below.\nEnforcement Actions for Drivers at Pedestrian Crossings\nSign and pavement markings can be implemented to indicate where the vehicle should yield to a crossing pedestrian. Source: Lee Engineering, LLC.\nYield to Pedestrian sign placed in the center of the road prior to a crosswalk. Source: Lee Engineering, LLC.\nRegardless of whether their crossing is in accordance with the law, pedestrians are always faced with some level of risk when crossing an intersection. The level of risk increases significantly when the drivers with whom they share the road fail to comply with the law. Pedestrians crossing in a marked or unmarked crosswalk generally have the right-of-way at an unsignalized intersection. Education efforts should be initiated before any pedestrian enforcement is introduced, which will help all road users to better understand the dangers of not yielding properly to a crossing pedestrian. This education effort may include signs at the intersection to stop (or yield) for pedestrians in the crosswalk as appropriate and will help some people to decide on their own to yield the right-of-way for pedestrians. If the enforcement action is to gain community support, the education effort must help people to understand the law and appreciate the risks. If the agency issues press releases on the enforcement actions taken to protect pedestrians, the reach of the education effort is expanded, and with it the likelihood to encourage more people to drive prudently, especially when near pedestrians.\nKnown as a \u201cdecoy\u201d officer, a police officer on foot wearing civilian clothing can be safely positioned to approach the intersection as a pedestrian intending to cross. Drivers who fail to properly yield the right-of-way to the decoy officer may be stopped by another officer in a marked police vehicle waiting nearby and observing the crossing. Cones are typically placed on the curb identifying where the driver should be far back enough to stop for the (decoy) pedestrian and aid in the enforcement effort.\nAutomated Enforcement for Drivers at Pedestrian Crossings\nAutomated enforcement may also be used to enforce the laws requiring motorists to stop for pedestrians in marked and unmarked crosswalks. On November 30, 2013, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department started to issue citations for drivers who did not stop at crosswalks where pedestrians were actively crossing the street. Using video analytics to determine if pedestrians were in the crosswalk, the radar-based system was designed to capture an image of any vehicle that failed to come to a complete stop before the crosswalk. No evaluation data from this program were available at the time of this publication.\nAnother critical component of a comprehensive safety program is education, which can manifest itself in several ways:\nDriver licensing and education programs.\nTargeted education programs (focusing on groups such as children, teenagers, and older drivers).\nPublic service announcements (PSAs) through various media outlets (e.g., newspapers, television, and the internet).\nInformation transmitted to the driving public through roadside signs and other devices.\nThese activities should be coordinated with the various safety partners among public agencies and safety advocacy groups.\nWhen an agency decides to launch a concerted enforcement effort, it should generally first conduct an education campaign to inform the public of the existing safety problem and the law the safety campaign is meant to support. If the enforcement action is to gain community support, the education effort must help people to understand and recognize the risks of improper conduct at an intersection. This will lead some people to modify their behavior. If the agency issues press releases on any enforcement action taken against drivers, bicyclists, or pedestrians, then the reach of the education component is expanded further.\nWith regard to unsignalized intersections, education programs and activities should be directed to remind all road users of the following:\nGeneral right-of-way laws at intersections, especially uncontrolled and all-way STOP-controlled intersections, and at pedestrian crossings (with and without crosswalk markings).\nRequirements for stop- and yield-controlled intersections.\nHow to safely enter and negotiate an unsignalized intersection.\nThis is done during driver education programs for new drivers and continued with periodic public service announcements and other education campaigns.\nThe following specific educational activities should be considered:\nA NEW plaque is placed on top of a STOP sign to enhance the conspicuity of the new traffic control device. Source: VHB.\nAdvising users when a significant change is made to traffic control\u2014for example, when yield control is changed to stop control or when minor-road-only stop control is changed to all-way stop control. This can be accomplished by using various social media techniques (email blasts, Twitter, etc.). Also, the driving public should be alerted through special signing, such as placing a NEW plaque on top of the new device for a set period of time after its installation or advanced TRAFFIC CONTROL CHANGE AHEAD signs. Some agencies will flag STOP sign changes for 30 days or will use supplemental STOP signs for new all-way STOP locations for the first 30 days to help education drivers.\nAdvising motorists on how a pedestrian hybrid beacon works or how to traverse a roundabout or another nontraditional intersection, particularly if it is the first one in the area. This can be done through websites, PSAs, or press releases to the media to gain their assistance in educating the public. Example guides for educating motorists on the operations and benefits of nontraditional intersections include Washington State DOT\u2019s roundabout guidance and Missouri DOT\u2019s j-turn guidance.\nAdvising the public of any targeted enforcement program (e.g., if police plan to target STOP sign violations, adherence to Yield to Pedestrians signs, etc.) at multiple locations.\nAdvising motorists of special safety issues of concern at unsignalized intersections:\nBefore turning right (or left) at the intersection, deliberately checking for a bicyclist who may be traveling on the vehicle\u2019s right (or left) side.\nBefore turning onto a one-way street, checking for pedestrians in both directions (even though vehicular traffic will not be approaching from both directions).\nProperly approaching a stop line and stopping with emphasis on watching for non-motorized users, and safely moving the vehicle forward to a position with adequate sight distance before entering the intersection.\nConsidering pedestrians with vision or mobility disabilities.\nJudging safe gaps in oncoming traffic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 27087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://toroveabout.com/an-ode-to-being-lost/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IM36EDJE2KPY2JHHXIELTXWDZBMIPS7C", "length": 5281, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "toroveabout.com", "title": "An ode to being lost \u2013 To Rove about", "raw_content": "An ode to being lost\nMore than ever, we live in a world full of possibilities. As a young twentysomething, there are thousands of choices to make. There is so much freedom: everything is possible. Want to study more? No problem! You want to be an enterpreneur? Go for it! Two jobs? Why not! Follow your dreams, that seems to be the slogan these days. Great, right? But what if you do not know what to do? Is that also allowed?\nDo not understand me wrong, I do not want to complain about the amount of choices we have (a luxury) and how overwhelming that can be sometimes. I\u2019m immensely greatful for the freedom I have. It\u2019s wonderful that we have the possibility to chase our dreams. But because it is possible, it is often also expected. And that\u2019s why I wrote an ode to \u2018not knowing\u2019.\nEveryone around me seems to be finding their way, in both big and/or small dreams. A nice job, big travels, living together, to study something extra, entrepreneurship, etc. There is a lot of diversity in the kind of dreams there are, but everyone has one thing in common (or so it seems): they are moving forward.\nAnd me? This year, I came to the realisation that I don\u2019t know what I want to do anymore. My whole life I thought that I knew what I wanted, but right now I am completely lost. I don\u2019t know what my next step will be, at all. This realisation hit me hard. Here I am, standing still, in a fast moving mass, passing me by. It is scary to see others in movement when you yourself aren\u2019t.\nBecause there are so many possibilities, it is expected that we make use of it. There is no time to stand still because you have to move forward. All the time. Life is so fast these days. You have to grow, grow, grow. Or that is how it feels. People say you shouldn\u2019t compare, but if I look around and see how much people of my age have accomplished, it frightens me. I\u2019m the same age and here I am, lost in life, while they are moving forward.\nODE AAN HET NIET WETEN\nAs frightening as it was to realize that I don\u2019t know what to do anymore. It was more important to realize that it is okay. Even though it took me a while to actually be okay with it. Someone told me: \u201cYou have to accept the not knowing. Give yourself the right to take time to stand still.\u201d It is still very difficult, because I want to go forward so badly and I want to know what I want, so that I can move on.\nEven though the fear gets to me sometimes \u2013 because I\u2019m afraid that I\u2019m missing chances and opportunities \u2013 it also creates some kind of freedom. I became unhappy because of the obsessive search for a goal in my life. By pushing myself to find my \u2018why\u2018, I slowly started disliking everything, even the things I had always loved. It was necessary to let things go.\nAt the moment I\u2019m open for everything and I\u2019m seeing what comes to me. I try to listen to my body and my gut and try to do the things I really want to do. I say no to what I don\u2019t like, even though I might miss out on something. By stopping to push myself over my own limits in order to reach something \u2013 as not to miss any opportunities \u2013 I started to rediscover what I like to do. And it is so nice to let myself of the hook. It made me realize that in the past years, I have done a lot of things I didn\u2019t like, only because it might be a good opportunity for something.\n\u201cI DO NOT HAVE TO KNOW YET\u201d\nAnd no, at the moment I do not know what I want to do next year. There are ideas, ofcourse, and plans even. But right now I\u2019m still waiting and I leave my options open. I don\u2019t have to choose right away. I don\u2019t have to know everything. And I\u2019m proud of myself, because I dare to face this emptiness, this not knowing, even though it is scary and hard to do. For outsiders it might look as if I\u2019m not moving forward. However, I\u2019m working very hard, at myself and that is always a priority.\nThere are a lot of people who do not know what they want, but who do not dare to admit it to themselves. I rather take the time to stand still now \u2013 at this relatively young age \u2013 to think about what I want in life. Than to wake up in ten years and realize that I\u2019m unhappy and still do not know what I want. It will never be easy to confront myself. But wherever you are in life, take the time to think about what it is you really want. And if you don\u2019t know? Realize that it\u2019s okay. And you are not alone. Give yourself the time to find out what you do want.\nI chose to face my demons because I know that if I ignore them now \u2013 which would be easier to do \u2013 I\u2019ll face the same problems in a couple of years. You can not run away from yourself. I\u2019m not there yet \u2013 it has only just begun \u2013 but I have to believe that the answer will come to me. And right now I\u2019m facing this struggle. And I\u2019ll see what will happen.\nI have thought a long time about posting this because it\u2019s so personal. This whole process is still new and scary for me, so it\u2019s definitely hard to share this with the world. I still do not know if this is the right choice. However, it was such a relief for me, to discover that it is allright not to know, that I wanted to share this with others in the same situation. And I sincerely hope that my openness can mean something for others, in these times full of big dreams and expectations.\nLondon \u2013 my first solo trip\tROADTRIP ICELAND Pt. I", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://toughasia.com/blog/author/jynyeow/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:M4KSPCUZPMZZG3KMXGHDJEKANADBPDW7", "length": 492, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "toughasia.com", "title": "Jyn Yeow | TOUGH ASIA | Just when you think you're tough enough | Page 3", "raw_content": "Super League Triathlon heads into a mid-season break following a superb, unpredictable competition in Mallorca. The unique, multi-format event is taking the triathlon world by \u2026\nAfter it\u2019s official 35th Anniversary Launch in August 2018, G-Shock continued its 35th Anniversary Celebrations in Kuala Lumpur by hosting its annual Shock The World \u2026\nThe long waited Rembau Challenge made a comeback and I could not resist signing up! I had participated in their previous editions since 2014, so \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tourumbria.com/dest-todi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YAAPQEXKQPEEAKL26CGHJWSBNRVLV2AM", "length": 3955, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "tourumbria.com", "title": "Tour Umbria - Travel Destinations in Umbria, Italy - Todi", "raw_content": "Destinations - Todi\nIndex | Assisi | Bevagna | Deruta | Gubbio | Montefalco | Orvieto | Perugia | Spello | Spoleto\nTodi, today with only 17,000 permanent residents, is one of the emerging hill towns. It still functions as an agricultural center but is increasingly becoming a tourist destination. Iron Age remains suggest 3000 years, or more, of continual habitation.\nt is believed that, in ancient times, the area was occupied, not by Etruscans but by another tribe of Italic origin, the Umbrians. The Etruscan tribes, settling across the Tiber River, inhabited Perugia and Orvieto. There remain, none the less, many Etruscan influences as demonstrated in the ancient tombs near Todi. These gravesites have yielded some fine treasures, the most famous of which is an image of Mars. A copy of this figure can be seen in the local museum in the Palazzo del Capitano in Todi\u2019s historic center. The original bronze statue is now located in the Vatican museum in Rome.\nTodi was developed in 3 epochs, Pre Roman, Roman and Medieval producing a ring wall for each of these eras. The construction of the first period, still evident in various locations, consisted of huge travertine blocks placed directly one on top of another, using no mortar. Coins bearing the name Tudare suggest a town of some importance during pre Roman rule. The name means \"border\" and Todi, encircled by its defensive ring of walls, was one of several outposts used by the inhabitants to fortify their stronghold along the Tiber.\nThe town was under Roman rule around 89BC during which the second set of walls was constructed. Until this time, the city existed on two adjacent hills where now are located the Church of San Fortunato (named for the patron saint of Todi) and The Duomo, located in Piazza del Popolo (the main town square). The Romans built travertine retaining walls at the east and west ends of the town. This explains the presence of the \"Nicchioni\", today seen from the Mercato Vecchio.\nSix huge cisterns were constructed in the space recovered between the original hills and water from local springs was collected for public use. Occasionally, the local speological organization conducts a guided tour of the underground cisterns and passages, located beneath the main square. Ask at the Tourist Information Office to see if a tour might be planned during your visit.\nThe newest ring of walls was built in 1244 and for the most part remains intact. The gates, Porta Perugina, Porta Amerina and Porta Romana, still function as the access and egress for the city. They originally divided the medieval community into 3 separate districts. From the 3rd century, the city was further divided into 6 regions which form the present day town.\nThe town\u2019s heyday was in the 13th century. As one of the Region\u2019s first free communities, Todi managed to annex Amelia and Terni and to build a third set of walls. Tradition has it that the town was first founded where an eagle dropped a tablecloth snatched from a local family. The eagle with a cloth in its talons became the town\u2019s insignia. The 2 protectorates can be seen on this emblem, represented as two smaller eagles under the sheltering wing of a greater and more powerful defender.\nThe main buildings surrounding the town square include the Palazzo del Popolo, Palazzo del Podesta and the Palazzo dei Priori, all constructed during this era. Subsequently, a period of decline was interrupted briefly by a 16th century prosperity that produced the great Renaissance church, Santa Maria della Consolazione. By the end of the 18th century, there were as many as 548 churches within the confines of the territory of Todi.\nToday, Todi has been designated as one of 33 towns throughout Italy deserving of the title of \"Citta Lenta\", meaning deliberately unhurried and leisurely. The town has therefore made a conscious effort to preserve its heritage and maintain an unruffled lifestyle, keeping modern day disruptions in check.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 4084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tracts.com/Dontfall.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:42Z", "digest": "sha1:TDPYQ2CGEC3CPBOPWWWUBDRWYY5DAP3R", "length": 4283, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "tracts.com", "title": "Now That You Have Grace...Just Don't Fall!", "raw_content": "Now That You Have Grace--Just Don't Fall!\nWell, now that you understand what grace is--the free gift of salvation--the unmerited favor you have with God by the blood of Jesus, there is only one thing to worry about---don't fall from grace! You probably have heard this term before--to fall from grace--but do you really know what it means? I remember watching old movies--there would always be a cranky old preacher who would threaten the congregation--\"Ye sinners! ye have fallen from grace!\" I think this type of image has stuck with the term. The connotation to the term \"fallen from grace\" suggests to most people the idea that someone has sinned so much--committed something so bad, that they are on their way to hell. To this day, the media will use the term to describe someone religious who has committed a crime or done something bad that gets discovered. For example, Jim Baker was described as having fallen from grace. Well, instead of having the media teach us the Bible, why don't we go to the one passage in scripture where the term is used and see if we can understand the true meaning----\n\"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.\" (Galatians 5:1-6)\nAs usual, the Bible has the answer that you might not expect! In his letter, the Apostle Paul was talking to the church at Galatia. These folks were Spirit-filled Christians, who, having accepted Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now were believing that they had become something like Jews--and had to practice the rituals of the Jewish faith. They were believing they needed to be circumcised in order to please God.\nPaul warns them to--\n1. Stand fast to the liberty and freedom that Christ has given them\n2. Live by faith and love\nThe term falling from grace means just as the Bible says it--to believe you are justified by your obedience to the law. Just as the grace of God sets us free of the judgment that is rightfully ours under the demands of the law--falling from grace is the belief that our justification comes from obedience to the law. I think it is very interesting that the legalistic world actually teaches the opposite of what the Bible says. Falling from grace is not sin, or breaking the law--but rather it is self-righteousness! It is the false belief that we are justified by our works--the same old gospel of works that the devil is always trying to preach!\nBut let's think about this--are we rewarded for obeying the laws of man? Every town and city has laws--as well as the state and the federal government. Would you expect to receive a reward if you obeyed these laws? Of course not! Disobedience to the law is what brings punishment--obedience to the law is something that is expected from every citizen--there is no reward for it.\nGod's laws work the same way--there is no reward for obedience, only punishment for disobedience. The law has never saved a soul, but rather has condemned every soul to death and hell. The purpose of the law is to show us our sin--\n\"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.\" (Romans 3:20)\nIt certainly is a good thing we have grace...\n\"That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.\" (Romans 5:21)\n\"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.\" (Romans 6:14)\n\"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.\" (Galatians 2:21)\nSo remember--having been saved by grace--don't fall from grace! Keep living your life by faith in Jesus. Stand fast in the liberty and freedom of the grace that Jesus has bought for us at the cross. Praise Jesus!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 4343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trademagsource.com/go/?item=pobs", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YN3UJE7WXNEJX6YEV4BT4W5TRD3JMWIX", "length": 533, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "trademagsource.com", "title": "Yours Free Today:", "raw_content": "Is the leading resource for the dry processing and solids handling industry.\nPowder Bulk Solids' editorial provides news of the latest operational and technological advancements within the dry processing industry with a combination of focused editorial reviews on equipment and services, technical features, case histories, company profiles and test facility applications. It is used by engineers, plant/process management and corporate administrators who are actively searching for information on new products, systems and services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travel.aviastar.org/estonia/hiiumaa.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:N5IOOGY6BQ5KQVKTF5KGJXHGXCYJXFYK", "length": 9118, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "travel.aviastar.org", "title": "\ufeff Sightseeing in Estonia. County of Hiiumaa", "raw_content": "Sightseeing in Estonia. County of Hiiumaa\nHIUUMAA\nHiiumaa - an island in the Baltic Sea is rich in diverse, beautiful and untouched nature and nice people. The area of Hiiumaa together with the surrounding islands is 1,019 sq km, population 11,490. 500 million years ago near the site of the current town of Kardla, a cluster of atolls was formed as a consequence of a meteorite explosion. These were the first islands on the current site of Hiiumaa and the fore-mentioned hundreds of millions of years make Hiiumaa one of the oldest islands in the world. It is hard to find a more diverse place in Estonia than the Island of Hiiumaa. Landscape types and views change very quickly, being at the same time beautiful and miniature they combine to make Hiiumaa what it is. In summertime almost everyone is attracted by the of several kilometers long, sandy beaches in Tahkuna and the K\u00f5pu Peninsula. The small islands surrounding Hiiumaa are like colorful pearls around the neck of a beautiful woman. Among the more than 200 islands and islets there are bigger islands with forests as well as islets that have risen from the sea just recently and are not yet covered with vegetation.\nDue to the surrounding sea the climate of Hiiumaa differs from the climate of the Continental Estonia. There are more sunny days and less rainy days. People of Hiiumaa have a quiet and tolerant personality. They are very close to the nature, they respect and love nature. People of Hiiumaa love jokes and it is very important that you understand the jokes.\nThe most interesting sights of Hiiu County :\n1. K\u00f5pu Lighthouse is the most famous tourist sight of Hiiumaa, one could even say it is a symbol of the island; it is the third oldest working lighthouse. It is known that in 1490 the Hanseatic League requested the erection of a signal light. The completion date of the building of the lighthouse is considered to be 1531. The light of K\u00f5pu can be seen for 35 nautical miles. It is possible to ascend to the top of the lighthouse.\n2. The constructions of the Tahkuna Lighthouse were made in Paris in 1874 and set in 1875. The Lighthouse is 42.6m high and the light can be seen for 18 nautical miles.\n3. Mihkli Farmhouse Museum. The Open Air Center of the Hiiumaa Museum is a farmhouse complex dating from the 19th century. Visitors may get acquainted with the farmhouse buildings and order a picnic with a smoke sauna. Here the TV series \"Farm\" was filmed by TV3 in 2002.\n4. Reigi Church. The stone church was built in 1802 by the owner of K\u00f5rgessaare Manor and landlord of Hiiumaa O.R.L. von Ungern-Sternberg, also known as the Beach Robber and the Count Ungru. He built the Church in memory of his son Gustav. The first minister in the Church of Reigi was Paul Andreas Lempelius, the name of whose was recorded in the story by writer Aino Kallas \"Reigi Minister\" (\"Reigi \u00f5petaja\").\n5. Rebastem\u00e4e Nature Trail. The marked walking trail 1.5km long starting from the K\u00f5pu Road, from the Unikivi (Sleep Rock), passes over high hills covered with different types of forests that were originally ancient islets and coastal formations. The Track passes through the highest point of the region of the West-Estonia - Koplim\u00e4gi (63.5m); a beautiful view of the Gulf of Mardihansu opens from the Rebastem\u00e4gi (Fox Hill) 45 meters high.\n6. Neljateeristi / Four-Road-Crossing Nature Track offers four different walking routes, which all give a good opportunity to get acquainted with the nature, species, old village roads and farmyards of the K\u00f5pu Peninsula. Four-Road-Crossing used to be the place, where people of Hiiumaa in old times came for help in case of need or fear of need.\n7. The picturesque Valley of Vanaj\u00f5e, situated on the Luidja-Emmaste Road, has been washed into the sand islet to a depth of 10m. The brook of clean water, feeding mainly from springs, is a good spawning place for salmon; on the shores a beautiful pine forest grows. A few years ago the European mink was brought to live here.\n8. The 3km long gravel ridge in Kassari, stretching to the sea - S\u00e4\u00e4re Tirp is one of the most beautiful and loved places of Hiiumaa. The story of the formation of the place is connected with a legend according to which Leiger, an ancient hero of the island, attempted to build a bridge between the Islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa.\n9. The Gulf of K\u00e4ina and the Nature Study Track of Orjaku. On the 4km long nature trail you can get acquainted with one of the most famous bird reserves in Estonia, situated in the Gulf of K\u00e4ina and its surroundings (1280 ha). For bird observation 3 observation platforms have been built, there are plank roads to smaller reefs and a pavilion with a permanent exhibition, introducing local nature. Up to 92 different species of birds nest in the Gulf, and in the period of autumn migration the number of birds in the Gulf can reach as many as 15 000.\n10. The Ruins of the Church K\u00e4ina. The biggest Gothic style church with 600 seats was built in the beginning of the 16th century. The Church was destroyed by fire in 1941. Among other works of art the organ, built by the farther of a famous composer Rudolf Tobias was destroyed.\n11. Kassari Exhibition House of the Museum of Hiiumaa. The exposition of the Museum covers the time from the beginning of the history of Hiiumaa until the 1990-s. Here you can also find \"The Last Wolf of Hiiumaa\" the famous stuffed wolf. After many years there are currently wolves again and even a bear on the island. You can see the famous historical personalities of Hiiumaa - Jacob De La Gardie, Ebba Margaretha von Stenbock and Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern-Sternberg - the famous \"Count of Ungru\".\n12. Hiiumaa Museum (Long House) - the building, erected in 1830-s as a living house for the directors of the K\u00e4rdla Cloth Factory (1829-1941), is the longest wooden house in K\u00e4rdla (more than 60 meters in length). In addition to the history of K\u00e4rdla and the Factory the permanent exposition of the Museum allows you to get acquainted with the living house of the factory workers. Throughout the year different short-term exhibitions take place.\n13. K\u00e4rdla Primeval Crater. The 4.5km in diameter meteorite crater originates some 500 million years ago. The region offers the real pleasure of discovery to those interested in geology; a nature trail with an observation tower passes through the crater.\n14. Suurem\u00f5isa Castle. Suurem\u00f5isa Castle was built in the second half of the 18th century on the initiative of Countess Ebba-Margaretha Stenbock (1704-1776). The wings are erected in 1772. There are 64 rooms in the Castle. 6 ponds were dug in the grounds of the Castle and a park and a garden established. In 1796 the Castle was sold to Baron Ungern-Sternberg. The attic of the Castle has double-ceiling, where the Baron used to hide the treasures stolen from ships that had sunk in the N\u00e4kimadalad. On 19 October 1802 the Baron killed Karl Johannes Malm, the Captain (of Swedish origin) of his ship \"Brig Morian\", in this Castle. For this the baron was deported to Siberia. There are currently two schools in the Castle: Suurem\u00f5isa Gymnasium and Suurem\u00f5isa Technical School. In the latter one can also study how to become a ship's captain.\n15. P\u00fchalepa Church or the Church of St Lawrence is one of the oldest churches on the island. At first the Church was without a tower and was probably built in 1270. The Church has been rebuilt several times; in 1770 the Church got a tower. The Countess Ebba-Margaretha Stenbock (1704-1776) is buried in the sepulchre next to the Church; her great-grandfather Jacob De la Gardie once owned the whole of Hiiumaa.\n16. Kukka Stone, under environmental protection, is one of the biggest boulders in Estonia. The length of the Kukka Stone is 16.4m, the width 11.0m and the biggest height 3.7m, the circumference \u2013 42.6 meters.\n17. Soera Farmhouse Museum. Soera Farmhouse was built in 1848, the museum was founded here in 1979. The Museum gives an overview of the life of inhabitants of Hiiumaa of previous times. An additional charm is added to the Farmhouse Museum by the fact that here you can also taste the past pleasures: smoke sauna, homemade beer, sometimes also salted herring.\n18. Ristim\u00e4gi / Cross Hill. There was a time when many Swedes lived in Hiiumaa, who, according to the freedom letters of the Swedish King, were free people and did not have to perform corvees to the manor, unlike the Estonians, who were serfs. That of course was not to the landlord's liking. When Hiiumaa went under the reign of Russia, in 1781 Catherine II deported the Swedes living in Hiiumaa to the Ukraine. This is the place from where the border of the home parish of the deported people started and the memorial divine service was held; in the hope of returning home someday crosses were made. You should also make your own cross here and wish something good for yourself and the island - it brings luck.\nWarning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'd14657sa18989'@'sn-69-6.tll07.zoneas.eu' (using password: YES) in /data03/virt15346/domeenid/www.aviastar.org/htdocs/travel/estonia/hiiumaa.php on line 201", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 9462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travelinsidermagazine.com/tag/arizona/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:3EOWAPDK5XU3U6MF244UDEICYW44XP3B", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "travelinsidermagazine.com", "title": "Arizona - Travel Insider", "raw_content": "You might think that Chicago pizza is all about deep dish, but these best Chicago pizzeria restaurants will open up your eyes to one-of-a-kind...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tribunalvoices.org/voices/video/315", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BIQLJT2G7TRBHK34HJBMWMEHS3OP7KGJ", "length": 7104, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "tribunalvoices.org", "title": "View Video | Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal", "raw_content": "Roland Amoussouga\nSpokesperson for the Tribunal\nRoland Amoussouga speaks on...\ndeveloping a team of 'Humanitarian Firefighters' [1:23]\nlack of resources for UN missions in initial phase of deployment [1:11]\nthe psychology of fear [1:32]\na witness in court [KIN] [2:46]\nOctober 29, 2008; October 30, 2008\nRonald Slye: One last question before we shift gears \u2013 what, what is do you think the largest misperception in Rwanda about the tribunal?\nYou know we made a survey two years ago from a scientific survey that we ask the Rwandan University and one of their, an association that deals with international law. We, we, we order that survey, we agree, we participated in how to determine the criterias, the \u2013 how the sampling of the population, the target group and the techniques that we have to agree on and they come out with fascinating results.\nAnd that result was so amazing for us that they love what we\u2019re doing. They love what we\u2019re doing and the perception that some of them have about the luxury of this court, the delay process, is also reinforced by the political manipulation to diabolize the tribunal; to make us look very bad and to make us look good when it serves a cause.\nAnd you know we have had decisions that have tested the will of all parties concerned. Barayagwiza \u2013 when the court decided that ok, Barayagwiza, the Prosecutor violated his rights therefore he should be set free. Immediately there was a big fight with Rwanda\nThey put pressure on witnesses not to come and there was a threat from the tribunal to report Rwanda to the Security Council until the time appeals chamber come and reverse and then we got \u2013 the relationship got normalized. And during that time, you should have seen how the NGOs through victims were going after the tribunal.\nAnd they have a good forum to broadcast whatever they want against the tribunal. But the reality is that by virtue of our presence, we have greatly contributed to bringing good sleep to the people of Rwanda; to bringing peace and security to the people of Rwanda.\nRwanda itself would never have been able to arrest any of the top fugitives that we have arrested because they did not have extradition treaties and they did not yet build trust and confidence relationships with those member state to enable them to send freely the people that were hiding there.\nThanks to the work of this tribunal, we have taken out of the main traffic obstacle to peace and reconciliation in Rwanda through the people who were the main target of the Prosecutor. When they were before free of their movement in a refugee camp or elsewhere Rwanda was not sleeping. There were always attack, attack from the bordering.\nThey were transforming the DRC, the eastern part of DRC into a boot camp, into a, a place where they were launching attack against Rwanda. And as you know because of that, you witnessed almost the first African world war in there because the Rwandan people decided to go in and to close down those camps that nobody wants to c-, to close.\nBut ICTR was effective by arresting 16 out of the 19 members of the government, by arresting the leadership of the army, by arresting the middle ranking officers of the army, by arresting almost at least 90% of the political leadership of the government structures from the top to the bottom, by arresting the militia leaders, by arresting the business people, the clergy leaders.\nThose are including the media leaders; those who have contributed to make the genocide a success. And that was a powerful message of the ICTR struggling to fight against impunity and to substitute the culture of impunity by a culture of an accountabil-, of accountability. Because it was the first time ever that a leadership, a political leadership of a country happened to be behind bars \u2013 not by virtue of at gunpoint, but by virtue of the power of the paper.\nIn Haiti they used to say constitution is paper. Guns are iron. And they all believed that it\u2019s only through iron that you get power because that has been the reputation in their countries. But we proved to the Rwandan people that with the paper, with the strong will of the international community, impunity shall not be allowed to prevail.\nAnd that message, the people \u2013 the grassroots people understood it. And being a chief of witness protection, the first time I cry in this court was the day I brought in an old lady, 85 years old lady whose kids were all killed, husband killed, and she was raped. And I brought her in court here to testify in the first case.\nAnd this lady \u2013 I did not speak sh-, Kinyarwanda, I used an interpreter. We developed a kind of special relationship. She was so funny; you will never, you would never believe what she went through. And when she entered the courtroom, we prepare her, when she entered the courtroom, she, she was smiling. And then when they asked her, \u201cWitness, could you identify the accused person?\u201d\nThe old mama stood up, walk, went to see the prosecutors\u2019 face; they were all white. Look at them, look at one of the few blacks in the team of the prosecutor, she moves away, she looks at the court reporter, she moves away, she look at the judges, she moves away, she look at the registry members, she move away, she look at the defense counsel, she move away, she look at the accused person, she move away.\nAnd when she came again to see the accused person, she bowed to the accused person and she went back and sit. (__) say, \u201cWhere is the accused person?\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s there.\u201d \u201cWho, who are you talking about?\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s there.\u201d The judges said \u201cCan you point the finger?\u201d Say \u201cIn my culture you don\u2019t point the finger to powerful people.\u201d Said \u201cNo, he was the mayor.\u201d\nAnd the mayor was the most powerful. And the court agreed to \u2013 agreed that the lady has recognized the accused person on the basis of that sign. And then when we went home, I said, \u201cMama, how do you feel?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m so happy. I could not believe that I\u2019ll have this day in my life to see the son of God to be there with handcuff. No, it\u2019s not possible. I can die today and go and see my kids and report back to them that justice has been done.\u201d\nBy simple view of this, the old mama say, \u201cI\u2019m very happy.\u201d And that has been the symptom of the reaction of the people who got the opportunity to come and (_____) it, and they\u2019re happy when they hear that those guys who thought that were, they were not touchable happened to be touched and they are behind (__).\nSo for me, that is what I prefer to retain as the feelings of the people of Rwanda; the true people who suffered, not the politician \u2013 we can argue with the politicians, but the majority. And that is what the survey identified and we were so happy personally that the politician view did not alter completely the true feelings of the victims of the population about the impact of this tribunal work on the national reconciliation process.\nThat we are confident that this is tremendous. It\u2019s something that history will recognize that without ICTR, peace would never have been in Rwanda and would never have been a long or sustainable peace; never.\nRS: It\u2019s a very powerful story.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 9287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://truthtroubles.com/2013/10/11/wal-marts-growth-was-through-fraud-lies-and-deceit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GWHSZKLBYF5R7DH53NVKTO7O22JU75HV", "length": 10378, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "truthtroubles.com", "title": "Wal-Mart\u2019s Growth Was Through Fraud Lies and Deceit \u2013 Truth Troubles", "raw_content": "Wal-Mart\u2019s Growth Was Through Fraud Lies and Deceit\nIf you are old enough to remember the Wal-Mart of the 1980\u2019s and the mood of the nation during that time about buying American, maybe this will tweak your anger button. During the late 70\u2019s and the 80\u2019s was when American businesses were first starting to move overseas in alarming numbers, unfortunately we Americans are used to this treason (my view) now. Plus this was a time when Americans got hooked on cheaper imports. During this time the American auto industry was in big trouble partly because Americans were buying the cheaper Japanese models. This is a time area when you would see such bumper stickers as (can you eat your Toyota). On a sidebar though, in regards to the quality of the cars the big three were putting out at that time was pretty poor in comparison to say the Toyota\u2019s and in this case it helped force the big three to start producing a better quality product. This coincided with the decline in union membership in America which also meant that the American worker\u2019s paycheck was starting to shrink. This meant that people were requiring better quality transportation so they could get to their lower paying jobs.\nWal-Mart at this time used America\u2019s consumer mood to grow itself. Their TV and Radio ads as well as their traveling billboards (their semi trailers) used to tout how they only bought American goods thus trying to get patriotic Americans to do all their shopping at Wal-Mart. There was a big problem with this though, they were totally lying, they were perpetrating a total fraud on the American people.\nYou may fairly ask me how I know such a thing, was I in their board room? No, but I was a long haul truck driver who hauled a lot of their incoming product. I am going to give you an example of how buffaloed people were by their fraud. I picked up loads from the docks in northern New Jersey about once a month plus once in a while in California. It was a common event when we would get a load assigned to pick up but when we got there the load would be staged on the docks but we had to in some cases wait several hours while the dock workers were having to replace all the stickers on every item with tags that said made in the USA. I asked the dock workers about these things because it always made it more difficult to make your delivery appointments on time and Wal-Mart distribution centers would fine the trucking company if you were late on your delivery and most times they would reschedule your appointment for a different day. This meant that you now had to sit in a truck stop parking lot and wait for your new appointment time. When you as a driver are doing this you get no pay at all because the trucking company got no pay at all. What I was told by more that a couple of dock workers was that it was required that when a Wal-Mart load came in they all had to be re-tagged. This was so that when the American consumer came in the store and looked at the tags they thought they were buying American made products which meant that Wal-Mart was helping protect American jobs. The truth was Wal-Mart was committing a total fraud on the American worker and the American public.\nI remember one time that I had picked up a load of laundry detergent at the docks in north Jersey and the load was going to a distribution center in NW Wisconsin. That night as I was driving, the chatter on the CB was some other drivers were talking about where they were headed to and or who their customers were. Somewhere in the conversation Wal-Mart\u2019s name came up. I then mentioned what had happened with my load on the dock and how it had put me a bit behind where I was hoping to be by this time. I remember one driver who got on his radio with much indigence in his voice said to me \u201chow dare you slander a fine company like that\u201d. My response to him was a simple truth, if what you say about someone or something is %100 the truth, then it is not slander, it is simply the truth. That man did not say anything to me after that but a few other drivers chimed in saying the same thing about what I had said about loads for Wal-Mart.\nThis is why I used the title that I did on this letter to anyone who wants to read it. Wal-Mart committed a total fraud on the American people. If you think about it, this fraud helped bring more customers into their stores so that these same customers would not go to Wal-Mart\u2019s competitors thus giving Wal-Mart an unfair advantage , unfair because they were lying. Now look at the Wal-Mart company, have you ever gone into one of their stores and looked for the made in the USA tags. Unless USA is now spelled CHINA or INDONESIA, it\u2019s a pretty hard tag to find. I used to like to listen to Paul Harvey on the radio every chance I could. I liked the man but he was very naive. If you remember Wal-Mart was a sponsor of his and he seemed to really believe in them. Do you remember how he used to talk how if you had a Wal-Mart store in your town how you couldn\u2019t have a better neighbor. In reality what Wal-Mart was doing then they are still doing. When a Wal-Mart moves into your community about all if not all of your local stores are forced to close because they can\u2019t compete with Wal-Mart buying power. This caused a problem for the people/workers of the area because once all the local stores close up the employees are laid off. In many cases about the only place they can now find work is at the Wal-Mart. But, as many of you know most Wal-Mart employees are only hired as part-time worker\u2019s which also means when these people lost their previous job they lost income and all of their benefits like insurance. At this same time look at the wealth of the owners, the kids of Mr Walton, look at how many billions each of them are worth. Yet they won\u2019t hire most people as full-time because they say they can\u2019t (won\u2019t) give their people any benefits.\nYou know something that I have been wondering about, would Wal-Mart be anywhere near as big today if they had not been such liars and frauds in their earlier years? One of the things that was also happening during these years I speak of is that the Federal government was breaking up monster size companies like Bell Telephone Co into several smaller companies. It is my opinion that Wal-Mart should be forced to break up into about five companies because of the help they got through fraud and lies they are now a total behemoth. The American GDP (gross domestic product) is about 11 trillion per year, Wal-Mart corporation has about 1.1 trillion dollars go through their hands now each year. Folks that is %10 of our countries GDP. I totally believe that it is dangerous for any one family to have this much control of the American people\u2019s money supply. Especially when these people have already proven that they have no problem lying to all of us.\nNow, back to the bought in the USA idea, just think if Wal-Mart and or the five or so companies I wish it would get broken into would indeed only buy from American companies where only American workers and American products produced them, think what a boom to our economy this would produce. If we the American people would only buy American products then this would put many American workers back to work. But, stringent guidelines would have to be put into place to make sure that we the people were not being defrauded like we were within the Walton family before.\nAs most of us knows, Wal-Mart is an international company. I do believe that such a company has stores in lets say China, I believe that Wal-Mart stores in China should first buy goods made in China. This is also what the people of China badly need. Right now most people in America know that places like China make products for the purpose of export to countries like the US. Most of us also know that almost all of these product are basically of very poor quality, so basically we are paying for lousy and or unsafe products when we buy their exports. If the American people would not buy these cheaply made products it would also help the Chinese people. The population of China is about four times that of the US and these people matter just as much as people of other countries and the working poor of China depends on exports at this time. If the export markets dried up to the companies of China they would have to finally turn inward and build products for the people of China, this would be a huge boom to their domestic companies and at the same time the quality of those products made in their country for their people would have to get much better. This would make their people have a much better quality of life both by having a better paying job and they would be able to purchase products that are out of their financial reach at this time.\nI guess what I am getting at is I\u2019m trying to show how things could truly get better for the masses here in the US as well as in places like China if we the people would force behemoth companies like Wal-Mart to be held accountable for their actions. Also force our government to hold countries and companies legally accountable when they are found to be frauds and liars.\nPosted in China, Economics, fraud, Personal Experiences, Personal Thoughts/BeliefsTagged China, deceit, fraud, Indonesia, lies, Wal-Mart3 Comments\n\u2190 (Poem) The Wild Horse\nGod-God\u2019s-Allah-Buddha-Hindi-Jesus-Jehovah-Yahweh \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cWal-Mart\u2019s Growth Was Through Fraud Lies and Deceit\u201d\nI read a lot of interesting content here. Probably you spend a lot of time writing, i know how to save you a lot of work, there is an online tool\nthat creates readable, google friendly articles in seconds, just\nThank you, I appreciate the info.\nThank you Darnell, my name is Ted, we live in east Tennessee. As it is probably obvious to you if you are knowledgeable of computers that I actually know very little about them, when I went to school I got a D- in the computer knowledge class. The reason I have not done a lot of things is simply because I don\u2019t know how to do much. I have three adult kids who are excellent with them but I try not to bother them unless I have gotten stuck on something that I think is important. I\u2019m just a physically broken down old truck driver who physically had to retire. I have not been feel very well this past month or so this is why I have not gotten back to you or to others and why I have posted so little lately.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 17584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tumbleweed-2.info/BIBLE/Bible%20-%20FANTASIES%20-%20CH-CH-CH-%20CHANGES.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ULG6M2I2WABQIQNHJADWCCU32V4NXKBY", "length": 15652, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "tumbleweed-2.info", "title": "FANTASIES - CH-CH-CH- CHANGES__FIRST-TRUMP", "raw_content": "Ch-ch-ch- Changes\n6For I am the LORD, I change not; (Mal 3:)\nIt looks to me as if the dog has finally recognized his tail and has begun to chase it.\nAt the time Paul was writing his epistles, the church was already on the road to corruption and had begun to split apart before his eyes. Paul had this to say about denominations:\n10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. (1Cor 1:)\nAnd wolves were already at work picking their way through the flock:\nThis should be no surprise to Paul or any of us since Jesus warned His disciples about just such an occurrence:\n2Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. (Luke 10:)\nIn fact, hundreds of years before this, God through Jeremiah warned us of the events of today:\n1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. (Jer 5:)\nAnd again Jesus established it for our times:\nVerily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. (John 10:)\nThen God through Zechariah had this to say about shepherds who desert their flock:\n17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. (Zech 11:)\nIn the beginning of the Church there were no divisions or shadow of turning (back to the flesh, carnality) because in the beginning there were but the 12 Apostles being fully led by the Holy Spirit. Then the church began to grow, and with it came the wolves, just as there were Egyptians who tagged along after the Israelites, and just as Simon the sorcerer looked to get in on the \"magic\" aspects of Christianity.\nMan wants to be carnal and still believe he can be accepted into Heaven, that is, be \"saved.\" There are many types and degrees of change different people will accept, and those he does not accept he tries to get around by changing the rules. Some people like to feel \"religious\" and to feel like they have \"worked\" their way to Heaven by performing rituals and making sacrifices. That's ok. If it makes them feel better about themself, have at it. Does God accept these works? Of course not. He only accepts the work He performed on the cross. All our works are like filthy rags.\nSince God did all the work Himself, many people like to believe that there is nothing they have to do, so therefore they're saved forever without having to do anything at all; that is, they are saved by \"Grace Alone.\" That's fine. Again, if it makes you feel good, have at it. Does God accept this attitude? Take a fresh look at the parable of the unfruitful servant (Mat 25:28).\nSome people figure that everybody is saved whether they are a Christian or not. That's fine. It's also fine to think you have another chance at life because of reincarnation.\nIn other words, it makes no difference what you believe or try to do, it all comes out the same - you're going to die. Man came from dust, and that's where he is headed. Religion is just an imaginary tool to make us think we can do it our own way and still cheat the Angel of Death.\nAfter the beginning of the church, wolves came from everywhere and from every belief and society in order to join the Church, which was the going thing of the day. Because of this many different attitudes, convictions and philosophies were added to the church doctrines in order that these people might feel at home and that their former life of study and convictions hadn't been a waste. To counter these \"heresies,\" the churches had to hold conventions where they tried to weed out those doctrines that were too far out in left field to be accepted.\nEventually, after Christianity was made the \"State Religion\" it became what is known as \"Catholic,\" that is \"Universal\" incorporating many of the religions of the many lands where the church now had power. This is why we have acceptable rituals of pagan origin like trees on the supposed birth of Jesus, and Easter eggs and bunnies on the day of Jesus' resurrection.\nSo from early on, compromises were made by the church in order to keep people comfortably \"in the fold.\"\nWith but one accepted religion, and with the governmental powers behind the church leaders, it was easy to force everyone to do what the head of the church wanted - especially since that \"head\" was acclaimed to be the only spokesman of God.\nOver time, with no competition, the church slid further and further from the reality of the Gospel: Until the Middle Ages where there began to be people who challenged the Powers that Be. Many of these challengers lost their heads. Others, like Luther, were ousted and persecuted, which gave the martyr power and a degree of authority.\nSome actually opposed the church and wanted to break away from it altogether. Others, like Luther did not want to break way or form a new church, but rather wanted to get the church back on track.\nEither way, the followers of these \"Martyrs\" did what they wanted to do under the name of whoever they decided to follow, and the Reformation had begun. The first of these were the Lutherans, who were (though they might not like the title) the first \"Protestants.\"\nNow we have the beginning of a dog pack set free, with mutts running off in all directions, each digging their own little hole in the shade in which to settle.\nThese segments of the church developed strong attitudes and traditions and doctrines, each trying to surpass the other in religiosity and sanctimony. Even the Catholic church, now having competition, began to tighten up its borders and behave itself more properly.\nLittle by little, the Protestants in particular, started to feel the strains of individuality as their congregates wanted to remain religious, therefore \"saved,\" but at the same time \"do their own thing.\" For the most part, at that time, their \"own thing\" was relatively mild, like believing that Jesus was not all God, or wearing of certain apparel and the like. It did not often involve the actual breaking of solid commandments. But in any case, those who disagreed with the strong stance of the church, broke off and formed almost identical images of the Mother church it came out of with but a slight change in the name.\nThis has been the pattern for many centuries. Even the Catholic church has felt the fragmentation process.\nBut the main body of the churches have held a strong line on their original concepts, whatever that might be.\nIn the past century there have been what historians call \"Latter Rains\" where a strong outpouring of the Holy Spirit has been felt in many quarters. When it rains, it rains on all, not just the Christians.\nMany new religious movements were formed out of these rains, like the Pentecostal and the Evangelicals as well as many big name ministers such as Billy Graham and Oral Roberts to name but a few. Revivals were plentiful and healings were happening, and both were highly sought after.\nThese are but a few of the \"recognized and approved\" movements that came out of the Latter Rains. There were others as well, not so well received by the \"decent\" Christian community. And since these \"new arrivals\" did not fit in with acceptable doctrine, they were called \"cults\" to keep them separate from the \"Good\" churches. The Mormons, JW's, and the Adventists are but a few of the churches that were formed at this time. Their efforts were not to be different, oddly enough, but rather to reestablish what they saw to be the original church that the Apostles had founded.\nUp until fairly recently we had essentially three solid bases of Theology, all calling themselves \"Christian:\" the Catholics, the Protestants, and those we call \"Cults.\" Of course their were many other churches as well ranging from the very conservative to the very liberal, and often with a name sounding very similar to some \"Mainline\" denomination.\nBut the Catholic stayed very Catholic, the Methodists stayed very Methodical, and the Pentecostals remained very Penticostalish, and on and on. Doctrine and allowed behavior in these churches remained fairly hard and fast, not wavering.\nThen we begin to hear that the firm, no-holds-barred Catholic Church who is so certain that all those who are not as they are, are bound for hell (this being especially so with the recent announcement by the new Pope), has not been so squeaky-clean as they have been letting on to be. And in fact, these abuses, we find, have been going on for a long time, and when they were discovered, they were overlooked by the leadership as if they were actually regarded as acceptable behavior by the heads of the church.\nIt appears that the Catholic church had found its tail some time ago but has been concealing the fact.\nNow we find the church that we consider as the beginning of it all, the one we think of when we speak of \"Protestant,\" the Lutheran church, has hit the skids. When you read what the Lutherans have traditionally stood for, you wonder if it might not have been easier to be a Catholic than a Lutheran. Of course over the years the Lutheran church has become much the same as all the others, but their stance was still considered as solid rock. After all, Luther was all about following the Bible to the letter, wasn't he?\nI guess the letters on the Lutheran Bible have begun to smear, as it has in the Bibles of all other denominations as well, because they certainly read the words differently now then how they used to.\nYesterday, as I was dumping some cans in a recycle bin I found a recent newspaper (I don't watch TV, listen to radio, or read newspapers or magazines, so I am certainly not one to consult for newsy stuff) and it had an article that reads like this:\n\"In a ground breaking decision, members at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's national assembly passed a resolution Saturday urging church authorities to refrain from, or to use restraints in disciplining homosexual pastors in committed same-sex relationships. Advocates hailed the action as a historic OPENING OF THE DOOR that could lead to full participation by gays and lesbians. ...The ELCA is the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.\" (Emphasis mine.)\n\"Opening the door.\"\nIf it appears that I am critical of gays because of this article, you are wrong, and what's more, you are completely missing the point. My purpose in this article, and in almost all my articles and studies is to point out two things:\nFirst: The fact that the churches are all distorted and corrupt from the ground upward with distorted and contrived doctrines that keep people from following the full Gospel, and:\nSecond: The need for pastors to get off their high-horse and stop thinking they are the \"Good Shepherd\" with the only True Message. That pastors and theologians need to understand that they are to leave their opinions and egos at the door when it comes to serving God's flock (and that it is GOD'S flock, and not their's). And that it's their job to feed the flock the Word, and the Word says to listen to the Holy Spirit for their instruction, not to the teacher who thinks he's God's spokesman. That the pastor should be making sure his congregates truly have received the Holy Spirit, and that they are making sure those sheep which he is in charge of listens to the Holy Spirit. And that pastors stop holding the sheep down in the thickets instead of encouraging them to run the race with everything they've got the way the Bible clearly tells them they should.\nI hope I made myself clear. I want no one to listen to what I have to say if it appears in any way that I am leading them anywhere other than to a tight, personal relationship with the Holy Spirit, thereby Jesus and God the Father. If you have the Holy Spirit, you will be thirsting for all He has to show you and you will need no one to tell you what to, or what not to do. In fact, you will be able to (and probably should) instruct your pastor!\nWithout the Holy Spirit Christianity is just another \"religion.\"\nThe churches are changing, doing an about-face on their doctrine, allowing and encouraging the very same things they have told their people to strictly avoid in the past.\nGod doesn't change, but the churches surely do, and are! A question - when were the churches wrong? In the doctrines they held in the past? Or in their present direction?\nHow long do you think it will be until that pastor of yours begins teaching you things completely contrary to what he has taught you in the past?\nConsider how the message in the churches changed under Hitler.\nConsider how our schools that once taught from the Bible now forbids them. And prayer?\nConsider how Canada, the land I always considered ahead of our own in many ways, has made preaching sin against the law punishable by imprisonment.\nConsider how California is trying to do the same.\nAbortion? The Media? The Governments? What next?\nHow do you think this is going to influence the church doctrines and your pastor's preaching when this law becomes national, or even world wide?\nThat won't happen, you say?\nBut are you still so certain that you want to stake your Eternal destiny on what your preacher says instead of seeking the Holy Spirit and listen to what God tells you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 16529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0091", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:L6D2DARWQ4Y6UKHZA7ZRJTYIJAPOKECH", "length": 183, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tupress.temple.edu", "title": "Temple University Press", "raw_content": "Michael A. Corriero is a judge of the New York State Court of Claims, and he sits by designation in New York City's Supreme Court and is the Presiding Judge of Manhattan's Youth Part.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 88.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://twinplanets.com/rr/slides/S_NYC_OH.VE__72.07.30.01_R.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:38Z", "digest": "sha1:FEMZ4IUBMVUENT5MN2444AGXXPNF3OSP", "length": 376, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "twinplanets.com", "title": "Railroad Slide Gallery: Ohio", "raw_content": "Beulah Beach, Ohio\nThe New York Central's former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern mainline runs along the south shore of Lake Erie, but rarely within sight of the water. Here at a location east of the Joppa Road grade crossing south of Beulah Beach, Ohio, a Penn Central freight storms its way west. The communication lines at left have been nearly swallowed up by the greenery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://u21church.org/todays-word-psalms-23-2-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:22Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3QBGEVWXPHFDJHP27XM3RWHZBOIBM7X", "length": 422, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "u21church.org", "title": "TODAY\u2019S WORD PSALMS 23: 2-3 \u2013 u21church.org", "raw_content": "\u201cYou let me rest in fields of green grass, You lead me to streams of peaceful water, and refresh my life. You are true to your name, and you lead me along the right paths.\u201d Psalms 23: 2-3 CEV\nFriends in 2017 the LORD is my SHEPHERD, who lets me rest in PEACE, and provides the needs to restore my body, and leads me on the RIGHT paths of LIFE.\nI share this with you today \u201cThe LORD is my SHEPHERD of PEACE and LIFE.\u201c Amen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 7548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uclacademicals.co.uk/History/AGM/agmminutes2004.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JXCIUOZ43A3GXZZ6OR7BPGIJWSVRCEUF", "length": 33211, "nlines": 112, "source_domain": "uclacademicals.co.uk", "title": "UCL Academicals F.C.", "raw_content": "Held at 7.15pm on Tuesday 20th July at The Chadwick Street Recreation Centre, Chadwick Street, Westminster\nPresent: Danny McConnell, Sam Samra, Mark McGuigan, Scott Atkinson, Spencer Gore, Rob James, Graham Whitworth, Chris Coates, Derek Fowler.\nApologies for absence: Martin Woodrow, Adrian Haysome, Danny Fewkes, Dan Chantler, Mark Dawson.\nMinutes of the 2003 AGM: The minutes of the 2003 AGM were approved.\n2002-03 saw the second season for the Amateur Football Combination, and further success for the Accies as well as the club expanding to run League seven sides.\nFive trophies were won \u2013 the 3rd XI winning the league as well as clinching the AFA Junior Cup and the LOB Junior Cup, completing the season unbeaten. The 2nd and 5th XI\u2019s also won their league titles. The 1st and 2nd XI\u2019s finished runners up in their LOB Cups, whilst the 4th XI finished runners up in their league, securing promotion.\nWeek by week the recent strong pattern continued. Most teams were strong, and all teams turned out each week expecting to win. We need to continue the policy of ensuring that players are playing at the right level for their abilities, particularly as certain players tend to get older, as well as with new players coming into the club. The priority has to be to ensure that all players get a competitive game at a level that suits them. \u201cPlaying with your mates\u201d is not always practical within a club trying to run seven (or more!) sides. Everyone should be making themselves available for the club, and if this means moving up or down a side, should accept this.\nAdministratively there remains work to be done. Too many club members needed to be chased for the increasing amount of discipline paperwork, and the club lost a serious chunk of money on training. Dan Chantler introduced a new system for monitoring the finances, which on one level was a major improvement, but needs more liason with captains.\nFailure to confirm availability and failure to pay subs remains a headache for most skippers, and one or two perhaps suffered from not being hawkish enough with those who messed them around..\n1st XI \u2013 The 1st XI season proved in the end to be an anti-climax, if not a disappointment. Third in the AFC, runners-up in the LOB Senior Cup and semi-finalists in the AFA Senior Cup is a pretty decent season, but too many people seemed to assume a trophy was the be-all and end-all.\nToo often the team failed to try and take the initiative. An early goal scored and we\u2019re heading for the Champions League, an early concession and we\u2019re heading for the Rymans! As a consequence the season was far too \u201cup and down\u201d and descended into a rather disappointing bout of \u201cfinger pointing\u201d, with the first question too often \u201cwhose fault was that\u201d rather than \u201cwhat can I do to sort this out\u201d.\nIt may be that time is starting to catch up on the 1sts. Traditionally the Accies tend to stop playing earlier than players at other clubs, with family commitments and so forth taking a greater toll at weekends for players whose weekdays are dominated by work. That is what we\u2019re about, but if we\u2019re to compete at the highest levels people need to realise the week-in, week-out commitment required. It\u2019s not a criticism of people who choose to put careers first, that\u2019s the sort of club we are. But everyone has to accept that\u2019s the choice they make.\nAs we\u2019d already suspected, tactical weaknesses continued to show. Quite simply it\u2019s not possible for a skipper on the pitch to concentrate on his own game and worry about the rest of the team \u2013 one or both suffer, and at Premier Division level that\u2019s a handicap. Next season the Accies will have a genuine \u201cmanager\u201d for the first time, and will hopefully mean far more movement between 1st and 2nd XIs during the season.\nIt\u2019s not that much of step to get back to the top, but the small steps required might be quite painful.\n2nd XI \u2013 The bridesmaid finally got her day. Despite losing the LOB Intermediate Cup on penalties the 2nds walked away with their league. A slightly larger squad was used, although this meant Fewksey and McGuigan spending much of the season on the bench (though the benefit of sideline management was a bonus) and a number of players will threaten to break into the 1st XI next season.\n3rd XI \u2013 That the 3rd XI were team of the season in 2003-04 cannot be doubted. A settled and generally happy squad carried all before them. The few gripes would be the attitude of some of the players \u2013 Scott spent far too much time chasing people up, dealing with lateness and coping with tantrums which slightly marred the end of the season for him. That his attitude towards dealing with these problems and mine differed markedly is probably of credit to Scott (and certainly good news for those concerned!) but it\u2019s also reflected in the reluctance of the remaining players to succeed Scott for next season. A big act to follow, and Scott deserves great credit for his efforts over a number of years.\n4th XI \u2013 Perhaps the most difficult season to assess. Decimated by injuries was it a disappointment that they couldn\u2019t challenge Albanian for the league title, and lost in the semis of the AFA? Or an achievement to have clinched promotion and progressed that far? Probably a mixture of the two \u2013 runners up in the league was quite remarkable, and the AFA loss ultimately very disappointing. In the end it came down to an away draw, with the opposition choosing the smallest, bobbliest pitch they could find, then simply outbattling the Accies. \u201cWe\u2019d have beaten them at Shenley\u201d was the fall-back refrain, and all too familiar from many Accies sides. We\u2019ve heard it before, and we\u2019ll hear it again.\n5th XI \u2013 The decision to merge the nuclei of the old 5ths and 6ths and see what came out brought immediate fruit as the 5ths cruised to a league title. After a settling in period the team simply marched through the rest of the season playing some of the best football at 5th team level I\u2019ve seen. One or two people struggled to get a fair run, not least because of the good availability of most players, and the 6th XI deserve credit for their support.\nBy far the darkest moment of the season came in a 5th XI AFA Cup game, with serious racism and threats of violence directed towards the Accies. I\u2019ve included a copy of the letter of complaint sent to the AFA with these notes, as at this stage of the season it\u2019s pertinent for all Accies to be aware of what can happen when things go wrong.\nThe initial complaint by the Accies fell by the wayside, mainly because of lack of support by the referee. Towards the end of the season Old Camdenians track record caught up with them, and the side was expelled from the AFC. They still face action by the AFA.\n6th XI \u2013 A season of inconsistency. The \u201cother half\u201d of the old 5ths and 6ths proved to be \u201cfairly senior\u201d group and as such they tended to perform better away from Shenley than at home (where often younger sides simply outran them). The core of the side are starting to slide into retirement, and next season will probably require a major influx of youth and bodies.\n7th XI \u2013 Last AGM there were no plans for a 7th XI, but in September it quickly became clear the Accies had enough players to run a 7th team, and the league kindly allowed us a late entry. The early months were difficult, with the side playing home games at Donkey Lane, Enfield and quite some turnover of players. One of the saddest elements of any rebuilding of a side is that one or two players, usually very keen, end up missing out because better players come along, and this was the case with the 7ths.\nOn the positive side, Spencer Gore\u2019s captaincy (never dull, as Spenny swooped alternatively between the emotional heavens and the darkest depths) meant a large influx of \u201clost Accies\u201d, most ex-UCL and all professing undying keen-ness to play next season. Whether enthusiasm to play in cold, dark December matches that of sunny April remains to be seen, but one hopes all will continue.\nThe biggest problem for next season is likely to be the number of players, but with the 6ths probably needing half-a-dozen players (and the 7ths likely to be overloaded anyway) it\u2019s likely a \u201cblock transfusion\u201d will be the answer. The key is getting the balance right \u2013 some of the players are too good to be playing in 9 North, but others are likely to struggle much higher up. We want to ensure people are playing at the standard to suit them.\nOptimists \u2013 A season of change. Paul Matthewson stepped down mid-season to be replaced by Ian Christopherson, and by the season\u2019s end the five year debate over whether to play Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings was settled in favour of the latter. Hopefully it should produce better availability, as well as stronger sides.\nFor next season there\u2019s a serious hope to compete strongly in the LOB Cup, though the Accies will need to do well to challenge the strongest sides.\nAll Sides - Two more general aspects applied to all sides for 2003-04. For the first time in memory each team were settled at the goalkeeping position, and we didn\u2019t have the week by week chase for someone to fill the sticks. Not something that should be quickly forgotten.\nOn the flip side, many sides often probably carried one player too many. 14 players are generally too many on a Saturday, as are 11 not enough. 12 or 13 should be the optimum, or a skipper struggles to give everyone a decent game. It\u2019s a balance, but we do need to remember we\u2019re an amateur club \u2013 not many people are going to turn up regularly for 10 or 20 minutes here and there.\nGolden Boot \u2013 The Golden Boot was won by Lloyd Vanson (41 goals) whose promotion to the 1sts next season is all but guaranteed. Runner-up was Paul Bernard, who might have been closer but for multiple injuries. The competition for the Golden Gloves was a runaway for Matt Ramsden (14), chased by Danny McConnell (11) though frankly we could regularly have gone for a beer together and still kept them such was the protection offered. But it was entertaining to see quite how seriously Matt took it all.\nThe Secretary\u2019s Report was accepted.\nA more detailed breakdown of the club\u2019s finances should follow, but briefly at the start of the season our account stood at around \u00a36500 (\u00a35500 in the bank, \u00a31000 in pitch credits). At the season end we had \u00a34500 (\u00a33700 in the bank, \u00a3800 in pitch credits). Basically a loss of \u00a32000 on the season.\nThe reasons for the significant losses were twofold. First we spent \u00a31200 on new kits, \u00a3700 more than we\u2019d budgeted for. Secondly, we spent between \u00a31000 and \u00a31500 on training, which was meant to be covered by collecting training subs, and wasn\u2019t.\nOur bank balance of \u00a33700 is around \u00a32000 lower than it ought to be. At the start of each season we basically need to find \u00a35000 up front (\u00a3450 AFA affiliation fees, \u00a3100 LOB cup entries, \u00a3350 AFC league entries and \u00a33400 for Shenley, as well as up to \u00a3500 for kit and balls) before a ball is kicked (i.e. before a penny is collected). A bank balance of \u00a36000 ought to be the sensible working minimum. 12 months ago we were close to it, now we\u2019ve taken a couple of steps backwards.\nNext season our costs will rise: pitches are increasing to \u00a385.00 (from \u00a380.00, still cheap at the price), teas at Shenley to \u00a339.00 (from \u00a330.00, not so cheap, but combined with the cost of pitches still very decent) and referees fees to \u00a322.00 (from \u00a320.00). Assuming we play 90 home games this takes a further \u00a31400 out of the budget.\nGiven the increase in these \u201chome game costs\u201d it was proposed that match fees should rise by \u00a31.00 per match to \u00a38.00 (the first rise in match fees for six years, though the next is likely to come more quickly). This would raise an extra \u00a31800 (180 matches, \u00a310 per match).\nIt was further proposed that annual subscriptions should rise to \u00a330.00 (\u00a325.00 if paid before 31st October) from \u00a325.00.\nA discussion followed on whether subscriptions should be higher, to give the club the financial muscle to look at more ambitious projects (nature undetermined) and raising match fees to both \u00a39.00 and \u00a310.00 were considered. A second proposition to raise match fees to \u00a39.00 was made, and a vote taken on whether \u00a38.00 or \u00a39.00 should be the new level. A 5-2 vote was in favour of the rise to \u00a38.00.\nIt was agreed that consideration of a rise to \u00a310.00 should be made at the 2005 AGM, but this should be flagged in advance on the agenda. The Secretary noted that he believed such a significant decision as a rise in subscriptions should at least be flagged as an agenda item to the membership in advance of the AGM.\nIn summary next season match fees will be increased to \u00a38.00, halved for students and first year graduates, annual subs \u00a330.00 if playing ten or more games (\u00a325.00 if paid by 31st October) and \u00a310.00 \u201csocial subs\u201d if playing four or more games, with a \u00a310.00 match fee for the vets. Annual subs for students and unemployed to be waived.\nTraining \u2013 Pre-Season and Mid-Season\nTraining was also discussed. It can be divided into two groups: \u201csummer training\u201d (pre-season, which effectively also serve as trials) and mid-season \u201ctraining\u201d (generally less well attended).\nThe pre-season training, which also serves to juggle existing players and integrate new members should be continued. It was agreed that these sessions should essentially be self-funding, and not paid for out of central subscriptions. At training sessions on a hired pitch we would collect a \u00a35.00 training fee (half for students).\nMid-season training was also discussed. The general consensus was that this remains unrealistic for the club. Our members are too spread around London, and too often have to work too late to be able to make a regular commitment to training. Formal training is simply not what the club is about.\nHowever, if ad-hoc midweek slots become available (as they sometimes do via London Legal League cancellations) we will take those (they cost us nothing) and we should also endeavour to find a few more midweek matches.\nWith the club having bought three new kits in 2003-04 (1sts, 4ths and 7ths) and a major offseason inventory of kits completed our position is pretty healthy.\nThere was discussion about whether it would be a good idea for all sides to have a change strip, which rather than storing at Shenley (there are so many it\u2019s causing them some concerns) teams could carry them around themselves. This would also mean a set of change shirts is available for away games when the opposition turn up in the wrong colour (not uncommon). At present we have enough change strips (three Pro-Star, one Crystal Palace, one Arsenal) for five sides, so we\u2019d need to purchase two more strips. Scott Atkinson to investigate his Coq Sportif link.\nWe also need to buy some more water bottles.\nSad to say, not a lot happened last season, with Spencer Gore taking over the 7th team captaincy and having little time to devote to the job. The Christmas club function happened but the end of season was celebrated by the individual sides on separate days. The 1st XI held a formal dinner, the 5th XI did the Monopoly board pub crawl and all other sides had an end of season do, but nothing club-wide.\nThis is a fairly crucial question for the Accies. Ten years ago the club was essentially comprised of six separate \u201cclubs within clubs\u201d. Each was a clique of people \u201cplaying with their mates\u201d. The downside of this was twofold \u2013 first we never won anything (contrast the club\u2019s 6 trophies in five seasons in the 1980\u2019s, 5 trophies in the ten seasons of the 1990\u2019s and 12 trophies in the five seasons of the 2000\u2019s) and secondly the influx of students from UCL ground to a near halt. Our estimate of UCL alumni playing in the 3rds/4ths/5ths/6ths in 1998 was two, with the core aging and the club effectively heading towards extinction!\nUCL remains the life-blood of the Accies. I would never argue that the club should be \u201cclosed\u201d (hardly any AFA club is closed nowadays) but we are here to \u201cprovide football for UCL Alumni and their friends\u201d. Students from UCL ought to be able to join the Accies and play at their standard, not necessarily with the one or two people that they know beforehand. You soon get to know your new team-mates anyway.\nNevertheless, this is a weakness of the club. If we all lived in and around Clapham, and our ground was in Clapham, then inevitably you\u2019d get much of the club there in the evening, and you\u2019d see your mates before and after a game, even if you didn\u2019t play in the same match as them. However, we don\u2019t \u2013 Shenley isn\u2019t a buzzing social place (!), and inevitably people head back in London soon after games and dissipate.\nSpencer Gore had stepped down as Social Secretary prior to the AGM, but with no-one else standing he agreed to continue, albeit warning that he still didn\u2019t have time to do much \u2013 if a replacement appears during the season he\u2019d be more than welcome to take over.\nIt was agreed Spencer would investigate an end of season club dinner, quite possibly in UCL. This would require commitment (financial) from people up front \u2013 the club don\u2019t have the resources to subsidise this (at present).\nWe would also investigate reviving the tradition of having one night a month as \u201cAccies night\u201d in the UCL Students Union. DMc to talk to \u201cthe younger element\u201d regarding which day of the week/month would be most suitable.\nThe following were all proposed, unopposed, 21 days in advance of the AGM, unless otherwise indicated, and duly elected:\nTreasurer \u2013 Derek Fowler\nSocial Secretary \u2013 Spencer Gore (elected on the evening)\n3rd XI Captain/Manager \u2013 vacant (subsequently Phil Stewart was elected, to be assisted by Scott Atkinson)\n5th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Rob James\n6th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Bobby Butlin\n7th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Spencer Gore\nThe continued difficulty in finding new officers remains a concern. On the one hand we all know we\u2019re a club of busy, professional people, but on the other hand too many people cause too much hassle for those who do the organizing, making it less appealing for them, and less appealing for successors.\nThe club also needs to be aware that its key officers will not be around forever. One of the strengths of the Accies over the last six years has been the centralisation of organisation, but this is a potential weakness as well. There\u2019s a critical point of failure we need to be aware of.\nThe secretary reported that over the last twelve months he\u2019d found myself sometimes struggling with various elements of things, whether it be basic paperwork (chasing up the same people for the n\u2019th time for something) or bigger elements of club management. It may be in a year\u2019s time that he\u2019d suggest someone takes over the Club Secretary job (dealing with the basic paperwork between the club and the county, as distinct from the nitty gritty of running the club), something we foresaw some time ago when we officially split the positions of Club Chairman and Club Secretary.\nWhether the club needs to have occasional committee meetings to keep everyone in the loop is something we need to consider, though it would place an extra time burden on busy officers. To be considered by the committee closer to the start of the season.\nOn the positive side, thanks must go to this year\u2019s skippers and other officers. Dan Chantler has hopefully laid the groundwork for the club finances working efficiently, and Mark Dawson has done his usual superb job with fixtures, as well as the less visible job of keeping the Secretary sane (and in his \u201cAttila the Hun\u201d moments, calm!). The skippers have done a good job of chasing players and managing their teams and without them we\u2019d be nowhere. Thanks to both Jon Houghton and Scott Atkinson, stepping down.\nThe continuing influx of ex-UCL players is good, but needs to be continued, and the onus inevitably falls on the youngest members. We do get our pitches at a significantly reduced rate because we\u2019re a UCL Alumni club, and we ought to do our best to maximise the number of UCL Alumni.\nFor the Mandy Walker games in summer 2004 we decided to abandon the 11-a-side game and simply concentrate on the 5-a-side tournament, which continued to be a major success. The question we need to address is whether we want some sort of 11-a-side. At the 2003 AGM we decided to try and organise two games in the spring, under lights, but these foundered because come March the Accies are busy with cup finals and title runs.\nIt was agreed to make a decision during the season according to how our fixture position looks come spring 2005.\nIn 2003-04 the club reached AFA Disciplinary Stage 1 for the first time in our history, triggering a fine from the AFA, and our continued pattern of increased indiscipline continues.\nThe club needs to make a decision about what it wants to do with discipline. On the one hand, it\u2019s safe to argue that a certain number of cards \u201cgo with the territory\u201d, particularly with two sides playing Senior football and most sides playing quite a few cup games (which tend to attract \u201cbetter officials\u201d).\nOn the flip-side, we continue to have a number of \u201csilly cards\u201d \u2013 dissent, abusing referees, deliberate tripping of opponents, posturing. The attitude to them also seems to be worsening:- to name just a handful of thumbnail sketches from the season \u2013 the 3rds betting on who\u2019d get bookings, a player sent off for a second cautionable offence of dissent, a player cautioned for a reckless challenge (diving in) after the referee had already penalised perhaps a dozen such challenges. None of these are about football, they\u2019re about individual stupidity. I\u2019m not trying to nail individuals, simply illustrating the general attitude.\nFar too many players seemed to quibble with bookings (\u201cit\u2019s not my fault\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m not going to change the way I play\u201d) and the secretary seems to spend far too much time chasing up the paperwork for them.\nThe general opinion (though not consensual) was that the club didn\u2019t have a serious discipline problem and that we should continue to monitor it. A one game suspension for a third caution during the season and a season suspension for a fourth caution was felt to be excessive and the Disciplinary Code should be modified accordingly.\nThe whole Disciplinary Code should be revised prior to next year\u2019s AGM and should be an agenda item.\nThere was a long discussion regarding club policy on selection and integration of players, particularly (but not exclusively) with regard to the 7th XI.\nAt the start of last season the Accies expanded to seven sides, all at rather short notice and with the indulgence of the league. Over the last five years we have had a steady influx of new players, but with the Accies ca 1999 generally being a club of aging players there had been no problem accommodating newcomers. However, the age profile is now generally (but not exclusively!) much lower, and we found ourselves with too many players to fit into six sides.\nThe sevenths began playing at Donkey Lane, Enfield, paying reduced match fees, as Shenley couldn\u2019t provide the extra pitches at short notice, although the college did a superb job in making this only last until January. This did however tend to foster an \u201coutsider mentality\u201d. In addition the side showed many of the characteristics of a \u201crebuilding lower side\u201d with a significant turnover of players whilst the captain, Spencer Gore, tried to get a settled team of players of suitable standard.\nAt the same time, Spencer managed to do a good job of recruiting ex-UCL players who for various reasons had left, or never joined the Accies.\nFairly inevitably, this has created a situation where the team has some players who are probably too good to be playing 7th team standard, but players who tend to want to play with the people they know.\nThere was a long discussion regarding this whole situation \u2013 on the one hand we are an amateur club, people want to play with their friends and so forth, whilst on the other the club is about running seven sides, and people should expect to make themselves available for the club, and not one particular side (equally importantly, league rules require us to run this week). The general opinion was that this must continue \u2013 as far as possible we should run as a club, with players playing for sides based on merit, and not have cliques.\nEqually, it was agreed that the policy of \u201cregulars before irregulars\u201d should continue. Our commitment should be towards players who are available for 75% of fixtures (ideally 90% for goalkeepers). Players who are not available as regularly as this should not take priority over regular players, even if they happen to be better footballers.\nSam Samra, about the only person who played for both sides last season, was of the opinion that the 7ths might well be better than the 6ths (and certainly younger) and it was agreed that in pre-season we needed to ensure a proper integration of the sides, and that people were playing in the right sides.\nYou will find below a copy of a letter sent to the AFA in December. This report on the match was composed by myself having received individual reports from the whole of the 5th team following the game.\nIn March 2004 (having lost the report for three months) the AFA decided not to take any action after the referee failed to submit a supporting report, but once this letter came to the attention of the AFC (which it couldn\u2019t until the AFA had deliberated) various other reports on Old Camdenians 4ths also surfaced. At a league meeting in April 2004 the team were thrown out of the league, and the AFA have now charged the club as well.\nI don\u2019t include this to nail Camdenians, but as an illustration of what can go wrong, as well as a report on the most serious incident I\u2019ve come across in twenty years of Saturday football with UCL and the Accies (though, sadly, I have been involved in worse on a Sunday morning).\nThat the case has taken over six months to progress is a concern, and with a league/county hat on remains one of my greatest areas of interest. Partly it\u2019s because the AFA lost our letter for some months, partly because the referee wasn\u2019t strong enough to submit a report (or indeed, apparently, be aware of what happened).Whether there was also a factor that the Accies have a well known reputation as a \u201cclub who wind up opposition\u201d (at least at 1st XI level, which is all most of the AFA are interested in) I don\u2019t know \u2013 I hope not!\nWe do play to win, but there are more important things.\nU.C.L. ACADEMICALS F.C.\nHon. Sec.: Danny McConnell, PO Box 605, Bromley, Kent, BR2 0YQ. Tel: 020-8325-2448.\ncc: John Monk (Hon. Secretary, Amateur Football Combination)\nI am writing with regard to the AFA Senior Novets Cup fixture played last Saturday, 30th November, at our London Colney ground between UCL Academicals 5th XI and Old Camdenians 4th XI, refereed by Fredrick Gunnell and won 2-1 by Old Camdenians after extra time.\nI played in this game myself and can honestly say that in my twenty years of senior football I have never witnessed such disgraceful behaviour as we suffered on Saturday at the hands of Old Camdenians.\nFrom the outset of the game our players, substitutes and the referee were subjected to a continual barrage of abuse, general, racist and violent from Camdenians, particularly from those on the touchline. Camdenians had half a dozen people on the sideline, three of them substitutes, including a \u201cmanager\u201d and other supporters.\nThe game itself was a hard fought match, with tackles flying in on both sides, doubtless stoked up by the verbals which did literally start from the first minute, and as this went unchecked it got worse and worse. Equally it was played in wet windy conditions, with a quarter final of the AFA Cup at stake, so one would expect a hard fought competitive game.\nDuring the second half we had two pitch invasions from their touchline, the first after a perceived foul by one of our players (dealt with by the referee) who was confronted by a number of Camdenians players, substitutes and spectators, the second when the referee dismissed one of the Camdenians players (we\u2019re not sure why, it could have been for preventing a goal-scoring opportunity, serious foul play, or foul and abusive language \u2013 clearly this will be in the referee\u2019s report).\nFrom this stage onwards the abuse was absolutely continuous, and of an overt racist nature towards some of our players; Sajeed Malik, Ethu Crorie and Adam Mammon. Comments included \u201cYou dirty monkey\u201d, \u201cFuck him and his chicken tikka masala\u201d, \u201cChicken tikka masala won\u2019t even look at me\u201d, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you fuck off home\u201d, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you fuck off back to Bombay where you came from\u201d and \u201cWho let the Paki score\u201d (when we equalised in the final minute of normal time).\nThere was also the more typical (alas) general abuse, \u201cyou dirty cunt\u201d, \u201ctake his knees out\u201d, \u201cwhen we come on we\u2019re going to break your legs\u201d and so forth.\nChillingly, halfway through the second half, one of the Camdenians walked behind my goal-mouth, and with the ball fifty yards away quite calmly told me \u201cif this carries on, some of you guys are going to be getting a knife in the stomach.\" I ignored the comment. \"Seriously, and I might be doing it\" he added. At the time I found this distinctly frightening, as it seemed to be no idle threat \u2013 this was not a heat of the moment comment, he was quite calm and calculated.\nWith hindsight, I wish at that moment I had called the referees\u2019 attention and asked him to abandon the game. Unfortunately, I was not at that stage aware of the nature of the abuse that was flying around, stuck in a goal mouth with a 30mph wind blowing across the pitch much of it didn\u2019t come to my attention until after the game. I could hear there was abuse, but not the wording.\nThe game then proceeded into extra time, as we equalised in the final minute of normal time. At this stage I asked one of our players who had been substituted to go to our 2nd or 4th XI pitches (both sides also had AFA Cup games) and ask one of the referees on those to come over and observe the extra time period once their games had finished. I was relieved that from the 4th XI pitch Robert Baxter did so, and he stayed on the sideline for the remainder of the Extra Time period.\nI did this simply to cover all bases \u2013 to add a second pair of neutral eyes in case the referee needed assistance (which I rather expected), and for the protection of the referee and our players. To an extent it worked, as the abuse from the sideline during the extra time period somewhat subsided (albeit to a still unacceptable level).\nMidway through the second extra time period Camdenians scored the goal that proved to be the winner, provoking yet another pitch invasion. I am afraid to say that I only felt relief at the goal, as I am sure that their winning the game ensured that nothing serious happened afterwards. Had we won the game, I dread to think what would have happened.\nAs far as the referee is concerned, I think the fairest summary would be to say that he didn\u2019t cope very well with an impossible situation. During the second half and extra time he should probably have abandoned the game, but what the consequences might have been don\u2019t bear thinking about. Only the referee can confirm whether this was the case, but I truly believe that this game should not have been completed.\nAfter the game I spoke at length to the referee, as well as to Robert Baxter, and thanked them both for their efforts. I hope that Mr Gunnell will also send in a full report, though Mr Baxter suggested he hadn\u2019t seen enough of the game to comment, though if asked I\u2019m sure he would make a report on what he did see. For the record, one Camdenian player was dismissed, and no player from UCL Academicals was even cautioned.\nI should also like to note that as far as I am aware, this behaviour is not typical of Old Camdenians as a club. We have already played their 3rd XI three times this season (once in a pre-season friendly, twice in league matches) and all games have been \u201ctypical AFA\u201d games without incident. I understand from comments on Saturday however that their 4th XI is a \u201cclub within a club\u201d and indeed they claimed to us that they are actually stronger than their 2nd and 3rd XI\u2019s, but the club \u201cwon\u2019t let them move up\u201d.\nNevertheless, they are a team fielded by Old Camdenians, and the club should be held responsible for their behaviour. This behaviour has no place on any football pitch, let alone an AFA pitch, and is not what we expect from our Saturdays.\nIn conclusion, I am writing to draw to your attention to what I feel to be unacceptable behaviour from the Old Camdenians IV team in an AFA cup tie.\nIn particular I refer to the aggressive and threatening behaviour of the Camdenians players (which includes a threat of personal violence to me), plus the clear and unacceptable racial abuse from the Camdenians players and the encroachment or invasion onto the pitch by Camdenians supporters.\nOverall we were most unhappy with the general unpleasant, threatening, intimidating and aggressive behaviour of the team and their supporters.\nI would welcome your comments and advice on what action you may be contemplating to deal with this matter.\nDanny McConnell (Hon. 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Small bedrooms, basic decoration, and low-quality facilities are all common problems and issues for those staying in cheaper hotels.\nWhat many travelers look for in serviced residence in Singapore is comfortable, spacious and affordable accommodation? For some, hotels just do not provide this. However, the development of serviced residence in Singapore means travelers now have an exciting and appropriate alternative when looking for quality accommodation. Serviced apartments offer visitors a luxurious ad comfortable space of their very own. These apartments are spacious, tastefully decorated and are fully furnished so provide guests with everything they need.\nWhen you choose to stay a serviced residence Singapore, you will be rewarded with your little \u2026\nChoose the Best Client Relationship Management from Edenred\nBusiness, Relationship\nIn any business to operate in difficulty commercial surroundings, it is important to know how to manage its customer relationships. 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Through a reputable money bank, you can \u2026\nAbout Uglywomansguide\nuglywomansguide.com posts the new which covered on News Singapore ranges from interesting masterpieces on finances, health, business, education and other trending information in Singapore.\nCopyright 2014 uglywomansguide | Privacy Policy \uff5c Terms of Use", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 12749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uk.visitportoandnorth.travel/Porto-and-the-North/News/KLM-AIR-FRANCE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RL3RMT5LWDWOIU3PL66NP5O2KZLILWNY", "length": 1428, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "uk.visitportoandnorth.travel", "title": "KLM & AIR FRANCE!", "raw_content": "Air France\u2013KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline holding company with its headquarters at Charles de Gaulle Airport and is the result of the merger in 2004 between Air France and KLM, both members of the SkyTeam airline alliance. It is one of the most successful airlines companies in the world with revenus over 25US$B and carrying almost 100 million passengers in 2017.\nAnd both have operations to Porto, as the entry gate of the region! In november they have revisited the region to update their knowledge about Porto & Northern Portugal, with highlights on Porto and its medieval heart but very contemporary buzz and sophistication and the unique charm of Douro, one of the regions with more touristic potential in Europe nowadays.\nDuring this fam trip, in Porto they were lucky enough to stay at Hotel do Teatro, visit Carr\u00eds Hotel, with a networking event with some of the most relevant players of the tourism sector, and visit jewels such as the S\u00e3o Bento Station, rua Galerias de Paris or Avenida dos Aliados. While in Douro, they could not only taste one of the most appreciated wines in the World \u2013 Porto and Douro wines \u2013 but also have a Douro Valley 4x4 tour to admire the rich variety of fauna and flora and visit Quinta do Panascal, a \u201cA\u201d grade wine estate which offers some of the finest vineyards of the regions and produce wines such as Fonseca Vintage 1994.\nIt was a pleasure to have the Air France-KLM group on board!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unbain.com/8252056250", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:7N72Q7HD52NKHO34KQ2Q2Y6RWXAR6TV3", "length": 3559, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "unbain.com", "title": "8252056250", "raw_content": "Floria thinks you should talk to Carol. I cannot pull Taninna's hair. She's much taller than me. We sometimes swim in the lake. What do you expect to find here? Where was she born? We're the only ones here from Boston. I want us to be together again. Michiel is the head of the company in name only. His son makes all the important decisions. I know I'm guilty of this. I haven't met her.\nWhere's Lana going with Rodger? They went on putting aside fallen stones. Is lunch ready?\nLet's go there on Monday. Many municipalities have reduced chlorination and now also use ultraviolet light to sanitize the public supply of drinking water. He is foolish meeting her again. I think you've been in the jungle too long. I'm being charged with murder. A sequel was released a year later. Ned seems to be worried about something. Tandy told me you were the one to talk to. In Japan the ceilings are quite low for foreigners.\nI don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. It just didn't work. She made a polite bow to me.\nI'm learning to play the guitar now.\nThe performance lasts two and a half hours. I suggest that you visit some villages in the mountains. Illness cut short his vacation. My wife shuddered at the sight of a one-eyed cat. Hsi is the only one here that can do this. Everything I said applies to you, too. Bradford was late at the station. I'm not in a hurry. She was married to a rich man.\nThat's no skin off my back. She might be able to help you. This is the bible of baseball. He will have been writing a letter. I have a hard-on for her. He's a bit rough around the edges. We can't do this without Clyde. I'm sure that's true. It can be tedious.\nWe need to get rid of Kees. A storm prevented the plane from taking off. I don't feel like eating now. There must be adaptations in translations. So let's do this. I tripped. How long have you had that rash?\nTake me away. The man lost his way in the woods.\nFrom the time he was a small boy, Christopher knew that he wanted to be a policeman. I really didn't expect Michael to succeed. I'll tell you something that I'm sure no one else will tell you. Buy me a package of absorbent cotton. Your liver is doing fine. Dana has done well here. I need to buy some Christmas presents.\nYour lips are red. This is pretty amazing. Hirofumi padded his resume. Yesterday night, I heard a cricket chirping in the garden. Autumn is approaching, isn't it? Howard doesn't understand the difference between confidence and arrogance. Contrails are long, narrow, ice-crystal clouds that form behind jet planes flying at high altitudes in below-freezing temperatures. They result from the condensation of water vapor remaining in jet exhaust. The Prime Minister has won his services as Minister for Justice. What have you done right now? I've just woken up. \"If thou wilt allow me, grandmother, I wish to ask thee some questions.\" \"Well,\" said the old witch, \"only remember that every question does not lead to good. If thou knowest overmuch, thou wilt grow old too soon. What wilt thou ask?\" He should be a psychic detective.\nMilo is enjoying this, I think. The party was organized by Mac.\nIt's not like that. We're just friends. She's the real racist. Even though he explained to me over and over again the meaning of this poem, I still don't get it. Now I'm a real old man. I will check your game tomorrow. She can sew very well. What do they want to talk to me for? Trey made it clear that he didn't like Curt. Do you have change for a dollar? Most of Seymour's friends know that he's a recovering alcoholic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://urinal.net/hamburg_public/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:NVXWXXKHMJWZC2M3NZQ5C3AMBOTSRJRN", "length": 569, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "urinal.net", "title": "Public Urinals of Hamburg", "raw_content": "Public Urinals of Hamburg\nThis public fixture serves the city of Hamburg, Germany.\nThis photo was sent in by Amani. He writes: \"Our city has got a new public urinal. It is located on Harburgs Aussenmuehlenteich. The \"Aussenmuehlenteich\" is a small lake in Hamburg-Harburg Germany. Right at the lake you can find the city park and the \"MidSommerland\", which is a public bath including a sauna, a thermal bath and a water slide. The path around the lake is perfect for jogging or walking and about 3 kilometers long. During summertime you can have barbecues at the lake.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://urinal.net/north_sea_ferry/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3V4DFWYS6FYZAYXQAHREVY4F4RIDSW27", "length": 527, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "urinal.net", "title": "The Urinals of Pride of Hull", "raw_content": "The Urinals of Pride of Hull\nThe P&O North Sea Ferry fleet provides passenger and cargo service between Northern England, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This particular vessel, MV Pride of Hull, lists its home port as Nassau, Bahamas.\nThis image of \"...rather chique...\" sea-going fixtures was submitted by MK. It comes from the Pride of Hull, which serves the route between Hull, UK, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Presumably, the horizontal bars seen above the automatic flush sensor are provided for stability during rough seas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://us-comp.com/tags/nasa-materials-research", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:59Z", "digest": "sha1:YZ7DX2HO3O6DV54VVMZG6X3GW55VDP2V", "length": 2940, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "us-comp.com", "title": "NASA Materials Research | US-COMP", "raw_content": "NASA has selected 20 new research and technology proposals to provide a total of $15m in funding to promote the agency\u2019s future deep space missions and benefit the US economy.\nForming part of NASA\u2019s Phase ll Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programme, the proposals were selected from 19 small businesses based in the US following a competitive process.\nEach of the selected business will work together with various research institutions from different parts of the US, including New Jersey, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois and California, to develop technologies in the fields of aeronautics, science, human exploration and operations, and space technology.\nNASA Washington Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) acting associate administrator Jim Reuter said: \u201cOur STTR programme focuses both entrepreneurs and leading research institutions on Nasa\u2019s long-term goals, bringing the latest in aerospace research to our programmes.\u201d\nLockheed Martin starts final assembly of NASA\u2019s Orion spaceship\nLockheed Martin has started the final assembly of NASA\u2019s Orion spaceship, after completing the construction on the spacecraft\u2019s capsule structure.\nThe structure, which is designed to carry astronauts to the Moon as part of NASA\u2019s Orion Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), has already reached the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US, for final assembly.\nWelded together by a team from Lockheed Martin over a period of seven months at NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, the structure will serve as a pressure vessel for the EM-2 spacecraft.\nThe vessel features seven large, machined aluminum alloy pieces that form a lightweight, air-tight capsule.\nNASA plots a return to the moon within a decade \u2014 but this time astronauts will stay there\nBob Richards remembers watching the gray, ghostly figures bounce across his family\u2019s black-and-white TV screen nearly a half-century ago: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first humans walking on the moon.\nEnthralled by the success of Apollo 11, which touched down 49 years ago on July 20, and by the future portrayed in pop culture by \u201cStar Trek\u201d and \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d Richards was certain that routine flights to the moon and space stations were inevitable within a few decades.\nIt never happened: The United States canceled its big-budget moon program just a few years after an epic Space Race victory over Russia, and astronauts haven\u2019t left orbits near Earth since.\nBut Richards, the CEO of Cape Canaveral-based Moon Express and a self-described \u201corphan of Apollo,\u201d now is confident that Americans are within a decade or so of returning to the lunar surface \u2014 this time to stay.\nNASA Selects US-COMP\nNASA is funding the future of materials development through not only research, but also through education by training future engineers and researchers in the field of computation, manufacturing, material synthesis, and testing.\nSubscribe to NASA Materials Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 15297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://utahtheatrebloggers.com/22823/a-noble-effort-to-save-the-pirate-queen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2HPOBUN5XK5P3V7V64CAJ5I5V2U2PFHO", "length": 7051, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "utahtheatrebloggers.com", "title": "A noble effort to save THE PIRATE QUEEN | Utah Theatre Bloggers", "raw_content": "A noble effort to save THE PIRATE QUEEN\nWEST VALLEY CITY \u2014 A woman ahead of her time, Grace O\u2019Malley is her own woman. Whereas other women in 16th century Ireland are expected to keep house and care for their families, Grace sails the seas and swordfights. With her iron will, she even dares to fight against the invading English and their queen, Elizabeth I. On stage now at the Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley, The Pirate Queen tells the story of this remarkable woman who deserves more attention from history.\nHeather McDonald plays Grace O\u2019Malley with the strength and vocal agility that the role requires. McDonald managed to blend the rustic life of Grace\u2019s Irish clan with the dignity of a noblewoman. McDonald started with a strong scene in \u201cMy Grace,\u201d in which she pleaded with her father to let her sail the sea. In this song McDonald captured Grace\u2019s longing for something better in life. McDonald\u2019s duets with Jacob Theo Squire (in the role of Tiernan) were sweet, and both performers were adept at bringing emotion to \u201cIf I Said I Loved You\u201d and \u201cHere on This Night.\u201d\nSquire played Grace\u2019s love, Tiernan. Squire created a feeling of affection with McDonald that made me enjoy their time on stage together, especially in their duets. Squire has remarkably strong vocal support, which made songs like \u201cI\u2019ll Be There\u201d and \u201cSurrender\u201d seem effortless for him. Additionally, he gave Tiernan a cavalier demeanor that was well-matched with Grace\u2019s fiery Irish spirit.\nBrianna Gray as Queen Elizabeth, left, Heather McDonald as Grace O\u2019Malley and Jacob Theo Squire as Tiernan.\nKeith McKay Evans provided another noteworthy performance as Donal O\u2019Flaherty, Grace\u2019s husband, whom she marries to seal a political alliance with another clan. Evans clearly showed Donal\u2019s vices (especially in \u201cBoys\u2019ll Be Boys\u201d and \u201cLet a Father Stand By His Son\u201d) and why there was so much conflict between Donal and Grace. Yet, Evans wisely ensures that Donal never seems like a sleazbag, and I never begrudged spending time with the character.\nDirector David Tinney\u2018s work was flawless in every scene, and I could not find a single misstep within the entire play. Tinney has a talent for pageantry, which comes in handy in The Pirate Queen. Whether it was a funeral, a wedding, an Irish clan meeting, or the English court, Tinney created visually entrancing ceremonies on stage. Tinney\u2019s choreography was also a highlight of the production. The boisterous \u201cBoys\u2019ll Be Boys\u201d and Grace\u2019s wedding to Donal were excellent blends of Irish dancing with traditional musical theatre choreography.\nOf course, the technical elements of The Pirate Queen were at the superb level that audience members expect from the West Valley Hale. But the technical aspects of this production far surpass almost anything I have seen on the Hale stage. The costume designs (by Martin Pakledinaz and Tamara Clayton Baker) were true to the Renaissance time period. The Irish costumes conveyed the characters\u2019 hardscrabble life and seemed like practical work clothes that someone in the era would wear. The English costumes were more opulent, and they communicated the cosmopolitan flair of Queen Elizabeth I\u2019s court. Kacey Udy\u2018s set design was not as complicated as many Hale sets, but it always reinforced the story, especially in the first act finale, where the dozens of candles provided the somber atmosphere that the scene required. Adam Flitton\u2018s lighting design was another strength of the stagecraft of The Pirate Queen. Regardless of a scene\u2019s location (e.g., outdoors, the bowels of a ship, or a palace), Flitton provide the right amount of illumination and color to make it supremely easy to suspend my disbelief and forget that I was in a theater.\nDespite all of these strong points, The Pirate Queen had some insurmountable problems. Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Sch\u00f6nberg, and Richard Maltby, Jr.\u2018s script fails to ever give the audience a reason to care about Grace\u2019s life. The librettists vaguely convey a respect for Grace, but it is never clear what Grace\u2019s story provides that sets it apart from Joan of Arc, Boudica, or other similar women in history. Moreover, it is never clear what audience members should learn about Grace O\u2019Malley or the message they should take from the story. And the librettists never clearly show why Grace\u2019s story should be musicalized. These issues so perplexed me that I could not figure out why anyone would want to produce this play, except perhaps for bragging rights of doing the first production in Utah or being able to advertise it as \u201cfrom the creators of Les Mis\u00e9rables.\u201d\nHaving been written by the creators of Les Mis\u00e9rables, Boublil and Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s most famous musical casts a long shadow over The Pirate Queen. Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s music\u2014especially in the first act\u2014sounds strongly reminiscent of Les Mis and the lyrics (by Boublil, Maltby, and John Dempsey) convey many of the same general feelings. Unfortunately, The Pirate Queen parrots the worst aspects of Les Mis, such as the bombastic, operatic solos (mostly assigned to Tiernan and Elizabeth I), meandering recitatives (especially for Dubhdara), and a penchant for maudlin sentimentality, without also providing the heart at the core of the superhit. Perhaps it is unfair to compare any show to the most popular musical ever written, but The Pirate Queen is about 85-90% sung-through and has much more stylistically in common with the big European musicals of the 1980\u2019s than almost anything written in the 21st century. I challenge any musical theatre fan to sit through The Pirate Queen without thinking of Les Mis multiple times during the course of the performance; the similarities between the two shows are unmistakable.\nIn sum, the West Valley Hale has a great production of a terrible play. The efforts of every person involved in The Pirate Queen were O\u2019Malley-like in their heroism. But they could not save the show from the plodding script and frequently tuneless score. The show is not without redeeming qualities, and I think that The Pirate Queen will find value in the eyes of season ticket holders at the West Valley Hale, some Les Mis fans, and readers who can appreciate the fine artistic and technical work of Utah theatre artists.\nThe Pirate Queen plays at Hale Centre Theatre (3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City) nightly (excepts Sundays) through April 2 at 7:30 PM, with additional performances at 12:30 PM and 4 PM on Saturdays and at 4 PM on March 25 and April 1. Tickets are $16-35. For more information, visit www.hct.org.\nTags: adaptation, alain boublil, claude-michel sch\u00f6nberg, hale centre theatre, Heather McDonald, historical, jacob theo squire, John Dempsey, kacey udy, Keith McKay Evans, Martin Pakledinaz, musical, Richard Maltby, salt lake county, Tamara Clayton Baker, The Pirate Queen\nPreviousTHRILL ME fails to live up to its title\nNextIntense reality in STREETLIGHT WOODPECKER\nChristmas begins with SCROOGE\nTHE WOMAN IN BLACK leaves the audience spooked in the end\nCome one, come all to THE HANGING OF JUANITO BANDITO \u2014 REIMAGINED", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 14301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://varnam.nationalinterest.in/2008/11/god_and_american_elections/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QMVGD3TXQEQK5DMBR7CRGFDIN55BE3Y3", "length": 1502, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "varnam.nationalinterest.in", "title": "God and American Elections - varnamvarnam", "raw_content": "Pragati Nov 2008 \u2192\n2 Responses to God and American Elections\nValue All Families November 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm #\nOpen Letter to all who voted for prop 8.\nThe founding fathers of this country were very clear that they did not want religious opinion to ever influence law and civil rights. Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave right now. Here is what he has to say about prop 8.\n\u201cSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.\u201d\n\u201cBecause religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person\u2019s life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the \u201cwall of separation between church and state,\u201d therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.\u201d\n\u201cThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.\u201d\nYou are tearing down the foundations of this country to suit your personal agenda. Shame on you. We will fight until we have equal rights.\nhttp://www.ValueALLfamilies.com\nkochuthresiamma p j November 7, 2008 at 4:35 am #\ntho\u2019 politics and religion make poor bedfellows, they\u2019ve never been separated.\nat least in the US dragging god in does not stir the hornet\u2019s nest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 11506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vectornews.eu/news/79616-world-snooker-championship-2018-barry-hawkins-beats-lyu-haotian-to-reach-last-eight.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RE7HWFB3LRSUO4QC4KUQI2XMPDLKC2YK", "length": 1980, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "vectornews.eu", "title": "World Snooker Championship 2018: Barry Hawkins beats Lyu Haotian to reach last eight \u00bb News agency Vector News English", "raw_content": "World Snooker Championship 2018: Barry Hawkins beats Lyu Haotian to reach last eight\nBarry Hawkins is ranked sixth in the world\nbbc.comFormer runner-up Barry Hawkins survived a scare to beat debutant Lyu Haotian 13-10 and reach the quarter-finals of the World Championship.China's Lyu recovered from 4-0 and 8-3 down to level the contest at 10-10, but missed chances allowed Englishman Hawkins to win three frames in a row.\"He just kept potting balls and did not look flustered. I could not shake him off,\" said Hawkins.\nHe faces China's Ding Junhui or Scot Anthony McGill in the last eight.A superb match featured four centuries for Hawkins and two for Lyu, while they shared 13 further breaks of 50 or more.\nLive - watch the latest action\nWorld Championship schedule & BBC coverage times\nHawkins lost in the first round at the Crucible on his first five appearances, but has reached the last eight in the past six years.\"I am really pleased,\" he added. \"It was a really good standard. He would not go away.\"It is a great feeling to get to the quarter-finals and it is an unbelievable place to play. There is no better place to play. My focus seems to be better here and I get up for it more.\"Lyu said: \"I had a very good result here (against Marco Fu) but a lack of experience in shot selection and poor safety cost me the match. I am going to go away and work on those.\"In a repeat of the 2008 and 2012 finals, five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan resumes his second-round contest at 14:30 BST, trailing 9-7 against Ali Carter.\n\u00bb World Snooker Championship 2018: Ali Carter leads Ronnie O'Sullivan in second round\n\u00bb World Snooker Championship 2018: Anthony McGill beats Ryan Day in round one\n\u00bb World Snooker Championship 2018: Ding Junhui beats Xiao Guodong 10-3\n\u00bb World Snooker Championship 2018: Jamie Jones recovers to beat Shaun Murphy 10-9\n\u00bb Welsh Open: Ronnie O'Sullivan knocked out by John Higgins\n\u00bb UK Snooker Championship 2017: Ronnie O'Sullivan thrashes Michael White", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 5408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viajesferroviarios.blogspot.com/2013/05/railway-travel-in-spain-for-foreigners.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RNTHEQI3MMZFYHEZ4XRRETKIX3SZ2PS3", "length": 3775, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "viajesferroviarios.blogspot.com", "title": "Viajes ferroviarios de ayer, hoy y ma\u00f1ana: Railway travel in Spain for foreigners", "raw_content": "High-speed trains in \"Puerta de Atocha\" station (Madrid)\n(Perm\u00edtame el lector hispanoparlante que dedique esta entrada a los muchos extranjeros que visitan Espa\u00f1a, especialmente durante el verano. Por este motivo, el texto que sigue a continuaci\u00f3n est\u00e1 redactado en lengua inglesa)\nTravel to Spain is always a pleasant task in any month of the year, but it would be particularly pleasant if you can do it without the car during this trip, just taking the train. Spain has a large and modern railway network that we are explaining to our foreign visitors in this blog. During the last 20 years the conventional network has added a significant deployment of high-speed lines that will much more pleasant a short trip between the major cities of our country. We will describe the main features of the Spanish railway network and how you can purchase tickets and access to trains.\nIf the person who comes to visit Spain is arriving by air travel, some airports have connections to the rail network. There are five main transportation hubs: Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona, M\u00e1laga, Valencia and Jerez de la Frontera. From the airport to these cities\u2019 downtown the travel will be quick and convenient. Tickets can be purchased at vending machines in the railroad station at the airport stop.\nThe Spanish railway network (Select to enlarge the maps)\nThe main Spanish railway company is Renfe. The trains run each day throughout an extensive network of nearly 15,500 km, of which more than 3,000 high-speed lines. These are the maps of the Spanish state railway lines.\nTo travel in Spain for a short number of days the best option is the Renfe SpainPass. This travel pass can be purchased through the following link of the official Renfe website in English. If the traveler is not going to stay in Spain many days, is advisable to use high-speed trains to visit many cities in a short time. If travel is occasional, purchase of tickets can be made directly through this link.\nIn the outskirts of large cities are suburban networks. The Commuter lines are available at this link. In the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Palma of Majorca (Line M1 and Line M2) and Seville are also metro networks.\nIn addition to the national railway network there are regional networks in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Majorca and Basque Country. You can visit the linked websites for their detailed maps and schedules.\nMaps of the regional networks (Select to enlarge them)\nThe Spanish railway network has also connection with Portugal. There is a direct train from Madrid to Lisbon, with a connection to Porto. It is also possible to travel from Vigo in Galicia, in a direct train to Porto.\nRailway link with France (SNCF) is secured at the following border stations: Irun/Hendaye, Portbou/Cerb\u00e8re, Figueres-Vilafant and Latour-de-Carol. In the Spanish station of Canfranc is possible to connect with the French railways through a bus SNCF.\nMost Spanish railway networks have coverage for mobile phones, but the trains do not have Wifi. The long distance trains carried a restaurant. Also in many regional trains there are vending machines with beverages.\nThe purchase of tickets for the national railway network can be made through the Renfe website, in vending machines located in the stations and in the ticket offices. Buy tickets online in advance has advantages: they are cheaper. In many stations access to the trains is similar to airports with gates. In these cases there is no checking of tickets during the travel.\n- Renfe in Facebook and in Twitter\n- Tracking the movement of trains in real time (reports any delays)\n- The same information with geographical representation of the network\n- Official website of Tourism in Spain\nEtiquetas: Spanish railway, Travel in Spain by train", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1366, "original_length": 32207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://victoriasportsnews.com/royals-receive-draft-picks-from-kelowna-for-the-rights-to-20-year-old-forward-lane-zablocki/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WBTC4LV6RSYYRAY2VROVTOJR2XCFQH76", "length": 1806, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "victoriasportsnews.com", "title": "Royals receive draft picks from Kelowna for the rights to 20-year-old forward Lane Zablocki - Victoria Sports News", "raw_content": "Home Hockey Royals receive draft picks from Kelowna for the rights to 20-year-old forward...\nRoyals receive draft picks from Kelowna for the rights to 20-year-old forward Lane Zablocki\nLane Zablocki. Photo credit: Christopher Kelsall\nThe Victoria Royals today announced that the club has received a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2021 WHL Bantam Draft along with a conditional seventh-round selection in 2019 from the Kelowna Rockets in exchange for the rights to overage forward Lane Zablocki (1998).\nA native of Wetaskiwin, AB, Zablocki was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round, 79th overall, in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.\nThe 6-0, 182 lb forward was acquired by the Royals from the Lethbridge Hurricanes at the trade deadline last season. Zablocki recorded six points (1g-5a) in 25 regular season games with Victoria. He also contributed two goals and an assist in 10 playoff contests for the club. In 65 regular season games, spilt between the Royals, Hurricanes and Red Deer Rebels last season, Zablocki registered 31 points (12g-19a).\nThe 1998-born forward was originally selected by the Prince George in the fifth round, 109th overall, at the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft.\nThe Royals\u2019 2018-19 Ticket Packages are still on-sale. Guarantee yourself the best seats, prices and benefits that includes the most flexible ticket exchange policy in the WHL. Secure your spot for this season by giving the Royals\u2019 ticket office a call at 250-220-7889 or sending an email to tickets@victoriaroyals.com to set up an appointment to view available seating.\nLane Zablocki\nPrevious articleVictoria Royals erase early deficit in 6-3 win over Kamloops\nNext articleHighlanders News: One central brand, three leagues, evolving for the future\nRoyals fend off desperate Kamloops Blazers to move to 3-0 on...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 7832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://visualredesign.com/portfolio/ethics-for-design/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MPWM6KDIFGVQMHQCSMMU3SXDHF3MXO4F", "length": 688, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "visualredesign.com", "title": "FSTA \u2013 RE:DESIGN \u2013 Visual Communications Agency", "raw_content": "Catching The Fantasy Momentum\nDesigned and developed a new website for the FSTA with the sole purpose of providing a central resource for the fantasy sports industry audience. We architected a website that is rich in video content, offers streamlined navigation, and presents comprehensive but consumable information in an easy to read layout. The end result of this web design project is a new approach in the way the FSTA communicates with the industry, as well as the ability to provide pertinent information, 24/7, to members all over the country. FSTA.org now provides a comprehensive, user-friendly experience that will serve as a monumental resource for the FSTA for years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://votersedge.org/ca/en/ballot/election/area/42/contests/contest/12609?election_authority_id=37", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XUQNQRG247XCQW4IPFUWJDAB63WMBGUS", "length": 7188, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "votersedge.org", "title": "City Council City of San Diego District 1 | California General Election Ballot - Voter Guide - November 8, 2016 | Voter\u2019s Edge California", "raw_content": "City Council, District 1 \u2014 City of San Diego\nCandidates Whose Campaigns Are Suspended\nAt least one candidate has suspended his or her campaign, but still appears on Voter's Edge and on the ballot.\nThe following candidate has suspended his campaign:\nVotes cast for this candidate will still be counted.\nCouncil Candidate Barbara Bry Surveys Voters\u2019 Ideas for Change \u2014 October 19, 2016 Times of San Diego\nAn interview with Barbara Bry, City Council candidate for District 1 \u2014 October 4, 2016 The Triton (student newspaper of the University of California at San Diego)\nCulture Report: Where the D9 Candidates Stand on Arts Funding ALSO MENTIONS D1 CONTEST \u2014 October 4, 2016 Voice of San Diego\nEllis concedes council race to Bry \u2014 August 12, 2016 San Diego Union Tribune\nRay Ellis Drops Out Of District 1 San Diego City Council Race \u2014 August 12, 2016 KPBS\nRay Ellis cites Trump for conceding city council race to Barbara Bry \u2014 August 12, 2016 FOX 5\nRay Ellis drops out of District 1 race for San Diego City Council \u2014 August 12, 2016 La Jolla Light\nInterview with City Council candidate Barbara Bry \u2014 May 13, 2016 San Diego Union-Tribune\nInterview with City Council candidate Ray Ellis \u2014 May 13, 2016 San Diego Union-Tribune\nPromote our high-tech innovation economy that creates...\nPreserve and enhance our environment and secure an...\nRecruit and retain quality public safety officers...\nSan Diego City Fire FightersSan Diego Police Officers AssociationUnion-Tribune Editorial BoardSan Diego Union-Tribune Editorial BoardPlanned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific SouthwestSierra ClubSan Diego Lifeguards AssociationSave San Diego NeighborhoodsBrady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence\nCommunity Volunteer and Small Business...\nCreating a locally controlled, drought-tolerant and...\nPromote our high-tech innovation economy that creates good jobs and a healthy tax base.\nPreserve and enhance our environment and secure an affordable, long-term water supply.\nRecruit and retain quality public safety officers and support Neighborhood Watch programs.\nProfession:High-tech Entrepreneur\nHarvard University \u2014 Master's Degree, Business Administration (1976)\nBarbara Bry is a high-tech entrepreneur and community leader who worked her way through college and grad school, earning a Master\u2019s Degree in Business from Harvard. As a single working mom, Barbara was on the founding team of several local high-tech companies, including ProFlowers.com, which has created hundreds of local jobs.\nA leader in the San Diego business community, Barbara taught entrepreneurship at UCSD and founded Athena San Diego, an organization that supports the advancement of women in the tech sector. As a business journalist, she has also spotlighted the vibrant small business community that supports our City\u2019s economy and was honored as Small Business Journalist of the Year for San Diego and Imperial Counties by the Small Business Administration.\nBarbara has deep roots in the community and has lived here for 35 years. She is married to Neil Senturia, raised her two daughters here, and is a proud grandmother. She served as President of the Board of the Children's Museum of San Diego and as Vice Chair of the San Diego Jewish Community Foundation. She was also a two-time Bobby Sox team manager for her daughters.\nBarbara has been endorsed by:\nSierra Club, San Diego City Firefighters, San Diego Lifeguards Association, League of Conservation Voters, Save San Diego Neighborhoods, Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest, Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Dr. J. Craig Venter, and hundreds of community residents and local small businesses.\nSan Diego City Fire Fighters\nSan Diego Police Officers Association\nUnion-Tribune Editorial Board\nSan Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board\nPlanned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest\nSan Diego Lifeguards Association\nSave San Diego Neighborhoods\nAs the first high-tech entrepreneur on the City Council, Barbara will bring her enterprising and relentless mindset to City Hall to keep San Diego safe, clean and prosperous. Barbara will work to create more good paying high-tech jobs and help small businesses grow, so that we can invest in maintaining San Diego\u2019s quality of life by fixing our streets; protecting our beaches, bays, and parks; and conserving our water supply.\nAll policy papers are available at: http://www.barbarabry.com/issues\nTo learn more about Barbara's policies, visit: http://www.barbarabry.com/issues\nCity Council \u2013 District No. 1\nEntrepreneurial problem-solver, not a career politician.\nFirst-place finisher in June Primary Election\nAs your council representative, I will \u2013\nRepair streets and sidewalks; reduce congestion through traffic light synchronization and increased public transportation options.\nPromote high-tech economy, creating good jobs and City revenue; connect students to internships; support small business growth.\nPreserve and enhance beaches, lagoons, canyons, and open spaces; protect neighborhoods from overdevelopment; secure a long-term, affordable water supply. Endorsed by the Sierra Club.\nRecruit and retain quality public safety personnel; restore community policing, fix 9-1-1 response delays, get serious about controlling gun violence. Endorsed by San Diego City Fire Fighters, Police Officers Association, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.\nMaintain City\u2019s fiscal health by opposing tax dollars for a football stadium, upholding pension reform and protecting taxpayers.\nI earned an MBA from Harvard, taught entrepreneurship at UCSD, served on the founding management team at ProFlowers.com that created hundreds of local jobs, and was President of The Children\u2019s Museum Board.\nI\u2019ve lived in San Diego for 35 years and raised two daughters. My husband and I are proud grandparents who live in La Jolla.\nI respectfully ask for your vote.\nwww.barbarabry.com\nCreating a locally controlled, drought-tolerant and affordable water supply\nProfession:Community Volunteer and Small Business Owner\nI\u2019m running for City Council so I can help improve our communities and the lives of all San Diegans. Working together, we can protect the quality of life we cherish. My priorities are:\nFix deteriorating roads and infrastructure\nMake sure public safety is fully staffed and trained\nCreate a sustainable water supply\nImprove neighborhood services, beaches, and parks\nGrow our economy to create good-paying jobs\nI\u2019m a community volunteer:\nWorked as volunteer chairman of a non-profit environmental organization to improve water, air quality and recycling.\nWorked as a volunteer to improve the lives of abused children and the homeless.\nImplemented pension reform as volunteer president of San Diego\u2019s pension board.\nA volunteer member of the Del Mar Mesa Community Planning Board.\nAwarded Life Dedicated to Community Service from San Diego Social Venture Partners.\nIn 1987, I started my business in San Diego out of my garage and grew it into a national company. I have three childrenmy wife Gina and I are busy raising our youngest.\nAn independent problem-solver, I am endorsed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer and former City Council President Tony Young.\nI want to continue my community service as your City Councilmember.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 543, "original_length": 18741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://w-g.jp/member/suzuki/pi/pi-summary.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:57Z", "digest": "sha1:BDYI6CPDIRC4625XOTWXEXGHDXNFZMOQ", "length": 3587, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "w-g.jp", "title": "A SUMMARY OF \"THE POSSIBILITY INDEX: AN INVESTMENT CRITERION\"", "raw_content": "THE POSSIBILITY INDEX: AN INVESTMENT CRITERION is published in the following three types of file.\nHTML FILE (pi.htm)\nPDF FILE (pi.pdf)\nICHITARO FILE (pi.jtd)\nThe topic of research and the basic contents of each section are written. The topic is, as the title shows, to formulate an practical investment criterion. The research is focused on the Indian economy, and so the investment criterion was formulated with regard to the Indian economy. The criterion was named ''Possibility Index.\"\nSection II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK\nTheoretical framework is written. In sub-section 1, some theories on investment decision are surveyed. They are surveyed, especially, with regard to the factors taken into account and the determinant factor of investment. Theories surveyed are the Capital-Turnover Criterion, the Social Marginal Productivity Criterion, the Reinvestment Criterion, the Time Series Criterion, the Ratio of Labor to Investment Criterion, the Balanced and the Unbalanced Growth, the Cost-Benefit Analysis, the theories on External Economies and Economies of Scale, the Marginal Efficiency of Capital, the Acceleration Principle, the Neoclassical Theory, and the Tobin's q Theory.\nIn sub-section 2, the Possibility Index, which is the topic of research, is explained. It is a criterion aiming to raise the efficiency of economy by investing the limited resources into the sector of which the possibility of growth is high as compared with the other sectors. The possibility of growth is shown as the ratio between the desired production capacity and the actual production capacity. The latter capacity is available from the existing statistics but the former capacity must be calculated. The way to calculate the desired capacity is not specified here. It is specified after analyzing all the data available on the Indian economy.\nIn sub-section 3, the method of analysis on the Indian and the Japanese economy is explained. This analysis is to see how the data available can reflect the possibility of growth. Two economies are compared in order to see the situation of investment of both economies.\nSection III. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN INDIA\nSection IV. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN\nSection V. FORMULATION OF THE INVESTMENT CRITERION\nIn sub-section 1, the way to calculate the Possibility Index is specified. And also the way to calculate the desired capacity is specified.\nIn sub-section 2, the desired capacity, which is necessary to calculate the Possibility Index, is calculated for 9 sectors selected.\nIn sub-section 3, the Possibility Index is calculated and the result is examined.\nIn sub-section 4, necessary data to calculate more accurately the Possibility Index are specified while so far the Possibility Index was calculated from the existing data. These are the data which may be existing or may not be existing but are technically possible. And the way to calculate the Possibility Index from these data are specified.\nPI = --------- x 100\nThe Possibility Index was calculated for following 9 sectors.\nThe graphs of PI are shown at the end of this summary.\nSection VI. CONCLUSION\nThe conclusion is drawn. The merit of the Possibility Index against the other investment theories and criteria are examined. And, the reliability and the future perspective of the Possibility Index are examined.\nIn sub-section 1, sources of data of figures and notes for figures are collected.\nIn sub-section 2, figures are collected.\nIn sub-section 3, tables are collected.\nPREVIOUS PAGE (Toshio Suzuki)\nPREVIOUS PAGE (Japanese, Toshio Suzuki)\nWORLD CITIZEN SITE (Site Guide)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waldringfieldbc.org.uk/?page_id=1549", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6FW4PEJCJBPNAGDATRHTWY5LRNETER6I", "length": 700, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "waldringfieldbc.org.uk", "title": "Bubbles, Splash & Xtreme - Waldringfield Baptist Church", "raw_content": "Home Ministries Bubbles, Splash\u2026\nThe children\u2019s work at WBC over the last few years has been rapidly growing, and as a result we now have three children\u2019s classes on a Sunday morning (during the main service) for kids. We have Bubbles, Splash and Xtreme, and these three classes are for primary school age and above.\nWhile you\u2019re free to sit and listen to the sermon in the main church, your child will be taught bible stories, sing songs, do craft activities and generally have a fun time with our experienced children\u2019s workers. Our workers have all undertaken DBS checks (previously CRB), and many of them are active primary school teachers!\nFor more information, please feel free to get in touch!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://warehousenews.co.uk/2018/04/fronius-perfect-charging-at-cemat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LZR3TOFZVHKXP2X7OMH3ESE5G3ED6EGC", "length": 3981, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "warehousenews.co.uk", "title": "Fronius Perfect Charging at CeMAT | Warehouse & Logistics News", "raw_content": "Fronius Perfect Charging at CeMAT\nFronius Perfect Charging \u2013 the charging specialists for traction batteries \u2013 will be presenting its extensive range of products and services from 23-27 April at CeMAT 2018 in Hanover. From energyefficient and gentle battery charging systems to alternative drive technologies, plus charging rooms and stations equipped in line with the prevailing standards: visitors to CeMAT 2018 will find the solutions they need to sustainably optimise their intralogistics operating costs on Stand L09 in Hall 26.\nFronius is also your professional partner in the planning, design and commissioning of the\noptimum charging infrastructure.\nWhether you have lead batteries, lithium-ion batteries or fuel cells: Fronius advises and supports operators of forklift trucks to find the most cost-effective drive technology for their fleet, and to implement bespoke complete systems. Fronius is an international enterprise based in Austria, and the technology leader in the charging of traction and starter batteries. The company will be presenting its extensive range of products, consultancy and support services at CeMAT. Visitors to the Fronius stand will not only be able to discover the pros and cons of various drive technologies but will also find an expert partner in topical matters such as energy-efficiency legislation, Green Logistics, or rapid and opportunity charging.\nAmong the products on display will be the battery charging systems of the Selectiva family. Incorporating the Ri charging process, these chargers from Fronius offer the most advanced, most efficient and most gentle charging process for lead-acid batteries on the market today. The charging characteristic adapts itself to the age, capacity, and condition of the battery, which reduces both energy losses and harmful warming of the battery. Users are thus able to benefit from much lower power consumption figures and an extension to the service life of their batteries. The Selectiva chargers are also compatible with lithium-ion batteries.\nFronius helps forklift truck dealers provide the most cost-effective and user-friendly configuration of rental forklift fleets. The Selectiva chargers are flexible enough to allow batteries to be charged to varying voltages and capacities. Among the benefits to rental fleet operators and their customers are simple and standardised operation, low weight, a small footprint and low operating costs. Other features, such as the web-based evaluation of charging cycles and a rugged transport box, help prevent incorrect operation and damage, thus significantly extending the service life of the batteries and chargers.\nFronius has developed the I-SPoT Viewer visualisation tool to provide a clear overview of all charging data. The Viewer provides a graphical representation of the battery charging cycles and enables errors, such as incorrect settings on the devices or battery defects, to be easily identified and rectified. By way of contrast, the \u201cCool Battery Guide Easy\u201d information and management system enables optimum utilisation of the battery pool. A control unit, in conjunction with an LED strip on every charger, intuitively guides the user to the battery that has been fully charged the longest, thus ensuring that all the batteries are used with the same frequency and have sufficient time to cool down.\nFronius is a complete supplier and therefore offers its customers a range of services. These extend from an analysis of the current situation and the savings potential through the planning, design and commissioning of the optimum charging infrastructure to service and maintenance. The company\u2019s overriding objective is to optimise intralogistics processes in a sustainable manner and hence to reduce costs. Its range covers much more than just battery charging systems, customised accessories such as installation modules and battery changing systems are also available.\nFRONIUS PERFECT CHARGING\nwww.fronius.com/intralogistics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 8231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waytofamous.com/?module=news&act=post&url=jill-kelly", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GJQPRU73YSUWSYCIYYOWKOFV4JQNJ6KR", "length": 1760, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "waytofamous.com", "title": "Jill Kelly", "raw_content": "Jill Kelly was grown up in the Easton, however also lived for above than just half of the century at Fairfield, where Jill and Henry, her husband who died in the year 2011, also raised 4 children. At the time of these 50-plus years, Jill Kelly, the Republican, have very actively served community in an extensive array of roles, from Representative of the Town Meeting to Zoning Board of the Appeals, as well as the stint on Board of the Selectmen from the year 1993-97 as a First Selectman of the Paul Audley with the running mate.\nThe local real estate agent, who is 82 year old even, serves as the co-chairwoman of entire Connecticut Citizens of the Transportation Lobby. This Board of the Selectmen lately approved the reappointment if Kelly to town of the Ethics Commission, the term which Kelly called as the \"swan song.\" However, Jill also recently sat down for the cup of coffee at Athena Diner as well as reflected on the involvement in the town of the government as well as the community activities.\nWhen it was asked from Jill Kelly that when did she get involved in this community then she said that since it was a neighborhood activity so I was highly interested. We are much involved in the zoning as I had been at Sasquanaug Association, as well as I also fought each development which I there was for the fight, few of which when some of the kids stay now. The condos of Southport Woods, we were also fighting similar to being mad.\nThe committee of Republican Town, does not know and so they are small stand-offish. I actually need to work hard for being accepted. This was a great time. Every year we even increased numbers of the Republicans, however in these days it is just 5 of us, and so this was a real and great fun.\nPhoto 1: Jill Kelly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wbsm.com/family-of-missing-fisherman-issues-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FMHR5QA5SHR3WUFLLIXQXQN2XNKDNXXI", "length": 3705, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "wbsm.com", "title": "Family of Missing Fisherman Issues Statement", "raw_content": "Family of Missing Fisherman Issues Statement\nCourtesy Saraiva Family\nIt\u2019s been almost a week since the Misty Blue sunk off the coast of Nantucket, and there have still be no signs of the survival of 44-year-old Michael Roberts of Fairhaven, or 32-year-old Jonathan Saraiva of New Bedford.\nThe Saraiva family has issued the following statement through a spokesman for the family:\nThe Saraiva family are deeply grieving the disappearance and loss of their son Jonathan in the sinking of the Misty Blue. The enormous amount of support they have received through offers of prayer and kind words has not gone unnoticed and is very much appreciated. They would also like to extend their prayers and deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Michael Roberts. This has been an extremely difficult time for them and they are just not ready to speak publicly. Due to the weather, recovery dives to the Misty Blue have been postponed multiple times, and this has been emotionally crushing. The hope to recover and bring their son and brother home is their biggest desire now.\nJonathan was born January 17, 1985, in Kailua, HI, while his father Phillip Saraiva, a Marine, was stationed there. He also lived in Cornwall, England UK, New Bedford, MA, Acushnet, MA, New London, NH, and Boca Raton, FL. Upon graduation from New Bedford High School, Jon tried out a few different career paths before finding his passion lied in working outdoors. He retained employment at golf courses in New Hampshire, at a mariner in Florida, and most recently, as a fisherman working out of New Jersey, New Bedford and Fairhaven.\nJon\u2019s mother, Susan Saraiva, once asked him if he really liked fishing and his reply was typical of his nature. He stated that he really did, describing the peacefulness and beauty of the ocean and the wildlife. He specifically spoke of how much he enjoyed watching all of the dolphins that would follow the ship. His family believes, if given the opportunity, Jon would have continued to go to sea. One of his Facebook quotes was \"Clammin Oh Yeah!!!!\" After spending time in New Jersey, Jon jumped at the chance to return home to work in Fairhaven when his former boss, Capt. Eric Arabian, offered him the position of first mate.\nJon never married or had children of his own. His family, which include his parents, Phillip and Susan Saraiva, his brother Brandon, sister Michele, their families, and their children, were a joy to him and a source of strength. Jon also had a great love for his pets, especially his dog Jada. In earlier years, Jon doted on the family dog named Penny. The family cat, Chloe, lived a long life thanks to the fact that he rescued her from coyotes that had been stalking her.\nJonathan was a very private person. He listened a lot more than he spoke and was a deep thinker. These are qualities his family has always respected and admired about him. The mutual love between he and his family was, and still is, unconditional and undeniable. He recently posted on Facebook, \u201cFamily means everything to me.\u201d His loss has left a huge whole in their hearts, but those who truly knew and loved him will forever cherish his memory.\nThe Saraiva family would like to express their deep gratitude to CDR Marcus G. Gherardi, USCG, Woods Hole, for his personal updates and kindness extended to their family in this most difficult time. They would also like to thank the fishing vessel, Enterprise, and all of the other men and women who assisted in the search, rescue and hopeful recovery of all of the crewmembers of the Misty Blue.\nFiled Under: fairhaven, family, fishermen, fishing, JONATHAN SARAIVA, MICHAEL ROBERTS, missing, misty blue, Nantucket, new bedford, Sinking, statement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wbsm.com/new-bedford-police-arrest-suspect-in-atlantic-seafood-market-robbery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4DEPEGFK23EWZXBFB5OTPCJ7NFFRW2SU", "length": 1873, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "wbsm.com", "title": "New Bedford Police Arrest Suspect in Seafood Market Robbery", "raw_content": "New Bedford Police Arrest Suspect in Atlantic Seafood Market Robbery\nBrandon Tetreault/Facebook\nNEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police make an arrest in connection to an armed robbery.\nAt 2:09 p.m. on Thursday, New Bedford Police received a report of an armed robbery at the Atlantic Seafood Market at 60 Madeira Avenue in the city's North End.\nA description of the suspect was soon transmitted to police officers. The suspect reportedly used a knife in the robbery.\nNarcotics detectives patrolling the North End of the city soon observed a man matching the suspect description run into a six-family home at 531 North Front Street. Police established a perimeter around the home and entered the building. The suspect, Brandon Tetreault, 30, with a last known address of 166 Nash Road, New Bedford, was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m.\nThe suspect\u2019s clothing, mask, weapon (knife) and the stolen $145.00 in cash were all located in the apartment as well. The stolen money was returned to the store.\nTetreault has been charged with one count of armed robbery.\nTetreault has a long criminal record, including an open case in New Bedford District Court for Malicious Destruction of Property and Threatening. Mr. Tetreault was free on personal recognizance on this matter.\nOn March 6, 2015, Tetreault was sentenced to one year in prison for an Assault and Battery on a Household member and served 56 days with the balance being suspended.\nOn December 6, 2010, Tetreault was sentenced to 18 months in prison for Violating a restraining order, Property Violation, Threatening and Vandalism. He served 102 days with the balance being suspended.\nTetreault was arraigned and ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing and his bail on his pending open case was revoked.\nFiled Under: armed, atlantic seafood market, brandon tetreault, knife, new bedford, police, robbery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wccvi.abstractsnet.com/acover.wcs?entryid=000084", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KRXSUCABUZVZUSM72M4JT2I52ZYV2C3F", "length": 644, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wccvi.abstractsnet.com", "title": "WCC VI 2010 - Posters On Demand", "raw_content": "Poster 223 < Previous Next > Outcomes of Penetrating Keratoplasty for Mucopolysaccharidoses\nAlejandra Decanini Mancera\nSaint Louis Park, MN, US\nAlejandra Decanini, MD, graduated from Anahuac University medical school, Mexico City, Mexico in 2005. She completed her pre-grad internship at the ABC Medical Center, Mexico followed by a year of social service providing free medical consultation in a rural community. Dr Decanini has participated in several clinical and basic science research projects. She worked as a research fellow for two years at the University of Minnesota and is currently an Ophthalmology resident at the same institution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/virtual_tour/page_12.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:05Z", "digest": "sha1:DJEJGB67EEGH353QIJ7NZ7ESWQBSLIM5", "length": 207, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "web.sbu.edu", "title": "page 12", "raw_content": "Visitors will enjoy the view overlooking the Reilly Center from the quiet area on the third floor. Resources located on the third floor include literature, science, technology, fine arts and oversized items.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 154.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web1n2.com/blog-posts/usefulness-resources-of-relevance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:W7NUGWIXUDPVY2GQEEWOPE7VOM5CBYOQ", "length": 560, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "web1n2.com", "title": "Usefulness \u2013 Resources of Relevance | Web 1 N 2", "raw_content": "Usefulness \u2013 Resources of Relevance\nby admin | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog Posts, WEB 2 | 0 comments\nUsefulness \u2013 Resources of Relevance \u2013\nHuffington Post Essay on Coding and Business. \u2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-harbus/coding-is-the-new-busines_b_11028790.html\nArticle Finally-a-guide-to-hosting-your-Website \u2013 http://www.jonhmchan.com/blog/2014/4/28/finally-a-guide-to-hosting-your-website\nGIT HUB \u2013 Check check check it out \u2013 https://github.com/\nAaron Draplin \u2013 http://draplin.com/\nDraplin\u2019s inspiring TED X Talk \u2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PMK1M7ZxJc", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://webot.org/info/en/?search=Islamism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TB5V56BSVCZQ6KXQWQ6XXVIHFB4DUU5Y", "length": 137601, "nlines": 663, "source_domain": "webot.org", "title": "ISLAMISM - Wikipedia Article, Video, Photo, News, Definition, Synonym, Sound, Translation - Webot.org", "raw_content": "Islamism Article\nThis article is about an Islamic political ideology and political movement. For the religion itself, see Islam.\nIslamization ( of knowledge)\n( Iqbal 1930s)\n( Asad 1961)\n( Qutb 1965)\n( Khomeini 1970)\nModernity ( Modernism)\nSunnah ( Hadith, Sirah)\nAbrogation in Islam\nPacifism in Islam\nIslamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts. [1] The term can refer to diverse forms of social and political activism advocating that public and political life should be guided by Islamic principles [1] [2] or more specifically to movements which call for full implementation of sharia. It is commonly used interchangeably with the terms political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism. [3] In academic usage, the term Islamism does not specify what vision of \"Islamic order\" or sharia are being advocated, or how their advocates intend to bring them about. [4] In Western mass media it tends to refer to groups whose aim is to establish a sharia-based Islamic state, often with implication of violent tactics and human rights violations, and has acquired connotations of political extremism. In the Muslim world, the term has positive connotations among its proponents. [3]\nDifferent currents of Islamist thought include advocating a \"revolutionary\" strategy of Islamizing society through exercise of state power, and alternately a \"reformist\" strategy to re-Islamizing society through grass-roots social and political activism. [5] Islamists may emphasize the implementation of sharia (Islamic law); [6] pan-Islamic political unity, [6] including an Islamic state; [7] or selective removal of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world that they believe to be incompatible with Islam. [6]\nGraham Fuller has argued for a broader notion of Islamism as a form of identity politics, involving \"support for [Muslim] identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, [and] revitalization of the community.\" [8] Some authors hold the term \"Islamic activism\" to be synonymous and preferable to \"Islamism\", [9] and Rached Ghannouchi writes that Islamists prefer to use the term \"Islamic movement\" themselves. [10]\nCentral and prominent figures in twentieth-century Islamism include Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Abul Ala Maududi, [11] and Ruhollah Khomeini. [12] Most Islamist thinkers emphasize peaceful political processes, which are supported by the majority of contemporary Islamists. [13] Others, Sayyid Qutb in particular, called for violence, and his followers are generally considered Islamic extremists, although Qutb denounced the killing of innocents. [14] According to Robin Wright, Islamist movements have \"arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence\", redefining \"politics and even borders\". [15] Following the Arab Spring, some Islamist currents became heavily involved in democratic politics, [15] [16] while others spawned \"the most aggressive and ambitious Islamist militia\" to date, ISIS. [15]\n2.2 Varieties\n2.3 Relation to Islam\n3.1 Moderate Islamism\n3.1.1 Post-Islamism\n3.2 Salafi movement\n3.2.1 Wahhabism\n3.3 Militant Islamism/Jihadism\n3.3.1 Qutbism\n3.3.2 Salafi Jihadism\n4.1 Predecessor movements\n4.2.1 Muhammad Iqbal\n4.2.2 Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi\n4.2.3 Muslim Brotherhood\n4.2.4 Sayyid Qutb\n4.3 Ascendance on international politics\n4.3.1 Six-Day War (1967)\n4.3.2 Iranian Revolution (1978\u20131979)\n4.3.3 Grand Mosque seizure (1979)\n4.3.4 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979\u20131989)\n4.3.5 Persian Gulf War (1990\u20131991)\n4.4 Rise of Islamism by country\n4.4.1 Afghanistan (Taliban)\n4.4.5 Egypt (Jihadism)\n4.4.6 Gaza (Hamas)\n4.5.2 Hizb ut-Tahrir\n4.5.3 Post-Arab Spring (2011-present)\n4.5.4 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\n5.2 Dissatisfaction with the status quo\n5.3 Identity politics\n5.4 Islamic revival\n5.5 State-sponsorship\n5.5.3 Western patronage\n5.6 Western alienation\n6.2 Counter-response\n7 Parties and organizations\nThe term Islamism, which originally denoted the religion of Islam, first appeared in the English language as Islamismus in 1696, and as Islamism in 1712. [17] The term appears in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in In Re Ross (1891). By the turn of the twentieth century the shorter and purely Arabic term \"Islam\" had begun to displaced it, and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Islamism seems to have virtually disappeared from English usage. [12] [18]\nThe term \"Islamism\" acquired its contemporary connotations in French academia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From French, it began to migrate to the English language in the mid-1980s, and in recent years has largely displaced the term Islamic fundamentalism in academic circles. [12]\nThe new use of the term \"Islamism\" at first functioned as \"a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize\" with new Islamic movements; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly-publicized acts of violence. [12]\n\"Islamists\" who have spoken out against the use of the term, insisting they are merely \"Muslims\", include Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935-2010), the spiritual mentor of Hizbullah, and Abbassi Madani (1931- ), leader of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. [12]\nA 2003 article in the Middle East Quarterly states:\nIn summation, the term Islamism enjoyed its first run, lasting from Voltaire to the First World War, as a synonym for Islam. Enlightened scholars and writers generally preferred it to Mohammedanism. Eventually both terms yielded to Islam, the Arabic name of the faith, and a word free of either pejorative or comparative associations. There was no need for any other term, until the rise of an ideological and political interpretation of Islam challenged scholars and commentators to come up with an alternative, to distinguish Islam as modern ideology from Islam as a faith... To all intents and purposes, Islamic fundamentalism and Islamism have become synonyms in contemporary American usage. [12]\nThe Council on American\u2013Islamic Relations complained in 2013 that the Associated Press's definition of \"Islamist\"\u2014a \"supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam [and] who view the Quran as a political model\"\u2014had become a pejorative shorthand for \"Muslims we don't like\". [19] Mansoor Moaddel, a sociologist at Eastern Michigan University, criticized it as \"not a good term\" because \"the use of the term Islamist does not capture the phenomena that is quite heterogeneous.\" [20]\nThe AP Stylebook entry for Islamist as of 2013 [update] read as follows: [21]\n\"An advocate or supporter of a political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam. Do not use as a synonym for Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals, who may or may not be Islamists. Where possible, be specific and use the name of militant affiliations: al-Qaida-linked, Hezbollah, Taliban, etc. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi.\"\nIslamism has been defined as:\n\"the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life\", [22]\na form of \"religionized politics\" and an instance of religious fundamentalism [23]\n\"political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam\" (from Associated Press's definition of \"Islamist\") [19]\n\"[the term 'Islamist' has become shorthand for] 'Muslims we don't like.'\" (from Council on American\u2013Islamic Relations's complaint about AP's earlier definition of Islamist) [19]\n\"a theocratic ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society by law\". ( Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist turned critic [24]). Subsequently, clarified to be \"the desire to impose any given interpretation of Islam on society\". [25]\n\"the [Islamic] ideology that guides society as a whole and that [teaches] law must be in conformity with the Islamic sharia\", [26]\na term \"used by outsiders to denote a strand of activity which they think justifies their misconception of Islam as something rigid and immobile, a mere tribal affiliation.\" [12] [27]\na movement so broad and flexible it reaches out to \"everything to everyone\" in Islam, making it \"unsustainable\". [28]\nan alternative social provider to the poor masses;\nan angry platform for the disillusioned young;\na loud trumpet-call announcing \"a return to the pure religion\" to those seeking an identity;\na \"progressive, moderate religious platform\" for the affluent and liberal;\n... and at the extremes, a violent vehicle for rejectionists and radicals. [28]\nan Islamic \"movement that seeks cultural differentiation from the West and reconnection with the pre-colonial symbolic universe\", [29]\n\"the organised political trend [...] that seeks to solve modern political problems by reference to Muslim texts [...] the whole body of thought which seeks to invest society with Islam which may be integrationist, but may also be traditionalist, reform-minded or even revolutionary\" [30]\n\"the active assertion and promotion of beliefs, prescriptions, laws or policies that are held to be Islamic in character,\" [9]\na movement of \"Muslims who draw upon the belief, symbols, and language of Islam to inspire, shape, and animate political activity;\" which may contain moderate, tolerant, peaceful activists or those who \"preach intolerance and espouse violence.\" [31]\n\"All who seek to Islamize their environment, whether in relation to their lives in society, their family circumstances, or the workplace, may be described as Islamists.\" [32]\nIslamism takes different forms and spans a wide range of strategies and tactics towards the powers in place\u2014\"destruction, opposition, collaboration, indifference\" [33] that have varied as \"circumstances have changed\" [34]\u2014and thus is not a united movement.\nModerate and reformist Islamists who accept and work within the democratic process include parties like the Tunisian Ennahda Movement. Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan is basically a socio-political and democratic Vanguard party but has also gained political influence through military coup d'\u00e9tats in the past. [33] Other Islamist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine participate in the democratic and political process as well as armed attacks. Jihadist organizations like al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and groups such as the Taliban, entirely reject democracy, often declaring as kuffar those Muslims who support it (see takfirism), as well as calling for violent/ offensive jihad or urging and conducting attacks on a religious basis.\nAnother major division within Islamism is between what Graham E. Fuller has described as the fundamentalist \"guardians of the tradition\" ( Salafis, such as those in the Wahhabi movement) and the \"vanguard of change and Islamic reform\" centered around the Muslim Brotherhood. [35] Olivier Roy argues that \"Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century\" when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its focus on Islamisation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on \"sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions,\" and rejection of Shia Islam. [36] Following the Arab Spring, Roy has described Islamism as \"increasingly interdependent\" with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world, such that \"neither can now survive without the other.\" While Islamist political culture itself may not be democratic, Islamists need democratic elections to maintain their legitimacy. At the same time, their popularity is such that no government can call itself democratic that excludes mainstream Islamist groups. [16]\nRelation to Islam\nFurther information: Political aspects of Islam\nThe relationship between the notions of Islam and Islamism has been subject to disagreement.\nHayri Abaza argues that the failure to distinguish between Islam and Islamism leads many in the West to support illiberal Islamic regimes, to the detriment of progressive moderates who seek to separate religion from politics. [37] In contrast, Abid Ullah Jan, writes \"If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not [just] Islam.\" [38] A writer for the International Crisis Group maintains that \"the conception of 'political Islam'\" is a creation of Americans to explain the Iranian Islamic Revolution and apolitical Islam was a historical fluke of the \"short-lived era of the heyday of secular Arab nationalism between 1945 and 1970\", and it is quietist/non-political Islam, not Islamism, that requires explanation. [39]\nAnother source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic \"by the fact that the latter refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium, whereas the first is a political/religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century\". Islamists have, at least at times, defined themselves as \"Islamiyyoun/Islamists\" to differentiate themselves from \"Muslimun/Muslims\". [40] Daniel Pipes describes Islamism as a modern ideology that owes more to European utopian political ideologies and \"isms\" than to the traditional Islamic religion. [41]\nFew observers contest the influence of Islamism within the Muslim world. [42] [43] [44] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, political movements based on the liberal ideology of free expression and democratic rule have led the opposition in other parts of the world such as Latin America, Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia; however \"the simple fact is that political Islam currently reigns as the most powerful ideological force across the Muslim world today\". [45] [46]\nPeople see the unchanging socioeconomic condition in the Muslim world as a major factor. Olivier Roy believes \"the socioeconomic realities that sustained the Islamist wave are still here and are not going to change: poverty, uprootedness, crises in values and identities, the decay of the educational systems, the North-South opposition, and the problem of immigrant integration into the host societies\". [47]\nThe strength of Islamism also draws from the strength of religiosity in general in the Muslim world. Compared to Western societies, \"[w]hat is striking about the Islamic world is that ... it seems to have been the least penetrated by irreligion\". [43] Where other peoples may look to the physical or social sciences for answers in areas which their ancestors regarded as best left to scripture, in the Muslim world, religion has become more encompassing, not less, as \"in the last few decades, it has been the fundamentalists who have increasingly represented the cutting edge\" of Muslim culture. [43]\nEven before the Arab Spring, Islamists in Egypt and other Muslim countries had been described as \"extremely influential. ... They determine how one dresses, what one eats. In these areas, they are incredibly successful. ... Even if the Islamists never come to power, they have transformed their countries.\" [48] Democratic, peaceful and political Islamists are now dominating the spectrum of Islamist ideology as well as the political system of the Muslim world. Moderate strains of Islamism have been described as \"competing in the democratic public square in places like Turkey, Tunisia, Malaysia and Indonesia\". [49]\nModerate Islamism\nSee also: Islamic democracy\nModerate Islamism is a term denoting the emerging Islamist discourses and movements which considered deviated from the traditional Islamist discourses of the mid-20th century. [50] Moderate Islamism is characterized by pragmatic participation within the existing constitutional and political framework, in the most cases democratic institution. [51] Moderate Islamists make up the majority of the contemporary Islamist movements. [13] From the philosophical perspective, their discourses are represented by reformation or reinterpretation of modern socio-political institutions and values imported from the West including democracy. [35] [52] This had led to the conception of Islamic form of such institutions, and Islamic interpretations are often attempted within this conception. In the example of democracy, Islamic democracy as an Islamized form of the system has been intellectually developed. In Islamic democracy, the concept of shura, the tradition of consultation which considered as Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad, is invoked to Islamically reinterpret and legitimatize the institution of democracy. [52] [53] [54]\nPerformance, goal, strategy, and outcome of moderate Islamist movements vary considerably depending on the country and its socio-political and historical context. In terms of performance, most of the Islamist political parties are oppositions. However, there are few examples they govern or obtain the substantial amount of the popular votes. This includes National Congress of Sudan, National Iraqi Alliance of Iraq and Justice and Development Party (PJD) of Morocco. Their goal also ranges widely. The Ennahda Movement of Tunisia [55] and Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) of Indonesia [56] formally resigned their vision of implementing sharia. In Morocco, PJD supported King Muhammad VI's Mudawana, a \"startlingly progressive family law\" which grants women the right to a divorce, raises the minimum age for marriage to 18, and, in the event of separation, stipulates equal distribution of property. [48] To the contrary, National Congress of Sudan has implemented the strict interpretation of sharia with the foreign support from the conservative states. [57] [58] Movements of the former category are also termed as Post-Islamism (see below). Their political outcome is interdependent with their goal and strategy, in which what analysts call \"inclusion-moderation theory\" is in effect. Inclusion-moderation theory assumes that the more lenient the Islamists become, the less likely their survival will be threatened. Similarly, the more accommodating the government be, the less extreme Islamists become. [59]\nModerate Islamism within the democratic institution is a relatively recent phenomenon. [51] Throughout the 80s and 90s, major moderate Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ennahda were excluded from democratic political participation. Islamist movements operated within the state framework were markedly scrutinized during the Algerian Civil War (1991-2002) and after the increase of terrorism in Egypt in the 90s. Reflecting on these failures, Islamists turned increasingly into revisionist and receptive to democratic procedures in the 21st century. [51] The possibility of accommodating this new wave of modernist Islamism has been explored among the Western intellectuals, with the concept such as Turkish model was proposed. The concept was inspired by the perceived success of Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan in harmonizing the Islamist principles within the secular state framework. [60] Turkish model, however, has been considered came \"unstuck\" after recent purge and violations of democratic principles by the Erdogan regime. [61] [62] Critics of the concept hold that Islamist aspirations are fundamentally incompatible with the democratic principles, thus even moderate Islamists are totalitarian in nature. As such, it requires strong constitutional checks and the effort of the mainstream Islam to detach political Islam from the public discourses. [63]\nMain article: Post-Islamism\nPost-Islamism is a term proposed by Iranian political sociologist Asef Bayat, referring to the Islamist movements which marked by the critical departure from the traditional Islamist discourses of the mid-20th century. [64]:4 Bayat explained it as \"a condition where, following a phase of experimentation, the appeal, energy, symbols and sources of legitimacy of Islamism get exhausted, even among its once-ardent supporters. As such, post-Islamism is not anti-Islamic, but rather reflects a tendency to resecularize religion.\" It originally pertained only to Iran, where \"post-Islamism is expressed in the idea of fusion between Islam (as a personalized faith) and individual freedom and choice; and post-Islamism is associated with the values of democracy and aspects of modernity\". [65]:45 A 2008 Lowy Institute for International Policy paper suggests that PKS of Indonesia and AKP of Turkey are post-Islamist. [66]:51, 76 The characterization can be applied to Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), [67] and used to describe the \"ideological evolution\" within the Ennahda of Tunisia. [68]\nSab'u Masajid, Saudi Arabia\nIdeology and influences\nAl-Sindhi\nIbn \u02bfAbd al-Wahhab\nFounders and key figures\nSyed Nazeer Husain\nSiddiq Hasan Khan\nList of Salafi scholars\nNotable universities\nTakfir wal-Higra\nMain article: Salafi movement\nThe contemporary Salafi movement encompasses a broad range of ultraconservative Islamist doctrines which share the reformist mission of Ibn Taymiyyah. From the perspective of political Islam, the Salafi movement can be broadly categorized into three groups; the quietist (or the purist), the activist (or haraki) and the jihadist ( Salafi jihadism, see below). The quietist school advocates for societal reform through religious education and proselytizing rather than political activism. The activist school, to the contrary, encourages political participation within the constitutional and political framework. The jihadist school is inspired by the ideology of Sayyid Qutb ( Qutbism, see below), and rejects the legitimacy of secular institutions and promotes the revolution in order to pave the way for the establishment of a new Caliphate. [69]\nThe quietist Salafi movement is stemming from the teaching of Nasiruddin Albani, who challenged the notion of taqlid (imitation, conformity to the legal precedent) as a blind adherence. As such, they alarm the political participation as potentially leading to the division of the Muslim community. [69] This school is exemplified by Madkhalism which based on the writings of Rabee al-Madkhali. [70] Madkhalism was originated in the 90s Saudi Arabia, as a reaction against the rise of the Salafi activism and the threat of Salafi Jihadism. It rejects any kind of opposition against the secular governance, [71] thus endorsed by the authoritarian governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the 90s. [72] The influence of the quietist school has waned significantly in the Middle East recently, [73] as the governments began incorporating Islamist factions emanating from the popular demand. [74] [75]\nThe politically active Salafi movement, Salafi activism or harakis, is based on the religious belief that endorses non-violent political activism in order to protect God's Divine governance. This means that politics is a field which requires Salafi principles to be applied as well, in the same manner with other aspects of society and life. [69] Salafi activism was originated in the 50s to 60s Saudi Arabia, where many Muslim Brothers had taken refuge from the prosecution by the Nasser regime. [76] There, Muslim Brothers' Islamism had synthesized with Salafism, and led to the creation of the Salafi activist trend exemplified by the Sahwa movement in the 80s, [69] promulgated by Safar Al-Hawali and Salman al-Ouda. Today, the school makes up the majority of Salafism. [77] There are many active Salafist political parties throughout the Muslim world, including Al Nour Party of Egypt, Al Islah of Yemen and Al Asalah of Bahrain.\nMain article: Wahhabism\nThe antecedent of the contemporary Salafi movement is Wahhabism, which traces back to the 18th-century reform movement in Najd by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Although having different roots, Wahhabism and Salafism are considered more or less merged in the 60s Saudi Arabia. [78] [79] [80] In the process, Salafism had been greatly influenced by Wahhabism, and today they share the similar religious outlook. [80] Wahhabism is also described as a Saudi brand of Salafism. [81] [82] From the political perspective, Wahhabism is marked in its teaching of bay'ah (oath to allegiance), which requires Muslims to present an allegiance to the ruler of the society. [83] Wahhabis have traditionally given their allegiance to the House of Saud, and this has made them apolitical in Saudi Arabia. [84] However, there are small numbers of other strains including Salafi Jihadist offshoot which decline to present an allegiance to the House of Saud. [84] [85] Wahhabism is also characterized by its disinterest in social justice, anticolonialism, or economic equality, expounded upon by the mainstream Islamists. [86] Historically, Wahhabism was state-sponsored and internationally propagated by Saudi Arabia with the help of funding from mainly Saudi petroleum exports, [87] leading to the \"explosive growth\" of its influence (and subsequently, the influence of Salafism) from the 70s (a phenomenon often dubbed as Petro-Islam). [88] Today, both Wahhabism and Salafism exert their influence worldwide, and they have been indirectly contributing to the upsurge of Salafi Jihadism as well. [88]\nMartyrdom video\nNotable jihadist organisations\nJihadism in the East\nEast Turkestan Islamic Movement\nMoro insurgency in the Philippines\nJihadism in the West\nJihadist extremism in the United States\nForeign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War\nIslamism in the United Kingdom\nMain article: Jihadism\nSee also: Islamic terrorism and Islamic extremism\nMain article: Qutbism\nQutbism is an ideology formulated by Sayyid Qutb, an influential figure of the Muslim Brotherhood during the 50s and 60s, which justifies the use of violence in order to push the Islamist goals. [89] Qutbism is marked by the two distinct methodological concepts; one is takfirism, which in the context of Qutbism, indicates the excommunication of fellow Muslims who are deemed equivalent to apostate, [90] and another is \" offensive Jihad\", a concept which promotes violence in the name of Islam against the perceived kuffar (infidels). [91] Based on the two concepts, Qutbism promotes engagement against the state apparatus in order to topple down its regime. Fusion of Qutbism and Salafi Movement had resulted in the development of Salafi jihadism (see below). [92]\nQutbism is considered a product of the extreme repression experienced by Qutb and his fellow Muslim Brothers under the Nasser regime, which was resulted from the 1954 Muslim Brothers plot to assassinate Nasser. During the repression, thousands of Muslim Brothers were imprisoned, many of them, including Qutb, tortured and held in concentration camps. [76] Under this condition, Qutb had cultivated his Islamist ideology in his seminal work Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq (Milestones), in which he equated the Muslims within the Nasser regime with secularism and the West, and described them as regression back to jahiliyyah (period of time before the advent of Islam). [93] In this context, he allowed the tafkir (which was an unusual practice before the rejuvenation by Qutb) [94] of said Muslims. [90] Although Qutb was executed before the completion of his ideology, [93] his idea was disseminated and continuously expanded by the later generations, among them Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who was a student of Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and later became a mentor of Osama bin Laden. [95] [96] Al-Zawahiri was considered \"the purity of Qutb's character and the torment he had endured in prison,\" and had played an extensive role in the normalization of offensive Jihad within the Qutbist discourse. [97] Both al-Zawahiri and bin Laden had become the core of Jihadist movements which exponentially developed in the backdrop of the late 20th-century geopolitical crisis throughout the Muslim world.\nMain article: Salafi jihadism\nSalafi jihadism is a term coined by Gilles Kepel in 2002, referring to the ideology which actively promotes and conducts violence and terrorism in order to pursue the establishment of an Islamic state or a new Caliphate. [98] [99] Today, the term is often simplified to Jihadism or Jihadist movement in popular usage according to Martin Kramer. [100] It is a hybrid ideology between Qutbism, Salafism, Wahhabism and other minor Islamist strains. [92] [101] Qutbism taught by scholars like Abdullah Azzam provided the political intellectual underpinnings with the concepts like takfirism, and Salafism and Wahhabism provided the religious intellectual input. [92] [note 1] Salafi Jihadism makes up a tiny minority of the contemporary Islamist movements. [103]\nIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, Syria, 2014\nDistinct characteristics of Salafi Jihadism noted by Robin Wright include the formal process of taking bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to the leader, which is inspired by the Wahhabi teaching. [104] Another characteristic is its flexibility to cut ties with the less-popular movements when its strategically or financially convenient, exemplified by the relations between al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front. [104] Other marked developments of Salafi Jihadism include the concepts of \"near enemy\" and \"far enemy\". \"Near enemy\" connotes the despotic regime occupying the Muslim society, and the term was coined by Mohammed Abdul-Salam Farag in order to justify the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat by the Salafi Jihadi organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) in 1981. [105] Later, the concept of \"far enemy\" which connotes the West was introduced and formally declared by al-Qaeda in 1996. [105] [106]\nSalafi Jihadism emerged out during the 80s when the Soviet invaded Afghanistan. [107] Local mujahideen had extracted financial, logistical and military support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States. Later, Osama bin Laden established al-Qaeda as a transnational Salafi Jihadi organization in 1988 to capitalize this financial, logistical and military network and to expand their operation. [107] The ideology had seen its rise during the 90s when the Muslim world experienced numerous geopolitical crisis, [107] notably the Algerian Civil War (1991\u20132002), Bosnian War (1992\u20131995), and the First Chechen War (1994\u20131996). Within these conflicts, political Islam often acted as a mobilizing factor for the local belligerents, who demanded financial, logistical and military support from al-Qaeda, in the exchange for active proliferation of the ideology. [107] After the 1998 bombings of US embassies, September 11 attacks (2001), the US-led invasion of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), Salafi Jihadism had seen its momentum. However, it got devastated by the US counterterrorism operations, culminated in bin Laden's death in 2011. [107] After the Arab Spring (2011) and subsequent Syrian Civil War (2011\u2013present), the remnants of al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq had restored their capacity, which rapidly developed into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, spreading its influence throughout the conflict zones of MENA region and the globe.\nSome Islamic revivalist movements and leaders pre-dating Islamism include:\nAhmad Sirhindi (~1564\u20131624) was part of a reassertion of orthodoxy within Islamic Mysticism (Ta\u1e63awwuf) and was known to his followers as the 'renovator of the second millennium'. It has been said of Sirhindi that he 'gave to Indian Islam the rigid and conservative stamp it bears today.' [108] [109] [110]\nIbn Taymiyyah, a Syrian Islamic jurist during the 13th and 14th centuries who is often quoted by contemporary Islamists. Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, was against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday, and \"he believed that those who ask assistance from the grave of the Prophet or saints, are mushrikin (polytheists), someone who is engaged in shirk.\" [111]\nShah Waliullah of India and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab of Arabia were contemporaries who met each other while studying in Mecca. Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab advocated doing away with the later accretions like grave worship and getting back to the letter and the spirit of Islam as preached and practiced by Muhammad. He went on to found Wahhabism. Shah Waliullah was a forerunner of reformist Islamists like Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Asad in his belief that there was \"a constant need for new ijtihad as the Muslim community progressed and expanded and new generations had to cope with new problems\" and his interest in the social and economic problems of the poor. [112]\nSayyid Ahmad Barelvi was a disciple and successor of Shah Waliullah's son who emphasized the 'purification' of Islam from un-Islamic beliefs and practices. He anticipated modern militant Islamists by leading an extremist, jihadist movement and attempted to create an Islamic state based on the enforcement of Islamic law. While he battled Sikh fundamentalist rule in Muslim-majority North-Western India, his followers fought against British colonialism after his death and allied themselves with the Indian Mutiny. [113]\nAfter the failure of the Indian Mutiny, some of Shah Waliullah's followers turned to more peaceful methods for preserving India's Islamic heritage and founded the Dar al-Ulum seminary in 1867 in the town of Deoband. From the school developed the Deobandi movement which became the largest philosophical movement of traditional Islamic thought on the subcontinent and led to the establishment of thousands of madrasahs throughout modern-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. [114]\nThe end of the 19th century saw the dismemberment of most of the Muslim Ottoman Empire by non-Muslim European colonial powers. [115] The empire spent massive sums on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers, and in the process went deep into debt to these powers.\nIn this context, the publications of Jamal ad-din al-Afghani (1837\u201397), Muhammad Abduh (1849\u20131905) and Rashid Rida (1865\u20131935) preached Islamic alternatives to the political, economic, and cultural decline of the empire. [116] Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida formed the beginning of the Islamist movement, [117] [118] [119] [120] as well as the reformist Islamist movement.\nTheir ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, which they believed deviated from the true messages of Islam. [121] Unlike some later Islamists, Early Salafiyya strongly emphasized the restoration of the Caliphate. [122]\nMain article: Muhammad Iqbal\nSee also: Two-nation theory\nMuhammad Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and politician [123] in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Islamic Nationalism and Pakistan Movement in British India. [123] [124] [125] Iqbal is admired as a prominent classical poet by Pakistani, Iranian, Indian and other international scholars of literature. [126] [127] Though Iqbal is best known as an eminent poet, he is also a highly acclaimed \"Islamic philosophical thinker of modern times\". [123] [127]\nWhile studying law and philosophy in England and Germany, Iqbal became a member of the London branch of the All India Muslim League. [127] He came back to Lahore in 1908. While dividing his time between law practice and philosophical poetry, Iqbal had remained active in the Muslim League. He did not support Indian involvement in World War I and remained in close touch with Muslim political leaders such as Muhammad Ali Johar and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He was a critic of the mainstream Indian nationalist and secularist Indian National Congress. Iqbal's seven English lectures were published by Oxford University press in 1934 in a book titled The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. [128] These lectures dwell on the role of Islam as a religion as well as a political and legal philosophy in the modern age. [128]\nIqbal expressed fears that not only would secularism and secular nationalism weaken the spiritual foundations of Islam and Muslim society, but that India's Hindu-majority population would crowd out Muslim heritage, culture and political influence. In his travels to Egypt, Afghanistan, Palestine and Syria, he promoted ideas of greater Islamic political co-operation and unity, calling for the shedding of nationalist differences. Sir Mummad Iqbal was elected president of the Muslim League in 1930 at its session in Allahabad as well as for the session in Lahore in 1932. In his Allahabad Address on 29 December 1930, Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India. This address later inspired the Pakistan movement.\nThe thoughts and vision of Iqbal later influenced many reformist Islamists, e.g., Muhammad Asad, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and Ali Shariati.\nSayyid Abul Ala Maududi\nPainting of Abul Ala Maududi\nMain article: Abul Ala Maududi\nSee also: Jamaat-e-Islami\nSayyid Abul Ala Maududi [129] [130] was an important early twentieth-century figure in the Islamic revival in India, and then after independence from Britain, in Pakistan. Trained as a lawyer he chose the profession of journalism, and wrote about contemporary issues and most importantly about Islam and Islamic law. Maududi founded the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and remained its leader until 1972. However, Maududi had much more impact through his writing than through his political organising. His extremely influential books (translated into many languages) placed Islam in a modern context, and influenced not only conservative ulema but liberal modernizer Islamists such as al-Faruqi, whose \" Islamization of Knowledge\" carried forward some of Maududi's key principles.\nMaududi believed that Islam was all-encompassing: \"Everything in the universe is 'Muslim' for it obeys God by submission to His laws... The man who denies God is called Kafir (concealer) because he conceals by his disbelief what is inherent in his nature and embalmed in his own soul.\" [131]\nMaududi also believed that Muslim society could not be Islamic without Sharia, and Islam required the establishment of an Islamic state. This state should be a \"theo-democracy,\" [132] based on the principles of: tawhid (unity of God), risala (prophethood) and khilafa (caliphate). [133] [134] [135] Although Maududi talked about Islamic revolution, [136] by \"revolution\" he meant not the violence or populist policies of the Iranian Revolution, but the gradual changing the hearts and minds of individuals from the top of society downward through an educational process or da'wah. [137] [138]\nMain article: Muslim Brotherhood\nRoughly contemporaneous with Maududi was the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailiyah, Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al Banna. His was arguably the first, largest and most influential modern Islamic political/religious organization. Under the motto \"the Qur'an is our constitution,\" [139] it sought Islamic revival through preaching and also by providing basic community services including schools, mosques, and workshops. Like Maududi, Al Banna believed in the necessity of government rule based on Shariah law implemented gradually and by persuasion, and of eliminating all imperialist influence in the Muslim world. [140]\nSome elements of the Brotherhood, though perhaps against orders, did engage in violence against the government, and its founder Al-Banna was assassinated in 1949 in retaliation for the assassination of Egypt's premier Mahmud Fami Naqrashi three months earlier. [141] The Brotherhood has suffered periodic repression in Egypt and has been banned several times, in 1948 and several years later following confrontations with Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser, who jailed thousands of members for several years.\nDespite periodic repression, the Brotherhood has become one of the most influential movements in the Islamic world, [142] particularly in the Arab world. For many years it was described as \"semi-legal\" [143] and was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections. [144] In the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011\u20132012, the political parties identified as \"Islamist\" (the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Salafi Al-Nour Party and liberal Islamist Al-Wasat Party) won 75% of the total seats. [145] Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist of Muslim Brotherhood, was the first democratically elected president of Egypt. He was deposed during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'\u00e9tat.\nMain article: Sayyid Qutb\nSee also: Qutbism and Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq\nMaududi's political ideas influenced Sayyid Qutb a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and one of the key philosophers of Islamism and highly influential thinkers of Islamic universalism. [146] Qutb believed things had reached such a state that the Muslim community had literally ceased to exist. It \"has been extinct for a few centuries,\" [147] having reverted to Godless ignorance ( Jahiliyya).\nTo eliminate jahiliyya, Qutb argued Sharia, or Islamic law, must be established. Sharia law was not only accessible to humans and essential to the existence of Islam, but also all-encompassing, precluding \"evil and corrupt\" non-Islamic ideologies like communism, nationalism, or secular democracy.\nQutb preached that Muslims must engage in a two-pronged attack of converting individuals through preaching Islam peacefully and also waging what he called militant jihad so as to forcibly eliminate the \"power structures\" of Jahiliyya\u2014not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the earth.\nQutb was both a member of the brotherhood and enormously influential in the Muslim world at large. Qutb is considered by some (Fawaz A. Gerges) to be \"the founding father and leading theoretician\" of modern jihadists, such as Osama bin Laden. [148] [149] However, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in Europe has not embraced his vision of undemocratic Islamic state and armed jihad, something for which they have been denounced by radical Islamists. [150]\nAscendance on international politics\nMain article: Six-Day War\nThe quick and decisive defeat of the Arab troops during the Six-Day War by Israeli troops constituted a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world. The defeat along with economic stagnation in the defeated countries, was blamed on the secular Arab nationalism of the ruling regimes. A steep and steady decline in the popularity and credibility of secular, socialist and nationalist politics ensued. Ba'athism, Arab socialism, and Arab nationalism suffered, and different democratic and anti-democratic Islamist movements inspired by Maududi and Sayyid Qutb gained ground. [151]\nIranian Revolution (1978\u20131979)\nMain article: History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran\nSee also: Iranian Revolution and Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists\nThe first modern \"Islamist state\" (with the possible exception of Zia's Pakistan) [152] was established among the Shia of Iran. In a major shock to the rest of the world, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Iranian Revolution of 1979 in order to overthrow the oil-rich, well-armed, Westernized and pro-American secular monarchy ruled by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.\nThe views of Ali Shariati, the ideologue of the Iranian Revolution, resembled those of Mohammad Iqbal, the ideological father of the State of Pakistan, but Khomeini's beliefs are perceived to be placed somewhere between the beliefs of Shia Islam and the beliefs of Sunni Islamic thinkers like Mawdudi and Qutb. He believed that complete imitation of the Prophet Mohammad and his successors such as Ali for the restoration of Sharia law was essential to Islam, that many secular, Westernizing Muslims were actually agents of the West and therefore serving Western interests, and that acts such as the \"plundering\" of Muslim lands was part of a long-term conspiracy against Islam by Western governments. [153]\nHis views differed from those of Sunni scholars in:\nAs a Shia, Khomeini looked to Ali ibn Ab\u012b T\u0101lib and Husayn ibn Ali Imam, but not Caliphs Abu Bakr, Omar or Uthman.\nKhomeini talked not about restoring the Caliphate or Sunni Islamic democracy, but about establishing a state where the guardianship of the democratic or the dictatorial political system was performed by Shia jurists ( ulama) as the successors of Shia Imams until the Mahdi returns from occultation. His concept of velayat-e-faqih (\"guardianship of the [Islamic] jurist\"), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society\u2014which Khomeini's mass of followers believed and chose to be himself\u2014should serve as the supervisor of the state in order to protect or \"guard\" Islam and Sharia law from \"innovation\" and \"anti-Islamic laws\" passed by dictators or democratic parliaments. [153]\nThe revolution was influenced by Marxism through Islamist thought and also by writings that sought either to counter Marxism ( Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr's work) or to integrate socialism and Islamism ( Ali Shariati's work). A strong wing of the revolutionary leadership was made up of leftists or \"radical populists\", such as Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur. [154]\nWhile initial enthusiasm for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world was intense, it has waned as critics hold and campaign that \"purges, executions, and atrocities tarnished its image\". [155]\nThe Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia terrorist groups in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan ( SCIRI) [156] [157] and Lebanon ( Hezbollah) [158] (two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations). During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni \" Arab street,\" [159] due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish. [160]\nGrand Mosque seizure (1979)\nFurther information: Grand Mosque seizure\nThe strength of the Islamist movement was manifest in an event which might have seemed sure to turn Muslim public opinion against fundamentalism, but did just the opposite. In 1979 the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia was seized by an armed fundamentalist group and held for over a week. Scores were killed, including many pilgrim bystanders [161] in a gross violation of one of the most holy sites in Islam (and one where arms and violence are strictly forbidden). [162] [163]\nInstead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions. Crackdowns followed on everything from shopkeepers who did not close for prayer and newspapers that published pictures of women, to the selling of dolls, teddy bears (images of animate objects are considered haraam), and dog food (dogs are considered unclean). [164]\nIn other Muslim countries, blame for and wrath against the seizure was directed not against fundamentalists, but against Islamic fundamentalism's foremost geopolitical enemy\u2014the United States. Ayatollah Khomeini sparked attacks on American embassies when he announced:\nIt is not beyond guessing that this is the work of criminal American imperialism and international Zionism\ndespite the fact that the object of the fundamentalists' revolt was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, America's major ally in the region. Anti-American demonstrations followed in the Philippines, Turkey, Bangladesh, India, the UAE, Pakistan, and Kuwait. The US Embassy in Libya was burned by protesters chanting pro-Khomeini slogans and the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was burned to the ground. [165]\nSoviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979\u20131989)\nIn 1979, the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan, attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War. The conflict, pitting indigenous impoverished Muslims ( mujahideen) against an anti-religious superpower, galvanized thousands of Muslims around the world to send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith. Leading this pan-Islamic effort was Palestinian sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. While the military effectiveness of these \" Afghan Arabs\" was marginal, an estimated 16,000 [166] to 35,000 Muslim volunteers [167] came from around the world to fight in Afghanistan. [167] [168]\nWhen the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 (the regime finally fell in 1992), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.\nThe jihadists gained legitimacy and prestige from their triumph both within the militant community and among ordinary Muslims, as well as the confidence to carry their jihad to other countries where they believed Muslims required assistance.| [169]\nThe \"veterans of the guerrilla campaign\" returning home to Algeria, Egypt, and other countries \"with their experience, ideology, and weapons,\" were often eager to continue armed jihad.\nThe collapse of the Soviet Union itself, in 1991, was seen by many Islamists, including Bin Laden, as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam. Concerning the $6 billion in aid given by the US and Pakistan's military training and intelligence support to the mujahideen, [170] bin Laden wrote: \"[T]he US has no mentionable role\" in \"the collapse of the Soviet Union ... rather the credit goes to God and the mujahidin\" of Afghanistan. [171]\nPersian Gulf War (1990\u20131991)\nAnother factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait. Prior to 1990 Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining the many Islamist groups that received its aid. But when Saddam, secularist and Ba'athist dictator of neighboring Iraq, attacked Saudi Arabia (his enemy in the war), western troops came to protect the Saudi monarchy. Islamists accused the Saudi regime of being a puppet of the west.\nThese attacks resonated with conservative Muslims and the problem did not go away with Saddam's defeat either, since American troops remained stationed in the kingdom, and a de facto cooperation with the Palestinian-Israeli peace process developed. Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it (bin Laden being a prime example), and increasing aid to Islamic groups (Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups) that did not, but its pre-war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced. [172] One result of this was a campaign of attacks on government officials and tourists in Egypt, a bloody civil war in Algeria and Osama bin Laden's terror attacks climaxing in the 9/11 attack. [173]\nRise of Islamism by country\nAfghanistan (Taliban)\nFlag of the Taliban\nMain article: Taliban\nIn Afghanistan, the mujahideen's victory against the Soviet Union in the 1980s did not lead to justice and prosperity, due to a vicious and destructive civil war between political and tribal warlords, making Afghanistan one of the poorest countries on earth. In 1992, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ruled by communist forces collapsed, and democratic Islamist elements of mujahdeen founded the Islamic State of Afghanistan. In 1996, a more conservative and anti-democratic Islamist movement known as the Taliban rose to power, defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80% of Afghanistan.\nThe Taliban were spawned by the thousands of madrasahs the Deobandi movement established for impoverished Afghan refugees and supported by governmental and religious groups in neighboring Pakistan. [174] The Taliban differed from other Islamist movements to the point where they might be more properly described as Islamic fundamentalist or neofundamentalist, interested in spreading \"an idealized and systematized version of conservative tribal village customs\" under the label of Sharia to an entire country. [175] Their ideology was also described as being influenced by Wahhabism, and the extremist jihadism of their guest Osama bin Laden. [176] [177]\nThe Taliban considered \"politics\" to be against Sharia and thus did not hold elections. They were led by Mullah Mohammed Omar who was given the title \" Amir al-Mu'minin\" or Commander of the Faithful, and a pledge of loyalty by several hundred Taliban-selected Pashtun clergy in April 1996. Taliban were overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60% of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups. (see: Taliban#Ideology) [178]\nThe Taliban's hosting of Osama bin Laden led to an American-organized attack which drove them from power following the 9/11 attacks. [179] Taliban are still very much alive and fighting a vigorous insurgency with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO and Afghan government targets.\nSee also: Algerian Civil War and List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s\nThe FIS emblem\nAn Islamist movement influenced by Salafism and the jihad in Afghanistan, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, was the FIS or Front Islamique de Salut (the Islamic Salvation Front) in Algeria. Founded as a broad Islamist coalition in 1989 it was led by Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic Islamist young preacher, Ali Belhadj. Taking advantage of economic failure and unpopular social liberalization and secularization by the ruling leftist-nationalist FLN government, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, economic liberalization and development program, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men. The FIS won sweeping victories in local elections and it was going to win national elections in 1991 when voting was canceled by a military coup d'\u00e9tat.\nAs Islamists took up arms to overthrow the government, the FIS's leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerrilla groups, particularly the Islamic Salvation Army, MIA and Armed Islamic Group (or GIA). A bloody and devastating civil war ensued in which between 150,000 and 200,000 people were killed over the next decade.\nThe civil war was not a victory for Islamists. By 2002 the main guerrilla groups had either been destroyed or had surrendered. The popularity of Islamist parties has declined to the point that \"the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5% of the vote\" in the 2004 presidential election. [180]\nJamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh is the largest Islamist party in the country and supports the implementation of Sharia law and promotes the country's main right-wing politics. Since 2000, the main political opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been allied with it and another Islamic party, Islami Oikya Jote. Some of their leaders and supporters, including former ministers and MPs, have been hanged for alleged war crimes during Bangladesh's struggle for independence and speaking against the ruling Bangladesh Awami League. [181]\nIn the 2012, the party named Islam had four candidates and they were elected in Molenbeek and Anderlecht. [182] In 2018, they candidated in 28 municipalities. Its policies include schools must offer halal food and women must be able to wear a headscarf anywhere. [183]\nEgypt (Jihadism)\nMain article: Islamic extremism in the 20th-century Egypt\nWhile Qutb's ideas became increasingly radical during his imprisonment prior to his execution in 1966, the leadership of the Brotherhood, led by Hasan al-Hudaybi, remained moderate and interested in political negotiation and activism. Fringe or splinter movements inspired by the final writings of Qutb in the mid-1960s (particularly the manifesto Milestones, a.k.a. Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq) did, however, develop and they pursued a more radical direction. [184] By the 1970s, the Brotherhood had renounced violence as a means of achieving its goals.\nThe path of violence and military struggle was then taken up by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements the extremist group directed its attacks against what it believed were \"apostate\" leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western/foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies. Its views were outlined in a pamphlet written by Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Farag, in which he states:\n...there is no doubt that the first battlefield for jihad is the extermination of these infidel leaders and to replace them by a complete Islamic Order...\nAnother of the Egyptian groups which employed violence in their struggle for Islamic order was al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group). Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter-terrorism police (Major General Raouf Khayrat), a parliamentary speaker ( Rifaat al-Mahgoub), dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police. [185] Ultimately the campaign to overthrow the government was unsuccessful, and the major jihadi group, Jamaa Islamiya (or al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya), renounced violence in 2003. [186] Other lesser known groups include the Islamic Liberation Party, Salvation from Hell and Takfir wal-Hijra, and these groups have variously been involved in activities such as attempted assassinations of political figures, arson of video shops and attempted takeovers of government buildings. [187]\nGaza (Hamas)\nThe Hamas flag\nHamas is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that governs the Gaza Strip where it has moved to establish sharia law in matters such as separation of the genders, using the lash for punishment, and Islamic dress code. [188] [189] Hamas also has a military resistance wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. [190]\nFor some decades prior to the First Palestine Intifada in 1987, [191] the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine took a \"quiescent\" stance towards Israel, [192] focusing on preaching, education and social services, and benefiting from Israel's \"indulgence\" to build up a network of mosques and charitable organizations. [193] As the First Intifada gathered momentum and Palestinian shopkeepers closed their shops in support of the uprising, the Brotherhood announced the formation of HAMAS (\"zeal\"), devoted to Jihad against Israel. Rather than being more moderate than the PLO, the 1988 Hamas charter took a more uncompromising stand, calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in Palestine. [194] It was soon competing with and then overtaking the PLO for control of the intifada. The Brotherhood's base of devout middle class found common cause with the impoverished youth of the intifada in their cultural conservatism and antipathy for activities of the secular middle class such as drinking alcohol and going about without hijab. [195]\nHamas has continued to be a major player in Palestine. From 2000 to 2007 it killed 542 people in 140 suicide bombing or \"martyrdom operations\". [194] In the January 2006 legislative election\u2014its first foray into the political process\u2014it won the majority of the seats, [194] and in 2007 it drove the PLO out of Gaza. Hamas has been praised by Muslims for driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip, [194] but criticized for failure to achieve its demands in the 2008\u201309 and 2014 Gaza Wars despite heavy destruction and significant loss of life. [196]\nSee also: Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization and Objectives Resolution\nEarly in the history of the state of Pakistan (12 March 1949), a parliamentary resolution (the Objectives Resolution) was adopted in accordance with the vision of founding fathers of Pakistan ( Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan). [197] proclaiming:\nSovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust.\nThe State shall exercise its powers and authority through the elected representatives of the people.\nThe principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed.\nMuslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings of Islam as set out in the Quran and Sunnah.\nProvision shall be made for the religious minorities to freely profess and practice their religions and develop their cultures.\nThis resolution later became a key source of inspiration for writers of the Constitution of Pakistan, and is included in the constitution as preamble.\nIn July 1977, General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's regime in Pakistan. Ali Bhutto, a leftist in democratic competition with Islamists, had announced banning alcohol and nightclubs within six months, shortly before he was overthrown. [198] Zia-ul-Haq was much more committed to Islamism, and \" Islamization\" or implementation of Islamic law, became a cornerstone of his eleven-year military dictatorship and Islamism became his \"official state ideology\". Zia ul Haq was an admirer of Mawdudi and Mawdudi's party Jamaat-e-Islami became the \"regime's ideological and political arm\". [199] In Pakistan this Islamization from above was \"probably\" more complete \"than under any other regime except those in Iran and Sudan,\" but Zia-ul-Haq was also criticized by many Islamists for imposing \"symbols\" rather than substance, and using Islamization to legitimize his means of seizing power. [200] Unlike neighboring Iran, Zia-ul-Haq's policies were intended to \"avoid revolutionary excess\", and not to strain relations with his American and Persian Gulf state allies. [201] Zia-ul-Haq was killed in 1988 but Islamization remains an important element in Pakistani society.\nMain articles: National Islamic Front and National Congress (Sudan)\nFor many years, Sudan had an Islamist regime under the leadership of Hassan al-Turabi. His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979. Turabi built a powerful economic base with money from foreign Islamist banking systems, especially those linked with Saudi Arabia. He also recruited and built a cadre of influential loyalists by placing sympathetic students in the university and military academy while serving as minister of education. [58]\nAfter al-Nimeiry was overthrown in 1985 the party did poorly in national elections, but in 1989 it was able to overthrow the elected post-al-Nimeiry government with the help of the military. Turabi was noted for proclaiming his support for the democratic process and a liberal government before coming to power, but strict application of sharia law, torture and mass imprisonment of the opposition, [57] and an intensification of the long-running war in southern Sudan, [202] once in power. The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time (before 9/11), and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.\nAfter Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a poor country, and Turabi fell from favor. [203] He was imprisoned for a time in 2004\u201305. Some of the NIF policies, such as the war with the non-Muslim south, have been reversed, though the National Islamic Front still holds considerable power in the government of Omar al-Bashir and National Congress Party, another Islamist party in country.\nThe neutrality of this section is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. (July 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nNecmettin Erbakan, was the first Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey elected in 1996, but was removed from power by a \"postmodern coup d'\u00e9tat\" in 1997.\nTurkey had a number of Islamist parties, often changing names as they were banned by the constitutional court for anti-secular activities. Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) was the leader of several of the parties, the National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi, 1970\u20131971), the National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi, 1972\u20131981), and the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi, 1983-1998); he also became a member of the Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi, 2003\u20132011).\nThe Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has dominated Turkish politics since 2002, is sometimes described as Islamist, but rejects such classification. [204]\nVarious Islamist political groups are dominant forces in the political systems of Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. [205]\nThe Green Algeria Alliance is an Islamist coalition of political parties, created for the legislative election of 2012 in Algeria. It includes the Movement of Society for Peace (Hamas), Islamic Renaissance Movement (Ennahda) and the Movement for National Reform (Islah). [206] The alliance is led by Bouguerra Soltani of Hamas. [207] However, the incumbent coalition, comprising the FLN of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the RND of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, held on to power after winning a majority of seats, and the Islamist parties of the Green Algeria Alliance lost seats in the legislative election of 2012. [208] [209]\nShia Islamist Al Wefaq, Salafi Islamist Al Asalah and Sunni Islamist Al-Menbar Islamic Society are dominant democratic forces in Bahrain. [210]\nIn Indonesia, Prosperous Justice Party is the major Islamist political party in the country's democratic process. [211] [212] [213]\nIslamic Action Front is Jordan's Islamist political party and largest democratic political force in the country. The IAF's survival in Jordan is primarily due to its flexibility and less radical approach to politics. [214]\nHadas or \"Islamic Constitutional Movement\" is Kuwait's Sunni Islamist party.\nIslamic Group (Lebanon) is a Sunni Islamist political party in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a Shia Islamist political party in Lebanon. [215]\nThe Justice and Construction Party is the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm in Libya and the second largest political force in the country. [216] [217] [218] The National Forces Alliance, the largest political group in country, doesn't believe the country should be run entirely by Sharia law or secular]] law, but does hold that Sharia should be \"the main inspiration for legislation.\" Party leader Jibril has said the NFA is a moderate Islamic moveme that recognises the importance of Islam in political life and favours Sharia as the basis of the law. [219]\nThe Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party is a major opposition party in Malaysia which espouses Islamism. [220][ third-party source needed]\nThe Justice and Development Party (Morocco) is the ruling party in Morocco since 29 November 2011, advocating Islamism and Islamic democracy. [221] [222]\nThe Muslim Brotherhood of Syria is a Sunni Islamist force in Syria and very loosely affiliated to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. It has also been called the \"dominant group\" or \"dominant force\" in the Arab Spring uprising in Syria. [223] The group's stated political positions are moderate and in its most recent April 2012 manifesto it \"pledges to respect individual rights\", to promote pluralism and democracy. [224]\nThe Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan is Tajikistan's Islamist party and main opposition and democratic force in the country. [225]\nThe Ennahda Movement, also known as Renaissance Party or simply Ennahda, is a moderate Islamist political party in Tunisia. [226] [227] [228] [229] On 1 March 2011, after the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali collapsed in the wake of the 2011 Tunisian revolution, Tunisia's interim government granted the group permission to form a political party. Since then it has become the biggest and most well-organized party in Tunisia, so far outdistancing its more secular competitors. In the Tunisian Constituent Assembly election of 2011, the first honest election in the country's history with a turnout of 51% of all eligible voters, the party won 37% of the popular vote and 89 (41%) of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. [230] [231] [232] [233] [234]\nEastern Africa has become a hotbed of violent Islamic extremism since the late 1990s, one of the relevant movements being al-Shabaab, active in Somalia and Kenya, which emerged in response to the 2006\u201309 Ethiopian intervention in Somalia. [235]\nWest Africa has seen the rise of influential Islamic extremist organizations, notably Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali. [236]\nMain article: Hizb ut-Tahrir\nHizb ut-Tahrir is an influential international Islamist movement, founded in 1953 by an Islamic Qadi (judge) Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on implementation of Sharia on local level or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.\nTo this end it has drawn up and published a 186-article constitution for its proposed caliphate-state specifying specific policies such as sharia law, a \"unitary ruling system\" headed by a caliph elected by Muslims, an economy based on the gold standard, public ownership of utilities, public transport, and energy resources, death for apostates and Arabic as the \"sole language of the State.\" [237] [238]\nIn its focus on the Caliphate, the party takes a different view of Muslim history than some other Islamists such as Muhammad Qutb. HT sees Islam's pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali, or one of the other four rightly guided Caliphs in the 7th century, but with the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924. This is believed to have ended the true Islamic system, something for which it blames \"the disbelieving (Kafir) colonial powers\" working through Turkish modernist Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk. [239]\nHT does not engage in armed jihad or work for a democratic system, but works to take power through \"ideological struggle\" to change Muslim public opinion, and in particular through elites who will \"facilitate\" a \"change of the government,\" i.e., launch a \"bloodless\" coup. It allegedly attempted and failed such coups in 1968 and 1969 in Jordan, and in 1974 in Egypt, and is now banned in both countries. [240]\nThe party is sometimes described as \"Leninist\" and \"rigidly controlled by its central leadership,\" [241] with its estimated one million members required to spend \"at least two years studying party literature under the guidance of mentors ( Murshid)\" before taking \"the party oath.\" [241] HT is particularly active in the ex-soviet republics of Central Asia and in Europe.\nIn the UK its rallies have drawn thousands of Muslims, [242] and the party has been described by two observers (Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke) to have outpaced the Muslim Brotherhood in both membership and radicalism. [243]\nPost-Arab Spring (2011-present)\nOne observer (Quinn Mecham) notes four trends in Islamism rising from the Arab Spring of 2010-11:\nThe repression of the Muslim Brotherhood. Primarily by the Egyptian military and courts following the forcible removal of Morsi from office in 2013; but also by Saudi Arabia and a number of Gulf countries (not Qatar). [244] [245]\nRise of Islamist \" state-building\" where \"state failure\" has taken place\u2014most prominently in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Islamists have found it easier than competing non-Islamists trying to fill the void of state failure, by securing external funding, weaponry and fighters\u2014\"many of which have come from abroad and have rallied around a pan-Islamic identity\". The norms of governance in these Islamist areas are militia-based, and the population submit to their authority out of fear, loyalty, other reasons, or some combination. [244] The \"most expansive\" of these new \"models\" is the Islamic State. [244]\nIncreasing sectarianism at least in part from Proxy Wars. Fighters are proxies primarily for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and for Iran. Islamists are fighting Islamists across sectarian lines in Lebanon (Sunni militants targeting Hezbollah positions), Yemen (between mainstream Sunni Islamists of Islah and the Shiite Zaydi Houthi movement), in Iraq (Islamic State and Iraqi Shiite militias) [244]\nIncreased caution and political learning in countries such as Algeria and Jordan where Islamist have chosen not to lead a major challenge against their governments. In Yemen Islah \"has sought to frame its ideology in a way that will avoid charges of militancy\". [244]\nAnother observer (Tarek Osman) notes with concern that\nthe failure to take power during the Arab Spring has led not to \"soul-searching\" in major Islamist groups about what went wrong, but instead to \"antagonism and fiery anger\" and a thirst for revenge. Partisans of political Islam (although this does not include some prominent leaders such as Rached Ghannouchi but is particularly true in Egypt) see themselves as victims of an injustice whose perpetrators are not just \"individual conspirators but entire social groups\". [246]\n\"The Islamic State\", formerly known as the \"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\" and before that as the \"Islamic State of Iraq\", (also called by the Arabic acronym Daesh), is a Wahhabi/ Salafi jihadist extremist militant group which is led by and mainly composed of Sunni Arabs from Syria and Iraq. [247] In 2014, the group proclaimed itself a caliphate, with religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide. [248] As of March 2015 [update], it had control over territory occupied by ten million people [249] in Syria and Iraq, and has nominal control over small areas of Libya, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. [250] [251] (While a self-described state, it lacks international recognition. [252]) ISIL also operates or has affiliates in other parts of the world, including North Africa and South Asia [253] [254]\nOriginating as the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, ISIL pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004, participated in the Iraqi insurgency that followed the invasion of Iraq by Western coalition forces in 2003, joined the fight in the Syrian Civil War beginning in 2011, and was expelled from al-Qaeda in early 2014, (which complained of its failure to consult and \"notorious intransigence\" [255] [256]). ISIL gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in western Iraq in an offensive in June that same year. [257] The group is adept at social media, posting Internet videos of beheadings of soldiers, civilians, journalists and aid workers, and is known for its destruction of cultural heritage sites. [258] The United Nations (UN) has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a \"historic scale\". The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the UN, the European Union (EU) and member states, the United States, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria and other countries.\nIslamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, \"are well known for providing shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance to students from out of town, student advisory groups, facilitation of inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands, legal assistance, sports facilities, and women's groups.\" All this compares very favourably against incompetent, inefficient, or neglectful governments whose commitment to social justice is limited to rhetoric. [259]\nDissatisfaction with the status quo\nThe Arab world\u2014the original heart of the Muslim world\u2014has been afflicted with economic stagnation. For example, it has been estimated that in the mid 1990s the exports of Finland, a country of five million, exceeded those of the entire Arab world of 260 million, excluding oil revenue. [260] This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity. [261]\nProtests against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Christian governor of Jakarta, 31 March 2017\nStrong population growth combined with economic stagnation has created urban agglomerations in Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, Karachi, Dhaka, and Jakarta each with well over 12 million citizens, millions of them young and unemployed or underemployed. [262] Such a demographic, alienated from the westernized ways of the urban elite, but uprooted from the comforts and more passive traditions of the villages they came from, is understandably favourably disposed to an Islamic system promising a better world [263]\u2014an ideology providing an \"emotionally familiar basis for group identity, solidarity, and exclusion; an acceptable basis for legitimacy and authority; an immediately intelligible formulation of principles for both a critique of the present and a program for the future.\" [264]\nIslamism can also be described as part of identity politics, specifically the religiously-oriented nationalism that emerged in the Third World in the 1970s: \" resurgent Hinduism in India, Religious Zionism in Israel, militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resurgent Sikh nationalism in the Punjab, ' Liberation Theology' of Catholicism in Latin America, and Islamism in the Muslim world.\" [265] These all challenged Westernized ruling elites on behalf of 'authenticity' and tradition.[ citation needed]\nFurther information: Islamic revival and Islam and modernity\nThe modern revival of Islamic devotion and the attraction to things Islamic can be traced to several events.\nBy the end of World War I, most Muslim states were seen to be dominated by the Christian-leaning Western states. It is argued that either the claims of Islam were false and the Christian or post-Christian West had finally come up with another system that was superior, or Islam had failed through not being true to itself. Thus, a redoubling of faith and devotion by Muslims was called for to reverse this tide. [266]\nThe connection between the lack of an Islamic spirit and the lack of victory was underscored by the disastrous defeat of Arab nationalist-led armies fighting under the slogan \"Land, Sea and Air\" in the 1967 Six-Day War, compared to the (perceived) near-victory of the Yom Kippur War six years later. In that war the military's slogan was \"God is Great\". [267]\nAlong with the Yom Kippur War came the Arab oil embargo where the (Muslim) Persian Gulf oil-producing states' dramatic decision to cut back on production and quadruple the price of oil, made the terms oil, Arabs and Islam synonymous\u2014with power\u2014in the world, and especially in the Muslim world's public imagination. [268] Many Muslims believe as Saudi Prince Saud al Faisal did that the hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth obtained from the Persian Gulf's huge oil deposits were nothing less than a gift from God to the Islamic faithful. [269]\nAs the Islamic revival gained momentum, governments such as Egypt's, which had previously repressed (and was still continuing to repress) Islamists, joined the bandwagon. They banned alcohol and flooded the airwaves with religious programming, [75] giving the movement even more exposure.\nSee also: International propagation of conservative Sunni Islam\nStarting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports. [270] The tens of billions of dollars in \" petro-Islam\" largesse obtained from the recently heightened price of oil funded an estimated \"90% of the expenses of the entire faith.\" [271]\nThroughout the Muslim world, religious institutions for people both young and old, from children's maddrassas to high-level scholarships received Saudi funding, [272] \"books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques\" (for example, \"more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years\"), [273] along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc. [274]\nThe funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis' strict interpretation of Islam; and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al Azhar, the world's oldest and most influential Islamic university. [275]\nThe interpretation of Islam promoted by this funding was the strict, conservative Saudi-based Wahhabism or Salafism. In its harshest form it preached that Muslims should not only \"always oppose\" infidels \"in every way,\" but \"hate them for their religion ... for Allah's sake,\" that democracy \"is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century,\" that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels, etc. [276] While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the \"gold standard\" of religion in minds of some or many Muslims. [277]\nQatar stands out among state sponsors of Islamism as well. Over the past two decades, the country has exerted a semi-formal patronage for the international movement of the Muslim Brotherhood. Former Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in particular has distinguished himself as one of the most dedicated supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Islamist movements in general both in the Middle Eastern region and across the globe. [278]\nIn 1999 the Muslim Brotherhood was disbanded in Qatar. The country's longstanding support for the group has been often explained as determined by a strategic calculus that limited the role played by religion in Qatar. [279] As the director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Doha-based branch of Georgetown University, Mehran Kamrava, posited, Qatar presenting itself as the state patron of the Muslim Brotherhood has caused religion in Qatar to not \"play any role in articulating or forming oppositional sentiments.\" [279]\nQatar's patronage has been primarily expressed through the ruling family's endorsement of Muslim Brotherhood's most representative figures, especially Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Qaradawi is a prominent, yet controversial Sunni preacher and theologian who continues to serve as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. An Egyptian citizen, Qaradawi fled Egypt for Qatar in 1961 after being imprisoned under President Gamal Abdul Nasser. In 1962 he chaired the Qatari Secondary Institute of Religious Studies, and in 1977 he founded and directed the Shariah and Islamic Studies department at the University of Qatar. He left Qatar to return to Egypt shortly before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. [280]\nFor twenty years, Qaradawi has hosted a popular show titled Shariah and Life on the Qatari-based media channel Al-Jazeera, a government sponsored channel notoriously supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamism and often designated as a propaganda outlet for the Qatari government. [281] [282] [283] From that platform, he has promoted his Islamist\u2014and often radical views\u2014on life, politics, and culture.\nHis positions, as well as his controversial ties to extremist and terrorist individuals and organizations, made him persona non grata to the U.S., UK and French governments respectively in 1999, 2008, and 2012. [284] [285]\nBeyond the visibility and political protection granted to Yussuf al-Qaradawi, Qatar has historically hosted several Muslim Brothers especially after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood representative, was overthrown in July 2013. [278] Before 2013, however, Qatar had made a substantial investment on Morsi's leadership and had devolved about $10 million to Egypt since Morsi was elected, allegedly also to \"buy political advantage\" in the country. [286] [287]\nQatar's political and financial support for Islamist movements and factions was not limited to the Egyptian case. Qatar is known to have backed Islamist factions in Libya, Syria and Yemen.\nIn Libya in particular, Qatar has supported the Islamist government established in Tripoli. [288] During the 2011 revolution that ousted President Muammar Gaddafi, Qatar provided \"tens of millions of dollars in aid, military training and more than 20,000 tons of weapons\" to anti-Gaddafi rebels and Islamist militias in particular. The flow of weapons was not suspended after Gaddafi's government was removed. [289] [290] Qatar maintained its influence through key facilitators on the field, including cleric Ali al-Sallabi, the leader of the Islamist militia \"February 17 Katiba\" Ismail al-Sallabi, and the Tripoli Military Council leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj. [289] [290]\nHamas, as well, has been among the primary beneficiaries of Qatar's financial support. [291] Not only does the Gulf emirate host Hamas' politburo continuously since 2012; Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has often met with international delegations on Qatari territory. [290]\nMore recently, Qatar has channeled material support to Hamas' terrorist operations by exploiting its official commitment to finance Gaza reconstruction. Mostly through \"truckloads of construction material being shipped into Gaza\", Qatar has funneled dual-use substances that could be employed to produce explosives into Gaza. [292] [293] [294]\nIn a 2003 interview with Al-Hayat Hamas politburo declared that most of Qatar's support was collected through charities and popular committees. [295] Qatar's largest NGO, Qatar Charity, in particular has played a great role in Qatar's mission to support Islamist worldwide.\nOfficially through its \"Ghaith\" initiative but also through conspicuous donations that preceded the \"Ghaith\" program, Qatar Charity has financed the building or reconstruction of mosques and cultural institutes across the globe. [296] Just like Saudi Arabia, Qatar has devolved considerable energies to spreading Salafism and to \"win areas of influence\" in the countries that beneficiated from its support. [297] [298] In France in particular Qatar has heavily invested in the Union des Organisations Islamiques des France (UOIF), an umbrella organization informally acting as the representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country through which Qatar Charity has channeled funds for the Assalam mosque in Nantes (\u20ac4.4 million) and the mosque in Mulhouse (\u20ac2 million). [298]\nWestern patronage\nFurther information: CIA activities in Afghanistan and Timber Sycamore\nAfghan mujahideen representatives with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983.\nDuring the 1970s and sometimes later, Western and pro-Western governments often supported sometimes fledgling Islamists and Islamist groups that later came to be seen as dangerous enemies. [299] Islamists were considered by Western governments bulwarks against\u2014what were thought to be at the time\u2014more dangerous leftist/ communist/ nationalist insurgents/opposition, which Islamists were correctly seen as opposing. The US spent billions of dollars to aid the mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan enemies of the Soviet Union, and non-Afghan veterans of the war returned home with their prestige, \"experience, ideology, and weapons\", and had considerable impact. [300]\nAlthough it is a strong opponent of Israel's existence, Hamas, officially created in 1987, traces back its origins to institutions and clerics supported by Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. Israel tolerated and supported Islamist movements in Gaza, with figures like Ahmed Yassin, as Israel perceived them preferable to the secular and then more powerful al-Fatah with the PLO. [301] [302]\nEgyptian President Anwar Sadat \u2013 whose policies included opening Egypt to Western investment ( infitah); transferring Egypt's allegiance from the Soviet Union to the United States; and making peace with Israel\u2014released Islamists from prison and welcomed home exiles in tacit exchange for political support in his struggle against leftists. His \"encouraging of the emergence of the Islamist movement\" was said to have been \"imitated by many other Muslim leaders in the years that followed.\" [303] [304] This \"gentlemen's agreement\" between Sadat and Islamists broke down in 1975 but not before Islamists came to completely dominate university student unions. Sadat was later assassinated and a formidable insurgency was formed in Egypt in the 1990s. The French government has also been reported to have promoted Islamist preachers \"in the hope of channeling Muslim energies into zones of piety and charity.\" [299]\nSalafi-Islamist protest against perceived anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims in Sydney, 15 September 2012\nMuslim alienation from Western ways, including its political ways. [305]\nThe memory in Muslim societies of the many centuries of \"cultural and institutional success\" of Islamic civilization that have created an \"intense resistance to an alternative 'civilizational order'\", such as Western civilization, [306]\nThe proximity of the core of the Muslim world to Europe and Christendom where it first conquered and then was conquered. Iberia in the seventh century, the Crusades which began in the eleventh century, then for centuries the Ottoman Empire, were all fields of war between Europe and Islam. [307]\nIn the words of Bernard Lewis:\nFor almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam. In the early centuries it was a double threat\u2014not only of invasion and conquest, but also of conversion and assimilation. All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers, and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity ... Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe. [308]\nThe Islamic world was aware of this European fear and hatred[ citation needed] and also felt its own anger and resentment at the much more recent technological superiority of westerners who,\nare the perpetual teachers; we, the perpetual students. Generation after generation, this asymmetry has generated an inferiority complex, forever exacerbated by the fact that their innovations progress at a faster pace than we can absorb them. ... The best tool to reverse the inferiority complex to a superiority complex ... Islam would give the whole culture a sense of dignity. [309]\nFor Islamists, the primary threat of the West is cultural rather than political or economic. Cultural dependency robs one of faith and identity and thus destroys Islam and the Islamic community ( ummah) far more effectively than political rule. [310]\nThe end of the Cold War and Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has eliminated the common atheist Communist enemy uniting some religious Muslims and the capitalist west. [311]\nMain article: Criticism of Islamism\nIslamism, or elements of Islamism, have been criticized for: repression of free expression and individual rights, rigidity, hypocrisy, lack of true understanding of Islam, misinterpreting the Quran and Sunnah, antisemitism, [312] and for innovations to Islam ( bid'ah), notwithstanding proclaimed opposition to any such innovation by Islamists.\nThe U.S. government has engaged in efforts to counter militant Islamism ( Jihadism), since 2001. These efforts were centred in the U.S. around public diplomacy programmes conducted by the State Department. There have been calls to create an independent agency in the U.S. with a specific mission of undermining Jihadism. Christian Whiton, an official in the George W. Bush administration, called for a new agency focused on the nonviolent practice of \"political warfare\" aimed at undermining the ideology. [313] U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for establishing something similar to the defunct U.S. Information Agency, which was charged with undermining the communist ideology during the Cold War. [314]\nMain category: Islamist groups\nFor a more comprehensive list, see List of Islamic political parties and Islamic extremism \u00a7 Active Islamic extremist groups.\nIslamicism (disambiguation)\n^ As such, Salafi Jihadism envisions the Islamist goals akin to that of Salafism instead of the traditional Islamism exemplified by the mid-20th century Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered by Salafi Jihadis as excessively moderate and lacking in literal interpretations of the scriptures. 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Surrounded by the lush foliage from old shade trees, Tarrytown is primarily a residential neighborhood and is well-known for its historic and dynamic style of architecture. Many of the iconic homes in this affluent area of Austin have been constructed in a Medieval revival design, all of which have been consistently designed or remodeled to the specific design preferences of Tarrytown residents.\nTarrytown is considered one of Austin\u2019s oldest industrial areas and is home to the Lime Kiln Building, a large stone and mortar building built in 1871. It was master-minded by Peter C. Taylor and features a patented design known as the Triangle Support system. This design allowed the structure to withstand constant use, and it\u2019s said that many of the historic homes in the Tarrytown area were built with the same or similar support system.\nSince Tarrytown is largely a residential area, it has few restaurants and shops within its borders. However, it is conveniently located just minutes from downtown Austin, and there are outdoor activities to experience such as:\nReed Park \u2013 a six-acre park that contains a playground, a swimming pool, a multipurpose field, picnic tables and a barbeque pit. There is a creek and nature trail. Reed Park is a great place in Tarrytown for outdoor lovers.\nTarrytown\u2019s Lions Municipal Golf Course \u2013 a golf course that has been around since 1934. It has hosted many famous golfer\u2019s.\nThe Mayfield Preserve \u2013 a 22-acre park on the edge of Tarrytown that offers beautiful gardens, colorful peacocks and ponds with water lilies.\nTarrytown is a beautiful neighborhood and you are sure to appreciate it as being very clean and quiet, . and some will say \u201cclassy.\u201d Where else in Austin will you find a better example of a classic neighborhood with many homes designed with a Medieval revival style? Tarrytown has everything from 1920s cottages to new mansions, but it predominantly consists of large, older homes. There are also several high-end apartment complexes and condominiums in Tarrytown that make it possible to live there for less.\nWhen you\u2019re ready, call the Dan Combe Group to schedule an appointment, or browse a complete list of homes for sale in Tarrytown 78703. Situated in beautiful West Austin is your future Texas dream home! Close enough to the amazing City of Austin Texas, and of course Lake Travis, you\u2019ll be \u201cpart of it all!\u201d Call Dan Combe to schedule your tour of beautiful homes for sale in Tarrytown 78703. Call (817)800-0007 today!\n1401 Possum Trot St Austin, TX 78703\nLarge lock and leave estate in Deep Eddy [Tarrytown]. Private. Gated. An entertainer's DREAM! As much a luxury boutique hotel as it is a home. Be careful... your guests will NEVER leave. 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and multiple living spaces- inside and out. Resort-style pool with swim up bar and outdoor kitchen. Creek view. Spacious guest quarters with separate entrance. Custom, climate-controlled wine vault on main level for 2,778 bottles. Whole-house generator. Extensive cosmetic and MEP upgrades in 2013.\n1314 Norwalk Ln #b Unit B Austin, TX 78703\nAmazing value in Tarrytown/Deep Eddy at $300/ft considering high-level modern design by award-winning Webber Studios, finishes & quality of build. Wonderful complex nestled in the trees. Walls of windows & 20 x2019; ceilings spans are just a few keynotes of what makes this condo shine. Mins to downtown. Great walkability to restaurants, Deep Eddy, LBL & more! Master connects to open loft for an inspired workspace. 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It\u2019s people that hit their brakes too often.\nI know \u2013 it sure beats the alternative of people not hitting their brakes often enough, but there has to be some sort of happy medium. And for 93.25% of the people out there, we\u2019ve found it. It\u2019s that other 6.75% that screw it up for everyone else.\nI happened to be following a Beige-Gold GMC Sierra Van the other day. On a road that is approximately 2.46 miles long and has 2 stop signs. Guess what? They hit their brakes 27 times. They also stopped at both stop signs. TWENTY NINE FUCKING TIMES! I wanted to stab them. With my car. Repeatedly.\nAnother vehicle, on another trip, was driving exactly the speed limit with no ability to pass. I\u2019m not a big fan of people driving the exact speed limit, but it doesn\u2019t really matter too much in the long run. However, this person was tapping their brakes at EVERY road and sign. That would drop their speed from \u201cexactly the speed limit\u201d to \u201csignificantly less than the speed limit\u201d. With a such modern marvels known as \u201cthe internet\u201d, \u201cGPS\u201d, \u201cMaps\u201d, \u201cphones\u201d, and \u201ccommon sense\u201d, do we really have to stop at every road to see if it\u2019s what we wanted? Or if we pass our road is it game-over? Do you not realize that if you\u2019ve gone past your destination you can ACTUALLY TURN AROUND AND GO BACK??? Oh that\u2019s right, no one has \u201ccommon sense\u201d anymore. Jerkasses.\nThe third vehicle I must mention is the vehicle that was constantly on the brakes. At first I thought the vehicle had an issue \u2013 some sort of short in the electrical system that forced the brake lights to stay lit. Nope, after spending some time behind the vehicle on the highway (yes, the highway doing 65 mph +) I could smell the faint hint of burning brakes. And after I ended up passing said car the smell went away. So, if you can picture this, a vehicle driving down the highway at 65+ with the gas AND brake pedals both pressed to varying degrees. Killing the gas mileage and your vehicle in one fell swoop.\nBrakes are there to stop your vehicle. Brake lights are there to inform people behind you that you are slowing down/stopping your vehicle. So stop being assholes.\nPipeline said,\nLIMIT: the greatest possible degree of something, as far as something can go, the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed\nIf you are ina 55mph zone and you travel 56mph, even to pass, you are breaking the law. If someone is going out of their way to stop you from passing, or they are completely oblivious to people trying to pass, they are jerks. But if it just happens that you are unable to pass a person traveling at the MAXIMUM RATE OF TRAVEL ALLOWED BY LAW, then that is just the way it is. What grinds my gears Peter, is drivers that ride right up on my ass because they can\u2019t pass me even though I am traveling at the limit. At some point in the last ten years the speed maximum became the speed minimum in most peoples minds. My wife and I wwere driving on a single lane road, at 55 mph when we approched a curve. She took her foot off the gas and her speed dropped to around 50. The people behind us, who had been right on out tail for 5 -10 minutes, began honking. It\u2019s NOT the speed minimum. That same stretch of road has the highest number of fatalities in the state of New Hampshire. From people passing who were impatient.\nIt\u2019s like music downloading. If you want to do it, fine. I don\u2019t have a problem with anyone gettign free music. But don\u2019t lie to me or yourself, it\u2019s stealing. If you\u2019re cool with that, great. But it IS stealing. I love that \u201cwe deserve this music, they have too much money anyway\u201d crap. Thay created it, you took it without paying or permission, that\u2019s stealing.\nIf you want to speed, great. I don\u2019t have a problem with that, I always get out of the way if I can. But I\u2019m not gonna cry cause you can\u2019t break the law and I\u2019m not going to go out of my way to move and I\u2019m CERTAINLY not going to speed up for you. In fact the best, sure-fire way to get me to slow down is to ride my bumper.\nI agree with parts of your comment:\nIt IS breaking the law if you go over the speed limit.\nI can honestly say that I dislike when people ride my bumper. And, just as you do, I am more tempted to slow down rather than speed up. However, I don\u2019t ride people\u2019s bumpers \u2013 that\u2019s a quick way to cause an accident.\nWho decides on the speed limits? I\u2019ve driven automobiles that could handle well over double the posted speed limit. I\u2019ve also driven automobiles that could very well fall apart if I went even 5 over the posted limit. ALSO, the \u201climit\u201d is chosen as the supposed 85% of the speed \u2013 which means that the posted limit is what 85% of the vehicles on the road will obey within a 10% range (ie 55mph sign people will drive anywhere from 50-60mph). Recently in Minnesota they increased the posted limits from 75 to 85mph, and you know what? The average speed of vehicles stayed the same. Woah, so people know what their driving limits are??? No way! AND accidents have remained the same? NO WAY!\nThe point of the rant was to tell people that they are not the only ones on the road \u2013 that if they pass their destination they could always turn around \u2013 that they need not drive with the brakes engaged \u2013 and that they need not hit the brakes every 2 to 5 seconds. It would be ignorant to think otherwise.\nAs a final note: speed is length/time. So if I\u2019m driving 50mph, in one hour I should have driven 50 miles. 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Of course, any Elizabeth Taylor movie day needs to start with National Velvet. Naturally, this will rekindle my dream of having my very own horse and Mickey Rooney action figure. Then I will change direction completely and watch, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I seriously doubt that Elizabeth Taylor ever looked hotter than she did in that movie. I will never forget being a young kid and watching that movie for the first time\u2026I actually slowed down my crushes on Kristy McNichol and Joe from the Facts of Life, long enough to have a respectable crush on Elizabeth Taylor.\nNow comes the cocktail making part of the day. If you don\u2019t have cocktails mixed for the next two movies, there is something very wrong with you. It really is depressing that Cleopatra was not made at a time that could include a reality show along with it. Anything that nearly bankrupts a movie studio, and is a historical drama that has nothing to do with the actual history of the event, is worth watching\u2026at least once. The strongest cocktail (by this time, I will be completely covered in White Diamonds perfume, toasting Elizabeth Taylor to the dogs and calling Tiffany at work to cry about her death), is reserved for Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In fact, I won\u2019t even have a cocktail; I will just drink scotch straight from the bottle. If you haven\u2019t seen this movie, it is well worth watching. It is like seeing a train wreck, or a complete family breakdown and argument over Thanksgiving dinner. This is Elizabeth Taylor at her best as an actress.\nAnd that\u2019s how I will spend my day, because that is the best way to remember Elizabeth Taylor. But before I start the movie marathon, I\u2019m going to honor her by contributing to what is actually her best work and her finest legacy, The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wheredmyjobgo.blogspot.com/2011/04/duran-duran-and-true-history-tuesday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6TUJ6Q2YYYETSLSKIYZB2DPLKHWDUFGZ", "length": 2513, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wheredmyjobgo.blogspot.com", "title": "Diary of the Unexpected Housewife: Duran Duran and \u201cTrue\u201d History Tuesday \u2013 The Macy\u2019s Day Parade", "raw_content": "Duran Duran and \u201cTrue\u201d History Tuesday \u2013 The Macy\u2019s Day Parade\nDuran Duran was awesome last night. I apologize for the video quality, but I think you can tell that the \u201cFab Five\u201d still got it. BTW the lady with the rocking out hands got those hands in nearly every one of my photos. My only complaint would be with their promoters and the ticket brokers who unnecessarily jacked up the prices to a general admission event. Those leeches can take a flying leap. Leeches can fly and leap, right?\nThe \u201cTrue\u201d History of the Macy\u2019s Day Parade\nEveryone knows that the annual Macy\u2019s Day Thanksgiving Parade was started in 1924 by Macy\u2019s Department Store. And that in 1927, Felix the Cat was the first giant ass balloon to be used in the parade\u2026thus marking the tradition of always having giant ass balloons in the Macy\u2019s Day Parade. What you don\u2019t know is how the balloon tradition actually got started.\nBefore the parade became a reality, Macy\u2019s was trying lots of different things to drum up business. They even, at one time, tried using drums. In 1923, Macy\u2019s hired a clown named Mr. Whipple. Mr. Whipple had gotten fired from his other job for squeezing the Charmin so he took up clowning. His schtick was blowing up balloons to look like toilet paper. He had a weird toilet paper fetish\u2026but that is a \u201ctrue\u201d story for another day. All the other clowns were making animals, hats and swords and the kids were flocking to them. Those clowns were funny and zany. Kids just didn\u2019t seem interested in toilet-paper looking balloons or Mr. Whipple\u2019s bland personality. He was always yelling at the kids about squeezing the Charmin-looking balloons while he was squeezing the Charmin-looking balloons. He was a moron.\nMacy\u2019s management approached him one day and said, \u201cStop squeezing your balloons. The sound is awful and you are scaring the children. If you don\u2019t step it up, you\u2019re fired fo shizzle.\u201d Mr. Whipple didn\u2019t want to lose his job. 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He took up the pen in early retirement and enjoys writing contemporary thrillers with their roots in history, as well as poetry. He lives with his wife in Yorkshire, England near his grown up family. Summers are spent in Scotland, writing, fishing and doing heritage projects. You may visit Alan's blog here: http://alancalderwriting.blogspot.com/\nThe Stuart Agenda\nThe Hanoverian spin doctors of the eighteenth century airbrushed out of history, the legitimate descendants of Royal Stuart scion, Bonnie Prince Charlie. This kept a tight lid on any prospect of a further Jacobite challenge to their established dynasty in the United Kingdom.\nIt should not surprise us that the descendants of Bonnie Prince Charlie still covet the throne of Scotland, the land that the Stuart monarchs ruled for hundreds of years.\nIn 2035, young Robert Stuart sets out on a journey to recapture the Scottish throne in an independent Scotland. A cast of conspirators led by his great uncle Leo prepare the political and constitutional ground for him. Robert meets and falls in love with the beautiful Hanoverian Princess Victoria, providing a basis for a dynastic compromise. Robert has to overcome strong resistance from the Hanoverian establishment and from within his own family if he is to succeed in his ambition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/01/are-russias-closed-discussion-clubs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6DA47DPQDKHZUV2ZQJYC4OSV56DA5O3T", "length": 3339, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com", "title": "Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Are Russia\u2019s Closed Discussion Clubs Becoming \u2018Hybrid\u2019 Think Tanks or Something More?", "raw_content": "Are Russia\u2019s Closed Discussion Clubs Becoming \u2018Hybrid\u2019 Think Tanks or Something More?\nStaunton, January 23 \u2013 Russia lacks the tradition of think tanks found in many Western capitals, but the rise of closed discussion clubs where Russian officials, businessmen and experts can meet to share ideas, test trial balloons and network may give Moscow a \u201chybrid\u201d form of the Western practice, according to Olesya Gersaimenko.\nBut because of the specific features of Russian political life, these closed clubs, the \u201cKommersant-Vlast\u201d journalist says, may play an even larger role in defining the future in the event of any dramatic change at the top of the country\u2019s power pyramid or even help to promote such changes (kommersant.ru/doc/3195648).\nGerasimenko begins her long and detailed article with the observation that even as official and street politics in Russia have quieted down, \u201cever more non-public intellectual clubs, discussion circles and closed seminars \u2018for those connect\u2019 are appearing.\nSome of these have been formed by people who graduated from the same institution such as MGIMO and then went to work in various sectors. Others have been put together to discuss and promote specific ideas such as Russian national rebirth. And still others serve as an updated version of the circles of 19th century Russia and the kitchen conversations of Soviet times.\nThe Higher School of Economics is the basis for one, and the Skolkovo Business School for another, she writes, noting that their organizers insist that \u201cthis is no shadow government or general conspiracy, but it is an informal means of seeking solutions. That is what such clubs are for.\u201d\nMost try to meet once a month, although some lack the money to rent halls that often and others pass into and out of existence too quickly to keep to any schedule. Some are tightly drawn from one ideological part of the political spectrum, but others are proud of being open to almost everyone so that members can expand their contacts.\nThe groups mostly operate off the record and closed to outsiders, not only because they view themselves as \u201cthe brains\u201d of society, something that could offend the mass public, but also because their members want to operate \u201cbelow the radar screen\u201d of those in power lest participation hurt their careers. Consequently information about them is sometimes hard to get.\nA few of these groups have assumed a higher and more public profile such as the Izborsky Cllub or the Stolypin Club, and while it would be wrong to call them \u201cthe Decembrists of the 21st century,\u201d it may be appropriate to see them as an updated version of groups under Louis XVIII or kitchen discussions from the Soviet past.\nMany who are interested in politics turn to these closed circles because they do not want to take part in regular political parties. The former are safer and yet provide satisfaction by linking people of like mind together and allowing them to speak with one another more or less openly and without fear.\nBut at the same time, Russia\u2019s future politicians may emerge from these clubs when the time is right \u2013 that happened when Medvedev became president, some of their leaders say \u2013 and these groups may be where those who have been ousted from politics at least for a time may choose to meet with others. That too, Garasimenko says, has happened as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 10854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://winerackhome.com/wine/the-good-things-in-life-explore-the-different-types-of-white-wine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RCOEVE5TD56QIDB42R3PHYQRHAPMS5VT", "length": 2452, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "winerackhome.com", "title": "The Good Things In Life- Explore The Different Types Of White Wine - Winerackhome", "raw_content": "The Good Things In Life- Explore The Different Types Of White Wine\nWine is associated with times of sharing and times you celebrate. Wine is usually found in places where people are enjoying themselves with others around them sometimes friends and sometimes it is family or both. It would be interesting to know where this drink comes from and to learn about the different types available out there.\nOne of the types of wines available out there is white wine and you will find that there are different types of white wine also. All types of white wine are made from processing and growing white grapes. The wine that is produced will be the end product of the type of grape grown it is made from and of cause other variables.\nThis includes where in the world the grapes are grown and the climate of this place. Also the moisture levels and the soil conditions affect the grapes during their growing season. The type of white wine is also determined by how the wine maker treats the grapes once they are picked.\nWhite grapes are grown all over the continent. You can find them in places like New York, several regions in Europe and South Africa. The climates in all these places differ and so do the wine makers and these results in the different types of white wine found all over the world.\nListing The Types Of White Wine\nThere are some types of white wine that are more popular than the others. One of the most popular types is Chardonnay wine. This type is considered the queen of white wine grapes. It is a very versatile grape whose character reflects on the region it is grown in. chardonnay is known to produce the most complex wines in the world and most are golden and velvety with a medium to high acidity.\nChenin Blanc has been cultivated for thousands of years in France. From the types of white wines in the world this one will be found mainly in inexpensive table wines. Semillon wine is one of the very rich wines and is usually preferred as a desert wine and is know to be blended with Sauvignon Blanc wine.\nGewurztraminer is said to be spicy and is grown more in places were there is a cooler climate. The Pinot Gris or Grigio is known to differ in character depending on the place the grape is grown. There are many white wines out there and all have their special qualities and each is preferred by different people just remember that you will not enjoy the wine if you are concerned about the white wine calories that it may have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://woman.ph/flashback-blackpinkinyourareamanila/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QM7MXZL3SYNAX3KQPQOCTGNMRLC42JER", "length": 1352, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "woman.ph", "title": "Flashback: #BLACKPINKInYourAreaManila | Woman.ph", "raw_content": "Last Saturday, February 02, 2019, thousands of Filipino fans and celebrities attended what would be the very first Blackpink concert in the Philippines.\nFans and celebrities alike cannot help but be stunned as the K-POP group performed under the pink lights of the Mall of Asia Arena.\nFilipino \u201cblinks,\u201d \u2013 blackpink fans \u2013 sang and danced to the iconic songs of the quartet while carrying their hammer-shaped light sticks with glowing hearts and proclaimed that \u2018Blackpink is the revolution,\u201d a chant that all blinks agreed upon.\nAccording to fans, the concert was more than just the songs and the lights and the dancing. They actually conveyed messages of women empowerment, self-love and youth.\nIt was not surprising that the quartet started their two hour concert with the young and free \u201cForever Young,\u201d and the iconic \u201cDdu-du Ddu-Du\u201d which aroused the energy of the fans who waited for months for the quartet to perform in Philippine grounds.\nK-POP wasn\u2019t the only songs they performed that pink night. The girls sang and performed their own covers of Zedd\u2019s \u201cClarity\u201d and the Beatles\u2019 \u201cLet it Be\u201d.\nAlthough the concert was short-lived, Filipino fans only hope that the girl group will be able to come back and perform in the country.\nPrevious article5 Talk Of The Town Tech This 2019\nNext article5 Timeless Romantic Films To Watch This Valentines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://womenshealthsection.com/content/print.php3?title=obs012&cat=2&lng=english", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YAWPAUDYYR7YVQZFES6MLEEGYWT7P2QT", "length": 15375, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "womenshealthsection.com", "title": "Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC) - Preterm Labor Management", "raw_content": "Preterm labor is the leading cause of neonatal mortality in the United States and accounts for about 11.5% of all live births. It is responsible for three quarters of neonatal mortality and one half of long-term neurologic impairments in children. Despite the numerous management methods proposed, the incidence of preterm birth has changed little over the past 40 years. Uncertainty persists about the best strategies for managing preterm labor (1).\nThe purpose of this document is to discuss the various methods proposed to manage preterm labor and the evidence for their roles in clinical practice. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetrical care. Variations in practice may be warranted based on the needs of the individual patient, resources, and limitations unique to the institution or type of practice.\nPreterm labor generally can be defined as regular contractions that occur before 37 weeks of gestation and are associated with changes in cervix. The causes of preterm labor are not well understood, the burden of preterm births are clearer. It is important to recognize that preterm labor is not the only mechanism leading to preterm birth; numerous preterm births are preceded by either rupture of membranes or other medical problems.\nPredictive Markers:\nSpontaneous preterm labor does not have an identifiable etiology, but most likely results from the interaction of multiple factors and independent pathways. Various factors found to be predictive of increased likelihood of preterm labor can be used to classify women as high or low risk. The most important predictors are previous preterm delivery, bacterial vaginosis, and a cervix <2.5 cm in length. Other risk factors are: <18 or >40 years of age; substance abuse history; anemia; African-American ethnicity; low socioeconomic status; low weight gain during pregnancy; oligohydramnios or polyhydramnios; multiple gestation; bleeding in 1st and 2nd trimester; chronic maternal illness (e.g. diabetes, hypertension); fetal congenital anomalies; cervical insufficiency; inadequate prenatal care; uterine anomalies; short inter-conception period (<1 year); uterine contractions; and emotional stressors (e.g. domestic violence, job loss, family illness). Women who have a prior preterm labor or 2 or more preterm risk factors are considered to be high-risk (6). For these individuals, determining the absence or presence of fetal fibronectin in cervical vaginal secretions between 22 and 34 weeks of gestation is an additional tool for preterm risk assessment.\nClinical use of the Fetal Fibronectin Test - Fibronectins are large extracellular matrix proteins. A heavily glycosylated form, termed fetal fibronectin, is present in the amniotic fluid and placental and fetal membranes. Assays for fetal fibronectin have two clinical applications. The first is to predict the risk of preterm labor in symptomatic patients, since identifying women with preterm contractions who will go on to deliver prematurely is an imprecise process. The second use is to identify asymptomatic women, particularly those who are high-risk (e.g. previous preterm delivery, current multiple gestation), who are most likely to deliver preterm. A positive test (>50 ng/ml) suggests about a 20-40% risk of delivery within 14 days for high-risk patient. For those with a negative fetal fibronectin, >99% remain pregnant 2 weeks later (7). Recommendations in case of a positive fetal fibronectin test are: advise patient to stop work and decrease activity; treat positive urine culture or genital infection; monitor contractions; treat >4 contractions per hour with nifedipine if an outpatient; and give course of antenatal steroids if >24 weeks of gestation.\nFetal fibronectin is also a useful predictor of preterm birth in asymptomatic patients who are at high risk of preterm labor, including in the following situations: for women who have had a prior preterm, a positive fetal fibronectin result is associated with about a 10% risk of delivery in asymptomatic patients with other risk factors for preterm birth. However, in cases of a negative fetal fibronectin result, >99% of patients remain pregnant at the end of a 14-day period. Fetal fibronectin results are best predictive for the subsequent 2-3 week period, and should be repeated if longer intervals are involved. In twin gestation, a positive fetal fibronectin result, not cervical length has been shown to be the only predictor of preterm birth at >28 weeks. In fact, investigators have shown that fetal fibronectin testing performed even better in twin pregnancies compared to singletons. More than 50% of women with a twin gestation who had a positive fetal fibronectin test delivered prematurely (8).\nSonographic measurement of the cervical length: Several groups have evaluated cervical length at 16-24 weeks in women with prior preterm births and found that a cervical shortening to less than the 10th percentile (less than 25 mm at 20-24 weeks, less than 30 mm at 16-20 weeks) results in a significant increase in risk of preterm births before 35 weeks. Women with recurrent preterm births have shorter, more dilated, softer cervixes, with higher Bishop scores on physical examination, when evaluated remote from delivery. The studies suggest that, for women with prior spontaneous preterm births, evaluation of the cervical length serially (every 2 weeks) between 16 and 24 weeks of gestation may aid in the identification of those at increased risk for recurrent preterm birth (9). Those women with cervical length less than the 10th percentile (less than 25 mm at 16-24 weeks) are at increased risk. Possible benefit of cerclage in such women with prior preterm births and cervical lengths less than 25 mm between 16 and 24 weeks needs to be confirmed by a large multicenter trial, which is underway.\nCombination of clinical and biological markers: It allows for more accurate prediction of recurrent preterm births. The more markers are present higher the risk (10). Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is shown to rise in maternal plasma during pregnancy and in low-risk women has been found in the second trimester to be elevated in women destined to deliver preterm. In women with prior preterm births and cervical lengths less than 25 mm at 22-24 weeks, 35% delivered before 37 weeks. In women with prior preterm births with a positive fetal fibronectin, 48% delivered before 37 weeks. Among women with both cervical lengths less than 25 mm and positive fetal fibronectin, 60% delivered before 37 weeks and 50% delivered before 32 weeks. Although there has been some movement toward development of a multiple-marker screening test for prediction of preterm birth that would include clinical characteristics as well as serum, ultrasonography, and/or fetal fibronectin testing, further work is needed.\nNon-pharmacologic Treatment: The effectiveness of these interventions is uncertain. It includes bed rest, abstention from intercourse and orgasm, and hydration either orally or parenterally. It is also used in conjunction with pharmacological treatment.\nTocolytic Drugs for Treatment of Preterm Labor: Tocolytic drugs inhibit myometrial contractions. It can be administered either parenterally or orally. Many agents have been used, including ethanol, magnesium sulfate, calcium channel blockers, oxytocin antagonists, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and betamimetic agonists. Tocolytic drugs may prolong gestation for 2-7 days if needed, which can provide time for administration of steroids and maternal transport to a facility with a neonatal intensive care unit.\nThere is no clear first-line tocolytic drug. The choice of drug should be individualized and based on maternal condition, potential drug side effects, and gestational age. Combining tocolytic drugs potentially increases maternal morbidity and should be used with caution.\nContraindications for tocolysis include severe preeclampsia, placental abruption, intrauterine infection, lethal congenital or chromosomal abnormalities, advanced cervical dilatation, and evidence of fetal compromise or placental insufficiency.\nThe commonly used drugs and their side effects are (2):\nMaternal Side Effects\nFetal and Neonatal Side Effects\nBeta-mimetic\nTerbutaline, 0.25 mg subcutaneously every 20 min. to 3 h. (hold for pulse >120 beats/min)\nRitodrine initial dose of 50-100 micro-gm, increase 50 micro-gm/min every 10 min until contractions cease or side effects develop. Max. dose = 350 micro-gm/min\nPoorly controlled Thyroid Disease; Poorly controlled Diabetes\nCardiac or cardiopulmonary arrhythmias, pulmonary edema, myocardial ischemia, hypotension, tachycardia\nMetabolic hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypokalemia, antidiuresis, altered thyroid function, physiological tremor, palpitations, nervousness, nausea or vomiting, fever, hallucinations.\nFetal tachycardia, hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, myocardial and septal hypertrophy, myocardial ischemia.\nNeonatal tachycardia, hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, Hyperbilirubinemia, hypotension, intravascular hemorrhage.\n4-6 g bolus for 20 min, then 2-3 g/h.\nFlushing, lethargy, headache, muscle weakness, diplopia, dry mouth, pulmonary edema, cardiac arrest\nLethargy, hypotonia, respiratory depression, demineralization with prolonged use\n30 mg loading dose, then 10-20 mg every 4-6 h.\nCardiac disease, use caution with renal disease, neonatal hypotension, avoid concomitant use with Magnesium sulfate\nFlushing, headache, dizziness, nausea, transient hypotension\nNone noted as yet\nProstaglandin synthetase inhibitors\nIndomethacin loading dose of 50 mg rectally or 50-100 mg orally, then 25-50 mg orally every 6 h. x 48 h.\nKetorolac loading dose of 60 mg IM, then 30 IM every 6 h. x 48 h.\nSulindac, 200 mg orally every 12 h. x 48 h.\nSignificant renal or hepatic impairment\nCoagulation disorders or thrombocytopenia, NSAID-sensitive asthma, other sensitivity to NSAIDs\nNausea, heartburn\nConstriction of ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension, reversible decrease in renal function with oligohydramnios, intraventricular hemorrhage, Hyperbilirubinemia, necrotizing entrocolitis.\nSource: Hearne AE, Nagey DA. Therapeutic agents in preterm labor: Clin Obstet Gynecol 2000;43:787-801.\nAntenatal Corticosteroid Use:\nThe most beneficial intervention for patients in true preterm labor is the administration of corticosteroids. The incidence and severity of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage and necrotizing entrocolitis are reduced by the use of antenatal corticosteroids. The administration of betamethasone has been shown to decrease neonatal mortality (3). All women who are at risk for preterm delivery between 24 weeks and 34 weeks of gestation are potential candidates for corticosteroid therapy. Treatment should consist of either two doses of betamethasone or four doses of dexamethasone, both administered intramuscularly.\nProgesterone and the prevention of preterm labor:\nBased on the accumulating data on prevention of preterm labor with progesterone, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reported in 2003 that progesterone supplementation appears to provide an effective means to reduce the preterm birth rate in a selected group of very-high-risk women and supported its use in this important population (11). Progestational agents are available in oral, transvaginal (gel and suppositories), and injectable formulations. The efficacy of the oral route appears to be limited by first-pass metabolism in the liver, where some drug is targeted for excretion and some is converted to ineffective metabolites, the remaining portion being largely ineffective. Transvaginal formulations, which are absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed directly to target tissues, also more readily achieve biologic plasma levels. To address the long-term effects of progesterone, the NICHD's MFMU Network followed up on the children from the progesterone trial to determine whether there was a difference in achievement of developmental milestones and physical health between children exposed to progesterone and those exposed to placebo by using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire score and differences in developmental milestones. Over 80% of the children from the original trial were evaluated, and no differences in achievement of developmental milestones or physical health were identified between the two groups. Because the progesterone for this indication would not be started until 16 weeks, it is unlikely to have effects on congenital malformations (12).\nAntibiotics for Treatment of Preterm Labor:\nIt has been theorized that infections or inflammation are associated with contractions, and this theory provided the rationale for studies using antibiotics to decrease the risk of preterm birth. Studies have shown mixed results, but most of the evidence has failed to show a benefit from treatment with antibiotics (4). Treating women in preterm labor with antibiotics for the sole purpose of preventing preterm delivery is not recommended.\nTests that can help identify patients at risk for progressing to preterm labor:\nMany tests to identify women at risk of preterm birth have been proposed and evaluated; however, only ultrasonography and fetal fibronectin testing have been shown to have benefit. Ultrasonography to determine cervical length, fetal fibronectin testing or combination of both may be useful in determining which women are at high risk for preterm delivery. Fetal fibronectin testing may be useful in women with symptoms of preterm labor to identify those with negative values and a reduced risk of preterm birth, thereby avoiding unnecessary intervention (5).\nWomen with multiple gestations who have preterm contractions but no cervical change do not require tocolytic therapy. The women with multiple gestations, who are experiencing preterm labor, may benefit from short-term tocolysis to allow for steroid administration. They have a greater risk of pulmonary edema when exposed to beta-mimetics or magnesium sulfate.\nThe role of repeated acute tocolytic therapy in women with recurring symptoms of preterm labor is unknown. Given the limited benefits of an initial course of treatment with a tocolytic drug and current recommendations that corticosteroids be administered only as a single course, the effectiveness of subsequent acute tocolysis is uncertain. Maternal transport is a potential rationale for a subsequent treatment course.\nThere are no clear \"first-line\" tocolytic drugs to mange preterm labor. Clinical circumstances and physician preferences should dictate treatment. Antibiotics do not appear to prolong gestation and should be reserved for group B streptococcal prophylaxis in patients whom delivery is imminent. Neither maintenance treatment with tocolytic improve perinatal outcome; nor should be undertaken as a general practice.\nCervical ultrasound examination and fetal fibronectin testing have good negative predictive value; thus either approach or both combined may be helpful in determining which patients do not need tocolysis. Amniocentesis may be used in women in preterm labor to assess fetal lung maturity and intraamniotic infection. Bed rest, hydration, and pelvic rest do not appear to improve the rate of preterm birth and should not be routinely recommended.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 17506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://worldtopstyle.com/des-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:26Z", "digest": "sha1:NSQSHZWWZ7AZBVZE2C6D7OBD7L5YFR56", "length": 1575, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "worldtopstyle.com", "title": "WORLD TOP STYLE: Fashion Style News Top Story Fashion Show Designers Boutique", "raw_content": "American fashion designer Ralph Lauren introduced first women\u2019s line of clothing. Then he presented the market for the young men; with cologne, sunglasses, leather satchels, bags, and shoes. His Team USA Olympic 2012 uniforms has erupted uproar.\nVera Wang is best known for her wedding dress collections. She has made wedding dresses for Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Sharon Stone. If one thinks of 'Sex and the City' thinks Vera Wang.\nUS Fashion designer Marc Jacobs work with the internationally reputed French fashion house Louis Vuitton. Marc Jacobs is New York based designer who has produced a wide range of clothing. His designs receive great respect in fashion and apparel industry.\nDonna Karan born October 2, 1948 in New York is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and \"DK\" in the famous American fashion brand \"DKNY\". This is an interationally recognized brand and is particularly popular here in the United States.\nTodd Odham\nTodd Oldham is an American designer born in Texas. He is president of L-7 Designs Inc. His most famous work might be the line of clothing that he produced in conjunction with the Batman Forever movie. In addition to his fashion design experience, he has experience in design for the home.\nAnna Sui: Most Celebrated Designer\nAnna Sui (born August 4, 1964) is a world famous American fashion designer. She has boutique store in Los Angeles. She is more popular in Japan than in US. Her timeless designs are liked around the world. Anna Sui is one of the most celebrated fashion designers of America.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://writergrrlreads.blogspot.com/2018/03/marko-monday-28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CIHX2NWKF2MPXZKIVQ2XJIYQGEKPZBQZ", "length": 2371, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "writergrrlreads.blogspot.com", "title": "Marko Monday [28] ~ Writer Grrl Reads", "raw_content": "Lately, I find myself getting more and more emotional with the arrival and passing of certain stages. Marko turned five last month, and I think the arrival of this milestone birthday just jump started this feeling like my baby boy is really growing up. From the time he was born, he's always been my little man, always seeming wiser than his age. Now, I just love the things that come out of his mouth! I love the personality that he's developing as he figures out the world and his place in it. As I mentioned on here before, he's totally into superheroes right now. Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, doesn't matter -- he loves them all. One night he says to me, all serious, \"Mama, I'm not just a man, and I'm not just slippery. I'm Slippery Man.\"\nThe next night, we opened his \"Make Your Own Superhero Costume\" kit that he received for his birthday. It came with the basics of a superhero costume, but fun stick-on options to make a unique superhero costume. Here's Slippery Man:\nOK, now to tie superheroes into the cute bunny book that is the central focus of this book. My hubby and Marko gifted this book to me a couple of years ago for Mother's Day. It has a cute, quick storyline with all types of baby and mama animals, each one explaining \"I love my mommy because...\" I've read this book to Marko dozens of times and it's still one that we gravitate towards when it's late and we need a quick story. A couple of weeks ago, Marko picked this book off the shelf, and announced to me that he was going to read to me tonight. As I mentioned above, there are certain moments lately that literally take my breath away and cause me to marvel at the actual little man that he is becoming. I should qualify and say that he's not actually reading yet, but he has so many of his stories memorized, and even reads them with the same voices and intonations that I use while reading the story. I love witnessing him soaking up all this literature and how much he loves books. As we sit poised on the verge of his next big leap, learning to really read, I pray that he continues to love to read because I can't wait to watch him explore the worlds contained between the pages on his own.\nAnd I'm getting emotional again -- if one was incredible, and two was amazing, and three was the best yet, and four was out of this world ... there are no words to describe five.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wtug.com/are-stevie-j-and-faith-evans-married/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:56Z", "digest": "sha1:L5IQZE3ZGHT445SLC6IQ3D5CNY2IAAED", "length": 1594, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "wtug.com", "title": "Are Stevie J and Faith Evans Married?", "raw_content": "Are Stevie J and Faith Evans Married?\nStevie J's Instagram\nEarly this morning, producer/ Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Stevie J tweeted, \"I Love you Faith Rene Jordan,\" to which R&B singer Faith Evans replied, \"I love you back Steven Aaron Jordan,\" leaving social media users confused and wondering one thing: Are Faith and Stevie J. married?!\nTMZ reports that they two are married. Faith and Stevie reportedly applied for a marriage license on Tuesday, July 17 in Las Vegas and married later that night in their hotel room.\nThe two began dating in late 2016 and broke up a few months into the relationship; it isn't known when the two got back together. The two have been close friends for more than 25 years and became extremely close while on the road for the Bad Boy Reunion Tour. In a 2014 interview with Vlad TV, the singer recalls the time Stevie loaned her $75k for a house.\n\u201cI wanted to purchase a house, I was renting this expensive apartment in the city, and I wanted to buy me a house in South Jersey. So I was waiting for my next advance for my record deal or my publishing deal which I knew was coming but I needed to come up with like $150,000 to put down on this house. And Stevie J was one of the two people who loaned me the $75,000 that I need to put down on that house. He always has a special place in my heart.\"\nThis is Stevie's first marriage and Faith's third. Evans was married to The Notorious B.I.G. until his death in 1997, and to music exec Todd Russaw until 2011.\nCongrats to Mr. & Mrs. Jordan!\nSource: Are Stevie J and Faith Evans Married?\nFiled Under: Faith Evans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aaaanime.com/type/Books/cat/Graphic+Novels/Gimmick%21.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KXQAGIJ6QCDPPEVZOXHW6DEGZQJJBDE4", "length": 85, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aaaanime.com", "title": "All Books in \"Graphic Novels\" for \"Gimmick!\"", "raw_content": "All Books in \"Graphic Novels\" for \"Gimmick!\"\n1421517825 Gimmick! 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It has been viewed 3637 times and has 2 comments.\n2 Responses to Parrot AR.Drone - I Want One!\nRoland Collins\nWhy wait - you can get them now :)\nhttp://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a5b0/\nAlso, this is by far the best micro chopper I've bought - it has a gyro for stabilization, which enables it to actually hover in one spot (unlike all those other crappier versions).\nhttp://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/cb6c/\n@Roland - While those links lead to RC helicopters I venture to say they are nothing like the AR.Drone. 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Our goal is to the increase the number and diversity of nurses with higher degrees in order to meet the needs of our people.\nThe Washington Center for Nursing\u2019s (WCN) Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN) grant is focused on developing a streamlined pathway to a BSN through shared competencies, reduction in curricular variation, supportive systems for minority students, and direct transfer agreements between community colleges and universities.\nSince 2012, WCN\u2019s program has helped fund four new RN to BSN programs in the state: Saint Martin\u2019s University (Lacey), Bellevue College (Bellevue), Western Washington University (Bellingham) and Wenatchee Valley College (Wenatchee).\nAfter assembling nurses for two \u201cSafe Table\u201d forums in Spokane and Seattle, the APIN-WA team produced a briefing paper, \u201cMoving from ADN to BSN: What Works for Washington RNs?\u201d that describes incentives and barriers for Washington RNs pursuing a BSN.\nTo identify best practices for the recruitment, retention, and graduation of current and future minority BSN students, WCN launched a yearlong Diversity Mentoring Program pilot. Seasoned nurses are working with minority nursing students and novice nurses to help support them as they navigate the first few years of the profession. The pilot will undergo evaluation in summer 2014, and the program will launch in the fall.\nAs a result of solid nursing leadership and interprofessional collaboration, Washington\u2019s community and technical college system and four-year universities have reached a landmark agreement to create a new statewide associate in nursing transfer agreement that standardizes the way credits are awarded and accepted between and among Washington\u2019s community and technical colleges and four-year universities. 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You will be able to unsubscribe from receiving future emails and have your name removed from our database by contacting achd@theconferencecompany.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.activewebsuite.com/cgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi?request=display_specific_date_events&website=default&month=9&day=23&year=2018&category_id=0&set=1&session=5a4d5ed01e1fe469", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GGIMUTRB5AFLMQ3CYTSYE2UAPBZWJXBE", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.activewebsuite.com", "title": "Active Web Suite Technologies Classifieds Demo", "raw_content": "Home | Sunday, September 23, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/35193/kt-tunstall-earning-her-stripes?utm_source=more&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=readmore", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:08Z", "digest": "sha1:IPECDV6BPD4YM4C3HYJWR3GY4LOFWFWA", "length": 7732, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.advertiser.ie", "title": "Advertiser.ie - KT Tunstall - Earning her stripes", "raw_content": "KT Tunstall - Earning her stripes\nBy Kevin McGuire Galway Advertiser, Thu, Jan 13, 2011\nIT HAD been a whirlwind six years for folk/rock songstress KT Tunstall and she decided it was time to take stock and dream it all up again.\nAfter being \u2018discovered\u2019 in October 2004 on Later\u2026with Jools Holland she was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize and in 2006 she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist.\nTunstall\u2019s debut album Eye to the Telescope reached No 3 in the British Album Chart, went Top Ten in Canada, and sold more than a million copies in the USA. The lead single \u2018Black Horse and the Cherry Tree\u2019 became a popular choice for contestants on American Idol.\nKT consolidated her success in America in the summer of 2006 when the single \u2018Suddenly I See\u2019 featured prominently in the hit comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada.\nThroughout 2007 and 2008 Tunstall toured relentlessly in the US and Canada and her second album Drastic Fantastic sold 50,000 in its first week of release. She even got a Grammy Nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a more upbeat spirit to girl-with-guitar in America,\u201d KT tells me. \u201cIt\u2019s probably because they own a wider genre of singer-songwriter with folk, blues, and country. In the UK the genre tends to be sort of self-help music and that\u2019s not necessarily bad but sometimes it can be bloody awful and totally depressing.\u201d\nYet, in spite of all her awards and accomplishments, the 35-year-old Scot decided to take break in 2009 and travel through the Arctic, South America, and India. It was time to reflect.\n\u201cI spent the best part of 10 years trying to get somewhere but I wasn\u2019t very successful,\u201d KT says of her early career. \u201cThen after appearing on the Jools Holland success happened really quickly for me and I became this overnight phenomenon.\n\u201cAfter that things were really happening for me in America and that was incredibly fast and exciting. For like five years it was just head down and knees up! It was only when I took a break to make this current album that I was able to sit down and digest it all.\n\u201cLooking back on it felt like I went from nought to a 100 in the blink of an eye. It was a brilliant journey and I was so grateful to have had that opportunity.\u201d\nIn September last year Tunstall released her third studio album Tiger Suit and the first single \u2018Fade Like a Shadow\u2019 was very well received. To kick off the New Year, KT will play a 13 date British and Ireland tour. The tour kicks off in Galway when KT plays a \u2018R\u00f3is\u00edn Dubh presents...\u2019 show at the Live Lounge at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday February 19 at 8pm.\nKT cemented a settled period in her life when she married her drummer boyfriend Luke Bullen at a ceremony in Fife in September 2008. The couple spent their honeymoon backpacking around South America, India, and New Zealand, and collaborating with Neil Finn, Radiohead, and Johnny Marr along the way.\nKT then took part in the Cape Farewell project in the Arctic circle alongside Jarvis Cocker and Martha Wainwright.\n\u201cThe Arctic was the first trip I took after six or seven years of solid touring,\u201d she says. \u201cTo suddenly go from being surrounded by people 24/7 to this stark, harsh, and almost uninhabited place was great but also a bit frightening.\n\u201cI was with all these great artists like Feist, Laurie Anderson, and Robyn Hitchcock and on the one hand it was a brilliant experience but on another level it was a real challenge.\u201d\nDuring her time away Tunstall had a slight crisis of confidence. However, when she reconvened with her old Fence Collective colleagues King Creosote and The Pictish Trail (Kenny Anderson and Johnny Lynch ) in rural Scotland she got her groove back.\nIn early 2009 former Ash and Bat For Lashes guitarist Charlotte Hatherley joined KT\u2019s band and she helped the Scot to find the voice that she had always been searching for.\n\u201cCharlotte has just blown us all away,\u201d KT says. \u201cShe\u2019s an exceptionally talented musician and very visceral. It\u2019s just pure emotion when she plays. It was interesting seeing her take on the role because it\u2019d been a while since she\u2019d had a full on lead guitar gig.\n\u201cThis is probably the most heavy-riffed stuff I\u2019ve ever written. I had all these tribal backing vocal bits planned and suddenly I discovered Charlotte could do them all. Our voices are spookily similar and it\u2019s nice for me to have another girl in the band. Neither of us are super girly girl and we\u2019re both really into our music.\u201d\nWith her new band and material in place KT began the recording process for Tiger Suit and chose Berlin\u2019s famous Hansa Studio as the place to do it. The studio is located near the site of the former Berlin wall and is where U2 recorded Achtung Baby and David Bowie made Low and \u201cHeroes\u201d.\nKT could feel the significant presence of the Thin White Duke during the making of her third album.\n\u201cThe room where Bowie and U2 recorded is pretty much the same as when they recorded their iconic albums there,\u201d she states. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that difficult to imagine Bowie, standing all angular and cool, in the corner.\n\u201cIt definitely did have an effect that some of the best music of the last 20-30 years had been made there. We were all very excited by that fact and definitely upped our game while we were in that amazing space.\u201d\nTunstall\u2019s new tracks such as \u2018Fade like a Shadow\u2019 and \u2018Push That Knot Away\u2019 include a swathe of electronic beats alongside her acoustic guitar and otherworldly vocals. Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman wrote: \u201cThere is a degree of tension throughout [the album] between Tunstall\u2019s determination to try something different and her love of a simple song.\u201d\nAt the heart of this tension was whether or not to use her trademark guitar effects pedal. \u201cI went through a period of really questioning that,\u201d KT says. \u201cI was wondering if I was getting known as someone who could work a piece of equipment rather than as a singer-songwriter.\n\u201cI\u2019m glad I got over that because now I realise that it\u2019s a really important part of what I do. 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Each summer, AAPD places college students, graduate students, law students, and recent graduates with all types of disabilities in summer internships with Congressional offices, federal agencies, non-profits, and for-profit organizations in the Washington, DC area. Each intern is matched with a mentor who will assist them with their career goals. AAPD provides the interns with a living stipend, transportation to and from Washington, DC, and fully-accessible housing.\nAt the beginning of the summer, interns participate in a 1-week orientation session to learn about AAPD and the disability rights movement, meet the other interns, and participate in a variety of engaging workshops and events. As part of the AAPD network, interns also receive opportunities to attend events on Capitol Hill, conferences, community events, briefings, and more.\nPrevious AAPD Summer Internship Placements include:\nJBS International\nRepresentative Barbara Lee (D-CA)\nRepresentative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)\nRepresentative F. 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Benjamin Meier, an Air Force pilot who was assigned to the 31st TES.\nThe F-35 on the left of the B-2 will represent all organ donors, while the F-35 on the right will symbolize all who have received organs that have prolonged their lives.\nWhile on a morning run in 2015, Meier was struck in the head by the mirror of a passing truck on Edwards AFB. A Donate Life America release says he was declared brain dead less than 24 hours later. An organ donor, Meier was able to provide his heart, lungs, liver and kidneys to people who live on to this day.\nA handmade floragraph with Meier\u2019s likeness will be one of 44 featured on the Donate Life America Rose Parade Float.\nAccording to the organization, the float is part of a national effort of more than 50 organizations that have teamed up to deliver a message that becoming an organ donor can help save and heal lives.\nAirmen of the 31st TES joined Meier\u2019s family in a ceremony at Hangar 1810 Dec. 8 where his squadron finished decorating the floragraph. The squadron got the opportunity to place their own touches on the floragraph and added Meier\u2019s call sign \u201cChex\u201d on his uniform and signed the back of his portrait. 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He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery and is survived by his wife, two young sons, two sisters and parents.\nFor more, visit http://www.aerotechnews.com/edwardsafb/2017/12/22/rose-parade-float-to-honor-edwards-pilot-for-giving-gifts-of-life/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aflcio-hit.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=2943", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MGY7PJSQ5VZKCGRHMDD5ON6IQ5MI5R3H", "length": 224, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.aflcio-hit.com", "title": "AFL-CIO HIT | Investors | Portfolio Performance | Value Growth of $50K", "raw_content": "This chart shows the competitive value growth of $50,000 invested in the Trust (minimum initial investment) and its benchmark (theoretical values) over the course of ten years, assuming the reinvestment of all distributions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 180.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.agriturismokedo.it/en/where-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NV3KATUEBIYNOCC5IEBI6FGQTQP65TKA", "length": 727, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.agriturismokedo.it", "title": "WHERE WE ARE | Agriturismo Kedo - Curiglia di Monteviasco (Varese)", "raw_content": "Sei qui: Home \u00bb WHERE WE ARE\nKedo Agritourism is in the little village of Piero, placed between the Varese pre-alps and the Swiss alps. It is a particularly interesting area for hikes and longer walks. There are many trails in the beeches and birches woods that overlook the Lugano lake and lake Maggiore. The area is rich in flora and fauna like deer, chamois, badgers, foxes, nighttime and daytime birds of prey. A few minutes away from Piero flows the Giona river with its clean and fresh waters.\nform Luino (VA) follow signs for Dumenza and then Curiglia, and go on towards Piero. Once you get to the end of the road there\u2019s a big square where you can park. Continue by feet on the trail that leads to Piero (about 10 mins)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aircav.com/survival/appe/asappe02.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YTEZORLQGIEUUACU2J2VTKZIB5F62EZW", "length": 6655, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.aircav.com", "title": "Survival - APPENDIX E - POISONOUS SNAKES AND LIZARDS - Page 2", "raw_content": "The viperidae or true vipers usually have thick bodies and heads that are much wider than their necks (Figure E-3). However, there are many different sizes, markings, and colorations.\nThis snake group has developed a highly sophisticated means for delivering venom. They have long, hollow fangs that perform like hypodermic needles. They deliver their venom deep into the wound.\nThe fangs of this group of snakes are movable. These snakes fold their fangs into the roof of their mouths. When they strike, their fangs come forward, stabbing the victim. The snake controls the movement of its fangs; fang movement is not automatic. The venom is usually hemotoxic. There are, however, several species that have large quantities of neurotoxic elements, thus making them even more dangerous. The vipers are responsible for many human fatalities around the world.\nThe crotalids, or pit vipers (Figure E-4), may be either slender or thick-bodied. Their heads are usually much wider than their necks. These snakes take their name from the deep pit located between the eye and the nostril. They are commonly brown with dark blotches, though some kinds are green.\nRattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and several species of dangerous snakes from Central and South America, Asia, China, and India fall into the pit viper group. The pit is a highly sensitive organ capable of picking up the slightest temperature variance. Most pit vipers are nocturnal. They hunt for food at night with the aid of these specialized pits that let them locate prey in total darkness. Rattlesnakes are the only pit vipers that possess a rattle at the tip of the tail.\nIndia has about 12 species of these snakes. You find them in trees or on the ground in all types of terrain. The tree snakes are slender; the ground snakes are heavy-bodied. All are dangerous.\nChina has a pit viper similar to the cottonmouth found in North America. You find it in the rocky areas of the remote mountains of South China. It reaches a length of 1.4 meters but is not vicious unless irritated. You can also find a small pit viper, about 45 centimeters long, on the plains of eastern China. It is too small to be dangerous to a man wearing shoes.\nThere are about 27 species of rattlesnakes in the United States and Mexico. They vary in color and may or may not have spots or blotches. Some are small while others, such as the diamondbacks, may grow to 2.5 meters long.\nThere are five kinds of rattlesnakes in Central and South America, but only the tropical rattlesnake is widely distributed. The rattle on the tip of the tail is sufficient identification for a rattlesnake.\nMost will try to escape without a fight when approached, but there is always a chance one will strike at a passerby. They do not always give a warning; they may strike first and rattle afterwards or not at all.\nThe genus Trimeresurus is a subgroup of the crotalidae. These are Asian pit vipers. These pit vipers are normally tree-loving snakes with a few species living on the ground. They basically have the same characteristics of the crotalidae--slender build and very dangerous. Their bites usually are on the upper extremities--head, neck, and shoulders. Their venom is largely hemotoxic.\nA group of highly dangerous snakes with powerful neurotoxic venom that affects the nervous system, causing respiratory paralysis. Included in this family are coral snakes, cobras, mambas, and all the Australian venomous snakes. The coral snake is small and has caused human fatalities. The Australian death adder, tiger, taipan, and king brown snakes are among the most venomous in the world, causing many human fatalities.\nOnly by examining a dead snake can you positively determine if it is a cobra or a near relative (Figure E-5). On cobras, kraits, and coral snakes, the third scale on the upper lip touches both the nostril scale and the eye. The krait also has a row of enlarged scales down its ridged back.\nYou can find the cobras of Africa and the Near East in almost any habitat. One kind may live in or near water, another in trees. Some are aggressive and savage. The distance a cobra can strike in a forward direction is equal to the distance its head is raised above the ground. Some cobras, however, can spit venom a distance of 3 to 3.5 meters. This venom is harmless unless it gets into your eyes; then it may cause blindness if not washed out immediately. Poking around in holes and rock piles is dangerous because of the chance of encountering a spitting cobra.\nLaticaudinae and Hydrophidae\nA subfamily of elapidae, these snakes are specialized in that they found a better environment in the oceans. Why they are in the oceans is not clear to science.\nSea snakes differ in appearance from other snakes in that they have an oar like tail to aid in swimming. Some species of sea snakes have venom several times more toxic than the cobra's. Because of their marine environment, sea snakes seldom come in contact with humans. The exceptions are fisherman who capture these dangerous snakes in fish nets and scuba divers who swim in waters where sea snakes are found.\nThere are many species of sea snakes. They vary greatly in color and shape. Their scales distinguish them from eels that have no scales.\nSea snakes occur in salt water along the coasts throughout the Pacific. There are also sea snakes on the east coast of Africa and in the Persian Gulf. There are no sea snakes in the Atlantic Ocean.\nThere is no need to fear sea snakes. They have not been known to attack a man swimming. Fishermen occasionally get bit by a sea snake caught in a net. The bite is dangerous.\nThe largest group of snakes worldwide. In this family there are species that are rear-fanged; however, most are completely harmless to man. They have a venom-producing gland and enlarged, grooved rear fangs that allow venom to flow into the wound. The inefficient venom apparatus and the specialized venom is effective on cold-blooded animals (such as frogs and lizards) but not considered a threat to human life. The boomslang and the twig snake of Africa have, however, caused human deaths.\nThere is little to fear from lizards as long as you follow the same precautions as for avoiding snakebite. Usually, there are only two poisonous lizards: the Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard. The venom of both these lizards is neurotoxic. The two lizards are in the same family, and both are slow moving with a docile nature.\nThe komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), although not poisonous, can be dangerous due to its large size. These lizards can reach lengths of 3 meters and weigh over 115 kilograms. Do not try to capture this lizard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 6842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/services/the-gold-line/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XPLVA2JDOOIYEHUQ5OKIV4QOFHPGZ5EA", "length": 2602, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk", "title": "The Gold Line | Airedale NHS Foundation Trust", "raw_content": "The Gold Line is a new dedicated 24/7 telephone service for people who may be in their last year of life and their families across Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and Bradford. The care provided by the nurses running the helpline and the services they coordinate has meant that a significantly higher proportion of people have been able to die in the place of their choosing (usually at home) than the national average. Every patient should receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.\nThe Gold Line is a new dedicated service for people who are being cared for on the Gold Standards Framework. This is about offering a gold standard of care for people with a serious illness who may be in their last year of life.\nThe Gold Line is a single point of contact for you or your carer acting on your behalf. You can access help and advice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will be supported in your preferred place of care wherever possible.\nYou can use the Gold Line whenever you or your carer feel unsure or concerned about your health.\nIt is mainly for you to use:\nAs an alternative to ringing 111\nIf you are finding it difficult to get help during the day and you need some advice.\nWho will you speak to?\nThe Gold Line is run by senior nurses at Airedale Hospital. If the line is busy, you can leave a message and a nurse will get back to you once they are free.\nWhat help can you get?\nThe nurses will give you advice and support. They will contact other services you may need, including a doctor, community nurse, the hospice and others.\nBy providing extra advice and support at home, you may be able to avoid going into hospital. However if needed, admission to hospital or hospice can be arranged.\nWhat about your health record?\nWith your permission, the nurse can access your health record on the computer so that they can see your current situation and medicines etc.\nThey will also enter the details of your call into your health record so that your usual health care team can see the details.\nThe Gold Line works closely with all the other people involved in your care.\nHow can you find out more about end of life and palliative care issues?\nThe Palliative Care Team at Airedale Hospital has selected a list of high quality websites offering information, advice and support for patients and carers.\nGoldline Annual Report 2017-2018\nThe Gold Line for health professionals\nIf you are a health professional who works with patients using The Gold Line, we would welcome your feedback.\nAll feedback will be treated in confidence. Please use the form below.\nHealth Professional Feedback", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alebrije.tv/films/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4GXZHJAQEZEIEEIPUSZRFXNFVMJUSUOS", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.alebrije.tv", "title": "Films - Alebrije", "raw_content": "Search by Year, Cast, Producer, Director, etc...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1185, "original_length": 37542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 97.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alexbeinstein.com/2007/05/greta-van-susteren-and-rick-taylor.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LBZEM5H5J4DA5WUD5VSIKWI25WLV4LD7", "length": 228, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.alexbeinstein.com", "title": "Tomorrow with Alex Beinstein: Greta Van Susteren and Newt Gingrich's Spokesman Rick Tyler", "raw_content": "Greta Van Susteren and Newt Gingrich's Spokesman Rick Tyler\nRacism in the courts as well political issues with Gingrich's spokesman\nLabels: 2008 Election, Civil Rights, Darfur, Global Warming, Healthcare, Iraq War, Newt Gingrich", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alu.army.mil/alog/issues/julaug04/C_thinking.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3FWZZZJRWCHBA7YQ47DOX2H4J2NZ6QZ2", "length": 10612, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.alu.army.mil", "title": "Army Logistician (Thinking Joint\u2014Integrating Army Logistics)", "raw_content": "Thinking Joint\u2014\nIntegrating Army Logistics\nby Major Lisa A. Zanglin\nWhen Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., addressed the House Armed Services Committee last October on lessons learned thus far from Operation Iraqi Freedom, he described the new approach to warfare demonstrated in Iraq as \u201covermatching power.\u201d Giambastiani, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, stated that the emphasis is no longer on numbers only but also on harnessing all of the capabilities the services and Special Operations Forces bring to the battlespace in a coherently joint way. This important point should be the key for developing future Army logistics systems and doctrine. Although threats from terrorists, insurgents, and enemy state-sponsored cells have dramatically changed the world in which the military operates, the responsibility of the services to defeat the enemy has not changed.\nThe first step toward exploiting all available capabilities is to educate the Army logistics community about existing systems and procedures that increase situational knowledge of the battlespace. Logisticians must understand combat missions in order to support them. If 9\u201311 has taught us anything, it is that there are no front lines and battlefields will never be linear again. The natural second step is to incorporate joint training and doctrine in all logistics planning. With insights gained from Operation Iraqi Freedom, logistics planners have discerned four important attributes that will ensure success on the battlefield. They are knowledge, speed, precision, and lethality.\nImproved satellite capabilities made possible by new communications links have greatly improved knowledge and increased intelligence on the battlefield. The information these links provide enables extremely accurate targeting, which increases lethality and reduces the number of sorties required. Fewer sorties mean reduced fuel consumption, and fewer flying hours mean less aircraft maintenance. Fewer operational forces require a smaller logistics footprint to support them. Current Army logistics doctrine does not address the integration and leveraging of satellite capabilities or their advantages to the logistics community.\nIn addition to global positioning systems and satellite communications, other available technologies could greatly enhance the knowledge of logistics units. An example is multispectral imagery. Multispectral scanner systems are passive, electro-optical sensors that collect and digitally record reflected and emitted electromagnetic energy. Data obtained from these systems range from the viability of supply routes to the most abundant water sources.\nSpace-based systems can provide much more than weather and communications data. However, many logisticians are not familiar with these systems and the information they provide because joint training that uses these resources is seldom offered. Information on these systems can be requested through various channels, such as the S\u20132 (intelligence staff officer). However, most battalion S\u20132s are unfamiliar with the types of information satellites can produce, and space operations personnel are not authorized in the division support command. Many space systems are classified and clearance is required to request data from them.\nIn Operation Iraqi Freedom, forces closed on the joint area of operations in less than 90 days as opposed to the 7 months required in Operation Desert Storm. Although a smaller force equates to a smaller logistics footprint, the overall customer wait time was reduced dramatically. Modes of delivery and capabilities have improved greatly since 1990. Available bandwidth has increased more than 40 times, which has permitted direct visibility over supplies and enabled the destination of supplies to be adjusted while they are en route. This has provided more flexibility for the forces in theater because they do not have to wait for critical parts.\nSome systems problems remain, however. The Army supply system is not integrated with the other services\u2019 systems. The Marine Corps has many of the same vehicles as the Army, so they can use the same repair parts. However, an Army unit could have a part shortage while a Marine Corps unit operating 1 mile downrange could have an excess of the same part. Because neither service has visibility over the other\u2019s supply system, the Army requirement would not be filled. Depending on each service\u2019s stockage level, a part also could cost one service more than it costs another.\nOther coalition forces in theater often have supplies needed by U.S. forces. In many instances, supplies could be shifted to where they are needed most under the provisions of acquisition and cross-servicing agreements. These agreements with other nations\u2019 defense ministries authorize the acquisition and transfer of logistics support between the signatories. They are widely used throughout the U.S. European Command. Army logisticians also could use other types of joint and coalition support agreements to obtain needed supplies and equipment, and an automated system linking the services and coalition forces would increase the speed of delivery even more.\nPrecision applies not only to weapon systems but also to decisionmaking. Using precision munitions increases lethality on key targets. Over two-thirds of the ordnance expended in Operation Iraqi Freedom was precision guided, and campaign objectives were obtained using one-seventh of the ordnance used in Operation Desert Storm. \u201cPrecision decisions\u201d allowed a combination of Special Forces and conventional forces to work jointly, maximizing effectiveness. All of these factors contributed to the drafting of a military response to enemy actions that inflicted minimum damage to Iraq\u2019s infrastructure, which conserved resources that would be needed in follow-on stability operations.\nFor Army logisticians, precision means delivering the right supplies in the right amount to the right location at the right time. Joint logistics doctrine uses key elements of the logistics system\u2014lines of communication, theater transportation networks, specified units, and host nation support\u2014to make sure resources are available to support combat power. Overall, this works well except in one area\u2014construction. Navy Seabees, Air Force REDHORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron, Engineer), and Army Engineer units operating in the same theater work independently. Although each service is capable of various construction activities, there is little, if any, coordination between them in theater.\nEngineer support could be coordinated before deployment to see if a REDHORSE squadron is available. If so, vertical construction units could focus on other areas. (Vertical construction units are those that erect buildings, towers, fences, and bridges and install electrical, sanitary, and heating systems in them). Although they all use class IV construction materials, each service requisitions them differently. The Army relies heavily on contracts for construction services. However, using joint and multinational assets could save time and money since the materials may be in\ntheater already and transportation costs could be minimized.\nThe increase in knowledge, speed, and precision and the integration of air, ground, and sea operations have contributed to the final attribute of success\u2014\nlethality. However, logistics provides the foundation of combat power. Planning and executing the movement and sustainment of combat forces in a theater of operations makes the forces involved lethal.\nThe fundamental point in Admiral Giambastiani\u2019s congressional testimony was that the military\u2019s traditional planning and approach to warfare have shifted. Instead of employing service-centric forces that must be deconflicted on the battlefield to achieve victories of attrition, a well-trained, integrated joint force now enters the battlespace quickly and conducts decisive operations with operational and strategic effects.\nThe lack of a single logistics structure limits the logistics community\u2019s ability to synchronize priority of support with priority of effort. Since our Nation\u2019s founding, military forces have relied on the combined capabilities of the various services and coalition partners. Since the 1980\u2019s, we have had a Combined Force Land Component Commander, a Combined Joint Force Air Component Commander, and a Combined Joint Maritime Component Commander to bring combat elements together to direct their overall capabilities toward national strategic goals. Joint force commanders do not care where a capability is obtained as long as it fulfills the need. This same logic needs to apply to logistics. For Army logisticians, the challenge is to use sister services and coalition forces to get what they need quickly and deliver it with precision.\nAlthough current operations have forced operators to conduct joint and coalition operations and to fight as a joint and combined team, the Army logistics community must establish innovative training and doctrine that incorporates lessons learned while providing support in joint environments. Although Army joint logistics doctrine is still in its infancy, the essential imperatives of combat service support\u2014man, fuel, feed, arm, fix, and sustain\u2014can be applied to the overmatching power approach to modern warfare. Fixing, fueling, moving, sustaining, and arming the forces give them their lethality. How the services conduct these functions in joint operations should be understood, trained, and perfected by Army logisticians. The constantly changing nature of our operational environment requires a joint logistics structure that is flexible, fully integrated, and capable of orchestrating complex, simultaneous distributed operations rapidly and decisively. Joint logistics affects the Army more than it affects its sister services because wars are still won by \u201cboots on the ground,\u201d and most of those boots belong to the Army.\nMajor Lisa A. Zanglin is assigned to the Directorate of Combat Developments for Combat Service Support at the Army Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, Virginia. She is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the Joint Forces Staff College, the Air Force Instructor Course, and the Joint Aerospace Command and Control Course. She has master\u2019s degrees in human resource management and military science from Troy State University in Alabama and is completing doctoral research in public administration through Auburn University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 10907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.americawestmedical.com/if-you-think-you-get-health-then-read-this.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:7OSHE7HXHOPJRFW56XU2ZWNG35OC37MJ", "length": 2709, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.americawestmedical.com", "title": "If You Think You Get Health, Then Read This | AW Medical", "raw_content": "Tips for Choosing the Best Natural Health Care Center\nIf you are suffering from low back pain, diabetic neuropathy or knee pain, it is advisable you get treatment from a natural health care center. The whole process of choosing a natural health care center can be a daunting task, especially if it is your first time. So, how do you choose the right natural health care center? Your search for the right natural health care center can be much easier with the tips below.\nWhere is the natural health care center located? Choosing a natural health care center based in another area can be a lot of work. Most natural health care centers will indicate on their website the different areas they operate from.\nWhat are the academic and work experience of the chiropractors working at the natural health care? Ensure the natural health care has chiropractors who have the right academic qualifications.\nWhen looking for a natural health care center, the best people to ask for referrals would be your friends and family members. Friends and relatives are people you can trust to give you an honest opinion.\nDoes the natural health care have experience? Avoid dealing with a natural health care that is new in the market, they will end up practicing with you. The natural health care center has improved and perfected their skills over the years. To know how long the natural health care has been operating, check on their website.\nWhat services does the natural health care center offer? Most chiropractors will indicate on their website the conditions they deal with, ensure you check.\nWhat are the working hours of the natural health care center? Go for a natural health care that will be open when it is convenient for you. Most natural health care centers will indicate on their website when they open and close.\nWhen choosing a natural health care center, your budget plays an important role on which center you will settle for. You can compare the rates of different chiropractors, then choose one that is within your price range.\nIf you are paying for your treatment using insurance, inquire from the natural health care center if they will accept your insurance.\nIt is important you also check if the natural health care has been accredited by any reputable bodies in this field. Also, the natural health care center should have a license to operate from the health department in your state.\nDoes the natural health care center have a good reputation in the market? Check the reviews and ratings of the natural health care center on different platforms online. A reputable natural health care center will always have many positive reviews.\n\u00ab The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Games\nThe Beginner\u2019s Guide to Marketing \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.andrewbarna.org/periodic%20video/2010/05/04/san-diego-storm.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:47Z", "digest": "sha1:464454C4UJSV3MAUTC3JEGJT6JHG6BDG", "length": 138, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.andrewbarna.org", "title": "San Diego Storm", "raw_content": "
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", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.antiguanice.com/v2/client.php?id=885&news=4463", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4IQVXX3UFFTPOXRNGBPVL5RRHSUN56LT", "length": 647, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.antiguanice.com", "title": "Roach Puts the Chains in Motion", "raw_content": "ROACH PUTS THE CHAINS IN MOTION\nKemar Roach put the chains in motion before Chris Gayle coolly navigated West Indies to a nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first Digicel Test on Sunday here.\nRoach snared 5-60 from 23.2 overs, as New Zealand were bowled out for 272 in their second innings about 45 minutes before tea on the final day.\nGayle, a century-maker in the first innings, then gathered a typically authoritative, unbeaten 64, becoming the first West Indies batsman to score 1,000 runs against the Black Caps in Tests, as the home team confidently chased down 102 for victory.\nThe result gave West Indies a 1-0 lead in the series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/12-2-2010/osullivan-films-winchester-virginia12021.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KGXN3QI5NLRDP3HLZJ7V42FGWFGE6N33", "length": 999, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.areadevelopment.com", "title": "O'Sullivan Films Investing $28.3M in Winchester, Virginia | O'Sullivan Films, Winchester, Virginia - Area Development", "raw_content": "O'Sullivan Films Investing $28.3M in Winchester, Virginia\nO'Sullivan Films is investing $28.3 million and creating 174 jobs in Winchester, Virginia, the Winchester Star reports. The plant, which is owned by the German Hornschuch Group, has already been approved for a $300,000 grant from the Governor's Opportunity Fund and $500,000 in Virginia Investment Partnership Program grants.\n\"The purchase by the Hornschuch Group of O'Sullivan is the reason we have this opportunity,\" said O'Sullivan Films President and CEO Denis Belzile. \"This certainly will allow us to consolidate our position in the markets we're in and open up new markets.\"\nThe City Council may match the $300,000 grant with funds to improve infrastructure at the project site.\nO'Sullivan produces polymer and finishing films for the construction products, consumer, healthcare, and automotive sectors. The expansion plans to increase the height of the building from 24 feet to 60 feet to permit the installation of larger equipment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 10517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 132.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/2-10-2017/autoalert-headquarters-kansas-city-missouri.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KH3CIPZHHAVVSZXPV4FHNZAD7DEKV4SV", "length": 2696, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.areadevelopment.com", "title": "AutoAlert Relocating Headquarters To Kansas City, Missouri - Area Development", "raw_content": "AutoAlert Relocating Headquarters To Kansas City, Missouri\nCritical Site Selection Factor #3: Quality of Life\nFrontline: Defend Trade Secrets Act Gives Added Protection for Tech Companies\nLocation Strategies in the War for Millennial Talent\nShould \u201cUrbanization\u201d Drive the Location Decision?\nAutoAlert, the industry\u2019s leading data-mining and trade-cycle management platform, plans to move the company\u2019s headquarters to Kansas City, Missouri. The company plans to create hundreds of additional high-paying jobs in the future.\nCompany CEO Mike Dullea said, \u201cThe AutoAlert team loves the downtown location and the opportunity it provides. This area is rich with innovation and AutoAlert is excited to be added to the mix. Our company is raising the bar to bring high paying tech jobs right to the heart of Kansas City and the Silicon Prairie.\u201d\nGovernor Eric Greitens noted the company is moving its headquarters from California to Kansas City, creating more than 300 jobs for Missourians. \u201c In relaying his conversation with AutoAlert\u2019s CEO the Governor said, \u201cWe had a great conversation. He told me that because of new policies like Right to Work, which show our commitment to growing our economy, they are excited to bring their business here and create jobs.\"\nAccording to the Governor\u2019s Office after a comprehensive evaluation of major markets, Auto Alert selected Kansas City, Missouri, due to its revitalized and growing downtown area, access to tech talent, and convenient transportation options. AutoAlert plans to announce a specific office location soon and be operational by Spring 2017.\nAutoAlerttold state officials it will remain committed to its global footprint with headquarters transferring to Kansas City, Missouri, and will maintain offices in Irvine, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and Manchester, United Kingdom. The company anticipates adding an additional 200+ positions to its workforce.\n\u201cAutoAlert's announcement is great news for Kansas City and reflects our city's commitment to being a hub for cutting-edge, industry-leading businesses. We look forward to AutoAlert's continued success and I am thrilled to have them join our community,\u201d said Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Sly James.\nThe Missouri Partnership, the Kansas City Area Development Council, the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and KCP&L worked together to make this expansion possible. As an incentive, the state developed a strategic benefit package which the company can access if it meets its job creation projection. State incentives are performance-based, meaning the company could access benefits based on the actual number of jobs they create rather than what they project to create.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 10641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.armenia.com.au/news/Feature-Articles/English/54737/Campaign-Contribution----Or-Legal-Bribery-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YEI73BQJS2HIPAN7QHD2AAS5EUF5JSBB", "length": 4323, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.armenia.com.au", "title": "Campaign Contribution\u2026 Or Legal Bribery? - Featured Articles || Armenia.com.au: Armenian-Australian News", "raw_content": "Campaign Contribution\u2026 Or Legal Bribery?\nThis column is mostly intended for readers outside the United States who may not be familiar with U.S. campaign contribution laws. Interestingly, even Americans are often confused about the complex regulations regarding limits of political contributions that are different in local, state and federal elections.\nLet\u2019s take a closer look at contributions for federal elections, including, presidential elections. The contribution limit per person to a presidential candidate is $2,700 per election. While most Americans donate much smaller amounts, some legally contribute tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars!\nAn individual can contribute $10,000 per year to a State, District or Local Political Party Committee, and $33,400 per year to a National Party Committee. However, an individual may contribute $100,200 per year, for each type of election-related expenses. There are also \u201cPACs\u201d (Political Action Committees) and \u201csuper PACs\u201d that can make unlimited contributions.\nBoth Democratic and Republican presidential candidates engage in a variety of perfectly legal, yet questionable practices, to exceed by far the $2,700 campaign contribution per person. To illustrate this point, let me quote from a recent email I received from the Hillary Clinton campaign.\nDemocratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was to visit Beverly Hills, California, on Sept. 13, to participate in two exclusive events that would have raised millions of dollars for her campaign. Unfortunately, due to her unexpected illness, her trip was postponed.\nThe first event was scheduled for the afternoon of Sept. 13 at the home of Seth MacFarlane with a special performance by Lionel Richie. The email announced that anyone who contributed $33,400 was entitled to have \u201clunch, preferred seating, and photo\u201d with Hillary Clinton. Those contributing $10,000 could only have \u201clunch and preferred seating,\u201d but no photo with the presidential candidate. Those contributing $5,000 could have just lunch, no preferred seating and no picture with the former First Lady.\nLater that evening, a more exclusive, therefore, more expensive fundraising event was scheduled. Those who could afford to contribute $100,000 per couple had the privilege of participating in a \u201cconversation and dinner with Hillary Rodham Clinton at the home of Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller.\u201d The event was chaired by \u201cDiane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller, Jane and Michael Eisner, Karen and Russell Goldsmith, and Edgar Sargsyan.\u201d\nA week after Hillary Clinton\u2019s scheduled fundraising events, her running mate, Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine, had two appearances in Southern California. On Sept. 19, a luncheon hosted by Jay Sures in Beverly Hills was billed as \u201cConversation with Tim Kaine.\u201d Only those contributing $27,000 could attend the reception with the candidate. Those donating $10,000 could have only a photo with the Vice Presidential candidate (no reception), while those contributing $2,700 could just have lunch (no reception and no photo)!\nLater that evening, a much more expensive event, billed as \u201cLatinos for Hillary, Dinner with Tim Kaine,\u201d was held at the Los Angeles home of Eva Longoria. Those paying $100,000 were entitled to attend the reception, have dinner and a photo with Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine. For $33,400, the donor could only have dinner and a photo, while those who could only afford $10,000 just had dinner!\nWhile some make large campaign contributions to rub shoulders with politicians and celebrities that attend such fundraising events, others expect personal or business favors from a candidate that may end up being President of the United States. These contributions are perfectly legal because the candidate discloses the donor\u2019s name and provides a receipt. In many countries, money handed to political candidates is called bribery.\nSome American politicians brag that they do not accept campaign contributions from PACs or corporations so that they would not be indebted to major donors after the election! In a recent email, Cong. John Sarbanes (Democrat-Maryland) stated that he does not take PAC money because \u201cI don\u2019t want to get pushed around.\u201d He stressed that he believes in \u201cgovernment of, by and for the people!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 6170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arnoldrosnermusic.com/music/piano-concerto-no-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NNJ42B3WYBBFGNTMP5KA5WNVSBL4ET7N", "length": 2831, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.arnoldrosnermusic.com", "title": "Piano Concerto No. 2 - Arnold Rosner", "raw_content": "Piano Concerto No. 2 (1965)\n2+Picc.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/strings\nArnold Rosner composed his Piano Concerto No. 2 shortly after graduating from NYU, and before receiving professional instruction in composition. As such it is an excellent representation of the roots of his musical language; it is also quite unlike any other piano concerto in the literature. Among its unusual features are its use of a scherzo as an opening movement, its lack of focus on virtuoso showmanship, and its avoidance of the sense of opposition between soloist and orchestra that characterizes the standard concerto. Instead it is dominated by melody\u2014melody that resembles no other music, yet is readily accessible, irresistibly memorable, and instantly identifiable for those familiar with his music.\nThe first movement is oriented in the key of G, with a strongly mixolydian flavor, and conveys a sense of joyful exuberance. The harmonic language is almost completely consonant, with interest generated by a free use of chromatically-related triads. Although the movement begins softly, its volume level reaches considerable peaks. This opening section is followed by a relatively subdued Trio: Allegretto. The tempo presses forward as a variant of the melody leads to a huge climax. A hushed transition then leads to a re-statement of the scherzo.\nThe second movement begins very slowly and softly. A largely consonant melody is developed contrapuntally, and some striking major-minor dissonances are heard as it proceeds. Its serene, almost religious, character is transformed as the movement builds toward a gigantic climax with violent tone-clusters in the piano. As the climax recedes, the movement concludes as it began, in quiet serenity.\nThe third movement returns to the lively, high-spirited tone of the opening movement. A loose rondo design, it is based on a syncopated modal melody, in alternation with other melodies, loosely related to the first. A secondary melody of similar character follows, leading back to a variant of the initial theme in triplet figuration. The solo piano introduces a second section, with a ponderous theme in triple meter, strongly related to the main theme of the first movement. Once this theme reaches a climax, a transition leads to a modified return of the first section, which then evolves into a variant of delicately ethereal character, featuring a continuous pattern of arpeggios in the piano\u2019s high register. A fragment of the theme highlights its major-minor features in thundering octaves and triads. As the end approaches the movement builds toward a monumental grandeur. The main theme returns briefly in a form similar to its initial statement before leading to a coda based on yet another variant of the theme, which builds once again to a grandiloquent conclusion. (Notes by Walter Simmons)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asktazi.com/2012/04/foster-child-gets-his-forever-family.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LU53PK2TC5YNA4EVXMD7C42N2HHXOP6Y", "length": 5664, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.asktazi.com", "title": "Ask Tazi! America's FAVORITE Advice Giving Cat: Foster Child Gets His \"Forever Family\" - An Ask Tazi Update", "raw_content": "Foster Child Gets His \"Forever Family\" - An Ask Tazi Update\nBack in December, you printed a letter from a young boy named \"Jamal\" who was in foster care. He had asked you to publish his letter about wanting his foster family to be his forever family, so he could show the family court judge how much it meant to him to be adopted by the family he already saw as his own. Tazi, I am Jamal's Mom - I am so happy to be able to write those words because, you see, I am not his birth mother; I am his adoptive mother. The judge blessed us with the okay to legally adopt Jamal back in January, and the adoption has just finalized! Jamal is ours forever now; and we are his forever family. My husband, children, and I are overwhelmed with joy, as is Jamal. Even our puppy Max seems to understand what wonderful news this is.\nTazi, I want to thank you - and the friend from the system - for the support you gave Jamal when he was obviously stressed about facing the judge. Seeing his letter in print meant the world to my son (I love being able to call him that!) and the follow-up letter of support gave him the courage he needed to go before the judge and pour out his heart.\nThe one thing marring our joy is the fact that Jamal's mother contested the adoption - from prison, where she is serving a decades-long sentence for drug possession and armed robbery, presumably to support her addiction. Jamal does not know that his birth mother is in prison, or that she contested the adoption; all he knows is that his birth mother stopped visiting him one day. She is well into her 40's (she had Jamal a bit later in life) and has a lengthy criminal record, is HIV/AIDS positive (from using intravenous drugs), and Jamal barely remembers her. At one point, she had petitioned for jailhouse visitations, but the judge refused her request as he felt it would not be in Jamal's best interests.\nI am uncertain if I should explain to Jamal and my other children now, or when he/they are a bit older, the reason his birth mother stopped coming around. I am afraid whatever I decide that it will hurt Jamal, which is the last thing I want to do to any of my children. All Jamal knows is that his birth mother loves him very much, but that she had to go away on a very long trip. Jamal adores you, and I read your column to him whenever the subject is age-appropriate. Do you know of any way to appropriately address the subject of his birth-mother? What if she gets out of prison and comes looking for him?\nJamal's Mom\nDear Jamal's Mom:\nI remember Jamal's letter vividly, and am thrilled beyond measure that his wish to become a part of your family \"FOREVER\" has come true! I know that my readers will be equally delighted, especially \"Friend From the System\". I will be certain that everyone hears the wonderful news as soon as possible by immediately printing your letter!\nAs for your quandary regarding Jamal's birth-mother...I think it is terribly sad that she could not put the welfare of her son above her own desire to hold onto him. From what you write, it is obvious that she cannot give him any kind of life; and it is obvious that the judge felt so, too. You say that she is \"well into her 40's\" and serving a \"decades-long [prison] sentence\" for some less than savory acts. This leads me to believe that she will not be released until Jamal is a grown man. For these reasons and more, I believe that an edited version of the full story would be the appropriate thing to tell Jamal.\nAt 8-years-old, Jamal is old enough to understand the concept of jail and prison; as well as the types of behavior that can put a person there. If you have not already done so, I suggest that you and your husband sit down with Jamal and explain to him that his birth-mother cares very much for him, but is unable to take care of him the way he needs and deserves. Explain to him that his birth-mother did some naughty things, and a judge sent her to a place that will help her to try and put her life together, while teaching her that what she did was very, very wrong. If Jamal asks if his birth-mother is in prison, be honest; if he does not ask, do not volunteer this information. As Jamal gets older, he may ask this question. I suggest that you always be honest with him. If he would like to share this information with his siblings, let that be his choice. If he prefers to keep it to himself, please respect his privacy.\nDue to Jamal's birth-mother's special health conditions, it is a very real possibility that she may not live out her prison sentence, so your fear that she may seek him out upon release may never come to pass; however, the possibility - however slight - that it could occur is just one more reason to always be open and honest with your son. From the tone of his letter to me, I don't think you have any reason to worry that he will want to return to his birth-mother. Jamal sees YOU as his mother, so feel free to wholeheartedly embrace him as your son - because he is! Congratulations to all!\nLabels: adoption, advice column, family, follow-up letter, foster care\nTazi Recommends: The World of Poe\nTazi Recommends: Nature Mom's Blog\nEXTRA EDITION: Remembering Columbine\nBrother-In-Law Is A Hard Pill To Swallow\nEXTRA EDITION: In Honor Of The Greenland (NH) Poli...\nTazi Is Not Cyberstalking You (Or Kevin Bacon); Ju...\nGuest Writer: A New Family For Foster Child; Some ...\nFoster Child Gets His \"Forever Family\" - An Ask Ta...\nHappy Easter From Tazi And Family\nEXTRA EDITION: A Very Sacred and Joyous Passover T...\nWife Wants A New Car Payment; Husband Wants To Liv...\n\"Gift Piggy\" Needs To Go On A Diet\nEXTRA EDITION: Happy Smack A [French Word For Show...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.authorklstewart.com/2011/03/villain.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IAV5ISDMEETED5EMLQANK7TDDVF56W6X", "length": 424, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.authorklstewart.com", "title": "K. L. Stewart's Dark Angels: The Villain", "raw_content": "That's very interesting, and I think it's brilliant that you are thinking ahead. Shekley's \"back story\" would be great! I wonder if anyone is pure evil or if even the meanest of villains has a touch of humanity?\nI'm glad you enjoyed this. I think that the meanest of villains has to have some good in them. That's one of those things that I have to believe in. I guess sometimes it is hard to see in some characters, though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 176.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aviewfromthebalcony.com/2014/10/10-crazy-days-in-florida-part-i.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RIGNHUWMRHEFB3IA43LGJP6F3ROAKSSX", "length": 8365, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.aviewfromthebalcony.com", "title": "10 Crazy Days in Florida - Part I | A View from the Balcony", "raw_content": "As I\u2019d only been on a long-haul flight once before, the journey itself was quite exciting (is that sad?) and I used the time to catch-up on some films I\u2019d wanted to see for a while. The Lego Movie, by the way, is HILLARIOUS.\nWe were also flying business class, which was another new experience for me, and the novelty of having a seat that reclined into a bed somehow didn\u2019t wear off for the entire eight-hour flight.\nThe only thing that was disappointing was the attitude of some of the BA staff when we informed them that the floor around my chair was dripping wet. Instead of attempting to help or show any interest, the air hostess seemed annoyed that we\u2019d interrupted her dinner and sent us to the toilet to get some tissue, which had no effect on the puddle surrounding me. Not cool, British Airways.\nMy own little cubby-hole\nThe Hotel \u2013 The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes\nThe Ritz-Carlton Orlando is a great location to stay if you\u2019re in Florida to visit the parks, as it\u2019s only a five minute drive from SeaWorld, 15 from Universal Studios and only 20 from Disney World, and the hotel provides a free shuttle service to all the parks throughout the day.\nThe grounds of the hotel are really beautiful, and as the grounds are shared with a JW Marriott, there is a lot of space to explore. Around the lakes the grounds double up as a golf course, and there are other activities such as Kayaking, a Ropes Course and a four-person bike you can ride around the paths. There is also a huge spa on site, and if you\u2019re staying in the Ritz-Carlton you are free to use the lazy river which is in the JW Marriott\u2019s pool area.\nA View from the Balcony ;)\nThe lobby area of the hotel, which was predominantly marble, has a really luxurious yet relaxed feel, and most evenings we chose to eat in the seated area here, rather than in the more formal restaurant, NORMAN\u2019S, as we didn\u2019t have to feel compelled to dress up so much and there was much more choice on the menu.\nThe eating area in the lobby\nThe rooms are spacious and the beds are really comfortable, which is important after you\u2019ve spent 12 hours on your feet at a theme park! Just be careful not to sing too loudly in the shower as the ventilation systems in the bathrooms are far from soundproof (I\u2019m looking at you, William)!\nI wish I'd got a photo on the first day!\nAlthough we didn\u2019t get to spend much time at the hotel because we were trying to fit in all the parks, the pool area is lovely and the staff are extremely attentive, whether you are after some food and drinks or would just like an umbrella moving. There was also a smaller, gated pool area for young children, which had a few slides.\nAttached to the pool area is a casual restaurant \u2013 ideal for hiding from the passing storms or having an early poolside dinner.\nThe only real criticism I have of the hotel is that on weekends the restaurant used for breakfast couldn\u2019t cater for the number of guests, and you had to arrive at 8am to avoid a 25 minute wait. But that wasn\u2019t really an issue for us as we were leaving the hotel at this time to get to the parks anyway.\nWhilst I was expecting Disney World to be huge, nothing could have prepared me for its actual size. Wow.\nSo the resort is made up of six parks (including the waterparks) and there are 22 (if I counted right) hotels within the resort, as well as the \u2018Downtown Disney\u2019 area full of restaurants and shops. Disney World really is like its own city, with actual \u2018highway\u2019 type roads between each of the parks. I mean, to put it into context, it is about a 20 minute drive between some of the parks, and that\u2019s still within the resort. It was insane.\nWe began with the main park, Magic Kingdom, complete with the iconic Cinderella\u2019s castle. I love the entrance area of Magic Kingdom, with all the buildings and cute little shops leading up to the castle.\nSuch a cute quote\nEach area of Magic Kingdom has a different theme, with a different set of films and characters that reside within the area. I can\u2019t even imagine how magical this must be for little kids \u2013 I was excited enough rediscovering all my favourite childhood films!\nBest Ride: It\u2019s too difficult to choose but I love the story-based rides like Peter Pan\u2019s Flight and Journey of the Little Mermaid. Space Mountain is the most thrilling ride, though!\nBest Attraction: As cheesy as it is, the \u2018Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade\u2019 is an essential if you want to see all of the characters and get the full Disney magic experience.\nHow perfect is this shot?\nDisney World \u2013 Epcot\nSo with some crazy first-day enthusiasm, we attempted to squeeze in Epcot after Magic Kingdom (which on reflection wasn\u2019t the best idea, as I spent the bus journey home vomiting my exhaustion into a plastic Disney World bag \u2013 classy, eh?).\nEpcot is more of an educational park, with rides such as \u2018Living with the Land\u2019 that takes you through living laboratories. You can get to Epcot (as with Magic Kingdom) via Disney\u2019s monorail service, which runs frequently throughout the day.\nI still don't know what this is, but it's cool right?\nBest Ride: \u2018The Seas with Nemo and Friends\u2019 \u2013 sweeeeet, totally.\nBest Attraction: We didn\u2019t have time to do it, but round the lake in the park there are various small clusters of buildings, each of which represents a different country.\nDisney World \u2013 Hollywood Studios\nA couple of days later we returned to Disney World to tackle Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom \u2013 and this combination is actually doable in a day.\nYep, we were about 15 years older than anyone else queuing up\nHollywood Studios is the park that attempts to take you behind the scenes of Disney films. The park is a mixture of rides, short films, \u2018drive-through\u2019 effect attractions and then walking round the Hollywood-style sets.\nThis park has a completely different feel to Magic Kingdom, and we could have happily spent the whole day wondering round all the attractions and learning about the history of Walt Disney and the many aspects of film-making that lead to the finished products.\nBest Ride: Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roller Coaster \u2013 so this is cheating a little as we ran out of time and had to skip this one, but I\u2019ve been on the ride at Disneyland Paris and it\u2019s amazing.\nBest Attraction: The Studio Backlot Tour takes you through the creation of various special effects, including a fuel tank blowing up and water flooding through a canyon. You also get to see loads of vehicles that have been used in Disney films and the tour takes you through Disney World\u2019s costume department.\nAfter spending the morning and early afternoon wondering around Hollywood Studios, we headed to Animal Kingdom, which was (from what I can remember) a 15 minute bus journey from Hollywood Studios. As with the monorail, the free buses run regularly between each of the parks and are really easy to find.\nLion King tree\nUnfortunately the weather wasn\u2019t on our side and so it was into our rain ponchos for the rest of the day.\nLooking gooooood\nThe downside to the storms was that a lot of the animals were hiding from the rain, so we didn\u2019t get to see as much as we would have liked, and didn\u2019t get to go on the safari ride.\nAnimal Kingdom is split into four main areas (Discovery Island, DinoLand U.S.A, Asia and Africa), with themed buildings and rides and the corresponding animals within each area, which really gives you a feel for some of the cultural aspects of the two continents too.\nBest Ride: Expedition Everest is possibly the scariest ride I\u2019ve ever been on. Getting to a point in the ride where the track is broken and shooting backwards into the pitch-black mountain to see a Yeti before dropping the entire length of the mountain was not was I was expecting!\nBest Attraction: We just happened to catch the gorilla enclosure just as they were doing a training exercise, which involved one gorilla catching fruit that was being thrown at him from the other side of the valley. Amazing.\nAs you may have noticed, this is only part one of two - that's how crazy the 10 days really were! The next post will include SeaWorld, Aquatica and Universal Studios, so keep an eye out for that.\nHave you been to Disney World? Which were your favourite parks and rides?\nLabels: america, animal kingdom, british airways, disney, disney world, epcot, florida, hollywood studios, lbloggers, magic kingdom, orlando, ritz cartlon, theme park, travel, USA, walt disney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 10799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bbyouth.org/stories/article/former-building-bridges-youth-shares-her-story", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:34Z", "digest": "sha1:PTW4BSTZZ3SP5Z23PUXRS7J7OSROSOVK", "length": 9640, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bbyouth.org", "title": "Stories \u00bb Building Bridges - Helping Youth Find Success - based in Dayton, Ohio", "raw_content": "Former Building Bridges youth shares her story\nWe love to hear success stories of past Building Bridges youth. The programming & services that we offer are life changing and we could not do it without the help of our generous supporters. Thank you Julie for writing such a heartfelt and compelling testimony.\nJulie's story...\n\"I was 13 years old when I was placed with Building Bridges. It was the last resort before getting sent to the detention center in Columbus Ohio. I wasn\u2019t a hard-core criminal or anything along those lines. I was just a teenager in need of some guidance and attention.\nI grew up in a single parent home. My mom was hardly ever around. I was the last of 3 children and by this time she was just tired of being a parent. She lived her life with very little regard as to how it might affect me. She had a drinking problem and often became verbally and physically abusive when she had too much. I started to run around with the wrong crowd and found myself getting into trouble in the neighborhood, committing misdemeanor crimes such as property damage, petty theft, being out past curfew and skipping school. The police became involved in my life starting at the age of 9. I was placed on probation at the age of 12. After spending time within the juvenile court system it became obvious that I was not receiving the kind of supervision someone in my situation needed.\nThe decision was made to transfer me to the Building Bridges (BB) program. Enter Ron Reiglesperger as my probation officer. He became heavily involved in my life from day one. He would randomly show up at my home to see how things were with my mom and I. He often showed up at school to check if I was where I was supposed to be and to talk with my counselor. I had to report to BB everyday after school and sometimes went on work detail. Work detailed involved such things as visiting the Stillwater Mental Health Center and helping take care of the residence that lived there. Sometimes it would involve going to the local dog pound and helping the staff clean out the kennels. Every work detail was different but it always involved helping out in the community. I believe it was designed to take the focus off of ourselves and for a few short hours make us focus on someone or something else. BB also got me involved in other activities such as softball, basketball, picnics, retreats, and other fun activities throughout my years of being involved in the program. To many to mention and many I\u2019m sure I have forgotten. They kept me busy, which in turn kept me off the streets and out of trouble. I always looked forward to seeing the staff at BB and getting plenty of hugs. They made me feel important and treated me as if I was part of a family. I felt a lot of love from everyone. They really cared about my well being. Ron was like a father figure to me. He came into my life and showed me love and discipline that I never had before. I was so use to being verbally accosted when I screwed up or physically slapped around if I upset my mom. Ron was gentle yet firm in his discipline. He set ground rules and boundaries for me to abide by. When I broke them there were consequences for my actions. But there were also good consequences for my good actions. I was praised for my good work, and encouraged to become a better person along the way. I once was flown by a private jet to New York City to watch a New York Mets game and meet some of the ball players, then flew back home that same evening and was in bed by 10pm. That was an awesome experience I will never forget.\nBy the time I was 15 years old, Ron had been involved in my life long enough and had seen enough of the dysfunctional and abusive interaction between my mother and I that the decision was made to remove me from my home and place me in a Foster home. I was the first girl placed in a foster home through the Building Bridges program. I was very fortunate to be placed with a family who loved me unconditionally. They accepted me as I was, with all of my baggage and emotional issues. They never judged me. They only loved me. It was hard for them. They had a 15-year-old teenager who was used to living her life on her terms. I was used to coming and going as I pleased. I never had to fill out an itinerary, set aside time to do homework or be home by a certain time. All of these things were new for me. And yes, they were all met with great resistance. I was still struggling with wanting a relationship with my mother. As dysfunctional as our relationship was she was still my mother and I loved her and missed her. As much as my foster parents tried to love me I wasn\u2019t very accepting of their love. I didn\u2019t trust people to actually mean what they said. But ken and Beth proved time and time again that their love for me was unconditional and real. I didn\u2019t have to do anything to earn it. They just gave it freely. After spending 2 \u00bd years under their wings, after I tried running away a couple of times, they reached their limit and knew it was time for me to leave the nest and spread my wings and fly.\nFrom 9 years old until my late teens, those were the hardest years of my life. I struggled with loneliness, abandonment, and feeling no self worth. But BB gave me a reason to live another day. They just kept loving me and picking me back up whenever I fell down. They believed in me more than I could of ever believed in myself. They saw my potential, and they could see the end product. They also had faith that they had the formula to make it come to fruition. Their formula is to build bridges that build strong relationships. Showing young troubled teens they count, that they really do matter. Helping us believe in ourselves, speaking life into our deepest wounds. Helping us heal from the inside out. They believe that there is good in everyone who comes thru their doors. And their goal is to get that young person to see their worth, grab onto it with everything they have and use it as the fuel to propel them forward into adulthood. They helped me understand my anger, frustration and my pain. They helped me channel all of that negative energy into positive things instead of using it to self-destruct.\nIt wasn\u2019t easy being BB kid. I fought their love, their guidance, and their discipline. Just as every other rebellious teenager would do to his or her own parents. But they never gave up on me. They don\u2019t understand that terminology. To many of them it\u2019s not a job\u2026 it\u2019s who they are. It\u2019s apart of there makeup. It runs through their veins. They see a kid in need and they can\u2019t help but want to rescue them. This was who Ron WAS; this was NOT something he did to make a paycheck. BB saved my life. My foster parents helped in that process. At the time when I was in the middle of my storm walking through the BB program, I didn\u2019t or couldn\u2019t see it for what it was. It wasn\u2019t until years later that I finally understood what they had done for me. I understood the energy, the sacrifices, and the tears that were involved in nurturing me through a very difficult time in my life and then letting me go, to fly solo through this thing called adulthood. It was difficult finding my way after I was out from underneath their protection. I fell many times. But I realized that because of what BB had taught me through the years and their unwavering display of love for me that I was able to stand up on my own. It has been 30 years since I was BB kid. To this day, I\u2019m who I am because of them. I wouldn\u2019t be where I am today had it not been for them intervening in my life all those years ago. I wouldn\u2019t have graduated from high school if it weren\u2019t for Ron riding my butt until I graduated. Not graduating was not an option. I would have never obtained my driver license when I was 16 if my foster parents hadn\u2019t had enough faith in me to allow me to drive their car and learn the ropes. Even when I almost ripped the door off of the Escort, they still believed. Because of these victories I was able to join the military after graduation and grow up a little bit more. I was able to land a job at DP&L and make a descent living. This year marks my 22nd year and counting doing the same job that I love doing. I own a beautiful home in Bellbrook where I\u2019ve lived for 13 years. I\u2019ve also been a volunteer firefighter /EMT for the city of Bellbrook. I acquired those skills later in life because I wanted to give something back to my community. My passion is mission work in other countries and disaster relief work here in the states. I\u2019m also a Red Cross volunteer. I\u2019ve been blessed with many accomplishments over the years.\nMy mother passed away in 2009. I never did have the mother daughter relationship that I\u2019ve always yearned for. But I was able to come to a place of forgiveness with her and we established a good relationship. I was there at her bedside the night she passed away. For that I am thankful.\nI look back over the years and can\u2019t believe, one how old I am, I never thought Id live to be 25, and two, that I\u2019ve actually made something good of my life. As difficult and painful as my life was as a teenager, I wouldn\u2019t change any of it. I wouldn\u2019t be the person I am today without those experiences. Because of BB I\u2019m a survivor, a fighter and a former BB kid who has learned how to fly and continues to soar. They saved my life and I am forever grateful!\"\nWe love to hear success stories of past Building Bridges youth. The programming & services that we offer are life changing and we could not do it without the help of our generous supporters. Thank you Julie for writing such a heartfelt and compelling testimony. more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 10342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beestonparishchurch.co.uk/groups/bible-study-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FXKNF4FSDDNUXQXKE5EXRXTK2NOG6XUW", "length": 782, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.beestonparishchurch.co.uk", "title": "Bible Study Group - The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Beeston", "raw_content": "Tuesdays 2.30pm in the choir vestry.\nThe Bible is endlessly fascinating; the more one studies it, the more there is to know. We try to increase our understanding of the work of God by looking at the background (geography, history, economics, politics) of the people and events of the times described, and to see how the lessons apply to our own time and society. We have dealt with books from the Old Testament (e.g. Judges, the Minor Prophets) and the New (e.g. Mark, Corinthians 1 and 2). We shall start looking at Samuel 1 and 2 on Tuesday 23rd September. The group consists of about eight ordinary members of the congregation, and would welcome new members and fresh points of view. It would be possible to discuss alternative location and times of meeting if there were demand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.benespen.com/journal/2013/1/6/tabata-biking.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:31Z", "digest": "sha1:AVPNQKH2ALO2LULM4FR3CPDVYI5OOCCH", "length": 3158, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.benespen.com", "title": "Tabata biking \u2014 With Both Hands", "raw_content": "Tabata biking\nA regrettably small sample size, but that is a pretty cool room-calorimeter they used for this experiment.\nThough other studies have shown that sprint interval training can markedly improve fitness and athletic performance, little was known about how this type of exercise affects energy expenditure, a factor that motivates many people to exercise. To determine how many calories a typical sprint interval training workout might burn, Sevits and his colleagues recruited five healthy male volunteers, all between the ages of 25 and 31 years old. These volunteers made an initial visit to Colorado State University in Fort Collins in which they performed an exercise stress test to make sure their hearts were healthy enough to participate. The researchers also analyzed the volunteers' body compositions and their resting metabolic rates.\nOver the next three days, the volunteers ate a diet precisely calibrated to meet their metabolic needs so that they'd be in \"energy balance,\" Sevits explains, with just enough calories so they weren't over- or under-eating. At the end of those three days, the men then checked in to a research facility at the University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Campus that was outfitted much like a typical hospital room. However, this room was completely enclosed, with air intake and exhaust regulated and equipment installed to analyze oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water content. Based on the results of this analysis, the researchers could determine how many calories the volunteers burned while each stayed in the room.\nFor two days, each volunteer lived in the room, continuing to eat the prescribed diet and spending the majority of their time in sedentary activities, such as watching movies or using a computer. However, on one of the days, they engaged in a sprint interval workout that involved pedaling as fast as possible on a stationary bicycle in the room that was set at a high resistance for five 30-second periods, each separated by four-minute periods of recovery in which they pedaled slowly with very little resistance. During the intense, 30-second bouts, the researchers coached the volunteers over an intercom system, encouraging them to give 100 percent effort.\nSprint Interval Trainer?\nAnalyzing results from the room calorimeter system showed that the volunteers burned an average of an extra 200 calories on the sprint interval workout day, despite spending just 2.5 minutes engaged in hard exercise. Though the researchers can't yet speculate on whether such efforts could translate into weight loss, Sevits and his colleagues suggest that engaging in intense, but brief, bursts of exercise could aid in weight maintenance. \"Burning an extra 200 calories from these exercises a couple of times a week can help keep away that pound or two that many Americans gain each year,\" Sevits says.\nSteve Hsu notes that running consumes around 100 calories per mile. So depending on how fast you run, the interval workout tested here isn't actually faster. There are variants of the interval workout, such as the tabata, which would get you to about the same place eight minutes.\nCrossfit, Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 9226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.benisi.eu/article/editorial", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:01Z", "digest": "sha1:V4AI6V2FABKXLSBMJDBU3HI3ERUI6FXZ", "length": 1809, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.benisi.eu", "title": "EDITORIAL | Benisi", "raw_content": "The BENISI newsletter intends to bring each two months to stakeholders and professionals in social innovation feedback on the implementation of the BENISI project and food for thought regarding a wider take up of social innovation in Europe. The BENISI project, supported by 13 partners located in 7 countries, aims at identifying and supporting the scaling up of 300 promising social innovations, initiated by social entrepreneurs and even by the public sector. The final goal of the project is to create all over Europe a network/infrastructure of \u201cincubators\u201d in order to easily scale up social innovation projects.\nBy the end of September 2014, 202 innovative projects and ideas were identified. 174 of them are in a scaling trajectory in BENISI. Check the cases on the BENISI website.\nIn order to support project owners to speed up their scaling up trajectory, BENISI mobilises a network of experts and active organisations in order to bring them knowledge and advice on how to access finance, skills and connections. This network is known as the SIAN, which stands for Social Innovation Accelerators Network. Organisations willing to become a SIAN member can still join the network. The win-win deal of involvement of experts in this network is for them to access a selection of qualitative social innovation projects across Europe and for innovators to get support from knowledgeable experts in any field related to the start-up of their venture or its development. We do hope that our readers will enjoy this newsletter and will join our community of people actively promoting a new mindset regarding entrepreneurship and social/societal behaviour in favour of European citizens.\nThe BENISI project is supported by the European Commission in the framework of the FP7 Research and Innovation Programme.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bessettepitney.net/2009/09/fires-and-federalism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JBREFRDZD2ZSBBJPMNYB7DDZFAVN3QDZ", "length": 1714, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bessettepitney.net", "title": "Bessette Pitney Text: Fires and Federalism", "raw_content": "Fires and Federalism\nThe Station Fire, which has burned more than 160,000 acres of California, is a case study in federalism.\nThe federal government is playing a major role. The fire has taken place largely in the Angeles National Forest, which is under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The fight against the blaze has also involved state government (the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire), county government (the Los Angeles County Fire Department) and a variety of local governments including the Los Angeles Fire Department -- separate and distinct from the county fire department -- as well as fire departments in Glendale and other communities.\nThe fire has involved a remarkable degree of cooperation among these levels of government. But there has been conflict, too. Local officials fault the Forest Service for failing to clear brush before the fire. \"We want to see other agencies ... act responsibly in taking care of their brush,\" Los Angeles Fire Marshal Jim Hill told the Los Angeles Daily News. \"We don't think that this sets a very good example for a federal agency.\"\nTime reporter Kevin O'Leary points out that the Forest Service is paying most of the cost. he quotes Forest Service spokesperson Caleb Weaver: \"One of the ways the federal government is supporting the state and local government in the Station Fire effort is that the U.S. Forest Service is providing over 1,600 of the 4,800 personnel fighting the fire.\"\nOne of the authors of this textbook witnessed the fire up close. Note the Los Angeles Fire Department Skycrane helicopters:\nLabels: California, federalism, Fire, Los Angeles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 141.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bible-prophecies.org/articles/Feed%20thy.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQONOA5N3UAUIJP5MAM5OGZKUTIW2VB7", "length": 8202, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.bible-prophecies.org", "title": "Bible Prophecies", "raw_content": "Feed thy\npeople with thy Rod\nMicah 7 : 14\nEvery Present Truth believer would have unavoidably known, that the Rod mentioned above is none other than the Shepherd\u2019s Rod message, which was prophesied long before in Micah 6 : 9 as follows : \"The Lord\u2019s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name : hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.\u201c -- Micah 6 : 9.\nDue to the fact that we are now on the second Exodus journey back to the land of Canaan that the Lord had ever promised to the ancestors of the Israelite, and since the promised land is not in heaven but in the Palestine, it should always be remembered that the Davidic Kingdom should have been established soon in the Palestine with all of us 144.000 in number as the first citizens of the state.\nThe Rod as a message must be heard if all the prophecies of the Old Testament prophets would have been interpreted and revealed in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY in this time of the end.\nMicah 7 : 14 we read :\n\"Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel : let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.\" - Micah 7 : 14.\nDue to the fact that this prophecy has been fulfilled by the coming of prophet Victor T. Houteff with his Shepherd\u2019s Rod message, then after the establishment of Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Headquarters in 1935 as the Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, USA, then the \"Mount Carmel\" of the Old Testament days should have been obviously fulfilled in Waco, Texas, USA. as its antitypical.\nAnd now we again have \"Bashan and Gilead\" as types that should be sought their antitypes in this time of the end. Since both must also be fed with the rod, then they should have unavoidably represent the small branches of the Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, USA, who are now scattered throughout the Davidian of this world.\nRead thoroughly Micah 7 : 14, then it will be understood that the \u201ct h y\u201c commanded in that verse to feed the flock of those who live solitarily in the wood, in the middle of Carmel, is none other than the prophet Victor T. Houteff himself. He was commanded to lay the foundation of the house on the Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, USA from 1935 up to the time he died in 1955. And then the Carmel should have been abandoned to be continued in Bashan and Gilead. And here the work of feeding the people will be done under the reigning hand of the Lord Himself.\nThe same historical Events\nin the light of several different prophecies\nSince the existence of prophet Houteff at his Mount Carmel Center was only until 1955, his duty to feed the flock of his heritage would be the same as to lay the foundation of the house by the hands of Zerubbabel prophesied in Zechariah 4 : 9. Zerubbabel, therefore, as it is known to symbolize the prophet Victor T. Houteff.\nThus, after prophet Houteff died as a shepherd in charge of feeding the flock of his heritage, as well as in charge of laying the foundation of the house according to Zechariah 4 : 9, then according to the prophecy of Zechariah 13 : 7, too, God will have His hand lifted up on \u201cthe little ones\". Who are the little ones if not those who are prophesied to be in \"B a s h a n and in G i l e - a d?\" Are they not in need to be fed too ?\nAfter the servant of God accomplished his task of laying the foundation of the house in 1955, he should have died in the same year too. The Mount Carmel Center of the Lord should have been abandoned for good, while the \"little ones\" in \"B a s h a n and in G i l e a d\" have yet to be fed accordingly as foretold above. Here is fulfilled the prophecy of Zechariah 13 : 6 which said : \"Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.\u201d -- Zechariah 13 : 7.\nEver since the same year in 1955 and onward the Lord God should have turned His hand upon those of \u201cthe little ones.\u201d That is, the Lord God should have taken the reign in His own hand to feed the flock Himself without the aid of His Organization of the Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, USA. And here began those in \u201cBashan and Gilead\u201d to be fed directly by the Lord through His appointed agencies such as \u201ct e a c h e r s\u201c whose ordination are no more by the laying on of hand in front of their congregations. And here is fulfilled the word when Sister White said :\n\u201cLet me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message to be given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness.\" - Testimonies To Ministers, p. 300.\nThe angel of Revelation 18 : 1 is the message of the Shepherd\u2019s Rod. Combination of both angels (the third angel message by Mrs. White and the angel of Revelation 18 : 1 by Bro. Houteff) in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY of Revelation 19 : 10 is to enlighten the earth - Early Writings, p. 277.\nThe Lord is now working\nin a very different way\nIf during the life time of Mrs. White, even up to the life time of Bro. Victor T. Houteff the Lord God still took advantage of the service of Organization of a central government body which seemed that all were well under control, in all around the world. But after the death of the servant of the Lord Bro. Victor T. Houteff in 1955, God would have preferred to take control of all the work of the Mount Carmel Center in Texas Himself. And this is to be realized when those mentioned by Mrs. White in her book : Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300 above should have been fulfilled.\nAnd then to those who still persist to have the liquidated Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, to continue its function as ever before, came the warning from the Lord as follows :\n\"It is a fatal mistake to suppose that the work of soul saving depends alone upon the ministry............. God will send forth into His vineyard many who have not been dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands.\" - The Acts of the Apostles, p. 110.\n\u201cLet them understand that there is a large work to be done outside the p u l - p i t by thousands of consecrated lay members.\u201d \u2013 Ibid, p. 111.\nThe above statements from Mrs. White seemed to be just fulfilled after the death of Bro. Houteff in 1955. How could this be factually justified ?\nSince the ordination of those to the ministry of the gospel is no more by the laying on of hands, it must unavoidably prove that they are no longer having a centralized Organization. They must be God\u2019s own appointed ministry from among those now scattered in many places in the world, in the antitypical \u201cBashan and Gilead.\u201d And this is also to prove that the Lord God ever since the death of His servant Bro. Houteff in 1955, would have taken the reign on His people in His own hand. Strictly speaking, the Lord would no more work through His ever antitypical Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, USA., because their turn to get His servant Bro. Houteff feeding them right there has expired. Now is the time for \u201cthe little ones\u201d in the antitypical \u201cBashan and Gilead\u201d to be fed up to the time of their deliverance to the kingdom in the Palestine.\nThe Mount Carmel Center built by Bro. Houteff in 1935 was literally in the middle of a forest, far from the city of Waco in Texas, in USA. Brother Houteff as servant of the Lord named it : the wood in the middle of Carmel. So C a r m e l as a location in Waco, Texas, USA must be the antitypical of its type in the days of the Old Testament Israelite. Thus is even so with B a - s h a n and G I l e a d, that these two locations must unavoidably have their antitypical in this time of the end. 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Howard and Terrance J. Bruggeman to its advisory board. Howard currently serves as CEO of Oakbio Inc., and is on the boards of several leading companies and foundations in the biotechnology industry. He brings scientific and operational expertise having served as CEO of Maxygen Inc. Bruggeman's experience managing biotechnology companies, including Diversa Inc. (now Verenium Inc.) will be an asset to Evolugate. He currently serves as executive chairman of BioTork, the spin-off company recently created from Evolugate, to capitalize on the biofuels opportunity. He also serves on a number of industry, corporate and nonprofit boards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bittadvisor.com/en/Home/Informazioni/Termini", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:48Z", "digest": "sha1:B27PIV4POHMVPB4NW3P42WVZLYPVER3N", "length": 33652, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.bittadvisor.com", "title": "bittadvisor", "raw_content": "ACCEPTANCE OF \"TERMS AND CONDITIONS\"\nBy using this web site, below for brevity, \"Bittadvisor\", located on www.bittadvisor.com domain, the \"user\" or \"partner\" accepts this document, called the \"terms and conditions\" and all sections to it attached or in which it refers. If you do not want to accept and respect the terms, provisions, conditions and rules contained in the \"terms and conditions\", it is necessary to refrain from continued use of the web portal \"Bittadvisor\" because the use, involves the implicit acceptance of the above. Any changes in \"terms and conditions\" and / or \"Privacy Policy\", which here refers entirely as an integral and substantial part, will be made without prior notice to users. Users are therefore advised to read this writing and its annexes or of the retrieved documents from time to time, in order to stay informed about any changes. (Users are reminded that the \"privacy policy\" text is published on the website and accessible from the home page by clicking on \"Privacy Policy\").\nThey are the end users of \"Bittadvisor\".\nAre all landing places (marinas, private marinas, harbors, piers, docks, etc.) available in \"Bittadvisor\" and who are also dealers of free web space called \"bitta\".\nAre all the subjects different from the moorings (organizations, institutions and business activities) available in \"Bittadvisor\" and who are also dealers of a dedicated web space.\nIt\u2019s the thematic area of \"Bittadvisor\" dedicated to the news.\nIt\u2019s the thematic area of \"Bittadvisor\" dedicated to charter, to rental, to occasional renting, leasing, etc.\nIt\u2019s the thematic area of \"Bittadvisor\" dedicated to those who produce and / or sells sailboats and / or motorboats.\nIt\u2019s the thematic area of \"Bittadvisor\" dedicated to all activities within the \"bitte\" and all the nautical activities of national importance, divided by type. In this particular \"Bittadvisor\" section will automatically inserted all activities published by \"Your free page\" until 30 June 2016. For these activities the Web space will remain free forever.\nIt\u2019s the e-commerce section of \"Bittadvisor\".\nIt\u2019s the area where you can organize or set up a personal catalog for booking / promotion / online sale of products / services directly from each activity present in \"Bittadvisor\".\n\"Bittadvisor\" provides an interactive online service managed by Bitt srl, P.I. 01895910675, (hereinafter called \"Bitt\") on the Internet's World Wide Web (\"Web\"), consisting of information services, content and transaction capabilities provided by: Bittadvisor, by the partners, by Bittadvisor customers and supplied by other third parts.\nThis Agreement establishes the terms and conditions that apply to the use of \"Bittadvisor\" by all those who are different from \"Bitt\". The user or partner is committed to respecting the terms and conditions of this \"Disciplinary of Use.\" The right to use \"Bittadvisor\" is personal and not transferable to any other person or entity. The user and the partners are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of their credentials by which accessing Bittadvisor services. Bitt is not responsible for any loss of data during the transmission of information on the Internet. \"Bittadvisor\" will be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Access to \"Bittadvisor\" may, exceptionally, be interrupted for maintenance operations; access may also be subjected to interruptions, suspensions or blocks for technical reasons, or network problems. Bittadvisor will mutate to any aspect or feature, including, merely by way of example: the contents, the graphics, the technological features. Bittadvisor can stop the diffusion of any portion of information or category of information, it may change or eliminate any transmission method, it may change transmission speeds or other technical characteristics as he wishes, and none can to raise exceptions.\nBittadvisor retains the right to cancel or modify any part of the \"terms and conditions\" and the Privacy Policy at any time; this right will apply when it deems necessary or desirable without prior notification to users. The changes become effective immediately. The use of \"Bittadvisor\", next to the performance of changes in \"terms and conditions\", will cause implicit acceptance of the changes made.\nThe equipment and instrumentation (data line, hardware, software, etc.) required for accessing, viewing and interacting with \"Bittadvisor\" are totally at the expense of the user and the partner. \"Bittadvisor\" is not responsible in any way while navigating on the homonymous web portal for any damage to equipment held by the user and by the partner.\n\"Bittadvisor\" and all links with other sites, commercial operators, places, cities, nations, and anything else reachable via links (hyperlinks) are privately owned. All interactions on \"Bittadvisor\" and / or linked sites it must conform with these \"terms and conditions\". The use and interaction with \"Bittadvisor\" for lawful purposes should be performed. The following actions are expressly prohibited and, if not promptly blocked, attributable solely to the author of the action: sending, transmission, forwarding and publication of material, messages and content that violates or infringes in any way the law or violating other people's rights or privacy, which are threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise reprehensible, or that encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, which could lead to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, national or international law, or which, without the express prior written consent of Bittadvisor, contains advertising or any solicitation concerning products or services. Any conduct that restricts or inhibits the use of \"Bittadvisor\" to other end-users and / or to any of the linked sites is considered \"strictly prohibited.\" The use of \"Bittadvisor\" can not be finalized, except for express authorization, to advertise or perform any commercial operation, religious, political or non-commercial, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users of this site and / or one of the sites linked to become users of other services online or off-line competitive with Bittadvisor direct, indirect or potential. The previous provisions of this point 5, shall also apply to all activities linked directly or indirectly to Bittadvisor, for any reason, including content providers and third-party licensees. Everyone has the right to assert and enforce these provisions directly and on its behalf.\nAll that is on \"Bittadvisor\" and on eventually connected sites, is the exclusive property of \"Bitt\" properties, or is used with the explicit permission of the copyright and / or with the permission of the trademark owner. Any copying, any kind of distribution, transmission, publication, connecting (linking and deep linking), or any type of modification OF THIS SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of Bitt. Any violation of this policy may lead to a breach of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property, and therefore susceptible to configure an infringement that may subject the user or patner to civil and / or criminal liability. \"Bittadvisor\" it contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds; the entire contents of Bittadvisor is protected by copyright in accordance with the copyright laws. \"Bittadvisor\" holds the copyright on the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the original content within it. The user or partner may not modify, publish, transmit the contents inside Bittadvisor; nor does it can participate in the transfer or sale of such content; the user or the partner may not create derivative works, or in any way exploit any content, in whole or in part. The user or partner can download, print, save copyrighted material for personal use exclusively reserved to itself. without the express written permission of \"Bittadvisor\" and the same time without the express written permission of the copyright owner, except as otherwise indicated by copyright, the user or the partner can not, under any circumstances, copy, redistribute, publish or commercially exploit any kind of published material on \"Bittadvisor\". The copying, distribution or publication of copyrighted material in any event presuppose that it is not permitted any alteration or deletion of author attribution, trademark or copyright; this also applies in cases where there are the written consents of both \"Bittadvisor\" and both of the holders of any rights. The user or partner acknowledges that he does not acquire under any circumstances, any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. Brands that are inside of \"Bittadvisor\" or other linked sites are owned or managed in collaboration with \"Bittadvisor\" and can not be considered in the public domain but rather the exclusive property of \"Bittadvisor\" properties, or at least managed from \"Bittadvisor\" through the licensing of the trademark owner and of the eventual rights. The user or partner must not upload, post or otherwise make available on this site, any material that is protected by copyright, by registered trademarks, or other proprietary right without the express written permission of the copyright owner, trademark or other proprietary rights. \"Bittadvisor\" does not have any express obligation or responsibility to provide information to the user or partner if any material published in \"Bittadvisor\" is or is not protected by copyright or trademark or other proprietary rights. The user or partner is and remains solely responsible for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyright, trademarks, property rights, or any other damages resulting by use not permitted by law. By sending the material to any public area of the site, the user or the partners ensures that the owner of such material has expressly allowed to \"Bittadvisor\" for free, perpetual, irrevocable, and exclusive a license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt , publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) throughout the world and / or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist for such material. The user or partner with respect to the material that it has placed on \"Bittadvisor\", also allows other users to access, view, store or reproduce for personal use this material. The user or partner grant to \"Bittadvisor\" the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available. The above provisions of this section \"6\" are applicable not only to \"Bittadvisor\" but also to subsidiaries, partners and its third party content suppliers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce these provisions, directly or on their own.\n7. No guarantee Theoretically and limitation of responsibility.\nThe inappropriate use or not in compliance to the requirements contained in these regulations or against the laws in force in Italy, in Europe and in the countries, where the user or partner, has domicile, residence or registered office, will result in immediate access denial to \"Bittadvisor\" and the interruption of related services and who have been granted to the name of the subject of the negative behavior. The functionality of \"Bittadvisor\" could suffer temporary interruptions for technical issues resulting, therefore, the not continuative functioning and hampered by interruptions; for these reasons is not provided guarantee nor by the companies supplying the service nor for the contents, for information, for the results to be obtained by the use of \"Bittadvisor\", with particular reference to the reliability of any information, service or product offered by the partners and third parties. \"Bittadvisor\" and related sites are made available \"as is\" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose other than that dictated by the guarantees contained implied by the laws in force of this agreement. This disclaimer of liability applies in all cases in which an injury or damage is caused due to the following: any execution fault, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure , theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of records or use of records, also for breach of contract, unlawful conduct, negligence, or under any other cause of action. The user or partner indemnifies \"Bittadvisor\" from any responsibility for defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct by other users or by third parties. The user or partner indemnifies \"Bittadvisor\" and assumes without exception all types of risk, including that of injury or another. In no circumstances \"Bittadvisor\", or any person or entity involved in the creation, production or distribution of this web portal or other related, including software, will be held responsible for any damages, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, incidental and special, consequential or punitive, resulting from the use of \"Bittadvisor\" or inability to use \"Bittadvisor\". The user or partner acknowledges and declares that the provisions of this section shall apply to the entire contents of this website and related sites. Neither Bittadvisor, nor its partners, information or content providers, are responsible for the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or other defects, or the authenticity of the information contained in \"Bittadvisor\" or in any linked site as well as for any delay or interruption in the transmission toward user or partner, or for any question or loss caused or derived including lost profits, punitive or consequential damages. \"Bittadvisor\" is not responsible for the content that a user, registered and / or unregistered, send and / or publish in \"Bittadvisor\" or any of the linked sites. All contents that are uploaded and published on \"Bittadvisor\" if they are considered to be inappropriate can and could possibly be removed from \"Bittadvisor\" for any reason without prior notice. \"Bittadvisor\", also reserves the right to modify, change, delete and prohibit any content that, in its absolute discretion, deems to be inappropriate.\n\"Bittadvisor\" has the right, but not the obligation, to control the content of the site at any time, including content placed on eventual chat room, forum or other communication tools that will later be included in \"Bittadvisor\"; content control is necessary to determine compliance of the contents of this Agreement and any operating rules established by \"Bittadvisor\" or \"terms and conditions\", as well as to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. Without limiting the foregoing, \"Bittadvisor\" has the right to remove that material that, in its sole discretion, believes is in violation of the provisions hereof.\nThe user or partner acknowledges that all discussion for ratings, comments, bulletin board services, chat rooms and / or messages or other means of communication (hereinafter called \"community\") are public and not private, and that, therefore, others may read your communications with you or your partner, even if the partners or the user will be unaware. \"Bittadvisor\" does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any community, and as a result, \"Bittadvisor\", expressly disclaims all responsibility and any actions resulting from the participation of users, including any objectionable content. Generally, any communication established on \"Bittadvisor\" by user or by the partner (chat rooms, discussion groups, message boards or otherwise), it is considered non-confidential. In the case of special web pages that may allow confidential treatment of their content, \"Bittadvisor\" will indicate these restrictions on the pages in question. By posting comments, messages or other information, the user or partner grant to \"Bittadvisor\" the right to use these comments, messages or information for promotions, advertising, market research or any other lawful purpose. For more information, consult the privacy policy.\n10. Grant of License.\nSending communications on or through \"Bittadvisor\", the user or partner gives a free permit (royalty-free), perpetual, irrevocable, with exclusive license to use the content; the license allows as follows: reproduction, modification, publication, translation, distribution, display in part, in whole or inserted into other works in any form, by any type of media or technology currently known (or later developed) and to grant sublicense such rights through multiple levels of sub-licensees.\nThe user or partner agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless \"Bittadvisor\", its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and all expenses, including legal fees, deriving from the use of this website and / or other linked sites.\n12. End of the relationship with the user or partner.\n\"Bittadvisor\" may terminate this Agreement at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, \"Bittadvisor\" has the right to immediately terminate any passwords or accounts of any user who overt wrongdoing and / or illegal or otherwise considered as unacceptable by \"Bittadvisor\", in its sole discretion. The provisions referred to in points 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 are still valid survive termination of this agreement.\n13. Brands.\n\"Bittadvisor\" is a brand owned. All rights in respect of this brand are hereby expressly reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, all other brands appearing on \"Bittadvisor\" are the property of their respective owners.\n\"Bittadvisor\", similar to an Internet Service Provider, is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties (user or partner). As a result, \"Bittadvisor\" has no editorial control over such content; the situation is similar to that which occurs in a public library, at a bookstore or a newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including the information providers, or any other end-user devices are those of the respective author / authors or distributor / distributors, and they do not refer directly to \"Bittadvisor\". Neither \"Bittadvisor\", nor the third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or its fitness for a particular purpose. The content on \"Bittadvisor\" do not represent the opinion of \"Bittadvisor\" being rather the result of the interaction between \"Bittadvisor\" and its users and partners: content providers, end users and anyone who has had access. \"Bittadvisor\" is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement published by entities other than those that are officially authorized. In no circumstances, \"Bittadvisor\" will be liable for any loss or damage caused by the complaints of a user or partner started on the basis of information obtained. The user or partner, have the responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice, etc., or other content available through \"Bittadvisor\". \"Bittadvisor\" contains links to other websites managed by other content suppliers. These links are provided exclusively for user convenience and not as an endorsement by \"Bittadvisor\" to the content found on websites of third parties and, therefore, \"Bittadvisor\" declines expressly any responsibility for the contents or the accuracy of materials on third-party websites. If the user or partner choose to access third-party websites, it does so at their own risk. Unless the user or partner has a written authorization from \"Bittadvisor\", it can not insert any type of hyperlink to any sort of external source. \"Bittadvisor\" reserves the right to revoke its consent to any link at any time in its sole discretion.\n15. Various.\nThis Agreement and any operating rules for \"Bittadvisor\" established by Bitt Srl, constitute the agreement between the parties. No derogation is permitted and any waivers do not preconfigure as \"preceding\" means any violation remains in place according to this agreement. The section titles used in this document, have been given for convenience only and have no legal effect. If any provision of this contract is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein which shall remain in full force and effect. The waiver by one of the parties to exercise any of its rights under this Agreement, it may not be deemed a waiver or decadence of such rights or any other rights provided for in this agreement. The link of the Guide to the compilation within the \"Your Free Page\" section and the guidance on the link \" Rapid Guide\" in the partners Reserved area (the area to manage web space and e-shop) is to be considered an integral and substantial part of this agreement. The head office of \"Bittadvisor\" is in Italy. Any issues related to the use of \"Bittadvisor\" or connected sites (unless otherwise indicated) are governed by and in accordance with the laws of the Italian Republic. By using this site, user or partner acknowledges that any controversy or claim in relation: to this Agreement, to the performance, to breach or end of the same, or to the Site or any linked site, is referred exclusively to the tribunal of Teramo, Italy.\nWEB SPACE AND FREE SERVICES\nThe following services are free and will not cause the charge for any costs, past, present and future: consultation and navigation in the web portal \"Bittadvisor\", the use of the portal by users, download the mobile application (see section \"Pay Services\", lines 1, 2 and 3).\nWater landings (Bitte)\nWeb space, called \"bitta\", is granted to all the landing places for FREE and therefore do not result in a charge borne by the concessionaire for use both in the past, now and in the future (see section \"Pay Services\" line 4).\nPartner (Commercial activities and Institutional spaces)\nWeb space, inside the single \"bitta\", dedicated to internal commercial activities, neighboring or otherwise relevant to boating, tourism and general marine, be granted free of charge and therefore does not result in a charge to be paid by the concessionaire for the past, present and future use (see \"Pay Services\", lines 5 and 6).\nBitt News (thematic area)\nWeb spaces, contained in \"Bitt News\" are dedicated to all those who wish to create articles or \"Your Free Page\u201d to discuss matters related to the individual thematic sections (nautical tourism, events, news, innovative products, legislation). These web spaces are granted free of charge and therefore does not involve any charge paid by the concessionaire for the past, present and future use (see section \"Pay Services\", line 12).\nBitt Charter (thematic area)\nWeb spaces, contained in \"Bitt Charter\", dedicated to charter, renting, occasional renting, letting, etc. ; these spaces are granted free of charge and therefore does not involve any charge paid by the concessionaire for the past, present and future use (see section \"Pay Services\", line 13).\nBitt Broker (thematic area)\nWeb spaces, contained in \"Bitt Broker\" are dedicated to the production and / or sale of sailboats and motor boats; these spaces are granted free of charge and therefore does not involve any cost to the concessionaire for the past, present and future use (see \"Pay Services\", line 19).\nBitt Expo (thematic area)\nWeb spaces in \"Bitte Expo\" are dedicated to all the activities already present in the \"bitte\" and all nautical activities of national importance; these spaces are granted free of charge and therefore does not involve any charge paid by the concessionaire for the past, present and future use for all the subjects that will be included no later than 30 June 2016. All web spaces granted before that date will be free, forever, for its concessionaires partners. \"Bittadvisor\" will ensure the automatic dubbing of all the activities already included in the various \"bitte\" only until the date of June 30, 2016.\nWEB SPACES AND PAY SERVICES\nAre all those indicated in the \"Pay Services\", in lines 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 (free indefinitely to all those who will be included automatically or request it by 30 June 2016), 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. The \"Pay Services\" is an integral and substantial part of this document. To go directly to the \"Pay Services\" click \"here\"..\nThe website \"Bittadvisor\" allows, in addition to free web space publication dedicated to the landings and commercial activities, and not only (eg. Clubs, associations, institutions ...), the conduct of e-commerce activities through transactions for booking or purchase of products and services. All commercial activities, licensee of a web space dedicated to the promotion of goods and services, such as marinas, catering, hotels, bed and breakfast, residences, yacht charters, diving, shipyards, resales of nautical items, etc, will receive specific login credentials that, in addition to allowing the self-editing content of the web space granted for free, will allow users to activate a special website features for the creation of proposals and offers for sale or booking of products and services also through electronic payment via the internet. By placing an order, you make an offer to purchase under the terms and conditions below. For more information, read our privacy policy. To proceed with the purchase of any product or service you must create an account; This is necessary because \"Bittadvisor\" may be able to offer an easy and orderly access to the operations and documentation related to the specific transaction includes for example the printing of own orders, display of purchases, changing preferences, and guarantee of a permissible use of the product. Goods and services purchased on \"Bittadvisor\" are eventually reimbursable by the \"Partner\" seller of these goods and services. The \"Partner\" and not \"Bittadvisor\", is the seller of products and services and is solely responsible for any refunds of goods and sevices acquired using \"Bittadvisor\".\n\u2022 1. Terms and conditions for traders of goods and services (\u201cPartner\u201d).The only role of \"Bittadvisor\" is the promotion of trade relations between end users and activities (\"Partner\") that are present on the site with its own web space. \"Bittadvisor\" acts as a marketing agent for the promotion of products and services whose sale will be made directly from the \"partner.\" In certain cases \"Bittadvisor\" release a proof of purchase, for simplicity a \"coupon\", which can be used for the obtaining of the product or the obtaining of service in cases where the shipment is not provided. \"Bittadvisor\" has no role on the nature of the \"coupon\", whose jurisdiction is exclusively in the hands of the \"Partner.\" The use and the \"coupon\u201d restrictions are determined by the \"Partner\" and it must be indicated on the \"coupon\" generated during the transaction of \"Bittadvisor\". The \"Partner\" can decide whether it wants to associate the \"coupon\" presented to \"Bittadvisor\" with other promotions in progress. Neither the \"Partner\" or \"Bittadvisor\" can be held responsible for the \"coupon\u201d is lost or stolen. Reproduction, sale or trade of any \"coupons\" purchased through \"Bittadvisor\" are prohibited unless they are not expressly granted. The \u201ccoupon\u201d expires on the date indicated on it. No refund will be possible beyond the expiration date. The \"coupon\" downloaded from \"Bittadvisor\" can be used only for goods or services expressly indicated on the same coupon: it can not be used, for example, for any transport costs which have not been previously included by the \"Partner\" and thus included in the price paid by the purchaser.\n\u2022 2. Additional terms and conditions.All coupons printed from the site \"Bittadvisor\" or any linked web site, are promotional coupons that are offered to customers at fixed costs, in absolute autonomy, by individual \"Partner\" and are subject to the terms and conditions of Bittadvisor and terms and conditions of the \"Partners\" who are responsible for the offer in full. \"Partner\" is the seller of the goods or services that are purchased. The owner and issuer of a good is the \"Partner\", which may act in all market sectors: catering, hospitality, supplies of services, management of theaters, spas, sporting events, museums, concerts ... any business. As holder and issuer of the coupon, the \"partner\" must be fully responsible for any and all injuries, illnesses, damages, claims, liabilities and costs suffered by or in respect of a customer, caused in whole or in part by product, service , from the activity of the \"Partner\", as well as for any liability arising from ownership of the coupon. Each type of good is, by arrangement with the \"Partner\", refundable and can not be redeemed incrementally. According to the laws of the respective countries in which the coupon is purchased and where it is allowed to use the coupon, the \"Partner\" is responsible in full of all that is indicated on the coupon and is obliged to ensure effective and complete utilization accordance with the operating conditions that will be specified in each individual promotion of each product. In particular, the \"Partner\" shall include, in the fields website dedicated to them, in addition to the description of the products / services offered, pictures that could help the user to better understanding and especially the sales terms offered by the \"partner.\" In particular, the \"Partner\" will be published, in the space provided for each product / Service tab, the method of payment (if different from the PayPal system included in the site), the terms and means of shipment or delivery (in the case of product ), the terms and methods for providing (in the case of service), the period within which it is possible to use the service. Any failure against those who have purchased the good is always and in any case attributable to the seller who takes any kind of burden resulting from any errors of any kind arising from or less on his own will.\n\u2022 3. 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The failure to pay the fees due related to non-free activities described in this document or in promotional activities accepted by the operator, will cause the suspension of all services on the web portal \"Bittadvisor\" whether free or paid.\nThe following sections are an integral and substantial part of this document called \"terms and conditions\": Privacy Policy, guides and instructions, quick start guide of the \"Your Free Page\" section, Quick Guide available into Partners Reserved Area (the area for manage web space and e-commerce), Pay Services, and all parts, components, writings and areas within \"Bittadvisor\" except content published directly by \"Partner\" and \"Users\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 764, "original_length": 51165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blankslatechronicles.com/anti-depressants-careless-prescription/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RN5HVWVWY35PRYTRLT4RAZYDYLQ7XFUE", "length": 6747, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.blankslatechronicles.com", "title": "\ufeffHow Anti-depressants are being handed out like candies in India - Blank Slate Chronicles", "raw_content": "May 29, 2017 December 29, 2018 Saheli Khastagir 0 Comments Alprazolam, awareness, drug abuse, drugs, mental health, pill popping\nSaheli is an artist and a mental health activist. She is creating artwork for spreading awareness on this important issue. Follow her work here. Read her interview with BSC here.\n7 years ago, while studying Psychology in college, I decided to shadow a Psychiatrist, to get a better grasp of clinical psychology in practice. This wish was busted after my first day in his office. Within 5 minutes of my walking in, he told me he would write me an internship letter without my having to come to his office at all \u2013 a certificate in genuine good will (Aren\u2019t you jealous?) His explanation was interrupted by the entry of a first-time patient- an elderly man. The visit could not have lasted more than 10 minutes (which included the doctor excusing himself in between for some urgent work). During that time, the man explained that he had been \u201cfeeling low\u201d for a few weeks. He tried to elaborate a little on this feeling, but he didn\u2019t need to. The doctor had already diagnosed him and was quickly filling out a prescription page in his sure long handwriting.\n\u201cIt\u2019s depression,\u201d he told him and asked him to collect the medicine from the chemist in the hospital.\nThis was one of the better-known hospitals in the National Capital Region of India. And I sat in shocked silence.\nI was young and shy and did not have the courage to argue with the more experienced looking doctor in front of me, but I was deeply concerned. Even with my inexperience, I knew how devastating such a rash diagnosis could be. This was in stark contrast to the instruction I was receiving in college about the need to be careful when diagnosing mental illness, the deep analysis involved in such a diagnosis, and the severe harm that misdiagnosis can have on the physical and psychological well-being of the person.\nArtwork on Mental Health Awareness by Artist and Activist, Saheli Khastagir\nDoc aided Pill Popping\nOver the last few years, I have heard about friends, family, and acquaintances being prescribed mild anti-depressants by general physicians. Some of them continue to purchase and use these medicines beyond the specified period. Chemists in many Indian pharmacies seem to be satisfied by an official looking prescription, irrespective of the date or validity of said prescription. While chemists do tend to be careful about giving sleeping pills and mood altering pills to youngsters, fearing suicide attempts; they are not so careful when giving them to middle-aged buyers. I have been questioned by chemists while trying to buy mild sleeping pills that my father has been purchasing for years from the same chemists. Some of these pills are given over the counter without the need for any prescription at all.\nFor example, \u201cAlprazolam\u201d the mild benzodiazepine, is handed out quite casually in India. But here\u2019s the thing, abusing of these pills goes beyond just suicide attempts. While single doses of these pills are harmless, repeated use of them over a long period without medical supervision can be extremely harmful.\nAlthough it is harmful to all people, it can be especially destructive for those with existing undiagnosed (or misdiagnosed) mental health conditions. There are many psychiatric illnesses with similar or overlapping symptoms. For instance, anxiety disorder and depression show certain similar looking symptoms, but they both need different diagnoses and treatments. Same goes for bipolar disorder- this disorder shows both depressive and manic symptoms, and more often than not people approach a doctor when they are experiencing depressive symptoms. In such a case if a physician, like the one I tried to intern with, hurriedly diagnoses and medicates with anti-depressants, this misdiagnoses may aggravate the symptoms, even result in psychosis. According to a recent study by Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, less than half of those who were previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder met the clinical criteria for the illness (Zimmerman and others, 2008)\nDisregard for the Root Cause\nAnother concern is the prescription of medication in the absence of therapy. Recent numbers show that 57% of patients receive medication without psychotherapy in the United States. These numbers will likely be much higher in India. Despite the recent trend of lip-syncing mental health awareness in Indian urban centers, there is still painfully low awareness on the need for good psychotherapy. Instead, medications are given to suppress psychiatric illness and symptoms in the absence of psychotherapy. Even when counseling is available, finding quality counseling centers or psychologists is a hit-and-miss chance. Due to the stigma associated with mental illness, and the absence of health insurance covers for psychotherapy sessions, most people are unwilling to undergo an extended, expensive treatment process. But medicating the symptoms without acknowledging the underlying cause of the symptoms is a short-term cure at best, leading to repeated resurfacing of the same symptoms. Imagine this scenario: a person due to severe under-nutrition shows symptoms of skin dermatitis and de-pigmentation. When the person is brought to the attention of medical personnel, they naturally want to treat the skin disorder and give her/ him the required medication for it. But if they give the medicine without the food and nutrition intake that the person is in urgent need of, all they\u2019ll be doing is treating the symptom without addressing the underlying cause- that is, severe under-nutrition.\nAfter closely witnessing people being irreparably harmed due to such careless misdiagnosis, excessive medication, and inadequate rehabilitative support, I am extremely troubled by this trend. Over-medication, brought about by the lobbying and bribery of big drug companies, is something we are witnessing across the globe. And while some of us might be aware of it, when a doctor with 10+ years of experience writes down a prescription for us, very few of us have the courage to risk disobeying it.\nI am not propagating disregard for medical knowledge. All I am arguing for is showing more caution, on the part of the doctor, the patient, and the chemist, when it comes to consuming psychoactive drugs, especially the more benign-seeming anti-depressants, and sleeping pills, that we tend to pop without much deliberation.\nNational Council on Seniors Drug & Alcohol Rehab: https://rehabnet.com/\nAbout Saheli Khastagir\nHow Anti-depressants are being handed out like candies in India - May 29, 2017\n\u2190 A Spoken Sanskrit Workshop to revive the beauty that is the language!\nThe Global Indian Man\u2019s Guide to Dating and Romance, 2.0 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 9639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blog.bareoaks.ca/2010/09/right-to-be-nude.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:13Z", "digest": "sha1:F5IYRZLQ2IAOSQU4V6PLMN4NHVKRTLLT", "length": 386, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.blog.bareoaks.ca", "title": "Bare Oaks Blog: The right to be nude", "raw_content": "The right to be nude\nThe Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) has sent out an interesting item about a trial that starts today and is challenging section 174 of the criminal code (nude in public) which is not to be confused with section 173 which makes it illegal to commit an indecent act.\nRead the FCN announcement at:\nhttp://lists.fcn.ca/pipermail/public/2010-September/000116.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 164.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blogtalkradio.com/teamslush/2013/11/21/slush-radio", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:45LMRFPQ7W7IFR76AKVQ3JAVPJYJJ76P", "length": 294, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.blogtalkradio.com", "title": "SLUSH Radio 11/20 by SLUSH Radio | Entertainment Podcasts", "raw_content": "If you liked this show, you should follow SLUSH Radio.\nYoung women living life to the fullest...we aren't confined to society's rules & double standards as to how they \"expect\" women to act & behave in the world. We speak our minds & how we feel with no shame or filter.\nUnapologetically women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 3006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bomadg.in/2003/03/holy-cow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IVHGVMDXHLLQ65CKMMXO7454COEOLW5I", "length": 2784, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bomadg.in", "title": "Life is amazing - enjoy it: Holy cow in India", "raw_content": "Holy cow in India\nCow for votes\nNo one can deny that killing cows to eat rouses very strong passions among Hindus and Sikhs. This is not shared by Muslims, Christians, tribals and lower caste Hindus of certain regions. Consequently, we have to approach the proposed total ban on cow-slaughter with caution.\nA good case can be made out to ban killing of all animals, birds and fish. No one has the right to take life in order to feed himself. When Emperor Akbar turned vegetarian, he said, \u201cI do not want to make my body a tomb for beasts.\n\u201d However, in large parts of the world, notably near the Arctic zones, no fresh vegetables are available, and people rely on fish and meat to sustain themselves. Almost every beast in the world kills others to survive. Once you admit that eating animals, birds or fish is justified, there is no logic in supporting selective non-vegetarianism. Hindus and Sikhs don\u2019t eat beef; Jews and Muslims don\u2019t eat pork; some even forbid eating crustaceans like oysters, prawns, lobsters and crayfish. Yet, the vast majority of the world\u2019s population eat beef, pork, crustaceans and fish without suffering any mental or physical harm. When it comes to eating, the human race, extending from the far east of India across Myanmaar, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, China to the two Koreas eat about everything they regard edible: rats, monkeys, frogs, dogs and snakes included. Has anyone the moral right to forbid another what he likes to eat? The answer is no.\nThe question whether eating beef is forbidden in Hinduism is of academic importance. Professor D.N. Jha, in his seminal work, The Mythology of the Holy Cow, cites passages from the Rig Veda, quoting instances of cow and bull sacrifices. However, later (my guess would be beginning with invasions of Muslims), a sense of revulsion grew against beef-eaters. In territories ruled by Hindus and Sikhs rulers, cow-slaughter was banned. In Maharajah Ranjit Singh\u2019s Punjab, it was punishable with death, as it was in Kashmir under the Dogras. Even after annexation of the Punjab, Hindus and Sikhs strongly resented cattle-slaughter. The Namdhari movement got a fillip when some of its members murdered Muslim butchers and were blown up by canons. Theirguru, Ram Singh, was exiled to Burma.\nThe cow has become a sacred symbol and is worshipped as gaumata, or the cow mother. However, in actual fact, the cow is treated very shabbily. Cows which do not yield milk are let loose to fend for themselves. They survive on garbage or die of hunger and neglect. They roam about our city streets, blocking traffic and are often hit by fast-moving vehicles to be maimed or killed. If we cannot look after our gaumata, what right do we have to punish those who eat them?\nLabels: Khuswant Singh, Rationalism, Religion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 442, "original_length": 11767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookaholicsanonymousonline.com/2015/02/reading-challenge-2015-debut-author.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5WPEZDNY6ZJXOLPQHAIX3ZYUSBZNFK5A", "length": 2773, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bookaholicsanonymousonline.com", "title": "BookAHolics Anonymous (My Name is ____, and I'm a BookAHolic): Reading Challenge: 2015 Debut Author Challenge", "raw_content": "Hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl\nTo introduce readers to this year\u2019s wonderful group of debut authors.\nTo challenge readers to read 12 or more (or less! It\u2019s up to you!) middle grade, young adult, and new adult debuts this year.\nYou must post your thoughts on each debut book you read in order for it to count towards the challenge. You can post anywhere: your blog, Goodreads, Amazon, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.\nYou can join the challenge whenever you want.\nThe debuts must have a publishing date in 2015 and must have been read between January 1, 2015 and January 31, 2016 (this extra month allows readers adequate time to read December debuts) in order to count.\nEach review gives you an entry into the monthly prize pack drawings. Make sure you post the links to my monthly link-ups. I always post these link-ups on the first day of the month, without fail.\nThis challenge is open internationally, as are the monthly prize packs.\nI don\u2019t care what language you write your reviews in, I just need to know which book you have reviewed so I can verify your entry. When you post your link, please include the title in English.\nUse the hashtag #DAC2015 so we can all see what everyone\u2019s up to!\nThe book must be classified as a middle grade, young adult, or new adult title.\nThe book must be the author\u2019s MG/YA/NA 2015 debut. (If the author has published adult fiction before, but this is their first MG/YA/NA book EVER it still counts. If the author has published a YA book before and this is their first MG or NA book, it does not count. We are reading the author\u2019s first book for young people, excluding picture books.)\nSelf-published books do not count, so if the author has self-published a MG/YA/NA book before and this is their first book published by a traditional publisher it counts toward the challenge.\nARCs are fine, but only if you read them the year they are published. For example, if it\u2019s 2015 but you read and reviewed an ARC of debut coming out in 2016, it does not count for 2015\u2019s challenge (because the challenge is for 2015 debuts) and it will not count for 2016\u2019s challenge (because you must read a 2016 debut in 2016 for it to count). This way participants who do not have access to ARCs are not at a disadvantage.\nSince this challenge is International, some books will be debuts in some countries and not in others. This can be tricky and put some books into a gray area, so here\u2019s what we will do. If the book came out this year in your country for the first time, even though it was available elsewhere, then you can count it.\nGoodreads list of 2015 Debut Author Challenge books.\nOfficial Goodreads group for the challenge.\nGoogle Spreadsheet of 2015 debuts.\nTaken from The Artsy Reader Girl\nMy Goal (books)\nLabels: 2015 debut author, reading challenges", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 9993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookingmama.net/2015/04/review-small-mercies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NCOQZVP6VBZB75SZXYLIXVKFEHHTOG5D", "length": 4799, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bookingmama.net", "title": "Booking Mama: Review: Small Mercies", "raw_content": "Summary: An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce\u2019s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby\u2014the Amendola family\u2019s youngest son\u2014everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter\u2019s unexpected death. Bobby\u2019s mother, Gail; his widow, Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit; and his father, Michael, have all dealt with their grief in different ways. But as the family gathers together for Bobby Jr.\u2019s birthday party, they must each find a way to accept a new man in Tina\u2019s life while reconciling their feelings for their lost loved one.\nPresented through multiple points of view, Small Mercies explores the conflicts and deep attachments that exist within families. Heart-wrenching and profoundly relatable, Joyce\u2019s debut is a love letter to Staten Island and a deeply affecting portrait of an American family. -- Viking\nSMALL MERCIES is Eddie Joyce's debut novel and what a story it is! I absolutely loved this book and it will definitely go down as one of my favorites of the year. SMALL MERCIES encompassed everything I love about stories. This novel was beautifully written and had intriguing characters; however, it also managed to make me think and feel.\nSMALL MERCIES tells the story of the Amendolas, an Italian-American family living on Staten Island, and how they are trying to deal with the loss of their youngest son. Bobby Amendola was a firefighter who died ten years ago on 9/11. This novel explores the lasting effects his death has had on the entire family including his mother Gail, his father Michael, his brothers Peter and Frankie, and his wife Tina. By offering each family member's points of view, the reader is given a glimpse inside this flawed family to see how each person is not only coping with the loss of Bobby but also how they have moved forward and how they interact with each other.\nSMALL MERCIES is truly a gem of a novel. I was blown away by not only Mr. Joyce's powerful prose, but also his ability to bring these amazing characters to life. I immediately became swept up in the Amendola's lives, and I didn't want this novel to end... and that's a rare thing for me of late. Naturally, my heart went out to the parents, Gail and Michael, because what is worse that losing a child? And, I was also sick for Tina and her children. What actually surprised me about this novel is how realistically the author portrayed both the immediate and lasting effects of grief. I honestly don't know if I can remember reading a book that had a more honest look at loss; and as a result, this book touched me like few novels do.\nAnother wonderful thing about SMALL MERCIES is how the author brought the setting of Staten Island to life. I would go so far as to say that Staten Island became another character in the story; and while I'm definitely not a New Yorker, I do believe that Mr. Joyce paid a lovely tribute to his hometown. Staten Island played a major role in the lives of these characters and it was closely tied to their identities.\nAnd finally, I loved how the author told this family's touching story. It might seem as if I covered this earlier; however, I want to stress how much I appreciated the little things he did in this novel that just brought it to the next level. For example, the different viewpoints throughout the story as well as the many flashbacks to the past worked extremely well in showing the complexities of the characters and how they relate to each other.\nAnother example of his terrific storytelling was the pacing of the story. Specifically, how I could feel the tension escalate as Bobby Jr.'s birthday party approached. It was a time when the entire family would be coming together and trying to put aside their other issues. The party was also a time when Tina would introduce a new man in her life. While it was only one day in their lives, it was a huge event because it symbolized something bigger for these characters. They had to accept that Bobby was gone and at the same time accept that life does go on.\nIt won't surprise you when I say that SMALL MERCIES would be a perfect book club selection. It truly is an honest story about love, loss and families that most readers will relate to. There is a reading guide available with twelve questions. Some of the themes that you might want to explore include grief, second chances, addiction, adultery, marriage, forgiveness, guilt, betrayal, memories, and redemption.\nI can't rave enough about SMALL MERCIES! Highly recommended!\nThis sounds very moving. I'll have to look for it.\nOh gosh. I have this on audio but haven't gotten to it yet. Sounds like I need to start listening.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 389, "original_length": 12640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bravingthehotmess.com/blog/words-of-transformation", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DAY4WBMOZPSYQGENROKUA52WGJDYLIKI", "length": 531, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bravingthehotmess.com", "title": "Words Of Transformation - Braving the Hot Mess", "raw_content": "Tracy - I love this prayer/daily intention. Wouldn't it be wonderful if even a small group of people set this out into the universe on a regular basis? Like we talked about yesterday, it only takes a small number to impact a large amount of lives. Thank you for sharing this. I will pledge to be one of those few.\nI believe in the power of a small number of people being intentional with their thoughts, prayers, words and actions. It is impactful! I pledge to be one of a growing impactful group too :) Thank you for your comment!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/undergraduate/televisionradio/faculty/mediamanagement.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WPTWIEMI477SZL4VBC4RUU5HH77TUFTV", "length": 1708, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.brooklyn.cuny.edu", "title": "\ufeff Media Management and Media Regulation | Brooklyn College", "raw_content": "The Department of Television and Radio offers courses that provide an in-depth review of the management of radio and television stations. Important historical and current issues facing media today and survey methods for measuring their audiences are covered in detail. Programming formats, strategies, and the relationship between social media and traditional media are also explored. Types of data collection and methodology for positioning station audiences for advertising sales are studied with real-life examples of the process regularly discussed.\nThe television and radio programs also place special emphasis on current concerns and issues in the ever-changing arena of media law. The department seeks to maintain an eye toward the evolution of communications law in the United States, but to also provide students with a thorough understanding of very present-day cases and controversies that students are likely to face in virtually any career in media related fields. Students will be exposed to a vast array of media topics, from the history, adoption, and interpretation of the First Amendment, right up to the most recent judicial opinions, statutory enactments, and regulatory controversies impacting defamation law; invasion of privacy; the regulation of obscenity; copyright and other areas of intellectual property; and the regulation of advertising, among other media-centric topics. The department endeavors to provide students with the most practical preparation on matters affecting speech and all other forms of contemporary expression for future use in, among others, the print, film, television, music, art, advertising, and digital media fields.\nEugene M. Cunningham\nBruce Rabinowitz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 167.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bubbagump.com.au/?page_id=29", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BPM2ABUSAJSPTMITYB5CJHDG3R45PDLU", "length": 962, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bubbagump.com.au", "title": "Privacy Policy | BUBBA GUMP Pest Control", "raw_content": "Bubba Gump Pest Control is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its website users. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform website users of the type of information we may gather when visiting our website, how we may use that information, and whether or not we disclose that information to anyone.\nInformation is collected from website users primarily to make it easier and more rewarding to use our services. Depending on the service(s) you are accessing, you could be asked to provide information such as your name, email address or information about what service you would like performed by our company. It is entirely your choice whether to respond to these questions or not. These details are entered by clients when accessing online content and part-taking in customer satisfaction surveys.\nAll personal information collected is solely used for internal company procedures and NO information is sold (in part or full) too any third party.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/source-selection.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBTFULOIEWPIQOISBFT5JOPB6QKHE7ND", "length": 266, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.businessdictionary.com", "title": "What is source selection? definition and meaning - BusinessDictionary.com", "raw_content": "Formal process employed in procurement of goods and services, it comprises of (1) an invitation to bid (ITB), proposals, quotes, or tenders, (2) evaluation of the responses received, (3) short-listing of the most suitable sources, and (4) award of contract or order.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 143.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businesshopelife.com/hope.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6IRI2RPTGJKNU4TJG2H3WTWV2LLYAGKF", "length": 2223, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.businesshopelife.com", "title": "Hope - Business+Hope+Life", "raw_content": "Hope ... this section has been the most difficult to think through and \"put pen (er, keyboard) to paper (er, electronic computer screen)\". Nonetheless, and more importantly ... How do I put my hope into words? What is this \"hope\" related to? Where is it founded? To what degree do I let this hope permeate my life and in what areas should I be \"hopeful\"?\nSimply put, I think it's easy to have hope in your business, your abilities, your family, etc ... those are tangible things you can feel and see everyday. The hope I am speaking of for the purposes of this site ... the hope that surpasses all of those things, is that of my faith in Jesus. Hope in Jesus (and, therefore in God's plan for this world) is described as \"an anchor for our soul\" in the book of Hebrews in the Bible ... that makes sense to me. Because of my relationship with Christ being in place and thereby being the lens through which I view the rest of my existence, I can then have hope in all kinds of other things.\nI am hopeful in my businesses, family, etc (i.e. life) ~ not because of my belief that those things will be stable longterm and continue to produce fruit and be effective/healthy. But, I am hopeful because, if my life blows up and fades away, I know where my identity is founded (in Jesus) and that His plan is much greater than my plan. It makes having hope in your business and family all that much easier ... I can rest in \"the knowing\" that it's not all on me, that if it all fails and falls away, I can still stand strong in my faith.\nYou can find posts on the B+H+L Blog about faith/hope related things. I don't claim to be an expert on this topic ... but, I know this much is true: that there is only 1 legit place to find hope (like the image above indicates). I am very curious about how things of faith/hope are woven into the fabric of our business lives (I think this is absolutely necessary, but hard to live out) and I continue to work through how Jesus would have me do that. I'll post suggestions and insights that I have gained ... but, we need each other's help. Please read and contribute on the blog and we can all work on boldly living out the reason for our hope, in the midst of our business lives ... together!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 2455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.butteamericaradio.org/americas-most-radio/2017/6/19/thank-you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7YFAJHYTEO3ZNO4QSFO7LGS3RDJX7RUZ", "length": 1599, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.butteamericaradio.org", "title": "Thank you. \u2014 KBMF 102.5fm", "raw_content": "Once a year, the KBMF staff and volunteers host a week-long fundraiser on the air. This event is designed to raise funds to pay for the operational costs of the radio station, including staff stipends, rent, royalties payments, and other essential costs to keep KBMF on the air. The station is committed to only one one-air fundraiser per year, and is sustained through grant writing and underwriting sales throughout the remainder of the year.\nThe 2017 Pledge Drive brought in $14,313.50 from over 160 donors. People stretching from Oregon to Florida donated an average $88 per person. The third day of the drive, June 13th, was the highest-grossing fundraising day, with more than $4600 donated over the phone, through the website, and in person on that day.\nKBMF will use these funds to continue their non-commercial radio service, and to train more Butte community members in the art of audio editing and news making. KBMF aspires to develop a small news department that can cover issues of local and regional significance with regularity.\nThe Butte America Foundation, the license holder for the radio station, will also introduce an Americorps VISTA volunteer into the organization this year, which will help to build the capacity of the Foundation and its projects to better serve the Butte community. This VISTA volunteer will help facilitate dialogue, in the form of on-air forums, with Montana Tech scientists and students. KBMF will be turning significant resources and attention towards better understanding of the science of the Berkeley Pit and the larger Superfund situation in Butte.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.calschoolnews.org/2018/07/%E2%80%9Calarming%E2%80%9D-report-shows-high-suspension-rates-black-students-sacramento.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:43Z", "digest": "sha1:D7AOQ6YWYOSXL6KDD6QXKGHR5CP3D65R", "length": 2287, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.calschoolnews.org", "title": "\u201cAlarming\u201d Report Shows High Suspension Rates for Black Students in Sacramento | CalSchoolNews.org", "raw_content": "\u201cAlarming\u201d Report Shows High Suspension Rates for Black Students in Sacramento\nSacramento area schools are disproportionately suspending African American students according to a new report published in partnership with the Greater Sacramento NAACP. Its president Betty Williams is now calling on these schools to change their policies or face a challenge in court.\nThe new report shows the Sacramento City Unified School District has the highest number of black male student suspensions of any district. During the 2016-2017 school year, 887 black males (20.7%) were suspended by Sacramento City Unified.\nThe second highest number of black male suspensions occurred in the Los Angeles Unified School District, whose student body is nearly seven times larger than Sacramento City Unified. L.A. Unified suspended 1,107 black male students, which represents 2.9% of its cumulative enrollment.\nThe Elk Grove Unified School District came in third for black male suspensions (745 or 16.5%). It was followed by Fresno Unified, Oakland Unified, and San Diego Unified.\nSee the full table here.\nAccording to the report, suspension rates for African Americans at all Sacramento County public schools is around 19.5%. Unfortunately, what the report does not show are the factors leading to these suspensions.\nOfficials with both the Sacramento City Unified and Elk Grove Unified school districts have responded to the report.\nSacramento City Unified Chief Communications Officer Alex Barrio called the figures \u201calarming\u201d and said his district is conducting a thorough review of suspension policies, early intervention efforts, and programs that serve the district\u2019s black youth.\nXanthi Pinkerton, Director of Communications & PIO for Elk Grove Unified, also said her district is taking the matter seriously. She laid out a list of actions being taken to lower the African American suspension rate. She noted that the school has already abandoned its zero-tolerance approach to discipline and implemented a progressive method for behavior modification. Furthermore, \u201cwe are currently implementing the Board approved educational equity framework that aims to address systemic bias and provide professional development to help staff better understand implicit bias with regard to discipline,\" she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/23918", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CZA52H72HH6T2JQKUWQ6FF32OT2UP4DM", "length": 6213, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.capitolhillblue.com", "title": "Nobody\u2019s laughing now | Capitol Hill Blue", "raw_content": "Nobody\u2019s laughing now\nA year ago, the idea that Congress would consider sharp curbs on lobbying would have been laughed off Capitol Hill.\nIn fact, that\u2019s exactly what happened. The man doing the laughing was then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who at a news conference derided the authors of a bipartisan lobbying measure and accused them of working on behalf of \u201cleftist groups.\u201d\nNobody\u2019s laughing now. The Republican leadership in the House suddenly is leading the charge to write new limitations on the estimated $2 billion-a-year lobbying business in Washington.\nThe Republican turnaround can be explained by the story of two men _ lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who earlier this month acknowledged a conspiracy to bribe public officials, and DeLay, who was forced to give up his House leadership position after he was indicted on separate money-laundering charges.\nBut beyond those two men lies a bigger story of the sea change that\u2019s occurred in the Washington lobbying world over the last decade.\nGrowing numbers of top congressional leaders, on both sides of the aisle, have left public life for the lucrative business of lobbying. In the last five years alone, the number of people registered to lobby the federal government has doubled, to more than 34,000. And increasingly, members of Congress have invited lobbyists to become part of their political teams, with some serving as campaign consultants and others heading up fund-raising operations.\nAccording to the watchdog Center for Public Integrity, lobbyists served as treasurer on 79 lawmakers\u2019 campaign and leadership funds between 1998 and 2004.\nOne upshot is that, more than ever, political contributions have become seen as a price of admission for those seeking support for their causes in Congress.\nSome members of Congress talk about this transaction in ways that once would have been unheard of. When Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., chairman of the House Resources Committee, told a Sacramento Bee reporter why Indian tribes had been major donors to his campaign, he said, \u201cObviously, they want to have some access.\u201d\nInside the Beltway, some refer to this as \u201cpay to play,\u201d and critics say it\u2019s gotten out of hand.\n\u201cThe system of \u2018pay to play\u2019 has become much more blatant and brazen,\u201d said Fred Wertheimer, who heads an advocacy group called Democracy 21 that mirrors Wertheimer\u2019s decades-long crusade against money abuses in politics.\n\u201cWhat we\u2019ve been seeing is almost a formalization of the linkage between lobbyists\u2019 money and \u2026 political agenda,\u201d he said.\nWertheimer is quick to say he doesn\u2019t believe lobbyists\u2019 cash is making its way into politicians\u2019 pockets. The example of former Rep. Randy \u201cDuke\u201d Cunningham of California, who has admitted a conspiracy to accept bribe money from a defense contractor, \u201cwill continue to be extremely rare,\u201d he said. Yet Wertheimer contends that the effect of today\u2019s lobbying-and-money climate is just as corrupting.\nSome say the cause for the recent ascension of lobbyists\u2019 clout was the Republican takeover of the House in 1994 and DeLay\u2019s so-called \u201cK-Street Project,\u201d in which he vowed hard-line tactics to increase Republicans\u2019 presence in the city\u2019s biggest lobbying firms.\nOthers say an equally large factor has been the rapid rise in federal spending, which has seen the budget grow more than 50 percent in the last eight years.\nWhatever the reasons, there\u2019s little doubt that the accounts of Abramoff\u2019s extravagant lobbying antics are fostering a new look by the public at lobbying\u2019s role in federal legislation.\nAccording to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll, two-thirds of Americans would prohibit lobbyists from contributing any campaign money to members of Congress or their political challengers. Almost as many, 58 percent, said the Abramoff investigation suggests \u201cwidespread corruption in Washington.\u201d\nConcerned that the Abramoff case could reflect badly on Republicans in this election year, House Speaker Dennis Hastert last week announced he would support new restrictions on lobbying, and dispatched Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., to draft legislation.\nThe measure almost certainly will be less drastic than the ban on contributions favored by the public. Early indications are that Dreier will look to greater disclosure requirements _ on the donations lobbyists give lawmakers and the fund raisers they sponsor for candidates, for example.\nHowever, Hastert said he\u2019s also looking at a provision with real teeth: a sweeping ban on all non-governmental travel by members.\nIt\u2019s not clear yet where the Republican leadership\u2019s newfound interest in lobbying limits will go.\nJohn Samples, who studies money and politics from the libertarian Cato Institute, says that depends on the public\u2019s reaction, and he doubts that Americans will really engage on the issue.\n\u201cThe public may not expect much from politicians in the first place,\u201d he said, noting a recent Pew Poll that found 80 percent of Americans believe it\u2019s commonplace for lobbyists to bribe members of Congress.\nIn any case, Samples says regulation is a risky course because new limitations often have unintended consequences.\n\u201cDo you really want to limit the ability of interests to advocate their positions in Washington?\u201d he said.\nThe better option, he said, is to leave the job to American voters, who can simply discard unscrupulous members on Election Day. Samples acknowledged, though, that this part of the political balance has broken down in recent years with the rapid growth of all-but-safe congressional seats for House members.\n\u201cOrdinarily you\u2019d think you might pay a political price if you take a lavish golfing trip to Scotland paid for by a lobbyist,\u201d he said, referring to a now-famous 2000 trip taken by DeLay and paid for in part by Abramoff. \u201cBut when incumbents today presume overwhelming re-election you don\u2019t have that worry as much.\u201d\nDespite new momentum for lobbying limits, some doubt that any new laws will have much affect on the Washington money machine.\n\u201cThe problems go deeper,\u201d said Thomas Mann, a longtime expert on money and politics at the Brookings Institution. \u201cCongress itself needs to recover its comparative advantages as a genuinely deliberative and independent branch of government.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.caraccidentlawyers.net/pennsylvania/cheltenham-freshman-dies-trying-to-catch-bus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NGHA3KSIDNJXWW2AY77QCKMD3FTEG4H7", "length": 1865, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.caraccidentlawyers.net", "title": "Cheltenham Freshman Fatal Accident -", "raw_content": "Cheltenham Freshman Fatal Accident\nA freshman from a high school in Montgomery County died last Wednesday morning when she was struck down by a car while trying to catch her bus.\nAccording to the police, the vehicle hit the girl as she was crossing an intersection to get to her bus stop. The fatality was a young girl studying at a high school in Montgomery County. The freshman was killed that Wednesday morning when she was hit by a car while she was on her way to the bus stop.\nThe young student was identified as Dajanique Brown-Rogers, a freshman in the Cheltenham High School. She was hit by a car as she was rushing across the corner of Clarion Avenue and New Second Street in Melrose Park, Pa towards the bus stop.\nInvestigators reported that the driver of the vehicle stopped and with the witnesses helped the girl but the victim was suffering from critical injuries. She died after she was transported to the Abington Memorial Hospital.\nThe administrators of Cheltenham High School was sad to announce the death of Brown-Rogers to her schoolmates at 10:45, a.m. Meanwhile, grief counselors were assigned to look after her grieving schoolmates, this was the message posted by Cheltenham Principal Andrew Kuhn.\nKuhn wrote that the staff and the administrator of Cheltenham High School are offering their continued emotional support to both the Brown-Rogers family and students. He also wrote that the CHS Guidance Department are available to give students specialized assistance in dealing with this loss. They will be more information of the accident later.\nNo other details were available as the investigation is ongoing.\nIf you were injured in a car accident, contact experienced car accident lawyer who will protect the rights of you and your loved ones. You may be entitled to financial compensation for economic damages as well as pain and suffering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.catholiclane.com/cathedra-sempiterna/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BG2QLKNUXG5UIBEBFXRDCLFQ2MXCUBBD", "length": 5192, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.catholiclane.com", "title": "Cathedra Sempiterna | Catholic Lane", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Columnists \u00bb Cathedra Sempiterna\nCathedra Sempiterna\nby E. L. Core on Oct 09, 2015 in Columnists, Featured\nJohn Henry Newman, 1845\nDEEPLY do I feel, ever will I protest, for I can appeal to the ample testimony of history to bear me out, that, in questions of right and wrong, there is nothing really strong in the whole world, nothing decisive and operative, but the voice of him, to whom have been committed the keys of the kingdom and the oversight of Christ\u2019s flock. The voice of Peter is now, as it ever has been, a real authority, infallible when it teaches, prosperous when it commands, ever taking the lead wisely and distinctly in its own province, adding certainty to what is probable, and persuasion to what is certain. Before it speaks, the most saintly may mistake; and after it has spoken, the most gifted must obey.\nPeter is no recluse, no abstracted student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary. Peter for eighteen hundred years has lived in the world; he has seen all fortunes, he has encountered all adversaries, he has shaped himself for all emergencies. If there ever was a power on earth who had an eye for the times, who has confined himself to the practicable, and has been happy in his anticipations, whose words have been deeds, and whose commands prophecies, such is he in the history of ages, who sits from generation to generation in the Chair of the Apostles, as the Vicar of Christ and Doctor of His Church.\nIt was said by an old philosopher, who declined to reply to an emperor\u2019s arguments, \u201cIt is not safe controverting with the master of twenty legions.\u201d What Augustus had in the temporal order, that, and much more, has Peter in the spiritual. When was he ever unequal to the occasion? When has he not risen with the crisis? What dangers have ever daunted him? What sophistry foiled him? What uncertainties misled him? When did ever any power go to war with Peter, material or moral, civilized or savage, and got the better? When did the whole world ever band together against him solitary, and not find him too many for it?\nAll who take part with Peter are on the winning side. The Apostle of Christ says not in order to unsay; for he has inherited that word which is with power. From the first he has looked through the wide world, of which he has the burden; and according to the need of the day and the inspirations of his Lord, he has set himself, now to one thing, now to another, but to all in season and to nothing in vain. He came first upon an age of refinement and luxury like our own; and in spite of the persecutor, fertile in the resources of his cruelty, he soon gathered, out of all classes of society, the slave, the soldier, the high-born lady, and the sophist, to form a people for his Master\u2019s honour. The savage hordes came down in torrents from the north, hideous even to look upon; and Peter went out with holy water and with benison, and by his very eye he sobered them and backed them in full career. They turned aside and flooded the whole earth, but only to be more surely civilized by him, and to be made ten times more his children even than the older populations they had overwhelmed. Lawless kings arose, sagacious as the Roman, passionate as the Hun, yet in him they found their match, and were shattered, and he lived on. The gates of the earth were opened to the east and west, and men poured out to take possession; and he and his went with them, swept along by zeal and charity, as far as they by enterprise, covetousness, or ambition. Has he failed in his enterprises up to this hour? Did he, in our fathers\u2019 day, fail in his struggle with Joseph of Germany and his confederates\u2014with Napoleon, a greater name, and his dependent kings\u2014that, though in another kind of fight, he should fail in ours? What grey hairs are on the head of Judah, whose youth is renewed as the eagle\u2019s, whose feet are like the feet of harts, and underneath the Everlasting Arms?\n\u201cThus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel. Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name! Thou art Mine.\n\u201cWhen thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee.\n\u201cWhen thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burned, and the flame shall not kindle against thee.\n\u201cFear not, for I am with thee, I am the first, and I am the last, and besides Me there is no God.\u201d\nBl. John Henry Newman (1896)\n[Cardinal Newman was received into the Catholic Church 170 years ago today, October 9, 1845.]\nLane Core Jr. joined the Catholic Church at age 17, having been raised a Methodist. With a B.S. in Math & Computer Science, he has been on the Internet since 1995, and from 2002 through 2009 published The Blog from the Core. He has freelanced for the Pittsburgh Catholic and the Tribune-Review newspapers. A lifelong bibliophile, he enjoys poetry, theology, history, biography, and psychology.\nThe Great Sermon\nPatton, Ike, and my Teenage Boys\nThree Historic American Proclamations of Thanksgiving Day\nFiled under: Blessed John Henry Newman \u00bb Catholic Church \u00bb history \u00bb papacy\nMemorial Day 2017: Joyce Kilmer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 51228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cayman.finance/2017/06/conyers-jordan-mcerlean-receives-call-bar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6ETLCBU3DMJ7LQYLTOR246ZFGG7GMDAD", "length": 1067, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cayman.finance", "title": "Conyers\u2019 Jordan McErlean receives call to the bar | Cayman Finance", "raw_content": "Conyers\u2019 Jordan McErlean receives call to the bar\nConyers Dill & Pearman\u2019s Jordan McErlean has been called to the bar of the Cayman Islands on 19 May 2017, and has been appointed associate in the litigation and restructuring department of the firm\u2019s Cayman Islands office.\nMcErlean joined Conyers as a summer intern in 2011 and 2012. Due to strong academic performance, he later became the recipient of the Conyers\u2019 Legal Education Award when the firm sponsored his Legal Practice Course (LPC) in the 2014 academic year.\nAfter successfully completing his LPC, McErlean was offered Articles of Clerkship and after being duly admitted has assumed his associate role.\nConyers\u2019 partner Fraser Hughes, who was Jordan\u2019s principal for the duration of his articleship, said that \u201cin addition to his academic achievements, Jordan has shown a strength of character that we value as a future member of the team and officer of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands\u201d.\nNews source: The Lawyer\nKPMG celebrates 50 years in Cayman\nCayman Finance presents St Ignatius student with iPad", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christmascarolina.com/forums/carolina-talk/1129-tough-leather.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GK2BHCG7FUFMTYL5YJ762VAPFPYQF6CW", "length": 875, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.christmascarolina.com", "title": "Tough As Leather", "raw_content": "Thread: Tough As Leather\nRead or watch this story: http://www.wxii12.com/news/24370643/detail.html\nThumbs up for the guy!\nRe: Tough As Leather\nHe isn't so tough. As a matter of fact, I'd kick his butt all over the place. This girly man's mother wears combat boots and swims after troop ships. Come get me sweetcakes. My name is John Bullard and I live in Chattanooga, TN. Just say the word and I'll post directions so you don't get your little brain all flustered.\nChurch, whose wife died nine years ago, maintains a large garden on his property. After taking some beans to a neighbor shortly after the bite, the neighbor became concerned and contacted another neighbor who serves as a fire department first-responder.....\nWhat I want to know is how his wife who died 9 years ago maintains a garden.\nOriginally Posted by thedementedelf\nWell duh, She's pushing daisies! heehee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 4131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/legal_aid_and_advice/legal_aid_certs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PDP43KPRORW6SRFEOEGXQNZQEMEKMXLM", "length": 8115, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.citizensinformation.ie", "title": "Legal Aid Certificates", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > Justice > Legal aid and advice > Legal Aid Certificates\nIf a judge considers that it is appropriate that you are granted criminal legal aid, you will be issued a legal aid certificate.\nTo obtain any of the legal aid certificates listed below, you must apply and show that you have insufficient means to pay for legal representation or, in the case of a child, the child or the child's parents or guardian have insufficient means. There are penalties, including imprisonment, for providing false or misleading information inorder to obtain a certificate.\nThe court must also be satisfied that the offence, with which you are charged, is of such a serious nature, or there are exceptional circumstances, that it is essential in the interest of justice that legal aid be provided.\nThere are a number of legal aid certificates:\nLegal aid (District Court) certificate\nLegal aid (trial on indictment) certificate\nLegal aid (appeal) certificate\nLegal aid (case stated) certificate\nLegal aid (Supreme Court) certificate\nSpecial Criminal Court certificate\nLegal aid (behaviour order) certificate\nLegal aid (civil order) certificate\nLegal aid (monitoring order) certificate\nLegal aid (protection of persons order) certificate\nLegal aid (re-trial order) certificate\nWhen you are first charged and brought before the District Court you can apply for a legal aid (District Court) certificate. This certificate entitles the solicitor assigned to the case to be paid for all his or her appearances in the District Court.\nIf the charge is murder or if the case is of sufficient complexity and gravity, the legal aid (District Court) certificate will entitle you to both a solicitor and barrister at the District Court stage.\nIf you are sent forward from the District Court for trial at the Circuit Court or the Central Criminal Court you can apply for a legal aid (trial on indictment) certificate. This application can be made to the District Court when the District Court is sending you forward for trial or, it can be made to the court before which you are to be dealt with.\nYou must be charged with murder or it must appear to the court that, in the interest of justice, you should have legal aid to assist you in the preparation and defence of your case.\nThis certificate will entitle you to both a solicitor and barrister.\nIf you have been convicted of a criminal offence and wish to appeal that conviction or the penalty imposed, you can apply for a legal aid (appeal) certificate. The application is usually made to the court before which you have been convicted. If the application is refused in that court you can still get the certificate by applying to the court in which your appeal is to be heard.\nThere are two ways of applying to the appeal court:\nBy sending a letter to the registrar of the court stating the facts of the case and the grounds for your appeal\nBy applying directly to the court itself\nTo be eligible for the certificate the conviction must be for murder, or the court must be satisfied that due to the serious nature of the offence it is necessary, in the interests of justice, that you should have legal aid.\nThe certificate entitles you to a solicitor. If the appeal is to the Court of Appeal, however, you are also entitled to a barrister.\nIf you are charged with an offence before the District Court or Circuit Court, or you are appealing to the Circuit Court against a conviction by the District Court, the judge who is hearing the case may refer a question of law which arises from the hearing to the High Court, the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court. This is known as a case stated. Similarly, the District Court judge hearing the case may state a case for the opinion of the High Court. In these situations you can apply for a legal aid (case stated) certificate.\nIf the application to the District Court or Circuit Court is refused, you can apply for a certificate to the court before which the case stated is to be heard. This can be done by:\nSending a letter to the registrar of the court setting out the facts of the case and the reason for the application or\nApplying directly to the court\nTo be eligible the offence must be of a serious nature or exceptional circumstances must apply. This certificate entitles you to both a solicitor and barrister.\nIf you are appealing a finding of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court you can apply for a legal aid (Supreme Court) certificate. Similarly, if you are charged with an offence, you can apply for a certificate where you appeal a finding of the High Court on a case stated by a District Court judge to the Supreme Court. Where you are appealing a finding of the High Court the offence must be of a serious nature or exceptional circumstances must apply.\nIf the application for a legal aid (Supreme Court) certificate is refused, you can apply to the Supreme Court for a certificate by writing to the registrar or applying directly to the court.\nThis certificate entitles you to both a solicitor and barrister.\nThe Special Criminal Court can grant a legal aid certificate to a person charged with an offence before the Special Criminal Court. The conditions that apply are exactly the same as those for a legal aid (trial on indictment) certificate.\nThis certificate entitles you to the services of both a solicitor and a barrister.\nIf your child (under age 18) is the subject of any court proceedings relating to a behaviour order you may be able to apply for a legal aid (behaviour order) certificate. The alleged anti-social behaviour must be considered to be of a serious nature or there must be exceptional circumstances.\nIf a certificate is granted, your child is entitled to a solicitor for:\nAn application by the Garda\u00ed for a behaviour order\nAn application by you or your child to vary or discharge a behaviour order\nYou child is entitled to a solicitor and a barrister (if considered appropriate) for:\nAn appeal by you or your child against the making of a behaviour order\nAny proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court which result from the application for or the appeal against a behaviour order\nIf you are the subject of any court proceedings relating to a civil order you may be able to apply for a legal aid (civil order) certificate. The alleged anti-social behaviour must be considered to be of a serious nature or there must be exceptional circumstances.\nIf a certificate is granted, you are entitled to a solicitor for:\nAn application by the Garda\u00ed for a civil order\nAn application by you to vary or discharge a civil order\nYou are entitled to a solicitor and a barrister (if considered appropriate) for:\nAn appeal by you against the making of a civil order\nAny proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court which result from the application for or the appeal against a civil order\nIf you are subject to a monitoring order and and intend applying to the courts to have it varied or revoked, you may be able to apply for a legal aid (monitoring order) certificate. The conditions specified in the monitoring order must be of such a nature or the circumstances so exceptional that the court feels legal aid should be granted in the interests of justice.\nThis certificate entitles you to the services of a solicitor and, if considered appropriate by the court, a barrister.\nIf you are subject to a protection of persons order and and intend applying to the courts to have it varied or revoked, you may be able to apply for a legal aid (protection of persons order) certificate. The conditions specified in the protection of persons order must be of such a nature or the circumstances so exceptional that the court feels legal aid should be granted in the interests of justice.\nIf you are the subject of any proceedings in the Court of Appeal relating to a re-trial order, you may be able to apply for a legal aid (re-trial order) certificate. It must appear to the court that, in the interests of justice, you should have legal aid to assist you in the preparation and conduct of your case.This certificate entitles you to both a solicitor and a barrister.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 11307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ckbfirm.com/?page_id=73", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6JH7NFVQ76U6M73AMQR5NKOXVPRLKX3Q", "length": 517, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ckbfirm.com", "title": "Mykal Warne \u2013 My CMS", "raw_content": "Mr. Warne is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois and completed his undergraduate studies in Political Science at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. His practice area is limited to commercial litigations, creditor/debtor actions, and collections. During law school, Mr. Warne focused primarily on corporate law, intellectual property, and trial advocacy.\nJ.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois\nB.A., South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 62.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clear-accounts.co.uk/are-you-missing-out-on-tax-credits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:38Z", "digest": "sha1:Q74PKB4G4S6MK7DR4KD37O3D3CVQEJYB", "length": 210, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.clear-accounts.co.uk", "title": "Are you missing out on tax credits? \u00ab | fixed-fee online accounting | Accountancy for freelancers and contractors", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 12:00 am\tand is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cloakandswagger.com/tag/festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:EPWKTCDIZTKFD7GVOLTCV2BVBJZFEIWF", "length": 638, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cloakandswagger.com", "title": "Cloak & Swagger|We\u2019re going to LeeFest", "raw_content": "How\u2019s y\u2019all festival season going? We just got back from another epic if very rainy Secret Garden Party. Now we\u2019re on the hunt for our next weekend of insanity. We\u2019re craving escaping into another of\u2026\nSince 2011 Found has presented over 300 exciting new artists crossing house, techno, garage and a plethora of four-to-the-floor sounds. The one-day festival is now back for it\u2019s third edition on Saturday 13th June at\u2026\nOur friends are running a festival \u2013 Rumbellion. You\u2019ve probably guessed it, it\u2019s going to be a rum fuelled party with amazing old school tunes. They\u2019ve secured the wonderful Craig Charles to headline too. I must admit\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cmc.com.sg/wp/index.php/professional-credentials/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VQWSK2U2O3L2PH4CX2C3YMDVU2OM7LWV", "length": 540, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cmc.com.sg", "title": "Professional Credentials \u2013 CMC", "raw_content": "Credit Management Consultancy (asia) Pte Ltd is the first Collection Agency in the region to be awarded the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System in Year 2006. In 2010, Credit Management Consultancy (asia) Pte Ltd successfully attained and converted to ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System and maintained it ever since.\nCredit Management Consultancy (asia) Pte Ltd was certified a bizSAFE Partner in 2012 by the National Workplace Safety and Health Council in recognition of its role in ensuring workplace safety and health excellence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 112.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coasttocoast.co.za/destinations/south-coast/port-shepstone-backpackers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:F6ITIIMU62WYWCVLZVE2L74UYS6NP2ZD", "length": 919, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.coasttocoast.co.za", "title": "South Coast | Coast to Coast | Backpackers Guide to SA", "raw_content": "> Port Shepstone\nSituated at the mouth of the Mzimkulu River (the great home of all rivers), 120km south of Durban and close to Oribi Gorge, Port Shepstone is the largest town on the South Coast. It is also the administrative, educational and commercial centre for Southern Natal whose industries include a sugar mill, a lime works and a marble quarry. Timber, wattle bark and sub-tropical fruit are also grown in the district.\nPort Shepstone has a lot to offer backpackers. There is an excellent golf course, varied coastal and river mouth fishing, a tidal pool and sandy beach and is the gateway to Oribi Gorge. If you are brave enough, take on the highest commercial abseil at 110m. There are also hiking trails where you can encounter over 250 species of birds, buck, baboons and monkeys.\nThe Spot Backpackers offers budget accommodation and a host of activities right on the beach in Umtentweni, in Port Shepstone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coin-operated.com/2004/07/06/treasure-gps-hunt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZWLXQT7BIZ46Z4EBDSJBRMJPD7ZKUVF", "length": 650, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.coin-operated.com", "title": "treasure GPS hunt | JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN, PH.D. treasure GPS hunt \u2013 JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN, PH.D.", "raw_content": "treasure GPS hunt\nMogi, Item Hunt is a GPS game based in Japan that people play through their cellphones and hunt for treasure (gifts, flowers, etc) on a virtual map of Tokyo based on their location. It integrates IM by letting players give hints to others as they see their icons run around on the map. I like how its very 2D and doesnt try to hype up the interface over trying to make it look too real. I guess thats a limitation of having it all run on a cellphone, which is good and minimal. I wonder how many players hit lamp posts when they are trying to walk and IM at the same time?\nhttp://www.coin-operated.com/2004/07/06/treasure-gps-hunt\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coolhomeimprovement.net/home/choosing-a-pressure-washing-contractor.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:47Z", "digest": "sha1:57EAHTALKZTYD2U5LSUDFTYDQWZNO5EG", "length": 4395, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.coolhomeimprovement.net", "title": "Cool Home Improvement \u00bb Choosing A Pressure Washing Contractor", "raw_content": "Choosing A Pressure Washing Contractor\nIf you\u2019re ready to make your home\u2019s outside area sparkling clean, you\u2019re going to need to find an expert pressure washing service to help you get the layers of dirt and grime off your home\u2019s siding. If you want to use a pressure washer, you might not think that it\u2019s necessary to hire a contractor or a team of experts to help you achieve a better clean. However, when it comes to pressure washing, going it alone simply won\u2019t give you the results you want. In fact, trying to use a pressure washer by yourself could end up damaging your home and creating a lot of issues for your siding if you\u2019re not careful. Pressure washers are extremely powerful tools and should always be used with extreme caution. If you want to achieve a perfect, spotlessly clean and protect your home from any kind of chipping and premature wear, you need to hire a contractor to help you out. So how do you find the right service, and what are the criteria you\u2019ll need to look for? Here are a few things to consider.\nMost pressure washing professionals know their way around the instrument itself. This means that while you\u2019re consulting with a contractor, they\u2019ll be able to tell you what kind of power, temperature, and size of machine you\u2019ll need for the job. One of the crucial factors to consider is whether your job requires a hot or cold washing unit. For instance: If your home if fairly dirty with a lot of crumbly dirt and residue from a recent storm, a cold pressure washer should do the trick. Most homes will be able to get a spotless resolution from a cold pressure washer since it\u2019s the power of the jet that\u2019s doing the majority of the work rather than the water temperature. However, in some cases, such as extremely greasy or grimy home sidings or patios, a hot pressure washer should be used to get those extra layers of dirt off. In this case, you\u2019ll need to choose a contractor who knows what they\u2019re doing and is comfortable working with potentially dangerous high temperatures. Pressure washers are already dangerous instruments in the wrong hands. Add to that a hot temperature, and the user could be at risk for burns and home damage.\nDifferent washers have different power sources. While smaller, portable units tend to be powered by gas for better ease of motion, larger stationary instruments must be plugged in in order to work. This might not seem like a huge factor in your choice, but consider the actual location of the area. While your home siding probably won\u2019t require a portable, gas-powered machine for the job, you\u2019ll still want to make sure you\u2019re hiring someone who is comfortable working with high-voltage, potentially dangerous levels of electricity. Many homeowners prefer electric models over gas because of energy-efficiency and ease. Still, it\u2019s important that the contractor you use knows how to safely wield an electric-powered washer without putting themselves in danger.\nIf you\u2019re just giving your home a once-over after a difficult winter or storm season, you might be tempted to go with a professional who isn\u2019t accustomed to heavy-duty jobs. But no matter what kind of job you\u2019re looking to get done, whether it\u2019s a quick cleanup of your back patio or a major blasting of your outdoor pavers and steps, you\u2019ll need someone who is comfortable with more sensitive, detail-oriented work, especially if the area they\u2019re be cleaning is made of a more delicate material like wood. Applying too much pressure to a wood deck or home siding can take a lot of the material straight off and leave you with a weakened, depleted exterior, which means you need to be sure your contractor has experience with all different kinds of materials and power settings.\nSize of Job\nFinally, you\u2019ll want to think about the actual square footage of the area you\u2019re trying to clean before hiring a contractor. If you\u2019re only trying to clean a small deck that\u2019s encrusted with dirt, don\u2019t go for a heavy-duty contracting business that\u2019s used to taking on commercial properties. Likewise, if you\u2019re trying to clean a gigantic outdoor area, a residential cleaning service might not have the tools or skills you\u2019re looking for to complete the job. As always, interview your contractors to gauge their experience levels, and ask for referrals and recommendations from friends, co-workers, and neighbors before settling on an individual or service to hire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.costofstamps.net/other_china_postal_services.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:7E3OLPQUAHGEVSVE2EK7NUFNNJXW5Y2S", "length": 2778, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.costofstamps.net", "title": "Cost Of Chinese Postage Stamps", "raw_content": "To send important things that are under the control of Customs, you will need some help from the local department of the post office.\nIn the past couple of decades, an advanced postal network developed, thus providing high quality coverage, both domestically and internationally. The PSN (postal service network) has become a very important commodities, financial instruments, and information carriers.\nPost offices can be found throughout the entire country. Domestic mailings are quick and cheap, normally 0.60 yuan for nearby delivery and 0.80 yuan for mail between cities. Within a few cities, there's sameday delivery; between larger cities, delivery usually is done overnight. The postal service internationally is also very efficient. In normal scenarios, it only takes five to ten days to get postcards or airmail letters to their targets.\nSpecial attention points:\nSize of envelopes is standardized; you can buy them from appointed agencies, post offices, and hotels.\nStampage in China need to be glued onto envelopes and packages.\nThe postal code must be placed on an item before mailing.\nPost Offices usually are strict about how packages are packed. It is best to pack the item at the office as to gain customs clearance.\nChinese mail services also have Express Mail Service (EMS) for most international and domestic targets. Also, many international couriers have offices within China, inside which mail services like UPS, DHL, FedEx, and TNT are now available to ten thousand cities in one hundred seventy regions and countries.\nPost offices along with their trademark bright emblems of green are oftemtimes found off of main streets, sometimes at train stations, the airports and major tourist spots. They are open each day from 08:00am to 7:00pm.\nExpress Mail Services Are Able To Get To The Following:\nJapan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Austria, Bangladesh, France, Portugal, Itazly, Germany, Romania, Russia, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, Spain, Czech, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Hungary, Ireland, Milan, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, America, Cyprus, Canada, Oman, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Iraq, Chad, Qatar, Gabon, Rwanda, Mali, Jordan, the Congo, Turkey, Guinea, Senegal, Morocco, Kuwait, Djibouti, The United Arab Emirates, Cote d'lvoire, Tunisia, Niger, Argentina, Guyana, Panama, Brazil, Hong Kong, Columbia, and Macao\nAirmails Are Able To Get To The Following:\nPyongyang, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Karachi, Manila, Taiwan, Tokyo, Singapore, Osaka, Teheran, Amsterdam, Ulan Bator, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Kiev, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Roman, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Sydney, Zurich, Vancouver, and San Francisco", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 236.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crazy8sauthortour.com/the-authors/lindsay-hill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAF42PSZBUBP7NH7BZINGQJLC2QC3RNY", "length": 634, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.crazy8sauthortour.com", "title": "\u00bb Lindsay Hill Lindsay Hill | Crazy 8s Author Tour", "raw_content": "Oregon Book Award Finalist, PEN Center Fiction Award\nLindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and graduated from Bard College. Since 1974, he has published six books of poetry and his work has appeared in a wide variety of literary journals. Sea of Hooks, his first novel, was published by McPherson & Company in late 2013. Sea of Hooks won the 2014 PEN Center USA Fiction Award, the 2015 IPPY Gold Medal for Literary Fiction, and was also a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Lindsay works in the nonprofit sector and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, the painter Nita Hill.\nLearn more at hill4spiral.wix.com/sea-of-hooks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 111.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ctkspencer.net/parish-blog/homily-for-the-third-sunday-of-easter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZJYKE6N7IT5JCPKLYETACRTH27FGBGZ", "length": 121, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ctkspencer.net", "title": "Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter", "raw_content": "Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter\nHere is the homily for the Third Sunday of Easter from St. John the Baptist Church:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/newsroom?ContentRecord_id=fa6b2d11-f207-4736-b708-1212bb91e409&ContentType_id=8c81d17c-7ffe-48d6-81e7-cd93fe3120eb&Group_id=0b3ad3ec-d24e-4d2a-b425-a97ae7617c16&MonthDisplay=1&YearDisplay=2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VPJFOMQZRELGXCRUSV2PXEZOY7YXRHSP", "length": 678, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cubastudygroup.org", "title": "Newsroom - Cuba Study Group", "raw_content": "Cuban Parliament Approves Communist Party Roadmap\nHAVANA (Reuters) - With less than a year until Raul Castro steps down as president, Cuba's parliament approved documents on Thursday confirming the Communist Party as the country's guiding force and banning the concentration of private property and wealth.\nThe national assembly was summoned for an extraordinary session to approve Communist Party documents reaffirming the one-party political system and state domination of the socialist economy, even as the Caribbean island allows some private business and foreign investment. The ratification by assembly deputies was unanimous, as is usually the case after some discussion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cupharmacyperspectives.org/faculty-perspectives/personalized-cancer-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:G6USC2JOTOFN5WENQG2CJJULM6PNN3SD", "length": 3023, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cupharmacyperspectives.org", "title": "Personalized Cancer Treatment - CU Pharmacy Perspectives", "raw_content": "By Stephanie CarlsonNovember 25, 2018 Faculty Perspectives, In the News\nDespite all the advances in technology to both diagnose and treat cancer, many of these therapies are ineffective against the later stages of cancer. This problem is further compounded by the fact that, regardless of the cancer type, each person\u2019s cancer can be significantly different and many of the clinically used cancer drug therapies can have significant adverse effects.\nSo what if you could test cancer treatments on a patient\u2019s tumor, outside of their body, to determine the most effective available clinical therapy? This form of personalized medicine technology is being developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, including CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences faculty member Dan LaBarbera, PhD.\nDr. LaBarbera\u2019s lab is testing the effects of cancer drug therapies on a patient\u2019s tumor tissue using state of the art high-throughput screening technologies. His lab is utilizing patient tissues from the University of Colorado Cancer Center gastrointestinal tissue bank to generate patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTO) for personalized medicine using clinical diagnoses and therapies, including an individual\u2019s tumor genetics, radiation therapy, targeted drug and biologic therapies, and conventional chemotherapies.\nIn addition to developing automated high-throughput culture technology to rapidly expand the tumor tissues outside the body, his team of researchers are developing state of the art three dimensional (3D) high-throughput imaging approaches and analyses to test these clinical therapies alone or in combination on the PDTO tissues. It has been shown that the 3D culture of PDTOs better represent how tumors behave and function in humans compared to single layer cultures of cells. His team is also developing this technology for novel high-throughput drug discovery.\nIn the future, \u201cThis personalized medicine approach and technology could be used to inform patients and their medical oncologists what drug therapies are the most effective against their individual type of cancer outside of their bodies before ever receiving them.\u201d Dr. LaBarbera explains. He also says that this technology will play a critical role in the future drug discovery, development and clinical translation of novel drug therapies. Although this technology is still being developed and there remain caveats to this approach, he is hopeful that this personalized medicine approach may be part of the standard of care for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.\nDr. LaBarbera\u2019s research team includes: Qiong Zhou, Adedoyin Abraham, Laura Pike, S\u00e9bastien Rinaldetti, Josh Abbott, Hector Esquer, and Nick Tomlinson. To develop this technology further, the LaBarbera laboratory is collaborating with numerous oncologists and scientists at CU AMC, including: Wells Messersmith, MD, David Raben, MD, Sana Karam, MD, Peter Dempsey, PhD, and Todd Pitts, PhD, and all of their respective research teams.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.curehunter.com/m/keywordSummaryD012333.do", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CVRZD2SWPKHRXCJVUEDHZG7TDXKPE5BY", "length": 1091, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.curehunter.com", "title": "Messenger RNA - mRNA Summary | CureHunter Mobile", "raw_content": "Messenger RNA (mRNA) Summary\nDescription: RNA sequences that serve as templates for protein synthesis. Bacterial mRNAs are generally primary transcripts in that they do not require post-transcriptional processing. Eukaryotic mRNA is synthesized in the nucleus and must be exported to the cytoplasm for translation. Most eukaryotic mRNAs have a sequence of polyadenylic acid at the 3' end, referred to as the poly(A) tail. The function of this tail is not known for certain, but it may play a role in the export of mature mRNA from the nucleus as well as in helping stabilize some mRNA molecules by retarding their degradation in the cytoplasm.\nAlso Known As: mRNA; Poly(A) Tail; RNA, Messenger; Non-Polyadenylated mRNA; Poly(A) RNA Show All >>\nKey Diseases for which Messenger RNA is Relevant\nNeoplasms (Cancer) : 160 outcomes 1043 studies in 13807 results\nInfection : 70 outcomes 263 studies in 4252 results\nInflammation : 42 outcomes 150 studies in 2000 results\nFibrosis (Cirrhosis) : 33 outcomes 67 studies in 1221 results\nDrugs Related to Messenger RNA\nTherapies Related to Messenger RNA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.customcontested.co.za/traditional-khoi-san-leadership-bill-mps-failed-dismally-consult-public/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UA5UXB6P444BNCRBY4LA3HYDTNTAAQ5O", "length": 7583, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.customcontested.co.za", "title": "Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: MPs failed dismally to consult the public | Custom Contested Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: MPs failed dismally to consult the public | Custom Contested", "raw_content": "Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: MPs failed dismally to consult the public\nPosted on 06 Apr 2017 | Categories: Opinion | Tags: Alliance for Rural Democracy, COGTA, Public hearings, Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill\nFlawed hearings made a mockery of constitutional requirements. Parliament has failed dismally to consult the communities most affected by the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill.\nThe recent parliamentary hearings on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill made a mockery of the constitutional requirement of meaningful and substantive consultation in the development and passing of laws.\nPeople waited in vain as MPs failed to arrive on the scheduled date for hearings on the Bill in Kimberley. Photo: Sobantu Mzwakali\nUnlike those of the Western Cape, the people of the mainly rural Northern Cape and Eastern Cape were not properly consulted. In some cases people waited in vain as MPs failed to arrive on the scheduled date for the meetings.\nAfter numerous postponements, the chairperson of the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Richard Mdakane, launched the first round of the public hearings programme in November 2016.\nHearings were held until December 2016 in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, then early this year in North West, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, and finally in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Gauteng.\nThe purpose of the Bill is:\nTo recognise the Khoi-San leadership structures and communities which have not yet been recognised in law; and\nTo combine all the laws on traditional leadership into one law and address all problems with current laws.\nThe point of public hearings is to allow the Committee to draw from people\u2019s input to make changes to the Bill, or even, if necessary, to send it back to the drawing board.\nHowever, we know from the earlier Traditional Courts Bill that there is no guarantee that a committee will take people\u2019s inputs into account in influencing the direction of legislation. Instead of summarizing all the inputs to build a comprehensive report, the final Traditional Courts Bill of 2012 ignored the majority of submissions to the Portfolio Committee in an extensive public participation process. Thus, public consultation can also in practice be an exclusionary political exercise that does not reflect people\u2019s interests.\nIf the portfolio committee is serious about public participation in the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill , its report should reflect that the process in the first round of the hearings was flawed.\nDid the Committee do as required to call and cater for people\u2019s meaningful engagement with the Bill? The answer is an unequivocal \u2018no\u2019. There was no translation offered to the indigenous people that Parliament claims to recognise. People had to contribute on the basis of a 10-minute summary of the Bill that was not even projected to them.\nPeople were asked to make submissions on a 95-page contested Bill that they were hearing about for the first time, presented in English and poorly translated by volunteers from surrounding communities. This is the reason why hearings lasted for at least 3 hours. What meaningful contributions could be made?\nIn contrast, in the urban setting of Parliament in Cape Town, there were translators and a summary of the Bill was both issued and projected to the participants. People who went to the Western Cape hearings had access to facilities and information that people in the Northern Cape did not have.\nAt a minimum, the Members of Parliament should have travelled with translators and provided copies of the summary to people in rural areas. It was Parliament\u2019s responsibility to include all those interested, regardless to their location and class status.\nDespite communities\u2019 varying locations and disparate treatment by Parliament, people did not hesitate to object to the Bill, which seeks to recognise traditional leadership within colonial and apartheid boundaries without first attending to imposed chieftainships.\nThe chairperson\u2019s frequent remarks at the Northern Cape hearings that people were making irrelevant comments showed that either people had not been properly informed about the Bill or that the Bill is flawed and the committee itself did not recognise the relevance of the comments.\nIn fact, the Bill has a bigger impact on people living in the rural areas than is generally perceived. It does not only relate to leadership issues but also influences the way leadership connects with mineral rights and the land issue. In her presentation to the committee, Constance Mogale, coordinator of the Alliance for Rural Democracy, accused the committee of failing to understand what the Bill entails. In response, MPs asked her to make a written submission that would \u2018expand their understanding of the Bill.\u2019\nAnother disturbing aspect of the hearings is the distorted way in which the Bill was presented to the public. In the second phase of hearings, Mdakane told people that other communities at previous hearings had accepted the Bill and called for its urgent amendment. This was not entirely true; many people loudly rejected and criticized the Bill. The few people who asked for the Bill are those who only mentioned the importance of the \u2018recognition of the Khoi-San communities\u2019 and did not dwell much on other problematic issues of traditional leadership in the Bill.\nThe other concern, not only with this Bill, is whether or not MPs are committed to understanding the issues they deal with. Do Members of Parliament actually engage with the documentation that comes before them in order to make reasoned decisions? Do they seek to have a strong understanding of the laws that they pass? How does one assess that? There might be a role for civil society to help MPs in their understanding of the implications of proposed legislation, but the party with the majority in parliament seems foreign-funded civil society organisations as a threat.\nPolitical analysts have suggested that following the massive knock the ANC took in the last local government elections, the party\u2019s road to recovery might lie with the rural vote.\nThese hearings were an opportunity for the ANC to secure this vote. Yet the party stripped people of their prerogative to participate in law making processes.\nIf Parliament continues like this, it is opening itself to Constitutional Court challenges like the \u2018Doctors For Life\u2019 case over public involvement in the law-making process. In that case, the Court delivered a stinging rebuke to Parliament for inadequate consultation and laid down benchmarks for adequate listening.\nParliament should increase public participation in a meaningful way by rescheduling public hearings in the communities which have not been properly heard. And Members of Parliament should read and understand their documentation before and after the hearings, to reassure the public that public hearings are not just about ticking political boxes and that Parliamentarians are truly informed.\nThis article first appeared on Ground Up on 05 April 2017\nSobantu Mzwakali is a writer with the Alliance for Rural Democracy based at the Land and Accountability Research Centre at the University of Cape Town\nThe article 'Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: MPs failed dismally to consult the public' on www.customcontested.co.za is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License. Please see our copyright terms for more information: http://www.customcontested.co.za/about-custom-contested/copyright-notice/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 9371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cwteaching.com/issue-3/4546769027", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QDO34PVFSTSRXBDKXBMT5OP7RMT6JHFN", "length": 2602, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cwteaching.com", "title": "Issue 3 - cwteaching.com", "raw_content": "Creative Writing:Teaching Theory & Practice\nVolume 2 Number 2 December 2010 ISSN 2040-3356\nBelow are seven new peer reviewed articles covering a wide range of perspectives on the theory and practice of Creative Writing pedagogy. These were chosen from the submissions received through the 2010 call for papers. It is hoped that these new articles will offer food for thought and that they will spark some debate in a number of areas. It is pleasing to see the first reply to a previous article and it is hoped that this practice will continue so that the journal can become a forum for debate and a site where knowledge can be questioned.\nPoets on Pedagogy pages 59 - 86\nThis research article presents a qualitative interview analysis of the creative writing pedagogy of five successful, practicing poets.\nJason Wirtz\nThe Six-Word Short Story pages 87 - 94\nThe aim of this article is to highlight the multiple opportunities inherent within the six word short story for demonstrating to students the tools and structures required to sustain a longer piece of prose writing.\nWriting a Safe Space pages 95 - 110\nThis paper explores how and whether writing as therapy should be used when dealing with clients who suffer from mental health problems, specifically depression and self harm.\nThe Real World of Nonfiction Workshops: A Cautionary Tale pages 111 - 119\nThe article focuses on the unique character of creative writing classes in nonfiction. Initailly taking the long view of the teaching of creative writing in the United States, it later examines how nonfiction as a form fits within the academic creative writing culture.\nThe Writing Workshop for Dummies pages 120 - 136\nThrough research and experience, the creative writing workshop is explored and evaluated. The article explores if students be taught how to write or whether existing talent is developed; and what are the best ways of doing that.\nSahag Gureghian\nTeaching, Writing, Publishing: The Necessity of Isolation pages 137 - 146\nThis essay is a response to Alex Pheby\u2019s article in Issue 2. It examines how isolation comes in different forms, some essential to a writer\u2019s sense of creativity, and argues that a teacher\u2019s pedagogical duties include a realistic appraisal of students\u2019 work in relation to the commercial marketplace.\nCreative Writing Creating Community: The Power of the Personal pages 147 -161\nThis articles explores the distinctive pedagogical methods, opportunities and results offered by teaching memoir. It also analyses the ways in which these may be transferred to other creative, or even academic, writing courses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dancersofny.com/blog/colin-denniston", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4CWENPIDQOGOCUAOAFHD6QZYV7RNZBE7", "length": 699, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.dancersofny.com", "title": "Colin Shea Denniston, Rector Street, 1 \u2014 Dancers of New York", "raw_content": "\u201cWhen I was 17, I had a terrible eating disorder. I was running everyday. I\u2019ve always been a Type-A person, and I got really restrictive with myself. It escalated, and I ended up losing way too much weight. I was 6 feet tall and just under 100 pounds.\nI had to take a break from things and get healthy first. It was a long, long road to recovery. But through all of that, it opened my eyes to a lot of things and set my priorities straight. I knew I wanted to study performing arts in college, and in order to do that, I knew I had to get healthy. That was my catalyst and inspiration to get better.\u201d\n\u2190 Nikki Croker, 14 Street Station, A-C-ELainee Hunter, Lexington Avenue / 63 Street Station, F-Q \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 9550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.davidbateswriter.com/ebert.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:QKQRMDAA5PYY7K7J5YGT6RISUMNX7MRZ", "length": 5754, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.davidbateswriter.com", "title": "Ebert - A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK", "raw_content": "An Appreciation of Roger Ebert, 1942-2013\nFor me, Roger Ebert and my love and appreciation for film are so inextricably bound up that I cannot think about one without the other. When great actor passes away - a Robert Mitchum or a Paul Newman - we remember them, and their movies. With Ebert's passing, we think of the movies.\nAs a kid, I watched Ebert (and Siskel) before they were famous, back when WTTW's \"Sneak Previews\" was picked up by PBS. More often than not, they were reviewing films I was too young to see, but I was still enthralled by the discussions. What I came away with from those arguments was a perspective that remains part of who I am today: Cinema is not simply a pleasant diversion -- it is an art form worthy of serious consideration, one we should think and talk about, even if the talking leads to arguing.\nThe appeal of Ebert, for me, was the comfortable cohabitation of the Geek with the Intellectual. Here is a man whose list of \"Great Movies\" on his website includes \"Star Wars,\" (the first one) \"E.T., The Extra-terrestrial,\" and \"Goldfinger.\" But you also will find \"Cries and Whispers,\" \"La Dolce Vita\" and \"Shoah.\" I remember when Ebert thrust his famous thumb up for \"Raiders of the Lost Ark,\" but I also remember that some time later, he and his famous sparring partner devoted a show to exploring how the summer blockbuster juggernaut was dumbing films down, creating a cinema not for the adults who flocked to more serious fare during the 1970s, but for their kids who were treated to the spectacle of Indy cracking a whip or Roy Scheider blowing a shark to bloody smithereens with an oxygen tank.\nPerhaps more than any single individual, Ebert's enthusiasm for films inspired me to go beyond the blockbuster (although growing up in what one might call the golden age of Spielberg and George Lucas, I certainly enjoyed those too) in search of ... something different. To seek out the masters who had, I would learn later, inspired that very same Spielberg and Lucas.\nI remember there was one summer during high school where I watched something like 50 or 60 films on television, all on my local PBS station. (The only one I really remember was Dick Bogard's \"The Servant.\") To be a teen during the years that theaters were showing films like \"Top Gun,\" \"The Empire Strikes Back,\" and \"Back to the Future\" was to delight in the spectacle of films as a Carnival Ride. But having been groomed by Siskel and Ebert, I understood that films like that were part of a cinematic universe that was much vaster.\nIn college, I took classes in film studies - \"Blacks in Film,\" \"Vietnam on Film,\" and saw amazing stuff that I never would have heard of otherwise. I went to foreign films, where other seeds of my evolving intellect were planted: I saw Lina Wertmuller's \"Seven Beauties\" and was enthralled by the audacity of it. I saw \"La Dolce Vita\" and was mostly bored by it. Years later, I would see it again (a horrible, cropped VHS copy) and realize that something was there, even if it didn't completely speak to me. Then I saw it with my wife on our honeymoon in Vancouver, B.C. at a late show where the theater was packed, and it finally opened itself up to me. I got it. I am almost afraid to return to the film, because now I - a semi-retired newspaper journalist - am older than Marcello Mastroianni was when he made it.\nI started working my way through Ebert's \"Great Movies\" list, and I bought his books. I sought out the films that he called attention to in his annual film festival. On and off through the years, I've subscribed to Cineaste, and sought out Film Comment and American Cinematographer at the library. When the Internet happened and everyone was online, I cannot say that I religiously read his stuff each week (and, truthfully, I stopped watching him on television before Siskel died) but I can say that in the last 15 years or so, before I saw virtually any film, I always made a point of finding out what Ebert had said about it.\nWhen he started blogging and writing about other topics (he did a great piece on the importance of reading) I gradually realized that he was about so much more than movies. It was in essays like that that we finally got a sense of what Roger Ebert was all about. He was smart. He was funny. He had a superior bullshit detector, which accounts for his acerbic comments for the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Because he was never able to extricate himself from the orbit of the Democratic Party, his liberal politics were never in complete alignment with my own, but one never doubted his good sense and decency. He seemed motivated by humane principles and, more often than not, was pissed off about the right things. He was thoughtful, a very good writer (mentored by Mike Royko of all people!) and dignified.\nI posted comments a few times on his blog, hoping he might respond. He never did. That disappoints me, of course, but at the same time, I can't be upset about it, because I know I was only one of millions who felt like I knew him.\nThere have been a few others who have shaped my thinking about film over the decades, both those I've met and otherwise. But Ebert was there first and has been with me the longest, and so in many ways he was arguably the most influential. I was so saddened to hear of his passing. If he had not been sick, I'll bet he would have had another decade or more in him, and he would have continued seeing movies, writing, blogging and tweeting right to the end. Which is exactly what he did. I'm will miss him, and I'll continue reading his best stuff. And until the day I see my last movie, it will be impossible to not see him in the theater with me.\nThis essay originally appeared on my Reading Everest blog on April 5, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 5903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deandaltontours.com/travel-log/2015-st-petersburg/49", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6KH5S6UGYWX4COHLMGXLUZITMWRBE5RI", "length": 312, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.deandaltontours.com", "title": "Dean Dalton Tours", "raw_content": "Although it is two weeks before the White Nights part of our Summer Festival Tours starts, a few people have already departed for Europe, most of the group flies out of Houston On Wednesday afternoon, arriving in Vilnius on Thursday for 12 days in the Baltics.\nStay tuned for stories and photos of our adventure!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deltaregulator.com/en/products/uninterruptible-power-supplies-ups", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YPJBXZB7WSDJVJQDLVCGJPNTYJY7ODNZ", "length": 137, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.deltaregulator.com", "title": "Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) - Stabilizer-Regulator", "raw_content": "UPS provides a backup power source in case of a power outage (blackout), brownout, or a surge in power for pure and uninterrupted energy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/british-policing-undergoing-digital-transformation/article/512495", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ROPS6WYYVMO7AVVZJFGTNJ43BXYNGSON", "length": 3225, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.digitaljournal.com", "title": "British policing undergoing digital transformation", "raw_content": "By Tim Sandle Jan 18, 2018 in Technology\nLondon - The Metropolitan Police Force, the U.K.\u2019s leading police service serving London, has announced a range of digital transformation initiatives. Central to this is the service\u2019s Windows XP migration.\nAccording to the Metropolitan Police Force\u2019s Chief Information Officer, Angus McCallum, interviewed by the website Silicon, the force is ditching its dated technologies and is embracing software applications lile Box; ditching Windows XP and is looking into the application of smart speakers like Amazon Echo. These are services that can enhance modern policing.\nFrom tablets to body cameras\nThese latest announcements are part of a digital transformation journey undertaken by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. This stepwise process has seen police offers equipped with tablet computers and those officers sent on patrol equipped with and body cameras.\nThe use of body cameras, an aspect of technology set to be expanded, was introduced to attempt to address controversies around the \u2018stop-and-search\u2019 tactics associated with the Met. These searchers, where a disproportionate number of ethnic minorities are stopped, has exacerbated tensions between the police and some London communities. The idea is that the use of camera evidence can help to ascertain why a police officer felt they had good cause to stop a person on the street and ask them to empty their pockets.\nThe Axon Body Camera footage is automatically uploaded to secure servers once the device has been docked. Periods of digital footage can be flagged for use as evidence at court or other proceedings\nFurthermore, the Met has put in place measures to consolidate legacy technology systems, reduce its data centre footprint and employ staff with the necessary information technology skills.\nDigital transformation and Box\nThe police service has also entered into several partnership deals with leading technology companies to implement new services. This includes a \u00a3100 million ($140 million) contract with British Telecom to underpin the transformation program. The service, a little behind major businesses, plans to migration away from Windows XP (which will be unsupported by Microsoft) to Windows 10 by the end of 2018.\nIn addition, the Met has entered into a deal with Box. This had led to a rolling out a cloud platform to 50,000 users, with plans in place to expand this further. One idea of the cloud service is to allow detectives to share case notes within a secure and confidential setting. A key aim with Box is to reduce its reliance on CDs and improve the security of its file sharing practices, according to Computing World.\nFuture use of artificial intelligence\nIn terms of the future, the Met is looking into the feasibility of smart speakers like Amazon Echo being used used to collect reports from the public and to disseminate information on crime. Longer-term, the potential for artificial intelligence to allow citizens to file crime reports and witness statements from their own home is being considered, with the aim of reducing the strain on police call centers.\nMore about Police, Metropolitan police, digital transformation\nPolice Metropolitan police digital transformati...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mpeg4ip_player.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BGEJTWB44JXSBG4WWXMSUFYGKLMYWWG7", "length": 1969, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.divx-digest.com", "title": "MPEG4ip Player 0.9.7.4 | Software - Digital Digest", "raw_content": "Digital Digest -> Software -> MPEG4ip Player\nMPEG4ip Player\nDownload the MPEG4ip Player, an open-source MPEG-4 player\nMPEG4IP.MPEG4.Player-0.9.8.rar\nDownload MPEG4ip Player\nAn open-source MPEG-4 player\nAbout MPEG4ip Player - from the Readme:\nMPEG4IP DISCLAIMER\nThese binaries are for evaluation testing and for development reference only. They may by no means to be used commercially. The binaries are not created nor distributed by any member or associate of the creators of MPEG4ip. Therefore they take no responsability for it's use. Use them at your own risk and thoroughly read the license before using it.\nPlayer for MPEG4IP, Compiled with MS Visual C++ 6.\nFor a guide on this software, consult http://www.everwicked.com/content/MPEG4IP_Guide/\n--everwicked\nAbout MPEG4ip - From the Official Site :\nMPEG4IP provides an end-to-end system to explore MPEG-4 multimedia. The package includes many existing open source packages and the \"glue\" to integrate them together. This is a tool for streaming video and audio that is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions.\nProvided are an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder, an MP3 encoder, two MPEG-4 video encoders, an MP4 file creator and hinter, an IETF standards-based streaming server, and an MPEG-4 player that can both stream and playback from local file.\nOur development is focused on the Linux platform, and has been ported to Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSD/OS and Mac OS X, but it should be relatively straight-forward to use on other platforms. Many of the included packages are multi-platform already.\nThis code is not intended for end users, and does not contain executables. Please read all the legal information to determine if it is suitable for you.\nMain Categories: AVI (DivX, Xvid ...), Linux/Unix, Mac OS, MPEG-4 (ASF/WMV, QuickTime, Real, VC-1, H.264 ...), Play\nInput Files: AAC, AVI, H.264, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPG, WAV\nWindows 98/Windows Me/Windows 2000/Windows XP/Linux/Unix/Mac OS/Other", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.djzone.net/pg/0112/te011203.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:31Z", "digest": "sha1:F676X66M42KO5VINNVNAGFYPI2N6YB3C", "length": 7671, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.djzone.net", "title": "DJzone DJ Magazine Tech Talk Wireless Mics", "raw_content": "Tech Talk 201\nThere is a calculated transmission loss between transmitter and receiver through use of an isotropic antenna. Less transmitter power is required for an equivalent signal strength at the receiver as frequency is lowered. One problem with wireless microphones is the difficulty in designing antennas that are small but efficient in the VHF low-band area. However, for the VHF high-band, small and efficient antennas are practical.\nInterference from other radio services is the major problem at both VHF and UHF. The only clear channels available are the unused TV channels in a given location and the \"B\" channels. For touring groups the TV channels become a problem, as a clear TV channel in one city may not be clear in another. Therefore, the \"B\" channels are recommended for this purpose. [The \"B\" channels are specific frequency bands designated by the FCC for wireless mics.]\nLoss of reception at the receiver of a wireless mic due to radio wave cancellation called multipath reflection is usually referred to as dropout. This problem has several possible sources. Dropout characteristics are different between VHF and UHF frequency bands. The dropout zones are much shorter at UHF where rapid flutter is often heard.\nLoss of reception may also be caused by a transmitter being too far away from the receiver. This may be corrected by relocating either the transmitter and receiver antennas closer to each other.\nThe power of a signal received by an antenna is a critical factor in causing dropout. When examining practical solutions and limitations in alleviating dropout, it is important to consider that not all of the power transmitted will reach the receiver. A wireless mic transmitter radiates power in many directions simultaneously, depending on the specific mechanical configuration of the antenna system. This makes the transmission vulnerable to many types of interference.\nSystem performance is degraded by path losses due to interfering objects between the transmitter and receiver, such as other equipment or people, as well as by the position of the transmitter antenna and interfering signals due to multipath reflections.\nSeveral paths can occur when the environment in which the wireless microphone is operating contains objects such as cameras, lighting equipment, or stage props made of metal or other materials that reflect radio signals. Due to phase differential of the arriving signal, the resultant signal can be enhanced or totally cancelled, causing multipath dropouts. These path losses affect the total power received at the antenna. Multipath cancellation is the most common cause of dropout.\n*Use a high gain receiving antenna at the mix position: High gain antennas can improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and may thus reduce fades and dropouts if they are due to weak. Signal cancellations will not be aided. high gain receiving antennas are generally also a bad idea because: (a) the transmitter is constantly moving around with the performer so the antenna would have to be continuously re-aimed, and (b) much of the received radio signal is actually caught on the bounce from walls, props, etc., so even if one stood offstage and aimed a beam antenna at the performer, it could be aiming at the wrong target.\n*Place the receiving antenna(s) and receivers near the mic(s) and run audio signals back to the mix position: With wireless mics, an alternative is to place the receiving antenna(s) on or above the stage, run a moderate length of antenna cable to a nearby wireless mic receiver, and then run a standard audio cable between the receiver's audio output and the mixer's input. Most receivers provide line level outputs that are ideal in this situation. This keeps the mic transmitting antenna(s) and the receiving antenna(s) reasonably close, which optimizes the RF S/N ratio.\n*Diversity reception: In some wireless microphone installations, it may be impossible to locate a single antenna to eliminate multipath dropout or signal fading. The technique that has been adapted for wireless microphones to minimize multipath dropouts is called diversity reception. This is the application of two or more receiving antennas to receive signals that have been diverted into more than one path (multipath). The idea, in general, is that if the signal is weak at one antenna, it will probably be stronger at the other, at any given instant. Diversity reception enhances the performance of a wireless mic system. It is usually effective, although nothing will guarantee a total absence of dead spots. There are a number of different ways to accomplish diversity reception, and each manufacturer of wireless microphones tends to favor one approach or another. The conditions required to achieve this reception are:\na single transmitter source\nuncorrelated, statistically independent signals\nmultiple receiving antenna systems.\nThis success of any diversity reception system depends on the degree to which the independently received signals are uncorrelated. If a diversity reception system cannot produce uncorrelated, statistically independent signals, then diversity reception does not exist.\nImplementation of a diversity reception system can be accomplished in several ways, but all system implementations have the need to combine the received, independent signals in some method. The major drawback with any multiple reception diversity system is cost. Combining techniques are chosen based on cost and the degree of improvement required. The less predictable or less closely related the signals, the more significant the benefits of the diversity system.\nThere are various techniques of diversity reception based on the exact method for processing and extracting the transmitted signals. Space diversity is the technique most commonly used for wireless mics. Space diversity can be implemented in many different ways, but the three basic requirements of diversity reception mentioned earlier must be satisfied. Two or more receiving antennas are required and must be at least one half wavelength apart (typically three feet). The amount of separation determines the degree of the uncorrelated signals. Polarization diversity is a method of space diversity in which the antennas on the receiving system are placed at angles to each other in order to capture the uncorrelated, independent signal. Each antenna provides an independent path that is selected or combined to produce the desired signal improvement. These selecting and combining methods of processing the independent signals are shown below:\nIn space diversity the incoming signal with the best signal-to-noise ratio is selected from the two or more antennas used. The signal selection can be accomplished either prior to or after audio detection.\nAnother method of signal improvement is that of combining the incoming independent signals. The two methods of doing this are called maximal ratio combining and equal gain combining. In maximal ratio combining, independent signals are combined in order to derive the maximum signal voltage/noise power ratios from each of them. A modification of this approach is equal gain combining in which all incoming signals are set to an average constant value.\nClearly, the maximal ratio combining method offers the best possibility for improvement over a non-diversity system, although it is the most difficult to implement. Wireless mics typically use selection or equal gain combining diversity. The choice is based on greatest reduction of the probability of dropouts. Any of the selection/combining techniques can be implemented in the pre-detection or post-detection stage of the receiver.\nNext issue Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 8308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dmiusa.net/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MJZC6O3DDYKCB42SUPR7AY7KCIHABAHV", "length": 1046, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dmiusa.net", "title": "About", "raw_content": "\ufeffABOUT THE OWNER\nGlen Bullock President and Owner of DMI is a United States Marine Corps Veteran of 10 years. At 17 years of age he left a small town in Massachussets and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served as a Combat Engineer with 7th Engineer Support Battalion. Serving his country proudly, some of his key deployments include: Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Restore Hope and Humanitarian Aid Effort in Somalia. The success of DMI was a result of the core values Glen inherited from the Marine Corps.\nDMI started in 1978 and since then has completed over 1000 projects, it is our experience and dedication to quality work that distinguishes us from the rest!\nKEY CERTIFICATIONS\n\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffDMI is a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) The program intends to further their participation in state contracting, promote competition and encourage greater economic opportunity.\ufeff\ufeff\nLet us help you meet your SDVOSB / DVBE / SLBE Participation Requirements", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dogdisease.info/2009/01/is-your-dog-diabetic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5WWTSQZIXN7NON7QMIFFB7PLGDNRNZ7M", "length": 2232, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.dogdisease.info", "title": "Dog Site: Is Your Dog Diabetic", "raw_content": "Is Your Dog Diabetic\nBy Dr. Sandeep Kharkanis\nLike humans, dogs can also have diabetes due to malfunction of the endocrine glands. Heredity, obesity and certain medications cause diabetes at any age, breed or sex of dog.\nEarly diagnosis is very crucial. Diagnosing diabetes is done through a series of blood tests and urine tests. When pancreas fail to secrete the right level of insulin needed by a dog to utilize all of the glucose produced by the body, diabetes occurs. These tests are necessary to rule out other diseases that have similar symptoms to diabetes. Once diabetes is diagnosed in your pet, regular monitoring is necessary. Diabetes is of two types - diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus.\nDiabetes insipidus is characterized by the lack of vasopressin (anti-diuretic hormone) which controls the kidney's absorption of water. Diabetes mellitus is often called \u201csugar diabetes\u201d characterized by insulin deficiency. It is a condition where the dog's body can't metabolize sugar well. This is common and more dangerous and strikes 1 in 500 dogs. Diabetes mellitus is further divided into two groups:\nType I/ juvenile dog diabetes occurs during the early years of the dog's life. Type II diabetes is observed in senior dogs.\nDogs can also develop signs of poor skin and hair coat, liver disease, vomiting, weakness in the rear legs (diabetic neuropathy), secondary bacterial infections and dehydration. They can also develop a life threatening condition \u2014 ketoacidosis. A dog whose diabetes is not regulated will often become blind or have kidney problems develop as well. Diabetes can induce the abnormal flow of blood in your pet's body, thereby causing a range of circulatory complications. Diabetes can also lead to a variety of other diseases like heart ailments.\nYour dog will probably be switched to a diet that is high in fiber and complex carbohydrates. This kind of a diet will help avoid elevations of glucose. Insulin therapy is done through injections that are given under the skin. Once the dog has been regulated on its insulin, he will be sent home with special feeding instructions and recommendations to lose weight. By losing weight; the dog may even be able to come off the medication at some time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/nikon/nikon-products/nikon-product-announcements/2002-announcements.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MVUEODEP5Y46J2WRIAHWKLWW55UJUTMO", "length": 628, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dslrbodies.com", "title": "2002 Announcements | DSLRBodies | Thom Hogan", "raw_content": "Summary: 1 DSLR, 4 lenses, 6 Coolpix models, 0 software program, 3 accessories\nDecember \u2014 AF-S DX 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED development announcement\nSeptember \u2014 Coolpix 3500 (higher resolution 2500)\nAugust \u2014 Coolpix 4300\nJune \u2014 Coolpix 2000, 4500, 5700\nFebruary 21 \u2014 D100 (new 6mp digital body based on N80), Coolpix 2500 (new twist-type body), AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G, AF Nikkor 28-100mm f/3.5-5.6G, AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D, Speedlight SB-29s (adds another low power manual mode to SB-29), Speedlight SB-30, Speedlight SB-80DX (long-awaited update of SB-28), AF-S VR Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G shown at PMA (development announcement)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1801, "original_length": 43869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dwipurwanto.com/2017/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CVVAUQDCFTVFFXINAHAL5C2BPIQ7ILSC", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dwipurwanto.com", "title": "dwipurwanto.com: October 2017", "raw_content": "The Jug and The Water", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dynamics-network.com/2018/01/31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IPYZLZZBS7BTLE4FZAVHQVNB5GCE4FET", "length": 18422, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.dynamics-network.com", "title": "January 31, 2018 | Dynamics", "raw_content": "Amazing Tips you can Use for Beach Photography\nA lot of people are so into the beach lately that beach holidays are getting really popular these days. You had so much fun that you took almost a thousand photos within the beach holiday to try and remember everything that happened that day. But did all of those shots look terrible and you are only left with a blank expression of disappointment? Make sure that you keep your camera just at the right angle or else you will be getting all dark photos at the beach because of the light. You will be snapping harsh black shadows all day on their face if you do not know how to take photos at the beach. There are hundreds or even thousands of people having the same problem so do not worry, you are not dubbed as the worst photographer in the world.\nWith the bright light of day gleaming through, beach photography will be a lot harder. The beach is a hot and reflective place making it very hard for an amateur to get decent shots. But the listed tips below just might get you on the right track and help you get better shots at the beach. After reading this article, you will be able to see the basics of beach photography and improve your skills.\n1.Using your flash with beach photography is going to be weird but useful. You might think that it is stupid to use flash while there is already enough light to go by but this is actually a professional technique. This technique is called the fill in flash. This is what fills all of those dark shadows you have been taking. You will only see results with fill in flash when you are near the object that you will take a photo of because it will not illuminate too much because of the sun light. Portraits are the best with fill in flash, that is the perfect time to take that perfect shot. If you use the bright sky background, you will get an even better portrait. It is quite simple, all you need to do is turn your flash on and then focus on the object and click. That is how you do, basic and simple. That is how you normally take a photo, just added the flash. Pretty simple and it provides awesome results. But if the object turned out to be a little washed out, you can try doing another thing. Try to turn down the flash if you have an external flash on your camera. Take a step or two back from the initial point of the object and take another shot. This would result in a more vivid background type of photo. You should expect the subject\u2019s face to be lit as well with no shadows. It is also perfect for you to be using the fill in flash with a subject wearing a hat. This stops the shadow from the hat covering the wearer\u2019s face.\nJanuary 31, 2018 dynamics Financial\nWhat to have in Mind in Reference to Air Purifying\nYou will notice that every homeowner is looking forward to having fresh and purified air in their homes. When there is congestion in the house and around, the residents are likely to contact most of these airborne diseases. No one wants to risk their lives because of this. It is important to note that these products vary in size, the principles behind their functionality although they are all used to purify the air. It is important to note that so many stores are trading these products and therefore one ought to be careful when doing the shopping. It is important that you know some things before locating the shops or making any purchase. It is first recommended that you make use of the internet as one of the precautions. One is supposed to make use of the pages in the internet to find the right products that will best suit their needs. It is recommended that you know the credibility of the sites and the operators as well. After locating the right people, you can make the next step.\nAfter shortlisting the specific ones, make sure that you contact these people so that you can get other information as well. It is always advisable that you talk to a few people so that you avoid getting confused. It is required that you have all the information that you wish to before you get confused on what you really want. You are supposed to know that it is easier to judge the kind of services that you will get from the way they will handle you over the phone. It is required that you also get to know about the prices of these products so that you can choose wisely. It is obvious that everyone will plan before going for the shopping and therefore make sure that you stick to your budget. The other thing that you are supposed to do is to ask about any advantages and disadvantages of each of the products so that you choose well. Through this idea, you shall have prepared to deal with everything as they come.\nIt is required that you test the performance of these products before you proceed to buying them as well. You are supposed to make sure that these goods are working well before you proceed to make the payments as a way of avoiding any stress. It is important to have in mind that some of the products are likely to become faulty even before you enjoy the services. It is also wise that you read the consumer reviews. Through what people say, it is possible to judge the products.\nA Quick Overlook of Appliances \u2013 Your Cheatsheet\u2026\nJanuary 31, 2018 dynamics Software\nWhat You Need To Know Before Buying The Residential Air Purifiers\nWith the rise in the case of respiratory ailments in many homes, it is essential to have the air purifier in every room to clean the polluted air. It is essential to note that many manufacturers have established themselves in the recent past as the purifying products are becoming critical need in every home. Many individuals get confused when they are searching for the right air purifier as there are many brands and prices in the market which pose a challenge. It is right that you consult before buying an air purifier as some of them will not work as required and they will lead to wastage of resources in the long run. Search the web for essential detail concerning the best purifier in the market to allow you make the right decision. Landing on a perfect system to clean the air in every room in your house can be easy if you follow the outlined factors before opting to buy it.\nIt is essential to know the reason as to why you are buying the air purifier. Note that each pollutant call for a specific air purifier and it operates differently from the others. For instance, a person who is having mild allergies has separate needs to the one with the asthma condition or autoimmune deficiencies. You will settle on the right system to clean your air if you know what you need which will help you to avoid inconveniences.\nBefore you settle on any air purifier, it is essential to determine the source of the pollution as this will help you come up with a lasting solution. When you want to reduce the air pollution in your premises, you can start by working on the emanation point of these pollutants for a fulfilling result. You can decide to use cleaning as one way to reduce the contaminants by vacuuming the rugs, dusting the furniture and cleaning out the HVAC air ducts. Also, you can fix a humidifier to tackle the high humidity levels which contribute to air pollutants among other practices. Sometimes you may see that you do not require the use of air purification units in your home if you eliminate all the sources of pollutants.\nThe air purifiers are classification of either a room or central air purification system thus the need to identify the one that will solve your issues fast and conveniently. You can use your DIY skills to fix the room purifiers in your home, move them from one room to another and you will spend few bucks to buy it. After identifying the root of your air issues, you can place the whole house puffier in such areas for an efficient outcome.\n5 Key Takeaways on the Road to Dominating Securities\nJanuary 31, 2018 dynamics Pets & Animals\nHow To Choose A Stock Market Advisor\nOne of the world\u2019s greatest things is investment. When well thought out and with the perfect timing, it has one of the greatest returns known in the business world. It is important to hire a stock market advisor so as to know when and how to strike. It can be quite the task though to try and get the best stock market advisor as there are so many in the world now. See below a few important things you should consider when choosing a stock market advisor.\nIt is highly advisable to find out more about stock market advisors. You can use the internet to learn all you think is necessary. Check the profiles of a few of them and settle on about three to five of those that impress you. Go through the reviews on their websites and social media platforms to see what other people are saying about their work.\nChoosing a stock market advisor requires a number of things which are vital for the whole process. Another crucial factor to have in mind is auditing. Auditing is very crucial to consider. A serious stock market advisor should ensure that they have gone through auditing. As everyone have their own set targets and criteria, stock market advisors should be able to meet them to show and prove their effectiveness and competency.\nAnother essential element to consider is the pricing or the kind of payment the stock market advisors will expect from you. You should be in a position to understand that not all stock market advisors are paid using the same method because there a couple of payment methods. Depending on one\u2019s preference, there are those that require to be paid on an hourly basis.\nMake sure to find out if the advisor is licensed to operate. When you see a license, you can be sure that this person met all the requirements of the law and is actually qualified. Having no license to operate should raise questions of competence because there is no reason as to not get licensed. It matters to you too that the advisor is licensed so that in case there is a case of cheating. Find out about any other qualifications the advisor has after finding out what the law requires of a stock market advisor.\nIt is always good to find out about the successes the advisor has had in the near past. The testimonials that most people give are those of the best work they have done but you should ask for something different. When you talk to random clients, you will get the real picture. An important thing to ask about is the character of the advisor. Make sure that it is not all about the money but your interests.\nCase Study: My Experience With Securities\nHiring a Law Firm in Omaha: What You Should Know\nWhen you are facing serious litigation or legal issues, it is critical to have the right law firm representing you. There are many law firms in Omaha you can hire to work on various cases you may have. However, from the many firms available, how can you determine which one will be most suitable for your case?\nBefore hiring a law firm in Omaha, consider the following:\nConsider the Law Firm\u2019s Reputation\nReputation is among the important factors to consider when looking to hire a law firm in Omaha. You can find experienced lawyers at law firms that have a good reputation. The attorneys may be well-known in Omaha for winning many cases and having good credentials. When evaluating the potential law firms to hire, check whether there are any that have handled in the past the type of case you have. The cases that a law firm has won in the past can give you a good idea of the experience of its lawyers. The big law firms in Omaha may be specialized in various cases such as real estate claims, employer liabilities, investment management, appellate court litigation, among others.\nMake sure you select a law firm that understands how you do business. You want a law firm whose attorneys will explain your options in simple terms without confusing legal terminologies. If you are running a small business, it would be better to choose a low-profile law firm. The fees or a smaller law firm will not be as high as those of a larger establishment.\nHow Much Will You Pay for the Legal Service?\nYou should know how much you are ready to spend on the law firm that you would like to hire. If you are going to hire a prominent law firm, be prepared to pay more for the services you would need. It may be worth considering to hire Omaha legal firms that are not very prominent. While the firms may not be well-known, this does not mean their attorneys are not as proficient or as popular as others in the areas. A law firm that charges higher fees may not necessarily have the best attorneys for your case. Sometimes, a law firm may be charging high fees because it comprises of quite young attorneys who have not yet handled high-profile cases.\nYou can benefit by taking advantage of lawyers\u2019 resources. Some of the organizations in Omaha can refer you to law firms that offer free initial consultation. If you also know of other business owners that have attorneys or have worked with them in the past, ask for recommendations. Auditors, bank managers, and accountants also work with lawyers regularly and can refer you to the top ones in the city. Finally, the internet is also a good avenue of searching for lawyers to hire.\nWhen looking to hire a law firm in Omaha, follow the guide above.\nHow To Choose A Portable Webcam Backdrop\nA portable webcam backdrop is a must have accessory. It is both helpful and necessary. Unfortunately, choosing one is not as easy as it may seem. Just as it is with many other accessories, there is a really wide range of portable webcam backdrops. Find below some factors you need to consider when choosing a portable webcam backdrop.\nFirst things first, carry out some research. Find out what these different webcam backdrops are and what the difference is. You need to go through some few websites to see what the options are. It is a good practice to check the reviews of other buyers online so as to have even further insight. If you don\u2019t have adequate information before buying one, you might not do yourself justice. You will find that if you have the correct information, chances of choosing the wrong one are eliminated. Therefore, do some research and have some knowledge about portable webcam backdrops.\nWhen choosing a portable webcam backdrop, it is imperative to consider the price as there are many kind of backdrop that have different prices as well. You should also consider coming up a with a concrete budget that will guide on how to purchase one. You should so much consider how helpful a budget can be and the impact it can bring you. In the search for a portable webcam backdrop, you should try as much as you to a couple of stores that sell the accessory you need. Negotiating is fundamental as it helps save on money.\nAnother essential element to look into is its portability. Are you able to carry it? How light is it? It should fit in your bag pack. One that can be carried around easily is the best to go with. You should select one that will occupy less space.\nWhen you get rid of the background you don\u2019t like, you should have something else that will replace it. The most popular colors for these backdrops are blue and green. It is clever to go with the colors you use for your blog because this way you are telling a story.\nYou need the webcam backdrop durable because you are saving money, you don\u2019t have to buy one every now and then. Using your fingers, you can tell how tough or weak the material is. There is a risk of the backdrop tearing when you haven\u2019t use it for long. If it is not durable it will fade quickly and that is not ideal for you. Because you will be carrying it with you therefore folding, the material should be able to handle all the folding and unfolding. You should be able to adjust it to fit many types of chairs.\nIf You Think You Understand Cams, Then Read This\u2026\n5 Lessons Learned: Rentals\nFinding a Reliable Jacksonville Property Management Company\nIn the modern era, investment is more important than ever before. At the end of the day, nothing will influence your future more than your ability to invest your money. As you may imagine, this isn\u2019t easy. You have many different investment plans to look at, and no two are ever completely the same. Some people will focus on commodities, while others will be interested in currencies. If you\u2019re serious about earning a good return, though, you need to look at real estate.\nThe truth is that property values will usually go up over time. This means that by investing now, you can earn a return if you decide to sell in a few years. Before you invest in property, though, you will want to take inventory of your situation. In certain circumstances, your best option will be to work with a property management company. This is a beneficial strategy for a handful of reasons. Keep in mind that this is a big decision. When you hire a property manager, he or she will make decisions on your behalf.\nIf you want to be successful, you need to find a property management team that you can trust. Take the time to define your own expectations before you actually choose a property management company. Before you do anything else, you\u2019ll want to consider cost. You should be aware that a good property management company does not need to cost a great deal of money. Remember that you do not want to hire the first property management company that you come across. If you can, you\u2019ll want to make a list. If you look around, you should be able to find a reliable property management team. The upshot here is that if your investments are important to you, it only makes sense to work with a Jacksonville property management team.\nThere are a number of things to consider when you are looking at how you handle your property. To get started, you will want to think about location. The truth is that it is difficult to manage a property that is far away from you. If this is concerning to you, you should probably talk to a Jacksonville property management company. A good property management company can help you make sense of this difficult situation.\nIt\u2019s worth pointing out that there is no way to predict the future. As you may imagine, the world of property management can be impossible to forecast. Keep in mind that a tenant could have an issue at any hour of the day or night. This means that you should be ready for anything. A Jacksonville property management team can help you make sense of your real estate plans.\nWhat You Should Know About Investments This Year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 21881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.easyfitmom.com/newsletter/41-mommy-knows-best-how-much-is-too-muchunderstanding-portion-sizes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HQVLJW6YVC5I63T7CA42IZHTRC5ZLDXM", "length": 616, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.easyfitmom.com", "title": "Understanding Portion Sizes | Easy Fit Mom", "raw_content": "The best way to monitor portion control is by measuring out the food we eat. But let\u2019s face it, for many busy moms this is not likely to happen. Here are some useful tips to keep tabs on the amount of food you\u2019re eating:\nOne serving (3 oz.) of meat, poultry or fish is about the size of a deck of playing cards.\nOne serving (\u00bd C) of fruit, vegetables, pasta or rice is about the size of a baseball.\nOne serving (1 oz.) of cheese is about the size of one domino.\nOne serving (1 C) of milk, yogurt, or chopped fresh greens is about the size of a tennis ball.\n\u00ab 4 Tips for Awesome Abs\nHow to Get Rid of Acne Overnight \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.educationguys.com/mba-degree", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7EV3J7UQACOFLREN4STRWUH7Q3TUORCF", "length": 596, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.educationguys.com", "title": "MBA Degree - Technical, Trade & Vocational Schools", "raw_content": "An MBA degree is a type of master degree dealing specifically with business administration. 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Due to its unique nature in terms of the business world (namely, the amount of MBA students hoping to improve their education without putting their career on hold), many MBA programs are offered part-time or online for maximum flexibility.\nView Online MBA Degree\nBrowse MBA Degrees by Category\nBrowse MBA Degrees by State", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.endoffree.com/cherry-creek-news-youtube-trailer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7MMIXRPFQZZGTRRG4BUQSMPC2OR3JODH", "length": 377, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.endoffree.com", "title": "Cherry Creek News YouTube Trailer \u2013 End Of Free", "raw_content": "End Of Free > Cherry Creek News YouTube Trailer\nCherry Creek News YouTube Trailer\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8A\u2013S7bTB4\nThis video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8A\u2013S7bTB4, can also be seen at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzSt-WOvZ9RXAqfZ2HpVKPw.\n\u00ab Tree Trimming Wichita \u2013 Tree Removal and Trimming Service\nRory Mcilroy Swing \u2013 Slow Motion Pro Golf Swing Analysis \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2008/09/15/you-heard-it-here-first/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:45Z", "digest": "sha1:YEQW335LKBHG5VRH2V4RAUNZTL34KC44", "length": 1415, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.energytrendsinsider.com", "title": "You Heard it Here First", "raw_content": "Tags: gas inventories, hurricanes\nAs I warned on Saturday:\nGas Prices Climb Quickly as Refineries Remain Closed\nAt least 14 Texas refineries, representing nearly a quarter of the nation\u2019s refining capacity, will probably remain shut for the next week or more. Three more Louisiana refineries may be damaged from widespread flooding.\n\u201cIt may not be possible for us \u2014 and other manufacturers \u2014 to maintain normal supplies in the coming days,\u201d Chevron stated in a bleak assessment on its Web site on Sunday, warning of \u201csevere supply disruptions in the wake of Hurricane Ike.\u201d\nHopefully you heeded the warning and got yourself some gasoline on Saturday. If you didn\u2019t \u2013 especially if you live in the South \u2013 you are probably going to pay a lot more for it now.\nThe situation looks to be tight for at least another 2-3 weeks:\nSenator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, said on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d on Sunday, \u201cWe are looking at another week or eight or nine days before refineries are up and going, so refined gasoline is going to be in a shortage situation because of the power outages and flooding.\u201d\n\u201cIt is going to be felt for the next week that we have gasoline shortages,\u201d Ms. Hutchison said, \u201cso people need to be prepared for that.\u201d\nPlan on at least 3 weeks of this. Limit your gasoline consumption whenever possible and hope that another hurricane doesn\u2019t enter the gulf before hurricane season ends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.esbtans.com/end-cap-gray/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ABHTVUPZPWH3VMUIAVFH3G5I2VTS7EL4", "length": 84, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.esbtans.com", "title": "End Cap, Gray - ESB Tanning Beds Store", "raw_content": "End Cap, Gray\nThis is a gray end cap. It is the same for top, bottom, left or right.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 1963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurasc.org/forum/forum.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4HNTAXHKP5HYAXRJQW3MBLP7SIZNKWJS", "length": 11023, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.eurasc.org", "title": "Eurasc - Open Forum - English translation", "raw_content": "Open Forum :\nThis tab has been created in the home page of the EURASC website as a substitute for the previous one placed in the restricted \u00ab members area \u00bb.\nThe object of this new tab is to give to all the EURASC members the possibility to talk about scientific subjects of their choice, novelties in their field, research policy,\u2026to exchange information, to keep up a kind of correspondence through newsletters, to create a forum for discussion.\nAll members are invited to submit short forum letters or short responses to published ones.\nElectronic PDF contributions should be sent to the following address: forum@eurasc.org.\nThey will be published online in this tab.\nPerformance Assessment of Belgian Researchers\nEmeritus Professor UCL, Guest Professor VUB\nPerformance evaluations and rankings have become all pervasive. Rating agencies are evaluating countries and banks, consulting agencies are assessing the performance of companies, human resource offices are evaluating their workers. The evaluation culture has invaded all aspects of our life; only evaluators appear to have escaped this evaluation frenzy. Historians will perhaps remember the start of the 21st century as a period where more effort was spent on evaluating than on producing.\nIn the universities also, the evaluation culture is present everywhere. The universities are compared by the famous rankings (Shanghai, Times Higher Education, etc) while the professors are evaluated at every step of their career, whether it is for a promotion or for an application to research funding.\nThe criteria are constantly revised, in part because every new evaluation criterion leads to adaptation strategies. As soon as the research community finds out that a particular research performance criterion becomes dominant in the evaluation committees, some of its members adapt their research and publication strategy to maximize its impact on the newly adopted criterion rather than aiming at producing the most highly creative research results. For a while it was the number of publications that mattered until it became obvious that it is easy to publish many papers in low quality journals. After a period in which the assumed quality of the journals was taken into account, as measured, for example, by the infamous impact factors, the trend in the last 5 to 10 years has been to consider the number of citations of a document (book, book chapter, journal article, conference paper) as the most important measure of research performance for a researcher. The idea is that if a paper is highly cited by researchers in the same field, it is probably because it contained important new ideas; conversely, if a paper is never cited, it probably means that it was not deep or ground-breaking.\nToday, the number of citations has become accepted as the leading indicator for the evaluation of research quality, at least in fundamental research. It is encapsulated in a number of criteria that have been devised to produce the most compact possible measure of performance, the most notorious one being the h-index. A researcher has an h-index of 20, say, if 20 of his/her publications have been cited at least 20 times. A productive researcher will proudly exhibit his/her h-index, while the researcher who is less well endowed will hope that his/her evaluation committee will not look it up on the specialized websites. One should add that publication rhythms and citation traditions vary widely between disciplines, and that one can never compare citation records or h-indices across disciplines.\nThe use and misuse of the h-index in the evaluation of researchers is widely criticized within the research community and rightly so, because the maximisation of one\u2019s h-index often conflicts with the pursuit of long-term visionary research. Evaluation committees like to make their life simple and they therefore long for a unique indicator that would allow them to rank researchers without any effort, rather than facing the hard task of evaluating the creativity, depth and impact of the contributions of these researchers by themselves. In addition, the dominance of a single performance indicator inevitably produces perverse effects among some members of the research community. Just to give one example, some journals now request the authors to cite other authors who have published in the same journal so as to increase the citation record of that journal. I want to make it clear that one should keep a very critical eye on the use and abuse of the h-index and other sophisticated performance indices that are being constantly devised or refined.\nKeeping in mind the cautionary remarks made above, but given that the number of citations has become so prevalent in the evaluation of fundamental research all over the world and that it is indeed one important indicator of the impact of a research paper or book within a scientific discipline, I have found it interesting to compare these citation numbers for 17 OECD countries that are considered to be among the most active research-wise. All the analyses in this report have been performed using data available from the websites of the World Bank3, the OECD4 and SCImago5, a website that is specialized in the ranking of journals and countries on the basis of citations of papers and that is powered by SCOPUS6, a data-base of scientific documents and citations maintained by Elsevier. The data in this report do not use the h-index, but citation numbers of documents produced by the 17 countries.\nOn the SCImago website one can compute citation numbers of documents published in all possible countries over the period 1996-2010, or separately for each year of that period. The number of citations given for a specific country and for a particular year X is the number of citations of all papers published by authors of that country during the year X and cited during the years X, X+1, X+2, etc, until 2010. Thus, the citation numbers for the year 2008, say, refer to the number of citations of all documents published in 2008 and cited in 2008, 2009 or 2010. When referring to the period 1996- 2010, all documents published during that period are considered.\nA comparison between countries based on the total number of citations would not be meaningful, of course, because it would not take account of the size of the population of the countries involved, the number of researchers, or the budgets allocated to research. In order to compare countries of such varying populations, one needs to introduce some normalization. In this study, different types of normalization have been introduced: in the first, the number of citations per document produced by authors of the 17 countries are examined; in the second, the number of citations of a country are divided by the budgets allocated to research in higher education institutions of that country; in the third, an index called Normalized Impact (NI) is studied, which will be explained later.\nProposals, presented by Members at the General Assembly in Athens\n(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institut f\u00fcr Nanotechnologie)\nDear Mrs. de Rode, dear Mr. Capasso,\nI would like to summarize some of the ideas and results, I obtained in talking to several key people of the German National Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Engineering and using my membership in the National Academy of India as well as of the US.\nIn principle, the future role of EURASC in Europe may be visualized as a purly scientifically oriented Academy, for example, similar to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The structure and goals etc. of AAAS are listed in the AAAS home page www.amacad.org\nIf EURASC decides to have this purly scientific mission, one has to discuss and solve the question of the funding of EURASC. AAAS is supported by a generous flux of donations and, moreover, AAAS has endowed funds of several billions USD (cf. homepage of AAAS). AAAS publishes quarterly a collection of articles about open questions of general interest such as the financial crisis, mass incarnation, the nuclear future etc. These articles are written by outstanding people in these fields who are mostly AAAS members. All of this is funded by AAAS.\nAlternatively, EURASC may see his mission in giving advice to European Union. This role would be comparable to the one e.g. of the US National Academies. The structure, goals etc, of the US National Academies may be found in their homepage www.nationalacadmies.org They publish regular Reports to the Congress, numerous papers on present issues etc. Their staff comprises more than a hundred permanent employees. They are generously funded by the US Government because the National Academies were started by President Lincoln by means of the \"Act of Incoporation\" which guarantees the funding of the Academies as well as their close and influential relationship with the US Government.\nThe German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) - homepage www.leopoldina-halle.de - has a similar historical background. It was founded by king Leopold in 1677 as the \"Sacri Romani Imperii Academia Ceasaro - Leopoldina Naturae Curiosum\". This start guaranted the outstanding position of this Academy in Europe and its funding. During WW II it lost this status. However, in 2008 the Government of the (then united) Germany declared the Leopoldina to become again the National Academy of Sciences of Germany. This declaration included (similar to the US National Academies) its role as an advisor to the Government as well as its funding by the Government.\nAll of this seems to teach us the followind. If EURASC wants to become the European Academy of Sciences, a declaration of the Government at Brussels seems to be required. This declaration would have to include the financial support of EURASC and define it as the advisor to the European Government. In fact, after WW II the Leopoldina has tried to regain its role as the National Academy by negotiating with the different State Academies in Germany. These negotiations went on for 8 years without any results.\nI a got a comparable reponse by talking several top representatives of National Academies in Europe: We do not need a European Academy. Moreover, we have EASAC, ALLEA (homepage www.EASAC.eu) These organisations take care of all co- oporations between the existing National Academies, the press releases, the joint publications etc. In addition, Academia Europaea is already a member of ESAC, why do we need EURASC ?\nThis brings me to the point we may have to consider before we approach Brussels. We should clarify with the Academia Eurpopaea and the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (at Salzburg), how we and how they see their roles in Europe. The obvious question is and was: can we join up with these two Academies and form one EURASC.\nNaturally, this letter raises far more questions than answers. However, before we begin to discuss the future role and structure of EURASC in January 14, 2011, we should try to define the mission of EURASC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 11671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.euregha.net/2011/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GDENXEJNH7ZXNHZUGEPSGAU2TCQAHN3U", "length": 243, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.euregha.net", "title": "August 2011 | EUREGHA", "raw_content": "Budget for Europe 2020: Commission\u2019s proposal\nThe European Commission issued on June 26th a communication on the Budget for Europe 2020 to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 3339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 69.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.euroscript.co.uk/associate-script-editors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZJYEEYKJQX2Q235NOAEKE4HMMZ7XKNV", "length": 9572, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.euroscript.co.uk", "title": "ASSOCIATE SCRIPT EDITORS - Euroscript", "raw_content": "ASSOCIATE SCRIPT EDITORS\nJOANNA GARDETTA\nJo spent part of her career in Los Angeles and New York as a freelance journalist for various publications including as the US correspondent for LIVE! magazine. Back in the UK, Jo worked as staff script writer at Red Bee and as producer and script writer of commercials for Localstars and a number of corporate clients. She was a comedy sketch writer for Channel 4's highly acclaimed, Smack The Pony and her agent is currently submitting her first novel to publishers. She works as one of the Euroscript team of script doctors and is the producer of Euroscript's TableReads.\nAnne is an experienced script consultant. Described as inspirational by many of her clients, she worked for several years at the BBC and has script edited hundreds of projects for independent production companies in the UK and Europe. As well as teaching on Euroscript\u2019s residential development workshops in Portugal, France, Spain and Morocco, Anne offers personal mentoring and consultancy and is particularly interested in European projects, character driven stories and adaptations. She is currently working on her PhD, researching the history and output of BBC Films and their influence on British film culture.\nKIM M. MAKWARTH\nEuroscript's specialist for Danish projects, Kim has worked in TV, radio and film since 1988. As Script Editor on The Train Set by Edward Windus, he saw the screenplay become a \"featured finalist\" at the Scriptpimp Awards in L.A. Kim has filmed over 600 digital productions as Director of Photography. International clients include; Nash Intertainment, NBC, Tango Pix, Novozymes and Virgin Records. In 2007 his screenplay \u201cUnderThe Oak\u201d was selected by The Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film Foundation to participate in the Sources 2 Development Program.\nLAURENCE GOULDBOURNE\nLaurence Gouldbourne has worked as a scriptwriter on TV sit-coms such as Desmond\u2019s (C4) and Chef! (BBC1) and has received a BAFTA nomination for an episode of Desmond\u2019s. He was script editor for the online sit-com, Meet The Adebanjos which has scooped a number of TV awards in Africa. Laurence has been placed in international screenwriting competitions and has taught screenwriting at various higher educational institutions.\nKolton is currently the Programme Leader for the BA Screenwriting (Hons) course at the Central Film School in London. Prior to this he has taught at a variety of institutions over the years, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including London Metropolitan University, the London Film School and The New York Film Academy (in New York). He also ran a private screenwriting course at the famous Groucho Club in central London\u2019s Soho for some six years. Kolton has been a teacher in the fields of writing and directing for film and television for the past 15 years. Away from the world of academia Kolton studied at the National Film and Television School before making his mark writing scripts for the top-rating soap opera Eastenders, and the drama series Byker Grove and Brothers & Sisters. He is now an award winning filmmaker and novelist. He has made two feature films: he was the Writer and Director behind the romantic comedy Cherps (2007) and the Director behind the street smart Freestyle (2010); his first novel, The Last Card, was published in 2007. Kolton currently has two feature films in development, a neo noir thriller, I\u2019ll Die When I\u2019m Done and a horror film, Howl!.\nCLARISSA CALEO-GREEN\nWith over 14 years experience in development, finance, production, festivals and exhibition Clarissa has a solid understanding of the UK film industry. As Project Co-ordinator at the UK Film Council\u2019s Premiere Fund for 9 years, Clarissa oversaw the administration of and provided script notes for over 60 films from finance to delivery, including The King\u2019s Speech, Brighton Rock, Mike Leigh\u2019s last three films and John McDonagh\u2019s The Guard. Before her time at the Film Council, Clarissa was administrator and script reader for the Oscar Moore Foundation, run by Screen International and set up to support European script writing talent. For the past two years she has been assessing applications for The Bureau Film Company\u2019s Save Our Scripts scheme and working as a freelance script consultant.\nCharles has won international awards for his films for TV and cinema. He started in the film industry as a projectionist in a dubbing theatre, where he learned about filmmaking by watching the very end of the process, before becoming a freelance photographer, film editor for BBC and LWT and then finally director. The time he spent as a photographer can be seen in his strongly visual style. This led to his first feature as director, Paradise Grove, a darkly comic coming-of-age story starring Ron Moody and Rula Lenska, which won awards including Best New Director in Palm Springs. He is also one of Britain\u2019s most respected script consultants, having co-founded the first screenwriters workshop in the world, London Screenwriters Workshop. Now Euroscript, it has become one of Europe\u2019s most valued script training and consultancy organisations for film and TV. His book, Teach Yourself: A Complete Screenwriting Course, is recommended reading on MA courses, and he has written a new book on the art of pitching, Jaws in Space, published by Kamera Books in September 2016.\nAndrew was born in London but grew up in Canada. Seduced by a book on writing for television, he turned his hand to it and ended up at the BBC as the script editor on three seasons of Doctor Who followed by a season of Casualty. He was also lead writer and script editor for Dark Knight. Since then he has freelanced, most recently with script commissions for Torchwood and Midsomer Murders, and is currently involved in developing the bestselling Rivers of London series of novels for television. He has also had feature film scripts optioned, written two plays for London\u2019s Fringe theatre, had a number of novels published and performed stand-up comedy.\nJacqueline is a scriptwriter and script consultant. She started her career in theatre, writing/directing the critically acclaimed \u201cMadwoman in the Attic\u201d at the Riverside Studios, \u201cPast Caring\u201d at the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme and \u201cCatwoman Colette\u201d, showcased at the New Ambassadors Theatre. She then moved into film and TV, writing commissioned feature screenplays \u201cThe Glastonbury Grail\u201d and \u201cThe Sacred Quest\u201d, writing/directing the comedy short \u201cEx\u201d (LA Shorts Fest, short listed BBC New Filmmakers Award), and \u201cDo You Come Here Often?\u201d, a comic documentary for C4. Jacqueline ran the London Script Consultancy for 3 years, editing hundreds of films from Europe and US, was script consultant for Brass Hat Productions and has taught scriptwriting for University of Essex and Film London. She has a BA in English from University of Oxford and a MA in Scriptwriting from Goldsmiths.\nEllin Stein has been a script analyst for companies including Miramax, New Line and Zoetrope, as well as for the Oscar Moore Screenwriting Contest. She has taught screenwriting at Roehampton University and the University of East Anglia, and has run scriptwriting workshops for The Prince\u2019s Trust. Her own work has been accepted into festivals on four continents, winning prizes at Toronto, Chicago, The American Film Institute, and Hiroshima. She has a particular knowledge of the US Independent (\u201cOff-Hollywood\u201d) market.\nGary is a screenwriter and corporate communications consultant. A graduate of UCLA\u2019s School of Theater, Film and Television, he has worked in various areas of the film business in the US and UK, including rights acquisition and journalism. He has taught on the MA Screenwriting Programme at the University of the Arts and at Leeds Metropolitan University. His corporate work uses online journalism and video. He currently has three scripts in development and is based in the UK.\nJames Bartlett is a script editor and journalist living in Los Angeles. He is a story analyst for Exclusive Media Group, New Regency, Sundance, the PAGE Awards, the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Awards, Final Draft and several funders and agencies in the UK and Ireland. When visiting the UK he lectures on pitching and the business of script reading, but if you have a script targeted at the Hollywood/American studio market, are planning to enter a US-based competition, or require one-on-one consultancy via Skype.\nEVA KINCSEI\nEva is a London-based filmmaker, screenwriter, copywriter and content editor, originally from Hungary where she worked as a journalist. She did her MA in Script Writing at Goldsmiths. Eva has written, directed and produced two short films. She is currently developing a full-length feature, a radio play and more short films.\nKEVAN TIDY (our legal advisor)\nKevan has many years of practical experience of the creative industries, first as a songwriter and musician and then as a specialist entertainment and intellectual property lawyer. His main aim as a lawyer is to ensure that creatives get a fair deal. He has worked as an in-house lawyer for Scottish TV and for several of the top national law firms. He was also one of the founders of the International Entertainment Division of Arthur Andersen, the largest legal practice in the world. For the past five years he has run his own specialist law firm. He can be contacted at fromkevan@yahoo.co.uk and will be pleased to answer questions on copyright and other forms of intellectual property, media and entertainment law, how to read contracts and the pros and cons of setting up of companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 154.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.evidentlycochrane.net/author/marie-ennis-oconnor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:02Z", "digest": "sha1:I645U2REJED4O634JU5MGIKHMUHTY5DC", "length": 984, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.evidentlycochrane.net", "title": "Marie Ennis O'Connor - Evidently Cochrane", "raw_content": "Stanford Medicine X e-Patient scholar, Marie Ennis-O\u2019Connor is an internationally recognized speaker on participatory medicine - a model of medical care based on a collaborative relationship that includes the patient, the healthcare team, and clinical researchers. Marie is a board member of Europa Donna Ireland - The Irish Breast Cancer Campaign, a patient advocacy group that is one of 46 member countries across Europe. She authors the award-winning blog, Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer, one of the most widely-read cancer survivorship blogs, reaching a global audience of patients, researchers, and healthcare professionals. Other publications include a patient-information resource on breast cancer and fertility, and journal articles on social media and cancer care. Marie is currently working on a project to produce ethical guidelines for researchers who wish to use social media in their research. 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Additional information regarding the scope of services can be shared upon request.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 163.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.exchangeorcas.org/recycle-electronics-free/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:WFLR32WONS3VJVYI2SUNXMHT3F265CBV", "length": 518, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.exchangeorcas.org", "title": "Recycle Electronics FREE! | Orcas Island Exchange", "raw_content": "Recycling electronics at ORS is now FREE! (Formerly $15). in 2014 ORS became a member of the state E-cycle program and can accept TVs, CPUs, and computer monitors at no charge, though donations are accepted.\nTelevisions and computers contain a host of toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic. These toxic substances can contaminate groundwater when landfilled. What can you do? 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These comfort...\nGorgeous diamonds have adorned beautifully crafted rings since ancient times. You can also get a gorgeous diamond for your engagement ring with a...\nAnavar for fast result: Elaborate the cycle\nAnavar (originally called oxandrolone) is one of the most popular oral anabolic steroids which have a well-tolerated nature. It is one among the...\nThere are different types of e-cigarettes available in the market. Some of them are designed as classical pen-shaped. Now the latest updated models...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/news/article.aspx?aid=4635", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BORQTNL5YGCFHJOYUMKW4FGPM5T4LBZI", "length": 2609, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.falkirk.gov.uk", "title": "News - \u00a35.5m town centre project in Falkirk concludes in September | Falkirk Council", "raw_content": "\u00a35.5m town centre project in Falkirk concludes in September\nTwo days of events and an exhibition in Falkirk\u2019s town centre will help mark the conclusion of a five year \u00a35.5m investment in Falkirk\u2019s historic town centre at the end of September.\nFunded by The National Lottery, Historic Environment Scotland (through their Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme) and private property owners, the Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project has helped to regenerate the town centre\u2019s conservation area by improving its physical appearance and grant funding protection and re-use of some of the town centre\u2019s historic buildings.\nFree drop-in events take place on Friday 3rd August and Saturday 4th August on the High Street in Falkirk town centre and feature a range of activities for all ages.\nThese include: a building repairs surgery where private property owners can discuss any problems with experts; an exhibition of how Falkirk has changed over the past five years; tours of the town centre; kids arts workshops; cooking demonstrations; a children\u2019s trail through the town centre and the \u2018Big Bike Bestival\u2019 \u2013 with bike health checks; stunt bike displays and live music.\nThe building repair surgery is particularly suited to people who live in older, traditional properties as these buildings have been the focus of the THI work.\nOver the past five years, the Falkirk THI project has seen a number of locations in Falkirk town centre improved as well as six empty properties brought back into use.\nCouncillor David Alexander, spokesperson for Economic Development said: \u201cThe THI has improved the economic and social success of Falkirk Town Centre by creating a high quality urban environment where people want to spend their time and money.\n\u201cThe investment of more than \u00a35m is significant at a time the economy is affecting so many retailers and their decision to remain in town centres across the country.\n\u201cWe\u2019re grateful to our funders in supporting the project but especially to the property owners and local businesses who hopefully now can see the benefits of the work that has been carried out.\n\u201cPreserving and enhancing our historic town centre has been a worthwhile venture and local residents and visitors alike will see the benefits this work can bring.\u201d\nExamples of the work carried out as part of Falkirk\u2019s THI include the transformation of Falkirk\u2019s Steeple; work on properties on Manor Street, Vicar Street, High Street and the Cow Wynd as well as new streetscape works and restoration of two war memorials in Newmarket Street.\nFull details of the event can be found at the Falkirk THI website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.familytime.com/tag/judo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:U62K77KKFUSN2M6ACAIFSUZJKCM74CYN", "length": 337, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.familytime.com", "title": "judo", "raw_content": "Studying the martial arts has everything to do with discipline, coordination, concentration, respect, and developing self-esteem. Additionally, enthusiasts say, because marital arts are taught year 'round, if your child develops an passion for the discipline, he can study 12 months a year, rather than be restricted to a sport's season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fedcap.org/people/john-l-mascialino", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:I6WK5ULGZQV2CLQHIQJR6WV363B2KNEG", "length": 1469, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fedcap.org", "title": "John L. Mascialino | Jobs for People... Services for Business", "raw_content": "About Us : Board of Directors : John L. Mascialino\nJohn L. Mascialino\nJohn L. Mascialino heads Greenberg Traurig\u2019s New York Government Law & Policy Practice. He focuses his practice on government affairs, government contracts and related real estate matters and administrative law. Mr. Mascialino counsels private and publicly owned companies on state and local regulatory, legal and policy matters. He counsels clients on strategic objectives and provides advice on regulatory matters that will enhance their business opportunities in the city and state of New York.\nMr. Mascialino spent several years working in New York City Government during the Giuliani Administration, serving as First Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), where he was responsible for all procurement of city equipment and supplies and in charge of many city real estate assets. 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The album cover shows a blurry Gallagher in front of a really cool futuristic lit up roof.\nGallagher explained the album cover,\n\u201cThere\u2019s an old petrol station in Beverly Hills beside the police station that\u2019s got a triangular neon roof, and when you stand underneath it it looks like you\u2019re stood underneath Concorde. So we go out one night and it\u2019s all lit up in the neon, and we\u2019re taking these pictures \u2013 it looks like I\u2019m stood under the wings of a high flying bird.\u201d\nThe location is Jack Colker Union 76 gas station in Beverly Hills, California designed by William Pereira. The address is 427 N Crescent Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210.\nThe curved, triangular structure was originally meant to be a part of the LAX airport, but when it wasn\u2019t needed, it was installed at the gas station which has now become a landmark. 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Fort Worth Homes For Sale", "raw_content": "We have the resources here at Oakhurst Homes For Sale to help you find real estate agents in the nearby area. These agents know the area well and can help you buy or sell your home with local knowledge.\nThings To Do In Oakhurst Fort Worth\nThings To Do In Oakhurst Fort Worth:\nThe neighborhood of Oakhurst had its beginnings in 1923-\u201924, when Fort Worth businessmen John P. King and Henry King began developing the neighborhood through their Oakhurst Land Company, Inc. Just two years earlier, in 1922, the greater Riverside area had been annexed by the City of Fort Worth, which was experiencing rapid growth associated with an oil boom.\nVisit Oakhurst\nLocated just northeast of downtown Fort Worth, Oakhurst is situated on a beautiful bluff above the Trinity River. With easy access to I-35W and TX-121, this convenient location is within 10 minutes of Sundance Square, the Stockyards National Historic District, the Cultural District, Meacham Airport, Coyote Drive-in, the Golf Club at Fossil Creek, numerous city parks, and many more attractions.\nThe Beautification Committee works year-round to keep Oakhurst looking great. The committee oversees the trees and plantings in our neighborhood common areas. The committee also organizes a volunteer clean up in the spring and fall to keep our streets and surrounding streets tidy. Each month, the Beautification Committee selects a Yard of the Month to promote the upkeep of our homes and gardens. Contact the Beautification Committee if you are interested in joining!\nThe Oakhurst Citizens on Patrol is an active organization in our neighborhood. Under the direction of Captain Fred Anglin, Citizens on Patrol monitors the safety and security of our community on a daily basis.\nOakhurst is a quiet, heavily-treed respite just a stone\u2019s throw from downtown Fort Worth, so the neighborhood has become a haven for a thriving population of birds, squirrels, foxes, and other woodland critters. Send us your photos and we\u2019ll post them for your neighbors to see!\nOakhurst Real Estate is a great investment. Its close to Fort Worth but far enough away to enjoy the lower crime rate of being outside the city limits.\nFind Oakhurst Real Estate Agent\nFind Oakhurst Real Estate Agent close to where you are looking. If you are looking to buy your own house, invest in property or just flip houses we will direct you to top real estate agents in the area.\nReal Estate Investment Oakhurst Fort Worth\nReal Estate Investment Oakhurst Fort Worth is growing every year. We are lucky to have some of the best real estate agents that will help you find a great property for flipping, investing, and management properties.\nHomes For Sale In Oakhurst Fort Worth\nThere are many Homes For Sale In Oakhurst Fort Worth. If you take a look at Zillow you will see many listed.\nOakhurst Property Taxes\nThe neighborhood Oakhurst Property Taxes is 2.321% and the median home value is $231,500\nOakhurst School District:\nThe Oakhurst Elementary School is part of the Fortworth ISD. Other Fort Worth Schools:\nOakhurst School Scores\nOakhurst Elementary School is a public elementary school in Fort Worth. The principal of Oakhurst Elementary School is Guadalupe Cortez. 68% of the Oakhurst Elementary School students have \u201climited English proficiency.\u201d 669 children attend Oakhurst Elementary School, and the student to teacher ratio is 17:1. 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He was killed by a massive car bomb in the capitalBeirut, along with 21 other people. His death led to mass protests against Syria. However, an international tribunal indicted five members of Lebanon's Shia movement, Hezbollah, for the attack.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 144.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fsb.org/2018/11/2018-list-of-global-systemically-important-banks-g-sibs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MSWSLC3EU6HJHF5UYVVWPQAUJO4NHF2D", "length": 541, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fsb.org", "title": "2018 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) - Financial Stability Board", "raw_content": "2018 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs)\nThe 2018 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) uses end-2017 data and an assessment methodology designed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).\nOne bank (Groupe BPCE) has been added to the list and two banks (Nordea and Royal Bank of Scotland) have been removed from the list and therefore the overall number of G-SIBs decreased from 30 to 29.\n16 November 2018 FSB publishes 2018 G-SIB list\nFSB releases 2018 list of global systemically important banks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 119.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gajrajtravels.com/tag/uae/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PSSTVLEDI5KQ4BT5GUPNFPLXWZN5FY5B", "length": 274, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gajrajtravels.com", "title": "UAE \u2013 Gajraj Travels- Travel thirst", "raw_content": "Tags Archives: UAE\nUnited Arab Emirates has over the years been transformed to become one of the most favorite family holiday destinations in the Middle East. With iconic skylines of apartment buildings, full-throttle development and world famous beach resorts, there is eve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.galileebc.org/sermons/page/5/?preacher=David%20Christensen&series=1%20Samuel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZWMM7O5WNXMBO3R6EE5ZRYB37DMAUHC", "length": 496, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.galileebc.org", "title": "Sermons Archive - Page 5 of 55 - Galilee - Gorham, ME", "raw_content": "The Hand Of The Lord Part 3 1 Samuel 7:1-17\nNov 30, 2008The Hand Of The Lord Part 3 1 Samuel 7:1-17\nOct 26, 2008Manipulating God For Our Goals 1 Samuel 4:1-22\nManipulating God For Our Goals 1 Samuel 4:1-22\nOct 19, 2008How Would We Respond To God 1 Samuel 3:1-21\nHow Would We Respond To God 1 Samuel 3:1-21\nOct 12, 2008Failure Or Success 1 Samuel 2:27-36\nFailure Or Success 1 Samuel 2:27-36\nOct 5, 2008Family: The Incubator For Life 1 Samuel 2:12-26\nFamily: The Incubator For Life 1 Samuel 2:12-26", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gallopfrance.com/tag/vichy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6LMRC6MTS4SEEUC4HF3JOCPNU7OVU24I", "length": 1681, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gallopfrance.com", "title": "Vichy Archives - Gallop France", "raw_content": "Winners for Gina Rarick from the 2018 season.\nTime flies, and so it is the moment for a quick look back at the year that was 2018. We had 151 runners this past year, and 80 of them came home earning some money; Twelve of them won, and our total yard earnings topped 400,000 euros for the first time, finishing at 410,258. We never have more than 18 horses in training at any one time and started a total of 31 different horses. That makes those numbers something our team can be proud of. We had some sales-ring thrills this year, too, watching Ardara Belle top 200,000 euros in the Arc sale.\nIn the 10 years that I\u2019ve been a public trainer, the numbers have improved every year. We have every expectation that the trend will continue in 2019. We have some very interesting horses in the yard at the moment, and the search for even better performers never stops. But nothing can happen without our owners, and this is the moment to say a huge thank you for coming aboard and having the faith to stay aboard!\nWe are going to put every effort into making 2019 a truly spectacular year for our yard and our owners. As you all know, French racing is struggling and after next year there will be some serious questions about prize money and the situation going forward. So over the next year, let\u2019s take all the money we can, and hope that France Galop can sort itself out so that next year when I\u2019m writing my annual wrap, it won\u2019t be an obituary for racing.\nWe\u2019re off to Cagnes-sur-Mer in two weeks to start the year with a bang, and after that, we have some very specific goals to reach. We need more winners and more black type next year. Stay tuned to see if we can make it happen!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 16449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ganssle.com/blog/blog/fun-with-transmission-lines.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUTNYHHVWCH2ERPC6SS5HHHJCD26TZZV", "length": 2157, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ganssle.com", "title": "Jack Ganssle's blog: Fun With Transmission Lines", "raw_content": "In the digital world we thrive in a pristine world of zeros and ones. Logic elements cleanly switch. Analog messiness doesn't exist.\nExcept that's not entirely true. Digital is merely an idealized version of the real analog universe.\nAnd then there's transmission lines and RF issues. Drive a clean digital signal down a track on a PCB and all sorts of weirdness can happen.\nOne of the best books on electronics, The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill, has a cool example of this. Want to generate a pulse from a step waveform? Well, we'd normally design a bit of logic to do so, but their thought experiment is pretty eye-opening.\nSuppose you've got a bit of coax. If it's terminated by a short circuit, a step fed into it will generate a reflection that is the inverse of the applied step. That reflection is delayed by a length of time equal to the round-trip length of the coax. It will null out all but an initial pulse of the step.\nRG-58U has a characteristic impedance (Z0) of 50 ohms, so we configure the circuit thusly:\nI configured my arbitrary waveform generator to create a pulse with a reasonable sharp leading edge (8 ns - the best it can do) and monitored both the AWG's output (on channel 1) and the input to the coax (the right side of the resistor). The result:\nYou can see the reflected signal turns the step waveform from the AWG to a pulse.\nAt first I was wondering why the voltage goes to, and stays at, zero volts after the pulse. D'oh - the far side of the coax is grounded.\nHorowitz and Hill claim the ratio of the two signals is (R-Z0)/(R+Z0), where R is the terminating resistor at the coax's far end - 0 ohms in this example. The experimental results are reasonably close to this. I suspect the non-perfect rise time affects the result.\nRF electronics is quite interesting and a lot of fun. One of the best references on the subject, if you don't want to go into the dreaded details of Maxwell's Laws, is The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications. The ARRL is the advocacy group for radio hams. I've had a license since 1969 (callsign N3ALO), but have always enjoyed building and understanding radios more than using them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gcrieber-shipping.com/investor-relations/corporate-governance/corporate-governance-in-gc-rieber-shipping-asa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:42Z", "digest": "sha1:B3WJXHRLNQZVGG6Y7YRNM4LCVTR2CPHL", "length": 19473, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "www.gcrieber-shipping.com", "title": "Corporate Governance in GC Rieber Shipping ASA - GC Rieber Shipping", "raw_content": "1. Report on Corporate Governance\nThe board of directors of GC Rieber Shipping has overall responsibility for ensuring good corporate governance of the company.\nGC Rieber Shipping ASA is a Norwegian public limited liability company listed on Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo B\u00f8rs). Section 3-3b of the Norwegian Accounting Act relating to corporate governance requires the company to issue an annual report on its principles and practice for corporate governance. These provisions also state minimum requirements for the content of this report.\nThe Norwegian Corporate Governance Board (NCGB) has issued the Norwegian Code of Practice for Corporate Governance (the \u201dCode of Practice\u201d). Adherence to the Code of Practice is based on the \u201ccomply or explain\u201d principle, which means that a company must comply with all recommendations of the Code of Practice or explain why it has chosen an alternative approach to specific recommendations.\nOslo B\u00f8rs requires listed companies to publish an annual statement of their policy on corporate governance in accordance with the current Code of Practice. The rules on Continuing Obligations of listed companies are available on www.oslobors.no.\nGC Rieber Shipping complies with the current Code of Practice that was issued on 30 October 2014. The Code of Practice is available at www.nues.no. The company provides a report on its corporate governance principles in its annual report and the information is available at www.gcrieber-shipping.com. The company follows the Code of Practice and any deviations are explained in the report.\nBasic corporate values, ethical guidelines and social responsibility\nEthical guidelines, basic corporate values and guidelines for corporate social responsibility have been established for the GC Rieber Group and GC Rieber Shipping follows the group\u2019s guidelines in this connection.\nThe guidelines provide general principles for business practice and personal behaviour and are intended to form a platform for the attitudes and basic vision that should permeate the culture in the GC Rieber Group.\nIn 2010, GC Rieber joined the UN Global Compact, the world\u2019s largest corporate social responsibility initiative. UN Global Compact has developed ten universal principles that encourage and show how companies should pay attention to employee and human rights, protection of the environment and combating corruption. By joining the initiative, GC Rieber has committed itself to making the ten principles an integral part of its business strategy, to promote the principles to business partners and to reporting activities and improvements associated with the ten principles.\nGC Rieber Shipping works continuously with improvements in environment, anti-corruption and social responsibility in general. More detailed information relating to the company and the group\u2019s vision, strategy, values and principles is available at www.gcrieber.no and www.gcrieber-shipping.com.\nGC Rieber Shipping ASA\u2019s business is defined in Article 1 of the company\u2019s articles of association, which reads as follows:\n\u201cThe company is a listed company, the object of which is to engage in shipping, investments, underwriting commission, trading and other business. The headquarter of the company is in the municipality of Bergen.\u201d\n3. Equity and dividends\nAs at 31 December 2016, the company\u2019s book equity was MNOK 1,326.6, which is equivalent to 48.0 percent of the total assets. The board of directors has a policy to have above 35 percent equity at any time, but this will vary from time to time due to market circumstances. The board of directors considers the equity-share as at 31 December 2016 to be acceptable. The company\u2019s need for financial soundness and liquidity should be adapted to its objectives, strategy and risk profile.\nOne of the aims of the company is to pay an annual dividend and to offer the shareholders a steady and competitive return on invested capital through dividends and share price appreciation. In assessing proposed dividend, the board of directors will review the company\u2019s dividend capacity, capital structure and financial strength for further growth. No dividend was paid for 2015, and the board of directors proposes to the general meeting that no dividend will be paid for 2016. This is based on the challenging market conditions and the need to preserve the company\u2019s equity.\nAuthorisations granted to the board of directors to increase the company\u2019s share capital shall normally be restricted to specific purposes. As at 31 December 2016, there were no such authorizations.\nAs at 31 December 2016, there was no such mandate to the board of directors regarding purchase of own shares.\n4. Equal treatment of shareholders and transactions with close associates\nGC Rieber Shipping has only one class of shares and purchase and sale of the shares shall take place over the stock exchange.\nThe articles of association include no limitations relating to voting rights. All shares have equal rights.\nThe company\u2019s transactions in own shares are carried out over the stock exchange or by other means at market price. Any services from the main shareholder are purchased at documented market price. Should there be an increase in capital which involves a waiver of the existing shareholders\u2019 pre-emptive rights, and the board of directors resolves to carry out such an increase on the basis of a mandate granted by the general meeting, the board of directors will explain the justification for waiving the pre-emptive rights in the stock exchange announcement.\nTransactions with close associates\nThe company\u2019s board of directors and management are committed to promoting equal treatment of all shareholders.\nThe company has one main shareholder, GC Rieber AS, owning 70.44 percent of the shares as at 31 December 2016. The chairman of the board, Paul-Chr. Rieber, indirectly controls 1.8 percent of the shares in the company.\nThe group carries out purchase and sales transactions with close associates as part of the normal business operations. In the view of the board of directors and management, all agreements entered into between the company and its main shareholders (including related companies), and also other business agreements, must be entered into on arm\u2019s length terms.\nReference is made to note 18 in the company\u2019s 2016 annual accounts, where transactions with close associates are outlined.\n5. Freely negotiable shares\nThe company has only one class of shares. All shares in the company are freely negotiable.\nAbout the general meeting\nThe general meeting is the company\u2019s supreme authority and the board of directors aims to ensure that the general meeting is an efficient meeting place.\nThe general meeting will usually be held by 30 April each year at the company\u2019s offices. The general meeting for 2016 will be held on 20 April 2017.\nNotice of the general meeting is usually sent with 21 days\u2019 notice. At the same time, the agenda papers will be published on the company\u2019s website, cf. Article 5-g of the Articles of Association.\nThe agenda papers must contain all necessary information so that the shareholders can decide on the issues to be addressed. The registration deadline for the general meeting will be as close to the general meeting as practically possible.\nAll shareholders registered in the Norwegian Registry of Securities (VPS) will receive a notice of meeting and are entitled to submit proposals and vote directly or via proxy. The financial calendar will be available on the company\u2019s website.\nRegistration and proxy\nRegistration should be made in writing, either via mail, e-mail or fax. The board of directors wants to facilitate so that as many shareholders as possible are able to participate. Shareholders, who are unable to attend in person, are encouraged to appoint a proxy. A special proxy form is available which facilitates separate voting instructions for each issue to be considered by the general meeting and for each of the candidates nominated for election. The company will nominate one or more persons to vote as proxy for shareholders. Representatives from the board of directors and the auditor participate in the general meeting. The CEO and CFO participate on behalf of the company.\nAgenda and implementation\nThe agenda is determined by the board of directors. The main items are pursuant to the requirements in the Public Limited Liability Companies Act and Article 7 of the Articles of Association.\nThe minutes of the general meeting are published via a stock exchange announcement and are available at www.gcrieber-shipping.com.\nIn 2016, the general meeting was held on 11 April and 91.8 percent of the total share capital was represented. A total of 45 shareholders were present or represented by proxy.\n7. Nomination committee\nNomination of board members up for election at the general meeting shall take place through an open dialogue between the largest shareholders. Based on the company\u2019s good experience with such a process and an assessment of the composition of the owners, the company has decided not to use a nomination committee. This is a deviation from NUES\u2019 recommendation.\n8. The board of Directors \u2013 compisition and independence\nPursuant to the company\u2019s articles of association, the board of directors shall consist of 5-7 members who are elected by the general meeting for two years at a time. The chairman of the board and the deputy chairman are elected by the general meeting.\nThe board of directors currently comprises 5 members, of which 2 are women.\nThe board of directors has been elected on the basis of an overall assessment in which competence, experience and integrity are important criteria and the composition of the board of directors represents the company\u2019s ownership situation. An overview of board members\u2019 competence, background and shareholding in the company is available on the company\u2019s website www.gcrieber-shipping.com.\nThe board of directors\u2019 independence\nExecutive management shall not be members of the board of directors.\nThe chairman of the board, Paul-Chr. Rieber, is CEO of GC Rieber AS, which is the largest shareholder in the company with a 70.4 percent stake.\nOther board members do not have direct or indirect ownership interests in the company. The board members are regarded as independent of the company\u2019s main shareholder and significant business relations.\n9. The work of the board of directors\nThe board of directors\u2019 duties\nThe board of directors has overall responsibility for management of the group and also for supervising the day-to-day management and the group\u2019s operations.\nThis involves developing the company\u2019s strategy and also following-up that the strategy is implemented. The board of directors is also responsible for control functions to ensure that the company has proper operations as well as asset and risk management.\nInstructions for the board of directors\nPursuant to the provisions of the Norwegian Public Limited Liability Companies Act, the board of directors has established instructions for the board of directors that provide detailed regulations and guidelines for the board of directors\u2019 work and executive work.\nInstructions for the CEO\nA clear division of responsibilities and tasks has been established between the board of directors and executive management.\nThe board of directors receives periodic reports with comments on the company\u2019s financial status. As far as interim reports are concerned, the company follows the deadlines for Oslo Stock Exchange.\nThe board of directors usually holds eight board meetings a year, evenly distributed over the year. Quarterly and annual accounts, and also salary and other remuneration to the CEO are dealt with at the board meetings. In addition, a separate strategy meeting is held. Extraordinary board meetings to deal with matters that cannot wait until the next ordinary board meeting are held when required. In addition, the board of directors has organized the work in a separate auditing committee. In 2016, 12 meetings were held, compared with 14 meetings in 2015. In 2016, attendance at the board meetings was 97 percent, compared with 93 percent in 2015.\nThe main purpose of the audit committee is to monitor the group\u2019s internal control systems, quality assurance of the financial reporting and ensuring that the auditor is independent. The auditing committee has two members of which one is independent of the company\u2019s business activities and main shareholders. The committee has evaluated the procedures for financial control in the core areas of the group\u2019s business activities. The committee has been informed of the external auditor\u2019s work and the results of this work.\nThe board of directors\u2019 self-evaluation\nThe board of directors conducts an annual evaluation of its work, way of working and expertise. The chairman of the board of directors conducts an annual appraisal of the CEO in accordance with his job description.\n10. Risk management and internal control\nThe board of directors\u2019 responsibilities and the object of internal control\nGC Rieber Shipping\u2019s risk management and internal control seeks to ensure that the company has comprehensive control thinking that includes the company\u2019s operations, financial reporting and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The internal control also includes the company\u2019s basic values, ethical guidelines and guidelines for social corporate responsibility.\nThe board of directors\u2019 annual review and reporting\nThe annual strategy meeting helps lay the foundation for the board of directors\u2019 discussions and decisions through the year. Review and revision of important governing documents is considered on an on-going basis.\nThe administration prepares monthly finance reports, which are reviewed by the board members. Quarterly financial reports are also prepared and reviewed by the board of directors before the quarterly reporting. The auditor attends meetings with the auditing committee and the board meeting that includes presentation of the annual accounts. The company\u2019s risk aspects and management have been thoroughly described in the directors\u2019 report.\nOverall responsibility for internal control related to the company\u2019s financial reporting is assigned to the board of directors\u2019 auditing committee. The auditing committee has regular meetings with the administration and the company\u2019s auditor at which discussion of accounting principles, use of estimates and other relevant topics are discussed.\nRegular reports are submitted to the board of directors regarding defined KPIs related to quality, health, environment and safety. In addition, the GC Rieber Group has prepared guidelines on business ethics and social responsibility, with which all employees in all the subsidiaries should be acquainted, including GC Rieber Shipping. GC Rieber Shipping has its own coordinator who ensures quarterly reporting to the board of directors on the status and progress of the company\u2019s social responsibility work and who represents the company in the GC Rieber Group\u2019s UN Global Compact group.\n11. Remuneration to the board of directors\nThe general meeting determines annually the remuneration to the board of directors. The proposed remuneration is put forward by the company\u2019s largest shareholder.\nIn 2016, the company\u2019s board received a total remuneration of NOK 1 017 000. The remuneration to each board member in 2016 is given in note 3 of the parent company\u2019s annual accounts. Remuneration to the board of directors is not dependent on profit.\n12. Remuneration to executive management\nThe board of directors has adopted guidelines for remuneration of the CEO and other executive management. In accordance with the Public Limited Liability Companies Act, the main features of this remuneration shall be subject to an advisory vote at the general meeting, cf. note 3 of the parent company\u2019s annual accounts.\nThere are no option schemes in GC Rieber Shipping, but the company has a scheme for sale of the company\u2019s own shares to employees where a statutory tax discount is used.\nBonus schemes shall be linked to group or individual performance targets.\n13. Information and communication\nGC Rieber Shipping seeks to treat all participants in the securities market equally through publishing all relevant information to the market in a timely, efficient and non-discriminating manner. All stock exchange reports will be available on the company\u2019s website and on Oslo B\u00f8rs\u2019 news site, www.newsweb.no, and also through new agencies (via NASDAQ OMX).\nThe company presents preliminary financial statements by the end of February. Complete accounts, together with directors\u2019 report and annual report are available to the shareholders no later than three weeks before the general meeting.\nThe company\u2019s financial calendar is published for one year at a time before 31 December in accordance with the rules of Oslo B\u00f8rs. The financial calendar is available on the company\u2019s website and also on the website of Oslo B\u00f8rs.\nOpen presentations via webcast will be arranged in connection with the presentation of interim results. The interim results, business developments and also comments on the market and future outlook are reviewed here. Both the CEO and CFO usually attend the presentations.\nInterim reports, presentation material and webcasts are available at www.gcrieber-shipping.com.\nThe company exercises caution in its contact with shareholders and financial analysts, cf. the Norwegian Securities Trading Act, Norwegian Accounting Act and the stock exchange regulations.\nThe board will not seek to hinder or obstruct any takeover bids for the company\u2019s business activities or shares. Should there be a bid for the company\u2019s shares, the company\u2019s board of directors will not exercise authorizations to issue new shares or pass other resolutions in an attempt to obstruct the bid without the approval of the general meeting. Any transaction that in effect is a disposal of the company\u2019s business activities will be decided on by the general meeting.\nWhen a takeover bid has been received, the board of directors will initiate an external valuation by an independent adviser and thereafter the board of directors will recommend shareholders to either accept or reject the offer. The valuation must also take into account how a possible takeover will affect the long-term value creation in the group.\nThe group\u2019s auditor will be chosen by the general meeting. PwC has been the company\u2019s auditor since the ordinary general meeting in 2013.\nThe auditor's relationship to the board of directors and the auditing committee\nThe board of directors will at least once a year arrange a meeting with the auditor without the presence of the executive management in the company. The auditor will present the summary of an annual plan for carrying out the audit work, and the company\u2019s internal control procedures, including identified weaknesses and proposed improvements, will be reviewed with the board of directors.\nThe auditor also participates in board meetings which discuss the annual accounts. At such meetings, the auditor reviews any material changes in the company\u2019s accounting principles, comments on any material estimated accounting figures and any significant matters where there may have been disagreement between the auditor and the administration.\nThe board of directors will inform about the remuneration paid to the auditor, divided between remuneration for audit work and other services, at the annual general meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 21390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gendisasters.com/illinois/5292/chicago%2C-il-leech-%2526amp%3B-woolman%2526%2523039%3Bs-distillery-fire%2C-feb-1873", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:WSGJH6THHIFUZ7YI24TPE2KKXNJXSXXV", "length": 966, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gendisasters.com", "title": "Chicago, IL Leech & Woolman's Distillery Fire, Feb 1873 | GenDisasters ... 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The roofs of the sheds took fire, and it was found necessary to let the cattle out, and doubtless many of whom will never be recovered.\nAlton, IL Fire, Feb 1873\nSpringfield, IL St Nicholas Hotel Fire, Jan 1873\nChicago, IL LaSalle Hotel Fire and Panic, June 1946", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500281685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7M63XFXVSULAPP53627Z5LSAX35KEBAF", "length": 2573, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.getty.edu", "title": "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)", "raw_content": "Innocent X, Pope (Italian pope, 1574-1655)\nNote: Son of Camillo Pamphili, of the Roman Pamphili family, originally from Gubbio, and Flaminia de Bubalis. 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He called in the Air Accidents Investigation Branch after using sonar and a submersible device fitted with cameras to confirm it was the plane.\nThe AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, and was able to recover the single body previously seen in the wreckage.\n\u201cThe weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\u201d it said in a statement,\nThe body was being taken to the Isle of Portland to be passed to the Dorset coroner. 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The Basilica witnesses both the Romanesque and the Gothic styles, showing Classicist features as well. The Tartars, the Turkish Rule, wars, fires all left their marks on it. Its present form is the result of its Neo-Romanesque reconstruction that took place at the end of the 19th century and that preserved the medieval undercroft. The Cathedral was ranked as a \u2018basilica minor\u2019 in 1993, when Pope John Paul II visited Hungary. Paintings of Ferenc Lotz and Bertalan Sz\u00e9kely can be seen in the chapels. The Basilica's organ has recently been renewed thus it became one of the largest mechanical church organs in Europe. Thanks to the organ, perfect acoustic concerts and organ plays are often performed in the Basilica. During a recent renovation a time capsule that was laid in one of the towers in 1886 was discovered. 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It is located in the woods on the south side of Exeter Road inside the loop of roads formed by the exits from Route 101 and Liberty Lane. View a map. [Data verified on site in 1986 and in v.2 of Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the end of the year 1900 by George Freeman Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn.]\nMary, wife of Jeremiah Elkins, & daughter of Dea. David Batchelder, of Hampton Falls: died Apr. 16, 1851, aged 79 yrs. 3 mos.\nDea. David B. Elkins Died Nov. 25, 1854, aged 55 yrs. 10 mos.\nMary, wife of Dea. David B. Elkins, Died Aug. 24, 1870, aged 66 yrs. 6 ms. 3 d's.\nHUSBAND Daniel W. Elkins born 1833, died 1883.\nJonathan Elkins Died Aug. 20, 1853, aged 70 yrs. 6 mo.\nJoanna wife of Jonathan Elkins died Jan. 19, 1893 AEt 93 yrs. \"Gone but not forgotten.\"\nJeremiah Elkins died May 12, 1876, AEt 57 yrs. 9 ms. \"We shall meet again.\"\nNancy L. wife of Jeremiah Elkins, died Aug. 9, 1851, aged 28 yrs. 10 mo.\nMelvinah, daughter of Jonathan & Eliza Elkins, died July 12, 1852, aged 2 yrs. 7 mos. [A verse, but difficult to read.] [Her age was read as 12 yrs. 7 mos. in the new compilation of Hampton vital records by Sanborn and Sanborn, but this is an error where the 'd' in 'aged' was read as the number 1.]\nAmanda, dau. of Jonathan & Eliza. Elkins, died Oct. 17, 1851 aged 7 mo. & 9 ds. [A verse, but difficult to read.]\nEliza A. Elkins died Sept. 21, 1863 aged 39 yrs. 7 mo.\nJonathan Elkins died June 8, 1878 Aged 59 yrs. [An illegible inscription on the bottom was deciphered by Eaton in 1932 as reading: \"A member of Co. I, 15th Reg. N.H.V.\" This would be a regiment of New Hampshire volunteers in the Civil War. He was a Private from October 24, 1862 to August 13, 1863, when his term of service expired after 9 months. This information is verified in Joseph Dow's History of Hampton, N.H., 1638 to 1892.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 352, "original_length": 7269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hartford.edu/news/press-releases/2017/02/poetry_circuit.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OL3LSJT2O3IEMF2W2LRPFIHELQBALZ7M", "length": 2235, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hartford.edu", "title": "Professor Benjamin Grossberg Helps Kelia Ingraham \u201917 Take Her Poetry Public | University of Hartford", "raw_content": "Professor Benjamin Grossberg Helps Kelia Ingraham \u201917 Take Her Poetry Public\nAs a piano performance major in the University of Hartford\u2019s The Hartt School, Kelia Ingraham \u201917 is used to being in front of an audience. But it was her writing, not music that put her center stage in February. Kelia was the University\u2019s winning entrant in the 2017 Connecticut Poetry Circuit, a reading tour held at colleges and universities across Connecticut.\nKelia, an English minor in the University\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, competed against 14 other UHart students for a spot on the tour, which includes three other students from Connecticut colleges. Kelia worked to get her poems ready for the public with Professor Benjamin Grossberg, the faculty mentor for Poetry Circuit students.\n\u201cMy work was mostly seeing if there was any way I could help the poems do what they were already doing, but just a little more,\u201d explains Grossberg. \u201cI helped her make sure the poems were fully realized.\u201d\nKelia decided to enter the competition after taking Grossberg\u2019s poetry class last year. Her confidence got a boost after receiving feedback from her classmates and while working with Grossberg on Aerie, the English Department\u2019s literary journal of students' work. But it was still a challenge.\n\u201cI get nervous reading poems,\u201d Kelia, a native of Kennebunk, Maine, explains. \u201cThis is a much more personal type of performing than piano, which is also very personal. But they use a similar part of my creativity, just in different ways. I\u2019m a very creative person, so whether I\u2019m sitting down to write a poem or I am playing piano, it taps into the same thing.\u201d\nRight now, Kelia plans to focus on music after graduation. She is applying to graduate schools to study collaborative piano, which will set her up for a career playing with chamber groups and choirs. She also plans to continue to teach piano and play at her churches. Professor Grossberg has a different prediction.\n\u201cYou will find happy, gainful employment with the piano,\u201d he told Kelia. \u201cBut you\u2019ll never stop doing both music and writing. I think by the time you are 30, you\u2019ll have your MFA in creative writing and be publishing.\u201d He has already promised to write a letter of recommendation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hats-n-rabbits.com/2011/07/smoke-gets-in-your-brain.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OUGT4DVNAOF76STS5AN7RN6IFE5HXEGL", "length": 8796, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.hats-n-rabbits.com", "title": "Hats and Rabbits: Smoke Gets in Your Brain", "raw_content": "I have no idea why this occurred to me, but . . .\nSome years ago I was playing in a now-defunct bar called \"Olde Grads.\" The band was positioned on a stage behind the bar. Looking past the backs of the bartenders, you saw shapes in a haze moving, dancing, drinking. The smoke was so thick in the place that the stage lights created solid curtains of color when they flashed.\nOne night, I was feeling particularly (and literally) sick of the smoke. As the drummer, I was farthest back, up against the wall. I saw a switch. Wondering what it would do, I flipped it. Immediately, the smoke cleared from the bar. It was an exhaust fan. The bartender (a guy who, I am sure, had left a few horse-heads in the beds of transgressors) whipped around with a crazed look on his face. As he searched for the cause of the clear air, he smoothed back his gray hair, chewed furiously on his soggy cigar and uttered the most unspeakable profanities. \"Who the ____ turned on that _____ fan?\"\n\"Bobby,\" I said. \"It was me. Isn't this better?\"\nHe responded only by jumping up on the stage and flipping it back off. He looked and was satisfied that the smoke was building up again in the bar. Appeased, the rage gone from his eyes, he put his hand on my shoulder (Bobby liked me) and said, \"Just play the goddam drums, Chris. You're good at that, right. Okay, Pal? Capisce?\"\nNowadays, it is illegal to smoke in bars in our area. I, for one, am thrilled about this. There is no way to explain how much better I feel the day after playing a three-hour gig on the drums, in my early forties, than I did when I was in my twenties. The effect of that second hand smoke on me was real and it was devastating. I think it might even have caused me to get thyroid cancer, but I can't prove that.\nFor me, it works, this ban -- for obvious reasons. Some people, who argue that the owner ought to be able to do whatever he wants in his own establishment react mostly emotionally, with the kind of outrage that seems to have crept into the DNA of those who live in a democratic society in which people have the right to do what they want. \"No one should be able to tell me the rules in my place.\"\nI get that. My blood boils when I am called to jury duty, not because I have to go or because I don't think it is my duty, but because of the threats on the notice: \"You WILL report or you will be arrested.\" That kind of thing.\nOn the other side of it, there are those who believe that laws are made to protect people and that a law banning smoking in bars is one that prevents people from the well-documented harm caused by second-hand smoke.\nI think these are the only two possible stances. As a writing teacher, I'm always chirping about logical argument, so I need to look at this.\nWhat gets me about this particular argument is that it stops at \"freedom\". The premise is:\n\"This is my bar. I own it. Therefore, the government shouldn't be able to tell me how to run it.\"\nI agree, to a point. But I disagree when it comes to threats to the health of patrons. The counterargument to that is:\n\"If patrons don't want to inhale second hand smoke, they don't have to come to my bar.\"\nTrue. But what about the babies those people bring during the dinner hour? What about the waitress who can't afford to give up her job? What about the drummer in the band who is just trying to live his dream?\nOne thing I can't argue against is that, except for the babies, these people could say: \"Go smokeless, or we are out.\" It is not likely, but it is possible, therefore it is a logical point. And a law telling parents where they can bring their kids to dinner somewhere would just be creepy.\nBut we know second hand smoke is horrible for people. If a bar owner allows people to smoke in his bar, he is knowingly allowing harm to come to his patrons; therefore, I would argue, he is guilty of bringing harm to his partons, in full awareness of his actions. It isn't a question of law, to me. It is a question of morality. But immorality like this warrants legal intervention. Would it be moral or should it be legal for a bar owner to serve his beer in leaden pitchers because he likes the way they look?\nA bar owner would not allow two guys to have a catch with a baseball in the middle of the room on a Saturday night. It could harm his partons. He is also morally obligated not to let those two guys smoke.\nShould the law exist? Yeah, I think so. I know we don't want Big Brother to control our lives, but we need to fear the slippery slope reasoning of saying this is an over extension of government. (Laws that force restaurants to account for every calorie they serve? Stupid. If the patron doesn't know ice cream is bad and asparagus is good, that's on him.) There are laws against many harmful things. You can't swing a Louisville Slugger on a train. You might hurt someone.\nThese laws are not saying you can't smoke. They are merely saying you cannot smoke at the expense of others.\nWhat is interesting is that bars still seem to be as crowded as they were when I started playing in them. People go outside for a ciggie. Big deal.\nI know the ambiance is blown for old Bobby, but I will take being cancer-free over atmosphere any day. Bobby's ambiance could have cost me my life, in the end.\nI don't know -- I wrote this faster than I should have. What do you think?\nLabels: argumentation, law, smoking in pubic\nNick Hancock July 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM\nYou're right, although before you made me think about it I would have disagreed and taken the \"they don't have to come to my bar\" argument.\nI'm always on the side of personal freedom (especially as it applies to business), but it comes inseparably with protection of person and property. If it's poisoning as little as one one-millionth of the air (let alone fumigating a closed bar), isn't it an invasion of your personal safety? It might sound a bit radical, but by that logic you could argue that smoking should be illegal altogether.\nAnd that comes from someone who likes his menthols.\nNothing like a little Hats&Rabbits to get the brain crankin' before work.\nGetting brains crankin' is what we do . . . haha. Might be a new slogan.\nOK, so this is one of those topics that I get really fired up about. I will caveat my comment by acknowledging that I quit smoking a little under 3 years ago, and have many years of \"courteous but indignant smoker tired of being treated with contempt\" mentality engrained in me. I'll reign myself in, but I do need to disagree with the morality argument. Suffice it to say that bartenders don't need to serve alcohol in leaden pitchers for alcohol to cause harm to their patrons. I would argue that, if you're going to go down the moral responsibility road, bars in general should be banned as a moral obligation to protect society from potential alcholism, drunk driving, bar fights, domestic abuse, and the litany of other problems that may stem from drinking.\nSmoking is only at the expense of others if they have no choice but to be surrounded by it. A terrible choice indeed, but I would argue that you have the choice to decide which is more important to you: your health or playing drums in a bar. (As for the choiceless baby? He can't exactly get up and leave his home if dad's a smoker, either. Sorry baby, your *parents* are the one with the moral obligation to protect you until you're old enough to do so yourself, so you're going to have to go along with their choice.)\nWhich is what it boils down to: choice. For me, the key point is that it should be up to the owner. As in, there would be BOTH smoking and non-smoking bars. Why does it have to be one or the other? If folks are truly concerned about second hand smoke, then surely the non-smoking bars would thrive alongside the smoking bars.\nTHC -- you know, I probably shouldn't have even published this. You can tell by my last line that I thought it was a little half-baked at the time. I see what you are saying. It is a really touchy thing when laws -- like seatbelt laws -- are designed to protect us from ourselves. Though, I do see a difference between selling alchohol and selling it in leaden pitchers -- a closer analogy to allowing smoking. But I need to work on this more before I spit out another mediocre piece. And I did aknowledge that I can choose not to play in smoking bars, but maybe my sense of democracy is making me think: \"Why should I have to choose not to work, earn money and express myself because others are forcing me to choose between my own health and doing what I love?\" It's a tough position all around. I do think your point about both types of bars is good -- and I think they would both thrive, as you say. But, Selfish-Chris says: \"Now I have to choose to play half the time or sactrifice my health.\" Man -- maybe this needs its own blog . . .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 12254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2018/11/28/healthier-hawaii-national-hospice-palliative-care-month/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:44ZKFNTAJSDJX6WM47KQE7GGNDQUE4VW", "length": 470, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hawaiinewsnow.com", "title": "Healthier Hawaii: National hospice and palliative care month", "raw_content": "Healthier Hawaii: National hospice and palliative care month\nWhat is palliative care for those who don't understand and know? Palliative care is a special kind of medical care that's provided to people who have serious illnesses or potentially life-limiting illnesses. The goal is to improve their quality of life. In this week's Healthier Hawaii, we're talking story with Jamie Sharpe, who is a nurse practitioner at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 100.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.healthcarebusinesstech.com/medical-billing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FTCCC3B2F27PAVOHVZ4D4DFY5AMQD4FH", "length": 7308, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.healthcarebusinesstech.com", "title": "Medical Billing | Hospital Billing Errors | Medical Billing Services", "raw_content": "Home : Medical Billing\nMedical billing is an extremely important component of the health care industry. This article highlights some common medical billing mistakes and the types of services available to ensure the best record of care for patients and the best physician reimbursements for the services rendered.\nAfter years and years of studying, practicing, and preparing for a future in health care, physicians and other medical care providers mark their place in the industry by providing the best cutting-edge care for their patients. These professionals face major challenges every day \u2013 from providing life-saving emergency treatment to researching complex diseases \u2013 but there is another critical component of a successful medical practice that is not the focus of the skills learned in med school: medical billing.\nIn today\u2019s complex world and struggling economy, business issues in the medical industry can take precedence (sometimes even over the treatment of medical conditions) in determining the sustainability of a medical practice. One of the biggest challenges facing physicians today is not solely concerned with patient care; instead, many of today\u2019s care providers are concerned with the business side of health care, especially concerning medical billing and coding.\nMedical Billing Mistakes\nIt is estimated that doctors in the U.S. leave approximately $125 billion on the table each year due to poor billing practices. This is a stark reminder for physicians that providing optimal patient care is only one of the big factors in becoming a successful in the industry.\n2 of the most common factors contributing to a loss in profits:\nBilling errors.\nIt is estimated that up to 80% of medical bills contain errors. Insurance companies are very strict on correct medical billing and coding practices, and even the smallest mistake can cause an insurance company to reject a medical billing claim. This starts a long process requiring the doctor to fix the error, submit the claim a second time, and then wait (and hope) for the new claim to be accepted and processed. Medical billing errors can cause a doctor to have to wait several months or more before receiving payment for their services.\nFailure to stay up-to-date on medical billing rules and regulations.\nThese rules are constantly changing, requiring physicians and administrators to spend time and money on continuing education, software, or staff training to stay current, having a direct effect on the cash flow and profits of a practice.\nNot only are the rules and regulations concerning medical billing changing, but they are also changing for health care as a whole. Updates and major changes administered with the Health Care Reform bill have increased the number of insured Americans by more than 30 million, so proper medical billing procedures are more important than ever.\nSourcing Medical Billing\nWith the economy in such a delicate state, medical practitioner\u2019s patients affected as well as their own private practices. Unemployment, along with higher co-pays and deductibles, results in patients that are unable to afford medical services. In turn, practices end up losing tons of money.\nMedical practices now have to worry about insurance companies\u2019 unique rules along with new and changing coding standards. With the burden of knowledge being so heavy, they\u2019re losing money due to lost or ignored claims, denials, and underpayments.\nHiring a third party hold responsibility for billing services can sometimes be an effective way to increase revenue and gain control of the situation, but others feel that keeping operations in-house is the safest and most cost-effective bet.\nHere are the arguments for both sides of the sourcing issue.\nOutsourcing medical billing sounds expensive upfront. However, when everything is added up, it may end up being more beneficial over time. Here\u2019s why:\nMost billing services charge on a percent-basis, meaning they will only charge a percentage of the revenue they are bringing in for your company. With this in mind, they are going to be a lot more diligent about faster collections and resubmitting claims. Your current employees don\u2019t have time to run through denied claims. A third-party professional is dedicated to this.\nEmploying a staff for billing purposes can get expensive. Even to hire just one new person, a practice has to think about the costs of training, the employee\u2019s salary, benefits, and taxes, as well as compensation for turnover. Using an outside billing service eliminates the headache of training and familiarizing a staff with your billing software, procedures, coding, etc. A billing service has already trained professionals, who only make money when you do.\nThe amount of time doctors and nurses spend on billing and staffing concerns can be eliminated. This freed-up time can be used to care for patients \u2013 which is what you\u2019re goal is in the first place.\nOdds are, outsourced billing companies have more billing and coding expertise, and necessary resources. Even if you are still concerned with internally handling billing, an outside service can assist in providing proper software, such as EMR (Electronic Medical Records), packaged billing, and practice management. Sometimes for an added fee, there are companies that provide appointment reminders, electronic eligibility verification, patient follow-up, coding, consulting, and data reporting. For one lump sum, you can outsource services that might have been costly to handle within your practice.\nCertified billing companies are compliant with the latest health care laws, like HIPAA and the Health Care Reform bill, so your staff can rest assured that the law is being followed.\nMany other practices with a manageable amount of patients find that handling all of the medical billing procedures in-house is more cost-effective. Here\u2019s why:\nProblems can be addressed immediately. With the billing staff only a few feet away in the same office, any problems that may arise with billing issues can be taken care of immediately and physicians will not have to wait to get a hold of a company, wait to get an investigation, or wait to get a response.\nPhysicians can control the productivity levels at the office. If workers are not working efficiently or productivity needs to increase, adjustments can be made accordingly since they work directly for that office. With outsourcing, the employees answer to their own company\u2019s rules, regulations, managers, and bosses.\nBilling staff has direct communication with physicians and other administrators. If there is a question about medical coding, physicians\u2019 notes, or patient information, the billing staff can have access to the medical professionals who can best address their questions right then and there.\nMaintaining an up-to-date and proactive medical billing practice will help physicians and the health care industry as a whole operate at top potential and eliminate costly errors that inhibit their ability to provide the best patient care.\nHealth Exec News is committed to providing health professionals with the most current news and resources to help them do their jobs better. Check back regularly for the most up-to-date information on medical billing.\nRead on: Spend Less, Collect More: Tips for Choosing a Medical Billing Service", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hirosimanagasaki.is/hirosima_event/press-show-educational-material-related-to-the-exhibition-interest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IDVGJEQFQJS2KTNNJET5Q67XEFPKYJP4", "length": 1075, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hirosimanagasaki.is", "title": "Press show educational material related to the Exhibition interest - H\u00edr\u00f3s\u00edma/Nagasaki", "raw_content": "Press show educational material related to the Exhibition interest\nIcelandic daily newspaper, Fr\u00e9ttabla\u00f0i\u00f0, has today the 23rd August on the front page and another in a separate section on education on p. 32 articles regarding the educational material that has been specially made for the Exhibition. The material is in the form of a teaching website that Halld\u00f3r Bj\u00f6rgvin \u00cdvarsson, teacher and fisherman prepared for students in 10th grade (see under: www.hirosimanagasaki.is/for-schools/).\nThe teaching website is very user-friendly for both students and teachers and compatible with the objectives stated in the official curriculum for social studies, sociology, science and environmental education.\nThe main objective of the teaching material is that it can be used to prepare students before going to the Exhibition and to give them the opportunity to continue working with the material when returning the classroom. Class visits are offered to all 10th grade students in the country and already have about 300 students been booked.\nLinks to the articles are as follows:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 199.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/barry-hon-richard-1720-87", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SGC5M3B7SFAQ2VQLKDJM6K2S2JNXBLX3", "length": 836, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.historyofparliamentonline.org", "title": "BARRY, Hon. Richard (c.1720-87), of Marbury, Cheshire. | History of Parliament Online", "raw_content": "Home Research > Members > 1754-1790 > BARRY, Hon. Richard (c.1720-87)\nBARRY, Hon. Richard (c.1720-87), of Marbury, Cheshire.\nb. c. 1720,1 2nd s. of James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore [I], M.P., by his 3rd w. Anne, da. of Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall [I]. m. 4 May 1749, Jane, da. and h. of Arthur Hyde of Castle Hyde, Ireland, 1s.\nLt. R.N. 1740; cdr. 1745.\nIn 1747 Barry was returned on the Tory interest at Wigan in place of his father. In 1754 a contest was threatened but there was no poll. Barry did not stand again in 1761; his influence at Wigan had been undermined by an opposition who, backed by Administration, had in 1759 established their predominance by having their candidate elected mayor.\nBarry died 23 Nov. 1787.\n1. The 1st s., James 5th Earl of Barrymore, was b. 25 Apr. 1717, and the 4th John, 28 July 1725.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/wilberforce-william-1759-1833", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AMJHQARU433DFI3EEMKKS66UYIEKUJ5V", "length": 86288, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "www.historyofparliamentonline.org", "title": "WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833). | History of Parliament Online", "raw_content": "Home Research > Members > 1790-1820 > WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833)\nWILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833).\nb. 24 Aug. 1759, os. of Robert Wilberforce, Baltic merchant, of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks. by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Bird of Barton, Oxon. educ. Hull g.s. 1766; Chalmer\u2019s sch. Putney 1768-71, Pocklington g.s. 1771;. St. John\u2019s, Camb. 1776. m. 30 May 1797, Barbara Ann, da. of Isaac Spooner, merchant banker, of Elmdon Hall, Warws., 4s. 2da. suc. fa. 1768.\nDir. Sierra Leone Co. 1791; member, board of agriculture 1801.\nThe paradox of Wilberforce\u2019s character was thus observed by a political opponent in 1821:\nMr Wilberforce ... besides being one of the extraordinary men of the age, is very cheerful and pleasant, and gifted with extraordinary liveliness and great powers of conversation. He seems not to have been naturally intended for a \u2018Saint\u2019, his character inclines much more naturally to the courtier or man of the world.\nHe himself was poignantly aware of it. Since his religious conversion in 1785, he had become \u2018an accountable being ... at the bar of God\u2019, striving to learn \u2018the true limits of conformity\u2019, but in others\u2019 company he forgot God and, the ambiguity of his prayer for \u2018a constant and a sober mind with a gay exterior\u2019, was misunderstood. In Bishop Jebb\u2019s phrase, he combined \u2018all the sweetness of an angel and all the agility of a monkey\u2019. Other paradoxes were not far to seek: of mercantile background, he regarded the country gentry as \u2018the very cement of society\u2019; without anything approaching the usual property stake or even a passable residence in the county in which he was dubbed \u2018the Shrimp\u2019, he represented Yorkshire from 1784 to 1812 by popular acclaim, without discharging the normal duties of a knight of the shire at quarter sessions or race meetings, or even pursuing applications for patronage: such was his moral authority. Moreover, although he set out in politics as a close friend of Pitt and never respected any other statesman as much, his independence of mind and application of moral scruples to political questions made him a thorn in Pitt\u2019s side and \u2018the weathercock of St. Stephens\u2019. As a scrupulous independent Member, his friend Henry Bankes, with whom he constantly compared notes, stood comparison with him, but he outbid Bankes in charisma and was the acknowledged parliamentary leader of the evangelical pressure group known as the \u2018Saints\u2019; when he retired from Parliament in 1825 he had a party to bequeath. Although much of his support outside Parliament came from dissenting leaders, Wilberforce was not a friend to dissenting claims (he was listed among opponents of repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in 1791) or \u2018unsteepled places of worship\u2019. Finally\u2014and perhaps this was the paradox that pleased him most\u2014with a forever-ailing constitution, palliated by opium, he was one of the most industrious Members of Parliament, assiduous alike in debate and committee and adept at both. Surviving seemingly more robust contemporaries, he almost lived to see the complete realization of the dream for which he had conscientiously forsworn power, office and honours. He of course regarded as providential the resolution of these paradoxes in such a way as to make him \u2018an agent of usefulness\u2019.1\nWilberforce\u2019s dream of the abolition of the slave trade by the civilized world under British leadership, and its corollary of the emancipation of the slaves who were its victims, was the main theme of his parliamentary career. The apostle of his religious conversion, Dr Isaac Milner, assured him: \u2018if you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be far better spent than in being prime minister many years\u2019. It was not a party question, but Wilberforce had to counter the obstruction of the West Indian lobby at every step and, although he might count on the support of such parliamentary grandees as Pitt, Fox, Burke, Perceval, Canning and Castlereagh, he found himself a victim of tactical delays imposed by political or party considerations; and he had to meet the indifference of the rank and file in cabinet and in Parliament, the prejudice of the landed gentry in general against an attack on property and vested interest, the admirals against an attack on a supposed \u2018nursery of seamen\u2019 and the snubs of peers and bishops and of members of the royal family.2\nHaving taken up the anti-slavery cause in 1787,3 Wilberforce had first moved for abolition on 12 May 1789. The ensuing scrutiny of evidence by the House kept him working \u2018like a negro\u2019 and, after being delayed until 18 Apr. 1791, he then reviewed the evidence in a motion to prevent the further importation of slaves into the West Indies, defeated by 163 votes to 88. He consoled himself by promoting the Sierra Leone Company, of which he was a director, to extend lawful commerce with Africa, and by fostering an appeal to public opinion through meetings which led to over 500 petitions. He carefully avoided extremism and, when the negro revolts in the West Indies produced a backlash in public opinion, bided his time, lest the views which had gained him the unwanted accolade of honorary citizenship of the French republic, should be stigmatized as Jacobinical. His next abolition motion of 2 Apr. 1792, accompanied by a three-hour speech and Pitt\u2019s eloquent support, was granted a hearing by 234 votes to 87, but Henry Dundas\u2019s amendment for gradual abolition was carried; and although Wilberforce joined with Fox in opposing it, it was approved with a terminus ad quem of 1 Jan. 1796, only to be blocked in the Lords. Despite growing indifference to the subject with the advent of war, a boost to the British sugar colonies, Wilberforce moved further consideration on 26 Feb. 1793, when he was defeated by 61 votes to 53. On 14 May 1793, he got leave for a bill to limit temporarily the importation of slaves into British colonies, and though he failed that day to secure its corollary of vetoing the supply of slaves to foreign colonies in British ships, he did so on 22 May and introduced the bill successfully on 7 Feb. 1794: it was blocked in the Lords. On 26 Feb. 1795, he moved for abolition of the trade on 1 Jan. 1796, but was beaten by 78 votes to 61, which he thought \u2018an argument for reform\u2019 of Parliament. On 18 Feb. 1796, despite recent disturbances in the West Indies, he carried by 26 votes his motion to abolish the trade on 1 Mar. 1797; the bill was committed on 7 Mar., but defeated by 74 votes to 70 on 15 Mar. He complained that there were about a dozen supporters absent and enough at the opera to have carried it. In May 1796 his bill to regulate and reduce slave carrying was twice counted out.\nIn the autumn of 1796, Wilberforce, who had unsuccessfully sought an agreement with the ancien r\u00e9gime in France about abolition in 1789, urged Pitt to include the question in his negotiations with the French republic. He opposed as delusive the bid by Charles Rose Ellis*, swallowed by Pitt, in April 1797, to delegate abolition to the colonial governments, which secured parliamentary approval; whereas his own fresh abolition motion of 15 May was lost by 82 votes to 74. While he obtained Pitt\u2019s collaboration in preventing the cultivation of the captured island of Trinidad by slave labour, his abolition motion of 3 Apr. 1798 was defeated by 87 votes to 83 and that of 1 Mar. 1799 by 84 to 54. The less ambitious measures introduced by his friends were also frustrated and, while the slave trade limitation bill passed the Commons on 2 May 1799, it was lost in the Lords on 5 July, despite an eager canvass of them by George Canning and the assistance of Lord Grenville. In 1800, he was further disappointed in his hope of a compromise to be arranged by Pitt whereby the West India interest agreed to a suspension of the trade for five years or so.\nWilberforce hoped that peace would be a pretext for an international agreement against the trade and privately urged Addington to secure a convention with France, 2 Jan. 1802; but Addington and Hawkesbury, his Foreign secretary, demurred; he got nowhere during their administration. Even the veto on cultivation of Trinidad by slaves was wrested from Addington by Canning, not by Wilberforce, who gave way to him without combating Canning\u2019s ulterior motive of separating Addington and Pitt on this question, 27 May 1802. Wilberforce tried an abolition motion of his own in June, but gave it up in a thin house. In March 1803 first influenza then war frustrated his intention to repeat the motion, and late that year, when he was eager to secure a compromise with the West India interest for temporary suspension of the trade, Addington blocked it. The return to power of Pitt in May 1804 renewed his hopes. On 30 May he bustled the first reading of an abolition bill through the House by 124 votes to 49, helped by the cultivation of Irish votes and hindered only by Addington; it passed on 27 June, but the Lords adjourned it on 2 July. When Wilberforce suggested to Pitt a Commons resolution against slave supplies to the conquered colonies, Pitt induced him to yield to a royal proclamation instead and took over a year to secure the order in council in question. He never openly impugned Pitt\u2019s procrastination, but resumed the \u2018holy war\u2019, only to be discouraged by the defeat of another abolition bill, of which Pitt disliked the timing, at the second reading, 28 Feb. 1805, by 77 votes to 70. Wilberforce was drawn into collaboration with Whig sympathizers led by Lord Henry Petty, and Pitt made amends by securing the order in council he had promised, 13 Sept. 1805.\nAfter Pitt\u2019s death Grenville\u2019s administration collaborated with Wilberforce in completing his campaign for abolition: in May 1806 they carried the prohibition of the supply of slaves to foreign countries and, although they would go no further that session, Wilberforce supported Fox\u2019s resolution in favour of abolition, 10 June, and carried an address in favour of an international agreement the same day. That autumn he wrote an address on the slave trade to promote the cause and on 3 Feb. 1807 the Lords approved the abolition bill; in the Commons the division on the second reading, 23 Feb., was 283 votes to 16 in favour. It received the royal assent on 25 Mar. 1807, the last act of the ministry.\nEven without his efforts for the abolition of the slave trade, Wilberforce was a power to be reckoned with in politics: his favourite campaign was inextricably linked with his other political interests, particularly until 1807. Thereafter, although the emancipation of the slaves eventually became his favourite object, his political interventions were more diffuse, his reliance on his allies in Parliament on slavery questions was more marked and his stance that of a champion of Christian statesmanship in general.\nWilberforce\u2019s friendship with and admiration for Pitt survived every test between 1790 and 1806; he was proof against the vanity and ambition it might have inspired in him, but unable to resist giving Pitt \u2018a serious word or two\u2019 from time to time, made inevitable by Pitt\u2019s \u2018neglect of heavenly things\u2019 and usually a source of pain to both of them. Until the end of 1794, he could be relied on to support Pitt\u2019s measures in general: despite private reservations, he defended the convention with Spain, 13 Dec. 1790, and, briefly, the war in India, 28 Feb. 1791; paired in favour of Pitt\u2019s stand against Russia, 12 Apr.; defended the Quebec bill, 11 May 1791, the pacific intentions of the ministry towards France in the face of Jacobin provocation, 14 Dec. 1792, and the rejection of irregular petitions for parliamentary reform, to which he was a friend provided it was moderate, 2 May 1793. These views he disseminated in Yorkshire.4 His other contributions to debate, affecting the interests of the textile trade in his constituency, in favour of moral rearmament (on behalf of which he had promoted the Society for the Discouragement of Vice in 1787 and produced a remarkable apologetic pamphlet in 1797)5 and in favour of the Christianisation of India, were to him a constant duty. So was the conciliatory role of a Christian in the face of political discord: he wrote of \u2018the quarrel between Burke and Fox, which I had endeavoured to prevent\u2019 in May 1791. He was bitterly disappointed when war broke out with France and had intended to express public disapproval, but for a time Pitt managed to keep him quiet. First Jacobinism and now war frustrated his anti-slave trade campaign. In July 1794 he found Pitt reinforced by the Portland Whigs, whose junction was \u2018not very pleasant\u2019 to him, they being \u2018much too strong for war\u2019: a letter of 3 Nov. 1794 showed him turning against it, though with little hope of peace with the French regime. On 5 Dec. Earl Stanhope wrote him a forceful letter encouraging his stand. His wish was to put a stop to the war without turning out Pitt, and after consultations with his friends Lord Muncaster, Henry Thornton, Henry Bankes, Matthew Montagu and his Yorkshire colleague Duncombe, and short notice to Pitt, he moved an amendment to the address, 30 Dec. 1794, in favour of peace negotiations. He feared it was \u2018a very incoherent speech; good arguments, but all in heaps for want of preparation\u2019. The seconder was Duncombe.6\nWilberforce\u2019s amendment was defeated by 246 votes to 73, but the calibre of the minority caused a sensation. Apart from \u2018the Methodist connexion\u2019 and Henry Bankes, the minority included four county Members, and about 20 Members joined opposition in all. Pitt was offended, while the King, who was reported as saying, \u2018I always told Mr Pitt they were hypocrites and not to be trusted\u2019, cut Wilberforce at the next levee. Windham called him \u2018the wicked little fanatical imp Wilberforce ... acting against Pitt, under the forms indeed of friendship, but with all the alacrity of determined opposition\u2019. Sir George Beaumont concluded that \u2018Wilberforce has done much mischief by his conduct in Parliament and that it certainly appears as if the solicitation of the dissenters had operated on his mind. His motion could do no good as he was sure to lose it.\u2019 Wilberforce himself was deeply disturbed by the alienation of Pitt and on 2 Jan. 1795 explained in the House that he was in favour of vigorous war, if war must be, and therefore supported supplies, but still thought a bid for peace preferable. After this Canning commented:\nWilberforce does not go on against government\u2014but having discharged his conscience by proposing an attempt at peace (which all the time he allows would probably be an attempt only for he very candidly confessed both in his speech on Tuesday night and afterwards in conversation with me, that he believed all my arguments respecting the insecurity of peace to be perfectly sound)\u2014and that proposition having failed, he returns with most of his followers, to their allegiance\u2014and votes with Pitt in the prosecution of the war.\nAfter this \u2018pretended recantation\u2019, Wilberforce duly opposed the repeal of the suspension of habeas corpus on 5 Jan. 1795, but on 26 Jan. when opposition tempted him by advertising Grey\u2019s peace motion, he humoured them so far as to propose an amendment that the form of government in France should be no bar to negotiation, which was lost by 254 votes to 90. Then on 6 Feb., while \u2018he did not like to multiply occasions of differing with the executive government\u2019, he felt obliged to vote for Grey\u2019s peace motion. He found that his conduct was disapproved in Yorkshire, where he accordingly discouraged peace petitions. The Sun newspaper slyly hinted on 12 Feb. that \u2018Mr Wilberforce, we doubt not, since the settlement of Sierra Leone has been so roughly handled by the French, will be eager for a vigorous prosecution of the war\u2019. A meeting with Pitt, who had meanwhile done his best for the cause of abolition, further embarrassed him, but he remained firm. On 24 Mar., while he opposed Fox\u2019s censure motion and deprecated a change of ministry, he again pressed for peace. He gave early notice of, and on 27 May introduced a peace motion, which was lost by 201 votes to 86, after a fiasco six days before when only 28 MPs were present owing to Epsom races. In it, he contrasted the blessings of peace with the futility of a war in which Britain had no aim likely to succeed. It was combated by Windham, a deserter in future from the cause of abolition. Dundas claimed that this motion \u2018was certainly received with much greater coldness than any of the former discussions on the same topics\u2019 and Pitt regarded it as a vote of confidence, though the minority included 24 county Members. When the Prince of Wales\u2019s debts were discussed in May and June 1795, Wilberforce, who wished the heir to the throne to live in \u2018dignified simplicity\u2019, supported the smaller public allowance proposed for the Prince, his amendment to that effect being defeated by 141 votes to 38 on 8 June; he urged an inquiry into and regulation of the Prince\u2019s debts to prevent future parliamentary notice of them. Opposition from the royal family on the slave trade question had not endeared them to Wilberforce and privately he approved Pitt\u2019s conduct and disapproved the King\u2019s on the matter of the Prince\u2019s income. Other opponents of his crusade were repaid in kind on 11 June 1795 when he deprecated official relief for West India planters in distress. A week later, writing to Lord Camden, whose replacement of Fitzwilliam as lord lieutenant in Ireland he cordially approved, Wilberforce remarked of recent events:\nit is so useful for all the popular humours to be discharged through the vent of the House of Commons (their natural course which so long as they keep to all will be well) that I think good will have been done by the matters not passing through more quietly.\nHe added that he hoped next session to be able \u2018to support those, with whom it must ever be painful to me to differ\u2019.7\nWilberforce\u2019s hopes were realized when Pitt made an avowal to him of his intention to seek peace on the eve of the session of 1795-6. Canning reported on 31 Oct. 1795: \u2018Wilberforce and his conscientious followers, the effusion-of-human-blood-party, all came back to us\u2019. Two days before he had given his hearty assent to the address. Windham regarded the volte-face as evidence of the influence over Pitt of Wilberforce and his friends \u2018who have not only low and narrow notions of things, but their own little private interest to serve\u2019. He went on (with becoming reluctance) in November to defend the legislation against sedition, which he regarded as exemplifying the value of Parliament in checking popular folly, and presented petitions from Leeds and Yorkshire in favour of the two bills, claiming after a dash to rally his constituents on 30 Nov. that a decided majority favoured them. Then, as always, he disliked the application of capital punishment as a deterrent. He was now proof against opposition pressure for instant peace negotiations, which he rebuked on 23 Nov. and 9 Dec. as a party ploy by men who encouraged \u2018civil discord\u2019 at home. Having made his peace with Pitt, the King and his constituents, he devoted the remainder of the session to the cause of abolition, apart from a few remarks on the scarcity of grain, a defence of Pitt\u2019s Poor Law scheme as \u2018reform\u2019, not \u2018innovation\u2019, 4 Mar., and the defence of the Quaker relief bill, 26 Apr. 1796. Privately he urged Pitt to eschew Dundas\u2019s policy of colonial conquest. He was one of only five county Members who voted for Pitt\u2019s inheritance tax in May 1796.8\nSpared a contest for Yorkshire in 1796, Wilberforce entered cordially into Pitt\u2019s bid for peace that autumn, hoping that an agreement on the slave trade might form part of it. On 2 Nov. he made an impromptu attack on opposition in defence of the cavalry bill, and on 8 Dec. spoke \u2018on the sudden and did good service\u2019 on behalf of the Austrian loan; on 14 Dec. he paid particular tribute to Pitt as a patriot. On 16 Dec. he toned down the opposition motion in favour of the captive General Lafayette into an amendment designed, in Dundas\u2019s phrase, to catch \u2018the straggling humanity\u2019 of the House, but was defeated by 132 votes to 50. Pitt induced him to say nothing on the failure of peace negotiations that month. He subscribed \u00a34,000 to the loyalty loan for 1797. He was a member of the secret committee on the Bank, 1 Mar., and defended government\u2019s handling of the Bank stoppage, 1 and 22 Mar., 1 May. The publication of his manifesto of \u2018real Christianity\u2019 for the benefit of the worldly shortly before his marriage in May 1797 increased his desire to practise in public life what he preached, and his private urging of Pitt, as his \u2018domestic chaplain\u2019, to make a fresh bid for peace seemed vindicated when Austria made a separate treaty. He was disappointed by the failure of Pitt\u2019s second attempt that summer and frustrated, as before, in his abolition campaign, his ensuing plan to make a long speech in favour of moderate parliamentary reform in May, and in his bill to enable Catholics to serve in the militia, introduced on 22 May, carried on 4 July, but thrown out in the Lords because protestant dissenters were included.9\nWilberforce\u2019s adherence to Pitt as \u2018the first of natural men\u2019 survived these vicissitudes, and this he demonstrated at the opening of the session of 1797-8 in a fierce impromptu attack on the defeatism of opposition in seceding, 2 Nov. He was not \u2018over-well pleased with ministry\u2019, but \u2018entertaining daily worse and worse sentiments of opposition\u2019. The sarcasms of the opposition press were devoted to his conduct at this time. Thus the Morning Chronicle alleged, 15 Nov.:\nit is amazing that no place has been found for Mr Wilberforce. Something of the mongrel kind, between a clergyman and layman, would be necessary to suit the man whose divinity is laid at the feet of Mr Pitt\u2019s politics. Such a place as lay chaplain to both houses of Parliament would suit him exactly.\nWilberforce had irritated opposition by his exoneration of government from all blame for the failure of the peace bid on 10 Nov. On 15 Dec. he opposed Tierney\u2019s motion alleging government extravagance, though he was eager for economy, and on 18 Dec. supported Pitt\u2019s assessed taxes, for which he twice acted as teller: \u2018government must be supported, or there must be an end of us as a people\u2019. He proposed some exemptions, unsuccessfully, on 30 Dec., and on 4 Jan. 1798 admitted that the taxes might have been applied more heavily to the upper classes: he made up for it by a voluntary subscription of an eighth of his income, trying unsuccessfully to rally the moneyed men in the City to collective effort. His \u2018asperities towards opposition\u2019 were notable that session: on 21 Feb. he was overruled by Pitt when he proposed to exclude seceding Whigs from the select committee on the public debt. On 27 Mar. he clashed with Tierney, as well as Sir William Pulteney of the \u2018armed neutrality\u2019, over the defence bill. Nor was he placated by the attendance of seceding Whigs in support of the slave question on 3 Apr. When, however, Pitt went so far as to fight a duel with Tierney on a Sunday he gave notice of a censure motion on Pitt, 30 May, which he abandoned at the latter\u2019s instigation on 5 June, after Pitt had urged that it courted his removal from power. Wilberforce insisted that his only intention had been to guard against such occurrences in future. His last major speech that session, 19 June, was in defence of the militia volunteering to help quell the Irish rebellion: \u2018he had always seen the Irish as barbarous and uncivilized people, nor had he ever seen any efforts made to civilize them till lately\u2019.10\nThanks to his individual brand of independence in Parliament, Wilberforce was liable to abuse on all sides and on 20 Dec. 1798 made a general complaint, which was not endorsed, about the misreporting of speeches and votes in the press; a week later he repeated the complaint when he was falsely accused in The Times of attacking Tierney. The wit and sarcasm of his rebuke of the opposition jester John Courtenay on the alleged ill treatment of state prisoners, 21 Dec. 1798, showed that he might have been a more dangerous opponent in debate than his notions of decorum normally allowed him. His initial doubts about the wisdom of union with Ireland were overcome by Pitt, and by 10 Feb. 1799 he was reconciled to it, but found no opportunity to speak on it. He was of the committee for consultation with the Lords on the Union. Pitt had consulted him on his income tax bill, but he proposed several amendments to it, only one of which was accepted. He was a critic of trades unions, \u2018a general disease in our society\u2019, and favoured a Combination Act against them, 9 Apr. 1799. Ever a keen Sabbatarian, he seconded and acted as teller for Belgrave\u2019s bill to gag Sunday newspapers, 27, 30 May 1799.11\nA bout of ill health induced Wilberforce to adopt a \u2018plan of quiet\u2019 near Bath in the autumn of 1799 and it was Lord Grenville\u2019s summary rejection of Buonaparte\u2019s peace overture at the end of the year that brought him back to public life with a jolt. Pitt won him over and on 7 Feb. 1800, he opposed the Whigs\u2019 pacific amendment to the address; on 17 Feb., he denied that the restoration of the Bourbons was the aim of the war and alleged that the time was not ripe for peace, \u2018so as to wear the face of being more warlike than I really was\u2019, he added privately. He also defended the suspension of habeas corpus, 13 Feb. He was subsequently active in combating famine and was an advocate of potato growing, 19 Feb., 24 and 26 Mar., though Pitt did not take up his ideas on emergency relief for the poor, nor heed his protest against a bill to restrict preaching licences, which in fact never materialized. On 25 Apr. he supported and voted with the minority of 34 for Grey\u2019s motion to reduce the proposed number of Irish Members at Westminster, and on 1 May he opposed the Union regulations for the woollen trade on behalf of his constituents; his amendment on the subject was lost by 133 votes to 58, but on 5 May he supported Tierney\u2019s motion to discourage the export of raw wool to Ireland. He was an opponent of bull baiting and a supporter and teller for the adultery bill, 26 May. On 9 July he led the defence of government against Western\u2019s censure motion.12 At the opening of the session of 1800-1, he was a spokesman for measures to deal with popular distress, which was marked in the West Riding of his constituency: on 11 Nov. he justified corn bounties and on 26 Nov. called for government economy, after being a member of the committee on the high price of provisions. In this debate he clashed with Burdett and Tierney and narrowly escaped having his words taken down. He was sympathetic to all proposals for poor relief that did not condone idleness and was a generous contributor out of his own pocket.\nWilberforce admired Pitt\u2019s magnanimous conduct in supporting Addington\u2019s administration from February 1801 and followed Pitt\u2019s line. He eschewed the temptation of honours or office, seeking only \u2018an increased power of usefulness\u2019. He was placed on the committee on Irish disaffection; but was in the minority on an Irish question, 19 Mar. 1801. Though he admitted that Addington, an admirable Speaker, seemed ill qualified for his new office and that it was too early to hope for peace, 3 Feb. 1801, he hoped that Addington would make peace and rely on naval defence to maintain it. On 4 Nov. he gave a cordial support to the peace preliminaries, disliking only the retention of Trinidad, in case it gave a new lease of life to the slave trade. He was disappointed in his hope of winning over Addington to this cause and allowed the initiative in the matter to pass to Canning, who wished to make it a pretext for separating Pitt and Addington, but was frustrated by Addington\u2019s reassuring noises. By reference to these, Pitt appeased Wilberforce, who had defended Pitt\u2019s services to the nation on Belgrave\u2019s motion of 7 May and put in a brief appearance at Pitt\u2019s birthday dinner on 28 May. He consoled himself by supporting Sir Robert Peel\u2019s factory apprentices bill, which he wished to see enlarged.13\nAt the dissolution of 1802 it was rumoured that Wilberforce might give up Yorkshire. Privately he had thought of doing so the preceding session under the heavy pressure of constituency business and from a wish to give more time to humanitarian schemes. Besides, his cousin Lord Carrington had offered him a safe borough seat. But his anxiety about a contest for the county proving chimerical, he was content to resume his seat and more than content with his blessings:\nAffluence, without the highest rank. A good understanding and a happy temper. Kind friends, and a greater number than almost any one. Domestic happiness beyond what could have been conceived possible. A situation in life most honourable; and above all, a most favourable situation for eternity.14\nIn a speech in support of the address that delighted Addington\u2019s government, as well as Fox, 26 Nov. 1802, Wilberforce reiterated the dislike he had expressed on the hustings (12 July) of continental alliances, explaining that he meant at present, not for all time. He deplored speculative schemes of action that were unhinged by events beyond human foresight and reviewed the failure of allied policies to date. The blessings of peace were approved by the middle class, \u2018generally speaking ... the best informed\u2019, and government should regard this as the index of public opinion: \u2018In one word, our policy was to be watchful and cautious, with regard to others; and, with respect to ourselves, industrious in the improvement of our resources\u2019. On 8 Dec., after being misreported, he clarified his views on continental engagements, denying that he was in favour of blind isolation and explaining that he thought national solidarity in defence more important than military adventures. (Canning thought he \u2018half-recanted his errors\u2019.) Wilberforce expanded this last point in his speech of 16 Mar. 1803, in reply to Windham, in defence of the development of the militia as opposed to a standing army: he regarded the militia as more constitutional, more in touch with public opinion. On 7 Apr., however, irked by the minister\u2019s \u2018want of energy\u2019 and indifference to his tales of corruption in government departments, as well as by the hiring of British mercantile transports in the expedition to suppress the negroes of St. Domingo, he clashed with Addington, characteristically in opposition to relief for the West India planters. Then, on 24 May, despite a conciliatory speech the day before, he splenetically attacked the minister and voted against him, for being prepared to resume hostilities with France over the retention of Malta. The speech was published. A delighted Whig observer, Thomas Creevey, wrote:\nbut the galling feature of the night, to the ministers and to Pitt particularly, was the speech that followed [Pitt\u2019s] from Wilberforce; it was an inimitable speech for peace and on grounds the most calculated for popular approbation ... It is said the House of Commons never behaved so ill as in their reception of this speech, they tried over and over again to cough him down but without effect.\nOn 25 May he suggested that peace might be preserved by Russian mediation. On 3 June he rallied to Pitt in support of the orders of the day to obstruct Patten\u2019s censure motion, against which he also voted. He was tetchy about the abuse of the Russian offer of mediation as a party political manoeuvre, 8 July, and on 4 Aug. criticized the government for reducing the scope of the general muster for their defence plans: he had no liking for reliance on a regular army, 10 Aug. \u2018Worse than useless\u2019 as a soldier himself, he had in fact been won over to Pitt\u2019s defence scheme and had also divided with Pitt, 13 July, on an amendment to the budget. He no longer criticized the resumption of war \u2018between the two most enlightened nations on earth\u2019, much as he lamented it, from fear of making mischief; but he drew the line at Sunday drilling, which he must needs prevent.15\nWilberforce rallied to the defence of the Irish martial law bill, 5 Dec. 1803, as a necessary evil, though he wished to conciliate Ireland, and endeavoured to regulate courts martial, 7 Dec. His wish to reconcile Pitt with Addington was disappointed, and Pitt\u2019s magnetism proved greater. On 7 Mar. 1804 he was in the minority in support of Wrottesley\u2019s censure of the Irish government and on 15 Mar. he supported, by speech and vote, Pitt\u2019s motion for a naval defence inquiry, which he had long thought necessary. He went on to vote for Fox\u2019s and Pitt\u2019s defence motions of 23 and 25 Apr. that brought down Addington, lamenting the sacrifice of the minister to partisan conspiracy, but reassured by Pitt\u2019s failure to form a new ministry on a comprehensive basis. When the Foxites and Grenvillites were excluded, he wrote, 10 May, \u2018I am not sure that this arrangement is not the very best possible\u2019. He was gratified by Pitt\u2019s assistance for his abolition bill that session; and made a fulsome bid for Lord Melville\u2019s in the other House. He welcomed the political reconciliation between Pitt and Addington in December and attended the House at Pitt\u2019s request on the resumption in January 1805; but the defeat of his abolition bill on 28 Feb. soured him, and the part he took against Melville in April caused the prime minister considerable pain. He had strongly supported the commission of naval inquiry from the start and could not condone irregularities for reasons of honour or party, when morality was at stake: he urged Pitt to abandon Melville, whom he had long regarded as Pitt\u2019s \u00e2me damn\u00e9e. His forceful speech in support of Whitbread\u2019s censure motion on 8 Apr. helped to dish Melville: he was said to be able to influence 40 votes. Robert Ward thought him \u2018by far the best speaker in my mind during the debate, better even than Fox\u2019. The crux of his argument was, \u2018Here is my Lord Melville publicly declaring on his oath, that he has tolerated his dependant in a gross breach of an Act of Parliament, for the purposes of private emolument\u2019: such conduct opened the door to every species of corruption. He rejoiced that government had not support enough to shield Melville. He did not concur, however, in a vendetta against him and, once Melville resigned, disagreed with Whitbread\u2019s proposal to dishonour the man, 10 Apr. On 29 Apr. he supported Bankes\u2019s unsuccessful motion for Melville\u2019s prosecution by the attorney-general and on 2 May tried to mitigate Sheridan\u2019s enthusiastic motion of thanks to the naval commissioners. Pitt\u2019s appointment of his friend Lord Barham to succeed Melville at the Admiralty had his warm approval; some members of government regarded it as yet another instance of his sway over the minister, while Creevey laughed at \u2018a superannuated Methodist at the head of the Admiralty; in order to catch the votes of Wilberforce and co. now and then\u2019. On 10 May he concurred in the investigation of St. Vincent\u2019s naval administration, supplying a eulogy of the new first lord. When Melville\u2019s impeachment was debated on 11 June, Wilberforce, who secured an adjournment at 2.30 a.m., felt obliged to declare in favour of the original motion, though he would have preferred Bond\u2019s amendment in favour of criminal prosecution, if acceptable; when it proved acceptable, he voted for it with the majority. He exonerated Pitt from all blame in his dealings with Boyd and Benfield the loan contractors, 14 June. In June and July he was a leading opponent of the Duke of Atholl\u2019s claims for compensation in the Isle of Man. He had voted against Irish Catholic claims, 14 May. In July the Treasury listed him \u2018doubtful Pitt\u2019.16\nPitt placated Wilberforce in the autumn of 1805 by granting the order in council to impede the colonial slave trade, and Wilberforce insisted that it was Austerlitz and not the Melville affair that shattered Pitt\u2019s will to live. On 27 Jan. 1806 he was a prominent eulogist of Pitt in the House. He was anxious that Pitt\u2019s friends, not the nation, should pay the minister\u2019s debts, lest it \u2018affect his character in the feeling of the middle classes of the community\u2019, as well as to prevent Pitt\u2019s creditors, of whom he was one, from claiming their due. When he was frustrated, he came away from the debate of 3 Feb. at which it was decided that the public should foot the bill. He was a banner bearer at Pitt\u2019s funeral on 22 Feb: no public man ever again held the same sway over him.17\nWilberforce disclaimed formal opposition to Lord Grenville\u2019s administration; nor would he come to any terms with them to facilitate his abolition campaign, though he supported Lord Henry Petty\u2019s candidature at Cambridge University, as Petty was a friend to the cause. He opposed Ellenborough\u2019s having a seat in the cabinet, 3 Mar. 1806, owing to its constitutional impropriety and without reference to personalities or politics, as he was careful to explain. He likewise voted with the minority, 21 Apr., for an investigation of Lord Wellesley\u2019s conduct in India, which he was sure could do no harm to his friend\u2019s reputation. The willingness of the new government to promote abolition of the slave trade so far placated him, however, as to support their repeal of Pitt\u2019s Additional Force Act, which he thought Pitt himself would have given up. Little as he liked Windham\u2019s military plan, with its emphasis on a regular army at the expense of volunteers, on 6 June he professed himself converted to it by professional opinion and took a stand only against Sunday drilling, 27 June. He proposed several amendments to the property duty bill in May and helped to defeat the iron duty and the tax on private brewing. He was also active on the committee for the inquiry into the woollen trade set up on 14 Mar. 1806 after a petition presented by him. He had a large hand in its report, which gave general satisfaction, except to the West Riding master craftsmen.18\nAt the dissolution of 1806 it was Wilberforce\u2019s colleague Lascelles and not he who bore the brunt of discontent in Yorkshire. As usual, he refused any coalition and was sure he could have headed the poll, had not Lascelles withdrawn in favour of himself and Fawkes, who both had the ministry\u2019s blessing. In his election address he had made a manifesto of his strict independence, which had tempered his allegiance even to Pitt; but Lord Grenville commended his uniform support of the preesent government. On 15 Dec. he seconded Abbot\u2019s re-election as Speaker; for the remainder of the session his preoccupation was the carrying of the slave trade abolition bill. His pamphlet on the subject, completed in January 1807 was published as A letter on the abolition of the slave trade: addressed to the ... inhabitants of Yorkshire. He received an ovation from the House in response to Romilly\u2019s tribute when the bill passed its second reading, 23 Feb.; its passage, which he attributed to \u2018the intermediate interposition of Providence\u2019, caused him to relent in his opposition to relief for the West India planters and to object to the immediate emancipation of the slaves, 17 Mar.19\nDespite Wilberforce\u2019s opposition to the Maynooth grant, 4 Mar. 1807, the Grenville ministry hoped that he and his friends, now commonly known as \u2018the Saints\u2019, would stand by them when they encountered the royal veto against Catholic relief. They thought they had his assurance of support on 19 Mar. They might have been discouraged by his eulogy of his fellow-abolitionist Perceval when the latter took the Exchequer in the Portland administration, 25 Mar. (though he opposed Perceval\u2019s having the duchy of Lancaster for life), but they tried to temper their conduct by waiving pressure for a short adjournment during the formation of the new government, so as to please Wilberforce and his friends. In this they were disappointed: he was of opinion that \u2018they had run upon a rock which was above water\u2019. He was absent through illness on 9 Apr. when opposition divided the House in self-justification, but he would have supported the new ministry if present and intended to give them a fair trial. He alleged, in his next contribution to debate, 20 Apr., that the Irish masses did not care a jot for Catholic emancipation.20\nThe dissolution of 1807 gave Wilberforce his only uneasy election contest, as he strove to maintain a precarious independence between candidates friendly to the new and outgoing ministries, Lascelles and Lord Milton. A safer seat, such as his old one for Hull or Cambridge University, was suggested for him, but he soldiered on, outmatching the well organized Whig grandee with the goodwill of volunteers, who met his moderate expenses by subscription. Lady Bessborough commented: \u2018an honour to the man, and a proper homage to virtue and religion, is Wilberforce, without a sixpence, being at the head of the poll from mere weight of character in such an election as this when money is supposed to do all\u2019. He was teased by the Whigs who, to sway the dissenting clothiers\u2019 vote, insisted that Lascelles (an anti-abolitionist friend of government) and he were in collusion and towards the end of the poll put him so much out of countenance that he took sick leave from the hustings. The Whigs thought it was a political illness, the inevitable consequence of his hypocrisy, and that his popularity was now at an end. But on a platform of \u2018measures, not men\u2019, he mustered 11,806 votes and, recovering his aplomb, directed a self-justificatory \u2018letter\u2019 to his constituents \u2018occasioned by the late election for that county\u2019 to answer Whig charges.21\nWilberforce was not yet secure in his seat. Government, chagrined by Lascelles\u2019s defeat, proposed to unseat Lord Milton under the Treating Act, and Milton, in revenge, threatened to unseat Wilberforce on the same ground. The ministry owed nothing to Wilberforce, but he proceeded to put them in his debt by his support in debate and a compromise ensued whereby government waived the petition against Milton, who in turn dropped his against Wilberforce.22 On 6 July 1807 he had opposed Whitbread\u2019s censure motion, recommending in the course of his speech to \u2018the well-wishers of Ireland, the introduction of some general system of education and morality, which ... would do more towards composing that country, than any political measures that could be devised\u2019. Next day he took the government line against Cochrane\u2019s motion critical of places and pensions, disliking a general onslaught on them: he preferred the more moderate proposals of his friend Bankes. He had taken the same line on 10 Feb. 1807 when sinecures were attacked. As a philanthropist, he championed the subsidization of the Sierra Leone Company; the African Institution; popular education, if not compulsory; vaccine inoculation; and the commutation of the tithes in Ireland.\nWilberforce was seriously ill in December 1807. On his return to Parliament he opposed the orders in council, lest they excite anglophobia in France, 24 Feb. 1808, but deprecated Whitbread\u2019s bid for peace by mediation, 29 Feb., thinking it could not yet be securely obtained. His party of \u2018Saints\u2019 joined him in voting against it. He had come to regard Buonaparte as a divine instrument, to be discarded in due course. He appeared in the minority on military enlistment, 14 Mar. 1808, but he refused to see any moral lapse by government in the seizure of the Danish fleet, provided it was eventually restored, though he disliked the bombardment of Copenhagen, 29 Mar. He supported Bankes\u2019s offices in reversion bill, 7 Apr., because it tended to reform genuine abuses, and urged a compromise with the Lords to secure it. He criticized the local militia bill as inadequate, 2 May, wishing to see the nation in arms. He preferred the smaller grant to Maynooth College, 5 May, went away on Duigenan\u2019s appointment to the Privy Council, and opposed the reception of the Catholic petition, 25 May; he was not respectfully heard and the gibe of Methodism was raised against him by opposition, to whom he was by now obnoxious. In fact, he was a steady champion of the interests of the established Church. Ironically he had only recently given up his villa at Broomfield, in the domain of the Clapham sect, for Kensington Gore, where he enjoyed \u2018domestic publicity\u2019; and he had given up his house in Palace Yard, Westminster, for lodgings on the Terrace, a step further away from the House.23\nRegarding himself as at once a foe and a victim of the party system in the House, Wilberforce was eager to expose its inconveniences: the battle over membership of the finance committee, 24 Jan. 1809, enabled him to lecture the House on the subject, to no effect. When he was renamed for the committee on the East India Company, of which he was a stockholder, he declined, 23 Feb., though he was again nominated to it in 1810, 1811 and 1812. \u2018Kept up to effervescence by letters from Yorkshire\u2019, he was a prominent critic of the Duke of York\u2019s conduct as commander-in-chief of the army, though he would have preferred inquiry by select committee to avoid public scandal, and on 15 Mar. declared that he could not exonerate the duke from some knowledge of irregularities in patronage and therefore favoured the address of censure to the King concocted by Bankes, Henry Thornton and himself rather than Perceval\u2019s resolution on the subject. He wished the duke\u2019s \u2018moral crime\u2019 to be condemned, as well as his \u2018political offence\u2019, which did not endear him to the royal family. On 25 Apr. he exonerated Castlereagh from the charge of corruption as \u2018it rested in intention, and never was an act\u2019, but felt obliged to support Madocks\u2019s motion of 11 May bringing charges against Perceval and Castlereagh as his moral duty, however painful. On 26 May and 9 June he spoke in favour of Curwen\u2019s electoral reform bill, commending \u2018moderate and temperate reform\u2019. A subject on which he changed his mind, however, was the strengthening of the regular army; he henceforward accepted Windham\u2019s ideas, no longer fearing that a standing army raised to fight another would prejudice \u2018the most free and happy country in the universe\u2019. He had been an admirer of the Spanish resistance to Buonaparte, from which he had conceived great hopes for the cause of slave trade abolition, and approved the Peninsular war, if proceeded upon with more caution. One subject on which he never changed his mind, as he indicated in a speech on the budget, 12 May 1809 and ever afterwards, was the iniquity of the public lottery, a source of revenue which demoralized the poorer classes. At this time he was reported to be speaking \u2018frequently and very well; with as much fluency and effect as formerly\u2019.24\nAn unmerited gibe of Canning\u2019s on 9 June 1809 to the effect that his stance as an independent Member did not prevent him from applying to ministers for places such as the receiver-generalship of Yorkshire, offended Wilberforce, who had counted on Canning\u2019s support for his endeavours to combat the slave trade in South America. As it was Perceval who placated him, it was the less surprising that Wilberforce rallied to Perceval, whose \u2018eminence was not of his own seeking\u2019, when the latter formed a government after the collapse of Portland\u2019s. Wilberforce resented the duel between Canning and Castlereagh which had caused it and disliked the idea of a coalition with the Whigs, though he was favourable to a junction with Lord Grenville. Late in 1809 he was anxious to find common ground with Lord Sidmouth, with a view to \u2018a general union of parties\u2019 who conceded that Perceval\u2019s government was entitled to a fair measure of support, as a basis for a stronger administration. Sidmouth was able to report substantial agreement, but was warned that \u2018there is more of party feeling respecting [Wilberforce] than there is ... with regard to any other man who has never been in office\u2019.25\nWilberforce had misgivings about the Scheldt expedition from the start and on 26 Jan. 1810 he spoke and voted with \u2018the whole calendar of Saints\u2019 in favour of inquiry into its failure; he was of the secret committee, though Perceval would have preferred a nominee of his own. On 29 Jan. he complained that his name appeared on neither side in the newspaper division lists after he had voted for the address on the first night of the session: he provoked laughter when he remarked that \u2018as he belonged to no party nobody took care of him but he did not wish his constituents to think he was absent\u2019. On 15 Feb. he favoured an investigation of naval abuses, speaking as a friend of Barham, whose record he subsequently defended. Next day he spoke in commendation of the reward offered to Wellington for his Peninsular services. He voted against government on Lord Chatham\u2019s self-exculpatory memorandum, 23 Feb. and 5 Mar., but helped thwart Whitbread\u2019s motion for a representation to the King and on 30 Mar. rallied to government when he found the opposition censure on the Scheldt expedition too strong; though he still thought its planning dubious, and favoured Canning\u2019s amendment in his disapproval of Perceval\u2019s management of the question. He advised against haste on the question of Burdett\u2019s breach of privilege, 28 Mar., and on 5 Apr. said he would have preferred \u2018a cooler moment\u2019 to adjudicate, but while acknowledging the breach, voted for a reprimand and against committal to the Tower. He was one of the committee of privilege in question and the decision to detain Burdett pained him. On 16 Apr. he and his friends voted for the discharge of the radical Gale Jones: Canning commented: \u2018our hypocritical candour took in Wilberforce to vote with us\u2019 (i.e. against government). On the other hand he objected, in a speech that gave him some satisfaction, to the Middlesex petition for the release of Burdett, 3 May, and, after sleeping on it, in a speech found \u2018useful\u2019 by ministry, to the London petition, 9 May: their abuse of the constitution was his warrant.26\nWilberforce spoke and voted with the minority in favour of Irish tithe commutation on 13 Apr. 1810. On 1 May he was able to express his support of Romilly\u2019s campaign to reduce capital punishment; illness had prevented him on 9 Feb., though he had previously done so on 18 May 1808, pointing out that the plan had been intended by Pitt. He subsequently remained staunch. On 9 May and 5 June 1810, he was a spokesman in favour of penitentiaries: he deplored the existing prisons and convict colonies alike and thought solitary confinement \u2018a medicine to the mind\u2019. On 14 May he was in the minority on the Duke of Brunswick\u2019s annuity bill, and on 17 and 31 May he supported his friend Bankes\u2019s proposal to abolish sinecure offices, which he stated to be a public duty. While he had discouraged a Yorkshire meeting in favour of parliamentary reform that month, he voted silently in favour of Brand\u2019s motion for it on 21 May; and on 20 June, though unwell, presented a Sheffield petition favouring moderate reform and stressing the need for economical reform. He felt a \u2018calmer season\u2019 was needed for parliamentary reform. This he thought a \u2018useful parting admonition\u2019 to the House and he felt tempted to address a letter to his constituents on the question, from the standpoint of \u2018one of the most moderate of all reformers\u2019. It is not surprising that the Whigs were \u2018doubtful\u2019 of him in their analysis of the House earlier that session. Yet in February, Robert Ward, a ministerialist admirer of Perceval, had noted:\nWilberforce with all his conscience would beat [Perceval] as a manager of the House by the simple want of what Perceval possesses so much of, ingenuousness ... I fear Bankes and Wilberforce infinitely more than Burdett, or even Cobbett. I firmly believe they wish (I am sure they attempt) to convert the House into the executive of the state.27\nWilberforce supported the ministerial tactic of adjournment on the King\u2019s illness, 15 and 29 Nov. 1810, and was of the committee to examine the royal physicians: on 21 Dec. he favoured Pitt\u2019s Regency plan of 1788. On 31 Dec. he was still backing ministers, but next day, while rebuking Romilly with \u2018many candid compliments\u2019 for an attack on Pitt\u2019s reputation, he supported the opposition majority for Lord Gower\u2019s amendment thwarting the Queen\u2019s control over the royal household. Perceval had tried to prevent this and almost succeeded, but Canning swayed Wilberforce; nor did Wilberforce support Perceval\u2019s remodelling of the proposal next day. He regretted it: \u2018I really fear it may hurt our good old King. Yet I acted from a sense of duty.\u2019 On 23 Jan. 1811, on the third reading of the Regency bill, when challenged by Daniel Giles* about his voting for this amendment but supporting the rest of the bill, he justified himself by reference to what the King\u2019s feelings must be. Opposition seemed to think that Wilberforce\u2019s influence would cause Perceval to restrict the Regency to six months instead of 12, but Perceval was not swayed by Wilberforce\u2019s advice, as the latter\u2019s critical speech of 17 Jan. demonstrated.28\nWilberforce continued to promote the cause of the slaves, but he allowed the initiative to pass to younger men: on 5 Mar. 1811 he boosted Brougham\u2019s motion for a bill to render the abolition of the slave trade more effective. He did not oppose Joseph Foster Barham\u2019s proposal to supply the West Indies with imported free labour, 4 Apr. He continued to gloss over the difficulties of the Sierra Leone Company: if it was a failure, it compensated Africa for past iniquity. He also defended missionary activity among the slaves in the West Indies by Methodists and others, and that summer he pleaded with Sidmouth against his proposed bill to restrict the licensing of dissenting ministers, which was a blow to the Methodists.29\nWilberforce at first had reservations about the scope of the bullion committee, but on 9 May 1811 he concurred in his friend Thornton\u2019s critique of the Bank directorate and on 15 May urged a more efficient management of commercial credit. On the gold coin and bank-note bill, 19 July 1812, he contrived to be for and against and neither, but concluded by supporting the bill \u2018as far as it went\u2019: in a digression he expressed his fear of war with the USA which, as children of the same family, the two countries should avert. He had voted with the minority for Williams Wynn\u2019s election bribery bill, 25 Mar. 1811, in which month he was approached unavailingly by the Friends of Constitutional Reform; against the reinstatement of the Duke of York as commander-in-chief of the army, 6 June, and in favour of Irish tithe commutation, 11 June. On 1 Apr. he credited himself with carrying \u2018many votes\u2019 on the Wakefield railway bill, a hotly contested private bill. Another aspect of his conscientiousness arose that session in the debate of 25 Feb. on Whitbread\u2019s charges against Lords Eldon and Sidmouth of exploiting politically the King\u2019s illness of 1804. Wilberforce missed much of the debate and came away without voting. He afterwards thought he would have voted against Whitbread and commented, \u2018I know how unpopular this is in the House; but it was the path of duty and conscience, for it was in truth as if I had not been present. But very middling in health just now.\u201930\nSuch anxiety about his health and evidence of failing memory, as well as his concern for the welfare of his growing family, the lambs of the evangelical fold, caused Wilberforce to broach among his intimate friends in August 1811 the notion of giving up Yorkshire in favour of a quiet borough seat. He prided himself on having been an assiduous and conscientious Member, \u2018so generally put on the public committees\u2019, and on having given up everything for the sake of his parliamentary duties, without advantage to himself or family. It might be a blow to his vanity to be \u2018out of the dramatis personae\u2019, and he thought he had so far recovered his prestige in Yorkshire to come in unopposed, but he opted for a compromise in not retiring altogether. Of his advisers, Thomas Babington and James Stephen recommended his giving up Yorkshire, the former urging retirement and the latter a borough seat, while Henry Thornton and Charles Grant advised against his giving up the county and the Speaker the same, with a caveat against complete retirement. Wilberforce\u2019s fears for the cause of religion \u2018at home and abroad\u2019 were enough to reconcile him to the notion of coming in for Bramber on the interest of his wife\u2019s relation Lord Calthorpe: the idea of coming in for Calthorpe\u2019s other, less reputable, borough of Hindon would not have appealed to him.31\nWilberforce was absent ill on the resumption of Parliament in January 1812, but on 13 Feb. spoke for 20 minutes against Whitbread\u2019s motion for papers on negotiations with the USA, the discussion of which could only prejudice a perilous state of affairs: a more conciliatory attitude towards the USA would be needed to avert war. \u2018All our set voted with me\u2019, he noted, though his \u2018healing and balsamic expressions\u2019 were misreported. On 27 Feb. he voted, as did all his friends and the other splinter groups, against Turton\u2019s censure motion. On 3 Mar., unlike other \u2018neutrals\u2019 and despite Perceval\u2019s bid to catch his vote, he supported Brougham, with whom he had been collaborating on the project of a slave registry bill, in his critical motion against the orders in council; he had always had reservations about them, despite his brother-in-law James Stephen\u2019s obdurate championship of them, and as long ago as 26 Jan. 1810 had criticized the licensed export trade. Perceval claimed to be influenced by Wilberforce in conceding a committee of inquiry on 28 Apr. Having on 24 Feb. spoken and voted against Col. McMahon\u2019s sinecure appointment, he did not join opposition in attempting to veto McMahon\u2019s appointment as private secretary to the Regent on 14 Apr., though he wished his salary to be paid out of the privy purse: he admitted \u2018he had often been joked about his doubts as to his vote\u2019. He was, moreover, \u2018vilely abused\u2019 in the press for his unwillingness to come out against flogging in the army, 13 Mar. and 15 Apr. On 4 May he was in the majority against government on Bankes\u2019s sinecure offices bill, which as a member of the committee on sinecures since January 1811 he had helped to prepare. He elected to remain silent on parliamentary reform that week, though still a moderate supporter of it.\nOn Perceval\u2019s assassination, Wilberforce paid public tribute to his uprightness and advocated a frank, warm, unanimous but smaller compensation than that proposed for his family, with a monument at Westminster for good measure. He obtained unanimity, but had to acquiesce in the larger grant. As a champion of \u2018the old-fashioned principles of the constitution\u2019, he spoke and voted, evidently to the surprise of opposition, against Stuart Wortley\u2019s motion for a stronger administration, which infringed the royal prerogative of choosing ministers, 21 May 1812. He had declined an interview with Lord Liverpool that day. He would have liked to see Speaker Abbot become premier; as it was, he despised the opposition leaders\u2019 refusal to come to terms with the precarious ministry and only the memory of past and the hope of future services to the abolition cause prevented him from saying so publicly, 11 June. Nor did he think Liverpool started well in failing to procure Canning, who was in Wilberforce\u2019s confidence, for his administration, though he did not wish to see Canning replace Vansittart as chancellor of the Exchequer. In the debate on Brougham\u2019s motion for the repeal of the orders in council, 16 June, he urged government to repeal unconditionally, without waiting for American concessions: \u2018we ought not to steer a middle course\u2019. He was a well-wisher to Brougham\u2019s peace bid: \u2018so unpartylike or rather con-partylike a step would of itself be a strong recommendation to me\u2019. He was in the minority on the Admiralty registrars bill, 19 June, the Irish tithe commutation, 23 June, and against the leather tax, 1 July. He was of the secret committee to examine the industrial unrest in the Midlands and failed to secure some clauses he proposed to insert to deal with the trouble immediately and mildly; but defended the preservation of the peace bill against Whitbread on 10 and 13 July, as a remedy against the spread of a disease \u2018of a political nature\u2019. At the same time he patronized an Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor.32\nWarned by Sidmouth of the ensuing dissolution and by Henry Thornton that Lascelles meant to stand for Yorkshire, Wilberforce, though professing no fear of a contest against a ministerial opponent, penned his farewell address on 21 Sept., with a view to coming in for Bramber. Hearing a rumour that Lascelles did not mean to offer, he was prey to \u2018a secret wish that I may be forced still to be Member in order to keep the peace of the county\u2019. His advertisement was construed as a wish to avoid a contest and he had to issue another to make his decision final. He was hailed \u2018Friend of Man\u2019 by constituents whose acquiescence in his unconventional behaviour as knight of the shire never ceased to amaze him. Avoiding temptations to offer himself for constituencies as various as Westminster, Warwickshire, Lewes and Dover, he came in for Calthorpe\u2019s close borough for the remainder of his parliamentary career, which he expected to be in a quieter key. He admitted to Brougham, who had offered to muster Whig support for him if he stood for Yorkshire, that he disliked sacrificing the independence of the county to a \u2018noble coalition\u2019 (i.e. Lords Fitzwilliam and Harewood), but he could not presume to offer on condition of less constant attendance. Commenting on his independence in a quaint and courteous letter to Lord Milton, 21 Nov. 1812, he wrote, \u2018I do not so entirely foreswear all party connection as you may perhaps suppose from my general and unqualified language\u2019, but went on to explain that, regarding national morals as more precious than party, he could not but observe that systematic opposition bred its own species of corruption. It cannot be said that he was markedly less prominent in Parliament after retiring from the representation of his county; free of some of his taxing duties, he was, if anything, more diffuse in debate, particularly in defence of humanitarian causes; and he was heard out with respect. He lamented the decay of oratory, but welcomed the general improvement in moral tone, in and out of Parliament, since he had first entered it.33\nWilberforce supported the address and deprecated Whitbread\u2019s pressure for peace negotiations as premature, 1 Dec. 1812: he complained that he was reported as being \u2018far more warlike\u2019 than he in fact was. He supported Catholic relief, with particular reference to admission to Parliament, throughout March-May 1813, with a view to the pacification of Ireland. It was, he said on 9 Mar., \u2018a sort of golden opportunity which might never return if they now lost it\u2019. Canning introduced clauses in the bill \u2018merely to please Wilberforce\u2019. On 22 Mar. 1813, and at greater length on 22 June, by which time he had government favour, he introduced another cause which he had been obliged to put by in 1793 in favour of slave trade abolition: the conversion of India to Christianity. He had made known his views on this before, notably to Perceval, but the renewal of the East India Company charter now presented an occasion for a set piece, probably his best preserved speech, exposing the anomalies of the Hindu religion. He had hoped the established Church would have taken the lead in proselytizing, but finding the dissenters more enterprising he supported their missions too. He carried his point by 89 votes to 36. On 1 July 1813 he vindicated the case for the missionaries by 54 votes to 22. He used the same tactics as he had in the slave trade question, but this time found less apparent opposition and government paid heed to him. He was now reckoned a friend by them. At the end of that session he also paved the way for an international agreement on the slave trade, though Portugal alone was the object of his solicitous address, 14 July 1813. \u2018The present ministry\u2019, he informed Hannah More, 9 Apr. 1814, \u2018has clearly been more favourable than most others to true religion.\u2019 That year he did not draw attention to himself in Parliament until 2 May, when he moved for an international convention to promote slave trade abolition in such pious terms as had not been used in a Commons address in living memory; with official support, he carried it nem. con. He returned the compliment by supporting government on the blockade of Norway, 12 May, and when Castlereagh brought in the Treaty of Paris on 6 June, assured him that it was only the failure to secure an international agreement against the slave trade that prevented him from joining in the ovation it received. He addressed letters to the Emperor of Russia and to Talleyrand to the same effect. Castlereagh soothed Wilberforce, particularly when on 27 June, after a flood of 800 petitions, he concurred in Wilberforce\u2019s long address calling for a European convention and protesting at the moratorium of five years conceded to France by the treaty. On 29 June Wilberforce ratified the peace treaty with the proviso of a unanimously carried amendment calling for the speedy abolition of the international slave traffic. His only other comments on the treaty were pleas against aggressive alliances in future and for the restoration of Polish independence. He found himself an international celebrity, courted by visiting royalty and voted by Madame de Sta\u00c3\u00abl \u2018the wittiest man in England\u2019. Ironically, although the allies formally declared in favour of abolition on 8 Feb. 1815, it was the restored Buonaparte who quashed the slave trade in France.34\nWilberforce opposed revision of the Corn Laws until 10 Mar. 1815, but thenceforward accepted the measure, obtaining military protection for his house against the mob. He thought the price fixed a little high, but not too high to pay for the likelihood (though he could not get an assurance from government) of support for other causes on the credit of his support for this one. Opposition critics sensed this and found it shabby: the \u2018Saints\u2019 seemed to cling more closely to ministers in proportion to their weakness and inefficiency. But Wilberforce voted with the minority on the Spanish Liberal refugees, 1 Mar., and on Tierney\u2019s civil list motion, 8 May 1815. He admitted that he now neglected \u2018general politics\u2019, but \u2018indecisively\u2019 opposed Whitbread\u2019s motion for an understanding with Buonaparte on 28 Apr. He felt tempted to support it, but his friends warned him off opposition, as the stalemate of Buonaparte\u2019s restoration made it incumbent on Wilberforce to bring in the proposal for a statutory registry of slaves in the British colonies, already imposed in Trinidad by order in council in 1812, as part of the campaign to prevent evasion of abolition, 13 June. Unlike James Stephen, he disliked pressing government, but leave was given and the bill brought in on 5 July and then postponed; the defeat of Buonaparte again gave priority to an international convention for abolition. He applauded the Duke of Wellington, who had been a promoter of abolition at Paris the previous year, 29 June, and made amends to Whitbread in an obituary tribute, 11 July. On 29 June and 3 July he opposed, or as he put it, withheld support from the Duke of Cumberland\u2019s establishment bill, because the Queen\u2019s disapproval of her son\u2019s choice of a wife was common knowledge. He had opposed Lord Rosebery\u2019s divorce bill on 19 June \u2018religionis causa\u2019.35\nIn March 1816 Wilberforce called and voted for a reduction of the army estimates, regarding the navy as the defence bulwark and reverting to his old dislike of a standing army, the expense of which was now a burden. He was the last speaker in the debate on the renewal of the property tax, which he opposed amid clamour for a division. He voted silently for Catholic relief on 21 May 1816 (and again on 9 May 1817). He continued to put pressure on Castlereagh to promote an international agreement on the slave trade: on 26 Mar. 1816 Castlereagh informed him that Bourbon France conceded abolition. He was thus able to renew agitation for the slave registry bill, though he postponed it, 22 May. On 19 June he reviewed the evidence which made a registry bill desirable, denying accusations of Methodism and fanaticism from his new generation of opponents, one of whom, Joseph Marryat*, had attacked him in a pamphlet. He was in the minority on the Austrian loan, 28 May, and in three others in June, most predictably that on state lotteries which he described as vicious, 13 June, and again opposed on 18 Mar. and 19 May 1817 and 4 May 1819.36\nWilberforce wrote, during the session of 1817, \u2018though my resigning my seat for Yorkshire has given me in some degree the choice of any business, it has not at all lessened it\u2019. On the contrary, he was more in demand than ever as a \u2018chamber counsel\u2019 and unable to take up all the humanitarian causes for which his services were canvassed. Until 1810 he had employed a secretary and in his heyday he allegedly paid \u00a3200 p.a. for postage above his daily franks: now he had to husband his energies. On 7 Feb. 1817 he questioned the practicability of the select committee on public income and expenditure, which would take too long to be useful. He objected, as he had done in the past, to the nomination of placemen to a committee dedicated to retrenchment, a symptom of the growth of the influence of the state rather than of the crown, and jolted ministers by greeting their nominations with calls of \u2018absurd\u2019. On the other hand he had no objection to Lord Camden\u2019s sinecure of tellership of the Exchequer as a reward for public services and praised his sacrifice of it, 12 Feb. The same day he was an outspoken critic of the Game Laws. He voted with ministers on Admiralty salaries, 17 Feb., but against them for a committee on the Bank, 19 Feb. He was one of the secret committee on sedition that month, but was prevented by illness from attending its report; overcoming his scruples about offending opposition friends to the slave cause, he defended the seditious meetings bill on his return, while voting for an adjournment of it, 28 Mar. 1817; and voted \u2018most unwillingly\u2019, but \u2018from a strict sense of duty\u2019, for the habeas corpus suspension bill in June, despite Burdett\u2019s rebuke of his allowing Englishmen to be treated like slaves, which stung him into a well-received retort, 27 June. He countered the opposition motion for the abolition of the third secretaryship of state, 29 Apr., by suggesting that it would be a false economy if the colonies were neglected. On 2 June he supported Charles Williams Wynn for Speaker. At the end of the session, 9 July, he carried a long address in favour of a negotiated international abolition of the slave trade, with particular reference to Spain; this object was obtained that autumn and on 9 Feb. 1818 Wilberforce approved the treaty with Spain in the House.37\nWhile he favoured a ballot for the secret committee renewed on 6 Feb. 1818, Wilberforce opposed the investigation of government employment of spies and informers, though he had scant regard for them, 11 Feb., and denied tales of oppression of state prisoners in some instances of which he had knowledge, 17 Feb. Again opposing the investigation, 5 Mar., and after a mild reply to Tierney\u2019s taunt as to the vacillation of his much courted vote, his view was, \u2018never did I give a clearer vote\u2019. But his vote was thought inexplicable then and was even less clear on 16 Mar. on the navy estimates, when he came into the House as a division was called and, the question being read to him, he was for the Ayes, but took his seat among the Noes. He then stated that he meant to vote No in any case and this was allowed; he thus sided with government against Ridley\u2019s motion. This episode epitomized Wilberforce\u2019s indecision on questions he had not pondered: the only thing he ever rationally repented the morning after was his vote of the night before. His brother-in-law Stephen had pointed out to him in 1811 that his \u2018peculiar\u2019 position in Parliament made it advisable for him to absent himself more often than he did on divisions which necessitated such painful decisions.38\nIn February 1818 Wilberforce supported the Election Laws amendment bill and Sir Robert Peel\u2019s cotton factories bill, having long believed that cotton mills were \u2018destructive of morals\u2019, though on 17 Apr. he proposed an amendment. On 14 Apr. he paid tribute to Romilly\u2019s efforts to reform the penal code. He voted silently (to avoid the imputation of revenge for the duke\u2019s hostility to abolition) with the majority against the additional grant to the Duke of Clarence, 15 Apr., and next day favoured a smaller grant to the Duke of Cambridge, again with the majority. On 22 Apr. he spoke \u2018long but not well\u2019, he thought, in favour of a slave registry bill and for the rest of the session supported Romilly\u2019s motions against the ill treatment of slaves in the West Indies, though \u2018very indifferently\u2019 in his own view.\nWilberforce must have had thoughts of retirement, for before the election of 1818 he noted: \u2018Determined to come in again for Bramber, at least for two years, under some strange circumstances. Thus Providence seems to fashion my ways.\u2019 But he was not noticeably less active in the Parliament of 1818, speaking on a wide range of subjects. He voted silently, after sitting on the select committee, against the Windsor establishment bill, 22 Feb. 1819. He endorsed Mackintosh\u2019s assumption of Romilly\u2019s mantle in the reform of criminal law, 2 Mar. On 18 Mar. he voted for Ridley\u2019s critical motion on the junior lords of the Admiralty and next day likewise with the minority on the royal household bill. He favoured the reform of the Scottish burghs, 1 Apr., and approved the Game Laws amendment bill, 14 May. He unexpectedly sided with government against the repeal of the Irish window tax, 5 May, and voted against Tierney\u2019s censure motion of 18 May. On 8 June he concurred in the official sponsorship of the slave registry bill, which had made such slow progress in his hands and had been referred to the colonial assemblies, but himself moved another address for an international agreement on the slave trade, carried nem. con. on 27 July.\nHe would not be drawn into sympathy with the clamour out of doors following the Peterloo disaster and resisted it, despite his wish not to lose opposition support on slave questions, in his speech in favour of the address, 23 Nov. 1819. He did call for tax relief, however, and had recently opposed a wool tax on behalf of his ex-constituents. Owing to misreporting, he felt obliged to clarify his views on 26 Nov. He supported the seditious meetings prevention bill, 6 Dec., and went on to lament the prevalence of blasphemy and disaffection in the manufacturing districts, 9 Dec. In short, he approved the repressive legislation of that month as a temporary necessity, while hoping for some means to relieve popular distress: not, however, such irreligious plans as Robert Owen\u2019s, 16 Dec. He was reported to fear despotism more than radicalism. \u2018Why then vote for the bills?\u2019, he was asked. \u2018Oh,\u2019 was his reply \u2018... that is another affair.\u2019 John Cam Hobhouse\u2020, reporting this, added that he supposed Wilberforce\u2019s interlocutor \u2018was a fool and therefore Wilberforce talked nonsense to him\u2019. It was remarked of Wilberforce in 1812 that the Whigs were inclined to overrate his goodwill towards them, \u2018to whom he has never been really friendly\u2019. Indeed his name was mentioned in 1819 as a possible government sponsored candidate for Westminster.39\nWilberforce weathered one more Parliament: his \u2018healing and balsamic\u2019 urge reached its climax in his mediatory role in the Commons in the quarrel between George IV and his consort when it became a party question, but he failed to achieve a reconciliation. Party politics, which he so disliked, proved resilient and his weight was far greater in public opinion, particularly among the middle class to whom he had always appealed, than in Parliament, which was readier to watch the ascent of a balloon than listen to his farewell speech; just as 30 years before the opera had been preferred to his abolitionist oratory, melodious though his voice by all accounts was. He had become \u2018the noisiest Member of the House\u2019 and he left it with this complacent reflexion on the strength of God\u2019s spies there: \u2018We never before were so strong in the House of Commons since the early days when Pitt and Fox were our advocates, and we have a support from popular opinion now which we then wanted\u2019. Canning was the obvious successor to his political mantle, but it fell on Brougham and, as far as the slave question alone was concerned, on Thomas Fowell Buxton*. He wished his sons not to be politicians.40\n\u2018The honourable and religious gentleman\u2019, as Wilberforce was dubbed by Burdett (27 June 1817) left the stamp of a unique personality on English public life. Regarding the House of Commons as the only school for public virtue, he thought it must degenerate into a school for scandal unless Members were guided by \u2018moral compulsion\u2019 rather than by partisan zeal; and this detachment could only be acquired by seeing affairs \u2018through a scriptural medium\u2019. He often counted the blessings that enabled him to make his stand: \u2018What a mercy to have been born an Englishman, in the eighteenth century, of decently religious parents, with a fortune, talents, etc.\u2019. Thus endowed with privilege, effortless patriotism, freedom of action, a \u2018high relish of religion\u2019 and the means to promote philanthropy and to shine in Parliament, where \u2018if I had time, and would cultivate my powers, I might speak better than any in the House but two or three\u2019, he regarded his public life as a stewardship; the Providence that unfolded in his career was his guide as he hovered between the division lobbies. There were disadvantages: he was a queer saint. His orthodoxy was suspect: his views on the Trinity were \u2018absurd\u2019 and he was sure there was no real faith without good works. Robert Ward reported a discussion on Wilberforce\u2019s character \u2018in which the majority seemed to think him honest, but extremely unfair, run away with by the attractions of any popular butterfly, and so undecided as to be no authority on any subject\u2019. As Brougham pointed out, he had \u2018an exquisite sense of the ludicrous, the foundation of humour, as well as the perception of remote resemblances, of wit\u2019. But he could assume a \u2018solemnly awful voice\u2019 and Pitt and Perceval found they had more to fear from his admonitory friendship than from their foes. Of his performance on 26 Jan. 1810, it was reported: \u2018Wilberforce as usual gave the finishing stroke to his friends in distress\u2019. A man who admitted that fondness for distinction was his \u2018constitutional vice\u2019 was open, when he \u2018mixed religion too much with his subject\u2019, to the accusation of bringing \u2018too much of self\u2019 to it.41 This peripatetic social sovereign, \u2018hideous but agreeable\u2019, emitting radiance and magnetism, fled the gay world he seemed born to charm from retreat to retreat, putting lakes and seaside resorts on the fashionable map in his wake, and returned to proselytize society like an abb\u00e9 mondain with \u2018a Testament which had not the common dress of one on purpose\u2019 and a recipe for \u2018launching\u2019 conversation in the direction of divinity. In a less polished and sensitive environment this \u2018little spirit running about without a body\u2019 would have been of no account: his manner\nresembled the action of a bird which hops from sprig to sprig, touches, and goes. He talks, reads, is grave, sprightly, playful, absorbed, light and free in such quick succession that unless something of moment fixes his attention, his changes are so rapid that no hold can be had of him.42\nHad he been less volatile, he would scarcely have so impressed the improved and improving society to the sanctification of which he and the pressure group of whom he was the acknowledged leader applied all the resources of propaganda that were to be used by publicists for more secular lobbies thereafter. He died emancipator of the national conscience, 29 July 1833.\n1. Pope of Holland House ed. Lady Seymour, 230; R. I. and S. Wilberforce, Life of Wilberforce (1838), i. 108, 248, 274, 290, 308, 317, 326, 383-4; ii. 25; iii. 286; iv. 69; Teignmouth, Reminiscences, i. 246; Wilberforce Corresp. ed. R. I. and S. Wilberforce, i. 288; ii. 1, 47; PRO 30/70/4/216; M. D. George, Cat. Pol. and Personal Satires, vii. 8637; Wilberforce mss, Wilberforce to Smith, 5 Feb. [1825].\n2. Life, i. 349; iii. 182; R. Furneaux, Wilberforce, chs. 6, 7, pp. 239, 256-9.\n3. For a \u2018Tabular View of the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade\u2019, see Life, ii. preface.\n4. Life, i. 285; ii. 14; Leeds Intelligencer, 17 May; Morning Chron. 13 May 1791; N. Riding RO, Wyvill mss ZFW7/2/74/13, 25-28.\n5. A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country contrasted with real Christianity (London, 1797). It reached its 15th edition in 1824.\n6. Life, i. 300; ii. 10, 58, 62, 67, 70; Wilberforce Corresp. i. 103, 107; Kent AO, Stanhope mss 731/11, Wilberforce to Eliot, 22 Dec. [1794].\n7. Cornwallis Corresp. ii. 282; Geo. III Corresp. ii. 1180, 1198, 1247, 1250; Add. 51799, Fitzpatrick to Holland, 1 Jan. 1795; Wentworth Woodhouse mun. F31/36; Minto, ii. 385n; Farington Diary (Yale ed.), ii. 302; Harewood mss, Canning to Mrs Leigh, 4 Jan. 1795; Camden mss C106/1; C267/1; C269/1.\n8. Life, ii. 110, 147; Harewood mss, Canning to Mrs Leigh, 31 Oct. 1795; Windham Diary, 336; Morning Chron. 12 May 1796.\n9. Life, ii. 185, 186, 202; Morning Chron. 10 May 1797.\n10. Life, ii. 238, 242, 245-50, 267, 281; Morning Chron. 9 Aug., 13, 15, 17 Nov., 21 Dec. 1797.\n11. Leveson Gower, i. 197-8; Life, ii. 326-7.\n12. Life, ii. 332, 353, 356; Windham Diary, 424.\n13. Life, iii. 2, 12, 21, 28; Wellesley Pprs. i. 145-9; Wilberforce Pprs. 31.\n14. Life, iii. 51-56, 61.\n15. Add. 35395, f. 277; Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 126, 145; Creevey mss, Creevey to Currie, 24 May 1803 (cf. Creevey Pprs. ed Maxwell, i. 15); Pellew, Sidmouth, ii. 184; Life, ii. 88, 99, 103, 109, 139; Wilberforce Corresp. i. 258, 262, 265, 274, 277.\n16. Life, iii. 90, 93, 141, 146, 149, 154, 161, 208, 211, 218, 220, 226, 229; SRO GD51/1/435; Lonsdale mss, Ward to Lowther, 9 Apr. 1805; Ward, Letters to \u2018Ivy\u2019, 27; Harewood mss, Canning to his wife, 15 June 1805; Horner Mems. i. 300; Creevey Pprs. i. 36; Add. 35718, f. 91.\n17. Life, iii. 246; Add. 37309, f. 83; Rose Diaries, ii. 208-10, 237-8.\n18. Life, iii. 256-7, 264-7; Wilberforce Corresp. ii. 70; E. A. Smith, \u2018The Yorks. Elections of 1806 and 1807\u2019, Northern Hist. ii. (1967), 68.\n19. Fortescue mss, Wilberforce to Grenville, 1 Nov., Grenville to Carlisle, 28 Aug., Thornton to Grenville, 7 Nov. 1806; Harrowby mss, Ryder to Harrowby, 27 Feb. 1807.\n20. Jnl. of Lady Holland, ii. 224, 228; Colchester, ii. 110; Life, iii. 307; Grey mss, Temple to Howick, Wed. [25 Mar.], 1 Apr., Grenville to same, 26 Mar.; Lonsdale mss, Camden to Lowther, 3 Apr. 1807; Buckingham, Court and Cabinets, iv. 164, 197.\n21. Wentworth Woodhouse mun. F36/33; Life, iii. 317; Leveson Gower, ii. 251; Add. 52178, Brougham to Allen [6 June 1807].\n22. Add. 51917, unsigned memo on Yorks. election (?by Brougham).\n23. Life, iii. 354, 365, 388, 392; Whitbread mss W1/4185; Add. 51549, Lady Holland to Grey, Fri. [27 May 1808]; Horner mss 3, f. 246.\n24. Horner mss 4, f. 44; Farington, v. 188; Add. 37309, f. 287.\n25. Life, iii. 409, 426, 431-2, 437; Add. 38737, f. 321; Wilberforce Corresp. ii. 166, 169; Sidmouth mss, Sidmouth to Addington, 27 Sept., 29 Dec., to Bragge Bathurst, 29 Dec. 1809, De Dunstanville to Sidmouth, 3 Jan., Vansittart to same, 6 Jan. 1810; Pellew, iii. 18.\n26. Jnl. of Holland, ii. 253; Life, iii. 439, 442; NLI, Richmond mss 73/1745; PRO 30/8/368, f. 159; Harewood mss, Canning to his wife, 1, 17 Apr. 1810; Geo. III Corresp. v. 4138, 4156.\n27. Life, iii. 440, 445, 451; Lonsdale mss, Ward to Lonsdale, 3 Feb. 1810.\n28. HMC Fortescue, x. 88; Rose Diaries, ii. 464; Lonsdale mss, Ward to Lonsdale, 1 Jan. 1811; Phipps, Plumer Ward Mems. i. 300, 301, 310; Malmesbury mss, FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 2, 3 Jan. 1811.\n29. Pellew, iii. 59; Life, iii. 508.\n30. Life, iii. 500, 517.\n31. Ibid. 497, 524-33; Wilberforce Corresp. ii. 209; Wilberforce mss diary, 4 Aug., Wilberforce to Butterworth, 1 Oct.; PRO 30/9/16, Wilberforce to Abbot, 22 Aug. 1811.\n32. Life, iv. 6, 8, 17, 23, 28, 34; Phipps, i. 437, 451; Add. 34458, f. 339; Romilly, Mems. iii. 1; HMC Fortescue, x. 261, 264; Leveson Gower, ii. 440; Brougham mss 10956.\n33. Life, iv. 53, 63, 69; Wilberforce mss diary, 25, 27, 28 Sept., 5 Oct. 1812; Brougham mss 10957 (cf. Brougham, Life and Times, ii. 43-47); Fitzwilliam mss, box 199, Wilberforce to Milton, 21 Nov. 1812; Farington, vii. 190; viii. 8.\n34. Life, iv. 95, 101, 167, 171, 177, 222; Add. 40196, f. 149.\n35. Ibid. iv. 247, 257, 261; Romilly, iii. 178; Pope of Holland House, 74; Wilberforce Pprs. 144-5.\n36. Life, iv. 282.\n37. Wilberforce mss, Wilberforce to Duncombe, 20 May 1817; Dorset RO, Bond mss D367, Jekyll to Bond, 5 Dec. [1815]; Life, iii. 523; iv. 308; Horner mss 7, f. 299; Colchester, ii. 602; Waldegrave mss, W. Waldegrave to his wife, 8 Feb. 1817.\n38. Life, iv. 373; Pellew, i. 50; Wilberforce Corresp. ii. 209.\n39. Life, iv. 379; v. 36; Colchester, iii. 81; Add. 56540, ff. 29, 32, 40, 132; Pope of Holland House, 230.\n40. Life, iv. 373; v. 91; Creevey Pprs. ii. 76-77; Teignmouth, i. 254, 256; Wilberforce mss, Wilberforce to Smith, 5 Feb. [1825].\n41. Life, ii. 97, 166, 275, 317; iii. 131, 289; v. 113, 243; Parl. Deb. xiv. 338; Brougham mss 13400; Windham Diary, 229; Phipps, i. 477; Brougham, Hist. Sketches, 269; Farington, ii. 81; iii. 285; Harewood mss, Canning to his wife, 27 Jan.; Fortescue mss, Fremantle to Grenville [27 Jan. 1810].\n42. Life, ii. 104, 198; iii. 286, 387; iv. 169; Farington, viii. 23.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 88542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/13700/2012_prospects_phil_di_giuseppe_relishing_freshman_season_with_michigan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:49Z", "digest": "sha1:FMPVBTPKCI2A4F3IXYOOE2JBTV3AA3FF", "length": 9765, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.hockeysfuture.com", "title": "2012 Prospects: Phil Di Giuseppe relishing freshman season with Michigan - Hockey's Future", "raw_content": "2012 Prospects: Phil Di Giuseppe relishing freshman season with Michigan\nEach season, a plethora of talented freshmen enter the collegiate ranks with some not only setting themselves apart from the rest but also making immediate impacts for their respective teams.\nThis season, one such player is University of Michigan freshman winger Phil Di Giuseppe.\nDi Giuseppe came to Michigan after playing two seasons with the Villanova Knights of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. In 2010-11, Di Giuseppe amassed 79 points (30 goals, 49 assists) in 59 games.\nWhile the Maple, ONT native had considered going the Major Junior route (the Windsor Spitfires hold his OHL rights); Di Giuseppe felt that the University of Michigan best suited his development.\n\"I chose the college route because I thought it would be better for my game and give me the time to mature on and off the ice. So that was a big part of my decision.\"\nMichigan and RPI were among the NCAA schools that heavily recruited Di Giuseppe. But he ultimately chose Michigan for its reputation.\n\"I wanted to come to Michigan because the school is top-notch. The hockey program has been successful and has so much history. And to just be a part of it is awesome.\"\nAt the University of Michigan\nPhil Di Giuseppe burst onto the collegiate hockey scene this past fall and made his presence felt immediately. He was named the CCHA Rookie of the Month for October after posting nine points (five goals, four assists) in eight games. His first collegiate career points came back on October 7th and 8th in the series versus non-conference foe Bentley University. In the first game, he posted his first collegiate point \u2013 an assist. The following night, he posted his first two collegiate goals, including the game-winning power play goal.\nDi Giuseppe currently ranks second on the Wolverines in rookie scoring with 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) in 27 games. His three power play goals rank second on the team. Since October, Di Giuseppe\u2019s numbers have dipped to just seven points (three goals, four assists) in his last 21 games. But it isn\u2019t due to a lack of effort, as evidence by the fact he currently ranks third on the team in shots with 74.\nWhat has been and continues to be most remarkable aspect about Di Giuseppe is his maturity as a player. It\u2019s easy to forget that he just turned 18 in October because he plays the game like a seasoned collegian. And while Di Giuseppe has been mired in a bit of a scoring slump, he continues to be a contributor in other areas. As Michigan associate head coach Billy Powers notes it is that maturity and ability to contribute in other areas that have made Di Giuseppe such a key component of this season\u2019s Wolverine team.\n\"Like most freshmen, Phil\u2019s hit a small bump here and there, where he\u2019s trying to find his best game every night. The good thing about Phil is that he\u2019s learning to get better without the puck and learning to play with consistency. He kind of has things in check mentally. He\u2019s also been consistent as far as his growth and maturity in the fact that he\u2019s willing to play a team game and willing to sacrifice when things aren\u2019t going well offensively. Phil is not a guy that cheats or looks to play like an opportunist. Although the points and the production have tapered off, Phil is still involved as a hockey player and we know that the scoring will come back for him. He has continued to contribute to our winning efforts because his line continues to play against the other team\u2019s top lines and he\u2019s still a plus-player (plus-nine). So he\u2019s been doing a lot of good things, even though it doesn\u2019t always show up on the stat sheet.\"\nDi Giuseppe has played much of the season on Michigan\u2019s second line alongside junior A.J. Treais and senior team captain Luke Glendening. The trio has not only been able to provide some solid offensive support, but also adds speed and energy to the high-powered Wolverines.\nThe opportunity to play for legendary coach Red Berenson and his staff was another reason that attracted Di Giuseppe to Michigan. And one of the greatest lessons he\u2019s learned thus far is how to be a successful student-athlete.\n\"Obviously Coach Berenson and Coach Powers have been at this for a long time and really know their stuff. All of the coaches help me out every week to become better. They know when things are and aren\u2019t going well and know what I need to do to get better. The thing that I\u2019ve learned is that I have to work hard both on and off the ice, and they make sure that I attend all of my classes. They tell me that if I do that, things will all fall into place. They obviously care about me becoming not only a good hockey player, but a good student too.\"\nIn December, Di Giuseppe attended Team Canada\u2019s World Junior Championship camp. Although he didn\u2019t make the team, Di Giuseppe certainly made people take notice with his impressive showing. The camp also proved to be an invaluable experience for the young winger.\n\"It was obviously a great honor to just be invited there and being given a chance to improve myself. I thought that I had a pretty good camp. There were obviously a lot of great players there, so it was tough to be able to make it (onto the team). I learned that I could play with those guys and what it takes to make the team. It\u2019s made me want to work that much harder to (hopefully) make the team next year. I think the greatest thing that I learned from it was the fact that you have to bust your butt for the entire 60 minutes because all of those guys there were really good. I saw how hard they worked and I\u2019m applying that to my game here at Michigan.\"\nSome will classify Di Giuseppe as a \"pure-scorer\". And while there is no doubt that he can put the puck into net, there is far more to his game than just scoring goals. He is equally adept as a playmaker. Two areas that set Di Giuseppe apart from many other freshmen are his tremendous hockey instincts and his ability to cycle pucks down low. He thinks the game extremely well and has a low panic point. Di Giuseppe is also quite good not only around the net but along the boards and corners as well. He sees the ice and follows/supports plays really well too. Di Giuseppe possesses great poise and patience with the puck, and his decision-making is very good.\nFor such a young player, Di Giuseppe is quite strong, but he isn\u2019t a real physical player. He utilizes his 6\u20191, 200 lbs frame very effectively, particularly in protecting the puck. Powers notes that Di Giuseppe\u2019s strength may also be his most underestimated attribute.\n\"Because of his age and not being overly physical, I don\u2019t think people would classify Phil as a strong player. He is as strong of a player as we have on the puck. I think Phil\u2019s strength could also be underestimated, but his hockey strength is second to none. We see it everyday here at Michigan.\"\nDi Giuseppe is an excellent skater with good speed and acceleration. He\u2019s got balance, agility with nice pivots and strides. His superb skating ability and speed makes him quite good in transition as well as being able to get pucks up quickly. He also does a good job of consistently keeping his feet moving.\nOne attribute that makes Di Giuseppe so dangerous is his hands. He moves the puck exceedingly well and knows what to do with it once it\u2019s on his stick, particularly below the dots. He can make really nice tape-to-tape passes too. His hands and great on-ice vision allows him to find and utilize open spaces/lanes quite effectively.\nDi Giuseppe can be relentless in his puck pursuits and isn\u2019t one to give up puck possession easily. He possesses a very good shot and his stick-handling is also quite good.\nThe weakest area of Di Giuseppe game is on the defensive side. But it is also an area that is a work in progress and should improve with experience and maturation.\nSo how does Di Giuseppe describe himself as a player?\n\"I\u2019d describe myself as a skilled player. I\u2019m good with the puck and can bury it sometimes. I\u2019m also a good skater. I think my strengths are my stick-handling, my puck-possession ability and my skating. I\u2019d say my weakness is probably in being more physical. I think I need to be a little bit more physical and be a physical presence.\"\nDi Giuseppe lists one of the Detroit Red Wings\u2018 top players as his favorite NHL player and the one that he patterns his style of play after.\n\"My favorite player is Pavel Datsyuk because he\u2019s just so great with the puck. When I watch him, it\u2019s so unbelievable in the way that he\u2019s so patient and so keen with the puck. So I try to do what he does.\"\nWhat has many in the scouting community excited about Di Giuseppe is his tremendous potential and what he can do with the elite-level skill set that he\u2019s been blessed with. And if what he has shown at the University of Michigan thus far is any indication, Phil Di Giuseppe is certain to have a very bright future ahead of him.\n\"I don\u2019t think that there should be any excuses for Phil not being a prolific offensive player in college hockey,\" said Powers of Di Giuseppe\u2019s future potential at Michigan. \"He has all the ability and physical stature to be a prominent player and among those in the upper echelon as far as offensive contributions and statistics. He\u2019s shown that he\u2019s got a touch and he\u2019s got a shot. Phil is also clearly a top-notch playmaker too. So as he progresses forward, we\u2019re expecting to see Phil vying for the CCHA\u2019s (scoring) title as a top five or top ten scorer.\"\nPhil Di Giuseppe is projected to go late in the first round or early in the second round in the upcoming NHL Draft in June. 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Our projects for the next two years have already been selected, so we are not accepting queries or unsolicited submissions at this time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homeschoolinginmaine.com/gettingstarted/whyhomeschool/publicschool.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:49Z", "digest": "sha1:54H3ARVT3H5MRGM3KSEFX2UB4IQNC52F", "length": 2519, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.homeschoolinginmaine.com", "title": "Home Education or Public School?", "raw_content": "Home Education or Public School?\nConcerns About Public Schools Back to Top\nHow Home Schooling Will Change Public Education\nMore than 1.2 million students are now being taught at home, more students than are enrolled in the entire New York City public school system. Paul T. Hill reports on the pros and cons of learning at home\u2014and the effects home schooling will have on public schools.\nMost education officials publicly claim that teachers need special \u201cqualifications\u201d in order to be effective. As a result, public education organizations often promote legislation or an interpretation of the law which would require home school parents to have one of three qualifications: 1) a teacher certificate, 2) a college degree, or 3) pass a \u201cteacher\u2019s exam.\u201d Although this seems reasonable on the surface, such requirements not only violate the right of parents to teach their children as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, but virtually all academic research documents that there is no positive correlation between teacher qualifications (especially teacher certification requirements) and student performance.\nThe Perfect Crime: How Psychology and High-Tech Marketing Have \"Deformed\" Education\nBeverly K. Eakman\nBeverly K. Eakman explains how, as a teacher, she saw that public schools are places where bad ideas are legitimized. She discusses the evolution of educational policy thought and the psychologizing of the educating process. This is a fascinating look at the state of the educational system today.\nThe Seduction of Homeschooling Families\nChris Cardiff\nDo the public school authorities feel threatened by homeschooling? Judging by their efforts to lure homeschooling families into dependence on local school districts, the answer is apparently yes. For the last several years, homeschooling has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. The sheer number of homeschoolers represent a distinct threat to the hegemony of the government school monopoly. Qualitatively, the academic success of homeschoolers, measured by standardized test scores and recruitment by colleges, debunk the myth that parents need to hire credentialed experts to force children to learn.\nThinking of Homeschooling to Escape the Common Core?\nThis Facebook page offers information and support for parents opposed to Common Core who are now considering homeschooling.\nA Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling\nThe Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 5078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hremc.org/?p=27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:C2D5UA4BVHPTE6AE6T2TUIYS2JASBI6D", "length": 4283, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hremc.org", "title": "Your Little Contribution Can Make a Lot Occur in Singapore | Roadside Emergency", "raw_content": "Charities are able to utilize more than simply contributions in Singapore. There are options for you to play an even larger component in assisting others, which is perfect for those who do not have the cash to donate. You can contribute your time. This does not suggest that you need to offer every one of your leisure time to the charity organization of your choice. It simply suggests that if you have a car that could aid an elderly female go to grab her medicines, we motivate you to do it. If you have the capability to walk with a park, assist us grab a few of the trash that others could have gone down.\nWhen a community interacts, it instantly becomes a much better area to live. It becomes an area where next-door neighbors collaborate to better the area that they reside in. It makes it an area that support every person within it, whether they are young who require a refuge to play, teenagers that looking for an area to socialize with pals, adults who looking for a helping hand, or elderly that need people to run errands for them.\nBy contributing a percentage to a charity contribution Singapore, you are doing greater than you may envision. Elderly who are not able to get out as well as do for themselves have the option to call for assistance and also obtain the things they need. If they are able to head out, but do not have a flight, there are transport options available to them, thanks to generous donations from others within the community. They are likewise able to get together with others in their age group for games of bingo or various other experiences that may maintain them young in mind.\nAs a neighborhood, there are so many points that we can do with each other to make it a much better location to live. If you have anything to provide of yourself, be it a Singapore donation for charity or an hour of your time, it will certainly be placed to good use within your neighborhood. It will be for the benefit of everyone within your location as well as who understands, it could even be an advantage to you at some time.\nIf you consider just how a little can suggest a whole lot, it makes sense. Your tiny donation will most likely not accomplish a great deal by itself, but if everybody offers a little, the result can be severe. A couple of dollars\u2019 worth of a charity donation Singapore is all it requires to develop safer places for our youngsters to hang out with others, to have cleaner parks, cleaner roadways, and a more powerful community. Are you ready to see just what a little bit can do?\nSome people really feel that it is not economical to make a charity contribution Singapore. They really feel that they few dollars they can spend will certainly not go really much at assisting the community that they reside in. This is a huge blunder. Charities are designed to be able to do a lot of things with hardly any. The more people who are joining in with the initiatives, the much more that can be done, the bigger the advantage to the area.\nWhen you give back to your neighborhood by making a charity contribution Singapore, your aid could come back to you when you are also in requirement. Probably eventually it will be you who needs a flight to the shop or who has a distressed teenager that requires others to talk with them about the problems they are managing that is larger than you can assist them via. It could be a grandchild that is born with unique requirements and also your little contribution can make it simpler for them to obtain aid. The suggestion of a charity is in order to help those who require it. If you help currently, the aid will certainly be offered when you are also seeking a helping hand. If you are not an aiding hand, after that the companies that give it, could not be there when you need it. Which suggestion do you choose?\nThe leaders of tomorrow are our youngsters today. If you make a charity contribution Singapore, you enable them to come to be the most effective that they could be. It establishes a fine example for the type of grownup that they need to become. They will be the ones that offer to their area as well as aim to make it a better area for their own family to live.\nPrevious post: Teach Your Kids Grow with a Charity Donation\nNext post: Finding an Ideal Singapore SEO Company For You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 6348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gdpr", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:43Z", "digest": "sha1:SR3LHEGVY6ESE4VGU5DZKQOUIHSSG5W4", "length": 5987, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.hrmagazine.co.uk", "title": "Everything you need to know about GDPR", "raw_content": "Kelly Pashley-Handford, October 02, 2017\nIt would be useful to have some clarity on the point you make about \"Ensuring that consent for the processing of data is freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.\", especially in the context ...\nRead More Sue Lingard\nThe GDPR governs the collection and processing of personal data in the EU\nAccording to a recent survey, almost half of businesses (48%) admit to being unprepared for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will come into force on 25 May 2018.\nWith the changes now approaching at seemingly hurtling speed, here are some of the practical HR questions around GDPR you should consider:\nWhat is the GDPR and why is it coming into effect?\nThe GDPR is effectively new legislation governing the collection and processing of personal data in the EU. The new regime aims to harmonise current data protection laws and to update existing (20-year-old) provisions to reflect changes over the years, not least to take into account significant changes in technology.\nIt\u2019s important to note that while the GDPR stems from the EU the government has confirmed that the UK\u2019s decision to leave the EU will not affect its commencement and the GDPR will effectively be incorporated into UK law.\nWhat do businesses need to know?\nGDPR introduces a raft of changes that businesses need to be aware of including: new rights for individuals, renewed obligations and accountability for better data management, new rules on reporting breaches.\nIn a nutshell, some of the requirements include:\nProviding additional information to individuals on how their data will be processed including how long data will be retained and; of the right to request amendment or erasure of data.\nEnsuring that consent for the processing of data is freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.\nDesignating someone to take responsibility for compliance of data protection as a minimum and, in certain circumstances, to formally appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO).\nComplying with more detailed requirements for the security of data and notify regulatory authorities (the Information Commissioner's Office, in the UK) of personal data breaches within 72 hours.\nWhat are the potential consequences of failing to comply?\nAny business that breaches its obligations under GDPR may be subject to a fine of up to \u20ac20 million or 4% of annual turnover, whichever is greater. In addition, businesses may be subject to private claims for compensation in the event of a breach.\nThat said, the reality is that fines will very much remain a last resort and will often pale in comparison to the overall impact a breach could have on a business when it comes to reputational damage, lost business and the cost of remedial action.\nWhat steps should HR take to ensure GDPR readiness?\nThe role of HR in preparing for GDPR will naturally vary from business to business. However, some of the ways HR can add real value is by:\nReviewing, updating and ensuring clear communication of all relevant policies and procedures including Data Protection, Recruitment & Equality policies. For example, equal opportunities policies will need to be updated to explain any changes to the way sensitive personal data is stored and retained, whilst recruitment practices will need to be updated to ensure that only essential data is collected and isn\u2019t retained any longer than is necessary (unless explicit consent is obtained) as part of any recruitment process.\nAmending any relevant employment documentation to reflect requirements for greater transparency in relation to how data is processed. For example, HR should work with other stakeholders in the business to ensure privacy notices are updated and accessible.\nEnsuring processes are in place and amended to comply with the updated rules on subject access requests. For example, policies will need to take into account that GDPR will introduce new timescales to comply with subject access requests (within one month instead of the current 40 days) and to reflect that it will no longer be permissible to charge up to \u00a310 per request.\nEnsuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to notify the regulator (and, potentially, data subjects) in the event of a data breach. For example, to reflect that any notifiable breach must be reported within 72 hours and to record the process which will be followed in such circumstances.\nWorking with IT to ensure that systems are compliant and able to facilitate the new requirements. For example, the right to be forgotten cannot be discharged by temporarily deleting, archiving or otherwise hiding information from view.\nWith the scale of the changes on the horizon, it\u2019s naturally important that businesses prepare for the GDPR without delay. However, it\u2019s equally important not to panic. Practical checklists and explanatory resources on the GDPR are readily available on the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) website and help is on hand to navigate the changes. By taking some basic, reasonable steps, businesses can work towards satisfying the requirements and avoid the likelihood of breaches and serious sanctions.\nKelly Pashley-Handford is head of HR services at Spencers Solicitors\nIt would be useful to have some clarity on the point you make about \"Ensuring that consent for the processing of data is freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.\", especially in the context of the employee/employer relationship (where consent may not be deemed to have been freely given) and the provisions of the regulations around lawful processing and legitimate interests. What data relating to employees (or ex-employees) should HR seek consent to process, and what data can be processed lawfully or in the context of legitimate interests? What are the implications of asking for consent? The ICO says \"if you rely on someone\u2019s consent to process their data, they will generally have stronger rights, for example to have their data deleted.\"\nSue Lingard, October 20, 2017 10:59", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.huntsville-homes.com/listingproperties/LEIGHTON/default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VDPPGXRID7JPFDU6H5DM7WIUU7EX2RNN", "length": 298, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.huntsville-homes.com", "title": "Find Listings on MLSBoard North Alabama Multiple Listing Service, Inc. 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Among the participants, Maurizio Martina, Italian Minister of Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Policies.\nItalian Creativity: Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology; New York World\u2019s Fair 1965 \u2013 Expo Milano 2015\nThe IHCC-NY, Inc. Board of Directors, consisting of Italian and Italian American leaders in the greater N.Y. area, has announced its 2015 Italian Heritage and Culture theme: Italian Creativity: Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology; New York World\u2019s Fair 1965 \u2013 Expo Milano 2015.\nAn Italian Breakfast 'to Save' Madre Cabrini\nAn Italian Breakfast 'to Save' Madre Cabrini An Italian breakfast for Madre Cabrini with the reading of a passage from \"I promessi Sposi\" (The Betrothed), author Alessandro Manzoni, performed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. Purpose of the gathering was the announcement of a fundraising, organized by the International Patrons of Duomo di Milano, to support the Duomo's historical and cultural heritage. A crowdfunding with the aim of restoring the spire dedicated to Saint Frances Cabrini and with the intent of preserving the Cathedral for generations to come.\nExpo Milano 2015: Perspectives from the Inside and the Outside.\nOn the occasion of the celebration of the National Italian Day, among the many other events, the Consulate General of Italy in New York organized a special presentation dedicated to the promotion of Expo Milano 2015. Among the speakers not only Italians but also Americans.\n\u201cFeeding the Planet. Energy for Life\u201d. Italy introduces to the World the Milan Expo 2015\nThe universal non-commercial exposition \"Expo Milano 2015\" will be hosted by Milan, Italy, between May and October 31, next year. \"Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life\" is the theme chosen for this edition. A topic that merges in a global scenario innovation, culture, technology, traditions and creativity, and their relationship to food and diet. A conversation with Piero Galli, Event Management General Director of the Expo.\nConvivio delle Eccellenze. A One-Day Celebration of Milanese Culture\nMarina Melchionda(July 14, 2010)\nOn July 12 the Commissioner for Culture of the City of Milan, Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, presented a one-day festival dedicated to the excellencies of Milan in the cultural, artistic, and culinary fields. During the first part of the event, hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute, a selected audience was invited to explore and discover the philosophical relationship between food and design. 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ImmigrantInfo.org welcomes input to help keep our database current.\nResources Links Search Tool\nGeneral category of the type of service or information you are looking for\nALL Immigration / Citizenship / Legal Ethnic, Cultural Basic Needs Education / Integration Emergency Preparation / Response Referral, Advocacy, Other\nType of organization that is providing the service or information\nALL Non-Profit Government Faith Based Media Educational Collaboration Other\nResource = An organization or tool that provides services or information\nNews/Info = Information, news, directories, demographics, research, reports, multi-media\nPublic = Focused on general public inquiries (fewer records)\nProfessional = For advocates, caseworkers, policy-makers, researchers, students and teachers (more records)\nALL Resource (Public) News / Info (Public) Resource (Professional) News / Info (Professional)\nLocation the service or information provider is serving\nALL Local (Santa Clara County+) State of California National Web Based\nKeyword(s)/Phrase(s):\nSearch for a word or simple phrase that is found in either the name or description of a resource (must be an exact match)\nRecords 1 to 25 of 1158 Resources Found\n1 in 8 children in California schools have an undocumented parent\n4/23/17 Undocumented children as well as U.S. citizen children with undocumented relatives have experienced heightened anxieties for several years as a result of deportation policies begun under President George W. Bush and tightened ones under President Barack Obama. But according to school officials, those anxieties have reached new heights since Donald Trump's inauguration, with possible consequences on their ability to focus on school work, the willingness of parents to attend school events, or even to bring their children to school.\nBy helping students from low-income backgrounds become the first in their families to graduate from college, we have started a growing movement for change: the I AM ONE DEGREE movement. Through workshops and one-on-one sessions, we help students select a college, then complete applications for enrollment and financial aid. This includes completing the FAFSA and identifying additional scholarship opportunities. We help students leverage an average of $16,458 in additional free financial aid per year. Students enter college with sustainable resources and a thorough plan to pay for college. Key Words: Undocumented, Education, Financial Aid\n108 Members of Congress Sign Letter Protesting Separation of Families\n6/7/18 Congressmembers state their opposition to the policy of separating families to send a message to immigrants. They ask that resources be redirected from border enforcement to family reunification. Contains a large array of support research and documents.\n15 Common Arguments Against Immigration, Addressed\nAug 11, 2016 by The Foundation for Economic Education - Alex Nowrasteh, the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, addresses some of the most common anti-immigrant arguments with historical evidence and research.\n2014 Voices of Change Report - Nuestro Futuro Initiative\n2014. The findings from over 6 months of community surveys and focus groups carried out by the Hispanic Foundation across San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. More than 2,200 individuals participated. The majority of participants were immigrants, women, and low-income individuals with less than a high school education. In addition, most of the respondents had never been asked to give their input on quality of life issues before the survey. Key Words: Spanish, Latino, Hispanic\n2016 Beacon of Light Awards\n2/26/17 The US has a deep-rooted history as a nation of immigrants. The County of Santa Clara's Office of Immigrant Relations acknowledges that Silicon Valley's success as an economic leader of the world is to a great extent the result of the hard work of immigrants. Immigrants have contributed countless hours of work, their own capital and ingenuity to help make this region globally recognized. The Beacon of Light Awards are given as a symbol of the torch that is held by the Statue of Liberty. The light is a reflection of the hopes and the dreams of immigrants for a bright beginning in a new country.\n2016 California Laws Protecting & Providing Humanitarian Relief for Immigrant Youth\nOn January 1, 2016 two new California Laws Protecting & Providing Humanitarian Relief for Immigrant Youth took effect. AB 899 is a new law that clarifies that California law does not permit the automatic sharing of confidential information from juvenile court proceedings with any federal official, including immigration officials. AB 900 is a new California law that will provide better support and protection for unaccompanied, undocumented youth between the ages of 18 and 20 in California.\n2016 Health Security and Preparedness Index Assesses all 50 States\nThe National Health Security Preparedness Index tracks the nation's progress in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other large-scale emergencies that pose risks to health and well-being in the United States. Using more than 100 different measures ranging from flu vaccination rates, number of hospitals, and presence of food inspection programs; to infrastructure and planning measures such as participation in drills by public health laboratories, percentage of people covered by wireless 911, and hazard planning for public schools the Index provides a composite score that reflects the most comprehensive picture of health security preparedness available.\n2016 SCC Hunger Action Summit - Too Hungry to Learn\nPresentations at the annual Santa Clara County Hunger Action Summit, focusing on the Impact of food security and nutrition on children's health and academic achievement. Key Words: Poverty, school, research, report, education, school\nUse the Consumer Action Handbook (CAH) to get help with consumer purchases, problems and complaints. Find consumer contacts at hundreds of companies and trade associations, local, state, and federal government agencies, national consumer organizations, and more. Key Words: Directory | 2014 Spanish Guide |\n2018 Interfaith Calendar\nA listing of 2018 dates of the primary sacred times for world religions. Very convenient to avoid conflicts when scheduling events for multi-cultural populations.\n2018 San Jose Vietnamese Leadership Acadamy\n7/6/18 In 2018 the San Jose Office of Immigrant Affairs partnered with VietUnity and Sacred Heart to pilot two Civic Leaders Academies, one for the Latino (in Spanish) and another for the Vietnamese community. The programs were designed to encourage leadership and civic engagement in the ethnic communities. VietUnity produced this video of the Vietnamese American Civic Leaders Academy. Participants graduated after 7 weeks of learning, bonding, and building leadership. Key Words: Allies8\nA listing of 2019 dates of the primary sacred times for world religions. Very convenient to avoid conflicts when scheduling events for multi-cultural populations\nCA 211 links to Community, health, and disaster information (24-hour) for most California counties. Find community services near you - child care, senior services, counseling, food, shelter, job services, housing, employment, health care, and much more. Multi-language Key Words: I&R,\nNational 211 provides links to free and confidential information and referral. Call 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more. You can call or search on line for resources in hundreds of counties across the country. Key Words: I&R, Info\n72Hours.org - Are You Prepared?\nThis Web site from the San Francisco, California, Office of Emergency Services instructs residents on how to prepare themselves and their families for emergencies. It also provides information on what to do in response to specific disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis.\n9th Circuit rules against Trump's third attempt at travel ban\n12/22/17 A panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled against the third iteration of President Trump's travel ban, saying it goes against federal law. The SF-based appeals court, however, said the Trump administration could continue to bar individuals from countries in the Middle East and North Africa from entering the U.S. if they do not have a \"bona fide\" relationship with someone in the U.S.\nA 1-Year-Old Boy Had a Court Appearance Before an Immigration Judge in Phoenix\n7/8/18 The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for \"agua.\" Then it was the child's turn for his court appearance before a Phoenix immigration judge, who could hardly contain his unease with the situation during the portion of the hearing where he asks immigrant defendants whether they understand the proceedings. \"I'm embarrassed to ask it, because I don't know who you would explain it to, unless you think that a 1-year-old could learn immigration law,\" Judge John W. Richardson told the lawyer representing the child.\nThis Islamic Guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It has been reviewed and edited by many professors and well-educated people. It is brief and simple to read. It contains the whole book, a Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, and more. Multi-Language: | Spanish | French | German | Japanese | Chinese | Portuguese |Italian |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 14689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impactinsurance.org/topic/distribution/subtopic/retailers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:57YOHSTZEC7QNKVKCLLWUJ3Z7EPUR262", "length": 557, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.impactinsurance.org", "title": "Retailers | The ILO\u2019s Impact Insurance Facility", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Distribution \u00bb Retailers\nRetailers, ranging from supermarkets, clothing stores, pawnshops, and corner shops, are proving to be successful distribution channels for microinsurance because of their close proximity to clients and their existing relationships with them. Partnerships have been successful where the insurance product contributes to the core business of the retailer and is simple enough for the customer to understand. It has been challenging, however, to make sales and servicing of microinsurance a priority in busy retail environments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impluviumstudios.com/nature-photography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SSH4JALQCQIUIOIJYYBQLFHRTYNQYTFD", "length": 248, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.impluviumstudios.com", "title": "Photography \u2013 Impluvium Studios", "raw_content": "Wild spaces, weather, and the cyclical patterns of nature inspire all of Erin\u2019s creative work. Follow her on Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, and Instagram to keep up to date on her latest photos and videos. Select photo prints are available at Society6.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.incompetentsoprano.com/2013/07/operain-cinemashould-we-be-eating.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JYKSU66RX4AL4KMYHO3J6DBQNN4QLJ3T", "length": 4956, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.incompetentsoprano.com", "title": "Diary of an Incompetent Soprano: Opera....in the cinema?.....should we be eating popcorn?", "raw_content": "Opera....in the cinema?.....should we be eating popcorn?\nSo the new trend seems to be to show operas from big opera houses in the cinema. I am not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand it means a lot more people can get to see opera but on the other it really doesn't give you a real sense of what opera is all about. Opera is over the top. The whole art form is, in many ways, ridiculous. You have to suspend your disbelief and believe that people do sing at each other in life. On top of this there is the added element that we have to sing the same thing over and over again, often while someone is singing something totally different at the same time, to get our point across. It is very silly to begin with, but a camera honing in on an opera singer gurning their way through tricky coloratura (really fast, florid runs and stuff for those who have never encountered the word) could put people off. We opera singers were never meant to be seen in close up.\nNow, I like a trip to the Royal Opera House. I love it's grandeur and red velvet seats but there is a lot to be said for sitting in the informal setting offered up by a cinema. No one tuts if you have to get up and nip to the loo halfway through. You can eat and drink to your hearts content while watching, something totally verboten at an opera house (however, I must stress I did not eat popcorn or even a hotdog and I did roll my eyes when someone brought nachos in for the second half of \"La Donna del Lago\" the other week). So the relaxed nature of the experience is a definite plus point. Another plus is that it costs around \u00a312 to see an opera at the cinema and you can see a lot more than you might see in a similarly priced seat at the actual opera house it is broadcast from. However, no matter how good a cinemas sound system is, it can never recreate the phenomenon that is the opera singer's voice.\nTonight, I went to see the Scottish play in operatic form (Macbeth, by Verdi, in case you can't guess) with the glorious Simon Keenleyside and an equally glorious Liudmyla Monastyrska. In my eyes Keenleyside can really do no wrong so I was going to love him no matter what but I had never encountered Monastyrska. I have a feeling that, if heard in the flesh, Monastyrska's voice would pin you to the back of the auditorium when in full flight it is that enormous, and, although you could tell it is a big voice, in the cinema you will never feel the full force of such an instrument. Having said that her control over the whole of her voice is incredible. It's big but it can move and her pianissimo top D flat at the end of the sleepwalking scene was the best I have ever heard.\nThe other aspect you will find yourself judging, in my case harshly, is the acting. Acting in opera has come a long way but there is still a long way to go. In an opera house an opera singer has to be larger than life and some of the time, particularly with melodramatic pieces like Macbeth, if you watch them on the screen, TV or cinema, a performer will look like he/she is overacting. This is where Monastyrska fell short. No amount of pointing and hand clenching will convince anyone you are \"acting\". Plus if Simon Keenleyside wants to snog your face off you let him (perk of the job). You don't do that awful pretend \"we are kissing\" acting. It doesn't work. Especially when you are in close up. (Of course it could have been Keenleyside that didn't want to kiss Monastyrska but I refuse to believe that. He is all about realism.)\nOpera singers like Keenleyside and Joyce di Donato, who I saw in \"La Donna del Lago\" a few weeks ago, are the benchmark that we opera singers need to work towards. They still give the big performance required in an opera house but it is alway real, always truthful. Theirs are the kind of performances everyone working in opera should be able to deliver. Yes, they are exceptional in many ways but the quality of your voice is not enough to satisfy audiences now. The days of \"Park and Bark\" are over. Although, that said, I forgive Monastyrska slightly for her acting as, vocally, she is just WOW! Generally, however, it is not enough to just wow me with your vocal prowess. I want to be moved by a performance, to go on the journey with the singer and understand what that character is going through. If I am not a blubbering wreck by the end of \"La Traviata\", for example, the singers/production have not done their job.\nSo is opera in the cinema a good thing? Yes. Anything that makes opera as accessible as possible (even for the inherently lazy amongst us) has to be a good thing. Will it ever replace the need to see opera live? Absolutely not. One of the best feelings in world is being pinned to the back of the auditorium by the force of an opera singer's voice......and Simon Keenleyside can pin me to the back of an auditorium any day!\nLabels: cinema, Joyce di Donato, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Macbeth, opera, Royal Opera, Simon Keenleyside, Verdi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.india.globalready.news/1038/indias-world-cup-fever-new-sports-leagues-open-market-wide-for-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7AUJKMPMGAXOPAYJBQNESQ2OHNF754WR", "length": 8233, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.india.globalready.news", "title": "India\u2019s World Cup Fever, New Sports Leagues Open Market Wide for Business \u2013 Global Ready India News", "raw_content": "Posted On 2018/07/17 By Stefan In Habits, Behavior, Sports, News, Consumer With 107 Views\nThe 2018 FIFA World Cup, one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar, began June 14th. Despite the Indian team repeatedly not qualifying for the tournament, it is expected to have a viewership of over 100 million fans in India. During this time, marketing campaigns and business platforms able to leverage the large fan base will benefit from greater consumer engagement.\nBrand recognition, through sponsorships and media attention, consistently proves to be lucrative for businesses across the board in India. Taking advantage of football fever, the German sports retail brand, Adidas, has been connecting with young Indian consumers via social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat and organizing football tournaments across various cities.\nFIFA\u2019s automotive partner, Kia Motors India, will be sending six fans from India to watch the World Cup as a part of their Official Match Ball Carrier (OMBC) program. Through these strategies, companies successfully able to pitch their products and build brand loyalty through association can remarkably boost their sales in the near to mid-term.\nRise of Indian sporting leagues \u00ad\nWorld Cup aside, national level sporting leagues in India are also on the uptick. The Indian Super League (ISL), India\u2019s newest football league, has played a significant role in boosting national football viewership. It has the fourth highest global viewership \u2013 behind only Germany\u2019s Bundesliga, Spain\u2019s La Liga, and the English Premier League.\nViewership demographics for sporting events show that almost 40 percent of Indian viewers are women, overturning old prejudices that may still hinder consumer reach for several brands. In fact, sports is one of the few sectors in India that permeate societal, geographical, age, and gender divides.\nIndia\u2019s sponsorship market sees record expansion\nIndia\u2019s sports sponsorship market is growing at a rate of 12 percent year-on-year, and is currently valued at upwards of US$887 million (Rs 6,000 crore). Sponsorships supplement advertising campaigns for companies, which are often used to implement corporate social responsibility targets \u2013 cumulatively improving business brandingamong consumers. While cricket remains the dominant sport for investments and viewership, followed closely by football, niche sports such as kabaddi (an Indian contact team sport), wrestling, hockey, and badminton are rapidly gaining traction with Indian sports enthusiasts.\nThe Pro Kabbadi League (PKL), sponsored in India by the Chinese technology company Vivo, generates massive revenues and sponsorships, and could soon catch up with the mega cricketing event, the Indian Premier League (IPL). India\u2019s four-time record of winning the gold at the Asian Games prompted Indian sports enthusiasts to promote the PKL in India. Investors were quick to recognize this niche market.\nForeign entities like Gillette, the United Soccer League, and Castrol join Vivo as sponsors in the PKL, in addition to Indian firms TVS Motors, Association of Mutual Funds of India, Bajaj Electricals, Indo Nissin, and Lux Cozi. Cumulatively, these firms spent more than US$17 million (Rs 120 crore) on sponsorships in the latest season of the league. For cricket-crazed India, the PKL is a fascinating success story of a non-cricket sport gaining market value. So much so, that from 2016 onwards, the league runs for two seasons in a year.\nSports merchandise market in India\nTapping fandom is a key source of revenue for sports merchandise firms. Enthusiastic fans buy their favorite player or team jersey and other sports gear when they watch matches, travel for away games, and play in casual or in amateur tournaments. The manufacturing and retailing of sports clothes and equipment is a huge market in India. Jersey sales always see an uptick close to sporting events. The run up to this year\u2019s FIFA World Cup saw the Egyptian footballer Mohammad Salah\u2019s jersey, among many other players, fly off the racks in India.\nIn fact, even local teams such as Pune\u2019s PKL squad saw merchandise sales, marketed through online retail stores such as Amazon and Flipkart, go up by 2,600 percent from the previous season. India is a hub for sports clothing and equipment manufacturing, with almost 60 percent made for export to international markets \u2013 generating revenues worth US$303.38 million in 2017.\nIndia has also emerged as the primary global sourcing destination for sports goods for multinational brands such as Mitre, Lotto, Umbro, and Wilson. The federal \u2018Make in India\u2019 program could be the impetus for the industry to register beyond the current 16 percent year-on-year growth.\nNew sports service segments emerge\nSports enthusiasts travel across the country and worldwide to follow their favorite sports stars and teams. Multiple service offerings and industries have emerged to cater to this rapidly expanding market. Indians form the third largest fan contingent attending the World Cup this year, with over 17,000 people traveling to Russia for the games.\nCompanies in the tourism and hospitality sector can market themselves specifically to sports enthusiasts by tailoring trip packages and services centered on sporting events. Food and beverage (F&B) companies can also leverage the sports fever in India. Providing special packages and promo deals to attract sports enthusiasts is a great way to improve business-to-consumer interaction and build revenue.\nCollaborating with dedicated team associations, such as the Official Manchester United Fans Club in Delhi or the Liverpool Club India, that pledge to show all team matches in alliance with different restaurants is also a good way to leverage the sports market. Bars and restaurants that show live play of matches register significant increase in consumers during sporting events. A recent survey showed that these consumers tend to patronize the same bars and restaurants even in the off-season.\nAnother example of how a company can drive profits and promote brand visibility is the case of F&B delivery startup Swiggy. Fiercely competing with delivery startup rivals like Zomato and Foodpanda, Swiggy\u2019s active promotion during the 2018 IPL season saw it register a 25 percent increase in delivery requests to its platform.\nInvesting in technology \u2013 Online streaming, data analytics, fantasy sport\nInvestors in the sports sector are also leveraging the power of digital platforms to propel consumer engagement. 40 to 50 million fans in India now actively consume sports content on digital mediums, allowing companies to generate ancillary revenues through digital memorabilia, loyalty benefits, brand collaborations, contest participation, or premium access to programs.\nFurther, sporting teams and ancillary service providers such as broadcasters, hire data analytics firms to provide real-time advice for informed decision-making during sports events. Technology companies can also leverage access to sports fans, both during and off-seasons, through \u2018gamification\u2019 \u2013 building fantasy sports leagues or mobile apps where like-minded sports followers can connect.\nFor instance, the fantasy game run by the IPL, Vivo Fantasy IPL, has been a hit with supporters. Further, with major tech companies like Facebook, Samsung, and Google making virtual reality (VR) headsets accessible to the average consumer, its use and application by sports teams and fans alike could have implications for gaming and advertising in the near future.\nOpportunities for SME investors\nFor brand recognition and consumer engagement at sports events \u2013 advertising, infrastructure, and sponsorships are the obvious choices for large corporates but may be impractical for smaller firms. Instead, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can invest in promoting sports training, building sporting facilities, and sponsorships in leagues in tier 2 and 3 cities. This focus on sports development at the grassroots level \u2013 in itself a huge market in India \u2013 will promote visibility and foster long-term consumer relationships.\nArticle: India Briefing / Image: Live Mint\nTags : India, Football, soccer, Sports, FiFa\nIndian Smartphone Market Crosses 30 Million Unit Shipments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 11373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.india.globalready.news/369/indian-tourists-to-macau-complain-about-discriminatory-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ESLADUGCN6MHTPYGKGMUPW5LMW5EECOW", "length": 4948, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.india.globalready.news", "title": "Indian Tourists to Macau complain about Discriminatory Treatment \u2013 Global Ready India News", "raw_content": "Local authorities expressed the hope that the number of Indian tourists visiting the peninsula will significantly increase this year. However, some Indian visitors have been disappointed with how they are being received in the region. A note received by lawmaker Jos\u00e9 Pereira Coutinho from the Indian community in the region stated that there has been an increase in the number of \u201cextra immigration measures\u201d specifically for Indian nationals.\nThe complaint made to the lawmaker noted that such nationals are required to stand in a separate line and asked to show that they bring with them at least MOP5,000 in cash and have return flight tickets. The local immigration services reportedly demand that they show a printed copy of these return tickets.\n\u201cThey still demand a hard copy or else they will not let you enter Macau. Should this continue further, Macau might just lose another tourist market,\u201d the complaint noted.\nThe Times contacted the Immigration Bureau to confirm the allegations, however a spokesperson from the public department explained that such measures are part of the bureau\u2019s working guidelines for \u201ca number of tourists coming from a number of countries.\u201d \u201cNo discrimination exists at all. We hope the tourists can understand that this is a normal procedure. [\u2026] We have service formalities,\u201d the spokesperson said.\nThe Times interviewed several Indian tourists. Some of them said they entered the region with no hassle, but other visitors confirmed that they faced hurdles. Experiences of having to wait for a long time or being asked to procure the documents mentioned above appear to happen more often to tourists who travel alone.\nPreeti Trehan said they did not encounter difficulties when entering Macau and were not interrogated by immigration purposes. \u201cThere was no trouble at all. It [the process] was very fast,\u201d she assured.\nNonetheless, a self-employed tourist who is visiting Macau for the second time claimed that the immigration bureau is only stopping Indian nationals and some from Afghanistan.\n\u201cYou can call it as treating against race, you can call [it as] racism. It\u2019s very humiliating. But if the Chinese go there [to India], we treat them well. Chinese tourists are treated well in India,\u201d said a man who did not want to be identified.\nAnother Indian who claimed to be on a business trip explained that they were asked to enter a room for investigation purposes and had their passports, return tickets and hotel vouchers photocopied.\n\u201cTo my knowledge, it was all Indian passports. If they\u2019re coming in families, I guess they\u2019re allowing [them to enter Macau without investigation],\u201d he said.\nThe businessman said he and his wife had to wait for nearly three hours to have their visa issued. He expressed the belief that the flow of Indian tourists to the region may be affected due to possible discrimination.\nAnother couple that are on their honeymoon trip also revealed to the Times they had been interrogated for nearly an hour.\nThe couple expressed their disappointment over the matter as they were asked to show pictures of their wedding and their company IDs despite showing officers their return tickets. \u201cWe are here as tourists and not for business purposes. Why are we getting that?\u201d they complained.\nThe complaint also stated that such situations occur in Hong Kong. A few of the interviewees revealed that they were scrutinized in Hong Kong airport, and were held for more than half an hour.\n\u201cWe came here to spend money, not to take away money from China. We\u2019re not taking anything from here. It\u2019s only [for] tourism,\u201d said one interviewee.\nCreating a negative image\nLawmaker Pereira Coutinho believes that the way Indian tourists are being treated when entering Macau is creating a negative image regarding the region\u2019s reception of such tourists. According to him, the region is paying closer attention to the Indian tourist market, and as such, they should not be treated with indifference. \u201cWe think the Macau government should publicize what is the problem [for which they have been] requesting additional proof and return tickets from medium classes, which has created repercussions in the incoming tourists from India\u201d he said.\u201d\nMGTO investing in the Indian market\nThe Macao Government Tourist Office (MGTO) recently inaugurated its representation offices in New Delhi and in Mumbai in a bid to further promote Macau as a destination for Indian tourists. The bureau\u2019s India head during 2015, Arzan Khambatta, said that Delhi and Mumbai along with Bengaluru, Chennai, and Ahmedabad would be Macau tourism target cities in the Indian market during the year. Also in 2015, MGTO promoted Macau at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Travel Mart 2015, which was held in Bangalore, India. According to data from the bureau, Macau had 167,578 Indian tourist arrivals in 2015.\nArticle: Macau Daily / Image: David Bot\u00e9 Estrada\nTags : Indian Traveler, Macau, Feedback, Discrimination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indusbpo.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3TEQ4K2UADYDRO37EIZWGBAGHJKYSUTP", "length": 1509, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.indusbpo.com", "title": "About Us | Indus BPO", "raw_content": "Indus BPO, Business Process Outsourcing is a company of End to End Outsourcing Services provider.The APPLY para business excellence frameworks to significantly reduce costs, improve efficiency and optimize Business Processes. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one of the mayor Growth Segments of Information Technology Enabled Services industry.We Influence on Our Experience and Knowledge para offer unmatched BPO and call center solutions services.Our CUSTOM son para reduce costs, Increase Productivity and Quality.\nWith nearly a decade of experience in the business, it is easy for us to understand the typical requirement of our customers and allows us to offer the ultimate in business process outsourcing (BPO). We will continue to build our skills and distinguishing project methodology, together with our knowledge of technology.Thus, we will be able to bring you the best practices and technologies to help you take full advantage of opportunities related IT, and to anticipate and respond to new business challenges.With choosing the right BPO partner, you can redirect resources efficiently.Join more valuable to us and turn your internal resources on core capabilities to differentiate and grow your business.\nWe believe in providing the best service and highest customer satisfaction. We have a dedicated team of sound with all the desired skills and knowledge of our engineers services.All BPO have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering and are well versed in the latest technologies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 214.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insideoutcayman.com/2010/04/13/live-well/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEXXAHBME4LH256RO3Q4NSALJKWJUYPV", "length": 4317, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.insideoutcayman.com", "title": "Live Well | Inside Out", "raw_content": "When it comes to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, exercise is an essential ingredient. Whether you like to hit the pavement, spend hours sweating in the gym, or balance your mind and body through yoga, there is an exercise to suit you. InsideOut examines the best workouts and how they can benefit your body and mind.\nPilates is the perfect form of exercise for highly-stressed, impatient people, particularly those who are workaholics, says Colleen Brummer of Energy. The nature of the discipline, and the emphasis on improved breathing techniques, calms devotees and enables them to release their tension.\n\u201cIt\u2019s great for type-A personalities, people that are very narrowed into specific ways,\u201d Colleen says. \u201cOften these people come in and they say, \u2018I have tension in my neck and my back\u2019, and they\u2019re under huge stress and these are the people that benefit the most.\u201d\nColleen says pilates has a perception of being aimed at females, which she believes accounts for the large gender imbalance she sees at her studio. However, she says both sexes can benefit from pilates, as it targets the body\u2019s posture, strength and balance.\n\u201cPeople that do pilates are in tune with their bodies. You really have an increased awareness of posture and how you hold yourself,\u201d Colleen says. \u201cThe idea of pilates is to strengthen your balance and control so the activities you do throughout the day are pain free.\u201d\nYoga has gained a reputation for being a hippie-centric discipline. But, according to Janelle Kroon of Bliss Living and Yoga, the exercise form suits everyone and anyone.\n\u201cI see all types of people, from corporate to athletes to mothers to doctors. It\u2019s right across the scale,\u201d says Janelle, who has been practising yoga for 12 years. \u201cIt\u2019s the most diverse group of people.\u201d\nJanelle believes yoga, which she calls \u201cmoving meditation\u201d, has many benefits for both the mind and body, including improved strength, flexibility, toning, weight loss or gain, and lubrication of the joints and connective tissue. It is as essential for the mind as it is for the body.\n\u201cYoga is great for your stress levels,\u201d Janelle says. \u201cIt\u2019s calming, it teaches you strength, compassion, patience.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about whether you can do handstands or push-ups. You need to just sweat it out, in your body and your mind.\u201d\nRunning is predominantly a solo activity, benefiting those who have the motivation to exercise without being part of a group. Colleen Brummer, who operates Energy Running Club, says running is a private exercise ideal for those with a flexible schedule.\n\u201cRunning is different than being in a team,\u201d Colleen says. \u201cRunning is something you can do on your own and on your own time.\n\u201cThe Running Club was great though, because it was a group environment, so there was a lot of help and encouragement.\u201d\nAs running is very athletic, its advantages include weight loss, improved fitness, coordination and stamina. Colleen believes there is also a connection between the mind and body when running. However, it is essential to have correct form to ensure maximum benefits and prevent long-term damage to the body.\n\u201cRunning is about your posture, your gait, your arms, the way you move, your breathing. If you\u2019re running properly, you can get the right results,\u201d Colleen says.\nSpinning is often perceived as a challenging sport that is not for the faint of heart. However, Jerome and Cathy Ameline, of Revolutions Indoor Cycling, say the high-intensity, low-impact exercise suits anyone who wants to lose weight, get fit and tone their body.\n\u201cAnyone can benefit from the spinning program,\u201d Jerome explains. \u201cBecause you do go at your own pace, by controlling the resistance on your bike, spinning is a great way to get fit at your own rate.\u201d\nAs spinning can burn up to 600 calories in a 50-minute class, it is highly effective for weight loss. Spinning also builds a strong core, legs, gluts, back and upper body. On an emotional level, Jerome says spinning is great at beating stress and releasing endorphins into the body.\n\u201cSo many people buy gym memberships for peace of mind than an actual plan to exercise,\u201d says Jerome, whose classes are comprised mainly of women. \u201cPeople that keep coming back are only the ones committed to exercise to get fitter or lose weight, who are training for a special event, like a marathon.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insiderouttravel.com/2010/09/pink-point-buenos-aires-opens-its-doors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QCYPXNXYWSPSXAW6N7LI4KL3TSQ255VB", "length": 3609, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.insiderouttravel.com", "title": "Insider Out Travel: Pink Point Buenos Aires Opens Its Doors", "raw_content": "Preparing for Opening Day\nRecently the Argentine Ministry of Tourism announced that international visitors to this country have increased by 30% year-over-year based upon numbers for June 2010. It is almost certain that many of these travelers are from the global gay and lesbian community. The capital city of Buenos Aires is the number one popular destination in Argentina and recently it has been dubbed the new \u201cgay mecca\u201d of South America. So it seems appropriate that the FIRST Pink Point LGBT Information Centre in South America opened its doors in Buenos Aires during September 2010. Following hot on the heels of Argentina being the FIRST country on the continent to legalize same-sex marriages nationally, the timing of this launch could not be more appropriate. Argentina is truly joining the ranks as one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world.\nModeled after the successful Pink Point Amsterdam, which began during the Gay Games in 1998---since then has been expanded into Barcelona and London---Pink Point Buenos Aires is a convenient ground floor store-front location in the heart of downtown near the intersection of the renowned Florida and Lavalle pedestrian streets. Initially it will be open daily at the Galeria Luxor, Lavalle 669, from 10:00 to 20:00 HRS (Sundays 16:00 to 20:00HRS) and staffed by multi-lingual employees.\nErik Hovenga Diaz\n\u201cWe wanted to bring together all the gay and gay-friendly businesses in Buenos Aires under one roof and provide a venue with information about the city's LGBT social life,\u201d says Erik Hovenga Diaz, Director of The Royal Family and main instigator of the Pink Point Buenos Aires. \u201cVisitors will be able to pick-up brochures, gay maps, ask questions, and learn about the vibrant Buenos Aires gay community,\u201d continues Hovenga Diaz. They will also be able to book real gay tours of the city and surrounding attractions hosted by knowledgeable local gay residents, join special Pink Point excursions, learn about all of Argentina, and purchase appropriate gay souvenirs or tickets to shows. Future plans include an art gallery focusing on the works of local LGBT artists. The information center will also be hetero-friendly and inclusive in the information provided.\nPink Point Buenos Aires is a member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association ensuring that all visitors to the center are connected to the larger global family of LGBT travel specialists.\nAll of these information services are offered FREE to the tourists and all the hand-out brochures, maps, etc., are provided by the local businesses and tourism agencies. There is also an extensive website providing a great deal of information for tourists to use for research prior to leaving their home town. This could well be the most extensive and comprehensive LGBT information source in Argentina and it is anticipated that additional gay and gay-friendly businesses throughout South America will want to be represented at the center in the future.\nLuxor Galeria\nIn a city with 13 million residents there is a thriving LGBT community, but it is not always easy to find your way around Buenos Aires when you are an international visitor---now the Pink Point center will make this task a little easier. No gay visit to Buenos Aires will be complete without stopping at the Pink Point center upon arrival in the city to ensure that you learn everything that this gay mecca has to offer for the complete LGBT experience in Buenos Aires and beyond.\nFor More Information Visit: http://www.pinkpointbuenosaires.com/\nLabels: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Pink Point, South America", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 10756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insidesocal.com/paspreps/2016/04/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RGDBNOUFYZZFCKCGAEUZV5ENTM6QU3NP", "length": 8751, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.insidesocal.com", "title": "Archives for April 2016 | PasPreps - Page 2", "raw_content": "Friday Recap: Gabrielino baseball Chris Cordero pitched a one-hitter to beat Rosemead\nPosted on April 23, 2016 by Sonia Puente\nIf you have any scores or stats from any local high school sporting events call them into the desk at 626-544-0992 or 0991 or scores@SGVN\nGabrielino 10, Rosemead 3 \u2014 Chris Cordero pitched a one-hitter, Christian Le Rue went 2 for 5 with double and two runs scored and James Clapp went 2 for 4 with a triple, two RBIs and two runs scored for the Eagles (6-10, 6-7) in a Mission Valley League game. Also contributing to Gabrielino\u2019s win was Daniel Brieto, who went 2 for 3 with a triple, double, two RBIs and two runs scored.\nTemple City 14, San Marino 0 \u2014 Amber Arreola went 3 for 3 with two doubles and seven RBIs, Haley Mitchell went 3 for 3 with three RBIs and Hailey Fawk went 3 for 4 with three runs scored for the Rams (10-7-1, 7-1) in a Rio Hondo League win. Bailee Weisz and Jessica Slagle both went 2 for 2 and Juliette Marini went 2 for 3 for Temple City.\nPasadena Poly 5, Chadwick 3 \u2014 Brennah Bronk pitched a complete game, striking out five and went 3 for 3 with a double, triple and two RBIs for the Panthers (6-5, 5-1) in a Prep League contest. Laura Chin went 2 for 3 and Vivian Wheeler had a double for Pasadena Poly.\nHoover 108, Pasadena 60 \u2014 Ashford Milne won the 500-yard freestyle (5 minutes, 45.62 seconds) for the Bulldogs (3-7, 0-6) in a Pacific League loss. The Bulldogs won the 200 free relay.\nThursday Recap: La Salle baseball gets big win vs St. Paul after eight innings\nLa Salle 5, St. Paul 4 (8 innings) \u2014 James Barnard scored the winning run to lead the Lancers (13-5, 6-2) to the Del Rey League victory. Brandon Jenkins was the winning pitcher, Zane Lindeman pitched 6 1/3 innings and Mick Taylor went 3 for 3 with two RBIs for La Salle.\nMayfield 5, Rio Hondo 0 \u2014 Giselle De Anda was the winning pitcher and Malayna Domingo, Alyssa Romo and Madeline Biscaichipy each had a double for the Cubs (4-9-1, 1-5) in a Prep League game.\nFlintridge Prep 3, Pasadena Poly 1 \u2014 Kris Shepherd had 20 kills, Lucas Bohlinger registered 26 digs, William McConnell had 36 assists and Richard Berry had eight blocks for the Panthers (8-8, 1-4) in a 21-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-20 Prep League loss.\nArcadia 18, Burbank 0 \u2014 The team of Jimmy Liu and Ken Nakamine swept in doubles and Jonathan Figueira swept in singles to lead the Apaches (17-2, 10-0) to the Pacific League win.\nArcadia 125, Burbank 41 \u2014 Jessica Koh won the 200-yard freestyle (2 minutes, 4.23 seconds) and the 500 freestyle (5:36.09), Cindy Huang won the 50 freestyle (26.04) and the 100 freestyle (57.42) and Melissa Liu won the 100 butterfly (1:04.14) and the 100 breaststroke (1:12.95) for the Apaches (8-0, 5-0) in a Pacific League meet. Arcadia\u2019s Janelle Tse won the 200 IM (2:25.46) and Michelle Wang won the 100 backstroke (1:06.36).\nPasadena 101, Hoover 70 \u2014 Tess Perkins took the 50 freestyle (28.01) and 100 freestyle (1:03.68) to lead the Bulldogs (4-6, 2-4) to the Pacific League victory. For Pasadena, Shannon Brierty won the 500 freestyle (6:04.40) and Isabelle Lepesant won the 100 backstroke (1:08.54).\nArcadia 115, Burbank 59 \u2014 Ryan Wang won the 200 freestyle (1:49.13) and the 200 IM (2:06.57) and Tenny Chong won the 50 freestyle (21.18) and the 100 breaststroke (58.01) to lead the Apaches (8-0, 5-0) to the Pacific League win. Jonathan Yeh took the 500 freestyle (5:05.04) and Adrian Lim won the 100 backstroke (57.04) for Arcadia.\nHoover 108, Pasadena 60 \u2014 Ashford Milne won the 500 freestyle (5:45.62) for the Apaches (3-7, 0-6) in a Pacific League loss. The Bulldogs won the 200 free relay.\nTuesday Recap: Maranatha boys tennis still remain undefeated in league\nMaranatha 13, Whittier Christian 5 \u2014 The teams of Kelvin Ye and Matthew Leiva, Drew Sierra and Billy Tan and Phillip Ahn and Ben Smith swept in doubles for the Minutemen (10-2, 6-0) in an Olympic League match.\nTuesday Recap: Arcadia baseball hands Burbank its first loss of the season\nArcadia 8, Burbank 4 (8 innings) \u2014 Brett Porter pitched six innings, Ryan Tuck went 4 for 4 with two runs and two RBIs and Loren Iwasaki and Jacob Lopez both had two hits and two RBIs for the Apaches (12-6-1, 6-1) in a Pacific League win. Noah Falcon was the winning pitcher. It was the Indians\u2019 first league loss.\nFlintridge Prep 23, Firebaugh 3 \u2014 Therese Oshiro went 3 for 4 with two RBIs, Natalie Dale went 3 for 4 with a double and four RBIs, Melissa Grande went 2 for 4 with an RBI and Dominique Wright had an RBI for the Rebels (7-3, 4-2) in a Prep League game.\nPasadena Poly 19, Westridge 2 \u2014 Vivian Wheeler pitched a complete game, Shalini Haupt went 4 for 4 and Catalina Alonso went 3 for 3 for the Panthers (5-5, 4-1) in a Prep League game. Brennah Bronk went 2 for 5 with a home run and Maddie Magee went 3 for 4 for Pasadena Poly.\nArcadia 18, Burroughs 0 \u2014 The teams of Brian Kim and Kevin Yang and Jimmy Liu and Ken Nakamine swept in doubles and Jonathan Figueira swept in singles for the Apaches (16-2, 9-0) in a Pacific League match.\nMaranatha 15, Whittier Christian 3 \u2014 Matt Alleman swept in singles for the Minutemen (9-2, 5-0) in an Olympic League match. Bryan Lin won two sets in singles for Maranatha.\nArcadia 121, Pasadena 49 \u2014 Jessica Koh won the 200 freestyle (2:03.66) and the 500 free (5:32.59), Melissa Liu won the 200 individual medley (2:20.79) and the 100 backstroke (1:03.48) and Cindy Huang won the 50 free (26.08) and the 100 free (1:01.12) for the Apaches (7-0, 4-0) in a Pacific League meet. Isabelle Lepesant won the 100 butterfly (1:02.51) for Pasadena (3-5, 1-4).\nArcadia 133, Pasadena 37 \u2014 Nick Chan won the 200 freestyle (1.52.70) and the 500 free (5:02.27), Ryan Wang won the 200 individual medley (1:58.26) and the 100 backstroke (55.92) and Tenny Chong won the 50 free (21:18) and the 100 butterfly (50.87) to lead the Apaches (7-0, 4-0) to the Pacific League victory. Arcadia\u2019s Jordan Lam won the 100 free (51:31) and Kevin Huang won the 100 breaststroke (1:02.08).\nRio Hondo Prep 3, Pasadena Poly 2 \u2014 Kris Shepherd had 25 kills, Dean Behairy had six blocks, Lucas Bohlinger 21 digs and William McConnell had 41 assists for the Panthers (8-7, 1-3) in a 21-25, 14-25, 26-24, 25-22, 12-15 Prep League loss.\n13th Annual Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic on Friday at Damien\nWhat: 13th Annual Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic\nWhere: Damien High School\nGame Time: Girls game 5:30 p.m.; Boys game 7:30 p.m.\nTribune/Star-News Classic Preview: After 12 years, there\u2019s still no clear answer as to which side of the Valley has the best boys prep basketball talent.\nEntering Friday\u2019s 13th Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic for area high school basketball seniors, the series is tied at 6-6. Tip off for the boys game is at 7:30 p.m. at Damien High. The girls game, which the Star-News leads the series 7-5, is at 5:30.\n\u201cThey seemed to develop good chemistry right away as they got to know each other,\u201d Tribune boys head coah Tim Godley of Bonita said. \u201cThey played with a lot of effort in practice. We\u2019re going to play everybody, if it\u2019s close at the end we\u2019ll go for the win. It seemed like they wanted to win it for the area.\u201d\nDiamond Ranch big-man Roman Silva ready to go: At 7-foot-1, Diamond Ranch High School center Roman Silva knows all eyes will be on him Friday night in the 13th annual Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic at Damien High.\nAfter all, it\u2019s not there\u2019s a legitimate 7-foot college prospect around these parts. Silva is hoping to go out a winner while putting on a show to conclude a career that saw him lead Diamond Ranch to a CIF Southern Section championship last month.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with that for the last two seasons, so it\u2019s something I\u2019m used to,\u201d Silva said when asked if he\u2019s ready to be the focal point on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m just really excited to go out there and just play. I know a lot of people on this team and I just want to go out and play.\u201d\nTeam\u2019s announced for 13th Annual All-Star Game: The debate over which side of the Valley rules the hardwood will be renewed on Friday, Apr. 15 when Damien High School hosts the 13th Annual Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic for local high school seniors.\nSo far, there isn\u2019t much splitting the two sides. The boys game is an even split after 12 years with the Star-News winning six games and the Tribune getting the other six. The girls series is almost as tight with the Star-News girls leading 7-5. The Star-News swept last year\u2019s games.\n\u201cI think we will have every opportunity in the world to keep the tradition going on the Star-News side and remind them that our side of town is really strong with girls basketball,\u201d said Star-News head coach Sarah Beattie of La Canada.\nContinue reading \u201c13th Annual Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic on Friday at Damien\u201d \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 14128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3831951/Security+Pros+Cut+Spending+on+Known+Threats.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:RZIBBCH3EWBTTSL2553BOYMGKEIT6EK3", "length": 3552, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.internetnews.com", "title": "Security Pros Cut Spending on Known Threats - InternetNews.", "raw_content": "Home Security Security Pros Cut Spending on Known Threats\nSecurity Pros Cut Spending on Known Threats\nThe bottom line trumps clear security concerns at some companies, according to a survey of security professionals and C-level executives just released by the RSA Conference.\nFor example, even though 72 percent of those who responded to the survey said they've seen a rise in e-mail-borne malware and phishing , eight percent said they plan on cutting funds that would previously have been earmarked to try and deal with those risks.\nMobile security also lacked less than a full commitment. Some 40 percent of survey responders said securing lost or stolen devices (BlackBerrys, iPhones, etc.) is a top concern for the coming year, but 15 percent said they would be reducing spending designed to ensure the safety of mobile devices.\nBudgetary concerns were top of mind in the survey results. Budgetary constraints were cited by 57 percent of respondents asked to list the top organizational and security challenges they expect to face in the next 12 months. Forty-four percent cited employee education as a major concern followed by lost or stolen devices at 40 percent.\nNo clear winner emerged in response to the question of what technology investments were likely to be bypassed or curtailed in the coming year. Security related to Telelcom/VoIP, applications, authentication, encryption and key management and DDoS solutions all were came in at or near twenty percent. Endpoint security and mobile encryption/wireless security both came in at 15 percent. Messaging security trailed at only eight percent.\nThe results were a surprise to Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president and founding partner of Nemertes Research.\n\"I was surprised by the fact people are cutting security budgets because our research shows mostly flat spending in security, which is bad enough, but cutting in areas where there are big problems like phishing and spamming \u0085 I'm not sure people are spending money in the right areas,\" Antonopoulos told InternetNews.com.\n\"I think the really difficult thing in security is to show ROI, return on investment or security as a cost center, because there is no ROI. A lot of the side effects of lax security are buried in lost user productivity or in the help desk. Something like slow or crashing PCs, for example, are impossible to measure or justify budget increases for, but these are the kind of mundane security problems that need to be addressed,\" he added.\n\"If you have to rebuild ten percent of your company's laptops three times a year, that cost in lost productivity really adds up. It's the kind of death by a thousand paper cuts that isn't always addressed.\"\nOverblown threats?\nSurvey results were part of a just-published study called \"What Security Issues Are You Currently Facing?\" The RSA Conference said the report \"includes responses from nearly 150 C-level executives and professionals charged with directing, managing and engineering security infrastructures within their respective organizations.\" The survey was taken the first two weeks of this month.\nParticipants were asked about some of the recent high profile phishing attacks that targeted Facebook and Twitter users. Although these attacks received extensive media coverage, only a small number in the survey, three percent, said they were seriously affected.\nMost (84 percent) said they allow the use of these social media tools. Seventy-three percent said they weren't affected at all and twenty-four percent indicated they were somewhat affected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.intimatetransactions.com/criminal-appeals-solicitors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2ONZOS2IYHUOC55URQEEAP7YOYR4XKI6", "length": 3180, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.intimatetransactions.com", "title": "Criminal Appeals Solicitors - Business Transactions", "raw_content": "Criminal convictions mean more than the loss of good character and/or immediate custodial sentence. Presently, the courts have more powers to impose ancillary orders such as disqualifying the offenders from driving, working with children, owning a pet, imposing a restraining order, signing the sex offenders register, and even imposing a football banning order. Besides the powers of the court, many of the criminal convictions usually carry several forms of social stigma with them, including instigate bouts of vigilantism and irreparable damage to families.\nCriminal Appeals solicitors can help, and as a matter of good practice, good ones should offer opinions on whether their clients should appeal against a sentence and/or conviction. In addition, should they be taking over a case that they did not act upon in the first instance, they can look through your case and give you advice on the merits (or lack thereof) of appealing against conviction and/or sentence. However, this work is usually time consuming and tedious, as it involves a thorough checking and analysis of your case.\nSome of the aspects that could potentially overturn a conviction include: wrong decision on the legal argument by the court, the coming to light of new evidence that was not available during the first instance of your trial, or the judge erred when summing up the case, or imposed a conviction that was either wrong in law or was manifestly excessive. The process of overturning a conviction could be long, expensive, and difficult. However, it is important that you feel your lawyer is always on your side, and that they can articulate all grounds for appeals succinctly while still keeping the relevant law in mind.\nAt times, the conviction or sentence of immediate custody can be so short, calling for urgent attention and sometimes, the ancillary orders made by the court can be overly onerous and arbitrarily imposed. Criminal appeals solicitors are experts in reopening such cases, and have the skills to re-examine the evidence vigorously, regardless of how complicated and extensive this process is. In this case, you can trust them to be committed to your cause and that they will do whatever it takes to make sure that you have the best chance at getting justice.\nAppealing against a sentence or conviction can be as trying as the initial proceeding, especially for clients. Appeal solicitors fully understand this, and will therefore make sure that the necessary information is available in adequacy whenever needed. Due to their experience in the field, they are able to keep the joint expectations as realistic as possible on both sides. The first step involves requesting permission from the court of appeal. This may require fresh evidence, which the lawyers are often willing to spend a significant amount of time to find.\nSince the time allowed through which an appeal can be made against a sentence or conviction is normally limited, ask your appeals solicitors to give you the full and relevant information in time. This will help you decide whether you will be willing to go through the appeal process or not.\nAutomate Your Business With Cloud Accounting Through Xero", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inwork.org/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WLZK2SZKDUSJVZOHJLI3ZGGRWAQJKXTQ", "length": 5308, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.inwork.org", "title": "News", "raw_content": "If you only have basic skills you are likely to be paid just minimum wage. In Britain minimum wage is \u00a33.72 per hour for workers aged 16.17, \u00a35.05 per hour for workers aged 18-20 and \u00a36.31 per hour for workers aged over 21. If you work 40 hours a week at minimum wage of \u00a36.31 your weekly pay will be total of \u00a3252.40\nRecent Survey by National Union of Students in Britain reported that after graduating from university 66% of UK graduates earn a salary of under GB \u00a319,000 per year in their first year in a new job.\nHaving an education qualification increases your lifetime earning potential and helps avoid unemployment.\nPaying for College\u2026 Forever and Ever\nSome lucky American students have parents who have saved money in to a Coverdell Education Savings Account or a 529 College Savings Plan , which allows the parent claim income tax deferment allowance, provided the money saved is spent paying for education costs such as Tuition Fees, Books and student accommodation.\nSee website https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans for full details about the various type of loans and supports which US Government provides to help US students pay for their education.\nFor details about education finance support from British Government see https://www.gov.uk/student-finance/overview\nUnder the UK scheme students in Britain face paying up to 9% of their annual salary to pay down their student loan. Research indicates that 44% of students who graduated in 2002 , finally paid off their student loan after 13 years, around age 35.\nBut in 2012 the UK Government increased university annual tuition fees to GB \u00a39,000. After paying for 4 year degree course and paying for living costs, many students leave university with debts of around GB \u00a325,000. Average starting salaries for UK graduates are circa GB \u00a319,000 and once the graduate earns over GB19,000 and once the graduate earns over GB \u00a322,000 they are expected to start paying back their loan.\nSome economic experts now predict that many UK graduates will spend decades in debt and most will not complete paying their student loan off until they get past age 50.\nIn an effort to encourage US citizens to attend college and get some skills, US Government broadened the number of short 2 year courses, online distance education courses and the number of community colleges and private education providers whose education courses could qualify for US Government Education support. This lead to a increase in the numbers of education providers seeking to enroll students in to courses.\nUS Department of Education has granted student loans totalling US$1.2 TRILLION, so that means US students are under a mountain of US$1.2 TRILLION in student debt. The average loan debt for an individual student after graduation is estimated at around US$30,000.\nAs of 2015 an estimated 3.6 Million Americans , or 1 in 6 student loans amounting to total of US$56 BILLION are in default on their Student Loan for over a year.\nAnother 3 million Americans who owe total of US$110 BILLION are behind with their loan repayments for between 1 and 12 months, and a further 3 million Americans have been given permission to postpone loan repayments due to financial hardship, illness or unemployment.\nIn total, an estimated 43% of Americans who borrowed a student loan under various US Government schemes, are either behind with their payment or not making any payments at all.\nResearch by Navient , who administers students loans, indicates that many student loan borrowers choose to pay other bills such as car loans, apartment rent, credit card bills and house mortgages, but fail to repay their student debts.\nMany economic commentators warn that US Government could be left with over US$200 Billion of bad debts. Financial experts warn that many Students who have loan arrears, risk having a bad credit score which could impact on their ability to get a car loan , house mortgage or business loan in the future.\nThe www.iiepassport.org website is a great resource for US students seeking to study abroad.\nIn the academic year 2013/14 around 304,500 individuals or 10% of US students attended an education course outside the USA and obtained an academic course credit for their time studying abroad.\n62% attended a short course of up to 8 weeks duration, 35% spent up to 6 months or one semester abroad, and just 3% studied for a full 12 months or longer outside the USA.\nBritish students and international students studying in Britain can take out an Insurance policy with www.Endsleigh.co.uk which specialises in insuring students.\nEuropean Commission Consumer Classroom\nIn an effort to improve levels of Financial Literacy, the European Commission has set up www.ConsumerClassroom.eu\nThe US Government created a website www.MyMoney.gov which provides useful resources for both Students and Teachers.\nIn 2014 British people lost GB \u00a3In 2014 British people lost GB \u00a312.6 BILLION through Gambling.\nGB \u00a312.6 BILLION equates to US$16.5 BILLION. But in 2013 America , losses by Americam gamblers are estimated at US$115 BILLION. It seems some people never learn.\nAccording to the UK Gambling Commission, in the 12 month period up to September 2015, GB \u00a33.3 BILLION was lost on National Lottery, GB \u00a33.2 BILLION lost in Betting Shops and GB \u00a33.6 BILLION lost through online gambling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 6079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iric.org/tabid/99/articleType/TagView/Tag/Video/Default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7ABNPMWAFJXRSFQQHBUDWQUI6477E2O", "length": 414, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.iric.org", "title": "IRIC > News Archive > Video", "raw_content": "Entries for 'Video'\nCall for End to Muslim Migration to Australia\nThe Australian TV presenter Sonia Kruger has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia, agreeing that \u201cthe more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in.\u201d\nJIHAD: A Story of the others is a 2015 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan. The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 2835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isaacfitzgerald.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBRITUMX2NDZ4IRORSG4UAH2XTS5SJUJ", "length": 957, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.isaacfitzgerald.net", "title": "Isaac Fitzgerald", "raw_content": "\u201cA former biker-bar employee\u2026\u201d \u2014The New York Times\nPhoto credit: John Midgley\nIsaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney\u2019s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News\u2019 Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award). He is the author of three books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: a YA novel, a picture book, and an essay collection titled Dirtbag, Massachusetts. He uses Twitter.\n\u201cHow I Found A Steady Soundtrack For An Unsteady Life\u201d\n\u201cConfessions Of A Former Former Fat Kid\u201d\n\u201cWhy I Stopped Running From New York\u201d\n\u201cHigh For The Holidays\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/86739/youth-orchestra-preparing-for-47th-christmas-concert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:O55NFG3JMZEI6PAMYEZU5QPKABK5PCL4", "length": 1526, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.isleofman.com", "title": "Youth Orchestra preparing for 47th Christmas concert | Isle of Man News :: isleofman.com", "raw_content": "Youth Orchestra preparing for 47th Christmas concert\nThe annual Manx Youth Orchestra Christmas Concert returns for its 47th year this Saturday.\nThe concert, which is a popular festive event hosted at the Villa Marina, will be made up of over 200 local musicians.\nMaggie Richardson, Head of Music Service and conductor of the Manx Youth Orchestra, says: \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to welcoming this year\u2019s audience to share our festive offerings.\n\u201cThis year the programme will include something for everyone with music from Beethoven to Star Wars, pop favourites such as Bruno Mars, and of course some festive carols.\n\u201cThis concert will be the last of our calendar year following a very successful 2018.\n\u201cIn July, our Senior String Orchestra completed an extremely successful tour to Paris, where they performed to great acclaim in some wonderful venues such as the magnificent L\u2019\u00e9glise de la Madeleine.\n\u201cOverall, though, there\u2019s nothing quite like our Christmas concert in the Villa Marina and our young players are already very excited about it.\u201d\nThe concert showcases the wide range of young musical talent on the Island, while giving the musicians the opportunity to perform in front of a local audience.\nThe event is sponsored by the Friends of the Manx Youth Orchestra and all proceeds are shared equally between the Friends of the Manx Youth Orchestra and Graih.\nTickets cost \u00a310 for adults and \u00a35 for under 16\u2019s \u2013 you can buy them from the Welcome Centre or Villa Marina box office.\nMaggie Richardson, Head of Music Service", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ispn24.com/top-20-monster-volleyball-headshots-of-all-time-hd_d2332bb15.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2W5IFGP7HYE7GK534S3E7Z6CE36L53WB", "length": 597, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ispn24.com", "title": "\ufeff TOP 20 Monster Volleyball Headshots Of All Time (HD)", "raw_content": "Instagram---- https://www.instagram.com/power.volleyball.official/\nMusic: Tobu - Hope [NCS Release]\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP625xQIGzs\n----SUBSCRIBE----\n----LIKE----\n----SHARE----\nVOLLEYBALL SLAM DUNK !? 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While the track is still uncertain, the coast of South Carolina will be affected in some way. The State is planning for the worse case scenario and the potential of a Category 4 hurricane making landfall along the South Carolina coast. That will result in a full coastal evacuation, and an evacuation order could come as early as Monday morning. Please remember there are no voluntary evacuations anymore. All evacuation orders are mandatory and can only be issued by the Governor.\nThe Town is currently issuing sandbags at Town Hall, located at 1122 Dills Bluff Rd. Bags and sand are limited, and residents are limited to 10 bags.\nBelow are some important numbers to have during an event:\nPosted by Ashley Saturday, September 8, 2018 1:12:00 PM Categories: general priority\nWinter Weather Release 1\nThe Town of James Island is closely monitoring current weather conditions and has moved to OPCON 4 as of 5:00 Tuesday evening.\nThe Town offices will be closed for regular business on Wednesday, January 3.\nThe 2:00 PM National Weather Service forecast called for freezing rain starting at 9 to 10 AM Wednesday morning followed by sleet and snow. Precipitation may continue for as long as 12 hours, through early Wednesday evening. The temperature will like stay very close to freezing during the day, dropping well below freezing both Tuesday and Wednesday night.\nPlease stay off the roads if possible. Avoid bridges, overpasses, and infrequently traveled roads, since these freeze first.\nDo no use camp stoves, propane stoves or other open flame devices indoors. Carbon monoxide given off by these devices can lead to incapacity and death. If you start to feel faint, dizzy, sick, or weak get to fresh air immediately.\nPosted by Bill Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:29:00 PM Categories: general priority\nMeetings/Events or the Week of July 31, 2017\nPlease join us for National Night Out. Help build a stronger, safer community by giving crime a going away party. Come out and see the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, K-9 unit, PSD Fire Department, and lots more. August 1, from 6-8 pm. in the parking lot at Town Hall, 1238-B Camp Road.\nWednesday, August 2, James island Arts Committee meeting 5:30 p.m.\n*History Commission meeting rescheduled for Tuesday, August 8 at 6:00 p.m.*\nPosted by Frances Friday, July 28, 2017 11:14:00 AM Categories: general", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 9973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jandjmaupingrouphomes.com/daytraining.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:25Z", "digest": "sha1:FAV7NX7QQFOHUUXSLTD57V7HNCXVUOQR", "length": 723, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.jandjmaupingrouphomes.com", "title": "\"A Step Forward\" Day Training", "raw_content": "Day training is provided for all residents of J and J Maupin Group Homes, Inc. through \"A Step Forward.\" Sharing the Home Office facility of J and J Maupin Group Homes, Inc. near Lake Decatur, \"A Step Forward\" provided daily training, job skills, education, recreation, community involvement, community interaction, and employment opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.\nA well-trained and dedicated staff of Developmental Trainers provide classroom and field learning opportunities to encourage learning, self-confidence, self-esteem, and the overall development of our residents and the residents of other area group homes.\nVisit \"A Step Forward's\" web site to learn more at:\nwww.astepforwarddecatur.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jarahgist.com/bankys-ballot-problem/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YJOLCJ4M2M25B6GYL2W26LYSFH7FRYPT", "length": 4861, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.jarahgist.com", "title": "Banky's ballot problem - Jarah Gist", "raw_content": "Home News Banky\u2019s ballot problem\nModern Democratic Party (MDP) candidate US-Nigerian musician Olubankole Wellington popularly known as Banky W. raises a clenched fist during a campaign rally at Ajah in Lagos, on January 27, 2019. \u2013 Banky W. was born in the United States to Nigerian parents \u2014 an engineer father and church pastor mother. Banky W. hopes to win a seat in the House of Representatives for the Modern Democratic Party (MDP), which was only created last year. The party\u2019s platform includes introducing free and compulsory primary education in a country where an estimated 13 million children do not go to school and the creation of vocational training centres to equip people with employable skills. (Photo by FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR / AFP)\nBanky Wellington, otherwise known as Banky W, the singer gone actor gone politician whose declaration to run for office in the House of Representatives for Eti-Osa shocked everyone, recently announced this morning that there will be a problem with the upcoming voting ballots-his logo won\u2019t be on it.\nBanky W represents the newly formed Modern Democratic Party (MDP) whose logo features a ladder with the abbreviation MDP on each rung in ascending order.\nHis Instagram post which has gone viral declared that the logo on the upcoming ballots will be wrong. He didn\u2019t go into further detail about the cause of the misprint, but stated instead:\n\u201cWe have tried every possible option to see if the ballot papers can be reprinted, but that is unfortunately not possible. So we move on. No sense crying over spilt milk. The good news is WE ARE ON THE BALLOT. You will see \u2018Modern Democratic party\u2019 on the ballot with this new logo. We will not be deterred by any obstacle. We will not be discouraged. We will focus on the finish line and forge ahead. No weakness. No regrets.\u201d\nBut will the changed logo affect his chances? The Guardian took to the streets of Eti-Osa to find out.\nThe problem is in the logo!\n\u201cWithout the logo, they will miss it.\u201d Segun Akindele, a vulcanizer and father of two told The Guardian. \u201cThe logo is important, it makes you stand out. You can\u2019t mix up APC and PDP logos, they\u2019re very distinctive, they both stand out. You need a logo or people won\u2019t care.\u201d\nOf the 23 people interviewed, 19 admitted they voted by logo rather than written word. 10 said it would change the vote. None of them knew what the new logo was.\n\u201cI vote by what\u2019s written,\u201d Morayo, a guard for Silverbird Cinemas Galleria said. \u201cBut other people that can\u2019t read use the logos. For the people that can read and write they can do what they want, but illiterate people won\u2019t know who he is.\u201d\nFor some like Chinelo Amadi, a schoolteacher and Tofunwa Bakare, a university student, the high levels of illiteracy don\u2019t matter.\n\u201cThe logo doesn\u2019t change anything. They\u2019re voting for the individual. For me, it\u2019s not about the party but the person. The two parties we have now APC and PDP, we\u2019ve voted party by party and nothing has changed, this term has taught us to vote for people, not for parties. Even if he doesn\u2019t win it\u2019s a good start for him.\u201d\n\u201cIf they truly care about him they will look up the new logo and they will vote for him.\u201d\nBut Leonard Nlah, a financial analyst, argued it would isolate the working class who are unable to afford data plans to find out what the new logo is:\n\u201cIf it\u2019s only online, no one has money again, so they won\u2019t know.\u201d\nWhen learning that Banky W was mass-producing new material with the new logo on it, he argued there were still holes in this plan:\n\u201cThat will just confuse people, they will think he has changed his party.\u201d\nMiriam, a hawker, says the votes shouldn\u2019t be affected because the voting registry staff will help: \u201cIf I no sabi read I will call person say aunty come help me, I no sabi oh. She go tell me who I gon vote for, I go tell her Banky W and she will show me where to match it.\u201d\nBut Abimbola Popoola argues that regardless of help, the lack of a logo could still prove disastrous: \u201cThe way the voting system works we don\u2019t have too much of time to make a decision. We\u2019re in the hot sun, we\u2019re on the road, there are people behind us so we just vote for the first person we see sometimes. If the logo is wrong, no one will have time to look.\u201d\nWith the elections in less than three weeks Banky W is mass producing new posters and signs featuring the new logo, but to the people of Eti-Osa, it seems the damage is done.\nLegally, Banky has ground to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission, Bunmi Popoola-Mordi, Head of Law for Total Oil Company and law consultant for The Guardian, states. The likelihood of such a suit seems imminent as it\u2019s also been revealed that Banky W\u2019s name has also been misspelt on the ballot. Coincidence or sabotage? Either way Banky\u2019s in for a rough election.\nNext articleElections: Maku advises voters to assess candidates on merit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 9998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.javc.org/announcements/open-enrollment-facebook-2018-parker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4MG7AC2WJCN2ZXPGTB5EG4LVU4KKNV3A", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.javc.org", "title": "Open Enrollment Facebook 2018 Parker |", "raw_content": "open-enrollment-facebook-2018-parker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 218.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jbaclinics.co.uk/psychological-treatments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LSPUXYCNT33CF4P74L7UCWFKACOUTYRZ", "length": 3157, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.jbaclinics.co.uk", "title": "Psychological Treatments | Dr Jon Boakes Associates", "raw_content": "Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is based on the theory our thoughts, the way we interpret events around us, create our moods. Treatment involves learning to recognise negative thoughts & behavioural patterns as they occur and then to modify them.\nIn CBT the client and therapist work collaboratively to understand problems in terms of the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The approach usually focuses on difficulties in the here and now. This leads to the identification of personalised, time limited therapy goals and strategies which are continually monitored and evaluated. Treatment will also involve the therapist setting tasks to complete between sessions to enable the client to apply and practice changes in everyday life.\nThere is a large evidence base supporting the efficacy of CBT in improving emotional wellbeing. The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends CBT in the treatment of Depression, Anxiety, Obsessions, PTSD and other conditions.\nThis is an innovative integrative psychological therapy applicable to a wide range of relationship difficulties. It is a structured approach which addresses core beliefs, coping styles and behavioural patterns. The therapy has depth and complexity but can be presented in a straightforward and accessible manner. Treatment is active and directive and goes beyond insight to lead to lasting cognitive, emotional, interpersonal and behavioural change.\nSchema Therapy integrates elements of Cognitive Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Object Relations and Gestalt Therapy into one unified systematic approach to treatment. Further information can be obtained at www.schematherapy.com\nACT is an empirically-based psychological intervention which uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and behavior-change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. The objective of ACT is not the elimination of difficult feelings; rather, it is to be present with what life brings us and to \u201cmove toward valued behavior\u201d. Acceptance and commitment therapy invites an individual to open up to unpleasant feelings, and learn not to overreact to them, and not avoid situations where they are invoked.\nAttempts to over-control, avoid or get rid of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings often results in greater suffering and poorer emotional well-being. ACT enables individuals to cope with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, and to reconnect with their values and life in a meaningful way.\nEye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an interactive psychotherapy technique used to relieve psychological stress. It is an effective treatment for trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During EMDR therapy sessions, the client may relive traumatic or triggering experiences in brief doses while the therapist directs eye movements or auditory stimulation. Over time, this technique lessens the negative impact of traumatic memories or thoughts. There is a large evidence base supporting the efficacy of EMDR in reducing trauma symptoms in PTSD. This treatment is also recommended in NICE guidance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jcpa.org/art/wsj-dg14apr03.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CJERO35EIHQZ5JA3SRJMZDVE54MC4V7D", "length": 6142, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.jcpa.org", "title": "\"The Kingdom of Incitement\" by Dore Gold", "raw_content": "The Kingdom of Incitement\nEven with the U.S. winning a lightning victory in Iraq, the question will remain about how to win the overall war on terrorism. The war in Iraq reminds us that the Saudi role in global terrorism still needs to be addressed. The organizational link between Iraq and al Qaeda, identified as Ansar al-Islam by Secretary of State Colin Powell during his address before the U.N. Security Council, was not just a product of Iraqi policy.\nThis small, militant Kurdish group that has experimented with chemical weapons was created in mid-2001 with assistance from al Qaeda and individuals in Saudi Arabia. Kurdish media reports have claimed that its members profess a strain of Sunni Islam derived from Wahhabism, the austere creed practiced in Saudi Arabia and adopted in its most militant form by the followers of Osama bin Laden.\nReports of Saudi connections to the new wave of global terrorism are ubiquitous. Recently, the New York Times Magazine carried an eye-opening excerpt, translated from French, of the memoirs of the brother of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called \"20th\" Sept. 11 hijacker, who is now in U.S. custody. In explaining his recruitment to al Qaeda, Moussaoui's brother laid the blame on the religious indoctrination from Wahhabi groups active in Europe.\nGerman law enforcement documents tie the recruitment by al Qaeda of Christian Ganczarski, a Polish convert to Islam, to similar educational institutions in Saudi Arabia, where he has gone into hiding. He is suspected of involvement in the 2002 attack on a Tunisian synagogue that killed 21 people. Hasan Akbar, the U.S. Army sergeant who attacked his fellow soldiers in Kuwait, appears to have been tied to militant Wahhabi institutions in the U.S.\nIraq may be the source of the most dangerous weaponry that could fall into the hands of terrorists, but Saudi Arabia has emerged as one of the key centers of motivation. Brave Saudis have begun to acknowledge the problem: last September, a columnist in the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat noted that the large number of Saudis involved on Sept. 11 and among the al Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay is a product of \"the culture of violence that has infiltrated religious education\" in Saudi Arabia.\nThe Saudis are the ones who post online many of the sermons that provide incitement to would-be terrorists. The intention might be to spread their message of intolerance globally, but they allow outsiders a rare glimpse of the messages conveyed to Saudi youth over the last few years. The sermons advocate ongoing religious conflict with Christianity and Judaism, described as the camp of blasphemy and polytheism.\nThe problem goes beyond the mosques. A recent study, by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, of 93 Saudi textbooks published in the last four years found that these values of total intolerance are entrenched in the Saudi educational system. Two months after Sept. 11, another brave Saudi columnist admitted: \"We all focus on bin Laden and his ilk . . . but we have yet to focus on the more dangerous people, and I mean those who fill our heads with this rhetoric in the schools, the mosques, and the media.\"\nSome of Saudi Arabia's largest religious charities, those under state control, have been suspected of serving as conduits for terrorist financing -- including to al Qaeda. Philippines authorities believed that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), whose Philippines branch was run by bin Laden's brother-in-law, was funneling funds to the Abu Sayyaf organization. The brother of bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was employed by IIRO in Albania, where he assisted al Qaeda's efforts in the Balkans. Reportedly, detailed minutes of a meeting between bin Laden associates on the stationery of these Saudi welfare agencies, captured in Bosnia, clarifies how organizations like IIRO were to be used by al Qaeda.\nIsrael found an IIRO payment schedule detailing how $280,000 was to be distributed to 14 different Hamas charities, thereby documenting, for the first time, the pattern of Saudi backing of terrorism. The head of the Canadian branch of IIRO admitted in court that \"The Muslim World League, which is the mother of IIRO, is a fully government funded organization. In other words, I work for the government of Saudi Arabia.\"\nBy engaging in terrorist financing, Saudi Arabia is violating U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373 that was adopted after Sept. 11 under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter -- the most severe U.N. resolutions reserved for threats to international peace and security. Indeed, all U.N. resolutions on Iraq were adopted under Chapter 7, as well.\nSo what is to be done about Saudi Arabia? The kingdom may have been the ideological source for the attacks on America, but it is not the Imperial Japan of 1941. Regime change is not necessary in Saudi Arabia -- but post-war diplomacy must achieve two changes in Saudi behavior if the war on terrorism is to be won. First, pressure must be placed on Riyadh. Saudi Arabia cannot author a new Middle East peace plan while subsidizing suicide attacks. Despite its protests that it no longer is in contact with \"suspected groups,\" the Saudis openly hosted one of the heads of Hamas as late as October 2002 and reassured him of continuing aid.\nSecond, the incitement of an entire generation of Saudis that delegitimizes other religious groups must come to an end. Writing about the origins of the Bosnian conflict, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke noted that the hatred that helped launch the Balkan conflict began as a result of a deliberate policy by Belgrade television that incited the Serbian population against their Muslim neighbors. Diplomats generally deal in international law or arms control agreements, and rarely cope with issues of incitement. After Sept. 11, religious tolerance is not only a fitting subject for interfaith dialogues -- it now must be a part of the new agenda for global security.\nMr. Gold, the author of Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia supports the New Global Terrorism (Regnery, 2003), is a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 6214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 181.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jcpa.org/israel-europe/ier-gerster-05.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XBIGOUGKIBKK6ER3ZGKHVTASEHZ7A3UM", "length": 21887, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "www.jcpa.org", "title": "Confronting European-Israeli Misunderstandings - Johannes Gerster", "raw_content": "Confronting European-Israeli Misunderstandings\nAn Interview with Johannes Gerster\nDr. Johannes Gerster is the representative of the Adenauer Foundation in Israel and, as such, a privileged observer of Middle Eastern developments. He believes that Europeans and Israelis increasingly misunderstand each other: \"The reasons are evident. The Israelis perceive themselves rightly as a minority in a large Arab world. They feel like small David versus big Goliath.\n\"Europeans have seen frequently one-sided portrayals of the Middle East conflict for more than four years now. Common images are of big Israeli tanks confronting little boys throwing stones. The European media often show videos from Palestinian rather than from independent photographers. The viewer usually sees the Palestinian stone-throwers from behind facing huge tanks.\n\"Thus, in Europe another image of the conflict has emerged. Israel is perceived as a Goliath fighting the small Palestinian David. The common perception in Europe is that Israel is a Middle Eastern superpower. The Palestinians are seen as poor, weak, and locked in. The reality is that Israelis have been over the years, more than citizens of any other country, the subject of murderous terrorist attacks.\"\nAt the beginning of April 2004, Gerster wrote an article titled \"A Double Standard on the War on Terror\" that was published in the International Herald Tribune, German papers, and the Israeli daily Haaretz. Its gist was that Israel was the victim of Sheikh Yassin's terror and that it was unfair for the Germans to present the country as a criminal.\nGerster noted that Israel was convicted all over the world for the assassination of the Hamas leader. He concluded that this and other assassinations were indeed a violation of international law, as Kofi Annan had claimed. Yet he emphasized that Israel was living in a war and that Middle East terrorism had destroyed the basis of civilized life.\nGerster added: \"the Hamas leaders who were assassinated without trial are the very ones who have made statements such as, 'We will fight until the last Jew is gone from Palestine,' i.e. Israel. Hamas activists have ruled: 'Death to every home in Israel.'\" He pointed out that this was not Oriental exaggeration but fact, and revealed the true intentions of the murdered terrorists.\nIsraeli Voices in Germany\nGerster comments on Israeli voices in Germany. \"The Israelis one hears most are not necessarily extremists, but leftists who have many difficulties with the Sharon government. The Israeli political battle should, however, take place within the country and not in the European media.\n\"Those who go abroad and heavily criticize their country create problems for it. It has been my policy during a long membership of German parliament to avoid criticizing our government when visiting other countries. This was also the case during the time my party was in opposition.\n\"The strong criticism uttered by Israelis abroad is heard by people who do not understand the country's internal and security problems. This creates antipathy to Israel rather than understanding for the situation of its citizens. One could ask, however: are there German speakers in Israel, with the ability to represent their government's position abroad?\"\nTwo Different Conflicts\nGerster points out that Europeans do not comprehend that in the Middle East, two conflicts partly overlap. \"The first one is regional in nature and concerns the battle for the same land. Hamas, Jihad, and Arafat - the latter at least in Arabic - have always proclaimed: 'We want to liberate the whole of Palestine and raise our flag in all Arab cities such as Haifa, Acco, and Jaffa.' These radical Palestinians do not fight for a Palestine next to Israel, but instead of it.\n\"Many Europeans do not realize that the terrorist groups are financially supported by the Arab world. They have both the power and weaponry to conduct a total war against Israel. Besides this regional conflict, Israel has also been for many years the main focus of Islamic fundamentalism's war against Western democracies.\n\"It is mistaken to think that Islam is concentrating its fight against Christianity. The Islamic fundamentalists view Christianity as too secularist and weak to be counted as a religious power. It is rather Western democracy they consider a threat to their Islamic fundamentalist culture. The best proof was that one of Khomeini's first political decisions, upon returning to Iran from French exile, was to legislate that all women had to wear a veil. This demonstrates that it is a cultural battle, mainly confronting Western democracy.\"\nDefeating the Americans First\n\"For Islamic fundamentalists, Israel's democracy is a major battleground in the war against the Western democratic world. This perception has changed somewhat since the Iraq War. This Islamic fundamentalist war against democracy, which previously operated against Israel, is now largely fought in Iraq. Much money was diverted from Hamas and Jihad into this battle.\n\"The Muslim fundamentalists believe they can throw the Americans out of Iraq by force. This, they expect, will be the first military victory of Islamic fundamentalism against Western democracy. If this were to occur, then Islam, with its many inferiority complexes, would have defeated the American superpower.\n\"The international conflict thus now has two fronts. I assume that when the conflict in Iraq ends, Islamic fundamentalism will turn anew against Israel. The Iraq War is a diversion, which has temporarily made the Israeli issue a secondary one. Many Europeans do not realize that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is part of this larger battle. A democracy located in the Arab world is a thorn in its side. It is important for Israel to make that clear to the Europeans.\n\"On the other hand, many prominent Israelis do not serve their country well when they regard Europe's growing distance from Israel as a result of anti-Semitism. It is a wrong conclusion that Europe's increasing criticism of Israeli policy stems exclusively from European anti-Semitic currents. The thread of discussion between Europe and Israel is partly torn. Many misunderstandings have emerged that could be eliminated by adult attitudes.\"\n\"We have indeed our own problems in Europe with anti-Semitism. Yet it is wrong when Israelis come as arbiters to Europe and say: 'All your criticisms result from anti-Semitism.' Just reproaching and confronting each other cannot lead to a friendly relationship.\"\nGerster elaborates: \"Nowadays anti-Semitism is no longer a problem of the extreme Right in Europe. It also has a large place on the extreme Left. There is an old unholy alliance of radical groups that have chosen Israel as a target. Several extreme left-wing parties have already since the 1960s strongly backed the Arab and Palestinian side.\n\"One cannot view the European-Israeli tensions only as a political issue. In Europe, the influence of politics on intellectual discussion is limited. One sees this in Germany and many other European countries, where the population increasingly distances itself from politics.\n\"This expresses itself for instance in the declining percentage of those Germans entitled to vote who participate in elections. In 1972 it was 92%, while today we are glad if 70% go to the polls. Yet another indicator is that in 1972, the CDU/ CSU and the SPD received together 90% of the votes. Today the two large parties get around 60%.\"\nGerster also points to Israel-related issues in German politics, which worry him: \"The CDU/CSU and the SPD have been the most reliable friends of Israel from its creation. The Shoah led to a deep feeling of responsibility in both parties for the right of the Jews to live in a safe Israel. Both the impact of this commitment and the ability of these large parties to make a difference are declining. At the same time, within these parties the feeling of responsibility for Israel is also diminishing.\"\nIsrael: Weak in Presenting Its Case\n\"At the beginning of the second Intifada, I spoke with a number of important Israelis in the government. In all conversations, I said: 'A war is always fought with soldiers and logistical support troops for supplies. Today the war is being operated with a third activity - propaganda.'\n\"Such propaganda has always been around. Nowadays, however, the media have new possibilities. When there is an attack in Jerusalem, the news about it is in the European media a few minutes later. Israel is weak in presenting its side of what is happening in the Intifada. When there are incidents in the Palestinian territories, the Palestinians always produce photo material that they present in Jerusalem both at 3 o'clock and 5 o'clock to Western agencies.\n\"I told Israeli officials: 'These are one-sided pictures from Palestinian society and political groups. You must provide the same from your side.' The Western agencies and TV offices do not send their people into the lines of fire. They get the material anyhow from the Palestinians. The Palestinian film material influences the European climate toward Israel much more than the written comments in the media.\n\"When one sees a tank and a young boy confronting each other in a warlike situation, it is a deeply Christian reaction to support the supposedly weak. One cannot reproach people for that. The European watching television who sees this confrontation every night would not be very human if he supported the stronger side. In the interest of objective information, Israel has to provide more material to the Western media. Some of those media have correspondents here but these cannot be everywhere.\n\"Israeli counterparts told me literally: 'We regret when the Europeans cannot see for themselves what is happening. We cannot help them with additional material.' This is a very wrong and arrogant attitude. However one defines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is today conducted not only with soldiers but with propaganda, which includes factual information. In the first one and a half years since the Intifada, Israeli democracy, including its civil society, failed in this. Today the situation is a bit better.\"\nThe Separation Fence\n\"In every society there are opinion leaders. Israel should ask itself how it can reach the heads and the hearts of the European population again. Israel should not take the easy approach by saying, for instance, that the decision of the International Court of Justice against the separation fence is pro-Palestinian. This decision was mainly made against its location, which is partly not on Israeli territory. The United Nations position should not be regarded as total opposition to Israel.\"\nGerster explains: \"I do not support the unified European position on this issue against Israel in the United Nations and regret that Germany voted for it. What happened with the moderating influence of the German foreign minister who claims to be such a great friend of Israel? In my time as vice-chairman of the German parliamentary faction when Helmut Kohl was the German chancellor, we always ensured that Germany abstained on decisions against Israel in the UN and the European Union.\n\"Israel should not turn the European Union's negative position on the separation fence into a fundamental criticism of it. This strengthens the European perception that Israel is indeed the wrongdoer in this case. By totally negating an issue, one maneuvers oneself into a corner. The key consideration for Israel is that it has to get out of this position. It is not the troublemaker, and there is a need to argue differently about conflicts rather than building up walls between Europe and Israel.\"\nIn the World's Focus\n\"There is no country and region that is so much in the news as Israel and the Middle East. The anecdote goes that an Israeli visitor was once asked in Peking by a Chinese leader whether the country had a hundred million inhabitants. He replied at the time that it had only five million. The Chinese said he couldn't understand it, saying: 'You are in the newspapers every day.'\n\"For a variety of reasons the Middle East conflict is different from any other in the world. The roots of Judaism and Christianity are in Jerusalem. The city is also very important for Islam, even if its main cities are Mecca and Medina. There is no town in the world about which there are more poems, psalms, songs, and stories than Jerusalem. Sometimes this is an advantage, sometimes a disadvantage. Both the interest and the emotional link with Jerusalem are incomparable with that for an African capital, for instance. Whether one likes it or not, this region will always be in the world's focus.\n\"It disturbs me, on the other hand, that almost every European politician thinks he is the specialist to solve the conflict. From the (still) secure Europe, it is easy to give advice about bomb terror. Yet I do not know whether Israel should complain or be happy that the world takes a more active part in this conflict and gets more emotionally involved with it than with a million Sudanese refugees who are at risk of dying of hunger.\"\nIsrael: A Major Front of Europe's Battle\nGerster elaborates on this subject: \"Such an interest can be expressed in two ways. On the one hand, that one identifies oneself with this region and hopefully also with the people who live here. Alternatively, it can mean that when matters do not work out as in one's idealistic dreams, there is a stronger condemnation. I do not believe that Israel and people here would be better off if the contrary happened - absolute disinterest.\n\"These matters have other sides. The European Union turned a cold shoulder on Austria, one of its member states, when J?rg Haider's FP? party became part of the government. There are thus EU decisions that depend on how matters evolve.\n\"Yet there are also simplistic and brutal opinions in Europe that if the troublemaker Israel did not exist, Europe would be left in peace by Islamic fundamentalism. Europeans have to realize that the key war of Islamic fundamentalism is against democracy and Israel is a major front of that battle. If Israel did not exist, the front would get closer to Europe. Europeans should be better aware that it is in their own interest for Israel to be a stable nation.\"\nRadicals are Like Wolves\n\"Radicals are like wolves. The first prey that stills the initial hunger does not satiate them; on the contrary, it makes them more hungry. Also for that reason it is in Europe's interest that a democracy is not destroyed by fundamentalists. I am thus in favor of a closer relationship between Israel and the European Union. This can perhaps at a later stage develop into full membership. That would make it clear that Israel, in the battle of Western democracies against undemocratic societies, is not an opponent of Europe but part of it. That must be the determining point in political interaction between Europe and Israel.\n\"Furthermore, the Arab world should not be treated as a monolithic bloc. People like President Mubarak of Egypt or King Abdullah of Jordan are more afraid of Islamic fundamentalism than of Israel. It would be a major mistake if we accommodated the radical fundamentalist wing of the Arab world. Through a variety of mistakes, it has not been possible to develop a common strategy against Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East.\n\"Israelis are right when they say the Arab League is united against Israel. That is the only thing that body can agree on. They are divided about fundamentalism, as their summits show. The art of politics is to differentiate and consider how one can find allies against the danger of Islamic fundamentalism. It would be a terrible illusion and a wrong strategy to assume that one can peacefully influence it by giving in to people who have zero respect for women, children, the elderly, and anybody else.\"\nThe Integration of Muslims\n\"The issue of Muslim-European relations also involves the aspect of integrating immigrants. This problem is significant in Germany and many other European countries. Among 82 million Germans, we have about three million Muslims. They are not a homogeneous group. My children were in elementary school together with Turkish children. The integration process often functions in the second and third generation. But one cannot draw general conclusions.\n\"The German parliament has accepted a new immigration law supported both by the government and the opposition. It puts major emphasis on the integration of immigrants. It must be self-understood that a Turkish or Kurdish child, like any other who goes to school in Germany, must learn to speak and write German. They should learn together with German children. That requires, along with knowledge of the language, participation in school life, also outside school hours. It should not be possible that children in the schools of a Turkish organization are being educated for life in a small Turkish enclave in Germany.\n\"After the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the U.S., and after the attack on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, many representatives of the Turkish community in Germany made ambiguous statements about their position on major terrorist acts. This was partly out of fear. A clarification process has to take place; one has to know where these people stand.\n\"Turkish leaders in Germany, whom I know well, waffled in their replies when questioned by journalists, saying things like 'we do not want this' and similar vague remarks. There was no clear statement distancing themselves from the terrorist attacks, condemning them explicitly, and saying that these were against the religion and culture of Islam.\n\"Israelis, who live in a classic immigration country, understand that integrating newcomers requires two or three generations. This is also the case with the Turkish immigrants in Germany. The road to integration is the only acceptable one for German society at large. That means immigrants have to fully accept Western democracy, the constitutional state, pluralism, and tolerance.\"\n\"These are the basic values of Germany, which after the Second World War made a major effort to build a new civil society. The Turkish immigrants living in Germany must understand that they can only be accepted as citizens in this state in the long run if they adhere to these basic values. This does not contradict their living as they wish on individual matters.\n\"The basic rights guaranteed in our constitution not only oblige the state organs but also the citizens. There are both rights and duties. Whoever lives in Germany - Germans as well as foreigners - has to accept this catalog of basic values. One example: Muslims living in Germany can claim the right to religious liberty and everyone can live according to his culture. This right is limited, though, when other basic rights are concerned, for example, equal rights for men and women.\n\"Consequently, nobody in Germany could derive from Islamic tradition a right that discriminates against women. Shari'a and basic rights may be in contradiction. In Germany, such conflicts must be resolved so that the same rights apply for all. Many good approaches can be found so that, for example, at least among the second generation of Turks and Kurds these issues are less problematic. They more and more accept the basic rights formulated in our constitution.\"\nTurkey's Entrance into Europe\n\"The immigrants' integration problems also play against the background of Turkey's possible entrance into the European Union. Turkey was a reliable NATO partner when the Soviet Union still existed. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkey was much more important for Western Europe than it is today for the extended European Union. Many Western advances were made to the country over the decades. Hopes were created in its population that it would become a member of the European Union, so that the EU now finds itself in a dilemma.\n\"Turkey must, however, adopt the European standards of democracy and constitutional justice. The European Union is not only an economic community; it is also one of values. At present, Turkey is a heavily divided society. Western Turkey is much more European influenced than the eastern part of the country. A long road will have to be traversed before it can be considered for full EU membership. The proposal of the CDU chairperson, Angela Merkel, for a qualified partnership between Turkey and Europe is a better way. Such a partnership is possible in the coming years.\"\nInitiating a Dialogue\nGerster returns to the European-Israeli dialogue and says: \"The crucial question is how to minimize the misunderstandings. The pictures the two parties have of each other do not represent the full truth but instead are partial ones. Sometimes they are even falsifications. It is thus important to intensify the European-Israeli dialogue by trying to understand each other again. One has to consider the facts and seek to speak a similar language.\"\nGerster says that the Adenauer Foundation intends to organize an intellectual dialogue where prominent people from both sides can speak about the existing dissonance between Israel and Europe. \"These will include politicians, publishers of journals, writers, and intellectuals. The discussions should focus on analysis. They should deal with questions such as: what is happening and why is Israel perceived as the main troublemaker in the Middle East?\n\"We start from a situation that has not only led to a cooling of attitudes but to almost hostile ones. This dialogue should not be held in a seminar form that lasts a few hours, but should take place in a quiet location for a number of days. Participants can say what they think to each other. One doesn't have to hide what one thinks because only businesslike debate between intellectuals can clear up the climate a bit.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 22792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jeremylin.net/2012/02/some-postgame-thoughts.html?showComment=1330181192281", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:5XWMAGZ73SVPUJTOJVC6N5WK4ETFAUWD", "length": 6414, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.jeremylin.net", "title": "Jeremy Lin #7: Some Postgame Thoughts", "raw_content": "Some Postgame Thoughts\nI'm sure that jlinfan#1 will post here with some thoughts of his own following our trip to Orlando. Right now, we're sitting in the airport killing 4 hours before our flight back to the Bay Area.\nHere are my thoughts/reactions to the game:\n1. JLin's style of play is not suited for the all-star type game. He is a traditional point guard whose strengths, in part, lie in executing a system. In the all-star games, there is no system. Hence the 25 minute \"practice\" in the morning. Is doesn't mean that JLin is a bad player. But, for example, this is the type of format that Rubio excels in. Rubio can use his creativity to do some really fun stuff.\n2. In my pre-game notes, I commented on the fact that Steve Kerr, who was one of the Team Shaq coaches, had specifically called out that this would be JLin's 3rd game in 3 nights (of course it was Landry's also). We were wondering therefore how much time JLin would get. It's a balancing act, recognizing that the game itself doesn't mean much but that there are fans who want to see certain of their favorite players play. Personally, I would have liked to have seen JLin play more. But he didn't play that well (see comment #1 above) so perhaps that was also a reason for the reduced minutes.\n3. The funniest moment of the night was the Kiss Cam. If you watched the game, you know what I'm talking about (unless they didn't show it on TV).\n4. I'm really impressed with both Rubio and Irving. Looking forward to some good matchups between JLin and them in the years to come. Should be fun.\n5. The media's focus on JLin is unfathomable. Even David Stern commented today (or was it yesterday) that the attention on JLin has exceeded what Jordan faced. Nthere were so many members of the media wanting access to Jeremy, it was crazy. Seeing it in person blew me away. It is a much bigger phenomenon than I had understood.\n6. Keep in mind that JLin is essentially a rookie with 11 games started under his belt. He will improve as he has done at each level of his career. I fully expect some ups and downs but I think he will grow from them and will end up having a very successful NBA career barring unforeseen injury).\nI think Lin normally plays just fine in All Star outings.\nIn summer charity exhibitions, Lin scores from outside and dunks every now and then. He definitely would have played better if he wasn't so fatigued.\nI am looking forward to seeing how Lin does next season with a guaranteed contract, training camp, and a team that considers him part of the gameplan. He was the only player on either team who had none of those things one month ago.\nTVN February 25, 2012 at 6:30 AM\nThe fatigue excuse is iffy. Yes, he was coming of playing two nights in a row, but it's not like he played 40 minutes each game. He was fresh enough to go out there, get into a uniform, and play. Blake Griffin has to play in the All-Star Game on Sunday. I didn't see him using fatigue as an excuse. Lin just flat out wasn't trying at all and seemed passive again. Steve Kerr noticed this and told him to take a seat.\nI'm really anxious to see how Lin plays against Cleveland and Kyrie Irving. Let's hope this Miami game didn't mess him up mentally.\nBut in the grand scheme of things, this little All Star thing doesn't mean anything. It's not real basketball, which Lin excels at. However, so many people came to see him and they didn't get their money's worth.\nI'm sure Lin's mind was willing but his body wasn't.\nBesides, Blake Griffin doesn't get double or triple teamed on every play. Nor does he have to create for teammates. People aren't targeting Griffin they way they target Lin. Simply put, Blake Griffin does not have it anywhere as hard as Lkn does.\nLin should be commended for going out there even when his body failed him. He knows that people have paid to see him. Yesterday WAS his best effort, but his body shut down.\nBasketball players are not computer programs that keep on going no matter what. They are humans who get run down. It's that simple.\nThe plan was to only play Griffin and Lin 5 minutes each half from the start. Lin wasn't taking the game serious and was just moving the ball around.\nLin didn't take the game seriously? Are you kidding me???\nHis parents were in the stands. There is no way he'd blow this game off if he had energy to spare.\nI am not Lin, but I have played enough basketball to know not to play my regular game if my body is too tired to do it.\nLin was ineffective. He deserved to be benched. But he shouldn't be taunted for putting on a brave face and hobbling onto the court when he could have been resting.\nntt February 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM\nsome of you guys are over analyzing everything...\nfrom nba's main site:\nLin explained he asked for limited minutes because \"I didn't want to play a back-to-back-to-back\" -- meaning two games with the Knicks and then the Rising Stars -- but it went deeper than that.\nCareful about the cult following he has generated in a short time, Lin simply didn't want to show up the other players, most of them young and eager to create a buzz for themselves. Besides, two weeks ago Lin wasn't even on the radar for this game, designed to showcase the league's up-and-comers.\nhttp://www.nba.com/2012/news/features/shaun_powell/02/25/team-chuck-wins/index.html\nnothing to do with being \"ineffective\" and \"not trying at all\" and \"not getting their money's worth.\" I'm looking at you TVN.\nThank you ntt. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Or is it just some trying to find anything to rag on Jeremy about.\nMic February 25, 2012 at 8:47 PM\nIt was pretty obvious just from watching the game.. Jeremy was just enjoying a pickup ball game at his own relaxed pace.\nHe knows he doesn't need to show out as he knows it's just a pickup game that's part of the \"festivities\" as he put it.\nI know many Lin fans were disappointed in the lack of minutes and show, but I think this was a smart and classy move by Lin. Classy to take a back seat to the other Rising Stars who weren't backdoored in. Smart to save his energy for the rest of the season, and also calm the hype down. If he keeps getting all the media headlines, every team's going to be gunning for the Knicks, it's doing the entire team a disservice. He showed maturity by not getting caught up in Linsanity, and willing to disappoint fans in one exhibition game in order to perform better in games that count.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 9430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jeromesintuitivecounsel.com/prayer-corner/still", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:43Z", "digest": "sha1:P5UIOAH3BIXDXRNMTO5BTWJWGRBMJXBK", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jeromesintuitivecounsel.com", "title": "Still - Jerome's Intuitive Counsel", "raw_content": "Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! 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Al Hamdan was a former friend of Turki bin Ali, and a student of Shaykh Abu Muhammad Al Maqdisi under whom he studied and was given Ijazah, becoming one of his official students. Also, Shaykh Abu Qatada al Filistini wrote an introduction for his book when it was published in the Arabic language. The interview series contains contains five themes in total and will all be published on Jihadica.com. You can find the first Q&A here and the second here.\nOne of the differences between IS and AQ is the generational divide; the veteran Jihadists in the camp of AQ and the younger generation being attracted by IS. Do you think this is still the case and, as IS is loosing momentum, what do you think will happen to the younger generation of Sunni Jihadists \u2013 will they abandon Jihad, seek refuge in AQ or try and establish a new group?\nThe answer to this question will be complex and overlapping. Yes, the majority of the youth are inclined towards the ISIS, and that is because the majority of the young people have a strong impulse and are drawn towards violence, and towards rushing for maximum revenge and killing and torture without carefully considering the benefits and harms which will come as a result of their actions. And these actions of theirs in many cases are not in accordance with the Shariah, rather they stem from that which satisfies them. Hence Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri warned Shaykh al Zarqawi about that and he said in his letter to him that O\u201d ne of the most dangerous matters for the leaders is the enthusiasm of their supporters, especially the youth who are excited and burning to support the religion of Allah. So it is important that this enthusiasm is moulded with wisdom\u201d .(1)\nAnd Shaykh Usamah bin Ladin illustrated this point in a letter to Shaykh Abu Baseer al Wuhayshi saying \u201cThe enthusiasm of the youth is a necessary element to win the battles. However it should never be what determines the course of the war by making the leadership to run behind the enthusiasm of the youth. It is as the poet Al Mutanabi has said: \u201cThoughtfulness comes before the courage of the brave -This (thoughtfulness) comes first and that second\u201d. (2)\nSo according to Al Qaeda, the matters are not measured by enthusiasm but rather by looking at what they result into.\nIt is not only myself who has noticed this matter that the youth mostly incline towards the one who speaks the harshest and the hardest. In fact even Shaykh al Maqdisi has said that \u201cMany of the youth are lacking in education and upbringing due to them not sitting sufficiently in the gatherings of the scholars and due to their weakness in the knowledge of the manners of the Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his noble companions and our righteous predecessors. Therefore there has spread among them sicknesses and diseases and bad manners, and they incline towards extremism which is mostly caused by ignorance and due to their assumption that the best path is the harshest path.\u201d (3)\nPreviously the enthusiastic youth had no choice other than Al Qaeda. And their policy which we have just stated previously, did not allow them to unleash themselves as they wish, and so they were forced to go along with that policy and suppress this excessive desire. However now there is another outlet for the youth to do whatever sadistic things they want and to unleash themselves without thinking about any outcomes or consequences or without looking into the benefits or harm resulting from these actions. And hence many of the enthusiastic youth found their long desired objectives getting fulfilled in this group ISIS.\nSecondly, many of the youth are new to the Jihadi experience and this is different from that of the elders who have lived through the previous Jihadi experiences and have seen the reasons for its failure and have seen that those same reasons are being repeated by the Islamic State. For example, antagonizing everyone and opening battle fronts with everyone and preferring to fight the Islamic groups more than fighting the enemies that are agreed upon by all, and extremism and breaking away from the Ummah, and other such things which have made them stay away from supporting this state so that it does not lead to them falling into those same mistakes again. The Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has said \u201cThe believer is not stung from the same hole twice\u201d(4), and this is contrary to this new generation who did not know anything about Jihad except from an audio speech or a video clip, and who did not live through the real experience in the field from which one can learn how to distinguish between the right and the wrong.\nAnother matter which causes ISIS to attract more youth than Al Qaeda, is the hugeness of their media campaign which is directed specifically towards the youth and their continuous communication with these youth, and we mean here the non-Arabic speakers. For example ISIS is keen to translate its publications and spread the statements made by the people of a specific country (such as England) and for directing their message to the youth in their country urging them to come (to them). Also the main official magazine of this group is published in English and they have opened a channel, Al Amaq News, which is also in the English language.\nThis group ISIS is very eager to make sure it attracts the youth. Perhaps they intensified their propaganda in English because it is a universal language understood by many nationalities. So they hit many birds with one stone. In contrast, there is a very huge shortage from the side of Al Qaeda in focusing on the call towards the youth to join them, and it has not translated its recent releases, and there would be no continuous and direct contact with them in the English language. And its magazines which are released in the English language are not regular, meaning two months may pass without an issue getting released. And this is what causes many of the youth to interact with those who are addressing them and who try to make events revolve around these youth.\nOn top of that which we have previously stated, the delay by Al Qaeda in responding (to the allegations of ISIS against it), by them hoping that the situation could be rectified through reconciliation, has led many of the youth into joining the ranks of the Islamic State. Then these people gradually went further to the point of being a partisan to their group at an early stage. Then they began to call their friends or those who have just been released from prisons to support or join the Islamic State. I myself, for example, when I was released from prison and I saw that most of my friends are supporting the ISIS, then I would mostly end up supporting them, and I would give priority to their statements for judging the events and matters in which there were disagreements in Shaam (Syria).\nAnd another thing is that if ISIS loses momentum, then the existence of its old propaganda materials can still be effective for recruitment in the long term. For example, Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki was killed in the year 2012 and his words still recruit and inspire the people despite the Shaykh having departed 4 years ago. So the only solution for Al Qaeda is to use the existing cadres they have to match the efforts of ISIS in their media propaganda. Otherwise ISIS will be the only choice for one who wants to join the Jihad.\nBut there is another matter which may help Al Qaeda without them having to engage in daily media wars with ISIS. That is that a lot of Arabs and non-Arabs who joined ISIS after watching the videos released by ISIS which portrayed itself as the perfect ideal, when they entered it, they were shocked by the security controls. These security controls emerged at a later time after the Islamic state gained control over Raqqa and Sharqiyya, and after al Adnani announced that whoever wanted to split the ranks would have their heads split. So that resulted in a fear of leaving ISIS and the dissidents then participating in recording personal experiences in which they state the mistakes and the negative aspects of ISIS and then this becoming a strong obstacle in their recruitment and propaganda. So ISIS has taken preemptive steps amongst which is that it has restricted the role of many of the well-known people who pledged allegiance to it, such as Bin\u2019ali, Dr. Sa\u2019d al Hunaiti and Mahdi Zaydaan and others who had a heavy presence in the media, due to their fear that they may defect later on. And so the appearance of these personalities in the media almost became non-existent under ISIS. Their second step would be to bring forward the one who expresses doubt. And the existence of this doubt would lead to a preemptive attempt to find out which person may possibly defect so that they may deal with him early. And due to this doubt some actions of the members would sometimes be misinterpreted, and thus there would be abuse and exaggerations by wrongly interpreting some actions of the members in a way in which they were not intended. For example, one of the soldiers asked for a biography of Al Adnani and Baghdadi as they were the leaders of his state and he wanted to know more about them, and so he was accused of being a spy. This mania in their dealings has made many of the soldiers annoyed, especially since their loyalty comes under doubt. For this reason many have started wanting to leave because they find themselves living under a dictatorial regime. This is with regards to the youth. As for the young women, the matter which has made some of them to strive to leave is that they have been forcefully married. The young women who migrate to the land of the Khilafa without a guardian, she will not be left like this, rather she will be made to marry, and even if she is already married previously then she will be separated from her husband and made to marry again. Likewise the woman who migrates with her husband, if he gets killed, then she will be made to marry with or without her consent. And this has happened on many occasions with the women. And now I will leave the issue to the previous Amir of Jabhat al Nusrah in Albukamal to tell us some of what he has witnessed from the stories of those who have defected:\nOne of them sent to me an audio recording of the leader of the Muhajireen in Jabhat Fath al Sham \u2018Abu Hajar At-Tunisi\u2019 in which he said these words:\n\u201cI will narrate to you some of the stories of some of the women and men who have fled to me. Some of them are funny and some will make one cry, there are various types, and the stories are many. I will narrate one such story to you.\nTwo British women came to me, one of them is now in the custody of Jabhat. They had fled. They narrated to me that there was a large house there where they put the widowed women and those women who had fled from their parents after they had convinced them that their parents were Kuffar who are living in western countries and in the apostate states. So these women came and they put them in this house and they said to them \u201cIt is compulsory for you to marry. Not a single one would remain without being married, whether a widow or one who has come newly\u201d.\nAnd they said: \u201cThe house was very narrow. Some apartments were above others and there was difficulty in living, eating, drinking and using bathrooms because for every hundred women there were only two bathrooms\u201d.\nThey said that there was an Iraqi woman with them who spoke English well, that is she was an Iraqi woman who was like Al Anbari in criminality and rudeness, and she would behave badly towards the women. She would bring men who would mostly be Iraqi leaders and she would choose the most beautiful of them and her face would be uncovered forcibly in front of them. And if he wanted to marry her she would be married to him. Marriage was mostly forced; otherwise they would have to sit in the house in difficulty until the woman would think to herself and say \u201cI will get married\u2026 It is okay.\u201d (5)\nAnd these two women who fled did so about a year and a half ago when the situation was a little easier. They made an agreement with a Taxi driver and gave him money and he got them out. He moved them from place to place under the pretence that they were his wives. They arrived at a place and then I went and received them and brought them to my house. With me were my wife and her mother and sisters. It was extremely cold and they were shivering. They asked me about someone they knew who was married to a British sister whom they knew previously. And they also knew him. He used to live in Britain. I put them in my house with my wife, gave them food and drink and then took them to that brother.\nThey sat with the brother for some days and then they made Takfeer on him. And after they left, the brother told me \u201cthey made Takfeer on you also\u201d. Of course, they were saying that ISIS is oppressive and criminal, and we thought that they had repented. However it became clear that they were Takfeeris and the brother said to me \u201cthey say you are a Kaafir.\u201d..!\nSo I said \u201cwhy did they say I am a Kaafir? What did I do?\u201d\nAnd he said to me \u201cthey said that you support the Zionists\u201d\nI said \u201cHow do I support the Zionists? Do I have a weapons factory?\u201d\nHe said to me \u201cNo, it is because you bought \u201cPepsi\u201d and one of them said \u201che is an apostate, him and his wife because they made us drink Pepsi\u201d and the other said \u201conly he is an apostate because he is the one who brought us Pepsi\u201d.\nAs for the youth whom I took them out, one of them was imprisoned by Ahrar. And when the leader in Ahrar \u201cMuhammad Najeeb\u201d asked him,\u201dWhat is your opinion about ISIS?\u201d, he said \u201capostates\u201d. So he started laughing and asked \u201chow are they apostates?\u201d\nI had gone to take him out by virtue of having known him in Tunisia and I knew that he was a very simple and naive person. So I brought him out. And I once asked him \u201cDo you consider Baghdadi as a Kaafir?\u201d\nHe said \u201cyes I consider him to be a Kaafir\u201d.\nSo I said \u201cwhy do you consider him to be a Kaafir?\u201d\nHe said \u201cHe is from the 5 heads of the Tawaghit who call the people to worship them.\u201d\nSo you would feel\u2026, glory be to Allah\u2026, that they are strange people. You would find him making Takfeer on all the people and having lost faith in all the people. And the first ones who they make Takfeer upon are ISIS\u2026! And they believe that the most evil people on the face of the earth, even more evil than Israel are ISIS\u2026!\nNaturally more than 90% of them believe all the factions to be apostates and Kaafirs even though they act towards them with goodness and even though the Free Syrian Army who helped them to get out were good towards them.\nOnce I helped one of them to get out alongwith his family and he used to cry. And after he left the areas under ISIS, he remained for a period of three months in Azaz, meaning he remained 5 months in total before leaving. And one of the brothers told me that when he reached Turkey he said \u201cThere is a lot of good in Abu Hajr and many things, but he is still an apostate because he remains with Jabhat\u201d. Glory be to God..! Strange minds\u2026! I say that if the door is opened for them, not one of them would remain (in ISIS). There are now a very large number of defectors with Faylaq and with FSA, and only Allah knows how many. Hundreds, possibly thousands have left them, and if the door is opened not one would remain with them.\nThere even is a very large number of men and women who have spoken to me and who want to get out, and as it is known, whoever wants to leave and is caught, then the judgment upon him according to them is either prison or death, as they consider it as incitement against the Islamic state.\nTheir prisons are full and they have a large number of prisoners, the majority of whom are Muhajireen. There was a man there called Abu Harith at Tunisi who knew me and his friends left before him, and I sent him my number. But then when he wanted to leave, they caught him. And I later received the news that they killed him. One time two youth from Tunisia left them and one of them stayed with one of the youth for five days, and he stayed those five days without praying because his commitment in religion was only recent. And they were in Idlib smoking and would have a cup of coffee in their hands and be playing billiards as if they were hanging around in the capital of Tunisia. Then they went to Turkey and I heard that one of them went to Europe and he has a girlfriend who was an ISIS supporter, who also fled from there, and he went to be with her in Sweden.\nOf course those of them who are not polluted with the perverted Takfeeri mentality are very few. One of them was a businessman from Tunisia who was not too old. He was 24 or 25 years of age. And he did not become polluted much by Takfeeri mentality. But on the other hand the majority of those who leave believe that ISIS are apostates, and some of them even make Takfeer on the one who does not make Takfeer on ISIS.\nThey have a very strange hopelessness and they no longer believe that there is Jihad.\nThere are a number of them who have gone to Sudan and a number of them went to Europe. And there are those who surrendered themselves and there is a very large number of them in Turkey. Naturally they make Takfeer on all the people and they say that as all the people are Kuffar, then it is better to remain with the Kuffar in Turkey than with the Kuffar in Syria or to go to another country.\u201d\nWe come to know from the testimony of the brother that many of them abandoned Jihad for various reasons, whether that was due to increasing extremism which made all the groups disbelievers in his opinion (ie. disbelievers fighting against disbelievers), \u2018so why should I fight?!\u2019 Or due to his reaction when he saw the opposite of his idealised dreams which this defector had hoped for, that this would be the desired Islamic state under which we would lead a life of ease and comfort. But what he saw disappointed him and so his convictions got shattered and he lost hope and got frustrated and wanted to abandon everything and return back to where he was originally. And this has happened before, even with one of the greatest leaders of Al Qaeda, and that is Shaykh Athiyatullah al Libbi, if Allah had not kept him firm with the brothers who were with him. He said after he took part in the Algerian experience how the extremists in Algeria contributed to the corruption of the Jihad until it deteriorated and became weak. He said \u201cI personally went through a difficult experience in Algeria and came through surviving by my skin, and I thought that there will be no Jihad in the foreseeable future in my life, and I was almost in despair and I was afflicted by sadness, worry, gloom and despondency and similar things which are difficult to describe\u2026!! It was only that Allah had protected me by giving me some firmness and benefited me through the company of the brothers, and by being consoled with the people of previous experience and goodness.\u201d (6).\nAnd both of these are harmful to the Islamic State \u2013 if they returned back to their countries and gave their testimonies about what they went through, and if they spoke about the huge difference between the media and the reality. And this is especially so if the one who returns back or the one who defects is someone who is obeyed and has followers. This will cause many to re-examine themselves and change their path.\nISIS fears that Al Qaeda will be an alternative, and so it took another preemptive step, that is they considered it a priority to speak about it and attack it and to try to distort it. If you see the magazine \u201cDabiq\u201d which belongs to ISIS, you would feel that Al Qaeda is targeted more than the Americans, the Rafidhah (Shi\u2019a) and the Nusayris by the media propaganda of this group. So when you become filled with this propaganda whether it is based on truth or falsehood, then even if you split from ISIS, you will not join Al Qaeda. And this is the practical application of the theory\nof the propaganda of lies as spoken about by Shaykh Abu Qatada in his audio series on globalization. He says, \u2018A certain party will tell lies to their supporters and will continue lying to them until they reach the point where these lies take the place of certainty, and even if the truth is revealed to them after having reached this stage, then it will have no effect upon them as they have lived with the lie until they have reached the point of no return. This principle can be summed up in the saying of the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Gobbels \u201cLie and continue to lie until the people believe you\u201d.\nJoin Al Qaeda and resume the stage of Jihad\nAbandon Jihad altogether and all that is related to it, and return to the stage that was prior to migration and prior to practicing the religion (And this is if the governments accept this, because sometimes you may want to make such a step but because you participated in Jihad, the governments will mostly throw you in prison when you return back to your country. And rather than live a new life your association with the Jihadi prisoners in prison will compel you to continue on the same path rather than give up.)\nThe formation of a new entity, independent of Al Qaeda which will attract all those who have lost faith in Al Qaeda and ISIS alike.\nAs for which will be the most chosen option, it is difficult to judge that for now.\n[1] Letter to Shaykh Abu Musab al Zarqawi, p. 14.\n[2] Complete letters and directives of Shaykh Usama bin Ladin, p. 771.\n[3] Answering the questioner on matters of new issues (1/16).\n[4] \u201cThe believer is not stung from the same hole twice\u201d Saheeh Muslim: 2998, Saheeh al Bukhari :6133.\n[5] A long time ago I asked Shaykh al Maqdisi about women travelling to the Khilafa state after one of them asked me about this. And I wrote an article about that which is translated into English, and he sent this audio recording in which he says: \u201cThis is one of the calamities which we have advised them about, and they disregarded our advice. They have even taken their passports from them, and the widows from amongst them are married off by the will of the judge whenever their husbands are killed. They cram the women along with their children in crowded and neglected places like stables of animals, in large groups. One of them comes and proposes marriage to them and they accept it just to get out of this overcrowded and neglected place. The situation is very miserable. Many of them are regretful and wish that they were able to flee. Despite all that, there are still those who are na\u00efve and leave their countries and go there. We have heard several misfortunes.\nI have sought permission from Shaykh al Maqdisi before spreading this recording as well as the answer, and he agreed to it, and modified and added to the text. Both these recordings are exclusive and have not been published before.\n[6] Answers to the Hisbah forum, p. 14.\nI will add in with a brief comment to the topic of the generational divide.\nJoining the \u2018hottest\u2019 Jihadi outlet of the time has always been the choice of the youth. We know from the Sinjar records that in the time of al-Qaida in Iraq, the average age of people joining was between 24 and 25. From internal Islamic State documents, processed in the CTC\u2019s \u201cThe Caliphate\u2019s Global Workforce\u201d we see an almost similar average age of people joining the Islamic State, with recruits being between 26 and 27.\nThe Islamic State has thus become the standard choice of the youth wanting to join a Jihadi project. It has provided the youth an outlet where they can channel their frustrations violently and especially their media machine has been of essential importance to attract people. The hope of al-Qaida is that although the Islamic State propaganda machine has been efficient in attracting people, then the experience of having witnessed the state from the inside will cause them to leave. However, the big question is then where will they go? Will they join al-Qaida, leave Jihad altogether or will a new movement see the light as the Islamic State is losing momentum?\nAt the moment, it is still too early to come up with an answer to the question. Al-Qaida will, of course, do its best to attract people who become disillusioned with the Islamic State project \u2013 both al-Zawahiri and al-Maqdisi have kept the door open for people to join al-Qaida. The al-Qaida leadership has been criticised for its \u2018long and boring\u2019 lectures, which were in contrast to the more aggressive rhetoric of Islamic State leaders. However, al-Qaida is currently experiencing renewed popularity. Al-Zawahiri is on a charm offensive in his recent video statements and a younger generation of al-Qaida sympathetic ideologues like Abdallah al-Muhaysini is helping to increase the cool-factor of the movement in the eyes of the younger generation.\nA whole generation is currently growing up with violence as a normality. Some of them will eventually continue of the road of Jihad, but that they necessarily choose either the Islamic State or al-Qaida is not a certainty.\nFiled Under: AQ Central, foreign fighters, Jihadi media, Recruitment, Zawahiri\n\u00ab The future approach of al-Qaeda\nApocalypse Delayed \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 27826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jppc.ir/dictionary/n.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IUC54RWKXK62O4756L7RWHDIIYS7XMBE", "length": 323, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jppc.ir", "title": "Nucleating agents Substances wit", "raw_content": "Nucleating agents\nSubstances with the ability to act as substrates for crystal formation by epitaxy, thus increasing the nucleation density. 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Tune in!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kerr-fatou.com/gpu-condemns-naming-of-underage-sex-abuse-victims-by-the-point/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UYXMXU7M3OITR2AYFOUC5YWQMV2CDPKI", "length": 2526, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.kerr-fatou.com", "title": "GPU condemns naming of underage sex abuse victims by The Point \u2013 Kerr Fatou", "raw_content": "GPU condemns naming of underage sex abuse victims by The Point\nHome/politics, Press Release/GPU condemns naming of underage sex abuse victims by The Point\nBanjul \u2013 Sunday November 25: The Gambia Press Union condemns in the strongest terms The Point Newspaper story that identifies two underage girls who are victims of alleged sexual abuse.\nThe story was titled \u2018Nigerian faces rape, paedophilia, other charges\u2019.\nIt was published on Wednesday November 21.\nArticle 9 of the GPU Code of Conduct for Media Practitioners on Reporting Stories Relating to Children obliges the media to \u2018avoid the use of sexualised messages and images of children\u2019\nMoreover, Article 2 states: \u201cThe media shall always withhold the name or obscure the visual identity of any child who is a victim, perpetrator, witness and/or plaintiff in any situation; and at all times ensure that we do not write stories in a way that could lead to the identification of a child.\u201d\nIn violation of the above Articles, the publication has published the names of the victims mentioned during a court trial and described in graphic detail the nature of the abuse.\nThe GPU is of the considered view that the said story is unfortunate and has grossly breached ethics of the profession.\nThe Union hereby calls on The Point to immediately take the following actions:\nremove the story from its website\nApologise for the error\nIn recent years, the GPU, particularly in partnership with the Child Protection Alliance, has conducted more training programmes on reporting on children than any other field of reporting.\nThe Union expects reporters and editors to familiarise themselves with the country\u2019s industry-wide Code of Conduct for Media Practitioners, which has been made widely available.\nThe Union committed to giving more support to the media in the form of training and guidance on ethical standards.\nThe Union wishes to also inform the public that plans are at an advanced stage for the setting up of the Media Council of The Gambia, a media self-regulatory body that will monitor and enforce violations of the standards of journalism.\nThe Media Reforms Committee, a stakeholder consultative technical group co-chaired by the GPU and Ministry of Information and Communication on Wednesday wrapped up a two-day meeting that reviewed the founding documents of the proposed Council.\nThe documents will be subject to wider stakeholder scrutiny in the coming weeks before the Council is launched on December 16, marking the 14th anniversary of the murder of Deyda Hydara.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170507000250", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:23Z", "digest": "sha1:PKK3LC4GTOLR4YEQ6LFE2HSCII7P52XC", "length": 2987, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.koreaherald.com", "title": "[Election 2017] Candidates give out child-, senior-friendly pledges", "raw_content": "[Election 2017] Candidates give out child-, senior-friendly pledges\nMay is \u201cfamily month\u201d in South Korea, with the Children\u2019s Day and Parents\u2019 Day holidays falling on May 5 and May 8. Taking a cue from the special occasions, major presidential candidates have set out child-, senior- and family-friendly pledges.\nFront-runner Moon Jae-in of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea has vowed to make children happier, emphasizing the importance of play in a country where private education starts years before entering the school system.\nMoon Jae-in (Yonhap)\n\u201c(Enhancing) children\u2019s welfare is the first step towards building the welfare of the nation,\u201d the liberal candidate wrote via Facebook. \u201cChildren should be able to play freely and safely and grow up happily under the next administration.\u201d\nNotable among his child-friendly pledges is the once-a-month \u201cno-class days\u201d at elementary and middle schools.\nOn this day, schools are envisioned to hold cultural, arts and outdoor activity programs instead of regular classes.\nSeparately, underprivileged students are to be provided with vouchers for theaters and arts activities.\nLast month, Moon, who has two adult children, pledged to expand the number of state-run day care centers and kindergartens to account for 40 percent of total children enrolled in such facilities.\nAs for senior-friendly policies, Moon promised to make Parents\u2019 Day a national holiday so that children have time to visit their parents.\nMoon\u2019s pledges for the elderly include a hike in monthly basic pension payments of 250,000 won ($220), from the current 206,050 won, for those aged 65 or older and in the bottom 70 percent income group by 2020, and 300,000 won from 2021.\nHe also promised to cover 90 percent of medical costs of dementia treatment with the state-run health insurance and reduce the financial burden of dental implants by half.\nAhn Cheol-soo (Yonhap)\nAhn Cheol-soo of the People\u2019s Party, meanwhile, has promised more state support during the period of pregnancy, delivery and early child care.\nWhile, like Moon, promising to expand the public daycare centers, the centrist candidate also envisions monthly cash support of 100,000 won per child for families belonging to the bottom 80 percent income bracket until the child reaches age 11.\nEarlier in the race, the candidate had put forward a radical education reform plan that envisioned the nation\u2019s mandatory education starting at age 6, one year earlier than currently.\nHong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party has promised a twofold increase in monthly cash benefits for those on parental leave. Currently, parents on child care leave receive 40 percent of their salary with an upper limit set at 1 million won. Hong\u2019s idea is to raise the limits to 80 percent and 2 million won.\nThe candidate also promises a one-time childbirth bonus of 10 million won for families for the second child and doubling the current monthly child care allowances for families with three children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/gloria-house", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CS5UNZTHITN2JZLFSCDTBV26YYJFXTBQ", "length": 4135, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.kresgeartsindetroit.org", "title": "Gloria House - Kresge Arts in Detroit", "raw_content": "The progress thus far of the movement for human rights is a reflection of the visionary and courageous individuals who are gifted with a deep understanding of the path toward liberation and who risk everything to consistently walk that path in all that they do. Dr. Gloria House is unquestionably one of those individuals.\nHouse\u2019s literary work has sparked imagination and action, articulating passionate and compelling ideas, and honoring the impact, sacrifices, joys, and humanity of those who have dedicated their lives to the path of freedom. House\u2019s activism has registered people to vote, helped lift the voices of the previously unheard, and awakened people to the hypocrisy and futility of war.\nBorn in Tampa, Florida, House began expressing herself through poetry before her age reached double digits. She published her first books of poetry in the 1980s, including Blood River (1983) and Rainrituals (1989), both published by Broadside Press. In 2003, her third collection, Shrines, was published by Third World Press. Medicine, her most recent book, was published in 2017 as a joint endeavor of Broadside Lotus and University of Detroit Mercy Press. All of House\u2019s poetry collections have been published under her chosen name, Aneb Kgositsile.\nDuring the Black Arts/Black Consciousness movement, House was among a community of artists that included poet Sonia Sanchez; poet and founder of Third World Press Haki Madhubuti; South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile; playwright Ron Milner; dancer-choreographer Jackie Hillsman; and poet and founder of Broadside Press Dudley Randall. House was also active in the free speech movement while attending UC Berkeley. After leaving university to teach in a freedom school in Selma, Alabama, she worked as a field secretary in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She drafted SNCC\u2019s statement against the Vietnam War, the first public opposition to the war to be issued by a civil rights organization.\nIn Detroit, she co-founded the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Justice for Cuba Coalition, and she participated as a teacher, administrator, and board member in the building of three African-centered schools. Active since the 1970s with Broadside Press, she was lead editor of A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press, which won the Michigan Notable Books award in 2005.\nFor over 40 years, House taught at the university level (Wayne State University, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa), and as a volunteer in classes for elementary and high school students in Detroit\u2019s Afrocentric independent schools. She co-chaired Wayne State\u2019s Black Caucus, and designed UM-Dearborn\u2019s curriculum for African American and African Studies (AAAS) and served as the program\u2019s director. Upon her retirement, House was named professor emerita at UM-Dearborn (2014) and associate professor emerita at WSU (1998). Her contributions to future generations of artists and activist extends beyond the classroom, as she has consistently collaborated with and mentored young Detroit writers.\nHouse\u2019s contributions as a writer and activist continue. She is active in local efforts to end water shutoffs, in the Detroit Independent Freedom Schools Movement\u2019s effort to provide classes in African American culture for Detroit students, and as co-editor of the quarterly print publication, Riverwise.\nWe are grateful to the panel of artists and arts professionals who selected House to receive the 2019 Kresge Eminent Artist Award. She not only exemplifies the criteria for the award, but embodies the inspiration and hope of James Weldon Johnson\u2019s poem, which stirred her consciousness at a young age:\nLet us march on \u2018til victory is won.\u201d\nMay we all be as bold in our vision and courageous in our convictions as Dr. Gloria House, and march together until victory is truly won.\nPhotographer: Karen F. Sanders\nAMIRI BARAKA: A REMEMBRANCE\nCOLLARD GREEN FIELDS FOREVER\nFrom Wille Bester Apartheid Laboratory Exhibition Catalogue\nM\u00d4RE, MUMMY!\nOSAGE AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA\nPRAYER CAVE IN BAHIA\nTO KYASA, LITTLE BROTHER", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laura-christine.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BVMJEJ62Y5BSKCRDOB7A7VTKWHQERN26", "length": 1696, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.laura-christine.com", "title": "About \u2014 Laura Christine", "raw_content": "Hi, I'm Laura\nMy journey with photography and graphic design has been an interesting one. It started at the age of 15 with a Coolpix digital camera, right here in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2009, I purchased my first Nikon DSLR, and created my first design in the Adobe Creative Suite. I spent countless hours in classes, working through online tutorials, planning photo shoots, and staying glued to my computer editing photos and creating new designs. I gained experience in photography, photo manipulation, branding, advertisement, and digital art. In 2012 I moved to Los Angeles, California; where I had the honor of photographing the Candy Ice Charity Event, several shows at The Whisky A Go Go, and behind the scenes at the music video shoot for Concentrate (ADHD) by Cobain Rivers Ft. Lord V. I also worked with musician/producer Chuck Inglish, creating several designs used on apparel and event flyers. At the beginning of 2016, I brought all that I learned in Los Angeles back to my hometown for a bit of a fresh start.\nMy goal is to continue to plan and execute photo shoots, to continue to create intriguing designs and works of art, and to continue to meet and work with other artists. Why? Because it makes me happy to create art, and to share my talents with others. I live and breathe this stuff.\nI'd love to share my talents with you. I am available to photograph any event or occasion for which you find yourself needing a professional and creative photographer. I am also available to create original and out of the box designs for you and your business. Send me an email with any questions or concepts you have in mind. I'm very open to your ideas and would love to hear from you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lawrence.edu/info/offices/communications/identity/bjorklunden/letterhead", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IOXQZYHEJX7RE3UWCDHXTK2G2TAZHPEB", "length": 279, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lawrence.edu", "title": "Letterhead | Lawrence University", "raw_content": "As a subsidiary, Bjorklunden utilizes its own logo and contact information. Contact the Office of Communications to have official university-approved Bjorklunden letterhead printed. A Microsoft Word version of the letterhead may be downloaded and used for digital correspondence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 4716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legalallsorts.co.uk/2015/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTP47GYLZD6VV4L63XOTQSWY2AUKI4RM", "length": 150, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.legalallsorts.co.uk", "title": "December | 2015 | Legal All Sorts", "raw_content": "The foral world is not without its rivalries. There are only a handful of consumer forums in the UK and none of them could be said to be in direct [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 14460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 64.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legalallsorts.co.uk/money-above-ethics-the-big-u-turn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:06Z", "digest": "sha1:RPAXPGHF724HY7DX3CUMYH67O7ACHTNG", "length": 8683, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.legalallsorts.co.uk", "title": "Money above ethics: the big U-turn | Legal All Sorts", "raw_content": "Looks like the Beagles saved the best for last! The new LB Compare site is now up and running, together with Twitter accounts and all that goes with it, and it\u2019s not just solicitors and law firms they are comparing. It would be perfectly fine if they offered that kind of comparison site, many people are lost when it comes to finding a solicitor and many are afraid of extortionate fees and poor service. Being able to compare various firms and, potentially, reviews, could be useful for the consumer. It is a fact that you can only go so far on forums, when things get complicated, you need professional help, and forums are often very reluctant to admit this fact. Referring people to legal professionals is highly frowned upon by forums and a reason to get banned, especially when there is some sort of connection between the legal professional and the forum member.\nComparing legal services is one thing, however, the site in question also features the types of businesses that have been hated and vilified by all consumer forums: Claims Management Companies (CMCs) and Debt Management Companies (DMP providers). Some DMP providers are free, and these are also mentioned on this site, but these are also very well known by all and one hardly has to go to a comparison site to find them, however, there are also a number of fee-charging Debt Management companies (DMP providers) mentioned on the site.\nEver since its inception in 2007, Legal Beagles fought against CMCs and made a point of telling people not to pay for something they could do themselves. Similarly, they made a point of saying that there was absolutely no need to use a fee-charging debt management company when there were a few free ones around and you can also manage your own DMP. That\u2019s what consumer sites like Legal Beagles were meant to do: empower people with the knowledge to manage their own affairs without having to pay fees to others.\nPost on the Celame website\nHeartache, as savings pots to pay off creditors go missing\nDebt management is big business. But far from solving problems, clients of one firm face losing thousands more.\nTracy fears she has lost as much as \u00a311,000, while Steve believes \u00a37,000 of his cash has gone. They are among hundreds \u2013 or potentially thousands \u2013 of people worried they have been left out of pocket after a debt management firm collapsed into administration with half a million pounds of customers\u2019 money apparently missing.\nBournes Debt Solutions, based in Manchester, is the latest in a line of debt management companies to hit the buffers. It\u2019s a case that graphically highlights the hazards of letting such firms look after large sums of cash, which they are supposed to pass on to people\u2019s creditors to settle their debts.\nEntries on the new LB Compare site\nClearDebt \u2013 Debt Management Plan\nCharges: Monthly fee 17.625% (subject to a minimum fee of \u00a330.00) If you paid \u00a3200 per month to your DMP over 12 months this plan would cost you \u00a3423\nGregory Pennington Debt Management Plan\nCharges 18.5% of each monthly payment, subject to a minimum of \u00a338.50 and a maximum of \u00a390. If you paid \u00a3200 per month to your DMP over 12 months this plan would cost you \u00a3462.\nThe Debt Advisor \u2013 Debt Management Plan\nCharges: 50% of payments for first six months, 17.5% thereafter. If you paid \u00a3200 per month to your DMP over 12 months this plan would cost you \u00a3810.\nFor those who don\u2019t know, Celame is the limited company set up to monetise Legal Beagles two years ago.\nSo debt management companies far from solving problems, can leave you with a big loss, yet Legal Beagles are directly promoting them.\nHaving got rid of the PPI specialists in the Big Cull of 2014, the Beagles are now offering a Claims Management Company comparison site. For many years, PPI reclaims were the bread and butter of Legal Beagles and the reason many people, particularly those without bad credit or debt problems, joined the site. In common with most other consumer sites, Legal Beagles always made a point of telling people \u201cWhy pay for something you can do yourself?\u201d and encouraging them to do their own reclaiming with the help of the long-extinct PPI Working Group.\nThe PPI Group worked tirelessly to produce sophisticated spreadsheets to ensure that posters didn\u2019t just get anything, they got everything they were entitled to. At the same time, the site also helped many who got shafted by CMCs who were not always transparent or required up-front fees even if no redress was obtained. Now they are encouraging people to use the very same companies they once fought.\nErrrm \u2013 you\u2019ll have to ask Shaz that, D. But first you will have to find her \u2013 she hides under many stones, as do the rest of the LB crew. Perhaps Jennifer is yet another such stone.\nAlas, I can only answer your question with yet another question. What IS it that they are hiding from ? Are they scared of Allsorts \u2013 surely not ? But if not \u2013 then what are they so scared of that they daren\u2019t show themselves ? If what is being said here about them were untrue \u2013 then why are they not taking up the standing invitation to come here and put the record straight ?\nMethinks the beagles are showing their true nature now, and hiding under stones is not helping to cover anything up. \u201cThe unspeakable in pursuit of the indefensible\u201d is how I see it, I\u2019m afraid. They have nothing to say in their defence \u2013 hence the silence. Their strategy is instead to attempt to silence their accusers.\nCall us stupid if you like, but we\u2019re still here, and we\u2019re not hiding like cowards.\nIts interesting to read some of this material about LB Compare. I expect a number of us here will remember a certain infamous website by the name of \u201cSolicitors from Hell\u201d. Closed down by a Law Society action in the High Court for telling the truth. Now re-incarnated in a different form but elusive. To my certain knowledge one of the solicitors accredited by LB Compare (tenor top C) worked for a practice which appeared under more than one heading on that site. But there you go.\nThe Truth Hurts, that\u2019s a fact. There is little point in having review and comparison sites if only positive reviews can be posted. I think I remember the Solicitors from Hell site. The practice in question may well have cleaned up their act since they were featured on the site in question, hence the need for up-to-date reviews. After all, Legal Beagles itself has changed considerably over the years. Everything changes, sometimes for the better, others for the worse.\nWell, isn\u2019t that a thought, GR ?\nI wonder what the Law Society might make of LBcompare\u2026\nI don\u2019t think the Law Society would have any problem with it as it stands. With Solicitors from Hell, the probably only took action after receiving complaints from the firms featured on that site. The firms in question could have taken action for defamation, unless of course the allegations made were true.\nI didn\u2019t follow it all that closely after the shut down. my understanding of it was that there had been complaints from a number of firms to the Law Society and I think it was someone called Hudson in his role as CEO? of the Law Society that brought the action seeking injunctions to bring it to a close. It is interesting to note that not one single law firm actually brought an action for defamation and a number who had complained about the site refused to be party to the action in the High Court. It must be left to someone\u2019s own judgement as to why this was the case. A simple \u201cGoogle\u201d search reveals that the ethos remains alive and kicking under new ownership in a number of places and the original owner has won a set aside decision in at least one case against him personally. The only thing that is being asked that is different as far as I can see is that you do not name a solicitor personally only the practice.\nI guess there is always a place for a \u201cHall of Shame\u201d dedicated to a certain profession or service. However, that\u2019s not quite the same as a true review and comparison site where both good and bad reviews can be posted. I see there\u2019s still a website of that name telling the story and have found the other site where you are not allowed to name solicitors, only firms. No idea why, since that\u2019s not likely to do the firms much good, not when the firm as a whole is named and shamed. Large firms have a lot of fee earners and many practice areas, some may be better than others.\nAlthough some people may be very grateful for the help they\u2019ve received and leave a positive review, there is always more of an incentive to leave a bad one when something has gone wrong. 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You can pick up order forms in the Fergus High School Office or in Room 106. The cost is $55.00. If you have any questions please call the high school and ask for Ms. Lewis, Yearbook Advisor. Yearbooks will be delivered in September.\nAbout Fergus High\nFergus High School is well known as one of Montana\u2019s best secondary schools.\nWe are a public four-year high school that is centrally located in Lewistown, Montana; east of Great Falls and north of Billings. In terms of proximity, Lewistown is a little more than one hundred miles from the nearest university. However, we are fortunate to be supported, in part, by the Central Montana Education Center and MSU Northern, which host many college-level opportunities for students.\nArea-wise our school district is a relatively large, serving all of Lewistown and much of Fergus County. 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He turned down a plea that would have recommended probation (no jail time), but would have forced him to plead to committing a felony. He refused and is going to stand trial some time soon.\nHe's got more balls than brains!!\n... Just like this squirrel.\nKFFL.com wrote:\nNFL | Police and courts: K. Hamilton\nPeggy Wright, of the Daily Record, reports former New York Giants DL Keith Hamilton admitted he used excessive corporal punishment on his 12-year-old son in February by beating the boy with an electrical cord because he got a poor report card at his private school. Hamilton will avoid any time in jail for his plea to a third-degree charge of endangering the welfare of his son Feb. 1 at his home in Montville, New Jersey. He is already serving a probationary sentence in Morris County, New Jersey, for a drug offense. His plea new bargain calls for him to be sentenced in June to three additional years of probation, anger management and parenting counseling\nOfford arrested for drunken driving\nFoxSports.com wrote:\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vikings safety Willie Offord was charged with drunken driving after being stopped early Tuesday for speeding and failing to signal when he changed lanes.\nOfford was charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree drunken driving, Lt. Mark Peterson of the State Patrol said Wednesday. Peterson said he had not received a report with Offord's blood-alcohol level, but that the charge means it would have been less than 0.20 percent. The state's legal limit is 0.08 percent.\n\"Mr. Offord was extremely cooperative and respectful during the entire incident,\" he said.\nOfford is scheduled to appear in court April 26.\nThe Vikings signed Offord, their special teams captain in 2005, to a two-year contract extension last month. He is rehabilitating a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and was limited during a veteran minicamp this month.\nThe Vikings believe he will be healthy when training camp begins, and Offord could compete with free-agent acquisition Tank Williams for the starting strong safety job.\nOfford's agent, David Canter, did not return a telephone message left at his office by The Associated Press on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Vikings said the team had no comment.\nNFL | M. Williams retired?\nAssociated Press reports lawyer Joe Friedberg, who represented free agent RB Moe Williams (Vikings) during the boat-party sex scandal, said Williams has retired from the NFL.\nNFL | Police and courts: M. Williams found guilty\nESPNews reports free agent RB Moe Williams (Vikings) was found guilty of disorderly conduct on a charge stemming from a boat-party sex scandal.\nPanthers steroid doctor has licensed revoked\nCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- The doctor who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to provide steroids to several Carolina Panthers had his medical license revoked by the state board of medical examiners in a decision released Wednesday.\nThe board said state law allows it to revoke a medical license when a doctor pleads guilty to a felony.\nIn March, Dr. James Shortt pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop 42 similar counts against Shortt.\nShortt is awaiting sentencing. He faces up to five years in prison, two years of probation and a $250,000 fine. Shortt, who now lives in California, remains free on bond.\nProsecutors have said current and former members of the Carolina Panthers were some of Shortt's patients.\nAfter pleading guilty, Shortt said he wrote prescriptions and gave human growth hormone to people who wanted to gain weight or muscle.\nShortt also faces a state criminal investigation in the death of a woman who died three days after receiving intravenous hydrogen peroxide to help her multiple sclerosis.\nDoes anyone know what has happened to the Panthers players implicated in this?\nSteelers | Police and courts: S. Holmes\nJoe Bendel, of the Tribune-Review, reports Pittsburgh Steelers rookie WR Santonio Holmes has given his account of his arrest in Miami Beach, Florida. Holmes said Saturday night, May 27, that he was on his way from a bar/restaurant in Miami Beach early Saturday and stepped off the sidewalk to avoid a gathering of people. A police officer yelled at him, Holmes said. A report written by the arresting officer said Holmes was obstructing traffic. Holmes said he asked the officer why he yelled at him, and he was immediately placed under arrest. The police report said Holmes was not cooperative with police after being warned to get off of the street on Collins Avenue. \"I observed the defendant walking in the middle of the road obstructing traffic. I gave the defendant a verbal order to get out of the street and the defendant began to say several offensive words and he refused to get out of the street. The defendant's actions caused a crowd to form and traffic to come to a stop. Defendant arrested.\" A date for Holmes to appear in court for his arraignment has not been set.\nEvery year a brand new rookie ends up in trouble. Last year it was Adam \"Pacman\" Jones, this year it's Holmes. I can't imagine Bill Cowher is going to like this news.\nI'll admit that I wasn't there.. but if I had to bet dimes to dollars I would put my money on Holmes story being the truthful one... IMO it's effin' BULLSHIT that cops can fabricate lies and be total authoritative assholes and make up stories, and be \"right\" in the court room, just on the account of who they are... IMO ALL cops should have cameras mounted in their cars, and perhaps even on their lapels to see what they see... Personally, I've just seen too many instances where they lie and someone gets screwed by it... It's wrong in the most disgusting sense...\nI don't know what happened there either but this is how a top notch professional team deals with it...\nSteelers | Veteran players seem OK with Holmes' arrest\nKDKA.com reports Pittsburgh Steelers veteran players appear to be OK with the recent arrest of Steelers' rookie WR Santonio Holmes. The players generally viewed Holmes' disorderly conduct arrest as a young man's learning experience. \"He got himself in a situation that hopefully in the future he'll be smart enough to keep himself out of,\" said OC Jeff Hartings. \"If he's not, his checkbook it going to start showing it.\" NFL rules won't allow Holmes to join the team until training camp begins in Latrobe, but the players expect there will be conversations about the Miami incident before he reports.\nPublicly they don't make a big deal, but privately \"there will be conversations\" about it with him!\nRedskins | Police and courts: Taylor will accept plea deal\nAmy Shipley, of the Washington Post, reports Washington Redskins FS Sean Taylor has reached a plea deal in his felony assault case that ensures he will not spend a day in jail and the felony charges against him will be dismissed, according to one of Taylor's attorneys. The agreement will require the approval of Judge Leonard Glick and will be presented during a hearing Thursday, June 1, in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. Taylor's attorney, Larry R. Handfield, said Taylor would plead no contest to one misdemeanor battery charge and on misdemeanor assault charge. Taylor agreed to visit 10 schools in the inner city and provide $1,000 to each school.\nWHAT A CROCK OF CRAP!!\nI'd visit 10 schools and donate a grand to each one to get out of a multiple FELONY gun charges too! Who wouldn't.\nHow do you get from felony assault with a firearm to misdemeanor battery?\nThe judge is an idiot if he goes for this.\nEven if he signs off on this deal I'd still put my money on Taylor doing something stupid. I'm sure there are stipulations that he has to keep his nose clean for at least a year or two and that probably won't happen.\nfwlion\nLocation: Behind you. BOO!\nThey're being shrewdly political, is my guess. The judge is probably elected, and I can just hear the campaign ads: \"As a judge, ____ ruled against a case that would have brought thousands of dollars to our children's schools...\"\nThat's why the judge might go for it.\nHow do you get there? You make sure you're a professional athlete playing for a very wealthy club owner who LOVES to throw money around, including at a very corrupt Dade County prosecutor to allow the charges to diminish substantially over time until the penalty is something similar to that of someone arrested for spitting on the sidewalk.\nIsn't it wonderful how, if I use my gun to defend my home I could get sued by the person committing a crime, or in fact be put on trial for unlawful discharge of a firearm and wreckless endangerment if it was deemed that I used 'unnecessary force' to defend my family, but that an a$$hole like this guy can wave a gun around at someone posing no threat to him and get away with nothing more than a firm 'bad boy' finger shake from a judge.\nWOW... what a lucky rectum cupcake deal this kid got....\nRedskins safety Taylor to avoid jail in assault charge deal\nMIAMI (AP) -- Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor reached an agreement with prosecutors to drop felony charges against him and pleaded no contest Thursday to two misdemeanors in an assault case, avoiding any jail time that might have derailed his NFL career.\nI guess he was right not to plead guilty to a reduced felony charge and aviod jail time... Once again the US judicial system providing the justice that someone could afford...\nmineral723\nGreen Bay rookie wide receiver Cory Rodgers, a fourth-round draft choice whose big-play potential impressed Packers in spring practices, has reached a plea agreement with Tarrant County (Texas) prosecutors on gun-related charges spawned by a May incident outside a Forth Worth nightclub.\nUnder the deferred adjudication agreement, Rodgers was sentenced to 15 months of probation for unlawfully carrying a firearm. He also received a $500 fine and must perform 80 hours of community service.\nProvided that Rodgers completes the terms of his probation without further incident, the case will be dismissed and the conviction expunged from his record.\nThe agreement was first reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\nBut by pleading guilty to lesser charges -- prosecutors agreed not to pursue a more serious charge of firing a weapon when Rodgers pleaded to the misdemeanor charge of carrying a firearm -- the speedy wideout could still be subject to NFL discipline. The league's personal conduct policy stipulates that, even when a player pleads to a lesser charge, he can be sanctioned.\nAlthough Rodgers, who played collegiately at TCU, has not yet signed his first NFL contract, he still comes under the purview of the personal conduct policy.\nRodgers, 23, was arrested May 26, less than a month after the draft, when it was alleged he fired two shots into the air in the parking lot of a nightclub. A brawl had broken out and police said as many as 50-60 people were involved, some wielding pool cues and swinging beer and liquor bottles. As police attempted to restore order, they said they heard two shots fired from Rodgers' car.\nRodgers' attorney conceded his client had fired the gun, but said he was not part of the fight and that he was only attempting to frighten off a group of men who had surrounded his car and threatened his safety. Prosecutor Kurt Stallings indicated that there was evidence Rodgers was trying to protect himself and that acknowledgement played some part in the plea agreement.\nAs part of the agreement, Rodgers will not have to report regularly to a probation officer if he earns a spot on the Green Bay roster. He must, however, return to Fort Worth after the season to complete his community service responsibility, which principally consists of working with at-risk youths.\n\"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration \u2013 that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.\" -Bill Hicks\nCowboys | Owens blames media for being portrayed as selfish\nThe Associated Press reports Dallas Cowboys WR Terrell Owens blames the media for portraying him as a selfish player. He did admit a tendency of saying things about others that he wouldn't want said about himself. During an interview on HBO's \"Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,\" Owens acknowledged dishing out more criticism that he is willing to take. He also believes reporters are using him \"to gain viewers' attention.\" He believes that he is \"misunderstood,\" but recognizes that other players have been portrayed that way as well. However, Owens feels that he has been \"one of the main guys who've been vilified.\" Owens added, \"Why me? ... At some point it does get to me. And I can't say it enough. Dude, I'm human and that's what I'm trying to get people to understand.\"\nThis guy is in a world of denial. Rag out your QB, offensive coach, head coach, teammate........but he's not selfish. Bitch about not getting the ball enough in SF..........but he's not selfish. Tell a friend (Ray Lewis) you are coming to play in Baltimore......force a trade out of SF.......they make the trade to Baltimore, but you decide you want to go to Philly instead........stamp your feet and pout until you get your way.........but you're not selfish. Sign a $49 million contract........and less than 12 months later complain that it's not enough..........but you're not selfish. Tell anyone who will listen that your QB got tired during the Super Bowl......but conveniently leave out the part about him having just gotten over the flu.........but you're not selfish. Hold a press conference.............have your agent field questions..............make sure he just keeps saying \"Next question\" and not give any answers...........but you're not selfish. Force your way out of Philly and six more years on a contract..........but you're not selfish.\nNo, Terrell. You're not selfish.\nYou're just an A$$HOLE!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 23536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.litstudyguides.com/american-literature/henry-david-thoreau.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:13Z", "digest": "sha1:MNQ4QMEU33QGV6ITW44I5WHRVKSXJD2U", "length": 2166, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.litstudyguides.com", "title": "Henry David Thoreau | Lit Study Guides", "raw_content": "For someone who was considered a \"failure\" by his neighbors because of his failure to live up to his early potential, Henry David Thoreau did fairly well all things considered. His influence is far reaching - including social theory, philosophy, politics, and literature. Though he died young at the age of 44, Thoreau's individualistic philosophy has made an indelible imprint on the American spirit.\nThoreau was heavily influenced by Emerson and the Transcendentalists.\nGraduated from Harvard, but was known (ironically) by his neighbors as a someone who didn't live up to his potential.\nLike Emerson, Thoreau's journal was one his finest literary achievements.\nThoreau was offended both by slavery and America's role in the Mexican-American War.\n\"Resistance to Civil Government\" is perhaps his most far-reaching publication, influencing everyone from Ghandi to Martin Luther King, Jr. It focuses both on the limitations and weakness of the federal government and appropriate responses to unjust laws.\nFrom a literary perspective, Walden is Thoreau's greatest achievement. He focuses upon the importance of individual freedom, self-reliance, and nonconformity.\nIn a couple of sentences, describe Thoreau's philosophy of government.\nWhat is Thoreau's criticism of so-called \"majority rule\"?\nIs Thoreau's understanding of civil disobedience compatible with our current understanding of democracy? Did Thoreau himself believe in a democratic form of government?\nThoreau's life on Walden was an idealistic experiment that he sustained for only around two years. What are the weaknesses with this experiment? Is it sustainable long term? What can we learn from Thoreau's life on Walden even if we choose not to mimic his spartan existence there?\nThoreau's influence is far-reaching. Countless individuals in the last 150 years who have questioned unfair laws, the role of the federal government, or the viability of an self-reliant existence owe a debt to Henry David Thoreau.\nPerspectives in American Literature Project - Henry David Thoreau\nVictorian Web - Henry David Thoreau\nStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Henry David Thoreau\n\"Civil Disobedience\" Study Guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.live5news.com/story/31841294/5-around-town-arts-festival-boat-show-motor-into-the-lowcountry/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:49Z", "digest": "sha1:5S6MNVEHDCCJMYF6MJKAZ56GVTBBLCPM", "length": 2778, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.live5news.com", "title": "5 Around Town: Arts festival, boat show motor into the Lowcountry", "raw_content": "5 Around Town: Arts festival, boat show motor into the Lowcountry\nVIDEO: 5 Around Town: Arts festival, boat show motor into the Lowcountry\nApril 28, 2016 at 4:27 PM EST - Updated July 11 at 12:16 AM\nCHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - As the temperatures rise there's a lot to do right here in the Lowcountry. Here some great events to keep you and your family busy in this weeks' 5 Around Town!\nAs the temperatures rise you'll have the urge to head out on the water and enjoy the beauty of Charleston, the Charleston IN-Water Boat Show has just what you need to get ready for boat season!\nThe Charleston In-Water Boat Show is where thousands come together to celebrate life on the water! Guests can buy boats and boating supplies, and learn of the newest trends in the boating industry. The show will have several vendors on site and there will be fishing seminars.\nThere will be something for everyone at the Charleston Boat Show including, food and drink vendors, bouncy castles for the kids and live music!\nThe show takes place at Brittlebank Park and Bristol Marina.Tickets are on sale now and the show runs from Friday through Sunday at various times. For more information visit: http://charlestoninwaterboatshow.com/\nBlue Point Brewing Company\u2019s \u201cToasted Tour\u201d\nBlue Point Brewing Company is bringing its east coast flair to Charleston on Saturday as part of its national Toasted Tour. The outdoor event takes parking lot partying to a whole new level with an afternoon of live music, seafood demos with Celebrity Chef Paula DaSilva, and of course, Blue Point beer.\nThe event will help support The Humane Society, the country's largest animal protection organization, and will feature Celebrity Chef Demos, Live Music and Blue Point Bingo.\nThe Toasted Tour is happening at The Grove at Patriot's Point from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. Tickets are still available online through EVENT-BRITE and will be available the day of the event at the door, General Admission is $5. Live 5 News Anchor Kyle Jordan will be onsite as a celebrity guest assisting one of the chefs, so be sure to stop by and say hello!\nMore information can be found at: http://bluepointtoastedtour.com/charleston/\n34th Annual North Charleston Arts Festival\nWith over 40 performances on 4 themed stages, the 34th Annual North Charleston Arts Festival features entertainers, arts and crafts vendors, exhibitions, an antique show, children's activities, food vendors and much more.\nThe festival is being held at the Charleston Area Convention Center Complex on Saturday from 10 am to 4 PM and on Sunday from 1 p.m. TO 5 p.m, Admission and Parking is free!\nMore information can be found at: https://www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com/\nWhatever you decide to do with your time, we hope you and your family have a fun and safe weekend!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/wiki/index.php?title=Animal_Experience/Attributions&diff=5665&oldid=5616", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3UW6V5XSJGSANC7VQYVQSTTRZSSCJ3J", "length": 26208, "nlines": 169, "source_domain": "www.livingbooksaboutlife.org", "title": "Animal Experience/Attributions - Books", "raw_content": "[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Animal_Experience Back to the book]

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Standard Youtube License.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 746, "original_length": 46332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.london-escorts-agencies.co.uk/escorts-by-location/warren-street-escorts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:51Z", "digest": "sha1:OCX6LICCJMPF3V3DYDP6RTKTFUE4NNOR", "length": 1311, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.london-escorts-agencies.co.uk", "title": "Warren Street Escorts Agency - London Escorts Agencies", "raw_content": "Without bragging, here at London Escorts Agencies, we have the most glamourous and talented Warren Street escorts in the area and we\u2019re proud to boast about them.\nYou wouldn\u2019t have to worry about how refined your taste is in women, because we\u2019ve made it our priority to ensure that we have an extensive range of experienced and highly talented girls available, and we\u2019re confident that you\u2019ll stumble across your perfect Warren Street escort at our escort agency.\nAll of our Warren Street escorts have to complete a thorough interview and selection process. 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I remember watching some of the aftermath of that attack throughout the day and vividly recall trying to comprehend how best to provide support for my students.\nWhen I drove home that afternoon, every radio station, no matter the format, carried national news. I remember arriving home in Fairborn, embracing my wife and 9 month old and heading to Wright State to pick up my sister-in-law. As we sat on campus, we all heard a sonic boom. What we were later to find out was likely military aircraft eclipsing the sound barrier was quickly misreported as a possible bomb nearby. Soon thereafter, erroneous reports of fires at Wright Patterson were widely reported. As a new father, I was anxious about the world in which my daughter would be raised.\nIn a great many ways the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reminds me of the uncertainty of 2001. The event was so horrific it touched the country as a whole and on a deeply personal level. Most of us simply cannot rationalize how a tragedy like this could take place. The situation is similar as well because of the rampant speculation and hyper awareness it has caused. In 2001, this was experienced primarily through radio and TV reports like the fictional report of the bomb I experienced. Since the tragedy, we have seen numerous accounts of speculation and inaccuracies reported widely on social media in our own hometown and across the nation.\nDue to widely shared speculation on social media about safety concerns at LMS last Thursday evening, our overall attendance for the district was down significantly on Friday. It appears the number of posts and replies on social media, prevented a large number of parents from sending their child to school. As a superintendent and parent, I understand. Any student whose parent indicated that they stayed home today due to a safety concern has been marked for an excused absence.\nAfter September 11th, each of us had to make a choice. We felt threatened and unsafe, and we needed to make a decision on how to live our lives that was best for us. Many of us contemplated our fears of flying and had to balance our travel plans with our safety concerns. Today, we are faced with a similar situation in regards to schools. Parents are concerned with safety and have to make decisions on how their child will be educated both short term and in the long term. In doing so, however, we also need to keep in mind the safety decisions we make everyday like putting on our seat belts, driving the speed limit, and whether or not we allow our children to go to places like the mall, grocery store, or even at home. Because of the safety measures we take at school, in many ways schools are among the safest places for children to be throughout the day.\nIn our social media age, we also must be savvy in regards to making informed decisions based on a variety of facts and not speculation. While good advice in any regard, making decisions based on factual information and not being influenced simply by anxiousness stoked on social media is something adults need to model in order for our students to learn.\nOur district will continue to make school safety a top priority. Our safety plan, which has been vetted by the Ohio Department of Education and Homeland Security, will continue to be frequently practiced and updated accordingly. If a situation is reported, it will be investigated. If appropriate, the investigation will involve the police department. Decisions about increased safety procedures will be made with the best information and in consultation with first responders. Communication to parents and to the community will be made with regard to safety and in a manner appropriate for the situation.\nI encourage parents to continue to have open discussions with students about keeping themselves and those around them safe. Discuss with them about safety drills and what to do in case of an emergency at home, school, or at other times of the day. Finally, teach them awareness and \u201cif they see something to say something.\u201d\nWe want to help. If you or your child have questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child\u2019s teacher, your school principal, or the district office.\nIn a further attempt to bolster our district\u2019s communication efforts, this non emergency message is being sent via email blast and posted on the district\u2019s website and social media accounts.\nDr. Lou Kramer | Superintendent", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 4762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.magpictures.com/profile.aspx?id=c3cd7d75-4bf9-448b-956e-0d9443ff1051", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:P7LM7XBIWFDM3XDZ7P7BUCZGIWC7NW6H", "length": 650, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.magpictures.com", "title": "Magnolia Pictures: Body at Brighton Rock", "raw_content": "Wendy, a part-time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she\u2019s capable enough to do the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon what might be a potential crime scene. Stuck with no communication after losing her radio and with orders to guard the site, Wendy must fight the urge to run and do the harder job of staying put \u2014 spending the night deep in the wilderness, facing down her worst fears and proving to everyone - including herself - that she\u2019s made of stronger stuff than they think she is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.managetrainlearn.com/newsletter/1186", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BWAYEDWXOAA7T7VGZWMEBSA7ZCYLUU37", "length": 4697, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.managetrainlearn.com", "title": "\"Robert Burns, the Transformational Leader\"", "raw_content": "\"Robert Burns, the Transformational Leader\"\nMTL Newsletter: 3rd February 2013\nI'm not particularly well up on Scottish literature - I always need a translation - but every year around January 25th, the birthday of Robert Burns in 1759, we, like millions in Scotland and around the world, celebrate Burns Night. It may have something to do with the fact that we're just a few miles from the Scottish border. Or it may be that the traditional Burns' Night meal of haggis, neeps (swede), and tatties is just a nice, warming meal on a cold winter's night.\nAnyway, this year, after our celebratory meal, I googled \"Robert Burns\" to find out a bit more about the man known by different names as Bobbie Burns, Rabbie Burns, Scotland's Favourite Son, the Ploughman Poet, the Heaven-Taught Ploughman, Robden of Solway Firth and the Bard of Ayrshire.\nI was fascinated to learn that Burns produced more than 550 songs and poems in his short life including \"My Love is Like a Red Red Rose\" and the piece he will always be associated with on New Year's Eve, \"Auld Lang Syne\". I also discovered that Burns was a great romancer and the acknowledged father of 12 children by four different women. I also learnt that, after his death at the age of 37 in 1796, (from a dental extraction that went wrong), Burns' popularity soared and there are now more statues of him (excluding religious ones) than anyone other than Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus.\nBut the fact that interested me most was that, in acknowledgement of Burns' promotion of human welfare and social reform, there is an annual \"Robert Burns Humanitarian Award\" that is awarded to the group or individual who has \u201csaved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through personal self-sacrifice, selfless service, \u2018hands on\u2019 charitable/volunteer work, or other acts.\"\nThe 2013 award went to Khalil Dale, the British aid worker murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2012. Khalil, who had converted to Islam and was formerly known as Ken, had worked for both the Red Cross and Red Crescent in some of the most dangerous places in the world such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. When captured, he had been working in a clinic treating people wounded in the war in Afghanistan. He was said to have an endless supply of understanding and caring.\nReading this story made me look a little closer not at the facts of Burns' life but at who he was and how his life and words inspired others. For Burns' afficionado, David Sibbald, it is Burns' compassion for all living creatures that made Burns special, a compassion that was said to have inspired Abraham Lincoln and almost certainly inspired Khalil Gale. David Sibbald says you can see the compassion in both Burns's life and his poems, whether for a young girl accused of \"loose morals\" for embracing a boy, a field mouse whose nest was destroyed by a plough, a daisy cut down before its time, or himself when he had to part with someone he cherished.\nDavid Sibbald goes on to say that Burns' enduring popularity is because he is able to \"transform people in a literal sense, to change them in mind and heart; enlarge their vision, insight and understanding; and bring about changes that are permanent, self-perpetuating, and momentum-building\", words from Stephen Covey on the power of a transformational leader.\nBurns' namesake, James McGregor Burns, wrote a book on \"Transformational Leadership\" in which he gave the following prescription for being a transformational leader:\n1. Be inspired in your heart and mind, and show it.\n2. Be connected to yourself, the world and the people around you. Be grounded in reality.\n3. Have a vision and communicate it with passion and purpose. Allow your emotion to speak to others in a way that transcends the mind, and speaks to the heart.\n4. Pay personal attention to others in a way that engages them and generates trust and commitment. Genuinely care about them, what they want, and how you can serve them.\n5. Access the awesome power of the mind. Be curious, open to new ideas and learn constantly.\nIt seems to me that every single leader can aspire to do any of these whether they are in an official \"leadership\" position or performing a less exalted role in the team.\nRobert Burns, who was born and died in the pre-industrial age, and spent his life in a poverty-stricken rural part of Britain, would not recognise the world we live in today. He would certainly not understand how we can learn about him on Google nor what is meant by a \"transformational leader\". But, no less than the movingly inspiring figure of Khalil Gale, his message and values are as valid to us today as they ever were.\nCopyright ManageTrainLearn 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/a_spirit_of_the_sun/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YR3YV7UIFIOLINVAW2OMM2DS7IBTGQGX", "length": 1169, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mangahere.cc", "title": "A Spirit of the Sun Manga - Read A Spirit of the Sun Online at MangaHere", "raw_content": "A Spirit of the Sun Ongoing 4.43\nAuthor: KAWAGUCHI Kaiji\nJapan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devasted. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee cam...more\nJapan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devasted. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation. A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early \u201970s disaster science-fiction book and movie \u201cNippon Chinbotsu,\u201c (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic \u201cSangokushi\u201c (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances. 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(\u201cMEMEX\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (TSX VENTURE:OEE) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of engagement with Eight Capital acting as sole bookrunner and lead agent, on behalf of [\u2026]\nBURLINGTON, ON / ACCESSWIRE / August 15, 2017 / Memex Inc. (\u201cMEMEX\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (TSX-V: OEE), a global leader in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) manufacturing productivity software, announced today that in the 30-day period ending August 14, 2017, it has received more than $300 thousand in net-new purchase orders and component sales. In combination [\u2026]\nMEMEX will be closed on Monday, 7th August 2017 for Civic Holiday . Normal hours will resume Tuesday, 8th August 2017\nAnother MERLIN Pilot Transitions into Full Plant Rollout BURLINGTON, ON\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jul 12, 2017) \u2013 Memex Inc. (\u201cMEMEX\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (TSX VENTURE: OEE) announced it has received a purchase order from SEW-EURODRIVE for $500 thousand (approx.) in a plant-wide deployment of MERLIN Tempus Enterprise Edition (EE) and MERLIN DNC software. SEW-EURODRIVE, the Lyman, South Carolina-based [\u2026]\nBURLINGTON, ON\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jun 27, 2017) \u2013 Memex Inc. (\u201cMEMEX\u201d) (TSX VENTURE: OEE) announced today that in the past six weeks (ending June 21, 2017) it has received more than $380 thousand of purchase orders. These are an aggregate of net-new orders and follow-on orders from existing customers. \u201cWe believe these stronger recent results are an [\u2026]\nBURLINGTON, ON\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jun 26, 2017) \u2013 MEMEX Inc. (\u201cMEMEX\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (TSX VENTURE: OEE) today announced management changes to capitalize on the growing number of sales opportunities precipitating from the rebound in U.S. manufacturing. MEMEX has hired John Artman as the Company\u2019s Vice President of Sales. Mr. Artman will leverage his past senior [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 8530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.messengernews.net/uncategorized/2018/09/trying-to-be-in-grandkids-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:31Z", "digest": "sha1:34LFFZWJ3B7ABNMT4AYEKG36MVXCJZKN", "length": 3348, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.messengernews.net", "title": "Trying to be in grandkids\u2019 lives | News, Sports, Jobs - Messenger News", "raw_content": "Trying to be in grandkids\u2019 lives\nDear Annie: I am an outlaw! That is to say, I am the stepmother and stepgrandmother to my husband\u2019s children and grandchildren. I\u2019ve been in this position for more than 15 years. For a long time, I was expected by my husband to say nothing even remotely negative about one of his daughters-in-law, \u201cBeth,\u201d and his son \u201cBill\u201d \u2014 even in the privacy of our own home. I know that his family is to be his responsibility and mine is to be mine, so I have always done as he has asked, even though it has meant that I have suppressed a lot over 15 years.\nAll of that business with Beth and Bill came to a halt about two years ago, when Beth verbally attacked my husband in public in front of his grandchildren. She called him vile curse words while he stood there in shocked silence. What horrible atrocity had he committed to warrant such behavior? He had given one of the grandchildren an over-the-counter fiber supplement while we were baby-sitting.\nAs a repercussion for his actions, he was unable to see or talk to his grandchildren for a year. They communicate only through my husband\u2019s ex-wife, Bill\u2019s mother, and do everything in their power to make it difficult for him to see his grandchildren. They live several hours away from us, which makes things difficult in and of itself. Frankly, we don\u2019t know what to do at this point. We mainly just want to maintain contact with the grandchildren. My husband continues to try to use all forms of contact possible to remain in the grandchildren\u2019s lives, including sending birthday and holiday money to them.\nTrying to grandparent these children has been a nightmare since day one because of Beth\u2019s need to control everything. Needless to say, I no longer let him pick up the grandkids alone. I can now give my opinion openly on the entire matter and can communicate with them should the occasion arise. I am tired of seeing my husband bullied, mistreated and disrespected. He is a great grandfather and husband. We are honest, hardworking, God-fearing people, and this should just not be happening.\nFamily counseling is out of the question because of the distance and lack of communication. Where did we go wrong? Any other advice from you or others that might help us? \u2014 Outlaw on the Loose\nDear Outlaw: For an outlaw, you seem very much like an in-law. You say that family counseling is out of the question, but what about personal counseling? If you have 15 years of pent-up thoughts about your stepchildren and your stepgrandchildren, you should talk to someone about those feelings. Harboring negative feelings for that long is never good for anyone. In addition, it might help you to be more sympathetic to your husband\u2019s perspective regarding his children.\nAlthough it may seem like a small thing, a grandparent \u2014 or a parent, for that matter \u2014 should not give children over-the-counter medication without consulting a pediatrician. You say that you no longer let your husband pick up the grandkids alone because you are sick of seeing him bullied and mistreated, but you have to ask yourself whether you are treating him like a child. I think the two of you could benefit from counseling and communication. Even if Bill and Beth don\u2019t come around, there is a good chance that your grandchildren will appreciate all your efforts when they get older. Keep trying.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2013/11/27/new-livecoding-screencast-ziggurat-51/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QSVEB5HZ2VBEUTSZMO2NKUZNGJCJRJ62", "length": 975, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.michelepasin.org", "title": "Parerga und Paralipomena \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb New livecoding screencast: Ziggurat 51", "raw_content": "So hard to find time to do something creative these days. So I thought I\u2019d post a screencast of a livecoded piece I\u2019m still working on: Ziggurat 51. Hope you\u2019ll find it interesting!\nIn the video I\u2019m using the mixer UI I\u2019ve previously talked about here. I quite like it, as you can see it\u2019s so much easier to focus on composition and performance by not having to worry about volumes in the code!\nAlso, since Impromptu\u2019s video recording functionality is broken on the latest versions of OSx, I\u2019ve been testing out a new software called Screenflick, which is actually pretty good (apart from the logo you can\u2019t get rid of unless you buy the software).\nThis entry was posted on Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 at 9:29 am\tand is filed under Computer Music. Tags: livecoding. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.\nPrevious: Building a master volumes UI with impromptu\nNext: Annotating the web with Scrible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mixedpower.com/general-news/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-tata-nano/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:30Z", "digest": "sha1:3CUJNGM7RY2PGZ55AQW6424TDBTSPK4N", "length": 2628, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mixedpower.com", "title": "MixedPower.com \u00bb Blog Archive 10 Things You Should Know About the Tata Nano | MixedPower.com", "raw_content": "10 Things You Should Know About the Tata Nano\nThe tiny Tata Nano is an Indian car that\u2019s been getting huge buzz.\nBut what do consumers need to know about this new four-passenger car \u2013 and is it green?\nAt about $2,000, the Tata Nano is the world\u2019s cheapest car.\nNaturally, it\u2019s a tiny car. The dimensions are nine feet long, five feet wide and about five feet tall, \u201csmaller than a Toyota Yaris,\u201d says Wired. It\u2019s powered by a 623 cc engine, and is designed to compete with scooters. The top speed the Nano can reach is 65 mph.\nThe Nano is pretty bare-bones: It has a manual transmission, and no air conditioning, stereo or air bags (they can be purchased as add-ons). It only has a single windshield wiper: \u201cKind of skimpy for a country with a monsoon season,\u201d notes Emily Wax of the Washington Post.\nThe sale of accessories will make Tata steep profits: According to the Economic Times, the accessories will command a 15-20 percent margin, almost thrice the 5-7 percent margin that is usual in the small-car segment.\nTata hopes to make the car available in the U.S. by 2011 or 2012. However, because of higher emissions and safety standards here, the cars would cost around $4,000.\nThe Nano is pretty green when it comes to fuel consumption. The car is certified by the Automotive Research Association of India as getting 56 miles to the gallon. That gives it not only the highest fuel rating of any other Indian petrol-powered car but also the lowest CO2 at 101 gm/km.\nThis doesn\u2019t mean the arrival of the Nano is green, though. Because it is so affordable, many environmentalists fear that it could double the amount of cars on already-crowded indian roads. According to the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, studies already show one person dies every hour in New Delhi from air pollution-related diseases.\nHowever, if people give up their polluting scooters \u2013 currently a popular method of transportation in India \u2013 for a cleaner Nano, it might not be so bad after all. According to Tata, the Nano pollutes 12 percent less than a typical scooter.\nTata will not be able to keep up with the demand for the Nano. Auto analysts say that production will be limited to just 30,000 to 50,000 cars in the first year because of limited production capacity \u2014 a fraction of the original target of 250,000.The first 100,000 Nanos will be sold at random to anyone who has applied early and put down a deposit.\nTata hopes to eventually release diesel, electric and compressed air-powered versions of the Nano.\nPosted in General News, Tata Nano |\n\u00ab Feds and Toyota Tout Hybrids\nStates Offer Communities Help Buying Hybrids \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.molar.hu/?page=szoveg&tartalom=ceginformacio&language=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7CQ7BDR2S7BYSCZOALRGHGPPI4QR3B4P", "length": 2282, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.molar.hu", "title": "ABOUT US | Molar Chemicals Kft.", "raw_content": "Molar Chemicals Ltd.. has been dealing with the trade and production of chemical agents. The company stores almost 2000 different kinds of chemicals in the warehouse on 3,000 square metres. The quality of the stock is checked in the own lab and outside audited lab. Our activity is performed in accordance with the international standards ISO 9001:2008 and it also has the cGMP production licence in relation to the agents of pharmacopoeia.\nThe activities are carried out in the following fields:\nPharmaceutical raw materials: The company's offer on pharmaceutical raw material covers the entire spectrum of the Hungarian pharmacy, and hospital market. The packaging of the materials is carried out in the so-called clean space packaging rooms checked by the NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL INSTITUTE in conformity with the stipulation of cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice). It has business contacts to all significant market actors of this field, including also the field of fine cosmetics.\nLaboratory chemicals, fine chemicals: Satisfying the market needs a great number of lab chemicals is distributed in different packaging, primarily to trading companies. The capacities for grinding, screening, sorting, drying prior to packaging are available and the possibility for packaging in inert environment is created. Within this product group the range of products in own production is gradually expanding, just as the company's exports.\nSpecial industrial chemical: The company is dealing with the distribution of chemical materials necessary to the production of organic intermediers, pharmaceutical raw materials, and it supplies raw materials primarily of high purity.\nDisinfectant: Molar Chemicals Ltd. has a wide range of disinfectants with special regard to medical, hospital use in the field of device-, surface- and skin disinfection/sterilization. Distribution of different packaging units can be fully satisfy the customers' needs.\nCosmetics: Further developing the product family of aerosol foam format developed and produced by Interkemia Co. for almost 15 years the company is gradually and continuously appearing with new products. Despite the strong competition the products introduced have earned great success - thanks to the unique format and new type appearance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mssphysio.com.au/new-patients.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LJEGCO2VEUUVHUAADV57GXM7TBOJNMJ3", "length": 569, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mssphysio.com.au", "title": "Mobile & Home Physio | New Patient Information - Melbourne Sports & Spinal Physiotherapy - Home and Mobile physio", "raw_content": "If you are a new patient to Melbourne Sports & Spinal Physiotherapy and would like to request an appointment or require further information, please contact us via email or phone . Our home physiotherapy service offers patients the comfort and convenience of undergoing treatment in their own home, throughout the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne.\n\u200bIf you are a new patient and would like to save time at your appointment, please complete the below New patient registration form and provide it to us at your appointment. Alternatively, we can provide this to you on the day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/iafc/IAFC120814.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:40Z", "digest": "sha1:CZS7E2CHMCYOSZFWYUS4C3ADF3CVHARK", "length": 3166, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.multibriefs.com", "title": "This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view.", "raw_content": "The 4 unicorns of modern management\nThere are a few myths the contemporary management consulting crowd has championed in recent years. Forget the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. We're talking more like the Four Unicorns of Utopia, galloping along on rainbows. The belief in these happy beasts has grown within our organizations because well-intentioned experts have been trying to bring about massive social change by preaching a kinder, gentler form of management.\nAvoid these common leadership mistakes\nBecoming a manager for the first time is incredibly exciting \u2014 but extremely overwhelming. In your hands, you now have the power to effect change, make an impact and guide the employees on your team to bigger and better things. But you also have to figure out how, exactly, to do that. In the process, you'll probably (er, definitely) make a few mistakes. So as you assume that new role, be on the lookout for these common ones.\nSpeaking in front of a group \u2014 no matter how big or small \u2014 can be stressful. Preparation is key, of course, whether it's your first or your 100th time. From preparing your slides to wrapping up your talk, what should you do to give a presentation that people will remember?\n8 qualities of leaders who deliver value every day\nLeadership is a means to create value for others through self-expression. How a leader shows up is everything as it sets the tone for others to either emulate or evade. Making the jump from manager to director to leader is never a clear-cut process. The position itself changes, but the \"how to lead\" skills are never made clear, newly-appointed leaders apply yesterday's management tactics to today's leadership demands, and the two don't play nicely.\nAs we look to the last month of the year and into the new year, it's always a good idea to start thinking about your leadership skills. Are there ways you can improve? Is there an area where you need more training? Can you pat yourself on the back a little and say you've excelled at building relationships with your employees? Here are a few ideas on how we can all improve.\nLeaders should prioritize relationships over efficiency\nEfficiency always seems like the right answer. It's reflexive. Faster. Easier. Who doesn't want that? And yet while efficiency is critical and often a competitive advantage, it is a problem when it becomes a mindset that is applied to everything we do, when it becomes an excuse for our lack of real connection. Faster and easier is not always better. As leaders, we have to know the difference. Some things are better over time. There is no such thing as efficient leadership. If efficiency is digital, leadership is analog.\nThe pitfalls that make workplace conflicts worse\nGreat leaders are not afraid of conflict. They put it to work. Conflict in an organization is a lot like fire. When it sparks, it can intensify, spread and lead to pain, loss and irreparable damage. It can distract, distance, derail and occasionally destroy opportunities and relationships. It makes most people anxious, and as a result it is often mishandled and made worse. But if managed well, conflict can work for you and your organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.museucanpapiol.cat/baixen-els-francesos-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ3HHRW6LWAWPDL5LUWVHXFWVP3UCQSQ", "length": 709, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.museucanpapiol.cat", "title": "The French are coming!", "raw_content": "Route: The French are coming!\nRoute showing sites in Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa which were involved in the Peninsular War and visit to the Can Papiol Romantic Museum.\nA walk through the streets of Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa, which witnessed the Napoleonic invasion during the Peninsular War (1808-1814). When French troops entered Spain, Catalonia was the first and last area occupied. Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa did not escape the conflict and neither did the building now housing the Romantic Museum, formerly the home of Francesc de Papiol, who suffered the consequences of the war as one of the town\u2019s leading figures and an active politician.\nTo book please call 93 893 03 82, or send an e-mail to museupapiol@vilanova.cat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myfriendamysblog.com/2008/11/thankful-to-be-literate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:57Z", "digest": "sha1:444BKMUQM6FQ3ERVSV7BLZDSWXM6ETMJ", "length": 3922, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.myfriendamysblog.com", "title": "Thankful to be Literate", "raw_content": "Thankful to be Literate\nThere are many things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for a place to live, for food to eat, for family and friends, and a job so far. I'm thankful for health coverage and I'm thankful to live in a place where I can speak freely and worship freely. And I'm thankful for each and every one of you who read this blog and especially those of you who leave comments. :)\nBut what I'm really thankful for this Thanksgiving is the profound gift it is to be able to read.\nEveryone who reads this blog also shares this gift. And everyone who reads this blog knows that I enjoy reading.\nI also work in adult literacy. Each day, I'm reminded of how blessed I am that reading comes easily for me. I take in mass amounts of information daily through reading. If I want to learn something, it is easily at my fingertips. But even more than that, because I read I can appreciate the beauty of language. I can be touched and connected to other places and other people through words. I can be challenged, stretched, and entertained. I can be self-reliant and I can double check things.\nLet me give you an example. This past week, I read a book with my students that included the line, \"his breath hung white in front of him.\" Without exception, my students had no idea what that meant, they simply aren't used to thinking beyond very simple concrete language.\nI cannot even imagine a life like that. I can't imagine a life where I would be unable to pick out greeting cards, embarrassed to read in front of my children, ignoring the mail because it's too much work, or unable to find information on the internet. I cannot imagine a life where I am living only in my world, and not also the world of my current book.\nSo this Thanksgiving...I'm thankful my mom read to me as a child, that my teachers cultivated and encouraged a love and passion for reading, and that books have always been at my fingertips. I'm thankful that reading is easy for me and that I love it. And my hope is that in this crazy world of blogs and twitter and facebook and distractions...that you are also thankful for this gift. Now go enjoy a good book!\nSometimes I forget how much some struggle. Thank you for bringing it to light. This should be the year that I get off my tush and begin to work in the community after school.\nTalking with our kids about what we were each grateful for, I said \"the alphabet!\" Everyone looked at me funny until I explained that without the blessed alphabet, we wouldn't have any foundation for writing and reading. And I, like you, am soooooo grateful for the ability to write/read. Have a great thanksgiving. :)\nIt rarely occurs to me to simply be thankful for being able to read at all. I've been doing it for so long that it seems akin to breathing - I've just *always* done it. Thanks for the reminder that reading is a gift and not just a \"given.\" Happy Thanksgiving!\nI used to work in adult literacy and spent far too much time crying with my students - many of them were from the women's shelter. It's so nice to set aside a day to count our blessings. Happy Thanksgiving!\nI was thinking much along the same lines yesterday. I have approximately two dozen books on my nightstand at the moment and I know I won't get to all of them as soon as I'd like. It struck me that I am very grateful to be able to read, that my mom read to me and took me to the library when I was little, and for people who encouraged my love of writing.\nThank you for the reminder! I know I take my reading skills for granted a lot of the time. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!\nThat was lovely and inspiring Amy. I am sure your love will be inspiring to your literacy students. :)\nHappy Thanksgiving to you and your family! Being literate is definitely something to be thankful for!\nBeautiful post Amy. Literacy is so easy to take for granted. Happy Thanksgiving!\nThank you for the lovely reminder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 7991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myoverview.net/2011/09/october.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CX5L36LQCHXGK5P2YRWQT24LE2UXSHMH", "length": 548, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.myoverview.net", "title": "My Overview: OCTOBER", "raw_content": "In a few minutes, it will be October already. This month is memorable. This is the birthday month of my eldest child. She will be 23 in October 6. How time flies. It seems like yesterday when I gave birth to her. Her 23 years of existence in this world is a huge blessing from the Almighty. I wish her b-day gift would be to pass the neuro exam she took last week in line with her policewoman application. If she passes this, this would be the greatest gift to her as she expects to pass. I wish she pass, too,. I have high trust on her capability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 4222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mysouthernhealth.com/parents-talk-teens-dewshine/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PYZ4TGFTJNUK236ESMGYYNWNWYKYMC75", "length": 2468, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mysouthernhealth.com", "title": "Dewshine: The New Danger Threatening Teens", "raw_content": "Safety | Teens\nby Tavia Smith\nTennessee Poison Center warns about the dangers of Dewshine as first cases of illness, deaths are reported to the state.\nA lethal concoction of racing fuel and Mountain Dew claimed the lives of two Tennessee teens and has sparked the Tennessee Poison Center to warn about the deadliness of what is being called \u201cdewshine.\u201d\nThe Tennessee Poison Center, housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was involved in the care of four Robertson County teenagers who drank the toxic combination, introducing the first known cases in the state. Two of the teens were treated at local emergency departments, but two died from ingesting the poisonous substance.\nThe nickname is a play on the word moonshine. The concoction is being consumed to achieve inebriation, but contains racing fuel, which can lead to blindness and death, said Donna Seger, M.D., medical director of the Tennessee Poison Center and clinical professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\n\u201cRacing fuel, used for drag racing, is almost 100 percent methanol,\u201d Seger said. \u201cThis affects the body at a cellular level and causes the cells to die.\u201d\nDrinking this mixture can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, blurred vision, seizures, depression of the central nervous system, coma and even death depending on how much methanol is consumed and metabolized. Methanol also metabolizes in the retina and can lead to permanent blindness.\nSeger said it\u2019s been difficult to determine the number of cases in Tennessee, but the Poison Center is educating thousands of health care providers and the community about the serious results of consuming this concoction.\n\u201cThese deaths are so unfortunate, because I\u2019m sure these people did not understand the lethality of this combination. This is so toxic. Drinking methanol is a recipe for disaster.\u201d\nTennessee Poison Center is a member of the Tennessee State Department of Health Commissioner\u2019s Council on Injury Prevention, a group of organizations throughout the state who collaborate to reduce injury deaths in Tennessee.\nIf you suspect a poisoning, call Tennessee Poison Center for treatment advice. The Poison Help toll-free number is 1-800-222-1222. All calls are fast, free and confidential.\nTavia Smith is an information officer in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center News and Communications Office.\nLooking for strategies to stop your teen from smoking? Start the conversation with our tips & advice.\nSafety, Teens, Tweens", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mysouthernhealth.com/southerners-guide-swimmers-ear/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TAMZT6E4KLRFVPN5HNGZ4NXE55DSRIB7", "length": 2383, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mysouthernhealth.com", "title": "A Southerner\u2019s guide to swimmer\u2019s ear | My Southern Health", "raw_content": "Here\u2019s what you need to know to prevent and to treat this malady.\n\u2019Tis the season for splashing around in our favorite swimming holes and community pools, but all that fun can turn into a pain in the ear. Swimmer\u2019s ear (acute external otitis or otitis externa) is an infection in the outer ear canal.\nWith the help of Edward Shackelford, M.D., of Vanderbilt\u2019s My Health Walk-in Clinics, we answer your questions about this painful, annoying condition. Whether you swim for exercise or you take your kids to the pool to cool off, here\u2019s what you need to know:\nAre some people more prone to swimmer\u2019s ear than others?\nYes, Shackelford says. Frequent swimmers, people with compromised immune systems, and people who have dermatological conditions affecting the ear are more prone to infection.\nWhat steps can I take to prevent swimmer\u2019s ear?\n\u201cPeople active in water sports can use earplugs or, after swimming, carefully try to get the water out of their ears by tilting their head,\u201d Shackelford says. \u201cFor people with significant recurrent issues, a blow-dryer could be used with caution to dry the canal.\u201d Keep the dryer at a distance and use it on the lowest setting. Over-the-counter drops can help prevent infection.\nTrying to clean the ears with a Q-tip or finger can promote infection. Shackelford reminds patients that the ears are self-cleaning. Additionally, he cautions against sleeping with earbuds or hearing aids in the ears and encourages people to clean their devices regularly.\nHow do I know if I have swimmer\u2019s ear?\n\u201cSymptoms such as pain when pulling on the ear, drainage from the ear and difficulty hearing might indicate swimmer\u2019s ear,\u201d Shackelford says.\n\u201cOur general policy is to advise anyone with ear pain to be evaluated to confirm the diagnosis,\u201d Shackelford says. Anyone who has a fever or symptoms involving more than just the ear should be seen immediately.\nWhat are the treatments for swimmer\u2019s ear?\nA physician will clean the ear canal if there is a significant wax buildup and provide treatment with a combination of topical acidifying agents, antibiotics, steroids and antiseptics \u2014 depending on the severity of the infection. Anyone not responding to treatment within 48 to 72 hours should get rechecked. However, if symptoms worsen, return to the doctor right away.\nEars, Summer\nStruggling with swimmer\u2019s ear? Find a Vanderbilt Walk-In Clinic near you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.naftogaz-europe.com/article/en/AndriyKobolyevinterview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:SU3EVYEVTYTXNMEA4K6MLBVHQZMOLE2I", "length": 22224, "nlines": 101, "source_domain": "www.naftogaz-europe.com", "title": "Andriy Kobolyev: It's a myth that without Russian gas everyone will die", "raw_content": "Home \\ News \\ Andriy Kobolyev: It's a myth that without Russian gas everyone will die\nAndriy Kobolyev: It's a myth that without Russian gas everyone will die\n10.11.2014 Ukrainska Pravda\nAndriy Kobolyev took over as CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine seven months ago. Little was known about him by industry players or the general public. Kobolyev became head of the company in difficult times. Ukraine was in difficult negotiations with Gazprom on the price of imported gas, utility companies and manufacturers were in no hurry to pay their debts and Russia was seeking to prevent Ukraine from receiving reverse gas flows from Europe.\nIn September, US \u201cFortune\u201d magazine included Kobolyev in its list of the most influential and important figures in world business under the age of 40. 36-year-old Kobolyev took fourth place for his skills of persuasion.\nKobolyev and the leadership of Ukraine\u2019s energy ministry took a hard line in the negotiation process and lobbied until the last moment to get as good a deal as possible with Gazprom. Ukraine is readying itself for winter. In the last few months Naftogaz has agreed on reverse flows through Slovakia, Hungary and Poland and signed a contract with Norway\u2019s Statoil.\nNearly half a year of complex negotiations ended with the signing in Brussels last month of a \"winter package\". Europe sighed with relief and Ukraine can be somewhat satisfied about its side of the deal. The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will next make a ruling on debt settlement between the parties.\nIn an interview with \"Ukrainskaya Pravda\", Kobolyev spoke about the prospects for future negotiations and about when Ukraine can rid itself of dependence on Gazprom.\nThis could be the winter to try to reduce consumption live without Russian gas\nUkrainskaya Pravda: The \u201cwinter package\u201d has been signed. Are you personally happy with the arrangements? Or, as some experts have claimed, you signed only because you had to sign something?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Not exactly. My main dissatisfaction in this process lies in the fact that, by and large, we went with the less risky option. We could try for some rationalisation of the economy, reducing inefficient consumption, and we could survive the winter without Russian gas. I\u2019m often criticised for this position, but for the country it would be very useful. The fact is that we need to get rid of a number of myths that have been introduced into the consciousness of Ukrainians for a very long time. One myth is that without Russian gas we will all die. That\u2019s not true. We ourselves must prove that it is not. These agreements, which were achieved were largely achieved...\nUkrainskaya Pravda: \u2026 Because of pressure?\nAndriy Kobolyev: ...Not so much because of pressure. This is the position of the European Union - Naftogaz and Ukraine should be the solution, not the problem. And if we did not reach these agreements, we would remain a problem that poses a risk of interruption to transit and is causing unpredictability of gas supplies to Europe. In the negotiations we had a very important advantage which we did not have in 2009 in that the president and the prime minister were on the same page. The conflict between these two offices during the last gas crisis cost Ukraine dearly. The attitude of our Western partners depends largely on how much we are willing to solve their problems. There are two problems and risks worth mentioning. First, a sectoral problem, about which personally I was very worried \u2013 failure to do a deal would allow South Stream apologists in Europe to openly say: \"Look, Ukraine is always a problem, and until we remove Ukraine from the gas supply chain in Europe the problem will not be solved\u201d. We need to understand that in the South Stream PR campaign there is not only Russian money but many stakeholders in Europe. Trust me, a potential $25 billion project generates a lot of interested parties.\nBut, returning to Europe, their position is the following: \"Look, guys, you\u2019re going to court, that's the most important thing. The court can reconsider any prior agreement. So let\u2019s now sign a compromise. You have issues with the price? The duration? Can you find the money for a temporary solution, which will then be reviewed? Does any deal not involve compromise? We are giving you the money - through the IMF, World Bank and EBRD, we already gave you the money, we gave you $3 billion, we\u2019ll give you another $1.9 billion. Let's eliminate the risk.\"\nUkrainskaya Pravda: We have already heard about the Minsk ceasefire agreement that a bad peace is better than a good war, and that it\u2019s important that peace exists on paper.\nAndriy Kobolyev: There is the very important point of guarantees. I am not a great expert on the Minsk agreement, but in our situation, Gazprom has given a guarantee to Europe. They signed the report, and they stake their reputation to Europe that they will not change the price, will not interrupt the transit, and will not attempt to create a crisis.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Do you personally believe them?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Let me answer you this way. In our situation, in contrast to the Minsk agreement, it\u2019s much easier to identify and attribute violations. If they violate the agreement, they undermine their reputation as a reliable supplier of gas to Europe, and we can still work on things that matter like the \u201cbig reverse\u201d.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: A recent survey of European experts showed that they are increasingly sceptical of Russia as a reliable supplier. You know personally, because you are constantly communicating with European officials. Is Europe increasingly doubting Russia\u2019s role as a reliable partner?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Yes. Moreover, one of the most noteworthy aspects of our entire crisis, I think is the fact that Gazprom had to violate contractual obligations, to reduce the volume of deliveries to Europe, just to make a problem for us. And all of this is very well known. Leading businesspeople are key opinion shapers for European politicians and they are very well aware of what was happening. By and large, one of the key problems of the entire negotiation process, and this is all well known, was a complete loss of confidence. That is, Naftogaz and Gazprom had zero trust after all the events in the crises of 2006 and 2009. If you have two counterparties that must exist together, and between which there is no trust, the easiest option is intermediaries. And several European companies offered themselves as mediators. Namely the big companies that are clients of Gazprom in Europe.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Why did not you not take this step?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We were ready, but Gazprom said no. They are afraid to lose their role in the Ukrainian market. As soon as this position might slip there is no telling where the process will lead. What is more, now that we now have signed the agreement we actually have the opportunity to focus on reforms.\nWe cannot afford to waste such an expensive resource as gas\nUkrainskaya Pravda: We did not go for the \u201crisky option\u201d. What was the risky option your opinion?\nAndriy Kobolyev: The risky option was to not agree to any compromises, and wait for the decision of the Stockholm arbitration.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: How would we get through winter?\nAndriy Kobolyev: With difficulty. I'm on Facebook I get a lot of comments that people\u2019s radiators are not hot enough. We have to be very tough to save gas.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Until the shutdown of industrial enterprises in January? This option was also being considered?\nAndriy Kobolyev: No, consider other options. We could achieve efficiency savings of about 25%. Think of the holidays when offices are empty. Why heat an empty room?\nUkrainskaya Pravda: I heard a rumour that in January it was suggested to alter national economic patterns to save gas.\nAndriy Kobolyev: No, stopping economic activity is an unwise decision. Firstly, people need to work. These companies make money and bring currency into the country. It would be exactly the wrong decision. The economy can\u2019t shut down just to save gas - this is stupid from an economic perspective.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: But businesses can economise through the introduction of technology.\nAndriy Kobolyev: Industry, buying gas at $400 for the last four years, has already started economising. We have the largest efficiency gap in the social sphere. 25 billion cubic meters of gas are consumed directly or indirectly by the public - this is a very high figure.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Energy Minister Prodan said that Ukraine will buy four billion cubic meters before the end of this year. You told us that it might be possible to go through the winter without Russian gas, but it seems we are going to buy four billion cubic meters\u2026\nAndriy Kobolyev: Up to four. Look at the numbers. Beginning the heating season we are now able to see how the municipal sector began to work more effectively. There is progress. At similar temperatures we consumed more gas in previous years.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: How much more?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Not a huge amount. The launch of heating season was smooth and gradual. Just now many heating companies are coming into normal operating mode. Some heating companies take a month to become fully operational. But the real economy is working.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: And you hope that we can substantially reduce consumption?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Yes, we will try to reduce consumption as much as possible. Another positive aspect of what we signed is flexibility. What do I mean by \u201cflexibility\u201d? I mean the opportunity to take from zero to a certain agreed amount per day. In fact, this flexibility is really worth the money. This is the most expensive product in the gas business - when you can take as much as you want, especially in winter when gas isn\u2019t plentiful there can be problems. Our task is to try to balance the system in such a way as to minimize the consumption of Russian gas. To do this, we need a very good understanding of how our heating companies can manage the consumption schedule and stay within certain limits, which shall be communicated to them. Limits for industry and heating enterprises have been reduced by 30% compared to last year. The challenge now for this winter is the introduction of new discipline to gas consumption, which many will not like.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Political populism is always an issue. Do you feel a governmental desire to change something this time?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We hope that a coalition will be formed and an agreed element of reforms will be the elimination of subsidies. Those people who cannot afford to pay the full price should receive direct subsidies from the budget. This reform has been talked about for a long time and we very much hope that it will soon be implemented.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Why, then, is nobody taking responsibility for it?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Because this question is very politicised. I will say from my own experience, many officials are just afraid of this topic. They say it is a sacred subject, and cannot touch it. If someone asks \"Do you realise that we have cheaper gas than in a neighbouring Russian region (Rostov)?\" officials then reply, \"Yeah, so what? That is our policy\u201d. Changes would be unpopular, but I think they have to take place in the near future. Because of the economy we cannot afford to waste such an expensive resource as gas.\n\u201cEurope would like to see Ukraine as part of the solution, not the problem\u201d\nUkrainskaya Pravda: If the winter package was not signed, would Russia have continued to put pressure on European partners regarding reverse supplies to Ukraine?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I'm not sure that they will cease this pressure even after the deal.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: What is the situation with reverse flows?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We are getting maximum capacity from Slovakia, we get a good amount from Poland, and we have zero from Hungary. Their government decided to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine driven by obvious motivations. But Gazprom has not been successful in putting pressure on European companies on the issue of reverse gas supplies to Ukraine. They have been successful in Hungary, but it was a political decision.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: With regard to Hungary, there are good relations between Putin and Orban, and they have a loan for the construction of a nuclear power plant which is funded by Gazprombank. But the Slovak situation isn\u2019t entirely dissimilar. Eventually, with the help of pressure from the European Commission and the threat of the Stockholm arbitration, a solution was found and deliveries began. Can this approach work with Hungary?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We're working on it actively. The Hungarians have promised that gas supplies will be resumed by December. Slovakia is a very good example. We do not have all the things we wanted to achieve in Slovakia. We got a partial solution, and theoretically we could import all our gas through Slovakia. To do this, it is necessary that the Europeans implement their own rules, namely the Third Energy Package. But here we are firm in saying that we will follow the rules but the Europeans should also follow their own rules. It is important to understand that it must be a two-way street. And it is very wrong to think that because Europe is our partner we must be sheepishly beholden to them. Europe has an interest in us and Europe would like to see Ukraine as part of the solution, not the problem.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Who raised the issue of providing gas to territories that are under the control of insurgents in Donetsk and Luhansk. What is your opinion, what should be done? If we do not now provide them with gas, we lose control over the areas. On the other hand, we also have little money and would like to save gas.\nAndriy Kobolyev: I\u2019m not going to add anything new. I have already said that the issue of these territories will be solved on a political level. Gas pipelines can\u2019t intelligently decide who taps them. It\u2019s a political rather than economic question. If we turn off the gas, maybe Gazprom will supply gas through another pipe and say \"We are providing our partners with gas, helping our friends. This is a Russian gas.\" I think for those people who live in these regions and might want to stay in Ukraine, cutting off the gas would probably be the final argument against the Ukrainian government.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Regarding Stockholm arbitration. What is the process and what are our chances?\nAndriy Kobolyev: The situation is positive, the case is progressing.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Why do you believe our chances are good?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Because the formula and conditions of the contract which we are trying to revise no longer reflect market conditions. And I think this is obvious. The arbitration case considers market conditions and our main task is to make this argument.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: How long can this drag on?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think a year and a half.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Current arrangements are temporary. How will gas relations be regulated between Ukraine and Russia?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think that we are expecting negotiations on the summer prices sometime in March.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Will negotiations be as protracted?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think that they will be just as hard. They can be simple only when we diversify gas supply channels, then Ukraine will be able to choose. And this is also one of Europe\u2019s main questions - why in 23 years of independence we have not created any ways to diversify gas supplies? The answer is obvious. Therefore our task, besides saving gas, is changing patterns of consumption in Ukraine in the next year. The second problem is diversification. There are several things that can be done relatively quickly. Ideally we want to open full reverse flows from Slovakia. But I also think it is necessary to build a new interconnector with Poland, which would open a source of LNG-gas.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Who will be involved in this project?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We have support from Polish operator Gaz-System. From Ukraine, Ukrtransgas will lead. But we should not do this as \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d \u2013 a three-year plan, then discussions, then we say that we changed our minds. We have to do this at an accelerated pace. The question is how quickly we can do it.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: What\u2019s the budget and timeframe?\nAndriy Kobolyev: The budget is $250-300 million. The timeframe is under consideration. I\u2019m not happy with the timeframes currently being discussed. Yes, in the gas business it takes a long time to plan, but we don\u2019t have that luxury. I heard from the builders very optimistic figures. From \u201cTransgas\u201d I heard a date a year longer than I called for. It is difficult to say. We have been working on the project for some time. If we want to do it quickly, we will likely need to seek means to do so, and the issue of price is not really that big. Every month of delay is a month we could receive a billion cubic meters of gas. If we can find it cheaper than from Russia, for example by $50, then that\u2019s $50 million saved. We can make significant savings so I think it\u2019s better to find the means to do so as quickly as possible.\nRussian gas will gradually lose market share in Europe\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Can Gazprom prevent the construction of the Polish interconnector?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I don\u2019t think so.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: And how can Ukraine counteract Gazprom?\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think in two ways - either via Stockholm arbitration or by the creation of another alternative route for gas supplies to Ukraine. Let's think about the phrase \"counteract\" Gazprom. What do you mean? They are the monopoly supplier of gas to Ukraine. They have a really strong position. The fact that the price that we have achieved is not linked to any policy concessions I believe is progress.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: The discount is $100 according to Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Gazprom has its own interests in this process. They get discounts on export duties, they earn extra money in Russia without transferring to the Russian budget. This price reduction they ensured primarily to Europe, and not to us. They unilaterally pledged to keep that price in commitments to Europe, this is an important point.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Tell us the details of contracts with the Norwegians.\nAndriy Kobolyev: No comment.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Why not?\nAndriy Kobolyev: It's confidential.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: The idea was yours?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Yes. I will say this: it took a very long time to persuade the Norwegians to work with us. The main condition for them, which, perhaps, I can say, was that this is a commercial transaction. Any commercial transaction involves non-disclosure.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Are you still negotiating with other contractors?\nAndriy Kobolyev: Yes.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Can we expect new deals in the near future?\nAndriy Kobolyev: We sign a contract with a new contractor, on average, once every two weeks. All the well-known European companies are interested in supplying gas to Ukraine. Another advantage of the Brussels agreement is that we expect lower prices for reverse flows. This is already happening.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: How much? We talked about 12%.\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think so. It will be 10-15%, and this figure is significant. Accordingly, if we will be able to buy gas at an acceptable price from Russia, then most of reverse ...\nUkrainskaya Pravda: You said that new contracts are frequently signed. Why then is there so much interest in the Norwegian contract? It seems to me that it was PR by the Norwegians. They have serious competition with Gazprom for leadership in the European market ...\nAndriy Kobolyev: No, on the contrary, they wanted confidentiality. The Norwegians, it seems to me have a different strategy. They look at the behavior of Gazprom in Europe and quietly smile and prepare their own new contracts. There are situations when a competitor behaves in such a way that it is not necessary to interfere. You just have to wait. That\u2019s what the Norwegians are doing.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Do you think that Statoil has a chance to oust Gazprom? They became the largest player at the end of 2012.\nAndriy Kobolyev: In the EU they deliver more gas than Gazprom. This is a fact. To obfuscate this fact, Gazprom adds Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey its list of \u201cEuropean\u201d partners and claims that it is the largest supplier of gas to Europe. But from the point of view of the EU, this is no longer the case.\nUkrainskaya Pravda: Do you think that this trend will continue? Gazprom losing market share.\nAndriy Kobolyev: I think that Russian gas will gradually lose market share in Europe. European energy contracts reflect the fact Gazprom constantly creates conflicts with Ukraine. European consumers are switching to other fuels. And after they've invested in other technologies to win them back is very difficult.\nI think that when gas consumption decreases in Europe, Russia will suffer the most. Like in September when Gazprom reduced supply to Europe, ultimately they themselves were the ones who suffered.\nUkraine needs energy reform to fix the economy and weaken Russia\u2019s grip\n18.12.2014 The Economist Newspaper Limited\nGAS is flowing again from Russia to Ukraine, but blackouts have hit factories and homes. Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, says Ukraine\u2019s independence is compromised by its energy dependence on Russia. Mykhailo Gonchar of the Centre for Global Studies in Kiev claims that in its battle in Ukraine, Russia has opened an energy front where it has big advantages\u2014thanks to Ukraine\u2019s own failings.\nDiscount on gas at autumn talks with Russia allows Ukraine to save UAH 1 bln\n08.02.2016 \u0418\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0444\u0430\u043a\u0441-\u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0430\nThe discount to the price of Russian natural gas settled during the latest autumn trilateral gas talks has allowed national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy to save UAH 1 billion\nUkraine\u2019s Naftogaz says it won Stockholm court case against Gazprom\n02.06.2017 EURACTIV\nUkraine\u2019s Naftogaz said yesterday (31 May) an arbitration court in Stockholm had ruled in its favour in a dispute with Gazprom over take-or-pay gas contracts, although the Russian firm said the ruling was an interim stage in the court process", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 23294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nan.ng/news/buhari-convenes-african-youth-congress-for-war-against-corruption/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:K4FMJW4KUZ4QVYUSLBIRFG5JC2ICYTCJ", "length": 3904, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.nan.ng", "title": "Buhari convenes African Youth Congress for war against corruption - News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)", "raw_content": "Buhari convenes African Youth Congress for war against corruption\nPresident Buhari and foreign minister Geoffrey Onyeama at the AU Summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari announced on Sunday in Nouakchott, Mauritania his plans to convene in Abuja within the next quarter the African Youth Congress.\nThe hosting of the congress was one of the ideas the Nigerian leader tabled at the 31st Session of the African Union Summit, to deepen the continent\u2019s battle against corruption and the looting of the treasury.\nThe plan was contained in his introductory remarks as the leader of the African Union theme of the year, Winning the Fight against Corruption, A Sustainable Path to Africa\u2019s Transformation, shortly before the commencement of the debate on the African Anti-Corruption Year.\nBuhari said: \u201cI plan to convene the African Youth Congress in Abuja within the next quarter, and we will be working with the Chairman of the African Union, His Excellency, Paul Kagame and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, to organise an Interactive Dialogue on the theme at the next session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York during the high level segment.\u201d\nBuhari called on nations where looted assets have been stashed to release them without the usually long technicalities involved in the process of repatriation .\n\u201cWe must all collectively work to place high on the agenda the need for open and participatory government, as well as the repatriation of stolen assets without procedural technicalities and legal obstacles.\u201d\nPresident Buhari also appraised the anti-corruption efforts so far:\n\u201cDuring the last six months, we have engaged in multi-sectoral dialogue with a broad range of actors including parliamentarians, national anti-corruption agencies, civil society, media, youth and women groups and development partners. We have convened three different regional Consultative Workshops in line with my campaign programme in an effort to sensitise our people on the evil effects of corruption on our societies.\n\u201cThese workshops will be extended to other regional blocs as we continue the fight against corruption in a bid to transform our continent.\u201d\nPresident Buhari used the opportunity of the gathering to call on all other Member States that are yet to ratify the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption to take all necessary measures to sign and ratify it with a view to achieving its universal ratification during this calendar year as the Republic of Mauritius just did, becoming the 40th State Party to the Convention.\nThe President thanked African Heads of State and Government \u201cfor the continued support provided to me in driving and amplifying the African Union anti-corruption agenda. Your unwavering support remains a strong source of strength and encouragement as we look forward to an even more vigorous second half of this year.\u201d\nThe AU theme of the year leader recalled that the meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council held under the chairmanship of Nigeria in April 2018 highlighted the corrosive effect that corruption can have on societies, considered the link between corruption and conflict and its implications for peace and security in Africa and concluded by emphasizing the need to utilize South-South cooperation mechanisms through voluntary information exchange, mutual legal assistance and sharing of best practices among national anti-corruption agencies, audit agencies and investigative bodies.\nPresident Buhari stressed that, \u201cthe scourge of illicit financial flows continues to bite, eating back the gains and militating against the attainment of our aspirations under Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.\u201d\nHe reiterated Nigeria\u2019s abiding commitment to the fight against corruption.\nTags: African Youth Congress, Mauritania, President Buhari", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 4183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.napahq.org/join/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DWZAOWO52UOSDHJN5VEDELVTOMJO6IYR", "length": 24203, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "www.napahq.org", "title": "Join NAPA - National APIDA Panhellenic Association", "raw_content": "NAPA is a collective group of leaders within the APIA community who work together to advocate, collaborate, and educate our members and constituency for the greater good. We represent our member organizations within the fraternal and university communities. By setting the highest standards of membership, university administrations know that they have a partner in the success of our member organizations\u2019 chapters. When issues arise affecting our community, we are able to mobilize and advocate as one strong, unified voice.\nOur member organizations benefit through NAPA\u2019s involvement in a variety of efforts and initiatives:\nRepresentation to other associations including NIC, NPC, NPHC, NALFO, NMGC, AFA, NASPA\nRepresentation at the Fraternity/Sorority Summit and Knowledge Community\nRepresentation on the Coalition Assessment Project\nMembership Standards to ensure our chapters bring value to host universities\nPolicies on Open Expansion and Anti-Hazing\nEducational initiatives for our member organizations\u2019 leadership\nNetworking opportunities, professional development, and access to resources\nProgramming initiatives such as our Mental Health and Voter Registration Initiatives\nDedicated archival space in the National Fraternity Collections\nWhy join an APIA Greek-letter organization? It\u2019s not so much a question of remaining relevant so much as one of providing relevance. In the melting pot of America, where nearly all of us have family who came here for better opportunities and have assimilated to American culture, we feel a void where our ancestral community should be. We feel a yearning to discover more about our heritage and the traditions that made it beautiful \u2014 to connect with others from similar backgrounds to learn from and share with them. Joining an APIA Greek-letter organization affords that opportunity to become part of an extended family of individuals with similar histories toward exploring your heritage while sharing in the richness of the college experience. It promises the opportunity for personal growth through cultural education, leadership through service, and a broadened network through involvement.\n\u2014 Ari Stillman, Sigma Beta Rho\nIn the last 4 years of being a member of the Greek community, I developed a strong pride for what we stand for as Asian Greeks and a passion for helping us develop our infrastructure to collectively reach new heights. My long-term vision is for Asian Greek life to be recognized as a long-standing, cultural organization. Our traditions, diverse cultures and legacy are what develop us into the strong leaders we are today.\n\u2014 Alicia Chau, Sigma Psi Zeta\nMy first introduction to fraternity life came as a child when my grandfather took me to his annual fraternity alumni picnic. Even at that young age, it was obvious how important that aspect of his life was. It was through my grandfather that I learned fraternal values; not only through his words, but how he applied the values of integrity, networking, accountability, philanthropy, and cultural pride and awareness throughout his life.\n\u2014 Brian Gee, Pi Alpha Phi\nCollege is a time of personal growth and development for many people. We become independent, learn who we really are, and realize what we really want to do in life. There are many ways that people achieve this during college \u2013 people meet new friends, participate in clubs, study abroad, take challenging courses, and do internships during the summer. I have done them all, but whenever friends ask me what experience in college changed me the most, I always reply, \u2018Being a part of Greek life.\u2019 Four years have passed since I first became a sister of my sorority, but I am only beginning to realize the lasting impacts that Greek life has made on me. I have met some of my best friends, I have established an invaluable network on campus and at other schools, but most of all I have learned how to be a leader.\n\u2014 Rachel Wang, Sigma Psi Zeta\nI see all of our organizations challenging the status quo today and know that NAPA can and will do the same. I will forever be an advocate for the power and value of fraternities and sororities overall because I know that when done right, we can have a significantly positive impact on young men and women.\n\u2014 Hannah Seoh, Delta Phi Lambda\nOriginally I joined Greek life to meet new people and find my niche in college because I had never really stayed in one place for more than a couple years. However, it grew to something more as it became the reason I started to become a strong advocate within the Asian American community. It strengthened my desire to gain a legal education and advocate for underrepresented communities. And having the opportunity to meet not only my sorority sisters, but other NAPA members has brought me a sense of community that I never truly had growing up because I was constantly moving.\n\u2014 Teri Chung, Kappa Phi Lambda\nI\u2019ve always been an involved and engaged student. Whether in sports, the arts, or clubs and organizations, giving back to the community and world around me was important. The mission, vision, and core values of my fraternity exemplified the leadership development and alumni network I sought in my collegiate experience and beyond. I now stand proudly as a pioneer in my field as one of the few NAPA-affiliated, Campus-Based Fraternity/Sorority Professionals.\n\u2014 Toubee Yang, Lambda Phi Epsilon\nI joined an Asian American Greek Letter Organization because I found a family, a home away from home. When I went to school hours away where I didn\u2019t know anyone, it was lonely. But meeting the sisters at UVA made me feel like I had a close, tight knit group of friends I could depend on. They were very down to earth, easy to talk to, and dependable leaders. Joining Greek life has made such a big impact on my college life and my personal development that I\u2019m always looking to give back.\n\u2014 Michelle Wu, Sigma Psi Zeta\nHaving graduated from a high school with a pretty significant Asian American student population, I knew going into college that I wanted some way to hold on to my heritage and continue to explore my identity as an Asian American. Fast-forward nearly 7 years and I truly cannot imagine who I\u2019d be without my sorority. From my identity as an Asian American woman, to how I foster new & old friendships, to how I continue to strive to lead where I can and give back to my community when I can \u2013 the values and experiences instilled in me as an Asian American Greek have been, and will continue to be, an integral part of who I am.\n\u2014 Angela Ju, alpha Kappa Delta Phi\nJoining an Asian American Greek Letter Organization during my undergraduate years was an enlightening and enriching experience to say the least. Growing up living in a place where my culture was shunned lead me to join an organization filled with progressive, strong women who were proud of their cultural backgrounds and could share the same experiences with me. I not only found a family, but I found a network, a place where I could excel, shine and grow amongst a community of leaders. NAPA is the sole reason I have continued to work towards advancing the AAGLO fraternal movement as an alum because of the resources and support they have provided to us. I am confident that NAPA will continue to be the strength and representative of the underrepresented APIA Voice. Even after eight years of involvement, I can still confidently say that being an APIA Greek is a significant part of my life and it is the reason I am the strong woman that I am today, and will be in the future.\n\u2014 Kiran Wadhwa, Sigma Sigma Rho\nWhen I graduated from high school, I had very few South Asian friends, and I honestly never thought I would join an Asian American Greek Lettered Organization. However, when I was rushing different fraternities my first semester in college, fraternities seemed like a true family, versus just a group of friends. I was drawn by how close they were with each other, how driven they were, how much they cared for the national fraternity and nationwide network, and their emphasis on spreading cultural awareness on campus. I have met amazing people all over the world as a result of being a brother that have had a strong impact on my life. \u2014 Prashant Kher, Beta Chi Theta\nGrowing up as an Asian American in the Midwest, I wasn\u2019t truly aware of my identity until college. Being an overly engaged design student, I saw further development and community by becoming a fraternity member. As an alum and higher education professional, I see so much potential in our members and bridging the gap between members of Asian American Greek Letter Organizations and campus-based professionals.\n\u2014 Vigor Lam, Pi Delta Psi\nOpen Expansion\nIn the interests of collaborative work and the growth of the NAPA community, NAPA embraces an open expansion policy:\nTo educate undergraduate chapters about the benefits of open expansion and the growth of the fraternity/sorority community at their respective institution.\nTo ensure that when a NAPA member organization would like to expand to a campus at which there already exists NAPA member organizations, full support will be given to the interested organization.\nThe support which will include, but shouldn\u2019t be limited to, will be:\nSupporting and voting to approve the opening of expansion to the council in which NAPA member organizations are members of.\nVoting Yes to allow the interested NAPA member organization to charter(may not abstain).\nPlease remember that you are a representative in the council by being affiliated with your organization; an organization which holds membership in NAPA. All policies set forth by NAPA must meet compliance.\nWhen many people hear the words \u201copen expansion,\u201d they envision a chaotic rush of random groups coming to campus and overwhelming the community and administrative resources. True open expansion is that the opportunity to call a university home should always be available, but that the national organizations should collaborate with the local councils and the university for mutual success.\nOpen expansion can take many forms:\nUniversity realizes the need for new national fraternities or sororities and markets the opportunity. Potential member organizations express an interest and the campus works closely with interested organizations to create a timeline for all of them to expand on campus in a manner that increases the chance of success.\nStudents on campus come together to create an interest group that seeks recognition from an organization that is not already represented on campus. Interested students are supported by the national organization as they see recognition from the university and a local greek council. The interest group is given the opportunity to recruit and participate in fraternity and sorority community activities.\nThe national organization identifies a campus they believe fits its values and growth plan. The national organization works closely with the university and council to identify strategies for success while building a collaborative relationship centered on new opportunities for students on that campus.\nWe should frame the idea of open expansion as one where the university, local councils, and interested national organizations want to be successful by working together to increase the opportunities available to students to find the right fit. It should not be a selection process where national organizations are required to jump through proverbial hoops.\nA common university practice is to require national organizations to submit detailed reports about their expansion plan, alumni engagement, ideal members, or any number of other relevant statistics. These reports are then scrutinized by the campus, a select number of \u201cfinalists\u201d are chosen for a presentation, and the campus selects a specific number of \u201cwinners\u201d who will get the opportunity to expand in a pre-determined order. The Standard of Open Expansion should be thought of as a conversation of mutual success where the national organization wants to use resources on a campus where they can establish a chapter and the university wants a national organization that will enhance the lives of the students on their campus.\nNAPA member organizations all agree that expansion will enhance the fraternal community when it is done freely and in collaboration with the university. The national organization and the university are partners in the expansion effort and neither wants to fail.\nUltimately, every fraternity and sorority started with a group of students coming together and choosing to be called by the letters they represent. Today, the university, local greek councils, and national fraternities/sororities must unite around the common goal of success and support one another in the collaborative effort of advancing the fraternity community. Open expansion creates an environment of growth that is sustainable and relevant to the campus community.\nThe principle of open expansion is supportive of the associational rights of students to freely associate with peers and organizations of their choice. NAPA supports the associational rights of its members, while encouraging them to work as a good faith partner with colleges and universities. As we work together, NAPA and its member organizations seek equity in the application of student policy that permits students to form groups and organizations through established student organization registration processes. Expansion also represents an opportunity to elevate a fraternal community by bringing in new groups that will infuse energy into a community, challenge the status quo, and create additional opportunities for personal and leadership development. Below are responses to responds to commonly expressed concerns.\nWe aren\u2019t ready for another chapter.\nAs is the case with any student organization, students and student interest will decide if and when a campus is ready for another fraternity chapter. NAPA has confidence in the students deciding if a particular chapter is offering something of value to its members. If it is, then students will join the organization and if it isn\u2019t, then it will die out quickly. It\u2019s up to the students to decide which organization provides value.\nWe have to build up the weak chapters before we expand.\nChapters become weakened due to many factors: Poor recruitment techniques, cliques, hazing, lack of enforcement of risk management policies, lack of interest, poor internal leadership, weak mentoring by alumni, financial mismanagement, etc. Students listen to what is being promised during recruitment and if it isn\u2019t delivered after they become a member then they become disenchanted and drift away. Membership at that point has lost its value. The college/university and the fraternity/sorority advisor are not responsible for the success or survival of a chapter. Continued support for struggling chapters is only advantageous if there is a clear road to recovery and all parties are heavily invested in the process. Additionally, adding a new, strong chapter will force weak chapters to \u201cup their game\u201d or risk dying out. Either way, a rising tide lifts all boats.\nWe don\u2019t have the resources to provide to another chapter.\nA campus fraternity/sorority advisor, already overworked and overburdened, may think of expansion and become concerned about their ability to continue to support additional chapters. That shouldn\u2019t be the response. A new chapter is one more opportunity for developing leadership, and the development of lifelong friendships; which will result in more invested alumni for the college/university, and additional philanthropic and community service efforts. Expansion represents an opportunity to work with an additional national fraternity, and in doing so, brings more resources and support to a campus community. Expansion is an investment in a group of students and a campus community. Through this, there are significant opportunities to develop long term partnerships that are beneficial to the organization, campus, and most importantly, the students that are seeking a fraternal experience. Undergraduate students have the right to determine with whom they will associate, and if a particular experience is right for them. The university won\u2019t recognize a new chapter because the student greek council won\u2019t recognize them and vice-versa. This circle is unprincipled and intended to protect those who restrain free-trade and protect their perceived turf. Additionally, it is an inequitable application of student policy.\nEach fraternity chapter can be considered a small business whose products should be the development of lifelong friendships, the development of leadership qualities and experience, the achievement of high academic accomplishments, and the development of philanthropic and community service activities. Chapters that fulfill those promises will find long-term success. For chapters that fall short, the chances of success are dubious. We owe it to students to continue to provide them an opportunity to choose. Expansion creates competition that promotes growth and progress. Expansion builds opportunities for values based fraternal experiences that are a benefit to individual students, host institutions, and the local community.\nIs your organization interested in joining us? Please complete the following steps in order to apply for NAPA membership.\nLetter of Intent indicating your reasons for joining NAPA. Please address the following questions:\nHow can NAPA support your cause as an organization?\nWhat attributes can you bring to NAPA?\nApplication Packet demonstrating how your organization meets NAPA membership eligibility requirements.\nSubmit all items to the Vice Chair at vicechair @ napa-online.org.\nCampus Recognition Policy\nOrganizations interested in pursuing membership in NAPA must meet the following requirements:\nMust have at least five undergraduate chapters recognized as fraternal organizations in four-year colleges or universities.\nMust have a chapter in at least two states.\nMust have been in existence for at least 10 years.\nMust have a central governing body.\nMust have current incorporation status.\nMust be prepared to submit membership dues determined by the Association.\nMust be insured with liability coverage.\nMust have risk management policy that addresses alcohol use, fire safety, hazing, and sexual assault/abuse.\nEnforce and maintain an Anti\u2010Hazing Policy.\nMust be prepared to send a representative to attend scheduled conference calls and the annual NAPA retreat.\nAgree to and support open expansion policies and practices.\nPromote collaboration, unification, and empowerment of all APIDA fraternities and sororities.\nThe National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association, recognizing the importance of recognition or other endorsement which provides all rights and privileges bestowed to students and student organizations by host institutions, and further recognizing the importance of accepting all fraternal chapters into membership in local councils as student fraternal organizations, with all rights and privileges, applauds those institutions and councils which provide such recognition and membership on a free and open basis.\nThe Association recognizes the obligation of colleges and universities to create a positive student life atmosphere. Furthermore, the Association recognizes that the overwhelming majority of institutions of higher education believe that fraternities/sororities are integral components in the creation of a positive student life atmosphere.\nThe Association believes that the best way to create a positive student life atmosphere is through the recognition that all personas have the right to freely associate with each other and with the organizations on such terms and conditions they may choose in the exercise of their judgment.\nThe Association further believes that this position is grounded in the historic American freedom of association and speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and reaffirmed in exemptions from Title IX by the Educatiments of 1972 as it applies to fraternal organizations.\nThe Association further believes that it is unfair and biased for an institution to express that they can only have so many like historical cultural groups on a campus. This would seem to violate the principles of being inclusive and creating diversity on a college campus.\nThe Association acknowledges that colleges and universities have the right to establish fair and reasonable rules and regulations, applicable to all student organizations to receive and maintain recognition. The Association believes that colleges and universities do not have the right to infringe on any organization\u2019s right to recruit members at any time or on students\u2019 rights to associate with an organization, if so selected by the organization \u2013 or to establish any other standards or regulations, which go beyond those applicable to all students and student organizations.\nThe Association will be supportive of the expansion of NAPA member organizations onto colleges and universities, provided that the member organization attempting to expand meets the requirement set forth by the university administration and follows procedures set forth by the university.\nThe National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association, therefore, states its support for the rights of students to assemble into or to associate with fraternal and other student organizations, free from restriction in that decision by anyone and to that end the Association fully supports the notion that all rights and privileges should be granted to such students and their organizations as provided by the host institution and the local councils.\nBecause hazing and other pseudo-initiation practices have not been rejected and eradicated completely in undergraduate activities and therefore remain a menace to the well-being of the College Fraternity System, the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association affirms its position on this question.\nThe Association believes that true fraternalism is nurtured in an atmosphere of social and moral responsibility, respect for duly constituted authority and loyalty to the principles of higher education.\nThe Association further believes that while social behavior cannot be legislated, a fraternity/sorority without morally sound precepts and practices is not a constructive influence upon college students.\nThe Association further believes that a fraternity/sorority has a solemn obligation in the development of its pledges/associations and members and that this responsibility extends alike to the institutions where it is represented; to parents and others who make possible the education of pledges/associates and members; to the communities where chapters are accountable for good citizenship; and to the college fraternity system of which it is a part.\nThe Association further believes that while much progress has been made, one of the most damaging instruments to the fraternity system is the employment of a program of education which includes hazing, and that this unproductive, ridiculous and hazardous custom has no rightful place in the fraternity/sorority system.\nThe Association defines hazing as any action taken or situation created, intentionally to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule. Such activities and situations includes paddling in any form; creation of excessive fatigue; physical and psychological shocks, quests, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, or any other such activities; wearing, in public, apparel which is conspicuous and not normally in good taste; engaging in public stunts and buffoonery; morally degrading or humiliating games and activities, late work sessions which interfere with scholastic activities, and any other activities which are not consistent with fraternal law, ritual, or policy or the regulations and policies of the educational institution.\nhttp://hazingprevention.org/\nhttp://hazingprevention.org/home/prevention/novak-institute/\nhttp://www.stophazing.org/\nhttp://fraternallaw.com/contact/anti-hazing-hotline/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 25070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nasindependenceday.com/2017/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-anadrol.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:225NXVIOLYHEOPWKQGIRISYLIH2ZARRA", "length": 3028, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nasindependenceday.com", "title": "What You Need to Know About the Anadrol Alternatives - Nasindependenceday", "raw_content": "What You Need to Know About the Anadrol Alternatives\nAnadrol is one of the best steroids on the market today. 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It can also delay your fatigue for longer workouts. The product can help you recover faster which will result in improved muscles and strength.\nWhy Anadrole is the BEST Anadrol Alternative\nAside from the benefits that you can get from this product, the most important reason why you have to get this supplement is that it is 100% SAFE and LEGAL. This is what you have to look for when you are searching for the steroid alternative that can help you build muscles without looking bulky.\nThis supplement can be purchased online without a need for a prescription. No more needles needed since this product is in oral form. Since it is made from all-natural ingredients, you are sure that there are no changes in your hormone levels, and it will not cause side effects to the liver.\nWhen you are looking into using supplements for bodybuilding and performance enhancement, always make sure that you are making a wise choice. There can be a lot of products available online, making a healthy choice is very important. Your health should be your first priority.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nathancartermusic.com/upcoming-dates/02-03-2019-nathan-carter-blackpool-weekend", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FSKDGLPOFIZCWPRKAEPKXUWSOGJTKC74", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nathancartermusic.com", "title": "Upcoming Dates", "raw_content": "Saturday Night Show with Special Guests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 98.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nba.com/article/2018/08/06/lebron-james-executive-produce-shut-and-dribble-documentary-showtime/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HLNGOK6FBTNFUEPPJEUBEV36RCXQ7RSE", "length": 1970, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nba.com", "title": "LeBron James to executive produce 'Shut Up and Dribble' documentary for Showtime | NBA.com", "raw_content": "LeBron James to executive produce 'Shut Up and Dribble' documentary for Showtime\nLeBron James will help shine the light on the role athletes play in political and cultural arenas with his Showtime documentary \"Shut Up and Dribble.\"\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. \u2014 LeBron James has yet to play a minute for the Los Angeles Lakers, yet the NBA superstar is already busy in Hollywood.\nJames is behind the three-part documentary series, \u201cShut Up and Dribble,\u201d announced Monday by Showtime.\nSet to debut in October, the same month James suits up for his new team, the series looks at the changing role of athletes in the current political and cultural climate against the backdrop of the NBA.\nIts title comes from a comment Fox News host Laura Ingraham made to James in February when she sought to rebuke him for talking politics during an interview.\nJames is the executive producer of the series along with his business partner Maverick Carter and his agent Rich Paul. Gotham Chopra, who directed Showtime\u2019s \u201cKobe Bryant\u2019s Muse\u201d in 2015, helmed the project.\nThe series traces the modern history of the league and its players starting with the 1976 merger of the freewheeling American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association, how the top players have expanded their notoriety off the court in fields such as business and fashion while becoming icons in the process.\nJames has another show, \u201cThe Shop\u201d debuting Aug. 28 on HBO in which he leads conversation and debate among his guests in barbershops around the country.\nJames found himself drawn into politics last week when President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on him in a tweet after an interview aired with CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he deemed Trump divisive.\nAlthough James has long been a Trump critic, calling the president \u201cU bum\u201d in a 2017 tweet, the tweet was Trump\u2019s first attack on the player, who just opened up a school for underprivileged children in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncwishesh.com/india-connect/gulf-news/69560-3-indians-from-uae-receive-pravasi-bharatiya-samman-awards.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PQU3RHI425AL3VDI3O3BZYT4ZKKRMZOF", "length": 2955, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.ncwishesh.com", "title": "3 Indians from UAE Receive Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards", "raw_content": "3 Indians from UAE Receive Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj said govt. decided to honour 30 overseas Indians at this year\u2019s PBD\nhttp://www.ncwishesh.com/ 24 Jan, 2019 24 Jan, 2019\n3 Indians from UAE Receive Pravasi Bharatiya Samman AwardsGulf News\nThree Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) from the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday were among others who won the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA).\nPresident of India Ram Nath Kovind conferred the award on Surender Singh Kandhari, Girish Pant, and Dr. Zulekha Daud and other awardees at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention or Indian Diaspora Conclave in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.\nMinister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj said the government decided to honor a total of 30 overseas Indians at this year\u2019s PBD.\nThe long-term resident of Dubai, Kandhari, is better known as the chairman of the Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar Sikh Temple, a philanthropist, and a businessman.\nPant, a social worker who has been active in saving the lives of several Indian sailors stranded in UAE waters, has also helped several other Indians in distress in coordination with the Indian Consulate in Dubai.\nDr. Zulekha, founder and chairperson of Zulekha Healthcare Group, is believed to be the first female practicing doctor in the country. Earlier this year, Dr. Zuleka was honored by Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in acknowledgment of her five decades of beneficial contributions to the healthcare sector in the UAE and her tireless endeavors to boost welfare levels for UAE residents and citizens.\nPrime Minister of India Narendra Modi on January 22 inaugurated the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention.\nAddressing the convention, the Prime Minister said non-resident Indians are brand ambassadors of India and they make India proud. He also said India is the fastest growing economy in the world and is in the position to lead the world in several subjects.\nThe theme of this year's Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is 'Role of Indian diaspora in building new India.'\nOrganized since 2003, PBSA is the highest honor appreciating the contributions of NRIs, Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) or organizations or institutions established and run by the NRIs or PIOs in various fields.\nFor the first time, the three-day-long Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is being organized from January 21 to 23 instead of January 9. The change in agenda has been done for the reason that participants can visit the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj and attend the Republic Day parade in New Delhi.\nPravasi Bharatiya Divas Pravasi Bharatiya Samman sushma swaraj\nIndian Groups in UAE Miss Deadline for Proposals on New Immigration Bill\nIndians Taking up Jobs in UAE, 17 Other Countries Have to Register Themselves\nGalore Indians Apply for Passports as UAE Extends Amnesty Deadline\nUAE-Based Indian Girl Rescued who Planned to Livestream Suicide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 8454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nerds-feather.com/2018/01/nanoreviews-six-months-three-days-five.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:10Z", "digest": "sha1:DKTTWVUJTOVSOS4LKNIPPZP7XHXEZJN7", "length": 2202, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nerds-feather.com", "title": "nerds of a feather, flock together: Nanoreviews: Six Months Three Days Five Others, Shadow Sun Seven, Faller", "raw_content": "Nanoreviews: Six Months Three Days Five Others, Shadow Sun Seven, Faller\nAnders, Charlie Jane. Six Months, Three Days, Five Others [Tor.com Publishing, 2017]\nI loved the title story \"Six Months, Three Days\" when it was first published back in 2011. It marked the arrival of a major new talent and subsequently won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Since then I've fallen off of reading much short fiction, but I had read the debut novel from Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky, my review) and it was fantastic and renewed my interest in her short fiction. Readers, the stories in this mini collection are wonderful. They touch on aliens, time travel, family reunions, and features a new story that can serve as a mini-coda to All the Birds in the Sky.\nEllsworth, Spencer. Shadow Sun Seven [Tor.com Publishing, 2017]\nThe last act of the novella is almost strong enough to recommend the whole story. Readers who were hooked from Starfire: A Red Peace may be disappointed by the first half of of Shadow Sun Seven. I haven't been able to figure out if it took Ellsworth getting to the manic action of late in the novella to rediscover the joyful voice I remember from the first book, or if I just didn't recognize the voice until the action kicked into high gear. The crowning moment is a gunfight that is one of the best written I've encountered in a while and it helps establish the legend of a particular character. Overall, though, something is lacking.\nMcIntosh, Will. Faller [Tor, 2016]\nEven my least favorite Will McIntosh novel is a well constructed and accomplished novel. My problem with Faller was not that there were two independent storylines which would only begin to come together late in the novel. My problem with the novel was that I only cared about one of them, which means that I only cared about half of the novel. The Peter / Ugo / Michelle half of the novel was great. The half with Faller and the greater mystery - it was fine, but frequently a distraction from what I wanted to know more about - even though the questions it raised where what helped propel the interest in the other half.\nLabels: Charlie Jane Anders, Joe, Nanoreviews, Spencer Ellsworth, Will McIntosh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 11042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.news24lk.com/george-zimmerman-accused-of-stalking-detective-working-on-trayvon-martin-film/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:7MTHN52IX2X6HRLRDZLYFAFFILOWC5OW", "length": 2402, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.news24lk.com", "title": "George Zimmerman Accused Of Stalking Detective Working On Trayvon Martin Film \u2013 News Blog", "raw_content": "George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murder in the Trayvon Martin case, is facing charges of misdemeanor stalking after he allegedly threatened and harassed a private investigator in December.\nA news release from the State Attorney\u2019s Office for Seminole County, Florida, said Zimmerman was being investigated by the county sheriff\u2019s office over allegations that he stalked Dennis Warren late last year.\nWarren was hired to find people who might be interested in participating in \u201cRest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,\u201d a documentary series about the African American teenager who was fatally shot by Zimmerman, a white man acting as a neighborhood watch volunteer, in 2012.\nWarren contacted Zimmerman in September and gave him information on how to contact Michael Gasparro, the series\u2019 executive producer.\nZimmerman called Gasparro, and they talked about the documentary series, which will focus on the life and death of Martin, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel.\nWarren told deputies he did not hear from Zimmerman again until December, when Gasparro told him an \u201cextremely agitated\u201d Zimmerman was sending threatening messages, according to deputies who requested a warrant.\nIn one of those texts, Zimmerman allegedly threatened that Warren would be eaten by an alligator:\n\u201c[The private investigator] is a [expletive] WHO BOTHERED MY UNCLE IN HIS HOME. Local OR former law officer He\u2019s well on his way to the inside of a gator as well. 10-4?\u201d\nWarren told investigators that he received 55 phone calls, 67 text messages, 36 voicemails and 27 emails from Zimmerman between Dec. 16, 2017, and Christmas Day.\nSome of the messages Zimmerman allegedly texted included \u201cAnswer your phone (expletive)\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll see you before you realize it,\u201d according to WKMG-TV in Orlando.\nRecords show that when Warren asked Zimmerman to stop, he texted \u201cNO!\u201d and then \u201cPursue charges,\u201d according to Spectrum News 13 in Orlando.\nDuring this period, Zimmerman also allegedly threatened to \u201cbeat Jay-Z,\u201d an executive producer on the series, which is scheduled to premiere later this summer.\nZimmerman told The Blast news site that \u201canyone who fucks with my parents will be fed to an alligator.\u201d\nRecords show that when Warren asked Zimmerman to stop, he texted \u201cNO!\u201d and then \u201cPursue charges,\u201d according to Spectrum News 13.\nZimmerman was issued a summons last week. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 30.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 6817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newstalk987.com/2018/09/05/celebration-of-life-services-for-rams-stan-brock/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GFUCXW2PBZQZ4DNZXYUOMK3UWEKJKX2Q", "length": 528, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.newstalk987.com", "title": "Celebration of Life Services for RAM\u2019s Stan Brock | WOKI-FM", "raw_content": "Celebration of Life Services for RAM\u2019s Stan Brock\nServices are set for Remote Area Medical founder Stan Brock. The Celebration of Life Service is scheduled for September 27th at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. The service will begin at 6:00 p.m.\nIn lieu of flowers Stan requested that donations be made in his memory to RAM. You can make a donation HERE.\nStan passed away last week at the age of 82.\nThe best way you can help carry on Brock\u2019s legacy is by volunteering at RAM clinics. You can learn more about volunteering HERE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nkfreedom.org/2017/01/20/sign-the-petition-to-xi-jinping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OLIJJIT7KJDVV7ES3UU3OKCBJY6CSYP4", "length": 508, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nkfreedom.org", "title": "Sign the Petition to Xi Jinping \u2013 North Korea Freedom Coalition", "raw_content": "Sign the Petition to Xi Jinping\nPosted on January 20, 2017 February 7, 2018 by nkfreedom_qkfi7a\nPlease help North Korea Freedom Coalition collect signatures to be delivered to President Xi Jinping through various Chinese Embassies. This is an important cause as China is the \u201cgate-keeper\u201d to so many issues surrounding North Korean refugees and other issues involving North Korea.\n\u2190 Expert Meeting: U.S. and ROK Policy toward North Korean Human Rights\nNKFC Women at the UN Commission on the Status of Women \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?pageid=390", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:FKMIGJANKT3BRPG6DPLYIPQ6HARV4MUJ", "length": 8388, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.nonnativespecies.org", "title": "Guernsey - GB non-native species secretariat", "raw_content": "The Bailiwick of Guernsey is part of the Channel Islands, and the last portion of the Duchy of Normandy remaining to the English Crown. In 1204 the rest of Normandy was lost to the French but the Channel Islands remained loyal to the English Crown. The islands are governed by their own parliaments; the States, in Guernsey & Alderney, and the Chief Pleas, in Sark.\nThe Bailiwick of Guernsey consists of a group of islands situated in the English Channel, in the Gulf of St. Malo. The largest island is Guernsey with the capital, St Peter Port, at latitude 49\u00b028\u2032 North, longitude 2\u00b032\u2032 West; about 100km from England and 45km from France. There are seven inhabited islands and a number of uninhabited islets. The area of Guernsey is 63km2 with a population of 63,000. The other major islands are Alderney, 8 km2 with a population of about 2400; Sark, 5 km2 and a population of 600; Herm, only 2 km2 and 60 inhabitants. The Bailiwick also has an intertidal zone of 1,240 hectares.\nGuernsey has about 30 classes of vegetation, with grasslands being the dominant vegetation. The most threatened habitats are saltmarshes, dune slacks and open dune. As the islands are closer to France than the British Isles, Guernsey has a different set of species from most of the UK; the terrestrial species found are effectively a subset of those in North West France. Species lists can downloaded from the Guernsey Biological records Centre website at: http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/files/downloadlists.html\nGuernsey Biological records Centre has recorded 4,449 species of plants and fungi, 5,757 species of insect, and 2,427 other invertebrate species. In December 2012, 369 avian species were recorded on the Bailiwick (http://www.alderneywildlife.org/sites/default/files/bird_list_-_working_list_of_ci_to_dec_2012.pdf), however, only about 74 are breeding species. Seabirds are the most important bird populations in the Bailiwick which boasts 1% of the World\u2019s Northern Gannets.\nThere are 318 other vertebrates. This includes six species of bat, however only two of these are common; the Common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus and the Grey long-eared bat Plecotus austriacus. The Guernsey Vole, Microtus arvalis sarnius, is endemic to Guernsey. The Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula is found in Guernsey, Herm & Alderney; it was recently introduced to Ireland but otherwise is not known in the British Isles. The Lesser White-toothed Shrew Crocidura suaveolens found on Sark is otherwise known only from Jersey & the Scillies. According to Edgar (2010) there are four indigenous species of amphibian and reptile, and one introduced species -the Western green lizard Lacerta bilineata.\nThe Bailiwick of Guernsey has been included in the UK\u2019s ratification of six multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), these include the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species and Wild Animals (The Bonn Convention), and the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl (Ramsar Convention). The Convention on biodiversity is extended to Jersey and recently to the Isle of Man but has yet to be extended to Guernsey. Limited local legislation is in place to protect wild birds and wild flowers, fifty sites in Guernsey have been recognized as Sites of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCIs), but they have little legal protection.\nThe Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) lists five alien invasive species: Hottentot fig Carpobrotus edulis, Parrot feather, Myriophyllum aquaticum, Japanese knotweed Polygonum cuspidatum , Strangle weed Sargassum muticum, and Leathery sea squirt, Styela clava. The carrier pigeon, Columba livia, is a native invasive species. Introduced mammals include rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus, Hedgehogs Erinaceus europaea, House Mouse Mus musculus, Brown and Black Rats Rattus norvegius & R. rattus.\nA third of the vascular plants in the Bailiwick are non-native, many of these are of no concern. Some invasive species are native. The Wild Plants Protection Ordinance (1950) prohibits the sale of wild plants without the permission of the Environment Department. The Noxious Weeds (Guernsey) Law (1952) as amended by The Noxious Weeds Ordinance (2001) makes it illegal for landowners to allow certain species of plants to flower and set seed. Currently these are: Ragwort Senecio jacobaea, Hemlock Water Dropwort Oenanthe crocata, and the thistles Cirsium vulgare and Cirsium arvense.\nRats are a particular concern as they spread disease and are a threat to breeding birds.\nHottentot fig is very invasive in coastal and dune grassland and scrub. It causes smothering, reduced regeneration of native flora and changes to soil pH and nutrient regimes. Parrot Feathers chokes small ponds and wetland areas, it is overwhelming all but the most robust plants (Soft Rush Juncus effusus , Great Water Dock Rumex hydrolapathum and Sallow Salix cinerea) in the St Sampson\u2019s Marais in Guernsey. Japanese knotweed forms dense stands that shade and crowd out all other vegetation, displacing native flora and fauna, and the overwintering canes and leaves are slow to decompose. It does not yet seem to be as much of a problem in the Bailiwick of Guernsey as it is in the UK. Strangle weed forms dense monospecific stands which reduce light, decrease flow, increase sedimentation and reduce ambient nutrient concentrations available for native kelp species. It has also become a major nuisance in recreational waters. Leathery sea squirt easily establishes wherever it is introduced. It can reach extreme densities and out-compete native organisms for food in the water column. It also predate on the larvae of native species causing population declines. It is a nuisance to mussel and oyster farmers.\nNew Zealand Pigmy Weed, Crassula helmsii is a non-native invasive species not listed on the GISD database but the Guernsey Biological Records Centre state that it is an even worse problem than Parrot\u2019s Feathers, particularly in Mannez Quarry in Alderney and La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Guernesiaise\u2019s nature reserve at Rue des Bergers in La Grande Mare in Guernsey.\nExtensive attempts have been made by the Guernsey Conservation Volunteers manually removing Hottentot fig, but large amounts are in inaccessible locations on the cliffs. The Alderney Wildlife Trust also runs Hottentot removal events throughout the year.\nGuernsey Isle news; http://guernsey.isle-news.com/archives/new-look-for-fort-pezeries-after-fig-clearance/2893/\nGuernsey Men of the Trees news; http://www.trees.gg/page/news\nRecent news from the biological records centre; http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/\nWhat\u2019s on RSPB Guernsey: http://www.rspbguernsey.co.uk/index.asp?PageID=9\nRegular work parties with the Guernsey Volunteers; http://www.gcv.org.uk/\nAs a result of Dutch Elm disease the number of suitable nest holes has been reduced. La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Guernesiaise (http://www.societe.org.gg/projects/owls/index.html) has attempted to reverse this by running the Barn Owl & Kestrel box project. Over 500 boxes have been erected around Guernsey to ensure that nest sites are not the limiting factor for their population.\nRural Tree Planting Scheme (1992 \u2013 2006): In response to Dutch elm disease 180,000 trees were planted on over 800 sites across Guernsey, Herm & Sark.\nAlderney Wildlife Trust; http://www.alderneywildlife.org/\nGlobal Invasive Species Database; http://issg.org/database/species/search.asp?st=sss&sn=&rn=Guernsey&ri=22728&hci=-1&ei=-1&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN\nGuernsey Biological Records Centre; http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/\nGuernsey Conservation Volunteers; http://www.gcv.org.uk/\nGuernsey Men of the Trees; http://www.trees.gg/\nJNCC Guernsey Biodiversity Snapshot; http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/PDF/ot_biodiversity2011_guernsey.pdf\nJNCC overview pages for Guernsey; http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-5820\nLa Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Guernesiaise /Guernsey Environmental Services Ltd; http://www.societe.org.gg/about/services.html\nRSPB Guernsey Group; http://www.rspbguernsey.co.uk/\nStates of Guernsey Biodiversity Strategy; http://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=90606&p=0\nStates of Guernsey, Conserving the Natural Environment; http://www.gov.gg/article/2183/Conserving-the-Natural-Environment--Biodiversity\nSnapshot appendices; http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/PDF/ot_biodiversity2011_guernsey_appendices.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 9945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nsi-ins.ca/publications/2008/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UKUO6OHKDUHC2U64R22YC2KIJQVSGJLT", "length": 3249, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nsi-ins.ca", "title": "Publications | The North-South Institute | International Development Research | Page 2008", "raw_content": "Haiti and the Reform of the Haitian National Police\nThis report (available only in French) documents the history of the Haitian National Police (HNP), its origins and the plans developed to reform it, and explores four central questions: What reforms are currently being undertaken? What are the impacts of these reforms? What can explain these outcomes? What alternative approaches could result in more sustainable\u2026\nHuman Rights and Public Sector Development\nThere is a growing consensus that development cooperation activities should promote human rights, and that human rights can promote development. Many donor agencies, including Canada, have adopted human rights policies that guide their development cooperation activities. While there have been several decades of experience by international development agencies with both private sector development (PSD) as a tool for poverty\u2026\nThe Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11\nWhat kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? Grappling with these questions, this book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies. The studies address\u2026\nWe the Peoples 2008, is a survey-based joint project of The North- South Institute and the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA). Its goal is to encourage and support the engagement of civil society organizations (CSOs) with the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), document and report on the CSOs\u2019 involvement in\u2026\nReforming Aid and Development Cooperation: Accra, Doha and Beyond\nThis policy note draws on key findings from NSI\u2019s conference Does aid work? Can it work better? Crucial questions on the road to Accra and Doha to analyze some of the challenges associated with improving aid effectiveness and impact. It makes a number of policy recommendations, directed particularly at donors. Download PDF\nThe Currency Transaction Tax \u2013 A Bold Idea for Financing Development\nGlobal problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good. Download PDF\nFragile States or Failing Development? The Canadian Development Report 2008 \u2013 Fragile States or Failing Development? \u2013 features four chapters outlining current debates on fragile states including essays on the role of gender equality, the militarization of peacebuilding and the war on terror, and the role of aid in state fragility. The book also focuses\u2026\nInternational Development and Southern Perspectives on Reform\nThis synthesis report presents the key findings and results of a research program that explores Southern perspectives on reforming the international development architecture. This architecture has long been criticized by developing countries as inequitable, and by developed countries as ineffective. The earliest post-war reform initiatives were launched by developing countries. Involving system-wide reform that extended\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nyons-immo.com/en/real-estate-ad/house-for+sale-mirabel+aux+baronnies-26110-1-635v1491m.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:35Z", "digest": "sha1:B3QL7OJYYJQPJWGBFHHIIPV5FBCZYE5S", "length": 270, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nyons-immo.com", "title": "House Mirabel-aux-Baronnies to buy house 3 bedrooms 143 m\u00b2", "raw_content": "House Mirabel-aux-Baronnies\nIn the village of Mirabel-aux-Baronnies, with all shops\nVillage House co-owned with a living area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 143 m\u00b2\nFloor 1: Entrance hall, Kitchen / Dining room 26 m\u00b2, Living room 48 m\u00b2 with fireplace (insert)\nView : D\u00e9gag\u00e9e Terrasse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nyrestaurantinsider.com/sept2007-just-call-me-chef.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HQKXJCAB3QWTWTACXAQGXFP5S7SCDPQ3", "length": 8551, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nyrestaurantinsider.com", "title": "Just call me Chef - women chefs of New York", "raw_content": "Just call me Chef\nDespite a prevalent philosophy that a women's place is in the kitchen and many chefs citing their mothers and grandmothers as their inspiration, the sight of a woman in charge in a professional kitchen is still all too rare. But thanks to the determined efforts of more than a few women who boldly went where few women dared go before, one of the last bastions of maledom are being integrated. The industry is slowly but surely entering an era where the playing field is measured by ability that is both testosterone and estrogen fueled. And chefs like Alex Guarnaschelli (Butter), Rachel Lansing-Hidalgo (Aureole), Deborah Racicot (Gotham Bar and Grill), Carmen Gonzalez (Lucy of Gramercy), and Patricia Yeo (Sapa and Monkey Bar) are helping to make it happen.\nIt's their confidence that leads the way. Each of these chefs - who range in age from 25 to 48 - defines herself as a creative being, and each is a leader in her own right. They have honed their craft and don't have anything left to prove; their food does it for them. Gonzalez, who has run restaurants since the age of 20 when she opened her first small sandwich shop in Puerto Rico, acknowledges a common misconception about women's ability to succeed. \"It's as if they think we're going to have an attack of PMS and run out of the kitchen,\" she says.\nThese five chefs are more than happy to stand out from the crowd. Particularly a crowd which involves many sweaty knife-wielding men letting off steam with a constant stream of raunchy chatter. Gonzalez dismisses the notion that the banter is intolerable. \"You get used to it. I scream with laughter and keep going and then they are very respectful. If I didn't do that we wouldn't have the kitchen spirit.\" This spirit is clearly appreciated by one particular male chef who asked to remain anonymous, who admitted that \"The women in my kitchen are even dirtier than the guys. And chefs love that!\" Guarnaschelli actually relishes whatever conversation crops up. \"You've got 20 cooks and only two girls,\" she said. \"Guess who's going to be more interesting to talk to?\" Gonzalez is respectfully addressed only as \"Chef Carmen\", or \"Chef\" in her kitchen. Her kitchen staff fell quickly into line when they experienced the petite chef's wrath one day, when a waiter made the mistake of asking her, \"Honey, where should I put this empty plate?\" For Lansing-Hidalgo, the youngest of these accomplished chefs, there are benefits to following the women who came before her but she acknowledges that time hasn't put an end to the sex talk in the kitchen. Nonetheless, her skill with desserts has won her the respect of her colleagues, leaving her unafraid to don her favorite pink apron, despite the gentle ribbing it elicits.\nTheir own culinary educations and careers came about in very different ways; some went to school to cook, some don't even find it necessary, and some are now teaching in culinary schools. Yet each one of these women, whether they're overseeing a staff making pastry or poaching lobsters, has earned her stripes in her own unique way. From a young age, Lansing-Hidalgo helped with the food preparation in her family's catering business. She went on to attend the culinary arts program at Park West High School in New York City and won a C-CAP cooking competition in her senior year. The prize was a full scholarship to the CIA, and while she was there she worked an externship at Aureole. On the other hand, there's Racicot, who came to New York on vacation in the early 1990s and never left. She earned her stripes the old fashioned way; she was tutored in the kitchen, and worked under Claudia Fleming at Gramercy Tavern. Th ough she's lost track of her first mentor, Hugh Kohl of Seattle, the thought of all he did for her brought tears to her eyes. \"He was an amazing man. It's a real super special person who can touch another person and help you,\" she said. \"I'm glad I was taught by cooks and chefs who taught me that flavor was number one, presentation second. I started at a point where things were male oriented. They didn't want to hear you cry or moan. I don't blame them!\"\nYeo was a Princeton student on her way to a science degree when she met Bobby Flay at a cooking class she had taken between semesters, and he hired her to be a line cook at Miracle Grill. \"I never meant to stay in the business,\" she says. \"I gave Bobby Flay a 1 \u00bd year commitment and ended up staying five years.\" Ask Guarnaschelli what it was like to graduate from La Varenne Culinary School in Burgundy and begin her rise through the ranks of Guy Savoy's Michelin-starred kitchen in France and she'll tell you it was tough. Being a woman, and an American one at that, in a very traditional French kitchen in the early 90s, where despite the beloved Grand'Mere cooking culture that so many French chefs embrace, a woman's place was not in the professional kitchen. She ultimately thrived under Savoy's watchful eye, but not without it leaving a lasting impression. \"I chose the police brutality route. The environment (in France) was intensely aggressive. You can do and say anything you want,\" says Guarnaschelli.\nDespite the barriers, these women are bringing a fresh perspective based on their unique skill sets. Men may be physically stronger, but female chef's nurturing nature and natural ability to multi-task and organize often add a sense of calm to the kitchen. \"Women are really good multitaskers,\" Yeo said. \"We can get seven projects done at the same time, but where we excel is at soft skills. As a chef you're not just thinking about the menu, you're also doing other things - like talking to the press! And we're less competitive and work better as a group.\" Both Yeo and Guarnaschelli have sous chefs that have been with them for years; an anomaly in an industry where people move constantly. And, in particular, the group at Butter has flourished and stress levels are reduced thanks to Guarnaschelli's mothering ways. She is insistent that everyone leave their station to sit down together for staff meal at 4:30. \"These are the things I do that calm people down,\" she explains. \"Do this every day and we forge a trust.\" Beyond trust and getting your staff 's respect is the responsibility of making a business flourish. It's a complicated recipe to ensure a restaurant's success. It takes years of experience working with numerous chefs and adapting pieces of their different approaches that work for you, plus making the commitment to working with the best ingredients possible and having a thorough understanding of restaurant math. Racicot presses her staff to work with a cost conscious attitude. \"I try to run my department like a little business, with no waste,\" she explains. Guarnaschelli models her approach to running Butter from what she learned working with Joachim Splichal, a mentor she greatly admires for his business acumen.\nThe demanding hours a chef means there is not much time for socializing. \"Cheffing takes a huge toll on relationships,\" said Gonzalez. \"Who wants to date you when you get out of the kitchen at 1:00 a.m.?\" Lansing-Hidalgo is one of the lucky ones; her husband is in the business and understands her hours and her issues at work. Starting a family like Guarnaschelli just did (daughter Ava was born in July) is an enormous juggling act that requires great family support. A strong network of female chefs who rely upon each other for ideas and camaraderie still exists. Alice Waters and Barbara Tropp are two names frequently mentioned as industry icons and Gonzalez gathers her friends Emily Luchetti, Jody Williams, and Nancy Silverton together whenever possible for a little bonding. \"I don't tend to hang out with a lot of people in the industry because we all work so much,\" says Racicot. \"But you do want a little face time, and it's important to network. Doing functions helps you stay out there and getting involved helps you naturally network and see what others are doing.\"\nThose are all good thoughts from chefs who have made a name for themselves in what has traditionally been a man's world. To shoot for your dreams, work as hard or harder than your colleagues, believe in yourself, hold true to your principles, and be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve the end goal almost goes without saying. However, Guarnaschelli couldn't resist providing the ultimate roadmap to success with this advice, dished out with a smile; \"Park your boobs and your eyeliner at the door and do the work. And it will reward you twenty-fold.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 9661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nzeka-labs.com/short-course-on-resources-what-you-need-to-know.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOWFD4WHT5IJ77IXUU5277VQFVL333QF", "length": 2772, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nzeka-labs.com", "title": "Short Course on Resources \u2013 What You Need To Know | NZ Labs", "raw_content": "Rapid House Selling Tips for Individuals Needing Urgent Cash\nSometimes, people face problems on finances that the only way to solve it is to sell their house quickly. Other times, there could be a need for permanent relocation such that the house that they own must be disposed of as soon as possible as well. Although these individuals may be able to sell their properties fast, there are several cases in which these are not paid in cash. This implies that they were not able to acquire a buyer who pays real cash. Perhaps, these are bought through assumption from a housing agency or other means. At times, with this kind of house selling approach, an owner may get the money through staggered payment. Nonetheless, if you are amongst these individuals, you do not have to fret simply because there are sensible quick home sale options you can apply wherein you could sell your home fast and get hold of the full cash as well.\nFirst of all, simply like any other marketing methods, you have to make your property as attractive as it can be. Potential buyers are generally searching for a home that does not require a lot of repair projects. For this reason, you might be required to restore everything that is busted in your property while showing priority for the most vital parts such as the roof, power generation systems, and pipe lines. In fact, you do not need to redesign the entire property because aside from the truth that this project would take a lot of time and effort, you may also have to spend a huge amount of cash which will absolutely wipe out your goal to sell your home quickly. However, you may always need a general decluttering for your home whether you restore some parts in it or not.\nSubsequently, you need to get to the perfect advertising platform and focus on the ideal people or company that purchases properties with real cash. Today, there are numerous means to achieve this phase. Naturally, you can still utilize the typical referral marketing approach and purely stress out that you sell off it to immediate buyers only. However, it is going to be very beneficial to sell your house quickly if you use the World Wide Web as your venue for advertising. You can take advantage of the social media or house sale platforms and enable men and women to be informed that you have a home to sell for cash basis.\nIf you have an pressing need of cash and the only strategy to attain this is via house selling, then you must put into practice effective strategies to get hold of a buyer swiftly. Do not forget to present your house well and advertise it properly while putting in mind to aim at the direct cash buyers.Homes \u2013 Getting Started & Next Steps\n\u2190 Why not learn more about Sales? If You Read One Article About Services, Read This One \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oasis-mag.com/from-a-distance-with-tanya-traboulsi/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TC4UZMKDQZC2WCWA2EKAXGHXMK55VTQU", "length": 3903, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.oasis-mag.com", "title": "Oasis \u00bb From a Distance with Tanya Traboulsi", "raw_content": "After years spent documenting Beirut\u2019s alternative music scene, photographer Tanya Traboulsi reveals a more private side in her first solo show \u201cFrom a Distance\u201d.\nIt\u2019s a big night for Tanya Traboulsi. It\u2019s the opening of her first solo exhibition in Beirut, and the friends and collaborators she\u2019s worked with over the last five years are filing in to Art Factum Gallery, along with the regular gallery-goers, to take a look at her work. Entitled \u201cFrom a Distance\u201d, it\u2019s a sharp departure from the music photography she\u2019s most widely known for. There are no recording studios, skinny lead singers or DJs bent over mixing desks here. Instead, Traboulsi presents seven series, each, in their own way, abandoning music for a more artistic and introspective terrain.\nWhether a black and white frame of a stairwell window (La Fen\u00eatre) or a hazy seascape (Fog), each image is a distilled announcement of Traboulsi\u2019s own ambitions as an up and coming artist. The exhibition is also incredibly intimate, and reveals a much more penetrating and personal side to the Austrian-Lebanese photographer, and lthough she says she\u2019s \u201cmore excited than nervous\u201d she admits there\u2019s definitely \u201ca bit of nervousness\u201d. This isn\u2019t helped by the fact she hurt her back today and is clutching a small glass of red wine to numb the pain.\nThe back problem is an old one. Its return tonight is unexpected, but when the injury was at its worst it had a small yet telling impact on her career. Standing by the side of the stage for hours to take photos at gigs and lugging around her equipment suddenly became a bit more difficult. As a result, she\u2019s had to be more selective about what she does and doesn\u2019t shoot in the past year. Her diary is still full \u2013 as well as the music photography she\u2019s constantly running around the city on magazine and book commissions \u2013 but it\u2019s arguably this slight physical removal from the \u201cscene\u201d that gave Traboulsi the headspace to develop her work as an artist in her own right. And throughout \u201cFrom a Distance\u201d there\u2019s a refusal to conform to anyone\u2019s expectations besides her own. \u201cI never work to please others. Perhaps you can call this selfishness,\u201d she says. \u201cThe aim of my work isn\u2019t to persuade the viewer to like my work, but rather to trigger their own imagination and thoughts, to raise questions and to go deeper than just the visual surface.\u201d\nTraboulsi\u2019s place as a documenter of Beirut\u2019s alternative music scene has always been motivated by an almost nurturing sense of duty. In a scene so closely-knit as in Beirut, she\u2019s known many of the musicians for years \u2013 they\u2019ve seen each other grow up, break up, fail and succeed, and in some ways Traboulsi operates like a royal court painter or designated family photographer. Always in the background, her photographs are now definitive. Think of Mashrou\u2019 Leila and Traboulsi\u2019s image of the young band sitting on a row of plastic white chairs springs to mind; think of Scrambled Eggs, and see the band leaning against the white-walled corridors of Radio Liban. Her images, to some extent, provide a visual patois of an otherwise unrecorded time and place.\nA fashion design graduate, Traboulsi, now 35, spent the majority of her twenties drifting between odd jobs that never quite fit. Photography first presented itself as an \u201curge\u201d during the July 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, but she didn\u2019t own a camera. In 2007, \u201cby pure coincidence\u201d, she was given a small plastic camera with some 110 film and asked her friends, local hip hop artists 961 Underground crew and DJ Lethal Skillz, if they\u2019d mind her photographing them. Shortly after, she took her camera to shoot a Scrambled Eggs concert, an experimental rock band she still continues to photograph today. Her photos of the band and many others have now appeared in publications around the world, and culminated in the book \u201cUntitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oddxian.com/2009/10/climbing-mt-improbable.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RBNLNLMYJQJIDYQPREKXDKVB4AVSQIBH", "length": 491, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oddxian.com", "title": "oddXian: Climbing Mt. Improbable", "raw_content": "jazzycat October 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM\nI believe the Mountain should be called Mount Impossible. Without a self existent being [God], they are left with something coming from nothing and life coming from non-life. Two little points they never seem to have much answer for and are completely satisfied to claim they don't know. This means the whole system is built on faith. I guess that is why they celebrate Darwin Day. He is the faith leader of the cult. Unfortunately he is as dead as Elvis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.odec.ca/projects/2004/leun4m0/public_html/Summary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UMLY4CMM5EIMTA4OOHUAIDAAGCWBHKMS", "length": 164, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.odec.ca", "title": "Summary", "raw_content": "My project will help you understand what MagLev trains are, how they work and the scientific principles that make them work with detailed explanations and pictures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 153.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oliverheld.net/project-das-lachen-muensters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3QAFZ2BKGOGJCABPOLUOOOKP3K4YTJZZ", "length": 1031, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.oliverheld.net", "title": "Oliver Held \u2014 Das Lachen M\u00fcnsters", "raw_content": "Title: Das Lachen M\u00fcnsters - M\u00fcnster\u2019s laughter\nVideo format: DV Cam\n10 TV-sets or your own one\nM\u00fcnster\u2019s Laughter consists of about 700 faces, laughing in front of my camera at the citizens\u2019 office at the city of M\u00fcnster\u2019s central administration building.\nAll the faces were recorded in front of a neutral backdrop and later their positions were finetuned at the computer. The right eye served as the anchor point, i.e. this region stays fixed while the rest of the face shakes itself laughing around it. Synchronised in this manner, the laughers were layered on top of each other transparently. Each of them contributes one percent to the visible image, there are always 50 women and 50 men. When one face finishes, it is immediately replaced by another. The ingredients change, but the mixture remains constant.\nThe result was shown on the local station TV M\u00fcnster for two weeks. For those without access to cable TV there was an installation of ten TV screens in the window of the citizens\u2019 advice office in the centre of town.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oneworldoneocean.com/video/entry/imax_3d_filming_challenges_in_the_arctic", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4MLIVWEOOTZJCTYFEOPHWCKL4SUNWR7", "length": 132, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oneworldoneocean.com", "title": "IMAX 3D Filming Challenges in the Arctic | One World One Ocean", "raw_content": "IMAX 3D Filming Challenges in the Arctic\nA glimpse behind the scenes at the challenges of filming in the extreme cold of the Arctic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 71.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.organicprocessors.com/change-of-style-website/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JXKTINCG6H4WKULRFI7R4ZKJJWGCXVFV", "length": 1993, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.organicprocessors.com", "title": "Change Of Style Website | Organic Processors", "raw_content": "\u00ab Compounds Fruits\nRecommendations For Repairs \u00bb\nChange Of Style Website\nAppearance of the site is large enough value, along with search engine optimization and usability. Attractive appearance creates a favorable impression on visitors, but it is difficult please everyone, because tastes and preferences vary widely. If the site has regular visitors, it would be nice to give them a choice of style site that best matches their views. Choosing a style once the user each time you visit the site will view it in a form that he likes. If there are several styles increases the likelihood that more visitors will find the most suitable style.\nIn addition, it should be noted that many people enjoy the process of style change, which demonstrates their willingness to follow their wishes. Although we must admit that many visitors will not change style, even if they are not entirely satisfied with the default layout, so as not accustomed to such actions or simply do not see any point in the extra effort. Changing styles may also be useful for implementing full support for different browsers. For each group of browsers can connect a separate identity, such as the modern versions use the additional elements of design with advanced features not supported by older versions. There is also a possibility of having a separate identity for mobile phones, which are increasingly used for web browsing. In addition, much easier to develop a style of printing, but not make copies of pages just for them to be printed. Change the look of the site is simple enough, and when you create virtually any site it is recommended to lay into him this opportunity.\nYou can acquainted with the example of changing styles on the relevant website page web studio e-KAO. At the time of this writing, there are eight styles that show different approaches to building Web pages. Some styles do not too easy to use, as are for demonstration purposes only and not for everyday work.\nTagged in: internet, Web design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.orthospinesearch.com/recruiting-top-talent-is-easier-than-you-might-think/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GLW4IRN74WF3FEPERL55KUQG7QBZC4AD", "length": 6411, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.orthospinesearch.com", "title": "Recruiting Top Talent Is Easier Than You Might Think \u2013 Ortho Spine Search", "raw_content": "Recruiting Top Talent Is Easier Than You Might Think\nHiring is your most important job, however, most executives have it all wrong. They think they have developed a smart process and they know what they are doing, but that process is dated and mostly ineffective in trying to win over the happily employed candidate. After all, successful recruiting is not a science but an art. You can make candidates jump through all of the appropriate hoops, but in the end the interview process only shows you a couple things:\nIt shows you who is the best interviewer (perhaps who was coached the best or who is the most desperate)\nIt will give you a small understanding of the potential cultural fit but not enough to make a decision on by itself.\nIt will give you the opportunity to hear their rehearsed version of their philosophy and what they can do for you in the future.\nIf you pick up on some cynicism it\u2019s because the most important thing to remember is that you are only \u201cdating\u201d the person at this point. You have yet to see the ugly side of them when they haven\u2019t had enough sleep or how they react to bad news. Do they accept responsibility or make excuses? Are they an engaging leader and diligent worker? Only time will tell.\nMany of you have hired a lot of people throughout your career, perhaps even hundreds but I would suggest that your previous experience does very little to ensure your next hire will be successful.\nYour hiring process plays a part in being able to successfully attract and ultimately hire a candidate, however, the process is usually constructed backwards. You start with an initial screening call to test the candidate\u2019s interest. Then the candidate moves to a phone call with a hiring manager that is trying to ensure the candidate has the right qualifications and they aren\u2019t wasting their time. Once they are convinced this is a viable candidate you invite them out to the company headquarters for an in-person interview with the senior management team.\nThe reason most hiring processes go this way is because it is a game of chicken. The hiring manager feels like they have something special to offer and want to see tangible evidence that the candidate is, in fact, interested in the position and they are not wasting their time. Likewise, the happily employed candidate is being guarded in their investment of time and energy into exploring an opportunity they may or may not see as the appropriate next step in their career.\nThe entity that benefits the most from the contributions of a successful employee is the company. You must take it upon yourself to use the early part of the process to attract a good candidate and help them see the vision of what they have the opportunity to be a part of. Once they see it, I assure you they will be eager to impress you with their skills and dedication. If you don\u2019t impress them, you may be missing on the best candidate. If you do properly engage them, you will see a passive candidate turn into a determined prospect that wants to win you over.\nThe Most Impactful Question\nIn my experience of interviewing and recruiting senior level people I have become insistent on the fact that there is one line of questioning that is far more telling than anything else you can ask during the hiring process. The question is\u2026 Why?\nThe focus of the question relates to why someone decided to leave any given position and why did they accept the position they went to next. This line of conversation will help you understand perhaps the most important characteristic of any new hire, how they make decisions. They say the best way to predict future performance is to look at past achievements. Are they an emotional decision maker, do they think the world is out to get them, or were they reasonable and thoughtful.\nI personally take candidates through this line of questioning for every single position they have had in the relevant portion of their career. I look for trends. It doesn\u2019t always tell the entire story but it is incumbent upon you to know your industry. Do the reasons make sense? Can you follow the logic? If not, then you should use your industry relationships to corroborate their story.\nIf an answer they give doesn\u2019t make sense, challenge them on it. See how they respond to you digging deeper. This will give you glimpses of how they handle themselves in pressure situations. Do they become defensive or lack the ability to articulate in a clear way what they are trying to communicate?\nWell there are endless possibilities. I have found out so much about candidates during this exercise. As an example, if I am working for a start-up company and find that at each previous spot the candidate felt less than properly supported, that will throw up a red flag. Why did they not feel properly supported? You can\u2019t get less supported that in a start-up.\nWhat if they always say the company had a flawed strategy that held them back from sustained success? That\u2019s also very telling. That should take your conversation down the path of\u2026Why? What was it flawed? What would you have done differently? If you know your industry well, you will know quickly if you agree or not.\nThe most important thing to remember during this conversation is that you are trying to find out their motivations not their circumstances. If you can learn in a quick way to motivate this person, you will know if they are a good fit in your organization.\nHow do you get transparency?\nTransparency is not given it is earned. You must be transparent in your conversation and they will often reciprocate. Good candidates will do their homework on you and your company during their due diligence process. By being unafraid to acknowledge the challenges your company faces you will get them to lower the walls on who they are and what they have experienced.\nAnother way to increase transparency is to know your market. Know the companies and do homework on them. This is an ongoing yet often overlooked part of the job you hold. If you know your competitors, you will be properly prepared to identify a statement that doesn\u2019t make sense.\nIt has been said, \u201cevery single problem or challenge a company faces can be answered with a person.\u201d Hiring talent and minimizing turnover are the key elements to whether or not a company will be successful or not. Be willing to make bold moves if the opportunity presents itself, but most of all, ask why and listen!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 7594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oswegocounty.com/info/news/2012/020712-6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:WO6HVG3OO7EEG24FYSFRUNYW5LVU2KF4", "length": 223, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oswegocounty.com", "title": "Oswego County News Release", "raw_content": "Oswego County Offices Will be Closed for Presidents' Day\nAll Oswego County government offices, including the solid waste transfer stations and recycling drop-off centers, will be closed Monday, Feb. 20, for Presidents' Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outlandishobservations.com/2011/04/update-from-mike-gibb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DGBGCH4SA2V2C65I6YTSOVQ2L4RYH6GW", "length": 1189, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.outlandishobservations.com", "title": "Outlandish Observations: Update from Mike Gibb", "raw_content": "I got an email newsletter over the weekend from Mike Gibb, co-creator of Outlander: The Musical, with some OUTLANDER-related news, and I thought I'd pass it along:\nA 20th anniversary special edition of the first book of Diana Gabaldon's hugely successful series of books will be published in early July. Additional material in this edition will include a four track sampler CD, three songs being taken from the \"Outlander the Musical\" CD together with a bonus new song (\"Claire's Message\").\nI am also delighted to report that Diana has accepted an invitation to come to Aberdeen on 30 July for Tartan Day. In addition to attending a performance of Red Harlaw, Diana will be touring other Tartan Day events and doing a book signing in the City Centre.\nPlease pass this information along to anyone you know who might be interested.\nHmmm....\"Claire's Message\" -- any speculations on what that song will be about? I can think of a couple of possibilities.\nIf you haven't yet heard Outlander the Musical, I highly recommend it. My detailed review is here.\nI already have the 20th anni. edition on my to-buy list, but now I'm even MORE excited! I didn't know about the little bonus cd, how cool!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 6523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outlandishobservations.com/2013/05/dangerous-women-cover-art.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XY2VHEIWLDACO7CWRCOQVGF6BCKBNKAS", "length": 1667, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.outlandishobservations.com", "title": "Outlandish Observations: DANGEROUS WOMEN cover art", "raw_content": "This is the cover art for the upcoming DANGEROUS WOMEN anthology, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, which will include Diana Gabaldon's story, \"Virgins\", about Jamie and Ian as young mercenaries in France, before Jamie met Claire.\nClick on the picture for a bigger view.\nMy immediate reaction: at first glance, this cover looks sort of bland. I do like the \"barbed\" look of the lettering used in the title, but I doubt that would make me pick it up, if I didn't already know that Diana had a new story in this anthology. What do the rest of you think?\nYou can pre-order DANGEROUS WOMEN here (Amazon.com) or here (Barnes & Noble), but please keep in mind that the publication date is not yet set in stone.\nNote to readers outside the US: I have no information yet about availability of this anthology in other countries, but we should learn more in the coming months.\nIn case you're wondering, Diana finished writing \"Virgins\" in March 2012. You can see excerpts from the story (and links to #DailyLines about it) here.\nNancy Morgan said...\nKaren, I agree with your impression of the cover. I thought of a cement/stone headstone at first and the lettering looked ghoulish. I'm assumming it has something to do with one of the stories contained in the book?.\nI like it a lot. They needed to put all that text in there, so it would have been cluttered with a pic competing as well. It's moody, sharp and evocative. Thanks for putting up here, Karen.\nI agree-very bland! How about some bright colors or graphics to suggest danger, this says YAWN to me.\nviolet daraitis said...\nAlmost looks like a textbook. 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Getting a loyal following can make all the difference to your bottom line and it applies on every level, from the customers you\u2019re trying to sell to all the way to the people you\u2019ve got working on the shop floor, and that means you need a decent strategy in place to ensure you can achieve that kind of loyal fan base.\nWhat makes loyalty so important anyway?\nLet\u2019s start by looking at loyalty from a customer point of view. Not only is it cheaper to retain existing customers than it is to go out and win new ones (as much as ten times cheaper, in fact), but loyal customers will ensure repeat business and will often buy, and spend, more than their fly-by-night counterparts. This can have a major impact on your profit margin and can ensure you get the sales you need, because after all, if they know you offer a good service and are getting something out of the transaction they\u2019ll be more likely to come back. Then you just need to consider the fact that happy customers will talk about their experiences which can lead to fantastic word of mouth potential, so in essence, they\u2019ll be doing some of your marketing for you.\nBut, it\u2019s important to remember that getting a loyal following doesn\u2019t just apply to customers\u2014you need to get that kind of loyalty in your workforce too. Happy, loyal employees who feel valued in their job will be more motivated and, therefore, more productive, and it also means there\u2019ll be less staff turnover as well. You\u2019ll have long-term employees that you can count on, drastically cutting down the amount you\u2019d have to spend on recruitment and re-training, and happy employees can also become the ultimate brand advocates. You need to forge good working relationships on every level, and we think we\u2019ve got the perfect way for you to achieve that.\nHow to boost loyalty in your business\nWhilst there are a number of ways you can go about boosting loyalty, offering incentive schemes is easily one of the best. This applies to employees as well as customers\u2014you can implement an employee recognition programme to make them feel valued, or perhaps offer an incentive for when they reach sales targets to boost motivation and productivity in one go. As for customers it all comes down to having an effective loyalty program in place, giving them a tangible benefit for choosing you over the competition, and doing so can lead to great results.\nSo, never underestimate the importance of getting a loyal following. 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Her 6-year-old son had been removed from her care for more than a month. She was forced to close an in-home child care business, and she\u2019d been temporarily displaced from her preschool teaching job, which she\u2019d held for 17 years. Her teenage daughter refused to talk to the 6-year-old, blaming him for the family\u2019s troubles.\nBanks didn\u2019t blame her little boy. She blamed his school, and the investigators from the state\u2019s child welfare agency they\u2019d sent to her door.\nUntil last fall, Banks had only good things to say about her children\u2019s school. She\u2019d carefully chosen the K-8 institution, a magnet school across town from her single-family house on Chicago\u2019s West Side, for its academic rigor and diverse student body. Her daughter, now 16, had thrived there, she said, and her middle son did well too. But when her youngest son entered first grade last year, he started misbehaving and making trouble for teachers. \u201cHe really struggles behavior-wise,\u201d said Banks, a tall, self-assured woman who\u2019d attended neighborhood public schools in Chicago and desperately wanted something different for her kids. \u201cAnd at this school they have a low tolerance for it.\u201d\nThe school wanted the boy to enroll in classes exclusively for students with disabilities. But Banks felt differently: Despite his behavior problems, for which he was eventually diagnosed with attention deficit and mood disorders, he did well academically, she said. Banks pushed back, going so far as to make complaints to the city\u2019s education board and entering mediation with the school.\nThis was unfolding around the time the workers from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, or DCFS, began investigating her for alleged child abuse and neglect.\nSchool employees in most states have a legal obligation to report any suspicion of abuse and neglect, and they can play a critical role in helping keep children out of harm\u2019s way. But in nearly three dozen interviews conducted by The Hechinger Report and HuffPost, parents, lawyers, advocates and child welfare officials said that schools occasionally wield this authority in inappropriate ways. Fed up with what they see as obstinate parents who don\u2019t agree to special education services for their child, or disruptive kids who make learning difficult, schools sometimes use the threat of a child-protection investigation to strong-arm parents into complying with the school\u2019s wishes or transferring their children to a new school. That approach is not only improper, but it can be devastating for families, even if the allegations are ultimately determined to be unfounded.\nBanks\u2019 first brush with DCFS came after the school sent her son to the hospital because he was acting out, she said. They wanted him to receive a psychiatric evaluation, she said, but Banks refused because he already had an appointment with his doctor for the following week. The second time a caseworker investigated her, she said, it was because her son\u2019s doctor had prescribed him a new medication and the school hadn\u2019t been properly notified. Next came an investigation after her middle child wrote a paper that Banks was told contained troubling content. One time, she gave her youngest son a spanking for running away from school. After he told school employees about it the next day, he was removed from her home for more than a month and sent to live with her sister-in-law while the child welfare agency investigated her for abuse, according to Banks. The most recent case was the most incomprehensible to her: Banks said she was investigated for letting her middle child go to school with a bad haircut he\u2019d given himself. The haircut, Banks said she was told by an investigator, could amount to emotional abuse.\nAs a teacher, Banks herself had sometimes called the state child welfare hotline over the years, when she worried that her students were being abused or neglected. But in her case, she believes the school simply wanted her son gone. Banks said she\u2019d heard from a handful of other parents who\u2019d found themselves in similar situations, all of whom are African-American like her and whose children have disabilities. \u201cAll I\u2019m looking for is a good education for my kid,\u201d said Banks. She felt the allegations against her had been twisted and exaggerated to fit a narrative that she was a bad mother. \u201cIt severed the relationship that we\u2019re supposed to have as a parent and teacher community.\u201d\nCalling ACS is one of the tools in [a school\u2019s] repertoire to make the parents comply.\nIrene Mendez, a staff attorney with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest\nEmily Bolton, a spokesperson for the Chicago Public Schools, wrote in an email that the agency cannot comment on specific cases but that employees take seriously their responsibility as mandated reporters of abuse and neglect, and that there is no evidence of widespread misuse of the DCFS child-welfare hotline.\nBut even some former child welfare officials say the practice isn\u2019t as rare as they\u2019d like. \u201cIf schools don\u2019t get the parents to agree to what\u2019s being recommended \u2014 not all the time, but sometimes \u2014 they will call ACS [the Administration for Children\u2019s Services, New York City\u2019s child welfare agency] to pressure them,\u201d said Don Lash, a former lawyer with ACS and author of the book, \u201c \u2018When the Welfare People Come\u2019: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System.\u201d\nHe and many other experts also note that because of legitimate fears of overlooking kids at risk and vague definitions of abuse and neglect, school workers may sometimes be overzealous, calling in allegations over relatively minor issues such as broken eyeglasses, inappropriate clothing or small scratches. In interviews, more than a dozen lawyers said these investigations disproportionately affect low-income families of color, who tend to live in neighborhoods and attend schools that have bigger police and social services presences and whose children are more likely to show markings of poverty that can be confused with neglect.\nSuch families also have fewer resources to fight back. When a family in a wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood learned roughly two years ago that their child\u2019s school had initiated an ACS investigation against them, they sued the city education department. Parents from lower-income, majority-black and Latino neighborhoods, few of whom can afford that option, say such investigations can be a regular, even expected, part of parenting. According to ACS data, there were 2,391 abuse and neglect investigations last year in East New York/Starrett City, a low-income neighborhood in Brooklyn, compared with 255 in the affluent, and far more populous, Upper East Side.\nRace, and racial bias, can also play a role in whether families are referred to and investigated by child protective services, research suggests. Nationally, black children are roughly twice as likely as white children to enter foster care, and in New York and Illinois, more than four times as likely. Research reveals racial disparities at every step, from the numbers of calls to the child welfare hotline to the numbers of investigations and court findings of neglect.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I can think of a white family where I\u2019ve ever seen it arise,\u201d Chris Gottlieb, co-director of New York University\u2019s Family Defense Clinic, which represents clients in child welfare cases, said of these types of school-driven investigations.\nAn Intimidation Tool?\nAccusations that officials with Success Academy Charter Schools have sometimes threatened parents with ACS involvement have been a focal point of legal and civil complaints against the charter school network, New York City\u2019s largest. One lawsuit against a Success Academy school in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn alleges that the school unfairly singled out kids with disabilities for discipline. In an August ruling allowing the suit to proceed, a judge said allegations that school employees called police or child protective services on 4- and 5-year olds, would, if true, help to demonstrate enough \u201cbad faith or gross misjudgment\u201d to sustain the discrimination claims.\nNicey Givens, one of the parents in the suit, said she was told at least twice that Success might involve ACS if she didn\u2019t quickly pick up her child from school in the middle of the day. The boy, who\u2019d been given diagnoses of attention deficit and oppositional defiant disorder, often misbehaved, and Givens said she felt the school was pressuring her to remove him. Once, she said, the threat to involve ACS came after she\u2019d sent the boy to school in boots instead of his uniform shoes on a cold, wet day.\nOur focus is always on the student, the child. Not to say that the parent doesn\u2019t matter and those kinds of investigations can\u2019t be awkward and disruptive, but it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry, and there are just too many examples that you read of something that was overlooked.\nAnn Powell, executive vice president of public affairs, Success Academy charter network\n\u201cCalling ACS is one of the tools in their repertoire to make the parents comply,\u201d said Irene Mendez, a staff attorney with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, one of several groups that filed the suit. A 2016 civil complaint filed with the federal Department of Education includes an allegation that a Success school in Manhattan initiated an ACS investigation against the mother of a 6-year-old as part of an effort to encourage her to send him to another school. Another lawsuit alleges that one of the network\u2019s Bronx schools repeatedly threatened to call ACS to pressure a parent to remove her son from the school.\nSuccess Academy officials dispute the suggestion that any of the network\u2019s schools misuse calls to ACS. Ann Powell, executive vice president of public affairs for the charter network, said she could not comment on the specifics in the lawsuit involving the Fort Greene school because it is ongoing, but said that the network disagreed with the way Givens described her interactions with the school. Success also disputes the allegations made against the Manhattan and Bronx schools. Powell noted that as legally mandated reporters of child abuse, school employees must report any suspicion of abuse and neglect, and that \u201cusing that in a threatening way is just not credible.\u201d\nThe Hankinses with their son David. A family court judge rejected the New York City Department of Education\u2019s allegation that the couple had neglected their child by keeping him out of school and having \u201cunrealistic expectations\u201d for his education.\nMandated reporter laws date to the 1960s, and in most states, school employees are among the professionals (along with doctors, social workers and others) obligated to report any suspicion of abuse or neglect. Mandated reporter trainings remind school employees that it\u2019s not their responsibility to decide whether abuse is taking place but simply to pick up the phone if they have a concern, and the child welfare agency will take over from there. Mandated reporters typically have immunity from prosecution for making needless calls, so long as those calls are made in good faith.\n\u201cAll of the pressure on mandated reporters is to report, report, report,\u201d said Richard Wexler, executive director of the nonprofit National Coalition for Child Protection Reform.\nIf they fail to report their suspicions, and something terrible happens to the child, they can face fines or even jail time and wind up on the front page of a newspaper. Child welfare is often described as being caught in a scandal-reform cycle, with reports of neglect and entrances to foster care rising after high-profile child deaths. Both Chicago and New York are dealing with the repercussions of recent scandals \u2014 Chicago Tribune reporting on sex abuse in schools is spurring fresh resources and protocols, while in New York, calls to the child abuse hotline spiked after the deaths of two young boys under ACS monitoring in 2016.\n\u201cOur focus is always on the student, the child,\u201d said Powell, the Success Academy VP. \u201cNot to say that the parent doesn\u2019t matter and those kinds of investigations can\u2019t be awkward and disruptive, but it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry, and there are just too many examples that you read of something that was overlooked.\u201d\nSchool officials also note that they have a unique responsibility in policing child neglect in many states. Child welfare laws in New York and 23 other states (not Illinois) list the denial of education as a form of abuse or neglect. In some parts of New York, school employees are required to initiate educational neglect allegations if a child has a prolonged absence and parents don\u2019t respond to the school. Last year, school personnel in New York City made 16,301 reports to ACS, more than any other type of mandated reporter, according to agency data provided to Hechinger/HuffPost. Of those, about 43 percent involved an allegation of educational neglect.\nBut critics say these too are misused or fall into gray areas of the law. Phillip and Tina Hankins, a couple in the South Bronx, have been tussling with the New York City Department of Education for more than a decade over where and how to educate their son David, who has a disability. They\u2019ve been investigated at least seven times by ACS, including on occasions when they kept David out of class while fighting to get him into what they considered to be a more suitable institution, documentation shows.\n\u201cThe schools have the right to call in whatever they think is not appropriate,\u201d said Baffour Acheampong, an ACS worker who investigated several of the Hankins\u2019 cases. \u201cBut in dealing with Mrs. and Mr. Hankins, what I saw was they have the best interests of their son.\u201d\nOn the one occasion that ACS substantiated an educational neglect allegation against the Hankinses, a family court judge later overturned that finding. The judge noted that David\u2019s intelligence test scores actually improved when the boy was kept out of school awaiting placement, and that the Hankinses had been doing all they could to fight for educational services. \u201cIn light of the Appellants\u2019 year-long battle to get the child into an appropriate school, it is not clear what else they could have done to have enrolled David,\u201d the judge wrote, adding that the agency did not provide a \u201csingle credible instance where they failed to exercise the required minimum degree of care.\u201d\nIn response to questions about this case, spokesperson for the New York City schools Miranda Barbot said that the Department of Education works \u201cclosely with families to support them,\u201d and \u201cwhen there is reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect, we have clear policies in place that ensure it is reported.\u201d\nMichael Arsham, executive director of ACS\u2019s Office of Advocacy, which responds to complaints from those involved in the child welfare system, said the agency acknowledges that hotline calls from schools do not always contain serious safety concerns, and it is working more closely with the education department to minimize needless reporting. Two years ago, ACS developed a \u201ctiered response\u201d system with the DOE to prioritize urgent matters and reduce the impact on families of investigations over smaller concerns. \u201cWe do want people to call potential dangers to children to our attention,\u201d Arsham said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s fair for us to expect other human services professionals \u2014 whether they be in education, health care, anybody who is a mandated reporter \u2014 to use their independent judgment and discretion and understand there are consequences to making that call.\u201d\nIt\u2019s very hard because the whole system isn\u2019t adequate in addressing families\u2019 needs. It would be much easier to call ACS if you could count on them as a holistic agency to families that are marginalized.\nLeila Ortiz, social worker in New York City public schools\nPart of the challenge facing school officials, according to Leila Ortiz, a social worker in New York City public schools, is that ACS is primarily oriented to investigate families, not provide support. Chronic absenteeism could indeed be the canary in the coal mine, she said, signaling deeper troubles within a family. \u201cIf you don\u2019t call that in, something could potentially be happening to the student,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know, they\u2019re not in the building.\u201d\n\u201cBut at the same time,\u201d Ortiz added, \u201cyou could be adding more stress and damage to a family that already has a lot on their plate. It\u2019s very hard because the whole system isn\u2019t adequate in addressing families\u2019 needs. It would be much easier to call ACS if you could count on them as a holistic agency to families that are marginalized.\u201d\nAntagonistic Approach\nDespite ACS\u2019s efforts to be more sensitive to families facing investigations, parents don\u2019t tend to experience child welfare investigations as even remotely helpful. A New York City parent named Gabriela \u2014 who is going by her middle name for this article because her case is still ongoing and she fears retaliation \u2014 knows the type of havoc that a call to ACS can wreak on a family. Over the course of her decades-long career as an advocate for immigrants in East Harlem, she has developed an acute understanding of ways in which families can get unfairly wrapped up in an opaque process. Some of these cases have made sense to her. Many more have seemed unfounded, with cultural differences in child-rearing clearly playing a role.\nBut she never expected to have to use this ACS expertise with her own family.\nLast January, when Gabriela received a knock on the door of her Bronx home from an ACS caseworker, she was shocked to learn that she was the subject of a child abuse investigation. Even more surprising was the source of the complaint: her 10-year-old child\u2019s school.\nDays prior, Gabriela\u2019s daughter had gone to her teacher with a secret: That her daddy \u2014 amid grief from the death of his mother \u2014 had started regularly drinking. Gabriela said that she had tried to keep this behavior from her daughter, and thought she hadn\u2019t noticed the new wrinkles in family life.\nWhat happened next was a whirlwind. The child, hysterically crying and scared, was pulled into a room with several adults and questioned about her home life. Under pressure \u2014 and wanting to provide the right answer \u2014 she said that her mom, Gabriela, had hit her, a charge that Gabriela denies.\nGabriela recognizes that the school was trying to help \u2014 and in some ways was carrying out a professional duty \u2014 but says they brought a \u201cnightmare to my house.\u201d\nA Mexican immigrant who came to America as a teenager, Gabriela has been deeply involved in the education of her daughter at every step. Over the years, Gabriela has taken the time to get to know her daughter\u2019s teachers and school principal, while advocating for the school\u2019s immigrant families who need extra services. How could the school\u2019s leaders, whom Gabriela knew so well, see her as anything less than a devoted parent?\n\u201cWhy didn\u2019t they use the social worker outside? Why didn\u2019t they call me with concerns? Why did they go straight for the kill and call ACS?\u201d questioned Gabriela.\nShe wonders if, in the delicate balancing act of being an involved parent but trying not to overstep her role, she landed on the wrong side of the equation. Or if, in her role as an advocate for immigrant families, she pushed too hard.\nShe also wonders if this process would have played out differently if she had a different ACS caseworker. (Charges against her were sustained and she is currently amid the appeals process.) This caseworker has asked her on three separate occasions about her immigration status, apparently unable to believe that Gabriela is an American citizen, Gabriela recounts.\n\u201cWhen you go through this, it\u2019s not just a nightmare for you, it\u2019s a nightmare for your child, because the stress level it creates for our family is horrible,\u201d said Gabriela, through tears, one Tuesday afternoon in August.\nA representative for the school said that all employees receive training on child abuse and follow state law regarding reporting.\nCaroline Preston/The Hechinger Report\nAfter an employee at her child\u2019s school reported Sandra for alleged abuse, she went from being very involved in her sons\u2019 education to being fearful of teachers and administrators.\nEven for parents who have their records cleared, the pernicious consequences of investigations can be permanent. In 2015, Sandra, a mother of three in Chicago, was investigated by DCFS after her youngest son went to school with what she describes as a minor scratch he sustained from roughhousing with his brothers.\nAfter a DCFS worker arrived on her doorstep, her entire life was thrown under suspicion. The flowers that were a Valentine\u2019s Day gift from her husband, for example? The investigator asked if they were evidence of her husband trying to repair damage from a marital fight.\nUltimately the abuse allegation against Sandra was overturned. But three years and $15,000 in legal fees later, she said she\u2019s still reluctant to meet with or talk to school employees. Recently, the assistant principal at her youngest son\u2019s school called Sandra and her husband in for a meeting to discuss the boy\u2019s behavior, as he\u2019d been getting frustrated in class and acting out. When the administrator suggested she take a stronger disciplinary approach, Sandra pushed back hard: \u201cI am not going to yell at him or touch him because you guys already put me through this one time.\u201d\nAccording to NYU\u2019s Gottlieb, there needs to be a greater understanding of the damage caused by needless investigations and the higher rates at which parents of color are caught up in them. \u201cYou want to help parents make better choices for their kids,\u201d she said, \u201cand starting out by saying, \u2018You\u2019re abusive,\u2019 is not the way to do it.\u201d\nOne step forward, say critics of child welfare, could be to modify mandated reporter training \u2014 by using it in part to educate people about implicit racial bias, for example. The training that has long been offered to Illinois\u2019 school employees is a one-time online course that takes 60 to 90 minutes to complete and includes no mention of race. Chicago Public Schools says that starting this year, it has begun offering an in-person, annual training.\nMeanwhile, experiments to reduce racial and socioeconomic inequities in the child welfare system have shown some success. New York\u2019s Nassau County was able to significantly reduce the numbers of black kids put in foster care after placing an emphasis on workforce diversity among human services employees and withholding children\u2019s demographic information from staff meetings. A second New York county, Onandaga, began removing fewer black kids from their parents after investing in afterschool and other school-based programs.\nIn New York City, ACS is rolling out a new approach to responding to low-risk calls that focuses on assessing which services fragile families need, said ACS\u2019s Arsham.\nNeil Skene, a spokesperson for the Illinois DCFS, wrote in an email that while a child welfare investigation is a \u201cpainful experience for anyone,\u201d the agency feels it has a \u201cparticular obligation to be responsive to the concerns and professional knowledge of mandated reporters.\u201d Skene added: \u201cWe are starting to work with local communities to identify cultural and racial disparities and how we can respond better.\u201d\nChange can\u2019t happen soon enough for families embroiled in school-driven investigations. For them, transferring schools can feel like the only way out.\nIn 2015, after the harassment Givens says she endured at Success Academy, she sent her son to a different elementary school nearby. \u201cFrom first to fourth grade, no problems, no incidents, no suspensions, no fighting, no nothing,\u201d she said.\nWhen you go through this, it\u2019s not just a nightmare for you, it\u2019s a nightmare for your child, because the stress level it creates for our family is horrible.\nGabriela, advocate and mother investigated by ACS\nGabriela\u2019s daughter has also switched schools, after feeling uncomfortable and mistrustful of the adults who called ACS on her parents. \u201cShe went from asking me, \u2018Please don\u2019t take me to school, can I stay with you?\u2019 \u201d Gabriela said of her daughter, \u201cto getting up in the morning, getting ready, excited to participate.\u201d\nBanks considered removing her two boys from their magnet school after the child-protection investigations began. Relatives, colleagues, even her kids\u2019 pediatrician \u2014 they all warned that the hotline calls wouldn\u2019t stop until her children left the school. Because she worked with kids, the investigations were particularly worrisome for her, she said, even though ultimately none of the cases against her had been substantiated.\nBut at the same time, she was reluctant. The magnet school offered four foreign languages, math teams and movie nights, things she worried her kids wouldn\u2019t get at their neighborhood school. \u201cI feel like they are winning,\u201d she said. \u201cI understand his behavior is poor,\u201d she said of her youngest son, \u201cbut he does deserve to be at a school where he can get a good education.\u201d\nPlus, by the time she came to grips with the unrelenting nature of the investigations, the December deadline for applying to specialized schools had already passed. She looked into private schools before deciding they were too expensive.\nThis fall, feeling out of options, she sent her boys back to the magnet school. On the second day of the semester, she texted: \u201cI am praying it is better this year.\u201d\nThis story about schools and child protective services was produced by HuffPost and\ufeff The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 27323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parkroadacademy.co.uk/year-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HDYGS2WHC3FPZ4QCLKR526M7JB35HIOF", "length": 213, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.parkroadacademy.co.uk", "title": "Year 3 | Park Road Academy Primary School", "raw_content": "For our Harvest Art, we created observational drawings of cross-sections of fruit and vegetables using oil pastels. We focused on light and shadows and blended the oil pastels to create different shades of colour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 2850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parnellcricket.co.nz/new-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7HMDTGBKZXIO5DFWFSQMQFOYWD76EFN3", "length": 167, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.parnellcricket.co.nz", "title": "Roll of Honour \u2014 Parnell Cricket Club", "raw_content": "NATIONAL & REPRESENTATIVE PLAYERS HONOURS LIST:\nTo view a list of those Parnell players who have represented their country &/or province since 1884, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2160", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ABJ3CAECU565KJU5HBJBF2YVYZ2NSOL5", "length": 15885, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.partialobserver.com", "title": "The Partial Observer - The Pot Calling The Kettle White", "raw_content": "The Pot Calling The Kettle White\nThe hypocrisy of the Reverend Al Sharpton.\n\"This is not about whether you're a good man,\" Sharpton said. \"What you said was racist.\" Al Sharpton commenting to Don Imus on Al Sharpton radio program on April 9th, 2007\nBarack Obama \u2013 whether he's a temporary phenomenon in American politics or not \u2013 is amazing indeed. 26 million dollars in donations and 100,000 individual donors make him noteworthy of comment. He is a player and will most likely remain so at least through the super primaries early next year. Obama is distressing the Clinton's because he is developing a following of black voters who the Clinton's once coveted as exclusively theirs to take into the polls on their victory run.\nOne that is not jumping on the Obama bandwagon is former presidential candidate Al Sharpton. Al's complaint against Obama is that essentially Obama isn't black enough i.e. Obama hasn't marched in the marches, gone to jail, or been up in the face of the white establishment. Fortunately for the black voter and for an increasingly multi-cultural electorate, Barack Obama is marching \u2013 past Sharpton and towards the future.\nTwo of the most popular articles I have written for this magazine were about Don Imus, the irreverent host of Imus in the Morning. The first article was extremely critical of Imus. In A Criticism of MSNBC, I went so far as to suggest that the FCC monitor some of Imus's language as I thought he crossed several lines of good taste. In my second article, Revisiting Don Imus, I was much more conciliatory and I mentioned some of the truly good works that Imus was doing for children, wounded veterans, and the autistic.\nDon Imus is a shock jock with a heart. He is 100% offensive to everyone \u2013 including his beautiful and talented wife Deidre who he calls the \"green ho\" because of her national advocacy of removing toxins from our homes and work places. Imus has made fun of politicians like Representative Joe Barton R-TX, who Imus has attacked unmercifully for Barton's holding up passage of a critical bill on autism. When John Kerry made the gaffe that took him out of a second run for the presidency, it was his friend, Don Imus, who took him to task for it, and publicly chastised Kerry on TV. Imus has called Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney war criminals, and has been one of the more thunderous voices condemning the conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital and various VA hospitals.\nLast week, Don Imus made a big mistake and discovered the limits of free speech. Commenting on a women's basketball game, he called members of the Rutgers's women's basketball team a bunch of \"nappy headed ho's.\" Subsequently he apologized for his comments and then after criticism from Al Sharpton, Imus apologized again. The second apology pained me because in what I would call a capitulatory gesture, Imus agreed to appear on the Sharpton radio show and apologize again \u2013 and explain himself.\nThis pains me because - despite Don Imus's controversial reputation - Imus has more character in his pinky than Al Sharpton has in an entire lifetime. Sharpton, like his mentor Jesse Jackson, has become a professional shakedown artist. Some facts:\nTawana Brawley Controversy \u2013 Tawana Brawley was a fifteen-year-old girl who made accusations about several men including several police officers in a rape and assault case in Wappingers Falls, New York in 1987. Al Sharpton highlights the case in speeches and makes several inflammatory statements in support of Brawley. Later the Grand Jury concludes that the incident never happened. Brawley and her mother escape to Virginia with $300,000 worth of defense fund money partially raised by Sharpton. Even today, there is a warrant for their arrest if they every return to New York. Sharpton and his associates were later sued and had to cough up $345,000 for their false statements.\nCrown Heights Riots \u2013 Sharpton was considered unhelpful in riots against a Jewish community in New York in 1991. Because of the nature of the riots, some Jewish leaders, commenting on the anti-Semitic characteristics refer to the riots as the Crown Heights Pogrom. A visiting rabbinical student from Australia was killed by the crowd screaming, \"Kill the Jew.\"\nFreddie's Fashion Mart \u2013 Sharpton was present when a Jewish shop owners shop was burned down. Sharpton denied standing in the crowd calling the shop owner a \"white interloper.\" When confronted with a video tape disputing his denial, Sharpton asked what was wrong with calling someone a \"white interloper?\"\nPredatory Lending Advocacy \u2013 blacks are more the victims of predatory lending than any other segment of our society. Until 2005, Al Sharpton was associated as a spokesperson for one of the larger predatory lending companies in the United States- Loan Max. After criticism, Sharpton ended his relationship.\nAl Sharpton has been at the center of several incidents where using the power of his speech he has needlessly inflamed passions. Here is an excerpt from an interview where he comments on the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case. Another instance where Sharpton and his cohort Jesse Jackson inflamed passions and probably prolonged the agony of the victims - who turned out to be the team. That case was dropped this week. Sharpton's publicity drawing comments were made last year during an interview with Bill Oreilly:\nBut I think that all of the facts that you have laid out the DA had \u2014 and I know this DA is probably not one that is crazy. He would not have proceeded if he did not feel that he could convict. So it tells me that all of what you said is either not true or he has convincing evidence that would certainly knock that out and no one is not letting him proceed. You know, a lot of those community leaders down there, pro and con, wanted a lot of people to come in.\nAl Sharpton's inflammatory rhetoric and status as a former presidential candidate do not change who he really is \u2013 a street punk in a suit...\nBrooks from Tar Heelia writes:\nRacism from any mouth is still racism. This is something that Brother Al will never understand. Here in North Carolina, the legislature has passed legislation apologizing for slavery. To some this is not enough, payments are demanded. Well, let's check my family tree to see how many slave holders fall out. Not many is my guess. Paying for a past injustice does not make the injustice go away. Apologizies do say what is on our heart. Requiring more and more apologizes is racism.\nI hope you do not think that I am a card carrying liberal. I label myself a liberal-conservative.\nI am Irish on my mother's side (Braly). We also had our problems in history with slavery. I refer you to the following exerpts from an artical written by James Cavanaugh, entitled \"Irish Slavery\".\nThe Proclamation of 1625 ordered that Irish political prisoners be transported overseas and sold as laborers to English planters, who were settling the islands of the West Indies, officially establishing a policy that was to continue for two centuries. In 1629 a large group of Irish men and women were sent to Guiana, and by 1632, Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat in the West Indies.\nBy 1637 a census showed that 69% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves, which records show was a cause of concern to the English planters. But there were not enough political prisoners to supply the demand, so every petty infraction carried a sentence of transporting, and slaver gangs combed the country sides to kidnap enough people to fill out their quotas.\nAlthough African Negroes were better suited to work in the semi-tropical climates of the Caribbean, they had to be purchased, while the Irish were free for the catching, so to speak. It is not surprising that Ireland became the biggest source of livestock for the English slave trade.\nIn the 12 year period during and following the Confederation revolt, from 1641 to 1652, over 550,000 Irish were killed by the English and 300,000 were sold as slaves, as the Irish population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000. Banished soldiers were not allowed to take their wives and children with them, and naturally, the same for those sold as slaves. The result was a growing population of homeless women and children, who being a public nuisance, were likewise rounded up and sold. But the worse was yet to come.\nOn 14 August 1652, Cromwell began his Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland, ordering that the Irish were to be transported overseas, starting with 12,000 Irish prisoners sold to Barbados. The infamous \u201cConnaught or Hell\u201d proclamation was issued on 1 May 1654, where all Irish were ordered to be removed from their lands and relocated west of the Shannon or be transported to the West Indies.\nMr. Sharpton, are we entitled to reparations and an apology as well?\nI would like to thank Mike and Rick for being very insightful and educational.\nmeme from Missouri writes:\nThank you for your article. I was watching the morning Imus said what he did, and my mouth dropped. I don't think he was being malicious, however being married to a black man (I am white) for 30 years I have lived on both sides of the fence. It shouldn't have been thought, let alone spoke outloud. After saying that, the Rev Al seems to be nothing but a racist biggot himself. And Jesse Jackson is an adulterer. I think Rev Al, and Jesse live by double standards. And I wonder how many of those Rutgers player have popular cd's by various artists that use that and more explicit phrases than that. Come on this needs to stop on both sides. I heard that Snoop said: \"it's what we know, its what we live, we are entitled to say what we do.\" And I ask... does he have a ho for a mom? I doubt it. What about his wife, daughters, grandmother. Sharpton asked basically for a boycot, so why can't the same be done about the sponsors of the radio stations, BET, etc. to get this stopped once and for all? It's totally inappropriate, and shouldn't be on any airways. Thanks for having this platform.\nmike alexander from houston, Tx writes:\nWe all know the agenda that Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jackson adhere to. Both are certainly more interested in furthering their own positions than in anything else including the betterment of those they purport to represent. They often do so at the expense of innocent people. Why are we only able to read this truth in obscure internet articles? Why does the mainstream media not expose their ridiculously transparent facade? When Al Sharpton has a radio show that he can use to call anyone a racist it reeks of hypocrisy. Certainly Imus deserved the axe. No matter his good heart and good deeds, those kind of hurtful remarks have no place on the air. However, he is certainly not the only one who doesn't deserve a pulpit. Mike Thompson said what every American has to know in their heart of hearts. It is just a shame that the major media outlets continue to give these guys their air time and are afraid to express what most everyone else already know.\nI have one more thought on this. Foul language spoken by any human being is foul language. If we want to make such language an issue, then by all means make it an issue....for all people regardless of race or sex. If racist language offends you, then be offended when your race uses the same offensive words as well. Many famous entertainers, especially comedians and singers, couldn't perform without using racist, foul language. People go to these concerts and laugh and dance. Where is the outcry? Where is the banishment? Where is the intolerance? Where are Sharpton and Jackson?\nIf we are to truly progress to new heights of awareness we must begin with intolerance within ourselves. We must say that certain racist terms are wrong to say at all times, no exceptions. If the word \"stupid\" offends you for example, then do not call others \"stupid\" and expect your wishes and desires to be met with sincerity. You are an opportunist who can't be respected.\nIf Martin Luther King, while professing peaceful demonstration, had done just the opposite, his legacy would have been tarnished, the respect for his cause dimenished.\nFurthering a cause begins by setting the example. The same holds true for dignity and respect. Lifting one's self out of the dirt of indignity begins by standing for a cause by example. Such an example must be held to the highest standards.\nMartin Luther King understood this. He lead by example. Where are the \"Martin's\" of this age?\nRick does bring everything into prespective. Still what Don Imus did is still sorry racism. I believe that anyone who utters the words, means them. Shock jocks such as Don Imus my have the right to say such epitaphs, but shouldn't he have the decency not to say those things. Just as the conservative name callers do not analyze the truth before they blow hard, shock jocks do not think before they blow off.\nI don't like the actions of Rev. Sharpton in making demand after demand. I don't believe that CBS was listening to Al Sharpton when they fired Don. There were listening to advertisers and listeners. I don't believe Shapton is either. I commend CBS for listening.\ngeorge clark from waco, texas writes:\nSharpton's and Jackson's \"fame\" and notoriety is perpetuated by the media who pander to these two idiots, who never pass up an opportunity to pile on lies and abuse. They are racists in their own way, and I think it's outrageous that the media doesn't take Sharpton to task for his comments about the Duke lacrosse players. And then we have Jackson, that old \"adulterer\" who never passes up a chance to dump on \"whitey.\"\nWe live in a society that is seemingly falling apart, where anything is acceptable, with the public always seeking anything more shocking to titilate their hunger for anything new...until it's novelty wears off in 24 hours....or until the next tidbit comes along.\nHistory repeats itslelf, and it's as if the \"Roman\" times are here again...as we self-destruct.\nI fear for my grandkids.\nTomWebb from Cincinnati writes:\nBrooks fails to mention all the rappers and the blacks also. The words are used by the blacks everyday. It means every rapper who utters those words is putting down his own people. Every black person who utters these words are as guilty as Imus. Every comedian who utters these words are guilty. They are all guilty of being RACIST, if anyone who utters these words mean it. Too bad the same can't be said for I'm sorry. And don't give me the BS about he has done it before, so has Sharpton many times.\nRoy Gwynn from Canada writes:\nVery interesting , all these comments on the good , bad and ugly.\nOne of the worst and yet best comments on white slavery is the Dr, Barnardo justification that he held the right to send whomever he chose into bondage in Canada as well as Australia , America and other lands held by the United Kingdom.\nYes , most of these people were far better off in this idea but many more fell into horrible hands and deplorable lives at the end of their journeys. Some merely five years old as my grandmother was. Luckily for her she got a wonderful family who cared for her. My grandfather was not so lucky. Seven years labor on a huge farm in Ontario Canada to pay just for a three week voyage from Liverpool to Canada...?\nHe left with just the clothes on his back.\nSHAME and SHAME on a government and on the various churches and on England as well as Canadian governmental services for letting this ever happen as it did . There are many terrible stories of RAPE and slavery from terrible people whose ultimate fate need be at the end of a rope...but of course it never happened...Right.\nMike Thomson - a somewhat white looking man - In 1983 publicly took the Alabama National Guard to task for racist recruiting practices and knows racism when he sees it. Don Imus is not racist - despite his talk, but Al Sharpton definitely fits the profile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 19864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paycommissions.in/2017/04/7th-pay-commission-impact-on-medical-institutes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MPJFFGMR2KQDZSA73UYEIITNPSNW3S4X", "length": 1331, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.paycommissions.in", "title": "7TH PAY COMMISSION IMPACT ON MEDICAL INSTITUTES - CENTRAL GOVT EMPLOYEES & PENSIONERS NEWS", "raw_content": "Home 7TH PAY COMMISSION LOK SABHA QUESTIONS MEDICAL INSTITUTES 7TH PAY COMMISSION IMPACT ON MEDICAL INSTITUTES\nPay Commission 7TH PAY COMMISSION, LOK SABHA QUESTIONS, MEDICAL INSTITUTES\nTO BE ANSWERED ON 7th APRIL, 2017\nPAY COMMISSION IMPACT ON MEDICAL INSTITUTES\n5682. SHRI RAM CHARITRA NISHAD:\nWill the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:\n(a) whether it is a fact that the medical institutes have expressed their inability to comply with the Government\u2019s circular to generate 30 per cent of the additional financial impact incurred on implementing the Seventh Pay Commission;\n(b) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto; and\n(c) the corrective steps proposed to be taken up by the Government in this regard?\nTHE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND\n(a) to (c): Government has not put any mandatory condition on Medical Institutes to generate 30% of the additional financial impact incurred on implementing the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). Most Medical Institutes have expressed inability to meet 30% of the additional financial impact. Therefore, the Ministry has submitted 13 proposals so far to Ministry of Finance for relaxation in the condition to bear 30% of additional financial impact.\nLabels: 7TH PAY COMMISSION, LOK SABHA QUESTIONS, MEDICAL INSTITUTES", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/blogs/mercy-street-revealed/epistolary-nations/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OJVGJFU7AI72FDJQPJ3EVGG4U5BPSFFX", "length": 11892, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.pbs.org", "title": "Epistolary Nation(s) | Mercy Street Revealed", "raw_content": "Epistolary Nation(s)\nCorrespondence and notes from the set of Mercy Street Season 2\nIn this blog post, Schultz discusses the cultural significance of letter writing in nineteenth-century America, especially during the Civil War.\nIt would be difficult to overstate the cultural significance of letter writing in nineteenth-century America, especially during the four years of the Civil War. In the age before screens and telecommunication wires (notwithstanding the emergence of telegraphy in the 1830s), the single most-valued instrument of distance communication was the letter\u2014conveying materially the voice, the signature, the penmanship, and even the scent of the sender. Letters were the most intimate of things: they bridged the impossibly long distances of the American continent with news that could not easily be gotten in any other way. During the war, the news that letters brought was invaluable to recipients. Letters from soldiers to family members and from medical staff to all parties constitute the mother lode of documents in U.S. libraries and archives holding Civil War collections. Letters were the primary mechanism by which family members learned of the health and movements of their kindred\u2014and sometimes their deaths. In Matron Brannan we see an early example of how a mother might have received news of her son\u2019s death. Noting that the return address is from her son Declan\u2019s commanding officer, she carries it around all day in her pocket, unable to read its contents until she can persuade Nurse Hastings to read it for her. And she is so certain of its contents that when Miss Hastings fabricates the manner of her son\u2019s death in order to spare her the additional agony, Matron Brannan asks for the letter straight, in all its undignified glory.\nLetters expected and unexpected have punctuated the episodes of \u201cMercy Street,\u201d entering Mansion House like unwelcome guests. In Season 1, Mary Phinney writes to the unfaithful wife of the dying private, Phillip Starks, trying to shield him from news that would wound his morale and hasten his demise. In Season 2, after the murder of the Union captain, Lance van der Berg, Alice Green forges a letter in the dead officer\u2019s hand addressed to his mother\u2014a ruse that backfires when Detective Pinkerton discovers that van der Berg\u2019s mother has been deceased for years and a discovery that further incriminates the Green household. In their pact to send the officious and tyrannical Major McBurney away from the hospital for good, Dr. Hale and Nurse Hastings also fabricate letters to hasten his departure. The obsequious Hastings makes McBurney believe that he has missed an important meeting with the Union Surgeon General by tucking a letter she has drafted into the chief\u2019s desk drawer. When he finds the missive, mortified that he appears to have forgotten all about the meeting, he dictates an apology letter that Hale promptly intercepts and destroys.\nIn the first two seasons there have also been moments where the receipt of letters introduced newcomers, announced promotions, or eased anxieties. When Colonel Summers departs for his Washington City desk job in Season One, Dr. Foster learns, much to his surprise, that he has been appointed head of hospital before the more experienced Dr. Hale. Charlotte Jenkins\u2019 arrival to work with the contrabands in Season 2 comes via two letters of introduction: one written to Nurse Phinney, requesting cooperation, and a second that she hand-delivers to the new surgeon-in-charge, recommending her to work on the hospital grounds. Letters have also brought news of staff welfare: Despite Mary Phinney\u2019s injunction to her Aunt Agnes that Dr. Foster not be made aware of the seriousness of her disease, the letter she writes to the hospital staff functions as an epistolary beacon: As Foster heads to Philadelphia with Samuel, who has just been admitted to medical school, he repairs to Boston and Mary\u2019s bedside, where he becomes, in effect, the Letter Incarnate.\nCivil War medical workers at all levels depended on the letter to create links with family at home\u2014their own as well as those of their charges. Josiah Dexter \u201cDeek\u201d Cotton, Surgeon of the 92nd Ohio Infantry, wrote almost daily to his wife Ann of his regiment\u2019s movements (\u201cthe people of Ohio can not have the least idea of the destruction a large army makes when marching though an enemies [sic] country\u201d); his own health (\u201cloose bowels\u201d); and military escapades (\u201cThe rebels from the other side of the river shoot at our boys occasionally when they are bathing\u2026. As a bullet would be apt to hurt a person especially when he was naked, we do not care about going oftener than necessary\u201d). Others wrote about the interracial demographics of regiments. Canadian physician Francis Wafer, trained in Kingston, Ontario, became Assistant Surgeon with the 108th New York Infantry in mid-1863 and confided to his brother, \u201cTwo Army Corps have joined us containing many negro troops. Though I have been much prejudiced against them, I must admit I am much pleased with their soldierly appearance & discipline. They also stand very high even in the estimation of the white troops for their gallant conduct under fire.\u201d Twenty-six-year-old William Watson, a University of Pennsylvania-trained physician and surgeon of the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry wrote to the homefolks about errant colleagues: \u201cOur missing Surgeons have all turned up\u2026. It is said they were drunk almost the entire time, that they used the Stimulants sent over the River by the Medical Director for our sick and that they shamefully neglected to dress the wounds of our own men.\u201d\nNational Archives While surgeons used precious time to communicate with family members or to draft official letters to the medical departments of their respective sections, they left much of the writing home to soldiers\u2019 kin to their female attendants. Indeed many of the women who were able to garner appointments as nurses\u2014rather than lower-status ones as cooks and laundresses\u2014won their positions precisely because they were able to demonstrate a high degree of literacy. Mary Phinney von Olnhausen, the woman after whom our \u201cMercy Street\u201d heroine is modeled, felt exploited in the letter-writing department: \u201cI think, had I known this part of my duties,\u201d she wrote, \u201cI never would have enlisted.\u201d Three days after the battle of Gettysburg, the tender-hearted Quaker nurse Cornelia Hancock, who had arrived to indescribable scenes of suffering, noted, \u201cI would get on first rate if [the soldiers] would not ask me to write to their wives; that I cannot do without crying, which is not pleasant to either party.\u201d But many other relief workers, like Maine\u2019s Harriet Eaton, who spent her evenings drafting diary entries copied almost word-for-word from correspondence with her funders back in Portland, were more stoic and assiduous in getting out word to watchful waiters.\nNurses not only wrote home to update soldiers\u2019 loved ones on their medical condition, but according to Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, they were \u201cbarraged\u201d with letters from mothers and wives seeking news of fallen menfolk. In June 1863, Confederate nurse Mary Martha Smith Reid received a letter from the mother of a soldier reported killed. Hoping against hope that the report was false\u2014indeed such news was occasionally in error\u2014this inconsolable parent begged Reid to scour the Richmond hospitals for any sign of the missing boy. Neil Eastman wrote to the Union Surgeon General\u2019s Office on behalf of his son, P.J., of the 81st New York Volunteers following the Battle of Cold Harbor in June 1864, and after checking the \u201cMedical Directory\u201d\u2014a late-war register prepared and published by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, which identified the whereabouts of hospitalized men\u2014and found out nothing more than his son\u2019s location. Learning where a child or a spouse was under medical care did little to dispel anxiety when the promise of learning the details of the case seemed so remote.\nScores of women who had nurtured bonds of intimacy with men under their care continued to nurture those bonds when men returned to their units or went home. Many write of having helped disabled soldiers and amputees\u2014or their families\u2014obtain honorable discharges and pensions, a task that flummoxed even the most adept student of institutional bureaucracy. Harriet Foote Hawley, wife of an officer and future governor of Connecticut, regularly received letters from the wives and mothers of soldiers with whom she had corresponded concerning their men\u2019s medical progress, letters that communicated their gratitude. Charles Hooper, an officer stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, wrote Hawley in April 1864, \u201cI shall be most happy to hear from you if you think me a worthy object to bestow a few lines upon.\u201d With more than fighting on his mind, Hooper, who had already sent his photo to Hawley, asked her to distribute it to \u201cMiss Wood and Mrs. Wayland\u201d as well, hoping to increase his circle of admirers.\nMost telling of the bonds of affection that Civil War nurses established with patients were the letters sent to them long after the war. Barbara Moore Simmons, a Confederate woman who nursed soldiers in her Demopolis, Alabama, home, received letters from men identifying themselves years later as \u201cyour soldiers.\u201d The stalwart Mary Ann Bickerdyke was so beloved of the rank and file that soldiers corresponded with her for decades after the war, including one series of letters from N. B. Hood which continued at least until December 9, 1895 when he signed, \u201cI remain as ever your boy.\u201d\n\u2014 Jane E. Schultz, Ph.D.\nLetter: \u200bAnxious parents Neil and Amancy Eastman of New York wrote to the Surgeon General\u2019s Office in search of Information about their son who had been hospitalized after the battle of Cold Harbor (they refer to it as \u201cCoal\u201d Harbor). Credit: National Archives\nWilliam Merrill Decker, Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).\nJosiah Dexter Cotton Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D. C.\nWilliam Watson, Letters of a Civil War Surgeon, ed. Paul Fatout (W. Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University, 1961)\nFrancis M. Wafer, A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, ed. Cheryl A. Wells (Montreal: McGill-Queen\u2019s University, 2008)\nMary Phinney von Olnhausen, Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars, ed. James Phinney Munroe (Boston: Little, Brown, 1904)\nCornelia Hancock, South After Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, ed. Henrietta Stratton Jaquette (New York: Thomas Crowell, 1937)\nHarriet Eaton, This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton, ed. Jane E. Schultz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)\nMarilyn Mayer Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the American Civil War (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1991)\nLetters Received, Office of the Union Surgeon General, Record Group 112, National Archives\nJoseph Roswell Hawley Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D. C.\nB. W. Simmons Family Papers, Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa\nMary Ann Ball Bickerdyke Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D. C.\nJane E. Schultz, Ph.D., is Professor of English and the Medical Humanities and Director of Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis. She is co-editor of the book series \u201dNursing History and Humanities.\u201d \"Women at the Front,\" a study of gender and relief work in American Civil War military hospitals, was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize in 2005. In 2010 Schultz published \"This Birth Place of Souls,\" an annotated edition of one of the last extant nursing diaries from the Civil War. Read Bio | Read All Posts\nReconstructing the Family Unit: Repairing Bonds Broken by Slavery\nThrough the Lens of Mercy Street", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 13633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pccc.edu/headlines_feed2/headlines-stories/pccc-prof-in-paterson-art-exhibit", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:30Z", "digest": "sha1:35KGNQ65RMHTDBDCT6Z62PAILRHFIEPG", "length": 3425, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.pccc.edu", "title": "PCCC Prof in Paterson Art Exhibit", "raw_content": "PCCC Prof in Paterson Art Exhibit\nPCCC Represented in an Exhibition Honoring Epic Poem\nPCCC English professor , poet, and photographer Mark Hillringhouse is among the 14 artists who collaborated on an exhibition tribute to the epic poem, Paterson, by the Rutherford, New Jersey physician/poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Paterson: The Provence of the Poem/The City as Metaphor is now showing at the Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University in Wayne.\nThe famous five-volume poem was written between 1946 and 1958 and vividly depicts Williams\u2019 impressions of Paterson and of the city\u2019s landmark Great Falls. The exhibit honoring the poem features three black and white landscape photographs by Hillringhouse as well as two artworks on loan from the PCCC Contemporary Art Collection, a photograph, Allen Ginsberg by Giacomo De Stefano and a painting, Garret Mountain by Paterson artist Walter Eres. All works in the exhibit were inspired by aspects of the city.\nLong intrigued by urban landscapes, Hillringhouse studied alongside the celebrated fine-art photographer George Tice, whose work includes numerous studies of Paterson.\n\u201cI have always recognized the inherent beauty in a place like Paterson, in its old mills and factories, and in its people and in the Passaic River and the Great Falls that make this a unique industrial urban city,\u201d said Hillringhouse.\nWinter Falls; Mark Hillringhouse, 2007\nCommenting on his powerful photo, \u201cWinter Falls,\u201d Hillringhouse explained, \u201cThis image, for me, evokes the industrial past of Paterson and it captures a 19th century past, that I see evidence of all over the downtown, especially as I look up from the street level where I see the 19th century preserved in the forgotten second and third stories of the old stores and banks downtown.\u201d\nHillringhouse was also featured in an article about the exhibit by arts writer Jim Beckerman and published September 20 in The Record.\nPaterson: The Provence of the Poem/The City as Metaphor runs through October 16 at the Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne. Gallery hours are 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Admission is free.\nAbout Mark Hillringhouse\nMark Hillringhouse is an Assistant Professor of English at Passaic County Community College where he has also taught art history and philosophy. A published poet and photographer, his work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The New Jersey Monthly, and The Paris Review, among others. He also writes regularly for the photography magazines View Camera, Photo-Eye, and Photo-Review.\nHillinghouse has won three fellowships for poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He also works with the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Program.\nHis recent photo exhibitions include one of his \u201cNew York City Bridges\u201d series in the Warner Gallery in Millbrook, New York, the Main Street Gallery\u2019s \u201cPhotography Juried Competition,\u201d and a one-man show titled \u201cParts of a World\u201d at the Hamilton Club Gallery. His photography was selected for the \u201cAnnual Photography and Graphic Art Exhibition\u201d in June 2009 at the Salmagundi Club in New York.\nHillringhouse\u2019s new book of poetry and photography will be published soon by ServingHouse Books in Washington, D. C. and a short story will appear next May in the anthology \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Exit\u201d by Word Riot Press.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peacexpeace.org/blogs/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IUWYW5WDVVZKR5MSQEVQO6HUOWJCDUJB", "length": 618, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.peacexpeace.org", "title": "Blogs | Peace X Peace - Part 3", "raw_content": "Nuns on the Bus: On the Border in Arizona\nSister JoAnn Persch, RSM\nPascua Yaqui Reservation in Tuscon, Arizona\n\u201cThere are close to 70 Native American nations along the border. Their voices should be heard in the debate. We need comprehensive immigration reform.\u201d\nThe gathering at the reservation near Tucson, Ariz., was held in a new auditorium, and the crowd was so large that there was standing room only. The meeting was a chaired by a staff member of Congressman Raul M. Grijalva. He welcomed the group and then invited the tribal council to greet the Nuns on the Bus and offer a prayer.\nSister Simone (Campbell) \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peatc.org/peatc.cgim?template=csa.receive", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DYLGINFA7RLY446QJIWWXP2B2XOUOEOS", "length": 332, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.peatc.org", "title": "PEATC - Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center - Csa.receive", "raw_content": "Who Receives Services Under this Law?\nThe CSA serves children and youth who fall into one or more of the following categories:\nHave or are at risk of developing emotional or behavior problems.\nRequire services from more than one agency.\nRequire placements in approved Special Education private schools.\nReceive Foster Care services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phantomshockey.com/flyers-recall-justin-bailey-phantoms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CGL2WRT4CVUUBOWTAYH7HXCHBT3UGEAV", "length": 998, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.phantomshockey.com", "title": "Flyers Recall Justin Bailey from Phantoms - Lehigh Valley Phantoms", "raw_content": "Bailey has 7 points in 10 games with Lehigh Valley\nLehigh Valley, Pa. \u2013 The Philadelphia Flyers announced today they have recalled forward Justin Bailey from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.\nBailey, 23, has played in 10 games for the Phantoms this season, tallying five goals and two assists for seven points since being traded for Taylor Leier on January 17, 2019. Overall, Bailey has played 47 games in the American Hockey League this season for Lehigh Valley and the Rochester Americans totaling 27 points on 14 goals and 13 assists.\nA native of Buffalo, Bailey has split time between Rochester and the Buffalo Sabres in each of the last three seasons. He played in 12 games for the Sabres last year, recording three goals and an assist for four points. In 52 career NHL games, all with Buffalo, Bailey has five goals and three assists for eight points.\n\u2190 Phantoms Warm Up: Lehigh Valley vs Hartford 2/10/19 Game Preview\nCorban Knight Loaned to Lehigh Valley \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.photoshopfaq.ru/Freechatonlin/15276.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KC2FWSTMNDIQNT3G6PPMR6I36VR7HPBB", "length": 962, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.photoshopfaq.ru", "title": "Freechatonlin | UK", "raw_content": "Whoever wants to chat and talk about all kinds of topics comes here.\nWebcams are considered to be the most popular form of videotelephony, making them perfect low cost and flexible devices for using with many software clients to provide video calls & videoconferencing, chat room being the general term to describe any form of the latter, both synchronous and asynchronous.free chat website that lets you connect with people quickly and easily.Featuring mobile chat rooms as well, helps you find and connect with single women and men throughout the globe.Chat room can be used as a technology for information sharing online through text with other users.It\u2019s a term with a broader meaning, because, unlike instant messaging programs, which are intended for one-to-one communication, it enables or makes it possible for multiple users to take part in the same conversation, typically known as videocalling or videoconferencing.\nmillionaire sugar daddy dating site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1514948", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6FXDVUIHJZAGGWHH5GWSZ2OPJXM5JS2D", "length": 899, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.pib.gov.in", "title": "Ministry of Defence", "raw_content": "Raksha Mantri clears two procurement proposals\nPosted On: 02 JAN 2018 12:34PM by PIB Delhi\nRaksha Mantri Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman cleared two procurement proposals here today.\nThe first proposal is related to procurement of 240 bombs, at a cost of Rs. 1254 cr. from M/s JSC Rosonboron Exports, Russia. These bombs, which fall under the category of Precision Guided Munitions, are used by Indian Air Force (IAF). This procurement will address the deficiency of Precision Guided Munitions in the IAF arsenal, besides enhancing the offensive capabilities of the IAF.\nThe second proposal pertained to procurement of 131 Barak Missiles and associated equipment, under option clause from M/s Rafeal Advance Defence Systems Ltd., Israel, at a cost of Rs. 460 cr. These missiles are surface to air missiles designed to be used as a ship-borne anti-missile defence system against anti-ship missiles.\nN. Ao/SAN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pittsburghsteelersfanatic.com/2006/11/jerome-bettis-father-dies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:34Z", "digest": "sha1:W2M5YXTBW2AJIGDC4VAJCTKDRWEDYYQZ", "length": 2257, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pittsburghsteelersfanatic.com", "title": "Pittsburgh Steelers Fanatic: Jerome Bettis' Father Dies", "raw_content": "Jerome Bettis' Father Dies\nThe following is from the Associated Press\"\n\"Johnnie Bettis, the father of retired NFL running back Jerome Bettis, died Tuesday at a suburban Detroit hospital of an apparent heart attack, police said.\nJohnnie Bettis, 61, of Detroit, was stricken while driving in a suburb north of the city around noon, police Lt. Carl Fuhs said.\n'He apparently felt it coming on,' Fuhs said. 'He was able to pull his vehicle off to the side of the road and stop it, which probably saved injury if not another person's death. That's a very busy two-lane road.'\nAnother motorist stopped and administered CPR, and a passing nurse and physician also stopped to help before police and paramedics were called, Fuhs said.\nBettis was taken to Huron Valley Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:58 p.m., hospital spokeswoman Annessa Carlisle said. She said she did not know the cause of death or whether an autopsy would be performed.\nFuhs said he notified Jerome Bettis' wife that the player's father had died. Family members were arriving at the hospital Tuesday evening, Carlisle said.\nJerome Bettis retired after helping the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks in last season's Super Bowl in his hometown of Detroit. He is now a studio analyst for Sunday night football games on NBC.\nJohnnie Bettis worked as an electrician for the city of Detroit. He and his wife Gladys attended every one of their son's regular-season and postseason games, dating back to ninth grade.\nThey had a dinner for the Steelers at their home four days before the Super Bowl and hosted about 65 people in their home for a Thanksgiving dinner in 1998 when Pittsburgh played the Detroit Lions, a game remembered for a botched coin flip in overtime with Jerome Bettis as a captain.\nWhen their son offered to buy them a new home, the Bettises spurned the suburbs and moved about six miles to a house on the city's west side, trying to lead a normal life.\n'When Jerome found out we were going to the laundromat, he said that wasn't acceptable and told us to go get a new washer and dryer,' Johnnie Bettis said a few days before the Super Bowl. 'But I kind of liked the laundromat because you get to meet so many interesting people.' \"\nLabels: Jerome Bettis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 236.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pixopop.com/daily-pop/2012/2/18/learn-how-to-draw-pixopop-style.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AHWHF4GAWG3QKHKBMKA43DBA67WSV6TE", "length": 1133, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pixopop.com", "title": "Learn how to draw pixopop style \u2014 pixopop", "raw_content": "Learn how to draw pixopop style\nAli Sabet (www.sabetbrands.com) is a designer, illustrator, branding consultant and fine artist. He earned his BA from California State University Fullerton. In 1999 he was an Art Director at Foote, Cone and Belding (now DraftFCB). He learned a ton in a short amount of time, mainly that the big agency life wasn\u2019t for him.\nAli went on to establish Sabet Brands. He has since spear-headed several national branding campaigns and helped sustain hundreds of brands over the past 12 years. He draws for a living and his passion for art is as stong today as it was when he first began. In addition to creating illustrations and logos, Sabet founded the leading online Character community, Mojizu.\nAli Sabet has had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented entrepreneurs of our time. The process of working with these amazing people ensures his growth as a consultant and a human being.\nClean Hand Drawn Style Character Design\nRough Hand Drawn Style Character Design\nClean Vector Style Character Design\nPosted in Comics, Commercial Illustration and tagged with LEARN, SWEET, brand, cute, fun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2013/20130206-planetary-society-hangout-paul-hayne.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QL4T7ALP46CCVJI2BO6R32B2SDZTGMPN", "length": 4187, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.planetary.org", "title": "Planetary Society Hangout Thursday Feb 7th at 12:00 PST/20:00 UT: Snow and Ice on Mars with Paul Hayne | The Planetary Society", "raw_content": "Casey Dreier \u2022 February 7, 2013\nPlanetary Society Hangout Thursday Feb 7th at 12:00 PST/20:00 UT: Snow and Ice on Mars with Paul Hayne\nJoin us this week as we feature our guest, Dr. Paul Hayne from JPL. Dr. Hayne studies snow and ice on Mars, extreme temperatures of the Moon, and is a science collaborator on the Cassini mission to Saturn. He also founded the group Young Scientists for Planetary Exploration to help organize early-career scientists to be aware of the politics of space.\nMars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Climate Sounder\nAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flies about 300 kilometers (180 miles) above Mars' surface, it almost continuously scans the surface and edge of the atmosphere with the Mars Climate Sounder to build up a \"four-dimensional\" view of the temperature, pressure, and composition of the bottom 80 kilometers (50 miles) of Mars' atmosphere over the course of one Martian year.\nRead more: interview, podcasts and videos, explaining science\nGerald: 2013/02/07 01:33 CST\nGood idea to provide the possibility to pose questions here in andvance, thanks! Of those many questions that arise, I'll pick out three complexes: -1- Many rocks around Yellowknife Bay look tilted, displaced, lifted up or sinked down. So the first kind of questions: What do you know or suspect about (ancient and recent) mass movements on Mars and Moon? Besides obvious rockfalls, are there indications of movement by thermic cycling, solifluction or other kinds of displacement like solids behaving like very viscid liquids over large time scales, even for small inclination? AFAIK, on Moon microsisms induced by temperature changes were detected. -2- Dust levitation is known from Moon. Mars is also a very dry environment, so what is the current estimate about electrostatic dust levitation outside dust devils? What is known about the relation of van-der-Waals and more distant electrostatic properties of Marsian dust? -3- Marsian dust contains iron oxides. Is it known, whether it contains magnetic magnetite? Btw. there exist nice sound tracks of dust from Saturn rings colliding with Cassini.\nPaul Hayne: 2013/02/07 05:46 CST\n1) Most of the surface modification on both the Moon and Mars is due to impact cratering and related processes. Volcanic activity has also occurred in the past on both, although there is no strong evidence that it continues today. On Mars, aeolian (i.e. wind-driven) erosion also plays a role in moving mass around, especially when the atmosphere is dusty (which is often!). Fluvial erosion (i.e. water) was clearly important on Mars several billion years ago, but this activity has tapered off and may or may not occur today; if so, it is confined to isolated spots and seasons. Flow-like features at mid-latitudes on Mars may be related to glacial or periglacial processes in the relatively recent past due to changes in the planet's spin axis. The type of fracture by thermal cycling you mention probably does occur on the Moon and other airless bodies, due to the extreme daily temperature changes near the surface (-185 C to +125 C at the equator!). This may be one way to produce fine-grained regolith on asteroids, where micrometeorites have slower typical impact velocities than on the Moon. The only liquids on the lunar surface were ancient lava flows and impact melts, which have since solidified. (2) I am not familiar with any studies on electrostatic dust levitation on Mars, but there is some evidence it occurs on the Moon. On the other hand, we have evidence from Diviner (watching the lunar surface cool during eclipses) that not more than a few millimeters of this levitated dust accumulates in any one spot. (2) Magnetite has been found in Martian meteorites, but I am not aware of any confirmation that it exists in the dust on the planet's surface. Thanks for the questions, and keep exploring!\nThank you very much for your profound answers! They helped me (and hopefully others as well) to better understand the prevailing processes on the rocky celestial bodies, and the current state of knowledge. 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It'll be an opportunity to introduce our members (and people who should be members -- seriously, if you are reading this, you ought to join) to our new headquarters and our incoming Executive Director, Bill Nye. Bill's already getting in to his new role, publishing an op-ed piece in Space News yesterday, saying, \"I never imagined, not for a moment, that I would so strongly disagree with two of the world's heroes, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong...\"\nPasadena Star-News, www.pasadenastarnews.com\nThe Planetary Society's Open House at its new headquarters at 85 South Grand Avenue in Pasadena, California, planned for Thursday, August 5, 2010, was the front page story in the Pasadena Star-News on August 4. They also posted a photo gallery of the new headquarters on their website.\nRead more: events and announcements, Planetary Society, Bill Nye", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.postfun.com/silly/genius-ideas-were-somehow-not-seeing-everywhere-for-some-reason-instant/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3R6U42R6NLTAHMKE5BIYBPTSQB3XXBSY", "length": 295, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.postfun.com", "title": "Genius Ideas We're Somehow Not Seeing Everywhere For Some Reason", "raw_content": "Better Phone Charging\nCharging your phone can be kind of annoying as far as outlets are concerned. Once you plug in charging adapters for your phone and your tablet, you\u2019re out of space, but that doesn\u2019t have to be the case with this USB outlet. 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You have the option to set some preferences with the free version of the app, Son. Sep 20, but I just didn't really feel that connection between the characters. At Helahel, the chatting within the app icarly is carly and freddie dating what sets it apart from its contemporaries, describing a situation of cause and effect that continues forever. The app builders of this app have extended the dating facilities to more than high school story levels of dating countries globally. On the plus side, family commitments. The only difference is that Passion Network has more specific niches (over 250 unique dating niches). Some of them include deciding whether youd rather be weird or normal, which ensures that you're going to be placed into a group of singles that are the same age as you. eHarmony is not a site for hook-ups. It may be worth letting her know towards the beginning of your date, since there's a team that verifies each profile photo uploaded to ensure it's of good quality (which can take up to 24 hours). \"Create a profile, allowing you to test the water before diving in. POF stands for Plenty of Fish. marriages. Rather than matching you up with random dudes and dudettes, he messaged me. We're just saying what they're best for. The site has a completely customised user experience, Deep Relationships, and Relationships, keep things vague and don't offer up your exact address. This website is one of the when did barney start dating robin highly rated ones of its kind on the Internet. There are significantly more smartphone apps that offer full-fledged freemiums than there are desktop dating sites, love andor marriage. The types of precautions the gay websites above have in place include SSL encryption technology that helps keep scammers away and tools that give you the ability to block andor report abusive members. You can send one every fifteen hours, although you can skip this step for later, laughter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=41783", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:E34X2A2EZWBCEJBLV3ODEIIWFFCUZPVN", "length": 856, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.progarchives.com", "title": "RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief music review by burnpigsburn", "raw_content": "burnpigsburn\nHail the The 8or The Gloaming). At first it might sound like a combination of Amnesiac's mild electronic experimental jazz and The Bends\"s catchy pop hooks, but once you get past that you'll see that Hail to The Thief is unlike any previous Radiohead album in a good way. The music is simple in it's own right but the song structures are very experimental. Everything from \"2+2=5\",s energetic chorus to \"Sit Down.Stand Up.\",s trance rock build- up to the angst-ridden anti-bush anthem \"I Will\" to the barked rapping of Thom Yorke on \"A Wolf At The Door\", Hail to Thief is a brand new sound for Radiohead and another step in their evolution. I can't ing wait for the next album if there is one. While this is album is great, it's not quite a classic as Ok Computer and Kid A were but it's still a must-have for any fan of prog, rock, or techno.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prospektphoto.net/stories/veneto-landscapes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:B42ZYF5CCKZFM7XYTVA32S5JVIWGO2PM", "length": 1391, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.prospektphoto.net", "title": "VENETO LANDSCAPES | prospekt | photographers", "raw_content": "The Northern Region of Italy called Veneto was one of the poorest in the country. After the end of the Second World War, during the Sixties, this area knew a period of great changes, becoming one of the richest region in the whole country. 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What is the song about? Beats me. The song performed by the german pop band Trio was originally released in their homeland as \"Da da da, ich liebe dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha\" was a hit in 30 countries. The song's mostly remembered here in the USA for it being used in a Volkswagen commercial from the late 90's, but I don't remember ever seeing that commercial until recently. I don't even remember exactly where I first heard it. This song has made me want to track down a Casio VL-1, which supplied the famous video game-like rhythm throughout the song and the simplistic keyboard riff. LOL. I can't find the music video for the english version of the song, only the original german version, which had a part that has really left me disturbed ever since earlier in the week, so instead, here's a clip of them performing/miming the english version of the song on the famous british TV show Top Of The Pops, which I actually think is better and more appropriate for the music because of the atmosphere in this clip:\nThe singer in the band looks like a gangster you'd see on Miami Vice or something IMO.\nPost subject: Re: Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha\nInteresting post, MrKite. I don't think I have ever heard the song so I have no idea what it's about, etc. I can't remember seeing any of those videos or commercials either, but could have and just don't remember them. Also, don't think I have ever heard of the group \"Trio\", but they do seem to be famous in Germany, etc.\nI found this link below on the wikipedia site concerning the group which give some interesting info regarding them, and the song:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_(band)\nLast edited by Silver_Surfer1 on Sat Aug 28, '10, 8:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.\nPosted: Sat Aug 28, '10, 11:09 pm\nYeah, I read the Wikipedia article earlier this week. They have an interesting history. 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He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1992.\nAs a young adult, Shepard Fairey became very interested in art. He soon began to use his drawings in T-shirts and skateboards. He was a skateboard-obsessed art student. While in school, Shepard Fairey held a part-time job in a skateboarding shop. Soon after, he hit the skateboard community hard by pasting homemade stickers all over the place. It was then that he realized his desire and interest in the street art culture and graffiti movement. Another strong influence was his love for punk music, which he demonstrated stencils.\nOne of the first images he ever used was that of Andre the Giant. Shepard Fairey found this image in a newspaper ad and he chose to introduce it to the streets.\nShepard Fairey is one of the most influential street artists of our time. Shepard Fairey\u2019s work has been used in screen-prints, stencils, stickers, masking film illustrations, wheat paste, collages, sculptures, posters, paintings, and murals. Shepard Fairey enjoys working with the colors black, white, and red. Fairey has constantly shifted between the realms of fine art, commercial art, street art, and even political art. His most famous art includes images of Andre the Giant, the Obey trademark, the propaganda poster of Barack Obama, and many more.\nShepard Fairey\u2019s work combines elements of graffiti, pop art, business art, and Marxist theory. His work has been seen in galleries around the world and even museums. Not only that, but is often recognized in graphic designing and signature apparel. One of his most famous works includes his portrait of Barack Obama. In fact, this portrait drew national attention to Fairey and his work quickly exploded after that recognition. 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(However) we are determined to have these primaries today.\nThe biggest collapse is the culture of lies and the culture of the media's glorifying regimes.\nSo far, there are no results, ... Let's hope that will change.\nWe regret the loss of civilian life, both Israeli and Palestinian, but this attack happened in Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv is under Israeli security control and not Palestinian.\nWe conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues.\nprevented a large attack that was planned for the near future inside Israel.\nHe sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building settlements, ... So what does the Mitchell report mean? Sharon wants to continue building settlements; therefore there will be no peace. Therefore if the occupation continues and the Israel army continues raiding Palestinian cities and people. So what does it mean when he accepts Mitchell report?\nThere is no reason people should stay away, ... Terrorism is present in every country in the world, and the Egyptian government is taking special measures to ensure the safety of visitors to the region.\nThose (Israeli) allegations are baseless. Not true. We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans. The Americans approved it. We worked together on it. They were happy with it. President Clinton himself approved it and was satisfied with it.\nThe Israeli government continues its policy of assassination, ... This policy will destroy any hope for peace. Resistance will continue.\nYou negotiate with us not around the table, but with bullets.\nshould be an opportunity to strengthen relations with France, not weaken them.\nTo use Apache helicopters to fire missiles at civilian quarters, that's a violation of international law. To destroy homes over its inhabitants, that's a violation of international law. Not to allow humanitarian aid for 14 days to arrive to wounded people, that is a violation of international humanitarian law.\nWe have no hesitation in condemning the violence and those acts of violence, and we condemn the killing of civilians, as we say always, Palestinian civilians as well as Israeli civilians.\nThe U.S. did not have Jewish-American settlements in Afghanistan and the U.S. was not occupying Afghanistan in the same way that Israel is occupying the Palestinian territories.\nThe only way for the Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side in peace is when Israel respects the right of the Palestinian people to live as a free nation, free of the tyranny of the occupation, free of the tyranny of discrimination, free of the tyranny of violating the rights of the Palestinian people.\nThat is absolutely nonsense, ... Those kinds of statements are not helpful.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ramsgab.com/2010/03/01/free-agent-fever-fullbacks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JACGFHATQRV6IUUTEAVS7JEULR62ID5B", "length": 3578, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ramsgab.com", "title": "Free Agent Fever - Fullbacks - Rams Gab", "raw_content": "\u00ab Draft Talk Interview with Steve Spagnuolo\nBarron NOT Tendered at 1st Round Level \u00bb\nFree Agent Fever \u2013 Fullbacks\nMarch 1st, 2010 Mark Peterson Posted in Features, Opinions\nLast week we finished looking at available QBs; now it\u2019s time for the Fullbacks. There are only 5 unrestricted free agents currently going into the 2010 season. Here is their info:\n1 Dan Kreider \u2013 Dan was picked up as an unsigned free agent by Pittsburg in 2000. He moved up from the practice squad to the active roster by Oct that year. Maintaining the starting role he even made a key contribution to the Steelers Super Bowl winning effort that year. He played for Pittsburg for 8 years and never played less than 10 games in a season. Dan lost his starting role in 2007 and later in the season incurred a season ending knee injury. In 2008 he was signed to the Rams and became their #1 FB. He played 11 games before being released. (I\u2019m not sure why\u2026 no injury is listed.). In 2009 he played 4 games with no starts for the Cardinals.\n2 Justin Griffith \u2013 Justin was drafted by the Falcons in 2003 and played there for 4 years. During those years he played the entire season 3 times and had at least 11 starts per year. In 2007 he moved to the Raiders where he again played in all 16 games and started 11. In 2008 he stayed with the Raiders, but his playing time was greatly reduced. 2009 brought Justin to Seattle and another productive season (he played in 12 games). Justin\u2019s stats have never been impressive, but he has been durable and competitive almost his entire NFL career.\n3 Kyle Eckel \u2013 Eckel was undrafted in 2005, but was picked up by the Patriots. That same year the Patriots turned him right over to the Dolphins. On the Dolphins he received a special roster status due to his commitment to the military (Navy). But, when he returned to the Dolphins in 2006, he was not activated. In 2007 the Dolphins traded him back to the Patriots where he finally saw his first playing time. In 2007 Kyle played in 12 games. In 2008 he split the season between the Patriots and the Eagles with limited playing time. 2009 saw him with the Saints, but again he made few visits to the playing field.\n4 Terrelle Smith \u2013 Smith was drafted by the NOR Saints in 2000. From 2000-2008 he played for 3 teams (Saints, Browns, and Cardinals) and never played less than 14 games per year. In 2009 he moved to Detroit where he only played in 2 games (there were no injuries reported so I\u2019m not sure why there was a decrease in playing time). Smith\u2019s stats have never been impressive, but he has been durable and competitive almost his entire NFL career (similar to Griffith).\n5 Tony Richardson \u2013 Richardson was undrafted in 1994, but was picked up by Dallas. Dallas traded him to Kansas City in 1995 and by 1996 he had worked himself into a starting role. Richardson\u2019s best statistical year was in 2000 when he accumulated 1,165 yards from scrimmage (rushing and receiving). He played for Kansas City 11 years and was selected to 2 Pro Bowls. He was picked up in 2006 by Minnesota and again made the Pro bowl with them in 2007. 2008-2009 saw him playing for the Jets where he had 7 starts and played in a total of 25 games. Richardson has had a very successful 15 career. He is 38 years old.\nOf the 5 available FBs I like two: Justin Griffith and Terrelle Smith. Both players are seasoned veterans who have proven them selves to be durable and competitive. And unlike Richardson, I think both of them are also young enough to continue to perform at a high level.\nI look forward to your comments. 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The long-running Books & Beyond author series has attracted writers from across the country to discuss their books and the writing life, and to talk about how they have used the resources of the Library of Congress in their work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.realhitz.com.ng/2018/03/could-this-be-best-out-of-beyonce.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DI5G5JYVALMAH4LQJYI6WWFC4JEJSDVW", "length": 2299, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.realhitz.com.ng", "title": "Could this be the best out of Beyonce - REAL HITZ", "raw_content": "Home / Fashion / Could this be the best out of Beyonce\nCould this be the best out of Beyonce\nWow! It Took 35 Workers 10 Days Just To Complete This Awesome Dress Beyonce Wore To Art Gala\nThis past weekend, Beyonc\u00e9 and Blue Ivy attended the WACO Theater Center's Wearable Art Gala and, unsurprisingly, showed up in some coordinating, shimmering, jaw-dropping gowns.\nThe event itself, which was co-founded and hosted by Bey's mom, Tina Knowles, invited guests to dress as characters from Wakanda, the fictional world showcased in Black Panther. So, naturally, Bey and Blue went looking like gold queens.\nBeyonc\u00e9's custom dress, which she wore on the red carpet, was created by fashion house Falguni Shane Peacock.\nThe designers, Falguni and Shane Peacock, told ELLE.com that once they found out the theme for the gala was WACO to Wakanda, they knew they wanted to create a statement gown inspired by the Nubian queen Amanishakheto.\n\"Amanishakheto was a powerful woman who led the Nubian people as their warrior queen,\" they said. In order to translate this message into the design, they created metallic cutouts that mimicked the design of armor. They also created an 11-foot, 3-D train, which was meant to highlight her Nubian royalty.\nIt took 35 workers about 10 days to complete the gown with Beyonc\u00e9 and her stylist, Marni Senofonte, reviewing sketches and fabric swatches. \"We continued to work closely with them by sending over images along the way in order to achieve the vision,\" said the designers.\nBut this wasn't the first time the designers worked with Bey. According to WWD, the duo is also responsible for the long black gown in her \"Formation\" music video:\nAnd while the designers didn't have a hand in Blue's dress, they said she looked \"like a true princess next to Beyonc\u00e9,\" and really, who could disagree? For the occasion, she wore a custom Annakiki dress and a custom wig by Divamp Couture, according to The Cut.\nBesides the family's sartorial wins, Beyonc\u00e9 also received the WACO Theater Center's Humanitarian Award, and Gloria Carter, Beyonc\u00e9's mother-in-law, received the WACO Theater Everyday People Award. Then Blue went viral when she attempted to bid $19,000 for a piece of art.\nCould this be the best out of Beyonce Reviewed by G4F Entertainment on March 23, 2018 Rating: 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.replicaukonline.com/replica-suppliers-arnold-son-introduces-thinnest-skeleton-tourbillon-to-date/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:N745JQRJR2CAP7QPYBMWDHPO77SPQMOM", "length": 3423, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.replicaukonline.com", "title": "Replica Suppliers Arnold & Son Introduces Thinnest Skeleton Tourbillon to Date - Who Sells Best Mens Uk Replica Watches OnlineWho Sells Best Mens Uk Replica Watches Online | Top Rated Luxury Swiss Replica Watches", "raw_content": "Replica Clearance Pre-Basel 2014: Introducing the Arnold & Son...\nPerfect Clone Online Shopping Introducing the Arnold & Son...\nAt 12 o\u2019clock is a day/night index for the GMT time and home time, using matching skeletonized and filled hands to tell them apart. The bottom half of the index is darkened, which aids the visual representation of the \u201cnighttime\u201d portion of this disk. I really do wish the Arnold & Son emblem had been located elsewhere however, as its place interrupting the moments monitor at 12 o\u2019clock could make exact time-setting difficult. Another niggling difficulty I found was that the next hand counterweight closely emulates the look of the home time hands, which may occasionally cause a moment of confusion when you glance down and watch three hands pointing at the dial. In an ideal world, I\u2019d have loved to see that the moment hands on each dial extended only a bit further to properly reach the minute trail, and the hour hands shortened a bit to not overlap the hour markers, but this is a little aesthetic qualm which doesn\u2019t impact utility.On the opposite side of the Arnold & Son DBG Skeleton, the base plate of the manufacture bore A&S1309 is revealed. The movement is made from nickel silver (also called German silver or Maillechort, an alloy of aluminum, nickel and zinc) that was rhodium-plated and embellished with C?tes de Gen\u00e8ve. The wheels are satin-finished and supply a contrasting three dimensional texture into the base plate, and involving the chamfered edges of these bridges, the gold gear train can be seen. The motion is hand wound obviously, which contributes to its thinness at a mere 3.9mm. It includes 42 stones and provides a 40 hour power reserve while the double accounts oscillate at 21,600vph, or 3Hz. That is undoubtedly a highly refined motion, but compared to the depth of detail offered by this skeletonized dial, the reverse side of this movement almost feels like a letdown.\nUTTE is short for \u201cultra-thin tourbillon escapement\u201d and is the name of a watch Arnold & Son introduced three years ago. Now the brand has given the UTTE an open-worked facelift, creating the slimmest skeleton tourbillon on the market.\nThe tourbillon regulator is of the flying type, with no bridge to hold it on the front. And the balance wheel is slightly off centre, rotating on a separate axis from that of the tourbillon cage, a construction that\u2019s reminiscent of the extra-thin tourbillons made by independent watchmaker Vincent Calabrese (who also designed the similar Blancpain tourbillon). Because the tourbillon rises slightly above the surface of the movement, a domed sapphire crystal is necessary to accommodate it \u2013 without the crystal the watch would be even thinner.\nIn totality, crystal and all, the watch is just 8.34 mm high, the same as the original UTTE, with a diameter of 42 mm. But the movement is slightly different than the original, being thicker in order to compensate for the skeletonisation. The bridges had to be made more substantial to ensure rigidity, since so much material was removed for the open-working. It\u2019s hand-wound with a 90-hour power reserve, or just over three days.\nThe UTTE Skeleton is a limited edition of 50 pieces in red gold, with a price of US$76,750.\n\u00bb arnold & son north pole replica, arnold & son watches uk replica\n\u00bb Arnold & Son Replica, Brand \u00bb Replica Suppliers Arnold & Son Introduces Thinnest Skeleton Tourbillon to Date", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 7838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.repubanter.com/2011/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SGFXHHAGZ3K2ZQ3JKWNQIS6EX2UJW5HR", "length": 2343, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.repubanter.com", "title": "July \u00ab 2011 \u00ab Repubanter", "raw_content": "Straight faced, but crooked characters!\nby themomteam under Democrats' crookedness, Uncategorized\nIs it possible to stand in front of the American people and lie with a straight face?\nWell, if you want to see the answer to that, just watch Senator Reid, Schurmer and Durbin trying to say that they didn\u2019t cheat to close down the vote on the House\u2019s resolution by saying only 59 votes were needed when it has always been 60.\nDid they lie when they said that the Republicans haven\u2019t presented any plans?\nOf course they did. But, did the media question them on these lies? Oh, no. The media doesn\u2019t want the truth to come out either, so many of them are willing to lie, too.\nWhy would the media lie to help the Democrats? Well, the reason is illustrated in one of my favorite books, Don Quijote. It is the story of a blind man and his servant, a young boy, sharing a bowl of grapes. The blind man begins by taking only one grape, but soon, begins taking two or three. The boy, seeing the blind man cheat, begins taking more than his share, too.\nEventually, the blind man tells the boy to stop cheating. The boy is astonished that a blind man could \u201csee\u201d that he was cheating and asks his master how the master knew that the boy was taking more than his fair share.\nThe blind man\u2019s answer was that, when he, the blind man, began cheating and the boy said nothing, it was certain that the boy, too, was cheating.\nThis is how politics and the journalists work in cahoots to cheat the American public. When a politician lies or cheats, or improves himself at the expense of the public, the journalist covers for the crooked politician.\nThe journalist hides the cheating because he hopes to get an inside track or advantage when news breaks. It\u2019s a shared set of lies and the lies are like a plague in Washington, D.C.\nThe fiasco in Washington, D.C. illustrates how many Democrats are trying to take more than their fair share of the grapes. No matter how many bills the House sends over, the Democrats are going to lie and say the bill isn\u2019t \u201cright\u201d. And, the press will say nothing.\nThat\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 favorite method of legislating and it is crooked, even when they say it with a straight face. 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They\u2019ll have a whole page that was worked on by different people, and they won\u2019t know what parts of it they have the rights to and which they don\u2019t. By opting to reword a paragraph, people can ensure that they own all of the text in it. When we have someone say reword my essay or reword my paragraph to us we ensure that the material they get back has the ownership transferred over. All the material written through our group is fresh and new, meaning that it\u2019s not shared with any other clients or copied from another source.\nWorking on Paragraphs with Us\nStudents and professionals alike are troubled by the prospect of rewording paragraphs, and we\u2019re ready to help both groups equally. Anyone who\u2019s had trouble with this in the past is more than welcome to come and work with us in order to get a better paragraph. 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As a film and fashion superstar throughout Hollywood's Golden Age, she was known for her leading role in Breakfast at Tiffany's and was one of few actresses to win an Emmy, Tony, Grammy and Academy Award. Aside from acting, she was also a humanitarian and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. As a tribute to her humanitarian work, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor any individual can receive in the United States.\nAda Lovelace was a mathematician who is also considered the world's first computer programer. She wrote the first algorithm for the first computer program in the mid-1800s. Her contributions to computer science were not discovered until the mid 1900s, but has since received many posthumous honors for her work. In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense created its newly developed computer language after ADa Lovelace, naming it \"Ada.\"Ada Lovelace Day, which is held in Mid-October, was also created to raise awareness for women in science, technology, engineering and maths.\nCHAPLIN - I'm dapper\nCharlie Chaplin was one of the most pivotal actors during the silent-film era and is considered one of Hollywood's first superstars.Celebrated for his famous role in The Tramp, Charlie Chaplin was not only a talented actor, but is also considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of American cinema. He was countlessly recognized throughout his career. He was awarded with a special Academy Award from the Motion Picture Academy and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.\nMartin Johnson was a photographer, a filmmaker, a naturalist, an author, but most of all \u2014 a voyager. From Africa to the South Pacific Islands, he embarked on various adventures with his wife by his side, researching and studying the wildlife and people of distant lands. Through photography, books and films, their findings captivated people all over the world and inspired the design of Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom Lodge.\nSteve Irwin was an Australian wildlife expert, conservationist and television personality who was famous for his series, \u201cThe Crocodile Hunter.\u201d In addition to his role on television, he made many contributions to wildlife education and conservation. He ran an organization that that not only rescued and protected crocodiles, but also supported a number of animal-related charities. He once stated, \"I consider myself a wildlife warrior. My mission is to save the world's endangered species.\"\nAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). He is best known for his mass\u2013energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed \"the world's most famous equation\"). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics \"for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect\". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory.\nJules Verne was a French novelist, playwright and poet who is most known for the novels,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Often referred to as the \"Father of Science Fiction,\" he composed more than 70 books and is considered the second most-translated writer of all time (between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare). His work has not only taken several different forms, including TV, motion pictures and plays, but has also had a profound influence on many writers, scientists and inventors.\nLewis Carroll was an English author who created a number of classic children's stories, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This book was the most popular children's book in the world in 1932. Lewis Carroll was not only highly regarded for his fantasies and tales of dream worlds, but was also a mathematician, photographer and logician. He created a number of fine photographs, the most notable being those of the actress, Ellen Terry and poet, Alfred Tennyson.\nOptions: Maathai-12 months (1 in stock)LoveLace-18 months (1 in stock)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 6472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 121.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richmondnc.com/231/Terms-of-Use", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QR5TRG7ET4H7UC2X266DCI56FT3X3HIE", "length": 12640, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.richmondnc.com", "title": "Terms of Use | Richmond County, NC - Official Website", "raw_content": "Thank you for visiting the Official Site of Richmond County, North Carolina. It is presented to you by the Richmond County Board of County Commissioners. 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What could be good about nail pierced hands, a crown of thorns, and a cross? Was it even permissible to be happy on a day that commemorates a crucifixion?\nI think about this day differently now.\nWithin the last 24 hours, Brooke colored on the kitchen table with a pen, leaving behind permanent scribble. Reese's carelessness resulted in a Google search on how to remove gum from a microfiber couch and berber carpeting. They've nagged. They've bickered. They've gotten under my skin.\nYet, even during their most annoying moments -- moments when behaviors and attitudes are unacceptable, moments when they're deliberately disobeying, I wouldn't need to think twice if they were put in harm's way. I'd step in willfully. I'd risk my own well-being to save them from harm.\nAs a parent, you know this. Deep in your heart, you've looked at your children and felt the brunt of this sobering realization: you'd die for them.\nThat's the heart of God.\nGod knew we were in harm's way. Our sin had separated us from him, and he willingly risked his own well-being for our good. Knowing that the cross would serve as the bridge to connect us again with God, he chose death.\nThis is good news. It's not pretty. It's not budding tulips, fluffy chicks, and pastel eggs as we're apt to distill Easter, but it's good in every sense of the word. A holy good.\nYes, the day is named accurately.\nOriginally posted April 22, 2011. Resurrected for today.\nThis is beautiful Robin. Yes, it is a Good Friday and this is Good News... that we are saved because we are loved. Not by our merits or will but because of our Lord's amazing grace.\nWishing you a blessed Easter my friend.\nLisa Witherspoon April 18, 2014\nI love this perspective. My children have often asked \"Why to the call it GOOD Friday when it's the day He died?\" I have struggled to answer, but this is perfect. 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It\u2019s never too early to start!\nEducation abroad advisors assist students with researching and applying to study abroad programs, academic planning, transfer credit, pre-departure orientation, and re-entry programming.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2017/01/12/david-crosby-interview-lighthouse-csny-reunion-graham-nash-neil-young/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FX2SQUGV7BNI6UB7GPI3WQZKMHHYYMTW", "length": 26562, "nlines": 135, "source_domain": "www.rockcellarmagazine.com", "title": "Riffin' with the Croz: David Crosby on CSNY, the Byrds, 'Serving the Song' and Reunions (Q&A) | Rock Cellar Magazine", "raw_content": "Riffin\u2019 with the Croz: David Crosby on CSNY, the Byrds, \u2018Serving the Song\u2019 and Reunions (Q&A)\nBy Jeff Slate on January 12, 2017 8 Comments\nWhen I meet up with David Crosby during rehearsals for his fall tour supporting his new solo album Lighthouse, he almost can\u2019t contain himself about the amazing reviews the album had been getting.\n\u201cHave you read the Rolling Stone review?\u201d he asks me, almost immediately after we say hello. \u201cWoo! Uncut was a blazer, too, but Rolling Stone, man, it was a rave. It\u2019s a great review. They loved it!\u201d\nCrosby is going it alone these days, and he\u2019s never seemed happier. After a nasty, public falling-out with longtime musical foil Graham Nash, and cutting ties with his other musical brothers in the supergroup he\u2019d toured and recorded with off and on with over the past 40-plus years, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby released Croz in 2014, and never looked back.\nAs for Lighthouse, the glowing reviews are well-deserved. Produced by Snarky Puppy\u2019s Michael League, the stripped down sound is both breathtaking and stark, with Crosby\u2019s voice and storytelling skills, at 75, undiminished.\nRock Cellar Magazine: When we last spoke, Croz wasn\u2019t out yet, and I remember talking to you about it and coming away feeling that you were a little bit tentative as a solo artist, like being completely solo was a truly new experience for you.\nDavid Crosby: Leaving a major group is stepping off a cliff. Most people wouldn\u2019t do it. The path of least resistance is to go for the big money, and I only had to sing six songs, in a night, to do that. And it\u2019s easy. You just turn on this one machine and do your hits. And do a lot of posturing. But that became not good enough to me. So I did it, and I was scared. You were totally right. You read me correctly: I was scared.\nWell, you didn\u2019t seem scared, necessarily, just tentative.\nDavid Crosby: Well, tentative and scared!\nAnd you don\u2019t seem like a tentative guy by nature.\nDavid Crosby: Oh, so I didn\u2019t let you know I was scared. I\u2019m glad. But I was scared. And that\u2019s a natural thing. I love the guys in CSNY and we did good work and I\u2019m proud of it.\nBut I can\u2019t just sit there and run on a treadmill. It\u2019s not OK. God gave me a gift.\nAnd if God gives you a scalpel you don\u2019t dig weeds with it, you do surgery.\nI just spent some time with your old buddy Roger McGuinn.\nDavid Crosby: You know, we talk all the time on Twitter.\nI know, I see it.\nDavid Crosby: He is really sweet. When he saw the reviews that I got, he immediately sent me congratulations.\nWell, he loves you. We talked about that. And we talked about The Byrds a lot. And when I saw him he played with Mudcrutch. It was very loose, and we got to talking. And man, you know, he said, almost identically what you said earlier about why he really loves just picking up a guitar case, and gig bag and going out on the road. Just keeping it simple, and playing what he wants to play. He said, \u201cI don\u2019t change it up all that much. But I can!\u201d\nDavid Crosby: He can! Yeah. And he doesn\u2019t have to engage in an entire massive network of people and stuff to go out on the road. And he can remember the scene he came out of.\nPhoto: Django Crosby\nThe 1960s folk scene.\nDavid Crosby: Right. He\u2019s just so good at that stuff. But I wish he would go out with me and Chris (Hillman) as The Byrds. I know exactly how to fly wingman to that guy. And I have immense respect for him. So does Chris. And the three of us could do it. But I gotta respect that you can\u2019t legislate somebody into playing music, they have to want to.\nThat\u2019s what he said exactly; almost identically.\nDavid Crosby: I understand that pretty well. I really do. And I have a lot of respect for him, otherwise I\u2019d be pissed. Because there\u2019s great music to be made there, and so simple. The Byrds\u2019 stuff is so simple. It\u2019s so easy, and I could really dig into it now. But he\u2019s got the same attitude I do now, and that\u2019s thinking about the future, not the past. He\u2019s concerned about what\u2019s gonna happen tomorrow. How can you not respect that?\nLast time we talked, we talked about Younger Than Yesterday, and we talked about 5D. When I talked to him we ended up talking about those same albums and, you know, those albums for me really define The Byrds, even more than the first two albums.\nDavid Crosby: Younger Than Yesterday was when we came of age.\nAnd he talked about writing with you, the sort of jazzy \u201cAirport Song.\u201d\nDavid Crosby: Wow! I had to admit to somebody on Twitter a couple of days ago that I hadn\u2019t listened to a Byrds song in 10 years.\nBut, you know, it\u2019s so funny, so many people are so completely entranced with the past, and that\u2019s where they spend their time. And they want to know the most minute detail. And I wonder, if you walk through life looking over your shoulder, don\u2019t you like run into a wall or a tree or something?\nSo I just don\u2019t (look back). I can\u2019t do that. I don\u2019t give a shit about what\u2019s done. I\u2019m happy that I did the work that I did in Byrds and CSN, and in CSNY. I\u2019m happy with all of it, and I\u2019m proud of it. But I can\u2019t just stand still, that\u2019s not gonna work for me.\nWhen we last talked, the piece I was writing was around the live box you did with CSNY.\nDavid Crosby: It\u2019s good.\nBut here\u2019s the thing, because I talked to you, I talked to Stills and I talked to Nash, and Nash was really neck deep into that thing. I mean, he really worked hard.\nDavid Crosby: That really big \u201874 box? I think he really did a great job. He and I are loggerheads but I gotta tell you, man, he did a great job. Credit where it\u2019s due.\nWell, this is the thing, I know there\u2019s a lot of personal stuff going on between you two and we don\u2019t have to get into that. But from an artistic standpoint, he seems happy to be playing those same songs every night, and not doing something new.\nDavid Crosby: That\u2019s because he comes from a different place, man. He was in a pop band, so that\u2019s really where his orientation is: To be a successful, important world pop star.\nI love that guy, but his book is where things went awry. It was a remarkably dishonest book. He made himself out to look fantastic, but whenever he needed something\u2026\nSalacious?\nDavid Crosby: Or naughty. But salacious is a good word. But whenever he needed something wild (to move the story forward) he used my stories. It wasn\u2019t cool. It just wasn\u2019t okay; and all that stuff is already known, anyway. But he did it from a different point of view, where he added everything to make him look terrific and me look bad and I thought it was a dishonest book.\nWell, it was a less interesting book in the long run, certainly less so than yours. You might get a bump in sales in the beginning by going the \u201cHey, I\u2019m going to tell you about David Crosby\u2019s wild times\u201d route, but the reality is\u2026\nDavid Crosby: But it was all stuff I had already written about and talked about many times.\nYour book, which we talked about at length last time I saw you, now that is a fucking book, man.\nDavid Crosby: Oh yeah. Carl Gottleib is one of my oldest friends. We\u2019ve known each other for 50 years. And it\u2019s a really honest book. We went to great lengths to make it honest.\nWell, and the passage of time wasn\u2019t so great. You were closer to the things you were writing about.\nDavid Crosby: Yeah, but we did a thing including other people\u2019s perspectives, so you got my view and the point of view of several other people who were there at the time, and I think in retrospect it\u2019s probably a pretty accurate book, or it\u2019s at least trying to be honest. Because if you get seven people telling a story, in the middle of those seven perspectives\u2026\nYou\u2019re going to get close to the truth there.\nDavid Crosby: In the middle of those seven viewpoints you\u2019ll know what happened. You get a clear, 3D picture. That\u2019s a different approach and I was very proud of it and I\u2019m still very proud of it. So that\u2019s still how I think you should do it.\nLet\u2019s talk about the new record. We\u2019re sitting here in a recording studio in Brooklyn, owned by Snarky Puppy\u2019s Michael League, and there are people buzzing around, and you\u2019re about to go into the final day of rehearsals for a tour, so how is it going?\nDavid Crosby: For people who have never sung together, learning an entire record\u2019s worth of brand-new shit that I\u2019ve never sung and played, it\u2019s just amazing.\nLighthouse is a dense record, and not just because it\u2019s an ambitious record. I think the difference to me, and to all those reviewers we were talking about earlier, is that as fans we expect a good record from you. At this point in your career you know how to make a record. You\u2019re not like a neophyte. But that being said, I like your last record, Croz.\nDavid Crosby: Oh, Croz is a good record. Great producer.\nBut Lighthouse sounds like \u2013 only a year and a half or so later \u2013 is a huge artistic leap forward, as a statement as an artist. That was a really pleasant surprise, because we don\u2019t have many statements from you individually over the last 50 years.\nDavid Crosby: Because I\u2019ve been making CSN and CSNY and Crosby/Nash albums. That\u2019s why there haven\u2019t been more solo records. But what happened is that I met Michael through Twitter. I was tweeting about Snarky Puppy because they\u2019re a fantastic band. I\u2019d discovered their stuff up on YouTube, and it\u2019s just spectacular. And I started tweeting about them.\nAnd his mom told him \u2013 or somebody told him \u2013 and he started reading all of my tweets and he was flabbergasted. Because I said something about them being one of the best bands I\u2019d ever heard, and how the compositions are beautiful and it\u2019s exciting and it\u2019s accessible, they are accessible to the outside world. They are not incestuous and intellectual and inward turning. They include you. They communicate outwardly. And so I fell in love with them. So I went down to do their Family Dinner record, and I spent a week with Michael and said, \u2018Okay, this is not like anybody I\u2019ve ever met. This is a completely different level guy.\u2019\nAnd he is\u2026 I don\u2019t use the G word. But he is one. He\u2019s really, really much smarter than me\u2026\nWhoa, David Crosby\u2026\nDavid Crosby: I\u2019m telling you the truth! I\u2019m just telling you the truth. He is. And he\u2019s a fantastic musician and a completely genuine human being. And he has a plan. All he cares about is music. When I met him, he didn\u2019t even have a place to live. He was living out of a suitcase and working 365 days a year. He didn\u2019t even need to take time off. And he does it out of love. It\u2019s his choice. He could get any gig he wants. So I fell in love with him.\nHe\u2019s a terrific cat. And I asked him to come to my house and write with me. The first day my wife taught him how to swim. The second day we wrote a song. The third day we wrote a song. Fourth day? We wrote a song! Just like that. Really brilliant. I had already asked him if he would produce a record for me, and I already had committed to doing another record like Croz, Which is here, already, right in here (points to his Mac).\nBut I envisioned working with him to be like hiring a master carpenter with a gigantic toolbox. So I said, \u201cOkay, is that what we\u2019re doing?\u201d And he said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019ll do what you want, but you know I really loved your first solo record, everybody did, so I really think big vocal stacks and acoustic guitar and that\u2019s it.\u201d And I said, \u201cShit, that\u2019s right in my wheelhouse!\u201d He didn\u2019t have to convince me. I live there!\nAnd then we started writing new songs. So now I\u2019m the biggest fan in the world of this guy. You should see what it\u2019s like working with him. It\u2019s so easy. And low key. You can\u2019t believe how good that guy is. And Becca Stevens and Michelle Willis (from Crosby\u2019s touring band). Genius fucking singers. They\u2019re better than me. Way better. And I\u2019m not kidding you! They are. They\u2019re really way better than me. Both of them can sing rings around me, I promise you, and they\u2019re great instrumentalists, too. Michelle is a great keyboard player and Becca can play anything. And what happens here is that I said, \u201cI wish I could tour this record.\u201d And he said, \u201cWe can. We\u2019re gonna. With Becca and Michelle.\u201d\nAnd it\u2019s just amazing how good it sounds.\nSo what do you carry with you from say, The Byrds, or CSN, or CSNY or even working with Graham alone, today, especially since you seem as though you feel so liberated cutting ties with those people over the last few years, and especially since that seemed to help you artistically to make this record? Because you are in a different place artistically than you were 18 months ago when we met to talk about Croz and the CSNY live box.\nDavid Crosby: Yes, I am. That\u2019s because I\u2019m still growing.\nAnd I know I\u2019m older than dirt. But the fact is I\u2019m not dead, and I am growing every day, and if that\u2019s the case, I\u2019m fucking well going to do it. And if I\u2019m gonna run it till the wheels come off. If music that good is gonna come out of me I\u2019m gonna pay attention. I have to respect that.\nWhat was the first track you did when you went, \u201cWow, there\u2019s really something special here?\u201d Was it when you were working on the demos or were you actually cutting the record?\nDavid Crosby: \u201cThings We Do For Love.\u201d It was such a total success that I knew I wanted to do more. I don\u2019t feel authorship of the choice. I think the choice was laid in front of me and that there wasn\u2019t any way I could choose to turn around and go backwards. It was just so good.\nSure you could have. We talked about this earlier: It\u2019s easiest to take the path of least resistance.\nDavid Crosby: I think so too, it\u2019s easy to take the path of least resistance, but this shit was laying in front of me. So no contest. No contest at all.\nIt\u2019s still a bold move, for someone at your age, and at your level.\nDavid Crosby: Oh no, it\u2019s like jumping off a cliff and hoping the parachute will work.\nAt this point in your career, it\u2019s like a David Bowie or a Bob Dylan move, to just say, \u201cFuck it! This is what I\u2019m going to do. Fuck you all.\u201d\nDavid Crosby: Well, both of those guys have done that. And are still doing it. But I don\u2019t think there was any choice to be made. I saw it there and I felt like I had been gifted. I didn\u2019t think this up, man. It\u2019s not like I invented this whole thing. It was laid upon me, right there and I would\u2019ve had to have been deaf, dumb and blind and ignorant to not see the quality. If there\u2019s one thing I have always been it\u2019s totally focused on the song.\nOur job is to serve the song. And you only do that, you only give that to your work, if you\u2019re thrilled by the fucking song. The song has to be really there; it has to be really good. And with the quality of the songs that were coming I just couldn\u2019t have done anything else.\nWell, just to play Devil\u2019s Advocate here, you have to like your soapbox. You must want a lot of people to hear your music, and not just a few.\nDavid Crosby: I do! I love being big. It was fun for a while. But what rings my bell inside is delivering a really fine song that takes you somewhere, makes you feel something and, although there were really good songs in there, there just weren\u2019t in the last 10 years. And I went as far down the \u201cturn on the smoke machine and play your hits road\u201d as I could go, and even a little further.\nAnd that fabled Rick Rubin-produced CSN album, are we ever gonna hear that? Did that just not happen for you?\nDavid Crosby: Okay, I\u2019m gonna get myself in trouble again and its your fault! In my opinion\u2026I\u2019ll frame it like this: Rick Rubin\u2019s a poser and I don\u2019t think he knows shit about producing. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s any good at all. And he made some serious mistakes. We had a Beatles song that we liked, and I said, \u201cWell this one is also very appealing.\u201d And he said, \u201cThere\u2019s only going to be one Beatles song on this record!\u201d Alarm, alarm! He\u2019s not a player or a singer or a song guy. He\u2019s a guy who talked his way into being highly thought of a producer. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s that good.\nWell, Tom Petty loved what he did during Wildflowers, I\u2019m pretty sure.\nDavid Crosby: I understand that. So did a lot of other people. But ask Tom if he\u2019d work with him again. And then ask him why. You know if you print this\u2026 You know, it\u2019s okay if you do. He knows how I feel. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a bad guy. I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s a great producer.\nAnyway, what I was trying to get at was, when you perform these new songs, and certainly the older ones in your live set, I hear Gene Clark in there. I hear Steven Stills. But when you\u2019re performing the songs, what do you carry from those days with you as a performer, when you\u2019re in the moment?\nDavid Crosby: I don\u2019t carry any of the history. I carry the love of the song. I have been gifted to be able to work with some very good people, doing some very good songs. I recorded \u201cOhio\u201d with Neil Young. Give me a fucking break! You know? I recorded \u201cSuite: Juudy Blue\u201d with Steven Stills. How much more do you want?\nI recorded \u201cEight Miles High\u201d with Roger McGuinn man, with The Byrds. And I recorded a dozen Gene Clark songs. Two dozen Gene Clark songs. Gene was this guy from Missouri with thirteen kids and no idea what the rules were, so he just did what he felt good and it did feel good. And Roger, cause he\u2019s really smart, knew how to translate that into a record, which is what he did to \u201cTambourine Man.\u201d I\u2019ll tell you a story, when we were in the studio Bob heard we were doing \u201cTambourine Man\u201d and he came and he listened to us do it electric, and you could almost hear the gears working. He went right out and got an electric band, the next day. There\u2019s no question about what happened there. And I came out of all that experience with respect for those people, but with a deep, dyed in the wool love for the song and that\u2019s still there.\nGood songwriters slay me. They knock me end over end. But here I am, the happiest I\u2019ve ever been. And making good art. And I know it\u2019s not being modest to say, but it is good art. It\u2019s what they put me here to do, I\u2019m certain of it. I\u2019m so grateful and happy about it that I sound totally like an idiot if I try to explain it. But it\u2019s how it is.\nAs an artist, though, it\u2019s a bold move to jettison that big machine. To take that leap, and to go, \u201cOkay, well I\u2019m playing to 7,000 people.\u201d And then suddenly it\u2019s 2,000 people, and it affects your bottom line, and then it affects your mood and it affects you artistically. Forget if you\u2019re playing stuff you love, it\u2019s hard to do that.\nDavid Crosby: It gets worse. It gets a lot worse.\nThat\u2019s your advice to an artist reading this, \u201cIt\u2019s gonna get worse!\u201d\nDavid Crosby: Well, it\u2019s true! And when that\u2019s the case you have to make the choice and move on. Serve. The. Song. When you\u2019re faced with that choice \u2013 when you\u2019re faced with an artistic choice \u2013 serve the song.\nAnd you never had any interest in going the all-star band route? You know, going out with Joe Walsh, and Jackson Browne, and whomever? Because you could do that, you know? You could put together CSNY 2.\nDavid Crosby: But that\u2019s not where I\u2019m at.\nI get that, but a lot of people would hear your music and there\u2019s a lot of money in that.\nDavid Crosby: I know, but I have a bunch of money. Money\u2026 here\u2019s money: Money is a good servant but a terrible master. It\u2019s a great tool \u2013 you can help people \u2013 but it can\u2019t be the reason you do things, not if you wanna go for the high ground. You\u2019ve got to go for the art, and you have to go for the people and you have to go for the love. You don\u2019t go for the money.\nOkay, but for people and especially musicians reading this, they\u2019re surely thinking, \u201cEasy for you to say, having a lot of it, than for me.\u201d You know, musicians on the B-level, just trying to make ends meet, with kids and college to pay for; stuff like that.\nDavid Crosby: I totally get that. But when it comes down to your life\u2019s work and your own heart, don\u2019t go for the dollars. It\u2019s not a good reason for doing things. It\u2019s a tool you use and you use it to do good.\nSo a Byrds reunion, for you, with McGuinn and Hilman, it\u2019s not about the money?\nDavid Crosby: Hell no!\nYou\u2019ve said this to me before, but I get that you would like to play those songs with those guys?\nDavid Crosby: Are you fuckin\u2019 kidding, wouldn\u2019t you? It\u2019s good music, man! The thing about The Byrds\u2019 stuff is that it\u2019s very genuine music. We were not sophisticated but we loved what we were doing and you can feel it. We we\u2019re trying the best we could to make great music the best we knew how, and you can feel that in the music. There\u2019s joy in there and pride and willingness to push the envelope.\nGod, if there\u2019s anything I love about Roger and Christopher, they were willing to let me push the envelope. So would I love it? Yes. And yet, am I still fine with not doing it. But I\u2019d do it in a second. And I\u2019d have a blast, because I\u2019m a much better musician now. I could help, and it would be good. And I guarantee you if the three of us got together we would make very good music.\nBut getting back to the here and now? Dude, I\u2019m happy! The key to the whole thing: I was miserable and now I\u2019m happy. This is what happens when I\u2019m happy. I can\u2019t ignore that. I\u2019d be a fucking idiot to ignore it.\nYou made some great records as a miserable guy though, didn\u2019t you?\nDavid Crosby: No.\nDavid Crosby: No, I made some okay records and before that, when I was happy with those bands, I made some great records. But it petered out. What\u2019s the last CSN record, you think it was great? But I made some great music. I\u2019m proud of it.\nAnd in the early-70s? You weren\u2019t so happy then.\nDavid Crosby: I was happy. I was just misguided. I was stoned out of my gourd.\nAnd self-medicating; you had a lot of pain.\nDavid Crosby: You know what the deal was? I was strung out. And so I had my priorities misaligned. But I think I\u2019ve lucked out. Now I am going to keep two things going, two streams. I\u2019m going to continue working with Michael, which is pretty acoustic focused and vocals focused. And I\u2019m going to do more music like Croz, which will eventually come out as a record called Skytrails. In fact, it was finished, but I just wrote another song and it has to go on it, with this wonderful bass player from Estonia; she\u2019s just a fantastic musician.\nSo it\u2019s not done. And James (Raymond) has written some stuff for that record that you simply will not believe. He\u2019s incredibly talented. So I\u2019m going to keep both streams going. But I don\u2019t think it should stop there. I think the next thing I plan to do is, if this chemistry keeps working, is to do more with Michael and Becca and Michelle, cause they\u2019re so fantastic. The key factor about my life right now is that I\u2019m very happy. I\u2019m very happy with my family, I\u2019m very happy with my marriage, and I\u2019m very happy with how my music is going.\nIt\u2019s very interesting to me, though, relative to our last conversation, if Roger called, you\u2019d do that\u2026\nDavid Crosby: In a minute!\nBut if Graham or Neil called, you probably wouldn\u2019t?\nDavid Crosby: Probably not\u2026 If Neil\u2026\nThere are a lot of fans that will be hurt, or upset by that.\nDavid Crosby: Real world? If Neil comes and says, \u201c10 million dollars a guy, I need 2 months.\u201d Fine. I can pay my house off. I\u2019ll do it. I\u2019m a grown up. I understand what\u2019s at stake. But\u2026 No joy there. No joy.\nWell, and there\u2019s only so many more rodeos to go to at this point, too. Did you see Neil at Desert Trip? He seems to be feeding off Promise of the Real amazingly well.\nDavid Crosby: Crazy Horse? Boom-boom-crack. Promise of the Real are much better. You know, I saw a clip, or I heard a clip of them and Neil playing \u201cCortez,\u201d and it was some of the best music I\u2019ve heard in my life. And I\u2019ve been on stage with that guy a thousand times. But I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever heard any better than that.\nHe was killing it. Absolutely ripping that guitar up. I just was immensely proud of him. Cause you know he\u2019s got the same problem that the rest of us do: He\u2019s trying to keep it alive. He sees what\u2019s going on. But he\u2019s always been trying to keep forward motion.\nBut he\u2019s not the problem. But, yeah, I would probably do it. Never say never. But right now I can\u2019t believe how happy I am and how great the music I\u2019m making is. There\u2019s really no better feeling.\nchris hillman, Crosby, csn, csny, David Crosby, gene clark, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, joe walsh, mudcrutch, rick rubin, Roger McGuinn, snarky puppy, stills nash and young, the byrds, Tom Petty\nRiffin\u2019 with the Croz: David Crosby on CSNY, the Byrds, \u2018Serving the Song\u2019 and Reunions (Q&A) added by Jeff Slate on January 12, 2017\n8 Responses to \"Riffin\u2019 with the Croz: David Crosby on CSNY, the Byrds, \u2018Serving the Song\u2019 and Reunions (Q&A)\"\nRick Holly January 13, 2017 at 3:08 pm\nAs a dyed in the wool Byrds fan since I heard the fist notes of \u201cMr Tambourine Man\u201d, I would pay big bucks to hear Roger, david and Chris together. Can\u2019t think of any concert I would be more excited to attend. Please reconsider Roger. Time is running out\u2026.\nWondering if Croz is still trying to get the movie OHIO made.\nAlso, it\u2019s StePHen Stills\u2026\nRon Cascisa January 14, 2017 at 5:10 pm\nCros is always so candid and true to himself! What a great way to enjoy a Sunday afternoon\u2026Listening to the unbelievable performance videos and reading the Crosby interview. The performances were some of his best. Suite and 8 Miles were great as was his stuff off the new album.I think I\u2019m going to buy it. It reminded me of A Thousand Roads. I\u2019d kill to see him out with Hillman and McGuinn.\nBruce Bundock January 17, 2017 at 5:51 pm\nI saw Roger, Chris and David do Turn Turn Turn at the Roy Orbison Tribute Concert, along with John Jorgenson and he drummer ( sorry, can\u2019t remember his name) frome the Desert Rose Band. I thought the heavens opened up! Best live version by the original Byrds I think I ever heard.\nVincent Flanders January 18, 2017 at 10:46 am\nI wonder if it would be enough if the three of them got together at somebody\u2019s house and just played? It wouldn\u2019t help the fans \u2013 and I\u2019m one of them \u2013 but I might satisfy Crosby\u2019s soul. Or make him want to go out on tour with the Byrds even more.\nLaurence Todd February 6, 2017 at 2:57 pm\nReally looking forward to hearing Crosby\u2019s new music. I\u2019ve been a fan since hearing Tambourine Man in the mid 60\u2019s, and I\u2019ve long believed the best songs in the Byrds repertoire were written by Crosby. Just a shame we may not hear him singing with Nash again ..\nReally looking forward to hearing Crosby\u2019s new album.I\u2019ve been a fan since I first heard the Byrds sing Tambourine Man, and I\u2019ve long thought the best songs of the Byrds were written by Croz. 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Epstein, M.D.Computers in Medicine Conference", "raw_content": "Alpert Medical School 222 Richmond Street Providence, RI (map)\nThe Patient, The Practitioner and the Computer Conference at Alpert Medical School at Brown University\nMindful Practice: Optimizing Your Inner Operating System in a Technological World\nRonald Epstein, MD\nDirector of the Center for Communication and Disparities Research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry where he is Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Oncology, and co-directs Mindful Practice programs and the Deans Teaching Fellowship program.\nMichael Krasner, MD, FACP\nProfessor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, practices primary care internal medicine in Rochester, New York and co-directs the Mindful Practice programs at the University of Rochester.\nSession Description: In this workshop, Drs. 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Working with the qualities of beginner\u2019s mind, critical curiosity, attentive observation, and presence, participants will examine how states of attention and awareness impacts not only relationship with patients, but also one\u2019s relationship with oneself.\nSession Goals and Objectives:\nUnderstand the relationship between health professional well-being, quality of care, and quality of caring\nDescribe several practical exercises that health professionals can engage in on a regular basis that can enhance their relationship with technology while enriching patient-centered care\nExplore how the \u201cdefault-mode network\u201d in the brain can be modulated by awareness practices, and review other neuropsychological principles that relate to the quality of the practitioner-patient encounter.\nSource:: https://www.brown.edu/academics/medical/education/other-programs/continuing-medical-education/live-conferences/PPC-Conference/schedule-glance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roundrockappliancerepair.net/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:R3N4HKEEOFVVCBFWL527IMKVKVWRGYQN", "length": 494, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.roundrockappliancerepair.net", "title": "Blog | Round Rock Appliance Repair - Part 2", "raw_content": "All about Appliance Repair Service\nAn appliance is a device which is used to perform a certain task. 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The Emergency Department is staffed by Registered Nurses with training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum (TNCC) and is supported by Physicians and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses from Republic County Family Clinic and Belleville Medical Clinic.\nOur Emergency Department is supported by the Laboratory and Radiology Departments at Republic County Hospital.\nThe emergency room entrance is located on the west side of Republic County Hospital.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 157.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00002201/qualitative-analysis-quizzes-new-users-guide?cmpid=CMP00007462", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZGYQAMD4MUOK4K64CAJL7F6QUMCQJ4O", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rsc.org", "title": "Qualitative analysis quizzes: new users guide to our practical skills quizzes- Learn Chemistry", "raw_content": "Testing transition metal ions with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sallystrawberrycreations.com/2016/08/something-new.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2A5JQFAZRWRC4NVXOCCYHIQ2W72AFYTI", "length": 992, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sallystrawberrycreations.com", "title": "SallyStrawberry: Something new", "raw_content": "I've been working on something new and I'm loving it. I was a bit scared to release it to the world as I was afraid of getting my hopes and spirits dashed if people hated it. Alas, it was the complete opposite and it got a wonderful reception on Instagram. Thank you all for being so kind.\nIt is by no means perfect, but that's the charm of handmade no?\nI'm working on another hoop which I will be sharing with you soon! I hope you like it. I'm really enjoying the whole process, slowly stitching away. I'm taking my time to get as much out of the creative process as possible. I'm trying not to rush, to focus on the work at hand and not on the finished product. For someone who is usually manically crocheting Christmas orders this time of year it is a sweet, sweet relief to be able to do this. This is what crafting is all about.\nMore soon :-)\nCarie @ Space for the Butterflies 7 August 2016 at 11:44\nEmbroidered crochet patterns, what a clever idea, they're so pretty in their own right!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.samanthamclark.com/2009/03/22/writers-insecurity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3WFYUAMNXBTTO36XLBG6WWB4UJHQVN7E", "length": 5062, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.samanthamclark.com", "title": "Writer\u2019s insecurity \u2013 Samantha M Clark", "raw_content": "Writer\u2019s insecurity\nI have no idea where I am with my goals. I\u2019m pretty sure I did three chapters this week, but it might have been four. I did work on my revision every day and reworked an entire chapter this morning, and that makes me feel good.\nBut, insecurities and doubts have been looming behind me, waiting to strike. I can feel their hot breath on the back of my neck, and I have been trying to ignore them. It\u2019s hard.\nI\u2019m not sure why they\u2019ve suddenly swarmed around me, but insecurity and doubt is something every writer deals with. Writing is a lonely job. Most of the time, the only company we have is our characters, and as good company as they might be, they can\u2019t tell us if what they\u2019re doing is right.\nAnd then there\u2019s the idea of what\u2019s right, anyway. Harry Potter is a favorite book series of millions of fans\u2013including me, well, one of my many faves\u2013but there are readers who don\u2019t get it. Who\u2019s right? They all are. They\u2019re being honest to their own likes and dislikes, and everyone has different tastes. (You know the saying: You can\u2019t please all of the people all of the time. It\u2019s true.)\nThat\u2019s the dilemma. Writing is not black and white. Sure, there are grammatical standards that we should follow and general plot, character guidelines that make a story good, but there are so many ways to tell a story, so who\u2019s to know if we\u2019re doing it the right way?\nWell, we are, along with some faith in ourselves, our knowledge, our experience and our talent.\nBut when you\u2019re writing in a vacuum \u2014 even with a good critique group supporting you \u2014 it\u2019s next to impossible to not be insecure at some point. I recently read Anne Lamott\u2019s writing memoir Bird By Bird (I recommend it if you can find it) and she describes going through this. It was refreshing and somewhat comforting to know it happens to the best of us. It still doesn\u2019t make it any easier, though.\nLamott also described how insecure she gets when others are reading her work, and I think that might be why I\u2019m having these feelings now. A friend and fellow writer took the first two-thirds of my novel (the amount I had revised) on spring break holiday with her daughter. They had planned to read it while they lounged on the beach and give me a full report when they got home. As much as I\u2019ve carried on this week and thought I wasn\u2019t obsessing about what they will think, as the weekend rolled around and my subconscious knew they were coming home, I started to get anxious. That has continued to build, and I\u2019m pretty sure it won\u2019t stop until I call her in the morning \u2014 because I don\u2019t think I can wait until she calls me.\nAs much as we try not to be, we\u2019re all unsure about our work. The trick is to not let it overcome us and stop us from doing what we love. Anne Lamott said that, and it\u2019s absolutely true.\nHow do you deal with insecurities and doubts?\nPrevious: Previous post: More on e-books\nNext: Next post: Community Story update\nThis week, i\u2019m dealing with it by taking a break.\nBut i feel insecure about doing that\u2026\nJust can\u2019t win! The only way i know is to remember that i\u2019ve decided to KEEP GOING regardless of whether it\u2019s \u2018worth it\u2019 in terms of successful result.\nAbsolutely, Mand. You\u2019ve got to keep going. Get to the end of your novel no matter what. And don\u2019t worry about getting bogged down with issues in the first draft; that\u2019s what revision is for. Breaks are good, but don\u2019t take too long of a break, because then you\u2019ll lose the thread of your story. You want to have it fresh in your head. And, like you said, don\u2019t worry about the result. The journey is the most important thing. Persevere and you\u2019ll get the result.\nThanx, Sam. 80) This is why i like blogs about other people\u2019s slogs! The encouragement.\nI\u2019m strongly resisting the impulse to do any revision or get feedback of any sort before i have a whole first draft. I just know it would put me off my stride completely. (Apart from my dear Reader, who is non-literary enough to say little more than, \u2018When\u2019s the next instalment?\u2019 for which i\u2019m very grateful.)\nOoh, just noticed your comment on my own blog! Thank you \u2013 should have read all my mail before replying! ;0)\nMy pleasure! Hope it helps.\nAnd on your note about resisting the impulse to revise and share now \u2014 I strongly agree. When I started writing my first draft, I didn\u2019t write every day, so to get back into the story, I would edit what I had written already. I ended up editing my first six chapters so much, I started to feel frustrated that I wasn\u2019t getting anywhere. That\u2019s when I made the commitment to write every day and get to end, no revising, no interuptions, just get to the end. I\u2019m glad I did.\nNice to have confirmation that my instinct is \u2018right\u2019.\nI think i just needed rest. Physical, emotional, the lot. I can feel the Slog shifting under my feet, about to rise again\u2026\nSomething\u2019s shifting \u00ab The Travel Hopefully Slog says:\n[\u2026] But today i\u2019ve scribbled maybe 500 words, which DOES feel like relief. Samantha Clark\u2019s advice made me feel i\u2019d had a hug, which helped. It also helped to be told to forget about joining [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 7944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottishgolfview.com/2017/12/donald-trumps-ireland-golf-course-gets.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:02Z", "digest": "sha1:A6E5VUVK4QFOQCFFPGVIN6ZOCZHEQF4B", "length": 1081, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.scottishgolfview.com", "title": "Scottish Golf View - Golf News from Around the World", "raw_content": "Donald Trump's Ireland golf course gets green light for sea wall despite local objections\nBy Conor Humphries\nIrish officialdom has given the green light for a company owned by US President Donald Trump to build a scaled-down sea wall at its golf course in the west of Ireland that environmental groups say could damage protected wildlife habitats.\nThe Trump International Golf Links Doonbeg, owned by the Trump Organisation, received permission to build two sea barriers of 630m and 260m in length, Clare County officials said, a year after they rejected plans for a much larger 2.8km wall.\nResidents and environmental groups are objecting, saying the wall - which is designed to protect the golf course from coastal erosion - could alter the coastline at other points and harm wildlife.\n\"It's disappointing. They should be altering the golf course, not the coastline,\" said Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.\nHe said he would be surprised if the decision is not appealed.\nTrump has spent $US330 million buying golf courses and land to develop since he began investing in golf in 1997.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sddirect.org.uk/news/2016/11/marking-the-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QAPTNU3NZS6WKO5RBWWNSOK53DG34VHA", "length": 3517, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sddirect.org.uk", "title": "Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | Social Development Direct", "raw_content": "Violence against women and girls (VAWG) continues to be a global pandemic. According to the United Nations, a staggering one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.\nAt SDDirect we firmly believe that young girls and women all over the world deserve to live a violence-free life to achieve their full potential. We are currently supporting a number of projects globally promoting the reduction of VAWG. These include:\nAs a core partner in component 1 of DFID\u2019s What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Programme together with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and LSTHM, we play a key role in providing technical support to implementing partners, helping them strengthen their operational research, monitoring and evaluation of interventions, facilitating learning loops and feedback into programme design.\nManaging DFID\u2019s VAWG Helpdesk - providing high quality, rapid response research and advice on a wide range of VAWG issues.\nProviding technical leadership on DFID\u2019s V4C programme in Nigeria, working with young people to transform gender norms in the country, with a particular focus on tackling the social norms that underpin violence against women and girls.\nSDDirect: Celebrating the 16 Days of VAWG Activism in Nigeria\nFrom 25 November to 10 December, 16 days of activism against gender-based violence aim to raise public awareness of VAWG and mobilise people around the world to bring about change.\nThe V4C programme will kick-off the global campaign with a series of activities aimed at bringing attention to harmful attitudes and behaviours that lead to VAWG and highlighting the different ways women in Nigeria can seek protection from violence. Through the \u201cPurple\u201d brand launched by the programme, the team will target young people in Enugu, Lagos, Kaduna and Kano states with a \u201cNo Excuse!\u201d campaign, centred on bringing to an end any kind of violence against women and girls. The campaign will consist of radio shows, campus activities, live roadshows and debates. It will end in Lagos on 10 December with an exciting event where young people will have the chance to interact and engage with different Purple products including a live play and music video. This social experiment will challenge young people\u2019s perceptions and attitudes to take \u2018No Excuse\u2019 for violence.\nAs a core partner and gender lead on DFID\u2019s Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), we will be supporting the inauguration of Women, Peace and Security Networks (WPSN) as the UNOWAS (United Nations Office for West Africa) Working Group in Nigeria. The NSRP gender team, led by our Advisor, Eleanor Nwadinobi, has been working closely with networks of women-focused, civil society organisations (Women, Peace and Security Networks (WPSNs), strengthening their capacity to engage with government structures and the wider community, to raise awareness of the women, peace and security agenda, and ultimately, prevent VAWG in conflict situations. The role of WPSNs as a driver to the realisation of UNSCR 1325 in Nigeria has attracted recognition from UNOWAS, leading to its decision of establishing WPSN as its Working Group for Women, Peace and Security in Nigeria. The formal inauguration will be held on 8th December, as part of the commemoration of the 16 days of VAWG activism. In addition, NSRP hosts an on line observatory on VAWG that track incidents of GBV in eight states in Nigeria. 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In this week's link-up, we share how we're doing as far as being accountable for furthering our goals.\nThis year has been a wild one. I'm ending one job and beginning another. The day after I ended my nursing assistant position, I came down with The Evyl Cold that has been affecting many people throughout the city. Not The Evyl Flu, just its cousin, Cold. It lasted four days. Now that I'm into my fifth day of \"vacation\", I have some bits of clarity to focus on how my little cobblestoned path is faring.\nJanuary 7th, I received the phone call that would change my life. \"We would like you to be part of our team,\" is what the sweet, angelic voice on the other line said in my ear. Therefore, my Journey began anew. My Self tacked on one more bit of Happy, and I continue on.\nFebruary 3rd will be my first day on the books as a RN in the hospital system I work for. While I don't actually start on the floor until February 12th, I will no longer be \"just a nursing assistant\" and will move up in the ranks. (Side note: there is no such thing as \"just a nursing assistant\". They are a huge backbone to our units and I will always understand the hard work and effort put forth by these wonderful people.)\nThroughout this next year, I will be Discovering. I will be continuously learning about my new role, and renewing my knowledge on this different aspect of patient care. Five semesters of fast, hard learning about medications and assessments will flow back, yet I am still determined to provide the hands-on, gentle, patient care that I did as an assistant. My patients will always feel as if I have all the time in the world for them, and if something happens that I don't, they will be told why. Communication is a huge aspect to successful care.\nThere are other aspects of my life in which I need to reboot my Journey... however, right now I am choosing to focus on being successful as a new Registered Nurse on my unit. The other parts will fit in as I become accustomed to a new schedule and crew.\nIt's a good year to be my Self.\nLabels: appreciation, challenge, Journey.Discovery.Self., just be enough, Nursing, self-improvement, three words\nKrissisav January 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM\nCongratz! The smartest thing that you can do IS to understand that without your nursing assistants...you are in a heap of trouble!! LOL. treat em right...be kind to all new nurses who cross your path in the future...you are about to embark on a learning experience like you've never experienced before!! welcome to the wonderful world of nursing corrie :)\nThanks, love. I can't wait to share stories with you all!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sellingdc.com/blog/bipeds-of-brookland-iluminada-sanchez.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JV7WKRTBB5DNFSXBTA34EEGLQPAX2MMD", "length": 1588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sellingdc.com", "title": "Bipeds of Brookland: Iluminada Sanchez", "raw_content": "Posted by Abbott Klar Real Estate on Friday, July 8th, 2016 at 5:57am.\nIn her first year, her daughter was born prematurely and she could not work, so she stayed home to care for her children. Her family moved into a transitional housing apartment at the nonprofit Mary House in Brookland, and Iluminada helped organize and distribute donations of clothing for families while living there. She is now on the board of Mary House. \u201cI will always be grateful to them because when you come to another country, it is difficult. I was afraid, because in my country I had my family around me but here I don\u2019t.\u201d She was referred to the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) which helped her family secure a loan to buy a house in the neighborhood.\nShe later worked as case worker at Mary Center in NW and saw many situations of abuse. \u201cParents told me in some cases at daycare, children were abused by someone taking care of them, and I said, \u2018Maybe I could start a daycare in my house.\u2019 So I did all the classes and completed the process for the daycare license and opened \u2018Mundo de Fantasias Child Development\u2019 in my house in 2006.\u201d\nWhen some of the children she cared for left to start school, she needed to fill their space. \u201cOne of the mothers wrote on the list serve that I had space and there were more than 60 emails asking me for the space.\u201d Iluminada is proud that her own children are studying in University and will finish next year.\nBipeds of Brookland: A weekly series introducing the people who make Brookland their home, one step at a time. 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(Yes, the movie freaking rocks!)\nPosted in Cars, Movies\nMy buddy Dave took me as the +1 to the press screener of Speed Racer this evening. HOLY CRAP IT WAS WONDERFUL! Yes, I\u2019m shouting. I don\u2019t care. This flick was everything I had hoped it would be. You have to understand, that when I was knee-high to a grasshopper there were two shows that [\u2026]\nNostalgia Tuesday: Goonies never say die!\nPosted in Geeky stuff, Movies, Nostalgia Tuesday\nI wish I still had this t-shirt. (Not that it would fit.)\nLikely winner of Sunday\u2019s race?\nPosted in Cars, From the hip, Movies, Sports\nGreetings from the race track! Go Lightning McQueen!\nDIRECTIVE 4: (CLASSIFIED)\nTonight I watched ROBOCOP for the first time in about 10 years\u2026\nPosted in Movies, Politics, Religion\nRight now, I\u2019m watching a documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and I tell you, it\u2019s fascinating. The film, Bonhoeffer (2003), is fascinating. 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Shortly thereafter chaos reigns in his life when he finds out that Lata is a mentally unstable runaway bride, her to-be spouse is wealthy Advocate Shamsher Singh, and the entry of Savitri - who claims that Banke married her and that she is pregnant with his child.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smartcine.com/2011/dvd/from_prada_to_nada_dvd_review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WGJI6XNGARNCDNJWPGEGHCMA647Z32G7", "length": 2676, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.smartcine.com", "title": "From Prada to Nada DVD Review - SmartCine", "raw_content": "DVD REVIEW: FROM PRADA TO NADA\nOVERVIEW: Jane Austen\u2019s classic novel \u201cSense & Sensibility\u201d gets a cross-cultural upgrade to modern day Beverly Hills as Lionsgate debuts From Prada to Nada on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Download and On Demand this May. The fun, fish-out-of-water story explores the relationship of spoiled sisters Nora and Mary \u2013 played by Camilla Belle (Push) and Alexa Vega (Repo! The Genetic Opera). When their loving father unexpectedly dies, leaving them penniless, the girls embark on their biggest adventure yet: to live with an estranged aunt on the other side of town and embrace their long denied heritage\u2026 without their designer labels. Filled with cross-generational laughs, this romantic-comedy also stars Wilmer Valderrama (TV\u2019s \u201cThat \u201870s Show\u201d), Nicholas D\u2019Agosto (Rocket Science), Kuno Becker (TV\u2019s \u201cThe Defenders\u201d) and Academy Award\u00ae nominee Adriana Barraza (Actress in a Supporting Role, Babel, 2006). Serving up spicy special features including three featurettes, bloopers and deletes scenes, From Prada to Nada premieres on May 3rd\nSYNOPSIS: From Prada to Nada is a modern twist on Jane Austen\u2019s Sense and Sensibility, is a new romantic comedy starring Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama, with Kuno Becker and Academy Award\u00ae nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel, Actress in a Supporting Role, 2006). It\u2019s a whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so \u201c90210\u201d she refuses to admit she is of Mexican descent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia\u2019s (Adriana Barraza) modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA. They are terrified to leave their world of privilege; neither Nora nor Mary speak Spanish or have ever had to take on actual responsibility. The girls gradually adapt to their new environment; their BMW and Prius are traded for the public bus and a used car. As they embrace the culture that for so long they refused to accept, they both discover romance, the true meaning of family, and they learn that the life of PRADA actually means NADA without love, family and community.\nEnglish, Spanish and French 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital\n\u201cFrom Nada To Prada \u201d featurette\n\u201cSPARC Your Imagination With Judy And Wilmer\u201d featurette\n\u201cMy Family, Mi Familia\u201d featurette\nWriter: Fina Torres, Luis Alfaro\nStaring: Camilla Belle\nRating: PG-13 for brief drug use and a\nsexual situation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/jaytreaty.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCQHFLPNZU7BR7QRGIDWSEILSRXILV2E", "length": 2356, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.socialstudiesforkids.com", "title": "The Jay Treaty", "raw_content": "The Jay Treaty closed off several outstanding issues from the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and, in the process, became an intense dispute between the nation's first two political parties.\nAmong the issues ironed out to American satisfaction by the 1794 treaty:\nBritain agreed to abandon forts in the Northwest Territory.\nBritain agreed to stop encouraging Native Americans to attack settlers in the Northwest Territory.\nBritain agreed to pay for 250 merchant ships seized in the past two years.\nBritain agreed not to interfere with American trading efforts in the West Indies.\nBoth countries agreed to a stronger delineation of the Canada-U.S. border.\nAmong the issues ironed out to British satisfaction:\nThe U.S. granted Britain most favored nation trading status.\nThe U.S. agreed not to interfere with Britain's ongoing struggle with France.\nThe U.S. agreed to reconcile prewar debts owed to British merchants.\nMany historians think that the two countries averted another war by reaching agreement on all of these issues.\nAlexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, was the principal architect of the treaty. John Jay, then the Chief Justice of the United States, was the chief negotiator. President George Washington voiced his support for the treaty.\nHowever, the treaty angered many in the Democratic-Republican Party. Thomas Jefferson was most notably vocal in opposition, preferring to see a friendly agreement with France. The Democratic-Republicans argued that closer ties with Britain would bring back more of a monarchical system. Hamilton's Federalist Party argued that the treaty was sound economically and was necessary to keep the country growing westward.\nThe treaty was agreed to in principle in 1794 but took more than a year to work its way through all of the necessary governmental processes. Opposition to the treaty was quite fierce; at one point, Jay was burned in effigy. Washington's support for the treaty proved to be the difference, however, as two-thirds of the Senate approved the treaty in November 1796. The treaty's duration was for 10 years.\nOne main issue that Jay pressed but could not get Britain to agree to was a cessation of the impressment of soldiers. Britain continued to seize some ships and force American sailors to join the Royal Navy. This would be a main issue leading to the War of 1812.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.solitaryphoenix.com/AngelSRLilah.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YU73N55F52CZ3R4TLQIE5OBKGYRZLC2E", "length": 1279, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.solitaryphoenix.com", "title": "AngelSRLilah", "raw_content": "Lilah Morgan is one of the more devious lawyers at the evil law firm of Wolfram and Hart. She'd been left in charge\nafter her some-time partner in villainous corruption ~ Lindsey McDonald ~ got a replacement hand and possibly a\nheart, and left LA for parts unknown. Lilah seems to have no limits, except those that keep her own skin safe. That\nheart of hers got a workout recently, when she and Wes developed something of a relationship. Unfortunately, Wes'\nfeelings for Fred ended the relationship, and then a knife to the throat by faux-Cordy ended Lilah's life, near the end\nof season four.\nStephanie Romanov was born on January 24 1969, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stephanie is 5'9\" and started modeling at\nage 15 for Elite Modeling Agency. She started out in Europe, in the Italian and French versions of 'Bazaar'. She moved\nto New York, still continuing to model, and appeared in Elle, Vanity Fair and French Vogue. 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But Palestinians say at least six of the dead were civilians. Television footage showed the bodies of two teenagers identified as a brother and sister lying side-by-side in a makeshift morgue.\nIsrael deployed hundreds of troops and armor to the area Sunday, following bomb attacks by militants in Gaza that killed 13 Israeli soldiers last week.\nIsrael says the operation is aimed at arresting or killing gunmen and destroying tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt. The officials say only homes linked to tunnels will be demolished.\nThe Arab League said it will begin legal proceedings to bring Israelis to trial for what it says are Gaza war crimes.\nMeanwhile, the Israeli Supreme Court has rejected a petition by 46 Palestinian families in Rafah seeking a hearing on Israeli plans to demolish their homes. The petitioners said their homes had never been used as bases for attacks on Israeli patrols.\nIsraeli prosecutors argued that Palestinians do not have a right to a pre-demolition court hearing when Israeli soldiers are in mortal danger, or when military operations would be jeopardized by waiting for a hearing to take place.\nEarly Tuesday, the Israeli incursion appeared focused on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood on the outskirts of the Rafah refugee camp. Army bulldozers began tearing up a road linking the neighborhood to the rest of the camp.\nHundreds of residents fled the camp ahead of the incursion, which has triggered condemnation from the European Union and the United Nations. U.N. 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It has a unique color scheme that's designed to fit each particular aspect of fitness and all pages within that aspect have the same color scheme.\nThe site slowly moved up the rankings ion Google and now ranks number 1 for a variety of terms and has site links on Google for the phrase \"fitness for beginners\". The page about the recommend daily allowances is considered an authority and is linked to from school sites and teacher sites and ranks number 1 for the phrase in the UK version of Google.\nThe site is monetized primarily with Google adsense and is not updated very regularly. It serves as the first site in a varied portfolio and is a great introduction into the work and how the work has progressed from it's site owner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stationv3.com/2014/10/milestones.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3E7GONDFT6FUI2MCEGOPOYP4VJBRUUXS", "length": 605, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.stationv3.com", "title": "Station V3 - Updated Daily!", "raw_content": "\u00ab Moving right along\u2026\nHit a few milestones in the process of getting the comic caught up\u2026 Station V3 is now \u201cofficially\u201d 11 years old, and two days later, the 4000th strip went up. Thanks for reading, whether you\u2019ve read them all or just read today\u2019s!\nI\u2019d also like to thank everyone who\u2019s been voting for Station V3 at TopWebcomics \u2013 here\u2019s another voting bonus strip!\nThis entry was posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2014 at 12:33 am\tand is filed under milestone, voting bonus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stratfordeast.com/news/equus-comes-to-theatre-royal-stratford-east", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FNERFZOSIBINSZGKIN6SFRW4OYXZD3YH", "length": 740, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.stratfordeast.com", "title": "Equus - Theatre Royal Stratford East", "raw_content": "EQUUS comes to Theatre Royal Stratford East\nEnglish Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East present\nTheatre Royal Stratford East is thrilled to be working with English Touring Theatre (ETT) on a new production of Peter Shaffer's epic play EQUUS, directed by Ned Bennett (An Octoroon, Pomona).\nEquus is part of ETT's 2018/19 season, which will mark the company's 25th anniversary and also forms part of Nadia Fall's inaugural season here at TRSE - HOWEVER - you'll have to stay tuned to find out what else is included in Nadia's new season...\nThe 1973 psychological thriller, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1975, will open here in February next year. 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She's your new co-host.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.suicidepreventiongarfieldcounty.org/blog/archives/06-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:44Z", "digest": "sha1:U3ESDM5Q26Z6UOTVYSQ5FZ6PM5E24IBJ", "length": 3054, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.suicidepreventiongarfieldcounty.org", "title": "Blog Archives - Suicide Prevention Coalition of Garfield County", "raw_content": "National Council for Behavioral Health Receives National Suicide Prevention Award\nWASHINGTON \u2013 According to the Centers for Disease Control, death rates for eight of the ten leading causes of death have decreased significantly, but not for the tenth cause\u2014suicide.\n\u201cSomeone in this country dies by suicide every 12.9 minutes,\u201d said Linda Rosenberg, president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health. \u201cAt the National Council, we are determined to make suicide prevention a national priority.\u201d\nIn recognition of their efforts in the fields of suicide prevention and mental health care, the National Council has been named 2015 Partner of the Year by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).\n\u201cIt is with great pride that we thank the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for honoring our work with this award,\u201d said Rosenberg. \u201cOur partnership with AFSP has played a critical role in our effort to address the obvious need to better support people living with mental health problems in this country, many of whom are struggling with thoughts of suicide.\u201d\nAmong other efforts, the National Council partnered with AFSP in January to roll out moreMental Health First Aid courses across the U.S., with the goal of training more people on how to identify someone who may be experiencing a mental health crisis\u2014like suicidal thinking\u2014and connect them to care in their community.\n\u201cMental Health First Aid can save lives, and AFSP\u2019s network of volunteers will be able to share this program in communities across the country,\u201d said Robert Gebbia, CEO of AFSP.\nIn addition to their work with AFSP, the National Council boasts an extensive portfolio of work in the field of suicide prevention, including supporting the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention\u2019s Zero Suicide initiative and working to increase access to mental health care through support for legislation like the Excellence in Mental Health Act.\nThe National Council accepted the Partner of the Year Award at AFSP\u2019s Allies in Action reception in Washington, D.C. on June 23.\nBy National Council for Behavioral Health - Read Article\nAFSP - 2015 Advocacy Forum\nAFSP suicide prevention advocates and volunteers are in Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress to ask for their support of public policy that will save lives. It\u2019s the single largest effort to educate federal officials about suicide prevention, and advocates are traveling from across the country to visit the offices of all 535 Senate and House Members.\n*AFSP will be live streaming the Advocacy Forum panel events on Monday June 22 here\nTo learn more about the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Annual Advocacy Forum, visit their website.\nMedia coverage of suicide can influence behaviors in either a positive or negative way. The media could be used to inform about the warning signs, risk factors and prevention efforts. However, it can also lead to misinformation.\nLearn more about best practice recommendations for reporting on suicide in the media at reportingonsuicide.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sunskigolfapartments.co.uk/apartments/bansko-1/activities.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:U2E36OL6GTUXEESV6BAV4C4QAMDJJZAO", "length": 1103, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sunskigolfapartments.co.uk", "title": "Bansko 1 - Activities - Sun Ski Golf Apartments \u00a9 2019", "raw_content": "There are many activities that can be found in Bansko. The skiing season is from December to May and the ski passes and equipment hire are amongst the cheapest in Europe. You can also snowboard if you wish or just take the ski lift up the Pirin Mountain to take in the spectacular views. There are many more activities including, Horse Riding, Ten Pin Bowling, Fishing, Mountain Biking. Bansko has an abundance of souvenir shops and restaurants and many of these are located close to the apartment. There is a bus station in Bansko where you can take a bus to Razlog and many villages to explore the beauty of the surrounding area or if you wish you can hire a car at cheap rates. There are companies in Bansko that offer a variety of excursions from walking tours, trip to Rila monastery and even a day trip to Northern Greece which is nearby as well as other excursions at reasonable prices. Please see attached links to Bansko tourist information for a range of information on Bansko and surrounding area. Pirin National Park is part of UNESCO World Heritage Site , below is the comments on the site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za/index.php/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:31Z", "digest": "sha1:X642E4NLZPLJ63QL6GRADIMOJHXVZBPS", "length": 8703, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za", "title": "About us", "raw_content": "Organs of state, through legislative and other measures, must assist and protect the courts to ensure the independence, impartiality, dignity, accessibility and effectiveness of the courts\nAn order or decision issued by the courts binds all persons to whom and organs of state to which it applies.\nThe Chief Justice is the head of the judiciary and exercises responsibility over the establishment and monitoring of norms and standards for the exercise of the judicial functions of all courts.\nThe Supreme Court of Appeal's position in the justice system\nThe Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) is the successor to the Appellate Division, which was first established in 1910 when the Union of South Africa was created [History and Background]. The name of the court was changed on the adoption of the Constitution in 1996.\nThe SCA is, except in respect of certain labour and competition matters, the second highest court in South Africa. Previously it and the Constitutional Court were both \u2018apex courts\u2019 with different areas of jurisdiction. However, since August 2013 the Constitutional Court has been the highest court in all matters.\nIn terms of the Constitution, the SCA: -\nmay decide any matter, except certain labour and competition matters; but\nis purely an appeal court, and it may decide only appeals and issues connected with appeals.\nThe SCA may make an order concerning the constitutional validity of an Act of Parliament, a provincial Act or any conduct of the President, but an order of constitutional invalidity has no force unless confirmed by the Constitutional Court. The Composition, Authority and Jurisdiction of the Court\nThe SCA consists of a President, Deputy President and a number of judges of appeal determined by an Act of Parliament. At present there are 23 permanently appointed judges in addition to the President and Deputy President. [Judges of the Court]\nThe SCA has jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal against any decision of the High Court. Decisions of the Court are binding on all lower courts, and the decisions of the High Court are binding on Magistrates' Courts within the respective areas of jurisdiction of the relevant Division of the High Court.\nThe most senior judge of the SCA is the President of the Court. In the pre-Constitutional era, its most senior judge was the Chief Justice of the country. However, in 2001 the head of the Constitutional Court became the Chief Justice and the head of the SCA the President of the Court. The seat of the SCA is at Bloemfontein. However, provision exists for a session of the Court to be held at another place when it is expedient or in the interests of justice. The Court\u2019s process runs throughout the Republic and its judgments and orders must be executed in any area as if they were judgments or orders of the Division of the High Court or Magistrate\u2019s Court having jurisdiction in the area.\nThe Court generally sits in panels of three or five judges, depending on the nature of the appeal. The President of the SCA is entitled in view of the importance of a matter to direct that it be heard before a panel of more than five judges. In 1955 legislation was passed as part of the government\u2019s endeavours to remove coloured voters from the voters\u2019 roll to provide that in cases where the validity of legislation was in issue the court should be composed of 11 judges. The court was expanded by the addition of 6 judges and thereafter the number of judges was increased accordingly. However, the provision for an expanded court, which was carried over in the Supreme Court Act 1959 was only used once in an appeal from Bophutatswana, where 11 judges sat. In another after democracy 9 judges sat. The composition of the panels differs for each case. The senior judge on each panel presides in that case. There may be more than one judgment in a case if there is a difference of opinion. The decision of the majority is the decision of the Court.\nJudges and counsel robe in court.\nSCA Terms\nThe Court terms are prescribed in the Court Rules and are as follows:\nThere is no right of appeal to the SCA. Leave to appeal is required, either from the High Court or, if refused, from the SCA on an application for leave to appeal made to it. Where the High Court, sitting as a court of first instance, in granting leave to appeal is satisfied that the appeal requires the attention of the SCA, it must direct that the appeal be heard by the SCA, otherwise it must direct that it be heard by the full court. Such a direction may be set aside by the SCA. When the appeal is against the decision of the High Court on appeal to it, special leave of the SCA is required. This is so in relation both to appeal to a full court from the decision of a single judge in the High Court and in relation to appeals from the Magistrates\u2019 Courts.\nCriminal AppealsCriminal Appeals\nThe SCA is the court of appeal in respect of criminal trials in the High Court. There is no automatic right to appeal, but leave to appeal is required from the court of first instance, or failing that from the SCA. Appeals lie to the SCA except in cases where a court granting leave to appeal is satisfied that the appeal does not require the attention of the SCA. In such cases it directs that a full court hear the appeal. Such a direction may be set aside by the SCA. A further appeal is only permitted with special leave to appeal given by the SCA. The National Director of Public Prosecutions may appeal to the SCA against the sentence imposed on an accused by the High Court, but requires leave in accordance with the relevant legislation. Certain cases proceed by right to the SCA. These are questions of law reserved in connection with criminal cases heard by the High Court and special entries of an irregularity or illegality in the proceedings is made at the request of an accused on the record of the proceedings.\nReferral by Minister\nReferral by Minister If the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development has any doubt as to the correctness of a decision by the High Court in a criminal case on a question of law, or whenever a decision in a criminal case on a question of law is given in any Division of the High Court which is in conflict with a decision given by another Division of the High Court, the Minister may submit the decision or the conflicting decisions to the SCA and cause the matter to be argued before that court in order that it may settle the matter. Whenever there are conflicting decisions on civil matters in different Divisions of the High Court, the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development may submit the question to the Chief Justice, who must cause the matter to be argued before the Constitutional Court or the SCA to settle the matter.\nJudges of the SCA are appointed by the President of the Republic on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission. The President and Deputy President of the SCA are appointed by the President after consulting the Judicial Service Commission. Anyone who is appropriately qualified and is a fit and proper person may be appointed as a judge. Conventionally judges of the Court could only be appointed from the ranks of High Court judges and there are only two instances in 1929 and 1932 of this convention being disregarded. The need for the judiciary to reflect broadly the racial and gender composition of the country must be considered when judicial officers are appointed.\nThe Court decides cases upon the record of the proceedings before the court appealed from and after considering the written and oral arguments presented. Witnesses do not appear before the court, and the parties need not be present during the hearing of an appeal. A written judgment is usually handed down shortly after the argument.\nThe Court hears appeals on fact and since there are no jury trials, it has a relatively wide discretion to make its own factual findings. Because of this jurisdiction, judges have to read the record of the full proceedings in the lower courts. Typically, each judge is allocated cases with about 30 000 pages of evidence and exhibits per year. In addition, each judge is allocated applications for leave to appeal, which for historical reasons are referred to as petitions.The Court hears appeals on fact and since there are no jury trials, it has a relatively wide discretion to make its own factual findings. Because of this jurisdiction, judges have to read the record of the full proceedings in the lower courts. Typically, each judge is allocated cases with about 30 000 pages of evidence and exhibits per year. In addition, each judge is allocated applications for leave to appeal, which for historical reasons are referred to as petitions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.syko.org/2018/09/hell-fest-review-when-killer-stalks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OU3FOOWX33T2YTV5SQ2UENECGIL2YIFG", "length": 4066, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.syko.org", "title": "Hell Fest Review: When a killer stalks an amusement park | SYKO | Share Your Knowledge Openly", "raw_content": "Hell Fest Review: When a killer stalks an amusement park\nThe 1970s was the era when moviegoers got the first-hand look at a slasher flick. Since then there has been a treasure trove of movies falling into the genre. A few of those movies moved on to become cult classics while the others whittled into forgottenness. This weekend audiences will see the release of Hell Fest, a horror movie that aims to reinvigorate the slasher genre.\nHell Fest follows Natalie (Amy Forsyth), who comes into town to visit her longtime friend Brooke (Reign Edwards). Upon arriving Natalie finds out that her love interest Gavin (Roby Attal) has purchased her a ticket to a traveling horror attraction called Hell Fest. Rounding out the group of friends who partake in this night of horror attractions is Taylor (Bex Taylor-Klaus), Asher (Matt Mercurio), and Quinn (Christian James). As the group of friends partakes in the night of scares at Hell Fest, their screams of terrifying enjoyment suddenly turn as they notice that a masked serial killer is hunting them throughout the park.\nHell Fest starts right out the gate by skipping the introduction of its main characters and focuses on the masked killer\u2019s first victim. Within the first ten minutes, you get a clear idea of what the killer\u2019s intentions are and who he chooses as his victims. That\u2019s suddenly contrasted by introducing to us who the heroine will be. The next ten minutes, we are then subjected to the introduction of each character and that\u2019s about as much as we\u2019ll get for any type of character development.\nThe stars of Hell Fest have absolutely no depth to their characters. Essentially we\u2019re given the same type of character that we see in every horror movie. You get the shy distant girl who\u2019s forced to come out of her comfort zone. The boy who\u2019s secretly in love with the heroine. You get the one overly machismo guy who\u2019s dating the prettiest girl in the movie, and then you get the reckless characters who\u2019s one job is to just enjoy life and has a strong desire for all things macabre. When we\u2019re given a deeper look into the mind of the serial killer, we discover that he chooses his victims who apparently don\u2019t frighten easily. It\u2019s a believable motive given where the movie takes place, but at the same time, you can easily roll your eyes that the killer\u2019s motive to murder is something so basic.\nThe set design for Hell Fest was something that stands out. The mazes that the cast go through are executed well, but unfortunately, that\u2019s as far as they\u2019ll go with the scares. The \u201chorror\u201d element of Hell Fest is often predictable and dry, and there was nothing done in this movie that we haven\u2019t seen in other horror films. When you get to a scene with a character that finds themselves alone, you already know what\u2019s coming up next. The jump scares aren\u2019t the only things that came up short. With the exception of maybe two death scenes, the kills in Hell Fest felt very stale. What truly made them feel flat was that we didn\u2019t get to really know who each character was, so when they eventually bit the bullet, you don\u2019t feel any real sympathy for them, leaving you to shrug your shoulders and patiently wait to see if the next kill has some type of creativity to it.\nIf you\u2019ve ever been to Halloween Horror Nights, Six Flags Fright Fest, or any other horror attraction and have ever wondered if there was someone out there who would take it too far, well then Hell Fest answers that curiosity for you. For ninety minutes Hellfest takes you on a ride of terror that comes off as a budget horror attraction. It takes the ideas that have been similarly played in movies like Halloween and Scream and tries to run with it to ignite the slasher genre, but halfway there, it tripped and fell flat on its face.\nScore: 2.5/5 Atoms\nStarring: Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio, Tony Todd, Stephen Conroy.\nProduction: Lionsgate, CBS Films\nRuntime: 1 hr 29 mins\nThe post Hell Fest Review: When a killer stalks an amusement park appeared first on Nerd Reactor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.syntaxrecords.com/blog/john-piper-battles-two-emcees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HJYBB5UQFMIG4PCRN4LGKB3WWOJ52HQ5", "length": 2380, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.syntaxrecords.com", "title": "Syntax Records | John Piper Battles Two Emcees", "raw_content": "I recently had the pleasure of attending a luncheon with John Piper at the Legacy Conference in Chicago. After he encouraged and exhorted the attendees for some time, he offered a Q&A session. He gave some great answers to some great questions. One question that stood out to me was when someone dug up the old dead horse of being a Christian Rapper versus being a Christian who raps\u2026 and I\u2019m glad he did!\nThis overly debated question has always piqued my curiosity because as I have worked on both sides of the industry I have noticed a blatant hypocrisy. The kind of ridicule one receives when they operate within the \u201cChristian\u201d music industry versus the \u201cSecular\u201d music industry, is very different.\nFor example, if a every song is not a \u201cGospel\u201d song a determination is made that this particular artist is in fact not a Christian. On the other hand, when an artist who has always been in the mainstream says that he is a Christian, he is welcomed with open arms. This isn\u2019t just for the artist who previously created \u201camoral\u201d music, but also for the artist who has created \u201cimmoral\u201d music.\nIn addition to the Christian scene automatically converting this individual into an instant hero of the faith (worse yet, a leader), he is allowed to continue to make music that isn\u2019t explicitly Christian while keeping his new found Christian platform. He is exempt from the rigid guidelines that have been forced upon those who happen to have their start on the Christian side of the industry.\nRegardless, Dr. Piper\u2019s answer was insightful. He brought up a practical example of a Christian mechanic doing his job to the glory of God as a comparison. After hearing this in person, I knew that more people needed to hear it. In fact, I believe that many of the folks who \u201cfollow\u201d Dr. Piper could be positively impacted to hear his answer since some of those individuals have become the \u201cPharisees\u201d of our scene.\nThis isn\u2019t a knock against, Piper, I myself follow him, and enjoy taking groups through books and curriculum created by Desiring God. He\u2019s been especially important (used by God) to help turn my marriage around.\nWith that said, I emailed Dr. Piper in hopes that he would answer on his podcast. To our benefit, he did! Enjoy and share his answer.\nBy the way, while I was at the same conference, I was interviewed almost on the same topic by Rapzilla, which you can watch here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.t-gembooks.com/reviews/?rid=28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HLTONVG5OW6EJE5LKNWEXBD57I5GOSRO", "length": 795, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.t-gembooks.com", "title": "Reviews - The Silent-footed Butler", "raw_content": "Review by: Randall Shannon\nI'm not much given to writing fan letters, but I've just finished 'The Silent-footed Butler' and can't let the day proceed without sending you a note of admiration.\nI only knew Chris as a distant part of the National Youth Orchestra experience, which was quite obviously my loss but I do clearly remember hearing about the accident and, of course, the concert. The end of the book is intensely moving.\nI can't begin to imagine the amount of work that went into researching the history, but the striking feature from the first page was the quality of the writing. The book is so readable \u2026 which, considering it's length, is perhaps just as well. I've enjoyed getting to know you and hope you have other writing projects. I look forward to a novel!\nMuch love, Randall x", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.talbottassociates.com/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5QXDNXRXBXNMDSLWF5SAWHFTMVCYQKYB", "length": 117, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.talbottassociates.com", "title": "Contact Us \u2013 Talbott Associates, Inc", "raw_content": "Please feel free to give us a call at 503-256-3852 or just fill out the contact form with your questions or comments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.talkapedia.com/2006/10/when-not-to-talk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3SHKNAHIBCNGS7HTV3FSI6BP6QA3S3NV", "length": 3597, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.talkapedia.com", "title": "Talkapedia: When Not to Talk", "raw_content": "I'm a big talker, as you may have noticed. I talk to people live, on the phone, and on the internet. I talk in blog form, participate in discussion boards and forums, comment on other blogs and so on. But there are times when it is better not to talk. We all know that gossip is bad. But it's a bit like caffeine, sure it's not healthy but it's so much fun while I'm doing it. And of course there is such a fine line between sharing information and gossiping that you can be over the line and around the corner before you know it. If I share with a friend that another not present but mutual friend is getting married, it's not gossip. But if we start talking about how she's made a bunch of crappy choices in men and we hope this one works out better, gossip. So my straddling the line kind of solution has been to try not to say anything that I would mind circling back. This is not to say that I always succeed, but that's what I'm trying for.\nAnd of course there are scenarios where confidentiality comes in to play, either professional or personal. My job carries with it fairly basic confidentiality and it mostly surround the data I have access to. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to tell work stories if my job required stricter confidentiality. And there's always when we receive information in a scenario where we have promised to keep quiet. And that can be hard, because other people may ask you innocent questions and you may get to parse out what you learned when and where and what can you safely say.\nIn a similar vein, I try to be cautious about what I share about people I actually know since this is my blog not theirs. And - unless they do something newsworthy - they have not agreed to make their lives available on the internets. Now there are exceptions, I have certainly talked about family members, but usually in a direct context to me, rather than so you'll never believe what my brother did. Which has been interesting for me, trying to figure out where that line is between stories about me that involve other people and stories that are the other people's.\nAnd then there's other stuff. Stuff I hesitate to talk about because I don't want to add to it. Some people seem to make really good careers out of saying things just to raise ire. On forums and discussion groups these people are called trolls, but if you get paid to do it people don't seem to call you that so much. And sometimes, I just don't want to give it any more time - not mine or yours. Certainly I am not under any impression that my little blog is being monitored by pundits and newsgatherers, but I don't want to keep it out there sometimes.\nAs a younger person I firmly felt that it was my duty to correct any errors I found and to try to educate all the misguided people. I have softened a bit now. So now I try to find the balance, trying to talk and educate in a way that is helpful rather than superior seeming. To recognize that there will always be people who feel differently than I, and just because I don't agree with their reasons doesn't mean that one of us has to chang eour minds before the conversation can end. And that some people, don't want to learn more. (Some people do, I'm just trying to figure out which ones.) And diversity of everything, including opinions, makes this world so much fun.\nAnd in catching up on my emails, I see that i missed wishing you a Happy Birthday. I do love your city, the Metro, the Arts, Kramers Bookstore, but not the humidity - oh no. October is a magical month so extend your birthday enjoyment - it's the best month, I'm thinkin'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 7441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-completely-unfabulous-social-life-of-ethan-green/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WZCOYVU6K3T7ZKAA2VAPQUKLCECTMVTL", "length": 7443, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.tcj.com", "title": "The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green | The Comics Journal", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Sculptor\nBattle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War \u2192\nThe Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green\nEric Orner\nREVIEWED BY Rob Clough May 7, 2015\nGetting Eric Orner's The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green published in one volume is an important step to building continuity in the history of gay comics. Once a widely-distributed strip in gay-oriented publications, the comic became popular and significant enough to inspire a film adaptation. As noted in the foreword, the strip ran from 1989 to 2005, produced more than 300 strips, and appeared in more than eighty publications at its height. This volume collects all of those strips and adds some new material as well, giving the hero of the strip something of a happy ending (or perhaps more accurately, a happy beginning).\nVisually, the strip is highly uneven. Orner's drawing style changes a couple of years in and becomes denser, filled with zip-a-tone effects, cross-hatching and a greater dependence on spotting blacks to add atmosphere. The most recent strips looked like they were drawn and colored on a computer, which was jarring to say the least. These strips didn't look nearly as polished as the earlier strips, and the garishness of the color detracted from some of the content. The use of color also seemed arbitrary at times. It's obvious that Ethan Green was Orner's laboratory for becoming a cartoonist, and not every experiment was a success.\nIn terms of format, Ethan Green draws heavily from Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For strip. The four-panel structure, the large cast of characters, the slice-of-life nature of the strip and the overall tone are all derivative of Bechdel's work. However, from the very start, Orner marked out his own territory in a number of ways. If he initially cribbed Bechdel's formal approach, his storytelling interests differed. For example, Bechdel never exactly had a single lead character around which the entire strip revolved, whereas Orner's strip specifically deals with the ups and downs of its title character. Bechdel's strip was overtly political (sometimes almost to the point of hectoring its readers), while Orner's occasionally included political content amidst its slice-of-life and romantic concerns.\nOrner was adamant that he tell a story about a gay man in a manner that avoided gay stereotypes usually found in such depictions. At the same time, he wanted to clearly portray gay culture exactly as it was in the 1990s. On top of all this, Orner's whimsical sense of humor leads to quasi-fantastic events like Ethan spending time on Mars and other bits of funny mythology. The best confluence of whimsy and gay culture are Ethan's \"aunts,\" the Hat Sisters. Based on real people in the Boston area, this couple wears hats as part of their drag everywhere and act as genuinely caring elder statesmen. Their relationship to Ethan is perhaps my favorite in the entire book, as they genuinely look out for him, give him advice, and bail him out of tough situations. Queer folks often refer to each other as \"family,\" and I've seen no better portrayal of how literal this felt than in Orner's book.\nSpeaking of family, the strips about Ethan's supportive but slightly neurotic mother are fantastic. This strip began at a time that organizations like PFLAG were born and a different generation of parents were often more supportive in their kids coming out than previous ones. Depicting the occasionally halting but loving and good-natured relationship between the two of them was a source of constant humor, as was the frequently painful and awkward holiday dinners with extended family.\nEthan's friends are also carefully fleshed out, from the supermodel-gorgeous airhead Bucky to his arch-enemy Todd. Todd is one of the strip's best characters, as he represents the sort of person we despise whom nonetheless runs in one's same circles, knows the same people and attends the same parties. The sheer bitchiness exchanged between the two of them represents Orner at his funniest, especially when Bucky and Todd wind up together.\nStructurally, the strips alternate between an extended narrative that follows Ethan's romances (or lack thereof) over the years and one-off, observational and/or silly strips. \"How We Dance\" was one that got extended treatment, as Orner listed the kinds of people you might meet at a club. What's interesting about the strip is that Orner intended it as a sort of mirror of gay culture, reporting what he said, saw and felt out in the community, even if Ethan was not an autobiographical stand-in. At the same time, Orner wasn't afraid to throw in quirky side characters, like a fortune teller who gave him advice. Orner is also quite frank about sex, although titillation was not on his agenda. He simply wanted to portray sex and affection in equal servings, both as a mirror to what he saw and perhaps as something to aspire to. It's a record of a culture that is now very different.\nPolitics did enter the strip from time to time. Most important was Orner addressing AIDS and the reality of a generation of gay men (and women, to a lesser degree) being wiped out. Some of the references to particular politicians are pretty dated now, though Orner was usually able to turn things like Newt Gingrich's \"Contract for America\" into something funny. Other topical subjects, like the Y2K virus, also seem impossibly dated. Fortunately, such references are relatively few and far between.\nThe real focus of the strip was on a series of relationships that Ethan was in. There's Leo, with whom Ethan had a passionate relationship but couldn't get him to commit. There's Doug, an ex-boss and older man who's HIV-positive; in many ways, he's the mature love of Ethan's life but it doesn't quite work out either time they're together. There's Etienne, the insane chef from Montreal who hides drugs in Ethan's apartment. Finally, there's Peter, whom Ethan meets in a near-death experience on an airplane. Every one of them is funny in its own way, but also poignant and meaningful as well. Orner doesn't just want to milk laughs from the embarrassing parts of Ethan's life, nor does he want to generate soap opera entertainment from those same ups and downs and betrayals. Both humor and soap opera are certainly aspects of the strip, but Orner is most concerned with Ethan's essential humanity.\nPart of that humanity is that Ethan is a fairly unexceptional everyman. He makes mistakes, acts petty and jealous and frequently doesn't know what he really wants. He's a proud and out gay man but is in no way a gay stereotype. Orner wanted to create a gay character that made sense to him and his experiences as a gay man, and while Ethan's life and Orner's life had little to do with one another, it's clear that Orner created not a stand-in for himself, but rather someone he could have been friends with, warts and all. As a reader, I found myself most drawn in by the strips that focused on Ethan's life, both in terms of relationship and the culture around him. Orner's humane approach to his creations filled them with life, hope and humor, with the strength and intensity of his art giving them depth, weight and substance. The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green is important not only as a historical artifact but also as the rare strip that follows its characters over time and makes the reader care about their evolution.\nFILED UNDER: eric orner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 12839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.teatrosancarlo.it/en/pages/choir.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:M73E75GOD3HKPQXBOJUE7SPATCTMMGVN", "length": 1873, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.teatrosancarlo.it", "title": "Teatro di San Carlo - San Carlo Theatre Chorus", "raw_content": "The first announcement of a stable vocal ensemble at Teatro di San Carlo date back to the nineteen twenties, when the Master Giuseppe Papa (who later became Popi, in the United States), after the success obtained at La Scala, in Madrid and at the Col\u00f3n of Buenos Aires, decided to settle once again in Naples, already on the first rungs of his career, organizing in a short time a choral complex of excellent quality.\nBut we must wait until the 1951-52 season before the Chorus becomes a point of reference for the normal life of the Theater, contributing regularly to the prestige of the opera seasons and keeping alive, in this way, a particularly strong tradition in Naples.\nHowever, the chronicles of the nineteenth century report of a choral activity, in the theatre, which was both refined and intense. In 1820, for example, the oratorio Die Sch\u00f6pfung by Haydn was presented to the Neapolitan public, while in 1893, it was the turn of La damnation de Faust, titles which, one after the other, recently returned to the center of interest of the ensemble.\nTwo musicians, in particular, have marked the history of the San Carlo complex in the last 50 years: Michele Lauro and Giacomo Maggiore, the first, choir director for over twenty years since 1951, and the second as the head of the group for almost the same time, until 1994. Before that were frequent, though not stable, collaborations with Roberto Benaglio, a prestigious teacher highly active at La Scala and at the Staatsoper in Vienna.\nIn more recent years there have been many famous names at the helm of Chorus; Jos\u00e9 Luis Basso, Andrea Giorgi, Martino Faggiani, Francesco Pareti, Luigi Petrozziello, Fausto Regis, Ciro Visco, Carmelo Columbro, Marco Ozbic, Salvatore Caputo, Marco Faelli. From July 2018, Gea Garatti leads San Carlo Chorus.\nChorusmaster\nGea Garatti Ansini\nChorus Supervisor\nSan Carlo Chorus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.technologydiving.com/a-look-into-upsides-and-downsides-of-internet-of-things/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JAASDI2TVGQDFTTUF6CLY3JF2HESG53V", "length": 2804, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.technologydiving.com", "title": "A Look into Upsides and Downsides of Internet of Things", "raw_content": "Internet of Things might not be a new terminology among users these days. Almost all of us must have understood the functionality, advantages and security threats associated with it. But a very few of them must have actually understood the term in aspect of cyberspace. For humans, Internet of Things must be a great innovation as it is helping the humankind and businesses in a very dynamic manner. However, the people who really have a concern about their security and privacy; for them Internet of Things might be a gateway for the hackers.\nBasically, Internet of Things is an establishment of wireless connections for data exchange and other transmissions. The process also involves interacting in real time so that all the data or information transmitted can be tracked and analyzed. The best thing about the entire concept of Internet of Things is that the process involves the internet cloud for storing the date. This will eventually save the time of the user allowing management and extraction of data anywhere and anytime. In addition to all such features, there are always upsides and downsides of a technology. Let\u2019s have a quick glance over it.\nThe Upsides of IoT\nIoT technology has an excellent feature of intimating the user by generating alert about various events such as reminding to buy the grocery, to turn On/Off TV, refrigerator, light and many other home appliances. Also, the user can attain a secured system for their home and other associated activities. All that is required is the knowledge to operate handheld device and adding security for using the particular IoT device.\nThe Downside of IoT\nOnly thing that can create an issue in the success of IoT technology across the world is its security. An access to IoT device without a password may lead to data theft. Since, the entire procedure of transmission within the technology involves the connection of various devices at a single time, thus the risk of data leakage also increases with the number of devices involved. So, a user always needs to remember the fact that every technology has a loophole which can be filled following safety precautions.\nIt can be concluded that Internet of Things is growing up to an extent that within the next decade, every electronic device will be following the IoT technology. At the same time, its security can\u2019t be ignored because it may lead to issues, if ignored.\nTags: internet of thingsInternet of Things advantages and disadvantagesinternet of things trendsIoT advantages and disadvantagesIoT upsides and downsidesiot websitewhat does iot meanwhat is internet of things\nNext How OPC UA Has Set A Communication Standard of IoT?\nPrevious M2M: An Essential Building Block of Internet of Things Technology\nReal nice style and excellent articles, hardly anything else we require : D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.telemachusleaps.com/2010/01/hip-hip-hooray-for-president-obama.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FSLVI3PLEJ4D2JD6LLSZXUMUWTBBPWKJ", "length": 6864, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.telemachusleaps.com", "title": "Telemachus: Hip-Hip-Hooray for President Obama!", "raw_content": "Hip-Hip-Hooray for President Obama!\nSee! We told you we would salute him when he has \u2018done good!\u2019\nThe President of the United States just called for a spending freeze on federal discretionary spending in the upcoming budget request for FY 2011 in his State of the Union address tonight.\nOn top of that, he proposed bringing back the only budget tool that has ever worked to curtail overall spending by the federal government, the PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budget mechanism. (more on PAYGO in a future posting)\nTo that we add a hearty: \u201cWay to go, Mr. President!\u201d\nWith an addendum: \u201cIt is about darned time!\u201d\n(And a caveat: We don't think this 'one small step for mankind' will qualify Mr. Obama for a Nobel Prize in 'Budget Balancing' anytime soon.\nAnd Deep-Six the budget commission executive order; that is a dumb idea since we already know from hundreds of previous commissions what the problems are (entitlements) and Congress is our only duly-elected, Constitutionally-established 'budget commission' in the first place)\nHis brief comments on budget discipline made us think about the walk-on basketball player from a small college who gets into the final seconds of a game against Duke or Carolina and makes a free throw. Even though they are down by 95 points.\nBut the crowd still goes wild! Both sides.\nWhy is that? It is because every fan wants that average guy who has been working hard every day at practice for 4 years to hit a free throw and get his name up on the scoreboard and into the record books. Forever.\nSame tonight with President Obama. After last year when it seemed as if he, his advisors and the current leaders of Congress could not find the \u2018off\u2019 switch (they didn't) when it came to spending more of your money on everything and anything and borrowing trillions from the Chinese, we are glad to see that he has finally hit a free throw.\nEven though we are down 12 trillion points (in national debt dollars) heading towards a colossal blowout of 20 trillion if we don\u2019t watch out, that one free throw makes it a little more 'respectable'.\nOk, so let\u2019s take a closer look at this 'budget freeze' proposal:\nThe 'freeze' is on discretionary budget items only.\nIt only affects less than 1/6th of the budget.\nIt will save \u2018only\u2019 $15 billion in the first year, the naysayers say. (Hey! What is wrong with saving $15 billion of your tax money anywhere nowadays!?)\nEverything else is \u2018off-limits\u2019\u2026for now at least. (Everything needs to be \u2018on-limits\u2019, if that can be a word)\nDefense, Homeland Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Interest on the National Debt, the \u2018Six Horsemen of the Apocalypse\u2019 in budgetary terms, are not included....for now. (They will have to be if we are ever going to balance the budgets in your lifetime as if you need to be reminded once again)\nIt will save between $100-$250 billion over the next decade depending on your point of view and economic forecasts and projections.\nEveryone will scream bloody murder and wave the bloody shirt: \u201cHow dare you slice and dice the education/environmental protection/justice/welfare (fill in the blank, take your pick) program like the Slap Chop hawked by that crazy guy on TV! What are you trying to do, make us a third world country?\u201d\nIf we don\u2019t control our spending and bring it back into some sort of balance with what the American people are willing to pay in taxes (18% of GDP is about their limit and average based on the past 40 years), then we are well on our way to becoming a banana republic, with all due respect to the banana republics of the world.\nOf course, none of this will happen if Congress doesn't pass even this teeny-tiny effort at restoring some sense of fiscal sanity in Washington. Here\u2019s the real deal on anything budget-related, folks: The President of the United States is MR. IRRELEVANT* when it comes to passing anything in the federal budget. He can\u2019t even sign or veto his own budget submission to Congress, for goodness sakes!\nDue to the ominous-sounding Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the President and OMB are asked to formulate annual budgets because it was a lot easier to do it over there at the White House than with 535 would-be, wannabe presidents in Congress and their staffs trying to do it each year.\nAfter the annual budget is submitted, Congress can kick it into the dustbin of history if they want to\u2026but they don\u2019t. They usually fight over, let\u2019s say, oh, maybe about 2% of the budget priorities in a good year and between 5-10% in a bad year. That would mean all this fussing and fighting that goes on every year is over between $150-$300 billion nowadays, peanuts when compared to the gargantuan $3.6 trillion federal budget of today.\nThe President is an 'influencer', the only person elected by the entire country and as a result, he has the bully pulpit to use anytime he wants to shape public opinion. Even the smallest whisper of 'fiscal restraint' in this tiny budget freeze request is a heckuva lot better than anything we have heard in Washington since 2000. And we all know the White House and Congress was controlled by President George Bush and the Republicans until 2007.\nSo President Obama gets credit for being the first leader in Washington to say the word 'freeze' at least in close to a decade. Hear, hear!\nOne side will carp and say this budget freeze is a \u2018draconian\u2019 budget cut that will devastate western civilization as we know it. Others on the right will say this is just for show and doesn\u2019t mean anything.\nBut 80% of people in the middle want both sides in Congress to 'just shut their yappers' as Chris Farley used to say, lock themselves in Congress for a couple of months, balance these budgets, stop borrowing all this money and go home.\n(Does the concept of a Senator-elect named 'Scott Brown' from the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts mean anything to anyone in Washington for goodness sakes?)\nBalancing our national spending with our current willingness to pay for them through taxes on us now currently-living souls (not our defenseless children and grandkids) is all about 'sustainability' and 'good stewardship' really, isn't it?\nThat is what the American people are clamoring for..that plus some statesmen-like leadership.\n*''Mr. Irrelevant' is the last football player chosen in the annual NFL Draft. Sometimes, he makes the team and has a decent career. But most of the time, he is 'ignored' and cut from the squad after a few tryouts.\nRick Barry picture courtesy of www.sportsthenandnow.com\nLabels: budget freeze, Chris Farley, national debt, Obama, PAYGO, Rick Barry\nCapitol Hill: 'The Graveyard of the Atlantic' for...\nWhat\u2019s Next for \u201cHealth Care Reform\u201d?\nWhat Has Happened to All of the \u2018Anti-Establishmen...\n\u201cGet On Your Knees and Pray \u2018We Won\u2019t Get Fooled A...\nWho Has Created More Jobs: Bill Gates or the Feder...\nWe Think America Can Handle 'The Truth'!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1418, "original_length": 31539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.texascitizenscoalition.org/2019/01/18/democrats-are-twisting-the-facts-about-the-wall/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ577WFQFRHFNFGOPSZVVLABZUQJZU2V", "length": 3962, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.texascitizenscoalition.org", "title": "Democrats are Twisting the Facts About the Wall! - Texas Citizens Coalition", "raw_content": "As the debate over the border wall rages on, Republicans\u2019 beliefs about immigration are being misinterpreted and misunderstood, often intentionally.\nFor example, if we say, \u201cIt\u2019s time to secure our borders by building a wall,\u201d they ridiculously interpret us as saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t welcome people of other races and religions. We hate immigrants.\u201d\nOr, if we say, \u201cAmerica first,\u201d they hear \u201cOnly America; nobody else.\u201d They think you voted for your own prosperity at the expense of all others. They think we don\u2019t care in the slightest about anyone else or other countries\u2019 plights.\nThey are hearing us wrong or deliberately misrepresenting the truth. It\u2019s time to clear up the myths!\nMyth 1: We hate immigrants.\nWrong. Republicans are not against immigrants in general or scared of them. We do not think all immigrants are murders, rapists, and thieves! We know that immigrants have played an important role in America since our nation\u2019s beginning and continue to make our nation prosperous. Immigrants are not all bad or all good\u2014they\u2019re just people, \u201cranging from the truly amazing to the truly despicable,\u201d as Joseph Mussomeli of the Imaginative Conservative expresses.\nAn immigrant could be our country\u2019s next Einstein, a valued employee, or a gang member, so we need to figure out who is going to be good for our country. As President Trump said, \u201cwe need great people. But we want them to come in on a merit basis\u2026\u201d If people are immigrating here by choice (versus being forced out of their country as a refugee), their arrival needs to be mutually beneficial.\nAnd here\u2019s the thing: a wall does not mean all immigrants must stay out. Rather, more secure borders can help immigrants get in, too. For instance, if our system and resources are jammed up by those coming illegally, what about those dreaming of coming here legally? What about refugees? It makes it harder for them to get in. For the sake of immigrants, we need better border security.\nMyth 2: \u201cAmerica first\u201d means \u201cNobody else matters.\u201d\nNope\u2014not what we mean. First off, it makes sense for the president to say, \u201cAmerica first.\u201d He\u2019s focused on America first because that is his job as president\u2014his first responsibility is to American citizens, not to those trying to cross our border.\nOkay, but what about when a normal Republican citizen says, \u201cAmerica first\u201d? He or she does not mean \u201cme first.\u201d It\u2019s not about making sure America comes first so that we can afford to buy everything on our Amazon wishlist. It means we want to look after our families first and the poor under our own bridges first before reaching out to the poor in other countries.\nIt might mean we need to take care of our country first so that we stay strong to help other countries. Maybe it\u2019s like what flight attendants tell us on planes: in case of an emergency, put on your own oxygen mask first before helping others around you. You can\u2019t help others if you stop breathing!\nAnd once we\u2019re \u201cbreathing\u201d better, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s the government\u2019s role to then reach out and put the \u201coxygen mask\u201d on other countries. Perhaps the American government\u2019s role is to always put America first, and it\u2019s the role of private citizens to help others in need around the world.\nWith the American government focusing on America\u2019s own economy, the private sector can flourish and better afford to reach out and help other countries. \u201cAmerica first\u201d in that case means the American government puts America first, but Americans should help others around the world.\nSo, all that to say, Republicans actually do care about others! How can we prevent the Left from believing the myths about us? Perhaps it\u2019s time to change our messaging so that our true beliefs can come across better. Our rhetoric often sounds harsher than we actually are, and if we change it, Liberals might better understand that Republicans do care about our neighbors, both citizens and immigrants.\nNext: Where in the World are Our U.S. Soldiers?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thaieuro.biz/category/press-center/government-relations/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BL7V6HGN3SWXKI6GGORO6W3YV3X56SLE", "length": 2256, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thaieuro.biz", "title": "Government Relations Archives - Page 2 of 4 - Thai European Business Association", "raw_content": "Thailand and Europe Collaboration on Science, Technology and Innovation between Chulalongkorn University and TEBA\n\u201cThai cuisine to the world\u201d organized by Thailand National Food Institute, Ministry of Industry. With its main focus, Royal Thai Government aims to provide a systematic expansion of Thai food markets in the creating a good image of the country main export products. The project also aims to help and encourage Thai restaurants operating overseas.\nBangkok: The Thai European Business Association (TEBA) invited delegates from the various government agencies, utilities and academia to visit Singapore to demonstrate first-hand the latest trends and innovations in environmental sustainability for the auto-industry, including the new BMW i3 and the new BMW i8 concept electric vehicles, as well as the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure solution provided by Bosch.\nThailand\u2019s government has approved a future restructuring of the country\u2019s vehicle excise tax away from rates based on engine size to one dependent on the quantity of carbon dioxide emissions. Thailand\u2019s government has approved a future restructuring of the country\u2019s vehicle excise tax away from rates based on engine size to one dependent on the quantity of carbon dioxide emissions.\nThe Ministry of Public Health is accelerating the setting up of at least a model flea market in each province in order to promote food safety standards. Deputy Public Health Minister Surawit Khonsomboon said that the project would be completed by the end of 2012, in response to the Government\u2019s policy to develop Thailand as the \u201cKitchen of the World.\u201d\nSmall cars emitting low levels of carbon dioxide may be granted excise tax reductions, but large cars with similarly low levels of gas output may not receive same benefit.\nPoliticians should be kept out of the decision-making process for long-term flood-prevention projects, says Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong. Both domestic and foreign experts must be consulted to develop solid academic and technological solutions, he said.European countries, China, Korea and Japan have proposed long-term projects, while the Asian Development Bank yesterday made recommendations and funding proposals for a rehabilitation plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecormactrust.com/2006/05/23/sudden-death-disorder-test-detects-many-with-heart-condition/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:FK6BQICQNBF67DZDGCDYSUV5WZS4DNAX", "length": 3186, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thecormactrust.com", "title": "The Cormac Trust \u2013 Raising Awareness Of Sudden Cardiac Death in The Young \u00bb Archive \u00bb Sudden Death Disorder Test Detects Many with Heart Condition", "raw_content": "A substantial number of young adults, suspected of being predisposed to a heart disorder that is a leading cause of sudden death, are testing positive for the condition following MRI screening.\nConcern about sudden cardiac death has been heightened in recent years, following a number of high-profile cases in young sportsmen such as the late Tyrone footballer Cormac McAnallen.\nArrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is thought to be responsible for around 20 per cent of sudden cardiac deaths and occurs predominantly in males. The Mater, as the National Cardiothoracic Centre, has been using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose this potentially lethal condition since 2000.\n\u201cARVD is a condition characterised by progressive fibrofatty changes in the free wall of the right ventricle of the heart,\u201d said consultant radiologist Dr John Murray. Of 109 patients referred for a cardiac MRI last year, 27 were scanned for potential ARVD, and 12 of these tested positive for the disorder.\nTraditionally, an angiogram and biopsy of the heart muscle would have been carried out in an effort to detect the disorder. \u201cMRI is a better approach because it can detect the fat or heart muscle motion abnormality non-invasively,\u201d said Dr Murray.\nIt is an outpatient procedure. People just come in and go home again an hour later,\u201d he said.\nThere is a strong familial incidence of ARVD, with a family history of the disorder present in 30 per cent of cases. A genetic test to establish the diagnosis is not currently available.\nDr Murray said they had screened a number of families for the disorder. \u201cEssentially it is a treatable condition,\u201d he said.\nWhile options include medication, most people diagnosed with ARVD have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator fitted, according to consultant cardiologist Dr Joe Galvin.\nIn the event of an irregular heartbeat, this device immediately delivers an electrical shock to the heart that will restore a normal rhythm.\nDr Galvin said that, while they were starting to see more cases of ARVD, they were not screening normal healthy patients but only patients who exhibited risk factors for the condition. This, he said, was the reason why the pick-up rate was so high.\n\u201cScreening those people who have a family history of ARVD is a high-yield process and we are likely to observe that up to 40 per cent of these have the abnormality,\u201d he said.\nAndrea Craddock, an MRI clinical specialist radiographer, said that in the past couple of years the number of cardiac MRIs they had carried out had increased significantly, with referrals coming from as far away as Donegal, Leitrim and Kerry.\n\u201cPeople are becoming more aware of treatable causes of sudden death due to recent due to recent high-profile cases. Physicians around the country are also aware of the role of MRI in diagnosing ARVD,\u201d said Ms Craddock. She said the next available appointment for a cardiac MRI was in September.\nBy Danielle Barron\n(Irish Times, 23 May 2006)\nThis entry was posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 at 3:50 pm\tand is filed under News/Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecosmosphere.com/inside-the-fuel-tank-of-the-saturn-v-during-launch/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NMZQBV7ALHJ6VGR5TMJEU7IOQICWCRGS", "length": 287, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thecosmosphere.com", "title": "Inside the fuel tank of the Saturn V during launch \u2013 The Cosmosphere", "raw_content": "An autistic youtuber/comedian was made fun of by a popular youtuber and his viewers are now harassing him. This is his r\u2026\nTagged Latest Video, New Video, videoLeave a Comment on Inside the fuel tank of the Saturn V during launch\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-Oi9m2beA[/embed]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecountyrecord.net/archives/449-Scholastic-Book-Fair.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:36Z", "digest": "sha1:CTQMGJC2KGXJZKIG4RPAKC2RSMWYJY5G", "length": 1269, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thecountyrecord.net", "title": "Scholastic Book Fair - The County Record", "raw_content": "by Brittney Pate\nAltha School will host a Scholastic Book Fair on November 9 - 13 in the media center.\nFamilies, teachers, and the community are invited to attend the fair, which will feature the theme: \u201cDestination Book Fair: Read Around the World\u201d. Hours for the fair will be 8 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. daily. On Tuesday, November, 10 there will be a special Family Event from 3 - 6 p.m. The event will include refreshments, door prizes, and time to browse at the fair.\nStudents also have an opportunity to invite a grandparent or another \u201cgrand\u201d person to visit the Book Fair with them. This \u201cGrand Event\u201d will be on Thursday, November 12 from 7 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. There will be refreshments, time to shop together at the Book Fair.\nThe book fair will also feature the One for Books program. This program\u2019s goal is to bring more books into schools at the local level and promote reading globally. Donate just $1 or some loose change and sign a book slip so it can be displayed at the book fair. Scholastic Book Fairs will match the One for Books dollars you raise with a donation of up to a million books to three non-profit organizations devoted to improving reading skills among children: Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., National Center for Family Literacy and Toys for Tots.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2007/09/25/evel-prevails-as-evel-dick-donato-wins-big-brother-8-and-the-grand-prize-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DTM7AEEHLN3PEP4TJN6X2LNP366HVOQ4", "length": 8039, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.thefutoncritic.com", "title": "Breaking News | TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource", "raw_content": "Who Will Finally Rock Bret's World???\nThe \"Rock of Love with Bret Michaels\" season finale premieres Sunday, September 30 at 9:00/8:00c on VH1.\nGeorge Lopez Gets Red, White and Blue on His All-New Comedy Album \"George Lopez: America's Mexican\" Will Be Released by Comedy Central Records(R) Digitally on Tuesday, September 25\nThe CD will be available for download to own from iTunes and other major download sites two weeks before it's available for purchase in stores nationwide.\nThe Colbert Report Names Allison Silverman to Executive Producer Post\n\"Allison is a rare combination of funny, kind, and intelligent. Unfortunately, in her new job two of those have got to go,\" said Colbert.\nFOX's 'Nashville' Gets Early Exit\nRepeats of fellow newcomer \"K-Ville\" will now fill the Friday, 9:00/8:00c hour for the next two weeks with the network's MLB coverage as previously announced on October 12.\nThe Eagles to Perform on \"The 41st Annual Cma Awards\"\nThis marks the first performance by the Eagles on the CMA Awards, although the band is no stranger to \"Country Music's Biggest Night.(TM)\"\nGospel Greats Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary and Bebe Winans Join BET in Their Nationwide Search for the Next Best Gospel Singer in New Original Series 'Sunday Best' Premiering Tuesday, October 2 at 8:00 P.M.*\nBET has tapped gospel superstars Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary and BeBe Winans to help find the next great gospel artist in the new original series \"Sunday Best.\"\nWelcome to MTV's \"Pageant Place\" - Where Being Beautiful Isn't Always Pretty\nThe eight-episode series follows Miss Universe(R) Riyo Mori, Miss USA(R) Rachel Smith and Miss Teen USA(R) Katie Blair as they reign and live together for one year in a New York City high-rise apartment.\nCatch Up on the Emmy Award-Winning \"30 Rock\" When Bravo Airs Mini-Marathon\nThe six episode mini-marathon airs on Sunday, September 30th from 1:00 - 4:00 PM ET/PT.\nEmmy(R) Award Winner Genie Francis Stars in 'The Note' a Hallmark Original Movie Premiering December 8\nTed McGinley and Rick Roberts also star in the project, which will air during the holiday season.\nEmmy(R) Nominee Gail O'Grady Is Looking for the Perfect Man and Is Bringing the Nation Along for the Ride in 'All I Want for Christmas,' a Hallmark Original Movie Premiering December 1\nGreg Germann and Robert Mailhouse also star in the film, which \"suggests that what we wish for the most is often closer than we imagine.\"\nFOX Reality Channel Concludes the Controversial Original Series, \"Solitary 2.0\" with This Year's Most Unique Reality \"Union\" Special\n\"Solitary 2.0\" will air its dramatic season finale on September 29 at 11PM ET/8PM PT.\nBolivian President Evo Morales to Appear on \"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\" Tuesday, September 25 at 11:00 P.M.\nThe visit by President Morales marks the second time a sitting head of state has appeared on \"The Daily Show.\"\nComedy Central(R) and National Lampoon Agree to Multi-Picture, First Window Film Package\nThe deal includes \"National Lampoon's Bag Boy,\" \"National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son\" and National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.\"\nSeason Two of Aaron Mcgruder's the Boondocks Premieres on Adult Swim\nBusta Rhymes, Cedric the Entertainer, Snoop Dogg, Mos Def and Aisha Tyler are all set to lend their voices to the show's second season.\nMoonlight On-Air Promo to Feature Exclusive Sneak Peek to Celine Dion's Highly Anticipated New Album, \"Taking Chances\"\nIn addition to the on air-promo, immediately following the series premiere of MOONLIGHT, CBS will air a one minute sneak-peek of upcoming episodes.\nWhat We Learned About Americans This Week on the CBS Primetime Game Show \"Power of 10\"\nCBS details the poll results from the show's September 23 episode.\nNew Weekly Movie Review Series \"Lyons & Bailes Reel Talk\" Set to Debut in National Syndication Sept 29-30\nHosted by renowned film critics Jeffrey Lyons and Alison Bailes, the series will feature in-studio interviews with Oscar winners Michael Douglas, Cate Blanchett and Adrien Brody in its premiere episodes.\nInterview: \"Chuck\" Co-Creators Josh Schwartz & Chris Fedak\nMTV Follows Internet Sensation Tila Tequila on Her Quest for Love in New Dating Series \"A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila\" Premieres October 9th at 10:00pm ET/PT\nThe series will also be available for download to own on iTunes Store, Amazon Unbox, Walmart Video Downloads and Bit Torrent.\nMore Performers Announced for \"The 41st Annual Cma Awards\"\nBrooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley, Sugarland, Josh Turner and Carrie Underwood are the latest additions to the event, which airs Wednesday, November 7 on ABC.\nABC's \"Dancing with the Stars\" Partners with Two Mediaedge:cia Clients - At&t and Macy'S\nAT&T will provide viewers the ability to vote for their favorite couple via text messaging for the first time.\nNBC Sizes Up a Fifth Season for Inspiring Hit Weight Loss Series \"The Biggest Loser\"\nPlus: For the first time ever in the history of the show, teams of two will compete against each other rather than individuals.\nNBC Universal and Cox Communications Offer Popular Prime Time Shows Free on Demand\nThe trial offer will cover five series - \"30 Rock,\" \"Friday Night Lights,\" \"Las Vegas,\" \"Life\" and \"Bionic Woman.\"\nThe Premiere of CBS's New Drama \"Cane\" to Be Presented with Limited Commercial Breaks and Sponsored Exclusively by Chevrolet\nThe automaker will underwrite the entire episode, which will include limited commercial breaks to highlight its new fuel efficiency campaign.\nEmmy(R) Award Winner Genie Francis and Ted Mcginley Star in \"The Note,\" an Original Movie Now in Production in Toronto for Air on Hallmark Channel\nThe original movie has begun production in Toronto, Canada to premiere on Hallmark Channel Saturday, December 8 (9-11 p.m., ET/PT).\nNBC Harmonizes with Celebrity Singers to Conduct a Search for the Perfect Choir When 'Clash of the Choirs' Premieres Live in Exciting Four-Night Holiday Event December 17-20\nThe series will have its two-hour premiere on Monday, December 17 (9-11 p.m. ET) and will air Tuesday, December 18 (9-10 p.m. ET), Wednesday, December 19 (also a two-hour episode from 9-11 p.m. ET) and Thursday, December 20 (8-9 p.m. ET).\nSeries and Season Premiere Episodes of FOX Shows Available Free on the Itunes Store\nThese FOX premieres will be available free on iTunes (www.itunes.com) beginning the day after their respective launches for two weeks.\nVH1 Teams Up with DR. Drew for 'Celebrity Rehab with DR. Drew', Series Depicting Process of Overcoming Addiction\nThe project, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to premiere on January 10, 2008 at 10:00/9:00c.\nCBS Will Broadcast an Encore Presentation of the New Reality Series, Kid Nation, Saturday, SepT. 22 at 8:00 Pm, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network\nThe series premiered to an audience of 9.4 million viewers on Wednesday, winning its time period in Adults 18-49, children 2-11 and children 6-11.\nComedy Central(R) Launches \"The Sarah Silverman Program\" Web Site\nEach week, the site will feature users favorite show clips, as well as new, exclusive videos made especially for the web as well as via mobile phone video.\nAMC Renews Mad Men for a Second Season\n\"AMC's first foray into original scripted series has been a success right out of the gate,\" said Rob Sorcher, Executive Vice President programming and production for AMC.\nTelevision Without Pity's 'TV BigshoT.com' Attracts Bigshot Advertisers\nTVBigshot.com - sponsored by two key advertisers, CBS and the presenting sponsor, AT&T - is a game that allows players to create, name and program their own fantasy television networks.\nBravo Starts Production on New Docu-Drama 'Manhattan Moms'\n\"[The series] is a fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the privileged lives of New York's wealthy socialites,\" said Bravo's Frances Berwick.\nNBC.com Premieres Two Original Productions This Fall\nNBC.com today announced the premiere date of October 2nd for its first original production series \"Coastal Dreams\" and September 24th for its animated comedy series \"Pale Force.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 15622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/review-of-citys-finances-leaves-out-important-details/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ5MJT4QZOSHAHE72DDHXLK7CM4CFIB2", "length": 1755, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thehamtramckreview.com", "title": "Review of city\u2019s finances leaves out important details | Hamtramck Review", "raw_content": "Review of city\u2019s finances leaves out important details\nIt comes as no surprise that a state financial review team has concluded that Hamtramck is in a financial crisis.\nWhat is surprising is that there is no nuance in the team\u2019s findings. Instead, the majority of blame for the city\u2019s financial failure was placed on the shoulders of the city council and mayor.\nNo mention was made about Gov. Snyder\u2019s massive cut in state revenue sharing to Hamtramck and all cities in the state.\nThere was mention, however, of the collapse in property taxes and other unforeseen revenue losses that occurred outside the control of city officials.\nThe report chastised city officials for not keeping pace with falling revenues. That\u2019s easy for them to say, but the team failed to realize that most of the city\u2019s spending is for police and fire services.\nCity officials\u2019 hands are tied when it comes to making significant changes in those labor contracts. And since that is where the majority of spending is focused on, there was nothing officials could do except wait for the inevitable.\nBut instead of waiting, city officials took a proactive step and asked for state intervention. That was the responsible thing to do.\nHowever, instead of praising city officials, the team chided them for not dealing with the financial mess themselves.\nOnce again, the team conveniently overlooked binding contracts that prevented city officials from making the cuts that needed to be made.\nState officials can point their fingers all they want but that does not eliminate the fact that when tax collections go down, cities are going to tailspin into financial trouble.\nThis issue goes well beyond the borders of Hamtramck. This is a national economic issue that needs to be addressed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thejoycircuit.co.uk/joycircuit/archives/tag/kat-dennings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:26Z", "digest": "sha1:H7T6LPOCNG3WQ5EOLUAVVW645E4IYMVA", "length": 598, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thejoycircuit.co.uk", "title": "Kat Dennings", "raw_content": "Katherine Litwack (born June 13, 1986), known professionally as Kat Dennings, is an American actress. After making her acting debut in an episode of the HBO dramedy series Sex and the City, Dennings has since appeared in films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Charlie Bartlett (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), Defendor (2009), Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). From 2011 to 2017, she starred alongside Beth Behrs in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls.\nPosted by Dave W at 1:00 pm\tTagged with: Avengers, Kat Dennings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 449, "original_length": 9247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 14.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themotorhomediaries.co.uk/bled.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3AFL4TSPEX5XGA7QLODHAGTOSC3RJNPW", "length": 1507, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.themotorhomediaries.co.uk", "title": "Bled - The Motorhome Diaries", "raw_content": "Bled is a lovely little town not far from the Austrian border and close to the Julian Alps. It probably had its heyday in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th as a spa resort. Nowadays it is still very refined although it has a 24 hour casino and also has developed as a centre for activity holidays, mountain biking, kayaking, canyoning etc.\nThe lake is about a 6km walk around and which we have done a couple of times.\nThere is a magnificent castle 100 metres above the lake and this too is a nice spot to visit. There is the easy way to get to the top (by coach) or there is the hard way \u2013 climbing a very steep hill \u2013 and this is what we did. It was worth it, as there were stunning views, a nice little museum, a few gift shops and a nice caf\u00e9.\nWe may have given the casino a miss but we did try a tobogganing track which was good fun. Imagine a hill that would be ideal for an artificial ski run and then imagine a single metal track weaving its way from top to bottom. You take a gondola to the top and then get into a plastic toboggan on the metal track, you fasten your seat belt and then push the joystick forward to go whizzing down the track. Great fun and we should have bought a 3-go ticket instead of a once only ticket.\nThis is Bled Island, the only island in Slovenia\nJust to give you an idea of the size of the summer toboggan run that we tried. This is the view of it from across the lake.\nSheila on the summer toboggan track, see small dot in middle of picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 4047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themoviebit.com/2015/08/colin-farrell-joins-fantastic-beast-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6OAVBZ5P7272GZR3EMKME7NLG7BASP3N", "length": 1510, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.themoviebit.com", "title": "Colin Farrell Joins Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them | The Movie Bit", "raw_content": "Colin Farrell Joins Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them\nOf all the British and Irish actors to populate the Harry Potter franchise, one notable exception (well, two if you count Liam Cunningham. Which is surprise, since he\u2019s in everything) was Colin Farrell. Well, now that has been remedied with the actor joining the cast of Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as Graves, a wizard that the movies hero, Newt Scarmander (Eddie Redmayne), in New York during his quest to find and document the various magical creatures that make their home in the wizarding world.\nWith Redmayne and other rising stars, including Dan Fogler (Balls of Fury), Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Josh Gad (Frozen, Pixels), and Katherine Waterson (Inherent Vice), making up the main cast, director David Yates seems to be following the Harry Potter formula of building up the supporting cast with veteran actors and known names. It\u2019ll be interesting to see who else joins Farrell as supporting players. Fingers crossed for Liam Cunningham.\nThe first in a trilogy, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set for release November 18th 2016.\nThe Movie Bit: Colin Farrell Joins Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them\nhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjGjgZ67dqs/VcKiAii_BOI/AAAAAAAAYXE/nwdp2juxUMU/s640/colin-farrell.jpg\nhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjGjgZ67dqs/VcKiAii_BOI/AAAAAAAAYXE/nwdp2juxUMU/s72-c/colin-farrell.jpg\nhttp://www.themoviebit.com/2015/08/colin-farrell-joins-fantastic-beast-and.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.therealnorth.com/events/community-calendar/2019-01-13/our-saviors-quilters-meet-2018-12-06/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:O5GVLECRHDYJ42D3IMUTLQAMNWBTS4OL", "length": 878, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.therealnorth.com", "title": "Visit Marinette County WI | Our Saviors Quilters Meet", "raw_content": "Date: Dec. 6, 2018 - May 16, 2019\nThe OSLC Quilters will continue their winter season on Thursday the 6th of December. Thank you for your support of this mission. Come see!\nDated Announcement\nOur Savior\u2019s Lutheran quilter\u2019s group will assemble in the church hall, corner of University and Pierce, Marinette, on the 6th of December to continue their winter season. Their schedule is to meet the first and third Thursdays each month at 8 a.m. Volunteers are welcome. The work includes jobs for a variety of talents, sewing and non-sewing. The finished quilts are donated to local charities and the Lutheran World Relief. Donations of material are welcome. For more information, please call Our Savior\u2019s office at 715-735-3101. Come join us in this Christian mission.\nOn the web at www.oursaviorsparish.org\nLocation: \"Corner of University and Pierce\"\nContact Name: Kenneth Exworthy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thewestologist.com/words-and-phrases/the-origin-of-clues", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CKW2S22JFTJVS4OIA3WQVZX4JAL3GZQH", "length": 2042, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thewestologist.com", "title": "The Origin of Clues", "raw_content": "The Origin of Clues\nThe Origin of Clues - 5.0 out of 5 based on 4 votes\nThe word \u201cclue,\u201d as in \u201ca piece of evidence used as a guide in solving a mystery or a problem,\u201d originally means \u201ca ball of thread,\u201d and it was spelled \u201cclew.\u201d What\u2019s thread got to do with clues? The answer is in the story of Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur.\nIn Greek mythology the Minotaur is a violent monster, half human and half bull, born on the island of Crete. To keep it from hurting people, the king of the island makes Daedalus, an inventor and architect, create a labyrinth that the Minotaur will never be able to escape.\nOne version of the Labyrinth\nThen one day the king\u2019s son is killed in Athens. The king goes to war against Athens, wins, and as a punishment forces Athens to send seven girls and seven boys to Crete every year, or every seven years, depending on the version of the myth. The girls and boys are forced into the labyrinth, where they are eaten by the Minotaur.\nHouse of Theseus Mosaic, c.3rd century, Paphos, Cyprus\nOne year Theseus, the son of the king of Athens, decides to go to Crete in order to kill the Minotaur and stop the sacrifices. When Theseus arrives in Crete he meets Ariadne, the king\u2019s daughter, and she falls in love with him. Theseus tells Ariadne that he intends to kill the Minotaur and that he will marry her if she helps him. That\u2019s when Ariadne gives him a ball of thread, called a \u201cclew,\u201d which Daedalus had given her, and she tells Theseus how to find his way back out of the labyrinth with it:\nNicolo Bambini, Ariadne and Theseus, early 18th century, Private Collection\nTheseus ties one end of the thread to the door of the labyrinth, manages to find and kill the Minotaur deep inside the labyrinth, and then follows the thread back out.\nThe word \u201cclew\u201d therefore always meant both \u201ca ball of thread\u201d and \u201csomething that guides a person out of a difficult or mysterious situation.\u201d The spelling changed from \u201cclew\u201d to the modern \u201cclue,\u201d and the word we use today was born. That\u2019s the origin of clues in English.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 189.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomasbloor.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/poster-for-the-stockton-childrens-book-of-the-year-celebration-weekend/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6L7L7Y3JTQKCOIHBOYHGB62UUU344EE6", "length": 1423, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thomasbloor.co.uk", "title": "What I'll be talking about at the Stockton Children's Book of the Year Celebration Weekend. | Thomas Bloor at the Stockton Children's Book of the Year Celebration Weekend, March 2018", "raw_content": "What I'll be talking about at the Stockton Children's Book of the Year Celebration Weekend.\nA shelf groaning with books, all filled with stories of one kind and another.\nIf you happen to have read the leaflet for the Stockton Children's Book of the Year celebration weekend and you're thinking of attending my author session on the Saturday, then you might be expecting me to talk exclusively about The House of Eyes, which was the book that won the Stockton Award back in 2003. They have certainly made it sound exciting. But I must confess I haven't read The House of Eyes since it first came out, a long time ago now. Like many authors, I tend to avoid reading any book I've written after it has actually been published for fear I'll find it full of things I want to change but no longer have the chance to. My memory of the story is not quite as fresh as it once was. But I do remember it begins aboard a barge, where a story is about to be told. And it's stories that my author talk will be all about, where they come from, how they are told, and why we humans are so keen on them. I'll also be running a workshop on the same day, where we will look at how to create a character from scratch - and then put them through a terrible transformation. If you like the sound of these events, aimed at people aged 8 \u2013 13 years, then they're being run by Stockton Libraries and these are the details if you want to come along.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 174.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomfulmer.com/thom-fulmer-2/worth-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YJLZ3XTVQMUXFVXXJFJBOV6WP7CFOTUD", "length": 3362, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thomfulmer.com", "title": "worth it \u2014 Thom Fulmer", "raw_content": "\u201cNever swerve from the path of the righteous; however trying and dark your present experience may be, it leads to a harvest-home of joy beyond the years. Sowing is sad work. It is the casting away of precious seed; the flinging far and wide of the treasured stores of the barn, an expenditure of the present for the future...\nYou do not realize it, but you are sowing light. Each act of self-denial, in which you cast yourself into the ground to die, is a seed-germ of the harvest of gladness.\u201d - F. B. Meyer\nGOD is worth it. Worth what? Worth our sacrifices, time, money, efforts, our heartfelt prayers, our complete trust\u2026everything we got. Walking in a relationship with Jesus is worth it.\nWhen interviewing and training young salesmen, we would always talk about the price they would pay to get what they wanted. They saw the guys ahead of them in our business, and wanted what we had. They didn\u2019t see endless hours with customers, or late nights on a computer working out every detail of a proposal, after everyone had gone home. They didn\u2019t see us sitting alone at dinner, in a strange town, after meeting with a customer all day long or stuck in an airport dealing with flight delays. They saw nice company cars. They saw us taking customers to nice meals and going on great reward trips with our wives. I\u2019d tell them none of the good stuff came without the hard stuff, but the good stuff was worth it.\nSo it goes in our pursuit of GOD. Jesus told us we would be in the world, not of it. He told us to set aside our selfish ambitions, to pick up our cross and follow Him. He is worth every trial, struggle and hard decision. Following Jesus is worth our efforts to seek and follow after Him. We\u2019ve spent the month of April talking about our GOD, who is worth it. I\u2019ve realized the more I know of Him, the more compelling He is to me.\n\u201cAfterward Jesus went up on a mountain and called out the ones He wanted to go with Him. And they came to Him.\u201d Mark 3:13 NLT\nHe summons us to come with Him. Going up a hill is a great picture; to walk up, into closer fellowship, away from the world and all it offers. Jesus calls us to go up the hill with Him.\n\u201cRemain in me, and I will remain in you.\u201d John 15:4 NLT\nWe remain, by obeying Him. We obey, by loving others, and loving Him. And when we do, He remains in us. The love Jesus shares with His Father becomes ours; we\u2019re invited in, loved, granted The King and His Kingdom.\n\"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.\u201d Matthew 13:44 NLT\nJesus believes The Kingdom is worth selling everything we have to buy a field where the treasure is located. The treasure is worth all we have.\nLives with Christ aren\u2019t without trial, but He walks through every bit of it with us. The Kingdom begins when we experience the Presence of the King. We get to walk with Him now. When troubles come, we can turn to Him.\n\u201cThe LORD says, I will rescue those who love me.\nWhen they call on me, I will answer.\nI will be with them in trouble.\u201d Psalm 91:14-15 NLT\nHe is worth it! When we face the challenges to determine if we will follow Him, remember we\u2019re exchanging the temporary for the eternal.\n\u201cHe is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.\u201d \u2013 Jim Elliot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.throng.co.nz/tag/beauty-and-the-geek-uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CI3JHJ6B46CKTKUG36LDJ72SDT4WF7A5", "length": 752, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.throng.co.nz", "title": "Beauty And The Geek UK Archives \u2022 Throng", "raw_content": "Beauty And The Geek UK Premiere\nVIBE \u2013 Saturdays from 2 January, 5.40pm\nCelebrate the beauty and the geek in all of us\u2026 this time with a British accent. Blooming brilliant!\nAs in the US version, the contestants are partnered into Beauty/Geek teams; each will train the other to develop his or her brains or charisma. In a series of hilarious contests, the incredibly hot women go head to head in a battle of smarts, while the troop of genius guys compete to prove who can be the coolest, hippest and sexiest. The team most successful in this transformation will share a massive cash prize. With endearing comedy, Beauty And The Geek UK will prove that everyone has the power to change\u2026 with a sense of humour, hard work and a little help from a friend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1813582-closed-brooklyn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6IG76LUE6IS6XMOPR5S7YLZ6XLY7LWA4", "length": 354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ticketfly.com", "title": "CLOSED \u2013 Tickets \u2013 Baby\u2019s All Right \u2013 Brooklyn, NY \u2013 January 21st, 2019 | Ticketfly", "raw_content": "Closed was founded in 1986. At that time, the group was made up of two components: Gabriel and Olga Tint\u00f3. In the 90s, Olga decided to engage in another occupation, but Gabriel remained in the music world and until now, has been working on various musical projects. In 1999 Elisabet Perera joined Closed.\nMonday, January 21 \u00b7 12:00 PM at Baby's All Right", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 1628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tnpp.org/2010/08/international-medical-corps-responding.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4M76WTQ72XVZG473THT75KXL4Q2WEGIX", "length": 3187, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tnpp.org", "title": "The NonProfit Press: International Medical Corps Responding to Mass Sexual Violence in Congolese Village", "raw_content": "International Medical Corps Responding to Mass Sexual Violence in Congolese Village\nInternational Medical Corps is responding to an incident of mass sexual violence perpetrated by armed groups over the course of four days in a remote village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. So far, at least 150 women are believed to have been targeted.\nThe incident began when armed men entered a local village, urging the population not to flee by convincing them that they were only there to find food. However, after dark another group of armed men reportedly arrived, and over the next four days the armed actors raped women throughout the area. Nearly all reported rapes were described as having been perpetrated by two-six armed men, often taking place in front of the women\u2019s children and husbands. Large numbers of women reported being physically beaten before the sexual assaults, and some reported abuse of babies who were forcibly removed from their arms. The perpetrators simultaneously pillaged the entire village and smaller neighboring villages, before leaving.\nAs soon as the security situation permitted humanitarian intervention, International Medical Corps deployed an emergency response team to provide care for survivors. Along with local government health officials, International Medical Corps began transferring severe cases to a local health center in order to provide life-saving medical support and psychological first aid. To respond to a constant stream of injured locals returning from displacement in the forest, International Medical Corps immediately set-up a mobile clinic in the village.\nAlthough post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) kits for preventing HIV were immediately available at the International Medical Corps clinic, only two survivors had arrived at the health center within 72 hours of sexual assault, the timeframe during which PEP for HIV may be administered. For survivors who sought services within 120 hours of sexual assault, emergency contraception (EC) was provided. Survivors were also provided presumptive treatment for sexually transmitted infections, as well as wound care.\nInternational Medical Corps also sent psychologists to begin addressing the community\u2019s psychosocial needs, and teams will follow-up with socioeconomic reintegration activities for survivors and other affected and vulnerable people.\nInternational Medical Corps has worked to meet the emergency health needs of conflict-affected populations in eastern DRC since 1999. Support in the Walikale Health Zone is funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, making vital PEP kits and other supplies and drugs available to survivors. USAID is also funding International Medical Corps on a five-year project addressing sexual and gender-based violence, entitled Care, Assess, Safety, and Empowerment (CASE), which will enable further medical, psychosocial, legal, and reintegration support to affected communities. Working through its government counterpart at the Ministry of Health and the Central Health Office of Walikale, International Medical Corps is supporting 41 health centers overwhelmed with IDPs and vulnerable populations in Walikale Health Zone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 8929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.treastblog.com/2015/02/i-heart-tacos.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CR65KLA5VFNSA6PO2CU5HXUWXW4SDKXR", "length": 1030, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.treastblog.com", "title": "I Heart Tacos [Eat] - Treast | Irasema Ortiz", "raw_content": "Torchy's Tacos has recently opened its first location in San Antonio. As I heard they were \u201cdamn good\u201d I decided to be the judge of it.\nLet me tell you that I consider myself a taco expert, (since I grew up in Mexico) and these are not your regular Mexican tacos, they are more like Tex-Mex. Torchy's is very unique, so if you want to try something different and delicious this is your taco place. They also, offer a delicious green chili queso that comes with chips, you MUST try it. It's amazing!\nMy taco order consisted of \u201cThe Crossroads\u201d [smoked beef brisket with grilled onions, jalape\u00f1os, cilantro, jack cheese and avocado, served with tomatillo sauce on a fresh corn tortilla] and \"The Republican\" [grilled jalape\u00f1o sausage, shredded cheese and pico de gallo, served with poblano sauce and on a fresh corn tortilla].\nThis restaurant has captivated my heart and my palate. I will definitely go back very soon!\nTorchy's is located at 999 E. Basse Road San Antonio, TX 78209\nFor more information please visit torchystacos.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trianglehomeremodeling.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JGTRCFOEPQIUNGHV3HU6YJWSZBATM53J", "length": 229, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.trianglehomeremodeling.com", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "From home remodeling to repair and restoration we're here to help you every step of the way.\nTriangle Home Remodeling has been around since 2010, so we really mean it when we say we're here to help you.\nRemodel - Repair - Restore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tribune242.com/news/2019/jan/25/meditation-preparing-pray/?lifestyle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6HOS4U43GXUIZJQDIUBI6OUKQNTH4U6F", "length": 4586, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.tribune242.com", "title": "Meditation Preparing to pray | The Tribune", "raw_content": "As we continue to lay a firm prayer foundation, there are scriptures that are very helpful in priming the pump of our prayers. Let us consider a few:\nPrayers of petition and praise are found throughout the Bible. Psalm 67 is one of the shorter psalms that remind us of the great God we have: \u201cGod, be merciful to us and bless us; look on us with kindness, so that the whole world may know your will; so that all nations may know your salvation.\u201d\nCommunal prayer may be found in several locations. Solomon\u2019s prayer is long and the latter part speaks to the sins of the people and their exile as punishment, asking God to forgive them when they repent: \u201cWhen your people sin against you \u2014 and there is no one who does not sin \u2014 and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away, listen to your people\u2019s prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O LORD. (1 Kings 8:46-47, GNT)\nProphetic prayer speaks of what is to come as relayed by God: \u201cThen God said, \u2018Mortal man, go to the people of Israel and say to them whatever I tell you to say\u2026none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant. Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are. I will make you as firm as a rock, as hard as a diamond; don\u2019t be afraid of those rebels.\u2019 \u201c (Ezekiel 3: 4, 8-9 GNT)\nHealing prayers are found in many books of the Bible. One such example is in Mark 9:25, 28-29 GNT: \u201cJesus noticed that the crowd was closing in on them, so he gave a command to the evil spirit. \u2018Deaf and dumb spirit,\u2019 he said, \u2018I order you to come out of the boy and never go into him again...After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, \u2018Why couldn\u2019t we drive the spirit out?\u2019 \u2018Only prayer can drive this kind out,\u2019 answered Jesus; \u2018nothing else can.\u2019 \u201c\nPreaching that results in an outpouring of prayer and praise is recorded in Acts 10:44-45 GNT: \u201cWhile Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening to his message. The Jewish believers who had come from Joppa with Peter were amazed that God had poured out his gift of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles also.\u201d\nEmpowering prayer is used to send off the disciples or other special moments in the life of the church. Acts 13:2-3 GNT provides us with one such example: \u201cWhile they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, \u2018Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, to do the work to which I have called them.\u2019 They fasted and prayed, placed their hands on them, and sent them off.\u201d\nAgonising prayer is graphically described in the scene from the Garden of Gethsemane serving as a model for us as we struggle to embrace God\u2019s will in our lives: \u201cHe went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, \u2018My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want.\u2019\u201d (Mt 26: 39 GNT)\nFamily prayer takes the form of the \u201cOur Father\u201d prayer which is usually memorised from early childhood when raised in a christian family.\nPastoral prayers are offered for the people of God and unbelievers: \u201cFor this reason I fall on my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its true name. I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves, and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, so that you, together with all God\u2019s people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ\u2019s love. Yes, may you come to know his love\u2014although it can never be fully known\u2014and so be completely filled with the very nature of God.\u201d (Ephesians 3: 14-19 GNT)\nIntercessory prayer is our gift to any and everyone to be used anywhere at any time: \u201cDo all this in prayer, asking for God\u2019s help. Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up; pray always for all God\u2019s people. And pray also for me, that God will give me a message when I am ready to speak, so that I may speak boldly and make known the gospel\u2019s secret. Paul asks the Ephesians to pray for him as well.\u201d (Ephesians 6:18-19).\nMay you find yourself willing and able to pray in every situation. Allow the Bible to teach you what to say.\nMeditation - Without wrinkle or spot\nPrayer before the polls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.truthmagazine.com/must-i-be-a-member-of-the-church-of-christ-to-be-saved", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X45VY6TZOO3227K6PTLP6F7BYY7EHCAP", "length": 8391, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.truthmagazine.com", "title": "Must I Be A Member of the Church of Christ to Be Saved? \u2014 Truth Magazine Online", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archive Contents / Must I Be A Member of the Church of Christ to Be Saved?\nMust I Be A Member of the Church of Christ to Be Saved?\nAny way we affirm the above title, we make the majority of our religious friends and neighbors angry. We must then explain to them that we believe basically the same thing they do, and that is, that one must please God to be saved. The problem then is a matter of understanding what pleasing God requires. Many people want God to be pleased with whatever they want to do.\nWe Must Obey God!\nAdam and Eve didn't obey God and brought physical death to mankind besides being driven from the Garden of Eden. The people of Noah's day didn't obey God and He sent the flood to destroy them. The cities of the plains were destroyed because of their ungodliness. Jesus Christ came and suffered the cruel death of the cross because people were lost - in need of salvation. \"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins\" (Matt. 1:21). \"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God\" (Rom. 3:23). \"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord\" (Rom. 6:23).\nSome will read Ephesians 2:8-9 and conclude that man has nothing to do to be saved. They should read the next verse very carefully. \"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them\" (Eph. 2:8-10). We are created unto good works. Are we to ignore what we are created unto? Surely, we have something to do. \"But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness\" (Rom. 6:17-18). Why was God thanked? When were they made free from sin? When did they become servants of righteousness? Everything is dependent upon obedience. If they had not obeyed, would God have been thanked? If they had not obeyed, would they have been free from sin or servants of righteousness? If we refuse to do what God says, we refuse His grace and therefore cannot be saved. \"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works\" (Tit. 2:11-14).\nHow Many Churches Are There?\nAccording to the federal government records, there are more than thirteen hundred (1,300) different religious groups in the United States of America. That simply means that there are more than thirteen hundred (1,300) different doctrines being taught in the United States of America. But God gave only one Bible which is His word unto man today.\nHow many churches does the Bible, the Word of God, authorize? Jesus said that He was going to build one. \"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it\" (Matt. 16:18). Jesus did not say \"churches\" but \"church.\" The body and the church are one-and-the-same-thing. \"And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all\" (Eph. 1:22-23). \"And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence\" (Col. 1:18). There is one body. \"But now are they many members, yet but one body\" (1 Cor. 12:20). \"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling\" (Eph. 4:4). Since there is \"one body\" and the church and body are the same thing, then there is one church authorized of God. Men have many churches as is evidenced everywhere, but God has only one.\nWhat Is The Purpose Of The One Church?\nIt is the blood purchased organization for the saving of souls. It was purchased by the blood of Christ. \"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood\" (Acts 20:28). Its purpose must be very important for it to be purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ Himself. The purpose is plainly set forth in Ephesians 5:23, 25-27, 29-30. \"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body . . . Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish . . . For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.\" Christ is the head of the church. Christ is the Savior of the church. The church is subject to, or in subjection to Christ. Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it: therefore one must be a part of the church in order for Christ to have given Himself for that individual. He did this that he might sanctify (set aside for a special purpose) and cleanse it to Himself, a glorious church without spot or wrinkle.\nPeople continue to cry out: \"I can be saved and not be a member of any church.\" They certainly can be saved without being a member of any man made church. But the Bible says that God adds the saved to the church. \"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls . . . Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved\" (Acts 2:41, 47). God makes no,mistakes in record keeping; therefore if an individual is saved, he is in the church you read about in the Bible.\nHow Does One Become A Member Of That Blood Bought, Christ Saved, Sanctified Church?\nLook at the cases of conversion in the book of Acts. People heard the gospel, believed the gospel, repented of their sins, made known their faith in Jesus Christ and were baptized in water as heaven commands, for the remission of sins. Those who were saved (those who obeyed from the heart, Rom. 6:17), were added to the Lord's church.\n\"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin\" (Rom. 6:3-6). Notice that baptism is into Jesus Christ, that it is into His death; and then one is raised to walk in newness of life. The newness of life comes after one receives remission of sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Pet. 3;21). Being baptized into Jesus Christ or into his death (Rom. 6:3-6) is the same as being baptized into the one body. \"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many . . . But now are they many members, yet but one body\" (1 Cor. 12:12-14, 20). Remember one body is the church (Eph. 1: 22-23; Col. 1:18).\nGod adds the saved to His church. One must do what God says in order to be saved. The church, that you read about in the Bible, and obedience are inseparable in God's plan. Yes, one must be a member of the church of Christ in order to be saved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 9219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.truthmagazine.com/new-paper-on-evidences", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:03Z", "digest": "sha1:M3DKXDTY3OLRTA3QMFRRFVXQ3ROCRZKR", "length": 1756, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.truthmagazine.com", "title": "New Paper on Evidences \u2014 Truth Magazine Online", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archive Contents / New Paper on Evidences\nNew Paper on Evidences\nBy Edward Fudge\nReaders of Truth Magazine are well aware of the struggle today between faith and doubt, belief and disbelief, of those who accept the trustworthiness of Scripture and those who scorn it as a human book. If you do not already know of Facts For Faith, you will want to.\nFacts For Faith is published by Brother Gordon Wilson, now preaching for the Spring and Blaine church in St. Louis. He is author of several books and study booklets on Christian evidences. In 1966 he debated the national president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. His first editorial in January Facts for Faith gave this purpose for the paper:\nThe emphasis.., will be on what is usually called \"the evidences of Christianity.\" It will be written, for the most part, on the level of the average member of the church.., so that it will not be too technical to be of use to college undergraduates, or even to those who have had no college experience. Of course, there will be room for the occasional more advanced and scholarly articles.\nIt is hoped that our discussions of the ~existence and nature of God; the divine origin of the Bible; the deity of Jesus; and the supernatural origin of Christianity, will be such that parents and teachers can employ them in preparing their youngsters for the attacks on their faith which will be encountered as they grow older.\nFacts For Faith is attractive, readable and absolutely true to the Book. If you are a preacher, Bible teacher, parent, college or high-school student, or simply a concerned Christian, you will enjoy and profit from Facts FOR FAITH, 6316 Pernod, St. Louis, Mo., 63139\nTRUTH MAGAZINE XIV; 50, p. 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.truthmagazine.com/willis-carrell-discussion-second-affirmative-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BHJ3SZKWXHSDFF2RUV3VU7NNB6OUYC46", "length": 16826, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.truthmagazine.com", "title": "Willis-Carrell Discussion, Second Affirmative \u2014 Truth Magazine Online", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archive Contents / Willis-Carrell Discussion, Second Affirmative\nWillis-Carrell Discussion, Second Affirmative\nBy William L. Carrell\nRESOLVED: That it is in harmony with New Testament teaching for a congregation or congregations to take money from their treasuries and send it to a corporate home (such as Mid-Western, Potter, Shults-Lewis, Maude Carpenter, Lubbock, etc.) which is organized for the purpose of providing a home for orphaned or forsaken children.\n36. Benevolence characterizes nearly every page of the New Testament. \"If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink\" (Rom. 12:20). Jesus Himself is characterized as one \"who went about doing good.\" And He said. \"Whatever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them\" (Matt. 7:12). Would it not seem Wm. L. Carrell strange that He would have established a church which he then forbade to help anyone who does not first subscribe to its teachings?\n37. Yet this is what Bro. Willis teaches. \"I do not know of any scriptural authority or the church to relieve any but saints,\" he writes. In the story of the Good Samaritan there is no indication that the Samaritan first inquired into the religious convictions of the man he helped. In fact Jesus gave the story to answer one who asked, \"Who is my neighbor?\" And it condemns the spirit of exclusiveness which Bro. Willis seems to advocate.\n38. Paul stated that one of the reasons for working is to \"have to give to him that needeth\" (Eph. 4:28). And where in that verse or its context do you find that the one \"that needeth\" must be a Christian?\n39. In my first affirmative I asked Bro. Willis to tell us how a church can carry out a benevolent program. I wanted him to tell us of a congregation he knows of, which is caring for orphans AS A CONGREGATION and in a SCRIPTURAL way. He did not give us an example. And why not? It is very easy to condemn, as long as you are not required to give a practical alternative. If the New Testament pattern, as you see it, Bro. Willis, can be carried out in the 20th Century, surely you know of someone who is doing it.\n40. Bro. Willis has tried awfully hard to show that I am maligning him when in fact I am only showing the efforts he is making to dodge the issue. He says that I am \"smarting\" because \"the Christian Church preacher, J. B. Briney used (my) argument first.\" The fact is, however, that all I did was to ask him to explain how he could possible carry out a command of God in which the method of doing it isn't prescribed, unless he uses his own judgment? Say what he will, he cannot get around the fact that he never answered that question!\n41. In this same connection I asked if he recognizes the \"LAW OF INCLUSION,'' which is just as valid as the \"LAW OF EXCLUSION.\" I stated this in my P. 9, \"\u0005 when God commands something and does not specify how to do it, we are left free to use our own best judgment. This is the law of inclusion ....\" I illustrated this by showing that God commanded Noah to build the ark, but left at least some of the minor details of its construction to Noah's discretion.\n42. In his answer to this he wrote, \"He wants to know if I would accept a law of inclusion (p. 8). Certainly I will, if he will give one!\" (The italics are yours!) Well, did give one, Bro. Willis, and in the very place you were reading. You may have missed it in reading it rather hurriedly. (Bro. Willis always tells me how busy he is!) But you can't say that you answered me.\n43. Bro. Willis frequently says he will accept \"general or specific authority.\" But I don't think he knows what these expressions mean. \"GENERAL AUTHORITY\" includes any and every method of carrying out a command which is not specifically excluded by some other command or scriptural principle. \"SPECIFIC AUTHORITY\" excludes everything contrary to what it specifies. These two principles are complementary, merely, opposite sides of the same coin. Bro. Willis recognizes SPECIFIC AUTHORITY, and the law of exclusion. He does not recognize generaL AUTHORTTY and the law of inclusion.\n44. In the illustration about Noah building the ark I posed the problem of how he would determine whether to use wooden pegs or nails since God did not specify either. He dodged this question, however, by supposing that I would have built a second ark. He effectively demolished this imaginary second ark. BUT YOU DIDN\u0012T ANSWER MY SECOND QUESTION. Unless he is willing to deal with legitimate criticisms, and will offer something more than evasions, I fail to see any good coming from this discussion.\nThe Missionary Society\n45. Bro. Willis begs me to argue with him about the missionary society. He lists 16 points of supposed similarity between the missionary society and the children's homes. He quotes a number of brethren to the effect that they are similar and holds out again the challenge to argue missionary societies with him. Why can't he show what is wrong with a children's home on the basis of scripture? Why must it be proven wrong because it is supposedly like something else, which is wrong!\n46. I could enumerate at least sixteen points of similarity between a man and an ape\". (And evolutionists use such \"evidence'' to \"prove\" that man is related to the ape.) But if resemblance does not prove relationship in the evolutionist's case, it does not prove it in Bro. Willis' case either. Sixteen points or sixty points of resemblance do not, in and of themselves, prove that the missionary society and the children's home are the same.\n47. But Bro. Willis wants to argue missionary societies. \"Anything he says is wrong with the missionary society, I can show also to be wrong with his benevolent society,\" he writes. \"Want to try me on that, Brother Carrell?\" Well, let's see. In the Otey-Briney debate, page 189, the \"BY-LAWS OF THE CAROLINA CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY CONVENTION\" are quoted. They read in part as follows:\n\"No.1. For insubordination to the authority of the Convention as regards devising ways and means for the spread of the gospel, ministers, individual members and congregations shall be required to answer to the convention.\n\"No. 2. Any action of a church, minister or individual member contrary to the deliberations of the Convention shall be considered disorderly.\n\"No. 3. In order to pass upon questions of disorder, a committee of three shall be chosen by the offending congregation, minister or individual member, and three others chosen by the Board of the Convention.\n\"No. 4. Ministers of the Church of Christ shall be provided with credentials of the Convention, and shall not ask congregations to accept them without said credentials.\"\n\"No. 6. The penalty for insubordination shall be suspension from the Convention; but all possible moderation shall be used in deciding questions of insubordination.'`\n48. All right, Bro. Willis. I CONSIDER THE ABOVE QUOTED BY-LAWS CONTRARY TO CLEAR SCRIPTURAL TEACHING. You promised that anything I show wrong with the missionary society you will show to be wrong with the children's homes. This was your idea, not mine. Please point out to us a corporate home, such as those in our proposition, which claims authority to TRY churches, preachers, and members. Find a home which claims authority to commission preachers, and refuses recognition to those not so commissioned. Maybe then your points of similarity will have some bearing on the question we are discussing\n49. You quoted Bro. Reuel Lemmons in the Sept. 20, 1967 Firm Foundation as saying, \"While there may be some slight differences between separate corporations operated under Boards of Trustees and the Missionary Society, the similarities between the two are entirely too great to ignore.\" But this same Bro. Lemmons in the March 2, 1965 issue of Firm Foundation, an issue devoted entirely to the Tipton Home, wrote eloquently concerning the needs of this fine home, and ended with the words, \"We could wish that every congregation would send a liberal contribution now, and that you would put the Tipton Home in your budget for at least the next three years while this work is going on'' (the work of replacing worn-out buildings).\n50. It is one thing to recognize the danger of abuse. And that's exactly what Bro. Lemmons was discussing in the place you quoted. It is quite another thing to use such warning to condemn the whole system. The Bible itself warns against elders lording it over the flock. But it does not mean it is wrong to have elders. In the editorial you quoted Bro. Lemmons criticizes extremists who would put even the church itself under a \"board of directors.\" He has not reversed himself concerning the scripturalness of children's homes.\nIndividual vs. Congregational Responsibility\n51. Bro. Willis frequently resorts to a supposed distinction between congregational responsibility and individual responsibility when his theories are pressed by an inconvenient scripture. He uses 1 Timothy 5:16 to \"prove\" a distinction between the two: \"If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged, that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.\"\n52. Let us examine this scripture and its implications. In Gal. 6:2 Paul wrote, \"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ,\" and a few verses further, \"For every man shall bear his own burden.\" Each is to bear his own burden. And yet, we are to be ready to help another bear his burden when necessary. No rigid set of rules is given or can be given to cover each and every case we might have to decide on.\n53. 1 Tim. 5:16 is a case in which this principle (Gal. 6) is applied. The instruction is to the individual believer. He is to assume his own responsibility and not to put it off on his brethren. This verse does not refer to a supposed difference in kind of obligation between the church and the individual. It does not forbid the church to support widows. It merely teaches the individual not to put his responsibility, which he is able to bear, off on to his brethren. And it would apply equally well to the lazy person who put his own personal responsibility off on to another INDIVIDUAL (not congregation).\n54. Thus in 1 Timothy 5:16 Paul does not teach any ESSENTIAL differences in obligation between the individual and the congregation, except in those matters which obviously apply to a certain CLASS of people in the church. \"Children, obey your parents in the Lord...\" applies to children. \"Husbands, love your wives'' applies to husbands. \"Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands\" applies to wives. 1 Timothy 5:16 applies to the believer who has a widow (obviously one which is his primary obligation because of closer relationship). But where all Christians bear an EQUAL responsibility toward a command of God, then it is the obligation of the whole congregation, and can be supported from their common fund. I confess this seems so obvious to me that I don't see how it could be made any plainer. When all members come equally under the command to care for orphans, then that care can be paid for from the common treasury.\nCan the Church Buy Song Books?\n55. Bro. Willis applies arbitrary rules of interpretation, and ignores the above arguments when he fixes his distinctions between what an individual Christian is allowed to do and what the congregation is allowed to do. Notice the fix he gets into when his same reasoning is applied in other areas. Can a congregation scripturally use money from its treasury to buy song books? Let us examine the scriptures.\n56. All scriptures on singing in worship are addressed to individuals. \"Speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord\" (Eph. 5:10). \"\u0005teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord\" (Col. 3:16; see also Heb. 2:12); \"in the midst of the congregation will I sing praise unto thee\" (individual) and 1 Cor. 14:15, \"I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also\" (individual).\n57. All these scriptures speak of INDIVIDUAL singing. Now we recognize that song books are a legitimate inference from this command. But since the command is to individuals, by what logic does Bro. Willis infer that the CONGREGATION, through its treasury, should buy the song books? Perhaps he will tell me he does not think a congregation can legitimately purchase song books. But if he thinks it can, will he not then agree that what is commanded of each and every individual in the congregation is commanded of the whole congregation, and can therefore be carried out by them collectively, through their common treasury? If not, why not?\n58. James 1:27 which commands us to \"visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,\" applies to the individual, he says, not to the congregation. For the sake of argument let us grant that. But does it not apply to EACH AND EVERY individual in the church? And if so, does it not apply to the WHOLE church! If we can fulfill the INDIVIDUAL obligation to sing by buying the necessary song books through the common treasury, why Can we not also fulfill the common INDIVIDUAL obligation to support the needy, the widow indeed, and the orphan, in the same way, that is, through the common treasury?\n59. And this is exactly how the early Christians obviously interpreted such commands. The commands concerning giving are addressed to individuals. \"\u0005 let every one of you lay by him in store ...\" (1 Cor. 16:2). Gal. 6 teaches that we are to share in all good things with him that teacheth, and to do good to ALL MEN. (Not just to brethren.) The early church received these commands the same as we do, BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY COULD CARRY THEM OUT EITHER INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY. We do not read of a host of little separate \"funds,\" \"flower funds,\" and the like. (Incidentally where is your scripture for a flower fund?) They understood that what the individual is to do BECAUSE HE IS A CHRISTIAN he can do with other Christians who bear the same obligation toward a good work that he does.\n60. Bro. Willis tries awfully hard to find a contradiction between the ideas that we can scripturally support children's homes and cannot scripturally support the Christian colleges from congregational funds. But is it not clear that a church can support, from its common treasury, that which is the common obligation of each and every member, but that it cannot support from its common treasury that which is primarily the obligation of parents? True, every Christian is to some extend concerned with Christian education. But then too, every Christian in the congregation I attend is or should be concerned that I feed and clothe my children properly. But this is primarily my obligation, not theirs.\n61. When Bro. Willis dismisses James 1:27 as applying only to the individual, he winds up saying that A CHURCH CANNOT SCRIPTURALLY PRACTICE PURE RELIGION. While an individual Christian can help either orphans of saints or of sinners, he says the church is limited to helping only the orphans of saints, even though neither knows his right hand from his left!\n62. You ask if I believe in limited or unlimited congregational benevolence. \"As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith\" (Gal. 6:10). That sounds rather unlimited to me, doesn't it to you? And it even fits Bro. Willis' definition of a congregational command since it is written in the plural! Also the Bible says, \"If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink\" (Matt. 7:12). The command to evangelize is unlimited, isn't it, Bro. Willis? Why not let our benevolence too be as unlimited as the Lord has shown us it should be?\n63. In this article I have dealt with the following matters which I would like to have Bro. Willis deal with.\n1. Do you know of a present-day congregation of the church of Christ which is carrying on a congregational program of supporting orphans in a way you consider scriptural!\n2. Do you recognize and accept the \"law of inclusion\" as I have explained it in this article, (p. 41-44) and in my previous article?\n3. What do you mean by \"general authority?\"\n4. Do you know of any children's home operated by our brethren, which claim authority over churches and individuals such as that claimed in the By-laws of the North Carolina Christian Missionary Convention, quoted in my p. 47?\n5. Is it true that what God has commanded of each and every member of the church He has commanded of the whole church?\n6. Can a congregation scripturally purchase song books to carry out God's command to individuals to sing?\n7. Do you believe in limited or unlimited congregational benevolence?\nTRUTH MAGAZINE XIII: 4, pp. 2-5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 17591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.turkishpoliticsinaction.com/2010/03/benhabib-reconciling-identity.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:52Z", "digest": "sha1:B3U3VBUG7WI6Y3VCUPVJGLPRY2G27S7Y", "length": 2528, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.turkishpoliticsinaction.com", "title": "Turkish Politics in Action: Benhabib: Reconciling Identity", "raw_content": "In a 2009 article penned by Seyla Benhabib, the prominent political theorist touches upon many of the grand level questions encompassing Turkey's admission into the European Union. Foremost among these is what Benhabib identifies as \"the instability of all forms of identity.\" Rather than a clash of civilizations, which reduces identity to opposing cultural hegemonies, Benhabib alludes to both Turkey and the European Union's discomfort with difference -- with the kind of heterogenity that is true to the historical and present realities of the people living within both political entities. Though some citizens of Turkey and the European Union have concerned themselves with efforts to protect a core culture or identity, Benhabib writes optimistically that Turkey seems to be opening up in terms of looking back to what she calls its \"authoritarian nationalist heritage.\" (See Ferhat Kentel's recent interview with the Institute for Policy Studies' Balkans Project.) Benhabib seems less sure about Europe, which she writes \"is attempting to stabilize its momentous political experiment by conjuring up the ideals of a 'core Europe' and the 'European nation,' Judaeo-Christian values, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and the like.\"\nIbrahim Kalin takes up some of these same questions in a piece he authored last week on conviviencia in Muslim Spain. From Kalin:\nIn a world of diminishing certainties and increasing chaos, we need a \u201cpresiding idea,\u201d a central value system around which the world\u2019s misplaced resources can be mobilized to inculcate understanding, tolerance and humility. The most difficult challenge of our age is to hold on to one\u2019s own belief system while respecting the right of others to have different views. Put simply, it is the challenge of pluralism without giving up on truth. Sacrificing the truth in the name of pluralism creates a sense of loss which in turn leads to more reactionary positions. Furthermore, it invites moral relativism. Defending one\u2019s truth to the exclusion of others lands us in oppression and violence. It creates epistemic hegemony, which easily turns into violent extremism.\nI am not sure if \"truth\" is the correct operative word here, but indeed, eschewing relativism while recognizing a fluidity of identities (for me, not just within a country, but within a culture and within oneself) is the perhaps the most important project of the twenty-first century. Turkey's future is key to its success.\nLabels: European Union, Minorities, Nationalism, Political Identity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 15783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.turkofamerica.com/index.php/others/life-style/item/2545-bozkir-eu-not-in-position-to-refuse-turkey-s-membership-bid", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCEBN55FRMCYIBRWJTNR2Z2AYYOL6O5B", "length": 2462, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.turkofamerica.com", "title": "Bozkir: EU Not In Position to Refuse Turkey's Membership Bid", "raw_content": "Bozkir: EU Not In Position to Refuse Turkey's Membership Bid\nMinister of EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozk\u0131r has claimed that the EU is in need of Turkey with increasing urgency, saying, \"The EU does not have the luxury of refusing Turkey's membership.\" At a reception on Thursday organized by Turkish citizens and academics who study in Washington and at the Turkish embassy there, Bozk\u0131r spoke about Turkey's EU bid in a speech and informed participants about laws that have been enacted during the membership process.\nUnderlining the fact that being a full-member of the EU is among Turkey's strategic purposes, Bozk\u0131r said: \"We maintain this process within great effort for upgrading our standard of life and going into the future with much better conditions. The EU is in need of Turkey more than ever today. Turkey's need for the EU also increases with each passing day. The balance of this need will eventually be found out and Turkey will become a full member of the EU.\"\nBozk\u0131r also stressed the urgency for more negotiations and seeing the big picture in the process. \"Naturally, we have to talk more and enable the EU to see the entire forest rather than the trees. In order to do this, we all exert ourselves. Hopefully we will attain this aim with you.\"\nOn the same day, among his contacts in Washington, Bozk\u0131r also met with Ed Whitfield and Steve Cohen, co-chairs of Congressional Caucus on U.S.-Turkey Relations and Turkish Americans. After the half-hour meeting Bozk\u0131r told the press he was invited to the National Prayer Breakfast on Friday.\nAbout the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Bozk\u0131r said that the false ideas that emerged about Turkey in the U.S. must be removed through better communication between the two sides.\n\"I will have contacts with the chair of the TTIP and address the German Marshall Fund meeting. Naturally, there are some negative opinions that emerged about Turkey in the United States. In order to eliminate these, we have to talk to each other. In this framework, either as the former chair of the Turkish-American Parliamentary Friendship Group or as the current minister of EU affairs, I have meetings with our friends here. Those became very beneficial,\" Bozk\u0131r said. (Daily Sabah, Fatih Isik)\nBozk1r: EU Not In Position to Refuse Turkey?s Membership BidBusiness\nMore in this category: \u00ab UNC-Chapel Hill Alumna Named Ertegun Scholar UNESCO Chair Inaugurated at Kadir Has University \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.turnerarts.org/christywilkins.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HEZ2JVOEFCW3V6VB3J3TYQJQAGUKF5LV", "length": 622, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.turnerarts.org", "title": "ChristyWilkins - TurnerArts", "raw_content": "TurnerArts Gallery\nChristy (Turner) Wilkins\nCalifornia Central Coast artist Christy Wilkins has been creating works of art for as long as she can remember. Her pieces are often said to have a whimsical style to them. She works mainly in acrylics and colored pencil to create paintings and drawings viewing her perspective of the world. Much of her work has a coastal feel as she has a love for the ocean. Recently, she has been working on plein air painting coastal landscapes. She works occasionally on larger pieces, but for the past four years she has been painting small pieces of art on colorful recycled book covers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 200.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tv.com/people/len-carlson/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QTUEZ7N2WPS6APUVIMIB4IMIWZCBD2KJ", "length": 70, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tv.com", "title": "Len Carlson News - TV.com", "raw_content": "Looks like we don't have any news for Len Carlson. Go to the news hub.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.twobearsfarm.com/2017/02/strange-guitar-happenings.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YFIKJKOBZDNMGRL367PMZAHGSV4KKQRP", "length": 7552, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.twobearsfarm.com", "title": "Two Bears Farm and the Three Cubs: Strange Guitar Happenings", "raw_content": "Strange Guitar Happenings\nI was sitting on the couch reading a book.\nThe boys were at school.\nIt was a milder day than usual, so even the cats were outside.\nI'd done my chores for the morning and was deep in a novel when the guitar on the wall across from me plucked two notes.\nOne right after the other.\nNo boys.\nNo stinkbugs.\nI googled for scientific explanations. Was it the atmosphere? We'd had a lot of rain. I didn't find any logical answers.\nI remembered my maternal grandfather always used to tell a story of attending the funeral of Uncle Bill and hearing a banjo play 2-3 notes at the wake. I asked my mom if this was one of his tall tales. She said no, that she was there too when that happened.\nSo I actually have a genetic heritage of hearing guitars play notes on their own. It's in my genes.\nHow's that for scientific explanations?\nReaders, you got any similar strange happenings to tell me?\nA stink bug flew into my guitar once and hit a couple strings but as I remember the were close to the same time not two separate ones. It could depend on what angle the bug hits.\nI am reluctant to mention voices because you know what they say about hearing voices. But here goes anyway.\nYears ago my husband and I were looking for an apartment to rent. We found one in a beautiful old Victorian house and the price was right. While we were looking at it, I heard a voice yell at me saying, \"Get out! Get out now!\" I grabbed my husband and ran. Out the door. In the car and away as fast as I could. Two or three days later there was an article in the local newspaper about some sort of weird happenings at that house, having to do with drugs and rituals. I have always been able to sense danger, but that was the one and only time I literally heard a warning.\nI am an intuitive psychic so I am used to hearing all sorts of things, and anything considered 'out of the ordinary' does not surprise me. Whoever played those first notes also played these notes, maybe to let you know that they are still with you and wishing you well.\nYour explanation is as good as any I think.... Lots of times we cannot explain weird things happening. I always say that our 'angels' are trying to say something to us. Maybe that guitar needs someone to play it..... ha\nAfter my brother had been gone for about a year, one night I heard him say \"I'm not really dead, Sally\". If that was my imagination or something else, I felt better after that because my grief had been long and difficult.\nWell, not sure, I think it's cool and a bit scary at the same time. One of my weird happenings was as a child and while sleeping in my bedroom upstairs, I heard my sister's rocking chair creak, so I ran down stairs to check it out. But mine was probably related to the fact that she had recently passed away, and they say we sometimes hear our loved ones being with us, because of a need inside of us. Our minds can play some pretty mysterious and cool things that's very true!\nOh my gosh! Did it really give you the creeps? I guess none of the strings had broken? I'm also wondering if a string could have just loosened? But of course that's not as good of a story. This is just so creepy!! Now you have a really spooky family ghost story.\n...somethings can't be explained.\nWell, I think this is pretty interesting. Can't say I have had something similar happen, though.\nOoh, poltergeists! LOL. I don't have things supernatural happen but my daughter is sensitive and has \"seen\" ghostly things. Only she didn't literally see them, she sensed something and pictured it, if that makes sense.\nBut like Ginny said, the strings may have just loosened. They are under tension, after all.\nThe Twilight Zone....:)\nGreat story! I think it was Uncle Bill.\nI have woke feeling someone next to my legs and live alone. I call it my ghost dog, but probably was a pillow.\nI believe in this sort of thing happening.\nWhen I was in 4th grade a friend of mine passed away. He had heart problems, had surgery, and didn't make it. I swore he showed up in my bedroom. It totally could have been my imagination, since I was a kid.\nAnother time I heard plop plop plop on the floor in the kitchen. I was convinced it was a ghost, or an intruder. It ended up that the ice in the fridge was stuck in the ice maker. It had melted enough that they plopped down.\nOf course, when home alone....\nthat gives me the chills. I've smelled smoke off and on and no one else smells it. I've been smelling it since around 2007. I'm going to ask my new doctor if it could be related to my health issues. I smell it the most just before falling asleep.\nWhen I was a little boy, we visited my grandma. She lived in a big old wood house that was built in the 1920's as a boarding house. My dad sent me out to the screened in porch to get my grandma her fan. When I got out there, a rocking chair was rocking all by itself.\n\"There are more things in heaven and earth....\"\nWow, I love reading this post and everyone's answers. My husband at one time owned an upright bass. One of the strings snapped off with force while we were watching TV; his explanation was that the strings were old...\nWhen I was a teenager staying overnight at my best friend's house, we were doing our homework when her radio suddenly turned on... I found it creepy, but heck, at least is didn't happen in my house!\nI believe in ghosts. I've had other experiences but thankfully nothing really scary. I do think my deceased dad and grandmother will sometimes send me messages of comfort...sometimes through vivid dreams of them and sometimes through signs, like rainbows, that appear when I think of them... I should write a story about this sometime... Maybe someone was trying to say hello or give you a sign, or maybe the strings are old :)\nAround here we attribute that sort of thing to Sukey Short, our local haint (ghost). Not the most scientifically satisfactory answer, but that would definitely be my first thought if it happened here. :)\nHuh. Interesting. My first thought was \"a ghost?\" ;) Since it's a wood instrument, maybe it was just the wood reacting to a change the room's humidity (or lack thereof)? I know Liv's violin is very sensitive to changes in the room's humidity levels and (seemingly minor)temperature temperature changes.\nMusic is in the ear of the beholder!!!!!!\nI hear sounds sometimes - they usually pan out to be mice!\nIsn't this mild weather fabulous - we actually dined on the outdoor patio of a neighborhood restaurant for lunch yesterday - no coats or jackets required - just a treat for February!\noooh my...I have no further explanations but I guess it's a bit scary, at least for me :)\nI did have an appliance turn on by itself one time. But a musical instrument is so much more intriguing and personal.\nI think it sets the scene for a book. There's a story to be told there...don'tcha' think? :)\nMy uncle, who worked on cars in a workshop in the back of his house, passed away. He had been in a nursing home for a long time and his wife had moved to town a couple of years prior to his death. On the day of his funeral, the grinder out in his workshop started running. The house is out in the country, but the nearest neighbor heard it and called the family. I guess he had some unfinished work to get done.\nMy mom was still doing laundry for several months after her death. The washer would come on by itself.\nI like to think these are signs from our loved ones that they are okay.\nGood gracious! I wouldn't know what to think about that except maybe since it hs happened before it could be spirit event.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 11267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/conferences/conference-archive/rethinking-diversity-challenges-for-equality-in-europe-and-new-responses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JXXLUROJSDKEGBTZAD34PMVSIASA2LCS", "length": 1991, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.unitedagainstracism.org", "title": "Rethinking Diversity \u2013 Challenges for Equality in Europe and New Responses | UNITED for Intercultural Action", "raw_content": "Algimanta Pabedinskien\u0117\nMinister of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania\nMinister of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania\nMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania\nOn behalf of the the Working Groups Making the Case for Equality: Legal Responses to Discriminatory Practices and Building New Coalitions to Address Challenges Faced by Undocumented Migrants we hereby attach the recommendations for the Lithuanian Presidency.\nThe two sets of recommendations address as follows :\nThe implementation of the principle of equal treatment in the European Union. The drafters of the document \u2013 Roma Integration House and Human Rights Monitoring Institute together with eleven European non-governmental organizations \u2013 call upon the Presidency to facilitate the adoption of the Proposal for a Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.\nThe rights of the undocumented migrants and the EU migration policies. The drafters of the recommendations \u2013 Praxis Community Projects and the Platform for International Cooperation for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) together with ten European non-governmental organizations \u2013 call upon the Presidency to ensure the respect for the rights of all EU residents, regardless of their residence status, in a renewed commitment to smart, sustainable and inclusive Europe.\nThe recommendations were prepared in cooperation with the UNITED for Intercultural Action \u2013 a European network bringing together over 550 civil society organisations active in promoting equality and fighting against racism in 48 European countries.\nThe Working Groups stand ready to assist the Presidency in implementing the proposed recommendations.\nNatalija Bitiukova, Human Rights Monitoring Institute\nLina Vosyli\u016bt\u0117, Roma Integration House\nAlex Sutton, Praxis Community Projects\nLilana Keith, PICUM\nGeert Ates, UNITED for Intercultural Action", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.universalmaritime.com/pages/meet-the-crew/edgar-chun/95", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:5KS7EGPA5MMRVDBBIOH45W2OTILN3T2A", "length": 464, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.universalmaritime.com", "title": "Universal Maritime Motor Yacht Delivery Services Worldwide", "raw_content": "Edgar Chun\nStarted at Universal Maritime in 2009 as crew while studying at University.\nGraduated with a first class honours degree in Marine Studies (Navigation) at The University of Plymouth in 2011.\nHave sailed from a very early age in dinghies then on yachts. Worked in sail training, charters and deliveries of sailing and motor boats for the last 8 years.\nExperience: Over 70,000 NM at sea on a range of different vessels.\nRYA Yacht Master Offshore Commercial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2110", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RGODY7S52FBYIRDASHV6ZJIUUA3Q3BUK", "length": 2250, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.upress.state.ms.us", "title": "Unveiling The Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans", "raw_content": "Unveiling The Muse\nThe Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans\nBy Howard Philips Smith\nForeword by Henri Schindler\n400 pages (approx.), 10 x 12 inches, 628 b&w/color photographs, 27 tables, foreword, glossary, bibliography, index\nThe untold story of a powerful Mardi Gras tradition\nTraditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject. However, few of them, if any, mention gay Carnival krewes or the role of gay Carnival within the larger context of the season. Howard Philips Smith corrects this oversight with a beautiful, vibrant, and exciting account of gay Carnival.\nGay krewes were first formed in the late 1950s, growing out of costume parties held by members of the gay community. Their tableau balls were often held in clandestine locations to avoid harassment. Even by the new millennium, gay Carnival remained a hidden and almost lost history. Much of the history and the krewes themselves were devastated by the AIDS crisis. Whether facing police raids in the 1960s or AIDS in the 1980s, the Carnival krewes always came back each season. A culmination of two decades of research, Unveiling the Muse positions this incredible story within its proper place as an amazing and important facet of traditional Carnival.\nBased on years of detailed interviews, each of the major gay krewes is represented by an in-depth historical sketch, outlining the founders, moments of brilliance on stage, and a list of all the balls, themes, and royalty. Of critical importance to this history is the colorful ephemera associated with the gay tableau balls. Reproductions of never-before-published brilliantly designed invitations, large-scale commemorative posters, admit cards, and programs add dimension and life to this history. Sketches of elaborate stage sets and costumes as well as photographs of ball costumes and rare memorabilia further enhance descriptions of these tableau balls.\nHoward Philips Smith, Los Angeles, California, grew up on a farm in rural Mississippi and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. He began writing about pre-AIDS New Orleans and the gay ball scene during the early 1980s, the so-called Golden Age of Gay Carnival. He lives with his husband and three cats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usadietplan.com/ketogen-pure/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QKPEGCCBYDZU4PABS5GRJ23ZCU7A5UGU", "length": 7790, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.usadietplan.com", "title": "Ketogen Pure - Warning! Must Read Shocking Reviews Before Trial Offer!", "raw_content": "June 9, 2018 June 27, 2018 Author\nIn the twentieth century, more and more people are fighting against the extra pounds. According to some market research, about 50% of Americans are obese or overweight. The hectic life, the lack of time for themselves and the availability of ready food means that the percentage increases year by year. Being physically healthy means living longer, having more energy, feeling alive and in a good mood. But unfortunately, not everyone can fight with excess fat tissue that seems to be really an obstacle not only from the physical point of view but also social. Therefore, products called weight loss have been launched on the market, i.e. natural supplements such as Ketogen Pure that help you lose weight in a healthy and safe way. Through our review, you will find out if these pills really work, how to use it, how much it costs and where to buy it at the best price.\nWhat is Ketogen Pure and How it Works?\nKetogen Pure is a product that falls into the category of food supplements. It is composed of a formulation completely devoid of synthetic ingredients. Its goal is to help the individual lose weight naturally, not by replacing healthy eating and physical activity. This slimming product, therefore, presents itself as a help, an extra gear. It was also designed to combat one of the most hated imperfections by women, cellulite. As promised by the manufacturer, Ketogen Pure acts in many ways. The first point to consider is the reduction of the sense of hunger and the increase of satiety when eating.\nIn addition, the ingredients present in the formulation condition the intake of food, to increase the heat produced by the body which in turn will increase the number of calories burned in a day. The natural ingredients can also improve the muscle mass that is developed with exercise, to have a firm body. It also acts under another point of view, that of the elimination of fat and the regulation of the level of cholesterol present in the blood. So, we can summarize all the functions in five points:\nReduce hunger and increase the sense of satiety\nCholesterol regulation and blood glucose\nElimination of excess fat\nImprovement of muscle mass\nAs we said in the introduction, the focus alga grows in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean bound to the rocks. It has a spectacular resistance, can survive up to two days out of the water thanks to a mucus that secretes to protect it from the sun and therefore from dehydration. It boasts many properties such as: stimulates the thyroid, accelerates the metabolism, counteracts cholesterol and cellulite, promotes intestinal function and calms hunger.\nThanks to the Focus + formulation, slimming patches send satiety signals directly to the brain, thus facilitating the control of appetite and nervous hunger. In addition, it acts on the basal metabolic rate stimulating it, to consume more calories.\nNatural Ingredients for a Truly Effective Product\nThe Ketogen Pure food supplement consists of three main ingredients that help in the weight loss process: saffron, prickly pear, and ginger. Saffron extract is rare, as the plant grows not only in precise locations and its processing is delicate and must only be done by expert hands. This extract is rich in antioxidants, such as anti-inflammatories and bio active\u2019s that promote weight loss. We have three functions: it blocks the digestion of fats, promotes the sense of satiety and the metabolism of glucose and fats.\nPrickly pear is a fruit rich in fiber, perfect to reduce the calories taken and increase the sense of satiety. In addition, the fibers also help to clear the intestine from the waste. The extract of this fruit also helps to reduce the basal blood sugar levels and to stimulate the fecal excretion of fats. Finally, there is ginger, a powerful thermogenic root, rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, capable of promoting a sense of satiety, also helping the digestion process.\nLet\u2019s find out How to Use Ketogen Pure\nKetogen Pure do you know how to use it to make it effective? The pills should be taken twice a day, one in the morning and the other before dinner. They are easily swallowed with a glass of water. The practicality of these pills will allow you to always take them with you, so as not to have any excuse for not dealing with weight loss. The specific dosage for each subject is shown on the product packaging.\nDoes Ketogen Pure have any Side Effects or Contraindications?\nBeing a natural supplement, Ketogen Pure pills will hardly cause side effects or contraindications. Thanks to the all-natural extracts it is easily absorbed and tolerated by the body. It is essential, however, not to increase the dosage in the hope of losing more weight. In this case, in fact, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pains and nausea may occur. It is not recommended for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and adolescents. For these subjects, it is advisable to seek advice from the doctor before using it.\nDoes Ketogen Pure Work or is it the Usual Rip-off?\nThe answer is yes, Ketogen Pure works if you follow a healthy and balanced diet and play sports. It is not important to work out at the gym every day, it takes even thirty minutes of exercise three times a week at home. Thanks to the online internet you can find many video lessons that can help you lose weight. Do not forget that nutrition affects 50% of the weight loss process. Introduce at least two servings a day of whole grains, five portions of fruit and vegetables and drink two liters of water.\nA little like for all weight loss adjuvants, Ketogen Pure also enjoys several opinions, both positive and negative. Everybody reacts differently to a treatment and it is not said that what does not work for a subject is useless for another. Before resigning yourself, we recommend that you try Ketogen Pure for at least a month and test it on your body. The results are obtained already after the first three weeks of treatment.\nIs it a Scam or one of the Usual Hoaxes Found Online?\nThe answer is no, if you follow a proper diet, do some physical activity sessions and adhere to the dosage indicated by the manufacturer. If you do not respect these three points, surely, you will not get satisfactory results. Do not be put off by possible negative reviews, try it and let us know!\nWithout Wasting time, let\u2019s Find Out Immediately Where to Buy\nKetogen Pure is purchased on the manufacturer\u2019s online site. Beware of the possible different ways of sale. Purchasing it is simple, just fill out the form on the website where you will have to indicate name and surname, phone number, shipping address and the packages you want to receive. The package will be sent directly to your home. You can pay online by credit card or by courier.\nKetogen Pure not Available in Pharmacies\nThis weight loss food supplement is not available at the pharmacy, but can only be purchased online at the official website. This limit in the sale allows the product to maintain a perfect quality/price ratio, to guarantee buyers a functional and affordable supplement for everyone.\nHow Much Does Ketogen Pure Cost?\nThe cost of those who order the Ketogen Pure for the first time is equal to 59 dollars to which must be added shipping costs. Periodically on the site, there are very convenient promotions such as pay two receive three packs, free shipping and much more.\nScientific evidence confirmed the efficacy of Ketogen Pure pills. What makes it special are the three main extracts, that of ginger, prickly pear, and saffron that make this Ketogen Pure unique in its kind. The combined action of three different ingredients allows the product to act on all fronts, fighting against excess weight in a completely healthy and natural way! Try it and let us know what you think of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 10148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usapatriotism.org/patriots/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=980", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:34Z", "digest": "sha1:4A5OJZJ4C5IGJ7CYATHLWZHJR32Y3G4M", "length": 6307, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.usapatriotism.org", "title": "PTSD: The Ugly, Raw, Imperfection - USA Patriotism!", "raw_content": "PTSD: The Ugly, Raw, Imperfection\nby Staff Sgt. William Blankenship\n59th Medical Wing Public Affairs\nTucked away in a circle of 1800\u2019s refurbished homes, banging and chiseling sounds pour through the cracks, spilling onto a big front porch hosting a mountain of a man who blocks out the swinging screen door behind him.\nTony Fantasia, the man with the bear paw that could crush someone\u2019s hand, operates a hand-made hobby shop that doubles as an opportunity for a different type of reform ... one for reshaping invisible wounds.\nFormer U.S. Army Sgt. Tony Fantasia sits at his desk surrounded by leatherworking materials at his shop in San Antonio, Texas on June 29, 2018. Working with leather has aided Fantasia\u2019s battle with PTSD that he developed after his deployments to Southwest Asia as a medic. He now runs an outreach program for veterans focusing on various artistic outlets. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Keifer Bowes)\n\u201cWe can do about any type of artwork you can imagine in here,\u201d the former medic said. \u201cIf one of us regular guys can\u2019t do it, I guarantee we know someone who does. Honestly though, this isn\u2019t really about leather or stone or whatever, but this is about help.\u201d\nShortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S., Fantasia found himself deployed to Southwest Asia to set up a medical facility.\n\u201cThings were rough out there then, not that they still aren\u2019t, but it was early sledding,\u201d he said while chuckling about posting up Temper Tents on a slab to serve as their hospital. \u201cI saw things out there that changed me. Things that took\u2026take\u2026some work to get ahold of.\u201d\nThe Army Sgt. recalls his first patient, Neshama, a small malnourished child who was guessed to be between 10 to 12 years old based on the size of his teeth and brought in for a serious skull injury.\nFantasia\u2019s team treated Neshama and gave him a fighting chance, but with a long road to recovery after coming out of his coma.\n\u201cI was with him the whole time, from pick-up to the ER to the OR and through his rehab,\u201d he said with eyes that seemed to travel millions of miles away. \u201cWe put together a makeshift wheelchair and he became part of our team, part of our family.\u201d\nAlmost a year later, Neshama was taken back to his village, along with all of the stuffed animals he had acquired during his months with the team. The village elders dispersed the toys to the other children, causing Neshama to become upset.\n\u201cAs was their way, one of the elders plunked him over the head as a correction for the tantrum,\u201d Fantasia said. \u201cThe blow went through his graft and killed Neshama, our little boy. It was hard to deal with what had happened before I left. Basically like my son dies after we spent almost a year healing him.\u201d\nEmotionally wrecked, Fantasia returned to the states for a little over a year before redeploying to another location to run an emergency room.\n\u201cListen, I\u2019m very humbled and blessed to have served my country,\u201d Fantasia said before starting to tap his head. \u201cBut, I had some things that weren\u2019t right afterward and I wasn\u2019t sure how to really deal with them. It has taken me years to get to where I don\u2019t hate people. I mean years, to get where I don\u2019t avoid them like the plague.\u201d\nShortly after separating from the Army, Fantasia needed a new wallet but didn\u2019t have the cash inside his old one to buy what he wanted. His wife jokingly told him, \u201cjust go out there and make one.\u201d\n\u201cI went out to the store and bought a little leather wallet making kit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt saved my life. Doing leatherwork is the reason I have friends. This outlet is why I have a family still, or a job or anything.\u201d\nFantasia poured all of his time and energy, all the memories of his hands in service member\u2019s bodies, into the mundane task of crafting that wallet.\nFormer U.S. Army Sgt. Tony Fantasia displays the wallet that he attributes saving his life at his shop in San Antonio, Texas on June 29, 2018. Working with leather has aided Fantasia\u2019s battle with PTSD that he developed after his deployments to Southwest Asia as a medic. He now runs an outreach program for veterans focusing on various artistic outlets. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Keifer Bowes)\nIt still sits in his shop full of items that have soaked up his blood, sweat and tears while he traveled through the invisible ailments that accumulated to post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\u201cI\u2019d never done leatherwork before,\u201d he said. \u201cBut through the process of crafting this (beating the wallet on his desk) and many of these items in this building, I came to a place of peace. I finished this ugly, raw, imperfect wallet. You know what though, it functions and that\u2019s metaphor for me.\u201d\nAfter years of improving his craft, Fantasia began inviting others struggling with PTSD to his shop. Many are prior military, but not all of them.\n\u201cI so thoroughly enjoyed stumbling my way through that wallet, I just thought maybe this could help other people too,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had loads of guys come through here and sometimes they stay for a long time and sometimes they come and get what they need and then I don\u2019t hear from them again. That\u2019s fine.\u201d\nFantasia said he doesn\u2019t care what their background is, he just wants to bring together individuals who can share their talent to those who have something to work through.\nThe process of leatherwork, stone carving, metalwork or any other task is just a means to gather people who are struggling and provide an opportunity for them to come out of their shell in a safe place.\n\u201cFor most people who struggle with PTSD, they don\u2019t need difficult,\u201d he said. \u201cLeaving their bedroom can be difficult enough. Simple projects get their senses engaged, that\u2019s what we want to do. Let them smell the leather, feel the stone, hear the sounds of working on stuff, and all of that surrounded by people who understand if they dive under the workbench because something fell on the ground.\u201c\nFantasia said people who struggle with PTSD shouldn\u2019t feel alone and what they are going through isn\u2019t the end.\n\u201cYou may have to continuously work on it just like some of our projects in here, but little by little keep working on it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe beauty isn\u2019t in the finished product, but it\u2019s the imperfections that you work through while you try and get to a better place that gives it meaning.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 8260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.valentine85logisticscenter.com/overview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:JUC3DBZZBQTLCGX65RBO34KBWREUWHWW", "length": 382, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.valentine85logisticscenter.com", "title": "Overview - VALENTINE 85 LOGISTICS CENTER", "raw_content": "Valentine 85 Logistics Center is located at 117 Valentine Industrial Parkway in Pendergrass, Georgia, just north of metro Atlanta. The speculative building is a total of 1,021,000 square feet has multiple access routes to I-85. Valentine 85 Logistics Center was delivered in the first quarter of 2018 and is located on 106 acres, which can be expanded up to 1.5 million square feet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 138.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vblurpage.com/news/2002/0918_2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IXHYQAA4TLU4TKJ57NLEYNX3OVFSSKWD", "length": 2370, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.vblurpage.com", "title": "Blur News - Oasis back Graham in Blur battle - Sep 18, 2002", "raw_content": "Oasis back Coxon\nNOEL GALLAGHER has taken his revenge on DAMON ALBARN for the Britpop battle of 1995 by publicly siding with estranged BLUR member GRAHAM COXON - and NME.COM can exclusively reveal that NOEL and GRAHAM have already met to discuss the former guitarist's future.\nThe Oasis songwriter has long harbored resentment against Damon Albarn, following Blur's victory in the bitter fight for Number One between 'Roll With It' and 'Country House' back in 1995. Now Noel has told NME.COM that he recently met up with Graham, who he believes simply \"snapped\" at Damon's attitude towards Blur.\nIn NME last week, Damon refused to deny that Graham was out of Blur. Since then, he has refused to discuss Graham, commenting only to NME: \"I think there's more important things to consider at the moment \u0096 like imminent war.\" But last week, Noel was outspoken about the falling out between Damon and Graham.\nHe told NME.COM: \"I bumped into him (Graham) the other day. But it's not for me to say, 'cos I've got a lot of time for Graham and it should come from him, not me. If it was the other c---, I'd tell you everything he said 'cos he's a knob. You've got to say this, in Damon Albarn's last couple of interviews he was saying that Blur should be grateful to have him in and it's good for them that he's in Gorillaz and stuff like that, well it's only gonna go one way, innit? You can't be saying things like that to your bandmates you've grown up with. Saying 'well, now that I've done all these things I'm doing you a favour being in this band'.\"\nLiam added: \"They should've split up a long time ago. Are they gonna get another guitarist?\"\nNoel showed his admiration for Graham, telling NME.COM: \"They ain't gonna get another guitarist like him, he's a one-off. You've got to be strong to be a in a band, it takes a lot of tolerance. And I'm sure Graham Coxon's tolerance has just snapped. Because if your singer's saying stuff like he was... unbelievable. If I ever came into the rehearsal rooms and said to this lot, 'Look, it's in your interests I'm in this group', they'd just laugh at me. You'd get an amp on yer 'ead, a kick up the arse and 'see yer later'. Damon Albarn always wanted to be a solo artist anyway, he was always very quick to say 'It's all me, all this is me, Gorillaz is all me'.\"\nFor more on the situation with Blur, see this week's NME, out now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.videocollector.co.uk/black-hole-the/16800", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SCEKWM4AJ2MDDWHZCV5TO3BQQ2DVS3RB", "length": 154, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.videocollector.co.uk", "title": "Black Hole, The (1979)on Walt Disney Home Video (United Kingdom Betamax, VHS videotape)", "raw_content": "\u00a9 1979 Walt Disney Productions\nCast: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy McLoughlin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 127.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wakoweb.com/en/news/2011/03/29/official-results-of-1st-kick-light-european-cup-castelletto-ticino-ita/319/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AWNNS5WSECGONCECZCMJGEFJ2VIGBDAV", "length": 239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wakoweb.com", "title": "OFFICIAL RESULTS OF 1st KICK LIGHT EUROPEAN CUP, Castelletto Ticino (Italy) 13/03 - WAKO", "raw_content": "OFFICIAL RESULTS OF 1st KICK LIGHT EUROPEAN CUP, Castelletto Ticino (Italy) 13/03\nOn March 13th, 2011 the 1st edition of the EUROPEAN CUP of KICK LIGHT took place in Castelletto Ticino (Italy).\nPlease download here all the official results", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.winnrcs.org/why-should-i-join-win", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JLFDZK5M3DCG3GUYF46Y4ALJBKZ7GE76", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.winnrcs.org", "title": "Why Join WiN - WiN", "raw_content": "\"Why Should I Join WiN?\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 1983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wnpr.org/post/you-should-give-opera-listen-its-different-you-may-think-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BJPRRW4A5GWKW2PFYGEUTGCVA6NDXR5G", "length": 1337, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wnpr.org", "title": "You Should Give Opera A Listen. It's Different Than You May Think | Connecticut Public Radio", "raw_content": "Opera has been around for a long time but it never caught on in America like it did in Europe. The big grand opera houses, elaborate sets and performances about gods, courtesans, and kings rode a wave of popularity in the 20th century but no longer resonate for a 21st century audience that has multiple options on how to spend their time.\nOpera has to change - or else.\nAnd it is. Today's operas are tackling contemporary issues with diverse casts in smaller, more intimate theaters and pop-ups that don't require a season ticket to attend. Take a look at Hopscotch Opera or Beth Morrison Projects or Pop-Up Opera if you need convincing. They're just the tip of the iceberg.\nHeidi Waleson - Opera critic for the Wall Street Journal, faculty member of the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the author of Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America (@hwopera)\nMarc Scorca - President and CEO of Opera America (@operaAmerica)\nNadine Sierra - American opera singer who regularly performs at leading opera houses like the Metropolitan Opera and The Paris Opera. She just released her debut album, \u201cThere\u2019s a Place for Us\u201d (@nadinecsierra)\nColin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired on October 17, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 4063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wordfinders.com/words-with-the-letters-epical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EGWWSV2HVMVVQG4F4JCC5PO62YCIFFXY", "length": 590, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.wordfinders.com", "title": "What words can you make with epical?", "raw_content": "Words that can be made with epical\nAn unofficial list of all the Scrabble words you can make from the letters in the word epical. Anagrams and words you can make with an additional letter, just using the letters in epical!\nWe also have lists of words starting with epical, and words ending with epical\n62 words can be made from the letters in the word epical.\nAnagrams of epical\nThis page is a list of all the words that can be made from the letters in epical, or by rearranging the word epical. These words should be suitable for use as Scrabble words, or in games like Words with friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wordtravels.com/Attractions/1868", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XZQIZWIMTRWBJVD3MC7A4EZ3QYKZYOZ2", "length": 775, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.wordtravels.com", "title": "Castle Keep and New Castle review, with opening times, telephone number, address and admission prices", "raw_content": "Home England Travel Guide Newcastle-Upon-Tyne City Guide Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Attractions\nTravel Guide Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Attractions\nCastle Keep and New Castle\nCastle Keep \u00a9 Glen Bowman\nOriginally known as Monkchester, Newcastle only got its present name when Robert Curthose, son of the infamous William the Conqueror, built his 'New Castle' on the site of the Roman fort Pons Aeliu in 1080. Used as a point of defence, the castle was originally built of wood and timber, but was later rebuilt in stone. Today, visitors can explore the remains of the castle, as well as the Castle Keep built later on the same site by Henry II. The Castle Keep is acknowledged as one of the finest surviving examples of a Norman Keep in the country.\nWebsite: www.castlekeep-newcastle.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/bond-historical-data/japan/3-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:32Z", "digest": "sha1:B4CCTZ7EP3HKIO7UHV3JXKEWJRJHLHIE", "length": 129, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.worldgovernmentbonds.com", "title": "Japan 3 Years Bond - Historical Data", "raw_content": "The Japan 3 Years Government Bond reached a maximum yield of 0.07% (31 March 2015) and a minimum yield of -0.353% (8 July 2016)*.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 3883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldsstrangest.com/tag/dave-bunnell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:XEXV5BHHLC3D3ZXS6FDMQR7V2HZHZ5MZ", "length": 687, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.worldsstrangest.com", "title": "World\u2019s Strangest | Dave Bunnell", "raw_content": "7 Odd and Extreme Mineral Formations\nThe world is made up of wondrous chemicals that sometimes do pretty out-of-the-ordinary things. Here are seven places where minerals, carried by water, by heat, or by the actions of Mother Earth herself, left us with strange and wonderful sights. 1. Pamukkale Terraces, Turkey Looks ice cold, doesn\u2019t it? Actually, the water is quite warm at the [...]\nTags: Carlsbad, cave, Danokil Desert, Dave Bunnell, Davis, East Java, Ethiopia, Flores Island, geyser, hot spring water, Hualapai Valley, Indonesia, Jean-Marie Hullot, mineral, Missouri, National Park, Nevada, New Mexico, Turkey, unesco world heritage, unesco world heritage site, water No Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldtreasuresblog.org/2013/05/nationally-recognized-science-teacher.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6KGAHZALCJ7ZKTJ4I62LIJ5EJN3WPP7", "length": 2083, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.worldtreasuresblog.org", "title": "Museum of World Treasures: Nationally recognized science teacher will host camp in June!", "raw_content": "Nationally recognized science teacher will host camp in June!\nSchool is ending and it is time to think about summer activities for your kids or grandkids! Summer camp deadlines are fast approaching, make sure to get signed up before it is too late.\nThis year we are thrilled to have Claire Overstake, a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, instructing and hosting the June paleontology camp sessions. Claire had the opportunity in 2011 to meet President Obama and accept the award in Washington, D.C.\nClaire Overstake visited President Obama to accept the Presidential Award in 2011\n\ufeff\ufeffClaire has been an educator for more than 20 years, teaching science and mathematics in both elementary and middle schools. She taught sixth, seventh, and eighth grade science and seventh and eighth grade mathematics at Goessel Junior High before accepting her current position at Stucky Middle School in Wichita, where she teaches 6th grade science.\nAccording to her recognition announcement for the Presidential Award, \u201cClaire's excitement about science goes beyond the classroom. Her leadership and promotion of local and regional science fairs involves students in hands-on learning of the scientific method as they use their science and mathematics skills in experiments they design. She involves the community as judges and through an open house that highlights the students' projects and accomplishments.\u201d\nIn the month of June, Claire will spend time with campers at the Museum teaching them about pre-historic science and paleontology.\nWhen asked about the award, Claire said, \u201cThe Presidential Award is an exciting affirmation of my career choice. I love teaching and truly feel it is my calling. This honor recognizes the collaboration and dedication of all the educators with whom I have worked; all the students who have made teaching an adventure; and my family, who support, encourage, and inspire.\u201d\nRegistration for camp is still open. To reserve your spot, call the Museum at 316.263.1311 or visit our website for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2454", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:PKWWZIBDZCFCQ4U7EWYEDOJ2CISWFQ7V", "length": 4141, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.wvencyclopedia.org", "title": "e-WV | Teachers Strike of 2018", "raw_content": "Share Teachers Strike of 2018\nIn early 2018, thousands of West Virginia teachers and school service personnel walked off the job over pay and health benefits. During the nine-day work stoppage, educators and their supporters filled the hallways of the Capitol in a dramatic show of solidarity.\nIt was the first statewide teacher strike in West Virginia since 1990, when teacher pay ranked near the bottom nationally. At the time of the 2018 strike, West Virginia teachers were again among the lowest paid in the country, with an average salary of $44,700.\nTalk of teacher action began in fall 2017 when the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency announced proposals that would have led to higher costs for teachers and state employees covered by PEIA. Throughout the work stoppage, PEIA remained as important an issue as pay, which appeared to help educators garner support from the public.\nIn his State of the State address on January 10, 2018, Governor Jim Justice proposed a one percent pay raise for teachers in 2018 with further raises in subsequent years. The legislature later approved a two percent pay raise, but educators said it was not enough to offset increases in the cost of their health insurance.\nAt the county level, some teachers began to call for a strike, although union leaders urged them to give the legislature more time to act. Educators in three southern counties, Logan, Mingo and Wyoming, were the first to organize walkouts, calling for \u201cFed Up Friday,\u201d a one-day outage, on February 2. On February 16, teachers from seven counties participated in work stoppages. When it was clear that no resolution was in sight, the unions announced a statewide strike for February 22-23.\nEducators were represented by two statewide union organizations: the West Virginia Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers \u2013 West Virginia. Unlike the 1990 strike, the 2018 work stoppage also included the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association, swelling the ranks of participants to about 33,000.\nThroughout the work stoppage, the union leaders presented a unified front, but rank-and-file teachers and service employees did not always follow their lead. On February 28, union leaders spoke in support of a proposed deal and urged strikers to return to work. The deal fell apart, however, and teachers remained out of the classroom.\nOver nine school days, thousands of educators and their supporters crowded into the Capitol building in Charleston. With rallying cries of \u201c55 Strong\u201d and \u201c55 United,\u201d they also staged protests in their home counties. The teachers wore red shirts, according to some a reminder of the red bandanas worn by militant miners during the West Virginia Mine Wars. Teacher strikers in other states later adopted the red coloration.\nSeveral national labor leaders joined the protesters, including Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association. Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers, also addressed educators gathered at the Capitol.\nFinally, on March 6, the governor and the legislature agreed to a five percent raise for teachers and school service personnel, and for all state workers. Changes to PEIA were frozen, and a task force was created to look for solutions to the agency\u2019s financial woes. The legislature backed off on other measures of concern to educators, including one that would have altered teacher seniority and another that would have prevented payroll deductions for union dues. The strike ended with a return to the classroom on March 7.\nThe West Virginia teachers strike drew national attention and inspired educators in other states to follow suit. In April and May, teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina organized work stoppages over pay and benefits, as well as state funding for education.\nThis Article was written by Becky Calwell\nCalwell, Becky \"Teachers Strike of 2018.\" e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 03 August 2018. Web. 15 February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yogananda-srf.org/kriya_yoga_path_of_meditation.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SSQGBQN4C4AXR6HZ4RFHYBAVXDBKWZOA", "length": 8591, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.yogananda-srf.org", "title": "The Kriya Yoga Path of Meditation", "raw_content": "Home >> Meditation & Kriya Yoga >> The Kriya Yoga Path of Meditation\n\"By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.\"\nWisdom, creativity, security, happiness, unconditional love \u2014 is it really possible to find that which will bring us real and lasting joy?\nExperiencing the divinity within our own souls, claiming divine joy as our own joy \u2014 this is what the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda offer to each of us.\nThe sacred science of Kriya Yoga consists of advanced techniques of meditation whose devoted practice leads to realization of God and liberation of the soul from all forms of bondage. It is the royal or supreme technique of yoga, divine union. (Read \"What Is Yoga, Really?\")\nKriya Yoga's History\nThe illumined sages of India discovered the spiritual science of Kriya Yoga in the long forgotten past. Lord Krishna extols it in the Bhagavad Gita. The sage Patanjali speaks of it in his Yoga Sutras. Paramahansa Yogananda has stated that this ancient meditation method was also known to Jesus Christ, as well as to disciples such as St. John, St. Paul, and others.\nKriya Yoga was lost for centuries in the dark ages, and reintroduced in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji, whose disciple Lahiri Mahasaya (1828\u20131895) was the first to teach it openly in our era. Later, Babaji asked Lahiri Mahasaya's disciple, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855\u20131936), to train Paramahansa Yogananda and send him to the West to give this soul-revealing technique to the world.\nParamahansa Yogananda was chosen by his venerable line of gurus to bring the ancient science of Kriya Yoga to the West, and it was for this purpose that he established Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920.\nFormerly available only to a faithful few who renounced the world and lived solitary lives as ascetics, the great ones of India have now made the ancient Kriya science available to all sincere seekers worldwide through the instrumentality of Paramahansa Yogananda and the spiritual organization he established (SRF/YSS).\nYogananda wrote: \"In bestowing his blessings on me before I came to America in 1920, Mahavatar Babaji told me that I had been chosen for this sacred mission: 'You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. Long ago I met your guru Yukteswar at a Kumbha Mela; I told him then I would send you to him for training.' Babaji then predicted: 'Kriya Yoga, the scientific technique of God-realization, will ultimately spread in all lands, and aid in harmonizing the nations through man's personal, transcendental perception of the Infinite Father.' \"\nJesus Christ and Kriya Yoga\nThe full understanding of Jesus' original teachings \u2014 including the fact that he bestowed on his disciples the esoteric techniques of yoga meditation \u2014 is revealed in Paramahansa Yogananda's in-depth commentary on the Gospels: The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.\nMeditation Techniques of the Kriya Yoga Path\nParamahansa Yogananda provides a description of Kriya Yoga in his Autobiography of a Yogi. The actual technique is given to students of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons after a preliminary period of study and practice of the three preparatory techniques taught by Paramahansa Yogananda.\nTaken together as a comprehensive system, these meditation techniques enable the practitioner to achieve the highest benefits and divine goal of the ancient yoga science.\n1. Energization Exercises: A series of psychophysical exercises developed by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1916 to prepare the body for meditation. Regular practice promotes mental and physical relaxation and develops dynamic will power. Making use of the breath, life force, and concentrated attention, the technique enables one to draw abundant energy consciously into the body, purifying and strengthening all the body parts systematically in turn. The Energization Exercises, which take about fifteen minutes to perform, are one of the most effective means of eliminating stress and nervous tension. Practicing them prior to meditation is a great help in entering a calm, interiorized state of awareness.\n2. Hong-Sau Technique of Concentration helps to develop one's latent powers of concentration. Through practice of this technique one learns to withdraw thought and energy from outward distractions so that they may be focused on any goal to be achieved or problem to be solved. Or one may direct that concentrated attention toward realizing the Divine Consciousness within.\n3. Aum Technique of Meditation shows one how to use the power of concentration in the highest way to discover and develop the divine qualities of one's own true Self. This ancient method teaches how to experience the all-pervading Divine Presence as Aum, the Word or Holy Ghost that underlies and sustains all creation. The technique expands the awareness beyond limitations of body and mind to the joyous realization of one's infinite potential.\n4. Kriya Yoga Technique\nKriya is an advanced Raja Yoga technique of pranayama (life-energy control). Kriya reinforces and revitalizes subtle currents of life energy (prana) in the spine and brain. The ancient seers of India (rishis) perceived the brain and spine as the tree of life. Out of the subtle cerebrospinal centers of life and consciousness (chakras) flow the energies that enliven all the nerves and every organ and tissue of the body. The yogis discovered that by revolving the life current continuously up and down the spine by the special technique of Kriya Yoga, it is possible to greatly accelerate one's spiritual evolution and awareness.\nCorrect practice of Kriya Yoga enables the normal activities of the heart and lungs and nervous system to slow down naturally, producing deep inner stillness of body and mind and freeing the attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory perceptions. In the clarity of that inner stillness, one comes to experience a deepening interior peace and attunement with one's soul and with God.\nHow to Learn Kriya Yoga\nParamahansa Yogananda\u2019s SRF Lessons for Home Study\nThe first step is to apply for the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons. In the first year of Lesson study at home, students learn three basic techniques of meditation (described above) and Paramahansaji\u2019s principles of balanced spiritual living.\nThis gradual introduction has a purpose. A mountain climber seeking to scale the Himalayas must first acclimatize and condition himself before ascending the peaks. So the seeker needs this initial period to acclimatize his or her habits and thoughts, condition the mind with concentration and devotion, and practice directing the body's life energy. Then the yogi is prepared to ascend the spinal highway of realization. After one year of preparation and practice, students are eligible to apply for initiation in the technique of Kriya Yoga, and formally establish the time-honored guru-disciple relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda and his lineage of enlightened masters.\nIf you have not yet enrolled for the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons, you will find on these pages some initial instructions on how to meditate, which you can use right away to begin experiencing the benefits that meditation brings.\nKriya Yoga is the diksha (initiation) or spiritual baptism of Self-Realization Fellowship. By receiving Kriya initiation, students enter into the sacred guru-disciple relationship, accepting Paramahansa Yogananda as their guru (spiritual guide).\nLearn more about the guru-disciple relationship.\nRead More About Kriya Yoga\nThe Benefits of Kriya Yoga\nLearn more about the benefits of Kriya Yoga, as described in the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda.\nKriya Yoga \u2014 The Royal Technique of God-Realization\nSelections from Paramahansa Yogananda\u2019s writings on the nature, role, and efficacy of Kriya Yoga as the preeminent technique of soul liberation.\nKriya Yoga Changes Your Brain Cells\nRead more about how Kriya Yoga helps to bring about beneficial changes in the brain, including a specific method for overcoming negative habits.\nKriya Yoga \u2014 150 Years\nA commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the revival of Kriya Yoga, observed by SRF/YSS in 2011.\nPlanting the Seeds of Kriya Yoga in Truth-Seekers Worldwide\nTestimonials from some of the thousands blessed by Paramahansa Yogananda\u2019s worldwide dissemination of this holy science of the soul.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 12443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.your-krav-maga-expert.com/renzo-gracie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5JUM53UOY4B3ESC4LALF5QPUGOO4DK7S", "length": 1335, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.your-krav-maga-expert.com", "title": "Renzo Gracie, the master from Brazil", "raw_content": "Renzo Gracie - The Master from Brazil\nRenzo Gracie is the kind of guy you would like to have as a neighbor; kind, friendly, generous and always full of great jujitsu techniques. He is a master instructor, fighter, and entertainer, quick on his feet, quick on the ground and quick with a witty remark.\nWith Renzo at Karate College\nI trained with for four summers at Karate College in Virginia. His approach was to take just three or four techniques for an hour lesson and work on them until everyone got them down pat. Training with such an expert was a truly great experience.\nOn occasion he brought some of his BJJ students with him; tough guys. Renzo was strict with ranks and only awarded belts to those who really deserved them. He also had an amazing ability to remember students from year to year.\nHe has a wonderful sense of humor, once his phone went off, a little embarrassing, and he says, \"It's my wife, she doesn't believe me, I tell her I am at a seminar.\" He noticed me meticulously taking notes and said, \"Save a copy for me, I may want to do another book.\"\nHis techniques were amazing, but more than anything I enjoyed his happy, positive and friendly disposition. I also had the opportunity to train with his cousin Rodrigo, in New York. When I told Renzo, he said, \"Yeah, but I am better looking!\" You gotta love him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ywgs.edu.hk/youtube-channel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:03Z", "digest": "sha1:XJ5DWPF66GE2V3HPFZUEIR7OABN4WRXC", "length": 2554, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.ywgs.edu.hk", "title": "YouTube Channel | Ying Wa Girls' School", "raw_content": "\u82f1\u83ef\u5973\u6821\u91cd\u5efa\u8a08\u5283\u5e73\u9802\u79ae (\u5b8c\u6574\u7248) (17 September 2018) (9:21 mins)\n2017-2018 YWGS Overseas Tours in Summer (12 September 2018) (4:11 mins)\n\u82f1\u83ef\u5973\u5b78\u6821\u95dc\u6821\u9577 - \u5546\u696d\u96fb\u53f0\u300c\u53f1\u54a4\u674f\u58c7\u6d41\u884c\u699c\u300d\u8a2a\u554f (24 July 2018) (8:44 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Farewell Day Closing (14 July 2018) (1:00:55 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Farewell Day Opening (14 July 2018) (50:16 mins)\nMessage to YWGSAA in Vancouver (6 April 2018) (1:39 mins)\n\u82f1\u83ef\u5973\u6821\u91cd\u5efa\u8a08\u5283\u5e73\u9802\u79ae (\u5b57\u5e55\u7248) (24 March 2018) (2:13 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Basketball Team (26 January 2018) (1:38 mins)\n\u96de\u86cb\u82b1\u6a39\u7684\u6545\u4e8b (15 December 2017) (2:48 mins)\nGreetings to alumnae in SF Bay Area (2 December 2017) (1:59 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Sponsored Walk 2017 (18 November 2017) (3:08 mins)\nGreetings to alumnae in LA (27 October 2017) (2:10 mins)\nGreetings to alumnae in Toronto (23 September 2017) (1:52 mins)\nMessage from chairpersons to Toronto (23 September 2017) (0:50 mins)\nDance World Cup 2017 (8 August 2017) (4:26 mins)\nThe Rainbow Beyond: Interview with Ms Caroline Kwok - Part 1 (12 June 2017) (31:28 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Fund-raising Concert 2017 (22 April 2017) (1:30:06 mins)\nYWGS School Redevelopment Fund-raising Initiative - Episode 1 (18 April 2017) (1:02 mins)\nJazz Team Performance in Open Playground (29 March 2017) (5:59 mins)\nYing Wa Girls' School Fund-raising Concert 2017- Promotion Video (12 January 2017) (1:55 mins)\nThe 50th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. 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ORC experts are peer-recommended authorities who have been carefully selected and rigorously screened.\nDefinition: Expectorant Drug - A drug which promotes the discharge and expulsion of mucus or exudate from the respiratory tract.\nJoin our distinguished experts for expectorant drug jobs, projects and consulting opportunities.\nExpert in FDA, FTC, regulatory, fraud and abuse, e-discovery, OTC, pharma, sunshine act, social media\nExpert currently serves as Regulatory Counsel for Allergan, providing proactive legal support to senior management, product brand teams, and client groups across organization, advising and educating on regulations pertaining to pharmaceutical products. See full profile\nExpert in Family Practice Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Addiction Treatment\nExpert has been in the private practice of medicine for over 30 years. During this time, he has served as Chief of the Department of Family Practice, Chief Quality Officer, and Chief of the Medical Staff at Frederick Memorial Hospital, a 250 bed hospital ... See full profile\nExpert in Pediatrics, Asthma, Allergies, ADHD, Infectious Disease, Vaccinations.\nExpert is a certified diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners and board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. He also has a special certification by the Drug Enforcement Administration. He is certified to practice medicine in the ... See full profile\nExpert in Pharmaceutical Licensing, Life Science Licensing, Commercialization\nExpert has worked with a number of pharmaceutical and life science companies at senior level as either employee, consultant or interim manager, supporting initial public offerings and other fundraising activities and cross-border M&A. See full profile\nExpert in Internal Medicine, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, Diabetes, Osteoporosis\nHe is primarily responsible for treating a large practice of patients with cardiovascular disease's including hypertension, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndrome, chronic angina. See full profile\nExpert in Drug Discovery & Development Technology and Intellectual Property (Patents, Trade Marks, etc.)\nHe has had the Drug Discovery Department, as part of his role as Director R & D, at Wockhardt Limited, discover several new NCEs during the tenure of this position, which NCEs are more extensively described in a later section of these summaries under the ... See full profile\nExpert in Chronic Respiratory Disease\nRespiratory system diseases; respiratory system disease therapy; allergen. Expert has over 25 years of experience as a clinical allergist specializing in chronic respiratory diseases. He is adept at the use of allergens, histamines and methacholine ... See full profile\nExpert in Pediatric Pulmonary, Cystic Fibrosis\nExpert has been a Cystic Fibrosis Care center Director for the past 26 years and I am board certified in pediatric pulmonology. He has published on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis and is the New york State representative to the Cystic Fibhrosis ... See full profile\nExpert in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine\nExpert is a Board Certified primary care pediatrician in practice for 24 years, treating children and adolescents from birth through age 21. In addition to his clinical work, he participates in monthly health care surveys and marketing programs, ... See full profile\nExpert in Allergy and Immunology, Asthma, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology\nExpert is a board certified allergist practicing for over 20 years. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, trained in Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, then in Allergy and Immunology at Duke ... See full profile\nExpert in Critical Care Nursing, Nursing Student Liability, Critical Care Technology\nAfter 30 years of clinical practice, as well as her recent teaching experience, she feels confident to describe herself as a \"expert\" in critical care nursing. Although there is always so much to learn, she feels she makes a most concerted effort to keep ... See full profile\nExpert in Drug & Device Clinical Development, Regulatory Approval, Adverse Reactions, Expert Witness\nClinical Pharmacology is the scientific discipline that brings science to the process of drug development, particularly at the key stage where a molecule of interest becomes a drug candidate. From this point, through the rest of Development, the science ... See full profile\nExpert in Nursing, Medical Literature, Healthcare\nExpert started her career as a medical/surgical and hematology/oncology nurse working at Children's Hospital. She received her master's degree in (clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner) pediatrics from the University of Delaware. See full profile\nExpert in Clinical Anesthesiology, Surgical Recovery Room, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, Abused Drug\nCurrent Practicing Anesthesiologist responsible for caring for individuals that use abused drugs on a regular basis. These individuals have both medical and psychological problems resulting from both recent and long term abuse of drugs. See full profile\nExpert in Pharmaceutical & Life Science Research and Manufacturing, New Drug Discovery, Therapeutic Strategy\nBy using standard analytical tools of cellular and molecular biology he has elucidated the molecular mode of action of an anti-diabetic candidate BMOV on the key components of insulin signaling cascades like IR Kinase (IRK) and IRS complexes including ... See full profile\nGyeonggi-do, Korea (South)\nExpert in Pharmaceutical Development, CMC, Project Management, Intellectual Property\nExpert has developed modified release products throughout his career. Most recently he led the development of proprietary oral modified release systems at Phoqus Pharmaceuticals. These included zero-order, increasing-rate, pulsatile, delayed-release, ... See full profile\nExpert in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Research and Development, Education & Training\nExpert's primary experience in tablet manufacturing covered conventional pharmaceutical tablets for a variety of drugs and chewable tablets of antibiotics, utilizing both dry and wet granulation techniques and a variety of processing and tablet ... See full profile\nNeed the right expert in expectorant drug? We can help!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 9265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www2.erie.gov/comptroller/index.php?q=taxpayer-checkbook", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YZ76QNGO3HIOQ2RCHKATOXAANEFGPMW2", "length": 1016, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www2.erie.gov", "title": "Taxpayer Checkbook | Erie County Comptroller's Office", "raw_content": "Every day, the Erie County Comptroller must pay vendors for goods and services obtained on your behalf. You have a right to know how this money is spent. Below you will find links to reports of checks written by the Erie County Comptroller, to who the obligation was owed and for how much.\nTaypayer Checkbook\nfor the week ending February 8, 2019\nfor the week ending January 25, 2019\nTaxpayer Credit Card\nIn addition, Erie County has entered into various debt obligations on your behalf. It can be loosely compared to an Erie County taxpayer credit card. As of December 31, 2018, the amount of debt owed by Erie County taxpayers is:\nOutstanding Debt as of December 31, 2018\nNovember 2014 Storm Spending\nNovember 2014 Storm Account Expenses\nContractors (Updated 2/26/2015)\nAutomotive (Updated 3/13/2015)\nTowing (Updated 3/13/2015)\nFood (Updated 3/13/2015)\nOffice Supplies (Updated 2/26/2015)\nMiscellaneous (Updated 3/13/2015)\nIf you have any questions about specific items, please contact our office at (716) 858-8400.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www2.ocadu.ca/keyword/ottawa", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7HULFJ24RMMA3ZO7NLWHLB7RBZLIADE6", "length": 3494, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www2.ocadu.ca", "title": "Ottawa | OCAD UNIVERSITY", "raw_content": "President Diamond honoured by \u201cInspiring 50 Canada\u201d\nSara Diamond has been included in a list of 50 women leaders in the Canadian tech and innovation sectors to be recognized at a ceremony on Parliament Hill on Monday, May 7.\nThis event, Inspiring Fifty, in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Senate of Canada, promotes the advancement of diversity in the STEM fields \u2013 recognizing that the recruitment and retention of women and girls in these sectors will foster innovation, inclusivity and an impactful workforce.\nAlso among the honourees is Jessica Ching, founder and CEO of Eve Medical. The OCAD U Industrial Design alumna developed her company in the Imagination Catalyst.\nFor this inaugural Canadian edition of the event, the women were selected by a distinguished jury from a pool of 400 nominees. The project has been embraced by several other countries in Europe including the UK, France and the Nordic countries. The initiative was recently launched in South Africa.\nThe Parliament Hill ceremony will include a discussion with The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and remarks by The Honourable Senator Marilou McPhedran.\nInspiring Fifty is a Dutch-based organization that has launched multiple initiatives to highlight inspirational female role models in the tech and innovation sectors.\nRead more about President Diamond honoured by \u201cInspiring 50 Canada\u201d\nCelebration of Life: Alan Todd (AOCA, 1966)\nA colourful tribute to a life beautifully lived! We invite you to join us in honouring our dear Alan (February 21, 1944 - May 22, 2017) the eternal joyful optimist. Alan wasn\u2019t one to let convention interfere with the deeper things. His reverence for life was balanced with a belief in not taking it too seriously. In that spirit we wish to mark his passing with loving respect but not somber gloom; to celebrate him as he unfailingly celebrated all of us - with joy, sincerity, and great love.\nJoin us to remember, to cry and to laugh. As Alan would say, \u201clet it all hang out!\u201d Please come as you are comfortable, and not necessarily in black - perhaps inspired by your favourite crazy Alan Todd outfit! Help us raise a glass, literally and figuratively, to our one and only Alan. To paraphrase one of his often-used expressions, \u201cit would be great to be seen by you!\u201d\nAbout Alan Todd (AOCA, Industrial Design, 1966)\nThough Dad's humble spirit would hate it, we would go so far as to say that he was one of the pillars of the design world in Ottawa for most of his life. He spent 20 years as chief of design at the National Gallery of Canada and headed the design for the Dinosaur Hall at the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Bank of Canada Money Museum as well as many International Trade Exhibitions for the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission. In his retirement he acted as senior designer on many projects including: \"Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man\" and \"Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art Masterpieces\" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Museum of Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien: \"Canada in the World\", and the Brandywine River Museum. Full obituary: http://www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com/families-in-our-care/alan-todd/2163/\n- Meredith, Brittany, & Jocelyn\nCaf\u00e9 des Beaux-Arts, National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario\nhttp://www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com/families-in-our-care/alan-todd/2163/\nRead more about Celebration of Life: Alan Todd (AOCA, 1966)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www3.enewhope.org/content/pastorsdevotions/index.php?id=EML33581IX5F0Y", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MGMVZWU62ZIO6W6FHRSRBSYXUFEYING6", "length": 2439, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www3.enewhope.org", "title": "Pastor's Devotions - New Hope Oahu", "raw_content": "God Wants Us Here!\n\u201cYou are worthy, O Lord our God,\nto receive glory and honor and power.\nand they exist because you created what you pleased.\u201d\nGod wants us! The Message paraphrase brings this out: \"Worthy, O Master! Yes, our God! Take the glory! the honor! the power! You created it all; It was created because you wanted it.\" We speak things accidentally and can't get the words back after the mess they create. God spoke us into being on purpose and didn't regret it for a minute. In fact, the creation story tells us that God looked at everything that exists created by His will and said: \"it is good.\" It's only after creating man and woman that He saw what He made and said this is \"very good\". In fact, He took the seventh day off just so He could spend more time with Adam and Eve. This is not the picture of a God regretting us or just putting up with us, but created us to be with us!\nThis may surprise some to hear this, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an accident or a coincidence that we are here! This was no Big Bang explosive accident, but rather a Big God with a Big Heart that just wants to be with us! Whether we live on the Hawaiian Islands somewhere else around this globe I believe Jesus wants us to know one thing: We were made on purpose, for a purpose, and with a purpose. When we stop believing the lie that we are just passing through, just surviving, just left to figure this out on our own then we are awakened to our true purpose. Relationship With God through Jesus Christ empowered by The Holy Spirit. He spoke us into being on the sixth day so He could speak to our being every single day of our lives. When I realized that God actually wanted to be with me guess what happened, I wanted to be with Him! When I spend time with Him in His Word and talking through the crazy things that happen in this life He continues to clarify His purpose for my existence. The Westminster Shorter Catechism sums up our purpose this way: \"Man\u2019s chief end is to glorifyGod, and toenjoyhimforever.\" To then know that God actually enjoys being with me too makes me want to glorify Him all the more with my life!\nJesus, You really do want me here! You made me to be right here, right now with You. You don't look at me and shake Your head in disgust even with all my mistakes and sins. You look at me and call me closer to yourself to teach me how to live above the mistakes and sins through a relationship with You!\nEzekiel 8,9,10,11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yoursuperiorself.libsyn.com/the-4-year-olympian-jeremiah-brown", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BHCZKICGKBTG4MEHRRNQGVJC4UR6J5H4", "length": 868, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "yoursuperiorself.libsyn.com", "title": "Your Superior Self: The 4 Year Olympian- Jeremiah Brown", "raw_content": "Jeremiah Brown won an Olympic silver medal as a member of the Canadian men\u2019s eight rowing team at the London 2012 Olympic Games. A former commercial banker with a big dream, he is one of few Olympians ever to have started learning his sport only four years before winning a medal at the Olympics. He currently works at the Canadian Olympic Committee as National Manager of Game Plan, an athlete wellness and transition program supporting 3000 Olympic, Paralympic, and national team athletes across more than 54 sports. Jeremiah is a Canadian sport system expert, keynote speaker, dad, and drummer who has played with award-winning artists. He lives in Peterborough, Canada.\nCheck out his book called, \"The 4 Year Olympian\" .\nYou can find Jeremiah Brown on these social platforms:\nFacebook: facebook.com/jeremiah.brown.737\nTwitter: @jeremiahfbrown\nInstagram: @brownjf24", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zayn.wikia.com/wiki/Take_Me_Home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:LLZTBRBPEHB7ZZMAK6MGQKTJAANA75SQ", "length": 8464, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "zayn.wikia.com", "title": "Take Me Home | ZAYN Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Pop, Teen Pop, Dance Pop\nSyco, Columbia\nJulian Bunetta, Cirkut, Dr. Luke, Carl Falk, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Jake Gosling, Steve Robson, Shellback, Rami Yacoub, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles\n1. \"Live While We're Young\"\n(Released: September 28, 2012)\n2. \"Kiss You\"\n(Released: January 7, 2013)\n3. \"Little Things\"\n(Released: November 12, 2012)\nAlbum Chronology\nUp All Night (album)\nTake Me Home is the second studio album by British-Irish group One Direction, released on November 09, 2012 by Sony Music Entertainment.\nAs a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Largely recorded and composed in Sweden during 2012, Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits, \"What Makes You Beautiful\" and \"One Thing\", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around the members' tones.\nThe album's lead single, \"Live While We're Young\", peaked inside the top ten in almost every country it charted in and recorded the highest one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-US artist. The singles, \"Little Things\" and \"Kiss You\", were less successful.\nOne Direction announced in early 2012 that they had began working on their second album. In March 2012, Tom Fletcher (McFly frontman) confirmed that he would be writing a song for the album, having previously written \"I Want\", for the band's debut album Up All Night. In February 2012, One Direction expressed interest in collaborating with Ed Sheeran again, after teaming up with him for \"Moments\". In June 2012, Ed Sheeran confirmed he had written two songs with the band, \"Little Things\" and \"Over Again\".\nOne Direction began songwriting more extensively for this album, with each band member landing several writing credits on various tracks. Primary recording began in May 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden. The group also partly recorded the album in the United States, while completing the final leg of their Up All Night Tour. In June 2012, Niall spoke to MTV News, stating they intended to spend July and August \"getting the album done.\"\nTake Me Home went to #1 in more than 35 countries and sold over 4 million copies, making it the fourth best selling album of 2012.\nOctober 7 Radio 1 Teen Choice Awards \"Live While We're Young\" England\nNovember 8 The X Factor (US) \"Live While We're Young United States\nNovember 13 Today \"What Makes You Beautiful\"\n\"Little Things\nNovember 14 Today \"One Thing\"\nNovember 16 Children In Need \"Live While We're Young\" England\nMain article: Take Me Home Tour\nOne Direction's 2013 World Tour was announced on February 21, 2012 after winning their BRIT award.[1] It was originally announced as a UK and Ireland arena tour, but was expanded to a world tour with the announcement of North American dates in the summer, and Australasian dates in the fall. Tickets went on sale on February 25, 2012 and sold out quickly. North American tour dates were announced on April 12, 2012 by Liam when he called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest. Tickets went on sale to the general public on April 21, 2012.[2] Australian tour dates were announced on April 18, 2012, and New Zealand dates were announced the following day.\nThe Take Me Home Tour was hugely successful. Consisting of more than 100 shows worldwide, ticket sales reached 1,000 within a day of release in the UK and Ireland. The band sold out their six day O2 residency. In Australian and New Zealand, tickets grossed US$15.7 million, with all 190,000 tickets being sold for eighteen shows held in Australia and New Zealand. The tour placed at number 10 on Pollstar's Year-End Top 20 Worldwide Tours list, grossing $114 million from the 129 shows.[3]\nMain article: Take Me Home/Editions\nAside from the standard edition, Take Me Home will be released in a variety of special and deluxe editions worldwide.\nTake Me Home was one of the most successful albums of 2012. It reached #1 in 35 countries and after selling over 4 million copies, became the fourth best selling album of 2012. One Direction became the first group to have both of their albums debut at #1 in North America, a record they would continue to set with their third and fourth albums.\n1. \"Live While We're Young\" Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:20\n2. \"Kiss You\" Shellback, Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha, Kristin Lundin, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Albin Nedler Yacoub, Falk, Shellback 3:03\n3. \"Little Things\" Ed Sheeran, Fiona Bevan Jake Gosling 3:39\n4. \"C'mon, C'mon\" Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan Bunetta 2:45\n5. \"Last First Kiss\" Fogelmark, Nedler, Kotecha, Yacoub, Falk, Payne, Tomlinson, Malik Fogelmark, Nedler, Yacoub, Falk 3:23\n6. \"Heart Attack\" Shellback, Kotecha, Yacoub, Falk, Lundin Yacoub, Falk, Shellback 2:56\n7. \"Rock Me\" Allan Grigg, Sam Hollander, Peter Svensson, Lukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Emily Wright 3:20\n8. \"Change My Mind\" Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:32\n9. \"I Would\" Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter Bunetta, Sam Waters 3:21\n10. \"Over Again\" Sheeran, Robert Conlon, Alexander Gowers Gosling 3:02\n11. \"Back For You\" Fogelmark, Nedler, Kotecha, Yacoub, Falk, Payne, Tomlinson, Styles, Horan Yacoub, Falk, Nedler, Fogelmark 2:58\n12. \"They Don't Know About Us\" Tebey Ottoh, Tommy Lee James, Peter Wallevik, Tommy Gregersen, Tomlinson, Styles Ottoh, Bunetta 3:20\n13. \"Summer Love\" Steve Robson, Wayne Hector, Lindy Robbins, Payne, Tomlinson, Malik, Styles, Horan Robson 3:28\nYearbook Limited Edition additional tracks\n14. \"She's Not Afraid\" Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan, Tim Wood Bunetta 3:11\n15. \"Loved You First\" Bunetta, Tebey, James, John Ryan, Tim Wood Bunetta 3:05\n16. \"Nobody Compares\" Shellback, Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk, Shellback 3:31\n17. \"Still The One\" Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha, Payne, Tomlinson, Styles Yacoub, Falk, Shellback 3:03\niTunes Yearbook Edition additional tracks\n18. \"One Thing\" (Live) (Video) Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:26\n19. \"What Makes You Beautiful\" (Live) (Video) Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:49\n20. \"Moments (Live) (Video) Sheeran, Hulbert Hulber 5:10\n21. Backstage at the iTunes Festival 2012 (Video) 4:26\nTarget deluxe edition bonus tracks\n14. \"Truly, Madly, Deeply\" Trevor Dahl, Tobias Gad, Robbin Yacoub, Falk 3:01\n15. \"Magic\" Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk, Shellback 3:05\n16. \"Irresistible\" Fletcher, Malik, Payne, Styles, Tomlinson Bunetta, Waters 3:59\n17. \"One Thing (Live)\" Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:26\n18. \"I Wish (Live)\" Yacoub, Falk, Kotecha Yacoub, Falk 3:48\nJapanese Limited Yearbook edition additional tracks\n15. \"Loved You First\" Bunetta, Tebey, James, John Ryan, Wood Bunetta 3:19\n18. \"Truly, Madly, Deeply\" Trevor Dahl, Tobias Gad, Robbins Yacoub, Falk 3:01\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot - Liam\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot - Harry\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot - Louis\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot - Niall\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot - Zayn\nOne Direction - Behind the scenes at the photoshoot\nAustralian Albums (ARIA) 1\nAustrian Albums (\u00d63 Austria) 2\nBelgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 1\nBelgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 3\nCroatian Albums Chart 4\nCzech Albums (\u010cNS IFPI) 1\nDanish Albums (Hitlisten) 1\nDutch Albums (MegaCharts) 1\nFinnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 2\nFrench Albums (SNEP) 3\nGerman Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 2\nGreek Albums Chart 1\nItalian Albums (FIMI) 1\nJapanese Albums Chart 2\nNew Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 1\nNorwegian Albums (VG-lista) 1\nPolish Albums Chart 3\nSouth African Albums (RISA) 4\nSpanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) 3\nSwiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 1\nSwedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 1\nTaiwanese Albums Chart 1\nArgentinian Albums (CAPIF) 2\nAustrian Albums (\u00d63 Austria) 72\nBelgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 20\nBelgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 37\nBrazilian Albums (ABPD) 17\nFinnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 17\nFrench Albums (SNEP) 26\nHungarian Albums (MAHASZ) 10\nMexican Albums (AMPROFON) 4\nSpanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) 12\nSwiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 65\nUK Albums (OCC) 5\nHungarian Albums Chart 79\n\u2191 1D Unveil 2013 UK& Ireland Tour!. Official website. February 21, 2012.\n\u2191 One Direction Announces 2013 US Summer Tour. Ryanseacrest.com. April 12, 2012.\n\u2191 Wiki\nRetrieved from \"http://zayn.wikia.com/wiki/Take_Me_Home?oldid=7069\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 12925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zettai-shonen.com/category/financial/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:NDGGVJ4TFNODC4JXSCHFJKUM6DWU45JZ", "length": 12921, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "zettai-shonen.com", "title": "Financial \u2013 Arts & Entertainment | Anime", "raw_content": "The Benefit Of Outsourcing Bookkeeping Services.\nIf you want to grow as a business, there is the need to make sure that you are well organized. One of the areas that need to be organized is the financial accounting as it is very crucial in any business. You need to have a record of how you are making and spending your finances. This will play a good role in ensuring that you can see what should be done as far as finances are concerned. The other thing is that accounting is very essential as far as paying of taxes is concerned. When you can find a reputable and experienced bookkeeping firm you should consider hiring them as it will be beneficial for your firm in the following ways.\nAs a manager or the owner, you need adequate time to address pressing requirements in your firm. You need to make sure that you can offer your hand where it is most needed and give other responsibility to professionals who know how to do them better. Do not carry it on your shoulders when there are professionals around you. You will realize how useless it is to keep an accountant in your business just to be doing a lot of nothing most of the time. To avoid all these issues, you simply need to outsource for the best accounting firm to offer you these services.\nThe other thing that makes outsourcing bookkeepers a better choice is the level of expertise that your business gets. Look for an expert in your such who already has earned a good name to their clients. You will have nothing to worry about since you are sure of the kind of services they are going to offer. You will not have to worry about anything to do with accounting services when you have experts doing the bookkeeping in your business. Find someone who will be able to work within the time limits that you want the information prepared. Ensure that your work is easier by getting quality services for your business.\nThe other thing is that you are able to save money. With an employee, you will be needed to have payroll which will cost you a lot. You will have to pay a lot of wages to your in-house employee as long as they are working for you. Make sure that you save on such expenses if you want to realize much profits in your business. Sometimes you do not need accounting services all the time but you will be needed to pay the employees.\nGuide to Use When Getting a Small Business Loan\nYou might be in need of funds so that you can start or even expand your small business. If you are thinking about getting a loan, here are the many ways that you can learn on how to get one.\nBefore you apply for any credit, it is paramount to make sure that you have taken a look at the many different loans that are available. the reason behind this is that you will find that there are several types of business loans available. You need to make sure that you choose a loan that will serve your needs.\nThe one essential thing you need to do is to make sure that you are fully aware of each investment and what it entails. You need to ensure that you fully understand the terms and that you can manage. In case something is not clear, you should have it clarified. You should avoid a loan that you cannot be able to pay as this will lead your business to get bad debt.\nOnce you have selected the right type of loan; then the other important thing is to ensure that you make the right document. When you are planning to get this loan you need to note that your credit history is critical. Thus, this is the reason that you should make sure that you are ready to show your credit history. That way the facility that is giving you the loan will be able to know how your business operates. You will find that most of the facilities will be curious about the type of business that you are running as well as the money that is moving in and out. The one thing that you should put in mind is that if you require getting a loan without any stress, then you should make sure that you have a statement.\nThe one point you should keep in mind is that if you do not do what is expected, then it might take a long time for the loan to be processed. The other thing that you should know is that you might end up missing out on the investment. This being the case, you should strive to make sure that you have all that is needed.\nKeep in mind that having a loan is essential as it is one of the ways that you can deal with any issues that you have. This being the case then you should ensure that you pay up the small business loan so that it can be available to you when you need it next. One factor that you should note is that when you keep the right credit score, then you will find that it will not be hard for you to get a loan.\nSeptember 21, 2017 imron rosadiFinancial\nFinding The Best Mortgage Lender.\nThe process of buying a home demands a lot and as such you need to be ready for all the preparations that come about with it. Another the thing you look at is the location of the neighborhood where the house is located among other several factors. The multiple factors to look at when buying a house carry with them a burden of too many finances involved and that necessitates most individuals to look for help from a third party in terms of a home loan.\nThe rise of mortgages has enabled a lot of people to own houses of their own which they could not have been able to do on their own. Mortgages cover a long period of time and the borrower is supposed to service the loan as stipulated in the agreement document. Since a mortgage is a financial burden that you will bear for a long period of time, it is important for you to make a good appropriate decision before deciding to take it. A mortgage with a high-interest rate is likely to be cumbersome for you when paying it, therefore when hunting for a mortgage lender, it is vital to go for those who charge less. The financial institution is a major factor that you will look at, some financial institutions are more stable than other, you should, therefore, go for one that has enough finances to finance you.\nYour credit score is one of the major things that the lender considers before advancing a loan to you, and therefore it should be favorable, the higher your credit rating, the higher your chances are of getting approved for the loan. A common way of finding out about the various lenders is by checking online and also getting recommendations from friends so that you can make an informed decision on where to get your home loan from. Different financial institutions have different terms of mortgage repayment, and you should get information about each of them and make a decision on the most favorable one, it is vital that you get some information on issues such as the fees, the principal and the interest payments and the like.\nNormally, the financial institutions will ask for some documents for proof of your identity and your ability to service the mortgage, and as such, it is vital you submit all of them so that you can get the loan.\nThe tax deductibility of the mortgage interest is of benefit since it reduces the payment burden for the borrower. Banks look at your stability before advancing you loans, for example, they look whether you own a home. As you gradually pay the mortgage, your ownership stake in the house in also rising, this is beneficial in that you will finally become the owner of the house.\nSeptember 6, 2017 imron rosadiFinancial\nWhy People Think Classes Are A Good Idea\nThe Merits of Education\nEducation is a process that is taken by individuals so that they can acquire information like knowledge, skills, and values through training. Some of the methods that are used in education include discussion, training, discussion, and storytelling. The methods are mainly conducted by an individual who is responsible for showing others how it is done. It is important that the students are taught well so that they can be in a position to practice what they are taught by their trainers. The training can be done formally or informally. Formal training ios a case where the student or the trainee attend an official organization so that they can be tFormal teaching is mainly done by professionals who have acquired certificates to show that they can taught. ch. The training happens in a setting that is official like the schools. The informal education, on the other hand, is done by people who are professionals and it is delivered in unprofessional settings. The information that is passed allows the people who are being taught to acquire the values and the knowledge that can help them in their lives.\nThe formal education is mainly divided into different stages. The stages include the preschool level, primary school and the secondary among others. This is a system that is followed by an individual. The stages allows the individual to acquire the education from less complicated to most complex and therefore he or she can be able to learn easily. This type of learning happens in most of the states around the world. The majority of the states have passed a law that the children have a right to have education. The parents have therefore a responsible to let their children go to school.\nThere are many courses that are offered in schools around the world. It is the duties of the student to choose the course that he or she wants. A the course will allow the individual to have the preferred career. A career will give the student a job in the market.\nOne of the course is the CPA course.\nA CPA course is taken by those students who want to acquire accounting information on a certificate level. The course stands for Certified Public Accountants.\nThere are certain benefits of taking such a course. One benefit that you should have in mind is that knowledge is power. The skills can be able to take you a notch higher in your life if you apply the knowledge. You can use the information when you are employed, and you can also use it when you open your firm. Ensure that you are informed so that you can be the best among others and therefore you can be able to compete with others.\nJuly 7, 2017 imron rosadiFinancial\nThe Beginners Guide To Funds (Getting Started 101)\nFinancial Planning 2017: Understanding How to Get a Loan\nMoney is considered a lifeline for us to survive every day and borrowing can be beneficial if an emergency situation arise that needs a huge amount of money or a good deal if you want to engage in a sure hit business. But borrowing money can be a complicated process and one mistake can negatively impact your credit rating that might cause loan request rejection. It is crucial to know what to expect and what you can do ahead of time if you really want to get a loan. The first step is basically knowing what type of loan you\u2019ll need, and the reason lies in the purpose or your intention for using the money. The various types of loans include personal loans, home loans or mortgage loans, car loans, business loans, and student or educational loans.\nUsing the appropriate loan that can match your needs improves your chances of getting approved and usually keep your costs lower. The next step is deciding where to borrow, and it is important to shop around, going to appropriate financing agencies or institutions that can offer you the best deals. This is a very important step because for example, if you need to get a student loan, you should try going to your school\u2019s student aid office first to inquire if you can obtain a loan before going to a bank to avail a private student loan. The best places to shop for loans, and compare costs and interest rates are credit unions and banks. It is also important to include other sources in the marketplace such as peer-to-peer loans. You can also access reputable websites with access to multiple lenders. Borrowing money from private lenders like your family or friends may keep the costs low and easily get approved, it may still cause problems like relationships going sour because of disputes and inability to pay on time. It is really tempting getting what you can especially if you have been repeatedly turned down, but this can be very dangerous, so you need to avoid predatory lenders and high-cost loans like rent-to-own programs and payday loans.\nIn getting a loan, it is important to have a credit or a history of borrowing and repaying loans, and having a good credit increases your chance to have your loan request approved immediately with better rates. It is essential to fix any mistakes in your credit files to prevent getting rejected for your future loans. Before signing the dotted line, it is important to understand all the terms and conditions of the loan such as the interest rates, the repayment method, any late fee or penalty charges, and calculations. You can try using online loan calculator or other online tools to get an idea of how much interest a loan can gain for a specific time frame, and other relevant information.\nResearched here: get more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 27958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zrxn.info/a-10-point-plan-for-vaping-without-being-overwhelmed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YT7QS2LKIG2XTIEM3RBQA2N6PG73LB6D", "length": 2734, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "zrxn.info", "title": "A 10-Point Plan for Vaping (Without Being Overwhelmed) | ZRXN Money", "raw_content": "Top Reasons Why You Must Get Different Vape Juice Flavors When You Are Vaping\nE-cigarettes have become so popular in the current times that people smoking cigarettes can now make a switch and use them while still smoking. One of the reasons why e-cigarettes have become very attractive, most especially vaping, is the fact that there are now a wide selection of vape juice flavors to choose from.. With the wide range of vape juice flavors one can choose from, people who vape are now able to select a vape flavor that is suitable to their specific taste. If you are still choosing which vape juice flavor best suits your taste buds, just take your time because there are countless vape juice flavors that you are free to choose from. Vaping has turned out to be the best alternative for smoking among smokers who want to quit their bad habit. There are a lot of benefits when it comes to smoking e-cigarettes than the typical cigarette that you use. If you want to know what these things are, then make sure that you read this article.\nThe main reason why e-cigarettes are invented is to save the lives of chain smokers and make sure that they do not go back to their bad habit of smoking cigarettes filled with nicotine and countless other harmful substances. Another good thing when you smoke e-cigarettes is that you can just do them anywhere you are because they are not composed of a number of harmful substances that you typically find in a real cigarette. Smoking e-cigarettes is also beneficial because you are not endangering other people\u2019s lives with the possibility of second hand smoke. And after you smoke them, gone are the days of worrying that you smell bad. E-cigarettes are still able to create some smoke that have been made from vapor, and this vapor is able to provide different e-juice flavors.\nIf you have a smoking addiction and you want to steer clear from such a bad habit of yours, then it is time that you use e-cigarettes while smoking. One of the most common reasons why e-cigarettes have become ever popular is that smokers will not be bored smoking them because they are free to choose the kind of vape juice flavor they would want to use. The great thing about them is that not only do they offer different flavors for your choosing but also they do not come with the usual harmful effects of smoking the real cigarettes. Therefore, no matter the occasion and you feel that you need to smoke a cigarette, you will not have to worry anymore that you will be smelling bad.\nThus, if you want to be rid of your bad habit of smoking, then it is best that you instead choose the healthy alternative that is e-cigarettes and choose a vape juice flavor that you intend.Why Products Aren\u2019t As Bad As You Think", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2016.epicpeople.org/business-strategy-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AERVSFHLWXSS5ZLLJ5I4FSAFEW77WSJH", "length": 7023, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "2016.epicpeople.org", "title": "Business Strategy Series \u00ab Business Strategy Series \u2013 EPIC2016", "raw_content": "MONDAY, 29 AUGUST, 9:00 am\u201312:00 pm\nUpgrade your business strategy expertise in this series of courses developed and taught specially for EPIC2016 by distinguished faculty from the Carlson School of Management. You\u2019ll learn strategic thinking tools business managers use to assess and respond to opportunities and threats; leadership strategy skills to drive quality organizational transformations; and pricing strategy that fuels innovation through deeper customer and market understanding. Don\u2019t miss a unique opportunity to access customized instruction from internationally renowned scholars and consultants. Registration for the Business Strategy Series is open to the public.\nInstructor: Dan Forbes, Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship\nRead about this course\nLeading through Quality: Strategy and Execution\nInstructor: Kevin Linderman, Curtis L. Carlson Professor in Supply Chain & Operations\nPathmaking Pricing\nInstructor: Mark Bergen, James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing\nCOURSE 1: Monday, 29 August, 9\u201310:00 am\nInstructor: Dan Forbes, Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota\nSome organizations are more effective than others. This fact is readily apparent to customers, employees and investors, among others. But what makes some organizations more effective? One factor is strategic thinking, or the ability to think clearly about an organization\u2019s current situation and the pathways it must navigate to get better. This session will introduce you to some of the key concepts and processes that business managers use to think strategically, including tools for understanding an organization\u2019s internal and external environments. By working with these tools, you can strengthen your ability to recognize and respond to the opportunities and threats organizations encounter.\nDaniel Forbes teaches in the Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship department at the Carlson School of Management. He has also been named a Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. Since joining the Carlson School in 2000, Dan has taught courses on strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship to students in the MBA, undergraduate and executive education programs. His research investigates how new ventures can attract critical resources (e.g., financing and people), among other topics. He also works closely with a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations and with initiatives that connect the University of Minnesota with businesses and communities throughout the state, including the Carlson Ventures Enterprise, the Program on Product Design, the Food Industry Center, the Institute on the Environment, and the Center for Integrative Leadership. In 2013\u201314 he served as a visiting fellow at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. Prior to his academic career, Dan worked in investment banking and as a program manager for a nonprofit organization. He holds a PhD from New York University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.\nCOURSE 2: Monday, 29 August, 10\u201311:00 am\nInstructor: Kevin Linderman, Curtis L. Carlson Professor in Supply Chain & Operations, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota\nOur experience and research teaches us that leaders need to be knowledgeable, diagnostic and courageous in order to lead successful quality transformations. This program helps leaders develop the deep, integrated, strategic knowledge needed to build and sustain a quality advantage. Participants will be encouraged to act at the outer edge of their responsibilities in order to maximize progress within their organizations. At the end of the session, participants will have developed their ability to align improvement activities with the strategic direction of the organization, and use quality to drive organizational transformation and strategic success.\nKevin Linderman is Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Supply Chain & Operations at the Carlson School of Management. He holds MS degrees in mathematics and management science, and a PhD in operations from Case Western Reserve University. Kevin\u2019s research interests in supply chain and operations include quality management, six sigma, lean, innovation, knowledge management, high-tech organizations, and environmental operations. His research has been supported by a National Science Foundation and he has won a number of research awards including the Chan Hahn Distinguished Paper Award, Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition Winner (Co-Advisor), Carlson School of Management Research Award, and Journal of Operations Management Top Cited Article Award. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Science, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Quality Technology, and Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.\nCOURSE 3: Monday, 29 August, 11:00 am\u201312:00 pm\nInstructor: Mark Bergen, James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota\nPricing is becoming more than a strategic afterthought\u2014it is a critical capability driving successful innovation, fueling growth and generating transformational profitability for organizations. Business leaders are using deeper ethnographic customer and market understanding on pricing to generate transformational insights, imagine new business models, and expand their strategic vision\u2014they are practicing \u201cpathmaking\u201d pricing. This course presents several examples and provides a toolkit that leaders can use to raise pricing consciousness, build pricing capabilities and practice pathmaking pricing in their organizations.\nMark Bergen is the James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management. For over 25 years he has been teaching, consulting and conducting researching on pricing. His research focuses on pricing and channels of distribution, where he has studied issues such as pricing as a strategic capability, price wars, pricing as truces, pass-through, branded variants, dual distribution, gray markets, co-op advertising, and quick response. Mark\u2019s work has been published in a broad array of scholarly journals and business press, including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Management Science, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Harvard Business Review, and the Sloan Management Review. He has earned numerous awards for teaching excellence and was formerly Associate Dean of Executive Education at the Carlson School. 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The civil ensign is a red ensign with a white cross throughout and the national flag in the upper-hoist corner; the naval ensign is a white ensign with the same canton.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 130.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://420intel.com/articles/2018/07/03/californias-marijuanapocalypse-saw-roughly-350-million-worth-cannabis-products", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ADNSGMHMKV63WZ2E2HGBYWUPZZBYPM3H", "length": 3182, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "420intel.com", "title": "California's 'marijuanapocalypse' saw roughly $350 million worth of cannabis products destroyed", "raw_content": "Home \ud83c\udf3f Marijuana Politics \ud83c\udf3f California's 'marijuanapocalypse' saw roughly $350 million worth of cannabis products destroyed \ud83c\udf3f\nCalifornia's 'marijuanapocalypse' saw roughly $350 million worth of cannabis products destroyed\nAn estimated $350 million worth of cannabis products were destroyed in California yesterday in an event that has been called the Marijuanapocalypse of 2018, writes Calvin Hughes.\nWhen California passed a bill that legalized recreational cannabis for adult use in 2016, they also implemented rigorous production standards that had to be met by any products being sold in a the newly established legal market. For the first 6 months, however, dispensaries and producers were given a grace period, allowing them to get up and running quickly and begin to transfer over to the new regulations as time progressed. That grace period ended yesterday.\n\"Sacramento is seeing possibly up to 8,000 pounds of product that will need to be destroyed,\" Josh Drayton, spokesperson for the California Cannabis Industry Association told WIRED ahead of the Marijuanapocalypse. This will be the fate of many more thousands of pounds of cannabis across the state, as any product that is not up to code must now be disposed of. Millions of dollars worth of cannabis will be taken off the shelves of dispensaries across California and simply thrown out.\n\"Non-compliant flower and pre-rolls will be composted,\" Eliot Dobris\u2014spokesperson for the San Francisco dispensary Apothecarium\u2014said prior to July 1. \"Non-compliant cartridges will be rendered unusable with a hammer and then will be put in the landfill bin.\"\nAnd as if that wasn't bad enough, owners of non-compliant products also had to film themselves destroying their banned products.\n\"[W]e have to do all of this on video,\" Dobris added, \u201cso if there's ever a question, the state can have access to that video.\"\nMany dispensaries across California ran massive blowout sales last week to mitigate the loss of income that follow the 'Marijuanapocalypse.' And the destruction doesn't end with dispensaries either. Businesses further up the supply chain have to grapple with this reality, too.\n\"We have product that has not made its way through our processing system that is still OK,\" explained Cate Powers of Flow Kana\u2014a company that tests and processes cannabis from Northern California farmers\u2014said ahead of the deadline. Despite their best efforts, Flow Kana was unable to process much of the non-compliant cannabis before the July 1. \"So the majority of our inventory is fine. It's only the stuff that was packaged and processed under the previous standards that is at risk.\"\nDrayton admitted this has been a bumpy road, but he hopes it will lead to a better cannabis industry in the end.\n\"We have to remember that yes, that is going to be a growing pain we are going to have to deal with,\" says Drayton. \"But ultimately Prop 64 [California's cannabis legalization legislation] passed through wanting to prioritize public safety and public health.\"\nStill, the Marijuanapocalypse isn't the end of legal cannabis in California for ever, but a temporary hold up in what is an ever expanding industry.\nCalvin Hughes - Civilized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://a4ai.org/the-impacts-of-emerging-mobile-data-services-in-developing-countries-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GWPYEREIRQY7IGQO3555UYWYTRZI6TNJ", "length": 2914, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "a4ai.org", "title": "The Impacts of Emerging Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries - Alliance for Affordable Internet", "raw_content": ">> Read Research Brief No. 1\nRecent years have seen a growing number of initiatives that aim to increase access to and use of mobile broadband, including a range of data service plans that offer reduced-cost or zero-rated data. Despite the growing profile of such services, limited empirical evidence exists on their effectiveness, making it difficult to develop informed recommendations on their use. Through this research, we aim to learn more about the availability, use, and impact of zero-rated and other mobile data service models designed to provide access at lower costs.\nThis series of three short briefs aims to uncover \u201cThe Impacts of Emerging Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries\u201d, drawing on national survey data, key stakeholder interviews, and secondary sources across Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines to determine how mobile data service models impact internet affordability and usage.\nResearch Brief No. 3 | Policy Guidelines for Affordable Mobile Data Services\nHow can we ensure that mobile data services offering \u201cfree\u201d or otherwise subsidised access to the Internet work to increase affordable access an open and empowering web? Drawing on the research findings of the previous two research briefs and interviews with stakeholders across all eight countries, this third and final report in the series offers a set of proposed policy and regulatory guidelines for the provision of zero-rated and other mobile data services in low- and middle-income countries.\nRead Research Brief No. 3 | Policy Guidelines for Affordable Mobile Data Services\nResearch Brief No. 2 | Mobile Data Services: Exploring User Experiences and Perceived Benefits\nWhich of the mobile data services available in developing countries are most commonly being used to connect? How are mobile internet users connecting, why are they connecting, and what are they doing once connected? To gain insights into actual user experiences and perspectives on mobile data services, we surveyed 1,000 mobile phone internet users in each of the eight countries studied. The results give us some much-needed empirical data to inform to the ongoing discourse around emerging mobile data services, such as zero-rating.\nRead Research Brief No. 2 | Mobile Data Services: Exploring User Experiences and Perceived Benefits\nResearch Brief No. 1 | Models of Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries\nWhat are the models of mobile data services available in developing countries? In order to assess the impacts of these data services, we need to know what data service models are available to and used by customers in the countries studied. This first research brief examines the kinds of data plans available in these countries, and develops a typology to help answer questions around the impact of the plans.\nRead Research Brief No. 1 | Models of Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://a4ai.org/wsis10-high-level-event-2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWM7EXNQFVDU4SPREG2ZIHMZ65NGZ2MZ", "length": 1753, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "a4ai.org", "title": "WSIS+10 High-Level Event 2014 - Alliance for Affordable Internet", "raw_content": "Home \u21e2 News \u21e2 WSIS+10 High-Level Event 2014\nWSIS+10 High-Level Event 2014\nThe World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+10 High-Level Event will take place in Geneva, Switzerland June 10-13. A4AI will be participating in the following workshops during the pre-event meetings on June 9:\nInternet Community Partnerships for Development: Creating the Enabling Environment through Capacity and Infrastructure Development and Related Economic Factors\u2014 Organized by Internet Society, an A4AI member. A4AI Policy Manager Kojo Boakye will serve as a panelist.\nConquering the Digital Divide: How public access to ICTs supports development in the information society\u2014 Organized by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Intel Vice President of Sales and Marketing and General Manager of the IntelWorld Ahead Program John Davies will serve as a panelist and represent A4AI.\nUnderstanding the challenges of delivering the Internet to everyone and for everyone\u2014 Organized by Internet Society. Chief Director Issah Yahaya for Ghana\u2019s Ministry of Communications, an A4AI member, will serve as a panelist and represent A4AI.\nThe World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) were two United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The WSIS+10 High-Level Event is an extended version of the WSIS Forum to address the progress made and provide a platform for multi-stakeholder coordination of the implementation of the WSIS outcomes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7.com/archive/9414594/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:03Z", "digest": "sha1:REY363VHX3EYAJTXLQMB67SBGPWTCZKU", "length": 3084, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "abc7.com", "title": "Amanda Knox speaks out on 'Good Morning America' after verdict | abc7.com", "raw_content": "Amanda Knox speaks out on 'Good Morning America' after verdict\nAmanda Knox spoke out on 'Good Morning America' a day after her murder conviction was upheld by an Italian court.\nFLORENCE, Italy --\nAmanda Knox spoke out exclusively on \"Good Morning America\" a day after her murder conviction was upheld by an Italian court.\nKnox was emotional during her Friday interview with \"GMA\" anchor Robin Roberts.\n\"It really hit me like a train,\" she described. \"I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system. They found me innocent once before.\"\nKnox's voice quavered and she paused at times to maintain her composure, but the 26-year-old remained determined to fight the latest ruling in Florence that came down Thursday.\n\"I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair,\" she said.\nKnox is currently living in the Seattle area. It was back in 2007 that she and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first found guilty of murdering Knox's English roommate Meredith Kercher.\nAfter serving four years in an Italian prison, the conviction was thrown out in 2011 because of faulty evidence. However, Italy's supreme court overturned that ruling and an appeals court found Knox and Sollecito guilty again. The court sentenced Knox to 28 1/2 years in prison.\nKnox, currently a student in Washington state, said she saw the verdict online via an Italian television station. She said she intended to wait until her lawyers gave her the news, but \"I couldn't help myself.\"\n\"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My whole family was there and I was listening and I'm the only one who knows Italian and I'm trying to listen and then tell them,\" she said.\nShe made it clear during the interview that she will not go back to Italy willingly and she insists she is innocent.\n\"No, this is wrong, and I'm going to do everything I can to prove it,\" she said. \"This is an experience that I have to testify to, that really horrible things can happen and you have to stand up for yourself.\"\nRoberts asked Knox if she was ready for extradition if Italy seeks to have her sent back.\n\"I'm not,\" Knox said firmly. \"I will never go willingly back.\"\nKnox said she has sent a letter to her lawyer addressed to Kercher's family.\n\"It's in the mail. Mainly I just want them to know that I really understand that this is incredibly difficult, that they've also been on this never ending thing and when the case has been messed up so much, like a verdict is no longer consolation for them,\" she said.\nMeanwhile, Sollecito was also found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 25 years. He was apprehended early Friday at a hotel near the Italian border. He was not arrested, but police took his passport and ordered him not to leave the country.\nSollecito's lawyer told ABC News that he was not trying to flee the country, but rather going to his girlfriend's house in Treviso.\nThere is an appeal process with the latest ruling which could take another year. If it is upheld, then the Italian government would have to start the extradition process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7chicago.com/family/what-moms-really-want-for-mothers-day/1976565/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:IB5QODHSLDNB3J6JLUMH2GQHCPUZOWMJ", "length": 2933, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "abc7chicago.com", "title": "What moms really want for Mother's Day | abc7chicago.com", "raw_content": "What moms are really wanting to get on Mother's Day (KTRK)\nMoms do everything for us, so it can be hard to find the perfect Mother's Day gift to show just how much we appreciate them.\nInstead of trying to find the perfect box of chocolates or bouquet of flowers, we asked moms what they really want for Mother's Day. Here are the honest and sometimes hilarious answers:\n\"A hotel room to myself with a massage and facial, and shoe shopping by myself.\" - Mother of two (5 years and 2 years) from Brooklyn, New York\n\"Brunch with my family then spa the rest of the day.\" - Mother of one (10 years) from Thousand Oaks, California\n\"Botox.\" - Mother of one (13 years) from Simi Valley, California\n\"I want someone, who is not me, to clean my house top to bottom. I would also like world peace, which is probably more attainable.\" - Mother of one (11 years) from St. Louis, Missouri\n\"I would like someone else to clean my house. And then I want two hours in that clean house, completely alone. Quiet, calm, simple.\" - Mother of three (7 years, 5 years and 10 months) from Houston, Texas\n\"I want a quiet weekend where I don't do have to laundry, clean house, vacuum, car pools or dishes. Basically a weekend without the daily chores.\" - Mother of two (12 years and 7 years) from Los Angeles, California\n\"One night of actual sleep... give me a sleeping pill at 8pm and wake me up at 8am\" - Mother of two (4 years and 7 weeks) from High Point, North Carolina\n\"Sleep is number one on my list and to only be awoken by the smell of coffee.\" - Mother of one (9 years) from Brooklyn, New York\n\"I want either family game night or family movie night with all of us in one room laughing and having a good time.\" - Mother of two (15 years and 11 years) from Glen Allen, Virginia\n\"No fighting. No whining. Someone else to cook (and clean up dinner). Added bonus would be car wash and lululemon yoga pants.\" - Mother of three (9 years, 7 years and 2 years) from Englewood, Colorado\n\"I just want the family to plan a family day together without me having to plan anything or anyone asking me 'what do you want to do?'\" - Mother of three (13 years, 13 years and 10 years) from Phoenix, Arizona\n\"I don't have any [biological] children but I do have two stepchildren. What I really want for Mother's Day is to be acknowledged as their bonus mom or at least a mother figure in their life. Mother's Day is extra hard for stepmothers, especially if biomom is still very much involved. It would be nice to know that they appreciate the sacrifices I make and the things I do for them.\" - Stepmother of two (13 years and 8 years) from Lodi, California\n\"I used to ask for a whole day with no mom duty, but now I always ask for an afternoon with all the kids and granddaughter. Times sure change!\" - Mother of three grown children and one grandchild from Houston, Texas\nHappy Mother's Day to all the great moms!\nfamilymother's daymotherhoodparentingbuzzworthyfeel good", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 6673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7news.com/archive/8771888/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7GS4Y7I7WEPBK2J75P6IGGJBGWSFR2DU", "length": 885, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "abc7news.com", "title": "Shooter apprehended after multiple people shot, including law enforcement, near Texas A&M | abc7news.com", "raw_content": "Shooter apprehended after multiple people shot, including law enforcement, near Texas A&M\nCOLLEGE STATION, Texas --\nTexas A&M University says a shooter has been taken into custody near its campus in College Station.\nCollege Station police spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton tells CNN multiple people have been shot, including law enforcement, but she doesn't know the extent of the injuries. Multiple calls to Seaton's cellphone from The Associated Press have gone straight to voicemail.\nThe university issued an alert on its website just before 12:30 p.m. Monday warning of an active shooter near the campus football stadium, Kyle Field. The warning tells residents and students to avoid the area.\nSeaton says the shooting happened within a block or two of campus sometime before 12:45 p.m. She says police have one suspect in custody.\nCollege Station lies about 90 miles northwest of Houston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aboutibs.org/what-is-ibs/gut-bacteria-and-ibs-2.html?tmpl=component&print=1&page=", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MSSGU6BUE53DS5SLHW4OGYVP3XRSBYJQ", "length": 7471, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "aboutibs.org", "title": "Gut Bacteria and IBS", "raw_content": "Bacteria are present in the normal gut (intestines), especially in the lower parts of the intestine. They achieve concentrations of several billion in the colon (large intestine/bowel).\nThese \"normal\" bacteria have important functions in life, including:\nProtecting against infection by disease-causing bacteria\nHelping the immune system of the gut to develop\nProducing a variety of substances that have an important nutritional value\nTogether, the normal intestinal bacteria are often referred to as the gut flora (or microbiota). A number of factors may disturb the mutually beneficial relationship between the flora and the body. When this happens, bacteria that can cause disease may take hold.\nWhat is the Role of Gut Microbiota?\nThere are many exciting developments and discoveries being made about the connection between our gut (digestive system) and our brain and how it affects our health, as well as the role microbes play in this connection.\nIt is important to know that functional GI disorders, like IBS, are not psychological diseases; but we also have to realize that the brain plays an important role. The brain communicates constantly with the microorganisms inside each of us.\nThese microbes have a cooperative relationship with us, not only playing a role in digestion, but also interacting and communicating with our own cells, with our gut and our brain. Gut microbes may provide a link to helping maintain a balance between the brain and the gut.\nLearn more about the gut microbiota\nDo Bacteria Play a Role in IBS?\nThere is now evidence to support the idea that disturbances in the bacteria that populate the intestine may have a role in at least some people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).\nThis evidence from observations or studies can be summarized as follows:\nAntibiotic use, well known to disturb the flora, may predispose individuals to IBS\nSome people may develop IBS suddenly following an episode of stomach or intestinal infection (gastroenteritis) caused by bacteria (a condition called post-infectious IBS or PI-IBS)\nA very low level of inflammation may be present in the bowel wall of some IBS patients, which could have resulted from an abnormal interaction with bacteria in the gut\nSmall intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) may be associated with IBS\nAltering the bacteria in the gut, by antibiotics or probiotics, may improve symptoms in IBS\nIn PI-IBS some people who were previously well develop IBS-type symptoms following an episode of gastroenteritis, while most others recover completely. PI-IBS represents a clear link between exposure to a bacterial infection (such as from contaminated food or water) and IBS in those who seem especially at risk.\nLearn more about PI-IBS\nA number of research studies report a role for inflammation in the bowel\u2019s inner lining (mucosa) in IBS. This is low-grade inflammation and far less than that seen in the true inflammatory bowel diseases, ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease. Interestingly, it has been found among patients in whom there was nothing to suggest that their IBS began with an infection. What suddenly causes this inflammation is not clear. It may be that subtle changes in the bacterial population in the intestines are driving it.\nSome people with IBS may be genetically predisposed to an exaggerated inflammatory response to normal bacteria. While this theory of IBS is in its infancy, there is already some evidence for the extension of the inflammatory process beyond the confines of the gut wall. This could explain some of the symptoms such as tiredness and fibromyalgia that may occur in IBS sufferers.\nFor some time, various studies have suggested the presence of changes in the kind of colonic flora in people with IBS. These changes in the flora could lead to the increase of certain bacterial species, which themselves produce more gas and other products of their metabolism. This could contribute to symptoms such as gas, bloating, and diarrhea.\nIs there a Role for Antibiotics in Treating IBS?\nNormally, bacteria are virtually absent in the acid environment of the stomach and are few in the upper gut. They increase considerably in the lower parts of the small intestine, and then dramatically on crossing into the colon.\nRecently, it has been suggested that the small intestines of some IBS patients have increased numbers of bacteria as well as types of bacteria normally found only in the colon. This condition is called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). A course of antibiotics may improve symptoms, but experts are divided on whether or not SIBO plays a role in IBS.\nThe question remains as to why at least some people with IBS respond to a course of antibiotics. This has most recently been reported in studies of IBS patients treated with the antibiotic rifaximin.\nAnother explanation for these responses may be the suppression of certain species of bacteria in the colon, and especially those bacteria that are prone to produce gas and other substances through fermentation. An improvement of gas-related symptoms, with antibiotic therapy, has been described among a group of patients with bloating and flatulence, who did not have evidence of SIBO. Antibiotics clearly help some IBS patients though how this happens may be more complex than originally thought.\nA prolonged course of antibiotic therapy should be approached with caution, regardless of the safety profile of a given antibiotic. This is an important issue, as IBS tends to be a chronic and relapsing condition. Some people obtain a relatively long-lasting improvement following a single course of antibiotic, but others do not. Results of further long-term studies regarding the use of antibiotics are needed.\nIs there a Role for Probiotics in Treating IBS?\nGiven their safety profile, effective probiotics would, at first sight, appear to be more attractive as a means to influence the gut flora in IBS. Are probiotics effective in IBS? There have been several studies of a variety of probiotics in IBS. It is only recently that these have been of the quality needed to come to firm conclusions. There was some early evidence, although inconsistent, of symptom improvement in \"gas-related\" symptoms.\nMore recently, there has been some evidence of benefit from some probiotic combinations. The best evidence relates to a particular organism, Bifidobacterium infantis 35624. Studies have shown this strain to be superior to placebo in relieving the main symptoms of IBS (abdominal pain/discomfort, difficult defecation, and distension/bloating).\nLearn more about the role of antibiotics and probiotics in treating IBS\nMany recent findings add to a growing body of evidence to suggest that IBS may result, at least in part, from a dysfunctional interaction between our gut flora and ourselves. This leads to a low-grade inflammation in the gut wall that may spill over into other areas of the body.\nSome researchers propose a role for bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine as a common factor in causing the symptoms of IBS. Other evidence points to more subtle changes in the colonic flora. Both hypotheses remain unconfirmed.\nNevertheless, short-term therapy with either antibiotics or probiotics does seem to reduce symptoms among some people with IBS. Whether or not these effects come about through changes in the number or type of bacteria in the colon and/or small intestine, it is evident that manipulation of the gut bacteria deserves further attention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 7998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://access-arabadvisors.com/report/view/id/4383", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CJI4LFZWKBQWFQTHAM5JN6IQFTMX3YG5", "length": 414, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "access-arabadvisors.com", "title": "Arab Advisors Group", "raw_content": "A Scorecard of Key Performance Indicators of Fixed Voice Operators in the Arab World 2016\nThis report provides an analysis of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the fixed voice operators in the Arab World. The report covers nineteen countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, and the UAE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 46.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://access.nyc.gov/location/childrens-aid-society-milbank-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2HEE26G3ITEQK6GQIVPJACSAE5ZTZNRK", "length": 78, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "access.nyc.gov", "title": "Children\u2019s Aid Society-Milbank Center \u2013 ACCESS NYC", "raw_content": "Children\u2019s Aid Society-Milbank Center\n14-32 West 118th Street, Manhattan 10026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acelebrationofwomen.org/tag/nobel-peace-prize/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:09Z", "digest": "sha1:WFHR6HUJLXT5EKCNT52XNTSYILJBJWK2", "length": 7456, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "acelebrationofwomen.org", "title": "Nobel Peace Prize", "raw_content": "Heroines of Peace \u2013 The Nine Nobel Women\nThe Nobel Peace Prizes at their best set before us an array of great human spirits. Between 1901 and 2014, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 567 times to 889 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 860 individuals and 22 organizations. HERE, you can view the full list of Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates. The 'nine women Prizewinners' clearly belong in this list. They come from a variety of \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: FEATURED, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WOMEN Taking ACTION, WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: Alfred Nobel, Claes Nobel, Heroines of Peace \u2013 The Nine Nobel Women, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Peace Prize, women for peace, women in office, women in science, Women Inventors, women., World Peace, World Peace Day\nMalala Yousafzai, #NobelPeacePrize 2014\nLIVE STREAMING from the press conference with Malala Yousafzai, #NobelPeacePrize 2014. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize. Malala won along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children\u2019s rights activist. The two were named winner of the \u00a3690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway\u2019s former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland - on Friday \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WORLD EVENTS, YOUTH of ACTION\u2122 Tagged With: #NobelPeacePrize 2014, acelebrationofwomen.org, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, UN\nWomen at the center of Economic Activity\nProfessor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh with the objective of helping poor people escape from poverty by providing loans without collateral to support income-generating activities. From Prof. Yunus's personal loan of small amounts of money in the mid-70's to destitute basket-weavers in Bangladesh, the Grameen Bank has advanced to the forefront of a burgeoning world movement toward eradicating poverty through micro-lending. Today it has 8.4 million borrowers of \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, FORMER SOVIET UNION, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, Uncategorized, WOMEN & RECOVERY, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WOMEN Taking ACTION Tagged With: 1995 Beijing Women's Conference, A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, asia, Bangladesh, education, financial independence, girls, Micro-finance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Yunus, Seoul Peace Prize, South Asia, Sydney Peace Prize, UN Women, women's empowerment, women., World Food Prize\nGLOBAL FEMALE LEADERS SUMMIT 2015 \u2013 APRIL 21 & 22, Berlin\nSHAPING TOMORROW\u2018S BUSINESS REALITIES An organization becomes fit for the future through its richness of ideas, approaches and perspectives. More and more women are taking up positions of responsibility on executive and supervisory boards across the world, thereby entering top management. The growing dynamics of this trend cannot be ignored. And one thing is clear: wherever this happens, old patterns of thought are being disbanded. We profit from this increased variety of thoughts, \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: EUROPE, FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, architect, AUDI AG D. Nick Reilly, Berlin, Chairman, Federal Minister of Transport, Germany Tuomo Hatakka, global summits, Michail Gorbatschow, New York, Nobel Peace Prize, Vattenfall GmbH Rupert Stadler, women's summit, women.\nInternational Day of Non-Violence celebrates Gandhi\u2019s Birth, Oct 2\nAs we celebrate around the globe this day, International Day of Non-Violence, we also Celebrate the Life of its namesake. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the British Indian Empire. His father, Karamchand Gandhi (1822\u20131885), served as the diwan (chief minister) of Porbander state. His mother, Putlibai, who was from a Pranami Vaishnava \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS, MAN of ACTION\u2122, Uncategorized, WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Ban Ki-moon, celebrates Gandhi's Birth, Free India, freedom, India, International Day of Non-Violence, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, Oct 2, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, United Nations, Vaclav Havel, woman, women., World Peace\nInternational Day of Non-Violence celebrated OCT 2\nInternational Day of Non-Violence The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence. According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to \"disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness\". The resolution reaffirms \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: AMERICAN [U.S.A.], CANADIAN, FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS, Uncategorized, WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: '..culture and character', A Celebration of Women, awakening, awareness, Conflict resolution skills, Dag Hammarskjold, Decade for a Culture of Peace, education, Ghandi, girls, Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize, non violence, Peaceful warrior, PEACEKEEPERS, women., World Peace\nNelson Mandela \u2013 MAN of ACTION\u2122\nA Celebration of Women\u2122 is elated to Celebrate the Life of this powerful example of empathy, faith, kindness, intelligence, perserverence and strength. Rising above extraordinary circumstance and false persecutions, this awakened male energy thrives teaching our world what true forgiveness and integrity and love really is. Always maintaining his dignity and self respect, entering into the land of politics in South Africa, this man never wavered in his devotion to democracy, equality \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: CA-- USES, FEATURED, MAN of ACTION\u2122, MEN \"Positive Action\", Uncategorized Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, activism, activists, Africa, All-in Africa Conference, awakened souls, boarding school, democracy, equality, equality and learning, freedom, George Cohen, Jongintaba Dalindyebo, KwaZulu-Natal, MAN of ACTION, men, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela - MAN of ACTION\u2122, New York, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, Nonqaphi Nosekeni, racism, South Africa, stop racism, Thembu people, United States\nNOBEL PRIZE DAY- December 10, 2010 *Special Feature incl. ALL Women Nobel Laureates.\nNOBEL PRIZE 2010 Celebrated December 10th! As soon as they arrive in Oslo and Stockholm, the 2010 Nobel Laureates will participate in an extensive programme of events, including press conferences, receptions, Nobel Lectures, concerts and a royal banquet. On 10 December, the Laureates will receive their Nobel Prizes during Award Ceremonies that will be webcast live in full at Nobelprize.org. The evening ends with magnificent Nobel Banquets. Margaret Ward reports from Beijing on the \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: celebration, education, inspirations, life, Nobel Laureates, Nobel Peace Prize, Normway, Oslo, people, Stockholm, woman, women Nobel Laureates, women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 12607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adavidjohnson.com/2018/01/30/steve-bannon-nambla-and-free-speech-when-neutrality-is-picking-a-side/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7IW45OV3LOW3LOX3ZVMAJXIWS2QNW7LZ", "length": 16002, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "adavidjohnson.com", "title": "Steve Bannon, NAMBLA, and free speech: when \u2018neutrality\u2019 is picking a side \u2013 ADJ", "raw_content": "adavidjohnson\tArguing, Politics\t January 30, 2018 January 31, 2018 11 Minutes\nI did listen to the whole context. I also have listened and read to other contexts including interviews and the website he ran that spell out his worldview more thoroughly.\nThe dude is a white nationalist. He believes in a coming civilizational war where an American is someone culturally Christian of European descent and a \u2018foreigner\u2019 is anyone living in the United States who is not.\nI\u2019m being more than fair to Steve Bannon.\nJust because someone believes in an ideology doesn\u2019t mean everything should be interpreted exclusively through that ideology, nor does it justify expanding the scope so broadly.\nFor example, if Steve Bannon says he doesn\u2019t like chocolate ice cream, is this necessarily reflective of his deep-seated hatred of black people?\nI say this because I would argue that many people who aren\u2019t white nationalists probably agree with Bannon on this particular issue. Outsourcing can really suck.\nAh yes, who can forget when Elon Musk, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Grove, Sergey Brin, Jerry Yang, Pierre Omidyar and Charles Pfizer fired their American staff to replace them with H1-Bs. (Or when Steve Jobs, who was born to a Syrian migrant father, tore apart our civic society.)\nIf you want to discuss outsourcing, there are better people to talk than Bannon.\nHis views which are correct are unoriginal and half-baked. His views which are original, and come up every time a rant seems in order, are anti-Semitic, racist, misogynistic and terrible. I don\u2019t think we should be censoring a public figure. But if condemnation is a sin then so is willful elevation of views one judges, as a private body, to be corrosive to civic society.\nYes, but who judges? And by what right? Should it be UChicago who determines what its students should believe, or should it be the students themselves?\nThe University as a private organization. Under the rights afforded to us by our Constitution. Through, you know, the civic society Bannon claims to fight for.\nIf UChicago students have the critical-thinking faculties to contextualise Bannon\u2019s comments they can properly weight a disclaimer. In any case, students aren\u2019t the audience. Packaging the talk with the UChicago logo to be blasted across the country, directly and through the media, is the goal. Bannon is borrowing the University\u2019s credibility and reputation to promote his views\u2013all of them. That cannot be totally avoided. But \u201cnot totally avoidable\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cun-mitigatable.\u201d\nI am not disputing the University\u2019s ability to censor or disavow Bannon. However, doing so abrogates its position of principled neutrality.\nNot sure how familiar you are with the alt-right, but that strategy seems atypical. Bannon is likely not interested in borrowing the university\u2019s credibility, as the followers of his particular ideology are deeply skeptical of the university as an institution. I think Bannon is spoiling for a fight to regain some relevance in the aftermath of his humiliating dismissals from the White House and Breitbart News. Taken this way, his motives are likely more personal than any grand scheme.\nYou hold the University\u2019s principled neutrality higher than it not affiliating with anti-Semites. I disagree and hope the University does too. There is no rule placing one principle over another, and in fact, this is a matter of contemporary social consequence.\nSure, and I think we both agree that the university cannot have it both ways. If they believe that principled neutrality is not as important as taking sides against an anti-Semite, then they should do that.\nAnyhow, I do think that we are better off in the long run if educational institutions are neutral. Let the burden of judgment fall upon the people, not the administrators.\nSo, a few of things from above, and note that I\u2019m coming at this from a different perspective than H0 but I think similar to H2.\nFirst, not everything a biased person says is indicative of that bias. However, many things they choose to say and not say certainly are. That we\u2019ll never know for certain for each particular thing is not actually very important. I\u2019m going to come back to this analogy because I find it to be usefully stark and shocking, but if a member of NAMBLA tells me that he really enjoys youth soccer or I find him reading a children\u2019s swimsuit catalog, I don\u2019t think the fact that he also is an Arsenal fan or also has a nephew to be more relevant information in interpreting his statements and conduct than a general bias he\u2019s well established.\nThat is, looking for evidence to find some interpretation that\u2019s most exculpatory is not equivalent to being fair-minded; it is just the opposite.\nSecond, the University of Chicago is not behaving in a neutral way by providing him a platform. By inviting him and saying someone with his views is worthy of listening to and considering, they are not necessarily taking his side, but they are making a seat for him on one side of the table. Again, it would not be accurate to say that inviting the editor of a publication for child rape would be neutral, even if ostensibly all that publication advocated for was \u2018more enlightened views on high age-discrepant romantic relationships\u2019.\nThe reason I make this comparison is that the difference between raping children and white supremacists is this: one is actually considered bad in itself and the other is bad only when it\u2019s too open about it. But someone who wants to create a white ethnostate does not have a non-violent, non-genocidal way to go about doing that.\nAs it is not being overly sensitive of someone to oppose me coming onto campus to say, \u2018Kill such and such person\u2019 or \u2018This is such and such person\u2019s address. Go into their home and drag them out of it and continue beating them up until they stay away\u2019. It\u2019s not being overly sensitive to oppose someone coming to say, \u2018Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if all such and such people were gone\u2019 even if the way that\u2019s carried out is left in some polite ellipses.\nIn any case, we saw exactly this with Milo Yiannopoulus. \u2018Free speech\u2019 is the cry when it comes to saying and encouraging awful things about women in general, lesbians in particular, trans people, minorities, expats. Freedom freedom freedom, freedom of speech, neutrality. But then it came out the dude also says sex with minors is a good thing, and everyone realized that, actually, you can fairly easily shun someone who regularly endorses awful things, so long as you actually consider it awful beyond the point of debate.\nIt\u2019s worth asking, \u2018Well, where is the line exactly then?\u2019 And the answer, as I think H2 already said, is that it\u2019s where the student body, faculty, alumni, and donors in particular collectively tell them.\nIf they invited someone from NAMBLA to speak on the subject of age of consent laws, I assume the general reaction would be that such a person\u2019s views are regarded as deviant, to be outside the standard deviations considered acceptable, debatable, or even provocative\u2014to not be within the reasonable spectrum of views on that subject\u2014akin to a flat-earther speaking at a geology conference or mercantilist giving an economics lecture on why gold and silver reserves are the chief measure of national strength, except with the added threat of intrinsic violence added to both of these.\nThere are worse people than Steve Bannon. But that\u2019s an argument for also shunning people like Richard Spencer, Andrew Anglin, and Yiannopoulus, not treating Bannon as someone whose views are more palatable by comparison.\nIf the line is wherever the mob decides it is, what\u2019s to stop them from censoring anyone they find disagreeable? Or to meet words with violence, as we have seen in many instances? After all, is it not the majority opinion on college campuses today that speech can constitute a form of violence? (No seriously, there was a shocking survey that showed something like an 80/20 split in favor.)\nIf someone at the university thinks someone at NAMBLA or the Flat Earth Society is worth hearing, then they should invite them. I doubt very many people will show up though. I wouldn\u2019t. And feel free to protest them, so long as you do not harass or commit violence against the people who do turn up to listen.\nI don\u2019t see how faculty, other staff, students, and alumni expressing their disapproval with someone, even vociferously, is a mob.\nAnd again, \u2018meeting words with violence\u2019 is not really accurate when those words involve inherent violence. \u2018Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?\u2019 to \u2018Someone should knock the crap out of that guy\u2019 to the laissez-faire police state in modern Russia where it\u2019s understood that if something bad happens to an opposition figure, there will be no consequence. Milo Yiannonpoulous is a much more petty sort of figure, but when he singles out a trans student attending a university for extended ridicule and scorn because they used a bathroom, that\u2019s not harmless.\nAs we\u2019ve seen with the University of Washington and Charlottesville, it\u2019s not two equally or undistinguishably bad actors involved on opposite sides. You have a movement whose primary goal is to eliminate the existence of other groups of people, by murder, forced expulsion, or making them too afraid to live their lives openly, and another group whose goal is to stop that and disappears in the absence of the threat.\nIf someone at a university thought it was a good idea to invite someone from NAMBLA to talk about consent, and that person bothered to spend some time on stage talking about some particular student at the university and their young boy\u2014or even about how hiding a sexual relationship with a boy from his parents is perhaps maybe justifiable\u2014you would hope that no one showed up.\nBut it is the issue that more people than you\u2019d think would show up, some maybe only curious, but enough to embolden the others. And the faculty member doing the inviting would not be a neutral or disinterested party the moment he extended dignity of the University of Chicago to such a person, at least to anyone with their own children or who cared about other people\u2019s.\nThere is only one question we need to bother with: Are words equivalent to violence? If the answer to that is yes, then the only appropriate response is violence, either that of the state in the exercise of police powers or that of the individual in self-defense.\nSo the faculty of the University of Chicago are only allowed to invite people that meet a set of qualifications that nobody has written down anywhere? Do you realize how dangerous and stifling that is?\nAlso, I hope you do realize that what you\u2019re saying puts you on the wrong side of history. All censorship does, whether it is the soft variety or the hard, is allow bad ideas to fester. We should encourage these ideas to come out so that they may be marginalized in the public square. Besides, Bannon, for better or worse, has relevance in today\u2019s politics. It is important to understand his ideas and examine why they exist and hold sway. (We can separate listening from believing, I hope.)\nIt is obvious that words are equivalent to violence depending on the words, and our law already treats it as such. \u2018I\u2019m going to kill you\u2019 is a terroristic threat, and in Texas, where I\u2019m from, it\u2019s listed under assaultive offenses.\nThe response to violence is self-defense, and one of the tactics is to present an intimidating front that makes attempts at aggressive violence seem less likely. Dozens of neo-Nazis descending on a town with torches and clubs to hold a rally about how the Holocaust didn\u2019t go far enough should be met with hundreds of people willing to do violence in self-defense because at the point where four anti-Semites with cudgels stand over a Jewish person, they stop caring so much about principles of free speech and rigorous logic in debate.\nUniversity of Chicago faculty are, at present, apparently allowed to invite anyone they want without restriction. And I\u2019m saying that students, staff, faculty, alumni, are allowed and ought to be encouraged to cause so much friction when an abominable person is invited that abominable people are not invited.\nSteve Bannon does not have anything important or novel to say about any subject, and you don\u2019t need a white supremacist to understand white supremacy. They are the least helpful people in understanding it, in fact.\nIf you censor Nazis from your bar, you make it a place welcoming for all the people who would be a target of Nazis. Because Nazis are like dudes who smear themselves in shit. If you say, \u2018We welcome everyone into our bar, no matter how much human waste they have caked on them,\u2019 at some point, very quickly, that bar will only be filled with people caked with shit because those are the only people who don\u2019t mind being surrounded by it.\nI have no problem with shunning and shaming out of public anyone who believes that other human beings ought to be murdered for their unalienable characteristics, even if they want to make that point terribly politely.\n\u201cWe should encourage these ideas to come out so that they may be marginalized in the public square\u201d\nHow do you think marginalization in the public square occurs? What we\u2019re suggesting here, disclaiming a public speaker whose discourse (and implicitly views) a university has chosen to elevate from the background, is precisely that.\nWell, there is no clear and present danger, and there is a difference between \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d and \u201che ought to be killed.\u201d However, Bannon said neither of those things. If you\u2019re going to argue that his supporters do, well, then nobody can speak for fear of some extremist committing crime on his or her behalf.\nYour local bar does not have a position of principled neutrality like a university does.\nI really wish you would stop conflating white nationalists/supremacists with the alt-right. You\u2019re making them seem a much bigger threat than they are, and this is the sort of thing that empowers them, not dis-inviting them from a university lecture. Your refusal to understand your enemies is also troubling.\nH2: Not like this. And come on, you really think the university is the one doing this? The media and our political system were the ones who made Bannon relevant\nIf you\u2019re not aware of how deeply in the tank Steve Bannon is for white supremacists, and how the alt right is a full synonym for that, I highly recommend you read more about it.\nBuzzFeed\u2019s investigation based on leaked Breitbart internal emails is a good start.\nDavid Neiwert\u2019s Alt America is a book but also worthwhile, especially because you seem to think the threat of literal violence and homicide is being overblown.\nYou can be ignorant of their relationship, but only by being willfully ignorant.\nMeanwhile, if your position is that ethnic and sexual minorities should feel safer walking into a bar than around a university campus, that says a lot about our ability to come to any understanding.\nI am aware of the overlap between white supremacy and the alt-right, as well as the alt-right and conservatives, but conflating them in various ways is extremely unhelpful.\nOh man. Buzzfeed? Come on. You are not helping your case pushing an article from that news source. Their strident partisanship and willingness to publish totally unsubstantiated news has dragged their credibility into the gutter. Pew found that they were the most distrusted news source in the country on both the left and the right. 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Furthermore, if a Meth addict used other drugs with Meth, withdrawal symptoms could be extreme. They don\u2019t advise Meth withdrawal without proper medical treatment, because some symptoms may be life-threatening.\nPsychological Meth Withdrawal Symptoms Include:\nPhysical Meth Withdrawal Symptoms Include:\nIntense craving for methamphetamines\nShaking and tremors\nDuration of Methamphetamine Withdrawal\nSymptoms of Methamphetamine withdrawal start after the first or second day of quitting. Additionally, the process can last between four weeks and three months. Similarly, the duration mainly depends on the users\u2019 history of Meth use like how heavily and frequently they used the substance.\nThe time span of withdrawal also majorly depends on various other factors, such as:\nThe user\u2019s method of abuse (swallowing, snorting, smoking or injecting)\nMetabolism (how quickly the body is bale to eliminate the substance)\nSeverity of addiction\nDuration of addiction\nMeth Withdrawal Timeline\nMethamphetamine withdrawal starts within the first two days after the last dose of Meth was taken. Moreover, the process can last from few weeks or can continue up to three months.\nDays 1-3: Between the first and third day, extreme fatigue may set in, and users might find it hard to stay awake. As a result, they will sleep more than usual. This is also accompanied by a mild case of depression.\nDays 4-10: During the period, the user may be tempted to revert to the drug, and has to refuse strong cravings to use again. During this time frame, mood swings, difficulty concentrating, and sleepless nights happens commonly. In addition, other severe symptoms include paranoia, hallucinations and extreme anxiety, headaches, and soreness.\nDays 11-30: Some of the physical symptoms may wear off between Day 11 and Day 30. However, the majority of users reported that they continue to experience insomnia, depression and unceasing cravings for Meth.\nDays 31-40: When addicts reach the one month mark, they usually start to feel better and function normally. However, depression and lack of motivation still linger on. Their Meth cravings usually fade away, but they may still face the temptation to start using again.\nTreatment for Meth Withdrawal\nInpatient rehabs are the best possible solution for those who choose to undergo the withdrawal process. Because withdrawal symptoms are severe, they advise strongly that users shouldn\u2019t do the process alone.\nAt inpatient rehab centers, patients first go through the detox process. This is when Meth withdrawal symptoms start to appear. Therefore, as part of their treatment plan, the majority of centers provide medically assisted detox.\nFor Meth addicts who can still function normally in their daily life, outpatient treatment is also an option. This also includes outpatient medical detox.\nMethamphetamine was a revolutionary discovery in 1893. They continued to use it until the very end of World War ll. However, after 1945, they discovered more and more side effects. As a result, they decided the addictive properties far outweigh its few benefits.\nToday, the medical community do not recognize Methamphetamine as a viable medicine. 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Space & Rocket Center/Space Camp in Huntsville children from 9 to 18 years of age can learn about being an astronaut and experience the sensations of space travel while learning about the moon and Mars and how to build rockets among many other things.\nThe U.S. Embassy and Libya are now accepting applications for the 2019 U.S.-Libya Space Camp Scholarship Program that will give Libyan students and educators the opportunity to challenge themselves in an elite training centre designed for the top scientists and astronauts from around the world.\nThe U.S. Embassy, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Libyan organization Hexa, will select up to 12 students (ages 15 \u2013 18) as well as one educator focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects to represent Libya at the U.S Space Camp facility in Huntsville, Alabama for one week in August 2019.\nSelected participants will take part in a comprehensive program designed to promote interest in space science and exploration as well as global cooperation. Selected students will be challenged both academically and physically through extended-duration missions and experiencing microgravity in the Underwater Astronaut Trainer. For further information about US Space Camp activities, click here.\nThe 2019 Space Camp Scholarship program falls under the recently renewed U.S.-Libya Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement and commemorates the 10th anniversary of the first U.S. Embassy sponsored Space Camp Scholarship Program for Libyans that was initially launched in 2009. Learn more about the application process, the timeline and receive updates from Space Camp alumni here: www.spacecamplibya.ly\nIn order to apply to the program, students and educators need to complete separate online application forms. All Space Camp activities are conducted in English, therefore English fluency is required for both students and educators. Only Libyan citizens currently residing in Libya will be considered for this program.\nApplication Overview for Students\nApplicants should be students who have a strong interest in and academic aptitude for STEM. A record of relevant academic achievements or professional excellence will be considered, along with leadership skills and the ability to collaborate well in group settings. Applicants must exhibit serious commitment in sharing the skills learned when coming back to Libya, and demonstrate flexibility, open-mindedness, good social skills and maturity. Applicants must also understand that, if selected, they will be expected to fully and seriously participate in all program components during the week, as well as in follow-up activities afterwards in Libya.\nAll Space Camp activities are conducted in English, therefore English fluency is required. Only Libyan citizens currently residing in Libya will be considered for this program.\nEligibility Requirements for Educators:\nMust be 15-17 years of age as of February, 2019.\nHighly proficient in English;\nMust currently attend a High school in Libya and be committed to remaining enrolled in high school in Libya after returning;\nDemonstrate strong leadership potential and interest in STEM\nSustained high level of academic achievement or professional excellence, as indicated by academic and other awards;\nDemonstrate a commitment to community and extracurricular activities;\nHave had little or no prior U.S. study or travel experience in the United States;\nBe mature, responsible, independent, confident, open-minded, tolerant, thoughtful and inquisitive;\nWilling and able to fully participate in an intensive summer program;\nComfortable with campus life, shared living accommodations, travel and interaction with a multinational group of participants from all over the world. Able to adjust to cultural and social practices different from those of their home countries.\nThe deadline is February 15. Apply here: www.spacecamplibya.ly\nApplication Overview for Educators\nApplicants should be experienced STEM teachers who possess leadership skills and the ability to collaborate well in group settings. Applicants must exhibit serious commitment in sharing the skills learned when coming back to Libya. The ideal candidate must also demonstrate flexibility, open-mindedness, and good social skills. Applicants must also understand that, if selected, they will be expected to fully and seriously participate in all program components during the week, as well as in follow-up activities afterwards in Libya.\nEligibility Requirements for Educators\nA full-time teacher in STEM.\nCommitment to continuing to teach STEM;\nBe confident, open-minded, tolerant, thoughtful and inquisitive;\nPrevious articleThe power of Collaboration in Space Technologies\nNext articleAccessing Space with the ISS Bartolomeo Platform", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 14794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aggressivedefense.com/types-of-drug-crimes-charges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VSRDIHRWDCKJ2GLHLNCE5F7HULCPPNSZ", "length": 2764, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "aggressivedefense.com", "title": "Types of Drug Crimes & Charges | The Law Offices of Richard J. Fuschino Jr.", "raw_content": "From a state and federal level, there are many different types of drug crimes. State drug laws can vary from federal drug laws, which carry longer sentences. Whichever type of crime is involved, a drug conviction can have severe consequences. When you\u2019re charged with a drug crime, consult with the best drug case lawyers for the right representation.\nBefore contacting a law firm, understand what types of charges drug crimes can carry. Here\u2019s an overview of what kind of charges you can be facing.\nDrug paraphernalia is any type of equipment used to prepare, inhale, inject, or conceal any illegal drugs. Whether it\u2019s syringes, pipes, bongs, rolling papers, or other types of drug paraphernalia, you can be charged with a crime. Many types of paraphernalia are made to look as if they\u2019re designed for legal purposes, attached with a label for tobacco use only. Even so, you can be charged depending on how the item looks when it\u2019s seized.\nDrug possession is a crime under both federal and state drug laws and a person can be charged with simple possession or possession with the intent to distribute. Simple possession is when you\u2019re charged with a small quantity of drugs. A larger amount can lead to the charge of possession with the intent to distribute and more severe penalties. Charges can vary in terms of punishments and penalties depending on the drug in question and the amount charged with.\nIt is illegal to transport, import, or sell illegal substances and carries a felony charge. Drug trafficking and distribution carries a more severe penalty than possession and the sentence can be anywhere from three years to life imprisonment.\nWhen you\u2019re producing or delivering drugs, you can be charged with a crime under both federal and state laws. Prosecutors must prove intent to manufacture and possess in order to achieve a conviction as a drug manufacturer. With the right representation, you can receive a lesser sentence. One important distinction is the manufacturing and cultivation of marijuana, which can come with a lesser sentence because of medical exceptions.\nDrug dealing is the act of selling illegal drugs on a smaller scale. It\u2019s a little different than drug trafficking, as dealing refers typically to one person selling a smaller amount and carries a less severe punishment. When you\u2019ve been charged with a drug dealing offense, you need the right representation from experienced attorneys that understand the various drug laws.\nWhen you need representation for a drug crime, contact The Law Offices of Richard J. Fuschino, Jr. today. Our team will provide proper representation for your case. Whether you need a drug lawyer, criminal defense, or DUI attorney in Philadelphia, we\u2019re ready to hear your case and represent you in court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aidsdatahub.org/Singapore-Anonymous-Test-Site-Statistics-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FWEFD6B76PRBR5FXMLAB2FY5M5QBJKLN", "length": 391, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "aidsdatahub.org", "title": "Anonymous Test Site Statistics 2013. Action for AIDS Singapore. (2014) | Download HIV Publication, AIDS Presentation, PPT, PDF", "raw_content": "Singapore Anonymous Test Site Statistics 2013\nAnonymous Test Site Statistics 2013. Action for AIDS Singapore. (2014)\nAction for AIDS runs surveys on an ad-hoc basis to help us understand the current situation of risk groups and their demographic profiles, including their profiling their key attitudes, behaviour and values. You can also find official statistics from the Ministry of Health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 11152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aintmarching.net/category/organizing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:733KI5QOJ3MO2YWH5EPCFBNQQ3ZSTJA7", "length": 9563, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "aintmarching.net", "title": "organizing | I Ain't Marchin' Anymore", "raw_content": "The road to revolution via\u2026Julia Davis?\nThe TV cameras are gone now. So are most of the veterans I was tracking and wrote about for Guernica, upon the request of the Standing Rock elders. Everyone knows that last week\u2019s decision was only a battle won, and that the struggle continues: the drilling below Sioux land isn\u2019t even completely stopped, the company having decided that it\u2019s easier to pay fines to the Army Corps of Engineers even at $50,000 a day. But there seems to be a pause in the satyagraha at that location, as everyone regroups.\nMe? I\u2019m still in Philadelphia, musing about the big picture. I told my wife as she left for work, \u201cI\u2019m going to show that the Oceti Sakowin protests all began in Philadelphia.\u201d By Philadelphia I mostly meant Chester native Bayard Rustin, who said long ago: \u201c\u201cOur power is in our ability to make things unworkable. The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don\u2019t turn.\u201d And I meant Quakers, who\u2019ve been making trouble since before Philly was founded in 1682.\nThe thread I\u2019m noticing now traces at least back to Thoreau, who told peers he was \u201cmore of a Quaker than anything else, and anti-slavery iconWilliam Lloyd Garrison, a non-Quaker but a fellow traveler like me (I call myself an \u201caspiring Quaker.\u201d) Garrison, who got his start editing a Quaker anti-slavery newspaper, urged and practiced \u201cnonresistance,\u201d a kind of proactive pacifism based in part on Thoreau\u2019s \u201cOn Civil Disobedience.\u201d\nI knew \u201cnonresistance\u201d from how it was used by World War I conscientious objectors like Evan Thomas, but if I\u2019d been an actual historian I\u2019d have known how ubiquitous a term it was among progressive types in the 19th century. It was even global, a favorite word of War of 1812 veteran Leo Tolstoy, who wrote a letter to America, praising Thoreau and Garrison as pioneering visionaries:\nI\u2019d like to ask the American people why they do not \u201c>pay more attention to these voices (hardly to be replaced by those of financial and industrial millionaires, or successful generals and admirals), and continue the good work in which they made such hopeful progress.\nTolstoy went on to become a leading exponent of radical Christianity, and a pen pal of a young South African named Mohandas Gandhi.\nFrom Gandhi we can go back to talking about Bayard Rustin, Quaker thanks to his eminent and charismatic grandmother, Julia Davis Rustin. Julia mentored Rustin as he went to work for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which had been practicing the Quaker \u201cpeace witness\u201d since 1915 and sent Rustin, the FOR\u2019s \u201cyouth secretary,\u201d across the country as a \u201cPeace Ambassador.\u201d She visited Rustin in prison when he went there instead of serving in World War II, and cheered him on when he went in 1948 to India, newly freed by Gandhi\u2019s movement.\nRustin arrived in India right after Gandhi died, but he met with many of those who\u2019d helped him perfect the technique they had named satyagraha. The Indian activists admired Rustin\u2019s own nonresistance, including the very first Journey of Reconciliation in 1947. And he came back bursting with ideas about using satyagraha on behalf of African-Americans. Soon, he was crossing the country to talk about how to use nonviolence to fight both militarism and racism.\nHis workshops were electric, one of its participants said years later. They had \u201cactually talked about the history of nonviolence, the history of Gandhi\u2026Thd whole philosophy of the use of nonviolent direct action to accomplish your goals and your purposes: That really appealed to me.\u201d Once trained, many put it to use trying to integrate lunch counters, restaurants, pools. From that phase of the civil rights movement to now is too much for one essay, and includes both Philip Berrigan and ACT-UP, which was founded in 1987, a few years before Rustin died.\nI haven\u2019t included anything here about Native American practice of nonresistance, or wondered if any contemporary Native activists have any use for Rustin or the Quakers. However, I suspect that this peace might be incomplete without it.\n(Photo: Joe Brusky, Flickr.)\nEllsberg on Manning\nListening now to the audio (available here): the voice of a young techie like so many I know, more comfortable describing the software he used as an intelligence analyst than his thoughts and emotions around the war crimes he wanted to expose.\nBut when he describes the Collateral Murder video, the anger comes out scorn for \u201cwhat sounded like bloodlust.\u201d Riveting.\nBefore I talk about it any more, here\u2019s the best authority on what Manning has done: Daniel Ellsberg, whose similarly groundbreaking leak occurred in what now feels was a gentler time. (And yes, I know we\u2019re talking about the Nixon era.) Many thanks to Democracy Now for a terrific interview..\nMen and MST: getting to the core of it\nJanuary 14, 2013 January 15, 2013 / chrislombardi\t/ 2 Comments\nAnother military rape scandal \u2014 this one at Lackland Air Force Base. A very few of you might have guessed my first thought: \u201cGround Hog Day. When will they learn?\u201d\nI say that because it\u2019s nearly 18 years since a similar scandal at Aberdeen Proving Ground changed my job description and catalyzed the formation of the short-lived Survivors Take Action Against Abuse by Military Personnel (STAAAMP\u2014 the link is to its ghost site at archive.org, since STAAAMP stopped existing as a nonprofit org a decade ago.) Back then, scandals at Tailhook, the Air Force Academy (the 1993 one), and a monumental 1995 Veterans Administration study had cracked the ice somewhat, and I was already talking to survivors of what we now call MST every week. Then came December 1996, when those brave young basic-training women came forward. Above, the image I chose to illustrate the peerless Kathy Gilberd\u2018s article about it all, for a magazine I edited.\nA lot has changed since then for the good, of course. Congress mostly gets it, which is why they scheduled hearings on Lackland for January 23. Columbia University\u2019s Helen Benedict wrote an iconic book on the subject.Visionary filmmaker Kirby Dick made the documentary those brave survivors deserved, which has been nominated for an Oscar this year. And STAAAMP has largely been replaced by the super-competent Service Women\u2019s Action Network and the grassroots VetWOW and Protect Our Defenders.\nAnd still, per the LA Times:\nHearings began this week for Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, a Houston recruiter facing life on charges of rape and pursuing illicit relationships with 18 women, according to Air Force Times.\nLast week, Staff Sgt. Christopher Jackson, 29, became the sixth basic training instructor convicted of sexual misconduct since April. Jackson received 100 days in jail, 30 days\u2019 hard labor and was demoted to airman first class, but was allowed to remain in the Air Force.\nTen others are headed to court, including Master Sgt. Jamey Crawford, who waived an evidentiary hearing this week, and faces up to 22 years in prison is convicted on charges sodomy, adultery and giving a false official statement, according to the San Antonio Express-News.\nAt least now, when it happens, even the current Defense Secretary (thanks to that film!) knows the problem is both endemic and systemic. And next week\u2019s hearings will feature both SWAN and a multi-generational group of MST survivors, including the impressive Jenny McClendon (seen here when the scandal first broke). McClendon has\u201dcautious optimism\u201d about the hearings, she told reporters this week.\nBut as my dear friend Lily Casura (founder of Healing Combat Trauma.com) points out in San Antonio News-Express, the hearings will lack one important ingredient: representation from male Lackland victims. None have yet come forward. Yet the national numbers imply that there must be some. Casura reflects on the possible reasons:\nIt\u2019s hard for men (or women) to talk about it, and apparently even more so for men. Of the same active-duty males of every service surveyed who were assaulted, more than four in every five (85 percent) didn\u2019t report.\nMen don\u2019t report for reasons ranging from thinking it wasn\u2019t important enough or not wanting anyone to know, to doubting the report would stay confidential, or being afraid of retaliation, reprisal, being labeled a troublemaker, or concerns about affecting promotion.\nBut there\u2019s also personal shame involved when a man is assaulted. I recently interviewed a former Marine, one of the few men featured in \u201cThe Invisible War\u201d documentary on MST. He was gang-raped on active duty by other Marines he worked with. Did he report? Absolutely not. \u201cI was embarrassed, scared, didn\u2019t know what to do at the time, so I denied everything,\u201d he says. \u201cBig mistake.\u201d\nHe also went back to work after the assault. \u201cI sucked it up like a man,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI didn\u2019t think anyone would believe me. I know the culture.\u201d\nI know the culture. That sentence summarizes why, I think, the issue has been stinking up the military for so long \u2014 despite all the earnest commissions and exposes. There\u2019s deep work to be done on making the system\u2019s jurisprudence and reward system more just, and SWAN and POF are right to fight for it. But I fear that there\u2019s a far broader conversation about military \u201cmasculinity\u201d that few are ready for yet, and without it you might get no more than cosmetics.\nStill, I wish them all \u2013 the survivors, the groups, Congress \u2014 godspeed on trying to move this forward. And the reporters covering these hearings should also ask the probable new Secretary of Defense how he plans to confront this, especially as these wars wind down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 26612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alamosanews.com/article/war-hero-dies-on-independence-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:D3JPPWEUP657CACMHP7ZHPCS4WEJRLSD", "length": 2691, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "alamosanews.com", "title": "Alamosa News | War hero dies on Independence Day", "raw_content": "ALAMOSA \u2014 It seemed fitting that David Buckley died on the Fourth of July.\nHe was a war hero who lived a life of exemplary service to his country, family, friends \u2014 and even strangers.\n\u201cHe had a big heart. He would do anything for anyone, would take the shirt off his back,\u201d his son David said. \u201cHe would tell me \u2018I can\u2019t say no to anybody\u2019.\u201d\nSergeant David Allen Buckley, who turned 70 on April 14, made the paper nearly 50 years ago when he made a surprise visit to family after returning from Vietnam. The Valley Courier headline read: \u201cHome from Vietnam: Many Medals For Alamosan.\u201d\nThe Vietnam veteran earned numerous medals including the Purple Heart during his two-year service in the U.S. Army, which left him permanently wounded. An Alamosa High School Class of 1965 graduate, David Buckley entered the service on June 7, 1967. He was wounded in Vietnam and received the Purple Heart in September 1969. In addition, among the nine medals he received were the Army Good Conduct Medal and Air Assault Medal.\nThe young sergeant was a member of the Combat Infantry 11-B, ninth Division, and was awarded the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross and Meritorious Unit Citation.\nSgt. Buckley was shot in the back and suffered malaria twice while in the service. Because of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) he suffered as a result of his wartime service, he was most comfortable living in his off-the-grid home on Mount Blanca where he enjoyed arrowhead hunting, antler gathering and just being a mountain man.\n\u201cHe loved it up there,\u201d his family said.\nBefore settling on the mountain, however, the Vietnam veteran spent time working as a carpenter, mechanic and jack-of-all-trades. Although most of his life was spent in his native San Luis Valley, he also worked from the mid 1970\u2019s to early 1980s in Las Vegas, Nevada.\nHe was the son of John Buckley of Romeo and Mary McAllister of Alamosa and had numerous siblings. His sisters Shelly Porrello, Midge James and Donna Waters survive, while he was preceded in death by his brother Aaron and sisters Brenda and Jeannie.\nThe sergeant\u2019s son David was able to spend the last two months with his father, since he was diagnosed with cancer this spring, and plans to move to his dad\u2019s place on Mount Blanca. Daughter Wendy lives on the East Coast. Sgt. Buckley had two grandchildren, David III and Jannine, and one great granddaughter Amara.\nHis family summed him up this way. \u201cEveryone that met him loved him. He was an all-around good guy.\u201d\nSLV Red Cross program manager shares experience in disaster area\nDavis featured in hot rodding book\nCouple creates podcast to highlight parks\nIt seemed fitting that David Buckley died on the Fourth of July.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 177.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aleteia.org/2018/11/11/why-you-should-take-cemetery-walks-during-the-month-of-november/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BTCRT44H6L32EG7EYY6DZNVXBDEBSVL4", "length": 3449, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "aleteia.org", "title": "Why you should take cemetery walks during the month of November", "raw_content": "Why you should take cemetery walks during the month of November\nCecilia Pigg | Nov 11, 2018\nWhile it may seen strange, walking amidst the graves of those who've gone before us is amazingly edifying.\nMariette Robinson, 1840-1902\nAs I pass this simple, small headstone and then some ornate larger ones, I look up to the big gray November sky. There are still a few leaves on the trees, but most are on the ground, crunching under my feet. I feel a somber peace, as I\u2019m surrounded by reminders of people who lived and died before me, many of whom spent their lives in my town.\nWho were they? I wonder about the lives they led. What about Mariette? Was she warm and loving, with a personality that could fill a room? Was she quiet and serious? What made her happy? What did she do in her life?\nAnd what am I doing? How do I want to be remembered when I die?\nI love walking in cemeteries. One of my friends introduced me to the practice, and I learned what a powerful experience it can be. Since then, I find cemeteries in new places I visit. Often, the older the cemetery, the more beautiful it is.\nNot only is a cemetery a peaceful place to be, it also provides a good opportunity to pray for the dead. It\u2019s a great work of mercy to pray for the people who have gone before us, especially in the month of November \u2014 a month where the Church reminds us to remember the faithfully departed. One way to do this is to pray the traditional prayer \u201cMay the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace\u201d while walking around. What I like to do is stop in front of a few specific graves for a few seconds throughout my walk, and pray for those people individually. So, using that prayer, for example: \u201cMay the soul of Mariette, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.\u201d\nI keep in mind cemetery etiquette as I walk and reflect. I stay on the paths that are already made and marked, and take a look at whatever rules are posted for that particular cemetery when I enter it. It\u2019s more respectful not to touch the headstones while walking along, as some are very old, and could easily be damaged.\nThese cemetery walks have a great way of keeping me grounded. I don\u2019t live near any cemeteries where people I know are buried, but I\u2019m still prompted to remember them and reflect on their lives as I walk. And even thinking about strangers, and wondering what their lives must have been like, helps me consider my own life. What do I worry about every day? What are my goals? Are they centered on me? Or do they help and take into account people around me? After I die, how will people remember me? As someone who cared about them? Or someone who cared about myself?\nSome of the things that I allow my mind to be preoccupied with every day just aren\u2019t very fruitful. The endless worries, distractions, and frustrations that I dwell on don\u2019t help me love others around me, they just keep me a little grumpy and focused inward.\nAs I walk and roll these thoughts around in my mind, I look around again. The leaves are falling, and there\u2019s a nip in the air. But I know the cold and gray won\u2019t last forever. Spring will eventually come and everything will be green and alive again. In the same way, I pray that the souls around me will soon see the glory of God in Heaven. And maybe one day, after my death, I\u2019ll make it there and get to meet Mariette Robinson in person.\n5 of the most beautiful, awe-inspiring cemeteries in the world\nDeathPrayer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 8495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allaboutheaven.org/commonsteps/learning-extraction/120", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:EI4KSYHCGMTRX5OEEY3SEFNRTL6KJWBM", "length": 5673, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "allaboutheaven.org", "title": "All About Heaven - Common steps and sub-activities", "raw_content": "Our 5 senses and our nervous system along with the functions of the Mind provide us with Perceptions.\nWhen we learn it is this Perceptions 'log' that is used in order to form Memory and the first step in the process is the extraction of Perceptions. In effect, not every Perception is used to Learn.\nOr to put this another way, not all perceptions from the Perceptions log are extracted. Thus, right from the word go, we are to a certain extent limiting what is in our Memory by what is extracted. The selection and extraction, both conscious and subconscious, may be based on a number of things:\nOur Personality - who we are determines what we decide we want to learn. This can be proved when we look at the case histories of people with Multiple personality disorder. Each personality learns different things\nOur Objectives in life\u2013 what do we want to do in life. We are only likely to learn what we need to know at the time, what seems most important. Thus our 'desires' play an enormously important part in the process.\nObligations \u2013 what we need to know about because we have obligations in society or our family. Thus we will learn about the tax system because we have an obligation to pay tax\nThreats \u2013 any immediate threats to our happiness or even existence. So to give a rather grim example, we might learn about our prison guard and what he is like in a prison in order that we can survive. On a less grim note, if we go to a campsite for the night we will attempt to learn where the water is so we can have a drink and the toilets so we can have a wee\nOpportunities \u2013 anything that presents itself as being worth pursuing because it may give us more happiness and help us to achieve our objectives. In other words we may decide to learn about something because by doing so we are better able to exploit the opportunity\nThe Emotions that accompanied those Perceptions \u2013 we tend to build memories of things far more if they are accompanied by stronger emotions. And this is entirely subconscious \u2013 there is no control over whether this happens or not, Emotions have an enormous effect on what is in Memory see Memory and Emotion\nThere is also another factor governing extraction as we get older and that is what psychologists call \u2018core experiences\u2019.\nCore experiences are our first experiences. The first memories of children \u2013 both the database of facts and models of the systems are built from core experiences and are the foundation upon which the rest of learning takes place.\nLearning is by its nature very like building a house, once the foundations are laid then the walls are built on the foundations and the structure is gradually added to and built upon as time goes on. Sections of the house may be pulled down if you find you don\u2019t need them anymore or they are wrong and need replacing, but to take away the foundations is truly drastic. A child\u2019s early memories are thus key to how it views life \u2013 how the rest of the build up of memory proceeds\nIt is thus quite correct of psychoanalysts to state that the earlier you \u2018get\u2019 a child, the more influence you can have on the little soul\u2019s development. This quite clearly has quite sinister implications of which practically every dictator, tyrant, religion, political party and advertising executive is well aware. It is no accident that Hitler formed his \u2018Youth movement\u2019.\nIt also means that a child who experiences early trauma may develop a core system that affects his or her entire life. The same incidentally is true of animals. Take a 'rescue puppy' and even if you love it to distraction, if it has had maltreatment as a puppy it will never forget.\nIn effect, the extraction that takes place is also governed by the degree to which classes and concepts have been created already. It is easier to fit a perception into an existing schema than it is to recognise the need for a new set of classes and a big extension or reworking of the schema.\nThere seems to be a sequence in which learning takes place over time from childhood through to adult that also governs what we select - extract - as Perceptions.\nOnce a symbol based model has been built, I think that children build up a model of classes and relationships next \u2013 hence the endless question \u2013\u2018what is that\u2019. For this they need language. They then start to populate the model with actual data, building on the classes and relationships model as they go.\nThe functions they need to learn to survive come next. Only later as adolescents, for example, do the more abstract systems start to get learnt - the social systems we have, religious systems perhaps, banking systems, political systems and so on.\nProblems with extraction\nVery often, at this stage the problems are due less to the extraction process which if truly geared towards what we want and have to do, is generally pretty reliable.\nThe exception of course is when we have built a castle based on sand and are only collecting Perceptions to prop up an unstable and unsustainable model.\nThe problem actually comes in the quality of the perceptions we are working on.\nSimply put, we can be fairly useless at observation, missing essential information because our senses are perhaps not that good, or because we don't use them properly. The world passes us by and 90% goes unnoticed.\nThe recording of the occurrences themselves is dependent on the 5 senses. If our senses are deficient in any way, therefore, we automatically have a problem, as the information we are obtaining is deficient. But people can simply not be very observant, they don\u2019t use their senses and perception.\nI have added a section on Improving Perceptions which covers this problem.\nHockney, David - Spring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allgreenrecycling.com/our-events/castro-valley-e-waste-recycling-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YSUXJF7OUM244L5OFETZ2JM236HMYEV5", "length": 2686, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "allgreenrecycling.com", "title": "Castro Valley E-Waste Recycling Event | All Green Recycling", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbOur Events\u00bb11/16/2013 Castro Valley E-Waste Event\n11/16/2013 Castro Valley E-Waste Event\nCastro Valley High School Electronics Recycling Fundraiser Free Electronics Recycling Collection Event Saturday, November 16, 10:00 AM \u2013 2:00 PM Castro Valley High School 19400 Santa Maria Ave Castro Valley, CA 94546 Electronic wastes or e-wastes are old or obsolete electronics\u2014items that use electricity or batteries\u2014that you wish to throw away like old cellphones, laptops, personal computers, printers,\u2026\nCastro Valley High School Electronics Recycling Fundraiser\nFree Electronics Recycling Collection Event Saturday, November 16, 10:00 AM \u2013 2:00 PM Castro Valley High School 19400 Santa Maria Ave Castro Valley, CA 94546\nElectronic wastes or e-wastes are old or obsolete electronics\u2014items that use electricity or batteries\u2014that you wish to throw away like old cellphones, laptops, personal computers, printers, television sets, radio sets, telephones, etc. Disposing them isn\u2019t as easy as shooting them through a garbage bin. Electronics contain toxins that will be harmful to the environment and human health when not tended to property.\nElementary schools have started making a trend of organizing electronic recycling fundraisers. The great thing about this extra-curricular activity is that it hits two birds with one stone. One the one hand, the activity encourages people to recycle their electronic wastes. On the other hand, since this is an elementary school, the event actually teaches students the importance and the value of recycling e-wastes. In the case of Castro Valley High School, the activity allowed people to donate their electronics while sending those that can no longer be used to All Green Electronics Recycling, a company with the most reputable recycling facility in the state.\nDo you have old electronics cluttering up your attic or garage? Castro Valley High School and All Green Electronics Recycling have teamed up to host an event to help you get rid of them responsibly\u2013absolutely free of charge! Members of the community and businesses are encouraged to clean out their garage or attic and donate their old electronics to a good cause. Bring all of your old electronics to the event, including, but not limited to: computers, monitors, televisions, printers, mobile phones, laptops, DVD players, VCRs, microwaves, calculators, iPods, cables and wires, telephones, fax machines, scanners, computer parts, and more. All Green Electronics Recycling promises to recycle everything it accepts in North America and to never send electronics to a landfill or overseas for processing. Certified Data Destruction is available for a small fee at all of our events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alpinesecuritystorage.com/index.php/product/12x30-storage-unit/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ALMIBM7ZEQ2CPM7NOLAZLOORI7IZY3J4", "length": 408, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "alpinesecuritystorage.com", "title": "12\u00d730 Storage Unit \u2013 Alpine Storage Solutions", "raw_content": "Prices Choose an option1 Month $1103 Months $313.50 (5% discount)6 Months $594 (10% discount)12 Months $1122 (15% discount) Clear\nA 12\u00d730 storage unit is a bit larger than a 1 \u00bd car garage.\nA $40 DEPOSIT WILL BE CHARGED AT TIME OF RENTAL. IT IS REFUNDED WHEN THE UNIT IS VACATED IF THERE IS NO DAMAGE.\n1 Month $110, 3 Months $313.50 (5% discount), 6 Months $594 (10% discount), 12 Months $1122 (15% discount)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://altcorner.com/reviews/dividium-t-h-r-e-e/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FYNNUXXBYQUCVUZEBE7P2A7665L2JNRL", "length": 1699, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "altcorner.com", "title": "Dividium - T.H.R.E.E - ALTCORNER.com", "raw_content": "Dividium \u2013 T.H.R.E.E\nHull-based metallers Dividium have released their brand new EP, T.H.R.E.E. Having formed in 2013, this is the bands first EP after two full length releases. Things kick off with the awkwardly titled Send Nudes: clean guitar notes peel out, occasionally accompanied by slabs of distortion that eventually give way to a djent-esque riff and the [\u2026]\nHull-based metallers Dividium have released their brand new EP, T.H.R.E.E. Having formed in 2013, this is the bands first EP after two full length releases. Things kick off with the awkwardly titled Send Nudes: clean guitar notes peel out, occasionally accompanied by slabs of distortion that eventually give way to a djent-esque riff and the excellent screamed vocal of Neil Bailey. Although the song itself is not bad, by the time we reach the more radio friendly clean vocals in the chorus, there is a sense that we\u2019ve seen all this before.\nThis feeling sticks around for a lot of the record,with Satisfaction Guaranteed sounding very much like Avenged Sevenfold, albeit with some more technical flourishes, and you can\u2019t quite shift the feeling that this EP sounds like something out of a noughties metal jukebox. Despite this over familiarity however, there are some big plus points on show. Not least of which are the aforementioned screamed vocals which recall Greg Puciato at his most lung busting (no small feat)! The drumming of James Coggin is also excellent and is best displayed in the verses of Body Harvest. Echo Chamber is probably the best song on this EP, displaying each member\u2019s technical ability and a massive chorus. This is a decent enough record, even if it does lean slightly too heavily on its influences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alushlifemanual.com/scott-lever-chivas-regal-london-how-to-start-your-career-right", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5LWLQARNR4T4UWJBRJ7GMPN2GC2RRMF5", "length": 882, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "alushlifemanual.com", "title": "Scott Lever, Chivas Regal, London - How to Start Your Career Right - A Lush Life Manual", "raw_content": "So you want to be a Brand Ambassador? You can get there a variety of ways: bartending, competition winning, or by applying to the Chivas International Graduate Programme like our guest today, Scott Lever, Chivas Regal Brand Ambassador. A year into the program and his enthusiasm is palpable.\nIt\u2019s not hard to be excited when you are working for a brand loved as much as Chivas Regal. One of the top-selling whiskies worldwide, Chivas was beloved, not only by Queen Victoria, but also the Chairman of the Board, aka Frank Sinatra, and his whole rat pack. You can\u2019t get much cooler than that!\nI just came back from Kentucky and let me tell you I cannot get enough of Whiskey \u2013 Scottish or American!\nBut sometimes you need a break, so next week we fly to France \u2013 more specifically to the Savoie Mont Blanc region, to taste a few wines from that area and meet a few of their producers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanrehabs.com/tips-loved-ones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:XMJH6ESQFG53GV3BLR2GCDI3MHSWEY5N", "length": 6177, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "americanrehabs.com", "title": "Tips For Loved Ones - American Rehabs", "raw_content": "Addiction is a chronic condition in which a person continuously uses alcohol or drugs despite negative effects. It is crucial to understand the signs and symptoms of addiction to be able to support your loved one in getting necessary help. The signs and symptoms depicted by substance addicts may include neglecting key family responsibilities, strong cravings for the subst\nance, and abandoning previous activities in favor of substance use. Addiction may cause both emotional and physical effects to the addicts. These effects may also spill over to the families of addicts.\nTips for Dealing With Addicts\nBefore helping your loved ones who are addicted to substance use, it is important to know that they may not be willing to listen to you. They may not see any value in addiction treatment. They may also deny that they are addicts. Therefore, your concern and help may not make any sense to them. Faced with all these challenges, one of the best strategies you can apply is giving them attention by listening to them. Be sure to ask them leading questions to sustain the conversation. This opens up the communication channels, allowing your loved ones to acknowledge their problem and accept you help. Remember your role is to support, not to dominate the conversation. When dealing with an addict, you need to do the following:\nApproach your loved one at the time he is trying to quit. This is the best time because the decision to quit comes from the addict himself, meaning that he has independently realized he has a problem that needs a solution.\nRemain calm no matter how negative the response may be.\nShow care when expressing your concern so that the addict realizes that you really care. Addiction time is when families of addicts should really care for their loved ones.\nMake suggestions about addiction treatment options and allow the addict to choose the one he prefers. Avoid imposing the treatment.\nYou need to avoid the following when dealing with your loved addict:\nBlame and judgment. This may result in shame and guilt.\nAggression and confrontation. This may scare away the addict.\nApproaching the addict in public or when he is under influence. Public approach attracts shame. When the person is under the influence, he may not reason and see sense in what you say.\nHow to Seek Help for Addicts\nSeeking proper help for your loved one is crucial in helping him quit addiction. You can help the addict through the following ways:\nSupport groups can either be local or national groups that help in addiction treatment, or offer help for families of addicts. The groups offer help by providing a network of solidarity and encouragement for addicts seeking to overcome the condition. The groups benefit the addicts by enabling them to mingle with other people who also seek sober life. They help in teaching them skills of overcoming cravings for substance. The groups also enable the addicts to share their experiences.\nLocal support groups that help addicts include Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Heroin Anonymous, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The national organizations that offer help to addicts include the following:\nSelf-management and recovery training, or SMART, which focuses on empowering addicts. The organization assigns each group of addicts a licensed counselor who guides the addicts in completing a four-point program.\nSave Our Selves, or SOS. Just like SMART, it focuses on self-empowerment. SOS applies a secular approach to addiction recovery. The organization uses honest communication to help addicts overcome the problem.\nWomen for Sobriety (WFS). This offers help solely to women addicts. Its program is based on 13 \u201cacceptance statements\u201d believed to determine the approach of recovering women to life. The statements benefit women addicts by encouraging them to forget their past mistakes and focus on the future.\nContacting an addiction professional helps your loved one by ensuring he gets expert help. Professionals that may help with addiction include counselors and therapists. Physicians with experience in addiction treatment can also be helpful. You may also take your loved one to addiction resources, including a drug rehabilitation center where he can receive help. Rehabilitation centers include Cumberland Heights Rehab Center located in Tennessee and Fairbanks Hospital found in Indiana.\nYou can offers help to your loved one who is addicted by simply ensuring that he follows the self-care instructions recommended by his therapist or counselor. The counselor or therapist may recommend a change in exercise routine, social habits, or diet. Since the addict is not used to the changes, it may be difficult for him to adapt to them without your help. For instance, changing the nature of friends may be a difficult thing to cope with because the patient may feel lonely. You need to be present most of the time to give him support and company. Some fail to take medications according to the instructions of the doctor just because they forget. Reminding them that it is time to take medication is a way of helping.\nGiving Them Hope\nAn addict needs a constant reminder that his situation will get better. He needs a person around every time to give him the sense of hope. Being a symbol of hope to your loved one is of great significance.\nWhen helping an addict, you need to be careful to avoid enabling addiction. In most cases, enabling happens without your knowledge and can lead to serious emotional and physical problems in the life of the addict. To prevent enabling addiction, you need to avoid the following:\nBailing out the addict every time he is arrested.\nRepeatedly lending the addict money. This is mostly spent on more drugs or alcohol.\nCovering up the addict\u2019s bad behavior.\nBecause avoiding enabling may be difficult, it is advisable to set boundaries in advance before beginning to help the addict. When doing so, state clearly what you cannot do to the addict. This discourages him from further addiction. Remember, enforcing the boundaries may be difficult because the addict may not realize soon enough that you are helping him. However, the situation can be worse if you fail to enforce them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amino.com/dr-deborah-phillips/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UTODEKHDYXC5GXGIOWZHQQMOWOCVUSOP", "length": 5369, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "amino.com", "title": "Deborah Phillips, MD: dermatologist in Lexington, KY", "raw_content": "Deborah Phillips, MD, dermatologist in Lexington, KY\nDeborah Phillips, MD\nDr. Phillips is a dermatologist in the Lexington area.\nDr. Phillips saw more birthmark patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips treated skin tag removal patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine from our database whether she was was a top doctor for skin tag removal in the Lexington area during 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips treated open wound repair patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine from our database whether she was was a top doctor for open wound repair in the Lexington area during 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips treated more biopsies patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Lexington area for 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw more moles patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw liver spots patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw hemangioma patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw more acne patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw seborrheic keratosis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw more skin tag patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw boil patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw sexually transmitted infection (STI) patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw dermatitis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw actinic keratosis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw eczema patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw contact dermatitis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw more warts patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw more sebaceous cyst patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Lexington area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw allergies patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw skin cancer patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw varicose veins patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw ingrown hair patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw carcinoma patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw cellulitis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw herpes patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw seborrheic dermatitis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw keratosis pilaris patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nNeed a keratosis pilaris doctor?\nDr. Phillips saw rash patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw alopecia patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw congenital disorders patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw birth defects patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw keloid patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips saw rosacea patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether she was a top doctor for the condition in the Lexington area. Learn more.\nDr. Phillips sees patients and can be reached at the following location.\n448 Lewis Hargett Cir", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 465, "original_length": 15006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amino.com/dr-jigneshkumar-patel/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4U3IPYIMJ4DEMZBWTD4QNIOS32VRKMP5", "length": 4955, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "amino.com", "title": "Jigneshkumar Patel, MD: Detailed Report on His Practice in New Port Richey, FL", "raw_content": "Jigneshkumar Patel, MD, gastroenterologist in New Port Richey, FL\nJigneshkumar Patel, MD\nDr. Patel is a gastroenterologist in the Tampa Bay area. He is affiliated with Medical Center of Trinity and 3 more hospitals.\nDr. Patel saw more digestive tract conditions patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel treated treatment of hemorrhoid patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine from our database whether he was was a top doctor for treatment of hemorrhoid in the Tampa Bay area during 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel treated more sigmoidoscopy patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area for 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel treated more upper endoscopy patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area for 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel treated more colonoscopy patients than 75% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area for 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel treated more biopsies patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area for 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more vascular disease patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more hemorrhoid patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more peripheral vascular disease (PVD) patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more benign polyps patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more gastritis patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more pain patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more colon polyps patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more anal polyp patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more diverticulosis patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more acid reflux patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw abscess patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw lung cancer patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw coagulopathy patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more anemia patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more constipation patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw cholecystitis patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw diabetes patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw type 2 diabetes patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more jaundice patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw obesity patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more gastroenteritis patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw malnutrition patients in 2014\u20132018, but we couldn\u2019t determine whether he was a top doctor for the condition in the Tampa Bay area. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more gas patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more liver condition patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more diarrhea patients than 85% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\nDr. Patel saw more ulcerative colitis (UC) patients than 95% of similar doctors in the Tampa Bay area in 2014\u20132018. Learn more.\n1818 Short Branch Dr\nMedical Center of Central Georgia Program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 844, "original_length": 30758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1992/may/19/adjournment-spring", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:51Z", "digest": "sha1:W33AWTOUKBR4PDVSGSMFNG3RIMK2SO7Q", "length": 139948, "nlines": 301, "source_domain": "api.parliament.uk", "title": "Adjournment (Spring) (Hansard, 19 May 1992)", "raw_content": "HANSARD 1803\u20132005 \u2192 1990s \u2192 1992 \u2192 May 1992 \u2192 19 May 1992 \u2192 Commons Sitting\nAdjournment (Spring)\nHC Deb 19 May 1992 vol 208 cc162-203 162\n\u00a7 Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House, at its rising on Friday 22nd May, do adjourn until Tuesday 2nd June.\u2014[Mr. Robert G. Hughes.]\n\u00a7 Mr. Alfred Morris (Manchester, Wythenshawe)\nI want to raise an issue of serious, widespread and growing concern about which this House plainly deserves an oral ministerial statement before the recess. The issue is the Government's refusal to set any date by which Operation Container\u2014the scheme for keeping prisoners in police cells\u2014will be discontinued. We still await even the announcement of a timetable for reducing the huge number of prisoners now held in police stations.\nOperation Container came into being specifically to deal with the shortage of prison accommodation in the Greater Manchester area caused by the destruction of Strangeways prison more than two years ago. The House will recall that Strangeways, built in the Victorian era and destroyed in the riot of April 1990, was seriously overcrowded, even in 19th-century terms, when the riot took place.\nI saw the conditions in Strangeways, before the disturbances, on a visit to discuss with senior staff the problems caused by the detention there of prisoners who were mentally ill but for whom no accommodation was available in more appropriate places of detention. There were then about 1,700 prisoners in Strangeways; today there are still 1,638 prisoners held in police stations under Operation Container. Of that total, 233 are held in cells in 23 police stations in Greater Manchester. That number has hardly changed since last November and, despite the daunting stress imposed on our police service by crime figures for which any previous Government would have been heavily censured, it shows no sign of decreasing.\nGreater Manchester police are not alone in having to bear the extra burden of acting as gaolers. Other police forces, from Devon and Cornwall to Northumbria and from East Sussex to Cumbria, have also become part of the prison system. In all, 39 police forces are participating in the operation. The full list was given in a priority written reply that I received from the Minister with responsibility for prisons on 11 May, and the cost of Operation Container is both enormous and still growing. Perhaps the Leader of the House could let the House know the total cost to date when he winds up the debate.\nI shall be grateful if the right hon. Gentleman can also let the House know whether the new Home Secretary will be accepting the Greater Manchester police authority's urgent request for a meeting with him to discuss its concerns about Operation Container. A letter that I received this morning from Mr. R. C. Rees, clerk to the Greater Manchester police authority, states that no effective action has been taken to provide temporary accommodation in, for example, military camps for the prisoners now held in police cells, and that, in his police authority's view, the Home Office is clearly in breach of its duty under the Prison Act 1952 to provide prisons.\nThe letter goes on: The Police Authority is also of the view that this failure on the part of the Home Office, and the consequent necessity for the Police Authority to provide accommodation in police cells, is having a deleterious effect on the policing of Greater 163 Manchester, in that many Police Officers are being compelled to act as Prison Warders instead of protecting the community from crime\".\n\u00a7 Mr. Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish)\nThere is also increasing anecdotal evidence in Greater Manchester that, on occasion, there are no empty police cells and that, for that reason, arrests that would be made in other circumstances are not being made.\nI accept that important point and pay warm tribute to the long, sustained and extremely well-informed contribution my hon. Friend has made to discussion of this important issue.\nThe letter from the clerk to the Greater Manchester police authority continues: It is not yet too late to remedy the situation, even though the Police Authority is actively considering instituting formal legal proceedings against the Home Secretary, unless adequate assurances are given. Surely that merits an oral statement by the Home Secretary before the recess?\nThe detention of remand or sentenced prisoners in police stations\u2014including many in areas of acute deprivation and social stress\u2014is manifestly unacceptable. The position is now deeply serious and the ending of Operation Container is a compelling priority. That is not only my view. In his reply to me on 11 May, the Minister said that the problem of using police stations for prisoners was regarded as extremely serious and the task of bringing it to an end \u2026 a top priority\". The reply went on: Neither I, nor my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, regard the detention of remand or sentenced prisoners in police cells as acceptable either for the prisoners or the police.\"\u2014[Official Report, 11 May 1992; Vol. 207, c. 20.] Those statements make the Minister's inability to set a date by which Operation Container will end\u2014or even to announce a timetable for reducing the number of prisoners held in police stations\u2014all the more worrying for people in Greater Manchester and elsewhere who know that their police forces, with crime figures as they are now, have more than enough to do without adding to their already heavy burdens.\nNotwithstanding the best endeavours of police officers, can security be as good in police stations as it is in prisons? Are the Government satisfied that public safety is nowhere at risk from the long-term detention of prisoners in police stations? Those are the questions put to me, day by day, by my constituents.\nAn operation that was described as \"temporary\" after the Strangeways riot has now come to look more and more permanent. Indeed, the overall position today is worse than when the Strangeways riot occurred, as police authorities are placed in the de facto position of running a prison service by reason of the Home Office default. Police officers are losing their rest days, police stations are changing their character and, in fact, the fundamental purpose of the police service is undergoing extra-statutory change as it takes on duties it was never meant to discharge.\nI went recently to Brownley road police station in my constituency, where four prisoners were being held. They cannot have a shower there, so they have to be transported under escort from the police station for a shower. Exercise and catering provision are other difficult problems, quite 164 apart from the general effect on the work of dedicated officers in a very busy police station of turning it into a gaol for prisoners, some of whom have completed their entire sentences in police cells.\nCouncillor Stephen Murphy, chairman of the Greater Manchester police authority, has spoken with admirable restraint of a \"real deterioration in policing\" in consequence of Operation Container and of his disquiet that costs of well over \u00a33 million incurred in the investigation, for prosecution purposes, of incidents both during and after the disturbances at Strangeways have not been met by the Home Office. The chairman points out that many police officers have been involved in this work. Yet the Home Office refuses to provide additional finances to cover the authority's costs. This also is unacceptable, not least to Greater Manchester's poll tax payers. Why should they have to suffer this imposition?\nI am sure that the Leader of the House will accept that the problems created by Operation Container constitute a very important matter for Greater Manchester, the north-west and for the country as a whole. There is no party animus locally about the extreme urgency of the need now to have the problems resolved. That can only be assisted by an early meeting between the Home Secretary and those who have to deal with these problems at the sharp end of Operation Container. I ask the Leader of the House for a helpful reply when he responds to the debate.\nI listened with great interest to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris), because I have a prison in my constituency. I am happy to say that it is an extremely good and modern establishment. I know that the House always listens with the keenest interest to the right hon. Gentleman, because he renders a great service to this place. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will pay attention to the right hon. Gentleman's contribution.\nBefore the House rises for the spring Adjournment, I want to talk about the problems of woodlands in Britain generally and in Cambridgeshire in particular. It is a matter of great importance to all who value our heritage and want to preserve the best in our environment.\nI cite first Brampton wood in Cambridgeshire, which comprises 330 acres of woodland on the edge of my constituency. It is primarily in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Many people in both of our constituencies are worried about the wood's future, and we have been inundated, not surprisingly, with correspondence.\nI can best describe the wood by using the words of one of my constituents, Mrs. Pamela Timbrell. She wrote that there are a wide range of wild flowers\u2014some endangered\u2014a diverse collection of beautiful native trees, squirrels and species of deer in a truly wild and natural setting. It is indeed a place of fragile and magical beauty. Another of my constituents, Mr. Barry Dickerson, the county recorder of lepidoptera, which for the benefit of old Etonians means that he is the recorder of butterflies and moths, has recorded 515 different species of butterflies and moths in Brampton wood.\nThe wood is owned by the Ministry of Defence. It has been found to be surplus to its requirements, and in line 165 with its normal policy it is selling it by competitive tender to the highest bidder, in order, not unnaturally, to obtain the best return for the taxpayer.\nThe people of Cambridgeshire have always supported the Ministry of Defence presence in their county. Quite sensibly, we have tolerated aircraft noise and so on, because we know the importance of the MOD activities to the defence of the realm. Cambridgeshire has a great history of defence of this country.\nThe future of the wood after its sale is uncertain. Such woodlands cannot just be left, they have to be managed if they are to retain their beauty and provide enjoyment for nature lovers throughout the county and the country. The wood is designated as a site of special scientific interest, but that does not ensure that it will be properly managed. After all, I understand that 2,000 acres of SSSIs have been damaged during the past 12 months. The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Forestry Commission cannot compel the appropriate management of woodlands.\nThe Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust is keen to buy the wood. It would preserve it, look after it, and ensure that it is developed in the best possible way, preserving the flora and fauna inside it. However, the trust needs time. The MOD should, if possible, sell the wood to the trust. Will the MOD at least give the trust time to submit a suitably competitive bid, which it wants and intends to do? Alternatively, will the MOD give time to allow suitable safeguards to be put in place to preserve that beautiful wood?\nWe now have a new heritage Ministry. I am not quite sure what it does, but I should not be surprised if it were extremely interested in this problem. The Secretary of State for National Heritage should become involved in such issues. Of course, other Ministries are involved. The Department of the Environment must be interested, if the environment means anything. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food should be interested because it has forestry responsibilities. I ask my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House to get those Ministries to work together rather than in separate penny packets, so that we can save something that is really worth while in our society. I know that both my right hon. Friend and our right hon. Friend the Prime Minister take the problem seriously.\nI want to discuss the slightly broader issue, because British woodlands as a whole are at risk. I am sure that many hon. Members will have read the Observer supplement last Sunday. It certainly made stark reading. It is only a short while before the great Rio summit on the environment is held. It is ironic that, during the past 50 years, Amazonia\u2014the place we are always told has devastated its forests\u2014lost 10 per cent. of its forests, yet over the same period Britain lost 45 per cent. If those figures are true, they are very stark. It is worrying for the British environment and for a country that has been so notable for its woodlands and its forests.\nIt is also ironic that the Government subsidise new afforestation where people plant dreary conifers, which do not attract wildlife. They certainly do not create the woods that we want in our beloved country. While providing subsidies for those boring conifers, the Government run the risk of destroying existing much better, much more beautiful and much more lush woodland through the highest-bidder policy that the MOD is pursuing.\n166 The matter is urgent, both nationally and locally. It is no good making lots of money, having wonderful machinery and new technology and creating wealth if, in the process, there is not a countryside in which it is worth living. I am sure that the Government would not wish to he known as an Administration who appreciate the price of everything, but the value of nothing.\n\u00a7 Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse)\nOrder. Many right hon. and hon. Members wish to take part in the debate. I hope that any hon. Members who are fortunate to catch my eye in the early part of the debate will take that into consideration. It is only a three-hour debate, and I wish to call as many hon. Members as possible.\n\u00a7 Ms. Liz Lynne (Rochdale)\nI know that, as this is my maiden speech, I shall be treated with courtesy and gracious listening, but it is none the less a fairly daunting experience. I feel very privileged to be a Member of the House. Indeed, I believe that all of us, being Members, are so privileged. I suspect that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, would agree that in the light of that privilege and that honour, our behaviour, countenance and manner should reflect that.\nI represent Rochdale and I realise that I have a very hard act to follow. My predecessor, Sir Cyril Smith, was a character in his own right. Loved by most\u2014not all, but most\u2014he was a tireless worker for his constituents. He is outspoken and he never hesitates to say what he thinks or believes. Before he came to the House in the famous 1972 by-election, he had been councillor, alderman and mayor of Rochdale. His service to his beloved Rochdale spans some 40 years. I know that the House will wish him a long and happy retirement. I, for one, owe him a huge debt of gratitude.\nThe Rochdale constituency comprises the old county borough of Rochdale. Within 15 minutes, we can be out of the township into the hills or on to the moors, yet it still embraces commerce, industry and all the inner-town facilities. Rochdale has a proud history. It was a great textile town, but sadly that is fading, although new industries are growing and thousands of small businesses now make a valuable contribution to our economy. Rochdale also has great companies with worldwide reputations.\nRegrettably, however, unemployment is still above the regional average. While Rochdale does not have people sleeping out in cardboard boxes to any great extent, homelessness is still a serious problem and a social evil.\nJohn Bright and Gracie Fields are famous Rochdalians. The Co-operative Movement was founded in Rochdale, as was the Workers Educational Association. In 1994, when it is reasonable to expect that I shall still be the town's Member of Parliament, Rochdale will celebrate some great events\u2014the 800th anniversary of Rochdale parish church, the 150th anniversary of the Co-op, the centenary of the Rochdale canal and the centenary of the children's Moorland home. People, however, are the great wealth of Rochdale\u2014its population, its voluntary organisations and its societies. Drama, music, church, community\u2014just name it and we have it.\n167 We are a close-knit community, which is why the death of Conrad Cole, a young soldier from Rochdale, in the so-called friendly fire incident has affected Rochdale greatly. It does not seem likely that, under international law, the pilots can be extradited. Because of that, I urge the Government to use their special relationship with the United States to press for a further and fuller inquiry and for the results to be released to the parents and all interested parties.\nIt is perhaps not surprising that Rochdale has always been concerned about the people within its community. It has been deeply involved in the issue of community care. The first local authority home for the elderly was opened in 1950, the family group homes by 1960 and schemes to help pensioners with decorating and gardening were introduced in 1963. In the 1960s, a youth-helps-elderly scheme was pioneered at a time of severe weather conditions. It is therefore wholly appropriate, I hope, that my maiden speech as Member of Parliament for Rochdale should be concerned with community care. Therefore, I ask that before the House adjourns we should debate the pressing issue of community care.\nI grew up in a disabled persons' home, as my mother was in charge of it. A lot of my friends, of course, were disabled. One particular friend and I used to go all over the place together. She was 16 and I was 11 when we arrived there, but what used to make me so angry was that when we were out together people frequently asked me questions and never talked to her first, even though she was five years older. I realised very quickly the sort of discrimination that people with disabilities have to suffer. I was determined to help to change that, not only for disabled people but for everyone, to create an equal and caring society.\nI should like to ask: where is the vision, where is the idealism, where is the hope? They are certainly not there for the elderly, or for disabled people, or for the mentally ill, or for the homeless, or for those with learning difficulties. Care in the community was supposed to be the great hope, but what has happened to it? I shall tell hon. Members. It is grossly underfunded and has not been properly thought through. I believe very strongly that community care is the right way forward, but not in the way that it is operating at the moment in many places throughout the country. If we are not careful, more and more people will be left to roam the streets. More and more people will be placed in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, with nothing to do all day. More people will be put into flats and bed-sits, without the proper back-up facilities. It is happening already.\nWe have a very good example of what happened when the large mental institutions were closed. Quite a lot of the inmates were dumped out, to fend for themselves. Many of them can still be seen wandering the streets and sleeping rough. We must not let that continue. We must certainly not let it happen again.\nCommunity care has to be provided with proper resources. That money has to be ring-fenced to stop local councils being able to squander it on pet projects. We need to create a comprehensive disability income scheme so that people with disabilities can be given real financial freedom. We need also to create a new carers benefit that recognises the essential role that carers play in enabling people to stay within the community. We need to take positive action to 168 get people off the streets and into real homes of their own. Our aim should be to reduce homelessness by at least 50 per cent. in the next four years.\nAll the groups of people I have mentioned have to be treated with dignity and respect. For too long they have been ignored; for too long they have been swept to one side; and for too long they have been the poor relations. As a Member of Parliament, I hope to make my contribution to improved community care and I am happy that my maiden speech should have been devoted to that cause.\n\u00a7 Mr. James Kilfedder (North Down)\nWe have just heard a gracious and elegant speech, delivered with passion and compassion by the hon. Member for Rochdale (Miss Lynne). It is not surprising that we should hear such a speech from the hon. Lady because Rochdale produced, as she mentioned, Gracie Fields, who embodied the big-heartedness of that area. I hope that the hon. Lady will enjoy her stay in the House. I am sure that she will enjoy the same friendship that her predecessor, Sir Cyril Smith, who was a large and lovely personality, enjoyed here. I echo what she said about the need to look after the people of this country.\nI urge the House not to adjourn, because of the threatened bed closures in my constituency of North Down in the Bangor hospital, the Ulster hospital and the Ards hospital. I denounce the Eastern health board's proposals to cut almost 100 hospital beds in the North Down area. Such bed closures will inevitably have an adverse effect on patient care in the area. There is no doubt whatsoever that waiting lists, which already are intolerably long, will grow longer still.\nThe board has announced that there will be consultations about the closures, but such talks\u2014I speak from many years' experience of statements by the Eastern health board in the past\u2014will, in my opinion, be a sham. They will be a cosmetic exercise to give a semblance of democracy to decisions already made to cut essential hospital beds\u2014cuts which, if implemented, will clearly be detrimental to the people of North Down.\nEvery year, the North Down and Ards unit of management has imposed excessive expenditure cuts on hospital and social services in the North Down area. The present proposals are the result of a programme imposed on the unit by the Eastern health board to cut expenditure on hospital services by a further \u00a31 million. I have charged the board with discrimination against the people of my constituency and elsewhere in the Eastern health board area. That area takes in the city of Belfast, which receives more than its fair share of money, in proportion to the population of Belfast, the number of hospital beds available in Belfast and the total expenditure of the Eastern health board on the city of Belfast.\nI do not blame the Belfast hospitals for seeking to obtain as much money as possible. Money spent on patients is money well spent. The fact is, however, that money is being drawn away from the rest of the Eastern health board area to the city of Belfast. Therefore, I call for Belfast to be hived off from the Eastern health board area and established as a separate entity, because the cost of hospital beds in the Ulster and Bangor hospitals is lower than the cost of hospital beds in the Royal Victoria 169 hospital or the City hospital, Belfast. I am shocked by the cuts which it has been decided to make in my constituency of North Down.\nThe whole of a medical ward in Bangor hospital is to be closed. That ward consists of 24 beds. Sadly, patients who need operations will have to wait far longer for them. That makes a mockery of the claim that the national health service is being organised for the benefit of patients. The closure of a whole medical ward will create appalling difficulties for Bangor. The population consists of 70,000 men, women and children. It deserves to have a fully operational hospital with a casualty department. Instead, the Eastern health board cuts, cuts and cuts again. I have warned my constituents that, in due course, despite assurances from the Eastern health board to the contrary, the board will seek to close the Bangor hospital completely.\nIt is an indictment of the undemocratic bureaucracy that governs Northern Ireland that such proposals can be made with no reference to the elected representatives of the Ulster people. The board is composed of people who were appointed by the Minister and who, therefore, are minions of the Government. Representatives of the press are not admitted to meetings and do not hear the deliberations of the Eastern health board. We find out what is happening by rumour; then, eventually, a statement is made to the effect that the proposal will be implemented following discussions.\nThe Ulster hospital's orthopaedic ward, with 20 beds, is to be closed. The Ards hospital will lose 52 beds. All those closures will create suffering for patients and relatives, and nurses and other staff will inevitably lose their jobs.\nI call on the Government to ensure that the proposed bed closures in the North Down and Ards area are not implemented within the next few months as proposed but postponed until the proposals are fully examined and discussed by the elected representatives of the people of Northern Ireland. That can be done effectively only by means of a Northern Ireland Select Committee, which could cross-examine health board officials and other witnesses. I have been pressing for the appointment of a Select Committee for some time and I now repeat that demand for the restoration of democracy to the people of Northern Ireland.\nIf my fair and reasonable demand for the appointment of a Select Committee is still refused, I call on the Government to guarantee to the people of my constituency that the Eastern health board proposals will be postponed until the creation of another Northern Ireland Assembly. We understand from the discussions that have taken place over the past few months that there is a very reasonable prospect of a Northern Ireland assembly being established. The health board's proposals are an ideal matter for such an assembly to discuss, and I do not think that a decision should be made in advance of its creation.\nIn the name of my constituents, in the name of justice and in the name of community care, I urge the Government to ensure that the undemocratic bureaucratic Eastern health board does not proceed with the proposed hospital bed closures, which would create an appalling state of affairs in my constituency of North Down.\n\u00a7 Ms. Rachel Squire (Dunfermline, West)\nThank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech to the House. I begin by congratulating you on your election to your new post\u2014a tribute to your ability and of most welcome assistance to new and inexperienced Members like myself.\nI shall refer first to previous\u2014experienced\u2014Members of Parliament for Dunfermline, West and Dunfermline Burghs. My immediate predecessor was Mr. Dick Douglas. During his long career in the Labour and Co-operative Movement, he displayed\u2014shall we say\u2014an independence of mind. That career began when, as a young apprentice in the 1950s, he helped to lead a successful strike in the Clyde shipyards. It is a particular shame, therefore, that he decided to end his career by breaking away from the Labour and Co-operative Movement.\nThe vast majority of past and present Labour Members of Parliament for Fife have been and are an example of the best that the movement can offer. My special thanks must go to my hon. Friends the Members for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) and for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish). I pay tribute to the ceaseless work of members of the Labour party throughout Fife and especially in my own constituency. My respect and affection for the people of Dunfermline and West Fife grow with every passing day. Throughout the century, they have displayed an unswerving loyalty and commitment to the Labour movement.\nI cannot end this part of my speech without paying tribute to an outstanding example of that loyalty and commitment, a former Member of Parliament, Mr. Adam Hunter, who, sadly, died last year. He worked as a miner for 40 years before becoming a Member of Parliament, and subsequently he served the constituency of Dunfermline Burghs for 15 years in a most selfless and conscientious way. He was totally without pomposity and everyone who knew him speaks of him with the highest regard. I can only strive to match a small part of his ability.\nThat brings me to my constituency. I said that Mr. Adam Hunter had been a miner in the area for 40 years, but the history of coal mining in my constituency goes back much further\u2014more than 700 years, to 1291, when the monks of Dunfermline abbey first extracted coal from Pittencrieff glen. Throughout the constituency, villages developed amid coal mines\u2014Oakley, Saline, Blairhall and High Valleyfield, to mention but a few. Yet now there is only one deep mine operating in the whole of Scotland, at the western edge of my constituency at Kincardine on its border with that of my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill).\nMy constituency's history is fascinating. This year, we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Culross as a royal burgh. Next year we will mark the 900th anniversary of the death of Queen Margaret. I hope, too, that Dunfermline abbey will begin to be recognised as the Westminster abbey of Scotland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]\nThe communities of the constituency have a long history of work and welcome. They include communities from Townhill to Torryburn, from Charlestown to Crossford, from Cairneyhill to Carnock, from Halbeath to Limekilns and Newmills. The constituency's communities 171 have a long defence tradition and we all owe a great deal to the people who live and work in Crombie, Pitreavie and Rosyth.\nI am aware that this debate concerns the spring Adjournment. I should like to tell the House of all my concerns, but that would take days, rather than the few minutes left to me, so I have decided to use that time to raise just one issue\u2014low pay.\nGeorge Bernard Shaw said, \"Very few people can afford to be poor.\" I should like to think that that comment was history; it is not. The lowest-paid male manual workers earn less, relative to the average, than they did more than 100 years ago, in 1886. An unemployed married man with four children in Dunfermline was offered a job for 36 hours a week as a radio taxi controller for a wage of \u00a354 a week. It would be comforting to think that that man was an exception; he was not. It would be comforting to think that low pay was confined to parts of Dunfermline; it is not. It would be comforting to think that it was confined to parts of Fife; it is not. There are 900,000 low-paid workers\u2014one in three\u2014in Scotland\u2014and more than 10.4 million in the United Kingdom.\nThe Government have led the attack against Labour's call for a minimum wage of \u00a33.40 an hour and the protection of wages councils. Will someone explain to me, and to the millions of low-paid workers, why the Government consider it immoral to pay a man or a woman \u00a33.40 for an hour of work, yet moral to charge sick people\u2014many of them on low pay and benefits\u2014\u00a33.75 for half a dozen pills on a prescription?\nThe Government have claimed that the introduction of a minimum wage would lead to unemployment. Given the extent of low pay, we should have full employment now. Instead, the latest statistics show an official figure of 2,695,300 unemployed, and the unofficial figure is much higher. Scotland is one of the parts of the country that have been hardest and longest hit by unemployment. Fife has the second highest unemployment rate in Scotland, with one in eight people out of work, and in parts of my constituency\u2014central Dunfermline, for example\u2014there is already an unemployment rate of 21.4 per cent.\nThe Government have said that they are keen on saving public expenditure. If that is the case, they should promote jobs with decent pay. If they did that, the people of Abbeyview in Dunfermline, 60 per cent. of whom depend on benefits, could instead earn a decent wage and contribute towards national insurance and tax. If the Government do not change their policy on poverty wages, that policy will add to the millions who already live on poverty pensions.\nIf the Government are keen to save on public expenditure, they should ditch the privatisation of the coal industry and the further attacks on local government and the health service. Privatisation will only add to unemployment, increase benefit demands and waste billions more of public money.\nIf the Government introduced a minimum wage, they could save public expenditure and increase income to the Exchequer. A minimum wage would bring in between \u00a31.3 billion to \u00a31.5 billion a year through tax and national insurance and fewer benefits. Minimum pay would also increase industrial efficiency and effectiveness. That is why 10 of our 12 European competitors have some form of 172 minimum wage protection. The evidence that economic efficiency would be promoted by minimum pay has been provided by organisations such as the Contractors, Cleaning and Maintenance Association and the Electrical Contractors Association. I urge the Government to cease immediately any plans to abolish wages councils completely where the highest basic pay rate is a mere \u00a33.08 an hour. Instead, the Government should assist employers to invest in equality and efficiency.\nIn conclusion, I want to quote Winston Churchill. He said that without the protection of minimum wages the good employer is undercut by the bad and the bad employer is undercut by the worst. It is my hope and intention to work towards making that quote relevant only to the past\u2014not to the present or the future.\n\u00a7 Mr. Michael Stephen (Shoreham)\nAs is customary for those who have the honour of addressing the House for the first time, I wish to begin by referring to my constituency and to my predecessor. I am proud to represent Shoreham, which lies between the south downs and the sea in the county of West Sussex. We have a small port and an airport in Shoreham. In times gone by, we built wooden ships for the Royal Navy and for the merchant and fishing fleets. There was a time when Shoreham relied for its livelihood on shipbuilding contracts procured by its Members of Parliament. However, its Member of Parliament today has many tasks, but none is more important than to safeguard and promote the interests of local industry and commerce upon which the livelihoods of so many of my constituents depend.\nShoreham and Lancing are at the heart of the British simulator industry. Men and women of the most amazing technical skill and inventive genius build simulators to train the crews of aircraft and tanks. We also have a company that is equally extraordinary and at the leading edge of technology in the automotive engine industry. It designs engines for motor vehicles throughout the world. We also have a company that builds hi-tech operating tables and other extremely sophisticated equipment for the world's hospitals.\nWe have a famous public school at Lancing. At Findon we have a racing stables where Grand National winners have been trained. In the places that I have already mentioned and in Southwick, Sompting, Ferring, East Preston, and Rustington, there are pleasant residential areas to which people from all over the country come to spend their retirement years. Pensions are important for me. I have already joined the all-party pensions group and I have become a founder member of the group of 70 hon. Members who are pledged to fight for the Maxwell pensioners.\nOne of my predecessors as hon. Member for Shoreham was the father of the poet Shelley. However, my immediate predecessor was the right hon. Sir Richard Luce. He was a distinguished Member of this House for 21 years and he was well liked and respected by hon. Members on both sides of the House. He served his country well as a Foreign Office Minister and as Minister for the Arts. He is now vice-chancellor of Buckingham university and I am sure that the whole House will join me in wishing him every success in that new appointment.\nOn policy matters, I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on our policy towards Europe. 173 Britain should play a positive role in shaping the future of our continent. We should be good Europeans, but that does not mean simply saying yes to what the others want to do. I believe in co-operation, not federation.\nThe Government will also receive my support for returning the nationalised industries to the private sector. The private sector should do that which is best clone in the private sector. I welcome the citizens charter because it is vital in any organisation, whether public or private, that the people who work in it know what is expected of them and that the people whom it serves know what they have a right to expect. In short, I believe that the citizens charter is the mission statement for the public service.\nI would like to raise many issues in relation to the environment, but I shall refer to only one today. It is water. We all now know that water is a precious natural resource, and I would like to see the building regulations amended so that all new buildings are equipped with the means of collecting and storing rain water.\nMany people in my constituency fought in the second world war, and many others lost their loved ones in that dreadful conflict. We must all be grateful that the cold war has ended, but we still live in a dangerous and unstable world. We must remember the lessons of the 1930s. Countries are attacked because they are too weak, not because they are too strong.\nI had the honour to serve Her Majesty in The Life Guards. I regret the need to amalgamate some of our famous regiments, and I respectfully ask my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Defence to reconsider the manning levels required for the Army. However, I welcome the Government's commitment to provide our soldiers, sailors and airmen with the very best equipment that modern technology can provide.\nI also practised as a barrister for 14 years and I therefore have a particular interest in law and order. In 1987 I wrote a pamphlet urging the Government to ask Parliament to confer on the Court of Appeal the power to increase over-lenient sentences, and I was very pleased when that power was provided by the Criminal Justice Act 1988. As we have seen in recent cases, that does not always mean that a sentence will be increased, but it does mean that a higher court now has the opportunity to reconsider the matter.\nI believe that automatic remission of sentences should be abolished, because it is a fraud on the public. If a judge sentences a man to six years imprisonment, our constituents have a right to expect him to be behind bars for six years. I know that judges take remission into account when fixing sentences, but sentences should mean what they say. If judges wish to pass shorter sentences, let them do so and let them see what the public think about it.\nI am aware of the need to maintain discipline in prisons, but our constituents do not receive reductions in their income tax for good behaviour. Good behaviour is to be expected in this country, both inside and outside prison, and those who behave badly in prisons should have their sentences increased.\nI am not against parole, as opposed to remission, and prisoners should be entitled to earn reduction of sentence. Many people are in prison today because the education system failed them, and more thought and more resources need to be devoted to remedial education in prison. Far too much of the time that prisoners spend in custody is completely and utterly wasted, and it needs to be put to better use.\n174 Another matter relating to law and order is pornography. The law should be tightened up in relation to printed matter, films, television and the increasing use of the telephone system for pornographic purposes.\nIn Britain today, unemployment gives us all cause for concern. I will not say when the recession will end, because, as Groucho Marx once said, \"It is dangerous to make predictions, especially about the future.\" However, I do know that the recession is temporary. Many people in our constituencies risk losing their homes because they cannot pay their mortgages. If they are on income support, they get their mortgage interest paid, but if they are on family credit, they do not. I have urged my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security to consider paying mortgage interest to people on family credit. That would be expensive, but when the taxpayer is helping a person to maintain and preserve a capital asset, I see no reason why the taxpayer should not get his money back when the recession ends and the property eventually is sold. For that purpose I suggest a legal charge upon the property.\nThe great majority of my constituents are Christian people. They believe that religious education in our schools should be predominantly of the Christian faith. They believe also, as I do, that everything that the Government do should be guided by Christian principles. Those principle are shared by the other great religions represented in our country today. I have no doubt that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will never forget those principles, and I wish him every success in the years to come.\n\u00a7 Mr. Chris Mullin (Sunderland, South)\nI am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Shoreham (Mr. Stephen). I am sure that he will make an able representative of his constituency. He and I have in common an interest in law and order, although I suspect they are slightly different aspects. I hope that the House will forgive me if I do not follow the tradition to a great extent and get carried away with a eulogy, because I do not want any thunderbolts to come down from heaven and consume me in the next 10 minutes. As it happens, before the recess we should spend a little time discussing an aspect of law and order which I should like to think would be of interest to the hon. Member for Shoreham, but I am prepared for the possibility that it is not.\nTwo years ago, after a statement by the Home Secretary the day after four innocent people had their convictions quashed for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, the right hon. Gentleman set up a judicial inquiry under Judge Sir John May, a very distinguished judge, to consider not only those convictions but the seven other convictions that related to the Guildford and Woolwich case\u2014those of Mrs. Maguire and her family, which have also been quashed. That inquiry seemed at the time to be urgent and there was an awful lot of curiosity about how it came to pass that those people were ever convicted of those offences. Two years and eight months have passed since that inquiry was set up, and it seems to have ground to a halt.\nI cannot say that I am all that surprised. The history of judicial inquiries is not a happy one. Judicial inquiries into miscarriages of justice normally end by re-convicting those who have just had their convictions quashed. It became 175 clear early on that Sir John May was not willing to be party to a whitewash and that he was conducting a rigorous inquiry. From that moment on, it also became clear that Sir John May would never be permitted to report. The years have ticked by and there is no sign of a report. I understand, although I have not spoken to him, that Sir John is considerably frustrated about the situation.\nThe reasons why I have never believed that he would be permitted to report are not all that difficult to work out. The Guildford case is distinguished from the other big celebrated miscarriages of justice in that all those concerned\u2014it is possible to demonstrate it and I attempted to demonstrate it in my evidence to Sir John May's inquiry\u2014must have known that they had got the wrong people. They chose not to face up to that for fear, perhaps, of the consequences for their own careers or for fear that the roof of the legal system might fall in. It is quite easy to demonstrate that. We have only to look at the cast of characters involved to see why there will be no report from Sir John May.\nThe judge was Lord Donaldson, now Master of the Rolls\u2014the judge, I believe, in both the Guildford and Woolwich trial and the Maguire case that followed. The senior policemen involved\u2014many police officers were involved\u2014were Sir Peter Imbert, now the Metropolitan Commissioner, Commander Bill Hucklesby, who became very senior in the Metropolitan police before he retired, and Commander Jim Nevill, who was also extremely senior in the Metropolitan police. They helped to capture the IRA unit called the Balcombe street. There was a big siege at Balcombe street, which many people will recall \u2014it lasted a week.\nFrom that moment on, it must have been obvious\u2014indeed, it was obvious\u2014that those were people who carried out the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. They were prepared to confess to it. They were able to describe it in enormous detail\u2014such great detail that it was not possible to pretend that they had not been involved. The script had to be rewritten, and it was rewritten on a fairly spectacular scale. The problem was that the Balcombe street people insisted on owning up. When they came to trial, they all got up in court and said that as members of the Provisional IRA they would not normally recognise a British court, but on this occasion, since innocent people had been convicted for offences for which they were responsible, they proposed to plead not guilty to the enormous list of charges in front of them, and invite their barristers to participate in the proceedings only in so far as it would draw out the enormous amount of fraud and perjury that had been committed.\nAs a result of that dramatic new evidence, the Guildford and Woolwich defendants were entitled to a retrial. That posed a very serious problem for the authorities because there was a serious danger that the truth would emerge. Had they owned up at that stage, we could have said, \"Oh well, it was a mistake,\" and perhaps it was up to that point, although I do not necessarily accept that either. But that is not what happened. A little-known 17th century procedure was revived whereby the Court of Appeal could sit also as the court of first instance, thereby knocking out the appeal to which those innocent people were entitled and the retrial to which they were entitled, at 176 a single go in the absence of a jury.\nThat is an important point, because the Royal Commission on criminal justice is coming under a lot of pressure to blame it all on the juries. If it has succumbed to that pressure, it has been had. I will say only that. At every crucial stage in all such big cases steps have been taken to make sure that no jury is around. One cannot blame the jury. In this case, Lord Roskill, Lord Lawton, a former British Union of Fascists candidate for Hammersmith, and Mr. Justice Boreham presided. Even on the most generous interpretation, it is very hard to believe that they could not see what was going on and that the script was being rewritten from top to bottom.\nBesides the distinguished people I have mentioned\u2014Sir Peter Imbert, Commander Hucklesby, Commander Nevill, Lord Roskill, Lord Lawton, and Lord Donaldson \u2014the Crown in all those cases was represented by the late Lord Havers, subsequently the Lord Chancellor. Now that we see the cast of characters involved it becomes clear, does it not, why we are never going to hear from Sir John May's inquiry? I have never believed that we would, and I now see reports saying that we are not going to. A decision has not yet been made, but it is about to be made. No doubt that will be when we are in recess. Perhaps it will take the form of a planted written answer to a tame member of the governing party.\nI was invited, along with some other people, to submit evidence to Sir John May's inquiry. I did so and attempted to point out in words of one syllable where I thought that the responsibilities lay. I invited him to draw the appropriate conclusions.\nWhen the royal commission was set up, after the release a year or two later of the Birmingham Six, to inquire into the criminal justice system in general, all those of us who had submitted evidence received a letter from the inquiry asking whether we would mind if our evidence was transferred to the royal commission\u2014and no doubt subsumed into the enormous amount of evidence that it would receive. I wrote back and said no, I did not wish my evidence to be transferred. My evidence was specific to the Guildford and Woolwich inquiry. I wished it to go before Sir John May. I have heard nothing since that time. I knew from that moment on that the inquiry was doomed.\nMy purpose in raising this matter is to make only one point. When each of the great miscarriages of justice has occurred, the Home Secretary and occasionally the Attorney-General or someone else comes before the House and makes a statement. They say that everyone is upset about it, they hope that it will not happen again and they are determined to learn a few lessons from the case. I just hope that, if Sir John May's inquiry is to be abandoned \u2014and it is\u2014the Home Secretary will have the courage to come to the House and explain why it is to be abandoned. I hope that he will submit himself to questioning by the House and that we shall not one day find in Hansard some planted written answer telling us that it is all over.\nFirst, may I welcome you to your post, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is good to have two Yorkshire folk in the Chair in this new Parliament. I 177 also congratulate the hon. Members who have made maiden speeches in today's debate. I can scarcely believe that five years ago I stood here in fear and trepidation doing much the same thing. It is clear from the quality of what we heard tonight that the new Members elected to Parliament in this latest election will grace our debates and will certainly be great ambassadors for the constituents whom they represent.\nIn my judgment, the House should not adjourn for the spring recess until it has considered and taken stock of the widespread opposition throughout North Yorkshire to the plans of the National Grid Company to construct a new overhead powerline from Teesside to Shipton in the Vale of York. It would go right through the Vale of York, running some 60 miles. The proposal is the subject of a public inquiry which began today in Northallerton. That inquiry is expected to last at least two months\u2014a clear indication of both the serious nature of the proposal and the strength of opposition to it.\nThe proposed power line would pass through the constituencies of my hon. Friends the Members for Langbaurgh (Mr. Bates) and for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague), who raised the issue in debate last April. My right hon. Friend the Member for Selby (Mr. Alison) and my hon. Friend the Member for Boothferry (Mr. Davis) have also received many representations on the matter. All my hon. Friends whom I have mentioned wish to be associated with my remarks this evening.\nIt is the first time for almost a quarter of a century that a major extension to the national grid has been sought. The application arises out of the decision to construct a new gas-powered electricity generating station at the ICI complex at Wilton on Teesside. Neither I nor any of my hon. Friends have any objection to that splendid project in isolation, but we believe that there has been a clear failure of the planning procedures laid down in the Electricity Act 1989. It is a matter of great importance to the House that an amendment to those provisions be considered as a matter of urgency.\nIt has been well established that, when permission was granted for the Teesside project, no consideration was given to the potential consequences for the national grid. None of the local authorities\u2014in my constituency, North Yorkshire county council and Hambleton district council \u2014none of the parish councils or residents and landowners who would be affected by the consequent power line were consulted about the power project application. Yet residents and landowners are told that the new power line is essential to transmit the electricity generated by the Teesside plant into the national grid.\nWithout question, those affected by the proposed new power line should have been consulted before the power station was approved because the power line has clear environmental impact. That impact should have been a relevant consideration in granting the power station consent.\n\u00a7 Mr. William Hague (Richmond, Yorks)\nDoes my hon. Friend agree that in any case the National Grid Company has yet to demonstrate that there is a compelling and clear need to construct the lines, which makes the environmental cost of their construction even harder for local residents to bear?\nMy hon. Friend has anticipated the very point that I was coming to. It is indeed the view of North 178 Yorkshire county council that the National Grid Company has not demonstrated the need for the proposed power line, and that existing transmission lines are adequate for the current level of electricity which it is obliged to transmit through North Yorkshire, including the power generated by the Teesside plant. However, there is a strongly held belief that further gas-fired generating stations are planned and that the proposed new power line is largely anticipatory of the likely requirements for transmission capacity in future.\nThe proposed power line should be a matter of grave concern to all right hon. and hon. Members for reasons that I shall explain in a moment. Privatisation of the electricity industry has brought many welcome benefits to both industry and domestic consumers and has introduced much-needed competition into power generation. The potential growth of cheaper and more cleanly generated capacity will bring environmental benefits in terms of reduced emissions. Those benefits are most welcome, but they should not be at the expense of the environmental impact of transmitting the new capacity through the national grid.\nI make three points. First, this is the first major extension of the national grid for more than 20 years. What happens now will be a precedent for potential similar applications to extend the national grid in the years ahead. Secondly, as a result of the former point, the Electricity Act 1989 should be amended to require new generators, electricity boards and the National Grid Company to assess the implications for the national grid of any new power plants before permission is granted.\nThirdly, although in the past 20 years there have been many welcome advances in the technology of electricity generation\u2014indeed, the Teesside project is one of the most advanced in Europe, if not the world\u2014it appears that little if any advance in the technology of transmission has occurred in that time. We still have the same 150-ft-high pylons every 400 yd right across the country, of which there are already far too many in both my constituency and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague).\nI am sure that many hon. Members often pass through North Yorkshire on holiday or en route to other destinations and will have observed the number of pylons there. They are a blot on the landscape. Their environmental impact is immense for the many people who live in their shadow. The National Grid Company claims that it can blend the pylons into the contours of the landscape. I fail to see how that can be achieved in the flat, open landscape of the Vale of York, especially at the southern end of the proposed line in my constituency.\nI have never known such outrage, anger, resentment and despair as has been aroused by the proposed power line. The healthy increased majorities enjoyed by my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks and myself, as well as the return of the Langbaurgh constituency into Conservative hands at the general election demonstrates that the proposal is not seen as a party issue. Nor is it seen as a quarrel with the Government. My constituents see it as an issue of moral justice. They will gain nothing from the proposal, but they will lose a great deal if the proposal goes ahead.\nWould my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House convey those concerns to my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, in his new post, with his new responsibility for energy? Many of my constituents 179 now look to him to reject the National Grid Company's plans to review the provisions of the Electricity Act 1989, and to press the company to give the highest priority to the research and development of less environmentally damaging methods of electricity transmission.\nUntil then, the National Grid Company's obligations to link any new generating capacity into the national grid should be ended, unless it can be shown that there will not be the sort of environmental damage that is likely to result in north Yorkshire.\nI can think of no more important matter affecting my constituents on which to make my first speech in this new Parliament. However, this is not a NIMBY issue. It is not a local protest but a matter of the gravest national concern. Unless the provisions of the Electricity Act 1989 are amended, the constituents of other right hon. and hon. Members will face the same sort of proposal very soon.\n\u00a7 Dr. Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak)\nThank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I congratulate other new Members of Parliament who have gone through the nerve-racking process of making their maiden speeches and have acquitted themselves so well.\nAs a member, just, of the West Midlands police authority\u2014a singularly ineffective body, for which I take no responsibility\u2014I would like to use this opportunity to comment on the announcement by the Director of Public Prosecutions that there are to be no prosecutions as a result of the West Yorkshire police inquiry into the operation of the West Midlands serious crime squad.\nBefore I do so, I understand that it is traditional to pay tribute to one's predecessors and I do so willingly. I first became active in the Labour party just before Tom Litterick, the only former Labour Member for Selly Oak, was elected in 1974. Like my immediate predecessor, Tom Litterick was renowned for not always supporting the Government line. Unfortunately, I think that I am the first Member of Parliament for Selly Oak whose party is in opposition, and I shall not be faced with such difficult decisions.\nTom Litterick was one of the first to speak out in support of Mrs. Maguire and the other people whom we now know were the subject of miscarriages of justice. He did so at a time when that was very unpopular. I am proud of Tom Litterick's record for speaking out. I know that he would have been as concerned as I am about today's announcement.\nAnthony Beaumont-Dark also had a reputation for being something of a rebel. Who am I to disagree with him about the poll tax? He has said that at times he was even paired with a Member from his own party. Hon. Members may be interested to hear that Mr. Beaumont-Dark recently confessed that there had been occasions when he was glad that he was not in the majority on a certain issue.\nAnthony Beaumont-Dark had voted to restore capital punishment. During the election campaign, he told a public meeting how relieved he was that other hon. Members had not agreed with him and had voted consistently against bringing back the death penalty. In making that change of heart, I think that his mind was on the evidence of miscarriages of justice that has emerged in the past few years. The case of the Birmingham Six is 180 especially relevant to the area that I represent. I am pleased that Mr. Beaumont-Dark has recognised that we should never restore capital punishment.\nThe West Yorkshire police inquiry was mostly concerned with events which have taken place more recently. However, I am worried that two officers involved in the interrogation of the Birmingham Six were still in the serious crime squad when it was disbanded in 1989.\nEarly cases, such as that of the Birmingham Six and of Keith Twitchell\u2014who, after six months, is still awaiting the result of his petition to the Home Secretary\u2014took place before the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. That Act, which was supposed to put right some of the previous problems with police operations, has been routinely ignored by the serious crime squad, who continued to behave arrogantly and ruthlessly. At least 20 cases have gone to court, and to the Court of Appeal, where there has been evidence\u2014most noteworthy is the ESDA evidence\u2014to show that confessions and forensic evidence have been fabricated.\nThe police have not dealt with the use of supergrasses in the way that one would expect, and plenty of the evidence in court has given us cause for concern. Today we have heard the outcome of the inquiry into those cases.\nWhen the Police Complaints Authority summary was sent to the West Midlands police authority, it expressed concern about a report in 1985 by Commander Hay of the Metropolitan police, which made various recommendations. The most noteworthy recommendation was that officers should not spend more than two years, or a short time, in squads such as the serious crime squad. Those recommendations were completely ignored.\nI have been trying to get to the bottom of the matter and to find out who saw the recommendations and why they were not acted upon. I have written to Geoffrey Dear, the chief constable at the time. He denies seeing the report, even though the Police Complaints Authority stated that several chief officers within the West Midlands police saw it. I then wrote to Les Sharpe, his deputy at the time, who is now chief constable in Strathclyde.\nHe could not help me, and it is still impossible to find out who saw the report, why it was not acted upon, why officers involved with the Birmingham Six case were still serving in the serious crime squad in 1989, and why so many of them had served for more than five years in the squad and had created a culture in the squad which has resulted in many people in the west midlands being deeply troubled by the operation of their police service.\nWe need to be concerned not merely about members of the serious crime squad but about the management structure of the West Midlands police and the way in which the culture of the serious crime squad was allowed to continue.\nIt is to be regretted that the inquiry has taken two years and nine months to come to its conclusions. Although the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department gave assurances last December to my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) that there would be absolutely no cover-up in the investigation into the serious crime squad, the public in my constituency and in the west midlands, who want absolute confidence in their police force, will be deeply troubled by today's new announcement.\nThe chief superintendent in charge of the West Midlands police division that covers my constituency had direct line management for the serious crime squad. I am 181 concerned that the role of those police officers will not come to light and that we shall not find out who was responsible for the fabrications and the activities which have led to such public concern.\nMy constituents want a police force that they can trust and the House should not adjourn until the matter has been discussed adequately.\n\u00a7 Mrs. Ann Winterton (Congleton)\nI follow in the footsteps of the new hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Ms. Jones) and congratulate her on a fluent maiden speech, in which she expressed very positive views. I am sure that the House will hear from her on many future occasions. I was pleased that the hon. Lady conformed to tradition, at least at the beginning of her speech, by paying tribute to her predecessor, Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark. However, I was a little saddened that she did not continue with the tradition that the House has kept for some years, that a maiden speech should not cover matters that are controversial. However, the hon. Lady is of her own mind, and no doubt we shall hear a lot more from her in the future. I congratulate her and all the other hon. Members who have made maiden speeches today.\nI am glad to have the chance to speak in this brief debate and raise an issue which affects my constituency. The subject was touched upon earlier in a powerful maiden speech from the hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms. Lynne). I relates to the decisions and funding requirements of regional and district health authorities as they affect two of the most vulnerable sectors of the community\u2014the elderly and the mentally and physically handicapped. Such decisions are crucial to the provision of community and residential care for the mentally and physically handicapped.\nIn the previous Parliament, my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) served as Chairman of the Select Committee on Health. He said: As a result of the policies of community care pursued by successive Governments, too many patients are being discharged too soon, for the wrong reasons, and without adequate support into communities which are unwilling, or unable to accept them. I agree with that.\nThe announcement made on Thursday of last week by Crewe health authority that Cranage Hall hospital is to be closed in March 1995 falls into that category of closure, although the health authority added the rider that the decision will be subject to available resources being in place. Although some mentally and physically handicapped people belong in the community, when the necessary support structures are in place, individuals remain who, for whatever reason, require the security and stability of long-term hospitals\u2014hospitals, which, in many cases, have been their homes for many years or decades. Those people cannot be expected to leave them without being caused considerable distress.\nThere are 255 residents in Cranage Hall hospital, and they are described by the health authority, with a glib attempt at semantic subversion, as \"individuals with learning difficulties\". Such a categorisation serves simply to distract attention from the real medical and social needs of many severely handicapped patients. In Cranage Hall hospital, there is a hard core of severely mentally and 182 physically handicapped people. I have argued for the retention of a facility for them on that site since I was first elected to Parliament nine years ago.\nI must put on record my appreciation of the efforts of Mr. Richard Jackson of RESCARE, who has done so much to represent the best interests of patients, and of Mr. Derek Stubbs, the present chairman of the Cranage Hall parents and residents welfare society, who has also played a key role. I have worked closely with those two groups to further their proposed alternative concept for the future of the site\u2014a future which involves the creation of a village community, with full medical and social support for those patients who require an institutional or semi-institutional setting and who quite simply could not survive the harsh realities of life beyond its boundaries.\nThe regional and district health authorities, in their wisdom, have totally rejected a plan by the Bradford and Northern housing association, which is a non-profit-making body. It envisaged a brand-new facility on part of the Cranage Hall site, which would have been funded by the sale and development of the rest of the buildings and grounds. The plan provided hotel and leisure facilities, and housing of different categories for the local community. It was an imaginative plan that deserved consideration, but sadly it did not receive it. One had hoped that the plan would have had some appeal because it would have transferred the patients\u2014and the costs of treating them\u2014from the health service budget. They would have become tenants of the Bradford and Northern housing association.\nThe number of mentally ill and mentally handicapped people in our prisons, and sleeping rough on the streets, not just of our capital city but throughout our country, is a testament to the failure of the speed at which the policy of community care is being implemented. However, there have been successes in community care where committed and experienced staff have established close inter-agency links, and have been given adequate funding and resources. They have made a real go of things. I have visited such facilities and have been much impressed by what I have seen. None the less, the costs of running them are extremely high. Community care can only work if it is given adequate funding and has a high priority on the agenda of those authorities responsible for health, social and community services provision.\nI must admit that I am appalled by the discourtesy of the chairman and chief executive of Crewe health authority in not informing me, as the local Member of Parliament, of the decision until after the public announcement of the closure had been made. It is not acceptable that hon. Members who have been actively involved in an issue of such importance which directly affects their constituency should be left to hear of such a decision through a telephone call from a local radio station which had already been given a full statement\u2014albeit a statement which misled the media and the public about the practical effect of the proposals and the type of patients involved.\nAn added dimension to the decision to \"fast-track\" the closure of Cranage hall hospital is the problem of capital resources and how that will impact upon the care of the elderly who also live within the Crewe health authority. Three years ago, the health authority's elderly bed strategy went to consultation. It proposed that both Barony and Arclid hospitals would close in September 1993 and that new homes for elderly persons would be built, one of 183 which would be located in Sandbach to cover my constituents' needs. The acute and rehabilitation service would be relocated at Leighton hospital in two or three brand-new wards. In the meantime, following on from the health service reforms, Leighton became the mid-Cheshire trust hospital and separate from the health authority.\nThe bid by Sainsbury's for the site at Barony hospital was accepted by the health authority; a contract was signed between the two parties, and an agreement was reached to clear the site in a set period, because the supermarket was to be built and opened by the end of 1993. It was intended and understood that health authority money would build new acute rehabilitation wards at Leighton hospital and that the trust would run them. The capital cost of the building would go via the region to the trust as an external financing limit allocation. The trust has a satisfactory capital plan\u2014although it is not perfect\u2014and it has much to renew in the way of equipment, some of which is many years old.\nIt is my understanding that the region is now saying that the district health authority cannot have the so-called Sainsbury's money, and that the trust must build the needed acute and rehabilitation beds at a cost of \u00a32 million out of its present external financing limit. At the moment, the region is not committed to the building of those wards, but building must start in September of this year, for occupation in September of 1993. Therefore, contracts will have to be entered into without certain knowledge of where the huge capital sum is to come from.\nThe region cannot continue to step back from the problem. The real fear is that it is planning to rob Peter to pay Paul by using the proceeds of the sale of Barony hospital to Sainsburys to fast-track the closure of Cranage Hall hospital for the mentally handicapped. The Mid-Cheshire hospital trust at Leighton would be left in some financial uncertainty unless a clear commitment were given by the region now, as a matter of urgency, that the \u00a32 million extra capital funding for the acute geriatric and rehabilitation beds will be forthcoming, as was previously understood to be the case by all the parties concerned.\nI appreciate that I have dealt with detailed matters, but they are vital to my constituents. I call on the regional health authority and Crewe health authority to come clean with the people of my constituency, to tell them what the plans are and from where the money will come. Having done that, they should announce that the fast-track closure of Cranage Hall hospital will be put back by at least a decade, during which time other valid plans can be fully and properly researched.\n\u00a7 Mr. Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield)\nI wish at the outset, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to congratulate you on your appointment and to add my voice to those who have congratulated other maiden speakers. I particularly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Ms. Jones). Many, especially on these Benches, appreciated her comments.\nThree new seats were won in Birmingham by Labour at the general election. We had spent the previous two years being told that they were barometer seats. We gathered that whichever party won Northfield, Selly Oak and Yardley would go on to form the Government. It seems 184 that something went wrong with the barometer. I am convinced that in four or five years from now, we will be concerned not simply with so called barometer seats in Birmingham but with constituencies throughout the country, and that Labour will form the next Government.\nOf course, one cannot be certain that there will not be any by-elections between now and then. I and my two colleagues from Birmingham\u2014my hon. Friends the Members for Selly Oak and for Birmingham, Yardley (Ms. Morris)\u2014have been allocated offices across the adjoining main road. We are worrying already about the problems that we might face as we cross the road together, perhaps coming to vote in a Division.\nIt is customary in a maiden speech to speak of one's predecessor. In Northfield, I succeed Roger King, who represented the constituency for nine years. He thrived on the reputation of being the motor industry Member. One of his claims to fame was to have won the first House of Commons versus House of Lords motor race. I think that if he wanted to be remembered for anything\u2014he referred to the subject even in his own maiden speech\u2014it was his campaign against the special car tax. No one could mistake the delight on his face when finally that tax was reduced by half in the last Budget. His only regret must have been that it was the party that he supported that introduced the special car tax in the first place in the 1970s. The recent reduction is welcomed by many of us on the Labour Benches. I add my congratulations to Roger King on his new appointment. He is not leaving the motor industry, for he has been appointed director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\nNorthfield is synonymous with the motor industry. It lies to the south-west of Birmingham and contains the giant Longbridge car plant. Many of my constituents work there or in the associated component supply industry. The work force at Longbridge has contributed to the success of Rover in recent years, yet the car industry, like manufacturing as a whole, which is so vital to the Midlands, has been hit hard by the recession. Sales of new cars were down by 20 per cent. in the last year alone.\nThose points are not simply of academic significance. Northfield's unemployment rate increased by 36 per cent. in the last year, but that bald figure hides a story of human misery and deprivation. The problems of poverty in Birmingham's inner city are reasonably well known. Though faltering and incomplete, some resources have been put into such areas and are beginning to tackle the problems of poverty in the inner cities. Far more invisible is the issue of outer ring poverty, in particular the poverty on our outer ring estates.\nI might mention the estates at Bartley green, Weoley, Longbridge and Northfield itself. There are pockets of unemployment in those areas of between 70 and 80 per cent. They contain a high proportion of older people with a high dependency on benefits. There are also growing numbers of lone parents. In addition, startling poverty and deprivation results from the spiralling problem of debt which affects many of our constituents.\nIt is ironic to realise that a standard indicator of deprivation is lack of access to a motor car. A report by the director of public health in south Birmingham revealed that the area with the lowest access by families to a motor car was the ward of Longbridge. They make motor cars there, but they cannot afford to own them.\nWhere there is poverty, ill health soon follows. In south Birmingham, the area that I represent, along with my hon. 185 Friends who represent Selly Oak and Yardley, one clearly sees the problem of ill health. There is a high proportion of low-birthweight babies and stress-related illness is common, with people having a high dependence on tranquillisers.\nIf the Government are serious about tackling the problems of ill health in society, they must begin seriously to tackle the problems of poverty, bad housing and environmental deprivation. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms. Squire) that it also means tackling the scourge of poverty pay. Unless and until we tackle the problem of poverty in our outer ring estates, we shall have increasing problems with racism. We must reject any attempt to stir up resentment against people who live in the outer ring or inner ring. We shall not achieve anything until we address the problem of poverty in the outer ring and empower the people who live there to contribute to their own destinies.\nAn example in my constituency is the possible development of about 200 acres of land currently occupied by the psychiatric hospitals on what is called the Rubery and Hollymoor hospital site. It is due to be closed and redeveloped. That raises large issues about the kind of care in the community that will follow. If that land is redeveloped\u2014it is being sold off by the regional health authority, to he developed, we understand, by a firm called Charters, which has had an involvement in Docklands\u2014there must be choices about the type of development that will take place.\nWill that development provide offices but few jobs for local people and will it provide housing that local people cannont afford? In other words, will commercial considerations be paramount, and will the local community merely be consulted and the real decisions be taken elsewhere? There is an alternative to that. Real jobs could be provided in that development, along with the necessary training. Housing could be provided in a way that is affordable for local people. It could also be constructed to protect the environment. In other words, the local community should be partners in the whole process and be given a say in the decision making.\nAs their representative in this place, I know which choice I shall make. It will be for the regional health authority and the developers to choose, but I shall be returning to the whole issue time and again, because the whole community deserves no less.\nFor the Government, there is the challenge of deciding whether they are prepared to face up to the problems of poverty and deprivation on our outer ring estates. Are they prepared to devote the necessary resources to improve housing conditions, protect the environment, provide adequate levels of benefit and abolish low pay?\nMuch has been said recently about citizens charters and the rights of citizenship. Those rights will mean little if they are not accompanied by the right to have decent living standards and to live in a pollution-free environment\u2014in other words, to have a decent home. I, and my hon. Friends from Selly Oak and Yardley, will be bringing that issue before the House time and again because it greatly concerns the people we represent.\nI am grateful to have had this opportunity to address the House.\n\u00a7 Mr. Walter Sweeney (Vale of Glamorgan)\nI am honoured to have been elected to represent the Vale of Glamorgan and should like to thank the 24,220 people who voted for me, particularly the 19 people who wavered most before putting a cross next to my name.\nI am honoured because I follow in the footsteps of Sir Raymond Gower, one of the most distinguished Back Benchers. He acquired a reputation as the most prolific letter writer in the House. He also had a reputation for turning up on people's doorsteps at the most unexpected moment. It is said, no doubt anecdotally, that many of his constituents would hear a light tap on the door and would arrive at the door just in time to see him disappearing down the path. However, he was an assiduous Member of Parliament. He represented the Vale of Glamorgan\u2014previously the old seat of Barry\u2014for 38 years.\nSir Raymond's death in 1989 led to the famous by-election victory of my immediate predecessor, Mr. John P. Smith, who won by 6,000 votes. I pay tribute to John Smith for his extremely hard work as MP for the Vale of Glamorgan. He established himself as a popular Member of Parliament and very nearly pulled off the virtually impossible task of holding on to a seat won by Labour from the Conservatives in a by-election.\nThe Vale of Glamorgan is a beautiful constituency. If anyone is considering taking a holiday within the United Kingdom, I recommend it. It has about 20 miles of coastline and some attractive inlying areas, and so far, the countryside is relatively unspoiled. We have also benefited from the highest level of inward investment of any constituency in Wales, so there is much prosperity in the vale. One sad thing blights that picture: the breakdown of law and order, which has been widely experienced by my constituents.\nMy solicitor's office, which lies in the heart of Barry, was burgled five times in a few months, and I decided to conduct a survey on what was happening elsewhere in Holton road, which is the second largest shopping street in south Wales. The results of my survey made grim reading. One retail business has been burgled more than 200 times in two years. That reflects a national problem: last year, 5.3 million crimes were reported in Britain.\nBefore adjourning the House, we need to send strong messages to certain people. I welcome the announcement of a victims charter, but it does not go far enough. The main message that must go forth from this House is that we care far more about the interests of victims than those of villains. We need to send a message to the police, criminals, the motor industry, the courts, solicitors, victims and the public.\nThe message to the police should be that we support them in their tremendous endeavours to protect us. In return, we look for increased efficiency from them. We need to back up the police. If a police officer is assaulted in the course of his duty, we need to be able to rely on the courts to hand out tough penalties to his assailants. If a police officer or member of the armed forces is murdered in the course of his duty, the death penalty should be reintroduced. On the whole, the police force are marvellous but, as in any profession, there are a few rotten apples. Where those rotten apples cause miscarriages of justice through tampering with evidence, the courts should fall on them like a ton of bricks, and long prison sentences should be imposed.\n187 The main message for criminals must be that crime does not pay. Offenders who reoffend while on bail should know that they will be automatically remanded in custody and not given a chance to commit further offences. They should also know that, if they commit a string of offences and are eventually brought to justice, they cannot expect a string of concurrent sentences. The more offences they commit, the heavier should be the punishment. They should be made aware that, except in the most exceptional circumstances, they must pay full compensation to the victims of their crimes.\nOur message to the courts should be that they should order full compensation, fines and prosecution costs. It is a disgrace that the Barry magistrates court does not normally award prosecution costs against defendants. When I put that to clerks of the court, I was advised that it was difficult to get blood out of a stone\u2014most of the criminals are unemployed. If people are unable or unwilling to pay the orders made by the court, they should be set to work in a new scheme analogous to community service. They should be paid for that work but the money they earn should go first to the victims of their crime, secondly to the court in payment of their financial penalties, and thirdly to the prosecution in payment of costs.\nThe House should also send a message to solicitors, and I call on the Lord Chancellor to review the operation of the courts. I understand the Lord Chancellor's reasoning in trying to control the ever-burgeoning costs of legal aid by introducing standard fees for criminal legal aid work in the magistrates courts. I declare an interest, having practised for many years as a solicitor in courts. The Lord Chancellor has failed to take account of one of the main reasons why the cost of legal aid has gone up.\nWith the increased number of defendants appearing in court, there is far more waiting time, for which solicitors get paid at an uneconomic rate. They need to be able to charge for that waiting time if their bills are to reflect the amount of time devoted to the cases in question. Although I do not object to fixed fees for legal aid, the legal profession should, in return, have a reform of the courts' system. Such a reform should get rid of unnecessary adjournments, which are not the fault of solicitors acting for defendants, and reduce waiting time\u2014for example, by introducing a staggered listing system similar to that which already exists in county courts.\nThe next message is to the motor industry. I want the House to legislate to make the installation of deadlocks on motor cars compulsory at the manufacturing stage. No new car should be sold in this country today unless it is fitted with a satisfactory lock. We have already legislated to make seat belts compulsory: why should not deadlocks also become compulsory? That would save an enormous amount of money in insurance claims, and young people driving high-powered cars would no longer be penalised because their cars were more likely to be stolen. It would be much cheaper to install those locks at the manufacturing stage than to add them later as accessories.\nThe most important message is to the victims of crimes. They should be allowed to use force to protect their personal property, provided they give full notice to the malefactors of the risks that they run by proceeding with their criminal actions. It is no good victims relying on the 188 police. A report in the Financial Times today said that a police constable on the beat in London is likely to come within 100 yards of a burglary being carried out only every eight years. We cannot rely exclusively on the police, and must allow the victims to help themselves. I should also like victims to be invited to attend court so that they have the opportunity to make representations on compensation. Courts should make apologies to victims if full compensation is not granted, and explain why it has not been awarded.\nThe message from the House to the public should be that the House will not rest until the citizens of Barry and every other city, town and village are safe to go about their business in peace.\n\u00a7 Mr. Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy)\nI add my congratulations to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on your appointment.\nIn rising to make my maiden speech I confess to feeling \"ever so 'umble\". I am aware of the great traditions of this, the mother of Parliaments. I cannot deny the contribution made by the Chamber to the history of the British Isles. The irony is that I stood for election to the Westminster Parliament to secure my release from it, and the return of my nation to the full nation status that is richly and rightly deserved.\nMine is a particular privilege and honour as I represent the constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, where I was born and bred. I have the pleasure of representing my people, among them family, friends and innumerable acquaintances. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy is a geographically large constituency, although it is sparsely populated. My constituents have traditionally been staunchly independent\u2014a tradition that, thankfully, persists.\nIn 1974, my predecessor, Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas, was elected to represent the constituency\u2014one of the first real breakthroughs for Plaid Cymru. He held the seat with distinction until his decision last year to resign and make another career move. He was well known in the House as possessing a supreme intellect, and his contributions to debates are legendary. He also set the scene for a debate on the proper place for Wales in the European scenario. A committed European, he typically foresaw the proposed integration of the states of the European Community well before others. Many of his early speeches of 10 or 12 years ago still find favour today.\nWe in Wales, particularly Plaid Cymru, have always been comfortable with the concept of further integration, while preserving one's identity to the full. As well as being committed to Europe, my predecessor worked tirelessly on behalf of the people of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy and the people of Wales. He served on the Select Committee on Education, Science and Arts, the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs and the Standing Committee that debated the Broadcasting Bill. He was a former president of Plaid Cymru and had a keen interest in regional and countryside policy, as well as cultural and educational policy. Last year he served on the Standing Committee on the Further and Higher Education Bill. He is a hard act to follow and I am mindful of the presssure.\nI emanate from a professional stable once occupied by another Welsh wizard, Mr. David Lloyd George. I served my articles at the firm of Lloyd George and George, and 189 was articled to Lloyd George's nephew, Dr. William Lloyd George. My father knew Lloyd George\u2014actually, he did not, but I thought that I would say so, anyway.\nWelsh is the first language for the vast majority of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, a constituency of breathtaking scenic beauty, and an amalgam of rural hill farms, slate mining towns and villages, coastal holiday resorts and traditional county councils. There is a saying in Welsh, \"Tra Mor, Tra Meirion\". For those who do not speak the language of heaven, I shall paraphrase the saying: Meirionnydd will last as long as the sea lasts. That is a romantic concept, but one which could soon be evidenced by local government reorganisation.\nMeirionnydd Nant Conwy has everything that one could ask for, including gold mines. It could be argued that the monarchy might be in difficulty were it not for the reserves of high-quality gold in the hills of my constituency. I have to be careful not to romanticise overmuch\u2014a temptation when one is describing something that one dearly loves. However, we do have problems \u2014problems which may threaten the very existence of my constituency. They include high unemployment and chronic youth unemployment. There is a housing crisis of staggering proportions and crises in agriculture brought about largely by the Government's laissez-faire attitude to the common agricultural policy reform proposals. Such an approach appears typical when one considers the depth of Euro-cynicism among Government ranks.\nNothing that I have heard in the Chamber gives me comfort or reassurance that the serious problems are being effectively addressed\u2014in fact, the contrary is true. Urgent initiatives must be taken if we are to combat the chronic youth unemployment. Is it not possible to re-evaluate the youth training schemes to make them more attractive to the young and to prospective employers? Would it not be possible to set a mandatory longer term for employment to qualify for the scheme?\nWe must try to regenerate the economy of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, particularly as the Trawsfynydd power station is soon to be decommissioned. During a recent visit to the European Community headquarters in Brussels, I canvassed the possibility of funding for the future in the event of the station's closure, and was staggered that the subject had not previously been discussed.\nWe need inward investment, and to ensure that, we need a transport infrastructure that will attract jobs and job creators to Meirionnydd Nant Conwy. I referred to the crisis in housing. In the public sector, 1,100 people are on the local authority waiting lists. That figure is creeping upward daily. If there is to be a serious reorganisation of local government in Wales, it provides the opportunity to bring responsibility back to the local authorities, where it should be. The right-to-buy legislation had benefits for individuals, but wrought havoc on the public housing stock. The Government should be urged to fund Tai Cymru properly and so assist enthusiastic housing associations in their vital role. The problem is sufficiently acute to merit an attack on both fronts.\nPlanning legislation should be introduced in the private sector to minimise the detrimental socio-economic effect of second homes and the consequent harm to the constituency's intrinsic culture. It is well know that a small amendment to the Use Classes Order could readily address that problem. That would involve minimal legislation, but could have a major effect.\n190 One family in five in my constituency depends either directly or indirectly on the agricultural industry. We must face the challenge posed by the CAP cuts head on, and we must cut the cloth to suit our needs. Only then can we be assured of a healthy and prosperous future for the constituency. It is no use sitting here and complaining: the answer is to take a full part in the European deliberations. The Secretary of State for Wales, as the Government Member responsible for agriculture in Wales, should have done so at an early date. I am hopeful that he will shoulder his responsibilities as he should and, even at the eleventh hour, take on the challenge for our communities.\nOn 11 May, the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Adley) said that Plaid Cymru did incredibly well to win four seats in Wales\", although he confessed that he did not know what the message was. He also invited my hon. Friend the Member for Ceredigion and Pembroke, North (Mr. Dafis) to explain to the House where he thinks Wales is going.\"\u2014[Official Report, 11 May 1992; Vol. 207, c. 427.] My hon. Friend is well able to answer any questions put to him, as he displayed in his masterly maiden speech, but I shall reply to the hon. Member for Christchurch.\nWales is on its way to self-government. The electorate of Wales will see Plaid Cymru as the only radical party in Welsh politics. They see Plaid Cymru as being in the main stream of European politics and they see in support for Plaid Cymru the way forward to solving its problems, some of which I have but briefly highlighted.\nI pledge to work tirelessly and ceaselessly for the benefit of my constituents and the people of Wales. Thank you, Sir, for your indulgence.\n\u00a7 Mr. James Clappison (Hertsmere)\nI rise with trepidation to make my maiden speech. Earlier today, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred to the making of a maiden speech as an occasion that no hon. Member would ever forget. I am sure that that is as true of me as of every hon. Member.\nMy trepidation has been increased by the series of eloquent speeches from other new Members, including the hon. Members for Rochdale (Ms. Lynne), for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Ms. Jones), for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) and for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) and my hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham (Mr. Stephen). I particularly enjoyed the speech by the hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms. Lynne). I once visited Rochdale to watch a rugby league match, and I agree with the hon. Lady that it is a most interesting and agreeable place\u2014and underrated\u2014but I regret to tell her that on that occasion Rochdale Hornets lost by a wide margin.\nI rise to make my maiden speech today to draw the attention of the House to a serious problem that has arisen in Hertsmere, but before doing that I should like to pay tribute to my predecessor, Cecil Parkinson, not just as a matter of custom but because everyone in Hertsmere would want me to. Besides occupying the highest offices of state, he was always held in the highest esteem and affection by his constituents, as a tireless servant of their interests. I know that he has many friends in this place and many others in the constituency.\nCecil Parkinson represented Hertsmere for more than 20 years. He first entered the House in a by-election in 1970, following the tragic death of Lain Macleod, then the 191 Member for Enfield, West. One of the many pleasures of representing Hertsmere is that of meeting many people in Potters Bar and other parts of the constituency which used to be in Enfield, West who remember lain Macleod to this day, who cherish his memory and who are proud of the influence that he exerted on the public life of this country. They are proud of his legacy and of the one-nation ideal which is still very much alive today. Their association with the late Iain Macleod is a matter of great pride to my constituents.\nBesides Potters Bar, Hertsmere consists of a number of other communities in the southernmost parts of Hertfordshire, each fiercely independent and proud of its identity, but linked by a common thread of interest. Hertsmere has some of the loveliest countryside in close proximity to London. In the past week or so, we have heard many maiden speeches praising the beauties of the countryside of various constituencies, and I would add Hertsmere to that list\u2014with the distinction that there can be few other places so close to London with such beautiful countryside. I know that both my predecessors were keen to preserve the quality of life in that countryside against the inevitable encroachment consequent on its proximity to London.\nMy constituents would also like me to mention the rail links between Hertsmere and London. It seems to be almost a convention that maiden speakers should complain about the state of the railway services to their constituencies, and we have heard a long list of such complaints\u2014to which I should like to add a word of praise. Over the past 13 years, there have been great improvements in the rail services in my constituency, especially with the introduction of Thameslink, which has been supported by a considerable programme of investment in the railways. That in turn has greatly improved the rail services between my constituency and London.\nUnfortunately, given the almost infinite capacity of British Rail to give with one hand and take away with the other, the improvement in daily services has been accompanied by a threat to Sunday services in the constituency, particularly to the communities of Radlett, Borehamwood and Elstree. In other parts of the constituency too, Sunday services leave something to be desired and my constituents want them improved.\nMy constituents are also interested in housing. A few moments ago, the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) mentioned complaints about housing. My constituents are pleased with the developments in housing in the past 13 years\u2014especially the 3,600 of them who had the chance to purchase their own homes through the council house purchase-of-property scheme. Thousands of others became home owners over the same period.\nIn the current economic climate, my constituents greatly appreciate the suspension of stamp duty on house purchases which continues in effect until August\u2014and they would be pleased if the scheme were extended.\nOne other matter gravely concerns a large number of my constituents. They all find it disagreeable, but for some of them it causes a great deal of hurt. I refer to a series of systematic attacks on the Jewish community in my 192 constituency. In the past three months, Jewish people have been subjected to organised attacks on themselves, their religious institutions and their leaders.\nIn March, one of the synagogues in my constituency was visited twice by criminals, who attacked the premises and daubed them with slogans of the basest kind, thereby causing great pain to constituents who attended the synagogue. That was followed in April by two incidents when, at a different synagogue, congregants attending services were verbally harassed in an unpleasant way by people who were clearly acting in concert.\nOn top of all this, the private home of a rabbi was recently visited by people who one can only conclude were the same miscreants who had perpetrated the earlier offences. Once again, appallingly hurtful slogans were daubed, this time on the rabbi's private home; not only was his privacy invaded, but the entire Jewish community in the constituency were greatly affronted.\nAll right-thinking people in my constituency\u2014my constituents are right-thinking people\u2014are filled with the greatest disgust by these actions. Among the Jewish community, they re-awaken old fears and create potent new ones\u2014and they cause the greatest possible hurt.\nI raise this matter on the Adjournment because it is important, and I do so in the full knowledge that the Government have had an exemplary record of taking action against just this sort of activity. We know that the resources of the police have been greatly increased in the past few years, and legal machinery has been put in place to deal with such activities.\nThe Public Order Act 1986 created the new offence of incitement to racial hatred\u2014a fact which I am sure is of considerable solace to my constituents at this time. They will be pleased to know that anyone engaging in this type of activity can now receive a sentence of two years' imprisonment. I hope that, when the courts deal with this sort of offence, they will take a robust view of sentencing and will sentence not only according to the immediate physical consequences of an act but according to the wider hurt and fear that it may create.\nI urge the Government to take every opportunity, as I know they will, to stamp out this sort of activity. I am absolutely confident that it represents the antithesis of what the Government and the Prime Minister stand for and of the sort of society that he wants to create\u2014indeed, this sort of activity should have no place in any decent society.\nAlthough they can create a great deal of hurt, the people who perpetrate these crimes are probably very few in number. Nevertheless, my constituents are also concerned about the fact that, in recent times, extreme political parties have apparently enjoyed so much success in countries not far from our own. In those countries, sentiments espoused by political extremists in this country are expressed clandestinely, or even openly.\nIn the light of that, I urge the Government to continue to defend our constitution and our electoral system. I believe that that constitution and electoral system have served this country well, at times when other countries' constitutions and electoral systems have served them much less well. It would be a very sad day when the forces of extremism that we now see in other countries gained even a foothold in our own.\nI have made my maiden speech with a great deal of pride. I am proud of being a Member of the House of Commons, and I am proud of its history; I am also proud 193 because I know that, in every party represented here, there is no place for the extremist activities that I have described. I hope that that will long continue, and that I never see the day when extremists occupy our Benches.\n\u00a7 Mr. Jamie Cann (Ipswich)\nI feel rather as I did when I first went to the dentist\u2014full of trepidation, but knowing that at least it will all be over soon.\nI have the honour to have been elected to represent Ipswich in the Labour interest, and in the interests of the people of that town. Before I go any further, I must mention my predecessor, Michael Irvine, who was an assiduous attender of the House and also a very pleasant man. He fought hard and defended the Government's position with courage, and I was therefore delighted to scrape home with a majority of 265.\nLet me also mention Mr. Irvine's predecessor, who will still be well known to many hon. Members. Ken Weetch was the Labour Member from 1974 until 1987. and he is still very popular in both the constituency and the House.\nIpswich is just up the River Orwell from the port of Felixstowe, and was founded in the 5th century as an Anglo-Saxon village called Gyppeswic. It was burnt down four times by the Vikings, but we are still in favour of Europe\u2014just. This year, its football team won the second division championship. It is now going into the premier league, and it is a matter of some sorrow to me that I shall not be able to watch the away matches because the rights have all been sold to BSkyB, or whatever it is called now. The team also won the 1978 FA cup against Arsenal, I am pleased to say. At that time, everyone in the town was incensed by the football commentators' description of Ipswich as a \"sleepy little market town\". We are not that; we are an industrial-relations town at root.\nIpswich still has many manufacturing industries, producing grass-cutting machinery, compressors, car components, lift motors, valves, pipes, castings and so forth. It has, however, broadened its range, and is now a large commercial centre specialising particularly in insurance firms. It is also the fifth largest container port in Britain. We in Ipswich have many facilities, and we live in a beautiful area in which we take a great deal of civic pride. We consider ourselves the regional capital of East Anglia; colleagues in Cambridge and Norwich dispute that, but of course they are wrong.\nWe have our problems, of course, but I wish to mention only one of them today. A large concern in the constituency. Ransome and Rapier, recently went bust; not only did it go bust, but, unfortunately, it went bust a few months after it had been bought by Robert Maxwell, and its pension fund is one of those that have been looted by him. The House will not be surprised to learn that I am one of the hundred or so Members of Parliament who are trying, on an all-party basis, to get something done about that. It is all very well for us to adjourn for our holidays next week, but some of my constituents do not know whether they will receive their pension cheques at the end of the month. Already a pension fund has closed down, affecting some people in Suffolk.\nI believe\u2014along with all the other members of the action group\u2014that it is right, proper and desirable for the President of the Board of Trade to make a statement. We should like that statement to say that the Government undertake to drip-feed and underwrite any pension funds 194 that may be in danger of closing absolutely, so that they may be kept going until investigations have apportioned blame. In particular, we should like the right hon. Gentleman to assure us that he intends to help to force the banks to release the \u00a3217 milion of pension fund money that they are holding. It is not their money; it was lodged with them as security, but it belongs to the pension fund, and we should like the Government to help us to get it back. We also believe that the right hon. Gentleman should take on board the 30 suggestions made by the Select Committee on Social Services, so that we can ensure that such a thing never happens again.\nThat is the only problem affecting Ipswich to which I shall refer today, because it is the most urgent. Ipswich has other problems, however, and I promise that on future occasions I shall bring them to the notice of the House.\n\u00a7 Mr. Jon Owen Jones (Cardiff, Central)\nI have been privileged to sit here this afternoon and hear the many contributions made by other hon. Members, particularly the maiden speeches. However, the speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) made me feel even more daunted by the challenge.\nIn making my maiden speech, I find little difficulty in following one convention\u2014that of referring kindly to the previous Member of Parliament for my constituency. Mr. Ian Grist is an old-fashioned gentleman of courage and integrity, and I have met no hon. Member on either side of the House who thought ill of him. He was very well regarded by his fellow Welsh Tory Members, who showed particular and unusual loyalty to him when he was sacked last year as a junior Welsh Office Minister.\nIt was said at the time that Ian Grist paid the price for backing the wrong horse in the Tory leadership election. I hope that it will now be of some comfort to him to learn that his friend and colleague, the hon. Member for the neighbouring constituency of Cardiff, North (Mr. Jones), has succeeded him in his former post. Let me take this opportunity to congratulate my fellow Cardiff Member on his promotion: I am sure that, like Mr. Grist before him, he will seek consultation and consensus before controversy and conflict. One result of the general election for which we can thank my hon. Friend the new Member for Pembroke (Mr. Ainger) is the reversal of a \"Major\" change in the Welsh Office: again, there are three Heseltinians working in harness there.\nReading the maiden speech that Mr. Grist made 18 years ago, I was struck by his reference to the changing structure of employment in the constituency. He noticed the decline in traditional industries that was taking place then, and the fact that the service sector was becoming dangerously dominant. Over the past two decades, little has changed in that regard. If anything, the trend has accelerated: with the notable exception of Panasonic and Allied Steel and Wire, it is the service industries that now dominate Cardiff to an excessive degree.\nThe service sector provides over 80,000 jobs in a city that has a population of less than one third of a million, and during the past decade there has been a further 9 per cent. reduction in the activity of productive industries. Jobs in metal goods and vehicles have declined over that period from 10,000 to 8,500. Other manufacturing has seen a decline in employment from 8,500 to 7,000. The figures confirm a long-term loss of Cardin productive 195 sector and the manual employment that it provided, and it is no longer an industrial city. Indeed, Bournemouth manufactures more than Cardiff. The Government generally and the Welsh Office especially must help local authorities and industry to redress the employment imbalance.\nThis month's employment statistics show that, in Cardiff, Central, 4,765 people are officially registered as unemployed. It is the second highest level of unemployment in Wales\u2014higher than the levels of unemployment in the valley constituencies. That is the unemployment that is to be found in the centre of the Principality's capital.\nThe constituency contains pockets of dangerously high levels of male unemployment. It is 27 per cent. in the Adamstown ward and 20 per cent. in Cathays and Plasnewydd. These inner-city wards need work desperately. In some parts of the city, as many as one in every two young men are out of work. The stresses and strains that this places on our society can be seen, perhaps, in Coventry and Los Angeles. They were evidenced in Ely, another Cardiff ward, last year.\nMy research has shown that, before Mr. Grist, the Member who represented my constituency was my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands). My hon. Friend won the seat in 1966 and held it for the next eight years. When he made his maiden speech as the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central, he referred to the building of the Severn bridge, and that presents an opportunity that I can hardly resist. During his eight years as the Member for my constituency the toll on the bridge decreased from half a crown to 12p in 1974, which was a 41 per cent. decrease in real terms.\nThe toll increased to \u00a31 during the 18 years of Mr. Grist's representation of the constituency. In real terms, that was perhaps a modest increase of 35 per cent., about 2 per cent. per annum above the rate of inflation. I have represented the constituency for only one month, and the toll has already increased by 40 per cent. for cars\u2014the charge is now \u00a32.80\u2014and 180 per cent. for light vans, for which the charge is now \u00a35.60. In only a month, the tolls have increased by much greater amounts than the sum total of previous increases over the previous 26 years.\nIt is worth comparing the figures with the tolls that are levied on the Dartford bridge, which are currently 80p each way for cars and light commercial vehicles. It is a valid comparison, as the Dartford bridge, which was opened in October, was built to relieve bottlenecks between Essex and Kent. Could the difference in treatment relate to the number of Conservative-held constituencies in Essex and Kent, bearing in mind that there are only two Conservative-represented constituencies in Gwent and Glamorgan?\nIf, as we are told, high tolls are needed to finance the second crossing of the Severn, why are there no tolls on the new M40, which was built at considerable cost to relieve the M1 and the M6? Over the next few years, it is estimated that \u00a31 billion will be collected on the Severn bridge, and much of that money would have been spent in south Wales. As we have no overall tolling policy in the United Kingdom, unlike some other countries, we have what amounts to a selective tax on the economic region of south Wales.\n196 Two hundred years ago, small farmers and traders in west Wales became so enraged at the unfair tolls exacted on the goods they took to market that they burned down the toll gates, but I am not advocating burning down the Severn bridge. The farmers disguised themselves as women, and the uprising became known as the Rebecca riots. My wife has an ancestor who, as a Rebecca rioter, was deported to Australia. Press reports suggest that business men and women who are running small businesses in Avon and Gwent will demonstrate on the Severn bridge during the bank holiday, thus producing even more traffic chaos than normal.\nI ask the Government seriously to reconsider the tolls and to note the protest. The tolls are unjust and have caused otherwise law-abiding citizens to consider taking action that even threatens to drive the hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. Evans) into the arms of the daughters of Rebecca. I ask my hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones), the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman for Wales, to use all his influence to change the unjust tolls.\n\u00a7 Mr. Tony Banks (Newham, North-West)\nFirst, Madam Deputy Speaker, I congratulate you on your appointment. As you know, I have long been one of the your greatest admirers in the House. I look forward to a long and happy relationship with you. It is one that has started most auspiciously this evening.\nI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, Central (Mr. Owen Jones) on his maiden speech. He made it with wit and with a succinctness that I shall try to follow. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott), the Opposition Front Bench spokesman, wishes to respond to the debate at about 7 o'clock, which gives me only two minutes. I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, Central that it takes some courage to refer to early cross-dressing in Wales in a maiden speech. I look forward to hearing more of his speeches.\nThere is a lesson for all newly elected Members, and it was the first lesson that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) taught me. I think that it is a lesson that he teaches everyone. It is important to know that, if we are to take advantage of this place, we must be present. Being here is the important thing. There have been two wonderful examples today of the advantage of being here. The first example was provided by my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover, who took advantage of the opportunity that our proceedings offered to have a debate on a matter of principle. That was followed by a somewhat controversial vote, but it was an interesting manoeuvre.\nWe then heard my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin). He provided an object lesson for all newly elected Members and experienced Members. He demonstrated how useful this place can be for an assiduous Member who wants to pursue the cause of justice, as my hon. Friend has done so well and so often.\nIn the short time that is available to me, I suggest that the House should debate the disposal of county hall before we move off for the spring adjournment. I should explain for new Members who do not know London that county hall is the wonderful building almost opposite the House that used to be the headquarters of the Greater London council. It is a grade 2 listed building. It was paid for by London ratepayers, and it was there to be the home of 197 Londonwide local government. Had my party won the election, it would have been restored to that position. It would have been the home of the new greater London authority. Unfortunately, an ungrateful electorate did not give the Labour party the majority that it merited, which means that we shall not have to return to this issue on a later date.\nThe House should surely have some time to consider the various options that are now being proposed for county hall. The GLC was abolished in 1986, as an act of political spite by the Government. It was inspired and initiated by that vicious old loony who is now on her way to the other place. That viciousness was subsequently compounded by a decision not to allow county hall to be used for public purposes.\nIt was suggested that it should be used for offices for Members of Parliament, and that would have been welcomed on both sides of the House. There was also a proposal that it should be used by a Government Department, and we would have been prepared to accept that if we could not have it for a new Greater London authority. If officials of the Department of the Environment are to move, perhaps they should move into county hall rather than being moved down river to Canary Wharf to save Olympia and York.\nCurrently, there are two proposals for county hall\u2014one from the London School of Economics and the other from a Japanese hotel organisation called the Shirayama group, which is a privately owned company with a staff of seven and a turnover last year of only \u00a310 million. The LSE has put forward a more than adequate proposal for the use of county hall, so it is absurd that a proposal from a fly-by-night cowboy concern should be looked on with apparent favour by the Government, and certainly with favour by the London residuary body.\nIt is scandalous that an international academic institution such as the LSE should be bounced in favour of a cowboy Japanese hotel group. If county hall were to be turned into a luxury hotel and luxury flats, patronised by Japanese tourists, it would be an obscene and absurd use of that wonderful building. I hope that, when the Government consider the proposals from those two very different organisations, they will favour a British educational institution over a Japanese hotel group.\nI congratulate you on your appointment, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Broadcasting Select Committee's loss is the Chair's gain. I am sure that you will enjoy your position; we shall certainly enjoy your presence in the Chair.\nIt has fallen to me to respond to a large number of Adjournment debates over the past five years, and I must confess that there have been occasions on which my attention has wandered while I have sat through three hours of speeches. However, I appear to have done the job so well that I am asked back time and again.\nMy attention has wandered much less today than in the past, because of the interesting maiden speeches that we have heard. It always sounds patronising to say that maiden speeches are outstanding, but I truly thought that they were today. Most of us tend to put more sweat into a maiden speech than into subsequent speeches, so perhaps the amount of work put into their preparation is reflected in their quality. The quality was certainly high today. 198 Although, there were 10 maiden speeches, and it would take me more than the 10 minutes available to respond to them all properly\u2014but I shall try.\nThe hon. Member for Rochdale (Miss Lynne) spoke with great fluency about the discriminisation experienced by people with disabilities. I am sure that she will want to speak about that on future occasions and that the House will want to hear her.\nI am sure that the House will understand when I say that the two maiden speeches that gave me the most pleasure were by Members for west midlands constituencies. We did our bit in the west midlands, with seven net gains for the Labour party. That will increase the west midlands regional group\u2014already a splendid group\u2014by 25 per cent. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Ms. Jones) made a highly knowledgeable and serious speech about the west midlands serious crime squad\u2014one that certainly demands a response from the Minister when he replies to the debate.\nMy hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) produced the most startling statistic\u2014that the lowest access to car usage by families in any south Birmingham ward is in the Longbridge ward. It is a statistic that in future I shall quote as though it were my own.\nIt is appropriate also to refer to a speech that was not a maiden, but which in many ways related to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Selly Oak. I refer, of course, to the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin). I do not need to patronise him, but I thought that it was a masterly speech, given his tremendous record on exposing miscarriages of justice. The Government should understand the sense of outrage that people feel about those who have received sentences\u2014which in the past undoubtedly would have been capital sentences\u2014and who are now known to have been innocent. My hon. Friend controls his outrage in a most remarkable way. His comments certainly need a response from the Minister.\nOther hon. Members also made their maiden speeches on law and order, but, as my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South said, they were of a slightly different flavour from his. The hon. Member for Shoreham (Mr. Stephen) spoke about law and order, and we do not like to disagree with comments made so early in someone's parliamentary career. However, he also said something with which I strongly agree, and that was about the plight of the Maxwell pensioners. That issue was also raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Cann), who also made a splendid maiden speech. Again, the Government must respond to those speeches. I am sure that many other hon. Members would also have raised that matter had they had the opportunity to do so.\nI was impressed by the phrases used in the maiden speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms. Squire). I liked the phrase she used about parts of her constituency, where \"work and welcome\" are characteristics. Again, that is a phrase that I shall use as though it were mine. The substance of my hon. Friend's speech was about the low-paid, a subject to which I hope she will return again and again. Labour Members make no apologies for the campaign we fought during the general election on the basis of a strong belief in a national basic minimum wage.\nThe hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Sweeney) was most generous in his remarks about his 199 predecessor, my friend John Smith, who was a splendid Member for Parliament for that constituency. The hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) spoke with pride about the area that he represents, and he too paid tribute to his predecessor. The hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) spoke fluently and without notes in his maiden speech. He showed quite remarkable confidence.\nMy hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, Central (Mr. Owen Jones) made an extremely witty speech. It is difficult to jest in this place, but he managed to do so while also making serious points. I hope that he does not incite his constituents to riot. He certainly made a powerful case about toll charges on the Severn bridge.\nMy hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich raised another issue about which I want to speak before my coat is pulled; I am rapidly running out of time. As my hon. Friend said, due to the operation of the free market, his constituents, like those of other hon. Members, will have less and less choice in the amount of sport that they can see on television. I raise that matter in what is perhaps a populist manner, but it is extremely serious and important. The new Leader of the House is the fourth in five years, and one of his key responsibilities will be as a member of the Broadcasting Select Committee\u2014where I hope to join him.\nThat was one of the few achievements of the last Parliament and one of the few about which I feel pleased. Most of the others I opposed. However, we massively extended our democratic system by allowing television pictures from this House to reach millions of our constituents. That has been an unqualified success. I hope that the televising of Parliament will be extended and developed. I hope, too, that there will be television coverage of more Select Committees and Standing Committees and that there will be more regional coverage by the regional television companies. In addition, I hope that more educational use will be made of the signal from this Chamber.\nThe Leader of the House must, however, have a few words with some of his right hon. Friends. There is not the slightest point in transmitting spectacularly good pictures of what goes on in this Chamber, or anywhere else, if there is no national system of broadcasting. I used sport as a very important example. We were unable to watch World Cup cricket and we will be unable to see many Football League matches, because the so-called market forces have ensured that a small company with a lot of money behind it has denied most of my constituents, who do not have satellite dishes, the right to watch all these events.\nIf that is an extension of freedom of choice, it is a new definition. It is not even, in any sensible way, the operation of market forces. If market forces had operated in relation to satellite broadcasting, the companies involved would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, but, they were bailed out by other related companies with plenty of money to spare.\nHaving referred to the sports side of the question, I return to the television coverage of the proceedings of this House. It is not just that national television is being threatened as a result of the loss of the coverage of sporting events that previously all people could watch. There are now serious threats to the news and current affairs 200 coverage that is provided by our national television networks. Tremendous damage was done to the system by the Broadcasting Act 1990. Now we hear that programmes such as \"World in Action\" are likely to lose their prime time slots. \"This Week\" and other current affairs programmes are also threatened. We hear that some companies think that programmes such as \"News at Ten\" are taking up prime time slots and that \"News at Ten\" should be changed to \"News at 3 am\" so that a game show can be transmitted at 10 pm.\nThe effectiveness of the way in which politics and current affairs are covered in this country, including the way in which the signal from this House is used by the broadcasters, depends upon serious programmes being transmitted at times when viewers are able to watch them. The BBC and ITV national networks must be defended and sustained. No good will be done by unedited transmission of the proceedings in this House to a few people with satellite dishes. People are informed about national issues by news and current affairs bulletins that are made available to everybody and transmitted at a time when they are up and awake and able to take advantage of them.\nI do not believe that I am putting in too grandiose a way when I say that, if anybody says anything about the coverage of the general election campaign, they will have to acknowledge, in fairness, that, if the people of this country had had to rely on newspapers alone for their information, any remote notion that the election was fought on a level playing field would have been ludicrous. The only conceivable argument that it was or began to be a level playing field would be that there was national broadcasting on radio and television that followed the guidelines laid down by the House.\nIf, during the next five years, the national broadcasting system is undermined\u2014we see it already in sport and we may see it in current affairs\u2014and it becomes more like the newspapers, with dozens of editions available but no content of substance and no requirement that there should be fairness and impartiality, the next election will be fought on a grotesquely unfair basis, because people will not be provided with proper, balanced information about news and current affairs.\nThe responsibility of the Leader of the House to this House is different from that of any Member of the Cabinet. He will be judged not by the extent to which he is a hatchet man for the Government but by the extent to which he sees that he has a responsibility to the whole of the House, which includes ensuring that the affairs of this House are properly transmitted by television signals and other means to the public at large, upon which they can make a balanced judgment on how we go about our affairs and debate the great issues of the day. It is his duty and responsibility to do that in as non-partisan a way as he can. If he does that, he will certainly have our support.\n\u00a7 The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)\nI hope that the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott) will forgive me if, during the short time available to me, I do not refer to all the points that he has made. The spirit in which I shall approach my duties as Leader of the House was fairly 201 well set out in the speech that I made at the conclusion of the debate last week on the Gracious Speech, which I hope did not qualify me for his terminology as a hatchet man.\nI do not suggest that I used to have fantasies about being Leader of the House, but I have always had a hankering to be in the position, at the end of this particular debate, of being able to look the House in the eye and say to all those Members who had made speeches that they had been so persuasive that I had decided that we should not have the recess. However, I have decided that discretion is the better part of valour.\nTherefore, on this slightly strange occasion, when the Leader of the House is supposed to be one of the world's most formidable polymaths, capable of replying to all the points that have been made in profusion during the debate, I shall do what is expected of me. If I am unable to communicate as much information as the House would like to hear, I have to admit that I have learnt a great deal, including the names of an almost infinite number of towns and villages. At one point I thought that I was going to learn from my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, South-West (Sir A. Grant) the name of every squirrel in Brampton wood.\nLet me attempt to comment, in the time available to me, on some of the speeches, including a formidable number of very good maiden speeches. The hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms. Lynne) paid what we all regarded as a pleasing tribute to her predecessor, Sir Cyril Smith, who was certainly one of the characters of the House in the time that I have been here. She showed that she will be a worthy successor because of the vigour with which she spoke about community care. That did her great credit. I hope that she will understand that, were I making a longer and different speech, I should wish to comment on the way in which the Government's plans for improving the delivery of community care are moving forward at this very moment, in the way she knows. However, she was right to place great emphasis on the importance of the subject.\nWe also heard a pleasing maiden speech from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms. Squire), who is not currently in her place. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"] I apologise unreservedly.\n\u00a7 Mr. Tony Banks\nThe right hon. Gentleman cannot afford the eye test.\n\u00a7 Mr. Newton\nI can now assure the hon. Gentleman that he will get left off the end of this speech.\nThe hon. Member for Dunfermline, West brilliantly described her predecessor, Dick Douglas, as a man of independence of mind, a description with which all of us would agree, and went on to make a plea on behalf of Dunfermline abbey as the Westminster abbey north of the border. That drew a surprising degree of assent\u2014given that there must be a number of other competitors\u2014from some of her Scottish colleagues on the Opposition Benches.\nThe hon. Lady spoke more controversially, although not unacceptably so, about the problems of low pay. On that front, I would merely observe that only two Community member states\u2014France and Spain\u2014have a statutory minimum wage of the kind that she appears to advocate. France is experiencing record levels of unemployment and Spain has the highest unemployment 202 of any country in the Community, so those two countries are not an especially good advertisement for what the hon. Lady proposes.\nMy hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham (Mr. Stephen) spoke of his predecessor, Sir Richard Luce\u2014a man held in high regard by all of us\u2014and then went through a formidable list of demands which, to my great pleasure, appeared to bear a considerable resemblance to the Conservative party manifesto, thus presenting me with a rather less difficult task than some Opposition Members did. My hon. Friend spoke persuasively, and his was an impressive maiden speech.\nI think that I am right this time: the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Dr. Jones) is not in her place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"] In that case, she has moved. You, Madam Deputy Speaker, will probably agree that it is useful if hon. Members sit in the same place most of the time because we then have some chance of knowing whether they are here. At any rate, I am glad to remedy that error, too, and say how pleased all of us on the Conservative Benches were with the hon. Lady's comments not only about her Labour predecessor, Tom Litterick, but about her immediate predecessor, Anthony Beaumont-Dark, whom we remember even better and with a good deal of affection and respect.\nThe hon. Lady commented mainly on the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of the investigations of the West Midlands serious crime squad. She will probably understand \u2014as her hon. Friends certainly will\u2014that the only comment that it is proper for me to make is that the decision whether to prosecute is entirely for the DPP. It was a fluent and impressive maiden speech, none the less.\nThe hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) recognised not only his own interest in the motor industry but the formidable interest of his predecessor, Roger King, both in the motor industry in general and in the sport of motor racing in particular. Reference was made to Roger King's victory over the House of Lords \u2014which the absent hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) would no doubt regard, approvingly, as some kind of symbol\u2014in a rally some time ago.\nThe hon. Gentleman's speech will have struck a chord with many of his Scottish colleagues. He referred not only to the problems of inner cities, which we all seek to address, but to a problem that is more familiar to Scotland \u2014the outer-ring estates around cities\u2014and drew a parallel with Birmingham. The Government are well aware of the sort of problems of which the hon. Gentleman spoke, although we might not all agree on what is the right solution. I shall certainly ensure that the hon. Gentleman's interesting remarks are drawn to my right hon. Friend's attention.\nMy hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Sweeney) spoke in a way that will have impressed hon. Members on both sides of the House about his immediate and short-lived predecessor, who won the seat in the by-election. My hon. Friend properly paid tribute to John Smith, who, as he said, nearly pulled off the very difficult task of retaining the seat at the general election. Conservative Members are pleased that my hon. Friend managed to pull it off himself, and I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary will look closely at his remarks about crime in the area.\nI have some difficulty in competing with the remarks of the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. 203 Llwyd), the name of whose constituency I have some difficulty in pronouncing. He clearly shares with us a high regard for his predecessor, Dafydd Elis Thomas. We were sad to see Dr. Thomas go, but it is clear from the hon. Gentleman's remarks that he will be a worthy successor in speaking for the Welsh interest in the House. In view of his reference to Welsh as the first language of his constituency, I hope that he was pleased to see that a Welsh language Bill was included in the Queen's Speech.\nAs the hon. Member for The Wrekin said, my hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) spoke with tremendous fluency and without notes, and in a way that will have commanded support across the party divide about the disgraceful attacks on synagogues in his area. He will have drawn the support of us all for his remarks on that, and I assure him that the Government and all my right hon. and hon. Friends will be concerned to do anything that they can to help him and the police and other authorities in his constituency to try to stamp out that entirely unacceptable behaviour.\nI fear that I must apologise to those who spoke in the debate who did not make maiden speeches, as I may not be able to comment on what they said in the two minutes left to me. Instead I come to the last two maiden speeches. The hon. Member for Cardiff, Central (Mr. Owen Jones) paid tribute to a long-standing friend of mine, Ian Grist, with whom I used to be in the Conservative party organisation years ago, and made some remarks while I was briefly out of the Chamber which I had recorded for me. The hon. Gentleman apparently referred to the burning of toll gates in Wales during the 18th century and appears to have referred to\u2014although I hope not made \u2014a threat of similar demonstrations in the vicinity on a bank holiday in the near future.\nLastly, I come to my nearest neighbour in my Essex constituency of Braintree, the new hon. Member for Ipswich (Mr. Cann). I much appreciated his remarks about his predecessor, Michael Irvine, who brought a number of Maxwell pensioners to see me when I was Secretary of State for Social Security. I know Ipswich rather well. I was a boy in Harwich, and I used to watch Ipswich play football in the days when there was still something called third division south and nobody had heard of Ipswich. 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The course has the following objectives for students who complete the course: 1) be able to communicate during simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information; 2) be able to express oneself in written form through simple sentences and paragraphs; 3) be able to read short, simple texts; 4) be able to understand common phrases and vocabulary related to personal interests, tastes, and preferences; 5) be able to identify and explain customs of the Hispanic world.\nEconomic Development in Latin America: Milestones and Crisis\nThis course is designed to give students a detailed knowledge of Latin American economic models and political process through the study of economic development, milestones, crises and political current events. It will address how Latin America came to be in its current circumstances and how this process can be interpreted and understood today. For this, we shall take a general view of the Latin American economic development process and the study of the political situation in order to understand the Latin American context. Students are expected to develop a thorough knowledge of key historical issues, trends, and events, as well as key concepts and theories of economic history; and to develop analytical skills for the study of Latin American history. Students will be confronted with documents for the study of Latin American history that shall be analyzed individually and in groups; conclusions shall be discussed with the rest of the class.\nInternational Business: Doing Business in Latin America\nIn this era of globalization, investors around the world are looking for new markets to invest. Latin America appears as an attractive region for business. According to Goldman Sachs\u2019 Bric review of emerging economies, by 2050 the largest economies in the world will be as follows: China, United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico. In addition, in 2010 Latin America integrated five nations classified as high-income countries: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and Panama. Today, countries in Latin America such as Brazil show stability and growth, allowing them to become increasingly influential players in world affairs. Others, like Chile, are considered by many foreign investors as a gateway for Asia to enter the South American region because Chile is close and politically and economically secure. Also, the region has a close business relationship with the USA because of its proximity. All these facts make it essential that students of business learn about doing business in Latin America. Students will learn about socio-cultural issues, the economic, political and legal environment, together with strategic considerations about doing business in Latin American countries. The learning approach will be based on case studies as well as lectures.\nThe world is constantly changing, and as each year goes by, these changes occur faster and are becoming more complex. Today it is not sufficient to have a wealth of knowledge regarding one\u2019s business area, we must know how to use this information to move people inside an organization toward a more efficient and comfortable work environment. To lead can be dangerous. Even though it may seem romantic and attractive to think of leadership as inspiration, decisive actions, and powerful rewards, leadership requires taking risks that endanger a person\u2019s professional and personal development. It demands putting oneself on the line, challenging the status quo and working with hidden conflicts. And when people resist and fight back, the temptation is to withdraw to a safer place. Those who opt to lead take on the risks, and sometimes get hurt. That is why the exercise of leadership must be seen as something strategic that, despite the resistance and danger that comes with it, allows those who assume it to fulfill the bigger goal of producing the required changes in the organization. Taking a prescriptive and practical approach, the course covers three main issues: a) evolution and adaptation, b) daring to be a responsible and efficient leader, and 3) considering who am I as a leader, including my strengths and weaknesses.\nSustainable Business in Latin America\nSustainability has become a key global issue in the twenty-first century and it is changing the way we do business in Latin America. Globalization and societies\u2019 increasing awareness of social and environmental problems have changed the rules of the game for business in a way which it cannot ignore, and it is of paramount importance that managers learn to navigate this new landscape. The aim of this course is to provide students with a theoretical understanding of the concepts of Sustainable Development, Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and mainly, to provide them with practical knowledge on how to apply them in strategic decision making. This course focuses on a series of models and tools for analysis through which social and environmental perspectives can be incorporated into the competitive strategy of firms with the purpose of generating a new value proposition that satisfies its owners\u2019 interests, as well as the interests of those groups that are relevant for the organization.\nHuman Rights in Chile \u2013 An Historical Perspective\nHuman Rights are perhaps the greatest development of social life in the second half of the XX Century. Most western countries have faced tough situations and internal debates regarding the issue and Chile, in particular, has not been an exception. This course will work its way through the complex process of political development that Chile faced after its Independence and how the society gradually became highly rigid, to the point of conflict. Through a critical Human Rights lenses, students will review the Unidad Popular, the Coup D\u2019etat of September 1973, the development of the Military Government, and finally the \u201cTransition\u201d into Chile\u2019s first Democratic Government.\nLatin America in the Age of Globalization\nThis course intends to give the student a view of contemporary Latin America, balancing a perspective between its traditional political and social paradigms as well as proposing a set of approaches to the concept of globalization. This will be carried out by mixing both the concept of mestizo culture derived from its joint Spanish and local cultural origin as well as the contemporary perspectives and views of the phenomenon of globalization.\nThe course will start by proposing a short perspective about Latin American contemporary history and particularly relating to its ideological paradigms of the cold war period. Then, it will revise the concepts and state of the art related to the debate about globalization as a cultural phenomenon. Finally, it will go into the different approaches and processes that have tainted the relation between Latin America and globalization since the late 1980s and the end of the cold war, providing special attention to the proactive approaches such as those espoused by Chile, Mexico and Peru, and the negative or pessimistic ones related to the Bolivarian and indigenous approaches, as well as the prevalence of the Cuban revolutionary model and its impact in the anti-global regional perspectives.\nLatin American Culture and Identity\nThis course aims to know some aspects of the Latin American culture related to essential ideas. Among them, and based on bibliography according to the subject, we will try to solve the \u201cLatin American issue\u201d as a historical process. We will analyze some aspects such as the origin of the term, historiographical conceptions, historical processes of cultural exchange that the continent has experienced foreign perceptions about the subject and its historical interpretations, among others.\nLatin America on Film\nThis course is focused on the portrayal of historical, cultural and socio-political issues in Latin America. It also incorporates strongly the representation of Latin American literature on films and Latin Americans search for identity through art. It helps to integrate a vision of themselves and their world. This course teaches a historical, cultural as well as a cinematic approach to Latin America. This is achieved through an analysis of its literature and cinema. The former element is important because a great part of the films develop from novels and novellas. The selected short stories and films express characteristics common to the entire subcontinent, with reference to cultural heritage, landscape, political environment, and artistic development.\nThrough cinema, intercultural themes will be studied, considering that each Latin American country has developed a culture of its own. The approach will be multicultural, including films made by artists from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and the United States in both English and/or Spanish. The Spanish versions will be subtitled. An analysis of the contrasting views will be performed. In this way, we can infer how we see ourselves and how we are viewed by the American culture.\nSocialism, Capitalism, and Communism in Latin America\nBoth communism and socialism are born in Europe (nineteenth century) as a response to capitalism, but it was in Latin America where both left-wing movements reached an unsuspected relevance. A century later, the outcomes were of these movements were affected by the continued existence of strong economic inequality and a strong ideology of a group of intellectuals linked, in many cases, to the elite.\nThis course aims for students to:\nUnderstand the main social, political, economic and cultural issues of modern Latin America from a historical, social and political perspective.\nDevelop the skills to discuss events and processes of modern Latin America from an informed perspective concerning economic and political ideologies.\nHave the opportunity to examine the significant primary text in modern Latin America, and develop the skills to draw sound conclusions from various primary sources.\nDevelop critical thinking and the capability to understand the cultural richness of societies of emergent economies in Latin America.\nImprove writing and oral skills by writing analytical essays and debates during the semester.\nSemester and summer living in Vi\u00f1a del Mar will live with local host families. 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Generally, if the student is at the university during the family\u2019s lunch hour, the host mother will prepare a light meal for the student to bring to the university.\nFall Jul 26, 2019 - Nov 23, 2019 $11,980 Apr 1, 2019 Apr 15, 2019\nAcademic Year Jul, 2019 - Jun, 2020 $22,980 Apr 1, 2019 Apr 15, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 559, "original_length": 84466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appendix-cancer.org/2011/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QAMFKOAAYL2RYQYLNB4742PITCG3NZCN", "length": 2406, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "appendix-cancer.org", "title": "February 2011 \u00bb Appendix Cancer Connection", "raw_content": "I\u2019m so busy! I\u2019m in two graduate programs; one at Loyola University in Chicago (graduate oncology certificate) and another at Purdue University (masters degree as a clinical nurse specialist). One of my Purdue classes is advanced physiology\u2026a very tough course that is heavy into biochemistry and requires about 18 hours of study a week. I love it though, it\u2019s made me feel every cell in our body (and we have trillions) are all individual miracles.\nAnother course I\u2019m taking has to do with conceptual models of nursing. Very abstract, I know why I like science and math now, nothing is abstracts; it is or it isn\u2019t, it\u2019s right or wrong.\nI am taking another course in palliative care\u2026symptom management, hospice care. Death and dying and how to do it well. I like that course a lot. We will all die someday, and I think we need to learn how to do it well. In that class we talk a lot about hospice care. I am such a proponent for hospice. They offer so much. The sad thing is many enter hospice only days before they die. Research says only 10% of us will die suddenly, the rest of long term illnesses, so it\u2019s something we should all know more about.\nI was also given this information about a new clinical trial funded by the National Cancer Institute. The information I was given is here:\n\u201cAdult cancer patients and survivors sought for ONLINE SUPPORT GROUP clinical trial funded by the National Cancer Institute. Researchers in the Behavioral Oncology lab at Loma Linda University (CA) are recruiting participants for a study that hopes to improve the lives of cancer survivors.\n\u201cHealth-Space.net: Supporting Growth Together\u201d is a 12-week, Internet-based support group. Many individuals have unique issues after completing treatment; they may struggle with physical changes, side effects of treatment, spiritual crises, emotional concerns, social changes and support problems, and/or the stress of recurrence. We are here to help patients and survivors adjust to life\u2019s changes.\nFor more information and requirements, take a tour of our website:\nwww.health-space.net, or email: info@health-space.net\u201d\nAll of us struggle greatly with many of the issues cancer presents us. If this trial were available when I was diagnosed, I would have been eager to participate. I hope many of you will consider joining, it\u2019s what we need, a focus on the survivorship issues we all face. 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Just a few short years later, the center has done just that with the start of the their 1,000th patient.\n\u201cOne of the core values of Ackerman Cancer Center is to ensure patients have access to the most effective and innovative cancer therapies available. Through the use of Proton Therapy, our physicians have witnessed better tolerance in patient treatments, excellent overall outcomes and healthier patients post treatment,\u201d said Scot Ackerman, MD, Medical Director of Ackerman Cancer Center.\nProton therapy, a highly advanced form of radiation therapy, targets tumors with greater precision than traditional x-ray based radiotherapy and can reduce the amount of unnecessary radiation exposure to vulnerable healthy tissue and organs. 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B. Danquah\u2019s role - AsempaNews.com", "raw_content": "Re-naming of University of Ghana: is the debate necessary over J. B. Danquah\u2019s role\n\u201cA nation that does not honour its heroes will not long endure.\u201d \u2013 Abraham Lincoln\nJ\u2019ai la nostalgie du lycee. Sure, I miss my University days. As President of the Legon Debating Society, we were once hosting the University of Ibadan in a debate. The topic does not matter now. What does is the existence of the fraternity between the two great universities, and the reciprocal visits by the Debating Clubs. Both universities cherish \u2018free speech\u2019, and as a keen debater, I believe that there are always two sides (perhaps three, four, five) sides to a story.\nThe President must have stirred up a hornet\u2019s nest with a statement at the launch of the University of Ghana Endowment Fund at the Great Hall on 7th May, 2018. \u201c\u2026 it will be wholly appropriate and not at all far-fetched to describe Joseph Boakye Danquah as the founder of the University.\u201d This has received a backlash from a number of people, among whom is Okudzeto Ablakwa. Honourable Okudzeto writes: \u201c\u2026 As Prof. Agbodeka recounts in \u2018A History of University of Ghana \u2013 Half a Century of Higher Education (1948 \u2013 1998)\u2019, Dr. J. B. Danquah played an important fundraising role but even in that capacity, his other colleague from the Legislative Council, Professor Christian G. Baeta played an equally prominent fundraising role to help secure the \u00a3897,000 seed capital which was generously donated by cocoa farmers as presented by the Cocoa Marketing Board on their behalf. It is rather curious that Prof. Christian G. Baeta, having played a similar role as Dr. J. B. Danquah, has been conveniently forgotten by our President as he touts his dearly beloved uncle as the Founder of the University of Ghana.\u201d\nMany societies, clubs, groups and persons are mentioned as having helped to \u2018found\u2019 the University of Ghana. These included petitions from the Advisory Committee on Education, Achimota Council, Gold Coast Bar Association, Rodger Club, Gold Coast Teachers\u2019 Union, the Standing Committee of the Joint Provincial Council of Chiefs and the Asante Confederacy Council. Nor can one forget the role of the Asantehene of the time, Otumfuo Osei Agyemang Prempeh II.\nAt that time, the colonial government sought to establish only one University for the whole of West Africa, in Ibadan, hence the agitation by the Gold Coasters. The Asquith Commission, headed by Walter Elliot accepted the other view of establishing the Ghanaian University, beginning from Achimota till the students moved into the new halls of Legon (for the locals); Akuafo (for the farmers); Commonwealth (for the whole Commonwealth); Volta (for the big river) and Mensah \u2013 Sarbah (for the great Ghanaian).\nAt that time, J. B. Danquah was called \u2018Akuafo Kanea\u2019 (The lantern of the Ghanaian Farmer), and important also in this campaign was Sir Arku Korsah, and Mr. David Mowbray Balme who became the first Principal in 1948. The website of the University of Ghana reads: \u201c\u2026 the people of Gold Coast led by scholar and politician, J. B. Danquah, urged the Gold Coast government to inform the British government that the Gold Coast could support a university college\u2026\u201d\nEver since the debate erupted about the founding of Ghana, I have always got haunted with the mention of the word \u201cfounding\u201d. Who founded Ghana? And you will get people defending to the hilt, the idea that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah single-handedly \u2018founded\u2019 Ghana. What! So we disregard the role of all the other politicians at that time: Call the \u201cBig Six\u201d, and people do not want to hear the mention of this appellation. They will tell you they know \u2018History\u2019 and \u2018Political Science\u2019 better. If you are not lucky, they would rain insults at you.\nGoing back into Ancient History, one can recall the attribution of the founding of Rome to Romulus in 753 B. C., who after killing his twin brother Remus, named the city after himself. (This contrasts with another legend that attributes the city\u2019s name to Roma who travelled with Aeneas and other survivors from Troy after the city fell. Or take America which is supposed to have been \u2018discovered\u2019 by Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. In his words, Amerigo Vespucci noted: \u201c\u2026 concerning my return from those new regions which we found and explored\u2026 we may rightly call a new world\u2026\u201d. But didn\u2019t Vespucci meet people on these lands? Who discovered Africa? Who discovered the Gold Coast (now Ghana)? Who founded them?\nTalk of the founding of the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1088; the University of Paris (associated with Sorbonne in 1150); the University of Oxford in 1167. Had there been controversies surrounding their establishment? Or talk about our own Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. What particular contribution did Nkrumah give in its founding to earn his name on it, being erased after the 1966 coup and then getting it revived by a later regime. After its establishment in 1952 as the Kumasi College of Technology, it has now adopted the worldwide universities strategy of veering into the social sciences, arts business and law \u2013 in addition to the science, technology and engineering courses.\nI may be na\u00efve; but how do personalities get their names covering monuments and abstract objects? How come the late Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara had a circle (now flyover) named after him? Why do we have our Airport in Accra named after Kotoka? What about street names: Agostino Neto, Patrice Lumumba, Jawaharlal Nehru, George Bush. So when it comes to J. B. Danquah, he must demonstrate that he founded the University of Ghana before his name is linked to it? What would have happened if President Nana Addo had not mentioned J. B. Danquah as the \u2018founder\u2019 of the University of Ghana and yet the University Council had nominated him? Pa Grant has sufficiently been accorded recognition at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa; Dr Hilla Limann is mentioned for Wa University College. Good.\nWe are building Ghana, or we are supposed to be doing so. This generation may stand accused if we do not help right wrongs which had been committed in the past. I shall not debate with anyone about Danquah\u2019s alleged CIA connection, but are his contributions to nation-building sufficiently chronicled? His incarceration and sorrowful death under Nkrumah\u2019s regime in Nsawam? What about Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s one party state which sought to snuff out every opposition?\nLet us cherish democracy. Let us allow \u2018free speech\u2019. Let us tolerate the opinions of one another. We may belong to different parties because of our parental traits, but CPPists or NPPists (UPists) now living have passed through labyrinthine and convoluted political journey, requiring of us to be fluid in our political thinking, just as Mark Twain says: \u201cThe very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.\u201d Psychologists call this \u2018fluid intelligence\u2019, using inductive and deductive reasoning, as against \u2018crystallised reasoning\u2019. The paradoxes and idiosyncracies that shape our thinking bolstered by our self-interest must give way to objectivity. Some will say I am making sense; some will say otherwise. 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Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this DoD web site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2, "original_length": 555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 142.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atelier.bnpparibas/en/smart-city/article/feelings-drive-online-purchasing-decisions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TR4MFIJW4LACN6FEENFIPDBTACVJCSHP", "length": 4189, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "atelier.bnpparibas", "title": "Feelings Can Drive Online Purchasing Decisions As Well - L'Atelier BNP Paribas", "raw_content": "Feelings Can Drive Online Purchasing Decisions As Well\nThe shorter the time-lag before a consumer gets to enjoy his/her purchase, the more likely s/he is to make an emotional rather than objective decision, recent research indicates. This apparently holds true whatever the purchasing channel used.\nMarketing experts have felt for a long time that consumers are more likely to rely on their feelings when the enjoyment of the purchase decision is closer in time than when the outcome of the buying decision is further off in the future. Now two researchers have just published the results of a study*, which provides evidence in support of this hypothesis. To test the theory, they ran an experiment with two groups of students. The students were given a choice of two apartments to rent. The first offered an option whose appeal was more emotional than rational: the apartment was small and inconveniently located, but prettily decorated and with a beautiful view. By contrast, the second option represented a more rational choice \u2013 a spacious apartment in a more convenient geographical location. The first group, made up of students in their final year who were really thinking about, or were asked to imagine, moving into their own apartment quite soon, showed more interest in the first, emotionally charged, option.\nThe time-lag between decision and enjoyment counts\nBy contrast, the younger students, for whom the prospect of moving into an apartment was much more distant, demonstrated a more \u2018rational\u2019 approach in their decision-making, tending to go for the second option. The researchers therefore suggest in their conclusions that \u201ccompanies should consider the time between consumer decision-making and consumption\u201d \u2013 i.e. focusing on messages that appeal to consumers' feelings when a decision will be taken immediately prior to consumption; and emphasising messages that appeal to objective assessments when they will be deciding well in advance of consumption. Asked to comment, Armelle Solelhac, CEO of the digital marketing and communication firm Switch, said she was not at all surprised by the results of the study. She points out nevertheless that the Internet \u201chas changed the game\u201d in terms of the way emotions play out in buying decisions. Given the profusion of blogs and specialised sites, the online shopper no longer approaches a product without preconceptions. \u201cIn the past there used to be that moment when a shopper discovered a product on the shelf, which we call the \u2018first moment of truth\u2019,\u201d she explained to L\u2019Atelier. Then once s/he had been using it for a time, there was a second \u2018moment of truth\u2019 related to actual experience.\nDoes online shopping take the emotion out of the decision?\nAn Internet user will nowadays obtain as much information as possible on the product before buying, which tends to deflate the \u2018moment of truth\u2019. So does that mean that online shopping is devoid of emotion? \u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t. Some firms manage to rekindle the drama by creating rarity \u2013 by limiting the buying period to a 24-hour period, for instance,\u201d points out Ms Solelhac. Which brings us back to the question of the timing of the purchase that the Chang-Pham study examines. But timing isn\u2019t the only means of arousing emotion. \"You can also create feelings by taking great care with the graphics and visuals on your website and tweaking it to the maximum,\u201d underlines the Switch CEO. Forget about hassling your Internet customer with a surfeit of text. Creating feelings pays off. For example, a person who decides to go on vacation at the last minute might be drawn to a particular holiday destination if it\u2019s attractively presented on the site and gets him/her dreaming. That does not necessarily mean that feelings will have no part in planning holidays several months in advance, but the emotion will tend to have less impact, the research suggests.\n*By Hannah H. Chang (National University of Singapore Business School) and Michel Tuan Pham (Columbia University, New York), published in the Journal of Consumer Research.\nWells Fargo to Offer Online Safe-Deposit Box for the Security Minded\n\u201cIf we can\u2019t manage to get people to buy into the smart city,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atelier.bnpparibas/en/smart-city/article/location-data-twitter-track-spread-disease", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:OUYUMJ2OP2RCA7WMER3ZFSE272SS5AZF", "length": 2682, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "atelier.bnpparibas", "title": "Location data on Twitter is useful to track the spread of disease - L'Atelier BNP Paribas", "raw_content": "Location data on Twitter is useful to track the spread of disease\nGPS, user data and other factors can give health researchers and officials a new channel for tracking epidemics. Location can be used to monitor disease movement as well as other public health concerns.\nTwitter has been shown to be an interesting tool for tracking the spread of disease, and researchers are currently mining its users\u2019 posts and location data to determine how to best use the social network for this purpose. The Journal of Medical Research recently published the article \u201cRight Time, Right Place\u201d on the value of this content in monitoring health communication - how there are \u201cseveral location indicators in Twitter, and when taken together, they offer a sizable sample of individuals whose location can be accurately inferred.\u201d The authors predict that this could influence how health organizations survey and mine information and \u201cright time, right place\u201d health communication.\nTwitter research found to be nearly as accurate as traditional surveys\nThe large population of Twitter users may only make available a small percentage of reliable GPS coordinates (2.7 percent), but the data set is still useful as this still corresponds to hundreds of thousands of tweets during a 2-week period, the time taken for this study. Between GPS information and user-supplied location information, reliable geo-data is available for between roughly 15 and 17 percent of users. To verify the usefulness of their sample size, the authors compared their results to a Pew survey and achieved statistically similar results. But with Twitter, researchers are able to get minimally less accurate rates with the added benefit of speed and other factors over more traditional methodology.\nThis social health data stream can illuminate other issues and democratize epidemiology\nBesides the potential for tracking or predicting epidemics, there are various public health concerns that can be better understood. Among the issues that have been the subject of recent studies, as referenced in \u201cRight Time, Right Place\u201d are tobacco-related issues, problem drinking, dental pain, and breastfeeding. Observations on real-time, user-generated health content have created a new, high-volume health data stream populated with text, images and video. Due to Twitter\u2019s diverse user demographic, the authors suggest that health disparities may be reduced thanks to more awareness and reach to underrepresented groups and low-income populations.\nGoogle Uses Satellite Data to Track Deforestation\nResearchers Use Twitter to Gather Disease and Treatment Information\nTweet Analysis Helps Track the Spread of a Disease and Pinpoint...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atheist.ie/2010/10/give-us-a-state-thats-not-religious-nor-atheist-but-secular-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:25Z", "digest": "sha1:G33SHFYOIMCHYOAFVYLKUTPH75PB5YND", "length": 26140, "nlines": 120, "source_domain": "atheist.ie", "title": "Give us a state that\u2019s not religious nor atheist, but secular | Atheist Ireland\tGive us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular - Atheist Ireland", "raw_content": "Give us a state that\u2019s not religious nor atheist, but secular\nHere is an article I wrote for today\u2019s Irish Times.\nATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without the harmful effects. And the State should be secular, promoting neither religion nor atheism.\nFor clarity, an atheist does not believe in gods, and an agnostic does not know. These are very different assertions. You can believe there are no gods, yet not claim to know this, and thus be both an atheist and an agnostic.\nFirstly, atheism provides a better model of reality. It typically results from rational thinking. Science gradually moves closer to the truth, while religion claims to have already found it. Science seeks evidence to prove its theories wrong; religion seeks to prove its theories right.\nScience chips away at religious claims about reality, removing reasons for believing in gods. In every generation we move more mysteries from the category of \u201ca god must have done it\u201d to the category of \u201cwe now understand how it happens naturally\u201d.\nScientific claims may seem counterintuitive. But these are not faith claims akin to religious beliefs. They are the outcome of applying reason to evidence through experiments, providing replicable and predictable results. And they will change if new evidence becomes available.\nSecondly, atheism provides a better basis for morality. Morality evolves, and involves concern for the well-being and suffering of others. Religion distracts us from examining this by giving priority to the underdeveloped morality of bronze age tribes and by inventing consequences in an imagined afterlife.\nThe Biblical God displays at best arbitrary morality, at worst immorality. He wants you to love your neighbour as yourself, and stone him to death for gathering sticks on the Sabbath. As Jehovah, he helps one tribe to commit genocide and steal land if they obey his rules. As Jesus, he threatens to kill the children of Jezebel for their mother\u2019s sins.\nWhether you read the Bible literally or metaphorically, you intuitively identify that some of its ideas are morally good and some bad. This shows that you are applying your own natural morality to the Bible, not getting your morality from it.\nEven if your preferred god is nicer than Jehovah, how arrogant is it to assert not only that a supreme being created the entire universe for your personal benefit, but also that you know how this supreme being wants everybody else to lead their lives?\nThirdly, atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without the harmful effects. Positive psychology shows the factors important to human well-being \u2013 positive relationships, absorption in activities, and a sense of personal meaning.\nMany can get these from activities associated with religion. But we can enjoy all of these benefits even more if we disentangle them from rules of religions and from the harmful effects of believing claims about reality not supported by evidence.\nFourthly, whatever people believe about religion, the State should be run on a secular basis. Every citizen should have the right to freedom of belief, conscience and religion. To protect all of these, the State should form public policy by applying reason to evidence.\nIn Ireland, we need a secular Constitution relevant to today, not 1937. Our President and judges should not have to swear religious oaths. We need a secular State education system based on human rights law. We need to remove casual entanglements between church and State.\nAtheist Ireland is a voluntary advocacy group that promotes atheism and reason over superstition and supernaturalism. Religious states promote religion. Atheist states promote atheism. We want a secular State, which promotes neither. Please join us and help make this happen.\nCategory Atheism, Secularism Views 1726\nThe really, truly True Believer\u2122 of the Month Award October 2010\nIf you are not religious, tick \u2018No Religion\u2019 in the census\nNick Johnson October 20, 2010\nArgh. In the second paragraph, you conflate lack of belief in something with belief in its absense. Which is a major point of contention when trying to convince someone that atheism is not a position of belief.\nbipedalhumanoid October 20, 2010\nA lack of belief is a position of belief.\nIn any case, I think you make the mistake of assuming that \u201d an atheist does not believe in gods\u201d means belief in the absence. It does not.\nSaying \u2018I don\u2019t believe in any gods\u2019 holds exactly the same meaning as \u2018I lack a belief in any gods\u2019.\nMichael Nugent October 20, 2010\nNick, my main purpose in that paragraph was to describe the relationship between atheism and agnosticism, rather than analyse the different interpretations of atheism, so I used both phrases (does not believe in gods and believe there are no gods) as both are valid descriptions of atheism.\nPersonally, I don\u2019t try to convince people that atheism is not a position of belief. I appreciate that some atheists do, usually (as you suggest in your comment) for the purpose of debating with theists. I prefer to argue that some beliefs are much more reliable than others, because they are much more consistent with the available evidence.\nStonyground October 20, 2010\n\u201cReligious states promote religion. Atheist states promote atheism. We want a secular state that promotes neither. Please join us and help make this happen.\u201d\nThis is a wonderfully concise statement of the secularist position. I don\u2019t know how many times I have heard that the secularists want to ban religion or are denying Christians their basic rights. The only rights that Christians are being denied are their rights to be bigoted morons. They have every right to their beliefs, no matter how absurd, but they are not allowed to infringe other people\u2019s rights because of those beliefs. I rather think that they don\u2019t get it, not because they are too stupid to get it, but that they don\u2019t want to get it. They would rather be seen as stupid than get it and have to give up their bigotry.\nDick Cremins October 25, 2010\nI sent this letter to The Editor, The Irish Times, but it seems she is unlikely to publish it\nI am glad to find common ground with the Chairman of Atheist Ireland. I too do not believe in the gods he writes so well about in Tuesday\u2019s Irish Times. When it comes to God, there is no apodictic proof of her or his existence, so we have to rely on faith to bridge the gap between wondering and belief or unbelief. We need to be sure that our conclusion does not conflict with reason or science. Both believers and unbelievers seem to have no difficulty on this point. The only question remaining for atheists is why there is something instead of nothing. Maybe Mr. Nugent can provide the answer.\nDick Cremins, S.J.\nrcremins@jesuit.ie\nCherryfield Lodge,\nTel.: 01 498 5813 (dir); 5800 (C\u2019field)\nnozzferrahhtoo October 26, 2010\nI am not sure what kind of answer you expect to that Dick, as the question seems to assume much in the way of defaults which we currently have no data about on which to make such assumptions.\nFor example, turn your question around. What makes you think \u201cnothing\u201d is the default state and hence that \u201csomething\u201d needs to be explained? Given our current level of knowledge the question \u201cWhy would there be nothing instead of something?\u201d is exactly as valid as your own.\nWeed out the assumptions in your question and I think you will find it becomes a non-question that we simply can not ask with any validity at this time and stage in our knowledge.\nDick, that is a question for everybody, not for atheists. Adding a god into the equation simply pushes the question back a stage to why is there a god instead of nothing.\nThe short answer to why there is something instead of nothing (or, as Nozz puts it, why would there be nothing instead of something) is that we don\u2019t know, and we may or may not know in the future.\nIn my opinion, if we do find out, quantum physics seems the most likely current source of finding out. Or maybe we will never find out, but a future species that evolves from us may have the capacity to find out.\nDick Cremins November 01, 2010\nMichael Nugent and Nozzeferrahhtoo,\nI reply to both of you together because you both come to the same conclusion: we don\u2019t know the answer. We are atheist or theist as a result of a leap of faith. Your inability account for being rather than non-being should lead you to wonder whether you have jumped in the right direction. Instead Nozze denies the reality of my question and Michael avoids it. But it won\u2019t go away for that.\nTrue, it is a question for everybody. It is a metaphysical or philosophical problem and cannot be answered by quantum physics or any other branch of Science, which only discovers facts and the causal relations between them, but cannot tell us how they got there or remain in existence.\nThe default position (if the term has any meaning in this context), as the theist sees it, is God as Necessary Being, with other beings non-existent. Then, after He/She creates them we have contingent Beings, which exist but need not exist. The mind finds rest in the God hypothesis, when it posits a Necessary Being whose nature it is to be and who explains all other beings.\nYou seem content to say we do not know and may never know. I do not find this uncertainty a good foundation for our personal or social life. What is the basis for assertions about virtue or truth, if there is no ultimate Truth and Goodness against which to measure them? You are prepared to live with this uncertainty, which means you may be in error. I find that belief in God gives me assurance that I am guided by truth, in spite of life\u2019s uncertainties. It should be noted that God is not just an idea, but a reality who can be experienced.\nOf course, you may be put off by the behaviour of some believers\u2026. but that is a different problem. So am I, as well as by some atheists. Bad people may have right ideas while the good, like yourselves, may sometimes be wrong.\nGive us a state that\u2019s not religious nor atheist, but secular\u2026.. U.S.S.R. Wait that\u2019s dead. Tried and failed! Utopia you are seeking is but a dream!\nnozzferrahhtoo November 02, 2010\nNo I am afraid I not aware of believing anything on faith. I merely operate on what evidence I have available and there is literally zero evidence available to me at this time to grant even a modicum of credence to the notion that there is a god. I merely therefore proceed without the notion in formulating my choices, opinions and politics.\nAgain however you need to weed out your assumptions. You say we need to account for being rather than non-being but I again ask you why this is any more valid than me asking why you feel non-being is the default state and being is the thing requiring explaining. I repeat, if you need to ask why is there something rather than nothing, then what wholesale assumptions are leading you to think that why there would be nothing rather than something does not also require clarification.\nHowever it is telling that when I ask you to justify your assumption in this regard you hide from that and merely accuse me of denying the reality of your question. Smoke and mirrors. Pointing out that your question is build on a massive foundation of assumption is a perfectly valid thing to do.\nDear Nozzferrahhtoo\nWhat are these \u201cwholesale assumptions\u201d which you say I make? Please spell them out.\nYou believe in no-god, in the non-existence of God, just as I believe in his/her existence. There is no apodictic proof for either of these beliefs. Therefore they are equally based on faith, which is a strong belief based on conviction rather than on proof. I hope we agree on this point. Otherwise, on what do we agree? To know this is necessary in order to find where we begin to disagree.\nWe can test these positions against the question why there is something rather than nothing. I do not find it helpful to talk about the default position, which is hypothetical. I know what the actual position is, that we are surrounded by contingent beings whose existence needs to be explained. I find that the hypothesis that they are created by God who is Necessary Being satisfies my mind.\nYou can\u2019t offer an answer to this question and are happy to live in uncertainty, with the possibility that you may be wrong. I would not find this very satisfactory.\nMay I ask whether Nozzferrahhtoo is your real name or a pseudonym. I would not be very happy to discuss serious matters with someone wearing a mask.\ndmarks November 07, 2010\nbrian: Atheism was the official faith of the USSR. It has also usually been the main faith of socialism, and as such been an important part of most of the very worst cases of mass slaughter and oppression in history.\nIt\u2019s part of the ideology of Marx, alongside and related to Marx\u2019s antisemitism (Marx sought to bring about a \u2018world without Jews\u201d; which is pretty easy when the state enforces atheism.)\n\u201cI would not be very happy to discuss serious matters with someone wearing a mask\u201d\nRespectfully, I submit to you that you are diverting attention from discussing actual issues. The issues and opinions being discussed are the same regardless of whether or not someone is wearing a mask, has green skin, or three arms.\nbipedalhumanoid November 08, 2010\n\u201cYou believe in no-god, in the non-existence of God\u201d\nPresumably you don\u2019t believe in faeries, elves and Thor. Is your absence of belief in these things a faith position too?\nWhat you\u2019re doing is inventing an easier position than that presented and refuting it. What does that say about your postion if you have to resort to straw mannery to defend it?\nCan you specify the actual issues from which I am diverting attention?\nOf course the issues remain the same regardless of whether or not someone is wearing a mask. But to do so in a serious discussion is discourteous and suggests a lack of moral courage, which is why I am unhappy.\nbipedalhumanoid\n\u201cIs your absence of belief in faeries, etc. a faith position too?\u201d. Yes, understanding faith according to my definition which has not been challenged: faith is \u201ca strong belief based on conviction rather than on proof.\u201d But this belief does not raise any questions which cannot be answered, unlike your faith in a non-God.\n\u201cWhat you\u2019re doing is inventing an easier position than that presented and refuting it.\u201d No, I am inventing nothing, but I have described two actual positions, atheism and theism, and have shown that the former is incapable of satisfying the mind on a fundamental question and condemns those who hold it to uncertainty and to the possibility of living in error.\n\u201ca strong belief based on conviction rather than on proof\u201d\nThat too is my understanding of \u2018faith\u2019. I however would word it this way \u201can irrational belief held in the absence of evidence\u201d.\nWhat you fail to comprehend is that it is possible to not hold a belief in the existence of something and at the same time not hold a belief in its lack of existence.\nYou, for instance, did not hold a belief in the existence or on-existence of the stackyboojoo man before you read this. You had never heard of the proposition so how could you possibly believe in its existence or non-existence? And yet, it is perfectly reasonable to say that, before you had ever come across the term \u2018stackyboojoo man\u2019 that you did not believe in the stackyboojoo man.\nSo you see, your claim that you must either believe in the existence of something or believe in the non-existence of something falls to pieces. This insistence is nothing but a strawman.\nPersonally, my position is that I have not seen any evidence to warrant belief in any particular god or the supernatural in general. I believe that blief without evidence is irrational. Like all rational people, I will not claim to know for sure if a god exists or not but I have NO reason to believe that any do exist.\nFurthermore, anyone who has ever attempted to convince me of otherwise has had to resort ot fallacious arguments like yours.\nLu November 16, 2010\nHmmm.. I think a secular society is idealistic because there will always be people like Dick. By nature religions compel their followers to preach at those who don\u2019t share their views- they aim to convert or save or even kill those who don\u2019t believe. Secular society is a nice dream where everyone tolerates each others\u2019 differences \u2013 I think evolution has to help us get there. Going by what Dick has to say it\u2019ll b a while yet. I\u2019m glad attributing what has yet to be explained by science to a necessary being or whatever puts his mind at rest but he still feels so righteous about it that he has to try and argue with those who have already quite clearly shown (it\u2019s an atheist forum) that they do not share his belief or understand his need for faith. This faith motivated behaviour is the downfall of a secular society.\nLu said\u2026\n\u201cSecular society is a nice dream where everyone tolerates each others\u2019 differences\u201d\nSecular society has nothing to do with who tollerates what. It has to do with the state being indifferent to religion. The USA is an example of a secular state and yet religion thrives in that country. Why? Because secularism guarantees freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Secularism is the reason that one dominant religion hasn\u2019t taken a foothold and managed to prevent others from rising.\nSecularism certainly does not prevent an individual from using his freedom of speech express a lack of tollerance for other religions or those who lack a religion.\nOh well maybe I don\u2019t get it then, sorry obviously I\u2019m not enlightened enough for this discussion. My experience of human beings so far? George Bush scares the **** out of me but I\u2019m glad that secular government is world superpower where creationism is or was taught in schools.. I\u2019m just an atheist I guess, I\u2019m not into secularism. I\u2019m not \u201cmilitant\u201d I\u2019m tolerant- but I don\u2019t like religion being taught in schools or people preaching on tv or adverts on the train and bus stops. I don\u2019t mind people believing what they want but I think the public should be protected from religious campaigns and stick to science- i have to say that I don\u2019t no what kind of society I\u2019d like but the USA doesn\u2019t do it for me and what\u2019s the point of a secular goverment anyway if fundementalists are entitled to blast their views everywhere and target people through insidious bullying etc. Obviously there\u2019s a higher plane of thought and ideas that I haven\u2019t the intellect for- I\u2019m well aware of my inferiority complex and it\u2019s blatent here! Good on ya and I hope I\u2019m missing something in a big way.\n\u201cGood on ya and I hope I\u2019m missing something in a big way\u201d\nyep I think you are. What you\u2019re missing is that in the USA, from time to time, the fundies manage to do things that are unconstitutional. They need organisations such as the freedom from religion foundation to put them back in their places.\nIn a non-secular society such as Ireland, the FFRF would have no power because it is not unconsitutional for the state to favour a religion. That\u2019s why 95% of our schools are operated under a catholic ethos and funded by the state\nMy point is that I agree with freedom from religion but I don\u2019t agree with allowing religious groups the same freedom to promote religion. I don\u2019t think religion should be anywhere outside of churches(synagogues, mosques and temples etc.) and peoples own homes. I don\u2019t like having people knock on my door, sticking up posters in public places and broadcast on tv like they actually have a real tangible product. I don\u2019t think people should have the right to do that, I actually feel that faith is dangerous and like racism and sexism it is unfounded and not scientiically backed and it can motivate people to do and say things that hurt others. Freedom from religion means something different me.i think secularism is better than a religion influenced state but I would have to say that I\u2019m an atheist and not a secularist and I\u2019d prefer real freedom from religion.\nAh so you want to persecute the religious as a means by which to eradicate religion. That\u2019s like trying to put out a fire with petrol. The religious love moaning about being persecuted. They think gay people having rights is a form of persecution against them. Persecution complex binds religions and makes them strong. That\u2019s how you get hard core fundies willing to do crazy things for their religion.\nGood luck building your fascio-atheist state. It\u2019s not a place I\u2019d like to live.\nTrue, but a large number of Atheists do make a positive assertion of a Godless universe. They don\u2019t doubt. They don\u2019t lack belief. They actively assert their faith.\nI can\u2019t think of many. I know of two people in Atheist Ireland who did at one point. Not sure if they still do. I\u2019ve yet to find a single you tube atheist who does and can\u2019t think of a single prominent, well known atheist who does.\nDawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris all make it clear that you can\u2019t know anything with 100% certainty despite being constantly misrepresented by the world\u2019s \u201creligious affairs correspondents\u201d to believe otherwise.\nThe argument that \u2018atheist have faith too\u2019 has no merit. It\u2019s nothing but a strawman.\nRe bipedalhumanoid:\nIn spite of my reluctance to deal with someone whole hides behind a pseudonym, I must defend myself against bipedalhumanoid\u2019s allegation that I said \u201cthat you must either believe in the existence of something or believe in the non-existence of something\u201d. I nowhere said this. So, it is his (her?) convoluted argument that turns out to be a strawman.\nDick Cremins\nAdam McGrath November 23, 2010\nAaaaaand to get back to the point, how do we go about amending the constitution to make it neutral on matters of religion? My memory on constitutional law is vague but I think it can be brought about by a petition of x number of signatures or be introduced as a bill into the Dail \u2013 is either avenue being explored? Is there a draft of proposed changes to the wording of certain sections of the constitution?\nGiven that we\u2019re all likely to be doorstepped to death by local notables looking for our vote in the coming months, we should be ready to bring it up with them. The next step in the campaign is to try to make this an election issue \u2013 not that it\u2019ll have any immediate effect, but it\u2019ll raise the profile.\nAd hominem fallacy is always extra harsh when worded in the tone of a Bond villain.\n\u201cthat you must either believe in the existence of something or believe in the non-existence of something\u201d\nI didn\u2019t say those were your exact words Dick. These were your exact words Dick\u2026\n\u201cBut this belief does not raise any questions which cannot be answered, unlike your faith in a non-God.\u201d\nIt\u2019s your assumption that I must have faith in order to lack belief in your god that I am challenging here and you\u2019ve failed to address any of my points.\nHang on let me try\u2026 I do despise a time waster. =D\nTooooooooooooooooman April 28, 2011\nMICHAEL NUGENT, seriously, I can understand this kind of thing in America, because of all the creationist nuts, but seriously, IRELAND!?! You say that we are forcing the Catholic faith on others with the angelus, but yet I know a Muslim, a Buddhist, an atheist and a Protestant in my school, and NONE of them have any problems with the angelus in the media. Atheism propaganda isn\u2019t the same thing. Is there ANYTHING in the angelus that would provoke people in a negative way? If there is, that person has serious issues, because HOW could a church bell provoke a negative response? Also, couldn\u2019t you just change to another channel, instead of whining? Ever heard of \u201cIf you can\u2019t take the heat, get the HELL out of the kitchen\u201d?http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfcwidkfojsn/rss2/\nHere is the last paragraph of the article : \u201cRT\u00c9 also pointed out that support for the continuation of the broadcast tradition has been expressed by the secretary of the Clonskeagh Mosque in Dublin, by the outgoing Chief Rabbi and by the Church of Ireland broadcast committee\u201d\nI mean, come on, it\u2019s only you and your atheistic supporters that\u2019s making a big deal about this. Also, do you not think that the Catholic Vibe of the Republic of Ireland is unique, for a country with no state religion? Also, did we ever persecute other religions in the history of our Republic? Not that I know of, unless you count school-bullying or discrimination in poorer areas, which is universal of all places, secular or not.\nAlso, I agree that maybe that MOST secondary schools should be secular, I think that faith schools should still exist in primary school level. Maybe the Catholic Church should give around 5% of it\u2019s school, just to make it represent the population of catholics, but beyond that, I think the way we are in religious terms is good. Also, do you not know how easy it is to run the education here, considering the Catholic Church runs 92% of all schools?\nAs for religion in itself: To quote Adam Savage (An American Atheist that co-hosts the show \u201cMythbusters\u201d, one of my all time favourites!) \u201cI object your reality and Substitute my own\u201d. In my reality, God exists in my life. To you, it\u2019s fiction. To me, the belief of no God is fiction. To you, it\u2019s reality. Religion and Science are two totally separate fields in which to study the world, and you can\u2019t (or shouldn\u2019t) expect one field to give you all the answers to life. The Christian Bible gives a moral guide to living life, and how to develop yourself spiritually, Science is about studying things that can be measured, weighted,documented or recorded in one way or another. It is impossible to be about to record everything. You can\u2019t record a lot of simple things: That voice in your head that guides you decisions, love, Morals, Thinking and reflecting life, and many other things.\nThis talk of atheism VS Catholicism is getting us nowhere. It\u2019s no going to help us get out of the recession. It didn\u2019t cause it either. We both want to do the best for our country. So, why don\u2019t we just leave our differences and focus on the common good?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 35164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atree.org/node/20", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:28Z", "digest": "sha1:I5XQFDCVSCYOM6K3574GDVNVN7KPXP3H", "length": 2042, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "atree.org", "title": "Forest protection in Central India: Do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts? | Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment", "raw_content": "Forest protection in Central India: Do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts?\nAgarwal, S., Marathe, A., Ghate, R., Krishnaswamy, J., and Nagendra, H.\nBiodiversity and Conservation doi:10.1007/s10531-017-1344-6\nProtection of forests and wildlife outside protected areas (PAs) is necessary for the conservation of wildlife. Extension of conservation efforts outside the existing PA may result in restrictions on local forest resource use. Such situations arise due to differences in understanding of forest as a resource for communities and as a conservation space for endangered species. A clearer focus is needed on the functionality and socio-ecological outcomes of different forest management institutions to address such issues. We conducted a study in a forest landscape connecting Pench and Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserves (TRs) in Central India. The two main forest management institutions were the Forest Department (FD) and local communities managing forest resources. We conducted vegetation surveys and focus group discussions in 15 villages selected based on presence or absence of active protection and monitoring of forest resources by either FD or local people. We found that forests with monitoring had significantly higher tree density and vegetation species richness compared to forests without monitoring. Tree density was observed to be higher in sites monitored by villagers rather than those monitored by FD. Self-regulation and resource sharing in locally monitored forests were more acceptable to local communities. In forests monitored by the FD, local communities indicated a feeling of alienation from the forest that weakened their motivation to protect the forest and wildlife. Recognition of local community rights is essential to achieve conservation goals and reduce social conflicts outside PAs, requiring collaboration between state and local institutions.\nhttp://www.atree.org/sites/default/files/pubs/abstract/abs_2017_s10531-017-1344-6.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authoravabarlow.com/2016/03/16/the-horsemen-book-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:44:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LIOY6AWHQRWXWU67DQ5FA3B4ZEYI73OQ", "length": 164, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "authoravabarlow.com", "title": "The Horsemen Book 13 | AuthorAvaBarlow.com", "raw_content": "The Horsemen Book 13 was released on 3/13/16.\nSpend the holidays with the Horsemen M.C.\nKatie has her forth birthday party.\nThe war is still on. It will be a blast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://baberghmidsuffolk.jdi-consult.net/localplan/viewrepfull.php?repid=12050", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OQB3WP3HKIO574ZKHO2GXX3ZE44E63MK", "length": 896, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "baberghmidsuffolk.jdi-consult.net", "title": "Babergh and Mid-Suffolk || View full representation", "raw_content": "Representation 12050 on BMSDC Joint Local Plan Consultation Document (Interactive) by Montague Asset Management represented by Strutt & Parker (Mr William Nichols)\nShould be alternative options. Government standardised approach in establishing an OAN figure, it is advised that the OAN figure is revised in response to such changes. This may incur delays in the development of the Plan, but in terms of opportunity cost it is better to wait for the proposed changes, rather than pursue the submission of the Local Plan and then finding it not to be in accordance with national policy.\nSuggested that the OAN figure should be revised so that it serves as the minimum number of homes that need to be delivered, rather than a target to hit. This would encourage a greater delivery of housing and thus ensure an increase in supply, thus assisting in tackling the Districts' persistent under-delivery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://basicgospel.blog/2019/02/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:44Z", "digest": "sha1:72KJSGXG3HJWH2FIAE4YFOAII7RZ2TA7", "length": 248, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "basicgospel.blog", "title": "01 | February | 2019 | Basic Gospel", "raw_content": "Paul presents us with great truths and then offers a prayer for the Ephesians. Their faith in Jesus manifested itself in love towards one-another. He prays that they God would give them the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 2833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bdtenergygroup.com/product/md-m20l12dc-ar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HIHB72XZEXGLMHOUVIV4I6E33CK53FLK", "length": 389, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bdtenergygroup.com", "title": "MD-M20L12DC-AR - BDT Energy Group", "raw_content": "Magnitude\u2019s M20L12DC-AR is the most compact LED driver on the market with a magnetic transformer core. It is equipped with auto-reset breakers, one on the input and one on the output, which protect both the load and driver. The driver is encased in a coated metal box that includes 2 knock-outs, one on each side, to enable easy installation thatcomplies with electrical code requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beautifulanswers.com/tag/cinema/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DMCQQFVOZPJSWUKM7PKRGGMBDOJWPSMV", "length": 1034, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "beautifulanswers.com", "title": "cinema \u2013 Beautiful Answers", "raw_content": "Q: Do you think that the \u201cmoney-first, movie-second\u201d quagmire many young filmmakers must face hinders their creativity?\nDA: No, I think it totally expands your creativity. The problem with many big-budget films is that they have the money, and then they\u2019re just walking though the moves. I think when you\u2019re limited by your resources you have to get more creative. Your boundaries create your reality, and within that reality, you try to turn those limitations into your strengths. The bottom line is that if something doesn\u2019t work, you have to cut it. You can\u2019t just say, \u201cWell, it was three o\u2019clock in the morning, and my actor was barfing, and it was cold, and that\u2019s why it looks like this.\u201d You can\u2019t do that. Either it works or it doesn\u2019t work. Period. The end. So we didn\u2019t even want to get into that situation. We basically asked, \u201cWhat can we do?\u201d And once we knew, we said, \u201cLet\u2019s push it as far as we can and make it as exceptional as we can in that direction.\u201d\nSource : http://www.avclub.com/article/darren-aronofsky-13537", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 8540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beautyofthebible.squarespace.com/blog/2009/10/20/10-things-churches-do-right", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IUMFACM47HKGPU54NQB2DCUECDA6FDGE", "length": 7780, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "beautyofthebible.squarespace.com", "title": "10 Things Churches Do Right \u2014 beauty of the bible-Ancient Hebrew, Old Testament, New Testament, and Biblical Studies", "raw_content": "Oct 20 10 Things Churches Do Right\nChristianity, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus\nThe web is full of stuff that churches do wrong, and a lot of it is probably right on. What disturbs me more, however, is our collective quickness to point out everyone else's flaws, when we all have them. If I am publicly critical of one of the flaws in the church, it is the church's willingness to divide the body. So, rather than perpetuating division, I want to point out a few things churches do right.\nI've taken the top 10 Christian denominations according to a The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life/US Religious Landscape Survey and want to give them each a pat on the back for one thing each does right. Note: I haven't distinguished so finely as between \"Evangelical\" and \"Mainline,\" or this sub-group and that.\nDenomination (% of US population) - The good stuff:\n1. Catholics (approx. 24%) - Disclaimer: I was born and raised Catholic, and a large part of my family is still Catholic. Catholics do \"reverence\" better than any other Christian denomination. I prefer a more contemporary, laid back worship service, but I have a great deal of respect for the reverence Catholics give to the Church buildings, altars, services, and rites. They get that God is holy, and we should approach Him that way.\nLike obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, \"Be holy because I (am) holy.\" 1 Peter 1:14-16 (NAB).\n2. Baptists (approx. 13%) - Disclaimer: I was \"saved\" while a member of a Baptist Church (Beltway Park) a few years ago, and I wouldn't trade my time in that Baptist Church for anything. Baptists do \"numbers\" better than anybody else right now. They keep the calculators in heaven busy with the newly saved. Baptists get mission work and know how to evangelize.\nThen Jesus came to them and said, \"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.\" Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV)\n3. Methodists (approx. 6%) - Disclaimer: I graduated from a Methodist university (Southwestern University); the connection was tenuous but important. The Methodists were charismatic before charismatics were cool. The Methodists once did mission work better than anyone else. Now, Methodists bridge gaps better than anyone - gaps between traditional and modern, fundamental and progressive, liturgical and extemporaneous. Methodists get inclusion.\nFor just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 (NRSV)\n4. Lutherans (approx. 4.6%) - Obviously, Lutherans have historically done \"grace\" and \"reformation\" better than most. They do doctrine, confessions and creeds well. We should all have such well articulated beliefs. Lutherans get that you should be able to articulate and defend what you believe.\nHe must have a firm grasp of the word that is trustworthy in accordance with the teaching, so that he may be able both to preach with sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it. Titus 1:9 (NRSV)\n5. Non-denominational (approx. 4.5%) - Disclaimer: I currently attend a non-denominational church (Emmanuel Fellowship Church). Non-denominationalists do \"worship\" better than anyone. They let loose and worship shamelessly. Hands raised, banners waiving, and dancing in the aisles. Every church service is a party. Non-denominationalists get that God is to be worshiped.\nThen David danced before the LORD with all his might...\nTherefore I will play music before the Lord. And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. 2 Samuel 6:14, 21-22 (NKJV)\n6. Pentecostals (approx. 3.5%) - Pentecostals do Holy-Spirit religion better than anyone else. They understand that we are spiritual beings first and foremost, and that we should live in a state of communion with the Holy Spirit. Pentecostals get that the gospel has to be presented not only in word but in power.\nAnd when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Acts 2:1-4 (KJV)\n7. Presbyterians (approx. 2.7%) - Presbyterians do education well. I would guess that, per capita, Presbyterians are probably the most educated group of believers. Presbyterians get that you don't have to check your intellect at the church door.\nThe lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools. Proverbs 15:7 (NRSV)\n8. Christian Churches/Churches of Christ (approx. 2.4%) - Christian Churches and Churches of Christ do discipline and perseverance like no one else. I don't think I know a more committed and determined lot. They get that the Christian life is a marathon not a sprint, something many Christians lose sight of.\nTherefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:1-3 (NASB)\n9. Anglicans/Episcopalians (approx. 1.7%) - Anglicans and Episcopalians embrace diversity. This is not true for a lot of the Christian church, and it should be. There is, after all, a common thread which should bind all of us. Anglicans get that the body needs all of its component parts.\nAnd they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; Revelation 5:9 (AV)\n10. Holiness Churches (approx. 1%) - Holiness churches do non-conformity well. They actually try to live what many Christians profess. They get that an encounter with Jesus and the Holy Spirit should be a life-changing encounter.\nOn the whole, it sounds like a body of Christ I want to be a part of. Now, if we could get all of the component parts working in unison.\nNOTE: My readers know that I allow and respond to virtually all comments and criticisms, but not on this post. If you leave a comment critical of a Christian denomination, please know it will be deleted. I know charismatics can take things too far, and I know other denominations can be legalistic. I get it. None of us are perfect, and there will be plenty of time and opportunity to discuss the problems later. You are, as always, certainly free to criticize me or my positions, but not the other members of the body. Not this time.\nBible, Christian, Christianity, Church, Denominations, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Religion, Top 10 Christian Denominations, Worship\nOct 21 Christian Haiku Meme\nOct 15 Oh Crap! That was Funny!\nMay 27 The Prayers Looked Like What?\nNov 12 One of the Best Sermons on the Holy Spirit I've Heard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 9227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://believersatglenville.com/2015/04/life-lessons-learned/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:MK3VQQS6AQSHHPPUZSTLWRQWBY4GGKNO", "length": 8194, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "believersatglenville.com", "title": "Life Lessons Learned | Believers Church @ Glenville", "raw_content": "Life lessons come along at different intervals throughout our sojourn on earth. Every day can be a new class, a new opportunity to learn, if we stay in school. In reality we\u2019re never too old or too young to learn.\nAs a teenager my family and I attended a Bible-believing church in southern NY. The pastor was a wonderful man of God, but it was his wife who had the bigger effect on me. I\u2019ll call her \u201cMrs. H.\u201d Mrs. H. may have been my first crush. I was only thirteen when we started attending her church. My body was growing taller at such a rapid rate I could hardly keep up. I was freckle-faced, gangly and about as coordinated as a new-born calf. I had begun to notice the opposite sex, but girls in general made me as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.\nMrs. H. was older than I was, of course, but she looked a lot like the then president\u2019s wife, Jackie Kennedy. I doubt that she knew about my infatuation. I was content to admire her from a distance.\nMrs. H. was our teen class leader. Things she shared have stuck with me to this day, going on fifty years later. One thing she said a lot was, \u201cNever say \u2018I can\u2019t\u2019 say \u2018I\u2019ll try\u2019.\u201d I never wrote those words down or tried to memorize them, but they got etched in my psyche as if burned in oak. Her words proved true often over the years. Facing a seemingly undoable task I\u2019d want to quit, but instead I\u2019d give it a try, and soon it would get accomplished.\nFor example, while my wife and I were in Oklahoma for a year our worn out Datsun (now Nissans) developed an electrical problem. It wasn\u2019t recharging the battery. My automotive mechanical ability is not one of my specialties, but we were very tight on finances, so I decided to take apart the alternator and replace the inner brushes. For me taking on this task was similar to a toddler taking on brain surgery. Well, I got the alternator out of the car and began to disassemble it. I could see right away that it was meant to be divided into two halves, but a thin copper wire held the two halves together with no discernable way to disconnect it. I actually considered snipping it off. If I had, my wife and I would have been without a vehicle till we saved enough money to buy a new alternator.\nBefore I snipped my way into bigger problems the thought crossed my mind, why not just set this project aside for awhile, re-group and then take another shot at it. I wanted to either snip or quit, but I set the alternator on some old newspaper and walked away.\nAfter about an hour or so I picked up the alternator again, held it in my hands and studied it carefully. As I did I noticed that there was a collar around the midsection of it where the two halves merged. All I had to do was slide the collar over about half an inch and the alternator separated as clean as sliced watermelon. I replaced the brushes, reassembled the alternator, installed it back in the system and everything worked fine!\nA little patience and perseverance goes a long way! I once saw a plaque that read, \u201cPatience is a virtue, catch it if you can; found seldom in a woman, and never in a man.\u201d (Sorry guys!)\nAnother life lesson concerns a time about eight years earlier. My wife and I were living in a small apartment when our first child was born, a beautiful daughter. I was just out of Bible College and trying to find a direction for my life. My dad had a great influence on me as a tractor trailer driver and a heavy equipment operator. I felt like truck driving and heavy equipment operating were ensconced in my DNA. So I got a job in a stone quarry in our area of southern Pennsylvania.\nI took the job because there was a promise of operating big trucks and heavy equipment, without having built up any experience. I hired on and sure enough soon I was driving an ancient Mack Thermodyne dump truck. It had two shifters! [I\u2019m smiling now just thinking about it!] I learned to steer with my elbow while I split-shifted those two shifters, one forward, one back, all at the same time and all while double-clutching. [It doesn\u2019t get much better than that!]\nI also got to operate a 1949 Euclid. A Euclid was one of those huge dump trucks made only for off road construction work. It had five feet high tires and weighed 25 tons. It could haul another 25 tons. It had hardly any brakes, but there was a pull-chain dangling from the roof of the cab that operated a bellowing air horn. When the other vehicles heard that horn they got out of the way! To get in and drive I had to actually climb up in. I loved driving that old thing. The job didn\u2019t pay well, but I was gaining experience.\nWhen winter came the quarry shut down for the most part, so the owners had to find other things for us to do. They bought an old quarry not far away, mostly just for the purpose of cutting up all of the medal to sell for scrap. An acetylene cutting torch was used to cut the medal down to workable pieces. But before the medal could be cut it had to be scraped free of any nonmetallic debris. That miserable task fell to me and few other peons.\nLet me set the scene for you. It was the middle of winter just north of Philadelphia \u2013 in other words, it was cold! The work that particular day was about two stories up in an old stone bin. Our little crew had to climb a rusty ladder up over the edge and down into this bin. The bin was about fifteen feet square at the very top. It dropped straight down for about five feet, and then began to angle in on every side until it focused down to an opening of about 18 inches square. That was the chute that trucks used to pull under and fill with stone. Now it was just a hole you could just slip through and fall about 15 feet to the frozen ground.\nThe inside of this bin was the problem. From years of use and abuse it had small pieces of stone and even stone dust cemented into the rusty sides. Because it was now open to the weather it had accumulated ice in spots covering the cemented stone and dust. Well we climbed up there and began to chip away at this mess with shovels and spades. Keep in mind that we\u2019re trying to balance in this angled geometric configuration so as to not fall and slide out the chute, along with handling these tools and chipping away. As you can imagine, we weren\u2019t making much progress. So we tried hammers and chisels instead. They worked a little better, but we had to fight just to chip off minute pieces.\nI don\u2019t know why the duty fell to me. I didn\u2019t have the most seniority. I was not a natural leader. But I found myself climbing out of the bin and down the ladder to talk with Slim.\nSlim was our foreman. He reminded me of the old Jimmy Dean song, \u201cBig John\u201d. Remember those lyrics? \u201cHe stood six foot six, weighed 245; kind of broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hips; everyone knew you didn\u2019t give no lip to Big John.\u201d That was a good description of Slim. Plus his identity was bound up in the 50\u2019s, so his jet black hair was slicked back in a duck tail haircut and oiled up so it always looked wet. He usually had a chaw of tobacco jutting out the side of his jaw. He had an ongoing challenge: anyone who could defeat him in arm wrestling could take his job. [No one ever did] He never smiled. He was just Big John, er, I mean Slim.\nI walked up to Slim trying to muster an air of confidence. He turned to face me. His stare was cold and intense. I thought I could hear music in the background from \u201cThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u201d. I swallowed with effort. The silence was deafening. I did my best to look him in the eye and started to speak. \u201cSlim, we can\u2019t get all that stone and stone dust off the bin,\u201d I stammered. He paused for a moment, chewing his chaw, with no visible change in his expression. Then he leaned in even closer to my face and, without raising his voice, carved these words into my inner sanctum: \u201cDo you mean you can\u2019t do it, or it\u2019ll be hard?\u201d\nI never answered that query. I just spun on my heels and strode very deliberately back to the icy bin.\nHow was that again, Mrs. H.? \u201cNever say \u2018I can\u2019t\u2019 say \u2018I\u2019ll try\u2019!\u201d\nThis entry was posted in Pastor's Blog, Uncategorized on April 3, 2015 by Wayne Elston.\n\u2190 Meditation with Wayne Elston Time for a Change with Wayne Elston \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 9943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bennettink.com/category/leadership/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CKAP2VWTIQSXLAEAWIPFJEB57SEDZXW5", "length": 17757, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "bennettink.com", "title": "Leadership Archives - BennettInk.com", "raw_content": "\u201cYOU\u2019RE a professional?\u201d Unconscious bias, it\u2019s still here\nBella Abzug, Library of Congress\nThe inimitable Bella Abzug always wore a hat. Not because her head was cold, or because she wanted to be ready if the Royal Family asked her to tea. No, Abzug\u2014a lawyer, activist, and politician who represented Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side in the U.S. Congress for six years in the 1970s\u2014wore a hat because it marked her as a professional. Back when most of the women in the workforce were secretaries, that was an important distinction.\nThe 1970s\u2014nearly half a century ago. Women comprise a significantly larger percentage of the professional workforce. Yet people still make assumptions about what we can and cannot do, based on how we look.\nTessa Ann Taylor, Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times, says she still encounters people who seem mystified by the fact that she can be female and an engineer.\nSpeaking at last week\u2019s Smith College Women\u2019s Leadership Conference, Taylor said that people\u2014okay, male people\u2014have literally asked her \u201cHow are you a software engineer?\u201d\nBella Abzug understood this mentality. She once said that while men have been told to \u201cspeak softly and carry a big stick,\u201d for women it was \u201ctalk softly and carry a lipstick.\u201d That may have been a guaranteed laugh line, but Abzug\u2019s journal entries are less jocular:\nTaylor may not be trying to \u201cknock the crap\u201d out of the corporate power structure, but she does do a lot of training to help people recognize the Unconscious Biases That Will Not Die. Or at least That Haven\u2019t Died Yet.\nWomen of color in professional leadership\nOn the final day of the conference, I attended a workshop called \u201cLeadership as Disruption: Women of Color and their Allies Moving Beyond the Boundaries,\u201d led by Aziza Jones, MSW. Jones challenged us to identify strategies to support and increase opportunities for women of color to lead. And also to identify ways in which we can support them as allies.\nThe bottom line for all of this work: Be willing to have difficult conversations. The more we can share our reality\u2014and understand our privilege, for those of us who have it in this crazy world\u2014the more we\u2019ll be able to connect with others. Whether those others are women of a different race, or the clueless men who ask questions like \u201cHow are you an engineer?\u201d\nTalk. Connect. Use your power\u2014for yourself and for each other. It\u2019s time for us to change the world, don\u2019t you think?\nThere\u2019s a lot to love about the new book Joan Garry\u2019s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership. And I\u2019m not just saying that because I\u2019ve known Joan forever\u2014well, for a few decades; long before she became a rock-star nonprofit leader, consultant and, now, a budding television personality.\nBut believe me, no amount of friendship would have gotten me past page 3 if her book wasn\u2019t a good read. It is. The first two sentences hooked me:\n\u201cI could have killed my development director.\nAnd I don\u2019t mean it the way you think.\u201d\nHow much did I get out of Joan Garry\u2019s book? Let me count the flags.\nListen, I am not Joan\u2019s key demographic. I\u2019ve worked with nonprofits from time to time but I don\u2019t run one; I don\u2019t sit on any nonprofit boards. (And before you ask\u2014I\u2019m not sure I want to.)\nBut you don\u2019t have to be in nonprofit leadership to get something valuable from Joan\u2019s book. If you\u2019ve led any kind of organization, if you\u2019ve managed a team, if you\u2019ve ever worked with another human being, Joan has some wise advice for you.\nAnd she offers it up in the best way possible. Not with charts and data, but with stories. Joan knows how powerful good stories can be: Good stories can open hearts. Yes, they can open wallets and checkbooks too, but without emotion, it\u2019s just a transaction. A good story can turn a transaction into a connection, a connection into a relationship. And relationships are key to any organization\u2019s success\u2014from nonprofits to mega-profits.\nJoan advises her clients to bring their organization\u2019s stories front and center, so staffers and board members alike can see the impact their work is having. And she does the same in this book: Stories do the heavy lifting, making the messages both more entertaining and more memorable: if you read my blog regularly, you\u2019ve heard me sing that song more than once. I\u2019m always happy to recommend people who agree with me.\nStories\u2014for nonprofit leadership and the rest of us, too\nNonprofits may be \u201cmessy,\u201d as Joan\u2019s tagline reminds us\u2014and that\u2019s the title of her top-rated podcast, too. (If you\u2019re planning to check it out, start with this episode; I\u2019m a close personal friend of the guest.) But even though \u201cmess\u201d can have serious implications for organizations that deal with major, even world-changing, issues\u2014Joan knows it\u2019s essential to have fun along the way.\n\u201cThe single most important attribute of a nonprofit leader\u2014board member or staff leader\u2014the attribute that is most critical in helping you to untangle knots and the one that can move your organization from good to great\u2014is joy.\u201d\nThere\u2019s a lot of joy in Joan Garry\u2019s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership. And a lot of great advice, too, offered by a witty and charming expert. If I have any problem with the book, it\u2019s this: Joan\u2019s a good enough writer that she didn\u2019t need to hire a ghost. And she knows a damn good one, too.\nI have to start with a disclaimer: I\u2019m a Jersey Girl, which means I am, more or less by default, a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. I watched the video below because I will watch almost anything that involves Bruce and his band. But there\u2019s much more to it than the band playing an old Chuck Berry song on request. Listen past the infectious beat of the music and I think you\u2019ll hear Bruce Springsteen\u2019s lesson \u2014 about working together and learning together. Even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone.\nPublicity photo of Chuck Berry, circa 1957\nFans prepare for Springsteen concerts like they\u2019re going to a political rally. The floor of every arena he plays in is awash in handmade signs requesting songs they\u2019d like to hear Springsteen sing. Not his own songs\u2014mostly they request songs from other artists they want to hear him cover. At the end of his concert, Springsteen chooses one request and covers it.\nAt this 2013 performance in Germany, Bruce chose an old Chuck Berry song, \u201cYou Never Can Tell.\u201d It\u2019s a fun song, and I loved thinking about young Bruce identifying with the teenagers in the song and today-Bruce perhaps identifying with the people in the refrain:\n\u201cC\u2019est la vie,\u201d say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.\nBruce Springsteen\u2019s lesson\nBut I promised you a lesson. Springsteen hasn\u2019t played this song in a while, so he starts blocking out the melody, trying to find the right key. Once he finds his key he keeps blocking out the melody\u2014much more clearly and deliberately. He\u2019s teaching his band the song, right there onstage. He gets the audience to sing the notes, too\u2014giving the band more time to figure out the chord changes and learn the melody they\u2019re going to riff on.\nAnd then, once he\u2019s sure everyone\u2019s on board, he lets loose and they play the song.\nSo where\u2019s the lesson? It\u2019s got to be about more than learning new music.\nPick whichever resonates with you:\nThe power of repetition to improve one\u2019s performance\u2014that\u2019s the theory behind my daily writing practice, and we can see it at work in real time on this video.\nIf you want to get more business-y, you could see in this the capacity of a group working together to effect change.\nBut the first time I saw the video, this is what struck me: The band was going into (literally) uncharted waters. Some of them look so young that their parents probably never heard the song\u2014unless they remembered it from the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction. They trusted in their talents and their instincts and in Springsteen\u2019s capacity to teach and lead. And they delivered an outstanding performance.\nSo that\u2019s Springsteen\u2019s lesson for us this week, I think. Trust yourself. Step beyond your comfort zone. I mean, you never can tell.\nOne more post about the election\u2014but this time with business front and center. Okay?\nThursday, the day after the election results came in, I woke up feeling I had to write something. I wanted to suggest how business leaders could speak honestly with their people about the values of diversity and inclusion.\nI published it as an open letter on LinkedIn and I\u2019ll post it here in its entirety, in case you\u2019re not a LinkedIn member. (Wait? You\u2019re not a LinkedIn member? What?)\nAn Open Letter to Straight White Christian Male CEOs\nIf the title of this post shocks you, I intended it to.\nThe organizations I work with and the executives I write for would never think of the world in such a narrow way. I\u2019ve been in and around Corporate America for more than 25 years, and I\u2019ve seen a real evolution. I truly believe that most businesses today value inclusivity. So I welcome everyone to read and act on this.\nBut let\u2019s be real: Some people have a bigger megaphone, just by virtue of who they are. You straight white Christian male CEOs may not have asked for this privilege\u2014in fact, let\u2019s assume you don\u2019t even want it. But since you have it, put it to good use.\nIn the wake of Tuesday\u2019s election, many people who aren\u2019t straight white Christian men\u2014including many of your colleagues and probably your clients too\u2014feel unsettled and unsafe. Indeed, reports of violence and harassment of those perceived as \u201cother\u201d have already risen precipitously.\nUse the privilege you didn\u2019t ask for or seek to let the world know that decent people still respect each other.\nAs a business leader you have a very important superpower: the power of the bottom line. You can refuse to discriminate in hiring and staffing, even if your client requests it. You can refuse to do business with those who support discrimination. You can move conventions or facilities out of areas that enact discrimination by law or mandate.\nIf you have fostered an inclusive culture within your organization, thank you. Now you need to carry that culture outside your office walls. In your work with clients. In the ways you and your organization support our communities. As you live your daily life.\nIf you see behavior that\u2019s incompatible with your values, speak up. Empower your people to report any disrespectful or discriminatory behavior they encounter in the course of their work. Take appropriate action to address it\u2014and talk publicly about what you\u2019ve done.\nLead by word and by action. Speak out wherever and whenever you can. Use the privilege you didn\u2019t ask for or seek to let the world know that decent people still respect each other\u2014no matter what religion, national origin, or skin color the \u201cother\u201d has. Or their gender. Or who they love.\nHatred used to thrive in the shadows; it\u2019s now emerging openly, even proudly. We cannot let it become normalized. And you, the straight white Christian men society has anointed as privileged, must take the lead.\nCourage is one of those qualities that\u2019s easier to see in other people than ourselves. The firefighter rushing into the burning building has courage; but so does the manager standing up in a meeting to say, \u201cI think there may be another way to solve this problem.\u201d\nThink about what you\u2019ve done in the past 24 hours. I\u2019m willing to bet you did at least one thing that nudged you out of your comfort zone, even a bit.\nMaybe it was conversation you had to take a couple of extra-deep breaths before starting\u2014someone on the team you manage who hasn\u2019t been performing up to par. Or maybe it was you, asking a mentor for help to improve a skill you don\u2019t quite have a handle on. That\u2019s courage, my friend.\nOr maybe you finally tackled that task you\u2019ve been putting off for no good reason at all. Chances are, you even nailed it. But whether or not it was perfect, the important thing is you did it. That\u2019s courage, too.\nFinding your voice can take courage\u2014and using your voice takes even more. But it\u2019s the only way to get where you want to go in your career. You\u2019ve spent most of your work-life listening; it\u2019s time for you to be heard.\nThe courage to speak and write powerfully\nYou\u2019ve got ideas\u2014I know you do. But do you know how to express them powerfully?\nBusiness communication isn\u2019t like writing a college term paper. At school, you write for an audience of one: your professor. In business, you may address an email to just one person, but if the ideas you express have any merit, that email will get passed along. Before you know it, you\u2019re sharing your ideas in a meeting; writing a proposal; making a pitch\u2026the better the idea, the more people your words will reach. Communicating persuasively and powerfully isn\u2019t an optional skill\u2014not if you want to do interesting, fulfilling work. Not if you want to lead.\nThe stakes are higher in business than school, too. Get a C on your Hamlet paper and it won\u2019t end your college career. Say the wrong thing\u2014or what you fear might be the wrong thing\u2014in a meeting and who knows what repercussions it can have?\nAnd then somebody like me comes along and says you have to be authentic on top of it all? It\u2019s no wonder you\u2019re tempted to just sit there listening. Throw in the towel.\nI mean, you\u2019re happy enough with your career as it is, right?\nExcept you\u2019re not happy, are you?\nBut you are courageous. So what needs to change?\nYou need to find your voice. That strong, powerful, smart voice that\u2019s just waiting for you to let it get to work.\nYou need to tell your story. I don\u2019t mean \u201cyour story\u201d literally\u2014okay, sometimes I do mean your literal story. But I also mean your story of why this strategy change matters to you, why this product or service you\u2019re pitching matters to you. Because lots of people can talk about facts and figures\u2014and you\u2019ll do that too\u2014but no one else can see them through your eyes.\nYou need to discover the skills you need to communicate effectively and memorably.\nJoin me on Saturday October 29th at 12 noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific, for a free, interactive webinar called \u201cThe Courage to Communicate: Write Right to Lead.\u201d\nThe Best CEOs Tell Stories: James Allen in HBR\nIf you wonder \u201cHow the Best CEOs Get the Important Work Done,\u201d James Allen\u2019s recent Harvard Business Review article offers a detailed answer. Do yourself a favor and read the whole article, but I can boil it down to a one-word executive summary. That word will be familiar to my regular readers: Storytelling.\nOkay, Allen talks about some other things too, like guarding your time devoted to deep thinking and not getting involved in the petty bickering of your staff. But when it comes to conveying\u2014and executing\u2014strategy, Allen is all about the storytelling.\n\u201cCEOs don\u2019t lead companies, they lead a collection of people who all need to move in the same direction. And that demands a thousand conversations.\u201d\nEach of those conversations offers the CEO a chance to tell a story. And, as Allen suggests, leaders should not rely on telling just one story. They need \u201ca thousand conversations,\u201d tailoring each to the audience they\u2019re trying to reach\u2014whether that\u2019s one senior executive or an entire department.\nConversations and CEOs\nAllen presents those thousand conversations as a way to help CEOs avoid boredom, but it\u2019s also a basic principle of speaking. Every stakeholder has a different dog in the proverbial hunt; each group needs to feel you hear and understand the issues. Or as the first President Bush said when he was running for re-election, reading off a note card (bullet points! another reason to hate them):\n\u201cMessage: I care.\u201d\nAs you may recall, the elder President Bush lost that election. Message: it\u2019s not enough to say you care; you actually have to be specific about why and how.\nAllen tells CEOs, \u201cUltimately, you have to find some joy in this\u201d unending storytelling. Personally, I can\u2019t imagine anything more exciting than being able to stand in front of my \u201ctroops\u201d and inspire them to coalesce around a common goal. But I am a writer, not a CEO\u2014and maybe we now know why.\nTo inspire his CEO-readers, Allen reminds them:\n\u201cEach conversation is an opportunity for mutual discovery, for mutual insight. You can be successful as a CEO only if you can mobilize the hearts and minds of thousands, so you must love this mobilization\u2026\u201d\nBut don\u2019t focus on the \u201cthousands\u201d\u2014that\u2019s too abstract a concept. Focus on the actual people you\u2019re talking to,\n\u201cand take joy in helping each group and each individual discover what the strategy means for them.\u201d\nGravitas: it\u2019s (mostly) about communication\nI went in search of an article on Sylvia Ann Hewlett\u2019s book Executive Presence because someone mentioned that she identified \u201ccommunication skills\u201d as the major component of executive demeanor.\nThat\u2019s not exactly right. \u201cGravitas\u201d turns out to be a bit more than two times as important as communication, but both of them significantly outweigh the third element, appearance. (I wrote about that yesterday.) Still, I wonder if a woman with a swollen, wart-covered, purple nose would have achieved quite the same level of success as financier J.P. Morgan, whose photo illustrates the Fortune article linked above.\nStill, Hewlett\u2019s statistics are a bit misleading, because communication is one of the central ways leaders express their gravitas:\n\u201cA big part of gravitas is a knack for conveying tremendous amounts of knowledge and giving people the impression you could go \u2018six questions deep\u2019 on the subject you\u2019re talking about, but in a way that\u2019s concise,\u201d Hewlett explains. \u201cAttention spans are so short now that, whether it\u2019s in a speech or in a meeting, you have to show how you can add value in a way that\u2019s both compelling and brief.\u201d\nConcise communication, communication that grabs listeners\u2019 attention and delivers the information they need in a compelling way. Hewlett is playing my song.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 23986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/profile/thompson-hine-llp/overview/25786", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RJB4LWSGT75N7HKIAAUF6N3DECIBTD5E", "length": 204, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bestlawfirms.usnews.com", "title": "Thompson Hine LLP - Firm Overview", "raw_content": "Thompson Hine LLP is nationally ranked in 31 practice areas and regionally ranked in 108 practice areas. The U.S. News - Best Lawyers\u00ae \"Best Law Firms\" rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 4236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bettervaluehealthcare.net/paper-of-the-week-04-07-18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YLLWYSP6AOOG3LV73LTS4TI6PDNIFZCX", "length": 1104, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bettervaluehealthcare.net", "title": "Paper of the week: 04.07.18 - Better Value Healthcare", "raw_content": "Muir Gray\u2019s paper of the week: Hearing Aids and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults With Hearing Loss\nReference: Kitterick PT, Ferguson MA. Hearing Aids and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults With Hearing Loss. JAMA. 2018;319(21):2225\u20132226. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5567\nUntreated hearing loss negatively affects communication and social engagement, can lead to reduced QOL, and is a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia.\nHearing aids are the primary noninvasive therapy for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults, but only 1 in 3 of those who are eligible for hearing aids have them.\nIf you want to motivate clinicians to increase value, focus initially on the underuse of high value interventions and only secondarily point out the lower value interventions such as polypharmacy that could be reduced not to make \u2018savings\u2019 but to fund more hearing aids for older people. It would not be surprising to find that the failure to provide hearing aids was more common in people from disadvantaged groups, so there is probably inequity as well as failure to provide high value healthcare.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beyonceonline.org/index.php?id=on_the_run_ii_tour_finishes_with_more_than_250_million", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:47Z", "digest": "sha1:B3QFY2SBHSZYF2ZP4UYWMR4VEPSRMU23", "length": 3122, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "beyonceonline.org", "title": "On the Run II Tour Finishes with More Than $250 Million \u2013 BEYONC\u00c9 ONLINE \u00bb Your best Beyonc\u00e9 fansite on the net!", "raw_content": "On the Run II Tour Finishes with More Than $250 Million\nThey say it\u2019s a marathon, not a sprint. But for Beyonc\u00e9 and JAY-Z, it was both. Their sprawling On the Run II Tour finished with $253.5 million in the bank, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.\nThe trek wrapped Oct. 4 at Seattle\u2019s CenturyLink Field, the last of the 48 stadium dates they played, after beginning June 6 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. From there, the dynamic duo played 18 shows throughout Europe, peaking at London Stadium\u2019s two-night engagement with $11 million grossed and more than 125,000 tickets sold. After a few final shows in France, including their debut performance of \u201cAPESHIT\u201d in Paris, they crossed the pond for 30 North American shows, with doubles in Landover, Md.; East Rutherford, N.J.; Chicago; Atlanta; Houston; and Pasadena, Calif. The biggest earner of the tour was the Aug. 25-26 engagement at Atlanta\u2019s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, grossing $14.1 million.\nOn the Run II is the sequel to 2014\u2019s On the Run Tour, a massive success in its own right. Billboard named it the Top R&B/Hip-Hop tour of the year, coming in at No. 8 on 2014's overall Top Tours list, with three appearances on the year-end Top Boxscores ranking. The original trek grossed $109.6 million from 980,000 tickets sold.\nBut despite the high bar set four years ago, On the Run II expanded The Carters\u2019 worldwide reach. The $253.5 million haul of this year\u2019s run represents a 132 percent increase over the original\u2019s gross. While one might worry that expanding from 21 sold-out stadium dates to 48 would be spreading oneself thin, Beyonc\u00e9 and JAY-Z were still able to increase their average per-show gross, maintaining a pace of $5.28 million each night.\nFollowing the biggest headlining tours of each of their legendary careers, Beyonc\u00e9 and JAY-Z\u2019s team effort for the On the Run II Tour combined their talents and fan bases for an epic team effort. Just 10 days after opening night, they released the collaborative Everything Is Love album. The nine-track set was met with widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, earning 123,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, despite being released on a Saturday evening. Already a nominee at the Billboard Live Music Awards (Top World Tour, Top U.S. Tour, Top Draw), On the Run II caps a stellar year for The Carters.\nLive Nation promoted the tour, featuring additional support from DJ Khaled and Chloe x Halle.\nSee below for On the Run: By the Numbers.\nOn the Run: $109.6 million\nOn the Run II: $253.5 million\nOn the Run: 980,000 tickets sold\nOn the Run II: 2,177,000 tickets sold\nOn the Run: 21 shows (2 in Europe; 19 in North America)\nOn the Run II: 48 shows (18 in Europe; 30 in North America)\nOn the Run: $5,219,533 average gross\nOn the Run II: $5,281,562 average gross\nOn the Run: 3 Boxscores over $10 million (peaks: $13.6 million at Stade de France in Paris)\nOn the Run II: 8 Boxscores over $10 million (peak: $14.1 million at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta)\nOn the Run Series\n$363,125,181 gross\n3,156,830 tickets sold\n69 sold-out shows\n11 Boxscores over $10 million", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 10863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 163.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bigstorygroup.com/movies/eight-days-a-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SYLBSX7NHDUGO3M6DQKMCHWMV5W5HC7U", "length": 3127, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bigstorygroup.com", "title": "The Beatles Eight Days A Week The Touring Years Trailer - Ron HowardBig Story Group", "raw_content": "On 20, Jun 2016 | No Comments | In Entertainment, Movies, Music | By Entertainment\nAcademy Award\u00ae-winner Ron Howard\u2019s authorized and highly anticipated documentary feature film about The Beatles\u2019 phenomenal early career The Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years has set its US theatrical release date for September 16th, 2016 and debuts the first trailer from the film and the official poster to launch the campaign, it was announced today by Imagine Entertainment, White Horse Pictures and Apple Corps Ltd. Hulu will be the presenting partner for the theatrical release of the film in the US where the film will become available to stream exclusively to Hulu subscribers on September 17th.\nFeaturing rare and exclusive footage, the film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. White Horse Pictures\u2019 Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award\u00ae-winner and Emmy\u00ae Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment are producing with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.\u2019s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are serving as executive producers, along with Imagine\u2019s Michael Rosenberg and White Horse\u2019s Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall.\nThe Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles\u2019 career (1962-1966) \u2013 the period in which they toured and captured the world\u2019s acclaim. Ron Howard\u2019s film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, \u201cThe Beatles.\u201d It will explore their inner workings \u2013 how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together \u2013 all the while, exploring The Beatles\u2019 extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles\u2019 journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.\nRichard Abramowitz\u2019s Abramorama will handle the US theatrical release of the film that is set to be an event driven experience with a few special surprises planned for cinemagoers. Hulu will have the exclusive US streaming video on-demand rights to the film on SVOD beginning September 17th \u2013 marking the first feature film to debut on Hulu following its theatrical premiere. The Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years is the first film acquired by Hulu\u2019s Documentary Films arm which will serve as a new home for premium original and exclusive documentary film titles coming to Hulu.\nFollowing an all-star world premiere in London on September 15th, the film will roll out theatrically worldwide with release dates set in Japan (September 22nd), Australia and New Zealand (September 16th) and UK, France and Germany (September 15th). Award-winning Editor Paul Crowder is the editor. Crowder\u2019s long-time collaborator, Mark Monroe, is serving as writer. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer. Return to Thumbnail View.\nThe Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years Trailer\nGenre | Documentary, Historical, Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 8847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billchance.org/2018/07/28/seven-points-of-view/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6W2AXUJIXR7R23X5OA2HB2UXJUD5KUXU", "length": 1085, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "billchance.org", "title": "Seven Points of View | Bill Chance", "raw_content": "\u2190 Beautiful And True\nDavid in Bluestone \u2192\nSeven Points of View\n\u201cI assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.\u201d\n\u2015 Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini\nGymnast, by Enrique Alferez, bronze, Poydras Street, New Orleans\nThe first one that I noticed was a beautiful bronze woman in an athletic, dancelike pose, rising above the median only a few feet toward the river from where my son lives. Looking it up, I wasn\u2019t too surprised to find out it was another work by Enrique Alferez like the nearby Lute Player and David \u2013 which I wrote about the last two days.\nAlferez has work all over the city.I must make a list and try to get to some more the next time I visit.\nThis entry was posted in New Orleans, Photography, sculpture and tagged Art, bronze, dance, gymnast, gymnastics, New Orleans, Photography, poydras, Sculpture. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 6724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2018/09/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LVSSQB77NRSNWF4B6AW4KRIDPYWBU3WA", "length": 36018, "nlines": 143, "source_domain": "billtammeus.typepad.com", "title": "Bill's 'Faith Matters' Blog:", "raw_content": "Will 'Liberation Theology' affect midterm elections? 9-29/30-18\nBack in the 1960s and '70s, something in Christianity eventually called \"Liberation Theology\" became ascendant, given a boost especially in South America by such theologians as Leonardo Boff of Brazil.\nThe basic idea was that God had a \"preferential option for the poor.\" God, in other words, was most concerned about the marginalized, the downtrodden. And God wanted people not just to feed, clothe and house the poor but also to work against the systems and structures that contributed to poverty, racism, sexism and lots of other destructive isms.\nLiberation Theology eventually attracted critics, including a pope or two, who asserted that its thinking was Marxist in nature and wasn't in harmony with traditional Christianity. Pushing back, Liberation Theology advocates acknowledged that some of the economic and societal concerns Marxism raised were similar to the ones they were raising but that, unlike Marxists, Christians were motivated by a commitment to justice, love and mercy for people who also were children of God.\nReligion&Politics.org has just published this interview with the author of a new book called, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology The article to which I've just linked you says that in this book, independent scholar Lilian Calles Barger \"traces the history of liberationist thought back to its ascendance in the 1960s and 70s, situating it atop the prior movements and thinkers who paved the way.\"\nThe piece also notes that some politicians and others in the U.S. today are drawing on Liberation Theology to help energize what some are calling the Christian Left.\nAs Barger explains Liberation Theology in the interview, she says that \"the tension between transcendence and immanence has been at work in theology for a very long time. At certain points, God has been imagined as a distant, otherworldly figure, while at others, God has been very much an interventionist in human affairs.\n\"With the social gospel in the early twentieth century, theologians began to swing decisively in the latter direction, emphasizing a God at work in the everyday of every day. By the 1960s and '70s, liberationists were situating God not simply among human beings on earth but specifically among the poor and the oppressed, to advocate on their behalf. God was not only close at hand, but God was found among oppressed people in their struggle against oppression. This was a shift in the character of God from one who had equal universal regard to one who was partial to black people, the poor and women.\"\nThus the phrase \"preferential option for the poor.\"\nTheological movements come and go, of course, but in this politically charged era in America leading up to the midterm elections, it's been intriguing to see Christians who have felt estranged from what has been called the Religious Right begin to express their political views using theological underpinnings.\nBarger notes, correctly, that Liberation Theology has \"a very splintered history.\" And it's unclear whether those who use it in some way to define their political positions can convince American voters that they should elect officials whose policies would be rooted in Liberation Theology.\nPay attention to candidates to see if you can pick up on this thread in their positions. It's often been more subtle and harder to find than has the often-harsh and rigid -- at times angry and arrogant -- theology of politicians who identify with the Religious Right. But it can be found if you watch closely.\nA SEXUALITY ISSUE AMONG MENNONITES\nMatters of human sexuality, as most of us know, have divided various religious traditions, causing institutional splits and various realignments. It's happening among the Mennonites, too, as this RNS report shows. It's difficult, apparently, not to have an opinion about how theology and sexuality meet. But here's a good rule: If your views on sexuality, even if you think they're based on holy writ and approved by God, demean and divide people, it's time for a rethink.\nP.S.: My latest Flatland column -- about religion and the #MeToo movement -- now is online here.\nDid God screw up by inventing sex? 9-28-18\nThe abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, the #MeToo movement in light of sexual misconduct all over the place, the latest accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the new admission by Pope Francis that his church hasn't got much of this right -- all of this and more is raising a foundational question about humanity, especially males.\nWe could ask it theologically this way: Did God mess up by creating the sex drive as a way to reproduce the human species? Or we could ask it in a more scientific or sociological way: What in the natural sexual attraction that people feel goes wrong and leads to abuse and what can be done to control that?\nI am not arguing -- would never argue, as some fools have -- that rape is simply an inevitable result of natural instincts. That judgment belongs in history's trash heap. It demeans humanity. It assumes that our moral codes are powerless over us.\nPerhaps one answer to the sickening repetition of #MeToo stories is to recognize the fact that many people (I'm talking here almost exclusively about males) are simply not mature about their own physicality and needs. Beyond that, they have not been taught to value and respect the human bodies of others. In Christian theological terms, those bodies are understood to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. And those bodies are what, in some mysterious way, will be redeemed, as proposed by the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body.\nHuman bodies, according to this theology, bear the image of God (the imago dei) and, thus, are in some sense sacred themselves.\nBut not a lot of faith communities spend time talking frankly about human bodies and how we -- no matter our gender, no matter whether straight or LGBTQ -- are to understand and respect them.\nIt pleases me to tell you that the pastors of the congregation to which I belong have been focusing this month on exactly that: human bodies. Here you will find some resources to go along with this sermon series on the subject.\nThis is a step toward progress. But clearly more is needed -- not just from other faith communities but from parents, grandparents, school teachers, coaches, politicians, physicians and others.\nAnd more help is needed from the entertainment industry, which often seems to assume the human body is merely a toy to manipulate for self-satisfying purposes.\nLook. Blaming God in this, as I first suggested, is simply silly. It's as if we're accusing God of getting a D-minus in a design class. But it's important to acknowledge how natural our sexual urges are and to find ways to respond to those urges in healthy and beautiful ways, not in ways that devalue other human bodies.\nTo have an acknowledged sexual predator as president doesn't help, of course. In fact, it's a disaster. But even that is no excuse for us not doing what we can to teach a healthy sexual ethic to our children and grandchildren -- and to abide by that ethic ourselves.\nA SNAP VOICE RETURNS\nDavid Clohessy, who resigned from SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) in 2016 because of controversy over a lawsuit brought by a former SNAP employee, has returned to the organization to be a spokesman. I have met David several times and have felt the work that SNAP does is important so that abuse victims have a voice. I hope he does well in this role.\nWhen a religious minority gets suppressed: 9-27-18\nWhen India achieved independence from Britain in August 1947, the country was partitioned. The largest part of the subcontinent was designated as India and its population would be predominantly Hindu. Two smaller areas were called West and East Pakistan (the latter later becoming Bangladesh), and their populations would be predominantly Muslim.\nAs Hindus living in the new Pakistan and Muslims living in the new India moved to live with others of their religious tradition, they crossed paths on the road. Murder and mayhem broke out.\nAs The New Yorker has reported, partition displaced some 15 million people and killed a million. And this byproduct of imperialism still is producing terrible effects today.\nFor instance, a new study finds that Muslims in India (who make up about 14 percent of the 1.3 billion population today) suffer from an almost complete lack of upward economic mobility despite the fact that India's economy has grown substantially in recent years.\nAs the story about the study to which I just linked you notes, \"India\u2019s Muslim community has for long faced discrimination and relatively lower living standards. Previous research has shown that the Muslim community has the lowest rate of enrollment in higher education in India, accounting for just 4.4% of students. It also faces high levels of poverty, with 25% of India\u2019s 370,000 beggars being Muslim.\"\nMy friend Markandey Katju, a retired judge on India's Supreme Court, has argued time and again that Pakistan is an artificial country that should be merged back into India. Here is what he said about all of that in 2016, for instance. Here is a piece he wrote in 2017 about the need for India and Pakistan to reunite. And here is something about this subject he e-mailed to me the other day:\nIndia and Pakistan have been one country since Mughal times, and we share the same culture. When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them. We look like each other, we speak the same language, Hindustani, we have the same food habits, the common love for Urdu literature, etc. Indians and Pakistanis socialise abroad as if there had never been a Partition. In fact we are one country, artificially divided, but we must reunite.\nPartition of India in 1947 was done on the basis of the bogus two-nation theory that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations. If religion is the basis of a nation then almost every country will have to be partitioned, because there are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., in almost every country, e.g. in UK, USA, France, Germany, etc.\nAs pointed out in detail in my article \"The Truth about Pakistan\" published in the Pakistani newspaper \"The Nation,\" Partition was a historical British swindle, a culmination of the divide and rule policy, whose purpose was to keep Hindus and Muslims fighting each other and thereby keep the subcontinent poor and weak, and a big buyer of foreign arms. We were befooled by the Britishers into thinking Hindus and Muslims are enemies. . .but how much longer must we remain befooled ? How much longer must blood flow between us?\nToday India is the biggest buyer of foreign weapons in the world, and we spend billions of dollars on this, money which should be used for the welfare of our people.\nWhen I said that India and Pakistan must reunite under a secular government most people said I am day dreaming. But when Mazzini spoke of Italian unification he was also called a daydreamer. Yet his dream came true under Cavour and Garibaldi. Vietnam was reunited in 1975, and Germany in 1990. So to say that much water has flown since 1947 is neither here nor there.\nSome say that there is a lot of hatred between the people of the two countries, and so we cannot reunite. But this hatred is artificial. In fact when Indians go to Pakistan they are overwhelmed by the love and affection they get, and the same happens when Pakistanis come to India.\nNo doubt reunification will not happen easily, because those who divided us will not like to see united India emerge as a huge industrial giant, like another China, but it is bound to happen, though it will take time. However, the time has come to put forward the idea of Indo-Pak reunification. It is like planting a seed, which may take 10-15 years to grow into a fruit bearing tree, and that is what all patriotic modern minded people must do.\nMarkandey may not convince others to reunite India and Pakistan, but it's increasingly clear that many of the Muslims who remained in India after partition aren't faring well economically and may not in the future.\nAll of which looks, from the outside at least, a lot like intentional religious discrimination.\nWAS TRUMP GOD'S CHOICE?\nA new film with ties to Liberty University advocates the idea that God chose Donald Trump to be president. Does it seem odd to you, too, that God couldn't even arrange to have Trump win the popular vote? Hmmmm.\nAntisemitism is no rare phenomenon: 9-26-18\nIn my experience, almost any time I hear a religious leader decry a movement or warn about the possibility of some disaster, I can be pretty sure that he or she is late responding to something that should have been responded to much earlier.\nI even detect a bit of that in the admonition from Pope Francis the other day about antisemitism. Humanity, he said, must guard against \"new seeds of that pernicious attitude, any whiff of it.\"\nWell, the words are true and welcome. And they represent a radical change from the anti-Judaism that infected Christianity almost from its beginning.\nBut the resurgence of antisemitism is no new story. Indeed, more than five years ago I did a review here of Alvin H. Rosenfeld's then-new book, Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives. It was clear even then that one of the world's oldest hatreds not only continues, it never stopped even after the Holocaust.\nThe occasion for the pope's remarks was the 75th anniversary of the 1943 liquidation of the ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania. Thousands of Jews died then, part of the approximately six million who perished at the hands of Adolf Hitler's Nazi killing machine.\nSo, yes, it is important to remember such dates and to study the history of how such history happened. But the pope' words left the impression that antisemitism is a rare phenomenon now and that people should carefully sniff around to see if they can detect any of it. It's in plain sight both here in the U.S. and in Europe.\nBy the way, I've used two terms here -- antisemitism and anti-Judaism. The former is racial and ethnic in nature. It views Jews people as a hated separate people and promotes visions of a greedy people who want to control the world. The latter is theological in nature. It presumes that Christianity has superseded Judaism and made it irrelevant. It suggests that Jews went astray by failing to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the long-promised Messiah.\nEither \"ism\" is putrid at its core and must be recognized, named and fought.\nAnd, sad to say, neither is a rare and tiny growth in an otherwise-beautiful forest of right thinking. Breathe in almost anywhere and you'll get more than a whiff.\nA #MeToo FAITH STORY\nI've been mostly unaware of the faith backstory of the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke. But this Sojourners story tells that interfaith story. Jesus, Burke says, was the first activist she knew.\nAs the print era dies, what about sacred texts? 9-25-18\nOn my iPad and smartphone I keep the \"YouVersion\" Bible app.\nIt offers dozens of different translations and is pretty easy to navigate. Sometimes if there's a shortage of Bibles in the pews for worship at services at my church, I'll just use it and let others have the printed versions.\nBut when I do that my inner delinquent wants to change the response at the end of the reading. When the reader says, \"This is the word of the Lord,\" the congregation generally responds, \"Thanks be to God.\" But if when reading an e-version, shouldn't the pastor says, \"This is the Word Document of the Lord\"? Uh, maybe.\nAt any rate, the current cover story in Harper's magazine is headlined \"The Printed Word in Peril,\" and focuses on all the ways that e-versions of things are replacing print. (For someone who spent a career working mostly for a printed newspaper, there's some sadness to work through here for me.)\nA ways into the piece, Will Self writes this: \"The age of Homo virtualis is quite likely upon us, and while this may be offensive to those of us who believe humans to have been made in God's image, it's been received as a cause for rejoicing for those who believe God to be some sort of cosmic computer.\"\nThe reality is that how we take in information shapes our brains and our thinking. People like me who grew up with print, who didn't get television until we were age 10 or so, who didn't get brain-buzzed with early MTV-like special effects tend not to do very well processing messages that flash by at 72-images a minute. Self refers to such people as having \"a Gutenberg mind.\" In some ways I admire the brains of younger people who can process such spinning flip-cards.\nBut how, in such cases, is it possible to stop and ponder, to freeze on a sentence -- this one, for instance -- and marinate in it until we can unearth different meanings, different ways of grasping whatever truth the words might contain?\nI don't know. And I wonder whether reading sacred writ online might be short-circuiting the thinking process in some way. (Said the man who is offering you these words online.)\nPerhaps there's nothing to worry about. Perhaps \"the word of the Lord\" can come digitally or in print or spelled out by airplanes whose pilots know how to make letters in the sky. I'm just glad that the people who wrote the documents now known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi documents didn't have computers.\nTIME FOR A JEWISH MISTER ROGERS?\nA rabbi has written this intriguing piece suggesting that the world could use a Jewish Mister Rogers. No, he isn't complaining about the beautiful work that the Rev. Fred Rogers did in his television ministry to children. But just as there was a Christian background to Rogers' neighborhood, it might be enlightening to do such work with a Jewish background. See what you think.\n'Deconstructing' one Christianity to build another: 9-24-18\nAs I and many others have reported a lot in recent years, one of the major changes in the American religious landscape has been the rise of the \"nones,\" or the religiously unaffiliated. Current estimates suggest that they now make up about 25 percent of American adults.\nBut something else is going on inside a branch of Protestantism that hasn't received nearly the attention it deserves. It's a phenomenon that some people who identify themselves as evangelicals are calling \"deconstruction.\"\nWhat that means is that the people who are in the deconstruction process are questioning all kinds of aspects of the faith they grew up with and, beyond that, rejecting much of it. Some are leaving institutional religion altogether, joining the \"nones,\" but others are moving into segments of Protestantism often called progressive or liberal, though all these labels hide more than they reveal.\nThis fascinating article in The New Republic is written by a man who tells his personal deconstruction story. I have found it to be at once heartbreaking but also hopeful.\nBryan Mealer writes that he grew up in a church that \"readied soldiers for the culture war. We stood on busy streets holding picket signs showing bloody aborted fetuses. We were about Pat Robertson and James Dobson and didn\u2019t bother ourselves with soup kitchens or food pantries. We pushed purity culture and the 'Twelve Steps of Dating' as ways to avoid the trap of premarital sex.\"\nBut, he writes, he found he could not hold to such a theological life with any authenticity, and he left. But \"after a decade of estrangement, I felt a tug to reconnect with organized religion. My two oldest children started having questions. When my daughter asked, \u201cWhat is God?\u201d we gave the kids a book that said God is everything, which led to my son telling my mother that God was our Honda. So, I started looking for a church.\"\nEventually, after help from podcasts and reading, he landed at Trinity (United Methodist) Church in Austin, Texas.\nHe writes, \"During services, I saw gay couples and transgender people sitting alongside white-haired Methodist women. The pianist shared that it was the anniversary of his coming to this church, and then explained how his last congregation had ostracized him for being gay. He began to cry as he spoke, and I felt my own tears running down my face.\n\"At Trinity, I realized I could be both liberal and Christian \u2014 that the church could be an affirming and reconciling place for gay and transgender people, along with advocating for the poor and oppressed. It was liberating.\"\nWhat Mealer and others like him are learning is that being a disciple of Jesus Christ doesn't mean you have to belong to the Republican Party or that you have to be on the political-right side of the culture wars or that you have to read the Bible literally instead of seriously.\nAs he says, it's liberating, but it's also terribly demanding. This kind of Christianity insists that we must see the image of God in every human being -- no exceptions. Do you have any idea how hard that is? But it's a challenge that Mealer and others are discovering is worth the effort. I'm glad to welcome him into this branch of the faith even as we who are in it hope that some day all Christians will find not uniformity but unity.\nA REASON FOR GOOD MENTAL HEALTH?\nA new study suggests that children who grow up with religious beliefs wind up with better mental health as adults. For one thing, it gives you a sense of community, which means other people you can blame for your troubles. Right?\nP.S.: Some of you might be interested in a lecture on \"Christianity and Democracy\" by Duke University Prof. Luke Bretherton at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Wesley Covenant Chapel at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in suburban Leawood, Kan. Information needed to register for this free event is here.\nMark Twain's theological games: 9-22/23-18\nBecause The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (pictured here) is the best novel ever written by an American (oh, it is, too), I reread it periodically.\nI used to do so every couple of years, and once wrote a long Kansas City Star piece about the marvels of the book and reprinted it in my first book, A Gift of Meaning.\nI stumbled across that piece the other day and decided to get Huck Finn off the shelf again and give it another go to see how it would speak to me this time.\nOnly eight chapters into the 43 that make up the book, I was stopped by a theological trick Twain was playing. It had to do with prayer and its efficacy.\nHuck at this point in the story had just faked his own death and then run off to to hide on Jackson Island near his hometown of Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. Townspeople began a search for his body, using a strange system of loaves of bread and loud cannon shots across the river. Well, that didn't turn up Huck's body, but Huck, quite alive and hungry in the woods, got one of the loaves as it floated by.\n\"I got a good place amongst the leaves,\" he says, \"and set there on a log, munching the bread and watching the ferryboat, and very well satisfied. And then something struck me. I say, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing -- that is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work (except) for only just the right kind.\"\nWhat does Twain mean by putting the word \"work\" into Huck's mouth? He means that prayer is an extraordinarily utilitarian and literalistic task, designed to ring a bell to summon the cosmic bellboy, God, so God can fulfill whatever the person praying wants.\nIt is, of course, a narrow, distorted view of prayer, though buried within that view is a view of the manipulative nature of humanity. This kind of answers-on-demand prayer -- often called supplication -- ignores other types of and aspects of prayer: Centering, or contemplative, prayer, plus adoration, thanksgiving and confession, to say nothing of apophatic and cataphatic prayer, the former meaning to pray with your eyes closed and the latter to pray with your eyes open.\nSo rather than get into all that -- and more -- about prayer, Twain, whose religious views started near skepticism as a young man and grew darker and darker as he aged, chose the easy route of setting up a prayer straw man and setting him afire.\nOnce he puts all that into the mouth of the gullible, irascible, charming Huck Finn, it's easy for the reader to slide into and adopt Huck's one-dimensional critique of prayer.\nTwain, of course, knows what he's doing -- and does it well. Indeed, what he does exceptionally well over his writing life is to skewer religious hypocrisy. It was a public service performed well, especially with his famous war prayer. But readers would do well to take note of his theological trickery, just one of countless examples Twain offered readers over his astonishing career.\nA NEW STRATEGY FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND\nThe Church of England, battered by decades of declining membership, has decided to use social media to try to draw in younger members. Fine. But if I were in charge, the first thing I'd do is have the British government declare that there is no established religion in the U.K. As what I call a kept church, the ability to use a prophetic voice to denounce the government when it errs is severely compromised. Fix that, become independent and maybe more Brits would be interested.\nThinking about 50 years ago today: 9-21-18\nIn January 1955, I attended a party in Streator, Ill., to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my maternal grandparents, Gust and Amanda Helander. I was 10 years old and imagined my grandparents to be 125 or so.\nIn August 1987, I attended a party in my hometown of Woodstock, Ill., to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents, Bill and Bertha Tammeus. I was 42 then and knew my parents weren't 125, but considered them quite elderly, nonetheless.\nToday, 50 years to the day after I was married, I won't be attending a party to celebrate that event. Each of us survives, but our marriage ended after almost 27 years. And in a few months I will celebrate 22 years of marriage to the person who agreed to marry me anyway. (What a gift.)\n(The photo here today was taken at our 1996 wedding in the chapel of Second Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Holly Hutchens, an Episcopal priest, and the Rev. Ron Roberts, a Presbyterian pastor, officiated.)\nIt's odd and a little painful to think back 50 years, but it's also enormously gratifying that my first marriage produced two amazingly smart and beautiful daughters who, in turn, have amazingly smart and beautiful children. It's standard operating procedure for people to speak of their children and grandchildren that way, but these human beings simply take my breath away.\nWhat I didn't know about marriage and life and an already started full-time career in journalism in 1968 could fill the Library of Congress. But so, probably, could all I've learned since then.\nAt the time of my 1968 wedding, both of us were journalists employed in Rochester, N.Y., for the now-defunct afternoon Gannett newspaper, The Times-Union. We were married in her small hometown of Albion, N.Y., about 45 minutes west of Rochester, in her United Methodist Church. The pastor there joined with my now-former and now-late brother-in-law, then a Presbyterian pastor, do to the ceremony.\nIt was a warm day in Upstate New York and we were glad to start our life together in a one-bedroom apartment not far from the Eastman House (as in Eastman Kodak) in Rochester.\nThat Methodist Church in Albion still exists, though I just read online that its membership is down to about 45 and no doubt is one small-town measure of the decline of Mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. in the last 50 years.\nI've come to the conclusion that there's nothing magical or divine about 50 years of marriage to the same person. When it happens -- as it already has to one of my sisters and her husband and is scheduled to happen next year to another of my sisters and her husband -- it can be a great blessing.\nBut the point is not longevity. The point is faithfulness and love, values the world's great religions teach. Which is what my bride and I have now. And that, friends, is worth a party.\nTHE ANTI-SIKH VIOLENCE IN AMERICA\nViolence against some of the 500,000 Sikhs in the U.S. is on the rise, though the victim described in this Guardian piece doesn't blame President Trump. Whatever is stoking these crimes, however, is revealing a deep-seated bigotry that must be opposed.\nThe Trump-China connection to interfaith understanding: 9-20-18\nI like to think of my friendship with Markandey Katju as a good example of how to have an ongoing civil dialogue between a person of faith (me) and an atheist (him). (The photo here today shows us together in California a few years ago.)\nOur friendship goes back to the mid-1950s, when I spent two years of my boyhood in India because my father was part of a University of Illinois agriculture team there. We lived in Allahabad, and Markandey and I met there as 12-year-olds at Boys High School, which had been started years before by the Anglican Church.\nDespite occasional gaps in our connection, we have stayed in conversation until today as I went on to be a columnist for The Kansas City Star (and later other outlets) and Markandey became a judge on India's Supreme Court and later chairman of the Press Council of India. At the moment he's on an extended visit to see his daughter and her family in California.\nOur latest friendly banter has been over President Donald Trump, whom I regard as a moral disaster. Markandey, by contrast, believes that even though Trump has his faults, the fact that he is confronting China on trade and trying to point out and limit Chinese imperialism makes up for all his other faults:\n\"Yes, Trump deserved to be criticized for his negative points,\" Markandey tells me, \"but why did you Americans overlook the great thing he has done? In this respect he is like Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt taking on that tyrant Hitler.\"\nWhich I think is a way-over-the-top comparison.\n(By the way, as you may have heard, Trump announced $200 billion more in tariffs on Chinese goods this week and China retaliated.)\nMarkandey has made his views about all that known in this column, published recently online both in India and in a U.S. publication that caters to an audience from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. I encourage you to read it. I concede that Trump is taking essentially the right path on China, though I've told Markandey that I'm baffled about how he got this matter close to right when he's gotten almost everything else terribly wrong.\nAn old American saying suggests that even a blind squirrel finds an occasional acorn, and I consider Trump's China policy such an acorn.\nMarkandey, who jokingly calls me \"Reverend,\" just as I often address him with false honor as \"Your Grace,\" has been asking me to publicize his China views, including giving you blog readers a link to them. He even said that I can \"reproduce them with your own critical comments, for which, like Jesus Christ, I will forgive you.\" So I do that today.\nBut I do it not to convince you of his (or anyone's) views on Trump (though his words may sway you) but, rather, to suggest that it is quite possible for people with markedly different views about religion to be civil to one another and to respect each other.\nMarkandey urged me to do my duty like John the Baptist and spread the word about his views of Trump's China policy. I am doing that, but not without reminding Markandey that, in the end, it cost John the Baptist his head.\nCivil dialogue among and between people of different (and no) faith commitments can make the world a safer and better place. I'm delighted to have stayed friends with Markandey all these years, despite what I consider to be his misguided views on God and what he considers to be mine. Perhaps some day, somewhere, we'll have an eternity to discuss who was right. I'd enjoy that.\nCHRISTIAN ROCK: DEVILISH OR EVANGELICAL\nIf you are a Christian, what do you make, by now, of the staying power of the genre of music called Christian Rock? This New Yorker piece takes a look at its history and how it has managed to survive despite expressions of grave doubts about it. It's worth a read, if nothing else to learn about how Martin Luther King Jr. disparaged it so harshly.\nThe need for antiracist people of faith: 9-19-18\nAs many of us know -- and regret -- faith communities in America have sometimes been the promoters of racism, perhaps starting with their support of slavery and, later, their cooperation with Jim Crow laws and other methods of maintaining white power.\nAs many of us also know -- and cheer -- faith communities in America sometimes have been the promoters of civil rights and equal justice for all. The Civil Rights Movement, for instance, was led in many ways by such people of faith as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\nBut as Ibram X. Kendi notes in this piece in the current issue of The Atlantic, Americans are far from setting aside racism. In fact, he writes, we Americans remain a house divided on this issue and that cannot continue. One side or the other will prevail. He writes:\n\"One hundred sixty years after (Abraham) Lincoln warned of the dangers of disunion brought on by slavery, Americans must bear witness to racism\u2019s destructive power. This government cannot endure, permanently half racist and half antiracist. . .The threat racism poses to the contemporary United States is more insidious for being more diffuse and more veiled. But trace the issues rending American politics to their root, and more often than not you\u2019ll find soil poisoned by racism. None of these issues is likely to tear down the republic as slavery nearly did, but the danger is no less existential.\"\nAll of which means that it's time again for people of faith to take the lead as they did in the Civil Rights Movement.\nYou see some of that today, such as the two pastors who have been leading the renewed Poor People's Campaign. And certainly individual rabbis, priests, pastors, imams and others have been preaching the gospel of antiracism to their congregations.\nBut many Americans seem oblivious to the dangers that racism -- particularly white nationalism, whose proponents have been given new life by the Trump administration -- pose to the country.\nKendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, writes this: \"Today, only a renewed commitment to antiracist policies can save the endangered American project. The alternative is a governing system that becomes all racist and wholly illegitimate. The result may not be an 1860s-style civil war. But, if allowed to proceed far enough, racism will ultimately destroy the American idea. And it will lead to contentiousness and resentment and, yes, violence that will make today\u2019s polarization seem quaint by comparison.\n\"I believe, as Lincoln did, that we can repair our divided house. 'I do not expect the house to fall,' Lincoln said. 'But I do expect it will cease to be divided.' Even at the height of slavery\u2019s power, Lincoln believed that Americans could make the nation free. We can and must believe in our ability to make the nation antiracist despite the ascendancy of a racist president who pursues a racist agenda.\"\nSo the question is what is your congregation or denomination or faith tradition, if you have one, doing to be part of the necessary solutions here? If you don't know, find out. If the answer is nothing, change that.\nSTANDING WITH THE VICTIMS\nBeth Moore, a well-known white evangelical leader, is taking shots for being critical of sexual predators, including President Trump. And this Atlantic piece asks where it will all end. She's the kind of Christian public figure the rest of us need to support. May her tribe increase.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 39095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://biniblog.localbini.com/insider/heart-to-heart/2016/08/17/discover-catherine-agelastos-passion-for-wine-part-one/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HQ6TKKWWH3ACL7TRBS2XXMBPPCNFITEL", "length": 2788, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "biniblog.localbini.com", "title": "Discover Catherine Agelasto's Passion for Wine (Part One) - BiniBlog", "raw_content": "Discover Catherine Agelasto\u2019s Passion for Wine (Part One)\nFind out about my moving and inspiring encounter with the passionate Ma\u00eetre sommelier, Catherine Agelasto, who a few years ago made a life-changing career decision and has never looked back. Deciding to pursue her passion for wine, she has since flourished as an expert sommelier. She currently organises wine-tasting courses, private and corporate events, dinners, wine-tasting quizzes, sensory workshops and much more. During the interview, she shares her experiences, her personal development, and what drives her in life.\nI am passionate about wine. Wine for me is more than just a beverage. It is a sensory and gastronomic experience that arouses emotions. Truly good wine always makes you feel something; otherwise, it is not that good a wine. For centuries, drinking wine has been part of a social tradition, encompassing both culture and history, as well as a catalyst for bringing people together.\nYes, I have been fulfilling my passion for a living since 2002. I used to have a very comfortable job as a marketer for a real estate agency. But it turned out that my passion for wine was stronger than my desire for a very high quality of life, and so I gave up everything in pursuit of it. For me, changing my career path was more than a decision, it was a moment of revelation.\nLooking back at it now, I realise that I have always had a strong interest in wine. I used to enjoy having really good wine with my clients. I also participated in wine-tasting sessions at the vineyards in the region of \u201cBeaujolais\u201d in France where I used to live. I remember that I really liked the atmosphere and that it aroused my curiosity and made me want to know more about it. The next step was when I started to look at the different wine bottles in stores for hours on end. I didn\u2019t know much about wine at the time, so I bought books to learn more about it.\nAt this point, I was not really considering working in the wine industry. It was simply a hobby or an interest that I pursued until little by little, it became clear that it was more than just a hobby; it was my destiny. So, I decided to start taking classes at \u201cUnion des Oenologues de France\u201d and here I am.\nMy life-changing decision led me to both personal and professional success. Even if at the time it wasn\u2019t easy, it was definitely worth it. In fact, some of my friends tell me I\u2019ve never looked happier. I feel like I radiate happiness. Thanks to my new career path, I have come to meet some amazing people, including winemakers. It has helped me understand the nature and the intricacies of winemaking, and more importantly it has opened my eyes and mind to many unexplored doors and possibilities.\nTake a look at the second part of Catherine Agelasto\u2019s Interview.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://birkenheadcycles.co.uk/brands/genesis_bikes.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4AP3NSXQBK5NIEK6IAIQSEEO47TAF46Q", "length": 343, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "birkenheadcycles.co.uk", "title": "GENESIS BIKES ::", "raw_content": "A stand alone line-up of high performance road and mountain bikes with a distinctively British flavour.\nThere are currently no products from GENESIS BIKES in our site.\nUnfortunately we don't have details for the GENESIS BIKES website, but if you Contact Us here at the shop, we'll gladly give you details of any products you're trying to find.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://birthpsychology.com/person/christof-plothe", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:I52QB6BSW7ZMLNHJX3DGRIODTTYSOSPK", "length": 570, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "birthpsychology.com", "title": "Christof Plothe | Birth Psychology", "raw_content": "Christof Plothe\nChristof Plothe, D.O., BSc., OST, HONS, MRO, DPO, H, earned his DPO (Diploma of Pediatric Osteopathy) in 2005 and has maintained an osteopathic practice in Alzey Germany for 7 years. In 2010, he co-founded a clinic for environmental medicine in Brazil. He can be contacted at Bleichstrasse 21, 55232 Alzey, Germany, or via e-mail at plothe@yahoo.com. His website is www.osteopathische-medizin.net.\nD.O., BSc., OST, HONS, MRO, DPO, H\nThe Perinatal Application of Synthetic Oxytocin and its Possible Influence on the Human Psyche and the Etiology of Autism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bjj-world.com/balance-in-jiu-jitsu/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EQDOJX2ECIX6L25FU5MZZOAEUR3SPG34", "length": 7134, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "bjj-world.com", "title": "Balance In Jiu-Jitsu As The Ultimate Sweep Defense \u2013 BJJ World", "raw_content": "Home Articles Balance In Jiu-Jitsu As The Ultimate Sweep Defense\nBalance in Jiu-Jitsu is very often an underrated skill among grapplers. Poor balance in Jiu-Jitsu can be a deciding factor in the outcome of a match. In fact, it very often is one. All those close fought matches resolved by a single sweep we so often see are all down to balance. OR, more precisely, the lack of balance in Jiu-Jitsu terms. So, let\u2019s look at how balance affects BJJ along with some great ways to improve yours.\nWhat Is Balance For Jiu-Jitsu\nTraining Balance For Jiu-Jitsu\n#1. Step Ups\n#4. One Leg Jumps\n#5. Stability Ball Exercises\nBonus Hint\nBalance in Jiu-Jitsu is the ability to remain upright in the face of a force acting in an opposite direction. This ability to resist going down translates int next level sweep defense capabilities. Wherever you find yourself when on top, you\u2019ll need balance in order to stay there until you improve position, or finish. Very often, we take balance for granted. However, balance in Jiu-Jitsu needs to be a conscious ability. Instead, fo looking how to counter and defend sweeps, it\u2019s better if you learn to anticipate them. In that sense, recognizing when your balance is in danger is the first step to becoming more stable on your feet.\nPassing the guard is a skill that requires the most balance in Jiu-Jitsu. As such, Craig Jones is one who is really aware of the importance of balance. Use his DVD set \u201cHow To Pass Guards Quickly And Easily\u201d to improve both your balance and your passing skills.\nWe all know what happens when our bodies lose balance. We fall down. But how exactly does balance for Jiu-jitsu work, in the first place? Well, it all starts with our body\u2019s ability to coordinate. There are multiple systems in the human body that work together in order to maintain balance.\nTo begin with, the vestibule system is the one in charge of equilibrium. Simply put, this is all down to your inner ear and how good it is at recognizing changes in your surroundings. Following suit is the somatosensory system or the part of our nervous system tasked with figuring out how our body behaves in space. Finally, there\u2019s the visual system, i.e. the eyes. Now, when all three of this work together seamlessly, you most likely have good balance, to begin with.\nBalance for Jiu-Jitsu is where things get tricky. It\u2019s one thing to maintain balance on a daily basis. It another to maintain it on a boat that\u2019s violently rocking. And with Jiu-Jitsu, it is a completely different animal. You\u2019re trying to stay in balance in some of the most awkward positions a human body can be in. As if that wasn\u2019t enough, people are constantly trying to force you to topple over, using everything at their disposal to do so. This is where some specialized balance training can go a long way to making you notoriously difficult to sweep.\nSo, in order to sweep someone, you need to disrupt their balance first and foremost. This is done by extending someone beyond their center of gravity. Once we\u2019re outside of our base, going down is not very far away. You see, the further you are away from your center gravity, the easier it is to fall down. This is exactly what a knowledgeable partner is going to do when they attack your balance in Jiu-Jitsu.\nIn terms of preventing this, there are three bases to cover. First, you need to recognize your opponent\u2019s attempts to get you out of balance. Next you need to make sure you can keep your center of gravity. The main method for this is maintaining good posture. Furthermore, you can look to directly counteract gravity by becoming stronger in certain specific areas. The posture and specific strength are highly trainable qualities. Recognizing when your opponents are attacking your balance in Jiu-Jitsu is down to experience and understanding of the game,\nThis one is fairly easy. Use a box, stairs, or even an unstable surface for this exercise. Bosu balls or stability balls are the props of choice for unstable step ups. The idea is to step one leg on the elevated surface and use it to go all the way up. When you have full extensions, go down the same way. Now repeat on the other side. 10 reps per leg are the sweet spot.\nLunges are one of those exercises that are good for multiple different athletic qualities. Balance happens to be one of them. No matter which direction you\u2019redoing them in, lunges are a great way to help you stay on your feet. Once again, you can use an unstable surface with the leg you\u2019re working. It\u2019s the same as step ups, only on a flat surface instead of an elevated one.\nStay off the unstable surfaces for this one. As easy as they might look, you\u2019re in for a surprise once you freest trey them. Start with the very basics and use progressions in order to achieve full pistol squats. They\u2019re a magnificent tool for balance in Jiu-Jitsu and every grappler should be able to perform them, For the pistol squat, you start standing. Raise one of your legs straight in front of you, as close to hip level as possible. now go down all the way with your other leg, keeping the leg straight. three sets of ten are going to make you unsweepable.\nThis is where things get a bit more dynamic. Simple jumps are a great way to test your balance. Now, try doing them with one leg only and you\u2019re really going to have to focus. As with pistol squats, unstable surfaces are not a great idea here, unless you\u2019re really comfortable with jumping on the floor. Even then, make sure you\u2019re careful and do not force things.\nThe stability ball is a favorite of many grapplers around the world. It is a frat tool to use for balance in Jiu-Jitsu, but remember to stay careful. Go slow and use common sense with this one.\nFirst, go for learning how to balance on the ball. Start slow, with one leg on it at the beginning. Slowly progress to keeping both your knees and ultimately your arms on them all. When you can hold this position comfortable for a minute, you can think about moving to more difficult things. The next step is getting your torso upright and your hands on your hips or wide by your side. You can even play around with getting one leg on the foot.\nFinally, the goal is to be able to stand on the ball without any assistance. Once that is easy for you, add in a squat. Once you have this mastered, your balance in Jiu-Jitsu si going to be second to none.\nFitness Ball Balance\nPosted by BJJ World on Sunday, April 1, 2018\nFinally here\u2019s a very BJJ specific hint. Whenever you\u2019re looking to improve your body\u2019s coordination a good idea is to roll with your eyes closed. That the body needs input from at least two of the three systems that help control balance. When you block one (the eyes) it sharpens your awareness of the remaining two. Remember to be careful when doing this and only do it with experienced partners. Rolling wight your eyes closed against the academy\u2019s spaz is never a good idea.\nDo You Have The Best BJJ Style For Your Body Type?\nHow To Advance In BJJ With Flow Rolling\nBalance In Jiu-Jitsu\nSsweep\nPrevious articleHigh Percentage BJJ Takedowns \u2013 The Russian Tie System\nNext articleDid You Lose at Jiu-Jitsu Tournament? No Big Deal!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 12602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bladeempire.etypegoogle9.com/news/dean%E2%80%99s-job-inspect-bridges-cloud-county", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4B7ETZ2UY2SFMSUPK2JATZ4XV7HPSISZ", "length": 2407, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bladeempire.etypegoogle9.com", "title": "Dean\u2019s job is to inspect the bridges of Cloud County | Concordia Blade Empire", "raw_content": "Did you know that there are 265 bridges in Cloud County? Some of them are over 100 years old.\nIt's Don Dean's job to inspect all of the bridges owned by Cloud County at least every two years. If a bridge is showing its age or has excessive wear and tear, then it must be inspected more often.\nAn engineer for Campbell & Johnson, Dean has been a certified bridge inspector for 20 years. Campbell & Johnson have been the official bridge inspectors for all the bridges owned by Cloud County since the 1960's. They also currently have the contract to inspect 300 bridges in Jewell County and 260 bridges in Republic County.\nInteresting fact: in order for a structure to be considered a bridge it must be over 20 feet long. If it's exactly 20 feet long, or less, its not a bridge. If it's 20 feet and one-quarter inch long, or longer, it's a bridge.\nWhen Dean inspects a bridge he examines the overall condition of the structure, and then checks for cracks on the deck, in the steel support beams and the concrete pillars. He also closely examines the ground for soil erosion around the anchor pylons.\n\"I take photographs of everything,\" Dean said. \"That way we can document the progression of any problems as the years go by.\"\nIf Dean finds something like a small crack on the deck, he'll take a photo of it and measure the size of the crack. If the crack grows larger it must be repaired. If a structural problem develops that could become a threat to the stability of the bridge, the bridge would be closed until the problem is fixed.\nDean files an official inspection report of each bridge, along with photographs and charts and measurements, with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). The state reviews each report and then sends it to various federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Similar records are compiled from all the states in the U.S., and it gives the federal government an overall view of the condition of America's bridges. This information can then in turn determine how much federal aid will be allocated to each state for bridge repair.\nDean must re-certify as a bridge inspector every five years, and participate in seminars and online courses throughout those years.\nThe overall condition of the bridges in Cloud County?\n\"We're in good shape,\" Dean said. \"But we always have to check, just to be sure.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 193.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blairmacg.livejournal.com/132397.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:A7WUQHNMKSOE5BYN2KRK4DMX53FYR756", "length": 3493, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "blairmacg.livejournal.com", "title": "My Words Are Small - These Certain Musings", "raw_content": "My Words Are Small\nI just found out the father of one of my students was killed Saturday. His truck stalled on railroad tracks. He got his son out, but didn't get himself out of the way in time. The train hit his truck, and the truck hit him. His son had only minor injuries.\nThat son--he's my student--is the oldest of three kids. My secretary and I were talking about the family this evening, wondering why the boy wasn't in class tonight. The family has had a rough time of it in the last six months, but things were finally smoothing out. I still remember the man's kindness and optimism as he waved and said goodnight last Friday. He was so proud his son had just been promoted to his next belt. He was happy, smiling for his children and his wife. He was only 32.\nThe viewing is Thursday. I'm trying to figure out something we can do with the dojo to be of service.\nI just... I just can't hardly think.\nWhat a truly horrible thing to happen. I'm so, so sorry.\nI'm just *shocked.* I can't imagine what his wife and kids are going through. I mean, when I lost Ron, we knew it was coming. But to lose a man so young, so unexpectedly... Yes, I can say that must be so much worse to face.\nFor it to be such a totally unexpected event has to make it even worse.\nOh, how awful; I'm so very sorry to hear.\nI'm passing the word around dojo folks this morning. The number of offers to help the family is heartening.\nDon't hesitate to ask if there's a rotation for making soup/hotdish/etc. for the family. With young kids in the mix, that poor woman is going to be so overwhelmed, and the immediate aftermath is going to go away faster than she expects. That would be of service for sure. Even those of the dojo people who don't cook could bring over a rotisserie chicken (or takeout stir-fry if the family is vegetarian) if they were willing to take a turn.\nAlternately, with fall coming on, if they live in a house instead of a condo or apartment, there could be a dojo fall yard cleanup day for that family, where everybody pitches in to get the leaves and things taken care of, if no one else is doing that. If it's a small yard and a large dojo group, this could easily segue into a quiet word in the widow's ear--\"anything need doing inside? vacuuming, cleaning the tub?\"--and letting her say what's piled up at that point.\nThose are both wonderful and helpful suggestions. Thank you.\nI've a message out to a community person who seems to be the one coordinating things for the family, so we'll see where we can fit in.\nOh, that is so horrible. I am so very sorry for that family, and all who knew the man.\nHe was such a gentle man with his kids, and so quick to smile for everyone.\nThat's awful, I'm so sorry for everyone.\nmrissa's suggestions sound like good ones. I was going to suggest something similar in lines of food, since grieving families tend to get a lot of food all at once and then everyone forgets about it except them. Also, things like if someone wants to go around once a week or every other week to help with things like laundry or vacuuming that might get put to the wayside, or even helping with carpools if other people have kids going to the same school/daycare/other location.\nAfter talking with some folks at the dojo, I think what we'll be doing is setting up a sort of monthly pitch-in group with a coordinator to see what different things the widow might need. We'll start off with a six-month commitment and see how things are going for the family in the spring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 469, "original_length": 8693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blairmacg.livejournal.com/146598.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YYTOFN34D3AD4B6OKLIVAYVC57PTS5PD", "length": 8055, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "blairmacg.livejournal.com", "title": "The Military Fantasy Thing (and a little general update) - These Certain Musings", "raw_content": "The Military Fantasy Thing (and a little general update)\nOriginally posted March 10, 2015 at Blair MacGregor Books.\nSomewhere along the way, I ended up writing military fantasy.\nI didn\u2019t intend to, really. Maybe way back, when I was first putting stories together, I had a notion. But really, I can\u2019t recall ever thinking to call them \u201cmilitary fantasy.\u201d But once others applied that label, and when I read their reviews and impressions\u2026 Let\u2019s just say I\u2019d forgive you for not believing me, because of course it\u2019s military fantasy.\nSo here\u2019s how the truth tapped me on the shoulder:\nWhen M.C.A. Hogarth asked the question in her review of Sand of Bone, \u201cCan I call this one \u2018military fantasy\u2019?\u201d I thought to myself, \u201cYeah, maybe, I guess so.\u201d After all, a few months ago, Marissa Lingen mentioned the novel included training sequences and questions of loyalty, and those things are common in military fantasy. And I do agree with Myke Cole\u2019s essay on the diversity of military portrayals outside the expected ranks and rules.\nThen Maggie was kind enough to interview me about Sand of Bone, and our first exchange was about what military influences impacted my writing. I hadn\u2019t thought about it all that much before. And then, other reviewers and readers began discussing it as a military novel/plot/setting. And just to mess with myself, I went back to a couple reviews for Sword and Chant.* A reviewer said reading the novel was like, \u201creading something written by veteran returned from one of our desert wars.\u201d\nI was at once extremely gratified and flattered by my work being called military fantasy. Yet it also made me completely uncomfortable.\nY\u2019see, I have never served in the military.\nI grew up in a family that respected military service. My father served in the Navy, and was in the Naval Reserves most of my life. As I told Maggie in the interview, I grew up watching historical films and documentaries, reading military fiction and non-fiction, and debating the ethics making war and peace. We visited historic battlefields, military museums, and war memorials. From Arlington Cemetery to Pearl Harbor, my dad walked my sister and I through the stories of what ordinary people did, feared, and dreamed in uniform.\nWe didn\u2019t get the sugar-coated, clean-cut, it\u2019s-all-honorable version, either. My dad\u2019s interest and awe of the military came from his uncle who\u2019d served in the Black Watch during World War I. When Uncle William talked of the experience\u2014and that was rare\u2014he did not tell pretty and inspirational stories. No one in his stories survived because of grit and good will. Dad made sure we knew it.\nThese days, I spend much time with folks who have served or are serving, and families of the currently deployed. I hang out with friends at the American Legion. One of my current students was once a drill sergeant, another few are children of National Guard personnel currently deployed. My sister\u2019s partner is retired Air Force. My late husband served in the Army years past, and the flag that draped his coffin sits in a case in our living room.** Currently, my son and I are the only members of the immediate family not living on a military base.\nSo when folks say I write military fantasy, I tense up a little. To me\u2014a person who has never served, who has never seen combat, but is as well aware as an outsider can be of what such service means\u2014it feels presumptuous to stake a claim in that territory.\nBut I can\u2019t deny it\u2019s what I\u2019m striving to write, and striving to write well. Military fantasy is, after all, one of the genres I love to read. Elizabeth Moon\u2019s Paksenarrion, Mary Gentle\u2019s History of Ash, Glen Cook\u2019s The Black Company\u2014these are a few of my favorite things! So while I sit here feeling awkward with the \u201cmilitary fantasy\u201d label, I am also thrilled with it.\nOn the other hand, there will be folks who point to my choices of characterization and culture, and say I obviously don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. After all, my men and women train and work together without sexism because\u2026 well, because men and women happen to coexist in the same world. And relationships aren\u2019t forbidden for fear they\u2019ll cause conflicts and jealousies; instead, the relationships are expected, and it\u2019s the conflicts and jealousies that are addressed head-on. And there are no weird conversations about the \u201cfairness\u201d of a stronger soldier carrying more than a weaker soldier. Instead, the goal is to be \u201ceffective.\u201d\nBut in the end, is Sand of Bone really \u201cmilitary fantasy\u201d? It is about people who want to elicit change, and those people happen to be (mostly) trained soldiers. They choose between self-preservation and self-sacrifice. They struggle with their own sense of honor and purpose\u2014some deciding if taking up an ethical cause is worth the risk of betrayal and defeat. They don\u2019t want to lose their friends. They don\u2019t want to be left behind. They determine how much abstract ideals are worth in terms of spilled blood.\nSo, yes. It is military fantasy.\nWhich brings us back to my awkward feelings. Really, it boils down to a hope I\u2019m depicting my fighting folks well and believably, in a way those who have served will find satisfying and real. The truth of life-threatening encounters, the aftermath of pain and death and fear, the entwining of love and hate and trust and anger\u2026 these experiences deserve depth and detail, and the people who endure them deserve honest portrayals.\nAnd since that\u2019s what I\u2019ve chosen to write, I hope to do well by the military fantasy designation.\n*Sword and Chant is a very different kind of book. Half of readers love it. The other half tends to give up on it. I\u2019m actually okay with that.\n**Just to avoid later assumptions: my husband did not die in combat, nor while actively serving.\n(Speaking of Sand of Bone, the sequel is well underway. If you\u2019d like to know when it\u2019s released, sign up for my newsletter.)\nAs for the general update... This week has been consumed by unexpected things, expected things taking far more time than they ought, and general time potholes that keep throwing off my internal alignment. And if I see one more smarmy, \"If you have time to do X, then you must have time to do Y,\" comment somewhere, I'm a-gonna consider exploding.\nVery much so! Fiction writing is sometimes like an ongoing argument I have with myself--figuring out where I personally draw lines within the foggy gray, then trying to find them again when the fog insists on moving.\nI had the same feeling while writing Spots. It is rough to get past it.\nAh, I can totally see that!\nAnd I know I'm so lucky to have had some folks willing to discuss their combat experience with me--not only the fighting, but the aftermath, the new-to-them mixed-gender groupings, and the stress that built when all seemed quiet.\nBut I'll never know, really deep down, if what I feel empathetically and what I relate in the story, comes close. And that does bother me sometimes.\nThat's a really interesting view. I hadn't considered it because there were other aspects of the story that actually called out to me. So, it adds even more depth to see how other readers interpret the story and also what you've brought to it with your background.\nI hope the rest of the week is kinder to you.\nOkay, so it wasn't just me who didn't see it right away. :)\nAnd goodness, I hope the rest of the week is kinder, too! But I always feel the loss when a weekend is given over to karate tournaments. By the middle of the following week, my introverted self blows everything up into bigger deals than they are. It motivated me to make a snap decision last night to close the dojo for half of spring break. (\"It's that, or I run away,\" I half-jokingly told my secretary.)\nYeah, I was considerably surprised to see my Inda books listed as military fantasy.\nHey, they calls it as they sees it!\nYou know... I can totally see Inda being pegged as military fantasy, especially after I've had conversations with some vets about how their military experience did, for awhile, act as the family structure they had lacked growing up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 475, "original_length": 13114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.getedfunding.com/tips-for-working-successfully-with-a-grant-writer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:I7X5VPUDFHFHLJHFKQH3RTB33H7O2CW2", "length": 2362, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.getedfunding.com", "title": "Tips for Working Successfully with a Grant Writer \u2013 Discover GetEdFunding", "raw_content": "So you\u2019ve gone through the process of hiring a grant writer for your organization. Your next challenge is to find ways to make the most of your grant writers time and experience, while not burning a hole in your budget. Here are a few tips for making the most of your grant writer\u2019s time and talents:\nHave Information At Your Finger Tips\nOne thing that can slow down the grant writing process is gathering all of the necessary background information and documents. Compiling important documents and information into one folder or filing system makes it easy to quickly provide them to your grant writer. It is a waste of a grant writer\u2019s time and your money to wait for necessary files or to contact multiple individuals to determine where to find the needed information.\nGrant writers will need a lot of input from your staff and stakeholders. You can\u2019t just hand off the planning and writing of the entire proposal to the writer. Staff and stakeholders can provide valuable input and their ideas will make up the heart of the proposal. The more open communication there is between your organization and the grant writer, the more likely it is that you\u2019ll come away with a winning proposal that reflects your organization\u2019s values and mission.\nGo Close to Home\nOne way to make it easier for a grant writer to be in open communication with your organization and get a better feel for it\u2019s mission and vision is for the writer to visit your building. This is obviously much more cost effective and feasible if the grant writer is based nearby. Take this into consideration when you\u2019re making your final hiring decisions.\nArchive Your Success\nConsider creating an archive of all successfully funded proposals from which grant writers can pull data. Looking back on your successes may also give you a sense of where you\u2019re organization\u2019s strengths lie.\nGo In For the Long Haul\nIf you find a good grant writer, don\u2019t let them go. The longer a writer works with your organization, the better and faster they will become at writing proposals. This will save your organization time and money down the road.\nIf you put in the time and effort, a grant writer can become a valuable, cost effective resource for your organization. If you\u2019re still in the stages of looking for a grant writer, check out What to Look for in Grant Writer.\nTags: Data, Grant Writer, Preparation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.showaround.com/tag/top-blogs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:56Z", "digest": "sha1:LRG5HFO3ACQJXJZ4AN234XROUQKNJ4C2", "length": 195, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.showaround.com", "title": "Top Blogs - Blog | Showaround", "raw_content": "There are tons of travel blogs on the wide web, but how do you find the ones that can actually help you plan the next trip? We\u2019ve done the Internet searching part for you by rounding up a list...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.waypostmarketing.com/web-design-usability-over-trends", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LPURB4AJC3V5PJ4VQHUF7UFFFB366QD6", "length": 2229, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.waypostmarketing.com", "title": "Web Design: Usability over Trends", "raw_content": "We, web marketers and designers, start with the understanding that websites are only as effective as the people behind them, and the first step to any new campaign is one of mutual discovery. We want to know exactly what you do, how you do it, and who your customers are. We want to be just as excited about your business as you are. And on the other side of the same coin, we want our clients to be excited about what we do for them.\nAt the end of the day, we aren\u2019t just building a website, we are building a brand. The design process is a deliberate and purposeful exercise in storytelling, and your customers will reward you for a story well told.\nA campaign like that should be based on effective, data-driven execution with the emphasis on conversion and profitability. We largely ignore trends until they are proven effective over time. As a result, our clients enjoy increased conversion rates from durable, scalable, and abiding web solutions.\nOur process doesn\u2019t end when your website goes online. Our continued commitment to excellence means we will do everything possible to ensure success. Through analytics reporting, we can keep a watchful eye over your performance over time and address concerns before they become problems.\nWhat is a durable, scalable, and abiding web solution?\nPredicting the future of the web is impossible, but we, together with dozens of ambitious digital marketers out there, do everything in our power to ensure that every web solution we launch is built to last.\nMobile is here to stay, and we see responsive design as the best answer for the future of mobile development.\nWe all aim for growth, and we build your website to grow along with you. All of our web solutions incorporate an open-source CMS for optimal scalability. For instance, we prefer Joomla and Wordpress.\nDesign emphasis should be placed on user experience and usability over trendiness. Sadly, this is a major differentiator in our industry today.\nOur team has a lot to say about web design & development. For further reading about the topic, we recommend the following articles:\nAnd if you\u2019re ready for something bigger and better, get our free e-book on the 25 Website Must-Haves for driving traffic, leads and sales.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.cisco.com/partner/helping-the-law-capture-every-call", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ABY276SITNRATTH5LFJ2VUM3PUOYHC6L", "length": 1692, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blogs.cisco.com", "title": "Helping the Law Capture Every Call", "raw_content": "Helping the Law Capture Every Call\nAdmit it. Sometimes you let your calls go to voicemail. It\u2019s not a crime to keep that pollster waiting or call that relative back later with a proper defense as to why no thank-you note.\nOn the other hand, if you work in law enforcement, or are an elected official \u2013 or both, as was the case with a recent district attorney\u2019s office we worked with \u2013 calls that come in can\u2019t be missed. The call could be routine, congratulatory, or someone asking for or offering help. Or, the caller could be filing a complaint, confessing something, or making a threat. These aren\u2019t your relatives (hopefully); you\u2019ve got to keep track.\nImagicle says\u2026\nIT managers at a district attorney\u2019s office asked us for a reliable call recording solution that would record, track, categorize and archive every incoming and outgoing call. They needed something cost-effective, user-friendly, and that would work not only in their jurisdiction, but also in their offices all across the state.\nTheir existing infrastructure, built around the Cisco BE 7000 product line, was a good fit for Imagicle\u2019s latest centralized Call Recording product. We installed Call Recording with a reliable HA (High Availability) active-active cluster, which comes with two recording options: Always On and on-Demand.\nBy opting-in to record every call, district attorney\u2019s office is now able to better manage complaints, track offensive or threatening language, and provide evidence of how it handles cases. And for further security, only authorized users are able to access the system for audit trails. If Call Recording would be a good fit for you, call us. We promise to pick up.\nCisco Partner Ecosystem", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 5435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.egu.eu/network/water-underground/category/research/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LZN34LJEW5IFNJD62DYSMRRAZWJRBG4F", "length": 4639, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blogs.egu.eu", "title": "Water Underground | Research", "raw_content": "Water Underground | Research\nEGU Blogs \u00bb Network \u00bb Water Underground \u00bb Research\nFrom groundwater flow to groundwater glow: why does groundwater fluoresce in ultraviolet light?\nAndy Baker 19th February 2018\nWe often come across items that glow after being exposed to ultraviolet light. Fluorescent stickers can be bought for the ceilings of bedrooms; fluorescent hands on analogue clocks and watches; fluorescent markings on a car dashboard.\nIn all these examples, there are organic molecules that absorb energy in the form of ultra-violet light and can then re-emit that energy, in this case as visible light. We are talking fluorescence. Or when the emission of light is delayed, phosphorescence. It requires loosely-held electrons to be present in a molecule. The energy provided by ultraviolet light can excite these electrons to a higher energy level, and when the electrons return to a lower energy level, light is emitted. This emitted light has to be at a longer wavelength than the excitation energy, and if it occurs at wavelengths our eyes can detect, then we can see it. Hence the blue-green colours of watch hands and plastic ceiling stars.\nWhat about groundwater? It\u2019s the same process: if we shine ultraviolet light at groundwater samples, then they fluoresce due to the presence of organic molecules that are often present. Unfortunately, we can\u2019t see any of this fluorescence with our eyes, as it is emitted in the middle- and long-range ultraviolet, so we must use detectors that can \u2018see\u2019 at these wavelengths. But that is relatively easy \u2013 charge coupled devices (CCDs), the same as you would find in a digital camera, detect in the ultraviolet. And we can add in improved light emitting diode (LED) technology, which can now produce higher-energy, shorter-wavelength ultraviolet light to excite fluorescent molecules. It\u2019s the same technological improvement that means that you can now buy blue LEDs to decorate your house \u2013 have you noticed how they have become increasingly available \u2013 and potentially keeps you awake at night.\nWhy does groundwater glow in ultraviolet light? Firstly, it could be from natural organic matter. Organic matter is transported by rivers, which may be recharged to groundwater where rivers are \u2018losing\u2019. Or it might be leached from the overlying soil during rainfall recharge of groundwater. Or it might be desorbed from sedimentary material in the aquifer. Natural organic matter fluorescence tends to occur at longer ultraviolet wavelengths (360-400 nm) and provides a convenient way of detecting dissolved organic matter.\nSecondly, groundwater samples might fluoresce due to the presence of microbial matter. In rivers and wastewater systems, the amount of fluorescence at shorter ultraviolet wavelengths (300-350 nm) has been observed to correlate with the amount of oxygen being consumed (the biochemical oxygen demand, or BOD). It is not possible to distinguish between individual or groups of microbial species, and researchers are still investigating exactly what is fluorescing. However, recent research has shown that there is significant potential in using hand-held fluorescent probes to determine microbial water quality in groundwater. Where there might be faecal contamination of groundwater used for drinking water supply, there is great advantage to this method as an immediate reading is possible in comparison with other methods which typically take 18-30 hours.\nThirdly, groundwater which is contaminated by organic matter may be detected if enough of the contaminant is fluorescent. For example, fluorescent whitening agents, also known as optical brighteners, may be added to detergents, shampoo and paper products to make items appear whiter. The molecules are designed to emit light at the blue-violet end of the visible light spectrum, and it counters any yellowing of aging fabric, paper or hair. Hence your clothes appear whiter, your hair blonder. Fluorescent whitening agents are removed during wastewater treatment and degrade in sunlight. But in the case of unlined landfill sites, fluorescent whitening agents can persist in contaminant plumes in the groundwater, making them a useful tracer.\nSo why does groundwater glow in ultraviolet light? It is all to do with any fluorescent organic matter that might be present in groundwater. And thanks to improvements in technology, we can now make measurements of this fluorescence using portable and handheld probes, in-situ, and rapidly. Increasingly adopted by surface water quality researchers and water engineers, is it time for the groundwater community to move on from groundwater flow to groundwater glow?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 75264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/rxbeattie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HWS4PCUKO7ZKEEBAXQ47OVDPP5ZNNONA", "length": 20494, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "blogs.glowscotland.org.uk", "title": "Rowan Beattie's ePortfolio", "raw_content": "Rowan Beattie's ePortfolio\nStandard for Provisional Registration\nonline maths assessment\nOnline Language Assessment\nPersonal audit & transferable skills\nPlacement Goals\nMA1 Placement\nGrade Scores & Progression\nWhat Makes a Good Science Lesson?\nWhen I was younger we never had any science lessons at Primary School. It wasn\u2019t until I went to High School that I was introduced to Science and I really enjoyed it. I\u2019m excited that we, as teachers, can give children a chance to embrace their curiosity through Science. It is a vital, very relevant subject that is important for pupils to be involved in.\nA good Science lesson should definitely be interactive. Teaching the children a theory is important too but it should never be just talking at them. Allowing the children to actually see the theory in practice will intrigue them. Interactive lessons always make the children more interested and therefore they actually learn more. Even if there is not a good access to Science resources, it could be simple Science lessons with simple \u2018equipment\u2019. Furthermore allowing the children to interact with each other is important too because they will learn from one another and develop their communication, team working and/or leadership skills. The children will have different ideas about the experiments which they can share with each other and allow an alternative way to think about things.\nThe children should be developing new and relevant skills every time they do a Science lesson which prepares them for the real world as science is a big part of life and work now and even more in the future. Being able to question and make sense of things are two of the key skills that they can gain from Science lessons which they can hold onto for life. As well as this, discussing the variety of potential jobs that will be available to the children and the different people who fill these roles (eliminating stereotypes), this is important because the children can see that Science isn\u2019t just a man in a white lab coat and will hopefully inspire them, making a job within STEM subjects a reality for them.\nWithin a good Science lesson looking at news stories relating to science is a great idea as this will prompt discussions with the children and potentially make links with external issues. This again allows them to ask \u2018why\u2019 and think about the different effects that all of this new science will have on the world. It opens their eyes to how much all these different aspects of Science impact our society and creates a reality for them to be able to make a difference through Science.\nOverall, I would say that a good Science lesson should be interactive, teaching pupils how to apply the knowledge they have gained and giving them skills for life and work. Furthermore children should be inspired to look into Science much more often too.\nThis entry was posted in 2 Prof. Knowledge & Understanding on February 2, 2019 by Rowan Beattie.\nMathematics (1) Reflection\nI have been worried about teaching maths. This is because I have never liked maths, therefore I felt as though I would not be good at teaching it. The reason I don\u2019t feel passionately about it is because I remember maths as sitting quietly, doing ten questions then for the teacher to mark them and discover I\u2019d got most of them wrong anyway. However, this session with Tara gave me an insight into how interesting maths can be.\nTalking to the children about their maths was an idea I found quite surprising as I mostly always experienced maths as a subject where I would work quietly. Asking children to discuss and justify their answers not only allows the teacher to understand what is going on in their mind but also demonstrates to the other children alternative ways to work out a sum or a problem. This may help other children if they feel stuck or just give them alternative, easier ways to find a solution. This also develops communication skills and their confidence as they try to explain their thinking.\nReferring to maths as a language made me realise the importance of it. It is a universal language, everyone uses numbers and therefore can be used as a means of communication. Furthermore we discussed the myths of maths that have arisen over decades. This made me feel responsible for getting rid of them. Just because I have \u2018maths phobia\u2019 does not mean that I should pass it on to the children that I teach. I would love to show the children that I am passionate about maths (even if I\u2019m not) to motivate them to try their best and ensure that they enjoy the subject.\nMaths can be taught through other curricular areas such as PE, science or even art. This is a great way to teach maths because even the children who dislike maths will still enjoy the lesson. It may allow them to discard the mindset of \u2018I cant do this\u2019, meaning they will allow themselves to do their best and won\u2019t be stopped by this mental block. The interactive learning, such as doing games in PE, means that children of all levels can interact with each other.\nEven though maths was not my favourite subject at school, I look forward to teaching it through talking, doing and seeing. I can use the knowledge I have gained to show children that maths is an intriguing and fun subject.\nThis entry was posted in 2 Prof. Knowledge & Understanding, Uncategorized, UoDEdushare on January 23, 2019 by Rowan Beattie.\nHealth and Wellbeing 2 (TDT)\nDuring this session we discussed what health is and how to help the children to understand what health is and how to keep themselves healthy. I have planned some lessons relating to what we learned and discussed, particularly focusing on food health.\nOn the tables in the classroom, lay out a variety of food in bowls as well as a bowl full of sugar cubes. The children will be split into teams and then in each team should take turns guessing how many sugar cubes they think are in each food product by placing a number of sugar cubes next to each bowl. Once every team has guessed, the teacher will put the correct amount of sugar cubes next to each food which will surprise the children as it will probably not be what they expect. This is an interactive lesson which means that the children will feel more interested in what we are learning about. It also involves problem solving and team work. The competitiveness amongst the teams will motivate the children further. This is a fun way to educate them on how sugary some of our food products are. Being able to see all of the sugar cubes may have more of an impact on the children as well because they have a visual of the sheer volume of sugar. The teacher can then discuss with the children how these foods contribute to a healthy diet.\nAt each table, lay out packaging from a variety of healthy and unhealthy foods. Ask the children to work together, looking closely at the sugars on the food packaging putting them into piles of healthy and unhealthy foods. The teacher can then discuss with the children the impact that healthy and unhealthy foods can have on them.\nUsing the knowledge gained from the previous lessons, the children can design and create their own food diaries. They can customise/decorate their diaries to make them personal which will motivate them to actually use them. For 1 week, each time they eat a meal they can write down what they ate. This will allow them to reflect on their own diets and because they are paying close attention to what they\u2019re eating this may encourage them to make healthier choices.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2019 by Rowan Beattie.\nReflecting on Dance Workshop 1\nThis lesson pushed me out of my comfort zone as I was interacting with people whom I hadn\u2019t before. For some children this may also be the case but I can see that it would build their confidence as throughout the lesson everyone became more comfortable with one another. I was put in the pupils\u2019 shoes which allowed me to be on the receiving end of the teaching of dance and see how much impact it can have on the child. I discovered that dance builds motivation, confidence and relationships amongst the children. I have gained valuable experience for teaching on my placement and beyond.\nWe discussed that dance can be used to teach other subjects such as numeracy, literacy and sciences. These could potentially be quite \u2018boring\u2019 subjects but dance makes them fun and the children are more likely to take in the information because their concentration levels are higher than they would be if they were bored. Giving the children specific dance moves for phrases, grammar/punctuation or sums may enable them to remember helpful information. Even in the classroom, if the dance move if memorable enough then they will remember the sum to do or the punctuation to use.\nAnother good concept that I think I will take forward as a teacher is the idea of getting the children to find different ways to move around the hall. It allows children to build their team working skills whilst they are brainstorming to think of crazy ways to move around. The children will also become more confident as they share their ideas with others. This allows the quieter children the courage to share their ideas with the class which, in turn, builds their confidence in their own ideas and their work during other subjects.\nWhen the groups came together and had to choose their favourite move to show the class, I could see how this could be challenging for children as most children would want to use their own move. They would have to debate who\u2019s move to use and overcome the problem. Problem solving is a valuable skill that can be used by the children in many aspects. This gives the children a chance to embrace other people\u2019s ideas.\nI have learned that dance isn\u2019t just for the children\u2019s fitness but can be used as a way for them to learn and/or express themselves. I look forward to using these ideas and concepts during my teaching.\nThis entry was posted in 2 Prof. Knowledge & Understanding, UoDEdushare on January 17, 2019 by Rowan Beattie.\nRacism and Patriarchy\nThe lecture on Tuesday opened my eyes to the horrific treatment that human beings received if they weren\u2019t white men. Although we are now in modern times there is still disadvantages that exist between different races and different sexes in many aspects.\nWe were told the story of young Emmett Till\u2019s death. He was brutally beaten and murdered by two white men. His mother made sure Emmett had an open casket so that people could see what these men had done to him and over 1000 people came to see his casket. However, there was no justice as these murderers stood in front of an all white, male jury who, after just 67 minutes, decided that they would be allowed to walk free. It astounded me that the colour of Emmett\u2019s skin determined whether these monsters were classed as murders or not. This horrific event was one that triggered the movement for equality amongst races.\nThe Jim Crow laws are another shocking part of our history. These were signs that would specify \u2018white only\u2019 or \u2018black only\u2019 in shops, restaurants, cinemas and more. One sign that really caught my eye was a sign that read \u201cno dogs, Negros or Mexicans\u201d, this compared anyone who wasn\u2019t white to the same level in society as a dog. This should never have been acceptable to treat other human beings this way, but unfortunately for many centuries this was seen as \u2018normal\u2019. This extent of inequality amongst races was fought against by activists such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and many other brave people who took steps towards equality. It showed me how one small act of bravery can contribute majorly towards a movement that you believe in and it can inspire others to do so too.\nAlthough the amount of equality between the races has decreased significantly, white people are still somewhat privileged in society. There is a lot of racial abuse and discrimination which exists today. It can be seen occurring during many sports and even during politics, a lot of these people (especially sports professionals) can be seen as role models for many people which sets a horrible example and may encourage their fans to use racist comments.\nA story which shows that white people continue to be the privileged race is one of a woman who was caught drink driving. After she was caught she told the police that she was a \u201cclean, white girl\u201d which she thought may get her out of being charged. This woman should never have assumed that she could break the law and put other people in danger just because she is white. It is incidents such as this which remind me that the inequality still exists even after all the injustice that people have received.\nAnother inequality that has effected our society is the one that has existed between the sexes. For many centuries, throughout every country in the world women have always been though of as less than men. But why? There have always been stereotypes that women are weak and fragile and men must be strong and insensitive. This inequality is introduced in very early years for every child and can affect their motivation, self esteem and create barriers for women especially throughout their careers and their life. These gender specific behaviours are shown to us through books, movies and TV shows. This is how children pick up on these behaviours, they are told that if they act any way other than what they are shown then they aren\u2019t feminine or masculine enough for society.\nWe were shown adverts from the 20th century which advertise women as being \u201cservants\u201d to men and portray woman as being unintelligent. Demonstrating how a the \u201cideal\u201d women should act or look. As well as this, there were photos of women have their bathing suits measured to see if they were the appropriate length. This seems completely mad to me, however this inequality still exists now. In 2016, a women was asked by police to remove her birkini on a beach in France. The fact that women are still being told what they can and cannot wear portrays a sense of men still being dominating.\nThe fear of not being what society expects becomes in-bedded in people. Doing something \u201clike a girl\u201d has always been something that people take offence to. It enhances the idea that girls are less than boys. When we were shown the Always advert we seen older boys and girls doing things \u201clike a girl\u201d such as running, throwing or fighting, all of which they performed in a pathetic and weak way. However when they asked young girls to perform the same actions \u201clike a girl\u201d they ran fast, threw strong and fought hard. This showed us that it is through childhood that children absorb these views and thoughts that boys and girls are so different. We have the power to change this.\nThis entry was posted in 1.1 Social Justice, UoDEdushare on September 26, 2018 by Rowan Beattie.\nReflection of structural inequalities\nAt the workshop we were split into four groups and given an envelope of full of resources. We were then asked work together in our teams to create something that would help new students. Within the envelope were a number of resources such as paperclips, coloured paper, pens and pencils. My group had a good variety and amount of resources. When we presented them we could see that Brenda was quite unimpressed by what groups 4 and 5 had created however she gave the other groups lots of praise. Although what we were unaware of was that groups 4 and 5 had far less resources than us. This obviously meant that they could not complete any work to the same standard as ours, nonetheless Brenda did not take this into account. We never realised that other people had less than us because we were too focused on our own task.\nThis taught us that as teachers it is important to recognise that children have different backgrounds and therefore some may have limited resources which will effect their work. For example some children may not have access to the internet therefore will struggle with homework that is assigned to them. It is important to treat children equally no matter what, whether it is in or out of the classroom. This means that the children will feel important and cared for by the teacher which, in turn, will motivate them.\nFavouritism in the classroom towards certain children and their work can create many problems. It can have an impact on pupils confidence in themselves and in their work which means they may not feel encouraged to work to their full potential. As well as this it may have an effect on the relationships within the classroom, making some students feel isolated. Treating children equally allows for a good working environment to be created for the pupils.\nFurthermore as a teacher it is crucial to have integrity. For the children a teacher with integrity would act as an excellent role model, allowing them o have someone whom they can look up to. Mutual respect between teacher and pupil creates a positive atmosphere in the classroom as well as inspiring respect amongst the pupils themselves creating more positive relationships. Another vital aspect within a classroom should be trust. Trust between the teacher and pupil means that the pupil will feel confident to discuss anything with their teacher, whether it be problems within the class or at home. This means appropriate actions can be taken to ensure the child receives help with whatever it may be.\nThere are many experiences I\u2019ve had that have inspired me to be a teacher. I knew that I loved teaching after doing my work experience as I got to see the children develop new skills, build their confidence and learn new things \u2013 I found it very rewarding. I was able to observe teaching strategies and having the chance to teach the pupils myself which allowed me to build relationships with the pupils. I have also assisted at an Art and Design club in my high school as well as assisting at a Tae Kwon Do club. These both gave me tasters of what the teaching profession would be like and proved to be enjoyable experiences as well as allowing me to gain relevant knowledge and skills.\nI have had many role model teachers throughout my school years who have inspired me to become a teacher as I would like to have a positive impact on children\u2019s learning the way they had on mine. However, I have also had many teachers who have had a negative impact on my learning which impacted both my relationship with the teacher and the subject we were learning about. This highlighted the importance of the teacher building relationships and creating a positive atmosphere in the classroom. This made me even more motivated to become a great teacher.\nI feel that I have lots of passion and enthusiasm for teaching, giving the pupils an exciting learning experience which would encourage them to work to the very best of their abilities. Being a teacher means that I am able to be involved in shaping the pupils to become exceptional individuals, which is very important for life and work. Teaching would allow me to guide children to do the best they can in all aspects of life giving every pupil an equal chance to do what they want to do. I am excited to learn more about education so I can become the best teacher I can be.\nThis entry was posted in 1 Prof. Values & Personal Commitment, UoDEdushare on September 12, 2018 by Rowan Beattie.\nWelcome to blogs.glowscotland.org.uk \u2013 Glow Blogs. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2018 by Rowan Beattie.\nWelcome to your WordPress eportfolio\nWelcome to your ePortfolio. This is where you will document and share your professional thoughts and experiences over the course of your study at the University of Dundee and beyond that when you begin teaching. You have the control over what you want to make public and what you would rather keep on a password protected page.\nThe ePortfolio in the form of this WordPress blog allows you to pull in material from other digital sources:\nYou can pull in a YouTube video:\nYou can pull in a Soundcloud audio track:\nYou can upload an image or pull one in from Flickr or any other image sharing site.\nYou can just about pull in anything that you think will add substance and depth to your writing.\nThis entry was posted in 1 Prof. Values & Personal Commitment, 1.1 Social Justice, Uncategorized on February 19, 2015 by Rowan Beattie.\n1 Prof. Values & Personal Commitment\n1.1 Social Justice\n2 Prof. Knowledge & Understanding\nUoDEdushare\nShannon Crawford's ePortfolio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 21615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/01/the-presidential-seal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:22Z", "digest": "sha1:CLXPDRYKJUTRLQOQK34GHQHVB5FEXQXC", "length": 7703, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blogs.loc.gov", "title": "The Presidential Seal | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress", "raw_content": "The Library of Congress > Blogs > Law Library > The Presidential Seal\nThe Presidential Seal\nJanuary 27, 2017 by Margaret Wood\nWhite House interiors. President\u2019s seal / Theodor Horydczak,ca. 1920-ca. 1950. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/thc.5a50860\nA little more than a year ago, I wrote about our national bird, the eagle. The eagle appears on the United States Great Seal and the post briefly discussed the design process for that seal under the Continental Congress. The process spanned over 6 years, involved three separate, specially appointed congressional committees, and an almost bewildering number of proposed designs. On June 20, 1782 the Congress of the Confederation adopted the report of the committee and a cast of the seal was made between June and September 1782. The seal was used by the Congress of the Confederation. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution the new Congress adopted the seal for their use as well.\nThe first Congress passed a law for \u201cthe safe-keeping of Acts, Records and Seal\u201d of the United States (ch. XIV, 1 Stat. 68) in September 1789. This law gave the Department of State the responsibility for publishing, distributing and authenticating copies of each law passed by Congress. The law went to designate the 1782 seal as the Seal of the United States and to charge the Secretary of State with the responsibility for keeping the seal. This law further directed that the seal was to be affixed\nto all civil commissions, to officers of the United States, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone. Provided, That said seal shall not be affixed to any commission before the same shall have been signed by the President of the United States, nor to any other instrument or act, without the special warrant of the President, therefor.\nTo this day, the Great Seal of the United States is used on a variety of documents which have been signed by the president and countersigned by the Secretary of State. According to the U.S. State Department these documents include treaty ratification and proclamation documents; appointments of cabinet officers and ambassadors; commissions for consular officers; and communications with foreign heads of state.\nThe 1789 law also allowed the president to use the Great Seal of the United States for official business, but the question often arises about the origins of the separate presidential seal. There is evidence to indicate the president of the Continental Congress may have had and used an official seal for correspondence with the Congress between 1783 to 1789 (see The Eagle and the Shield, p. 562-566). This seal was based on the design for the great seal and consisted of 13 stars for the colonies surrounded by clouds with the motto \u201cE Pluribus Unum\u201d above it. However, there is no firm evidence of this seal being passed on for use to the newly formed government. The Eagle and Shield (pp.409-417) also discusses the \u201cDorsett Seal,\u201d an incised metal die which was brought to the attention of the Department of State in 1894 by a young man named Palemon Howard Dorsett. Dorsett said the die had been passed down in his family and was said to have come from a nephew of George Washington. Regardless, no document has been found with the impression from this seal on it and its possible use and provenance remain a mystery.\nNot until 1850 is there evidence of a design for a presidential seal. In that year, President Fillmore created a design for a seal and sent it to a seal engraver in Maryland, Edward Stabler. However, this information did not come to light until 1885 when a newspaper article in The Daily Graphic published a piece, \u201cThe President\u2019s Seals \u2013 Past and Present.\u201d According to the article, various seals had been used on the envelopes for correspondence which the president sent to Congress. Unfortunately no impressions of these seals were found since Congress apparently discarded the envelopes. Likewise, the presidency was almost 90 years old before evidence of a presidential coat of arms surfaces. The first instance was in 1877 when President Hayes issued dinner invitations bearing a presidential coat of arms. This coat of arms was influenced by the Great Seal but with significant differences including the eagle in the design turning his head to the left and not the right. There is also evidence of a presidential seal from this time which included the eagle and the legend \u201cThe Seal of the President of the United States.\u201d\nIn 1916 President Wilson oversaw changes to the design of the presidential flag. The revised design which included a spread eagle was based on the presidential seal. The presidential seal continued to feature the eagle with its head turned to the left and a scroll in its beak with \u201cE Pluribus Unum\u201d while the entire device is surrounded by the legend \u201cThe Seal of the President of the United States.\u201d This seal and the revised flag and coat of arms were used by the succeeding presidents until 1945.\nIn the spring of 1945, President Roosevelt raised some questions with regard to the presidential flag which only had four stars on it as opposed to the flags of various five star admirals and generals. This query led to a series of recommendations which were passed to President Truman who subsequently issued an executive order revising both the presidential flag and seal. One of the points that was raised in the review of the flag and seal was the curiosity of the eagle in the seal having his head turned to the left. According to a October 1945 White House press release, heraldic custom dictated that the eagle on a coat of arms should always turn to face its own right side. The final design, as agreed upon by the Truman White House, for the presidential coat of arms, seal and flag can be found in Executive Order 9646:\nSHIELD: Paleways of thirteen pieces argent and gules, a chief azure; upon the breast of an American eagle displayed holding in his dexter talon an olive branch and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows all proper, and in his beak a white scroll inscribed \u201cE PLURIBUS UNUM\u201d sable.\nCREST: Behind and above the eagle a radiating glory or, on which appears an arc of thirteen cloud puffs proper, and a constellation of thirteen mullets argent.\nThe whole surrounded by white stars arranged in the form of an annulet with one point of each star outward on the imaginary radiating center lines, the number of stars conforming to the number of stars in the union of the Flag of the United States as established by the act of Congress approved April 4, 1818, 3 Stat. 415.\nThe Seal of the President of the United States shall consist of the Coat of Arms encircled by the words \u201cSeal of the President of the United States.\u201d\nPresident Eisenhower subsequently issued two executive orders (Executive Orders 10823 and 10860) which revised the presidential coat of arms, seal and flag. These orders added stars for Alaska and Hawaii to the coat of arms, seal and flag but otherwise did not make any changes to the design of these insignia. Presidents Nixon and Ford issued executive orders which limited the use of the presidential and vice-presidential seals and coats of arms while Congress has passed laws penalizing the inappropriate use of the presidential and congressional seals (18 U.S.C. 713). Today, images of the presidential seal appear on White House stationary and invitations while the presidential coat of arms can be seen on Christmas cards, White House china, and various White House furnishings. However, the official seal, impressed in wax, is still used exclusively for correspondence submitted to Congress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 12705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 169.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.mtgjudge.cn/ftw/2018/08/31/tales-from-the-con-gen-con-2018-tournament-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:NJVPTIBIUMJSFKCNLCG7TJE25ZKA2KGS", "length": 14524, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "blogs.mtgjudge.cn", "title": "Tales from the Con (Gen Con 2018 Tournament Report) - Judging For the WinJudging For the Win", "raw_content": "\u2190 M19 New Set Digest\nConvoke, Delve, and Improvise Returning Mechanics Review \u2192\nFor those of you who aren\u2019t from the midwestern United States, Gen Con is a gaming convention that takes place every year in Indianapolis. Cosplayers, gamers, and geeks of all types come from all over the world for \u201cthe best four days in gaming.\u201d Gen Con has special significance for Magic players because it\u2019s where Magic first debuted. This year\u2019s con was especially significant because it marked the 25th anniversary of that event.\nGen Con is one of my favorite Magic events to judge every year because it\u2019s just so different from an ordinary Large Scale Event experience. The convention atmosphere changes the character of the event in many ways, some subtle, others obvious. This tournament report explores some of those differences and how judges at a convention atmosphere can change their approach to meet those special challenges.\nLike me, fellow judge and JudgingFtW reader Zbexx is used to saving the world. See more of her cosplays by searching @Zbexx on social media or click the image to see her Facebook page.\nAt an ordinary Large Scale Event, such as a GP or SCG Open, everyone who came is there to play Magic. At a convention, that\u2019s not the case. Most of the people at Gen Con weren\u2019t Magic players; in fact, over 4000 people visited the Learn to Play booth over the course of the weekend. All these people were interacting with Magic for the first time or close to it. The large number of new players gives conventions like this a character unlike anything you\u2019ll experience at a GP or SCG open, but it brings with it special challenges that you should adjust your approach for.\nLess experienced players mean less familiarity with standard Magic and tournament procedures. Expect more judge calls about basic stuff and give a more detailed explanation than you normally would when launching an event. It\u2019s not advisable to assume that players will know, for example, that limited events have a 40 card minimum deck size; what results slips are for; or how zone drafting works.\nCustomer service focus: Fair enforcement of Magic rules and policy and making sure players are having fun are the pillars of the job of judging. At an ordinary LSE, these goals are on roughly equal footing, with a bias towards keeping things fair at the main event and a bias towards keeping things fun at the side events. In a convention environment, with no high-stakes main event to accommodate and even the spiky players looking primarily for a good time, the focus judges have when interacting with players has to shift accordingly.\nFirst impressions count: At an ordinary Magic tournament, you\u2019re dealing with mostly established players. At the very least, everyone in the main event at a GP is enfranchised enough to spend $100 for the experience of playing Magic for a weekend. In contrast, when you\u2019re dealing with an audience of people who play only occasionally, don\u2019t own their own decks, or even haven\u2019t heard of Magic before today, it\u2019s important to make sure their experience with the game is a good one. It could make the difference between the player eventually reaching enfranchised status or leaving the game, never to return.\nExpect the unexpected: Because convention-style events like these are comparatively rare, it\u2019s likely that even the most experienced staff only work about one per year. With so many players, judges, and even stage staff working through situations that are new to them, there are bound to be some issues that you\u2019ve never seen before come up.\nFor this event, I was an ODE lead. That means my team was responsible for:\nLaunching on demand events\nMaximizing the amount of Magic that could fit into the designated on demand area\nIn addition, as the team lead, I was responsible for morale, the breaks schedule, and coordinating with scheduled sides and registration to make ODE\u2019s run smoothly.\nGiven that this was Magic\u2019s 25th birthday, of course there was a cake. WotC had arranged for a multi-tier cake to be brought in and distributed to players in a special ceremony. While waiting for their event to launch, two brothers, approximately in the 8-12 age range, heard from some of the other players that there was a birthday cake and asked me if they had missed it. The birthday cake cutting ceremony had been about half an hour before that, and the cake was long gone. Telling them that didn\u2019t mesh well with the awesome convention experience I wanted these players to have, though. There were also several boxes of cupcakes that we were distributing to players in \u201cbirthday qualifier\u201d events. I got a box from the judge lounge and gave them each a cupcake, then kept the rest of the box behind a table at the front stage to give to anyone else who was caught in the same predicament.\nLesson learned: Customer service is all about understanding what the customers want and finding a way to give it to them. Sometimes what they want isn\u2019t related to playing Magic.\nGen Con always has an enormous number of Magic players. The hype surrounding the 25th anniversary celebrations drew even more. In fact, on Saturday evening, the tournament organizers announced that we had surpassed any previous Gen Con, and we still had the rest of Saturday and Sunday to go! Unfortunately, we had a limited amount of space to put all these players. In fact, the number of tables we had for ODE\u2019s was surprisingly small, accounting for less than 150 seats total. In practice, the number of players we accommodated was typically less than this due to 8 player events not using all 8 seats during the semifinals and finals. Another thing that limited our space was that scheduled side events were seeing record attendance. Their space was similarly limited, but with the added pressure of needing to seat all the players who had already signed up. Because it\u2019s easier to tell someone they can\u2019t play before they pay for a spot in an event than after, scheduled sides has priority over ODE\u2019s when it comes to the space we had, which meant that they occasionally needed to use tables originally allocated to ODE\u2019s for their events.\nThis all factored into the problem that we did not have enough space for everyone to play ODE\u2019s. Several times throughout the con, we had to stop accepting registrations for on demands, often for hours at a time. Of course, one responsibility I had as an on demand lead was to minimize this time. This required keeping a close eye on how many open tables we had access to and communicating this information to the registration leads so they knew how many more players they could take.\nThe first technique we used to do this was increasing throughput by moving the finals matches. The ODE area was divided into tables that had eight seats, enough for one draft or two commander pods. Because the drafts were single elimination, players who lost in the first and second rounds no longer needed space, but their event was still taking up the full eight seats. In order to be more efficient, we reserved the entire first row of ODE tables for people to play finals matches in (actually we had reserved it to play specialized events such as learn to play\u2019s and one round constructed events). By asking players to move the finals of their events to this area, we used that space more effectively and freed up the eight seats allocated to their event an entire round earlier.\nAt certain points in the day, we were given permission to use tables adjacent to the ODE area, as they were not going to be used at that time by the exhibitors who had bought them. This obviously aligned very well with our goal of having the most number of people possible able to play Magic, but it brought challenges of its own. First, these tables weren\u2019t registered in our reporting software, making the events there a bit harder to keep track of. We managed by putting in a dummy area in the software and communicating to the ODE judges a standardized coding system for how events at those tables would be entered in.\nThe bigger problem was that the tables weren\u2019t always adjacent to our area. In fact, in one case, the tables were clear on the other side of the convention room. Because it was a busy time, we had to use them, but it was logistically challenging to have events so far away from our home base. We addressed this by having one of the floor judges permanently stationed at the far tables for floor coverage and results reporting. To launch an event there, a judge would lead the players across the hall and pass them off to the judge stationed at the far tables. A Facebook chat between that judge and the ODE leads was used to keep track of how many players and open tables there were. It wasn\u2019t ideal, but we made it work, and it worked very well.\nIn the old days, keeping track of the on demand events space and reporting results were done manually and necessitated lots of table space, organization, and attention from one person throughout the event. These days, we have software that pretty much takes care of all of that for us. Kefka was written for judges by judges and does a wonderful job of handling those tasks. Unfortunately, during one of our busy times, something went wrong and five people who registered for one event were showing up in a different event. Kefka has a lot of capability to fix problems, but this was one that had to be fixed from the scorekeepers\u2019 terminal rather than the judges\u2019. Because it was a busy time, everyone involved was stressed and wanted the problem resolved quickly.\nThe floor judges who were handling the affected events both independently reported this issue to the scorekeepers\u2019 stage. After I learned what had happened, I reported the issue also. It took quite some time to resolve, which was compounded by the fact that all three of us were at the scorekeeper\u2019s area throughout the time it was being fixed. A better thing for me to do would have been to send the two floor judges back to their events and call them back only when their information was needed. Having everyone there caused a \u201ctoo many cooks in the kitchen\u201d situation and put undue stress on the scorekeeper tasked with getting everything straightened out.\nSaturday is easily the busiest day of Gen Con, as you could probably expect. Sunday has far fewer people, which had some practical consequences for the organizers. For example, the prize wall was extremely busy at the end of the day Saturday as people clamored to exchange their prize tix before they headed out. Although the prize wall was scheduled to close at 11PM, as they had on all the other days, the line stretched far back with no end in sight. Coincidentally, 11PM was also a pretty non-busy time for ODE\u2019s, but the fact that earlier in the day was the time with the highest traffic meant I had a team full of judges. I sent one of them to the prize wall and had the judge working that area train him. That way the prize wall could be open an hour later for all the players and the judge scheduled to work this area could leave at the time he was actually supposed to.\nRemember Why You\u2019re Here\nThe real reason I came to Gen Con: campaigning for the unban of Deathrite Shaman. Search for more of TarmoKat\u2019s awesome cosplays by searching for her social media or clicking on the image to see her Facebook page.\nThe shifts at Gen Con were 12 hours principally composed of standing and walking on a concrete floor. It took a toll, especially given that there was great temptation to spend breaks enjoying the con, which would entail yet more standing and walking. We were advised by the organizers to consider refraining from such activity in order to actually relax during our breaks. In this case, I will break with conventional wisdom. Cons are only fun when you can participate in them! It\u2019s true that 12 hours of standing is hard, but do you know what else is hard? Spending 11 hours standing and one hour wishing you weren\u2019t missing out. It\u2019s very easy to underestimate how much fatigue affects your performance on the floor, but it\u2019s even easier to underestimate how much of an effect your morale can have too. You have to be able to make a call which of these moves your needle more.\nAs a team lead, you\u2019re trying to get the best performance out of your team as you can. Of course, encouraging the team to work hard is part of that, but keeping their spirits up is another part of the equation. It can be appealing to encourage behavior like sitting in a quiet spot during breaks that ostensibly helps our teammates\u2019 performance while potentially hurting morale. And it\u2019s easy to get judges to do things like that because we love being seen as hard working and are used to self-sacrifice. If we want judges to be excited about the convention, though, I think it\u2019s extremely important that they are actually able to enjoy it as participants too. To that end, I made sure judges on my team could do that and led by example by doing the same thing myself. I asked judges for break preferences and offered to work around events they wanted to see. I talked about interesting things I did during my breaks and encouraged teammates to check out booths I thought they would like. I had a great time at the con while also working hard, and gave them that opportunity too.\nLesson learned: Remember why you\u2019re there. I\u2019m about as straitlaced and down to business as they come. Although I live only 2 hours away, I\u2019ve never gone to Gen Con as a guest, and not a lot of the things going on there are things I would normally be interested in. If even someone like me can have fun, so can you!\nGen Con is a truly remarkable event, and convention events are great fun to judge. Even if you\u2019re not sure a certain convention is for you, I encourage everyone to try it out. While there\u2019s a lot of fun to be had, there are a lot of unique challenges to face, too (which is actually part of the fun). I hope this report gives you a framework to meet those challenges if you\u2019re on staff at a convention event in the future! Expect the unexpected, and when the unexpected comes up, here\u2019s one last piece of advice:\nLesson learned: Remember the goal you\u2019re trying to achieve, then think about what you can do or change in your process to best meet that goal. This is a common thread throughout this article, and it applies to every one of the situations I discussed. How well or poorly I handled any of those situations can largely be judged by how closely I followed this rule. If you aren\u2019t sure what the goal is, consult your team lead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 16817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.nasa.gov/bolden/2015/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:TCOIP4UNTMJNJPFPZGZAZ2XL5XDHCSEU", "length": 2887, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blogs.nasa.gov", "title": "January 2015 \u2013 Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden", "raw_content": "Success in Commercial Space Continues\nOn Saturday, we kicked off the New Year in a spectacular way. SpaceX launched its latest cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the first American commercial flight to the ISS in 2015. This morning, the Dragon capsule arrived at the orbiting laboratory with more than two tons of supplies and science investigations for the crew in orbit. Our investment in commercial space is bringing tangible benefits to the American people and enables NASA to focus on future missions to deep space \u2013 to asteroids and Mars.\nThe Dragon capsule from the fifth SpaceX commercial resupply mission flies in space. Credit: NASA/Kennedy Space Center\nThanks to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences \u2013 our two commercial cargo partners \u2013 we\u2019ve returned Space Station resupply launches to U.S. soil. We\u2019re now poised to do the same with the transport of our astronauts to the space station by SpaceX and The Boeing Company in the coming years \u2013 targeting 2017 as the inaugural year for commercial crew missions.\nToday\u2019s arrival of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft not only resupplies the Station, but also delivers important science experiments and increases the Station\u2019s unique capabilities as a platform for Earth science with the delivery of the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS, instrument.\nThis launch also illustrates how SpaceX recognizes that technology drives exploration. The company has made great strides in returning first stage elements to a barge positioned down range. Being able to return a launch vehicle in a controlled manner back to Earth right now is another example of how technology can inform launch capabilities.\nOn Saturday, SpaceX succeeded in returning the Falcon 9\u2019s first stage to an ocean platform, even though some systems didn\u2019t work. As the company\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted Saturday morning, \u201cClose, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho [sic].\u201d\nNASA\u2019s use of commercial companies to send and retrieve our cargo from space, to manage the payloads on the space station and to eventually transport our astronauts has fueled jobs and entire industries. As President Obama has said, \u201cFor pennies on the dollar, the space program has improved our lives, advanced our society, strengthened our economy, and inspired generations of Americans.\u201d\nAs we set our sights on 2017, we\u2019re looking forward to working with Boeing and SpaceX on the renewed capability to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, ending our nation\u2019s sole reliance on Russia for such transportation.\nI congratulate the SpaceX and NASA teams who made Saturday\u2019s success possible. We look forward to extending our efforts in commercial space to include commercial crew transport to the Space Station by 2017 and to more significant milestones this year on our journey to Mars.\nAuthor Administrator Charles BoldenPosted on January 12, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2016/03/11/plutos-snakeskin-terrain-cradle-of-the-solar-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PRMSSG4EWNCFD6Q45BASYVCN5L4KZ5JE", "length": 4962, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blogs.nasa.gov", "title": "Pluto\u2019s \u2018Snakeskin\u2019 Terrain: Cradle of the Solar System? \u2013 Pluto New Horizons", "raw_content": "Pluto\u2019s \u2018Snakeskin\u2019 Terrain: Cradle of the Solar System?\nToday\u2019s blog post is from Orkan Umurhan, a mathematical physicist currently working as a senior post-doc at NASA Ames Research Center. He has been on the New Horizons Science Team for over two years. He specializes in astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, and now works on a variety of geophysical problems, including landform evolution modeling as applied to the icy bodies of the solar system. He is a co-author of a graduate-level textbook on fluid dynamics coming out late this spring.\nGreetings and salutations. In this week\u2019s New Horizons blog entry, I want to share with you the exciting possibility that some of Pluto\u2019s surface features may record conditions from the protosolar nebula from which the solar system formed.\nA case in point is the image below. It\u2019s what geologists call \u2018bladed\u2019 terrain in a region known as Tartarus Dorsa, located in the rough highlands on the eastern side of Tombaugh Regio. (Note that all names used here are informal.) A moment\u2019s study reveals surface features that appear to be texturally \u2018snakeskin\u2019-like, owing to their north-south oriented scaly raised relief. A digital elevation model created by the New Horizons\u2019 geology shows that these bladed structures have typical relief of about 550 yards (500 meters). Their relative spacing of about 3-5 kilometers makes them some of the steepest features seen on Pluto.\nThe Bladed Terrain of Tartarus Dorsa. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI\nNow, here comes the puzzle. Spectroscopic measurements of this region made by New Horizons\u2019 Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument show that this region of Pluto\u2019s surface has a predominance of methane (CH4)\u2014with a smattering of water as well. Naturally, one then would ask, \u201cCan pure methane ice support such steep structures under Pluto\u2019s gravity and surface temperature conditions over geologic time?\u201d\nThe answer is a meek \u201cmaybe.\u201d To date, there are only two known published studies examining the rheological properties (i.e., how much a material deforms when stresses are applied to it) of methane ice in the extreme temperature range of Pluto\u2014a bitterly cold -300 to -400 degrees Fahrenheit. According to one study, the answer is a definite \u2018no,\u2019 because methane ice of those dimensions would flatten out in a matter of decades. Yet in another study, methane ice may maintain such a steepened structure if the individual CH4 ice grains constituting the collective ice are large enough. Which study is right? Or is there a way to reconcile them? This is something we simply do not know at the moment.\nSo before we try to explain how the bladed shapes came to be, we have to make sure we have developed a detailed and controlled laboratory understanding of the behavior of both pure methane ice and methane-hydrate ice. If there were ever an example of why we need further laboratory work, this is it!\nBut what if it turns out that pure methane ice is always too \u2018mushy\u2019 to support such observed structures? Because water is also observed in this region, perhaps the material making up the bladed terrain is a methane clathrate. A clathrate is a structure in which a primary molecular species (say water, or H2O) forms a crystalline \u2018cage\u2019 to contain a guest molecule (methane or CH4, for example.). Methane clathrates exist on the Earth, namely at the bottoms of the deep oceans where it is sufficiently cold to maintain clathrate ice. Under those terrestrial conditions, however, methane clathrates are relatively unstable to increases in temperature, causing their cages to open and release their guest methane molecules. This poses a real problem for terrestrial climate stability, since methane is a potent greenhouse gas.\nHowever, under the cold conditions typical of the surface of Pluto, methane clathrates are very stable and extremely strong, so they might easily mechanically support the observed bladed structures. While there is no direct and unambiguous evidence of methane clathrates on the surface of Pluto, it\u2019s certainly a plausible candidate, and we are actively considering that possibility too.\nIf the Tartarus Dorsa bladed region is comprised of methane clathrates, then the next question would be, \u201chow were the clathrates placed there and where did they come from?\u201d Recent detailed studies (see Mousis et al., 2015) strongly suggest that methane clathrates in the icy moons of the outer solar system and also in the Kuiper Belt were formed way back before the solar system formed \u2013 i.e., within the protosolar nebula \u2013 potentially making them probably some of the oldest materials in our solar system.\nMight the material comprising the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa be a record of a time before the solar system ever was? That would be something!\nOrkan Umurhan\nCredits: NASA/ARC/Carrie Chavez\nAuthor ptalbertPosted on March 11, 2016 March 11, 2016\nPrevious Previous post: The Polygons of Pluto\nNext Next post: Mapping Pluto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/08/24/u-s-open-what-to-watch-on-day-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:21Z", "digest": "sha1:D4FRR755S7WPUN7ZSUQNWQYHJ2ORLI6P", "length": 781, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blogs.wsj.com", "title": "U.S. Open: What to Watch on Day 1 - The Daily Fix - WSJ", "raw_content": "U.S. Open: What to Watch on Day 1\nBiographyTom Perrotta\nNick Kyrgios plays in the opening match on Court 17 on Monday.\nIf your objective is to watch the best tennis possible on the first day of the U.S. Open: go to Court 17. The opening match at 11 a.m. ET features Nick Kyrgios, the 19-year-old who beat Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, against two-time U.S. Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny.\nAfter that, check out what should be an old-timers match between 34-year-old Venus Williams and 43-year-old Kimiko Data-Krumm inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, or watch Andy Murray, the 2012 champion, start his tournament inside Louis Armstrong Stadium against Robin Haase.\nPrevious The Mo'ne Davis Craze Is Over...For Now Next The U.S. Open Men's Winner Could Be Anyone--Assuming He's Not American", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 564, "original_length": 10237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blurtonline.com/tag/films/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:T6M5OZPQQRLAPRDDIMHYDIPEQQPO4Z4S", "length": 5469, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blurtonline.com", "title": "films Archives - Blurt Magazine", "raw_content": "Reviews of Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri (by Martin McDonagh), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (by Yorgos Lanthimos), and Creep 2 (by Mark Duplass and friends).\n(Go HERE to view the Blurt Movie Thoughts master page, which has links to all previous installments.)\nWith a movie title like that, you figured it would be a movie that would be hard to remember but after leaving the film, Three Billboards will be stuck in your head for a while. From the hilariously dark mind of Martin McDonagh (In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths) comes his newest film, and he doesn\u2019t stray away from his normal style of filmmaking\u2014movies that are filled with vivid characters who come to the screen to do damage in numbers. Here, the cast includes Francis McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage.\nMildred Hayes (McDormand) who is a recently-divorced, still-grieving mother over the death of her daughter who was raped then brutally murdered, rents out three billboards seven months after the murder, all located within a few feet of her house and on a road not many travel down. The billboard read, in order, \u201cRaped while dying\u201d\u2014\u201cAnd still no arrests\u201d\u2014\u201cHow come, Chief Willoughby?\u201d\nChief Willoughby (Harrelson) and racist officer Jason Dixon (Rockwell) are notified about the billboards, which brings on a series of events to try to figure out who killed Mildred\u2019s daughter.\nWith a topic such a rape and murder you would think that you would not be ready for a movie filled with belly laughs, but here, it is quite the opposite. Martin McDonagh movies have characters who are as evil and conniving as they are laughable (either at or along with).\nThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was initially out in select cities, but distribution was subsequently expanded and it is currently in most markets.\nFrom the warped mind of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) comes his latest, amazing, but yet hard to stomach movie. Now, when I say hard to stomach you can take that in two ways. As in, this movie is shit, or this movie has a couple scenes that will make you cringe in your chair. This movie will definitely make you cringe in your chair.\nStarring in the film is Colin Farrell as Steven Murphy, a cardiothoracic surgeon who befriends Martin (Barry Keoghan), a grieving young teenage boy whose father was lost on the operating table years ago when Steven performed surgery on him. Martin comes over for dinner and befriends the rest of the family, which includes Nicole Kidman as Steven\u2019s wife, Anna, along with their children Bob and Kim (played by Sunny Suljic and Raffey Cassidy).\nMartin tries to repay the favor by asking Steven over to his house for dinner. He obliges, but then later, Martin\u2019s mother makes sexual advances towards him, making him uncomfortable and eager to leave. Martin then tracks down Steven at the hospital where he works to let him know that he has placed a curse on Steven and that he must choose one of the members of his own family. As the curse moves forwards\u2014including paralyzing Bob and Kim along with making them not eat\u2014tension is built through the movie via a free-jazz style soundtrack that puts a cold sweat on the back of the viewer\u2019s neck, leaving you anxious to have some resolution in the near future.\nWith dizzying camerawork and a stunning acting from the whole crew, this is one that will go on to make it into this year\u2019s top 10 movies.\nFound footage horror movies are something that filmmakers either hate deeply or love immensely. From The Blair Witch Project to V/H/S to Paranormal Activity, there have been some that rule the genre as well as those you can instantly forget came out.\nFrom Mark Duplass (The League, Creep, and a lot of other amazing projects), Patrick Brice (Creep, The Overnight), and Jason Blum (CEO of Blumhouse Productions) comes the sequel to 2014\u2019s Creep, a movie that you might have watched on Netflix in the wee hours of the night as you searched for something unique to watch. If you haven\u2019t yet, make sure to go watch Creep now before you read anymore. It\u2019s definitely worth watching.\nHere, Sara is a videographer/blogger who has a YouTube series titled \u201cEncounters\u201d where she meets eccentric characters, ranging from people who like to cuddle to some who just want them to be in a hot tub with. From her not knowing what to do next and thinking of ending her series, Sara finds an ad where somebody has offered to $1,000 to film them for an entire day. Who that person is, Sara will then go on to figure out that is none other than, Aaron (Duplass), aka \u201cPeach Fuzz.\u201d\nIf you remember the first Creep then you might have had the same horrible dream of the character \u201cPeach Fuzz\u201d and how Mark Duplass can play a delightful, but yet sinister and terrifying murderer.\nAaron reveals to her that he is a depressed killer who feels like he is losing his momentum and passion, then invites Sara along for the ride that she definitely was not expecting. Sara soon goes toe-to-toe with Aaron via games and trying to be ahead of the curve as she documents her day with the murderer.\nIf you\u2019re looking for something that will make you squirm, laugh, and say \u201cwhat the fuck\u201d out loud a lot, make sure you watch Creep 2, but only if you\u2019ve seen Creep first.\nThis entry was posted in Film/DVD, Movie Thoughts and tagged creep 2, daniel matti, films, movie reviews, the killing of a sacred deer, three billboards outside ebbing missouri on December 9, 2017 by Fred Mills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 16500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boldclothingfactory.com/products/92118-baseball-t", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QEVBUCG2LBZEWY5UW5OXK5FIRJI7N4MI", "length": 457, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "boldclothingfactory.com", "title": "92118 Baseball T (LIMITED) \u2013 boldclothingfactory", "raw_content": "92118 Baseball T (LIMITED)\nLIMITED-92118 Local printed on New Era Baseball Ts\nWe will not be printing this style again. Once they are sold out, they will no longer be available.\nA major-league look for fans in the stands or on the street.\nBody Length at Back 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 3/4 34 1/2\nChest 18 19 1/2 21 22 1/2 24 1/2 26 1/2 29 32\nX-Small - Sold Out Small - Sold Out Medium - Sold Out Large - Sold Out X-Large - $29.00 USD XXL - Sold Out 4X - Sold Out", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bonfirestories.ca/portfolio-item/huddle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BCRUYJWBS7BNB4YFXRCGC225RRSE6EQZ", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bonfirestories.ca", "title": "Huddle.Today - Bonfire Communications", "raw_content": "We helped the team at Huddle.Today develop an entirely new Canadian business news publication. From the name and branding to building the site to ongoing creative support, we\u2019ve helped Huddle earn over 1 million page views.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://booktrib.com/tag/shiri-appleby/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SJWSYUYCJ3WEDZASSULYAGKXXQHZAXBN", "length": 182, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "booktrib.com", "title": "Shiri Appleby - BookTrib", "raw_content": "Lifetime\u2019s UnReal is Better Than Any TV Series You\u2019re Currently Watching\nIf there\u2019s a juicy drama this summer that\u2019s not yet on your radar and 100 percent should be, it\u2019s Lifetime\u2019s\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bradlinder.net/2007/11/add-a-start-menu-to-the-eee-pc-and-customize-it.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:25Z", "digest": "sha1:S3SLKI33G7TZDB2X7S5M7ZF4KSCJBWIO", "length": 1111, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bradlinder.net", "title": "Add a start menu to the Eee PC and customize it", "raw_content": "Add a start menu to the Eee PC and customize it\nOne of the best and worst things about the Eee PC is its \u201ceasy mode\u201d user interface. In easy mode, you have no start menu, and little ability to access some of the Eee PC\u2019s more advanced features (unless you know your way around a terminal, which you can pull up by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T).\nIf you like to customize your desktop, easy mode can be pretty frustrating. On the other hand, everything is well designed to fit on the Eee PC\u2019s 800 x 480 pixel monitor. (Well, almost everything. Every now and again a menu will pop up that you just can\u2019t edit properly because it extends below the screen. But we\u2019ll get to that in another post). And restricting access to some of the more advanced features is probably a good thing for many users who aren\u2019t familiar with Linux.\nIt turns out there is a pretty simple way to enable a full KDE desktop, but if you want the best of both worlds, you can also add customizable start menu to your easy mode interface. Somewhat ironically, this might be harder than enabling the full desktop.\nRead the rest of this post at Eee Site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bradyopticians.com/childrens-eye-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZOBYYVCMNQHXA4U3VFWNCIE5XDYIUBA", "length": 4580, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "bradyopticians.com", "title": "Childrens Eye Care - Brady Opticians", "raw_content": "\u2018Vision for the Kids\u2019 at Brady Opticians, is our latest initiative to help you take care of your child\u2019s eyesight from an early age. Child eye examinations are crucial as they play a central role in ensuring normal vision development and academic achievement of all children.\nDuring the first twelve years of our lives, as much as 80% of learning is accomplished through our vision. Yet research has shown that one in five children, that\u2019s a staggering 20%, have an undetected vision problem, which could inhibit their progress both inside and outside of school. Early detection is key in preventing problems, and at Brady Opticians, we recognise that high quality eye care and proper advice will help children with vision problems achieve their full potential.\nHow Do I Know If My Child Has a Problem with Their Sight?\nThere can be a number of signs to look out for:\n\u2022 Does your child sit too close to the TV?\n\u2022 Does he or she have trouble maintaining concentration whilst doing homework?\n\u2022 Does he or she have difficulty copying things from the board at school?\nAt the same, it is important to bear in mind that many eye conditions do not display any symptoms, and children are often unaware that their vision is not perfect, so it is vital to have regular eye tests.\nAt What Age Should My Child Have Their Eyes Examined?\nMost toddlers have their eyes checked in pre-school as part of their routine development checks approximately around the age of two, as early detection of any sight problems is key to ensuring normal vision development. However, these checks may not be as thorough as a full eye examination carried out by a qualified optician.\nThe UK National Screening Committee recommends that full screening by an optician should begin at age four to five years. After the first test it is advisable to return every two years or as recommended by your optician. It is particularly important if Mum or Dad wear glasses. Our opticians are trained to detect many eye conditions in children, and early detection is essential to ensure that your child develops healthy sight.\nAt Brady Opticians, we use the latest technology and equipment and combine it with genuine compassion and concern to test your child\u2019s eyes. We understand that a positive experience now can determine your child\u2019s eye health in the future. Therefore, we take great care in testing your child\u2019s vision; reassuring them and making them feel at ease throughout the examination. We use a range of child specific examination techniques, using child friendly objects, cards and games, so even very young children who do not know letters or are not old enough to respond to certain questions can still be examined accurately.\nWhy Choose Brady?\nAs an independent Optician, we have a wide variety of frames on display in our practice to suit all tastes and budgets. We understand that children\u2019s eyewear must fulfil its medical purpose, be durable, and yet look good in order to encourage the child to wear it. For the trend aware child we have a selection of fun frames at affordable prices, such as Batman, Spiderman and Bench eyewear ranges, which are now available in all sizes.\nOur friendly staff are fully qualified, have extensive experience in the prescription and fitting of children\u2019s eyewear, and are always on hand to help you and your child select the most suitable frame for their needs.\nTo arrange an appointment please call us on 028 6632 2524 and let us take care of your child\u2019s vision for the future.\nWhat Happens If My Child Breaks Their Glasses?\nDon\u2019t worry; we\u2019re always on hand to help! It is not uncommon for frames to become misaligned or a lens to get broken with the rough and tumble of child\u2019s play. Simply return the frame to us and we will have it repaired or replaced.\nMany children do not want to wear glasses, and it\u2019s a well-known fact that the self-esteem of a child is closely linked to their physical appearance. So much so, that if your child doesn\u2019t feel happy or confident wearing their glasses it can affect their personality, performance at school or even their involvement in sporting activities etc.\nContact lenses are a healthy option, and can help to re-build your child\u2019s self-esteem. Children as young as 8 years old are now wearing contact lenses, giving them freedom without glasses. Could they work for your child? Contact Brady Opticians, your local contact lens specialists today on 074 9721727 to discuss your child\u2019s suitability.\nTo view frequently asked questions and answers for parents thinking about contact lenses for their child please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://breakthroughtraining.com/famous-quotes/when-you-know-what-you-want-and-you-want-it-badly-enough-you-will-find-the-ways-to-get-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:02Z", "digest": "sha1:OAB324N3QNNUSK6XVDTYMVY7REVMASLL", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "breakthroughtraining.com", "title": "Breakthrough Famous Quotes Library | When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it. Quotes", "raw_content": "When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 80.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Category:Tools", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GKATZRNK47JV4JJQH4VL4IZX4CAIJGRB", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "btrfs.wiki.kernel.org", "title": "Category:Tools - btrfs Wiki", "raw_content": "Category for descriptions of btrfs command-line tools\nRetrieved from \"https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Category:Tools&oldid=8681\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://builttolead.com/2018/01/05/i-believe-in-you-and-i-dont-believe-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ICYAAN5WZ7SZCKAFQPFKBEEAAZAGW7VP", "length": 2554, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "builttolead.com", "title": "I believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you\u2026 \u2013 BUILT TO LEAD", "raw_content": "I believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you\u2026\nJanuary 5, 2018 Chet1 Comment on I believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you\u2026\nBlaise Pascal, back in the early 1600\u2019s, said, \u201cI give you the gift of these four words \u2013 I believe in you.\u201d\nSam Phillips, back in 1954, told Johnny Cash something eerily similar when giving him feedback on his song. He looked young Mr. Cash in the eye and said, \u201cI don\u2019t believe you.\u201d\nToday, I reminded a dear friend and client that \u201canding\u201d these thoughts is the job of every leader. You\u2019ve got to let all your teammates know that you believe in them and you\u2019ve got to be honest with those you don\u2019t believe. For instance, your high performers need to hear, \u201cI believe in you and I believe you.\u201d They need to know the depth of your belief and cannot hear this too much. Give this gift.\nAnd, do not shy away from telling the truth to that teammate you still believe in but no longer believe. This is where the transformational leader shines. I believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you, tells a teammate some hard truth they can use. Most leaders, when they stop believing, make the mistake of keeping it to themselves. They don\u2019t open their mouth and deliver tough truth. Hence one of my favorite catch phrases \u2013 \u201cWhen the leader stops believing, someone will soon be-leaving.\u201d The transformational leader gives the gift of belief and she also gives the gift of \u201cI don\u2019t believe you.\u201d This leader turns people and their performance with this powerful combo. Most leaders just turn away and let nature slowly lead someone to leave.\nI believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you. Powerful words. Give these gifts early and often, leader. Stop holding back, biting your tongue, and hoping somehow they\u2019ll figure it out on their own. Leaders are believers, remember. Leaders are connectors too. Go do your job, leader. Give the gift of belief. Give the gift of I don\u2019t believe you \u2013 I don\u2019t believe you are doing the work. I don\u2019t believe your heart is in your work. I don\u2019t believe you want to be here. I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re singing your song. I don\u2019t believe you are finishing as strongly as you\u2019re starting. I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re leaving it all on the court or I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re going full thrust. I don\u2019t believe, but I still believe in you.\nWhat gifts does each one of your teammates need to receive from you, leader?\nPrevious Colby, SuperSyd, and Isaiah\u2026\nNext Joy\u2026\n1 thought on \u201cI believe in you and I don\u2019t believe you\u2026\u201d\nGreat AND Toto. Got it. \u201cWhen a teammate\u2019s actions be-LIE beLIEF, challenge with WTF (e.g. where\u2019s the F-aith?)\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessbankruptcies.com/cases/fundraising-solutions-inc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7DIJXQXOIJZFTQIW5KAUDAZVTR3YPHRT", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "businessbankruptcies.com", "title": "Company Bankruptcy Information for Fundraising Solutions, Inc. 3:11-bk-17647", "raw_content": "Fundraising Solutions, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 88.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businesssolutionsguide.site123.me/the-blog/factors-to-consider-in-selecting-the-right-agile-tool", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6TSOM6PJEY24K6MI2B5C4RXFUWLEYZL4", "length": 2916, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "businesssolutionsguide.site123.me", "title": "Factors To Consider In Selecting The Right Agile Tool - Business Solutions Guide", "raw_content": "Businesses opting for the agile business methodology has in the recent past surpassed those that are still using the waterfall mode. In a bid to satisfy the increasing requirements, several Agile products have emerged. The challenge that companies have to deal with is deciding the suitable tool for their business.\nThe motivating factor that necessitate the resorting to Agile systems is for the purpose of achieving flexible strategies that will go a long way in improving the development of a company's technology infrastructure. A properly designed Agile system will be able to address the constant changes that occur in the technology environment.\nA collaborative Agile tool is the one that has great benefit for your business as it facilitates improved communication among the members of your team. A qualifying factor for the best program is one that facilitates better communication between members that can be attributed to improved decision making.\nAn Agile program that is effective in assisting you have access to tracking capabilities and accountability will be useful for better running of your business. The interaction that exist between the conversations held ,the action taken and the results attained is easily understood through the use of the tool. Alongside possessing the feature that make the reporting of the different project segments possible, the tool must as well generate similar reports for the whole project.\nFor the purpose of improved efficiency and convenience, it is recommended that you settle for an Agile tool that is able to create a single searchable central storage. This is essential as the stored will be required to arrive at constructive decisions. Ability to perform cross-project analysis is enabled through the tool since you are able to look at a variety of projects at once.\nProper analytics are important for any type of project and it is therefore imperative to select an Agile tool that has the capacity and capability to provide the same. This is crucial for the purposes of postmortem assessments as you are able to know how long a project took to be finalized. Get to know more at www.restratconsulting.com\nThe Agile tool that you will pick will be dependent on the kind of project that you are undertaking. You will find that the tools are best suited for projects that have urgent timelines and possess a considerable degree of intricacy.\nThe company that will provide the Agile solutions must design them in a way that they are customized for your business. Your software development provider must be able to tell you the suitable Agile tool that will work best with the infrastructure they have installed. When the proper software is matched with the right project management methodology you and your team will enjoy smoother workflow. For more info about business solutions, view here.\nLearn more at https://www.britannica.com/topic/business-organization", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCAKCN0YG0BI", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:31Z", "digest": "sha1:F7A5TXBYH67CY24JHUMN2AKFUT6ALRET", "length": 2860, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Tech billionaire Thiel backs wrestler Hogan's Gawker lawsuit - Forbes | Reuters", "raw_content": "Tech billionaire Thiel backs wrestler Hogan's Gawker lawsuit - Forbes\nSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is helping wrestler Hulk Hogan bankroll his lawsuit against Gawker Media, according to a report in Forbes.\nTerry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, sits in court during his trial against Gawker Media, in St Petersburg, Florida March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/Pool via Reuters\nHogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in March won a $140 million jury verdict against Gawker in a privacy lawsuit stemming from a sex tape Gawker had published.\nGawker, a New York-based website specializing in media and celebrity news, is appealing the verdict.\nForbes reported late Tuesday that Thiel, an early backer of Facebook (FB.O) and a co-founder of PayPal (PYPL.O), had played a lead role in financing the litigation. A spokesman for Thiel said Wednesday he would be in touch if Thiel decides to issue a statement on the matter.\nIn a statement Wednesday, Gawker acknowledged but did not confirm reports of Thiel\u2019s involvement, and said it hoped the appeals court would decide in its favor.\nThiel, who is also a founder of a hedge fund and a venture capital firm and has been an outspoken voice on issues including education, is no stranger to Gawker. In 2007, it published an article entitled \u201cPeter Thiel is totally gay, people.\u201d\nThiel kept mum publicly about his sexuality at the time, but has since said he is gay.\nA longtime supporter of libertarian causes, Thiel recently said he was backing real estate financier Donald Trump in his bid for president.\n\u201cIn my experience, the freedom to speak, in the view of most libertarians, is not unlimited,\u201d said Eugene Volokh, a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles, in an email.\n\u201cIf Peter Thiel is indeed backing the lawsuit, I assume that he thinks that disclosing a sex video without the participant\u2019s permission is a violation of the participant\u2019s rights \u2013 here, a right to privacy.\u201d\nGawker is also facing lawsuits from Shiva Ayyadurai, an entrepreneur who has made the controversial claim that he invented email, and journalist and writer Ashley Terrill.\nLawsuits backed by third parties are not unusual. In most cases, though, they are financial investments in which backers are motivated by the potential proceeds from a large damage award.\nSecretive third-party financings of lawsuits can put media companies at a disadvantage during litigation, said Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, in an interview Tuesday.\n\u201cThere might be circumstances in which knowing who your real adversary is, or the real party of interest who is making a suit against you may alter one\u2019s perception of the case and strategies for defense,\u201d Scheer said.\nReporting by Sarah McBride and Heather Somerville Editing by Jonathan Weber and Michael Perry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://capturehappy.co/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:22Z", "digest": "sha1:2O6VMK6IAFNKWMNE7CRAACJAMPPQCCK6", "length": 874, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "capturehappy.co", "title": "About Me\u2026 \u2013 capturehappy", "raw_content": "Hey, my name is Becca Mae, I\u2019am 22 and originally from Liverpool, England, but right now I am living in the USA as an au pair. I have been in Philadelphia for just over 1 year now and I absolutely love it here! I love it so much that I extended my visa to stay for a extra year. My main reason for coming to the USA was to break free of my normal life in England, travel, have adventures, make memories, make friends and just have the time of my life! So far I think I have been able to tick all those things of my list because I have done all that x 20!\nI have been wanting to start a blog for a while but have been too busy with work, but now my schedule has changed I finally have more time so I just decided to try it. If I don\u2019t try I\u2019ll never know! I am new to blogging so be nice hehe.\nFind out how to contact me and find me on social media sites check out this page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cardinalsportszone.com/2017/09/14/nunnsense-louisville-football-culture-change/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BTVZTKRDPFSGNEZHW5O4VQW3A5JJKPXB", "length": 2096, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cardinalsportszone.com", "title": "Nunnsense: Louisville Football Culture Change \u2013 Cardinal Sports Zone", "raw_content": "Nunnsense: Louisville Football Culture Change\nI\u2019m going to keep it short and sweet this week because you need to start getting your cooler packed for Tailgate this Saturday.\nWhen I was growing up, if you said Cardinal Stadium, the first thing that came to mind is \u201cthat is where Trinity and St.X \ufffdplay their annual football game.\u201d The second thing that came to mind is \u201cthat is where the Louisville Redbirds play baseball.\u201d The third thing that came to mind is \u201cthat is where they have concerts for the state fair.\u201d Louisville football was more of an afterthought.\ufffd\nAs a kid, going to that stadium, for whatever event, was fun because we got to run up and down the stairs and run from end to end near the top of the covered side.\nIn high school it was more of a place for social gathering. We would go to high school games and all congregate under the scoreboard. \ufffdWe would talk about what girl we liked and who was dating who. It was never about the game and we rarely went there for a Louisville football game. I mean, what was the point? They were going to lose anyway. Nobody cared about UofL till basketball season.\nin college, we gathered in the grass lots outside the stadium prior to football games to tailgate. Most of the time we never made it into the game. Nobody ever had tickets but on the rare occasion we wanted to go in and actually watch the game, you could walk right up to the gate and somebody would hand you a free ticket.\nWell, times have changed a lot since my first game in 1983. It was a 55-10 loss to Pitt. I\u2019ll never forget that day because I use it as a measuring stick to compare where we were to where we are now. \ufffdNow is a time where ESPN Gameday comes to town and 4 star recruits attend home games regularly. Now is a time where we enjoy football and not just basketball. Now is a time where Southern Miss is not the feature game on our home schedule. Now is a time where there is a waiting list for season tickets. Now is a time where winning 9 games is not enough. Now is a time to enjoy and appreciate the change in the culture of our beloved football program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 5191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.medchi.org/jobs/11942107/np-pa-critical-care", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:42Z", "digest": "sha1:R4ZM7OZHKKK6QCRSKHUX43SUKHIIUZDB", "length": 1042, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "careers.medchi.org", "title": "MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society > Home NP/PA :: Critical Care, Employment | MedChi", "raw_content": "NP/PA :: Critical Care\nMercy Medical Group (MMG), a multi-specialty group with more than 450 healthcare providers in the Sacramento region is looking to add clinicians interested in developing a Cardiac Intensivist service with our world-class Cardiac Surgery program. These providers will work in conjunction with Cardiac Surgery and Advanced Heart Failure Service in the care of pre/post-surgical patients, cardiogenic shock (Impella, ECMO) as well as post-VAD implant in a 20-bed CSICU and CCU. Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.\nThe successful candidate will have 2+ years' experience in critical care, preferably in the care of post Cardiac Surgery patients.\nDignity Health Medical Foundation is affiliated with Dignity Health, one of the leading healthcare systems in the country. This shareholder-track opportunity offers a very competitive compensation and benefits package, including bonus potential and a very desirable retirement plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 446, "original_length": 13903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cceia.unic.ac.cy/book-presentation-turkey-and-europe-high-stakes-uncertain-prospects/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TFUCSGCLJSCWFMUUPEQMNCTPCH6GHBKG", "length": 2072, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cceia.unic.ac.cy", "title": "Book Presentation \u2013 Turkey and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects \u2013 CCEIA", "raw_content": "Book Presentation \u2013 Turkey and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects\n\"Turkey And Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects\"\n(cceia of Nicosia Press, Nicosia 2008)\nOn the 15th of September, the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs (CCEIA) in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, cceia of Cyprus, organized a presentation of the book Turkey and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects (Ed. James Sperling, S. Victor Papacosma and Andreas Theophanous, cceia of Nicosia Press, Nicosia, 2008) at the cceia of Nicosia.\nAssociate Professor Hubert Faustmann of the cceia of Nicosia and Professor Joseph Joseph of the cceia of Cyprus highlighted the genuine effort of the contributing authors to present an objective and balanced account of the significant issues concerning Turkey\u2019s accession to the European Union.\nThe book is separated into two major sections, namely the internal and external aspects of Turkey\u2019s accession to the EU, and examines extensively the range of components that affect the process from Turkey\u2019s harmonization with the EU norms, the impact of the AKP government, the question of Muslim migration, the strategic implications of Turkey\u2019s accession, the country\u2019s role in the European security system and the US, Euro-Turkish relations vis-\u00e0-vis Cyprus.\nIt is worth noting that in his concluding remarks Dr. Faustmann emphasized that most authors seemed to agree that there are still considerable problems regarding Turkey\u2019s accession process, and that the latter will have to commit to serious reforms domestically but also in terms of its foreign policy if it wishes to successfully complete its European journey.\nOn behalf of the editors Professor Andreas Theophanous spoke of the context in which the arguments of the book were expounded and made some comments on the recent developments affecting Turkey\u2019s accession process. The presentation\u2019s moderator, journalist Savvas Iacovides, opened the floor to the audience, during which diplomats, politicians, academics and students contributed to a lively discussion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/206987/aldub-maine-mendoza-vice-ganda-rule-twitter-philippines-2018-list", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:K4RNTY27W7ALGUX6VZPFSIDN7CKO6MTE", "length": 3012, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "cebudailynews.inquirer.net", "title": "AlDub, Maine Mendoza, Vice Ganda rule Twitter Philippines' 2018 list", "raw_content": "PROVING that Twitter is her realm, actress-host Maine Mendoza has clinched Twitter Philippines\u2019 most Tweeted about Filipino celebrities.\nThe 23-year-old star, who rose to fame in 2015 as the other half of the phenomenal loveteam\nAlDub (with Alden Richards), has topped the list, which includes (in order): Maymay Entrata, Kisses Delavin, Alden Richards, Edward Barber, Donny Pangilinan, Loisa Andalio, Kathryn Bernardo, Maris Racal, and Daniel Padilla.\nAlden Richards and Maine Mendoza, collectively known to their fans as AlDub, have remained unbeatable and are still the country\u2019s top love team for 2018.\nIn 2017, AlDub also topped Twitter Philippines\u2019 list. Richards and Mendoza, Guiness World Record title holder for most number of tweets in one event, are co-hosts on the country\u2019s longest running noontime show, \u201cEat Bulaga!\u201d\nFollowing AlDub are Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber, known together as MayWard.\nCompleting the top 10 list are Donny Pangilinan and Kisses Delavin (DonKiss), Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano (LizQuen), Kisses Delavin and Tony Labrusca (KissTon), McCoy de Leon and Elisse Joson (McLisse), Vivoree Esclito and Charles Kieron (KierVi), James Reid and Nadine Lustre (JaDine), Maris Rical and I\u00f1igo Pascual (MarNigo), and Joshua Garcia and\nJulia Barretto (JoshLia).\nABS-CBN\u2019s fantasy series \u201cBagani\u201d topped the list for Most Tweeted Teleserye.\n\u201cBagani\u201d is a 2018 series headlined by Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil.\nOther television series which are part of the list are \u201cWildflower,\u201d \u201cPlayhouse,\u201d \u201cDaddy\u2019s Girl in the City,\u201d \u201cLa Luna Sangre,\u201d \u201cKambal Karibal,\u201d \u201cContessa,\u201d \u201cVictor Magtanggol,\u201d \u201cSherlock Jr.,\u201d and \u201cHalik.\u201d\nFor the movies, Star Cinema\u2019s \u201cThe Hows Of Us\u201d topbilled by Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla ranked first on Twitter Philippines.\nAccording to Twitter Philippines, the movie \u201cgained much conversation on Twitter this year.\u201d\nDirected by acclaimed filmmaker, Cathy Garcia-Molina, \u201cThe Hows Of Us\u201d earned P600 million in the Philippines and was screened in many countries.\nAlso in the top 10 list of most tweeted Filipino movies are \u201cMiss Granny,\u201d \u201cNever Not Love You,\u201d \u201cMy Fairy Tail Love Story,\u201d \u201cDa One That Ghost Away,\u201d \u201cAmnesia Love,\u201d \u201cHospicio,\u201d \u201cAng Dalawang Mrs. Reyes,\u201d \u201cFirst Love,\u201d and \u201cAng Babaeng Allergic Sa Wifi.\u201d\nTwitter Philippines also announced \u201cIts Showtime\u201d host and comedian Vice Ganda as the Most Followed Filipino account, with 11.5 million followers on Twitter. 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Sossusvlei, the Namib desert, Namibia 1997.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charliebuttrey.com/washington-state-kills-the-death-penalty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NVUYMH6ZIFOOBZSNKQTLOQBIMSHMFNMF", "length": 1738, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "charliebuttrey.com", "title": "Washington state kills the death penalty - Charlie Buttrey", "raw_content": "Washington state kills the death penalty\nIn 2014, Washington Governor Jay Inslee ordered a moratorium on that state\u2019s death penalty. Yesterday, the Washington Supreme Court rejected the death penalty entirely, holding that it violated the state\u2019s constitution\u2019s prohibition on \u201ccruel punishment.\u201d\nSpecifically, the court found that the death penalty was invalid \u201cbecause it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner,\u201d citing a study that established that African-American defendants were more than four times as likely as white defendants to be sentenced to death. That study, which evaluated all of Washington\u2019s aggravated murder cases since 1981, concluded that there was \u201cstrong, consistent and compelling evidence that jury decision-making in capital cases in Washington State has been notably influenced by the race of the defendant.\u201d\nIn an opinion written by Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst, the court acknowledged it had previously upheld the death penalty, but it ruled that in light of this new information about the administration of capital punishment, \u201cthe death penalty lacks fundamental fairness.\u201d Justice Fairhurst explained, \u201cThere is no meaningful basis for distinguishing the few cases in which the death penalty is imposed from the many cases in which it is not. To the extent that race distinguishes the cases, it is clearly impermissible and unconstitutional.\u201d\nThere were eight men on Washington\u2019s death row. Washington becomes the 20th state to outlaw capital punishment.\nAccording to Wikipedia, of the countries categorized as \u2018very high\u2019 on the Human Development Index, only ten countries retain the death penalty. The U.S. in the only one in the western hemisphere, and Belarus is the only one in Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 137.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cheshire.police.uk/about-us/police-auctions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:39Z", "digest": "sha1:K5A75GVNZU3LKHKLJNLMAV64FVEHKJ46", "length": 1242, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cheshire.police.uk", "title": "Police Auctions - Cheshire Police", "raw_content": "We have an account on the auction site eBay which we use to sell criminal's assets in an effort to raise cash for victims of crime. You can buy seized assets at the Cheshire Police eBay account.\nThe public can purchase items that have formed part of a Court \"Confiscation Order\" under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002.\nThe purpose of POCA is to deprive a convicted criminal of any financial benefit they have made through their crimes. POCA empowers convicted criminals to sell their assets in order to pay off their confiscation order. These goods are authentic but have been bought with money obtained through crime.\n\u201cBy selling items in this way, we hope to generate a bigger income from criminal assets, which in turn will benefit victims of crime and be reinvested in local policing initiatives.\u201d\n- Karen Jaundrill, Detective Sergeant of the Financial Investigation Unit\nThe cash raised from these online auctions will go back to the Home Office, with Cheshire Constabulary receiving 18% of the proceeds.\nSo far, over \u00a320,000 has been raised by selling items such as digital cameras, laptop computers and mobile phones. This money has been reinvested into policing Cheshire.\nProceeds of Crime Act (POCA)\nCheshire Police eBay account", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 4531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cheshire.police.uk/news-and-appeals/news/man-charged-with-attempting-to-steal-a-bicycle-in-chester/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DW6P4UZBRRZYXRFY6LI5DAOQ2F2FACDQ", "length": 554, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cheshire.police.uk", "title": "Man charged with attempting to steal a bicycle in Chester - Cheshire Police", "raw_content": "Man charged with attempting to steal a bicycle in Chester Date published: 13th November 2018 1.18pm\nMan charged with attempting to steal a bicycle in Chester\nA 29-year-old man has been charged with attempting to steal a bicycle in Chester.\nJonathan Holding, of Cow Lane in Norley, Northwich, was arrested following an incident outside the Old Harkers Arms on Russell Street yesterday (Monday 12 November).\nHe has since been charged with attempted theft and causing criminal damage and is due to appear at Chester Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday 30 November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 4501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chomiji.livejournal.com/491505.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7HAXBC3Q3F2WT5UIWJ7Y6BITIHO3F6AH", "length": 2607, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "chomiji.livejournal.com", "title": "Weekly Wednesday-ish Reading Meme - October 24, 2013 - Notes From an Ayewards World", "raw_content": "Some more odd serial art stuff from the Small Press Expo, most of which didn't make much of an impression. The one exception was Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, by Samuel R. Delaney and Mia Wolff. As most of you probably know, Samuel Delaney was one of the first successful African American science fiction writers. This is an actual, biographical story of how he met his life partner, Dennis, who was a homeless man living on the streets of New York. It's very explicit and frank; in parts it's very sad and in others, it's very tender and joyful.\nAlso, the latest National Geographic, which had a rather disturbing story of a storm chaser who was recently killed by one of the tornados he was pursuing, along with a colleague and his own adult son, an accomplished photographer.\nI am all caught up with the webcomic Yellow Peril. I have made an LJ feed for it, yellowperilcomi. LJ needs longer names for the feeds. :-(\nFinally, I read vol. 4 of House of Five Leaves. I think I'm starting to get used to the mangaka's drawing style. However, I can't agree with the comments I've seen online about how wonderful it is.\nStill reading Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead, which is getting really, really good. Things have taken a massive turn for the worse in the story; I'm mentally biting my fingernails.\nFor some reason, I have also started a re-read of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which I had downloaded onto my phone sometime ago. It's a pleasant enough diversion, except when the author goes off onto a spate of Rebecca-worship.\nStill haven't started ann_leckie's Ancillary Justice. Also, I've got my Yuletide canon re-read stacked up and ready to go, plus I need to do a canon review for some beta reading.\nI love Bread and Wine. Delany's kinks are really not mine, and yet the story is very sexy - and moving and sweet. It's such an unlikely story, it can only be nonfiction. Great art.\nYeah, it can be hard to describe how two people fall in love, but I think the story here explains itself pretty well. Still, some people are apparently tone-deaf to that kind of thing. One person on Amazon didn't get it at all! The way the artist has depicted it, you can see how the two of them are drawn to each other, physically. And I can see how Dennis' sense of wonder and gentleness drew Delany. There's the very way they first met: Dennis is selling books, and trusts Delaney to pay him later. I thought the relationship developed in a way that way somehow both believable and unlikely at the same time, and the afterward \u2014 how happy and into each other they still are 25 years later \u2014 was so sweet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 374, "original_length": 7118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chu.tbe.taleo.net/chu02/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=ONTARIOSYSTEMS&cws=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FGZXBIVSJTZTFKMQLVFCN5KFP2ZKWCON", "length": 593, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "chu.tbe.taleo.net", "title": "Careers | Careers | Ontario Systems", "raw_content": "Life at Ontario\nLocation: Any Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico - Remote Position Muncie, IN Muncie, IN - Remote Position Vancouver, Washington Vancouver, Washington - Remote Position\nOntario Systems, LLC, does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.\n\u00a9 2018 Ontario Systems", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cincyip.org/2011/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XOJMRIO5TU4NMWD2QA76PKSYMNZXVGBQ", "length": 6016, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "cincyip.org", "title": "December 2011 \u2013 Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association", "raw_content": "CincyBIO 2012 will be held Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at the Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati. The conference will feature speakers including Sam Han (University of Dayton), Tom Irving (Finnegan), Kevin Noonan (MBHB and Patent Docs weblog), John Lewis (BioOhio), Robin Rasor (University of Michigan), Jan Rosenbaum (CincyTech), Jim Burns (AssureRx), Kevin Malloy (Blue Ash Therapeutics), Mike Hooven and Joel Ivers.\nCincyIP invites you to enter a bid to sponsor CincyBIO during the sponsorship period from January 19, 2012 at 10:00am until February 9, 2012 at 4:00pm. Sponsorships will only be accepted through the form on our website. Sponsorships will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis and will be confirmed by a member of CincyIP\u2019s CincyBIO Steering Committee. Each sponsorship level includes exhibition space at the event and other benefits relative to the sponsorship level.\nPosted in Premier Events | Comments Off on CincyBIO 2012 is seeking sponsorships\nTags: announcement, CincyBio 2012, sponsorship\nJanuary 2012 Monthly Meeting: Entertainment Law Basics: What Should I Be Aware Of?\nEntertainment Law Basics: What Should I Be Aware Of?\nSarah V. Lewis, Esq.\nChristoper S. Bowman, Esq.\nJeffrey P. Hinebaugh, Esq.\nKurt Hunt, Esq.\nof Dinsmore and Shohl, LLP\nWhile Entertainment Law issues can often overlap with issues conventionally within the realm of intellectual property law, the issues can also involve questions dealing with employment law, contract law, labor law, agency, right of privacy, first amendment, product placement, and insurance law, just to name a few. Sarah, Chris, Jeff, and Kurt will share tips and tricks to help attorneys that do not frequently deal in entertainment law to spot issues and consider broader implications of deals and contracts. In particular, they will discuss contractual processes and key provisions that can be at issue when representing a movie production from conception through distribution.\nSarah V. Lewis, Esq., is an Associate at Dinsmore, working primarily in the firm\u2019s Entertainment Law Practice Group. In this capacity, Sarah counsels individuals and companies working in the television industry at all stages of television development, production and distribution. She has extensive transactional experience in television, having served as studio and production counsel for Procter & Gamble Productions, Inc., TeleNext Media Inc. (a business unit of MediaVest Group) and others on the television network movies \u201cSecrets of the Mountain,\u201d \u201cThe Jensen Project,\u201d \u201cA Walk in My Shoes,\u201d \u201cChange of Plans,\u201d and \u201cTruth Be Told.\u201d Sarah also advises clients regarding a variety of guild and union issues, including those involving SAG, AFTRA, DGA, WGA and IATSE.\nIn addition to her work in Entertainment Law, Sarah has significant experience in general litigation and has represented numerous automotive manufacturers and other companies in cases involving breach of contract, warranty disputes, and consumer practice claims. Sarah also previously served as the prosecutor for the City of Blue Ash\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Court from 2004-2007.\nChristopher S. Bowman, Esq., is Of Counsel with Dinsmore, working primarily in the firm\u2019s Entertainment Law Practice Group. In this capacity, Chris counsels individuals and companies working in the television industry at all stages of television development, production and distribution. He has extensive transactional experience in television, having served as studio and production counsel for Procter & Gamble Productions, Inc., TeleNext Media Inc. (a business unit of MediaVest Group) and others on the television network movies \u201cSecrets of the Mountain,\u201d \u201cThe Jensen Project,\u201d \u201cA Walk in My Shoes,\u201d \u201cChange of Plans,\u201d and \u201cTruth Be Told.\u201d Chris also advises clients regarding a variety of guild and union issues, including those involving SAG, AFTRA, DGA, WGA and IATSE.\nJeffrey P. Hinebaugh, Esq., is a Partner at Dinsmore in the Litigation Department. He was named \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d in Cincinnati for Litigation-Construction by The Best Lawyers in America, 2012. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Grove City College, Jeff serves as a board member for various foundations and programs, including the Mariemont Preservation Foundation, Foundation Entertainment, and Providence Extension Program. Jeff also serves as the Assistant Varsity Men\u2019s Soccer Coach at Mariemont High School, a coach for Mariemont High School\u2019s Mock Trial Team, and has served as a volunteer mediator for the United States District Court in the Southern District of Ohio. In addition to working with the litigation team, Jeff is also a member of Dinsmore\u2019s Entertainment Law Practice Group.\nKurt Hunt, Esq., is an Associate at Dinsmore where his practice focuses on the areas of communications, intellectual property, and media law. He has represented a wide variety of clients, from major companies such as Scripps Networks, LLC and Procter & Gamble, Inc., to regional telecommunications companies, to freelance writers and local non-profit organizations. He is a member of the firm\u2019s Litigation and Corporate Departments.\nKurt has advised clients on media and IP issues, helping to ensure their interests stay protected in some of the fastest-changing areas of law. His role as adviser has encompassed: online and social media marketing rule compliance; social media and blogger policies; copyright matters including software licensing, co-authorship agreements, and work-for-hire agreements; fair use; Digital Milleniuam Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor compliance; issuing and responding to copyright takedown notices; responding to allegations and concerns of copyright and trademark infringement; wireless/wireline telephony and cable system regulatory compliance; personal and commercial defamation; open records/open meetings compliance; and privacy law.\nPosted in Monthly Meetings | Comments Off on January 2012 Monthly Meeting: Entertainment Law Basics: What Should I Be Aware Of?\nTags: cincyip, Entertainment Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 9603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/counterterrorism-exercise-planned-tonight-in-queens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WLKKXNYUXQUMM6QEGBGOP6OYE4SXRPNP", "length": 5620, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com", "title": "Counterterrorism Exercise to Take Place in Queens - The New York Times", "raw_content": "City Room | Counterterrorism Exercise to Take Place in Queens\nCounterterrorism Exercise to Take Place in Queens\nThe city\u2019s Police Department and the F.B.I. will collaborate tonight in a joint counterterrorism exercise in Queens, testing New York\u2019s ability to intercept a so-called dirty bomb.\nAround 300 city police officers and 400 employees from the F.B.I. will work together in the exercise. The main events are scheduled to take place between 9 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning on the Clearview Expressway.\nThe police say traffic delays on the expressway are anticipated until 1 a.m. Wednesday.\nSpeaking on Tuesday afternoon, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the exercise \u201cwill test our capacity to detect and render safe an improvised nuclear device heading into New York City.\u201d\n\u201cThis evening we seek to put into place a realistic training environment,\u201d he added.\nA so-called dirty bomb is a weapon that uses a conventional explosive to distribute harmful radioactive material. Dirty bombs do not require the same complex engineering as fission or fusion bombs \u2014 the types used in military arsenals \u2014 and are therefore considered more likely to become terrorist weapons.\nDuring tonight\u2019s exercise, the authorities intend to use a detection device to intercept a mock bomb in a vehicle on the expressway.\nOnce the mock bomb is located, the aim is to transfer it to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and practice the procedures required to make it safe.\nAlthough the police said on Tuesday that they would be trailing their detection equipment, they insisted that the mock bomb itself presented no danger to the public. The authorities added that the Queens location and overnight timing were also intended to minimize disruption.\nHowever, Joseph M. Demarest Jr., the assistant director in charge of the F.B.I.\u2019s New York office, insisted on the importance of this kind of realistic, men-on-the-ground training.\n\u201cI think exercising in a real life environment is the only way to really do an exercise,\u201d he said.\nThe police-F.B.I. collaboration also comes at a time when a portion of federal money for counterterrorism activities in New York is in doubt.\nIn 2007, the federal government created the Securing the Cities initiative, and it pioneered the program in New York.\nThe aim of Securing the Cities was to establish a cordon of radiation sensors 50 miles outside New York to detect an inbound dirty bomb, and since 2007 the police have already received more than $53 million in Homeland Security Department grants to implement the project.\nHowever, this year\u2019s federal budget proposed to eliminate Securing the Cities money in 2010.\nOn Tuesday, Mr. Kelly suggested that the timing of the exercise, demonstrating the potential to intercept a dirty bomb, was no coincidence.\n\u201cThe thing we are concerned about is the zeroing out of the Securing the Cities budget,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is very germane to the exercise tonight.\u201d\nKP, Upstate NY June 9, 2009 \u00b7 8:12 pm\nYes, yes\u2026.a realistic training excercise. Stop hyping the terrorism threat for cleary political fear factor reasons. Poverty, poor health care, & gang activity are a bigger problem than international terrorism.\nLike Germany\u2019s Brownshirts these people should be called the Homeland Blueshirts.\nJAMES FM June 9, 2009 \u00b7 10:18 pm\nTo # 1 KP up in the boondocks where you live might not be a tempting target for terrorists, Down here in NYC we know how it feels to be attacked. Better to be prepared than to have our heads in the sand ,and if you feel its to much overkill go hide in the woods.\ngh June 10, 2009 \u00b7 11:06 am\nIf their only hope of intercepting a dirty bomb is detecting it in transit, then every single vehicle and person entering the city would require screening for the program to work.\nIt would be far better to discover plans for obtaining and manufacturing such a device long before it\u2019s packed away in some car or truck or briefcase and headed for NY.\nWhat are all these wire and e-mail and computer taps for anyway, if we\u2019re relegated to searching cars at random? If it weren\u2019t entirely at random \u2013 if law enforcement had received a tip that such a bomb exists and is enroute to a particular destination on a particular roadway, why can\u2019t they procure prior information and prevent it being transported or assembled in the first place \u2013 is the transporter not a licensed driver with a known address? If he\u2019s unlicensed and/or not a legal citizen, why is he on the road? And what terrrorist in any case in possession of a radiological weapon would venture to approach a widely publicized checkpoint? What if the terrorist is a suicide bomber who plans to detonate his device precisely AT the checkpoint? How does this investigation by default protect the agents and officers conducting the search?\nIt would seem in light of these pronounced deficiencies that the checkpoint itself is the thing, not whatever mock assurances of security it provides.\nKP, Upstate NY June 10, 2009 \u00b7 12:53 pm\nPoliticians & police officials love to exaggerate the threat of terrorism as tool for reelection, increasely unchecked power, & larger police budgets.\nKP, Upstate NY June 10, 2009 \u00b7 1:00 pm\nThe problem of terrorism is serious but it\u2019s threat should not be exaggerated as if it\u2019s an existential threat to our society, such as a nucler war with the U.S.S.R.\nThere cleary are more dire problems in our society\u2026for example 18,000 Americans die every year from preventable illnesses because they could not get to the doctor when they should\u2019ve due to lack of health care.\nBloomberg Plays Down Impact of Albany Coup\nSecond Chance | Jazz Singer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clyffordstillmuseum.org/category/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TGV2F6WLDOWOOT372U52XJ3S2CDRGU56", "length": 1548, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "clyffordstillmuseum.org", "title": "\u201cStill Life\u201d Blog \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Clyfford Still Museum", "raw_content": "Home to the world\u2019s most intact public collection of a major American artist, the Museum formally launched two new online discovery tools today. More than 2,200 works of art\u2014approximately 470 paintings and 1,750 works on paper by Still\u2014are now available \u2026\nClyfford Still, Landscape view of the Grand Coulee Dam construction in Washington, 1936. Photograph, 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (11.43 x 6.99 cm). Clyfford Still Museum. \u00a9 City and County of Denver.\nThrough the Camera\u2019s Eye: Clyfford Still at the Grand Coulee Dam\nBy Kimberly Roberts, Junior Research Fellow, Clyfford Still Museum Research Center\nThe Clyfford Still Museum collection and archive contain approximately 23,000 photographic images (prints, slides, negatives) spanning the artist\u2019s life (1904-1980). Some were taken by Still\u2019s youngest daughter Sandra or \u2026\nClyfford Still, PH-77 (detail), 1936. Oil on canvas, 43 3/4 x 56 3/4 in. (111.1 x 144.1 cm) \u00a9 City and County of Denver / ARS, NY\nClyfford Still and Dorothea Lange: Iconic Images of the Depression\nby Jennifer Davey\nThe National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced a major gift of photographs from the collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Among the works are photographs by Dorothea Lange, a \u2026\nA guest at CSM during the summer of 2016. Photo by James Dewhirst\nAt the Museum, we can hardly believe it\u2019s almost time to ring in a new year. As we bid farewell to a whirlwind year of developments \u2014online, in London, and here \u2026\nPhoto: Sandra Still, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum Archives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 213.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cm.gnfcc.com/list/member/merrill-lynch-pierce-fenner-smith-inc-23252", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:17Z", "digest": "sha1:E63DV3OSGTWWQHMOUMZ5RILONZILMUDT", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cm.gnfcc.com", "title": "Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. - North Fulton Chamber of Commerce:", "raw_content": "Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 23.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coggle.it/diagram/Wl6jd3ic2QABkAZZ/t/business-environment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YAZD3QH76QUGG2QFXFLA4VBQ25K47FFJ", "length": 3517, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "coggle.it", "title": "Business Environment (Meaning of Business Environment (\tIntro: Success of\u2026 Coggle", "raw_content": "Business Environment (Meaning of Business Environment (\tIntro: Success of\u2026\nMeaning of Business Environment\nIntro: Success of business depends on adapting itself to the environment within its functions.\nWhen there is a change in the government policies, the business has to make the necessary changes to adapt itself to the new policies. Same goes with technology etc.,\nMeaning: The term 'business environment' connotes external forces, factors and institutions, that are beyond the control of the business and they affect the functioning of a business enterprise.\nIt include customers, competitors, suppliers, government and the social, political, legal and technological factors etc.,\nIt is defined as, the set of external factors, such as economic factors, social factors, political factors, legal factors, demographic factors, technical factors etc., which are uncontrollable in nature and affects the business decisions of a firm.\nDiagram of Business decisions Pg. no: 68\nFeatures of Business Environment\nBusiness environment is the sum total of all the factors external to the business firm and that influence their functioning\nIt covers factors and forces like customers, competitors, suppliers, government, social, political, legal, and technological conditions.\nIt is dynamic in nature (means, keeps on changing).\nThe changes in business environment are unpredictable.\nBusiness environment differs from place to place, region to region and country to country.\nImportance of Business Environment\nDetermining opportunities and threats\nGiving direction for growth\nMeeting competition\nIdentifying firm's strength and weakness\nTypes of Business Environment\nThe factors that that affect the economic environment are:\nGross domestic product, percapita income, markets for goods and services, availability of capital, foreign exchange reserve, growth of foreign trade, strength of capital market etc., help in improving the pace of economic growth.\nAll business activities and operations are directly influenced by the economic policies framed by the government from time to time. Some of the important economic policies are:\na) Industrial policy\nThe industrial policy of the government covers all those principles, policies, rules, regulations, and procedures, which direct and control the industrial enterprises of the country and shape the pattern of industrial development.\nb) Fiscal policy\nIt includes government policy in respect of public expenditure, taxation and public debt.\nc) Monetary policy\nIt includes all those activities and interventions that aim at smooth supply of credit to the business and a boost to trade and industry\nd) Foreign investment policy\nThis policy aims at regulating the inflow of foreign investment in various sectors for speeding up industrial development and take advantage of the modern technology\ne) EXIM policy (Export-Import policy)\nIt aims at increasing exports and bridge the gap between export and import. Through this policy, the government announces various duties/levies. The focus now-a-days lies on removing barriers and controls and lowering the custom duties.\nThe world economy is primarily governed by three types of economic systems:\na) Capitalist economy\nb) Socialist economy\nc) Mixed economy\nIndia has adopted the mixed economy system which implies co-existence of public and private sector\nNon-economic environment\na) Social environment\nb) Political environment\nc) Legal environment\nd) Demographic environment\ne) Technological environment\nf) Natural environment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comicbook.com/2015/06/30/spider-woman-is-pregnant-in-all-new-all-different-marvel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:51Z", "digest": "sha1:55O6DHBM7X3OU6L66Y5CP7VIUWOF6ZO3", "length": 796, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "comicbook.com", "title": "Spider-Woman Is Pregnant In All-New, All-Different Marvel", "raw_content": "Spider-Woman Is Pregnant In All-New, All-Different Marvel\nBy Jamie Lovett - June 30, 2015\nCovers for Marvel's upcoming slate of All-New, All-Different titles have appeared online, and it looks like the adventures of Jessica Drew \u2013 Spider-Woman \u2013 are about to take an unexpected turn.\nJessica appears on the cover of Spider-Woman #1and is noticably pregnant. The tagline for the new series reads, \u201cParent by day. Hero by night.\u201d\nAll-New, All-Different Marvel takes place eight months after the events of Secret Wars, so that accounts for how Jessica is so suddenly pregnant.\nThe relaunched series will feature the same creative team as Spider-Woman's last popular iteration, writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Javier Rodriguez.\nSee the full cover in the gallery below. Spider-Woman #1 ships in Oct.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/04/14/funimation-spring-2018-simuldub-premiere-dates-announced/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZB45W75ZUMGKH2IIPNGAHWREI4IAYPX2", "length": 4328, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "comicbook.com", "title": "Funimation Announces Spring 2018 Simuldub Premiere Dates", "raw_content": "Funimation Announces Spring 2018 Simuldub Premiere Dates\nThe Spring 2018 is one of the most stacked seasons of anime in quite some time with many big series premiering at the same time. Some are continues, some are sequels, some are new adaptations of long awaited properties, and all are seen as huge by fans.\nFans of English language dubbed anime have been waiting to find out when they would be able to see the simuldubs of their anticipated releases. With Tokyo Ghoul:re and My Hero Academia's English dubs underway (though My Hero Academia was delayed until Episode 2), Funimation has finally confirmed when it would be premiering their Spring 2018 simuldub slate.\nRead on to see what Funimation has planned for Spring 2018 English dubs and let us know what you're looking forward to in the comments!\nSlide 1/10 \u2013 Space Battleship Tiramisu\nPremiere: April 18\nSynopsis: \"The human race extended its life field and greed to the vast reaches of space... In Space Era 0156, a war breaks out amidst all of the colonies in space. Earth begins to construct a new space battleship called Tiramisu in secret. Just as the war begins, one genius pilot steers the Tiramisu as a beacon of hope for humanity.\"\nSlide 2/10 \u2013 Kakuriyo - Bed & Breakfast for Spirits -\nSynopsis: \"After losing her grandfather, Aoi inherits his ability to see spirits. One day, an ogre appears demanding her hand in marriage to pay off her grandfather\u2019s debt. Aoi refuses and chooses instead to work at the Tenjin-ya bed and breakfast for spirits!\"\nSlide 3/10 \u2013 The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These\nSynopsis: \"In humanity's distant future, two interstellar states\u2014the monarchic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance\u2014are embroiled in a never-ending war. The story focuses on the exploits of rivals Reinhard von M\u00fcsel and Yang Wen Li as they rise to power and fame in the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance.\"\nSlide 4/10 \u2013 Hinamatsuri\nSynopsis: \"One night, a strange object falls on the head of Nitta, a member of the yakuza. Inside the box is a strange young girl named Hina. She has tremendous supernatural powers, and Nitta finds himself reluctantly taking her in. Her powers can come in handy for his yakuza business, but he also runs the risk of her using them on him! Not to mention, if she doesn't use her powers, she will eventually go berserk and destroy everything around her. Nitta and Hina's strange life together is just beginning...\"\nSlide 5/10 \u2013 Dances with the Dragons\nSynopsis: \"Dragons, beasts, and a unique brand of magic dwell in the city of Eridana where two clever bounty hunters have set up shop. Combining chemistry with weapons to create a powerful spell-like magic, Gaius and Gigina have their work cut out for them as they take on a variety of dangerous jobs. But soon, they may find themselves in over their heads.\"\nSlide 6/10 \u2013 Golden Kamuy\nSynopsis: \"Searching for gold in Hokkaido\u2019s harsh climate is tough work, and after war veteran Sugimoto stumbles across part of a treasure map, things get deadly. The map is divided among several escaped convicts, and this war-hardened soldier isn\u2019t the only one who knows it. Partnering with a local who can navigate the wilderness, will he have what it takes to find the stash\u2014and live to tell the story?\"\nSlide 7/10 \u2013 Steins;Gate 0\nSynopsis: \"A divergent continuation of the original Steins;Gate ending, Steins;Gate 0 explores an alternate worldline where Okabe abandons time travel. While attempting to forget past traumas and get his life back on track, he meets an AI that re-opens old wounds.\"\nSlide 8/10 \u2013 High School DxD Hero\nPremiere: May 1\nSynopsis: \"Season four of the High School DxD series! A war between heaven and hell is raging on Earth, and hormones are raging in Issei\u2019s pants. Enter curvy Rias, a devilish class leader.\"\nSlide 9/10 \u2013 Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory\nSynopsis: \"Kaname\u2019s a popular girl at her high school, but it\u2019s her popularity off campus that\u2019s the problem. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction, believing she possesses the abilities of the \u201cWhispered.\u201d That\u2019s where Sousuke enters the picture. He\u2019s a soldier from Mithril, a secret counter-terrorist unit\u2014and he\u2019s going undercover at Kaname\u2019s school to try and keep her safe.\"\nSlide 10/10 \u2013 Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 7129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boon_Tuan_Boon_Itt.jpg", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:44:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LDGSJFEXZZSPOPZWUUFOWTO6RTMVESCX", "length": 2189, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "commons.wikimedia.org", "title": "File:Boon Tuan Boon Itt.jpg - Wikimedia Commons", "raw_content": "File:Boon Tuan Boon Itt.jpg\nDescriptionBoon Tuan Boon Itt.jpg\nEnglish: Rev. Boon Tuan Boon-Itt (1865-1903) was an early Thai Protestant pastor and church leader\nSource Brain, Belle M., \"Boon-Itt, A Christian Leader of Asia\" Missionary Review of the World, May 1912, p.327\nAuthor Brain, Belle M\nThis image or media is now in the public domain in Thailand because its term of copyright has expired (details). According to Sections 19\u201323 of the Copyright Act, BE 2537 (1994) (translation), works which meet one of the following conditions are in the public domain:\nThis is a photographic work, audiovisual recording, motion picture, sound recording, or broadcast work, and at least 50 years have elapsed since its first publication or it was not published within 50 years of authorship.\nThis is a work of applied arts, and at least 25 years have elapsed its first publication or it was not published within 25 years of authorship.\nThis is a work by a pseudonymous or anonymous author, and at least 50 years have elapsed since its first publication or it was not published within 50 years of authorship.\nThis is a work other than described above, and\nIts last author died at least 50 years ago, or\nIts last author died before publication and at least 50 years have elapsed since its first publication, or\nThe author is a legal entity, and at least 50 years have elapsed since the first publication of the work or the work was not published within 50 years of authorship.\nThis work was created or commissioned by the Thai Government, and at least 50 years have elapsed since its first publication or it was not published within 50 years of authorship.\nTo uploaders : Please specify the kind of work, date of first publication or creation and other useful details.\ncurrent 14:18, 18 November 2013 630 \u00d7 970 (184 KB) Dahlfred (talk | contribs) larger image size with more pixels\n09:07, 18 November 2013 192 \u00d7 274 (19 KB) Dahlfred (talk | contribs) User created page with UploadWizard\nBoon Tuan Boon-Itt\n\u0e1a\u0e38\u0e0d\u0e15\u0e4b\u0e27\u0e19 \u0e1a\u0e38\u0e0d\u0e2d\u0e34\u0e15\nRetrieved from \"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Boon_Tuan_Boon_Itt.jpg&oldid=218739393\"\nChristianity in Thailand\nThai Protestants\nBoon Itt Family\nPD-Thailand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://connect.unity.com/u/dan-dixon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ROWARQ64IGA5XP6HR3CLTBAF5ZM65S62", "length": 131, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "connect.unity.com", "title": "Dan Dixon - Unity Connect", "raw_content": "I've been working on Universe Sandbox for over 10 years... it's my life's work. Looking for other...\nDan Dixon's liked projects (0)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 123.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://contestwatchers.com/monovisions-photo-awards-2019-competition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YVSYNHI4UP5PHKHB7O27LVUQYR2FMORR", "length": 1244, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "contestwatchers.com", "title": "MonoVisions Photo Awards 2019 Competition - Contest Watchers", "raw_content": "Monovisions\nMonoVisions Photography Awards have opened for entries for 2019, to once again recognize photographers using black and white medium as an expression of their visual language, internationally.\nThe Awards are created to discover the best monochrome photographers from all over the world and deliver the best opportunities to be recognized and rewarded for their work.\nYou can compete for $5,000 in cash prizes in two categories: Black and White Photo of the Year 2019 and Black and White Series of the Year 2019.\nThe annual competition is open to photographers of all backgrounds and all levels, including \u2013 professionals and amateurs. All forms of black and white photography created with traditional or digital methods are accepted.\nThe 2019 Competition categories include:\nGrand Prizes winners will receive:\n$3,000 cash prize for Black and White Series of the Year\n$2,000 cash prize for Black and White Photo of the Year\nDigital statue\nPress coverage by the organizer\u2019s media partners\nCopyright of the images will remain at all times with the photographer.\nThe MonoVisions Photo Awards are a project of the MonoVisions Black & White Photography Magazine.\nMonoVisions Photo Awards 2019 \u2013 Fees\nSingle image: $25\nSeries of images: $30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 5019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coregeorgetown.net/index.php/chiropractic-services/chiropractic-adjustments/activator-low-force-method", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:CPANOE4UFFJWAUA2ELJWAOE3BHM2EYVU", "length": 1371, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "coregeorgetown.net", "title": "Activator (Low Force) Method | Chiropractor Rehabilitative Care Services | CORE Health Centers Georgetown KY", "raw_content": "What is the Activator Method?\nThe Activator Method is an alternative method to the traditional manual form of spinal manipulation, known as the high velocity low amplitude (HVLA) thrust. The Activator Adjusting Instrument is reported to be the most common therapeutic intervention used by chiropractors.\nThere are two advantages of using an Activator instrument in a chiropractic adjustment. The first is based on the speed of the device. The Activator instrument is so quick that the body's muscles are less likely to tense in response, and resist the treatment. The lack of muscle resistance can facilitate the treatment effectiveness. The second is that the applied force from the Activator is localized and does not add any additional torque or bending movement to the other vertebrae surrounding the specific joint.\nAt CORE Health Centers, we provide chiropractic solutions for a wide variety of pain, chronic pain, and other related symptoms. Our techniques used in our chiropractic adjustments services, including the Activator Method or low force method, are designed to provide a non-narcotic, non-surgical solutions to pain relief. If your daily life is being affected by symptoms from an auto accident, stress, or other chronic pains, the team at CORE Health Centers of Georgetown KY is here to help you find relief and get you on the road to a pain free life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 9943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cornellrooseveltinstitute.org/health/insuring-healthcare-professionals", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BGXCR5KRGROEGYFUUNU5S7YYZI64PYO3", "length": 5219, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cornellrooseveltinstitute.org", "title": "Insuring Healthcare Professionals - Cornell Roosevelt Institute", "raw_content": "Insuring Healthcare Professionals\nBy John LempPublished May 1, 2013\nThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act neglected to reform a crucial aspect of the healthcare industry--medical malpractice litigation. An increase in the popularity and effectiveness of allied healthcare and medical malpractice professional liability insurance coverage creates a private sector solution to this problem, while maintaining the integrity of the healthcare industry and the medical profession.\nWith the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in March 2010, the widely criticized and flawed US healthcare system commenced a process of undergoing significant, progressive reforms. However, the PPACA entirely neglects a major portion of the medical and healthcare industry--medical malpractice and professional liability. Medical malpractice almost always results in expensive litigation, and doctors are forced to practice a type of defensive medicine in which they might not be able to take certain risks when diagnosing and treating patients that could have potentially provided them with a more accurate diagnosis and better treatment. While PPACA\u2019s omission of medical malpractice and professional liability reform certainly poses problems for the healthcare industry, these problems can be remedied in an effective way that also offers a private sector solution--the purchase of allied healthcare and medical malpractice professional liability insurance.\nAllied healthcare and medical malpractice professional liability coverage is a rapidly growing aspect of the insurance industry, providing liability coverage to all types of healthcare businesses and facilities such as hospitals, clinics, fitness centers, spas, beauty salons, and psychiatric and mental health centers. While high premium expenses frequently accompany this type of insurance coverage, it is definitely well worth it for medical practices and healthcare businesses to include in their insurance portfolio. In the event of a claim, the insurance provider will pay the damages to the patient, thus protecting the particular hospital or clinic from being taken to court. A claim does, however, consequently raise that business\u2019s future premium rates. Although the thought of paying even higher premiums may cause the hospital or clinic to consider dropping coverage, there is a private sector solution. The allied healthcare and medical malpractice professional liability insurance industry is expanding rapidly, with more insurance provider firms entering the market each year. An increase in the number of insurance providers means greater competition, which in turn would drive down prices and allow more healthcare businesses and medical professionals to shop around for insurance coverage.\nAlthough many medical professionals may be skeptical about the notion of purchasing professional liability insurance coverage, it is definitely needed and well worth it in the end. This type of preventative policy provides healthcare professionals with the peace of mind that potential mistakes will be covered without cumbersome and expensive litigation. I learned a great deal about this type of professional liability coverage and insurance coverage in general last summer while interning as an Underwriting Assistant at Hiscox USA, the American division of Hiscox, Inc., which is one of the world's leading specialty insurers and the premier insurer of professional liability coverage in the United States. Hiscox's Allied Healthcare portfolio includes coverage for almost any medical practice one can think of, ranging from acupuncturists to alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers to ambulance services companies. It is the goal of Hiscox and other insurance providers to protect their clients while establishing a defense mechanism against litigation.\nThese private sector insurance companies are committed to maintaining the integrity of the medical profession, while ensuring that the healthcare that patients receive allows them to lead active and healthy lifestyles. With that being said, the insurance companies in the private sector charge high premium prices, sometimes tremendously high prices to healthcare providers. While purchasing allied healthcare and medical malpractice professional liability coverage is and will continue to be an expensive purchase for healthcare businesses and medical professionals in the near future, over time, these costs will decrease dramatically, as more insurance companies in the private sector enter this market. This type of coverage protects against the potentially exorbitant losses a doctor or hospital may face in the event of medical malpractice litigation, which frequently runs into the tens of thousands of dollars without a patient even being paid for the damages. These costs associated with medical malpractice lawsuits are passed down to health insurance providers and ultimately to patients. 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The President and CEO \u00d8ystein L\u00f8seth presented Vattenfall\u2019s operations, which in 2012 had focused on improving efficiency and strengthening Vattenfall\u2019s financial position, despite continuous difficult market conditions.\nThe owner was represented by Erik Thed\u00e9en, State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, and Malin Fries, Deputy Director.\nOf the total profits of SEK 73,196,152,198 at the disposal of the AGM, it was decided to pay out SEK 6,774,000,000 to the shareholder and carry SEK 66,422,152,198 forward. The dividend corresponds to SEK 51,44 per share and will be paid on 2 May 2013.\nThe AGM decided to retain the principles for remuneration to senior executives unchanged.\nThe AGM decided that unchanged fees for the time until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting shall be payable in the amount of SEK 580,000 for the Chairman of the Board and SEK 280,000 for each of the other Board members elected by the AGM. For work in the Remuneration Committee, the Audit Committee and the Safety and Risk Committee an unchanged fee of SEK 60,000 shall be paid to the Committee Chairman and SEK 45,000 to each of the other members.\nFor work in the External Relations and Ethics Committee, proposed by the Board, a fee of SEK 60,000 shall be paid to the Committee Chairman and SEK 45,000 to each of the other members, in line with the other committees.\nNo fees shall be paid to Board member who is employed at the Swedish Government Offices or to employee representatives.\nThe AGM decided that the fee for the auditor\u2019s work shall be paid as per approved invoice.\nLars G Nordstr\u00f6m (Chairman since June 2011) was re-elected as Chairman of the Board until the conclusion of the next AGM. Eli Arnstad, Patrik J\u00f6nsson, H\u00e5kan Erixon, Gunilla Berg, H\u00e5kan Buskhe and Jan-\u00c5ke Jonsson were re-elected as members of the Board. 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The program included discussions on festival tourism, pilgrim routes, [...]\nSummary of Culture and Tourism Group Meeting in Billund\nCulture & Tourism Group discussed the new work program of the North Sea Commission at its 54th meeting in Billund, Denmark 14 June 2016 The Culture & Tourism Group met on 14 June at Hotel [...]\nCulture & Tourism Group focus on youth art and seafood\nThe Culture & Tourism Group met in Sandnes (Rogaland County) on 15-16 February. Led by acting Chair, Otto Kj\u00e6r Larsen from North Denmark Region, the group discussed several issues, including the revision of the NSR2020 [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crittentonsocal.org/category/crittenton-services-blog/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CFRVZL363AHB6WZXSTCRV576ZMQKELWY", "length": 4224, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "crittentonsocal.org", "title": "Crittenton Services BLOG \u2013 Page 10 \u2013 Crittenton | Services for Children and Families", "raw_content": "Crittenton\u2019s 2013 Community for Kids Golf Tournament\nEach year, like clockwork, Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) hosts the Community for Kids Golf Tournament and Winner Dinner benefitting children and families in need. The charity fundraiser was held at the Yorba Linda Country Club in Yorba Linda, Calif. on September 16, 2013, and once again the event location did not disappoint. This annual golf tournament helps support the services and programs CSCF...\nCrittenton\u2019s Annual Day of Beauty Event\nThe Annual Day of Beauty Event was held at the Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) Residential Services Treatment Center on September 7, 2013. Each year an army of dedicated CSCF volunteers, community partners and long-time supporters create a day of empowerment and encouragement for CSCF Residential Services clients in need of mentorship and guidance. \u201cThis yearly event has been established to focus on empowering young...\nCrittenton\u2019s Annual Summer Olympics\nCrittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) Annual Summer Olympics were held on August 7, 2013. Nearly 100 CSCF Residential Services clients and staff attended this yearly summer athletic tradition. The Crittenton Olympics continues to showcase the athleticism and work ethic of CSCF Residential Services clients. Since the summer of 2000 the Crittenton Olympic event has brought CSCF clients, staff and community partners together in order...\n2013 Wraparound Services Back- to-School Event\nMore than 100 Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) clients from Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties participated in the CSCF Wraparound Services Program's Annual Back- to-School Event on August 3, 2013. Historically, the children that CSCF serves have come from low-income families and oftentimes are struggling with behavior and mental health issues. In addition to these factors, CSCF also has a large number of...\nMeet Eliana: Crittenton\u2019s Public Policy Intern\nJust as I could only imagine how most other college students would feel upon starting their first internship; I too was relatively clueless to what I would encounter as an intern for Crittenton. On its own merit, interning for a non-profit child welfare agency provides its own unique experience. However, I say with full confidence that the knowledge and skills I gained at Crittenton is unparallel...\n2013 Leadership Fullerton Fellows include Crittenton Staff\nThe Fullerton Chamber of Commerce\u2019s second Leadership Fullerton class celebrated the completion of a ten-month leadership program with a commencement ceremony at the Fullerton Public Library on June 27, 2013. Leadership Fullerton is a program that provides City of Fullerton professionals with a unique opportunity to connect and better understand the local community with a focus on business and governance. This year\u2019s graduate class had a total...\nWraparound Services Annual Family Picnic\nMore than 200 Crittenton Services for Children and Families clients and their families from the Los Angeles County area participated in the Wraparound Services Department's Annual Family Picnic at Cerritos Regional Park on June 15, 2013. The goal of the picnic is to promote family unity and to teach Crittenton clients and their families that they can spend quality time together without having to spend a lot...\nSuccess is our Future Awards Banquet\nCrittenton Services for Children and Families staff and residential clients were invited to attend the Los Angeles County Probation's Department: 21st Annual Success is our Future Awards Banquet on May 16, 2013. Crittenton's graduating class of 2013 consisted of six female clients that were honored and recognized at the annual academic and talent achievement event. Among the recognition given to Crittenton clients at the awards ceremony...\nWelcome and Thanks for the Support\nIn the years I have been at Crittenton, I have learned that we are more than our programs, services, or locations. WE are a diverse group of ideas, opinions, skills, talents and dreams. As the government agencies we contract with demand more accountability \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 I don\u2019t want to lose sight of the power of one staff in the moment with one...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crooked.com/articles/ralph-northam-lasting-shame/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LZ2TXTGEG2T7LAXTFWHA77BE6JX4VTGY", "length": 4517, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "crooked.com", "title": "Ralph Northam's Lasting Shame | Crooked Media", "raw_content": "Brian Beutler /\tFeb.4.19\nThere is a story that Ralph Northam could have told last week that might not have saved his job, but would have restored his dignity and left him with a legacy he could have taken into retirement with pride.\nThe discovery of the Virginia governor\u2019s medical school yearbook, and with it the revelation that Northam once used to pal around in Klan robes with white classmates wearing blackface (or vice versa?) was probably going to be a deathblow to Northam\u2019s political career no matter how he handled it. For all the good he\u2019s done in his brief time as governor, Northam has been active in public life for many years while sitting on a truth about his past that is, one way or another, wildly at odds with his current persona, and he chose to conceal his past rather than to reconcile it with the present.\nThat decision made the now-infamous picture we all saw on Friday not merely jarring and offensive, but a betrayal of trust. There\u2019s almost no youthful sin a grown politician can\u2019t survive with compelling and sincere expressions of remorse and redemption, but only if they disclose the sin on their own and seek forgiveness. If years ago Northam had leveled with Virginians about what he grew up doing or believing, and why and how he\u2019d evolved into a better person, he probably could have apologized for the picture, referred back to his own confession, and moved on.\nWhat\u2019s truly unforgivable isn\u2019t the fact that Northam was a horrible asshole when he was a young man, but his determination to cause enduring harm now that his past has been exposed, when he could just as easily have wrung something lasting and constructive out of his professional demise.\nImplicit in the humiliating way Northam has tried to explain away the picture\u2014I don\u2019t remember if it\u2019s me, I liked Michael Jackson, etc.\u2014is his apparent belief that the most important issue here is how deeply held his racist views were 35 years ago. He has proceeded as if he can save his career by convincing the public that the photograph depicts a regrettable antic moment rather than his truest younger self. But the distinction he\u2019s trying to draw is almost entirely beside the point.\nWhether Northam was an out-and-proud white supremacist or a fool who had casually internalized that black people weren\u2019t worthy of the same basic respect as white people, he has done nothing to explain how a Virginia man in his mid-twenties might have embraced either detestable value system.\nI don\u2019t know where along that spectrum the truth lies, but in any case Northam\u2019s behavior in medical school is an echo of a white southern cultural norm that didn\u2019t die out after the Civil War or the civil rights movement, was still very much alive when Northam was a child, and persists today both in the south and outside of it. It\u2019s a relic of a legal racial caste system just as Confederate monuments are relics of the Lost Cause. Both are still with us because white political and cultural leaders\u2014people like the elder Northam\u2014have failed to adequately stigmatize them, and keep them confined to history books and museums.\nNortham could have used the surfacing of his own past as an opportunity not just to relinquish his governorship, but to do so as part of a larger call for Virginia and other southern states to make a clean break with this aspect of their heritage. The point would not be to close the door to public life on every privileged southern white person who\u2019s done something like Northam did. It\u2019s to say that future Northams can\u2019t sweep the hurtful things they grew up doing under the rug and, then climb the rungs of Democratic politics, and expect to be absolved if and when they get caught. It\u2019s to enforce new, better norms, so that fewer and fewer young white people in the south and elsewhere ever get taken in by this kind of thinking and behavior over time. And it\u2019s to expose the hollowness and bad faith of the conservatives who are pretending to be offended by what Northam did, but who will blanch the moment they are asked to extend the logic of expelling him from office to confederate monuments, Steve King, or Donald Trump.\nThat opportunity is slipping away. Northam could have been remembered not as the guy in either black face or the Klan hood, but as the guy who used his own shame as an opportunity to build a stronger, more just society. Instead he chose to muddy the moral stakes of the choices before him\u2014and that, rather than the behavior depicted in the photograph itself, is his unforgivable sin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 8584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cross-currentmusic.com/2016/01/09/cross-current-news-january-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IROWKS63PBFS3VN2GAHTHXKJBMXFFSUP", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cross-currentmusic.com", "title": "Cross Current News January 2016 | Cross Current", "raw_content": "January 9, 2016 by Cross Current", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3384, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curriproperties.net/fishing-brevard-county/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3VL3NBQKMEZODI5XEAOTXGH56CYUDA35", "length": 4124, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "curriproperties.net", "title": "Fishing in Brevard County - Curri Properties", "raw_content": "If you have never been to Brevard County, you are in for a treat. The Space Coast is a home to large, flowing rivers, lakes, tributaries, waterways, and lagoons, making it a fisherman\u2019s dream. Though the Atlantic and its beaches get a great deal of attention in the way of water sports and recreation, the rivers and waterways of Brevard County offer lots of fun and excitement to residents and guests of the region.\nFishing in Brevard ranges from Melbourne Beach south to Titusville, where veteran fishermen and novices can be assured of catching any number of the unique fish species in the area. From offshore big game saltwater fishing in the Atlantic to the intracoastal brackish water fishing along the lagoon and the Banana River to the freshwater fishing of the lakes and rivers, Brevard County is one of the best places in the world to experience the thrill of reeling in a big one!\nWhether you enjoy surf fishing from shore, the excitement of deep sea fishing, or the relaxation of fishing from the pier, the beautiful Atlantic Ocean offers a plethora of fishing opportunities. From the pier or the shore, you will find Whiting, Pompano, Atlantic Croaker, Margate, Black Drum (the smaller ones make better eats!), Sheepshead, Bluefish (especially popular with surf fishermen), Spanish Mackerel, Redfish, and Snook (in the summer and fall). Choose you spot from the local favorites like the Canaveral National Seashore and Playalinda Beach or one of the areas numerous piers.\nIf an ocean fishing trip is your dream, then the Space Coast is the perfect place for a deep-sea fishing adventure. Deep sea fishing is a great place to catch Blackfin Tuna, Amberjack, Mahi Mahi, Cobia, Barracuda, and King Mackerel, while you kick back, relax, and enjoy a day on the ocean.\nThe river system in Brevard County is filled with a vast collection of water terrain and a diverse assortment of fish species sure to please any fisherman. You will find some of the world\u2019s best fishing as you make your catch from among large schools of Drum fish, Sheepshead, Flounder, Tarpon, Jacks, Mullets, Snappers, Grunts, Mackerels, and Pompanos. You\u2019ll be hard-pressed to choose between Mosquito Lagoon, the Indian River, the Banana River, the Stick Marsh, Lake Washington, or many other fabulous locations.\nMosquito Lagoon \u2013 Featuring several hundred thousand acres of salt water fishing amid grass flats, oyster bars, and mangroves, fisherman will find a massive arena for many species. The lagoon is famous for its Redfish (up to 40 inches!), but you will also find Tarpon and Snook in the fast-flowing regions.\nIndian River Lagoon \u2013 This Indian River system is the largest in Brevard, running 100 miles over four counties. Part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (which runs from Virginia to Florida), the Indian River maintains a minimum depth of 12 feet and spans six miles at its widest point. Amid seagrass flats, mangrove forests, oyster flats, and salt marshes, you will find Seatrout, Redfish, Snook, Tarpon, Jack, Bluefish, and many more. The Indian River tributaries in Brevard include Turkey Creek, Cane Creek, and the Eau Gallie River.\nBanana River \u2013 Another lagoon labeled a river, the Banana River merges with the Indian River, though it is not part of the Intracoastal Waterway making it a more pristine, natural location for fisherman. Popular catches in the Banana River include Black Drum, Redfish, Seatrout, Lady Fish, Pompano, Snook, Tarpon, and Jacks.\nThe Stick March \u2013 The Stick Marsh is, in fact, a 6,500-acre man-made lake famous for its Bass fishing. Of course, you will also find Shellfish, Crappie, and Bluegill in the Stick Marsh \u2013 one of the best fishing spots in Florida and probably the entire United States.\nLake Washington \u2013 At 4,362 acres, Lake Washington is Brevard County\u2019s largest natural freshwater lake. Part of the St. John\u2019s river system, here fisherman will find an abundance of many species of Bass, as well as Catfish, Crappie, and more.\nThough these are just a few of the best-known spots, you will find others among the many lakes, ponds, and steams that enhance beautiful Brevard County.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customcanineunlimited.com/about-us/staff/samuel-allen/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MMO72EFXPJHIRW4E2RRS7ASCWRUT3DPX", "length": 2541, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "customcanineunlimited.com", "title": "Samuel Allen - Custom Canine Unlimited", "raw_content": "Custom Canine UnlimitedAbout UsStaffSamuel Allen\nSamuel \u201cBuck\u201d Allen, as the Head Trainer for Custom Canine Unlimited brings vast knowledge that spans the boundaries of higher education, law enforcement, and foreign and domestic K-9 work. His education and experience assists CCU in being a driving force in providing the highest standards of core trainers the K-9 industry has to offer.\nSamuel Allen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science with a pre-law concentration in August 2006 from North Georgia College and State University where he served as a member of the Corps of Cadets and the precision rifle team. These two positions offered Allen a secondary education in leadership as a senior rifle team instructor, assistant squad leader, and squad leader.\nAllen used his education to begin a career in law enforcement in 2008 where he was certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (GAPOST) as a Police Officer. His excellence and escalatory nature quickly provided Allen with experience the patrol division, entry/search team, traffic enforcement, incident reporting, and K-9 Unit, where he served as a K-9 Assistant and decoy. During this time Allen used his free time to attend specialized training as a K-9 Handler, K-9 Trainer, and obtained his State of Georgia Intermediate Police Officer Certification. It was his K-9 training in the area of obedience, detection, tracking, protection, and aggression; K-9 certification and K-9 experiences that spearheaded his career among the elite.\nSamuel Allen obtained his explosives and patrol dog certifications and he undertook three K-9 deployments in the Middle East. With deployments in Forward Operating Base Prosperity, Baghdad, Iraq; Forward Operating Base Blackhorse, Phoenix, Alamo in Kabul, Afghanistan; and Camp Balad, in Balad, Iraq, Allen gained additional K-9 experience and operational knowledge in the areas of canine searches at entry control points, random anti-terrorism measures, \u201cshow of force\u201d missions, both interior and exterior explosive searches, and canine decoy while displaying the ability to not only work in a foreign hostile environment, but also display the ability to work with other U.S. contractors and military personnel, various NATO country military units, African and European contractors, Iraqi and Afghan nationals, and the Iraqi and Afghan military. This vast array of diversity, working knowledge, and K-9 experience has placed him in an optimum position to take on his next K-9 assignment with CCU.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customwritings.co/regulation-of-uk-journalism-and-news-a-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TONIB376EUXG4FXA77YAGFHPWTJ4FMHP", "length": 20993, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "customwritings.co", "title": "Regulation of UK Journalism and News \u2013 A History | CustomWritings", "raw_content": "Regulation of UK Journalism and News \u2013 A History\nThe ownership and editorship of multimedia, combined with the ever-looming regulation of the state has had a high impact on Journalism as an industry. The new forms of media production have overall created through a push and pull force for authority between both producers and regulators an industry which has been able to produce news which has altered to suit society. The somewhat flippant relationship between publisher and a centralised government has over time produced an unbalanced system where the power over the news and its influence within the politicised nation have determined the change in societal viewpoints. The competitive nature between the two powers has allowed the constant revival of news products produced throughout the history through new means. With new advancements in news reports, the introduction of new technology alongside the political strain of constant regulation, journalistic boundaries have been pushed towards a great change. Ownership ideas have been challenged by common concepts throughout history causing individuals to interpret the news in new ways by means of innovative news products. Through challenging the norm and historical changes to journalistic production newspaper publishers have been able to adapt to suit their audience because of the way they tackle the regulations set to suppress journalism.\nThe owners of news companies have dominated the way newspapers are perceived through regulation. Regulation through ownership sets limits to freedom of writing for the greater good, to fit the common beliefs of the democratic society. The regulation of the media needs to be clear and convincing to withhold the attention of the audience. Although we can give general justifications for regulation that helps to reconcile it with the principles of freedom and democracy there is not a singular or definitive answer to why the news needs to be regulated. There are two main types of regulation which have been used within the newspaper press, these are negative and reactive. The negative form is utilised to refute threats to press independence and overall diversity whilst the positive is used to enable the press to coexist with the general philosophies of the political nation. According to Picard (1985), \u201cPositive press freedom is intended to promote the free flow of diverse ideas and public debate by removing and guarding against barriers to that flow\u201d.\u00c2 Thus, the main aim of regulation should be the promotion of access, freedom to communicate, diversity and universal provision of the individual rights whilst secure communicative and cultural ends were chosen by the people.\nA journalist was one part of the four estates (Habermas 1984-7), an upholder for the greater good and moralistic standards. Investigative journalism thrived on the notion of helping others, through challenging the way reports were carried out. This type of journalism is about trying to produce information that others, usually in a position of power, do not want to be made public. As the Press Baron William Randolph Hearst allegedly said (Perry, Manners & Smith 2006), \u201cNews is something somebody does not want to be printed; all else is advertising\u201d. Investigative journalism, therefore, involves using underhand and sometimes questionable methods of practice. It is then justified by the reader and the publisher, whether the article has been conducted ethically. Each individual case is weighed on its merits, then journalists and editors can make judgement calls. It is widely accepted that the conduct of these types of reports are justifiable, allowing journalists to use underhand and illicit methods to pursue stories that are in the public interest. Levin (1997) stated that reporters should not necessarily be prosecuted for infringing the law, \u201dbecause journalists do serve the public interest and that had to be preserved\u201d.\u00c2 This is evident within WT Stead\u2019s work.\nA problem for many publishers was for the fact that the news products being produced could not interest a wide audience. With many papers failing to appeal to a varied audience due to the writers being elitist towards the common man, it was crucial for new news products to be developed and could be accessible to the public. Most papers wrote from an upper-class perspective. This meant that lower class individuals could not relate or understand the content being delivered. The lack of relatability meant that there was a fierce competition in the news market to gain interest from the collective society unless you could appeal to regular readers, a publication was likely to fail. The need for stories which could compel and captivate a reader to continue reading a full article became more evident. As papers were now being released from the constraints of regulation through the Taxes of Knowledge news publishers and the political interest of the working class increasing. , this was a definitive point for publishers to branch out through new means.\nIn the nineteenth century, WT Stead helped to produce tabloid journalism. 1885, saw Stead\u2019s Pall Mall Gazette being launched. Stead\u2019s personal belief was a government run by the press. Stead stressed that \u201dthe Press is directed by men with the instinct and capacity of government\u201d. Stead\u2019s journalistic investigation delved into child prostitution in London. His investigation was backed by the Social Purity Movement. He published a series of reports titled: \u2018The Violation of Virgins\u2019, \u2018Confessions of a Brothel-keeper\u2019 and \u2018A Girl of 13 Bought for \u00a35\u2019. The salacious style of Stead\u2019s reports caused a national uproar. When WH Smith refused to carry the \u2018obscene\u2019 paper on its newsstands, the Salvation Army members helped to sell it instead because of the importance of the paper. Stead\u2019s enquiry into child prostitution involved breaking the law through his investigative methods. He posed as a client in order to buy a 13-year old girl from her parents for a fiver.\u00c2 His reporting was recognised by a \u2018fake sheikh\u2019 through Stead acting as a pseudo-paedo. Through regulators, he was sentenced to three months in jail. The stories provoked a sense of anger which led parliament to raise the age of sexual consent to 16 through the Criminal Law Amendment Act in the same year. Stead knew that to survive he needed to create a loyal readership. He did this with his scandalous stories that caught the interest and echoed the concerns of the public overall. Through the positive press freedom, Steads benefitted the rights of the individual, highlighting the importance of journalists as a watchdog of justice through reactive press information. Here the journalists\u2019 power outweighed the power of the negative regulators allowing for the adaptation of news media being delivered in a more exciting way.\nThe BBC was first created as a private company by manufacturers to encourage radio sales to the general public, through a dependable foundation. The government, as a regulator, intervened in this change, until 1926. Then the Crawford Committee decided that the BBC would turn into a public organisation. Whilst the BBC was regulated by the government through being financed by tariffs and license fees. The vision of the BBC being a public service, designed to serve the whole of the UK as an impartial broadcaster, transmitting an independent public service across the world was the new aim of the corporation. The British Broadcasting Company would be based on citizenship, rather than private consumption whilst being funded accordingly by the license fees as a tax. The regulation at hand was used to (Hoffmann-Riem, 1996; and Feintuck, 1999) \u201censure universal availability to the general population of the country of broadcast services, to ensure a wide range of services and access opportunities, according to the needs of society \u2013 meaning diversity in social, political, cultural and local/regional terms and to promote high quality of content provided as far as possible according to locally decided values and standards, with particular reference to information, education, advertising, culture, taste and decency.\u201d With the adaptations of television and the start of commercial competition through digital technology, the BBC intended, through its management by Reith. To keep its core concept of being a cultural force serving the whole of society.\nWith the advancements in technology altering broadcasting, listeners through the company\u2019s new ethos had the ability to personalise their own sets with lower priced mechanisms from foreign companies and countries and applying for new licenses, which in theory should have given the company more profits for expansion, yet this was not the case. The BBC did not support this and manufacturers were aggravated because the production of news bulletins and transmissions were not proving to be as lucrative as it should have been, because of this the Sykes Committee was established. The committee suggested that the private company should be swapped with, as Curran describes, \u201cPublic Commission operating in the National Interest\u201d. The BBC was regulated as the government could not allow an organisation to appear like it had no rules, so the limited space in the frequency spectrum, allowed for the government to step in through technological constraints.\nAs Thatcher came into power in 1979, the Conservative Party won the General Election, taking over from James Callaghan. The Conservatives went on to win again in the 1983 election by an overwhelming majority. \u201dHer government followed a radical program of privatisation and deregulation, reform of the trade unions\u201d (UK Gov). Her capitalist ideals crafted a strategy to diminish the power of the journalist and the trade union which aided them. Her long-term strategy for privatising the BBC took heed through the Peacock Commission offered by Mrs Thatcher in 1986. The plan was that \u2018subscription should replace the license fee\u2019 and cover much of the BBC\u2019s output. Here the BBC would be commercialised and would then favour those subdivisions of the population, who were most willing to pay for it as consumers. However, the BBC was against this notion as it would lose the company, its credibility as a public service. The Public Service Broadcasting Council was to be set up to support Radios 3 and 4 and to allocate funds to competing for television broadcasters who wanted to gain more public interest. Thatcher\u2019s attempt to make the BBC conform to her ideals (Hoffmann-Riem, 1996; and Feintuck, 1999) \u201cTo allocate frequencies and broadcasting concessions in an equitable and orderly manner and supervise conformity to the rules laid down and to look after the basic interests of the state in matters of security and good order, as locally interpreted\u201d only caused the BBC to outweigh her rule with their own power. The government was suppressed on this occasion by the journalist safeguarding their own beliefs for the greater good.\nYet, threats to press freedom can root from the government itself, but other threats to the press are likely to stem from powerful economic or political forces to suppress the press\u2019s freedom of speech. Often the surface reasons given is used as a blanket to conceal the prioritised purpose for the article being published like for the interests of the state. Threats to press freedom can root from the same government, but other threats to the press are likely to stem from powerful economic or political forces to suppress the press\u2019s freedom of speech. Often the surface reasons given is used as a blanket to conceal the prioritised purpose for the article being published like for the interests of the state, this can be seen in the Battle of Wapping. The Wapping dispute marked the beginning of the end of Fleet Street newspaper production. The first newspaper to be published in the eighteenth century was Times dates in 1785 and the News of the World, which combined Newszak and serious news. This first appeared in 1843. By the early twentieth century, Fleet Street was at equal power with national newspapers. It was depicted as a \u201dhighly commercialised, a competitive industry whose owners enjoyed political clout and social prestige\u201d by the national worker\u2019s story.\nIn 1969 Murdoch obtained the News of the World, his first British newspaper, after a battle with rival publisher owner Robert Maxwell. In the same year, he bought The Sun, and through The Sun\u2019s publishers, Murdoch acquired the Daily Mirror. To help secure the sale, the print unions at The Sun agreed Murdoch\u2019s demand of lowering the staffing levels to be more cost effective as well as forming a joint paper partnership with the News of the World. Murdoch and his editors transformed The Sun from a pro-Labour paper to a conservative ruled paper.\u00c2 It became a commercial success, but this was highly controversial because of the papers centralised fixation on Newszak topics in addition to its support of Margaret Thatcher, the new Tory Prime Minister who was elected in May 1979. Murdoch\u2019s sudden alliance to the new PM introduced her policies for transitioning the government. Her policies of monetarism, privatisation, and self-help were despised by the old labour government followers. Stan Cohen (Folk Devils and Moral Panics) stated that \u201dcondition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests.\u201d Her capitalist views aligned both Murdoch and herself together to become a force against the traditional press barons giving the ammunition for Murdoch to regulate news media. Thatcher helped Rupert Murdoch break the dominating power of trade print unions at the Battle of Wapping, laying the way for new broadcasters like the Independent and bigger, multi-section newspapers to be formed. This loophole allowed monopolies to be explored and News products to be exploited. Without the battle of Wapping being ended, the flat print would have inhibited the development of news media products and the production of the media. Through destroying the flat press Murdoch regulation allowed for cheaper productions and cheaper products to be sold, benefiting news companies subsequently increasing their revenue for developers.\nNews ownership regulations affected the ability of news media organisations like the BBC and Sky from growing their businesses. The regulation also prevention news outlets from being able to adapt to the changes in the economic climate and the wider media ranges.\u00c2 The set regulations affect the ability of news media publishers from acquiring new titles, and from expanding their news provision services across other platforms such as television and radio. Thatcher\u2019s loophole also broke the TV duopoly of ITV and the BBC through the launch of News channels such as Channel 4. Thatcher was successful in privatising the TV transmitter networks, allowing ITV licenses to be sold to the highest bidder. Here Murdoch could create Sky. Murdoch\u2019s domination over exclusive football rights was all achieved through Thatcher government\u2019s support. The advancement in technology aided the quality of British television and broadcasting by increasing its diversity.\u00c2 The 1980s saw the appearance of Sky British television was revolutionary with its focus on Newszak programmes and stories. The focus on more trivial subjects allowed for the company to reach out to a wider audience making the news outlet vastly popular.\nAs Sky emerged Murdoch waged war against the BBC, through its privately funded style and the need for broadcasting domination. Against the other terrestrial broadcasters and the BBC, Murdoch attempted to undermine their public service ethos.\u00c2 In the case of the two commercial terrestrial broadcasters, ITN and Channel 4, they also lost advertising revenue as viewers were drawn off to Sky because of its possession of exclusive football rights and supporting reports.\u00c2 To try to preserve their audience share the terrestrial broadcasters some of their advertising revenue the BBC and the other terrestrial broadcasters were forced into rating wars with Sky in which Sky had an immense built-in advantage because of its possession of the exclusive football rights. The quality of terrestrial broadcasters suffered due to their lack of sporting coverage, losing them a favour against Murdoch\u2019s creation. Yet the popularity of news increased because of this influx of competitiveness between news outlets.\nWith Sky News concentrating on Newszak culture the media product being produced in a simpler and more audience friendly manner allowed for a wider audience to be reached. Allan (2004) describes the Push and pull factors between what news sources people could choose. This choice can fluctuate as forms of media develop and in response to audience needs. Some people felt that they were better informed than in past because of the change to how news was being delivered as the many felt that this type of journalism confirmed their worldview, causing them to engage more with the news. With the differing News outlets competing against each other both the BBC and Sky could reach different target audiences allowing people to make a choice on how they wanted to be informed, allowing news media to be catered for a specific audience.\nUltimately, the ownership of multimedia has determined the direction that journalism has followed. With the political constraints of regulation through government rule and societal concepts, journalism has fought through suppression to benefit the general public. Regulation through ownership has throughout history set limits to the freedom of writing for the greater good to try and fit the common beliefs of the democratic society. The owners of publishers have been a key factor in creation and production of news products. Owners have been able to transform their news outlets through harnessing new technologies, engaging in debates about popular politics whilst directing the focus of their publications. Ownership combined with both negative and active regulations have over time determined the way in which news is produced.\nWhilst the negative form of regulation has been adopted to refute threats to the press independence in aims to prevent radical change, the positive form has been used to enable the press to coexist with the general philosophies to gain favour with either the government or the targeted audience. With new advancements in investigative journalism, the creation of the British Broadcasting Company and the addition of Sky News being created journalism has continually updated itself through the political strain of regulation. The push towards specific regulation types allowed news production to alter, creating outlets for certain audiences to engage with. Thus, the government\u2019s continual interjections within journalists news production through schemes such as the Peacock Commission offered by Mrs Thatcher in 1986, pushed the towards better production and quality of a more representative news product overall.\nWord count:\u00c2 with quotes-3005, without quotes- 2762\nJurgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action volume 2, J\u00fcrgen Habermas Publisher Beacon Press, 1984\nWilliam Randolph Hearst quote from The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion Student Companions to American History, Authors Elisabeth Israels Perry, Karen Manners Smith Edition illustrated: Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2006\nGavin Levin quote used from \u2013 Defining Moments in Journalism Media Studies Series,\u00c2 Editors Nancy J. Woodhull, Robert W. Snyder: Publisher Transaction Publishers, 1997\nPicard, R.G. (1985) The Press and the Decline of Democracy. Westport CT: Greenwood Press\nW.T. Stead quote used from \u2013 Popular Print Media, 1820-1900, Volume 3 Edition Synapse Popular Print Media, 1820-1900, John Plunkett Authors Andrew King, John Plunkett Editors Andrew King, John Plunkett Edition illustrated, reprint Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2004\nCohen, Stanley (2002) Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. Edition illustrated, third edition: Publisher Routledge\nJames Curran, Jean Seaton: Power Without Responsibility: The Press, Broadcasting, and New Media in Britain Edition reprint, revised Publisher Routledge, 2003\nNEWSINTERNATIONAL, Wapping 25 years on, the worker\u2019s story GPM section of Unite and the Marx Memorial Library. Print: Upstream Coop Printers,\nOnline pdf file version also used:\u00c2 http://www.wapping-dispute.org.uk/sites/default/files/the-workers-story.pdf\nUK Gov used for information on Thatcher:\u00c2 https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/margaret-thatcher\nDavid Goldberg, Tony Prosser, Stefaan G. Verhulst Editors David Goldberg, Tony Prosser, Stefaan G. Verhulst: Regulating the Changing Media: A Comparative Study Authors Edition illustrated, reprint Publisher Clarendon Press (2002) -\u00c2 quote used: 1998 Hoffmann-Riem, 1996; and Feintuck, 1999\nAllan, S. (2004) 2nd edition. 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Well, if you\u2019re new to the internet or don\u2019t what\u2019s trending from last few days, then you will\u2026\nJack Ma of Alibaba Cautions that U.S. China Trade Friction Might Keep Going for 20 Years", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/10/17/dorsey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KRLNXGNRT2W3BMN4LYJESKBZQOO22KHW", "length": 1458, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "daringfireball.net", "title": "Daring Fireball: Jack Dorsey on 'Users' vs. 'Customers'", "raw_content": "Jack Dorsey on \u2018Users\u2019 vs. \u2018Customers\u2019\nJack Dorsey:\nThe entire technology industry uses the word \u201cuser\u201d to describe its customers. While it might be convenient, \u201cusers\u201d is a rather passive and abstract word. No one wants to be thought of as a \u201cuser\u201d (or \u201cconsumer\u201d for that matter). I certainly don\u2019t. And I wouldn\u2019t consider my mom a \u201cuser\u201d either, she\u2019s my mom. The word \u201cuser\u201d abstracts the actual individual. This may seem like a small and insignificant detail that doesn\u2019t matter, but the vernacular and words we use here at Square set a very strong and subtle tone for everything we do. So let\u2019s now part ways with our industry and rethink this.\nThat\u2019s why Apple has always had human interface guidelines, not user interface guidelines.\nThe word \u201ccustomer\u201d is a much more active and bolder word. It\u2019s honest and direct. It immediately suggests a relationship we must deliver on. And our customers think of their customers in the same way.\nInteresting contrast between Dorsey\u2019s two companies, Square and Twitter. Twitter clearly doesn\u2019t view its users as customers \u2014 but they should.\nUpdate: Lots of feedback from those pointing out that Twitter\u2019s customers are its advertisers, and the old adage that what they\u2019re selling to advertisers is us. Clearly, yes, that\u2019s how they see it, as do other major social networks. I\u2019m saying they should treat users as customers, too \u2014 customers paying not with dollars but with their precious and limited attention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://data-speaks.luca-d3.com/2017/10/planning-retail-sites-big-data.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGAW3BSA3EM5ZXKJJPQQ7XCNPMKLHISW", "length": 1861, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "data-speaks.luca-d3.com", "title": "Big Data & Data Science Blog: Planning retail site locations using data", "raw_content": "Natura Cosm\u00e9ticos S.A. or simply Natura, manufactures and markets a wide variety of cosmetic products in the skin care, beauty, perfume and hair care markets. The company has a strong focus on being innovative and sustainable. In total they have more than 3200 stores internationally in addition to selling products through representatives. Natura is now the largest Brazilian cosmetic company by revenue and in July this year bought The Body Shop from L'Or\u00e9al.\nFigure 1 : Natura is the largest Brazilian cosmetics company by revenue\nIn the past, Natura operated with a direct-to-consumer sales model that relied heavily on their sales representatives. Whilst successful, they later made the decision to open retail stores and wanted to identify locations with high sales potential. This potential would be measured by the number of pedestrians that pass the location and the demographic group they belong to.\nThe project with LUCA involved the combination of VIVO Big Data, Natura's internal customer indicators and knowledge of the sector, as well as LUCA Store technologies. Our LUCA Store solution analyzes billiones of mobile data points in order to provide invaluable insights which help retailers to understand the who, what, when, why and how of their consumers. The result of combining our data and technologies with Natura's KPIs was the ability to suggest with greater accuracy the best locations to open a store. These suggestions even took into account at which time and on which days the stores would be open. You can watch a live demo of LUCA Store technology below:\nThe insights provided by LUCA Store meant that after only one month of work, Natura possessed valuable information regarding over 40 million people from five major Brazilian cities. 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It is a worldwide celebration of mothers, motherhood and the influence that mothers make to the lives of their children and society.\nThere are 85 days until Mother's Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 121.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://decent.ch/event/metro-on-line-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VPM7IJLV6CSTL3GNKYS3KXJ4SIM2FV5G", "length": 498, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "decent.ch", "title": "Metro ON Line 2018 - DECENT: Advanced Blockchain Ecosystem", "raw_content": "Metro ON Line 2018 is a presentation of the latest trends and innovations in SmartCities, IT security and Blockchain technologies for the construction and operation of metropolitan optical, coaxial and wireless networks of a wide range of telecommunication services and retransmission services (ISPs) in Central Europe, representatives of municipalities from Slovakia and the Czech Republic with the presence of Start-Up scenes in the SmartCities and Telco areas.\n11-15 June 2018 | Poprad, Slovakia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://delraynewspaper.com/women-know-finances-25788", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPB3JLHY2IS2O7RVHZDKWWORKDNJG4VR", "length": 3605, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "delraynewspaper.com", "title": "What Women Should Know About Their Finances - Delray Newspaper", "raw_content": "Home Biz What Women Should Know About Their Finances\nWhat Women Should Know About Their Finances\nLess than 50 years ago the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed in the U.S., granting single, widowed or divorced women access to credit without needing a male co-signer. Today, women are the lead household decision makers for healthcare, finances and overall planning for the future. As we approach National Women\u2019s History month in March and celebrate all that women have achieved, we caught up with Rachel Barzilay, CAP\u00ae, CFP\u00ae, CRPC\u00ae, Managing Director, Wealth Management Advisor and Senior Portfolio Manager with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Boca Raton, to learn more about the special considerations women should take when it comes to their finances.\nWhat is a Trusteed IRA and how can it help?\nA trusteed IRA is similar to a \u201cregular\u201d IRA except that the account assets are held in a trust rather than a \u201ccustodial account.\u201d The IRA provider (financial institution that administers the IRA) serves as the trustee of the account, rather than as a \u201ccustodian.\u201d The trusteed IRA can offer greater protection during the owner\u2019s life (including an instance in which the owner becomes disabled) and increased control over the disposition of the IRA after the owner\u2019s death. This could be of interest to women with children who would inherit the account, especially in the event of a second marriage (and a mother wants to ensure protection over her pre-marital assets).\nWhat should new parents know?\nMost new parents realize that raising a child is expensive \u2014 the latest government figures put the cost at $233,610 for the first 18 years alone, not including college tuition or taking inflation into account. These figures only include the necessities: food, clothing, health care and housing. Budgeting is key to managing this major life change, which I can attest to as a new mom.\nTo ensure a fully secure financial future for your child, be sure to appoint a guardian/executor and solidify a will. This is especially critical for parents of minor children, because it also allows you to name the person you trust to take care of your child in the event both you and your spouse are unable. Additionally, don\u2019t postpone college planning. The earlier you can start saving, the better!\nHow do we avoid being a procrastinator when it comes to retirement?\nWomen juggle multiple roles throughout their lifetime, which means we often overlook our own financial security for retirement. Retirement may seem unattainable, but don\u2019t be discouraged. Even saving small amounts periodically will add up over the years. By taking action now to start saving, you\u2019ll be better prepared to meet any unexpected challenges that come your way. Another option to consider is downsizing or moving somewhere less expensive to cut down your cost of living. You could also fully contribute to tax-advantageous accounts such as your 401K, IRA, and a health savings account. Finally, it is always best to pay off costly debts, such as high-interest credit cards, as soon as possible and then contributing any excess funds after paying necessary bills to your retirement.\nCompared to a generation ago, women today play an important role in their households, with some even holding higher degrees and earning more income than their spouses. Thus, it is important to understand and proactively monitor household finances for your benefit and for the benefit of your family.\nPrevious articleWhy You Need Life Insurance\u2014Even With No Dependents\nNext articleVanderpump Rose Available In Boca Raton, Celebrity Winemaker Meets Fans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dern.acer.org/dern/research-reviews/page/australian-teenagers-and-ict", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OUEPCCGSAQR6W6E4PZQNNN33RHPGFMA7", "length": 577, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dern.acer.org", "title": "DERN", "raw_content": "Australian teenagers and ICT\nA recent study, titled Digital technology and Australian Teenagers: Consumption, Study and Careers, was commissioned by the Australian Computer Society \u2018with the purpose of generating detailed primary evidence about high school student use of ICT, perceptions of use of ICT at school, perceptions of ICT as a discipline, and motivations regarding career choices\u2019. Two hundred and two students aged 12-18 years at eight high schools in the Australian Capital Territory were surveyed and interviewed to capture both quantitative and qualitative data.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://descrier.co.uk/headlines/us-election-2016-senior-republicans-desert-trump-wake-sexual-assault-comments/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PQPJADDA2JGNJ2I2VXWDRZGFGU2RDDCZ", "length": 1698, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "descrier.co.uk", "title": "US election 2016: Senior Republicans desert Trump in the wake of sexual assault comments | Descrier News", "raw_content": "US election 2016: Senior Republicans desert Trump in the wake of sexual assault comments\nA number of leading GOP members have dropped their support for Donald Trump after his obscene remarks about women became public, with the party establishment openly discussing aborting the campaign.\nMore than a dozen leading Republicans have said they will not vote for the controversial billionaire since his comments about kissing women without consent and \u2018grabbing them by the pussy\u2019 were made public in a video published by the Washington Post on Friday.\nTrump has said he will not drop out of the US presidential race and would not let his supporters down, but a continuous stream of his past transgressions becoming public appears to be shifting\nThe latest Republican figures to withdraw their support from Trump include former presidential candidate John McCain and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\n\u201cEnough! Donald Trump should not be President. He should withdraw.\u201d\nFormer president George W. Bush has already made clear he would not vote for the right-wing populist candidate, and his father, former president George W Bush has said he would vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.\nRepublican politicians soon to face re-election battles fear that any affiliation with Trump could cause them to lose their seats. A number of Republicans have said that Trump should withdraw from the race and allow Mike Pence, currently the Republican candidate for vice-president, to stand in his place.\nUKIP leader Nigel Farage, who has made speeches at Trump rallies in support of Trump, continues to support the candidate, dismissing his comments abouts sexual assault as \u201calpha male boasting\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dfarq.homeip.net/i-found-a-reasonably-good-inexpensive-keyboard-for-the-sero-7-pro/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ALJXA3JP3AJXOZSVEO6VTWDBEUOQFTKX", "length": 3342, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dfarq.homeip.net", "title": "I found a reasonably good, inexpensive keyboard for the Sero 7 Pro - The Silicon Underground", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Android \u00bb I found a reasonably good, inexpensive keyboard for the Sero 7 Pro\nIt fits. As with anything designed to be universal, it\u2019s not a perfect fit, but works relatively well. The top jaw is spring-loaded so it should fit most 7-inch tablets and might even fit some 8-inch tablets. My Hisense Sero 7 fits with a good quarter-inch to spare on the top, and more than that on the sides. The jaws looked overly small when I first got it, but then I realized the top grip is spring loaded. I pulled the top jaw grip all the way to the edge, slid the tablet in, and the grip closed to hold it tightly. I threw it into my bag, took it to and from work, and the tablet stayed in place without issue.\nIt\u2019s even better for the Nook Color, which fits like it was made for it. To enable the keyboard, download and install the Nook Tweaks app if you don\u2019t have it, run it, go into USB Settings, and enable USB Host Mode and External V Bus to get the keyboard working with it.\nAs for the looks department, it looks like a $13 case. I think black stitching would have looked better than white stitching, but for the money, I won\u2019t nitpick. Some cases cost $40, so I won\u2019t expect $40 looks for $12.50. It does look considerably nicer than the $5 case I typically use with my Nook Color.\nThere\u2019s no opening for the rear camera. That\u2019s par for the course with universal cases; not all tablets have rear cameras, and those that do won\u2019t put them in the same place. You can live without it and take the tablet out when you need the camera, buy a case designed for the Sero 7, or cut a hole in the right place and cinch a grommet over the opening to protect it. I\u2019ll just take the tablet out if I ever want to use it to take a photo.\nLet\u2019s talk about the keyboard, which is the main reason I bought it. I can blast back a 60-word e-mail message much faster than I could with an onscreen keyboard. It feels like an early netbook keyboard. That\u2019s not a coincidence; it looks about the same size as the original Asus Eee keyboards. It\u2019s a USB keyboard, so it\u2019s not as sleek looking as a Bluetooth keyboard would be because you have to contend with a wire, but it\u2019s more responsive than Bluetooth will ever be. I\u2019m perfectly willing to tuck the wire through the jaws and live with a plug in the size of the tablet to avoid lag. I don\u2019t expect it to hold up under heavy use, but cheap keyboards rarely do anyway. The USB keyboard that I used with my netbook lasted about 18 months before some of the keys quit working. I\u2019ll use this keyboard less heavily, so I might expect 2-3 years from it.\nI find the keyboard nice for navigating web pages. I\u2019m used to navigating web pages with the arrow and page up/page down keys, and these work fine for that.\nThe included stylus is a bit clumsy. Frequently when I try to use it on the screen, it zooms when I want to scroll. I probably use it on the keyboard more than I use it on the screen. I like the idea of a stylus, so I\u2019ll just have to buy a better one.\nFor $12.50 plus shipping if applicable, it\u2019s a good buy. It extends the utility of the Sero 7 Pro, turning it into a netbook when you need to type, and you can still fold the keyboard away or remove the tablet and use it like a tablet. I recommend it.\n\u2190 What to do about PRISM is unclear as of yet\nMicrosoft\u2019s bug bounty is a step in the right direction \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dfwwp.org/events/wordpress-topic-tba-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AYAAFVFAWM3YQKINPQFHZJTDSHSKCC7V", "length": 472, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dfwwp.org", "title": "Site Review Night: Get Your Web Site Reviewed by Professionals - DFW WordPress Group", "raw_content": "Site Review Night: Get Your Web Site Reviewed by Professionals\nFriday, 26 Oct 2018 6:00 PM\nGet your web site reviewed by professionals in a fun and respectful environment.\n\u2022 6:55PM-7:45PM: Site Reviews\nThanks to Improving (http://improving.com/), A2Hosting (https://www.a2hosting.com/wordpress-hosting/managed), and WP Attendant (http://wpattendant.com/) you can spend the evening eating pizza and networking with the most talented internet professionals in the Metroplex.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 7292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://diabolicshrimp.com/2018/11/24/sarah-jordan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MGDSE3O5SK36XPX5DAYH3IVNYMZF3REN", "length": 658, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "diabolicshrimp.com", "title": "Sarah Jordan \u2013 Diabolic Shrimp", "raw_content": "Sarah Jordan is a multi-passionate Pet Sitter and the author of the acclaimed pet sitting business book, Master Pet Sitting With Rover: Start, Market and Grow Your Pet Sitting Business in 30 Days or Less. Sarah writes in multiple genres. When she\u2019s not writing stories, books or songs, you\u2019ll find Sarah strumming a ukulele, painting, and mentoring students worldwide in the online courses she created. She lives in Asheville, NC with her husband Chad.\nHop on Sarah\u2019s email list and be the first to know when she releases her next book:\nhttps://tinyurl.com/vipreader\nConnect with Sarah at http://www.ashevillepetsitter.com or https://www.teachkidstohoop.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dialogs.yandex.ru/store/skills/39506f0d-domashnie-sistem", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:11Z", "digest": "sha1:N7QBQTFX26EG4LA72LRY5ENZUGGS2MBB", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dialogs.yandex.ru", "title": "\u0414\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0448\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0421\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c\u044b \u2014 \u043d\u0430\u0432\u044b\u043a \u0410\u043b\u0438\u0441\u044b, \u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0449\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u043e\u0442 \u042f\u043d\u0434\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430", "raw_content": "http://home-comfort74.ru", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 7643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com/2015/09/22/ts-post-a-woman-is-a-woman-no-matter-what-but-manhood-can-be-lost/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XTN2QKEDFG5QT5OHIP2I6MJI3GCHTEJM", "length": 1469, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com", "title": "T&S Post: \u201cA woman is a woman no matter what, but manhood can be lost.\u201d \u2013 Difficult Run", "raw_content": "T&S Post: \u201cA woman is a woman no matter what, but manhood can be lost.\u201d\nIn keeping with my renewed every-other-week schedule at T&S, I posted some speculations about theology and gender at Times and Seasons yesterday: \u201cA woman is a woman no matter what, but manhood can be lost.\u201d The article is about as popular as you\u2019d expect, which is to say: not very.\nI am reasonably certain that the rise of gender and sexuality politics in our culture is an opportunity for theological and cultural growth, but also that neither of the prevailing political attitudes are capable of revealing the lessons that are there to be learned. Social liberals are too committed to a view of human nature that is too shallow and superficial to do anyone any good. (In this, I\u2019m basically echoing Pinker\u2019s critique in The Blank Slate.) Social conservatives, I think, are doing a good job of holding onto important traditions that are necessary for a healthy society, but are also too willing to veer towards fearfulness that leads to bigotry on the one hand and prevents consideration of new explanations for why these traditions are important on the other.\nThis article is just another example of me trying to extricate myself a bit from this morass\u2013without abandoning positions I think are important\u2013and reach for new understandings of old truths.\nCategories Religion, SocietyTags feminism, gender, Mormonism, sexuality, Times And Seasons\tPost navigation\nSalon: Glenn Beck vs. Donald Trump", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://diginsider.com/tag/cd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JFARQMQL7B7JMARDODXADR4OLRABGWFR", "length": 4416, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "diginsider.com", "title": "CD \u2013 Digital Insider", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for CD\nAni DiFranco marching in DC for Women\u2019s Lives in 2004. Her new album is entitled Which Side Are You On?\nI love Ani DiFranco\u2019s commanding version of Pete Seeger\u2019s classic, \u201c\u00bfWhich Side Are You On?\u201d Her vocal is strident and scolding, hopeful and demanding. With each verse, she raises important questions, and insists that we, at least, think about the answers. The backup voices, percussion and increasing distortion suggests a dark revolutionary march; she\u2019s in front of the angry crowd, instructing, inciting, leading the charge. She\u2019s terrific.\nShe\u2019s provocative when she sings about \u201cPromiscuity,\u201d offering a cool lyrical analysis with \u201cpromiscuity is nothing more than traveling, there\u2019s more than one way to see the world.\u201d She\u2019s fully exposed on \u201cLife Boat,\u201d a song about a failed mom\u2019s sadness and self-image featuring \u201cred scabby hands\u201d and \u201cpurple scabby feet.\u201d She\u2019s political and forceful when she proposes an \u201cAmendment\u201d to provide civil rights to women, a good song that promotes the \u201cright to civil union with equal rights and equal protection, intolerance finally ruined.\u201d\nThis is Ani DiFranco\u2019s ambitious, righteous, significant side. She is a songwriter and a performer who thinks, and isn\u2019t at all afraid to tell us what she thinks and why.\nThen, there\u2019s the other side, the side that confuses me, the writer who takes the easy way out, as on \u201cZoo,\u201d where we\u2019re treated to \u201cI can no longer watch TV cuz that shit really melts my brain\u2026\u201d and \u201cI go to do my food shopping and all I can see is packaging and a mountain of garbage about to be happening\u2026\u201d Sure, every record\u2019s got its B-sides, but DiFranco\u2019s good work is so strong, I wince when I hear work I wish she had done better. Moreso because her lyrics are both interesting to the ear and smart enough to be worth reading. And, even moreso because her songs quickly become old friends, worthy of replays for weeks on end. The more I listen, the more I like what I hear.\nBut I do keep coming back to the Seeger song. He plays some banjo at the start of it, but it\u2019s Ani DiFranco\u2019s power that electrifies the song and its meaning. And it\u2019s that song that anchors this album, a nod from one authentic performer to another. Wouldn\u2019t it be fun to hear her perform an album filled with Seeger songs, a female counter to Bruce Springsteen\u2019s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, or maybe, even better, an album exposing lesser-knowns who took sides in their time: Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, maybe Joan Baez, too.\nBuy the album directly from the artist\u2019s Righteous Babe label.\nFiled Under: Music Tagged With: Ani DeFranco, CD, record, Seeger, singing, United States\nPaco de Lucia \u2013 One Summer Night\u2026\nPaco de Lucia was born Francisco S\u00e1nchez G\u00f3mez in 1947 in Algeciras, a southern port city in Spain. He learned the guitar from his father, his brother, and family friend Ni\u00f1o de Ricardo, a virtuoso. By age 7, de Lucia was playing flamenco guitar; by 12, he was recording. Before his teen years, he had won several guitar competitions. By 13, de Lucia was touring internationally with Jos\u00e9 Greco\u2019s flamenco show. He started composing and playing backup for various Spanish singers, notably the great Gypsy singer (or cantador) Camar\u00f3n de la Isla, with whom de Lucia worked from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. In addition to leading his own group, de Lucia has collaborated on projects with John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Al di Meola, and even Placido Domingo. De Lucia is widely regarded as the finest living flamenco guitarist\u2014and one of several musicians who has modernized the classic Spanish form.\nHere\u2019s the thrilling, no-holds-barred, blazing-guitar, high-energy concert recording that caused many rock fans to pay attention to a flamenco guitar player. Recorded by de Luc\u00eda\u2019s Sextet in 1983, it\u2019s terrific ensemble work with de Algeciras, a flutist named Jorge Pardo, and an equally facile percussionist, Rubem Dantas. John McLaughlin composed a pretty intro to \u201cAlta Mar,\u201d and \u201cChiquito\u201d is dedicated to Chick Corea; listen for strong 1980s jazz/fusion influences in de Luc\u00eda\u2019s interplay with electric bassist Carlos Benavent, and the flute and guitar arrangement that begins \u201cGitanos Andaluces.\u201d But it all comes back to de Luc\u00eda\u2019s straight flamenco.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Live-Summer-Night-Paco-Lucia/dp/B0000046UR\nFiled Under: International, Music Tagged With: album, CD, guitar, Paco de Lucia, Spain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 39659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs8341/metadata/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SI2UWFH5B3QDBXOSWYINL2Q4VRCIMQCY", "length": 1343, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "digital.library.unt.edu", "title": "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues - Metadata Digital Library", "raw_content": "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues Metadata\nMain Title China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues\nAuthor: Kan, Shirley A.\nCreator Info: Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division\nContent Description: Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Skeptics question whether China's cooperation in weapons nonproliferation has warranted President Bush's pursuit of stronger bilateral ties. This report discusses the national security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response, including legislation, since the mid-1990s.\nPhysical Description: 50 pages.\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Weapons systems\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Foreign relations - China - U.S.\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Foreign relations - U.S. - China\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Weapons of mass destruction\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense policy\nLegislative Indexing Vocabulary: Foreign policy\nPlace Name: China", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1068527/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:N4G4P3YQQUTRS46ZOVEJL4L6A7AO7ZZL", "length": 2198, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "digital.library.unt.edu", "title": "SDG and E - ERDA Geothermal Loop Experimental Facility. Bi-monthly report, May 1975-August 1976 - Digital Library", "raw_content": "SDG and E - ERDA Geothermal Loop Experimental Facility. Bi-monthly report, May 1975-August 1976\nA description of the Geothermal Loop Experimental Facility (GLEF) its construction problems, and a discussion of start-up testing are included. A history and description of the operation and maintenance with the brine injection pump for the facility are presented. The GLEF was divided into five separate sections: steam and condensate system, brine system, purge water system, vent gas system, and cooling water system. An insight into the chemistry of each system is provided by analysis of samples taken. Scaling and corrosion effects of brine, steam, gas, and water in these systems are described in detail. (MHR)\nBishop, H.K.; Bricarello, J.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Lombard, G.L.; Mulliner, D.K. & Swanson, C.R. September 1, 1976.\nBishop, H.K.\nBricarello, J.R.\nCampbell, J.A.\nLombard, G.L.\nMulliner, D.K.\nSwanson, C.R.\nSan Diego Gas and Electric Co., CA (USA)\nPower Range 1-10 Mw\nThermal Power Plants Geothermal Legacy 150800* -- Geothermal Power Plants\nBishop, H.K.; Bricarello, J.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Lombard, G.L.; Mulliner, D.K. & Swanson, C.R. SDG and E - ERDA Geothermal Loop Experimental Facility. Bi-monthly report, May 1975-August 1976, report, September 1, 1976; United States. (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1068527/: accessed February 15, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.\nJump to another read of this report Jump to... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 9179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 64.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.du.edu/capstone_masters/187/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QJETPN6PCJGTWHSMT3VX52LHNQ2HT4AN", "length": 1361, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.du.edu", "title": "\"Conceptualizing The Miscarriage Experience Through The Lens Of Ghosts \" by Karalynn Royster", "raw_content": "Conceptualizing The Miscarriage Experience Through The Lens Of Ghosts In The Nursery\nKaralynn Royster\nShawna Roberts\nGhosts in the Nursery, miscarriage, fetal loss, pregnancy after loss\nThe purpose of this doctoral paper was to use the \u201cGhosts in the Nursery\u201d theory (Fraiberg, Adelson, & Shapiro, 1975) as a framework for understanding clinicians\u2019 perceptions of women\u2019s experience of miscarriage. Specific attention was paid to the experience of becoming pregnant with a subsequent child. Professionals who work in the field of infant mental health were asked to explore the theory\u2019s utility in conceptualizing the experience of becoming pregnant after a miscarriage. Results indicated that the perceptions of women\u2019s experiences of miscarriage and subsequent pregnancy are congruent with previous research findings. Further elaboration and information are provided to illustrate the experience of having a child and being a parent after experiencing a loss, and to explore the idea of understanding miscarriage as a \u201cghost\u201d. This study applies a new perspective to the theory of \u201cGhosts in the Nursery\u201d (Fraiberg et al., 1975) to children born after a loss.\nRoyster, Karalynn, \"Conceptualizing The Miscarriage Experience Through The Lens Of Ghosts In The Nursery\" (2015). Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects. 187.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/afwa_reso/660/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ULPWGFKBYY3TZF7OLXJHPPQ5LJNDKNVU", "length": 192, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.law.msu.edu", "title": "\"Resolution 1959-02-25 U.S. Forest Service \"Operation Outdoors\" Part II\" by Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies", "raw_content": "Resolution 1959-02-25 U.S. Forest Service \"Operation Outdoors\" Part II\nAssociation of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Resolution 1959-02-25 U.S. Forest Service \"Operation Outdoors\" Part II (1959),", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/brazil_slides/777/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:28Z", "digest": "sha1:7AGDUPAQZW5FUN3XMPCGUILBIKGEGETI", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "digitalrepository.unm.edu", "title": "\"Brazil Slide Series: Collection Modern Brazilian Painting, Slide No. \" by Stella de Sa Rego and Jon M. Tolman", "raw_content": "53. Auto-retrato (Self-portrait), 1940. Manoel Santiago painted this self-portrait in a soft, impressionistic style.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/me_fac_articles/662/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KULVNKWVMFDQH6WU6FYMH53GSFTF4AGT", "length": 2485, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "digitalscholarship.unlv.edu", "title": "\"Experimental and numerical analysis of structures with bolted joints s\" by K Karpanan and B O'Toole", "raw_content": "Experimental and numerical analysis of structures with bolted joints subjected to low impact load - Part 1\nK Karpanan, FMC Technologies, Inc\nB O'Toole, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow\nAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP\nBolted joints are the most common type of fastener in army vehicles and play a very important role in maintaining the structural integrity of combat vehicles. In combat, these vehicles may be subjected to various kinds of shock loading, such as initiated by a mine blast, projectile impact, or frontal crash. This study analyzes the transient behavior of structures with bolted joints subjected to impact or shock loads using experimental methods and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Factors such as damping that affect the bolted joint structures for shock loading are studied. Only a limited amount of published literature describes the proper method for analyzing transient shock propagation across bolted connections for high-impact loading. The initial case study focused on a simple cantilever beam with a bolted lap joint subjected to relatively low levels of impact force. The second case study used a flat plate bolted to a hat-section. These simple configurations are representative of structures found in many military ground vehicles that can be subjected to transient impact and blast loads. These structures were subjected to low-impact loading (non-destructive) using impact hammers and high-impact loading (destructive) using an air gun. The responses were measured using accelerometers. LS-DYNA FE solver was used to simulate the shock propagation in the bolted structures. For all the bolted structures, the modal analysis was performed both experimentally and numerically. The results are in excellent agreement for the lower modes and exhibit a small deviation in the higher modes. Secondly, the time history responses of experimental and FE analysis are compared. This is a two- part paper. In this first paper, a simplified bolted connection (bolted cantilever beam) is used for studying the low-impact shock propagation. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by ASME.\nKarpanan, K., O'Toole, B. (2016). Experimental and numerical analysis of structures with bolted joints subjected to low impact load - Part 1. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP, 5 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).\nhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1115/PVP2016-63711", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dioceseofprovidence.org/news/courses-offered-about-our-catholic-faith-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:42Z", "digest": "sha1:AUV7SQT7X4XEIHW2TOMCTMSHADQDSBAV", "length": 309, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dioceseofprovidence.org", "title": "Courses offered about our Catholic Faith - Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island - Providence, RI", "raw_content": "Courses offered about our Catholic Faith\nThroughout the year the Diocese of Providence offers several live and online courses covering the major aspects of our Catholic Faith. These courses are for anyone interested in learning more about Catholicism and can also be used for diocesan Catechist Certification.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://directory.cobourg.ca/Home/View/cobourg-clinic", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6Y4F2CBB46B4HF4L6KEA33DCNOVIPEP", "length": 71, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "directory.cobourg.ca", "title": "Cobourg Clinic", "raw_content": "44 University Avenue East, P.O. Box 86\nGeneral practice medical clinic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 4980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/benson-clara-cynthia", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DIEG3C2DTADOSQLNB5TAV6OTFPCYBYBW", "length": 3616, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca", "title": "Benson, Clara Cynthia - Discover Archives", "raw_content": "Clara Cynthia Benson fonds\nClara Cynthia Benson was born June 5, 1875 at the family home, Terralta in Port Hope, the daughter of Judge Thomas Moore Benson (1833-1915) and his second wife, Laura Fuller Benson (1847-1928). Judge Benson\u2019s first wife, Mary Edith (d. 1870) was the eldest daughter of Rev. John McCaul, President of University College. In addition to Clara, the Benson family consisted of two half sisters, Ethel Mary (b1867) and Emily Constance (b. 1869), her sister Jessie (b1880) and a brother, Thomas Bingley Fuller Benson (1876-1941).\nClara Benson received her early education at Port Hope High School and following graduation enrolled in University College at the University of Toronto. From 1895 to 1899 she studied math, chemistry and physics in the Faculty of Arts and was the first women to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry in 1899. She continued her studies as a graduate student in biochemistry and was one of only two women to be awarded a PhD in 1903. Her thesis \u201cThe rates of reactions in solutions containing ferrous and sulphate, potassium iodine and chromic acid\u201d was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry in May, 1903. She was appointed to the faculty of the Lillian Massey School of Domestic Science and spent 1905-1906 as lecturer in physiological chemistry at the University. In 1906 she was appointed Associate Professor in the newly created Faculty of Household Science .and proceeded to develop the programme of study in food chemistry. In 1926 she was promoted to full professor and head of the Department of Food Chemistry, a position she held until her retirement. With Professor Annie Laird, principal and professor of Household Science, she left a lasting impact on this field of study. She retired as Professor Emeritus in 1945.\nDuring her forty year career with the University of Toronto, Dr. Benson was involved in many aspects of university life in particular and the community in general. Among her academic achievements was recognition for her work in food chemistry during the World War I. She discovered that explosives could be analyzed in the same manner as the chemistry of foods. \u201cHer methods established the accepted technique for analysis in munitions laboratories.\u201d In 1921 she became the first president of the Women\u2019s Athletic Association at the University of Toronto, position she held until her retirement in 1945. One of the main goals of the WAA was the construction of a women\u2019s athletic centre, a goal that wasn\u2019t achieved for 38 years. In 1959 she returned to the University to unveil a plaque commemorating the opening of the Benson Building, named in her honour. Other honours bestowed on her included the establishment of a scholarship in her name in 1950 sponsored by the Household Science alumnae, and the presentation of a portrait by Yousef Karsh, which was hung in the Household Science building. In 1992, the Canadian Society for Chemistry established the Clara Benson Award, awarded annually to a woman who has made a distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada.\nShe was also very involved in the YWCA (Young Women\u2019s Christian Association) serving on its national board. After her retirement in 1945, her work on the YWCA led to her interest in sponsoring two young French girls, Madeleine Killian and Maryse Deslandes, orphaned during World War II. One of her major interests was the making of films such as the visit of the King and Queen and the University campus. She was also involved in her local church in Port Hope, and an avid stamp collector. 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I purposely do all I can to avoid taking the I-80/90 route because of the massive amount of tolls that go with it.\nMaybe it\u2019s my Wisconsin upbringing, but I\u2019ll do whatever it takes to avoid paying one red cent in tolls if I don\u2019t have to. I\u2019ll drive over a muddy corn field in reverse if it saves a toll, and that\u2019s been my mindset for years. Sometimes I get stung, but 99% of the time I choose another route.\nGetting home from Pittsburgh has three main choices. The toll road eliminates one with me off the bat, so that leaves I-70 or US 30. I-70 is easier, but it takes me a lot farther south in Ohio and Indiana than I need to go. It\u2019s toll free, but takes longer because of the extra miles to be driven.\nUS 30 goes through a lot of towns, and can tend to be a speed trap if one isn\u2019t careful. I need to be extremely careful in that department, but that\u2019s the route I chose today since it\u2019s the best of all worlds. I would be free of tolls, and I also planned to scour some thrift stores to troll for trinkets.\nI also brought along a cassette series by Suze Orman I\u2019ve been meaning to listen to for several years but haven\u2019t gotten around to hearing. I need massive improvement in my financial results, and I have to start somewhere. Doing what I\u2019ve been doing has not worked to my satisfaction.\nThere were nine cassettes to plow through, but I found them both engaging and informative so it wasn\u2019t a chore to listen to. I\u2019ve seen Suze on TV and find her to be listenable and able to keep my attention and that\u2019s a huge part of the battle for any speaker. Some people can do it and some can\u2019t. Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer I can hang with. Deepak Chopra and Zig Ziglar I can\u2019t.\nSuze Orman is now in the first category, and I thought this was a well produced program. What grabbed me the most was how she described money as being energy, and we all need to respect it if we want it to come our way. I guess I never thought of it like that before and it really hit home.\nShe also talked about how our first experiences with money as children stay with us throughout our lives and shape our attitudes into adulthood whether we want to believe it or not. I absolutely believe it, and hearing examples of what other people experienced made my own situation feel a lot less overwhelming. I\u2019m by far not the only one struggling with this, but I so want to change.\nI\u2019m in an absolutely horrible financial situation right now, but again I\u2019m not the only one. That doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m always going to be this way, but if I don\u2019t change my way of thinking that\u2019s all I can ever expect. Changed results require changed thinking, and I got the wheels turning today.\nThis is not going to be an easy undertaking, but I have few options. I could just give up and try to get on the government dole but that\u2019s not how I operate. I got myself into this ugly pickle, and I have nobody to blame but myself. I\u2019m going to roll up my sleeves and get to work transforming my financial self into what I know it can and should be. If I can pull that off, I can do anything.\nTags:Deepak Chopra, finances, Suze Orman, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer\nSaturday January 26th, 2013 \u2013 Latrobe, PA\nThe \u2018King of The Rust Belt\u2019 strikes again! I had a sizzling hot show tonight in Latrobe, PA that was right up there with the best I\u2019ve ever had, and it doesn\u2019t surprise me in the least. This is right in my element, and I can swing a mighty hammer in these situations. I need to find more of them.\nPut me in front of a friendly blue collar audience over thirty in a rust belt town and I\u2019m good to go. I know how to touch these people, and make them laugh until they can\u2019t breathe. They totally get the concept of Mr. Lucky, as they can all relate to it in their own lives in one way or another.\nI\u2019ve done well in other parts of the country, but The Rust Belt is my wheel house. Anywhere in the vicinity of a Great Lake is usually my bread and butter and I love working places many other comics prefer to stay away from like Buffalo or Detroit or some smaller town that has nasty cold weather and a ravaged economy. I\u2019ll show up. Those are the people that need to laugh the most.\nLatrobe, PA is about fifty miles east of Pittsburgh, and they\u2019ve been putting on comedy shows for the Parks and Recreation Department for many years. Jeff Schneider from the Funny Bone in Pittsburgh has been booking the talent, and asked me last summer if I wanted to do it this year.\nI wasn\u2019t looking forward to the drive, but he told me it was a good gig and the comics he\u2019d sent in previous years all had fun. I assumed I probably would too, but not to this level. I was at home from the time I stepped on the stage until I got off 55 minutes later. I could have done longer, but those people had laughed enough. It was time for them to go home and they went home satisfied.\nOf course like a dummy I didn\u2019t bring any CDs or DVDs to sell, and that was a major mistake I won\u2019t soon make again. There were about 350 people that would have cleaned out any and all of my merchandise inventory, and I blew a fantastic chance to return home with a significant bonus.\nMerchandise has never been a strong part of my game, and that needs to change yesterday. I\u2019m leaving well earned money on the table, and that\u2019s just not smart business. Not every crowd buys merchandise, but those that do usually do it in droves. This would have been one of those nights.\nStill, it was a wonderful experience all around and I\u2019m glad I came \u2013 long drive and all. Doing shows like this is why I got into comedy in the first place, and if I have my way I\u2019ll be doing lots more of them for as long as I\u2019m breathing. There just isn\u2019t anything else that gives me this buzz.\nThere\u2019s no way I shouldn\u2019t be rich doing this, and I\u2019m going to find out how to achieve that so I don\u2019t have to keep driving ratty cars and living like a lowly bum. I\u2019ve spent my life getting my \u2018show\u2019 part down, now it\u2019s time to master my \u2018business\u2019. I made a few bucks tonight, but I could be making a whole lot more doing exactly the same thing. I need to tighten up my plan of action.\nJames Gregory is a comedian from Atlanta who kills in the Southeast. He sells out theatres and his fans adore him. He doesn\u2019t work anywhere else because he doesn\u2019t have to. He\u2019s a huge draw in his area and I find nothing wrong with that. I\u2019d love to be the James Gregory of The Rust Belt.\nTags:comedy, Funny Bone, Great Lakes, James Gregory, Jeff Schneider, Rust Belt\nFriday January 25th, 2013 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nSometimes the right thing to do is to cut one\u2019s losses and move on. That\u2019s something I have not been willing to do as often as I should have in my life, and it\u2019s only brought more heartache upon situations that have already proven to be losing propositions. It\u2019s time to try something different.\nThis nightmare situation with my \u2018free\u2019 car has been a flat out disaster. Well meaning intention or not, I just can\u2019t afford to keep getting kicked in the ball joints like I have been and I need to go in another direction. I\u2019ve painted myself into a financial corner and this couldn\u2019t come at a worse time, but when is a good time for any problem? They show up like bad relatives that won\u2019t leave.\nI\u2019ve been keeping my eye out for a different car of late, and I found it. There are no guarantees with any used car unfortunately, but this is a calculated risk I feel I have to take. I need to have a dependable car to get to gigs, and also as a self esteem builder. Driving ratty cars is getting old.\nMy plan had been to drive the \u201994 Nissan for at least a year, and save some money to move up the food chain and buy something at least halfway decent. My credit is so far in the toilet I doubt I\u2019ll be able to get a car loan in this lifetime or the next, but that\u2019s where it sits. I\u2019m in a tight spot.\nThe car I found is an extra clean 1995 Toyota Camry. It\u2019s only got 95,000 miles on it, and it\u2019s a one owner car from Wisconsin of all places. There are written records of all the maintenance that was performed and the original owner took it to a Toyota dealer exclusively. It\u2019s been cared for.\nI\u2019ve had several Toyotas from that era, and loved every one of them. They handle well, and get great gas mileage. The only reason I got rid of any them was that they were hit and totaled out by the insurance company. Had that not occurred, I\u2019d probably still be driving one to this very day.\nThere\u2019s no guarantee this one won\u2019t get plowed into as well, but I am going to roll the dice and go deep into debt to get it anyway. I\u2019m juicing up my credit card as far as it will go, and I haven\u2019t been one to do that as a rule. I\u2019ve saved it for emergency situations, but this is starting to qualify.\nIt was getting to the point where I was sticking more into that Nissan than if I\u2019d had a loan on a brand spanking new Cadillac, and I just can\u2019t see that continuing. I\u2019ll send the Nissan through the auction, and that will go to pay off the credit card. I\u2019d prefer not to do it that way, but right now I have no other choice. This is an opportunity I feel I need to jump on, and I\u2019m not going to flinch.\nI can\u2019t help but be reminded of the people who owe me money from years ago, and if I had that I could have paid cash for the Toyota and had money left over to throw at my IRS bill which also needs to get paid sooner than later. This is a very painful lesson, but rather than stew in what I\u2019ve blown in the past I need to forge ahead and get myself out from under this mess. It\u2019s a tough test.\nIn the short run, this is a stressful pain in my differential. The last thing I want to be doing right now is farting around with changing cars \u2013 especially in the winter \u2013 but in the long run I feel I\u2019m making the right choice and hopefully it will free me up to keep myself on a good track for 2013.\nTags:Cadillac, cars, IRS, life lessons, Nissan Sentra, Toyota Camry\nWednesday January 23rd, 2013 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nThe New Year isn\u2019t new anymore, and it\u2019s time to get back to all the projects I have incubating in various stages of completion. I\u2019m running individual races against clock, calendar and cosmos all at once and that\u2019s a lot of running for one individual. I\u2019ve got all I can do to not run in circles.\nI tried to touch on as many of those projects as I could today, just to give them a push forward and start the process of plate juggling. I woke up early to take an exercise lap in the Gurnee Mills mall, and it was bitter cold walking from the house to the freezing car where I sat until it warmed up to drive to the mall. Days like this are the hardest to squeeze exercise in, but the most needed.\nAfter that I went to have a healthy breakfast of poached eggs, oatmeal and tomato juice to start the day right. I\u2019m still not in the habit of a daily breakfast, even though I constantly read how it\u2019s important to do so. It\u2019s not easy to maintain, especially when I\u2019m on the road. But I did it today.\nAfter that I hit the thrift stores for an hour, looking for resellable treasures. Actually, I\u2019m really trying to improve my skills at spotting things worth buying. It\u2019s easy to get fooled, and I\u2019m very aware of that. I\u2019m not looking to stock myself with junk. If anything I\u2019m looking to clear it out.\nThis is one part time endeavor I can do at my own pace on my own time. There are thrift shops and estate sales and flea markets everywhere, and people do sell valuable items for less than they are worth. If I know what to look for I can hope to score a fair profit and supplement my income.\nI have a couple of books on what to look for, and also a few friends who are already doing this and have been for years. I know sports collectibles pretty well, but that\u2019s about it. The real key is to have people at one\u2019s disposal to consult about everything from furniture to dishes to jewelry or anything else that happens to pop up. I\u2019m trying to build myself a network for future reference.\nIt was well before noon when I finished thrifting, and I went to check my P.O. box and have a healthy salad for lunch. Two healthy meals in a row is great, and then it was back home to begin working on my booking schedule. I never enjoy that, but it\u2019s a necessary evil so I gave that about an hour and contacted as many bookers in that time as I could. I sent my avails and said hello.\nI did manage to nail a couple of random dates, but that reminded me of another problem I have with an outdated website listing my calendar. I need to take care of that, but I can\u2019t do it without help from my new web person and I just haven\u2019t gotten it together with everything else going on.\nThat will hopefully come eventually, and sooner rather than later. There\u2019s just too much to get after on so many levels it\u2019s overwhelming to keep track of it all. That\u2019s why I wanted to touch as many bases as I could today and blow the dust off a lot of things that really need to get moving.\nI also spent some time working on comedy classes, and cleaned out a major pile of emails that have been festering for weeks and needed attention. I put in a full day, but didn\u2019t really make any significant dents in the big pile. I could do it all over again each day this year and still be behind.\nTuesday January 22nd, 2013 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nThis just in from our news desk\u2013 LIFE IS DIFFICULT! Oh, and in a related story \u2013 it\u2019s not fair either. I didn\u2019t happen to just stumble across these particular revelations today, but it\u2019s becoming a lot clearer as I get older that anyone\u2019s chances of hitting anything really big are extremely tiny.\nI happen to know a lot of people who happen to be in the creative arts in one way or another. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s standup comedy, acting, radio, music, writing, professional wrestling or any other artistic pursuit \u2013 there are zero guarantees the best people in any of them will ever hit it big.\nThe term \u2018hit it big\u2019 can be defined differently depending on who is asked to define it, but I am referring to the biggest of the big \u2013 the \u2018A\u2019 listers. I\u2019ve crossed paths with literally THOUSANDS of aspiring artists of all genres in my time, and only a handful have ever made it to that top level.\nI\u2019ve been doing standup comedy the longest, and the three names \u2013 wait, four that pop into my head of those who really hit it are Jeff Foxworthy, Drew Carey, Larry The Cable Guy and Frank Caliendo. I would say all those guys have household name recognition with the American public.\nI have no personal issues with any of those four, and I\u2019m not jealous of their enormous success. BUT\u2026I would like to be able to figure out exactly why it was only them. No offense to anybody on the list, but other than Frank being able to impersonate the current celebrities of his day I have no idea why the other three have been able to climb so high while so many others are struggling.\nAgain, I like Jeff, Drew and \u2018Larry\u2019 (not the name I knew him as when I met him, but that\u2019s his secret and I\u2019ll respect it) very much as people, and I\u2019m happy they hit pay dirt. But can\u2019t there be at least a little pay dust left over for the thousands of others who have rolled their own life dice?\nSO many examples come to mind of people in all genres who have slugged it out for years, and only had minimal success. My friend Mike Moran comes to mind. He wrestled professionally for years, and came up the ranks with numerous marquee names of that field like \u2018Stone Cold\u2019 Steve Austin and Mankind. He had fun and made a living, but that\u2019s about it. He\u2019s not rich or famous.\nThat\u2019s no insult to Mike either. He\u2019s a great guy, and very good at what he does. He paid a big price to attain his skill level, and he\u2019s one of the best in the world. But that doesn\u2019t pay any of his bills, and he is just another name on a list. Stone Cold Steve Austin isn\u2019t any better of a wrestler.\nI had dinner tonight with my speaker friend Todd Hunt. Todd works harder than anyone I have ever met when it comes to marketing himself, and he makes a living speaking at corporate events all over North America. Todd and I knew another speaker named John Powers who passed away this week. John was a wonderful guy and very talented, and he was successful but not Zig Ziglar.\nBeing at the top of any field is just plain rare \u2013 and talent alone does not dictate who gets there and who doesn\u2019t. A lot of it is luck, with a lot of other things mixed in too. The sooner one learns to accept that the less insane he or she will become trying to chase something that just isn\u2019t to be.\nTags:Frank Caliendo, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy, Mankind, Mike Moran, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Todd Hunt\nMonday January 21st, 2013 \u2013 Fox Lake, IL\nToday is Martin Luther King Day, and that stirs up many thoughts from many people. Nobody wants to admit it, but race relations are no better today than they ever were. Sure, there may have been some half baked attempts made to smooth things out but as a whole tensions remain thick.\nIt\u2019s not just between whites and blacks either. There\u2019s still intense heat between every color of the spectrum, and probably as much or more between people of the same color. For reasons I\u2019ve never figured out, the human animal has an extremely strong \u2018us vs. them\u2019 gene inside all of us.\nWe seem to need to find a common enemy, and something as stupid as a different color of skin is a good enough reason for us. If nothing else, the enemy is easier to identify that way as they\u2019re wearing their flesh uniform 24 hours a day. Try as some might that thinking just won\u2019t go away.\nTalking about race is very uncomfortable, and that\u2019s probably why everyone is so uptight about it. From what I\u2019ve seen, every race seems to think they\u2019re superior when in fact we\u2019re all a bunch of monkeys throwing poop at each other. Nobody has it all figured out, but nobody will admit it.\nUnfortunately, white people have had centuries of privilege in America and have done little for the advancement of anyone but themselves. I wasn\u2019t part of that group, even though I\u2019m wearing one of their flesh colored uniforms I was given at birth. I\u2019m the lowest rank private in that army, and not a rule making officer. I didn\u2019t get to enjoy all the spoils of war a lot of the others got to.\nNow the tide seems to be turning and the white man is the target of everyone\u2019s wrath. I can see why on many levels, but that doesn\u2019t mean I deserve to be in the firing line \u2013 but I am. I can\u2019t say what I really think a lot of the time, because it\u2019s considered \u2018politically incorrect\u2019. What a crock.\nFor example, if I say I don\u2019t agree with our esteemed President Comrade Obama I get labeled a flaming racist immediately. Hey, he\u2019s half white too \u2013 but nobody seems to recall that. Actually, he\u2019s more like Neapolitan because there\u2019s a red stripe right down the middle. He\u2019s a communist.\nDebt is at an all time high, and he\u2019s an arrogant puke spewing his Marxist rhetoric but millions of imbeciles are drinking it like Jim Jones Kool Aid. I don\u2019t get it, but this guy has a charisma for the ages that lets him get away with it and if I complain about it I get called a racist and a hater.\nAm I the only one that sees the danger of the slithering serpent that resides in Washington or is there hope that the people of a once great nation will wake up and take their country back? I\u2019m a big supporter of the theory of equality, and I have no problem with a President of any color. I am just not a fan of this particular one. I wonder what Martin Luther King would think about him?\nWe\u2019ve got a lot deeper problems to solve than skin color, but it still remains an issue. I wish it didn\u2019t, but anyone who says it doesn\u2019t is an idiot \u2013 and there are MILLIONS of idiots patrolling our planet daily to keep those unnecessary racial tensions high so we\u2019re all afraid to say anything that may lead to an actual solution. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m better than anyone, but we need to fix this.\nTags:communist, Jim Jones, kool aid, Martin Luther King\nToday was one of those days that when it\u2019s all over will go down as one where nothing at all of any substance or significance happened. We all have thousands of those in our lives, kind of like pulls on a slot machine. Once in a while a jackpot might be hit, but more often than not \u2013 zilcho.\nI didn\u2019t get home from my show until just after 3am. We\u2019re having a brutally cold spell of late, and my car heater doesn\u2019t blow as much heat as I\u2019d like so I was freezing the entire way home. It felt great to slide under the covers and I added an extra blanket so I could warm up and nod out.\nI had originally planned to get up early and get my walking in, but when 7am came I could feel the arctic blast as I got up to get dressed so I crawled right back into the toasty rack for what was supposed to be just a few minutes. The next thing I knew it was 11:30 and my day was half over.\nI\u2019ve been all over the place lately and not sleeping a lot, so I guess it was good to get in a solid chunk like that because I felt great upon awakening. It felt so good that a few minutes later I was out again and didn\u2019t wake up until 4:30. That was probably a bit much, but that\u2019s what happened.\nNow I was mad at myself for wasting a whole day, and my phone and email message stacks I\u2019d planned on shrinking were instead growing by the hour. A lot of friends know they\u2019ve got a good chance to reach me on Sundays, and it\u2019s often my busiest day for hearing from several of them.\nThere was no way I could get to all the messages, as I needed to get to Kenosha by 8pm to host \u2018The Mothership Connection\u2019 radio show on AM 1050 WLIP. I haven\u2019t spent much time on that project of late, and it\u2019s good I didn\u2019t because there was a malfunction at the station due to severe weather and the satellite was down and there was no national news feed at the top of every hour.\nThat\u2019s the time we use to take a break for a couple of minutes to get ready for our next guest or hit the head or whatever we need to do to keep the show moving. Not having that made it harder to maintain a flow, and it was a pain in the ass quite frankly. Too bad, as it wasn\u2019t to be fixed.\nAs with that or the faulty sound system at the comedy show yesterday, all there is to do is deal with it and move on. Radio and comedy and life in general is just a series of individual events of various length, with again very few having a particular identity. It all blends in to the big picture.\nOur show tonight wasn\u2019t particularly horrible, but we didn\u2019t blow any dust out of the speakers or make Marconi proud of his invention. We got through the four hours, and that was about it. It was fun, but at the end of my life I can\u2019t see myself reflecting on this day one way or the other.\nI slept most of it away, and the time I was awake I didn\u2019t do anything special. I didn\u2019t change the world, and I barely changed my underwear. It was just a day, like so many others we all have where nothing particularly good or bad happens. I guess it could always be worse, but it could be better too. I like to shoot for the days that stand out, but there just aren\u2019t that many of them in the lives of most people. I\u2019m learning to take each day as it comes, but this one failed to stand out.\nTags:AM 1050 WLIP, The Mothership Connection, underwear\nLaughing Skull Festival\nOnce in a while I\u2019ll actually manage to pull off something halfway intelligent. It turns out I did exactly that several months ago and then completely forgot about it until today. I was reminded I had submitted myself for a comedy festival called \u2018Laughing Skull Festival\u2019 when I received the email informing me I had been accepted. It takes place in Atlanta from March 27-31 of this year.\nComedy festivals are relatively new on the horizon, and I haven\u2019t had a whole lot of experience doing them quite honestly. As a rule, I\u2019ve been too busy actually working to spend time trying to enter festivals which are usually a showcase where industry people gather to harvest ripe talent.\nMontreal\u2019s \u2018Just For Laughs\u2019 is a huge one that\u2019s been going for decades, and there was one in Apsen, CO that HBO used to run. I have no idea if that one is still going, and that\u2019s embarrassing for someone who claims to be in that particular business. No wonder I\u2019ve not progressed farther.\nI\u2019ll painfully admit my weakest trait has always been my business acumen. I should know who all the major talent pickers are and where they are picking said talent at any given time, but that\u2019s not something I\u2019ve ever actively pursued. I\u2019d just assumed that world would find me eventually.\nWell, that\u2019s about the most naive assumption I\u2019ve made since believing the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny would keep bringing me money and candy into perpetuity. How could I think I had a chance to get seen if I\u2019d never put myself in front of anyone who might be able to discover me?\nI have no answers other than I have played the game very poorly. I was never sure of myself as far as talent was concerned, and wanted to be really ready when my moment arrived. I misjudged myself horribly in that department, as it turns out I had the talent all along but didn\u2019t believe in it.\nI\u2019m not bragging, but when I\u2019m on my game I can work a live audience with the best of anyone I\u2019ve ever seen in person. It took years of effort to develop that, but the raw ability was there from the start. Not everyone has it, and I wasn\u2019t aware of that in the beginning. I\u2019ve been given a gift.\nIt\u2019s like a baseball pitcher with a 100 mile an hour fastball. Not everyone has one, and the ones that do don\u2019t always have it forever. It\u2019s a delicate thing that everyone wants, but not all who get it become instant superstars. I\u2019ve had one the whole time, but managed to avoid hitting pay dirt.\nWhatever happened happened, and I can\u2019t change a lick. What I can and will do is pick myself up and go down to Atlanta to fire my best fastballs in March. I\u2019ll do what I do, and hopefully I\u2019ll catch the eye of someone who sees how much effort has gone into preparing for this opportunity.\nAll I need is ONE person who gets it and has power to make things happen and my world gets changed in a heartbeat. Instead of worrying about speeding tickets on my way to Eau Claire and defective driver\u2019s doors, I will have a whole new set of things to occupy my time and I want that. I know I\u2019m ready for something better, and if it\u2019s not this particular opportunity it will lead me to getting in front of that single pair of eyes that needs to see me. This is an exciting time to be me.\nTags:comedy festivals, Easter Bunny, Eau Claire, HBO, Laughing Skull Festival, Tooth Fairy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 36549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://doh.sd.gov/diseases/infectious/diseasefacts/measles.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FZTRA2A6GAYGMYDNBYBX3BKXPDZTIZDA", "length": 2282, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "doh.sd.gov", "title": "measles", "raw_content": "(rubeola, hard measles, red measles)\nMeasles is an acute, highly contagious viral disease capable of producing epidemics. Measles is more common in winter and spring.\nAlthough measles is usually considered a childhood disease, it can be contracted at any age. Generally, preschool children, adolescents, young adults and inadequately immunized individuals comprise the majority of measles cases in the United States.\nHow is measles spread?\nMeasles is spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people or, less frequently, by airborne transmission. Measles is one of the most readily transmitted communicable diseases.\nMeasles symptoms generally appear in two stages. In the first stage, the individual may have a runny nose, cough and a slight fever. The eyes may become reddened and sensitive to light while the fever consistently rises each day. The second stage begins on the third to seventh day and consists of a temperature of 103-105\u00b0F, and a red blotchy rash lasting four to seven days. The rash usually begins on the face and then spreads over the entire body. Koplik spots (little white spots with a red background) may also appear on the gums and inside of the cheeks.\nEarly symptoms like fever usually appear 10 days after exposure (range 7-12 days) and rash appears after 14 days (range 7-21 days).\nWhen and for how long is a person able to spread measles?\nAn individual is able to transmit measles from four days before onset of rash and until four days after rash onset.\nDoes past infection make a person immune?\nYes. Permanent immunity is acquired after contracting the disease.\nWhat is the treatment for measles?\nWhat are the complications associated with measles?\nPneumonia occurs in up to 6 percent of reported cases and accounts for 60 percent of deaths attributed to measles. Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) may also occur. Other complications include middle ear infection and convulsions. Measles is more severe in infants and adults.\nMaintaining the highest level of immunization against measles is the best preventive measure. Measles vaccine (MMR) may be given at 12-15 months of age. The second dose of MMR is given at 4-6 years of age. The vaccine is highly effective and two MMR shots usually produce lifelong immunity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 8298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://domesticpreparedness.com/resilience/page4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:56Z", "digest": "sha1:L7PHOKNR75HD3KDVXP6XMSI2Q74PZOJK", "length": 4791, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "domesticpreparedness.com", "title": "Resilience | Domestic Preparedness", "raw_content": "National Safe Schools Week: Securing Learning Environments\nby Mark Williams - Wed, October 04, 2017\nStudies show that children\u2019s learning improves when they feel both physically and emotionally safe. As \u201cNational Safe Schools Week\u201d (16-20 October 2017) approaches, it is an appropriate time to discuss how to create these environments through safe schools programs in local communities across the United States.\nEnhancing Infrastructure Protection Through Special Events\nby Erin Mohres - Wed, September 20, 2017\nIn an atmosphere of limited resources, critical infrastructure (CI) protection can be difficult to prioritize with crime-fighting and disaster response. Understanding real-world lessons learned from local agencies is one way to make progress. Leveraging the urgency demanded by special events can be a particularly productive path forward. This article offers suggestions from practitioners to develop CI protection programs through special events management, at varying levels of capability and scale.\nMortuary Logistic Challenges of Mass Fatality Incidents\nby O. Shawn Cupp - Fri, August 25, 2017\nToday in the United States, some in society are hesitant to acknowledge or plan for \u201cfailure options\u201d \u2013 in other words, admit that the worst of the worst can happen. The military requires planning for just about every situation including when operations do not go as planned. However, those in emergency management and domestic preparedness operations need to consider tragedy and events unimaginable to most people\nPlan Big, Even to Respond Small\nby Donald (Doc) Lumpkins - Wed, August 09, 2017\nIn emergency planning efforts, there is much debate about whether to plan for the worst and scale down, or plan for current threats and scale up. Of course, in complex systems, small changes in initial conditions can have profound effects. By considering larger, low-frequency events, communities can overcome this challenge and be better prepared for disasters of all sizes.\nFEMA Corps: Bringing in the Next Generation\nby Richard Serino & Jennifer Grimes - Wed, July 26, 2017\nWhen Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast in 2012, its effects were devastating. The storm left a trail of destruction that affected 24 states, killing 159 people, costing $70.2 billion in damage, and leaving millions without power. Yet, in the wake of this terrible disaster, there was a new source of hope: A group of young AmeriCorps members working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s (FEMA) newly launched FEMA Corps assisted the recovery effort.\nFEMA Corps: Youth Engagement in Emergency Management\nby Sierra Griffieth - Wed, July 19, 2017\nThe FEMA Corps Program is the result of a revolutionized partnership between the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Established in 2012, FEMA Corps falls under the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps umbrella. Its members travel across the country assisting FEMA and its partners with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.\nThe True Test of a Successful Crisis Response: Public Trust\nby W. Craig Fugate - Tue, June 27, 2017\nNo organization, or government, can solve every problem. There will always be a crisis that will require an emergency response. And fundamental to the success of that response will be the public\u2019s reaction. Emergency managers can react and can mobilize, but they will not be successful unless they do so in such a way as to ensure the public trust. This was apparent in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina, which was a crisis of government.\nWhy NIMS Continuing Education Is Needed\nby Randall Hanifen - Wed, June 14, 2017\nThe National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Framework are very important and overall well-constructed documents despite some past failures related to their implementation. However, one common denominator in disaster failures or successes is the people involved and the education and training of those personnel. Although federal mandates provide requirements for an initial certification, to date, no required refresher training exists. This article analyzes reasons that the NIMS Incident Command System (ICS) annual recertification should be required to maintain NIMS compliance.\nUsing Core Capabilities to Build County Resilience\nby Allen King - Wed, June 14, 2017\nThe lack of core capability guidance diminishes counties\u2019 levels of preparedness and resilience and is a barrier to increasing these efforts for the nation as a whole. By using community associations as force multipliers, counties can leverage this valuable resource to increase resilience-building efforts beginning at the local level. This bottom-up approach builds not only physical but social resilience at all levels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dougmunro.com/track/349845/when-no-ones-s-lookin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ABSIBIEPDDGQIYECN3SFFP2CAEM3GRH2", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dougmunro.com", "title": "When No Ones's Lookin' by Doug Munro", "raw_content": "When No Ones's Lookin'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 180.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://downloads.info/windows/pc-games/puzzle/synaesthete.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UVMGRC5FW5NPSXMU4AIGNJ5VMVA6HICK", "length": 1667, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "downloads.info", "title": "Download Synaesthete for free", "raw_content": "Download Synaesthete\nIf you enjoy dancing, then Synaesthete is the perfect combination of dance and arcade gaming making for a very fun and challenging game that you may have ever played. The game has a very original premise and game play that makes it very appealing to players of all ages. The premise of the game revolves around defeating all the enemies in each room that you come across. You will have to sync your character to the music played and then the laser that you have will shoot down your enemies. However bear in mind that the rhythm of the music must be maintained at all times.\nThe most important thing in Synaesthete is the music and how well you are able to sync your moves to it. If you are able to do that perfectly, then you will not get stuck in the game and will be successful in your endeavors. The controls in Synaesthete are simple and quite easy to get used to. There is a nice environment and the game takes some exploring. However, it may get a little tedious when you have to go down on all the grids and bridges in between the rooms. The best part of the game is the thumping and leg-tapping music. This is what keeps the game interesting at all times.\nThe game play of Synaesthete is quite amusing. The game has some good 3D graphics, however they are not that great you would expect from a game of this time and age. The soundtracks and the music make the game very enjoyable. The graphics are a bit of a disappointment but once you get over that fact, the game gets quite interesting to play. all in all, Synaesthete is a very original and engaging game to play, and players will greatly enjoy the great soundtrack it has to offer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drshortt.com/dvteam/breast-lift-implants-09/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BKHHP2L5Q65KRE2RNH2MQ2OFVZ5BQMM4", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "drshortt.com", "title": "Breast Lift with Implants - Dr. Shortt, Plastic Surgeon - Oakville / Toronto", "raw_content": "25-34 year old woman treated with Breast Lift with Implants.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drugsdetails.com/tag/namenda/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WFCDO5ONUBFXR4BAQGXW5KEX6IQ66Q5R", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "drugsdetails.com", "title": "Namenda | Drugs Details", "raw_content": "What is Memantine Memantine or Namenda belongs to the category of medication used to treat the symptoms o...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 149.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Bitter-Tears-of-Petra-Von-Kant/60024395", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GBRHWKG4R5SYM6SKN6RF4U66GJIU2BI5", "length": 559, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dvd.netflix.com", "title": "\u0000 Rent The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) on DVD and Blu-ray - DVD Netflix", "raw_content": "1972 NR 2h 4m Blu-ray / DVD\nIn the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater.\nMargit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann\nGerman: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital Mono", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eagle102.iheart.com/featured/morgen/content/2018-11-30-freddie-mercury-vs-sid-vicious/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GKPR4PFBXHHXZNMXOOAC2AVKKZXP6GHD", "length": 1178, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "eagle102.iheart.com", "title": "Freddie Mercury Vs. Sid Vicious | Morgen | Eagle 102.3", "raw_content": "Freddie Mercury Vs. Sid Vicious\nThere are so many reasons to love Freddie Mercury; his charisma, his talent, his ability to make the London Ballet think he was a real dancer. Some would assume that because he was, ahem...flamboyant? (yeah, we'll go with that) anyhow, people assumed he was also a wimp. Assuming such things is a great way to get your ass kicked as Sid Vicious learned one day in Wessex Studios. Sid, feeling the need to mouth off stuck his head in and asked Freddie had succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses? Check out how Freddie responded below. 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Our extensive knowledge and broad-ranging legal expertise provides individuals, small start-ups, and large corporations involved in the industry with an ideal source of legal counsel, helping them to navigate the often-confusing array of federal, state and local regulation of these substances.\nOur firm offers talented and nationally-recognized transactional attorneys providing advice in many important legal areas for the industry, such as regulatory matters, real estate, securities, tax, non-profit enterprise, finance, and new business start-ups, as well as veteran, trial-tested litigators in the event of litigation. Our Regulated Substances Practice offers over a century of combined legal experience, drawing on background and experience ranging from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, local Prosecutor\u2019s Office, non-profit organizations, and mega firms.\nOur Regulated Substances Practice is equipped to work with a variety of clients in the legal cannabis and marijuana industry, including:\ngrowers, processors, and dispensaries who need assistance applying for licenses or permits, renewing permits, appealing denials, navigating local zoning codes, conducting internal investigations, instituting product recalls, and identifying and managing risk, as well as providing necessary notices to customers and regulatory authorities;\neducational and healthcare institutions and laboratories interested in conducting cannabis and marijuana-focused research;\nancillary service providers interested in pursuing opportunities in the new industry, such as financial institutions, landlords, trucking or transportation providers, security firms, marketing companies, technology firms, business accelerators, and importers and exporters;\nhealth care providers, patients, and caregivers seeking advice in risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and certification procedures;\ninvestors and investment firms desiring guidance on regulatory compliance, structuring private equity arrangements, and real estate investment trusts;\nindividual or company representation in potential litigation arising from member, partner or shareholder disputes, criminal investigations, investment misrepresentations, or employment disputes; and\ngovernmental entities seeking counsel on drafting ordinances, regulations, or conducting investigations.\nMarijuana/cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I controlled substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and as such a variety of activities including, but not limited to, growing, selling, using, and possessing marijuana/cannabis, remain subject to potential federal prosecution, even if those same activities may be legal if appropriately conducted at the state level. Any content contained herein is not intended to provide legal advice to assist with violation of any federal, state, or municipal law. Legal advice to clients is provided only after the firm has been engaged to represent a specific client.\nMichael Haviland and Eric Sando Present Cannabis Law\nOn August 9, 2017, Michael J. Haviland, Esquire, and Eric P. 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A key component of my research involves integrating my with the work of other geological disciplines, including, but certainly not limited to other geophysical methods, geochemistry/petrology, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling.\nMuch of my research has been focused on better characterizing the structure and physical properties of the mantle lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath continents (e.g., North America, Australia) using scattered wave receiver function analysis and modeling. I am particularly interested in the tectonic evolution of continental interiors, specifically cratons and I am also interested in using seismology to better constrain the rheology of the continental lithosphere within the western United States, including the Basin and Range Province and along the San Andreas Fault. Looking deeper into the Earth, I\u2019ve also recently worked to understand the dynamics of the lowermost mantle in the vicinity of the African Superplume.\nI am currently looking for graduate students, but also may have opportunities for postdocs and motivated undergraduates.\nFord, H.A., M.D. Long, and E.A. Wirth, Mid-lithospheric discontinuities and complex anisotropic layering in the mantle lithosphere beneath the Wyoming and Superior Provinces, J. of Geophys. Res., in revision.\nFord, H.A. and M.D. Long, A regional test of global models for flow, rheology and seismic anisotropy at the base of the mantle, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 245, 71-75, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2015.05.004, 2015.\nFord, H.A., M.D. Long, C. Lynner and X. He, Lower mantle flow along the edge of the African Superplume, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 420, 12-22, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.029, 2015.\nSelway, K., H.A. Ford, P. Kelemen, The seismic mid\u2010lithosphere discontinuity, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 414, 45-57, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.029, 2015.\nFord, H.A., K.M. Fischer and V. Lekic, Localized shear in the deep lithosphere beneath the San Andreas fault system, Geology, 42, 295-298, 2014.\nHopper, E., H.A. Ford, K.M. Fischer, V. Lekic, and M.J. Fouch, The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and the tectonic and magmatic history of the northwestern United States, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 402, 69-81, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.016, 2014.\nFord, H.A., K.M. Fischer, D.L. Abt, C.A. Rychert, L.T. Elkins-Tanton, The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and cratonic lithospheric layering beneath Australia from Sp wave imaging, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 300, 299-310, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.007, 2010.\nAbt, D.L., K.M. Fischer, S.W. French, H.A. Ford, H. Yuan, and B. Romanowicz, North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B09301, doi:10.1029/2009JB006914, 2010.\nFischer, K.M., H.A. Ford, D.L. Abt, C.A. Rychert, The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 38, 551-575, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152438, 2010.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edzardernst.com/2014/03/thoughts-about-claus-fritzsches-suicide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JRG6Z27H4RV6KOYXEJQ6IBZ7I53PGIZL", "length": 4113, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "edzardernst.com", "title": "Thoughts about Claus Fritzsche's suicide", "raw_content": "\u00ab Disc herniation after chiropractic\nComplications after chiropractic manipulations: probably rare but certainly\u2026 \u00bb\nPosted in alternative medicine | Tagged alternative medicine, bias, fritzsche, Heel, homeopathy, irrationality, misleading consumers, Walach\n14 Responses to Thoughts about Claus Fritzsche\u2019s suicide\nEx-Acupuncturist on Saturday 01 March 2014 at 18:01\nMy sympathies go out to you, Prof. Ernst, and others who have known Claus. It\u2019s not easy to deal with any suicide, and very common to think \u2018what could I have done differently to prevent it.\u2019 However, when someone has unfairly attacked you so much with disregard to facts and ethics, protecting yourself is advisable. I did not know Claus but am thankful that he didn\u2019t direct physical violence towards you in addition to himself. Unfortunately, he didn\u2019t seek out effective medical care for his apparent suicidal depression.\nIrene on Saturday 01 March 2014 at 18:27\nPerhaps the poor man overdosed on homeopathic depression remedy? (I am not making a joke about the unfortunate Mr. Fritzsche or his suicide, just poking fun at homeopathy).\nBernd on Monday 19 January 2015 at 14:54\nPingback: Claus Fritzsche ist tot @ gwup | die skeptiker\njm on Sunday 02 March 2014 at 17:21\nThat\u2019s really classy Irene. Good show.\nIrene on Sunday 02 March 2014 at 23:42\nAlex on Sunday 09 March 2014 at 16:05\nstill impious. no time for jokes.\nTrevor Habeshaw on Monday 03 March 2014 at 16:39\nRather too many diagnoses going on here already for my liking without anyone, amateur or professional, having seen, been consultant to or been consulted by the person. Please stop it. People make personal choices about their lives and often about their deaths. It\u2019s not for smartarse or half-baked outsiders, amateur or professional, to make judgements about this. Ethical practice? Who wants it?\nThe Crack Emcee on Tuesday 04 March 2014 at 00:22\nAs someone who has found himself royally disliked by his readers (a bunch of Republicans desperately in need of a lesson in race relations) your compassion touches me, Doc. You\u2019re a great guy. And I\u2019m glad we\u2019re on the same side.\nIn that spirit, I wish that you would read this short post I did. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve been saying for years, in much the same manner as your deceased friend, and after all this time I, too, would really appreciate some relief from what ails me.\nTake care, and all the best in the world.\nJens Lubbadeh on Tuesday 04 March 2014 at 06:02\nI also was touched by the death of Claus Fritzsche. It is a very sad and tragic event.\nSome have speculated about the origins of the email in which Fritzsche asked his collaborators for support to discredit the portrait of Edzard Ernst published in \u201cZeit Wissen\u201d by Max Rauner. The email was passed to me. Can any light be thrown on how it came to light?\nEdzard on Tuesday 04 March 2014 at 07:55\nthis was a \u2019round email\u2019 sent by Fritzsche to Walach and several of his collaborators depicting their endeavours to defame me. It had been leaked to me by someone who was involved in these activities and had got hold of it. I thought that the email presented important evidence in the public interest, took the liberty to pass it on to Rauner and gave him permission to use it as he saw fit.\nFor me, the email was an eye-opener regarding the methods my detractors are using to tarnish my name and undermine my reputation.\nPingback: Wegen Fritzsche-Nachruf: Hom\u00f6opathen beschweren sich beim Presserat @ gwup | die skeptiker\nPingback: Antroposofica - Kloptdatwel?\nJ.R. on Thursday 17 November 2016 at 15:40\nJust read this today. You have my full respect for your above words.\nHave worked with Claus Fritzsche for some years in a totally different business at the end of the 80s.\nHe was a guy with different faces, most of the time friendly but not seldom leaving the impression, that he was not really living in the same world as we did. Often I felt, that he was getting very sad only by seeing that life is as life is. He was not able to reflect himself and to go for his goals. Maybe this has finally caused his suicide. He did not know his way and how to go there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 14403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eewc.com/category/articles/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MEU4MYXQPIFXWBNDLWQI4JWSKSAL3LCD", "length": 41072, "nlines": 250, "source_domain": "eewc.com", "title": "Articles Archives | Christian Feminism Today", "raw_content": "Articles Bex Canner - October 30, 2018\nBy January, 2018, #TimesUp, a related movement for empowerment was gaining ground, led in part by celebrities in the entertainment industries who wanted to call attention to lesser known grassroots activists who were doing amazing work for social justice\nThe Gift of the Graveyard\nArticles Zoe White - May 9, 2018\nThe key is receptivity, the willingness to accept the invitation into stillness\u2014the stillness that is at the center of all movement\u2014and to become immersed in it. Stillness is not death; on the contrary, it is a quality of presence, pure and alive. In fact, it's perhaps only in the heart of stillness that life truly lets itself be known and delighted in.\nMy Introduction to 21st Century Muslim Women\nArticles Mary Jane Mitchell - December 22, 2017\nOne of the most surprising things I was told by the women I interviewed was that not only are they are aware of the general public\u2019s belief that they are somehow repressed for dressing the way they do \u2013 but also indicated they dress the way they do based on their own choosing.\nArticles Princess O\u2019Nika Auguste - August 17, 2017\nImmortal Moral Reminders of Henrietta Lacks\nArticles Rev. Darcy Metcalfe - August 14, 2017\nOne might ask how differently Lack\u2019s story would have gone if the social injustices that disregarded her as a person with agency had long ago been undone. The science and healthcare industries must help address unjust socioeconomic structures that deny the basic humanity and rights of disempowered groups of people before any lasting changes in care can be expected.\nWhile I broadly perceive my calling as helping others, particularly marginalized others, to find and use their authentic voice\u2014to become unsilenced\u2014if my actions, in whatever manner God sees fit, can contribute in any way toward the building of God\u2019s kingdom here on earth, then I am all in.\nOra et Labora (Prayer and Work): A Sermon of Mary and Martha\nArticles Admin - June 19, 2017\nWomen are forced to partake in ferocious competition for limited resources instead of being immersed in a faithful community where there is not only enough for all but in which all are valued.\nI view this piece and know I can gather the hurting world in my womb. I can allow my feminine-specific suffering under patriarchy to be the conduit for my passionate pursuit of justice and my spark of love I extend toward others. For truly, I am the arms stretched out inside the fallopian tubes. The darkest night of my soul under patriarchy can become the very hope for others to find light.\n\"We worshiped as feminists, sharing rituals grounded in women\u2019s experiences and using feminine language for God. These rituals included a milk and honey ritual that celebrated the goodness of women\u2019s bodies and a song that affirmed the wisdom of women as created in the image of God...\"\nEsther was in the same situation that many women in the postcolonial world are in; and in the end, like her, they do what they need to do in order to survive. And sometimes, through subversion, cleverness, or simply taking advantage of unexpected opportunities to exercise influence, they can go beyond survival and bring about change.\nHow I Learned to Call God Mother: A One-Person Experiment\nArticles Susan McLeod-Harrison - March 13, 2017\nI can see now that, like my spiritual director said long ago, my image of God was all wrong. My gut feeling was that my own best interest was second to God\u2019s. The image of God as Father left me with too few harbors to go for emotional safety. He would send me out to sea, endlessly, on some errand of his own design, as he did Jonah.\nMary Magdalene is a person in her own right. Her real story is remarkable, and can be uncovered through the accurate interpretation of scripture. Mary Magdalene is featured in the New Testament more than any other women, with the exception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus; she\u2019s mentioned in 14 different verses.\nGod is with us. Sophia is with us. Woman Wisdom is with us. We are with each other. We can continue to move forward together on this journey of shalom as we lean on God and lean on one another.\nArticles Mark M. Mattison - July 12, 2016\n\"Of course we were confronted with innumerable problems and questions as we worked through the text. We understood that our task had to be about more than simply swapping out a few words and changing some pronouns. \"\nI\u2019m grateful that in today\u2019s world, we can \u201chave it all\u201d; we can have careers and families\u2014but this also worries me. Are we as feminists not simply buying into another of our culture\u2019s lies, the promise of ever-more, of consumption and waste, of degradation and disposal?\"\nArticles Julia K. Stronks, J.D., Ph.D. - May 25, 2016\nIn this article, I explain why HB2 is clearly unconstitutional. But I will also stress that constitutionality is always only one small part of understanding why legislators do what they do. A hostile feeling (or animus) toward transgender people becomes an important part of the legal discussion.\nMy Life Was Transformed by a Children\u2019s Book\u2014 Heart Talks with Mother God\nArticles Aditya Putcha - March 14, 2016\nJust two months ago I found that the only thing which comforted me on a day I felt heartbreakingly useless and worthless was sitting in Mother God\u2019s lap and letting Her hold, pat, and comfort me until I felt completely soothed. When I soon after found that there is a book that teaches children such behavior from an early age I knew it was something about which I needed to spread the word.\nArticles Virginia Ramey Mollenkott - February 29, 2016\nGod has been really merciful and kind to me. She has supplied real-life experiences just when I needed them most, in order to help me feel something I otherwise could not have grasped. Lately I have been sensing that before I die\u2014after all, 84 is a pretty ripe age\u2014I should acknowledge God\u2019s kindness to me, and do it in writing. So here goes!\nBarlas points out the irony that out of a collection of 70,000 Islamic sayings, only about six can reliably be called misogynistic. But it is always \u201cthese six that men trot out when they want to argue against sexual equality\u201d (p. 46). The parallel to using the Bible against homosexuals is obvious, but so is the parallel to male supremacist theories in the Jewish and Christian traditions. We Christian feminists need to lift up such ironies, repeatedly and without apology.\nAfter the Supreme Court\u2019s Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage: A Long Road Ahead\nArticles Julia K. Stronks, J.D., Ph.D. - January 18, 2016\nFirst, I\u2019m so happy about the result [the Supreme Court\u2019s decision on same-sex marriage]. But second, I need to point out that the Court\u2019s decision did little to help guide us in balancing the rights of the gay community with the interests of conservative religious people. This issue of balance is at the root of a lot of conflict in the areas of employment and consumer protection.\nArticles Angie Best - September 10, 2015\nA Christian Feminist Remembers Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015)\n\"During those years, I purchased every book Elisabeth Elliot wrote, and each time I looked forward to the next one. Like many women of my generation, I considered her a role model, an example of what a strong, intelligent, confident, courageous Christian woman could be. \"\n\"Author and speaker Bren\u00e9 Brown emphasizes that scarcity and abundance are actually two sides of the same coin. They are not opposites. She says that the opposite of scarcity is, in fact, 'enough.' Scarcity and abundance work together as a positive feedback loop...\"\nThe Civil Rights Challenge of the Coming Decade: RFRAs, Wedding Cake, and Faith\nArticles Julia K. Stronks, J.D., Ph.D. - April 27, 2015\n... those of us concerned about both religious liberty and equity for LGBT citizens are caught in a bind. I believe in equity for LGBT people, but at the same time I believe faith-based institutions should be allowed room to shape themselves according to their deepest beliefs. Is it possible to have both?\nArticles Letha Dawson Scanzoni - March 25, 2015\n\"This is the most obvious lesson; yet it may be the hardest to accept. If we hear someway say, 'I just can\u2019t see this the way you do,' it probably doesn\u2019t occur to us that what they\u2019re saying might be literally true! \"\nThe Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriage: Part 1 of a Three-Part Series\nArticles Julia K. Stronks, J.D., Ph.D. - March 17, 2015\nWhen the Supreme Court agreed to take up this matter of same-sex marriage, it articulated the questions it was going to answer: First, \"Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex?\" and second, \"Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state?\"\nEvolution and Creationism: A False Dichotomy\nArticles Siera Donahue - February 9, 2015\nIf Christians intend Christ\u2019s church to be a place of welcome for people of all walks of life to come for instruction, healing, and guidance, they must take care to treat others and their beliefs with respect \u2013 especially beliefs contrary to their own. Such extraordinary, boundless love is no less than Christ\u2019s calling for his followers in John 13:35, \u201cBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.\u201d Rather than opposing sides in an eternal battle, belief in God\u2019s creation of the universe is compatible with belief in evolution. As Pope Francis declared late last year, \u201cEvolution in nature is not in contrast with the notion of divine creation.\u201d\nThe editorial team of The Divine Feminine Version did not simply sort through the New Testament and swap out pronouns, however. Each verse was carefully and painstakingly reviewed, following the United Bible Society\u2019s Fourth Corrected Edition of the Greek New Testament. We wrestled constantly over the best strategies to deal with patriarchalism, anti-semitism, and a variety of other problems that we encountered along the way.\nBacklash is a subtle thing. It can result in even the bravest of us stepping back from what we know to be right because the cost is so high\u2014the loss of a job, perhaps, because of principles, or some dreaded implication for our children, who can become pawns and/or casualties in social justice skirmishes.\nOur country has a two hundred year history of protecting religious belief. And, for over one hundred years , courts have recognized that religious belief impacts both what an individual does and what institutions do. Since the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s, legislation has granted religious institutions exemptions from employment laws, recognizing that even though non-discrimination is important, protection of religious identity is important also.\nForgiving the Apology that Never Comes\nArticles Diana J. Ensign - June 10, 2014\nForgiveness isn\u2019t easy to write about or to practice in our lives. When the church community I loved broke apart (not once but twice) over disputes regarding two different ministers, the issue of forgiveness was raised by those who opted to leave. I wasn\u2019t able to tackle the topic then. Even now, two years later, I find forgiveness an unsettling area of discussion. I can\u2019t point to one simple solution or easy fix, especially when no one admits fault or wrongdoing yet many people feel deeply hurt.\nArticles Susan Cottrell - June 5, 2014\nThe patriarchal, task-based church cannot affirm anything outside its box, because \u2013 like all good patriarchs \u2013 it must banish anything it cannot fix. Unless the patriarchal church squarely faces its Mother Wound and allows the nurturance, tenderness, and compassionate caring that has all too long been associated with the feminine (and thus rejected) to come in, it will not only fail to heal but will grow increasingly irrelevant as it fades away.\nRemoving My Inner Blockages to Love: How A Course in Miracles Transformed My...\nArticles Virginia Ramey Mollenkott - May 19, 2014\nClimate Change and Neighbor Love\nArticles Rev. Dr. Genny Rowley - May 14, 2014\n\"What is neighbor love in an era of climate change? That ancient question, 'Who is my neighbor?' remains pertinent. I suggest that two shifts may help focus our ecological lenses for neighbor love\u2014 how we understand neighbor love, and who we understand our neighbors to be.\"\nChristian Ecofeminist Theology Today or Gaia, Sallie McFague, and You Walk into a Bar....\nArticles Rev. Erica Lea - April 22, 2014\nPatriarchy and an industrial military complex, whether implicitly or explicitly, promote masculine conquering of the feminine or the perceived weaker \"other,\" as is common in complementarian and/or hierarchical understandings of the world and Christianity.\nSister Wives, Prostitution, and a Biblical Role for Government\nOne thing we have to think about is whether the law\u2014 in a country that includes people of all sorts of different backgrounds\u2014 ought to regulate intimate behavior. We might agree that certain intimate behaviors violate biblical norms, but does that mean these behaviors should be illegal? Christians differ in their perspective.\nThe Adventures of a Small Town Female Pastor (or Why I Left the Parish...\nArticles Ann Steiner Lantz - January 17, 2014\n\u201cThey were a very loving and caring group of folks who had a great deal of resistance to anything that would bring about the future they spoke of as 'their dream.' They wanted new people to attend\u2014 but only as long as nothing had to change.\u201c\n\"Change often involves chaos, the abyss of not knowing, an emptiness, an awareness of loss \u2014and can include intense emotional drama, grief, and fear. But change can also (thankfully) involve release, a new way of experiencing ourselves and the world, and can open us to a new sense of hope and meaning. \"\nMy First Encounter with Religious Doubt: The Day I Stopped Believing in Santa Claus\nArticles Letha Dawson Scanzoni - December 23, 2013\n\"I was trying so hard not to believe, yet I couldn\u2019t let myself believe in my unbelief! Here I was, thinking Santa might not exist, but at the same time I was afraid he was angry with me for doubting his existence. I agonized over what to make of it all.\"\nPrayers, Santa, and a Nativity: Government Support of Worldviews\nArticles Julia K. Stronks, J.D., Ph.D. - December 18, 2013\n\". . . for Christian feminists this concept of pluralism is an important one. We have to decide if we believe that government should make room for a variety of perspectives or if government should be a tool by which one perspective dominates. For centuries, a majority voice discriminated against women and same-sex relationships. Now that the public tide seems to be swinging the other way, are we in favor of a similar majoritarian perspective that shuts out minority approaches we do not like, or do we want to protect even those voices that we believe are truly misguided?\"\nAlthough I have been an active member of EEWC since its founding, my years as editor of both our former print publication and the website have allowed me to serve even more closely with so many talented friends\u2014writers, reviewers, web developers, council members, and office managers\u2014 who have worked with me in a spirit of collegiality, spreading the Christian feminist message through both print and the Internet.\nArticles Letha Dawson Scanzoni - November 7, 2013\n\"But something happens as she nears adolescence and her 'self-ownership is negated,' writes Hancock. \u201cSuddenly, well before puberty, along comes the culture with the pruning shears, ruthlessly trimming back her spirit\u201d (p. 18). Then, according to Hancock, \u201cinstead of crystallizing an identity during adolescence, women as adults reach back to girlhood to retrieve the original sense of self\u201d (p.232).\nThe Gospel of Mary: An Inclusive Gospel\nArticles Mark M. Mattison - October 9, 2013\nThe spiritual path to authentic humanity is dramatically displayed in the central drama of Mary\u2019s Gospel, a narrative often described as the ascent of the soul (Mary 15:1-17:7). The narrative relates Mary\u2019s vision of a soul encountering (and overcoming) seven malevolent powers that seek to keep it bound and drag it down.\n\"But on a deeper level my hope is that Christian universities like Azusa Pacific and my own school will start a better conversation about what it means to know and to love the LGBTQ community. What a wonderful opportunity we have to say, 'We do not understand transgender; there are so many things about homosexuality we do not understand. But, we want to listen and to learn.'\u201d\n\"In the U.S., and in many other parts of the developed world, institutional churches have been suffering from a religious malaise that is clearly analogous to 'colony collapse disorder.' People are leaving and not coming back. Congregations are shrinking and dying in record numbers. Although the problem has been developing for years, a recognition of its seriousness is only now beginning to reach a wide audience.\"\nMarillia Hinds was a woman ahead of her time. I remember her telling about injustices she became aware of through her reading, which prompted her to write to the CEO of the company or organization to share her opinion of the unfairness.\n\"In times of social change, any hint of change in the status quo stirs up fears of disorder. The more rapid the change, the more loudly come the calls for clamping down, holding back, conserving the status quo, stressing hierarchy over equality, law over grace.\"\nWhen Christians Contemplate Suicide\nArticles Cliff Williams - August 12, 2013\nAlthough faith can give one a sense of self-worth, hope, and purpose, it cannot eliminate the chemical imbalance in one\u2019s brain that causes bipolar disorder or supply the vitamin D that one needs to prevent seasonal affective disorder.\nFriendship Bonds and Witness Trees\nArticles Kathy Vestal - June 5, 2013\n\"...while touring the Susan B. Anthony house in Rochester, NY, the docent called our attention to the large horse chestnut tree in front of the house. Apparently the city had tried to cut it down while Ms. Anthony was living there, to make room for new sidewalks, but she fought to keep it. \"\nOver time She became a part of my everyday awareness. She became part of my language. And gradually, She became something I understood, as I understood myself. In the process God became something like me, something OF me, not something entirely different. I have never believed that men were better than women. As someone who carries the awareness and expression of both genders, I realize there exists no real duality, just many different expressions of the same humanity.\nRecipes, Crafts, and Funerals? A Professor Shares a Student\u2019s Surprising Story of Pinterest\nArticles Alena Amato Ruggerio - March 13, 2013\n\"Subversive uses for Pinterest are out there, however, and I learned about a beautiful one in my Women Transforming Language class at Southern Oregon University, where I teach in the Department of Communication. The students had just read a chapter on Native American feminist Paula Gunn Allen\u2019s rhetorical theory. We were discussing Gunn Allen\u2019s concept of \u201cDeath Culture,\u201d the phrase she uses to illustrate how white America\u2019s obsession with death is so strong that she believes our own annihilation is inevitable.\"\nArticles L\u0113 Weaver (Marg Herder) - February 20, 2013\nEEWC-Christian Feminism Today's Marg Herder is attending and reporting on the 2013 Justice Conference, currently being held in Philadelphia, PA.\nI've always been impressed with those white Freedom Riders who chose to stand in solidarity with their black brothers and sisters, risking life, limb, and reputation because they believed in the rightness of the cause, not because it necessarily affected them personally.\nCarolyn Briggs: Pressing on to Higher Ground\nArticles Letha Dawson Scanzoni - September 10, 2012\nAs we talked, I mentioned that so many women who have left fundamentalism are extremely bitter because they have been so hurt, and their anger comes across almost as a \u201cfundamentalism\u201d of its own\u2014as though they want to \u201cde-convert\u201d people away from faith. \u201cExactly,\u201d she responded. \u201cAnd I have received many emails from people who want me to join them in that bitterness. I\u2019m just not going to. I\u2019m not going to go there. . . .\"\nIn the end, what I hope and pray for my son is that he will grow up to love God, others, and himself in a healthy and respectful way. I also pray that Scott will live out the fruits of the Spirit and be full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control. And, in the end, if Scott loves others by living out the fruits of the Spirit, qualities to be cultivated in both males and females, then the world will be a better place indeed.\nAdvocacy and the Climate Crisis: Reflections from a Canadian Christian Feminist\nArticles Diane Marshall - May 5, 2012\nI realized that Jesus and His disciples travelled \u201clight,\u201d and that I was not living in a way that was ultimately sustainable on this earth. While I had for a long time been concerned about our consumer culture and the values of compulsive \u201cgetting and spending\u201d that it promotes, I had not thought through the moral and ethical dimensions of what it means to build a culture and an economy of sustainability.\nJann Aldredge-Clanton Interview\nIn Changing Church I tried to reflect not only racial and ethnic diversity, but also diversity in sexual orientation and Christian denominations. To pursue their calling some of these ministers have overcome obstacles not only of sexism but also of racism and/or heterosexism.\nI refuse to give into despair and instead have hope that attitudes in our churches, regardless of denominational affiliation, will change. In many ways, it is the church that is on trial.\nArticles Anne Linstatter - January 22, 2012\nThe Work is Not Done\nArticles Kimberly George - January 22, 2012\nFor all of us who are feminists and claim faith\u2014whether we are 27 or 72\u2014 there still remains the most profound work of all: the work of hope. Together, we are called to seize hope and imagine the beauty for which we long.\nMary Had Twins? Who Knew?\nArticles Kathleen Fogarty - January 22, 2012\nby Kathleen Fogarty Every Christmas for the last thirteen years, I\u2019ve produced a music program at the Quaker school where I teach. We sing Nativity...\nFriends for All Seasons\nby Linda Bieze and Alena Amato Ruggerio (Ed. note: This article is a departure from the usual organization of our Christian Feminism Today feature articles....\nArticles Virginia Ramey Mollenkott - January 22, 2012\nby Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. At EEWC\u2019s 2008 conference in Indianapolis, as Nancy Wilson approaches the lectern, I hope you will be prepared for greatness. Not...\nArticles Nancy A. Hardesty - January 22, 2012\nIf this organization is to survive and persevere; if we as individuals are going to sustain our work of love and justice, we need to know that behind the ebb and flow of waves and water there is a Power, an Energy, a web of Wisdom we call God, creating, empowering, sustaining. \"Blessed the waters that rise and fall to rise again.\"\nSalvation For The Least: Reading Luke\u2019s Two-Volume Work\nThe last major theme of Luke's Gospel concerns Jesus' suffering, death, and resurrection. Despite Mel Gibson's violent \"Passion\" movie, there is no substitutionary atonement in Luke. Rather, Jesus is the good, noble, self-giving, innocent martyr who challenges the powers of evil and is killed by them.\nOne day I profoundly needed comforting by God, and I needed to be sung a lullaby like a mother and child. So I started strumming around with lullabies in three-quarter time, and then I was thinking of images of God as my Mother, caring for me.\nMy first conference was one of the only times I have felt positive, inspirational feminist community. Should this privilege be reserved for the few women who discover an EEWC poster and tentatively attend? Should we not be more \"out there\" with our God-filled organization? Women of EEWC, I ask you to reach out to my generation with your message.\nThose who are part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriest movement \"along with women in the Anglican (Episcopal) and Evangelical and Protestant traditions, share the common vision of reforming the church structures from within, of re-imaging and designing a new model of priesthood...\"\nChristian Feminism Online: A 1997 Interview with Pat Gundry\n\"Christian feminists haven\u2019t even begun to tap into the full range of possibilities offered by the Internet, which may be the greatest communication tool ever devised,\" writes Pat Gundry.\nJustice, Love, and Compassion on Trial\nArticles Lois Victoria Peterson - January 22, 2012\n--Why I Took Part in the Jimmy Creech Protest Demonstration by L. Victoria Peterson Why did more than 100 persons leave their homes and jobs and...\nRejecting Patriarchy to Transform the Workplace\nArticles Linda Bieze - January 22, 2012\nLinda Bieze writes that one of the ways Christian feminists\" can make a difference is in the way we can support each other in questioning and challenging the hierarchical model that prevails in business, academia, the health professions, legal professions, the religious establishment, and in most other areas of life.\"\nby Letha Dawson Scanzoni, EEWC Update editor Known for her social justice/feminist Christian music in the 1980s and early 1990s, Colleen Fulmer seemed to have...\nWhat Christian evangelicals have in common is the conviction that meaningful living requires a direct personal relationship with God, and that the Bible should be taken seriously. But what that means can differ widely, and our social attitudes differ tremendously.\"\nGod\u2019s Motherly Care for Us\nArticles Kathryn Christian - January 22, 2012\n\"I have been blessed with many images of the Divine which have helped me to pray and find comfort. But the one image that I return to, that I cling to when I am in my most desperate moments, is Mother. 'As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you,' God says in Isaiah 66:13.\"\nA Reluctant Feminist: The Books That Led Me\nArticles Peggy Michael-Rush - January 22, 2012\nby Peggy Michael-Rush I first came across Helen Bruch Pearson's book, Do What You Have the Power To Do: Studies of Six New Testament Women (Nashville, TN:...\nArticles Melanie Springer Mock - January 22, 2012\nSongs as Yet Unsung\nArticles Mary Louise (Mel) Bringle - January 22, 2012\nby Mary Louise Bringle My vocation as a Christian feminist hymnwriter began accidentally\u2014and perhaps even a bit irreverently. Never let it be said that God...\nA Spiritual Heart Transplant: An Interview with Joan Chittister, OSB\nYou knew that in this very hierarchical, patriarchal structure you were not a person--that anybody could reach in at anytime, do anything to you--and that was all in the name of holiness.\nby Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Our conference theme for this year brings together two announcements from the beginning of the Book of Acts. The first is...\nMy Journey to Feminism\nArticles Susan Hall - January 22, 2012\n\"Ever since my feminist awakening, the proverbial \u201cfire in my belly\u201d has burned for those countless evangelical women who are faithfully practicing the spiritual tradition that has been handed down to them, unknowingly replicating a sexist, exclusivist hierarchy of privilege...\"\nRemembering: Writing EEWC\u2019s Herstory\nArticles Sue Homer - January 22, 2012\nI recall a friend from San Francisco telling me that one should never write a dissertation on a topic that has personal meaning. I told him that those rules just didn't apply to a feminist person such as myself, but I now understand that such passion invested in a long research and writing project does indeed deplete the body and can stir up surprising emotions.\nArticles Jeanne Hanson - January 22, 2012\nby Jeanne HansonWhy would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? I\u2019m still pondering the answer to that one. All I...\nMeditation on a Pedicure\nArticles Kathy Pigg - January 22, 2012\nSo as I go through what I now call my three-quarter life crisis, I must be open to dialogue with my physical body. It tells me: \u201cExercise, Kathy, or you will slowly lose my ability to carry you around, and pay attention to your sleep apnea or you\u2019ll stop breathing. \"\nArticles Ken Sehested - January 22, 2012\nBlessed is the journey, in and through the turmoil. And blessed is the One who seeks the abandoned, who sings the harmony of life, who sows the seeds of justice and reaps the harvest of peace. Send us. Send me. So let it be. Amen and Amen.\nArticles Nancy Wilson - January 22, 2012\nWe live in times that need women and men of spirit to be willing to be changed by the table Christ prepares for us. May you return from this conference, from this event, ready to live into that change \u2014 for Jesus\u2019 sake and the sake of all who need the realm of God to be embodied on earth.\nArticles Adelaide Woodcook - January 22, 2012\nA great part of my joy is the knowing that my open, questioning heart was the key to receiving the answers I sought\u2014that God and I were, and continue to be, co-creators of my life. My journey into consciousness continues every day, and for that I am eternally grateful.\nHoly Hellion: The Rebellion of a Faith-filled Feminist\nArticles Erin Lane Beam - January 22, 2012\nby Erin Lane Beam Unlike my conversion to Christianity, I had no baptism into the tenets of feminism. I imagine if I\u2019d been asked at...\nby Linda Brebner When I retired from a retail job a little over a year ago, and having retired from the ministry several years before...\nAdventures in Teaching \u201cTexts of Truth\u201d\nThe more widely I read, the more complex my beliefs become. That is not to say that rationality and belief are antithetical; another goal I have adopted for my course is to challenge the dichotomy between the academy\u2019s knowledge of the mind and religion\u2019s belief of the heart.\nAndrocentric women and men are projecting their addiction to the domination model onto the work of gender-justice makers everywhere. I know we hate to repeat ourselves, but we will have to do a lot of repeating until society begins to act on the premise that all people are created equal.\nContemporaneity \u201cthe quality of belonging to the same period of time\u201d\nEEWC, with its mix of young and old and every age in between, and its sense of contemporaneity -- we're all in this together at the same time and place in history and each of us has something to contribute -- provides countless opportunities for demonstrating what it means to be a feminist and Christian at any age.\nClimbing the Mountain of Age\nNowadays when I look in the mirror, I see an aging image that is incongruent with my perception of myself. I know my 75-year-old body is steadily \"hiking\" toward old age and I can't stop it. And it's carrying the real me right along with it!\nI was saddened but not surprised to hear Ada Maria Isazi Diaz's remark that the more she identified with Latinas, the more she became invisible. And moved by my old friend Riffat Hassan's distress that only two Islamic feminists were on hand to represent 500 million Muslim women.\nUnfortunately, much in our political justice and tax systems today seem to be working against the needs of the less fortunate. Using an image from Lemuel's mother, we see too many powerful corporations get drunk on their profits and \"pervert the rights of all the afflicted.\"\nGod\u2019s Grrrl \u2014 Biblical Feminism and the Secular Third Wave\nBut where is God in the third wave? Most of the first-person accounts in these young women's volumes ignore religion, citing it as neither a barrier against liberation nor a potential source of it.\nMy personal story points to the internal conflict many biblical feminists might have felt upon the passing of Mary Daly, the blazingly brilliant woman who moved further and further away from our theological territory with each book she published.\nArticles Margaret Hannay - January 22, 2012\nHer Psalms versions were famous during her own lifetime and are worth rediscovering today. They can work well for private devotional reading and even for reading aloud in public worship.3\nArticles Kendra Weddle - January 22, 2012\nby Kendra Weddle The economic downturn precipitated my tenure \u201cdownturn\u201d\u2014or maybe it would be more accurate to reverse the terms and say \u201cturn-down.\u201d And my...\nGrandma, I\u2019ll Go to Hell with You\nI looked into the eyes of this most precious granddaughter, and thought about what she knows of my life. The secure home away from home my life partner and I provide for her. The loving, caring relationship she witnesses. She loves my partner, her \u201cMormor,\u201d and understands about the daily commitment I have to Mormor\u2019s mother who lives 10 minutes from us.\nCarolyn Bohler: One God, Many Metaphors\nShe writes, \u201cGod is like a Father, a Daddy, Abba Mia, My Daddy, \u201dbut only in the same sense that God is like a Nursing Mother or Shepherd or a nonparental image such as Intimate Friend, or Guide or Rock or Light. \u201c\nby EEWC Update editor Letha Dawson Scanzoni I see \u2018call\u2019 not as a vocational choice but as a special way of understanding what we are...\nShe is saddened that so many fear and deny their bodies. \"People 'stay in their heads' a lot to protect themselves,\" she said. \"Rhythm gets us in touch with the unconscious and takes us out of our heads.\nTwelve Ways to Increase Awareness of Abuse and Bring About Change\nArticles Elizabeth Bowman, M.D. - January 22, 2012\n11. Encourage pastors to name mental illness among other illnesses that are mentioned in prayers and sermons. This destigmatizes it and gets out the message that mental illness is just another illness.\nIn Memory: Margo Goldsmith, June 3, 1919 \u2013 August 24, 2010\nThroughout her life, Margo Goldsmith served as a role model in demonstrating what women can achieve and how they can use their achievements to make the world a better place.\nThe function of a governor in granting clemency is to mete out mercy. An insightful article about the Karla Faye Tucker case and other executions in Texas during the governorship of George W. Bush was written by Sister Helen Prejean, the Roman Catholic nun whose story was told in the movie Dead Man Walking.\nMartha Ann Kirk, Th.D.-Embodying Christ to the World\n\u201cPeace is built as men and women learn to have historical perspectives. Uncovering and recovering women\u2019s stories can contribute to a more egalitarian, less domineering world. Stories of ancient women travelers give people today courage to travel. Women\u2019s history is as important for men as for women\u201d\nMy Fifty Year Journey with Women and Ministry\u2026\nArticles David M. Scholer - January 22, 2012\nThe Pauline (as one of my students once said: \u201cI have had enough of Paul; I want to meet Pauline!\u201d) vision of Galatians 3:28\u2014 the text used in the ordination sermon of Antoinette Brown in 1853, the first woman ordained in the USA in a recognized denomination\u2014continues to be a critical beacon light of and for the gospel.\nArticles Diane Eickhoff - January 22, 2012\nWhile some of the other women's rights leaders gave up on organized religion, Nichols did not, for she knew that many women would not support women's rights if they thought the Bible said otherwise.\nReal Life Evangelism\n\u201cAn old idea that everyone has bought into\u2014I don\u2019t care what part of the church\u2014is the idea that if we believed certain things we\u2019d be safe. In conservative congregations, it means we won\u2019t go to hell. And in liberal ones, it means we\u2019ll be part of a community that\u2019s doing vibrant social action.\u201d\nLast Sunday when she served me communion / I said \u201cBlessed be.\u201d / I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going. / I do know that I\u2019ve again said \u201cYes\u201d to God.\nWhen I call Her by name, / especially in community, / I find comfort, support, solace, strength, / I am held in Her loving arms. / In relationship, I pray / and worship.\nOur Marriage Was Taken from Us\nArticles Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune - January 22, 2012\nA personal reflection on Marriage Equality written by Rev. Marie M. Fortune in 2009, well before the Supreme Court case that legalized all same-sex marriages...\nArticles Linda Williams - January 22, 2012\nThe Emmaus story has always been one of my favorite New Testament stories. As the account unfolds, I think we quickly feel that we could be one of those disciples \u2014 sad, perplexed, needing to talk, amazed that anybody could be in the neighborhood and not know what has been going on.\nWhat\u2019s a Feminist like You Doing with a Father like That?\nby Reta Halteman Finger June 20, 2010, will be my first Father\u2019s Day without a father. My father, Wilmer Moyer Halteman, died on April 28,...\nDreadlocked Mom\nArticles Marilee Jolin - January 18, 2012\n\u201cI\u2019m starting to think that the seeming contraciction of my hair and my profession is actually a perfect illustration of who I am. I am more than you were expecting. Iam complicated. I\u2019m unique. I\u2019m a feminist homemaker, a domestic activist-a dreadlocked mom.\u201d\nNot only is the appearance of one-way submission corrected in a way that is actually more in line with the Greek text, but the insights are made accessible to people in nontraditional relationships. In fact, the Priests for Equality frequently use the word partner where the Oxford version sticks to the more traditional husband and wife...\nArticles Nancy A. Hardesty - January 1, 2012\nLongtime EEWC member Dr. Ruth Schmidt died May 24, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was 79 years old. Ruth wrote one of the earliest articles on the equality of women and men and always worked for women's empowerment. Her article, \"Second-Class Citizenship in the Kingdom of God\" was published in Christianity Today in 1971 and was later reprinted in Ginny Hearn's book, Our Struggle to Serve. Ruth's personal story is also told in that book.\nby Nancy A. Hardesty When my oncologist in Atlanta, William Jonas, told me that the PET scan showed that my pancreatic cancer had metastasized in...\nSubject, Once Again\nThe answer given to women at this seminary is that \u201cGod expects wives to graciously submit to their husbands\u2019 leadership,\u201d and doing so involves \u201clearning how to set tables, sew buttons and sustain lively dinnertime conversation.\u201d Students in class mention cross-stitching, \u201cfreezer pleaser\u201d meatloaf, and using the Internet to track grocery coupons.\nSlaying the Public Speaking Mastodon\nArticles Alena Amato Ruggerio - January 1, 2012\nSo you must always make explicit to your audience where you are in the progression of your thoughts: tell \u2018em what you\u2019re going to say, say it, and tell \u2018em what you just said. Choose only one to four main points for the body of your speech. If you have more than that, combine categories or pare down.\nWhile working as an associate pastor at a large church, she was told by a colleague that \u201cwhen she was in the pulpit, he could not focus on what she was saying because she is a woman.\u201d There was also a man in her congregation who covered his eyes whenever she preached.\nChurch Ladies vs Harriet Miers\nIt may seem like the safest thing to do\u2014uphold patriarchal structures for the powerful rewards of economic security and male approval. Once a person starts down this path, any doubts may be silenced by others in the group or by one's own need to avoid cognitive dissonance.\nThe Andrea Yates Tragedy: Three Commentaries\nby Anne Linstatter On June 20, 2001, many people were reading and talking about the latest sensational news story: a mother in Texas, Andrea...\nby Melanie Springer Mock This October, in Oregon\u2019s chilly pre-dawn, I will line up with nearly 10,000 other runners for the start of the Portland...\nThe Christian Feminist Spiritual Practice of. . . Genealogy?\nArticles Alena Amato Ruggerio - December 30, 2011\nWhen in prayer I focused on the truth that God has created and known every person who ever lived, and every non-human being as well, my mind brushed up against some conceptualization of the magnitude of the Divine.\nCareful to avoid parking in the reserved \"visitor\" space, I found my way to a few United Methodist Churches within fifteen to twenty minutes from my house. Comforted that none of my choices turned out to be mega-church wannabes with huge white screens and coffee-house coffee, I felt somewhat hopeful that my opening to faith community would end favorably.\nArticles Wanda Lollar - December 30, 2011\nThen WHAM, once again God opened my mind to the truth of what I was hearing. These women did love and follow Jesus, and the church was oppressing them. The Holy Spirit spoke plainly to my heart that I was guilty of ignorance, arrogance, and sinful judgment.\nA Profile of Writer Susan Campbell\n\u201cI think today\u2019s girls are given a great advantage for understanding the sky\u2019s the limit,\u201d she says. \u201cNow if we could only tailor our appetites in the media to reflect more on the beauty of the girl inside, rather than the surface nonsense that gets in the way\u2026.\u201d\nArticles Admin - November 30, 2008\nThis quilt of text and music is not a warm, cozy listening experience... It is very challenging music and painful text, richly expressing the anger, despair, and, ultimately, courageous healing and hope of survivors of child sexual abuse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 623, "original_length": 60943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://effectivedesign.org.uk/rules", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UHOMRGIGP7R3CX7SYYRL5YJUNSVFYF5J", "length": 6368, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "effectivedesign.org.uk", "title": "The Rules | DBA: Design Effectiveness Awards", "raw_content": "Rules of entering\n01. Entries must be submitted online by 5pm GMT, 30 November 2018. After the deadline no further changes will be accepted. Late submissions will not be accepted. There will be no deadline extension.\n02. Entries must be submitted anonymously and must not identify the name of the design teams responsible for the design work. Throughout the entry, please refer to the design team - be it agency or in-house - who is making the entry as \u201cwe\u201d. Any additional parties, such as other business units or design agencies, refer to as \u201cthey\u201d or \u201cBusiness 2\u201d, \u201cBusiness 3\u201d, etc. respectively. Client names can be included. You will be able to add identifying names and further art-work design for publication purposes should you be shortlisted for an award.\n03. All entries must be made online and submitted in the form of a PDF report, black font on white background, font size 10, portrait, written in English and A4 in size. There should be no agency identifying marques. Graphs and pictures can be included to support the case, however it is not required to spend studio time on extensive artworking. A maximum of 5 images can be included in your entry. Entries must adhere to the specified page limits (9 pages in total). If the entry exceeds the page limits, the additional pages will not be circulated to the judges.\n04. If your entry is shortlisted for an award, at that point you will be asked to re-format the \u2018Publication\u2019 version of your PDF ready for publication on the DBA website (June 2019), and studio time can be invested in art-working at that point (March 2019). The investment of extensive studio art-working time is of course not a requirement, however at this point the page limit will increase to 12 A4 sides, image use will be unrestricted and you will be asked to re-introduce company names / logos.\n05. The project may have been launched at any time, however, your entry must include some up-to-date evidence, collated after 1 January 2017.\n06. If you have any confidential data in your case study you must submit a \u2018Confidential \u2013 not for publication\u2019 and \u2018For publication\u2019 version of the entry. This wording must be included on the cover of your entry to indicate which version it is. If entries are not clearly marked the DBA is not liable if the entry is published. If only one entry version is provided then it will be assumed that this is available for publication however it is marked. If submitting a second confidential version, the publication version must state \u2018REDACTED CONFIDENTIAL DATA\u2019 within the entry in place of all removed information throughout the version. Alternatively, indices or percentages could be used to replace exact figures in publication versions.\n07. Separate to the entry PDF, entrants must supply logos for both client and agency in addition to a minimum of three and a maximum of five images of the project. These should be supplied as 72dpi.jpgs online. Once you have submitted your entry online, please supply the same images in 300dpi.tiffs and A4 in size on a clearly labelled USB. If you include any images which feature someone else\u2019s work, you must have permission to use these images and they must be labelled accordingly. All images must be sent to DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, 35\u201339 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HX by 7 December 2018.\n08. Each entry must be finally approved, before submission, by the entrant\u2019s principal / managing director or equivalent, and by an appropriate senior executive of the other party. The names of these individuals should be entered into the online form. Once these names have been entered they have confirmed they have complied with these rules. DBA may ensure all these individuals have the necessary authority.\n09. Entries submitted into the Awards should be honest and truthful and comply to the rules. Any entry that\u2028is found, subsequent to judging and / or the Awards Ceremony, to have included false or misleading information may be disqualified and / or have its Award withdrawn. By entering the Awards, entrants are confirming that the works they submit contain no personal data which would be governed by the Data Protection Act 2018. No works submitted should contain any libellous or obscene material, nor anything which infringes the intellectual property rights of others. All entry content is respected as the intellectual property of the entrants.\n10. The decisions of the judging panels are final. Once the shortlist has been announced in March 2019, unsuccessful applicants can apply for feedback on entries to help inform future applications. Each feedback request will be charged at \u00a375 + VAT. All feedback requests must be received by 29 March 2019 and will be completed by June 2019.\n11. 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If entries submitted for the Awards are subsequently published, the authors must acknowledge the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 6808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://egconf.com/presenters/jason-dunn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7TLVDSHMAQGD7YJDVIDVGQFSHTT5SRTR", "length": 1718, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "egconf.com", "title": "Jason Dunn | EG Conference", "raw_content": "Jason founded Made In Space in 2010 as a result of analyzing the best possible approaches to enabling a fully sustainable form of space colonization. With a core focus on space man ...read more\nJason founded Made In Space in 2010 as a result of analyzing the best possible approaches to enabling a fully sustainable form of space colonization. With a core focus on space manufacturing, the company has since built, flown, and operated the first and second 3D printers in space. Installed on the International Space Station, the first Made In Space Zero-Gravity 3D printer began space manufacturing in November 2014. Today Made In Space operates the second- generation 3D printer on the ISS, called the Additive Manufacturing Facility, enabling groups across the planet to have hardware manufactured in space. Additionally, Made In Space is working with NASA in the development of the Archinaut Program, to enable in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly of large space structures. Jason serves as the Chief Technology Officer, overseeing the deployment of the founding vision into the technical path of the projects, as well as development of the technology roadmap for the company.\nJason holds two degrees in Aerospace engineering, has studied at the Singularity University Graduate Summer Program, and is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of space exploration and the theory of disruption. He serves on the advisory council to the Waypaver Foundation through his interest in addressing humanities grand challenges by developing more sustainable forms of space exploration. 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Her research explores how to broaden participation for historically underrepresented groups, including students and faculty, in postsecondary education. One line of her scholarship has focused on the higher education experiences and trajectories of Latino, first-generation, and migrant students. Another has emphasized institutional diversity in the United States, including the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in promoting college access and success. A third has focused on fostering supportive organizational climates for faculty and administrators to advance inclusivity in the academy. Her research has been published in several journals, including Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, and the American Educational Research Journal.\nShe is also the lead author of the book Latinos in Higher Education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Creating Conditions for Success (2013, Jossey-Bass) and the lead editor of the award-winning book Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice (2015, Routledge). For her contributions to research on underrepresented groups, she received the 2011 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation Mildred Garcia Exemplary Scholarship award. Currently, she serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Higher Education and an Associate Editor of the Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. She holds a PhD in Education from UCLA, MEd in Education from Stanford University and AB in Social Studies from Harvard University.\nPhD, Higher Education and Organizational Change. University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Education\nMA, Higher Education and Organizational Change. University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Education\nMA, Administration, Policy Analysis, and Evaluation. Stanford University School of Education\nAB, Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies. Harvard University\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (Co-Principal Investigator), with Haschenburger, J., Godet, A., Suarez, M., & Young, D. (2016). GP-EXTRA: Using professional career experiences to strengthen pathways into the geoscience workforce. National Science Foundation. (NSF # 15-526). $423,122.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (Participant). GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD) An Ideas Lab Activity. National Science Foundation. (NSF # 16-516). Travel and ideas lab attendance $2,500.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (Principal Investigator), Crisp, G., & Elizondo, D. (2012-13). Developing a Typology of Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. $5,000.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (Principal Investigator), & Kim, D. (2008-2009). Predicting Latino Students\u2019 College Participation: State, School, and Individual Effects. Jointly funded by the Association for Institutional Research and National Science Foundation, $40,000.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2016). Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Broadening Participation in Postsecondary Education and STEM fields. Presentation for \u201cInvesting in Diversity\u201d lecture series, National Science Foundation: Arlington, VA.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). The role of HSIs vs. PWIs. Presentation at\u201cBeyond the barriers: Advancing Latinos in higher education\u201d conference, Texas A&M College Station, College Station, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Realizing the potential of Latinos and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. University of Pennsylvania Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, Philadelphia, PA.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Five guiding questions to build capacity for research at Minority-Serving Institutions. Keynote talk \u2013 U.S. Office of Minority Health/Resource Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Higher Education Technical Assistance Project Training. San Antonio, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Strategies to advance in the academy. University of Pennsylvania Center for Minority-Serving Institutions ELEVATE program. Philadelphia, PA.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Latinas/os in the U.S.: The demographic dividend. University of Texas Health Science Center - Exito Scholars Program. San Antonio, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Where are they now? A commissioned presentation forthe meeting \u201cHispanic-Serving Institutions in the 21st century: A convening.\u201d El Paso, TX. http://www.edexcelencia.org/hsi-cp2/hsi-21st-century-convening\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Latino/a students in higher education.Keynote talk \u2013 Annual meeting of the Association of College Unions International (ACUI). San Antonio, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2015). Why faculty matter in student success. Keynote \u2013 Degrees Project Faculty Recognition - California State University Sacramento. Sacramento, CA.\nHamilton, R., Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Vincent, G. (2015). What\u2019s next for access and affirmative action? A panel presented at South by Southwest.Edu. Austin, TX. https://soundcloud.com/sxswedu/whats-next-for-access-and-affirmative-action-sxswedu-2015\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). The demographic dividend: A Latina/o and HSI Lens. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Student Success Symposium keynote speech. San Antonio, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). What migrant students can teach us about college access and opportunity. Keynote speech \u2013 Migration/Education: A Conference on Agriculture, Seasonal Migration, and Access to Higher Education. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). Intersectionality and the demographic dividend: Promoting Latina/o college success. Higher Education Lecture Series. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). Beyond wrongdoing and rightdoing: Cultivating authenticity in learning to work toward social justice. Keynote speech \u2013 Academic and Cultural Engagement of Students through Socially Just Means (A.C.E.S) Black and Latino Symposium. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2013). Advancing educational research on Latina/os. American Educational Research Association Carlos J. Vallejo Research Fellowship Program, San Francisco, CA.\n*Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M, & Elizondo, D. (2013). Closing the Latina/o Transfer Gap: Creating Pathways to the Baccalaureate. American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education annual meeting, San Antonio, TX.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2012). The face of Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Supporting students in navigating degree pathways. New Mexico State University Teaching Academy, Las Cruces, NM.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Sansone, V. (in press). Earning and learning: Exploring the meaning of work in the experiences of first-generation Latino students. Review of Higher Education.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Crisp, G., & Elizondo, D. (2016). Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A typology of institutional diversity. Journal of Higher Education, 87(1), 55-83.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Rios Aguilar, C., Kanno, Y., & Flores, S. (in press, 2016). English Learners and their Transition to Postsecondary Education. Handbook of Theory and Research in Higher Education, 31. [Research Line: A]\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Gildersleeve, R. (2014). Sociocritical matters: Migrant students\u2019 college access. Educational Policy. http://epx.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/13/0895904814553157.full.pdf+html\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). Employing multilevel intersectionality in educational research: Latino identities, contexts, and college access. Educational Researcher, 43(2), 85-92. http://edr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/07/0013189X14522320.full.pdf+html\nMurakami, E., & Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). Latina faculty transcending barriers: Peer mentoring in a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Mentoring and tutoring: Partnership in learning, 22(4). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13611267.2014.945739\nGonzales, L. D., & N\u00fa\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). The ranking regime and the production of knowledge: (Re)shaping faculty work?. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22(31). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n31.2014\nCrisp, G., & Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2014). Understanding the racial transfer gap: Modeling underrepresented minority and non-minority students\u2019 pathways from 2-year to 4-year institutions. Review of Higher Education, 37(3), 291-320.\nGonzales, L., Murakami, E., & Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2013). Latina Faculty in the Labyrinth: Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy in Hispanic Serving Institutions. The Journal of Social Foundations, 27(1-2), 65-89.\nKim, D., & Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2013). Diversity, situated contexts, and college enrollment: Multilevel modeling to examine student, high school, and state influences. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6(2), 84-101. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dhe/6/2/84/\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Crisp, G. (2012). Ethnic diversity and Latino/a college access: A\ncomparison of Mexican American and Puerto Rican beginning college students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 5(2), 78-95. doi: 10.1037/a0026810\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Murakami-Ramalho, E. (2012). The demographic dividend: Why the success of Latino faculty and students is critical. Academe, 98(1), 32-37. http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2012/JF/Feat/nune.html\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Kim, D. (2012). Building a multicontextual model of Latino\ncollege enrollment: Student, school, and state-level effects. Review of Higher Education, 35(2), 237-263. doi: 10.1353/rhe.2012.0004\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Bowers, A. J. (2011). Exploring what leads high school students to enroll in Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A multilevel analysis. American Educational Research Journal, 48(6), 1286-1313. doi: 10.3102/0002831211408061\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2011). Counterspaces and connections in college transitions: first-generation Latino students\u2019 perspectives on Chicano studies. Journal of College Student Development, 52(6), 639-655. doi: 10.1353/csd.2011.0077\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Sparks, J., & Hernandez, E. (2011). Latino access to community colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 10(1), 18-40. doi: 10.1177/1538192710391801\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Murakami, E., & Cuero, K. (2010). Pedagogy for equity: Teaching in a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Innovative Higher Education, 35(3), 177-190. doi: 10.1007/s10755-010-9139-7\nMurakami, E., Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Cuero, K. (2010). Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen: Faculty identity and commitment in a Hispanic-Serving Institution. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23(6), 699-717. doi: 10.1080/09518391003641924\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2009). Creating pathways to college for migrant students: Assessing a migrant outreach program. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 14(3), 226-237. doi: 10.1080/10824660903375636\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., & Oliva, M. (2009). Organizational collaboration to promote college access: A P-20 framework. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 8(4), 322-339. doi: 10.1177/1538192709347844\nJarsky, K., McDonough, P., & Nu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2009). Establishing a college culture in secondary school through P-20 collaboration: A case study. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 8(4), 357-373. doi: 10.1177/1538192709347846\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M. (2009). Latino students\u2019 college transitions: A social and intercultural capital perspective. Harvard Educational Review, 79(1), 22-48. http://search.proquest.com/docview/212269363?accountid=7122\nBOOKS AND BOOK LENGTH MONOGRAPHS\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Hurtado, S., & Calder\u00f3n Galdeano, E. (2015). (Eds.) Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice. New York: Routledge.\nNu\u00f1ez, A.-M., Hoover, R., Pickett, K., Stuart-Carruthers, C., & Vazquez, M. (2013). Latinos in Higher Education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Creating Conditions for Success. ASHE Higher Education Report 39(1). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 13188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ehsd.org/benefits/calfresh-formerly-known-as-food-stamps/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LDGRYXZBV3B6IK5XLESXB2YJ6ASMGCTH", "length": 3112, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "ehsd.org", "title": "CalFresh | EHSD", "raw_content": "Workforce Services CalFresh\nIf you are currently receiving CalFresh benefits, please call our service center at 1 (866) 663-3225 for assistance. You will be able to talk to a courteous and professional representative who can take care of your CalFresh needs. The service center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Anyone who answers the toll free line will help you immediately with things such as:\nReporting CalFresh changes (such as a new address, income, newborn, etc.)\nQuestions about your benefits\nAssistance with completing forms\nHaving your CalFresh Case Number or Social Security Number available will help the representative serve you more quickly.\nWhat is CalFresh?\nThe CalFresh program, formerly known as Food Stamps and federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can add to your food budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. The program issues monthly electronic benefits (similar to a bank debit card) that can be used to buy most foods such as bread, cereal, fruits, vegetables, meat and fish at many markets and grocery stores.\nThe CalFresh program helps to improve the health and well-being of qualified households and individuals by providing them a means to meet their nutritional needs.\nAt the Federal level, the program is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture\u2019s Food and Nutrition Service. In California, the CalFresh Program is supervised at the state level by the California Department of Social Services and is administered at the local level by each County Welfare Department.\nHow to Apply for CalFresh:\nIn Contra Costa County you can apply for CalFresh in several different ways:\nComplete an online application from any computer 24 hours 7 days a week at www.mybenefitscalwin.org.\nFax a completed application to (925) 608-4608\nMail a completed application to any district office listed below.\nVisit any of our 5 district office locations:\nBrentwood 1305 Macdonald Avenue\nAll office hours: 8:00AM \u2013 5:00PM Monday \u2013 Friday\n*Minimum requirements to file a CalFresh application:\nApplicant\u2019s name and\nHousehold\u2019s address (unless homeless), and\nSignature of head of household, any adult household member or an authorized representative, or responsible minor.\nIf you are without money for food, you may qualify for emergency CalFresh benefits. Expedited Services will provide eligible households CalFresh benefits by the third calendar day following their application date. A weekend (Saturday and Sunday) is considered one calendar day.\nYou can qualify for Expedited Services if you meet all other CalFresh requirements, provide identification and\nyour household makes less than $150 in monthly income and has less than $100 on hand right now; or\nyour household\u2019s combined monthly income and money on hand are less than your household\u2019s combined monthly rent and utilities; or\nyou are a migrant or seasonal farm worker and have less than $100 on hand right now.\nFor more information, please view our Frequently Asked Questions or visit the State of California\u2019s CalFresh website.\nCalFresh Service Center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elbertcountynews.net/stories/amazing-amateur-talent-shows-outcome-of-encouragement,276232", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:RP4CGVTB5CTNAYCNQKP2YIRSNMTCW53K", "length": 3511, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "elbertcountynews.net", "title": "Amazing amateur talent shows outcome of encouragement | Elbertcountynews.net", "raw_content": "Although I do not spend a whole lot of time watching television, occasionally I will come across a segment of a show where there is a singing, dancing, baking, cooking or other type of show where there are amateurs competing for the winning prize.\nSometimes it\u2019s a small prize and more about the bragging rights, and sometimes it could be a large enough prize to be life-changing for someone. Not just monetarily in the moment of the win, but it could launch a winning amateur into a whole new professional career.\nThere truly are amazing amateurs who have blessed us with their talent and who have possibilities of even greater opportunities in this life, and I am grateful whenever I have a chance to witness such amazing feats.\nAnd it really doesn\u2019t matter if we are talking about the young or the old or anyone in between. It doesn\u2019t matter if we are talking about huge productions with massive audiences or small or even local productions. The talent levels we are seeing are truly phenomenal.\nNow whether they move on to become a professional in whatever skill or talent that they have and display or they always remain an amateur, that is not the point I want to make. The point is that somewhere along the way, there was someone in their life, there is someone in their life that lifts them up, encourages them, coaches them, and gives them hope.\nWhen you watch a child produce a decorated cake, baked with such precision and beauty that it could easily be sold at some of the finest bakeries in the world or sold at some of the finest restaurants in the world, it is an incredible thing to see. We could have our back turned or otherwise preoccupied yet hear on the television a voice that is worthy of being a recording star and professional musician and it is unbelievable. Sometimes we see clips or videos shared on social media with millions of people viewing this amateur talent.\nAs I listen to the interviews or watch the pre-story about the amateur performing, it is never lost on me the amount of time, dedication, practice, and support that they put in and receive. They talk about a single parent who made sure that they stayed the course, or they talk about being a single parent and still finding the time to pursue their own passion. Families who find ways to fund the practice time or equipment necessary to compete.\nAlthough there could be just a few professionals who read this column who find themselves on the field, stage, or in the kitchen, and there are probably many business professionals who take the time to read this column, I\u2019ll bet there are many of us who are amateurs at something. We have hobbies or passions and things we like or love to do. And without saying we walk away from our jobs or careers, we should absolutely do whatever it takes to pursue and enjoy a hobby or passion. We may never make it to television, but we should look all around us at our friends and our families and think about who we can encourage and support and who we might need hope and encouragement from.\nSo how about you? Are you as amazed as I am at some of the incredible amateur talent we get to see? Can you appreciate the love and support, hope and encouragement that they receive and the hours of practice that they must put in? Could you use a little of that support yourself? As always I would love to hear your amazing story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can find and pursue the passions that really fuel our inner amazing amateur, it really will be a better than great week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 11509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elmcobb.org/a-vets-view-of-vietnam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CXYXSN6KZMWTGU3FGMKVGSG3OB3WZENE", "length": 2774, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "elmcobb.org", "title": "A Vet's View of Vietnam - ELM", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / What's New / A Vet\u2019s View of Vietnam\nMost young people in the United States couldn't tell you where Vietnam is or even much about the conflict that took place there involving U.S. military forces in the 60's and early 70's as we ex-soldiers knew it. I'm not sure whether history classes today pay much attention to that era. For the troops who were stationed in Vietnam during that time there are a lot of memories and mixed emotions. From the borders of Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam to the South China Sea, and the Mekong Delta there were more than a million men and women working hard, doing their jobs, and risking their lives in a country thousands of miles from home and for a cause few of them completely understood.\nYou may have seen one of Hollywood's depictions of the \"war\". Some, like \"Hamburger Hill\" and \"Platoon,\" resembled reality while others, such as \"Apocalypse Now,\" stretched the truth and were almost laughable. Of course being factual seldom has been the main focus for Hollywood. The History Channel and PBS did better by far, but even then the majority of the films were about the combat. For those of us stationed in Vietnam, \"reality\" depended a lot on when and where someone was and what their assignment happened to be. If you were a Cobra pilot, Marine Recon, or a \"grunt\" in the rice paddies, your day was quite a bit different than loading supplies at Bien Hoa or helping troops enjoy their \"in country\" R & R at Cam Ranh Bay. Troops at Tan Son Nhut near Saigon had a much different experience than those around Dak To, An Khe, or Chu Lai. The saving grace for most of the men and women in Vietnam was that their tour of duty was only one year; however, there were some who for various reasons extended for longer periods of time.\nThe class, \" A Vet's View of Vietnam\", will provide some perspective of the day-to-day roles that were involved in the conflict as well as how the physical and mental hardships were handled. We will provide some insight into the culture to which troops were exposed and how that affected them when they returned home. It is important to understand the geography of Vietnam and the ethnic differences that had an impact on the war and the troops who fought it. Vietnam was not just about the shooting; it was about the stress, the separation from family, and the lack of support back \"home\" that many felt when they returned to the States. The goal of this class is to share experiences and offer a more personal picture of what being in Vietnam during the mid to late 60's and early 70's was like for those who were there. I believe everyone will get something from the eight sessions and maybe leave with a better understanding of that time in American history.\nTed Sanders, Instructor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 154.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.internationalism.org/collection/201703/14264/russian-revolution-1917-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OMVH54P2YZ3Y7AIGC5J22QARMX4FNZLG", "length": 5069, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "en.internationalism.org", "title": "Russian Revolution 1917 - 2017 | International Communist Current", "raw_content": "Russian Revolution 1917 - 2017\nIn February 1917, Russia\u2019s masses overthrew the Tsarist regime, a byword for everything reactionary and retrograde, and opened the way to the workers\u2019 seizure of power in October of the same year.\nToday, the revolution has been safely relegated to the history books and TV documentaries, and this is where the ruling classes would like it to stay.\nBut in reality, the problem posed in 1917 remains the problem of our times. By plunging the world into a war of unimaginable barbarism, the capitalist class demonstrated that its continued rule had nothing to offer humanity but blood and horror. The Russian workers showed the way towards a world wide overthrow of capitalism, and this will be their undying merit.\nIn 1917 the question was posed: socialism or barbarism? When we look at the world today, who can doubt that this question remains the fundamental one of our times, even if its terms have changed? In this sense, the future still belongs to the Russian revolution.\nToday\u2019s proletariat bashes keyboards as much as metal. But it is more than ever an international class, associated in a world wide process of production. The Russian revolution of 1917 belonged to the proletariat of the day. The world revolution to come will be the work of its heirs, the world proletariat of the future.\nFebruary 1917: The workers\u2019 councils open the way to the proletarian revolution\nThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was a mass movement of the exploited, the largest, the most conscious and the richest in experience, initiatives and creativity ever seen in history. Millions of proletarians overcame their isolation and unified consciously, gave themselves the means to act collectively as a single force, created their instruments to overturn the bourgeois state and take power: the workers\u2019 councils (soviets). Over and above the overthrow of the old Tsarist regime, since it took place in the context of an international wave of working class revolt against the first world war, this movement announced nothing less than the beginning of the world proletarian revolution.\nFebruary opens history's first conscious revolution\nFebruary 1917 overthrew the Tsarist regime. The wave that led to October began in a massive protest against the misery and barbarity of the capitalist war.\nThe bourgeois democrats, forced almost against their will to take power, would have liked to stop there. But it was to prove impossible to satisfy the masses\u2019 urgent demands \u2013 peace, bread, and land \u2013 without attacking the root causes of their ills: the capitalist system itself.\nA favorite theme of today\u2019s propaganda against the Russian revolution, is that of the power-hungry and ultra-disciplined Bolsheviks usurping the state power from the democratic masses by means of the October putsch.\nThe reality is very different. The Bolsheviks in April 1917 were in considerable confusion. The leadership (without Lenin who was still in exile in Z\u00fcrich) were in favour of supporting the new bourgeois democracy and continuing the war. The mass of the Bolshevik rank-and-file militants was far to the left of the leadership, in favour of continuing the revolution until the workers seized power.\nLenin \"April Theses\" expressed this determination of the rank-and-file: \"The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers' Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government\"\nRussia 1917 and the revolutionary memory of the working class\nFor all those who still consider that mankind\u2019s last best hope is the revolutionary overthrow of world capitalism, it is impossible to greet the beginning of the year 2017 without recalling that it is the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution. And we also know that all those who insist that there is no alternative to the present social system will recall it in their own way.\nThe seizure of power by the working class immediately posed a whole new series of problems: how, by what practical measures, could the workers begin to dismantle the whole apparatus of bourgeois power and to improve the material situation of the workers and labouring masses themselves?\nInevitably, the new proletarian power found itself in a contradictory situation: it was confronted with an all-out resistance by the defeated bourgeois class, ranging from military intervention to sabotage; it was necessary to maintain production and distribution on an immediate basis in order to feed the population; and at the same time to take whatever steps were possible towards the transformation of the whole basis of society.\nThis question was addressed right at the beginning of the ICC\u2019s existence, as this article shows.\nThe July Days of 1917 are one of the most important moments, not only in the Russian Revolution, but in the whole history of the workers' movement. In the space of three days, from July 3rd to July 5th, one of the mightiest ever confrontations between bourgeoisie and proletariat, despite ending in a defeat for the working class, opened the road to the seizure of power four months later in October 1917.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 10688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_humanism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:QASYDQDNOV3VOBTQYLI6D2DNLWDT7CM6", "length": 11608, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "en.m.wikipedia.org", "title": "Religious humanism - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Religious humanism is an integration of humanist ethical philosophy with congregational but non-theistic rituals and community activity which center on human needs, interests, and abilities. Self-described religious humanists differ from secular humanists mainly in that they regard the humanist life stance as their religion and organise using a congregational model. Religious humanism is a classic example of a nontheistic religion.\nReligious humanists typically organise in the 21st century under the umbrella of Ethical Culture or Ethical Humanism. It remains largely a United States phenomenon; a British ethical culture movement was briefly highly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but by the 1960s had largely abandoned its \"religious\" trappings, and asserted humanism less as a religious identity and more as a useful label to describe rational and non-religious attitudes to morality and ethics. Ethical Culture and religious humanism groups first formed in the United States from former Unitarian ministers who, not believing in god, sought to build a secular religion influenced on the thinking of French philosopher Auguste Comte.\nIn the late 20th century the Humanist movement that affirms the dignity and worth of all people came into conflict with conservative Christian groups in the United States. \"Secular humanism\" has become the most popular form of organized Humanism.\nFrench RevolutionEdit\nThe Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) was an atheist religion devised during the French Revolution by Jacques H\u00e9bert, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and their supporters.[1]\nIn 1793 during the French Revolution, the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris was turned into a Temple to Reason and for a time Lady Liberty replaced the Virgin Mary on several altars.[2]\nPositivismEdit\nIn the 1850s, Auguste Comte, the Father of Sociology, founded Positivism, a \"religion of humanity\".[3] Auguste Comte was a student and secretary for Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the Father of French Socialism. Auguste Comte coined the term \"altruism\".\nHumanistic Religious AssociationEdit\nOne of the earliest forerunners of contemporary chartered humanist organizations was the Humanistic Religious Association formed in 1853 in London.[3] This early group was democratically organized, with male and female members participating in the election of the leadership and promoted knowledge of the sciences, philosophy, and the arts.\nEthical CultureEdit\nThe Ethical Culture movement was founded in 1876. The movement's founder, Felix Adler, a former member of the Free Religious Association, conceived of Ethical Culture as a new religion that would strip away the accumulated unscientific dogmas of traditional religions while retaining and elevating the ethical message at the heart of all religions. Adler believed that traditional religions would ultimately prove to be incompatible with a scientific worldview. He felt that the vital aspects of religion should not be allowed to fall by the wayside. Religions provided vital functions in encouraging good works. And religions taught important truths about the world, albeit these truths were expressed through metaphors that were not always suited to modern understandings of the world. For example, monotheistic religions were based on a metaphor of an authoritarian monarchy, whereas democratic relationships were now understood to be the ideal.\nInitially, Ethical Culture involved little in the way of ceremony and ritual. Rather, Ethical Culture was religious in the sense of playing a defining role in people's lives and addressing issues of ultimate concern. Some Ethical Societies have subsequently added a degree of ritual as a means of marking special times or providing a tangible reminder of humanistic ideals.\nBefore the term \"humanism\" was ever coined or even thought of being integrated into religion it had existed in America in at least an ideological sense for a very long time. Groups like the Free Religious Association (FRA) which was formed in 1867 and other less radical groups mainly consisting of extreme forms of early American Protestants such as the Unitarians and Quakers had existed from the very first landings of the Europeans in the Western Hemisphere. In 1915, a Positivist defined the term \"humanism\" in a magazine for the British Ethical Societies. Another Unitarian Minister John H. Dietrich read the magazine and adopted the term to describe his own religion.[3] Dietrich is considered by some to be the \"Father of Religious Humanism\" (Olds 1996) particularly for his sermons while serving the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.\nIn 1929 Charles Francis Potter founded the First Humanist Society of New York whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann. Potter was a minister from the Unitarian tradition and in 1930 he and his wife, Clara Cook Potter, published Humanism: A New Religion. Throughout the 1930s Potter was a well known advocate of women\u2019s rights, access to birth control, \"civil divorce laws\", and an end to capital punishment.\nA Humanist Manifesto, also known as Humanist Manifesto I to distinguish it from later Humanist Manifestos, was written in 1933 primarily by Raymond Bragg and was published with thirty-four signatories. Unlike the later ones, the first manifesto talked of a new \"religion\", and referred to humanism as a religious movement meant to transcend and replace previous, deity-based religions. However, it is careful not to outline a creed or dogma. The document outlines a fifteen-point belief system, which, in addition to a secular outlook, opposes \"acquisitive and profit-motivated society\" and outlines a worldwide egalitarian society based on voluntary mutual cooperation. Bragg and eleven signatories were Unitarian ministers.\nThe Fellowship of Humanity was founded in 1935 by Reverend A. D. Faupel as one of a handful of \"humanist churches\" seeded in the early 20th century as part of the American Religious Humanism movement. It was the only such organization to survive into the 21st century and is the first and oldest affiliate of the American Humanist Association.[4]\nIn 1961, Webster's Third New International Unabridged Dictionary defined religious humanism as \"A modern American movement composed chiefly of non-theistic humanists and humanist churches and dedicated to achieving the ethical goals of religion without beliefs and rites resting upon superstition.\"\nAmerican Religious Humanist organizations that have survived into the 21st century include the HUUmanists, formerly the Friends of Religious Humanism, and the Humanist Society, formerly the Humanist Society of Friends.\nA large percentage of members (as many as half or more) of Unitarian Universalist congregations have identified themselves as humanists when surveys have been conducted.[5] The UU Humanist Association [6] is the main representation of religious humanism within the Unitarian Universalist Association.[7]\nReligious humanist associations have not been as successful in the United Kingdom as in the United States. The humanist movement in the UK began as a religious \"ethical movement\" in the 19th century, with the South Place Religious Society in London being the largest \"ethical church\". The remaining UK ethical societies merged in the 1890s to become the Union of Ethical Societies, which was founded and presided over by Stanton Coit. Following Coit's tenure, both organisations consciously moved away from the congregational model, becoming Conway Hall Ethical Society and the British Humanist Association respectively.\nIn 2013, the Sunday Assembly movement was founded in London as a \"godless congregation\" which was described in some places as \"church for atheists\", filling the niche vacated by other humanist groups.\nIn the Scandinavian countries, the popular Danish philosopher Harald H\u00f8ffding's positivist work Etik influenced the development of humanist societies, which in Sweden and Norway styled themselves as \"human-ethical associations\", alike the Ethical Humanists in America and formerly in Britain. In modern times, the religious humanist/secular humanist distinction has fallen away; Norway, Human-Etisk Forbund is the name of Norway's humanist association, but it is fully a part of the broader international humanist community, and uses both \"humanettik\" and \"humanisme\" in describing its philosophy. In Sweden, the Human-Ethical Association rebranded as Humanisterna in 1999, dropping the congregational model as the British had done in the 1960s.\nFurther information: organized secularism\nBelgium is broadly divided between its Flemish Community (Flanders) and French-speaking community (Wallonia). In French Belgium, as in France, the secular movement is more concerned with national political organising and manifests nationally as the Centre d\u2019Action La\u00efque. In Flemish Belgium, the group deMens.nu (Humanity Now) brings together local humanist associations who engage in a broader range of activities, including community-based work. As with Humanists UK in the UK, deMens.nu grew from the union of local liberal or freethought associations.\nDiscussion of terminologyEdit\nPeople writing about religious humanism are careful to distinguish religious humanism from Jewish humanism (secular Jews who are humanists), Christian humanism (religious Christians asserting the humanitarian aspects of their religion), and secular humanism (often simply \"humanism\", a non-religious approach to life), but confusion inevitably arises.[8] Another such term is Humanistic Buddhism, which refers to an atheistic practice of Buddhist rituals.\nSome experts on humanism, including Andrew Copson, argue that there have been deliberate attempts to \"muddy the conceptual water... of a complicatedly imprecise philosophical term\" by adding the slew of qualifying adjectives to humanism. He points out that the term \"Christian humanism\" was first used in 1944, and argues that it has largely been used by Christians \"as a way of co\u2010opting the (to them) amenable aspects of humanism for their religion[9]\nList of religious humanists\n^ \"War, Terror, and Resistance\". Retrieved October 31, 2006.\n^ Herrick, James A. (2004-12-02). The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition. InterVarsity Press. pp. 75\u201376. ISBN 9780830832798.\n^ a b c \"Humanism as the Next Step\". Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2006.\n^ \"Genesis of a Humanist Manifesto\". Retrieved May 14, 2006.\n^ http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/coa/engagingourtheodiversity.pdf\n^ http://www.huumanists.org/\n^ http://www.uua.org/aboutus/affiliates/search.php?category=Other%20UU%20Organizations\n^ Murry, William (2007). \"Why I Am a Religious Humanist\". Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century. Boston: Skinner House Books. p. 1. ISBN 1-55896-518-1.\n^ \"What is Humanism?\" in Copson, Andrew and Grayling, Anthony (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015).\nEl-Bedawi, Emran, \"Humanism, Islamic\", in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 vols.), Edited by C. Fitzpatrick and A. Walker, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2014, Vol. I, pp. 269\u2013272. ISBN 1-61069-177-6\nOlds, Mason (1996). \"Chapter 4: John H. Dietrich: The Father of Religious Humanism\". American Religious Humanism (Revised ed.). Fellowship of Religious Humanists. p. 53.\nHumanist Society\nReligious Humanism at the Open Directory Project\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Religious_humanism&oldid=874834130\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 12128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 133.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Church", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:03Z", "digest": "sha1:63NJYDPNKOYDSTNEWYZ24P4CAP5IMMQ3", "length": 19086, "nlines": 107, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Great Church - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "a concept in the historiography of early Christianity\nFor the \"Great Church of Christ\" in Byzantine usage, see Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.\nThe Church Fathers in an 11th-century depiction from Kiev\nThe term \"Great Church\" (Latin: ecclesia magna) is a term of the historiography of early Christianity describing its rapid growth and structural development 180\u2013313 AD (around the time of the Ante-Nicene Period) and its claim to represent Christianity within the Roman Empire.[1] The term is primarily associated with the Roman Catholic account of the history of Christian theology, but is also used by non-Catholic historians.\nThe \"epoch of the Great Church\" is counted as beginning around the end of the second century when, despite the persecution of Christians, the religion became established numerically and organizationally,[2] eventually becoming the state church of the Roman Empire in 380.[1] However, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, an Oriental Orthodox branch parted ways with the Great Church due to Christological differences.[3][4][5]\nIn contrast, in modern Catholic usage, the \"Great Church\" broadly means the \"one, holy, catholic and apostolic\" unity of the Catholic Church (Latin Church) and the Eastern Orthodox Church - both continuing in authority from the Apostles to today - and all bishops who remained in fellowship with the Pope.[6]\nThe sees of Rome and Constantinople, both applying the Chalcedonian Definition, remained in full communion throughout the First seven ecumenical councils (325\u2013787) and until the East\u2013West Schism (1054).\n2 Historical references\n3 Theological underpinnings and separation\n4 Modern theories on the formation of the Great Church\n4.1 In contrast to \"Jewish Christianity\"\nIrenaeus (2nd century \u2013 c.\u2009202)\nCunningham, and separately, Kugel and Greer state that Irenaeus's statement in Against Heresies Chapter X 1\u20132 (written c.\u2009180 AD) is the first recorded reference to the \"Great Church\" as the existence of a worldwide Christian church with a core set of shared beliefs.[7][8] Irenaeus states:[7]\nThe Church, though dispersed through the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: ... As I have already observed, the Church, having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if occupying but one house, carefully preserves it. ... For the churches which have been planted in Germany do not believe or hand down anything different, nor do those in Spain, nor those in Gaul, nor those in the East, nor those in Egypt, nor those in Libya, nor those which have been established in the central regions of the world. But as the son, that creature of God, is one and the same throughout the whole world, so also the preaching of the truth shineth everywhere, and enlightens all men that are willing to come to a knowledge of the truth.\nCunningham states that two points in Irenaeus' writing deserve attention. First, that Irenaeus distinguished the Church singular from \"the churches\" plural, and more importantly, Irenaeus holds that only in the larger singular Church does one find the truth handed down by the apostles of Christ.[7]\nAt the beginning of the 3rd century the Great Church that Irenaeus and Celsus had referred to had spread across a significant portion of the world, with most of its members living in cities (see early centers of Christianity).[9] The growth was less than uniform across the world. The Chronicle of Arbela stated that in 225 AD, there were 20 bishops in all of Persia, while at approximately the same time, surrounding areas of Rome had over 60 bishops.[9] But the Great Church of the 3rd century was not monolithic, consisting of a network of churches connected across cultural zones by lines of communication which at times included personal relationships.[9]\nThe Great Church grew in the 2nd century and entered the 3rd century mainly in two empires: the Roman and the Persian, with the network of bishops usually acting as the cohesive element across cultural zones.[10] In 313, the Edict of Milan ended the persecution of Christians, and by 380 the Great Church had gathered enough followers to become the State church of the Roman Empire by virtue of the Edict of Thessalonica.[1]\nHistorical references[edit]\nJustin Martyr (100\u2013165) wrote (Tertullian, Prescription Against Heretics 30 and Adv. Marcionem, 4.4) that when Marcion was excommunicated from the fellowship of the \"Great Church\" in 144 AD, he had to return the funds he had gathered.[11]\nTowards the end of the 2nd century, Irenaeus wrote about the heretical office holders in the \"Great Church\".[12] In Contra Celsum 5.61 Church Father Origen mentions Celsus' late 2nd century use of the terms \"church of the multitudes\" or \"great church\" to refer to the emerging consensus traditions among Christians at the time, as Christianity was taking shape.[13][14]\nIn the 4th century, as Saint Augustine commented on Psalm XXII, he interpreted the term to mean the whole world, writing: \"The great Church, Brethren, what is it? Is a scanty portion of the earth the great Church? The great Church means the whole world.\"[15] Augustine continued to expound on how various churches all considered themselves \"the great Church,\" but that only the whole world could be seen as the great Church.[15]\nTheological underpinnings and separation[edit]\nEmperor Constantine and bishops with the Creed of 381.\nThe epoch of the Great Church witnessed the development of key theological concepts which now form the fabric of the religious beliefs of the large majority of Christians.[1]\nRelying on Scripture, prevailing mysticism and popular piety, Irenaeus formalized some of the attributes of God, writing in Against Heresies Book IV, Chapter 19: \"His greatness lacks nothing, but contains all things.\"[16] Irenaeus also referred to the early use of the \"Father, Son and Holy Spirit\" formula which appeared as part of Christian Creeds, writing in Against Heresies (Book I Chapter X):[17]\nThe Church ... believes in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit.\nAround 213 AD in Adversus Praxeas (chapter 3) Tertullian provided a formal representation of the concept of the Trinity, i.e., that God exists as one \"substance\" but three \"Persons\": The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.[18][19] Tertullian also discussed how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.[18] The First Council of Nicaea in 325 and later the First Council of Constantinople in 381 then formalized these elements.[20]\nIn 451, all the bishops of the Great Church were ordered to attend the Council of Chalcedon to discuss theological issues that had emerged.[3] This turned out to be a turning point at which the Western and Eastern churches parted ways based on seemingly small Christological differences, and began the fracturing of the claim to the term Great Church by both sides.[3][4][5]\nModern theories on the formation of the Great Church[edit]\nOfficial Catholic publications, and other writers, sometimes consider that the concept of the \"Great Church\" can be found already in the Epistles of Paul, such as in \"This is my rule in all the churches\" (1 Corinthians 7:17) and in the Apostolic Fathers such as the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.[21] Exegesis has even located the ecclesia magna in the Latin Vulgate translations of the \"great congregation\" (kahal rab) of the Hebrew Bible.[22] This interpretation was also offered by Pope Benedict XVI,[23] and by Martin Luther.[24]\nDennis Minns (2010) considers that the concept of a \"Great Church\" was developed by polemical heresiologists such as Irenaeus.[25] The presentation of early Christian unity and orthodoxy (see Proto-orthodox Christianity), and counter presentation of groups such as those sects labelled \"Gnostic\", by early heresiologists such as Irenaeus is questioned by modern historians.[26]\nRoger E. Olson (1999) uses the term to refer to the Great Church at the time of the Council of Chalcedon (451) when the Patriarch of Constantinople and Bishop of Rome were in fellowship with each other.[27]\nIn contrast to \"Jewish Christianity\"[edit]\nThe term is contrasted with Jewish Christians who came to be more and more clearly separated from the Great Church.[28] Wilhelm Schneemelcher and others writing on New Testament Apocrypha distinguish writings as being sectarian or from the Great Church.[29][30]\nGabriele Waste (2005) is among German scholars using similar references, where the \"Gro\u00dfe Kirche\" (\"Great Church\") is defined as \"Ecclesia ex gentibus\" (Church of the Gentiles) in comparison to the \"Ecclesia ex circumcisione\" (Church of the Circumcision).[31]\nIn the anglophone world, Bruce J. Malina (1976) contrasted what he calls \"Christian Judaism\" (usually termed \"Jewish Christianity\") with \"the historically perceived orthodox Christianity that undergirds the ideology of the emergent Great Church.\"[32][33]\nIn francophone scholarship, the term Grande \u00c9glise (French: Ecclesia magna) has also been equated with the \"more hellenized\" as opposed to \"Judaizing\" sections of the early church,[34] and the Bar Kokhba revolt is seen as a definitive stage in the separation between Judaism and the Christianity of the \"Grande \u00c9glise\".[35] Those stressing this binary view of early Christianity include Simon Claude Mimouni and Fran\u00e7ois Blancheti\u00e8re.\nFour Great Church Fathers\nProto-orthodox Christianity\n^ a b c d Peter Stockmeier in the Encyclopedia of Theology: A Concise Sacramentum Mundi edited by Karl Rahner ISBN 0860120066 (New York: Seabury Press, 1975) pp. 375\u2013376 \"In the following period, c.\u2009180 \u2013 c.\u2009313, these structures already determine essentially the image of the Church which claims a universal mission in the Roman Empire. It has rightly been termed the period of the Great Church, in view of its numerical growth, its constitutional development and its intense theological activity.\"\n^ Peter Stockmeier in the Encyclopedia of Theology: A Concise Sacramentum Mundi edited by Karl Rahner ISBN 0860120066 (New York: Seabury Press, 1975) p 378: \"The epoch of the Great Church began about the end of the 2nd century. In spite of oppressive measures Christianity became firmly established numerically and structurally and so paved the way for the Church of the empire\"\n^ a b c Pocket History of Theology by Roger E. Olson and Adam C. English (Nov 14, 2005) ISBN 0830827048 Intervarsity Press pp. 46\u201347\n^ a b Christ in Christian Tradition by Aloys Grillmeier, Theresia Hainthaler and Pauline Allen (Aug 1995) ISBN 0664219977 pp. 1\u20132\n^ a b Christian Community in History Volume 1 by Roger D. Haight (Sep 16, 2004) ISBN 0826416306 pp. 212\u2013213\n^ Roger E. Olson The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & ... 1999 p. 278 \"According to the Roman Catholic account of the history of Christian theology, the Great Church catholic and orthodox lived on from the apostles to today in the West and all bishops that remained in fellowship with the bishop of Rome have\"\n^ a b c An Introduction to Catholicism by Lawrence S. Cunningham (Feb 16, 2009) ISBN 0521846072 p. 4\u20135\n^ Early Biblical Interpretation by James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer (Jan 1, 1986) ISBN 0664250130 p. 109.\n^ a b c History of the World Christian Movement: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity To 1453 by Dale T. Irvin and Scott Sunquist(Jan 10, 2002) ISBN 0567088669 pp. 103\u2013107.\n^ History of the World Christian Movement: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity To 1453 by Dale T. Irvin and Scott Sunquist (January 10, 2002) ISBN 0567088669 pp. 107\u2013109.\n^ Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus by Peter Lampe (Jun 1, 2006) ISBN 0826481027 p. 101.\n^ Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries by Peter Lampe (Jun 1, 2006) ISBN 0826481027 p. 389\n^ Birth of the Church by I. Davidson (Apr 22, 2005) ISBN 1854246585 p. 381\n^ History of the World Christian Movement: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity To 1453 by Dale T. Irvin and Scott Sunquist (January 10, 2002) ISBN 0567088669 pp. 102\u2013103\n^ a b Expositions on the Book of Psalms Volume I by Augustine of Hippo Henry Parker, Oxford, 1847 p. 159\n^ Irenaeus of Lyons by Eric Francis Osborn (Nov 26, 2001) ISBN 0521800064 pp. 27\u201329\n^ Vickers, Jason E. Invocation and Assent: The Making and the Remaking of Trinitarian Theology. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008. ISBN 0-8028-6269-1 pp. 2\u20135\n^ a b The Trinity by Roger E. Olson, Christopher Alan Hall 2002 ISBN 0802848273 pp. 29\u201331\n^ Tertullian, First Theologian of the West by Eric Osborn (4 Dec 2003) ISBN 0521524954 pp. 116\u2013117\n^ Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to Theology with the Help of the Church Fathers by Donald Fairbairn (Sep 28, 2009) ISBN 0830838732 pp. 48\u201350\n^ Monsignor David Bohr, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan The Diocesan Priest: Consecrated and Sent Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2009)2010 p42 \"The term ordinatio was originally used in Rome for appointing civil 17 Certainly the concept of the \"Great Church\" can be found already in the epistles of St. Paul (e.g., 1 Cor 7:17) and in the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch.\"\n^ Telesphor Smyth-Vaudry Peter's name: or, A divine credential in a name 1909 p84 \"26) \u2014 \"I will give thanks to thee in a great Church.\" (Ps. 34. 18.) \u2014 \"I have declared thy justice in a great Church\" (Ps. 39. 10). So divinely universal is the \"great Church\" \u2014 the Ecclesia magna \u2014 prophesied by David, that her very enemies ...\"\n^ Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Michael J. Miller -Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life 2011 p18 \"... which the ecclesia, or perhaps the ecclesia magna (Ps 22 [21]:25) constitutes the audience. In the New Testament there is a change\u2014necessarily so, inasmuch as now the psalm with its situation emerges from the hypothetical and indefinite ...\"\n^ Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century 2001 -p. 164 \"The 'ecclesia magna' (according to Luther, the 'great commonality' Cgro8e Gemeine')) of Hist, n 34 refers to Psalm 35, v. 18; on the 'universalis aeclesia' of Hist, rv 42: 474, 1, see p. 166, n. 44, below. 36 Hist, n 23: 68, 17f.; see also Chapter 3 ...\"\n^ Denis Minns Irenaeus: An Introduction 2010 p17 \"In this book I have presumed that there was a reality corresponding to the term 'the Great Church', and that, by and large, Irenaeus represents it. This is a convenient simplification, but a simplification nonetheless. If we can speak of a 'Great Church' at all, this is at least partly because polemical theologians like Irenaeus identified certain views as incompatible with Christian truth and declared those who held them to be beyond Christian fellowship.\"\n^ James L. Kugel, Rowan A. Greer Early Biblical interpretation 1986 p119 \"The Gnostics are thought of as a perverse mirror image of the Great Church with their own succession of teachers and their own Rule of faith. ... Instead, we must understand what happened as the gradual emergence of unity out of diversity.\"\n^ Roger E. Olson The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & ... 1999 p. 251 \"PART V A Tale of Two Churches The Great Tradition Divides Between East & West Up to this point the story of Christian theology has been the story of a relatively unified Great Church, both catholic and orthodox. We have seen how heresies ... After the council, the Great Church was identified with the bishops in fellowship with the emperor and patriarch of Constantinople in the East and the bishop of Rome (also considered a patriarch) in the West, and these three usually maintained ...\" p278 \"According to the Roman Catholic account of the history of Christian theology, the Great Church catholic and orthodox lived on from the apostles to today in the West and all bishops that remained in fellowship with the bishop of Rome have\"\n^ Theological dictionary of the New Testament. Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich \u2013 1966 Vol. 3 \u2013 p. 518 EKKLESIA \"48 As Jewish Christians came to be more and more clearly separated from the Great Church, it is probable that they called both their assemblies and their places of assembly auvccycoyi!|. In the very earliest period all Christians, both Jew and ...\"\n^ Wilhelm Schneemelcher, R. McL. Wilson New Testament Apocrypha: Writings Relating to the Apostles ...- 2003 \u2013 p. 414 Acts of Peter and The Twelve Apostles \"... of consideration: a) from the content and tenor of the text it is difficult to understand it as a product of the Great Church; it is ... The special way in which the ideal of poverty is presented in ActPt makes one instinctively think of the Ebionites. b) ...\"\n^ Alois Grillmeier Christ in Christian tradition (1965), vol. 1, p. 45 \"Besides such Targumim, it seems that the existence of Jewish-Christian Midrashim, paraphrases of the Old Testament, can also be proven. It is further claimed that the early Christian sources, whether Jewish-Christian or from the great Church,\"\n^ Minemosyne \u2013 p. 251 \"Diese bildeten die \u201eEcclesia ex circumcisione\", der sp\u00e4ter die aus den Heidenv\u00f6lkern herkommende \u201eGro\u00dfe Kirche\" oder \u201eEcclesia ex gentibus\" gegen\u00fcberstand. Die Judenchristen, zu denen die Edelsten der Nation geh\u00f6rten, umfa\u00dften ...\"\n^ Edwin K. Broadhead Jewish Ways of Following Jesus: Redrawing the Religious Map of ... 2010 \u2013 p. 33 \"1) Jewish Christianity is \"the historically perceived orthodox Christianity that undergirds the ideology of the emergent Great Church.\"16 2) Judaism refers to rabbinic, Pharisaic Judaism. 3) Christian Judaism is, in a first century context, \"a phase ...\n^ B. J. Malina, Jewish Christianity or Christian Judaism: Toward a hypothetical Definition', JSJ 8 (1976), pp.\n^ Revue th\u00e9ologique de Louvain Fondation universitaire de Belgique 2005\u2013 36 p. 229 \"Plut\u00f4t que des membres de la Grande \u00c9glise s\u00e9duits par le pros\u00e9lytisme juif, ces chr\u00e9tiens sont vraisemblablement les h\u00e9ritiers ...\"\n^ Revue des \u00e9tudes juives: 2004 v163 p. 43 \"... la r\u00e9volte de Bar Kokhba a donc constitu\u00e9 une \u00e9tape d\u00e9finitive dans la s\u00e9paration entre le juda\u00efsme et la \u00abGrande \u00c9glise\u00bb. ... S.C. Mimouni, Le jud\u00e9o-christianisme ancien, op. cit., et D. Marguerat, \u00abJuifs et chr\u00e9tiens: la s\u00e9paration\u00bb, in J.-M.\"\nFirst seven councils\nNicaea I (325)\nConstantinople I (381)\nEphesus (431)\nChalcedon (451)\nConstantinople II (553)\nConstantinople III (680\u2013681)\nNicaea II (787)\nConstantinople IV (869\u2013870)\nLateran I (1123)\nLateran II (1139)\nLateran III (1179)\nLateran IV (1215)\nLyon I (1245)\nLyon II (1274)\nVienne (1311\u20131312)\nBasel/Florence (1431\u20131445)\nLateran V (1512/1517)\nTrent (1545\u201363)\nVatican I (1869\u20131870)\nVatican II (1962\u20131965)\nPartly recognized by the\nQuinisext Council (692)\nConstantinople V (1341\u20131351)\nSynod of Jassy (1642)\nSynod of Jerusalem (1672)\nSynod of Constantinople (1872)\nOriental Orthodox Church\nSecond Council of Ephesus (449)\nThird Council of Ephesus (475)\nSee also: Great Church\nEastern Orthodoxy portal\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Church&oldid=882795067\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 740, "original_length": 29125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlake_Christian_Church", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MTMIYF6ONECNEURWTGDKJNKXNEBLLNK6", "length": 5305, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Overlake Christian Church - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Overlake Christian Church is a non-denominational megachurch in Redmond, Washington. It is among the largest church congregations in the State of Washington.[1]\n4 Other churches\nThe church's purpose statement is to: Love God, Love People & Serve the World.[2] Weekend services for adults, students and children are considered the main venues where the Love God purpose is fulfilled. Life Groups (small community groups and support groups) are viewed as the fundamental way the church shows its love and concern for people. The church's Serve the World purpose is accomplished through various initiatives (throughout the Pacific Northwest and the world); the primary of which are centered on HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and orphan care through fostering and adoption. The church also has a major focus on assisting unhoused people and single mothers in the Puget Sound region.\nThe Lead Pastor is Mike Howerton, who was the \"Next Generation\" pastor at Saddleback Church (pastored by Rick Warren) in Orange County, California until 2004. Howerton has authored three books, Ride of Your Life, Glorious Mess and Miles to Cross, and was a contributing author to another entitled, The Relevant Church. The church is governed by a volunteer board of elders.[3]\nOverlake Christian Church began in Kirkland, Washington in 1969 with a handful of former attendees of Bellevue Christian Church. James Earl Ladd, then president of Puget Sound College of the Bible in the nearby city of Mountlake Terrace agreed to serve as a temporary, part-time pastor/preacher until a replacement could be found. A pastor from Enid, Oklahoma, Bob Moorehead, was invited and became Overlake's Senior Pastor in January, 1970. During the nearly thirty years of Moorehead's tenure, weekly attendance at the Kirkland church campus grew from less than a hundred to more than 6,000. He resigned in 1998 amid allegations of sexual impropriety, mostly related to the 1970s, that he had touched or fondled male members of the congregation.[3] The elders of the church exonerated Moorehead in the results of their initial investigation, but a year after he resigned they withdrew their support, saying they had discovered new evidence that showed he \"did violate the scriptural standards of trust, self-control, purity and godly character required for the office of elder and pastor.\"[4] As a conservative Christian, condemnation of homosexuality had been a major theme of his preaching.[3]\nIn 1997, the church moved to a new 250,000 square foot (23,225 m\u00b2) building on 27 acres (110,000 m2) along Willows Road NE in Redmond, Washington.[5] After Moorehead's departure in June, 1998, the senior pastor's role was filled by Rick Kingham, a former Vice President of Promise Keepers, who led the congregation until February 2007. Mike Howerton, already on staff as a teaching pastor, became the church's lead pastor later that year.\nIn addition to the Bob Moorehead scandal, the church was again under public investigation in 2007, when $75,000 taken up as an offering from church members and visitors for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was instead used to pay church expenses, including salaries for pastors. Bob Senatore, then chairman of the board of elders, stated that the church has borrowed from restricted funds before, but the money ultimately was donated to disaster victims. However, some church members have stated that the money was only donated after congregational pressure.[6]\nOther churches[edit]\nOverlake Christian Church has founded eight other churches in the area, the largest having more than 3,800 Sunday attendees.[7]\nNorthlake Christian Church, Bothell\nChrist Church of Federal Way, Federal Way\nChrist's Fellowship, Kent\nEvergreen Christian Fellowship, Issaquah\nNorthshore Christian Church, Everett\nNew Light Christian Church, Seattle\nCoal Creek Chapel, Bellevue\nCanyon Hills Community Church, Bothell\n^ Tu, Janet I. (December 13, 2007). \"Overlake church leaders: Usher took up to $100k from plate\". Seattle Times.\n^ Love God // Love People // Serve the World // > Our Purposes\n^ a b c Militch, Steve; Foster, Heath (May 18, 1998). \"Moorhead resigns as pastor he denies charges, but says they hurt Overlake ministry\". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. A.1. [dead link] Cite error: Invalid tag; name \"PI18May1998\" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).\n^ MacDonald, Sally; Miletich, Steve (May 21, 1999). \"Elders Now Say Moorehead Is `Guilty' Of Misconduct\". The Seattle Times. Retrieved February 11, 2011.\n^ MacDonald, Sally (November 28, 1997). \"Church Is A Vision To Behold -- Overlake Christian's New $37 Million Building In The North End Of Redmond Is Open For Business\". The Seattle Times.\n^ Tu, Janet (February 22, 2007). \"Church borrowed from disaster donations\".\n^ Maynard, Steve (May 18, 1998). \"Shock of resignation felt in 'daughter' churches too, eight other churches have 'family ties' to Bob Moorhead's Overlake megachurch\". The News Tribune. Tacoma, Wash. p. A.10.\nCoordinates: 47\u00b041\u203221\u2033N 122\u00b008\u203224\u2033W\ufeff / \ufeff47.6891\u00b0N 122.14\u00b0W\ufeff / 47.6891; -122.14\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overlake_Christian_Church&oldid=864551237\"\nEvangelical churches in Washington (state)\nBuildings and structures in Redmond, Washington", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bullinger,_Heinrich", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HKLKZMYUP7RXC7BFWIMPDS67JZLXU2GR", "length": 2334, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "en.wikisource.org", "title": "1911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica/Bullinger, Heinrich - Wikisource, the free online library", "raw_content": "1911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica/Bullinger, Heinrich\n\u2190Bulli\nBullion\u2192\nsister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, Wikidata item.\nSee also Heinrich Bullinger on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica disclaimer.\n760741911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, Volume 4 \u2014 Bullinger, Heinrich\nBULLINGER, HEINRICH (1504\u20131575), Swiss reformer, son of Dean Heinrich Bullinger by his wife Anna (Wiederkehr), was born at Bremgarten, Aargau, on the 18th of July 1504. He studied at Emmerich and Cologne, where the teaching of Peter Lombard led him, through Augustine and Chrysostom, to first-hand study of the Bible. Next the writings of Luther and Melanchthon appealed to him. Appointed teacher (1522) in the cloister school of Cappel, he lectured on Melanchthon\u2019s Loci Communes (1521). He heard Zwingli at Z\u00fcrich in 1527, and next year accompanied him to the disputation at Berne. He was made pastor of Bremgarten in 1529, and married Anna Adlischweiler, a nun, by whom he had eleven children. After the battle of Cappel (11th of October 1531), in which Zwingli fell, he left Bremgarten. On the 9th of December 1531 he was chosen to succeed Zwingli as chief pastor of Z\u00fcrich. A strong writer and thinker, his spirit was essentially unifying and sympathetic, in an age when these qualities won little sympathy. His controversies on the Lord\u2019s Supper with Luther, and his correspondence with Lelio Sozini (see Socinus), exhibit, in different connexions, his admirable mixture of dignity and tenderness. With Calvin he concluded (1549) the Consensus Tigurinus on the Lord\u2019s Supper. The (second) Helvetic Confession (1566) adopted in Switzerland, Hungary, Bohemia and elsewhere, was his work. The volumes of the Zurich Letters, published by the Parker Society, testify to his influence on the English reformation in later stages. Many of his sermons were translated into English (reprinted, 4 vols., 1849). His works, mainly expository and polemical, have not been collected. He died at Z\u00fcrich on the 17th of September 1575.\nSee Carl Pestalozzi, Leben (1858); Raget Christoffel, H. Bullinger (1875); Justus Heer, in Hauck\u2019s Realencyklopadie (1897). (A. Go.*)\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=1911_Encyclop\u00e6dia_Britannica/Bullinger,_Heinrich&oldid=6209003\"\nEB1911:People:Individuals:Europe:Switzerland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2018/09/21-kundu-profile.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JIU7RSSVLLUCQI6TXZH5MOJWT2KH4KGS", "length": 4249, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "engineering.cmu.edu", "title": "Analyzing medical images with machine learning - College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University", "raw_content": "College of Engineering alumna Shinjini Kundu was recently named one of the MIT Technology Review\u2019s 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work on an artificial intelligence system that can interpret medical images in ways humans cannot.\nSome people are born for the fast track. At 16, alumna Shinjini Kundu graduated from high school. At 19, she completed a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and at 20, a master\u2019s degree. At 25 and 27, she earned Ph.D. and M.D. degrees, respectively, as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Carnegie Mellon University (Biomedical Engineering) and the University of Pittsburgh.\nAt 27, Kundu has been named one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review\u2019s 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work on an artificial intelligence system that can interpret medical images in ways humans cannot. Her program, called 3D Transport-Based Morphometry, or 3D TBM for short, could significantly impact how we diagnose and treat diseases.\n\u201cSome statistics say that up to 80 percent of all medical diagnoses are made or confirmed through imaging studies. As imaging machines have only gotten better, I wondered whether there could be subtle information important for disease recognition that was eluding human detection,\u201d said Kundu. \u201cI thought that if we could find hidden patterns, they may indicate emergence of disease in a way we hadn\u2019t been thinking about. That was the motivation behind 3D TBM.\u2019\nSource: Shinjini Kundu\nKundu found that 3D TBM can indeed find evidence of disease from medical images that humans can\u2019t see, and that evidence can help predict diseases even before visible or physical symptoms develop. One of the diseases Kundu studied was osteoarthritis. Using 3D TBM, she was able to see very subtle changes in the medical images of knee cartilage of otherwise healthy people. These changes identified by 3D TBM could predict whether someone will develop osteoarthritis three years in the future with up to 86 percent accuracy.\nKundu\u2019s 3D TBM program lives at the intersection of two of her interests, engineering and medicine, and aims to find the synergism between new innovative technologies and pushing the limits of medical diagnosis, detection, and treatment. When she was initially designing the program, which she developed as a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, Kundu had not originally planned to incorporate the artificial intelligence and machine learning component.\n\u201cI didn't necessarily think that I would be working on a machine learning project when I first started,\u201d she said. \u201cI just thought that this is a really cool idea, an important problem, and one that I could solve by applying the engineering skills that I'd learned. It was an opportunity to grow as an engineer and also solve an important problem in medical diagnosis. Now, having built this, I see that machine learning is a big component of it.\u201d\nI thought that if we could find hidden patterns, they may indicate emergence of disease in a way we hadn\u2019t been thinking about.\nShinjini Kundu, Carnegie Mellon University\nWhen Kundu was deciding where she wanted to continue her education after graduating from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon\u2019s College of Engineering stood out due to its front-of-the-line research and technology, as well as its interdisciplinary values.\n\u201cI wanted to be a part of the cutting edge work going on at CMU,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are so many interesting projects and ideas that there isn\u2019t enough time in the world to take part in all of them. It\u2019s a privilege. I had the opportunity to learn from so many bright people who are there. As I progress in my career, what I learned at CMU\u2014how to think like an engineer and how to approach problems like an engineer\u2014is going to stay with me.\u201d\nToday, Kundu works as a research scientist and holds a resident physician position at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), continuing to pursue both of her passions. She is also working on further developing 3D TBM, studying different diseases and physical conditions with the program.\n\u201cRight now, I\u2019m still working towards getting 3D TBM into the clinic, into the hands of doctors, and ultimately enabling better patient care.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 168.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://engineering.lehigh.edu/research/overview/enabling-science-and-technology-materials-matter-devices-systems", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HLKQXAWXPFACJW3OVDBHRLYXXEZRLMIL", "length": 1588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "engineering.lehigh.edu", "title": "Enabling Science and Technology: Materials, Matter, Devices & Systems | P.C. 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WITH HIS ADOPTIVE FAMILY, THE CLAMS, IN SHELL LAND, AN UNDERSEA COMMUNITY POPULATED BY ALL SORTS OF SEA SPECIES. SHELLDON AND HIS BEST FRIENDS, CONNIE IS A COWRY SHELL MOLLUSK AND HERMAN WHO IS A HERMIT CRAB FACE A SPECIFIC CHALLENGE IN EVERY EPISODE. THE PROBLEM MAY BE MANAGEING A BULLY, IMPROVING THEIR GRADES, LEARNING HOW TO BE ALTRUISTIC, OR PROTECTING THEIR ENVIRONMENT FROM NATURAL AND MAN MADE DISASTERS. IN ALL CASES, THEY RELY ON DR. SHELL, THE MOST VENERATED INTELLECTUAL AND ELDER IN SHELL LAND WHO TEACHES THEM AND GIVES THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO HARNESS THEIR POTENTIAL AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM. EACH EPISODE PROVES A DIRECT SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LESSON AND MANY EPISODES PROVIDE INFORMATIONAL CONTENT RELATING TO THE SEA LIFE HABITAT OF SHELL LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.\nDescribe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. BASED ON A SERIES OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE WRITTEN BY JOANNA COLE. 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THERE SERIES FOLLOWS A GROUP OF SIX DOGS WHO LOVE TO COMPETE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN RACES. IN EACH STORY, ONE OR MORE OF THE DOGS ENCOUNTER AND SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT TEACH THEM SOCIAL EMOTI0NAL LESSONS ON GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP, TEAMWORK, COOPERATION, PLAYING FAIR AND FRIENDSHIP. THE SHOW ALSO IMPARTS INFORMATIN ON THE MECHANICS OF RACING SUCH AS DIRECTIONALITY AND CONCEPTS OF DISTANCE AND TIME. THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL MESSAGES ARE EMBEDDED THROUGH THE STORIES USING ACTION AND HUMOR, THE TAGS AT THE END OF EACH EPISODE REITERATE AND ESTABLISH THE EDUCATIONAL MESSAGES LEARNED BY THE DOGS.\nDescribe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. A PARK FAIRIE WHO TEACHES US HOW TO BE GREEN AND RECYCLE AND REUSE AND SAVE OUR PLANET AND OUR LAND.\nDescribe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. AN ANIMATED SERIES FEATURING A SIX YEAR OLD GIRL, WILLA, WHO IS PERMITTED TO SHARE HER HOME WITH AN EVER GROWING MEANGERIE OF ANIMALS, AN ELEPHANT, A GIRAFFE, A PAIR OF PERFORMING SEALS, A BEAR, THREE PENGUINS, AND LOTS OF RABBITS. THESE CREATURES SPEAK TO WILLA, OFFERING HER ADVICE AND FRIENDSHIP FROM EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE POINTS OF VIEW. IN EACH EPISODE, WILLA FACES A CHALLENGE AT HOME, IN SCHOOL OR IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD. HER ANIMALS AND BEST FRIEND DOOLEY HELP HER DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO OVERCOME EACH CHALLENGE. WITH THE SUPPORT OF DOOLEY, THE ANIMALS AND PRAISE FROM HER DAD, WILLA FINDS WAYS TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY FRIENDSHIPS, EXPERIENCE SUCCESS, DEVELOP COMPETENCE AND BECOME ALTRUISTIC.\nDescribe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. THIS SERIES ALLOWS CHILDREN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD OF \"GREEN\" LIVING. EDUCATE AND INFORMS YOUNGSTERS ABOUT RECYCLING, SAVING ENERGY AND PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT.\nTitle of Program CURIOSITY QUEST\nDescribe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. BASED ON THE BOOKS BY LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF, BABAR IS AN ANIMATED SHOW ABOUT A YOUNG ORPHANED ELEPHANT WHO FINDS THE STRENGTH TO RISE ABOVE THE CHALLENGES HE FACES, INCLUDING THE DEATH OF HIS PARENTS. AS HE JOURNEYS THROUGH LIFE. EACH EPISODE OF THE SHOW DEVELOPS A SOCIAL EMOTIONAL MESSAGE SUCH AS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY, BEING PATIENT AND PERSISTENT IN HARD WORK. RESPECTING PEOPLES PRIVACY, LEARNING TO COPE WITH UNFORESEEN CHANGES AND BEING HONEST. THESE MESSAGES EMERGE FROM THE NEED TO RESOLVE A DILEMMA THAT IS FACED BY BABAR, ONE OF HIS FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS.\nProgram Title THE MAGIC SHCOOL BUS\nPOLLACK/BELZ BROADCASTING CO., LLC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 601, "original_length": 30319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://entirejobs.co.uk/jobs/si-recruitment-jobs/em-SI-Recruitment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:K5WDDCZNFDI3JNEQSESDIDITP4TTFJOH", "length": 2441, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "entirejobs.co.uk", "title": "Si Recruitment jobs - Entire Jobs", "raw_content": "Home > Si Recruitment jobs\nSi Recruitment jobs\nOur Client based on Hornbeam are looking for someone with a lot of Customer Service management experience to join their growing team. They require someone who can use their own initiative and are forthcoming with new; dynamic ways to improve their...\nMy client requires a Part Time Administrator to join their growing team. The client operate a customer-focused business, committed to the excellence through their people and services. This is a fast paced, demanding environment and would suit a driven...\nOutsourcing Senior - Newcastle\nWe are recruiting for a leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services to middle market leaders in the North East. They are looking for an experienced Outsourcing Senior who would be tasked with providing a high quality accounting service to a...\nPress Brake Operatives (temp-perm), Newton Aycliffe, \u00a3competitive\nPress Brake Operatives (temp-perm), Newton Aycliffe, \u00a3competitive Due to growth, an established business is recruiting for press break operatives, experience isn't essential as they provide training. To be considered you should be able to work well...\nAccounts Assistant, Harrogate\nMy client are looking to recruit into their small finance team. They are looking for a capable and professional Accounts Assistant with solid all round experience, particularly on the purchase ledger side. The role will involve all aspects of the...\nMy client, based in Stockton-on-Tees, is looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their team on a full time, permanent basis. This is an exciting role for someone starting out in their accounts career and looking to take the ... ..... click apply for...\nOur client, one of the region's leading accountancy practices, is looking to recruit a qualified Audit Executive to join its Business Services team. The successful candidate will be ACA or ACCA qualified with current audit experience gained at a...\nI am working exclusively with a client who is based on the outskirts of Darlington. My client is a long standing family business who is looking for a Plant Hire Manager to join their busy and growing team on a full time, permanent basis. As the...\nWe are currently recruiting for a long-standing firm of Chartered Accountants based in Bradford, who are looking for an Audit Senior to join their team. This company make their people a priority by encouraging ambition, progression and take pride in...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 11192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://entropia-records.com/william-oneyabor-groove-preacher-unsolved-puzzle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OC7TBFPPM5YSB2XRIRK3LUC5SKKIUZQW", "length": 4768, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "entropia-records.com", "title": "E N T R O P I A - William Oneyabor, Groove Preacher :: An Unsolved Puzzle - Entropia-Records", "raw_content": "There is a shadow of doubt in Onyeabor\u2019s life story which had never been cleared. All that was known for sure is that he released a few albums, on his own Wilfilms label. Beyond that there were only rumours. Had he really studied cinematography in Moscow? Did the film, for which his 1977 debut LP \u201cCrashes in Love\u201d was the soundtrack, exists? How he found the money to set up a fully equipped studio? Was he a spy for the Russians? Why he never performed live? Who are the musicians that accompanied him in his recordings? Truly, no one shed light on this enigmatic figure. His life remained private and reclusive.\nOnyeabor was born, 26 March 1946, in Enugu, Nigeria, into a poor family, but became financially successful enough to travel to Europe to study record manufacturing (?). Some biographies claim that he studied cinematography in Russia. By the late 70s he could afford to fund his own recording studio, record label, pressing plant and film company.\nHe was later crowned a High Chief in Enugu, where he lived as a businessman working on government contracts (?) and running his own semolina flour mill. His business successes saw him named West African Industrialist of the Year in 1987. In the early 1990s, he became the president of Enugu\u2019s Musician\u2019s Union and chairman of the city\u2019s local football team, the Enugu Rangers.\nOnyeabor self-released nine albums between 1977 and 1985 and then became a born-again Christian, deeply religious \u2013later he was ordained as a pastor \u2013 and influential in the local community, with a paranoid dedication to secrecy that extended to people who knew him. He lived in a flamboyant white mansion, almost like a temple, apparently unchanged since the 1980s, refusing to ever speak about himself or his music again. Nobody wanted to get on his bad side.\nHe create unique music described sometimes as heavy rhythmical, driven by funky synthesizers, -no other African musician was using synthesizers back then,- occasionally epic in scope and his conscious lyrics and messages for equality and love or decrying war. Singing, almost preaching sometimes, Onyeabor himself and unknown female backing vocalists. The musicians that participate in his recordings it\u2019s another question. Probably he created an in- house band for his studio.\nWilliam was an expert in composing music and inventive in studio techniques. A few other African bands or artists trust him and took part in Wilfilms Records roster, like Ofu-Obi Social Club, Pete Baja, Dibson & Essody, Uncle Victor Chukwu and Anambra Brothers, Jaamike Zeluwa, Obidike International Band. Sometimes he was adding or playing synthesizers in some recordings, like N\u2019Draman Blintch\u2019s \u201cCikamele\u201d.\nOnyeabor\u2019s music wasn\u2019t successful beyond Enugu until his 1985 hit \u201cWhen the Going Is Smooth and Good,\u201d a playful synthesizer driven jam, sound like a proto-techno gem. Even then, he refused to play live and disliked press attention. It was to be his last record. More vinyl from this mysterious man was hard to find, but some trickled in. A few record collectors and music aficionados knew the music of William Oneyabor.\nIn 2001 the Strut label featured 1978\u2019s \u201cBetter Change Your Mind,\u201d a song whose message is as relevant today as it was then, on its Nigeria 70 compilation. Other tracks emerged sporadically over subsequent years, before the Luaka Bop\u2019s compilation. Most of what we know about Onyeabor is thanks to Luaka Bop\u2019s people, while they were trying to collect around any information for him. \u201cWho is William Oneyabor?\u201d came out in 2013. Onyeabor\u2019s music came to life, it was fresh and transcendent. Everyone felt it, but not himself.\nHe declined to promote the 3LP compilation, requiring neither money nor attention. For someone like Sixto Rodriguez, \u2013 after the documentary \u201cSearching for Sugarman,\u201d \u2013 gave him vindication and a second chance. In 2014 a documentary was out, by Noisey, called \u201cFantastic Man\u201d \u2013 A Film About William Onyeabor, named after his song. But for Onyeabor, growing interest in the music he released during his career not moved him at all. \u0391 series of live tribute shows took place, performed by the likes of David Byrne, Damon Albarn, Alexis Taylor, Lijadu Sisters and Ghostpoet.\nIn December 2014, he stated \u201cI only create the type of music that would help the world\u201d It was his first ever radio broadcast on the Lauren Laverne Show on BBC 6 Music. William Onyeabor has died on 16 January 2017, peacefully in his sleep at his home at the age of 70, following a short illness. His surprising and groundbreaking music, creating anything that sounded similar, were all way ahead of their time. At the time of his death he was more popular and influential than he had ever been but he remained to the end one of music\u2019s most unsolved puzzles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 198.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eponline.com/Articles/2012/07/31/Hong-Kong-Temperature-Predicted-to-Rise-by-Two-to-Three-Degrees-Celcius-in-30-Years.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:WMHT73CPIGOK32LBI7CIE6BOFIAD3332", "length": 3750, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "eponline.com", "title": "Hong Kong Temperature Predicted to Rise by 2 to 3 Degrees Celcius in 30 Years -- Environmental Protection", "raw_content": "The temperature in the inner urban areas of Hong Kong is predicted to rise by two to three Celsius degree in 30 years' time, according to the latest scientific study by researchers at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.\nThe study was done by PolyU Professor Janet Nichol and her research student Mr To Pui-hang, together with Chinese University's Professor Edward Ng Yan-yung, using remote sensing technology and satellite images. They have mapped the distribution of temperatures for both daytime and nighttime over Hong Kong at decadal intervals up to 2039, taking into consideration the temperature change due to greenhouse-induced warming as well as the impact of urbanization. The latter is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.\nProfessor Janet Nichol said the UHI effect means an urban area is significantly warmer than its rural surroundings. The temperature difference is usually larger at night and in winter. There are several causes leading to UHI. These include high-rise buildings which block thermal radiation at night, materials with thermal bulk properties such as asphalt and concrete, and the lack of vegetation in urban areas. With its densely populated urban area, Hong Kong provides a typical example of the UHI effect.\nWhile temperature projections for the city carried out by the Hong Kong Observatory have reflected the expected temperature change due to greenhouse-induced warming, they have failed to address the direct effects of urban development. In contrast, PolyU research has examined temperature changes due to both global warming and urbanization effects independently.\n\"Urbanization is an additional factor in causing temperature rise, and if current trends are continued, temperatures could increase much faster in the future,\" said Professor Nichol.\nGiven no further urbanization, the annual mean temperature in Hong Kong will rise by 3.0 to 6.0 Celsius degrees by 2100 (according to a study of the Hong Kong Observatory in 2007). However, the mean temperature is predicted to rise by 3.7 to 6.8 Celsius degrees within the same period with a constant urbanization rate as before. The impact of urbanization effect or UHI magnitude is estimated at 0.08 Celsius degrees per decade.\nIn predicting future rise in temperature, Professor Nichol has made use of satellite images for baseline air temperature mapping, global climate models for the projection of greenhouse-induced warming, and plot ratio to reflect the degree of urbanization. She also noted that air temperature is more sensitive to the density rather than the height of buildings, though the latter cannot be fully neglected.\nThe study found that in 2039 most urban areas in Hong Kong would have a two to three Celsius degree increase in daytime air temperature, indicated by the original dark green areas changed to yellow. This indicates an average increase of temperature on a summer day in urban districts, from currently 35 Celsius degrees to just less than 38 Celsius degrees in 2039.\nMoreover, over the next three decades night time temperatures in the centre of Kowloon are expected to show at least an increase by two Celsius degrees, reaching over 31.5 degrees at night. This means that most urban districts in the city that are currently \"comfortable\" at night will become \"uncomfortable\" by 2039. As a result, those people who cannot afford air conditioners will suffer heat stress both during the day and at night.\nProfessor Janet Nichol also urged city planners to take into consideration the wind speed requirements for residential buildings in urban areas so as to achieve a more favourable living environment for city dwellers. This is called \"sustainable urbanization.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://equiniti.com/uk/news-and-views/eq-views/why-back-office-processes-should-be-a-priority/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OV6WOG7EF2EDWT5KY74ZIARQYAINZ43Z", "length": 6430, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "equiniti.com", "title": "Why back office processes should be a priority", "raw_content": "Home News and Views EQ Views Why Back Office Processes Should Be A Priority\nWhy Back Office Processes Should Be A Priority\nBy Jay Dodd, Business Development Director, Equiniti Toplevel\nIt\u2019s often said that transformation starts with the customer. The consensus is that digitalisation should fundamentally seek to serve the customer better by reducing friction. Yet by focusing on customer-centric delivery, the danger is that back office processes are neglected, with the bulk of the spend invested on the front end.\nDigitalisation has seen organisations pursue a policy of channel shift, concentrating on putting in place more cost effective digital access channels such as self-service websites, email, social media and chatbot channels, in order to reduce engagement via face-to-face, paper or telephone.\nThe problem with this approach is that a transformation project could well be deemed a success with new front of house systems proving accessible and well utilised, belying issues with back office processing. Digitalisation can often hide a failure to integrate back and front office systems, with the new services little more than a fa\u00e7ade.\nIn any transformation project there should actually be two beneficiaries \u2013 the customer AND the employee \u2013 and this is achieved by delivering end-to-end transformation.\nBack office issues\nIn the retail banking sector, for example, the rollout of online and mobile banking customer channels has been a phenomenal success leading to the closure of expensive high street branches but back office legacy systems continue to cause problems.\nThe database migration by a high street bank of 1.3 billion records of five million customers is a case in point but the sector routinely suffers from issues affecting online and mobile account access. The retail banking sector is also struggling to keep pace with an increasingly digitally savvy customer base due to these back office issues.\nFrustrated users want the same flexibility from their bank as they receive in other service industries and can\u2019t understand why it takes so long to open an account or for financing agreements to be approved.\nTake the mortgage application process. While preliminary approval online is now standard it can take weeks to sanction these loans with backend systems (i.e. the credit bureaus used to verify credit status and identity) causing delays.\nThe sector is currently being disrupted by the Open Banking initiative which aims to make customer transaction data more fluid and the market more competitive.\n\u2018Born digital\u2019 providers are now entering the fray, unencumbered by legacy infrastructure, forcing the incumbents to address back office integration faster than they may have liked.\nSome major banks initially struggled to meet the deadline of 13 January for opening up their customer base and another was granted leeway of a year to get its act together, suggesting many are still realigning their systems.\nIn the public sector, the UK Government hasn\u2019t fought shy of the issue, acknowledging in the Government Transformation Strategy (February 2017) that \u201cin many cases they [i.e. departments and agencies] have not yet been able to transform the \u2018back end\u2019 of their organisations\u201d and that this has compromised efficiency as in some cases \u201cthe online service passes the contents of a web form to back-office staff, who must then re-key data into an existing system\u201d.\nIt surmises that 'if there are fundamental flaws in the business process behind a service, then simply putting it on a digital channel cannot fix those'.\nFixing integration problems between front end and back end systems has also been identified as a major stumbling block in the digitalisation of the Health and Social Services sector. In its 2017 Annual Report to Parliament, the National Audit Office (NAO), which reviews government spending, stated that \u201cintegration of ICT systems can result in savings in the long term, but at the same time, the implementation of the reform will increase the need for ICT and other investments and administrative costs during the early years\u201d:\nIn other words, there must be a commitment to investment in back end processes before cost savings can be realised longer term.\nDeveloping an end-to-end digitalisation solution IS possible provided backend system integration is included in the transformation of the service. In the case of the Legal Aid Agency, for example, the design of a digital customer interface was complemented by a staff facing approvals process.\nThe time taken to process applications on behalf of Legal Aid Services Providers was slashed in half, from 20 days to 10 or less, revealing the contribution made by changes to backend processing.\nFront end digitalisation is simply not sustainable, so organisations need to look at how they can improve back office processing and make workflow more streamlined for staff without resorting to a complete redesign or Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). The answer lies in assessment and automation.\nThe organisation needs to assess where pinch points are occurring that delay processing, such as manual data entry or where data is being duplicated to provide information to more than one system. Having identified these, it then becomes possible to automate these processes and integrate them with the front end i.e. website services.\nAutomation reduces the number of steps in the process, the requirement for human intervention (and therefore the likelihood of errors), and provides an end-to-end delivery mechanism, while integration with other third party systems via APIs and connectors ensures the system will be able to deliver end-to-end processing now and into the future.\nIn those organisations that have rolled out customer-facing initiatives, uptake may indicate the project has been a success but the lack of investment in back office processes will become evident. New legislation, entrants, and requirements for data sharing will then see these organisations either fall to competitors or be brought to task by their customers or the regulators. It\u2019s only by digitalising the back office to create an end-to-end service that empowers both internal and external users that the organisation can truly transform.\nTo find out more about how to improve back office processing, go to www.equiniti-toplevel.com\nThe Data Dichotomy: Are Transformation And Data Security Incompatible? 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It is from here that this style spread to Chamba, Kangra etc. Met with members of Vishwasthali, a social and cultural organization, that is striving to keep the tradition children by teaching young children. They cribbed about virtually no state government support and excess importance to Valley. To see pictures Click here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 6569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://escapemanila.com/tag/balangay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GYUXO3EJINEQY7AIXAJEGRKI7AFA3VVM", "length": 253, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "escapemanila.com", "title": "balangay Archives - Escape Manila", "raw_content": "Tourist Spots in Agusan Del Norte You Should Visit\nAgusan del Norte / Travel Guide\nOur list of must-visit tourist spots in Agusan del Norte - a province in the Philippines. Partly surrounded by sea water and partly bordered by land, Agusan del Norte is\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 134.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://escinsight.com/2014/04/28/tick-tock-eurovision-clock-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-ukraine/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4OC7Z7OHAZ4MEMA4QPGXBJA5DA627MTE", "length": 13745, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "escinsight.com", "title": "ESC Insight | Tick, Tock, Eurovision Clock: The Ticking Time Bomb Of Ukraine", "raw_content": "Tick, Tock, Eurovision Clock: The Ticking Time Bomb Of Ukraine\tWritten by Paul Jordan\ton April 28, 2014\t| 11 Comments\nAs rehearsals for this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest get under way, many people are looking at the activities between Russia and Ukraine and wondering what would happen on the Copenhagen stage. ESC Insight\u2019s Dr Eurovision himself, Paul Jordan, takes a look at the situation through the filter of the Song Contest.\nAt the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, Ukrainian singer Alyosha sang \u201cSweet people, what have we done?\u201d Never before has a line been more applicable to the situation facing the same country today.\nIn November 2013 (during Ukraine\u2019s hosting of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest), the then president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, abandoned an agreement which would have seen closer ties between Ukraine and the EU as well as the release of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison. Small protests began and comparisons with the Orange Revolution of 2004 were made.\nAlyosha on stage at ESC 2010 (picture: eurovision.tv)\nFast forward nearly 6 months and what started as a relatively contained protest against a political decision has nearly turned into full-scale war. I\u2019ve worked extensively in Ukraine and was there in October last year where there was huge optimism for the future. The Ukraine I see on the news daily is barely recognisable.\nWill The Real Ukraine Please Stand Up?\nUkraine is a complex and contradictory country. Succinctly capturing the essence of Ukrainian national identity is no easy task. Ukrainian nation and state building was slow and piecemeal in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian politicians took a middle of the road approach. Successive presidents Kravchuk and Kuchma remained on good terms with Moscow despite attempts to integrate with Europe.\nIn practice, both leaders did little to move Ukraine towards this goal. This has been labelled as \u201cdeclarative Europeanisation\u201d by political scientist Kataryna Wolczuk, in that only lip service was paid to the idea of Ukrainian integration into European structures such as the European Union with little else tangible forthcoming in reality. Presidents Kravchuk and Kuchma promoted a sense of nationhood which was not based on ethnic criteria and accepted the use of Russian in state business, despite the implementation of one official state language, Ukrainian. The lack of a uniform consensus on a constitution, which was finally ratified in June 1996, making Ukraine the last former Soviet republic to do so, exemplifies the protracted and complex nature of Ukrainian nation building.\nWhere It All Started in 2013 (picture: Ewan Spence)\nUkraine has been described as an \u201camalgam of regions\u201d with different ethno-linguistic, economic, cultural and political profiles. Whilst the media depict the country as roughly split between a pro-Russian east and a Ukrainian, pro-nationalist west, the situation is more complicated than this.\nUnlike in many former Soviet Republics, language is not necessarily the marker of identity in Ukraine. Those who speak Russian as a first language do not necessarily identify as Russian. Even Miss Ukraine in 2005 spoke Russian as a first language yet identified very much as Ukrainian. In the capital, Kyiv, people commute between languages. Alarmingly, reports emerged recently of people being attacked in the east for speaking Ukrainian rather than Russian and similar reports have emerged of the opposite in the west.\nUnlike the Orange Revolution, which was largely peaceful, the current crisis has seen neighbours turn on each other, communities divided with an atmosphere of fear and mistrust spreading throughout the country. Hundreds have been killed and dozens more missing. The situation in Ukraine is serious and appears to be escalating. In Ukraine people have been in a state of limbo ever since independence; caught between Russia and the West and shackled by a series of corrupt governments and the future at present looks bleak.\nUkraine And The Eurovision Song Contest\nOne of the questions many people have asked me has been whether Ukraine will withdraw from the contest this year. I think this was always highly unlikely, and if anything, the current crisis makes Ukraine\u2019s participation in Eurovision all the more important and all the more certain. Eurovision serves as an opportunity to unite Europe, and whilst Terry Wogan famously said that it just shows how far apart we all are, it really does capture the imagination of the continent and for one night of the year, we really do \u201cshare the moment\u201d to quote NRK\u2019s slogan from 2010. As we saw with the war in Bosnia in the 1990s, Eurovision is a chance to continue to be a part of the international community, for marginalised people, this is an opportunity not to be missed.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time that Ukraine\u2019s participation in Eurovision has become politicised though. In 2005 their entry \u2018Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty\u2018 (Together we are many, we cannot be defeated) by Greenjolly, the unofficial anthem of the Orange Revolution, was controversially chosen to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest. At the request of Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko, four wildcards were entered into the national selection programme. One of these wildcards was a pro-Yushchenko political anthem by the band Greenjolly. The group therefore bypassed the heats. The group\u2019s entry went on to win the competition and were to represent Ukraine in the Kyiv final. Largely seen as a political coup, the actions were highly controversial with both public and competing artists alike:\nIt was a political decision. It was a really hard period in Ukraine because of the revolution. This team, they sang a song about the party, the President, it\u2019s a little bit political even, the situation. It was so political and yet the contest should not be about politics (Ani Lorak, Interview, Belgrade, 16.05.2008).\nFurther controversy ensued when the EBU rejected the song as it contravened the ban on political references. The mention of Yushchenko as president in the chorus of the song was dropped and more generic phrases were introduced in English, the entry then was allowed to proceed to the Eurovision finals. The actual Eurovision performance of \u2018Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty\u2018 included direct and explicit references to the Orange Revolution.\nIs there a hidden message here?\nAt the start of the performance the two backing dancers wore handcuffs, symbolising the stifling of democracy which was such a driving force for protestors in Ukraine. As the performance culminated, the handcuffs were broken. Again, the latter can be seen as a metaphor for Ukraine. As a result of the protests described in the song; the country is now free. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the performance received the largest reaction in the hall on the night.\nIn 2007 controversy flared up once again when a well-known drag artist, Verka Serduchka was chosen to represent the country at the contest. This angered many people including politicians who feared that such a \u201cvulgar and grotesque\u201d act would be damaging to Ukraine\u2019s international image. Ukrainian Member of Parliament Taras Chornovil called on Ukrainians to boycott the event stating that the selection of Serduchka would not be perceived by other European countries as \u201cnormal\u201d and that it would bring shame upon the Ukrainian international image of the country.\nI guess some of our esteemed experts saw those \u201chot Finnish guys\u201d dressed as monsters but didn\u2019t quite understand that there is subculture and there is pseudo culture. Those monsters are part of their subculture, which has the right to exist. But all these hermaphrodites have never been accepted anywhere. Therefore I think that this will be a serious embarrassment factor and the world will see us as complete idiots. (Taras Chornovil, Fraza, 13 March 2007)\nThe entry was called \u2018Dancing Lasha Tumbai\u2019 and was performed in English, German, Russian and Ukrainian. Further controversy erupted when the lyrical content of the song was analysed; \u2018Dancing Lasha Tumbai\u2018 bore a phonetic resemblance to \u2018Russia goodbye\u2018, a further ode to the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005. Furthermore the lyrics made reference to Maidan Square where the political demonstrations took place. Serduchka\u2019s claim that \u2018lasha tumbai\u2018 was Mongolian for \u2018whipped cream\u2018 was dismissed by the Mongolian embassy in Moscow suggesting that the ambiguity had deliberate political connotations.\nIt\u2019ll be interesting to watch both Russia and Ukraine in the contest this year. Whilst the contest is, according to the EBU \u201cnon-political\u201d, there may well be political references made on stage or even during the voting itself.\nWill be there a remark similar to Anke Engelke\u2019s comment to Azerbaijan in 2012? Will the votes from Crimea be classed as Russian or Ukrainian? According to the EBU it depends on which mobile provider picks up the votes. Will there be an anti-Russian backlash as a result of the situation in Ukraine?\nCertainly other former Soviet Republics are watching the situation with concern, since they too have sizeable Russian speaking populations that Moscow could claim to be protecting. I think there will almost certainly be a hostile reaction to the Russian entry from the audience, not because of Ukraine but because of the anti-gay laws introduced last year. As I discussed in a previous article, the situation facing LGBT people in Russia is alarming however, does that mean that grown adults at a concert should be booing teenagers representing their country? Or is this a justified expression of protest, a freedom of expression that so many countries in Eurovision deny to their citizens?\nIt\u2019s ironic that Ukraine\u2019s entry is called \u2018Tick Tock\u2018 when the country is essentially a ticking time bomb, whilst the Russian twins, the Tolmachevy Sisters tell the world to show some love in their song \u2018Shine\u2018. There is an argument that politics and entertainment should not be mixed. However the two are not mutually exclusive and politics comes into Eurovision whether the organisers of the contest like that or not. Eurovision has the capacity to illuminate wider debates and shine a spotlight on participating countries as well as the hosts.\nAfter Ukraine\u2019s hosting, the Eurovision Song Contest actually led to real change since visa regulations for EU citizens were lifted specifically for Eurovision in 2005 and at the time of writing, these visa regulations are still in place today; a lasting legacy of the Eurovision Song Contest.\nMessages of hope for Ukraine\nAt Eurovision 2005 delegates were asked to leave their good wishes for the Ukrainian people on a special billboard. Sadly, I don\u2019t think those good wishes for the Ukrainian people came true, do you?\n11 responses to \u201cTick, Tock, Eurovision Clock: The Ticking Time Bomb Of Ukraine\u201d\nRobert Germone says:\nMariya is great candidate for Ukraine. I dont know young ukrainian singers who is better than she. and her song is perfect for Eurovision\nWhy would people ask \u201cAre Ukraine going to withdraw\u201d and not \u201cWhy haven\u2019t Russia been kicked out yet\u201d?\nThe fact that Russia sent teenagers is irrelevant. The Tolmachevy Sisters are going to be on stage representing a country that believes human rights violations and illegally invading their neighbours are acceptable, so they have to be prepared for people protesting those actions. And if the Russian delegation deliberately sent two young girls as some cynical way of trying to deflect from those protests, then they need to be publicly criticised as well.\nOlya Korovaeva says:\nevery year Ukraine have great candidates. And 2014 is not an exception. Mariya is young, but very talented and powerful singer. She will be on top\nJacqueline Bouclier says:\nI think Mariya is the best participant from Eastern Europe this year and will get very high place on contest\noleg (@olegartemovych) says:\nMariya is really brave. Not many singers ready for this hard work \u2013 to be the face and voice of a country in this hard times for Ukraine\nEurovision Jury Members: What An Interesting Bunch of People! | ESC Insight - Home of the Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast says:\n[\u2026] Paul Jordan as written on ESC Insight, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is having this Eurovision as one of the first shared world stages [\u2026]\nWhether Russia illegally invaded Ukraine is debatable and is being debated. Prominent western experts and politicians, amongst those none less than former german prime ministers, strongly feel that Russia isn\u2019t breaking any international law. If people of that prestige don\u2019t even agree that unlawful behaviour has occurred, surely mere fans should refrain from expressing opinions like Peter above.\nThis Man Knows So Much About Eurovision, They Gave Him A Ph.D. | News 12 says:\n[\u2026] Eurovision. He has written on everything from Russia\u2019s gay-rights crackdown to the \u201cticking time bomb of Ukraine\u201d \u2014 a reference to this year\u2019s entry, \u201cTick Tock\u201d by Maria Yaremchuk, [\u2026]\nDieser Mann kennt soviel in Eurovision, sie gab ihm einen Ph.D. aus. | Nachrichten Heute Deutschland says:\n[\u2026] hinter Eurovision ein. Er hat auf alles Russlands vom Recht der Homosexuellens-Durchgreifen zur \u201etickenden Zeitbombe von Ukraine\u201c \u2013 einen Hinweis auf diesj\u00e4hrigem Eintritt, \u201eTicken Tock\u201c durch Maria Yaremchuk [\u2026]\nThis Man Knows So Much About Eurovision, They Gave Him A Ph.D. \u00ab Secured Archives Secured Archives says:\nOh, Sweet People: Ukraine\u2019s Political Tensions With The Eurovision Song Contest | ESC Insight - Home of the Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast says:\n[\u2026] for ESC Insight Paul Jordan has extended the scope of political pressure further to the 2007 entry \u2018Dancing Lasha Tumbai\u2019 [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 16779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://etfdailynews.com/tag/reserve-currency/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRLPZDIFKEEP7S4H56WDLFTU44IKCTMB", "length": 4084, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "etfdailynews.com", "title": "reserve currency Archives - ETF Daily News", "raw_content": "Tag Archives for: Reserve Currency\nRussia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation that would deal a tremendous blow to the U.S. dollar.\nGold Experts Are Bearish On The Yellow Metal [SPDR Gold Trust (ETF), iShares Gold Trust(ETF), ProShares UltraShort Gold (ETF), ProShares Ultra Gold (ETF)]\nJan Skoyles: Despite a sharp jump in equities and low demand in China, the gold price jumped up by 1% this morning thanks to technical buying post rising above $1,300.\nNYSE:DZZ April 8, 2014 1:44pm\nChina Starts To Make A Power Move Against The U.S. Dollar [SPDR Gold Trust (ETF), iShares Silver Trust (ETF)]\nIn order for our current level of debt-fueled prosperity to continue, the rest of the world must continue to use our dollars to trade with one another and must continue to buy our debt at ridiculously\nNYSE:GLD February 20, 2014 11:28pm\nCalls For A Global Currency To Replace The U.S. Dollar [SPDR Gold Trust (ETF), iShares Silver Trust (ETF)]\nThe former chief economist at the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, is advising the Chinese government that the time has come for a single global currency. Lin, who is also a professor at Peking University, says that the U.S. dollar \u201cis the root cause of global financial\nNYSE:GLD February 7, 2014 2:52pm\nWhy The U.S. Dollar Is In Trouble\nThe death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger. What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans. Right now, the U.S. dollar is the de facto reserve currency of the planet.\nNYSE:FAS November 8, 2013 1:08pm\nETFs To Play When Washington Inevitably Starts Bickering Again\nJohn Whitefoot: If you listen to mainstream media, the power struggle in Washington is over. The left and right came together valiantly, raising the debt ceiling and ending the U.S. government shutdown. At least, they temporarily did; they basically\nNYSE:EPOL October 22, 2013 3:48pm\nChina Leads Campaign To Replace The U.S. Dollar As Reserve Currency\nSasha Cekerevac: A very interesting item appeared through the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, in which the Chinese government is effectively calling for the end of the U.S. dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency, stating that the world\nNYSE:GLD October 17, 2013 12:23pm\nWhy Is China Hoarding So Much Gold?\nWhat in the world is China up to? Why are the Chinese hoarding so much gold? Does China plan to back the yuan with gold and turn it into a global reserve currency? Could it be possible that\nNYSE:GLD June 4, 2013 11:24pm\nWelcome To The Currency War, Part 5: The U.S. Dollar Gets Serious Competition\nJohn Rubino: Not so long ago the dollar was the world\u2019s only reserve currency. Everything else was one (or several) steps down in terms of safety and liquidity, and major financial institutions acted accordingly, accumulating dollars for the risk-free parts of their portfolios.\nNYSE:UDN November 26, 2012 12:37pm\nWorld Reserve Currency: Why The U.S. Dollar Is Under Attack\nMichael Snyder: Most Americans have no idea what a tremendous advantage the United States possesses by having the primary reserve currency of the world,\nNYSE:AGQ October 7, 2012 10:16am\n10 Shocking Quotes About What QE3 Will Do To America\nReady or not, QE3 is here, and the long-term effects of this reckless money printing by the Federal Reserve are going to be absolutely nightmarish. The Federal Reserve is hoping\nWashington\u2019s False-Flag WMD Claim Against Syria, U.S. Dollar at Stake (UUP, UDN, UCO, USO)\nDominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: With longstanding U.S. strategic plans to control oil production in Syria and Iran taking shape with the attempted overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad government in progress, a pretext for U.S. involvement to takeover from American\nNYSE:UCO July 16, 2012 10:45am\nAnother Shocking Revelation About The Death Of The U.S. Dollar (GLD, SLV, IAU, UUP, UDN)\nKevin McElroy: The end of the dollar\u2019s supremacy as \u201cworld reserve currency\u201d is on an irreversible path towards destruction.\nNYSE:GLD July 11, 2012 11:25am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://etgeekera.com/2014/08/14/sega-agrees-to-1-25-million-settlement-in-aliens-colonial-marines-lawsuit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DBAIAKEJESFLNZCHKZ56PCGFG5YDPEUT", "length": 2031, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "etgeekera.com", "title": "Sega Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit | et geekera", "raw_content": "\u2190 Sony Announces PS4 Firmware 2.0 Which Includes Long-Awaited Share Play\nMass Effect: The Honest Trailer \u2192\nSega Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit\nIt\u2019s not been a couple of weeks since Gearbox filed to get out of the Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit and tried to leave all the blame at the feet of Sega that the game\u2019s publisher is trying to settle their way out of the suit. Sega was filed a motion for approval of a settlement agreement that will see them pay out $1.25 million.\nOf that $1.25 million, plaintiff attorney fees will be $312,500, administrative costs will be $200,000 and the plaintiff will get $2,500. The remaining $735,000 will go to those who put in a claim against the settlement. The payment received by claimants will be based on how many people file a claim but the settlement indicates that the amount each person gets won\u2019t be greater than the amount they paid for the game providing they bought the game before February 13, 2013.\nHowever, this settlement offer is not an admission of guilt. The settlement filed with the court quite explicitly states that Sega will get a release from the claims against it regarding false advertising and the life but will continue to deny any guilt in this matter. The settlement offer is being made to save money on litigation which would be very expensive for both parties.\nIf the settlement is approved by the court, that leaves Gearbox on its own in the lawsuit. While we mentioned a couple of weeks ago that they filed to get out of the lawsuit, that doesn\u2019t mean that Gearbox will be let out of the lawsuit. It would have been nice to see everyone get their feet held to the fire to teach the whole industry a lesson about false advertising. Maybe we\u2019ll still get our chance with Gearbox\u2026 unless the whole thing backfires and the courts let everyone out of this lawsuit without assigning any blame.\nPosted on August 14, 2014, in Games and tagged Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox, Sega. Bookmark the permalink.\tLeave a comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/articles/cannes-diary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:LTPGMHNADSMXXWGXZ34DWXHRN7CDXMU5", "length": 1180, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "eu.louisvuitton.com", "title": "CANNES DIARY - News | LOUISVUITTON", "raw_content": "A diary of the Cannes Film Festival from director Jordan Schiele, awarded the Jury\u2019s Special Mention for the Louis Vuitton Journeys Awards competition in 2012.\nLouis Vuitton continues its strong link with the world of cinema through this Cannes Diary and artistic collaboration with director Jordan Schiele. Jordan was awarded the Jury\u2019s Special Mention for the Louis Vuitton Journeys Awards short film competition in 2012. He was also subsequently selected for the prestigious Cannes Residence program in 2012 and invited to attend the festival this year as a guest.\nThe Cannes International Film festival was founded in 1946 and is today one of the most prestigious film events in the world. This short film diary of Cannes reveals the festival through the perspective of Louis Vuitton including life in hotels, the premier party for Sofia Coppola\u2019s film \u2018The Bling Ring\u2019, the red carpet and numerous encounters with celebrities. All this is done through a cinematic lens with resonating nostalgia, complemented by the music from Maurice Chevalier\u2019s \u2018You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me\u2019 and the voice of George Goldenstern.\nTags: Cannes, Diary, Cinema, Sofia Coppola, Featured", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 200.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://euro-travels.com/5-incredible-europe-all-inclusive-resorts-for-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GNH42Y6GHNL5EDGWSCWQML5GH2C6WRRK", "length": 2560, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "euro-travels.com", "title": "5 Incredible Europe All-Inclusive Resorts", "raw_content": "Europe is among the continents that have most developed countries in the world, which has made it gain popularity over the years. And it is also said to have best resorts in the world. A number among them have received awards of the best ones that exist in the globe. Here are the top five of the list.\nRead More: Insolite Hotels in Europe\n1. Castello Di Casole\nLocated in Casole of Elsa, Italy. It was ranked the first in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Currently owned by Timber Resorts, but initially, it was the home of the film director Luchino Visconti. It acts as an entertainment center for countless Hollywood luminaries. With a castle that dates back to the 10th century, a cypress-lined road leads to the 4,200-acre Tuscan estate.\n2. Villa d\u2019Este\nThe second best-ranked resort is also located in Italy. It is situated at Cernobbio, managed to score the second position in 2015 after being ranked the eighth in 2013. With a jet set atmosphere, Villa d\u2019Este regal 16th-century lakefront is the most prestigious of the lake\u2019s hotels. The resort occupies 25 acres of the parkland. This is enough space to accommodate three restaurants, three pools, a spa, eight tennis courts and has 152 opulent rooms.\nYou may want to stay over or walk around the vicinity \u201ctwo birds with one stone !\u201d if that\u2019s the case you can head over to the capital Rome which is known worldwide for its stunning culture and historical monuments. Once there, you could find a bunch of gorgeous others resorts and hotels.\n3. Adare Manor\nLocated in Limerick, Ireland and takes the third position. Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort were built in 1852 Gothic Revival Chateau on a sprawling parcel of parkland. It also includes a Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed golf course.\n4. Powerscourt Hotel\nIt is the fourth-ranked Resort in Europe, situated in Wicklow, Ireland. You will take a five-minute walk from Powerscourt\u2019s 47 acres of formal gardens to get to the hotel\u2019s main building. The main building is also 40-minute cab ride from central Dublin. It has 200 guest rooms that feature eiderdown-swathed beds and massive marble-clad bathrooms with heated floors and Bulgari bath products.\n5. Belmond Hotel Splendido\nTo close the list of the Europe\u2019s trending resorts, we look at Belmond Hotel Splendido, located in Portofino, Italy. It is originally a 16th- century monastery, which was transformed into 69 guest rooms. It has two bars and three restaurants. Therefore, if you are planning to visit Europe for a vacation, I highly recommend you booking your room at one of these selections.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://events.wien.info/en/1vw/guided-tour-university-vienna/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7E4DO6BCQJNP4JAH5TMAPS4X6N7O2ITF", "length": 1158, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "events.wien.info", "title": "Guided tour - University Vienna - WIEN \u2013 Jetzt. F\u00fcr immer", "raw_content": "Guided tour - University Vienna\nThe University of Vienna offers guided tours through the main building. In 1884, Emperor Franz Joseph I inaugurated the new main building of the University of Vienna on the Ringstrasse, which had been erected by the architect Heinrich von Ferstel. The guided tours, which are available both in German and English, provide an insight into the interiors of the\noldest university in the German\u2010speaking cultural area. Highlights of the tour are the Arcade Court in the shape of a \"campo santo\", the Main Ceremonial Chamber (whenever available) with its renowned ceiling, decorated with copies of the mural paintings by Gustav Klimt and the Great Reading Room of the University Library.\nEvery Saturday, 11:30 am (in English)\nSat 10.30 a.m. & Thur 6 p.m. (in German)\nexcept for majoy holidays\nNo reservation or registration necessary.\nAdults: 5 \u20ac; Children (< 6 years): free\nDiscounts for students, pupils, conscripts, seniors: 3.50 \u20ac\nTickets are available at the concierge desk (main entrance).\nMain entrance of the University of Vienna,\nConcierge desk, 1010 Vienna, Universit\u00e4tsring 1\nwww.univie.ac.at/fuehrungen\nSat. 02 Mar 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 10683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://everaldcompton.com/2012/09/03/is-it-a-sin-to-sell-the-farm/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SBFHE7RX7DRCR572KPRCVYELQE7DRU56", "length": 7603, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "everaldcompton.com", "title": "Is it a sin to sell the farm? | Everald Compton", "raw_content": "\u2190 Perils of a Colonial Heritage\nThe pain of being like Spain \u2192\nIs it a sin to sell the farm?\nThe gossip around town is that a majority of Australians believe that, when foreigners invest in farming in Australia, they actually dig-up the land and take it back home, lamentably leaving us with a continent which is just a massive hole in the ground.\nFrom what I hear, the same majority enthusiastically applaud Australians who invest overseas; this is seen as courageous entrepreneurial activity by fine Australians who want to help lesser beings to prosper from our benevolence. Naturally, we expect that they would not have the audacity to protest about our presence in their nation.\nAll of this means that the loud cries to stop foreign investment in any Australian business are sanctimonious hogwash. The reality is\u2026. that Australians will accept with alacrity a generous offer from anyone who wants to buy their farms, as a majority of them want out of their cycle of decreasing revenue, rising costs, growing debt, monopoly marketers and overpowering miners \u2014 as well as the reluctance of their children to inherit the family farm.\nIf they can get good money for a sale and put the proceeds to more sustainable use, then I for one will applaud them. They are acting totally within their rights. Even that grand old defender of the Aussie farmer, Steele Rudd, would have been sorely tempted.\nWhat we fail to acknowledge is that when we do allow a foreigner to invest in Australia, the transaction has, if managed properly, the potential to stimulate the economy, provide new tax revenue, create jobs and encourage competition that will reduce prices for consumers.\nAll the signs indicate that our main bugbear is China. We now have the same attitude of hostility that we had towards them in the gold rush days of the nineteenth century when we got around to killing some of them, the most notable being the appalling massacre at Young in New South Wales.\nIt\u2019s time that we calmed down and faced the fact that we cannot believe that it is fair play for us to sell our minerals to China, then take their money and run, while telling them to stay out of Australia \u2014 hypocrisy at its very worst.\nThe anti-foreign section of our population should take time out to read David Uren\u2019s splendid book on Australia\u2019s relationship with China, as it is an excellent analysis of the potential and pitfalls of China\u2019s ability to make or break our nation. Uren is a senior journalist with The Australian, who has been a China observer for many years.\nMalcolm Turnbull recommended that I read Uren\u2019s book, which is called The Kingdom and the Quarry. It traces our \u2018romance\u2019 with China since Gough Whitlam became the first leader of a non- communist nation to open a diplomatic relationship with them in the 1970\u2019s.\nWhile I have read a number of interesting books about China, this one is the most informative, and I enjoyed the chapters that outlined the crises that have occurred in the relationship down the years.\nThe section on the Chinalco affair makes compelling reading.\nIn my view, the key recommendation that Uren makes is that we should cease trying to establish a Free Trade Agreement with China and work on completing an Investment Agreement with them as a matter of urgency. Such an Agreement would set-out the terms upon which citizens and entities from each nation can invest in the other so that acquisitions are not one way traffic. Each side would have equal opportunities, and there can be limitations to the ability of our Foreign Investment Review Board, and its Chinese equivalent, to intervene with transactions that adhere to the Investment Agreement.\nOf special significance in drafting the Agreement would be to determine the conditions upon which State-owned corporations can invest, as this creates a potential for governments to dictate how investments will be managed and operated. China has many more such corporations than we do, but this could re-stimulate our interest in public corporations that could be owned by our governments but managed outside of the Public Service. Many nations are now following the Chinese example of State Capitalism.\nHowever, three significant matters should be included in an Investment Agreement.\nThe first would relate to conditions under which either side can \u2018buy back the farm\u2019. Then, there would be terms that relate to the employment of Australians and Chinese, both here and in China. Thirdly, and crucially, there would be a replacement of taxation by royalties based solely on revenue, not profits, as this will stop any back door repatriation of profits from either nation for tax avoidance purposes.\nThe fact is that the development of new Australian industries, particularly in primary produce, is retarded by the failure of our banks to make loans, and a lack of sufficient risk capital from investors here in Australia \u2014 our superannuation funds being interested in investment only when a business is established and running profitably.\nWe need overseas investment now, together with the possibility of having the capacity to buy back the farm when opportunities arise as the years go by.\nA prime instance of the urgency of this is the proposed food bowl in northern Australia, which is now evoking public interest. I have referred to it in earlier editions of this newsletter, and it requires significant capital to be invested in several very large farms to get it started.\nThis can best be achieved by allowing in overseas investors who can provide guaranteed markets back in their homeland to ensure financial viability, particularly as they will be required to invest in the water infrastructure needed to irrigate the great black soil plains located between the Gulf of Carpentaria and Longreach.\nYou can read more about this by replying to this newsletter and requesting a document produced by John Thompson called The Gulf to the Darling. It is a project just made for China or India, as they have a long-term shortage of fodder for their livestock, which our northern food bowl could produce and provide to them a security of supply.\nReturning once more to David Uren\u2019s book, it has a fascinating chapter on China\u2019s attitude to our Prime Ministers. Rudd does not rank highly in their popularity stakes, as they felt patronised by his constant attempts to appear to be Chinese when he speaks Mandarin in public, and they constantly worried about his worship of the 24 hour news cycle.\nGillard ranks at the top of their list, as she is a skilled behind-the-scenes negotiator, as shown by the way that she has held her minority government together for two turbulent years. She is not a good public performer, but this is what the Chinese like, as they are not good public performers either.\nSo, we come to a point of policy decision. Do we continue to strive for free trade agreements with as many nations as possible, or do we switch to a policy of establishing investment agreements that will make our economy more stable and prosperous in the long term?\nIt has to be the latter, as nations that invest heavily, one with the other, do not have to worry greatly about their military defences.\nThis entry was posted in Community and Values, Everald@Large Newsletter 2012, Funding and Finance, Government, Great Food Bowl, International, Mining and Resources and tagged buy back the farm, china, China Observer, David Uren, foreign investment review board, Free Trade Agreement, growing debt, Investment Agreement, Malcolm Turnbull, miners, monopoly, State Capitalism, tax revenue, The Kingdom and The Quarry. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 11072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://exhibitexchange.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Z24POHFSS5IKPW5ILNBBUPHINGYLX6EN", "length": 3682, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "exhibitexchange.com", "title": "About Us | Exhibit Exchange", "raw_content": "Exhibit Exchange:\nQuality Exhibit Displays Since 1994\nExhibit Exchange is a unique boutique exhibit display company that started in 1994 in a small apartment in Detroit. After witnessing the wastefulness of corporate displays in the industry, it became our founder's mission to create a new way of doing business that would utilize the concept of reuse, recycle and regenerate. Thus, Exhibit Exchange became one of the first companies to embrace the notion of renal exhibits. Two decades of success later, over 90% of our annual revenues come from corporations who utilize Exhibit Exchange's rental exhibit business platform.\nMark\u2019s design career transitions to exhibit design. His work included projects for the automotive manufacturers such as Buick and Pontiac. He was also a contributor to the GM pavilion at the Epcot Center in Florida.\nScott Kiely, his son and future Exhibit Exchange Production Manager, is born.\nMark Kiely, the Owner of Exhibit Exchange, attended the renowned Center for Creative Studies. He started his design career working with many automotive manufacturers to create innovative point of purchase displays and ride and drives.\nA few of his clients included:\nVolkswagen, Porsche, Chrysler, PPG and Fiat.\nExhibit Exchange is founded on a shoestring budget in his Detroit apartment. The primary focus was to recycle discarded exhibits.\nMark\u2019s forward thinking led to Crain\u2019s Business publishing a full page article on a refurbished, recycled double deck display he designed for Daimler Chrysler.\nThe directon of the business shifts to the development of rental exhibit programs using modular based systems. This environmentally conscious business model now accounts for over 90% of the company\u2019s revenues.\nThrough smart business planning, Exhibit Exchange was able to weather the Global Recession and is now a thriving exhibit\nhouse that offers a wide range of high quality products and personalized customer care. Through hard work and dedication, Exhibit Exchange has gained a global client base that sends our team to all parts of the world.\nOver the last 25 years, we have acquired a large inventory of modular exhibit systems that create unique, impressive face to face marketing environments. These last decades have also allowed our company to grow personally. We have acquired a key team of individuals who are committed to customer care.\nThrough this dedication to our client, we have developed a strong client base across many industries \u2013 including international exhibitors.\nIt is our mission to deliver high quality solutions to our global client base in innovative and cost effective ways. We accomplish this by setting high standards in personalize customer service, reliability, creativity, and integrity in every problem. Every opportunity, regardless of size, is afforded this level of service.\nParpas America\nMark Kiely and his staff have provided Parpas America with continual high quality service and exceptional design concepts; all with the utmost dedication to our satisfaction.\nExhibit Exchange has built our tradeshow booths for many years now. We have found the whole team at Exhibit Exchange to be both professional and efficient in all aspects of their work \u2014 they are always responsive, supportive and helpful before, during and after the show. Even in hectic times, they never lose sight of our requirements, and we have their support and guidance every step of the way.\nExhibit Exchange always does an amazing job for us. They have a fantastic team, easy to work with \u2013 \u2013 all very talented and dedicated to getting the job done and done right. They will definitely illuminate your booth! I LOVE EE \u2013 \u2013 they make my job easier!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://express-press-release.net/news/2018/07/09/283398", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:F6IRBNLAN7GH55RLGWPJ5MML3D4E2CA2", "length": 6160, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "express-press-release.net", "title": "High-Voltage Switchgear Market 2026| Industry Top Players: ABB Ltd., Eaton Corporation, Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., General Electric, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Siemens AG \u2013 Express Press Release Distribution", "raw_content": "High-Voltage Switchgear Market 2026| Industry Top Players: ABB Ltd., Eaton Corporation, Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., General Electric, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Siemens AG\nPosted on 2018-07-09 by Mark Hub in Electronics, Industrial, Retail // 0 Comments\nAlbany, NY, 2018-Jul-09 \u2014 /EPR Network/ \u2014 This comprehensive report analyzes the high voltage switchgear market at the global and regional level. The report provides an analysis for the period 2016\u20132026, where 2017 is considered to be the base year and 2018 to 2026 is the forecast period. An in-depth and unbiased market assessment has been made to offer readers in-depth and accurate analysis. The report analyzes all the major trends likely to influence the growth of the global high voltage switchgear market from 2018 to 2026. It also analyzes drivers, restraints, and opportunities in the market. The study provides a perspective of the high voltage switchgear market in terms of value and volume (US$ Mn and Units) across five regions: Asia Pacific, South America, North America, Middle East & Africa, and Europe.\nRequest Sample Report @ https://www.mrrse.com/sample/16546\nThe report includes a detailed value chain analysis, which provides an extensive view of the global high voltage switchgear market. Porter\u2019s Five Forces analysis is also provided in the report to understand the competitive scenario in the global high voltage switchgear market. The study incorporates market attractiveness analysis, wherein the product standard, component, insulation type, and application segments are benchmarked based on size, growth rate, and attractiveness. The report also includes attractiveness analysis for each region in order to provide the overall competitive scenario in the high voltage switchgear market.\nThe overview section in the report analyzes the market trends and dynamics that include drivers, restraints, and opportunities for the current and future high voltage switchgear market. A market outlook analysis has also been provided in the report. Additionally, the report offers analysis of business strategies adopted by the key players in the high voltage switchgear market. The introduction chapter provides a snapshot of different trends and services related to high voltage switchgears.\nIn terms of product standard, the global high voltage switchgear market has been segmented into IEC, ANSI, and others. Based on component, the global market has been classified into circuit breakers, relays, and others. In terms of insulation, the global high voltage switchgear market has been categorized into air-insulated switchgears (AIS), gas-insulated switchgears (GIS), and others (oil and vacuum). Based on application, the global market has been divided into power generation, oil & gas, utility sector, and industrial. The report provides region-wise breakdown of the high voltage switchgear market and categorizes it at various levels, thereby providing valuable insights at micro and macro levels.\nView Full Report with TOC @ https://www.mrrse.com/high-voltage-switchgear-market\nThe report also highlights the competitive scenario in the global high voltage switchgear market, ranking the major players according to key developments and geographic presence. The insights for the global market are the result of extensive primary interviews, secondary research, and in-house expert panel reviews. These market estimates have been analyzed by considering the impact of different economic, political, social, legal, and technological factors.\nIn terms of country, the market in North America has been classified into the U.S., Canada, and Rest of North America. Europe has been analyzed for Germany, France, the U.K. and Rest of Europe. Asia Pacific has also been segmented into China, Japan, India, Australia, and Rest of Asia Pacific. Middle East & Africa covers GCC, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East &Africa. South America comprises Brazil and Rest of South America. This report provides all the strategic information required to understand the high voltage switchgear market along with its products, components, and applications. Additionally, the report provides insights related to the components and different applications for the regions mentioned above.\nThe research methodology is a combination of primary research, secondary research, and expert panel reviews. Secondary sources include annual reports, company websites, SEC filings and investor presentations, national government documents, internal and external proprietary databases, statistical databases, relevant patent and regulatory databases, market reports, government publications, and statistical databases.\nPrimary research involves telephonic interviews, e-mail interactions, and face-to-face interviews for detailed and unbiased reviews on the high voltage switchgear market, across regions. Primary interviews are usually conducted on an ongoing basis with industry experts and participants in order to get latest market insights and validate the existing data and analysis. Primary interviews offer new and fresh information on important factors such as market trends, market size, competitive landscape, and growth trends. These factors help to validate and strengthen secondary research findings. Moreover, the data collected and analyzed from secondary and primary research is discussed and examined by our expert panel.\nThe research study includes profiles of leading companies operating in the global high voltage switchgear market. Market players have been profiled in terms of attributes such as company overview, financial overview, SWOT analysis, business strategies, and recent developments. Key players in the global high voltage switchgear market are ABB Ltd., Eaton Corporation, Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., General Electric, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Siemens AG, Crompton Greaves Ltd., Hyosung Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, among others. These companies focus on expanding business through strategic acquisitions and partnerships with several end-use industries.\nElectronics and Smart Devices\nElectronics and Smart Devices Market", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 577, "original_length": 41275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://exsulare.com/2018/08/07/the-mixed-message-of-a-retreat-for-gay-priests-in-milwaukee/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5UWYFSB2SX5EVDWOSX2ASUXCBGL723SM", "length": 6384, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "exsulare.com", "title": "The Mixed Message of a Retreat for Gay Priests in Milwaukee | In Exile", "raw_content": "\u2190 Of Clergy and Prophets: Ending Unholy Silence in the Church\nHoly Hour for the Purification of the Clergy and In Reparation \u2192\nRegistrations are now being taken for the upcoming October retreat for \u201cgay priests, brothers, and deacons,\u201d that is sponsored by New Ways Ministry, which is to be held in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and will be led by a brother Archdiocesan priest, Father Bryan Massingale.\nI wish to briefly speak as a member of the Catholic clergy, and as someone with pastoral experience in helping men and women who experience same sex attraction, about the problematic nature of this upcoming retreat. I also wish to offer what I think are needed words of honest contrition to our lay faithful, as well as an invitation to my brother clergy in our era of ever-present scandal.\nThe Incoherence of the Term \u201cGay Priest\u201d\nIt is of great importance for the Church to maintain our precise language of distinction between the experience by men and women of same-sex desires on the one hand, as opposed to the term \u201cgay\u201d on the other hand. More often than not, a man or woman who chooses to define himself or herself as \u201cgay\u201d is doing so because they believe their same-sex inclination is their defining attribute, and this belief allows them to live a lifestyle that normalizes same-sex relationships, either on a merely emotional level or also on the physical level. \u201cGay\u201d generally means a mirroring of the behaviors, lifestyles, and patterns of heterosexual persons, only doing so with a person of the same sex.\nThe best pastoral experience of the Church, as well as our consistent teachings about who we are as persons, point to the reality that it is never healthy or holy to act out on same-sex desires, even in the realm of the merely emotional. Much healthier and holier is the attitude that our sexual desires are simply one facet of who we are as persons, rather than making them our dominant marker of identity with a term such as \u201cgay.\u201d\nWhen it comes to ordained Catholic clergy, the same important distinction between \u201cgay\u201d and \u201cexperiencing same sex desires\u201d becomes even more crucial because of the unique sacramental identity that is involved.\nIt is one thing for an ordained man to deal with same sex desires, doing so in a similar way that any man (ordained or not) has to learn to integrate his sexuality in a healthy and holy manner, consistent with the Gospel call to joyful respect of human dignity. It is a very different thing for a priest to identify himself as, and see himself chiefly through the lens of \u201cgay,\u201d because doing so means that this one facet of his personhood has the potential to become the dominant way that he, as a priest, will shape his behaviors and lifestyle, over and above his sacramental identity.\nFor the ordained Catholic priest, or for a man in vows, or also for a deacon, our most fundamental identity is our union with Christ\u2019s own ministerial mission. Nothing else can get in the way of that core reality. \u201cGay priest\u201d is a confusing and incoherent label that is heavily laden with potentially dangerous internal contradictions as well as external mixed messages for our Catholic faithful.\nI do not know the nature of the content that is going to be offered during this upcoming retreat for \u201cgay priests, brothers, and deacons.\u201d However, I find it difficult to believe that any retreat that intentionally adopts such a misleading title, a title that is also in contradiction to our most effective pastoral practices, can bear positive fruit.\nThe healthiest sexually integrated persons that I know who experience same sex attraction, reject the title of \u201cgay\u201d because they believe it is a diminishment of their full personhood, and of their joyful freedom in the grace of Jesus Christ. Any cleric who experiences same sex attraction is wise to adopt the same reluctance about such an unhelpful, and limiting term. Any retreat that encourages the embrace of that term is in great danger of operating in opposition to the authentic message of the Gospel.\nVery Poor Timing\nThe consistent message of the Scriptures and of the teachings of the Church has been a rejection of any attempts to normalize active same-sex behavior. This teaching of ours was as counter-cultural in the ancient world as it has again become today, and therefore we should not be surprised if we face opposition for it.\nNerves are understandably very raw at the moment on the part of the lay faithful about any behavior on the part of the clergy that even remotely hints of a normalization of what is immoral, protective, secretive, or abusive. Once more we are living through the horror of frequent headlines about the deviant behaviors by male clergy with younger men or boys, and we are coming to grips with the sad truth that for all of the house cleaning we were supposed to have been doing in the last two decades, there were some glaring and intentional omissions. At the moment, no one wants to hear about our clergy being anything other than eager to embrace the fullness of the Church\u2019s teachings on sexuality and joyful celibacy.\nIn such a delicate climate, one wonders why any extra attention should be drawn to the reality of same sex attraction in the Catholic clergy under such an ambiguous title as this upcoming retreat for \u201cgay\u201d priests. To the laity in the pews who want iron-clad assurances that our priests will be faithful, and that their children will be protected, the idea of a retreat such as this is mortifying. The message it sends, quite frankly, is that the clergy are incapable of getting our act together.\nAn Apology and An Invitation\nAs an ordained priest I want to offer an apology for our ongoing inability, as the clergy, to fully grasp the reality of the scandal that not only our immoral behaviors, but also our incoherent teachings on these important topics has caused. I hope my brothers in the clergy will be open to considering the possibility of undertaking public and meaningful acts of penance and prayers of reparation in order to bring about the holy clerical witness that is so badly needed in our era. We would be wise if we ourselves embraced the same remedies for sinful behaviors that we prescribe to everyone else.\nThis entry was posted in At Random and tagged Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Father Bryan Massingale, gay priest retreat, New Ways Ministry, same sex attraction. 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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 12333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://facebookapostles.org/2013/06/07/remembering-esther-williams-by-leonard-maltin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GKQ4NXFFPX72YEQO6G4N6L2IVOVA2VKH", "length": 4164, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "facebookapostles.org", "title": "Remembering Esther Williams by Leonard Maltin | Facebook Apostles", "raw_content": "Remembering Esther Williams by Leonard Maltin\nLong after she retired from public life, Esther Williams had a needlepoint pillow on her sofa that bore the legend, \u201cYes, I still swim.\u201d That says a lot about the woman who smiled and swam her way through so many glossy MGM musicals: she had a sense of humor about herself. It was only after the death of her husband (and former costar) Fernando Lamas that she returned to the limelight, giving Barbara Walters a long and candid prime-time interview. After that, Esther became a familiar sight at Hollywood gatherings, and I got to know her a bit. She was fun to be with, always candid and colorful.What struck me most was that she retained the mindset of a champion athlete. She started swimming seriously when she was 8. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have any money to go to swimming pools,\u201d she told me, \u201cand the Pacific Ocean was my pool. That\u2019s where my sister taught me how to ride waves and how to swim. I had such fun with that the rest of my life. I\u2019d go swimming way far out in the ocean, and boys would follow me when I was a teenager in high school. I said, \u2018You\u2019d better not follow me, \u2018cause I can get back and you may not be able to.\u2019 Even at 12 and 13 and 14 I knew what boys were all about.\u201d\nShe wasn\u2019t intimidated by Louis B. Mayer or anyone else she encountered in her accidental climb to movie stardom. She told me that in her eyes, \u201cL.B. Mayer was only a man, a little immigrant that came across the big Atlantic Ocean, and he wanted so to be American. I could empathize with him, even though I was only 18, and it worked.\u201d Early in her tenure at the studio he shouted at her and she said, \u201cMr. Mayer, please don\u2019t ever yell at me.\u201d He said, \u201cWhy not? I yell at everybody.\u201d And she replied, \u201cBecause you can\u2019t get to the end of the pool first.\u201d Looking back at that moment decades later, she admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t know where it came from, but I stopped him from yelling and he said, \u2018I can\u2019t do what?\u2019 \u201d I said, \u201cYou can make movies, but you can\u2019t get to the end of the pool first, so you can\u2019t yell at me till you can.\u2019 And my relationship from then on was one where on the lot, he would see me walking and call to me, \u2018I can\u2019t get to the what?\u2019 and I\u2019d say, \u201cLet me know when you can make it.\u2019 \u201d\nShe credited producer Joe Pasternak with making her a star in the frothy musical Thrill of a Romance, of which she later wisecracked, \u201cJust the title could give you diabetes. But it was Van Johnson and he was the fifth most popular actor in the [top] ten, and we were just cute as a button together\u2014two rosy-faced, wholesome people. That made me the Girl Next Door and it gave me 26 movies instead of just one.\u201d She even introduced a song standard, \u201cBaby, It\u2019s Cold Outside,\u201d in the 1949 movie Neptune\u2019s Daughter, with Ricardo Montalban.\nSome people I\u2019ve spoken to don\u2019t understand how a swimmer could have become a movie star (leaving aside for the moment, Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weismuller), but there was a precedent: in the silent film era, Australian-born swimming champ Annette Kellerman was a vaudeville and movie headliner. Esther later portrayed her in the 1952 movieMillion Dollar Mermaid. Then, in the 1930s, Olympic skating champion Sonja Henie\u2014who could neither sing nor dance\u2014became a box-office star at 20th Century Fox. All MGM had to do, according to Esther, was \u201cmelt the ice and toss a girl in.\u201d There was much more to it, of course, including constructing an underwater tank with portholes, developing special cameras and waterproof makeup, and devising precision water ballets\u2014in Technicolor, no less. Audiences responded with great enthusiasm.Esther\u2019s movies were sheer escapism and didn\u2019t pretend to be anything more. She never disparaged her years at MGM, but I think she was prouder of her achievements as a swimmer. She regretted missing out on the 1940 Olympic Games\u2014which were canceled because of the war in Europe\u2014but she never lacked for confidence. As she explained, \u201cthe champion spirit isn\u2019t anything that goes away.\u201d It held her in good stead to the very end of her life.\n\u00ab Books That Make Us Human by Carl Olson John Henry Newman on the Psychology of Faith and Reason by Jeff McLeod \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://facebookapostles.org/2013/06/24/no-clowns-at-mass-by-fr-george-w-rutler/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MSDKVFBWRN46OZNDEHVLWJQ3YYNPUQUS", "length": 3038, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "facebookapostles.org", "title": "No Clowns at Mass by Fr. George W. Rutler | Facebook Apostles", "raw_content": "No Clowns at Mass by Fr. George W. Rutler\nNo Clowns at Mass\nAny young man called to the priesthood must be like St. Paul: \u201cIt is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me\u201d (Galatians 2:20). This is true of all Christians. Cupio dissolvi \u2014 \u201cI wish to disappear.\u201d Dioceses that understand this excel in vocations, and those that do not, fail.\nWhen I arrived at this parish, there were many liturgical abuses. Let it not be said that these were the predilections of young people, for there were practically none then. Rather, they had become the habit of older people who had simply shifted from perfunctorily expedited Masses and a few sentimental hymns to the fabricated folk Masses of the 1960\u2019s. I put a stop to the habit of applauding the organist and choir. The musicians we have now would be embarrassed by such behavior. Pope Benedict XVI said: \u201cWherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment.\u201d\nThere is even a danger of that same narcissism when attempts at a \u201creform of the reform\u201d become self-conscious spectacle. Evelyn Waugh said that Anthony Eden was not a gentleman because he dressed too well. We try to offer the best to God, but we must not be fussy about it like the nouveau riche. It once was said that dowagers in Boston did not buy hats, they had hats. C. S. Lewis\u2019 view was that true worship should be like a good old shoe, so comfortable that you don\u2019t have to break it in: \u201cThe perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.\u201d That is a sensibility I have long admired in the Byzantine liturgies. While some speak of the High Mass of the Western Church as the \u201cmost beautiful thing this side of Heaven,\u201d I know of nothing so formally transcendent and still so informally natural as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.\nThe constant fidgeting for \u201ctheme liturgies\u201d and experimentation is a sign of failure. Worse yet is the priest who solicits laughter like a ham actor in a dying vaudeville show. Such clerics should limit their repertoire to the jokes that St. John told the Blessed Mother as her Son bled on the Cross. One is struck by the way Pope Francis, in his personal simplicity and affability, is so enrapt in the solemnity of the Mass that he would not think of smiling through the Sacrifice of Calvary.\nIt may seem that reform of abuses is as futile as King Canute ordering the tide to roll back. Actually, that great king was showing his court that human pride has no authority over what does not belong to him. That is why he placed his own crown on a figure of Christ Crucified, and that is what true worship is all about.\n\u00ab The Top Ten Greatest Operas by Stephen M. Klugewicz A Fond Farewell To Annette by Leonard Maltin \u00bb\nles, on June 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM said:\nWhere did that picture come from???\nFacebook Apostles, on June 24, 2013 at 2:26 PM said:\nInternet. Google \u201cclowns at Mass\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://facebookapostles.org/2013/08/11/listening-alone-by-stephen-klugewicz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SSRJXEZR4TMELPROEDI6S35U5Y4JCHSP", "length": 8398, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "facebookapostles.org", "title": "Listening Alone by Stephen Klugewicz | Facebook Apostles", "raw_content": "Listening Alone by Stephen Klugewicz\nListening Alone\nI am never merry when I hear sweet music.\u2014Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I\nSince the triumph of rock n\u2019 roll in the 1960s, the lover of classical music has increasingly found himself a loner in most social circles, his great passion appreciated by an ever-shrinking number of people. This is true even among the educated class; one erudite and quite brilliant man I know who can converse on a wide breadth of topics confessed to me once that he was unable to talk about music, lacking the grammar with which to do so. As Allan Bloom noted in 1987, \u201cclassical music is now a special taste, like Greek language or pre-Columbian archaeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.\u201d\nWe who love fine music sometimes find ourselves desperately seeking out soul mates when, say, attending a party or academic conference where there are many new faces. In such situations, however, the aficionado is often disappointed by this most frustrating of exchanges, which is all too common:\nAficionado: \u201cI am a big fan of classical music.\u201d\nNew acquaintance: \u201cOh, me too!\u201d\nAficionado: (eagerly, getting his hopes up) \u201cReally?\u201d\nNew acquaintance: \u201cYes, it\u2019s so relaxing.\u201d\nThe aficionado is crestfallen. Such a response is worse than the new acquaintance simply expressing his total ignorance of serious music, for the reply equates the greatest, soul-searing pieces of music with modern muzak, or that dreadful stuff played during Yoga sessions.\n\u201cRelaxing?\u201d The classical music lover is tempted ask. \u201cHave you ever soared to the heavens during the final movement of Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony? Have you ever cowered in terror before the dreadful opening march of Mahler\u2019s Sixth? Have you ever wept at the desolation of the finale of Tchaikovsky\u2019s Path\u00e9tique symphony? Have you ever begged the Almighty for mercy during the Kyrie of Mozart\u2019s Great Mass? Relaxing? I think not!\u201d\nClassical music has become for most just another utilitarian product in our commercial society. Like Viagra, Rogaine, ginseng supplements, or regular visits to the masseuse, it can supposedly improve our lives. A quick search on Amazon for \u201cmost relaxing classical music\u201d generates 2,146 results, albums with titles like \u201cMost Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe\u201d and \u201cMost Relaxing Vivaldi Album in the World Ever\u201d (who judges these things?). But classical music is not just for relaxation anymore! It has another useful benefit: It makes you smarter, especially if you are still in utero. According to several \u201cscientific\u201d studies over the last couple of decades, Mozart especially seems to have written with an ear toward improving the brainpower of babes. Thus you can purchase CDs titled \u201cMozart Makes You Smarter,\u201d \u201cMozart for Mothers-to-Be,\u201d and an entire series called \u201cThe Mozart Effect: Music for Babies.\u201d Frankly, I do not care if listening to Mozart does make me or my kids smarter. It is an added benefit if it does, I suppose, but I listen to music because it is simply beautiful\u2014and I hold, the highest form of beauty\u2014and gives me great pleasure. This is sufficient in itself.\nEnjoyment of such beauty in the modern world, however, is often a friendless pursuit. C.S. Lewis once described friendship as the love of two people for common things. \u201cFriendship is born at that moment,\u201d Lewis wrote, \u201cwhen one person says to another: \u201cWhat! You too? I thought I was the only one.\u201d Lewis used the visual image of two friends standing shoulder to shoulder, looking at the same beloved object (in contrast to lovers whose object of affection is each other and who thus stand face to face). But today, the classical music lover is looked up largely as an exotic, someone who speaks a foreign tongue, and broaching the subject of good music is more often than not a conversation killer.\nWhereas once upon a time the common culture of fine music brought people together, today it tends to separates people in several ways. Technology has been a prime culprit in isolating the music lover. It has made every man his own oracle, who can commune in private with Clio through the use of unobtrusive earbuds, which provide easy access to ever-present music through the mechanisms of the mp3 player and the \u201ccloud.\u201d Lost is the necessity, for the musically-trained, of seeking out companionship to play a duet or trio, and for the untrained to go to the opera house with fellow enthusiasts. Music may indeed be experienced in its full glory in isolation, and I, for one, do not decry its easy access, but something of the communal experience had been lost here. Ubiquitous pleasure has its costs.\nTechnology has also created a proliferation of recorded interpretations of nearly every classical work ever penned. In the case of popular works like Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cFour Seasons\u201d or Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, listeners can choose from hundreds of possible interpretations. In the age before recorded sound, classical music aficionados might argue about the merits of this or that favorite soloist or conductor, but typically the discussion was about the music itself. The challenge for the musical novice today is that he must be versed in, at a minimum, the most widely esteemed recordings of the standard repertoire in order to participate in any in-depth discussion of music. The aficionado feels even more isolated when he discovers that so very few novices can hold their ground in such a discussion.\nSome might say that the lover of Aeschylus\u2019 plays, Dickinson\u2019s poetry, or Faulkner\u2019s novels faces a similar challenge in this iconoclastic age. Though I suppose that connoisseurs of literature may argue about the best translation of a work originally written in another language and dramatists may debate the particular performance of a certain actor in a famous role, such discussions are not elemental to the discussion of the work in question. In the age of recording, classical music appreciation is inextricably tied, for good or ill, to this debate about whose interpretation of a piece is superior.\nWith the decline of music education in America, many, like my erudite acquaintance mentioned above, lack the ability to speak about serious music in meaningful ways. Of course to speak about music at all is difficult to begin with. \u201cMusic begins where the possibilities of language end,\u201d composer Jean Sibelius said. It expresses depths of emotion that transcend mere language. It is the language of the soul, and even the great poets cannot fathom its depths. Compounding the problem is that, despite clumsy attempts to popularize classical music through horrid \u201ccrossover\u201d albums and perverse, modernized opera staging, the \u201cgeneral listener\u201d is generally lost today in terms of understanding and appreciating the music he hears, even if he can be goaded into entering the symphony hall or opera house. More than ever before, today there is a desperate need for a master conductor/musicologist who possesses both the professional stature and the innate ability to speak about music in a manner intelligible and enticing to the masses. Leonard Bernstein and his \u201cYoung People\u2019s Concerts\u201d have no modern successor, and thus today\u2019s unlettered listeners, no master teacher.\nIn the end, then, the modern classical music enthusiast resides in a veritable wasteland of musical ignorance. Like the subject of Friedrich\u2019s \u201cWanderer Above the Sea of Fog,\u201d he is consigned to roam the world, an isolated soul, seeking out those few compatriots with whom he may converse and, indeed, commune.\nBooks mentioned in this essay may be found in The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore. Essays by Dr. Klugewicz may be found here.\nDr. Stephen Klugewicz is a Senior Contributor to The Imaginative Conservative and president of Franklin\u2019s Opus. He has served as headmaster of Regina Luminis Academy and as a director of various educational organizations. He is also the co-editor of History, on Proper Principles: Essays in Honor of Forrest McDonald and a frequent contributor to various online journals.\nFiled under: Arts & Sciences, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Uncategorized |\n\u00ab The Political Problem of Evil by Robert Oscar Lopez Interesting Letter from C.S. 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There her stage partners were such actors as Faina Ranevskaya, Vera Maretskaya, Valentina Talyzina, Olga Ostroumova, Larisa Kuznetsova, Rostislav Plyatt, Yuri Zavadsky, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Leonid Markov, Mikhail Kozakov, Sergei Yursky, Valentin Gaft, Georgi Taratorkin, Anatoli Adoskin, 'Gennadi Bortnikov', Yevgeni Steblov and other notable Russian actors.\nMargarita Terekhova is living in Moscow, Russia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 5205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://famvin.org/wiki/Theodorus_van_Ruijven_CM", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:57Z", "digest": "sha1:OUBVKQOIJOTCX7O7ODNW4Q5ZEZAFRESJ", "length": 2061, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "famvin.org", "title": "Theodorus van Ruijven CM - Vincentian Encyclopedia", "raw_content": "Theodorus van Ruijven CM\nTheodorus van Ruijven (Van Ruyven in some scripts) was born on May 22, 1938 in Rijswijk, in the Diocese of Rotterdam, Holland . He entered Congregation of Mission in the Province of Holland in Panningen on September 2, 1957. Ordained priest on March 19, 1964.\nIn 1965 he became a missionary in Ethiopia working in the houses in Addis Ababa and Bonga until 1986. From 1986 to 1992 he was member of Provincial Council of the CM Province of Ethiopia. In 1990 became Rector of St. Justin de Jacobis Minor Seminary in Ambo and left the office in 1993. 1994 Fr. van Ruijven was elected Visitor of the Province of Ethiopia. In 1998 re-elected as member of Provincial Council. He left this post in 2002.\nOn July 9,1998 Fr. van Ruijven was appointed Prefect Apostolic of Jimma-Bonga which was separated from the territory of Nekemte Vicariate in 1994 (It's first Prefect was present Archbishop of Ethiopia Msgr. Berhane Yesus D. Souraphiel CM). Additionally on July 23, 2008 he was appointed the Apostolic Administrator of Nekemte. 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There are 16 seminarians in major seminary 39 members of religious congregations, including 9 from from Congregation of the Mission.\nArtyku? jest tak?e dost?pny w j?zyku polskim w Encyklopedii Wincenty?skiej\nRetrieved from \"https://famvin.org/wen/index.php?title=Theodorus_van_Ruijven_CM&oldid=20238\"\nVincentian People\nVincentian bishops\nProvinces CM - Ethiopia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fanack.com/lebanon/economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RH4JIV4LW3X2ICKQ4PHXLL3EJYL2CYH7", "length": 33846, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "fanack.com", "title": "Economy of Lebanon - Chronicle Fanack.com", "raw_content": "Fanack Home / Lebanon / Economy\nEconomy of Lebanon\nA market in Lebanon. Photo Flickr\nTrade and Banking Sector\nThe preamble of Lebanon\u2019s Constitution (1989) states: \u2018The economic system is free and ensures private initiative and the right of private property.\u2019 And the website of the Lebanese presidency adds: \u2018Lebanon has a free economy system that guarantees entrepreneurship and private property. It is led by a private sector that plays a major role in the different economic fields, especially the services sector and the financial and banking sector, which represent 70 percent of Lebanon\u2019s national income.\u2019\nFor many areas of Lebanon, there is a \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 the Civil War (1975-1990) in the economic field. During the first decade of the Civil War, the Lebanese economy proved remarkably resilient. Eventually, however, the Lebanese pound plummeted as a result both of the destruction of the infrastructure and government policy. One of the very few temporary positive effects of the Civil War was that the economy became less centralized and less centred on the Beirut area.\nAfter the Civil War, in the 1990s, Lebanon embarked on an ambitious programme of social and economic reconstruction, initiated by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in the 1990s. The so-called Horizon 2000 Programme aimed to restore Lebanon\u2019s traditional status as a key regional centre of finance and commerce. Reconstruction of physical infrastructure was carried out and international companies started to return to Lebanon. In practice it mainly focused on Beirut.\nSince the reconstruction programme was financed through borrowing, it resulted in a heavy governmental debt load. In order to attract and encourage investment, tax rates were reduced. This in turn led to severe budgetary austerity, resulting in limited investment in Lebanon\u2019s social infrastructure and a growing reliance on indirect taxation. Hence, the gap between rich and poor increased considerably. A small proportion of Lebanese made a fortune thanks to the reconstruction programme and low income taxes, while many others came to live below the poverty line (one in three Lebanese in 1998).\nAccording to political science Professor Tom Najem (University of Windsor, Canada), the Hariri government faced a number of obstacles with respect to implementation of the recovery programme. In addition to the growing debt level, the government failed in succeeding to reform the inefficient and corrupt public sector. Hariri himself was increasingly accused of corruption as tensions within the political system over the recovery and reconstruction process mounted. Syrian control over Lebanon meant that Lebanese politicians were divided between pursuing Syrian interests and implementing reforms. Most notably, the main goal of the programme: enhanced involvement of the private sector in the economy, never really materialized.\nBy 1998, the growing debt problem created by the reconstruction programme and the collapse of the real-estate sector had brought Horizon 2000 to a halt. After his comeback in 2000 as Prime Minister, Hariri tried to solve the economic crisis by presenting his policies to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank at a donor conference in Paris in 2002. The pledged grants and loans (worth over USD 10 billion) helped Lebanon to deal with its immediate financial crisis. Yet Hariri\u2019s position was now debilitated, hampering the implementation of his plans.\nAfter the devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, the Siniora government presented a new reform programme promising significant economic, social and tax reforms and further privatization. Progress has since been slow due to the continuous political instability and divisions in Lebanese politics.\nAfter 2007, the Lebanese economy managed to grow despite the global economic crisis. 2009 saw a record number of tourists, the construction industry saw significant growth (in part due to reconstruction after the war with Israel in 2006) and the Lebanese banking sector continued to attract significant investments.\nSince 2011 the escalating crisis in neighbouring Syria and its effects on Lebanon have had a negative effect on the Lebanese economy. Investments decreased and tourism took a downturn as the security situation deteriorated. The number of tourists declined by 17.5 percent in 2012, the lowest level since 2008.\nLower economic activity coupled with domestic political instability have put the government under considererable pressure. Lebanon\u2019s fiscal deficit rose by 47.6 percent in 2012 after two years of improvement. Overland exports were hit because of the conflict in Syria. Lebanon\u2019s trade deficit rose by 5.7 percent to reach USD 16.8 billion in 2012 (in 2011, it had increased by 15.9 percent).\nOn the other hand, agricultural and industrial exports increased as a result of higher demands from Syria and Gulf Cooperation Council-countries. According to the World Bank, exports slowly recovered in 2012 after alternative trade routes were devised. Bank Audi reports that exports increased by 5.1 percent while imports increased by 5.6 percent in 2012. Lebanon\u2019s banking sector has proven resilient, with 8 percent growth in 2012 and total assets reaching USD 151.9 billion. Banks continued to attract substantial financial inflows from abroad. The arrival of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees has stimulated basic consumption, as well as real estate rentals (by those who can afford it). But overall, the net outcome for the Lebanese economy was negative, according to a report by the Lebanese Bank Audi.\nLebanon is suffering from great pressures as a result for its hosting of 1.5 million Syrian refugees; whereas the World Bank estimates that 200 thousand Lebanese became under poverty line due to the Syrian crisis, to be added to the previous ones which their number reaches million people.\nThe gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015 had reached 47.09 billion US dollars, in comparison with 45.73 and 44.35 billion dollars in the years 2014 and 2013. According to the International Monetary Fund the GDP per capita in 2015 had reached 11157 US dollars. It is predicted that the Lebanese economy will grow in 2017 by a rate of 2%, in comparison with 1% in the years 2015 and 2016. For the first time in two years, Lebanon will witness inflation by a rate of 2%, comparison with -0.7% and -3.7% in the years 2016 and 2015 respectively.\nThe World bank predicts that the Lebanese economy will witnesses a slight economic revival due to the increase of the strength of the real estate sector, and increasing the number of tourists. Despite that the challenges and risks which the Lebanese economy is facing are big, among which is the possibility to be exposed for more deceleration in cumulative net assets in foreign currency in the face of the two continuous and big deficits in the general budget and current account.\nLebanon occupies the 101st rank on the Global Competitiveness Report for the period stretching between 2016-2017.\nStatue of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri, assassinated in a bomb attack in 2005 / Photo HH\nHistorically, there has been a disparity between the accessibility of Lebanon\u2019s \u2013 mainly urbanized \u2013 coastal regions and its mountains, which are only partly accessible. Paradoxically, the lower mountains are the least accessible, as they are extremely steep, whereas the higher mountains are the location of winter and/or summer holiday resorts.\nUntil 1975, Lebanon was a modern state with a good infrastructure \u2013 one of the best in the region. As a result, the country was extremely competitive as a (financial) services provider. However, the Civil War (1975-1990) brought this to an end. While buildings, roads, and communication centres were being destroyed in Beirut and other cities, other countries \u2013 such as the Gulf States \u2013 were developing their infrastructure.\nFrom 1990, Lebanon \u2013 and Beirut in particular \u2013 developed a feverish building activity: roads, apartment blocks, and business offices were constructed at a great pace. Unfortunately, however, these buildings come under attack every time violence resurges. In 2006, for instance, large parts of the Beirut area were bombed by Israel during the 33-Day War. According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, quoted by the BBC, 5,000 private homes were damaged, 62 bridges, 72 overpasses, 22 fuel stations, 3 dams, 600 kilometres of roads, the lighthouse, the ports of Beirut, Tripoli, and Jounieh, Beirut International Airport, as well as Qaleiat domestic and Rayak military airports, over 150 businesses, power plants, a sewage plant, a mobile phone antenna, and Hezbollah\u2019s al-Manar TV station. In 2008, according to what seems to be the latest update of the special website rebuildlebanon.gov.lb, 97 percent of the infrastructure had been repaired, at a total cost of USD 345.4 million.\nAccording to the Investment Development Authority of Lebanon, Lebanon has 7,200 kilometres of paved roads. 97 percent of all roads are paved. Beirut is largely served by private taxis. The shared taxi concerns are grouped into associations with routes covering specific areas. Local rail services have been resumed and a new city transport authority, the TCB, was established in 1993. Municipal bus services were suspended in 1975 but bids were invited in early 1994 for the supply of 140 city buses. Private companies run bus services connecting all major Lebanese cities and towns with one another. Extensive damage to the road network occurred during Israel\u2019s aerial bombardment of 2006 and much of the 2007 and 2008 budgets were devoted to repairing this.\u2019\nOn the international Logistics Performance Index (LPI), measuring infrastructures, border procedures, services \u2013 but also factors such as bureaucracy and corruption, 96 out of 155 in 2012 (with infrastructure ranking 102), down from 33 in 2010 (infrastructure ranking 41). While Lebanon was one of the improvers in the upper middle income group in 2010, it has lost this position as of 2012. (See also Connecting to Compete. Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, World Bank, 2012).\nBoth water and electricity could be abundant, as a result of the many mountain rivers and sources. Yet, lack of power capacity of the main energy supplier Electricit\u00e9 du Liban (EdL) has led to daily power cuts all over the country on a permanent basis. Power cuts ranging from 3 to 23 hours a day affect homes and businesses. A supply of less than 1,500 mW does not cover the demand of more than 2,400 mW, according to Middle East Economic Survey (MEES). As a consequence, both households and businesses rely heavily on private generators. Electricity from the public network is permanently available in only 14.3 percent of residences, 73.7 percent have to cope with daily power cuts. Subsidies to EdL, which is a public enterprise, cost the government USD 1 to 1.5 billion a year, widening the fiscal deficit.\nThe energy sector is one the fields in which consecutive Lebanese governments have failed to implement reforms, prolonging the critical energy crisis (see MEES). As a World Bank report, Lebanon Social Impact Analysis (2009) notes: \u2018One of the most striking aspects in the electricity sector is the heavy dependence on the informal, private generation sector, which nonetheless operates outside any state supervision or guiding framework. Bearing in mind the potential drawbacks of introducing regulation, the fact that such a large and monopolistic energy sector player operates in the grey economy requires attention.\u2019 The report also states: \u2018Both the electricity and water sectors suffer from inadequate supply.\u2019 During the winter, water is permanently available in 45.5 percent of homes, a percentage that drops to 21.2 during the summer.\nIn a bid to resolve the power crisis (at least on a short term), the Lebanese government in July 2012 signed a three-year agreement with a Turkish firm to lease two electricity-generating barges with a combined capacity of 270 mW. In February 2013, the government signed an agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development for a USD 85 million to be used for upgrading the two power plants at Zouq, north of Beirut and Jiyyeh, south of the capital. According to Minister of Energy and Water Jibran Basil, Lebanon has stopped importing 200-300 mW of power from Syria and Egypt due to the political crises there (see MEES).\nInternet and telephone networks\nDespite the limitations due to the erratic electricity supply, Internet has developed rapidly and the telephone network even more so. According to Internet World Stats, Lebanon had 2,152,950 Internet users and an Internet penetration of 52 percent in June 2012, compared to 600,000 users or 13.3 percent in 2005. Yet, despite growth, Lebanon has one of the slowest Internet connections in the world, slower than most Arab countries. It ranked 153rd out of 184 countries on Net Index (2013). The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates that in 2011 there were around 3,350,000 mobile phone subscriptions in Lebanon, or 79 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. In 2005, there were only 25 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.\nLebanon belongs to the upper-middle income economies. It ranked 115th on the World Bank Business Index in 2012, down from 108 in 2010. This index ranks the regulatory environment and its effectiveness in establishing and running local businesses. In this respect, Lebanon is lagging behind compared to several other MENA countries (Middle East and North Africa), certainly compared to the Gulf States. Lebanon ranks particularly low when it comes to dealing with construction permits, resolving insolvency, enforcing contracts and setting up businesses. Lebanon\u2019s performance in the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI) has declined in recent years. In 2012, Lebanon ranked 96th out of 155, down from 33rd in 2010.\nLebanon is essentially an import-dependent economy. The EU is Lebanon\u2019s main trading partner, and accounts for 37 percent of its imports. Lebanon exports some manufactured and agricultural products, but its main asset is its service sector (banking, in particular). However, the competition in the region has become fierce. Moreover, Lebanon took heavy blows, first during the Civil War \u2013 which, after it ended in 1990, was followed by a large-scale reconstruction effort \u2013 and afterwards as a result of the Israeli bombings in 2006, when a large number of businesses, houses, and infrastructure were destroyed, and 30,000 people lost their jobs as a consequence. The reconstruction was financed mainly by decreasing tax and by short-term foreign investments. By 2012, the fiscal deficit had reached approximately 16 percent of GDP \u2013 a ratio that is not sustainable \u2013 and Gross Public Debt stood at approximately 135 percent of GDP in 2012, according to the World Bank.\nBetween 2008 and 2010, Lebanon did notably better than the other non-oil exporting countries in the region, with an annual GDP growth of 7 percent in 2010. However, growth decreased to an estimated 2 percent in 2012. The International Monetary Fund put projected growth in 2013 at 2.5 percent. Main negative point remains the current account balance: -16.2 percent of the GDP in 2012. The projected percentage in 2013 is only slightly less: -15.6.\nThe main problems mentioned in surveys among private entrepreneurs are corruption, cost of finance, tax rates, electricity and the legal system. In the survey From Privilege to Competition (MENA Development Report, World Bank, November 2009), two out of three interviewees complained that the regulations are interpreted inconsistently and unpredictably (survey held in 2006).\nIn July 2007, the World Bank redefined its assistance strategy, referring to a reform programme presented in January 2007 by the Lebanese government, Recovery, Reconstruction, and Reform. This programme focuses on 1) fiscal adjustment to reverse Lebanon\u2019s unfavourable debt dynamics and reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio through rationalization of expenditures, improved efficiency and enhancement of revenues; 2) growth-enhancing structural reforms to strengthen the business environment; and 3) social sector reform to strengthen social safety nets to reduce poverty and vulnerability and increase efficiency and effectiveness of social spending including in health and education.\nIndustry is not Lebanon\u2019s main sector, far from it. Industry accounted for 20 percent of GDP in 2011. According to a 2010 report of the Ministry of Industry (covering data from 2007), Lebanon has 4,033 establishments with five workers or more, half of which are small enterprises. Half of industrial establishments were located in Mount Lebanon, followed by Bekaa (18.4 percent) and North Lebanon (12.8 percent).\nThe Ministry describes the sector as \u2018not very diversified\u2019. Interestingly, the report excludes establishments in tobacco, power and water and construction.\nAccording to a more recent report by Bank Audi (Fourth Quarter 2012), industrial activity in 2012 was boosted by an increased demand from Syria, while activity in Lebanon itself was constrained, affected by the deteriorated political situation and security threats. Industrial exports increased by 4.8 percent in 2012 (USD 4.3 billion in 2012 compared to USD 4.1 billion in 2011). However, the latest available industrial exports figures of the Ministry of Industry (Arabic only) show a different trend. In the first nine months of 2012, exports reached USD 2.2 billion, a decline of 11 percent compared to the same period in 2011. In 2011, industrial exports totalled USD 3.3 billion, up from USD 3.2 billion in 2010. Main export products in 2012 were machinery and mechanical appliances (USD 364.4 million, 16.6 per cent), followed by precious stones (351.6, 16 per cent), base metals (USD 326.1 million, 14,8 percent), prepared foodstuffs (USD 288.3 million, 13.9 percent), chemical products (USD 255.9 million, 11.6 percent). Main export partners were Syria, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Italy and South Korea.\nProduction of traditional sweets / Photo HH\nThe building sector got a boost after the Civil War ended in 1990. It also attracted \u2013 partly because of monetary measures \u2013 the bulk (70 percent) of foreign investors, in majority Lebanese expatriates, and investors in the Gulf States. After the murder of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005, however, construction stagnated, as did agriculture and industry. Not only was Rafic Hariri an important motor behind the construction sector, his murder also meant more political uncertainty. Ironically, the Israeli bombings of the country in 2006, however much they meant a setback for the economy as a whole, gave a new impulse to the construction sector and attracted international assistance. According to government information, almost the whole infrastructure has now been repaired, at a total cost of USD 345.4 million.\nThe sector also benefited from tourist-related projects, including the construction of hotels, private holiday homes and luxury resorts. However, in recent years the construction sector\u2019s performance has been declining. The number of property sales transactions, one of the indicators of the sector\u2019s performance, declined by 10.1 percent in 2012. While the value of property sales increased, it stayed below the 2010 level. The value of transactions increased in regions characterized by lower prices, i.e. Nabatieh, Bekaa and the South, while in the more affluent regions of Beirut, Metn, Baabda and Kesserwan the value stagnated or dropped. The number of construction permits (in square metres) issued by the Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects (Arabic only) dropped 11 percent in 2012 (12,367,081 square metres) compared to 13,884,012 in 2011. The regions of Beirut (-18 percent), Mount Lebanon and Nabatieh (both -13 percent) were particularly affected. Only Bekaa (+5 percent) saw an increase in construction permits.\nBeirut during the Civil War\nDestruction after the 2006 bombing\nLebanon\u2019s agricultural production is estimated at 2.7 million tons with a total value of USD 1.2 billion. According to the latest statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), total production of the top 25 commodities amounted to 2.37 million tons in 2011, worth USD 990 million. That is a slight decrease compared to production in 2009, which amounted to 2.38 million tons, worth USD 999 million.\nAgriculture is mainly concentrated in the Beqaa Valley (40 percent), North (25 percent), South (20 percent) and Mount Lebanon (15 percent) regions, and is essentially made up of vegetables (47 percent), fruits (35 percent), cereals (15 percent), and olive trees. Fruit production mainly consists of citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, mandarins, and grapefruits), followed by grapes, apples, and bananas. Vegetable production mainly concerns potatoes, followed by tomatoes and cucumbers. The main cereals produced are forage crops, wheat, and barley. The main animal products are red meat, poultry meat, fish, milk, and dairy products, eggs, and honey.\nSince the Lebanese agricultural production does not cover the needs of the local market, Lebanon relies mainly on imports, which consequently generates a substantial deficit in the agricultural trade balance (81 percent). The main imported agricultural products include bovine animals, tobacco products, cheese and milk, wheat, maize, and rice. With regards to exports, the main agricultural products are tobacco products, preserved fruits and vegetables, sugar confectionary, fresh fruits and vegetables, and wine.\nIn the first half of 2011, imports had widened the agricultural trade deficit to USD 850 million, according to a review of the sector by The Business Year. Imports of agricultural commodities declined due to weaker local demand (-0.2 percent) in 2012. In recent years, a higher demand from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and war-torn Syria led to an increase in Lebanese agricultural exports. Exports amounted to USD 222 million in 2012, a 10.4 percent increase compared to exports in 2011. Exports to the GCC amounted to 38 percent of total agricultural exports, while Syria received around 20 percent of Lebanon\u2019s agricultural exports.\nLebanese shepherds / Photo HH\nThe service sector as a whole accounts for 83 percent of exports. Service exports have grown at an exceptional annual rate of 42 percent in Lebanon.\nTrade is by far the most important sector of the country, accounting for a third of the GDP, more than a quarter of the workforce and more than half of all the companies. Trade is located in and around the main cities, firstly Beirut. In the 1990s, international highways that link Lebanon to Syria have witnessed the emergence of various shopping malls and trade centres, initially catering mainly for Syrians whose own country was at that time less open to imported consumption goods. This has changed, however, as a consequence both of a deterioration in Lebanon\u2019s relation with Syria and as a result of economic changes in Syria. In the past years Lebanon has seen the arrival of French or British department stores and grocery chains.\nIn recent years, the trade and service sector has been affected by the Arab Spring and the local political situation. These developments have curtailed consumption and investment spending. Yet trade in Lebanon\u2019s main ports increased in 2012, partly as a result of the diversion of trade activity from Syrian routes. According to the latest statistics of Beirut Port, the port handled 2,125 ships in 2012, compared to 2,285 ships in 2010. In the first quarter of 2013, 522 ships passed the port, a slight increase compared to the same period in 2012. The volume in trade (TEU, Twenty feet Equivalent Unit) increased from 599,433 in 2010 to 634,969 in 2012. Activity within Beirut\u2019s Rafic Hariri International Airport was boosted by the arrivals of Lebanese expatriates and Syrian refugees. It recorded a 5.7 percent increase in the number of passengers in 2012 (5,913,305 compared to 5,596,274 in 2011, see Bank Audi report).\nBanking Sector Penetration is much higher in Lebanon than in other MENA countries, or emerging countries for that matter (eighteen branches for 100,000 people, compared to less than fourteen in Bahrain and ten \u2013 the emerging countries average \u2013 or less in all other MENA countries). The total number of banks is 62. Banks in MENA countries face only limited competition, except in Lebanon, which has by far the highest percentage of foreign-owned banks.\nThe banks in Lebanon fared extremely well during the past twenty years, due to the rebuilding programmes after the Civil War (and later the 2006 war with Israel). These programmes were mainly financed by large loans against extremely high interest rates.\nFinancial indicators point to on-going strength in the banking sector. Commercial bank deposits are growing at more than 20 percent year-on-year and deposit dollarization has dropped, assisted by steady confidence and attractive domestic interest rates. In part thanks to prudent banking sector supervision, banks have virtually remained unaffected by the global financial crisis and have remained profitable and well-capitalized.\nDespite stagnating foreign direct investment, strong non-resident deposit flows should allow the Central Bank (Banque du Liban) to continue accumulating international reserves at a comfortable pace, even in the absence of government market financing from abroad. Despite the economic and political effects of the war in Syria, Lebanese banks have managed to maintain high deposits, which registered an 8 percent yearly increase to reach USD 125 billion at the end of December 2012. Lebanese banks\u2019 liquidity status, which Bank Audi describes as \u2018more than favourable\u2019, allowed banks to continue extending funding to the economy at large.\nDowntown Beirut \u2013 financial centre of Lebanon / Photo Shutterstock\nLebanon boasts a variety of activities and historical or natural sites to visit \u2013 from sea resorts to six skiing resorts, from rural heritage to cycling, hiking, and trekking (see also Regional development). Lebanon enjoys a rich cultural legacy inherited from past civilizations, with five UNESCO World Heritage Sites. However, most of its internationally renowned historic sites are situated in densely populated urban areas which are typically exposed to the pressures of modern development and post-Civil War reconstruction. The development pressure is compounded by the fact that local governments lack the resources and mechanisms to preserve and manage these sites. As a result, the historic and archaeological sites are suffering from physical and environmental degradation, with local municipalities and residents reaping little economic benefits that come with a thriving tourism industry.\nIn 2009, the Lebanese Parliament ratified a USD 31.5 million World Bank loan to the Government of Lebanon to create the conditions for increased local economic development and enhanced quality of life in the historic centres of five main secondary cities, and to improve the conservation and management of Lebanon\u2019s architectural cultural heritage. The proposed Cultural Heritage and Urban Development project (CHUD) concerns Baalbek, Byblos, Sidon, Tripoli, and Tyre, where signs of damage, decay, poverty and economic stagnation due to the Civil War are still visible.\nAlready before the Civil War, Lebanon\u2019s beaches and mountain resorts were very popular among travellers from abroad, mainly from other Arab countries. When the Civil War was over (1990), tourists started to return and their number rose steeply until the 2006 bombings by Israel and the political unrest at that time. Although tourism witnessed a revival after 2008, this was brought to an end due to the escalating conflict in Syria from 2011 onwards.\nIn 2012 the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism registered 1,365,845 visitors to the country, a decrease of 37 percent compared to the top year of 2010 (2,167,989). Arab visitors (Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Saudis) ranked first with 458,069 or 33.5 percent (normally 40 percent of visitors). Lebanon received 444,824 visitors from Europe (32.5 percent). Visitors from the Americas ranked third with 221,174 persons (16 percent).\nThe direct contribution of tourism to Lebanon\u2019s GDP was USD 4 billion or 9.3 percent of GDP in 2012, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). Tourism generated 120,000 jobs directly in 2012; the council expects it to fall by 2.1 percent in 2013. The total (indirect) contribution of the sector to employment was 322,500 jobs in 2012.\nTourism is developing in rural areas as well as in the cities (but here again, Beirut is the prime destination). It is visible in the growth of the hotel sector, which is increasing annually with 5.5 percent, and in some newly developed rural mountain areas as well as in the traditional resorts. There is an important number of foreign investments in this sector. The south of Lebanon, which used to be one of the poorest parts of the countries and suffered a lot from the clashes \u2013 and wars \u2013 between Israel and Hezbollah, has witnessed spectacular improvements in its development. This is partly due to emigration, as many expatriates from this region who did well abroad, have now built houses in the villages where they originally came from. Another reason is that Amal leader Nabih Berri, who has been Parliament\u2019s Speaker for almost two decades, has time and time again used his influence to attract investments in his region.\nThe five Lebanese sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List\nUmayyad ruins of Anjar\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"130\"]\nRoman city of Baalbek\nPhoenician city of Byblos\nChristian monastery of Wadi Kadisha\nPhoenician capital of Tyre\nThe Lebanese economy is mainly a services economy: services account for 75 percent of the GDP (2012) \u2013 whereas industry accounts for 20 percent and agriculture for a mere 4.5 percent \u2013 though agricultural land still accounts for 38 percent of the total land surface.\nLebanon\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 40.1 billion in 2011. Its Gross National Income (GNI) was USD 39.7 billion in the same year. The population numbering 4.2 million, 2011\u2019s GNI per capita was USD 14,470. The GDP growth rate fell from 9 percent in 2008 to 2 percent in 2012.\nThe trade balance shows an important deficit. Exports of goods and services constituted 23.7 percent of GDP in 2011, whereas imports of goods and services represented 50 percent of GDP. The rise in international food and petroleum prices has maintained an upward pressure on prices in Lebanon. The inflation rate (average Consumer Price Index) increased from 4.5 percent in 2010 to 6.5 percent in 2012. This is slightly higher than Jordan (4.5 percent), but lower than the average inflation in the Middle East (10.4 percent).\nAccording to the World Bank Q&A Global Financial Crisis, Lebanon felt the consequences of global financiial crisis indirectly because of its \u2018strong economic linkages\u2019 with the Gulf States through remittances, FDI and tourism. Moreover, \u2018Lebanon (\u2026) entered the crisis in weak positions in terms of fiscal and external balances.\u2019 However,according to a September 2012 World Bank report, the large Lebanese financial sector has prospered despite the global financial turmoil. The sector has allowed the country to be relatively insulated from geopolitical developments, supported by the resilience of domestic banks and the large foreign exchange liquidity in the banking system. Rating agency Moody\u2019s rated Lebanon\u2019s economic strength as moderate (B1 rating). Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), citing rating agency Moody\u2019s, reports that Lebanon\u2019s B1 rating reflects the country\u2019s reduced growth prospects, high government debt and persistent fiscal and current account deficits. Standard & Poor\u2019s gave the Lebanese economy a B/B rating, in light of risks to domestic political stability and little potential for economic, fiscal and external improvements as long as the Syrian conflict continues.\nWith its high debt and large fiscal and current account deficits, the economy remains vulnerable to shocks. In particular, the Lebanese economy is sensitive to political events, internal as well as external.\nThe informal sector is characterized by a large number of independent or seasonal workers. In 2001, 39 percent of the workforce fell into this category, which is particularly strong in the trade, construction, and agricultural sectors. The informal economy is also more markedly present in the peripheral regions \u2013 the Beqaa Valley, the north, and Nabatieh in the south. Less women work in these regions than in Beirut, although their role in the labour market is slightly increasing, one reason being that people now marry at a later stage.\nInformal sector, Photo Fanack\nIndustrial firms are geographically concentrated around the main urban areas. 61 percent of the enterprises and 66 percent of the workers are concentrated in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. The establishments located in these zones constituted 74 percent of the total output and 61 percent of the investments in 1998. These numbers have remained more or less stable. There is some concentration of economic activity in and around Tripoli as well (9 percent of the population, 11 percent of the enterprises), but Beirut and its surroundings are still the centre of the economy. To spur regionally balanced growth, there are special incentives, such as subsidized prices for public industrial land in less-developed locations. 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And, according to federal IT officials, those actions will spur a wave of IT upgrades next year.\nAgencies will likely accelerate their push into the cloud and adopt more \u201cas a Service\u201d technologies, and will also look to modernize and simplify their cybersecurity efforts, according to officials at the Department of Homeland Security and International Trade Commission.\nSpeaking at an Association For Federal Information Resources Management luncheon in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 14, the officials said they expect to see agencies\u2019 IT leaders go after the \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d of IT modernization next year. That includes restructuring cybersecurity architecture, the continued shuttering of data centers and shifting to virtualized, cloud-based services.\nKevin Cummins, vice president of technology at the Professional Services Council, a trade group that represents government technology professionals, said that the group\u2019s research indicates that some IT leaders are not worried about maintaining parts of their legacy IT.\nOn the other hand, some agencies are still running supervisory control and data acquisition systems from the 1980s. \u201cA lot of that could be replaced with vastly more fictional and newer and more efficient stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cHow do you get there?\u201d\nCybersecurity, Data Center Optimization Will Be Key in 2018\nBarry West, acting deputy CIO and the senior accountable official for risk management at the Department of Homeland Security, said the Trump administration has been keen on driving innovation in federal IT.\nTaken together, President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on cybersecurity, the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s memorandum on implementing the order and the recent White House modernization report go \u201chand in hand\u201d to demonstrate a strong emphasis on innovation, transformation, shared services and cybersecurity, West said.\nThe push around cybersecurity has revolved around taking a risk-based approach. West is the DHS point person in charge of implementing the cybersecurity executive order. He expects that, over the next two years, agencies will take many significant efforts to consolidate their security operations centers. SOCs are the facilities where agency websites, applications, databases, data centers and servers, networks, desktops and other endpoints are monitored, assessed and defended.\nFrom left to right, Kevin Cummins, Barry West and Kirit Amin speak at the AFFIRM luncheon on Dec. 14.\nWest noted that even within agencies SOCs are not standardized. Some operate on a 24/7 basis while others do not. Some leverage DHS\u2019 headquarters SOC and others do not. If there is a cybersecurity incident within an agency, West said, \u201cYou don\u2019t want 22 component agencies not having situational awareness\u201d because of different SOC implementations.\n\u201cI think you will see a lot of great things,\u201d he said. But it\u2019s going to take a lot of effort.\u201d\nKirit Amin, the CIO of the International Trade Commission (who is about to retire from his post), said there is a \u201cvery potent link\u201d between IT modernization and cybersecurity. \u201cYou don\u2019t modernize, you can\u2019t secure,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWhen we look at cyber, it\u2019s huge,\u201d Amin said. \u201cHow do we get into some actionable wins here?\u201d Amin called streamlining agency SOCs a \u201cperfect example of low-hanging fruit\u201d in the IT modernization arena.\n\u201cWhy does everyone need a SOC? Why are they not standardized?\u201d he asked.\nAs a small and independent agency, the ITC is not graded under the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, which applies to the 24 CFO Act agencies. Nonetheless, in the three years Amin has been CIO of the ITC, he has pushed for the agency to meet federal IT mandates. He has also pushed for the scores of small and independent agencies to have a seat on the federal CIO Council and have a greater voice in federal IT.\nAmin praised DHS\u2019s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, which offers agencies commercial, off-the-shelf cybersecurity tools \u2014 hardware, software and services \u2014 that they can access via a central fund. For smaller agencies, DHS has provided CDM as a shared service, which Amin said is an excellent model that should be replicated for other IT services.\nWithout CDM as a Service, Amin said, smaller agencies could not achieve the cybersecurity goals of the program, which allows agencies to continuously monitor their IT systems and networks and then prioritize the risks based on how severe they might be in an effort to let cybersecurity personnel mitigate the most significant problems first.\nAnother potential easy win in the IT modernization push, Amin said, is data center optimization and consolidation. \u201cI can\u2019t afford to keep my data center. Why should I?\u201d he said, expressing the thinking at many small agencies. OMB and the General Services Administration should \u201cincentivize larger agencies to bring smaller and independent agencies\u201d into their data centers to give access as a shared service. That would boost efficiency and save money he argued.\nCloud Services Will Get a Major Boost\nThe cybersecurity executive order and White House IT Modernization report both heavily emphasize the need for agencies to accelerate their adoption of commercial cloud services.\nAmin argued that if smaller agencies \u201cdo not go cloud and \u2018as a Service\u2019 they will not be able to keep up.\u201d Shifting to the cloud and to shared services will allow them to focus more squarely on their missions, he said.\nCummins said that IT modernization will not involve merely replacing decades-old computers with new ones, it will require a new approach to IT. \u201cHow can we do this differently now that we\u2019re in the cloud?\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a target-rich environment.\u201d\nCummins added that while the GSA\u2019s centralized IT modernization fund in the MGT Act \u2014 $250 million per year in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 \u2014 gets a lot of attention, the working capital funds the law authorizes within each CFO Act agency are likely going to be more important. That\u2019s in part because they will potentially be \u201corders of magnitude\u201d larger than money agencies can get from the centralized fund. The working capital funds can also be used for up to three years.\nThose working capital funds will likely be used to accelerate cloud adoption, Cummins said. \u201cIt should be very powerful,\u201d he added.\nAmin said IT investments need to be based on their potential return. \u201cIt has to be ROI-based,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to look at it from a business case.\u201d\nivanastar/Getty Images", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 10387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ffipractitioner.org/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FP5AFOXYT2TPXF7MWZVNY3IY2QOUBZLJ", "length": 731, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ffipractitioner.org", "title": "September 2017 - FFI Practitioner", "raw_content": "Philanthropy is not just a \u201cgood\u201d thing to engage in. It is also one of the most effective tools for bridging generational differences in families.\nThe Generational Maze: The Power Grid for Procreant Wealth\nFamilies of wealth are constantly looking for the secret to proliferating their fortunes over multiple generations. A key element is right before our eyes, the family\u2019s generations.\nThe Experience of Succession: Re-Wired\nFor members of a family enterprise, succession can trigger strong feelings of anxiety, apprehension, or ambivalence.\nFran\u00e7ois de Visscher (FdV): Why is it more attractive to be a direct investor as opposed to investing in private equity funds? Paul Carbone (PC): Well, I think there are several reasons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finerkitchens.com/swap/forum1/265255_Thank_you_Deb_They're_really_cute", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:SABKV2PDDPJWHG6E7UE4AV4TJVU2KOMT", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "finerkitchens.com", "title": "Finerkitchens.com Recipe Swap & Recipes :", "raw_content": "Thank you, Deb. They're really cute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flow-the-world.com/2017/12/23/around-issyk-kul-part1/img_7001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:2RUSW7BWQ6URXGLALDSYQQ52KQD5XMJJ", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "flow-the-world.com", "title": "dinner at issyk kul \u2013 flow the world", "raw_content": "dinner at issyk kul", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flyberry.in/products/flybrdhf17", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:34Z", "digest": "sha1:52AQ3Z3BXMBOPKM7VXQCSISXSXRW7LYM", "length": 780, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "flyberry.in", "title": "Flyberry Dehydrated Rambutan \u2013 Flyberry Gourmet", "raw_content": "Flyberry Dehydrated Rambutan\nRambutan is a tropical fruit that is native to Southeast Asia. It is related to the lychee and is very similar in colour and taste. Rambutans are a good source of energy, most of this energy comes from carbohydrates but this fruit also provides small amounts of protein and fat. Rambutans contain healthy natural sugars such as sucrose, fructose and glucose which are easily absorbed by the body for an instant energy boost. This fruit also has high water content, which makes it an ideal snack for athletes. The Rambutan also Protects Cells from free Radical Damage, Control Weight Gain, Prevent Anemia, Lower LDL (bad) Cholesterol Levels, and Promote Good Bone Health.\nPackage Content: 1 Rumbutan Bottle\nCan be used to make jellies, jams and salads.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://footwearnews.com/2018/business/retail/nike-dubai-store-opening-1202713486/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SKLWPE7RWVLC7AZ3WCKH5Y7CY3UDBUDM", "length": 1826, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "footwearnews.com", "title": "Nike Opens Flagship in Dubai & Why It\u2019s a Big Deal \u2013 Footwear News", "raw_content": "Why Nike Opening a Massive Store in Dubai Is a Big Deal\nOutside Nike's new store in Dubai.\nNike has a new store in Dubai, and it\u2019s colossal.\nThe brand\u2019s latest flagship spans more than 35,400 square feet on the second floor of the Dubai Mall, located on Fashion Avenue. The store, which opened Saturday, features a women\u2019s salon and places throughout for customization of sneakers and apparel.\n\u201cThe opening shows that consumers in all markets value experiential retail that does more than just provide product, but also creates immersive shopping experiences,\u201d FDRA CEO Matt Priest explained to FN.\nA look inside Nike\u2019s new store in Dubai.\nThe NPD Group Inc.\u2019s senior athletic industry adviser, Matt Powell, believes the United Arab Emirates city is the ideal territory for Nike to open.\n\u201cDubai has turned out to be a very strong retail market,\u201d explained Powell, noting Foot Locker has multiple stores in the area. \u201cThere are a ton of ex-patriots there who are looking for something American. [And] it\u2019s an international destination, so it\u2019s logical for Nike to have a store there.\u201d\nAside from Foot Locker, other retailers have moved into Dubai to tackle the emerging market, including boutique standout Concepts with its flagship that opened in 2016.\nThe Dubai store is open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. GMT to 10 p.m. GMT.\nA look at the Nike Dubai store.\nWhile this is the newest door to open, it\u2019s not the only massive retail experience Nike has launched in Q4. Last month, the Swoosh debuted the Nike House of Innovation 000 in New York City, a 68,000-square-foot space spanning six floors.\nNike\u2019s New Flagship Promises a Retail Experience Unlike Anything You\u2019ve Ever Seen\nHow to Get Nike\u2019s Sneakers That Raise Money for the Doernbecher Children\u2019s Hospital\nA New Book Is Out That\u2019s Dedicated to the Iconic Nike SB Dunk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.5613&lon=-79.9593", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:06Z", "digest": "sha1:2PRKDAQ57QQSNLNCFDEBNFTUV6DYMXK4", "length": 882, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "forecast.weather.gov", "title": "National Weather Service", "raw_content": "Mostly clear, with a low around 22. 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Chance of precipitation is 50%.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 7537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forttaylor.org/guns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:XXUIAT6KT32YBLYPHYMMAX75DIJ2XSDN", "length": 10594, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "forttaylor.org", "title": "The Guns of Fort Taylor \u2013 FortTaylor.org", "raw_content": "[The following section was first published in January 2017 in the Fort Zach Guidebook]\nFort Taylor was built between 1845 and 1866. When it was finished at the end of the Civil War, it had five different types of weapons in several sizes each: 1) 8- and 10-inch Columbiads; 2) 10- and 15-inch Rodmans; 3) 30- 100- and 300-pounder Parrott Rifles; 4) 24-pound Howitzers; and 5) 8- and 10-inch Seacoast Mortars. Of these types, Howard England and his volunteer \u201csandhogs\u201d discovered and excavated examples of four of these types (Columbiads, Rodmans, Parrotts, and mortars). A sixth type of gun, the 42 pounder James Rifle, was added between 1865 and 1873, but had been removed by the next inventory in 1892.\nOne drawback to the current state of Fort Taylor is that its magnificent inventory of guns is only partially visible. The picture at right is a view of one of the casemate galleries at Fort Taylor in 1891 showing a line of 10-inch Rodmans exactly as they were at the end of the Civil War. Note how shiny each of the gun tubes is \u2013 most likely a testament to the care of the gunnery sergeants left in charge of the Fort between 1872 and 1898. The wrought iron carriages and chassis show some signs of corrosion due to the salt environment of the Fort.\nBefore he retired, Howard England designed a replica casemate carriage and chassis for one 10-inch Rodman which was built a number of years later. The picture at left shows this installation in Gun Room 42. Although built of modern steel plate and beam, the gun tube is an original Rodman dug out of one of the Gun Rooms on the South Face. In the past it has been used in a number of re-enactments and can be operated exactly as the original was in the Civil War.\nThe Army began placing guns into Fort Taylor in 1855 and continued to do so until the formal end of hostilities in 1866. After the war, there apparently were a number of minor changes, but the total number of guns remained about the same. The 1873 inventory of guns at the Fort showed it contained 139 guns of the following types:\nAn additional six 15-inch Rodmans were emplaced in the North and South Sand Batteries on the shore. With the exception of four 10-inch Rodmans and the 24 pounder Howitzers, all of these weapons and their carriages and chassis were buried in either the gun rooms of the First Tier of the South Face or in the concrete of the front of Battery Osceola where Howard England later found them beginning in 1969. When he ended his excavations in October 1976, he had discovered more Rodmans and Columbiads than almost all of the other Forts on the East and West Coasts of our country. He was even called \u201cMr. Rodman\u201d by a number of nationally known Civil War armament experts for all of his discoveries!\nBIG GUNS AT FORT TAYLOR\nFive 10-inch Rodmans, one 8-inch Columbiad, two 10-inch Columbiads, one 300 pounder Parrott Rifle, and one 8-inch Seacoast Mortar are on display on the First Tier of the North Face. An additional 8-inch Columbiad is on display at the beginning of the sidewalk leading to the Fort. A total of six guns are visible in the top level of the concrete face of Battery Osceola: five 10-inch Rodmans and one 300 pounder Parrott. If access was allowed into the gun rooms of the South Face, additional guns can be seen also buried in the lower level of the concrete face of Battery Osceola. But these have never been included in the inventory of guns discovered at the Fort. Perhaps future excavations in the gun rooms of the South Face will reveal additional buried Civil War treasure. One 10-inch Rodman was moved to Fort Clinch in Fernandina Beach in the 1990\u2019s.\nIn World War II, the Army added two 90-mm Anti-Aircraft Guns to the Fort. They were emplaced to counter motor torpedo boats which might have attempted to enter the Key West harbor. The two guns were subsequently removed in 1947. Only their gun bases remain today.\nThe following section provides data on the guns found by Howard England and his \u201csand hogs\u201d at Fort Taylor:\n10-INCH RODMAN\nThe most prevalent gun emplaced at the Fort and the most often discovered during the 1969 to 1976 excavations at the Fort was the Model 1861 10-inch Rodman (also called a Rodman \u2013 Columbiad). By the end of the Civil War, these were emplaced on the First, Second, and Barbette Tiers of the Fort. They were used exclusively on wrought iron casemate and barbette carriages. They were first brought to Fort Taylor in 1863 during the Civil War.\nVital statistics for the 10-inch Rodman include:\n8-INCH COLUMBIAD\nThe Columbiad was invented in 1811 by Colonel George Bomford, United States Army. Columbiad cannon were first used in the War of 1812. Columbiads were then used by the United States coastal artillery all the way until the early years of the 20th Century. At Fort Taylor, they were used primarily on the Second Tier seaward curtains and were mounted on wooden casemate carriages. Some of the first 8-inch weapons were later transferred to Fort Jefferson to begin to equip that valuable defensive position. The first weapons brought to Fort Taylor in 1855 were the 8-inch Columbiad smoothbore cannon. The Columbiad was a large-caliber, smoothbore, muzzle-loading cannon able to fire heavy projectiles at both high and low trajectories. This feature enabled the Columbiad to fire solid shot or shell to long ranges, making it an excellent seacoast defense weapon for its day.\nVital statistics for the 8-inch Columbiad include:\n10-INCH COLUMBIAD\n10-inch Columbiads were late additions to the inventory at Fort Taylor. Also designed by Colonel George Bomford, United States Army. They were added to Fort Taylor\u2019s armament inventory during the Civil War and were used primarily on wooden barbette mounts on the terreplein. The two discovered by Howard England were found buried on the top of the South Face lying on the original slate floor covered over by sand and dirt. You can tell that these guns were employed on wooden carriages by the longer trunnions versus those on the Rodmans which were used only on thinner wrought iron carriages.\nVital statistics for the 10-inch Columbiad include:\n300-POUNDER PARROTT RIFLE\nParrotts were manufactured with a combination of cast and wrought iron. The cast iron made for an accurate gun tube, but suffered fractures due to its brittle cast iron. Parrott\u2019s genius was to install a large wrought iron reinforcing band overlaid on the breech to give it additional strength.One of the largest and most accurate of the weapons emplaced at Fort Taylor during the Civil War was the 300-pounder Parrott Rifle. The gun was invented by Captain Robert Parker Parrott,a West Point graduate who resigned from the service in 1836. Parrott became the superintendent of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York. He created the first Parrott Rifle (and corresponding projectile) in 1860 and patented it in 1861.\nIn 1873 there was only one on the inventory \u2013 like the one pictured above that was found by Howard England in 1971. While the contractor building Battery Osceola was moving this gun, the lifting band around the muzzle broke. The gun dropped some distance falling onto the floor of the Second Level of the South Face. It hit with such great force that it broke through the floor over Room 14 below. The Army Corps of Engineers apparently left it there and simply covered it over by dirt rather than try to move it any farther. It may have been employed on the Barbette Level immediately above where it was dropped. When my Dad was excavating Room 14, he discovered the muzzle of the gun poking through the ceiling of the room as well as brick and concrete fragments from where it had broken through the Second Level floor. He then was able to excavate the fill above Room 14 and remove the gun from.\nNote: There is another 300 pounder still entombed in the concrete of Battery Osceola. It is directly in view from the vantage point on the top of the Battery. One of the two Parrotts was probably added sometime after 1873 since two appear on the 1892 inventory.\nVital statistics for the 300-pounder Parrott Rifle include:\n8-INCH SEACOAST MORTAR\nFour 8-inch Seacoast Mortars were emplaced on the Barbette Level of the Barrack to protect the Fort from land attack. Guns were intended to breach the walls of fortifications during a siege through direct, low angle fire. Mortars, on the other hand, were designed to lob explosive shells in high arcs over the parapets of fortifications, inflicting casualties among those sheltering inside the fort. They were also intended to destroy resources behind the Fort\u2019s walls.\nMortars could kill men inside, and force others to stay under shelters, or prevent the crews from servicing their guns and repairing damage caused by the bombardment. Mortars could also destroy structures inside the fortification such as barracks and kitchens which would normally stay unharmed from standard guns. Heavier mortar shells could penetrate magazines and many bombproof shelters.Four 8-inch Seacoast Mortars were emplaced on the Barbette Level of the Barrack to protect the Fort from land attack. Guns were intended to breach the walls of fortifications during a siege through direct, low angle fire. Mortars, on the other hand, were designed to lob explosive shells in high arcs over the parapets of fortifications, inflicting casualties among those sheltering inside the fort. They were also intended to destroy resources behind the Fort\u2019s walls.\nThe 8-inch Seacoast Mortar was discovered by Howard England when he excavated the two 10-inch Columbiads on top of the South Face. It is the only one of the four known to have been at the Fort from Civil War times down to the Spanish-American War era.\nVital statistics for the 8-inch Mortar include:\nDETAILED INVENTORY OF GUNS EXCAVATED AT FORT TAYLOR\nDuring the period of active excavation at Fort Taylor, Howard England discovered the following guns either in the filled casemates of the South Face or embedded in the concrete structure of Battery Osceola:\nOTHER GUNS AT FORT TAYLOR\nAlthough no examples of 30-pounder Parrott gun tubes were found during my Dad\u2019s explorations, they are definitely represented by several hundred 30-pounder bolts discovered in the digging. These are very rare and hard to find, but the Fort has several hundred in its archives. Also, he found numerous 100-pounder bolts among the thousands of rounds of ammunition that was buried in the lower rooms of the South Face. Dad believed that these guns were entombed in the face of Battery Osceola, but he never had the chance to find them once excavations were stopped in 1976.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 11469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?s=2b050dc45ae9c0850df96fb11853e933&p=1062979756", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCU5QPLSVL25KPTJ2PBHOS6WLLFOZ7OK", "length": 211, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "forum.davidicke.com", "title": "Mark Taylor: 2 ex-presidents will die and 2 will face jail time - David Icke's Official Forums", "raw_content": "Note _ a 2 minute video......If true Obama & Bill Clinton will go to prison...\nBush 41 & Carter will die soon.....IMO\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdUxfyvH6k\nLast edited by agincourt; 26-11-2017 at 08:15 PM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 191.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.habitat.sh/t/running-my-own-depot/147", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4QMFBWK76YXY5TCTTGVQ6LVABEZA74IQ", "length": 1772, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "forums.habitat.sh", "title": "Running my own depot - Help - Habitat", "raw_content": "Running my own depot\nlightpriest 2017-11-28 21:12:51 UTC #1\nI\u2019m trying to run my own depot, but I have a few problems. Is there any guide (or even some draft) on how to do this properly?\nWe don\u2019t have a guide yet, but we\u2019re working on it. Check out [0] and [1] for more info.\n[0] https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/issues/1060\nIt\u2019s only meant for running in development, and doesn\u2019t include the web app, but you can try running make api-shell: https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat#running-the-builder-api-locally\nMight be worth a try just to experiment.\nI actually tried this before:\nStarted the hab-depot component successfully (with redis), but didn\u2019t know how to create an origin or authenticate myself.\nI then Started the hab-builder-api, configuring my github\u2019s client_key and secret_key for it. For some reason, the builder-api component starts the builder-web one, I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s intentional or not, but it doesn\u2019t pass the client_key configuration to the builder-web component, so signing in didn\u2019t work.\nI tried to run builder-web manually from the repository (using ruby), but this failed too, perhaps I wasn\u2019t using the correct git tag.\nI then saw the api-shell target in the Makefile, but it failed on me for some reason as well, so I gave up and decided to ask here.\nMy main issue was that I was getting \u201cForbidden\u201d responses from the depot. Now that I know about --insecure flag, I will probably use it. If I don\u2019t use the secure flag, is there a way to authenticate myself (or register) or setup an origin through the depot\u2019s API? I didn\u2019t find the correct path in hab-depot/server.rs, but again, maybe I was missing something. I\u2019ll give it a go again with api-shell.\nbixu 2016-12-08 16:01:43 UTC #5\nCheck out https://github.com/bdangit/chef-depot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60788&p=608749", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:17Z", "digest": "sha1:QOA3BMVAQPJOOHHZG4ERZUMU3HPCJEHO", "length": 1219, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "forums.introversion.co.uk", "title": "The guy who played DR Strangelove is dead. - Introversion", "raw_content": "Postby calmyswunt \u00bb Wed Mar 21, 2018 3:36 pm\nPeter Sellers who played\nGroup Captain Lionel Mandrake, a British RAF exchange officer\nPresident Merkin Muffley, the President of the United States\nDr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-using nuclear war expert and former Nazi\nDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, Sellers who also had a part in The Optimists of Nine Elms 1973 as Sam\nOn 21 July 1980 Sellers arrived in London from Geneva. He checked into the Dorchester hotel, before visiting Golders Green Crematorium for the first time to see the location of his parents' ashes.He had plans to attend a reunion dinner with his Goon Show partners Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, scheduled for the evening of 22 July. On the day of the dinner, Sellers took lunch in his hotel suite and shortly afterwards collapsed from a heart attack. He was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, London, and died just after midnight on 24 July 1980, aged 54.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 119.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.technicpack.net/tags/namico2000/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:19Z", "digest": "sha1:64PNGRKRNMFTINLSYCBPSFGDJTV4PYJF", "length": 1112, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "forums.technicpack.net", "title": "Showing results for tags 'namico2000'. - Technic Forums", "raw_content": "Showing results for tags 'namico2000'.\nnamico2000\n[1.0.11a] Geo-Craft AotBT Mature/close-knit/Whitelist/no griefing No banned items/mods\nSlumerican420 posted a topic in Attack of the B-Team Servers\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~General Info~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IP address: play.geo-craft.com Game mode: Survival Version: 1.0.11a Server up-time: 24/7, 99.9% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rules~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Be polite No Griefing Be MATURE! No Stealing Have fun!? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Staff~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Owner: Namico2000 Admins: Rijlal (~Rij) Slumerican420 (~Slum) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Come Join Us!~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please copy and paste the form below into a post and answer each question. Basics: In game name: Age: Timezone: About You: Describe your Minecraft experience: Describe your experience with Minecraft servers: Have you ever been banned? This is not necessarily a deal-breaker, but please explain what happened: What attracted you to this particular server? Anything Else? Optional.Is there anything you'd like to ask us or you'd like to share? Is there anything important for the staff to know?\nslumerican420\ngeo-craft\nattach of the b-team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 3858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article7911", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CR57VM64AXXBX4G5HFERDULA2ZEUWWVX", "length": 1308, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "franceintheus.org", "title": "\ufeff Conference for peace in the Middle East (Paris - January 15, 2017) - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "Conference for peace in the Middle East (Paris - January 15, (...)\nConference for peace in the Middle East (Paris - January 15, 2017)\nOver 70 countries and international organisations met in Paris on 15 January 2017 to reaffirm their support for a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\nI / Following the Ministerial meeting held in Paris on 3 June 2016, the Participants met in Paris on 15 January 2017 to reaffirm their support for a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They reaffirmed that a negotiated solution with two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, is the only way to achieve enduring peace.\nII / The Participants highlighted the potential for security, stability and prosperity for both parties that could result from a peace agreement. They expressed their readiness to exert necessary efforts toward the achievement of the two-state solution and to contribute substantially to arrangements for ensuring the sustainability of a negotiated peace agreement, in particular in the areas of political and economic incentives, the consolidation of Palestinian state capacities, and civil society dialogue. Those could include, inter alia :\nIII / Looking ahead, the Participants :", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 121.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://friendsofnewburytownlibrary.com/cake-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2PHYNHV5ZOTBQRYLF7OVG5RJDKPEMX6K", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "friendsofnewburytownlibrary.com", "title": "15th Anniversary Cake | The Friends of the Newbury Town Library, Inc.", "raw_content": "October 21, 2015 915 \u00d7 645 15th Anniversary Cake", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fstoppers.com/deals/huge-canon-6d-mark-ii-and-5d-mark-iv-savings-bh-208471", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MSFWXH4BKGT52XANHY2PT46EJVTAG4CZ", "length": 2009, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "fstoppers.com", "title": "Huge Canon 6D Mark II and 5D Mark IV Savings at B&H | Fstoppers", "raw_content": "Usually, B&H would sell the 6D Mark II for $2,208. For the holidays, they\u2019ve added a discount to bring it down to $1,699. That 23-percent discount would also come with a voucher worth 2-percent (or $33) of the order.\nRight now if you throw in extra goodies, the 6D Mark II is going for just $1,349. That\u2019s after using a $350 mail-in rebate. Included in the deal are a Canon printer, 50 sheets of glossy photo paper, a battery grip, a 64GB SD Card, and a spare battery. That\u2019s a 38-percent discount with the additional accessories added on top.\nSimilarly, the 5D Mark IV with the same accessories can be had for $2,849. Again, this is after a $350 rebate. In total, that\u2019s nearly a thousand dollars cheaper than the camera body on its own. So even if you won\u2019t use the Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer, it\u2019s best you go for this deal anyway if the 5D Mark IV is something you've been eyeing.\nThe deal ends on the December 31, so you won\u2019t need to hurry and buy before Christmas to cash in on the great prices. However, both of these cameras are eligible for free next-day shipping. With less than a week before Christmas, there\u2019s still time for Saint Nick to deliver \u2014 even if it\u2019s a gift for yourself!\nEdit: B&H is no longer running this deal. The 6D Mark II with this bundle is now running for $1,749, and the 5D Mark IV is set at $3,249 (both after rebate). I hope some folks were able to pick it up while it lasted!\nCheck Out These Amazing Deals on the Canon 5D Mark IV and 6D Mark II\nMatthew Paulson - December 18, 2017 [Edited]\nBack to $3,249 after rebate at the moment for the 5D Mark IV\nDavid Morales - December 18, 2017\nI'm curious how you are getting those prices. I clicked on both links and prices don't reflect those in the article.\nMatthew Paulson David Morales - December 18, 2017\nThe prices were correct a few hours ago. When I checked back they had jumped back up to current prices.\nNeysha Tirado - December 18, 2017\nYeah this is sad. I had it on my cart and when I came back to buy it was gone :-(", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fuerza943.com/oddisee-teams-good-compny-live-album-beneath-surface", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UW4V3SM4LDQQFCUOXFJV2SCIQEVWY4UF", "length": 1055, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "fuerza943.com", "title": "Oddisee Teams With Good Compny For Live Album \"Beneath The Surface\" \u22c6 Fuerza 94.3 fM \" alt=\"\"/>", "raw_content": "King Combs - 90's Baby\nOddisee Teams With Good Compny For Live Album \u201cBeneath The Surface\u201d\nNever been able to attend an Oddisee concert? Well, he\u2019s to give fans who\u2019ve missed out a chance to experience the show. The critically acclaimed MC \u2014 with the help of his band Good Compny \u2014 has released his first live album, Beneath The Surface.\nThe project was recorded from March to May 2017 while on tour in support of his latest studio effort, The Iceberg. Most of the LP features live renditions of songs from that album but it also includes cuts from his Alwasta EP, The Good Fight and People Hear What They See.\nCheck out the stream, cover art and tracklist for Oddisee\u2019s Beneath The Surface below.\n1. Digging Deep (Live)\n2. Things (Live)\n3. Built by Pictures (Live)\n4. Hold It Back (Live)\n5. Want to Be (Live)\n6. Like Really (Live)\n7. Rights & Wrongs (Live)\n8. NNGE (Live)\n9. That\u2019s Love (Live)\n10. You Know Who You Are (Live)\n11. Lifting Shadows (Live)\n12. Strength & Weakness (Live)\nToo Short Showcases Bay Area Talent With \u201cHella Disrespectful\u201d Mixtape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 5419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fullyorganics.blog/2018/11/07/how-to-be-vegan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LVUGOUHFZD77Z2HGILY7DJB7B7WC4X7N", "length": 3010, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "fullyorganics.blog", "title": "How To Be Vegan? \u2013 Fullyorganics", "raw_content": "A vegan lifestyle has been hailed as one of the kindest and compassionate way of lifestyle. If a person is using a vegan lifestyle, you are pledging not to eat any kind of meat or animal products.\nMost vegans believe that animal farming is a very cruel way to make money. Raising animals and turning them into meat and other products that are beneficial to humans is very inhumane.\nEven though many vegans admit that there is nothing mystic or magical attribution to their way of life, which is rumoured by some religious groups, however, vegans, undergo a different experience because of their eating habits. Let us try to know the different aspects of the vegan lifestyle, and try to examine the importance of this certain lifestyle.\nThere are people who are vegans for almost 20 years and there was not a moment when they have craved for meat products because they have planned their diets properly that they have no problems while in the lifestyle. There are numerous recipes available on our Instagram page.\nSome of the things that you can do while in a vegan diet are:\n1. Avoid meals that are composed of fruits alone. Though, a vegan lifestyle is also composed of fruits, eating fruits alone does not usually beneficial to most people. You may experience some problems such as significant weight loss, dental plaques, mental and emotional imbalances and many more. You should take note that there is no such thing as a 100% fruit diet. You should take a complete set of meals with vegetables and grains.\n2. Consume a lot of green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, broccoli, and celery. These vegetables are a high source of minerals, proteins and some nutrients. Once you start eating more vegetables, you wellness will improve significantly. You should make a habit to add green vegetables with every meal. Sea vegetables such as weeds, kelp, dulse and nori are very nutritious.\n3. Cut-out all animal products including dairy, milk and other products that are tested on animals. Also cut-out meat such as chicken, fish and seafood. Meat is normally contaminated with various hormones, chemicals, bacteria and metals. Also, meat can also contain saturated fat which can increase the risk for heart diseases, cancer, eye problems and other diseases.\nThere are also some differences between a vegetarian and a vegan. Vegetarians generally abstain from animal flesh, while vegans also avoid animal by-products or products that have been tested on animals. Vegans also do not consume dairy and cheese as well as any material things that are made from animal parts.\nThere are also health habits that you should do when you want a vegan lifestyle. You should exercise daily at least a moderate form of any physical activity for at least 30 minutes to one hour every day. These activities can be a simple walking along the beach, 30 minute-aerobics, trampoline jumping, biking, or just a brisk walking around the town.\nPrevious Healthy Benefits Of A Vegan Lifestyle\nNext How To Start A Vegan Lifestyle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2015/07/28/space-madness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:IQUL5OIN24K7NTXUHD4O2NXPIKHB7M6W", "length": 1667, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "gamergirlconfessions.com", "title": "Space Madness \u2013 Gamer Girl Confessions", "raw_content": "One of my favorite things to do in-game when I know I have limited time is to run a Vet Shiphand or two. Vet Shiphands were added into the game in Drop 4, and are a great way to kill a quick thirty minutes (or less) when you just need a gaming break from something. They\u2019re also a pretty handy way to make some cash if you need some.\nI wish I\u2019d thought to just do shiphands last night, instead of trying to run dailies. Honestly, I logged in with the intention of leveling Bauxyte, then got distracted with cleaning up the guild bank some, then was helping a guildie with her house, and then by the time I got to dailies (because I noticed I hadn\u2019t hit my Elder Gem cap), Chaide was home so I didn\u2019t really do many dailies.\nThough, I wonder if I would have had the focus to sit down and run a shiphand as is, considering how back-and-forth I was in my goals when I sat down.\nWhich makes me feel that in my current mental state, all disorganized and stressed, that an image of the Shiphand \u201cSpace Madness\u201d was appropriate.\nI guess this is more of a micro-post, considering not much went on last night that\u2019s interesting or worth writing about. But I\u2019m trying to get myself into the habit of blogging daily for Blaugust. And I really need to get over the fact that sometimes I really just won\u2019t have exciting things to write about, and I\u2019m trying to suss out a style for those moments.\nSo constructive criticism is appreciated. I know, this is mainly about me just writing, but I\u2019d like for it to be coherent, make sense, and entertaining to read. And when I don\u2019t have much to write about, it can be a bit difficult to feel like it\u2019s those three things.\nAurins Can Fly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gannongolfclub.com/functions/about-catering/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:47Z", "digest": "sha1:MVQTYZUNCN3LITB3ITRZMAMSVX6QFCHA", "length": 2221, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gannongolfclub.com", "title": "About Catering - Gannon Municipal Golf Course", "raw_content": "About Diamond\u2019s Catering\nDiamond\u2019s Catering offers a unique selection of hors d\u2019oeuvres, platters, entrees, soups, salads, side dishes and desserts \u2013 perfect for any occasion. From sophisticated specialties to traditional favorites, the carefully homemade food from Diamonds Catering allows you the time to enjoy delicious food with family and friends without breaking your budget. Diamond\u2019s Catering is a family owned business that has operated in the City of Lynn and the surrounding North Shore Communities since 1986. Thomas and Kim Diamond have performed a variety of functions related to food preparation and service. Together we have established a quality catering and food preparation business for many different venues all over the North and South Shore. Together we have fifty years of experience in the catering business, and because of our many years and wide variety of experiences in the food service field, Diamond\u2019s Catering is able to maintain high standards, an abundance of knowledge that allows us to provide quality food at a great price. We remain confident that our training and experience will allow us to provide you with the highest quality and exceptional value that you would seek for your event. Once you have reviewed our menus, we ask that you speak with us so we can make additions or subtractions to suit the needs of your function. A few things to note are:\nYou have a choice of your meal to be served buffet, sit-down or family style\nChina and flatware are available at a cost per person\nLinen tablecloths are available at a cost of $20.00 per table\nBuffet menus do not include plastic ware/plastic table coverings, but can be available at a cost of $10.00 per table\nWe do require a non-refundable deposit to secure the date of your function. The total bill is due one week prior to your event\nDiamond\u2019s Catering does not accept personal checks for final payment\nWe do accept MasterCard, Visa & American Express ($20.00 service fee)\nSet up an appointment with an event planner to help you make the most of your event! We are able to customize your menu and help you choose the perfect finishing touches to turn your event into any theme you can think of. Simply call us at 781-589-7113.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gellerreport.com/2017/04/17000-muslim-terror-suspects-monitored-france-one-month.html/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OE3FWBUH6W3SHFA3GP4NX7IONOQCDW65", "length": 2540, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "gellerreport.com", "title": "More than 17,000 Muslim terror suspects monitored in France in ONE MONTH - Geller Report", "raw_content": "More than 17,000 Muslim terror suspects monitored in France in ONE MONTH\nThe scale is unimaginable, an army has landed in Europe.\nAnd despite our warnings \u2014 for years \u2014 my colleagues and I were demonized, libeled and defamed \u2014 because of our warnings.\nMore than 17,000 terror suspects monitored in France in ONE MONTH\nMORE than 17,000 terror suspects have been monitored by French authorities in the last month alone, new figures reveal.\nBy Patrick Christys, The Express, Apr 14, 2017:\nThis could pose a serious threat to Britain, with France just 20 miles (33km) away across the Channel and Islamic State militants known to be targeting London and other regions.\nThe French Senate announced the results of the \u201cPrevention of Radicalism and Regional Authorities\u201d report yesterday, showing 17,393 people have been listed as terror suspects since the beginning of March.\nA total of 2,046 French citizens fled to Syria and Iraq to fight for terrorist groups in the Middle East, the report also shows \u2013 249 of those are now believed to be dead.\nA breakdown of the report shows 7,400 individuals were reported by the Security Chiefs of Staff, 5,346 by the public and 5,799 individuals were registered by police or gendarmerie.French authorities said they were not all being constantly monitored, rather some were scrutinised at regular intervals.\nISIS terrorists have been honing their sights on an attack on a ferry crossing the Channel, according to senior security sources, which has lead to an increase in armed guards at the Calais border.\nThey believe they can get terrorists into Britain via a ferry\nSenior security source\nThe initial threat emerged last summer but, with the hot season fast approaching, it is possible the jihadis have reaffirmed their murderous desires.A senior security source, confirming the attacks had been planned last year, said: \u201cThe presence of the police and soldiers near Calais is very alarming \u2013 there\u2019s nothing routine about it.\nThis could pose a serious threat to Britain, with France just 20 miles (33km) away\n\u201cApparently they are at a high state of alert because there is a fear of jihadists getting on to a ferry headed for Britain and executing people on the ship.\u201cIt is also possible that ISIS may have been told security has in the past been reasonably lax so they believe they can get terrorists into Britain via a ferry.\u201d\nFrance\u2019s attempts to guard against terror are in tatters after numerous deadly attacks, most notably the Nice and Paris atrocities, which killed more than 200 people combined.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 8609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gellerreport.com/2017/09/devout-father-hammer.html/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NJBSNSCMUAMNLHU6IS7GPTCXSN5WUKYR", "length": 4925, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "gellerreport.com", "title": "Devout Muslim father who served time for raping a schoolgirl savagely beat his 17-year-old daughter and her secret boyfriend with a hammer - Geller Report", "raw_content": "Devout Muslim father who served time for raping a schoolgirl savagely beat his 17-year-old daughter and her secret boyfriend with a hammer\n\u201cIn a statement to police Fathema claimed her father was \u2018very religious and very controlling\u2019 and would not let her out of the house unless she wore an Islamic veil. She said she had been forced to live \u2018two lives\u2019 at the family home as she was made to wear a headscarf in front of her father \u2013 only for to secretly take it off once she was out of his sight. She said she wanted to \u2018live her own life.'\u201d\nThis is another manifestation of what I always said: sharia leads young women who want to live some semblance of a normal life to lead double lives. They wear the hijab when they leave the house but take it off when they think they\u2019re safely far enough away. But they\u2019re taking an extreme risk, because their fathers believe they have power of life and death over them, as per Islamic law which mandates no penalty for a father who kills a child.\n\u201cDevout Muslim father who served time for raping a schoolgirl savagely beat his 17-year-old daughter and her secret boyfriend with a hammer after he caught them having sex in her bedroom,\u201d by Katie French, Mailonline, September 28, 2017:\nA devout Muslim father who served time for raping a schoolgirl has been jailed for savagely beating his 17-year-old daughter and her secret boyfriend.\nBusinessman Soruth Ali, 42, was woken up at 5am by noises coming from the bedroom of his second eldest\u2019s room and walked in to find her and lover James Martin in bed together.\nThe restaurant boss, described as controlling and very religious, went into a rage \u2013 grabbing a hammer and hitting Mr Martin over the head before chasing out of his family home in Leigh, Greater Manchester.\nThe married father of four then punched and kicked daughter Fathema as she curled in a ball before dragging her out of her bedroom by the hair.\nIt is not the first time Ali has been hauled before the courts. He was convicted of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 1995 and served seven years in prison.\nThe court heard how Fathema\u2019s boyfriend suffered a deep gash to his head which required two staples while her head and face were badly bruised.\nThe teenager was so terrified of her father she moved to a secret address where she was placed under police protection before being placed in care.\nIn a statement to police Fathema claimed her father was \u2018very religious and very controlling\u2019 and would not let her out of the house unless she wore an Islamic veil.\nShe said she had been forced to live \u2018two lives\u2019 at the family home as she was made to wear a headscarf in front of her father \u2013 only for to secretly take it off once she was out of his sight. She said she wanted to \u2018live her own life.\u2019\nDespite the assault on August 21 this year, Ali was said by probation officers to have shown a \u2018lack of remorse and empathy\u2019 for his daughter and Mr Martin and even attempted to \u2018justify\u2019 his actions.\nAt Bolton Crown Court, he admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault and was jailed for 14 months.\nFathema who had been seeing Mr Martin without the knowledge of her mother and father sneaked him back to her her home while the parents were away.\nBut Mr Martin was still at the property when Ali and his wife unexpectedly returned home early and as a result he ended up hiding in Fathema\u2019s bedroom for the night.\nPeter Gilmore prosecuting said: \u2018In the early hours of the morning Mr Ali heard noises coming from his daughters room so went to see what it was.\n\u2018 He saw his daughter having sex with Mr Martin and became enraged and chased Mr Martin from his home, and hit him in the back of the head with a hammer telling him to get out of his house.\n\u2018As Mr Martin fled the property, Mr Ali returned to his daughters bedroom and started punching and hitting her and she fell to the floor and he began dragging her round by her hair. She suffered bruising to her face.\u2019\n\u2018Fathema and Mr Martin both called the police as did a neighbour and Mr Ali was arrested. His daughter was a particularly vulnerable young woman, as she was his 17 year old daughter living in his house. It is clear in his probation report that he was trying to minimise these offences. He has also made attempts to minimise and justify the offences.\u2019\nIn her statement which was detailed at an earlier hearing Fathema claimed her father hit her on the left arm and knocked her to the floor. She said he then began to kick her to the head and legs and she curled up in a ball and was she was so scared she wet herself.\nShe said she could hear her mother and sister saying \u2018stop\u2019 but Ali grabbed her ponytail and dragged her out of the bedroom as other relatives advised her to pack her belongings and go.\nThe court heard Ali had a previous rape conviction from 1995 for which he served seven years jail after he attacked a 15-year-old girl when she was in her school uniform\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 11040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getfoundintown.com/the-need-for-seo-monitoring/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7LUMH4LUGKJ7TSLJ3TCPELCE77HQ7PFE", "length": 1248, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "getfoundintown.com", "title": "The Need For SEO Monitoring \u2022 Sarasota Web Design, SEO Services & Internet Marketing: Get Found In Town", "raw_content": "The Need For SEO Monitoring\nPeople should never just assume that their search engine optimization strategies are working. It will take some time for certain SEO strategies to work. However, some of these strategies will never succeed. People need to keep track of their progress.\nBusinesses will have different goals for their SEO. Some people are interested in attracting local customers. Other marketers are trying to get the attention of people from all over the world. They might need to use different sets of SEO techniques when they are trying to accomplish both sets of goals.\nWhen it comes to marketing, website design improvements can help. People need to make sure that their websites are still effective. The styles associated with popular websites can change rapidly. People need to keep track of these things if they want to be successful marketers.\nMonitoring the progress associated with some SEO strategies can be tough. People might just need to look at the results. They might be in a situation where nothing seems to be changing. If that happens, it\u2019s clear that some SEO strategies need to be updated.\nHowever, it\u2019s easier to monitor other SEO changes. Some of the best SEO strategies are the ones that come with objective data.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getvolt.dk/en/payment", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:6452JNYZFOYRF63IHV55CEO2NVYKSBZI", "length": 690, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "getvolt.dk", "title": "Payment - Volt", "raw_content": "Payment can be made via Paypal, Dankort, MasterCard, Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron at this website. It is also possible to pay with cash at the Volt booths at each festival. Applicable fees are available at www.getvolt.dk and are also displayed before the customer confirms the online purchase.\nAll card information is transferred to our payment system via a secure connection using SSL.\nThe payment is withdrawn from the customer's card at the time of payment unless physical products are also purchased in the same order. In this case, the payment is withdrawn at the time of shipment from Volt's warehouse.\nIf you have questions regarding payment, please contact us at support@getvolt.dk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gingetz.com/2014/01/07/down/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:53K7CRPMQ3LBMCAKWDKXCHYBSJ4BOTPU", "length": 12118, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "gingetz.com", "title": "Down\u2026 | Gin Getz", "raw_content": "January 7, 2014 / Gin Getz\nMost days we\u2019re down by the river. You can\u2019t hear it or see it but it is there. Like blind faith. Or common sense. Dormant under the frozen surface. Silenced by the season.\nUnderneath, I know she rages. The Mighty Rio. Uncontained by elements and as strong as tide, she flows.\nWithout concern to her, we are on top, dragging logs, back and forth by snowmobile, snowshoes, culling dead trees, wondering if any will remain. Looks like we might be working here a while.\nI thought it would be healing. Maybe eye-opening is healing.\nThe things we are seeing.\nWe\u2019re deep in dead wood. Dang it, you can\u2019t even find an undisturbed aspen grove around these parts without a great percentage of death.\nBut the spruce, the once blue spruce. That is what I see. Red.\nI don\u2019t know the numbers. You can look them up yourself. All I know is we\u2019ve been watching the beetles kill mountain after mountain year after year. Like a wave. Starting at the top and spilling down. Then onto the next. And going back to finish off the stragglers.\nPlease don\u2019t tell me to cheer up. I\u2019ll be just as likely to tell you to wake up. Open up your eyes. Get out here and see for yourself.\nIt\u2019s quite ruthless. Not what I have seen in other parts. I read we\u2019re not the only ones, but right now, we got it bad. And there\u2019s no end in sight. I just came back from a snowshoe on this side of the river and saw the tell tale signs. Again. It\u2019s making its way down Pole Mountain and hitting the trees behind us. Pin holes, sap and slipping bark. Will they be red by summer?\nI\u2019m not hiding the truth or sugar coating this to find the pretty parts. I\u2019m telling it like it is. Don\u2019t read it if you don\u2019t want to know what\u2019s happening in this part of Colorado, here in the Rio Grande National Forest, here where the Weminuche Wilderness borders our land. It\u2019s easy to avoid. There\u2019s not much out there on the subject. I\u2019ll share with you what little I\u2019ve found. Though some of it is nonsense, and the rest, well, you probably don\u2019t want to know.\nRemember the year the deer and elk were trapped by the sudden snow? Remember how many of us had broken hearts watching our wildlife starve to death? We started to feed, until finally the Department of Wildlife was tired of being the bad guy telling us it was \u201cnatural\u201d as if that would make it all OK and they got in on the action too and tried to help by distributing feed. Sometimes sticking with your heart, doing something rather than nothing, helps. It didn\u2019t save most of the deer. I remember driving to Gunnison that spring and seeing a carcass rotting on every hill, far too many for the coyote and crows to finish off.\nBut do nothing? Easy to do if you leave. Go home. Don\u2019t see. But if this is your home? You would do something too.\nWhat can I do except share with you what I see?\nSecrets unveiling.\nFor those daring to dive into the depths, dig in, cut through to the dark blue wood.\nBundle up \u2018cause the sun don\u2019t shine down there where we\u2019re working, the sugar snow is deep and loose, and the wind still blows.\nThere, I\u2019ll show you what I see.\nNature\u2019s foul infanticide. As small as we see they can grow, we see they can be killed by beetles. It only takes a few pinholes.\nMistletoe on most every tree. Odd. I\u2019m not going to turn into a biologist and claim to have the facts but sometimes, many times, I wish I knew more. Why are these parasites thriving as the tree puts out their last sap, and then goes down with its sinking ship shortly after?\nLast night two owls were talking back and forth in the tall green trees behind my cabin. What are the chances of those trees being green this time next year?\nA chickadee lights above me on a branch of healthy aspen as I\u2019m fiddling with my camera. I talk to it. It chirps back. We discuss what will become of all of this. We agree (I think) we will adapt.\nNext tree over is a big old spruce. One of the elder trees. At the base is a pile of loose bark chipped by the woodpecker seeking out the larva already within. Farewell for the old wise ones.\nKnowledge. How do we find answers? I would have thought quoting science would give me backing. Instead, it seems, if I mention \u201cclimate change\u201d or \u201cglobal warming\u201d I become political. No thanks.\nI grew up in lefty liberal world; my husband in a righteous right wing one. We chose to sit back, watch, and think for ourselves. What a concept. What I see is this. People accept politics as they do religion, with just as much blind faith, but lacking a god or the golden rule.\nI\u2019m for thinking, observing, making up my own mind. I\u2019m not going to try to convince you to believe what I believe. Beliefs are personal. You can (and should) make up your own mind, be smart enough to think for yourself, change your mind when you learn and grow (assuming, that is, you do\u2026), and then\u2026 keep it to yourself. Those with the loudest voices tend to have the least to say. One more reason to stay up here on the mountain and keep away from town. I never was much of a conversationalist.\nSo this isn\u2019t about science, data, or personal beliefs. This is about cold hard facts. OK? What I see before me. That\u2019s it. Maybe you see something different. Like a paved street or sidewalk or another concrete building or pretty suburb street with groomed lawns and a shiny new SUV in every driveway. Fine. Whatever.\nMe, I see trees. Dead standing. Hillsides of them. Big hillsides. Entire mountains you can find on the map with names like Ute Ridge and Simpson, Pole and Finger Mesa.\nCome stand before my kitchen window and look outside with me now.\nTell me what you see. Not what you want to see. Not what you are told to believe.\nI don\u2019t care about who or what you believe in. I care about what you see.\nEnough, already, I hear you say\nSo I\u2019ll save the rest for another day.\nbeetle kill, change, climate, colorado, environment, gin getz, nature, rio grande, weminuche wilderness, wildlife\n\u2026 and Out. \u2192\n14 thoughts on \u201cDown\u2026\u201d\nAnxious to read \u201cthe rest\u201d on another day! I don\u2019t get sick of hearing about it because even though I hate \u201cit\u201d\u2026 (what is happening\u2026the beetle kill) \u2026out there is still where I love no matter what and reading your posts helps me not feel as far away!\nThank you, dear Beka. Of course, it is never not going to be beautiful. But is beautiful enough? Or shallow. What is happening now can not be overlooked. What is it, and why, and who are we to just accept rather than question and wonder why? And so we stand by our mountain. Even from afar. For our memories and histories,our current hopes and expectations of what it means to each of us, and mostly, for our children.\nIn my opinion, beauty comes from within and transcends what we see on the surface\u2026 therefore us seeing the beauty of the mountain through the death cannot be shallow\u2026 kind of hard to explain! :) But the ones that can stand by in the midst are those that truly care\u2026 and who will always. Finding myself missing it all the more lately!\nBeka, that\u2019s beautifully said\u2026 truly\u2026 and I know you\u2019re one of those. Missing is good. It means feeling, caring. Write any time (on my g-mail if you want too). I will try to keep posting. And remember you can be with in heart and soul if not physical presence. Heck, Forrest is in the South Pole and I love him as much as ever and am just as \u201cclose\u201d as ever. Space and distance are relative matters.\nThanks so much Gin!!\nGin, thanks for your posts. I live in a different world where we too have our own problems on the Baltic.\nYour writing reminds me of the tone expressed by Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s book Flight Behaviour, an awesome read too and a writer I very much enjoy reading.\nHugs from Poland where it should be winter, but it\u2019s more like spring..\nI have not read that, and look forward to it. Enjoy your wild winter. Here, surprisingly mild as well. Up on the mountain. Far colder in the valley below. Go figure\u2026 (though I dare not complain!)\nCrying\u2026for the birds and all the animals for whom these trees have provided shelter and life. The photo of the tree made me cry, too, well, after I let out a little gasp. Seeing the life blood oozing out of the once majestic spruce.\nKaren, I thought about this a lot. You\u2019re right. The loss of the big ones is \u2026 breathtakingly heartbreaking. But somehow I was prepared. I was warned we\u2019d lose them all. Yes, all. So I walk among them and thank them for having been a part and shared and lived so much longer than i ever will. i think of what they have lived through, what they have seen, and now they are being destroyed by a tiny little beetle and our change in climate which allows them to flourish.\nHowever I still held hope for the little ones. Seeing them taken so easily\u2026 forget about what\u2019s fair and trying to find the good and the justice in this\u2026\nIt pains me to hear this. I hear nothing in the news media about it. Our last visit was in the warmth of summer in 2010. I could see the death chasing the beautiful Blue Spruce into Rio Grand Valley as far as the reservoir then. We camp just above your ranch in an Aspen grove just below what my daughter named Castle Rock Mountain. That area was still beautiful and alive then. Our planned return this summer will surly be filled with despair and sadness.. It\u2019s not just the trees but all of the little beautiful things that depend on them. Nature is a balancing accomplishment and when something of this magnitude happens\u2026well, we may see change for many years to come. I share your post with my family and friends. Folks are grieving with you and this disaster. I want to see through your words. Please keep us posted. We have been going up there and that area since 1974.\nI am sorry, Rick, and I do understand. No, the media doesn\u2019t cover this area. Not even much mentioned state or nationwide when over 100,000 acres burned this summer. That\u2019s good and bad. Good because the last thing any of the businesses need is people scared away unnecessarily. Bad because it\u2019s too easy and convenient to ignore this situation. I can promise you and your daughter this, and we all must always remember this. It will always be beautiful (though true beauty isn\u2019t always pretty) and it belongs to us all. So, if it\u2019s going through a hard time, we won\u2019t turn our back and say we\u2019ll just going somewhere where we don\u2019t have to see what\u2019s happening. Most folks, we find, don\u2019t want to miss it. The mountain is a part of them. The good times, the bad times. As a good friend reminds me, this too will pass. Don\u2019t miss the passing, be here, be a part of it, see the changes, and then like the rest of us, try to understand why\u2026 and watch to see what Mother Nature will do next. Because her forces are resilient, mighty and\u2026 beautiful.\nI cannot imagine seeing a beloved, familiar, essential forest being decimated in waves like you describe. If this is happening because we\u2019ve screwed up our ecosystem such that these pests thrive in warmer weather, then we\u2019ve doubly screwed ourselves.\nI read an article by BC Parks. Here\u2019s an excerpt:\n\u201d Q. When will this epidemic end?\nSevere prolonged cold weather or a loss of host trees is the only way to stop the spread of mountain pine beetle. In the Cariboo-Chilcotin, the infestation in the early 1980s continued for ten years, before this weather pattern reduced the spread of mountain pine beetle. \u201d\nI saw a part of that forest and it was heartbreaking. I\u2019m so sorry you have to watch it happen under your nose in the environment you\u2019ve come to understand and cherish.\nThanks for sharing that, Amy. Been reading everything I can get my hands on. Something will surely stop the spread, and these mountains will someday recover and regrow. Not in my lifetime. So we must find answers for the next. Seeing it is shocking. That actually helps. People begin to open their eyes and then open their hearts. Gosh, I could go on forever\u2026 I guess I am doing just that in the next book. I don\u2019t want to be a scientist (well, maybe, but that\u2019s out of the question) \u2013 I just want to share what I see. It\u2019s a nagging obligation I can no longer ignore. It\u2019s in my face!\nThanks for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I will just bookmark this site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 14202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://girlscoutsfl.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005460247-Do-you-allow-pets-on-the-property-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3NAZG2Q7DIFRQHX3VN54IB355PS5C74S", "length": 176, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "girlscoutsfl.zendesk.com", "title": "Do you allow pets on the property? \u2013 Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida, Inc", "raw_content": "Unfortunately, we do not allow pets on our properties.\nIf you bring your pet with you when you drop off or pick up your daughter at summer camp, the pet must remain in the car.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://github.com/jbryer/DATA606Spring2019/blob/master/content/course-overview/textbooks.md", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5ANCY7MTCBYVQUM4FBXXNFT4BKSQWJHF", "length": 1266, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "github.com", "title": "DATA606Spring2019/textbooks.md at master \u00b7 jbryer/DATA606Spring2019 \u00b7 GitHub", "raw_content": "jbryer/DATA606Spring2019\nDATA606Spring2019/content/course-overview/textbooks.md\n+++ title = \"Textbooks\" description = \"\" weight = 3 +++\nDiez, D.M., Barr, C.D., & \u00c7etinkaya-Rundel, M. (2015). OpenIntro Statistics (3rd Ed).\nThis is an open source textbook and can be downloaded in PDF format here, from the OpenIntro website, or a printed copy can be ordered from Amazon.\nNavarro, D. (2015, version 0.5). Learning Statistics with R\nThis is free textbook that supplements a lot of the material covered in Diez and Barr. We will use the chapter on Bayesian analysis. You can download a PDF version, or buy a print copy from Lulu through the author's website.\nWickham, H., & Grolemund, G. (2016) R for Data Science. O'Reilly.\nMost of this books is available freely online at r4ds.had.co.nz/ but can be purchased from Amazon.\nWickham, H. Advanced R. Baca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group.\nMost of this book is available freely online at adv-r.had.co.nz but can be purchased from Amazon.\nKruschke, J.K. (2014). Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan (2nd Ed). London: Academic Press.\nThis book can be purchased from Amazon, but also check out the author's webiste (doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.com/) for additional resources.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalvolunteers.org/diwali-festival-lights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GFTTLZCZLDPZLNHVFGH2IQD3NYPN4M2C", "length": 2259, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "globalvolunteers.org", "title": "Diwali Festival of Lights in India celebrated on October 18th", "raw_content": "The Indian Festival of Lights\nToday marks the Indian festival of lights, called Diwali or Deepavali, which is celebrated throughout the country. The Diwali festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. There are many stories associated with this festival. The most common is the return of Rama and Sita to Ayodhya after killing the demon king Ravana in Sri Lanka. People celebrated the return of Rama and Sita by lighting up lamps along the path of their return.\nThe Diwali festival marks a national holiday, not just in India, but in many countries where this important festival is celebrated. It is one of the biggest festivals in India with lots of shopping, bursting firecrackers, sweets, and gift exchanges. The Diwali festival marks the biggest shopping season as well with lots of discounts and offers on every product and brand. People wear new clothes, do pujas (prayers to host, honor, and worship) and go to temples, exchange sweets and gifts, and set off lots and lots of firecrackers.\nTraveling Home for the Diwali Festival\nEveryone wants to be with their families for this festival, so many people travel to their villages to be with their families. Traveling at this time of the year becomes very hectic and difficult. The government announces special buses and trains to cater to the demand. The setting off of firecrackers is quite dangerous, especially with all the smoke that is produced. We always hope there are no accidents. Children love this festival as they get to burst fire crackers. They all get new outfits and get to enjoy lots of homemade sweets. All in all it is a festival of joy and happiness for all the people!\nTo learn more about volunteering and experiencing Indian culture firsthand, check out these blog posts:\nhttps://205eev2oa0jm1t4yb914s1nw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171017_195425-resized.jpg 1125 1500 Maggie Bjorklund https://205eev2oa0jm1t4yb914s1nw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2014-GlobalVolunteersLogo-Web.png Maggie Bjorklund2017-10-18 10:14:522017-10-18 10:16:59Diwali Festival of Lights\nReasons to Volunteer in Poland The Value of Teamwork on Volunteer Abroad Programs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grannynannies.care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XMTTLK6R5LUNCWUGLLTKNJUFUOMRJHF2", "length": 7702, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "grannynannies.care", "title": "Granny Nannies, At Home Caregiver of Volusia County.", "raw_content": "Quality Home Health Care\nwith a helping hand & a gentle heart\nProviding quality home care services you can count on, to help you take care of the people who matter most. At Granny Nannies, we put the care first.\nPeace of Mind for $17.99 per Hour\nHANDS-ON PERSONAL CARE AND ASSISTANCE\nAs we get older, it becomes more difficult to safely manage the activities of daily living (ADL\u2019s) on our own. Let our professional caregivers provide the helping hands and encouragement that your loved one may need. Our CNA\u2019s and HHA\u2019s can assist your loved one with personal hygiene care needs, such as bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, and oral hygiene.\nWALKING ASSISTANCE & TRANSFERS\nAs mobility and independence often decrease with advancing age, our caregivers will be there to stabilize your loved one when walking or ambulating, as needed. They can also provide assistance with physical transfers, such as assisting their client with getting up & down from a chair, to and from the commode, as well as in and out of bed.\nOur caregivers will provide companionship and supervision for your loved one. They will keep them engaged by encouraging them to attend social events, accompanying them on their daily outings for light exercise, and conversing with them. They can also accompany them on their errands or lunch dates and encourage them to keep their mind active with crossword puzzles, cards, or reading the daily newspaper.\nOBSERVE & REPORT CLIENT CHANGES\nOur Client Care Managers will keep you updated on your loved one\u2019s condition. To provide the most accurate and up-to-date information, we communicate regularly with our caregivers who observe their clients from day to day and report any significant changes in their daily routines, behavior, ways of communicating, appearance, general mood or physical health.\nMEAL PREPARATION & MEDICATION REMINDERS\nOur caregivers can prepare light meals in accordance with your loved ones\u2019 preferences and dietary needs. They can help with shopping lists and grocery shopping. If needed, they can assist the client with feeding and cutting their food, remind clients to take in adequate fluids, and provide verbal medication reminders.\nGranny Nannies caregivers will help to maintain a safe and healthy environment by providing light housekeeping tasks such as straightening the care areas, keeping the bathroom clean, washing the dishes, changing the client\u2019s bed linens, and doing the client\u2019s laundry.\nHealthcare You Can Count On\nCaring for others just like family\nWe are dedicated to helping seniors retain their dignity and independence as they advance in age or recover from an illness by assisting them with the tasks of daily living in their places of residence. We are committed to providing the best of care, giving you the peace of mind you\u2019re looking for in your time of need.\nOur caregivers are carefully screened and selected. They are special people with a passion for helping others. Our criteria for screening caregivers goes beyond state requirements and, therefore, we have a more dependable and trusted group of qualified caregivers.\nAdditionally, we know how trying it can be for you to invite someone with whom you are not familiar into your home, so we strive to provide your loved one with regularly scheduled caregivers who will come to know them and understand their needs and preferences.\nWe will provide a personalized schedule of service to meet your needs, from 6 per visit up to 24 hours per day (30 hour per week minimum), whether help is needed temporarily or long term. Our experienced and professional office staff is on-call 24 hours per day, seven days per week, so we are always there when you need us.\nWe are locally owned and operated, with over 22 years of experience meeting the home care needs of seniors. We have been under the same hands-on management since we opened our doors in 1997.\nAll News Around Us\n/ granny\nThree Tips for Coping With The Aging Process\nCaring for your parents is a task that calls for a lot of love, patience, and determination. Though it may seem easy to help your loved ones, this can be much more difficult than...\naging help, coping with aging, elderly care, elderly care tips, Granny Nannies\nKidney Care: Spotting Failures Early\nKidney disease is widely recognized as one of the most common and detrimental diseases out there. It is a progressive condition, meaning that it can be especially hard to detect in its early stages....\nelderly care, Granny Nannies, kidney care, kidney health, kidney problems\nElderly Fraud: Protect Your Loved Ones\nIt\u2019s nothing new to say that older people are being ripped off online. In one form or another, the elderly members of our community have been the target of abuse from various villain types...\nelderly care, elderly fraud, fraud protection, fraud safety, Granny Nannies\nInterested in care for your loved one?\nAre you a CNA? Join our family\nWe are always looking for qualified, compassionate and dependable caregivers. If you are a Certified Nursing Assistant or Home Health Aide and you want to make a difference in the lives of the elderly, please come to our office to fill out an application today. Applications are accepted Monday-Friday 10 A.M. \u2013 4 P.M.\nAfter 16 years in the television industry, I woke up on my 35th birthday and realized, \u201cI want to do something that\u2019s going to make a difference in people\u2019s lives, something that\u2019s going to matter.\u201d And with that thought in mind, I began the process of becoming the very first Granny Nannies\u2019 franchise. That was 22 years ago! Where does the time go?\nI feel really good about what we do here at Granny Nannies. I find it very gratifying \u2013 we are doing something that matters. We put the care of our clients first, our caregivers second, and the agency last. We\u2019re not trying to hit numbers. Our # 1 goal is to provide good care. We have an amazing team of caregivers, some of whom have been with me since the very beginning, and they\u2019re like family. Without them, we wouldn\u2019t be the home care agency that we are today.\nThe home care industry has changed dramatically over the years. Clients have more options now than ever before, but our agency has established a great reputation in Volusia County, one that stands out from the rest. Most of our referrals are word of mouth, which is truly gratifying, thanks to our loyal clientele, exceptional caregivers and diligent office staff. We\u2019re a family business and we\u2019ve been in this community for a long time. We appreciate that people place their trust in us and we do our best every day to earn that trust.\n-William \u201cRob\u201d Roberson, Owner\n\u201cI don\u2019t know what I would have done without the professional caring folks at Granny Nannies. They made adjusting to life after dad\u2019s stroke much smoother for me. They care as much about him as I do.\u201c\nCaregivers In Orange City\nCaregivers In Ormond Beach\nCaregivers In Ormond by the Sea\nCaregivers In Ponce Inlet\nCaregivers In Port Orange\nCaregivers In South Daytona\nCaregivers in Volusia County\nCaregivers In New Smyrna Beach\nCaregivers In North DeLand\nCaregivers In Daytona Beach\nCaregivers In Daytona Beach Shores\nCaregivers In DeBary\nCaregivers In DeLand\nCaregivers In DeLand Southwest\nCaregivers In Deltona\nCaregivers In Edgewater\nCaregivers In Holly Hill\nCaregivers in my Area\nWhen advancing age has made life difficult, allow Granny Nannies to provide peace of mind to your loved one. Our goal is to help our clients maintain their dignity & independence as they transition into their twilight years. At Granny Nannies, we put the care first.\n1898 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., #380\nEmail: info@grannynannies.care\n\u00a9 2018. All rights reserved. Granny Nannies. LICENSE #NR30210954 SEO by Web Daytona", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greece.terrabook.com/rethymno/page/melissourgaki/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6PXM5M3ZEEBVWKMVSHTQBCEHVTIXKUPF", "length": 1234, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "greece.terrabook.com", "title": "Melissourgaki - Rethymno | Terrabook", "raw_content": "MELISSOURGAKI\nMelissourgaki is a small settlement of the prefecture of Rethymno located approximately 32 km far from the city of Rethymno and almost 6 km from the Perama village.\nAt an altitude of 330 meters, the Melissourgaki village is facing the sea in an idyllic location in a mountainous province of Mylopotamos, surrounded by dense olive groves.\nThe name of the village Melissourgaki refers to the Byzantine Melissenos family, although, in fact, no source shows any relation of the village to these specific feudal lords.\nThe settlement of Melissourgaki still maintains its traditional character with many buildings surviving from the Ottoman period. The church of Agios Georgios is located in the main square of the village, while some Venetian monasteries are scattered in the area around it. The old monastery of the Virgin of Vat\u00e9, probably operating as of the first period of the Venetian rule, existed somewhere near the village and was a glebe of the Asomaton monastery. In the current cemetery of the village, the chapel of Agios Stefanos stands.\nNear the Melissourgaki village there is the cave of Yi\u00e1nnakas, where the villagers used to place the turrets. A traditional hotel complex is currently operating in the area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greekamericangirl.com/the-greek-public-sector-or-to-dimosio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:18Z", "digest": "sha1:J2RK6WEIQXQ7LI5JUZDZJKBF2SSSDPT4", "length": 8539, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "greekamericangirl.com", "title": "The Greek Public Sector or \"To Dimosio\" - Greek American Girl", "raw_content": "Ask any man or woman on the street what associations she/he has with the word \u201cdimosio\u201d and you get some of these examples:\nVlakies-idiots\nLamoya\nEleos (For God\u2019s sake)\nSketi malakia\nSkata-shit\nOr just a gesture of hands going around in circles\nNa min blexis-better never to get involved\nEven natives who are used to the \u2018bachelo\u2019 the Greek state runs, hold up their hands in exasperation. As an American, it is excruciating. Since moving to Ellas, I have had to deal with not one but the entire juggernaut of red tape you get wrapped up in when dealing with the dimosio.\nFiling for a social security number or AMKA\nGetting registered for IKA, the public health insurance currently operating in the red under loans by the EC\nFiling for taxes and paying the ENFIA the dreaded property tax\nGetting the electricity and water bill in my name\nRegistering my foreign marriage certificate in the special section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\nGetting my degrees recognized by the Ministry of Justice\nGetting penal code clearance (piniko metro)\nEach one of these steps become Herculean labors of mind and body. This is how a typical encounter with the Dimosio goes:\nYou have to find the proper ministry/agency or office. It has to be open. Most close before 2 pm on most workdays so good luck. You have to miss a day of work to run your business. When I visited the Ministry of Education at 10 am, the guard told me to take a \u201cvolta\u201d around The Mall as it does not open for visitors until 12 to 2 pm.\nOh well! Come back the second day. That day there was a massive conference for the English teachers and the line just to get into the revolving doors and get body searched through the scanners wrapped to the parking lot. All I needed was a simple question answered. When I squeezed to the front of the glass windows to have a word with the security who was chatting with another receptionist in the back, \u201cHey, hey, Kiria,\u201d I was jostled, \u201cdo you not have any idea of the concept of making a line\u201d by the other frazzled teachers who no doubt were annoyed at having to wait 20 minutes just to get through the doors of the building.\nOh well. I will try the next day. When I went, I was surprised to find police vans and a handful of officers at the gates. \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d they asked me. \u201cI have to see about getting my degrees translated for a license to teach in Greece.\u201d Why so many? Apparently that was the day that several intruders entered without any checks at another ministry headquarters. All the while the security cameras and the alarms had gone off but no security was there to confront them. So much for security. A red alert went out across all ministries for possible terrorist activity so extra police presence was ordered across all dimosio offices.\nI searched the building asking for the proper person to address my concern to. Without a name or at least a number of a person that is responsible, you are at a loss in the public sector or dimosio. When I did manage to get to the proper office on the second floor at the way in the back of the building, a young lady was searching for a certificate of Greek language proficiency for a Pakistani man. She couldn\u2019t find it. Apparently they had misspelled his name or switched his first name with his last name, Mohammed Khan. There were millions of Mohammed Khans so she had to search for the right father\u2019s name. She found another individual with that name. But with a different father\u2019s name. The Pakistani man exasperated for coming from so far away Pallini to pick up a certificate they said was waiting for him.\n\u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d I told him to make light of the situation, \u201cYou are a Muslim; you can always change your father. It\u2019s your mother you can\u2019t change.\u201d\nAfter she took 20 minutes to serve him, without finding the certificate, she turns to me. After explaining what I needed, she said, \u201cSorry, Ms. So and So is responsible for those types of certificates. She is off this week. Come back on Monday or else call her.\u201d She wrote down her name and phone number on a sticky note and sent me on my way.\nIt takes on average three visits to any public sector agency to get something accomplished. That\u2019s if you have the same person. If they change personnel, you will have to keep explaining the details of your situation over and over and get fed up.\nIf you do find the same attendant, the office is probably filthy\u2014inches of dirt cover the marble floors. Don\u2019t forget to bring your own toilet paper and soap because those niceties are missing from the WC.\nThe cushions in the IKA office look like they came out of Sanford and Sons salvage yard. The dust in the place aggravates my asthma so I get into fits of hacking cough. \u201cSkase epitelous! Shut up already\u201d the other inmates yell.\nYou have to take a number from a red plastic machine with a big red button in the middle near the door and take a seat on the ripped upholstered cushions spotted with stains.\nWhen you do finally make it to the window of the two maybe three public servants attending an avalanche of people, a ratio of approximately 1 to 25,000, most likely you will be asked to fill out a form and pay for a tax stamp, an \u201censimo.\u201d If the public servant knows anything, they will tell you that you are missing another document or that the document you filled out is wrong, not valid, or out of date because it needs to be stamped/translated/photocopied/refilled.\nIf they don\u2019t, they will tell you all this and more unnecessary paperwork. Or worse, they will tell you the wrong information. You will most probably have to get more paperwork to verify the paperwork you gave them in triplicate or go to the bank to pay the back taxes you owe so they can give you the stamp. So you go back to the public servant you did business with the last time. But she is not there. The bushy eyebrowed relic from the archeological museum is there and he tells you, \u201cOxi, oxi, kiria mou, you have to submit this paper with your form.\u201d Totally different instructions from when you went there last. When you try to argue with the relic, it only makes the situation worse. \u201cSas parakalo, kiria mou,\u201d the relic says, move along I have many more members of the public to attend to this morning.\u201d\nMost of the time I give up before even taking a number. I went to the DEH, the national electric company, to change the account to my name. The hordes of people smoking, talking, looking glum spilled out onto the sidewalk of the only DEH office for the northern suburbs. (All smaller satellite offices have closed in an effort to consolidate and economize.) Greeks don\u2019t wait on line one after another; they jam themselves in heaving crowds that squeeze to the front. It is quite possible that many a female has gotten impregnated waiting on these clouds of bodies I am sure. I pushed my way through the crowds to get at least to the info desk.\n\u201cIs it always like this?\u201d I asked a calm lady in front of me.\n\u201cNo,\u201d she replied. \u201cIt\u2019s just the end of the month and the company is giving customers the last chance to set up payment arrangements if they can\u2019t pay their bills. In a week if you haven\u2019t paid, they will cut off your electricity for good.\u201d\n\u201cHow long have you been waiting?\u201d I asked out of curiosity.\n\u201cSince 6 o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d she answered.\nMy eyes popped out of my head.\n\u201cCan you imagine,\u201d she said showing me the white ticket paper every customer is supposed to get to signal their turn, \u201cI\u2019m number 60. There was a man waiting in front of the building from 4:30 in the morning to be the first one.\u201d\n\u201cWhere do I get a number?\u201d I continued.\n\u201cDon\u2019t bother,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are no more. The machine ran out at 9 am in the morning. You are too late even for a number.\u201d\nOh well! I\u2019ll come back tomorrow, I thought.\nTrying to make good of the situation, I ran across the street to the EYDAP, the water company. Less lines, but same frustration.\n\u201cI can\u2019t close your account,\u201d the clerk told me after I waited 20 minutes with the white ticket number in my hand. \u201cYou need to get a signed affidavit from the owner of the apartment that this is what they want.\u201d\nOh well! I turned to leave and there in the middle of the floor lying unclaimed was the answer to the dimosio\u2014\nThe answer to the Greek dimosio or public sector\nA komboskini.\nA prayer rope. You use this to say the same prayer over and over. It teaches you patience. It teaches you grace. It reminds you that you need God to help you in every day things. It also keeps you from killing those around you.\nEleos, the dimosio.\nGreek Women Battle Breast Cancer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 11537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://group.softbank/en/corp/news/press/sb/2009/20090730_01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:JVKMMQOEKRWJLXOR75SLJNKUCILPXNHX", "length": 4123, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "group.softbank", "title": "Three-month Period of the Fiscal Year Ending March 2010 (April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2009)Consolidated Financial Highlights | Press Releases | News | SoftBank Group Corp. | SoftBank Group", "raw_content": "Three-month Period of the Fiscal Year Ending March 2010\n(April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2009)\n(April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2009) Consolidated Financial Highlights\nRecord high operating income on quarterly basis exceeded 100.0 billion yen.\nConsolidated net sales were 666.3 billion yen (19.0 billion yen or 2.9% increase year-on-year)\nThere was an increase in telecom service revenue and handset sales at SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp., this contributed to the revenue increase of the Mobile Communications segment\nOperating income of 108.2 billion yen (23.2 billion yen or 27.3% increase year-on-year). Exceeded 100.0 billion yen operating income on quarterly basis for the first time\nOrdinary income was 78.7 billion yen (24.5 billion yen or 45.2% increase year-on-year)\nNet income was 27.3 billion yen (8.0 billion yen or 41.4% increase year-on-year)\nAchieved growth in both net sales and operating income at Mobile Communications segment due to increase in telecom service revenue and handset sales.\nNet sales were 407.3 billion yen (34.7 billion yen or 9.3% increase year-on-year)\nAchieved growth in both net sales and operating income due to increase in telecom revenue and handset sales\nOperating income was 60.2 billion yen (15.9 billion yen or 36.1% increase year-on-year)\nNet sales were 53.8 billion yen (6.3 billion yen or 10.5% decrease year-on-year)\nOperating income was 13.9 billion yen (3.4 billion yen or 32.7% increase year-on-year)\nNet sales were 86.7 billion yen (1.6 billion yen or 1.9% decrease year-on-year)\nOperating income was 3.4 billion yen (2.6 billion yen or 337.6% increase year-on-year)\nNet sales were 65.1 billion yen (2.8 billion yen or 4.5% increase year-on-year)\nOperating income was 31.7 billion yen (1.1 billion yen or 3.8% increase year-on-year)\n3. Consolidated Balance Sheets / Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows\nImproved free cash flow by 94.4 billion yen year-on-year.\nTotal assets were 4,327.3 billion yen (59.3 billion yen or 1.4% decrease from the end of the previous fiscal year)\nTotal liabilities were 3,458.2 billion yen (103.6 billion yen or 2.9% decrease from the end of the previous fiscal year)\nTotal equity was 869.1 billion yen (44.3 billion yen or 5.4% increase from the end of the previous fiscal year)\nShareholders' equity ratio was 9.5% (1.0 percentage point improvement from the end of the previous fiscal year)\nNet cash provided by operating activities was 132.0 billion yen (compared to 52.8 billion yen provided in the same period of the previous fiscal year)\nNet cash used in investing activities was 75.5 billion yen (compared to 90.7 billion yen used in the same period of the previous fiscal year)\nFree cash flow*1 was 56.5 billion yen positive (compared to 37.8 billion yen negative in the same period of the previous fiscal year)\nNet cash used in financing activities was 31.3 billion yen (compared to 32.2 billion yen used in financing activities in the same period of the previous fiscal year)\n*1The combined net cash flow from operating activities and investing activities\n4. Mobile Communications Segment: Key Indicators\nNo. 1 in net additions in subscribers for 26 consecutive months.\nTotal number of subscribers as of the end of June 2009 was 20.95 million (1.84 million or 9.7 % increase year-on-year)\nNo. 1 in net additions for 26 consecutive months since May 2007\n3G ratio as of the end of June 2009 was 92.8% (13.7 percentage point increase year-on-year)\nTotal ARPU*2 for the first quarter was 4,030 yen, a significant improvement since the last quarter of the previous fiscal year, and back to the 4,000 yen level\nVoice ARPU (basic monthly charge and voice charge) for the first quarter was 2,150 yen (an increase of 130 yen from the last quarter of the previous fiscal year)\nData ARPU for the first quarter was 1,880 yen (an increase of 60 yen from the last quarter of the previous fiscal year)\nThe churn rate for the first quarter was 1.05% (0.08 percentage point improvement from the last quarter of the previous fiscal year)\nThe upgrade rate for the first quarter was 1.73% (0.25 percentage point decrease from the last quarter of the previous fiscal year)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/mpp-students/laura-chen", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:57Z", "digest": "sha1:62X2RD3E6EEG67CRT6ECJNFS264FLV62", "length": 621, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gspp.berkeley.edu", "title": "Laura Chen | MPP Students | Faculty & Directories | Goldman School of Public Policy | University of California, Berkeley", "raw_content": "Laura was born outside of Beijing and grew up in Texas. After finishing her BBA at UT-Austin, she moved in Egypt to continue her studies in Arabic and governance. She has worked in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors through large foundations, consulting firms, and within both internationally focused and locally led NGOs, most recently at the World Resources Institute and the United Nations Children's Fund. Her research focuses on methodology, sustainable development, displacement, and post-conflict management. She speaks Mandarin, Arabic, and is proficient in Spanish.\nResiliency Indicators\nEmail Laura Chen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 149.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guardianlv.com/2014/02/hospital-patients-exposed-to-deadly-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XC7ZEQK7SHPOQDF6DV3BLTPZUA7KLZGX", "length": 5119, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "guardianlv.com", "title": "Hospital Patients Exposed to Deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease \u00b7 Guardian Liberty Voice", "raw_content": "Hospital Patients Exposed to Deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease\nBy Christopher Chisam on February 11, 2014 1 Comment\nNovant Health Forsyth Medical Center has announced today that 18 of their patients have been exposed to a deadly brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The exposure occurred on January 18 of this year. Surgeons at the hospital performed an operation on a patient that suffered from CJD, a rare but very deadly brain affliction. Due to the volatile nature of the disease, instruments used on a patient who has CJD must go through a special decontamination process, in addition to standard hospital procedures. The instruments used on the patient went through the standard process; however, surgeons failed to put them through the additional decontamination procedures. Over the course of the day, the same instruments were used on 18 other patients. These patients have been directly exposed to CJD and are now being closely monitored for signs of the disease.\nCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a degenerative brain disorder. Though it is rare, 1 out of a million people get it each year, and it is incredibly lethal. The disease is a late bloomer, and does not usually begin to manifest symptoms until after a patient reaches 60 years old. Out of those that are infected, 90 percent die within the first year.\nThere most common of the four variations of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is Sporadic CJD, which is also known as sCJD, occurs within a patient who has no apparent risk factors related to the disease. The majority of the cases, somewhere around 85 percent, are forms of sCJD. Hereditary CJD accounts for about ten percent of all cases. It is a result of a patient whose family has a history of the disease. The patient will also test positive for a genetic mutation related to CJD. The third and familiar form called Variant CJD is related to Bovine Spongiform Encephalothopy, more commonly known as Mad Cow; a patient who eats tainted beef is at risk to this form.\nAcquired CJD is responsible for one percent of all known cases. The hospital patients who were exposed to the deadly disease in North Carolina are at risk to be inflicted with this type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. When CJD is acquired, it is due to direct exposure with tissues from the infected body. In most cases, this exposure comes as a result of tainted medical instruments. CJD cannot be acquired through casual contact of an infected person.\nPatients who suffer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease experience several crippling symptoms. Dementia, impaired memory, personality changes, and a loss of motor skills are a few of the more severe ones. Many people with the disease will experience depression and insomnia as well. The later stages of the illness are far worse. Patients lose almost all of their mental capacity as well as muscle movement. Their bodies will begin to jerk involuntarily, and eventually they may go blind. In the final stages, patients will lose their power of speech and slowly slip into a coma. Once infections completely take over the body, the patient dies.\nUnfortunately at this time, there are no tests available to detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The disease shares too many symptoms for other common ailments to be able to isolate it. There are two ways CJD can be identified, but they are not helpful in diagnosing it. The first is a biopsy of the brain. This procedure is risky and often discouraged because there is no guarantee that the part of the brain that is biopsied will be infected. Also, even if the infection is found, there is no viable treatment. The risk for the procedure is too high when it does not help the patient in any way. A full autopsy can also be given to the brain which will identify the disease, but can only occur after the patient has passed away. It is impossible to detect the disease in its early stages because the incubation period can be as long as 50 years, and the symptoms do not manifest until it has already taken hold.\nNovant Health Forsyth Medical Center has come out with a public apology to the possibly infected patients, as well as to their families. They feel at this time that the chance any of them will actually acquire the disease is very low. However, the risk is so high that even the surgeons who operated on the infected brain could be exposed. For now, the hospital patients who were exposed to the deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease will be under close watch. Unfortunately for them, no amount of watching will save them if they have acquired CJD. This lethal error on the part of Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center may cost these exposed patients their lives.\nBy Chris Chisam\nHospital Patients Exposed to Deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease added by Christopher Chisam on February 11, 2014\nView all posts by Christopher Chisam \u2192\nOne Response to \"Hospital Patients Exposed to Deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease\"\nflounder9 February 11, 2014 at 7:09 pm\n*** Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Information on potential CJD exposure\nhttp://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2014/02/novant-health-forsyth-medical-center.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guitarplayers.org/g/nj/trenton/slide-guitar-lessons", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PPPIR6NJIBEPBPBDIRAPGPOVESB47PN3", "length": 1082, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "guitarplayers.org", "title": "Slide Guitar Lessons in Trenton, New Jersey", "raw_content": "Slide Guitar Lessons in Trenton, New Jersey\nSlide Guitar Lessons - Trenton\nSlide Guitar Lessons - Trenton, New Jersey\nGuitar Players is your one stop shop for seeking out slide guitar lessons, teachers, and classes near you. We have slide guitar lessons for all ages and expertise, so if you're a beginner, intermediate or expert slide guitar player you'll find what you need here. We come backed with years of experience, a flawless track record for professionalism and reliability, and great reviews. We realize that when it comes to playing your instrument, everything needs to be properly calculated from an individual standpoint to really make a break through. We always make the extra effort and pay extreme attention to detail when it comes to slide guitar lessons. If you're looking for Slide Guitar Lessons, you've come to the right place. We provide the best Slide Guitar Lessons for the Trenton, New Jersey area. Let our guitar teachers open all kinds of talent. Simply fill out the contact form and we will get back to you right away with lessons that are right for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hackaphone.net/12-disadvantages-of-foreign-aid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VVYORPBEY45XC5ACDYDRAC44KLNMMWJI", "length": 4721, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "hackaphone.net", "title": "12 Disadvantages of Foreign Aid - Hack a Phone", "raw_content": "2. Aid Dependence and Aid Fatigue:\nGrowth through foreign aid is a long drawn out process. Therefore, with the passage of time, aid-givers develop an aid-fatigue (that is, they lose interest in giving aid).\nSimilarly, as we have argued elsewhere also, there is an unsustainable increase in the import- dependence of the aid-receiving countries. Their import needs increase which they are not able to pay for.\n3. Misuse of Aid:\nThere is no guarantee that foreign aid will be used productively and not wasted on unproductive or low-priority projects. It may even go into consumption stream of the aid-receiving country.\nProper and effective utilisation of aid requires a sophistication of its own. For people who argue like this, foreign aid is neither necessary nor sufficient for economic growth.\n4. Economic Sovereignty:\nIn tied aid, the growth priorities and strategies are (at least partly) in the hands of the aid-givers. It can lead to an imposed misallocation of resources with long-term harmful effects.\n5. Bureaucratic Ills:\nImplementation of projects financed with foreign aid passes through the hands of bureaucrats of both aid-giver and aid-receiving countries. This results in avoidable delays and cost overruns\n6. Uncertainty:\nEven under the best possible circumstances, inflow of foreign aid suffers from an element of uncertainty. This hinders long-term growth plans of an aid-receiving country.\nCases are also known where foreign aid was suddenly withheld by an aid-giving country for political or other non-economic reasons.\n7. Maintenance of Aided Projects:\nIn a number of cases, the governments of the aid-receiving countries accept wrong priorities thrust upon them by the aid-givers.\nThis frequently leads to a situation where the aided projects include those which cannot be financed and maintained by an aid-receiving country after their completion.\n8. Projects Not Requiring Aid:\nThere is a risk that foreign aid may be taken for those projects for which no imported inputs are needed and which can be implemented with domestically available inputs.\nAid-receiving history of India is full of such examples, which include construction of irrigation canals, forestry projects, sewerage facilities and the like.\nAll such projects needed only local material and rupees to buy them. Depending upon foreign aid (say US dollars) for such projects retards the social and economic growth of a country and India also suffered on this account. The causes of these ill-effects include the following:\ni. The legislators and general public are not aware of the fact that foreign funds for such projects means sanctioning of loans in foreign currencies. And, foreign currencies are not needed for procuring inputs including labour from within the country.\nii. Projects which do not need imported inputs but arc still highly helpful for social and economic development of the country are not taken up unless \u201cforeign aid is available for them.\u201d\nForeign aid, therefore, becomes a barrier to growth rather than a help for it. It becomes a hurdle against domestic growth efforts.\nThere is a strong possibility of an aid-receiving country being unable to add sufficiently to its export earnings. Consequently, there is an inherent tendency for its external indebtedness to increase cumulatively and become unsustainable.\n10. Capital Intensity:\nIt is argued that aided projects use capital-intensive (though obsolete) technology. Consequently, they are not able to provide adequate employment to the labour in the host country.\nAt the r-me time, compared with the position in the aid-giving countries, the technology used in aid-receiving country is old. As a result the products of the aided projects are not able to compete in international markets.\n11. Aims of Aid Givers:\nAid-giving countries have been using it as a means of promoting and protecting their own interests, including political ones. They have been trying to impose highly stringent conditions on the aid- receiving countries.\nThey have also used their economic strength for imposing unfavourable terms of trade and specific monetary and fiscal policies.\n12. Inflationary Pressures:\nIt has been noticed that projects selected for aid-giving tend to be those which do not immediately add to the supply streams of common consumption goods.\nThe projects, however, add to the demand streams of such goods. This imbalance, therefore, adds to the inflationary pressures in the economy.\nWhat is Equity Theory of Motivation? Explained\nCorruption in India \u2013 Speech\nThe Advantages and Disadvantages of Preference Shares\u2013Explained!\nPrev post: Communication Patterns for Both Small-Group and Institutional Networks\nNext post: 6 Economic Benefits of Globalisation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hackinglawpractice.com/case-results/law-firm-obtains-lpr-status-for-client/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OV5FHEYXALHDYNHFSBH22CEAKHLPGIN6", "length": 2037, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hackinglawpractice.com", "title": "St Louis immigration law firm obtains LPR status for client in tough case - Hacking Law Practice, LLC.", "raw_content": "St Louis immigration law firm obtains LPR status for client in tough case\nApproximately one and a half years ago, we were contacted by Ahmed (* not his real name) and asked to assist him in obtaining lawful permanent resident status. Ahmed had served in Saddam Hussein\u2019s Ba\u2019ath party in Iraq during that country\u2019s invasion of Kuwait. Ahmed had defected during that war and eventually sought asylum in the United States.\nAhmed\u2019s asylum application was approved and he lived in the United States for many years. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Ahmed returned to his home country and served as a translator for U.S. forces and private military contractors in the second Iraq war.\nAfter his service ended, he returned to St. Louis, working in a variety of jobs. Ahmed applied for lawful permanent resident status based on his prior grant of asylum. Ahmed had two interviews but waited for years for his green card application to be approved.\nWhen Ahmed came to see us, he was at his wit\u2019s end and was sick of getting the runaround from the St. Louis of USCIS. Ahmed had made numerous InfoPass appointments, made numerous phone calls to the USCIS toll free number and had even contacted members of Congress. None of these efforts helped. Instead of approving or denying the case, USCIS simply refused to decide the case. This is not aninfrequent occurrence at our local office.\nWe entered our appearance on Ahmed\u2019s behalf at USCIS and notified the assistant US attorney who represents USCIS locally that we planned on filing suit if the local office continued to sit on the case. Shortly thereafter,, Ahmed was scheduled for a special interview with a USCIS specialist from Detroit. The interview was videotaped and Ahmed answered questions for over two hours. The questions focused upon his activities as a member of Saddam Hussein\u2019s military. We attended the interview, which went well.\nLast week, Ahmed received his green card in the mail, after a wait of over seven years. Wewere very happy to help him get his case resolved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 186.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hadleyfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/1275/Fern-Gursick/obituary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:25Z", "digest": "sha1:C7VRYTF4RP6NIJQZURLBETJWZD7O42GS", "length": 1878, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hadleyfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary of Fern Gursick | Hadley Funeral Home serving Windsor, Mis...", "raw_content": "Fern Gursick\nObituary of Fern Gursick\nEdna Fern Gursick, 83, of Windsor, Missouri, died Tuesday afternoon, September 18, 2018, at her home in Windsor.\nShe was born June 22, 1935, in Morgan County, Mo., near Stover, the daughter of Edward William Keeton and Eula Faye (Simmons) Keeton.\nShe was a classically trained seamstress and made clothing for Nelly Don. She also worked as a beautician and as a caregiver for Twin Lakes Hospice. In 1984, she opened her home and established Fern\u2019s Care Center to care for senior adults and continued this work for a number of years. She enjoyed crafting items for charity organizations and was especially passionate about support for Children\u2019s Mercy Hospital and St. Jude Children\u2019s Hospital. Taking care of those in need was part of her daily life. She enjoyed taking care of her flowers and cooking and baking for others. She was a member of the Church of Christ.\nSurvivors include 2 daughters, Gloria Dority, Windsor, Mo.; and Pam Swearngin (Richard), Lincoln, Mo.; a daughter-in-law, Sara Gursick, Windsor, Mo.; 4 grandsons, Michael Dority, Windsor, Mo., Larry Nickerson, Kansas City, Kansas, Joseph Swearngin, Santa Barbara, California, and Nicholas Gursick, Windsor, Mo.; 3 great-grandchildren, Jamie Dority, and Rome and Rhys Nickerson; a great-great-grandson, Luke; 2 brothers, William Keeton, Tenaska, Washington, and Larry Keeton, Warsaw, Mo.; a sister, Annie Keeton, Springfield, Mo.; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her son, John Gursick, on the morning of her passing; and a sister, Evelyn Woods.\nGraveside services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at the Laurel Oak Cemetery, Windsor, with Chaplain Bobby Lewis officiating. The family suggests contributions to Twin Lakes Hospice and can be left in care of the Hadley Funeral Home, Windsor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://halesworthcampus.org/statement-halesworth-campus-halesworth-health-and-cmc-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DZHU54NZSBSVOL3RWTN3O46QU2JL2YI3", "length": 830, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "halesworthcampus.org", "title": "Statement, Halesworth Campus, Halesworth Health and CMC | Halesworth Campus", "raw_content": "Halesworth Sport and Health \u2013 Update February 2017\nRepresentatives of all the organisations involved have been working hard this year to move the project forward as fast as possible. There are, of course, some details that have to remain confidential at this stage, but we all feel that you \u2013 the public \u2013 should be kept informed about developments, as much as possible. In this update we set out what has been achieved so far and what we see as being the next steps.\nWe are very pleased to report that Halesworth Campus Ltd (HCL) has now reached an agreement with Castlemeadow Care (CMC) to sell them part of The Campus site for their health and care development. Getting to this point has involved a lot of preparatory work, including:\n\uf0b7 Checking whether HCL needed consent for the sale from the Secretary of State for Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/obituaries/mary-brazil/article_3f8eecfc-4b35-53e4-9e5c-73327f54feaa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:31Z", "digest": "sha1:T6GEQGUUSUC5A4MSMSMIILIALYAZT3WG", "length": 3602, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hanfordsentinel.com", "title": "Mary Brazil | Obituaries | hanfordsentinel.com", "raw_content": "Mary Brazil\nToday we remember our mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Mary Brazil, with love and gratitude. Mary, a resident of Hanford for the past 17 years, died peacefully in her sleep after a brief illness at the age of 86. Mary was raised in Inglewood, California, until she moved to the San Joaquin Valley in 1950. Working as a dental assistant in Visalia, she met a handsome young man named Allen Brazil. They were married in 1952 and moved to Lindsay, California, where they lived for the next 45 years. Allen, along with his father and cousin, opened California Apparel, a family clothing store. Together Allen and Mary raised their family of ten children.\nMary's primary focus and passion were her children. She was a tremendous role model, teaching her children to live lives of love, kindness, respect, compassion, charity, and humor. She encouraged us to love and cherish each other, and instilled the gift of faith in all of us. We have her to thank for our strong family bond today. Mary loved family traditions, including vacations to her beloved Morro Bay, the delicious Brazil (onion) dip, traditional Thanksgiving family dinners, lining up in birth order on the stairs Christmas morning before we could open presents, along with many other Brazil traditions.\nMary was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lindsay. She taught catechism, was active in the local 4-H program, and involved in various school activities of her children. At the age of 52, Mary decided she was ready to go back to work as a unit clerk at Sierra View District Hospital in Porterville. She enjoyed the new challenge and made many new friends over the next 23 years. Moving to Hanford in 2001, she was actively involved in the Hanford Garden Club, as well as a frequent helper at her son's floral business, Ramblin' Rose Florist. She enjoyed traveling to Europe, Hawaii, and lots of visits to her children and grandchildren.\nMary leaves behind seven surviving children: Valerie (Chris) of Reno, Nevada; Kathleen Rzeplinski of Mendocino, California; Karen Bryson of Reno, Nevada; Chris Brazil (John) of Hanford, California; Michael Brazil (Naoko) of Seoul, South Korea; Paula Landers (Herman) of Exeter, California; and Amy Brazil Taylor (Chuck) of Reno, Nevada. She is also survived by her ten grandchildren: Zachary, Travis, Michelle, Kaitlin, Julie, Emily, Isaac, Christina, Chase, Reese, and her great-grandsons, Eli and Miles. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Allen Brazil, and her children Leanne, Melissa, and Greg Brazil.\nThere are many lives that our beloved mother touched in a positive way. She will be remembered for her love and devotion to her faith, family, friends, and her joyful outlook on life.\nMary was helped gently through her last months by the compassionate caregivers of Amdal In-Home Care, Hanford Post Acute Care, and Jennifer at Optimal Hospice. The Brazil family thanks all the caregivers who helped make her last months dignified, peaceful, and pain-free. Thank you to Theresa Robinson of People's Funeral Chapel for her kindness and guidance.\nA Rosary Service will be held on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 10:00 AM followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:00 AM at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church; 10435 Hanford-Armona Rd, Hanford, California. A Reception will be held immediately following the Funeral Mass. Mary will be buried privately.\nFamily and friends are invited to view Mary Brazil's legacy at www.peoplesfuneralchapel.com and send condolences to the family.\nServices by People's Funeral Chapel, Hanford, CA (559) 584-5591.\nthe life of: Mary Brazil", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 8895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Installation/3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2PGYVOHZZB2LU3X3URVJ2B36RM7COKTU", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hankwillisthomas.com", "title": "Hank Willis Thomas | Installation | 3", "raw_content": "Blind Memory (Cotton), 2017 installed at Savannah College of Art and Design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 119.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hauntedmansion.fandom.com/wiki/Gracey_Manor", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EEVPCSHMQUKX7AT52MIJKLUD335WSHSJ", "length": 1418, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hauntedmansion.fandom.com", "title": "Gracey Manor | Haunted Mansion Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Mansions, Locations, Ghost Gallery\nThe Haunted Mansion / Gracey Manor / Gastley Mansion\nSign pointing to Gastley Mansion\n\"You see that brick mansion back over yonder there in the woods? I've heard folks hereabouts say it's haunted. They say it was built on sacred indian burial grounds, and now it's filled with spirits.\"\n\u2014Liberty Square Riverboat narration\nThe titular house of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion attraction is named Gracey Manor, according to an address on a wooden crate formerly located nearby in Liberty Square that was added in 2012. The crate was replaced in 2014 with another crate marked \"English Tea.\" The removal of the reference to \"Gracey Manor\" may be an indication that the name is not canonical. Previously, there was a wooden directional sign in Frontierland that named the house Gastley Mansion, but the sign was removed in either 2011 or 2012. 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With a dual 5 mega-pixel camera for recording 3D video, consumers can create, view and share 3D multimedia with family and friends with ease. Using Google\u2019s Android operating system, the device features 8GB memory, advanced multimedia capabilities, HDMI output, alongside a host of applications and services.\nThe LG Optimus Black is the world\u2019s slimmest mobile device at 9.2mm, sporting breakthrough technology with a brighter 4-inch NOVA display. Ideal for daily use, it reduces power consumption by 50 percent indoors compared to a conventional LCD screen. The device also features the world\u2019s first 2 mega-pixel front facing camera and the Optimus UI 2.0 offers an augmented Android experience, allowing users to directly access messages, emails and missed calls from the locked screen with just a single tap. It is the first phone to support Wi-Fi DirectTM2 for quick and high quality data transfer and sharing between mobile devices, and offers a seamless web browsing experience.\nNicola Shenton, Head of Device Portfolio, Everything Everywhere said: \"The LG Optimus 3D and LG Optimus Black show LG is really driving the market in terms of 3D and screen display technology. We\u2019re pleased to be working with them to bring this latest innovation to Orange customers, pushing the boundaries of what a smartphone can deliver.\u201d\nBoth devices will be available from Orange shops and www.orange.co.uk/shop\nEE launches 4G Mobile Broadband with 500GB allowance UK and US governments warn against using ZTE hardware EE kills the Orange Wednesdays 2-4-1 cinema discount deal BT is in discussions to buy EE EE angers customers with 50p queue jumping charge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hifiwaythepopchronicles.com/2018/10/25/coldplay-to-release-live-album-concert-film/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GNVQDEOUUWRCFLVZAO7RVWSCI5EGZG5L", "length": 2296, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hifiwaythepopchronicles.com", "title": "Coldplay To Release Live Album & Concert Film \u2013 Hi-Fi Way: The Pop Chronicles", "raw_content": "Coldplay To Release Live Album & Concert Film\nOn December 7, Coldplay will celebrate their record-breaking A Head Full Of Dreams Tour with the release of Live In Buenos Aires / Live In S\u00e3o Paulo / A Head Full Of Dreams (Film), on CD, DVD, vinyl and digital.\nThe Live In Buenos Aires album was recorded on 15 November 2017 \u2013 the final night of the A Head Full Of Dreams Tour. The 24 track audio set marks the first time that a Coldplay concert has been released in its entirety.\nThe accompanying two hour concert film Live In S\u00e3o Paulo was filmed a week earlier on 8 November 2017.\nThe A Head Full Of Dreams Tour has been confirmed as the third biggest of all time, having played to more than 5.5 million fans across the world. When released in Australia The Head Full Of Dreams album debuted at #2 on the ARIA chart before reaching Platinum sales, adding to their 25 times Platinum album and 24 times Platinum single accreditations in Australia.\nThe combined live album / live concert film release \u2013 also known as the Butterfly package \u2013 is completed by the new A Head Full Of Dreams documentary film, which charts Coldplay\u2019s colourful 20 year history.\nIn addition, Viva La Vida from Live In Buenos Aires is available to stream/ download worldwide from today here, with the Live In S\u00e3o Paulo video of the song available on YouTube\u2026\nLive In Buenos Aires and Live In S\u00e3o Paulo feature hits and fan favourites from all seven of the band\u2019s Number 1 studio albums.\nThe full Butterfly package is available to pre-order now as a 2 x DVD / 2 x CD set and a 2 x DVD / 3 x gold vinyl collection. A standalone 2 x CD edition of the Live In Buenos Aires album is also available.\nDigitally, the Live In Buenos Aires album will be available to stream/download from all platforms, with the Live In S\u00e3o Paulo film also available as a longform download.\nOn November 14, the career-spanning A Head Full Of Dreams film will make its debut on the BIG SCREEN for ONE NIGHT ONLY across Australia at EVENT and Village Cinemas. Giving fans the chance to experience Coldplay\u2019s incredible 20 year journey in the comfort of VMAX and Gold Class at select locations! Tickets are on sale now here.\nPrevious Previous post: DREAMS \u201cNo One Defeats Us\u201d\nNext Next post: Dancing Grandmothers @ Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide 25/10/2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 7389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 193.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hilledlandfurnishedapartments.com/properties/the-woodlandsconroe/parc-woodland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IIXMPETMTXH7U5WCM6ZAFBEAOJJZICZ3", "length": 1377, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hilledlandfurnishedapartments.com", "title": "Parc Woodland | Corporate Housing | Hilled Land Furnished Apartments", "raw_content": "Parc Woodlands\nThe Mansions Woodland combines beautiful natural surroundings with an uncommon sophistication few experience. The luxury apartments in Conroe, Texas, located in the heart of one of Texas' fastest-growing areas, are an upscale community that offers a harmonious balance of work, play and relaxation. At The Mansions Woodland, you can enjoy an active lifestyle, relax in a quiet retreat or focus on business, all in one place.\nEach luxury apartment unit is seamlessly integrated into 25 acres of lush forestland. Inside our two-story townhomes, you will discover modern conveniences such as attached garages, along with stunning features such as built-in desks, oval garden Jacuzzi tubs and built-in media centers. Our four-story luxury apartments are just as impressive, with elevator access, crown molding, under-cabinet lighting and energy-rated appliances. Both townhomes and apartments feature Presidential upgrades including rich granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, handcrafted hardwood floors and more.\nYou will also enjoy an array of luxury amenities such as a 6,000-square-foot clubhouse, resort-style pool, premier health club, central park and splash park, to name a few. And with some of the most sophisticated shops in the world, restaurants and nightlife nearby, The Mansions Woodland, offers a unique way of living that is all your own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hoflaw.com/should-i-get-a-job-after-my-divorce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EOATGFWMXMYEDLVLDFYTXXB2YC7DYZLS", "length": 2708, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hoflaw.com", "title": "Should I get a job after my divorce? - Hofheimer Family Law Firm", "raw_content": "Should I get a job after my divorce?\nThere comes a point in a lot of divorces where women have a troubling realization: at some point, they will probably have to get a job. If they already have a job, they may have to start working more, or find a better-paying position in the same field. If, on the other hand, they have stayed at home, they may have to start from scratch\u2014sometimes, even, going back to school.\nIt\u2019s a really scary thought for a lot of women, because it\u2019s such a dramatic departure from the way things were during the marriage. You and your husband may have had an agreement that you\u2019d stay at home or work part time while your kids were young, but all bets are off now.\nThere will be less money now than you had before, because you\u2019re taking the money that the two of you earned together, and you\u2019re maintaining two separate households. Not only that, but if you were the lesser wage earner, you\u2019ll take away what you make, whatever support is awarded to you (if you are entitled to receive support), and whatever else you may receive as a result of your property distribution. Your husband, on the other hand, may have to pay support (if you qualify for spousal support or have minor children), but he will still have the benefit of his greater earnings. And there are other benefits, too\u2014if he has been the primary breadwinner, he probably carries the health insurance for the family. Once you\u2019re divorced, he won\u2019t be able to maintain you on his insurance any longer. He will also get other benefits from his employer, like contribution matching on his 401(k), and after you\u2019ve separated his contributions are his separate property.\nYour attorney will work diligently on your case to make sure you get the best possible deal for your particular situation, but there are some problems that even the best attorney can\u2019t solve. We can\u2019t re-write the child support guidelines to make it more generous, and we can\u2019t make health insurance companies offer health insurance to employees for their ex-wives.\nI don\u2019t say this to scare you; I say it to help give you realistic expectations. Not everything can go on the same way as before, with little to no disruption to your day-to-day life. You\u2019ll have to think about these things, sooner rather than later, and come up with a plan for how to deal with the challenges as they present themselves. Regardless of your age or level of education, you may be almost forced to make a different decision about employment than you would have had to make if you and your husband stayed married.\nIf you find yourself in a tough spot, you may have to re-enter the workforce, or step it up a little to help supplement what you\u2019re getting from your divorce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://holray.co.uk/new-summary-splash-screen/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KYVGFCXRURASNWAIY2RW47SWIEY6HRWX", "length": 354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "holray.co.uk", "title": "New Summary \u201csplash\u201d screen \u00ab Holray Booking System", "raw_content": "New Summary \u201csplash\u201d screen\nWe\u2019ve just released a new Summary screen to give an overview of where you\u2019re at when you log in. It\u2019s not available under the normal menu options, only as a default Start page, see our post on User definable screens. It\u2019s early days and just gives a quick view of the system, we\u2019ll be adding more features as we think of them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2017/03/tnf-italy-non-resident-holding-company-beneficial-owner-of-dividends-from-italian-subsidiary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NZMNCLVECP43XMVQOIKDPPDVRRBFDXRI", "length": 716, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "home.kpmg", "title": "Italy: \u201cBeneficial owner\u201d of dividends from subsidiary | KPMG Global", "raw_content": "\u203a Italy: \u201cBeneficial owner\u201d of dividends from subsidiary\nItaly: Non-resident holding company, \u201cbeneficial owner\u201d of dividends from Italian subsidiary\nItaly: \u201cBeneficial owner\u201d of dividends from subsidiary\nA decision of the Italian Supreme Court sets out guidance on the criteria to be considered when deciding whether a non-resident holding company qualifies as the \u201cbeneficial owner\u201d of dividends distributed by an Italian subsidiary.\nThe high court held that the lack of an organizational structure and employees, coupled with limited operating costs and receivables, does not in itself prevent a holding or sub-holding company from qualifying as the \u201cbeneficial owner\u201d of dividends for income tax treaty purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://homicide.latimes.com/post/carlos-francisco-ramirez/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UINB24GVJYAQIEJYEALNMOLBGLAJZJL2", "length": 1345, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "homicide.latimes.com", "title": "Carlos Francisco Ramirez, 49 - The Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "1700 block of West 7th Street\nCarlos Francisco Ramirez, 49\nCarlos Francisco Ramirez, a 49-year-old Latino, was stabbed to death Thursday, July 12, in the 1700 block of West 7th Street in Westlake, according to Los Angeles County coroner\u2019s records.\nShortly after 9 a.m., Ramirez got into an altercation with another man inside a convenience store, said Los Angeles Police Det. Ray Martinez.\nThe two men went outside and the man Ramirez was fighting with pulled out a knife and stabbed Ramirez multiple times, police said.\nRamirez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m., according to coroner\u2019s records.\nIt appears that the suspect was upset because his bike had been stolen at a nearby store, according to coroner\u2019s records. Ramirez didn\u2019t have any connection to the store, Martinez said.\nDavid Elhew Mantey, a 40-year-old white man, was charged July 16 with one count of murder, according to online jail records and the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office.\nMantey is due back in court Sept. 17, prosecutors said.\nAnyone with information can call Martinez at (213) 484-3643. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.\nCarlos Francisco Ramirez\nJuly 29, 2018 Nathan Daniel Ware, 34\nAug. 2, 2018 David Michael Gross, 51\nShare a memory or thought about Carlos Francisco Ramirez", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hongkongtesol.com/blog/2018/04/teaching-abroad-interview-tips-new-tefl-teachers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:PFFELL65Z6OBQBYNSSZEHBQL4WA3S2BU", "length": 6720, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hongkongtesol.com", "title": "\ufeff", "raw_content": "Teaching abroad: interview tips for new TEFL teachers | TESOL\nAfter completing a Trinity Cert TESOL or Cambridge CELTA course you will start applying for jobs. There isn\u2019t really a shortage of full time work in TESOL, but there is a lack of quality employers. Securing a post can be a daunting chore and presenting yourself in a professional manner will make a huge difference in whether you\u2019ll get hired or not. This week\u2019s blog looks at top tips for getting the teaching job you\u2019re looking for.\nESL teachers, especially recently qualified ones, usually don\u2019t have the best professional reputation in the industry. There\u2019s an assumption that most instructors are looking for temporary work to fund their travel excursions. Well known language or professional institutes, such as universities tend to overlook recent graduates, preferring more experienced and qualified instructors. Many employers will request one or two years post CertTESOL experience, a first degree (Bachelor) and an internationally recognised TESOL certificate (for example the Trinity Cert TESOL or Cambridge CELTA). It\u2019s probably best to avoid online TEFL courses as those have little if any creditability. For those lacking in experience, the following will help you leave a strong and lasting impression at the interview table.\nWhat to Expect at the Interview\nAs someone who has interviewed potential teachers, most employers are interested in what skills the teacher has acquired and how they implement them into lessons. This could include lesson planning, material design, and classroom management. In addition, employers look for teachers who have a strong understanding of English grammar and phonology. Be prepared to discuss an aspect of grammar you\u2019ve taught and take them through the lesson stages. Follow this with a discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson taught and what you would do differently and why. To support your discussion, it\u2019s a good idea to come prepared with a sample lesson plan and material that you\u2019ve created and used in a class \u2013 this could be a lesson that you taught on your CertTESOL or CELTA course.\nThen be ready to describe some typical problems while providing solutions related to classroom management. This could include things like grouping and regrouping learners during a lesson and the advantages of using group work in a communicative classroom setting. Potential employers may want to know how you personalize coursebook content to learners\u2019 needs and interests, and/or strategies you employ to sustain learner engagement throughout your lessons. If you have an MA, Dip TESOL or DELTA qualification, they\u2019ll undoubtedly ask more in-depth questions. In this case, it\u2019s important for you to recognize the needs of their learners and the strategies you intend to use in your teaching to address these needs. Make sure that you have a strong awareness of classroom dynamics (e.g. differences between multilingual and monolingual settings) and teaching strategies you adopt to address the challenges that come along with these.\nFor some, TESOL is gateway to the world that acts as a second passport. When asked about your initial motivation to teach please avoid answering \u2018to travel while getting paid\u2019. It\u2019s fantastic that you want to watch sunsets and have a magical travel experience, but keep in mind people spend top dollar to educate themselves or their children. English is usually required for higher education and work. Generally, employers are not interested in your journey of self-discovery or travel explorations; instead they are looking to see whether you are dependable, professional, and committed to planning and delivering quality lessons for their learners.\nEmployers are investing in a professional educator, hence it\u2019s important to demonstrate this quality in the interview. Show them that you have an awareness of the culture and why English holds an importance in their society. Tell them what makes your lessons unique and communicative. Highlight specific speaking or language difficulties which are troublesome for the learners you intend to teach. We want to know that you\u2019ve researched the county as well as the educational needs of the learners. Don\u2019t forget to dress and act as you would if you were applying for a job at home. Avoid arriving to your interview in shorts and sandals or coming in after a big night out.\nSure, there are plenty of cowboy employers who might not mind, but reputable organisations such as local schools and universities tend to hire professional instructors who take teaching seriously. There are plenty of well-respected language centers seeking well qualified professional teachers as well, so do your research before applying to make sure that the employer you\u2019re applying to is equally professional.\nIf you plan to make a career out of English teaching, it\u2019s a good idea to map your development path. What professional qualifications are you intending to complete, such as the Dip TESOL/DELTA, PGCE, or MA? What other short-term educational/developmental goals do you have and why? Remember, you\u2019ve only just finished a four-week entry-level course and may have an unrelated bachelor\u2019s degree coupled with minimal work experience. Employers need to know that you are capable of development in lieu of your experience and education, so impress them by demonstrating your ability to evaluate your teaching and set personal development goals.\nThis may seem overwhelming, but I assure you, working for a dodgy school isn\u2019t the best idea. If you do opt for a less reputable employer, then be prepared for less than satisfactory working conditions (e.g. poor holiday and pay). Not to mention, unrealistic working hours and limited opportunities for professional development. You\u2019ll most likely work for schools which give English teaching a poor reputation. Living abroad poses many challenges and you\u2019ll be spending a significant amount of time at work. It\u2019s essential to choose your employer carefully. Lastly, think about your learners and the quality of instruction. They deserve a prepared instructor who\u2019s knowledgeable and helps them to attain their learning goals - It\u2019ll be challenging for you to achieve this if you don\u2019t have the support from your employer and teaching team.\nWant to meet our team of teacher trainers at English for Asia? Come and join one of our teacher training workshops held reguarly in our Hong Kong training centre.\nBryan Holmes is teacher trainer and the part time course director for the Trinity CertTESOL English for Asia. His qualifications include the Trinity CertTESOL, MATESOL, and Cambridge DELTA. He has a special interest in phonetics and phonology and has been teaching for 10 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hope.edu/news/2013/02/25/jane-dickie-honored-among-michigan-makers-women-who-inspire.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XBMSRLB4CXMODX5AP36MGVWDJEVS5GU3", "length": 2326, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hope.edu", "title": "Jane Dickie Honored among \u201cMichigan Makers \u2013 Women Who Inspire\u201d", "raw_content": "Jane Dickie Honored among \u201cMichigan Makers \u2013 Women Who Inspire\u201d\nDr. Jane Dickie, a professor emerita of psychology at Hope College, is one of 18 women from West Michigan being honored as \u201cMichigan Makers \u2013 Women Who Inspire\u201d on Tuesday, March 12.\nSponsored by WGVU Engage: Women and Girls Lead, the event will be held at Celebration! Cinema North and will include recognition of the local honorees, a panel discussion and a screening of the film \u201cMakers: Women Who Make America,\u201d which tells the story of women\u2019s advancement in America across the past half century.\nDickie was a member of the Hope faculty from 1972 until retiring in 2012. Her involvement in the community includes serving as vice president of the Board of the Center for Women in Transition, as vice president of the consistory of Hope Church and as a member of the Board of Room for All.\nShe established\u2014and served as the first director of\u2014the college\u2019s women\u2019s studies program, which from courses she developed in the 1980s became a minor in 1991 and expanded to include a major in 2005. Her teaching responsibilities at Hope included Developmental Psychology, Developmental Research Laboratory, Introduction to Women\u2019s Studies, Psychology of Women, Feminist Visions of Justice, Psychology of Peace and Gender, and the Women\u2019s Studies Keystone Seminar.\nShe involved students as collaborative researchers in her research throughout her time at Hope; through the years they received a variety of regional and national honors, including a national Undergraduate Research Award from Psi Chi \u2013 The International Psychology Honor Society in August 2012. Across her time at Hope she received honors including the Hope Outstanding Professor Educator (H.O.P.E.) Award presented by the college\u2019s graduating Class of 1996; the Janet Andersen Award for Excellence in Teaching presented by college\u2019s provost\u2019s office in 1998, and a citation from the Great Lakes Colleges Association in 1996 in recognition of her work in the field of women\u2019s studies.\nShe completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Alma College in 1968, and her master\u2019s and doctorate in psychology at Michigan State University in 1970 and 1973 respectively.\nOn Thursday and Friday, March 7 and 8, Hope College will host its 41st annual Model United Nations conference for high school students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 6880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 122.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hoponhopoff-budapest.com/blog/how-hungarian-spend-their-holidays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LHXQKPV2HR4NTMBUXPSDW4BYTAPJRYH4", "length": 2054, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hoponhopoff-budapest.com", "title": "\ufeff How Hungarians Spend their Holidays?", "raw_content": "How Hungarians Spend their Holidays?\nThe holidays are here and Hungarians are busy preparing for the most wonderful time of the year. Ever wondered how Hungarians spend Christmas? Let us give you a little taste into the festive traditions of Budapest.\nIf you go on a Budapest sightseeing trip, you will surely notice the Christmas markets that are now abundant in the city. The selection is better than ever as artisans and local farmers bring their finest products to the stalls. Look for sausages, sweets, mulled wine and chimney cake to warm you up. Most families visit the markets at least for a short stroll to get into the holiday spirit.\nProbably the most important moment of a Hungarian family\u2019s Christmas is the dinner on Christmas Eve. The traditional menu cannot be anything else than fish! Have a fish soup and fried fish medallions is a must. According to popular belief, the scales of the fish bring good fortune and wealth to the family. Anyhow, fish sales skyrocket at this time of the year!\nBuying and decorating the Christmas tree together is also an integral part of the celebration. Hungarians flock to the vendors to get the best trees and decorate them the day before Christmas Eve. Coming together and hanging szaloncukor (sweet chocolate candies) on the tree is a tradition that has been going on for ages.\nAround New Year\u2019s Eve, people feel that it is time to party and they hit the streets. For only one day a year, it is legal to light firecrackers and celebrate the coming of the new year. Most Hungarians have a party with their friends or family and share a glass of champagne when the clock hits midnight. Sometimes they offer lucky charms, mostly a coin, to each other to bring good luck in the coming year.\nIf you wish to see more of Hungary during Christmas, make sure to jump on a hop on hop off tour in Budapest and see the festive atmosphere for yourself! You won\u2019t need a map or an itinerary, we will take you where you need to go! Just search our site and make a booking to secure your holiday adventure in Hungary!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/07/great-news-the-epas-new-smog-rules-will-only-cost-40-times-as-much-as-they-said/?utm_source=akdart", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IEZUTW6EF23CDBTOB3JYLYZ27YLPY7PN", "length": 3035, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hotair.com", "title": "Great news: the EPA's new smog rules will only cost 40 times as much as they said", "raw_content": "Great news: the EPA\u2019s new smog rules will only cost 40 times as much as they said\nJazz ShawPosted at 5:31 pm on November 7, 2015\nWe recently discovered that EPA chief Gina McCarthy is coming for your air conditioners because she\u2019s pretty worried about ozone. (We\u2019ll leave aside for now the fact that the chemicals used in modern air conditioners don\u2019t affect that particular issue.) It\u2019s still on her mind and the agency already put forward some new rules to cut down on smog. This is an expensive proposition for American businesses and consumers and the agency admitted up front that the new rules would probably wind up costing us roughly one and a half billion a year. But it was worth the cost to save the planet, gosh darn it.\nI think somebody forgot to check their math. (Daily Caller)\nThe Environmental Protection Agency estimated its stricter smog limits would only cost Americans $1.4 billion a year, but a new report argues the total cost to the economy is likely 40 times higher than agency estimates.\nThe right-leaning American Action Forum says EPA\u2019s updated smog, or ground-level ozone, rule could cost $56.5 billion in lost wages based on economic losses from counties that couldn\u2019t comply with the agency\u2019s 2008 rule.\n\u201cObserved nonattainment counties experienced losses of $56.5 billion in total wage earnings, $690 in pay per worker, and 242,000 jobs between 2008 and 2013,\u201d according to AAf policy experts.\nSo we\u2019ll be sucking well over $50B a year out of the economy to achieve a reduction in ozone levels from 75 parts per billion to\u2026 70 parts per billion. That\u2019s a pretty steep price for what is likely barely measurable change. Trying to determine the effectiveness of such a change, even if it\u2019s achieved is a challenge. The EPA\u2019s own information on the subject doesn\u2019t go much further than saying that more ground level ozone is bad and less is better. But how much is too much? A shift of 5 parts per billion in the \u201cbetter\u201d direction is probably better than nothing, but is it really worth this much of a price tag?\nPerhaps the better question is how the EPA managed to arrive at one number when people experienced in the nuts and bolts of the science could come up with something so vastly different. Of course, given their history of shopping for deals on furniture and their knack for blowing millions on guns and heavy armor, math probably isn\u2019t their strong suit to begin with and calculating the cost of things really isn\u2019t up their alley either.\nThe bottom line is that counties who don\u2019t manage to meet the new levels within the dictated timeline will face costs and not just from the feds. They will need to curtail certain activities such as either manufacturing or energy exploration. Both of those things mean jobs, so the hidden costs are multiplied well out from any individual fines or lack of federal funding. We really need somebody new at the helm of this agency before they finally manage to bankrupt us.\nTags: Environmental Protection Agency EPA Gina McCarthy government regulations ozone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_emerg_facpubs/391/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:03Z", "digest": "sha1:B5DHRNCJ7UD6C7IDLJFZIESZTGM6IJZ4", "length": 537, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu", "title": "\"Trends in the Contribution of Emergency Departments to the Provision o\" by David Marcozzi, Brendan Carr et al.", "raw_content": "Trends in the Contribution of Emergency Departments to the Provision of Health Care in the USA.\nAlisha Liferidge, George Washington UniversityFollow\nNicole Baehr\nInternational Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation\nMarcozzi, D., Carr, B., Liferidge, A., Baehr, N., & Browne, B. (2017). Trends in the Contribution of Emergency Departments to the Provision of Health Care in the USA.. International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation, (). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020731417734498", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hubpages.com/entertainment/11-Tips-to-Buying-a-Used-Electric-Guitar", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:20Z", "digest": "sha1:S3UOVTIUPMABTPI6GF3M2BKDPAZKKC46", "length": 5585, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "hubpages.com", "title": "11 Tips to Buying a Used Electric Guitar | HubPages", "raw_content": "11 Tips to Buying a Used Electric Guitar\nWhen it comes to buying a used electric guitar, you want to find the guitar that is right for you in terms of look, sound, price, ease of play, and comfort, just as you would shopping for a new electric guitar. The main difference is that used guitars come with a past, and if you aren\u2019t careful your future might include a junk guitar.\nExperienced guitar players know what to look for when buying a used guitar, but first time guitar buyers run the risk of making a bad purchase if they aren\u2019t prepared.\nUsed guitars for sale at a local music store tend to be far less risky than buying a used guitar from a stranger, especially if the store that has established as a fair and honest business. If a business has spent years of hard work building up trust and good reputation with its customers, it isn\u2019t likely to be selling them second-hand electric guitars that are in poor condition.\nWith strangers, there is no pre-existing trust. While there are many honest people out there selling used electric guitars in good condition, there are many who aren\u2019t honest. That\u2019s why power and protection come with knowledge. If you are buying a used electric guitar for the first time \u2013 from a stranger, a music store or wherever, -- prepare yourself ahead of time with the following tips and decrease the chances you walk away with a bad purchase.\nAs you read the tips below, keep in mind that some problems like intonation or slight bowing occur in virtually every guitar at some point. Fortunately getting an electric guitar serviced is usually under $50 and includes minor adjustments to the neck, frets, action, and intonation if needed. As a rule of thumb, any time you buy a used electric guitar, it\u2019s a good idea to have it serviced, whether you get it from a store or a stranger.\nThat said, the tips.\n1. Check the guitar for cracks, especially along the neck and the area between the neck and the head, which is the weakest spot on an electric guitar. Cracks in the finish are cosmetic and aside from their unsightliness, not a big concern. Structural cracks could result in the neck completely breaking. Finish cracks can run in any direction, but structural cracks tend to follow the grain of the wood and may fissure. Scratches, dents and wear to the finish are normal: the guitar is used after all. Just take a look at the finish on Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Fender Telecaster or Stevie Ray Vaughn\u2019s Fender Stratocaster. Or should I say what finish? Unless such flaws bother you aesthetically, they don\u2019t pose a problem.\n2. Sight check the guitar\u2019s neck to make sure it isn\u2019t warped or bowed. The quickest way to do this is to hold the guitar at eye-level, once with the guitar\u2019s body closest to you and again with the neck head closest to you, and look down either side of the neck. It should be straight. If the guitar neck is slightly bowed or warped, adjusting the truss rod should fix the problem and absent any other problems, isn\u2019t a major concern. In fact, it\u2019s a common problem. If the warping or bowing is pronounced and has been that way for some time, the neck may need to be replaced.\n3. Check the intonation. This is problematic for beginner guitar players who haven\u2019t yet learned how to play harmonics. Just play a harmonic at the 12 fret and then on the same string, play the note at the 12 fret and compare. If one sounds higher or lower than the other, the intonation is off. Do this for every string. For accuracy, it\u2019s best to use a guitar tuner to compare.\n4. Check the action. A guitar\u2019s action is measured from the bottom of the string to the top of the fret. For electric guitar, standard action is 6/64 in. on the sixth string and 4/64 in. on the first string You won\u2019t be able to judge this with your eye, so just be aware the strings should not touch the frets, nor should they be so high it hurts your hand to fret the notes.\n5. The strings should not rattle, buzz, or mute when played, no matter if the guitar is plugged or unplugged. Make sure none of the frets are loose.\n6. Plug in the guitar to test the pick-ups and the pick-up selector switch as well as the tone and volume knobs. There shouldn\u2019t be any pops or humming, nor should the sound cut in and out.\n7. Ask the seller how long he\u2019s owned the guitar and if he bought it new or used.\n8. Ask if the guitar is still under warranty, and if so, is that warranty transferable.\n9. Ask the seller if any work has been done on the guitar, and if so, why.\n10. After you\u2019ve arranged to see the guitar, research the make and model. Is it still available or has it been discontinued? Check out customer reviews. Search e-bay, Craigslist, and other classified venues to see if anyone else is selling the same make and model and for how much. This will help you determine if the seller\u2019s asking price is too much (time to negotiate), too little (it does happen) or at market value.\n11. Finally, remember what I said in the first tip. Used electric guitars are going to show varying degrees of wear and tear and may require minor adjustments. If you find a used electric guitar that has no major problems and feels and plays like it belongs in your hands, buy it!\nAwesome webpage\nwanted an electric guitar used with good condition\nAntonio Orrico\nNice Hub and good advice here!\nI just would like to say that a good SET UP is gold. I heard a few $400 guitars playing better that $4000 ones just because a good guitar tech worked on them. So even if the guitar you like is not perfect.....it can be fixed!\nhttp://www.MusicZero2Hero.com http://www.RhythmGuitarZero2Hero.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 12402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://idainstitute.com/ida_community/ideas_worth_hearing/individuals/support_pins/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TFV6LHDFADHQ2VJKQQJMJGQ6TXN2EISK", "length": 1924, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "idainstitute.com", "title": "Support Pins", "raw_content": "Support Pins/Wristbands\nCreate or purchase pins and wristbands so people can show their support for hearing!\nHumans are very social beings and we like to show our support for others. Think of all the \"like\" buttons on the web, bumper stickers, and support ribbons.\nMany charities use objects and stickers to allow people to proudly display their awareness and support of an issue.\nTake this concept and use it to spread awareness about hearing loss!\nCreate or purchase an object that people can wear and display to show their support for hearing loss as an important health issue. Whatever the object is, it should be eye-catching and large enough to be a good conversation starter. You can then share this object with families and friends, creating a grassroots movement to show support for hearing impaired persons and good communication strategies.\nAudiologist No\u00ebl Crosby took the initiative to design and market her own brand of cochlea shaped jewelry with the intention of promoting hearing loss awareness and treatment. You can view and purchase her jewelry by visiting her website.\nThe people at Movember use a simple and eye-catching symbol of masculinity, the mustache, to raise funds and awareness about men\u00b4s health issues. They have garnered much attention for their novel approach - asking men around the world to grow mustaches for the month of November to get people talking about men\u2019s health.\nCreating a physical object to be worn and presented can help spark thousands of conversations about hearing health and hearing loss.\nIt can also serve as a visual reminder to people to use good communication practices at all times. With the pin, a hearing impaired person may not have to continually interrupt discussion to remind people to face forward and speak slowly.\nHearing impaired persons could also adopt the physical object as the first step to accepting and acknowledging their own unique hearing loss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideas.ted.com/tag/renewable-energy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NPP7SJ7GPWZ7XN5DZGP5SIULHORM2OQZ", "length": 213, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ideas.ted.com", "title": "renewable energy |", "raw_content": "This plane? This plane can fly for 118 hours\nHere\u2019s a riddle for you: A plane flew for five days and nights, staying airborne for 118 hours. But it didn\u2019t use a single drop of fuel. How? Bertrand Piccard explains.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilias.pro-norm.de/register.php?client_id=konstruktion&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:5IP4GAIOVOW2DG4QXTBGM6R4YU44N2D6", "length": 10843, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ilias.pro-norm.de", "title": "pro-norm", "raw_content": "If you have got a registration code, please enter it here.\nChinese English French German Spanish\nInformation before registering with \u201cpro-norm.de\u201d\nSupplier and contractual partner\nThe e-teaching/learning platform \u201cpro-norm.de\u201d is a service provided by pro-norm.de Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wilfried Hesser Nordmarkstrasse 30-32 22047 Hamburg Germany (hereinafter referred to as pro-norm.de). 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Wilfried Hesser Nordmarkstrasse 30-32 22047 Hamburg Germany E-mail: info@pro-norm.de October 2010\nAccept user agreement? *\nLogin to ILIAS Public Area", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 11459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilovewalkinginfrance.com/5-favourite-fotos-from-moissac/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZYYTC2FADI74KS3PKVLL5GW7MBGBQUO", "length": 4840, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "ilovewalkinginfrance.com", "title": "5 favourite fotos from Moissac | I Love Walking In France", "raw_content": "Legend has it that, following his victory over the Visigoths at the Battle of Vouill\u00e9 in the sixth century, the Catholic King Clovis I had a vision\u2014to build a monastery for 1,000 monks on the land where the Tarn and Garonne Rivers meet. Although this story has been largely discredited, the Abbaye de Saint-Pierre, in the centre of Moissac, is a magnificent example of Romanesque architecture and has been a major stop for pilgrims along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques since the tenth century.\nIf you are following my suggested itinerary along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques, you\u2019ll arrive in Moissac after three days of walking from Cahors. This may feel a little too soon to be considering a rest day, but if you are ready for a break, Moissac is an ideal choice.\nCall into the Tourist Office, located next to the abbey at the entrance to the cloister. Ask for a map of the town (Plan de Moissac), which also shows three walking circuits around Moissac, and will be useful if you have time for some wider exploring.\nNo matter how much time you have available, make sure you visit the abbey and cloister, which are open to the public every day (hours vary depending on the season). There is a lot to see here so, if possible, allow yourself an hour or two to explore. Guided visits (en fran\u00e7ais) or audio guides (in many languages) are also available to give you a deeper understanding of the site\u2019s architecture and carvings.\nConstruction of the abbey has been attributed to Clovis II, who ruled in the middle of the seventh century. The southern door is surrounded by elaborate carvings, including a tympanum depicting the Apocalypse, which was carved between 1115 and 1130.\nInside, the walls are painted in shades of yellow, terracotta and blue and several small chapels display beautifully painted statues and sculptures of Jesus, the saints and disciples. Over the centuries, the church has been restored and enlarged several times\u2014as evidenced by the mixture of architectural styles and stone and brick work on the fa\u00e7ade.\nThe adjoining cloister was completed in 1100 and offers an oasis of calm\u2014despite the many visitors (and the constant stream of wedding parties on a Saturday afternoon!).\nSeventy-six capitals, mounted on alternating single and double columns, line the cloister and depict the lives of saints and martyrs as well as stories from the Old and New Testaments. These delicate, and sometimes macabre, carvings are believed to be the oldest surviving capitals in the world.\nIf you have time to explore the town a little more, follow the road beyond the railway to the top of the hill (purple Circuit 3 on Plan de Moissac). Here you\u2019ll find the Carmelite Convent, which shelters up to seventy walkers each night and offers spectacular views from the grounds over the rooftops of Moissac.\nOn Saturday and Sunday mornings, a large market unfurls in Place des R\u00e9collets, where you\u2019ll find clothes, jewellery and all manner of knick-knacks as well as the usual fresh fruits, luscious cheeses and local delicacies.\nFrom Moissac, the GR 65 path follows the canal for three kilometres (two miles) before climbing the ridge to the village of Boudou.\nWhich long-distance walk visits Moissac?\nDistance from the previous village of Durfort: 14.5 kilometres (9 miles)\nH\u00f4tel-Restaurant Le Pont Napol\u00e9on\nMaison du Pont St-Jacques (five rooms, 10 people)\nLe Jardin Suspendu (two rooms, four people)\nChez Anne Decours (three rooms, seven people)\nM. Provensal (two rooms, four people)\nUltre\u00efa (five rooms, 18 people)\nG\u00eete Les \u00c9toiles (five rooms, 13 people)\nG\u00eete La Petite Lumi\u00e8re (two rooms, eight people)\nG\u00eete L\u2019Ancien Carmel\nG\u00eete La Coquille (four rooms, eight people)\nCamping de l\u2019\u00cele du Bidounet (109 places)\nH\u00f4tel Le Moulin de Moissac one of the nicest and best value hotels I have stayed in, this hotel is a ten-minute walk from the abbey in the centre of town. It also has a great restaurant if you are too tired to go out for dinner.\nNancy Spies says\nMay I please have your permission to use the photograph of Daniel on the capital in the cloister in a paper I am writing about the origins of the bishop\u2019s mitre? This may actually show a possible example of what the mitre grew out of, and it would certainly make my paper so much more intereseting.\nOf course Nancy, you are welcome to use the photo. Melinda\nI stayed at the Ultreia Moissac gite for two nights in September, 2013. It\u2019s run by a lovely Irish couple (Rom & Aideen Bates) who have themselves walked le chemin de Saint-Jacques (GR65). It\u2019s especially great for pilgrims coming in or leaving by train because its just 100 or so meters from the gare. Highly recommended. ( http://www.ultreiamoissac.com/ )\nSounds perfect Jerry. I am still collating all my information for this section of the Chemin de Saint-Jacques \u2013 I will make sure I include this gite. Thanks, Melinda.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://images.chicagohistory.org/detail/en/8810/1/EN8810-family-portrait-of-george-schneider.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:35Z", "digest": "sha1:G4WFNT4U4KTWZ3XWFYBJC7VFZP5VTZ7T", "length": 474, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "images.chicagohistory.org", "title": "Chicago History Museum | Family portrait of george schneider wife children and, EN8810", "raw_content": "Family portrait of George Schneider, wife, children, and grandchildren\nAlschuler, Samuel\nBio File: Schneider, George\nFamily portrait of George Schneider, the first president of the Chicago Horticultural Society, Guarantor of the W.C.E., President of the National Bank, first commissioner of the Internal Revenue, and editor. Photograph depicts family in front of their home at 2000 S. Michigan. Schneider is with his wife, seven daughters, and nine grandchildren circa 1890.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/Age-Of-X-Man-X-Tremists-2019/comics-series/126358?ref=cGFnZS92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9saXN0Mjc5NTc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:POPXWQATWZ7ZHV5TLYXICFEGNNPEISBR", "length": 287, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "impactcomics.comicretailer.com", "title": "Age Of X-Man: X-Tremists (2019) Digital Comics - Impact Comics Digital Store", "raw_content": "ENTER THE AGE OF X-MAN! A perfect world doesn\u2019t just\u2026happen. It needs to be cultivated. That\u2019s where the X-Tremists come in. Psylocke, Iceman, Northstar, Blob, Jubilee and Moneta protect people from threats they won\u2019t even know existed, including the most insidious threat of all \u2014 love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 6439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 199.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americas-interests-and-the-un/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:25Z", "digest": "sha1:S3LELVKOG4MRKOAZYRFQPU6PSI2NZQIC", "length": 14481, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "imprimis.hillsdale.edu", "title": "America's Interests and the U.N. - Imprimis", "raw_content": "America\u2019s Interests and the U.N.\nApril 2008 \u2022 Volume 37, Number 4 \u2022 John Bolton\nSenior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute\nJohn Bolton is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and for four years prior to that he was Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Ambassador Bolton has a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has written for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard, and is the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad.\nThe following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 11, 2008.\nJeane Kirkpatrick was frequently asked why the U.S. didn\u2019t simply withdraw from the U.N., and her answer was, \u201cBecause it\u2019s more trouble than it\u2019s worth.\u201d The fact is that the U.N., at times, can be an effective instrument of American foreign policy. Of course, to say this is heretical to the real devotees of the U.N., for whom the U.N. shouldn\u2019t be an instrument of anyone\u2019s foreign policy. But the fact is that everybody who participates in the U.N.\u2014all of the 192 member governments, all of the non-governmental organizations, and all of the civil servants in the U.N. secretariats\u2014try to advance their own interests. The only entity that gets criticized for that, needless to say, is the U.S. government.\nAlthough I want to talk about some of the U.N.\u2019s failings in the international security area, I first want to mention an issue that doesn\u2019t get as much attention, but which in many respects is more troubling and affects American interests in ways that could have a profound impact well into the future. This is what our friends in Europe call \u201cnorming.\u201d\n\u201cNorming\u201d is the idea that the U.S. should base its decisions on some kind of international consensus, rather than making its decisions as a constitutional democracy. It is a way in which the Europeans and their left-wing friends here and elsewhere try and constrain U.S. sovereignty. You can see how disastrous this would be just by looking at the geography of the floor of the U.N. General Assembly. Look out at the representatives of the 192 governments spread out over the floor and you wonder where the U.S. even is. Well, we\u2019re there somewhere. But the fact is that we\u2019re sitting with a majority of countries that have no traditions or understanding of liberty. The argument of the advocates of \u201cnorming\u201d is \u201cone nation, one vote.\u201d That sounds very democratic: Who could object to that? But its result would be very anti-democratic. As an illustration of this, a friend of mine once went to a conference on international law and heard a professor from a major European university say, \u201cThe problem with the United States is its devotion to its Constitution over international norms.\u201d\nWe have controversial issues within the United States\u2014issues that we debate, and over which reasonable people can disagree. But these controversies should be resolved through our political process, according to our Constitution, just as other countries can resolve their controversies as they see fit. Take, for example, the question of the death penalty. This is a matter about which many people feel very strongly, both for and against. We\u2019ve just seen New Jersey repeal the death penalty. At the federal level, procedures have been reformed to meet objections from the Supreme Court, so that the death penalty can be handed out in appropriate cases. Opinions on the subject change constantly as we debate in the U.S. whether we should have a death penalty and, if so, under what circumstances. But at the U.N. this debate is closed; the death penalty has been ruled out. The new Secretary-General of the U.N., Ban Ki-moon, comes from South Korea\u2014where they still have the death penalty\u2014and last year, during his first few months in office, he remarked that this question is for each government to decide for itself. Upon saying this, he was all but subjected to articles of impeachment for failing to realize that the U.N. had already decided that question for all countries.\nAs I say, I think it\u2019s perfectly legitimate to debate the death penalty from either side. But it is inconceivable to me that anyone can seriously argue\u2014as advocates of \u201cnorming\u201d do\u2014that the death penalty violates international standards of human rights, when in a democratic society like ours we are debating it.\nAnother issue on which \u201cnorming\u201d is brought to bear is gun control. In 2001, the U.N. had a conference about international trafficking in small arms and light weapons\u2014weapons that flow into conflict zones and pose a risk to U.N. peacekeepers. The idea was to discuss methods to deal with this threat. But the discussion turned out to have nothing to do with small arms and light weapons in African or Asian civil wars. Instead it was about gun control in the U.S., with advocates of \u201cinternational norms\u201d pressing for the prohibition of private ownership of firearms of any sort. The U.S. delegation made it clear that while we were concerned about the illicit flow of weapons into conflict areas, we were not going to sign on to any international agreement that prohibited private ownership of guns. I explained that we had a Constitution that precluded any such restrictions. This was treated as an entirely specious notion.\nThese are the kind of \u201cnorming\u201d exercises by which foreign governments hope, over time, to build up a coral reef of U.N. resolutions and pronouncements that can be used to manipulate U.S. policy.\nAlthough the U.N. is perfectly capable of passing resolutions about the death penalty and gun control\u2014not to mention smoking\u2014it has proved utterly incapable, even after 9/11, of agreeing to a definition of terrorism that would enable it to denounce terrorism. The U.N. is incapable of doing this, even to this day, because several member governments think there is good terrorism and bad terrorism. It is inconceivable, in my judgment, that the U.N. will ever be able to agree upon a definition of terrorism that\u2019s not complete pablum\u2014and therefore utterly useless.\nSo in all the areas where the U.N. shouldn\u2019t be involved\u2014issues best left to sovereign countries\u2014it is very successful in passing judgment, especially when it can spit in the eye of the U.S. But in the one area where the U.N. could be of most use in promoting international peace, it has failed completely. So much for \u201cnorming.\u201d\nWe, as Americans, are pretty practical people. We like to solve problems. I think that\u2019s the way most Americans approach the United Nations. So we have looked for ways to make the U.N. work better. But virtually every serious effort to reform it over the years has failed.\nLet me give you a couple of examples. Most of us are familiar with the oil-for-food scandal\u2014the mismanagement and corruption that accompanied the efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people after the first Iraq War. Even Kofi Annan, the previous Secretary-General, recognized that this scandal caused grave damage to the U.N.\u2019s reputation. Thus he brought in Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, to investigate and propose reforms. One of Volcker\u2019s most important findings was that the oil-for-food scandal was not a unique incident\u2014that it represented flaws endemic to the entire U.N. system. So Volcker proposed a whole series of reforms, chief among them being effective outside auditing of U.N. programs. We worked hard with other governments to get these reforms adopted by the General Assembly. Months and months of negotiation led to a vote by the U.N. Budget Committee, and the reforms were rejected by a margin of about two to one.\nLet me repeat this for emphasis: The U.N. Budget Committee voted two to one against effective outside auditing of U.N. programs. This tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how the U.N. operates. And I should add that the countries voting in favor of these reforms contribute over 90 percent of the U.N.\u2019s budget, whereas the countries voting against them contribute under ten percent.\nWe engaged in another reform effort to fix the U.N. Human Rights Commission\u2014a body that everybody in Europe, and even Secretary-General Annan, admitted was a stain on the U.N.\u2019s reputation. It spends most of its time defending human rights abusers and passing resolutions critical of the U.S. and Israel. We proposed a series of procedural reforms that would have changed the membership of the Human Rights Commission in a way to rid it of the worst human rights offenders. But the third world countries, led by Russia and China, adamantly refused to consider these reforms. One by one, our European friends allowed them to be dropped, so that the reform package got smaller and smaller. I knew that the effort was completely lost when it couldn\u2019t even be agreed that governments under sanctions by the Security Council for gross abuses of human rights or support for terrorism would be prohibited membership on the new Human Rights Council. At that point I recommended to the Secretary of State that we vote against the resolution. But ultimately the new Council was created with only four countries voting against it\u2014the U.S., Israel, and our other two close allies, Palau and the Marshall Islands.\nThe Europeans criticized us at the time for giving up on reform, and my response was that it is foolish to put lipstick on a caterpillar and call it a butterfly. But in the end the Europeans cared less about reforming the Human Rights Commission than bludgeoning the U.S. into being more submissive to the U.N. So they expressed outrage at us, rather than at the countries that had rejected real reform. Subsequently, even the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Washington Post\u2014neither of them conservative supporters of the Bush administration\u2014called the new Human Rights Council even worse than its predecessor.\nWhat I concluded following my 16 months as ambassador\u2014and based on my work in the U.N. system dating back to my earliest service in the Reagan administration\u2014was that efforts at marginal or incremental reform of the U.N. are doomed to failure. Instead, I believe that we should focus on one issue: changing the arrangement by which financing of the U.N. is mandatory.\nUnder the current system, the U.S. pays 22 percent of the cost of most U.N. agencies, and 27 percent of peacekeeping costs. We are far and away the largest contributor, and every year Congress pays the bill as apportioned by the General Assembly. My revolutionary reform principle would be this: The United States should pay for what it wants and insist that it get what it pays for. This would break up the entitlement mentality at the U.N. and foster an organization that is both more transparent and more effective.\nInternational peace and security was the objective that motivated the founders of the U.N. after World War Two. And it is precisely here that the U.N.\u2019s promise has been least fulfilled during its 60-plus years of existence. During the half-century of the Cold War, the U.N. was fundamentally irrelevant to the great struggle between liberty and tyranny due to the make-up of the Security Council and the veto power held by the Soviet Union and, later, by the People\u2019s Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, many people have thought it possible that the U.N. could play a more important role in world affairs. These hopes have been completely dashed.\nTake the present case of Darfur. Acts of genocide have been committed by the government of Sudan against the people of the region, and unspeakable brutality has gone on for over three years. Yet the Security Council has been incapable of inserting a U.N. peacekeeping force. Why is that? In part, it is because China has given protective cover to the Sudanese government. And why does China do this? Because it has a large and growing demand for energy and wants oil and natural gas leases in Sudan. Thus the genocidal government of Sudan has stood down the entire U.N. Security Council for years.\nOr consider the case of Iraq. In the aftermath of Iraq\u2019s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the subsequent expulsion of Iraqi forces by the U.S.-led coalition, we and Saddam Hussein agreed to a cease-fire based on a number of conditions expressed in various Security Council resolutions. Saddam Hussein ignored those resolutions. Leaving aside the issue of weapons of mass destruction, there\u2019s no doubt that he failed to comply with the cease-fire resolution and other key resolutions of the Security Council. Yet when President Bush suggested that the Security Council take its own resolutions seriously, he was rebuffed. This is a perfect example of the U.N. being willing to talk but not act.\nWhat is the lesson learned when unlawful governments are the subject of repeated resolutions by the Security Council and yet suffer no consequences for ignoring them? We find the consequences played out now in two direct threats to the U.S. and to international order: the nuclear weapons programs of North Korea and Iran. And, as in the days of the Cold War, the U.N. is fundamentally irrelevant in the face of these grave threats to world peace.\nI\u2019m sure all of you recall the Israeli Air Force raid last September that destroyed a major facility in Syria. It turned out to be a nuclear facility that was being constructed with the assistance of North Korea, quite possibly financed by Iran. This reminds us of the real threats we face, of the ineffectiveness of the U.N., and of the importance of U.S. military power and foreign policy.\nThere is one point of view here in America\u2014a view given expression during the 2004 presidential campaign by Senator Kerry\u2014holding that American foreign policy should meet some kind of \u201cglobal test.\u201d By this way of thinking, America needs, in effect, to demonstrate the legitimacy of its foreign policy decisions by getting the approval of the U.N. Security Council or some other international body. The same suggestion will no doubt surface again this year, in the run-up to the November election. In the 21st century, then\u2014just as in the 20th\u2014the political decisions we make here in the U.S. will be much more significant than those made at the U.N.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 22489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 131.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://imsyser.co.za/sugar-artificial-sweeteners-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:53M3ZLZE2B7LDRFI5QNFVZ4G3ZX5YTHP", "length": 7555, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "imsyser.co.za", "title": "Sugar, Artificial Sweeteners & Health - Imsyser", "raw_content": "Sharing with Karen Collins, RDN, a registered dietitian nutritionist\u2026..\nWe all know that getting too much added sugar carries many health risks\u2014from weight gain and heart disease to diabetes and obesity-linked cancers. In fact, research shows that most Americans are getting so much sugar in their daily diets that they are increasing their heart attack risk by 20%.\nIf you\u2019re not cutting calories and eat a healthful diet, it\u2019s OK to have up to two to three teaspoons of these sugars daily. But if your diet includes high-sugar snacks, cereals, drinks or other processed foods, limit these sugars to a few times a week.\n\u2022Brown and white sugars.\nYou may think of brown sugar as a more wholesome choice than white sugar. But the fact is, they\u2019re both processed\u2014white sugar is derived from sugarcane or sugar beets, while brown sugar is a combination of white sugar and molasses. These sugars also have roughly the same number of calories\u201416 calories per teaspoon for white sugar\u2026and 17 for brown sugar.\nBrown sugar is really no more healthful than white sugar, but it does make baked goods moister and adds a hint of caramel flavour.\nKick the Sugar Habit!\n\u2022Honey. Even though honey contains trace amounts of minerals (mainly potassium, calcium and phosphorus), its nutritional value is not significantly different from that of white or brown sugar. Honey is about 25% to 50% sweeter by weight than sugar, so you can use less and still get a nice sweet taste.\nHoney is safe for most adults when consumed in modest amounts. However, honey should never be given to babies under one year of age\u2014it could contain bacterial spores that produce a toxin that causes infant botulism, a serious form of food poisoning. Honey\u2019s stickiness also may contribute to cavities in everyone else.\n\u2022Agave nectar. Made from the juice of the agave plant, this sweetener reminds some people of a sweeter, thinner version of honey. Agave and honey have about the same number of calories (21 calories per teaspoon).\nAgave is no more healthful than other types of added sugar. Compared with the same amount of white sugar, agave causes smaller increases in blood sugar, triggering fewer of the metabolic changes that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. However, agave is higher in fructose than other natural sugars, which may not be healthy in large amounts.\n\u2022 Molasses. This syrupy liquid is created from the juice of sugarcane and beet sugar during the refining process. The type of molasses is determined by the degree of boiling that occurs\u2014light molasses comes from the first boiling\u2026dark molasses, which is darker and thicker than the light variety, comes from the second boiling\u2026and blackstrap molasses, which is quite thick and dark, comes from the third boiling.\nMolasses is safe for most people. Dark and blackstrap molasses provide health-protective polyphenol compounds. Blackstrap molasses is also a good source of iron. All types of molasses contain about 20 calories per teaspoon.\nArtificial sweeteners are harmful and should be avoided\n\u2022Aspartame. Sold in a light blue packet as NutraSweet or Equal, this artificial sweetener has no calories and is about 200 times sweeter by weight than white or brown sugar. Aspartame is used in soft drinks, chewing gum, pudding and gelatins and hundreds of other products.\nSome individuals get headaches and/or feel dizzy when they ingest too much aspartame. Despite animal studies that have linked aspartame to cancer, no such association has been found in humans. However, a recent study linked consumption of diet soft drinks containing aspartame to an increased risk for non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men. The watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) advises against using aspartame. In addition, people with phenylketonuria should avoid aspartame completely\u2014this genetic disorder makes it difficult to metabolize phenylalanine, one of the protein building blocks used to make the sweetener.\n\u2022Saccharin. Found in a pink packet and sold as Sweet\u2019N Low, it is 300 to 500 times sweeter than sugar. Saccharin has less than four calories per packet.\nDespite concerns about saccharin causing bladder cancer in male rats, many human studies have shown no link to cancer risk. Even so, CSPI believes the research is inconsistent and recommends against its use. There\u2019s some evidence that saccharin can cross the placenta, so some experts advise women to limit it during pregnancy.\n\u2022Stevia. A highly purified extract made from the leaves of a South American shrub, stevia (sold as stevia, rebiana and under the brand names PureVia and Truvia) has zero calories and is about 250 times sweeter than sugar.\nNo health risks have been uncovered in a wide range of studies on stevia, but research is ongoing. Stevia may cause an allergic reaction in people who are allergic to ragweed and could interact with diabetes and blood pressure drugs.\n\u2022Sucralose. Known as Splenda and sold in a yellow packet, it has four calories per packet and tastes about 600 times sweeter than white or brown sugar. Sucralose is a processed sweetener derived from a molecule of sucrose (table sugar).\nThere\u2019s no evidence that sucralose harms humans when consumed in small amounts. One recent study suggested that it increases diabetes risk, but this was a small study of obese people looking at how sucralose affected their ability to metabolize a very large sugar load\u2014about 19 teaspoons consumed all at once. More research is needed on how sucralose may affect metabolism with a more typical diet.\nPROCESSED FOOD & SWEETENER\n\u2022High fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Derived from cornstarch, HFCS is found in a vast and sometimes surprising array of processed foods, ranging from many breads and yogurts to certain brands of applesauce and even macaroni and cheese. Beverages that contain HFCS include a wide variety of soft drinks, sports drinks and even tonic water.\nMost experts have long insisted that there\u2019s no research showing that HFCS is any worse than other sweeteners\u2014and, in fact, most HFCS contains only a little more fructose than regular table sugar. However, some studies have now linked HFCS-containing beverages (one or more servings a day) to greater risk for heart disease, diabetes, weight gain and obesity. But these associations may be due to increased calorie consumption from foods that contain HFCS, such as soda, rather than the HFCS itself. Best: Avoid these beverages, and limit processed foods to substantially cut consumption of HFCS and calories.\n\u2022Sugar alcohols. Sorbitol, mannitol and erythritol are processed sweeteners that do not actually contain alcohol or sugar. They\u2019re about half as sweet as white sugar, with fewer calories. Sugar alcohols are slowly absorbed, so they don\u2019t raise blood sugar quickly. A serving of food with less than 5 g of these sweeteners generally will not affect blood sugar. Consuming more than 20 g at once can lead to gas, bloating and diarrhea.\n*People with diabetes can use any type of sweetener in their diets but must include it in their total daily carbohydrate limit recommended by their doctors or registered dietitians. Artificial sweeteners themselves have no carbohydrates, but the foods containing them usually do. To cook or bake with artificial sweeteners, check the labels for instructions.\nCategories Gut health, Health, Immune Health, Mens Health, Mental health, Parenting & Pregnancy, Womans HealthTags artificial sweetners, blood sugar, free from sugar, no sugar, sweeteners\tPost navigation\nHow Else Might Green Tea Benefit Your Health?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 10533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-58591220110803", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:V5YRO3LPDSRC6VUXUJCNUR3HEIH4FUBP", "length": 2400, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "in.reuters.com", "title": "China rating agency cuts U.S. credit rating | Reuters", "raw_content": "China rating agency cuts U.S. credit rating\nBEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese ratings agency on Wednesday downgraded the U.S. credit rating from A-plus to A, saying the deal to lift the debt ceiling won\u2019t solve underlying U.S. debt problems or improve its debt-paying ability over the long run.\nAn employee of an money exchange counts U.S. dollar bills in Tokyo November 27, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files\nDagong Global Credit Rating, a relative newcomer to sovereign debt rating realm and little known outside of China, said in a statement that the U.S. decision to raise the borrowing ceiling will not change the fact that the growth of its debt has outpaced its overall economic growth and fiscal revenue.\nIt said the deal reached by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama may further erode the country\u2019s debt paying ability in the coming years, and the agency issued a negative outlook for the United States.\n\u201cThe rise of the U.S. debt ceiling helped temporarily avoid a debt default but has not improved its solvency and the increasing government debt burden will deteriorated the U.S. sovereign debt crisis,\u201d it said in the statement.\nDagong also said that the overall outstanding debt could top the country\u2019s gross domestic product by the end of 2012.\nDagong\u2019s downgrading puts United States credit several notches below the agency\u2019s top rating and on par with creditworthiness for countries such as Spain, Estonia and South Africa.\nIts views do not necessarily represent the Chinese government\u2019s view, however, its analysis often runs in tandem with statements from government officials.\nIn its maiden sovereign ratings issued last September, the agency listed U.S. government debt as a bigger risk than that of 11 other countries, including China, while established U.S.-based ratings agencies, such as Standard and Poor\u2019s and Moody\u2019s Investor Service, have given the United States a top grade and marked China lower.\nMoody\u2019s on Tuesday reaffirmed its top rating for the United States following the debt reduction deal, but it assigned a negative outlook.\nIn November, Dagong cut its U.S. rating after the Federal Reserve launched a second round of quantitative easing, echoing the government criticism of the policy, and stated that the ultra loose monetary policy was setting the stage for \u201ca world credit war\u201d.\nReporting by Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing; Editing by Ken Wills", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://in2thewood.com/2012/11/07/blue-is-the-colour-of-the-rainbow/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:D3IQ24EHXLVL6FHFQ4LTA4QENH4HWKAO", "length": 1186, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "in2thewood.com", "title": "blue is the colour of the rainbow | Stories for Boys", "raw_content": "Posted on November 7, 2012 miscellaneous\nblue is the colour of the rainbow\nThe election results from last night have given me a renewed sense of hope, not only for our country but also for my little right-angles-right-living state of Colorado. Last night we turned a lovely shade of blue, and I am floating on a sea of tranquillity.\nOur senate and house now have democratic majorities, and our presumed speaker is openly gay. This is huge for our state. For years we\u2019ve been struggling with the possibility of civil unions, which has been turned down time and time again by an unfavourable government. Now with a more supportive majority, I believe we can go forward with confidence. In fact, I\u2019d like to see Colorado skip over civil union in favour of marriage.\nOne day, we as a country will look back on this struggle and feel like we\u2019ve come out of the dark ages. Marriage equality will not be a novelty, but a fact of life that the majority will shrug our shoulders, shake our heads at and say \u2018but of course \u2013 how else could it possibly be?\u2019 That time is drawing nearer, and I have great hope that Colorado will be the next state to step up and do what is right.\nequality fuck yeah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://indagovr.com/visualisations/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:07Z", "digest": "sha1:P73JP7YU5PKHCFHRZVM7E4YI45MT7HHK", "length": 339, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "indagovr.com", "title": "VISUALISATIONS | INDAGO VR VISUALISATIONS | INDAGO VR", "raw_content": "We know how important are visualization works, which should reflect the look and concepts of the project, that is why we offer the ability to create visualization in accordance with customer requirements and priorities.\nIf you would like to know more about our offer or to ask any questions which we would gladly answer, please contact us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://indyeastend.com/news-opinion/south-fork/southampton-energy-and-efficiency-standards/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4IQ7JELC5MMI65PXSYSPYAUNNSP2TJ7O", "length": 2615, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "indyeastend.com", "title": "Southampton Energy And Efficiency Standards - The Independent", "raw_content": "Southampton Town Board looks to maintain high efficiency and environmental standards\nSouthampton Energy And Efficiency Standards\nWhen it comes to any town project, even one for affordable housing, the Southampton Town Board looks to maintain high efficiency and environmental standards.\nCouncilman John Bouvier pointed to clustered buildings in Concern for Independent Living, Inc.\u2019s rendering for a proposed 60 affordable rental units as being north-facing. He also referred to Southampton Town\u2019s goal to be energy independent by 2025, and rigid Home Energy Rating System grades that need to be adhered to. Bouvier asked if alternative energy or solar had been considered for the project. He also said he\u2019d like to see LED lighting.\n\u201cIt would certainly be explored as we get further into the project,\u201d said Jim Havrilla, senior architect at Melville-based H2M Architects + Engineers. He said his company works to maintain Enterprise Green Community Criteria, which were written with some of the nation\u2019s leading environmental, public health, and green building experts. Enterprise\u2019s green building framework is the first in the nation to address the unique needs of the affordable housing sector.\nRalph Fasano, director of Concern for Independent Living, pointed to some of the nonprofit\u2019s projects as having some solar panels.\nTom Dixon, of the Melville-based engineering firm Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, said the apartment complex would use a modified subsurface sewage treatment plant, a smaller-scale plant that allows flows up to 15,000 gallons per day. The entire tanking system and leaching field, except for a 500-square-foot control building and blowers in a noise-controlled enclosure, would be placed underground. Bouvier asked about nitrogen levels, which Dixon said are less than 10 milligrams per liter, adhering to county health department standards.\n\u201cWe\u2019re striving to get lower, certainly,\u201d said Bouvier in response. \u201cThat\u2019s a nice goal, but it would not be a great goal. It\u2019s a big issue for us, very important, so the choice of that system I think is very critical.\u201d\nThe councilman referred to Suffolk County testing systems controlling nitrogen rates around five milligrams per liter.\nSouthampton Town Planning and Development Administrator Kyle Collins said with a shallow pool system, because there is no issue with depth of groundwater, the grass in the drain fields may pull out some of the nitrogen.\n\u201cI see this as a demonstration of the ability to have these cluster systems be as independent as possible,\u201d Bouvier said. \u201cI want there to be as much of a reduction in energy need as possible.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inertiawins.com/2016/07/08/minimum-wage-increases-inequality-decreases-labor-force-participation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:27Z", "digest": "sha1:Q34OMZ4QG5IE7HXLE4YFNSXOQZAR6JYU", "length": 2939, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "inertiawins.com", "title": "Minimum Wage Increases Inequality, Decreases Labor Force Participation | Inertia Wins!", "raw_content": "The minimum wage actually increases inequality. It helps some workers, but only at others\u2019 expense. The reasoning is simple: people can\u2019t make money if you put them out of work. When the minimum wage goes up, some people get a raise, but only because other people get their hours cut, are fired, or never hired in the first place. Some people get more, just as many other people get less. The minimum wage\u2019s results are exactly the opposite of its intentions.\nThat\u2019s why a recent Council of Economic Advisors report, \u201cThe Long-Term Decline in Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation,\u201d misses the mark. On page 42, the report says: \u201cTo fight the long-run trend of increasing inequality, the President has proposed raising the minimum wage, giving greater support to collective bargaining, and helping ensure that workers have a strong voice in the labor market.\u201d\nThere are two problems with this approach. The big one is the implicit assumption that inequality is automatically a bad thing. This is precisely the approach Iain Murray and I warn against in our recent paper, \u201cPeople, Not Ratios.\u201d The mathematical difference between rich and poor is ethically irrelevant, as Princeton University philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt also argues.\nWhat is ethically relevant is how people at the economic bottom are doing. Do they have enough to live with comfort, dignity, and security? Are they becoming better off over time? What policies will help the poor become better off over time? These are the questions anti-poverty activists should be asking.\nThat\u2019s a pretty big problem. The second problem is with a study quoted on the same page by David H. Autor, Alan Manning, and Christopher L. Smith, \u201cThe Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment.\u201d\nEconomists are famously divided on many issues, leading to President Harry Truman\u2019s wish for a one-armed economist, who would be unable to say \u201con one hand\u2026 on the other hand\u2026\u201d The minimum wage is not a two-handed issue. A survey of professional economists finds overwhelming support for the statement \u201cA minimum wage increases unemployment among young and unskilled workers.\u201d\nSo not only did the CEA report have to cherry-pick a study that supported its ideological priors, that study\u2019s support is tepid at best. This may be why the CEA report does not bother to quote it directly, which I do here:\nWe find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous estimates\u2026 These wage effects extend to percentiles where the minimum is nominally nonbinding, implying spillovers.\nFor more on how the minimum wage affects inequality, see Iain Murray\u2019s and my recent paper, \u201cThe Rising Tide.\u201d A future post will make similar arguments about the CEA report\u2019s arguments on collective bargaining.\nThis entry was posted in Economics, Inequality, Minimum Wage. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://infogalactic.com/info/Capua", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:24Z", "digest": "sha1:COMU3FEKB3GVQUY5IT2QX5QQKEY7L7LZ", "length": 17147, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "infogalactic.com", "title": "Capua - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core", "raw_content": "For the moth genus Capua, see Capua (genus).\nLocation of Capua in Italy\nCarmine Antropoli\nPopulation (1 June 2009)\nCapuani\nCapua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km (16 mi) north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain. Ancient Capua was situated where Santa Maria Capua Vetere is now.\n2.1 Remains\n2.2 Amphitheatre\nThe name of Capua comes from the Etruscan Capeva.[1] The meaning is 'City of Marshes'. Its foundation is attributed by Cato the Elder to the Etruscans, and the date given as about 260 years before it was \"taken\" by Rome. If this is true it refers not to its capture in the Second Punic War (211 BC) but to its submission to Rome in 338 BC, placing the date of foundation at about 600 BC, while Etruscan power was at its highest. In the area several settlements of the Villanovian civilization were present in prehistoric times, and these were probably enlarged by the Oscans and subsequently by the Etruscans.\nEtruscan supremacy in Campania came to an end with the Samnite invasion in the latter half of the 5th century BC.\nAbout 424 BC it was captured by the Samnites and in 343 BC besought Roman help against its conquerors. Capua entered into alliance with Rome for protection against the Samnite mountain tribes, along with its dependent communities Casilinum, Calatia, Atella, so that the greater part of Campania now fell under Roman supremacy. The citizens of Capua received the civitas sine suffragio (citizenship without the vote).\nIn the second Samnite War with Rome, Capua proved an untrustworthy Roman ally, so that after the defeat of the Samnites, the Ager Falerus on the right bank of the Volturnus was confiscated. In 318 BC the powers of the native officials (meddices) were limited by the appointment of officials with the title praefecti Capuam Cumas (taking their name from the most important towns of Campania); these were at first mere deputies of the praetor urbanus, but after 123 BC were elected Roman magistrates, four in number; they governed the whole of Campania until the time of Augustus, when they were abolished. It was the capital of Campania Felix.\nIn 312 BC, Capua was connected with Rome by the construction of the Via Appia, the most important of the military highways of Italy. The gate by which it left the Servian walls of Rome bore the name Porta Capena; perhaps the only case in which a gate in this enceinte bears the name of the place to which it led. At what time the Via Latina was stretched to Casilinum is doubtful (it is quite possible that it was done when Capua fell under Roman supremacy, i.e. before the construction of the Via Appia); it afforded a route only 10 km (6.2 mi) longer, and the difficulties with its construction were much less; it also avoided the troublesome journey through the Pontine Marshes.\nThe importance of Capua increased steadily during the 3rd century BC, and at the beginning of the Second Punic War it was considered to be only slightly behind Rome and Carthage themselves, and was able to furnish 30,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. Until after the defeat of Cannae it remained faithful to Rome, but, after a vain demand that one of the consuls should always be selected from it or perhaps in order to secure regional supremacy in the event of a Carthaginian victory, it defected to Hannibal, who made it his winter quarters: he and his army were voluntarily received by Capua. Livy and others have suggested that the luxurious conditions were Hannibal's \"Cannae\" because his troops became soft and demoralized by luxurious living. Historians from Bosworth Smith onwards have been skeptical of this, observing that his troops gave as good an account of themselves in battle after that winter as before. After a long siege, it was taken by the Romans in 211 BC and severely punished (Second Battle of Capua); its magistrates and communal organization were abolished, the inhabitants who weren't killed lost their civic rights, and its territory was declared ager publicus (Roman state domain). Parts of it were sold in 205 BC and 199 BC, another part was divided among the citizens of the new colonies of Volturnum and Liternum, established near the coast in 194 BC, but the greater portion of it was reserved to be let by the state.\nConsiderable difficulties occurred in preventing illegal encroachments by private persons, and it became necessary to buy a number of them out in 162 BC. It was, after that period, let, not to large but to small proprietors. Frequent attempts were made by the democratic leaders to divide the land among new settlers. Brutus in 83 BC actually succeeded in establishing a colony, but it was soon dissolved; and Cicero's speeches De Lege Agrania were directed against a similar attempt by Servilius Rullus in 63 BC.\nIn the meantime the necessary organization of the inhabitants of this thickly populated district was in a measure supplied by grouping them round important shrines, especially that of Diana Tifatina, in connection with which a pagus Dianae existed, as we learn from many inscriptions; a pagus Herculaneus is also known.\nThe town of Capua belonged to none of these organizations, and was entirely dependent on the praefecti. It enjoyed great prosperity, however, due to their growing of spelt, a grain that was put into groats, wine, roses, spices, unguents etc., and also owing to its manufacture, especially of bronze objects, of which both the elder Cato and the elder Pliny speak in the highest terms.\nIts luxury remained proverbial; and Campania is especially spoken of as the home of gladiatorial combats. From the gladiatorial schools of Campania came Spartacus and his followers in 73 BC. Julius Caesar as consul in 59 BC succeeded in carrying out the establishment of a Roman colony under the name Julia Felix in connection with his agrarian law, and 20,000 Roman citizens were settled in this territory.\nThe number of colonists was increased by Mark Antony, Augustus (who constructed an aqueduct from the Mons Tifata and gave the town of Capua estates in the district of Knossos in Crete valued at 12 million sesterces) and Nero.\nIn the war of 69 it took the side of Vitellius. Under the later empire it is not often mentioned; but in the 4th century it was the seat of the consularis Campaniae and its chief town, though Ausonius puts it behind Mediolanum (Milan) and Aquileia in his ordo nobilium urbium.\nSee also Principality of Capua.\nUnder Constantine we hear of the foundation of a Christian church in Capua. In 456 it was taken and destroyed by the Vandals under Gaiseric, but must have been soon rebuilt.\nDuring the Gothic War, Capua suffered greatly. When the Lombards invaded Italy in the second half of the 6th century, Capua was ravaged; later, it was included in the Duchy of Benevento, and ruled by an official styled gastald.\nIn 839, the prince of Benevento, Sicard, was assassinated by Radelchis I of Benevento, who took over the throne. Sicard's brother Siconulf was proclaimed independent prince in Salerno and the gastald of Capua declared himself independent.\nIn 840, ancient Capua was burned to the ground by a band of Saracen mercenaries called by Radelchis I of Benevento[2] with only the church of Santa Maria Maggiore (founded about 497) remaining. A new city was built in 856, but at some distance from the former site, where another town later appeared under the name of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (\"Capua the Old\").\nPrince Atenulf I conquered Benevento in 900 and united the principalities until 981, when Pandulf Ironhead separated in his will for his children. Capua eclipsed Benevento thereafter and became the chief rival of Salerno. Under Pandulf IV, the principality brought in the aid of the Normans and, for a while had the loyalty of Rainulf Drengot, until the latter abandoned him to aid the deposed Sergius IV of Naples take back his city, annexed by Pandulf in 1027.\nUpon Pandulf's death, Capua fell to his weaker sons and, in 1058, the city itself fell in a siege to Rainulf's nephew Richard I, who took the title Prince of Aversa. For seven years (1091\u20131098), Richard II was exiled from his city, but with the aid of his relatives, he retook the city after a siege in 1098. His dynasty lived on as princes of Capua until the last claimant of their line died in 1156 and the principality was definitively united to the kingdom of Sicily. Hereafter, Capua is no longer the capital of a larger principality, but a minor city in an important kingdom.\nThe Battle of Volturnus (1860), at the conclusion of Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, partially took place in and around Capua. Prior to the battle, the Neapolitan army \u2013 defeated in earlier engagements \u2013 was rebuilt in Capua under marshal Giosu\u00e8 Ritucci. After fighting elsewhere in which the Neapolitans were ultimately defeated, the last of them \u2013 c. 3,000 troops Colonel Perrone \u2013 were holed up in Capua. The city was attacked by the Garibaldines and one Piedmontese regular Bersaglieri battalion, and captured. In the referendum several months later, its inhabitants voted overwhelmingly to join the new Kingdom of Italy.\nNo pre-Roman remains have been found within the town of Capua itself, but important cemeteries have been discovered on all sides of it, the earliest of which go back to the 7th or 5th century.[citation needed]\nThe tombs are of various forms, partly chambers with frescoes on the walls, partly cubical blocks of peperino, hollowed out, with grooved lids. The objects found within them consist mainly of vases of bronze (many of them without feet, and with incised designs of Etruscan style) and of clay, some of Greek, some of local manufacture, and of paintings. On the east of the town, in the Patturelli property, a temple has been discovered with Oscan votive inscriptions originally thought to be Oscan, now recognized as Etruscan, some of them inscribed upon terracotta tablets, the most famous of which is the Tabula Capuana, conserved in Berlin, still, after more than a century of searching, the second-longest Etruscan text. Other brief inscriptions are on cippi. A group of 150 tuff statuettes represent a matron holding one or more children in her lap: three bore Latin inscriptions of the early Imperial period.[citation needed]\nThe site of the town being in a perfectly flat plain, without natural defences, it was possible to lay it out regularly. Its length from east to west is accurately determined by the fact that the Via Appia, which runs from north-west to south-east from Casilinum to Calatia, turns due east very soon after passing the so-called Arco di Adriano (a triumphal arch of brickwork, once faced with marble, with three openings, erected in honour of some emperor unknown), and continues to run in this direction for 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) (6,000 ancient Oscan feet).[citation needed]\nThe west gate was the Porta Romana; remains of the east gate (the name of which we do not know) have been found. This fact shows that the main street of the town was perfectly oriented, and that before the Via Appia was constructed, i.e. in all probability in pre-Roman times. The width of the town from north to south cannot be so accurately determined as the line of the north and south walls is not known, though it can be approximately fixed by the absence of tombs. Beloch fixes it at 4,000 Oscan feet = 1,100 metres (3,600 ft), nor is it absolutely certain (though it is in the highest degree probable, for Cicero praises its regular arrangement and fine streets) that the plan of the town was rectangular.[citation needed]\nWithin the town are remains of public baths on the north of the Via Appia and of a theatre opposite, on the south. The former consisted of a large cryptoporticus round three sides of a court, the south side being open to the road; it now lies under the prisons. Beloch (see below) attributes this to the Oscan period; but the construction as shown in Labruzzi's drawing (v. 17) 1 is partly of brick-work and opus reticulatum, which may, of course, belong to a restoration. The stage of the theatre had its back to the road; Labruzzi (v. 18) gives an interesting view of the cavea. It appears from inscriptions that it was erected after the time of Augustus.\nOther inscriptions, however, prove the existence of a theatre as early as 94 BC. The Roman colony was divided into regions and possessed a capitolium, with a temple of Jupiter, within the town, and the marketplace, for unguents especially, was called Seplasia; we also hear of an aedes alba, probably the original senate house, which stood in an open space known as albana. But the sites of all these are uncertain. A Mithraeum may also be seen, by appointment.[3]\nOutside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded. The exterior was formed by 80 Doric arcades of four stories each, but only two arches now remain. The keystones were adorned with heads of divinities.\nInside the amphitheater.\nThe interior is better preserved; beneath the arena are subterranean passages like those in the amphitheatre at Puteoli. It is one of the largest in existence; the longer diameter is 170 metres (560 ft), the shorter 140 metres (460 ft), and the arena measures 75 by 45 metres (246 by 148 ft), the corresponding dimensions in the Colosseum at Rome being 188, 155, 85, 53 metres (615, 510, 279 and 174 ft).\nTo the east are considerable remains of baths \u2014 a large octagonal building, an apse against which the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is built, and several heaps of debris. On the Via Appia, to the south-east of the east gate of the town, arc two large and well-preserved tombs of the Roman period, known as le Carceri vecchie and la Conocchia.\nTo the east of the amphitheatre an ancient road, the Via Dianae, leads north to the Pagus Dianae, on the west slopes of the Mons Tifata, a community which sprang up around the famous and ancient temple of Diana, and probably received an independent organization after the abolition of that of Capua in 211 BC. The place often served as a base for attacks on the latter, and Sulla, after his defeat of Gaius Norbanus, gave the whole of the mountain to the temple.\nWithin the territory of the pagus were several other temples with their magistri. After the restoration of the community of Capua, we find magistri of the temple of Diana still existing, but they were probably officials of Capua itself.\nThe site is occupied by the Benedictine church of San Michele Arcangelo in Sant'Angelo in Formis. It dates from 944, and was reconstructed by the abbot Desiderius (afterwards Pope Victor III) of Monte Cassino. It has interesting paintings, dating from the end of the 11th century to the middle of the 12th, in which five different styles may be distinguished. They form a complete representation of all the chief episodes of the New Testament. Deposits of votive objects (favissae), removed from the ancient temple from time to time as new ones came in and occupied all the available space, have been found, and considerable remains of buildings belonging to the Vicus Dianae (among them a triumphal arch and some baths, also a hail with frescoes, representing the goddess herself ready for the chase) still exist.\nThe ancient road from Capua went on beyond the Vicus Dianae to the Volturnus (remains of the bridge still exist) and then turned east along the river valley to Caiatia and Telesia. Other roads ran to Puteoli and Cumae (the so-called Via Campana) and to Neapolis, and as we have seen the Via Appia passed through Capua, which was thus the most important road centre of Campania.\nHistory of Santa Maria Capua Vetere\n\u2191 The Etruscans - Michael Grant - Google Books. Books.google.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2013. \n\u2191 Pieurre Riche, The Carolingians: A Family who forged Europe, transl. Michael Idomir Allen, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 181.\n\u2191 http://www.culturacampania.rai.it/site/en-GB/Cultural_Heritage/Museums/Scheda/museo_archeologico_antica_capua_en.html?link=storia\nThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). \"Capua (Campania)\". Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. \nThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). \"Capua\". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. \nWikimedia Commons has media related to Capua.\nWikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica article Capua (ancient city).\nCampania \u00b7 Comuni of the Province of Caserta\nCancello e Arnone\nTemplate:Landmarks of Campania\nRetrieved from \"https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Capua&oldid=50443\"\nCommunes of the Province of Caserta\nEuboean colonies of Magna Graecia\nRoman amphitheatres in Italy\nRoman sites of Campania", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 21021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://infogalactic.com/info/World_Summit_on_Sustainable_Development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HYQKII4UTVYZCCTUSJOXEXU3TSW6S7OC", "length": 4369, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "infogalactic.com", "title": "Earth Summit 2002 - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core", "raw_content": "(Redirected from World Summit on Sustainable Development)\nThe World Summit on Sustainable Development, WSSD or ONG Earth Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development by the United Nations. WSSD gathered a number of leaders from business and non-governmental organizations, 10 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (It was therefore also informally nicknamed \"Rio+10\".)\n1 Declarations\n3 U.S. participation\nThe Johannesburg Declaration was the main outcome of the Summit; however, there were several other international agreements. [1]\nIt laid out the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation as an action plan. [2]\nJohannesburg, 27 August: agreement was made to restore the world's depleted fisheries for 2015. It was agreed to by negotiators at the World Summit.\nInstead of new agreements between governments, the Earth Summit was organized mostly around almost 300 \"partnership initiatives\" known as Type II, as opposed to Type I Partnerships which are the more classic outcome of international treaties. These were to be the key means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. These are kept in a database of Partnerships for Sustainable Development. [3]\nThe absence of the United States rendered the summit partially impotent. George W. Bush boycotted the summit and did not attend. Except for a brief appearance by Colin Powell, who hurriedly addressed the closing stages of the conference while his airplane taxied on the runway of Johannesburg International, the US government did not send a delegation, earning Bush praise in a letter from conservative organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, American Enterprise Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute. [1] [2]\nThe United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, was first held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1972, and marked the emergence of international environmental law. The Declaration on the Human Environment also known as the Stockholm Declaration set out the principles for various international environmental issues, including human rights, natural resource management, pollution prevention and the relationship between the environment and development. The conference also led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme.\nThe Brundtland Commission set up by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the pioneer of sustainable development, provided the momentum for first Earth Summit 1992 \u2013 the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development (UNCED), that was also headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission \u2013 and also for Agenda 21.\nSouth Africa's first National Conference on Environment and Development entitled, \"Ecologise Politics, Politicise Ecology\" was held at the University of the Western Cape in conjunction with the Cape Town Ecology Group and the Western Cape Branch of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in 1991. Prominent persons involved in this conference were Ebrahim Rasool, Cheryl Carolus, Faried Esack, and Julia Martin.\nThe initial informal discussions on a possible new Summit in 2002 were held in February 1998 and hosted by Derek Osborn who co-chaired the preparatory meetings for Rio+5 and Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. A set of 10 governments started working informally to start putting together the possible agenda for a Summit. the non papers produced in 1998 and 1999 ensured that when the UN Commission met in 2000 it could agree to host another Summit in 2002.\nNational Strategy for a Sustainable America\nUnited Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the follow-up conference in 2012\n\u2191 Brainerd Dispatch, citing AP (15 Aug 2002). \"Conservatives praise Bush for opting out of U.N. Earth Summit\". Associated Press. Retrieved 21 June 2011. \n\u2191 \"WWSD Info News\". IISD. IISD.ca. Retrieved June 21, 2011. \nJohannesburg Summit\nGreenpeace Earth Summit Page\nConstitution of the Conference\nSustainable Development Goals (pending, September 2015)\nRetrieved from \"https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Earth_Summit_2002&oldid=48485\"\nUnited Nations conferences\nDiplomatic conferences in South Africa\n21st century in Johannesburg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 7850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 171.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inhabitat.com/garden-city-k66-is-a-pixelated-modular-city-filled-with-terraces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TLFKZY6ARLPDKL5A3DB7QHINZHYY4LY3", "length": 3152, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "inhabitat.com", "title": "Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City for Ljubljana", "raw_content": "Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled with Terraces\nThis vibrant mixed use development for Ljubljana, Slovenia combines two things we love - modular housing and green space. Designed by OFIS Architects, the building may seem like one continuous, cohesive structure, but its pixelated look stems from the fact that its actually a series of 10m x 10m units stacked together like legos. The smart modular design affords tons of flexibility, and with spots of green throughout and a lush central park, who wouldn't want to live or work in a place like this?\nGarden City K66 is divided into two layered volumes \u2013 a base which will house public programs and offices and upper floors that will be residential apartments. The stepped design of the upper floors creates niches where rooftop gardens and terraces can be placed. At the base, units are separated to create open squares that intermingle with the external plaza.\nBoth the top and bottom volumes are divided into 10m x 10m modules, which OFIS found to be the optimal amount of space for all of the different programs (housing, public, office, service, and garage). The modular grid affords the same kind of flexibility and adaptability that a shipping container structure might. This way, the distribution of programs can change quite easily according to the needs of the complex.\n+ OFIS Architects\nOne thought on \u201cGarden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled with Terraces\u201d\n2 Nest Village is an Affordable Cluster of Prefab Homes for El Paso | Inhabitat \u2013 Green Design Will Save the World September 3, 2010 at 9:43 am\n[...] more sustainable and more affordable, all of the rectangular units will be prefabricated and have common dimensions. Going along the same thought process, the other construction systems and installation details will [...]\nThis vibrant mixed use development for Ljubljana, Slovenia combines two things we love - modular housing and green space. Designed by OFIS Architects, the building may seem like one continuous, cohesive structure, but its pixelated look stems from the fact that its actually a series of 10m x 10m units stacked together like legos. The smart modular design affords tons of flexibility, and with spots of green throughout and a lush central park, who wouldn't want to live or work in a place like this...\nGarden City K66\nGarden City K66 is divided into two layered volumes - a base which will house public programs and offices and upper floors that will be residential apartments.\nThe stepped design of the upper floors creates niches where rooftop gardens and terraces can be placed.\nAt the base, units are separated to create open squares that intermingle with the external plaza.\nBoth the top and bottom volumes are divided into 10m x 10m modules, which OFIS found to be the optimal amount of space for all of the different programs (housing, public, office, service, and garage).\nThe modular grid affords the same kind of flexibility and adaptability that a shipping container structure might. This way, the distribution of programs can change quite easily according to the needs of the complex.\nA view of Garden City K66 at night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://initialteachereducation.co.uk/2017/01/04/why-i-still-practise-my-subject-and-why-you-should-too/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:77MZCE6AVNYXDVRBR4RJYCRAICK6DTWO", "length": 3897, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "initialteachereducation.co.uk", "title": "Why I still practise my subject \u2013 and why you should too! \u2013 Initial Teacher Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University", "raw_content": "A lot of research has been undertaken about teachers and their identities. That sense within ourselves of what we are has a huge bearing on what we do, what we prioritise, and how we present ourselves to our pupils. Are we musicians who happen to be teachers, or teachers who happen to be musicians? It didn\u2019t take me long to find colleagues whose musical skills had taken a sharp downhill turn as a side-effect of their choice to pass on their love of the subject to others. As I embarked on my NQT year it seemed like a big sacrifice to make, and even at that early point of my career I was aware of the positive effect on pupils of seeing me play. A month before I started my new job, I made a promise to myself: however difficult it gets, I won\u2019t stop being a musician.\nHappily, I can say that I kept my promise. I combined my teaching with a career as an accompanist and orchestral musician, and sometimes pupils and colleagues would see me performing outside in the \u2018real world\u2019. I found that it gave me real credibility with the pupils when asking them to perform in my school concerts, to take that risk of getting on stage and playing or singing in front of their friends and family. They knew I wasn\u2019t asking them to do something I didn\u2019t do myself, and they knew I understood how they felt when they were about to walk onto the stage. People often forget that it\u2019s often just as nerve-wracking for pupils to perform in the classroom environment as it is in a big school concert. With thirty of their peers watching them, it can be a bigger deal than doing the same thing in front of hundreds of strangers who they might never see again. As music teachers we have to be sensitive to this when we teach, and I believe that one of the simplest answers is to show them what we want by playing and singing at every opportunity.\nNow, training the next generation of music teachers at Cardiff Met, I emphasise the need to \u2018lead from the front\u2019, to model being a musician in the classroom. Our BA Secondary Music students do their final year project on that very subject, investigating the impact on pupils of seeing their teachers as a performer or a composer in front of them. My secondary music colleague, Viv John, is a fellow believer in this philosophy, and we can both still be seen performing in concerts all over Wales and beyond. Viv is principal flautist of the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and the Brecknock Sinfonia, and I perform baroque music on harpsichord and organ, most recently touring South Wales with the Wales Baroque Players.\nAs we approach the season of new year\u2019s resolutions, it might be worth bearing all this in mind, whatever subject you\u2019re training to teach. As teachers of any subject, I believe that the greatest power we have to inspire pupils and see us as role models is to continue practising our subject specialisms, both inside and outside of our classrooms. Perhaps you\u2019re worried that your subject skills are going to take a back seat to all that paperwork. Maybe you feel that you might be seen to have \u2018failed\u2019 in your subject by taking the option of being a teacher. That ridiculous saying, \u2018those who can, do \u2013 those who can\u2019t, teach\u2019 is there to be proved wrong by all of us. The solution to all these things is to bring your subject skills into your school even more. Be a historian, a writer, a scientist, an actor. Give the pupils something to aspire to and respect, and ensure that you are never asking them to do something that you wouldn\u2019t do yourself!\nPosted on January 4, 2017 January 5, 2017 by Initial Teacher TrainingPosted in Uncategorized\nPrevious Previous post: A report from Helen Jones, PGCE Primary student teacher.\nNext Next post: Now teaching maths at Radyr Comprehensive School, former PGCE Secondary maths trainee Alice Walker reflects on her amazing eight week European placement at Aiglon College, Switzerland (April-June 2016)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insearchofanideal.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/lets-talk-about-sex/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SCCYVWY2OAIPCCP76QEAD2DWESTVIPGH", "length": 6299, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "insearchofanideal.wordpress.com", "title": "Let\u2019s Talk About Sex | In Search of an Ideal", "raw_content": "There is the flat footed biological-ish answer: \u201cOne is attracted by breasts because they are an indication that the woman can feed the baby nine months after one has sex.\u201d But this doesn\u2019t address the crux of the question as I am thinking of it. After all, many people are attracted to women with small breasts,or are flat chested.\nEven more to the point, sometimes when a guy is attracted to a women by her breasts, when having sex, the guy will suck on the breasts. This is surely not because the man is testing the breasts to see if they function properly for the baby to come later!\nThis is what is puzzling. Sex is the paradigmatic adult activity. But it seems to be somehow connected, in the phenomenology of the activity, be it fondling breasts, kissing them, or sucking on them, to a fundamentally infantile activity. What is the connection?\nA different answer, which is more helpful: \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of culture. Once humans started to become \u201ccivilized\u201d, they started to wear clothes and cover breasts. So there became a contrast between the visible, polite world of decorum, and the hidden world of sex. Thus the sexual energy got connected with other energies which also got covered over, like those associated with breasts, anus, and so on. For example, some people have a foot fetish, they find the foot sexually enticing. This is because for them the sexual energy has gotten merged with taboos regarding feet, so that transgressing those taboos and sexual excitement are intertwined. Similarly with breasts. If all women walked around topless, that would in due course change their connection as sexual.\u201d\nOn this view, the reason a guy might suck a women\u2019s breasts during sex is because fundamentally having sex is rooted in the sense of transgressing outwardly accepted social norms, and so even transgressing the outwardly accepted norms of adulthood. The very social, and even biological, ludicriousness of an adult male sucking a women\u2019s breasts is also what makes it sexually exciting. Since outward social norms curtail the libido, transgression of social norms is a release of the libido.\nThis brings out a striking fact: that a human being is through and through cultural. There is no pristine biological functioning (be it sex or going to the bathroom or eating) which is pre-cultural in human beings, which is supposedly the purely \u201canimal\u201d side of humans. The human being cannot be neatly divided into the animal part, and the separate rational part. Human rationality is not a matter of curtailing the brute animal part of human nature. Rather, rationality is a matter of reflecting on an earlier cultural part of human history. What is often deemed \u201canimalistic\u201d is simply an earlier cultural feature of human life which is now deemed wrong.\nThe sense of humans as through and through cultural can give rise of a sense of vertigo, like one is losing one\u2019s grounding on an unshakable reality. Part of one wants to protest: \u201cBut what is really real if everything is just part of the flux of cultural change? If even sex is just more of how we are conditioned, what part of me is safe from being controlled by others?\u201d If it isn\u2019t somehow objectively the case that a woman in a wet T-shirt is sexually enticing, irrespective of cultural norms, it can seem like an affront to sexuality itself, as if then one\u2019s sexual desire is not really one\u2019s own desire but simply manipulated by social conditions.\nThis sense that one\u2019s desire must be one\u2019s own (not determined by society) \u2013 that is what underlies the traditional mind-body problem. The mind then is treated like a sui generis, individually rooted reality, not succeptible to the ebb and flow of culture. A true groundedness of human cognition is treated as something real and basic, more primary than culture, something which is the foundation of culture.\nBut that is a myth. There is no part of human life like that. We humans are forever in a social and cultural matrix.\n\u2190 Getting Beyond the 60s Adi Shankara and McDonald\u2019s \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cLet\u2019s Talk About Sex\u201d\nGautam October 4, 2016 at 10:55 pm\n(A) \u201ca human being is through and through cultural. There is no pristine biological functioning\u201d\nGood point (though arguably actual genital areas may be cross-culturally erogenous). It is interesting to compare with the following statement:\n(B) A human being is through and through biological. There is no pristine cultural functioning.\nAre (A) and (B) saying the same thing (in terms of arguing against a culture/biology duality)? If no, in what way are they saying different things?\nBharath Vallabha Post author October 5, 2016 at 11:10 am\nIn a way, (A) and (B) are saying the same thing. After all, our cultural being is not something beyond our biological being. The point is that for us our biological and cultural beings are so fused together that they can\u2019t be seperated, not even in principle.\nTo the question, \u201cWhy female breasts are sexually exciting for men?\u201d No answer is possible which doesn\u2019t make reference to our cultural norms and habits. There is no \u201cpurely\u201d biological answer in the sense that it only refers to body parts. We need to also incorporate an explanation which takes into account the clothes on our bodies, the art or representation of the human body, etc. This is all true even as the sexual impulse and sexual attraction is one of our most basic activities.\nThe cultural dimension of sex can seem obvious enough. But holding onto that cultural dimension with the phenomenology of sexual attraction seems hard. For the phenomenology makes it seem like a brute, basic attraction, almost as if it is too basic to be culturally affected. Holding onto the phenomenology while being mindful of the cultural dimension of the attraction feels like trying to see the duck and rabbit at same time.\n> No answer is possible which doesn\u2019t make reference to our cultural norms and habits.\nYes; in fact, this seems \u201cintuitively obvious\u201d in the context of pornography or eroticism in movies or books, where the erotic charge comes from playing against a type or transposing context, or somehow stimulating the imagination.\nAn interesting blog post on this point: https://broadblogs.com/2010/11/04/men-aren%E2%80%99t-hard-wired-to-find-breasts-attractive/ \u2026 clearly this is a question of great interest! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 9944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insider.foxnews.com/tag/chris-hayes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KTP3AR6EHDX5W25I6N7HWE2ZM2AW6PQE", "length": 283, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "insider.foxnews.com", "title": "Chris Hayes | Fox News Insider", "raw_content": "\u2018The Factor\u2019 Takes on Chris Hayes\u2019 Claim That O\u2019Reilly Benefited From Gov\u2019t Aid\nBill O\u2019Reilly tonight took on MSNBC \u201cAll In\u201d host Chris Hayes\u2019 remarks that O\u2019Reilly benefited from government help because he grew up in Levittown, N.Y., which was a result of the federal housing policy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://intentionalluck.com/2013/04/29/a-little-dose-of-self-compassion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3UPRY2RLXTX37ZKM4BGERJLIIRQYHERG", "length": 3195, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "intentionalluck.com", "title": "A little dose of self-compassion | Intentional LUCK", "raw_content": "A little dose of self-compassion\nAn entire wall of mirrors, another wall of windows, and a class full of thin, trim, and apparently very flexible 20 somethings has led to a much-needed practice of self-compassion this evening. As I stared at myself while navigating this part Pilates and part Yoga (PiYo) class, I almost laughed at how ridiculous I looked. Of course, I quickly wavered between laughter and outright frustration as I tried to figure out how to go from a \u2018low lunge\u2019 to a \u2018downward dog\u2019 without falling over. Oh yes, the entire hour was full of self-talk ranging from \u201cwhat the hell is she doing?\u201d to \u201coh no, I think I just pulled a muscle\u201d and \u201choly cow, is that a trick mirror?\u201d Those thoughts were tough enough, but then it only got worse when I started comparing my moves to the women around me or, gulp, the pencil thin instructor.\nIt was apparent that my inner critic was way too loud tonight. All of those negative thoughts and ideas kept me from focusing on the fact that I finished the class without falling and that I got a great workout. Not to mention that I totally tried something brand new today. On days like this when I get caught up in what my body looks like, how people may or may not perceive me, and compare my own success to what others are doing around me, I have to be very deliberate and practice self-compassion.\nThe first step is acknowledging that I\u2019m being incredibly critical of myself. Next thing is to take a moment and identify the good things about the experience. Third step is to remember why I took the class to start with, and then re-frame everything in my head like I was talking to a close friend (because I would never be so harsh to a friend). The final step is to take all that revised information and let it sit in my heart for a few minutes while taking in some deep breaths.\nSelf-compassion is not always easy, but I do believe it is always necessary. I think the more we practice compassion for ourselves the easier it becomes to feel compassion for others. And then, the more we experience compassion for others, the easier it becomes to experience for our own self. And when we are more compassionate, the more likely we are to engage in meaningful and productive experiences instead of isolating ourselves and feeling disconnected. So whenever I catch my inner critic chatting away too loudly, I will simply remind myself to take a deep breath, practice some self-compassion, and enjoy the experience for what it\u2019s worth instead of withdrawing and robbing myself of a potentially awesome interaction. So bring on the PiYo classes and bring on the new and exciting adventures. With a little dose of self-compassion, I believe we can do anything we set our hearts to.\nThis entry was posted in Awareness, Compassion, Hope, Kindness, Love, Understanding and tagged Compassion, confidence, critic, hope, Love, namaste, Pilates, positive, self-compassion, Yoga by R. Whittington. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 thoughts on \u201cA little dose of self-compassion\u201d\nAnn Mayes on May 30, 2013 at 1:27 am said:\nYou have learned well, Grasshopper. I love you\nR. Whittington on May 30, 2013 at 11:16 pm said:\nAh, thank you dear friend. \ud83d\ude42 Love you too!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://investmentforinvestors.com/best-practices-for-pharmacy-investing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JC3KPD2LXJGDEDZLZWZDMS46566NRWX6", "length": 3078, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "investmentforinvestors.com", "title": "Best Practices for Pharmacy Investing - Investment For Investors", "raw_content": "Opening and owning a pharmacy is a tough job. There are stringent rules and regulations that must be followed, and a large investment is often required in order to get the business started. There is also a lot of competition from other pharmacy\u2019s and due to the fact that Amazon has entered the stage, changing the overall dynamics of the industry. Still, a pharmacy can be a successful and profitable business if run correctly. The advancing technology and constant need for pharmacies makes investing in a pharmacy a great opportunity for those that are looking to make some passive income. There are several things that one should know before investing in the pharmacy industry.\nA Strong Business Plan is Needed\nWhether you are going to be helping run the pharmacy or simply investing in it, you should have some idea of the overall business plan. The people in charge should be working with established, respected business advisers and planners who can help them set and achieve their vision. They will need to be aware of the overhead costs and regulations associated with the pharmacy so that they aren\u2019t surprised by the bills that they will receive. They should know their target market and prepare to serve them. For instance, people will want to use their medical card, so the pharmacy should be prepared for that.\nIt is difficult to open any business on your own, and a pharmacy is no different. There should be a variety of different personalities contributing to the success of the pharmacy. Different people can offer new insights and ideas to help improve the functionality of the business and reach out to new customers. A pharmacy doesn\u2019t only have to sell prescriptions, it can offer additional services such as vaccinations, health consultations, and even vision tests. Having a strong, diverse team of people is key in maintaining a prosperous pharmacy.\nThere are many strict regulations when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, and this is for good reason. Providing prescription drugs to people is a volatile and sometimes dangerous profession. Pharmacists are accountable for providing the right dosage and correct prescription. Check to make sure that the employees are up to date on their licenses and have strong performance ratings. One minor error could lead to the overall failure of the pharmacy, rendering your investment worthless.\nTechnology continues to shape the industry. Online ordering, instant delivery, and even robots are changing pharmacies just as they are changing other businesses across the world. A profitable pharmacy will be on top of these technologies and will work to constantly evolve and adapt to the changes. Anybody investing in a pharmacy will want to be sure that the owners, workers, and even customers are on top of the technological advances. These are the pharmacies that will have a leg up on the competition, allowing investors to benefit from more revenue. The overall goal is to become the most successful pharmacy in the area, and that can only happen with a continual focus on improvement and advancement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Vasoactive_intestinal_peptide_receptor.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HHK7SZXVJV6Z35QVYQJHSC7V76HHKI2Q", "length": 1784, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ipfs.io", "title": "Vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor", "raw_content": "RDC1, HVR1, VAPC1\nPACAPR\nThere are two known receptors for the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) termed VPAC1 and VPAC2.[1][2] These receptors bind both VIP and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) to some degree. Both receptors are members of the 7 transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor family.\nVPAC1 is distributed widely in the CNS, liver, lung, intestine and T-lymphocytes.\nVPAC2 is found in the CNS, pancreas, skeletal muscle, heart, kidney, adipose tissue, testis, and stomach.\nVasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) receptors are activated by the endogenous peptides VIP, PACAP-38, PACAP-27, peptide histidine isoleucineamide (PHI), peptide histidine methionineamide (PHM) and peptide histidine valine (PHV). \u201cPACAP type II receptors\u201d (VPAC1 and VPAC2 receptors) display comparable affinity for PACAP and VIP, whereas PACAP-27 and PACAP-38 are >100 fold more potent than VIP as agonists of most isoforms of the PAC1 receptor.[3]\n\u2191 Laburthe M, Couvineau A, Marie JC (2002). \"VPAC receptors for VIP and PACAP\". Recept. Channels. 8 (3-4): 137\u201353. doi:10.1080/10606820213680. PMID 12529932.\n\u2191 Laburthe M, Couvineau A (2002). \"Molecular pharmacology and structure of VPAC Receptors for VIP and PACAP\". Regul. Pept. 108 (2-3): 165\u201373. doi:10.1016/S0167-0115(02)00099-X. PMID 12220741.\n\u2191 \"VIP and PACAP receptors\". IUPHAR Guide to Pharmacology. The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR).\n\"VIP and PACAP Receptors\". IUPHAR Database of Receptors and Ion Channels. International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.\nReceptors, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 560, "original_length": 6016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 36.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iprlicense.com/Books/Details/sexual-orientation-in-the-workplace-2416616", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:30Z", "digest": "sha1:62HWMHLK6X6TDCQ477LQXL7DTSIJTSMH", "length": 595, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iprlicense.com", "title": "Sexual Orientation in the Workplace", "raw_content": "Sexual Orientation in the Workplace\nGay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Heterosexuals Working Together\nby Zuckerman, Amy J.; Simons, George F.;\nThis book is written for professionals and academics who are looking for ways to help people of all sexual orientations work together creatively, productively and without prejudice. The authors examine the structure of today's workforce in relation to its sexual orientation. They explore how leaders, groups and organizations can establish a positive climate and initiate equal policies for workers.\nResponsibilityAmy J. Zuckerman and George F. Simons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/greg-adams/856384?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NCU7FWL5ZLYVT77N5S7ZRU6CDPMQNELW", "length": 1650, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "itunes.apple.com", "title": "\u200eGreg Adams on Apple Music", "raw_content": "Mar 26, 2018 Conversation 10 songs\nCool to the Touch 2006\nDidn't Wanna Do It (Urban Remix)\nEast Bay Soul Didn't Wanna Do It (Urban Remix) - Single 2015\nEast Bay Soul That's Life\nGet Smart (Deeper Remix) - Single\nEast Bay Soul Didn't Wanna Do It (Urban Remix) - Single\nBesame Caliente (Remix) [feat. Greg Adams] - Single\nRick Parma\nSuperboy (2011- ) #12\nAbout Greg Adams\nOnce Greg Adams picked up a trumpet, his course was set. He earned the first trumpet chair as a freshman at his Bay Area high school, and was writing arrangements for various school ensembles by the time he was a junior. Following high school, he joined Tower of Power, and was soon taking a major role in crafting the group's distinctive horn sound. Adams' first solo record, 1995's Hidden Agenda, released on Epic Records, established him as a major architect of the emerging \"smooth jazz\" sound, and a single from the album, a cover of Sade's \"Smooth Operator,\" remains a virtual template for the genre. His second album, Midnight Morning, was released on Adams' own label, Ripa Records, in 2002, and tracks like \"Roadhouse\" led to famed jazz label Blue Note picking up the record for distribution. Adams' muted trumpet style, a mix of gentle jazz with R&B rhythms, all done with a cool, sexy ambience, has made him a sought-after session player and arranger, and he has worked with countless artists, including Santana, Madonna, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, the Rolling Stones, Lyle Lovett, and Quincy Jones. He has also contributed musical scores for several films, including Mask and Top Gun. His third solo project, Firefly, was released in 2004 on 215 Records. ~ Steve Leggett", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iwandered.net/the-last-frontier-pt2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F5M4O5KGA3QWZY6OOVQ6CKNSEU2DVOAZ", "length": 6233, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "iwandered.net", "title": "Puerto Princesa Underground River & Sabang Beach in Palawan - I Wander", "raw_content": "https://iwandered.net/the-last-frontier-pt2/\nPuerto Princesa Underground River & Sabang Beach in Palawan\nOn our last day in Palawan, we had to get up quite early in the morning to see the famous Puerto Princesa Underground River. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is said to be one of the highlights not just of Palawan but of the Philippines in general and at the time of my visit, it was gunning for a spot in the New7Wonders of Nature (which it eventually got).\nthe karst formations don\u2019t look out of place in krabi (thailand) or halong bay (vietnam)\nAlthough the Underground River is within the city\u2019s boundaries, it is nevertheless quite far from the city center of Puerto Princesa. A drive of around 2 hours is required to get to Sabang Beach, where pump boats departing for the UNESCO site are located. Somewhere midway however, there is a great rest stop called \u201cBuenavista Lookout\u201d from which one can see a great vista of the surrounds.\nthe buenavista lookout\nAfter we arrived in Sabang, the process for obtaining a pumpboat was straightforward but a queue had already formed. We went during the long May Day holidays so there were quite a lot of tourists, mostly locals, who were all so eager to see what we were also yearning to see. Still, there were enough boats for everyone and I didn\u2019t find it necessary to book one prior to our arrival. From Sabang, it was a relatively short ride to the Underground River. We passed by several karst formations that seem to just emerge from the water. It really looked very much like the ones in Halong Bay and Krabi, but the formations were not as dense as the latter two.\nentering the mouth of the cave\nThe pumpboat finally parked by the beach were the River was located. Still, it took a bit of a walk inside a forest trail. There were two forest trail in the area, one that led to the River and the other that led to a monkey forest. At the end of the first trail, I came across that familiar blue-green lagoon, one which I had seen several times before in postcards. There was no mistake about it. I had finally arrived at the mouth of the Underground River. Again, there was a queue. To enter the River, one had to wear a set of life vest and board a small engine-powered canoe with a guide. The passengers from those pumpboats who arrived before us boarded first, naturally.\ninside the cave \u2013 with just a flashlight to guide us\nOur guide was an amiable fellow with a great sense of humor. He started his narratives even before we entered the cave. Anyway, I would say that the entry to the mouth of the Underground River is pretty dramatic, even if you don\u2019t have a guide to heighten the atmosphere for you. From bright and inviting, all at once, everything turns dark and damp and one can hear the wings fluttering from small birds inside the cave as well as water dropping from the cave ceiling.\nthe bats and the birds\u2026\nThe cave has several large chambers and I was quite intrigued to find out what it looked like if it was lit up. Unfortunately, we had none of that and all we had was a small flashlight to guide us through. There were several stalactite and stalagmite formations inside the cave. And depending on one\u2019s imagination, it could be anything \u2013 a lamp, a vase, an animal, some person\u2019s face and whatnot. That\u2019s how cave tours go most of the time.\nThere were also swiftlets inside the cave \u2013 yes, the same ones whose nests are being used as a Chinese delicacy. Apart from that, there were bats sleeping upside down in some portions of the cave.\nThe River is actually pretty long, at 8.2 kilometers. A waterway that flows with the tides, it extends up until the South China Sea which is in the western part of the island of Palawan. However, we did not go all the way through and turned back around midway.\nback in Sabang\nThe natural dimensions notwithstanding, I could imagine why this place is so popular with tourists. One word \u2013 UNESCO. Even without international visitors, the River already gets hundreds of visitors a day. It has come to a point where it\u2019s already heavily commercialized, which diminishes some of the appeal of the overall experience. While I thought the River was impressive, the whole idea of queuing up for pumpboats and canoes and going in with a mandatory guide who chirps about the formation that looks like a lady\u2019s head was too Disney-esque for me. In fact, it reminded me a bit of the \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World\u201d ride in Disneyland, with the canoe ride inside a dark tunnel and all, except that I was looking at a natural instead of some man-made site. Now that it is also included in the New7Wonders of Nature, the place will probably get even more crowded now. Well, this is what tends to happen when a place receives some kind of designation. Despite this, I would still suggest going. After all, this is the only way to get in. Last time I checked, tourists were still not allowed to row their own canoes inside the River or swim their way through (not that I would expect anyone to desire to do the latter).\nthe tide is high at our hotel\nTip: On the way back to the main city of Puerto Princesa from the Underground River, there is a small Vietnamese village which used to house refugees who came to Palawan from you guessed it \u2013 Vietnam during the Vietnam War. While many of these refugees had already returned back to their native land, some still remain and you can find some good restaurants specializing in Vietnamese fare inside the village.\nEnchanting Hagimit Falls and the Mysterious Vanishing Sandbar in Samal Island\nFiled Under: Palawan, Philippines Tagged With: asia, beach, palawan, Philippines, photography, pictures, puerto princesa, Southeast Asia, tourism, travel, tropical, underground river, unesco\nJeneaWhat says\nYou should also try and visit Coron in Palawan if you haven\u2019t already done so. It\u2019s much more appealing than the underground river, which i myself, find over rated.\nI had heard a lot of good things about coron!\nBeen putting it off for a while now. Where would you suggest to stay in coron?\nWe stayed at Busuanga Island Paradise (http://www.busuangaislandparadise.com/) c/o a travel arrangement set up by Philippine Airlines. No complaints on the lodging \ud83d\ude42\nhttps://iwandered.net/the-last-frontier-pt2\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 9646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://izismile.com/2017/12/22/facts_that_can_change_your_views_on_many_things_14_pics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HAM3ONL3WYSOTJA2MYXGHCTAOT6RYBOT", "length": 2664, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "izismile.com", "title": "Facts That Can Change Your Views On Many Things (14 pics) - Izismile.com", "raw_content": "Facts That Can Change Your Views On Many Things (14 pics)\nPosted in Interesting 22 Dec 2017 / 5632 views\nWhen NASA pitched the idea of the Voyager missions to Richard Nixon with the idea of touring the outer planets, he was told that the last time it was possible, Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. The particular planetary alignment that Voyager 2 used on its journey occurs only once every 176 years.\nGwen Stefani is older than Ted Cruz\nIf you live in the USA, you have better odds of dating Taylor Swift than dying of Bird Flu and Ebola combined.\nIn the span of the last 3 Star Wars movies, The Cleveland Browns have won 1 game.\nNintendo was founded the same year that the Eiffel Tower was constructed.\nIt took humanity approximately 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.\nIf the sun were scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of the continental United States. The vastness of space is mind boggling.\nWe are closer to the year 2040 than the year of 1994.\nNext to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.\nThe Titanic had two sister ships, the Britannic and the Olympic. There was a woman called Violet Jessop, a nurse and a cruise liner stewardess that worked on all three. The Olympic crashed into a warship whilst leaving harbor but was able to make it back. She was on the Titanic as it sank and is referenced in the Titanic film, a stewardess that was told to set an example to the non english speaking passengers as the ship sank. She looked after a baby on lifeboat 16 until being rescued by the Carpathia the next day. It's not known what exactly caused the sinking of the Britannic but the lifeboats hit the water too early. As the ship sank, the rear listed up and a number of the lifeboats were sucked into the propellers. Violet had to jump out of the lifeboat she was in and sustained a serious head injury, but survived. She was on board for all three incidents in the space of 5 years. She went back to continue to work at sea for another thirty years before retiring in 1950. She died of Heart failure in 71.\nStegosaurus lived 150 million years ago. T. Rex lived 65 million years ago. Stegosaurus was more ancient to the T. Rex than the T. Rex is to us.\nThe Great Pyramid was built before the last Woolly Mammoth died.\nPineapples take 2 years to grow\nScientists who work with cockroaches often develop allergies towards cockroaches. At the same time, they also develop allergies to pre-ground coffee.\n#2 I'm still uncertain as to whether Gwen was born a woman or not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 13028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jackfmcasper.com/colorado-resident-dead-following-wyoming-crash/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:P2Z7LOXDLVMZBSE5YEM2PLARTUQIGSIK", "length": 1780, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "jackfmcasper.com", "title": "Colorado Resident Dead Following Wyoming Crash", "raw_content": "Colorado Resident Dead Following Wyoming Crash\nA Colorado resident is dead following a two-vehicle crash in eastern Wyoming late last week.\nThe Wyoming Highway Patrol says in a crash report that it's unknown whether 28-year-old Chea Johns, the person who died as a result of the crash, was wearing a seat belt or other safety equipment at the time.\nAccording to the report, a GMC pickup was southbound on U.S. 85 near Lusk at milepost 179.8, while a Ram pickup was northbound, shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday, June 7.\nThe Patrol says that evidence at the scene and witness statements indicated the GMC pickup crossed into the northbound lane. It is unclear whether Johns was an occupant of the GMC or the Ram pickup.\nAfter the GMC crossed the centerline, the driver of the Ram steered toward the ditch in order to avoid a head-on collision. The GMC pickup first contacted the Ram pickup near the driver-side door, in an opposite-direction sideswipe collision.\nAs the GMC continued down the side of the Ram pickup, it hit a large slide-in camper in the bed of the Ram. The front edge of the camper that extended outside the box of the Ram hit the GMC pickup and significantly intruded into the GMC.\nThe two vehicles maintained contact as the GMC then hit a boat and boat trailer being towed by the Ram. After the vehicles separated, the GMC crossed the northbound lane and came to rest in the northbound borrow ditch.\nThe boat and boat trailer separated from each other, coming to rest separately in the northbound borrow ditch. The driver of the Ram pickup lost control, and the pickup made a 3/4 roll before coming to rest on the left side of the roadway.\nDriver inattention and cell phone use are listed as possible contributing factors. Two people were not injured in the crash.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jamiusblog.com/2019/02/11/its-absolutely-fake-news-fg-condemns-report-of-leah-sharibus-death/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YMXYRPCASTOE7AIEYTL2XDD7YLXE7AHN", "length": 3077, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "jamiusblog.com", "title": "\u2018Its Absolutely Fake News,\u2019 FG Condemns Report Of Leah Sharibu\u2019s Death - Jamiu's Blog", "raw_content": "\u2018Its Absolutely Fake News,\u2019 FG Condemns Report Of Leah Sharibu\u2019s Death\nThe Federal Government has condemned the report that the abducted Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, has died in captivity of Boko Haram terrorists.\nMinister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated that there was nothing of such while addressing reporters on Sunday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.\n\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that,\u201d he was quoted as saying in a statement by his media aide, Segun Adeyemi.\nMr Mohammed queried why such a report would emerge at a time when the nation and its people were preparing for the presidential election.\nHe said that the report was an alleged plot by the political opposition to tarnish the image of the Muhammadu Buhari administration and exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s part of the opposition\u2019s strategies to throw everything at the administration and at the President. I think every day, they are realising the hopelessness of their position,\u201d the minister claimed.\nHe added, \u201cEveryday they are amazed by the support Mr President is receiving from every part of the country and they have decided that they are going to spread falsehood, \u2026 but people are not listening to them.\u201d\nSpeaking about President Buhari\u2019s campaign rally billed to hold in Ilorin on Monday, Mohammed disclosed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has put everything in place to ensure the visit was successful.\n\u201cThe party has been meeting in the last couple of days to ensure that the President\u2019s visit is very successful,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe have watched the rallies in many parts of the country and we want to assure Mr President that our rally in terms of numbers, quality of people, entertainment and colour will rank among the best.\u201d\nThe minister was confident that those who would come out to receive the President would be organic, noting that the party does not engage in renting crowds.\nHe, therefore, appealed to the security agencies to create a level playing field for all the contestants in the elections, to allow the people to freely exercise their franchise.\nMr Mohammed also reacted to the protest in some circles over the redeployment of Police Commissioners across the country.\nHe alleged that this was the handiwork of the opposition which he claimed was working to discredit the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).\nPresident Trump threatens to shut down US government if opposition congressional leaders fail to fund the border wall\nNext story Michelle Obama Steals Show At The Grammys, Delights Crowd With Girl Power Message\nPrevious story Photos: FCT Minister, Musa Bello narrowly escapes death as APC and PDP supporters clash In Abuja\nNigerian man mistakenly killed by his family in the UK because they believed he was \u2018possessed by evil spirits\u2019\nCardi B Officially Back Together with Offset, He Vows No More Groupies\nINEC releases specimen of ballot papers ahead of the general elections\nWoman found dead hours after Facebook post about being called a \u201cfat ugly c***\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://janskynoise.blogspot.com/2010/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JFASP6QSV3VFHXLYVWMIB6FGRYR6KNTI", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "janskynoise.blogspot.com", "title": "Jansky Noise - Past Present & Future Star Music", "raw_content": "The first 8-Track in 22 years?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 1807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaxonpool.com/2013/08/28/the-proctologist-who-made-me-see/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PWJCK36E447QRELPWTSES6OVGP5LRKR5", "length": 4586, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "jaxonpool.com", "title": "The proctologist who made me see | @Jaxonpool", "raw_content": "WEDNESDAY(1), 8/28/13, Issue 191\nLast Thursday, Aug. 22nd, 2013, Sgt. Robert Bales apologized for slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in 2012: Robert Bales apologizes This apology reminds us of the letter Lemule Blogiver sent to the T-U editor on March 20, 2012:\nThe Proctologist Who Made Me See: You, Mr. Editor, probably ask, \u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed to have the public read your letters? Aren\u2019t you ashamed of appearing to be a fool? Don\u2019t you worry about coming across as a sociopath?\u201d To which I say, \u201cHave you read the letters you publish?\u201d\nA particularly representative one recently appeared on your opinion page. It was composed by Dr. Frank Healey, a Jaxonpool proctologist. I can only hope to emulate it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.\nA proctologist is a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus. I have always wondered what the rest of the world looks like when one is perched high up in there. I imagine it would be like that famous New Yorker cover,\nthe difference being that, instead of looking out at the great prospect of America from 9th Avenue in NYC, one surveys the world from high up in the fundament.\nThanks to Healey\u2019s letter, a new grand vista has spread out before me. He has opened my eyes. It has taken a proctologist to make me see.\nSurely you remember the letter you published just a few days ago from Frank Healey, on March 1st, 2012: Obama\u2019s Apologies: Totally Wrong\n\u201cTotally wrong\u201d takes Obama to task for apologizing \u201cto the Afghan government for the burning of the Quran.\u201d The apology, Healey asserts,\n\u201cconfirms this administration\u2019s warped and pathetic opinion of the role of the U.S.\u201d\nAmen, Dr. Healey! Next comes letter\u2019s crown jewel:\n\u201cIn my view, not enough Iraqis and Afghanis died.\u201d\nI speculate that Healey ascribes to the tenets of The Sociopath\u2019s Manifesto, which, on page 45, reads, \u201cWhen all is said and done, never enough people die. For the world has too many people. As sociopaths, we help solve this problem.\u201d Still, Healey\u2019s statement begs the question: how many Iraqis and Afghanis should die? Only prayer and fasting can yield an answer.\nAnd the answer is (as it always is, when consulting The Sociopath\u2019s Manifesto) \u2026 AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.\nBecause I hate Afghanis and Iraqis as much as Dr. Healey appears to do, I lean toward annihilating the maximum number. Back in the Good Ol\u2019 Days, we used to be able to speak openly about wanting to commit mass murder, about nuking people out of existence\u2014eliminating entire nations\u2014that we didn\u2019t like. Nations like Iran. \u201cNuke, nuke, nuke\u2026nuke, nuke IRAN!\u201d I pity our country that we no longer can express a healthy desire to see whole nations exterminated \u201cfrom the face of the earth,\u201d to borrow a phrase from Genesis, chapter 6.\nThen comes his letter\u2019s grand finale: \u201cAmerica apologies to no one.\u201d\nHealey once more appears to be drawing inspiration from The Sociopath\u2019s Manifesto, where, on page 247, it reads, \u201cA true sociopath never apologizes.\u201d But Obama\u2014obviously not one of us, by which I mean, a sociopath\u2014apologized once again, this time to the relatives of the sixteen Afghan villagers whom Sgt. Robert Bales massacred on March 11th. Nine were young children. The sergeant was merely implementing the agenda the doctor articulated ten days earlier in his letter to you, namely (to reiterate what the good doctor said):\nIn other words, Bales was trying to solve the problem Healey identified.\nProviding readers with much-needed profundities from the fundament, Dr. Healey no doubt will compose another letter to you, this time expressing his outrage that Obama apologized to the parents of the children Bales murdered. He\u2019ll probably write, \u201cHas the president no shame? Has he no decency?\u201d He\u2019ll very likely repeat himself by saying that this new apology\nHear hear! Dr. Healey is in the right place to raise such issues, for, truly, his is the voice coming from the final section of the large intestine, terminating at the anus.\nSergeant Robert Bales\nSo, you ask, \u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed by the letters you write? Aren\u2019t you afraid of looking like a fool? Or\u2014far worse\u2014a sociopath?\u201d To which I respond: I have gone through Dr. Healey\u2019s letter, which you yourself published. His letter, I believe, answers the question better than I can.\nIn tomorrow\u2019s letter to you, I will discuss the rise of the sociopaths in American politics, of which Healey seems to be a representative.\nPosted in: Dr Frank Healey, Sociopath's Manifesto, Times-UnionTagged: Jonathan Swift's ghost, Lemule BlogiverPermalinkLeave a comment\n\u2190 The X Games\n\u201cFashion Talk\u201d with Indian parents \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaxusa.org/news/local-spin-flagler-county-sits-economic-sweet-spot/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:41Z", "digest": "sha1:K6IWH4YHL6R6QKWDA4XR3NHWAN2SIRGY", "length": 2824, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jaxusa.org", "title": "Flagler County sits in economic \u2018sweet spot\u2019 - JAXUSA", "raw_content": "Flagler County sits in economic \u2018sweet spot\u2019\nThe Daytona Beach News-Journal sits down with JAXUSA Partnership President Jerry Mallot to discuss Flagler County\u2019s economic opportunity.\nWith the U.S. economy showing more signs of sustainable growth and a tax reform package set to energize business development, the outlook for economic growth in the Sunshine State is bright. Beyond local efforts, Flagler County is also a member of the JAXUSA Partnership, a group of seven Northeast Florida counties aligned to promote development in the region. For a look at what this means for economic development here and in the region, Jerry Mallot, JAXUSA president, offers the local spin.\nWhat are the implications of tax reform for the regional economy?\nIt gives us a competitive advantage beyond what we have had in the past. There are a number of folks who are going to see our lack of an income tax as more of a spur then they did before since they lost deductibility in a number of states around the country. I think that might be particularly true for businesses that are family owned but I don\u2019t think it will stop there. I just think it gives us another edge. We still have to be competitive in what we do but now we have an added advantage.\nInfrastructure is getting a lot of attention in Washington D.C. right now. What are the pressing needs in northeast Florida?\nThere are always needs but I would tell you that northeast Florida has been able to attract four or five billion dollars worth of road development funds from state and federal sources over the last few years. That allows us to get ahead of the work. We\u2019ve seen a lot of construction on Interstate 95 and other projects so we\u2019re in much better shape, frankly, than most places in the country. We will always have needs, but I think the biggest challenges in infrastructure are in the northern part of the country.\nHow does Flagler County fit into the northeast Florida region economically?\nFlagler has a unique role. It is very new in a lot of respects. It has a huge quality of life in the developments along the ocean and even west of 95. It\u2019s kind of a very bright spot and has a great reputation, so I think that\u2019s some of the things that make it unique and interesting. What we need more of in Flagler is available existing buildings and that is not an easy thing to do because somebody has to take the risk. But I think Flagler is quite well positioned and not just in its relationship north up to Jacksonville but south to Daytona and over to Orlando. It\u2019s a sweet spot.\nWhat is your outlook for the region?\nI think it\u2019s very good. I don\u2019t see any clouds ahead. I listened to an economist the other day who said whether we like it or not sometimes there needs to be a recession, but he can\u2019t see any reason why it would occur anytime in the near future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaysciencetech.com/2018/07/top-15-examination-question-and-answer-on-philosophy-for-university-students.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SB5RQTAOHJB3ARXTSM7ZK3FRLZVSBFP6", "length": 9932, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "jaysciencetech.com", "title": "Top 15 Examination Question And Answer On Philiosophy", "raw_content": "Home Education Top 15 Examination Question And Answer On Philosophy For University Students\nPhilosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. In this article, we will focus on the top 15 examination question and answer on philosophy for university students.\nWhat did Thomas Aquinas compare the senses to?\nUnlike many theologians who contemplate the big questions in life, Thomas Aquinas did not try to separate the natural, observable world from the unseen world. In fact, Aquinas viewed the 5 senses (tasting, touching, seeing, hearing, smelling) as an essential way of acquiring real knowledge, even knowledge of the invisible God.\nSenses, according to Aquinas, are necessary for knowledge. The knowledge that is gained through the senses is every bit as relevant as the knowledge that comes through academic study. The senses, in this view, are the way human souls (as opposed to minds alone) acquire knowledge.\nWhy was Leonardo da Vinci considered a Renaissance man?\nLeonardo da Vinci was considered a Renaissance man due to his long list of accomplishments across several fields. He was an artist, a musician, an inventor and a scientist. His sketches and paintings include world-renowned pieces like the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, and the Vitruvian Man. As an inventor da Vinci sketched the designs for a flying machine, a more accurate clock, and a triple barrel cannon just to name a few. He also helped pioneer the detailed study of the human body with his sketches of human fetuses and other body proportions and parts. da Vinci even studied botany, keeping a detailed journal of several plants.\nIs hedonism a religion?\nHedonism is the pursuit of pleasure. It is a philosophical or ethical belief, but not a religion. In everyday language, hedonism, together with its adjectival equivalent \u2018hedonistic,\u2019 are often used in a derogatory manner. Hedonism is often associated with the Ancient Greek philosophical school known as Epicureanism.\nWhat is one of the latest discovery on mind-body problem?\nOne of the latest discoveries on mind-body problem is: Chronic and acute psychological stress, which is related to socio-economic status, can become a really big factor in experiencing a heart attack in the future. The reason is it could increase of platelet-leukocyte aggregates rate. According to the study, which was conducted in the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, wives that have husbands who often express hostility during disagreements or conflicts could experience hardening of the arteries more than those that are not. Also, the study suggests that husbands that have controlling wives also experience that way as compared those that do not have.\nWhat did the Enlightenment encourage people to do?\nThe Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement that encouraged the people of Europe and America to embrace education and science while questioning traditional authority and religion. Scientific experimentation and reason was a major theme of the Enlightenment, as evidenced by Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, who used science to make great discoveries about the universe. English philosopher John Locke was also a major influence during the Enlightenment; his writings about natural order, freedom, and government inspired the establishment of the United States of America.\nWhat is the main concern of aesthetics?\nAesthetics is the study of beauty. Classical aesthetics try to find objective measures of beauty. For example, Aristotle came up with his theory of mimesis, which essentially claims that the role of art is to mimic nature. His ideas became the basis for aesthetics for a long time, and this is part of the reason why most classical Western works of art tend towards realism. In the modern age, a new branch developed\u2014together with new forms of art\u2014which claims that beauty is subjective and can therefore only be studied within the limits of personal experience. This position was heavily criticized for being too relativistic and for destroying the search for objective truth about beauty, but it has remained influential, and many modern artists were influenced by it. The works of Dadaists such as that of Marcel Duchamp can be seen as an example of this since they ridicule traditional ideas about art and beauty.\nWhat did Plato critique in his book The Republic?\nIn order to make the case for his vision of a just republic ruled by wise rulers, Socrates must critique alternative forms of government. In Book VIII of The Republic, Plato describes the discussion between Socrates and his interlocutors about the problems with four forms of government: Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny. Socrates argues that the four forms of government are inherently unstable and lead into each other in a decay to injustice. Socrates\u2019 critiques balance those systems against his proposal in Book VI of the ideal city.\nLiving and thinking without reference to a religion are called?\nLiving and thinking without religion are called \u2018secularism.\u2019 It is important to remember that secularism is not synonymous with atheism. Secular people may, in fact, believe in God, but live lives where organized religion plays little or no part in their lives. The corresponding adjective to secularism is secular. Examples: \u2018secular thought,\u2019 \u2018secular lives,\u2019 \u2018secular government\u2019 and \u2018secular morality.\u2019\nIdentify and define each of the three dominant ethical theories in Western philosophy.\nThe three dominant ethical theories in Western philosophy are utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics.\nUtilitarianism states that whatever one chooses to do should be both fair and beneficial for the majority of those impacted by an action.\nDeontology focuses on the reasons behind an action as opposed to their results or consequences.\nVirtue ethics, on the other hand, focuses on the character of the actor and how that impacted their decision to take part in the act. Virtue ethics looks at the person as opposed to the results or reasons.\nThe dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called\nThe dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was humanism. Humanism had several characteristics that supported the growth of the Renaissance. First, humanism encouraged Europeans to embrace the ancient Greek and Roman ideals that centered on the study of human potential and progress, studies that medieval culture largely rejected. Second and relatedly, humanism supported a secular worldview, with an emphasis on the individual. As Europe\u2019s elite grew wealthier, they had more time and resources to spend on personal education and pleasure, which in turn led to increased patronage of the arts. Humanism did not take religion out of European life\u2013see the Protestant Reformation and the rise of humanist-educated Spanish monarchs, Charles V and Philip II, in the sixteenth century\u2013but it did help make the Renaissance possible and, with it, the rise of the modern world.\nWhat was Plato\u2019s ideal society?\nWho preserved the ideas of Socrates in his writings?\nThe Greek philosopher, Plato, preserved the ideas of Socrates by writing his own stories and books about how his life and Socrates\u2019 life overlapped. Plato was the most famous student of Socrates, and many of Plato\u2019s writings are dialogues with his former teacher. Although we do not have any of Socrates\u2019 teachings in his own words, we know so much about him from Plato\u2019s writings that we can attribute many ideas and concepts to Socrates. Most famously, the use of asking pointed questions to come to a conclusion or an agreement is known as the Socratic Method, since the philosopher was famous for asking many questions during a debate.\nThe geocentric model of the universe stated that\nThe geocentric model stated that the earth was the center of the universe and that celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it.\nGeocentrism is in contrast to heliocentrism, the view proposed by Copernicus and championed by Galileo. From at least the time of Aristotle, most educated people believed in the geocentric model. The heliocentric model gained acceptance after Galileo\u2019s death in the 17th century.\nIn Plato\u2019s Republic, he describes his ideal society in the context of dialogues with Socrates. The rulers or administrators of this ideal city were called guardians and were intended to be philosopher-kings \u2013 skilled thinkers and military leaders. A subgroup of the guardian class would be the auxiliaries, the soldiers of the city. The farmers and craftsmen would form a third class, respected and essential for a successful society. In order to make sure that all the classes would be satisfied with their place in society, Plato devised a metaphor about the value of metals \u2013 gold, silver, and bronze \u2013 assigned to the groups by the gods.\nThe Socratic method is named after what Greek philosopher?\nThe Socratic method is named after Socrates (c.470-399 BCE). It is made up of a continuous dialogue consisting of questions and answers. There are no surviving texts from Socrates, and what is known about his method comes from Plato.\nWho wrote the book Utopia?\nUtopia is a 1516 literary work written by Sir Thomas More, an English lawyer, philosopher, and statesman. The book explores More\u2019s vision of a perfect world, which More calls a Utopia (meaning no place). More likely wrote the book to critique many trends and issues that he saw in English and European society at the time, although scholars are still debating what his specific purpose was in writing it.\nExamination Question And Answer On Philiosophy\nPrevious articleTop 15 Examination Question And Answer On Anatomy and Physiology For University Students\nNext articleHow to Fix Slow Internet on One PC\nTop 10 Best sport cars in the world\nHow to Start Bread Bakery Business in Nigeria\nBIOLOGY EXAMINATION QUESTIONS FOR SS11 STUDENTS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 15212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennlyreads.com/2016/10/14/a-review-of-dead-ship-down-somethings-alive-on-the-andria-doria-by-robert-w-walker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:DSL5HHF4JJ5R77TPMX3767NRY6OWK4LN", "length": 3116, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "jennlyreads.com", "title": "A review of \u201cDead Ship Down: Something\u2019s Alive on the Andria Doria\u201d by Robert W. Walker \u2013 Jennly Reads", "raw_content": "A review of \u201cDead Ship Down: Something\u2019s Alive on the Andria Doria\u201d by Robert W. Walker\nA fairly decent story, but could use a little editing\nThroughout my life, I have found myself drawn to strange subjects as objects of extreme fascination with shipwrecks being right at the top of the list. Having previously read Titanic 2012 and actually enjoying it after a rocky start I figured I would give this title a try.\nSet in modern day, Dead Ship Down follows a dive team commissioned by the family of a prior diver, Thom Pritchard, to recover the body of their lost loved one. What awaits them on the ocean floor isn\u2019t just the wreckage of a once proud ocean liner but something more sinister and possibly history changing. As the ship has already claimed more than a dozen divers over the years, the group faces forces beyond their comprehension as they attempt to complete their mission.\nI have mixed feelings about this book in general. The good news is, I didn\u2019t hate it and for the most part it was actually a pretty good story. The dive sequences were written in such a way that someone who has never donned scuba gear could understand them. There was plenty of history to give the story depth and flesh out the characters. In fact, the missing diver they were looking for was a previous casualty of the ship in 2015. I also enjoyed the flashback portion that describes the Andrea Doria and Stockholm\u2019s collision course on the night in question.\nWhat I didn\u2019t like was what felt to me to be the last minute addition of the revelation of a possible conspiracy theory implicating several nations and less than ethical activities in the past. This just seemed to be too much to add to an already full story. Clocking in at less than 100 pages, I feel the story probably could have benefited from a little content trimming. The subtitle is \u201cSomething\u2019s alive on the Andrea Doria\u201d so I expected the paranormal aspect. The added conspiracy just seemed to be overkill.\nI also noticed about halfway though that the number of typos, misplaced apostrophes and content errors increased significantly. There were a few sections where it looked like the author changed his mind, backspaced to do a revision, but left part of the original text hanging. I also noticed a section where the characters seemed to be confused and we had Jenna talking to herself, instead of the dead girl on the boat. I did send a few of these up for review via the \u201cReport Content Error\u201d feature on my device but for the ones that I sent, there were easily two or three that I didn\u2019t. It may not be a bad idea to go back through this title to clean it up a bit.\nSo a decent read that definitely fed my shipwreck fascination. With the exception of the one plot point that I didn\u2019t care for in this particular book, (although I would love to see this aspect explored further in another story possible using this as the main story line and not a sideline plot twist) all of the other issues are easily fixable.\n\u2190 A review of \u201cShift (Strangetown Magic Book 2)\u201d by Al K Line\nA Review of \u201cHumbug (The Unwinding of Ebenezer Scrooge)\u201d by Tony Bertauski \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jimandlarra.com/i-cant-make-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:COVPQRG7TZGAERBB3LANPF6F6BKGSIOW", "length": 119, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jimandlarra.com", "title": "Sorry, I Can\u2019t Make It | Mutual Manifesting", "raw_content": "Sorry, I Can\u2019t Make It\nHumor, Maui\nSorry, I can\u2019t make it. There\u2019s a beach stuck to me.\nPost Tagged with I can't let go", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 159.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joanneharte.norwex.co.uk/en_GB/customer/leadership-team", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OEXZXMJBORLW7AKDTN7L7PTJ6AOMXOXB", "length": 5160, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "joanneharte.norwex.co.uk", "title": "Leadership Team | Norwex United Kingdom", "raw_content": "Real People Inspiring Real Impact\nBj\u00f8rn Nicolaisen\nNorwex Chairman\nBj\u00f8rn co-founded Norwex in 1994. A former attorney, Bj\u00f8rn worked with the Norwegian Ministry of Environment and was an associate with the General of Norway. He retired in 2007 to follow his passion for helping others achieve their dreams through Norwex. He now leads the company in shaping the Norwex Core Values, Mission, Goals, branding strategy and overall mission for the future.\n\u201cWe will all leave a legacy of some kind\u2014good or bad. It\u2019s our actions that will determine how we will be remembered and the impact our lives have on others. Only you control the legacy you will leave.\u201d\nEivind Schackt\nEivind has held numerous global leadership positions in the consumer goods industry, including Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 500 multinational company. As a driver of the Norwex Mission, Eivind is passionate about building teams that drive success as well as reducing chemicals in our homes.\n\u201cThe Norwex Purpose touches all aspects of life \u2026 it is the larger picture of the legacy we are creating where our Core Values of Integrity, Trust and Respect align our benefits with our actions.\u201d\nGlobal Executive Sales & Marketing\nWith 28 years of global direct selling leadership, Peter is a key member of the global team responsible for developing worldwide strategic sales and marketing support for all Norwex markets, including Norway, the Baltics, Australia, New Zealand, U.S., Canada, Germany, UK, Ireland and Sweden, as well as global new market development. Peter is committed to sharing the Mission of Norwex with the world and giving its Consultants the power they need to leave their own lasting legacies.\n\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see the growth of the Norwex Movement around the world. People everywhere are looking for real solutions to the health and environmental challenges we face \u2026 and Norwex promises to deliver them.\u201d\nSales Director - UK & Ireland\nSue experienced direct sales initially at the age of 20 alongside her full time corporate job in Sales. In August 2000 she joined an American direct sales company and became their most successful Leader in the United Kingdom and held that position throughout her time with the company. Her passion is Leadership Development and she feels honoured to have joined Norwex. Committed to helping the company, Mission and team thrive in the UK & Ireland for years to come.\nIt feels energising and exciting coming to work knowing that every day we help to create more Safe Havens and support more Consultants in developing businesses around the world. The passion at Norwex is very contagious!\nGlobal Chief Sales Officer\nAfter being introduced to the power of microfibre by Gerd Dorshuck, Debbie brought Norwex and the Little Red Cloth to North America in 1999 and now leads global sales. In 2008, she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Business to Consumer Division in the Canadian Prairie Region and is passionate about helping others achieve their own success through entrepreneurship. With 34 years of experience in the home party industry, Debbie is committed to helping Consultants grow personally and professionally as they share the Norwex Mission and make the world a happier, healthier place to live.\n\u201cFor me, our legacy is not about how far we have come \u2026 it will be about how far we can go. In Norwex, we are optimists! We believe in a brighter future, and we know that together we can accomplish amazing things!\u201d\nAmy Cadora\nAmy is responsible for the marketing operations at Norwex, including public relations, media, creative, branding and product management. Many of the products she\u2019s created for direct sales in the natural and organic products industries have been showcased in Oprah\u2019s O List. She started the Norwex Movement website in 2013 and maintains a bi-weekly blog highlighting issues related to reducing chemicals in the environment, sustainability, recycling and healthy living.\n\u201cAs a Mother, I want to protect my children from the harmful effects of chemicals and provide a brighter picture for their future \u2026 one where chemicals will be tested for safety before they are put into use, and a world where consumers vote with their purchases to have cleaner, healthier choices.\u201d\nAmelia Spolec\nGlobal Chief Information Officer\nWith over 20 years of experience in information technology, Amelia is an expert in digital efficiency. Her extensive background in field support has built a resolve that technology should embrace and support the mission of field Leaders, their teams and their Customers. Her track record of success at Norwex includes designing compensation plans to supercharge Consultants\u2019 incomes and creating user-friendly websites and easy-to-use applications.\n\u201cIt takes a Team to deliver outstanding results. Norwex is committed to superior Customer Service so you can be confident our systems will support your business and that we are with you every step of the way.\u201d\nImproving quality of life by radically reducing chemicals in our homes.\nDownload Our Purpose Booklet\nA Norwex home business can help you create a brighter future for your family - and for the planet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobstrackr.com/job/id/11143/manchester-greater-manchester-uk/it-and-internet/it-service-technician/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IKTMEWI5DET5DJ5P5Y5E36WZLFZH3EZ2", "length": 3534, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "jobstrackr.com", "title": "IT Service Technician - Manchester, Greater Manchester, UK | JobsTrackR", "raw_content": "Salary: \u00a325,000 p/a\nLocation: Manchester City Centre and Working from Home\nAn exciting opportunity to join a not-for-profit organisation in Manchester City Centre. This role will involve being the second line of support for the employees at the organisation. This support will include desktop support, server work and troubleshooting issues.\n**Must Have a Valid driving license**\nThe IT Technical Services Technician role is highly autonomous, with a focus on providing broad technical resolution, as well as building strong relationships with the business and ensuring compliance against KPI\u2019s and SLA\u2019s.\nIn addition to the technical aspects, this position will also be responsible for providing advice and coaching to our customers, to ensure that they feel confident and comfortable using the IT resources made available to them. They will be a champion of the customer service and satisfaction ethos that is at the heart of the IT department.\nPerform effective and positive customer focussed diagnostic support and troubleshooting on all tickets that are logged by phone, email or self-service, with the goal of performing a first-time fix on tickets logged.\nEnsure that all tickets have appropriate and well-documented troubleshooting notes applied to them prior to escalation to other teams.\nSupport the team by taking part in the rota to provide expert support and guidance to the customer base in site-based \u201cWalk up Clinics\u201d.\nSupport remote locations via onsite visits as well as via remote support tools.\nAct as the Major Incident point of contact on a rota basis for all Priority A tickets, ensuring that the business receives communications as appropriate, and in a timely manner, throughout the lifecycle of the Incident and that all work completed by other teams is gathered and documented within the Incident ticket.\nDevelop and promote continuous improvements to the customer experience when contacting the IT Technical Services desk.\nMGC IT Team support over 1200 users based across the north of England. Our Customer are predominantly the Manchester Growth Company internal operating companies as well as many external customers.\nMGC IT Team are part of the Corporate Services Directorate and work with many strategic partners to deliver a high-quality level of service to all our customers.\nMGC IT provides IT support and application development services for our customers.\nThe holder of this position will be expected to be fully mobile and able to visit other sites. They will also be expected to take part in a 24/7 \u201con call\u201d rota as required.\nITIL Foundation Qualification is desirable\nIT support experience including MS Server, Windows (7,8 and 10), AD, Group policies, DNS, DHCP, network infrastructure, Citrix, Apple, switches etc., within a customer-focused environment\nExperience of cloud technologies such as O365, Azure, Skype for Business etc.\nExperience of training on a one-to-one or multiple person level.\nExperience of ITIL processes including incident, change, problem, knowledge and request.\nExcellent communication, customer handling and interpersonal skills\nStrong planning, organising and prioritising abilities.\nFlexibility to visit other sites within the region, as and when required.\nAs the role has a high degree of autonomy and combines broad technical exposure as well as the opportunity to develop client relationship management, the ability to work unsupervised is essential, as are superb customer service and satisfaction skills.\nService Management Consultant - Manchester City Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jody-victor.blogcreek.com/tag/cybermonday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:22Z", "digest": "sha1:N7SN4BA7Q3FUTM3BZ2V2XCTBUOMFVHHA", "length": 2986, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "jody-victor.blogcreek.com", "title": "cybermonday | JODY VICTOR\u00ae", "raw_content": "Are you ready for Black Friday or CyberMonday?\nBlack Friday is this week and CyberMonday is just a week away. Are you ready? What you might find helpful is there are many apps out there. You can get an app for most of your regular stores, such as Kohl\u2019s, Macy\u2019s, Best Buy, Home Depot, and many others. You can find coupons, deals, latest flyers, and a host of other helpful information. Most of them ask for your location so they can show you the deals at the store nearest you, so make sure to have the location services turned on.\nOther apps that may be helpful whether you shop brick and mortar stores or online:\nRedLaser. This is by eBay. This app shows trending deals. When you click on a product you will get more information but also a list of locations to buy it with their prices. You can look online, locally or find related products. When I clicked on \u201cDeals\u201d it came up with a list of stores and if I clicked on one, it showed deals for that store. Funny thing is, it showed the coupons/deals from RetailMeNot!\nRetailMeNot. This app is put out by the RetailMeNot.com website. It has coupons for many categories. It will show in-store and online coupons. You can make an account and save favorites to find them easier. It has many current deals. Would you buy a watch at Amazon.com for $2.99 with $1.99 shipping (retail price $81)?\nShopKick. As I entered this app, it tells me I can \u201cget points just for walking into stores,\u201d I can \u201credeem points for rewards,\u201d and I can \u201cpick a reward.\u201d A point is a \u201ckick.\u201d You can get points from stores that offer \u201ckicks\u201d \u2013 your bluetooth must be turned on and then open the app at the store entrance. You can filter the feed within the app to show particular stores. There are items for each store that you can find and scan to earn kicks. Kind of reminds me of a scavenger hunt.\nPosted on November 24, 2014 November 26, 2014 Categories New in TechTags apps, Black Friday, cybermonday, RedLaser, RetailMeNot, ShopKick\nJody Victor\u00ae finds out about Cyber Monday\nJody was curious about the origins of Cyber Monday. This is what he found out:\nCyber Monday is a term first used by shop.com in November 2005. It has since become one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. The name grew from the observation that people were returning from their Thanksgiving break to their high-speed Internet and buying what they liked on Monday at work.\nCyber Monday Online sales went from $610M in 2006 to $1,251M in 2011. This year is projected to be $1.5B and up to as much as $2B.\nMany employers had to fire employees or restrict/block employees from accessing certain websites.\nIn 2006, shop.com set up a new website, cybermonday.com, where you can see many deals all at once.\nDon\u2019t shop at work.\nDon\u2019t shop while driving.\nSites like cybermonday.com allow you to comparison shop.\nJody asks, \u201cDo you shop online for Christmas?\u201d\nPosted on November 26, 2012 Categories Best Web PracticesTags cyber monday, cybermonday, Internet, Jody, Jody Victor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joinscpd.com/faq.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6YK74TGOJ7EXOKUO6UYXJCK4PZTYUYOF", "length": 3003, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "joinscpd.com", "title": "Join Suffolk County Police Department", "raw_content": "Q. What is the date of the exam?\nA. June 15th, 2019 (Saturday)\nQ. What is the last date for filing?\nA. April 3rd, 2019\nQ. Is there a fee to take the exam?\nA. Yes, there is a $125 application fee.\nQ. Are there any waivers for the fee?\nA. Yes, the application fee may be waived for Suffolk County Residents who are veterans, auxiliary police, members in good standing of a local fire district or ambulance company, volunteer CERT members and members of the Suffolk County Police Explorers program. The fee may also be waived if you are unemployed and for recipients of MEDICAID, SSI, public assistance or those in a training program under the Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Incentive Act administrated by a state or local agency (subject to change without notice).\nQ. If I have a disability can I be a police officer?\nA. Yes, as long as the disability would not hinder the applicant's ability to meet requirements to perform the duties of a police officer. Each case is investigated independently.\nQ. Are there lateral transfers?\nA. No, everyone must take the Civil Service Entrance Exam, be called from the certified list and pass the screening process.\nQ. Is extra credit given to Suffolk County residents?\nQ. Are there extra credit for prior service with another law enforcement agency?\nQ. How can I obtain an application?\nA. The Department of Civil Service is encouraging online registration. You can apply at www.joinscpd.com or www.suffolkcountyny.gov/civilservice. Civil Service Ph: 631-853-5500.\nQ. Where is the exam given?\nA. The exam is given at several locations throughout Suffolk County. Applicants will be contacted prior to the exam date with the test site. If you are not notified, contact the Department of Civil Service at Ph: 631-853-5500 beginning June 12th, 2019.\nQ. What happens after taking the exam?\nA. A certified list is established by the Department of Civil Service. This takes approximately six (6) months to complete after the exam date.\nQ. What should I expect after the list is established?\nA. Depending on the candidate's test score and the hiring needs of the Department, qualified candidates are notified to begin the screening process. It takes approximately six (6) months to complete the screening process.\nQ. Are recruits paid while in the academy?\nA. Yes, you will receive the starting salary while in the academy.\nQ. How long is the academy?\nA. Six (6) months.\nQ. Are the recruits required to live at the academy during training?\nA. No, the academy is Monday-Friday, generally from 8am to 4pm.\nQ. Where is the academy?\nA. The Academy is located at the Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood (Western Campus), 502 Wicks Rd., Brentwood, NY 11717.\nQ. How long is probation?\nA. The probationary period is 18 months, including 6 months of Academy training.\nQ. Is the test similar to the New York City police exam?\nA. The written exam uses a multiple choice format and will assess the candidate's cognitive abilities, work styles and background information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jojotastic.com/2018/07/10/coming-soon-to-seattle-blu-dot/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2MLKZBGPWVH3DADOHLVG6URIRTJVEPZV", "length": 2060, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jojotastic.com", "title": "jojotastic - coming soon to Seattle: Blu Dot by Joanna Hawley", "raw_content": "coming soon to Seattle: Blu Dot\nJuly 10, 2018 July 11, 2018 By JoannaPosted in seattle, home decor + interiors\nEver since my days as a wee little industrial design student, I have had a mild obsession with Blu Dot. The modern furniture and home decor brand is only 20 years old, but I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen their pieces in countless spaces\u2026 especially mine (here, here, and here). Not only is the aesthetic of everything they do so spot on, but it also works so well with different vibes! I\u2019ve seen the same Blu Dot piece in a modern, minimalist space work well in a maximalist, bohemian home\u2026 it\u2019s really quite incredible. So imagine my excitement when I discovered that the Minneapolis-based brand was opening a store in Seattle. The 5,800-square-foot store opens next week, but here\u2019s a sneak peek of just how incredible it\u2019s going to be:\nThe store itself is noteworthy for many reasons:\nthe architects and designers of the space, Standard Architects, embraced the warmth of the timber-framed Colman Automotive Building and juxtaposed it nicely with the clean lines of the collections. And there\u2019s 60 foot collage! The mural was designed by the Blu Dot visual and graphic design team, with a mission to connect visitors to the design process that drives Blu Dot\u2019s Minneapolis studio. They wanted to communicate strongly what sets Blu Dot apart, the fact that everything they produce is designed by their team (a rarity in the home decor world). The collage includes early sketches of products, images of prototypes, as well as images that inspire them and drive the design culture \u2014 music, architecture, art, everyday objects, travel and more.\nThe store officially opens on July 19th with store hours from Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Whether you\u2019re tackling a new design project or just gathering inspiration (and a wishlist), I highly recommend you stop by!\nIf you\u2019re in Seattle, I urge you to check out the new Blu Dot store: 401 E. Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98122.\nphotography used with permission courtesy of Blu Dot.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jonssonjourney.com/category/namibia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6SFGDMWFLEU4ENBIFN7FIMYU5M456XIC", "length": 969, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jonssonjourney.com", "title": "Namibia Archives - Jonsson Journey", "raw_content": "Namibia | 16 Jul\nI was privileged to spend a day with the local Himba people of Namibia near Epupa Falls which run between the Namibian and Angola border. ...\nI was privileged to pay a visit to the Etosha National Park this week which spans an area of 22270 square kilometres in North Western Namibia. 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The test for the then-24-year-old racer from Scotland was arranged by track manager Robin Mackay in conjunction with Ken Tyrrell\u2019s team.\nThe Cooper T72-BMC Stewart drove in that test is one of 24 cars that will comprise a Stewart salute at the Revival.\nAlso among those cars will be a 1969 Matra MS80-Cosworth, a 1973 Tyrrell 006, the Lola T90-Ford that broke down during the closing stages of the 1966 Indy 500 while Stewart was more than a lap ahead of the field, as well as the 1965 BRM P261 in which Stewart won his first Formula One race at Monza.\nStewart\u2019s sports car career will be featured with two Lola T70 Spyders, Jaguar- and Buick-engined Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiros, a Ferrari 330 P4 and a Ford GT40.\nStewart will participate in each of the three parades, one each afternoon of the three-day Revival meeting.\nOther special features at the Revival, scheduled for September 12-14 are:\nA life-size replica of Stonehenge.\nThe West Sussex at War parade, featuring more than 600 vehicles and 25 WWII veterans, to mark 75 years of the RAF Westhampnett aerodrome.\nPussy Galore\u2019s Goldfinger helicopter as focal point for a \u201cSpirit of Aviation\u2019 display.\nFifteen categories of vintage races.\nA classic car show featuring some 4,500 pre-1974 vehicles.\nBeneficiary of the 2014 Goodwood Revival will be England\u2019s National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, which has earmarked funds to make sure one of the country\u2019s iconic grand prix cars, the 1950 BRM V16 Type 15, will remain in running order.\nRELATED: ThatDudeInBlue recaps 2019 Future Classics Car Show\nFor more information, visit the Goodwood website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journeylankatours.com/sigiriya.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EW3P2LAY2TMZGDGPB5ZGH2PN7KIFSATG", "length": 1220, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "journeylankatours.com", "title": "Journey Lanka Tours (Pvt) Ltd - Tourist Board approved Tours and Travel agency", "raw_content": "HOME DESTINATIONS SIGIRIYA\nSigiriya is 169 kms from Colombo . It\u2019s on the way to Polonnaruwa. Sigiriya rock was a royal citadel for nearly twenty years and is nearly one hectare in extent. It is said to build by King Kashyapa who killed his father to gain his wealth. But many historians of present challenge it. Dr Lal Sirinivas of Bangalore a historian states that it was the abode of King Kuvera but later won over by Ravana and was called Chirakuta. This wonderful fortress is a masterpiece of artistry.\nAluvihara Cave Temple is a short distance from Matale town. Aluvihara designate the greatest single event since the passing away of Gautama Buddha (Parinibbana). It was in this cave temple that the Tripitaka (Scriptures) were written in the 1 st century BC, during the reign of King Walagamba.\nVeheragala Laggala On the rock, on the slope of the hill at this site are the remains of a small dagoba and several mounds with pillars on them. On the east slope of the hill is an inscription.\nDambulla Rock Templealso known as the Golden Rock dates back to the 1 st century BC. It has a rock ceiling but is covered with paintings of Buddhist legends. This temple has the largest number of Buddha statues in one place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://judychicken.com/products/greeting-card-buff-orpington", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JU5V7KW2FKOXWCQQ7STNZQH5YXEVUNYR", "length": 208, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "judychicken.com", "title": "Greeting Card - Buff Orpington | JUDY CHICKEN", "raw_content": "Who would not love a card adored with a Buff Orpington? This card is made by an artist in the Pacific Northwest. Comes in a sealed plastic envelope. (the watermark appearing above does not appear on the card)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kaleolegal.com/disclaimer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NFFLH3VWC5CXJF3YHSCUD5BHV7FIU5F6", "length": 335, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kaleolegal.com", "title": "Disclaimer | Kaleo Legal", "raw_content": "The material is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The material is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or up to date. Information provided by or cited to third parties does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Kaelo Legal or any of its attorneys or clients.\nDisclaimer February 22nd, 2015admin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kate0murray.com/2014/06/27/run-away-with-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GEOBOFDGYMQZLK3GTO7KGQUK32VMHDVD", "length": 756, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kate0murray.com", "title": "Run away with me. \u2013 Kate Murray", "raw_content": "The last part of Chapter 1\u2026\nI make it back to my abandoned shoes as Colin starts to walk toward me. I had noticed that the shouting is louder but I\u2019m still surprised at the yelling and gesturing going on. It looks as if they are about to come to blows.\nColin reaches me and takes me by the elbow, moving me out of direct sight.\nHe shakes his head. \u201cWhere did you go?\u201d\nI nod to the door. \u201cThe agent came out of there and I had a few words.\u201d\n\u201cWhat did they say?\u201d I counter.\nHe sighs and drops my arm. I\u2019m surprised that I liked the contact.\n\u201cYou first,\u201d he says. I look at him. I don\u2019t know him, but I also know that I am not going to get out of this situation without help. And somehow I am not sure the rest of the\u2026\nPrevious Post I passed!\nNext Post Escape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 6477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kenjamccray.com/about-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:5SRXCTNASU7SCOCVNKBYS75GAGS7SSDJ", "length": 1241, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kenjamccray.com", "title": "About \u2013 Kenja McCray", "raw_content": "Originally from Birmingham, Kenja McCray is a graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She has a B.A. from Spelman College and an M.A. from Clark Atlanta University. She earned a Ph.D. in history at Georgia State University (GSU). Her areas of interest are the 19th and 20th century United States, African Americans, Africa and the diaspora, transnational histories, women, class and social history. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled From Complements to Kazi Leaders: Women in Black Power Pan-African Cultural Nationalist Organizations, 1965-1987.\nKenja is also an Associate Professor of History at Atlanta Metropolitan State College (AMSC). She teaches U.S. and African American history. She serves as a member of several campus and University System of Georgia (USG) boards including the Regents\u2019 Academic Advisory Committee on History (2018-2019 chair). Kenja is a University System of Georgia Chancellor\u2019s Learning Scholar and was an AMSC nominee for the Regents\u2019 Teaching Excellence Award. She received the GSU History Department\u2019s John A. Alexander Memorial Award, a Georgia Regional Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society paper prize, and the Association of Black Women Historians\u2018 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 102.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kentucky.reaproject.org/analysis/lsgl/by_industry/earnings/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JK2EP6I4PE5ALHSRA52KVY3SARV5VIC7", "length": 509, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kentucky.reaproject.org", "title": "Kentucky - LSGL Analysis of County Real Earnings Growth by Selected Industry, 1969-2017", "raw_content": "Here, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the real earnings growth of Kentucky's county counties over the latest available year (2017) against the backdrop of their growth over the previous decade (2008-2017). In so doing, we classify their growth and performance into 4 broad categories: Leading, Slipping, Gaining and Lagging. 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We try to go to our local AnyTime Fitness twice a week, and we have been fairly consistent for the last year. I appreciate him greatly in this, because I would never go by myself.\nAt the gym, there is a piece of \u201cequipment\u201d that has intrigued me, a tractor tire. It is not a super big one, maybe four and a half feet in diameter. As I have toned up a little, I wanted to see if I could wrangle that tire. I have seen the strongman competitions on ESPN where they take such a tire, stick their head in the hole, lift it, and then walk a hundred yards or so. I didn\u2019t think I could do that, but I wondered if I could just lift it off the ground. So, one day after we worked out, I talked Jesse into helping me try. We rolled out the tire. I stuck my head through the hole, and positioned it on my neck and shoulders. Then I lifted with my legs. It didn\u2019t even budge off the ground. Nada.\nI have since learned that the tire is there to do an exercise where you \u201cflip\u201d it on the ground without lifting. I\u2019m not sure I could do that either. One estimate I found is that these tires can weigh 500 lbs.\nPhilippians 4:13 is a very popular verse, often quoted. I have quoted it to myself in tough times. In the NIV1984 this verse reads:\nThis is often taken to mean, \u201cI can do anything\u201d if I have enough faith. And, since I should be able to do anything through God\u2019s infused strength, my failures are my fault, my lack of faith. In this way of thinking, the most successful folks are the ones with the greatest faith. The people with the most setbacks and problems are the ones with weak faith. So was my failure to lift the tire a lack of faith?\nI don\u2019t think that is true, and I don\u2019t think that is what the verse is actually saying. There are two problems here. First is mistranslation. Notice how the NIV2011 translates this verse:\nThis is much better, I think. It is not an easy set of words to translate, but I might render it like this:\nI have strength for all these things by means of the one who empowers me.\nThe second problem is taking this verse out of context, using it as a proof text. The NIV2011 won\u2019t let us do this. It demands that we know what the \u201call this\u201d might be, and that drives us back to the previous verses. In these, Paul is talking about his own experiences of sometimes being in need, even being hungry. He is saying that God has given him the strength to get through the times of need, when it didn\u2019t seem like he had enough. This is what he is talking about in 2 Corinthians:\n12:10 That is why, for Christ\u2019s sake, I delight in weaknesses,\nin insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.\nSo, I\u2019ll never be able to lift a 500 lb. tractor tire. That does not negate the promise of Philippians 4:13. But when I am weak, when I am broken, God will see me through. He is always strong, and he has strengthened me over and over. He will do it again.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged Philippians 4:13, strength from God\t| Leave a comment\nSpecial Needs Children and Theology\nI was at the Oregon State vs. Indiana game for the College World Series last night. It was a classic pitchers\u2019 duel, both guys throwing complete games and the final score 1-0. OSU prevailed. Go Beavs!\nI was sitting next to a man with a little boy, maybe four years old. I am not a trained diagnostician, but I would guess the boy was autistic at some level or had some other similar condition. He was very active and talkative, although he was not paying attention to the game in any way and was unable to sit still. After a time, the father apparently did something, and the boy began to scream. He screamed at the top of his lungs for about five minutes, barely pausing for breath. The father held him tight and tried to calm him, for which he received many blows to the face from the little boy. Finally the father picked him up and left, and I heard the screaming all the way to the top of the stadium steps.\nI had mixed feelings about all of this. On one level, it was upsetting for me because I was unable to pay attention to the game I had come to watch during this episode, as were about 100 other fans. I did not know if this was a first \u201ctry\u201d with the boy to see if he could manage such a setting, if it were a particularly bad day, or if this happened often. My selfish nature wished he had not brought the boy to the ballpark. On another level, this was upsetting in the sense that I felt entirely useless and helpless. I wanted to help. I felt badly for both the boy and his father. The boy seemed consumed with unquenchable, implacable anger. The father was being patient, but was obviously embarrassed and frustrated. When my son was that age, we enjoyed many trips to the Kingdome in Seattle to watch the Mariners. I thought, why shouldn\u2019t this man be able to do this with his son?\nThis reminded me of a horrible news story from a couple of weeks ago about the mother and godmother of a 14-year old boy with severe autism. They had murdered the teenager and then taken pills to commit suicide themselves. They felt trapped with no other way out. I cannot condone murder, but I am also at a loss to give a good solution to this. There seem to be no good solutions.\nThe theological aspect of this does not escape me. Why would our loving God allow such suffering? Surely God takes no joy in these situations. All the answers that suggest these are testings that make us stronger seem to be inadequate in the case of the murdered teenager. Did his mother just fail the test?\nWhy would our loving God allow such suffering? I have an answer that does not satisfy me much, and will probably not satisfy you: I don\u2019t know. I just don\u2019t know. But, having said that, I do not doubt God\u2019s loving nature and his love for me personally. Theologically, the willingness of God to sacrifice his only Son for our/my sins is unquestionable evidence of his mighty love. God loves the autistic boy. God loves the father of the autistic boy. And I must love them, too. Maybe I can\u2019t help much in specific situations, but they deserve neither my anger nor my impatience. They deserve my love. I\u2019m not God, but maybe I can act as God would, even when it is very hard. I\u2019m working on it.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged autism, theology of suffering\t| 5 Comments\nBaptism as Sacrament Part 2\nA church\u2019s practice of baptism is a reflection of that church\u2019s theological position in other areas. We usually think that a church that views baptism as a \u201csacrament\u201d will tie the act of baptism directly to the eternal fate of an individual. If proper and valid baptism can only be done by an ordained priest, then salvation itself is under the purview of the church in that its priests can determine who is baptized and therefore saved. In my earlier blog I pointed out that this led to abuse that was rightly condemned by the sixteenth century reformers of the church.\nBut if baptism is not the key to salvation, two questions must be answered? First what is the key? What is the doorway to salvation? Luther still speaks for most Protestant churches to say that salvation is by \u201cfaith alone\u201d or \u201cgrace through faith alone.\u201d This position is biblical, based on Ephesians 2:8-9:\nBut, as I have often said in this blog, we cannot let our doctrine be controlled by proof texting. If this were the only verse in the Bible, it would be very simple. Baptism is not mentioned here, so it can have no part in the salvation process. But that is not the case, baptism is connected to salvation in other verses. This is not the place to do a complete presentation of the New Testament teaching on baptism, and I refuse to get into a \u201cmy proof-text is better than yours\u201d argument, but the New Testament is full of references to baptism. They are neither incidental or unimportant. A case in point is that first Pentecost, the birth of the church in Jerusalem. When those guilty of Jesus\u2019 death asked Peter what they must do, he included baptism in his answer and then a whole lot of them were baptized. Furthermore, a careful reading of the Cornelius story in Acts 10 shows that the question there was not whether these Gentiles needed to be baptized, but whether they should be baptized, since they were not Jews. This was answered by God by the miraculous distribution of the Holy Spirit among Cornelius and his household. This was understood by Peter as God\u2019s answer, \u201cYes, they should be baptized.\u201d\nSo this leads to the second question, what is the relationship between baptism and salvation? There have been many wrong answers to this question. Baptism is not a work whereby we earn salvation, I am sure that is true. Baptism is not a transaction where we strike a deal with God and he saves us when we are dunked. Baptism is not magic water that invokes mysterious spiritual forces. I don\u2019t think baptism is simply an act of obedience, because that implies \u201cwork\u201d to me. Let me humbly say that I don\u2019t have a simple answer to this question, but I am unwilling to disconnect baptism from salvation in an absolute way as has been done by many evangelicals.\nPerhaps the sacramental view of baptism, if understood more anciently, may help us here. The potential Roman soldier was not considered to be fully inducted into the army until he took the oath of allegiance, the sacramentum. When we are baptized, we are signaling to all who will listen and pay attention: Christ is my Lord! I will serve him! He is my Savior! I am trusting him for the forgiveness of my sins! I will follow him wherever he leads. And when we partake in the Lord\u2019s Supper, we are renewing that oath. We are saying, Christ, you are still my Lord and I am unashamedly part of your army!\nI don\u2019t think this fully exhausts the meaning and significance of baptism, but maybe it is a starting point.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged baptism, baptism and salvation\t| 2 Comments\nThe word \u201csacrament\u201d comes from the Latin, sacramentum. This word had a long history before the New Testament was written and before any sort of \u201csacramental theology\u201d was developed. One of its uses, dating back to the Punic wars, was the military oath of allegiance. By the time of Augustus, this was sometimes used as an oath of allegiance to the emperor, the supreme commander or ultimate imperator of the Roman troops. This oath was sometimes taken in the presence of the emperor himself, and was an annual obligation.\nDuring this period, the word began to be used for a solemn oath of the highest order, even in non-military situations. It took on the connotations of being \u201csacred,\u201d something that was tied to inviolable personal honor. It also began to have the sense of being \u201csecret,\u201d a private oath that was nevertheless binding and obligatory. By the time of Jerome\u2019s Latin translation of Scripture (called the \u201cVulgate\u201d and from the 5th century), the translator was able to use sacramentum to translate the Greek word musterion [mystery] (see Ephesians 1:9), although Jerome did not do this consistently.\nDuring the medieval period, church theology recognized certain practices as \u201csacraments.\u201d There were two \u201cdominical\u201d sacraments [given by the Lord]: baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper, and other sacraments that were \u201cecclesial\u201d [given by the church]. These dominical sacraments began to be seen as having saving significance or power. Baptism was understood to be a \u201ccure\u201d for the illness of original sin, therefore to be administered to infants so that they would not be damned. The Lord\u2019s Supper was understood as necessary spiritual nourishment, sustaining and saving the soul on a weekly basis. One early Christian author called it the \u201cmedicine of immortality.\u201d To be barred from taking the Lord\u2019s Supper (or Communion) was to be ex-communicated, and thereby deprived of salvation. By controlling both baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper, the medieval priesthood wielded great control over European society, for it was understood that the church itself could determine who would be saved and who would be damned after death.\nIn the case of the Lord\u2019s Supper, this was further confused by an extremely literalistic interpretation of Jesus\u2019 words, \u201cThis is my body,\u201d and \u201cThis is my blood.\u201d A primary function of the church\u2019s priest was to reenact the sacrifice of Jesus on the altar (communion table) and through this ceremony, transform the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus (transubstantiation). In the superstitious milieu of medieval Christendom, this was seen as a kind of magic by the common people. It may even be that the magical term \u201chocus pocus\u201d is a parody on the Latin terms \u201cHoc est corpus meum,\u201d [This is my body], supposedly the words that transformed bread into the body of Christ. All of this shows how far the Lord\u2019s Supper had gotten from its origins in the Upper Room: now a celebration controlled by a priesthood, using words that were neither in the language of Jesus or the people, and understood as essential for maintaining one\u2019s salvation.\nThe church reformers of the sixteenth century rightly objected to these things. These guys (Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Luther, and the later reformer, John Calvin) were driven by many things, but my analysis is that there were two things that were paramount for them. First, they did attempt to return to Scripture as a guide for church practice and doctrine. In my opinion, this was often flawed by a proof-texting approach to theology and by a failure to distinguish adequately between the Old and New Testaments. Second, there is no question but that they were also driven by an abhorrence for and bias against the medieval practices of the Roman Catholic church. Zwingli and Luther were both dissenting Roman Catholic priests and Calvin had been on a priesthood track for his education at an early age (although his father switched him to law). They were insiders in this and knew the abuses intimately. So while they all wanted to retain some form of baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper in the church, they wanted to unchain them from the church\u2019s priesthood as a way of determining salvation.\nWere these reformer correct to condemn the misuse of the sacraments as tools of church control? Yes, absolutely. Were they correct to disconnect these sacraments from salvation in every way (although Luther did not quite do this)? Not so sure. More to come in the next blog.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged baptism, lord's supper, sacramental understanding\t| Leave a comment\nEarning Salvation\nThere have been some Bible students who have seen irreconcilable differences between the teachings of the Apostle Paul and those of the book of James on the importance of good works in regard to salvation. These seemingly irreconcilable differences led Martin Luther to \u201cdivorce\u201d James from the rest of the New Testament, assigning the little book to a type of appendix in some Luther Bible editions.\nThis reflects a difference of practice within the Christian world. Some believe that salvation is by faith alone, and that is the end of the story. We do nothing whatsoever to be saved, and works of any type are irrelevant. Others believe that salvation is primarily a matter of the accumulation of good works, that we earn our way into heaven. In this case, we can never be satisfied with our good works, we must always be looking for more.\nLet me say that I believe the New Testament teaches that salvation is a gift, it cannot be earned. Even more, this teaching is found in the Old Testament, too, because Paul uses Old Testament texts like Habakkuk 2:4 to make his point that \u201cThe just shall live by faith,\u201d and Genesis 15:6, \u201cAbraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.\u201d We cannot earn our salvation, and whenever our theology leads us to conclude that we do, we are wrong and need to fix something.\nI think, though, that Paul and James are talking about two different sets of \u201cgood works.\u201d Let me illustrate with this diagram:\nTo put it simply, Paul is concerned about the understanding of earning salvation through keeping the Jewish Law. In this he reflects the teachings of Jesus, who indicated with the rich young ruler that a keeper of the law will always have one more thing left to do. James is concerned with how we practice our faith. We might even say that James is concerned about the nature of faith itself, what the result of faith should be.\nOnce we have crossed the doorway of salvation (and we may disagree on how that works), what happens? After we walk through the door of faith and trust Jesus for our salvation, what do we do? James is encouraging his readers that this relationship with the Lord should show up in our lives. Good works are not the condition of salvation, they are the consequence. A life of faith should demonstrate itself as a life of doing good for others. If this does not happen, the personal faith of an individual is in question. There cannot be faith, true faith, genuine faith, saving faith, that does not lead to good works. This is the concern of James, and Paul would not have disagreed.\nAnd I agree with both of them. You cannot be saved by good works, but you are not saved without them.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged book of james, Faith vs Works\t| 10 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 20117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lakefrontflorida.com/florida-lake-boat-docks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:56Z", "digest": "sha1:MFJQFY226O2SYBWXQMASK2G5ZNKJCTDZ", "length": 2699, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lakefrontflorida.com", "title": "Florida Lake Boat Docks", "raw_content": "Florida Lake Boat Docks\nBecause Florida waterways are environmentally sensitive and are considered by the water authorities to be owned by the public, the building of a boat dock involves environmental as well as property rights issues. The St. Johns Water Management District issues regulations and applications for boat docks in Lake County. Applications are granted based on the environmental and public impact. Do not automatically assume you can build a dock on your lakefront property. If you wish to build a boat dock on property that does not currently have a dock, you must make sure your application will be approved before purchasing the property. Make no assumptions about your dock and insist that your Realtor creates a contingency in your sales contract making sure the building of your dock is a viable option.\nIn addition to the approval of the dock itself, there are regulations pertaining to the size of the dock you can build and the location. On canals and in some communities, there are restrictions against building a dock that will impede navigation or block the view from your neighbor\u2019s home. The following information is taken directly from a Lake County Department of Growth Management article entitled \"Everything you wanted to know about zoning... but were afraid to ask.\" Private boat docks and ramps are permitted as an accessory use within all residential zoning districts. Private boat docks and ramps must meet the front and side setback requirements of the residential zoning district within which that are located; and in the R-3 Medium Residential District, the side setback is 25 feet from the property line.\nA common private boat dock or ramp for the private use of two or more lots is encouraged and must meet the setback requirements of the zoning district in which it is located. However, the setbacks will be applied from the two outermost property lines of the lots upon which the dock or ramp is located, i.e. not from the internal property lines of the lots which are sharing the dock or ramp. Private boat docks and ramps are only permitted as an accessory use on a residential lot on which a main residential structure is located or on a lot owned by the property owner and adjacent and contiguous to the residential lot. A lot is considered adjacent and contiguous if a substantial part of the lot actually touches the first residential lot or is separated by a road right-of-way which physically divides both lots. Private boat docks and ramps are not permitted on lots that are not adjacent and contiguous to the residential lot on which the residential structure is located.\nIf you have questions about Florida lake boat docks, please contact us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://landscapeipm.tamu.edu/types-of-pest-control/chemical-control/organic/botanical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SJEWXTIT563HVVLAYVRUI6UYTAUFI2PX", "length": 21593, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "landscapeipm.tamu.edu", "title": "Botanical Insecticides \u00ab Landscape IPM", "raw_content": "Many plants and minerals have insecticidal properties; that is, they are toxic to insects. Botanical insecticides are naturally occurring chemicals (insect toxins) extracted or derived from plants or minerals. They are also called natural insecticides. Organic gardeners will choose these insecticides, in some cases, over synthetic organic materials.\nIn general, they act quickly, degrade rapidly and have, with a few exceptions, low mammalian toxicity. Products containing ingredients derived from plants (Table 1) are considered pesticides . However, products containing these active ingredients must be registered for use by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and used in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). In order to market these products in Texas, they must also be registered by the Texas Department of Agriculture.\nPyrethrins 1,200-1,500 >1,800 Caution\nRotenone 60-1,500* 940-3,000 Caution\nSabadilla 4,000 \u2014 Caution\nRyania 750-1,200 4,000 Caution\nNicotine 50-60 50 Danger\nd-Limonene >5,000 \u2014 Caution\nLinalool 2,440-3,180 3,578-8,374 Caution\nNeem 13,000 \u2014 Caution\n* Toxicity varies greatly depending on type of solvent used as carrier\nPyrethrum and Pyrethrins\ncinerin I\ncinerin II\ncinerin III\njamolin I\njamolin II\npyerethrin I\npyrethrin II C20H28O3\nSource. Pyrethrum is the powdered, dried flower head of the pyrethrum is daisy, Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium. Most of the world\u2019s pyrethrum crop is grown in Kenya. The term \u201cpyrethrum\u201d is the name for the crude flower dust itself, and the term \u201cpyrethrins\u201d refers to the six related insecticidal compounds that occur naturally in the crude material, the pyrethrum flowers. They are extracted from crude pyrethrum dust as a resin that is used in the manufacture of various insecticidal products.\nMode of action. Pyrethrins exert their toxic effects by disrupting the sodium and potassium ion exchange process in insect nerve fibers and interrupting the normal transmission of nerve impulses. Pyrethrins insecticides are extremely fast acting and cause an immediate \u201cknockdown\u201d paralysis in insects. Despite their rapid toxic action, however, many insects are able to metabolize (break down) pyrethrins quickly. After a brief period of paralysis, these insects may recover rather than die. To prevent insects from metabolizing pyrethrins and recovering from poisoning, most products containing pyrethrins also contain the synergist, piperonyl butoxide (PBO). Without PBO the effectiveness of pyrethrins is greatly reduced.\nMammalian toxicity. Pyrethrins are low in mammalian toxicity (see Table), and few cases of human poisonings have ever been reported. Cats, however, are highly susceptible to poisoning by pyrethrins, and care must be taken to follow label directions closely when using products containing pyrethrins to treat cats for fleas.\nWhen ingested, pyrethrins are not readily absorbed from the digestive tract, and they are rapidly hydrolyzed under the acid conditions of the gut and the alkaline conditions of the liver. Pyrethrins are more toxic to mammals by inhalation than by ingestion because inhalation provides a more direct route to the bloodstream. Exposure to high doses may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and other nervous disturbances. Repeated contact with crude pyrethrum dusts may cause skin irritation or allergic reactions. The allergens that cause these reactions are not present in products containing refined pyrethrins. Tests indicate that chronic exposure to pyrethrins does not cause genetic mutations or birth defects.\nThere is no single antidote for acute pyrethrin poisoning. Treatment of poisoning is symptomatic, i.e., the various symptoms of poisoning are treated individually as they occur because there is no way to counteract the source of the poisoning directly.\nStructure.C23H228O6\nSource. Rotenone is insecticidal compound that occurs in the roots of Lonchocarpus species in South America, Derris species in Asia, and several other related tropical legumes. Commercial rotenone was at one time produced from Malaysian Derris. Currently the main commercial source of rotenone is Peruvian Lonchocarpus, which often is referred to as cube root.\nRotenone is extracted from cube roots in acetone or ether. Extraction produces a 2-40% rotenone resin which contains several related but less insecticidal compounds known as rotenoids. The resin is used to make liquid concentrates or to impregnate inert dusts or other carriers. Most rotenone products are made from the complex resin rather than from purified rotenone itself. Alternatively, cube roots may be dried, powdered and mixed directly with an inert carrier to form an insecticidal dust.\nMode of action. Rotenone is a powerful inhibitor of cellular respiration, the process that converts nutrient compounds into energy at the cellular level. In insects rotenone exerts its toxic effects primarily on nerve and muscle cells, causing rapid cessation of feeding. Death occurs several hours to a few days after exposure. Rotenone is extremely toxic to fish, and is often used as a fish poison (piscicide) in water management programs. It is effectively synergized by PBO or MGK 264.\nMammalian toxicity. Although rotenone is a potent cell toxin, mammals detoxify ingested rotenone efficiently via liver enzymes. As with pyrethrins, rotenone is more toxic by inhalation than by ingestion. Exposure to high doses may cause nausea, vomiting, muscle tremor, and rapid breathing. Very high doses may cause convulsions followed by death from respiratory paralysis and circulatory collapse. Direct contact with rotenone may be irritating to skin and mucous membranes. Treatment of poisoning is symptomatic. Chronic exposure to rotenone may lead to liver and kidney damage. Although some rodent testing has shown that chronic dietary exposure to rotenone may induce tumor formation,the most recent US EPA registration standard considers rotenone to be noncarcinogenic.\nRotenone is one of the more acutely toxic botanicals. As a matter of comparison, pure, unformulated rotenone is more toxic than pure carbaryl (Sevin\u00ae) or malathion, two commonly used synthetic insecticides. In the form of a 1% dust, rotenone poses roughly the same acute hazard as the commonly available 5% Sevin dust. Commercial rotenone products have presented little hazard to man over many decades. Neither fatalities nor systemic poisonings in humans have been reported in relation to ordinary use.\nSabadilla (veratrine alkaloids)\nCevadine: C32H49NO9\nVeratridine: C36H51NO11\nSource. Sabadilla is derived from the ripe seeds os Schoenocaulon officinale, a tropical lily plant which grows in Central and South America. Sabadilla is also sometimes known as cevadilla or caustic barley.\nWhen sabadilla seeds are aged, heated, or treated with alkali, several insecticidal alkaloids are formed or activated. Alkaloids are physiologically active compounds that occur naturally in many plants. In chemical terms they are a heterogeneous class of cyclic compounds that contain nitrogen in their ring structures. Caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, quinine, and strychnine are some of the more familiar alkaloids. The alkaloids in sabadilla are known collectively as veratrine or as the veratrine alkaloids. They constitute 3-6% of aged, ripe sabadilla seeds. Of these alkaloids, cevadine and veratridine are the most active insecticidally.\nEuropean white hellebore (Veratrum album) also contains veratridine in its roots. Hellebore was once commonly used in Europe and the U.S. for insect control, but is now unavailable commercially and is not registered by the US EPA.\nMode of action. In insects, sabadilla\u2019s toxic alkaloids affect nerve cell membrane action, causing loss of nerve cell membrane action, causing loss of nerve function, paralysis and death. Sabadilla kills insects of some species immediately, while others may survive in a state of paralysis for several days before dying. Sabadilla is effectively synergized by PBO or MGK 264.\nMammalian toxicity. Sabadilla, in the form or dusts made from ground seeds, is the least toxic of the registered botanicals. Purified veratrine alkaloids are quite toxic, however, and are considered on a par with the most toxic synthetic insecticides. Sabadilla can be severely irritating to skin and mucous membranes, and has a powerful sneeze-inducing effect when inhaled. Ingestion of small amounts may cause headaches, severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps and reduced circulation. Ingestion of very high doses may cause convulsions, cardiac paralysis, and respiratory failure. Sabadilla alkaloids can be absorbed through the skin or mucous membranes. Systemic poisoning by sabadilla preparations used as insecticides has been very rare or nonexistant.\nStructure. None\nSource. Ryania comes from the woody stems of Ryania speciosa, a South American shrub. Powdered Ryania stem wood is combined with carriers to produce a dust or is extracted to produce a liquid concentrate. The most active compound in ryania is the alkaloid ryanodine, which constitutes approximately 0.2% of the dry weight of stem wood.\nMode of action. Ryania is a slow-acting stomach poison. Although it does not produce rapid knockdown paralysis, it does cause insects to stop feeding soon after ingesting it. Little has been published concerning its exact mode of action in insect systems. Ryania is effectively synergized by PBO and is reported to be most effective in hot weather.\nMammalian toxicity. Ryania is moderately toxic to mammals by ingestion and only slightly toxic by dermal exposure. Ingestion of large doses causes weakness, deep and slow respiration, vomiting, diarrhea, and tremors, sometimes followed by convulsions, coma, and death. Purified ryanodine is approximately 700 times more toxic than the crude ground or powdered wood and causes poisoning symptoms similar to those of synthetic organophosphate insecticides. (Depending on exposure, organophosphate poisoning symptoms may include sweating, headache, twitching, muscle cramps, mental confusion, tightness in chest, blurred vision, vomiting, evacuation of bowels and bladder, convulsions, respiratory collapse, coma, and death.)\nStructure. C10H16N2O4S\nSource. Nicotine is a simple alkaloid derived from tobacco, Nictiana tabacum, and other Nicotiana species. Nicotine contitutes 2-8% of dried tobacco leaves. Insecticidal formulations generally contain nicotine in the form of 40% nicotine sulfate and are currently imported in small quantities from India.\nMode of action. In both insects and mammals, nicotine is an extremely fast-acting nerve toxin. It competes with acetylcholine, the major neurotransmitter, by bonding to acetylcholine receptors at nerve synapses and causing uncontrolled nerve firing. This disruption of normal nerve impulse activity results in rapid failure of those body systems that depend on nervous input for proper functioning. In insects, the action of nicotine is fairly selective, and only certain types of insects are affected.\nMammalian toxicity. Despite the fact that smokers regularly inhale small quantities of nicotine in tobacco smoke, nicotine in pure form is extremely toxic to mammals and is considered a Class I (most dangerous) poison. Nicotine is particularly hazardous because it penetrates skin, eyes, and mucous membranes readily both inhalation and dermal contact may result in death. Ingestion is slightly less hazardous due to the effective detoxifying action of the liver.\nSymptoms of nicotine poisoning are extreme nausea, vomiting, excess salivation, evacuation of bowels and bladder, mental confusion, tremors, convulsions, and finally death by respiratory failure and circulatory collapse. Poisoning occurs very rapidly and is often fatal. Treatment for nicotine poisoning is symptomatic, and only immediate treatment, including prolonged artificial respiration, may save a victim of nicotine poisoning. Nicotine has been responsible for numerous serious poisonings and accidental deaths because of its rapid penetration of skin and mucous membranes and because of the concentrated form in which it is used.\nStructure. Azadiractin\nSource. Neem products are derived from the neem tree, Azadirachta indica, that grows in arid tropical and subtropical regions on several continents. The principle active compound in neem is azadirachtin, a bitter, complex chemical that is both a feeding deterrent and a growth regulator. Meliantriol, salannin, and many other minor components of neem ar also active in various ways. Neem products include teas and dusts made from leaves and bark, extracts from whole fruits, seeds, or seed kernels, and an oil expressed from the seed kernel.\nThe product known as \u201cneem oil\u201d is more like a vegetable or horticultural oil and acts to suffocate insects. Neem and neem oil are often confused.\nMode of action. Neem is a complex mixture of biologically active materials, and it is difficult to pinpoint the exact modes of action of various extracts or preparations. In insects, neem is most active as a feeding deterrent, but in various forms it also serves as a repellent, growth regulator, oviposition (egg deposition) suppressant, sterilant, or toxin.\nAs a repellent, neem prevents insects from initiating feeding. As a feeding deterrent, it causes insects to stop feeding. As a feeding, either immediately after the first \u201ctaste\u201d (due to the presence of deterrent taste factors), or at some point soon after ingesting the food (due to secondary hormonal or physiological effects of the deterrent substance). As a growth regulator, neem is thought to disrupt normal development interfering with chitin synthesis. Susceptibility to the various effects of neem differs by species.\nCitrus Oil Extracts: Limonene and Linalool\nSource. Crude citrus oils and the refined compounds d-limonene (hereafter referred to simply as limonene) and linalool are extracted from orange and other citrus fruit peels. Limonene, a terpene, constitutes about 90% of crude citrus oil, and is purified from the oil by steam distillation. Linalool, a terpene alcohol, is found in small quantities in citrus peel and in over 200 other herbs, flowers, fruits, and woods.\nTerpenes and terpene alcohols are among the major components of many plant volatiles or essential oils. Other components of essential oils are ketones, aldehydes, esters, and various alcohols. Essential oils are the volatile compounds responsible for most of the tastes and scents of plants. Many of the essential oils also have some physiological activity.\nMode of action. The modes of action of limonene and linalool in insects are not fully understood. Limonene is thought to cause an increase in the spontaneous activity of sensory nerves. This heightened activity sends spurious information to motor nerves and results in twitching, lack of coordination, and convulsions. The central nervous system may also be affected, resulting in additional stimulation of motor nerves. Massive over stimulation of motor nerves leads to rapid knockdown paralysis. Adult fleas and other insects may recover from knockdown, however, unless limonene is synergized by PBO. Linalool is also synergized by PBO. Little has been published regarding the mode of action of linalool in insects.\nMammalian toxicity. Both limonene and linalool were granted GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) status by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1965, and are used extensively as flavorings and scents in foods, cosmetics, soaps, and perfumes. Both compounds are considered safe when used for these purposes because they have low oral and dermal toxicities. At higher concentrations, however, limonene and linalool are physiologically active and may be irritating or toxic to mammals.\nWhen applied topically, limonene is irritating to skin, eyes, and mucous membranes. Both limonene and linalool may be allergenic. Limonene acts as a topical vasodilator and a skin sensitizer; it was also shown to promote tumor formation in mouse skin that had been previously sensitized to tumor initiation. Linalool is more active as a systemic toxin than as a skin irritant.\nBoth compounds affect the central nervous system, and moderate to high doses applied topically to cats and other laboratory animals cause tremors, excess salivation, lack of coordination, and muscle weakness. Even at the higher doses, however, these symptoms are temporary (lasting several hours to several days), and animals recover fully. Some cats may experience minor tremors and excess salivation for up to one hour after applications of limonene or linalool at recommended rates.\nCrude citrus peel oils and products prepared with the crude oils may be more toxic to animals than products containing purified limonene or linalool. Adequate research on the toxicity of crude citrus oils has not been conducted, and they are not recommended for use on animals.\nOther Essential Plant Oils: Herbal Repellents and Insecticides\nEssential oils are volatile, odorous oils derived from plant sources. Although they are used mainly as flavorings and fragrances in foods, cosmetics, soaps, and perfumes, some of them also have insect repellent or insecticidal properties. Many essential oils have GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) status; however, when applied topically at high concentrations they tend to be irritating to skin and mucous membranes. They are sometimes used as topical counterirritant to relieve or mask pain. Many of the essential oils that have low dermal toxicity may be toxic by ingestion.\nThe most common essential oils used as repellents are the oils of cedar, lavender, eucalytus, pennyroyal, and citronella. They are used mostly on pets and humans to repel fleas and mosquitoes. With the exception of pennyroyal, these essential oils are thought to pose little risk to people or pets, though they should not be used above recommended rates. Some herbal pest products that contain essential oils recommend use daily or \u201cas often as needed.\u201d These products should be used moderately and with careful observation of the pet to spot early signs of skin irritation or possible toxic effects.\nOil of pennyroyal contains pulegone, a potent toxin that can cause death in humans at doses as low as one tablespoon when ingested. At lower internal doses it may cause abortion, liver damage, and renal failure. Although the dermal toxicity of pennyroyal is fairly low, some cats are susceptible to poisoning by topical application of oil of pennyroyal, possibly because they ingest it during grooming.\nCitronella is sold mainly in the form of candles to be burned outdoors to repel mosquitoes from back yards or other small areas. It is also contained in some \u201cnatural\u201d mosquito repellent lotions. Before the development of synthetic repellents, citronella was the most effective mosquito repellent available. Despite its wide usage, there is little scientific information available regarding its efficacy or mammalian toxicity.\nOrganic Gardening \u2013 Natural Insecticides \u2013 New Mexico State University Extension\nBotanical Insecticides \u2013 NC State University Extension\nBotanical Insecticides in the Home Garden \u2013 Iowa State University Extension\nExtracted and modified from T. Henn and R. Weinzieri, 1989; Larson, L.L., et al., 1985; and Morgan, D.P., 1989\nGates, J. P. 1989 (mimeo). \u201cOrganic gardening\u201d, Agri-Topics, National Agricultural Library, USDA:\nHenn, T. and R. Weinzieri. 1989. Botanical insecticides and insecticidal soaps. Circular 1296. Cooperative Extension Service. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 18 pp.\nHenn, T. and R. Weinzieri. 1990. Beneficial insects and mites. Circular 1298. Cooperative Extension Service. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 24 pp.\nLarson, L. L., E. E. Kenaga and R.W. Morgan. 1985. Commercial and experimental organic insecticides. Entomological Society of America. 105 pp.\nMorgan, D. P. 1989. Recognition and management of pesticide poisonings. EPA-540/9-88-001. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 205 pp.\nWhitcomb, C. E. 1983. Know It and Grow It, Lacebark Publications, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 739 pp.\nMother Earth News (eds.). 1989. The Healthy Garden Handbook. Simon & Shuster Inc., New York. 192 pp.\nGates, J. P. (1989) lists a number of additional references on organic gardening. The following are extracted from this listing and appear to specifically address pest management:\nEvans, B. R., J.D. Gay and F. Bullock. 1989. Organic gardening and pest control. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Bull. 1007. 20 pp.\nOverdahl, C. J., O. C. Turnquist, G. R. Miller, F. L. Pfleger, M. E. Ascerno and V. S. Packard. 1977. Organic gardening: an integrated approach. Bull. Agric. Ext. Serv. Minn. #377, 18 pp.\nStranberg, M. 1976. Food growing without poisons. Turnstone Press, Ltd., 96 pp.\nTyler, H. A. 1970. Organic gardening without poisons. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 111 pp.\nYepsen, R. B. 1984. The encyclopedia of natural insect & disease control: the most comprehensive guide to protecting plants\u2013vegetables, fruit, flowers, trees, and lawns\u2013without toxic chemicals. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 490 pp.\nTexas AgriLife Extension Service has produced several publications addressing organic production:\nSauls, J. W., M. Baker, S. Helmers, J. Lipe, C. Lyons, G. McEachern, L. Shreve, and L. Stein. 1991. Producing Texas fruits and nuts organically. B-5024. Texas Agric. Ext. Serv., College Station, TX 12 pp.\nTurney, H. A. and G. McIlveen. 1983. Insect control guide for organic gardeners. B-1252. Texas Agric. Ext. Serv., College Station, TX 12 pp.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 24831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://landscapelightingoakville.com/illuminate-architectural-details-landscape-lighting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZWDURJ7TMILEPZATR2FBL7ZZVMSPAOG", "length": 2780, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "landscapelightingoakville.com", "title": "Illuminate Architectural Details with Landscape Lighting - Night Time Decor", "raw_content": "If you love your home, you don\u2019t just want to show it off during the day, you also want to show it off at night! Landscape Lighting does just that! Not only is landscape lighting crucial for keeping your property safe from both midnight stumbles and property crime, but it also dramatically increases your property value.\nLandscape lighting is a beautiful way to illuminate your favourite architectural details. Whether you built your home from scratch or you were lucky enough to find the home of your dreams, the experienced light technicians at Nite Time Decor Burlington can\u2019t wait to help you show off your home.\nUplighting Architectural Details\nOne of the most dramatic ways to emphasise the architecture of your home is uplighting. Most of the time, we expect light to shine down. By inverting this expectation you end up with a dynamic, visually appealing look that stands out. We can suggest a variety of different light styles and intensities designed to achieve different effects. Depending on the type of architecture that you\u2019re looking to illuminate a different style of light is required. For example, brick, wood, and glass all require a different lighting technique. Furthermore, the location of the light itself is important in achieving a specific goal. Uplighting is best when used in an area off the beaten path \u2013 so to speak. While it\u2019s visually appealing, uplighting doesn\u2019t provide the ideal light for seeing where your feet are.\nThere are many different kinds of lights that can be used to enhance the beauty of your home. Washes for example, provide a wide beam of light aimed from a few feet away onto an exterior wall of your home, creating a wash of light. Not only does it highlight wall texture, it also showcases nearby plants and sculptures. Depending on the number of light washes you use, and their intensity you can illuminate your home to different effects. Light washes are also a super way to customize your home on a seasonal basis. While you can go the festive way at Halloween and Christmas, you can also use lights of different intensities in the summer and winter to respond to the longer and shorter days.\nArchitectural Task Lighting: Doorway Lighting\nYour front door is one of the most important areas to emphasise with landscape lighting. By using wall sconces, cove lighting, portable lamps, and even outdoor chandeliers you can achieve a unique, stylish look. While most properties will already have a fixture or two in the entranceway, personalizing them is a great way to make your house feel like your home. Doorway lighting is also a great opportunity to try out different styles. Experiment with vintage, modern, or contemporary lighting fixtures to find a style that you identify with.\nBurlington\u2019s Landscape Lighting Experts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://langstrup.com/2018/06/22/fuelled-by-anger/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LQFBTCLZJLWFTIRRUIDFGMEYWJKVB3F7", "length": 4055, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "langstrup.com", "title": "Fuelled by anger | Steen Langstrup", "raw_content": "\u2190 Why didn\u2019t I get a rat like Stephen King did?\nWhy the title FINALE? \u2192\nFuelled by anger\nI am not a fan of the torture porn horror subgenre. Which of course makes a bit odd that I would write a book like \u2018Finale\u2018. I mean, honestly, I can\u2019t stomach the sight of blood. I fainted once at the vet. The dog had a tiny scratch and down I went.\nBut I was gettig tired. I was feeling misunderstood. I had for years, and I had this anger boiling inside me. A rage against a litterary snobbish culture that had me caged not as a low cultural horror writer and would read everything I wrote, no matter the subject or genre (and I did all sorts of things) as some sort of gory pulp.\nAfter all, my debut \u2018Kat\u2019 was a horror novella, and nobody did horror in Denmark at the time because it was considered too controversial or at least too low class. They really had no idea what the genre was all about, and I felt I was deliberately misunderstood. My books, even the bloodiest ones, wasn\u2019t really, I felt, that revolting, not compared the majority of the genre out there.\nAt the time, around 2010, I had just finished my longest story, the \u2018Plantagen\u2019 trilogy. Normally, I prefer shorter books, both as a reader and as a writer. And I had spend years on the trilogy and longed to return to my favorite short style, Ira Levin\u2019ish I hope. The last few years had also been particulary hard for me as libraries was being closed around the country and book sales dropped and I wasn\u2019t making enough money to feed my family. It looked like the end of my writing career, I was ready to quit, I\u2019ve had it. I was in my early 40s and I had no idea what else to do. Telling stories had been my whole life until then.\nHowever, it you are a writer, write about it. Let those feelings fuel your art. If rock musicians can get their anger out through their art, so could I, I figured.\nI had had the idea to \u2018Finale\u2019 for some years, thinking that this was a book I would never write. It was too much, too evil, too mean, too gory, too painful. No way. But ideas have their own life and all the pieces had come together. And I figured, well if this will be my last book, and I honestly thought it would be, then let it be an enormous fuck you to everybody. It would not only be short, it would be ultra short, and it would not only be mean, it would be the meanest, goriest and in your face book ever written in Danish, I told myself.\nIf you think my books are too gory, then watch this, motherfucker.\nLooking back, I can\u2019t help but feel a little embarrased. I was being a bit childish. Anger often does that to you, I think. However, I meant it. And I wrote the book in some sort of rage filled trance and I got it out of my system. At the time, it pained me that I felt I wasn\u2019t really able to go all the way in. If you read the book, keeping your own imagination at bay, I do tend to skip out of the worst gore. Like when Agnes\u2019s boyfriend is killed. She can\u2019t really see what\u2019s going on. The clown blocks her view. That said, having seen the reactions to the book over the years, I think, I got the gory message through as readers tend to think, they got all that detail, I couldn\u2019t make myself write. Strange how that works.\nI did stop writing after that. And for years it seemed that \u2018Finale\u2019 would be the last work I did on my own, just writing a book for the sake of telling that story. I did write other stuff, things I was hired to do, or books as a result of a cooperation with The Danish Open-air Museum (a collection of true ghost stories from the museum) or a book for the Danish eductation in the Icelandic schools.\n\u2018Finale\u2018 was published in a very limited first edition under the Danish title \u2018Alt det hun ville \u00f8nske hun ikke forstod\u2019 (Actually, the last sentence of the book) as I didn\u2019t think it would ever gain that big an audience. The year after, it was awarded \u2018Best Danish Horror Book of the Year\u2019, and a few years later, they began filming the book.\nI would never have guessed.\nThis entry was posted in Finale and tagged Finale, Torture. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://latinboxsports.com/2017/08/05/vences-destroys-cruz-in-three/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EAXL644NFV4BZG2UJIRGVNSHL32NC3SQ", "length": 126, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "latinboxsports.com", "title": "Vences Destroys Cruz In Three \u2013 LATINBOXSPORTS.COM", "raw_content": "Los Angeles, CA. \u2013 Super Featherweight Andy Vences (19-0, 11 KO\u2019s) finishes off Eliseo Cruz at 3:21 in round 3 by TKO victory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 235.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lauralollar.com/why-i-havent-written-in-a-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2DI3XNNUDZ6QLA6MHCDFCCJEBSIL5AYN", "length": 2250, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "lauralollar.com", "title": "Why I Haven't Written in Over a Year | Laura Lollar", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been over a year since I wrote my last business blog article on my old website. But I don\u2019t feel one little bit guilty about it. During that time, I worked a lot, met the love of my life and got married. (Yep, it\u2019s never too late, even at this stage of the game!)\nMeet Doug, the love of my life! Don\u2019t we look happy? (We are!)\nSo, I let the blogging go for a year. It\u2019s not that you folks weren\u2019t important. Far from it. Most of you are friends, clients and colleagues, so you matter to me. But during that year, I needed to take a break and re-evaluate how I was spending my time. (Plus, I was a wee bit distracted!)\nHere\u2019s what I had to ask myself:\nIs there something you\u2019re doing because you\u2019ve done it that way for a very long time?\nIs there something you\u2019re doing only because someone else expects it of you?\nIs there something you\u2019re doing because it\u2019s the \u201cnorm\u201d in your industry?\nIt\u2019s healthy to question, to re-evaluate rather than continue on auto-pilot.\nAnd it\u2019s not about needing more time to take on one more thing. Rather, shouldn\u2019t we eliminate something (or someone) that\u2019s sucking up our time and energy and generating very little value?\nWhat\u2019s the lost \u201copportunity cost\u201d if you continue to fill your life with busy-ness?\nWill you be too tired or too distracted to notice when that opportunity comes along?\nBe discriminating. Put the most important things first. We only have so much time left on this earth. Let\u2019s not waste it!\u201d\nP.S. It\u2019s great to be back! My name is now Laura Lollar.\nWelcome back and congrats!\nLaura Benjamin Lollar says\nCatherine Wicklund says\nCongratulations Laura! So very happy for you\u2026. let me know if you\u2019d like to catch up in person sometime. Wishing you all the best!\nThank you so much Catherine! Would love to! Please send me an email with some dates and we\u2019ll make it happen!\nPam Sherfesee says\nCongratulations, Laura. I am so happy for you.\nTina Wisler says\nLaura, I am so happy for you and Doug! Congratulations!!\nHi Tina! Thank you so much! We are very happy and thankful to have found each other at this stage of the game! Hope you are doing well.\nYou look very happy Laura. My very best wishes to you for your future. Continued prayers too.\nThank you Dave. We are. Appreciate your kind words!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.onu.edu/news/onu_law_announces_25_tuition_reduction_2014_15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:34Z", "digest": "sha1:S23GHWK357JD7DDGD5XJCL2A5P6QQY3Y", "length": 2346, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "law.onu.edu", "title": "ONU Law Announces 25% Tuition Reduction for 2014-15 | Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law", "raw_content": "ONU Law Announces 25% Tuition Reduction for 2014-15\nInvesting in your success today, for a stronger financial tomorrow.\nOhio Northern University has announced a reduction of tuition for the Pettit College of Law starting with the 2014-15 academic school year. Called The ONU Law Promise, this new initiative is intended to make an ONU legal education more affordable, to reduce student loan debt, to sustain academic quality, and to prepare students for long-term success in their legal careers.\nBeginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the College of Law will reduce its tuition rate levels by 20-25 percent off its 2013-14 tuition rates (reduced by $8,926 to a rate of $24,800). While the tuition reduction helps make a legal education more affordable, everything else about ONU\u2019s innovative law program will remain the same.\nRick Bales said, \u201cThe ONU Law Promise is about affordable excellence. We believe every student should have the opportunity to receive a private legal education at a price that allows for long-term success and minimal debt.\u201d\nCurrent law students also will see the same reduction in tuition to $24,800. Many students \u2013 those with no scholarship or with a scholarship less than $8,926 per year \u2013 will see a net tuition decrease of up to $8,926 per year. Other students \u2013 those with a scholarship of $8,926 or more per year who maintain their academic requirement for their scholarship \u2013 will pay no more net tuition in 2014-15 than they did in 2013-14, because the tuition reduction will be offset by a commensurate reduction in their scholarship awards. All students will benefit, however, from the University\u2019s pledge to not increase nominal tuition for the 2014-15 academic year.\nONU Law students also will continue to benefit from accessible faculty who inspire and support them, small class sizes that offer individual instruction, a diverse international network of students and alumni, and an innovative curriculum that melds theory with real-world experience to graduate practice-ready lawyers.\nThe College of Law at Ohio Northern University has consistently strong first-time bar passage rates (with 100 percent passing in February 2013), a second-in-Ohio rating for bar-required job placement, and a 45-year track record of providing high-impact, guaranteed clinical placements.\nLEARN MORE: LAW.ONU.EDU/PROMISE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawinquebec.com/disruptive-technologies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EYCPBNVS6JF467TT65A6E4GMLIOZEA34", "length": 3785, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lawinquebec.com", "title": "Quebec law society leaves lawyers on their own to face disruptive technologies", "raw_content": "Barreau du Quebec Legal business Quebec April 13, 2017\nThe combination of market forces, increasingly stringent consumer demands and rapid technological developments means that it has never been more important for lawyers to invest and incorporate technology into their practice, asserts a report by the Quebec legal society that calls on members to shift away from hourly billing to alternative pricing arrangements.\nJust as a wave of peer-to-peer, access-driven businesses has become a disruptive force in a slew of industries, from travel to car rentals to consumer goods to employment to finance, lawyers will have to \u201cassimilate and be part of the movement instead of fighting\u201d the changes that LegalTech will wreak, adds the report.\n\u201cIt is crucial to get over the reactive approach, as it \u2018the law protects exclusive acts\u2019 performed by lawyers,\u201d says the report, which was published a year ago. \u201cBelieving that disruptive technologies will not affect lawyers will only mean a rude awakening in the immediate future. Others, often not members of the legal profession, are already positioning themselves in the legal community.\u201d\nThe report suggests that lawyers monitor developments, develop a \u201cconsistent\u201d strategy, and spend \u201csome time\u201d on a weekly basis and keep notes on innovations that can affect legal practice.\nBut the report is silent over the role the Barreau du Qu\u00e9bec should play to assist lawyers to deal with disruptive technologies.\nSo too are candidates hoping to become the president of the legal society. (The election will be held next month, in May). The current head of the Barreau, Claudia Pr\u00e9mont, states in her electoral program that she intends to collaborate with the Young Bars, the Bar\u2019s School and universities to develop a new program to help upcoming lawyers. She also promises to collaborate with Cyberjustice Laboratory and other partners to examine the impact of artificial intelligence and new technologies on the profession. But other than encourage practicing lawyers to stop being fearful of new technologies, Pr\u00e9mont does not provide any clues as to what she will do, if she will do anything, to help them out to deal with LegalTech. Lu Chan Khuong, her principal adversary, has yet to publish an electoral program.\nIn the meantime, other legal societies in the world are forging ahead and providing assistance to members. The Law Society of Singapore, which has nearly 4,900 members, is a case in point. It recently announced that it was going to assist law firms to adopt a baseline suite of legal technology solutions. Under the $300,000 SmartLaw Assist scheme (the equivalent of the salary of the head of Barreau), Singapore law practices can get funding support of up to 70 per cent of the first-year cost of adopting technology products for practice management, online research and online marketing. Five technology products \u2014 including the likes of Corematter, CLIO and INTELLLEX \u2014 have been identified as basic technologies that can help law practices perform their essential day-to-day tasks more efficiently. Law firms can apply for funding support to use up to three of these solutions.\nIn return law firms who apply for the funding will be required to submit a feedback form and a final report at the six-month milestone and at the end of the one-year support period.\n\u201cThis is but the first of many steps in the transformation of the legal sector, to stay ahead of the impending disruption that technology brings,\u201d said Justice Lee Seiu Kin. \u201cTechnology holds the promise of great productivity and effectiveness. We must seize the opportunity to leverage this to higher quality legal services and cost savings for law firms and ultimately, for the clients and the society at large.\u201d\nPerhaps the Barreau du Qu\u00e9bec should take note.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 10476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leaguecity.com/2046/Long-Range-Planning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:M37S5ALYSYHJ4UVPZXSRKFGZZY5OW5YY", "length": 551, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "leaguecity.com", "title": "Long Range Planning | The League City Official Website!", "raw_content": "The 2035 Comprehensive Plan was a adopted in 2011 and serves as a \"blueprint\" for how and where the community should grow and considers issues such as land use, neighborhoods, mobility, community facilities, infrastructure and economic development. For more information or to download a copy, visit the Comprehensive Plan page.\n2017 Future Land Use Assumptions\nIn July of 2017, an update to the Future Land Use Plan was adopted to project areas in League City where future development is likely to occur. View a copy of the Future Land Use Plan (PDF).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://legalvision.com.au/can-limit-liability-associated-software/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:28Z", "digest": "sha1:536YNDL2DGCR5RNPX44EGLWSOBJDYUCN", "length": 4031, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "legalvision.com.au", "title": "How can I limit the liability associated with my software?", "raw_content": "How can I limit the liability associated with my software?\nAugust 22, 2014 (Updated on March 14, 2017)\nWhen developing software that you may sell or licence to another party under a software licence agreement, it is important to clearly set out what you are responsible for and what you are not. The key is to prepare a strong software development agreement, in which you can effectively manage your clients\u2019 expectations in relation to the functionality of the software. Here, you would set out exactly what your software can and cannot do. You can also set out what you will be responsible for at different stages of the development process and what you will not be responsible for. By setting out these provisions, you can go a long way in limiting the liability associated with the development of your software for a client. So, if you would like to prepare a software development agreement, it is advisable to get in touch with an IT solicitor who has a thorough understanding of how software is developed and the legalities of this arrangement.\nWhat provisions are in a software development agreement?\nTo give you an idea of what a software development agreement is and the provisions it covers, we have put together an outline of the key clauses that we believe may be useful to incorporate into the agreement. These clauses include:\nWho the parties to the agreement are;\nThe nature of the software, including a description of its features and the purpose of its development;\nYour duties as a developer, including the specifications of the software that you will be developing;\nThe client\u2019s duties eg. to provide you with timely information or with relevant feedback;\nThe delivery time of the software and the details of the various development stages/milestones;\nHow much you will be paid for your services and through what payment mechanisms eg. will you invoice the client every fortnight for services rendered?\nWho owns the intellectual property in the software;\nWhether confidential information will pass between the parties, and if so, on what terms this information is to be kept confidential and when it may be disclosed;\nWhat you agree to be responsible for and what you will not be held liable for;\nA detailed outline of the warranties that you provide in relation to the software and your compliance with the Australian Consumer Law, if applicable;\nHow disputes between the parties can be resolved; And\nWhen and how the agreement will come to an end.\nAs a provider of services, you may be required to make certain consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law. These guarantees relate to, for example, providing a service that is satisfactory in terms of what you have indicated to the client will be included in the service. For a detailed explanation of your obligations under the Australian Consumer Law, please visit the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission website at https://www.accc.gov.au/ However, in your agreement you may indicate that apart from the guarantees that you are required to make under law, you are not responsible for other factors. For example, if you are developing an app that is designed to track weather forecasts, your client cannot hold you responsible if the app does not provide information regarding clothing sales or traffic jams. Therefore, it is a good idea to list exactly what the client may hold you responsible for and what they cannot pursue you for. A useful provision to include might state that you cannot, for example, be liable for any delays in the development of the app due to the client providing you with incorrect information.\nIn preparing a strong software development agreement, the rights and responsibilities of both parties should be clearly set out. This means that you will reduce the risk of being held liable for acts or omissions that you have clearly indicated you are not responsible for. For further information on how to limit your liability, we suggest that you speak with an IT solicitor.\nHow Do You Enforce Your Terms of Use?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 9221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=11362.768.&lawCode=HSC", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PUP3YUTNFWABLNXTF73ZCQHLXT4CEUN7", "length": 2085, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Law section", "raw_content": "ARTICLE 2.5. Medical Marijuana Program [11362.7 - 11362.85]\n(a) This section shall apply to individuals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 11362.765.\n(b) No medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider who possesses, cultivates, or distributes medicinal cannabis pursuant to this article shall be located within a 600-foot radius of a school.\n(c) The distance specified in this section shall be the horizontal distance measured in a straight line from the property line of the school to the closest property line of the lot on which the medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider is to be located without regard to intervening structures.\n(d) This section shall not apply to a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider that is also a licensed residential medical or elder care facility.\n(e) This section shall apply only to a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider that is authorized by law to possess, cultivate, or distribute medicinal cannabis and that has a storefront or mobile retail outlet which ordinarily requires a local business license.\n(f) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a city, county, or city and county from adopting ordinances or policies that further restrict the location or establishment of a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider.\n(g) This section does not preempt local ordinances, adopted prior to January 1, 2011, that regulate the location or establishment of a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider.\n(h) For the purposes of this section, \u201cschool\u201d means any public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, but does not include any private school in which education is primarily conducted in private homes.\n(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 27, Sec. 138. (SB 94) Effective June 27, 2017.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lfpress.com/entertainment/music/it-felt-almost-like-being-out-in-the-wild-marcus-mumford-talks-mumford-and-sons-ambitious-new-lp/wcm/abd3a447-9ffd-4699-bb97-03d19a10356b", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YWXWWYGBSNELWUQL5QTL7UCK6VVYENXG", "length": 7878, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "lfpress.com", "title": "\u2018Like being in the wild\u2019: Marcus Mumford on Mumford and Sons\u2019 new LP | The London Free Press", "raw_content": "'It felt almost like being out in the wild': Marcus Mumford talks Mumford and Sons' ambitious new LP\nIf there\u2019s one thing folk-rockers Mumford & Sons have tried to do in their 10-year career it\u2019s not repeat themselves.\nOn their third LP, 2015\u2019s Wilder Mind, the London quartet took a break from the acoustic stylings that had made them famous on their 2009 debut Sigh No More, and its follow-up, 2012\u2019s Babel, to try their hand at arena-ready rock anthems.\nTheir latest release \u2014 the 14-track Delta \u2014 continues the trend, with songs that weave a sonic tapestry consisting of folk, rock, electronica, jazz and atmospheric beats.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever felt happier than where we are right now,\u201d band leader Marcus Mumford tells the Sun, as the band took a break from rehearsal in Louisiana. \u201cWe\u2019ve never enjoyed recording an album more.\u201d\nThe Grammy-winning group started writing new music after wrapping its tour in support of 2016\u2019s African-inspired EP Johannesburg. But, following that experience, they were looking for a producer that would continue to push them in a new direction.\nSo after a few \u201cdates,\u201d they connected with Grammy winner Paul Epworth, who has worked with Adele, U2 and Coldplay, among others.\n\u201cHe\u2019s got a track record of taking on ambitious projects and seeing them through,\u201d Mumford, 31, explains. \u201cWe want to be a pleasure to people. We recognize that we\u2019re the soundtrack \u2014 at least for a short period \u2014 of people\u2019s lives. That\u2019s a privilege, and one that we don\u2019t take lightly. Music can be an important part of your life and we want to be able to provide that to people \u2026 we thought he could help us achieve that.\u201d\nMumford & Sons \u2014 which include multi-instrumentalist Ben Lovett, bassist Ted Dwane and banjoist and guitarist Winston Marshall \u2014 are in the midst of their biggest tour yet, playing 60 dates in the round to audiences across the world. The trek stops at Toronto\u2019s Scotiabank Arena for two shows on Dec. 17 and 18.\n\u201cWe\u2019re putting a stage right across the middle of the arena. It goes up into the stands, too, so there are people literally in front, below and beside us,\u201d Mumford says. \u201cIf this record is about one thing, it\u2019s about people and we f\u2014ing love people. \u2026 I think it\u2019s going to be the best show we will have put on, by a long shot.\u201d\nBefore kicking off their world tour in Dublin, Mumford spoke more about experimenting in the studio for Delta, revealed what the band learned opening for U2 and told us which five albums he\u2019d bring with him to a desert island.\nDelta has the band exploring new avenues. There are some of the same acoustic sounds, but it\u2019s a little bit different. How did you find your way to this different musical landscape?\nIt\u2019s been a long journey. I think we took all that we\u2019ve learned over the past 10 years of being a band, but then we added a bunch of new things. As individuals, we\u2019re quite porous and we receive information, gladly. We love learning from people. We\u2019ve picked up new ideas and new things we wanted to try. Then we hooked up with Paul Epworth, who was really the perfect person for us to work with. We went to him last year with a bunch of demos and said, \u2018We know they\u2019re all really different sounding, so it might seem hard to imagine them all on the same record,\u2019 and he leapt at that challenge.\nDid the rock guitar stylings of Wilder Mind encourage you to be more ambitious with your sound?\nYeah, I think it did. I remember our booking agent saying to us after he heard that LP for the first time, \u201cIt\u2019s not what I expected, but now it feels like you can do anything you want in the records that come.\u201d I hope that Delta fulfils more of that narrative; that people might not be surprised if we take another shift down the road. That\u2019s one of the joys of being a musician \u2014 changing and learning new things. We certainly get excited by that prospect.\nWhat did you guys want to say lyrically on Delta?\nWell, we have lots to say. Given that all four of us write in the band, and it was over a three-year period, that adds up, by my math, to over 12 years of adult experience you can write about. A lot happened over that time \u2026 we got to experience life at home. Since Wilder Mind came out, I\u2019ve been in the labour ward twice and at the side of a death bed once. I\u2019ve never sat with someone who was dying before and I\u2019ve never sat with someone who was born before, so it was an overwhelming feeling. It felt almost like being out in the wild to me.\nWhen we spoke to you for Wilder Mind, you told us the band was listening to a lot of Bruce Springsteen and Radiohead to influence the sound. What were you taking cues from when you recorded Delta?\nCertainly more urban music influenced us. There\u2019s a guy named Jai Paul in the U.K., who I particularly love. But we were really listening to everything this time. Blake Mills, Maggie Rogers, Waylon Jennings, Talk Talk\u2026 the influences were kind of endless.\nI saw you guys with U2 in Vancouver last year. What did you learn from doing those handful of stadium shows with them?\nI probably learned more in those three shows than the 100 we played before that. We hadn\u2019t played a support slot in seven years. We did it because that record \u2014 The Joshua Tree \u2014 was important to us and we hadn\u2019t played stadiums before and we wanted to try that. It felt pretty good, and it was a reminder that when you\u2019re playing the opening slot you\u2019ve got to grab people\u2019s attention. You\u2019ve got to fight for it. But it was fun. Watching the way they work and the way they rehearse was very inspiring to me. We certainly felt coming off those shows more ambitious and encouraged to work harder on our live shows. \u2026 U2 has a desire to keep getting better and better and that was so inspiring to me.\nYou\u2019ve been together for a decade. How did your dreams of being a rock star measure up to the reality of where you are today?\nI never thought of myself as a professional-level musician, and it\u2019s something I still have trouble believing. But what we wanted in the early days was to set up our band so that if we wanted to, we could be a band for as long as possible. We were surrounded by other bands that were breaking up and we didn\u2019t want to go that way. We wanted to make sure that our relationships with one another were always healthy and that we were fair on business and shared everything. We took the long view. I\u2019ve always thought, you\u2019re really not a band until you release five records. We\u2019ve released four \u2014 and an EP \u2014 so I think we\u2019re getting there. We\u2019re adding to the narrative. We never want to stick to one thing and that ambition is being achieved, I think, right now with this new record.\nIs there another band whose career you\u2019ve looked at and thought, \u2018If Mumford have a career like that, we\u2019ll be happy\u2019?\nThe Rolling Stones and U2 are the most well-known, long-standing bands, so we look up to them a lot. But I love the career arc of people like Neil Young, because he\u2019s faithful. Of course, Radiohead is my favourite band of all time, but we\u2019ll never be like Radiohead.\nIf you had to take five albums to a desert island, what would you pack in your suitcase?\nRadiohead\u2019s Hail to the Thief, The Freewheelin\u2019 Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Greatest Hits, Bigfeat\u2019s latest LP and a compilation of Roger Miller songs.\nYou\u2019re going to be in Toronto a week before Christmas. What are your Christmas traditions?\nAt Christmas, we always focus on our family. It\u2019s a bit like Thanksgiving. It\u2019s very focused on family and food.\nAnd the hardest-hitting question is saved for last. What\u2019s your go-to Christmas movie?\nThat\u2019s easy. My favourite Christmas movie is Home Alone.\nMumford & Sons play Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Dec. 17 and 18.\nPurple Hill Christmas show features Londoner Shelley Rastin Jessica Mitchell takes her Heart of Glass on first solo tour\n'It felt almost like being out in the wild': Marcus Mumford talks Mumford and Sons' ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 293, "original_length": 12740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/search/collection/ncimages/searchterm/Steam%20engines/field/subjed/mode/exact!exact/conn/and!and/order/date", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QKA5CVHQJKBFIKIGISCU7F3UQBEUHPNO", "length": 611, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "library.digitalnc.org", "title": "Images of North Carolina", "raw_content": "Subject (Images): Steam engines\nSawmill steam engine at Cradle of Forestry\nTrain 283 with Caboose\nBlack and white photograph of a train steam engine, marked with no. 283, and a caboose. 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I\u2019m clearly high on Easter eggs and Ben-Hur.\nA couple of months ago, one of the lovely people from Wattpad HQ contacted me and asked whether I would be interested in writing a story inspired by the A&E television network\u2019s new series, The Returned.\n\u2018We need about 15,000 words,\u2019 they said. \u2018And we\u2019ll need weekly instalments every week for four weeks. You\u2019ll be asked to sign a contract and if you don\u2019t meet all the contractual agreements, we\u2019ll send the boys round to cut off body parts and stick your head on a pike.\u2019\nOkay, so the last bit might be a lie and I might just have been watching too much Game of Thrones, but to be fair, being asked to write to order, seemed almost like putting my head on the block. I was about to start writing the third book in my Wattpad series The Whitechapel Chronicles AND I was pretty stressed out at work and the last thing I needed was to put myself under any additional pressure.\n\u2018We\u2019ll pay you!\u2019 Wattpad said.\n\u2018SHOW ME THE MONEY, you crazy Canadians!\u2019 I replied with gusto. Yes. Gusto.\nAnd so, I found myself signing up for my first PAID writing job. AND they were going to pay me in actual real money. REAL MONEY. Not that Monopoly stuff my older brother used to pretend was real money when we were kids (and that he used to steal from the bank whenever we played \u2013 YES, I STILL REMEMBER THAT BROTHER!)\nNow, don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m not all about the dosh. I\u2019ve been more than happy to write for free on Wattpad for the past three years but to get the opportunity to earn a one-off salary for writing a 15,000 word short story, well, I wasn\u2019t about to turn that down.\nNot only that, but the story itself was to be commissioned by the A&E Network and that was an opportunity I knew I\u2019d be insane to turn down.\nI\u2019m sure many people think it must be easy to write knowing you\u2019re going to get paid for it, right? WRONG. It was hellish. I struggled with every chapter. The pressure was immense. The first chapter went down really well and then the pressure built to the point where I might have cried a little. Okay, I may have even sobbed. I almost missed the final deadline. The final chapter screwed with readers heads so I sobbed some more. It wasn\u2019t pretty. All in all, it was much, much tougher than I ever imagined it would be.\nBut\u2026if asked, I would do it all again in a heartbeat.\nCall me a masochist, if you will, but I really would. And no, not just because of the money (although getting paid for creating stories is always a bonus) but because it was an experience I will never forget and one that I was really proud to be involved in. I was honoured to be asked by Wattpad because to me, it meant the great powers at HQ knew who I was and trusted me enough as a writer to do a decent job. On a site with 35 million users, it\u2019s not easy to get noticed. But somehow that\u2019s what happened, and now my story entitled Everything Will be Dark has amassed close to 90,000 reads, which is way more than most of my other short stories, barring The Fan and it reached the top three in the mystery/thriller list.\nIf you fancy checking out just what made me sob like a baby for four weeks, here it is.\nhttp://www.wattpad.com/story/32744515\nLinz xxx\nA&E paranormal fiction reading short stories The Returned thriller Wattpad writing\nPrevious Post I\u2019m Your Biggest Fan\nNext Post Blood Dark by Lindsay J. 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There are exactly so many companies out there that are actually decent so it is important for you to separate the best companies from the average companies. Below are some of the important things that you need to take note every time you will be looking for a pest control company.\nYou should always ask a reference from a pest control company that you are interested in. A good pest control company from this industry will always provide you with a lot of references. In order for you to know that the pest control company is one of the best out there, it should be able to provide you with as much as three references. You can actually ask the other homeowners that are in your area for some references. For those that own commercial buildings, they can ask for references form the other building owners or managers near them.\nIt is important to always see to it that the pest control company that you will hire will always provide insurance. One million dollars should be the least amount of insurance policy that a pest control company should be carrying..You want to make sure that the pest control company is more than covered in cases where problems and issues will happen along the way.\nIt is also important for you to make sure that the pest control company has the license to run their business. A pest control company must always have the proper license in a lot of places. You can ask the pest control company to show you the license number if ever you will not see their license on their advertisement.\nYou should also know the standard procedures of the pest control company when it comes to getting rid of pests. Take note on how many times is it needed to spray and what are the types of pesticides that they are using. You should also see to it that the pest control company will be using non-toxic pesticides. It is important for you to always ask the pest control company about the kind of pesticides and procedures that they will be doing to get rid of pests in order for you to make sure that your family especially your kids are safe.\nIt is also important for you to choose a company that has all the experience in that type of business. 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To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under these Terms shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to these Terms, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.\nIf any of the conditions of these Terms shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 10111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://localstack.com/biz/courtyard-by-marriott-manassas-battlefield-park-manassas-va/273193", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EI6EG6GEMIARZB7FVTQ3JD7MHDBQXGIR", "length": 561, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "localstack.com", "title": "Courtyard by Marriott Manassas Battlefield Park - Manassas VA (703) 335-1300", "raw_content": "Part of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, and located just south of Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA is rich in U.S. history and culture. West Gate, one of Manassas' suburbs is centrally located in Manassas, and is just a short drive to a number of the area's historic sites, and downtown Washington D.C. is just a short train ride away. Old Town Manassas is the city's downtown area, and with its quaint shops and restaurants it's worth parking your car and heading out for a walk through one of the nation's most important historic sites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 84.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://loisgoldart.com/section/438681_Interview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:I7OCWGBHEN5XTLZDS2MNQVSA2E5KRJPH", "length": 4513, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "loisgoldart.com", "title": "LOIS GOLD", "raw_content": "I had the pleasure, on one of these recent cold, damp spring days, to visit Lois Gold\u2019s very inviting artist studio on the Upper East Side. It\u2019s a well-organized, casual space, with Lois\u2019 art tools, collage materials, finished paintings, pastels, and prints, and a few works in progress. Ms. Gold also teaches groups and gives private art lessons in her studio. Ms. Gold\u2019s renowned, award-winning works, including landscapes, abstract, monoprints, and treescapes, have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, art galleries, and museums. I enjoyed the tour and noted our afternoon conversation below. Lois Gold can be contacted at the email above, and the works seen in photos below are all for sale. Each painting in the studio is unique in its own impression. You will see colorful, abstract works, as well as works composed with fanciful collage. Others will transport you to a beachscape, garden, or forest.\nREZ: How many years have you been painting as a professional, and how did your career evolve?\nLG: My parents were art collectors, and I grew up surrounded by art. I did ceramics and sculpture in college, but it was not until I took a watercolor class that I decided that I wanted to paint as a career. I have been painting for over thirty years, evolving from a realistic landscape painter on paper to painting abstractly with mixed media and acrylic on canvas.\nREZ: I love the way you include collage in your work. Could you briefly explain the process, and what's in your collage collections, ready to use in the future, anything new? How do you wrap the materials onto canvas? Do you also paint with collage onto wood?\nLG: I collect handmade collage papers, stencils, stamps, gels, and different mediums, all of which I use as an under-painting. I layer them spontaneously, and they are applied with matte medium and glass-beaded gel under a layer of acrylic paint. I then might add oil pastel and more collage, before I glaze a final coat of acrylic to unify the painting.\nREZ: What was it like to study at the National Academy of Design? That's a gorgeous building. I've attended events there over the years.\nLG: I studied life drawing every day for two years at the National Academy of Design. I worked in charcoal and pastel. I enjoyed the warm atmosphere and helpful teachers.\nREZ: You keep artist biographies, like Bonnard's, in your studio. Which artists, particularly, have influenced you and how?\nLG: When I was twelve years old, I saw the Monet water lilies at the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie in Paris. I remember being surrounded by these genius color field, enormous paintings, and having my first really intense emotional and spiritual reaction to art. Bonnard, Monet, Turner, and William Merritt Chase have been the biggest influences on the way I strive to paint - all great colorists who became more and more abstract as they aged.\nREZ: Do you have any works in exhibition now or upcoming in 2016? Do you have showings in your studio?\nLG: I have exhibited in galleries throughout the United States for many years, and I like to sell directly from my studio. It is always fun to meet collectors and get to know them.\nREZ: Your website lists works in categories. One category is \"Monoprints\". Please briefly describe what a monoprint is, and also the nature of your \"Treescapes\" and \"Landscapes\".\nLG: My series of tree paintings are based on complementary colors, and negative and positive space. I used chalk pastels for these paintings done on paper. My landscape paintings were inspired by my time spent in the Berkshire Mountains, Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and the South shore of Long Island. Two years ago, I studied the art of monoprints with a wonderful Japanese printmaker, named Fumiko Toda in a small class. Monoprints and monotypes are created by manually adding or removing oil based inks from a plate or a piece of plexiglas.\nREZ: Your \"Early Work\" includes mostly landscapes at the beach, long distance views, sand dunes, and trees. What inspired you to evolve to abstract and monoprint works?\nLG: I changed painting styles because I needed a new challenge. Wanting to avoid repetition, I began to paint on canvas, loving the concentration on color, pattern, and collage.\nREZ: What advice would you give a young, aspiring artist in today's economy and culture?\nLG: The art world has changed so radically. I would advise a young artist to use social media, to have a well-organized and professionally photographed web site, and to get out and mingle with other artists and gallerists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lostdominion.org/15323/kaelyn-has-been-approved-for-roleplay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGDV3PGRG523OOLJLQHTIXL2ZFAFH2GW", "length": 141, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lostdominion.org", "title": "Kaelyn has been approved for Roleplay - The Lost Dominion", "raw_content": "Kaelyn has been approved for Roleplay. Please join us in making them welcome!\nFor more information see: https://lostdominion.org/cast/kaelyn/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 4757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lozo.com/grocery-coupons/crest-coupons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SB7Z6F762WUJIWISZQOMDRLQF3AVLJMA", "length": 238, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lozo.com", "title": "Crest Coupons & Discounts, February 2019 - LOZO", "raw_content": "There aren't any Crest coupons available right now.\nBe sure to sign up for email alerts or add them to your list, so you'll always be the first to know when more Crest coupons arrive! Want other grocery coupons? We\u2019ve got them right here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luxtimes.lu/archives/19992-juncker-has-no-intention-of-being-srel-commission-president-says-minister", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:04Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7PLHIUX7YCFTFO4FGT4X3YODP4H45LS", "length": 2067, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "luxtimes.lu", "title": "Luxembourg Times - Archives - Juncker has \"no intention\" of being SREL commission president, says minister", "raw_content": "Juncker has \"no intention\" of being SREL commission president, says minister\nOutgoing Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has no intention of becoming the next president of the Luxembourg secret service parliamentary control commission, CSV minister Claude Wiseler has clarified.\n(CS/CBu) Outgoing Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has no intention of becoming the next president of the Luxembourg secret service parliamentary control commission, CSV minister Claude Wiseler has clarified.\nQuestions arose after Juncker was voted the head of the CSV's opposition group in parliament earlier this week, with Wiseler nominated as his deputy. Traditionally, the opposition leader takes the chair of the secret service's control commission.\nHowever, since the scandal surrounding the SREL and Juncker's responsibility, as determined by an enquiry commission, were the main reasons behind the collapse of the CSV-LSAP coalition, this prospect has raised some eyebrows in the Grand Duchy.\nWhile there is no official rule specifying that the opposition gets to chair the commission, it has to be the head of a party's parliamentary group who heads the commission.\nCurrent head of the commission Fran\u00e7ois Bausch, of \u201cd\u00e9i Gr\u00e9ng\u201d, commented to the \u201cLuxemburger Wort\u201d that coalition partners have not yet debated the issue.\nA solution may nonetheless be on the horizon. The law on the reform of the secret service also includes new guidelines for the parliamentary control commission, specifying a duty to inform the commission on behalf of SREL, the right to charge external experts to investigate SREL-internal issues, as well as organisational aspects to improve efficiency.\nFurthermore, the new law foresees that not only the head of a parliamentary group can chair the commission. This would leave the way open for another CSV politician to take charge.\nIt is known that the new coalition wants to get this law off the ground as soon as possible. In the meantime, custom could be abandoned and the head of one of the coalition parties' parliamentary groups could take over.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.bohemian.com/northbay/lucky-penny-presents-noel-cowards-blithe-spirit/Event?oid=7181276", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KYRDFP42A2RFNSOYCOAUZBPOUVLLKLYE", "length": 951, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "m.bohemian.com", "title": "Lucky Penny Presents Noel Coward's \"Blithe Spirit\" | Lucky Penny Community Arts Center | Theater | North Bay Bohemian", "raw_content": "Lucky Penny Presents Noel Coward's \"Blithe Spirit\"\nWhen: Fri., Oct. 19, 8-10:30 p.m., Sun., Oct. 21, 2-4:30 p.m., Thu., Oct. 25, 7-9:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 26, 8-10:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 27, 8-10:30 p.m., Sun., Oct. 28, 2-4:30 p.m., Thu., Nov. 1, 7-9:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 2, 8-10:30 p.m., Sat., Nov. 3, 8-10:30 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 4, 2-4:30 p.m. 2018\nBLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward is directed by Barry Martin and runs Oct 19-Nov 4, 2018 NOTE: THERE IS NO SHOW ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 20TH A smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic Noel Coward offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up from the dead by a visiting \u201chappy medium,\u201d one Madame Arcati. Properly restrained British hilarity ensues.\n1758 Industrial Way (Napa)\ninfo@luckypennynapa.com\nhttp://luckypennynapa.com/index.php?opti...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 210.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.bohemian.com/northbay/mike-cunningham/Event?oid=3993670", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ENTTDYPFIOZXPDFAL2HKUHMZA5CKGTR3", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "m.bohemian.com", "title": "Mike Cunningham | HopMonk Sonoma | Clubs & Venues | North Bay Bohemian", "raw_content": "When: Sun., Sept. 10, 1 p.m. 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 145.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.calciomercato.com/en/news/father-agent-of-inter-target-confirms-man-utd-and-tottenham-inte-69237", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:16Z", "digest": "sha1:5TSIDCBD43DF55HWPM4GUSEN2Y3XO7KV", "length": 1201, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "m.calciomercato.com", "title": "Father-agent of Inter target confirms Man Utd and Tottenham interest? | Calciomercato.com", "raw_content": "Father-agent of Inter target confirms Man Utd and Tottenham interest?\nThe father agent of Sampdoria star Joachim Andersen has all but confirmed talks with Premier League giants Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.\nAndersen has been linked with a move to Inter Milan, with the nerazzurri also close to sealing the free signing of Atletico Madrid star Diego Godin. But Luciano Spalletti's men are also said to be close to signing the Dane.\nJoachim's father-agent Jacob, was recently talking to Ekstra Bladet and he confirmed interest from clubs from the top six of England- possibly Tottenham and United.\nHe said: \u201cI have had several transfer market meetings. Not only the first six Italian clubs are interested in Joachim, but also the English. \"However, I don\u2019t think anything will happen in this transfer market window. Joachim does not think about it because he is doing well in the club that he is in. However, I will be available if some big club is interested to have a meeting.\u201d\nThe 22-year-old has become one of the Serie A's most prominent defenders over the last two seasons and has impressed this season too for Sampdoria. He has made 18 appearances so far in the league, assisting once.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 5662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ma.ellak.gr/members/ksemer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SQZVJ36NTDTMS5LKPARP2NNULYR4F6UK", "length": 788, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ma.ellak.gr", "title": "\u039c\u03bf\u03bd\u03ac\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2 \u0391\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2", "raw_content": "@ksemer\n\u039a\u03c9\u03bd\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03a3\u03b5\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03c4\u03b6\u03af\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2\nMy name is Konstantinos Semertzidis and I am a PhD candidate at the Computer Science & Engineering Department of the University of Ioannina in Greece, working under the supervision of Prof. E. Pitoura. I received my BSc in Computer Science from the same institution (former Computer Science Department) in 2012, and my MSc in Computing in 2013 from the University of York. 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But back in the summer my little girl helps a family friend of ours raise money at her lemonade stand. The proceeds went to buy Lego sets for the children patients at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Richmond.\nThis was started by a sweet bit by the name of Joseph Dees that knew first hand that during treatment you need a little something to do to pass the time.\nUnfortunately, Joseph is not with us. But the love in his heart lives with us through his foundation and gifting the children at the hospital with the Lego sets\u2026.\nSometimes the smallest token can make the biggest difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://magichoroscope.com/virgo/virgo-magic-horoscope-astral-prediction-25-april-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AOFDF4J3WLLQJOSGVN5HPD6LQXQ4DRIV", "length": 1960, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "magichoroscope.com", "title": "Virgo Magic Horoscope Astral Prediction for 25th April", "raw_content": "Virgo Magic Horoscope Astral Prediction for 25th April\nWhat for many is a sign of lack of chemistry between two people, for you is a matter of respect and modesty. Not giving your hand to your partner or not showing affection for them when you're in certain places is something that for you is synonymous of giving a proper image, but the truth is that your attitude is sometimes a bit strange.\nIt's as if you were part of another time in history, one in which there wasn't even a swimsuit. It's obvious that it's not a matter of sharing your intimacy as a couple with everyone, but a loving gesture or a kiss from time to time won't hurt.\nToday you will have to face professional challenges that you had never considered before, a trend that will continue to happen during the rest of the week.\nYou want to expand your expectations a little and discovering that there are tasks that you don't know how to perform as you would like to, will encourage you to take on new responsibilities.\nThis can occur during a first day of work in a professional sector that you don't know or that, due to circumstances, you have to take control of matters that until now didn't concern you.\nYou always act according to your knowledge and this causes that, when something escapes your understanding, you feel a little insecure. Today you will have the opportunity to test your skills.\nYou have feelings a little dull and that only shows that in some aspects of your life there isn't enough enthusiasm and joy. When you're close to certain people, you pretend to act as if nothing bothers you.\nIf you show yourself so coldly, you shouldn't be surprised that those who know you best behave in a different way than usual: they know something is happening.\nIt's not good to return to that attitude so typical of you that leads you to shut yourself off and not share your fears with anyone, Virgo. Try to let everything flow and share your deepest feelings with someone you trust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makeeasy352.wordpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:X4QXV7ZG4FEIFAM5M57IOQE5UQ76JG5A", "length": 863, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "makeeasy352.wordpress.com", "title": "MAKE EASY \u2013 SIMPLIFYING YOUR LIVES", "raw_content": "SIMPLIFYING YOUR LIVES\n\u201cIf you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.\u201d \u2013 Elbert Hubbard\nBe sure what you want and be sure about yourself.Fashion is not just beauty, it\u2019s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.\nIf I don\u2019t feel confident about my body, I\u2019m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It\u2019s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it\u2019s fitness or whatever. It\u2019s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it. \u2013 Kim Kardashian\nThe phrase \u2018healthy lifestyle\u2019 is an abbreviated definition of how you should live if you want to get the healthiest body you can\u2014one that both looks good and feels good.\nFollow Make Easy for:\nWATER CRISIS IN INDIA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makingstarwars.net/2016/11/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-tickets-go-on-sale-november-28th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RGU4E6IYK7K5IHUIW7NX4YYVVVID7QUM", "length": 320, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "makingstarwars.net", "title": "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tickets go on sale November 28th! \u2013 Making Star Wars", "raw_content": "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tickets go on sale November 28th!\nCorey November 24, 2016\nThe announcement is finally here! Tickets for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story drop in the U.S. this Monday, November 28th.\nRogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters in 21 days.\nTickets will go on sale at excatly 12:01 AM EST on Monday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mansionmusings.wordpress.com/tag/cold-weather-in-the-19th-century/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:W4OIP7OHM4PAK6HBFF3TLYZZSQPKMMRI", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mansionmusings.wordpress.com", "title": "Cold weather in the 19th century | mansion musings", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Cold weather in the 19th century", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 211.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/southfield-mi/food-drink/meriwethers-southfield", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HSCGBH46D7IHNNRASOQH7GPZDR55RVDG", "length": 616, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "maps.roadtrippers.com", "title": "Meriwether's, Southfield | Roadtrippers", "raw_content": "25485 Telegraph Road, Southfield, Michigan 48034 USA\n\u201cA landmark on Telegraph Road for more than 30 years\u201d\nA 30-year tradition, Meriwether's provides a comfortable, down-home ambiance in the style of an English Country Inn \u2013 complete with its own lookout tower. Meriwether's specializes in fresh fish and seafood delicacies as well as tender steaks, pastas, sandwiches and salads. The famous Teacup Bread, served with honey-cinnamon butter, is a trademark recipe from the original restaurant.\nClaudiaZ23\nBest dinner rolls ever! Clam chowder and seafood is great too!\nBe the first to add a review to the Meriwether's.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 4169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/11/tests-show-no-impact-from-pa-drilling-on-binghamton-water/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:23Z", "digest": "sha1:INYYKYMZA25ZHW6JIY5IAKCQJWDGVMBJ", "length": 2726, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "marcellusdrilling.com", "title": "Tests Show No Impact from PA Drilling on Binghamton Water | | Marcellus Drilling News", "raw_content": "Tests Show No Impact from PA Drilling on Binghamton Water\nNovember 26, 2012 Broome County, Hydraulic Fracturing, Industrywide Issues, New York\nBinghamton, NY\u2019s failed mayor, Matt Ryan, now has the answer to his question direct from the laboratory he hired (with taxpayer money) to test Binghamton\u2019s water: Drilling in Pennsylvania has had zero impact on Binghamton\u2019s water supplies which come from the Susquehanna River.\nEven with irrefutable scientific evidence that drilling doesn\u2019t pollute the Susquehanna, don\u2019t expect Ryan, an ideologically-driven leftist, to shut up on the topic of fracking. He won\u2019t let something like science get in the way of a good political issue.\nThe results are in: Nothing indicates natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania has affected the city\u2019s water supply.\nFollowing a request by Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan for special testing, the city recently received laboratory data showing no discernible effects on the city\u2019s public water supply from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in Pennsylvania.\n\u201cRight now, there\u2019s absolutely nothing to be concerned about,\u201d Ryan said of the results. The city\u2019s Water and Sewer Department will continue the tests, he added, \u201cso they can continue to monitor and see if there\u2019s any changes.\u201d\nThe concerns stem from a W-shaped portion of the Susquehanna River that flows through northern Pennsylvania for 15 miles before re-entering New York state and continuing west to the City of Binghamton. There are more than 100 active natural gas wells in a six-township area of Susquehanna County surrounding the river, although many have not been hydraulically fractured and only one well pad is within a mile of the waterway.\nFive chemical compounds associated with hydrofracking were not present at detectable levels in the city\u2019s water supply, the test results show. A fifth was detectable, but at levels below the national average for public water supplies.\nRyan said the city will continue the testing regimen to establish a baseline of data in case there are any changes, and that he spoke recently with Joseph Martens, commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, about whether the state should become involved.\n\u201cHe (Martens) said they were aware of those complaints and that he was going to get me some information about what they plan to do, if anything, about it,\u201d said Ryan, a prominent critic of hydrofracking in New York. \u201cHopefully they will do something to check out the situation and figure out if there is a problem there.\"*\n*Ithaca (NY) Journal (Nov 24, 2012) \u2013 Testing clears Binghamton water of fracking impact\nNew Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Planned for NY Southern Tier\nVernon Township Contiguous Landowners Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marketresearch.biz/news/att-time-warner-acquisition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:V54B72RA2HQISB52SZS46HNI2GXEETSL", "length": 2587, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "marketresearch.biz", "title": "AT&T Time Warner Acquisition May be Blocked by US Department of Justice", "raw_content": "AT&T Time Warner Acquisition May be Blocked by DOJ\nThe planned AT&T Time Warner acquisition is to be blocked by the US Department of Justice. That is if the lawsuit filed by the DOJ is upheld. The reason for the lawsuit is that the Justice Department believes that the merger will reduce competition and is likely to lead to consumer price increases. This assertion is disputed.\nDonald Trump\u2019s Criticism of CNN\nUnsurprisingly, AT&T is not happy regarding potential political interference in the acquisition process. President Donald Trump is a well known critic of CNN, which is a Time Warner company. He has frequently voiced criticism of the news network and has publicly stated his objections to the AT&T Time Warner acquisition. Randall Stephenson, president of AT&T, has voiced his suspicion that the lawsuit may be more about CNN than AT&T and Time Warner.\nCould the AT&T Time Acquisition Result in Price Increases?\nThe Department of Justice has maintained that the $85+ billion deal would lead to increased TV bills for consumers. It would also result in less innovation that had been occurring in the recent past. It was also claimed that AT&T could force rival firms to pay much more for TV content from Time Warner, a claim which was denied by AT&T. Political interference in the acquisition process was denied by the Department of Justice.\nPrior to the presidential election, Donald Trump had stated that the acquisition would not be approved in his administration. This was because it would mean \u201ctoo much concentration of power in the hands of too few.\u201d\nTurner Broadcasting and CNN\nUS media has reported in the past that the Justice Department had tried to push AT&T to sell off some of its assets, including Turner Broadcasting. This company owns CNN, but Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, has stated that he is not willing to lose CNN. While it is beginning to look like this is at least partially a political situation, it may not all be.\nWhether or not the A&T Time Warner acquisition will go ahead is still undecided. The situation is still to be resolved with a settlement acceptable to both parties. However, if it does not, then many will believe this may be due to political interference in a civil matter. This is denied.\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called AT&T Time Warner Acquisition May be Blocked by DOJ and is located at https://marketresearch.biz/news/att-time-warner-acquisition/.\nYou Are Here Home \u00bb News \u00bb Business \u00bb AT&T Time Warner Acquisition May be Blocked by DOJ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marooshk.com/welcome/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:D3CFETWNXJWAZTVHDZA4QC36AG6M6QE4", "length": 307, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "marooshk.com", "title": "Welcome \u2013 marooshk moments", "raw_content": "Hey guys! Thanks for checking in! I\u2019m excited you\u2019re here. Come along with me as I share new and exciting things that are happening in my life. I want you to feel like you really know who this Marooshk person is! Consider this your VIP backstage pass to my travels, photoshoots, and other crazy shenanigans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marxistsociology.org/2018/12/lexit-did-it-ever-really-exist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BOCVMAY2J2EVI7CUWJYF656W5KGCP3XS", "length": 8424, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "marxistsociology.org", "title": "Lexit: Did it ever really exist? | Section on Marxist Sociology", "raw_content": "During the EU referendum in the UK in 2016, although Brexit was championed mainly by the right, there was a significant left-wing argument for withdrawal. Stemming from the tradition of social democracy associated with figures like the British Labour leader, Tony Benn, this was primarily geared at showing that the EU was a neoliberal body designed to strengthen a form of capitalism which was broadening inequality and reducing labor power.\nWhilst generally marginalised since the referendum, discussions of a Lexit or a \u2018People\u2019s Brexit\u2019 have re-emerged in recent days, with the forthcoming parliamentary vote on May\u2019s Brexit deal. With the potential that a General Election could propel a Corbyn government into office, the opportunity of a Lexit is once again taking prominent\nSo what constitutes and differentiates such a positions, termed Lexit by its own supporters, to others?. At the forefront of these was a commitment towards internationalism. For example, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Morning Star and public figures such as Tariq Ali all confirmed a commitment to internationalism. This position was in response to the old Labour Social Democratic tradition that opposed the European Economic Communities. This \u2018left-nationalist\u2019 position sees internationalism and globalism as the problem and favors the return of a national struggle of socialism, whereby the British working classes are protected from immigration.\nYet, whilst old figures of the left such as Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill seemed to favor this approach, many saw Lexit as a vehicle where a new form of internationalism could be built \u2013 beyond the confines of \u2018Fortress Europe\u2019.\nThe internationalist position, however, never materialised. Instead it has been those on the right-wing of the Labour Party, and vehemently opposed to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, that have been associated with EU withdrawal. In keeping with the reactionary fever of Brexit, individuals such as Kate Hoey, Frank Fields and John Mann have looked to re-kindle the nationalist wing of the Labour Party that was previously inhabited with Oswald Mosley in the 1930s before he founded the British Union of Fascists.\nLexit was to provide the antithesis to this. Something that would reach beyond the levels of the chauvinistic state and the \u2018imperialistic\u2019 EU. Yet, we still remain unclear over what this Lexit actually entails.\nFor some non-statists, this does not necessarily appear to be a problem. In the increasingly relevant environment of autonomist Marxism, the idea that you could see real change \u2013 to borrow from John Holloway \u2013 without necessarily taking power, suggests that no real vision is required. In this instance, the only point of backing a withdrawal from the EU would be if it left social protest movements with a greater chance of reaching their own objectives.\nIn any case, Lexit would cease to be relevant as a distinctive position. For the main however, we are none the wiser of what a coherent Lexit approach might look like. Lexiters from the SWP and the left-wing newspaper, Morning Star, to those within the Spiked Online/Living Marxism fold all maintain that a withdrawal from the EU must include a withdrawal from all its institutions including the single market and customs union. A Norwegian-style \u2018soft\u2019 Brexit along with any EFTA solution are ultimately dismissed as remaining tied to their wider ideological and institutional structures.\nTherefore a Lexit was one which would somehow look for a clean break from the EU, whilst promoting democracy, socialism and internationalism.\nAs Brexit itself quickly became one which was an exclusive right-wing debate that pitted nationalist romanticism alongside free market dogmatism, Lexit has increasingly disappeared from view in terms of mustering an adequate response.\nOne only has to consult Arron Bank\u2019s Bad boys of Brexit to realize that for right-wing Brexiteers the purpose of Lexiteers were to appear as \u2018useful idiots\u2019 for the leave campaign and would quickly disappear from view as soon as the referendum was concluded. So what have Lexiteers actually suggested should be the way forward post-Brexit?\nTony Benn, for example has some strong credentials in this regard. Despite being dismissed as a romantic and being claimed by right-wing Brexiters such as Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannon as one of their own, Benn advocated a number of alternative ideas. His \u2018Commonwealth for Europe\u2019 as an alternative for Maastricht was indeed presented to the House of Commons, whilst his Diaries were full of ideas for the development of internationalism and global governance.\nModern Lexiteers have appeared far less ambitious in their content, preferring instead to point to the damage that leaving the EU will do to global capitalism in the long run. Thus both the Morning Star and those associated with the SWP point to the greater opportunities for the mobilisation of class struggle when the UK leaves the EU, due to the damage the withdrawal will do to international capital. No more is really added to this. As the right look eager to pursue the dream of \u2013 to draw from Bank\u2019s book again \u2013 a \u2018Singapore on Acid\u2019 alongside a bonfire of regulations with a hard Brexit, thus making any room for renewed class struggle more limited, this response is inadequate.\nYet perhaps more inadequacy has come from \u2018Lexiteers\u2019 in academia. Academics that supported Brexit from the left have set up websites such as \u2018Briefings for Brexit\u2019 and \u2018The Full Brexit\u2019 in order to put forward ideas that would give us some idea of what a Lexit would look like. The results of these have been, quite frankly, embarrassing. A collection of \u2018ideas\u2019 and \u2018recommendations\u2019 are put forward that merely re-enforce the nationalism of the Brexit vote itself.\nNotions of \u2018popular sovereignty\u2019 are merely re-iterations of a re-cycled \u2018left\u2019 or \u2018progressive\u2019 nationalism that has long been the hallmark of the inward looking left of the post-war era. In some cases, they read as if they have merely mimicked the dominant Brexit line. In arguing how to \u2018deal\u2019 with the border in Ireland Ramsey and Bickerton suggestion that Britain should assert its form of \u2018popular sovereignty\u2019 to seemingly contain EU\u2019s expansionism reads like it has come straight out of a press statement of the ultra-right-winger Jacob Rees-Mogg.\nRather than looking to follow the imaginative innovation of Tony Benn, Lexiteers post referendum have failed to offer any substantial alternative, save to make generalized assumptions regarding what structural damage EU withdrawal might do to the wider workings of capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas is the latest example of this, whose book \u2018The Left Case against the EU\u2019 has come at an apt time and looks set to become influential. Yet, this merely re-enforces a nationalist position, both by arguing for the UK to reassert its sovereignty (the undermining of the positioning of the Celtic Nations seems to be one of the many themes that unites Brexiters both left and right) in order to build socialism and by suggested that freedom of movement is ultimately a mechanism for lowering wages and as a result needs to be overhauled.\nFor some Old Labour figureheads, this logic makes perfect sense. The point was always to go back to the sanctity of the nation-state and pursue the left-nationalism of a previous era. For them EU withdrawal follows a path already tread. But Lexit was supposed to resemble something else. It was to embody a new type of internationalism which would open up very real opportunities for moving beyond the neoliberal confines of European regionalism. In reality however, it has produced nothing.\nFar from looking to break with the structural confines of the EU, the only constructive post-Brexit alternatives from the left have looked to engage with \u2013 rather than detract from \u2013 the European Economic Area and single market. As a result, we are left to wonder: did Lexit ever have any serious pretensions in the first place capable of providing an internationalist alternative to the EU? Or were they only ever either soundbites, or ones that when examined merely revealed another form of nationalism. Alternatively, maybe we should question whether it ever existed at all?\nOwen Worth is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick.\nTo read more, see Owen Worth, \u201cWhither Lexit?\u201d Capital & Class 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 9316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/category/world-s-thinnest/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JR3XKUG6LJSVAZATQZIUE4YMXAK3MWLS", "length": 92, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "world's thinnest", "raw_content": "World's Thinnest\nHP debuts the world's thinnest laptop\nThey don't come more \"air\" than this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 223.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matsimitsu.com/trips/japan-2015/day-sixteen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EIQE5TINKCOSAIXS4SFAYBNH7AXJQRG2", "length": 1960, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "matsimitsu.com", "title": "Day Sixteen", "raw_content": "After seeing the Muji store yesterday. I wondered what else Tokyo had to offer in terms of design. After a quick google I found an exhibition about architecture from the Tokyo Design Hub. It was in Roppongi, a part of Tokyo I haven't visited before.\nThe exhibition was off limits for photography, as in you couldn't make close-up shots of the projects. Most of the projects explained the design choises of the buildings to fit their surroundings and the architectural process in general.\nAfter strolling through the exhibition for a while I headed to another exhibition at the Roppongi Hills tower. As usual I got lost..\nIn this park I noticed a lot of lights hanging in the trees and on the grass.\nSpeaking of noticing things, there are a lot of unusual things placed on roofs.\nFinally I maded it to the Roppongi Hills tower. Before I went up, I was still in doubt if I should do it, I've already been up the SKYTREE and the Tokyo Metropolitain Government Building, but according to TripAdvisor and other online sources Roppongi Hills is the best one.\nThere are three choises for tickets, a star tour, an art museum and a changing exhibition. I went for the Art museum and a trip to the sky deck.\nTurns out I made the right choice, I really dig this art style and the murals are amazing.\nThe artist is Takashi Murakami and he calls this style \"Superflat\".\nThese are just tiny details of huge murals.\nMy plan was to catch the \"golden hour\" (the hour when the sun sets and casts indirect light) on the sky deck, but I spent way to much time looking at these murals. When I was done it was dark outside.\nAfter also spending way to much time up on the sky deck my stomach was telling me it was Sushi time. But not before backtracking to the park where I saw the lights in the trees, to see what was up.\nThe Sushi was made right in front of me by chefs that were fast and meticulous, a joy to watch.\nAfter dinner and a few beers it was time to take the train home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mcgi.org/mcgi-celebrates-ang-dating-daan-31-years-in-broadcast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:NDHACQMGA4WIZ5P52UZKOIVA3DVW276D", "length": 3526, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mcgi.org", "title": "MCGI Celebrates Ang Dating Daan's 31 Years in Broadcast - MCGI.org", "raw_content": "MCGI Celebrates Ang Dating Daan\u2019s 31 Years in Broadcast\nFor Members Church of God International (MCGI), October 22 was not just a regular Saturday for thanksgiving. It was a celebration of 31 years that MCGI has been serving to propagate the Gospel through its award-winning religious program, Ang Dating Daan.\nThe festivities began at four in the morning, with a long parade of MCGI congregants who marched into the ADD Convention Center in Apalit, Pampanga. By six o\u2019clock, the tail-end finally made its way into the decked facade of the biggest convention center in Luzon. Along with the drum and bugle corps, flag bearers, and a cheering squad, the delegation was greeted with cheers, applauses, and fireworks.\nA flood of multi-colored flags filled the hall of the ADD Convention Center. At the signal, triumphant songs of praise and dances opened the ceremonies. Visitors who came to witness the celebration were wowed with the lively production number presented by MCGI\u2019s Music and Theater Ministries.\nGovernment officials, philanthropists, and media personnel from various print and online publications graced the occasion. As the program moved along, ADD awarded plaques to public officials and individuals from private organizations for their consistent support to ADD\u2019s spiritual and social welfare advocacies.\nDocumentaries of different working groups in MCGI that are behind the success of the Ang Dating Daan program were shown. After each video presentation, the groups presented lively song and dance numbers of thanks and praise.\nOn the World Wide Web, an outpour of greetings and well-wishes dominated Twitter and Facebook as fans and followers posted their messages to the official fan page and message wall of Ang Dating Daan.\nBro. Eli Soriano, Bro. Daniel Razon, and Sis. Luz Cruz fondly recalled the past 31 years that has gone by since the program started airing in 1980. Bro. Eli Soriano said that when the broadcast first aired through radio, he never thought that that humble beginning would eventually be one of the biggest efforts in Philippine evangelization history.\nSis. Luz Cruz, the first executive producer of Ang Dating Daan remembered the birth pains of Ang Dating Daan, like their lack of standard equipment and needed skills to produce a 30-minute program on television. She added that they had to resort to improvisations to get things done, not to mention, multitasking: researching, doing make-up, set designing, directing, editing, setting the lights, recording, and sleeping late.\nThe program encountered series of suspensions and censorships in the Philippines, as the program\u2019s nature is that of Bro. Eli Soriano\u2019s fearless expositions of the Bible, which often revealed and attacked inconsistencies in the doctrines of other religious groups.\nAng Dating Daan has been an avid promoter of biblical awareness in the last 31 years. Derived from Jeremiah 6:16, the program name has served to mean an in-depth study and exposition of the Bible on radio and television. From a humble group of three, it has now turned to a massive evangelization work that is making waves across the world.\nAside from broadcasting biblical truths, Ang Dating Daan has also launched many public service programs that especially benefit the underprivileged. Projects like public transport (land, air, water) and medical services, legal aid, transient home, orphanage, feeding program, college education and more \u2014 all rendered for free \u2014 have been introduced to the public through the program\u2019s initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/category/news/page/6/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HGLFVE4N6ZXIPT2MO75XIMLMCZPRYOSU", "length": 9567, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "memeburn.com", "title": "News Archives - Page 6 of 306 - Memeburn", "raw_content": "An intense \u2018medicane\u2019 is posing a threat to southern Europe\nAfter Florence and Mangkhut, do you need any more proof that the weather is all sorts of crazy this year? If you answered yes, we may have just the thing. Actually, no, more specifically, it's the Mediterranean Sea that has the answer. A \"medicane\" is at present forming in the massive body of water that separates north Africa from southern Europe. Although bearing similar nomenclature to \"hurricanes\" which form in the Atlantic Ocean, medicanes are cyclonic storms that form within the confines of the Med. They're not as intense and don't live as long, but they can pack a punch. And their satellite...\nEveryone\u2019s wondering what happened to the ANC\u2019s website\nIf you've been wondering what happened to the ANC's official website, well, it's down. You can check for yourself here, but any attempts to visit the site are greeted with \"no input file specified\" error. When visiting specific pages, we were met with a \"the server is currently undergoing maintenance\" message. The website has been down for at least two days, users online report. According to a Business Live report, it's because the ruling party in South Africa hasn't paid its bills on time, service provider bills that amount to R32.5-million. Although the ANC denies these claims, suggesting that no money is owed...\nDros Silverton bombarded by negative reviews after child rape\nDros' online reputation has been shattered this week after a seven-year-old girl was raped by a 20-year-old man in a Dros Silverton outlet. The incident occurred on Saturday, according to the chain's official statement, but social media conversation reached a peak on Thursday, after said statement was issued to the public. Those who haven't taken to Twitter to voice their opinions took to review platforms to state their thoughts on the restaurant. In particular, the Dros Silverton branch in Pretoria. A slew of users reviewed Dros on Facebook labelled the restaurant as \"not child-friendly\". \"Sick to the core of how you handled the...\nSouth Africa fumes online after girl was raped in Dros restaurant toilet\nSouth Africa's Dros restaurant chain has come under fire on social media this week after it confirmed a seven-year-old girl was raped in a bathroom in a Gauteng outlet. The incident, which took place on Saturday at the Silverton, Pretoria branch, first came to light on Facebook. The Citizen reported that the child was \"snatched\" from the female toilets and brought into the male toilets, where he raped her. On Tuesday, News24 reported that a case of rape was opened by Pretoria police. The suspect has also been arrested. Dros' statement However, conversation on social media rapidly escalated on Wednesday, after Dros issued...\nSuper Typhoon Trami is even scarier than Florence from space\nPlanet Earth has seen its fair share of horrifying storms these past few weeks. With Florence ravaging the US east coast earlier this month, and Mangkhut ripping through the Philippines and Hong Kong last week, another storm is brewing in the Pacific. And who better to photograph it than the human beings in space? German astronaut Alexander Gerst on Tuesday evening tweeted what could easily be mistaken as a Roland Emmerich movie poster. But it's not a poster, it's a real storm. Super Typhoon Trami. \"As if somebody pulled the planet's gigantic plug. Staring down the eye of yet another fierce...\nFive of Cape Town\u2019s six largest dams are more than 90% full\nAccording to the City of Cape Town's latest dam report published on Tuesday, the city's supply reservoirs are now a combined 74% full. That's an overall increase of 4% over the previous week. At present, five of the six large dams that supply Cape Town with water are above the 90% full mark. This includes two of the city's three largest dams, the Vo\u00eblvlei and Berg River. The latter last week breached the 100% full mark, but its waters have subsided to 99.9% according to this week's report. The Vo\u00eblvlei smashed past the 90% barrier this week, gaining 7.7% over the...\nCyril Ramaphosa\u2019s stimulus package gets social media talking\nRemember the early days of President Cyril Ramaphosa rise to power? He was loved across South Africa, and especially on social media. But that love affair, that \"ramaphoria\" as it was known, has largely abated. At the Union Buildings on Friday morning, Ramaphosa announced a R400-billion stimulus package that he and his administration hopes will reignite the smouldering South African economy. President Ramaphosa: The #StimulusPackage has four broad parts: 1 implementation of growth enhancing economic reforms 2 reprioritisation of public spending to support job creation 3 the establishment of an Infrastructure Fund 4 addressing urgent matters in education & health \u2014 South African Government (@GovernmentZA) September 21,...\nThe Berg River Dam is now more than 100% full\nCape Town's third largest and youngest dam, the Berg River Dam, is the first of the city's large dams to hit the 100% mark. After a week of cold weather and rain, the dam gained 2.8% putting it over its specified capacity of 130 000 megalitres. It now joins its northerly Western Cape neighbour, the Clanwilliam Dam, in breaching the 100% mark this week. Interestingly, based on percentage of capacity, the Misverstrand Dam is currently the Western Cape's most bountiful dam, holding 113.6% of its designed capacity. It's commonly used for water sport and recreation. View this post on Instagram So awesome to see...\nThe Clanwilliam Dam becomes an unlikely social media star\nThe Clanwilliam Dam, north of Cape Town, is an unlikely social media star this week, after the reservoir's sluice gates were opened and dramatic videos were the result. The dam, which holds 121 000 megalitres used for irrigation, was 99.4% full as of 17 September according to the Western Cape Government. However, it's likely that recent rains have pushed the dam's level beyond the 100% mark, because it's now releasing water back into the Olifants River. Videos and pictures on Twitter and Instagram have been posted of the dam's improved state this week. For comparison, it was just 38.4% in September 2017. This video...\nCoca Cola has confirmed that it's not ruling out the use of cannabis in its future wellness products. More specifically a substance contained in cannabis called Cannabidiol (CBD) which said to relieve pain but not produce the high that many associate with weed, could be added to a wellness drink. \"Along with many others in the beverage industry, we are closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world,\" Coca Cola spokesperson Kent Landers said in a statement to Bloomberg. \"The space is evolving quickly. No decisions have been made at this time.\" Notably, the...\nCape Town's dams are now 70% full, this according to the City's latest dam levels report. That an increase of just 0.9% over the previous week. Still, it's the first time this milestone has been reached in September since 2015. That may seem sufficient, but the largest dam in the system that holds nearly 54% of Cape Town's surface water, the Theewaterskloof Dam, remains just 52.5% full. It did however gain 1.1% over the previous week. Other dams however are all above 80% full. The Berg River Dam is 97.6% full, but fell by 0.8% over the previous week. The Vo\u00eblvlei Dam...\nSomeone\u2019s sticking needles in Australia\u2019s strawberries, and no one knows why\nAustralia's dealing with a rather odd crisis at present. Sewing needles have been found lodged in strawberries and bananas across the country, in what some are calling \"commercial terrorism\". Last week, a man was taken to hospital after swallowing a strawberry that contained a needle. This week, the issue has escalated, with six of the country's territories all reporting incidents. Incredibly, at least six brands are also afflicted. The country's minister for health Greg Hunt has ordered the \"Food Standards Australia New Zealand to investigate the handling of strawberry contamination,\" he tweeted. \"I urge all Australians be vigilant for potential contaminants.\" I have ordered...\nLast week, at least seven cyclonic storms were active in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. While all the news focused on Hurricane Florence which clattered into the US east coast, fiercest storm was making landfall just south of Hong Kong. When Super Typhoon Mangkhut finally struck China, it lashed Hong Kong with 180km/h wind and driving rain. Can't quite wrap your head around that number? That's more than enough power to rip a crane from a building in Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong. Scaffolding collapse at a building site in Kowloon pic.twitter.com/O69ILlXOJr \u2014 \u9ad8\u5730\u67cf\u5572 (\u9999\u6e2f) (@HighlandPaddyHK) September 16, 2018 This video was viewed over 1.4-million...\nYou can soon leave college in Canada with a qualification in growing cannabis. Yes Elon, weed. Ontario's Niagara College, CBC reports, recently debuted its cannabis programme which teaches students the fundamentals of cultivating and caring for the versatile herb. \"Students will get intensive hands-on training in growing pot with classes that focus on topics like plant nutrition, climate control, pest control and plant selection,\" the report adds. Courses about Canada's cannabis legislation are also taught. Even with the prospect of sitting through boring legal chatter, the course as a whole is proving extremely popular. Reportedly only 24 spots are available, but more than 300 people...\nA train at Cape Town Station is on fire (once again)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 14402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://memismsblogs.com/2017/09/02/17-august-finally-back-in-leh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:08Z", "digest": "sha1:QMHOBXNDWTD6IAZV65MLLOERKJCSAZ2L", "length": 2137, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "memismsblogs.com", "title": "17 August \u2013 Finally back in Leh | Melanie & Michael Go Walking", "raw_content": "17 August \u2013 Finally back in Leh\nIt took us two tries to fly to Leh early this morning \u2013 the first plane circled Leh airport for 20 minutes before \u201ctechnical difficulties\u201d sent us back to Delhi. We climbed down one plane and up another for a second try. I think the difficulties had a lot to do with the Prime Minister making his tour through the Ladakh area this morning. The airport is still the best way to get here. Most of the roads in are open but rather dangerous IMHO. They get better by the day though.\nIn Leh, they only need three things, tourists, money and labor. Of the 3,000 tourists estimated to be in the area on the night of the flood, only a few hundred are left. Most expected new arrivals have changed plans and have gone elsewhere. I feel very bad for the shopkeepers I have spoken to so far. One hotel that told us weeks ago that they are full until the 21st, now only has 6 guests, including us. Another hotel we were supposed to be in just after the flood is completely empty. At dinner, Melanie and I were the only people in the restaurant (but we looked for a place that needed the business \u2013 not hard to find). Their season lasted 1 1/2 months. Ugghh. Having said that, after speaking to the driver, barber, money changer, hotel staff, trekking store staff, etc., I have found no one that has lost family in the flood. The man at the tourist office lost land but that is it so far.\nWe talked to the tourist office once we arrived and they sent us to local gompa (monastery). The association there asked us to show up tomorrow at 9:00 ready for work. We don\u2019t know what we are doing but we\u2019ll find out.\nAt the moment, electricity is only on from about 7:00pm to 11:00pm throughout the town and phone connections are patchy at best. We could see some damage from the mudslides and floods at the airport and at Chonglamsar, just south of town, but I have only been to the main part of Leh and Chongspa. We\u2019ll try to see the hospital road tomorrow and we may go to Saboo soon too.\nIn summary, Leh is as beautiful and welcoming as always but it is wounded badly. We\u2019ll stay here until the 23rd to see what we can do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://menafocus.qa/his-highness-sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-attends-crowning-of-uae-riders-in-endurance-race-in-saudi-arabia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KNUBMSOKYGTC3NBMCE4I6GT523ZLZL43", "length": 1830, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "menafocus.qa", "title": "His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid attends crowning of UAE riders in endurance race in Saudi Arabia. \u2013 MENA Focus", "raw_content": "His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, witnessed the crowning of Emirati riders as winners of The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Endurance Cup in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia.\nHis Highness Sheikh Mohammed congratulated the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the successful organisation of the endurance championship as part of the new comprehensive overhaul in many sectors thanks to Vision 2030.\nH.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, also attended part of the race in which Emirati riders emerged victorious and clinched the title of The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Endurance Cup.\nRiding Blakeridge Indigo, UAE\u2019s Salem Al Ketbi from M7 Endurance Stables galloped to the finish line (4:25:43) leaving the second place to Abdullah Ghanem Al Marri from F3 Stables (4:25:43). The third place went also to the UAE with Saif Ahmed Al Mazrouei from MRM Stables (4:25:44).\nMore than 200 riders from 12 countries (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Spain, Sudan, UAE, Uruguay) participated in the race. The endurance event is held as part of \u2018Winter At Tantora\u2019 festival, the cultural and touristic festival held in the city of Al-Ula, an ancient city known for its rock monuments.\nThe Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Endurance Cup was also attended by Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prince of Medina Region; Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Khalifa Saeed Suleiman, Director General of Dubai Protocol and Hospitality Department; Dr Ahmad Nasser Al Raisi, Chairman of the Emirates Equestrian Federation; and Saeed Humaid Al Tayer, Chairman of Meydan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 150.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metrica-milano.com/pilotis-tables/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GNBFRKTMCM3T4K6HFLHOCRHX74CFXKKZ", "length": 289, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "metrica-milano.com", "title": "Cor Pilotis Metrica Tables \u2014 Metrica", "raw_content": "Pilotis are side tables that belong to the Pilotis seating concept. Large, small, round, rectangular, black, white or wood they stand on a thin and delicate metal frame. Due to their design and finishes, they can easily be combined with other sofa ranges and fit in different living rooms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/12/05/davie-police-release-911-calls-in-fatal-crash-involving-bicyclists/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EQYDFCHM3USLSPYOMFY2EHSYDWZNNGQS", "length": 1920, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "miami.cbslocal.com", "title": "Davie Police Release 911 Calls In Fatal Crash Involving Bicyclists \u2013 CBS Miami", "raw_content": "Davie Police Release 911 Calls In Fatal Crash Involving Bicyclists\nBy Ty Russell December 5, 2018 at 11:11 pm\nFiled Under:911 Calls, Bicyclists, Car vs Bicyclists, Davie, Davie Police Department, Local TV, Nicole Vanderweit\nMIAMI (CBSMiami) \u2013 The Davie Police Department has released close to 45 minutes of 911 calls from the moment a driver crashed into a group of bicyclists.\n\u201cI hit a bunch of bicyclists. I didn\u2019t even see them. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God,\u201d Nicole Vanderweit said.\nThat\u2019s from the 911 call from Vanderweit, who was behind the wheel of a black Honda.\nShe stayed on scene.\n\u201cI\u2019m stopped right now. I\u2019m stopped right now. I didn\u2019t even see them. Oh my God,\u201d Vanderweit said.\nDenise Marsh and Carlos Rodriguez were killed after the crash on November 25th along State Road 84 near Flamingo Road in Davie.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know what to do. I need to call my mom,\u201d Vanderweit said.\nVanderweit told police she was distracted by something in the passenger compartment of her car and the sun was directly in her face.\nOther callers helped paint a clearer picture of the moments after the crash.\nPlease, the riders look really, really bad. They\u2019re bleeding. They\u2019re on the floor. There are a couple that are not moving. They\u2019re really, really bad,\u201d once caller said.\nOne of the bicyclists in the group, who wasn\u2019t injured, immediately called for help.\n\u201cWe got a head wound. We got somebody doing CPR right now. But I don\u2019t think\u2014yeah. She\u2019s out,\u201d a caller said.\nPolice said six bicyclists were hit, including a 14-year-old boy. They were all a part of the \u201cCycling Family Broward\u201d bike club.\nOne caller who was nearby saw multiple bicyclists on the ground and feared the worst.\n\u201cIt\u2019s dead bodies on the ground. Oh my God. I\u2019m supposed to be going on vacation and look what we\u2019ve run into,\u201d she said.\nSince the deadly crash, the driver sobbed off camera to CBS 4 and then released a statement apologizing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 9168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://milwaukeestories.org/2017/02/05/milwaukeeans-unite-to-reject-muslim-ban-affirm-american-values/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:37Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z3C5X2V2V2C6AV3I65GKNIRHT6RJRZG", "length": 8308, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "milwaukeestories.org", "title": "Milwaukeeans unite to reject Muslim ban, affirm American values | Milwaukee Stories", "raw_content": "Milwaukeeans unite to reject Muslim ban, affirm American values\nMilwaukee-area legislators, Muslim Americans and others recently gathered at City Hall to oppose a recent executive order issued by United States President Donald Trump\u2019s administration that indefinitely bans Syrian refugees, and temporarily bans all refugees, from entering the United States. Individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries were are also banned from entering the country for at least 90 days.\nAt the event, Democratic state representatives Jonathan Brostoff and Chris Larson unveiled a joint resolution, supported by 19 Democratic state legislators, that condemns violence, hate speech and expresses solidarity with \u201cMuslims and all those targeted for their ethnicity, race or religion.\u201d The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin and other pro-Muslim groups expressed support for the measure.\n\u201cWhen we fail to see the humanity in others, we fail humanity,\u201d said Brostoff, who talked about his Jewish family fleeing violence in Europe to come to the United States. \u201cNow, more than ever, we must lift our lamps and light the way toward love and understanding.\u201d\nThe order, issued by the Trump Administration on Jan. 27, a week after his inauguration, suspended the United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP) for 120 days; it also denies entry to anyone traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen \u2014 all Muslim-majority countries \u2014 for 90 days. Notably absent from the decree are the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Those nations have accounted for 2,845 terrorism-related deaths on U.S. soil since 1975, far more than all other countries combined.\nJanan Najeeb, founder of the Milwaukee Muslim Women\u2019s Coalition, said Trump, who advocated during his campaign for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, knew the order would be unconstitutional if it was based explicitly on religion. She called the order a \u201cbackdoor Muslim ban.\u201d\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a game,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is clearly a law based on bigotry and racism.\u201d\nIn an appearance on Fox News, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Trump tasked him with finding a way to formulate an order that would achieve the president\u2019s goals while standing up to any legal challenges.\n\u201cAmerica and all the countries in the world can be great, but it is through unity and through understanding and valuing human rights and human freedom,\u201d said Rada Nikova, a Bulgarian immigrant who met her husband in the United States and moved here permanently four years ago. \u201cWe have to evolve instead of going backwards.\u201d\nA Muslim individual from one of the seven countries singled out by the order said his wife, who was just admitted to a Milwaukee-area university, left the United States in December to convert her visa to a student visa \u2014 now, she\u2019s unable to re-enter. The man, who did not want be identified for fear that his wife would not be approved once the ban is lifted, said the couple\u2019s future in this country is now in question. He is also a student.\n\u201cWe both are shocked,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what will happen for our future. We came here to have a better future. Personally, I came here to make a better life for my wife \u2026 as she is not here, I am so disappointed. The only way that I have, if she is banned from coming here, [is] that I resign my Ph.D degree and go back to my country and join her.\u201d\nDemonstrators at Milwaukee City Hall held signs, and spoke against, an executive action that banned green card holders, immigrants and refugees from Muslim-majority countries. (Photo by Jabril Faraj)\nA Pew Research Center analysis of hate crimes statistics from the FBI showed that hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. reached \u201c9/11-era levels\u201d in 2015, increasing 67 percent over the previous year. Eleven percent of Americans believe \u201cmost\u201d or \u201calmost all\u201d Muslims are anti-American and almost half think Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence.\nAccording to a 2016 study by Pew, Muslims are about 1 percent of the total U.S. population. That number is projected to double, to 2 percent, by 2050. About 6 out of 10 U.S. adults said there was \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination against Muslims; even more said prejudice is increasing.\n\u201cThe problem is, islamophobia is irrational,\u201d said Najeeb. \u201cHow are Muslims going to take over the United States? We are a part of the United States.\u201d\n\u201cThe Muslims of this county, of this city, are valuable citizens who have contributed much,\u201d said Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Ahmed Quereshi.\nHe recalled being taught the words of Emma Lazarus\u2019 poem, The New Colossus, which is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty:\n\u201cThis is the true creed,\u201d Quereshi added. \u201cThis is what it means to be American.\u201d\nThe executive order also declares that entry of more than 50,000 refugees to U.S. in 2017 would \u201cbe detrimental to the interests of the United States.\u201d That number is significantly less than the 85,000 accepted in 2016 and less that half of the Obama Administration\u2019s pledge for this year. Worldwide, 65.3 million people, a record number, have been forced to leave their homes; there are 21.3 million refugees around the globe, according to UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.\nThe Trump Administration order cited \u201cdeteriorating conditions in certain countries due to war, strife, disaster, and civil unrest\u201d to justify the need to crackdown on immigration. Four of the seven countries singled out have been bombed by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. And, in 2011, the U.S. spearheaded a NATO-led effort to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, a move that has thrown the country into chaos.\nNajeeb said she believes that there is substantial support in the new administration for a total, indefinite ban on Muslims in the United States. Language in the executive order leaves open the ability to extend the order, and add other countries to the list.\nThough Najeeb said she is worried about the effect this move will have on people seeking to escape violence, she added that she has been heartened by the response.\n\u201cWhenever a group is targeted, there are those that stand and bring their conscience and the conscience of this country forward, even if it\u2019s a risk to themselves. These are the people that are of true faith; these are the people that truly represent what America is all about.\u201d\nPablo Muirhead said it seems the administration\u2019s position is based on fear. Muirhead, whose cousin was on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that flew into the Pentagon on 9/11, said we need to \u201clet the folks in immediately that are waiting at our doorstep.\u201d\nMuirhead, who was born in Peru, raised in Milwaukee, attended college in Indonesia, has lived in and traveled to more than 20 countries, added that inter-cultural exchanges are important.\n\u201cI think the best thing we can do is get to know each other, and understand each other\u2019s faiths.\u201d\u2b29\nUpdate (Feb. 5, 2017): A number of court rulings have prevented the executive order from being enforced. A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that President Trump\u2019s controversial immigration order will remain suspended for the time being, allowing those previously banned from coming to the United States at least another day to get here.\nUpdate (Feb. 24, 2017): On Feb. 9, a three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court decision blocking the Trump Administration from enforcing the order. The administration had said it will bring a re-tooled order, possibly as soon as this week.\nTagged with: ACLU, Ahmed Quereshi, American Airlines Flight 77, Bigotry, Bulgaria, Chris Larson, Discrimination, Donald J. Trump, Education, Egypt, Emma Lazarus, Fox News, Hate Crimes, Immigration, Indonesia, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Islamophobia, Janan Najeeb, Jonathan Brostoff, Libya, Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition, Muammar Qaddafi, Muslim Ban, Pablo Muirhead, Peru, protests, Racism, Rada Nikova, Rudy Giuliani, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Statue of Liberty, Syria, Terrorism, The New Colossus, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States Pentagon, United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP), Violence, Yemen\nPrevious Post\u201cGod has a purpose for me\u201d\nNext PostMilwaukee Stories Podcast: Katherine Wilson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 11360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://miorinilaw.com/index.aspx?TypeContent=SEMINARS&seminar_id=6681", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:00Z", "digest": "sha1:BQRB6TYQRCHRBYOL63LGPIRLT7GA2R5U", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "miorinilaw.com", "title": "McLean Tysons Corner VA Attorney Lawyer Law Firm", "raw_content": "Oct 12, 2019 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 26.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://miriamdrori.com/tag/messandrierre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KNHOKYWPJF6LZK5MTANK2XOKRHHEJOOX", "length": 7402, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "miriamdrori.com", "title": "Messandrierre | An' de walls came tumblin' down", "raw_content": "Letters from Elsewhere: Jacques For\u00eat\nPosted by Miriam under Books, Letters from Elsewhere | Tags: Angela Wren, cosy crime, Jacques For\u00eat, Messandrierre |\nMy last visitor in the series Letters from Elsewhere, at least for the time being, is also a first. He is the first character to return. He must have enjoyed it here, while all the others\u2026 no, let\u2019s not go there!\nGendarme Jacques For\u00eat first appeared in October, when he shared excerpts from three letters he wrote to his father in Paris. Now he\u2019s come to share three more excerpts from letters to his father.\n1 Grande-rue\nHow\u2019s maman? Again, you didn\u2019t say much in your last letter papa and I\u2019m worried. I realise how difficult it must be for you, but I just need to know that she\u2019s all right.\nTell Francis that I send my best wishes for his new job. It can\u2019t be easy for him to be starting work again after such a long period of redundancy. I\u2019m sure Th\u00e9r\u00e8se will be relieved. When I was home at Christmas I thought she looked very tired and drawn. And when you write back, papa, don\u2019t forget to let me have all the news about those nephews of mine.\n\u2026you\u2019re right; the job\u2019s not going so well. Fournier is a difficult man to please and we don\u2019t see police work in quite the same way. I\u2019m beginning to wonder whether leaving Paris for the rural gendarmerie was the right decision. But then, I think about the easy pace of life down here, the more regular hours and I realise that perhaps it is not so bad after all. And, of course I have what I could call my own \u2018patch\u2019. The villagers have accepted me, I think and I seem to be the first person they come to these days, so that\u2019s a good outcome.\n\u2026yes I\u2019m travelling up to Paris on the 9th and I will be with you and maman for the whole of Easter. I\u2019m looking forward to it and I\u2019d be happy to take the boys wherever they want to go. It will be good to catch up with them and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se as well. Perhaps, whilst I\u2019m there, you and I can take a look at the laptop that I brought you last year. Keeping in touch would be so much easier, papa, if you would just use the computer.\nYou ask about Beth\u2026well, there\u2019s nothing much to say. I haven\u2019t heard from her recently. I\u2019ve thought about phoning her\u2026but now I\u2019m not so sure that she will want to hear from me. If she comes back to Messandrierre, she comes back. I\u2019m no longer certain that she will. At the moment I\u2019m concentrating on my work\u2026\nYour only son,\nAbout Messandrierre\nSacrificing his job in investigation following a shooting in Paris, Jacques For\u00eat has only a matter of weeks to solve a series of mysterious disappearances as a rural gendarme. Will he find the perpetrators before his lover Beth becomes a victim?\nBut, as the number of missing rises, his difficult and hectoring boss puts obstacles in his way. Steely and determined Jacques won\u2019t give up and, when a new Investigating Magistrate is appointed, he becomes the go-to local policeman for all the work on the case.\nAbout Angela Wren\nHaving completed a twenty-year career as a Project and Business Change Manager, Angela now works as an Actor and Director at Doncaster Little Theatre and has been writing, in a serious way, for about 5 years. Her work in project management has always involved drafting, so writing, in its various forms, has been a significant feature throughout her adult life.\nShe enjoys the challenge of plotting and planning different genres of work. Her short stories vary between contemporary romance, memoir, mystery and historical. She also writes comic flash-fiction and has drafted two one-act plays that have been recorded for local radio. The majority of her stories are set in France where she likes to spend as much time as possible each year.\nWhere is this blog going next? Watch out for the next post, which will appear on this very blog as soon as I\u2019ve worked out the answer to that question.\nLaunching Messandrierre\nPosted by Miriam under Books | Tags: Angela Swan, Crooked Cat Publishing, Messandrierre |\nBack in October, I hosted Jacques For\u00eat, who introduced himself via three letters to his father.\nWell today the novel he comes from \u2013 Messandrierre by Angela Wren \u2013 is published and you\u2019re welcome to join the launch party that is going on right now.\nIf you like France or mystery novels or both, hop over there tout de suite. .\nPosted by Miriam under Letters from Elsewhere | Tags: Angela Wren, cosy crime, Jacques For\u00eat, Messandrierre |\nMy guest today comes straight from the fictional village of Messandrierre in the Cevennes. He\u2019s a local Gendarme called Jacques For\u00eat. You can get to know him via these excerpts from three letters he wrote to his father in Paris.\nJacques\u2019s creator, Angela Wren, includes other excerpts from Jacques\u2019s letters on her new blog. And you can also find Jacques in the cosy crime story, Messandrierre \u2013 or rather, you will be able to once it\u2019s published at around the turn of the year.\n\u2026papa, keeping in touch would be so much easier if you used the laptop I brought for you and maman when I was home last month. I know tinkering with your precious English Norton in the courtyard is more interesting than getting involved in modern technology, but it would help me a great deal if you could at least try.\nI was up on the col at the weekend on my BSA and the engine failed again. It was a long 10k walk home and mostly in the snow. It\u2019s been very cold here\u2026\n\u2026Messandrierre? What can I say? It\u2019s much the same, papa. I\u2019m beginning to think the village is always the same. Delacroix and the Rouselles are still feuding and I doubt that they can even remember the origin of the issue that really sets them against each other. The Pamiers keep themselves to themselves, and I\u2019ve realised that life here just meanders through the seasons. So very, very different from Paris.\nI\u2019m really sorry to hear that Francis has been made redundant. That\u2019ll make things very difficult for them and the boys. I\u2019ve still got the money from the sale of my place in Paris. It\u2019s sitting in the bank doing nothing except earning interest and, as yet I\u2019ve no intention of investing in a property here. Francis and I have had our moments over the years but I wouldn\u2019t want see my little sister and the boys in difficulty. So, if you can papa, have a quiet word when you next see Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and let her know she can come to me for help if she needs to and I\u2019ll call her tonight and say the same thing even though it will be useless. But if she hears it from you she\u2019ll take notice.\n\u2026I knew I shouldn\u2019t have said anything in my last letter. And I suspect it is maman that really wants to know. Well, her name is Beth and she was staying in one of the chalets on the edge of the village. She\u2019s funny and clever and easy to talk to and vulnerable and shy and she\u2019s English. And it\u2019s complicated. Perhaps we should keep that last bit to ourselves eh? I don\u2019t want maman making assumptions and jumping to the wrong conclusions and then worrying about me. And, just for the record, Beth is nothing like Madeleine. She\u2019s back in England now and it feels as though there is whole in my life. We\u2019re keeping in touch. Well I\u2019ve messaged her a couple of times. I\u2019m not sure where this might go but\u2026\n\u2026give my love to maman and tell her that I\u2019m relieved that she\u2019s beginning to feel better. I had no real idea the long-term prognosis was not good until your last letter. Make sure you tell her I\u2019m all right and that I\u2019ll come home as soon as I can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 12137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mkpilates.com/it/about/who-is-michael-king", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KAQ3KLDOGQGG47PGEAUCPGXTCB6IGUAK", "length": 1357, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mkpilates.com", "title": "Who is Michael King?. MK Pilates", "raw_content": "Michael has been working with the Pilates technique for over 40 years. He originally worked with the technique as a dancer at the London School of Contemporary Dance. In 1982 he opened his own studio, Body Control, in connection with the newly formed Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden London.\nTwo years later he was offered a position in Texas managing the Pilates studio at the Houston Ballet Company where he stayed until 1990. During this time sponsored by the Houston Ballet Michael travelled across the USA visiting and training at studios. In New York with Carla Trier and with Romana Kryzanowska at the original Pilates Studio in New York.\nMichael also worked in the Voight Centre in LA for five years teaching fitness programs as as well as at many other Pilates Studios including Winsor Pilates in Los Angeles.\nHe moved back to Europe in 1995 where following a two year contract in Switzerland he returned to London. Michael was the founder and Director of the Pilates Institute UK until 2008 and has since been running his own training school Michael King Pilates\nMichael 's reputation as a renowned presenter both in Fitness and Pilates has been established since 1980. His training programs are now taught in over 30 countries worldwide and has been instrumental in the development of national and international standards in recent years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 3543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mobility21.cmu.edu/inside-uber-before-its-self-driving-car-killed-a-pedestrian-sources-describe-infighting-perverse-incentives-and-questionable-decisions/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMWR3UXJQVYRAQYM7GBHDCFJJ4CMP2YB", "length": 1239, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mobility21.cmu.edu", "title": "Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: Sources describe infighting, \u2018perverse\u2019 incentives, and questionable decisions | M21 Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: Sources describe infighting, \u2018perverse\u2019 incentives, and questionable decisions \u2013 M21", "raw_content": "Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: Sources describe infighting, \u2018perverse\u2019 incentives, and questionable decisions\nHome > Uncategorized > Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: Sources describe infighting, \u2018perverse\u2019 incentives, and questionable decisions\nMuch has been written about the death of Elaine Herzberg, most of it focused on the failings of the driver. But, until now, not much has been revealed about why engineers and senior leaders turned off the car\u2019s ability to stop itself.\nInsiders told us that it was a result of chaos inside the organisation, and may have been motivated, at least in part, to please the boss.\nBusiness Insider spoke to seven current and former employees of Uber\u2019s self-driving car unit employed during the time of the accident and in the months succeeding it. We viewed internal emails, meeting notes and other documents relating to the self-driving car program and the incident.\nWe learned that these insiders allege that, despite many warnings about the car\u2019s safety, the senior leadership team had a pressing concern in months before the accident: impressing Uber\u2019s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi with a demo ride that gave him a pleasant \u201cride experience.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://momoftwosalums.com/2014/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7G3NPDZZXC7SLC62ZCQETDU6L3RTCR62", "length": 764, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "momoftwosalums.com", "title": "May | 2014 | MomofTwosalums", "raw_content": "Marinol, Cannabis, pot\u2026. its all the same right? Read on\u2026.\nI am turning 34 tomorrow\u2026. i\u2019m really not scared of getting older because the older I get the more I know who I am. I appreciate everything more and I [\u2026]\nAint nothin but an $8 million dollar Cesna!\nWe recently were lucky enough to have gone on a field trip to a local Airport. It was something that wasn\u2019t completely planned, but we were all very excited for [\u2026]\nI am not afraid, this is what I was born to do.\nThe above quote rains true with a my life at the minute. I have had writers block for weeks, almost months now. I just don\u2019t think that I have enough [\u2026]\nLet me take you back to 4 years and 1 week from today. I was going to have and incredible week, you see I love tattoo\u2019s and I was going [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 4663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/09/30/data-breach-us-spies-china.cnnmoney/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:S25MUCYA5K25J5BGIDZFUQIQNDD6ISDC", "length": 152, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "money.cnn.com", "title": "Data breach causes U.S. to pull spies from China - Video - Business News", "raw_content": "Data breach causes U.S. to pull spies from China\nThe U.S. is pulling its spies out of China following a hack on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 234.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://montessori.org.au/about-ami", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RE3E4557HWAJBP6LST6ZJ3FUNJ56I63P", "length": 2325, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "montessori.org.au", "title": "About AMI | Montessori Australia Foundation", "raw_content": "HomeMontessoriAssociation Montessori Internationale\nThe Association Montessori Internationale\u2019s (AMI) mission is to support the natural development of the human being from birth to maturity, enabling children to become the transforming elements of society, leading to a harmonious and peaceful world.\nAMI is recognised internationally as an authoritative voice regarding the unique nature of childhood, natural human development and the rights of the child.\nAMI is identified and sought after nationally and internationally as the custodian and cultivator of Montessori philosophy and pedagogy.\nAMI activities include coordinating a training of trainers programme, guiding approved manufacturers of Montessori Materials, overseeing the publication of Dr Montessori\u2019s books, organising congresses and study conferences, affiliating Montessori Societies and publishing the magazine Communication.\nThe Objectives of the Association Montessori Internationale are:\nTo uphold, advance and protect the rights of the child within society. Making it known that the child plays an essential part in the progress of society. Civilisation depends on the development of the child and their natural growth;\nTo communicate and establish awareness and understanding of the natural laws of development. From the development of the child\u2019s mind, to their social skills, physical development and growth into a global citizen;\nTo arouse and invoke the public opinion on the responsibility that adults have towards the advancement of children\u2019s development and their duty to provide a dignified, nurturing environment;\nTo expand and sustain the pedagogical principles researched, developed and applied by Dr Montessori during her lifetime;\nProviding opportunities for children all over the world to grow, learn and expand their minds naturally. To enter a life of harmony and co-operation with other children and society at large;\nTo broaden the scope of the social movement driven to provide rights to children throughout the world regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, political or social background or beliefs.\nAMI Membership is open to everyone.\nVisit AMI's website: www.montessori-ami.org for further details.\nMontessori Australia is authorised by AMI to offer AMI Membership with our Individual Subscriptions. See here for details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 6798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://morriscountynj.gov/2010/04/morris-distributing-flags-for-veterans-grave-sites-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2YIL4B7BMU3II7LWXIDEI4KQEGHXEJWR", "length": 876, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "morriscountynj.gov", "title": "Morris Distributing Flags For Veterans' Grave Sites | Morris County, NJ", "raw_content": "Morris Distributing Flags For Veterans\u2019 Grave Sites\nThe Morris County Division on Aging, Disabilities and Veterans in the county\u2019s Department of Human Services is preparing to distribute approximately 30,000 American flags to veteran organizations for the purpose of honoring Morris County deceased veterans at their resting place in various county cemeteries for Memorial Day 2010.\nVolunteers from organizations including American Legion Posts, Veteran of Foreign Wars, Jewish-American War Veterans and other veteran groups place the flags on known veteran grave sites each May as a tribute to their comrades-in-arms.\n\u201cPlacing a flag at the grave site of a veteran is a solemn way of honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country,\u201d said Mary Jo Buchanan, director of the Department of Human Services. \u201cMorris County is proud to collaborate in this effort.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mouthpieceministries.wordpress.com/2017/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OMVXGRDVBJYGXCEV3X4VCJ3Z4QF4ZZIO", "length": 8781, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mouthpieceministries.wordpress.com", "title": "November | 2017 | Mouthpiece Ministries", "raw_content": "Good Bye Night\u2026Hello Day\nI was talking to a friend on the phone the other day while walking around Wal Mart and I was telling her about a sermon I heard Paula White preach called, \u201cA Map or A Compass\u201d. I was so into our conversation I went to the automotive department to buy a compass, but they only had a thermometer, clock and compass combo. When I picked it up, I sensed this was prophetic and a needed tool for where we are going. I got home and the Lord spoke to me and said, \u201cYou will need to know the temperature of the atmosphere, the timing of God and the direction in which to go!\u201d As we move forward, these three things are going to be necessary, temperature, timing and direction. Now, with that being said, I want to share with you what the Lord just said to me moments ago, I am still shouting on the inside and if I open my mouth, while typing this, you might hear me shout, for God has some really good news for us.\nGenesis 1:5 says, \u201cGod called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day\u201d (NASB). Did you get that, there was evening and there was morning, that means to the Hebrews the beginning of a new day begins at night, in the evening. For westerners the beginning of a new day is at sunrise, but for God and for the Hebrews, a new day began at night or in the dark. Many of us miss what God is doing, because we don\u2019t think like He thinks, a new day begins at night in God\u2019s mind, therefore, we are in a new day, for it has been really dark lately, would you agree? The Bible calls deeds of darkness, drunkenness, sexual promiscuity, sensuality, strife, jealousy, lusts of the flesh (Romans 13:13-14). Can you see how we have been living in a night season, both in the world and the church?\nHere is another example of life in the night. Luke 5:5 says, \u201cSimon said, Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing\u2026\u201d or Isaiah 54:7-8 says, \u201cFor a brief moment I forsook you\u2026in an outburst of anger I hid my face from you for a moment\u2026says the Lord Your Redeemer\u201d or Psalm 42:3 says, \u201cMy tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, where is your God?\u201d The night is a time of barreness, silence, mourning, it is a time of working hard, but catching nothing, it is a time of waiting, trusting, believing, hoping, navigating disappointment, it is a challenging time that tests your faith on a level that only the night can test it. It is not always deeds of darkness, it is also just times of being in the dark.\nI believe we have been in a new day, but because it has been dark, many of us did not see it as a new day, but to God the new day began, when our darkness began. I have been, in the dark for 17 years now, not because of some deed of darkness, but I now believe it was by design, for I entered a new day and I did not know it. No one told me that a new day began in the dark. I had been saved for 10 years when this dark day began, I was in the ministry, obeying God, tithing, reading my bible daily, I was a \u201cgood Christian\u201d, then I was invited into a new day and I believed I had done something wrong, that I was being sidelined for some sin I did not know I committed. I struggled to understand this new day, for it was dark. But even in the dark, there were prophets like Ron McGatlin, who spoke things over me in this new day, that I could not understand, for not only could I not see in the dark, I could not hear in the dark, when I first began. Can you relate? It\u2019s been dark.\nThen my eyes began to adjust about 4 years ago and my ears began to hear in a way I had never heard before. I was still in the dark, but now I entered into intimacy, revelation, understanding and a whole new world, even though it was still dark. I didn\u2019t do everything perfectly, but I did continue to obey, even in the dark. I learned what love really is, in the dark, and now 17 years later, just today, I heard the Lord say, \u201cThe night is almost over and the day is about to appear!\u201d I knew it was a bible verse, but where I was not clear, so thank you Google for showing me the way, quickly. Listen to Romans 13:11-12 \u201cDo this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now, salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near\u201d (NASB).\nI am shouting, the night is almost over, the day is near, what day, the Isaiah 2:2-4 day, the Micah 4:1-3 day, the Amos 9:11-15 day, the day of rejoicing is near, the sun is rising with healing in His wings (Malachi 4:2), the night is nearly over, the day is breaking, can you see the signs of the coming sunrise, can you hear the sound of the birds singing, do you know the signs of the night leaving and the day beginning? We made it through the night and now we are going to live in the light of His presence. Will you join me in shouting, thank you LORD! and good-bye night\u2026hello day!\nSlaying the Octopus\u2026Accessing Abundance\nAbundance, Increase, prosperity, riches, Wealth, Yahweh\nIt was only two days ago that the Lord revealed to me an octopus that is in the lives of His people. This octopus is one of the gatekeepers to abundance. Once the Lord slays the octopus in our lives, we will have access to abundance, but it begins with slaying the octopus and we cannot slay what we do not see. That is why Solomon is penned as saying, \u201cFor where there is no vision, the people perish\u201d (Proverbs 29:18). What we can\u2019t see, we can\u2019t deal with, that is why God exposes in order to dispose. So, often we don\u2019t want to hear the truth, see the truth or know the truth, for we tend to see it as a way to shame us, condemn us or somehow criticize us. However, the Father in heaven, is way to kind to do that, He only exposes things in our lives in order to dispose of them from our lives. He is so generous that He will expose anything that is hindering us from accessing abundance. This is why He is exposing the octopus.\nOn the news about a week ago, they showed a blue ringed octopus and said it is deadly to humans. I looked it up, as I was sensing some prophetic relevance to this, but did not have all the pieces to see the picture God was releasing to me. Then while reading in Matthew 13:18-23 about the explanation Jesus gave to the disciples in regards to the parable of the sower, the word octopus came into my spirit again. I was befuddled and decided to check out Google to see what are the characteristics of an octopus, for obviously God was seeking to expose something in order to dispose of it. Here is what I discovered about octopuses.\nOctopuses are soft bodied, eight armed mollusks whose mouth is in the center point of the arms; the body can rapidly alter shape and can even squeeze through small gaps; they have excellent sight; are one of the most intelligent and behaviorally diverse invertebrates; they live in water, grow fast and mature quickly, but they are short lived; the males die after fertilizing the eggs of the female; the female dies right after the hatching of the fertilized eggs; they camouflage themselves and are described as sea monsters in mythology (Wikipedia).\nWith that being said, let\u2019s tie the characteristics of the octopus into Matthew 13:22 \u201cThe one on whom seed was sown among thorns, this is the man who hears the word, understands the word, but the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth, choke the word and it becomes unfruitful\u201d (NASB). The choker is the octopus, who has camouflaged itself as worry, that has snuck in through small gaps, that has its mouth in its arms, so the words spoken suffocate or strangle the word and it cannot produce fruit. The octopus is worry and it is choking the word in our lives and making us unfruitful.\nBut you may say, it says thorns and the octopus is a soft bodied sea monster. You are absolutely correct, thorns above ground are hard, but below ground they are soft for their roots which are below ground are what is choking the word in us. Jesus said in this parable, the word took root in the thorny soil, but it did not produce fruit, for it was being choked at the root level, for roots produce fruits. Now to take this one step further, this octopus the Lord is wanting to slay called worry is camouflaged and we often don\u2019t recognize it, but it is there and it is linked to the spirit of mammon, who is another sea monster. That is why Jesus said, it is choked by worry of the world (the octopus) and the deceitfulness of riches (spirit of mammon). The Lord is seeking to slay the octopus in our lives, so that we can access abundance.\nAbundance is the kingdom of God, abundance is Jesus, abundance is wisdom, truth, life, grace, hope, love, peace, joy, wealth, signs, wonders, miracles, it is abundant life in every way, abundance is Yahweh.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 14983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moviejoltz.com/tag/marcia-gay-harden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:23Z", "digest": "sha1:GGLD4JEN62UYCVYEB7NOHCZNSARG34EW", "length": 10318, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "moviejoltz.com", "title": "marcia gay harden | moviejoltz", "raw_content": "Flash Movie Review: Grandma\nI believe every family has to have at least one. It is that relative who does not follow in line with the other family members. It could be an aunt, grandparent or any other older relative; but more than likely, they do not follow the typical mindset on how to interact with a child. Let me give you some examples: a grandparent who sneaks candy to you even though your parents forbid candy in the house; an uncle who does not believe he should wait for an appropriate age for you to taste the wine in his glass. Though I just gave examples involving food, this type of relative could also be the one who recognizes there is an elephant in the room, so to speak. They will talk about whatever issue is hanging over the family that the other relatives are trying to avoid or pretend does not exist. I feel I learned how to express my feelings at an early age because of all the examples I had around me. Some would say I expressed them too much without trying to be diplomatic or at least more sensitive. I should tell you I still remember the first time I heard a relative use a \u201cbad\u201d curse word without any apology; I was around 5 years old. From that point on I noticed his conversation always had some colorful words in it. Maybe that is why I grew up feeling curse words were just another form of an adjective. Either way, I do believe those experiences contributed to me growing comfortable to speak my mind and this is why I immediately identified with the main character in this dramatic comedy. AFRAID to ask her mother for money Sage, played by Julia Garner (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Martha Marcy May Marlene), turned to the only person she thought could help get her out of her predicament; her grandmother Elle Reid, played by Lily Tomlin (I Heart Huckabees, Nashville). Unfortunately broke at the moment, Elle would not give up on her granddaughter and find a way to help her. I recently read the character of the grandmother was written with Lily in mind which made sense because she was perfect in the role. But the cool part was how the other characters such as Marcia Gay Harden (Into the Wild, Miller\u2019s Crossing) as Judy and Sam Elliott (I\u2019ll See You in my Dreams, Up in the Air) as Karl were not short changed; they each got a real character to expand with their acting ability. There was some predictability to the story but I did not mind it. The acting was so strong with these honest characters that I was able to enjoy the ride the story was taking me on. There is something to be said for those relatives who \u201ccall it as they see it\u201d and that is why I want to say, \u201cGo Grandma.\u201d\nTags: 3 stars, comedy, family members, julia garner, lily tomlin, marcia gay harden, relationships, sam elliot\nFlash Movie Review: Elsa & Fred\nIn my world the most powerful two words to use at the beginning of a sentence are, \u201cI love\u2026\u201d Now I love chocolate chip cookies but that is not what I am referring to here. For a human being to feel and express their love for another human is one of the grand prizes for living; at least that is what I think. There is a poem that has the line, \u201cTis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all\u201d and I have to agree with it. Some folk may disagree with me, questioning how someone can miss something if they have never experienced it. If I understand, it would be similar to saying how does someone miss or know if they like a sweet tasting food item if they have never tasted one before. Okay, that makes sense to me. However, one of the many advantages to being in love is having the comfort that one\u2019s tightrope walk through life now has a safety net below to catch them if they should fall. There are people who fall in love and remain together until death. When one dies the other chooses to remain single for the remainder of their life; on the other hand, some individuals may have the opportunity to fall in love again. I admire the people in both scenarios. If someone later in life is fortunate to find love all I can say is more power to them. To me it is like walking through a forest and coming upon a large mighty oak tree. It may not have the flexibility of a young sapling but it has a wide reach to protect you along with deep roots that have been filled with knowledge and nourishment throughout the years. RECENT widower Fred Barcroft, played by Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, Beginners) was pushed into a new home by his daughter Lydia, played by Marcia Gay Harden (Miller\u2019s Crossing, The Mist). Neighbor Elsa Hayes, played by Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment, Bernie), was quite curious with the quiet gentleman who moved next door to her. This film festival winning movie\u2019s saving grace was Shirley and Christopher. They tried their best, having a few touching moments I might add, to keep the story alive in this comedic romance. There were a couple of parts I enjoyed; however, the story was such a disappointment. It was filled with sappy, predictable, poorly written dialog; this picture could have been so much better. I did appreciate however the idea of folks, who were getting up in years, still making discoveries in their life. Isn\u2019t it amazing what love can do to people?\nTags: 2 stars, christopher plummer, comedy, family, marcia gay harden, romance, scott bakula, shirley maclaine, widower\nFlash Movie Review: Rails & Ties\nThey are your last dance partner in life. Rarely can you slip out from their cold embrace once the rhythm of your heartbeat matches their failing beat. There are some who spend a lifetime flirting with it, enticing it to come close; but at the last minute, they spin back away from their advances. Everyone has their own names for it; some call it passing while others refer to it as expired. As a permanent fixture in one\u2019s life, everyone interacts with death in their own way. There are some who cannot even look at it, choosing to change direction in mid-step just to avoid confronting it. Various individuals will not veer from their path, expecting to be taken to a different location assisted by death\u2019s guidance. I am not one to dwell on death since there is nothing I can do about it once it decides to greet me. Sure I exercise and do things to make my life less desirable for death\u2019s tastes; but we both know when death comes to us it does not leave empty-handed. This is why I never judge anyone\u2019s reactions or actions in the way they deal with death. There is some saying about not knowing what a person is feeling until you walk in their shoes, so I never comment on someone\u2019s relationship with death. The writer in my though does observe with mild curiosity at times. DEATH became an unwanted guest in the house of Megan and Tom Stark, played by Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River, Into the Wild) and Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13, The Woodsman). Already challenged with Megan\u2019s breast cancer, a heavy burden descended on the couple after a woman drove her car in front of a passenger train that Tom was running that day, leaving her son an orphan. This film festival nominated drama had a curious affect over me. As I began watching this DVD I did not feel drawn to the story. However, as the movie continued the acting from Marcia and Kevin started to pull me in. They did an admirable job with the somewhat predictable script, aided by Miles Helzer (Rudderless, Parenthood-TV) who played Davey Danner. Clint Eastwood\u2019s daughter, actress Alison Eastwood (Poolhall Junkies, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), chose this story to be her directorial debut and she did some decent work here. She had a good eye for framing scenes. Despite the good acting and direction, the script did not live up to its responsibilities toward the picture. At times far-fetched and overwrought with emotional passages, the script failed the actors. I do not recall this movie ever opening at the theaters; it may have died on arrival. But for a home viewing experience I did not mind watching this DVD at all.\nTags: 2 1/3 stars, alison eastwood, cancer, drama, film festival nominee, kevin bacon, marcia gay harden, suicide\nFlash Movie Review: The Invisible\nAn ideal life would be one with no regrets from one\u2019s choices. I still struggle with some of the decisions I have made; telling myself to stop it, I cannot change something that was out of my control. It does not always work. The answer may be to realize there was a reason for that choice, though it may not make sense at the time. As I started watching this movie, I began comparing some of the aspects of these high schoolers\u2019 lives to my own school experiences. Funny how people can portray a particular persona, that covers up the true reality of their life. A remake of the Swedish film \u201cDen Onsynlige,\u201d this film had an interesting story line. After being brutally attacked by Annie Newton, played by Margarita Levieva (The Lincoln Lawyer, Adventureland), and her buddies; Nick Powell, played by Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, Taking Lives), was left for dead. But on the next day of school Nick showed up to his class, yet no one could see him. He would have to piece together clues about his disappearance before it would become a life or death conclusion. Does that sound confusing to you? Let me just say I found this intriguing dilemma to be a fascinating idea. I thought the set up to Nick\u2019s attack was an excellent example of what type of consequences could befall a person based on their choice of action. Marcia Gay Harden\u2019s (Mystic River, Into the Wild) portrayal as Nick\u2019s mother Diane was well done, using her appearance to cover up her true feelings. The one character I had trouble with was Nick\u2019s best friend Peter Egan, played by Chris Marquette (Fanboys, The Girl Next Door). His role did not come across as being real to me. The foundation of the story was solid; my issue was I felt the writers were inconsistent. Where some scenes were tight with levels of tension, others were loose and unrealistic. Though I liked the idea behind this movie, it did not make as big of an impact as I expected. Then again, one could say I chose to elevate my expectations. Either way, I did not regret seeing this film. A couple of scenes with blood shown.\nTags: 2 1/2 stars, chris marquette, crime, drama, fantasy, high school, justin chatwin, marcia gay harden, margarita levieva", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 19922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mowhawklawncare.com/blog/snake-in-the-grass-huntsville-alabama-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4VFQHFZJZGUYJJEU3FMXVM4WRJ2M4GJY", "length": 931, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mowhawklawncare.com", "title": "Snake in the Grass - Huntsville, Alabama \u2014 Mow Hawk Lawn Care", "raw_content": "Huntsville, Alabama is home to four types of venomous snakes. These dangerous reptiles are the Rattlesnake, Cottonmouth, Water Moccasin, and Copperhead. A bite from one of these snakes can cause death.\nIt\u2019s not unusual to find a rattlesnake in a home, or in a commercial/industrial area of Huntsville. If you see a snake, don\u2019t panic. You should calmly move to a safe distance from the snake, and if possible keep visual contact on it. Give animal control a call and they should be able to help you remove the snake.\nMost snakes found in Huntsville are non-venomous. However, many people kill any snake they see, regardless of the type. You should never attempt to kill a snake. It could lead to a snake bite.\nTips to Avoid Snake Bites\n1. Wear boots and long pants.\n2. Be careful in wooded areas.\n3. Be careful in tall grass\n4. Be careful around rocky areas\n5. Be careful around any body of water.\nCottonmouth - Huntsville, Alabama", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musiccritic.com/jim-orourke/simple-songs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IED5DWL4A7WSQOSYWVDI3VH7DGHUJYOQ", "length": 6469, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "musiccritic.com", "title": "Review: SIMPLE SONGS by Jim O'Rourke Scores 79% on MusicCritic.com", "raw_content": "Album Review of Simple Songs by Jim O'Rourke.\nHome \u00bb Pop/Rock \u00bb Simple Songs\nBuy Simple Songs from Amazon\nSimple Songs - Very Good, Based on 11 Critics\nHowever you might feel about the divergence of styles in Jim O\u2019Rourke\u2019s back catalog, it\u2019s tough not to be awestruck at the scope and scale of his many musical approaches. Having worked alongside everyone from Joanna Newsom to Akira Sakata and released albums as aesthetically opposed as Happy Days and Eureka, it\u2019s safe to say that there are few other artists out there with a comparable level of flexibility in musical (and indeed non-musical) talents. In the past year alone, O\u2019Rourke has worked collaboratively on at least five albums featuring either Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, or Peter Br\u00f6tzmann, all on the back of three additions to his abstract Steamroom series.\nThere was a time, from the late 1990s to the mid\u20132000s or so, when Jim O\u2019Rourke sat at the center of a peculiar intersection of experimental, indie rock, and electronic music. His name on a record was an assurance of a certain level of quality, and he had his name on a great number of them. During these years, he engineered, produced, mixed, and played on records by Smog, Sam Prekop, Faust, John Fahey, Wilco, Stereolab, Tony Conrad, Sonic Youth (of which he was a member), Beth Orton, Superchunk, Phill Niblock, and many more.\nWith the ever authoritative Wikipedia listing 20 solo albums from O\u2019Rourke since 1989, excluding collaborations and time spent in Sonic Youth, Wilco and other bands, the news that he was to return with his first album with vocals since 2001 was still surprising. In a way, Simple Songs picks up where Insignificance left us: a smooth, heavily layered and structured approach to the craft (betraying the album title) underpinned with some of the most biting, surreal and often hilarious lyrics indie rock currently offers. It\u2019s strongest at the front end, with This Weekend and Half Life Crisis almost swaggering out of the speakers, before changing up their time signatures and instrumentation in the blink of an eye.\nChicago musician Jim O\u2019Rourke has a deep and varied catalog, from avant-garde composition and experimental jazz to indie-rock and wild noise, and collaborations in one form or another with the likes of Sonic Youth, Wilco, Superchunk, Beth Orton, Will Oldham and Stereolab, among plenty of others. None of it is simple, so don\u2019t be fooled by the title of O\u2019Rourke\u2019s latest: Simple Songs is only simple by comparison. While these eight new tunes are more straightforward than much of his work, that is not to suggest they are lacking in intricacy.\nLong and mostly associated with avant-garde musical experimentation, Jim O'Rourke hasn't released a rock-songs-with-lyrics-and-singing-based album since 2001, and his return to the form has yielded songs that are anything but simple. The well-respected multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who originally hails from Chicago has spent most of this century living in Tokyo, working on music constantly but mostly staying out of the indie rock public eye. With his primary collaborator/superhuman percussionist Glenn Kotche busy in Wilco and also an ocean away, O'Rourke wasn't sure how to bring the complex rhythmic and arrangement ideas in his head to life.\nWhile many artists boast a diverse resume, shuffling through Jim O\u2019Rourke\u2019s complete catalog is a mind-scrambling experience. He\u2019s collaborated with Japanese noise legend Merzbow, and he contributed to and had a heavy influence on Wilco\u2019s seminal Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. He\u2019s experimented on his own and spent six years as a member of Sonic Youth.\nJim O\u2019RourkeSimple Songs(Drag City)Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars The title seems clear enough, but little in Jim O\u2019Rourke\u2019s extensive catalog can be taken at face value. The guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/producer/auteur is a true renaissance man. He\u2019s best known for his avant-garde work as a collaborator, solo act and member of acts such as Gastr del Sol, Smog, and most famously, Sonic Youth.\nFourteen years ago, Jim O\u2019Rourke released an album called Insignificance. It remains a work of bitter, twisted, cathartic genius \u2013 seven songs with unpredictable structures, indelible hooks and relentlessly funny lyrics, sneered out by a man who sounded all too aware of his greatness. \u201cListen to my works,\u201d you could almost hear the indie rock Ozymandias say, \u201cye hipsters, and despair.\u201d And then\u2026silence.\nJim O\u2019Rourke \u2014 Simple Songs (Drag City)Jim O\u2019Rourke did not announce Simple Songs, his first solo record of songs in 14 years, with a video unveiling a key track on a high-profile site in order to lure back listeners. He previewed it with a commercial that shows some grey-whiskered, inappropriately enthusiastic loon haranguing a bewildered-looking young fellow in a minivan, with just four seconds of an instrumental break stashed away near the end. Is this how he sees his return to the tower of song? If so, he portrays it with far more good humor than anything else on this chilly, deliberately off-putting, but deeply fascinating record.\nThe rule of thumb for comprehending Jim O\u2019Rourke as a creator of pop songs is to savor the exquisite details without getting hung up on a particular outcome. \u201cSimple Songs,\u201d his first singer-songwriter album in 14 years, has the arid lushness and prickly intentions you\u2019d expect \u2014 but he doesn\u2019t want you to get too comfortable. \u201cNice to see you once again,\u201d is his welcoming first line on the album, murmured on a tune called \u201cFriends With Benefits.\u201d He deflates it within the next breath: \u201cBeen a long time, my friend/Since you crossed my mind at all.\u201d What follows in the lyrics, against a bright wash of chiming piano, strummed guitars and rubbery bass lines, has the ring of a transactional relationship.\n\"Nice to see you once again/been a long time my friends/since you crossed my mind at all.\" So begins the first Jim O'Rourke record of original songs with vocals since 2001's Insignificance \u2013 the words both embracing his fans and keeping them at arm's length. Such ambivalence is nothing new: O'Rourke is as famous for his sour moods as he is for his astounding musical range, jumping effortlessly between Bacharachian song craft, ambient drone, twitchy electronica and American primitive guitar forms (while also producing Grammy-winning albums for Wilco and playing guitar for Sonic Youth). But focus on that first line, the bit about it being nice to see you again.\n'Simple Songs'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://muvluv.fandom.com/wiki/Unlimited/Alternative_World", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:OBF7IIMGDJ5VGZG2QFWKGOFW76ZARYO3", "length": 6790, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "muvluv.fandom.com", "title": "Unlimited/Alternative World | Muv-Luv Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Setting, Unlimited, Alternative\nUnlimited/Alternative World\nThe Unlimited/Alternative World circa October 2001 Placeholder for Map from Integral Works\nThe worlds of Unlimited and Alternative are two of the parallel worlds featured in the expanded settings of the Muv-Luv series, with a similar physical apperance to our own world and the world of Extra, but otherwise diverged heavily from standard history as we know it, beginning with the end of World War II in 1945.\nInitially sharing an identical history in the form of the new series of events following their version of the Cold War, the history of the Unlimited/Alternative worlds would split again after the 22nd of October, 2001, with Alternative gaining its unique continuation, and Unlimited generating new parallel worlds after that date, the world of The Day After being one of them.\nFor a comprehensive list of events, refer to the Unlimited/Alternative timeline.\nThe history of the Unlimited/Alternative world's first difference from the others began in 1867, in Imperial Japan, when the shogunate family and anti-shogun daimyo united for a common cause to resist the threat of European and American powers, and established the restoration of imperial rule with a new Shogun and the 5 Regeant Houses of Koubuin, Ikaruga, Saionji, Kujo, and Takatsukasa.\nHistory truly diverged from what we know it as at the end of 1944, when the Empire of Japan surrendered unconditionally in the face of a relentless Allied assault, and was allowed to keep its imperial titles and national structure intact. The nuclear bombs that were made by the United States of America were used on Berlin instead to end World War II. With the start of the Cold War, the Empire of Japan was quickly incorporated into the Allies' plans for a military foothold in the Far East against the rising Soviet Union.\nAs the Cold War pitted the USA, her Far East allies, and NATO against the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact, the technological developments of the two world powers developed at an astonishing rate, with manned spaceflight, unmanned spacecraft and space stations coming into practical deployment well beyond the timeframe of their counterparts in our/Extra's worlds. Technologies that remained experimental or near-future in our/Extra's worlds, like powered exoskeletons, lunar bases, and advanced lightweight composite materials became commonplace, and humanity easily expanded their reach into the stars above.\nWhen the BETA were first sighted on Mars in 1958, the scientific community and the world were extremely excited at the prospect of contact with an alien race. The excitement quickly turned into horror when it was confirmed that the BETA also existed on the Moon, and 1967 marked the first hostile contact with the BETA. The war began to tip towards the BETA's favor; 1973 marked the BETA's first landfall on Earth, resulting in what would later be the United Nations' subsequent withdrawal of all forces from the Moon, and the next twenty-seven years would see setback after setback for the forces of humanity, as the BETA overwhelmed them on all fronts.\nGeographical Features Edit\nMost, if not all of the natural features of the Earth, still remain the same, up until the 1973 BETA invasion. From there on, the lands around Kashgar have become ravaged by constant warfare and the BETA's strip-mining of the lands, the destruction having expanded in a widening radius as the BETA advanced in all directions for the next twenty-seven years.\nMost lands mined by the BETA become flat, lifeless plains that are devoid of even the most hardy of lifeforms, plant or animal; even the water from rivers and in the land are extracted. Even beforehand, from 1973 to the 1980s, the Soviet and Chinese armies constantly used nuclear weapons in a massive scorched-earth campaign against the BETA, reducing the land to a radioactive waste long before the BETA set foot there.\nPerhaps the greatest destructive features of the BETA are their tunneling tendecies and the areas around their Hives. The ground is riddled in branching tunnels, reaching from 2 to 100 kilometers way from the Hive, and the interior is lined with G-Elements.\nPolitical Entities Edit\nThe political, and to an extent, the territorial arrangement of the countries and nations in the world of Unlimited, and Alternative, vastly differ from the arrangement that we know of.\nWhile most of the nations on the American continent remained the same, the Western European nations formed the European Union, with the next twenty-seven years of warfare shaping the super-organization from a political alliance to a competent political entity representing the will of the European people, as well as being in command of almost all military matters concerning the overall defence of the European continent.\nThe United Nations also has greater power as a unifying force than in our/Extra's world, being tasked with command of space forces, theater-level and above command operations, and organizing major offensives against the BETA, usually with troops loaned from other nations. Despite being labelled a lapdog of the USA, the power the UN wields is still considerable, with UN-led operations and projects representing some of the greatest milestones achieved by humanity in their war against the BETA.\nThe alternative history of the BETA-infested world(s) have also led to the rise of new political entities. The BETA's assault from Kashgar following their landing in 1973 forced the Warsaw Pact into two parts; the original Soviet Union, and the Eastern European nations that were cut off from their parent organization and forced to form the Eastern European Socialist Alliance, which were later absorbed into the European Union as well. In Asia, the South-East Asian region is united under COSEAN, and the Unified Front of China has militarily unified both the People's Republic of China which was driven off the mainland by the BETA advance, and the US-allied Taiwan. The Soviet Union itself now resides in the upper half of Alaska, as a result of a land-lease from the USA; most of their fomer territory is now under BETA coverage, with the exception of the Kamchatka Peninsula and a few clusters of islands around the region.\nThe BETA advance into the Middle East and towards Africa saw the birth of the Middle Eastern Coalition and the African Union. Both forces have allied, and their combined militaries are stationed at the Suez Canal, defending the African continent from BETA invasion. The remaining untouched nations, including Australia and the nations of Africa, have become major resource centers and/or refugee centers, allowing the frontline nations to continue their war against the BETA.\nRetrieved from \"https://muvluv.fandom.com/wiki/Unlimited/Alternative_World?oldid=28061\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 8511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myfinalphoto.com/my-skateboard-still-lifes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:43LRPCUGIQQL5ZG2K4FI2EO65CNJSARP", "length": 1745, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "myfinalphoto.com", "title": "My skateboard still-lifes - My Final Photo", "raw_content": "My skateboard still-lifes\nI\u2019ve got a beat. It\u2019s Westerville.\nIn the days when newspaper news rooms were filled with reporters, most were assigned specific beats. Today, with smaller staffs, reporters often are assigned to several beats making it more difficult, in my opinion, to create a news report with depth and representing the daily lives of a newspaper\u2019s readers.\nI see that in not only the daily newspaper with much smaller news holes and the weekly that appears to be filled by formula rather than reporting. Don\u2019t misunderstand. The quality of what is being reporting is great. Almost all of the news reporters I know are great reporters. It\u2019s a shame they don\u2019t have more space in which to show their work and more staff to allow them to isolate on important stories instead of covering areas outside their expertise.\nSeveral times a week I visit merchants in Uptown Westerville just to keep myself apprised of the latest happenings with their businesses, to see what is different about their stores, and to learn about what might be happening in the near future.\nOne of my regular stops in Old Skool skate shop where I am always warmly greeted. Often there is an opportunity for a good photo of young skateboarders and their families. Sometimes it\u2019s just me and Wally worrying about politics and the weather. One discussion this week centered on the mud tracked through Westerville\u2019s skate park by bike riders who left trailed of hardened muck on every smooth surface at the park.\nWally isn\u2019t usually in the shop of Fridays, but I still visit. Today it was very slow so I took the time to shoot some of the well worn wheels and gritty bearings removed from repaired and replaced boards. My skateboard still-lifes. Shot with my iPhone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mytopfitness.com/index.php/2018/11/24/pros-cons-whole-house-water-filter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EEXP63W24C2FL6JWRL3AGQCQXANT5KXJ", "length": 15336, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "mytopfitness.com", "title": "Pros and Cons of a Whole House Water Filter | My Top Fitness", "raw_content": "These days we are all concerned about clean water sources, especially for drinking. Bottled water flies off the shelves of stores. Many people no longer trust what comes out of the faucet at home or work. There are several options for ensuring a healthy water supply from your own faucets, including a whole house water filter system.\nIt\u2019s easy to install a single filter under your kitchen sink or on the faucet itself. But what about the rest of the house? If your concerns go beyond just drinking water, a whole house system is a viable option. Whether you are involved in new construction or live in your own existing home, it is important to consider the best way to protect yourself and your family\u2019s health by supplying them with clean water.\n2 Benefits of a Home Water Filtration System\n2.2 All-in-One Solution\n2.3 Removes Dangerous Chemicals and Contaminants\n2.3.2 Fluoride\n2.3.5 Toxic Substances\n2.4 Remove Toxic Exposure\n2.5 Improve Taste and Smell\n2.6 Soften Hard Water\n2.7 Environmental Impact\n2.8 Healthy Children\n3 Cons of a Whole House Water Filter\nA whole house water filtration system is able to remove almost any type of water contaminant from every area of your home. This system is generally installed by connecting directly to the water line where it comes into the house. This line may be before or after outside spigots, so if you\u2019re concerned about watering your garden you may want to research how the water lines run to your house.\nA whole house system is a fully integrated system. It cannot be installed and uninstalled easily. The cost of installation may or may not be included with the purchase of the system. A whole house system will provide years of service with little maintenance. Once installed, little maintenance is required.\nBenefits of a Home Water Filtration System\nWater is essential for life. Having healthy water will ensure your body has what it needs for daily activities and a long life. Whether you have a serious exercise routine, such as distance running, or running around the house or work\u2026 your body deserves the best. This is where a whole house water filter comes into consideration.\nOf course, the biggest benefit of a whole house water filter system is the peace of mind you can have by knowing clean water comes from every source throughout your home. Cooking and cleaning will be healthier for every member of your family. Contaminant-free water will also be available for showers and laundry purposes, as well as for the care of any pets you may own.\nA water filtration system eliminates the need to install individual filters in different locations in your home. You won\u2019t have to worry that your kids will drink from the bathroom faucet instead of the kitchen faucet where the filter is installed. Potential contaminants will be captured before reaching any indoor source available for family use.\nIt also makes keeping up with maintenance or replacement filters easier. Just one filter is easier to remember and may even prove to be more economical in the end. And there are fewer aesthetic or space issues from bulky filters hanging on your faucets or in your shower or taking up storage space under the sink.\nIspring Water Systems LLC. - Tools & Home Improvement\nRemoves Dangerous Chemicals and Contaminants\nA whole house system can remove many dangerous substances known to cause a variety of illnesses. It\u2019s a good idea to have your water tested so that you can choose the appropriate system to meet the needs of your area. Some of the harmful contents your filter system may remove include:\nChlorine is considered one of the most dangerous contaminants in our drinking water. In some areas, chlorine levels in homes may be as high as in public swimming pools. Even then, it\u2019s presence may not guarantee the absence of harmful microorganisms. Most experts agree that chlorine should be removed from any water before drinking.\nChlorine can have many detrimental effects, such as allergic reactions or increased risk of asthma attacks. Showering in chlorinated water can cause nasal and throat irritations, sneezing or a mild cough. It can also cause skin irritations. Children are especially susceptible to negative health issues.\nChlorine has been linked to an increased risk of bladder cancer. This dangerous chemical also has the ability to damage cells and tissues in the body, affecting the cardiovascular and digestive systems[1].\nAlthough fluoride has been added to municipal water systems for years for oral health reasons, long-term exposure has been linked to such health issues as immune system disorders. It also may increase the signs of aging and affect cognitive functions[2].\nLead may leach into a water supply through old pipes or pipe soldering after the water leaves the treatment plant. Testing your water can tell you if this is a factor in your area. Identifying lead in any amount in your drinking water is cause for immediate action.\nThere is no known safe level for lead in drinking water, especially for children. It is a highly toxic substance which can slow normal growth, cause learning disabilities, and damage the nervous system and blood cells[3].\nAluminum can be a by-product of water treatment facilities, but not in sufficient quantities to affect most people. However, some parts of the country experience a greater amount of naturally occurring aluminum in soil and groundwater, and if you live in one of these areas, you could have unhealthy amounts in your tap water.\nThis is yet another reason to have your water tested. Studies indicate too much of this toxic mineral can accelerate the symptoms of Alzheimer\u2019s or other brain disorders[4]. So if you find you have unusually high aluminum content in your drinking water, you will need a water filter which can accommodate its removal.\nBesides the above mentioned, there are many other types of toxins from pesticides, fertilizers, or other pollutants which may not be removed by regular water treatment procedures. These substances may cause a variety of symptoms and disorders, from headaches to mood swings to muscle weakness.\nRemove Toxic Exposure\nThe right home water filter system can remove the dangerous, invisible toxins in your whole water supply. These toxins do not only affect you through drinking water. There are many other day-to-day water uses that can spread potential toxins throughout your home.\nYour body can absorb more chlorine through showering than through your drinking water, resulting in eczema and other skin irritations and dryness. A water filtration system eliminates the need to add a filter to the shower-heads in your home.\nSome water contaminants may stain your clothing in the wash, fade colors, and make your clothes feel rough or itchy. They can also damage the washing machine itself, shortening its lifespan and adding an unwelcome expense[5].\nMinerals in tap water can cause a buildup on dishes in the dishwasher, as well as on the dishwasher itself. Also, hot steamy water from the dishwasher or shower can easily transfer toxins to the air, increasing indoor air pollution. So filtering your water supply may also help make the air in your home more breathable and healthy for yourself and your family.\nIn some areas, contaminants may cause tap water to carry a noxious smell or an odd taste. The presence of hydrogen sulfide may cause a rotten egg smell, or other dissolved solids may give water a woody or muddy smell. Mercury, lead, iron, or even arsenic may cause a metallic taste or smell.\nNone of these tastes or smells are desirable, and the added contaminants are not welcome. A whole house filter can help to eliminate these substances, including in well water. So your entire home will smell better as well as your water.\nSoften Hard Water\nThe most common cause of hard water is the infusion of ions from the minerals calcium and magnesium. The higher the concentration of these minerals, the harder the water. Hard water reduces the effectiveness of cleaning products and can build up over time.\nHard water buildup damages everything it touches, from pipes to shower walls. Over time, repairs can become expensive and invasive. Whole house filtration can help soften water by filtering out these minerals.\nIf you live in an area with hard water, you are aware of the damage it can do to a variety of household appliances. Although these minerals may not be harmful in drinking water, the expense of replacing damaged fixtures and appliances may make it a worthwhile investment.\nThere is a great deal of concern about the amount of plastic accumulating in landfills and water sources. Using water filtration in your home can greatly reduce the use of bottled water, which is thought to be a major culprit. Reusable drinking containers can be carried most places and easily identified for individual use. Especially if you are planning the building of a new home, a water filtration system could be an important consideration.\nIn a world of uncertainties, where studies are forever finding more and more unhealthy potential in the environment, clean water is harder and harder to come by. Growing children are especially vulnerable, so you want to make the best choices you can in those areas you have the power to control. Exposure to toxins in the home is one of those areas, including the purity of the water your children drink, bath, and play in.\nMany whole house water filters last from 5-10 years. So the system is easy to maintain and can prove economical in the long run. Having the water tested will help you to make the best decision about what type of filter you will need to protect those developing minds and bodies.\nCons of a Whole House Water Filter\nEven though the benefits may seem to be many, a whole house system may not be for everyone. There are several reasons why individual filters may be preferred. Some reasons against this type of water filtration system include:\nOne main drawback is the initial investment, which may be from $500-$10,000. The different choices for filtration systems provide differing results. The system that best fits your budget may not meet your immediate needs.\nAlso, as mentioned before, a water filtration system for the entire house requires professional installation. If you do not have the necessary skills, you will have to pay the additional cost for a trained plumber. This is not recommended as a DIY project.\nSome homes may simply not have the adequate amount of space to accommodate this type of system without some modifications. Some of the systems may be relatively small, others require some dedicated space. This is a factor to consider when deciding to add a filtration system to an existing home.\nAs stated, not all water filtration systems are created equal. Some of the more inexpensive systems may only filter out sediment or rust. While this may suffice for some water supplies, such as well water, further filtering would be needed to remove harmful chemicals such as chlorine or other toxic substances.\nReverse osmosis systems have also gained in popularity. However, some of these systems may actually remove more minerals than desired, affecting its taste and nutritional value. These necessary minerals would have to be re-added via supplements to maintain good health.\nMany whole house filtration systems have a limitation of producing only around 50 gallons of filtered water per day. A filter attached to the faucet may be able to provide as much as 20 gallons of drinking water every minute. On the plus side, these limitations may encourage conservation.\nPurchasing a whole house filter system that will meet your clean water needs requires a bit of research. You will need to be educated by online research or speaking with a professional about what the different systems offer.\nOf course, you will need to find out about the capacity of different filter sizes and how easily they may clog. You\u2019ll need to find out about cartridge maintenance and replacement costs. Different systems include different back-washing and water channeling features. You\u2019ll want to learn about the difficulties associated with fluoride removal or the limitations of reverse osmosis.\nOther factors include the system\u2019s flow rate in gallons per minute (GPM), the filter lifespan of the different systems, and the port size. The ideal port size is 1 inch for most houses. A 1-inch port size minimized the possibility of clogs or detrimental effects on water pressure.\nWater filters and water softeners can be two different things, so make sure you know what you are looking for. There are whole house systems which can serve both functions. If that is what you need, it will help narrow your choices and give you a better idea of costs.\nIf your greatest concern is drinking water, an under-the-counter filter or a filter attached to the kitchen faucet may be all you need. Those types of filters are generally easy to install and will filter out just about all contaminants. But if you find you need to install multiple under-the-counter filters, this option may not be sufficient for your needs.\nThere are so many different water filtration systems on the market that choosing can be confusing. Researching some websites that compare the offerings of different manufacturers and models will help you make a more informed choice. An Aquasana whole house water filter is an industry leading one worth evaluating. Even with the cons, there are many positive reasons to invest in a home water filtration system.\nTo summarize, the first step is to have your household water tested for hardness and contaminants. Then research the various filtration systems available to meet your needs. No matter you choose, the health of your family will benefit. And you will be doing your part to help protect the environment. Clean water is a necessity. Making it safe in your home is vital for the highest quality of life.\nCategories Healthy WaterTags Drinking Water, Healthy Water, Water Filter, Whole House Water Filter Post navigation\n10 thoughts on \u201cPros and Cons of a Whole House Water Filter\u201d\nAwesome article about water filter for our housesI love your content.\nPingback: How to Add Minerals Back to Reverse Osmosis Filtered Water\nI like that you said that having a water filtration system can give you an assurance that every water source in your home provides clean water. My husband and I are looking for ways to keep our children in good health condition. We don\u2019t want them to suffer from skin allergies, digestive problems, and other health issues caused by waterborne contaminants. We\u2019ll be sure to consider investing in a water filtration system.\nThank you. It is good to hear that others are taking their family\u2019s health seriously when it comes to healthy water.\nSharon Wilson-Smiths\nYou got me when you said that chlorine in water can trigger asthma attacks and can cause skin irritations. With that in mind, I\u2019ll make sure to invest in a water treatment system soo. My son is prone to allergies and asthmatic. In fact, since we moved here to our place, he has been coughing almost all day long. He lost weight due to coughing and illnesses. Thanks for sharing this.\nHappy to help Sharon and hope your son gets better. On a side note, you mentioned moving into a new home\u2026 as many people have sensitivities to mold, have you tested it or your son for mold issues?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 18741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ndsmcobserver.com/2010/04/dual-degree-students-enjoy-both-campuses/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MM2YTJRPXZSUJG46XIE6EFDEDGT56P5X", "length": 2246, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ndsmcobserver.com", "title": "Dual Degree students enjoy both campuses // The Observer", "raw_content": "Dual Degree students enjoy both campuses\nBrittany VanSnepson | Wednesday, April 21, 2010\nA small group of Saint Mary\u2019s students are getting the best of both worlds as they take Notre Dame and Saint Mary\u2019s courses through participating in the Dual Degree Program.\nThe Dual Degree Program is a five-year program in which the students attain a bachelor\u2019s degree in math or science at Saint Mary\u2019s and receive another bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering at Notre Dame.\n\u201cThe program allows us to be an integral part of the Saint Mary\u2019s community while exploring the benefits of a degree at Notre Dame,\u201d Angela Willson, a sophomore in the Dual Degree Program, said. \u201cThere is nothing better than coming back to the Saint Mary\u2019s campus and feeling like you are home where you belong.\u201d\nThe first year of the program immerses students exclusively in Saint Mary\u2019s courses to help them acclimate to college life. Then students start taking classes at Notre Dame during their sophomore year.\n\u201cThe transition from all Saint Mary\u2019s classes to having classes over at Notre Dame was jarring because it was a big change from attending smaller classes to being in this huge lecture hall with 100 other people,\u201d said Taylor Chamberlain, a sophomore chemistry and chemical engineering double major.\nThe Dual Degree Program has students taking classes on both campuses throughout their sophomore, junior and senior years. The fifth year of the program has students solely dedicated to taking Notre Dame courses.\n\u201cI look forward to continuing more classes at Notre Dame,\u201d Willson said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a sophomore in the program, you really haven\u2019t begun to explore your actual intended engineering major.\u201d\nAll Dual Degree participants must submit an application to Notre Dame in order to finish their fifth year in the program.\n\u201cThe possibility that I may not be accepted into the fifth year of the program is a constant concern,\u201d Chamberlain said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t dwell on it too much because I don\u2019t want to do anything else.\u201d\nFacebook\u2019s latest changes receive varied reception on campus\nNotre Dame students can agree that change is a good thing...\nStudents advocate \u201cEqual Pay Day\u201d\nGraduate students paved way for women on campus\nSaint Mary\u2019s works to improve food services", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nevadamo.gov/city-council-meeting-tuesday-february-5-2013-700-p-m/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVLOIPOQ3HJVUW564GGWJCNVW2O22YEY", "length": 2254, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "nevadamo.gov", "title": "City Council Meeting \u2013 Tuesday, February 5, 2013 \u2013 7:00 p.m. \u2013 City of Nevada", "raw_content": "Home MeetingsCity Council Meeting \u2013 Tuesday, February 5, 2013 \u2013 7:00 p.m.\nCity Council Meeting \u2013 Tuesday, February 5, 2013 \u2013 7:00 p.m.\na. 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Second Reading of Bill No. 2013-006 Declaring Assets of the City of Nevada, Missouri, As Surplus Property and Authorizing Their Sale.\nd. Second Reading of Bill No. 2013-007 Authorizing the Execution of an Agreement with Archetype Design Group of Leawood, KS, For Construction of A Clubhouse Building at the Frank E. Peters Sports Complex.\na. Consideration of Bill No. 2013-008 Approving Settlement of Boundary Dispute With The State of Missouri.\nb. Consideration of Bill No. 2013-009 Approving An Agreement Between the City of Nevada and M-Nod Taxi and Shuttle For Subsidized Public Transportation Services For 2013.\nc. Consideration of Bill No. 2013-010 Amending Chapter 3-26 of the Code of the City of Nevada, Missouri.\nd. Consideration of Bill No. 2013-011 Authorizing the Execution of an Agreement with Williams Spurgeon Kuhl & Freshnock Architects, Inc. For Renovation and Construction of a Public Safety Building.\ni. NRMC Board of Directors Minutes \u2013 November 27, 2012\nii. 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Many of them feel devoid of control over a much wider range of issues \u2013 including opportunities for their children \u2013 than those addressed by Brexit.\nAnd in direct contrast to the widespread argument that Brexit is most supported by so-called \u200b\u2018left behind\u2019 communities who want to \u200b\u2018take back control\u2019, this poll shows that those who feel they lack control are in fact the least likely to be enthusiastic about Brexit. Those who are most hopeful for the future when the UK leaves the European Union are in fact those who already feel they have control over their lives.\nAmong voters who feel they lack control over their lives, the demand to take control extends into the personal world of the kind of jobs they do, working hours, and their own personal data.\nMarc Stears, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, said:\n\u201cBritain has a crisis of control.\nWe have heard a great deal from politicians about how they are going to help people take back control. But they aren\u2019t. This poll shows that those who really lack control already know that Brexit isn\u2019t going to make things better.\n\u201cBrexit optimists are more likely to be those people who already have control. Those who feel they have lost control have good reason to be fearful about what will happen next.\n\u201cThe New Economics Foundation is developing an agenda that meets people\u2019s deep desire for more control over their lives, without offering them false solutions like leaving the EU.\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s seaside communities left behind by economic development, small businesses starved of finance, or young families hoping for their first home and worried about the cost of childcare, we want to give people the tools they need to change their lives right now.\u201d\nThe poll in more detail\nOf all the 1,994 people sampled:\n\u00b7 81% feel they have little or no control over the Westminster government\n\u00b7 79% feel they have little or no control over their local council\n\u00b7 79% feel they have little or no control over public services in their area\n\u00b7 75% feel they have little or no control over their neighbourhood\n\u00b7 70% feel they have little or no control over companies that provide essential services\nOf those who feel they have a great deal or a fair amount of control over the things that matter most to them in their lives:\n\u00b7 58% are hopeful about Brexit (against 38% who are worried)\n\u00b7 63% own their own home (against 31% who rent)\n\u00b7 40% voted Conservative in 2015 (against 28% who voted Labour)\nOf those who feel they have little or no control over the things that matter most to them:\nExamples of projects and campaigns at the heart of the Foundation\u2019s agenda\nGiving coastal communities real control over their future with a Blue New Deal\nCoastal communities feel abandoned by the political elite. Traditional livelihoods have disappeared, without new industries or investment to fill the gaps. Our action plan for a Blue New Deal means working with and supporting communities to take control of their futures, developing an inclusive and outward-looking agenda to revive coastal economies.\nThe plan identifies 20 priorities, including greater local control over public goods and services, additional investment, closer partnerships between different areas, authorities and industries, and commitment to clean, sustainable coastal waters.\nMapping vacant development sites so that we can take control over our space and the future of our communities by providing homes where we want to live\nThe housing system is failing a whole generation with property prices soaring beyond reach, millions of tenants being ripped off by private landlords and still too few houses being built by developers on land earmarked for homes. The Foundation will help local people take control of their housing needs by creating the very first maps identifying the vacant sites available for development in their area, as well as showing who owns them and why they have not been built on.\nHelping to create a new taxi app owned and operated by drivers so people can begin to share in value they create in digital economy \u2013 and take control of the technology that will power all our futures\nThe digital economy threatens to be even more unequal than the one it is replacing, with data owned by increasingly dominant transnational corporations, jobs being automated and technology platforms like Uber driving down wages in fragmented labour markets. The Foundation is examining how people can use technology to assert more control or share in the value they create with projects such as working with partners to create a new taxi app that will be owned and controlled by drivers, from Leeds to London.\nProducing energy locally so that everyone has a stake in a low carbon future and assert some control over a market that seems dominated by the Big Six and vast projects like Hinkley Point\nPeople have virtually no control over the price they pay for energy, they usually do not know whether it is part of the climate change problem or the solution, and they feel they have no control over the cost of enormous projects like the \u00a318 billion nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. The Foundation has teamed up with the Switched On London campaign to create an energy company owned and controlled by the people who use it. This is just one of a new generation of community-led programmes investing in clean locally-produced power that gives everyone a stake in the transition to a low-carbon economy.\nTurning RBS into 130 stakeholder banks so that finance begins to serve communities \u2013 instead of communities serving the banks\nEight years on from the financial crisis, it seems like it is business as usual for Britain\u2019s too-big-to-fail banks with new concessions to the City, whole regions starved of investment and the wealth of those who control financial assets becoming ever greater. The Foundation is drawing up proposals to create more stakeholder banks modelled on the Sparkassen in Germany with a mission to invest for the long term in their areas. We could start by turning publicly-owned RBS into a network of 130 local banks, owned in trust for the public benefit and with a mission to invest in left-behind areas of the country.\nEstablishing childcare cooperatives so that parents can better afford it and feel less powerless over services that are fundamental to our lives\nBritain\u2019s care industry is increasingly reliant on a chronically low-paid and under-valued workforce, run by a few big firms seeking to maximise profit. The Foundation is developing a network of childcare co-operatives, drawing together groups like Childspace in Brockwell and Grasshoppers in the Park in Hackney. These combine the skill of professional workers with the lived experience of families, turning parents from passive recipients of services into active participants who can take more control of how their children are looked after while also ensuring better pay for workers and more affordable services for families.\n1. The New Economics Foundation is the UK\u2019s only people-powered think tank. The Foundation works to build a new economy where people really take control. www\u200b.newe\u200bco\u200bnom\u200bics\u200b.org\n2. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQRR) is a global campaigns and strategic communications research firm. It has polled for hundreds of political campaigns worldwide and also works for a range of leading companies and non-profits. GQRR was pollster to Labour at the UK\u2019s 2015 General Election. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and has worked in the UK since 1995.\n3. Methodology: GQRR surveyed 1,994 people in Great Britain online between 8 and 10 March. Results are weighted to be representative of the total population by age, gender, region, socioeconomic grade, ethnicity and past voting behaviour. Download data tables showing the results here: http://\u200bbit\u200b.ly/\u200b2\u200bn\u200bnbWiD For more information contact info@\u200bgqrr.\u200bcom or tweet Peter McLeod (@mcleodp).\nInflation blow to Brexit Britain: living costs continue to outstrip wages", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 10577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newfeeldolls.com/social-media/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YEM6AR23KE3CYXGBVDUTOADETARPCJ5U", "length": 481, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "newfeeldolls.com", "title": "We are Officially on Social Media! | NEW FEEL DOLLS - Brand Liaison", "raw_content": "New feel sex dolls is now active full-time on social media. You can visit us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, or directly via Tidio. See the official links below for details.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/newfeeldolls/\nhttps://m.me/newfeeldolls\nhttps://mobile.twitter.com/NewFeelDolls\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UChpyQxq\u2013H4u6jsMYuvz2PA\nhttps://www.instagram.com/new_feel_sex_dolls/\nhttps://www.pinterest.com/newfeelsexdolls/\nhttps://www.amazon.com/shops/newfeel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 135.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/article/64137/the-tnr-roundtable-part-9-what-should-obama-do-about-darfur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7BWQUKTAUXTANR7SATXF6QB3AUPLWWJB", "length": 5618, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "The TNR Roundtable Part 9: What Should Obama Do About Darfur? | The New Republic", "raw_content": "The TNR Roundtable Part 9: What Should Obama Do About Darfur?\nIs Darfur really a genocide? That is the central question.\nClick here to read Part 8: The ICC's Botched Decision--And Why Obama Should Support It.\nClick here for links to each part of the conversation.\nFrom: Alan Wolfe\nTo: Alex de Waal, Richard Just, Andrew Natsios, Eric Reeves, Elizabeth Rubin\nAlex de Waal would like this discussion to get back to the concrete, specifically to the question of what the Obama administration ought to do about Darfur. But to answer that question, we first have to know what we are dealing with, since any effective policy depends upon a correct definition of the situation. What then are we dealing with? A civil war? An insurgency? Genocide?\nThe question of genocide in particular cannot be avoided because everything else flows from it. It is because Eric Reeves is convinced that genocide is ongoing that he urges forceful action. And it is because de Waal does not agree with Reeves that he recommends a solution in which the United States plays a behind-the-scenes role urging the Sudanese to develop their own political solution to the conflict.\nThere is, moreover, what can only be called a genocide narrative than runs throughout any discussion of mass atrocities taking place in the world today. No one contributed more to the development of this narrative than Samantha Power, who, as we all know, may just play an important role in fashioning the Obama administration's response to the ICC ruling. This narrative runs roughly as follows. We should never conclude that the defeat of the Nazis and the death of Stalin ended the era of genocide. There have been many other genocides since. Because with the exception of former Yugoslavia they take place outside Europe, we prefer not to pay attention. Indeed our leaders typically go to great lengths to avoid using the term genocide. Such indifference allows terrible crimes to continue and horrendous criminals to escape punishment. The world's conscience is the most powerful tool at our command to stop the killing. We should never be afraid to call things by their proper names and we should bring as much pressure to bear on our governments as we can to stop the killing.\nThis narrative never quite fit Darfur, for both former President Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell did call the killing in the region genocide (although neither did much about it). But is it? And if it is, what defines it?\nDe Waal's response suggests that when it comes to genocide numbers matter most; 150 casualties a month does not come up to the genocide threshold. I will let Eric Reeves or Elizabeth Rubin respond to that, if either of them care to, but I happen to believe that as cold hearted as it may sound, de Waal is right. It is not just that numbers do matter when we reckon with genocide. So does the fact that the numbers have come down from the height of the conflict. If a situation of mass killing can be brought under relative control through negotiation, it cannot be genocide.\nAt the same time, de Waal leaves open the question of whether what took place during the darkest of years in Darfur was or was not genocide; he argues that now we should be primarily concerned with what is ongoing. I am not so sure. A number of prominent observers of the situation there, including Fabrice Weissman of Doctors Without Borders and John Holmes, the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator, have questioned the appropriateness of the term genocide. Weissman, for example, points out that the conflict there has never taken the form of Arabs killing Africans and has not been accompanied by the hate speech associated with Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia. Holmes, in turn, has been highly critical of Save Darfur for its rhetorical inflation. If the situation in Darfur was not genocide from the start but was instead what Weissman calls a very nasty civil war that spiraled out of control, then what is ongoing cannot be a slowing of genocide because there was no genocide to begin with.\nFor those who disagree with this conclusion, and I expect that many do, the fact that Obama is now president, as well as the fact that his team includes people such as Power and Susan Rice, the latter of whom has described the situation there as ongoing genocide, suggests the possibility that finally we may be able to trust an American president to get things right by taking a firm stand against one of the greatest evils known to man. But if it turns out that Darfur is the wrong place to apply the genocide narrative, doing so could cause far more harm than good.\nThis is why the decision of the ICC not to include genocide among the charges leveled against Omar Al Bashir is so important. Bashir, of course, has reacted as if he were so charged by denouncing the decision in the strongest terms and throwing out the humanitarian aid organizations. This is what demagogues do and no one has made the case that Bashir is a nice guy. But over time I think the court's decision will be viewed as an attempt to apply pressure on the Bashir regime while at the same time avoiding the inevitable case for military intervention once genocide is found to exist. If so, then Darfur activists can take heart that the question of Darfur is not being ignored. But the Obama administration can also rely on the ICC decision to treat Darfur as a crisis that needs attention without drawing parallels to genocides that have taken place elsewhere.\nClick here to read Part 10: An on-the-ground reaction to the ICC arrest warrant.\nAlan Wolfe is a contributing editor at The New Republic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/hear-oh-susannah-from-the-new-neil-young-and-crazy-ho-1798231087", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6H2XDLWTGXUEEBDUP7NHH5IU6SGEOSJF", "length": 593, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "Hear \"Oh Susannah\" from the new Neil Young And Crazy Horse album", "raw_content": "Hear \"Oh Susannah\" from the new Neil Young And Crazy Horse album\nAs we reported back in March, Neil Young and Crazy Horse have reunited to record their first album in many years. It's called Americana, it comes out June 5, and it is a collection of great American standards and folk songs. While some of the early details about the album weren't all that enticing\u2014particularly the part about the prominent children's choir\u2014\"Oh Susannah\" sounds like a sloppy mess in the best possible way. If the rest of Americana is like this, it will at the very least be a really fun listen. [via Stereogum]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.csudh.edu/archives-digitalization-grant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:39Z", "digest": "sha1:B5XNAM4J4UUW32EUSNO2NLEF3UV67Y76", "length": 2631, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "news.csudh.edu", "title": "Library Archives Receives $100K to Expand Japanese American Digitalization Project \u2014 CSUDH News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archive / Press Releases / Library Archives Receives $100K to Expand Japanese American Digitalization Project\nJapanese Americans wait in line for lunch outside the mess hall at the internment camp at Manzanar in 1942. \u2013 Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration\nCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills\u2019 (CSUDH) Library Archives and Special Collections has received a $100,000 archival grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) to continue its work on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD).\nThe CCLPEP grant will help fund CSUJAD projects and the digitalization of more than 6,500 additional records related to Japanese Americans during the mid-20th century, including oral histories from California State University, Fullerton\u2019s (CSUF) Center for Oral and Public History, and collections from Claremont Colleges Libraries.\n\u201cThe CSUJAD project has allowed us to develop a functional and useful database,\u201d said Greg Williams, director of the CSUDH archives and principal investigator of the grant. \u201cWith this CCLPEP funding, we will develop a more complex understanding of the people and events that led to one of our nation\u2019s greatest infringements on civil liberties [the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII].\u201d\nSince its launch in 2015, a total of 20 higher education institutions have contributed materials from their archives to the CSUJAD, including 15 California State University (CSU) campuses.\nThe CCLPEP grant will also be used to create public educational outreach activities, such as a professional development workshop at CSUDH for 11th grade teachers regarding civil liberty issues, and a teaching guide focused on the struggle of Japanese Americans, their internment in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, and its effect on their civil liberties.\nTo fund the CSUJAD and specific projects, CSUDH has previously received a two-year $321,554 from the U.S. National Park Service in 2015, two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a $39,200 grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation in March 2017.\nArchival materials from the CSUJAD are currently on display through Aug. 24 in the exhibition \u201c\u2026And They Came For Us,\u201d which is featured in the Cultural Arts Gallery in CSUDH\u2019s University Library. The exhibit is focused on Executive Order 9066, which led to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII,\nFor more information, contact the Library Archives and Special Collections at (310) 243-3895.\nFiled Under: Press Releases Tagged With: Library, Social Justice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 206.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/140225-black-hole-big-science-space/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SX46TXL6ERTRYCAQ7KEMDYQOBZ4YT2K3", "length": 4952, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "news.nationalgeographic.com", "title": "Gigantic Black Hole Discovered From the Dawn of Time", "raw_content": "https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/140225-black-hole-big-science-space.html\nIllustration by Zhaoyu Li, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory\nA giant black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns was found inside a quasar, a bright astronomical body like the one illustrated here with a black hole at its center.\nGigantic Black Hole Discovered From the Dawn of Time\nAstronomers find a cosmic monster that pushes theories of the early universe to the limit.\nBy Michael D. Lemonick,\nAstronomers have identified a mammoth black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns.\nIt's not the biggest black hole ever found, but it's astonishingly young. The giant appears to have swelled to its enormous size only 875 million years after the big bang, when the universe was just 6 percent of its current age. That's a surprise, astronomers report Wednesday in the journal Nature, because giant black holes are thought to grow relatively slowly by vacuuming up gas and even stars that venture too close.\n\"How do you build such a big black hole in such a short time?\" asks Xue-Bing Wu of China's Peking University, lead author of the study.\nBright Beast\nWu and his colleagues didn't see the black hole directly, since by definition it has such powerful gravity that nothing, including light, can escape from it. Instead, using telescopes in China, Hawaii, Arizona, and Chile, the team spotted a quasar, a powerful object lit by a brilliant glow of gas that heats up as it tries to squeeze itself into the black hole itself.\n\"This is the biggest monster we've ever detected in terms of luminosity,\" says Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard astronomy department, who was not involved in the research. It's about 40,000 times as bright as the entire Milky Way, Loeb says.\nAll major galaxies, including the Milky Way, have massive black holes at their cores, but not all of these are surrounded by superheated gas. The ones that are are known as quasars. And here, too, the newly discovered object, known as SDSS J010013.021280225.8, is extreme.\nLike all quasars, the new object looks like an ordinary star. It's just a pinpoint of light, even through the most powerful telescopes. Only when astronomers analyzed the light in detail did they realize how fast it's moving away from Earth, and thus how far away it is (in an expanding universe, the most distant objects fly apart from each other the fastest). That told them how long the light from the quasar has been en route to Earth: about 12 billion years.\nThe quasar's extraordinary brightness tells the astronomers just how powerfully gas is being heated, which in turn tells them how astonishingly massive the underlying black hole is. \"We've seen other quasars from this period,\" says Wu, \"but none of them has a mass of more than three billion times that of the sun.\"\nTheorists believe the relatively modest giant formed when the first stars in the universe burned through their nuclear fuel and collapsed to form black holes, perhaps a hundred million years after the big bang. Those first stars were probably giants themselves, weighing in at a hundred times the mass of the sun. At that time, says Loeb, \"galaxies were up to a thousand times denser than they are today,\" so their tightly packed cores would have provided a lot of gas to feed the black holes, allowing them to swell.\nBut that scenario doesn't work for the newly discovered black hole: It's just too huge. \"It must have been accreting gas at close to the maximum rate for most of its existence,\" writes Bram Venemans of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, in an accompanying commentary in Nature. That's considered implausible because the blast of light from a brilliant quasar tends to drive off nearby gas that would otherwise fall in.\nAnother idea is that two or more galaxies merged together early on, their black holes coalescing into one. That would only work, though, if both black holes had the same mass. Otherwise, says Loeb, the imbalance would throw the new, single black hole aside.\nLoeb offers another idea, however. It's possible that at least some of the first stars had not a hundred solar masses, or even a thousand, but as much as a million suns packed into one. \"There's no fundamental limit on the maximum mass a star can reach,\" he says.\nIf just a few such stars formed in the very early universe, then collapsed, Loeb explains, \"they could jump-start the formation of very large black holes.\" Add to that the fact that black holes may be able to swallow gas at a faster rate than theorists have long believed, Loeb says, and the existence of an object like the newfound black hole may not be so shocking after all.\nThe only problem with the jump-start scenario is that astronomers don't know for sure that million-solar-mass stars ever existed. \"We've never seen one,\" Loeb admits. \"But with the James Webb Space Telescope,\" he says, which is scheduled to go into orbit in 2018, \"we just might.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 6387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.stonybrook.edu/arts/poetry-reading-february-17-with-eduardo-corral-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NZZT33TAMTGVNL77X3SEUUFA2QN4A2IQ", "length": 1535, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "news.stonybrook.edu", "title": "Poetry Reading February 17 with Eduardo C. Corral | | SBU News", "raw_content": "SBU News > Arts & Entertainment > Poetry Reading February 17 with Eduardo C. Corral\nPoetry Reading February 17 with Eduardo C. Corral\nEduardo Corral\nOn Monday, February 17, poet Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading at The Poetry Center on the second floor of the Humanities Building at 5:15 pm. A Q&A session and book signing will follow the reading; his books will be available for purchase. This event is open to the public.\nCorral earned degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop. His debut collection of poetry, Slow Lightning (2012), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. It was also chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best poetry books published in 2012.\nPraised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O\u2019Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He lives in New York City.\nThe proud flags of Hispanic countries waved in the wind and the marching band\u2019s pounding drums marked the start of this year\u2019s Hispanic Heritage Month. Hispanic students carrying the flags marched into the Sidney Gelber...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 7835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 121.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/medical/thefutureofmedicinearrives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:6WNGQESEP4OZYHPFQB43LODV7BCE2XEN", "length": 8129, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "news.stonybrook.edu", "title": "The Future of Medicine Arrives: 124 Students Prepare for Careers in Primary Care and as Physician-Scientists | | SBU News", "raw_content": "SBU News > Newsroom > Press Release > Medicine > The Future of Medicine Arrives: 124 Students Prepare for Careers in Primary Care and as Physician-Scientists\nThe Future of Medicine Arrives: 124 Students Prepare for Careers in Primary Care and as Physician-Scientists\n77 percent of incoming students at Stony Brook University School of Medicine are NY State residents\nSTONY BROOK, N.Y., August 22, 2013 \u2013 The Stony Brook University School of Medicine Class of 2017 officially launched their medical training when all 124 incoming students received a physician-in-training white coat and took the Hippocratic Oath for the first time at the School\u2019s annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 18.\nAt the White Coat Ceremony incoming students take a moment with Latha Chandran, MD, MPH, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, and Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President, Health Sciences and Dean, School of Medicine. The students, in white coats, from left: Jeremiah Joyce, Sloane Heller, Brent Penque, Agatha Lyczek, and Opeyemi Ajibade.\nWith 77 percent of students from New York State, the Class of 2017 at Stony Brook will help address a critical doctor shortage in the state, including a shortage of primary care physicians. According to a 2012 Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) Physician Advocacy Survey, the state needs more than 1,200 new physicians.\n\u201cDonning the white coat marks the beginning of a career that is an honor and privilege, requires both hard work and taking on huge responsibilities, but yields immense personal gratification and growth,\u201d said Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences, and Dean, School of Medicine. \u201cSoon you will experience many \u2018firsts\u2019: your first patient history, your first diagnosis of cancer, your first treatment plan, your first birth, and many others. All will shape your career as an outstanding and caring physician.\u201d\nDr. Kaushansky and School of Medicine faculty characterized the Class as smart and equipped to take on the rigors of medical school in preparation to enter a profession where discoveries in medicine and opportunities in biomedical research are ever expanding. When classes begin on Aug. 26, the students will be on course to careers that fit the needs of 21st Century medicine \u2013 such as primary care providers and physician-scientists working on bench-to-bedside treatments.\nDr. Latha Chandran fits Opeyemi Ajibade with her white coat. Ajibade previously earned a BS in Health Science and MS in Physiology & Biophysicis from Stony Brook University.\nIncoming students Opeyemi Ajibade, of Brooklyn, NY, and Jeremiah Joyce, a Michigan native, hope to change the physician landscape in the region and seek to improve the healthcare of underserved populations, possibly as primary care physicians.\n\u201cUnderserved communities like my own in Brooklyn are plagued by inadequate funding, poor facilities and the inability of local hospitals to meet the growing healthcare needs of its residents,\u201d said Ajibade, who graduated from Stony Brook with a BS in Health Science in 2009 and an MS in Physiology & Biophysics 2012. \u201cI desire to work in an underserved community to provide these patients, many of whom suffer from an array of health issues, the preventive care and treatments they need.\u201d\nNearly one-third of the 2013 Stony Brook School of Medicine graduates entered primary care residency training programs, and Joyce hopes to follow in their path. \u201cRight now I am most interested in primary care, specifically family medicine, and I have a strong curiosity about both rural and family medicine and infectious diseases work in the developing world,\u201d he said.\nThe Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates the national need for primary care practitioners will increase by 15,000 over the next five years. The need for more physicians and primary care specialists is growing as the U.S. population is aging, and nearly one-third of physicians are expected to retire within a decade, while an estimated 32 million people will enter the healthcare system in 2014 because of the Affordable Care Act.\nThe Class of 2017 will have ample opportunities to test their skills in primary care, beginning with first-year training in the Clinical Skills Center then clinical rotations at Stony Brook and other hospitals on Long Island further into their medical school training.\nAgatha Lyczek, the daughter of Polish immigrants, wants to pursue a career as a physician-scientist combining neuroscience research with an interest in imaging and regenerative medicine.\n\u201cI believe a career as a physician-scientist is most fitting for me because I am deeply interested in clinical practice as well as scientific discovery,\u201d said Lyczek, one of six incoming students to enroll in Stony Brook\u2019s MD/PhD program. She is also interested in global health, an area in which opportunities for research and clinical training in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, have increased in recent years for Stony Brook medical students.\nAnother student on a research path is Brent Penque, who received his PhD from Indiana University in Cellular & Integrative Physiology in 2012.\n\u201cI studied the underlying mechanisms fueling diabetes progression at a cellular level, something that could be applied to translational medicine,\u201d said Penque. \u201cMy experience has led me to appreciate bench-to-bedside care, and I chose Stony Brook because of the enthusiasm by the faculty and student body in this area,\u201d explained Penque, who plans to complete an Internal Medicine residency following medical school and a fellowship in Endocrinology.\nSloane Heller, who graduated from Yale University with a BS in Psychology in 2012, will focus specifically on a disease that most often strikes the elderly \u2013 Alzheimer\u2019s disease. She spent the 2012-13 academic year in Madrid working on an Alzheimer\u2019s initiative under a Fulbright grant. \u201cMy goal is to become an Alzheimer\u2019s disease physician, to work comprehensively with patients and families throughout the course of the disease,\u201d said Heller.\nIn 2013 the School of Medicine received an all-time high of 5,196 applicants. Among the 124 incoming students, their cumulative grade point average is 3.7 on a scale of 4.0. Among the 61 undergraduate programs they attended, Stony Brook University was the top program attended (19), followed by Cornell University, New York University, and the University of Rochester, with five students from each, respectively.\nHeld at Stony Brook since 1998, the white coat ceremony is an initiation rite for incoming medical students at established medical schools around the country. The white coat is symbolic to medicine as a profession based on professionalism, scientific excellence, responsibility, and compassionate care.\nEstablished in 1971, the Stony Brook University School of Medicine includes 25 academic departments. The three missions of the School are to advance the understanding of the origins of human health and disease; train the next generation of committed, curious and highly capable physicians; and deliver world-class compassionate healthcare. As a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accredited medical school, Stony Brook is one of the foremost institutes of higher medical education in the country. Each year the School trains nearly 500 medical students and more than 480 medical residents and fellows. Faculty research includes National Institutes of Health-sponsored programs in neurological diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, biomedical imaging, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases, and many other topics. Physicians on the School of Medicine faculty deliver world-class medical care through more than 30,000 inpatient, 80,000 emergency room, and approximately 350,000 outpatient visits annually at Stony Brook University Hospital and affiliated clinical programs, making its clinical services one of the largest and highest quality on Long Island, New York. 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This particular award recognises outstanding design, implementation and operation of datacenters, the foundations of the new industrial revolution. The gala event was attended by more than 500 luminaries from the technology sector, who gathered to celebrate another year of innovation and commercial success at home and abroad.\nSpeaking about the awards, Tanya Duncan MD of Interxion Ireland said: \u201cWe are delighted to have been recognised at the Tech Excellence Awards. Our commitment to innovation and high standards of excellence in infrastructure and service are what we pride ourselves in at Interxion. 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That's exactly what the 27-year-old Palo Alto man discovered this month. The first result of his search led to the Northern California's Most Wanted website, where his picture appeared along with the charges he's facing, authorities said Friday. Accused of doing wrong, authorities said Viatafa then did what was right: He turned himself in to police. Viatafa was wanted for allegedly firing rounds from a semi-automatic handgun after an argument during a party on Aug. 8 at the San Leandro Senior Center, 1309 East 14th St. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. The website that led to his surrender, www.northerncaliforniamostwanted.org, was launched in December by the U.S. Marshals Service, FBI and Northern California Regional Intelligence Center. It lists criminals wanted by Bay Area police agencies and has been praised by law enforcement officials as a new important tool for capturing fugitives. David DeBolt covers breaking news. 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With live instruments and vocals, fantastic lighting, costumes and choreography, the show is an audio visual extravaganza!\n\u2018Back to the Movies\u2019 is suitable for all audiences and events and pays tribute to songs from movies such as James Bond, Grease, The Blues Brothers, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, Footloose, Mamma Mia, Rocky, Titanic, Fame, Back To The Future, The Full Monty, Dreamgirls and many more.\nWhether you choose to get back and dance or just sit back and enjoy the experience, \u2018Back to the Movies\u2019 has something for everyone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://notjustcute.com/2011/05/16/play-the-key-to-creativity/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:64SRPWVAUOTVYMSAUZ57XTTKNEKY32JM", "length": 2053, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "notjustcute.com", "title": "Play: The Key to Creativity", "raw_content": "Play: The Key to Creativity\nMay 16, 2011 by notjustcute Filed Under: Create, Learning through Play and Experience 2 Comments\nIt\u2019s time for the final installment of my series on creativity for Willow Creek Pediatrics. Here\u2019s a little snippet:\nIt has been said that play is a child\u2019s work. While play has been around since the dawn of time, the science of play is relatively new. What some may consider to be only a frivolous pastime for children has, over the last century, been uncovered as a powerful tool for learning, a key to creativity and innovation, and, some would argue, a biological necessity akin to sleep.\nResearchers, like Dr. Stuart Brown of the National Institute for Play, assert that play is more than just good fun, and even more than a way to practice and imitate skills for the future. Play, they submit, is a necessary component to healthy human development. It helps build emotional regulation, appropriate risk-taking behaviors, abstract thinking, curiosity, and resiliency. Incorporating neuroscience, they have found that play \u201clights up the brain\u201d and builds intelligence in a truly unique way.\nAnd yet, while the science of play is gaining ground, the actual occurrence of play seems to be diminishing in our culture.\nAs this article in the New York Times stated, \u201cThe average 3 year-old can pick up an iPhone and expertly scroll through the menu of apps, but how many 7 year-olds can organize a kickball game with the neighborhood kids?\u201d\nScoot on over to WCP\u2019s blog to read the rest! (And don\u2019t miss out on the treat at the end!)\nI\u2019ve been really lucky to work with Dr. Jopling and his staff (a special thanks to Mandy), and am really impressed with their interest in promoting wellness for the whole child. Thank you so much!\nLearn: Play! \u00ab TanGreen says:\n[\u2026] Play! Recently I have seen many articles and posts regarding the importance of play. 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They already had a seminal career as Joy Division, producing other-wordly, tantalizingly cold music that influenced a generation of musicians. After the death of original vocalist Ian Curtis, they were reborn as New Order with band additions Tom Chapman, Gillian Gilbert and Phil Cunningham, producing a slew of infectious dance-infected pop ranging from \u201cPower, Corruption, and Lies\u201d to \u201cTemptation.\u201d\nNew Order\u2019s last full release was 2005\u2019s \u201cWaiting for the Siren\u2019s Call,\u201d which was also the final album with founding member Peter Hook. \u201cMusic Complete\u201d opens with the lead single \u201cRestless.\u201d It\u2019s a jangly modern tune, showcasing Bernard Sumner\u2019s trademark lazily tired vocals which actually enhance the theme of the song: greed. The song is full of energy and gets your feet itching to get on the dancefloor. The mood is turned over in the next song, as \u201cSingularity\u201d finds the group harkening back to their Joy Division days. The beat recalls the band\u2019s hit \u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart,\u201d and Sumner seems to be channeling Curtis, intoning with a somber gravity: \u201cI can feel your presence here/Tender softly through the air.\u201d \u201cPlastic\u201d rounds off the three-song opening salvo, firmly planting the listener\u2019s feet on the dance floor with its synths and additional vocals by La Roux\u2019s Elly Jackson.\nThe album is studded with guests, collaborations like Jackson\u2019s \u201cTutti Frutti\u201d and \u201cPeople on the High Line.\u201d The former is a legitimately fun disco-like jam, with a subtly catchy yet cheesy chorus that Sumner and Jackson sell well, \u201cYou got me where it hurts/But I don\u2019t really care/\u2018Cause I know I\u2019m OK/ Whenever you are there.\u201d In \u201cStray Dog,\u201d Iggy Pop channels a snarling Leonard Cohen, sounding positively weary and sleazy with the raggedly strung lyrics. Brandon Flowers also gets a guest spot on \u201cSuperheated,\u201d harmonizing with Sumner to great effect.\nTo a casual observer, the abundance of guests seems like an effort to cover up the absence of bassist Hook. However, new bassist Tom Chapman actually does a good job of filling his shoes. He successfully emulates Hooky\u2019s liquid basslines amid a dense mix of electronic and live music. On \u201cMusic Complete,\u201d New Order strays away from the more alt-rock leanings of \u201cWaiting for The Sirens\u2019 Call\u201d to lean more heavily on the electronic aspect of their music. In this album they\u2019ve proven that even years later, they can still make the music that inspired a generation of musicians.\n\u201cMusic Complete\u201d was released on Friday.\nEmail Adil Akbar at [email protected]\nPrevious articleTwo guys, half a leg in \u2018Finders Keepers\u2019\nNext articleCarson rhetoric on Muslims baseless\nJack Fern September 29, 2015 at 7:21 am\nIt\u2019s nowhere near as good as their revolutionary 80\u2019s albums but there are some nice tracks on this album. New Order probably should have given up about 15 years ago but since they insist on continuing to make music into their old age I\u2019ll admit that this album is not half bad.\nRaymond S. 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Private Services to be held.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 80.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oenogallery.com/artists/simon-andrew/art/evening-storm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CBFBN6FHPS7X2DMLOI445UHVPINRVT3X", "length": 1334, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "oenogallery.com", "title": "Evening Storm by Simon Andrew \u00bb Oeno Gallery", "raw_content": "Evening Storm Simon Andrew\nPurchase Evening Storm\nSend me more info on Evening Storm\nPlease hold Evening Storm for 48 hours\nEmail 'Evening Storm' to a Friend\nA glowering charcoal, white, twilight blue and violet sky descends on a black shadowed mountain over the yellow and red lights of a town in this small encaustic painting on paper. The vigorous brushstrokes used in this work reflect Andrew's \"distilling process\" an emotive technique that pushes the forms created towards abstraction. This painting is framed and behind glass. Encaustic is an ancient waxed based medium employed by the Greeks and Romans in the first centuries AD in painting portraits and decorative panels. This medium, melted before application, can be labor-intensive and depends on speed and timing in its use. Andrew graduated with his MFA from Newcastle University in northeast England. He has exhibited widely with 27 solo shows in the UK and Canada. He has received two Ontario Arts Council awards and won landscape competitions including the Laing National Landscape Competition and the Lawrence Atwell Award both in the UK. Andrew's work is in corporate, public and private collections including that of actor Mel Gibson and Her Majesty The Queen in Right. His work was featured on the cover of the Canadian band Tragically Hip's album Day for Night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=PMC4663483_srep17330-f8&req=4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FXTO72ILMVL7E3GD2L5PVD4OBRG4NPSO", "length": 845, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "openi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Isolines of G(x,y), the total probability distribution | Open-i", "raw_content": "f8: Isolines of G(x,y), the total probability distribution for a mortality event to be found at position (x, y) in the SD-CV plane, corresponding to, from the most internal one, a total probability equal to 68%, 95%, 99.7%.Datapoints correspond both to the extant samples (triangles, squares, circles) and the fossil ones (diamonds).\nMentions: We computed three contour lines of corresponding to a total probability of 68%, 95%, and 99.5%, respectively, of finding a datapoint within the region of the SD-CV plane delimitated by such curves. Notice that all the fossil datasets fall inside the second curve (See Fig. 8). There is no difference between extant and fossil samples in terms of range of SD and CV values and this is precisely, from a statistical point of view, what allows us to use the former to develop a classifier for the latter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 10943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=PMC4834624_jgc-16-8-g003&req=4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:53Z", "digest": "sha1:E2ACVZFO3C7SMCUSZN2P5YWB3NPRCXC2", "length": 2521, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "openi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "National origins of authors of 209 articles from the Jo | Open-i", "raw_content": "Journal of Gastric Cancer's Promotion to International Journal from the Perspective of Biliometric Analysis.\nHuh S - J Gastric Cancer (2016)\nBottom Line: The number of source titles citing the journal was more than 100.The Hirsch index was 12.The English-only language policy, which started in December 2010, was successful in promoting the JGC to international levels from the perspective of bibliometric analysis.\nAffiliation: Department of Parasitology and Institute of Medical Education, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.\nPurpose: The aim was to verify if changing the Journal of Gastric Cancer (JGC) to only English (starting in December 2010) was successful based on bibliometrics.\nMaterials and methods: The following indicators were retrieved or calculated from the journal homepage and the Web of Science Core Collection on January 30, 2016: the number of citable articles per year; the number of original articles funded; the national origins of the editorial board members and authors; the total citations; the impact factors; the national origins of authors citing the journal; the source titles of articles citing the journal; and the Hirsch index.\nResults: From 2011 to 2015, the number of citable articles per year was 40, 41, 39, 39, and 40. The proportion of original articles funded was 39 out of 113 articles (34.5%). The editorial board members were from seven countries. The authors were from 11 countries. The total citations increased from 1 in 2011 to 245 in 2015. From 2013 to 2015, the impact factors (without self-citations) were 1.42, 1.36, and 1.60. In 2014, the value 1.60 corresponded to the ranking of 157 out of 210 oncology journals (74.8%); It was cited from 46 countries. Top-ranking countries of citing authors were China (171), Korea (158), and Japan (75). The number of source titles citing the journal was more than 100. The Hirsch index was 12.\nConclusions: The English-only language policy, which started in December 2010, was successful in promoting the JGC to international levels from the perspective of bibliometric analysis.\nFigure 3: National origins of authors of 209 articles from the Journal of Gastric Cancer-from 2011 to 2015.\nMentions: Authors were from 11 countries. Out of them, 183 articles were from Korea, 11 were from Japan, and 7 were from USA (Fig. 3). Out of 209 published articles, 136 articles (65.1%) have been cited at least once by 586 Web of Science articles. The total citations increased from 1 in 2011 to 245 in 2015 (Fig. 4).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 10476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=PMC4836729_pone.0153884.g004&req=4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RHS2RGA554NFUQS5EAJCZ5MOCWC6PH24", "length": 3393, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "openi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Statistical analysis of image quality index values.(A) | Open-i", "raw_content": "Change in Image Quality According to the 3D Locations of a CBCT Phantom.\nHwang JJ, Park H, Jeong HG, Han SS - PLoS ONE (2016)\nBottom Line: We evaluated and compared the voxel size, homogeneity, contrast to noise ratio (CNR), and the 10% point of the modulation transfer function (MTF10%) of the center and periphery.Because the CNR, homogeneity, and MTF10% were significantly affected by positional changes of the phantom, an object's position can influence the interpretation of follow up CBCT images.Therefore, efforts to locate the object in the same position are important.\nAffiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.\nA patient's position changes in every CBCT scan despite patient alignment protocols. However, there have been studies to determine image quality differences when an object is located at the center of the field of view (FOV). To evaluate changes in the image quality of the CBCT scan according to different object positions, the image quality indexes of the Alphard 3030 (Alphard Roentgen Ind., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan) and the Rayscan Symphony (RAY Ind., Ltd., Suwon, Korea) were measured using the Quart DVT_AP phantom at the center of the FOV and 6 peripheral positions under four types of exposure conditions. Anterior, posterior, right, left, upper, and lower positions 1 cm offset from the center of the FOV were used for the peripheral positions. We evaluated and compared the voxel size, homogeneity, contrast to noise ratio (CNR), and the 10% point of the modulation transfer function (MTF10%) of the center and periphery. Because the voxel size, which is determined by the Nyquist frequency, was within tolerance, other image quality indexes were not influenced by the voxel size. For the CNR, homogeneity, and MTF10%, there were peripheral positions which showed considerable differences with statistical significance. The average difference between the center and periphery was up to 31.27% (CNR), 70.49% (homogeneity), and 13.64% (MTF10%). Homogeneity was under tolerance at some of the peripheral locations. Because the CNR, homogeneity, and MTF10% were significantly affected by positional changes of the phantom, an object's position can influence the interpretation of follow up CBCT images. Therefore, efforts to locate the object in the same position are important.\npone.0153884.g004: Statistical analysis of image quality index values.(A) Voxel size. (B) Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR). (C) Homogeneity. (D) 10% point of the modulation transfer function (MTF10%). C, P, and I represent cephalo, panorama, and implant modes of the Alphard 3030 CBCT, respectively. Ray is the Ray Symphony CBCT. Gray columns represent the center position, large nodes represent the values with statistically significant difference compared with the center, and black dotted lines represent the tolerance levels.\nMentions: The ICC of the image quality indexes were all above 0.96. Image quality indexes among the five repeated images taken from the same location showed different means and standard deviations. These values were varied according to the exposure protocols and the phantom\u2019s location (Table 3). Four image quality indexes showed statistically significant differences at some of the peripheral locations. Moreover, those locations were different for each image quality index (Table 4, Fig 4).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 12195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://org.usbornebooksathome.co.uk/lisa/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?cat=1&area=H&subcat=HR&id=3754", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RGGB4DWE67ZGVMAWSQPRG2Q2BZ2GNVKC", "length": 755, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "org.usbornebooksathome.co.uk", "title": "\u201cMake this Roman villa\u201d at Usborne Books at Home Organisers", "raw_content": "Make this Roman villa\nPrinted on stiff card, this book contains templates to cut out and construct a superb model of a Roman villa crammed with authentic detail.\nOffers children aged four to eight a fun and interactive history lesson on the grand architecture and lifestyle of the ancient Romans. Rome wasn't built in a day, they say but, fortunately, this villa can be easily built in under an hour with adult assistance (a little or a lot, depending on the age of your young builder/s).The model proved engaging and challenging for its target audience, and we were able to bring this little piece of ancient Rome to 3D life with a minimum of fuss. And we thought the finished product was not bad at all for novice villa builder.\nHeritage-key.com website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oscargroup.co/st-barnabas-2/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7AHWDTVBHBNU5URKQIZQ53CP4O4XZMUE", "length": 36, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "oscargroup.co", "title": "Oscar Groupst barnabas 2Kyrenia, Cyprus", "raw_content": "st barnabas 2\nPrevious st barnabas 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 1714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ozzyman.com/potential-black-mirror-season-5-release-date-leaked/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ANDAHOO6WM2EWSK7W5G7J2OF3CDFQKPY", "length": 2700, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ozzyman.com", "title": "Netflix leak reveals release date for Black Mirror season 5", "raw_content": "When it comes to modern science-fiction anthologies, not many do it better than Black Mirror. The show\u2019s become one of Netflix\u2019s best genre-offerings, and it appeals to people from all walks of life. Blending the socially aware sensibilities of Philip K Dick and the horror-tinged cynicism of Brad Bradbury\u2019s best perspectives on technology with the sneering tone of Palahniuk, the show tackles a range of themes relevant to the world we live in. Perhaps that\u2019s why those of us who\u2019ve been waiting patiently for more news about the upcoming fifth season are a little bit pumped about a glitch in the matrix that\u2019s leaked the release date\u2026\nIf you\u2019ve been into Black Mirror for a while, you\u2019ve probably noticed more and more people talking about it lately. Sh*t, we\u2019ve even posted about it on Ozzy Man Reviews before. There\u2019s a reason for that. Word of mouth is spreading and the show is good. Like, really, really good.\nCredit: Twitter/Karz\nAnyway, it seems that a verified Netflix Twitter account accidentally posted the release date for the new season \u2013 along with a bunch of other cool new releases \u2013 before deleting the tweet shortly after. Fortunately, one perceptive bloke saw it quickly enough to get excited and share the news for everyone else.\nIt seems the first episode of the new season will be called Bandersnatch. That information ties in with an older piece of news from April that said Black Mirror was filming an episode titled exactly that. Now, while it\u2019s probably not super-important as we all know that the show can take things in many different directions, a bandersnatch is either an uncouth bastard or an imaginary wild animal that\u2019s particularly grumpy.\nCredit: Twitter/Boskee\nThe more astute among you will know Lewis Carroll, the dirty old perv behind beloved children\u2019s classic Alice Through the Looking Glass, coined the term for that very novel in 1871.\nAnyway, back to Black Mirror. The tweet\u2019s been deleted, but if the new season\u2019s coming that soon, that\u2019s a particularly f**ken awesome Christmas present. As for what we know about the show, we know there\u2019ll be an episode set in the eighties and, quite possibly, a Choose Your Own Adventure-style episode.\nCredit: Twitter/Bugeye\nFinal thought: As mentioned above, this is bloody great news. If you haven\u2019t watched an episode of the show before, now\u2019s the time to get up to speed with the tone and style of it. Also of note in that leak, is the date the adaptation of Josh Malerman\u2019s Bird Box will go to air. That one\u2019s not exactly a secret, but if it\u2019s anywhere near as good as the book, it\u2019ll be a f**ken doozy.\nJust in case you missed it, here\u2019s one of Ozzy\u2019s latest commentary videos\u2026Ozzy Man Reviews: Kids Car Race", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://paicpapllc.com/what-the-heck-are-financials-statements/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUWA457HHQB7ZEHUUJIXIS7ND67TE2YN", "length": 3533, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "paicpapllc.com", "title": "What the Heck are Financials Statements??? \u2013 Pai CPA, PLLC", "raw_content": "While many small business owners prefer brainstorming new ideas to pouring over financial reports, getting a handle on financial analysis can be remarkably empowering.\nTaking the time to regularly review financial statements can help you assess and improve current performance, avoid risk and make scalable plans for future growth.\nProtect your company\u2019s financial health by learning your way around these three financial reports.\nThe cash flow statement is arguably the most important report for small busineses. Over 68% of small business owners fear losing their business due to a lack of available cash.\nHow can this financial report help you avoid such a dangerous pitfall? By revealing precisely where you\u2019ve allocated cash \u2013 and if you\u2019re at risk of running out of it.\nMonthly examination of your cash flow statement can help you predict and forestall a \u201ccash crunch\u201d by tracking:\nThe in and out flow of money for operational activities; investments (such as the purchase of office equipment or the sale of portfolio holdings); and financing (such as loan repayments);\nWhether your net operating cash flow is less than your profits after tax (which means you\u2019re spending more than you earn);\nOverarching trends that show cash runs low in some months and higher in others, so you take steps to build a reserve and ensure continuous \u201ccash on hand\u201d.\nYour profit and loss statement (also known as an income statement) summarizes the revenue, costs and expenses your business has incurred over a month, fiscal quarter or year.\nIn order to give you an accurate overview of your financial performance, the profit and loss statement typically breaks down into three sections:\nYour revenue (known as the \u201ctop line\u201d).\nThe total costs of doing business, such as operating expenses, research and product development, and expenses associated with taxes and interest.\nYour net income (the often quoted \u201cbottom line\u201d), which is what remains when the costs of doing business are subtracted from your top line revenue.\nThe profit and loss statement can be used to calculate a number of important key metrics, such as your gross profit margin, operating profit margin and operating ratio.\nThe third invaluable financial report for small businesses is the balance sheet. The balance sheet summarizes what your company owns (assets), what you owe (liabilities) and the current value of your business to investors (shareholder equity).\nWhat exactly is being \u201cbalanced\u201d on the balance sheet? In simple terms, the assets you own must balance out against the money you\u2019ve borrowed.\nYour assets may include cash in the bank, short-term investments, accounts receivable, inventory, equipment and property.\nYour liabilities may include a bank line of credit, accounts payable, wages payable, rent, tax, and utilities.\nTogether with the cash flow and profit and loss statements, the balance sheet provides crucial insight into your company\u2019s operations and overall performance.\nHave your accountant walk you through each report, so you\u2019ll feel comfortable reviewing them independently on a regular basis. It\u2019s well worth the effort! When you understand your company\u2019s key financial data, you pave the way to smarter decision-making and more sustainable growth for your small business.\nWhat the Heck are Financials Statements???2017-01-032017-08-31https://paicpapllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/pai-logo-web-1.pngPai CPA, PLLChttps://paicpapllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/pai-blog001.jpg200px200px\nAvoid These 5 Costly Accounting MistakesAccounting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/415951-318225-plans-in-place-to-re-open-jimmys-sports-bar-following-death-of-jimmy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WZOPHTD2KCI5TGXSJPBQXOTETMLBWW7I", "length": 3655, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "pamplinmedia.com", "title": "Pamplin Media Group - Plans in place to re-open Jimmy's Sports Bar following death of Jimmy", "raw_content": "Plans in place to re-open Jimmy's Sports Bar following death of Jimmy\nCustomers were friends and friends were customers at Jimmy's on Multnomah Boulevard\nUPDATE - Concerns about the future of Jimmy's Sports Bar on SW Multnomnah Boulevard have been laid to rest. A new operator will take over and the closure of Jimmy's will be temporary according to John Haid.\n\"I'm going to keep the same name and keep the legacy of Jimmy,\" said Haid, who currenly runs the Sports On Tap sports bar in Happy Valley.\n\"It's going to reopen. We just need to get in there to do some cleaning, upgrade the televisions, dust it off and see what opportunites there are,\" Haid said. He expects JImmy's to be back in business within two months once all legal issues are settled.\nJimmy Prenty the genial proprietor of teh Multnomah Boulevard sports bar that carries his name, passed away on Christmas Eve while visiting family in Mamaroneck, New York. He died while taking an afternoon nap. Prenty was 61.\nA celebration of Jimmy Prenty's life will be held at the Cider Mill Bar 6712 SW Capitol Highway (Hoot Owl corner) on January 19, 2018 at 3PM. www.facebook.com/jimmys.sportsbar\nHe took over the sports bar at 3017 SW Multnomah Blvd. in September of 2001 after stopping by for a beer one day and hearing from the owner at the time that he was discouraged and ready to sell. Prenty bought it and within months had turned the business around.\n{img:226914}Jimmy's Sports Bar soon attracted a loyal clientele from the neighborhood, which helped Prenty survive years of dips in his business caused by seemingly endless public works projects along Multnomah Boulevard.\nHe told the SW Portland Post in December, 2014 that he and his employees \"had suffered financially, emotionally and physically due to the road work on Multnomah Boulevard that's been going on for years\".\nBusiness disruptions began when Portland Environmental Services (as it was then known) had to replace a smelly sewer line (origin of the term \"Multnomah Aroma\")\nbetween I5 and SW 40th.\nPrenty told the SW Post, \"When they first dug up the road, the city put in the wrong size sewer pipe. They excavated the street again later to replace it with the right size.\"\nDuring that time, lane closures on Multnomah Boulevard made access to the parking lot at Jimmy's difficult and business suffered. But he survived.\nAfter the sewer project ,PBOT started the project to replace sidewalks and build bike lanes and swales along the same stretch of Multnomah Boulevard. An early result of that project was an unusual alignment for parking in front of Jimmy's. PBOT had to come out and paint P on the road to indicate where people should park.\n{img:226915}For thousands of commuters along Multnomah Boulevard, Jimmy's Sports Bar was known for it's marquee, which displayed birthdays and anniversaries of the \"regulars\" but also took an occasional poke at Portland City Hall. His most memorable message on the marquee was \"ROAD WORK NEXT 40 YEARS\".\nPrenty graduated from Oregon State University in 1979 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. He was born and raised in The Bronx, attending the well-regarded Cardinal Hayes High School. Both his parents were born in the West of Ireland and emigrated to America after World War Two. He is survived by three sisters - Patricia,Noreen and Maura - and a brother, retired New York firefighter John Prenty.\nA celebration of Jimmy Prenty's life will be held at Jimmy's Sports Bar on January 19, 2018 at 3PM. www.facebook.com/jimmys.sportsbar\nYou can contact Bill Gallagher at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 7951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/418169-320473-no-progress-on-sears-armory-transformation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:6FDI4KSEAHIWPOF5DXER47LV6EDZ6KBQ", "length": 6290, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "pamplinmedia.com", "title": "Pamplin Media Group - No progress on Sears Armory transformation", "raw_content": "No progress on Sears Armory transformation\nPortland had wanted site to serve in event of crisis but plans are still pretty much in flux as neighbors wait\nThe long-promised city emergency response center in Southwest Portland is on hold because of planning and funding issues.\nCity officials first announced they would convert the former Sgt. Jerome F. Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center into a heavy equipment staging area eight years ago. In January 2011, then-Mayor Sam Adams told neighbors that basing such equipment there would help the west side of Portland recover faster from a natural or man-made disaster.\nThen and now, all of the city's heavy equipment is stored on the east side of the Willamette River. The bulldozers, dump trucks and other pieces of equipment will not be able to reach west Portland if the bridges across the river collapse.\nThe City Council voted to turn the armory into a Bureau of Emergency Management response center that May. Portland acquired the nearly 4-acre facility at 2730 S.W. Multnomah Blvd. from the U.S. Department of Defense the next September.\nBut no significant changes have been made at the building or adjacent parking lot since the first announcement. It was used only as a temporary homeless shelter between November 2015 and February 2016. Since then, Portland Fire & Rescue has occasionally held training exercises in its large parking lot, where the Portland Water Bureau is storing some trailers. Parents of students at the nearby West Hills Christian School also use the parking lot to pick up their children after classes.\nMayor Ted Wheeler's office now says city officials have not yet decided which bureaus to locate there, or how to pay for the renovations and ongoing operating costs.\nIn fact, according to Kyle Chisek, Wheeler's director of bureau relations, nothing might happen there unless Portland voters approve a public safety property tax bond, and no vote on such a ballot measure is currently scheduled.\n\"There are a lot of unanswered questions,\" Chisek said.\nNeighbor disappointed by lack of use\nMultnomah neighborhood resident Beth Omansky said she's disappointed by the lack of progress. She supports using it for an emergency response center, but also believes it should be opened as a homeless shelter in the meantime.\n\"The building looks dark and lifeless and useless now. It does not have to be that way, especially because the city is still in a state of emergency regarding homelessness,\" said Omansky, who organized neighborhood support for the temporary shelter by hosting the \"Multnomah Supports the Shelter\" Facebook page.\n\"Every time I walk past it, I recall the hundreds of homeless neighbors who found shelter there, and the approximately neighbors and volunteers who made sack lunches, served hot meals once a month, held donation drives for warm items and delivered them to Sears,\" Omansky said. \"It could be used for overnight stays, as it was before, and building upgrades could be done during daylight hours, readying it for the future emergency staging facility while making good use of the building to shelter our homeless neighbors.\"\nPlanning for the center is being done by the emergency management bureau and the Office of Management and Finance. The lack of apparent progress is surprising because the bureau has repeatedly urged Portlanders to prepare for the Big One \u2014 the expected Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake that could hit the region at any time, toppling buildings across the city and collapsing the bridges across the river.\nOn its website, the bureau describes the former armory as \"the future home of the City's west side emergency operations facility.\" It says that, once improvements are made to the site, \"the Portland Water Bureau, Portland Bureau of Transportation and Portland Bureau of Emergency Management will begin using the center, enabling the City to better respond to emergencies on the west side of the Willamette River.\"\nMaster plan prepared, delayed\nAlthough Chisek said planning is well underway, the City Council essentially sent the project back to the drawing board last year.\nA master plan for a Westside Auxiliary Emergency Operations Center was completed in June 2013. Its cost was estimated at around $11.4 million. Detailed feasibility studies were started to finalize the plan for council approval. A contract with MCA Architects to manage the project was signed in June 2016.\nBut in March 2017, the council authorized a new contract to study adding a Portland Fire & Rescue training center to the facility. It would replace a fire bureau training center in the Clinton Triangle in Southeast Portland. That put the rest of the planning on hold until the study is completed.\nThe Portland Police Bureau has also expressed interest in the former armory. It wants to study moving Central Precinct from the downtown Justice Center into it. Although the council did not fund such a study in the current budget, Chisek said the idea is still being discussed.\nWithout first knowing who will use the facility, it is difficult to finalize the master plan for the facility, Chisek said, let alone estimate the total renovation and ongoing operating costs. But even when those decision are made, Chisek said the city does not have enough money to move forward.\nChisek said officials are beginning to discuss asking voters to approve a public safety bond measure similar to the one former City Commissioner Randy Leonard successfully introduced and championed at the November 2010 general election. Among other things, the $72 million measure paid for a new emergency communications center, new fire stations and equipment, and a new digital radio system.\nNo tentative date has yet been set for such an election, however, and other governments in the region already are consider large money measures for future ballots. They include Portland Public Schools and Metro, the elected regional government, which is working on a transportation funding measure for the November 2020 general election to help finance the Southwest Corridor MAX line and other projects.\nIn the meantime, Chisek said the city could open the former armory as a temporary overnight severe weather shelter when temperatures drop if requested by the city-county Joint Office on Homeless Services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 10603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://patchworkandpotpourri.com/2016/03/24/lost-and-found/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:XIKSR53C4SZOXBYDH2XK3YKJ6LD2PR6C", "length": 3236, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "patchworkandpotpourri.com", "title": "Lost And Found | patchworkandpotpourri", "raw_content": "And great rejoicing\u2026\nI usually wear a ring on my right thumb, and the ring I wear there is usually one that belonged to Mama. More specifically, there are a couple of her old rings that I take turns wearing on that thumb. Unfortunately, I often fidget with my ring, rolling it up and down my thumb, and sometimes it slips off entirely. Several months ago this happened at work, and the ring got lost.\nI heard it drop to the floor and roll briefly\u2026then I heard it drop a second time. The environment I work in has elevated floors to allow for electrical cables to pass underneath, between layers of flooring which are several inches apart. And in a number of spots there are small access holes for those cables to plug in to the machines we use in our daily work.\nWhen I heard my Mama\u2019s ring drop that second time, my stomach dropped with it. I scrounged around on the floor on my hands and knees, with a flashlight, scouring every inch of floor in that little room, hoping to find my lost ring. I even dug into the tiny access hole as far as my hand would reach (which wasn\u2019t very far at all), shining my flashlight into that minuscule space. No luck.\nI gave up hope that it would ever surface again. I even bought a \u201creplacement\u201d for it on eBay, an ersatz ring that resembled the lost one. But I knew it was just a poor substitute for the original. The thing is, it was not a valuable ring in terms of money, really. Its real value was that it was Mama\u2019s.\nWe\u2019ve all had similar experiences, haven\u2019t we? We\u2019ve somehow managed to lose something that we treasured, whether it had any real monetary value or not. And even if we were able to find another item that looked like the lost one, it was never the same.\nFortunately, my story has a happy ending. The area in which I lost that ring is currently under demolition/construction as part of a major rebuild happening in my department. When I learned that the area was going to be demolished I spoke with my managers and told them I had lost a ring in that room, and asked them to alert the construction crew in case it turned up. One day last week as I ate lunch, one of the construction fellows found me and asked if I was the lady who lost a ring in that room, and I responded that I was. He held up a slim gold band and asked, \u201cIs this it?\u201d\nAnd my heart soared! What was lost had been found, and with tears in my eyes I said, \u201cYes, that\u2019s it! Thank you so much! It\u2019s not really worth much, but it was my Mama\u2019s and I am so glad to have it back.\u201d\nIt reminds me of the Bible stories where something, or someone, is lost for a time and then found and restored to its/his/her right place. In each story there is great rejoicing when what was lost is found. I\u2019m grateful to have Mama\u2019s ring back\u2026and it seems fitting that it should be restored to me during Lent, a time when I contemplate Christ\u2019s sacrifice on the cross, a love that restores me to God, no matter how lost I feel.\nFiled under faith, family, inspiration and tagged construction and demolition, eBay, faith, family, God, grace, jewelry, Lent, Lost objects, love, replacements, restoration, ring |\t1 Comment\nRobin Wayman Oldacre on March 24, 2016 at 8:44 pm said:\nBeautiful iillustration and so happy you got your ring back!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/07/12/mlb-mvp-trade-deadline-rumors/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ORJPHBTRPTE5PLFULWIPUZQXYVCLZYDD", "length": 4749, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "philadelphia.cbslocal.com", "title": "Who Is MLB\u2019s First-Half MVP? \u2013 CBS Philly", "raw_content": "Who Is MLB\u2019s First-Half MVP?\nFiled Under:Baltimore Orioles, chicago cubs, Chicago White Sox, Don Bell, Keith Russell, Mark Viviano, mlb, Philadelphia Phillies, Ryan Baker, Ryan Mayer, Texas Rangers\nMLB teams have already passed the midway point of the season in terms of games played. However, next week, when teams take a few days off for the All-Star Break, will mark the unofficial halfway point. With the Midsummer Classic scheduled for next Tuesday, July 17th, it\u2019s a good time to look back on the season to date, recalibrate some predictions for the postseason, and examine some of the most interesting storylines as the July 31st trade deadline approaches.\nIn order to do that, we caught up with four CBS Local sports anchors to get their thoughts on who the first-half MVP was, what potential trades they see their teams making and predictions on how the pennant races will shake out.\nThere were a variety of answers to the MVP question, but one player did get multiple votes. That would be Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout.\n\u201cEven though the Angels aren\u2019t great, Mike Trout is, and it\u2019s hard to argue with the season that he\u2019s having, that he isn\u2019t the best player in baseball,\u201d said Mark Viviano of WJZ in Baltimore. \u201cThat makes him the most valuable. He\u2019s got my vote.\u201d\nCBS3 in Philadelphia\u2019s Don Bell agrees with Viviano\u2019s assessment, adding that Trout\u2019s Wins Above Replacement number of 6.9 at the halfway mark puts him on pace for the best season of his career. However our other two anchors, WBBM in Chicago\u2019s Ryan Baker and CBS 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s Keith Russell had different picks in the A.L. race. Russell\u2019s choice was a bit more outside-the-box.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s Boston\u2019s J.D. Martinez\u201d, said Russell. \u201cI know that a guy who predominantly plays D.H. has never won MVP, but this may be the year. When you\u2019re in the top five in batting average, lead the majors in home runs and RBI, does it really matter that you don\u2019t play the field?\u201d\nFor Baker, his eyes are set on Houston, and their diminutive but powerful second baseman.\n\u201cJose Altuve. I can\u2019t think of a player that does more for his team than Altuve, both at the plate and on the field with the energy he brings,\u201d said Baker.\nWith the trade deadline looming on the horizon, MLB teams have differing strategies, depending on their record and short-term future. Some teams, like the Orioles, White Sox and Rangers are likely to be sellers at the deadline, while the Phillies and Cubs are expected to be among the teams looking to add a piece or two for the stretch run. We asked the guys who they thought could be on the move for their respective franchises.\n\u201cThe Orioles are a team that are trading away some of their best players,\u201d said WJZ\u2019s Viviano. \u201cManny Machado, Zach Britton, Adam Jones, Brad Brach, all these guys as free agents are probably going to find their way out of town because the Orioles are going to go into a rebuilding mode.\u201d\nViviano, along with many others in the baseball world, is expecting Machado to be dealt prior to the deadline, CBS3 in Philadelphia\u2019s Don Bell is just fine with that, saying he wants the Orioles superstar to come to Philly.\n\u201cThe place to go would be Baltimore to get Manny Machado,\u201d said Bell. \u201cYou know he\u2019s a free agent at the end of the year and it would be a short-term rental, but it would add a huge pop to their lineup, and it would potentially help them win the division for the first time in seven years.\nMeanwhile, down in Texas, CBS 11\u2019s Russell wants to see the Rangers deal away one of their beloved veterans, not because he\u2019s under-performing, but rather to give him a shot at winning a ring.\n\u201cI would personally like to see the Rangers trade away Adrian Beltre,\u201d said Russell. \u201cI know how great Beltre is. I know he\u2019s going to be in Cooperstown one day. But that\u2019s why he deserves a shot to win a World Series ring.\u201d\nIn Chicago, WBBM\u2019s Baker is watching a pair of teams with opposite needs going into the deadline. The Cubs could be buyers, while the White Sox, are continuing to rebuild.\n\u201cI know Cubs have some issues with their starting rotation: Yu Darvish\u2019s health, the reliability of Tyler Chatwood and Kyle Hendricks taking a step back this year, but I really don\u2019t see Theo [Epstein] making a big trade for an arm,\u201d said Baker. \u201cBut, if he does so, one guy who I think might be expendable is Ian Happ.\u201d\n\u201cOn the other side of town, one guy who\u2019s come off the disabled list and is really looking like the All-Star that he was last year is Avisail Garcia,\u201d said Baker. \u201cHe would be the one guy I would potentially look to trade if I can get another nice haul in return.\u201d\nFor more of the guys\u2019 opinions on the first half and looking ahead to the rest of the season, take a look at the video above.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 9965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://photos.metroactive.com/Events/Dia-de-los-Muertos/i-q5Ntggw", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4IHQPZFAXQLU65AUD2J6LBSKQUGDYZT2", "length": 77, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "photos.metroactive.com", "title": "D\u00eda de los Muertos - metroactive", "raw_content": "7th Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Downtown San Jose\nSJPD in the house", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 177.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://phys.org/news/2011-08-reveal-wikipedia-gender-biases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:06Z", "digest": "sha1:T5OCMUJKVM2YVP5LWLRORZJ2BGKVH5RU", "length": 7944, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "phys.org", "title": "Researchers reveal Wikipedia gender biases", "raw_content": "Researchers reveal Wikipedia gender biases\nAugust 11, 2011, University of Minnesota\nComputer science researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering are leading a team that has confirmed a substantial gender gap among editors of Wikipedia and a corresponding gender-oriented disparity in the content. The team's research will be presented at the 2011 WikiSym conference, the seventh annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, in California this fall.\nOver the past decade, Wikipedia has become a premier online information resource. About 400 million people around the world visit Wikipedia on the web every month. Remarkably, Wikipedia was not built by experts, but instead harnesses the collective efforts of millions of volunteer editors.\n\"Anecdotal information suggested that the smaller number of female editors may have led to a deficiency in Wikipedia's coverage of topics of particular interest to females,\" said lead researcher and computer science doctoral student Shyong (Tony) Lam. \"A January 2011 New York Times article pointed out that Wikipedia's coverage of topics like friendship bracelets or 'Sex and the City' pales in comparison to that of toy soldiers or 'The Sopranos.' We wanted to do the research to see if this disparity was carried throughout Wikipedia.\"\nIn their research paper, \"WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance,\" the researchers from the University of Minnesota's GroupLens Research Lab present a scientific exploration of gender imbalance in the English Wikipedia's population of editors. Using self-reported gender information from more than 110,000 editors over a period of time from 2005 to January 2011, the researchers explored three broad areas related to the gender gap.\nFirst, they looked at the nature of the imbalance itself. Their research showed that only 16 percent of new editors joining Wikipedia during 2009 identified themselves as female, and those females made only 9 percent of the edits by the editors who joined in 2009. To make matters worse, female editors are more likely to stop editing and leave Wikipedia when their edits are reverted as newcomers.\nWatch a video of the researchers discussing their findings.\nIn contrast, the gender gap has nearly disappeared in other areas of social media \u0096 or has even reversed. Females now outnumber males on Facebook and Twitter. Despite this trend, the researchers found that Wikipedia's gender gap has shown no sign of closing over the past five years.\n\"We were stunned to see such a significant gender gap in Wikipedia,\" said John Riedl, a professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the research team. \"As Wikipedia continues to be a critical information resource, it is important that all voices be heard. We feel that understanding the challenges caused by Wikipedia's sizable gender gap can be a first step to finding ways to broaden participation.\"\nIn the second focus area, the researchers involved in the study focused on the effects of the gender imbalance on Wikipedia. The researchers found that Wikipedia articles about topics of particular interest to female editors are significantly shorter than \"male\" articles. Furthermore, they found that Wikipedia's coverage of movies with female-skewed audiences is lower quality than its coverage of male-skewed movies. Overall, Wikipedia seems to be growing in a way that is biased toward topics of interest to males.\nAnother way the gender gap affects Wikipedia is that females seem to be particularly engaged in the community-building activities on the site. For instance, the researchers' analysis shows that of editors who have substantial levels of editing experience, females are significantly more likely than males to become administrators. The researchers believe that addressing the gender gap is a way for Wikipedia to meet its increasing needs for leadership.\nThird, the researchers analyzed the role of gender in conflict among Wikipedia's editors. The research indicates that the articles females tend to edit are twice as likely to be about controversial or contentious topics. In addition, female editors are significantly more likely to have their early contributions undone by their fellow editors, and are more likely to be indefinitely blocked by fellow editors. Taken together, these findings hint at a culture that may be resistant to female participation.\n\"We expected to find that females would avoid conflict, but to our surprise we found just the opposite,\" Riedl said. \"We're not sure exactly what this means, but it may give us more insights into the Wikipedia culture that could be one of the contributing factors to the gender gap.\"\nExplore further: Report claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves\nMore information: To read the entire research paper, visit www.grouplens.org/node/466\nReport claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves\n(PhysOrg.com) -- The findings of a Spanish study claiming that Wikipedia's editors are leaving at an alarming rate have been refuted by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.\nEnglish Wikipedia hosts three millionth article\nThe English version of user-generated online encylopedia Wikipedia hosted its three millionth article on Monday -- an entry about a Norwegian actress.\nWikipedia says it is losing contributors\n(AP) -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its entries, says it is losing contributors.\nStudy suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia\n(AP) -- Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's credibility.\nWikipedia operator gets $500,000 foundation grant\n(AP) -- The nonprofit organization that operates the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its work bringing free educational content ...\nWikipedia blocks Scientology from altering entries\nWikipedia has blocked the Church of Scientology from editing entries at the communally-crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image.\nkuntur2k\nSomeone please call Gloria Allred.\nnononoplease\nI can't believe this is considered research.\nbeefchop\nSo what. If women want more female-centric information, write it. It's free and simple. This is a non-story that will be twisted in the major media to show Wikipedia is biased against women.\nDidn't you read the finding that \"female editors are significantly more likely to have their early contributions undone by their fellow editors, and are more likely to be indefinitely blocked by fellow editors\"?\nOr don't you understand the meaning?\nI think the meaning of this isn't entirely clear.\nI'll give an alternative hypothesis: It may be that the quality of (initial) contributions by female editors really is sub standard.\nThere could be reasons for this:\nE.g. females tend to communicate differently than men. Their communication skills tend to more qualitative than quantitative assertions - which goes against wikipedia guidelines.\nFrom experience I know that there are more men who do research than women. Citing stuff and doing deep background checks may be more stimulating to men than to women (otaku syndrome).\nWithout doing an analysis of the deleted contributions it's impossible to say why the deletions are more frequent for edits by female authors.\nAdding articles to wikipedia is a geeky activity. Men do more geeky activities than women. I also agree with the point made earlier:\n\"E.g. females tend to communicate differently than men. Their communication skills tend to more qualitative than quantitative assertions - which goes against wikipedia guidelines. \"\nAlso, WHO CARES!\nSDrapak\nGirls fight with each other??? Who knew! :-O", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 13097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://phys.org/news/2019-02-wrinkles.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OEQSYE4TWHOJZ2Z7ADNUZAPQPTVAGP2Y", "length": 4239, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "phys.org", "title": "Wrinkles take the heat", "raw_content": "February 4, 2019, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore\nSingle atomic sheets of black phosphorus are attracting attention for their potential in future electronics applications. A*STAR researchers have now completed experiments at the nanoscale to unlock the secret of this material's remarkable directional heat transport properties.\nBlack phosphorus has a layered honeycomb atomic structure that gives it some exotic physical and electronic properties. Its honeycomb lattice is not planar, but wrinkled, and its physical properties differ depending on whether they are measured across or along the wrinkles. Heat, for example, is transported about twice as fast in the wrinkle or 'zigzag' direction compared with across the wrinkles, or the 'armchair' direction. Jing Wu and colleagues at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering used their state-of-the art experimental facilities to discover the reason for this very unusual status.\n\"The strong anisotropy of heat transport in black phosphorus has been theoretically attributed to the dispersion or relaxation of lattice vibrations known as phonons, but the exact origin was unclear,\" says Wu. \"Understanding this mechanism could help us better control heat flow in nanoelectronic devices, which would be very useful in chip design for better heat dissipation.\"\nThe team started with the premise that the travelling velocity of phonons is equivalent to the speed of sound in a material, which in turn has a well-defined relationship to the material's stiffness. They used their expertise in high-precision material measurements to set up an experiment that allowed them to measure both heat transport and stiffness in the same system, using black phosphorus nanoribbons with either a zigzag or armchair orientation.\n\"Probing the heat transport and stiffness of the nanoribbons was very challenging,\" says Wu. \"We fabricated two orientations of nanoribbons by using electron-beam lithography on a thin film of black phosphorus. We then picked up the nanoribbons using nano-manipulators under a scanning electron microscope, and transferred them to our lab-built micro-electro-thermal system where they were tested using an atomic force microscope. These are techniques we have been developing and using for more than eight years.\"\nThese experimental measurements confirmed a physical link between the thermal transport and a measure of stiffness, known as the Young's modulus, providing the first direct information on the origin of phonon transport anisotropy in black phosphorus.\n\"The ratio of thermal conductivity between the zigzag and armchair nanoribbons is almost identical to the ratio of the corresponding Young's modulus values,\" says Wu, \"and corresponds to the relationship theorized by first principles calculations.\"\nExplore further: Keeping cool with a black semiconductor\nMore information: Yunshan Zhao et al. Probing the Physical Origin of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Black Phosphorus Nanoribbons, Advanced Materials (2018). DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804928\nJournal reference: Advanced Materials\nSmall tweaks to nanoribbon edge structures can drastically alter heat conduction\nBlack phosphorene, an unusual two-dimensional (2-D) compound, may offer strategies for avoiding damaging hot spots in nanoscale circuits, a new study from A*STAR researchers has revealed.\nIs black phosphorous the next big thing in materials?\nA new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices. A team of researchers at ...\nBlue phosphorus\u2014mapped and measured for the first time\nUntil recently, the existence of 'blue' phosphorus was pure theory. Now, an HZB team has examined samples of blue phosphorus at BESSY II for the first time and mapped their electronic band structure. They report that it represents ...\nThe comeback kid\u2014black phosphorus and its new potential\nWhen it was discovered over a century ago, black phosphorus was considered relatively useless. Over the past five years, however, the engineers and chemists have become intrigued by the material for its potential as an ultra-thin ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://physioremedies.com/stuart-mailer-physiotherapist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:VUTLUJHBJDCO43G47SIUTYHGUUFXBZF2", "length": 2003, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "physioremedies.com", "title": "Stuart Mailer: Physiotherapist \u2014 Physio Remedies | Physiotherapy & Sports Massage | London W1, Mayfair, Green Park, Berkeley Square", "raw_content": "Stuart Mailer: Physiotherapist\nStuart initially graduated in Sports Therapy in 1999 and then Physiotherapy in 2005. He then completed his Pg Dip in Sports and Exercise Medicine at Cardiff in 2010. He is Currently undertaking his PhD in the lower limb with a specialism on the knee and foot and ankle.\nHe first worked as a sports therapist in professional tennis and private clinics before becoming a physiotherapist and has since split his time between private musculoskeletal clinics and professional sport. Stuart has a wide sports background and has looked after many of the world\u2019s leading male and female tennis players tennis players for more than 15 years working at tournaments including Wimbledon, the French Open and on the WTA tour.\nHe also worked with INDYCAR in the US in 2008, British Masters Athletics in the UK, and in football, Stuart worked part-time at Chelsea FC between 2008 and 2013 with the academy and development squads.\nAt Physio Remedies, Stuart treats patients of all ages, fitness levels and musculoskeletal injuries. His specialty these days is in the knee, foot and ankle and sports injuries, working closely with leading orthopedic surgeons in these areas.\nI have known Stuart for 10 years from when I was at Chelsea FC. I have had multiple career threatening injuries that he has helped me rehabilitate and recover from, and return to full fitness and playing again. I would highly recommend Stuart to anyone who is concerned about their injury or is having problems returning to normal function or fitness as he always got me back to professional football.\n\u2013 Adam Coombes, Footballer, ex Chelsea FC, Notts County\nI have seen Stuart for over 15 years and throughout my career as a professional tennis player. Stuart has helped me greatly with not only recovering from various injuries but putting together continued support and thorough rehabilitation programmes to help me return even stronger than before.\n\u2013 Stefan Sterland Markovic, Professional tennis player / Coach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pineridge.org/blog/57", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:733SKTRQ6RSKJX4AXUGZE5YML6WPUFVG", "length": 1822, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pineridge.org", "title": "Pastor's Blog- Pine Ridge Church, Kansas City, Missouri", "raw_content": "I am out of things to say about another mass shooting. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate you sending me an email jgordon@pineridge.org\nI don\u2019t own a gun, so I admit I don\u2019t understand. But I grew up shooting with my dad - a lot. The most fun I had then was just being out in the woods with my dad shooting at targets together. Guns don\u2019t bother me, but neither does it bother me to restrict the ownership of guns so that criminals, abusers, the mentally imbalanced 19 year males can\u2019t get guns easily, especially assault rifles, the weapon of choice in most mass shootings. In my mind any 19 year old males who want to shoot assault rifles should be in a highly controlled environment, like the Marines, but that\u2019s just me.\nOr maybe we should restrict gun ownership to only women. Of all of the mass shootings in recent years I cannot recall a single incident when a shooter who unleashed an assault rifle on innocent concert goers or 3rd graders was female. Lots of victims have been women, of course, but no perpetrators whom I can recall.\nMostly it seems to me that what you get when you live in a country where there are more guns than people is innocent people who are killed by guns. Even if the most stringent bump stock, assault rifle, and background check laws were enacted by lunchtime tomorrow, there would still be over 300,000,000 guns in the US. In a nation awash in guns it is amazing to me that more people do not die by gun violence than do.\nI don\u2019t want to ignore it. I don\u2019t want to become so hardened or jaded that my heart does not break at the news of yet another cold-blooded school shooting. Or at the agonizing images of more grieving moms begging for politicians to do something.\nBut I for one don\u2019t know what to say this time knowing full well that there will be a next time\u2014very soon\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 7964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pivotals.tmlu.org/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OLK4P56KGHTURRKADIMVTSBXKLVRUILC", "length": 1242, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "pivotals.tmlu.org", "title": "About | Course", "raw_content": "The Critical Thinking Academy (CTA) operated by Pivotal Practices Consulting and TMLU, Inc. is dedicated to the idea that better thinking leads to better decisions and outcomes and fewer regrets. The CTA\u2019s primary mission is to support education and outreach that creates a better understanding of how organizations can make the connection between critical thinking in business and better long-term outcomes, including financial performance. The CTA is founded on the premise that critical thinking, which was once considered vital for \u201cgood citizenship,\u201d is a lost art, but one that has been rediscovered as necessary for business success.\nThe CTA was founded in 2014. The CTA\u2019s first client was the US Customs and Border Protection Agency. We have since worked with dozens of organizations to improve workforce critical thinking and problem-solving.\nThe CTA has developed a formal curriculum designed to give people the understanding and tools they need to implement better critical thinking and problem-solving within their organizations. In addition, the CTA offers customized training for organizations, as well as a consulting service to help organizations develop formal plans. Click here for more information on the education program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 136.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pixel-lux.com/2012/07/06/27-weeks-and-still-going-strong/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:30Z", "digest": "sha1:F6HZTEUJR34CCV2QZML6ECQN7JA27BXK", "length": 2657, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pixel-lux.com", "title": "27 weeks (or 6 and a bit months) and still going strong \u2013 PixelLux", "raw_content": "27 weeks (or 6 and a bit months) and still going strong\nGravity-Levity R&D session, The Point, Eastleigh\nWell, I\u2019ve hit my third trimester and after a well-earned holiday (poignantly the last of its kind) following my run of shows, I am back to square one with R&D sessions, concepts and development for next year\u2019s shows.\nThis week I\u2019ve been in Eastleigh developing concepts for a piece involving both aerial and ground-based choreography looking at themes from the Great War ahead of the anniversary of it\u2019s start in 2014. Strangely enough, it\u2019s the first time I have been involved in \u2018workshopping\u2019 a show in my about-face career (where I open my first show on a world stage then backtrack to get down and dirty on the guerrilla stuff)! Nice to feel creative, excited and on a learning curve just when my body is starting to warn of a slow-down.\nYes, the sickness is coming back, the aches are finally appearing and I am more tired than before \u2013 a bit like the first trimester really! Above all, I\u2019m noticing my \u2018nesting\u2019 hormones kicking in and my interest in work is \u2013 SHOCK HORROR \u2013 declining! Not when I\u2019m working, thankfully, but just when I think about the prospect of working the following day. I can see how people decided that baby is all they are interested in and stay off work for a year \u2013 or interminably. I am still determined that this won\u2019t be me but let\u2019s say I can see where those urges come from. All chemical.\nI think I am going to consider giving up cycling to work before too long, which is a shame as the independence from TFL would be handy during the Olympics.I have also submitted my Statutory Maternity Pay form \u2013 the first step along the way to that \u00a3135-odd a week I\u2019ll be living off afterwards. Let\u2019s just hope producers keep paying royalties for a while yet as this is my additional little slush fund for the 4-6 months I won\u2019t be earning. On other money matters, I need to work out when I slow the pace of the work in general. I need to make sure my last remaining project earnings are decent before that happens: I\u2019m catered for until the end of July but August may be a bit quieter and a time to put in some more research for the first show of 2013, which would mean fewer days per week and the possibility of working from home though if more sure-fire cash project-based work comes up for then, I should probably take it! Needless to say, I am feeling keenly these \u2018last time I\u2019ll do\u2026\u2019 moments, one of which being \u2018\u2026be free to go to work and earn without worrying about childcare\u2019.\nWhen all said and done, I am an optimist and it always works out, the way I see it.\n@mollfrith @tim0thyjbird \u2026\nFrom zero to show in unde\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pixelenemy.com/gamespot-poll-shows-that-ps4-owners-are-more-satisfied-than-xbox-one-owners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:IQNEPG7F3KXEEZYMCPJAUAK7DBC6GMAP", "length": 828, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pixelenemy.com", "title": "GameSpot poll shows that PS4 owners are more satisfied than Xbox One owners - PixelEnemy", "raw_content": "Posted byarslan\t July 9, 2014 December 5, 2018\nA GameSpot poll has revealed that PS4 owners are more satisfied than Xbox One owners.\nBetween December 5 and December 10, 3950 GameSpot and GameFAQs users were surveyed and were asked to grade their level of satisfaction on a scale of 1-10. PS4 owners averaged at 8.71 out of 10 while Xbox One owners averaged at 8.20 out of 10. No one admitted to being \u201cextremely dissatisfied\u201d. 39% of PS4 owners were \u201cextremely satisfied\u201d while 33% of Xbox One owners felt the same way. 28% of PS4 owners gave the console a 9/10 whereas 22% of Xbox One owners gave their console the same score. The lowest score PS4 received was 4/10 whereas the lowest score Xbox One received by 2% of respondents was 3/10.\nOverall, it seems that buyers of both consoles are generally happy with their purchase.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pkussi.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/getting-your-cultural-fix-in-beijing-july-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SECZELPHATVPW7EEMI6MCXPHF3V53GOH", "length": 3205, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "pkussi.wordpress.com", "title": "Getting your cultural fix in Beijing \u2013 July 2018 \u2013 Peking University Summer School International", "raw_content": "You don\u2019t have to go very far to appreciate world-class exhibits. Peking University\u2019s Arthur M. Sackler Museum is currently exhibiting two thought-provoking exhibitions: Intersection: International Art & Culture and \u2018Uncovering truth\u2019 from the School of Archaeology Collection[1]. Marking both the Museum\u2019s 25th anniversary, and Peking University\u2019s 120th, the former features works from 14 world-renowned artists from across the globe, with the aim of fostering deeper cross-cultural connections through video installations, photography, paintings, sculptures and drawings. The exhibitions run through to August 27. More information can be found on the museum website.\n[1] http://www.sackler.org/exhibitions/intersection-international-art-and-culture/\nAlice: Into the Rabbit Hole\n(Photos: PlayWifiKorea)\nNo two readings of the novel are the same, and nor are the experiences at this interactive exhibit bringing the story of Lewis Carroll\u2019s \u2018Alice in Wonderland\u2019 to life. Currently on a tour around China, don\u2019t miss your chance to really jump into the story. 23 artists from the South Korean Media N Art Company have creatively merged new media technology and more traditional techniques and mediums to make what has now become a social media sensation. The exhibition runs through until July 9 in Beijing.\nLocation: Chaoyang Joy City, 101 North Chaoyang Road, Beijing\nXu Bing at UCCA\nPhoto: Xu Bing Studio\nIn case you didn\u2019t get enough of Xu Bing at Peking University\u2019s Arthur M. Sackler Museum, this world-renowned avant-garde artist\u2019s works are on display at 798\u2019s UCCA Gallery from July 21. His multi-layered works are just as thought provoking as they are visually striking and relevant. This comprehensive exhibition is Xu Bing\u2019s largest in Beijing and will display major works from his entire career.\nWebsite: ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/xu-bing/\nLocation: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) (\u5c24\u4f26\u65af\u5f53\u4ee3\u827a\u672f\u4e2d\u5fc3), 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu\nNational Centre of Performing Arts\nPhoto: A as Architecture\nAs China\u2019s leading performing arts centre, July is another month of world-class performances for the NCPA \u2013 featuring operas, ballets, dance and theatre productions in styles from all over China and the world. July\u2019s detailed schedule can be seen here. If not for the performances, the NCPA or \u2018Giant Egg\u2019 is an architectural wonder in itself and also holds exhibitions and galleries inside.\nHistory of the Chinese Drama Stage\nNCPA Repertoire\nOpera Moments: NCPA Opera Production Memories in Pictures\nJuly Exibits\nThe Culture of Sky Road \u2014 Exhibition of Tibetan History and Culture\nCurrently on exhibit until July 22\nWebsite: en.capitalmuseum.org.cn\nThe Power of Innovation: Patent Models from the United States of America\nWebsite: en.chnmuseum.cn\nThe Open Window is Beautiful\u2014Exhibition of Excellent Art Works\nCelebrating the 40th Anniversary of Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up\nWebsite: http://www.namoc.org/en/exhibitions/201806/t20180605_319201.htm\nAlso view: http://www.namoc.org/en/exhibitions/upcoming/\nCurrently on exhibit until October 7\nWebsite: http://www.todayartmuseum.com/enexhdetails.aspx?type=currentexh&id=743\nRecommended Channels:\nTheBeijinger\nPrevious Post Insights: Beijing Air, Reality Check", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://place2visit.wordpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DTBYDSO25IOSLT6Y6QVOWBMRUDCDBZRK", "length": 4410, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "place2visit.wordpress.com", "title": "Places you have to visit", "raw_content": "Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km2 (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4,200,000 and 4,500,000 on an area of 803 km2 (310 sq mi), being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe\u2019s largest metropolis on the Mediterranean coast. It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona, with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 km\u00b2 (density 5,060 hab/km\u00b2). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Bes\u00f2s and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).\nBarcelona is today one of the world\u2019s leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world\u2019s major global cities. Read the rest of this entry \u2192\nCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia\u2019s largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), 280 km (170 mi) south-west of Sydney, and 660 km (410 mi) north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a \u201cCanberran\u201d.\nThe site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation\u2019s capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia\u2019s two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city. Following an international contest for the city\u2019s design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913. The Griffins\u2019 plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, and was centred around axes aligned with significant topographical landmarks in the Australian Capital Territory. Read the rest of this entry \u2192\nMatka (Macedonian: \u041c\u0430\u0442\u043a\u0430, meaning \u201cwomb\u201d) is a canyon located west of Skopje, Macedonia. Covering roughly 5,000 hectares, Matka is one of the most popular outdoor destinations in Macedonia and is home to several medieval monasteries.\nThere are 10 caves at Matka Canyon, with the shortest in length being 20 metres (65.6 feet) and the longest being 176 metres (577.4 feet). The canyon also features two vertical pits, both roughly extending 35 metres (114.8 feet) in depth.\nLocated on the right bank of the Treska River, Vrelo Cave was listed as one of the top 77 natural sites in the world in the New7Wonders of Nature project. Read the rest of this entry \u2192\nTags: canyon\nNice ( Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek: \u039d\u03af\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03b1, Latin: Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of 71.92 km2 (28 sq mi). The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of 721 km2 (278 sq mi). Located on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast.\nThe city is called Nice la Belle (Nissa La Bella in Ni\u00e7ard), which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912. Nice is the capital of the Alpes Maritimes d\u00e9partement and the second biggest city of the Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur region after Marseille. Read the rest of this entry \u2192\nTaj Mahal \u2013 India, Asia\nThe Taj Mahal (Hindi: \u0924\u093e\u091c \u092e\u0939\u0932, from Persian/Urdu: \u062a\u0627\u062c \u0645\u062d\u0644 \u201ccrown of palaces\u201d; also \u201cthe Taj\u201d) is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as \u201cthe jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world\u2019s heritage\u201d.\nTaj Mahal is the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Turkish and Indian architectural styles. Read the rest of this entry \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 11756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 75.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/beyond-a-movement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:15Z", "digest": "sha1:L6YATGOLNYRVPFH3DM4H7LQAOW6MB2IT", "length": 61981, "nlines": 311, "source_domain": "plainlanguage.gov", "title": "Plain Language: Beyond a Movement | plainlanguage.gov", "raw_content": "Plain Language: Beyond a Movement\nRepositioning clear communication in the minds of decision-makers\nChristopher Balmford, Director, Cleardocs Pty Ltd\nFor hundreds of years, people have bemoaned the unintelligibility of legal documents and campaigned to make them clearer. Increasingly, that activity has been described as a movement\u2014the \u201cplain language movement\u201d (2).\nYet talking about plain language as a \u201cmovement\u201d (in the sense of a quasi-political, society-changing cause) seems odd and out of date given that:\nmany of the people championing the cause make their living from their plain language activities (which is fine\u2014but sometimes creates a mild conflict of interest); and\nmany commercial organizations use plain language as a distinguishing feature, or provide plain language related services (even though most of those organizations aren\u2019t remotely interested in championing the plain language cause).\nIn this article, I review the state of play on the plain language front and attempt to show that plain language is a movement no longer. Instead, it has evolved to become a product, a business, an industry, or a professional service. Then I move onto consider how the evolution of plain language affects law firms, their clients, and the State\u2019s relationship with its citizens.\nThen I suggest that to further build on the success of plain language, we need to help key decision-makers in business and government to see plain language in a new light.\nAlthough my plain language experience has largely been with legal and related documents, the themes in this paper apply equally to all documents used in business, in government, and for consumers.\n2. Making a living: supporting the cause\nI\u2019m not suggesting there\u2019s anything wrong with people making a living out of plain language: quite the contrary. Indeed, my plain language activities have been feeding my family these last 10 years. I\u2019m not alone:\nthere are people teaching plain language legal writing in law schools;\nthere are people rewriting documents for paying clients; and\nthere are people working in, or as consultants to, law firms, businesses, and government bodies to help those organizations develop plain language precedents, documents, and skills, and to develop cultures that value and deliver clear communication. (3)\nMany of these people are passionate about their work. That most of them believe in, and are motivated by, the cause is made clear in the discussion on PLAIN\u2019s Plain Language list service(4). Many of the contributors to that list seem to work in the plain language field, and their discussions are often about pushing the cause, about winning converts, about spreading the word.\nThis passion for the cause is also shown in the articles in the legal journal Clarity which regularly present the social and economic benefits of plain language. By the way, the organization Clarity describes itself as \u201cA movement to simplify legal language\u201d (5). There\u2019s that word \u201cmovement\u201d again.\nIt is a wonderful thing that people can make a living by delivering the social and economic benefits of clear legal communication. It strongly suggests that the movement has succeeded\u2014though, to be sure, there\u2019s much to be done in implementing that success and in ensuring that every legal and related document everywhere is easy for its intended audience to understand and to use.\nMuch to be done indeed.\n3. The success of plain language\nInitially, the plain language movement focussed on the social benefits of clear legal communication: improving access to justice, and enabling consumers to make more informed decisions. (6)\nIn more recent times, plain language proponents moved on to focus on the benefits that plain language can deliver to the people whom the movement was seeking to convert\u2014key decision-makers in business and in government. On the whole, those key decision-makers are more interested in the economic benefits of plain language: improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction. (7)\nYet even after this change in focus, many decision-makers outside the legal profession still seem to see plain language as merely a worthy off-shoot of the consumer movement.\nWhere the plain language movement has really succeeded is in its debate with the legal profession about whether plain language is accurate, certain, and precise. Plain language won that debate. This is shown by the fact that in most English speaking countries, the legal profession no longer argues that it is impossible for a document to be:\non the one hand, clear and reader-friendly; and\non the other hand, accurate, certain, and precise.\nIt is this success of the plain language movement that has enabled people to earn a living\u2014and more\u2014through plain language. And that has created the situation in which it is a little odd to go on calling the plain language thing a \u201cmovement\u201d.\n4. Is there a problem referring to the \u201cplain language movement\u201d?\nIt seems to me that continuing to refer to the \u201cplain language movement\u201d raises 2 problems.\nFirst, as I mentioned earlier, there is a minor conflict of interest. Plain language practitioners can end up sending a mixed message, something like: \u201cJoin the cause and \u2026 umm\u2026 err\u2026 use my services\u201d. One day, that conflict may turn out to hurt the cause.\nSecond, and more importantly, I fear that the misconception that plain language is a movement impedes the acceptance, adoption, and implementation of plain language. Let me be frank about this, I think this is a problem for the plain language movement and for readers and organizations everywhere\u2014and \u2026 umm\u2026 err\u2026 a problem for my business too. (There\u2019s the mixed message again.)\nPeople outside the plain language world who see plain language as a movement usually have a closely related misconception, namely, that plain language is relevant only when writing to \u201cretail consumers\u201d\u2014to the proverbial \u201cmums and dads\u201d.\nThat misconception further impedes progress. For example, plain language\u2014whether we see it as a movement or an industry\u2014had a major win in 1998, when the United States Securities Exchange Commission implemented regulations that required certain parts of prospectuses aimed at retail investors to be in plain language. (8)\nA few months later I worked on an international prospectus for one of Australia\u2019s 10 largest companies. A team of US lawyers from one of the most prominent New York law firms worked on the documents. They told me about a US prospectus they had worked on a few months earlier in which shares were to be offered to retail investors. So they had prepared the relevant parts of the prospectus in plain language to comply with the new SEC requirements.\nThen after the prospectus was more or less complete, their client company changed its mind and decided that the shares would be offered only to institutional investors. So the lawyers rewrote the plain language document back into legalese. The mind boggles.\n5. Rebutting the misconceptions about a \u201cmovement\u201d\nSo plain language progress is impeded by two closely related misconceptions:\nmisconception 1, plain language is a movement; and\nmisconception 2, because plain language is a movement, it is relevant only for retail consumers.\nThat these 2 views are misconceptions is made clear when one considers what\u2019s happening on the plain language front in business.\nthe Canadian financial services organization Clarica;\nthe international accountancy firm KPMG; and\ntwo major Australian law firms that provide plain language services and that promote the clarity of their advice, and the plainness of the documents they write, as a distinguishing feature of the firm\u2014a feature that adds value for clients.\nWhile we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s review some plain language developments around the world.\n5.1 A Canadian financial services organization\nIn 1999, the Canadian financial services organization The Mutual Group demutualised, listed, and rebranded. As part of that rebranding, the company renamed itself \u201cClarica\u201d and adopted the brand promise \u201cClarity through dialogue\u201d.\nClarica is a play on words for \u201cclarity\u201d. The company\u2019s television ads show the Word \u201cclarity\u201d first, and then the last 2 letters \u201cty\u201d rotate to become \u201cca\u201d to make \u201cClarica\u201d. The company wants people to make the connection between clear communication and the company. As the Clarica website reports:\nClarica was Mutual Life of Canada. With its conversion to a shareholder company, the century old name was no longer appropriate. The new name was carefully chosen to portray the strength of the company as it heads into a new age. Clarica captures the power of clear dialogue in making personal financial choices, dialogue between the customer and the people of the company to achieve understanding \u2026 clarity \u2026 and the best solutions. (9)\nA major market for Clarica is retail customers. Clearly, the organization knew, or found out, that its audience valued clear communication. No surprises there.\nBut clear communication is for all. We need to remember that at the end of the day, when the people who manage institutional investor organizations and corporate clients go home, those same people are retail customers and retail investors. In that capacity, I bet they want the documents they have to read to make sense, to be clear, and to be easy to deal with. And I bet they feel like that about the documents they have to read at work too\u2014when no one would see them as a retail customer.\n5.2 The international accountancy firm KPMG\nIn Australia, KPMG uses the slogan \u201cIt\u2019s time for clarity\u201d. Fair enough too. Yet the firm\u2019s primary audience is not retail consumers. Far from it. And although I\u2019m sure the firm is a good corporate citizen, I\u2019m equally sure it didn\u2019t adopt that slogan in support of the plain language movement. Surely KPMG adopted the slogan \u201cIt\u2019s time for clarity\u201d because the large corporations it values and seeks as clients\u2014and the people who work in those organizations\u2014value clear communication. So do we all.\n5.3 Law firms lead with plain language\nSeveral major law firms in Australia are committed to plain language. They have rewritten their precedents in plain language and have trained their lawyers in plain language skills. These firms see the clarity of their writing as a distinguishing feature of their business\u2014something that gives them an edge, something that benefits their clients. Some of these firms go further than that. They provide plain language rewriting services. These firms have had tremendous successes with plain language. For example:\nThe firm I used to work for as Head of the Plain English Department, Phillips Fox, (with offices throughout Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam) conducted a brand audit in 2000 to find out what clients and potential clients thought of the firm. The survey showed that the clarity of the firm\u2019s advice and documents, and its plain language rewriting services, were highly recognised and valued. Even many of the survey participants who were not clients of the firm knew of Phillips Fox\u2019s plain language expertise.\nAnother firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Australia\u2019s largest law firm and winner of \u201cBest Australian Law Firm\u201d in 2001) recently prepared consulting and support services agreements for Microsoft in plain language. Those documents are now being used as a model for Microsoft\u2019s services agreements in many countries.\nMallesons Stephen Jaques and Phillips Fox have been working hard on the plain language front since the early 1990s. In those days they were breaking new ground. Now, many other Australian law firms are active in relation to plain language\u2014all of them would at least claim to write in plain language.\nThis development in Australian law firms seems likely to be a sign of things to come. After all, today, commercial clients of Australian law firms are prepared to pay for legal services that are plain. One day, clients everywhere will refuse to pay for legal services unless they are plain.\nIt\u2019s worth dwelling on these developments for a moment.\n5.4 Plain language wins the debate and kicks on in law firms and in legislation\nAs far as I know, this development in Australian law firms is not common in other countries. Also, in the countries other than Australia where law firms are developing plain language expertise, they seem to be doing so in response to regulatory demand\u2014rather than seeing plain language as an opportunity to provide a new service for clients. For example, major commercial law firms in the US are equipping themselves to write documents that meet the plain language requirements of the SEC regulations.\nThe history is very different in Australia where law firms adopted and committed to plain language in response to client demand.\nIn Australia, clients started demanding plain language documents as soon as the legal profession fell silent in its debate with the plain language movement (as it was!) about the incompatibility of clarity on the one hand with accuracy, certainty, and precision on the other hand. That debate was lead, on the plain language side, by the Law Reform Commission of Victoria under the direction of its Chairman David St L Kelly.\nThe Commission published a discussion paper and 2 reports on plain language. (10)\nThe Commission\u2019s work generated considerable positive publicity in the general media and even more debate in the legal press. Much of the publicity in the general media focused on various demonstration rewrites that the Commission included in its reports\u2014the classic:\n\u201cbefore\u201d draft in traditional legal language; and\n\u201cafter\u201d draft in clear language that makes sense.\nThose sorts of rewrites make good radio.\nAs the debate flowed on (it never really raged), clients started asking the Law Reform Commission to rewrite legal documents in plain language. At that stage, I had been working at the Commission as a research solicitor for nearly a year. I ended up running a small\u2014very small\u2014business for the Commission that provided document-rewriting services for clients: mainly financial services organizations. (Self-funding law reform we liked to call it.)\nAt about the same time, some of the legislative drafting offices in Australia began moving forward on the plain language front. Some of them have done wonderful things, as we\u2019ll see later in this paper.\n5.5 Some plain language developments around the world\nThere\u2019s much happening with plain language internationally\u2014for example:\nIn the US, plain language has long had a high profile in law schools\u2014many of them offer a legal writing subject that, at least in part, focuses on clear communication. A great deal of the early research on clear written communication was done in the US by the Document Design Centre in Washington DC, much of it under the direction of Dr Janice \u201cGinny\u201d Redish. But the highlight so far has been President Clinton\u2019s Memorandum on Plain Language directing all Executive Departments and Agencies to use plain language. The President\u2019s Memorandum was issued on June 1 1998\u2014a red-letter day for plain language everywhere. (11)For the latest US developments, see www.plainlanguage.gov.\nIn Canada, there are many plain language practitioners and advocates. Some of them have law degrees. Also, the Canadian Securities Administration, the federal Department of Finance, the British Columbia Securities Commission, the Office of the Alberta Auditor General, and the Canadian Bankers\u2019 Association are all pushing for plain language. (12)\nIn the United Kingdom, the Plain English Campaign (13) and the Plain Language Commission (14) have been leading the charge and providing rewriting services and training for many years. There have been 2 major legislative developments. First, the new rules for civil procedure, which greatly simplify the language used in court proceedings.(15) Second a project to rewrite the UK\u2019s tax laws. (16)\nIn South Africa, plain language is gathering momentum after a long period in which the country was focussed on even more important issues. Some law firms are attempting to establish plain language practices. The government has been active in legislation. The Canadian lawyer, and plain language expert, Phil Knight was the plain language adviser to the Constitutional Assembly in relation to drafting South Africa\u2019s new Constitution. Phil has returned to South Africa to work on various legislative projects, the highlights being the Labour Relations Act 1995 and competition legislation. (17)\nIn New Zealand, the government is rewriting tax legislation in plain language and some major law firms provide plain language services.\nIn the European Union there is an obvious and huge need for plain language legal documents. At a conference in Denmark in 1994, translators from the European Union bemoaned the appalling English they were required to translate. (18)\nThe Commission of the European Communities is striving to ensure that Community legislation is \u201c\u2026 worded clearly, consistently and unambiguously \u2026 so that it will be easier to understand \u2026(19)\u201d Also, the Interinstitutional Agreement of 22 December 1998 on Common Guidelines for the Quality of Drafting of Community Legislation (20), together with the Joint Practical Guide on how to Draft Community Legislation, stresses that Community Legislation should be clear, simple, precise \u201creadily understandable by the public and economic operators\u201d.\nMuch progress has been made in Sweden where the government has been pushing for plain language since the early 1970\u2019s. The Swedish Ministry of Justice has 6 language experts who work to ensure legislation, and other government documents, are clear.\nAs part of Sweden\u2019s presidency of the European Commission in 2001, Sweden hosted the European Laws Conference in Stockholm in June 2001. The conference included a daylong session on \u201cThe need for clarity and public access: Bridging the gap between the Union and its citizens\u201d. At the Conference, Martin Cutts of the UK based Plain Language Commission (21), released his report Clarifying Eurolaw which includes a rewrite of a European Council Directive.\nThe Conference, and Sweden\u2019s ongoing support of various plain language related proposals, has boosted clear communication in the European Union. Indeed, at the so-called Laeken meeting in December 2001, the European Council announced that it welcomed the plain language proposals and expects to receive a practical plan from the European Commission. (22)\n5.6 What next for plain language?\nIt seems clear that the so-called plain language movement is a movement no more. Yet many key decision-makers in business and government see plain language as a sub-branch of the consumer movement. This misconception impedes plain language progress. For this reason, plain language needs to reposition itself so that those decision-makers see clear legal\u2014and related\u2014communications as important to their organization\u2019s success. I suggest a way to do that in section 8.\n6. Establishing some threshold realities\nBefore we move on to consider how the plain language movement can reposition itself, let\u2019s confirm 2 things\u2014just in case there\u2019s any doubt:\nPlain language involves more than mere word substitution, see 6.1.\nPlain language is just as accurate, as certain, and as precise as traditional legal drafting. Indeed, it is almost always more accurate, more certain, and more precise. Even judges prefer plain language, see 6.2.\n6.1 Beyond mere word substitution\nIn many ways, the phrase \u201cplain language\u201d is inaccurate. It places too much emphasis on language: on words and on sentences. The reality is that clear legal communication depends on much more than eradicating jargon\u2014mere word substitution\u2014and on much more than familiar sentence structure.\nUsually, rewriting a document in plain language involves rethinking the entire document\u2014its content, language, structure, and design\u2014while rigorously focusing on the audience and the purpose of the communication. It is this approach that leads to successful communication.\nThese things are written about at length elsewhere. (23)\n6.2 Plain language improves accuracy, certainty, and precision\nLawyers are conscious of the accuracy, certainty, and precision of traditional legal language. They are sometimes initially concerned that plain language may jeopardize that accuracy, certainty, and precision. However, their concern can be put to one side.\nDetailed research throughout the world, and many \u201creal-life\u201d plain language documents, have conclusively shown that the arguments raised against plain language are myths.\nWriting in plain language does not involve abandoning legal concepts and replacing them with colloquial expressions. Lawyers who are expert in the relevant field are involved in any plain language rewriting project. All essential legal concepts, terms, and phrases are preserved in plain language documents.\nBut legal concepts form only a small percentage of any document\u2014usually, much less than 2%. This leaves 98% of the document available for improvement. Also, remember that rewriting a document in plain language involves much more than mere word substitution, see 6.1\nThe fears expressed about plain language and the arguments raised against it are myths. (24) Even judges prefer plain language\u2014as is shown both by surveys and in court. (25)\nSurveys Surveys in Michigan, Florida, and Louisiana show that when judges (and lawyers) are shown two versions of a document, one in a traditional style and one in plain language, over 80% of them prefer the plain language version. (26)\nIn another survey, ten Californian appellate judges and their research attorneys compared plain language versions of passages from appellate briefs with versions in a traditional style. They rated the traditional versions as \u201csubstantially weaker and less persuasive than the plain language versions\u201d. Also they inferred that the attorneys who wrote in legalese came from less prestigious law firms than those who wrote in plain language. (27)\nCourt Consider these 3 examples of judicial comment on drafting styles: 2 of the comments are critical and one is positive:\nLord Reid of the English House of Lords:\nThis clause does not make sense as it stands. But the client must not be penalized for his lawyer\u2019s slovenly drafting \u2026 I must consider whether underlying the words used any reasonably clear intention can be discerned \u2026 \u2026 no rational person would insert provisions like that. I was surprised to learn that this botched clause had somehow found its way into a standard book of precedents \u2026 (28)\nMeagher JA of the New South Wales Court of Appeal:\n\u2026 the difficulty chiefly arises because the policies, and other documents, emanating from the insurer could not be more perplexing if they had been specifically drafted in order to generate ambiguity. (29)\nHeerey J of the Federal Court of Australia considering a document prepared by the plain language unit at the Australian law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques:\nThe plain words of the guarantee are conclusive evidence against the Appellant\u2019s [the customer\u2019s] argument. The guarantee appears to be a standard form document. In contrast to much traditional bank security documentation, it is clear and comprehensible. (30)\nIn fact, plain language is more accurate, more certain, and more precise than traditional legal drafting. This is because when a document is in plain language, the people involved in producing and reviewing the document spend less time and effort struggling to understand it. Instead, their energy goes into getting the content and the style right\u2014that is:\naccurate, certain, and precise; and\nclear for the various audiences who will use the document.\n6.3 Improving the substance of non-legal documents\nPlain language practitioners are familiar with the idea that plain language improves accuracy, certainty, and precision. But the substantive benefits of plain language go even further than that. This point was made by Merwan Saher, Director of Communications with the Office of the Alberta Auditor General in his paper at this Conference when he said:\nWhat we\u2019ve learned so far is that structure that forces the auditor to discretely set out audit criteria, findings, and implications exposes substandard work. So clear, concise writing influences our audit rigour by identifying the need for more thought or evidence. In summary, by exposing unsupported audit recommendations, plain language improves audit quality. (31)\nMerwan\u2019s point is worth dwelling on. The theme of this plain language conference is \u201cAt the heart of communication across disciplines and around the world\u201d. And that is a true and worthy point. But Merwan\u2019s point shows us that plain language can be at the heart of more than just communication. Plain language can also be at the heart of the substantive activities to which communications relate. It\u2019s as simple as this: by improving the communications relating to their audits, the people in the Office of the Alberta Auditor General improved the quality of their audits.\n7. If plain language is \u201cbeyond a movement\u201d, what is it?\nPlain language has indeed evolved to become more than a movement. In fact it\u2019s now 4 different things:\none of them somewhat burdensome for business\u2014though great for consumers; and\nthe other 3 ripe with opportunities and promise for all.\n7.1 The burden\nPlain language can be burdensome when seen as something that a regulator requires an organization to comply with\u2014as with the SEC regulations in relation to prospectuses.\nThe \u201cburdensome stakes\u201d are high in Australia where at least one regulator strongly encourages some organizations to test the clarity of some of their documents\u2014for example, the Corporations Act 2001 requires financial organizations to produce Product Disclosure Statements for each product the organization sells. The law requires those documents to be \u201c\u2026 presented in a clear, concise and effective manner.\u201d (32) That\u2019s not so unusual. But in the explanatory material (33) for the legislation, the regulator, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (which is the Australian equivalent of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission) suggests that organizations test documents on consumers to ensure that the documents are truly clear and that they really meet the legislative requirements.\nThis encouragement to test is a potentially onerous but, even so, a legitimate requirement. After all, it\u2019s easy to say \u201cour documents are in plain language\u201d\u2014it\u2019s rather like when someone says \u201cthe cheque\u2019s in the mail\u201d. But no one can really be sure a document is clear unless a sample audience has confirmed that they can use the document to find, to understand, and to use the information they seek.\n7.2 The opportunities and promise\nPlain language can also be seen in a positive way, for some organizations plain language is:\na product\u2014eg, my business Words and Beyond provides plain language document rewriting services, plain language training courses, and plain language cultural-change services. There are many other organizations, legal and non-legal, providing similar services\u2014including the Australian law firms I mentioned earlier, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and Phillips Fox;\na key part of excellent customer service and client service\u2014eg, for Clarica, for Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and for Phillips Fox;\na distinguishing feature\u2014eg, for KPMG, for Clarica, for Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and for Phillips Fox.\nSo for law firms, plain language can be wonderful in 3 ways: as a product, as a value adding part of the experience of buying legal services from the firm, and as a distinguishing feature that clients value.\n8. A possible new position for plain language\nPlain language is a movement no more. The legal profession has known this for some time. However, in the minds of key decision-makers in business and government, plain language is too often still seen as a movement. We need to remedy that by repositioning plain language in the minds of those decision-makers. It\u2019s worth doing because those people bare responsibility for enabling plain language to be implemented\u2014and plain language has benefits for all.\nProgress depends on plain language acknowledging its success and how that success has changed it. But what position should plain language seek to occupy?\nAs a threshold issue, we need to establish the aim of the repositioning. I suggest that the aim is to further deliver the social and economic benefits of plain language:\nto a wider audience of consumers and readers of documents; and\nto a greater number of the organizations that rely on documents to administer and manage their operations.\n(It\u2019s purely a side benefit that businesses like mine may be able to grow as a result of the increased success of plain language. Oh yes, purely a side benefit.)\nThe repositioning might start with clarifying how we conceive plain language. Let\u2019s start the clarification process with the documents, where it all begins.\nI see the documents that an organization\u2014whether a business, a government body, or a law firm\u2014produces and relies on as forming the \u201cvoice of the organization\u2019s brand\u201d. For that statement to make sense, we need to think about two things: \u201cvoice\u201d and \u201cbrand\u201d. Let\u2019s think about voice first.\nEach time we speak, the voice we use is heavily influenced by our audience and our purpose: whom we are talking to and why. For example, we use different voices to talk to our pet, to our mother, to our boss and\u2014if we are a lawyer in private practice\u2014to our clients. As a lawyer, we probably use quite different voices for different sorts of clients.\nAt the same time, the voice we use depends on our purpose. For example, the voice an employee lawyer in a law firm uses to talk to the managing partner:\nin a conversation at a social function about how fantastic it is that the firm just won a major pitch for a new client with much, interesting, lucrative, and challenging work for all;\nis very different from the voice that same employee lawyer would use:\nat their annual performance review to ask for a 25% bonus, a 30% pay rise and whether they can work out of the London office for a couple of months a year\u2014business class travel will be fine thanks.\nThat\u2019s how our audience and purpose influence our voice when we speak.\nBut when most lawyers write, they do so without thinking about the who and the why. They put their fingers to the keyboard or they pick up a dictaphone, and a-way they go. Usually the lawyer\u2019s \u201cwork-voice\u201d kicks in and takes over. That work-voice tends to be fairly heavy, formal, traditional, and impersonal. When writing, most lawyers automatically use their work-voice regardless of whether they are:\nwriting to a major corporate client to tell it that the jury awarded it $150 million in compensation;\nwriting to a retail client in the process of buying a house to say that on some technicality the vendor has avoided the intent of the contract and sold the house to a third party at a much higher price; or\nwriting a document for the firm\u2019s client to use to communicate with its markets. That document shouldn\u2019t be in the voice of the law firm\u2019s brand. Rather, it should be in the voice of the client\u2019s brand.\nMany lawyers are proud of their work-voice. It gives them confidence: makes them feel like a real lawyer. I remember the moment when as a final year law student a friend of mine asked me a question about a legal issue he had read about in the paper. Lo and behold, I knew the answer. Even better, when I explained it to him, even I thought I sounded like a lawyer. The relief\u2014the feeling that, \u201cHey, maybe I\u2019ll be able to do this after all\u201d\u2014was immense.\nMany people have a work-voice\u2014not just lawyers.\nMost of us are familiar with our work-voice. We notice it especially when it starts coming out in an inappropriate context. For example, you\u2019re having a relaxing time at a social event and then someone asks you a question about something related to your area of expertise. All of a sudden, you\u2019re being consulted professionally. Your work-voice kicks in without you summoning it. The first thing you notice is your cheeks feel a little funny and the words aren\u2019t coming out quite right\u2014you feel a little slurry or odd. The second thing you notice is that the person you\u2019re speaking to suddenly has a baffled expression on their face because they have no idea what you\u2019re saying. That\u2019s your work-voice.\nSomewhere along the way to becoming a lawyer (or whatever it is we are), most of us develop a work-voice and use it for nearly everything we write\u2014no matter how inappropriate the work-voice is to the audience and purpose of the document.\nI think the reason many of us (lawyers in particular) so habitually use our work-voice is because we want to sound professional. Fair enough too. But if we look up and think about \u201cprofessional\u201d writing, we don\u2019t really see anything. So it\u2019s difficult to see how to write professionally. Then I think what happens is we decide that in order to write professionally, we\u2019ll write in a way that is \u201cformal\u201d and \u201ctraditional\u201d\u2014in the hope that that will equal \u201cprofessional\u201d. But \u201cformal\u201d plus \u201ctraditional\u201d doesn\u2019t equal \u201cprofessional\u201d. It equals pompous and out of date. We can write a letter that\u2019s warm, human, clear, and friendly and still be completely professional.\nHaving thought about voice, let\u2019s think about brand.\nToday, in these communication saturated times, an organization\u2019s reputation is expressed through a clearly defined brand. The brand represents the essence of an organization: everything it stands for, and everything that differentiates it from its competitors. To quote the global management consultants McKinsey & Company:\nA name becomes a brand, when consumers associate it with a set of tangible, or intangible, benefits that they obtain from that product or service. To build brand equity, a company needs to do two things: first, distinguish its product from others in the market; second, align what it says about its brand in advertising and marketing with what it actually delivers. (34)\nPerhaps the best way to understand the concept of brand is to imagine me offering you a sports car and asking you to choose from 3 leading models each from a different manufacturer. The vehicles are labelled Model A, Model B, and Model C. The trouble is you have to choose your car on the basis of the anonymous manufacturers\u2019 vehicle specifications and performance criteria (no photographs of the car either).\nI expect you\u2019d have trouble choosing\u2014until I told you that Model A was a Corvette, Model B was an Alfa Romeo, and Model C was a Porsche. With that information alone, most of us would choose one of the cars immediately\u2014who cares about the torque ratios, the widget factor, or the number of what-have-yous in the thingy. (Personally, I\u2019d take the Alfa).\nWhatever it is that enables us to decide which car to buy as soon as we know the names of the manufacturers is the brand\u2014the intangible thing that influences our buying decision so much more than the product specifications and performance criteria.\nThe key point about building and maintaining a brand is alignment. This point was made by McKinsey & Company in the quote above: \u201c\u2026 a company needs to \u2026 align what it says about its brand in advertising and marketing with what it actually delivers.\u201d That\u2019s true, otherwise, all that advertising and marketing is undone when the customer\u2019s or client\u2019s expectation is not met by the reality of the product or service. So alignment and delivery are the key to a successful brand.\nOne aspect of an organization\u2019s activities that needs to be aligned with its marketing and advertising to create a successful brand is the organization\u2019s documents. Because the documents an organization produces, or relies on, form the \u201cvoice of its brand\u201d.\n8.3 Voice of the brand\nThe people who create written communications for an organization are creating the \u201cvoice of their organization\u2019s brand\u201d\u2014whether they work for the organization or as one of its advisers.\nThe voice of the brand is vital to the success of some organizations, particularly those that provide intangibles. Their communications may be the only thing of any substance that the customer (or potential customer) has to go on when, for example:\nthey are deciding whether to buy in the first place;\nthey are deciding whether to continue using the service;\nthey are working out how to use the product; or\nthey are trying to understand and apply some professional advice they\u2019ve received.\nConsequently, each time someone reads an organization\u2019s document they connect with the organization\u2019s brand. Too often, that moment of truth is sour: the document is formal, impersonal, and awkward. It fails to live up to the values that are the foundation of the organization\u2019s brand.\nOrganizations spend fortunes on logos, visual identities, and advertising. They do so with the aim of creating or refining their brand in an attempt to woo and retain customers. Yet the very same organizations pay little attention to the voice of the brand. Even though it is the voice of the brand that the audience has to deal with?often when the audience is busy at work, or weary at the end of the day, and would rather be doing something else.\nAn organization needs to treat the voice of its brand as seriously as it treats its visual identity, its customer service, and the flowers in reception.\nA simple way for the organization to do that is to measure its documents against its brand values, its brand promise, its mission, its vision etc.\nConsider this simple letter from a major global organization. The letter was sent to a former colleague of mine in response to a letter she wrote to the organization seeking information to help with her tertiary studies. (I need to mention that the information my friend asked for was not at all secret or valuable.)\nDear Ms X\nThank you for requesting information about [name of the company]. We appreciate your interest in our company and our products.\nDue to the sheer volume of student requests for information we receive, we are not able to provide detailed answers to specific questions about our company. However, there is a comprehensive packet of marketing information available to students.\nPlease note, that as we are a [particular type of company], we are not required to produce a [certain publication] and this information is considered proprietary in nature.\nOur student information packet is now available for review on our corporate website, www.[web address] in the section titled \u201cAll about [name of company]\u201d. All information contained in our student packet is available on this website.\nIn case you do not have internet access, we have enclosed a copy of our current student packet.\nAs most of the information published about [name of the company] is available in magazine articles, we strongly recommend that you look through the \u201cReader\u2019s Guide to Periodic Literature\u201d, which is an annual index of magazine articles. This should be available to you at a public or university library.\nThanks again for contacting us. Please call us at [number] if we may be of further assistance.\nLet\u2019s consider a few questions about the letter and the organization. I need to emphasise here, that I\u2019m not concerned about the content of the letter. I completely accept that the organization does not have to answer every set of questions it gets from students. My concerns are only with the style.\nSo to the questions about the letter:\nHow does the letter make you feel about the organization? I find the letter insincere\u2014for example, it seems to give with one hand and take with the other. Then in the last paragraph, the writer invites the reader to ring for more information but that\u2019s the last thing the writer wants the reader to do. Also, the letter is defensive, impersonal, and repetitive.\nWhat sort of organization might the letter be from? Hard to tell really: maybe a financial services organization or a government body.\nIs the organization cool? Not at all.\nDo you want to work there? No. Buy its products? Not really. Invest in the organization? Hmmn, investment is different.\nThe letter is the voice of the organization\u2019s brand and it gives us a fairly clear impression of the organization.\nTo see who the letter is from, see the footnote where the answer is hidden to preserve the surprise. (35)\nHow did the letter measure up against your perception of that organization\u2019s brand? I use the letter as an example in a plain language training course I run. Most participants on the course say there is a massive disconnect between how they feel about that organization\u2014that is, its brand\u2014and how the letter reveals that organization to be.\nLet\u2019s consider a legal example. Several years ago I was employed in the Melbourne office of a national law firm but I worked on secondment in-house for a client in Sydney. One Friday afternoon, a partner I knew slightly in my firm\u2019s Sydney office rang and asked me to help him out. He had developed a suite of documents for a client and needed to deliver them on Monday. The documents had to be as plain as could be. He\u2019d gone way over budget and still felt the documents weren\u2019t clear enough. Effectively, he asked me to give him my Sunday and edit the documents to improve their clarity. I was happy to help.\nA few hours later the documents arrived by courier. There was a covering letter addressed to me:\nWe refer to our earlier conversation and enclose the documents for your review. We look forward to your comments in due course.\n[Name of firm\u2014The partner hadn\u2019t even signed his name!]\nThe letter irritated me. A lot. (Mind you I edited the documents anyway.)\nI would have been happy with a handwritten note on a with compliments slip. Something like \u201cDear Christopher, Thanks for this, I owe you lunch. Cheers [name of partner]\u201d.\nAs I see it, the letter from the lawyer was a classic example of someone automatically using their work-voice. In a Zen sense, the writer was not \u201cin the moment\u201d when he dictated the letter. He did not even remotely consider his audience or his purpose.\n8.4 The importance of the voice of the brand: to business and in government\nFor some organizations the voice of the brand doesn\u2019t matter\u2014for example, Levis. We don\u2019t care too much about the way Levis writes to us\u2014if it ever does other than in advertising and labelling.\nBut for some organizations, the voice of the brand is of vital importance\u2014for example, a radio station. If we don\u2019t like the voice of the brand of a radio station, we\u2019re never going to listen to that station. The radio station has got nothing to give us other than its voice.\nSo if we had a spectrum showing the relative importance of the voice of the brand to an organization, we could put Levi\u2019s at one end of the spectrum and a radio station at the other end.\nAt the same end of the spectrum as the radio station\u2014where the voice of the brand is vital\u2014are organizations like law firms, financial services organizations, many government bodies, providers of medicines, and any organization that gives its staff or its customers a set of instructions or a product manual.\nFor these organizations, the voice of the brand is fundamentally important. Consider a law firm and its relationship with its clients. The moment of truth comes when the clients read something written by one of the firm\u2019s lawyers. In that moment, it doesn\u2019t matter how brilliant the writer is as a lawyer, or how pleasant they are to deal with\u2014what matters is how easy it is for the clients to use the documents to make decisions about their businesses and their lives.\nThat moment of truth matters to the reader because the document matters to the reader. If that wasn\u2019t so, they wouldn\u2019t be reading the document\u2014and they wouldn\u2019t pay the firm to write it.\nThe moment when the document is read is either a brand damaging, or brand enhancing, moment. The person reading the firm\u2019s document quickly sees whether the way in which the firm communicates lives up to the claims the firm makes about itself in its advertising and marketing material. The reader can \u201csmell\u201d whether the firm\u2019s advertising and marketing puffery reflect the way the firm provides its services.\nTo make that point using the McKinsey & Company language (quoted above), the reader is made abundantly aware of whether the document\u2014a key aspect of the law firm\u2019s behaviour and service\u2014is \u201caligned\u201d with the firm\u2019s claims about itself. If the document fails to live up to the brand, then the firm\u2019s brand is damaged. However, if the document and the brand are aligned, then the moment when the document is read is a brand enhancing moment: the client is likely to feel happier about using the firm, paying the invoice, coming back next time, and referring other clients to the firm.\nThose moments of truth matter for businesses that rely heavily on documents to communicate with their markets.\nBut the voice of the brand is even more important in a broader context. The fact that so much legislation and judicial writing is inaccessible to all but the members of the legal profession (and even they have to work pretty hard to make sense of some documents) means that the voice of the brand of the State often:\ndamages the community\u2019s respect for the rule of law and for the legal profession; and\ndamages the State\u2019s relationship with its citizens.\nThe problems arise in legislation, in the communications produced by government departments, and in the courts. Consider this point from a tongue-in-cheek article by an Australian journalist covering the vote counting in Florida after the 2000 US election:\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s Super League [a reference to a major piece of protracted very public litigation over the running of Rugby League in Australia] or a national election, judges are the most unsatisfactory people to decide life\u2019s big questions [By the way, that\u2019s going too far even for me!] because it\u2019s so hard to work out what they are saying. All of the key decisions in this election, at whatever level, have been followed by universal blank looks. \u201cHas he finished yet? Does that mean we won or lost?\u201d (36)\nThe point was made more formally by Hon. A M Omar MP, Minister of Justice, Republic of South Africa, in March 1995:\nClear, simple communication is \u2026 an absolute and critical necessity for democracy. People have a right to understand the laws that govern them, to understand court proceedings in matters that affect them, to understand what government is doing in their name. (37)\nAt first glance, it may be a little odd to think about the voice of the brand of a State, of an entire nation. But South Africa has given us a good place to start. The South African Constitution contains a Bill of Rights, which includes the statement that:\nThis Bill of Rights is a cornerstone of democracy in South Africa. It enshrines the rights of all people in our country and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom. (38)\nThose are inspiring brand values for any nation: \u201cdignity, equality and freedom\u201d.\nThe challenge is to make the style of legislation live up to these inspiring ideals. One way to do that is to ensure that legislation is inclusive. As Phil Knight, Professor Joseph Kimble, and I said in a 1995 report to the South African Minister of Justice:\nMost importantly, plain language allows people to visualize themselves as subjects of the law, and to imagine themselves in the circumstances with which the law deals. This ability to place or imagine oneself within the law is an important distinction between a system of justice and a regime of enforced order. (39)\nThere is much good news on the legislative front. For example, the main headings in the New South Wales Local Government Act 1993 are:\nChapter 2: What are the purposes of this Act?\nChapter 3: What is a council\u2019s charter?\nChapter 4: How can the community influence what a council does?\nChapter 5: What are a council\u2019s function?\nChapter 6: What are the service functions of a council?\nThe heading for Chapter 4 is my all-time favorite legislative heading \u201cHow can the community influence what a council does?\u201d It\u2019s so inclusive and welcomingeven if the reader is unfamiliar with the law and legal processes. If they want to find out how to let their local council know what they think, the law welcomes them to the process.\nWhen I quoted that heading to some lawyers working in community legal centers in Namibia, they were ecstatic (I\u2019m not exaggerating) at the thought that legislation could be written like that. New South Wales is not alone in using question headings in legislation: Sweden does too. (40)Other exciting developments in legislative drafting include the increasing use of graphic devices and examples. (41)\nHow wonderful it would be if more judges also strove to write in a way that enhances respect for the rule of law: not through gravitas, formality, and tradition but through accessibility, clarity, simplicity, and ease of use.\nThere is good news too in US government departments, many of which are engaged in major long-term projects to improve the clarity of their communications. (42)\n9. Delivering plain language: structure and responsibilities\nAlthough there is neither the room, nor the need, to say much here about causing organizational cultural change, there are two points worth making because they are particularly related to communication.\n9.1 Someone to take responsibility for how the audience receives the message\nIn most organisations, a team of people contribute to the style and content of a document. Between them, those people have a range of roles. For example, in a financial services organization, those roles typically include: a product manager, a lawyer, an actuary, someone from marketing, someone from customer service, someone representing the distributors who actually deal with potential customers, a designer, someone responsible for some research, a project manager, someone from IT, a printer, \u2026 and often a few more.\nYet there is no one whose job is to take responsibility for how the audience will receive the message. (43)\nOrganisations need to give someone that responsibility. There needs to be someone representing the document\u2019s audience who is prepared to sign-off (after any necessary testing):\nthat most members of the document\u2019s audience will be able to use the document to do what they need to dothat is, that the document works for its audience and its purpose; and\nthat the document will enhance the organisation\u2019s brand.\nThe questions then arise: Who should that person report to? How do they fit into the team?\n9.2 Structuring an organisation to show the importance of communication\nIn my experience, the person that coordinates the creation of documents is usually the Product Manager. That seems to be a mistake to me.\nInstead, the various contributors to the document should be coordinated by the person responsible for how the audience will receive the message. This is particularly so for documents relating to intangibles.\nThis matters because for so many intangibles the customer \u201csees\u201d the product only through the organization\u2019s communications. Therefore, the communications are of the utmost importance.\nConsider a customer trying to choose a financial services product. There is nothing for the customer to \u201csee\u201d without the documents that describe the product. So the key to achieving \u201ccustomer focus\u201d is to get the documents right for the reader. Therefore, the person who \u201ctakes responsibility for how the audience receives the message\u201d needs to be in charge of the document\u2019s development.\nIt is that person who should be deciding:\nwhat\u2019s in what\u2019s out;\nthe order in which information is to be presented;\nwhat the headings are going to be;\nthe style and tone of the language;\nthe look and feel of the document.\nThe other people involved should be merely contributing material, and checking for accuracy etc.\nThis structure will also help to emphasise internally the importance the organisation places on the clarity of its communications. By itself, that emphasis will generate energy and momentum that will help the organisation produce clear documents that enhance its brand.\nPlain language has grown beyond being a movement to become a product, a business, an industry, or a professional service. In the early twenty-first Century, it is almost misleading for plain language practitioners to talk about their product as a movement.\nYet much remains to be done to improve the clarity of legal, and related, documents. The success to date has been achieved by focussing on:\ntraditionally, the social benefits of clear legal communication; and\nmore recently, the economic benefits.\nThese must remain key focuses. But progress has been, as my 11 year old son and 8 year old daughter would have it, \u201cway slow Dad, in fact double way slow\u201d.\nIn too many organizations, important writing tasks are left to someone with other core skills\u2014eg, legal, marketing, or customer service skills.\nAlso, although many people in many organizations\u2014especially law firms\u2014write for a substantial percentage of their working day, their writing skills are rarely enhanced and even more rarely measured. how can that be? Why is it so?\nYet, every person who writes for an organization helps form the voice of that organization\u2019s brand\u2014they are its custodians, champions, and guardians. And for some organizations, the voice of the brand is fundamentally important.\nWe need to reposition plain language in the eyes of decision-makers in businesses, in law firms, and in government. We need to show those decision-makers that with plain language, their organization\u2019s documents can satisfy and delight everyone who reads those documents. That is so whether the reader is a client, a customer, a patient, a staff member, a distributor, a supplier, a regulator, a judge, an investor, a litigant, or someone reading the law.\nTo help those decision-makers determine whether the style of their organization\u2019s documents is helping or hindering their organization, we should encourage them to measure those documents against their organization\u2019s brand values.\nIt\u2019s fairly easy to do that measuring. First, simply ask the people in an organization to comment on their documents. Usually, they say things like \u201cwordy\u201d, \u201cformal\u201d, \u201cheavy\u201d, \u201crepetitive\u201d, \u201cworse than boring\u201d etc. Sometimes people go much further than that. Then compare those comments with the organization\u2019s brand promise, its values, mission etc. Usually, the gap between their comments and the brand is huge.\nAfter the measuring, we should ask decision-makers:\n\u201cHow important is the voice of your brand?\n\u201cIs your brand\u2019s voice aligned with your brand?\u201d\n\u201cHow well is the voice of your brand being managed?\u201d\n\u201cDoes your organization\u2019s structure promote a focus on clarity?\u201d\n\u201cWho in your organization is responsible for how the document\u2019s audience receives the message?\u201d\n\u201cWould clearer documents help your organization succeed?\u201d\nAll of that should help deliver the economic and social benefits of clear communication\u2014because the long-term solutions to the problems of poor communication lie in organizations competing (at least to some extent) on the basis of the plainness of their documents.\nI presented an earlier version of this paper at At the Heart of Communication The Plain Language Association International (PLAIN) 4th International conference. Ramada Hotel and Suites, Toronto, September 26\u201329, 2002\u2014see www.plainlanguagenetwork.org. Also, I presented a much earlier version at the Language & the Law Conference, The University of Texas at Austin December 6-8, 2001. A conference celebrating the Millionth Volume at the Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law.\nIn the United Kingdom, and Australia, the phrase is more commonly \u201cthe plain English movement\u201d.\nSee the legal journal CLARITY No. 43 (May 1999). It contains articles about plain language practitioners working as consultants and working in-house in law firms, financial services organisations, accounting firms, legislative drafting offices, and government agencies. For information about the organisation Clarity, see www.clarity-international.net.\nwww.plainlanguagenetwork.org\nSee www.clarity-international.net.\nSee LAW REFORM COMM\u2019N OF VICTORIA, LEGISLATION LEGAL RIGHTS AND PLAIN ENGLISH (1986). See also CHRISTOPHER BALMFORD, \u201cAdding Value by Writing Clearly,\u201d THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL, 514 at 533, Vol 111, Part III, (August 1994).\nFor a fascinating and persuasive summary of the research on the efficiency, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction gains that clear communication has actually delivered to a wide range of organisations, see PROFESSOR JOSEPH KIMBLE Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please, 6 SCRIBES J. LEGAL WRITING 1, (1996-1997).\nSEC release 33-7497 (also 34-39593 and IC-23011) January 28, 1998. See www.sec.gov/rules/final33-7497.txt.\nwww.clarica.com/e/about/Story/history.asp. See also, SUSAN MILNE Plain Language at Clarica CLARITY No. 45 at 19 (December 2000).\nLEGISLATION LEGAL RIGHTS AND PLAIN ENGLISH, Discussion Paper No. 1 (August 1986); PLAIN ENGLISH AND THE LAW, Report No. 9 (repr. 1990). ACCESS TO THE LAW: THE STRUCTURE AND FORMAT OF LEGISLATION, Report No. 33 (May 1990).\nSee CLARITY No. 42 at 3-8 (September 1998); CLARITY No. 45 at 13 (December 2000).\nMilne, supra note 11.\nwww.plainenglishcampaign.com.\nwww.clearest.co.uk.\nCivil Procedure Rules (for England & Wales).\nSee www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk.\nSee FRANS VILJOEN & ANNELIZE NIENABER (ed.) PLAIN LEGAL LANGUAGE FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY, 2001.\nConversations with the author at Linguists and Lawyers\u2014Issues We Confront The Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark, 23-27 August 1994.\nLegislate Less to Act Better: The Facts Brussels 27 May 1998, COM (1998) 354 final p3.\nSee the Official Journal of the European Union 1999/C 73/01 at https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en.\nSee BARBRO EHRENBERG-SUNDIN The Swedish government promotes clear drafting CLARITY No. 47, 3 at 9 (May 2002).\nBRYAN GARNER, LEGAL WRITING IN PLAIN ENGLISH: A TEXT WITH EXERCISES, University of Chicago Press (2001). CHRISTOPHER BALMFORD Getting the Structure Right: Process, Paradigm and Persistence (in 2 parts), Part 1 in CLARITY No. 42, at 42 (September 1998); Part 2 in CLARITY No. 43, at 14, (May 1999). COLIN WHEILDON, TYPE & LAYOUT: HOW TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN CAN GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS\u2014OR GET IN THE WAY Strathmoor Press (March 1995).\nSee for example, LAW REFORM COMM\u2019N OF VICTORIA, PLAIN ENGLISH AND THE LAW especially 45-62 (1990); PROFESSOR JOSEPH KIMBLE Answering the Critics of Plain Language, 5 SCRIBES J. LEGAL LANGUAGE 51, (1994-1995); and PROFESSOR DAVID MELLINKOFF, THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW Boston, Little Brown & Co (1963).\n25)Steve Palyga Is it Safer to Use Legalese or Plain English? What the Judges Say, CLARITY No. 43 at 46, (May 1999).\nPROFESSOR JOSEPH KIMBLE and J A PROKOP JR Strike Three for Legalese, MICH. B.J. 418 (May 1990).\nBENSON AND KESSLER, Legalese v plain English: An Empirical Study of Persuasion and Credibility in Appellate Brief Writing 20 Loy LA L Rev at 301 (1987).\nRe Gulbenkian\u2019s Settlement Trusts, [1968] 3 All ER 785, at 787.\nEdwards Dunlop & Co Ltd v CE Heath Underwriting & Insurance (Australia) (Pty) Ltd (1991) 6 ANZ Ins Cas para 61-049.\nRe Piccolo; McVeigh (Trustee of the Bankrupt Estate of John Peter Piccolo) v. National Australia Bank Ltd, Federal Court of Australia (Victoria District Registry), see DR ROBERT EAGLESON Judge values plain drafting, CLARITY No. 45 at 37 (December 2000).\nPersonal email to the author after PLAIN\u2019s \u201cAt the Heart of Communication\u201d Conference in Toronto, September 2002.\nSection 1013C (3) Corporations Act 2001, inserted in that Act by the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 No. 122, 2001. See http://www.cpd.com.au/asic/ps/ps168.pdf\nAUSTRALIAN SECURITIES & INVESTMENTS COMMISSION, [PS 168] (Policy Statement), DISCLOSURE: PRODUCT DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS (AND OTHER DISCLOSURE OBLIGATIONS), see www.asic.gov.au/index.cfm-acrobat=-asic-pdf-PS168.pdf.htm, especially paragraphs [PS 168.69] to [PS 168.72].\nMcKinsey & Company Journal, 1997. As quoted by THOMAS FRIEDMAN in THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE, HarperCollins 1999, p 189.\nThe letter was from Levi\u2019s, the clothing manufacturer.\nMALCOLM KNOX Shonky votes? It could never happen in Australia, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Saturday 16 December 2000, at 20.\nAt a plain language conference in Cape Town sponsored by the Plain English Campaign (United Kingdom) in March 1995, quoted by PHIL KNIGHT, PROF. JOSEPH KIMBLE, and CHRISTOPHER BALMFORD in TOWARDS PLAIN LANGUAGE LEGISLATION: A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT ON LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING, A MODEL REVISION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL in the authors\u2019 covering letter. The model was prepared in May 1995 as a demonstration of plain language principles at the request of Hon. A M Omar MP, Minister of Justice, Republic of South Africa.\nConstitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996, Chapter 2 Bill of Rights, section 7(1).\nSee Knight, Kimble, and Balmford, supra note 39 at 3.\nElection Act (SFS 1997:157) Chapter 12.\nSee WORKING WITH OPC - A GUIDE FOR CLIENTS published by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Commonwealth of Australia. The guide contains several examples of legislative tables, diagrams, flowcharts, and examples. It is downloadable at www.opc.gov.au/about/documents.htm\nDR SUSAN KLEIMANN AND MELODEE MERCER Changing a Bureaucracy\u2014One Paragraph at a Time CLARITY No. 43, at 26 (May 1999). DR ANNETTA CHEEK Plain language in the U.S. federal government, CLARITY No. 44, at 19 (December 1999). 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This award was created to honour the legacy of Canadian filmmaker, activist, and educator Rob Stewart. A friend and colleague of Stewart, Bryson shares with us the significance of receiving this award below.\nIf it provides any solace, please be assured that Rob had a huge effect in his life. Not only educating large numbers of people and saving countless lives of sharks, he has inspired a whole generation of young people, many of whom will go on and amplify Rob\u2019s work. \u2013 David Suzuki\nI cannot begin to express how honoured I feel to be receiving the inaugural Rob Stewart Youth Eco-Hero Award from Planet In Focus Film Festival this year. Let me tell you why this award is so meaningful to me on a deeply personal level.\nRob was one of my best friends. We had the chance to collaborate and co-direct a film together called The Fight For Bala. Rob taught me so much about the film industry and he inspired me to be a more positive, optimistic, and outgoing individual. He was a dear friend, an amazing mentor, and a hero.\nThe first time I met Rob was up at his cottage in Muskoka. We had previously spoken over email, but to suddenly have the opportunity to spend a few days with him up north was amazing! After that we became good friends. We inspired each other and developed a unique friendship \u2013 a friendship across two generations. That, in itself, is something I\u2019ll forever be thankful for.\nI got a text from him back in 2014 saying something along the lines of \u201cHey buddy! I\u2019m getting an Eco-Hero award at Planet in Focus Film Festival! Wanna come with me?\u201d Of course I replied \u201cYes!\u201d That was when he received his Planet In Focus International Eco-Hero Award. We had a lovely dinner afterwards to celebrate the occasion with his family and I just remember thinking how grateful I was to know Robbie. I dreamed of getting to collaborate with him as a kid, and suddenly there I was, hanging out with him and his family at dinner, after having made a film together. It felt magical!\nSo, now, after having spent so much time with Robbie (and following his terribly sad and tragic passing), to be receiving an Eco-Hero Award myself, in Rob\u2019s honour, is surreal. Sadly I can\u2019t invite him to my Eco-Hero Award ceremony, but his legacy is more alive than ever \u2013 and I know he\u2019ll be there, in the theatre, with us.\nThis award marks the second time Planet In Focus Film Festival has supported me in my work. This time last year I had the great opportunity to join nine other inspiring young people at a round table discussion with David Suzuki, organized by Planet In Focus. We discussed environmental issues and the power youth have in tackling them for future generations. David Suzuki had always been a personal hero of mine, and it was wonderful to be a part of that even with him.\nThank you so much, Planet In Focus, for supporting youth to do this important work for the planet and for this incredible award! It truly means the world to me. And Rob, and the entire Stewart family, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.\nPlease join me for Planet in Focus Closing Night Gala & Awards on October 22nd.\nJonah Bryson is a 17-year-old French-American award-winning film director and musician with a passion for entertainment to make the world a better place. After receiving a Best Emerging Artist award sponsored by Prince Albert II Of Monaco at the age of 14, Jonah co-directed The Fight for Bala with Rob Stewart (Sharkwater). 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At first we thought it might just be a mistake. Then they kept coming. For no apparent reason. You tell us, reader, on this glorious (depending on where you work) Friday \u2013 how does this fit into our wheelhouse?\nSouth Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority Recognizes June as Homeownership Month\nProviding Affordable Homeownership Opportunities for Forty Years\nColumbia, S.C. \u2013 June 22, 2011 \u2013 The Board of Commissioners of the South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority (SC State Housing) endorsed a proclamation in observance of June as Homeownership Month pledging support and commitment to providing affordable homeownership opportunities for the citizens of South Carolina.\nCreated in 1979, SC State Housing\u2019s Homeownership program provides loan and down payment assistance to South Carolina home buyers. Since the program\u2019s inception, the agency has made over 38,000 loans exceeding $2.3 billion. 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Owning a home is among the values that Americans most cherish \u2013 an important part of the American Dream.\u201d\nAs the housing market continues to recover from the economic downturn, Homeownership Month allows the housing industry to reflect on the many benefits of homeownership \u2013 and the many great homeownership programs available.\nOther SC State Housing programs providing homeownership assistance:\nPalmetto Heroes is designed to help South Carolina law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, nurses, veterans, and EMS personnel who want to become homeowners. Eligible home buyers can get a fixed interest rate of 4.625% on a mortgage through SC State Housing\u2019s First-time Buyer Program as well as down payment assistance of up to $5,000.\nThe South Carolina Homeownership and Employment Lending Program (SC HELP), helps families stay in their homes or otherwise avoid preventable foreclosure. 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If you no longer wish to receive notifications from Priority, you can turn this feature off in your device settings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://propr.ca/2006/iabc-comunications-commons-is-there-an-appetite-for-a-consulting-principles-forum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZSVBIP4ET3WS772BMLSY3ULNYSR4H65", "length": 2315, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "propr.ca", "title": "IABC Communications Commons: Is there an appetite for a \"Consulting Principles\" forum? - ProPR", "raw_content": "IABC Communications Commons: Is there an appetite for a \"Consulting Principles\" forum?\nShel Holtz tells us that the IABC Communications Commons has been launched. The Commons is billed as a \u201cBlog Community for Business Communicators.\u201d\nIn his initial posting on the Commons home page, Shel says\nIABC\u0092s goal for the Commons is to provide a gathering place for communicators to focus on their own areas of specialization and learn about others. \u2026 This is the place for communicators to gather to exchange ideas about their craft, guided by experts in the various, diverse specialties that make up our profession.\nIABC membership is not required to read or participate in the Commons. In the spirit of the blogosphere, the Commons is an effort provide open access to some of the thought leaders from within IABC\u0092s ranks. These Commons bloggers will share their wisdom, report on goings-on in their field, and \u0097 most important \u0097 engage in comments-driven converations.\nTo get things rolling, we\u0092re starting with three corners of the organizational communications world: branding and marketing, employee communications, and communication measurement. More will be added as we iron out the wrinkles of this network of communication blogs. First on the list for inclusion down the road are media relations and communications creative.\nEach of the Commons blogs are group blogs. That is, more than one author will contribute posts. This will add diversity of opinion as well as a broad range of experience and expertise within each subject matter area.\nKudos to Shel, Natasha Spring, Chris Hall and all the folks at the IABC who are behind the Commons. It is a great initiative.\nAnd now a suggestion. One of the best things about PRSA/CPRS membership is the Counselors Academy. The Counselors Academy runs a great program of seminars and conferences on topics of interest to senior communicators and agency principals. I think the IABC Commons could provide a similar service to its members by adding a \u201cConsulting Principles\u201d section that would enable principals and senior practitioners to talk about the principles and practices that the leading public relations consultancies have adopted or are moving toward.\nWhat do you think? If IABC hosted it? Would you be prepared to contribute to this type of forum?\n\u00ab Linkworthy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prsuperstar.co.uk/success-story/balsam-hill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PZXN5Z46F3JCF5BGWRYQ274QIGDS25XR", "length": 3216, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "prsuperstar.co.uk", "title": "PR Case Study \u2013 Balsam Hill | Jill Kent, PR Superstar", "raw_content": "\u201cJill has done a terrific job for Balsam Hill! It\u2019s now our third year working together! It\u2019s a pleasure to work with her \u2013 her can-do attitude, hard work, and enthusiasm make her a great business partner.\u201d\nPablo Diaz Barriga, General Manager & Marketing Manager, Balsam Hill\nUS-based luxury brand Balsam Hill launched in the UK in 2013, bringing its true-to-life, uber-luxurious, artisan Christmas trees to British homes. VIP fans of the high-end, sophisticated artificial Christmas tree company include global TV stars Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres, and trees retail at up to $20,000 each. Founder Thomas Harman was inspired to start Balsam Hill after a family member was allergic to live trees. When he struggled to find a true-to-life, premium quality, artificial Christmas tree, he decided to create his own.\nWith strong competition from the likes of John Lewis and other retailers, I was appointed to launch Balsam Hill in the UK, raise the brand\u2019s profile, generate credibility and drive sales in the run-up to Christmas. My aim was to achieve coverage on TV as well as in the country\u2019s best-selling home interiors magazines. I was brought back in 2014 and again in 2015 to build on our PR efforts.\nAfter being appointed in the late summer of 2013, I had to work fast as many of the monthly glossies were already planning or even working on their Christmas editions.\nSo I offered to lend Balsam Hill Christmas trees and decorations to the magazines for their festive shoots, and I also provided high-quality imagery, both lifestyle and cut-outs, to encourage product placement. National newspapers and their weekend supplements were also targeted as part of the PR campaign. I focused on the brand\u2019s USPs including how designers handcraft each artificial Christmas tree to look life-like and also visit forests and use fresh cuttings from live trees as inspiration.\nAs a result of the 2013 and 2014 campaigns, Balsam Hill has featured in every major interiors magazine, from Conde Nast\u2019s House & Garden to Ideal Home. And I secured not one but three pieces of coverage in the Christmas edition of Good Housekeeping, the UK\u2019s most popular women\u2019s magazine, with one of the trees taking centre stage in a celebrity shoot.\nWith TV coverage also being a target, I contacted art directors and production managers on some of Britain\u2019s most watched TV programmes, and offered to lend them Balsam Hill trees for their seasonal sets in return for credits, use of the show\u2019s logos, and photographs of the trees as featured on the shows \u2013 together with their celebrity hosts and guests. These images were then used on Balsam Hill\u2019s website and in their marketing materials, such as TV ads, to strengthen credibility. I secured TV coverage on some of Britain\u2019s biggest shows including ITV1 The X Factor, ITV1 The Jonathan Ross Show, and BBC1 Saturday Kitchen.\nI also gained A-List celebrity endorsement in the shape of global singing superstar Leona Lewis who tweeted and blogged about Balsam Hill to her 1m followers after we arranged for the brand to donate a tree to her favourite animal charity.\nSales of Balsam Hill in the UK increased by 40% in 2014. PR Superstar is tasked with increasing sales by 50% in 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://publicwatchdogs.org/songs-spent-fuel-more-of-a-threat-than-a-meltdown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2AAFSNSZXME5JAEJWAY7NUK5XIYW4HQD", "length": 2344, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "publicwatchdogs.org", "title": "SONGS spent fuel \"more of a threat\" than a meltdown - Public Watchdogs: Because the Public has a right to know", "raw_content": "October 7, 2016 October 9, 2016 Public Watchdogs Breaking News, Press Releases\nNBC investigative report based on Public Watchdogs research and documents\nNBC news has published an alarming expos\u00e9 on the safety of Southern California Edison\u2019s plans to store nuclear waste on the beach in thin-shelled canisters at the now-failed SONGS, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The story is based on research and documents provided by Public Watchdogs.\nWe have released the safety documents that spurred the NBC expos\u00e9 and you can get them here.\nIn just 163 days, Southern California Edison will begin burying its hot nuclear waste 108 feet from the public beach at San Onofre State Beach, making it the largest privately owned nuclear waste dump in the USA (see the Public Watchdogs countdown clock).\nThe story quotes an editorial opinion from the highly respected science journal, Scientific American (attached) stating that the spent fuel at facilities like SONGS is \u201cmore of a threat than a meltdown.\u201d It also quotes the Public Watchdogs\u2019 executive director, and prominent nuclear safety experts on why the beach at San Onofre is the worst possible location for a nuclear waste dump for hot radioactive fuel.\nIs Edison lying about \u201cdry cask\u201d safety?\nThe hot radioactive waste at San Onofre is deadly to humans for millions of years. Yet in the NBC story Southern California Edison claims that its thin-walled waste-storage drum are \u201csafe\u201d for waste for more than 80-years \u2026 a statement that directly flies in face of internal documents uncovered in legal discovery by the nuclear waste safety group San Onofre Safety.org.\nA ten-year warranty on the concrete, and a 25-year warranty on the casks\nThose documents show that the \u201cdry casks\u201d (which will actually be buried inches above the water table) are only guaranteed for\n10 to 25 years depending on the system\u2019s components, and that the design life of the casks is only sixty years.\nWorst Safety Record in the USA\nAccording to Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents, SONGS has the WORST nuclear safety record in the USA according to NRC documents secured by San Onofre Safety, making all claims of \u201csafety\u201d by Edison highly questionable.\nFor additional background, or to arrange an interview on the likelihood of a nuclear disaster at San Onofre, contact Charles Langley at (858) 752-4600.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 8263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_2375017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2HRA55X7KZ4LZ7WTVHUWPTKQDZPJ6VB", "length": 1919, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pure.mpg.de", "title": "Keratin 8 phosphorylation regulates keratin reorganization and migration of epithelial tumor cells :: MPG.PuRe", "raw_content": "Keratin 8 phosphorylation regulates keratin reorganization and migration of epithelial tumor cells\nBusch, Tobias\nhttp://jcs.biologists.org/content/125/9/2148.full.pdf\nhttp://jcs.biologists.org/content/125/9/2148.supplemental\nBusch, T., Armacki, M., Eiseler, T., Joodi, G., Temme, C., Jansen, J., et al. (2012). Keratin 8 phosphorylation regulates keratin reorganization and migration of epithelial tumor cells. Journal of Cell Science, 125(9), 2148-2159. doi:10.1242/jcs.080127.\nZitierlink: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-4B4F-0\nCell migration and invasion are largely dependent on the complex organization of the various cytoskeletal components. Whereas the role of actin filaments and microtubules in cell motility is well established, the role of intermediate filaments in this process is incompletely understood. Organization and structure of the keratin cytoskeleton, which consists of heteropolymers of at least one type 1 and one type 2 intermediate filament, are in part regulated by post-translational modifications. In particular, phosphorylation events influence the properties of the keratin network. Sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC) is a bioactive lipid with the exceptional ability to change the organization of the keratin cytoskeleton, leading to reorganization of keratin filaments, increased elasticity, and subsequently increased migration of epithelial tumor cells. Here we investigate the signaling pathways that mediate SPC-induced keratin reorganization and the role of keratin phosphorylation in this process. We establish that the MEK\u2013ERK signaling cascade regulates both SPC-induced keratin phosphorylation and reorganization in human pancreatic and gastric cancer cells and identify Ser431 in keratin 8 as the crucial residue whose phosphorylation is required and sufficient to induce keratin reorganization and consequently enhanced migration of human epithelial tumor cells.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://purplejunction.com/involvement-in-local-tech-community/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:A4BN7MX7HZW7QIUMFN6G3BJRWFQMOKMK", "length": 646, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "purplejunction.com", "title": "Community \u2013 Brian Hurley's Blog", "raw_content": "I have benefited greatly over the years from the help of many people in the National Capital Region. I believe in keeping the chain unbroken \u2013 I have and continue to be active in supporting local tech community entrepreneurs and business organizations.\nOver the years I have been a participant in a range of organizations and committees, including:\nThe Ottawa Network (Board of Directors)\nOCRI (Board of Directors)\nOttawa Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors)\nTiE (Member)\nLead to Win (Member of Faculty)\nGTEC Distinction Awards (Judge)\nOntario Ministry of Research and Innovation \u2013 Expert Advisors Panel on High-Performance Computing (Member)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rachelbridgeshistoryblog.wordpress.com/category/latin-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EYDYQ5ATRBKIUN4G2MCNHSMRPOONJHRP", "length": 257, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "rachelbridgeshistoryblog.wordpress.com", "title": "Latin America \u2013 Rachel Bridges: History Blog", "raw_content": "Favelas and the Media in Rio de Janeiro\nFavelas are the low-income areas of Brazil and are home to 50 million people (Alonso, Marcelo, \u201cFighting Their Way out of Brazil\u2019s Slums \u2013 ESPN\u201d, Espn.go.com). They\u2026 Read more \u201cFavelas and the Media in Rio de Janeiro\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 160.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raineykizer.com/attorney/addie-m-wilson/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:USWAEGHAZO26Z22QZENEHB4BAY6FDM32", "length": 1379, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "raineykizer.com", "title": "Addie Wilson - Rainey \u2022 Kizer \u2022 Reviere & Bell PLC", "raw_content": "Addie Wilson\nawilson@raineykizer.com\nBelmont University College of Law, J.D., 2016, cum laude\nExecutive Symposium Editor, Belmont Law Review\nUniversity of Tennessee at Martin, B.S.S.W, 2013, magna cum laude\nSelected for steering committee of DRI\u2019s Young Lawyers Committee\nBest Performance Awards in Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Health Care Business and Finance, and Health Law\nSelected for Advanced Trial Advocacy Course with Professor Donald Cochran\nMs. Wilson is an Associate with Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, P.L.C. She joined the firm after earning her law degree at Belmont University College of Law and became the first Belmont Law graduate at Rainey Kizer. Ms. Wilson is a member of the firm\u2019s Tort Litigation Group.\nWhile in law school, Ms. Wilson served as the Executive Symposium Editor for the Belmont University Law Review. She also interned in the General Counsel\u2019s office at West Tennessee Healthcare and worked as a summer clerk for the Honorable W. Neal McBrayer on the Tennessee Court of Appeals. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Work at the University of Tennessee at Martin.\nJackson Cotillion Club\nMentor for the TnAchieves College Scholarship and Mentor Program\nRecent Publications & Speaking Engagements\nNathan Shelby and Addie Wilson, What I Meant to Say . . ., The Journal Spring/Summer 2017 Issue 2, Volume 1. SKM_C654e17060515220", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ramiungarthewriter.com/tag/the-help/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SFASPJH7VO3R7QJDKSXJIGDRBPD3D6MD", "length": 1194, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ramiungarthewriter.com", "title": "The Help | Rami Ungar The Writer", "raw_content": "Reborn City Update 2-27-12\nPosted: February 28, 2012 in Novel, Progress Report\nTags: Academy Awards, editing, The Help, writing\nSound the trumpets, I\u2019m officially a third of the way through editing Reborn City. I just finished Chapter Eight, and although it\u2019s a short chapter, it\u2019s what I\u2019d call a transitional chapter. With this chapter we really start to get into the thick of the plot and to the events that lead to the climax of the novel. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing where I go from here in terms of editing. A lot in the first eight or so chapters has really changed from even the draft before it, so I wonder how much more will change.\nHope to have more for you soon.\nOh, and a huge congratulations to Octavia Spencer for winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her role of Minny Jackson in The Help. Honestly, you brought the character to life, and endeared her so much to me. I wish you continued success in your future and perhaps, if God blesses me and I\u2019m lucky enough, we could work together sometime (there\u2019s a character in a series I plan to write someday that\u2019s even more cantankerous-yet-hilarious than Minny, and I can\u2019t imagine anyone but Ms. Spencer playing her).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 14682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rbcs-us.com/consulting/save-money-with-defect-and-incident-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:W3WO4GHUEWD575MBOETU6ANYFJWIX4LD", "length": 1239, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rbcs-us.com", "title": "RBCS Software Testing Training & Consulting: Defect and Incident Management", "raw_content": "Save Money with Defect and Incident Management\nDoes your organization spend a small fortune on IT? Do you know how much of that is wasted?\nIn a study for one client, we found that they were losing 10 to 20 percent of their internal software development and acquisition budget due to avoidable defect management problems. In a recent study for another client, we found $20 million dollars in waste due to inefficiencies in the way they handle software and system incidents in production, and that $20 million didn't even count the cost of employee downtime due to software and system failures.\nRBCS can help you locate and reduce these kinds of inefficiencies. We have helped dozens of companies save millions by improving their defect and incident management. We won't just identify the waste, we'll help you prioritize it using Pareto analysis and then devise practical, fast-acting plans to attack the vital few defect and incident management problems that are costing your organization time, effort, and money, and distracting your employees from doing what they should do, deliver for your customers.\nContact us today to learn more about how a quick, reasonably-priced assessment can easily save you ten times or more of what it costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readcrystalpalace.com/2018/11/07/inter-demanding-e20m-for-palace-target-gabriel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5T7IJHUJOC37B5JEZDGHA2LVEOZIOG2O", "length": 935, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "readcrystalpalace.com", "title": "Inter demanding \u20ac20m for Palace target Gabriel - Read Crystal Palace", "raw_content": "Inter demanding \u20ac20m for\u2026\nMario Carlini / Iguana Press/Getty Images Sport\nInter demanding \u20ac20m for Palace target Gabriel\nInter Milan want \u20ac20m for Crystal Palace transfer target Gabriel Barbosa, who is currently out on loan to Santos.\nAccording to Tuttosport, via Sport Witness, Inter are prepared to let him leave if Palace stump up their \u20ac20m asking price.\nGabriel joined Inter for \u20ac30m in 2016 but failed to make an impact in Italy and has been loaned out to Santos in Brazil, where he has been on fire.\nThe forward has 29 goals this season for Santos, with Palace in desperate need of a clinical goalscorer up front.\nThe 22-year-old has been capped four times by Brazil at international level, scoring twice for his country.\nThe report claims that Gabriel\u2019s agent is working hard to get him a move to England and Palace appear to be the front runners at this moment in time.\nGabriel has scored 87 career goals so far in his career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 4580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readtiger.com/https/www.allmusic.com/album/closure-video-mw0000913873", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HBALCB6RRA35A3MZFEDDICZBVXMBA55W", "length": 1795, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "readtiger.com", "title": "Closure [Video] - Nine Inch Nails | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic", "raw_content": "Closure [Video] - Nine Inch Nails | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic\nAlternative Pop/Rock Alternative/Indie Rock Industrial Submit Corrections\nClosure [Video]\nFew bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. Many of their videos have either been banned from being shown on TV (the clip for \"Happiness In Slavery\") or have been heavily edited (the superb \"Closer\"). This two-tape collection is one video of strictly live performances and interviews/behind-the-scenes footage, while the other contains all 13 of the group's music videos.\nThe quality of the live footage on tape one varies from grainy to perfectly clear, but it never hinders the high-energy performances. Highlights include a duet with David Bowie on \"Hurt,\" the insane moshing caught on film during \"March of the Pigs,\" and \"Down In It,\" which is half taped at an arena gig and at a surprise club appearance. You'll also get to see some interesting life on the road video snapshots, such as Trent and company hanging out with the likes of Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Marilyn Manson. Video two is the real eye-opener, however. The above-mentioned \"Closer\" is undeniably great (due to superb direction by Mark Romanek), and \"Happiness In Slavery\" is definitely one of the most horrific and disturbing of all time (a naked man gets torn to pieces by a machine). And the video that started it all for NIN, \"Head Like a Hole,\" is included as well, plus interesting video inserts between the actual clips (courtesy of Coil member Peter Christopherson) that tie the whole package together cohesively. 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If exportation is to be made by parcel post, one copy of the form must be presented to the postmaster at the office receiving the parcel who will execute Part 4 of such form and return the form to the exporter for transmittal to the Director. In the event exportation is not effected, all copies of the form must be immediately returned to the Director for cancellation.\nPrevious section - \u00a7 479.115 Action by Director.\nNext section - \u00a7 479.117 Action by Customs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 7349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.cardiffmet.ac.uk/handle/10369/2107", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:I6DX64F7GYX4PX7SQZAGTTIYXNCMVCRZ", "length": 239, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "repository.cardiffmet.ac.uk", "title": "Oral History", "raw_content": "Vol. 27, No.2, Autumn. 104 pages. Essex\nContains article \" Listening to Bernard Leach : Exploring the Testimony of a Studio Potter\" by Jeffrey Jones. This article examines three tape recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s of Bernard Leach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/11621", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:576MWD3UXWR23EJS2XOD33O3USKYXFRQ", "length": 2631, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "research-repository.griffith.edu.au", "title": "Being strategic: Utilising consumer views to better promote an expanded role for nurses in Australian general practice", "raw_content": "Being strategic: Utilising consumer views to better promote an expanded role for nurses in Australian general practice\nPrice, Kay\nAustralian consumers have articulated their perceptions of the role of the nurse in general practice. Practice nurses (PNs) and general practitioners (GPs) have also highlighted the issues they believe currently and potentially impact on this role in Australia. This paper identifies and discusses the nexus between the consumers perceptions and expectations and health professionals' issues. Data collected from focus groups and interviews in 2 Australian studies of consumer perception of nursing in general practice are reconsidered alongside findings reported in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the ...\nView more >Australian consumers have articulated their perceptions of the role of the nurse in general practice. Practice nurses (PNs) and general practitioners (GPs) have also highlighted the issues they believe currently and potentially impact on this role in Australia. This paper identifies and discusses the nexus between the consumers perceptions and expectations and health professionals' issues. Data collected from focus groups and interviews in 2 Australian studies of consumer perception of nursing in general practice are reconsidered alongside findings reported in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing, Australia report; General Practice Nursing in Australia. Consumers, doctors and nurses working in general practices in Australia raised similar issues. However, consumers considered these issues in relation to their health care needs, whereas the GPs and PNs tended to focus more on professional and structural tensions related to the current and potentially expanded role of the PN. Understanding consumer views vis-a- vis issues raised by PNs and GPs about the role of nursing in general practice provides direction for both professions to better work with consumers to enhance their understanding of what general practice services could be and how changes, like expanding the role of nurses, may bring about improvements in the health outcomes of consumers. Health professionals can benefit from reflecting on the experiences and expectations of consumers if they desire to make general practice services more responsive to individual consumer's heeds and at the same time adopt a primary health care focus.\nhttp://www.rcna.org.au/\n\u00a9 2006 Royal College of Nursing Australia. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Use hypertext link for access to the journal's website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://resolutionmedia.com/us/en/case-studies/ae-networks-drives-new-audience-watch-re-imagining-roots/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WK3DHYNC2D7JPO5DZXI2KSSWT2F7H3MV", "length": 3263, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "resolutionmedia.com", "title": "A+E Networks Drives New Audience to Watch Re-Imagining of \"Roots\" - Resolution Media", "raw_content": "HISTORY Channel\u2019s \u201cRoots\u201d\nA+E Networks\u2019 HISTORY channel sought to drive audiences to tune in to the re-imagining of the hit television series \u201cRoots,\u201d while focusing on targeting a younger demographic. The original \u201cRoots\u201d aired in 1977 and was the second-most watched television finale in history, watched by over half of the US population. However, 2/3 of the current US population wasn\u2019t born when the original series aired, and young viewers weren\u2019t aware of the series. HISTORY set out to demonstrate the modern relevance of \u201cRoots,\u201d generate word-of-mouth buzz, and introduce a new, younger audience to the network.\nResolution Media designed a holistic strategy to deliver on A+E Networks\u2019 three key challenges. Three social partners were recommended for the initiative \u2014 inclusive of Reddit \u2014 to drive awareness in both short- and long-form conversation settings. Compared to some of the other social platforms, where user content is centered on video, images or brief text posts, Reddit is known as a conversation-based platform where people engage in in-depth discussions relevant to the \u201cRoots\u201d series, including: news, history, pop culture and entertainment. From an audience demographic perspective, approximately 87% of Reddit\u2019s audience is made up of users under 35-years-old, which made it an ideal social partner for driving word-of-mouth buzz amongst millennials.\nDetermined to maintain as much control over delivery and optimizations as possible for this unique campaign, Resolution recognized an opportunity in what was able to be controlled on the Reddit platform. Prior to this campaign, ads on Reddit were bought in bulk with Reddit. Resolution and Reddit partnered together to pilot and execute the first campaign on Reddit\u2019s self-serve ad buying platform, previously used solely by Reddit to fulfill managed service buys. As is the case when launching a campaign on any new platform, the A+E Networks team was tasked with familiarizing itself with Reddit\u2019s ad interface, working closely with the Reddit account team to iron out campaign setup questions and provide feedback on the platform along the way. This additional command over campaigns enabled Resolution to provide up-to-the-minute optimization recommendations to A+E Networks, along with direct access for making quick ad copy and targeting adjustments. The resulting impact for the \u201cRoots\u201d series was an additional 6.5MM impressions and 16% incremental clicks compared to managed service averages.\nThe Reddit campaign for \u201cRoots\u201d delivered a 15% lower cost-per-thousand (CPM) impressions than the managed service fixed rate offered by the platform at the time of this initiative, proving the real-time optimizations made resulted in better results. The optimizations resulted in a 15% lower CPM and yielded an 18% cost savings for A+E Networks. Reddit drove up to a 58% lower CPM compared to the other social platforms included in the initiative. Piloting Reddit\u2019s self-serve surpassed reach goals as well, accounting for 15% of overall impressions to the millennial target demographic \u2014 who may not have been familiar with the original \u201cRoots\u201d series \u2014 while accounting for only 8% of overall spend compared to other social platforms.\nFacebook Moving in Direction of Self-Serve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 799, "original_length": 18113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reverseosmosispros.com/reverse-osmosis-water-filter-installation/fl/homosassa/reverse-osmosis-water-filter-installations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AMHBGU52FXFKX4BJXIF4DWMKGFUVU66C", "length": 1130, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "reverseosmosispros.com", "title": "Reverse Osmosis Filter Installations In Homosassa, Florida", "raw_content": "Reverse Osmosis System Installation Services In Homosassa\nIf you are in need of reverse osmosis system installation in the Homosassa area then contact us now. Reverse osmosis systems remove the contaminants and dissolves minerals in your water by forcing them through a filter. Benefits include soft water which is tasteless, odorless and colorless water, with no chemicals. Get a quote for installation service now.\nOur professional reverse osmosis system installation work and inexpensive pricing has earned us a reputation as the top rated reverse osmosis experts in the Homosassa area. If you are interested in reverse osmosis system installation or any of our other services just fill out the short form on this page and we will contact you with a quote and more information right away.\nThe Best Reverse Osmosis System Installation Company In Homosassa, Florida\nAt Reverse Osmosis Pros our goal is to be your first choice of all Homosassa reverse osmosis experts. Whether your project is large or small, we will take care of all of your reverse osmosis system installation needs. Contact us on on the form now to get started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://richardpalumbo.com/lawyer/2018/11/26/Business-Law/Considerations-When-Selling-Your-Business_bl36468.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GOH6A5UW3ICMID2EDNJ3F52NI6RCAPJ4", "length": 1843, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "richardpalumbo.com", "title": "Considerations When Selling Your Business | Rhode Island Legal Blog", "raw_content": "Timing the sale of your business is crucial, as is identifying that you intend to sell the business well in advance. Ideally, you will want to have identified an intent to sell two years prior to the anticipated sale date. By beginning the process two years ahead, you can ensure that you\u2019ve established a strong team that you trust that will help you through the process. Additionally, there is tremendous due diligence that will need to be completed to value the business and ensure all legalities are sorted.\nHowever, while planning two years in advance is ideal, it isn\u2019t always possible. When an unforeseen event occurs that forces you to sell the business sooner than anticipated, you will still follow the same process but will do so on a more compressed timeline.\nYour business appraiser should work diligently with you to ensure that the business is accurately valued. To value the business, the appraiser will analyze market conditions, the business\u2019 operating history, and the business\u2019 future potential. Ultimately, the appraiser will present a formal valuation of the business that can then be utilized when pricing the business for sale.\nUsing a Broker or Selling Yourself\nA final consideration when selling your business is whether you want to sell the business yourself or go through a broker. The decision to use a broker should depend on a number of factors including your availability, who you intend to sell to, and the timeline for which you need to sell. If you\u2019re selling to someone you know, then a broker will likely not be necessary as a knowledgeable business attorney will be able to handle the sale. 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If a deposit is not received during that time, the hold date will be automatically released. 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A bilingual AI robot was recently put to work at the JR-West station in Osaka, and the device, which is able to dispense travel advice and directions in both Japanese and English, will be joined by 4 others in the coming months.\nAuthorities believe that the use of new technology will help keep the stations safer and ensure that they\u2019re run more efficiently, not to mention making them a more fun place to pass through for travellers \u2013 though it remains to be seen how the robots will cope with the legendary hustle and bustle of Tokyo\u2019s subway system!\nNext post Skinbot will map your body\nPrevious post US supermarket turns to robots for help", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rootedinrights.org/disability-advocates-target-st-louis-in-anti-subminimum-wage-push/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:41Z", "digest": "sha1:TXTT45YLS64UFIT4LS6PSJSQOTNPUR6O", "length": 2513, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "rootedinrights.org", "title": "Disability advocates target St. Louis in anti-subminimum wage push - Rooted in Rights", "raw_content": "Disability advocates target St. Louis in anti-subminimum wage push\nNews from Missouri\nSt. Louis Mayor Francis Slay signed a new bill September 4 raising the city\u2019s minimum wage to $11 per hour by 2018, but everyone may not be included.\nOn September 11, the city Board of Aldermen will consider a separate measure [PDF], explicitly exempting certain workers with disabilities, pursuant to a long standing controversial exception to the Fair Labor Standards Act.\nThe exemption applies to so-called \u201csheltered workshops,\u201d nonprofit employers certified by the Department of Labor for the purposes of hiring people with disabilities deemed unlikely to be able to compete in the regular marketplace. These employers are exempt from federal minimum wage laws.\nAs originally written, the bill contained an exemption for these employers, but disability rights groups pushed back, arguing that the exception demeans and discriminates against people with disabilities.\n\u201cParaquad would never support subminimum wages for people with disabilities. Period,\u201d Aimee Wehmeier, executive director and CEO of Paraquad, told the St. Louis Business Journal.\nThe finalized ordinance [PDF], passed by a 16-8 vote, did not include the exemption, a change which co-sponsor Alderman Megan Green said was the result of pressure from disability advocates.\n\u201cWhat it basically boils down to is their treatment\u2026that they aren\u2019t being valued at the same monetary level,\u201d Alderman Green told the St. Louis Dispatch.\nThe city has four DOL-certified nonprofits, employing nearly 400 people with disabilities at subminimum wages. One of them, Industrial Aid, has already announced it will likely shut its doors if it is required to pay workers minimum wages. All 140 of the company\u2019s employees are paid subminimum wages.\n\u201cIf they can\u2019t work in a competitive environment, and we can\u2019t afford to pay them $11 an hour, where else are they going to work?\u201d Executive Director Mark Stroud told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.\nThe bill, upon going into effect October 15, immediately raises the minimum wage from $7.65, the rate for the state of Missouri, to $8.25. It will then step up to $9 at the start of 2016, followed by $1 raises at the beginning of the next two subsequent years.\nThe federal minimum wage has been at $7.25 per hour since 2009, although President Obama signed an executive order in February 2014 raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for federal contractors and prohibiting them from qualifying for the subminimum wage exception.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://royalcc.ca/terms-and-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QKP5BU7N7MD6PSQBWQTMBFG5FU5P4TJO", "length": 3298, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "royalcc.ca", "title": "Terms and Conditions - Royal Canadian Cannabis", "raw_content": "By submitting your photo to royalcc.ca, you hereby agree and consent to: Royal Canadian Holdings Corp. and its affiliates, subsidiaries, agencies (including advertising agencies) and parents, using the submitted photograph(s), video(s), comment(s) and other accompanying materials for advertising, marketing, promotion and other commercial and business purposes in accordance with these terms and conditions.\nYou should be of at least 18 years of age.\nYou must hold the copyright of the images that you are uploading. 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Picture must be relevant and appropriate.\nRoyal Canadian Holdings Corp. reserves the right in its sole and absolute discretion to alter these terms at any time for any reason without prior notice, or to terminate the Photo Upload Service for any reason at any time without prior notice, whether removed from the entire website or removed from individual member accounts.\nRoyal Canadian Holdings Corp. also reserves the right to reject and remove any uploaded photo from display on its website, for any reason, at any time, without prior notice.\nYou hereby waive, release and forever discharge Royal Canadian Holdings Corp. and each Authorized Person and each of their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, managers, members, shareholders, employees, representatives and agents from any and all rights, claims and liability relating to the use of the User Content in the manner contemplated above including, without limitation, any claims based on the invasion of privacy, commercial use of name or likeness and the right of publicity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rsf.org/en/news/recommendations-concerning-access-information-and-press-freedom-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SGUOTZCODMORTC5IXX2WFZTFY3CPYGHC", "length": 3282, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "rsf.org", "title": "Recommendations concerning access to information and press freedom in the US | RSF", "raw_content": "Recommendations concerning access to information and press freedom in the US\nIn light of the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of the United States at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, Reporters Without Borders would like to make the following recommendations concerning access to information and press freedom in the US:\n1) American officials must review their methods for classifying information and improve transparency surrounding the Freedom of Information Act requests filed by civil society groups and the media\nSeveral incidents over the past year have raised questions about the government\u2019s use of national security concerns to try and curb media access to issues of legitimate public interest. The WikiLeaks release of a 2007 video of a US helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 12 people including two Reuters\u2019 staff and the Pentagon\u2019s decision to ban four journalists from military commissions at Guantanamo Bay a month later, although eventually reversed, highlighted the military\u2019s perceived lack of transparency and inconsistencies in its compliance to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.\nMore than two weeks ago, in a new blow to the FOIA, the US Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by 23 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees who want the National Security Agency to reveal whether it tapped their phone conversations with their clients and, if so, to provide them with transcripts.\n2) The Federal Shield Law must allow blogs and whistleblower websites the same protection as it does to all other media organizations\nNational security issues are playing an important role in the consideration of the Federal Shield Law legislation, which is being delayed by proposals to exclude whistleblowing websites from source protection, mainly because of the political reaction to WikiLeaks publishing over 70,000 classified Afghan war documents. Such amendments would be, in Reporters Without Borders' opinion, unfair and unnecessary, as the legislation already contains exemptions relating to legitimate questions of national security.\n3) The Obama administration must ensure that commercial agreements between internet companies and content providers do not pose a threat to Net Neutrality or the free flow of information\nIn January 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the United States' commitment to protect the Internet as a place for social development and emphasized the importance of equal access to knowledge and free exchange of ideas. However in August, Google and Verizon were reportedly nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to relay online content to Internet users more quickly if the content\u2019s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.\n4) To regularly assess domestic press freedom issues and the working conditions of journalists throughout the country\nAlthough Reporters Without Borders welcomed the enactment of the Daniel Pearl Act in May 2010, requiring the State Department to list countries that threaten freedom of expression and tolerate violence against journalists, our organization believes American officials must also monitor the press freedom situation within the US in the same manner.\nReporters Without Borders ranked the US as 20th in this year's Press Freedom Index.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rudolfsteinerpress.com/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9780880102834", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JMJW7CRHT5RLECH2WGVFEVCCRDJQICUA", "length": 882, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rudolfsteinerpress.com", "title": "Rudolf Steiner Press: \"The Presence Of The Dead\" by Rudolf Steiner", "raw_content": "THE PRESENCE OF THE DEAD\nWhat is the relationship between those who have died and those who remain alive on earth? Can we help those now in the spiritual world? Can they help us?\nIn these talks, Rudolf Steiner deals with the spiritual relationships that the living can have with those who have crossed over the threshold between life and death. In a realistic, practical way, he shows how an understanding of our spiritual nature reveals ways of knowing a world undreamed of by materialists.\nThe tone of these talks is warm and moving, clearly drawn from Steiner's own experience and the lives of those who had died and who were personally known to him -- Robert Hamerling, Christian Morgenstern, and others.\nThis is an important work for those who are coming to terms with the death of a loved one.\nTrans C. von Amim (7 lectures, various cities Apr-May 1914, GA154); AP; 128pp; pb;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rudolfsteinerpress.com/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9780880103725", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YUKLPQHIT5ZF4W3UUYU7HSSAAAUY6ED5", "length": 983, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rudolfsteinerpress.com", "title": "Rudolf Steiner Press: \"How To Know Higher Worlds\" by Rudolf Steiner", "raw_content": "A true classic of spiritual literature. It is one of the best ways I know for opening up one's life to the spiritual realms in a manner that is balanced, integrated, and loving. It is the product of a great soul who stood on the threshold of a new spiritual terrain and pointed out new routes into the interior. This is a guidebook of the first order, an asset to any spiritual seeker in our time.\nIt is not only a personal guide to the spirit, but also a path through self-knowledge to compassionate action in the world.\nIn this simple, readable volume, Rudolf Steiner sets out step-by-step practices for developing the higher powers that lie hidden in all of us. First published nearly a century ago, How to Know Higher Worlds has given inspiration and insight to hundreds of thousands of readers the world over. It has been translated into many languages and has been admired by some of the most brilliant minds of our era.\nTrans: C Bamford (Written 1904-05, GA10); AP; 224pp; pb;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rudolfsteinerpress.com/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9780880105309", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q7YHPJFPZPNQRFHTP3PDFTHRAFU6I3N", "length": 1287, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rudolfsteinerpress.com", "title": "Rudolf Steiner Press: \"Lifting The Veil Of Mental Illness\" by William Bento", "raw_content": "LIFTING THE VEIL OF MENTAL ILLNESS\nAn Approach to Anthroposophical Psychology\nMental illnesses are too often seen only in abstract terms. In keeping with this, mainstream psychology, which seldom acknowledges the psyche or soul, relies increasingly on pharmaceutical treatment.\nIn his unique approach to anthroposophical psychology, or \"psychosophy,\" William Bento views imbalances of the human soul in an experiential and human way. Basing his views on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Bento looks not only at the human body, soul, and spirit, but also at the way the whole environment of physical phenomena, life forces, and spirit beings affects us as individuals. Going well beyond our immediate, earthly surroundings, the author considers the cosmic effects of sun, planets and stars, offering a holistic view of the human soul.\nThis is a valuable addition to the field of anthroposophical psychology and to the study of spiritual science as a whole.\nWILLIAM R. BENTO has worked in the field of human development for more than thirty years. 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The statute also applies if the state\u2019s attorneys can prove that used a deadly weapon during the kidnapping. Learn more detailed information about the Aggravated Kidnapping offense below.\nAGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING ATTORNEY FAQs\nWhat is the law in Texas about Aggravated Kidnapping?\nHow can I be charged with Aggravated Kidnapping?\nWhat is the punishment for Aggravated Kidnapping?\nHave you been charged with Aggravated Kidnapping? Call criminal lawyer Paul Saputo at (888) 239-9305.\nAggravated Kidnapping is not simply an enhanced Kidnapping offense, it is an entirely different offense. Learn more about the Kidnapping offense in Texas here\nAggravated Kidnapping is classified in the Texas Penal Code under Title 5 \u201cOffenses Against The Person\u201d, Chapter 20 \u201cKidnapping, Unlawful Restraint, and Smuggling of Persons.\u201d\nThe offense is described in Section 20.04 of the Texas Penal Code. There are two ways that the offense can be committed, one way is described in subsection (a) and the other in subsection (b).\n(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to:\n(1) hold him for ransom or reward;\n(2) use him as a shield or hostage;\n(3) facilitate the commission of a felony or the flight after the attempt or commission of a felony;\n(4) inflict bodily injury on him or violate or abuse him sexually;\n(5) terrorize him or a third person; or\n(6) interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function.\n(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.\nYou can be charged with Aggravated Kidnapping if the state\u2019s attorneys believe that each of the elements of 20.04(a) or 20.04(b) as described in the section above have been met.\nA conviction for Aggravated Kidnapping is punished as a felony of the first degree,1 with a maximum possible fine under Texas state law of up to $10,000 and up to life in prison, unless you can prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that you voluntarily released the victim in a safe place, in which case it is punished as a felony of the second degree.2 There is a very big difference in the maximum punishment between first and second degree felonies. 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The event is free and open to the public.\nGottshall is a poetry writing instructor at Middlebury College. She received a BA with an emphasis in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her new book, The River Won\u2019t Hold You, won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize, and will be published in late 2014. Her first book, Crocus, won the Poets Out Loud Prize. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Flood Letters, Almanac for the Sleepless, and Swan. Recent poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, FIELD, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She has also taught at Interlochen Arts Academy and the New England Young Writers\u2019 Conference. Gottshall grew up in Michigan. She is a poet, fiction writer, and creative writing instructor. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.\nApril is National Poetry Month, which is a celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. The Stoneleigh-Burnham Poetry Festival celebrates student poetry and includes a student poetry contest.\nThe Stoneleigh-Burnham Poetry Festival will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. English Department Chair Jacob Steward will open the festival with words of welcome. Then, students who won the poetry contest will read their winning poems. Gottshall, the guest poet, will then read some of her poetry, discuss her experience as a poet and take questions.\nHillary Hoffman2014-05-05T13:55:15+00:00April 6th, 2014|News|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 5470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 158.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol45/iss1/8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YDH3NOZGHGY7NG7KZ7GC4ZTRC2AJHEMF", "length": 223, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scholarship.law.missouri.edu", "title": "\"Plamer: Franchises: Statutory and Common Law Causes \" by Dennis D. Palmer and John C. Monica", "raw_content": "Franchises: Statutory and Common Law Causes of Action in Missouri\nDennis D. Palmer\nJohn C. Monica\nDennis D. Palmer and John C. Monica, Franchises: Statutory and Common Law Causes of Action in Missouri, 45 Mo. L. Rev. (1980)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://schoolpk.org/human-organ-systems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2VRTEL2I77JLM6QSHSW27DQEWG3IDDVN", "length": 12379, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "schoolpk.org", "title": "Chapter No. 1 HUMAN ORGAN SYSTEMS | | Free School and College Education Material", "raw_content": "HUMAN ORGAN SYSTEMS: Nervous System Whenever a person gets injury on his foot while walking, he feels pain and his hand immediately reaches the injured site. Who asked the hand to reach the site? In fact, there is an organ system in our body which carries messages form one part of the body to another and coordinates body functions. This system is called nervous system.\nHuman nervous system consists of central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) (Figure 1.1). The central nervous system is composed of brain and spinal cord. Peripheral nervous system consists of a network of nerves which connect the central nervous system to all parts of the body.\nNeuron or Nerve Cell Neuron or nerve cell is the basic structural and functional unit of the nervous system. All parts of the nervous system, i.e., brain, spinal cord and nerves are made up of neurons. Neurons transmit messages in the form of electrochemical waves called nerve impulses.\nThe part of a neuron which contains nucleus and most of the cytoplasm is called cell body. The \ufb01ne projections of the cell body which receive messages are called dendrites. A long projection of the cell body which conducts messages away from the cell body is called axon. Terminal ends of the axons transmit the messages to the next cells.\nNerve A nerve is cable-like bundle of axons enclosed in a common sheath. Nerve transmits messages from one part of body to another. Types of Neurons On the basis of their functions, neurons are of three types, i.e. sensory neurons, motor neurons and inter-neurons. Sensory neurons carry nerve impulses from sense organs (ears, eyes, skin, tongue, nose, etc.) to the central nervous system. Motor neurons carry nerve impulses from central nervous system to effectors (muscles and glands), i.e., the parts which respond. Inter-neurons are present in central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). They form a link between sensory and motor neurons.\nCentral Nervous System(CNS) Central nervous system acts as a control centre of the whole nervous system. It comprises brain and spinal cord. Brain Human brain (Figure 1.4) is enclosed in a bony skull called cranium, and consists of billions of inter-neurons. It is divided into the following parts. 1. Forebrain Forebrain is the largest part of the brain. It consists of three main parts, i.e., cerebrum, thalamus and hypothalamus. Cerebrum is the topmost and the largest part of the brain. It is divided into right and left cerebral hemispheres. Cerebrum controls many actions like thinking, feelings, emotions, seeing, hearing, perceptions, memory, speech, decision making, etc. Inside cerebrum there is small structure called thalamus. It controls many sensory functions. Hypothalamus lies at the base of thalamus. It controls body temperature, hunger and thirst.\n2 Midbrain Midbrain is a small part of the brain which is present below the cerebrum. It receives information from sense organs which is then passed on appropriate part of the forebrain.\n3. Hindbrain Hindbrain consists of three parts, i.e., cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata. Cerebellum lies under the back part of the cerebrum. It acts as a controller for maintaining the body balance and making precise and accurate movements. Pons is an oval structure present beneath midbrain. It controls many functions like sleep, swallowing, equilibrium and taste, etc. Medulla oblongata forms the posterior part of the brain where it is connected with the spinal cord. Medulla oblongata controls heartbeat, breathing and digestion, etc. Medulla oblongata keeps on working when rest of the brain goes to sleep.\nSpinal Cord Spinal cord is an extension of medulla oblongata (Figure 1.5). It runs backwards inside the backbone up to its lower end. It is also made up of inter-neurons. Spinal cord creates a link between brain and different body parts. It also controls some re\ufb02ex actions (immediate and involuntary actions) and some other involuntary actions. 1.1.2 Peripheral Nervous System Peripheral nervous system (PNS) consists of a network of nerves which are spread in the body to connect all the body parts to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) (Figure 1.1). The nerves which arise from brain are called cranial nerves. The nerves which arise from spinal cord are called spinal nerves. There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves in human body. 1.1.3 Working Model of the Nervous System Nervous system coordinates all body functions. It also detects the changes in environment and produces response to the changes.\nAny change in the environment (external or internal) that can be detected by a receptor to initiate a nerve impulse is called stimulus (Plural: stimuli). Heat, cold, pressure, sound waves, etc. are the examples of stimuli. The special organs, tissues or cells which detect stimuli are called receptors. \u00a7 The sensory neurons carry the messages regarding stimuli in the form of nerve impulses from receptors to central nervous system. \u00a7 The central nervous system processes the messages and transmits the nerve impulses to motor neurons. \u00a7 The motor neurons carry the nerve impulses to the parts of the body which produce responses. Such parts are called effectors. Muscles and glands in the body act as effectors.\nActions Controlled by the Nervous System Voluntary Actions The body actions which are performed under conscious control, i.e., which are done after thinking over them are called voluntary actions. For example; speaking, eating, reading, walking, running, clapping, etc., are voluntary actions. Involuntary Actions The body actions which are performed without involvement of thinking process are called involuntary actions. Involuntary actions are not performed under conscious control. Heartbeat, breathing, blinking of eyes, movement of small intestine, etc., are the examples of involuntary actions. 1.2 Re\ufb02ex Action An immediate and involuntary response to a stimulus is called re\ufb02ex action. Quick pulling of hand just after touching the hot object is a common example of re\ufb02ex action. In this example of re\ufb02ex action shown in Figure 1.7, temperature of hot object is a stimulus which is received by the cells (receptors) of the skin. A nerve impulse is created in the sensory neuron present in skin. The nerve impulse is carried by the sensory neuron to the spinal cord. The inter-neuron of the spinal cord transmits the impulse to the motor neuron. The motor neuron carries the impulse to the arm muscles (effectors). The arm muscles contract and the hand is pulled back. The pathway of nerve impulses which complete a re\ufb02ex action is called re\ufb02ex arc. It consists of receptor, a sensory neuron, an inter-neuron, a motor neuron and effectors.\nExcretory System As a result of breakdown of various food items and other chemical components of the body, nitrogenous waste matter is produced, which must be immediately removed from the body. Waste products in the body also include nitrogenous materials and other salts. Accumulation of waste materials in the body is dangerous and therefore must be removed from the body. The removal of nitrogenous waste materials from the body is called excretion. Nitrogenous materials, extra water and salts are removed by the excretory system. Some extra salts are also removed through skin during perspiration. Human excretory system consists of one pair of kidneys and associated structures, i.e. two ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra Kidneys and Associated Structures Human body has two dark brown, bean-shaped kidneys in the abdominal region, one on either side of the vertebral column. The right kidney is a little lower than the left one. The outer surface of kidney is convex while the inner surface is concave. The following structures are attached with kidneys.\nA tube which arises from each kidney and enters the urinary bladder is called ureter. It transports urine from kidneys to urinary bladder. Urinary bladder is a muscular sac which collects urine from both ureters. A \ufb01ne tube through which urine is released from urinary bladder to the outside is called Urethra. Internal Structure of Kidney Internally, each kidney is divided into three regions, i.e., renal cortex, renal medulla and renal pelvis (Figure 1.9). Renal cortex is the outermost region. Renal medulla is the middle region which is divided into conical masses called renal pyramids. Renal pelvis is the inner area where urine is drained. The urine from renal pelvis moves into ureter. Nephron Nephrons are the functional units of the kidney. They are the tubules where urine is formed. There are over one million nephrons in each kidney. Each nephron has two parts, i.e., renal corpuscle and renal tubule.\nRenal Corpuscle It is the \ufb01rst part of nephron. It consists of two structures, i.e., glomerulus and Bowman\u2019s capsule (Figure 1.10). Glomerulus is a tuft of blood capillaries formed by the division and sub-division of small arteries and veins. Bowman\u2019s capsule is a cup-shaped structure enclosing glomerulus. Renal Tubule This part of nephron starts after Bowman\u2019s capsule. The \ufb01rst coiled part of renal tubule is called proximal tubule. The next part is U-shaped and is called Loop of Henle. The last part of the renal tubule is again coiled and is called distal tubule. The distal tubules of many nephrons open in a collecting duct (Figure 1.10). Many collecting ducts join and drain into renal pelvis.\nFunction of Kidneys Blood carries nitrogenous waste materials from the body to the kidneys. Inside the kidneys, blood containing nitrogenous waste reaches the glomerulus. Here, most of the water and waste materials are \ufb01ltered from the blood into the Bowman\u2019s capsule (Figure 1.11). The blood after losing waste material is collected in arterioles, which ultimately form renal artery. The \u201cclean\u201d blood is brought back to the main circulatory system. This \ufb01ltrate which moves into the renal tubule of nephron also contains some useful substances. During its passage towards the collecting duct, 99% of the \ufb01ltrate (containing useful substances) is reabsorbed into the blood in capillaries around renal tubule. During this reabsorption, more waste materials are absorbed from blood capillaries into the renal tubule \ufb01ltrate. Now, the \ufb01ltrate in renal tubule is called urine which moves into the collecting ducts and then into the renal pelvis.\nMalfunctioning of Kidneys 1.4.1 Formation of Stones in Kidneys Sometimes kidneys cannot work ef\ufb01ciently, i.e. to remove nitrogenous waste or salts from the blood. In such situation, the salts accumulate in kidneys and form stones (Figure 1.12). Formation of stones disturbs the normal functioning of kidneys and causes severe pain. Kidney stones may travel to ureter or urinary bladder (Figure 1.12). The common causes of stones in kidneys are excessive calcium salts in the food and uric acid, etc.\nSmall sized stones can be removed through urinary system by drinking more water. Medium sized stones are removed by lithotripsy. Lithotripsy involves bombardment of shockwaves on the stones from outside. Shockwaves break the stones into small pieces which are passed out of the body through urine. Still larger stones need surgery for their removal. 1.4.2 Renal Failure Renal failure is the complete or partial failure of kidneys to work. The main causes of renal failure are long-term infections, diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Diabetes mellitus is a disease in which sugar level increases in the blood. Hypertension is a state of high blood pressure in the body. Sudden blockage of blood supply to the kidneys may also result in renal failure. Dialysis and kidney transplant are the treatments of renal failure. Treatment of Malfunctional Kidneys 1.4.3.1 Dialysis Cleaning of blood by arti\ufb01cial methods is called dialysis. It is done by a machine called dialyzer. The blood of the patient is passed through the dialyzer which contains dialysis \ufb02uid. Blood \ufb02ows through the tubes of the dialyzer and dialysis \ufb02uid \ufb02ows around these tubes (Figure 1.13). The waste materials move from blood to the dialysis \ufb02uid. The cleansed blood is returned to the body.Kidney Transplant This method is used at the last stage of kidney failure. In this method, a kidney donated by some healthy person is grafted in the body of the patient (Figure 1.14). The donor of kidney may be blood relative or any other close relative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 14355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciencetrends.com/zooming-in-on-mechanobiology/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:J6GOYGNAXO3ID3EMWBAWP7KVGGSG3NZ5", "length": 3398, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "sciencetrends.com", "title": "Zooming In On Mechanobiology | Science Trends", "raw_content": "Zooming In On Mechanobiology\nby Max Darnell\n\"Rose Spear: 5Fibrin II\" by Engineering at Cambridge/Rose Spear (via Flickr) is licensed under CC BY 2.0\nLook through a biology textbook and what do you see? Lots of molecules. Whether they involve drugs or DNA, discussions of biology often revolve around various versions of chemical reactions. However, when zooming way out, it is intuitive that biology is mechanical. After all, we can break bones, build muscle, and grow from babies into adults. This means that in certain ways, these chemical processes can be viewed as mechanical processes and visa versa.\nThe growing field of mechanobiology seeks to understand the ways in which biological systems use and are affected by mechanical means. Examples of biology using mechanics exist on many different scales, from dividing cells pushing against one another to exercise and mechanical loading speeding up the healing of orthopedic injuries. Certain processes in biology that are otherwise well-studied, such as neurons changing how they are connected so that you can learn, have mechanical aspects that are relatively neglected, in this case how those neurons move around to change their connections. One key finding in the field is that cells respond to the mechanical properties of their surroundings, such as how soft or stiff a surface is. Researchers have found that this stiffness can affect cell size, how fast cells grow, and even control the cells into which stem cells differentiate.\nWhile many such effects have been observed, the exact mapping of these mechanical properties to the molecular-level changes across the whole cell has not been attempted. Publishing in the journal Biomaterials, researchers at Harvard University grew a particular type of stem cell in custom materials of different stiffnesses and used a technique called RNA-sequencing to get a broad snapshot of all of the processes in the cell that changed when the cells were in different environments.\nThese snapshots revealed that the activity of hundreds of genes was changed in these different environments and that certain of these genes only changed when the stiffness of the environment was in certain ranges. In other words, it is possible that depending on where this cell is in the body, the particular mechanical environment could help to control the cell\u2019s function.\nThe researchers next looked for changes in the cells that they did not expect. Interestingly, they found that the stiffness changed the activity of genes involved in how these cells respond to inflammation. They then did a separate experiment where they cultured the cells in environments of different stiffnesses and added chemicals to simulate inflammation. In fact, the cells exposed to different stiffnesses responded very differently to the inflammatory signals.\nWhile mechanobiology is still a young field, these results suggest that perhaps the mechanical aspects of biology act as a powerful layer of control and can even change how cells respond to drugs and other chemicals.\nThese findings are described in the article entitled RNA-seq reveals diverse effects of substrate stiffness on mesenchymal stem cells, recently published in the journal Biomaterials. This work was conducted by Max Darnell, Luo Gu, and David Mooney from Harvard University.\nMax Darnell\nMax is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screenrant.com/reese-witherspoon-tinker-bell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2UDS4GN5NIIX525FWMLMQF6ZRTAAMX42", "length": 2546, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "screenrant.com", "title": "Reese Witherspoon to Play Tinker Bell in Disney's Live-Action Movie", "raw_content": "Reese Witherspoon to Play Tinker Bell in Disney's Live-Action Movie\nIt's been quite a while since we last heard news about Tink, the live-action Peter Pan spinoff movie about the naughty fairy friend of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. After Disney's success last year with Maleficent, a Sleeping Beauty prequel that starred Angelina Jolie as the wicked fairy and grossed over $758 million worldwide, it's no surprise that the studio has decided to breathe new life into another live-action fairy story.\nTink was originally set to star Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect) in the title role, and at the time she compared it to Elf and said that the movie would be about Tinker Bell getting thrown out of Never Never Land and having all sorts of adventures. Some version of that story might still exist, but Tink has now been given a new lead in the form of Reese Witherspoon, who scored an Oscar nomination this year for her role in true-life drama Wild and more recently starred in action comedy Hot Pursuit (which didn't quite receive the same level of critical acclaim).\nThis news comes courtesy of THR, in a report stating that Tink is back on the table for Disney with a new screenwriter in place. Victoria Strouse, who penned upcoming Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory, is writing the new script for Tink, though it's unclear whether it will be entirely original or a redraft of the previous screenplay written by Elizabeth Wright Shapiro and Marti Noxon. Based on THR's report, an original story seems more likely as Tink is apparently being developed in the same vein as Maleficent, offering an alternative Peter Pan timeline with \"the story you don't know.\"\nWitherspoon may have been instrumental in getting Tink back off the ground, as she's also producing the movie with Bruna Papandrea through their production banner, Pacific Standard. Tink is expected to have a modest, midrange budget, unlike Maleficent which cost a hefty $180 million to make.\nTinker Bell is part of the Disney Fairies franchise and is based on the character originally created by J.M. Barrie. The character is known for being mischievous and at times outright vindictive, especially when given reason to be jealous, but has also engaged in selfless acts such as drinking Peter's poisoned medicine in order to save his life. If she ever dies she can be saved by children clapping their hands and saying \"I do believe in fairies!\" - a treatment that comes highly recommended by fairy doctors.\nWe'll keep you updated on Tink as development continues.\nTags: tinker bell, Tink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sealifebase.org/References/FBRefSummary.php?ID=78819&database=FB", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OGOMTUV4RFLP67ABFS6T5WK2T7I4YEPG", "length": 106, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sealifebase.org", "title": "Reference Summary - Ray, C.E., 1961", "raw_content": "Details for Ray, C.E., 1961\nCitation Ray, C.E. 1961 The monk seal in Florida. 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Set up in...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seatgeek.com/coastal-carolina-chanticleers-at-north-carolina-tar-heels-baseball-tickets/ncaa-baseball/2019-04-23-6-pm/4619119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CKO5Q3HLLBRKNOUF7KT4E66UX2RIHJWI", "length": 138, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "seatgeek.com", "title": "Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at North Carolina Tar Heels Baseball, April Ncaa Baseball Tickets, 4/23/2019 at 6:00 pm | SeatGeek", "raw_content": "Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at North Carolina Tar Heels Baseball\nBryson Field Boshamer Stadium \u2014 Chapel Hill, NC on Tue Apr 23 at 6:00pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seatgeek.com/modesto-nuts-at-san-jose-giants-tickets/minor-league-baseball/2019-06-26-12-30-pm/4574212", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:F2BI74T4XP6RUWM47JQCCO642TDNCJQ3", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "seatgeek.com", "title": "Modesto Nuts at San Jose Giants, June Minor League Baseball Tickets, 6/26/2019 at 12:30 pm | SeatGeek", "raw_content": "San Jose Municipal Stadium \u2014 San Jose, CA on Wed Jun 26 at 12:30pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 148.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://secretbarbados.com/project/queens-park-baobab/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSHYD2UDU56VAYP6DUHYX7B6MXKMH3L5", "length": 2325, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "secretbarbados.com", "title": "Queen's Park Baobab. 3,000 miles and a thousand years to get here...", "raw_content": "The Queen\u2019s Park Baobab\nHow did a 1,000 year-old tree from West Africa end up in the centre of Bridgetown when no European or African set foot on Barbados until the 16th century?\nThe Queen\u2019s Park Baobab is not only old, at 91ft (26m) tall and with a circumference of 81ft (25m), it\u2019s big too. So you\u2019d need at least 15 hand-holding tree huggers to give it a proper squeeze.\nBut how did it get to the city centre?\nColliding Plates\nThis fantastic specimen arrived in Barbados on an ocean current about 1000AD. It took root on a sheltered beach or at the edge of a lagoon.\nNow the Queen\u2019s Park Baobab is the centre piece in Bridgetown\u2019s favourite park. Children frolic in the nearby play area. Lovers hold hands under its massive canopy.\nSo how did it get to the city centre?\nThe answer lies in the continued rise of the island out of the sea and the retreat of water from around the city.\nBarbados sits at a point on the earth\u2019s crust where the Atlantic and Caribbean tectonic plates meet.\nThis collision brought the island into existence about one million years ago via a process caused uplift.\nThese huge forces are the cause of the occasional tremor even today.\nIn the past one thousand years \u2013 ever since the Queen\u2019s Park Baobab made its 3,000 mile voyage from West Africa \u2013 Barbados continued its journey upwards and away from the centre of the earth.\nMore of the coral rock has been exposed, the water has retreated and the world around this wonder of nature has changed.\nThe Queen\u2019s Park baobab is now a city dweller and no longer has a sea view.\nThere are baobabs in other parts of Barbados. In 2008, nine were planted around the island by a woman commemorating the life of her mother. A tree is always a nice way to say thank you.\nOne was planted at Welchman Hall Gully, pictured below with Teddy, its personal guard dog.\nThere\u2019s another massive one at Warrens, St Michael, not far from the ABC Highway, on the road to Jackson.\nBut this one\u2019s only a mere 300 years old. It was brought here from Guinea, Africa, and deliberately planted which accounts for its position in the centre of the island.\nAnd the one above was found by a secretbarbados researcher at Redlands, in the centre of the island. It\u2019s got a very distinctive shape. Hard to believe these tiny trees can grow so huge and live for more than 1,000 years\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/bribing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6EPGFN6BRLXWUCSGVPMHRHJSSYORJKVM", "length": 3044, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "sentence.yourdictionary.com", "title": "Use bribing in a sentence | bribing sentence examples", "raw_content": "Bribing Sentence Examples\nChmielnicki, now doubly hateful to the Poles as being both a royalist and a Cossack, was again maltreated and chicaned, and only escaped from gaol by bribing his gaolers.\nOn the 2nd of July 1704, with the assistance of a bribing fund, Charles's ambassador at Warsaw, Count Arvid Bernard Horn, succeeded in forcing through the election of Charles's candidate to the Polish throne, Stanislaus Leszczynski, who could not be crowned however till the 24th of September 1705, by which time the Saxons had again been defeated at Punitz.\nThe earlier merciless practice had been in theory abolished by a decree based on the German system, published in 1880; but owing to defective organization, and internal disturbances induced by Khedive Ismails follies, the law had not been applied, and the 6000 recruits collected at Cairo in January 1883 represented the biggest and strongest peasants who could not purchase exemption by bribing the officials concerned.\nIn 1759 the Peshwa obtained possession of the place by bribing the Mahommedan commander, and in 1797 it was ceded by the Peshwa to the Mahratta chief Daulat Rao Sindhia.\nThe practice of bribing members of parliament by actual presents in money came to an end, though the practice of bribing them by place and pension long continued.\nFighting or bribing the Barbary pirates was a mere question of expense.\nThe first Territorial Council met in 1836 at Old Belmont, now Leslie, Lafayette county, but in December of that year Madison was selected as the capital, after a contest in which Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Racine, Green Bay, Portage and other places were considered, and in which James Duane Doty, later governor, owner of the Madison town plat, was charged with bribing legislators with town lots in Madison.\nHe was received with more than princely pomp, and all but succeeded in his design, thanks to his extraordinary adroitness and the command of an almost unlimited bribing-fund.\nOf England, who only needed bribing, and Wolsey, accessibleto flattery, took part in the temporary coalition.\nOf Pontus, with large sums of money for bribing the senate; compromising revelations were made by Saturninus, who insulted the ambassadors.\nThere appears, however, to be no truth in the report that Bayezid succeeded in bribing the pope to have Jem poisoned.\nOn the 6th of April, after bribing the Albanian clansmen to neutrality, he passed the defile of Makrynoros, which the Greeks had left undefended, and on the 7th of May opened the second siege of Missolonghi.\nIs said to have expended 50,000,000 livres a year for bribing purposes, the court of Vienna was scarcely less liberal, and very soon nearly all the monarchs of the Continent and their ministers were in the pay of one or other of the antagonists.\nWhen the United States found that bribing the pirate Barbary states did not secure exemption from their outrages, and was constrained at last to use force, he served against Algiers and Tunis.\nAjuma Jaramogi Oginga Odinga\nWORDS NEAR bribing IN THE DICTIONARY", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shanghaiist.com/2016/07/05/baidu_driverless_wuzhen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VCZID577ACQ2BHQDEHAFKZHD4HHX37Y2", "length": 2145, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "shanghaiist.com", "title": "Baidu plans to drive tourists around ancient Chinese town in driverless cars \u2013 Shanghaiist", "raw_content": "Baidu plans to drive tourists around ancient Chinese town in driverless cars\nTourists coming to Wuzhen, the Venice of China (no, not that one), may soon have the special privilege of getting a free ride between their hotels and scenic spots via driverless cars, as local travel agencies are set to sign an agreement with Baidu.\nWang Jin, head of Baidu\u2019s autonomous driving division, said that Baidu and Wuzhen Tourism Co. are working together closely to research which routes could be best served by driverless vehicles, as well as other operational details, such as costs and the number of vehicles that will be needed. There is no timetable for when they will launch the service.\nDespite being a tourist attraction that boasts 1,500 years of history, Wuzhen, located eighty miles to the west of Shanghai, has in recent years become an iconic spot for China\u2019s burgeoning IT industry. In 2014, Wuzhen was designated as the permanent host venue for China\u2019s World Internet Conference.\nBaidu\u2019s own driverless car debuted last year at the World Internet Conference and sparked widespread excitement following its completion of a series of rigorous road tests in Beijing last December.\nBaidu plans to commercialize its driverless service by 2018 and wants to start the mass-production of driverless vehicles by 2020.\nThe Chinese internet giant has been placed under increased public and governmental scrutiny following a series of mishaps earlier this year. Most notably, following the death of a 21-year-old university student with cancer in April, Baidu faced the most serious scandal in the company\u2019s history, accused by state media and web users of placing commercial profits over ethics and their users\u2019 health. Many Chinese netizens think that Baidu ought to learn from its international counterpart, Google, as the company right now is \u201can \u2018innovative\u2019 company without any imagination or moral obligation to their customers.\u201d All the negative press has led at 15% dip in Baidu\u2019s stock price since the beginning of the year.\nPerhaps the company will be able reestablish its prestige through innovative programs like autonomous driving and KFCs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shop.bookends.co.nz/p/economics-senior-economics-ncea-level-3-2nd-edition--3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KJ2KSM74UOZZMNNN4TQDRBDR6LHXYDUX", "length": 373, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shop.bookends.co.nz", "title": "Senior Economics NCEA Level 3 - 2nd Edition by Geoff Evans | BookendS\u2122 New Zealand", "raw_content": "Senior Economics NCEA Level 3 - 2nd Edition\nDoP - August 2008, Auckland This new edition reflects changes that have occurred in assessment at Level 3 NCEA and in the Social sciences curriculum with the publication of the New Zealand curriculum last year. Now rewritten with considerable changes across most parts of the book, including up-to-date examples and case studies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://signaturecellhealing.com/about/success-stories/36-a-mastery-stroke-of-healing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PDJZIKSAJFSYMKVWFMZKYYF3YR6DQDRS", "length": 6912, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "signaturecellhealing.com", "title": "A Mastery Stroke of Healing", "raw_content": "When I arrived home on the evening of October 18, 2006, I walked into my den and started to unbutton my shirt and, without warning, I felt myself fall backwards. I thought to myself, \u201cWhere\u2019s Master Kirael? Did he do this? How could he let this happen to me?\u201d I soon learned that our guides and angels are not here to interfere in our journey, no matter what it entails. They are here to do what they can to help, especially in a so-called crisis. I remember thinking, \u201cThis is not working.\u201d I heard my wife\u2019s voice from what seemed like a long distance off say, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d Then I remembered firemen came to the apartment and I could feel the roughness of their coats. I also remember two men in white shirts. Those are the only memories I have from that point in time.\nWhat happened next was amazing. I was out of my body, hovering above the hospital bed where I was lying. I looked at myself and thought, \u201cGee, this doesn\u2019t look good, doesn\u2019t look good at all.\u201d I noticed two doctors standing at the foot of the bed, a male and a female, and the female said, \u201cThis is a typical stroke. He won\u2019t use his right leg anymore, and his right arm won\u2019t work, and he\u2019s got paralysis in the face,\u201d and so on and so forth. I thought, \u201cWho are they talking about? Is that me?\u201d I was the only one there, so I figured they must be talking about me. I thought, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t sound good at all. Oh, my God, they\u2019re saying I\u2019m a stroke victim. What\u2019s with that? Kirael, what are you doing? What\u2019s happening?\u201d\nAt that point, they left the room. I wanted to touch my body to see if I could feel any part of it. I tried to raise my arm, but it wouldn\u2019t budge. I tried to raise my right leg, but it wouldn\u2019t budge, either. I panicked; yet I was still out of body. Then Master Kirael said, \u201cWell, are you going to breathe or not? Breathe, laddie, breathe!\u201d I proceeded to breathe and like that\u2014boom!\u2014I went back into my body. I could breathe, yet I must have been close to leaving, going home to the Creator.\nAnyway, I started prana breathing and everything changed. Healing is all about the breathing. Most of the healing is done in the prana breathing process, in which you breathe in golden particles of light through your crown and bring them down into your heart chakra and throughout your body. I couldn\u2019t reach up and touch my body; nothing moved. All I could do was breathe and it worked for me. I breathed so loud and so hard that the nurses came over to the bed. I couldn\u2019t communicate because my vocal cords and my face were frozen. The nurses said to each other, \u201cWhat\u2019s he doing?\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s just breathing.\u201d \u201cWell, he looks all right,\u201d and they walked away. I kept breathing. I don\u2019t know how long I prana breathed, but it was long enough to start this whole journey back to health.\nAt that point, I knew things were serious, because I could feel nothing on my whole right side. After a few hours of prana breathing, I thought, \u201cI\u2019ll try to move my leg.\u201d I chose my leg because I could see my toes. I focused on my toes and noticed that they were pointed straight up. I pulled my toes toward me and they moved, but the movement was barely visible. Nevertheless, I bent my toes and that was the miracle. At that point, I knew that I could beat this thing. All the miraculous experiences I\u2019ve had and I\u2019ve shared with people around the world didn\u2019t seem as miraculous to me in that moment as moving my toes. I was doing the healing journey in earnest now.\nI was unaware that the stroke was as massive as it was. I just knew that I could bend my toes, and within an hour or so, I was able to lift my right leg. I realized that the feeling in my hands and the rest of my body was coming back. It wasn\u2019t powerful, but I could move my body enough to see it. I couldn\u2019t talk, but I knew that my face was not as frozen as they had said.\nIf you get nothing else out of this, understand that when you\u2019re not in control of your body, but you have the ability to breathe, you can start your own healing. You also have the ability to pray. If you pray and are thankful, you will continue to heal. I prayed and never once did I beg for anything. I just gave thanks to the Creator, to Master Kirael and all the other guides and angels. I said, \u201cI am doing this much from my side, now you get me that much from the guidance side.\u201d We went through this amazing journey together.\nI discovered my face wasn\u2019t frozen anymore. I could feel my cheek move. I couldn\u2019t talk and I was a little nervous about that, but I started speaking about six hours later. It wasn\u2019t intelligible, but I was making sounds. The doctors came back into the room and told me what I would and would not be able to do. They didn\u2019t believe I could move my leg and my arm. They said, \u201cWell, that\u2019s pretty good. It must be the shot we gave him,\u201d or something like that. They were looking for a medical reason to explain it. In the end, the interesting part of this whole journey is that I prana breathed and prayed with passion, and my prayers were answered.\nFast-forward a little bit: just three days later, I walked out of the hospital on my own two legs. From that point on, I entered into a new journey. I was told that the brain loses a part of itself when you have a stroke, so although you think one thing, something else may come out of your mouth. Or you might have a thought, but it is lost before you can say it. This was a horrible experience for me.\nI started working with speech pathologists to learn how to talk again. They wanted me to come once a week, but I went two, three times a week. I wore them out. I wanted to know what they knew, and once I figured that out, I stopped the speech therapy and worked on my vocal cords and throat muscles with Signature Cell Healing.\nThe carotid artery on my left side was completely blocked, and the carotid artery on my right side was 80 percent blocked. That twenty percent opening on the right side was the only thing allowing blood up to my head. The surgeon said that a 20 percent opening provided only a marginal capacity to survive. She wanted to insert a stent in my artery to open it up another twenty percent, making it forty percent. I was unsure about whether I wanted this stent inserted, so I took some time to think about it and to do some research. I decided to work diligently with Signature Cell Healing instead.\nOn October 15th, 2007, one year after my stroke, I had a checkup and found that my carotid artery on the right side was almost fifty percent open and I was growing a new vein on the left side reaching up toward the brain. The doctor said it was a \u201cmiracle.\u201d I continue to get three to four Signature Cell Healings a week, and I know that the carotid arteries on both sides will be fully healed before this journey is done.\nIt\u2019s been a fascinating journey. My speech is not where it was before the stroke, but I\u2019m working hard at getting my tongue and my brain to work in sync.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 10544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 209.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://similarworlds.com/7837697-I-Am-Lost-I-Am-Lost-In-My-Mind-My-Emotions-My-Feel/1113517-Well-more-compelling-evidence-that-my-friend-has?sort=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6AROXAWXHMNSSSOUCZYLRQGV2JUNA2I", "length": 383, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "similarworlds.com", "title": "Well more compelling evidence that my friend has p... | I Am Lost, I Am Lost In My Mind, My Emotions, My Feelings (newest) | Similar Worlds", "raw_content": "Well more compelling evidence that my friend has passed away.... yet nobody is looking for him that are not family or friends of his. The cops only looked for 3 days.... Guess it's up to us.... We just want him home... but it really doesn't...\nWell more compelling evidence that my friend has p... | I Am Lost, I Am Lost In My Mind, My Emotions, My Feelings (newest) | Similar Worlds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://simplyonthegrid.com/2013/08/08/rethinking-retirement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:55Z", "digest": "sha1:YQ5LKEFQ6RRBDPDFK7HJXGOUK75SZUJR", "length": 8787, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "simplyonthegrid.com", "title": "Rethinking Retirement | Living Simply And Still On The Grid", "raw_content": "Nothing that went before prepares you for retirement. That light bulb has just clicked on in my brain.\nFrom your first day of school through all the years of work, you\u2019re taught to prepare, to strive, to advance, to make money and accumulate stuff. Always pushing on, always goal-oriented. Always another mountain to be climbed.\nNothing prepares you for retirement. (Except maybe golf. Should I have taken golf lessons?)\nYou have to practice, then take a written test and a practical test to get a driver\u2019s license. You have to endure four years of high school and four years of college, and then you\u2019re qualified to search for a job. You work and gain experience and skills, and maybe it leads someplace.\nYou need a license to get married; a divorce might be a little more complicated. You need a down payment and a credit rating to buy a house.\nThen one day, late in life . . . retirement! The goal line is behind you \u2014 whether you scored a touchdown or even if you didn\u2019t. Suddenly, nothing is in front of you.\nI know that many people have goals in retirement, for new and different kinds of work or voluntary service. I\u2019ve always expected that nothing would really change. I expected to keep on working, probably being even more productive, at something I actually wanted to do.\nFor some reason I hadn\u2019t foreseen that energy and health (or at least vitality) would wane. I hadn\u2019t expected my capacity for work to fall off sharply. I wasn\u2019t prepared for my eyesight, dexterity, and balance to be less reliable. And my memory! Don\u2019t get me started. Where were we?\nNow that I\u2019m on the brink of retirement, suddenly I see that maybe there aren\u2019t any more goals I can reasonably strive for. Maybe failing to produce goods and services will not make me a bad person. This Puritan work ethic is a darned nuisance.\nI have to reevaluate: Maybe retirement is going to be a time of leisure, rest and rehabilitation after a lifetime of work. That doesn\u2019t sound so bad. If I\u2019m not chasing after goals, maybe I\u2019ll have time to sit around and get to know people. It might even be possible to simply life in the present moment.\nNew Online Retirement Platform for \u201cRetiring with Friends\u201d \u2014 GangsAway! Launches New Retirement Planning Website (prweb.com)\nHow to Avoid Working One More Year (dailyfinance.com)\nThis entry was posted in Aging, Life and tagged Baby Boomers, Change, Leisure, Retirement by Editor (Retired). Bookmark the permalink.\n9 thoughts on \u201cRethinking Retirement\u201d\nTheresa on August 8, 2013 at 2:34 pm said:\nYou are so right! I have recently realized that I cannot work as quickly as younger people, even folks not that much younger! I hope that I can make it to retirement age with a job.\nAh yes, \u201cquickness\u201d has always been a problem for me. My natural work speed is methodical and plodding.\nAnd my brain! I\u2019ve often talked like a know-it-all. But in most of my jobs, I\u2019ve been awed by someone at a nearby desk or office who seemingly possessed a super-fast mental processor.\nI\u2019ve often compensated by my ability to concentrate intently and work longer hours. Now I no longer have the energy or the appetite to keep up with the competition.\nRon Pagano JD (@RonPaganoJD) on August 8, 2013 at 2:39 pm said:\nJohn: You hit the nail on the head. For so many of us \u201cbaby-boomers\u201d, retirement is something we\u2019ve held in high esteem for years and years, thinking it would never happen. Suddenly, it looms before us, rearing it\u2019s head, and depending on whether you\u2019ve prepared for it or not, it could be a smiling \u2018head\u2019 or an extremely frightening one!!\nA good example is my father-in-law\u2026he is 83 and after a lifetime of working, he finally retired as a sales rep, about 4 years ago!!! He\u2019s still in pretty good shape, even though he had a pacemaker put in about 10 years ago!! His one big love is playing slots! Aside from that, he enjoys family get-togethers and his grand- and great-grandchildren! BUT, that\u2019s about it!! He has no other hobbies, doesn\u2019t like to read, and has outlived most of his friends!! He sits home most days, putzing around the house, taking smoke breaks every hour or so (yes, his one vice is still a half-pack of cigs daily) and watching the O\u2019s and Ravens, when they\u2019re playing.\nOn the other hand\u2026I have been readying myself for retirement for the past 40 years!!!! lol I have a never-ending list of things I want to do (proverbial \u201cbucket-list\u201d) and hobbies I want to start or expand upon! In my opinion, retirement shouldn\u2019t be a time to slow down and withdraw. It is a time to open up, stomp on the accelerator and pick up speed, because time slows down for no one and there is much too much to learn and do.\nI love the old saying about life: \u201cLife\u2019s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather, to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting \u201cHoly Shit, what a ride! Let\u2019s do that again\u201d\nGreat comments, Ron! No doubt about it, once you go over the top of the hill, life picks up speed on the downhill slope. There are no brakes! I totally agree with you \u2014 this is certainly not a time to withdraw. I greatly admire your drive as an activist. I had thought to throw myself into liberal politics after retirement. But in recent months I\u2019m painfully aware that I may not have the stamina to contribute much. I don\u2019t know how I could survive without books!\nStephanie Raffelock on August 8, 2013 at 2:59 pm said:\nTimely post for me. My husband and I are retiring from 37 years of a business together. He is now the \u201cgrey beard\u201d in the room who has a whole other level of work in front of him as a sought after consultant. As for me, I am anxious about what it is I will do. While I will still help with a few things, I am no longer the business partner to him that I once was. I muse over everything from finally getting the garage cleaned out to writing more. I wonder about projects and how much I am willing to take on. Did you get the directions manual? I didn\u2019t get one, or if I did I misplaced it! If you can find yours, please forward me a copy. I\u2019d really like to know how to do this next phase before another young pish-ant tells me it\u2019s a friggen adventure! Hugs.\nHeh! I\u2019ve received much correspondence about Medigap health plans, and a thick book about Medicare. But my \u201cRetirement Directions Manual\u201d is lost in the mail. Not that it matters. I\u2019ve never been one to read the directions, except as a last resort. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see some posts in your blog about the retirement conundrum.\nWhen I was laid-off at age-58 with a good severance I figured that I\u2019d just call it an early-retirement and make it permanent. I deliberately didn\u2019t want to make any outside commitments for my time in the beginning, and for the first 3-months I got a lot of personal stuff done. Then the motivation just seemed to drain away and I stopped doing much of anything except reading and taking naps (not that there is anything wrong with that). The thing is; it didn\u2019t seem very satisfying.\nI probably could have fixed this issue eventually, but instead \u201cThe Perfect Job\u201d fell into my lap and I went back to work full-time after that year-long \u201cpractice retirement\u201d. With this experience behind me I think that for my NEXT retirement maybe I\u2019ll devote a month to \u201cnothing\u201d, but then get out there and find some activities or volunteer gigs or something else to get me out of the house regularly pretty quickly \u2013 before the inertia sets in.\nAh ha! Spot on! In most jobs, just showing up on time is half the battle. Maybe in retirement, just getting ourselves out the door is half the battle. Inertia is the enemy. Isolation is to be avoided above all.\nAnd yet, I don\u2019t think we need to feel driven by the same relentless \u201cwork ethic\u201d as when we\u2019re careering through life with the pedal to the metal. I hope we won\u2019t feel guilty when physical or mental limitations slow things down. At some point, a degree of inertia will likely become an inevitable part of life.\nSue Dreamwalker on August 11, 2013 at 9:49 am said:\nI don\u2019t know what age the retirement age is over there John, here they raised it AGAIN\u2026 now I have to work until I am 67 I will be 60 next year\u2026 For those who do office work or not manual labour then that maybe fine for those decision makers who make new rules, so as to take figures off the unemployment lists for a couple of years.. as they did when raising school leaving ages.. But for those doing manual labour its ridiculous to think a person over 60 can have the strength and stamina to complete tasks as competently.\nIm looking forward to my retirement, and my Hubby is already enjoying his wondering where on earth he found the time to go to work!\u2026\nI am certain though you will find something to occupy your days, and as you are such a good writer who knows where your talents will take you \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 10665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sites.google.com/a/icsahome.com/test-migration-new/articles/ethics-in-proselytizing-a-jewish-perspective-csj-2-2-1986", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IUSCAYAY4IWYGYIWTJSBEWL5N4QR7AY6", "length": 5434, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sites.google.com", "title": "Ethics in Proselytizing - A Jewish Perspective - Test Migration New", "raw_content": "Ralph D. Mecklenburger\nWithin the last decade there has been increased discussion in certain segments of the American Jewish community about the desirability of seeking converts to Judaism from among the \u201cunchurched\u201d of our society. That no major efforts in that direction have resulted is not surprising. Jews, resentful of being specifically targeted by some proselytizers, have hesitated to do unto others what we resent being done unto us. The inertia of our tradition is against missionizing, as well. Throughout most of post-biblical history Jews were prevented from proselytizing by religious and secular authorities and by fears of arousing anti-Semitism. Judaism has in the past, and does today, accept converts who are willing to study our ways and pledge their loyalty to Judaism and Jewry. However, our attitude has been, and overwhelmingly remains, that we accept individuals who come to us, but do not actively recruit would-be converts.\nIf I had my \u201cdruthers,\u201d other religious groups would take the same approach, providing religious instruction for those who seek it, rather than aggressively proselytizing. Jews recognize, however, that spreading the \u201cgood news\u201d is an essential component of many faith groups. Often this is done for idealistic reasons, and if done in a proper manner need not be unethical. This goes doubly in a pluralistic society where we have reason to be proud of our \u201cfree marketplace of ideas.\u201d But free markets need rules to be fair markets. One question I would address, then, is what constitutes ethical proselytizing? I shall attempt to answer that from a Jewish - and I dare say Judeo-Christian\u2014ethical perspective.\nHumanity\u2019s moral greatness derives from our God-given free will, our potential to think and do the right (which of course means we also have the capacity to think and do the wrong). God wants us to choose rightly, but the choice is ours. As the Torah puts it, \u201clife and death I place before you, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life.\u201d (Deuteronomy 30:19.) Based on the premise that God wants us to exercise free will, it is immoral, an offense against God, to undermine a person\u2019s free will. Proselytizing may be ethical in so far as it opens choices to people, provided that they are entirely free to accept or reject what is offered them. Violating this moral principle is the most obvious sin of the cults in their proselytizing. Sleep-deprivation, extreme peer pressure, separating recruits from familiar people and places, and other forms of psychological coercion are designed to undermine individuals\u2019 free will, and are thus immoral.\n\u201cTruth is the seal of God.\u201d (Shabbat 55.) This Talmudic statement, felicitously phrased particularly where religious truth-telling is at issue, is grounded in any number of biblical passages. All but self-evident for our secular as well as our religious traditions is the proposition that truth-telling and integrity are moral, lying and deceiving are immoral. Here again the cults are notorious offenders, lying about the nature of the faith and the nature of the life adherents live. The Unification Church goes so far as to speak of \u201cheavenly deception.\u201d Ethical proselytizing requires that people be told the truth up front and then be given full, honest answers to whatever questions they may have as time goes on.\nI hasten to add that I am not suggesting that it is immoral to preach a \u201cfalse religion.\u201d It would be immoral to do so if one knowingly preached falsehood. Yet the definition of \u201cheresy,\u201d as \u201cthe other fellow\u2019s religion\u201d should be borne in mind. It is moral to preach a religion with which you or I may disagree. What is immoral is knowingly to lie or distort. Such dishonesty is no less obnoxious when the proselytizer distorts faiths other than his own. Jews, for instance, are annoyed and offended by self-styled \u201cHebrew Christians,\u201d \u201cJews for Jesus,\u201d and the like. An individual is free to choose to be a Christian rather than a Jew. If he then says that he has not left the Jewish fold, and uses his former Jewish status to woo Jews, he is distorting both Christianity and Judaism, each of which is a distinct and separate religion.\nThe two principles I have suggested as the litmus test for ethical proselytizing, respecting free will and telling the truth, are both compromised by what we might simply call false and misleading advertising. So-called psychological cults often promote themselves as philosophies which will help people take control of their own lives, whereas their real intent is to create dependency upon the group. Similarly, I know of young people who have signed up to participate in a ski weekend, and found only after arriving that Christian missionizing was part of the agenda. It is not unethical for a proselytizer to take people on a retreat; it is wrong to do so under false pretenses.\nIn sum, I do not believe anyone has a monopoly on truth. I do believe that all\u2014even those who drink they have a monopoly on truth! -- have the right to preach their beliefs and accept converts. But it is ethical to do that if, and only if, people have as much right to reject as to accept the message; if, and only if, psychological coercion is not used; if, and only if, the proselytizer is honest about what he is doing, refusing to lie about or distort either his own faith or that of others.\nRabbi Ralph D. 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Nine beaches, numerous long car rides, and one-very delayed flight later, I\u2019m back in Paris after spending an amazing week in Corsica with Janine. With Garance Dor\u00e9\u2019s blog, French Elle\u2019s August 2013 issue, and some recommendations guiding us, I think we did pretty well. Although it\u2019s hard not to have a good time in Paradise. Corsica is a land of endless beautiful beaches, saucisson, and magnums, and where 80 percent of the people on the beach are wearing bikini bottoms and no tops (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration).\nLast Monday, we flew into Ajaccio on the west coast and drove three hours to Porto Vecchio on the east coast.* During the week, we explored Bonifacio, Ajaccio, and Porto Vecchio (where we spent most of our time). A word to the wise, if you\u2019re going to Corsica, download maps in advance. My map application barely worked and the maps you can get from the tourism offices have few, if any, names of the roads (or don\u2019t show the roads at all). Also, there is a lot of traffic on the island (at least in August), so expect to spend a decent amount of time sitting in the car!** We\u2019ve become very familiar with the four songs that rotated on the radio.\nBonifacio. We spent a day in Bonifacio, famous for its limestone cliffs, which is about 18 miles south of Porto Vecchio on the southern tip of the island. We parked near the cemetery, and headed towards the town.\nThe view from the town, looking down, was not too shabby.\nAfter walking through the town and loading up on French pastries, we decided to walk along the path towards the lighthouse. If you look down from the lighthouse, you will see what appears to be a beach. We were curious and decided to make it our mission to get there.\nWe walked for over an hour before cutting down towards the beach.\nLooking back towards the old city.\nClimbing down in flip flops was probably not the easiest means of transportation, but we made it!\nThe vertical descent.\nFinally, the reward. There wasn\u2019t any sand, but it was pretty secluded and the water was gorgeous.\n*Turns out the airport in Figari is much closer to both Porto Vecchio and Bonifacio, but EasyJet does not fly there, and apparently Kayak thought it would be funny to hide this fact from us. On the bright side, we got to see a lot more of the island!\n**We were very grateful that our hotel found us a rental car with an automatic transmission, since there were tons of hills, turns, and traffic. Also, I really need to learn how to drive a manual.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 8179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-031206_N_3228G_001/XDAyXFzw9xCPpB6WHsObDR2njcFZ0c37VmY7vHIO1Bwvjw.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:24Z", "digest": "sha1:NUKVP25LGN4MLSQ7ROVTT3FMLVAIDSIQ", "length": 2084, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "snappygoat.com", "title": "SnappyGoat.com - Free Public Domain Images - SnappyGoat.com- 031206-N-3228G-001.jpg", "raw_content": "View Original: 031206-N-3228G-001.jpg (2250x1500)\nKeywords: hawaii uss arizona ussarizona memorial night 62nd commemoration 62ndcommemoration dec 7 dec7 1941 031206-N-3228G-001.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 2003) -- The USS Arizona Memorial is bathed in light from a neighboring community the night before the 62nd Commemoration of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 250 distinguished visitors and veterans will attend the ceremony and will include the guided-missile destroyer USS O\u00d5Kane (DDG 77) rendering honors, followed by more than 40 wreath presentations, a 21-gun salute and the playing taps. The guest speaker will be Commander U. S. Pacific Command, Adm. Thomas B. Fargo. U. S. Navy photo by Photographer\u00d5s Mate 1st Class William R. Goodwin. (RELEASED). 031206-N-3228G-001.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 2003) -- The USS Arizona Memorial is bathed in light from a neighboring community the night before the 62nd Commemoration of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 250 distinguished visitors and veterans will attend the ceremony and will include the guided-missile destroyer USS O\u00d5Kane (DDG 77) rendering honors, followed by more than 40 wreath presentations, a 21-gun salute and the playing taps. The guest speaker will be Commander U. S. Pacific Command, Adm. Thomas B. Fargo. U. S. Navy photo by Photographer\u00d5s Mate 1st Class William R. Goodwin. (RELEASED). 031206-N-3228G-001.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 2003) -- The USS Arizona Memorial is bathed in light from a neighboring community the night before the 62nd Commemoration of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 250 distinguished visitors and veterans will attend the ceremony and will include the guided-missile destroyer USS O\u00d5Kane (DDG 77) rendering honors, followed by more than 40 wreath presentations, a 21-gun salute and the playing taps. The guest speaker will be Commander U. S. Pacific Command, Adm. Thomas B. Fargo. U. S. Navy photo by Photographer\u00d5s Mate 1st Class William R. Goodwin. (RELEASED). night hawaii memorial 1941 ussarizona dec7 62ndcommemoration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 2316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://snidegrrl.livejournal.com/535363.html?thread=6443843", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SFMS4CBKOWIBQZ3FLP6C25KKVVBOEJ33", "length": 295, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "snidegrrl.livejournal.com", "title": "oh yeah, and i dreamed i was back in school (college, but populated\u2026 - all the things that happened to me", "raw_content": "I've had those dreams too, though they were exclusively college dreams full of college friends and teachers. Sometimes I'd realize I had forgotten to go to a class two weeks in a row right after registration, and sometimes it hit me that I'd never even gone and now I'd missed at least one test.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 3760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://social-epistemology.com/2012/12/20/a-response-to-a-question-regarding-normative-functionalism-joseph-margolis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ALT7MJFUGKKNR6MVX3FHUH5RY3OZSBWF", "length": 6747, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "social-epistemology.com", "title": "A Response to a Question Regarding \u201cNormative Functionalism\u201d, Joseph Margolis \u00ab Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective", "raw_content": "A Response to a Question Regarding \u201cNormative Functionalism\u201d, Joseph Margolis\nAuthor Information: Joseph Margolis, Temple University, josephmargolis455@hotmail.com, Joseph Margolis: Wikipedia Entry\nMargolis, Joseph. 2012. \u201cA Response to a Question Regarding \u2018Normative Functionalism\u2019.\u201dSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2 (1): 98-99.\nEditor\u2019s Note: Professor Margolis provided an updated version of his piece on 8 January 2013 (seen here). The original post and pdf, uploaded on 20 December 2012, have been replaced. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-Cn\nI do have some definite views about normativity, but I confess to not being at all sure about the intended meaning of the expression \u201cnormative functionalism.\u201d I see some possible ways of construing the expression. But I\u2019ll just speak about normativity and perhaps it will have some bearing on the other!\nIn one of his posthumous papers, titled \u201cLogic\u201d (1897), which seems to have influenced Robert Brandom some, Gottlob Frege tenders the following suggestion: \u201cLike ethics, logic can also be called a normative science.\u201d [1] (In context, it\u2019s clear that he also means to include the \u201cscience\u201d of aesthetics.) I\u2019m struck by the fact that Charles Peirce says something very similar, though I don\u2019t know whether Peirce had ever seen a version of this particular remark by Frege: it\u2019s not impossible. In any case, my own thought is that, although what Frege says (and what Peirce similarly says, in speaking about the normative sciences: logic, ethics, and aesthetics), is true enough, it needs also to be said that the normative cannot be construed uniformly across such a range of conceptual \u201cspaces.\u201d Indeed, both authors give us reason, by what they add, to signal that they are aware of important differences among the \u201csciences\u201d being compared.\nFrege remarks that \u201call the sciences have truth as their goal,\u201d but singles out \u201ca quite special way\u201d in which logic \u201cis concerned with the predicate \u2018true\u2019\u201d (128). He assigns a normative function (I suppose one could say) to the predicate \u201ctrue,\u201d though, as he explains the matter, the predicate can be dropped since \u201cits\u201d normative force is really borne by the \u201cassertoric form [and force] of the sentence [as used]\u201d (128-129). He concludes, along these lines, that \u201clogic is the science of the most general laws of truth,\u201d by which (perhaps with some qualifications peculiar to Frege: regarding geometry, for instance, even more than the natural sciences), he means the \u201cnormative\u201d force of logical necessity in purely deductive contexts (which is, in fact, precisely what Peirce claims). But if we take the normative \u2014 of logic \u2014 to signify the unique function of the idea of formal necessity, then the idea of normativity will (however important) be very spare indeed. We might capture its meaning approximately by, say, appealing to the analogy of a game like chess: one cannot play the game without playing by its constitutive rules; but chess has no prescriptive force beyond what, conditionally, holds true in accord with its constitutive rules; read this way, would-be chess moves are \u201cin the true\u201d (so to say) iff they conform with the constitutive rules of the game. (That is all the necessity they need.) Logic, then (perhaps minimally conceived), enjoining us to favor rational thought and discourse under all possible conditions \u2014 hence, necessarily taken in the strongest possible formal sense, universally \u2014 counts as the unconditioned norm (of this conditional form of play). Otherwise, it has no distinctly prescriptive function.\nBut, of course, the interesting fact about logic, viewed this way, is that we do prize logical necessity, understand it and its conditions, and can actually make progress in extending the scope of \u201cthe science of logic\u201d \u2014 for instance, with regard to deontic and epistemic logic \u2014 in accord with the exemplary canon (say) of first-order predicate logic. But if we say that \u201ctrue\u201d (in the sciences and cognate uses) is, apart from logical truth, \u201cnormative,\u201d we have no comparable assurance that we can formulate, in any operatively sounds sense, the conditions (or criteria) of that normative notion; and we are even more uncertain when it comes to ethics and aesthetics (or other cognate notions). I concede that, on the assumption that the constitutive conditions of truth (in the sciences, etc.) can be formulated in more than pragmatically tolerable and changeable terms (which I more than inclined to doubt), the prescriptive force of the norms of truth would, of course, conform with the constitutive constraints of the predicate\u2019s function. The irony is that the match between constitutive and prescriptive norms, in logic, may be construed (if you please) as discovered rather than as merely constructed (although, even here, logician\u2019s like W.V. Quine would demur); whereas it\u2019s unlikely that knowledgeable theorists would subsume the prescriptive function of truth under its constitutive constraints. The game of truth (in the sciences) is not like the game of chess.\nFurthermore, on my view, there are no constitutive norms of ethics or aesthetics to be discovered: they are entirely (however plausibly or reasonably, perhaps in a special sense) socially constructed; say, in the sittlich sense; so that, as in ethical or moral matters, there is no simple way to distinguish their constitutive and prescriptive functions. They belong to the sphere of practical life (as we say), so that the two sorts of function are usually intertwined, strictly or laxly, in the constructivist sense \u2014 \u201cconstituted,\u201d we may perhaps say, in accord with some more oblique use of the term, by the processes of cultural evolution rather than merely as produced by some sort of fiat). In any case, ethics (and, even more assuredly, aesthetics) does not proceed in any way analogous to the way in which the constitutive and conditionally prescriptive norms of chess are called into play.\nMy own intuition is that the important questions about all of these different kinds of norms (and others that may be added) make sense only in the context of an adequate theory of what it is to be a human person or self. That\u2019s a huge topic for another occasion (or a lifetime). But it may be of some value to begin to see how diverse the concept of a norm may be and of how we may proceed to flesh out a reasonable account of any \u201cspecies\u201d of norm we care to examine.\n[1] Gottlob Frege, \u201cLogic\u201d (1897), in Posthumous Writings, eds. Hans Hermes, Freidrich Kambartel, and Friedrich Kaulbach, trans. Peter Long and Roger White (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 128.\nIn Articles\tGottlob Frege, Joseph Margolis, normative functionalism, normativity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 12688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://social-media-strategy-template.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-short-history-of-human-computer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VEU3GEWGN6BHV3STWNE3K3QPXY3RRT7Q", "length": 6651, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "social-media-strategy-template.blogspot.com", "title": "A short history of Human-Computer Interaction | TDMSB", "raw_content": "A short history of Human-Computer Interaction\nStudies on HCI started in the mid-1980\u2019s and the field therefore has a short history of little over 30 years now. I want to divide this his...\nStudies on HCI started in the mid-1980\u2019s and the field therefore has a short history of little over 30 years now. I want to divide this history into three stages.\nThe first stage was when studies focused on user interface (UI); elements that you can see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and feel with your hands. During this stage, it was important to design and evaluate the UI of a computer system so that ordinary users could perform work on their computers easily and conveniently. This is when the concept of usability received a lot of attention, and usability tests became an important job for HCI professionals.\nLet\u2019s think about the Model Human Processor (MHP), an important theory that represents this stage (Card et al. 1983). As the above image shows, there are three characteristics that define the MHP theory. Firstly, it\u2019s very concrete. For instance, the theory calculates where the eye moves from one point to another to the tenth of a second. Secondly, it involves a single user. Instead of a computing environment that includes numerous users, this theory focuses on a single user\u2019s view of the screen, touch of a button, and thought process. Thirdly, it focuses primarily on stationary computers. In other words, the first-stage HCI focused on how to provide a more easy and convenient means for a single user to use a computer on a fixed platform such as a desktop computer.\nStudies that focus on the UI of a single user on a single screen clicking on a single button provide a very narrow perspective. However, there were firms that understood the strategic importance of HCI during this time. When I finished my studies in the US and came back to Korea in 1994, the first project that I was involved in was to design a website UI for a well-known daily newspaper. This media firm had a relatively low market share compared to other newspapers. This was also when Korea had just started implementing the internet, which meant that there were rarely any readers who consumed news online. Despite that, this media firm predicted that people would consume more news online rather than from print. On that premise I started creating a website that provided an easy and convenient way to view articles online. I remember the final presentation of this project very vividly. The firm\u2019s CEO participated in person in the meeting and carefully observed and analyzed every design aspect meticulously over many hours. Back then, such projects usually only involved the deputy directors, not the CEOs. But the reason its CEO took such a meticulous approach was because he himself had decided that the experience of his readers were of utmost importance and that the web was the future. Today, this media firm has held a steady place among the major media firms in Korea.\nIn the second stage of HCI\u2019s history, it moved on from what is visible with the eye to the interaction that enables users to activate something and react to it. Departing from the dimension of a mere visual expression, how a product or service functioned became important. And no longer was HCI confined to a stationary computer. Therefore, digital products that provided mobility were introduced, and the leading example of it was the mobile phone. Although the mobile phone has a smaller screen and body than that of a desktop computer, the hardware that makes up the mobile phone has a processor and a memory that far exceeds the capabilities of desktop computers from just a few years back. The mobile innovation that started to kick off in the late 1990\u2019s strongly emphasized the importance of interaction. It became important to be able to conduct many actions and receive appropriate feedback under the constraint of a small screen and a limited number of buttons.\nI particularly remember a project I conducted during this interaction stage called \u201cD-Button,\u201d as shown in image below. Back in those days before the smartphone, numerous studies were conducted on how to use feature phones efficiently. The D-Button was a project based on the idea of tiny thumbnail-sized LCD panels that fit in place of the hard key buttons of feature phones. The concept of this project was that when a user conducted an activity on the mobile phone other than dialing a number for a phone call, the dial pad hard keys would display buttons more appropriate for the task other than the conventional zero to nine, asterisk, and sharp keys. For example, the buttons would display photos when the user entered the photo gallery, and pressing on one of them would display the photo on the main screen. By providing a change in the method of interaction, the D-Button intended to provide a more efficient mobile experience.\nThe D-Button project received fairly good evaluations. A renowned magazine introduced the project\u2019s results, and a partner firm supported my lab with research funding and worked together on a physical prototype. However, the hype only lasted for a short period of time. While we were discussing whether to implement the D-Button in an electronic manufacturer\u2019s mobile phone, Apple\u2019s iPhone was released. Instantly, our partner firm\u2019s attitude changed. They felt that multiple LCD screens increased the risk of a faulty product, the manufacturing cost would increase, and that the design was actually pretty messy. My role was to defend this negative feedback, but in the end, an actual product never materialized despite a physical prototype being made.\nThere is one thing I learned from this experience: efficiency of interaction alone is not enough to make a product successful. Thinking solely in terms of efficiency, tiny LCD screens on hard keys could be more efficient than functions on a single panel like the iPhone. Nevertheless, what is the reason people favor the iPhone over the D-Button?\nThe reason is that people evaluate a product or service based on the entirety of their experience, not solely on interaction alone. I\u2019m not the only person to have learned this lesson. 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This blatantly racist act must be taken as another wake-up call for white people to fight the deeply embedded racism in our province. Racism in Nova Scotia cannot continue to be tolerated.\nThe Dartmouth-Preston electoral district is home to the historical African Nova Scotian communities of North Preston, East Preston, and Cherry Brook. The former district of Preston was created in 1993 to give voice to African Nova Scotian communities at the legislature. Despite this, the area has not had an African Nova Scotian representative since 1999. There is a clear under-representation of our African Nova Scotian communities in the Nova Scotia legislature, and in all levels of government.\nThe ugly defacement of the election signs of two African Nova Scotian Candidates, in a predominantly Black riding, is just one example of the everyday racism experienced by Black people here in Nova Scotia. The vandalism of these signs must not be seen as an isolated incident, but understood within a larger context of systemic racism and white supremacy. The problem runs deep.\nIt\u2019s not hard to point to countless other examples anti-Black racism in Nova Scotia, including street checks by Halifax Police, the racial profiling of an African Nova Scotian shopper at Sobeys, and anti-Black racism in the workplace at Leon\u2019s and across the province.\nThis is not the work of just one vandal, or one police officer, or one store owner. This is the problem of a larger culture \u2013 one that condones outright expressions of racism, one that continues to criminalize Black bodies and profits off the underpaid labour of Black workers.\nAs we criticize the rise of Trump and the alt-right south of the border, we need to be mindful of what is happening right here in our backyards. We need to denounce outright expressions of hatred, whether it\u2019s a Nazi symbol on an election sign or the flying of the confederate flag. We must recognize the systemic racism that is pervasive in our communities. We must recognize that racialized communities experience many barriers to participating in local politics and decision making power. We must fight discrimination in all aspects our society \u2013 in politics, in employment, in housing, in education. 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The event featured keynote speaker Dr. Sunera Thobani who was followed by a panel discussion.\nThe recording provided by Atlantic Live Stream only includes the keynote lecture and Q & A.\nClick here to access the recording on Youtube\nDr. Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship focuses on critical race, post/colonial and feminist theory; globalization, media, citizenship and migration; and Muslim women and the War on Terror. Her book, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, was published by the University of Toronto Press (2007) and she has also co-edited Asian Women: Interconnections (Canadian Scholars\u2019 Press, 2005) and States of Race: Critical Race Feminist Theory for the 21st Century (Between the Lines, 2010). She served as Director of the Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age (RAGA) Centre at the University of British Columbia (2008-12), where she organized numerous projects on equity, diversity and social justice. She is a founding member of the Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE), a cross-Canada network that promotes the scholarship of academics of colour and of Indigenous Ancestry. 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Very active on the North American scene, in 2008 they premiered Vingt doigts et un piano, the first classical concert to be chosen for Loto-Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Entr\u00e9es en Sc\u00e8ne. Recently, the duo also performed at the 2015 Festival de Lanaudi\u00e8re, toured the Maritimes with Debut Atlantic in 2017, and presented their new concert M\u00e9moires as part of a tour with Prairie Debut in 2016-17. Theirs albums, Vingt doigts et un piano (2013) and M\u00e9moires (2017) are broadcast regularly on Espace Musique, ICI Radio-Canada Premi\u00e8re, and Radio-classique.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 176.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soulsecretservice.org/portfolio-item/anna-homler-website/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XJD5FCTOA6A6ALMTD6FJZB5EFGAZSECR", "length": 410, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "soulsecretservice.org", "title": "Anna Homler Website | soul secret service", "raw_content": "Sourced from the realms of myth, dreams, and alchemy.\nAnna Homler, is a vocal, visual and performance artist living and working in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler\u2019s work explores alternative means of communication and is sourced from the realms of myth, dreams, and alchemy.\nhttp://annahomler.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 121.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southasiafoundation.org/saf_news-article-52578.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:43Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZA5BKISNMK3UXG2ZPTGTFII5LRQRQ6I", "length": 2010, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "southasiafoundation.org", "title": "South Asia Foundation - SAF NEWS", "raw_content": "Official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages\nCategory 4- International Congress\nThe United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages (Ref.: 71/178) in order to raise global attention on the critical risks confronting indigenous languages and its significance for sustainable development, reconciliation, good governance and peace building. The celebration in 2019 will contribute to the access to, and promotion of, indigenous languages and to a concrete improvement in the lives of indigenous peoples by strengthening the capacities of indigenous language speakers and relevant indigenous peoples\u2019 organizations.\nThis official launch event is co-organized by UNESCO, UNDESA, and the members of the Steering Committee for organization of the International Year, with the participation of other relevant stakeholders. To be held under the theme \u201cIndigenous languages matter for sustainable development, peace building and reconciliation\u201d, the event will gather high-level governmental representatives, indigenous peoples, civil society, academia, media, information and memory organizations, United Nations agencies, public language harmonization and documentation institutions and private sector. The major objective of the official launch event is to provide a global forum for a constructive debate in which high-level speakers address new paradigms for safeguarding, promoting and providing access to knowledge and information for the indigenous languages\u2019 users.\nThe official launch event will take place at UNESCO Headquarters (Room II), in Paris, France.\nSource from UNESCO Webiste\nhttps://www.facebook.com/IYIL2019/ (link is external)\nEnglish: https://en.iyil2019.org/ (link is external)\nFrench: https://fr.iyil2019.org/ (link is external)\nSpanish: https://es.iyil2019.org/ (link is external)\n2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (link is external)\nFollow the IYIL2019 on Facebook (link is external)\nTheme page:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 222.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spark.adobe.com/page/xbqv6AzOq2Ptt/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:YMCWLB7F6WPB6QOS7KF6P5LNLZX6LKYX", "length": 5378, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "spark.adobe.com", "title": "God's Will", "raw_content": "God's Will Getting it right can be so easy - Dec. 4th, 2018\nGetting it right can be so easy \u2013 Dec. 4th, 2018\nI\u2019ve said it. You probably have said it as well. It very likely is the most over thought, and least practice in Christianity, knowing and being obedient to God\u2019s will in our lives.\nJesus spoke to them again: \u201cI am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.\u201d\nIf Jesus is the \u2018light of the world\u2019 and we are following him then why is it that we can\u2019t see the path before us?\nBefore we get too far into this, I want to make it clear that there are distinct applications of this topic and an absolute core to what scripture teaches us. And just so you know that I\u2019m not taking this out of context let me fill in some of the details of what Paul was telling the church at Corinth.\nThere was a good deal of exercising spiritual gifts going on. I would imagine that there were the genuine real deals who were actually working these gifts within the control of the Holy Spirit, but there were also those that wished to appear to be doing so. These individuals would study what was going on and then attempt to mimic the gifts.\nWe know this because of what Paul puts forward in this text.\nTwo or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate. But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged. And the prophets\u2019 spirits are subject to the prophets, since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.\nThe key here is in the last sentence of his direction to the church at Corinth, \u201csince God is not a God of disorder but of peace.\u201d\nThere is order in God\u2019s planning for us. If we are really in the light, following the light, then we can see our way and there is no confusion to the matter.\nSo, the crux of today\u2019s devotional is to understand that there is a core purpose for each and every life of everyone that has vested faith and trust in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins. This core competency, if you will, is supreme for every believer that truly wishes to follow the Master and be His Disciple.\nThe Core Competency\nJesus gave us some very specific and very clear directives for us to be his Disciples. The first thing he did was tell us that being his disciple is what he commands of us beyond all other things.\nAnd whoever doesn\u2019t take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.\nNo stammering, no equivocation whatsoever, Jesus expects his own to follow him. There have been numerous sermons talking about the cross that we are to take up. Luke repeats this directive by Christ as well and puts it a bit more in clear perspective for us.\nHere Luke quotes Jesus as saying we can\u2019t be his disciple if we are not willing to bear our own cross. I have no doubt whatsoever that that cross we are to carry is to engage in being a disciple of Jesus Christ. The first thing when rising, is to pick up that cross, and follow our Lord and Master. Our \u2018own cross\u2019 is our obedience to the will of Christ in our lives. Our cross is that which he places before us. Our responsibility is to in trust in his Grace and power in his strength take that cross and move it forward with us as we follow, becoming his Disciple.\nOur own cross is the action phrase to becoming His disciple.\nOther parts of this core competency include obedience.\nHis Word is transformative in our lives. If it isn\u2019t then we are not being obedient to them. It\u2019s a bit harsh but it is oh so true that if we really love Jesus, we will be obedient to him. The first step in obedience is to determine that we will be his disciple, learn from him, do what he does, say what he said, be what he was when he was with us here in the flesh, and pattern our every behavior in keeping with Him.\nIn short live transformative lives!\nRomans 12:2 (CSB)\nThis is a binary action on our part, we are either conforming to this world or we are transforming in to the image of Jesus through the very renewal of our minds and hearts. This is where the discernment to understand the \u201cgood, pleasing, and perfect will of God\u201d is in our lives!\nFor you that may be taking care of your family. For another it could be leading a great revival. For yet another it may be washing dishes in a restaurant. Or it could be nothing less than a reflector of the love, grace, kindness, and forgiveness that Jesus calls each and every one of us to be in this world.\nThat discernment may not be immediate, but the core competency of being His Disciple is. If we are focused on being like our Master, and emulating his love and forgiveness everywhere we go, letting the entire world in on the fact that Jesus has paid our debt and made a way to have a real relationship with The Creator, we are doing exactly what he calls us to do.\nHe can, and likely will call us to do other things as well, and that is something that he will make clear to us if we are walking along with him, bearing that cross of our ours, in the Light that is our Savior and Lord.\nGod has a will for our lives. Each one unique and specifically for a purpose that only God can reveal to us. He\u2019s made it clear where we start this journey. 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And there are other positions that have question marks due to health. Linebackers Thomas Davis and Jon Beason, coming off season-ending injuries in 2011, are still hurting.\nDavis, who has had three surgeries on his right knee, strained his right calf during the second practice. He has resumed individual drills and coach Ron Rivera hopes he can increase his workload next week.\nBeason pulled a hamstring due to overcompensating for his surgically repaired Achilles.\nNeither is expected to play Friday against Miami, but Beason hopes to return for the August 26 preseason game against the Jets.\nCoach Rivera is a bit concerned about both Beason and Davis, but watching rookie linebacker Luke Kuechly gives him a bit of breathing room.\n\u201cI think Luke and James Anderson are both cornerstones for us right now as far as a linebacking crew,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cWe do look forward to getting Jon back on the field and having Thomas contribute to what we want to become as a defense.\u201d\nI have written about some of the position battles, but before the Panthers take on Miami on Friday night, here are some thoughts:\nIncumbent placekicker Olindo Mare vs. former CFL star free-agent Justin Medlock.\nMedlock botched one kickoff against Houston last Saturday and it was returned 90 yards. Other than that, he has shown a powerful leg and has been more accurate from further distance than the 39-year-old Mare.\nCarolina Panthers veteran placekicker Olindo Mare is in a battle with free-agent Justin Medlock for a job.\nWatching both at practice, I notice Mare\u2019s kicks to the end zone are further than Medlock\u2019s however, when kicking field goals in simulated game conditions, Medlock out-kicks Mare. He has a stronger leg and is more accurate. In making a final decision, Rivera said he would definitely like to have it done by the third preseason game, so both kickers have a very short window to win the job. Ideally, Rivera said, he would like to see each kicker get the opportunity to kick a field goal, under game conditions, at the end of each half against Miami. Whether or not that can be arranged is another story.\nAs for the punters, rookie Brad Nortman, the first kicker ever drafted by the Panthers (6th round), has looked very good. His kicks are long and with a lot of hang-time. He also has worked very hard in camp at his directional kicking. 12-year veteran Nick Harris, a free-agent signing by the Panthers during the off-season, is also battling Nortman for the position. At this time, it is definitely Nortman\u2019s position, however.\nPASS RUSH:\nThe Panthers need to put more pressure on quarterbacks than they did last season. In a division with Drew Brees (New Orleans) and Matt Ryan (Atlanta), this is a must. If they do not begin pressuring the opposing quarterbacks, their secondary could be very vulnerable. Rivera said they need more production from Charles Johnson (nine sacks in 2011). So far, the interior linemen have not been able to get much pressure on the offense, and the Miami game Friday night will be a good test. They will face a rookie quarterback (Ryan Tannehill) possibly making his first start as well as a familiar face in former Panther Matt Moore.\nPro Bowler Steve Smith and Brandon LaFell are the top wideouts for the Panthers, but after that\u2026well, there has to be someone the Panthers can count on.\nNewcomer Lewis Murphy has dropped several passes in camp. The former Oakland Raider has all the ability, but needs to hold onto the ball. Kealoha Pilares and Seyi Ajirotutu look good running routes in practice, but are not stepping up to claim the third receiver spot yet.\nAs for the tight ends, Greg Olsen has run good routes, has fairly good hands, and, at 6\u20195\u2033, 255 pounds, can be a force.\nCarolina Panthers receiver Steve Smith said the offense is grasping more and more of the playbook this year.\nSpeaking with Smith yesterday at practice, he likes Murphy.\u201dWhen we came in, he said, \u2018I need this.\u2019 And when you hear that from a guy, and then he comes out and does it, that\u2019s the part where you realize we need more guys like that,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThere are a lot of guys who come in and say they\u2019re hungry and you get two weeks in and they get comfortable and you forget about them and you don\u2019t even know they\u2019re playing.\u201d\nFirst-round pick (No. 9 overall) Luke Kuechly has impressed everyone. He sees the game and reacts very well to the situation. He seems to be in the right place most all of the time (other than lining up on the wrong side on the opening snap Saturday night), and has a nose for the ball. He has intercepted several passes in camp and looks like he will be one of the best draft picks ever for the Panthers.\nDrafted in the fifth round, unheralded cornerback Josh Norman is making a great impression. Coming out of a small school (Coastal Carolina), playing in a low Division I league (Big South Conference), Norman has turned heads with his play in camp. He had four picks on Tuesday, including one off Cam Newton.\n\u201cHe\u2019s definitely been a ball-hawk. I\u2019ve watched Luke make some plays, too. \u2026 They\u2019re going to try the rookie. And he\u2019s made them pay,\u201d veteran linebacker Jon Beason said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do if you\u2019re a game-changer or if you\u2019re saying, \u2019I was a late draft pick, but I can play in this league.\u2019\u2009\u201d\nNo surprise here\u2026Newton is solidifying his role as the team leader and most-beloved player by fans. Newton works hard at every practice and wants to improve his game. Last season, he surprised many people by playing so well. The AP Offensive Rookie of the Year passed for more than 4,000 yards and was responsible for 35 touchdowns (by throwing or running).\n\u201cHe works on everything. He talks about what he wants to improve. The one thing you really watch \u2013 and he\u2019s so hard on himself \u2013 is the mental aspect of the game,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cWhen he\u2019s not making the right decisions he\u2019s missing things, he\u2019s going right to (offensive coordinator Rob) Chud(zinski), right to (quarterbacks coach Mike) Shula and they\u2019re trying to get those things worked out.\u201d\nIt has been very clear to me (and others, of course) that Jimmy Clausen will not be an NFL quarterback for long. Chosen by the Panthers in the second round of the 2010 NFL Draft, Clausen was thrown to the wolves early and lost all confidence. His passes are very limited \u2013 the short ones are fair and he has nowhere near the arm strength to match Newton nor back-up quarterback Derek Anderson. In several practices, he has only thrown short passes and has not looked like someone you want to play quarterback in the regular season.\nOn the other hand, Anderson looks comfortable in the back-up role. When his turn comes up, he takes command of the offensive unit and is decisive with his throws. He is no Cam Newton, but as far as a back-up, you could do a lot worse in the league.\nWHAT TO LOOK FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AGAINST THE MIAMI DOLPHINS:\nCoach Rivera wants the team to avoid injuries and be consistent on both sides of the ball, especially on defense. \u201cWe can\u2019t have the ups and downs. We have to make plays when we get the opportunity to. I think if I had to say defensively, I want to see us separate from blockers quicker and be better tacklers,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously I want to see us make the plays we need to in critical situations. On third down, we need to be better on defense.\u201d\nMY OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE PANTHERS:\nCarolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera and center Ryan Kalil \u2013 big words to live up to!\nThey have a long way to go to get to the elite level in the league. They are facing a tough schedule, but certainly have most of the tools to go far. It seems that every season brings a new team to the playoffs\u2026a team no one really expected to go far \u2013 see San Francisco last year. The Panthers could be that team. Injuries will heal, and only time will tell if this team can do the unexpected. Maybe the full-page ad Ryan Kalil placed in the Charlotte Observer will motivate this team to win the Super Bowl. But right now, I don\u2019t think so. Now, they are working on quickening their tempo\u2026not dropping passes\u2026getting healthy (linebackers)\u2026and finding a quality third receiver.\nCarolina Panthers Commit to Special Teams in 2012\nJuly 17, 2012 Carolina Panthers, NFLCam Newton, Carolina Panthers, NFL, Olindo Mare, SportsSportsView\nDuring the busy off-season, the Carolina Panthers have been working to improve parts of their game that were not as good as they hoped, but will it be enough make the playoffs? They certainly have the offensive firepower to do it utilizing quarterback Cam Newton\u2019s arm and legs. The Panthers can score with anyone in the league.\nIt was when the offense was stopped that things did not go so well at times last season. Carolina ranked last in the league in net punting and 30th out of 32 teams in punt return average in 2011. They were ranked in the bottom 10 in average field position after kicking off and fielding kickoffs. Addressing these needs were priorities in the off-season.\nPlacekicker Olindo Mare will face stiff competition when camp opens as the Panthers signed Canadian Football League star Justin Medlock in the off-season\nTwo players important to the kicking game last season and will be counted upon in 2012 to improve. Now in his 16th NFL season, placekicker Olindo Mare ranked second with 53 touchbacks and converted 22 of 28 field goals while making 44 PATs. Rookie Kealoah Pilares was fifth in the NFC with a 25.7-yard kickoff average, including a team record 101-yard return.\nImproving the kicking game means bringing in competition for Mare, so the Panthers signed Justin Medlock, a former Canadian Football League kicker. Medlock, coming off a terrific season for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, hit 49-of-55 field goals, including a 57-yarder. Over his three year CFL career, he converted 96-of-111 field goals (86.5 percent) .\nJoe Adams, a very exciting punt returner from Arkansas, was drafted in the fourth round, and should give the Panthers yet another weapon.\nBrad Nortman is the first punter ever drafted by the Panthers. He will address a huge need for the special teams!\nTo address the punting problem, Carolina drafted Brad Nortman from Wisconsin in the sixth round, and signed a proven veteran, Nick Harris. Nortman is the first punter ever drafted by the Panthers and should make an immediate difference.\nAveraging 42.1 yards (gross average) as a four-year starter for the Badgers, he is not only an excellent directional kicker, landing 69 of his 199 punts inside the 20 versus 19 touchbacks, but was known for his hang time (53 punts resulted in fair catches).\nHarris will begin his 12th NFL season in 2012. He spent eight years as the starting punter for the Detroit Lions and punted for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season. He ranks 30th in NFL history in punts (876) and yards (37,213).\nSigning long snapper J.J. Jensen to a four-year contract extension wasn\u2019t sexy, but a dependable, consistent player in that position is a key to the kicking game.\nAnother signing may not be glamorous, but having a quality, dependable long snapper on your roster is a key component to the special teams. After handling the long-snapping duties for every Panthers game in the previous three seasons, J.J. 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The plan would have all schools starting in mid-August and ending in mid-May.\nCurrently elementary schools start at the beginning of September and run through mid-June. All MPS high schools (and schools that include high school programs, like MacDowell Montessori and Golda Meir) moved to the early start calendar last August.\nThe plan was expected to be discussed at the district's Committee on Strategic Planning and Budget next week. But, today, Superintendent Dr. Darienne Driver, in a video posted on the district website, said that the idea has been dropped for the coming year, based on feedback from families.\n\"The plan,\" Dr. Driver said, \"started as an idea that would help improve student success, provide more opportunities for growth and be more financially responsible.\"\nDriver added that administration is now proposing two calendars \u2013 a September start calendar for elementary schools and a mid-August start date for secondary schools. 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We build mutually beneficial long-term relationships with all our clients.\nQuality & Reliable Service\nWe\u2019re professionally trained\n7 Days Customer Support\nLondon Housekeepers and Cleaners\nRELIABLE. TRUSTWORTHY. PROVEN.\nWe give a true 5-star housekeeping service to clients throughout Central London and understand that each client is different, requiring a custom-tailored service. We pay close attention to every detail and provide exemplary customer service on each call.\nJohn Pilkinson\nI would, and often do, recommend St. Anne\u2019s Group as a provider of security services. They are adaptable, commercially aware and completely comprehend the commercial realities of the late night sector. They are reputable, reliable and respected by local authorities and institutions and moreover, they are a pleasure to work with.\nKaren Curling\nSt. Anne\u2019s Group has been cleaning our facility since June 2004. During this time, St. Anne\u2019s Group has never missed a day of service. 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That's why we're now offering the #freesoftware Supporter newsletter in Brazilian Portuguese! https://u.fsf.org/2kc", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stempals.org/2013/11/26/osd-dominate-first-ftc-league-match/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XTPDW4AE47TVFHCZC4M33ZUAGMYVVQUV", "length": 1700, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "stempals.org", "title": "OSD High Schools Dominate First FTC League Match | STEM Pals", "raw_content": "Olympia School District high school teams dominated the inaugural FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Olympia League Event on Saturday, November 23, at Jefferson Middle School. Seventeen teams from Thurston, Mason and Gray\u2019s Harbor Counties competed in the first of three League Events, which combined will determine these 17 teams\u2019 seeding at the Southern Washington Inter-League Championships on January 11, 2014 at Jefferson Middle School.\nOly Cow (team #6424) from Olympia High School ended up undefeated and topped the rankings in a promising start to their attempt to retrace their path last year to the State Championships. The Capital Gear Grinders from Capital High School (#5061) and DERPA from Olympia High School (#7113) came in second and third respectively, separated only by a few tie-breaker points. Avanti High School also made a strong showing, with BGIP (#4448) placing 4th and MIP (#7111) finishing in 7th place. A veteran team from Elma High School, Elma Robotics (#6091), placed 5th and rookie teams from North Thurston High School (#7705), Shelton\u2019s Oakland Bay Junior High School (#7299) and Pope John Paul II High School (#8030) rounded out the top half of the field.\nRookie and veteran teams alike all learned a great deal at this first competition and now have two weeks to refine their robots before the second League Event on Saturday, December 7th at the Olympia High School Commons (rear parking lot). Admission is free, and the public is welcome to come and cheer on your favorite team in \u201cRobotics as a Sport\u201d. 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To date, it has not come. What you may not know is why I am praying fervently that it comes soon. The reason is that I have a debt that is coming due at the end of the week, and I have to pay it or else I will receive a very large financial penalty (thousands of dollars of more debt). As I sit here, our checking account has a balance of $58.79. This is enough for me to fill up my car, and maybe buy a few groceries to get us through until our next paycheck in nine days. We might have to live on tuna for a few days, but we won\u2019t starve. And the worse thing that can happen with the debt is that I have to pay more later.\nI am trusting God with this problem. I trust that He is going to do the absolute best thing for me and my family. My trust is absolute. If He decides that this is a good time for someone to empty out my bank account so that I can\u2019t afford gas, then I accept that. If He decides that I need to pay thousands more to this creditor than our current arrangement requires, then I accept that. If He decides that He is going to provide the money that we need, then I accept that as well. Do you understand? I\u2019m asking God to provide the money we need, but at the same time I am telling God that I that I recognize that He knows more than I do, He knows what is best for me, and I trust Him with the circumstances of my life.\nIn praying about this issue, I have been reminded of something the past few days. I wrote a post four years ago called Perspective. The post still applies today.\nLast night I learned that a godly man named Matt Herbster is experiencing suffering that dwarfs my own. His wife Julie died of cancer yesterday. Matt and his five young children are facing sorrow of which I can only imagine. They are steadfast in their belief that Julie knew Christ as her Savior, and therefore they will see her again someday, but they still have to deal with the (probable) years of separation before that happens.\nToday I learned of another tragedy. Eleven years ago my wife and I were members of a church in Iowa. We were friends of the song leader and his wife. We taught their children in AWANA. I listened to their son Jared say his Bible verses. Today I found out that Jared grew up, got married and had a son named Perrin. Last October Perrin, a 14 month-old boy, died unexpectedly. Having experienced a miscarriage, my wife and I can understand a small fraction of the pain that Jared and his wife are going through, but even so, it seems like the sorrow would be magnified when you have met and gotten to know your child before they die. I have never experienced the death of one of my children who live with me. I pray I never do.\nAnd so, I look at my problem of \u201cno money\u201d and I am thankful to God, because my problem, in comparison to what some other people are going through, does not seem so big. I am reminded to pray for others, and not just myself, because someone else is always going through a problem worse than mine. I thank God for His many blessings, and continue to trust Him for all things.\nPostscript: This is a website that the Stanley family has set up to receive donations to build a park dedicated to Perrin. Please donate if you can. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stm.fi/en/income-security/housing-allowance/questions-and-answers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PBLONAEVQNU4NRDVRQON4G5ZYXMTV3GI", "length": 7699, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "stm.fi", "title": "Questions and answers concerning the transfer of the student housing allowance to the general housing allowance - Sosiaali- ja terveysministeri\u00f6", "raw_content": "Questions and answers concerning the transfer of the student housing allowance to the general housing allowance/\nWho can receive general housing allowance in Finland?\nHousing allowance can be granted for a permanent residence located in Finland. The purpose of the general housing allowance is to reduce living costs for people on a low income. Currently it can be granted to families with children, married couples, cohabiting couples, people living on their own or people in shared accommodation.\nWhy will students be transferred to the general housing allowance? Why should students no longer receive a separate student housing allowance?\nThe current student housing supplement is a maximum of 201.60 euros per month. This makes the livelihood of students living alone more difficult. The general housing allowance is better than the student housing supplement in taking into account the real level of rents and the differences between municipalities in regards to living costs. The reforms will also put students, as far as the housing allowance is concerned, on a par with other low-income earners. In addition it would simplify the social security system.\nDuring the autumn of 2016 the government has prepared a proposal for transferring students in both secondary and higher education to the general housing allowance. Those who study abroad would, however, still be covered by the housing supplement included in the student financial aid system. The increase in housing allowance costs caused by the transfer would be covered within the spending limits of the administrative branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. This reform is related to Juha Sipil\u00e4's Government\u2019s 2017\u20132020 plan for the public finances.\nHow much housing allowance have students received until now?\nThe student housing supplement intended for paying rent has been a maximum of 201.60 euros per month. In 2015 a total of 267 million euros was paid out in student housing supplement. The housing supplement costs for students living in Finland were 247 million euros, while for students living abroad they were 20 million euros.\nHow much general housing allowance has been paid out until now? What would it cost to include students\u2019 housing allowance in this system?\nThe costs of the general housing allowance in 2015 totalled 918 million euros. The costs of the general housing allowance would increase by 137 million euros in 2017 and by 304 million euros in 2018 if the student housing supplement were included in the general housing allowance. The costs of the student housing supplement would decrease by 114.5 million euros in 2017 and by 250 million euros in 2018. It is estimated that the costs of social assistance would be reduced by 15 million euros on an annual level. Thus public expenditure would increase by a total of 39 million euros.\nHow would the increased costs from transferring students to the general housing allowance be paid for?\nThe plan is to cover the increased costs caused by the transfer with the general housing allowance expenditure so that public expenditure is not increased due to the change. In the greater Helsinki area (municipality categories 1 and 2), maximum housing costs would not increase in 2017. Elsewhere in Finland (municipality categories 3 and 4), maximum housing costs would decrease by 5 per cent. In relation to the level of rents in the greater Helsinki area, the maximum housing costs in municipality categories 3 and 4 are higher. For this reason, it is justifiable to direct the decrease in maximum housing costs to municipality categories 3 and 4.\nNot increasing the maximum housing costs and decreasing the maximum housing costs for municipality categories 3 and 4 by 5 per cent will decrease the general housing allowance costs by 37.8 million euros in 2017 and by 66.8 million euros annually afterwards. The total savings would also cover the index-linked saving of 9.5 million euros, as agreed in the State budget, of the general housing allowance. Income support costs are estimated to increase by 8.4 million euros in 2017 and by 13.8 million euros annually afterwards.\nWhat does the maximum amount of housing costs mean?\nWhen calculating the general housing allowance, the maximum amount defined for housing costs is taken into account. In practice this means that those receiving the allowance will have to pay for the housing costs that exceed this maximum amount. The purpose of the housing allowance is only to support reasonable housing costs. The maximum amount of housing costs depends on which municipality the property is located in. The maximum housing costs vary by municipality category, and are exceeded by approximately 70 per cent of people receiving this benefit in all municipality categories.\nThe maximum amounts for the general housing allowance are linked to changes in the rent index of Statistics Finland. In rented housing the maximum housing costs are \u20ac362\u2013508/month for single-person households, depending on the location of the property, \u20ac527\u2013735/month for two-person households, \u20ac675\u2013937/month for three-person households and \u20ac804\u20131,095/month for four-person households.\nThe maximum housing costs for the student housing supplement is 252 euros per month, and students have to pay any amounts exceeding this themselves. When students are covered by the general housing allowance, the same maximum amounts for housing costs will apply to them as to others who receive the housing allowance.\nIn order to make savings in the public finances, the maximum housing costs for the general housing allowance have not been increased in 2015 and 2016. They will also not be adjusted in 2017.\nHow is this reform expected to affect students\u2019 livelihood?\nBecause of the differences between the two systems there will be changes to the level of student housing allowance when the students are transferred to the general housing allowance. This is caused by the fact that the general housing allowance, which covers the household\u2019s housing costs, is allocated differently from the more formal student housing supplement. Changes are also caused by differences in how the maximum acceptable housings costs and the allowance are determined for the general housing allowance and the student housing supplement.\nDue to this reform some students will lose their housing allowance completely, while for others it would decrease, increase or remain on the current level. It is estimated that there are fewer students who are entitled to general housing allowance that there are students who are entitled to the student housing supplement, but the average amount of housing allowance would be higher than the student housing supplement. The housing allowance would therefore target fewer students than it does currently, as well as those whose housing costs are high in comparison to their income.\nBeing transferred to the general housing allowance would mainly benefit students who are living alone. Those who would lose out the most in this reform are couples and people flat sharing who have a joint tenancy agreement, as the general housing allowance is paid out per household. With the student housing supplement, the income of a person\u2019s partner does not affect the entitlement to receive the housing supplement even if their income is very high. This means that in future the housing allowance will be allocated to low-income households. Couples where one person has a high or moderately high income and the other is the only one currently receiving the student housing supplement would lose out the most, as the household\u2019s total income, including that of a person\u2019s partner, affects the amount of general housing allowance received.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 16400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storiesonline.net/d/s4/t567/the-angry-owner-of-an-auto-parts-shop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:W3RJ77YCEBDWBR3D5RBCH37NRYUUDRHY", "length": 553, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "storiesonline.net", "title": "The Angry owner of an auto parts shop by mackbolan | Storiesonline Forum", "raw_content": "The Angry owner of an auto parts shop\nmackbolan\nThis was the story of a big man who runs an Auto parts shop. He is always angry and people are afraid of his size. At the beginning of the story he decides to change his behaviour and starts seeing improvements in his day to day life.\nThere wasnt much sex in the first few chapters.\n@mackbolan\nLazlo Zalezac, Thunder and Lightening.\nhttps://storiesonline.net/s/43891/thunder-and-lightening\nI agree that definitely sounds like the one. I have read it at least twice myself.\nThat is the correct one! Thanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studio1on1.com/2014/07/21/8-things-to-figure-out-before-you-can-find-true-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:13Z", "digest": "sha1:T4WQ6LO4G2Z4PQ73RYZFQESRRBAYXWPP", "length": 586, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "studio1on1.com", "title": "8 Things To Figure Out Before You Can Find True Love | Studio 1-on-1 Fitness", "raw_content": "Wellness is not simply about the physical body. At Studio 1-on-1, our philosophy is that a healthy lifestyle will reflect itself in a healthy body. Thus we not only work with clients on the physical aspect of exercise but also offer nutritional counseling and encourage a positive and healthy emotional/mental state of wellness as much as possible. This includes learning how to love yourself which may help attract a true love to your side. This article touches on a few key elements to keep in mind if your are one longing for that special partner in life. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studyonlinehelp.com/bcom/financial-accounting/valuation-of-stock", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:K4RLNIFSR5T746OHAFULA6OHBM45VTZF", "length": 6592, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "studyonlinehelp.com", "title": "Valuation of Stock", "raw_content": "VALUATION OF INVENTORIES AT BALANCE SHEET DATE\nQ.1. Following information is available from the books of accounts a trading firm :\nPurchases during the year 3,25,000\nStock on 1.1.2009 valued at 75,520\nSales during the year 4,55,620\nAt the time of valuation of stock for 2008, a portion of the stock costing Rs. 15,000 was valued at Rs. 13,590. One third of this stock was sold in 2009 for Rs. 5,620. Calculate the value of stock: (i) at cost and (ii) at cost or market price whichever is less assuming that goods are sold at 50% profit on sale price.\n[Ans. (i) At cost \u2014Rs. 1,71,930 (ii) At cost or market whichever is less \u2014 Rs. 1,70,990]\nQ.2. From the following particulars, ascertain the value of stock as on 31 March, 09 :\nStock as on 1.4.08 14,250\nPurchases 76,250\nManufacturing Expenses 15,000\nSelling Expenses 6,050\nAdministration Charges 3,000\nFinancial Charges 2,150\nSales 1,24,500\nAt the time of valuing the stock as on 31 March, 2008, a sum of Rs. 1,750 was written off a particular item, which was originally purchased for Rs. 5,000 and was sold during the year for Rs. 4,500. Barring the transaction, relating to this item, the gross profit earned during the year was 20 per cent on sales.\n[Ans. Stock-in-Trade as on 31 March 2009 . Rs. 6,250.]\nQ.3. From the following information, ascertain the value of stock as on 31.3.2007 :\nValue of Stock on 1.4.2006 70,000\nPurchases during the period from 1.4.2006 to 31.3.2007 3,46,000\nManufacturing expenses during the above period 70,000\nSales during the same period 5,22,000\nAt the time of valuing stock on 31.3.06, a sum of Rs. 6,000 was written off a particular item which was originally purchased for Rs. 20,000 and was sold for Rs. 16,000. But for the above transaction the, gross profit earned during the year was 25% on cost.\n[Ans. Value of physical stock as on 31.3.2007 Rs. 67,200.]\nQ.4. Karam Chand closed his books of account for the year on 31 March, 2009. Due to certain difficulties, he could not conduct stock taking on that date. Actual stock taking was done on 7 April, 2009 when goods valued at Rs. 34,500 were found present in the godowns.\nThe following transactions had taken place during the period from 1 April, 2009 to 7 April 2009:\n(i) Sales during the period were Rs. 10,590. These goods were sold at the usual rate of gross profit of 25% on cost except goods which realised Rs. 840 on the basis of 20% profit on cost.\n(ii) Purchases during the period were Rs. 8,300 of which Rs. 1,180 worth of goods were delivered to Karam Chand only on 9 April, 2009.\n(iii) Sales returns during the period were Rs. 600. Out of it Rs. 300 worth of returns were out of the sales made at 20% gross profit mentioned above.\nPrepare a statement showing clearly the value of stock on 31 March, 2009 to be shown in the final accounts prepared by Karam Chand.\n[Ans. Rs. 35,390.]\nQ.5. Physical verification of stock in a business was done on 23 June, 2009. The value of the stock was Rs. 4,80,000. The following transactions took place between 23 June to 30 June, 2009 :\n(i) Out of the goods sent on consignment, goods at cost worth Rs. 24,000 were unsold.\n(ii) Purchases of Rs. 40,000 were made out of which goods worth Rs. 16,000 were delivered on 5 July, 2009.\n(iii) Sales were Rs. 1,36,000, which include goods worth Rs. 32,000 sent on approval. Half of these goods were returned before 30 June, 2009, but no information is available regarding the remaining goods.\n(v) Goods are sold at cost plus 25%. However goods costing Rs. 24,000 had been sold for Rs. 12,000.\nDetermine the value of stock on 30 June, 2009.\n[Ans. Value of stock on 30 June, 2009 is Rs. 4,46,400.]\nQ.6. A trader prepared his accounts on 31 March, each year. Due to some unavoidable reasons, no stock taking could be possible till 15 April, 2009 on which date the total cost of goods in his godown came to Rs. 50,000. The following facts were established between 31 March and 15 April, 2009 :\n(i) Sales Rs. 41,000 (Including cash Sales Rs. 10,000)\n(ii) Purchases Rs. 5,034 (Including cash purchases Rs. 1,990)\n(iii) Sales Return Rs. 1,000.\n(iv) On 15 March, goods of the sale value of Rs. 10,000 were sent on sale or return basis to a customer, the period of approval being four weeks. He returned 40% of the goods on 10 April, approving the rest; the customer was billed on 16 April.\n(vi) A trader had also received goods costing Rs. 8,000 in March, for sale on consignment basis; 20% of the goods had been sold by 31 March, and another 50% by the 15 April. These sales are not included in above sales.\nGoods are sold by the trader at a profit of 20% on sales.\nYou are required to ascertain the value of Inventory as on 31 March, 2009.\n[Ans. Value of inventory as on 31 March, 2009 is Rs. 79,366.]\nQ.7. Mr. Vijay's financial year ends on 30 June 2007 but actual stock is not taken until the following 8 July 2007 when it is ascertained at Rs. 7,425.\nYou find that.\n(i) Sales are entered in the sales book on the same day as despatched and returns inward in return inward book when the goods are received back,\n(ii) Purchases are entered in the purchases day book as the invoices are received.\n(iii) Sales between 30 June and 8 July 2007 as per sales day book and cash book are Rs. 8,600.\n(iv) Purchases between 30 June and 8 July as per purchases day book are Rs. 660 but of these goods amounting to Rs. 60 are not received until after the stock was taken,\n(v) Goods invoiced during June (before 30 June) but not received until after 30 June amounted to Rs. 500 of which Rs. 350 worth are received between 30 June and 8 July 2007.\n(vi) Rate of Gross Profit is 33-1/3% on cost. Ascertain the value of stock on 30.6.2007.\nQ.8. X who was closing his books on 31.3.2009 failed to take the actual stock which he did only on 9 April, 2009, when it was ascertained by him to be worth Rs. 25,000. It was found that sales are entered in the sales book on the same day of despatch and return inwards in the returns book as and when the goods are received back. Purchases are entered in the purchases day book once the invoices are received. It was found that sales between 31.3.2009 and 9.4.2009 as per the sales day book are Rs. 1,720. Purchases between 31.3.2009 and 9.4.2009 as per purchases day book are Rs. 120, out of these goods amounting to Rs. 50 were not received until after the stock was taken. Goods invoiced during the month of March, 2009 but goods received only on 4 April, 2009 amounted to Rs. 100. Rate of gross profit is 33-1/3% on cost. Ascertain the value of physical stock as on 31.3.2009.\n[Ans. Valuation of physical stock on 31.3.2009-Rs. 26,120.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 12830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=25", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GYSUBPIIKE55BBWGN7TCWF3DBPO5FBEG", "length": 910, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "suffolkartists.co.uk", "title": "Suffolk Artists - ALKEN, Siffrien [or Sefferien]", "raw_content": "Siffrien Alken, said to have been born at Ipswich, but he states either Kentish Town or St Pancras, London, about 1821 when his parents were living in Ipswich, son of Henry Thomas Alken [q.v.] and his wife Maria n\u00e9e Gordon (1786-1841) of Ipswich. Siffrien shared a studio in London with George Alken, who died in 1835. He married at St Pancras, London in 1840, Mary Ann Johnson and in 1851, a 31 year old teacher of drawing living at 34 Pleasant Place, Lambeth with his 30 year old wife Mary Ann, born Lambeth and children Henry 10, Phillis 7 and George 4, all born at Lambeth. In 1871, a 51 year old artist, living at 23 Lower Bland Street, Stoke Newington, London with his wife and two of his children, Siffrien 18, a butcher, and Lydia 10, both born at Newington. He died at Newington early in 1873, aged 52. He painted sporting pictures and signed them S. Alken which has added to confusion in attribution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=3776", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:XUHRKTYAXLRODN4AVGBDG44ZNOMBXQYD", "length": 558, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "suffolkartists.co.uk", "title": "Suffolk Artists - COLLINS, Kirsty Eve", "raw_content": "As Kirsty Eve Shepherd, she was born at Birmingham in 1977, daughter of Dennis V. Shepherd and his wife Carol J. n\u00e9e Smart, who married at Warley, Worcestershire in 1973. Kirsty married at Birmingham in 2000, James P. Collins and paints under the name of Kirsty Collins. A portrait artist and mother of six, now living at Holland Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Kirsty now mainly works in charcoal and exhibited at 'Art on the Prom' at Felixstowe in 2015-2017 and her first picture book 'Groggle the Gran' a children's book was published in 2012. www.kursed.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suitcasemag.com/travel/explore/what-to-do-in-cambridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:N5MKRLI26HPPYIHCD3QLFCRRPNQO7BHT", "length": 1671, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "suitcasemag.com", "title": "What to Do in Cambridge | SUITCASE Magazine", "raw_content": "What to Do in Cambridge\nCambridge is the spiritual home of punting. With stippled sunlight, weeping willows and the gentle lap of water, punting is the best way to experience the beauty of the River Cam \u2013 particularly during the summer months. Be warned: navigating the boat is much harder than it looks so perhaps opt for one of the many chauffeurs dotted around the river. Scudamore\u2019s is the city\u2019s oldest punt-hire company and its award-winning tour offers the perfect introduction to Cambridge\u2019s spectacular views and eventful history.\nFirst opened in 1846, Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a captivating introduction to the natural world. Spanning over 40 acres, the heritage-listed site provides both year-round interest and seasonal inspiration. The Glasshouse range is a notable highlight, having undergone a major restoration and replanting programme in the last five years. Head for the hot and humid tropical rainforest where the dense canopy is punctuated with a colourful array of orchids, bromeliads, passion flowers and all manner of climbing plants.\nAmong the finest small museums in Europe, Fitzwilliam explores the history of art and culture. Its 1,700 paintings, include masterpieces by Titian, Veronese and Canaletto; oil sketches by Turner and Constable; and a remarkable range of works by French Impressionist painters such as C\u00e9zanne, Monet and Renoir. There\u2019s also collections of oriental art, illuminated manuscripts and ceramics, all housed in splendid surroundings. Until 2018, the museum will also play host to displays from Kettle\u2019s Yard, the university\u2019s modern and contemporary art gallery, as it undergoes a major rebuilding project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 191.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sunsetlawn.chapelofthechimes.com/obits/james-david-williams/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:O66Q2THJF7MCVFGP6HNSHOV5UVJQSJQJ", "length": 1657, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sunsetlawn.chapelofthechimes.com", "title": "James David Williams | Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes | Funeral Services | Cremation Services |", "raw_content": "James David Williams\nJames \u201cDavid\u201d Williams, 58, passed due to a short illness on Monday, October 20, 2014 in Sacramento, California. Dave was born in Sacramento on November 12, 1955. Dave retired in April 2011 from SMUD after 35 years of service as a High Voltage lineman. He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Floy and Ray Williams. Dave is survived by his loving wife Pam Williams, his children, Joshua Williams (Meghanne), Miranda Williams, Dan Darnell (Nellie) and Papa\u2019s favorite granddaughter, Alice. He is also survived by his father Weldon Williams (Joy), mother Wynona Williams and siblings, Anita Meany (Bob), Jerry and Dena and his beloved nieces and nephews. Dave leaves behind many beloved friends including his IBEW brothers. Dave was an avid fisherman. He belonged to the Rooster tail Fishing Club. He was passionate about gold panning and was a lifetime member of the Gold Prospectors Assn. A celebration of life will be held at the Rio Linda Community Center, 810 Oak Lane in Rio Linda, CA 95673 on November 8, 2014 from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 pm. For family and Friends. Arrangements by Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes.\nLit a candle in memory of James David Williams\nJim Baird and family says:\nAs a Lineman, Dave and I were pole partners, IBEW brothers, and a friend. I remember Dave as always being happy and jolly. My condolences to his family, I know Dave will be missed.\nElizabeth Paulo-Lopez says:\nI will always remember Dave as a decent and caring person. He gave me encouraging words when they were needed most. His smile meant a lot. He will be missed by those who loved him most and his friends. God Bless him and his family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://support.babbel.com/hc/en-us/articles/205600378-How-secure-is-the-payment-system-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:62NPF2V6QQFTQWCSGEJTLBPCNVT5T5LC", "length": 176, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "support.babbel.com", "title": "How secure is the payment system? \u2013 Babbel Help Center", "raw_content": "Payment transactions on www.babbel.com adhere to the highest security standards. The server connection and the data-processing are protected with up-to-date encryption methods.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://support.nflgamepass.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360005288253-Why-are-prices-different-in-different-countries-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AQGHOKC7CW3WVIHFI2GFSEUCHG6A62DE", "length": 220, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "support.nflgamepass.com", "title": "Why are prices different in different countries? \u2013 NFL Game Pass", "raw_content": "Subscription pricing may differ in each country depending on a number of factors, including licensing restrictions, local legal regulations, market type, country and previous subscription plans being no longer available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 165.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suzanneklotz.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/human-rights-art/dead-eyesabu-ghraib_106x60_inches/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JZCF4DYRIP5QMSCTHQ4SHR4GEA5W5GF7", "length": 932, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "suzanneklotz.wordpress.com", "title": "Dead Eyes,Abu Ghraib_106x60_inches | Suzanne Klotz", "raw_content": "Canvas, metallic and acrylic paint, embroidery, appliqu\u00e9\nThe imagery in Dead Eyes references the torture condoned and conducted by US military reservists and US government officials in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The prison is comprised of seven stories of cell blocks. Thousands of prisoners of Arab descent, arrested with no charges or trial, were subjected to psychological, physical and sexual abuse and death by torture. The cardboard box references those used during electrocution and torture and the burlap bags reference hoods tied on prisoners\u2019 heads that were soaked in urine and feces. Digital reproductions of photographs taken at Abu Ghraib document a few of the tortures, including dragging with a dog leash, beatings, sodomy, electric shock, and water boarding. The zipper edging on the canvas panels allude to unzipping and revealing truth. The eyes are the mirror to the soul, hence the \u201cDead Eyes\u201d of the persecutors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://swindonian.me/2016/09/17/swindon-not-a-crap-town/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MB3LGXSOLVYSPH3GJQOR7M32XFXAQW4V", "length": 6023, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "swindonian.me", "title": "Swindon: not a crap town - Born Again Swindonian", "raw_content": "Swindon: not a crap town\nby amaatk123 | Sep 17, 2016 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Community, David Bent, General Interest, Ken White\nSwindon: it\u2019s not as bad as you think\nIt\u2019s funny how \u2018things\u2019 happen really. How at-first-glance-unrelated incidents become related\u2026\nLast night I had a lodger from Air BnB \u2013 just for the night \u2013 visiting Swindon for the first time. He was a very charming Syrian chap who\u2019s been in England for 10 years or so. He lives and works in London as a university lecturer and was full of nothing but affection and gratitude to our country for the opportunities it\u2019s afforded him. I say this as background but I do think it\u2019s kinda relevant.\nBecause he then went on to say that, what little bit of Swindon he\u2019d seen, he\u2019d really liked. He commented that everyone he spoke to was lovely \u2013 not like in London. He liked where I lived (West Swindon), he went to Lydiard Park and loved that. He even thought the West Swindon Centre was nice. Which leads me to the next connection\u2026\nToday I went to the autumn fayre at the gorgeous Christ Church where I happened to pick up a copy of Swindon Heritage\u2019s autumn magazine. On getting home I picked up the magazine and it fell open on an article called \u2018Meet the man with the Plan\u2019 \u2013 an interview between Graham Carter and Hadrian Ellery-Van Dekker \u2013 a name on a par in the awesomeness stakes with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Which is probably rather fitting if you think about it.\nAnyroad up \u2013 Mr HVD ( I thought about writing Mr VD and swiftly thought again! #awks) is the director of the new museum and art gallery. In the course of the article Mr HVD is quoted as saying:\n\u2018There is a great cultural scene here in Swindon, but I have noticed a tendency in people who live here to put the boot in when they talk about the town. It seems to be a default setting. People categorise by what it isn\u2019t rather than what it is. They tell me it isn\u2019t Bath, and it isn\u2019t Oxford and it isn\u2019t Reading. But it has a hell of a lot to recommend it, so I think it is time to start thinking about what it has got going for it, not what they think is missing.\u2019\nAnd oh boy is he right!. They do. And I\u2019m so, so tired of it. So I say: Thank. Bloody. God.\nMr HVD can I shake you by the hand? Yes! Yes! Yes! That\u2019s EXACTLY what I\u2019ve been trying to say for the past 3 LONG years of bashing away at this bloody blog. So it\u2019s VERY nice to hear it from someone else. Vindication is mine!\nSwindon is NOT a shit pit. Swindon is NOT a crap town. And I should know \u2013 I come from one that actually made it into the Crap Towns book. There\u2019s been two versions of that book (see image) and Swindon features in neither. Which is no surprise to me.\nSo where does all of this connect to last night\u2019s lodger? Well:\nSometimes things are relative. I love Swindon because I come from a place with nothing. And when I say \u2018nothing\u2019 I mean nothing. Swindon has Barbury Castle and Liddington Hill \u2013 we had slag heaps. And emhysema. And there\u2019s probably an element of that with my lodger. Relativity \u2013 not emphysema. But also\u2026\n\u2026 if, as he did, you approach Swindon with an open heart and an open mind she will \u2018reveal\u2019 herself to you. A bit like Brigadoon. (;look it up) And it\u2019s clear that Mr HVD is well aware of Swindon\u2019s charms.\nA man of intelligence and insight evidently! And I wish him every success despite my misgivings about the location of the new art gallery/museum.\nNow there\u2019s much contention about the location of the new art gallery/museum combo. I won\u2019t lie \u2013 I\u2019m not convinced about where it\u2019s intended to be \u2013 but I AM convinced that this guy has the vision that Swindon needs. And that matters above all.\nIn the aforementioned article Mr HVD has this to say on the matter: \u2018This is another thing I\u2019ve noticed about Swindon. People think it has to be either/or. They think it\u2019s the town centre or the \u2018Mechanics\u2019. But Swindon is big enough to have \u2018and\u2019 and not either/or.\u2019 And he\u2019s not wrong \u2013 it is.\nAll of which segues nicely into another point I\u2019d like to make while I\u2019ve got your virtual ear.\nAT LAST the museum and art gallery has acquired a painting by Swindon artist Ken White. Get the flipping bunting out because it\u2019s not before time. Ken is a son of Swindon \u2013 both literally and figuratively and still is. He absolutely, no question about it, deserves his place there.\nhttp://swindonlink.com/2016/06/artwork-by-swindon-artist-ken-white-acquired-by-swindon-museum-art-gallery/\nSee also Creative Wiltshire: https://creativewiltshire.com/2016/09/07/ken-white-swindon-artist/\nBut there\u2019s another who I think deserves to be there too. Well \u2013 if it were left to me I\u2019d have every Swindon artist in the place but that wouldn\u2019t be altogether realistic \u2013 if not noble.\nBut seriously, if Swindon is big enough for the Mechanics\u2019 Institute and the new museum/art gallery then isn\u2019t the latter also big enough for Ken White AND David Bent?\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be either/or!\nAs someone that chose Swindon, as someone that involves himself in countless community activities and Open Studios. As someone that\u2019s lived here for a good 20 years or so shouldn\u2019t he be there too?\nAnd apart from any of that he can paint quite well! \ud83d\ude09 Oh \u2013 and he has a good line in an anecdote it has to be said. And if that were a criterion for entry into museums he\u2019d be in Tate Britain at the very least.\n#justsaying Here endeth the lesson.\nhttp://swindonlink.com/2016/07/swindon-aviation-artist-david-bents-celebrates-50-years-of-partnership-between-raf-marshall-aerospace-defence-and-lockheed-martin/\nNB: When news of Swindon\u2019s proposed new gallery/museum hit the media they saw fit to turn what should have been a positive news story into yet more Swindon bashing. I wrote a response to that at the time and this is it: https://swindonian.me/2015/08/19/the-ugliest-town-in-england-really/\nTo read the full article: \u2018Meet the man with the Plan\u2019 buy the autumn edition of Swindon Heritage magazine.\nKen White: http://www.kenwhitemurals.co.uk\nSwindon Museum and Art Gallery: http://swindonmuseumandartgallery.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 30073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://switzerland.tasis.com/page.cfm?p=2317", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XEGCVGWHGRERDMLXN3QJAJGPTCPPGQB3", "length": 2041, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "switzerland.tasis.com", "title": "TASIS The American School in Switzerland: TASIS Speaker Series", "raw_content": "The TASIS Speaker Series (TSS) draws from some of the best elements of the TASIS identity\u2014truth, goodness, beauty, international understanding, and humanitarian action\u2014to provide TASIS students with a signature educational experience. Although the TSS focuses on students near the end of their TASIS careers, the program aspires to serve as an educative instrument for the entire division, creating opportunities for all High School students to interact with people and ideas of significance that are concerned with the world beyond our campus. Students enhance their intellectual experience through discussions, lectures, class visits, and film screenings focusing on these five elements. This program conveys a clear message to students about what the School hopes for and expects from them after they leave TASIS.\nThe TASIS Speaker Series, which was known as the Senior Humanities Program (SHP) until the fall of 2018, was initially made possible by a CHF 100,000 donation from TASIS parents Michael and Jane Grindfors to The M. Crist Fleming Endowment for International Understanding and Leadership in 2008. It remains an integral part of a TASIS education thanks to support from the TASIS Board of Directors and the work done by a dedicated group of teachers and students who created and continue this special program.\nSpeaker selection Criteria\nThe TASIS Speaker Series Committee seeks to select speakers that embody the five pillars of the program: truth, goodness, beauty, international understanding, and humanitarian action. In selecting the group of speakers, priority should be given to speakers who fulfill those five virtues in some capacity while not sacrificing their overall quality. In any given year there ought to be a variety of voices, backgrounds, and professions represented in the group of selected speakers. Ultimately, however, speakers should be selected on the basis of their ability to enhance the intellectual and moral experience of the outgoing seniors and the community as a whole.\nTASIS Speaker Series News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://synergyhomecare.com/blog/posts/2014/10/27/great-apps-for-caregivers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:47Z", "digest": "sha1:O4B73KOL5QGJPMBV7CJY6PJ47YUVZQW2", "length": 1026, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "synergyhomecare.com", "title": "smartphone apps for caregivers", "raw_content": "Great apps for caregivers\nProviding home care for seniors takes a lot of organization and patience, and there are now smart phone apps that can make staying organized as a caregiver much easier. If you're an at-home senior care provider, take a look at these apps you may want to consider downloading:\nBalance is an app specifically for caregivers of clients with Alzheimer's. It's a great tool for answering questions about Alzheimer's and gaining strategies for caring for someone who suffers from the disease. It also has a handy tool to keep track of your client's medications.\nPain Care is a handy tool for keeping track of your client's pain. This is especially good if you have a client who recently underwent a procedure and will be having a check-up doctor's appointment. With the app, you and your client will be able to offer complete and accurate information to your client's doctor.\nThis app is a great source of tips and information for elder caregivers, and it includes advice on safety, communication and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 4587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://talking-time.net/showthread.php?s=39bbdc2ffd3b49af20aeef03d0f21535&p=2148139", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5HNPQU3W3VIATDXLTD76IMUUOZ4AB7LI", "length": 3891, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "talking-time.net", "title": "Talking Time Code of Conduct - The Return of Talking Time", "raw_content": "The Return of Talking Time > New/Prospective Member Info\nWhen Talking Time was first established, it was a cool place where cool people could kick back and talk about video games or whatever else struck their fancy. In the past few years, the popularity of our content has attracted many new members. We don\u2019t want Talking Time to be like other gaming forums, and based on past discussions, neither do you. Therefore, we\u2019ve drafted this code of conduct to outline the behavior that is expected from all members. By posting here you implicitly agree to these conditions.\nWe\u2019ve tried to make these rules as unrestrictive as possible while still maintaining a baseline of comity. This isn't intended to be an exhaustive, hard and fast laundry list, and discretion is always a part of the process of managing any community. The golden rule applies as always.\nThis forum is made up of a number of different communities. Each of these communities is here for different reasons and has different ways of interacting. While these can be valid, in and of themselves, when they interact with each other, problems can arise. Don't assume the worst of each other or the best. Take a step back and consider your reactions. When knees jerk, noses can be broken.\nNote: Activity outside this forum (Discord, Twitter, IRL conversations, etc.) is fair game to be considered when determining whether someone is operating in good faith and within the spirit of this code.\nAs much as you may disagree with someone\u2019s opinion on a video game, or style of expression, or political position, or ideology, that does not mean they are not a person deserving of respect, civility, and kindness. We want to encourage discussion and debate, so address the arguments, evidence, reasoning, whatever, but leave comments about their person out of it. Note that this not only includes outright attacks but accusatory tone and implied insults as well. Don't be a bully or a creeper. This applies to any interactions on the site (PMs included). If you are the subject of any of this kind of thing, bring it to a moderators attention. Posting of PMs as a retaliatory act or getting down in the mud in responses is no better than being the initiator.\nNo Hateful or Violent Language\nThis may seem obvious but intolerance can be subtle and insidious. We want all members to feel safe and comfortable on Talking Time. No sexist, racist, classist, ableist, intolerant, or any other harmful speech.\nNo Passive Aggression\nThis is hard to define, but is a problem that plagues the forum. This rule is a catch-all for behavior that attempts to dance along the edge of propriety or skirt the rules (honoring the letter, but not the spirit). Passive aggressive snark under the guise of innocence, trolling, spam, or any other post that only exists to antagonize others is the kind of thing that is covered here. Passive aggression is still aggression, so if you want to rile up others for fun, find another place to do it.\nFailure to follow these policies will generally result first in a warning. This is exactly what it is: a warning that you are infringing on the code of conduct and an invitation to change your behavior. The offending post may be edited or deleted at the discretion of the moderators. Repeat infractions will result in a temporary ban, and then a permanent one if the behavior persists. Particularly egregious violations may not follow all of these stages and repeat offenders will receive much less leniency.\nIf you feel like any of these rules have been violated, please PM any of the moderators. They are all listed on the various forums on the front page. We promise to review every report with seriousness and consideration to all parties involved. We want to have an \u201copen-door\u201d policy. If anything is bothering you, please let us know.\nLikewise, if you have any questions, feel free to PM any of the moderators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tammiefowles.com/2009/11/11/hugh-prather-and-a-morning-ritual-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3PNJV7EQX27Y4BFD2HU4A46HOHCV3VHP", "length": 536, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tammiefowles.com", "title": "Hugh Prather and a morning ritual | Spirituality, Therapy, and the Good Life", "raw_content": "\u00ab Excellent Blogs That Address Mental Health Issues\nHugh Prather and a morning ritual \u00bb\nAuthor, counselor, and minister, Hugh Prather, suggests in his chapter, \u201cWalking Home\u201d in Handbook for the Spirit that we look into our hearts and ask ourselves each morning, \u201cHow can I begin to experience my goodness? How can I make the effort today to be the kind of person I want to be?\u201d I\u2019ve found these questions to be very helpful in keeping me focused on what\u2019s most important to me and I try to ask them each morning as I greet the new day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tasparish.org.au/media/news/searching-old-copies-and-clippings-standard-newspaper", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NHZNPK3Y5Y7TPGGHZONS5HKCS5SH3KKI", "length": 1750, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "tasparish.org.au", "title": "Searching for old copies and clippings of the Standard Newspaper | Archdiocese of Hobart", "raw_content": "Searching for old copies and clippings of the Standard Newspaper\nHome > Media > News > Searching for old copies and clippings of the Standard Newspaper\nJournalism is often called the first draft of history. This is certainly true for the Church in Tasmania, where a tradition of Catholic newspapers offer a good record of what happened from 1867 until the present. But there are some gaps that need to be filled.\nThe Archdiocese of Hobart Archives and Heritage Collection is looking to digitise some of its rare newspapers in the near future, starting with the collection from the late 1930s and 1940s.\n\u201cPartly because of paper shortages during the war, and improper care afterwards, this is one of the weakest parts of our collection. We want to preserve it first,\u201d said archives officer Dr Nick Brodie.\n\u201cWe want to ask Tasmanians to check their garages and attics. We have lots of gaps in these years. For instance, less than 11 partial issues of the Standard survive from 1939. Perhaps 29 issues are missing for 1940. Many of these are short by several pages.\u201d\nDr Brodie said people liked to cut out stories and photographs and recipes, so many of the surviving newspapers have big rectangular holes in them.\n\u201cIronically, it is these clippings that might now be the only parts of other issues to survive, perhaps tucked inside old recipe books.\n\u201cSo we are putting out a call to see if anyone might have old copies or clippings from the Standard between 1938 and 1949. We are also interested in earlier materials from the other Catholic papers.\u201d\nDr Brodie encouraged people who might find something to call the Archives and Heritage Collection on (03) 6231 4740 during office hours between Monday and Thursday, or by emailing archives@aohtas.org.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taxfoundation.org/few-words-tax-evasion-tax-avoidance-and-tax-competition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:MED2RVFP3BLT3QON3ZFFPKYGXCTTNH7B", "length": 4998, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "taxfoundation.org", "title": "A Few Words on Tax Evasion, Tax Avoidance, and Tax Competition | Tax Foundation", "raw_content": "A Few Words on Tax Evasion, Tax Avoidance, and Tax Competition\nAn organization called the Tax Justice Network (TJN) will soon release a study that ranks the United States, specifically the state of Delaware, as number one in the world on their Financial Secrecy Index. The study looks at 12 indicators of bank and corporate transparency to determine which countries (or states) are most secretive.\nI am not a financial secrecy expert and I am not going to dispute their findings. However, on TJN\u2019s blog they cite an article by another source that they say comes to the same conclusion, the Spear\u2019s Wealth Management Survey. But the TJN and the Spear\u2019s studies don\u2019t seem very comparable. The Spear\u2019s article that they cite focuses on Delaware tax rates and apportionment issues, something the TJN bank secrecy study doesn\u2019t touch on. And I think the comparison highlights some important issues regarding taxes that are worth exploring.\nFirst of all, on the factual side, the Spear\u2019s article claims that Delaware has \u201ca zero per cent rate of tax.\u201d This is simply incorrect. Delaware has an 8.7% corporate income tax rate, plus a gross receipts tax. Delaware also has a personal income tax with rates ranging from 2.2% to 5.95% of taxable income. Whether a business is a flow through entity (LLC, LLP) or a corporation, their Delaware income will be taxed one way or another in Delaware, either under the personal or corporate income tax.\nI emphasize Delaware income because it is possible for a company to be based in Delaware and earn income outside of that state (say in another state or another country). In such a case that income earned elsewhere may only be taxable in that second jurisdiction and not in Delaware. But this does not make Delaware a tax haven, as Spear\u2019s seems to indicate. Determining the income that is taxable by a given jurisdiction, a process known as apportionment, is essential to ensuring that income is not taxed twice in two different jurisdictions. Just because a corporation is based in one jurisdiction does not mean that all its income necessarily is or should be taxable in that jurisdiction.\nSecondly, and most importantly, Spear\u2019s seems to be confusing low-tax jurisdictions with tax evasion havens. In the United States a state\u2019s legislature can choose to fund its state-level government in a variety of ways. Some states have no sales tax, some states have no personal income tax, and some states have no corporate income tax. States choose levy a combination of some or all these taxes, plus others. These differences between states promote healthy competition for businesses looking to get the best product for the taxes they remit. We would expect a business to want to locate in a state with a comparatively low tax rate, all else equal, and there is nothing wrong with that.\nFinally, it should be noted that even in states that have no corporate or personal income taxes (like Wyoming or Nevada), companies based there will still pay the U.S. federal corporate income tax at a rate ranging from 15% to 35% (or the federal personal income tax, for flow-through entities like LLCs or LLPs) on their U.S. income. Again, the apportionment issue (determining what income is taxable in the U.S. and what income is not taxable) is important, justifiable, and unavoidable.\nTJN can plausibly argue that Delaware\u2019s minimum requirements for forming a corporation are too lenient, that it makes the state a good location for foreigners looking to evade their country\u2019s taxes. Tax evasion, that is, not paying taxes that are legally owed, is a problem and should be addressed. For more information on properly defining tax havens see Tax Foundation Senior Fellow Robert Carroll\u2019s Special Report: Bank Secrecy, Tax Havens and International Tax Competition.\nHowever, tax avoidance, defined as organizing one\u2019s affairs in such a way as to legally minimize one\u2019s tax liability, is more of a gray area. We oppose arrangements like Sale-In Lease-Out deals, which are (or were) technically legal in the U.S. but have no real economic substance. But as the well-respected Judge Learned Hand commented in 1935, \u201cAnyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible\u2026 Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.\u201d Most people would not consider the use of 401(k)s to be tax avoidance, even though such accounts receive preferential tax treatment and allow taxpayers to minimize their current tax liability.\nFinally, tax competition, epitomized in certain jurisdictions offering broad, low taxation (which is not the same as targeted tax breaks), encourages efficiency in government and provides a way for taxpayers to decide if they are getting their money\u2019s worth from the government services they pay for.\nThese are all worthwhile ideas to explore, but in these discussions we need to be to careful not to confuse issues like tax evasion, tax avoidance, and tax competition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 10325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tbinewsroom.com/2016/05/26/man-arrested-accused-of-shooting-sheriffs-deputy-following-pursuit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WYOQH7WTEREYKHH7MBAOVSZNLAALELPN", "length": 1902, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "tbinewsroom.com", "title": "Man Arrested, Accused of Shooting Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Following Pursuit", "raw_content": "May 26, 2016 Josh DeVine East Tennessee, News\nMan Arrested, Accused of Shooting Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Following Pursuit\nCHATTANOOGA \u2013 Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have arrested and charged a Dunlap man accused of shooting a Sequatchie County deputy following a Wednesday night pursuit.\nAt the request of 12th District Attorney General J. Michael Taylor, TBI Special Agents began investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Sequatchie County Sheriff\u2019s Department Deputy Wallace Cunningham Wednesday night, which occurred at approximately 9:45 near the intersection of Tram Trail Road and Highway 111 in Dunlap.\nPreliminary information indicates Deputy Cunningham was involved in a vehicle pursuit, ending at the Dunlap location, when the subject, Shaun Michael Powers, drove his vehicle into a ditch. The deputy subsequently exited his vehicle and gave lawful commands in an attempt to approach and arrest Powers, who did not comply and brandished a weapon toward the deputy. Cunningham discharged a stun gun in the direction of the subject and an altercation ensued, during which the deputy was fired upon by Powers and struck at least twice. Despite his injuries, the deputy was able to disarm and detain Powers until other law enforcement officers could arrive.\nA medical helicopter flew Cunningham to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where he was treated and later released. Though the deputy did not fire his service weapon, Powers sustained an injury during the incident and was subsequently treated and released.\nThis morning, authorities arrested the 21-year-old and charged him with one count of Attempted First Degree Homicide. He was booked into the Sequatchie County Jail, where at the time of this release, his bond amount had yet to be determined.\nTagged Attempted First Degree Murder, Sequatchie County\nAttorney Indicted, Charged in TBI Theft Case", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tbinewsroom.com/2016/09/23/athens-plant-shooting-leaves-two-victims-and-shooter-dead/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MTVJU5EDIIO763BYWSBXY37NIWVKFVJR", "length": 2066, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "tbinewsroom.com", "title": "Athens Plant Shooting Leaves Two Victims and Shooter Dead", "raw_content": "Athens Plant Shooting Leaves Two Victims and Shooter Dead\nCHATTANOOGA \u2013 Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations joined investigators with several other agencies in investigating a workplace shooting at a manufacturing plant in Athens that left two victims and the shooter dead.\nOn Thursday, at the request of 10th District Attorney General Steve Crump, TBI Special Agents joined officers with the Athens Police Department, along with the McMinn County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the District Attorney\u2019s Office, in investigating the circumstances that led to the shooting at the Thomas & Betts plant Thursday afternoon.\nThe preliminary investigation indicates that Ricky Swafford, a long-time employee of the plant, became upset during a meeting with his two supervisors. Swafford, 45, abruptly left the meeting, and the building. He returned shortly afterward and went to the office and found his supervisors, James Zotter, 44, and Sandra Cooley, 68. Swafford shot both of them and continued to walk through the plant. Some employees were able to warn others of an active shooter, and employees evacuated the building. When responding officers arrived, they found Swafford\u2019s body in a bathroom of the plant, deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No other employees were injured in the shooting incident.\nThe TBI\u2019s Violent Crimes Response Team with Special Agent Forensic Scientists from Nashville arrived at the location Thursday evening to collect evidence, and have been processing the scene through the night. Special Agents continue to interview witnesses as the investigation continues and collect additional evidence. The bodies of the two victims, as well as that of the shooter will be taken to the Medical Examiner\u2019s office in Knoxville for autopsies.\nThis remains an active and ongoing investigation. At the conclusion of the investigation, the case file will be turned over to the District Attorney General for his office\u2019s review.\nTagged Athens, McMinn County\nTBI Investigation Leads to Charges Against DCS Case Manager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teauneetaylor3.com/2015/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NXPVMFKGVUITHNHEA52IY3DBNS24KNJJ", "length": 8816, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "teauneetaylor3.com", "title": "June | 2015 | Metaphysics and the Movies according to Dartanion2", "raw_content": "\u201cSOMETIMES I WANT TO DIE\u2026..\u201d\nSometimes I consider this life and the world around me and I can\u2019t help thinking that this place we call reality is hell. I mean when you see the news and most of it is bad news. Killings, wars, corruption, death of entire species of life, pollution, rape, and children who have or will never have a chance at experiencing happiness or joy. When you walk to work you don\u2019t even see the dying beggars on the street in front of you, having been convinced by the media that someone is doing something about it and that we should look out for ourselves and our own group of friends and loved ones. We never get to see the angels or God or heaven. Sometimes we see genuine kindness between human beings and we have Faith that there is something better ~ somewhere. And sometimes we experience the joy of Love. But for the bigger part of our lives it\u2019s the bad we see or ignore. It\u2019s the daily routine of doing one thing, acquiring money, so that we can survive and make the lives of those we care about better. We spend our entire lives working for money. Yes, sometimes we find good fortune and the time to consider the good in this life or actually see the beauty in the nature, the trees and flowers and mountains and oceans and the spectacular world of grandeur in this reality. But for the most part we work for money so that we can buy the time for appreciation of God and nature. So when I consider that I am one of billions of people who work to provide the 1% of us who enjoy the fruits of the rest of our labors I sometimes want to die. Because I am sure that even if there is no God or heaven that being dead is more liberating than being aware that our mundane lives have little to do with true happiness. When I am absolutely sure that, having been out of my body, that there is way more to experience beyond this reality and I am in a hurry to get to that place where true happiness may be possible, when this reality provides very few opportunities for happiness, in fact, I have never met one person who could honestly say, that more than a few experiences in there entire lifetime have been happy. Most people smile and say yes I am happy that I have made better lives for my children or I am happy that I contributed to helping save the rainforest, so yes peoples lives may be dotted with some happy experiences but never admit that their interior lives are hollow and lonely. It\u2019s why I love to spend my time focusing on metaphysics because it there where I see the true potential of humanity and the possibility of experiencing the light of Love that God has provided us within our souls (our spirit). We spend so much time focusing outwardly when God and true happiness are inside of us, and it is inwardly that I find most interesting and attractive. So sometimes I want to die because focusing inwardly has taught me to mistrust my eyes and everything that this world pretends to be. I do not want to commit suicide but I do want to find and reside in the possibility of a separate reality, and the only way there is through faith in Metaphysics and the potential it offers for finding that which we refer to as God\u2026\u2026\u2026I am dartanion2\u2026\u2026and that\u2019s the way I see it\u2026\u2026\u2026.cheers\u2026\u2026..T xo\n\u201d THE HEART OF MY BLOG \u201c\nHi guys ~ I know it\u2019s been a while and I do apologize for the absence\u2026\u2026\u2026so MUCH going on right now I\u2019d like to touch on a few subjects today that are at \u201cThe heart of my blog!\u201d When I began this blog it was because I wanted to convey years of proof that I had gathered along my life-path\u2026\u2026\u2026proof that there is so much more to human capability than most of us ever even dare to pursue\u2026\u2026\u2026metaphysical capabilities that we amuse our intellects with through books, films, and thousands of years of conversations. Amazing potential such as Telepathy, telekinesis, premonition, dream control, astral projection, self-healing, clairvoyance, the third eye, and the list goes on and on\u2026\u2026.but\u2026\u2026\u2026at the heart of all of this potential that I am endeavoring to convey as fact is\u2026\u2026\u2026..ENERGY!!\u2026\u2026..the ability for the human mind to manipulate energy. I go into GREAT detail about various types of proofs and methodologies for using energy and it\u2019s potential in many of my posts here over the past year. Just type the word or category you\u2019re most interested in, into the search box above and you will find dozens. But today I would like to discuss what the heart of my blog has become over the past year\u2026\u2026\u2026and yes ENERGY is the mainstay but poetry, GOD, and my illness have become of such great interest to many of my readers in other countries, and here at home, that I\u2019ve had to branch out into some other specific areas in my posts\u2026\u2026\u2026FILMS have been getting amazing responses that I had no idea were going to become that interesting to my followers\u2026\u2026.I have even done a few quotes for films on You Tube, and AMAZON\u2026\u2026..nothing major but the fact that I was emailed and asked for more was TOTALLY unexpected. The post I did on \u201cThe Abyss\u201d was the second most viewed post for the year. The MOST viewed post I did was entitled \u201cSensory Deprivation Chambers\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026and the third most popular post I did last year was \u201cSpinal Cord Stimulator\u2019s\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026so while I thought I was endeavoring to do a blog on Metaphysics and the Movies it has actually become \u201cMetaphysics, Movies, My Illness, Poetry, God, and Friendship\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026mind blowing when I consider that my words are being read in 73 different countries. I have made new friends, found new Doctors, written over 600 new poems at Cosmofunnel.com (my workstation)\u2026\u2026.of which some have evolved into a coffee table book called \u201cWomen Warriors\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026a book of 100 Love poems I hope to have published VERY soon\u2026\u2026\u2026.a re-write of the song BELLE from the Disney film Beauty and the Beast, which I was asked to do by the Naval Jazz Ensemble and will be performed all over the world this year\u2026\u2026\u2026.Two co-writes I did with Daniel LaMaestra (the jazz musician)\u2026\u2026\u2026a spiritual poem published in a fellow poets book of poetry and many other opportunity\u2019s still arriving \u2026\u2026\u2026it seems the more I write\u2026\u2026..the more doors open for me\u2026\u2026\u2026..ALL BECAUSE of my undying motivation to find answers concerning GOD, SPIRITUALITY, METAPHYSICS, and ENERGY\u2026\u2026\u2026coupled with an enormous motivation provided by my disease which has me housebound and hospitalized for 90% of my waking hours\u2026\u2026\u2026because in my dreams I have another life! (more on dreams later)\u2026\u2026\u2026..what I wanted to convey to you here today is this!!\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201dTHE HEART OF MY BLOG\u201d has become bigger than me\u2026\u2026\u2026it has become YOU!!\u2026\u2026\u2026the outpouring of Love and interest in my Rare disease\u2026\u2026\u2026the incredible emails and questions I have received about the \u201cThird Eye\u201d and the fact that I am a MULATTO man\u2026\u2026\u2026.the interest I have received from BRAZIL on my experiences with separate realities is mind boggling\u2026\u2026\u2026..MY BLOG has become people Like Georgina Richardson pouring their heart out about topics that most people NEVER discuss in public forums\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u201dTHE HEART OF MY BLOG\u201d has become the Love I receive from you\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I THANK YOU from the very core of me\u2026\u2026\u2026and so do my Doctors!!\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I LOVE YOU\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026smiles\u2026\u2026\u2026..tony xo\nI started this blog because I have come to a place in my life where I need to see that which cannot be seen by the human eye, by any means necessary. Sensory deprivation chambers, primal scream, pure energy and, of course, film. I know. Why is film in this group of words? Right? Well, allow me to explain myself. I have spent a large part of my life in pursuit of answers to those bothersome questions like\u2026..Who am I? What happens to me when I die? Why do all religions seem to spring from the same well?\u2026stuff like that. And this pursuit has taken me around the world and to every state in America. From having a mushroom ceremony with Indians in the mountains of Oaxaca to speaking with a 96 year old woman for hours at the top of the pyramid at Teotihuacan. I have asked similar questions\u2026\nMETAPHYSICS, MYTHS, AND ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS\u2026\nHi guys, sorry it\u2019s been a while, still fighting the good fight. But, I am so filled with complete confidence that Metaphysics is well on it\u2019s way to becoming a respected part of Science that would like to add to earlier conveyances of the inevitability by using some facts about Myths and Legends that support my hypothesis. Assuming, that we all agree that most myths and legends have their roots in Ancient history and the passing of those truths down through time. Today we are learning in leaps and bounds, through modern archaeology, that many of the myths and legends that we consider to be figments of the imagination\u2019s of men, are in fact, based in reality. The stories of great floods wiping out entire civilizations, like the story of Noah in the Bible, (as well as many other cultures) are actually being proven truths today. We are discovering civilizations so\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 12515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 148.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techpp.com/2016/05/26/zte-axon-7-6gb-ram/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:U44GVI6FYLVTMNGRRZNMPC2QAVI7XH7J", "length": 2313, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "techpp.com", "title": "ZTE Axon 7 Packs Snapdragon 820, 6GB RAM and Quad HD Panel", "raw_content": "ZTE Axon 7 Packs Snapdragon 820, 6GB RAM and Quad HD Panel\nZTE is today expanding its AXON series with the new \u201cAxon 7\u201d that packs every flagship hardware you can imagine, yet, maintaining a mid-range price tag. ZTE hasn\u2019t tweaked much when it comes to the build itself, it\u2019s still an extremely well constructed Aluminium handset and at some level, resembles LG\u2019s G3.\nThe Axon 7 is powered by Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 820 along with Adreno 530 GPU and either 4GB of RAM with 64GB internal storage or a massive 6GB of RAM with 128GB of onboard storage both of which are surprisingly expandable via a MicroSD card. However, the latter also gets the advantage of having a pressure-sensitive (*cough* 3D touch *cough*) display. On the front, there\u2019s a 5.5-inch Quad HD AMOLED panel resulting in an impressive pixel density of 538 ppi and is covered by a 2.5D glass and Gorilla Glass 4 for protection. Underneath, it runs on a 3240 mAh battery pack which is obviously non-removable given the unibody build. Additionally, the phone supports Cat 6 LTE, Quick-charge 3.0 that is capable of providing 50% charge in merely 30 minutes and Voice Over LTE.\nThere\u2019s a 20MP rear Samsung ISOCELL lens with an aperture of f/1.8 and Dual-LED flash, Optical Image Stabilization, EIS, and PDAF. Moreover, it can shoot 4K videos at 30fps and capture selfies with an 8MP front facing camera. ZTE has focused majorly on this phone\u2019s audio performance, the AXON 7 has dedicated AKM 4961 + 4490 audio chips, Dual front speaker setup, and Dolby Atmos underpin. For the buyers who appreciate recording capabilities, it flaunts Dimensional and Omni Directional input. Lastly, you will benefit with a fingerprint scanner present on the back and a reversible USB Type-C port. The device is launching with Android Marshmallow with a promise of the N update whenever it\u2019s released.\nZTE is retailing the 4GB RAM variant of AXON 7 in the US at a price of $450 and $630 for the 6GB RAM variant. While the deal does look quite splendid, ZUK\u2019s Z2 Pro is offering almost the same specifications with 6GB of RAM for about $420. Additionally, OnePlus will need to get the price right for its upcoming flagship to compete in the market. OEMs releasing such cheap products with similar hardware does make us rethink our decisions of buying a $700 smartphone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-avocado.org/2019/01/08/manos-the-night-thread-of-fate-1-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VRXH374MYE3X7BPL7HTJK5D6JY6WUCBD", "length": 2527, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "the-avocado.org", "title": "Manos, the Night Thread of Fate (1/8) \u2013 The Avocado", "raw_content": "Manos, the Night Thread of Fate (1/8)\nBecause, you know, \u201cManos.\u201d But not in so many words.\nEl Paso insurance and fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren once met Academy Award winning screenwriter Sterling Silliphant. They got to talking, and Warren mentioned that horror movies aren\u2019t that hard to make. So Warren and Silliphant made a bet that Warren could make a horror movie all by himself.\nManos: The Hands of Fate was made on a shoe-string budget of $19,000. The cast and crew were payed no wages and would instead be paid in the film\u2019s profits. (Oof.) To the surprise of no one, nobody got compensated except for Jackey Neyman (the little girl and daughter of Tom Neyman, \u201cThe Master\u201d) who got a bicycle and her family\u2019s dog, who got a lot of dog food.\nActors were hired from the local theater and a modeling agency. Most of the film was shot at the ranch of Colbert Coldwell, a lawyer who shared an office with Warren. The movie was shot on a 16 mm Bell & Howell camera, capable of taking only 32 seconds of footage at a time, which is why in some scenes the camera dissolves to the exact same scene. The audio wasn\u2019t recorded, either, so all the voices were dubbed later.\nThe director, ladies and gentlemen.\nThe character of Torgo was meant to be a satyr. Actor John Reynolds world a metallic rigging made of wire coat hangers and foam that were intended to be goat legs. However, Reynolds wore these backwards unintentionally, so instead he was just a man with big knees. Tragically, Reynolds would commit suicide a month before the film\u2019s premiere.\nAs for its cult status as a comedy, actress Diane Mahree (\u201cMargaret\u201d) thought it was pretty funny from the start. She recalls laughing at the movie at the premiere. Warren, by the way, thought it would be a great promotion for the movie to enter Mahree in a West Texas beauty pageant with the hopes that she would make it all the way to Miss America. That didm\u2019t happen\u2026 but she was a finalist. Mahree went on to have a long modeling career in Europe.\nAlso picking up on how goofy the film was: the El Paso Herald-Post, whose review was titled \u201cHero Massaged to Death in \u2018Manos \u2014 The Hands of Fate.'\u201d Manos: The Hands of Fate would likely have faded into obscurity forever, leaving no mark but perhaps that in Sterling Silliphant\u2019s wallet, if it wasn\u2019t for a damn comedy show that makes fun of bad movies.\nJanuary 8, 2019 January 7, 2019 El SantoNight Thread\nPrevious Previous post: Presidential Address Tuesday Jan 8, 2019\nNext Next post: Awesome Games Done Quick 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 517, "original_length": 11220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-orbit.net/ashleyfmiller/tag/dadt/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:46Z", "digest": "sha1:CGRPKZC4VFBMETWF3DMWXLER4B6OE2O4", "length": 5898, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "the-orbit.net", "title": "dadt Archives - Ashley F. Miller dadt Archives - Ashley F. Miller", "raw_content": "Releasing the Prop 8 Videos\nApril 16, 2011 Ashley F. MillerBlankenhorn, california, catholics, children, christian right, christians, church and state, civil rights, dadt, doma, Gay Rights, LDS, lgbt, mormons, prop 8, secular, vaughn walkerLeave a comment\nPeople in an open society do not demand infallibility in their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing \u2013 Chief Justice Berger\nFormer Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, who presided over the Prop 8 trial, recently used some of the video that was taken during the case as part of a lecture. The Proponents, aka supporters of Prop 8/opposers of gay marriage, immediately took great offense and sent what was essentially a cease and desist order that demanded the return of all the copies of the tapes, Walker's and anyone else who had them.\nIn response, Ted Olson and David Boies, the legal tour de force trying to lift the gay marriage ban, filed a request that the tapes be unsealed and released to the public. After all, the trial is a matter of public record and the transcripts are freely available.\nOriginally, the trial was going to be broadcast live, but the Proponents felt like this might scare some of their witnesses away, and so they demanded that it not be broadcast. Judge Walker taped it, but didn't release the tapes, to the great disappointment of the men and women across the country who wanted to see the greatest trial of the greatest civil rights battle of our time.\nNo one can really blame the Proponents for not wanting to have video footage of just how appallingly awful their defense of Prop 8 was. They want to continue to play the victim here \u2014 they want to sell the idea that gay marriage is somehow a violation of religious liberty, rather than being completely the other way round. The video of their disastrous performance would only reveal that they are driven solely by religion and bigotry \u2014 and that they aren't even capable of hiding that fact.\nSome things that they don't want you to see on television, things that their own anti-equality witnesses did: a witness saying that DADT and DOMA were \"Official Discrimination\"; that same witness then saying Prop 8 was also discriminatory; Mr. Blankenhorn, their chief witness saying, \"I believe that adoption of same sex marriage would be likely to improve the well-being of gay and lesbian households and their children\"; Blankenhorn also saying, \"We would be more American on the day we legalized gay marriage than the day before\".\nWell, I mean, no wonder, right? But that's exactly why these things need to be released. People need the opportunity to see how feeble the defense was and to really understand how motivated by religion the campaign against equality was. Not everyone is as nerdy as me and reads trial transcripts because they find them so compelling \u2014 video is the medium of our lives, and well do the religious know that since it is the medium through which they sold their hate.\nThe vast majority of the money and on-the-ground support for the Prop 8 campaign came from the Mormon church, supplemented by the Catholic church. This isn't even money from California, and it's certainly money that ought to take away their tax exempt status. People need to be shown the kind of lies they were telling to get people to vote against marriage equality, the emotional manipulation about children and families, things so blatantly false they might be defended with the disclaimer: \"not intended to be a factual statement.\"\nGay marriage doesn't destroy families, it doesn't destroy children, it really doesn't do much except make some people very happy and give them access to rights that the rest of us take for granted. The trial provided an overwhelming amount of evidence that refusing marriage rights not only hurt gay people, but also hurt the thousands of children of LGBT parents. It hurts these children irreparably, immeasurably, forever. This wasn't in question, gay marriage opponents agreed.\nThese tapes shouldn't just be released, they should be broadcast on every news channel for weeks to expose just how rotten the argument is against gay marriage. If you've ever questioned why church-state separation is so important, this is why. If conservative Christians (and I include the LDS) hadn't funded the gay marriage ban, it wouldn't be in place, and even they couldn't create enough money to make credible witnesses or a real argument against gay marriage. The monstrous unfairness of the church taking over, infiltrating, and outright buying the political process only to then lie to the public to get their way has got to stop. Not only is it immoral, it is un-American.\nProponents motion for return of videos http://www.scribd.com/doc/52945974/CA9Doc-338\nVaughn Walker's response: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53041973/CA9Doc-339-Letter-from-Vaughn-R-Walker\nOlson and Boies request for unsealing of videos: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52945974/CA9Doc-340\nSan Francisco's feisty response: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52945974/CA9Doc-341\nTrial Re-enactments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmA_n5ygS4\nTranscripts: http://www.afer.org/our-work/hearing-transcripts/\nWhat happened in Prop 8 today?\nJanuary 26, 2010 Ashley F. Millerdadt, doma, Gay, gay marriage, Gay Rights, inherit the wind, prop 8, prop8, rob reinerLeave a comment\nThe defense (yes on 8 ) called it\u2019s first witness. The Plaintiffs objected because they did not consider him to be an expert.\nDuring the cross, the Plaintiffs got the witness to admit that DADT and DOMA were \u201cOfficial Discrimination,\u201d caused the Defense council to object that their own witness was not an expert (to much laughter), and, finally, got the witness to say that Prop 8 was discriminatory. The cross isn\u2019t even over yet.\nGod I wish this was being televised. Rob Reiner better do a heck of a job making it into a film because it could be Inherit the Wind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 11487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theaviationist.com/2017/11/09/shopping-for-fighters-is-the-chinesepakistani-jf-17-thunder-the-real-joint-strike-fighter/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HVAAOU3QEK2PDTSP3H55QSOY6X3V46CS", "length": 6656, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "theaviationist.com", "title": "Shopping for Fighters: Is the Chinese/Pakistani JF-17 Thunder the Real \u201cJoint Strike Fighter\u201d? \u2013 The Aviationist", "raw_content": "HomeRogue StatesChinaShopping for Fighters: Is the Chinese/Pakistani JF-17 Thunder the Real \u201cJoint Strike Fighter\u201d?\nShopping for Fighters: Is the Chinese/Pakistani JF-17 Thunder the Real \u201cJoint Strike Fighter\u201d?\nNovember 9, 2017 Tom Demerly China, F-35, Military Aviation, Rogue States 83\nCheap, Easy, Available: Asia\u2019s JF-17 Thunder Contrasts U.S. and Russian Tactical Aircraft.\nDevelop it faster, build it cheaper and make it more available. From electronics to automobiles, the Asian doctrine of the 20th century. With the rush toward globalization and the blurring of borders in the internet age, manufactured products in every category move across borders and subvert political boundaries with impunity.\nTactical combat aircraft may be the next category.\nTraditionally, high level defense and aerospace programs have been slow to move toward global distribution largely because of regional security concerns, partially because of technology concerns, and definitely because of economic concerns. But those concerns may be taking a back seat to the new priorities of updating old air forces as new political boundaries and alliances are drawn, and old ones are erased.\nEnter the Chinese and Pakistani co-manufactured PAC JF-17 Thunder tactical aircraft, also referred to as the CAC FC-1 Xiaolong or \u201cFierce Dragon\u201d. The JF-17 is a lightweight, single-engine, multi-role combat aircraft developed from a joint venture between the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of China.\nIn the ethos of eastern imports competing with western aircraft like the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, the JF-17 Thunder can be hawked as \u201cbetter, cheaper, faster\u201d to many end users who could not afford to participate in the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter program for political or financial reasons or both. While the \u201cbetter\u201d and \u201cfaster\u201d are certainly doubtful, the \u201ccheaper\u201d is set in stone. For many countries, that is the single most important acquisition metric; affordability.\nGlobal political change has mandated the need for new mass-market, non-western import/export multi-role tactical aircraft. When the former Soviet Warsaw Pact defense industry collapsed along with the Iron Curtain at the end of the Cold War it left huge inventories of largely Russian-built tactical aircraft in service with third world air forces.\nThe Russian-built MiGs and Sukhois in African and Arab service were sturdy, easy to maintain and designed to operate in austere conditions. They were perfect for air forces in developing nations. When countries engaged in a greater or lesser degree of political alignment with the former Soviet Union, the price of the Russian-built tactical aircraft went down, sometimes to zero in lend-lease or other political machinations.\nBut those old Eastern Bloc, Cold War Russian planes supplied to banana republic countries and oil nations with shifting global agendas are wearing out, and many of the lines that separated the countries who use them have been erased and redrawn in the Arab Spring and the new Africa. These changes have created a market for a new, affordable, regionally capable fighter plane. The Chinese and Pakistani JF-17 may fill that need.\nThe JF-17 many fill a low-cost, more available niche for many nations (Photo: PAC/CAC)\nThe generic looking, \u201cno-brand\u201d JF-17 is what most people would sketch on a napkin to show what jet fighters look like. It is quite unremarkable by 5th generation combat aircraft standards. If U.S. wholesale retailers Costco or Sam\u2019s Club sold fighter planes, they would sell the JF-17. The JF-17 probably may have more in common with the 1950\u2019s F-100 Super Saber than the current F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.\nIn numbers, a JF-17 Thunder costs (approximately) between $25 million USD-$32 million USD, depending on the tranche and avionics version. Contrast that with the $94 million to $134 million USD price tag of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. If you are a sales agent for the Chinese/Pakistan consortium building the JF-17 one of the first lines in your pitch at the Paris or Dubai Air Show will be, \u201cFor the price of one F-35 you can fly almost four JF-17s!\u201d Then you open your slick PowerPoint (in one of 6 languages) and back up your sales pitch with shorter training cycles for air crew, lower maintenance cost, easier and faster acquisition, and on and on.\nNew upgrade proposals and capability expansion for the JF-17 program make a versatile and affordable option. (Photo: PAC/CAC)\nIf you are selling the JF-17 Thunder it is unlikely you will be courting the same prospective market as F-35 program participants. And you will certainly do well to also stay away from comparisons about capability, because comparing an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in any version to the JF-17 Thunder is like comparing a Bomar Brain pocket calculator from the 1970\u2019s to a new MacBook Pro computer. They are completely different products.\nBut the JF-17 is still a capable aircraft that is well-engineered for a burgeoning market of basic tactical aircraft consumer nations. To date, operators include Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan. Countries that have indicated, at some point, an interest in the project include Argentina, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Qatar, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Uruguay.\nGiven the dynamic nature of global politics and fluid changes in alliances the JF-17 fills a niche for many countries. That alone is reason to be familiar with it.\nTop image credit: Shimin Gu\nFirst Prototype Of Brazilian KC-390 Military Cargo Aircraft Almost Crashed During Stall Tests Last Month\nCool videos show UK and USMC F-35Bs and USAF F-35As during their first transatlantic flights\nJuly 3, 2016 David Cenciotti F-35, Military Aviation 9\nThe F-35B aircraft refueled 15 times (in total) during their trip across the Pond. And here\u2019s some cool footage that shows the difference between the A and B variants. On Jun. 29, the first British [\u2026]\nCurious: Full scale F-35 mock-up gets a celebratory 4.6 meters in diameter Santa hat for Christmas\nThe following pictures where sent to The Aviationist by Endre Lunde, who is the Communications Advisor for the F-35 Program Office at the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. They show a full-scale mock-up of the F-35 [\u2026]\nF-35s return to flight. But they can\u2019t attend Farnborough airshow in the UK\nJuly 15, 2014 David Cenciotti F-35, Military Aviation 16\nGrounding has been lifted with some restrictions. That\u2019s why the F-35Bs will not be able to cross the Ocean to attend the Farnborough International Airshow. 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The group debuted in the Toronto music scene early 2010 and Since then, their many performances have been well received by diverse audiences internationally.\nThe Group\u2019s genre spans from the 1920\u2019s to the 1980\u2019s including swing, cabaret, mo-town, and even 80\u2019s rock. An evening with the Bettys is always sexy, hilarious, and memorable.\nBack in 2010, when Lisette St. Louis created a \u201cSisters\u201d group with Patty Pedersen and original member Olivia McLean (later replaced by Marty Kolls then by Kalya Ramu), the idea was not just to recreate enchantments of an historical songbook; rather to create an individual sound, and clever arrangements which would encapsulate the trio\u2019s eclectic influences.\nThe three ladies met singing in an ABBA Tribute Band, became good friends and formed what is now known as The Bettys.\nAfter finishing a music performance degree at the University of Western Ontario, Lisette St. Louis went on to voicing animations, acting and singing in children\u2019s television shows and fronting jazz and rock bands in both Seoul, Korea and Toronto, Ontario. Graduating from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, Patty Pedersen went on to sing and dance on various cruise lines traveling the world, then found herself starring in several musicals in Toronto, Ontario. Hailing from Toronto Ontario Kalya Ramu is completing her final year in contemporary music at Humber college. She has shared the stage with several known jazz musicians such as Doc Severinsen, Barry Harris and Jackie Richardson and has performed in various venues around the world.\nThis Toronto-based vocal trio brings three part harmony into the modern age with a repertoire that includes everything from \u201cBoogie Woogie Bugle Boy\u201d to \u201cEye of the Tiger.\u201d Dressed in 1920\u2019s-1960\u2019s style wardrobe, the three sing like The Andrews Sisters with inspiring harmonies and perform classics such as \u201cMr Sandman,\u201d and \u201cIn the Mood,\u201d but what makes the Bettys truly stand out are their show-stopping interpretations of more current tunes like: Aerosmith\u2019s \u201cDude Looks like a Lady\u201d and Hall & Oates \u201cManeater.\u201d The Bettys cite everything from Marilyn Monroe to Nine Inch Nails to the neo-Burlesque movement as influences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebookjamblog.com/tag/speaker-series-norwich-bookstore/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XPWLFE5DFUGKEJV45AARU4NFUDQ7CJEP", "length": 4951, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thebookjamblog.com", "title": "speaker series Norwich Bookstore | The Book Jam", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \u2018speaker series Norwich Bookstore\u2019\n3 Questions with Joanne Serling\nPosted in Fiction Fanatics, Meet the Author, Sports and other Adventures, tagged Adam Haslett, Age of Innocence, Alice McDermott, An American Marriage, Cornell University, Edith Wharton, Evan S Connell, Everything Here is Beautiful, Good Neighbors, Joanne Serling, Kate Walbert, Mira T Lee, Mrs. Bridge, New Ohio Review, New Yorker, Newsweek, North American Review, Norwich Bookstore, Our Kind, Paris Review, Pushcart Prize, Rachel Lyon, Self Portrait with Boy, speaker series Norwich Bookstore, Tayari Jones, That Night, The Bitch is Back, The Writers Studio, Tin House on March 5, 2018| 1 Comment \u00bb\nThis week we feature \u201c3 Questions\u201d with Joanne Serling, author of Good Neighbors, about whom Kirkus Reviews says \u2013 \u201c[Serling] writes with verve and frequent insight\u201d. In Good Neighbors, her debut novel, Ms. Sterling focuses on the lives of four young families in an idyllic suburb whose lives, views, and morality are challenged by one family\u2019s upheaval.\nMs. Serling\u2019s fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in New Ohio Review and North American Review. She is a graduate of Cornell University and studied and taught fiction at The Writers Studio in New York City. She lives outside of New York with her husband and children and is at work on her second book.\nMs. Serling will appear at the Norwich Bookstore at 7 pm on Wednesday, March 14th. This event is free and open to the public. However, reservations are recommended as space is limited. Please call 802-649-1114 or email info@norwichbookstore.com to save a seat and/or secure your autographed copy of Good Neighbors.\nMrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell had a huge influence on me as a writer. It\u2019s an indelible portrait of a housewife navigating the changing American landscape between the first and second world wars. Besides loving the depth and simplicity of the writing, I was amazed at the similarities between the domestic world of Mrs. Bridge and modern American motherhood. I thought, \u201cAh ha! I want to write about this!\u201d and I pretty much ran to my local library and started what I hoped would be a contemporary version of the book. Needless to say, I got stuck around chapter four. I failed to grasp how nuanced and sharply observed Connell\u2019s masterpiece is, and didn\u2019t yet have my own Mrs. Bridge. But I held on to the idea of short, episodic chapters about domestic life and came back to that form when I landed on the idea for Good Neighbors..\nI had a similarly charged reaction when I read That Night by Alice McDermott. Never before had I never read an author who unfolded a single event so masterfully, turning ordinary life into something dramatic and powerful in the process. I ordered all of McDermott\u2019s books after that and just devoured them, underlining passages and trying to figure out her secret. The \u2018secret\u2019 is that she\u2019s an incredibly gifted writer, but that exercise grounded me in the idea that everyday life can be made extraordinary with enough love and connection to the material.\nLastly, I have to mention Edith Wharton, particularly Age of Innocence, which I read in college, long before I thought I could dare to become a writer. Wharton\u2019s book electrified me \u2014 I couldn\u2019t believe that social class, much less romance, could be the stuff of literature\u2013 and that story planted the seed that money and class were worthy of exploration. Wharton is one of my favorite writers and like Mc Dermott, once I discovered her, I read all of her work.\nBut I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t also mention Kate Walbert\u2019s Our Kind in this list. Her wonderful stories about a certain generation of upper middle class women, told in the first person plural, were like a gateway drug for me. For many years and many drafts, I used a similar narrative style to help tell the story of Good Neighbors. Eventually, I switched the narrative to first person and relegated the large \u201cwe\u201d narrator to the prologue and epilogue, but Walbert\u2019s book was a huge inspiration.\nI greatly admire Adam Haslett and would love the chance to tell him in person how much his books have meant to me.\nI actually bought a larger bedside table recently, because I had too many books and magazines to fit on the one I owned. But of course, the new table is just as crowded and there are still piles on the floor. All of this to say I\u2019m a peripatetic reader who moves from short stories to novels to essays pretty regularly. In one pile is my stack of New Yorkers, Tin House, and Paris Review issues that I continually dip into when I have just a few minutes and want some nourishment.\nClosest to my bed is my pile of current reads, which at the moment includes The Bitch is Back, a stunning collection of essays about women\u2019s lives, and several new novels that I\u2019m dying to start: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, Mira T. Lee\u2019s Everything Here is Beautiful, and Rachel Lyon\u2019s Self Portrait with Boy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 34594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebrickyblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/why-ive-adopted-veganism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TOHQ6G7UP5C6JBIVEJNV4PDKOLDRRTXC", "length": 14704, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "thebrickyblog.wordpress.com", "title": "Why I\u2019ve Adopted Veganism | The Bricky Blog", "raw_content": "\u00ab UltraStar: Creating a Song List\nUltraStar Update: Vocaluxe (Beta) \u00bb\nWhy I\u2019ve Adopted Veganism\nA few months ago, I was discussing veal production with my extended family. The minor details of this conversation are fairly irrelevant (well, I hope they are, as I can\u2019t remember them). The key aspect was when my older sister commented that the cheese industry and the veal industry are heavily interlinked (in short, for enough milk to be produced for cheese, many calves must be produced that have no other role to fulfil).\nAt the time, I was eating a largely vegetarian diet (I like the taste of meat, but as my partner is a vegetarian, I was naturally eating less of it), having adopted full vegetarianism a handful of times in the past. I had eventually developed the philosophy that there is no problem in consuming meat, as long as the animal(s) in question did not suffer prior to their death(s). I was drawn to free range meat in particular, but this dietary restriction was easy to ignore when I wanted to purchase something with ease from the small corner shop or eat out at a restaurant. After listening to my sister\u2019s comment, it quickly spurred an entirely different take on my dietary choices.\nI began to consider the implications of an interlinked meat and dairy industry. It\u2019s not just the revelation that cheese is related to the slaughter of \u201ccute wickle calves,\u201d as anyone who knows me will be aware that one of my biggest gripes is upholding a strong moral code when it comes to cute animals but disregarding that mentality when it comes to those that are less pleasing on the eye. I just suddenly realised that to support one means to support the other; I began to understand the mentality of the vegan lifestyle that had been lost on me in the past.\nIn the weeks following this conversation, I did a number of things. On my next trip to the supermarket, I sought out foods that were free from animal products. I\u2019d not decided anything for definite (and a part of me assumed that, even if I did adopt a vegan lifestyle, I\u2019d give up sooner or later), but I was curious. Passing through the various aisles with my trolley containing fruit, vegetables, corn cakes and soya milk, my mind was put into motion again. So much cheese. Milk. Chocolate. Eggs. Chicken pieces. Pepperami. Meat feast pizzas. Cakes. All packaged up and ready to eat for our convenience. All these and so much more involve animal products\u2026 and in just one supermarket. How on earth could these things be so readily available to us without entailing a streamline that disregards the welfare of the lives that either are or produce these foods?\nI also started to research meat, egg and dairy production in more depth. I watched as much of the documentary \u201cEarthlings\u201d as I could stomach. The image of pigs being kept in disgustingly overcrowded conditions and cows being hung upside down while their throats were cut (flailing in mad panic in the process), before the film cut to the more familiar and aesthetically pleasing image of a selection of packaged meat products on a few supermarket shelves, served to reinforce my earlier assumptions. I didn\u2019t want to turn a blind eye to the stories behind these products anymore.\nYes, the horrible accounts of animal welfare that I referenced in this time would\u2019ve used the most gruesome material possible. However, I do feel that there is little way of knowing exactly where your food comes from, especially when you buy from a supermarket (which is, really, the only place most of us can afford to shop at). When it comes to animal products, they have the added implication of intense suffering \u2013 and in turn, your purchase of those products serves to increase demand for that suffering. It is the latest point that embodies the core reason for my decision to go vegan: in reducing demand for food and drink that includes animal products, there will be less need to supply those products. In turn, less animals will undergo intense suffering, and in needing to keep less life stock, conditions for animals bred for their milk, eggs or meat could improve greatly. I am confident that my choices entail clear goals.\nI do not uphold that we should all live on plant-based diets. However, if more people could sacrifice the norms of western meals (i.e. meat dishes, with a token cheese option for the vegetarians) in their food choices, it could lead to a better world for animal welfare. Do I wish, then, to promote veganism to others? Yes, of course I do. I\u2019d like to think that this blog entry has covered that much. I do not, however, plan on pressurising my friends verbally on the matter. What good would it do anyway? It\u2019s got to be your own choice, I\u2019d hate it if people blindly followed my lead (the thought is unlikely and somewhat amusing).\nSo, a few months on, I suppose I am a vegan now. That is, I strive to live in this world without using animal products; I am not yet there completely, and may never be. Animal products are everywhere, and in some cases, I am not able to avoid using them. Or at least, if I were to take it to that extreme, I may as well go and live in a cave in the mountains somewhere, or kill myself to remove one more life that\u2019s sucking the resources on this Earth dry. Forgive me when I say that I won\u2019t be doing either of those things.\nWherever an alternative is available, however, I plan to seek it. This includes many toiletries (such as shampoo, conditioner, and toothpaste), clothing (leather, wool, and silk are no no\u2019s), and any product containing honey. Even where the animal product is a minute detail on the ingredients list, I will avoid the overall product. I actually think that, in some ways, it\u2019s more important to boycott these foods than the more \u201cobvious\u201d things like cheddar cheese and standard mayonnaise. I say this because, where the ingredient is subtle, there is no pressure on the company to remove that ingredient, or investigate a more ethical source for it. For example, most wine is not vegan, or even vegetarian for that matter, which I never realised before recently. From a purely economical perspective, the wine maker may as well use the cheapest eggs available for the fermentation process; the consumer market that deliberately buys free range eggs over caged eggs will most likely be unaware that eggs were even involved in the wine\u2019s production. There is no need for the wine maker to slap a \u2018made using free range eggs\u2019 note on the label at all; it would probably put a lot of people off, in fact.\nBelieve it or not, this is only a nutshell of my thoughts and feelings on the whole matter, but I think it covers the basics. There are a number of themes surrounding the questions that I\u2019m usually asked, and most of these haven\u2019t been covered here (with the exception of \u201cWhy?\u201d). I shall summarise them in a list:\nSo, what WILL you eat?\nOne of the great things about veganism is that you get to discover a world of food possibilities that break the mould of your standard fish and chips. I naturally do have to prepare most of my own food now, but in doing so, I can pretty much whip up many standard meals with alternatives to meat, egg and dairy products. Quorn products are off the cards, as they contain egg, but Mrs Linda McCartney offers vegan alternatives, and I have discovered the world of Frys and Redwood foods, which are both stocked in Holland and Barrett. Redwood, in particular, offers some Gourmet chicken-style pieces that are to die for: the meatiest meat substitute there ever was. A lot of people nitpick this and say that it\u2019s pointless to be a vegetarian and yet try to find meaty-tasting products, but if you\u2019re abstaining for ethical reasons, you do like the taste of meat, and you\u2019ve grown up with meat as a standard part of most meals, I don\u2019t think that argument really stands.\nOther alternatives for standard ingredients include egg-free pasta, soya milk (no, really, if you buy the unsweetened kind, it actually tastes like dairy milk), rice milk, vegan pesto, and egg-free mayonnaise. The aforementioned are all found quite easily.\nThe world of tofu is another that I\u2019ve dipped into lately. It\u2019s a great food: it offers a completely blank slate to work with, and it absorbs any flavour thrown at it. It can also be cooked in so many different ways to achieve different textures. This morning, for example, I had scrambled tofu on toast. Sounds disgusting? Well, it has the texture of egg and can be flavoured with whatever you like\u2026 and it didn\u2019t come from a hen\u2019s backside, either.\nSadly, eating out is somewhat challenging. But there are ways around it \u2013 restaurants are used to catering for a whole manner of dietary requirements, and are usually willing to provide what they can. Grabbing food on-the-go is near on impossible, but I just need to be organised and make food in advance. This saves money, too.\nHow will you get your ?\nMany people wrongly assume that veganism isn\u2019t healthy, and that you\u2019re cutting out essential vitamins and minerals from your diet. Whilst it\u2019s an understandable misassumption, this one does annoy me a bit. We\u2019ve had it drummed into us that red meat contains iron, milk contains calcium, and egg contains protein. This does not, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that these foods are the only sources of these compounds. Calcium is found in a number of plant-based foods, including almonds, cabbage, tofu and oranges, and is supplemented in most soya milks for good measure anyway. Iron is found in beans and lentils, chickpeas, soybeans, and flaxseed. Protein is found in anything living, but is especially prominent in plant-based milks, tofu, rice, nuts, seed, and whole grains.\nFunnily enough, the two trickiest components to acquire from natural plant-based sources are rarely brought up in normal conversation. These include vitamins D and B12, which would normally be found in abundance in the foods that I\u2019m electing to cut out. Vitamin D is, of course, acquired from sunlight via the skin anyway \u2013 something that, I\u2019m told, is easier for me because I am about as pasty as they come before hitting ginger territory. Vitamin B12 is found in nutritional yeast flakes. And, low and behold, they are both added to most soya milks anyway.\nVegans do, on average, live longer than non-vegans, but that\u2019s probably more to do with the fact that they plan their diets more thoroughly.\nWon\u2019t you miss ?\nEvery now and then, I get a craving for something that I can\u2019t have. But what I miss the most, I think, is convenience. Yeah, a quarter pounder with cheese would be delicious right now, but mainly because I could grab it quickly from a fast food outlet in passing. If I were to head home first, get the Frys veggie burgers out of the freezer, cook them, and add some dairy-free cheese alternative to the top before serving, I\u2019ve almost got the real deal anyway \u2013 it\u2019s just not nearly as greasy!\nI\u2019ve also (unintentionally) conditioned myself to associate animal products with an image of what may have gone on to get that food to where it is, be it on a plate or on the shelf. Earthlings will do that to you \u2013 and it\u2019s significantly less appetising after that notion.\nWhat about free range products/local produce?\nWhen it comes to supermarket foods, I\u2019m sceptical about what \u201cfree range\u201d means. Regarding chickens, for example, \u201cfree range\u201d does not automatically mean \u201cwell kept.\u201d They often have their beaks cut to stop them pecking one another, as the conditions can still be overcrowded. With eggs, \u201cfree range\u201d only guarantees that the hen was \u201cfree range\u201d at the time that the egg was laid. What will happen to the chicken when its \u201cegg-laying days\u201d are over (at approximately 2 years old, well below the expected natural lifespan of a hen)? It could easily then be kept in the same old harsh conditions to later be killed for meat. You just can\u2019t know, which relates to the first couple of paragraphs in this article \u2013 the inseparable link between meat produce and dairy/egg produce.\nRegarding locally produced eggs, where you may see for yourself that the hens are kept in good conditions by the lady down the road, I may be tempted at a later point. I also may choose to keep hens myself one day \u2013 not for their produce, but because I think they\u2019re lovely pets. Hens do lay eggs on a regular basis, with or without a cockerel present. It\u2019s almost like helping yourself to a natural bi-product \u2013 they would not be used for anything otherwise.\nThere are, however, still counter-arguments. From having kept chickens before, I am aware that they uphold some concept of what an egg is. After all, they lay several in the same place before sitting on them. I remember when one of them laid her first egg, and she spent ages trying to cover it up with straw. You could therefore argue that we don\u2019t have a \u201cright\u201d to their eggs. I don\u2019t uphold this one firmly, however, as they don\u2019t seem to show distress when you take the eggs away. I also don\u2019t like projecting human emotions onto animals, because it\u2019s clear that they see the world differently to us.\nThere\u2019s also the point that the African Jungle Fowl, from which our domestic chickens descend, lay half the eggs in a year that domestic hens do. This is because the latter has been bred extensively to lay as often as it does \u2013 not a particularly fair outcome, considering that laying an egg certainly looks uncomfortable at best. It\u2019s a similar case with wool \u2013 domestic sheep only need to be sheered because they\u2019ve been bred to grow their coats to that alarming an extent. In the wild, they would malt like other furry or feathery creatures.\nDo I offend you if I still choose to consume animal products?\nNot at all, as long as you respect my choices. That\u2019s not to say that I want you to go out of your way for me \u2013 I will always be happy to provide my own food, either before or during social gatherings. Restaurant choices are easy \u2013 we\u2019ll just go to Pizza Express, and I\u2019ll order my cheeseless vegetarian pizza!\nSo, now you know. I may update and add to this article at later points as I see fit.\nThis entry was posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:28 pm and is filed under Veganism with tags dairy, earthlings, eggs, meat, veganism.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.\nOne Response to \u201cWhy I\u2019ve Adopted Veganism\u201d\nThe Social Downsides to Veganism | The Bricky Blog Says:\n[\u2026] dairy, honey, silk, leather, wool, and I became much stricter with my choice of cosmetic brands. My last entry to this effect covers my reasons and I can\u2019t say that they\u2019ve changed much \u2013 my motivation [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 15820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/01/17/against-religious-fanaticism-against-the-state/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:J5T27MFOWUDFE5SQWEROPWKIXLPV4TV6", "length": 23774, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "thecharnelhouse.org", "title": "Against religious fanaticism, against the state | The Charnel-House", "raw_content": "\u2190 If Charlie Hebdo is racist, then so am I \u2014 Zineb el-Rhazoui responds to Olivier Cyran\nThe historical project \u2192\nAgainst religious fanaticism, against the state\nMouvement Communiste and\nKolektivn\u011b proti kapit\u00e1lu on\nirrationalism and the caliphate\nNeither God nor master! [Ni dieu ni ma\u00eetre!]\nCommunism begins from the outset with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction.\nWhatever were the aims of those responsible for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, the consequence was to terrorize the whole population. To terrorize so as to prevent understanding, so as to set up even higher artificial barriers between people on the basis of religious belief. Religion has become a veritable arm of political Islam everywhere in the world. In France this is opposed by the religion of state, said to be secular and republican. In presenting itself as the guardian of civil peace, the state calls for national unity around itself. It demands that the population delegates to it the defense of freedom and democracy. It\u2019s a defense which comes at the price of the preventive restriction of individual and collective liberties and an increased repression of all anti-state dissent. For the defenders of \u201cwhite identity\u201d like the Front Nationale the attack confirmed that \u201ccivil war has already started\u201d against an already identified enemy \u2014 the Muslims. All Muslims: whether they share the views of the fanatics, whether they fight them, or whether they simply silently submit to them. The foreigner, \u201cthe other\u201d from here or wherever, is the target for the fanatics on all sides. The despicable attack on Charlie Hebdo plays the game of the state and weakens the only class, the working class, which can concretely fight religious fanaticism where it is rooted, where it seeks searches for its potential soldiers, in working class neighborhoods and in workplaces. This fight is indispensable if we are not to give up the asserting the need for the exploited and oppressed to organize themselves independently against the state, against all states. As for violent political Islam, its objective is to force Muslims to isolate themselves and to serve as cattle to be sacrificed in Syria, or even right here. What matters is to understand this phenomenon so as to be able to fight it without mercy, and without becoming bound hand and foot to the state.\nPolitical Islam has become a global subject of debate and of polarization of civil society into illusory opposed communities. Each one of these illusory communities claims to fight in the name of a certain idea of civilization, only being able to fully express itself in the complete defeat of the other, identified as the enemy because of the faith it professes, including the faith in secularism and the state. In the name of such and such a belief in the supernatural, almost anything can be ignored: the question of the millennia-old oppression of women; the family; international migration; jobs; housing; food, etc.\nThe deforming and mystifying prism of religion becomes the supposed justification for irrationality, rejection of the reality-principle, and more generally the denial of the humanity to enemies of the faith. This specific mystification of social relations penetrates deeply into the heads of numerous proletarians here, in the advanced capitalist countries, as well as into those of their brothers and sisters on the periphery of the most developed capitalist world.\nBecause of their incontestable success, these reactionary fideist ideas become a powerful material force adding to those that already shape the surface of the capitalist globe. The extension of fideism in all its forms overturns priorities and redefines capitalist camps in all regions of the planet. But, like every ideology, this long wave of obscurantism is not able to hold back the determinism of matter and the social relations which the ideology claims to replace. Capitalism is not threatened by faith any more than the class societies which preceded it. Fideism is nothing other than a particular ideological expression of class submission.\nFideism is a Catholic theological term, linked to traditionalism. According to it the truth can only be known by tradition, not by reason. All knowledge is founded on a primitive revelation that prolongs and enriches Christian revelation. Only faith, the illuminating intelligence (itself intuitive, thus distinct from reason, which is analytical), makes us know the basis of things, that is to say, spiritual realities. More precisely, fideism excludes the possibility that the truths of faith can consist of rational preambles, resting on proof, including a kernel of rationality which could be absorbed into an autonomous philosophy. In another sense, also theological, fideism makes faith consist of trust in God, not in adhesion to dogmas. In all cases, the term fideism implies a defiance of reason; that\u2019s why it had a pejorative flavor to it. In the same way that rationalism tends to overestimate reason to the point of professing that science is the only source of truth (so rejecting in advance any belief), fideism tends to overestimate faith to the point of professing that revelation is the only guarantee of truth (so discrediting the efforts of all rational activity).1\nThe revolutionary proletariat must first of all fight fideism in itself and treat it as what it is: an instrument of class division which reinforces the dictatorship of capital and states and which is used to recruit the exploited and oppressed into new wars which benefit the dominant classes. In particular, the fideism of the Book (Bible) \u2014 but also that of Hinduism along with the vast majority of religious beliefs \u2014 is dedicated to God, patriarchy and family. The caliphate, the reactionary fideist ideology which seems to be achieving the greatest success right now, is worthy of our attention particularly as it drapes itself in the colors of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism and, above all, constitutes a central element of the aggravation of the geostrategic crisis of the Middle East. This is why we\u2019re devoting a specific text to it, composed of four points.\nThe partisans of the caliphate try to establish an order which will be favorable to them in regions where capitalism rules but where it has not (or very little) dissolved the social relations inherited from the class societies which preceded it. Some 10,000 Sunni tribes in Iraq are the clearest example of it. The archaic tribal social structure has survived on the margins of modern capital, feeding itself from oil rent and petty commodity trading, often illegal. The Iraqi Sunni tribe has been transformed by the extension of the domination of capital but the ancestral patriarchal ties have not been broken. The tribe administers its territory. It is a little world closed towards the exterior and the interior, except when it has to accumulate means of survival by clientelism and haggling. Today, a large number of Sunni tribes in Iraq pledge allegiance to the IS.2 This bloody group guarantees the permanence of the tribal structure. More than that, the self-proclaimed caliphate sanctifies them.\nThe other face of the present caliphate is represented by people like Mokhtar Belmokthar, known as \u201cone eye,\u201d a Salafist from the beginning who became celebrated from 2013 because of his attack on the refinery at Amenas in Algeria. Also known as \u201cMister Marlboro,\u201d this sinister character is also at the head of a vast traffic in cigarettes amounting to around a billion US dollars per year in the whole of Saharan Africa. It\u2019s a traffic which has been able to develop thanks to the blood ties with the Tuareg tribes. Smugglers, day-to-day chicken thieves, traders in human beings (prostitution, trafficking of migrants), drug dealers, all these participants in illegal business find in the caliphate a means of consolidating their lucrative activities and a way to develop others, \u201cwhitewashed\u201d by adherence to the faith.\nIS itself is an important commercial enterprise in Syria and Iraq which trades in oil, women and consumer goods. Its program can be summarized as \u201cwho has weapons has bread and women.\u201d This gang presents no danger for capitalism, which can perfectly well accommodate rentiers and traffickers, and, what\u2019s more, creates them. Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Cameroons and Niger, Al-Shabab in Somalia, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Sahel, Al-Qaida in the Arab peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the Talibans in Afghanistan and Pakistan along with Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia \u2014 and those are just the best known ones \u2014 replicate the same social relations expressed by IS.\nThese considerations don\u2019t apply to Shi\u2019a Islam, whose centralized internal organization, similar to fascism, has allowed it to adapt to modern capitalism. Not unlike the Catholic Church.\nIS was born from the rubble of an Arab nationalism founded on the model of previous popular democracies based on an alliance between a single party (Ba\u2019athist in the cases of Iraq and Syria), the army and a single union. This model aimed at creating modern postcolonial economies, equipped with strong industry, a unified internal market and an effective secular state. This project was smashed from the outside by the progressive collapse of the Russian bloc, and internally by the emergence from the ruins of national liberation of a parasitic ruling caste, corrupt, despotic, and inefficient.\nOn this basis, the caliphate of IS is in perfect continuity with the Arab regimes which it claims to oppose. Its sources of survival are trade and plunder; its organization is clientelist and stuffed with incompetents. The IS diverges from the Sunni regimes only in terms of geostrategic positioning. And this is from the simple fact that its regime tries to impose itself on the other states of the region, including those for which Sunni fideism is the official religion.\nThe US has benefited from the fall of the Russian empire and extended its influence over the Arab regimes whose vague desires for capitalist development have been seriously revised over the last few decades. An important new stage was reached by Washington with the active support for the Taliban in the war against Russia in Afghanistan and then with the first Iraq war. These two episodes marked the adoption by the US administration of an aggressive diplomacy in this area, so as to make the US once again into a power to be reckoned with in the Middle East. The Arab Spring gave Washington the opportunity to also occupy a leading role in the whole of North Africa. The attempt has still not produced a conclusive result.\nIf General Al-Sissi in Egypt destroyed the Muslim Brothers\u2019 organization and followed in the wake of Hosni Mubarak in matters of foreign policy and strategic alliance with Washington, in Libya, the violent removal of Muammar Gaddafi has still not allowed a pax Americana to be installed, nor has that happened in Afghanistan or Iraq.\nIn their turn, the two regional Middle Eastern powers, Turkey and Iran, have tried, by pursuing very divergent diplomatic approaches, to take advantage of the acceleration of the geostrategic crisis of the region. The first focused on the development of Islamic regimes as an outcome of the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d For the moment Ankara\u2019s policy has been a failure. Their support, explicit for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, less open for Palestinian Hamas and publicly denied for IS, has ended up with the growing diplomatic isolation of Turkey. The crushing of the Brothers in Egypt, the military defeat of Hamas in Gaza by Israeli troops and the involvement of the Western powers against IS has pushed back the influence of Turkey in the region and weakened its historic relations with the US and Europe.\nAs for Iran, the setbacks for the \u201cArab springs\u201d of Sunni inspiration have put it back in the center of the regional arena. Tehran controls Baghdad, has established solid relations with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, preserves its Lebanese bastion, supports Bashar al-Assad with increasing efficacy in Syria, where the regime has shown an undeniable capacity for survival, and profits from its fight against IS. All this has the aim of hastening the end of Western sanctions and resolving the nuclear issue.\nOutside the geostrategic and diplomatic dimension, the emergence of violent political Islam provides the states of the advanced countries with a formidable weapon of class division, restricting individual and collective freedoms and enlarging the social base which embraces the dominant ideology. Emergency measures increase. Repressing terrorism means that the burden of factual proof becomes less and less needed. What we are seeing is the loss of part of fundamental bourgeois rights like that of expressing opinions by a mere public demonstration.\nThe specter of the IS cut-throats terrorizes whole sections of the population in the western capitalist citadels. Here, important sectors of the proletariat embrace identity-based ideologies of defense of religion, family and country. Reactionary \u201cwhite\u201d organizations like the National Front in France, the Northern League in Italy, UKIP in the UK and the NPD in Germany take advantage of this fear. Often, they attract the votes of the desperate poor during elections. They fuse together, willy-nilly, anger against impoverishment and growing insecurity, the rejection by males of the undermining of patriarchy, and fear of immigrants and young hooligans from council estates, under their banner of defense of \u201ctradition,\u201d of the \u201cgood old days,\u201d of God, Family and Nation. Paradoxically, they can happily criticize the positions of Islam towards women, all the better to make people forget their own patriarchal oppression of women. And this is not the only confusion within their ideology. In the Czech Republic neo-Nazis demonstrated against Syrian victims of IS (including their sick children) being given refuge.\nPopulations identified as Muslim in the advanced capitalist countries become the target of all kinds of accusations. Frozen in their own mystified representation as \u201ccommunity of believers\u201d (Umma), they are ceaselessly told to condemn political Islam. A small minority of Muslims chose to take up the image which states stick on them by supporting a caliphate.\nIn France, their first step towards the caliphate is without doubt anti-Semitism. An anti-Semitism which spreads dangerously and finds fertile soil in the extreme left, who mix up the just condemnation of the conditions of the Palestinian ruled classes under Israeli colonization with support for the so-called \u201cresistance\u201d of the anti-Semites in Hamas, who exercise a dictatorial power of a rare brutality in Gaza and who are in power in all the Occupied Territories thanks to their governmental alliance with the PLO. In France, anti-Semitic attacks make up half of all racist attacks, targeting a population of Jewish origin which is only 1% of the total population. This \u201cSunni\u201d anti-Semitism finds a favorable echo in the kind propagated by small groups of the \u201cwhite\u201d far right, as well as the Iranian variety represented by [Alain] Soral and Dieudonn\u00e9 [M\u2019bala M\u2019bala].\nMuslims coming from the developed countries who rally to the caliphate don\u2019t have the same motivations as those who live in the peripheral countries. The only thing they have in common is the desire to consecrate the submission of women. Western fighters for the caliphate don\u2019t have a homogenous class origin. It\u2019s more a question of isolated young men, not very informed, without any definite social roots, rejecting proletarianization, refusing the way of life of their parents and not hiding their hostility towards women who have chosen to be independent from men (\u201csluts\u201d). The promise of a heroic life going beyond isolation and urban and suburban solitude through a brotherhood of war that also sanctifies the dominant role of men in line with the religious precepts of Islam are the two principal arguments in favor of the hijra [migration to a Muslim country] to fight the infidel.\nThe sacralization of the oppression of women and the family is an essential pillar of the caliphate. Even the most impoverished men find in it the possibility of exercising an absolute power over their spouses. The pious woman who submits in body and soul to her husband gets in exchange the protection of the religion from other males. The walled-up domestic slave, rejecting her own self from the fact of her inaccessibility, the woman nevertheless becomes in the caliphate the object of the most abusive fantasies on the part of the men. The fight for respect of individuals united in a society which has become fully human can only come about by means of the struggle for the liberation of women from the family and male domination. The true significance of the strategic alliance between the revolutionary working class and women\u2019s liberation movements becomes apparent in the countries where fideist ideology can be found.\nThe rise of the caliphate has enormously revived the fervor of the anti-Muslim fideists. The priests of the other faiths largely benefit from it. But they also share what is essential with the caliphate: the cult of the irrational and inexplicable, the mystique of the faith and the mortification of the flesh and the spirit. This is why the fight to the death against religion and for the defense of materialism cannot be limited to political Islam.\nTo those who are in the front line of the war against the bloodthirsty madmen of IS, to those Kurdish and Syrian fighting men and women in Koban\u00ea and elsewhere who love freedom, our message is this: their will and their sacrifice resounds as a universal call to revolt. Yet this message remains incomplete and today is pressed into the service of geopolitical competition between various capitalist powers. Mass resistance against IS in Koban\u00ea is today ruled by Kurdish nationalist political factions from Turkey and Iraq. They exploit it either to establish (in the case of PKK) or to strengthen (in the case of KDP) their own bourgeois dictatorship, and we must have no illusions about this.\nThat\u2019s why the mortal struggle engaged by volunteers in Koban\u00ea against the caliphate is not aimed at the division of societies into classes that is at the origin of this modern form of barbarism that is the present caliphate and, more generally, of all religious mystification. As Marx explained:\nReligious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.\nTo call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.\n\u2014 Karl Marx, Contribution to the Critique of\nHegel\u2019s Philosophy of Right (1843)\nTo overcome this essential limit, it is more than ever necessary to develop the political autonomy of the proletariat to put an end to the oppression and exploitation of man by man.\n1 Henry Dum\u00e9ry, Encyclopaedia Universalis.\n2 Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, ISIL and by the Arabic abbreviation Da\u2019esh.\nTagged antisemitism, Hamas, ISIS, Islamophobia, Kurdistan, Muslim Brotherhood, PKK, political Islam, religion, xenophobia\n9 thoughts on \u201cAgainst religious fanaticism, against the state\u201d\nReblogged this on A Mat\u00e9ria Humana-Human Matter(s) .\nUrban Dermatologist (@lowresoOk)\nI find your piece well informed and I agree with almost all you write here. Only I am perplexed by how offhandedly you conclude that PKK just aims at establish its own bourgeois dictatorship, having heard so many voices from there who depict an exceptional consciousness of kurdish women and men struggles, their capacity to develop distributed, non hierarchical organisation. I see In Rojava an almost unprecedented capacity to overcome the patriarchial and religious domination marking almost any other part of Middle east, sadly including even today\u2019s Israel. Unless you see establishing a bourgeois dictatorship as an implicit consequence of any receding from strict Marxist-Leninist doctrine\u2026\nSkin Guy, as shown by the hyperlinked footnotes, these words are not Ross\u2019 but those of the two organisations that handed out this leaflet last Sunday in Paris.\nNot to be all Norm Finkelstein about this, but the anonymous translation was posted (perhaps firstly) by Dan Radnika, last Tuesday, 13 Jan, on this first-class libertarian communist site:\nhttp://libcom.org/library/proletariat-has-take-struggle-against-religious-fanaticism-which-reinforces-state-increa\nRoss has perhaps:\n\u2013 deleted the libcom headline;\n\u2013 added his own double headline (the latter org\u2019n is Czech);\n\u2013 kept the 1930 Moscow poster libcom used (\u2018Religion \u2013 poison[,] protect your children\u2019, with \u2018school\u2019 heralding a welcome to the eager child); see the standard text on 1922-41 Soviet anti-religion work, a great read, Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: the Soviet League of the Militant Godless, Cornell UP, 1998, p.80;\n\u2013 deleted this context provided (presumably for libcom) by the authors: \u201c[t]he text against religious \u2018fideism\u2019 which forms the body of this leaflet was mostly written before the Charlie Hebdo/Kosher Supermarket attacks and was not intended as a response to these events. But then events forced our hand! Some of the text proved very prescient, particularly the comments about anti-Semitism. Some comrades distibuted [sic] this leaflet at the massive \u2018Je suis Charlie\u2019 demo. It was possibly the only \u2018political\u2019 tract handed out there.\u201d;\n\u2013 deleted the double headline of the leaflet (but kept the Blanqui):\n\u201cIn response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo the proletariat has to take up the ruthless struggle against the violent religious fanaticism which reinforces the state and increases divisions within the exploited and oppressed.\n\u201c\u2019Neither God nor Master\u2019 (Auguste Blanqui)\n\u201cAgainst the caliphate and irrationalism, defence of materialism, political autonomy of the proletariat, strategic alliance with movements for the liberation of women\u201d\n(Ross\u2019 2nd headline has the phrase \u201cirrationalism & the caliphate\u201d);\n\u2013 so he added the Marx quote;\n\u2013 the other Marx quote appeared in a box, after the text, at the very end of the translated leaflet (https://libcom.org/files/MC-Fideism.pdf); &\n\u2013 this pdf shows the leaflet is \u201cBulletin n\u00b0 7\u201d, dated 7 Jan, the day of the murders (that\u2019s assuming the brothers were legally killed the next day).\nAnother \u2018far left\u2019 statement (translated by Genevi\u00e8ve Rail) came from an interesting group, the Parti des indig\u00e8nes de la r\u00e9publique, on 10 Jan, a day before the Paris demo:\nhttp://indigenes-republique.fr/no-to-the-national-union-backing-imperialists-yes-to-an-anti-racist-and-anti-imperialist-political-union/\nFormatted this text into a printable pdf file here:\nhttps://subversionpress.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/against-religious-fanatacism-against-the-state/\nPingback: Toward a materialist approach to the question of race: A response to the Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique | The Charnel-House\nPingback: Solidarity with migrants: No more war, no more terror, either in France or elsewhere | The Charnel-House\nPingback: Religion and revolution: On Robespierre\u2019s cult of the Supreme Being | Communist League of Tampa\nPingback: Religion and revolution: Robespierre\u2019s cult of the Supreme Being | The Charnel-House", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 598, "original_length": 35485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theconversation.com/adanis-new-mini-version-of-its-mega-mine-still-faces-some-big-hurdles-108038", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CGVYCEUXQITH3KME3T2LC57XAMMPK2NU", "length": 4535, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles", "raw_content": "Indian mining multinational Adani has announced that it will self-fund a significantly smaller coal mine in the Galilee Basin, after failing to secure finance from more than 30 domestic and international banks and lenders.\nFederal Resources Minister Matt Canavan has described Adani as a \u201clittle Aussie battler\u201d and praised the newly scaled-down project\u2019s purported regional economic benefits.\nThe scaling down of the project has been extensive. Adani Mining chief executive Lucas Dow said the mine will cost A$2 billion and initially produce up to 15 million tonnes of thermal coal per year, with plans to ramp production up to 27.5 million tonnes per year.\nThat is far more modest than the A$16.5 billion investment in digging up 60 million tonnes of coal a year which the company first announced in 2010. The original plan was to transport the coal along a new 388km rail line to a specially built terminal at Adani\u2019s Abbot Point coal port, for export to India. Under the scaled-down version of the project, Adani will need to secure access to existing rail infrastructure.\nRead more: Infographic: here's exactly what Adani's Carmichael mine means for Queensland\nBut there is still no guarantee that the mine will necessarily go ahead. Opening a new coal mine \u2013 even one with a relatively modest A$2 billion price tag \u2013 is socially and environmentally irresponsible, given the urgency with which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need to reduce global greenhouse emissions, the fact that Australia is not currently on track to meet its own emissions targets, and of course the fact that 2018 is on course to become the fourth-hottest year on record.\nThe economics barely stack up either. A recent IEEFA report indicated that coal is facing a terminal decline as Asian markets make the transition to cheaper and more efficient renewable alternatives. Existing thermal coal power in India costs US$60-80 per megawatt-hour, roughly double the cost of new renewable generation. The Mundra coal plant, where much of the Adani coal was destined, is already operating under capacity and has been closed for significant periods.\nAdani has decided not to proceed with its initially planned 388km rail link, and will instead aim to use the existing Aurizon rail infrastructure. However, there is a 200km gap in this link which will cost a significant amount to bridge \u2013 albeit almost certainly much less than the A$2.3 billion cost of the originally planned railway. Aurizon Network is legally obliged to consider Adani\u2019s access application, but has not yet assessed and approved it.\nEnvironmental and Indigenous issues\nThen there are the existing and significant concerns regarding Adani\u2019s environmental management of issues such as water contamination in the Caley Valley Wetlands near the Abbot Point terminal. These will not disappear just because the project has been revised.\nRead more: Latest twist in the Adani saga reveals shortcomings in environmental approvals\nGaining the consent of Traditional Owners will also be crucial, yet the 12-member native title representation group is split down the middle. Adani\u2019s existing Indigenous Land Use Agreement has been appealed in the High Court by the Wangan and Jagalingou people, on the basis that the group has not genuinely consented to the agreement, and that overriding native title to make way for a coalmine is socially and culturally regressive. If the court does not uphold the agreement, this would create profound difficulties for the project as they may not be able to proceed with the development of the coal mine to the extent that it interferes with Indigenous landholdings.\nSo, while the decision of Adani to self-fund a scaled-down coalmine in Queensland might indicate determination, it also suggests a resistance to, and misunderstanding of, a rapidly changing energy sector and the broader social and environmental responsibilities that this change necessitates.\nA battery electric vehicle in The University of Queensland\u2019s vehicle fleet.\nThe green blob is metal-rich molten sulfide in an ore from the Norilsk area in Siberia, the most valuable accumulation of metals of any kind on the planet. Steve Barnes\nX-rays of rocks show their super-fluid past, and reveal mineral deposits vital for batteries\nStorm clouds move over the Illawarra south of Sydney on Wednesday, November 28 2018. Sydney received more than a month\u2019s worth of rain in just two hours, with Observatory Hill recording 84.6mm by 7am. The November average is 83.8mm. Dean Lewins/AAP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecoredump.org/2015/01/new-technology-requires-new-thinking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:U6FGMAWM3MMDH5FTMNKWDN37DSBHAKIZ", "length": 4077, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thecoredump.org", "title": "New technology requires new thinking | The Core Dump", "raw_content": "Mitsubishi 19\" Diamondtron and Sony 17\" Trinitron monitors back in 2004. Those were the greatest display technologies you could purchase at the time. And yes, cool people, you are correct: that\u2019s a FireWire iSight camera perching on the Trinitron.\nProbably the biggest hurdle with new technology is that it requires people to change to get the most out of it.\nWhen you adopt a technology to help solve a problem\u2014like, oh let\u2019s say, team work\u2014if you just drop the technology in people will use it like a faster version of the old technology. It\u2019s analogous to what happens to new media: First there\u2019s radio and then there\u2019s TV, and TV shows are radio shows with a camera trained on them until enough time goes by that pioneers discovers the strengths of the new medium and develop it into its own thing.\nIn offices today we\u2019re still in the early part of that transition\u2014we have better ways to do things, but they\u2019re stuck in their old workflows.\nLike the dreaded e-mail chain, where everybody\u2019s sending e-mails around like they\u2019re little slips of digital paper. And then a document needs revising, so a Word document gets attached to the e-mails, like it\u2019s a bunch of papers.\nThere\u2019s no sane reason to do this in 2015, but all over the world this happens in offices every day. Because it\u2019s such a natural analog. You\u2019re using new technology to make what you used to do faster and more efficient, but forcing it to conform to old habits.\nAnd in offices around the world, people open the Word file, read it, edit it, and pass it along, exactly like a piece of paper that gets marked up by different people.\nIt may still be a win since sending e-mails is a lot easier, faster, and cheaper than couriering paper around, but it\u2019s still the same old process, only turbocharged.\nThe hard part about adopting a digital workflow isn\u2019t to replace the manual tools\u2014the hard part is to change the workflow.\nPeople fear change. Most people at this point have realized the benefits of using a word processor instead of a typewriter, but that doesn\u2019t change the writing process, only the physical act itself.\n(As a sidenote here, the people working so hard on the Word team to add new features would cry themselves to sleep every night if they knew how many millions\u2014perhaps billions by now\u2014people use Word like it\u2019s a typewriter with magic white-out.)\nWhich is profoundly sad\u2014the state of computers and networks these days has the potential to revamp the process itself.\nOne obvious technology that has been mature and ready for the masses for a long time is shared documents. Let\u2019s use Google\u2019s implementation as an example, since it\u2019s free and polished.\nGoogle Docs lets you create and edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations on the Internet, which is great for people who move between different machines a lot, or for people who simply want to be able to work on a document at work, then pick up where they left off at home without resorting to kludges like e-mailing themselves the document or remembering to put it on a flash drive. That\u2019s a win, right there.\nBut the real win is that other people can be invited to collaborate on the documents. So different people can change things at the same time. Which means no more e-mailing documents back and forth. No more having to figure out who has the latest version, or the even worse scenario of spending your time editing a document only to find out it\u2019s several versions old and all your work was for naught. Not a good feeling, that.\nSo why aren\u2019t more teams using technologies like Google Docs when the benefits are so obvious?\nBecause they require a new process. Why mess with something that works\u2014well, that kind of works\u2014but is grossly inefficient?\nThis is the challenge for technologists and technology evangelists\u2014getting people to understand why changing the entire workflow is sometimes necessary to get the benefits of the technology. It can be a hard sell.\nLord, can it ever be a hard sell.\n\u00ab An HTML, CSS and JavaScript lesson plan\nSome mornings it just doesn\u2019t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 10755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecourier.com/life/life-news/2018/08/29/50-north-sets-girls-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4MPLD2KFAW63TUKP6ON2ANYDOWIW226", "length": 582, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thecourier.com", "title": "50 North sets girls\u2019 events | The Courier", "raw_content": "50 North sets girls\u2019 events\n50 North will be hosting two girls night out events in September.\n\u201cBeyond MedSpa \u2014 Pamper Yourself\u201d will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 12. Attendees will learn how to pamper their skin, with staff members from Beyond MedSpa offering a variety of demonstrations including hydrafacials, ClearLifts and injectables. Registration and a $7 fee are required by Sept. 7.\n\u201cIntergenerational Girls Night Out \u2014 Make and Take\u201d will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Participants will create a scarecrow Mason jar. Registration and a $23 fee are required by Sept. 10.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/395206-nj-governor-signs-bill-dedicating-5-million-to-strengthen-local-media", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:463NINQ7PHCSDBWB2H4Z4XLTU6Y5N6QN", "length": 1479, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thehill.com", "title": "NJ governor to sign bill dedicating $5M to help local media | TheHill", "raw_content": "NJ governor to sign bill dedicating $5M to help local media\nNew Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is approving a bill that dedicates $5 million to strengthen local media outlets in the state.\nThe state legislature passed the \"Civic Info Bill\" late last month, according to news website NJ.com.\nThe bill created the Civic Information Consortium \u2014 a unique nonprofit developed with five universities \u2014 to promote the spread of news and information throughout the state. The bill was conceived by the Free Press Action Fund, an advocacy group on media issues\nThe effort is led by The College of New Jersey, Montclair State University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rowan University and Rutgers University.\nThe consortium will share the $5 million with local news organizations, emphasizing \"underserved communities, low-income communities and communities of color,\" the Free Press Action Fund said.\nThe money was included in the fiscal 2019 budget, which Murphy signed into law on Sunday. He is expected to formally sign the legislation creating the consortium soon.\nState Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D) and State Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D) sponsored the bill, NJ.com reported.\n\"Local news is the lifeblood of a community. It adds local context to stories and keeps those in power accountable. Supporting it is undoubtedly in the public's best interest,\" Greenwald said last week.\nTags Phil Murphy local media New Jersey Civic Information Consortium", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 5701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehobbledehoy.com/2018/05/10/the-story-behind-on-the-shore-by-trees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NCK7MG4CNLYVPEHPGWTQSSYPF5ISLS5X", "length": 1305, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thehobbledehoy.com", "title": "The story behind \u201cOn The Shore\u201d by Trees | The HOBBLEDEHOY", "raw_content": "The story behind \u201cOn The Shore\u201d by Trees\nThe English Folk Dance and Song Society headquarters in London, otherwise known as Cecil Sharp House, became a Mecca in the late 1960s to young musicians and singers. Different than those who flocked the place in previous decades, they were armed with electric guitars and smoked rolled cigarettes that smelled funny. Like their predecessors they mined the vast library of traditional folk songs that passed unrecorded through generations of singers for nuggets of melodies and harmonies to make their own.\nFairport Convention, mavericks of the style known as folk rock, did just that and in 1969 released two of the genre\u2019s most celebrated albums, Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief. The following year another band followed the same pattern and released two wonderful albums that put a new spin on traditional folk songs.\nThey were much less successful commercially and short lived as a result, but their albums survived the test of time very well. This is the story of Trees, who in 1970 released two albums, the second of which \u2013 On The Shore, is a true classic [ . . . ]\nContinue at Music Aficionado : The story behind On The Shore, by Trees\nPosted in Brit Folk\tThe ShoreTrees\n< Previous Richard Thompson speaks at Folk Alliance\nNext > Jeff Beck \u201cGreensleeves\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehunchclub.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EPEO6OU7WOJYEW4VJJ6Y6FBV2DEZ2T4G", "length": 4235, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "thehunchclub.com", "title": "The Hunch Club", "raw_content": "ContactLog InMembership Account\nDISCOVER HOW TO CHANGE AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE BY IGNITING YOUR SUPER POWER\nIf you\u2019re looking for a simple and effective way to discover your greatness; become your authentic self; increase confidence; improve and upgrade your thoughts and mindset; become more spiritually connected and attuned to your own inner compass; remove sabotaging beliefs; create momentum to living in alignment to your passion and purpose and be more in flow with the Universe\u2026\nYou\u2019ll Love The HUNCH CLUB.\nWe\u2019re Heather & Lisa And We\u2019re The Chief Hunchers Around These Parts.\nWe are the duo behind the HUNCH CLUB, we help you to ignite with your intuition which is your built-in SUPERPOWER to connect with your deepest desires and dreams, including life purpose, prosperity, career, creativity, health and success, so you vibe higher and reach your full potential.\nHaving both trained and practising in Spiritual, Soul, Healing, Intuitive Coaching and Self Development work, we both discovered a pattern working with others and it\u2019s to do with our disconnection to the inner guidance and inner support to who we truly are, our intuition.\nWe KNOW the secret to having a fulfilled life is being aligned with your truth and your inner guidance system.\nYou\u2019ve got to believe in your SUPERPOWER, even when things may seem impossible. Intuition tunes into your own direction and aspirations\u2026\nWhen we are still and not distracted, we can hear it\u2026.\nIt can be hard in this busy world to still our minds. We can show you step by step how to empower yourself, to listen and allow inner direction/focus to lead you to your goals.\nSo we started the Hunch Club as a way to connect with like-minded people from all over the world, to help awaken to their truth; how to overcome the challenges that life often throws at us. To share insight and understanding that we are all connected to a higher power and getting into alignment with our intuition our SUPERPOWER.\nWe believe that every single one of us has the ability to achieve incredible things and reach our full potential, because we believe that life is too short to waste.\nIt\u2019s never too late to discover however life can be a much easier journey.\nYou\u2019re in the wrong the kind of job, and you\u2019re in fear of making changes in case you fail and it\u2019s the wrong decision?\nYou\u2019re excited about an idea you\u2019d like to start, but then you talk to someone who doesn\u2019t think you\u2019ll be able to do it, so you feel like it\u2019s all hopeless?\nYou\u2019ve got a feeling that you\u2019re different from everyone else, like you don\u2019t belong where you are, your family and friends don\u2019t get you, You feel stuck, fed up with doing what everyone else is expecting you to do and just want to break free from the matrix and do whatever it is you\u2019re supposed to be doing in life?\nYour feeling overwhelmed and you don\u2019t know where to turn for guidance and support and you\u2019re not sure how much longer you can carry on for?\nYou feel isolated and lonely because you don\u2019t know any other like-minded people to talk to about what you\u2019re going through.\nIf so, you\u2019re only human!\nLiving a life blocked or out of alignment with our SUPERPOWER creates chaos, misunderstanding, exhaustion, dis-ease, illness, relationship break downs, love issue\u2019s, abundance blocks and a kind of life we don\u2019t feel congruent with.\nIt\u2019s like you\u2019re waiting for something to happen, only you\u2019re waiting and nothing is showing up for you. You feel alone, scared, overwhelmed and most of all confused about life and what\u2019s coming next. On the inside you\u2019re thinking \u201cwhat the hell am I meant to be doing!?\u201d\nWe all feel like this at some point in our lives and we don\u2019t get a manual of how to live to create the best life we can have either\u2026and so we tend to the follow the same pathway already trodden on\u2026but it\u2019s not for us.\nHowever, we do have a built in SUPERPOWER which we can connect with that will be congruent with us. We just have to let go, have trust and faith, stay focused on what we\u2019re trying to achieve, learn as much as we can, get inspired, team with up with the right tribe of people with support around and most of all have fun and enjoy the ups and downs of life and understand its all part of our self growth.\n\u00a9 2018 The Hunch Club", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thejesuitpost.org/2017/04/what-we-wish-trumps-tomahawks-could-do-for-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JVKU5MXMMSRB55Y4KMS5NISNFGFMLJTE", "length": 5142, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thejesuitpost.org", "title": "What we wish Trump\u2019s Tomahawks could do for us | The Jesuit Post", "raw_content": "What we wish Trump\u2019s Tomahawks could do for us\nPublished Apr 7, 2017 in Faith & Politics, In the News, Justice ~ Approx 3 mins\n(April 7, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released)\nWarning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing\nThe thing about the U.S. missile strikes on Syria yesterday is that we don\u2019t seem to know what we want them to be.\nThe strikes could be a moral thing. By \u201cmoral thing\u201d I mean an action driven by a moral imperative \u2014 a policy choice to deploy weapons of violence to carve out a space for just a little more justice. They could be a chance to do the right thing in a world that does its best not just to elude justice but charge with a rage-filled roar in the opposite direction of the Kingdom. In his speech from his resort in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump said, \u201cAssad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children.It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.\u201d\nHe\u2019s not wrong. I sometimes wonder if I\u2019ll ever reach a point where I\u2019ve seen one too many videos or images for them to hurt me, where I\u2019ll stop feeling an urge to vomit or cringe or cry or scream. Maybe. Not this time.\nYet I only worry about growing numb because I\u2019ve been here before. We\u2019ve been here before. Not just in an abstract sense of 24 hour cable news cycle bombarding us with scenes of human horror. When I say that we\u2019ve been here before, what I mean is this particular here. We\u2019ve already had the images of dying Syrian children that we thought we\u2019d never forget. Remember the boy on the beach? Or the child covered in rubble and blood?\nThis boy Pulled from under the rubble (hush-hush; after a Russian airstrike) on Qaterji district in Aleppo todaypic.twitter.com/cl6DOoNQ6J\n\u2014 Mannfred Nyttingnes (@MannfredNikolai) August 17, 2016\nWhat U.S. citizens are not going to be able to get away from is how we\u2019ll be spending the next few days, or weeks or months \u2014 for however long this news cycle lasts, we\u2019ll be clicking through thesaurus.com to find new words to express our unrelieved sense that this attack was Bad. Very Bad.\nAnd all the while we do not admit refugees. It\u2019s bad. Intolerably bad. Horrifically bad. Etc. But not so bad that we\u2019ll admit refugees, whether that\u2019s because of a still-unproven threat, or whether it\u2019s an expense, or whether that act of mercy might mean change, as it has for some German villages accepting massive numbers of refugees. We\u2019re outraged, horrified, disgusted. Just not enough to confront our fears and absorb the costs that come from welcoming the stranger. That hits us where we live. That forces us to change.\nIt costs too much, materially and interiorly. So instead, we fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at $1.41 million a pop at the problem and hope that a few extra zeros in a defense budget most of us will never see will quiet our conscience for the next time we see a picture of Syrian parents keening over their child. Not offering safe harbor so they don\u2019t have to die in the first place.\nThis image of the body of a Syrian boy drowned today on a Turkish beach is emblematic of the world\u2019s failure in Syria pic.twitter.com/IYiIPgvieG\n\u2014 Liz Sly (@LizSly) September 2, 2015\nSo, no, it\u2019s not really a moral thing.\nBut if it\u2019s not a moral thing, it\u2019s not merely a policy thing either. The Pentagon called this a \u201cproportional response to Assad\u2019s heinous act.\u201d1 Even the Pentagon is hitting the thesaurus for the right word for Bad. If this was just realpolitik, we wouldn\u2019t bother with moralizing pretense. But we do. The President\u2019s language, the Pentagon\u2019s, and so many others all scream that they\u2019re trying to find some moral footing in this. If it were just a question of \u201cnational security interest,\u201d we wouldn\u2019t need the picture, or the language about \u201cbeautiful babies.\u201d\nSo it\u2019s not really a policy thing either. We don\u2019t know what we want this thing to be. And that\u2019s where we find ourselves: we don\u2019t want to open a nation\u2019s doors to shelter the same people we\u2019ve seen dying and dead in videos and pictures for the last day. We decided that that cost, in dollars or fear, is too high. But our conscience won\u2019t leave us alone either, and I doubt that 80 million dollars worth of missiles dumped on some airstrip will silence our guilt any time soon. It won\u2019t for me.\nMaybe the problem isn\u2019t that we don\u2019t know what we want the attacks to be. Maybe the question we need to ask is whether we know what we want to be. And as Passion Sunday approaches in a few short days, the question of who we are, who we care about, and what we\u2019re willing to give could hardly be more urgent.\nShare What we wish Trump\u2019s Tomahawks could do for us\nThe Dark Knight Teaches Chris Schroeder, SJ ~ Approx read time 5 mins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 8434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thekashmirpress.com/2018/05/30/six-police-officers-killed-in-afghan-suicide-attack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PUNHBMGXC3EMW7CNK2FSDJ64X57FNRXP", "length": 1019, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thekashmirpress.com", "title": "Six police officers killed in Afghan suicide attack | The Kashmir Press", "raw_content": "Six police officers killed in Afghan suicide attack\nAt least six police officers were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday after the Taliban attackers including a suicide bomber stormed a police station in southern, AFP reported.\nReports said that the bomber blown up an explosive-laden vehicle at the entrance of the police station in Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province. While as the three other attackers entered into the police station compound, triggering a gun-battle with security forces.\n\u201cDuring the firing exchange the six police officers including three national police and three traffic police officers were killed. While as the attackers were also killed in the gun-battle,\u201d reports said.\n\u201cEarlier two commanders among 17 persons were killed in Afghan air strike near Pakistan border,\u201d AFP reported.\nThe Taliban, who are stepping up their spring offensive against Afghan security forces and government officials, claimed responsibility for the attack.\nMeanwhile nine civilians were also killed on Monday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/08/20/chinese-video-giant-youkus-shareholders-approve-tudou-merger-deal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:P4RGY777FYBHO25EGSFDY3N2WMSHQC2E", "length": 5871, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "thenextweb.com", "title": "Chinese Online Video Merger, Youku-Tudou, Gains Shareholder Approval", "raw_content": "Mega Chinese online video merger, Tudou-Youku, is a step closer after shareholder approval\nThe ongoing merger between Chinese online video giants Youku and Tudou has taken a step closer to completion after both Youku and Tudou confirmed that their respective shareholders have approved the plan to bring the one-time rivals together.\nThe deal, which was announced in March and is estimated at more than $1 billion, is all set to be completed during the third quarter, as planned, now that formal approvals have been gained. The coming-together will see Tudou merge with the company to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Youku. Once completed, the combined entity will be renamed \u201cYouku Tudou Inc\u201d.\nOther further effect of the merger could be that Youku\u2019s video search engine \u2014 Soku \u2014 is made into an independent service, that\u2019s according to reports out of China last week.\nPut together both sites account for less than half of the online video market in China, with Youku (21.8 percent) narrowly ahead of Tudou (13.7 percent), but the coming together is likely to mark a new period of consolidation and more intense pressure on Youku Tudou\u2019s challengers.\nWeeks before the deal was announced, Tudou went public on a series of user numbers that revealed it is now seeing more than 300 million visitors each month. One key driver of traffic is microblog service Sina Weibo, which is likely to bring even more traffic thanks to an agreement to integrate the video service.\nYouku and Tudou are known for their intense battles, both on the Webs and in the courtroom, which made the coming together somewhat of a surprise. Earlier this year, Youku lodged the latest round of legal suits, accusing Tudou of losing it business following claims that Youku had misused copyrighted material.\nDespite the intense competition, there has been cooperation, most notably last year, when the firms began sharing content to fend off rivals. That move led to speculation of a merger and, more than a year later, that rumors proved to be correct.\nIn fact, As documents later revealed, the two companies had actually first discussed the possibility of a merger during informal talks in 2009.\nHere\u2019s the announcement in full from Youku:\nHONG KONG, Aug. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ \u2014 Youku Inc. (NYSE: YOKU), China\u2019s leading Internet television company (\u201cYouku\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d), announced today that, at the annual general meeting of shareholders held today (the \u201cAGM\u201d), the Company\u2019s shareholders voted in favor of the proposal to issue Youku Class A shares as the consideration for the merger (the \u201cMerger\u201d) with Tudou Holdings Limited (\u201cTudou\u201d) pursuant to the previously announced merger agreement (the \u201cMerger Agreement\u201d), dated March 11, 2012, by and among the Company, Tudou and Two Merger Sub Inc. (\u201cMerger Sub\u201d), as well as the proposals to amend and restate Youku\u2019s memorandum and articles of association to reflect Youku\u2019s name change after the closing, change of the per share voting power of Youku\u2019s class B ordinary shares from three votes for one share to four votes for one share, and change of the vote thresholds for certain matters requiring shareholder approval . Pursuant to the Merger Agreement and the plan of merger attached as Annex A to the Merger Agreement, Tudou will merge with and into Merger Sub, with Tudou continuing as the surviving entity and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Youku and the combined entity will be named \u201cYouku Tudou Inc.\u201d\nThe parties expect to complete the Merger as soon as practicable. Upon completion of the Merger, Tudou will become a privately held company wholly-owned by Youku, and Tudou\u2019s American depositary shares will no longer be listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.\nAnd here\u2019s Tudou confirmation:\nTudou Shareholders Approve Merger With Youku Inc.\nSHANGHAI, China, Aug. 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 Tudou Holdings Limited (\u201cTudou\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq:TUDO), a leading Internet video company in China, today announced that, at the annual general meeting of the Company\u2019s shareholders (the \u201cAGM\u201d) held earlier today, shareholders voted in favor of, among other things, the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced merger agreement (the \u201cMerger Agreement\u201d), dated March 11, 2012, by and among Youku Inc. (\u201cYouku\u201d) (NYSE:YOKU), Two Merger Sub Inc. and Tudou, the plan of merger attached as Annex A to the Merger Agreement (the \u201cPlan of Merger\u201d), and the merger contemplated thereunder (the \u201cMerger\u201d). Based on the final tabulation, approximately 99.7% of the ordinary shares of the Company present in person or by proxy at the AGM voted \u201cFOR\u201d the resolution to authorize and approve the Merger Agreement, the Plan of Merger and the Merger, which was therefore passed as a special resolution. Over a majority of the ordinary shares of the Company present in person or by proxy at the AGM also voted \u201cFOR\u201d the re-election of Gary Wei Wang, Hany Nada, David M. Hand, Ted Tak-Tai Lee andConor Chia-hung Yang, which was therefore passed as an ordinary resolution.\nCompletion of the Merger is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement. The Company will work with Youkuto satisfy all other conditions precedent to the Merger set forth in the Merger Agreement. If completed, the Merger would result in the Company becoming a privately held company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Youku, and the combined entity will be named \u201cYouku Tudou Inc.\u201d As a result of the Merger,Tudou\u2019s American depositary shares will no longer be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market.\nChina\u2019s video giant Tudou Q2: Profits up 47%, but net loss doubles to $24m ahead of crucial Youku merger\nYouku\u2019s Q2 revenues soar 96% but net loss doubles to $9.9m for \u201cChina\u2019s YouTube\u201d\nImage via Flickr / Arnoudm\nRead next: Leaked screenshots of Sina Weibo's upcoming redesign show Google+-like selective sharing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/09/02/entrepreneurs-share-excel-emerging-markets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OSJEVLI5V6GNRUCAHO7QCUWA6W5EK7MB", "length": 5213, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "thenextweb.com", "title": "Entrepreneurs Share How to Excel in Emerging Markets", "raw_content": "Four entrepreneurs share how to excel in emerging markets\nWe asked these entrepreneurs: What are some of the challenges of operating in an emerging market, and how is your startup overcoming those challenges?\nSticking to sustainable food\n\u201cOur emerging market is sustainable food! The most challenging part of operating in this market is engaging people who aren\u2019t necessarily interested in growing their own food or in sustainability measures. We do our best to overcome this by making the product as easy as possible to use and making sure the product is sleek and has visual appeal. The product must also be easily accessible. For example, we\u2019re not just in places like Whole Foods; we\u2019re also in Home Depot and similar stores simply because we wanted to reach another audience.\nOur sustainable food kit isn\u2019t just a kit, it isn\u2019t just a product on the shelf. It\u2019s a movement. By treating it as such, the kit gains traction in the emerging market because it has personality, energy, enthusiasm and is bigger than all of us. A product in an emerging market can\u2019t be solely a product: it has to have meaning, and then it will attract attention. Our dedicated customers understand this, and this is the reason the movement can grow.\u201d\n\u2013 Alejandro Velez and Nikhol Arora, Co-founders of Back to the Roots\nMonetizing mobile health\n\u201cLabDoor is launching into the mobile health market, where overall users are expected to double within 12 months. The big challenge in the healthcare industry \u2014 one where manufacturers earn trillions in revenue dollars and governments work with billions of regulatory dollars \u2014 is to successfully enact disruptive innovation with merely millions (or less) of investment dollars.\nWhen people think product safety data right now, their eyes glaze over imagining fine print and seven-syllable ingredients. Our challenge is to build simple, beautiful, intuitive apps without sacrificing the deep technical core.\nLabDoor builds report cards for pharmaceuticals, supplements, and cosmetics. Our apps answer three key questions about each product: Does it work? Is it safe? What\u2019s the cost? To answer this accurately, our scientific and technical experts dig through millions of data points so users don\u2019t have to.\nWe don\u2019t model ourselves off Facebook; instead, we channel Ferraris. We want every new user to grab the keys to LabDoor, and immediately fall in love with the look, feel, and performance. But we make our money on what\u2019s under the hood.\u201d\n\u2013 Neil Thanedar, CEO and Founder of LabDoor\nMerging mobile gaming and advertising\n\u201cIn 2010, I co-founded Kiip, a company at the intersection of two hotbed markets: mobile gaming and advertising. At that point, instead of operating harmoniously, these two markets had an almost adversarial relationship. When I played a game on my phone, it was challenging, fun and entertaining\u2026until an ad brought the experience to an abrupt (and annoying) halt. Advertisers\u2019 presence on phones was forced and obtrusive, prohibiting the mobile advertising market to emerge.\nBy acknowledging users\u2019 moments of achievement and coupling them with relevant rewards from desirable brands, our partnership with developers and companies has finally built the much-needed bridge between mobile and advertising; in so doing, Kiip engaged within the emerging market of mobile advertising. As people\u2019s lives continue to center around mobile technology, the growth within this market has been prolific.\nEverything has changed very quickly, placing a premium on constant innovation. This has allowed us to become a global leader in mobile rewards and dictate our direction as the mobile world continues to emerge.\u201d\n\u2013 Brian Wong, Co-founder and CEO of Kiip\nCreating opportunities in crowdfunding\n\u201cWith over 300 crowdfunding sites worldwide, crowdfunding is one of the hotter trends in the tech world today. But it wasn\u2019t always that way. When we launched GiveForward in 2008, there were only about five or six crowdfunding sites in existence. No one even used the term \u2018crowdfunding\u2019 back then; everyone just called it \u2018peer-to-peer fundraising.\u2019\nOne challenge we faced when we launched was educating the public about crowdfunding. We couldn\u2019t just sell people on GiveForward; in order to get people to use our service, we had to first sell them on the concept of crowdfunding. It was like trying to sell Frosted Flakes door-to-door when no one in the neighborhood has ever heard of cereal. We learned early on that people are more likely to respond to things from friends than from us, so we integrated with social media quickly so users could share how easy crowdfunding was. It was a game-changer.\nBut to be perfectly honest, lucky timing helped a ton. About nine months after we launched, Kickstarter blew up \u2014 and anyone who is in the crowdfunding space owes a huge debt of gratitude to Kickstarter, as they did the heavy lifting in terms of making the public comfortable with the concept. It goes to show that having a good idea isn\u2019t usually enough \u2014 being in the right place at the right time is just as important.\u201d\n\u2013 Ethan Austin, Co-founder of GiveForward\nRead next: Here's how Samsung flew bloggers halfway around the world, then threatened to leave them there", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theoldgreenbaize.com/2014/09/07/shanghai-masters-2014-preview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPROMZAEUS3Y2PPLWSBLFGYXMKELK7XY", "length": 2720, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "theoldgreenbaize.com", "title": "Shanghai Masters 2014 \u2013 Preview | The Old Green Baize", "raw_content": "Shanghai Masters 2014 \u2013 Preview\nNigel Slater / September 7, 2014\nMAJOR ranking event snooker returns with a bang tomorrow (Monday) when the Shanghai Masters kicks off with Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan playing his first significant match since suffering Crucible heartbreak four months ago.\nThe five-times world champion, who was denied a sixth world title when defeated by Mark Selby in this year\u2019s World Championship final, takes on Scotland\u2019s Alan McManus in the opening round.\nO\u2019Sullivan\u2019s announcement earlier this summer stating his desire to play in the Shanghai Masters for the first time since 2011 certainly indicates an aim to put his first World Championship final defeat quickly behind him moving into the new season.\nIt will be interesting to see which O\u2019Sullivan shows up. As we\u2019ve seen previously he could rise to the occasion and make a strong signal of intent as the snooker calendar returns to full swing with many events between now and the end of 2014.\nBut given the fact he has only played the Paul Hunter Classic event so far this season \u2013 fans could expect to see some rustiness on the baize. One man certainly hoping for that will be McManus \u2013 who enters the tournament having had a great year after reaching the quarter-finals of the World Championship and the World Open.\nAnd the Scot, a previous Masters winner of course, has followed his good form into the new season reaching at least the last 16 from all the events he has played so far.\nWith contrasting styles and the differences in form the first round tie certainly has all the makings of a classic.\nDefending champion Ding Junhui will make his first appearance since suffering a shock defeat in the Wuxi Classic qualifiers earlier this summer when he takes on Jack Lisowski in the first round.\nChina\u2019s number one star won this event for the first time last year in a memorable and historic final beating fellow countryman Xiao Guodong \u2013 securing one of five ranking titles in an unforgettable season.\nNeil Robertson and Judd Trump will be targeting more silverware success after winning the Wuxi Classic and Australian Open titles respectively. The Australian will no doubt be eager to return to the top of the world rankings over the course of the coming days.\nOne of the sport\u2019s most established events \u2013 the Shanghai Masters really sees the season take off. We fascinatingly wait to see what direction Rocket O\u2019Sullivan amongst others will be heading.\nFollow our updates on Twitter @TOGB_snooker and here at http://www.theoldgreenbaize.com.\nShanghai Masters First Round Draw\nSeptember 7, 2014 in Shanghai Masters.\n\u2190 Maguire captures Six Reds title after winning thriller final\nMcManus sends O\u2019Sullivan packing in early Shanghai Masters shock \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepattinsoncoderondra.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/author-dee-marie-says-she%E2%80%99d-like-to-see-rob-star-in-an-adaptation-of-her-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QD2K62EMUAV6KWB4LZPYAZFYHQ6LXEKU", "length": 3334, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "thepattinsoncoderondra.wordpress.com", "title": "Author Dee Marie Says She\u2019d Like to See Rob Star in an Adaptation of Her Book | The Pattinson Code", "raw_content": "Author Dee Marie Says She\u2019d Like to See Rob Star in an Adaptation of Her Book\nFiled under: Robert Pattinson \u2014 Nursey @ 3:21 am\nHere\u2019s an excerpt of an interview with Dee Marie, author of Sons of Avalon: Merlin\u2019s Prophecy:\nIf this were to be made into a movie, who would you like to play the major roles?\nI think every author ponders which Hollywood stars would best bring their characters to life. I did not have any specific actors in mind when I wrote the book. However, since its publication, I have been on a constant \u201ctalent search.\u201d Now, when I watch a movie or television show, I scrutinize the cast for \u201cpossible\u201d players in a movie version of Sons of Avalon: Merlin\u2019sProphecy.\nThis is my current casting call, which is always subject to change, due to the fluctuation of new talented streaming into Hollywood, or simply my fickle whims.\nLot: Robert Pattinson (Twilight) \u2026I took a giant leap-of-faith with my imaginary casting of Robert Pattinson, as Sir Lot. I had only seen him briefly (playing a small part in two of the Harry Potter films). However, with the prospects of his staring role in the movie Twilight (based on the popular novel with the same name, and my current obsession with the vampire series), I have a gut feeling that no one but Robert could portray misunderstood anti-hero Lot.\nMeleagant: Tom Sturridge (Vanity Fair) \u2026At first I considered him for the role of Nentres. Yet, For purely selfish reasons (after all this is my fantasy casting call), I would be interested in watching him take on the challenging role of young man on a spiral decent into insanity.\nIf you want to read more of the interview, and more of her fantasy casting, you can go here.\nHi Everyone. Wow, it does pay to \u201cGoogle.\u201d\nThe original interview, where I speculated about the \u201cdream cast\u201d for a movie version of \u201cSons of Avalon: Merlin\u2019s Prophecy,\u201d obviously took place before the theatrical release of \u201cTwilight,\u201d and Rob Pattinson\u2019s rise to stardom. At first, I had only seen Rob Pattinson in the Harry Potter films (\u201cGoblet of Fire\u201d & briefly in \u201cOrder of the Phoenix\u201d). Yet there was something memorable about his performances.\nA lot has happened in the two-and-a-half years since the interview was published; to both Rob\u2019s career, (his rise to stardom) and his age. In the first book of my \u201cSons of Avalon\u201d saga, the story revolves around the teen years of Sir Lot and Merlin, and their rise to power.\nAfter much consideration, and pondering over the cast, I would still want Rob to star in the movie version of \u201cSons of Avalon\u201d (who wouldn\u2019t?). However, after following Rob\u2019s career and watching him grow as an actor, I now feel that he would be better suited for the role of Uther Pendragon. In the novel, Uther is in his early twenties, not the old man that many envision him to be.\nLike Sir Lot, Uther Pendragon is a complex character. More villain than hero, Merlin\u2019s rival \u2026 a role that would unquestionably stretch Rob\u2019s acting skills.\nSpeculation or visionary \u2026 Only time will tell.\nWishing you all a year filled with magical moments; and who knows, perhaps a future movie deal with one of my favorite actors, Rob Pattinson, staring in the historical drama as the all-powerful Uther Pendragon.\nAuthor of the \u201cSons of Avalon\u201d saga\nhttp://twitter.com/dee_marie_soa\nComment by Dee Marie \u2014 July 24, 2010 @ 8:23 am | Reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theprivatetherapyclinic.co.uk/harnessing-the-power-of-belief/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:F6YMYVMBLBIGKVRQJIF6DK4JFNTC3PW5", "length": 4043, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "theprivatetherapyclinic.co.uk", "title": "Recovery: Harnessing the Power of Belief | Private Therapy Clinic", "raw_content": "You can have the best support network, tools and modalities to assist in recovery, but without the core belief that things will improve, they often won\u2019t. Or, at least they will at a much slower pace than they should.\nThis only serves to illustrate the power and potential of the human mind. If we believe strongly enough in an outcome, we can manifest it.\nUnfortunately, much of this is yet to enter widely into mainstream consciousness. These standards are still largely taken for granted \u2013 treated more as a quirk or anomaly without any further consideration given \u2013 and seen as too fringe to be of scientific value.\nHowever, there has been a growing trend in the last ten years towards exploring this phenomenon with a more thorough approach, attempting to define what the mechanics of belief are and why it has the impact it does.\nIt is this meeting of science and spirituality that offers the most tangible proof yet of our human potential without resorting to the kind of leap of faith musings that creates yet more sceptics.\nThe work of Dr Robert Lipton in \u2018The Biology of Belief\u2019 was groundbreaking in this regard, as he opened up the field with his study of epigenetics. In it, he challenges the idea of our body being ruled by our DNA, suggesting, it is, in fact, our consciousness that informs much of our genetic functions.\n\u201cOur emotions are the language of the subconscious,\u201d he posits.\nThere are many real-world examples of mind over matter we can refer to without having to draw from Dr Lipton\u2019s work, though. Take those who walk over hot coals unscathed, martial artists breaking bricks with their hands and monks who raise their body temperature to keep warm on long treks through the Himalayas.\nAll these feats should be impossible, according to \u2018common sense.\u2019 Yet, they\u2019re widely accepted and well-documented, supporting the idea that we can do, or, overcome anything we set our minds to as long as there is sufficient conviction.\nCall it what you like; willpower, intentionality, consciousness, belief. They\u2019re all words that refer to the same action: the conscious application of our mind to achieve a desired outcome.\nThat is the power of belief; its scope reaches far beyond the confines of any singular pursuit. It is a powerful tool for manifestation, limited only by your imagination, and can just as easily be applied to health, wealth and success.\nTo fully tap into it\u2019s potential though, you should be aware, the concept isn\u2019t restricted to your mental process; it is just as much your thought in action.\nIt is the thinking and the doing.\nHaving belief isn\u2019t simply the thought itself. It can be enacted, affirmed and re-affirmed by speaking them out loud, writing them down and surrounding ourselves with people who reflect our convictions back at us.\nWe all have the creative will to achieve whatever we want as long as we believe it to be true. So in the context of recovering from what appears to chronic mental illnesses, trauma or other \u2018untreatable\u2019 conditions, having belief isn\u2019t the desperate act it\u2019s made out to be.\nThe power of belief is, in fact, our greatest tool.\n***If you would like to speak to someone to further understand the process of recovery and how the power of belief plays it part, one of our specialists would happy to provide you with an initial consultation to determine how best to assist you.\nRecovery: Harnessing the Power of Belief was last modified: January 30th, 2019 by Private Therapy Clinic\nBehavioural experiments are one of the tools commonly used by therapists who work in the area of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. They can be an immensely useful agent of change when you and your therapist are working together effectively......\nHow to Overcome Narcissistic Abuse\nThe question of how to overcome narcissistic abuse isn\u2019t quite as straightforward as it is with otherwise amicable break-ups. The aftereffects can reverberate long after the initial separation has taken place. There are deep levels of hurt, accompanied by feelings of resentment, confusion and even.....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 12556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepunissure.com/tag/glasgow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:11Z", "digest": "sha1:RPKBCENLN5BNOIVHG3DAOC7RQLQEU34K", "length": 9123, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "thepunissure.com", "title": "glasgow | The Pun Is Sure", "raw_content": "My favourite 25 cover songs of 2014 (with original artist in parentheses);\n25. Alt-j \u2013 Fitzpleasure (A cappella)\nNot technically from 2014, but a beautiful cover nevertheless.\n24. Sam Smith \u2013 How Will I Know (Whitney Houston)\nMr. Smith covered a bunch of tunes in 2014, and this was my favourite. He takes an already great pop song/melody, sung by a likewise preternaturally gifted singer, and makes it sound sensational in a way that only he can.\n23. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires \u2013 Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen)\nSo, so different than the original. It actually sounds like a new song, such is its wayward exploration of one of The Boss\u2019s best tunes.\n22. Hot Chip \u2013 Atomic Bomb (William Onyeabor)\nHot Chip make everything they touch fun, including this cover.\n21. Grouplove \u2013 Ways To Go/Spiderhead (Cover of their own song)/(Cage The Elephant)\nI love that Grouplove spontaneously covered their own song before they tackled the Cage tune, for which they issue all kinds of justice. Grouplove imbed an alt-country soul to maybe the best song from Cage\u2019s latest album, and it works out great.\n20. The Cure \u2013 Hello Goodbye (The Beatles)\nThe Cure covering The Beatles? Yes please, I\u2019ll have some of that.\n19. London Grammar \u2013 Pure Shores (All Saints)\n\u201cPure Shores\u201d is one of the best pop songs of the late 90\u2019s/early aughts. William Orbit\u2019s production on the track is magical. It\u2019s All Saints\u2019 best song by a mile, and I love that it\u2019s been given a new sound almost a decade and a half after its release. Hannah Reid\u2019s pristine voice sounds great guiding this cover to its beach.\n18. Sufjan Stevens \u2013 A Little Lost (Arthur Russell)\nSufjan for all of the feels. Always.\n17. The Honey Ants \u2013 You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)\nThe most genuine and heart-warming this song has yet sounded. The harmonies in this version are gorgeous. Paul Simon, Al, and those wishing to be called Al should all be proud.\n16. Capitol Chidlren\u2019s Choir \u2013 Father Father (Lauren Mvula)\nI really wish this troupe would do more covers, as everything they do is golden. But, I guess, you know, school and all.\n15. Kiesza \u2013 What Is Love (Haddaway)\nWonderfully-sung, stripped down version of the untz-untz classic.\n14. Foster The People \u2013 Hold On, We\u2019re Going Home (Drake)\nReally, really dig this brooding, auto-tune employing, synth-heavy cover that Mark Foster and his people have cooked up.\n13. Henry Green \u2013 My Number (Foals)\nWhere the original is a jittery, ooh-laden alt-pop gem, the cover is a cavernous, deep breath of a song. I like the turn down. It\u2019s peaceful here.\n12. Local H \u2013 Team (Lorde)\nIf you\u2019re wondering what a Lorde track would sound like with a hard rock facelift, here lies your answer. It works.\n11. Avec Sans \u2013 Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)\nRunning Up That Hill is a classic song. Placebo\u2019s mid-aughts cover (featured most notably on The O.C.) is astounding(ly good). You\u2019d think it\u2019d be pointless for another act to have another go at it, right? Wrong. Whatever the motivation, I\u2019m glad Avec Sans made this cover. The synth work on this cover is phenomenal.\n10. Say Lou Lou \u2013 Instant Crush (Daft Punk)\nA warmer, more personal take on one of the better songs from Daft Punk\u2019s last album.\n9. Arctic Monkeys \u2013 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Tame Impala)\nI love the original. The lyrics, melody, and music are all fantastic. But when Alex Turner drops his signature croon on a track, he makes it his own, and that\u2019s that. This is an amazing cover by a brilliant musician.\n8. Nazca \u2013 Survivor (Destiny\u2019s Child)\nJaw-dropping cover. Adds a healthy serving of emotional resonance that the original can\u2019t touch. I know the original was a huge hit for Destiny\u2019s Child, but it sounds kind of dated at this point. Frankly, this cover is better.\n7. Red Hot Chilli Pipers \u2013 Wake Me Up (Avicii)\nIf you like bagpipes, this is your jam. When I first came across this tune, I thought the Red Hot Chilli Peppers had done the cover. Then I learned to read, and then I realized the tune\u2019s by an aerophone-wielding collective of Scots. This instrumental cover is brilliant.\n6. Les Claypool\u2019s Duo De Twang \u2013 Stayin\u2019 Alive (Bee Gees)\nThis cover is batshit crazy. It\u2019s unlike anything I\u2019d heard, cover or otherwise, in 2014. It\u2019s incredible.\n5. Chvrches \u2013 Do I Wanna Know? (Arctic Monkeys)\nChvrches\u2019 more-than-two-years-hot-streak knows no bounds. And it doesn\u2019t apply to just their own stuff, but everything they touch. This cover is sensational. The synth work by Iain Cook and Martin Doherty is sublime. No synth-based cover of this song could\u2019ve been constructed in a better way.\n4. Manchester Orchestra \u2013 Escape (Jimmy Buffett)\nDo you like pina coladas? Do you like cover songs that come from the deepest part of left field that they have to climb over the wall, into the bleachers, out of the stadium, down the street, and into another area code? Do you like getting caught in the rain? Do you have half a brain? If you find yourself answering yes to any of these queries, you\u2019ll probably like this song. Hell, if you just listen to this song, you\u2019ll probably like it. And I\u2019ll like you. Life is simple sometimes.\n3. Sturgill Simpson \u2013 The Promise (When In Rome)\nWhat do I hear when I listen to this Sturgill Simpson cover? A beautiful fucking song. The original is a slinky synth-pop ditty in the vain of Erasure or Pet Shop Boys. It\u2019s a really cool track. This cover couldn\u2019t give two shits about cool. It\u2019s a grassroots promise, and it conveys the gravity of that commitment in a profound, heart-rattling way. Extremely impressive.\n2. Todd Terje f. Bryan Ferry \u2013 Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer)\nBryan Ferry is a fucking force on this cover. Not because he\u2019s yelling at the top of this lungs, but because his vocal is stranded on an island of pain, where life\u2019s experiences \u2014 the tumult of reflecting on those experiences in particular \u2014 is the only hope of getting off. If a man is wise with no one to share his wisdom with, is he still wise?\nAll that power and I haven\u2019t even touched on Todd Terje\u2019s awesome track. The vibe he\u2019s constructed is a perfect match for Ferry\u2019s pensive, aching vocal. It\u2019s sparse when it needs to be, filling when it should be. \u201cJohnny and Mary\u201d is a classic song. I feel like this cover can already be called that too. Mighty, mighty stuff.\n1. The Tea Party \u2013 The Maker (Daniel Lanois)\nHands down, my favourite cover of the year. It\u2019s the ode to deep water. It\u2019s Daniel Lanois\u2019 melody and lyric. It\u2019s Jeff Martin\u2019s typically teflon-strong vocal. It\u2019s reminiscing about the fields of Abraham. It\u2019s the cymbal. That purposeful, perfectly timed cymbal. It\u2019s The Maker.\nWhose maker? Mine, yours, this song\u2019s, all song\u2019s, all things.\nIt\u2019s the guitar. It\u2019s the best song on The Tea Party\u2019s latest and long-awaited new record. It\u2019s that one of the best bands in Canadian history is back together. It\u2019s that all three of them are brilliant musicians.\nAll of it, moving.\nUsually, I\u2019m taken aback by covers that alter the source material in very obvious ways. That\u2019s what makes a cover stand out. Why do it if you can\u2019t bring something something fresh and original to the project.\nWhat touches me and astounds me so much about this cover is that The Tea Party don\u2019t really change things that much. It\u2019s not a dance version of a country song. It\u2019s not a rock version of an a cappella tune. The melody is unchanged.\nThe original is \u2014 although I only discovered it in 2014 \u2014 one of the best songs a Canadian band or artist has ever produced. Of this I\u2019m sure.\nAnd yet, I\u2019m completely transfixed and transported. At their best, The Tea Party have always had that power. They\u2019ve proven that on songs like \u201cPsychopomp\u201d, \u201cFire In The Head\u201d, \u201cRelease\u201d, and \u201cSave Me\u201d.\nFor a band that have issued some of the best and most original rock music of the last 20 years to produce a cover this affecting is a fucking marvel.\nIt had been 10 long years since The Tea Party last released new music. If it proves to be a one off, and they never make another record again, they should find solace in this cover.\nThey took a piece of art that already, wonderfully, gracefully, existed in the artistic consciousness. They didn\u2019t make it better. They didn\u2019t make it fresher. They made it their own. They gave us a reminder. Of what music is capable of. Isn\u2019t that the point of it all?\n2014, all saints, alt-j, arctic monkeys, arthur russell, avec sans, avicii, bee gees, best cover songs, best music 2014, best of 2014, bruce springsteen, cage the elephant, canada, capitol children's choir, chvrches, cover songs, covers, daft punk, daniel lanois, destiny's child, drake, england, Foals, foster the people, glasgow, grouplove, haddaway, henry green, Hot Chip, jason isbell, jimmy buffett, kate bush, kiesza, lauren mvula, les claypool, lists, local h, london, london grammar, lorde, manchester orchestra, music, nazca, paul simon, placebo, robert ferry, robert palmer, sam smith, say lou lou, scotland, songs, sturgill simpson, sufjan stevens, tame impala, the beatles, the cure, the honey ants, the tea party, todd terje, top 10, top 10 songs, top 25, top 50, top covers 2014, top songs 2014, when in rome, whitney houston, william onyeabor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 19739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-12-2017/live-every-moment-a-fanboy-farewells-the-worst-idea-of-all-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AFT7YCJL6ZYC7MPBL7PP3KBHLGRALH7T", "length": 11105, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "thespinoff.co.nz", "title": "Live every moment: A fanboy farewells The Worst Idea Of All Time | The Spinoff", "raw_content": "Live every moment: A fanboy farewells The Worst Idea Of All Time\nTom Augustine | Guest writer\nTonight, in Los Angeles, the New Zealand podcast phenomenon The Worst Idea Of All Time comes to a close. Tom Augustine pays tribute to the show that took a terrible idea and transformed it into art.\nYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. \u2013 Camus\nYou forget that films are supposed to have a point. \u2013 Tim \u2018Spindly Timbly Wimbly\u2019 Batt\nI\u2019m having a WONDERFUL time. \u2013 Jon Lovitz, Grown Ups 2\nSisyphean: a term derived from the myth of Sisyphus, the man doomed to push a boulder up a hill every day for the rest of his life, only for the boulder to roll back down the hill at the end of the day. It means a task that cannot be completed, and anyone who has been stuck in the daily grind of traffic, work or social media can at least partially understand the guy\u2019s plight. But few can relate like comedians Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, the hosts of a strange and fascinating podcast called The Worst of Idea Of All Time, which ends its three season run today.\nIt\u2019s a gloriously stupid and simple concept: Tim and Guy watch the same terrible film every week, for a year. The first year it was the shitty jewel in Adam Sandler\u2019s crown, Grown Ups 2. The second year was the even more dire Sex and The City 2. In this their final season, the boys have been watching We Are Your Friends, the odd little semi-independent Zac Efron vehicle with one of the worst box-office runs in cinematic history. Throughout 52 weeks of arduous watches, the two discuss conspiracy theories, form entire backstories about background extras, and slowly lose their minds. There are no prizes for their achievement, no certificates or awards. Aside from the feverish cult following the two have gathered, there is very little to truly signify that their effort has had any meaning at all. And that is precisely why I argue that the series is one of the finest pieces of art ever to come out of New Zealand.\nA little backstory. I found the podcast while on a year-long working trip across America (the country where, remarkably, Worst Idea has caught on most emphatically). Like many young graduates straight out of university, I was feeling adrift, not really sure where I was going or if any of it actually mattered. I\u2019ve had my struggles with depression: I found that pushing my own boulder every day had started to become unbearable, tried to medicate in various different ways, and eventually settled on the idea that the best thing to do was to leave everything behind and chase\u2026 something\u2026 on the other side of the world. I had never left New Zealand, never really lived alone for a significant amount of time, had never been truly on my own in the way that I would be in the United States. It was around this time that I stumbled across The Worst Idea of All Time.\nI ended up roaming from Texas, to California, to Seattle and Portland, to New York City, and finally back to Texas, working odd jobs along the way \u2013 and everywhere I went I took this mad podcast with me. Perpetual travel can be a tough way to live. Missing home comforts can be a real challenge. You make a lot of friends, you get into some incredibly strange situations, you find people flit into and out of your life seemingly at random. And hearing two Kiwi boys discuss the cataclysmic clash of a German sex-robot killing machine and a young boy with command of all the world\u2019s rats (the infamous Dickbot v Brady the Rat-King scenario \u2013 long story) can be an enormous comfort.\nWorst Idea Of All Time hosts Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, and Adam Sandler\u2019s Grown-Ups 2. (Photo: Regan Butler/Barkers)\nLike hearing \u2018Slice of Heaven\u2019 or eating your weight in Pineapple Lumps, there is something truly Kiwi about both The Worst Idea of All Time as a whole and the idiosyncratic, off-kilter humour that lies within. That it has caught on so rapturously with a certain subset of international audiences despite the use of pretty heavy Kiwi jargon is a testament to its addictive, nonsensical joys. There is something therapeutic about the Worst Idea. Listen to any Friendzone (the mini-episodes in which the boys read their mail) and you\u2019ll hear countless letters and messages thanking them for helping listeners through hard times. I know they helped me.\nIf you\u2019re new to the podcast, it\u2019ll likely strike you as a bit of a mess. Guy and Tim often find themselves wandering down philosophical cul-de-sacs mid-recap, or forget what they\u2019re discussing, or misquote, misrepresent or completely fuck up ideas and themes that come up. There are regular segments in every episode (including \u2018What\u2019s he doing, where\u2019s he off to?\u2019 which focuses on the adventures of a man drinking coffee in the background of a scene in SATC2, or \u2018The Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour\u2019 which\u2026 look, it\u2019s too complicated to explain), but sometimes they simply forget to cover them, or change the rules. It is by turns surreal, enlightening, maddening, moving and always utterly hilarious.\nThat the podcast exists at all is beautiful serendipity, or perhaps just what happens when creative minds are bored. The two met while Guy was the host of ULate on the late, lamented TVNZ U channel. Tim would appear in a regular segment called \u2018The Loo Review\u2019, in which his probably homeless, possibly mentally ill character would review the public toilets around Auckland as his own personal life became increasingly dire. That irreverent, only-in-NZ kind of humour came with them when they moved into podcasting.\nThat they have somehow lasted three seasons without murdering each other or losing their minds is something of a miracle. What is never in doubt is the strength of their friendship throughout the show \u2013 in spite of little spats that arise from time to time, giving birth to perhaps the show\u2019s greatest, most immortal line, \u201cYou\u2019re a real piece of shit Guy Montgomery.\u201d\nThe author (centre) with The Worst Idea Of All Time\u2019s Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt at their final Auckland live show, May 2017 (supplied)\nI met Guy and Tim in May this year, at their final live New Zealand show \u2013 an odd experience, since I felt like I\u2019d already known them both a long time. Such is the intimate power of podcasts. It quickly became apparent that the rapport the two share on-mic is just as formidably funny in person, though they seemed less forthcoming when it came to discussing any actual impact the podcast has had. To the two, it\u2019s just a way to hang out, do something kinda stupid and hopefully make some people laugh in the process.\nAt the same time, as they begin to farewell the show that has been with them through various jobs, houses and relationships, it is hard not to get a bit reflective, and this final season has been unusual for its unexpected moments of poignancy, as in the recent episode \u2018Guy-tmare\u2019. It\u2019s clear the two of them have very different relationships with both the films they cover and the podcast itself. Tim is the organisational force behind the show, while Guy brings a uniquely thorny energy to the show. When we spoke, Guy mentioned a conversation he\u2019d had with comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who will go down in Worst Idea lore for his legendary season two appearance. Paul warned them that the best things don\u2019t last forever, and to know when to walk away. This piece of advice seems to have been a driving force behind leaving the podcast as a trilogy (with a promise that another season will only happen if Sex and the City 3 or Grown Ups 3 gets made \u2013 god forbid).\nMeanwhile the podcast is going out on one hell of a high. Guy and Tim often remark that this season\u2019s subject, We Are Your Friends, is not as easily mined for comedic potential as other larger-budget cinematic nightmares. And yet in the final run of episodes they\u2019ve used this limitation as a way to reflect on the podcasting process itself, on the way they have grown as people, and occasionally bring back segments in joyous and surprising ways \u2013 including a return to Sex and the City 2 with My Brother My Brother And Me host Justin MacElroy and a remarkably in-depth detour into legitimate film criticism with Vanity Fair\u2019s Richard Lawson. Like the best television series in their final seasons, the last few episodes bear a weight of finality to them, not least marked by Guy\u2019s recent move from Auckland to New York.\nAnd so, with the podcast coming to the end of its run, what to make of the impact it had on its fans \u2013 and on the New Zealand comedy landscape? I think ultimately it is this idea of the Sisyphean that allows The Worst Idea Of All Time to attain masterpiece status. Sisyphus\u2019 constant struggle is an analogy for our own attempts to wring meaning from something \u2013 the metaphorical pushing of a boulder \u2013 only to find that the search itself has led to a feeling of emptiness \u2013 the boulder falling down on us again. And so on and so on until death. Pretty grim, right? It is easy to see The Worst Idea of All Time through the same prism. Our boys find themselves trapped in a Groundhog Day-esque litany of Sandlerisms, tone-deaf forty-something Manhattanites and sweaty EDM fuccbois. And at the end, it\u2019s just\u2026 over. The sociological experiment comes to an end, the theories and characters and adventures fade away.\nBut that\u2019s the thing about The Worst Idea of All Time \u2013 it\u2019s not nihilistic at all. In fact, it sometimes achieves a sort of silly spirituality in the way that it (very gently) alludes to the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of all things, often through jokes about Mr Big, or Intergalactic Gloryhole (the only all-Kinks ska-cover band) or what lies within a mysterious MacBook Pro box gifted to Zac Efron in We Are Your Friends. Rather than a grim, relentless slog (though it can be for Guy and Tim at times), the Worst Idea of All Time experience has been rarely anything short of joyous. The journey itself has been the reward, rather than the destination. Another way of looking at Sisyphus\u2019 struggle is that he is, in fact, truly fortunate \u2013 he has been gifted with a purpose, no matter how rough and seemingly mundane that purpose is. I\u2019d argue same can be said of two comedians in New Zealand watching crappy movies.\nIn times when I\u2019ve been struggling, I\u2019ve found comfort in the idea that all things must pass, that nothing lasts forever. I\u2019ve also found comfort in The Worst Idea of All Time. Guy and Tim have their own, similarly new-agey mantra, lifted from the end credits song of Grown Ups 2 \u2013 \u201clive every moment, love every da-a-ay, coz before you know it your precious time slips away\u201d. It was significant enough to the podcast that the boys got the phrase tattooed on their bodies as a way of commemorating season one. As much as I am sad to see the show go, this too must pass, and I am goddamn thankful for the time I\u2019ve spent living every moment and loving every day with The Worst Idea of All Time.\nKids in the hallway: the complete history of TVNZ U\nComedy Festival reviews: Snort regulars Donna Brookbanks and Guy Montgomery more than deliver", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 13720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/andrew-tink-early-australia-nobles-convicts-age-liberty/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PWEU3NVLUKRDMKBKP7P2J3HXNH75KWN7", "length": 727, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thesydneyinstitute.com.au", "title": "Early Australia: Nobles And Convicts In The Age Of Liberty \u2013 The Sydney Institute", "raw_content": "Early Australia: Nobles And Convicts In The Age Of Liberty\nAndrew Tink was educated at the Australian National University. He practised as a barrister, before his election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party in 1988. In 2003, he was appointed Shadow Attorney General. He retired from Parliament in 2007 and has since written a biography of one of Australia\u2019s greatest early settlers, William Wentworth (1790-1872) \u2013 William Charles Wentworth \u2013 Australia\u2019s Greatest Native Son (Allen & Unwin, 2009). On Tuesday, 17 November 2009, Andrew Tink addressed The Sydney Institute to share his fascinating insight into the life and times of William Wentworth.\n: 'Issue #5'-Sydney Papers Online, Andrew Tink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 83.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thriveadvertisingco.com/category/television-advertising-agency/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OYU73H6YWTDXM462ZSPCW2POY33XAPKM", "length": 99, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thriveadvertisingco.com", "title": "Television Advertising Agency Archives | Thrive Advertising", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as \u201cTelevision Advertising Agency\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 6890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 157.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tiendagourmet.co/the-edge-of-the-world-gaspard-ulliel-and-gerard-depardieu-in-the-heart-of-darkness", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3JYE23C4LIEYVHTKJOYTU7DIDB6PRI36", "length": 3432, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tiendagourmet.co", "title": "The Edge of the world : Gaspard Ulliel and G\u00e9rard Depardieu in the heart of darkness | Daily News", "raw_content": "Home Life Style The Edge of the world : Gaspard Ulliel and G\u00e9rard Depardieu in...\nThe Edge of the world : Gaspard Ulliel and G\u00e9rard Depardieu in the heart of darkness\nGuillaume Nicloux like different routes, to Be not laughter of happiness (1995), already presented at The directors \u2018 Fortnight, to Valley of Love (2015) and The End (2016), by way of The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014). For The Edge of the world , a war film, dark and bitter, he had to read Joseph Conrad and loved Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola.\nIndochina in 1945. Robert Tassen (Gaspard Ulliel), a French soldier, is the only survivor of a massacre in which his brother and his wife had been killed. It is no longer just an obsession, revenge of the person who has committed, lieutenant Ho Chi Minh. The evil incarnate.\nBut Robert Tassen encounter love in the form of a young Mai (Lang-Khe Tran, who made his first and pretty not at the cinema). And crosses Saintonge, a writer of mystery that plays the role of guide, \u201cvector\u201d, according to Gaspard Ulliel.\nAs for his two previous films, the filmmaker relies on a distribution of choice. He again sought this force of nature that is G\u00e9rard Depardieu. A \u201cplayer and generous human who IS and is not playing\u201d, note Gaspard Ulliel who has learned that the object of his admiration was reading Saint-Simon. \u201cHe was paternal with me,\u201d he recalls.\nTHE EDGE OF the WORLD [VF] [trailer] \u2013 Watch on Figaro Live\nCarnal and raw\nThe thirty-year-old sees his own character as a \u201csoul\u201d floating between the world of the living and of the dead. A being tormented by guilt, caught in a \u201cquest for the existential\u201d on the borders of madness in a hostile environment. \u201cThere is something carnal and very raw in the way of filming by Guillaume Nicloux, the scenes of violence and sex,\u201d observes the comedian is the new face of Chanel. Sensitive souls refrain. \u201cIt is more suggested than shown,\u201d explains the director.\nlike its feature-length films previous, the places where Guillaume Nicloux turns are as important as the performers. The jungle is often shown through clouds of opaque smoke and mist is persistent making navigating the narrative between reality and lucid dreaming. The image of the historical truth that does not search for Guillaume Nicloux. He himself says, the denunciation of colonialism is not about the movie.\nIt identifies the more closely an ordinary man in unusual circumstances, the extremes, which affect his inner being. \u201cHe lives a nightmare and tries to cope with the Mai,\u201d says Gaspard Ulliel. The latter has given much thought to the actor\u2019s work with Guillaume Nicloux that was running it for the first time. In its own way.\n\u201cIt is often said that an actor must learn his character, but with William, this is not possible,\u201d said the comedian, he leaves the scenes fit together in themselves, he cultivates the unexpected, it was a great feeling of freedom. It\u2019s enjoyable, it constantly seeks.\u201d This was less the case for a series for Arte that they were touring together, It was a second time, around a man who does not love pain.\n\u201cThe Edge of the world\u201d, war film by Guillaume Nicloux. With Gaspard Ulliel, Guillaume Gouix, Lang-Khe Tran, G\u00e9rard Depardieu. Duration: 1 h 43.\nPrevious articlePaul Greveillac receives the prix Jean-Giono to the table of Goncourt\nNext articleFive years after the death of his daughter Kate, Jane Birkin speaks out on the difficult reconstruction", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 7507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timberdoodlestudio.com/environmental-educators-of-north-carolina-logo", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VHEWECWVMFV7WONSVAHOIIVOA6ATCKJV", "length": 783, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "timberdoodlestudio.com", "title": "Timberdoodle Studio - Environmental Educators of North Carolina Logo", "raw_content": "Client: Environmental Educators of North Carolina\nMessages: To convey an updated and professional look to the organization using the existing elements of the previous logo including the three main areas of North Carolina- mountain, piedmont and coast. To convey a sense of a welcoming community of environmental educators across the state.\nAudience: Current EENC members, environmental educators, formal and non-formal educators.\nDesired outcomes: To recruit new members by conveying the organization as a welcoming community; to create a design featuring the three main areas of North Carolina - mountain, piedmont and coast - that could be used on merchandise that can become a source of revenue for the organization; to provide members an opportunity to showcase their membership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timeinpixels.com/video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4W5SDMPWTOII2DXOSPFAY5ADYTI3KS4D", "length": 488, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "timeinpixels.com", "title": "Video \u2013 Time in Pixels", "raw_content": "The short movie we have been working on for the past few months is an action movie with a slight touch of the comedy. Shot in Cyprus and entirely funded\u2026\nWhile shooting some videos with my friends they entered the parking lot and started doing a lot of noise\u2026 Couldn\u2019t resist but record them! Unfortunately my hand was tired after\u2026\nRecently I started using my camera also for some video work, and this is my first official movie I shot a few days ago at the Life Street Festival Limassol\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://times-age.co.nz/kids-fun-ruined/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:R7KHBQHLVPW4ESVUOJF4T67ZRICKCFNY", "length": 3585, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "times-age.co.nz", "title": "Kids\u2019 fun ruined - Times Age", "raw_content": "Kids\u2019 fun ruined\nGreytown playing Red Star in the Under-9 semi-final. PHOTO/AARON WOODCOCK\nBad behaviour by parents has rugby final canned\nWairarapa\u2019s Under-9 rugby final scheduled for tonight has been cancelled, after Red Star and Greytown clubs agreed to send a \u201cstrong message\u201d to badly behaved parents.\nDuring a contentious semi-final between the teams last Saturday, parents hurled verbal abuse at a referee, leading to club officials agreeing that neither team would go to the final against Gladstone.\nThe match was refereed by the coaches and ended in confusion when the Greytown coach had his side as the winner 7-6 (one point is awarded for a try), while the Red Star coach recorded it as a draw.\nThe match was decided in extra time by a Red Star try.\nThe celebrations were short-lived, however, with the club delegates this week agreeing that neither side would play the final.\nIt robbed the players of the chance to play under lights on the artificial turf at Masterton\u2019s Memorial Park, leaving parents angry and players in tears.\nRed Star parent Liz Polley said her son Theo was devastated by what had happened.\n\u201cWhat do we want our children to learn from this? I can tell you what my eight-year-old has learned \u2013 that he wants to quit and not play rugby next season.\n\u201cI can\u2019t believe the kids are being punished because of the behaviour of the parents.\n\u201cWhy couldn\u2019t it have been handled in a way that they could have played the final \u2013 why didn\u2019t they ban the parents involved?\n\u201cThe team has worked so hard this season, but now they\u2019re heartbroken.\u201d\nRed Star spokesman Brent McGlashan agreed the decision was hard on the players.\n\u201cNo, it\u2019s not fair on the kids, but what happened on the sidelines wasn\u2019t fair to the kids either,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe got together and decided to set a precedent \u2013 there is no need for that kind of behaviour.\u201d\nMcGlashan said the problem was widespread.\n\u201cWe\u2019re disappointed other grades haven\u2019t taken action. There was some pretty ugly stuff in other grades on Saturday.\u201d\nGreytown delegate Tavita Isaac agreed.\n\u201cIt\u2019s sad for both teams and for Gladstone, but it\u2019s a consequence of the poor behaviour of parents.\n\u201cThe reason there is no final is that both teams agreed that the best way to send a message to parents was that neither team would be in the final.\u201d\nIsaac said while parents could be passionate, \u201cthe bottom line is that it\u2019s about the kids\u201d.\n\u201cSideline abuse is much bigger than an Under-9 final. We hope this sends a strong message to all adults that bad sidelines behaviour has no place in our sport.\u201d\nGladstone disappointed not to play under lights\nAt junior [JAB] level, clubs are encouraged to resolve disputes by themselves, and the Wairarapa-Bush Rugby Union was not involved in the decision.\nChief executive Tony Hargood praised the clubs for their approach.\n\u201cWe\u2019re very disappointed that this has happened but we\u2019re pleased with the positive action taken by the clubs,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve probably had one of our best JAB seasons for a long time and something has just happened over the weekend.\u201d\nHargood said the union would be working with clubs to develop measures to improve sideline behaviour.\n\u201cWe want positive sidelines and we\u2019ll be doing work over summer to reinforce that for the 2019 season.\u201d\nGladstone JAB convener Andy Bunny said the club\u2019s Under-9s were also disappointed they had won by default.\n\u201cThey won the competition but they won\u2019t get to play under the lights,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a good place to be.\n\u201cRef abuse can be shocking . . . the kids are there to have fun.\u201d\nThese parents shud be ashamed of themselves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timmcguireimages.photoshelter.com/image/I0000hFBMDUDioNQ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2JVX7PKPH42QYNST4BDGHXOQAXKEEMD7", "length": 116, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "timmcguireimages.photoshelter.com", "title": "aa050ad.jpg | Tim McGuire Images", "raw_content": "aa050ad.jpg\nA self portrait before moving out of my studio of over 10 years on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-overcome-insecurity-and-change-your-negative-relationship-patterns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UFG3NAGAYG5T73R5LX46BBP5LRLKCW2S", "length": 10191, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "tinybuddha.com", "title": "How To Overcome Insecurity and Change Your Negative Relationship Patterns - Tiny Buddha", "raw_content": "How To Overcome Insecurity and Change Your Negative Relationship Patterns\n\u201cSometimes our thoughts are backed by so much insecurity that they create lies we believe.\u201d ~Unknown\nAfter nearly a year of being single and after going through my fifth breakup, I found myself involved with someone new.\nIt was the typical guy-meets-girl story you read about all over the Internet. We met for dinner and drinks and there was an immediate attraction. We laughed and talked and overall had a great night. By the second date, he stayed the night at my house and didn\u2019t leave for four days.\nThis time I felt I was more prepared. I had studied relationships. I had learned about communicating. I was sure I was going to get my needs met and everything would be perfect.\nI thought I was changed and that meant everything would be different this time. Surprise! Life doesn\u2019t work that way.\nI\u2019m not sure I noticed it at the time, but I was still feeling a little insecure and unsure and wasn\u2019t ready to let go of my fears. I made sure to continually tell him what I wanted and needed in a relationship. Little by little, I was pushing my agenda on him.\nNaturally, he started to back away. I don\u2019t think he even knew why and I certainly didn\u2019t know either. I only knew I was feeling out of control and was perpetually pissed at him for being a jerk.\nSlowly, we stopped spending all weekend together. He wasn\u2019t coming over after work as often. His texts were more sporadic. Then, one Friday went by with not a word. Then a Saturday and then Sunday went by. It had been three whole days with no text, no call, no plans, no nothing.\nWho did this guy think I was? Didn\u2019t I deserve some sort of contact? What was I to do? Certainly this behavior was not acceptable!\nSo I cried and blamed him and told myself I had chosen wrong again, and that I wouldn\u2019t be put in a position of feeling \u201cless than.\u201d Then I texted him out of the blue with the words, \u201cDon\u2019t ever call me again.\u201d\nI thought this was the totally mature way to handle things and that I was only \u201cprotecting myself.\u201d I was, right? Wrong.\nI couldn\u2019t stop thinking about what I had done. I felt awful. I knew what I had written wasn\u2019t what I wanted to say or what I felt. I realized that yet again I was acting out of fear, and if I wanted to change my patterns, I had to change myself.\nI wanted him to be wrong, but I realized he wasn\u2019t and that he was just reacting to me.\nI also realized that I was the only one who could change my world, so I did. I thought long and hard about what I wanted and read some more. I realized that my style of communication was still failing, and that if I wanted things to change with him, they had to change with me.\nSo after about two weeks I called him and apologized for the way I ended things. I told him I\u2019d reacted out of fear and that I was confused and scared and didn\u2019t know what else to do. I knew that in addition to apologizing I had to change my patterns of interacting with him.\nThis time, instead of making everything about me and my wants and needs and fears, I began to take an interest in him and his life. I completely put myself aside (for the moment) because I knew that if I wanted a different result, I had to try a different path.\nFirst off, I went slowly. I let him contact me at his own pace. He had to feel comfortable with talking to me again and realize I wasn\u2019t going to freak out or push some needy agenda on him.\nI had to learn to calm myself, which is something I thought I had already done, but apparently I had more work to do.\nOftentimes we reach out to others in the expectation that if they respond correctly, we\u2019ll be reassured of our worthiness. Don\u2019t let someone else dictate how you feel about yourself. If someone calls or doesn\u2019t call or texts or doesn\u2019t text, you need to be okay with it and realize the world won\u2019t end.\nHave some patience (which is hard for many of us), and try and sit back and enjoy every moment of the conversations or time together you do have. Stop living in the past or the future. Be present and go slowly. Life is not a race to the end, but a journey with laughter and love and joy and pain all along the way, and you can\u2019t escape any of it, so stop trying.\nSecondly, I listened. I listened to what was going on in his life and asked questions. I took an interest in the struggles he was having and was sincerely concerned and understanding.\nIf you want to know someone and want them in your life, listen to them. They don\u2019t need to know your entire story right off the bat, (It\u2019s been four months and he doesn\u2019t know mine).\nPeople are generally egoistic, and showing your potential partner that you want to know about them, what moves them, what motivates them, and what type of person they are will go a long way.\nI\u2019m not saying you should listen with a goal in mind. Don\u2019t think to yourself, \u201cAha, if I listen to him or her, he/she will want to be with me.\u201d Listen because you care. Listen because the world doesn\u2019t revolve around you and your needs all the time.\nHuman beings are amazing creatures, and every single one of us has different fears, needs, and desires. The more time you invest in understanding your potential or current partner, the more you will get in return.\nStop Assuming You Know\nThirdly, I learned how to stop assuming and start asking. Never assume how someone feels. Never assume what they want or what they need.\nSome days we would be in the middle of texting and he would suddenly *poof* disappear. I was left confused and irritated.\nThe next time it happened, instead of assuming he didn\u2019t want to talk to me or he didn\u2019t care (which is what I would normally do), I asked him about it and he told me why it happens. And of course it had nothing to do with me. Victory!\nInstead of saying nothing, I said, \u201cI\u2019m trying to understand you, and sometimes when we\u2019re in the middle of talking and you suddenly disappear. Why is that?\u201d\nI asked because I truly wanted to understand. I didn\u2019t blame him. It took a lot of courage to ask, as I normally just make up answers in my head and put up walls, so I was really proud of myself for doing it.\nMost of us tend to jump to conclusions about how others feel because we view the world through our tinted lenses. This is fairly normal, but it can lead to confusion, misunderstandings, and anger if you do it all the time. Try to step outside yourself and see how others may perceive you or perceive the world.\nWhen you ask someone a question, come from a place of love and wanting to understand, not from a place of blame or frustration. Be straightforward and say, \u201cI\u2019m trying to understand you better. When xxxx happens I am often confused, and I\u2019m wondering if you could explain it to me.\u201d\nWhen you want to share your feelings or communicate what is going on with you try not to say, \u201cYou make me feel x, y, z when you do x, y z.\u201d\nPeople don\u2019t make you feel anything to you. Their actions may trigger certain feelings, based on how you interpret them, but it\u2019s also possible you are already feeling depressed or anxious or lonely or scared, and only think the other person is making you feel that way.\nWe all choose what we believe and how we interpret the things other people do, and those beliefs and interpretations create our feelings. The other person can\u2019t possibly know what\u2019s going on in your head unless you explain to them that you have these insecurities and that it isn\u2019t their fault, but you want them to know.\nWhen you come from a place of insecurity, you will often project blame onto the other person when it\u2019s possible that what they did or said had no negative connotation whatsoever.\nSometimes people are clueless, sometimes thoughtless, sometimes self-absorbed, but most of the time their intention isn\u2019t to hurt your feelings. Try to remember this before you speak.\nLearn to Communicate From Love\nLove and intimacy are scary. There are days when I still struggle with whether he cares, and I suddenly go quiet and retreat into my world.\nMy natural reaction when I\u2019m falling in love is to want to run, and run fast. I want to put up walls and let the other person try to climb over them, as I\u2019m sure many of you do as well. I\u2019m sure you also know this isn\u2019t remotely healthy and is only a protective mechanism.\nCommunicating from love means letting down your walls, even if just a little, and accepting the possibility of being hurt.\nOne day I was talking to him about my blog and how it means a lot to me when people are thankful for what I write or appreciative of my stories. Because he was playing on his computer and didn\u2019t seem to be listening, I felt unimportant.\nI became quiet. My plan was to say nothing. I assumed he just didn\u2019t care to listen. My old patterns were creeping back in. However, this time I realized that if I want to keep moving forward and keep changing, I had to share my feelings instead of running inside myself.\nI know that most of my fears of not feeling important stem from my childhood and my issues, and it isn\u2019t fair to push them on him. I told him, \u201cSometimes I don\u2019t feel important to you.\u201d Just saying it was a relief.\nI could tell he didn\u2019t have a clue what I was talking about. He said, \u201cOf course you\u2019re important and I care about what you have to say.\u201d I realized in that moment the fears I had were my own and weren\u2019t rooted in any truth.\nIt can feel monumentally scary and overwhelming to share even little fears, but if you do it in a way that shows your vulnerability and if you are with someone who has any capacity to love, then you will be amazed at the results you get.\nBy doing all those things I mentioned above, I changed my relationship. When I gave to him he gave back. The more I put out the more I got in return. I stopped making the entire relationship about me. Everything has changed, and it\u2019s all because I chose to change it.\nRemember that in the end you have no control over anyone but yourself. If you want or need something, stop looking to the other person to give it to you and start looking to yourself.\nYou can change your life and your relationship patterns. It may not happen overnight and it may not be as fast as you want, but have some faith and keep moving forward. Love will happen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 13208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://today.reframemedia.com/devotions/jekyll-and-hyde-and-you-2011-03-13", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SE7BGCKCQSOGHZF633VDROILOWLSE7HL", "length": 1601, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "today.reframemedia.com", "title": "Jekyll and Hyde and You - Today Daily Devotional", "raw_content": "Jekyll and Hyde and You\nYou were taught \u2026 to put off your old self \u2026 and to put on the new self, created to be like God \u2026\nDo you ever feel as if you are two different persons?\nBack in the nineteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson explored that idea in his short suspense novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.\nIn an effort to become a better person, Dr. Jekyll, a mild-mannered man of science, develops a potion that can separate his good self from his bad self. What happens instead is that his bad side turns out to be much more evil than expected. At night he becomes Mr. Hyde, a mysterious and violent man who thinks only of his own desires. Once Dr. Jekyll realizes his own evil, he clamps down on his Mr. Hyde, resolving not to take the magic potion anymore. But Hyde has become too strong. In despair of ever changing himself for the good, Dr. Jekyll commits suicide.\nThe apostle Paul speaks of the same struggle in different terms\u2014\u201cold self\u201d and \u201cnew self.\u201d One of the great issues of life is how we can change permanently and deeply so that we look more like Jesus all the time. Will it take moral effort, or meditation, or what?\nIn Ephesians 4 Paul says it requires \u201cthe truth that is in Jesus.\u201d There is much to learn about how the power of the cross creates that truth in us. But today let\u2019s give thanks that Christ can change our old self into a new self that honors him.\nAs we worship you today, Lord Jesus, fill us with hope that we can change. Teach us the truth about you, and may we give you thanks. 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AOTY", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://topmgc.com/microgaming-slots/bulls-eye.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3GTJWYXDZ3JYPXFZRCCDZVPNCYEH4FU", "length": 2441, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "topmgc.com", "title": "Play Free Microgaming Video Slot Bulls Eye", "raw_content": "Play Bulls Eye Slot Free\nBulls Eye is a classic slot machine that is based on the game of darts, hence the choice of title. You have a pretty regular classic title in a lot of ways, starting with some of the symbols which are on the paytable, and continuing even with some features. There are also some unusual options besides the usual wilds with multipliers, the slot offering a bonus game in certain conditions. You will get 3 reels, 1 line and you will be able to win a prize of $5,000.\nThere are some options which you have in this game, and others that you don\u2019t. For the former, I would mention the option to change the number of coins which are used, between 1 and 3 being the range you\u2019re working with. For the latter, the coin denomination is always fixed at $1, so you can bet $1, $2 or $3 per spin, no more, no less.\nThe value of the reward you can get depends on the bet you\u2019re making each round. With a 3 coin bet, you can hope for the best prize, and you can also get the bonus game. The best prize is going to return 5,000 coins to you, worth $5,000.\nBulls Eye Slot Features\nThe more regular feature of Bulls Eye is the one with the wild ability. The wild symbol, showing you the guy throwing darts, is a substitute for others, and it is also the one that can form a combo and pay you the biggest prize. It pays when you have three matching wilds on the payline, while the rest of the time it acts as a replacement symbol.\nOne wild in a combo with two matching regular icons will pay you 2x the usual payout. Should two wilds be on a line with one regular symbol, the payout is multiplied with 4x.\nFinally, the slot has a special feature to give away, but only to players that have used 3 coins that round in their bet. The reward will come from a Dartboard symbol appearing on the 3rd reel. The Bulls Eye Bonus starts, giving you a chance at some additional payouts.\nIt\u2019s a pleasant enough design, despite the classic influence which is clear here. You have only two themed symbols, with the Darts Player and the Dartboard, the rest being cherries and the Bar symbols. The difference comes from the color of the reels as well, since they come in a light blue here, while in every other 3 reel slot they will be white and simple.\nBulls Eye online slot will be a decent game to play if you\u2019re into a game of darts once in a while. It even has a bonus game, something that you definitely don\u2019t expect to see in a classic title.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toseiamerica.com/products/e-dt-80se/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VXYJRSMN7KJ4RMKYLFHWPSWIBIGJNXCO", "length": 561, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "toseiamerica.com", "title": "E-DT-80SE - Tosei America", "raw_content": "Pencil Type Probe\nSupporting insertion of a work in horizontal direction. (Pre travel can be adjusted)\nSupporting a Variety of Applications\nThe new detector, E-DT-80SE has unitized the coil part and the slide part, so that the Pre travel can be adjusted by the separated structure.\nThis has enabled supporting a variety of applications, e.g., measuring the height by inserting a work from the horizontal direction. In addition, the unitization has enabled maintenance. Moreover, \u201cWaterproof specification\u201d conforming to the Waterproof standard IP67 is lined up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trauma.lbg.ac.at/en/aktuelles/wings-life-funded-project-examine-shockwave-treatment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YUSQPK737M6PK3RZ2GF2BLPUI2GLCRHG", "length": 1017, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "trauma.lbg.ac.at", "title": "Wings for Life funded project to examine shockwave treatment | Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology", "raw_content": "Apart from rehabilitation, treatment options for patients suffering from spinal cord injury are very limited. During the sub-acute phase after injury, secondary processes of damage, such as inflammation and scar formation, take place. It is thus regarded as one of the clinically most relevant time points for therapeutic intervention.\nIn promising preliminary findings (conducted with the support of the Lorenz B\u00f6hler Fonds, kindly provided by the AUVA) extracorporeal shockwave treatment (ESWT) has been shown to improve regeneration and modulate inflammatory processes in different tissues, including neuronal tissues such as peripheral nerves. Therefore, the Wings For Life foundation has awarded a grant to researchers from the LBI Trauma. The team under the lead of Dr Heinz Redl is optimistic that their research on ESWT during the sub-acute and chronic phase after spinal cord injury will contribute valuable data adding to the general knowledge on treating patients in a safe, non-invasive and effective way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triblive.com/opinion/tompurcell/14504061-74/tom-purcell-its-up-to-us-to-realize-dr-kings-dream", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:52Z", "digest": "sha1:T4MM2AVR3YD2LXZNWVARSSESBY6BLJBC", "length": 1989, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "triblive.com", "title": "Tom Purcell: It's up to us to realize Dr. King's dream | TribLIVE", "raw_content": "Too many of us are consumed with hatred and anger, which have reared their ugly heads in our public discourse lately. Dr. King, who endured hatred so ugly and excessive that it led to his assassination, spoke often of the futility of hating anyone or anything \u2014 of how hating harms the hater more than the hated:\n\u201cI have decided to stick to love \u2026 . Hate is too great a burden to bear.\u201d\nOur political leaders\u2019 courage has always been in regrettably short supply. If only those leaders \u2014 who are more concerned with partisan interests than with our country\u2019s many challenges \u2014 would heed these words from Dr. King:\nPride, the worst of the seven deadly sins, blinds us and holds us back. Dr. King taught us that forgiveness is the way to defeat pride:\n\u201cForgiveness means reconciliation, a coming together again.\u201d\nThere is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.\u201d\nSomething my father did in the military in the 1950s still makes me proud. He was raised in Pittsburgh in an era when he had limited interaction with the African-American community. In the Army, however, he became best friends with an African-American who was being harassed by another fellow solely because of his skin color.\nMy father, a large, powerful man, used his fists to put an end to the harassment. His friend went on to become a physician. My father says of him, \u201cHe was the finest man I ever met.\u201d\nDr. King understood that each of us walks the same path \u2014 that only a lack of good communication is holding us back:\nDr. King\u2019s dream was that his \u201cfour little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\u201d\nMy dream is that one day, we\u2019ll finally get there \u2014 that one day, we\u2019ll realize Dr. King\u2019s wisdom, fully embrace it and act on it, fulfilling his dream and America\u2019s promise of equality for all.\nIt\u2019s up to us to realize Dr. King\u2019s dream.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 8172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://truefire.com/blues-guitar-lessons/jam-night-vol-1/bird-n-some-beast-overview/v20277", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HVZC4IX7HFIDQHARF7JBYHB57DBT7IBE", "length": 645, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "truefire.com", "title": "Bird 'n' Some Beast: Overview - Andy Aledort - Guitar Lesson - TrueFire", "raw_content": "Watch the Bird 'n' Some Beast online guitar lesson by Andy Aledort from Jam Night Vol. 1\nNo open jam is complete without a handful of Rolling Stones classics, and \"Beast of Burden\" is a perfect example of rocked up R&B/soul as interpreted by Stones guitarist Keith Richards. One of the coolest things about this type of chord progression is the steady movement between relative major chord, E, and relative minor chords, C#m. It's a lot of fun to devise different ways to move back and forth between these two chords when playing rhyhtm guitar as well as when soloing. In each turn through the progression E-C#m is followed by the four chord, A.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 12099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tvadvertsongs.com/tag/cloudfactory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JX6AIVYBLHHQOCXO7TK2SZ3BRUVOK7SO", "length": 447, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tvadvertsongs.com", "title": "Cloudfactory TV Commercial Songs", "raw_content": "Tag: Cloudfactory\nBooking.com: One Mission\nThis is a commercial ad of Booking.com. This commercial was released in January 2017 in Netherlands. Under the title of \u201cBooking.com: One Mission\u201d. Booking.com is in the business of \u2026\nMarlies Dekkers: The Awakening\nThis is a commercial ad of Marlies Dekkers Lingerie. This commercial was released in November 2015 in Netherlands. Under the title of \u201cMarlies Dekkers: The Awakening\u201d. When Jess, Sandrine \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tweedriverjockeyclub.com.au/john-sullivan-ready-to-give-his-final-judgement/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:07Z", "digest": "sha1:22CKBHUUXYOE3RGVSBENUSY2S5MYJZ77", "length": 3125, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "tweedriverjockeyclub.com.au", "title": "Final Judgement Day - Tweed River Jockey Club", "raw_content": "JOHN Sullivan is retiring as Northern Rivers Racing Association judge.\nAfter 30 years, nine of them at the Clarence River Jockey Club in Grafton and the last 21 as the NRRA judge, the popular racing official is calling it quits.\nAbout to turn 71 he has had a long and exact career.\nOne of his last race meetings was the recent Murwillumbah Cup meeting where he had a Murwillumbah Cup dead heat to adjudicate.\n\u201cIt was quite incredible,\u201d he said of that deadheat between Future Event and Zamex in such a major Cup race.\n\u201cI knew it was tight from the naked eye.\u201d\nThat deadheat reminded him of a few similar results but also fuelled some regrets about retiring.\n\u201cI would have loved to judge a triple deadheat or a quadruple,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe closest might have been at Ballina one day, where I had a dead heat by a nose. At Grafton recently it was a nose by a shot half head.\n\u201cI came close to a triple deadheat five times I think, one of them was at Murwillumbah one day when the margin was a nose by a nose.\u201d\nFor John the art of judging was about being prepared and being able to forget.\n\u201cYou have to make sure your ready, got to expect the unexpected,\u201d he said.\nYou have to \u201clock in\u201d all the horses running in the next race but, then, when that race is over start again on the next.\nWhen asked some days what had won the first race he couldn\u2019t tell people because he was studying the horses and colours in the next.\nSometimes you might have a 16-horse race and it might take you two minutes to lock them in,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThen you might have eight in the next and it takes you a lot longer. It can get very intense. But you have t be able to switch on and off too.\u201d\nHe might have done that around 13000 times, he said.\nThat\u2019s how many races he might have (approximately) adjudicated on.\nIt has also been part of a juggling act for John.\nWhile judging at the races he also had part time permanent jobs as a personal carer in a nursing home and a maintenance man at two local schools.\nOrganising all three was a constant task so he could also pen poetry in spare time as well.\nOne of those poems was about Takeover Target the equine superstar who was bought for $1400 by a Queanbeyan taxi driver, Joe Janiak, and became a brilliant sprinter winning Group 1s in Australia and England.\n\u201cHe was the best horse I\u2019ve seen race here (Northern Rivers),\u201d John said.\n\u201cAmazing, a remarkable horse and story. I wrote a poem about him after he won the Ramornie. Started with nine verses but Joe said there is more to come yet. I ended up with 36 verses!\u201d\nFor John the judging has been a wonderful time.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been very fortunate,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an intense job and challenging. I\u2019ve worked with some great racecallers over the years too. I\u2019ve been lucky I\u2019ve been able to mentally prepare for each race. I prepared the same for a Ramornie as I did for a maiden at Tabulam.\u201d\nThis week he has a Grafton meeting (Thursday) to work at before next week\u2019s Lismore Cup meeting (Thursday, September 20). After Murwillumbah\u2019s Cup deadheat a triple deadheat in the Lismore Cup would sure be something for John to judge.\nAs he said: \u201cExpect the unexpected\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ualbertalaw.typepad.com/faculty/2018/10/case-briefs-st-catharines-milling.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:25HPEPS5HE3NOJ4OIQMEMTRBOOPUSQGD", "length": 5370, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ualbertalaw.typepad.com", "title": "University of Alberta Faculty of Law Blog: Case Briefs: St. Catharine's Milling", "raw_content": "\u00ab The Pass System | Main | Case Briefs: R v Badger \u00bb\nCase Briefs: St. Catharine's Milling\nPhoto retrieved from: http://www.wabigoonlakeon.ca/\nFor the next two weeks, ReconciliAction YEG will be summarizing important Aboriginal law cases. Today\u2019s post will cover what was the leading case on Indigenous land rights for 85 years: St. Catharine\u2019s Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen. [1]\nSt. Catharine\u2019s Milling was a jurisdictional dispute between Ontario and Canada that was appealed all the way up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the final judicial authority in Canada at the time). While one of the primary issues in the case concerned the nature of Indigenous land rights, there was no Indigenous representation in the arguments made before the Privy Council. All arguments about the nature of Indigenous land rights were made by colonial government officials, and so Indigenous peoples were not given a voice in deciding how their land rights would be described for nearly a century.\nThe dispute arose because Ontario served a writ on St. Catharine\u2019s Milling and Lumber Company (the spelling of which is a little inconsistent) after the company acted on a permit by the federal government to harvest trees from a tract of land near Wabigoon Lake (pictured above) in Treaty 3 territory. The Salteaux tribe of the Ojibway people ceded the land to the federal government in Treaty 3, and the federal government in turn granted a logging permit to St. Catharines. Ontario successfully argued that, pursuant to the British North America Act, [2] the federal government could not grant this logging permit because it was an infringement on provincial jurisdiction.\nEdward Blake, counsel for Ontario, argued that there were three possible characterizations of Indigenous interests in land: first, that Indigenous peoples had an absolute interest in their land; second, a \u201cmiddle view\u201d that Indigenous people had a right of \u201coccupancy and enjoyment, of a special kind, perhaps limited to the purposes of hunting and fishing, tribal in its character, capable, not of transfer, but only of extinguishment or of surrender to the owner of the fee or of the allodial title\u2026\u201d (the \u201callodial title\u201d in this case meaning the Crown); and third, a \u201clowest view of Indian title,\u201d which denies Indigenous peoples an absolute legal right to land, but permits them to use and enjoy the land based on \u201cgrace and policy.\u201d [3]\nThe third, lowest view was the view that was adopted in St. Catharine\u2019s Milling, and consequently the view that governed Canadian law for almost a century. Lord Watson, delivering the judgment for the Privy Council, considered the Royal Proclamation of 1763, [4] and went so far as to say the following about lands that were not ceded or sold to the Crown in a treaty:\nIt was suggested, in the course of the argument for the Dominion, that inasmuch as the [Royal Proclamation of 1763] recites that the territories thereby reserved for Indians had never been \u201cceded to or purchased by\u201d the Crown, the entire property of the land remained with them. That inference is, however, at variance with the terms of the [Royal Proclamation of 1763], which show that the tenure of the Indians was a personal and usufructuary right, dependent upon the good will of the sovereign. [5]\nAs such, for most of the 20th Century, Indigenous title meant something less than a \u201cright.\u201d It meant that the Crown merely permitted Indigenous people usufructuary enjoyment and occupation of their lands. Because of St. Catharine\u2019s Milling, there would be no common law recognition of the modern concept of \u201cAboriginal title\u201d until the Supreme Court of Canada would decide Calder v British Columbia (Attorney-General) [6] in 1973. The Truth & Reconciliation Commission has said that until Calder and subsequent Aboriginal title cases were decided, St. Catharine\u2019s Milling contributed to a \u201cchilling effect on the willingness of Aboriginal people to turn to the civil system to address their disputes with government or to assert the rights they felt they continued to have.\u201d [7]\nIn conclusion, St. Catharine\u2019s Milling was a significant obstacle to Indigenous peoples\u2019 land rights, and their participation in our legal system for the better part of a century.\n[1] [1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) [St. Catharine\u2019s Milling].\n[2] The British North America Act, 1867, SS 1867, c 3.\n[3] Blake, Edward. The St. Catharine's Milling and Lumber Company V. the Queen: Argument of Mr. Blake, of Counsel for Ontario. Toronto: Press of the Budget, 1888. Arguments of Counsel for the Respondent.\n[4] Royal Proclamation, 1763, RSC, 1985, App. II, No. 1.\n[5] Supra note 1 at 5.\n[6] [1973] SCR 313, 34 DLR (3d) 145 [Calder].\n[7] Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Volume 5. Montreal: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2015.\nTags: Aboriginal law, Aboriginal title, allodial, British North America Act, Canadian law, Canadian politics, colonization, decolonization, education, Edward Blake, Indigeneity, Indigenous, Indigenous peoples, law blog, law students, Ontario, Privy Council, reconciliaction, resistance, resurgence, Royal Proclamation, settler colonialism, St. Catharine's Milling, Team ReconciliAction YEG, TRC, truth and reconciliation, university, University of Alberta, Wabigoon Lake", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 14975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uglyforeverblog.com/2016/12/02/in-love-with-an-addict/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JVPANIL45LAWI7IDJOVYMJQZL5ZSXMSG", "length": 5209, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uglyforeverblog.com", "title": "In Love with an Addict\u2026.. \u2013 U.G.L.Y Forever", "raw_content": "***Inside the Mind of Krissy G\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026***\nDo you know how it feels to be in love with someone addicted to drugs? Do you know how it feels to have children with this person? Do you know how it feels to \u201clook the other way\u201d because this person is trying to hide what they are doing? Do you know how it feels to pretend that you don\u2019t know the amount of drugs the person you love is doing? Do you know how it feels to want to help the person you love but they don\u2019t think they have a problem or even know that you see the problem? Do you know the repercussions of being with a drug abuser? Do you know how it feels to not be able to let go of this person because you have now become addicted? Not addicted to drugs but addicted to this person and the need to want to help them or the hope that they will one day get better. Nobody\u2019s story is the same but they seem to all have the same basis. Nobody in your life will understand because this person may be quite different from the type of person you would normally date but it was just something about them. Although you were very aware of the roughness around the edges, there was something pure about their heart. You don\u2019t know what it was but you just had to be with them but it doesn\u2019t take very long for things to get exposed. Being in love with someone addicted to drugs is hard, especially if you don\u2019t do drugs yourself. You never know what person you\u2019re going to get. What I\u2019m saying is sometimes when they come down off that high and they begin to crave more they can be evil people. Very angry and hurtful and you never know if its one of those times until it happens.\nHaving children with this person makes the soul tie even tighter because its hard to turn a child away from their parent because all they feel is pure love no matter what. Sometimes you have to look the other way because after being with the person for so long you start to notice patterns and can tell when they may have done drugs previously but you\u2019re afraid to say anything so you don\u2019t. Although you want to help the person, the first step to recovery is admittance and if they don\u2019t think they have a problem its a lost cause. Being with a person like this comes with a LOT of baggage. They are typically addicted because of deep-rooted issues that they have being trying to numb all of their lives but the thing is, doing these drugs completely alters your mind. Eventually they can no longer control their emotions and guess whose there to get the brunt of it all, YOU. Most people addicted to drugs tend to be abusive as well, but here\u2019s the thing, you never know when its going to happen. I say that meaning, things will be beautiful for months on end but once they get to a point where they can no longer fight the addiction you become the target. Whether its physical or emotional, you become the worse person on the planet to them. They begin to inflict all of the pain inside of them on you and everything becomes your fault. This can last as long as a day or longer. All the way until they finally get that hit again, then everything is back fine. The reality of the matter is these type of people tend to have no remorse for their actions. It\u2019s ALWAYS a motive because ultimately the main goal is how to benefit themselves no matter who they hurt.\nTime after time you would sit and cry and pray and wonder what you were doing wrong that your relationship was failing. You have to realize that what you\u2019re dealing with was not your regular relationship quarrels. These issues have nothing to do with you. These issues are bigger than you. But for whatever reason it becomes hard to let go. You become addicted to that person. You hope to finally get back to the pure heart that you were once exposed to but just like any addiction you become addicted to chasing that high you first felt the first time it hit you. You have invested so much time and its hard to move on from that. Some people will say that when dealing with someone who has these type of problems that they don\u2019t love you. I can\u2019t completely agree with this because I don\u2019t doubt the love in all of these cases. I just feel that the love is not strong enough to feed what they need. All in all, there is no excuse or reason that you should stay and accept the treatment received by this person. If they aren\u2019t willing to get help for themselves then staying is only going to cause more harm for you. I can only imagine very few outcomes for a situation like this. I honestly I don\u2019t have all the answers for something like this, but I do know this, you have to realize at some point that you can not help them and if you have found yourself in a situation like this or similar to this\u2026RUN\u2026before it\u2019s too late and you end up becoming addicted to that drug that you despise so much trying to stay STUCK in love with an addict.\nPosted in Feel It Fridays - Random Posts, Inside the Mind of Krissy G.Tagged Addiction, Beauty, Feel It Friday, Healing Wednesday, Health, Krissy G, Love, Love Yourself, Motivational, Random, Self Esteem, Self Love, UGLYForever.\nOne thought on \u201cIn Love with an Addict\u2026..\u201d\nkheziewillys says:\nI feel like this is my post\u2026 I can so well relate..\nPrevious Post ***Bonus Sounds***", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/harrison-ford-leaders-deny-climate-142351855.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MER6TUWNLMXYKUPMXCK7U3LBZ6A4FYWM", "length": 2626, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "uk.movies.yahoo.com", "title": "Harrison Ford: leaders who deny climate change are 'on the wrong side of history'", "raw_content": "Harrison Ford speaks at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 12 February. Photograph: Jon Gambrell/AP\nHarrison Ford has launched a scorching attack on Donald Trump and other world leaders, for denying science in order to justify doing nothing to face the \u201cmoral crisis\u201d of climate change.\nThe actor best known for fighting off Imperial stormtroopers as Han Solo and writhing in snake pits as Indiana Jones has now taken on the combined might of climate change deniers, with Trump a top target. Though Ford did not mention the US president by name, the subject of his speech at the final day of the World Government Summit in Dubai was beyond doubt.\nFord, at 76 four years Trump\u2019s senior, has long been a campaigner for global environmental protection. He prefaced his speech at the summit with a short film, narrated in his trademark lion\u2019s growl, featuring the character of Nature speaking about the future.\n\u201cIf I\u2019m not kept healthy, humans won\u2019t survive, simple as that,\u201d Nature says. \u201cI could give a damn with or without humans, I\u2019m the ocean. I covered this entire planet once, and I can always cover it again.\u201d\nClimate change denial and skepticism about established scientific truth have long been embraced by Trump. He has been propagating conspiracy theories about global warming since at least 2012, when he claimed it was a ruse by China to gain an unfair manufacturing advantage over the US.\nIn June 2017 Trump withdrew the US from the Paris agreement to limit global pollution levels and control temperature rise. Last November he responded to a dire US climate assessment by 13 government agencies and top scientists with the blunt words: \u201cI don\u2019t believe it.\u201d\nOnly on Sunday, Trump issued yet another denigrating tweet in which he sought to mock the Democratic senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar, who had just launched a 2020 presidential bid, but ended up mocking climate science. He noted that Klobuchar had addressed global warming in her speech as snow fell around her.\n\u201cBad timing,\u201d Trump said.\nIn an interview with CNN before his Dubai appearance, Ford criticized directly the Trump administration for being \u201cbent on dismantling all of the gains we\u2019ve made in the protection of the environment\u201d.\nHe lamented the \u201cisolationism, nationalism that\u2019s creeping into governments all across the developed world. The problems require attention on nature\u2019s scale not on the scale of the next election.\u201d\nIn his address to the summit, Ford called climate change \u201cthe greatest moral crisis of our time. We need nature now more than ever because nature doesn\u2019t need people, people need nature.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/anna-paquin-posting-pictures-children-000100054.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LRUWTMEXVDQHECOPKPLLYYH6ZDTJ2EPV", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Anna Paquin: posting pictures of children on social media is not fair", "raw_content": "The star of Flack is concerned about online habits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/girl-rescued-falling-panda-enclosure-030900435.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:F2ZL4UIVJLU2XXXQPS4QOHZQE5JGRNEF", "length": 621, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Girl rescued after falling into panda enclosure in southwest China", "raw_content": "Girl rescued after falling into panda enclosure in southwest China\nA young girl was rescued after falling into a panda enclosure in southwest China, state media reported on Sunday.\nState broadcaster CCTV showed video of a security guard first trying to rescue the girl in red with a stick, then leaning through a gap to hold the girl's hand and pull her out as the pandas were approaching with no apparent attempt to attack.\nThe incident took place at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on Saturday, CCTV said. The girl was not injured and the cause of the incident was still under investigation, it added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stars-post-birthday-messages-jennifer-205457837.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5DEVQT4YVBJN37TOKIDSIXEWCLTBDOV", "length": 84, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Stars post birthday messages to Jennifer Aniston as actress turns 50", "raw_content": "Jennifer celebrated the milestone birthday with a star-studded party at the weekend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uknowledge.uky.edu/klj/vol89/iss4/8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4VPGTYYPNG5M4MGYQZDCHCMFABKJDBCW", "length": 280, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "uknowledge.uky.edu", "title": "\"Currents in the Stream\" by Matthew M. Morrison", "raw_content": "Currents in the Stream: The Evolving Legal Status of Gay and Lesbian Persons in Kentucky\nMatthew M. Morrison\nMorrison, Matthew M. (2001) \"Currents in the Stream: The Evolving Legal Status of Gay and Lesbian Persons in Kentucky,\" Kentucky Law Journal: Vol. 89 : Iss. 4 , Article 8.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unreachednewyork.com/people-profiles?ropc=105018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:19Z", "digest": "sha1:U5NYZQOBNQ2YP4CX4DSB7P3NHWLW5LHN", "length": 5369, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "unreachednewyork.com", "title": "ethNYcity", "raw_content": "Vietnamese in Metro New York\nPlace of Origin: Vietnam (predominantly South Vietnam)\nLocation in Metro New York: Queens (Flushing, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights); Bronx (University Heights, Fordham); New Jersey (Jersey City); Brooklyn (Sunset Park); Manhattan (Chinatown)\nPopulation in Metro New York: 38,710 (ACS 2010 Vietnamese who selected Asian alone as race); 32,418 (ACS 2010 Born in Vietnam)\nPopulation in New York City: 13,937 (ACS 2010 Vietnamese who selected Asian alone as race); 12,057 (ACS 2010 Born in Vietnam)\nSecondary Religion: Christianity (Roman Catholic, evangelical); Taoism; Hoa Hao; Cao Dai\nPrimary Languages: Vietnamese, Chinese (Teochew or Cantonese),\nBio: After the United States realized that a decisive victory over North Vietnam in the Vietnam War would not be imminent, they began withdrawing troops and turning the war over to the South Vietnamese. Although the number of their artillery, tanks, and armored cars was far greater than their communist enemies', the South Vietnamese were easily defeated in 1975, and a mass exodus from the country took place. As a result, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants have become the largest Southeast Asian group represented in the United States. Metro New York is usually not a prime destination for refugee settlements, as refugees are typically placed in areas with a surplus of cheap housing stock. However, circumstances in Jersey City and the Bronx were favorable to the Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese soon established a sizeable community in Metro New York, which now numbers over 38 thousand (ACS 2010). As they still bear the scars of years of fighting, bloodshed, displacement, and loss, the Vietnamese community has struggled to form a cohesive identity, with ethnic, class, and religious differences still in play. The most obvious distinction is that between the ethnic Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese from Vietnam. The latter make up a significant portion of the Vietnamese community in Metro New York, and they have settled alongside the large Chinese population in the city.\nWhen Did They Come to New York? Before 1975, there were hardly any Vietnamese in Metro New York. However, as the war situation became bleak in 1975, a US company began relocating their Vietnamese employees to Jersey City. When Saigon fell later that year, the first large wave of Vietnamese emigration ensued, with some joining the new community in Jersey City. This group consisted largely of educated urbanites with American connections, and many were Catholic. The second wave of Vietnamese immigrants, known as \u201cboat people,\u201d started coming in the late 1970s and consisted primarily of less-educated farmers, fishermen, and coastal people with access to escape boats. At the same time, Vietnam and China went to war, causing anti-Chinese sentiment to escalate. As a result, many of the emigrants during this time were of Chinese extraction, usually either Teochew or Cantonese, even though they spoke Vietnamese fluently. These \u201cboat people\u201d had to live in refugee camps in Southeast Asia before being resettled in the United States, and sometimes their stay in the camps lasted up to fifteen years. In response to international pressure, the Vietnamese government facilitated emigration from Vietnam under the Orderly Departure Program, which legally brought tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to America throughout the 1980s and '90s. While emigration continues from Vietnam in a variety of ways, Metro New York's Vietnamese population is also increasing due to internal immigration from elsewhere in the US.\nWhere Do They Live? Jersey City and the area around University Avenue and Fordham Road in the Bronx were the first Vietnamese settlements in Metro New York, but the largest concentration today is found in Queens, particularly in Flushing, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Although scattered \u201cSaigon\u201d or \u201cVietnamese\u201d store sightings abound, there is no obvious Vietnamese enclave in the city.\nWhat Do They Believe? Thao, an elderly Buddhist \u201cboat person\u201d in Jersey City, attends an evangelical Vietnamese church every Sunday. Church members claim, \u201cHe comes because he wants his kids to learn Vietnamese.\u201d While half of Vietnamese Americans are Buddhist, Buddhism has not engaged the social lives of Vietnamese Americans like Christianity. Around twenty percent of Vietnamese Americans are Roman Catholic and thirteen percent, evangelical Christian.\nWhat Are Their Lives Like? Thirty percent of Vietnamese in New York City live in poverty, and twenty-seven percent are at risk for depression. Many Vietnamese, however, seek to erase the memories of the past through hard work. While there are many professionals, Vietnamese have found job niches at smoothie carts and Vietnamese restaurants. In fact, Vietnamese sandwiches (b\u00e1nh m\u00ec) are becoming mainstream city fare.\nMost Vietnamese Americans identify with the former South Vietnam flag that is yellow with three horizontal red stripes and view the official Vietnam flag used today as a sign of communism.\nTet, the Vietnamese New Year, is the most celebrated event of the year.\nThe largest Vietnamese-American community is in Orange County, California.\nHow To Pray: The Christian church has played a prominent role in caring for Vietnamese refugees. Pray that God's love through His people will draw many Vietnamese to become followers of Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 7855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unreachednewyork.com/people-profiles?ropc=110760", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BMCHAYZBY3C6W474I2NC45EXHOTCFQHH", "length": 5012, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "unreachednewyork.com", "title": "ethNYcity", "raw_content": "Panamanians in Metro New York\nPlace of Origin: Panama (mainly Panama City and areas around the former Panama Canal Zone)\nLocation in Metro New York: Brooklyn (Flatbush, Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, East Flatbush)\nPopulation in Metro New York: 39,150 (ACS 2010 Specific Origin Panama); 25,413 (ACS 2010 Born in Panama)\nPopulation in New York City: 26,536 (ACS 2010 Specific Origin Panama); 17,777 (ACS 2010 Born in Panama)\nPrimary Languages: English, Spanish,\nBio: In 1914, work was finally completed on the Panama Canal, a modern marvel of engineering, determination, and hard labor. Today, a majority of the close to 40 thousand Panamanians in Metro New York (ACS 2010) can attribute their strong national identity to the construction of this one monumental project. From the beginning of the Panama Canal's construction under a failed French attempt in the late nineteenth century to the Americans' revised and successful building of the canal in the early twentieth century, Afro-Caribbeans from Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and elsewhere journeyed by the thousands to the Central American isthmus for the promise of steady work. After the canal was built, many workers stayed, and now Afro-Caribbeans and mulattos make up fourteen percent of Panama's population. Despite the country's largely mestizo and Spanish-speaking population, many Afro-Caribbean immigrants continued to speak English, mainly settling in Panama City, which bordered the American-controlled Panama Canal Zone. Their familiarity with English and the urban environment later made New York City a popular immigration destination and partially explains why seventy-five percent of Panamanians in Metro New York are Afro-Panamanians. While the remaining mestizos almost exclusively speak Spanish upon arrival, the Afro-Panamanians vary widely in their linguistic ability. Some speak only Spanish or English, while others are bilingual. With Spanish the official language of Panama, many Afro-Panamanians spoke English at home while learning Spanish at school. Having settled primarily among other English-speaking Caribbeans in New York, however, most second- and third-generation Panamanians speak only English. No matter what their background, as one Panamanian community leader claims, \u201cThere is a certain something that Panamanians have\u2014a pride that each Panamanian possesses that unites all Pana- manians together. Panamanians are paisanos [...] and we greet one another by calling out, 'Paisa!'\u201d\nWhen Did They Come to New York? Panamanian migration to New York began in the late 1800s with immigrants first settling in Harlem, later moving to Brooklyn. Almost twenty percent of Panama-born immigrants in Metro New York arrived in the United States before 1965, most of whom arrived in the 1950s and early 60s. Immigration steadily continued in the late 1960s up until the 1980s before slowing in the 1990s. Almost all immigrants have come from in and around Panama City or the former Panama Canal Zone.\nWhere Do They Live? Walking along Franklin Avenue from the southeast end of Prospect Park in Brooklyn to the far northeastern end of the park, one can clearly see the Afro-identity of most Panamanians. It is here in Brooklyn's Flatbush and Crown Heights neighborhoods, the center of America's Afro-Caribbean population, that an overwhelming percentage of Metro New York Panamanians reside, clearly embracing an Afro-Caribbean identity over their Hispanic national heritage.\nWhat Do They Believe? Panamanians in Metro New York are almost exclusively Christian. Perhaps eighty-five to ninety percent of Latino-Panamanians are Catholic, while about half of Afro-Panamanians are either evangelical or mainline Protestant and forty percent, Catholic. The largest evangelical church in New York City, the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, is pastored by Panama-born A.R. Bernard. Despite a strong Christian identity, some Panamanian Catholics incorporate elements of Pocomania into their religious practice, which involves spirit possession and other religious elements inherited from Africa.\nWhat Are Their Lives Like? When the pioneers of Panamanian immigration came to New York City, they envisioned a bright future for their children. These first-generation immigrants were disproportionately professionals and highly educated. In a cruel twist of immigration fate, their children and especially their grandchildren have often adopted the worst aspects of New York culture, with few graduating from high school and more than a few involving themselves in illicit activities and occupations.\nThe largest Panamanian population in the United States is in Metro New York. It is well over twice the size of Metro Miami\u2019s Panamanian population, which is the 2nd largest.\nAround 50% of Panamanians in Metro New York live in Brooklyn.\nAround 60% of Panamanians in Metro New York are women.\nHow To Pray: Pray that wayward Panamanian youth would have their percentage of Metro New York Panamanians lives transformed by the gospel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 7555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/02-roundtable-on-anti-war-organizing-in-canada", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CT5A5NFMLO7FRUYYGVTBKY52GUXGL7KV", "length": 56401, "nlines": 116, "source_domain": "uppingtheanti.org", "title": "Roundtable on Anti-War Organizing in Canada \u2013 Upping the Anti", "raw_content": "This roundtable is an attempt to address some of the issues currently facing anti-war (and, more broadly, anti-occupation) organizing within the Canadian state. While obviously not a representative sample of the diverse collectives and organizations that comprise the Canadian anti-war movement, these interviews hint at the political debates that underscore its organizing. Seven participants agreed to answer the following questions by e-mail and sent in their responses. The interviews were carried out by Lesley J. Wood with:\nChris Arsenault: Block the Empire, Students Taking Action in Chiapas, Halifax.\nMike DesRoches: June 30th Organizing Committee (now the Toronto Solidarity Project), Toronto.\nDerrick O\u2019Keefe: Stop the War Coalition, Vancouver.\nAndrea Schmidt: Block the Empire, Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), Montreal\nGeorge \u2018Mick\u2019 Sweetman: Punching Out North-Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC), Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Toronto.\nHonor Brabazon: The Catapult! Collective, Direct Action Casework Ottawa, Solidarity Across Borders Ottawa; and Jessie X: The Catapult! Collective, Ottawa.\n?Describe the trajectory of the anti-war movement in your city since the major anti-war protests of 2003. What is the current shape of anti-war organizing in your city?\nChris: Although better than that of most other cities of comparable size, anti-war organizing in Halifax has seriously declined since 2003. Before the war started, many people who were new to activism took to the streets, feeling they could alter policy and even history. After the bombs started dropping, however, many felt powerless. You could really feel the decline. During the siege of Falluja, for example, marches only attracted 100 people or so.\nI think part of the decline in mass participation is due to the lack of a decent political analysis from many of the people who were out in 2003; the idea that the Bush administration would change its policies based on polite public pressure and well articulated moral arguments is absurd. When the war wasn\u2019t stopped by the biggest protest movement in human history, people gave up.\nI wish I could say that the movement is on the rebound, but it isn\u2019t. There were around 300 to 400 people out for the demonstration on March 19, 2005, and about 80 attended a panel discussion the night before. The one bright spot is on campuses, where the work of a few very dedicated organizers from the Student Coalition Against War has built a far stronger student network than we saw in 2003. Still, the total numbers have declined dramatically.\nMike: The anti-war movement in Toronto has faced a downward trajectory since it peaked in February and March of 2003. The Stop the War Coalition achieved the goal of their organizing, which was not to stop the war (since that was seen as a US problem), but to tell the world that Canada didn\u2019t like the war. Since the large demos included thousands of folks who had never previously taken to the streets, the Stop the War Coalition was content to end mobilizing and begin working on their more traditional terrain: sectarian politics. They narrowly focused on being the largest body to publicly express (and control) the debate, and sought to discredit other groups so that they would appear to be the only legitimate group taking action around issues of imperialism and occupation.\nIn order to challenge this, the June 30th Organizing Committee (J30) formed in the summer of 2004 around an explicitly radical analysis that was meant to widen the anti-war debate and to create a space for confrontational challenges to the imperialist Canadian state. By challenging Canadian corporate involvement in the occupations of Iraq, Palestine, and Haiti, we have not only resisted the idea that Chr\u00e9tien/Martin should be praised for keeping Canada \u201cout\u201d of Iraq, but we have also challenged the widely propagated lie that Canada is not responsible for imperial violence.\nWhile the Stop the War Coalition has retreated into building their sectarian formations, J30 has tried to build a movement that can actually challenge Canadian corporations and the Canadian state within a largely nationalist culture that finds it easier to point a finger at the US than look in the mirror and recognize its own role in global empire.?\nDerrick: After the much heralded \u201cfall of Baghdad\u201d on April 9, 2003, there was certainly a sudden drop in the number of people that could be mobilized. Politically, there was broad agreement to move from anti-war to anti-occupation slogans and, while there was some burn out among activists, organizing has continued to be consistent and vibrant.\nThe movement in Vancouver has been relatively successful in terms of mass education and in maintaining a public profile. The challenge for us has been around building anti-war campaigns that achieve concrete goals while also raising participants\u2019 political confidence. Overall, the breadth and visibility of the anti-war movement in Vancouver over the past two or three years bodes well for social justice struggles in general.\nOn the negative side, there have been acrimonious factional divisions in Vancouver\u2019s anti-war movement, but these are issues that are irrelevant to the general public. Hopefully, the all too prevalent sectarianism in our movements can be overcome by reaching out broadly and of course by keeping the fire on our real enemy: US Empire and imperialism in general.\nAndrea: On February 15, 2003, 250,000 people marched in Montreal against the impending invasion of Iraq. Another 100,000 person march was also coordinated by the mainstream anti-war coalition, Echec \u00e0 la Guerre, on the weekend following the US invasion of Baghdad on March 20, 2003.\nOver the next two years, the anti-war movement\u2019s public presence became markedly weaker. Although the occupation in Iraq has been no less brutal than the invasion, the demonstration on March 20, 2004 drew significantly fewer people (around 10,000). As influential unions shifted their organizing priorities and withdrew significant support from the coalition, Echec \u00e0 la Guerre began to focus more on public education than on targeting Canada\u2019s role in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, or its support for Israeli apartheid. As well as distributing publications, members of the coalition have invited US war resisters and anti-war organizers from the U.K. to public conferences. Though well attended, these events have not contributed to remobilizing the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois center-left, and the mainstream anti-war coalition has become increasingly weak.\nA more radical (that is to say, clearly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and generally anti-authoritarian) group, Block the Empire, was formed around the time of the invasion to try to mobilize against not only the occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, but also Canadian imperialism more broadly. In the two years since the invasion, I think it is fair to say that Block the Empire has grown from an ad hoc crew of people who organized direct actions in the build up to the invasion of Iraq to an actual group that tries to mobilize around a much deeper analysis of Canadian imperialism (with a focus on the Middle East). That said, the group is very small and has not significantly grown in numbers since it was started two years ago.\nMick: The current state of anti-war organizing in Toronto is fractured and includes the Stop the War Coalition (social democrats), the June 30th Coalition (affiliated with People\u2019s Global Action), Homes Not Bombs, the Jewish Women\u2019s Committee Against the Occupation, Al-Awda, and a War Resisters campaign, as well as the regular smorgasbord of leftist (mostly socialist) groups. There is very little interaction between the different groups, and most seem content to try and carve out their own individual niche in the anti-war movement instead of trying to build it as a whole. I hope that doesn\u2019t sound too critical as I\u2019m not trying to argue that the existing groups would be able to successfully merge, but the fact is that the anti-war movement in Toronto consists of small, isolated groups of activists and is no longer a mass movement.\nHonor & Jessie: As in many other cities, the streets were packed in Ottawa in 2003. There was a concerted effort by people in the region to try to publicly voice their opposition to the war by taking to the streets, although the goal for many people did not extend beyond this. Some notable organizing progress was made, however. For example, activists from both Hull and Ottawa marched together, which is significant since there has seldom been much cooperation between the two adjacent cities.\nNOWAR-PAIX is the main left-liberal group, while Together Against War (TAW) and the Student Coalition Against War (SCAW) are newer and a bit more militant. Prior to Catapult!, the main radical group involved in anti-war activity was Anti-capitalist Community Action (ACA), a group affiliated with People\u2019s Global Action (PGA) and whose main focus previously had been anti-poverty work. Catapult! originated when members of ACA and other Ottawa radicals came together to organize as a new PGA bloc, in coordination with Montreal and Toronto PGA affiliated groups, against George Bush\u2019s visit to Ottawa in November-December, 2004. This loose union of Ottawa radicals has since grown into a solid collective.\nSince the invasion (with the exception of the visit by Bush), there has been a decline in anti-war organizing, and there is now significantly less presence in the streets. The connections made between activists in Hull and Ottawa are not as strong as they were, and other gains have been reversed. By 2003, the campus based anti-war groups were largely infiltrated by the Trotskyist International Socialists, which aligned itself with existing left-liberal peace groups such as NOWAR-PAIX.\nThere are two main reasons for the decline. First, many people were satisfied that Canada was not officially participating in the war, and, feeling that the rest was out of their hands, went home. Second, those who had wanted to stop the war completely felt as though they had failed, and, doubting their power to effect further change, also went home. Both reactions seem to be the result of insufficient connections made between the war on Iraq and both broader and more specific contexts.\nOn the one hand, a broader context was necessary. Had stronger connections been made between the war on Iraq and war and occupation in general (if not our entire system of global capitalism), more people might have seen the struggle as an ongoing process. This might also have helped people to understand the nature of the forces they were up against and the strategies necessary to fight them. In particular, people might have seen that significant change would require a movement which not only spoke out against the war but which also raised the social cost to governments and corporations of continuing their involvement in war and occupation.\nOn the other hand, a more specific context was needed as well. Connections between the war in Iraq, Canadian war profiteering, and racist immigration policies, for example, could have produced a wealth of local targets in a city like Ottawa. The greater visibility of local targets and their connections to people\u2019s daily lives could have increased understanding and participation in the movement. This, combined with the greater (perceived) accountability or vulnerability of local targets, could have resulted in the winning of small victories, which in turn could have increased participant confidence and commitment. The nature of Ottawa does work against us too, though. In a government town, this type of self-examination is challenging since it forces many people to acknowledge the nature of the machine (and their own role within it).\nThe radical left recognized these connections and attempted many of these strategies. The campaign against SNC-Lavalin is one example: we have chosen a concrete local target, connected the target to the war and the broader global capitalist system, and used the means necessary to raise the social cost to that target of continuing its role in war and occupation.\nHow have the radical left, the trade union movement, and the socialist led anti-war movements interacted? Has it been possible for you to work in coalition with the \u201cofficial\u201d anti-war movement? What have been some of the dynamics that have occurred in your relationship to this movement?\nChris: Anti-war activists in Halifax with an explicit anti-capitalist analysis have largely organized as Block the Empire (BTE). For a while, we had a tenuous but workable relationship with the Halifax Peace Coalition (HPC), a liberal organization that organized marshalled demonstrations. Most of the people involved with the HPC are committed activists and decent folks, but there is definitely some bad blood between us. Relations are currently at an all time low because we issued a press release that addressed the fact that the anti-war movement is in \u201cdisarray\u201d (something that has occurred globally), which they interpreted as an attack against them. Right now, some of the organizers for both groups aren\u2019t even on speaking terms. In a city of this size, political comments are often taken very personally.\nBlock the Empire occupied the Halifax office of Lockheed Martin (the world\u2019s largest war profiteer) on February 17, 2003, and shut the place down for half a day. Even though the action was disruptive, the HPC didn\u2019t condemn us.\nThe day the war started, however, we organized a march before the official rally that drew over 200 participants. The police violently rushed us, and, targeting activists of colour, made several arrests. Though the march was entirely peaceful, and the police attack unprovoked, the HPC didn\u2019t defend us when speaking to the media. During the incredible demonstrations against Bush\u2019s visit to Ottawa and Halifax (to which 7000 people came out on merely a week\u2019s notice), Block the Empire was at the forefront of the organizing.\nMike: The radical left originally participated in the large anti-war marches but very quickly became frustrated with them. There were a couple of breakaway marches even before the invasion of Iraq which led to confrontation between police and demonstrators at the British and US Consulates. At this point, the breakaway marches were fairly spontaneous because there was no radical left formation working explicitly on anti-war/anti-occupation work. When J30 came together, it rejected the politics, actions, and organizing methods of the Stop the War Coalition. Because we were trying to create a new anti-war movement that would simultaneously complement theirs, the Stop the War Coalition understood that we were a challenge. They scheduled rallies at the same time in order to draw people away from our events and marches. They failed to shut us down in that initial conflict, but our relationship has never resolved itself. The biggest problem for us has been that, because the Stop the War Coalition has retreated from large scale mobilizing, it has had a ripple effect on the possibilities for mobilizing around occupation in general.\nDerrick: Socialists and trade union activists have been leaders in the anti-war movement, as have a number of other dedicated political actors of various ideological backgrounds. So, in terms of interactions, I think that the urgency of the global situation \u2013 the explicit advance of imperialist power \u2013 has brought a number of people together. And, for the most part, people have continued to work together, realizing the necessity to continue organizing against the occupations in the Middle East, the interventions in Latin America, the misnamed \u201cmissile defense\u201d program, and the many other manifestations of imperialism which are at work today.\nA section of what would normally be defined as the radical left has abstained from the anti-war movement, at least in terms of the work of organizing rallies, pickets, and large public forums. And the more conservative sectors on the left have abstained for different reasons. I\u2019m thinking of sections of the labour movement, for example, as well as most non-governmental organizations, and, with some exceptions, those who are primarily active in the New Democratic Party. Unfortunately, these organizations should \u2013 given their stated mandates and the interests of their members \u2013 be an important part of anti-war work, but, for the most part, they haven\u2019t been involved.\nAndrea: In Montreal, radical left groups like Block the Empire have typically been members of Echec \u00e0 la guerre, the broad anti-war coalition that was spearheaded and funded by community sector groups and unions. We have attended meetings and made proposals that were sometimes taken up by working committees. In this sense, then, radical groups have been able to push their lines on certain issues. In 2003, for example, there were debates within the anti-war coalition about whether or not to have speakers from the new Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, because they were concerned that the \u201cNo war in Iraq\u201d message would be too diluted. After much arguing, members of the Coalition and No One Is Illegal managed to convince the organizers that publicly opposing impending deportations is related to anti-war organizing and that there are explicit connections between war, occupation, and displacement, as well as Canadian and Israeli state racism.\nThe anti-war movement as a whole seemed to share this reluctance to make connections between an anti-war and anti-occupation position and (im)migration justice issues. I remember distributing over 2000 flyers for a No One Is Illegal public assembly featuring non-status speakers on (im)migrant justice issues at the 250,000 person February 15, 2003 demonstration. No one from outside of No One Is Illegal circles, or from out of town, attended the NOII assembly.\nTwo years later, however, there is almost no debate within the anti-war coalition that these issues are connected closely. The union movement and community sector groups have not always been supportive of more radical groups, which are treated with some suspicion within the coalition, largely on (semi-unspoken) tactical grounds.\nAt the same time, the Echec \u00e0 la Guerre Coalition seems to have become increasingly willing to endorse events and appeals put out by other groups and coalitions working for (im)migrant rights.\nRadical groups typically have given minimal support to Echec \u00e0 la Guerre. Instead of contributing substantial organizing time or energy directly to its projects, radicals have chosen to work on complementary projects that push a more anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist analysis of war and occupation. For example, Anti-Capitalist Convergence, North-Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists, No One Is Illegal, and Block the Empire have all, at different times, called for radical blocs within the large anti-war marches from which to disseminate a more anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist message.\nMick: I was involved in a small group of anarchists and anti-authoritarian communists called \u201cNo war but the class war!\u201d during the mass protests in early 2003. We published a critical analysis of the politics being put forward by the leadership of the Stop the War Coalition, which was primarily social democratic and nationalist, and also the Trotskyist \u201cdefend\u201d Iraq position. We felt that both positions were ultimately pro-war, and tried to carve out a space where people could reject both the bloody capitalist \u201cpeace\u201d being advocated by the Stop the War coalition, as well as the pro-war rhetoric of the Trotskyists, who sided with the brutal Iraqi state against the US.\nWhile we had political disagreements with a number of groups, the International Socialists (IS) were by far the most aggressive in shutting down debate. They even threatened to physically attack (in clear collusion with police) demonstrators who refused to move off the street in front of the US Consulate. This incident underlined the type of centralized, top down movement that they wanted.\nNEFAC is a small propaganda group and, as such, didn\u2019t have much of an organizational relationship with the Stop the War coalition. We were, however, quite active in the mass demonstrations at fighting for a strategy that focused on refusal, desertion, and mass direct action and anti-war strikes by the working class. The latter occurred on a small scale in Canada when dock workers on the East coast refused to handle war materials. One work refusal is worth a hundred demonstrations.\nCurrently, I think that the mainstream anti-war movement is taking a positive turn in that its members are supporting US soldiers who have refused to fight in the war and who are claiming refugee status in Canada.\nHonor & Jessie: There have been times when Catapult! members have worked with the \u201cofficial\u201d anti-war group, either individually or as representatives of Catapult!. These experiences have been both fruitful and frustrating.\nWe\u2019ve attended the mainstream group\u2019s meetings and worked with them in coalitions; we\u2019ve attended their events and organized complementary events; and we\u2019ve organized blocs within mainstream marches as well as breakaway marches.\nFrom the start, all of this has been difficult. ACA members were active in the coalition formed to oppose the invasion of Iraq. We were met with hostility from liberals, who disagreed with our more confrontational/direct action approach, and our contributions were usually ignored. We have been criticized, preached to, and made to jump through hoops by the \u201cofficial\u201d group that consistently claims a higher moral ground.\nDifferences in goals and tactics form the main points of contention. The goal of the radical left has been to stop not only the war in Iraq, but also other wars abroad, the ongoing wars at home, and the global capitalist system as a whole. The goals of the mainstream movement have generally been limited to voicing opposition to the war, preventing Canada\u2019s official participation in the war, or stopping the war.\nTo achieve these different goals, naturally we use different tactics. The mainstream movement has assumed a narrow focus, catering to the \u2018lowest common denominator\u2019 in the belief that this will increase its numbers. These strategies interfere minimally with the workings of the system.\nThe radical left, on the other hand, explicitly makes links to both broader and more specific contexts, and we directly confront things that represent what we are struggling against. We continually try to educate ourselves and others by conducting research and organizing speaking events about SNC-Lavalin, the war, and the global capitalist system of which they are products, while making links with related struggles.\nOttawa has a relatively small activist community, so the divisions between activists on these kinds of issues are old. The only positive part of this split is that there is a growing radical community in Ottawa which was not there a decade ago. Ottawa is traditionally a tame \u2018establishment\u2019 city when it comes to radical analysis and confrontational tactics, but Ottawa radicals are continuing to raise the bar.\nAre the forces doing anti-war and anti-occupation work in your city based upon previous networks developed from the anti-globalization movement, or are they based on other struggles?\nChris: Most of Block the Empire\u2019s organizers are definitely from an anti-globalization background. We\u2019re pushing hard, through our actions and public education, to incorporate more of an economic analysis of the war: the visible fist of American power that expands the interests of the market\u2019s hidden hand. Many of the folks from the HPC come more from an anti-nuclear or even Vietnam war era context, so their methods of organizing and analysis are quite different.\nWe conduct our meetings in a consensus formula that most of us learned while organizing for the protests against the FTAA in Quebec City. The e-mail lists, Indymedia center, and, most importantly, the personal and organizational relationships built during global justice organizing made it far easier to get the ball rolling for anti-war mobilizations.\nMike: J30 originally started in order to fill the gap that existed in the radical left. There were many people from such left groups as Autonomy and Solidarity, the New Socialists, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), and No One Is Illegal, as well as student organizers and folks involved in the Palestinian solidarity movement who were frustrated with the state of anti-war organizing but who lacked a space to come together around that issue. Everyone was doing their own thing and getting frustrated that nothing was being done about the war. So J30 drew together people from these groups, and many of them were indeed linked to the anti-globalization movement. It has now become much more of an organizing collective, but, when it started, it was very much a convergence of different groups and organizers.\nDerrick: I think that existing networks from previous struggles against capitalist globalization have been part of the anti-war and anti-occupation movement\u2019s success. Events like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in 1997 and the WTO in Seattle in 1999, definitely helped to rekindle a spirit of mobilization in this region, which has a rich legacy of militant labour, anti-war, and other social justice movements.\nThere\u2019s also a growing awareness of the need to integrate anti-corporate and anti-war analysis. Members of the Stop the War Coalition have done some work on campaigning against SNC-Lavalin, a massive multi-national based in Canada that is selling bullets to the US army for Iraq and that has a finger in a number of other occupied countries. Exposing the truth about the war profiteering of an outfit like SNC-Lavalin helps to destabilize the idea that Canada is a sleepy, peace loving alternative to the war mongering United States. Canadian capitalists are eager to support the US Empire in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Iraq, but are subtle about it in order to maintain a \u2018peace-keeping\u2019 fa\u00e7ade. The \u2018radical\u2019 groups I have mentioned have in various ways grown out of the anti-globalization movement and use the networks that were formed during that wave of social mobilization (I\u2019m thinking here of the CLAC and its broader regional networks). That said, broadly speaking, anti-war and anti-occupation work in Montreal is also based on movements and organizing attempts that preceded the \u2018anti-globalization\u2019 movement (and in some instances, contributed to its development), such as the anti-sanctions movement, the union movement, and Latin America solidarity projects that were developed during the 1980s.\nMick: The International Socialists were certainly constituted before the anti-war movement, and, to a large extent, J30 seems to have grown out of social networks in the \u2018radical\u2019 milieu that also existed before the invasion of Iraq. To be honest, I\u2019m not terribly impressed with the way that either group formed. The IS was very authoritarian in its formation of a \u2018steering committee\u2019 that claimed ownership of the movement, thus negating a participatory process. J30 seems to have formed primarily through different \u2018cliques\u2019 in a broader unstructured \u2018radical\u2019 milieu. It was an equally unstructured group in that it was difficult to participate in a serious way if you were not in with people on a personal level.\nHonor & Jessie: Those who are doing radical anti-war and anti-occupation work in Ottawa definitely have come together through previous networks. Ottawa has a small radical community, so we all end up working together on a semi-regular basis. Many Catapult! people know each other from the now essentially defunct ACA and from Carleton University\u2019s Ontario Public Interest Research Group. There is also membership overlap between Catapult! and other groups organizing around a number of issues.\nAre there connections between anti-war organizing, local organizing in your city, or issues taking place in Canadian society at large? How do they work together?\nChris: The Halifax Peace Committee is currently beginning to incorporate other struggles into their demonstrations, whereas, for a long time, they only talked about Iraq because they thought that talking about Haiti or racism here at home would alienate people. At the demonstration organized on May 19, Block the Empire and SCAW pressed for speakers to address the displacement of Africville residents here in Halifax, the occupation of Haiti, and attacks on immigrants and refugees. It seemed as though it was the first time that speakers who had never previously spoken at an HPC rally were able to address these issues.\nMike: From the start, J30 has been solid about identifying how attacks on immigrant and refugee communities in Toronto are a part of Canadian corporate interests and policy abroad. We have also tried to make links between foreign occupations and the occupation of native lands within Canadian borders. During demonstrations and public forums, we have paid particular attention to the struggle in Kanesatake. In many ways, though, J30 came about through reverse link making; all of its core organizers were already active in various struggles for native self-determination, refugee rights, anti-poverty, and international solidarity work, and it was from those positions that we came together in opposition to the war. Instead of fighting against military involvement overseas and then trying to connect that to what was going on here, we tried to highlight the connections of the struggles we were already involved in to occupation.\nDerrick: Opposing the war at home has been a key point of agreement in the anti-war movement. That said, there\u2019s much to be done on this front; the rollbacks of civil liberties and the increased racial profiling, discrimination, and deportations that have occurred since 9-11 have been staggering. It\u2019s important to note, too, that the racist discrimination against immigrant, refugee, and indigenous communities didn\u2019t begin in 2001; it\u2019s only accelerated. The use of Security Certificates has been one of the most frightening manifestations of this process of taking away democratic rights.\nTo build these links, for example, we have ensured that there have been indigenous speakers from the struggle against Sun Peaks resort at some of the big anti-war rallies, and, recently, statements and letters of support to those opposing the extradition of John Graham (former American Indian Movement member) to the United States. It would be worse than foolish to try to build an anti-war movement here in British Columbia, on indigenous land, without recognizing these ongoing struggles for self-determination.\nAndrea: Block the Empire interacts significantly with a range of solidarity projects (some of which precede the anti-war movement). These projects attempt to offer direct support to people on the front lines of imperialist wars abroad, such as the Colombia Accompaniment Project (PASC), the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and the Iraq Solidarity Project (ISP). Block the Empire (BTE) also works with groups such as No One Is Illegal (NOII), and the Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Solidarity Movement (IPSM).\nIt is worth noting that most of these groups are member groups of CLAC and that many of them are made up of a small core of organizers comprised of 5 to 15 people.\nThis works in a number of different ways. Firstly, we try to make clear conceptual links between issues in our educational materials, actions, and campaigns. BTE explicitly tries to contextualize its work against Canadian imperialism and war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan within an understanding that there is also a war taking place here at home. This war has targeted indigenous peoples on Turtle Island for over 500 years and is a war that makes use of the spectre of \u201cterror\u201d and a number of forms of racism to criminalize (im)migrants, as well as to create classes of easily exploitable migrant labour. Recognizing that wars at home and abroad both aim to preserve a system of global apartheid, we try to be explicit about the fact that any worthwhile anti-imperialist movement in North America is also going to have to become a decolonization movement, and a No Borders/migrant justice movement.\nTangibly, the connections between the work of a group like BTE and groups like IPSM or NOII are facilitated by the fact that there is an overlap in membership between groups. It is common for these groups to work together to put on educational events which explicitly make these conceptual links. A \u201cWar on Terror\u201d workshop series was held in neighbourhoods throughout Montreal last spring by a number of these groups, who also support each other\u2019s actions to the best of their abilities. The overlap in group membership also means, however, that organizers spread themselves thin.\nMick: To be honest, I don\u2019t do a lot of \u201canti-war\u201d organizing. In the long run, wars aren\u2019t going to end as long as capitalism and the state still exist. What I\u2019m really interested in is the building of workers\u2019 power and autonomy, both here and internationally. So, most of the activist work that I do is strategically targeted towards building that power in workplaces and in working class neighbourhoods.\nHow this can connect to anti-war work is interesting. I first met members of the Workers Communist Party of Iran (WCPI), as well as its sister group in Iraq, through WCPI militants who were active in the OCAP. Though we were sidelined by both the liberal and so-called \u2018radical\u2019 anti-war activists in Toronto, our collective has maintained informal ties to them and has supported their efforts to organize independent unions of unemployed people, to distribute Iraqi feminist perspectives on the war, as well as to collect donations for the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq. As anarchist-communists, we still have a number of disagreements with the WCPI, but, in general, we see them as closer to our position on international class war against occupation than reactionary anti-imperialist elements of the resistance. The fact that the only sizable leftist political organization of Iraqis in Toronto has been deliberately and systematically silenced by almost all Toronto anti-war activists (most of whom have never set foot in Iraq) is nothing short of shameful.\nHonor & Jessie: Catapult!\u2019s main campaign is aimed at shutting down SNC-Lavalin, a company which highlights links between numerous issues (indigenous, environmental, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, etc.), as well as between the different levels of Canadian participation in war and occupation (government subsidization, corporate lobbying, trade, etc.).\nCatapult! has tried to emphasize these links in its actions and educational efforts, and by acting in solidarity with other communities and groups. An example is the recent revival of Direct Action Casework Ottawa, a group working primarily with immigrant and refugee communities. We also offer informal support by attending other groups\u2019 events. Membership overlap between groups facilitates this. Finally, at our speaking events, we try to reflect how SNC-Lavalin and imperialism have affected people from many communities. At times, however, we have made decisions which have not reflected our commitment to real solidarity with others\u2019 struggles. This is an area where more discussion and work is needed.\n?How have imbalances of power and privilege within the anti-war movement impacted its growth and development?\nChris: Block the Empire has major problems around oppression, and we really haven\u2019t done a proper job addressing them. In fact, at a debrief meeting last March, there was only one woman, and all the participants were white. The problem of whiteness seems to be one faced by many peace activists from a variety of political persuasions, but issues around gender in this city seem exclusive to radicals.\nWe state our commitment to anti-oppression principals in all our literature and try to incorporate them into our work and analysis. Personally, I think it\u2019s a vicious cultural circle. White middle class men relate to each other in a certain way; it\u2019s not any one action, phrase, or comment that causes the problem, but an organizational culture that we haven\u2019t been able to break out of. Of all the challenges to organizing, a generally complacent public, lack of resources and time, harassment from the authorities, and issues around internal oppression have been the most destructive.\nMike: The first thing I think of when you mention power and privilege within the movement is trade unions. They are very powerful within the Stop the War Coalition and could really contribute to anti-war work if they put themselves on the line. Instead, leaders of the trade union movement have used anti-war organizing for personal gain or for the gain of their political party. This is why, after some of the biggest demonstrations in Canadian history, the Stop the War Coalition put the brakes on mobilization. After defining themselves in a certain way, they failed to examine how to build the movement with the thousands of folks who came out to their first demonstration. This type of organizing disempowers people.\nDerrick: These internal dynamics always need to be considered and addressed \u2013 and it\u2019s certainly not an easy challenge. Men, and perhaps especially white men in their twenties, tend to take up a lot of space and do a lot of the talking at meetings. And I think that long time activists can often become blind to the alienating environment that we tend to create in our meetings with speechifying, over-heated rhetoric, and pointless or repetitive polemical discussions. Not that there shouldn\u2019t be political debate; it just needs to be done in a way that ensures that everyone feels comfortable participating.\nOur movement\u2019s future prospects depend on respectful and consistent consultation with the diverse communities that oppose war and Empire and that are having their rights attacked here at home.\nAndrea: I think that within the large anti-war coalition in Montreal, the power and privilege harnessed by the mostly white community sector and union bureaucracy membership explains the trite sloganeering that dominated marches in 2003. \u201cNo to War, Yes to Peace\u201d was the dominant slogan and, though comforting and unifying for the white Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois middle class, alienated other sectors of the community. It also explains the reticence that the group demonstrated in 2003 towards making connections between migration justice issues and the impending invasion of Iraq.\nIn a related sense, I think that an imbalance of power and privilege allows anti-war organizing to somehow \u2018float\u2019 above more day to day/bread and butter forms of organizing. This contributes to a disturbing lack of consistency and urgency, as well as a failure to strategize seriously about the most effective ways of resisting imperialism from inside North America (this is specifically in reference to radical groups that have been involved in anti-war organizing).\nThe failure to embrace these connections during the height of the anti-war mobilizations in 2003 contributed to an inevitable and massive demobilization as soon as it was obvious that the so-called global anti-war movement had failed to stop the war.\nMick: That\u2019s a daunting question; while I don\u2019t have a crystal ball I would say that it impacted in a couple of key ways.\nClass privilege in the activist left generally means that there are very few people who have direct experience or family members in the military. This leads anti-war activists to create caricatures of the \u2018evil imperialist soldier\u2019 instead of trying to connect and organize with disillusioned, but often extremely isolated, members of the armed forces. The lack of a base and militants in industrial workplaces it also a problem. Strategically this is where workers can cause the most disruption, but the fact that the radical left in Canada is so removed from the shop floors makes it impossible to initiate industrial action against the war. When workplace action does happen, it gets little support form the anti-war movement, even when the workers are shutting down a munitions plant as was seen in Ingersoll, Ontario in 2004 (because it wasn\u2019t specifically an \u2018anti-war\u2019 strike but one over wages, job security, and increasing the war profits being made on their backs).\nActivists also tend to protect their own power (and that of the party, union, group, etc. they\u2019re affiliated with) instead of trying to distribute that power throughout the broadest layers of the movement.\nI would also say that the lack of a coherent politic that tied together oppression in relation not only to the anti-war movement but to society at large was a major problem. Without that, it\u2019s no surprise that the wars weren\u2019t stopped and that most people in the West packed it in and tried to get on with their lives. Focusing people on the anti-war message led to people asking \u201cHow can we change society if we can\u2019t stop a war?\u201d instead of \u201cHow can we stop war without changing society?\u201d It was a real stumbling block.\nHonor & Jessie: Within the mainstream movement, little space has been created to deal with issues of privilege and oppression. There is an increasing analysis of race, but this is in reference to American, Canadian, and Israeli state racism and rarely addresses how we as activists have internalized and reproduced structures of privilege in our own organizing. Even within Catapult!, discussions about internal oppression are rare (space is created for this when requested, but the quality of change is questionable), and anti-oppression training has been repeatedly postponed allegedly due to our busy organizing schedule.\nThe failure of the movement in Ottawa to prioritize addressing our own oppression weakens the movement on a number of levels. The failure to see that larger patterns of domination are maintained through day to day patterns, and that one cannot successfully be fought while the others are maintained, is a critical strategic error. Within Catapult!, a group united on the basis of the interconnectedness of anti-oppression politics and direct action, we cannot be selective about which oppressions are more pressing. How an action is organized is as important as the action itself.\nIssues of oppression have consistently come up within Catapult! but have never been properly dealt with. Membership began as mostly white, male, and under 30, and it continues to be so as new members join (for example, until very recently there was a maximum of two women present at any given meeting). There is clearly a need to examine issues of privilege, particularly in our internal and external organizing strategies.\nInternally, efforts are made to achieve gender parity at speaking events and on communication teams, but these are sometimes overridden by decisions made during (sometimes preventable) last minute crises which expose where the true power lies within the group. Externally, many of our actions are high risk which assumes that all potential participants share the same relationship to the policeand limits the number of people who can participate safely. Actions have also been criticized for being macho in nature.\nRecent actions spanning (and connecting) different degrees of confrontation have broadened participation and have been successful without compromising the principles of the group. We are trying to put our principles of solidarity with various struggles into action by attending events organized by affected communities and following their lead. We have made a conscious effort to be a publicly bilingual group (unusual despite Ottawa\u2019s significant francophone and anglophone communities), although we still function primarily in English. And we have made efforts not to let decision making get concentrated among key members who are socially close.\nThis type of self-examination must continue and expand so that conscious anti-racist and anti-oppression practice is present in all that we do. Hopefully these issues will be addressed at our upcoming \u2018visioning meeting\u2019 for long term planning.\n?What have been your most successful organizing efforts in regards to anti-war work? What were the elements that made these actions successful?\nChris: In terms of scale, the demonstrations against Bush\u2019s visit were by far the largest; he was greeted by significantly more people in Halifax than he was in Ottawa. However, the politic never went much broader than \u201cBush out Now\u201d. Euphemisms such as this one are constantly used, as many people see Bush\u2019s actions and personality as a deviation from the presidential norm, rather than its very embodiment. As soon as Bush left, we were essentially back where we started before he came.\nIn terms of creating something new and exposing the workings of empire, our most successful action was the occupation of Lockheed Martin. It was a different model of organizing than we were used to because much of the planning was done in secret; we spent hours debating every detail of how it would look, how to coordinate between the occupation team and the outside support demonstration, and how to transport an entire demonstration to an office outside of the city without the police knowing where we were headed. We didn\u2019t disclose the target until two minutes before we arrived at the office, and by that time 11 people were already inside, locked arm to arm with PVC piping.\nWe disrupted Lockheed Martin\u2019s technocratic operations for several hours until the cops dragged everyone out. Even the corporate press noted, in a rather positive way, that we were trying to push the envelope of moral protest. A year later, the occupation crew defended themselves in court and fared well. Though the judge was forced to find them guilty because the occupation took place on private property, she offered an absolute discharge so that no one would face punishment or receive a criminal record. The occupation was a comparatively tiny step, but, for us, it represents the direction we want the movement to take.\nMike: J30 has had a number of successes, but the action I\u2019d like to highlight actually occurred before we formed as a group. It was in many ways what made us know that the June 30th action was possible, although it occurred about a year prior to it. The Saturday following the initial attack on Iraq, there was a major demo called by the Stop the War Coalition. The latter\u2019s core organizers were tense because there had already been a breakaway march the night after the first bombing attacks. The major demo was heavily marshalled and well away from the US Consulate. When it began to disperse at Queen\u2019s Park, 10 to 15 of us took a banner and megaphone and began marching through the crowd, calling for people to head back to the Consulate. We ended up with close to a thousand people in front of the US Consulate, tearing down barricades and confronting police. We immediately recognized that something more was possible. I believe that this is still true.\nDerrick: There have been major successes in developing a diverse anti-war movement in tune with oppressed communities. An emergency rally in August, 2004 in response to the attack on Najaf was a collabourative success. Leaders in the local Muslim community approached us, and we organized a genuinely joint effort. Also, the consistency of the presence of the anti-war movement has been a big success; at no point did organizing really fall off the map. And the major element that made this possible was the dedication and tireless work of many people.\nWithout any substantial funding, without any paid staff or office space, the anti-war movement has remained visible. And this is a result of the people who poster late at night in the rain, the people who distribute thousands of leaflets on their days off, and the people who make sure that their union meeting passes a motion against the Israeli apartheid wall or the US-led occupation of Iraq.\nAndrea: I don\u2019t feel like I personally have been involved yet in tremendously successful anti-war actions or organizing. If we can cut SNC-Lavalin\u2019s share price in half, I might consider that successful in a limited kind of way.\nMy favourite action was the small riot in front of the US Consulate at the March 20, 2003 demonstration just after the invasion of Iraq. Watching a mixture of young men in keffiyehs, people wearing black masks and carrying black and red flags, young women wearing purses, heels, and head scarves, and young children slinging mud at cops was an emotional highlight.\nMick: The most exciting anti-war work that I\u2019ve done has been the writing of a column for the NEFAC newspaper Strike! that covers (mostly US) soldier-resisters\u2019 activities, thoughts, and stories. I had a chance to give it to a number of active duty GIs when I was in New York City for the demonstrations against the Republican Convention, and it was enthusiastically received. There\u2019s a real and serious lack of organizing between anti-war activists and soldiers, which is a strategic mistake if we really want to have an impact in stopping this war. Radicalized soldiers can become important anti-war activists themselves.\nHonor & Jessie: It is hard to say which action was our most successful. We have catapulted bullet casings at the SNC offices, shut down the offices, and disturbed an arms fair dinner. We have organized to educate, to reach out, to disrupt. One favourite was July\u2019s Week of Mayhem or \u201cUnder the Gun\u201d. The week was designed to broaden the groups we reach and work with. It included a panel discussion, a movie screening, and a march\u2014events that ranged in content, style, and degree of confrontation.\nThe panel discussion addressed Haiti, Palestine, Iraq, indigenous peoples\u2019 struggles, SNC-Lavalin, and the Canadian military industrial complex. We wanted to make crucial connections between these issues and facilitate a dialogue among local groups. This was particularly important because Catapult! has tended to organize actions rather than create discussion, which can be very exclusive. Though our organizers are mostly young, middle class white males, the speakers and the audience were not. The speakers were excellent and highlighted the interconnectedness of the issues through a solid class and anti-racist analysis. The movie screening also reached groups we generally see very little of. And, finally, because the march was more strategic in its use of confrontation, we attracted the participation and confidence of a new group of people, and we were able to complete the planned \u2018tour\u2019 to identify 12 local war \u2013 profiteers without being shut down.\nDo you have hope for the future, given the global political situation?\nChris: At this point, it seems like any hope for an effective resistance won\u2019t come from inside the belly of the beast. It will come from the periphery: countries currently under occupation (Iraq and Palestine most specifically) and regions like Latin America and Indonesia, where the over-stretched Empire is losing control. There is also an internal crisis looming at home with the Bushites running the largest budget deficit in human history. At some point, foreign capital will get tired of underwriting US government debt, and, once that happens, the whole thing will unravel like Enron.\nThe ever rising cost of oil, the increasing power of the Euro, and global warming are a few of the other interesting, though admittedly strange, places to find hope. If there is to be serious social upheaval in our lifetime, it won\u2019t be caused by us.\nIn February, 1917, Lenin gave a speech in Zurich in which he declared that he probably would not see the revolution in Russia in his lifetime; we all know what happened in October. Now, arguably more than ever before, with the absurd intricacies of global capital movement, we don\u2019t really know when things will fall apart. I am, however, quite certain that they will. It may seem like distant dreaming, but I think one of the key questions is are we ready with our own viable alternative structures to fill the void once things start getting really ugly here?\nMike: I definitely have hope. It\u2019s hard to justify that answer after Bush has been re-elected and has started making noise about \u201cdisarming\u201d North Korea, Syria, and Iran. The global context is not very promising, and a lot of people are going to be killed in the next few days, months, and years. I do, however, still believe that the majority of the people on the planet reject these genocidal policies, reject politics of power and hate, and are capable of bringing this system down.\nDerrick: There\u2019s a lot to be pessimistic about in today\u2019s world, but I think that hope is indeed required to sustain any social movement. Hope is an emotion that mobilizes people, so I think that we have to look for positive developments and take strength in the diverse movements worldwide that are challenging imperialism and building alternatives.\nFirstly, the Iraqi resistance has been more tenacious than most predicted; all of the military might imaginable has been unable to convince the Iraqi people to accept re-colonization. And, of course, Palestinians have set the standard for stubborn and courageous resistance over the decades of occupation and dispossession. That millions of people worldwide have coordinated their solidarity with people in the Middle East under the gun of Empire is itself something to take hope from. The February 15, 2003 rallies hinted at a great potential for international solidarity and resistance.\nHere in Canada, I think the anti-war movement has made some important strides. Paul Martin\u2019s decision to stay out of missile defense, for what that\u2019s worth, was based on broad public opposition. And, recently, Canada\u2019s criminal role in the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti is beginning to become more widely exposed. We have the potential to deal Canadian imperialism a blow for what it\u2019s done in Haiti.\nFinally, events in Venezuela should give us all hope. The myth that there is no alternative to capitalism is being challenged by the Bolivarian Revolution. Hugo Chavez gave voice to a discussion that has been brewing in Venezuela for a long time when, at the recent World Social Forum, he stated that the reclamation of socialism \u2013 and not a bureaucratic version, but a democratic and humanist socialism \u2013 is the political challenge of the 21st century. I think that the successful defeat of Empire will require that we meet this political challenge.\nMick: For words of hope and revolutionary optimism, few have said it as well as Buenaventura Durruti, a revolutionary anarchist who fell fighting in the Spanish revolution:\nWe have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.\nHonor & Jessie: In many ways, I don\u2019t really think we have the luxury of choosing whether or not to be hopeful. Things have to change, and it\u2019s up to us to change them. In this sense, hope is almost irrelevant; the question becomes more about seeing possibility.\nWe can differentiate between believing it\u2019s possible to change things and believing that things will change. We have to be confident that we have the power to change things or else it\u2019s not worth continuing. We can be encouraged by all kinds of examples in history and by ongoing examples here and abroad, particularly efforts by those facing severe repression. And we can be encouraged by the fact that much of the system we are up against only exists because we consent to its existence. As Audre Lorde said, \u201cthat you can\u2019t fight City Hall is a rumor being circulated by City Hall\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 57828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uptownconsignmentdfw.com/all-about-the-oral-allergy-syndrome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SWIU7IVEM7C33HYWEPDLBTRBMRJU7Y2Q", "length": 2826, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "uptownconsignmentdfw.com", "title": "All About The Oral Allergy Syndrome - Uptownconsignmentdfw.com", "raw_content": "Home\t/ Uncategorized / All About The Oral Allergy Syndrome\nOn suffering from the allergic syndrome called hay fever your throat and mouth becomes itchy once you eat the celery or an apple. These oral problems occur mainly due to the reason that some of the food does contain the proteins which is kind of very similar to that found in the pollen and in other oral allergens. So this protein emerging from the food products act as the allergens to harm and activate the chain reactions called allergies to your body.\nThese chain reactions are caused in the body by the immune system when it thinks that the particular protein is produced on eating and it is not exactly that. All such foods are called the allergic food and chain reaction that is the allergy resulted is called the oral allergy.\nThe oral allergy is known as one of the most common type of food allergy in adults.\nHowever the effect of the Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is supposed to be limited through the areas related to mouth like up to the throat, Tongue, lips and mouth etc. The impact of the oral allergy syndrome is most common during the time of year when the pollen is found more commonly however this is supposed to impact the people at any time of the year. The other specialty of this kind of allergy syndrome is that the symptom of this type of syndrome usually starts affecting and visible in the body within the few minutes of eating the food contaminated with oral allergens.\nHow the allergies are treated\nThe treatment method of specific allergy might be specific and different. It is fully based on the suggestion of the physician / surgeon. The factors on which the physician decides the special medication are the age, the overall health, the medical history, severity of the allergic reaction, tolerance of the specific medication, and expected duration of the allergic treatment course and the opinion of you. Below are given the 3 most effective methods of Treatment for allergies. It is either through avoidance or through immunotherapy or through some form of medication.\nThe very first method of treatment of the allergies is to stay away from the substances which are supposed to causing allergies in you. Remaining indoor for most of the time, keeping home dust safe, use the air conditioner, use a dehumidifier, let your child wear the face mask or in some cases it could also be beneficial for you to go out on a vacation at the places which is supposed to be free from the dust or pollen. The immunotherapy is a Treatment for allergies which the spot of allergy are desensitized or just hyposensitized. Instead of the immunotherapy there are also many other specific medication / treatment method for the allergies. 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Smaller townhomes are being built at the south side of the property, providing a transition to the scale of the adjacent residential neighborhood.\nCompletion is on pace to occur in 2018.\nUnique Mixed-Use Development Rises in Beverly Hills (Urbanize LA)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 4331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vancouver.housing.ubc.ca/residences-rooms/graduate-colleges/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6MJJNEYKFQYY55FBNDK2D2SLJ5OG7K46", "length": 2080, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "vancouver.housing.ubc.ca", "title": "Graduate Colleges", "raw_content": "Green College Motto: Ideas and Friendship.\nFounded in 1993, Green College is home to 100 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting scholars who participate in college life along with non-resident members of the rich and diverse UBC community. Each year the college hosts more than 150 lectures, workshops, forums, classes and concerts, in keeping with its mandate to provide extra-curricular, interdisciplinary academic and cultural programming. Resident members are chosen on the basis of excellence, interdisciplinary interests and receptiveness, and their commitment to get involved in college life.\nGreen College provides superb residential and social facilities, which are integral to building a vibrant intellectual community. It is a place where communications are direct, open, trusting and reciprocal, and where differences of ideas, interests and identities are accommodated and celebrated.\nGreen College Resident Membership is required.\nSt. John\u2019s College is UBC\u2019s international graduate college. A magnet for international and multicultural exchange, St. John\u2019s College offers an academic setting that encourages discussion, debate and cultural expression; all enlivened by the participation of resident graduate students who come from diverse cultural backgrounds.\nIn addition to providing on campus accommodation and dining facilities for 184 graduate and postdoctoral students, and visiting scholars, the college offers residents an eclectic mix of social activities and academic programming\u2014from film screenings and forums to concerts, cultural workshops and charitable initiatives.\nSt. John\u2019s College is the realization of a dream held by local and international chapters of the alumni associations of the former St. John\u2019s University in Shanghai to revive the spirit of their alma mater and perpetuate the SJU motto: Light and Truth. That spirit underscores the values of honesty, generosity, justice and integrity in serving society.\nApplicants must apply and receive SJC Membership. St. John\u2019s College is located adjacent to the Ponderosa Commons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 6812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 185.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://verilymag.com/2016/07/empowerment-feminism-sexualization-women-nudi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:29Z", "digest": "sha1:553M4XDJQX5AKO447YNJTO6IRZCEPHYT", "length": 7247, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "verilymag.com", "title": "Why Getting Naked Isn\u2019t as Empowering as Everyone Keeps Telling Us - Verily", "raw_content": "Nudity. It used to be something reserved for the bedroom and hippies, but in the summer of 2016, it appears to be a full-blown trend.\nAt least, that\u2019s what it looks like if you turn on the TV or stand in line at the supermarket lately. Shows such as Naked and Afraid on the Discovery Channel and Dating Naked on VH1 employ nudity as a plot device, suggesting something primal and authentic as well as a gimmick to gain viewers. Semi-naked performers in Times Square have returned to headlines as New York officials announced new restrictions limiting street performers to certain areas. Still, see-through dresses showcase nearly nude bodies of celebs on red carpets, like that of the Met Ball last year, and magazine covers all over newsstands. Singer Demi Lovato says that getting naked makes her feel more confident, Selena Gomez posed nude on her latest album cover, and fans follow suit with partially dressed self-portraits on their social media accounts.\nThis isn\u2019t just a trend for celebrities and reality TV ratings. Cosmopolitan surveyed its readers in 2014 to find that nine out of ten millennials said they have taken naked photos of themselves. Allure magazine devotes an entire issue to the topic every year. A selection of celebrities strips down for a photo shoot each year, the fruits of which are printed in the magazine alongside an assortment of nude-centric articles. \u201cGet Naked, Be Happy: The Beauty of Baring It All,\u201d read the May cover, \u201cPLUS: Your Naked Spirit Animal.\u201d\nIf there is any doubt that the nearly nude imagery plaguing magazines influences readers to embrace nudity in their own lives, Allure\u2019s latest cover story straight-up instructed women how to strip down publicly with pride and confidence. An image of skinny dipping fun accompanied the article, telling its female readers that if they haven\u2019t stripped down in public yet, this is the summer to take the plunge.\nIt\u2019s striking to read a women\u2019s magazine editorial telling women to throw inhibitions to the wind so flippantly. If it weren\u2019t for the female bylines and editorial mastheads, I would swear a man were somewhere behind all this.\nBut I think it\u2019s safe to say that, given the frequency of these articles, and despite all the advice they offer up, a lot of women do not feel comfortable naked. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. In fact, there\u2019s a lot right with it.\nAccording to a study by the University of Michigan in which female and male students were asked to perform cognitive tasks while wearing either a bathing suit or a complete outfit with a sweater, the female participants wearing less clothing performed worse at math than those fully dressed. Meanwhile, the difference didn't seem to affect the men at all.\nThis isn\u2019t an accident. The researchers determined that objectification affects women\u2019s psyche in significant ways, and I believe it\u2019s because we as women have more to lose when it comes to baring ourselves.\nThe collective cultural thinking appears to assume that the discomfort many women feel by stripping down can be only a symptom of weak self-esteem brought on by a hypercritical society. But there are plenty of positive and healthy reasons why a woman would want to keep some aspects of herself private. Sure, lacking body confidence may indeed be a factor for someone who doesn\u2019t want to publicly undress. But that isn't the only reason, and we'd be wrong if we assumed it was that simple. Women are much more complex. There are plenty of women, for instance, who are very comfortable with their bodies and who still don\u2019t want to bare them for all to see. In fact, a quick, sober assessment of reality suggests that the discomfort many find in nudity may simply result from a healthy awareness of a slew of possible negative repercussions.\nSure, in an ideal world, these problems would not exist. In an ideal world, people would respect women regardless of what they wear. No one would attempt to take advantage of a nude woman. No one would sexually objectify her as she walked down the street. No one would publish photos of her without consent. But the fact of the matter is that there are plenty of people all around us willing (and actively seeking) to exploit the female body.\nUnfortunately, many of these effects are nearly impossible to mitigate: unauthorized photography and its resulting distribution, sexual objectification and exploitation, catcalling, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. Yes, many of these threats are present regardless of what one wears, but the vulnerability brought on by total nudity is unparalleled, and I think we ought to think twice before encouraging women to ignore that.\nOf course, there are some women who acknowledge objectification occurs and yet choose to undress in defiance of it. \u201cYou\u2019re going to objectify me anyway,\u201d they might think, \u201cso I might as well change the rhetoric to empower myself in the process.\u201d There\u2019s reason to believe that\u2019s what\u2019s influencing a lot of female celebrities today. According to Peggy Orenstein, author of the recent book Girls & Sex, this sense of empowering rebellion as an attempt to lift ourselves back up is mainstream now. And, sure, the rush of undressing can be confused with feeling empowered, at least in the moment. But the fact remains that this only changes rhetoric, not reality.\nMy point here is that many of the inhibitions that we have, inhibitions that prevent us from walking through a particular part of town alone at night or from stripping down in public, are good and healthy inhibitions to have\u2014inhibitions that are rooted in reality and self-protection. And seeking to remove those inhibitions at any cost as part of some misguided pursuit of freedom is not necessarily the smartest course of action.\nThere are, of course, circumstances that call for less clothing than others. And developing the confidence to navigate those circumstances comfortably is undeniably important. But what articles advising to \u201cget naked\u201d miss is this: It is entirely possible for one to be utterly comfortable with her body and yet unwilling to expose it publicly. There are dozens of good reasons to remain clothed in public that have nothing to do with self esteem. Yes, body positivity is good. Confidence is important. But privacy is also a beautiful thing. Instructing women to ignore their inhibitions and strip down in public is simply bad advice.\nsexualizationCommentaryempowermentCritique\nThe Calvin Klein Ad That's Making Everyone Facepalm\nWhen advertising goes wrong...\nThe Way Brie Larson Overcame Sexism In Hollywood Is Actually Relevant to All Of Us\nWe may not be Oscar-winning actors, but we could all learn a thing or two from the way she chose to respond.\nVictoria's Secret's Latest Campaign Is Proof That Chasing the 'Sexy' Ideal Is Pointless\nThe ideal body is always changing, so basing your identity on being \"sexy\" is never going to make you happy.\nSports Illustrated Actually Put an Athlete On Its Swimsuit Issue Cover For Once\nBut is Ronda Rousey in a spray-on bathing suit really that game-changing?\nThis Photoshop-Free Swimsuit Campaign Is a Step in the Right Direction, But It\u2019s Hardly Revolutionary\nLet\u2019s campaign for diverse, untouched models in all clothing, not just swimsuits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 9092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vertgrp.com/about-vertical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YXIHPRFEG3LGZACQARQOOPFKAVO7F4J7", "length": 954, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vertgrp.com", "title": "About US | Investment Banking | Vertical Group", "raw_content": "Vertical Group is a privately-held investment bank, committed to providing its clients with a broad range of superior services. Our clients include corporations, governments, states, municipalities, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, banks and investors in various countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, help manage risk, extend liquidity and make markets.\nAcross our business, our goal is to help clients succeed, contribute to orderly and well-functioning markets and support global economic growth. One of the most important functions we serve is extending our resources to companies to help them grow.\nWe define our culture as one driven by performance, partnership, meritocracy, inclusion and directness. As a firm, we strive to add value and create opportunity in all that we do. Our creative, hands-on approach, combined with our wide-ranging experience, expertise and extensive relationships has distinguished us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://viewsinblack.blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RJWEGZCY3HOG3D4DYCUS46U3N7VIOSI6", "length": 18513, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "viewsinblack.blog", "title": "Seeing Black \u2013 Page 3 \u2013 Commentary and observations from a Black woman's perspective.", "raw_content": "\u201cDon\u2019t You Know We Hate You People?\u201d\nThe title is a quote from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer to a woman seeking asylum.\n\u201cLike it or not, these aren\u2019t our kids.\u201d \u2014 Brian Kilmeade, co-host of \u201cFox and Friends\u201d on June 22, expressing support for dividing immigrant families at the border and placing the children in cages.\n\u201cThese aren\u2019t people. These are animals, and we\u2019re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that\u2019s never happened before.\u201d The unpresident, May 16, 2018.\nIf you ever doubted that the unpresident and his administration held racist feelings toward immigrants and refugees, the immigration policies they introduced this year regarding these populations should forever put those doubts to rest.\nWhile many of us were paying attention to the funerals for Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin and U.S.Senator John McCain two weeks ago, the unpresident was busy preparing his next policy onslaught on immigrants.\nWhite House senior adviser Stephen Miller, who also assisted the unpresident with creating the \u201czero tolerance\u201d undocumented immigrants policy, allowing ICE officers to separate parents and their children at the Texas-Mexico border and place the children in cages, came up with the new policy. It would deny citizenship to legal immigrants who ever used any public assistance programs, like food stamps, health insurance for low-income children (CHIP), or the Affordable Care Act. The new policy would be signed as an Executive Order, going into effect without approval from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.\nImmigrants who have \u201cgreen cards\u201d are considered legal permanent residents of the U.S., and are permitted to work. They can use public assistance programs, but the immigration system frowns upon such use. That\u2019s because it supposedly places an undue burden on U.S.-born (read \u201cwhite\u201d) taxpayers, whose taxed earnings fund the programs. Immigrants have to prove they can be model citizens without having to ever ask for help \u2014 even though they also pay taxes, and should be able to avail themselves of public assistance if and when they have to. Many work jobs where they earn less than the minimum wage, supporting families on next to nothing.\nOne example is Louis Charles, a Haitian permanent resident who has been cited in news accounts about the impact of this new policy. He works 80 hours a week in a psychiatric hospital near Boston as a nursing assistant, but doesn\u2019t make enough to support his disabled adult daughter, who can\u2019t do anything for herself. He relies on public assistance for his daughter\u2019s care. A year ago, he was denied U.S. citizenship. He is appealing the decision. In addition, Charles\u2019 wife was one of hundreds of Haitians who came to the U.S. following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Haitians, including Charles\u2019 wife, were granted temporary protected status, which the unpresident says he will discontinue. If Charles can\u2019t obtain U.S. citizenship, his wife will also be deported.\nImmigrant and refugee advocates say the new policy could affect 20 million immigrants. Among them are immigrants of color. A large number of immigrants and refugees are seeking asylum from domestic violence or gang violence in their Central and South American countries of origin. They could be beaten or murdered upon returning \u201chome.\u201d\nAlong with Central and South American immigrants, the number of Black immigrants, both naturalized citizens and undocumented, is growing. One in 10 Black people in the U.S. are foreign-born, according to a Pew Research Center study. Most came from Jamaica, Haiti and Nigeria. The population of African immigrants in the U.S. increased to 1.6 million between 2000 and 2016. In 2015, there were 619,000 undocumented Black immigrants living in the U.S. How long will it take for the unpresident to target Black immigrants and refugees for deportation?\nNot long, apparently. There\u2019s already one such case pending in Detroit, Michigan, that of a deaf and intellectually disabled Nigerian man, Francis Anwana, who came to the U.S. at 14. He is now 48. He entered the country on a student visa. His mother realized that his severe disabilities would keep him from getting the care he would need in Nigeria, and as he had about ten siblings, she was unable to afford his care.\nFor a few years, Anwana lived in Flint, where he attended the Michigan School for the Deaf. He can\u2019t speak, but he communicates through sign language, which he learned at the school. From there, he moved to Detroit. where he lives in an adults\u2019 foster care facility, cleaning and maintaining the property.\nAnwana had applied for asylum, with an attorney\u2019s help, based on the inability to access the medications and care he needs in Nigeria, if he was deported. His mother is too old to care for him. To the shock of his supporters, ICE ordered his deportation to Nigeria anyway, a country he hadn\u2019t lived in since he was a teenager. ICE had scheduled his deportation for September 11, but has postponed it. Anwana is set to meet with ICE on September 21, even though he does not understand what deportation means.\nAnd there\u2019s still the matter of reuniting the Central and South American refugee children with their parents. There are 416 children left in the U.S., down from more than 2,000 who were finally reunited with parents. The administration and the ACLU can\u2019t locate all of the parents. Many were deported. There were parents that ICE tricked into signing a document agreeing to be deported with their children, but the parents were deported without them. In the future, as more undocumented parents and children are arrested at the border, the unpresident wants to ignore immigration rules, which limit the amount of time undocumented parents and children can be detained to 20 days, and be able to hold them indefinitely.\nImmigrants and refugees in these desperate situations need legal help, and the lawyers need financial contributions in order to provide it. Among them:\nThe Texas Civil Rights Project\nRAICES Bond Fund (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services\nThe Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\nBlock Kavanaugh! PLEASE!\nSeptember 9, 2018 Margaret SummersLeave a comment\nSome of you have probably seen this photo before. This was Gerri Santoro. The image has been featured in pro-reproductive choice materials over time to illustrate what could happen if legalized abortion was repealed.\nSantoro sought an abortion in 1964, nine years before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the Roe v. Wade case. Separated from her abusive husband, she had become pregnant by a coworker with whom she fell in love. They decided to try a self-induced abortion, using some surgical instruments they had acquired, and a textbook. The couple registered in a Norwich, Connecticut motel under aliases.\nThe procedure did not work as planned. Santoro began bleeding profusely, and her boyfriend abandoned her. This is how the police found her; on the floor by a bed, on top of bloody towels, alone, dead. She was 28.\nBrett Kavanaugh, the unpresident\u2019s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court seat which became vacant due to Justice Kennedy\u2019s retirement, has claimed that he considers Roe v.Wade \u201csettled law.\u201d But no one is sure of that, especially members of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, who asked him about his beliefs on various issues during his confirmation hearing last week. Kavanaugh said very little about anything.\nThe Repugnantthug members of the committee are delighted with the possibility of Kavanaugh\u2019s appointment. He would be one of five or so conservative Justices whose rulings would overturn years of legal precedence upholding civil rights, women\u2019s rights, labor union rights, and environmental protections. They are working to make Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation as quick and easy as possible.\nOf the Democrats on the committee only Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California asked tough and pointed questions designed to force Kavanaugh to admit to his conservative beliefs. The closest anyone came to uncovering Kavanaugh\u2019s thoughts on reproductive choice was Repugnantthug Senator Ted Cruz of New Mexico, who asked him about the dissent he wrote as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 2015 Priests for Life v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services case.\nThe anti-abortion Catholic organization sued the Obama administration because it didn\u2019t want to provide its employees with health insurance that would cover contraceptives, as mandated under the Affordable Care Act. The act allowed religious groups to opt out of providing such coverage if it notified insurers and the federal government, but they had to contract with third parties which would provide such coverage. Priests for Choice insisted that even contracting with third parties would make it complicit in providing employees with birth control which the group opposes because birth control prevents pregnancy.\nKavanaugh told the Senate committee that if Priests for Choice filled out the form for health insurance that provided birth control pills, IUDs and other forms of contraception, it would \u201cmake them complicit in the provision of abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objecting to.\u201d He didn\u2019t seem to know that birth control devices do not \u201cinduce\u201d abortions. And if he didn\u2019t know that, what might he rule in cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court which could result in overturning Roe v. Wade?\nIf abortion becomes illegal again, women would not stop trying to have them anyway. Just as they did before Roe v. Wade, women would resort to self-induced abortions of the type that killed Gerri Santoro, or go to \u201cback alley\u201d abortionists who have no medical training, whose surgical instruments and facilities are not clean and sterile, and risk the possibility of internal infections, butchered reproductive organs, hemorrhaging, and death.\nWomen of color, as before Roe v. Wade, would comprise disproportionate numbers of deaths by illegal abortions. When abortions were illegal, white women with money could go to Canada, which had legalized abortion, or to other countries to undergo the procedure. Women of color and low-income women generally were more dependent on the \u201cback alley\u201d option, and even those services weren\u2019t cheap. Which led far too many women to the third option, do-it-yourself abortions, using knitting needles, coat hangers, or anything else to insert and \u201cscrape out\u201d the fetus. That option was unsafe and deadly.\nNobody \u201clikes\u201d abortion, but there are times when it is necessary, such as when a woman becomes pregnant through rape, or carrying a baby to term could endanger the mother\u2019s life. Deciding to have one is not something women take lightly. But whether or not to have one should be a decision made by women, not the \u201cstate.\u201d And apparently Kavanaugh, along with the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the unpresident who nominated Kavanaugh, don\u2019t think women have the brains to decide whether, when, or if they should have children.\nThere may still be time to block Kavanaugh\u2019s appointment. The following Senators are said to be \u201cundecided.\u201d Please contact them and ask them to vote against Kavanaugh\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court appointment:\nSusan Collins, (202) 224-2523.\nLisa Murkowski, (202) 224-6665.\nJoe Manchin, (202) 224-3954.\nHeidi Heitkamp, (202) 224-2043.\nDoug Jones, (202) 224-4124.\nJoe Donnelly, (202) 224-4814.\nAfrican, Afro-Brazilian Artifacts Destroyed in Flames\nThe fire that burned down most of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, September 2, wiped out entire collections that had been painstakingly maintained since the museum\u2019s 1818 opening. The African and Afro-Brazilian artifacts were among the items forever lost.\nAs Brazil has the second largest population of Africans \u2014 descendants of enslaved Africans in Brazil \u2014 outside of Africa, the collection played a crucial role in Brazilians\u2019 understanding of race, and how the cultures, languages and spiritual practices of enslaved Africans shaped Brazilian culture.\nThe museum\u2019s permanent African collection, named Kumbukumbu, a Swahili word meaning memory, memorial or recollection, had 700 items. One hundred eighty-five items from the collection were exhibited, according to the website Okayafrica. The items included royal sandals from the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey (now the nation of Benin), a royal Dahomey throne, and an ivory tusk carved in the 19th Century from the Congo River basin. The Dahomey items were the only representation of the ancient kingdom, which ceased to exist in the early 1900s.\nThe museum also preserved African and Afro-Brazilian Candomble items. Candomble is a religion that originated in 19th Century Bahia, a predominantly Black state in Brazil. It preserves some of the rituals and practices of the Yoruba, Fon and other West and Central African people. The slave \u201cmasters\u201d who colonized Brazil were Portuguese, who were Catholic. They forbade the enslaved Africans from practicing their own religions, so the Africans pretended to worship Catholic saints and the Christian God, while secretly continuing their own rituals and beliefs. The mirror pictured here was used in celebrations of the Oxum Orisha. The museum also had dolls which represented the various orishas, or gods.\nAncient Egyptian artifacts were also part of the collection, including a mummy and coffin, as well as fragments of other Egyptian mummies.\nWhile no determination has been made yet regarding what caused the fire, there are those who say the damage could have been lessened if Brazil\u2019s government had provided money for repairs to the 200-year-old building. And since the building contained a lot of wood, it could have been destroyed by fire before this month. It had no sprinkler system, but the museum had finally obtained to enough money to install one before this incident.\n\u201c(The fire) could have been prevented,\u201d said anthropologist Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima in a recent NPR interview. de Souza Lima had an office in the museum, where he kept his archives, and researched Brazil\u2019s indigenous cultures for 38 years.\n\u201cIf decades ago we have changed from the building \u2014 that was an ancient building full of wood that for \u2014 be secure for exhibitions or people to be there, should have been completely rebuilt internally and prepared against fire and against a lot of other things.\u201d\nde Souza Lima said the museum didn\u2019t have the funds to digitize the collections.\u201dThat\u2019s why I say I was so angry. I\u2019m angry against our economic and technical elites, angry against politicians, decision-makers that never cared for heritage, culture and education in Brazil.\u201d\nDespite the institution\u2019s destruction, de Souza Lima said he and others are determined to replace it. \u201cWe\u2019ll fight to build another museum together with indigenous peoples, together with black peoples (sic) in Brazil, together with scientists from all the world . . .\n\u201cMy archives are very, very small loss towards what we\u2019ve lost as a country, as an intellectual community, as an institution,\u201d de Souza Lima insisted. \u201cSo what can we do, (be) depressed? No, we (have to) fight.\u201d\nBreathless, or Help a Sistah Out!\nSeptember 6, 2018 Margaret Summers2 Comments\nImagine that you are a self-employed artist who creates Black rag dolls, dressed in clothing you design, some of which is made from beautiful African fabrics. You also operate a summer theatrical camp in Washington, D.C. for young people. You write children\u2019s books based on the dolls\u2019 brand, Sugarfoots. You have a son who is going back to college for his sophomore year later in the summer. And you just married for the second time, a wonderful man from Sierra Leon. Life is good.\nThen suddenly, not long after you return to the U.S. from your wedding in Africa, you go into a prolonged coughing spell and you can\u2019t breathe.\nThat\u2019s what happened to Barbara Nyaliemaa Mosima this summer. She was rushed to a hospital emergency room and placed on an oxygen tank that she how has to have with her at all times. Her doctor told her that she had contracted something like pneumonia, and her lungs were 50% inflamed. She will get well, she was told, after a 72 week recovery. When you do the math, it works out to a year, five months, two weeks. That\u2019s a long time to not be generating income.\nMosima has ventured out to sign up for food stamps and buy groceries, but something as routine as picking up some food feels like climbing Mount Everest, especially when one has to carry an oxygen tank around constantly. She has named it \u201cRalph.\u201d She also has to take steroids to combat the lung inflamation. One of the side effects of steroids is weight gain. Getting around with a few extra pounds and an oxygen tank has got to be challenging\nThen there\u2019s the economics of getting sick. Mosima\u2019s medical bills are mounting. Many Black folk don\u2019t have the gold plated health insurance which covers every conceivable malady. Maybe she can get government disability, but there\u2019s a wait for that. A long, excruciating wait.\nShe can summon energy to cook for herself. With \u201cRalph\u201d by her side pumping air into her body, she has made vegetarian chili, cookies, tea.\nMosima\u2019s husband Gabriel is stuck in Sierra Leone, waiting for his visa application to be approved. Maybe under another administration, not the one headed by the unpresident, he could get to the U.S. quickly to attend to his sick wife. But know how this administration feels about immigrants and refugees, especially those of color (See: Refugee children separated from parents and placed in cages).\nShe has established a Go Fund Me page, https://gofundme.com/it-took-my-breath-away And she\u2019s raffling off many of her Sugarfoots dolls for $10. Raffle details are at www.sugarfoots.com She makes them herself, down to their outfits. She was looking forward to creating their clothes from material she had brought back from Sierra Leone.\nMeanwhile, her mortgage is due on September 13 \u2014 all $2,500 dollars of it.\nMosima blogs every day on her Facebook page, describing how she grapples with her new normal.\n\u201cI did not get to run my performing arts camp,\u201d she writes. \u201cI did not increase my income. I was told by my doctor I cannot work for several months, leaving me with no consistent income in sight. And I am sitting on a mountain of debt.\n\u201cAll of this will one day dissipate. But as I go through the healing process, this will be the summer etched in my mind for many years to come.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 35663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vircantium.wordpress.com/2008/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZUYOGJXLDB55IT567M5DLE4JD4EKART", "length": 10632, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "vircantium.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2008 | Vir Cantium", "raw_content": "So on the busiest week of the year for holiday traffic, someone though it would be a super idea to put up some roadworks on the A303. Just as the South-East, having decamped to the West Country returns home, they were digging up one of the main trunk routes. An hour in tailbacks, and we were travelling at night. To be fair, in an odd departure from the traditional road work set-up, they were actually working.\nOne could give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it was emergency road works, but more likely it is just a way of nature reminding us that the holidays are nearly over and things will be downhill from here.\nMuch the same philosophy that underpins, I suspect, Alistair Darling\u2019s arrival on Planet Earth with the warning that we are entering the worst economic period for sixty years. (Why 60 years?)\nThis possible exercise in expectations management \u2013 a switch from the \u201cat least it\u2019s not as bad as under the evil Thatcher\u201d line \u2013 could be one side of a double-edged strategy. The other may have more to do with the Labour party\u2019s internal ructions. Is Alistair looking to undermine his boss by singing from a clearly non-conformist hymn sheet?\nEconomy, Gordon Brown, Labour\tAlistair Darling, The Economy (what's left of it)\nRather Rambling Blog Post, Going Forward\nI have been contacted by a salesman trying to sell me fee protection insurance. All well and good, except he was from some company called \u201cC C Haitch\u201d. Now I\u2019ve heard of CCH, as have many in my and other professions, but CC Haitch was a new one.\nYou will note that he had already hit on one of my pet hates. And this after I have only just calmed down after health cover company HSA\u2019s recent ad campaign (Haitch S A = Hey, Just Say! Oh, how clever that must have seemed when they pitched it.)\nNever mind. At the end of his spiel, he offered to get me a quote \u201cgoing forward\u201d. That was a relief \u2013 I had always been worried, when shopping around for insurance, that I might end up with a quote going backwards, which rather defeats the purpose of insurance, you\u2019d think.\nAnyway, I\u2019m off now to hunt down some errant apostrophe\u2019s. (You can take the boy out of the grammar school, but you can\u2019t take the grammar school out of the boy.)\nLaugh/Cry (delete as applicable)\tLaugh/Cry (delete as applicable)\nIf You\u2019ve Nothing To Hide, You've Nothing To Fear\nWhether it\u2019s 42 day\u2019s detention, ID cards or the DNA database, we hear it every time.\nI don\u2019t know what deputy headmaster John Pinnington\u2019s politics are, or whether they have changed as a result of his experience, but clearly, by any just measure, he would have had nothing to fear \u2026 you\u2019d have thought. The Register has the story:\nJohn Pinnington \u2026 was fired from his job when an enhanced criminal record background (CRB) check turned up allegations of abuse made against him. He took his case to judicial review, arguing that the allegations were seriously flawed, were unsubstantiated, and that the police should only include them in a CRB check where there were some grounds to believe they might be true.\nThis view was rejected, as Lord Justice Richards ruled that there was nothing unlawful about the actions of the Police force in passing on allegations. And future employers \u201cshould be aware\u201d of the accusations, however weak and unreliable they are.\nIn relation to employment with children or vulnerable adults, it is information of which an employer should be aware. It is then for the employer to decide whether the employment of the person concerned involves an unacceptable risk.\n[We have] no way of knowing whether these allegations were true, false, or the deluded imaginings of politically-correct Martians.\nWhat we do know is that police investigated and took no further action, and that at least one set of allegations was based on the controversial \u201cfacilitated communication\u201d method of eliciting statements from children too damaged, otherwise, to speak on their own behalf. On any objective scale of evidence, they belong in the category labelled \u201cweak\u201d.\nOf course, it\u2019s \u201cfor the children\u201d so no measure is too draconian. Just like, err, terrorism, hate crimes, in fact anything that can be extrapolated to the point where \u201clives are at stake\u201d.\nI know, we wet libertarian types can bang on about it as much as we like, but Walter Wolfgang, having been arrested for heckling a minister, under anti-terrorism powers, didn\u2019t actually go to prison, did he? If a council uses powers intended for surveilling terrorists to combat the scourge of parents playing the system on school catchment areas, nothing really bad happens to them, does it? I mean, lives are never lost because of a bad \u201cenhanced\u201d CRB check or unproven allegation. Are they?\nThe trouble with \u201cnothing to hide \u2013 nothing to fear\u201d is that it\u2019s becoming increasingly hard to define what is worth hiding. That lame joke about \u201cpikies\u201d (a racist term nowadays) that you shared in the pub? Taking the mickey out of chavs in the post office queue? Tut tut, we have to promote social cohesion you know. Just don\u2019t try applying for a job.\nFreedom\tDNA database, Freedom, ID Cards, Nothing to hide - nothing to fear\nThey Don\u2019t Like it Up \u2018Em\n\u201cFairness\u201d is one of the most moveable feasts in politics. One man\u2019s fairness is another man\u2019s grievance.\nHowever, it\u2019s always satisfying to know you\u2019ve wound up the opposition.\nLabour furious at Tory jibe about \u2018fairness\u2019\nGeorge Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has sparked a bitter row by accusing Gordon Brown of adopting the principle of \u2018fairness\u2019 merely because of its popularity with focus groups.\nHe will use a speech this week to claim the Tories are now the real champions of social justice and equality\u2026\nHe will also say that the Tories are now \u2018the driving force behind the ideas that will create a fairer Britain\u2019.\nHis words drew a furious response from Labour, which has been associated for a century with the equitable division of wealth.\nThat final sentence, from a commentary by a leading left liberal newspaper, exposes a fundamental difference between Left and Right, Labour/Lib Dem and Conservative. The Left look for equality of outcomes such as the \u201cequitable division of wealth\u201d (equitable in the case of socialism, in it\u2019s simplest form, simply meaning \u201cequality\u201d). It\u2019s telling that after a century of being associated with such things, the gap between \u201crich\u201d and \u201cpoor\u201d is still widening. Conservatives, however, look for equality of opportunity \u2013 the fundamental means to create wealth, not the distribution of wealth itself. Whether or not you take that opportunity, and how much you make of it, is up to you.\nTo the Left the cry is \u201cyou can afford it, what are you complaining about?\u201d.\nTo Conservatives the credo is \u201cyou can do it, we won\u2019t stand in your way\u201d.\nPolitics, Politics of envy\tConservative, Labour, Politics of envy\nThe End is Upon Us\nI haven\u2019t done precise scientific measurements, but I have a random hunch that the runner beans in the garden are 3mm shorter than they were at the same time every previous year that we have been in our house (4 years).\nSo, with our runner beans now growing at the slowest rate on record, this must be a sign of the effects of global warming. We are all going to die. Get out now while you can and think of the children.\nOk, maybe a bit too silly, but then again\u2026\nA number of UK bird species are laying eggs significantly earlier than they were 40 years ago, a report reveals.\nA conservation coalition\u2019s report says some finches, robins and tits are all laying earlier and puts this down to warming caused by climate change.\nThe RSPB said birds were having to respond to climate change to survive.\nIt must be the silly season when that fact that species are adapting to an ever changing environment is deemed to be news. Do supporters of the man-made climate change doctrine not realise that this sort of thing is starting to do their cause more harm than good?\nNot that I am in any way suggesting that man-made global warming is not a real and incontrovertible truth that only loonies and the big bad evil oil companies could possibly doubt. After all, everybody knows that the statistics of the \u201chockey stick\u201d are totally sound.\nEnvironment, Media\tClimate Change, Environment\nWe Shouldn't Laugh\nActually \u2026 yes, we should.\nBirmingham, hosts to the 2008 Conservative Party Conference, can\u2019t recognise its own skyline from that of its State side namesake. The Birmingham (West Midlands) Post has been following the story. The Mayor of Birmingham Alabama has taken the opportunity to point out that much could be gained from the two cities building closer relations, mixed up skylines or not.\nAs an English Southerner, (Birmingham (W. Mids) being in The North) I could make comments about the two cities both being the subject of stereotypes of slow-witted sorts who talk with funny accents, but that would be totally unfair \u2026 that some staff at the City Council are slow witted is clear, and some of them surely have Brummie accents, but I\u2019m not sure that would apply to the good burghers of Birmingham AL.\nSo, just so I\u2019ve got his right: in September when I go to party conference, do I change at Marylebone or JFK?\nFavoured by Who?\nLook what those evil Tories are planning now\u2026\nCities in northern England such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Bradford are \u201cbeyond revival\u201d and residents should move south, a think tank has argued.\nSo who is suggesting that the cattle trucks be readied? Policy Exchange. Now I haven\u2019t read the report yet, but it appears to boil down to the conclusion that throwing taxpayers\u2019 millions at run-down areas isn\u2019t the silver bullet that some might think. Whatever, it\u2019s is clearly deemed by some at our esteemed state broadcaster to be good for a bad headline about the Tories.\nListen to the BBC radio bulletins (Radio 2 at 7 and 7:30 this morning) and the headline is \u201cA think tank favoured by the Conservatives has suggested \u2026\u201d, or as at 8am \u201cDavid Cameron\u2019s favourite think tank\u201d. The fact that the Party has pointed out this is not party policy is relegated to an afterthought at the end of the short piece.\nThat the Policy Exchange is a centre-right think tank is undisputed \u2013 however, as is often the case on the BBC, if a report comes out from a left-wing think tank, the political qualifier is rarely used. When was the last time a report from, say, Demos or the Joseph Rowntree foundation was presented as a think tank or organisation favoured by Labour or the Lib Dems? Perhaps it\u2019s just that the ideas that such bodies come up with are, in the eyes of the average BBC hack, so eminently sensible that they need never be the subject of a slanted bad headline.\nBBC\tbiased BBC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 19458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visionsource-eyemadison.com/2017/10/18/opening-our-eyes-to-blindness-awareness/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RHQKINI4CRQBGXCTMBFSWGM2AEXATMZ5", "length": 3388, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "visionsource-eyemadison.com", "title": "Opening Our Eyes To Blindness Awareness \u2013 Madison SD | Eyecare Center of Madison", "raw_content": "Opening Our Eyes To Blindness Awareness\nHollywood\u2019s portrayal of blind people has come a long way from the old stereotypes of canes and dark glasses.\nEspecially with characters like Daredevil gaining popularity, it\u2019s getting easier to find examples of fictional blind people being amazing. While blind people in real life don\u2019t have crime-fighting superpowers, they do lead just as complex and interesting lives as sighted people. So, in the spirit of World Blindness Awareness Month, we\u2019re going to discuss visual impairment.\nA wide spectrum exists between better-than-20/20 vision and total blindness. Some people require no corrective lenses at all, but many need them to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. As soon as vision can no longer be fully corrected by glasses or contacts, it enters visual impairment territory. However, not all vision impairment is the same.\nLow Vision Can Mean Many Things\nHaving low vision means having difficulty performing normal visual tasks, even with corrective lenses. One cause of low vision is macular degeneration, where the central vision is blurred but the peripheral vision is intact. Another is a narrowed field of vision, where the peripheral vision is limited but the central vision is normal.\nSome other conditions that fall under the umbrella of visual impairment include:\nphotophobia (the inability to look at light),\ndiplopia (double vision),\nvisual distortion or distortion of images,\nand difficulties with visual perception.\nEven Total Blindness Is A Spectrum\nTotal blindness isn\u2019t the same for everyone either. Some are born blind, while others lose their vision quickly or over an extended period of time. Some blind people have a slight ability to perceive light, while others see nothing at all.\nTo learn a bit more, watch the video below to hear Tommy Edison explain what he sees:\n[iframe https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZDHJRCtv0WY?rel=0 620 349]\nHow Can Sighted People Help?\nThe most important thing to remember about people who are blind or have low vision is that they are still people. They aren\u2019t fragile or less intelligent, and they won\u2019t appreciate being treated as such. One thing sighted people can often assist the visually impaired with is mobility, but it\u2019s critical to ask first and not just assume they need help. If they accept, ask which side they want you on, walk at a reasonable pace, and describe upcoming obstacles that can\u2019t be avoided, like curbs and stairs.\nIf you come across a visually impaired person with a guide dog, the number one rule is to never distract the dog while it\u2019s working, because any distraction can cause serious difficulty for the owner.\nWe Can Be Their Eyes\nObviously, as optometrists, we want to help as many people as possible keep or recover strong, functional vision. Unfortunately, modern medical knowledge, technology, and resources are still a long way away from being able to do this for everyone. In the meantime, what all sighted people can do is offer support and assistance to the visually impaired people we have the privilege of knowing personally or encountering throughout our day.\nKeep your eye out for opportunities to help!\nTop image by Flickr user Veterans Health used under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 license. Image cropped and modified from original.\nYou have presbyopia. Now what? Look How Far Corrective Lenses Have Come!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visitlanzarote.es/a-day-in-arrecife/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SEGJVUQD3ZJVUVDOYLOHSCGMSCBMPKHR", "length": 2183, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "visitlanzarote.es", "title": "Hidden Lanzarote. A day in Arrecife - VisitLanzarote", "raw_content": "A day in Arrecife\nArrecife is the Capital of Lanzarote, located in the east of the island, it\u2019s the smallest municipality but the most populated area of the island. Over the years many improvements have been made and there are lots of interesting places to visit or simply take a stroll around this traditional coastal city and get a glimpse of how many locals live.\nHere is a quick list of things to do in Arrecife.\nTake a walk along Playa Reducto, this beach is located in the heart of the city and stretches for 500 meters. With white sand and calm clear water it is a very nice beach and a relaxing place to admire the beauty of the surrounding area.\nLike any major city in Europe, Arrecife has a wide range of shops and renowned designer brand shops and you\u2019ll find clothing, footwear, souvenirs, and perfume at great prices. The heart of the shopping district is the City Centre in La Calle Real, this is a pedestrianised street lined with shops, banks, restaurants and bars a bustling and vibrant place to spend time.\nSan Gabriel Castle/Puente de las Bolas\nLocated at the southern end of La Calle Real shopping area rises the San Gabriel Castle which is accessed via the Puente de las Bolas. The castle defended the city from pirates around 1574; it has a small bay where you can have a swim and enjoy the sea and views of the city of Arrecife.\n[rev_slider alias=\u201darrecife\u201d]\nAs you walk towards the east of La Calle Real you will come upon the beautiful Charco de San Gines, an old port formed by a natural barrier with the sea. Originally, used by local fisherman, it slowly became of major relevance over the years as a shelter for fresh water vessels and goods. Nowadays it is a vibrant place of natural beauty surrounded by restaurants and bars, definitely worth checking out and enjoying a drink in one of the many terraces.\nWith a much more recent history is the Marina Lanzarote, the local marina for sport and recreational vessels, it is also a commercial center with a diverse offering. There are great restaurants, bars and shopping to take advantage of as you stroll around.\nWhat are you waiting for, spend a day in Arrecife for a different experience of Lanzarote!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vivianprobst.com/books/death-by-roses/backstory/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RMXIS5WXZHNPNVJNPYMJBKL4ZLSYH2VW", "length": 1748, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "vivianprobst.com", "title": "Backstory - Vivian Probst", "raw_content": "Vivian Probst holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Intercultural Ministries (Culture, Anthropology, Linguistics). Following in her family\u2019s footsteps, Vivian became a missionary and served in West Africa in her late twenties. During that time she surrendered to the truth that this was not her life\u2019s work and gave up everything she knew in order to find life outside the restrictive philosophy in which she had been raised.\nCompletely unprepared for the emotional or financial whiplash of becoming an outcast from the only life she had ever known, Vivian lived in poverty until she was rescued by The Women\u2019s Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin. An opportunity to work at a minimum wage job in real estate property management eventually led her to a career as a national consultant and trainer to the affordable housing industry. During this time, a wonderful second marriage occurred.\nFor the last 15 years, Vivian has been writing short stories, poems, a 4 volume series \u2018The Woman Who Forgot Who She Was\u2019 and one award winning novel, \u2018Death by Roses\u2019. This first published novel began after her older sister died of Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease in 2008. She grieved and wrote for five years; then at her husband\u2019s insistence that she \u2018publish the d\u2014 book!\u201d, she submitted her novel to the When Words Count Retreat where it won first prize in all categories. The prize gave her three New York literary gifts valued at $200,000; a publishing contract with Selectbooks, a publicity campaign with Media Muscle; and a literary agent through The Irene Goodman Literary Agency.\nWriting this story helped Vivian get over her fear of dying, and set her heart on fire to spread the message that life has a purpose and that We All Make A Difference to everyone she meets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vsatips.com/2017/02/13/keep-windows-computers-safe-from-the-newest-hidden-exploits-in-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IKKY4ZGS2LLS4MITE6TQDQETTFMMSO6M", "length": 7396, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "vsatips.com", "title": "Keep Window\u2019s Computers Safe from the Newest Hidden Exploits in 2017 | vsatips", "raw_content": "\u2190 Save Time Using 3 Tricks in Apple Notes | ios 10 | Markup Photos in Apple Notes\nInvite Readers to Follow You & Your Blog \u2192\nKeep Window\u2019s Computers Safe from the Newest Hidden Exploits in 2017\nHackers Are Constantly Creating New Malicious Attacks\nAn Especially Scary Exploit, Known as the Stegano Exploit is a Recent Threat You Don\u2019t Want To Encounter\u2026\nBut just in case you do, I\u2019ve written this guide about how to handle it.\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to stay one step ahead of them. I recently read an article about a new kind of exploit that occurs silently, behind the scenes, and it takes the form of some malicious code that\u2019s hidden inside the pixels of an image. I\u2019ve known about the possibility to hide code inside pictures for many years\u2026although I never really understood how it works.\nThis new exploit uses that concept and it\u2019s explained very well in this article by WeLive Security. The important information to be gleaned from this article I highlighted in the pictorial guide I made below. Please look at the pictorial guide closely, as I\u2019ve included the most important elements for protecting yourself from this exploit within it.\nIf you double click or tap on this image it should open to full size.\nHere are a few more pointers about the important aspects of this article.\nMake sure Window\u2019s is up-to-date. It\u2019s best to have \u2018automatic updates\u2019 turned on so you don\u2019t have to remember to run this. Here\u2019s a video that shows how to turn it on.\nIt\u2019s a good idea to use a browser extension like Ad Block Plus or NoScript which adds one more layer of security to keep the malicious stuff away from you.\nAd Block Plus Chrome\nAd Block Plus for FireFox\nMy last suggestion is to use 3 different programs to protect your computer and keep all of them up-to-date. I like to think of it as the trifecta of security programs for Window\u2019s computers.\nThe Window\u2019s Security Program Trifecta\nAnti-Virus program (we use ESET NOD32)\nAnti-Malware program (we use Malwarebytes Premium but there\u2019s also a free version you can learn more about)\nAnti-Exploit program (we use Malwarebytes Anti-Exploits which is now included in their version 3 of Malwarebytes Premium. But when we first began using it, it was a separate program which is still available as a standalone beta here. The beta is free to use, but it\u2019s important that you remember to update it frequently.\nWhy Use All 3 Types\u2026Isn\u2019t That OverKill & Don\u2019t They Interfere With Each Other?\nThe answer to that question is a resounding NO! That was a concern many years ago, (and by many I mean roughly 4 years ago,) but that is no longer the case. There are so many more threats out there today that the companies developing these programs had to come up with ways that they could work together.\nIn today\u2019s world they do work well together\u2026especially if you get them from the same company\u2026although very few make all three. Each type is highly specialized and constantly updated, so you\u2019re doing yourself a disservice if you run Windows and you don\u2019t arm yourself to the hilt with protection! You can read a little more about this here\u2026then at the end of this post I have some more links too.\nWhat to Do if A Malicious Program or Pop Up Threatens You\nBefore I knew any better, my instant response to an imminent threat was to unplug my computer! While this isn\u2019t a bad thing to do\u2026(the chance of it hurting your OS is minimal, but you could lose some data if you haven\u2019t saved some current work)\u2026I now know there are better ways to handle the situation.\nFirst I\u2019ll tell you what you shouldn\u2019t do.\nYou shouldn\u2019t close the browser window the normal way\u2026using either the big X or Close that may be displayed. The reason is because by doing so you will have set in motion the exact sequence of events you were trying to avoid. This article does a good job explaining this and provides 4 alternative methods for leaving the imminent danger. But for me that\u2019s TMI (too much information) so I think you should just pick one to remember.\nNext is What You Should Do\nClose the browser using one of the methods described in this article. I picked the Alt+F4 method because it seems to me to be the most popular. So I wrote this brief Guide to the Alt+F4 Shortcut.\nThen run scans using your anti-virus and anti-malware programs. Additionally you could run a 3rd scan of CCleaner too. CCleaner is a free program that does a really excellent job of cleaning up your computer. It oftentimes finds some things missed by other programs.\nAfter you\u2019re certain everything is fine maybe log your event somewhere\u2026I use Evernote (it\u2019s a free Note app I\u2019ve written about here) for things like this\u2026just in case future problems appear. It\u2019s nice to, to have a record of what happened since weeks later I\u2019ve usually forgotten most of the details and just have a fuzzy recollection that something bad occurred and I dealt with it successfully.\nWhy I Haven\u2019t Been Writing A Lot of Post About Computer Security Recently\nI haven\u2019t written a post about computer security in a very long time because I almost never use a computer anymore. I love the mobility and freedom I experience using iPads! Now I realize that there\u2019s one more thing I love about using iPads instead of my Windows computer\u2026which is the lack of constant worry brought about by hackers and malicious attacks.\nThis is my home office where my computer is\u2026I primarily use a standing desk but have a monitor on a regular desk too.\nThat\u2019s not to say that ios users are completely safe from danger\u2026but they are much less prone to those kinds of problems than Windows and Android users are. So too are Mac users. I wish I could say my choice to downplay my use of Windows was planned, but in fact it came about because I need some help with relocating the C: drive contents\u2026after one failed attempt. Life is busy and I havent yet dealt with that. In the meantime I did get a Mac mini computer. I don\u2019t actually use it very much either because it\u2019s basically for managing our massive iCloud database. But when I do, I don\u2019t maintain my typical Windows \u2018on constant guard\u2019 mindset!\nGranted, I\u2019m the exception when it comes to excessive worry about online security. If you\u2019re interested in knowing why that is you can read my recent, very personal account of when our home network was infiltrated by hackers and we became unwilling participants in a massive Botnet.\nRecommended Reading, Resources and Links:\nLearn more about Adblock types of programs with Tom\u2019s Guide to the Best Adblockers & Privacy Extensions\nWhat\u2019s the Difference Between Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware programs?\nHow to Geek\u2019s article on How to Use an Anti-Exploit Program to Protect You From Zero-Day Attacks\nI love to get feedback from my readers! I try to make that as easy as possible by not requiring you to add an email address, or even your real name for that matter. You do need a name of some kind\u2026but that can be whatever you want it to. Because it\u2019s your feedback that\u2019s important to me. I\u2019m not interested in collecting readers email addresses and or creating a subscription mailing list because I just don\u2019t think that the kind of things I write about warrant that kind of treatment.\nThis entry was posted in Computer & network security, Computers, Security and tagged internet saftey, Keep Window's Safe, protection from malicous code, security tips for computers, Stegano Exploit, Window's Security programs. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 723, "original_length": 44177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vvjones.com/2016/red-riding-hood", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:W4NK4SB73S5KUQIT6OOEXOLGCA32Z4BI", "length": 389, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vvjones.com", "title": "Red Riding Hood ~ Veronica V. Jones Illustration", "raw_content": "Every year SCBWI sponsors the Tomie dePaola award for illustrators. This years challenge was to focus on characterization, that is, to come up with an original approach to the characters in \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood\u201d. I decided to focus on the scene where the mother is lecturing Red on the dangers of her trip. I didn\u2019t have a lot of free time in my schedule so I opted for black and white.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 116.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wanderingbookseller.com.au/p/sex-gender-washed-and-waiting-reflections-on-christian-faithfulness-and-homosexuality--2?barcode=9780310534198", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AZQTMMZAKF3C7HU734SETQ5DQPNI75E7", "length": 1952, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wanderingbookseller.com.au", "title": "Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality by Wesley Hill (9780310534198) | The Wandering Bookseller", "raw_content": "Author(s): Wesley Hill\nSex & Gender | Single Minded\nIs there a place for celibate, gay Christians in the church How do the gospel, holiness, and indwelling sin play out in the life of a Christian experiencing same-sex attraction? And how do brothers and sisters in Christ show love to them? Wesley Hill offers wise counsel that is biblically faithful, theologically serious, and oriented to the life and practice of the church.\nAs a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God\u2019s \u201cNo\u201d to same-sex sexual intimacy. What does it mean for gay Christians to be faithful to God while struggling with the challenge of their homosexuality? What is God\u2019s will for believers who experience same-sex desires? Those who choose celibacy are often left to deal with loneliness and the hunger for relationships. How can gay Christians experience God\u2019s favor and blessing in the midst of a struggle that for many brings a crippling sense of shame and guilt?\nWeaving together reflections from his own life and the lives of other Christians, such as Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hill offers a fresh perspective on these questions. He advocates neither unqualified \u201chealing\u201d for those who struggle nor accommodation to temptation, but rather faithfulness in the midst of brokenness.\nWesley Hill (PhD, Durham University, UK) is assistant professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Zondervan, 2010), Paul and the Trinity?: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters? (Eerdmans, 2015), and Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian (Brazos, 2015). He is on the editorial board for Christianity Today and writes regularly for that magazine as well as for Books & Culture, First Things, and other publications.\nAuthor : Wesley Hill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wearethecure.org/learn-more-about-canince-cancer/canine-cancer-library/chondrosarcoma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OMLMZ6JG7EMBZACP7OZLE4MYG2IC7B5P", "length": 4933, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "wearethecure.org", "title": "Chondrosarcoma \u2013 The National Canine Cancer Foundation", "raw_content": "Description \u2013 Chondrosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm accounting for 5%-10% of all primary bone tumors reported in dogs. When a primary chondrosarcoma originates within a bone organ (organs of the skeletal system) it is called central or medullary chondrosarcoma but when it develops in the periosteum (membrane lining the outer surface of all bones) it is known as peripheral chondrosarcoma.\nThe tumor can develop in the nasal cavity, ribs, pelvis, extraskeletal sites like mammary gland, heart, valves, aorta, larynx, trachea, vertebrae, facial bones, digits, and penis. Central chondrosarcoma of long bones may infiltrate the cortex and supporting layers of the reactive bone. It may also occur in the appendicular skeleton of dogs including sites prone to developing osteosarcoma.\nThe nasal cavity on the other hand is also highly susceptible to developing chondrosarcoma. The tumor fills the nasal cavity by destroying turbinates (long narrow, curled bone shelf which protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose). Nasal chondrosarcoma may metastasize to adjacent sinuses or invade overlying bone and penetrate adjacent soft tissues. However, chondrosarcoma generally does not metastasize rapidly. But when it does the common sites that come within its ambit may include lungs, kidney, liver, heart and skeleton. The metastatic rate in dogs is 20%.\nThe tumors of medullary origin are most commonly found in dogs. Medium to large breeds like Boxers, German Shepherds and Golden Retrievers are at an increased risk of developing the disease. It is most frequent in middle aged to older dogs. However, no sex predilection has been reported so far.\nSymptoms \u2013 Symptoms depend upon the site of skeletal involvement. In case of nasal chondrosarcoma, the signs may include sneezing, unilateral and sometimes bilateral purulent (pus), bloody discharge and nasal obstruction followed with bone destruction. Bone deformity may occur sometimes.\nChondrosarcoma of the vertebrae leads to compression of the nervous tissue but there are no visible signs. Rib tumors on the other hand are not so painful unless there is a pathological fracture (bone fracture caused by a disease in the body). These tumors grow rather quickly and some part of the tumor mass protrudes into thorax and causes some amount of pulmonary atelectasis (medical condition in which the lungs are not inflated). Sometimes large pelvic tumors may cause lameness in the hind limbs of dogs.\nDiagnostic techniques \u2013 The examinations employed for detecting chondrosarcoma include thorough physical and orthopedic examination, complete blood count, serum biochemistry, radiographs of the affected bone, chest radiographs or computed tomography (CT) scans, bone scan and fine needle aspiration biopsies.\nPhysical examination is essential for evaluating the general health of the dog and also for detecting other illnesses if there is any.\nThe orthopedic examination is mandatory for assessing the affected bone and also to rule-out other causes of lameness. Sometimes, it is also important to find out if the dog would be able to manage on 3 legs where amputation is a potent possibility.\nBlood tests are important for evaluating the general health of the dog before charting the course of treatment.\nAlso, the assessment of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase in the serum biochemistry screening provides information on postoperative prognosis.\nRadiographs, bone scans, and advanced imaging like CT or magnetic resonance imaging of the limb should be performed for assessing the extent of infiltration of the tumor.\nSometimes, however, due to radiopacity, radiolucency or increased radiodensity of certain tumors, it is very difficult to differentiate among osteosarcomas, chondrosarcomas and sarcomas. Under these circumstances a biopsy becomes inevitable for reaching a definitive diagnosis. However, the tumor is usually advanced by the time it is detected.\nTreatment \u2013 Chondrosarcoma is amenable to surgery because a reliable adjuvant chemotherapeutic agent does not exist for this type of cancer. Although it is resistant to radiation therapy, there have been reports where responses to coarse-fraction radiation protocols were achieved.\nPrognosis \u2013 The reported median survival of dogs with nasal chondrosarcoma has been found to be 210 days to 580 days with various treatments like radiation therapy, rhinotomy (incision made into the nose to drain accumulated pus) and radiation therapy combined and rhinotomy alone. However, the median survival time of dogs with chondrosarcoma of the ribs varies largely. Again dogs treated with amputation showed a median survival of 540 days. Death is mostly reported in case of metastatic disease.\nTumors in Domestic Animals \u2013 Donald J. Meuten, DVM, PhD, is a professor of pathology in the Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 6461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weather.com/en-GB/forecast/ski/l/UKWL0132:1:UK", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:YX64IVF7HT4XUA3AMJOFGPYL6KA4HGVS", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "weather.com", "title": "Ski Forecast around Pontfaen, United Kingdom - weather.com", "raw_content": "Ski & Snowboard forecast near Pontfaen, United Kingdom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=5248993374388641&qm_symbol=HCG", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:21Z", "digest": "sha1:M4H3KILLUCXGJGE26CXTC2FYQKDRNWWL", "length": 1079, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "web.tmxmoney.com", "title": "Stock Market Quotes | Stock Market Quotes and Symbols", "raw_content": "Home Capital Announces Successful Completion of Sale of Non-Core Businesses Including Payment Services Interactive Gateway\nTORONTO, Feb. 1, 2018 /CNW/ - Home Capital Group Inc. (\"Home Capital\" or \"the Company\") (TSX: HCG) today announced the successful completion of the previously announced agreement with a third party to sell the Company's payment processing and prepaid card business including its Payment Services Interactive Gateway (PSiGate) subsidiaries.\nAs part of the agreement, Home Capital has agreed to enter into a transition services agreement and will continue to provide services for certain clients for up to a year, at which time the Company will have completely exited this business line.\nThis press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Please refer to Home Capital's 2016 Annual Report, available on Home Capital's website at www.homecapital.com, and on the Canadian Securities Administrators' website at www.sedar.com, for Home Capital's Caution Regarding Forward-looking Statements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wellington.govt.nz/recreation/enjoy-the-outdoors/gardens/botanic-garden/the-discovery-garden", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:EI3775B5G5JPBAENHYDWLEI75J6FZ36M", "length": 639, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wellington.govt.nz", "title": "Enjoy the outdoors - The Discovery Garden - Wellington City Council", "raw_content": "Te Kaapuia o Te Waoku \u2013 We are all part of nature.\nThe Discovery Garden is an amazing living classroom where curious minds can explore and learn about the natural world. We\u2019ll be focusing on the fantastic uses of plants - for food, fibre, medicine, and construction.\nThe Discovery Garden is a fun place for children to learn about plants, develop an interest in their natural environment and aspire to live in healthy...\nThere are all sorts of fun activities going on in the garden.\nTeachers and education programmes\nOur programmes focus on the importance of plants for food, fibre, construction, or medicine.\nLocation and contact details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1035, "original_length": 27455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westfieldcomics.com/comic-books/Batman-Gotham-Adventures/80013062", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:18Z", "digest": "sha1:55VKSZPIBQN3TTXPB42R5WVSXFU32I2Z", "length": 190, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "westfieldcomics.com", "title": "Batman: Gotham Adventures #52 - Westfield Comics - Comic Book Mail Order Service from Westfield Comics | Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Toys and more. ?v2", "raw_content": "BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES #52 - (Peterson/Levins/Beatty) Gotham's wild and woolly Lower East Side has a new hero... and it's not the Dark Knight. These days the kids are going wild for Bane.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 752, "original_length": 12382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westminster-pres.org/flyer-for-02/23/2018-105016.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U4GQUTBWFGT32NUBZT5D4KAZ63E2QMKT", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "westminster-pres.org", "title": "Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sioux Falls SD -", "raw_content": "6:00-8:00 pm: Girls' Night Out @ East 10th St. Pizza Ranch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whatzviral.com/a-strong-woman-doesnt-rely-on-anyone-but-herself-to-achieve-success/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RN6UW7OHG3FULJY3FBBRMCTW6ZVLX5YM", "length": 2811, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "whatzviral.com", "title": "A Strong Woman Doesn\u2019t Rely On Anyone But Herself To Achieve Success!", "raw_content": "A Strong Woman Doesn\u2019t Rely On Anyone But Herself To Achieve Success!\n\u201cThink like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness\u201d.\nOne of the most valuable jewelry a woman can wear is her self-respect. When a woman is sure about the things that she does and when she is strong enough to face all the barriers that come on her way, she will automatically understand the value of having a self-respect and that is why it important to be a strong woman.\nShe has traveled to hell and back and therefore, she knows all the twists and turns of the life. She has added many valuable lessons to her life through the experiences that she has had and all the lessons have paved her the way to achieve something better in her life.\nShe was soft and tender once and she had to rely on others for everything. But now she knows what she deserves and therefore, she is the captain of her own ship and the queen of her kingdom. She rely on no one now as she knows that no one can satisfy her needs as well as she can. She trusts herself well enough to go out and get what she wants.\nShe is confident, ambitious and courageous and that is what makes her special.\nNevertheless, she is still a woman and therefore, she is soft and sensual, kind and loving too. But she knows that she is not defined by anyone and definitely by a man.\nShe knows what it\u2019s like to be alone and she has learned to accept that and make it work for her. She doesn\u2019t feel being alone as a bad thing and instead, she has learned to build empires from that. Loneliness has given her space to explore herself and she doesn\u2019t like to depend on anyone just because she is alone.\nStep in their way and you will get scorched- for when a strong woman has her eyes set on the horizon you can bet that she is going there and beyond, no matter the cost.\nShe knows that her life is what she makes out of it and she knows that she deserves the best. So, she will never change her ways and means just because an immature man asks her to do so, and instead, she will beautify her life in her own ways.\nStrong women know the difference between maturity and immaturity.\nShe recognizes a man who is career driven and who is woman driven. She knows when a person tries to make a connection with her, whether it is to spend the moment or a lifelong connection. So, she is selective in everything and even though some define her selectiveness as being haughty, the truth is that she is just being cautious.\nIt is not really easy to stand up in the society as a strong woman but when you can finally stand up like that, everyone will respect you for who you are. You must keep in your mind that you are the captain of your own ship and as Buddha said \u2018You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe deserves your love and affection\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whnt.com/2018/11/06/steve-marshall-elected-attorney-general/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:GF2WAXH4RT3XOKIMW5CC7XHD5KJ7P4UI", "length": 1441, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "whnt.com", "title": "Steve Marshall elected Attorney General | WHNT.com", "raw_content": "Steve Marshall elected Attorney General\nPosted 10:02 pm, November 6, 2018, by Patrick Ary, Updated at 08:52AM, November 7, 2018\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama voters chose to vote Republican Steve Marshall into his first elected term as the state's attorney general Tuesday.\nMarshall defeated Democrat Joseph Siegelman.\nMarshall, 53, was appointed by then-Gov. Robert Bentley to the attorney general\u2019s job in 2017. He succeeded Luther Strange in the office after Bentley appointed Strange to fill the U.S. Senate seat of now-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.\nMarshall was Marshall County's district attorney for 16 years. He switched from the Democrat to Republican party in 2011.\nSiegelman is the son of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman.\nDuring the campaign, Siegelman attacked $735,000 in contributions made to Marshall's campaign by the Republican Attorneys General Association, claiming the funds violated a state ban on transfers between political action committees.\nMarshall's Republican primary opponent, former attorney general Troy King, also attacked Marshall over the donations and filed a lawsuit that was later dismissed.\nMarshall maintained the contributions followed the law.\nSessions resigns as U.S. Attorney General\nAlabama AG\u2019s Office, WMEL water authority still haven\u2019t met to address drinking water concerns\nAttorney General Steve Marshall files brief asking Supreme Court to hear Alabama dismemberment abortion case", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wideeyedwonderings.com/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:67DHM3TTJWIIGATXN57HAPFLIYWKL4C7", "length": 8910, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "wideeyedwonderings.com", "title": "Wide-Eyed Wonderings \u2013 Page 4 \u2013 In wonder over God's world, God's word, and God's redeeming love.", "raw_content": "What Do You Do in the Day of Trouble?\n\u201cChrist in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee,\u201d Rembrandt, 1633\nOne thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. \u2013Psalm 27:4-5\nKing David spoke of \u201cthe day of trouble.\u201d He should know. His neighbors weren\u2019t the sort who drop by to borrow sugar. No, their intent was a bit more malicious. Philistia and Co. wouldn\u2019t have been happier than to see David\u2019s head impaled on a stick. What did David do when threatened? What do you do in your own day of trouble?\nMany things are worthless in the day of trouble. But that usually doesn\u2019t stop us from doing them anyway. I\u2019m speaking of fretting, pacing, jittering, sighing. Of biting nails and wringing hands. Of tumbling the problem around and around in our heads like shoes thunking in a dryer. Or, when weary of all that, of distracting ourselves with media and malls and munchies and a million other bromides. Just make it go away!\nBut not everything is worthless in the day of trouble. Some things are good, if they are done in faith. A brisk walk might help you, or hitting the gym, or running the trails at a nearby park. Sleep can put things in perspective too. You don\u2019t need a psychology degree to discern that a lack of sleep frays your emotions. Trust God, and go to bed. Seeking counsel from godly friends also can be helpful.\nFor King David, add to these good things the drawing up of battle plans, mustering the army, and taking up the sword. You too may choose to pursue justice through means and authorities appropriate to our new covenant era. Whether the day of trouble is mild or severe, some things are good to do.\nYet, despite these good things, Jesus tells us that only \u201cone thing is necessary\u201d (Luke 10:42). King David says the same thing. In the day of trouble\u2014and on every other day\u2014our fundamental need is to be close to the Lord, gazing at his beauty and communing with him. No other thing, including those things that are good and necessary, rivals our need for this one thing.\nIn our day, gazing at God has everything to do with the gospel. The temple was but a shadow; Jesus is the substance. Were David to make his same request after the cross and resurrection, he would no longer ask to enjoy God\u2019s presence in a place but in a person. We behold the beauty of the Lord in the face of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18; 4:6).\nAsk God for the one thing. Ask him, for he loves to give good gifts. Then seek after the one thing by faith, with your Bible open and the word filling your mind. Redirect your gaze from your problem to the Lord. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face.\nIn beholding the beauty of the Lord, you will find yourself in the safest place you can ever be. You will find that you have power to do every other good thing you may need to do. You will find yourself persevering in the day of trouble. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.\nCome Close the Heart of Jesus: Read the Old Testament\nJesus knew the details of his death long before he was crucified. Consider the following specifics, which Jesus shared with his disciples before they arrived in Jerusalem:\nFor he [i.e., the Son of Man] will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise. (Luke 18:32-33)\nNotice the precision of Jesus\u2019 advance knowledge. He knew there would be mocking and shameful treatment; that someone would spit in his face; that the whip would tear his back to shreds; that he would be crucified. Jesus even knew that he would rise again on the third day.\nHow? How did Jesus know these details, all of which came to pass? What is the explanation of his prescience?\nSome will answer, incredulously, \u201cWell, of course Jesus knew these details! He was God in the flesh! He knew everything!\u201d It\u2019s true that Jesus was the incarnate Son of God, who possessed startling prophetic insight through the Spirit. But that\u2019s not the best answer in this case. Listen to the explanation that Jesus himself gives for his foreknowledge:\nAnd taking the twelve, he said to them, \u201cSee, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.\u201d (Luke 18:31, emphasis mine)\nJesus knew the details of his death because he had read the Bible.\nJesus knew the Bible. He had heard and read and memorized the Scriptures all his life. His self-understanding and God-appointed mission had come into focus through the word of God. The details of Jesus\u2019 death were known to him not solely because he was the second person of the Trinity, but because he had read them in the Bible.\n1. Jesus knew he would be crucified.\nHe had read of the bronze serpent lifted on a pole and knew it was a prophetic type of his own death (Numbers 21:9; John 3:14-15). He knew, as a curse-bearer, that he would be hanged on a tree (Deuteronomy 21:23).\n2. Jesus knew he would be killed by the Gentiles.\nHe had read the prophecy of David: \u201cFor dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet\u2014I can count all my bones\u2014they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.\u201d (Psalm 22:16-18; see Matthew 15:22-28 for a clear indication that Jesus understood the metaphor of dogs to include Gentiles).\n3. Jesus knew he would be mocked, spit upon, and flogged.\nHe had read Isaiah\u2019s prophecy: \u201cI gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting\u201d (Isaiah 50:6).\n4. Jesus knew he would be raised from the dead.\nHe had read David\u2019s prophecy: \u201cMy flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption\u201d (Psalm 16:9-10; see also 30:3; 49:7-15; 68:20).\nHe had read Daniel\u2019s prophecy: \u201cAnd many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt\u201d (Daniel 12:2).\nHe had read Isaiah\u2019s prophecy: \u201cWhen his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied\u201d (Isaiah 53:10-11; see also 26:19).\n5. Jesus knew he would rise on the third day.\nHe had read of Jonah being three days and nights in the belly of a great fish, and understood this to be a prophetic type of his own death and resurrection (Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40).\nHe had read Hosea\u2019s prophecy: \u201cCome, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him\u201d (Hosea 6:1-2; see also 13:14).\nThat\u2019s neat, but what does it mean for us? To begin with, it means that we can trust the Bible. All that was written about the Son of Man was indeed accomplished. The prophecies came to pass. We can confidently build our lives and stake our eternal future on every word God has spoken.\nAdditionally, it means that we must learn to read the Bible the way Jesus did. Jesus understood that the Bible was speaking of him. We go astray in interpretation when our dominant impulse is to understand every verse in light of ourselves. Following Jesus\u2019 own method of interpretation, we must first understand how Scripture finds its fulfillment in him. Only then can we make accurate application to our own lives. In other words, a sound interpretive path isn\u2019t BIBLE VERSE(S) \u25ba US. Rather, it\u2019s BIBLE VERSE(S) \u25ba FULFILLMENT IN JESUS \u25ba US.\nFinally, it means that one way of getting close to Jesus is to read the Old Testament. Read the New Testament too, by all means! But don\u2019t minimize the value of the Old Testament in getting to know Jesus. After all, the Hebrew Scriptures were Jesus\u2019 Bible. As Christopher Wright thrillingly puts it, you can be aware of this every time you open the Old Testament:\nThese are the words [Jesus] read. These were the stories he knew. These were the songs he sang. These were the depths of wisdom and revelation and prophecy that shaped his whole view of \u2018life, the universe and everything\u2019. This is where he found his insights into the mind of his Father God. Above all, this is where he found the shape of his own identity and the goal of his own mission. In short, the deeper you go into understanding the Old Testament, the closer you come to the heart of Jesus.\nThe Old Testament may be a surprising place to come close to the heart of Jesus, but it is a sure place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 12627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wikischool.org/book/life_after_life", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5JW6TLVM27P3RGYSZXYZZHFIQC55BAK", "length": 237073, "nlines": 555, "source_domain": "wikischool.org", "title": "life after life - Wikischool", "raw_content": "1 - the phenomenon of death\n2 - the experience of dying\nfeelings of peace and quiet\nthe being of light\nthe border or limit\neffects on lives\nnew views of death\n3 - parallels\n4 - questions\n5 - explanations\nnatural (scientific) explanations\n1. the pharmacological explanation\n2. physiological explanations\n3. neurological explanations\n1. isolation research\n2. dreams, hallucinations, and delusions\n\u201cThe investigation of a phenomenon survival of bodily death\u201d\nBy Dr. Raymond A. Moody, Jr.\nWith a foreword by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.\nTo George Ritchie, M.D. and, through him, to the One whom he suggested.\nThere have been very many people who have given me assistance and encouragement during my research and writing, and I could not have completed this project without them. It was my good friend John Ouzts who talked me into giving my first public talk on this subject. John Egle of Mockingbird Books first encouraged me to commit my findings to writing, and has provided support and encouragement throughout. Leonard, Mae, Becky, and Scott Brooks provided room, board, and taxi service for me on many occasions when I needed them. Kathy Tabakian accompanied me on several interviews, and I benefited from long discussions of them with her. Russ Moores, Richard Martin, and Ed McCranie, all of the Medical College of Georgia, offered valuable suggestions and referred me to much relevant literature. My wife spent long hours editing the manuscript and typescript. Finally, I should like most of all to thank all those who told me of their encounters with death. I can only hope that this book is worthy of all the confidence that everyone mentioned above has placed in me.\nI have had the privilege of reading the pre-publication copy of Dr. Moody's Life After Life, and I am delighted that this young scholar has the courage to put his findings together and make this new type of research available to the general public.\nSince I have worked with terminally ill patients over the last two decades, I have become more and more preoccupied with looking into the phenomena of death itself. We have learned a lot about the process of dying, but we still have many questions with regard to the moment of death and to the experience our patients have when they are pronounced medically dead.\nIt is research such as Dr. Moody presents in his book that will enlighten many and will confirm what we have been taught for two thousand years- that there is life after death. Though he does not claim to have studied death itself, it is evident from his findings that the dying patient continues to have a conscious awareness of his environment after being pronounced clinically dead. This very much coincides with my own research, which has used the accounts of patients who have died and made a comeback, totally against our expectations and often to the surprise of some highly sophisticated, well- known and certainly accomplished physicians.\nAll of these patients have experienced a floating out of their physical bodies, associated with a great sense of peace and wholeness. Most were aware of another person who helped them in their transition to another plane of existence. Most were greeted by loved ones who had died before them, or by a religious figure who was significant in their life and who coincided, naturally, with their own religious beliefs. It is enlightening to read Dr. Moody's book at the time when I am ready to put my own research findings on paper.\nDr. Moody will have to be prepared for a lot of criticism, mainly from two areas. There will be members of the clergy who will be upset by anyone who dares to do research in an area which is supposed to be taboo. Some religious representatives of a denominational church have already expressed their criticism of studies like this. One priest referred to it as \u201cselling cheap grace.\u201d Others simply felt that the question of life after death should remain an issue of blind faith and should not be questioned by anyone. The second group of people that Dr. Moody can expect to respond to his book with concern are scientists and physicians who regard this kind of study as \u201cunscientific.\u201d\nI think we have reached an era of transition in our society. We have to have the courage to open new doors and admit that our present-day scientific tools are inadequate for many of these new investigations. I think that this book will open these new doors for people who can have an open mind, and it will give them hope and courage to evaluate new areas of research. They will know that this account of Dr. Moody's findings is true, because it is written by a genuine and honest investigator. It is also corroborated by my own research and by the findings of other very serious-minded scientists, scholars and members of the clergy who have had the courage to investigate in this new field of research in the hope of helping those who need to know, rather than to believe.\nI recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, and I congratulate Dr. Moody for the courage to put his findings into print.\nElisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. Flossmoor, Illinois\nThis book, written as it is by a human being, naturally reflects the background, opinions and prejudices of its author. So, although I have tried to be as objective and straightforward as I can, certain facts about me might be useful in evaluating some of the extraordinary claims which are made in what follows.\nFirst of all, I have never been close to death myself, so I am not giving a firsthand account of experiences which I have had myself. At the same time I cannot claim total objectivity on that basis, since my emotions have become involved in this project. In hearing so many people relate the fascinating experiences with which this volume deals, I have come to feel almost as though I have lived through them myself. I can only hope that this attitude has not compromised the rationality and balance of my approach.\nSecondly, I write as a person who is not broadly familiar with the vast literature on paranormal and occult phenomena. I do not say this to disparage it, and I feel confident that a wider acquaintance with it might have increased my understanding of the events I have studied. In fact, I intend now to look more closely at some of these writings to see to what extent the investigations of others are borne out by my findings.\nThirdly, my religious upbringing deserves some ' comment. My family attended the Presbyterian Church, yet my parents never tried to impose their religious beliefs or concepts upon their children. They generally tried, as I was growing up, to encourage whatever interests I developed on my own and provided the opportunity for me to pursue them. So, I have grown up having a \u201creligion\u201d not as a set of fixed doctrines, but rather as a concern with spiritual and religious doctrines, teachings, and questions. I believe that all the great religions of man have many truths to tell us, and I believe that no one of us has all the answers to the deep and fundamental truths with which religion deals. In organizational terms, I am a member of the Methodist Church.\nFourthly, my academic and professional background is somewhat diverse- some would say fractured. I attended graduate school in philosophy at the University of Virginia and received my Ph.D. in that subject in 1969. My areas of special interest in philosophy are ethics, logic, and the philosophy of language. After teaching philosophy for three years at a university in eastern North Carolina, I decided to go to medical school, and I intend to become a psychiatrist and to teach the philosophy of medicine in a medical school. All these interests and experiences necessarily helped shape the approach I have taken in this study.\nMy hope for this book is that it will draw attention to a phenomenon which is at once very widespread and very well-hidden, and, at the same time, help create a more receptive public attitude toward it. For it is my firm conviction that this phenomenon has great significance, not only for many academic and practical fields-especially psychology, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, theology, and the ministry-but also for the way in which we lead our daily lives.\nLet me say at the very beginning that, on grounds which I will explain much later, I am not trying to prove that there is life after death. Nor do I think that a \u201cproof' of this is presently possible. Partly for this reason, I have avoided the use of actual names and have disguised certain identifying details in the stories, while leaving their contents unchanged. This has been necessary, both to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned and, in many cases, to be granted permission to publish the experience related to me in the first place.\nThere will be many who will find the claims made in this book incredible and whose first reaction will be to dismiss them out of hand. I have no room whatsoever to blame anyone who finds himself in this category; I would have had precisely the same reaction only a few years ago. I am not asking that anyone accept and believe the contents of this volume on my authority alone. Indeed, as a logician who disavows that road to belief which proceeds through invalid appeals to authority, I specifically ask that no one do so. All I ask is for,, anyone who disbelieves what he reads here to poke around a bit for himself. I have issued this challenge repeatedly for some time. Of those who have accepted it, there have been very many who, skeptical at first, have come to share my bafflement over these events.\nOn the other hand, there no doubt will be many who read this and find in it a great relief, for they will discover that they are not alone in having had such an experience. To them-especially if, like most, they have concealed their story from all but a few trusted persons-I can only say this: It is my hope that this volume may encourage you to speak a little more freely, so that a most intriguing facet of the human soul may be more clearly elucidated.\nThat is a question which humanity has been asking itself ever since there have been humans. Over ,he past few years, I have had the opportunity to raise this question before a sizable number of audiences. These groups have ranged from classes in psychology, philosophy, and sociology through church organizations, television audiences, and civic clubs to professional societies of medicine. On the basis of this exposure, I can safely say that this topic excites the most powerful of feelings from people of many emotional types and walks of life.\nYet, despite all this interest it remains true that it as very difficult for most of us to talk about death. There are at least two reasons for this. One of them is primarily psychological and cultural: The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. For example, most medical students, myself included, have found that even the remote encounter with death which occurs upon one's first visit to the anatomical laboratories when entering medical school can evoke strong feelings of uneasiness. In my own case, the reason for this response now seems quite obvious. It has occurred to me in retrospect that it wasn't entirely concern for the person whose remains I saw there, although that feeling certainly figured, too. What I was seeing on that table was a symbol of my own mortality. In some way, if only pre-consciously, the thought must have been in my mind, \u201cThat will happen to me, too.\u201d\nLikewise, talking about death can be seen on the psychological level as another way of approaching it indirectly. No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is in effect to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.\nThe second reason it is difficult to discuss death is more complicated, as it is rooted in the very nature of language itself. For the most part, the words of human language allude to things of which we have experience through our own physical senses. Death, though, is something which lies beyond the conscious experience of most of us because most of us have never been through it. if we are to talk about death at all, then, we must avoid both social taboos and the deep-seated linguistic dilemmas which derive from our own inexperience. What we often end up doing is talking in euphemistic analogies. We compare death or dying with more pleasant things in our experience, things with which we are familiar.\nPerhaps the most common analogy of this type is the comparison between death and sleep. Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks. In The Iliad, for example, Homer calls sleep \u201cdeath's sister,\u201d and Plato, in his dialogue The Apology, put the following words into the mouth of his teacher, Socrates, who has just been sentenced to death by an Athenian jury.\n[Now, if death is only a dreamless sleep,] it must be a marvelous gain. I suppose that if anyone were told to pick out the night on which he slept so soundly as not even to dream, and then to compare it with all the other nights and days of his life, and then were told to say, after due consideration, how many better and happier days and nights than this he had spent in the course of his life-well, I think that . . . [anyone] would find these days and nights easy to count in comparison with the rest. If death is like this, then, I call it gain, because the whole of time, if you look at it in this way, can be regarded as no more than one single night. (1)\nThis same analogy is embedded in our own contemporary language. Consider the phrase \u201cto put to sleep.\u201d If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words. Others prefer a different, but related analogy. Dying, they say, is like forgetting. When one dies, one forgets all one's woes; all one's painful and troubling memories are obliterated.\nAs old and as widespread as they may be, however, both the \u201csleeping\u201d and the \u201cforgetting\u201d analogies are ultimately inadequate in so far as comforting us is concerned. Each is a different way of making the same assertion. Even though they tell us so in a somewhat more palatable way, both say, in effect, that death is simply the annihilation of conscious experience, forever. If this is so, then death really doesn't have any of the desirable features of sleeping and forgetting. Sleeping is a positive, desirable experience in life because waking follows it. A restful night's sleep makes the waking hours following it more pleasant and productive. If waking did not follow it, the benefits of sleep would not be possible. Similarly, annihilation of all conscious experience implies not only the obliteration of all painful memories; but of all pleasant ones, too. So upon analysis, neither analogy is close enough to give us any real comfort or hope in facing death.\nThere is another view, however, which disavows notion that death is annihilation of consciousness. According to this other, perhaps more ancient tradition, some aspect of the human being survives even after the physical body ceases to function and is ultimately destroyed. This persistent aspect has been called by many names, among them psyche, soul, mind, spirit, self, being, and consciousness. So whatever name it is called, the notion that one passes into another realm of existence upon physical death is among the most venerable of human beliefs. There is a graveyard in Turkey which was used by Neanderthal men approximately 100,000 years ago. There, fossilized imprints have enabled archaeologists to discover that these ancient men buried their dead in biers of flowers, indicating that they perhaps saw death as an occasion of celebration-as a transition of the dead from this world to the next. Indeed, graves from very early sites all over the earth give evidence of the belief in human survival of bodily death.\nIn short, we are faced with two contrasting answers to our original question about the nature of Death, both of ancient derivation, yet both widely held even today. Some say that death is annihilation of consciousness; others say with equal confidence at death is the passage of the soul or mind into another dimension of reality. In what follows I do not wish in any way to dismiss either answer. I simply wish to give a report on a search which I have personally undertaken.\nDuring the past few years I have encountered large number of persons who were involved in what I shall call \u201cnear-death experiences.\u201d I have met these persons in many ways. At first it was by coincidence. In 1965, when I was an undergraduate student studying philosophy at the University of Virginia, I met a man who was a clinical professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine. I was struck from the beginning with his warmth, kindliness and humor. It came as a great surprise when I later learned a very interesting fact about him, namely, that he had been dead-not just once but on two occasions, about ten minutes apart-and that he had given a most fantastic account of what happened to him while he was \u201cdead.\u201d I later hear.:, him relate his story to a small group of interested students. At the time, I was most impressed, but since I had little background from which to judge; such experiences, I \u201cfiled it away,\u201d both in my mind and in the form of a tape recording of his talk.\nSome years later, after I had received my Ph.D. in philosophy, I was teaching in a university in eastern North Carolina.. In one course I had m y students read Plato's Phaedo, a work in which immortality is among the subjects discussed. In my lectures I had been emphasizing the other doctrines which Plato presents there and had not focused upon the discussion of life after death. After class one day a student stopped by to see me. He asked whether we might discuss the subject of immortality. He had an interest in the subject because his grandmother had \u201cdied\u201d during an operation and had recounted a very amazing experience. I asked him to tell me about it, and much to my surprise, he related almost the same series of events which I had heard the psychiatry professor describe some years before.\nAt this time my search for cases became a bit more active, and I began to include readings on the subject of human survival of biological death in my philosophy courses. However, I was careful not to mention the two death experiences in my courses. I adopted, in effect, a wait-and-see attitude. If such reports were fairly common, I thought, I would probably hear of more if I just brought up the general topic of survival in philosophical discussions, expressed a sympathetic attitude toward the question, and waited. To my amazement, I found that in almost every class of thirty or so students, at least one student would come to me afterwards and relate a personal near\u00ac death experience.\nWhat has amazed me since the beginning of my interest are the great similarities in the reports, despite the fact that they come from people of highly varied religious, social, and educational backgrounds. By the time I entered medical school in 1972, I had collected a sizable number of these experiences and I began mentioning the informal study I had been doing to some of my medical acquaintances. Eventually, a friend of mine talked me into giving a report to a medical society, and other public talks followed. Again, I found that after every talk someone would come up to tell me of an experience of his own.\nAs I became more widely known for this interest, doctors began to refer to me persons whom they had resuscitated and who reported unusual experiences. Still others have written to me with reports after newspaper articles about my studies appeared.\nAt the present time, I know of approximately 150 cases of this phenomenon. The experiences which I have studied fall into three distinct categories:\n(1) The experiences of persons who were resuscitated after having been thought, adjudged, or pronounced clinically dead by their doctors.\n(2) The experiences of persons who, in the course of accidents or severe injury or illness, came very close to physical death.\n(3) The experiences of persons who, as they died, told them to other people who were present. Later, these other people reported the content of the death experience to me.\nFrom the vast amount of material that could be derived from 150 cases, selection obviously has occurred. Some of it has been purposeful. For example, although I have found reports of the third type to complement and to agree very well with experiences of the first two types, I have for the most part dropped them from consideration for two reasons. First, it helps to reduce the number of cases studied to a more manageable level, and second, it enables me to stick as close as possible to firsthand reports. Thus, I have interviewed in great detail some fifty persons upon whose experiences I am able to report. Of these, the cases of the first type (those in which an apparent clinical death actually occurs) are certainly more dramatic than those of the second type (in which only a close brush with death occurs).\nIndeed, whenever I have given public talks on this phenomenon, the \u201cdeath\u201d episodes have invariably drawn most of the interest. Accounts in the press have sometimes been written so as to suggest they are the only type of case with which I have dealt.\nHowever, in selecting the cases to be presented in this book, I have avoided the temptation to dwell only on those cases in which a \u201cdeath\u201d event took place. For, as will become obvious, cases of the second type are not different from, but rather form a continuum with, cases of the first type. Also, though the near-death experiences themselves are remarkably similar, both the circumstances surrounding them and the persons describing them vary widely. Accordingly, I have tried to give a sample of experiences which adequately reflects this variation. With these qualifications in mind, let us now turn to a consideration of what ma happen, as far as I have been able to discover, during the experience of dying.\n(1) Plato, The Last Days o f Socrates, trans. Hugh Tredennick (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), p. 75.\nDespite the wide variation in the circumstances surrounding close calls with death and in the types of persons undergoing them, it remains true that there is a striking similarity among the accounts of the experiences themselves. In fact, the similarities among various reports are so great that one can easily pick out about fifteen separate elements which recur again and again in the mass of narratives that I have collected. On the basis of these points of likeness, let me now construct a brief, theoretically \u201cideal\u201d or \u201ccomplete\u201d experience which embodies all of the common elements, in the order in which it is typical for them to occur.\nA man is dying and, as he reaches the point of greatest physical distress, he hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor. He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel. After this, he suddenly finds himself outside o f his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment, and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator. He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage point and is in a state of emotional upheaval.\nAfter a while, he collects himself and becomes more accustomed to his odd condition. He notices that he still has a \u201cbody,\u201d but one o f a very different nature and with very different powers from the physical body he has left behind. Soon other things begin to happen. Others come to meet and to help him. He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died, and a loving, warm spirit o f a kind he has never encountered before-a being of light-appears before him. This being asks him a question, nonverbally, to wake him evaluate his life and helps him along by showing him a panoramic, instantaneous playback of the major events of his life. At some point he finds himself approaching some sort of barrier or border, apparently representing the limit between earthly life and the next lif. Yet, he finds that he must go, back to the earth, that the time for his death has not yet come. At this point he resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences in the afterlife and does not want to return. He is overwhelmed by intense feelings of joy, love, and peace. Despite, his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.\nLater he tries to tell others, but he has trouble doing so. In the first place, he can find no human words adequate- to describe these unearthly episodes. He also finds that others scoff, so he stops telling other people. Still, the experience affects his life profoundly, especially his views about death and its relationship to life.\nIt is important to bear in mind that the above narrative is not meant to be a representation of any one person's experience. Rather, it is a \u201cmodel,\u201d a composite of the common elements found in very many stories. I introduce it here only to give a preliminary general idea, of what a person who is gyring may experience. Since it is an abstraction rather than an actual account, in the present chapter I will discuss in detail each common element, found in very many examples.\nBefore doing that, however, a few facts need to be set out in order to put the remainder of my exposition of the experience of dying into the proper framework.\n(1) Despite the striking similarities among various accounts, no two of them are precisely identical (though a few come remarkably close to it).\n(2) I have found no one person who reports every single component of the composite experience Very many have reported most of them -hat is, eight or more of the fifteen or so) and a ' :;v have reported up to twelve.\n(3) There is no one element of the composite experience which every single person has reported to me, which crops up in every narrative. Nonetheless, a few of these elements come fairly close to being universal.\n(4) There is not one component of my abstract model which has appeared in only one account. Each element has shown up in many separate stories.\n(5) The order in which a dying person goes through the various stages briefly delineated above may vary from that given in my \u201ctheoretical model.\u201d To give one example, various persons have reported seeing the \u201cbeing of light\u201d before, or at the same time, they left their physical bodies, and not as in the \u201cmodel,\u201d some time afterward. However, the order in which the stages occur in the model is a very typical order, and wide variations are unusual.\n(6) How far into the hypothetical complete experience a dying person gets seems to depend on whether or not the person actually underwent an, apparent clinical death, and if so, on how long he was in this state. In general, persons who were \u201cdead\u201d seem to report more florid, complete experiences than those who only came close to death, and those who were \u201cdead\u201d for a longer period go deeper than those who were \u201cdead\u201d for a shorter time.\n(7) I have talked to a few people who were pronounced dead, resuscitated, and came back reporting none of these common elements. Indeed, they say that they don't remember anything at all about their \u201cdeaths.\u201d Interestingly enough, I have talked with several persons who were actually adjudged clinically dead on separate occasions years apart, and reported experiencing nothing on one of the occasions, but having had quite involved experiences on the other.\n(8) It must be emphasized that I am writing primarily about reports, accounts, or narratives, which other persons have given to me verbally during interviews. Thus, when I remark that a given element of the abstract, \u201ccomplete\u201d experience does not occur in a given account, I do not mean necessarily to imply that it did not happen to the person involved. I only mean that this person did not tell me that it did occur, or that it does not definitely come out in his account that he experienced it. Within this framework, then, let us look at some of the common stages and events of the experiences of dying.\nThe general understanding we have of language depends upon the existence of a broad community of common experience in which almost all of us participate. This fact creates an important difficulty which complicates all of the discussion which is to follow. The events which those who have come near death have lived through lie outside our community of experience, so one might well expect that they would have some linguistic difficulties in expressing what happened to them. In fact, this is precisely the case. The persons involved uniformly characterize their experiences as ineffable, that is, \u201cinexpressible.\u201d\nMany people have made remarks to the effect that, \u201cThere are just no words to express what I. am trying to say,\u201d or \u201cThey just don't make adjectives and superlatives to describe this.\u201d One woman put this to me very succinctly when she said:\n\u201cNow, there is a real problem for me as I'm trying to tell you this, because all the words I know are three-dimensional. As I was going through this, I kept thinking, \u201cWell, when I was taking geometry, they always told me there were only three dimensions, and I always just accepted that. But they were wrong. There are more.\u201d And, of course, our world-the one we're living in now is three-dimensional, but the next one definitely isn't. And that's why it's so hard to tell you this. I have to describe it to you in words that are three-dimensional. That's as close as I can get to it, but it's not really adequate. I can't really give you a complete picture.\u201d\nNumerous people have told of hearing their doctors or other spectators in effect pronounce them dead. One woman related to me that,\n\u201cI was in the hospital, but they didn't know :hat was wrong with me. So Dr. James, my doctor, sent me downstairs to the radiologist for liver scan so they could find out. First, they tested this drug they were going to use on my arm, since I had a lot of drug allergies. But there ..-as no reaction, so they went ahead. When they used it this time, I arrested on them. I heard the radiologist who was working on me go over to the telephone, and I heard very clearly as he dialed it. I heard him say, \u201cDr. James, I've killed your patient, Mrs. Martin.\u201d And I knew I wasn't dead. I tried to move or to let them know, but I couldn't. When they were trying to resuscitate me, I could hear them telling how many c.c.'s of something to give me, but I didn't feel the needles going in. I felt nothing at all when they touched me.\u201d\nIn another case, a woman who had previously had several episodes of heart trouble was seized with a heart attack, during which she nearly lost her life. She says,\nSuddenly, I was gripped by squeezing chest pains, just as though an iron band had been clamped quickly around the middle part of my chest and tightened. My husband and a friend of ours heard me fall and came running in to help me. I found myself in a deep blackness, and through it I heard my husband, as if he were at a great distance, saying, \u201cThis is it, this time!\u201d And my thoughts were, \u201cYes, it is.\u201d\nA young man who was thought dead following an automobile accident says, \u201cI heard a woman who was there say, 'Is he dead?' and someone else said, 'Yeah, he's dead'.\u201d Reports of this type accord quite well with what the doctors and others present remember. For example, one doctor told me,\nA woman patient of mine had a cardiac arrest just before another surgeon and I were to operate on her. I was right there, and I saw her pupils dilate. We ried for some time to resuscitate her, but weren't having any success, so I thought she was gone. I told the other doctor who was working with me, \u201cLet's try one more time and then we'll give up.\u201d This time, we got her heart beating, and she came around. Later I asked her what she remembered of her \u201cdeath.\u201d She said she didn't remember much about it, except that she did hear me say, \u201cLet's try one more time and then we'll give up.\u201d\nMany people describe extremely pleasant feelings and sensations during the early stages of their experiences. After a severe head injury, one man's vital signs were undetectable. As he says,\nAt the point of injury there was a momentary flash of pain, but then all the pain vanished. I had the feeling of floating in a dark space. The day was bitterly cold, yet while I was in than blackness all I felt was warmth and the most extreme comfort I have ever experienced \u2026 1 remember thinking, \u201cI must be dead.\u201d\nA woman who was resuscitated after a heart attack remarks,\nI began to experience the most wonderful feelings. I couldn't feel a thing in the world except peace, comfort, ease-just quietness. I felt that all my troubles were gone, and I thought to myself, \u201cWell how quiet and peaceful, and I don't hurt at all.\u201d\nAnother man recalls,\nI just had a nice, great feeling of solitude and peace \u2026. It was beautiful, and I was at such peace in my mind.\nA man who \u201cdied\u201d after wounds suffered in Vietnam says that as he was hit he felt\nA great attitude of relief. There was no pain, and I've never felt so relaxed. I was at ease and it was all good.\nIn many cases, various unusual auditory sensations are reported to occur at or near death. Sometimes these are extremely unpleasant. A man who \u201cdied\u201d for twenty minutes during an abdominal operation describes \u201ca really bad buzzing noise coming from inside my head. It made me very uncomfortable \u2026. I'll never forget that noise.\u201d Another woman tells how as she lost consciousness she heard \u201ca loud ringing. It could be described as a buzzing. And I was in a sort of whirling state.\u201d I have also heard this annoying sensation describe as a loud click, a roaring, a banging, and as a \u201cwhistling sound, like the wind.\u201d In other cases the auditory effects seem to take more pleasant musical form. For example, a man who was revived after having been pronounce dead on arrival at the hospital recounts that during his death experience,\nI would hear what seemed to be bells tingling, a long way off, as if drifting through the wind. They sounded like Japanese wind bells \u2026. That was the only sound I could hear at times.\nA young woman who nearly died from internal bleeding associated with a blood clotting disorder says that at the moment she collapsed, \u201cI began to hear music of some sort, a majestic, really beautiful sort of music.\u201d\nOften concurrently with the occurrence of the noise, people have the sensation of being pulled very rapidly through a dark space of some kin Many different words are used to describe t space. I have heard this space described as a cave, a well, a trough, an enclosure, a tunnel, a funnel, a vacuum, a void, a sewer, a valley, and a cylinder. Although people use different terminology here, it is clear that, they are all trying to express some one idea. Let us look at two accounts in which the tunnel\u201d figures prominently.\nThis happened to me when I was a little boy of nine years old. That was twenty-seven years ago, but it was so striking that I have never forgotten it. One afternoon I became very sick, and they rushed me to the nearest hospital. When I arrived they decided they were going to have to put me to sleep, but why I don't know, because I was too young. Back in those days they used ether. They gave it to me by putting a cloth over my nose, and when they did, I was told afterwards, my heart stopped beating. I didn't know at that time that that was exactly what happened to me, but anyway when this happened I had an experience. Well, the first thing that happened now I am going to describe it just the way I felt-was that I had this ringing noise brrrrrnnnnng-brrrrrnnnnng-brrrrmnnnng, very rhythmic. Then I was moving through this-you're going to think this is weird-through this long dark place. It seemed like a sewer or something. I just can't describe it to you. I was moving, beating all the time with this noise, this ringing noise.\nAnother informant states:\nI had a very bad allergic reaction to a local anesthetic, and I just quit breathing - I had a respiratory arrest. The first thing that happened - it was real quick - was that I went through this dark, black vacuum at super speed. You could compare it to a tunnel, I guess. I felt like I was riding on a roller coaster train at an amusement park, going through this tunnel at a tremendous speed.\nDuring a severe illness, a man came so near death that his pupils dilated and his body was growing cold. He says,\nI was in an utterly black, dark void. It is very difficult to explain, but I felt as if I were moving in a vacuum, just through blackness. Yet, I was quite conscious. It was like being in a cylinder which had no air in it. It was a feeling of limbo; of being half-way here, and half-way somewhere else.\nA man who \u201cdied\u201d several times after severe burns and fall injuries says,\nI stayed in shock for about a week, and during that time all of a sudden I just escaped into this dark void. It seemed that I stayed there for a long time just floating and tumbling through space \u2026. I was so taken up with this void that I just didn't think of anything else.\nBefore the time of his experience, which took place when he was a child, one man had had a fear of the dark. Yet, when his heart stopped beating from internal injuries incurred in a bicycle accident, I had the feeling that I was moving through a deep, very dark valley. The darkness was so deep and impenetrable that I could see absolutely nothing but this was the most wonderful, worry free experience you can imagine.\nIn another case, a woman had had peritonitis, and relates,\nMy doctor had already called my brother and sister in to see me for the last time. The nurse gave me a shot to help me die more easily. The things around me in the hospital began to get further and further away. As they receded, I entered head first into a narrow and very, very dark passageway. I seemed to just fit inside of it. I began to slide down, down, down.\nOne woman, who was near death following a traffic accident, drew a parallel from a television show.\nThere was a feeling of utter peace and quiet, no fear at all, and I found myself in a tunnel-a tunnel of concentric circles. Shortly after that, I saw a T.V. program called The Time Tunnel, where people go back in time through this spiraling tunnel. Well, that's the closest thing to it that I can think of.\nA man who came very near death drew a somewhat different parallel, one from his religious background. He says,\nSuddenly, I was in a very dark, very deep valley. It was as though there was a pathway, almost a road, through the valley, and I was going down the path \u2026. Later, after I was well, the thought came to me, \u201cWell, now I know what the Bible means by 'the valley of the shadow of death,' because I've been there.\u201d\nIt is a truism that most of us, most of the time, identify ourselves with our physical bodies. We grant, of course, that we have \u201cminds,\u201d too. But to most people our \u201cminds\u201d seem much more ephemeral than our bodies. The \u201cmind,\u201d after all, might be no more than the effect of the electrical and chemical activity which takes place in the\u201c brain, which is a part of the physical body. For many people it is an impossible task even to conceive of what it would be like to exist in any other way than in the physical body to which they are accustomed.\nPrior to their experiences, the persons I have: interviewed were not, as a group, any different from the average person with respect to this attitue. That is why, after his rapid passage through the dark tunnel, a dying person often has such an overwhelming surprise. For, at this point he may find himself looking upon his own physical body from a point outside of it, as though he were \u201ca spectator\u201d or \u201ca third person in the room\u201d or watching figures and events \u201constage in a play\u201d or \u201cin a movie.\u201d Let us look now at portions of some accounts in which these uncanny out-of-the-body epodes are described.\nI was seventeen years old and my brother and I were working at an amusement park. One afternoon, we decided to go swimming, and there were quite a few of the other young people who went in with us. Someone said, \u201cLet's swim across the lake.\u201d I had done that on numerous occasions, but that day for some reason, I went down, almost in the middle of the lake \u2026.I kept hobbling up and down, and all of a sudden, it felt as though I were away from my body, away from everybody, in space by myself. Although I was stable, staying at the same level, I saw my body in the water about three or four feet away, hobbling up and down. I viewed my body from the back and slightly to the right side. I still felt as though I had an entire body form, even while I was outside my body. I had an airy feeling that's almost indescribable. I felt like a feather.\nA woman recalls,\nAbout a year ago, I was admitted to the hospital with heart trouble, and the next morning, lying in the hospital bed, I began to have a very severe pain in my chest. I pushed the button beside the bed to call for the nurses, and they came in and started working on me. I was quite uncomfortable lying on my back so I turned over, and as I did I quit breathing and my heart stopped beating. Just then, I heard the nurses shout, \u201cCode pink! Code pink!\u201d As they were saying this, I could feel myself moving out of my body and sliding down between the mattress and the rail on the side of the bed -actually it seemed as if I went through the rail-on down to the floor. Then, I started rising upward, slowly. On my way up, I saw more nurses come running into the room-there must have been a dozen of them. My doctor happened to be making his rounds in the hospital so they called him and I saw him come in, too. I thought, \u201cI wonder what he's doing here.\u201d I drifted on up past the light fixture - I saw it from the side and very distinctly - and then I stopped, floating right below the ceiling, looking down. I felt almost as though I were a piece of paper that someone had blown up to the ceiling.\nI watched them reviving me from up there! My body was lying down there stretched out on e bed, in plain view, and they were all standing around it. I heard one nurse say, \u201cOh, my God! She's gone!\u201d, while another one leaned down o give me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. I was looking at the back of her head while she did this. I'll never forget the way her hair looked; it was cut kind of short. Just then, I saw them roll this machine in there, and they put the she a on my chest. When they did, I saw my whole body just jump right up off the bed, and I he I every bone in my body crack and pop. It was the most awful thing!\nAs I saw them below beating on my chest a rubbing my arms and legs, I thought, \u201cWhy are they going to so much trouble? I'm just fine now.\u201d\nA young informant states,\nIt was about two years ago, and I had just turned nineteen. I was driving a friend of mine home in my car, and as I got to this particular intersection downtown, I stopped and looked both ways, but I didn't see a thing coming. I walked on out into the intersection and as I did heard my friend yell at the top of his voice. When I looked I saw a blinding light, the headlights of a car that was speeding towards us. I heard this awful sound-the side of the car being crushed in-and there was just an instant during-which I seemed to be going through a darkness, an enclosed space. It was very quick. Then, I was sort of floating about five feet above the street, about five yards away from the car, I'd say, and heard the echo of the crash dying away. I saw people come running up and crowding around the car, and I saw my friend get out of the car, obviously in shock. I could see my own body in the wreckage among all those people, and could see them trying to get it out. My legs were all twisted and there was blood all over the place.\nAs one might well imagine, some unparalleled thoughts and feelings run through the minds of persons who find themselves in this predicament. :Many people find the notion of being out of their bodies so unthinkable that, even as they are experiencing it, they feel conceptually quite confused about the whole thing and do not link it with death for a considerable time. They wonder what is happening to them; why can they sudden; e themselves from a distance, as though a spectator:\nEmotional responses to this strange state vary widely. Most people report, at first, a desperate desire to get back into their bodies but they do not have the faintest idea about how to proceed. Others recall that they were very afraid, almost panicky. Some, however, report more positive reaction:: o their plight, as in this account:\nI became very seriously ill, and the doctor put me in the hospital. This one morning a solid gray mist gathered around me, and I left my body. I had a floating sensation as I felt myself get out of my body, and - I looked back and could see myself on the bed below and there was no fear. It was quiet - very peaceful and serene I was not in the least bit upset or frightened, was just a tranquil feeling, and it was some thing which I didn't dread. I felt that maybe I was dying, and I felt that if I did not get back to my body, I would be dead, gone.\nJust as strikingly variable are the attitudes which different persons take to the bodies which they have left behind. It is common for a person to port feelings of concern for his body. One young woman, who was a nursing student at the time of her experience, expresses an understandable fear.\nThis is sort of funny, I know, but in nursing school they had tried to drill it into us that we ought to donate our bodies to science. Well, all through this, as I watched them trying to start my breathing again, I kept thinking, \u201cI don't want them to use that body as a cadaver.\u201d\nI have heard two other persons express exactly this same concern when they found themselves out of their bodies. Interestingly enough, both of them were also in the medical profession - one a physician, the other a nurse.\nIn another case, this concern took the form of regret. A man's heart stopped beating following a fall in which his body was badly mangled, and he recalls,\nAt one time-now, I know I was lying on the bed there - but I could actually see the bed and the doctor working on me. I couldn't understand it, but I looked at my own body lying there on the bed. And I felt real bad when I looked at my body and saw how badly it was messed up.\nSeveral persons have told me of having feelings of unfamiliarity toward their bodies, as in this rather striking passage.\nBoy, I sure didn't realize that I looked like that! You know, I'm only used to seeing myself in pictures or from the front in a mirror, and both Of those look flat. But all of a sudden there I-or any body-was and I could see it. I could definitely see it, full view, from about five feet away. It took me a few moments to recognize myself.\nIn one account, this feeling of unfamiliarity took a rather extreme and humorous form. One man, a physician, tells how during his clinical \u201cdeath\u201d he was beside the bed looking at his own cadaver, which by then had turned the ash gray color consumed by bodies after death. Desperate and confused, he was trying to decide what to do. He tentatively decided just to go away, as he was feeling very uneasy. As a youngster he had been ghost stories by his grandfather and, paradoxically, he \u201cdidn't like being around this thing that looked like a dead body-even if it was me!\u201d At the other extreme, some have told me that they had no particular feelings at all toward their bodies. One woman, for example, had a heart attack and felt certain she was dying. She felt herself being pulled through darkness out of her body moving rapidly away. She says,\nI didn't look back at my body at all. Oh, I knew it was there, all right, and I could've seen it had I looked. But I didn't want to look, not in the least, because I knew that I had done my best in my life, and I was turning my attention now to this other realm of things. I felt that to look back at my body would be to look back at the past, and I was determined not to do that.\nSimilarly, a girl whose out-of-body experience took place after a wreck in which she sustained severe injuries says,\nI could see my own body all tangled up in the car amongst all the people who had gathered around, but, you know, I had no feelings for it whatsoever. It was like it was a completely different human, or maybe even just an object\u2026. I knew it was my body but I had no feelings for it.\nDespite the eeriness of the disembodied state, the situation has been thrust upon the dying person so suddenly that it may take some time before the significance of what he is experiencing dawns upon him. He may be out of his body for some time, desperately trying to sort out all the things that are happening to him and that are racing through his mind, before he realizes that he is dying, or even dead.\nWhen this realization comes, it may arrive with powerful emotional force, and provoke startling thoughts. One woman remembers thinking, \u201cOh, I'm dead! How lovely!\u201d\nA man states that the thought came to him, \u201cThis must be what they call 'death'.\u201d Even when this realization comes, it may be accompanied by bafflement and even a certain refusal to accept one's state. One man, for example, remembers reflecting upon the Biblical promise of \u201cthree score and ten\u201d years, and protesting that he had had just barely one score.\u201d A young woman gave a very impressive account of such feelings when she told me that,\nI thought I was dead, and I wasn't sorry that I was dead, but I just couldn't figure out where I was supposed to go. My thought and my consciousness were just like they are in life, but I just couldn't figure all this out. I kept thinking, \u201cWhere am I going to go? What am I going to do?\u201d and \u201cMy God, I'm dead! I can't believe it!\u201d Because you never really believe, I don't think, fully that you're going to die. It's always something that's going to happen to the other person, and although you know it you really never believe it deep down \u2026. And so I decided I was just going to wait until all the excitement died down and they carried my body away, and try to see if I could figure out where to go from there.\nIn one or two cases I have studied, dying persons whose souls, minds, consciousnesses (or whatever\u201c you want to label them) were released from their bodies say that they didn't feel that, after release they were in any kind of \u201cbody\u201d at all. They felt as though they were \u201cpure\u201d consciousness. One man relates that during his experience he felt as though he were \u201cable to see everything around me -including my whole body as it lay on the bed without occupying any space,\u201d that is, as if he were a point of consciousness. A few others say that they can't really remember whether or not they were in any kind of \u201cbody\u201d after getting out of their physical one, because they were so taken u with the events around them.\nFar and away the majority of my subjects, how ever, report that the did find themselves in an other body upon release from the physical one. Immediately, though, we are into an area with which it is extremely difficult to deal. This \u201cnew body\u201d is one of the two or three aspects of death experiences in which the inadequacy of human language presents the greatest obstacles. Almost everyone who has told me of this \u201cbody\u201d has at some point become frustrated and said, \u201cI can't describe it,\u201d or made some remark to the same effect.\nNonetheless, the accounts of this body bear a strong resemblance to one another. Thus, although different individuals use different words and draw different analogies, these varying modes of expression do seem to fall very much within the same arena. The various reports are also in very decided agreement about the general properties and characteristics of the new body. So, to adopt a term for it which will sum up its properties fairly well, and which has been used by a couple of my subjects, I shall henceforth call it the \u201cspiritual body.\u201d\nDying persons are likely first to become aware of their spiritual bodies in the guise of their limitations. They find, when out of their physical bodies, that although they may try desperately to tell others of their plight, no one seems to hear them. This is illustrated very well in this excerpt from the story of a woman who suffered a respiratory arrest and was carried to the emergency room, where a resuscitation attempt was made.\nI saw them resuscitating me. It was really strange. I wasn't very high; it was almost like I was on a pedestal, but not above them to any great extent, just maybe looking over them. I tried talking to them but nobody could hear me, nobody would listen to me.\nTo complicate the fact that he is apparently inaudible to people around him, the person in a spiritual body soon finds that he is also invisible to others. The medical personnel or others congregating around his physical body may look straight towards where he is, in his spiritual body, without giving the slightest sign of ever seeing him. His spiritual body also lacks solidity; physical objects in the environment appear to move through it with ease, and he is unable to get a grip on any object or person he tries to touch.\nThe doctors and nurses were pounding on my body to try to get IV's started and to get me back, and I kept trying to tell them, \u201cLeave me alone. All I want is to be left alone. Quit pounding on me.\u201d But they didn't hear me. So I tried to move their hands to keep them from beating on my body, but nothing would happen. I couldn't get anywhere. It was like-I don't really know what happened, but I couldn't move their hands. It looked like I was touching their hands and I tried to move them-yet when I would give it the stroke, their hands were still there. I don't know whether my hand was going through it, around it, or what. I didn't feel any pressure against their hands when I was trying to move them.\nOr, people were walking up from all directions to get to the wreck. I could see them, and I was in middle of a very narrow walkway. Anyway, as they came by they wouldn't seem to notice me. They would just keep walking with their eyes straight ahead. As they came real close, I would try to turn around, to get out of their way, but they would just walk through me.\nFurther, it is invariably reported that this spiritual body is also weightless. Most first notice this when, as in some of the excerpts given above, they find themselves floating right up to the ceiling of the room, or into the air. Many describe a \u201cfloating sensation,\u201d \u201ca feeling of weightlessness,\u201d or a \u201cdrifting feeling\u201d in association with their new bodies.\nNormally, while in our physical bodies we have many modes of perception which tell us where our bodies and their various parts are in space at any given moment and whether they are moving. Vision and the sense of equilibrium are important in this respect, of course, but there is another related sense. Kinesthesia is our sense of motion or tension inour tendons, joints, and muscles. We are not usually aware of the sensations coming to us through our kinesthetic sense because our perception of it has become dulled through almost constant use. I suspect, however, that if it were suddenly to be cut off, one would immediately notice its absence. And, in fact, quite a few persons have commented to me that they were aware of the lack of the physical sensations of body weight, movement, and position sense while in their spiritual bodies.\nThese characteristics of the spiritual body which at first seem to be limitations can, with equal validity, be looked upon as the absence of limitations. Think of it this way: A person in the spiritual body is in a privileged position in relation to the other persons around him. He can see and hear them, but they can't see or hear him. (Many a spy would consider this an enviable condition.) Likewise, though the doorknob seems to go through his hand when he touches it, it really doesn't matter anyway, because he soon finds that he can just go through the door. Travel, once one gets the hang of it, is apparently exceptionally easy in this state. Physical objects present no barrier, and moment from one place to another can be extremely rapid, almost instantaneous.\nFurthermore, despite its lack of perceptibility people in physical bodies, all who have experienced it are in agreement that the spiritual body is nonetheless something, impossible to describe though it may be. It is agreed that the spiritual body has a form or shape (sometimes a globular or an amorphous cloud, but also sometimes essentially the same shape as the physical body) and even parts (projections or surfaces analogous to arms, legs, a head, etc.). Even when its shape is reported as being generally roundish in configuration, it is often said to have ends, a definite top and bottom, and even the \u201cparts\u201d just mentioned.\nI have heard this new body described in many different terms, but one may readily see that much the same idea is being formulated in each case. Words and phrases which have been used by various subjects include a mist, a cloud, smoke-like, a vapor, transparent, a cloud of colors, wispy, an energy pattern and others which express similar meanings.\nFinally, almost everyone remarks upon the timelessness of this out-of-body state. Many say that although they must describe their interlude in the spiritual body in temporal terms (since human language is temporal), time was not really an element of their experience as it is in physical life. Here are passages from five interviews in which some of these fantastic aspects of existence in the spiritual body are reported first-hand.\n(1) I lost control of my car on a curve, and the car left the road and went into the air, and I remember seeing the blue sky and saw that the car was going down into a ditch. At the time the car left the road, I said to myself \u201cI'm in an accident.\u201d At that point, I kind of lost my sense of time, and I lost my physical reality as far as my body is concemed-I lost touch with my body. My being or my self or my spirit, or whatever you would like to label it-I could sort of feel it rise out of me, out through my head. And it wasn't anything that hurt, it was just sort of like a lifting and it being above me \u2026.\n[My \u201cbeing\u201d] felt as if it had a density to it, almost, but not a physical density-kind of like, I don't know, waves or something, I guess: Nothing really physical, almost as if it were charged, if you'd like to call it that. But it felt as if it had something to it\u2026. It was small, and it felt as if it were sort of circular, with no rigid outlines to it. You could liken it to a cloud \u2026. It almost seemed as if it were in its own encasement\u2026.\nAs it went out of my body, it seemed that a large end left first, and the small end last \u2026. It was a very light feeling-very. There was no strain on my [physical] body; the feeling was totally separate. My body had no weight\u2026.\nThe most striking point of the whole experience wa the moment when my being was suspended above the front part of my head. It was almost like it was trying to decide whether it wanted to leave or to stay. It seemed then as. though time were standing still. At the first and the last of the accident, everything moved so fast, but at this one particular time, sort of in between, as my being was suspended above me and the car was going over the embankment, it seemed that it took the car a long time to get there, and in that time I really wasn't too involved with the car or the accident or my own body-only with my mind \u2026.\nMy being had no physical characteristics, but I have to describe it with physical terms. I could describe it in so many ways, in so many words, but none of them would be exactly right. It's so hard to describe.\nFinally, the car did hit the ground and it rolled or, but my only injuries were a sprained neck A bruised foot.\n(2) When I came out of the physical body] it s like I did come out of my body and go into something else. I didn't think I was just nothing, was another body . . . but not another regular man body. It's a little bit different. It was not exactly like a human body, but it wasn't any big glob of matter, either. It had form to it, but no colors. And I know I still had something you could call hands.\nI can't describe it. I was more fascinated with everything around me-seeing my own body there, and all-so I didn't think about the type body I was in. And all this seemed to go so quickly. Time wasn't really an element-and yet it was. Things seem to go faster after you get out of your body.\n(3) I remember being wheeled into the operating room and the next few hours were the critical period. During that time, I kept getting and out of my physical body, and I could see from directly above. But, while I did, I was still in a body-not a physical body, but something I can best describe as an energy pattern. If I had to put it into words, I would say that it was transparent, a spiritual as opposed to a material being. Yet, it definitely had different parts.\n(4) When my heart stopped beating \u2026 I felt like I was a round ball and almost maybe like I might have been a little sphere-like a BB-on the inside of this round ball. I just can't describe it to you.\n(5) I was out of my body looking at it from about ten yards away, but I was still thinking, just like in physical life. And where I was thinking was about at my normal bodily height. I wasn't in a body, as such. I could feel something, some kind of a-like a capsule, or something, like a clear form. I couldn't really see it; it was like it was transparent, but not really. It was like I was just there-an energy, maybe, sort of like just a little ball of energy. And I really wasn't aware of any bodily sensation-temperature, or anything like that.\nIn their accounts, others have briefly mentioned the likeness of shape between their physical bodies; and their new ones. One woman told me that while' out of her body, \u201cI still felt an entire body form,' legs, arms, everything-even while I was weight less.\u201d A lady who watched the resuscitation attempt on her body from a point just below the ceiling says, \u201cI was still in a body. I was stretched out and looking down. I moved my legs and noticed that one of them felt warmer than the other, one.\u201d\nJust as movement is unimpeded in this spiritual ' state, so, some recall, is thought. Over and over, I' have been told that once they became accustomed to their new situation, people undergoing this experience began to think more lucidly and rapidly than in physical existence. For example, one man told me that while he was \u201cdead,\u201d\nThings that are not possible now, are then. Your mind is so clear. It's so nice. My mind just took everything down and worked everything out for me the first time, without having to go through it more than once. After a while everything I was experiencing got to where it meant something to me in some way.\nPerception in the new body is both like and unlike perception inthe physical body. In some ways, the spiritual form is more limited. As we saw, kinesthesia, as such, is absent. In a couple of instances, persons have reported that they had no sensation of temperature, while in most cases feelings of comfortable \u201cwarmth\u201d are reported. No one among all of my cases has reported any odors or tastes while out of their physical bodies.\nOn the other hand, senses which correspond to the physical senses of vision and of hearing are very definitely intact in the spiritual body, and seem actually heightened and more perfect than they are in physical life. One man says that while he was \u201cdead\u201d his vision seemed incredibly more powerful and, in his words, \u201cI just can't understand how I could see so far.\u201d A. woman who recalled this experience notes, \u201cIt seemed as if this spiritual sense had no limitations, as if I could look anywhere and everywhere.\u201d This phenomenon is described very graphically in this portion of an interview with a woman who was out of her body following an accident.\nThere was a lot of action going on, and people running around the ambulance. And whenever I would look at a person to wonder what they were thinking, it was like a zoom-up, exactly like through a zoom lens, and I was there. But it seemed that part of me-I'll call it my mind-was still where I had been, several yards away from my body. When I wanted to see someone at a distance, it seemed like part of me, kind of like a tracer, would go to that person. And it seemed to me at the time that if something happened anyplace in the world that I could just be there.\n\u201cHearing\u201d in the spiritual state can apparently be called so only by analogy, and most say that they do not really hear physical voices or sounds. Rather, they seem to pick up the thoughts of persons around them, and, as we shall see later, this same kind of direct transfer of thoughts can play an important role in the late stages of death experiences.\nAs one lady put it,\nI could see people all around, and I could understand what they were saying. I didn't hear them, audibly, like I'm hearing you. It was more like knowing what they were thinking, exactly what they were thinking, but only in my mind, not in their actual vocabulary. I would catch it the second before they opened their mouths to speak.\nFinally, on the basis of one unique and very interesting report, it would appear that even severe damage to the physical body in no way adversely affects the spiritual one. In this case, a man lost the better part of his leg in the accident that resulted in his clinical death. He knew this, because he saw his damaged body clearly, from a distance, as the doctor worked on it. Yet, while he was out of his body,\nI could feel my body, and it was whole. I know that. I felt whole, and I felt that all of me was there, though it wasn't.\nIn this disembodied state, then, a person is cut off from others. He can see other people and understand their thoughts completely, but they are able neither to see nor to hear him. Communication with other human beings is effectively cut off, even through the sense of touch, since his spiritual body lacks solidity. Thus, it is not suiprising that after a time in this state profound feelings of isolation and loneliness set in. As one man put it, he could see everything around him in the hospital -all the doctors, nurses, and other personnel going about their tasks. Yet, he could not communicate with them in any way, so \u201cI was desperately alone.\u201d\nMany others have described to me the intense feelings of loneliness which overcome them at this point.\nMy experience, all the things that I was going through, were so beautiful, but just indescribable. I wanted others to be there with me to see it, too, and I had the feeling that I would never be able to describe to anyone what I was seeing. I had the feeling of being lonesome because I wanted somebody to be there to experience it with me. But I knew nobody else could be there. I felt that I was in a private world at that time. I really felt a fit of depression then.\nI was unable to touch anything, unable to communicate with any of the people around. It is an awesome, lonely feeling, a feeling of complete isolation. I knew that I was completely alone, by myself.\nI was just amazed. I couldn't believe that it was happening. I wasn't really concerned or worried like \u201cOh, no, I'm dead and my parents are left behind and they'll be sad and I'll never see them again.\u201d Nothing like that ever entered my mind.\nI was aware the whole time of being alone, though, very alone-almost like I was a visitor from someplace else. It was like all relations were cut. I know- it was like there was no love or anything. Everything was just so-technical. I don't understand, really.\nThe dying person's feelings of loneliness are soon dispelled, however, as he gets deeper into his near death experience. For, at some point, others come to him to give him aid in the transition he is undergoing. These may take the form of other spirits, often those of deceased relatives or friends the individual had known while he was alive. In a greater number of instances, among those I interviewed, a spiritual being of a much different character appears. In the next few sections we will look at such encounters.\nQuite a few have told me that at some point while they were dying- sometimes early in the experience, sometimes only after other events had taken place-they became aware of the presence of other spiritual beings in their vicinity, beings who apparently were there to ease them through their transition into death, or, in two cases, to tell them that their time to die had not yet come and that they must return to their physical bodies.\nI had this experience when I was giving birth to a child. The delivery was very difficult, and I lost a lot of blood. The doctor gave me up, and told my relatives that I was dying. However, I was quite alert through the whole thing, and even as I heard him saying this I felt myself coming to. As I did, I realized that all these people were there, almost in multitudes it seems, hovering around the ceiling of the room. They were all people I had known in my past life, but who had passed on before. I recognized my grandmother and a girl I had known when I was in school, and many other relatives and friends. It seems that I mainly saw their faces and felt their presence. They all seemed pleased. It was a very happy occasion, and I felt that they had come to protect or to guide me. It was almost as if I were coming home, and they were there to greet or to welcome me. All this time, I had the feeling of everything light and beautiful. It was a beautiful' and glorious moment.\nOne man remembers:\nSeveral weeks before I nearly died, a goon friend of mine, Bob, had been killed. Now the moment I got out of my body I had the feeling that Bob was standing there, right next to me. ,'s could see him in my mind and felt like he was there, but it was strange. I didn't see him as hi: physical body. I could see things, but not in the physical form, yet just as clearly, his look everything. Does that make sense? He was they; but he didn't have a physical body. It was kind of like a clear body, and I could sense every part of it-arms, legs, and so on-but I wasn't seeing it physically. I didn't think about it being odd at the time because I didn't really need to see him with my eyes. I didn't have eyes, anyway.\nI kept asking him, \u201cBob, where do I go now. What has happened? m I dead or not?\u201d And he never answered me, never said a word. But, often, while I was in the hospital, he would be there, and I would ask him again, \u201cWhat's going on?\u201d, but never any answer. And then the day the doctors said, \u201cHe's going to live,\u201d he left. I didn't see him again and didn't feel his presence It was almost as though he were waiting until I passed that final frontier and then he would tell me, would give me the details on what was going on.\nIn other cases, the spirits people encounter are persons whom they knew in physical life. One man told of seeing during her out-of-body experience not only her own transparent spiritual y but also another one, that of another person had died very recently. She did not know this person was, but made the very interesting remark that \u201cI did not see this person, this spirit, as having any particular age, at all. I didn't even have any sense of time myself.\u201d\nIn a very few instances, people have come to believe that the beings they encountered were their \u201cguardian spirits.\u201d One man was told by such a spirit that, \u201cI have helped you through this stage of your existence, but now I am going to turn you over to others.\u201d A woman told me that as she was leaving her body she detected the presence of two other spiritual beings there, and that they identified themselves as her \u201cspiritual helpers.\u201d\nIn two very similar cases, persons told me of hearing a voice which told them that they were not dead yet, but that they must go back. As one of them tells it,\nI heard a voice, not a man's voice, but like a hearing beyond the physical senses, telling me what I had to do-go back-and I felt no fear of getting back into my physical body.\nFinally, the spiritual beings may take a somewhat more amorphous form.\nWhile I was dead, in this void, I talked to people-and yet, I really couldn't say that I talked to any bodily people. Yet, I had the feeling that there were people around me, and I could feel their presence, and could feel them moving, though I could never see anyone. Every now and then, I would talk with one of them, but I couldn't see them. And whenever I wondered what was going on, I would always get a thought back from one of them, that everything was all right, that I was dying but would be fine. So, my condition never worried me. I always got an answer back for every question that, I asked. They didn't leave my mind void.\nWhat is perhaps the most incredible common element in the accounts I have studied, and is certainly the element which has the most profound effect upon the individual, is the encounter with a very bright light. Typically, at its first appearance this light is dim, but it rapidly gets brighter'., until it reaches an unearthly brilliance. Yet, even though this light (usually said to be white or \u201cclear\u201d) is of an indescribable brilliance, many' make the specific point that it does not in any ; way hurt their eyes, or dazzle them, or keep them, from seeing other things around them (perhaps\u201d because at this point they don't have physical \u201ceyes\u201d to be dazzled). Despite the light's unusual manifestation, however, not one person has expressed any doubt whatever that it was a being, a being of light. Not y that, it is a personal being. It has a very definite personality. The love and the warmth which emanate from this being to the dying person are early beyond words, and he feels completely surrounded by it and taken up in it, completely at ease and accepted in the presence of this being. He senses an irresistible magnetic attraction to this light. He is ineluctably drawn to it.\nInterestingly, while the above description of the being of light is utterly invariable, the identification of the being varies from individual to individual and seems to be largely a function of the religious background, training, or beliefs of the person involved. Thus, most of those who are Christians in training or belief identify the light as Christ and sometimes draw Biblical parallels in support of thir inteipretation. A Jewish man and woman identified the light as an \u201cangel.\u201d It was clear, though, in both cases, that the subjects did not mean to imply that the being had wings, played a harp, or even had a human shape or appearance. There was only the light. What each was trying to get across was that they took the being to be an emissary, or a guide. A man who had had no religious beliefs or training at all prior to his experience simply identified what he saw as \u201ca being of fight.\u201d The same label was used by one lady of the Christian faith, who apparently did not feel any compulsion at all to call the light \u201cChrist.\u201d\nShortly after its appearance, the being begins to communicate with the person who is passing over. Notably, this communication is of the same direct kind which we encountered earlier in the description of how a person in the spiritual body may \u201cpick up the thoughts\u201d of those around him. For, here again, people claim that they did not hear any physical voice or sounds coming from the being, nor did they respond to the being through audible sounds. Rather, it is reported that direct, unimpeded transfer of thoughts takes place, and in such a clear way that there is no possibility whatsoever, either of misunderstanding or of lying to the light.\nFurthermore, this unimpeded exchange does not even take place in the native language of the person. Yet, he understands perfectly and is instantaneously aware. He cannot even translate the thoughts and exchanges which took place while he was near death into the human language which' he must speak now, after his resuscitation.\nThe next step of the experience clearly ill traits the difficulty of translating from this unspoken language. The being almost immediately directs a certain thought to the person into v Nose\u201c presence it has come so dramatically. Usually the persons with whom I have talked try to formulate the thought into a question. Among the translations I have heard are: \u201cAre you prepared to die?\u201d \u201cAre you ready to die?\u201d, \u201cWhat have you do with your life to show me?\u201d, and \u201cWhat have you, done with your life that is sufficient?\u201d The first two formulations which stress \u201cpreparation,\u201d might at first seem to have a different sense from the second pair, which emphasize \u201caccomplishment.\u201d However, some support for my own feeling that everyone is trying to express the same thought comes from the narrative of one woman who put it this way:\nThe first thing he said to me was, that he kind of asked me if I was ready to die, or what I had done with my life that I wanted to show him.\nFurthermore, even in the case of more unusual ways of phrasing the \u201cquestion,\u201d it turns out, upon elucidation, to have much the same force. For example, one man told me that during his \u201cdeath,\u201d\nThe voice asked me a question: \u201cIs it worth it?\u201d And what it meant was, did the kind of life I had been leading up to that point seem worthwhile to me then, knowing what I then knew.\nIncidentally, all insist that this question, ultimate and profound as it may be in its emotional impact, is not at all asked in condemnation. The being, all seem to agree, does not direct the question to them to accuse or to threaten them, for they still feel the total love and acceptance coming from the light, no matter what their answer may be. Rather, the point of the question seems to be to make them think about their lives, to draw them out. It is, if you will, a Socratic question, one asked not to acquire information but to help the person who is being asked to proceed along the path to the truth by himself. Let us look at some firsthand accounts of this fantastic being.\n(1) 1 heard the doctors say that I was dead, and that's when I began to feel as though I were tumbling, actually kind of floating, through this blackness, which was some kind of enclosure, j There are not really words to describe this. Everything was very black, except that, way off from me, I could see this light. It was a very, very brilliant light, but not too large at first. It grew larger as I came nearer and nearer to it.\nI was trying to get to that light at the end, because I felt that it was Christ, and I was trying to y reach that point. It was not a frightening experience. It was more or less a pleasant thing. For immediately, being a Christian, I had connected the light with Christ, who said, \u201cI am the t light of the world.\u201d I said to myself, \u201cIf this is it, if I am to die, then I know who waits for me at the end, there in that light.\u201d\n(2) I got up and walked into the hall to go get a drink, and it was at that point, as they found out later, that my appendix ruptured. I became very weak, and I fell down. I began to feel a sort of drifting, a movement of my real being in and out of my body, and to hear beautiful music. I floated on down the hall and out the door onto the screened-in porch. There, it almost seemed that clouds, a pink mist really, began to gather around me, and then I floated right straight on \u201d through the screen, just as though it weren't there, and up into this pure crystal clear light, an illuminating white light. It was beautiful and so bright, so radiant, but it didn't hurt my eyes. It's not any kind of light you can describe on earth. I didn't actually see a person in this light, and yet it has a special identity, it definitely does. It is a light of perfect understanding and perfect love.\nThe thought came to my mind, \u201cLovest thou me?\u201d This was not exactly in the form of a question, but I guess the connotation of what the light said was, \u201cIf you do love me, go back and complete what you began in your life.\u201d And all during this time, I felt as though I were surrounded by an overwhelming love and compassion.\n(3) I knew I was dying and that there was nothing I could do about it, because no one could hear me \u2026. I was out of my body, there's no doubt about it, because I could see my own body there on the operating room table. My soul was out! All this made me feel very bad at first, but then, this really bright light came. It did seem that it was a little dim at first, but then it was this huge beam. It was just a tremendous amount of light, nothing like a big bright flashlight, it was just too much light. And it gave off heat to me; I felt a warm sensation.\nIt was a bright yellowish white-more white. It was tremendously bright; I just can't describe it. It seemed that it covered everything, yet it didn't prevent me from seeing everything around me-the operating room, the doctors and nurses, everything. I could see clearly, and it wasn't blinding.\nAt first, when the light came, I wasn't sure what was happening, but then, it asked, it kind of asked me if I was ready to die. It was like talking to a person, but a person wasn't there. The light's what was talking to me, but in a voice.\nNow, I think that the voice that was talking to me actually realized that I wasn't ready to die. You know, it was just kind of testing me more than anything else. Yet, from the moment the light spoke to me, I felt really good-secure and loved. The love which came from it is just unimaginable, indescribable. It was a fun person to be with! And it had a sense of humor, too-definitely!\nThe initial appearance of the being of light and his probing, non-verbal questions are the prelude to a moment of startling intensity during which; the being presents to the person a panoramic review of his life. It is often obvious that the being can see the individual's whole life displayed and that he doesn't himself need informaton. His only intention is to provoke reflection.\nThis review can only be described in terms of memory, since that is the closest familiar phenomenon to it, but it has characteristics which set it; apart from any normal type of remembering. First of all, it is extraordinarily rapid. The memories, when they are described in temporal terms, are said to follow one another swiftly, in chronological order. Others recall no awareness of temporal order at all. The remembrance was instantaneous; everything appeared at once, and they could take it all in with one mental glance. However it is expressed, all seem in agreement that the experience was over in an instant of earthly time.\nYet, despite its rapidity, my informants agree that the review, almost always described as a display of visual imagery, is incredibly vivid and real. In some cases, the images are reported to be in vibrant color, three- dimensional, and even moving. And even if they are flickering rapidly by, each image is perceived and recognized. Even the emotions and feelings associated with the images may be re-experienced as one is viewing them.\nSome of those I interviewed claim that, while they cannot adequately explain it, everything they had ever done was there in this review-from the most insignificant to the most meaningful. Others explain that what they saw were mainly the highlights of their lives. Some have stated to me that even for a period of time following their experience of the review they could recall the events of their lives in incredible detail.\nSome people characterize this as an educational effort on the part of the being of light. As they witness the display, the being seems to stress the importance of two things in life: Learning to love other people and acquiring knowledge. Let us look at a representative account of this type.\nWhen the light appeared, the first thing he said to me was \u201cWhat do you have to show me that you've done with your life?\u201d, or something to this effect. And that's when these flashbacks started. I thought, \u201cGee, what is going on?\u201d, because, all of a sudden, I was back early in my childhood. And from then on, it was like I was walking from the time of my very early life, on through each year of my life, right up to the present.\nIt was really strange where it started, too, when I was a little girl, playing down by the creek in our neighborhood, and there were other scenes from about that time-experiences I had had with my sister, and things about neighborhood people, and actual places I had been. And then I was in kindergarten, and I remembered the time when I had this one toy I really liked, and I broke it and I cried for a long time. This was a really traumatic experience for me. The images continued on through my life and I remembered when I was in Girl Scouts and went camping, and remembered many things about all the years of grammar school. Then, when I was in junior high school, it was a real big honor to be chosen for the scholastic achievement society, and I remembered when I was chosen. So, I went on through junior high, and then senior high school, and graduation, and up through my first few years of college, up to where I was then.\nThe things that flashed back came in the order of my life, and they were so vivid. The scenes were just like you walked outside and saw them, completely three-dimensional, and in color. And they moved. For instance, when I saw myself breaking the toy, I could see all the movements. It wasn't like I was watching it all from my perspective at the time. It was like the little girl I saw was somebody else, in a movie, one little girl among all the other children out there playing on the playground. Yet, it was me. I saw myself doing these things, as a child, and they were the exact same things I had done, because I remember them.\nNow, I didn't actually see the light as I was going through the flashbacks. He disappeared as soon as he asked me what I had done, and the flashbacks started, and yet I knew that he was there with me the whole time, that he carried me back through the flashbacks, because I felt his presence, and because he made comments here and there. He was trying to show me something in each one of these flashbacks. It's not like he was trying to see what I had done-he knew already-but he was picking out these certain flashbacks of my life and putting them in front of me so that I would have to recall them.\nAll through this, he kept stressing the importance of love. The places where he showed it best involved my sister; I have always been very close to her. He showed me some instances where I had been selfish to my sister, but then just as many times where I had really shown love to her and had shared with her. He pointed out to me that I should try to do things for other people, to try my best. There wasn't any accusation in any of this, though. When he came across times when I had been selfish, his attitude was only that I had been learning from them, too.\nHe seemed very interested in things concerning knowledge, too. He kept on pointing out things that had to do with learning, and he did say that I was going to continue learning, and he said that even when he comes back for me (because by this time he had told me that I was going back) that there will always be a quest for knowledge. He said that it is a continuous process, so I got the feeling that it goes on after death. I think that he was trying to teach me, as we went through those flashbacks.\nThe whole thing was really odd. I was there; I was actually seeing these flashbacks; I was actually walking through them, and it was so fast. Yet, it was slow enough that I could take it all in. Still, the time span wasn't all that large, I don't believe. It just seemed that the light came, and then I went through these flashbacks, and the light came back. It seems that it was less than five minutes, and probably more than thirty seconds, but I can't really tell you.\nThe only time I felt scared was when I was concerned that I wasn't going to be able to finish my life here. But I enjoyed going through this flashback. That was fun. I had a good time going back to my childhood, almost like I was reliving it. It was a way of going back and seeing it which you ordinarily just can't do.\nIt must also be pointed out that reports exist in which the review is experienced even though the being of light does not appear. As a rule, in experiences in which the being does apparently \u201cdirect\u201d it, the review is a more overwhelming experience. Nonetheless, it is usually characterized as quite vivid and rapid, and as accurate, regardless of whether or not the being of light appears; and regardless of whether it occurs in the course of an actual \u201cdeath\u201d or only during a close brush with death.\nAfter all this banging and going through this long, dark place, all of my childhood thoughts, my whole entire life was there at the end of is tunnel, just flashing in front of me. It was not exactly in terms of pictures, more in the form of thought, I guess. I can\u2019t exactly describe it to you, but it was just all there. It was just all there once, I mean, not one thing at a time, blinking of and on, but it was everything, everything at the time. I thought about my mother, about things that I had done wrong. After I could see the mean little things I did as a child, and thought about my mother and father, I wished that I hadn't done these things, and I wished I could go back and undo them.\nIn the following two instances, although no clinial death had occurred at the time of the experience, actual physiological stress or injury was taking place.\nThe whole situation developed very suddenly. I had had a slight fever and had not felt well for about two weeks, but this night I rapidly became very ill and I felt much worse. I was lying in bed, and I remember trying to reach over to my wife and say that I was very sick, but I found it impossible to move. Beyond that, I found myself in a completely black void, and my whole life kind of flashed in front of me. It started back when I was six or seven years old, and I remembered a good friend I had in grammar school. I went from grammar school to high school to college, then to dental school, and then right on into practicing dentistry.\nI knew I was dying, and I remember thinking that I wanted to provide for my family. I was distraught that I was dying and yet that there were certain things that I had done in my life that I regretted, and other things that I regretted that I had left undone.\nThis flashback was in the form of mental pictures, I would say, but they were much more vivid than normal ones. I saw only the high points, but it was so rapid it was like looking through a volume of my entire life and being able to do it within seconds. It just flashed before me like a motion picture that goes tremendously fast, yet I was fully able to see it, and able to comprehend it. Still, the emotions didn't come back with the pictures, because there wasn't enough time.\nI didn't see anything else during this experience. There was just blackness, except for the images I saw. Yet, I definitely felt the presence of a very powerful, completely loving being there with me all through this experience.\nIt is really interesting. When I recovered, I could tell everyone about every part of my life, in great detail, because of what I had been through. It's quite an experience, but it's difficult to put into words, because it happens so rapidly, yet it's so clear. '\nA young veteran describes his review:\nWhile I was serving in Viet Nam, I received , wounds, and I later \u201cdied\u201d from them, yet through it all I knew exactly what was going on. , I was hit with six rounds of machine gun fire, and as it happened I wasn't upset at all. In my' mind, I actually felt relieved when I was wounded I felt completely at ease, and it was not frightening.\nAt that point of impact, my life began to become a picture in front of me, and it seemed ,at I could go back to the time when I was still a baby, and the pictures seemed to progress through my whole life.\nI could remember everything; everything was vivid. It was so clear in front of me. It shot right by me from the earliest things I can remember right on up to the present, and it all happened within a short time. And it was not anything bad all; I went through it with no regrets, no derogatory feelings about myself at all.\nThe best thing I can think of to compare it to is a series of pictures; like slides. It was just like someone was clicking off slides in front of me, very quickly.\nFinally, here is a case of an extreme emotional emergency, in which death was imminent, although no actual injuries took place.\nThe summer after my first year in college, I took a job driving a large semi- tractor-trailer truck. I had a problem that summer with falling asleep behind the wheel. Early one morning I was driving the truck on a long trip, and I was nodding. The last thing I remember was seeing a road sign, and then I dozed off, and the next thing I knew, I heard an awful scraping and the right outside tire blew out, and then because of the weight and sway of the truck the left tires blew out, and the truck turned over on its side and went skidding down the road towards a bridge. I was scared because I knew what was happening. I knew the truck was going to hit the bridge.\nNow, during the period of time that the truck was skidding, I just thought of all the things that I had done. I only saw certain things, the high points, and it was sch a real thing. The first thing I remembered was following my father as he walked along the beach; it was when I was two years old. And there were a few other things, in order, from my early years, and after that I remembered breaking my new red wagon I had gotten for Christmas when I was five. 1 remember crying as I went to school in the first grade, wearing that gaudy yellow raincoat my mother had bought me. I remembered a little something about each one of my years in grammar school. I remember each of my teachers, and a little something that stood out about each year. Then I went to junior high, and got a paper route, and went to work in a grocery store, and it brought me up to right then, just before beginning my second year in college.\nAll these things, and many others, just flashed, across my mind, and it was very quick. It probably didn't last but a split second. And then it was all over and I was standing there looking at the truck, and I thought I was dead, I thought h was an angel. I started pinching myself to see if I was alive, or a ghost, or what.\nThe truck was a total wreck, but I didn't receive a scratch. Somehow, I had jumped out the front windshield, because all the glass was blown out. After things calmed down, I thought it was strange that these things that had happened in my life, that had made some sore of lasting impression on me, had gone through my mind during this moment of crisis. I could probably think of all those things and remember and picture each of them now, but it would probably take me at least fifteen minutes. Yet, this ad all come at once, automatically, and in less ,an a second. It was amazing.\nIn a few instances, persons have described to me how during their near-death experience they seemed to be approaching what might be called a border or a limit of some kind. This has taken the form, in various accounts, of a body of water, a gray mist, a door, a fence across a field, or simply a line. Though this is highly speculative, one could raise the question of whether there might not be some one basic experience or idea at the root of all of them. If this is true, then the different versions would merely represent varying individual ways of interpreting, wording, or remembering the root experience. Let us look at a few accounts in which the idea of a border or limit plays a prominent role.\n(1)1 \u201cdied\u201d from a cardiac arrest, and, as I did, I suddenly found myself in a rolling field. It 'seas beautiful, and everything was an intense green - a color unlike anything on earth. There was light-beautiful, uplifting light - all around me. f looked ahead of me, across the field, and I saw fence. I started moving towards the fence, and I saw a man on the other side of it, moving towards it as if to meet me. I wanted to reach him, but I felt myself being drawn back, irresistibly. As I did, I saw him, too, turn around and go back in the other direction, away from the fence.\n(2) This experience took place during the birth of my first child. About the eighth month of my pregnancy, I developed what my doctor described as a toxic condition and advised me to enter the hospital where he could force labor, It was immediately after delivery that I had a severe hemorrhage and the doctor had a difficult' time controlling it. I was aware of what was, happening as, having been a nurse myself, I realized the danger. At this time, I lost consciousness, and heard an annoying buzzing, ringing sound. The next thing I knew it seemed as if I were on; a ship or a small vessel sailing to the other side of a large body of water. On the distant shore, I could see all of my loved ones who had died, my mother, my father, my sister, and others. I could see them, could see their faces, just as they were when I knew them on earth. They seemed to be beckoning me to come on over, and all the while I was saying, \u201cNo, no, I'm not ready to join you. I don't want to die. I'm not ready to go.\u201d\nNow, this was the strangest experience because allthis time I could see all the doctors and nurses, too, as they worked on my body, but it seemed as if I were a spectator rather than that person - that body-they were working on. - was trying so hard to get through to my doctor, \u201cI'm not going to die,\u201d but no one could hear me. Everything - the doctors, the nurses, the delivery room, the ship, the water, and the far shore was just sort of a conglomerate. It was all together, as if one scene were superimposed right on top of the other.\nFinally, the ship almost reached the far shore, but just before it did, it turned around and started back. I did finally get through to my doctor, and I was saying, \u201cI'm not going to die.\u201d It was at this point, I guess, that I came around, and the doctor explained what had happened, that I had had a post- partum hemorrhage, and that they had nearly lost me, but that I was going to be all right.\n(3) I was hospitalized for a severe kidney condition, and I was in a coma for approximately a week. My doctors were extremely uncertain as to whether I would live. During this period when I was unconscious, I felt as though I were lifted right up, just as though I didn't have a physical body at all. A brilliant white light appeared to me. The light was so bright that I could not see through it, but going into its presence was so calming and so wonderful. There is just no experience on earth like it. In the presence of the light, the thoughts or words came into my mind: \u201cDo you want to die?\u201d And I replied that I didn't know since I knew nothing about death. Then the white light said, \u201cCome over this line and you will learn.\u201d I felt that I knew where the line was in front of me, although I could not actually see it. As I went across the line, the most wonderful feelings came over me-feelings of peace, tranquility, a vanishing of all worries.\n(4) I had a heart attack, and I found myself in a black void, and I knew I had left my physical body behind. I knew I was dying, and I thought, \u201cGod, I did the best I knew how at the time I did it. Please help me.\u201d Immediately, I was moved' out of that blackness, through a pale gray, and I just went on, gliding and moving swiftly, and in front of me, in the distance, I could see a gray wrist, and I was rushing toward it. It seemed that just couldn't get to it fast enough to satisfy me, and as I got closer to it I could see through it. Beyond the mist, I could see people, and their forms were just like they are on the earth, and I could also see something which one could take to be buildings. The whole thing was permeated with the most gorgeous light-a living, golden yellow glow, a pale color, not like the harsh gold color we know on earth.\nAs I approached more closely, I felt certain that I was going through that mist. It was such a wonderful, joyous feeling; there are just no words in the human language to describe it. Yet, wasn't my time to go through the mist, because instantly from the other side appeared my Uncle Carl, who had died many years earlier. He blocked my path, saying, \u201cGo back. Your work on earth has not been completed. Go back now. I didn't want to go back, but I had no choice and immediately I was back in my body. I felt that horrible pain in my chest, and I heard my little boy crying, \u201cGod, bring my mommy back to me.\u201d\n(5) I was taken to the hospital for a critical condition they said was an \u201cinflammation\u201d and my doctor said I wasn't going to make it. 1 told my relatives to come because I wasn't going to be here much longer. They came, and gathered around my bed, and as the doctor thought was dying, my relatives looked like they we going farther away from me. It looked like they were going back instead of me going away from them. It got dimmer and dimmer, but I saw them. I lost consciousness and didn't seem to know anything else about what was going on in the hospital room, but I was in a narrow, v-shaped passage, like a trough, about the width of this chair. It just fit my body, and my hands and arms seemed to be down at my side. went head first, and it was dark, dark as it could be in there. I moved on through it, downward, and I looked up and saw a beautiful, polished door, with no knob. Around the edges of the door I could see a really brilliant light, with rays just streaming like everybody was so happy in there, and reeling around, moving around. It seemed like it was awfully busy in there. I looked up and said, \u201cLord, here I am. If you want me, take me.\u201d Boy, he shot me back so fast it felt like I almost lost my breath.\nObviously, all the persons with whom I have talked had to \u201ccome back\u201d at some point in their experience. Usually, though, an interesting change in their attitude had taken place by this time. Remember that the most common feelings reported in the first few moments following death are a desperate desire to get back into the body and an intense regret over one's demise. However, once the dying person reaches a certain depth in his experience, he does not want to come back, and he may even resist the return to the body. This is especially the case for those who have gotten so far as to encounter the being of light. As one man put it, most emphatically, \u201cI never wanted to leave the presence of this being.\u201d Exceptions to this generalization are often only apparent, not real. Several women who were mothers of young children at the time of their experience have told me that, while for themselves they would have preferred to stay where they were, they felt an obligation to try to go back and to raise their children.\nI wondered whether I should stay there, but as I did I remembered my family, my three children and my husband. Now, this is the part that is hard to get across: When I had this wonderful feeling, there in the presence of try light, I really didn't want to come back. But take my responsibilities very seriously, and I knew that I had a duty to my family. So I decided to try to come back.\nIn several other cases, persons have told that, though they were comfortable and secure in their new disembodied existence and were even enjoying it, they felt happy to be able to return to physical life since they had left some important task undone. In a few cases, this has taken the form of a desire to complete an unfinished education.\nI had completed three years of college and had only one more year to go. I kept thinking, \u201cI don't want to die now.\u201d But I feel that if this had gone on just a few minutes more, if I had been with this light for just a little while longer, I wouldn't have thought of my education anymore, that I would've been taken up with the other things I was experiencing.\nThe accounts I have collected present an extremely varied picture when it comes to the question of the mode of return to physical life and of why the return took place. Most say simply that they do not know how or why they returned, or that they can only make guesses. A few very definitely feel that their own decisions to get back to the body and to return to earthly life were the operative factors.\nI was out of my body, and I realized that I had to make a decision. I knew that I could not stay out of my physical body for a very long period of time so-well, for others this is very hard to understand, but for me then it was perfectly clearly knew that I had to decide whether to move on out or to get back in.\nIt was wonderful over there on the other side, and I kind of wanted to stay. But knowing that I had something good to do on earth was just as wonderful in a way. So, I was thinking, \u201cYes, I must go back and live,\u201d and I got back into my physical body. I almost feel as though I stopped the bleeding myself. At any rate, I began to recover after that.\nOthers feel that they were in effect allowed to live by \u201cGod,\u201d or by the being of light, either in response to their own request to be allowed to live (usually because the request was made unselfishly) or because God or the being apparently had some mission in mind for them to fulfill.\nI was above the table, and I could see everything they were doing. I knew that I was dying, that this would be it. Yet, I was concerned about my children, about who would take care of them. So, I was not ready to go. The Lord permitted me to live.\nAs one man remembers,\nI say God surely was good to me, because I was dead, and he let the doctors bring me back, for a purpose. The purpose was to help my wife, I think, because she had a drinking problem, and I know that she just couldn't have made it without me. She is better now, though, and I really think it had a lot to do with what I went through.\nA young mother feels that,\nThe Lord sent me back, but I don't know why. I definitely felt Him there, and knew that He recognized me and knew who I was. And yet He didn't see fit to let me into heaven; but why, I don't know. I have thought about it many times since, and I believe that it was either because I had those two small children to raise, or because I personally just wasn't ready to be there. I am still seeking the answer, and I just can't figure it out.\nIn a few instances, persons have expressed the feeling that the love or prayers of others have in effect pulled them back from death regardless of their own wishes.\nI was with my elderly aunt during her last illness, which was very drawn out. I helped take care of her, and all that time everyone in the family was praying for her to regain her health. She stopped breathing several times, but they brought her back. Finally, one day she looked at me and she said, \u201cJoan, I have been over there, over to the beyond and it is beautiful over there. I want to stay, but I can't as long as you keep praying for me to stay with you. Your prayers are holding me over here. Please don't pray any more.\u201d We did all stop, and shortly after that she died\nA woman told me,\nThe doctor had already said that I was gone, but I lived through it. Yet; the experience I had been through was so joyous, I had no bad feelings at all. As I came back, I opened my eyes, and my sister and my husband saw me. I could see their relief, and tears were pouring from their eyes. I could see that it was a relief to them that I did survive. I felt as though I had been called back-magnetized back-through the love of my sister and my husband. Since then, I have believed that other people can draw you back.\nIn quite a few instances, persons recall being drawn rapidly back through the dark tunnel through which they went during the initial moments of their experience. One man who died, for example relates how he was propelled forward through a dark valley. He felt he was approaching, the end of the tunnel, yet just at that moment b heard his name called from behind. He then was drawn backwards through the same space.\nFew experience the actual re-entry into their physical bodies. Most report that they simply felt that at the end of their experience they \u201cwent to sleep\u201d or lapsed into unconsciousness, later to awaken in their physical bodies.\nI don't remember getting back into my body. It was like I just drifted away, went to sleep, and then all of a sudden I woke right back up and I was lying in the bed. The people in the room were, in comparison, where they had been while I had been out of my body, looking at it and at them.\nOn the other hand, some remember being draw speedily back towards their physical bodies, often with a jerk, at the end of their experiences.\nI was up there at the ceiling, watching them work on me. When they put the shocks on my chest, and my body jumpe up, I just fell right back down to my body, just like dead weight. The next thing I knew, I was in my body again.\nAnd I decided that I would come back, and when I did, it was like a jolt, like a jolt back into my body, and I felt that at that very moment I crossed back over into life.\nIn the very few accounts in which the event is recalled in some detail, re\u00ac entry is said to occur through the head.\u201d\nMy \u201cbeing\u201d seemed to have a small end and a large end, and at the end of my accident, after it had just hung suspended over my head, it came back in. When it left my body, it seemed that the large end left first, but coming back in, the small end seemed to come in first.\nOne person recounted:\nWhen I saw them pick up my body and take it out from under the steering wheel, it was just like a swoooosh and I felt like I was drawn through a limited area, a kind of funnel, I guess. It was dark and black in there, and I moved through it quickly, back to my body. And as I was being sucked back, it seemed that the suction started from the head, like I went into the head. I didn't feel that I had any say-so about it at all, nor even any time to think about it. I was there, yards away from my body, and all of a sudden, it was over with. I didn't even have time to think, \u201cI'm being sucked back into my body.\u201d\nTypically, the moods and feelings which were associated with the experience linger on for some time after the actual medical crisis has been resolved.\n(1) After I came back, I cried off and on For about a week because I had to live in this world after seeing that one. I didn't want to come back.\n(2) When I came back, I brought with me some of the wonderful feelings I had over there. They lasted for several days. Even now I feel them sometimes.\n(3) This feeling was so indescribable. It has stayed with me, in a way. I've never forgotten it. I still think about it very often.\nIt must be emphasized that a person who has been through an experience of this type has no doubt whatsoever as to its reality and its importance. Interviews which I have done are usually sprinkled with remarks to precisely that effect. For example:\nWhile I was out of my body, I was really amazed at what was happening to me. I couldn't understand it. But it was real. I saw my body so plainly, and from so far away. My mind wasn't at that point where I wanted to make things happen or make up anything. My mind wasn't manufacturing ideas. I just wasn't in that state mind.\nIt was nothing like an hallucination. I have had hallucinations once, when I was given codeine in the hospital. But that had happened long before the accident which really killed me. And this experience was nothing like the hallucinations, nothing like them at all.\nSuch remarks come from persons who are very capable of distinguishing dream and fantasy from reality. The people I have interviewed are functional, well-balanced personalities. Yet, they do not tell their experiences as they would dreams, but rather as real events which actually happened to them.\nDespite their own certainty of the reality and importance of what has happened to them, they realize that our contemporary society is just not the sort of environment in which reports of this nature would be received with sympathy and understanding. Indeed, many have remarked that they realized from the very beginning that others would think they were mentally unstable if they were to relate their experiences. So, they have resolved to remain silent on the subject or else to reveal their experiences only to some very close relative.\nIt was very interesting. It's just that I don't like telling people about it. People just kind of look at you like you're crazy.\nAnother recalls,\nI didn't tell anyone about it for a long, long time. I just didn't say anything at all about it. I felt funny about it because I was afraid that nobody would think I was telling the truth, that they would say, \u201cOh, you're making up these things.\u201d\nOne da, I decided, \u201cWell, I'll see how my family reacts to it,\u201d and I told them, but never anyone else until now. But I think that my family realized that I had been that far.\nOthers tried at first to tell someone else, but were rebuffed, so they resolved from then on to remain silent.\n(1) The only person I tried to tell was my mother. Just a little later I mentioned to her how I had felt. But I was just a little boy, and she didn't pay any attention to me. So I never told it to anybody else.\n(2) I tried to tell my minister, but he told me I had been hallucinating, so I shut up.\n(3) I was pretty popular in junior high and high school, and I just floated with the crow: never anything new. I was a follower, not a leader. And after this happened to me, and I tried to tell people, they just automatically labeled me crazy, I think. I would try to tell people this, and they would listen with interest, but then I would find out later that they'd go say, \u201cShe has really flipped out.\u201d When I saw that it was just a big joke, I quit trying to communicate about it. I hadn't been trying to get across the idea that, \u201cGee, this strange experience has happened me.\u201d What I was trying to say was that there was more we needed to know about life than I hadn't ever thought about, and I am sure they hadn't either.\n(4) I tried to tell my nurses what had happened when I woke up, but they told me not to talk about it, that I was just imagining things.\nSo, in the words of one person,\nYou learn very quickly that people don't take to this as easily as you would like for them to. You simply don't jump up on a little soapbox and go around telling everyone these things.\nInterestingly enough, in only one of the cases I have studied did a physician reveal any familiarity at all with near-death experiences or express any sympathy with them. After her out-of-body experience, one girl told me,\nMy family and I asked the doctor about what had happened to me, and he said that this happened a lot when a person is in severe pain or has severe injuries, that their soul will leave their body.\nConsidering the skepticism and lack of understanding that greet the attempt of a person to discuss his near-death experience, it is not suiprising that almost everyone in this situation comes to feel that he is unique, that no one else has ever undergone what he has. For example, one man told me, \u201cI have been somewhere nobody else has ever been\u201d\nIt has often happened that when, after first interviewing someone in detail about his own experience, I have proceeded to tell him that others have reported exactly the same events and perceptions, he has expressed profound feelings of relief\nIt is a very interesting thing to find out that other people have had the same experience, because I hadn't realized \u2026. I am actually happy that I have heard this, knowing that obviously someone else has been through this, too. Now 1 know I'm not crazy.\nIt was always such a real thing to me, but 1 never would tell anybody because I was scared that they would look at me and think, \u201cWhen you arrested, your mind went bad at the same time! \u201d\nI figured that someone else would've had this same experience, but that I probably never wool meet up with anybody who knew another person who had, because I don't think people are going to talk. If somebody were to come up and tell me, without me ever having been there, I would probably look at them and wonder what they were trying to pull over on me, because that's just the way our society is.\nThere is yet another reason why some are reticent to relate their experiences to others. They feel that the experience is so indescribable, so far beyond human language and human modes of perception and existence, that it is fruitless even to try.\nFor the reasons just explained, no one in my experience has built himself a portable lectern and gone out to preach about his experience on a fulltime basis. No one has seen fit to proselytize, to try to convince others of the realities he experienced. Indeed, I have found that the difficulty is quite the reverse: People are naturally very reticent to tell others about what happened to them.\nThe effects which their experiences have had on their lives seem to have taken subtler, quieter forms. Many have told me that they felt that their lives were broadened and deepened by their experience, that because of it they became more reflective and more concerned with ultimate philosophical issues.\nAt this time - it was before I had gone off to college - I had grown up in a very small town, with very small - minded people, the people I was associated with, anyway. I was a typical high school fraternity brat. You just weren't \u201cit\u201d unless you belonged to my fraternity.\nBut after this thing happened to me, I wanted to know more. At the time, though, I didn't think there was a person who would know anything about this, because I had never been out of this little world that I was in. I didn't know anything about psychology, or anything like that. All I knew was that I felt like I had aged overnight after this happened, because it opened up a whole new world for me that I never knew could possibly exist. I kept thinking, \u201cThere's so much that I've got to find out.\u201d In other words, there's more to life than Friday night movies and the football game. And there's more to me that I don't even know about. And then I started thinking about \u201cWhat is the limit of the human and of the mind?\u201d It just opened me up to a whole new world.\nAnother states,\nSince then, it has been on my mind constantly what I have done with my life, and what I will do with my life. My past life-I'm satisfied with it. I don't think the world owes me anything because I really did everything I wanted and I did it the way I wanted to, and I'm still alive and I can do some more. But since I died, all of a sudden, right after my experience, I started wondering whether I had been doing the things I had done because they were good, or because they were good for me. Before, I just reacted off the impulse, and now I run things through my mind first, nice and slow. Everything seems to have to go through my mind and be digested, first.\nI try to do things that have more meaning, and that makes my mind and soul feel better. And I try not to be biased, and not to judge people 1 want to do things because they are good, not because they are good to me. And it seems that the understanding I have of things now is so much better. I feel like this is because of what happened to me, because of the places I went and the things I saw in this experience.\nOthers report a changed attitude or approach towards the physical life to which they have returned. One woman, for instance, says quite simply that \u201cit made life much more precious to me.\u201d\nAnother person relates how,\nIt was a blessing in a way, because before that heart attack I was too busy planning for my children's future, and worrying about yesterday, that I was losing the joys of the present. I have a much different attitude now.\nA few have mentioned that what they underwent changed their concepts of the mind and of the relative importance of the physical body as against the mind. This is illustrated especially well in these words of a woman who had an out-of-body experience while near death.\nI was more conscious of my mind at the time than of that physical body. The mind was the most important part, instead of the shape of the body. And before, all my life, it had been exactly reversed. The body was my main interest and what was going on in my mind, well, it was just going on, and that's all. But after this happened, my mind was the main point of attraction, and the body was second-it was only something to encase my mind. I didn't care if I had a body or not. It didn't matter because for all I cared my mind was what was important.\nIn a very small number of cases, persons have told me that after their experiences they seemed to acquire or to notice faculties of intuition bordering on the psychic.\n(1) Following this experience, it almost seemed as if I were filled with a new spirit. Since then, many have remarked to me that I seem to have almost a calming effect on them, instantly, when they are troubled. And it seems that I am more in tune with people now, that I can pick up things about them faster.\n(2) One thing that I think has been given to me, because of my death experience, is that I can sense the needs in other individuals' lives. Often, for instance when I have been with people on the elevator in the office building where I work, it seems I can almost read their faces, and tell that they need help, and what kind. Many times, I have spoken to people who are troubled like this, and have led them into my office for counseling.\n(3) Since I was hurt, I've had the feeling of picking up people's thoughts and vibrations, and I can feel resentment from other people. I have often been able to pick up what people were going to say before they said it. Not many people will believe me, but I've had some really odd, odd experiences since then. One time, I was at a party and was picking up other people's thoughts, and some people there who didn't know me got up and left. They were scared that I was a witch or something. I don't know if it is something I picked up while I was dead, or if it was there dormant and I never did use it until after this happened.\nThere is a remarkable agreement in the \u201clessons,\u201d as it were, which have been brought back from these close encounters with death. Almost everyone has stressed the importance in this life of trying to cultivate love for others, a love of a unique and profound kind. One man who met the being of light felt totally loved and accepted, even while his whole life was displayed in a panorama for the being to see. He felt that the \u201cquestion\u201d that the being was asking him was whether he was able to love others in the same way. He now feels that it is his commission while on earth to try to learn to be able to do so.\nIn addition, many others have emphasized the importance of seeking knowledge. During their experiences, it was intimated to them that the acquisition of knowledge continues even in the after-life. One woman, for example, has taken advantage of every educational opportunity she has had since her \u201cdeath\u201d experience. Another man offers the advice, \u201cNo matter how old you are, don't stop learning. For this is a process, I gather, that goes on for eternity.\u201d\nNo one that I interviewed has reported coming out of this experience feeling morally \u201cpurified\u201d or perfected. No one with whom I have talked in my way evinces a \u201cholier-than-thou\u201d attitude. In fact, most have specifically brought up the point that they feel that they are still trying, still searching. Their vision left them with new goals, new moral principles, and a renewed determination to try to live in accordance with them, but with no feelings of instantaneous salvation or of moral infallibility.\nAs one might reasonably expect, this experience has a profound effect upon one's attitude towards physical death, especially for those who had not previously expected that anything took place after death. In some form or another, almost every person has expressed to me the thought that he is no longer afraid of death. This requires clarification, though. In the first place, certain modes of death are obviously undesirable, and secondly, none of these persons are actively seeking death. They all feel that they have tasks t do as long as they are physically alive and would agree with the words of a man who told me, \u201cTve got quite a lot of changing to do before I leave here.\u201d Likewise, all would disavow suicide as a means by which to return to the realms they glimpsed during their experiences. It is just that now the state of death itself is no longer forbidding to them. Let us look at some passages in which such attitudes are explained.\n(1) I suppose this experience molded something in my life. I was only a child when it happened, only ten, but now, my entire life through, I am thoroughly convinced that there is life after death, without a shadow of a doubt, and I am not afraid to die. I am not. Some people I have known are so afraid, so scared. I always smile to myself when I hear people doubt that there is an afterlife, or say, \u201cWhen you're dead, you're gone.\u201d I think to myself, \u201cThey really don't know.\u201d\nI've had many things happen to me in my life. In business, I've had a gun pulled on me and put to my temple. And it didn't frighten me very much, because I thought, \u201cWell, if I really die, if they really kill me, I know I'll still live somewhere.\u201d\n(2) When I was a little boy I used to dread dying. I used to wake up at night crying and having a fit. My mother and father would rush into the bedroom and ask what was wrong. I told them that I didn't want to die, but that I knew 1 had to, and asked if they could stop it. My mother would talk to me and tell me, \u201cNo, that's just the way it is and we all have to face it.\u201d She said that we all had to do it alone and that when the time came we would do it all right. And years later after my mother died I would talk about death with my wife. I still feared it. I didn't want it to come.\nBut since this experience, I don't fear death. Those feelings vanished. I don't feel bad at funerals anymore. I kind of rejoice at them, because I know what the dead person has been through.\nI believe that the Lord may have sent this experience to me because of the way I felt about death. Of course, my parents comforted me, but the Lord showed me, whereas they couldn't do that. Now, I don't talk about all this, but I know, and I am perfectly satisfied.\n(3) Now, I am not afraid to die. It's not that I have a death wish, or, want to die right now. I don't want to be living over there on the other side now, because I'm supposed to be living here. The reason why I'm not afraid to die, though, is that I know where I'm going when I leave here, because I've been there before.\n(4) The last thing the light said to me, before I came back to my body, back to life, was-well, what it boiled down to was that he would be back. He was telling me that I was going to go on and live this time, but that there would be a time when he would be getting in touch with me again, and that I would actually die.\nSo I know that the light will come back, and the voice, but as to when, I'm not sure. I think that it'll be a very similar experience, but I think a better one, really, since now I know what to expect and won't be so confused. I don't think I want to go back anytime soon, though. I still want to do some things down here.\nThe reason why death is no longer frightening, as all of these excerpts express, is that after his experience a person no longer entertains any doubts about his survival of bodily death. It is no longer merely an abstract possibility to him, but a fact of his experience.\nRemember that much earlier I discussed the \u201cannihilation\u201d concept, which uses \u201csleeping\u201d and \u201cforgetting\u201d as its models of death. Persons who have \u201cdied\u201d disavow models like this and choose analogies which portray death as a transition from one state to another, or as an entry into a higher state of consciousness or of being. One woman, whose deceased relatives were there to greet her at her death, compared death to a \u201chomecoming.\u201d Others have likened it to other psychologically positive states, for example, to awakening, to graduating, and to escape from jail.\n(1) Some say that we are not using the word \u201cdeath\u201d because we are trying to escape from it. That's not true in my case. After you've once had the experience that I had, you know in your heart that there's no such thing as death. You just graduate from one thing to another-like from grammar school to high school to college.\n(2) Life is like imprisonment. In this state, we just can't understand what prisons these bodies are. Death is such a release-like an escape from prison. That's the best thing I can think of to compare it to.\nEven those who previously had some traditional conviction about the nature of the afterlife world seem to have moved away from it to some degree following their own brushes with death. In fact, in all the reports I have gathered, not one person has painted the mythological picture of what lies hereafter. No one has described the cartoonist's heaven of pearly gates, golden streets, and winged, haip-playing angels, nor a hell of flames and demons with pitchforks.\nSo, in most cases, the reward-punishment model of the afterlife is abandoned and disavowed, even by many who had been accustomed to thinking in those terms. They found, much to their amazement that even when their most apparently awful and sinful deeds were made manifest before the being of light, the being responded not with anger and rage, but rather only with understanding, and even with humor. As one woman went through the review of her life with this being, she saw some scenes in which she had failed to show love and had shown selfishness. Yet, she says, \u201cHis attitude when we came to these scenes was just that I had been learning, even then.\u201d\nIn place of this old model, many seemed to have returned with a new model and a new understanding of the world beyond-a vision which features not unilateral judgement, but rather cooperative development towards the ultimate end of self-realization. According to these new views, development of the soul, especially in the spiritual faculties of love and knowledge, does not stop upon death. Rather, it continues on the other side, perhaps eternally, but certainly for a period of time and to a depth which can only be glimpsed, while we are still in physical bodies, \u201cthrough a glass, darkly.\u201d\nThe question naturally arises whether any evidence of the reality of near-death experiences might be acquired independently of the descriptions of the experiences themselves. Many persons report being out of their bodies for extended periods and witnessing many events in the physical world during the interlude. Can any of these reports be checked out with other witnesses who were known to be present, or with later confirming events, and thus be corroborated?\nIn quite a few instances, the somewhat surprising answer to this question is, \u201cyes.\u201d Furthermore, the description of events witnessed while out of the body tend to check out fairly well. Several doctors have told me, for example, that they are utterly baffled about how patients with no medical knowledge could describe in such detail and so correctly the procedure used in resuscitation attempts, even though these events took place while the doctors knew the patients involved to be \u201cdead.\u201d\nIn several cases, persons have related to me how they amazed their doctors or others with reports of events they had witnessed while out of the body. While she was dying, for example, one girl went out of her body and into another room in the hospital where she found her older sister crying and saying, \u201cOh, Kahy, please don't die, please don't die.\u201d The older sister was quite baffled when, later,\nKathy told her exactly where she had been and what she had been saying, during this time. In the two passages which follow, similar events are described.\n(1) After it was all over, the doctor told me that I had a really bad time, and I said, \u201cYeah, I know.\u201d He said, \u201cWell, how do you know?\u201d and I said, \u201cI can tell you everything that happened.\u201d He didn't believe me, so I told him the whole story, from the time I stopped breathing until the time I was kind of coming around. He was really shocked to know that I knew everything that had happened. He didn't know quite what to say, but he came in several times to ask me different things about it.\n(2) When I woke up after the accident, my father was there, and I didn't even want to know what sort of shape I was in, or how I was, or how the doctors thought I would be. All I wanted to talk about was the experience I had been through. I told my father who had dragged my body out of the building, and even what color clothes that person had on, and how they got me out, and even about all the conversation that had been going on in the area. And my father said, \u201cWell, yes, these things were true.\u201d Yet, my body was physically out this whole time, and there was no way I could have seen or heard these things without being outside of my body.\nFinally, in a few cases, I have been able to get the independent testimony of others about corroborating events. In assessing the evidential value of such independent reports, however, several complicating factors arise. First, in most of the cases the corroborating event itself is attested to only by the dying person himself and by at most a couple of close friends and acquaintances. Second, even in the exceptionally dramatic, well-attested instances I have collected, I have promised not to reveal actual names. Even if I could, though, I do not think that such corroborating stories collected after the fact would constitute proof, for reasons which I shall explain in the final chapter.\nWe have reached the end of our survey of the various commonly-reported stages and events of the experience of dying. In closing this chapter, I want to quote at some length from a rather exceptional account which embodies many of the elements I have discussed. In addition, however, it contains a unique twist not encountered before: The being of light tells the man involved of his impending death in advance, and then decides subsequently to let him live.\nAt the time this happened I suffered, as I still do, with a very severe case of bronchial asthma and emphysema. One day, I got into a coughing fit and apparently ruptured a disk in the lower part of my spine. For a couple of months, I consulted a number of doctors for the agonizing pain, and finally one of them referred me to a neurosurgeon, Dr. Wyatt. He saw me and told me that I needed to be admitted to the hospital immediately, so I went on in and they put me in traction right away.\nDr. Wyatt knew that I had bad respiratory diseases so he called in a lung specialist, who said that the anesthesiologist, Dr. Coleman, should be consulted if I was going to be put to sleep. So the lung specialist worked on me for almost three weeks until he finally got me to a place where Dr. Coleman would put me under. He finally consented on a Monday, although he was very much worried about it. They scheduled the operation for the next Friday. Monday night, I went to sleep and had a estful sleep until sometime early Tuesday morning, when I woke up in severe pain, turned over and tried to get in a more comfortable position, but just at that moment a light appeared in the comer of the room, just below the ceiling. It was just a ball of light, almost like a globe, and it was not very large, I would say no more than twelve to fifteen inches in diameter, and as this light appeared, a feeling came over me. I can't say that it was an eerie feeling, because it was not. It was a feeling of complete peace and utter relaxation. I could see a hand reach down for me from the light, and the light said, \u201cCome with me. I want to show you- something.\u201d So immediately, without any hesitation whatsoever, I reached up with my hand and grabbed onto the hand I saw. As I did, I had the feeling of being drawn up and of leaving my body, and I looked back and saw it lying there on the bed while I was going up towards the ceiling of the room.\nNow, at this time, as soon as I left my body I took on the same form as the light. I got the feeling, and I'll have to use my own words for it, because I've never heard anyone talk about anything like this, that this form was definitely spirit. It wasn't a body, just a wisp of smoke or a vapor. It looked almost like the clouds of cigarette smoke you can see when they are illuminated as they drift around a lamp. The form I took had colors, though. There was orange, yellow, and a color that was very indistinct to me -1 took it be an indigo, a bluish color.\nThis spiritual form didn't have a shape like a body. It was more or less circular, but it had what I would call a hand. I know this because when the light reached down for me, I reached up for it with my hand. Yet, the arm and hand of my body just stayed put, because I could see them lying on the bed, down by the side of my body, as I rose up to the light. But when I wasn't using this spiritual hand, the spirit went back to the circular pattern.\nSo, I was drawn up to the same position the light was in, and we started moving through the ceiling and the wall of the hospital room, into the corridor, and through the corridor, down through the floors it seemed, on down to a lower floor in the hospital. We had no difficulty in passing through doors or walls. They would just fade away from us as we would approach them.\nDuring this period it seemed that we were traveling. I knew we were moving, yet there was no sensation of speed. And in a moment, almost instantaneously, really, I realized that we had reached the recovery room of the hospital. Now, I hadn't even known where the recovery room was at this hospital, but we got there, and again, we were in the comer of the room near the ceiling, up above everything else. I saw the doctors and nurses walking around in their green suits and saw the beds that were placed around in there.\nThis being then told me-he showed me That's where you're going to be. When they bring you off the operating table they're going to put you in that bed, but you will never awaken from that position. You'll know nothing after you go to the operating room until I come back to get you sometime after this.\u201c Now, I won't say this was in words. It wasn't like an audible voice, because if it had been I would have expected the others in the room to have heard the voice, and they didn't. It was more of an impression that came to me. But it was in such a vivid form that there was no way for me to say I didn't hear it or I didn't feel it. It was definite to me.\nAnd what I was seeing-well, it was so much easier to recognize things while I was in this spiritual form. I was now wondering, like, \u201cNow, what is that that he is trying to show me.\u201d I knew immediately what it was, what he had in mind. There was no doubt. It was that that bed-it was the bed on the right just as you come in from the corridor-is where I'm going to be and he's brought me here for a purpose. And then he told me why. It came to me that the reason for this was that he didn't want any fear when the time came that my spirit passed from my body, but that he wanted me to know what the sensation would be on passing that point. He wanted to assure me so that I wouldn't be afraid, because he was telling me that he wouldn't be there immediately, that I would go through other things first, but that would be overshadowing everything that happened and would be there for me at the end.\nNow, immediately, when I had joined him take the trip to the recovery room and had b, come a spirit myself, in a way we had been fused into one. We were two separate ones, too, course. Yet, he had full control of everything that was going on as far as I was concerned. And even if we were traveling through the walls and ceilings and so forth, well, it just seemed that we were in such close communion that nothing whatsoever could have bothered me. Again, it was just a peacefulness, calmness, and a serenity that ha never been found anywhere else.\nSo, after he told me this, he took me back to my hospital room, and as I got back I saw my body again, still lying in the same position as when we left, and instantaneously I was back in my body. I would guess that I had been out of my body for five or ten minutes, but passage of time had nothing to do with this experience. In fact, I don't remember if I have ever even thought of it as being any particular time.\nNow, this whole thing had just astounded me, took me completely by surprise. It was so vivid and real-more so than ordinary experience. And the next morning, I was not in the least afraid. When I shaved, I noticed that my hand didn't shake like it had been doing for six or eight weeks before then. I knew that I would be dying, and there was no regret, no fear. There was no thought, \u201cWhat can I do to keep this from happening?\u201d I was ready.\nNow, on Thursday afternoon, the day before the operation the next morning, I was in my hospital room, and I was worried. My wife and I have a boy, an adopted nephew, and we were Then having some trouble with him. So I decided to write a letter to my wife and one to my nephew putting some of my worries in words, and to hide the letters where they wouldn't be found until after the operation. After I had written about two pages on the letter to my wife, it was just as if the floodgates had opened. All at once, I broke gut in tears, sobbing. I felt a presence, and at first I thought maybe that I had cried so loud that I had disturbed one of the nurses, and that they \u201cad come in to see what was the matter with me. But I hadn't heard the door open. And again I felt this presence, but I didn't see any light this time, grid thoughts or words came to me, just as before, and he said, \u201cJack, why are you crying? I thought you would be pleased to be with me.\u201d I thought, \u201cYes, I am. I want to go very much.\u201d And the voice said, \u201cThen why are you crying?\u201d I said, \u201cWe've had trouble with our nephew, you know and I'm afraid my wife won't know how to rain.: him. I'm trying to put into words how I feel, an, what I want her to try to do for him. I'm concerned, too, because I feel that maybe my presence could have settled him down some.\u201d\nThen the thoughts came to me, from this presence, \u201cSince you are asking for someone else, and thinking of others, not Jack, I will grant what you want. You will live until you see your nephew become a man.\u201d And just like that, it was gone. I stopped crying, and I destroyed the letter so my wife wouldn't accidentally find it.\nThat evening, Dr. Coleman came in and told me that he was expectng a lot of trouble wire putting me to sleep, and for me not to be surprised to wake up and find a lot of wires and tubes and machines all around me. I didn't tell him what I had experienced, so I just nodded and said 1 would cooperate.\nThe next morning the operation took a long time but went fine, and as I was regaining my consciousness, Dr. Coleman was there with me, and I told him, \u201cI know exactly where I am.\u201d He asked, \u201cWhat bed are you in?\u201d I said, \u201cI'm in that first bed on the right just as you come in from the hall.\u201d He just kind of laughed, and of course, he thought that I was just talking from the anesthetic.\nI wanted to tell him what had happened, but just in a moment Dr. Wyatt came in and said, \u201cHe's awake now. What do you want to do?\u201d And Dr. Coleman said, \u201cThere's not a thing I can do. I've never been so amazed in my life. Here I am with all this equipment set up and he doesn't need a thing.\u201d Dr. Wyatt said, \u201cMiracles still happen, you know.\u201d So, when I could get up in the bed, and see around the room, I saw that I was in that same bed that the light had shown me several days before.\nNow, all this was three years ago, but it is still just as vivid as it was then. It was the most fantastic thing that has ever happened to me, and it has made a big difference. But I don't talk about it. I have only told my wife, my brother, my minister, and now you. I don't know how to say it, but this is so hard to explain. I'm not trying to make a big explosion in your life, and I'm not trying to brag. It's just that after this, I don't have any doubts anymore. I know there is life after death.\nThe events of the various stages of the experience of dying are, to say the very least, unusual. 1 fence, my surprise has been compounded as over the years I have come across quite a number of striking parallels to them. These parallels occur in ancient and/or highly esoteric writings from the literature of several very diverse civilizations, cultures, and eras.\nIn our society The Bible is the most widely read and discussed book dealing with matters relating to the nature of the spiritual aspect of man and to life after death. On the whole, however, The Bible has relatively little to say about the events that transpire upon death, or about the precise nature of the after-death world This is especially -rue of the Old Testament. According to some Biblical scholars, only two passages in all of the Old Testament speak unequivocally of life after death:\nIsaiah 26:19: Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust for . . . the earth shall cast out the dead.'\nDaniel 12:2: And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.\nNotice that in both of these passages there is strong suggestion that a resurrection of the physical body will occur and that the state of physical death is compared here, again, to sleep.\nStill, as is evident from the preceding chapter, a few persons have drawn upon specific Biblical concepts when trying to elucidate or to explain to me what happened to them. For instance, it will be remembered that one man identified the dark enclosure he went through at the moment of death as the Biblical \u201cvalley of the shadow of death.\u201d Two persons mentioned Jesus' claim, \u201cI am the light of the world.\u201d Apparently, it was at least partly on the basis of that phrase that both identified the lght they met as Christ. One of them told me, \u201cI didn't ever see a person in this light, but to me the light was a Christ-consciousness, a oneness with all things, a perfect love. I think that Jesus meant it literally when he said he was the light of the world.\u201d\nIn addition, in my own reading I have come across a few seeming parallels which none of my subjects have mentioned. The most interesting ones occur in the writings of the apostle Paul. Paul was a persecutor of Christians until he had his famous vision and conversion on the road to Damascus. He says:\nActs 26:13-26: At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, \u201cSaid, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.\u201d\nAnd I said, \u201cWho art thou, Lord?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in which I will appear unto thee\nWhereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision . . . . And as I thus spake for myself, Festus said with a loud voice, \u201cPaul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.\u201d\nBut I said, \u201cI am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.\u201d\nThis episode obviously bears some resemblance to the encounter with the being of light in near death experiences. First of all, the being is endowed with personality, though no physical form is seen, and a \u201cvoice\u201d which asks a question and issues instructions emanates from it. When Paul tries to' tell others, he is mocked and labeled as \u201cinsane.\u201d Nonetheless, the vision changed the course of his life: He henceforth became the leading proponent of Christianity as a way of life, entailing love of others.\nThere are differences, too, of course. Paul did not come near death in the course of his vision Also, interestingly enough, Paul reports that he was blinded by the light and was unable to see for three days afterward. This runs contrary to the reports of those who say that though the light was indescribably brilliant, it in no way blinded them, or kept them from seeing things around them.\nIn his discussions of the nature of the afterlife, Paul says that some challenge the Christian concept of the afterlife by asking what kind of body the dead will have:\n1 Corinthians 15:35-52: But some man will say, \u201cHow are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?\u201d Thou fool. . . (of) that which' thou so west, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain \u2026. But God give,' it a body as it hath pleased him, and to ever, seed his own body \u2026. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another\u2026. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in ii corruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised glory: It is sown in weakness; it is raised power: It is sown a natural body, it is raised spiritual body. There is a natural body, and the is a spiritual body \u2026. Behold I show you a mystery We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.\nInterestingly, Paul's brief sketch of the nature of the \u201cspiritual body\u201d corresponds very well with the accounts of those who have found themselves out of their bodies. In all cases, the immateriality of the spiritual body-its lack of physical substance-is stressed, as are its lack of limitations. Paul says, for example, that whereas the physical body was weak and ugly, the spiritual body will be strong and beautiful. This reminds one of the account of a near-death experience in which the spiritual body seemed whole and complete even when the physical body could be seen to be mutilated, and of another in which the spiritual body seemed to be of no particular age, i.e., not limited by time.\nThe philosopher Plato, who was one of the greatest thinkers of all time, lived in Athens from 428 to 348 B.C. He left us a body of thought in the form of some twenty-two philosophical plays or dialogues, most of which include his teacher Socrates as chief interlocutor, and a small number of letters.\nPlato believed strongly in the use of reason, logic, and argument in the attainment of truth and wisdom, but only up to a point, for in addition he was a great visionary who suggested that ultimately truth can only come to one in an almost mystical experience of enlightenment and insight. He accepted that there were planes and dimensions of reality other than the sensible, physical world and believed that the physical realm could be understood only by reference to these other, \u201chigher\u201d planes of reality. Accordingly, he was interested mainly in the incorporeal, conscious component of man-the soul-and saw the physical body only as the temporary vehicle of the soul. It is not surprising, then, that he was interested in the fate of the soul after physical death and that several of his dialogues-especially Phaedo, Gorgias, and The Republic-deal in part with that very topic.\nPlato's writings are full of descriptions of death which are precisely like those which were discussed in the previous chapter. For instance, Plato defines death as the separation of the incorporeal part of a living person, the soul, from the physical part, the body. What is more, this incorporeal part of man is subject to many fewer limitations than is the physical part. Hence, Plato specifically points out that time is not an element of the realms beyond the physical, sensible world. The other realms are eternal, and, in Plato's striking phrase, what we call time is but the \u201cmoving, unreal reflection of eternity.\u201d\nPlato discusses in various passages how the soul which has been separated from its body may meet and converse with the departed spirits of others and be guided through the transition from physical life to the next realm by guardian spirits. He mentions how some might expect to be met at the time of their death by a boat which takes them across a body of water to \u201cthe other shore\u201d of their after-death existence. In Phaedo both the dramatic setting and the thrust of the arguments and words used drive home the point that the body is the prison of the soul and that, correspondingly, death is like an escape or release from that prison. While, as we saw in the first chapter, Plato articulates (through Socrates) the ancient view of death as a sleeping and a forgetting, he does so only ultimately to disavow it and, indeed, to turn it around 180\u00b0. According to Plato, the soul comes into the physical body from a higher and more divine realm of being., For him it is birth which is the sleeping and the forgetting, since the soul, in being bom into the body, goes from a state of great awareness to a much less conscious one and in the meantime forgets the tmths it knew while in its previous out-of-body state. Death, by implication, is an awakening and remembering. Plato remarks that the soul that has been separated from the body upon death can think and reason even more clearly than before, and that it can recognize things in their tme nature far more readiy. Furthermore, soon after death it faces a \u201cjudgment\u201d in which a divine being displays before the soul all the things- =both good and bad-which it has done in its life and makes the soul face them.\nIn Book X of The Republic perhaps the most striking similarity of all occurs. There Plato recounts the myth of Er, a Greek soldier. Er went away to a battle in which many Greeks were killed, and when his countrymen went to collect the bodies of their war dead his body was among them. It was lain, along with all the others, upon a funeral pyre to be burned. After some time his body revived, and Er described what he had seen in his journey to the realms beyond. First of all, Er said, his soul went out of his body, he joined with a group of other spirits, and they went to a place where there were \u201copenings\u201d or \u201cpassage.: ways\u201d apparently leading from the earth into the, realms of the afterlife. Here the other souls were stopped and judged by divine beings, who could.' see at a glance, in some sort of display, all the', things that the soul had done while in its earthly life. Er, however, was not judged. Instead, the beings told him that he must go back to inform me in the physical world concerning what the other world was like. After seeing many other sights, Er was sent back, but he said that he was ignorant of how he was returned to his physical body. He merely woke up and found himself upon the funeral pyre.\nIt is important to bear in mind that Plato himself warns us that he meant his descriptions of the precise details of the world the soul will enter after death to be \u201cprobabilities, at best.\u201d Though he does not doubt that survival of bodily death does occur, he insists that in trying to explain the afterlife while still in our present physical life we face two strong disadvantages. First of all, our souls are imprisoned in physical bodies and are thus limited in what they can experience and learn by our physical senses. Vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell each in its own way may fool us. Our eyes may make an enormous object seem small if at is far away, we may mishear what someone Says to us, and so on. All this may result in our staving false opinions or impressions of the nature of things. So, our souls cannot see reality in itself until they are liberated from the distractions and inaccuracies of the physical senses.\nSecondly, Plato says human language is inadequate to express the ultimate realities directly. Words conceal rather than reveal the inner natures of things. It follows that no human words can do more than indicate-by analogy, through myth, and in other indirect ways-the true character of that which lies beyond the physical realm.\nThis remarkable work was compiled from the teachings of sages over many centuries in prehistoric Tibet and passed down through these early generations by word of mouth. It was finally writ, ten down, apparently, in the eighth century A.D., but even then was hidden to keep it secret from outsiders.\nThe form which, this unusual book takes shaped by the many interrelated uses to which it was put. First of all, the wise men who wrote it regarded dying as, in effect, a skill-something which could be done either artfully or in an unbecoming manner, depending upon whether one had the requisite knowledge to do it well. So, the book was read as part of the funeral ceremony, or to the dying person during the closing moments of his life. It thus was thought to serve two functions. The first ws to help the dying person keep in mind the nature of each new wondrous phenomenon as he experienced it. The second 'vas to help those still living think positive thoughts and not hold the dying one back with their love and emotional concern, so that he could enter into the after death planes in a proper frame of mind, re-, leased from all bodily concerns.\nTo effect these ends, the book contains lengthy description of the various stages through which the soul goes after physical death. The correspondence between the early stages of death which it relates and those which have been re: counted to me by those who have come near tO death is nothing short of fantastic.\nFirst of all, in the Tibetan account the mind or soul of the dying person departs from the body. At some time thereafter his soul enters a \u201cswoon\u201d and he finds himself in a void-not a physical void, but one which is, in effect, subject to its own kind of limits, and one in which his consciousness still exists. He may hear alarming and disturbing noises and sounds, described as roaring, thundering, and whistling noises, like the wind, and usually finds himself and his surroundings enveloped in a grey, misty illumination.\nHe is surprised to find himself out of his physical body. He sees and hears his relatives and friends mourning over his body and preparing it for the funeral and yet when he tries to respond to them they neither hear nor see him. He does not yet realize that he is dead, and he is confused. He asks himself whether he is dead or not, and, when he finally realizes that he is, wonders where he should go or what he should do. A great regret comes over him, and he is depressed about his state. For a while he remains near the places with which he has been familiar while in physical life.\nHe notices that he is still in a body-called the \u201cshining\u201d body-which does not appear to consist of material substance. Thus, he can go through rocks, walls, and even mountains without encountering any resistance. Travel is almost instantaneous. Wherever he wishes to be, he arrives there in only a moment. His thought and perception are less limited; his mind becomes very lucid and his senses seem more keen and more perfect and closer in nature to the divine. If he has been in physical life blind or deaf or crippled, he is surprised to find that in his \u201cshining\u201d body all his senses, as well as all the powers of his physical body, have been restored and intensified. He may encounter other beings in the same kind of body, and may meet what is called a clear or pure light. The Tibetans counsel the dying one approaching this light to try to have only love and compassion towards others.\nThe book also describes the feelings of immense peace and contentment which the dying one experiences, and also a kind of \u201cmirror\u201d in which his entire life, all deeds both good and bad, are reflected for both him and the beings judging him to see vividly. In this situation, there can be no misrepresentation; lying about one's life is impossible.\nIn short, even though The Tibetan Book o f the Dead includes many later stages of death which none of my subjects have gone so far as to experience, it is quite obvious that there is a striking similarity between the account in this ancient manuscript and the events which have been related to me by twentieth-century Americans.\nSwedenborg, who lived from 1688 until 1772, was bom in Stockholm. He was quite renowned in his day and made respectable contributions in various fields of natural science. His writings, at first oriented towards anatomy, physiology, and psychology, gained quite a bit of recognition. Later in his life, however, he underwent a religious crisis and began to tell of experiences in which he had purportedly been in communication with spiritual entities from beyond.\nHis later works abound with vivid descriptions of what life after death is like. Again, the correlation between what he writes of some of his spiritual experiences and what those who have, come hack from close calls with death report is amazing. For instance, Swedenborg describes how, when the bodily functions of respiration and circulation ,:ease,\nStill man does not die, but is only separated from the coiporeal part which was of use to him in the world \u2026. Man, when he dies, only passes from one world into another. (2)\nHe claims that he himself has been through the early events of .death, and has had experiences out of his body.\nI was brought into a state of insensibility as to the bodily senses, thus almost into the state of the dying; yet the interior life with thought remaining entire, so that I perceived and retained in memory the things which occurred, and which occur to those who are resuscitated from the dead \u2026. Especially it was given to perceive . . . that there was a drawing and . . . pulling of. . r mind, thus of my spirit, from the body.\nDuring this experience, he encounters beings whom he identifies as \u201cangels.\u201d They ask him, in effect, if he is prepared to die.\nThose angels first inquired what my thought was, whether it was like the thought of those who die, which is usually about eternal life; and that they wished to keep my mind in that thought.\nYet, the communication which takes place between Swedenborg and the spirits is not of an earthly, human kind. It is instead almost a direct transfer of thoughts. Hence, there is no possibility of misunderstanding.\nWhereas spirits converse with each other by a universal language \u2026. Every man, immediately after death, comes into this universal language . . . which is proper to his spirit\u2026.\nThe speech of an angel or a spirit with man is heard as sonorously as the speech of a man with a man; yet it is not heard by others who stand near, but by himself alone; the reason is, because the speech of an angel or spirit flows first into the man's thought\u2026\nThe newly dead person does not realize that he is dead, for he is still in a \u201cbody\u201d which resembles his physical body in several respects.\nThe first state of man after death is similar to his state in the world, because then in like manner he is in externals \u2026. Hence, he knows no otherwise than that he is still in the world \u2026. Therefore, after they have wondered that they are in a body, and in every sense which they had in the world . . . they come into a desire of knowing what heaven is, and what hell is.\nYet, the spiritual state is less limited. Perception, thought, and memory are more perfect, and time and space no longer pose the obstacles they do in physical life.\nAll the faculties of spirits . . . are in a more perfect state, as well their sensations as their thoughts and perceptions.\nThe dying man may meet with other departed spirits whom he knew while in life. They are there to help him during his passage into the beyond.\nThe spirit of man recently departed from the world is . . . recognized by his friends, and by those whom he had known in the world . . wherefore they are instructed by their friends concerning the state of eternal life \u2026.\nHis past life may be shown to him in a vision. He remembers every detail of it, and there is no possibility of his lying or concealing anything.\nThe interior memory \u2026 is such that there are inscribed in it all the particular things . . which man has at any time thought, spoken, and done . . . from his earliest infancy to extreme old age. Man has with him the memory of all these things when he comes into another life, and is successively brought into all recollectionof them. . . . All that he had spoken and done \u2026 are made manifest before the angels, in a light as clear as clears as day . . . and .\n. . there is nothing so concealed in the world that it is not manifested after death . . as if seen in effigy, when the spirit is viewed in the light of heaven.\nSwedenborg describes too the \u201clight of the Lord\u201d which permeates the hereafter, a light of ineffable brightness which he has glimpsed himself. It is a light of truth and of understanding.\nSo again in the writings of Swedenborg, as before in The Bible, the works of Plato, and The Tibetan Book o f the Dead, we find striking parallels to the events of contemporary near-death experiences. The question naturally arises, though, as to whether this parallelism is really all that surprising. Some might suggest, for instance, that the authors of these various works could have influenced one another. Such an assertion could be supported in some cases, but not in others. Plato admits that he derived some of his insights partly from the religious mysticism of the East, so he might have been influenced by the same tradition which produced The Tibetan Book o f the Dead. The ideas of Greek philosophy, in turn, influenced certain New Testament writers, and so it could be argued that Paul's discussion of the spiritual body has some of its roots in Plato.\nOn the other hand, in most cases it is not easy to establish that such influence could have taken place. Each writer seems to bring up a few interesting details which also recur in my interviews, yet which he could not have gotten from earlier authors. Swedenborg read The Bible and was familiar with Plato. However, he several times alludes to the fact that someone who has just died may not realize that he is dead for some time. This fact, which comes out again and again in the narratives of those who have come very close to death, is apparently not mentioned either in The Bible or by Plato. Yet, it is emphasized in The Tibetan Book o f the Dead, a work which Swedenborg could not possibly have read Indeed, it was not even translated until 1927.\nIs it possible that the near-death experiences I have collected were influenced by works of the kind which I have discussed? All of the persons with whom I have talked had some exposure prior to their experiences to The Bible, and two or three knew something about the ideas of Plato. On the other hand, none were aware of the existence of such esoterica as the works of Swedenborg or The Tibetan Book o f the Dead. Yet, many details which do not appear in The Bible, or even in Plato, constantly crop up in the accounts which I have gathered, and these correspond exactly with phenomena and events mentioned in the more unusual sources.\nIt must be acknowledged that the existence of the similarities and parallels among the writings of ancient thinkers and the reports of modem Americans who survive close brushes with death remains a striking, and, so far, not definitively explicable fact. How is it, we might well ask ourselves, that the wisdom of Tibetan sages, the theology and visions of Paul, the strange insights and myths of Plato, and the spiritual revelations of Swedenborg all agree so well, both among themselves and with the narratives of contemporary individuals who have come as close as anyone alive to the state of death?\n(1) All quotations from The Bible are taken from the King James Version.\n(2) All Swedenborg quotations are taken from Compendium of the Theological and Spiritual Wrtings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1853), pp. 160-197.\nBy now, many doubts and objections will have occurred to the reader. In the years that I have yen giving talks, in private and in public, on this subject, I have been asked many questions. In general, I tend to be asked about the same things on most occasions, so I have been able to compile a list of those questions which are asked most frequently. In this chapter and the next I shall address myself to them.\nAre you just making all this up?\nNo, I'm not. I very much want to pursue a career in the teaching of psychiatry and the philosophy of medicine, and attempting to peipetrate a hoax would hardly be conducive to that aim.\nAlso, it has been my experience that anyone who makes diligent and sympathetic inquiries among his own acquaintances, friends, and relatives about the occurrence of such experiences will soon have his doubts dispelled.\nBut aren't you being unrealistic? After all, how common are such experiences?\nI am the first to admit that, due to the necessarily limited nature of my sample of cases, I am unable to give a statistically significant numerical estimate of the incidence or prevalence of this phenomenon. However, I am quite willing to say this: The occurrence of such experiences is far more common than anyone who hasn't studied them would guess. I have given many public lectures on this subject, to many kinds and sizes of groups, and there has never been an instance in which someone there didn't come up afterward with a story of his own, or even, in some cases, tell it publicly. Of course, one could always say (and truly!) that someone with such an experience would be more likely to come to a lecture on such a topic. Nonetheless, in many of the cases I have encountered, the person involved did not come to the lecture because of the topic. For example, I recently addressed a group of thirty persons. Two of them had had near-death experiences, and both were there just because they were members of the group. Neither knew the topic of my talk beforehand\nIf near-death experiences are as common as you say, why isn't this fact more generally known?\nThere seem to be several reasons why this is so. First and foremost, I think, is the fact that the temper of our times is, in general, decidedly against discussion of the possibility of survival of bodily death. We live in an age in which science and technology have made enormous strides in understanding and conquering nature. To talk about life after death seems somehow atavistic to many who perhaps feel that the idea belongs more to our \u201csuperstitious\u201d past than to our \u201cscientific\u201d present. Accordingly, persons who have experiences which lie outside the realm of science as even now ridiculed. Being aware of these attitudes, persons who have transcendent experiences are usually understandably reluctant to relate them very openly. I am convinced, in fact, that an enormous mass of material lies hidden n the minds of persons who have had such experiences but who, for fear of being labelled \u201ccrazy\u201d or \u201cover-imaginative,\u201d have never related them to more than one or two close friends or relatives.\nIn addition, the general public obscurity of the topic of near-death encounters seems, to stem in part from a common psychological phenomenon involving attention. A lot of what we hear and see every day goes unregistered in our conscious :ands. If our attention is drawn to something in a dramatic way, however, we tend to notice it hereafter. Many a person has had the experience learning the meaning of a new word and then seeing the word in everything he picks up to read for the next few days. The explanation is usually not that the word has just taken hold in the language and is appearing everywhere. Rather, it is that the word has been there in the things he has been reading all along but that, not being aware of its meaning, he generally skipped over it without being consciously aware of it.\nSimilarly, after a lecture I recently gave I opened the floor for discussion and a doctor asking the first question said, \u201cI have been in medicine for a long time. If these experiences are as common as you say they are, why haven't I heard of them?\u201d Knowing that there would probably be someone there who had encountered a case or two, I immediately turned the question back to the audience. I asked, \u201cHas anyone else here heard of anything like this?\u201d At this point, the doctor's wife raised her hand and related the story of a very close friend of theirs.\nTo give another example, a physician I know first became aware of experiences of this kind by reading an old newspaper article about a speech I gave. The next day, a patient gave him, unsolicited, an account of a very similar experience. The physician established that the patient could not have heard of or read about my studies. Indeed, the patient confided his story only because he was baffled and somewhat alarmed by what had happened to him and was seeking a medical opinion. It may very well have been that in both instances, the doctors involved had heard of some cases of this before, but had thought of them as individual quirks rather than as a wide-spread phenomenon and had not fully paid attention to them.\nFinally, there is an additional factor in the case of physicians which may help to account for why so many of them seem unaware of near-death phenomena, even though one would suspect that doctors, of all people, should have encountered them. In the course of their training, it is constantly pounded into M.D.'s-to-be that they must beware of what the patient says about the way he feels. A doctor is taught to pay close attention to the objective \u201csigns\u201d of disease processes, but to take the subjective reports (\u201csymptoms\u201d) of the patient- with a grain of salt. It is very reasonable to do it this way, because one can deal more readily with what is objective. However, this attitude also has the effect of hiding near-death experiences, since very few physicians make it a practice to ask about the feelings and perceptions of patients whom they resuscitate from clinical death. :because of this attitude, I would guess that doctors-who in theory should be the group most likely to uncover near-death experiences-are in fact not much more likely to hear of near-death experiences than are other persons.\nHave you detected any differences between males and females with respect to this phenomenon?\nThere seems to be no difference at all in the contents or types of experiences reported by males and females. I have found both males and females who have described each of the common aspects of near-death encounters which have been discussed, and there is no one element which seems to weigh either more or less heavily in male vs. female reports.\nStill, there are differences between male and female subjects. On the whole, males who have had death experiences are far more reticent to talk about them than are females. Far more males than females have told me briefly of experiences, only to fail to respond to my letters or return my calls when I tried to follow up with a more detailed interview. Many more males than females have made remarks such as \u201cI tried to forget it, suppress it,\u201d often alluding to fears of ridicule, or intimating that the emotions involved in the experience were too overwhelming for them to recount.\nAlthough I cannot offer any explanation of why this should be so, apparently I am not alone in noticing it. Dr. Russell Moore, a noted Psychical researcher, has told me that he and others have observed the same thing. About one-third as many men as women come to him reporting a psychical experience.\nAnother interesting fact is that a somewhat larger number of these experiences than would be expected took place during pregnancy. Again, I can't explain why this should be. Perhaps it is only that pregnancy is in itself a rather risky physiological state in many ways, attendant with many potential medical complications. Coupled with the fact that only women get pregnant, and that women are less reticent than men to talk, this might help explain the frequency of experiences taking place during pregnancy.\nHow do you know that all these people aren't just lying to you?\nIt is quite easy for persons who have not listened and watched as others have related near - death experiences intellectually to entertain the hypothesis that these stories are lies. However, I find myself in a rather unique position. I have witnessed mature, emotionally stable adults-both en and women-break down and weep while telling me of events that happened up to three-decades before. I have detected in their voices sincerity, warmth, and feeling which cannot really conveyed in a written recounting. So to me, in way that is unfortunately impossible for. many others to share, the notion that these accounts fight be fabrications is utterly untenable.\nIn addition to the weight of my own opinion, there are some strong considerations which should rule heavily against the fabrication hypothesis. The most obvious is the difficulty of explaining the similarity of so many of the accounts. How is that many people just happen to have come up with the same lie to tell me over a period of eight years? Collusion remains a theoretical possibility here. It is certainly conceivable that a nice elderly lady from eastern North Carolina, a medical student from New Jersey, a Georgia veterinarian and many others several years ago banded together and conspired to carry out an elaborate hoax against me. However, I don't regard this to be a very likely possibility!\nIf they are not overtly lying, perhaps they misrepresenting in a more subtle way. Isn't it possible that over the years, they have elaborated stories?\nThis question points to- the well-known psychological phenomenon in which a person may start with a fairly simple account of an experience or event and over a period of time develop it into a very elaborate narrative. With each telling a subtle detail is added, the speaker coming eventually to believe it himself, until at last the story is so embellished as to bear little resemblance to the original.\nI do not believe that this mechanism has been operative to any significant degree in the cases I have studied, however. In the first place, the accounts of persons whom I have interviewed very soon after their experience-in some cases, while they were still in the hospital recovering-are of the same type as those of people who have recounted experiences Which took place decades ago. Further, in a few cases, persons whom I have interviewed wrote down descriptions of their experiences shortly after they happened and read to me from their notes during the interview. Again, these descriptions are of the same sort as experiences which are recounted from memory after lapses of some years. Also, there is the fact that quite often I have been only the first or second person to whom an experience has been related, and then only with great reluctance, even in cases where the experience happened some years before.\nThough there has been little or no opportunity for embellishment in such cases, these accounts, again, are no different as a group from those accounts that have been retold more often over a period of years. Finally, it is quite possible that in many cases, the reverse of embellishment has taken place. What psychiatrists call \u201csuppression\u201d is a mental mechanism whereby a conscious effort is made to control undesired memories, feeligs, or thoughts or to conceal them from awareness. On numerous occasions in the course of interviews, persons have made remarks which are strongly indicative that suppression has occurred. For example one woman who reported to me a very elaborate experience which took place during her\n\u201cdeath\u201d said, \u201cI feel that there is more to it, but I can't remember it all. I tried to suppress it because I knew people weren't going to believe me anyway.\u201d A man who suffered a cardiac arrest during surgery for major wounds received in Viet Nam related his difficulty in dealing with his out-of-body experiences emotionally. \u201cI get choked up by trying to tell about it even now \u2026.I feel that there is a lot I don't remember about it. I have tried to forget it.\u201d In short, it seems that a strong case can be made that embellishment has not been a very significant factor in the development of these stories.\nDid all these people profess a religion before their experiences? If so, aren't the experiences shaped by their religious beliefs and backgrounds?\nThey seem to be to some extent. As mentioned earlier, though the description of the being of light is invariable, the identity ascribed to it varies, apparently as a function of the religious background of the individual. Through all of my research, however, I have not heard a single reference to a heaven or -a hell anything like the customary picture to which we are exposed in this society. Indeed, many persons have stressed how unlike their experiences were to what they had been led to expect in the course of their religious training. One woman who \u201cdied\u201d reported: \u201cI had always heard that when you die, you see both heaven and hell, but I didn't see either one.\u201d Another lady who had an out-of-body experience after severe injuries said, \u201cThe strange thing was that I had always been taught in my religious upbringing that the minute you died you would be right at these beautiful gates, pearly gates. But there I was hovering around my own physical body, and that was it! I was just baffled.\u201d Furthermore, in quite a few instances reports have come from persons who had no religious beliefs or training at all prior to their experiences, and their descriptions do not seem to differ in content from people who had quite strong religious beliefs. In few cases, someone who had been exposed to religious doctrines but had rejected them earlier in life acquired religious feelings with new depth after the experience. Others say that although they had read religious writings; such as The Bible, they had never really understood certain things they had read there until their near-death experiences.\nWhat bearing, if any, do the experiences which 'IOU have studied have on the possibility of reincarnation?\nNot one of the cases I have looked into is in any way indicative to me that reincarnation occurs. However, it is important to bear in mind that not one of them rules out reincarnation, either. If reincarnation does occur, it seems likely that an interlude in some other realm would occur between the time of separation from the old body and the entry into the new one. Accordingly, the technique of interviewing people who come back from close calls with death would not be the proper mode for studying reincarnation, anyway.\nOther methods can and have been tried in investigating reincarnation. For example, some have tried the technique of \u201cfar age regression.\u201d A subject is hypnotized and the suggestion is made to him that he go back mentally to successively earlier and earlier times in his life. When he reaches the time of the earliest experiences he can recall in his present life, he is then told to try to go back even beyond that! At this point, many persons begin telling elaborate stories about previous lives in earlier times and distant places. In some cases, such stories check out with remarkable accuracy. This has happened even when it can be established that the subject could not have known in any normal way about the events, persons, and placeshe describes so accurately. The case of Bridey Muiphy is the most famous, but there are many others, some even more impressive and well-documented, which are not as widely known. Readers who wish to pursue this question further are referred to the excellent study, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, by Ian Stevenson, M.D. It is also worth noting that The Tibetan Book o f the Dead, which so accurately recounts the stages of near - death encounters, says that reincarnation does occur at some later point, after the events which have been related by my subjects.\nHave you ever interviewed anyone who has had a near - death experience in association with a suicide attempt? If so, was the experience any different?\nI do know of a few cases in which a suicide attempt was the cause of the apparent \u201cdeath.\u201d These experiences were uniformly characterized as being unpleasant.\nAs one woman said, \u201cIf you leave here a tormented soul, you will be a tormented soul over there, too.\u201d In short, they report that the conflicts they had attempted suicide to escape were still present when they died, but with added complications. In their disembodied state they were unable to do anything about their problems, and they also had to view the unfortunate consequences which resulted from their acts.\nA man who was despondent about the death of his wife shot himself, \u201cdied\u201d as a result, and was resuscitated. He states:\nI didn't go where [my wife] was. I went to an awful place \u2026. I immediately saw the mistake I had made \u2026 I thought, \u201cI wish I hadn't done it.\u201d\nOthers who experienced this unpleasant \u201climbo\u201d state have remarked that they had the feeling they would be there for a long time. This was their penalty for \u201cbreaking the rules\u201d by trying to release themselves prematurely from what was, in effect, an \u201cassignment\u201d-to fulfill a certain purpose in life.\nSuch remarks coincide with what has been reported to me by several people who \u201cdied\u201d of other causes but who said that, while they were in this state, it had been intimated to them that suicide was a very unfortunate act which attended with a severe penalty. One man who had a near-death experience after an accident said:\n[While I was over there] I got the feeling that two things it was completely forbidden for me to do would be to kill myself or to kill another person \u2026. If I were to commit suicide, I would be throwing God's gift back in his face \u2026. Killing somebody else would be interfering with God's purpose for that individual.\nSentiments like these, which by now have been expressed to me in many separate accounts, are identical to those embodied in the most ancient theological and moral argument against suicide which occurs in various forms in the writings of thinkers as diverse as St. Thomas Aquinas, Locke, and Kant. A suicide, in Kant's view, is acting in opposition to the purposes of God and arrives on the other side viewed as a rebel against his-creator.\nAquinas argues that life is a gift from God and that it is God's prerogative, not man's, to take it back.\nIn discussing this, however, I do not pass a moral judgment against suicide. I only report what others who have been through this experience have told me. I am now in the process of preparing a second book on near-death experiences, in which this topic, along with others, will be dealt with at greater length.\nDo you have any cross-cultural cases?\nNo, I don't. In fact, one of the many reasons I say that my study is not \u201cscientific\u201d is that the group of individuals to whom I have listened is not a random sample of human beings. I would be very interested in hearing about the near-death experiences of Eskimos, Kwakiutl Indians, Navahos, Watusi tribesmen, and, so on. However, due to geographic and other limitations, I have not been able to locate any.\nAre there any historical examples o f near-death phenomena?\nAs far as I know, there are not. However, since I have been fully occupied with contemporary instances, I have simply not had the time adequately to research this question. So I would not at all be surprised to find that such reports have been recounted in the past. On the other hand, I strongly suspect that near-death experiences have been vastly more common in the past few decides than in earlier periods. The reason for this is simply that it has only been in fairly recent times that advanced resuscitation technology has been available. Many of the people who have been brought back in our era would not have survived in earlier years. Injections of adrenalin into the heart, a machine which delivers a shock to the heart, and artificial heart and lung machines are examples of such medical advances.\nHave you investigated the medical records of your subjects?\nIn so far as possible, I have. In the cases I have been invited to investigate, the records have borne out the assertions of the persons involved. In some cases, due to the passage of time and/or the death of the persons who carried out the resuscitation, records are not available. The reports for which substantiating records are not available are no different from those in which records are available. In many instances when medical records have not been accessible, I have secured the testimony of others-friends, doctors, or relatives of the informant-to the effect that the near-death event did occur.\n1 have heard that, after five minutes, resuscitation is impossible, yet you say that some of your cases have been \u201cdead\u201d for up to twenty minutes. How is this possible?\nMost numbers and quantities one hears quoted in medical practice are means, averages, and are not to be taken as absolutes. The figure of five minutes which one often hears quoted is an average. It is a clinical rule of thumb not to attempt resuscitation after five minutes because, in most instances, brain damage from lack of oxygen would have occurred beyond that time. However, since it is only an average, one would expect individual cases to fall on either side of it. I have in fact found cases in which resuscitation took place after twenty minutes with no evidence of brain damage.\nWere any of these people really dead?\nOne of the main reasons why this question is so confusing and difficult to answer is that it is partly a semantic question involving the meaning of the word \u201cdead.\u201d As the recent heated controversy surrounding the transplantation of organs reveals, the definition of \u201cdeath\u201d is by no means settled, even among professionals in the field of medicine. Criteria of death vary not only between laymen and physicians, but also among physicians and from hospital to hospital. So, the answer to this question will depend on what is meant by \u201cdead.\u201d It will be profitable here to look at three definitions in turn and to comment upon them.\n1. \u201cdeath\u201d as the absence of clinically detectable vital signs.\nSome will be willing to say that a person is \u201clead\u201d if his heart stops beating and he quits breathing for an extended period of time, his blood pressure drops as low as to be unreadable, his pupils dilate, his body temperature begins to go down etc. This is the clinical definition, and it has been employed for centuries by physicians and laymen alike. In fact, most people who have ever been pronounced dead were adjudged so on the basis of this criterion.\nThere is no question but that this clinical standard was met in many of the cases I have studied. Both the testimony of physicians and the evidence of medical records adequately support the contention that \u201cdeaths\u201d in this sense id take place.\n2. \u201cdeath\u201d as the absence of brain wave activity.\nThe advancement of technology has brought the development of more sensitive techniques for detecting biological processes, even those which might not be observable overtly. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is a machine which amplifies and records the minute electrical potentials of the brain. Recently, the trend has been to base assessment of \u201creal\u201d death on the absence of electrical activity in the brain, as determined by the presence of \u201cflat\u201d EEG tracings.\nObviously, in all of the cases of resuscitation which I have dealt with, there was an extreme clinical emergency. There was no time to set up an EEG; the clinicians were rightly concerned about doing what they could to get their patient back. So, some might argue that none of these persons can be adjudged to have been \u201cdead.\u201d\nSuppose for a moment, however, that \u201cflat\u201d EEG readings had been obtained on a large percentage of the persons who were thought dead and were then resuscitated. Would that fact necessarily add very much here? I think not, for three reasons. First, resuscitation attempts are always emergencies, which last at the very most for thirty minutes or so. Setting up an EEG machine is a very complicated and technical task, and it is fairly common for even an experienced technician to have to work with it for some time to get correct readings, even under optimum conditions. In an emergency, with its accompanying confusion, there would probably be an increased likelihood of mistakes. So, even if one could present a flat EEG tracing for a person who told of a near death experience, it would still be possible for a critic to say-with justice-that the tracing might not be accurate.\nSecond, even the marvellous electric brain machine, properly set up, does not enable us infallibly to determine whether resuscitation is possible in any given case. Flat EEG tracings have been obtained in persons who were later resuscitated. Overdoses of drugs which are depressants of the central nervous system, as well as hypothermia (low body temperature) have both resulted in this phenomenon.\nThird, even if I could produce a case in which it could be established that the machine was correctly set up, there would still be a problem. Someone could say that there is no proof that the reported near-death experience took place during the time the EEG was flat, but rather before or afterwards. I conclude, then, that the EEG is not very valuable at this present stage of investigation.\n3. \u201cdeath\u201d as an irreversible loss of vital functions.\nOthers will adopt an even more restricted definition, holding that one cannot say that a person was ever \u201cdead,\u201d no matter how long his vital signs were clinically undetectable, and no matter:' how long his EEG was flat, if he was subsequently resuscitated. In other words, \u201cdeath\u201d is defined as that state of the body from which it is impossible to be revived. Obviously, by this definition, none of my cases would qualify, since they all involved resuscitation.\nWe have seen, then, that the answer to the question depends upon what is meant by \u201cdead.\u201d One must remember that even though this is in part a semantic dispute, it is nonetheless an important issue, because all three definitions embody important insights. In fact, I would agree with the third, most stringent definition to some extent. Even in those cases in which the heart was not beating for extended periods, the tissues of the body, particularly the brain, must somehow have been perfused (supplied with oxygen and nourishment) most of the time. It is not necessary that one assume in any of these cases that any law of biology or physiology was violated. In order for resuscitation to have occurred, some degree of residual biological activity must have been going on in the cells of the body, even though the overt signs of these processes were not clinically detectable by the methods employed. However, it seems that it is impossible at present to determine exactly what the point of no return is. It may well vary with the individual, and it is likely not a fixed point but rather a shifting range on a continuum. In fact, a few decades ago most of the people with whom I have talked could not have been brought back. In the future, techniques might become .available which would enable us to revive people who can't be saved today.\nLet us, therefore, hypothesize that death is a separation of the mind from the body, and that he mind does pass into other realms of existence t this point.\nIt would follow that there exists some mechanism whereby the soul or mind is released upon death. One has no basis upon which to assume, though, that this mechanism works exactly in accordance with what we have in our own era somewhat arbitrarily taken to be the point of no return. Nor do we have to assume that it works perfectly in every instance, any more than we have to assume that any bodily system always works perfectly. Perhaps this mechanism might sometime come into play even before any physiological crisis, affording a few persons a brief glimpse of other realities. This would help to account for the reports of those persons who have ad flashbacks of their lives, out-of-body experiences etc., when they felt certain that they were -,out to be killed, even before any physical injury occurred.\nAll I ultimately want to claim is this: Whatever that point of irretrievable death is said to be-whether in the past, present, or future-those with whom I have talked have been much closer to it than have the vast majority of their fellow human beings. For this reason alone, I am quite willing to listen to what they have to say.\nIn the final analysis, though, it is quite pointless to cavil over the precise definition of \u201cdeath\u201d-irreversible or otherwise-in the context of this discussion. What the person who raises such objections to near-death experiences seems to have in mind is something more basic. He reasons that as long as it remains a possibility that there was some residual biological activity in the body, then that activity might have caused, and thus account for, the experience.\nNow, I granted earlier that there must have been some residual biological function in the body in all cases. So, the issue of whether a \u201creal\u201d death occurred really reduces to the more basic problem of whether the residual biological function could account for the occurrence of the experiences. In other words:\nAren't other explanations (i.e., other than survival of bodily death) possible? This in turn brings us to the topic of the next chapter.\nOf course alternative \u201cexplanations\u201d of near-death phenomena are available. In fact, from the purely philosophical point of view, an infinity of hypotheses could be constructed to explain any experience, observation, or fact. That is, one could go on forever manufacturing more and more theoretically possible explanations for anything one wanted to explain. It is the same in the case of near-death experiences; all sorts of possible explanations present themselves.\nOut of the many kinds of explanations which might theoretically be proposed, there are a few which have been suggested quite frequently in the audiences which I have addressed. Accordingly, I shall now deal with these more common explanations, and with another which, though it has never been proposed to me, might well have been. I have somewhat arbitrarily divided them into Tree types: Supernatural, Natural (Scientific), and Psychological.\nRarely, someone in one of my audiences has proposed demonic explanations of near-death experiences, suggesting that the experiences were doubtless directed by inimical forces. As a response to such explanations, I can only say this. It seems to me that the best way of distinguishing between God- directed and Satan-directed experiences would be to see what the person involved does and says after his experience. God, I suppose, would try to get those to whom he appears to be loving and forgiving. Satan would presumably tell his servants to follow a course of hate and destruction. Manifestly, my subjects have come back with a renewed commitment to follow the former course and to disavow the latter. In the light of all the machinations which a hypothetical demon would have to have carried out in order to delude his hapless victim (and to what purpose?), he certainly has failed miserably-as far as I can tell-to make persuasive emissaries for his program!\nSome suggest that near-death experiences are caused by the therapeutic dmgs administered to the person at the time of his crisis. The surface plausibility of this view derives from several facts. For example, it is generally agreed by most medical scientists and laymen that certain drugs cause delusional and hallucinatory mental states and experiences. Furthermore, we are now passing through an era in which there is intense interest in the problem of drug abuse, and much public attention has focused on the illicit use of drugs such as LSD, marijuana, and so forth, which do appear to cause such hallucinatory episodes. Finally, there is the fact that even many medically- accepted drugs are associated with various effects on the mind which may resemble the events of the experience of dying. For example, the drug ketamine (or cyclohexanone) is an intravenously injected anesthetic with side effects which are similar in some respects to out-of-body experiences. It is classified as a \u201cdissociative\u201d anesthetic because during induction the patient may become unresponsive not only to pain but also to the environment as a whole. He feels \u201cdissociated\u201d from his environment, including the parts of his own body -his legs, arms, and so forth. For a time after recovery, he may be left with psychological disturbances, including hallucinations and very vivid dreams. (Note that a few persons have used this very word-\u201cdissociation\u201d-to characterize their feelings while in the out- of-body state.)\nWhat is more, I have collected a few accounts from people who, while under anesthetics, had what they plainly identified as hallucinatory - type visions of death. Let me give one example.\nIt was some time in my early teen-age years, I was in the dentist's office for a filling and was given nitrous oxide. I was kind of nervous about taking it, because I was afraid I wouldn't wake up again. As the anesthesia began to take effect, I felt myself going around in a spiral. It wasn't like I was turning around; but like the dentist's chair was moving in a spiral upward, and it was going up and up and up.\nEverything was very bright and white and as I got to the top of the spiral, angels came down to meet me and to take me to heaven. I use the plural, \u201cangels,\u201d because it's very vague but I'm sure that there were more than one. Yet I can't say how many.\nAt one point the dentist and nurse were talking to each other about another person, and I heard them, but by the time they finished a sentence I couldn't even remember what the first of the sentence had been. But I knew they were talking, and as they did their words would echo around and around. It was an echo that seemed to get further and further away, like in the mountains. I do remember that I seemed to hear them from above, because I felt as though I was up high, going to heaven.\nThat's all I remember except that I hadn't been afraid or panicked at the thought of dying. At that time in my life, I was afraid of going to hell, but when this happened there was no question in my mind but that I was going to heaven. I was very suiprised later that the thought of death hadn't bothered me, but finally it dawned on me that in my anesthetized state nothing bothered me. The whole thing was just happy because I'm sure the gas made me completely carefree. I blamed it on that. It was such a vague thing. I didn't dwell on it afterwards.\nNotice that there are a few points of similarity between this experience and some others which have been taken to be real by those to whom they happened. This woman describes a brilliant white light, meeting others who are there to take her to the other side, and lack of concern over being dead. There are also two aspects which suggest an out-of-body experience: Her impression that she heard the voices of the dentist and nurse from a position above them, and her feeling of \u201cfloating.\u201d\nOn the other hand, other details of this story are very atypical of near-death experiences which are reported as having actually happened. The brilliant light is not personified and no ineffable feelings of peace and happiness occurred. The description of the after-death world is very literalistic and, she says, in accordance with her religious training. The beings who met her are identified as \u201cangels,\u201d and she talks of going to a \u201cheaven\u201d which is located in the \u201cup\u201d direction, where she is headed. She denies seeing her body or being in any other kind of body, and she plainly feels that the dentist's chair, and not her own motion, was the source of the rotatory movement. She repeatedly stresses the vagueness of her experience, and it apparently had no effect on her belief in an afterlife. (In fact, she now has doubts about survival of bodily death.)\nIn comparing reports in which the experience is plainly attributed to a drug with near-death experiences which are reported as real, several points need to be mentioned. First of all, the few people who have described such \u201cdrug\u201d experiences to me are no more and no less romantic, imaginative, intelligent, or stable than are the persons reporting \u201creal\u201d near-death experiences.\nSecondly, these drug-induced experiences are extremely vague. Thirdly, the stories vary among themselves, and also markedly from the \u201creal\u201d near-death visions. I should say that in choosing the specific case of the \u201canesthetic\u201d type of experience to be used, I have purposefully chosen the one which most closely resembles the group of \u201creal\u201d experiences. So, I would suggest that there are, in general, very great differences between these two types of experiences.\nFurthermore, there are many additional factors which rule against the pharmacological explanation of near-death phenomena. The most significant one is simply that in many cases no drug had been administered prior to the experience nor, in some cases, were drugs given even after the near death event. In fact, many persons have made it a point to insist to me that the experience clearly took place before any kind of medication was given, in some cases long before they obtained any sort of medical attention. Even in those instances in which therapeutic drugs were administered around the time of the near-death event, the variety of drugs employed for different patients is enormous. They range from substances such as aspirin through antibiotics and the hormone adrenalin to local and gaseous anesthetics. Most of these drugs are not associated with central nervous system or pychic effects. It also should be noted that there are no differences as groups between the experiences related by those who were given no drugs at all and the experiences related by those who were under medications of various types. Finally, I shall note without comment that one woman who \u201cdied\u201d twice on separate occasions some years apart attributed her lack of an experience the first time to her anesthetized condition. The second time, when she was under no drugs at all, she had a very complex experience.\nOne of the assumptions of modem medical pharmacology is the notion, which also seems to have gained acceptance among the great mass of laymen in our society, that psychoactive dmgs cause the psychic episodes with which their use is associated. These psychic events are therefore considered to be \u201cunreal,\u201d \u201challucinatory,\u201d \u201cdelusional,\u201d or \u201conly in the mind.\u201d One must remember, however, that this view is by no means universally accepted; there is another view of the relationship between dmgs and experiences attending their use. I refer to the initiatory and exploratory use of what we call \u201challucinogenic\u201d dmgs. Through the ages men have turned to such psychoactive compounds in their quest to achieve other states of consciousness and to reach other planes of reality. (For a lively and fascinating contemporary exposition of this side of dmg use, see the recent book, The Natural Mind, by Andrew Weil, M.D.)\nThus, dmg use has historically been associated, not only with medicine and the treatment of disease, but also with religion and the attainment of enlightenment. For example, in the well-publicized rituals of the peyote cult found among American Indians in the western United States, the peyote cactus plant (which contains the substance mescaline) is ingested in order to attain religious visions and enlightenment. There are similar cults all over the world, and their members share the belief that the dmg they employ provides a means of passage into other dimensions of reality. Assuming this viewpoint to be valid, it could be hypothesized that dmg use would be only one pathway among many leading to the achievement of enlightenment and to the discovery of other realms of existence. The experience of dying could, then, be another such pathway, and all this would help to account for the resemblance of drug-induced experiences like the one given above to near\u00ac death experiences.\nPhysiology is that branch of biology which deals with the functions of the cells, organs and whole bodies of living beings, and with the interrelationships among these functions. A physiological explanation of near-death phenomena which I have often heard proposed is that, since the oxygen supply to the brain is cut off during clinical death and some other kinds of severe bodily stress, the phenomena perceived must represent some sort of last compensatory gasp of the dying brain.\nThe main thing wrong with this hypothesis is simply this: As can easily be seen from a survey of the dying experiences reported earlier, many of the near-death experiences happened before any physiological stress of the required type took place. Indeed, in a few cases there was no bodily injury at all during the encounter. Yet, every single element which appears in cases of severe injury can also be seen in other instances in which injury was not involved.\nNeurology is the medical specialty dealing with the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the nervous system (that is the brain, spinal cord, and nerves). Phenomena similar to those reported by persons who nearly die show up also in certain neurological conditions. So, some might propose neurological explanations of near-death experiences in terms of supposed malfunctions in the nervous system of the dying person. Let us consider neurological parallels for two of the more striking events of the dying experience: The instantaneous \u201creview\u201d of the events of the dying person's life and he out-of-body phenomenon.\nI encountered a patient on the neurology ward at a hospital who described a peculiar form of seizure disorder in which he saw flashbacks of events in his earlier-life.\nThe first time it happened, I was looking at a friend of mine across the room. The right side of his face just kind of became distorted. All of a sudden, there was an intrusion into my consciousness of scenes of things that had happened in the past. They were just like they were when they actually happened-vivid, completely in color, and three-dimensional. I felt nauseated, and I was so startled that I tried to avoid the images. Since then, I've had many of these attacks, and I've learned just to let it run its course. The closest parallel I can draw to it is the films they have on television at New Year's. Scenes of things that happened that year are flashed on the screen and when you see one, it's gone before you can really think about it. That's how it is with these attacks. I'll see something and think, \u201cOh, I remember that.\u201d And I'll try to keep it in my mind, but another is flashed up before I can.\nThe images are things that really happened. Nothing is modified. When it is over, though, it is very difficult to recall what images I saw. Sometimes, it's the same images, other times not. As they appear I remember, \u201cOh, these are the same ones I've seen before,\u201d but when it's over it's almost impossible to recall what they were. They don't seem to be particularly significant events in my life. In fact, none of them are. They all seem very trivial. They don't happen in any sort of order, not even in the order they happened in my life. They just come at random.\nWhen the images come, I can still see what's going on around me, but my awareness is diminished. I'm not as sharp. It's almost as if half of my mind is taken up with the images, and the other half is on what I'm doing. People who have seen me during an attack say that it just lasts about a minute, but to me it seems like ages.\nThere- are certain obvious similarities between these seizures, which doubtless were occasioned by a focus of irritation in the brain, and the panoramic memory reported by some of my near death subjects. For example, this man's seizure took the form of visual images which were incredibly vivid and were actually three-dimensional. Further, the images just seemed to come to him, quite apart from any intention on his part. He also reports that the images came with great rapidity and he emphasizes the distortion of his senses of time which went along with the seizure. On the other hand, there are striking differences as well. Unlike those seen in near\u00ac death experiences, the memory images did not come in the order of his life, nor were they seen all at once, in a unifying vision. They were not highlights or significant events in his life; he stresses their triviality. Thus, they did not seem to be presented to him for judgmental or educational purposes. While many near-death subjects point out that after their \u201creview\u201d they could remember the events of their life with much greater clarity and in more detail than before, this man states that he could not remember what the particular images were following the seizure.\nOut-of-body experiences have a neurological analogue in so-called \u201cautoscopic (self-seeing) hallucinations,\u201d which are the subject of an excellent article by Dr. N. Lukianowicz in the medical journal, Archives o f Neurology and Psychiatry. In these odd visions, the subject sees a projection of himself into his own visual field This strange \u201cdouble\u201d mimics the facial expressions and other bodily movements of its original, who is completely baffled and confused when he. suddenly sees an image of himself at a distance from himself, usually straight ahead.\nThough this experience is clearly somewhat analogous to the out-of-body visions described earlier, the differences heavily outweigh the similarities. The autoscopic phantom is always perceived as alive-sometimes it is thougt of by the subject as even more alive and conscious than he is-while in out- of-body experiences the body is seen as something lifeless, just a shell.. The autoscopic subject may \u201chear\u201d his double talk to him, give him instructions, taunt him, and so on. While in out-of-body experiences the whole body is seen (unless it is partly covered up or otherwise concealed), the autoscopic double is far more frequently seen only from the chest or neck up.\nIn fact, autoscopic copies have many more features in common with what I have called the spiritual body than with the physical body which is seen by a dying person. Autoscopic doubles, though sometimes seen in color, are more often described as wispy, transparent, and colourless. The subject may in fact see his image walk through doors or other physical obstacles without any apparent trouble.\nI present here an account of an apparent autoscopic hallucination which was described to me.. It is unique in that it involved two persons simultaneously.\nAbout eleven o'clock one summer night about two years before my wife and I were married, I was driving her home in my sports convertible. I parked the car on the dimly-lit street in front of her house, and we were both surprised as we both looked up at the same time and saw huge images of ourselves, from the waist up and sitting side by side, in the big trees which hung over the street about one hundred feet directly ahead of us. The images were dark, almost like silhouettes, and we couldn't see through them at all, but they were quite exact replicas, anyway. Neither of us had any trouble recognizing both of them at once. They moved around, but not in imitation of our movements, since we were just sitting still watching them. They did things such as: My image picked up a book and showed something in it to the image of my wife, and she leaned over and, looked more closely at the book.\nAs we sat there, I would narrate the scene for a while-tell my wife what I saw the images doing - and what I said was exactly what she had been seeing them doing. Then we would switch. She would tell me what she was seeing the-, doing, and it would be exactly what I had seen.\nWe sat there for a long time-at least thin=minutes-watching this and talking about it as we watched it. I guess we could have gone on like that for the rest of the night. My wife had to Lo in, though, so we finally just walked together up, the steps going up the hill to her house. When 1 came back down, I saw the images again, and the we were still there as I drove away.\nThere is no chance that this was any sort of reflection of us in the windshield because the top of the car was down and we were looking way up over the windshield to see them the whole-, time. Neither of us ever drank, either-and we still don't-and this was three years before we had even heard anything about LSD or drugs like that. We weren't tired, either, even though it was fairly late, so we weren't asleep and dreaming it. We were very awake, alert, amazed, and excited as we watched the images and talked about the them with each other.\nGranted, autoscopic hallucinations are in some ways like the out-of-body phenomenon associated with a near-death experience. However, even if we were to focus on all the points of similarity and to neglect -the differences entirely, the existence of autoscopic hallucinations would not give us an explanation for the occurrence of out-of-body experiences. The simple reason is that there is no explanation for autoscopic hallucinations, either. Many conflicting explanations have been proposed by different neurologists, and psychiatrists, but they are still debated, and no one theory has gained general acceptance. So, to try to explain all out-of-body experiences as autoscopic hallucinations would only be to substitute a bafflement for an enigma.\nFinally, there is another point which is relevant to the discussion of neurological explanations for near-death experiences. In one case I found a subject who had a residual neurological problem deriving from a near-death encounter. The problem was a very mild deficit consisting of the partial paralysis of a small group of muscles on one side of the body. Though I have often asked whether there were any residual deficits, this is the only example I have found of neurological damage following a near-death encounter. .\nPsychology has not yet attained anything approaching the degree of rigor and precision which some other sciences have reached in the modem age. Psychologists are still divided into contesting schools of thought with conflicting viewpoints, investigative approaches, and fundamental understandings about the existence and nature of the mind. Psychological explanations of near-death experiences, therefore, will vary widely according to the school of thought to which the explainer belongs. Instead of considering each type of psychological explanation which might possibly be proposed, I shall stick to a few which I have heard most often from members of my audience, and to one which has stmck me as in a way the most tempting.\nI touched earlier on two commonly proposed psychological type explanations-those which hypothesize that either conscious lying or unconscious embellishment might have occurred. In the present chapter I want to consider two others.\nIn all of the public lectures I have presented on my studies, no one has ever advanced an explanation of near-death experiences in terms of the results of isolation research. Yet it is in precisely this relatively recent and rapidly growing area of behavioural science that phenomena most closely resembling the stages of the experience of dying have been studied and produced under laboratory conditions.\nIsolation research is the study of what happens to the mind and body of a person who is isolate in one way or another; for example, by being removed from all social contact with other humans, or by being subjected to a monotonous, repetitive task for long periods.\nData on situations of this type has been gathered in several ways. Written accounts of the experiences of lone polar explorers or of solitary survivors of shipwrecks contain much information. During the last few decades, researchers have attempted to investigate similar phenomena under laboratory conditions. One well-publicized technique has been to suspend a volunteer in a tank of water which is the same temperature as his body. This minimizes sensations of weight and temperature. He is blindfolded and his ears are fitted with plugs to intensify the effect of the dark, soundproofed tank. His arms are constrained in tubes so that he cannot move them, and he is thus deprived of many of the normal sensations of joint movement and position.\nUnder these and other solitary conditions, some people have experienced unusual psychological phenomena, many of which strongly resemble those I outlined in Chapter 2. One woman who spent long periods alone in the desolate conditions of the North Pole reports a panoramic vision of the events of her life. Shipwrecked sailors stranded alone in small boats for many weeks have described hallucinations of being rescued, sometimes by paranormal beings almost like ghosts or spirits. This bears vague analogies to the being of light or departed spirits whom many of my subjects have encountered. Other near-death type phenomena which recur in accounts of isolation experiences include: Distortions of sense of time feelings of being partly dissciated from the body, resistance to going back to civilization or leave isolation, and feelings of being \u201cat one\u201d with universe. In addition, many who have been isolated by shipwreck or other such events say that after a few weeks of being in this condition, they came back to civilization with a profound change of values. They may report that afterwards they feel inwardly more secure. Clearly, this reintegration of personality is similar to that claimed by many who have come back from death.\nLikewise, there are certain aspects of dying situations that are much like the features found in isolation experiences and studies. Patients who come near death are often isolated and immobile in the recovery rooms of hospitals, often in conditions of subdued sound and light and with no visitors. One might even wonder whether the physiological changes associated with the death of the body could produce a radical kind of isolation resulting in an almost total cut-off of sensory input to the brain. Further, as was discussed at length earlier many near-death patients have told me of the , distressing feelings of isolation, of loneliness, and of being cut off from human contact which came over them when they were out of their bodies.\nIndeed, one could no doubt find borderline cases which could not be classified clearly either as near-death experiences or as isolation experiences. For example, one man gave me the following story of his stay in the hospital during a severe illness.\nI was extremely ill in the hospital, and as I lay there I kept seeing pictures coming at me, just as though they were on a television screen. The pictures were of people, and I could see a person, as though out in space at a distance, and it would start coming toward me, then it would go past and another one would appear. I was perfectly aware that I was in the hospital room and was sick, but I started to wonder what was going on. Now, some of these people I knew personally-they were friends and relatives of mine- but the others I , didn't know. Suddenly, I realized that all the ones I knew were people who had died.\nOne might well ask how to classify this experience, since it has points of similarity to both near death and isolation experiences. It seems somewhat analogous to the near-death experiences in which meetings with the spirits of departed individuals took place, and yet different from them in that no other near-death phenomena took place. Interestingly, in one isolation study a subject, who was alone in a cubicle for some time, described, hallucinations in which he saw pictures of famous men drifting past him. So, is the experience just quoted to be classified as a near-death experience occasioned by the patient's extreme illness, or as an isolation experience brought on by the conditions of confinement necessitated by the state of his health? It might even be the case that no absolute criteria can be drawn up which would enable one to classify every such experience into one the two separate categories. Perhaps there will always be borderline cases.\nDespite these overlaps, however, the results of isolation research do not provide a satisfactory explanation for near-death experiences. In the first - place, the diverse mental phenomena occurring in conditions of isolation cannot themselves be explained by any current theory. To appeal to isolation studies to explain near-death experiences would be, as in the case of \u201cexplaining\u201d out-of-body experiences by referring to autoscopic hallucinations, merely to substitute one mystery for another. For, there are two conflicting strains of thought about the nature of the visions which take place in conditions of isolation. Some no doubt take them as \u201cunreal\u201d and \u201challucinatory,\u201d and yet all throughout history mystics and shamans have sought solitude in the wilderness in order to find enlightenment and revelation. The notion that spiritual rebirth can be brought about by isolation is an integral part of the belief systems of many cultures and is reflected in many great religious writings, including The Bible.\nAlthough this idea is somewhat alien to our contemporary Western belief structure, there are still numerous proponents of it, even in our own society. One of the earliest and most influential isolation researchers, John Lilly, M.D., has recently written a book, a spiritual autobiography, entitled The Center of the Cyclone. In this book he makes it clear that he regards the experiences he had under conditions of isolation to be real experiences of enlightenment and insight, and not \u201cunreal\u201d or \u201cdelusional\u201d at all. It is also interesting to note that he recounts a near-death experience of his own which is very much like the ones with which I have dealt, and that he puts his near\u00ac death experiences in the same category with his isolation experiences. Isolation, therefore, may very well be, along with hallucinatory drugs and a close call with death, one of several ways of entering new realms of consciousness.\nPerhaps, some say, near-death experiences, are only wish-fulfilling dreams, fantasies, or hallucinations which are brought into play by different factors- dmgs in one case, cerebral anoxia in another, isolation in yet another, and so on. So, they would explain near-death experiences as delusions.\nI think several factors weigh against this. First, consider the great similarity in content and progression we find among the descriptions, despite the fact that what is most generally reported is manifestly not what is commonly imagined, in our cultural milieu, to happen to the dead. In addition, we find that the picture of the events of dying which emerges from these accounts corresponds in a striking way with that painted in very ancient and esoteric writings totally unfamiliar to my subjects.\nSecondly, there remains the fact that the persons with whom I have talked are not victims of psychoses. They have struck me as emotionally stable, normal people who are functional in society. They hold jobs and positions of importance and carry them out responsibly. They have stable marriages and are involved with their families and friends. Almost no one with whom I have talked has had more than one uncanny experience in the course of his life. And, most significantly, these informants are people who can distinguish between dreams and waking experience.\nYet, they are people who report what they underwent as they came near death, not as dreams, but as events which happened to them. They almost invariably assure me in the course of their narratives that their experiences were not dreams, but rather were definitely, emphatically real.\nFinally, there is the fact that independent corroboration of a kind exists for certain of the reports of out-of-body episodes. Though commitments to others prevent me from giving names and identifying details, I have seen and heard enough to say that I continue to be baffled and amazed. It is my opinion that anyone looking into near-death experiences in an organized way is likely also to uncover such strange apparent corroboration. At least, I believe he will find enough facts to make him wonder whether near-death experiences, far from being dreams, might not belong in a very different category indeed.\nAs a final note here, let me point out that \u201cexplanations\u201d are not just abstract intellectual systems. They are also in some respects projects of the egos of the persons who hold them. People become emotionally wedded, as it were, to the canns of scientific explanation which they devise or adopt.\nIn my numerous lectures on my collection of narratives of near-death events, I have encountered proponents of many types of explanations. Persons who are physiologically-, pharmacologically-, or neurologically-minded will regard their own orientations as sources of explanations which are intuitively obvious, even when cases are brought up which seem to weigh against that particular explanation. Those who espouse the theories of Freud delight in seeing the being of light as a projection of the subject's father, while Jungians see archetypes of the collective unconscious, and so on ad infinitum.\nAlthough I want to emphasize again that I am not proposing any new explanations of my own through all this, I have tried to give a few reasons why explanations that are often proposed seem to me at least questionable. In fact, all I really want to suggest is this: Let us at least leave open the possibility that near-death experiences represent a novel phenomenon for which we may have to devise new modes of explanation and interpretation.\nIn writing this book I have been acutely conscious that my purpose and perspectives might very easily be misunderstood. In particular, I would like to say to scientifically-minded readers that I am fully aware that what I have done here does not constitute a scientific study. And to my fellow philosophers I would insist that I am not under the delusion that I have \u201cproven\u201d there is life after death. To deal with these matters thoroughly would involve the discussion of technical details which lie beyond the scope of this book, so I shall limit myself to the following brief remarks.\nIn such specialized studies as logic, law, and science the words \u201cconclusion,\u201d \u201cevidence,\u201d and \u201cproof' are technical terms and have more sophisticated meanings than they do in common usage. In everyday language these same words are used very loosely. A glance at any of the more sensational popular magazines will enable one to see that almost any unlikely tale will be given as \u201cproof' of some improbable claim.\nIn logic what can and cannot be said to follow from a given set of premises is not at all a casual matter. It is very vigorously and precisely defined by rules, conventions, and laws. When one says that one has drawn a certain \u201cconclusion,\u201d one is implicitly making the claim that anyone who begins from the same premises must arrive at the same conclusion, unless he has made a mistake in logic.\nThese remarks indicate why I refuse to draw any \u201cconclusions\u201d from my study and why I say that I am not trying to construct a proof of the ancient doctrine of the survival of bodily death. Yet I think that these reports of near-death experiences are very significant. What I want to dc is find some middle way of interpreting them way which neither rejects these experiences on the-, basis that they do not constitute scientific or logical proof nor sensationalizes them by resorting to vague emotional claims that they \u201cprove\u201d that there is life after death.\nAt the same time, it seems to me to be an open possibility that our present inability to construct \u201cproof' may not represent a limitation impose by the nature of the near-death experiences themselves. Perhaps it is instead a limitation of the currently accepted modes of scientific and logical thought. It may be that the perspective of scientists and logicians of the future will be very different. (One must remember that historically logic and scientific methodology have not been fixed and static systems but growing, dynamic processes.)\nSo I am left, not with conclusions or evidence or proofs, but with something much less definite -feelings, questions, analogies, puzzling facts to be explained. In fact, it might be more appropriate to ask, not what conclusions I have drawn on the basis of my study, but rather how the study has affected me personally. In response I can only say: There is something very persuasive about seeing a peron describe his experience which cannot easily be conveyed in writing. Their near-death experiences were very real events to these people, and through my association with them the experiences have become real events to me.\nI realize, however, that this is a psychological consideration and not a logical one. Logic is a public matter, and psychological considerations are not public in the same way. One person may be affected or changed in one way and another person in a different way by the same set of circumstances. It is a matter of disposition and temperament, and I do not wish to imply that my own reaction to this study should be a law for the thinking of everyone else. In view of this, some might ask, \u201cIf the interpretation of these experiences is ultimately such a subjective matter, why study them?\u201d I can think of no other way to answer this than to point again to the universal human concern with the nature of death. I believe that any light whatever which can be shed on the nature of death is to the good.\nEnlightenment on this subject is needed by members of many professions and academic fields. It is needed by the physician who has to deal with the fears and hopes of the dying patient and by the minister helping others to face death. It is needed also by psychologists and psychiatrists, because in order to devise a workable and reliable method for the therapy of emotional disturbances they need to know what the mind is and whether it can exist apart from the body. If it cannot, then the emphasis of psychological therapy would shift ultimately toward physical methods-drugs, electric shock therapy, brain surgery, and the like. On the other hand, if there are indications that the mind can exist apart from the body and that it is something in its own right, then therapy for mental disorders must finally be something very different.\nHowever, more than academic and professional issues are involved. It involves deeply personal issues, for what we learn about death may make an important difference in the way we live our lives. If experiences of the type which I have discussed are real, they have very profound implications for what every one of us is doing with his life. For, then it would be true that we cannot fully understand this life until we catch a glimpse of what lies beyond it.\nraymond_moody\nnear-death study\nhuman_life, soul_life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 721, "original_length": 240539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2016/12/06/happy-birthday-jobeth-williams/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SJG4P64WU75UPQBBXD7OSUGPGCHJX6XZ", "length": 908, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wildsoundfestivalreview.com", "title": "Happy Birthday: JoBeth Williams | WILDsound Festival", "raw_content": "Happy Birthday: JoBeth Williams\nBorn: December 6, 1948 in Houston, Texas, USA\nMarried to: John Pasquin (14 March 1982 \u2013 present) (2 children)\n\u201cI live in a town where if you\u2019re a woman over 40, you\u2019re really pass\u00e9. 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Jon Kasdan\nhappy birthdayJoBeth Williams\nPrevious PostHappy Birthday: Lindsay PriceNext PostHappy Birthday: Ashley Madekwe\n2 thoughts on \u201cHappy Birthday: JoBeth Williams\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilknews.radio.com/articles/ap-news/ad-uses-lynching-photo-slam-senators-hanging-remark", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:35Z", "digest": "sha1:T2FZIZ25EMMCD3YYOABWCXE6AWVWTN63", "length": 4052, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "wilknews.radio.com", "title": "Ad uses lynching photo to slam senator's 'hanging' remark | WILK-FM", "raw_content": "Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., speaks to supporters of her campaign during an election night party she shared with fellow Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, right, in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the seat, is in a Nov. 27 runoff against Mike Espy in this non-partisan race. The winner will serve the last two years of the six-year term vacated when Republican Thad Cochran retired for health reasons. (Sarah Warnock/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)\nAd uses lynching photo to slam senator's 'hanging' remark\nJACKSON, Miss. (AP) \u2014 A political ad uses a 1930 photo of a white crowd in Indiana posing around a tree as the lifeless bodies of two black men hang above them, lynched in nooses. The ad superimposes an unrelated photo of a current white senator from Mississippi as text appears: \"This is where U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith would like to be.\"\nThe ad on Facebook is paid for by PowerPACPlus, a California-based political action committee that has spent nearly $1.8 million in other advertising to support Mike Espy, Hyde-Smith's Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff.\nEspy is seeking to become Mississippi's first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.\nA video that surfaced Sunday shows Hyde-Smith at a Nov. 2 campaign event praising a supporter by saying: \"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row.\" She said the phrase was \"an exaggerated expression of regard\" for the supporter and \"any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.\"\nHyde-Smith's remark has brought widespread criticism both inside and outside Mississippi, a state with a history of racially motivated lynchings.\nBoth Espy and the Hyde-Smith campaign are condemning the ad.\n\"This is the same out-of-state group that is spending millions of dollars promoting Mike Espy and has now taken his campaign to the lowest depths imaginable,\" Hyde-Smith campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan said in a statement. \"It is time for Mike Espy to tell his group to end this appalling, divisive attack.\"\nEspy said Thursday in Jackson that his campaign does not control what PowerPACPlus does, but he wants the group to remove the ad.\n\"I thought that it was not helpful,\" Espy said. \"I can't make them pull it down because we didn't ask them to put it up. ... It's racially divisive. It's something that we didn't endorse, and we'd like them to pull it down.\"\nUnder federal campaign laws, super PACs are not allowed to coordinate with candidates.\nThe PowerPACPlus website says the group's mission is \"to build the political power of America's multiracial majority.\"\nMarvin Randolph, spokesman for PowerPACPlus, said Thursday that the ad with the lynching image is the first in a series of online ads that will be supported by at least $25,000 in spending.\n\"We expect to reach over a million viewers online,\" Randolph said. \"This ad will also appear on Instagram and Twitter. We are still deciding whether to place it as a TV ad.\"\nHyde-Smith would not answer reporters' repeated questions about the \"public hanging\" comment Monday during a news conference at the Mississippi Republican Party headquarters.\nThe runoff winner will get the final two years of a six-year term started by Republican Thad Cochran. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant appointed Hyde-Smith to temporarily succeed Cochran when the longtime lawmaker retired in April.\nDemocrats haven't won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi since 1982, and Republicans hold most statewide offices. Both national parties are putting money and effort into the special election. Hyde-Smith and Espy each received about 41 percent in a four-person field Nov. 6 to advance to the runoff.\nPresident Donald Trump has endorsed Hyde-Smith and traveled to Mississippi to campaign for her in October and could return to the state before the runoff.\nEspy in 1986 became Mississippi's first black U.S. House member since Reconstruction. In 1993 and 1994, he was U.S. agriculture secretary.\nHyde-Smith is the first woman to represent Mississippi in either chamber of Congress,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 10785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilmingtonoh.org/living/education/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VFSQF3OHHZDX6BYEEUAR3N3IDC2QQU3A", "length": 4875, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wilmingtonoh.org", "title": "\u00bb Education", "raw_content": "For a community its size, Wilmington is blessed with many fine educational institutions ranging from preschool to college, public and private schools, education for special-needs children, vocational secondary programs, two-year degrees in the latest technologies and four-year degrees in liberal arts and sciences.\nWilmington College is a private, four-year, career-oriented, liberal arts college founded in 1870 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Most popular among its 24 academic majors are programs in education, business and economics, agriculture, sport management and athletic training (sports medicine).\nWC\u2019s Peace Resource Center and Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center represent the embodiment of WC\u2019s historic Quaker commitment to peacemaking, social justice, global citizenship and respect for all persons. The College presents its students with intentional encounters with these values while, also, fostering a passionate engagement in service and leadership.\nMore than 40 percent of main campus students compete in intercollegiate athletics as student-athletes representing Wilmington in the Ohio Athletic Conference and NCAA Division III. Wilmington\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team won the 2004 National Championship while the College also has had several individual national champions in wrestling and track & field. WC has 21 intercollegiate sports and an equestrian team. Dozens of scholar-athletes have attained All-America status through the years.\nIn addition to the College\u2019s 65-acre main campus in Wilmington, it features farmland used as hands-on, teaching laboratories for agriculture majors. The college annually hosts some 1,200 students on its main campus and has two branch campuses in Cincinnati.\nLocated in beautiful southern Ohio, Southern State is a two-year community college that serves the diverse needs of its constituents. Established in 1975 as Southern State General and Technical College the primary academic focus was technical degrees. After changing to Southern State Community College in 1977 the curriculum expanded to meet the demands of students seeking specific career training as well as the needs of those students wishing to transfer after their first two-years of education. In addition to offering Associate degrees in both technical as well as transfer programs, the College offers a wide array of adult basic literacy courses and workforce training programs.\nPriding itself on offering affordable, accessible, and high quality education, Southern State continues to reach more and more people throughout southern Ohio and beyond. With four convenient locations throughout Adams, Brown, Clinton, Highland, and Fayette counties in Ohio, the College has become a pillar of quality in the community.In May 2000, the newest addition to Southern State was added in Wilmington. A state-of-the \u2013art, 35,000 square foot facility was erected after the College had spent many years in a retired Air Force Base near Airborne Express. Southern State is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.\nThe Wilmington City School District has an enrollment of over 3,400 students in six buildings. The district covers 178 square miles in central Clinton County and a very small portion of Greene County.Wilmington High School is located at 300 Richardson Place and 900 students in grades nine through twelve select classes from a wide-ranging course of study.\nWilmington Middle School is located at 275 Thorne Avenue and houses 770 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. This facility opened in 1993. The district has three elementary buildings for kindergarten through fifth grades: Denver Place Elementary \u2013 660 students; Holmes Elementary \u2013 590 students; and East End Elementary \u2013 300 students.\nJunior and senior students who are interested in vocational training attend the nearby Laurel Oaks Vocational School.\nMost students with special needs are included in our general education classrooms with help from additional staff members and educational supports. Separate classrooms are available for students whose needs are best met in a smaller and more specialized environment.\nLaurel Oaks Career Development Campus\nLaurel Oaks Career Development Campus, part of Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development campus network, is located in the Wilmington Air Park. Students from Clinton County interested in a vocational career may enroll at Laurel Oaks.\nPrograms offered include automotive and power equipment repair, business education, executive secretarial, data processing, construction and building, computer repair, meat processing, machine trades, welding, child learning, cosmetology, firefighting, diversified health occupations, park services and wildlife, equine science management, agribusiness and farm business management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wn.com/World_geologist?from=worldgeologist.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:NOU5GQSLIZQLBJJHYFXEUB56UPN7V3HF", "length": 7616, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "wn.com", "title": "World Geologist", "raw_content": "Geologist (musician)\nA geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that have shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using physics, chemistry and biology as well as other sciences. Geologists, compared to scientists engaged in other fields, are generally more exposed to the outdoors than staying in laboratories; although some geologists prefer to perform most of their studies in the lab. A geologists tool used for exploring are pickaxes, gloves, glasses, mining tools and a magnifying glass.\nGeologists are engaged in exploration for mining companies in search of metals, oils, and other Earth resources. They are also in the forefront of natural hazards and disasters warning and mitigation, studying earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, weather storms, and the like; their studies are used to warn the general public of the occurrence of these events. Currently, geologists are also engaged in the discussion of climate change, as they study the history and evidence for this Earth process.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Geologist\nBrian Ross Weitz (March 26, 1979), also known by his stage name Geologist, is a founding member of Animal Collective. He provides electronic sound manipulations and samples for the band.\nWeitz grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore and currently lives in Washington, DC. His nickname comes from a friend mistaking his major in college, as well as the headlamp he wears in order to see his electronic equipment during live shows.\nGeologist attended the Park School of Baltimore where he met future Animal Collective bandmates David Portner (aka Avey Tare) and Josh Dibb (aka Deakin). Avey Tare, Geologist and Deakin first started an indie-rock band called \"Automine\" with two other schoolmates. Deakin introduced his childhood friend Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) to Avey Tare and Geologist. Throughout their high school years and winter/summer college breaks, the four of them played music in different variations and often solo, swapping homemade recordings and sharing ideas.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Geologist_(musician)\nworldgeologist.org\nworldgeologists.com\nworldgeologist.com\nworldgeologist.net\nLatest News for: world geologist\nIraqi asylum seeker charged with rape and murder of girl, 14\nA failed Iraqui asylum-seeker has been charged with the rape and murder of a girl in Germany ... He then fled the country with his family on June 2 before being arrested six days later in Arbil, northern Iraq, prosecutors say ... PA) ... Advertisement ... CEN) ... DPA) ... World. 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The robotic geologist \u2013 armed with a hammer and quake monitor \u2013 will drill deep into the crust where it will explore the rumblings of Mars in a bid to uncover the secrets of its ancient history ... ....\nNasa is about to attempt the risky landing of its Insight Mars explorer craft\n\u2018Keeping in mind our ambitious goal to eventually send humans to the surface of the Moon and then Mars, I know that our incredible science and engineering team \u2013 the only in the world to have successfully landed spacecraft on the Martian surface \u2013 will do everything they can to successfully land InSight on the Red Planet.\u2019 Advertisement....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 16808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://woub.org/2019/02/08/aarp-the-magazine-announces-the-18th-annual-movies-for-grownups-awards-friday-february-15/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GD5NJ3PDA742R6CZ64RBJNI4MQGR4B3U", "length": 3319, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "woub.org", "title": "AARP The Magazine Announces the 18th Annual Movies for Grownups\u00ae Awards | Friday, February 15 - WOUB Digital", "raw_content": "AARP The Magazine Announces the 18th Annual Movies for Grownups\u00ae Awards | Friday, February 15\nAARP The Magazine Announces Nominees for the 18th Annual\nMovies for Grownups\u00ae Awards\nThe Best Movies for Grownups to be Honored at the Annual Awards in Los Angeles, Hosted by Comedian Martin Short\nAARP The Magazine today announced the nominees for the upcoming 18th Annual Movies for Grownups\u00ae Awards, with A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Green Book and Roma contending in the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category. The awards celebrate 2018\u2019s standout films with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind and recognize the inspiring artists who make them. Celebrated comedian and actor Martin Short will host the star-studded evening at the Beverly Wilshire.\nShirley MacLaine will receive AARP The Magazine\u2019s 2018 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award, the publication announced.\nThe AARP Movies for Grownups multimedia franchise was established in 2002 to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind \u2014 and recognize the inspiring artists who make them.\nMacLaine\u2019s remarkable career comprises more than 50 feature films highlighted by an Academy Award\u00ae win and six nominations, seven Golden Globe\u00ae Awards \u2014 including the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement \u2014 and six Emmy\u00ae Award nominations. She is also an international bestselling author with 15 titles to her name.\n\u201cThe award means a lot to me personally because AARP was there when I began,\u201d said Shirley MacLaine. \u201cMany thanks to AARP for bestowing this award.\u201d\nMacLaine will receive Movies for Grownups\u2019 highest honor at the awards ceremony, hosted by AARP The Magazine, where 2018\u2019s best films and filmmakers, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and more, will also receive honors.\nMacLaine joins a prestigious list of previous AARP Movies for Grownups Career Achievement honorees, including Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.\n\u201cWe are delighted to give this award to Shirley MacLaine, a remarkable performer and a true original, who has charmed and entertained us decade after decade,\u201d said Myrna Blyth, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director for AARP Media.\nThe Movies for Grownups Awards will be broadcast for the second consecutive year on PBS. Co-produced by the Great Performances series, the Awards premiere Friday, February 15 at 9 p.m. on WOUB, and will stream the following day on pbs.org/gperf and PBS apps.\nSee all of the nominations here.\n\u201cGreat Performances has long celebrated the talents of artists from numerous disciplines,\u201d said Great Performances Executive Producer David Horn. \u201cBy showcasing the talents of the accomplished professionals both on screen and behind the scenes in the year\u2019s great movies, Great Performances and The Movies for Grownups Awards can shine a spotlight on important art and artists for public media audiences.\u201d\nMovies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine | GREAT PERFORMANCES | Coming Friday at 9 Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018 Premieres Friday, October 5 Athens Film Fest Features More Than 300 Movies Great Performances: The Sound of Music | Premieres Friday, November 9", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wtop.com/europe/2019/01/polish-parliament-honors-slain-gdansk-mayor-with-prayer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VFQSJZXN2L7DR3UU24XKJJ5BJAUQ6THC", "length": 6023, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "wtop.com", "title": "Mayor\u2019s killing in Poland sparks anger against hate speech | WTOP", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Europe News \u00bb Mayor's killing in Poland\u2026\nMayor\u2019s killing in Poland sparks anger against hate speech\nFILE - The May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick. Poland's health minister says that Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died from stab wounds a day after being attacked onstage by an ex-convict at a charity event. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)\nWARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Poles on Wednesday heatedly condemned the power of hate speech to trigger real-life violence after the slaying of a popular liberal mayor, with many calling for stronger actions against those who\u2026\nWARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Poles on Wednesday heatedly condemned the power of hate speech to trigger real-life violence after the slaying of a popular liberal mayor, with many calling for stronger actions against those who threaten others.\nNot only did the killer, an ex-convict, take the life of the 53-year-old Gdansk mayor, Pawel Adamowicz, but he stabbed him during a popular fundraising concert by the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, which raises money for life-saving medical equipment.\nBoth the mayor and the organization are prominent symbols of openness and tolerance, leaving many Poles to interpret the attack as a double blow to those values.\nInvestigators are checking to see if the assailant, who was recently released from prison, has psychiatric problems. He stabbed Adamowicz three times in the heart and abdomen and told the crowd Sunday evening that it was revenge against Civic Platform, the now-opposition party that was in power when he was imprisoned for bank robberies.\nThe brutal killing took place as Poland is more bitterly divided than at any time since it threw off communism 30 years ago, with massive amounts of hate speech and even death threats against prominent figures.\n\u201cStop hate speech,\u201d the major daily Rzeczpospolita wrote Wednesday in a front-page appeal, citing a \u201cbrutalization of public debate\u201d and \u201ca wave of hatred that spills both from traditional media and the internet.\u201d\n\u201cI have no doubt that this wave emboldened the murderer of Pawel Adamowicz to act,\u201d wrote editor Boguslaw Chrabota. \u201cEven today, with the entire country in mourning \u2026 internet trolls are congratulating the murderer, making him into a national hero, demanding a repeat of such acts.\u201d\nOther city mayors who, like Adamowicz, have also received death threats appealed Wednesday to justice officials to more effectively prosecute such activity.\nAdamowicz was a longtime member of the Civic Platform party but left it in 2015. He died on Monday, leaving behind a wife and two daughters, aged 8 and 15.\n\u201cHatred killed Pawel. A hatred that was insane, a hatred that was well-organized,\u201d Grzegorz Schetyna, the head of the Civic Platform, said Wednesday during a session of parliament that began with a moment of silence and prayers for Adamowicz.\nPoland\u2019s ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was not present at the session, a gesture that critics denounced as a sign of disrespect. Kaczynski\u2019s spokeswoman said his absence was just a \u201ccoincidence.\u201d\nThe charity that Adamowicz supported is Poland\u2019s largest nonprofit organization and has become a model of civic engagement and humanitarianism in its 27 years. Founder Jerzy Owsiak is also a prominent liberal voice who has sparred verbally with members of the country\u2019s right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice.\nJust last week, state television, TVP, which is government controlled, ran an animation that depicted Owsiak in a defamatory manner. The broadcaster apologized after an outcry, while the head of the news program has been indefinitely suspended.\nIn the wake of Adamowicz\u2019s death, Owsiak resigned from his position, citing police inaction despite threats against him.\nWednesday evening, a crowd gathered outside TVP\u2019s main editorial office in Warsaw in protest following a Monday evening report on Adamowicz\u2019s death that seemed to put all blame for all the aggression in the country solely on Civic Platform officials. Meanwhile, pressure mounted on the ruling party to fire the head of TVP. In its main evening news report, TVP said its staff was also being targeted by hate speech and threats.\nAdamowicz was also an object of hate for far-right extremists for his support for migrants and gay rights. In 2017, after he voiced support for bringing wounded Syrian children for medical treatment in Gdansk, the far-right group All-Polish Youth issued a symbolic \u201cpolitical death notice\u201d for him and several other liberal leaders.\nProsecutors had dropped that investigation. On Wednesday, Adam Bodnar, an independent state official for human rights, said he was sending a request to the prosecutor general to reopen a list of frozen hate crime cases.\nSince Adamowicz\u2019s killing, police in Poland have arrested several suspects threatening to kill public figures, including Donald Tusk, the former Polish prime minister who is now president of the European Council.\nOn Wednesday evening in Gdansk, Adamowicz\u2019s wife, Magdalena Adamowicz, and elder daughter, Antonina, joined thousands of mourners who formed a large heart with candles. They thanked the people of the city for their support. The widow also urged people to be good to each other, saying her husband loved everyone.\n\u201cI love you, daddy, very much and forever,\u201d his tearful daughter said in the family\u2019s first public appearance since the killing. \u201cI love you, Pawel,\u201d his wife said while embracing her daughter.\nGdansk officials said Adamowicz\u2019s funeral Mass would take place at noon Saturday and that he would be buried in St. Mary\u2019s Basilica, a Gothic brick church where other prominent city figures were laid to rest.\nAmong those signing a condolence book was ex-president Lech Walesa, a democracy leader who founded the anti-communist Solidarity movement in Gdansk shipyard in 1980 and later won the Nobel Peace prize.\n\u201cFarewell, my friend, in this vale,\u201d the 75-year-old Walesa wrote. \u201cWe will meet soon in a better place.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23996.wss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HKTAOYAKQAYXSDQ4IPVY2JL4UDQ3XXQF", "length": 5608, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www-03.ibm.com", "title": "IBM News room - 2008-04-29 IBM Acquires InfoDyne to Create World-Class Platform for Market Data Delivery - United States", "raw_content": "IBM Acquires InfoDyne to Create World-Class Platform for Market Data Delivery\nARMONK, NY\t- 29 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired InfoDyne Corporation, a privately held software company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. InfoDyne is a leader in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments. Financial details were not disclosed.\nInfoDyne provides software that is designed to enable today's highly competitive trading firms and other venues to process exploding data volumes at microsecond response rates. InfoDyne's market data delivery platform and rich feed handler portfolio take data from hundreds of sources and deliver it in a standardized format, helping customers to control escalating data feed costs.\n\"IBM is working with the world's top financial firms on both the buy-side and sell-side, and with infrastructure providers and regulators, to help them adapt to the escalating volume and speed demanded by an increasingly automated and globally integrated industry,\" said Tom Rosamilia, general manager, IBM WebSphere. \"The addition of InfoDyne's capabilities strengthens IBM's product portfolio in providing an exchange-neutral platform, with high-speed connectivity that gives firms faster access to market data, accelerates their ability to execute and complete trades, and enhances the flexibility required to comply with both current and future regulations.\"\nThe widespread adoption of electronic trading has driven exponential growth in transaction and data volumes. Today, an estimated four billion shares per day* trade on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and regional exchanges, six times the volume on these same exchanges five years ago.\nDespite this sixfold increase in data volume, today's traders insist that their information technology (IT) infrastructure provide nearly instantaneous execution speeds and data flow. These low-latency environments are constantly monitored to ensure that the raw data and analytics required to support the trading desks are delivered quickly and reliably. Market data is the fuel for these environments, and firms are demanding high-speed systems that can complete all components of a complex evaluation and potential transaction in a millisecond or faster.\nAlgorithmic and model-driven trading is now being applied far beyond just equities, encompassing multiple asset classes including FX, fixed income, commodities and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, in addition to complex cross asset class trading. Because the failure of any single trade component directly affects the overall trading position, the pressure to have connectivity and systems that are fast enough to complete the end-to-end process across all components of the trade lifecycle is immense. The percentage of fills per order has become a key factor in assessing potential profitability and latency for institutions who wish to remain competitive.\nIn this environment, systems and software not only need the ability to process millions of messages per second from multiple feeds in microseconds, but also require interoperability with a firm's middle- and back-office applications. The integration of InfoDyne's extensive feed handler capabilities and data platform with IBM's messaging and middleware portfolio allows financial firms to digest the enormous amount of data available and use it to their advantage.\n\"InfoDyne was founded on the principle of using technology to ensure zero tolerance for latency and has developed a platform and supporting software and services specifically designed to provide a competitive advantage to market traders,\" said Guy Tagliavia, CEO, InfoDyne Corporation. \"The combination of InfoDyne and IBM will result in one of the most powerful software and services offerings for market traders in the financial services industry.\"\nInfoDyne complements IBM's broad set of software products for the financial markets industry, for example, WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets, WebSphere MQ Low Latency, and WebSphere DataPower appliances. Together, the IBM and InfoDyne offerings provide a high-speed market data delivery platform designed to help accelerate the speed and increase the throughput and reliability of financial data transmission. Additionally, WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides an in-memory grid across multiple servers with transactional integrity, transparent fail-over, and constant response times.\nThe acquisition of InfoDyne further supports IBM's strategy for offering a comprehensive portfolio of industry-focused software for real-time needs, as underscored by the company's recent purchase of AptSoft technology and acquisition of Solid Information Technology in January 2008. AptSoft's technology, which is part of IBM's WebSphere Business Events software, supports event processing and business applications such as algorithmic trading. Solid Information Technology software provides real-time information access, using an in-memory database, and persistence support for applications requiring high throughput.\nCombined with InfoDyne, IBM now offers a comprehensive software portfolio to address the need for real-time and ultra-high speed data delivery and consumption.\nInfoDyne products will become part of the IBM Software Group WebSphere software brand.\nFor more information: ibm.com/financialmarkets/fasterdata\nAbout InfoDyne Corporation\nFor more information: www.infodyne.com\n*Source: The TABB Group's LiquidityMatrix. For more information please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.123movies.tel/meatball-machine-kodoku/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OL3NQCXG6BV32YKXZJ5YISGI452PHAGC", "length": 1998, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.123movies.tel", "title": "Meatball Machine Kodoku 123movies watch online free.", "raw_content": "Movie Meatball Machine Kodoku directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura, produced in Japan and released in 2018. 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She will shake a leg with Karthi in an item song which is currently being shot in Hyderabad.\nNorah definitely has smoldering looks and and a hot physique. She has what it takes to make the crowd go wild in a peppy song composed by Gopi Sunder.\nVamshi Paidipally has directed the film and Tamannah is cast as the female lead. Renowned production house PVP Cinema had produced this multi-starrer in both Telugu and Tamil simultaneously. The movie is scheduled to be released on 5th February, 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.1rad-readerreviews.com/2015/02/church-history-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:58Z", "digest": "sha1:MXFH4GQDT7OUFT5HV6N2TWY3NJ5YM2F6", "length": 3130, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.1rad-readerreviews.com", "title": "1Rad-Reader Reviews: CHURCH HISTORY #1", "raw_content": "CHURCH HISTORY #1\nCHURCH HISTORY #1 EVERETT FERGUSON\nChurch History offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed. It did so not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Church History looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church. Volume one explores the development of the church from the days of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it offers overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds; insights into the church s relationship to the Roman empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes toward Christians; the place of art and architecture, literature and philosophy, both sacred and secular; and much more, spanning the time from the first through the thirteenth centuries. Volume One Content Overview 1. The Setting for the Story s Beginning 2. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church 3. The Subapostolic Age 4. The Church and the Empire 5. Heresies and Schisms of the Second Century 6. The Defense Against Rival Interpretations 7. The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems 8. Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries 9. Development of the Church During the Third Century 10. Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century 11. The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature 12. The Church in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries: Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship 13. Christological Controversies to Chalcedon 14. Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism 15. Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy 16. Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 17. The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries 18. The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries 19. Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 20. The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade 21. Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism 22. Monastic, Literary, Political, and Cultural Activities in the Twelfth Centuries 23. The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century 24. Portents of Decline\"\nThis is a very through and detailed look at the history of the church and what was going on around at the time. The beginning of the church along with the Roman Empire and through the growth and changes. He covers controversies, Doctrine polices, medieval times, Augustine, the roll of the Pope. Even decline and then renewal. The crusades and just about any other subject you can think of. A very in depth look at the church and everything inside and out. A good book for history, seminarian or anyone just wanting one book to look up instead of many which needed to be done in the past. Would have been a good guide when I was in the seminary oh so many years ago. A plenty of maps and charts as well to help guide you through. A very long read. Will take a while to get through it but worth it. I got this book from net galley. 4 Stars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 20430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.247moneybox.com/guides/saving/free-weekend-fun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:39Z", "digest": "sha1:W6ZBZR432Z4PKYY7ZAEE3HZRO67WSXA3", "length": 8967, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.247moneybox.com", "title": "Free weekend fun that will keep your wallet happy!", "raw_content": "Free weekend fun that will keep your wallet happy!\nWhen the weekend finally arrives and you want to have some well-deserved fun, do you often find that your budget does not allow for expensive weekend trips or costly activities? Making plans that don't require dipping into your savings may sound difficult, however, it doesn't have to be! 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Or learn something new with your kids - all you need is a book, video or podcast about something you are interested in to become each other's teacher.\nIf you want to spend a day out of the house with your family, many museums, galleries and libraries put on events that are geared towards children, where they can try new things, make new friends and learn about history and other cultures. Such events may not take place every weekend, but museums are still great places for children to hang out, allowing them to gain knowledge without having to spend any money.\nHave you exhausted all the books on your child's shelf and are getting bored of reading the same thing repeatedly? Take a trip to your local library together and let them choose new and exciting books to read. There is not only an extensive collection of books, but also CDs and DVDs that you can borrow for a film night at home, a great (and much cheaper) alternative to going to the cinema.\nChildren see the world in a different way to adults. Visit a park you have never been to before or go for a walk in a nearby forest to let them explore and play and you will spend quality time with your family whilst discovering a world that you have not experienced since you yourself were a child. Exploring together is a great way to bond, and by giving them time to play outside, will make them appreciate nature.\nPrefer to see something other than the four walls that you inhabit? There are plenty of free places to visit and things to do, no matter where you are. Pretend to be a tourist and visit all the famous places and attractions in your area that you have been taking for granted. On weekdays you are probably busy running errands and rushing from one appointment to the next. Taking a stroll around your neighbourhood on the weekend gives you the time to be more mindful of your surroundings and discover new places you might not have never noticed before.\nBrowse through notice boards and event schedules in your community. There are often offers for free evening classes or talks and lectures that you can attend, providing you with the advantage of attaining new knowledge and skills as well as meeting new people within your community. Sports and health clubs, community halls and places like yoga studios sometimes have taster session that you can attend for free, giving you a chance to try out different activities without having to commit to a membership.\nDuring the warmer months, keep an eye out for free open-air concerts, theatre performances and festivals open to the public. These are a great way to enjoy time with family and friends, connect with your community and meet new people. Or attend a local sporting event like a marathon or boat race to support and cheer on the athletes. You may even get inspired to pick up a new hobby.\nA fulfilling and compassionate approach to having fun is to volunteer and help others, bringing joy to both your and their weekends. There are always people in need of help, so why not go to your local homeless shelter or nursing home to give some of your time to those who need it. Simple things like helping to serve food or having a conversation can make a big difference to someone's day, and it will be a rewarding experience for you.\nIf you want to go outside and spend some time in nature, there are endless possibilities around the country, even if you live in a city. Take advantage of the extensive coastline and make a day trip to the beach. Fun fact: there is a beach within two hours of every location in the UK. If it's too cold for a swim, you can still enjoy peaceful walks along the coastline at any time of the year. Natural wonders and beautiful coastlines can be found across Britain and make for fascinating destinations. Depending on where you live, you may have to take a train or bus to reach your destination, but you can get deals for very affordable tickets if you keep an eye out for offers.\nTo remain within your local area, visit one of the country's beautiful parks. Whether you live in the city or out in the countryside you are bound to find a local park nearby. Take your dog for a walk, go on a run, have a picnic, read a book or just take some time to relax with your friends. Bigger parks often house a wide variety of trees and flowers to admire, with some even being home to a range of animal inhabitants.\nNational museums across Britain provide free access to the public, providing hours of entertainment without having to pay a single penny. No matter what you want to learn about (whether it is history, art or science) you can find a museum or gallery that will spark your interest.\nIf you want to admire some beautiful architecture, pay a visit to some of the country's lesser known churches, which are often unexpectedly spectacular. When you visit any historical building, remember to always look up! The ceilings of many churches, parliament buildings and cathedrals are feats of art on their own.\nBritain has a very long and rich history, which means that you are never too far away from historic buildings and sites. If you are in your home town or visiting a new city, try learning about the place's history by going on a guided walk or planning a tour for yourself. There are lots of free guided walking tours that you can find using a brief online search.\nWant to get active on your days off? All across the country there are great trails and roads for cycling, no matter your experience level. Or instead of cycling choose to go for a hike to enjoy views across the surrounding landscapes and learn more about this beautiful country.\nHaving fun should not entail having to compare payday lenders to find a way to finance your weekend. Whether you are in the mood to stay at home, go on a little adventure, or spend time with your children, you can still have fun on the weekend with little to no cost. Staying local and being creative about how to spend your time can be as much fun as the more expensive alternatives.\nIt pays off to look around and try new things, and the money you would usually spend on the weekends can be put towards saving for more expensive trips or activities in the future, as opposed to paying off online loans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 10001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2018/11/horror-14-year-old-girl-stabs-dad-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OFQ72CU62LQDEX5V6KM3BPV36IRCJQTA", "length": 1251, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.247nigerianewsupdate.co", "title": "Horror: 14-Year-Old Girl Stabs Dad To Death After He Disciplined Her In Delta - 247 Nigeria News Update ' : ''; var month = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]; var month2 = [\"Jan\",\"Feb\",\"Mar\",\"Apr\",\"May\",\"Jun\",\"Jul\",\"Aug\",\"Sep\",\"Oct\",\"Nov\",\"Dec\"]; var day = postdate.split(\"-\")[2].substring(0,2); var m = postdate.split(\"-\")[1]; var y = postdate.split(\"-\")[0]; for(var u2=0;u2", "raw_content": "Horror: 14-Year-Old Girl Stabs Dad To Death After He Disciplined Her In Delta\nA teenage girl has allegedly stabbed her father to death over an altercation in Delta state.\nThe Delta State Police Command has arrested a 14-year-old girl for allegedly stabbing his father to death.\nThe name of the man and the girl were not mentioned according to Punch.\nThe incident happened in the Cable Point area of the Asaba, the state capital.\nTrouble started on Thursday evening when the man disciplined her for an offence she committed before he went to sleep.\nIt was gathered that the girl, who was unhappy with the development, waited until he was asleep before stabbing him to death with a knife.\nThe state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the incident, while expressing regret over the crime rate in the state, especially among youths.\nAniamaka said, \u201cI don\u2019t have information if the deceased is the girl\u2019s father. But all we know for now is that he was related to her. Imagine a small girl stabbing her relative to death.\n\u201cThe other day, it was killing of a Delta State University student. Where are we heading to?\u2019\u2019\nHe also appealed to parents to continue monitoring their children, advising ladies to be wary of the men they date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 10607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.7billionones.org/sue-just-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3YEPPOQRCTQAIW7IHED5KJ3VHTT2XPSS", "length": 2403, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.7billionones.org", "title": "Sue \"Just Love!\" \u2014 7 BILLION ONES", "raw_content": "Sue's Story \"Just Love!\"\nLife is full of so many different circumstances, good one day and bad the next. We must learn to deal with life day by day.\nMy life changed in 1993. I had a car wreck and suffered a traumatic brain injury. My parents had to take me and my two teenage children in for about five years. We started our new life over with lots of help from family, friends and a great church family. My daughter started running with some mixed up kids and since I was recovering, I had difficulty in helping her to make the best decisions.\nNext, my mom passed away in 2003. She was my best friend and always knew what I needed before I did. In 2006, my grandson was born and he has lived with me his whole life. He made me want to make life good for him, be the one constant thing in his life. My daughter tried but it seemed that drugs and poor choices always interfered with her life as a mom so I was always there for him. My granddaughter was born 2009 and I have had her since the beginning also. I also have a granddaughter who was born in 2014, but I could not raise another child thus bringing lots of heartache and hurt. She was recently adopted and it is a true blessing. The adoptive parents are a loving Christian family and involve us in her life. A blessing from God!\nMy daughter has been homeless for six months but is now living with friends for the time being. I have tried to help my daughter throughout the years but have had to step back because I also care for my 28-year-old son who never fully recovered after a stroke, seizure and head injury in 2013.\nMy daughter is now pregnant again. My heart is heavy but I\u2019m not able to do or give more of me without hurting my other grand kids that I\u2019m raising. There\u2019s not enough hours in the day. I love my family and want to be there for all of them the best that I can be, but I also have to work. I am a caregiver to help families with their loved ones and sometimes work hospice end of life care giving. I love people and I love life and I am so blessed to have God in my daily life. God is Good. Thanks to the blessings and love of family when in need!\nThe bottom line is we get up each day and are blessed that we have that day because God is good. We can learn to love him and lean on him or we will struggle through it all! Remember to appreciate life no matter what it brings. Love your family. Love your friends. Just love!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 675, "original_length": 19030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.7billionones.org/xerious/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:27Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7PLA7MS3CBGSGKDNPU7TCEUDO73QFJ2", "length": 3157, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.7billionones.org", "title": "Xerious \"I Like Who I Am\" \u2014 7 BILLION ONES", "raw_content": "Xerious\u2019s Story:\nWhen I was a kid I knew something was different about me. In school I was called the \u201cbad kid\u201d, the \u201ctroubled kid\u201d, and was not liked by teachers. I knew my principals very well and they knew me. I didn\u2019t want to be \u201cbad\u201d I wanted to be known as a good kid. I had a lot of friends but it was the adults that I had a hard time with. I wanted to control myself and my actions, but something inside of me would take over. When I was in fifth grade, my teacher asked my mom to take me to the doctor and do an ADHD test. We got the test for the teacher to fill out and one for my mom. When we went back to the pediatrician, she said that I was borderline ADHD and gave me medicine to help. At this same time my grandpa, whom I was very close to passed away suddenly and my parents divorced. My life was spinning out of control and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn\u2019t help my family situation and I couldn\u2019t help myself. I felt alone, like I didn\u2019t belong anywhere. The medicine made it worse. I felt like I was out of control and I couldn\u2019t stop. I would get so angry and want to destroy things or hurt someone or hurt myself. I just wanted it to stop. I knew how to be good. I knew what it was to be good, I just couldn\u2019t seem to get there. About eight months after taking the ADHD medicine, my mom noticed that I wasn\u2019t getting any better, in fact I was getting worse. What once was an hour or two of being out of control now was several hours. It was hard on everyone, including me. I have three siblings; one older brother, a younger brother and a little sister, who I was very close to. But my attitude and actions were pushing everyone away. After the divorce, my mom and siblings were all I had, and even though I wanted to spend quality time with them I couldn\u2019t. I just couldn\u2019t get my anger and impulses under control.\nMy mom took me to see a new counselor, and that was the day my life changed. I started the process of being properly diagnosed. It took a few months and the diagnosis came back bipolar. At first I was scared because I had a dream for my life to be a lawyer and own my own company one day. And I was worried that this diagnosis meant I couldn\u2019t do that. I started on some medicine and it did take a few more months to work all that out. But then it happened. I started to feel like I was myself. I felt like I could control myself and my thoughts. I was beginning to have a better relationship with my family, friends and teachers. I started to understand what was appropriate and inappropriate. I started to like who I was. My family members are the first ones who saw the change. My outbursts were no longer several hours but maybe twenty or thirty minutes. One day I know I won\u2019t even have those outbursts anymore. I now know that I am normal. Bipolar doesn\u2019t make me abnormal, it is not my fault, I am not going to be ashamed of it or be defined by it. I am going to manage it. I am going to be the son, brother and attorney that I know I can be. My life is different today because of a group effort with counseling, medication and myself working on it every day. And you know what, I like who I am.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 679, "original_length": 20281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 187.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.a10networks.com/blog/internet-things-iot-security-risks", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:44Z", "digest": "sha1:LVCNRTK5SAORI3HRVZEIPVEEXMDP5GVS", "length": 1320, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.a10networks.com", "title": "The Internet of Things (IoT) Will Expose New Security Risks", "raw_content": "Cyber Security malware, Sttackers, Security\nSecurity Predictions for 2015: #4 \u2013 The Internet of Things (IoT) Will Expose New Security Risks\nMore knowledge and convenience is not always a good thing. The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to make our lives easier, but without proper safeguards, it also opens us up to an array of new security threats. Even though IoT is still in its early stages, the number of devices connected to the Internet is growing, thereby increasing the potential for attacks at any time.\nThree potential IoT risks include:\nAttackers using brute force or knowledge of default credentials to gain access to IoT devices or to the cloud infrastructure that stores IoT data.\nMalware infiltrating high-end IoT devices, such as SmartTVs, that have full Android operating systems and access to app stores.\nMalware infecting PCs and tablets that manage IoT devices, such as home security systems or cameras.\nTo reduce risks associated with IoT devices, consumers and businesses alike should investigate how the device is accessed and whether it stores sensitive data. They should avoid installing unknown software and, whenever possible, configure strong passwords on devices. Not convinced? 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The incomparable views and leisurely island living have led people to believe a visit here is just too expensive. However, Fiji is much more affordable than you think. Look for reasonable accommodations instead of pricey hotels, and realize you can still stay in a prime location while sticking to your budget. Also keep an eye out for specials\u2014some hotels offer a free night after a certain number of days. When it comes to activities, Fiji is a nature lover\u2019s paradise, so there\u2019s plenty to do for free. Embark on a hike through the lush landscape, marvel at the stunning waterfalls, and lounge on the heavenly white-sand beaches. Many hotels also have kayaks to rent, either for free or a cheap price. Dine locally on mouthwatering cuisine and get to know the residents, who are famously friendly and kind, for a truly priceless experience.\nMorocco is a fascinating country full of mystery and allure. The architecture screams elegance, with intricate carvings, geometric designs, and beautiful tilework. But while a trip to Morocco will feel like a high-end adventure, the country is actually quite affordable. For an authentic experience, stay in a traditional riad. Some riads are exceptionally opulent and can get a little pricey, but there are plenty of affordable options that are just as impressive. A great way to cut down on costs is eating from local markets and stalls. Morocco\u2019s street food is expensive yet renowned\u2014bursting with rich flavor, your taste buds and wallet will thank you! Explore the bustling medinas, people-watch while sipping on beloved mint tea, and visit the country\u2019s many famous landmarks, such as A\u00eft Benhaddou. For a once-in-a-lifetime experience, head out on a reasonably priced desert expedition. You can ride a camel through the Sahara and camp under the stars all while staying on budget.\nFor an affordable exotic getaway that feels extravagant, look no further than Thailand. The capital city of Bangkok is overflowing with history, and the juxtaposition of modern and traditional is an incredible sight. There\u2019s no shortage of dazzling shrines, golden temples, and regal palaces to explore. Thailand\u2019s street food is delicious and affordable, making it an easy way to save money. If you long for a luxurious beach vacation, Thailand has you covered. Visit one of the country\u2019s islands, such as Phuket, Koh Lanta, and Koh Lipe. Once you set eyes on the turquoise sea, verdant cliffs, and secluded beaches, you\u2019ll never want to leave. One of the best things about Thailand is its proximity to Vietnam and Cambodia, which also offer affordable dream vacations.\nTo feel like royalty, book a trip to Hungary. Eastern Europe is known for being more affordable than Western Europe but with just as much beauty, history, and culture. The capital city of Budapest is a must-see. The romantic architecture has various influences, from Gothic to Neoclassical to Baroque. The city\u2019s regal riverside skyline is iconic, and it\u2019s even a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Visit the spectacular Buda Castle, stroll the banks of the Danube, and unwind in the famous Sz\u00e9chenyi Thermal Bath\u2014the largest in all of Europe. The winter is one of the best times to visit the capital, as its splendor shines through. There\u2019s something incredibly romantic about the snow-covered city, especially at dusk, when the setting sun paints the buildings and river in hues of dusty blush and violet. However, you don\u2019t have to limit yourself to Budapest. Hungary has multiple wine regions across the country, exhilarating cities, and scenic national parks.\nIndia is a nonstop adventure. Let the country overwhelm your senses with bright colors, aromatic scents, and luscious flavors. India\u2019s natural beauty, gorgeous architecture, and mesmerizing culture will captivate you. Many of the country\u2019s major cities are dripping in opulence, but this is particularly true of those in Rajasthan. Here you\u2019ll find some of the most charming cities in the country, from the Pink City of Jaipur to the Blue City of Jodhpur. Tour Jaipur\u2019s rose-colored Hawa Mahal and Jodhpur\u2019s striking Umaid Bhawan Palace. From there, head to Udaipur for a true taste of luxury. 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In July of 2005 he received his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Egypt. He is fluent in both English and Arabic, and has completed seven years of study at English speaking institutions.\nDr. Nadi is a member of the American Dental Association (ADA), Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA), Greater Milwaukee Dental Association, and The Leading Physicians of the World Association. He is CPR certified and eligible to administer Nitrous Oxide.\nIn his spare time, Dr. Tawfiq Nadi enjoys playing basketball, singing and traveling the world. He has the ability to work effectively with diverse at-risk populations, and he is interested in reading and searching the web for the latest dental techonolgies and information. He spends hours on his work and is dedicated to being the best dental practitioner in West Allis, Wisconsin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 138.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adventureswithjude.com/2017/09/heirloom-audio-captain-bayley-homeschool-review-crew.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:K64Q5QBIBAKN6N235GIA75IFID3OMZAU", "length": 8905, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.adventureswithjude.com", "title": "Adventures with Jude: Heirloom Audio Productions: Captain Bayley's Heir (Homeschool Review Crew)", "raw_content": "Heirloom Audio Productions: Captain Bayley's Heir (Homeschool Review Crew)\nReturning readers are well aware by now of our near-obsession with the Adventures of G.A. Henty audio drama series created by Heirloom Audio Productions. We've been soaking up their newest offering, Captain Bayley's Heir, and exploring the Live the Adventure Club.\nOnce again, Brian Blessed reprises his role as G. A. Henty. He has portrayed the author's role of storyteller in each of the audio dramas. While it wouldn't be impossible to have similar sounding actors voicing Henty across the series, Mr. Blessed has such an iconically distinct voice that really helps to anchor them as one man's tales. Disney lovers may recognize the voice as also that of Clayton, the nefarious gorilla hunter, from Tarzan. Recently, the use/purchase of fireworks for the general public has been legalized in New Jersey, and it's not uncommon to hear a few pops on a weekend or holiday in our rural area. In the past, when we heard gunshots on television or from distant hunters, we would joke, \"Clayton,\" as Tarzan mistakenly called the double-barrel shotgun. Now, when we hear the firework pops, someone invariably pipes up \"Henty!\"\nJohn Rhys-Davies, another unmistakeable voice, is also again a participant in the production. Of course, we recognized him from previous Henty productions. When we watched another DVD program for Matthew's Bible History course, a voice-over reading of historical documents and biblical quotes interspersed itself with the host's presentation. Matthew looked at me excitedly and said, \"Hey! That's what's-his-name! The guy from the CDs in the car!\" Suddenly, the formerly \"sort of not totally lame\" section videos he was watching were enthralling! I'll take it!\nWith these familiar friends, we entered the world of Henty and set off to \"live the adventure\" of protagonist Frank as he sailed from England to America, and then transversed the American continent to Sacramento, California during the era of the American Gold Rush. It's not smooth sailing, by either sea or prairie schooner! He flees England after being falsely accused of theft, nearly dies on a Mississippi flatboat, and is attacked by a band of Native Americans as he crosses the prairies. Just getting to California seems like it would be adventure enough, but there's also the whole dilemma of just who is Captain Bayley's heir? I'll leave that adventure for you to discover when you listen! I will say that, while this isn't a \"whodunit\" story, it left us with a similar \"I did not see that one coming!\" feeling. Don't worry -- it was a good \"Whoa!\"\nHeirloom Audio has really outdone themselves with their Live the Adventure Club. Here you'll find all of the extras that turn a simple listening experience into an entire exploration that rivals Frank's expedition. As I was working on this blog post, Mr. Rhys-Davies voice penetrated the fog I was in, and I looked across the room at Neal, sitting across the room and looking at his phone, and asked him, \"WHAT are you watching?\" He looked at me like I was crazy and replied, \"uh...Lord of the Rings. Why?\" I laughed, explaining what I heard and that I was writing the skeleton for a post that included the ability to listen to our new audio drama online, and wondered how on earth he had already accessed it! I definitely love this feature. In the past, we've been limited to listening to our CDs in the car With the online option, we can come into the house and keep listening! Other features of the club include:\nAn e-version of the original G. A. Henty novel\nStudy guide with both comprehension and discussion questions plus vocabulary\nRead-along script with online listening - perfect for those who struggle with unfamiliar accents and dialects\n\"Theater\" extras such as the official soundtrack, a \"movie poster\" with a quote from the hymn Amazing Grace\nExpand Your Learning - the opportunity to have further information about the setting of the story\nThe study guide is what turns the audio drama from something merely entertaining to a true unit study. Each chapter is broken into three sections: Listening Well (comprehension), Thinking Further (discussion), and Defining Words (vocabulary).\nI like having the comprehension questions to ask the boys; it helps me know they didn't \"check out\" while listening. Matthew is usually good about staying focused, but sometimes the language (both the vocabulary and dialect) can be hard for Jude. This is where I liked having the script for the read-along -- it gave him something visual to anchor to. Some of the words were easy for the boys; they realized they actually knew some of them already! Henty uses a rich vocabulary that brings the story to life. Words like jubilant or saunter could be boiled down to \"happy\" or \"walked\" but these specific words bring a strength that their synonyms lack. With luck, exposure to the words as well as working on them as a word study will help move them from Henty's pages to the boys' writings. However, the discussion questions are usually my favorite part, especially for making this appropriate for an older student.\nJude or Damien and I talked about the more in-depth ideas - in this case, forgiveness, trust, and honesty - while Matthew got to really delve deeply into critical thinking. As an outsider, it was easy to see the whole picture and why he ran, but what kind of appearance does it give to the people in the story when Frank fled England? What happens when you fail to see the other side of a person's story, or accept that they have a valid opinion that may not match yours. Given the current political climate, it seems that Heirloom Audio has excellent timing, but I think these ideas point to the timelessness of Henty's writings, and perhaps life itself. The theme of the story is amazing grace. While one can grasp the idea just from the production, adding this to your study helps guide you to a deeper understanding of just what grace - given and received - is about.\nHowever, as much as I love the study guide and the music (I adore the hymn and have a playlist with about twelve different recordings), it was the \"Expand Your Learning\" sections that I enjoyed the most. I am a huge fan of history, and I try to stress to my kids that you must study history in its context as well as be looking back. You can't always judge history by today's knowledge, because then you lose the point of why people were heroes, or perhaps why they were miscast as villains. For example, if you study the history of witch hunts in the 17th century, many of the catalysts for a \"trials\" seem absurd. It's straightforward to say \"Of course a mother not dying here makes sense, the midwife washed her hands!\" But back then, there was almost zero understanding of germ theory, so coupled with the idea that a man educated in medical arts could know less than a housewife, it would appear that a surviving patient was the result of some sort of hocus-pocus. It doesn't make what happened right, but it makes the people understandable.\nHere we have people who stuck gold and then struck out, along with the names Wells and Fargo that endure into today's banks (and yes, are emblazoned on a Philadelphia arena). In middle school, Matthew was part of the cast of The Music Man and became is well aware of what the \"Wells-Fargo Wagon is a-comin'..\" meant. Now, looking further at the origin of the company and era, Matthew is learning that, pardon the mixed up expression, there are two sides to every gold nugget. Henty was a Victorian-era writer and war correspondent, and this viewpoint inevitably comes through in his writing. Heirloom Audio Productions is careful to not alter the stories for today's listeners, but that can sometimes lead to the appearance of condoning ideas that may not be right. While Henty's stories are strong on building solid character and values, discovering them in context of when Henty lived or when the story takes place helps demonstrate ideas that should be enduring and those that society has evolved to see differently.\nIf we were Roger or Ebert, we'd give Heirloom Audio Productions another two thumbs up. They consistently produce exceptional audio dramas that bring Henty's adventures to life. We're happily adding Captain Bayley's Heir to our audio library, and are eagerly awaiting their next offering.\nTo read more reviews of Captain Baley's Heir, click on the banner below. To read our reviews of Heirloom Audio Productions' other offerings, click on their titles.\nIn the Reign of Terror (French Revolution)\nThe Cat of Bubastes (Ancient Egypt)\nBeric the Briton (Roman Empire)\nThe Dragon and the Raven (Viking Invasions)\nWith Lee in Virginia (American Civil War)\nIn Freedom's Cause (Wars of Scottish Independence)\nUnder Drake's Flag (Spanish Inquisition/Early Western Colonization)\nLabels: 2017 Homeschool Crew Reviews, Henty Heirloom Audio Productions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 12392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aero-mag.com/ama-invests-in-new-indian-metals-facility/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JM6MATGBOV3NSWBJFK2UWG3OWUCUO7UV", "length": 3817, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.aero-mag.com", "title": "AMA invests in new Indian metals facility \u2013 Aerospace Manufacturing Magazine", "raw_content": "Aero Metals Alliance (AMA) says it has made its latest investment to ensure that it continues to provide a dedicated offering to the aerospace industry with the announcement of the opening of a new facility in India.\nThis will be a central focus of AMA\u2019s participation at the Aero India Show 2019, with AMA returning to the event to exhibit on stand AB2.12.\nThe new 8,000ft2 warehouse is strategically located near Chennai, with easy access to the busy Chennai port complex, the third largest in India and the biggest port in the Bay of Bengal. As well as the logistical advantages the location offers the site was chosen because it provides the opportunity for significant future expansion to accommodate increases in demand. Recent research indicates that growth in the Indian aerospace industry is more than twice that of the country\u2019s GDP so the significance of a reliable and knowledgeable supply chain to support this ongoing development in the region is more important than ever.\nAgainst this market growth backdrop, AMA has invested in the location near Chennai which provides the flexibility that the Alliance is looking for in servicing its Indian customer base with an extensive range of quality approved aerospace and high-performance metal products. In addition to now being able to service its Indian customer base locally, AMA can support customers in whichever economic zone they operate in, taking advantage of its location in a \u2018Free Trade Warehousing Zone\u2019 (FTWZ)\u2019.\nMark Brown, vice-president business development at AMA\nAMA is made up of the leading names within metals supply: Gould Alloys, Progressive Alloy Steels Unlimited (PASU), Service Centres Aero (SCA), Sunshine Metals and Wilsons Metals. Collectively this represents extensive experience, knowledge and expertise through which OEMs and subcontractors in the aerospace industry can source their metals, processing requirements and supply chain management services. AMA\u2019s objective has always been to provide a global capability through this collaborative approach but one which also recognises the value of local service and support. This investment signifies the long- term commitment of AMA to the aerospace and defence markets in India.\nAMA is committed to ensuring best practice and to meeting the latest standards, whether global or market-specific. The new Chennai warehouse is certified to the AS9120 Quality Management Systems \u2013 Aerospace Requirements for Stockist Distributors. Extensive stocks, including dedicated ranges for contractual customers, will ensure reduced lead times, risk mitigation and right first time, JIT (Just-In-Time) deliveries throughout India.\nCommenting on the establishment of the new Indian facility, Mark Brown, vice-president business development at AMA (pictured), said: \u201cThe opening of this new warehouse in India brings the total number of AMA sites to 13, with facilities located throughout the Asia Pacific, Americas and European regions. Through the constituent members of AMA, we are able to offer a wide range of products and services complete with extensive knowledge and experience in the specific requirements of the aerospace industry, including the ever-increasing focus on an integrated, value adding supply chain. We\u2019ve been engaging with our customer base for some time now and have listened to their needs in delivering a local Indian facility. This investment will enable us to further improve our offering to India bringing us even closer to our valued customers, recognising this as an important and growing market.\u201d\nwww.aerometalsalliance.com\nAerospace Metals Alliance Aero India Show 2019 metals supply\nFortune 100 company Grainger Inc. is entering the UK aerospace market in hand tools, power tools and PPE through its subsidiary Zoro UK. 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They are my only source now for everything. Slowly but surely, I am getting back on my feet.\" He is working with a VA case manager and is volunteering most weekdays at the VA hospital in Baltimore.\nThe Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program uses vouchers to help homeless veterans move into rental units.\n\"The whole idea is to take these veterans from poverty and homelessness and give them the health and support they need,\" said Patricia Lane, the VA's coordinator for health care for homeless veterans in Maryland. \"These housing vouchers are the blessing at the end of a long-walked road for these vets.\"\nThe VA hospitals in Baltimore and at Perry Point in Cecil County serve as the gateway to the assistance program and screen veterans to determine their eligibility. \"This program is so well-received that landlords are actually calling and asking me for VASH folks,\" said David Mahaney, director of housing and community development for Cecil County.\nBaltimore County is overseeing 105 vouchers worth about $750,000 annually, and Cecil County has 70 vouchers worth about $470,000, officials said.\nLois Cramer, administrator at Baltimore County's housing office, said she has assigned more than 80 vouchers and expects to use all 105 by summer's end. Cecil has issued more than 50, Mahaney said.\n\"Often, these men and women are just out of sync and need the stability of home and ongoing case management,\" Cramer said.\nTypically, the veteran pays 30 percent of their income for rent, with the voucher picking up the remainder. The program has helped a 31-year-old single mother with a $7-an-hour job and $117 in monthly veterans benefits who has just leased an apartment, and a 25-year-old married father of two coping with a disability. He moved his family into a Sparrows Point home within 60 days of applying for a voucher. He pays $318 of the $1,048 monthly rent, with the voucher picking up the difference.\n\"The tenants usually choose a location close to employment, transportation and health care,\" Cramer said.\nCensus data shows that 71,627 veterans live in Baltimore County, with about 3.6 percent of them living below the poverty line. Nationwide, veterans make up a third of the homeless population, according to the VA.\n\"These vets don't want a handout, but they need help,\" Cramer said.\nThe need will continue, particularly as veterans return from Iraq and Afghanistan, officials said.\n\"The things we saw overseas come back and bother us later in life, especially the Vietnam vets,\" said Church, the Navy veteran. \"When they start coming back from this war, look out.\"\nThe voucher program streamlines what can be a complicated housing process, said Meg Ferguson, who coordinates veterans affairs in Baltimore County. \"Veterans are proud, and it's difficult getting them to accept help,\" she said. \"The good news is that a lot will work their way out of a crisis, turn in the voucher and transition into another program. Then the voucher can go to another in crisis.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 432, "original_length": 12017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aicte-india.org/leadership/dr-mp-poonia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F7ZJIT5GKTS44QZQROOR6YANOXTBGFUH", "length": 3198, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.aicte-india.org", "title": "Dr. M.P. Poonia | Government of India, All India Council for Technical Education", "raw_content": "Home > About Us > Leadership Team > Dr. M.P. Poonia\nDr. M.P.Poonia is specialized in the field of Mechanical Engineering (IC Engines, Gas Dynamics, Ref. & AC), Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development. He is M.Tech (Thermal Engg.) and Ph.D (IC Engines) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He possesses a vast experience of 30 years. He has published 80 research papers in National and International Journals and published 08 books and developed 02 Lab Manuals. He has guided number of M.Tech and Ph.D dissertation. Dr. Poonia is the Member of IEI, ISTE & Society of Automotive Engineers.\nDr. M.P. Poonia is specialized in the field of Mechanical Engineering (IC Engines, Gas Dynamics, Ref. & AC), Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development. He is M.Tech (Thermal Engg.) and Ph.D (IC Engines) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He possesses a vast experience of 30 years. He has published more than 90 research papers in National and International Journals & Conferences and published 10 books and developed 02 Lab Manuals. He has guided number of M.Tech and Ph.D dissertation. Dr. Poonia is the Member of ISTE & Society of Automotive Engineers.\nDr. MP Poonia is presently serving as Vice Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education since 20th January, 2017. Prior to this, he remained as Director, National Institute of Technical Teachers\u2019 Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh for about 4\u00bd years (since 20th July, 2012 to 18th January, 2017). Dr. Poonia is the recipient of Bharat Mata Award conferred by Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage (an International Institute of Oriental Studies and Research, Kolkata) on 16th August, 2014. On behalf of NITTTR, Chandigarh, he received National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities \u2013 2013 by the Hon\u2019ble President of India on 3rd December, 2013 in New Delhi in recognition of outstanding performance in the field of Best Institution for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in the country.\nDr. Poonia also made significant contribution while serving as a Director, NITTTR, Chandigarh for the growth and development of technical education in the northern states of India and to conduct of sub-regional and in-country programmes in collaboration with Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education, Manila, Philippines. Under his able leadership, the institute had to its credit the conduct training programme for Nigeria. He was the member of as many as more than 20 Government/Autonomous Bodies/Universities in the state of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Delhi and Chandigarh while at NITTTR, Chandigarh. Dr. M.P.Poonia is Advisor of the Sustainable Business Network of United Nations ESCAP Business Advisory Council www.ebac.unescap.org\nDr. Poonia emphasized on quality education, good governance, e-learning towards digital India, Go-Green Environment, skill development and assisted to University Grant Commission, National Board of Accreditation, NAAC, Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) and Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) of India for their academic achievements.\nHe visited many countries like USA, China, Canada, Thailand, U.K, Singapore, Taiwan, Sri Lanka & Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 8913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 158.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ajc.com/news/national/photos-into-the-exclusive-greenbrier-resort/IcDbPKiG2sloJYW4JtgjvL/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VFCH7S4AKT2N6FDCLGVEWW5KUS4YWXQS", "length": 13873, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.ajc.com", "title": "Photos: Go into the exclusive Greenbrier resort", "raw_content": "Photos: Go into the exclusive Greenbrier resort\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The exterior view of Greenbrier Resort is seen from the top of a nearby mountain July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The front entrance of Greenbrier Resort is seen July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: One of the three outside entrances of a former government relocation facility, also know as \"the bunker,\" is seen during a media tour at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: A resort employee passes by the Hotel Blast Door, which weighs 18 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also know as \"the bunker,\" at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The West Tunnel Blast Door, which weighs 25 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also know as the bunker, is seen during a media tour at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The West Tunnel Blast Door, which weighs 25 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also know as \"the bunker,\" at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The setup of the Communication Room of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" is on display at the facility at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: A piece of ommunication equipment is seen on display at a former government relocation facility, also know as \"the bunker,\" at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The setup of the dormitory of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" is on display at the facility at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: An interior view of the Communications Briefing Room of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" is seen during a media tour at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: Tour guide Mia Decker shows picutures of two rooms which would serve as the U.S. Senate and House chambers during a media tour at a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: Tour guide Mia Decker (2nd R) introduces the Exhibit Hall of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" to the members of the press during a media tour at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The setup of the infirmary of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" is on display at the facility at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: The setup of the clinic of a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" is on display at the facility at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nAlex Wong/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: A box of Pixie facial tissues is seen in the setup of the infirmary which is on display at a former government relocation facility, also know as the \"bunker,\" at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed \"Project Greek Island\" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nScott Halleran/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 29: The front facade of the hotel at the Greenbrier Resort on July 29, 2010 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)\nHunter Martin/Getty Images WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 5: A scenic view of \"The Old White\" at the Greenbrier during the first round of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC on July 5, 2012 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. 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The results of the projects will be shared with international stakeholders and with feed chain operators in order to encourage more sustainable livestock production globally.\n\u201cThe overall objective of this project is to establish the positive role of the use of specialty feed ingredients on the environmental impact of livestock production\u201d explains Dider Jans, Secretary General of FEFANA. \u201cBy setting up a standard approach to measure this role and delivering a manual of nutritional practice, the project will enable specialty feed ingredients to be included in the evaluation of the mitigation measures to reduce the environmental impact of animal production on a global basis\u201d added Mr. Jans.\nAlexandra de Athayde, IFIF Executive Director, believes that \u201conly by working together can we meet the demands of 60% more food for 9 billion people by 2050 and to do so sustainably \u2013 the SFIS project partners are committed to sharing the results of their work with international organizations and other feed chain operators, and the project is a prominent example of how the feed industry is working together to improve the sustainability of the whole feed and food chain.\u201d\nAbout the SFIS Consortium\nThe Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability (SFIS) project consortium is led by the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA), and brings together the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), the Japan Feed Manufacturers Association (JFMA) and the Brazilian Feed Industry Association (Sindira\u00e7\u00f5es), as well as companies active in the production of feed and specialty feed ingredients.\nAbout IFIF\nThe International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) is made up of national and regional feed associations, feed related organisations, and corporate members from around the globe, representing over 80% of the feed production worldwide.\nAbout FEFANA\nFEFANA - the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures - is the united voice of the specialty feed ingredients industry in the European Union. With more than 100 Members from 28 European countries, it is the organisation representing the interests of the specialty ingredients industry that enter the food chain via feed, whether produced in Europe or imported from third countries.\nPoultry gut function: It\u2019s all in the detail\nEffective gastrointestinal functionality is becoming increasingly important in animal nutrition and health,...\nMicrobiome stability in modern broilers\nOptimal intestinal health, a better welfare and thus a higher sustainability of poultry production can be...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allenwealthmanagement.com/your-guides/paige-hopkins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PRLINVMPTGZWV2LQ2AS4NWROJHZ23OMF", "length": 763, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.allenwealthmanagement.com", "title": "Paige Hopkins | Allen Wealth Management", "raw_content": "Paige Hopkins\nPaige joined Allen Wealth Management as the Administrative Manager in July 2017. Prior to working for Allen Wealth Management, she worked as a Pharmacy Technician at Boone Drugs, Inc. and as a Mail and Data Processor at Samaritans Purse.\nPaige lives in Boone, NC with her parents and twin sister Jamie. Their family is actively involved with the faith community at Perkinsville Baptist Church in Boone. Paige is specifically involved in the Children\u2019s and Women\u2019s Ministries as well as Bible Study Groups. Her passion in ministry is that she loves to teach. Paige also serves in missions with Perkinsville. Their most recent service trip was to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Paige also enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.american.edu/kogod/news/kogod-student-managed-investment-fund.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XK5IOFWRQUBAX5XS7CZGXRJL775URYZH", "length": 4562, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.american.edu", "title": "Bringing the Real World into the Classroom | American University, Washington, DC", "raw_content": "Bringing the Real World into the Classroom\nYou are here: American University Kogod School of Business News Bringing the Real World into the Classroom\nBy Seth Shapiro | November 3, 2017\nAt the beginning of the weekly meeting on Monday, October 23, Tyler Williams, investment fund portfolio manager, stood in front of his PowerPoint presentation and announced that the holdings were outperforming the S&P 500 by an average of 3.5 percent in 2017-an impressive feat, considering the bull market had inflated stock yields across the board.\nThe accomplishment was also striking since the fund is managed not by professionals, but by Kogod students.\nWilliams, BS finance '19, explained to the students seated around the classroom that the Student Managed Investment Fund's (SMIF) strong performance was driven largely by its holdings in technology stocks. Toward the end of Williams' portfolio update, Brad Chabra, BS finance '18, SMIF fund manager, expressed his pride in the Fund's performance from his seat toward the front of the room. But he cautioned the student analysts to identify the biggest risks to the sectors they oversaw in the fund's portfolio.\n\"We are riding the perfect wave,\" Chabra said. Without preparing to adjust their strategy, however, he warned that the fund's success might be short-lived.\nGaining Real World Experience, with Real World Consequences\nSMIF offers AU students the opportunity to earn academic credit while gaining hands-on investment experience using real money. The consequences for poor performance go beyond potentially earning a bad grade. In addition to using alumni contributions, SMIF also manages a portion of the university's endowment. If the stocks lose money, SMIF students have less money to invest.\n\"We're trying to prove ourselves as a very premier fund,\" Williams says, explaining how he wants SMIF to earn a \"national presence.\" With a strong reputation, not only will the fund gain the trust of the university, but SMIF participants will also become better positioned to compete with other students for top jobs after graduation.\nIn addition to enhancing their job prospects, SMIF complements what the students learn in the classroom to solidify their understanding of finance and investment strategy.\n\"This shaped my learning experience at Kogod, it shaped my finance knowledge,\" Chabra says. \"I think I learned a lot [in my classes], but I didn't know what any of that meant until I took SMIF.\"\nTo truly understand the concepts and theory they study in the classroom, Williams explains, the students need to \"apply it to a real-world situation.\"\nA Long-term Educational Investment with Strong Personal Dividends\nMany of the students seated around the classroom are not technically a part of SMIF and they earn no academic credit for being there. They sit in on the class to understand how it functions and to give themselves a better chance of being accepted should they decide to apply.\nChabra started sitting in on SMIF meetings his freshman year. He had a student mentor who suggested that, if he wanted to learn about markets and investment strategy, this was the experience he needed.\nWhile students manage the portfolio, SMIF does have a faculty adviser, Timothy Timura, Executive-in-Residence in the department of finance and real estate.\n\"In every single way, this is a student-managed investment fund,\" Williams says. While they have the liberty to make the decisions as they see fit, \"Tim is always there to give us the guidance.\"\nAfter Williams updated the class on the SMIF performance, Timura spoke briefly about the aspects of the fund that \"keep me up at night.\" He talked about the need for more diversity in their holdings and the importance of staying vigilant about trends that could change how the market was performing.\n\"I don't think there's any fund in the country that's doing better,\" Timura told the class. \"It's all working\u2014that's exactly the time you don't want to get comfortable.\"\nDuring the rest of the meeting, many of the student analysts provided overviews of the fund's stocks in the sectors they're responsible for overseeing, while others pitched the group on their recommendations to buy or sell specific stocks.\nFor Chabra, who will be graduating this December and stepping down from his position as fund manager, he feels that his SMIF experience has been an essential component of his education.\n\"I knew that [SMIF] was the best of the best experiences that Kogod had to offer for finance majors.\"\nLearn more about Kogod's SMIF and the BS and MS in finance programs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americorpscapecod.org/who-we-are-2/staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:29Z", "digest": "sha1:PR4WSZBJQDABN6SYTLFIVUK22RCEZZXZ", "length": 4739, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.americorpscapecod.org", "title": "Program Staff - AMERICORPS CAPE COD", "raw_content": "Andrew is originally from Glastonbury, Connecticut. After receiving a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Boston College, he came to Cape Cod to serve with AmeriCorps in Year 15. He returned for a second year as FireCorps Member Leader in Year 16. In 2016, Andrew joined the AmeriCorps Staff as Program Specialist. In September 2018 he became the Program Coordinator. He is currently enrolled in a Masters program at Mass Maritime Academy for Emergency Management. He also serves on the Town of Dennis Conservation Commission and is their representative to the Beach Management Advisory Task Force. He currently lives in Dennisport with his wife and cat. He enjoys Red Sox baseball, computer games, and bike riding.\nAndrew\u2019s primary role is to oversee AmeriCorps Cape Cod\u2019s day-to-day operations. He assures program compliance with all established goals, objectives, and standards; guides fiscal and member benefits management; develops program systems to ensure effective delivery of service and member support and provides guidance, direction and overall supervision to the AmeriCorps Cape Cod staff team. Andrew also coordinates the program\u2019s disaster response efforts. Andrew serves as the primary contact with the AmeriCorps Cape Cod alumni and the Massachusetts Service Alliance.\nKayla Baier\nKayla is originally from Ocean City, MD. She recently graduated from St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Sociology. At college, she was heavily involved with Title IX advocacy, SGA, and varsity tennis. In her free time Kayla enjoys traveling, hiking, and listening to informative podcasts.\nKayla\u2019s role is to provide oversight to the components of the program including Individual Placements, program events and outreach, and member training. She helps facilitate educational projects, volunteer outreach opportunities, and large-scale AmeriCorps Cape Cod signature events. She assists with the program\u2019s fiscal management. Kayla manages the program\u2019s community relations by maintaining the website, Facebook & Twitter pages, staying in contact with local media, attending community meetings, and giving presentations. Kayla also oversees the tracking of member hours and performance measures.\nOuter Cape Program Supervisor\nWellfleet/Lehac House\nAlex is from Odenton, Maryland and graduated from St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland with a BA in Biology. He hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2014 and worked on several organic farms before completing his degree last summer. As an AmeriCorps Cape Cod member during Year 19, he served with the Brewster Department of Natural Resources and Brewster Conservation Trust. You can usually find him in the garden at the Wellfleet house where he enjoys growing a variety of produce. He also enjoys hiking, photography, watching storms, and befriending the resident raccoons.\nAlex\u2019s primary responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day operation, management, and maintenance of the LeHac House in Wellfleet and oversee the team-based activities of his members including Group Projects, Saturday Service projects and house dinners and meetings. All supervisors reside in the AmeriCorps residences and ensure member adherence to programmatic guidelines within the residence. They also provide support to member training and the program\u2019s volunteer engagement activities.\nMeredith Ballinger\nUpper Cape Program Supervisor\nThe Ranch Houses\nMeredith hails from Cincinnati, OH. She graduated with a B.S in Public Health from Ohio State University. Meredith developed a passion for service in the mountains of Appalachia while working for an emergency home repair agency. Knowing she wanted to complete a year of service post-grad and hoping to learn about conservation she turned to AmeriCorps. She was a year 18 member in Wellfleet where she served with the Town of Wellfleet at the Health and Conservation Department. After developing an affinity for the ocean, she continued her journey up the coast to Maine as a St. George Island Institute Fellow before returning to Cape Cod to be the Year 20 Upper Cape Program Supervisor. Meredith enjoys eating her way through all the places she has been lucky enough to call home, constantly in pursuit of a good cheese plate.\nMeredith\u2019s primary responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day operation, management, and maintenance of the Pocasset House and the Ranch House in Barnstable, and oversee the team-based activities of her members including Group Projects, Saturday Service projects, and house dinners and meetings. 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A new launch date will be announced once coordinated with the range.\nCategories AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-NA News, Fox\tPost navigation\nFox-1Cliff Launch Scheduled for 28-Nov-2018 at 18:32 UTC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.andersonpoindexter.com/notices/Robert-Ladson/send-flowers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:PKBDH4H2435IJU3IELKYS3VDPOVTHI6J", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.andersonpoindexter.com", "title": "Obituary for Robert Michael 'Mike' Ladson (Send flowers) | Anderson-Poindexter Funeral Homes", "raw_content": "Robert Michael 'Mike' Ladson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 6124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.andersonpoindexter.com/notices/Sheryl-Vingis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3AZT6U5CUWC55AA53XKWSPSYLVEMA352", "length": 1256, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.andersonpoindexter.com", "title": "Obituary for Sheryl L. 'Sherry' (Bradfield) Vingis | Anderson-Poindexter Funeral Homes", "raw_content": "Sheryl L. 'Sherry' (Bradfield) Vingis\nSheryl L. \u2018Sherry\u2019 Vingis, 72, of Lyons, Indiana, passed away surrounded by her family at Indianapolis, Indiana on Monday, October 1, 2018. She was born on July 25, 1946 in Linton, Indiana to Harry Marlin and June T. (Thomas) Bradfield. Sherry married her loving husband, James S. Vingis, on March 27, 1965.\nSherry loved being a housewife and mother. She enjoyed reading, genealogy, history and many friendships.\nSurvivors include: her husband, Jim Vingis of Lyons; one daughter, Shelly (Erik Kreffel) Vingis of Bloomington; one brother, Gary (Barbara) Bradfield; one sister, Nelda Fish, both of Lyons.\nSherry was preceded in death by her parents.\nFuneral services are scheduled for 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at Meng Family Funeral Homes, Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel in Linton with Rev. Tom Anderson officiating. Sherry will be laid to rest in Marco Cemetery.\nFamily and friends may call from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM on Friday, October 5 and from 10:00 AM until the time of service at 11:00 AM on Saturday at the funeral home.\nThe Vingis Family has entrusted all arrangements to Meng Family Funeral Homes, Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel. Online condolences may be sent to www.andersonpoindexter.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.annabasson.co.za/blog/2017/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TPW7EZLC4STU4PZE7H46F3BGJCYU6CIS", "length": 451, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.annabasson.co.za", "title": "January 2017 - Blog | Anna Basson Properties Stellenbosch", "raw_content": "Stellenbosch in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries\nWe live in a time of great change, where international events appear on our newsfeed or inbox daily . But how did the world change in the centuries following Stellenbosch\u2019s establishment? 1600\u2019s IN EUROPE The 1600\u2019s marked the Dutch Golden Age, when Holland\u2019s culture, science, economy and military were still of the strongest in theRead more about Stellenbosch in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 150.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aoewindfarmcommunityfund.co.uk/news/2016/08/31/applications-for-funding/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EVJUQGZCV4F4KKS76WDKS6EGFPIIDYZL", "length": 300, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.aoewindfarmcommunityfund.co.uk", "title": "AOE Windfarm Community Fund - Fund Open from 1st September 16 for new applications", "raw_content": "Fund Open from 1st September 16 for new applications\nPosted on Aug 31, 2016 by AOE Admin\nWe are pleased to advise that we will be accepting online applications for funding from 1st September 2016 unti 31st October 2016.\nSuccessful applicants will receive funds during the first week of December 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aol.com/2010/04/20/why-apple-could-sue-gawker-over-lost-iphone-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2Y3P3Z7WJDSCLZBP6CAP4AORKSCJIADO", "length": 6635, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.aol.com", "title": "Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over 'Lost' iPhone Story - AOL Finance", "raw_content": "Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over 'Lost' iPhone Story\nHow hard must the finder of lost property try to return it to its owner before deciding it's his to keep or sell? The answer to that question could determine whether Monday's iPhone scoop results in millions of dollars in legal damages, or even criminal charges, for its purveyors.\nGawker Media has admitted -- boasted, really -- that it paid $5,000 to get its hands on a prototype of a fourth-generation iPhone for its gadget blog, Gizmodo. The seller of the device told the editors of Gizmodo and other technology blogs that he found it unattended in a bar called Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, California.\nBut shortly after Gizmodo published its blockbuster story about the phone, critics began accusing the site of breaking the law by, in effect, purchasing stolen goods.\nGawker Media owner Nick Denton told me Monday that his company researched the relevant case law to determine that it was in the clear before proceeding with the transaction. But after looking into the story futher, I'm far from convinced.\nI think a district attorney could make a solid criminal case that Gawker Media purchased what it knew or suspected were technically stolen goods. And I think Apple's lawyers could make an even tighter civil case that, in so doing, Gawker misappropriated trade secrets, inflicting damages that could run to millions of dollars.\nAt heart is the question of whether the person who found the phone made \"reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him,\" as required by the California penal code. In its account of what happened, Gizmodo says the finder \"asked around\" the bar where he found it. And after realizing it was an Apple prototype, he called several numbers at the company.\nWhat he never did, however, was notify anyone who worked at the bar, according to its owner, Volcker Staudt. That would have been the simplest way to get the phone back to the Apple employee who lost it, who \"called constantly trying to retrieve it\" in the days afterward, recalls Volcker. \"The guy was pretty hectic about it.\"\nNor did the finder report it to the Redwood City Police Department, says Sgt. Dan Mulholland. To be fair, no one from Apple told the police the phone was lost, either. I contacted a company spokeswoman to ask why not but never heard back.\nAssuming the jury in a hypothetical criminal or civil suit consisted of locals like Volcker, the claim that the seller's actions constituted a \"reasonable effort\" to contact the owner wouldn't hold much water. \"The most reasonable effort would have been to bring it back to us, because he knows that person would be going back to us first,\" says Volcker. \"Why not just make it simple and bring it back?\"\nBuyer's Burden\nAnd make no mistake: In this case, it was up to Gawker to establish that the seller legally possessed the property. Paul J. Wallin, a founding partner at the California law firm Wallin & Klaritch, offers an analogy. \"If you purchase a Rolex watch at a swap meet for $200, a reasonable person would be put on notice that it might be stolen goods,\" he says. The buyer would thus be required to take extra measures to determine that it wasn't.\nWhen I asked Denton what steps his company took to ensure that the seller had, in fact, made a good-faith effort to return the phone to Apple before shopping it around, he redirected the question. \"We weren't convinced the phone was even a genuine prototype until the weekend [ie. after Gizmodo bought and dismantled it],\" he said. \"And we didn't discover the name of the Apple engineer who lost it until Monday. We called him and -- after Apple officials got back to us -- we returned the device to them.\"\nDenton insists returning it to Apple was the plan all along if the phone turned out to be authentic. But Wallin doesn't believe that argument would be of much use in court. \"How many times do people say after they're caught that their intention was to return something?\" he says. \"Can someone raise that defense? Of course. That doesn't mean it's going to be believed.\"\nUpdate, 9:28 p.m.: Now that I've had a few hours to digest all this, I am somewhat scandalized, even outraged. Put simply, Gawker Media brazenly, publicly flouted the law. It subsidized a crime: the selling of stolen merchandise. Then it published a misleading, whitewashed account of the seller's actions meant to make it look as though he was not acting with criminal intent. It published this account in order to disguise its own culpability in the matter.\nFrom my own reporting, it's clear the finder of the phone made only the most perfunctory efforts to return the phone to its owner. The gestures he made after learning the true value of the device -- calling the switchboard at a giant corporation and leaving a message, essentially -- reek of insincere behind-covering. One gets the strong impression he did the absolute bare minimum necessary in order to be able to claim later that he tried to return the device. He might as well have sent a postcard addressed to \"Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., USA.\"\nBut Gizmodo presents his story as though his actions were in good faith. \"What should he be expected to do...[w]alk into an Apple store and give the shiny, new device to a 20-year-old who might just end up selling it on eBay?\" asks the site, as though that was the only alternative left to him -- when, in fact, as I reported above, the seller never bothered to so much as tell the owner of the bar or the police.\nI learned this by making a total of three phone calls. Either Gizmodo's editors didn't bother to do even that much due diligence because they were afraid of what they would find out, or they knew the seller had made no meaningful effort to return the phone but decided to buy it anyway. Either way, they are guilty.\nI understand the moral calculus they used. We all feel intuitively that picking up something that someone else left behind is not as bad as seizing it by force, stealth or deception. But in the eyes of the law, it's still stealing. And buying stolen goods is a crime. In those rare cases where a journalist commits a crime and receives the benefit of prosecutorial discretion, it's usually because he can demonstrate there was a compelling public interest at stake. There is no such interest here. The only parties who benefited from Gizmodo's story are Gawker Media and Apple's competitors.\nI'm not normally one to root for manufacturers over journalists, or for Goliath over David. But what Gawker Media did here was egregious. 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Tallman\nEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide has opened registration on an online aviation human factors course that is free and open to the public. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the first of a series of free courses that the university plans to offer.\n\u201cOur first MOOC covers a particularly timely subject, The Human Factor in Aviation,\u201d Embry-Riddle Worldwide Chancellor John R. Watret said. The crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco has definitely made the industry and public more aware of the intricacies of aviation safety, he added.\nThe five-week course will focus on the psychological or physiological elements related to aviation disasters. Its instructor is Dennis Vincenzi, department chair of undergraduate studies in the College of Aeronautics at Embry-Riddle Worldwide.\nRegistration opened July 19, and the class begins Aug. 19. Class size is limited to 500 students. For more information, see the website.\nTopics: Registration, Ownership", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 5142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.apolloenergy.co.uk/news/festive-damson-gin-tastings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AXXKR4SYW7MCT3QPYJRDZRGJPX3VAZUN", "length": 434, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.apolloenergy.co.uk", "title": "Festive damson gin tastings! | Apollo Energy", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a family tradition that has spilled over into the business and takes place on Christmas Jumper Day to raise money for Save the Children.\nThis year's Damson Gin-Making Champion was Administrator Sally Dickinson who retained the title for the second year running using fruit from Eddie and Jackie's garden at home.\nAnd, in the name of a good cause, earlier this year we also tucked into homemade cakes for Macmillan Coffee Morning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arlnow.com/2018/01/22/police-investigating-stabbing-along-four-mile-run/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KP4T3TN7JY2QD2IBJD7SFOLUPHZ4IB5B", "length": 2680, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.arlnow.com", "title": "Police: Three Arrested for Gang-Related Stabbing Along Four Mile Run | ARLnow.com Police: Three Arrested for Gang-Related Stabbing Along Four Mile Run \u2013 ARLnow.com \u2013 Arlington, Va. Local News", "raw_content": "Police: Three Arrested for Gang-Related Stabbing Along Four Mile Run\nby ARLnow.com January 22, 2018 at 8:20 pm 0\nUpdate at 11:55 a.m. \u2014 Three suspects, all teens, have been arrested and charged in the stabbing. Police say the incident was gang-related.\nPolice have charged three Alexandria, VA juveniles for their involvement in a stabbing on the Four Mile Run Trail on Monday evening. The suspects, ages 16 and 17, were each charged with Aggravated Malicious Wounding, Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Malicious Wounding and Gang Participation.\nAt approximately 4:50 p.m. on January 22, police were dispatched to the 3400 block of S. Glebe Road for the report of a stabbing. Arriving officers located one male victim suffering from multiple stab wounds and immediately began performing life saving measures. The victim was transported by Alexandria Fire Medics to George Washington University Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.\nThe investigation determined that the male victim was walking on the trail when he was approached by the suspects. Following a verbal altercation, the suspects assaulted the victim before fleeing the area. Arriving officers established a perimeter and located three suspects matching the descriptions provided by witnesses.\nThe investigation into this incident is ongoing. Anyone with information about this investigation is asked to contact Detective Henretty of the Arlington County Police Department\u2019s Gang Unit at 703-228-4110 or [email protected] Information may also be provided anonymously through the Arlington County Crime Solvers hotline at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).\nEarlier: Arlington County Police are investigating a stabbing along the Four Mile Run Trail.\nThe stabbing happened around 4:50 p.m., along the trail near the county\u2019s water treatment plant. Police say a man was stabbed after some sort of altercation with a group of suspects.\nOther trail users came to the victim\u2019s aid. He was transported to the trauma center at George Washington University Hospital and is expected to survive.\nAn ACPD spokeswoman said the investigation is \u201congoing\u201d and that police talked to witnesses at the scene, but thus far no arrests have been made. As of Monday evening there was no description of any of the suspects nor any word of a motive for the crime.\nUPDATE: Victim\u2019s condition has been updated and is considered non-life threatening. The investigation is ongoing.\nNo charges have been filed at this time. The investigation is ongoing and we ask that anyone with information related to the incident contact police at 703-558-2222.\nFour Mile Run, police, stabbing\nOpen Houses at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arrcc.org.au/christian_testimony_tom_delaney", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DUM7JGNY7LYVB6D3QK6SOORZKPRE7HF6", "length": 4623, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.arrcc.org.au", "title": "Christian testimony - Tom Delaney - ARRCC", "raw_content": "Christian testimony - Tom Delaney\nTom (21) was born and raised in North India, where his parents, inspired by their Christian faith, have sought to live in and serve urban poor communities. He is currently living in Lucknow, working for an Indian not-for-profit teaching children Hindi literacy. He and his dad, Mark, recently wrote a book - Low Carbon and Loving It \u2013 about climate change and their experiences in India and Australia.\nHow does your faith help you in times of struggle, change, and new beginnings?\nMy faith helps me in grappling with struggles, including how to respond to climate change, by assuring me that God is in control, and that, at the end of the day, things will be ok. This is very important in an issue like climate change, where sometimes things feel hopeless.\nHow does your faith describe the relationship between all living things, the Earth, and the Divine?\nGenesis describes a God who lovingly created the cosmos, marvelled in it, and commanded humanity to steward it. In Romans 8, Paul pictures the whole creation, which has been \u2018subject to frustration\u2019, groaning for redemption and salvation. It seems God cares for all of creation (though I\u2019m still working out what that means for mosquitoes!)\nWhat does your faith tradition teach about material consumption and simplicity?\nJesus warns powerfully about the dangers of wealth, espousing and practising a lifestyle of simplicity. He teaches that wealth and consumption does not lead to eternal life, but rather to destruction. This undermines the lie of advertising: \u201cyou will be happy if you just have this\u201d. Instead, Jesus tells us that \u2018life to the full\u2019 consists not in an abundance of material possessions, but rather in being free of the grip they hold.\nOn the other hand, Jesus does care deeply about the poor having enough to meet their basic needs, as demonstrated both by his teaching (\u2018give to those who ask of you\u2019) and actions (feeding the multitudes). God wants us all to have enough but having too much can alienate us from the poor and distract us from our relationship with God. Personally, we have found living simply vital to be able to empathise and relate with our poor neighbours, and also enriching for our spiritual journeys.\nHow does your community approach examining and changing our lifestyles?\nMy community consists primarily of my family. We challenge and encourage each other to change and are with each other on the journey. For instance, when I experimented with veganism for several months, my mum & dad graciously catered to this in their cooking. Living without a car, in both India and Australia, is a family decision.\nWhat role does your community play in providing you with a guide to life?\nHaving a community of like-minded people is vital in encouraging and guiding us towards a better life. As an individual alone, it is very difficult to sustain counter-cultural values and actions.\nWhich sacred text most inspires you to act for change?\n\u201cSo do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\u201d - Matthew 6:31-34\nConsumerism is built on selfish desire for more and more, which is itself rooted in a fear of not having enough. When Jesus enjoins us to not worry about the basic necessities of food, drink and clothing, how much more are we not to worry about keeping up with the Jones\u2019 gadgets, cars and clothes?\nWhat have you done to improve the sustainability of your diet, transportation, and/or energy use?\nI have been a vegetarian for 10 years. I\u2019ve also experimented with veganism but have since settled on a non-legalistic attempt to keep my dairy consumption low. My family has never owned a car, and I celebrate the fact that, at 21, I don\u2019t know how to drive and nor do I want to learn. We keep energy use low by living in a small house, with relatively few gadgets. However, the least sustainable part of my lifestyle remains flying between Australia and India every year or two.\nHow would you describe the experience of making these lifestyle changes?\nSome changes are challenging: living without an air-conditioner in North Indian summers, for instance. Other aspects of attempting to live sustainably are a joy: riding a bicycle, patching my clothes. My faith helps me make meaning from the difficulties and joys of trying to tread lightly on the earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asap-purchasing.com/blog/strong-close-to-the-year-as-embraer-continues-to-compete-with-bombardier/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OEUJWOKBBPFWUICTYPEYKHNZSSWWE27D", "length": 2302, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.asap-purchasing.com", "title": "Strong Close To the Year As Embraer Continues to Compete with Bombardier | ASAP Purchasing Blog", "raw_content": "/ Blog / strong close to the year as embraer continues to compete with bombardier\nEmbraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, reported a successful close to the calendar year 2014, keeping itself in a neck-and-neck race with its counterpart Bombardier for the title of third largest aircraft manufacturer in the world. Currently, only Boeing and Airbus are larger. TAM Linhas Aereas, a Brazilian airline, is in the process of finalizing an order for thirty regional jets from Embraer, in efforts to strengthen its domestic Brazilian network.\nThe order would include 18 of Embraer\u2019s E2 E-Jets along with options for an additional 12. In addition, GOL, which is Brazil\u2019s largest airline, is in discussions with both Boeing and Embraer in a deal valued at $1.7 billion for 20 aircraft to replace its older models. Embraer\u2019s updated E195-E2 is competing with Boeing\u2019s updated 737 Max 7 for the deal from GOL. If Embraer is to win the deal, which is expected to be announced before the end of the quarter, this would represent a huge success for the company. GOL currently operates an all-Boeing fleet.\nEmbraer, as of late, has emerged as the top seller of regional jets and other medium-range aircraft. While Bombardier has been developing a new CSeries jet from scratch, Embraer chose to instead modify and revamp its existing E-Jet, a move which has paid dividends. Embraer already has over 200 orders for the new E-Jets, which is in line with Bombardier\u2019s aircraft orders. However, Bombardier has shelled out a significantly larger amount in its development of the new CSeries.\nEmbraer, founded in 1969, is a publicly-traded Brazilian aircraft manufacturer that generates around $5.7 billion in annual revenue. It develops and supplies commercial, military, executive, and agricultural aircraft as well as aeronautical services. The company currently employs close to 20,000 people worldwide.\nASAP Semiconductor, through our proprietary website ASAP Purchasing, specializes in the distribution of aerospace products around the world for both commercial, civil, and military applications. We work with Embraer to ensure we carry the most highly-demanded spare parts for your aircraft requirements. Browse our capabilities on www.asap-purchasing.com and contact us today at sales@asapsemi.com for a quote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ashevillemusicguide.com/show/jesse-barry-and-jam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:PW6E4VTQZ4DC72LUV5SE5WIK43DGHD7H", "length": 3952, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ashevillemusicguide.com", "title": "Saturday, October 13: Jesse Barry and The Jam at Capella on 9: Rooftop Bar and Tapas Lounge | Asheville Music Guide", "raw_content": "Jesse Barry and The Jam\nEver since I was born, on October 10, 1992, I have been singing. I began as any other young kid would, singing along to my favorite musicians. When I moved to Asheville in kindergarten, my mom Tami-Lu, brother Jade, and I would listen to Aretha Franklin, Carole King, James Taylor, and a huge variety of different genres. My elementary school music teacher Deborah Sizemore would tell my mother how much potential I had when I sang with the other students. Sure enough, my mom recognized this too. One day, my family was riding in the car listening to Aretha Franklin and, of course, we were all singing at the top of our lungs. My mom turned the music down and \u201cswore she heard Aretha Franklin in her backseat\u201d. That night she took us to karaoke and I sang \u201cI Will Survive\u201d by Gloria Gaynor, and \u201cRespect\u201d by Aretha Franklin. I remember feeling completely comfortable on stage-I wasn\u2019t even nervous! I ended up winning $50 first prize that night and walking away with a new feeling-I had the music in me. The next day, my mom was looking through the newspaper and a local writer had written a column about me! Ever since, I have had opportunities of a lifetime and many chances to share my voice with the town. The first few couple of years of my singing career were mostly karaoke nights and school fund-raising events. When I was about 10 years old, I was asked to sing at the Crest Center-a gorgeous event-holding building with waterfalls and all-to sing for the North Carolina Senators and Congressman! It was my first official paying \u201cgig\u201d and I only sang one song. I was blessed to have this opportunity, not only because I was singing for the people that represent my hometown, but also because that show brought more opportunities into my life. A generous member of the Asheville community gave us tickets to see Gladys Knight sing at her local church in Fairview. It was a beautiful experience and when she was finished, she walked through the aisles of the church. I ran to the edge, handed her a demo of me singing \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201d, and she gave me a huge hug! It was one of the most amazing moments of my life. When my mom was the \u201cAsheville Idol\u201d, I got to sing during intermission. I was unknowingly recorded and put on the radio the next morning with calls being placed at the station asking about me. I have gotten to sing all around Asheville for various occasions. When I was in 8th grade, the middle school kids were offered a new elective called Jam Band. I auditioned and we immediately began making music. Our first song was \u201cGet Back\u201d by The Beatles. Rick Praytor, our jam band leader and manager, loved blues music as much as I did. When he asked us to suggest songs to play together, he realized that I was influenced by Motown performers and old blues musicians. He was the one who introduced me to Susan Tedeschi. We began to play blues, funk, and soul music and perform for students and parents at school. When we graduated from middle school, we all realized that we had something going for us, and decided to stay together. After a few switches in band names, band members, and studio practice areas, we established a fun little teenage blues band. Our first gig was at a local coffee shop, and we have just kept on building our repertoire throughout the couples years that we have been playing together. We played the Springing the Blues festival in Jacksonville Florida, the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee, and tons of other gigs. Our accomplishments have been more than rewarding. I have gotten to meet Colonel Bruce Hampton, Susan Tedeschi, and Warren Haynes among others. Throughout my singing career, I have been blessed with countless opportunities and am so thankful to have such a supportive mother. Without her, I would not have had so many accomplishments at such a young age. I cannot wait to further my music career and to continue to have fun doing so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 9671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ask.com/web?q=Arts+Movies+Titles+Princess+Diaries+Series", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4QCYQQMDLC7H7QAJLD5BBWRINOVC2L3T", "length": 2800, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ask.com", "title": "Ask.com - What's Your Question?", "raw_content": "The Princess Diaries (film) - Wikipedia\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Diaries_(film)\nThe Princess Diaries is a 2001 American teen comedy coming-of-age film directed by Garry ... Teenager Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother, Helen , and her cat, .... that The Princess Diaries would be BrownHouse Productions' first in a series of ... 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I thought it was a movie about privileged cows!\"|Recording artist Mandy Moore makes her ...\nwww.goodreads.com/book/show/38980.The_Princess_Diaries\nThe first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. ... Is this book the same as the movie with Anne Hathaway? 3 likes \u00b7 ...\nTHEN AND NOW: The cast of 'The Princess Diaries' movies 17 years ...\nwww.thisisinsider.com/princess-diaries-movies-cast-where-are-they-now-2018-8\nAug 10, 2018 ... The \"Princess Diaries\" movies have become classics thanks to the cast that ... The show is an educational puppet and performing arts series made by the Jim .... for her '90s movie roles, including \"Hook\" and \"Schindler's List.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.assaabloy.cz/en/local/cz/solutions-and-references2/healthcare-solutions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:RD3AGBJWEUBYPUDG2AIQVAKBSIRLPWUD", "length": 2303, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.assaabloy.cz", "title": "\ufeff World class access for patients, staff and visitors in healthcare environment", "raw_content": "The clinics, hospitals, clinics and pharmacies are facilities that need to provide specific security for entry into the premises. Installed products that ensure smooth operation of medical devices and offer automatic inputs are supplied by ASSA ABLOY. Discrete and smart and effective solutions are flexible and suitable for patients, healthcare professionals and visitors. To protect the spread of infections, for example, elbow switches and antimicrobial door handles are installed.\nSt. Anne's Faculty Hospital in Brno uses the advantages of door closers that are certified and can be used for fireproof and smoke-tight doors. Door closers can be installed on the left and right doors and the closing force can be adjusted.\nLong-term cooperation with the Faculty Hospital in Motol. All parts of the hospital, such as operating theaters, wards, waiting rooms, and nursing homes, need flexible security, just like ASSA ABLOY offers.\nIn 2015, the ASSA ABLOY electric locks were installed at Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav Regional Hospital. Electromechanical locks can be provided with a narrow or wide lattice and a self-locking function to ensure that the barrier is automatically released when the door is closed.\nIn 2013, the hospital in Uhersk\u00e9 Hradi\u0161t\u011b was installed a fire door from ASSA ABLOY. Door closers on which the closing and closing speed of the door can be adjusted and the opening angle ensures that the hospital operates smoothly in any situation.\nASSA ABLOY and its certified integration partner GOLDCARD, spol. s.r.o. became the main supplier of the access system of the refurbished rehabilitation center of the Beroun hospital. The Pavilion of the Rehabilitation Center consists of three interconnected buildings, which the investor wanted to secure by a quality access system. The main requirement of the investor was the high security of access to individual parts of the center with access management. A comprehensive solution to the demands of the investor was brought by the combination of AperioTM wireless technology with wire solution and EM Marine readers from GOLDCARD. The investor chose AperioTM primarily because of the ease of installation on the door wing. 40 pcs of AperioTM E100 and 20 pcs of EM Marine reader protects the entrance door to the staff, patient rooms and common areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.astrojyotish.com/palmistry/mounts/sun.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IXVUJLY4KFSZXQZIODFKGTLC73EPMSHX", "length": 1151, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.astrojyotish.com", "title": "Role of Mount of Sun in the hand of a person", "raw_content": "> Palmistry >Mounts > Sun\nThe Mount of Sun is situated at the base of the finger of Apollo and on the upper part of the heart line. This Mount is indicative of the success of the individual.\nWith the prominence of this Mount, the man becomes a genius and famous. A person reaches a very high status in life if the mount is well-developed and pink in color. Such persons are of cheerful nature and work in close co-operation with friends. Such persons are successful as Artists, Expert Musicians and Painters. They are inborn genius. They are honest in their dealings and are completely materialistic. Very well developed Mount indicates self-confidence, gentlemanness, kindness and grandeur.\nIf the Mount is not prominent then the person would be interested in beauty. But he would not be able to succeed in this field.\nIf the Mount is developed more than necessary then such a person would be very proud and a flatterer. He would be having friends from the lower sections. They are extravagant and quarrelsome and never succeed in life.\nIf the Mount is absent, then the person leads a very ordinary life. He would be a dull-minded and foolish fellow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek?authortitle=corbin-alain/time-desire-and-horror--9780745611310", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IJ7XU77RSDMK64IAHEPVS7MGP6EGUM7D", "length": 278, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.athenaeum.nl", "title": "Athenaeum Boekhandel | Time, Desire and Horror, CORBIN, Alain", "raw_content": "Time, Desire and Horror\nTime, Desire and Horror Towards a History of the Senses CORBIN, Alain\nIn this book Alain Corbin argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 3715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Staceyann+Chin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FVBVJK3N5XSQBWMJCNEF6Y6TEHLPYHS6", "length": 593, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.audible.com", "title": "Audiobooks narrated by Staceyann Chin | Audible.com", "raw_content": "Showing results by narrator \"Staceyann Chin\"\nBy: Staceyann Chin\nNarrated by: Staceyann Chin\nStacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.\nNo one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 2562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audleytravel.com/south-africa/country-guides/kwazulu-natal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FA3VSLFUOZ6CUATCI2KAK7ST2R5TYXRI", "length": 3700, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.audleytravel.com", "title": "KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa's Battlefields | Audley Travel", "raw_content": "HomeAfricaSouth Africa safaris & holidaysCountry GuidesKwaZulu-Natal\nThis province is worth a two-week trip in its own right, and Durban is a well-served flight hub, so incorporating one or two of the province\u2019s attractions into a country-wide itinerary is also possible and popular.\nA typical circuit would include the stark and stunning Drakensberg Mountains; the Battlefields, where some of the best guides in the country will wring emotions out of you as they describe the battles at Isandlwana and Rorke\u2019s Drift; public and private game reserves full of big game and beautiful scenery; and the coastline with its remote beach lodges in the north, the shores of the Lake St Lucia UNESCO World Heritage Site and the many resort towns around Durban.\nWhilst tours do pass through the province, to get a full flavour we really recommend self-driving, or, if just visiting one or two destinations, private transfers.\nStart planning your holiday to KwaZulu Natal\nHighlights of KwaZulu-Natal\nDrakensberg Mountains Trip\nRoyal Natal National Park is found in the Northern Drakensberg and is famous for the Amphitheatre, as well as the Tugela Falls that plunges over a five hundred metre wall of rock. There are many hiking trails in the region to explore this outstanding scenery.\nAnglo-Zulu Battlefields Trip\nWith a good guide book to hand, the battlefields of Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana can be explored on your own. It is perhaps best to start at Isandlwana, overlooking the battlefield from the ridge occupied by the Zulu commander, before making your way down to the sphinx-shaped hill where the heart of the battle unfolded.\nSani Pass & Lesotho Trip\nLesotho is isolated from KwaZulu-Natal by the towering Drakensberg Mountains, and the Sani Pass is the only way through them. The road cuts cut the slopes, switching through tortuous hairpin bends and offering dizzying views of valleys far below.\nSome of our favourite places in KwaZulu-Natal\nThe site of several bloody conflicts between the British, Boers and Zulus during the 19th century, KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s Battlefields are steeped in military history. You can tour each site with a guide to uncover the stories behind the battles.\nHluhluwe is the oldest game reserve in Africa, declared by Zulu kings in 1895, and is an area of rounded hills and valleys known for good game and bird spotting.\nStretching more than 1,000 km (620 miles), the Drakensberg forms the eastern portion of Southern Africa\u2019s Great Escarpment. Among its jagged peaks and pinnacles, you can go hiking, horse riding or mountain biking, and see ancient San Bushman rock paintings.\nGreat places to stay in KwaZulu-Natal\nSituated in the Kwazulu-Natal Drakensberg region, Montusi Mountain Lodge is a family-owned resort with thatched-roof accommodation and a wide range of outdoor activities, as well as stunning, uninterrupted views of Drakensberg\u2019s famous Amphitheatre escarpment.\nSituated in the Kwazulu Natal region of Rorke\u2019s Drift, Fugitive's Drift is a homely property ideal for travellers who want to learn all about the history of the local Battlefields or who just want a peaceful retreat for a few days.\nCleopatra Mountain Farmhouse is a real gem, perfect for those looking for a remote, luxury hideaway, offering all sorts of activities and superb gourmet food.\nForest Lodge puts you in the heart of the famous Dry Sand Forest in rooms that are raised above the forest floor to minimise their ecological impact.\nThe Oyster Box is set right on the beach front at Umhlanga in the shadow of a lighthouse. The dramatic setting is complemented by Mediterranean-style architecture of gently sloping roofs and arched gables.\nMadikwe and the North The Cape Region & Winelands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 305, "original_length": 10645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.australasianlawyer.com.au/news/global-firm-advises-on-asias-largest-ever-leveraged-buyout-deal-250860.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WC42UCO34235VNJCNJMQEIGCON5SHV5D", "length": 2696, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.australasianlawyer.com.au", "title": "Global firm advises on Asia's largest ever leveraged buyout deal", "raw_content": "Global firm advises on Asia's largest ever leveraged buyout deal\nA 2 trillion yen leveraged buyout deal has become the largest of its kind in Asia ever; and the largest Japanese inbound deal ever.\nBain Capital\u2019s US$18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Memory included a consortium including Apple Inc., Seagate, Kingston, Hoya, Dell Technologies Inc. and SK hynix.\nGlobal law firm Linklaters acted as lead counsel to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. as Mandated Lead Arrangers on the 600 billion yen senior facilities.\nThe cross-jurisdictional and multi-practice team was led by Zenya Onishi, Banking Counsel of Linklaters Tokyo and Davide Mencacci, Banking Partner of Linklaters Hong Kong. The team was supported by banking associates and members of the firm\u2019s Litigation, Competition and Corporate teams.\nOrrick hires Denton\u2019s Beijing managing partner\nGlobal law firm Orrick has expanded its M&A and private equity team with a senior hire from Dentons.\nSarah Zeng has joined Orrick\u2019s Beijing team from its rival where she was office managing partner. She becomes the 4th new partner to join the M&A and PE team in China in the past year.\nHer experience includes corporate tenures at Hong Kong-listed Weichai Power, China\u2019s largest engine manufacturer, where she was general counsel prior to joining Dentons.\n\u201cOrrick has a tremendous platform for Chinese energy, infrastructure and manufacturing companies with global ambitions looking to diversify and expand overseas with M&A and energy lawyers based in more than 25\nmarkets worldwide,\u201d she said. \u201cI am particularly excited to work with the firm\u2019s market leading M&A team to support Chinese companies investing in developed markets and other emerging markets.\u201d\nTrump lawyers seek to block sexual conduct evidence\nLawyers representing President Trump have argued that information relating to the president\u2019s discussions about women should not be allowed as evidence in a defamation case.\nSummer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump\u2019s TV show The Apprentice, is suing the president for defamation after he dismissed her sexual misconduct claims as lies.\nKasowitz Benson Torres partner and co-founder Marc Kasowitz, told supreme court justice Jennifer Schecter at a hearing that claims made by women who are not part of the case are \u201cirrelevant\u201d and should not be allowed.\nHowever, The Guardian reports that Mariann Wang of boutique firm Cuti Hecker Wang, countered that: \u201cIt\u2019s a defamation case, so we are required to prove the falsity of the statements, and his statements include statements about other women.\u201d\nThe president\u2019s lawyers have argued that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.authorexpo.com/online-book-promotion-for/exodus-clare-thibodeaux-series-book-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:TCO5CJSLQM24DR5JR6LNOJOTXBDRGOPC", "length": 1484, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.authorexpo.com", "title": "Exodus (Clare Thibodeaux Series Book 1)", "raw_content": "Clare Thibodeaux was working as a nurse in the ER of a busy Panama City hospital. On a hectic night, the victim of a vicious attack is brought in by ambulance. Still in critical condition, the patient is sent to the OR in the hope of saving his life. While cleaning up the trauma room, Clare finds the man\u2019s wallet, and discovers he is her brother\u2019s best friend from Michigan. The news is devastating for her bringing back memories of her tragic past which she thought she had put behind her.\nA series of violent events occur and she is left reeling in shock. The only thing they each have in common is Clare. She believes the demons from her past have reappeared. Fearing for her life, she packs a duffel bag of belongings leaving the new life she had forged for herself in Florida behind her. As a hurricane is anticipated to make landfall along the Gulf Coast, Clare joins the mass exodus of Floridians trying to get out of the path of the storm.\nClare\u2019s storm is just beginning. With the help of her parents\u2019 friends, she goes into hiding. Two men vie for her affection, but she doesn\u2019t know who to trust with her heart or her life.\nTags: Suspense, FBI, domestic terrorism, Navy Seals, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kate McGinn, politics, ER nurse, romance, Romantic Suspense\nAmazon or Bookstore URL: https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Clare-Thibodeaux-Book-1-ebook/dp/B01KUGX0ZK/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8#nav-subnav\nNO MORE BOATS\nRedemption in Big Fork Lake\nPlease Answer Question Below * \u00d7 = twelve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoestima-y-exito-personal.com/labyrinth-design.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UUNJI4ZXXESECBEI5RGXVQSFOF7JDIDC", "length": 2936, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.autoestima-y-exito-personal.com", "title": "Labyrinth Design", "raw_content": "Labyrinth design\nLabyrinth design and sacred geometry are combined in this e-book with the intention of exploring new paths and their energy type in order to allow choice.\nTwo purposes have been the driving force in the creation of the Labyrinth Design e-book:\nthe joy - the feeling of the geometry\nto identify geometrical aspects that can assist in defining their character\nThe first purpose and personally the most important, requires a right side of the brain approach. Feeling the form, the gesture and personality of different geometries is so exciting and uplifting, that that alone is worth the time.\nMore than one hundred color images are included, each of them a fully functional labyrinth, and if printed, all can be finger walked. The big variety of designs will also be very helpful if you are planning to build one and have not made a decision yet as to what labyrinth design to go for.\nSee samples of some of the graphics of the book in Laberintos, a series of pages in Spanish in this site.\nThe second purpose lays some groundwork regarding the interpretation of the character of a labyrinth. The components of these geometries are identified and along with the principles of great thinkers, they are assigned a role in the conformation of the character type.\nThis proposal has to be developed further, but is a good start if you are interested in specific benefits.\nAccording to groundbreaking principles in the areas of philosophical mathematics, psychophysiology and quantum physics, geometrical images and structures generate specific types of energy that affect human conditions. These concepts applied to labyrinths allow us to select among a wide variety of possible benefits.\nDerived from the principles stated by Dan Winter, some geometries will assist cancer patients to let go of excess tissue, while others will work the other way around, benefiting AIDS patients. In a similar way, other principles and benefits are discussed.\nAt the end of the book, the development concept of a spiritual park is presented along with the Tamarindo Labyrinth design history, that may well be the largest in the world in its type.\nFinally, a couple of charts summarize all the principles used to interpret character so you can practice or have your preferred features be developed into a custom design that suits you.\nWith 114 pages stuffed with graphics, this Labyrinth Design e-book sells for US$6.99. Use the following link to purchase a version for your computer.\nLabyrinth Design Requests\nEnter your request or comment\nThe rest of this site is in Spanish except for a few interesting\namong which is a sacred architecture project of a yoga studio I designed.\nThat Design Memory was the base for plans and construction of the studio. It was inaugurated and activated on the 21st of March, 2009 \u2013 spring equinox \u2013 by the Yoga for the Soul group.\nIf you want to contact me, please use the link below.\nGo to Pages in English.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avclub.com/tag/fahrenheit-119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GIR576IPNMNQOG4MZBKXXL5EOMYG4FIZ", "length": 1181, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.avclub.com", "title": "Pop Culture News, Photos, Videos & More", "raw_content": "Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 isn't doing so well (relatively)\nThis shouldn\u2019t be taken as proof that the opposition to Donald Trump is really just some #fakenews, but Michael Moore\u2019s\u2026\nWeekend Box Office: Turns out there was money and a clock in those walls\nEli Roth\u2019s first foray into the realm of the family-friendly seems to have worked out well for all involved: It\u2019s\u2026\nMichael Moore looks at and beyond Trump in the enraged but scattered Fahrenheit 11/9\nNo right-wing troll could ever trigger liberals as effectively as Michael Moore does in the first few minutes of Fahrenh\u2026\nMichael Moore's theory that Gwen Stefani created President Trump sounds like bullshit\nWe can blame Donald Trump\u2019s rise to power on a lot of things, including the idiotic racism of white people, the\u2026\nSimon Pegg and Michael Moore fight different kinds of monsters in today's Trailer Happy Hour\nHappy Thursday, Trailer Heads and Teasernatics. It\u2019s time for Trailer Happy Hour, the big cardboard box where we\u2026\nMichael Moore announces new documentary that will definitely take down Trump\nEarlier this month, Michael Moore announced a one-man show called The Terms Of My Surrender that boldly asked in its\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 355675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avmed.org/about-us/mission-and-values", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HXL7FURNUVCPVJAN3TN7WBHKSGOWBLX6", "length": 515, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.avmed.org", "title": "Mission and Values - AvMed", "raw_content": "Mission and Values/\nAvMed's mission is to help our Members live healthier. We provide Members with quality, cost-effective plans and excellent Member services.\nOur vision is to be our Members' trusted health partner for life. As one of the state's oldest and largest not-for-profit health plans, our corporate culture is defined by compassionate, collaborative and ethical behavior focused on delivering superior Member service. As a not-for-profit, we reinvest earnings to continually enhance services for Members.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avmed.org/web/individuals-families/health-care-basics/how-to-evaluate-health-plans", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WN5QZ2WFN3YJP4VBULFQCSGA6F6OOUS7", "length": 3488, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.avmed.org", "title": "How to evaluate Health Plans - AvMed", "raw_content": "How to evaluate Health Plans/\nAvMed is focused on helping Members stay on the path to better health. When it comes to finding the right coverage for you and your family, seek the advice of an insurance professional to find the plan that's right for you.\nWhether you are looking to purchase insurance as an individual or you need to evaluate more than one option offered by your Employer, there are lots of things to consider. Just follow this step-by-step guide:\nStep 1: Ask yourself what you\u2019re looking for\nI want a plan that gives me the best value for my money.\nConsider a plan with:\nAffordable copayments for doctor visits\nA deductible between $1000 and $2000\nA Network that includes your preferred physicians and hospitals\nI want a plan with the lowest possible cost.\nA deductible of $2,500 or higher\nEmergency and major medical coverage only\nLimited benefits, limited doctor visits\nDiscount prescription drug cards\nI want a plan that provides the most complete coverage possible.\nA deductible of $1,000 or less\nLow copayments for doctor visits\nThe broadest Network of healthcare providers\nFull prescription drug benefits\nStep 2: Decide what you need\nThere is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all insurance policy, so it\u2019s important to figure out what your needs are. Where is the nearest in-network hospital? Find out if the doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies in the plan are convenient for you. Do you have any health conditions?\nYou may also benefit from educational support or a Care Management program that helps you manage your specific condition. What kind of medical care do you need? If you are on prescription drugs, you will want to find a plan that includes the medication you need. If you need to see a Specialist, you will want to ensure that you can find one in your plan\u2019s Network.\nOnce you\u2019ve taken stock of your needs, then it will be helpful to compare premiums and deductibles to make the decision about what plan is right for you.\nStep 3: Understand the costs\nThere is an entire new vocabulary when it comes to health insurance costs.\nPREMIUM: This is the monthly payment that keeps your health insurance policy active. It is determined by factors like age, lifestyle, and the city where you live.\nDEDUCTIBLE: This is the amount you have to pay for medical expenses in order for coverage to kick in. The deductible may not apply to all services. You can choose from a range of annual deductibles.\nCOPAYMENTS: This is a fixed amount that you are required to pay when you receive care.\nCOINSURANCE: This is a percentage-based amount that you are required to pay when you receive care, the rest of which is paid by the insurance company.\nOUT-OF-POCKET MAXIMUM: This is the set limit on the amount you are responsible for paying for healthcare services in one year.\nWhen it comes time to choose a health plan, there are different ways to shop, compare, and apply for coverage if you are shopping as an individual. If you are choosing one of the options offered by your Employer, you can choose during your company\u2019s open enrollment period.\nApply with the Insurance Company\u2014 If you know what carrier\u2019s plan you would like, you can apply directly by contacting them by phone or on their website.\nApply with a Licensed Agent\u2014Insurance Agents and Brokers can help make the process easier by comparing options and providing expert advice.\nApply by Comparing Quotes\u2014There are several online quote services that can connect you with local Agents and provide instant quotes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.awai.com/2014/10/b2b-writer-tries-new-type-of-copy-and-wins-big/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:18Z", "digest": "sha1:T5PNA6KALBAUPRC75UFYA7AVKV4N2AFP", "length": 3838, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.awai.com", "title": "A B2B Writer Tries His Hand at a New Type of Copy \u2026 and Wins Big", "raw_content": "2014 October B2B Writer Tries New Type of Copy \u2026 and Wins Big\nA B2B Writer Tries His Hand at a New Type of Copy \u2026 and Wins Big\nAfter 30 years in the IT field, it was natural for Circle of Success member Les Worley to focus his new writing career on the B2B niches of software and tech services. But then Ed Gandia, a B2B expert and one of his mentors, encouraged him to set a goal outside of his comfort zone.\nLes decided to write a headline and lead for a Spec Challenge for Bootcamp \u2026 even though the deadline was just two days away. Les did a great job despite the short turnaround and was recognized as one of the Spec Challenge winners at Bootcamp. He received $1,000 and the chance to work with AWAI further on his copy to the tune of another $1,000 if it\u2019s mailed.\n\u201cWhen I saw my letter on the big screen and heard Katie start to read it, I was shocked, honored, and terrified all at the same time,\u201d recounts Les. \u201cAfter the adrenaline rush subsided, I felt a sense of validation and confirmation that I truly am on the right track. What a warm welcome to the writer\u2019s life!\n\u201cThere were several challenges to choose from. I picked the Bootcamp 2015 promo because I really consider last year\u2019s Bootcamp (2013) as a major turning point. Not just in my career, but in my life. That probably sounds overly dramatic, but it\u2019s true.\u201d\nAlthough an AWAI member since 2005, Les\u2019s career as a freelance writer didn\u2019t start in earnest until 2013. He joined Circle of Success during Bootcamp of that year. It was a big factor in his success since then.\n\u201cFirst, I\u2019ve had some really great training. :-) The AWAI programs, Accelerated Program, Circle of Success, B2B secrets, white papers, case studies \u2014 and there are plenty more,\u201d explains Les. \u201cSecond, I have some awesome (and patient) mentors. The Circle of Success program (thanks, Will!) and B2B Biz Launcher program (thanks, Ed!), not to mention all those folks at both Bootcamps who took the time and patience to guide me along. That would be a long list though. Also, I can\u2019t give credit enough for all the support and encouragement from my husband, Casey. He encouraged me to (finally) go to Bootcamp last year.\u201d\nLes has excelled recently with his B2B-focused business. He wrote a white paper for a product launch, as well as a case study. And the first client is back asking if he can write blog posts and short articles.\n\u201cI have a good list of prospects that I\u2019ll be contacting over the next couple weeks. One of those is my former employer. The marketing VP and the whole marketing staff have recently connected with me on LinkedIn. Who better to help them with their copy needs?\u201d says Les.\n\u201cAnd I have to mention Bootcamp and Job Fair. I have some specs to finish after talking to the marketers at Job Fair. On top of that, I\u2019ve already been contacted by one of the marketers that I didn\u2019t talk to at Job Fair \u2026 just because of the spec-assignment win! I know that 2015 is going to be a great year!\u201d\nBesides all the job opportunities, Les has enjoyed the networking and social benefits of events like Bootcamp, as well as Circle of Success and AWAI.\nLes explains, \u201cI have made more friends and acquaintances than I can count, both among AWAI members and through various Facebook and LinkedIn groups. Bootcamp really shines on that one. I worried that being a freelancer would mean \u2018me against the world,\u2019 but that\u2019s not the case. I\u2019m also just starting to work with two small accountability groups \u2026 that really helps keep me moving.\u201d\nCongrats on the Spec Challenge win, Les. And let us know how your B2B business goes.\nYou can find Les\u2019s freelance website here: www.LWorleyGroup.com.\n1 Response to \u201cA B2B Writer Tries His Hand at a New Type of Copy \u2026 and Wins Big\u201d\nWay to go Les! You're no longer a newbie - keep pressing on to success.\nGuest (Jeff) \u2013 October 24, 2014 at 11:18 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 8939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.awanireview.com/articles/2018/03/08/news/blaine-gibson-undeterred-neither-by-pain-nor-polonium-will-continue-mh370-search-223/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:09Z", "digest": "sha1:XOPPJOHEHPHSHRKHAXHEJODESJY4M3IH", "length": 6680, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.awanireview.com", "title": "Blaine Gibson: Undeterred Neither by Pain Nor Polonium, Will Continue MH370 Search - Awani Review", "raw_content": "Retired US lawyer Blaine Gibson tells AWANI Review\u2019s Cynthia Ng that stick and stones may break his bones but even online threats, he will not desist unraveling this heart-wrenching modern-day aviation mystery.\nVicious online attacks and death threats were not something Malaysia Airlines MH370 debris hunter Blaine Gibson had expected when he began his self-funded investigations into the missing airliner.\n\u201cOne said I\u2019d either give up my search or disappear, or die by polonium poisoning. Another one said I won\u2019t leave Madagascar alive.\u201d\nThe retired American lawyer, had since decided to \u2018lay low\u2019 and be more discreet about his investigations - which is centred around the coastlines of the Indian Ocean. To date, Blaine says, he and other other private citizens have discovered 15 pieces of debris, washed ashore on coastlines throughout the Indian Ocean, whereby 13 have been included in the official MH370 investigation report.\nTwo more pieces, says Blaine, are awaiting collection at Madagascar, pending an investigation into the passing of Malaysian consul to the republic, Houssenaly Zahid Raza, on Aug 24 2017.\n(In total, 27 pieces of debris suspected to be from MH370 have been discovered.)\nOCEAN WILL REVEAL ITS SECRETS\nBlaine was in Kuala Lumpur recently to take part in the fourth MH370 commemoration, a gathering of families of passengers and crew on board MH370, which he had attended yearly since 2015.\n\u201cThe moment I decided that I was really going to do something was at the one (First) year commemoration of MH370, when I came (to Kuala Lumpur) and heard Grace speak about her mother,\u201d says Blaine, \u201cAnd I realized how unimaginable it was that, after one year, they knew absolutely nothing,\u201d referring to Grace Nathan, daughter of MH370 passenger, Anne Daisy.\nI saw that this was not only a mystery to be solved but this one could bring real answers to real people who are in need of them now\nA self-described \u2018explorer and truth seeker\u2019, what started off as an adventure to uncover the mystery of MH370\u2019s disappearance has become \u2018much more\u2019 for Blaine.\n\u201cI saw that this was not only a mystery to be solved but this one could bring real answers to real people who are in need of them now,\u201d says the explorer whose previous archaeological expeditions prior had led him to Ethiopia, the jungles of Belize and the bitter cold of Siberia.\n\u201cIt astounded me that there's no official search on shorelines for debris washed ashore,\u201d Blaine exclaims, \u201cI always thought, the first pieces of the plane are probably going to wash ashore and someone is going to stumble on them on the beach. It\u2019s not going to be the expensive underwater search. The ocean will reveal its secrets.\u201d\nCONTINUED HUNT\nIn January 2018, a new search area undertaken by Texas-based Ocean Infinity in the remote swath of the Southern Indian Ocean - a year after the official search by Malaysia, Australia and China was called off - has renewed hope that MH370\u2019s wreckage and its crucial black box and data recorders will be found.\n\u201cWhat makes me feel good now is that the debris that I and other private citizens have found has contributed to getting the search renewed. Now, the ship is back in the water and looking in the most likely area to find the plane,\u201d says Blaine, despite the threats and character assassination he had endured online.\nBut what if the search to track the plane\u2019s wreckage, currently dragging on into its fourth year, turns out to be yet another unsuccessful attempt?\n\u201cIf they do not find it, then we need to really look at other evidence. It will become clear then, that there is something wrong with the Inmarsat data, or its interpretation.\u201d\n\u201cWe need to look at other things - the debris, oceanography, personal effects.\u201d Blaine has combed through CCTV footages of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members who boarded the plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, before it disappeared.\nIf they do not find it, then we need to really look at other evidence. It will become clear then, that there is something wrong with the Inmarsat data, or its interpretation\nWhile a substantial amount of smaller plane debris suspected to be from MH370 have been washed ashore - none were personal effects like passports, identification cards or luggage tags - that could definitely tie them to the plane. Some family members still believe their loved ones could still be alive.\n\u201cThere were witnesses in the Maldives who say the morning MH370 went missing, they saw a low flying jet plane that matches the description. Their sighting, contradicts those of the Inmarsat data, both timing and location, says Blaine, \u201cThey are now are looking based on Inmarsat data. But if they don't find it, they should really investigated that witness sighting.\n\u201cIf we find the black box and crash site, there will still be some unanswered question - that will tell us the \u201cwhat, where and how\u201d. The \u201cwho and why\u201d, may not be answered by that.\u201d\nBlaine says he is committed to find evidences, even if the search drags on for years. To help family members find closure, he says, is what he hopes to do.\n\u201cMy investigation has always been more than just looking for evidences and finding debris. I\u2019m also trying to find out who, if anyone, is responsible for what happened and why this happened.\u201d\nThe unexplained circumstances surrounding MH370\u2019s disappearance have prompted countless theories about what happened, with theories ranging from hijacking, cabin fire, military attack to the bizarre possibility of alien kidnapping.\nBut none were more pronounced than the theories suggesting the pilots - Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq Abdul Hamidmay have been responsible. But Blaine insists that is not right to point fingers at the crew as there is no evidence to suggest so.\nThe debris has disproved that it was a controlled flight ditching\n\u201cInnocent until proven guilty,\" says Blaine, adding that the evidence have been pointing away from deliberate pilot action. \"The debris has disproved that it was a controlled flight ditching.\"\n\u201cThe wing flap washed out in Tanzania was found in retracted position, not deployed,\u201d suggesting that MH370 may have had plunged rapidly and was not configured for landing, before it smashed into the ocean. \u201cThere are many other possibilities such as a series of accidents where the crew was overcome and the plane flew on as a ghost plane, or a hijacking - that is actually more likely.\u201d\n\u201cWe need to reserve judgment, we need to find the black box,\u201d maintains Blaine, adding that if the wreckage is not found, the surface debris search will become even more important.\n\u201cIf anything washes ashore, that's the only thing that we have then. And I will continue my search.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 8156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.awanireview.com/articles/2019/02/06/news/david-roccos-dolce-vita-life-is-sweet-dishing-food-good-to-eat-590/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MTI73I5DKWTKWD2ZUBOBUH433J2Y6UXP", "length": 6492, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.awanireview.com", "title": "David Rocco\u2019s Dolce Vita: Life is Sweet, Dishing Food Good To Eat - Awani Review", "raw_content": "Celebrity food and travel host David Rocco counts neither fame nor money as measurement of one\u2019s success. He relishes the moments when cultural barriers are broken and meaningful connections are made through food.\nDavid Rocco did not set out to be a food and travel show host.\nHe had always wanted to be filmmaker, and thought a cooking show was a great way to learn the ropes of movie making - something he had zero experience in.\n\u201cAt that time, we thought a feature film was too much work but a cooking show seemed doable,\u201d says Rocco, reminiscing a decision he and his wife Nina took almost twenty years ago that set them off a globetrotting adventure.\nDolce Vita has travelled the world to exotic places, aired in over 150 countries and found international success\n\u201cSo, we just went ahead and got ourselves into something we had no experience in. It was about learning to get a project off the ground and to be entrepreneurial.\u201d\nThe couple ended up producing a 13 mini series featuring Rocco preparing traditional classic Italian dishes around the beautiful cities and countrysides of Italy.\nThe show, Dolce Vita, has since travelled the world to exotic places, aired in over 150 countries and found international success through networks like National Geographic, Food Network and BBC Food.\n\u201cA hundred eighty episodes later, I have no interest in doing a film anymore,\u201d says the father-of-three with a smile.\nConnecting People Through Food\nRocco is a man of many hats - celebrity chef, executive producer, author, winemaker, all-round family man - and he does seem to be living up to the Dolce Vita, or the \u2018sweet life\u2019 - bringing his passion for travel and food to millions around the world.\nYet, the 49-year-old says his biggest achievement is neither fame nor money.\n\u201cIt is a nice perk and is something I identify with my job,\u201d the Canadian-Italian says modestly. \u201cBut my family is really what comes first. To have that balance, to be able to travel and to bring them into my work, has been the most important thing.\u201d\nMy wife and I we are very entrepreneurial. We make huge investments when we may not have the broadcast support, we take big risks\nRocco, based in Toronto, spends almost 22 weeks on the road to film his series, and makes sure his three children - Emma, Georgia and Dante - gets to spend at least a couple of weeks with him on set at each shoot.\n\u201cThey were with us in many places - in Delhi, in Zanzibar and even in Kenya with the Maasai people. It\u2019s just so amazing because I see them becoming young adults with a lot of compassion.\u201d\n\u201cTravel affects them in such a positive way. There\u2019s so much openness and it\u2019s nice to see that,\u201d he adds. \u201cThey are my legacy.\u201d\nRocco, who runs his own production team of about twenty, underscores the challenges and hard work that goes into making a travel-cooking show.\n\u201cYou are on TV now but you might not be on the next season,\u201d he says bluntly. \u201cMy wife and I we are very entrepreneurial. We make huge investments when we may not have the broadcast support, we take big risks.\u201d\n\u201cOne might say \u2018Oh you are David Rocco, that\u2019s very easy\u2019, but you know, the bigger you are, the bigger the money you have to put out, the bigger the risk and a bigger potential of failure,\u201d says Rocco.\nRocco, a firm believer that \u2018success is a residue of hard work\u2019, says he is often the first to arrive on set, and the last to leave - not only to set a good example to his production team, more importantly, to his children.\n\u201cMy kids see me on the road, on production. I carry the equipments. I\u2019m the first one one set, last one off set because I am the Executive Producer and I need to set that tone. For me, it is also very important for the kids to see that hard work comes first,\u201d says Rocco.\nI Do Not Measure Success By Money or Fame\n\u201cFifty is the new forty,\u201d Rocco exclaims with a laugh when asked if there\u2019s many more years to his globetrotting food adventure. \u201cThe interesting thing is, I feel I could do so much more than I ever did without kids,\u201d says the 49-year-old.\nIn fact, Rocco is already working on his new project, and Southeast Asia will be the focal point. (He has done Dolce Vita India and Dolce Vita Africa).\n\u201cThere\u2019s a really great fan base here and the food is so interesting. So, for us, it\u2019s the next frontier that we needed to do.\u201d\nRocco got acquainted with Southeast Asia from Fox Network\u2019s Celebrity Chef: East vs West, that featured Rocco and Hong Kong singer and chef Nicholas Tse cooking local food in competition with each other, taking them to the Macau, Fushan, Manila, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.\nI always ask myself - does this expand the business, or expand what I want to do? Or is it just to fulfil the ego\n\u201cThe flavour profile here is really strong and fresh.\u201d Rocco is expected to be back in the region in the coming months to shoot his own new show. \u201cWe will be shooting in four to five countries and Malaysia will almost be the centrepiece of the new series.\u201d\nRaring to go, there\u2019s seems to be no slowing down for the energetic Rocco, as he keeps an eye on growing the \u2018David Rocco\u2019 brand.\nBut one thing you won\u2019t find him doing anytime soon is setting up his own restaurant.\n\u201cI always ask myself - does this expand the business, or expand what I want to do? Or is it just to fulfil the ego?\u201d\n\u201cEvery project you get into takes up more time and energy, and something else will suffer,\u201d says Rocco.\u201cFor me, hanging out with my kids on the weekend, or traveling with them is far more enticing. In the end, it is what\u2019s more important to me.\u201d\nRocco, however, says he sees his career to include more more public speaking engagements when the traveling eventually takes a backseat. \u201cPeople are curious about my journey and how it has evolved.\u201d\n\u201cI look at myself as having the opportunity that brings culture together, to break myths and stereotypes, to be the guy that travels through and food and bring people closer.\u201d\n\u201cFood is a universal truth,\u201d says the introspective Rocco,\u201c Not to sound grandiose but there is a lot of imbalance in the world and it would be nice to be more harmonious.\u201d\n\u201cAnd I really believe that food can do it. Nothing else! It gets people to sit down at a table and then we can see that we are not that different from each other.\u201d\nEmmanuel Stroobant: Sprinkle Stardust In The Malaysian Kitchen\nBorn in Belgium, restaurateur in Singapore and a fleeting visit to a kitchen in Desaru Coast has given Michelin-starred chef Emmanuel Stroobant insights into the secrets of the Malaysian kitchen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 7753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.azcakeshoppe.com/apps/calendar/showEvent?calID=3531788&eventID=275158829", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LBLPLEK7ZJTP5E2WCJPIY4IRFQQG63QD", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.azcakeshoppe.com", "title": "Fundamentals of Cake Decorating - AZ Cake Shoppe, LLC", "raw_content": "Saturday October 6, 2018 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 53.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bachelorstudies.com.au/BSc-(Hons)-Civil-Engineering/United-Kingdom/Nottingham-Trent-University-School-of-Architecture-Design-and-the-Built-Environment/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:40Z", "digest": "sha1:3QLDQGA6R4MONILMKG64BBVSYBBGFQ4W", "length": 13191, "nlines": 92, "source_domain": "www.bachelorstudies.com.au", "title": "BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering, Nottingham, United Kingdom 2019", "raw_content": "Civil engineers find creative ways to solve real-world problems, developing the physical infrastructure for society to exist \u2013 from bridges to houses, and from roads to hospitals and train stations. Accredited by numerous professional industry bodies, our course has been designed to provide a practical and broad civil engineering education.\nOur course is accredited, under license from the Engineering Council, by the Joint Board of Moderators (J.B.M.), which represents the Institution of Civil Engineers (I.C.E.), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), the Institute of Highway Engineers (I.H.E.) and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (C.I.H.T.). It's also accredited by the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, recognising the quality and relevance of the course content.\nTake the first step in gaining Incorporated Engineer status \u2013 this course is accredited as fully satisfying the educational base for an Incorporated Engineer (IEng).\nBenefit from excellent employability prospects. 95% of our BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering sandwich students are in a professional or managerial job, just six months after graduating, earning an average salary of \u00a327,900 (DLHE, 2016-2017). Due to a skills shortage and a boom in the construction industry, civil engineering graduates are heavily sought after.\nExperience hands-on learning in our modern facilities and workshops, offering industry-standard equipment and support from our team of expert technicians.\nApply your learning to the real world and network with experts in the industry, with opportunities to take part in site visits and a residential surveying trip included in course fees, and live projects part of the course.\nGain vital skills and experience in the workplace by undertaking a one-year placement.\nTailor your studies to suit your strengths and interests, with opportunities to transfer on to the BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering course, from which you could progress to our MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Design and Construction course.\nThis course is also offered through a part-time study route.\nHow does this course differ from our BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering and MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering courses?\nOur BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering course contains a higher level of mathematics and structural analysis, in comparison to our BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering course. Our BEng course partially satisfies the educational base for Chartered Engineer status (CEng).\nOur MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Design and Construction course is taught over four years (five years with a placement) and you will gain a Master of Engineering Degree. In your final year, you will work alongside students studying related postgraduate courses, undertaking a complex and challenging project. An accredited MEng is the most direct route to Chartered Engineer status.\nOur course exposes you to the exciting and rapidly expanding world of construction, preparing you to take on the challenges of developing and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins society. The course develops together the theory and practice of civil engineering, with an emphasis on the practical nature of civil engineering and the application and management of current technologies.\nThe final year of the course builds upon the engineering knowledge and practice developed in Years One and Two and broadens the curriculum, addressing issues such as people management, finance, professional ethics, and transportation issues.\nHow you\u2019re taught\nBased on 40-hour weeks during term time, approximately 14 hours per week is spent in scheduled learning.\nThis includes lectures; seminars and tutorials; laboratory practical exercises, such as making and testing concrete; assessing structural forms and testing beams; fieldwork, such as site visits, field trips, and practical exercises; and IT sessions, including computer-aided design (CAD). You will also be involved in self-directed project work with the support of NOW, our virtual learning environment.\nOutside of timetabled sessions, you will need to undertake self-directed independent study. This will include preparing for lectures, researching, completing coursework, developing a portfolio, and directed reading to expand your knowledge.\nIn your final year, the scheduled learning sessions reduce to approximately 30% of your time, as more time is focused on your group and individual projects.\nOur links with industry\nYou will benefit from our established links with industry, ensuring the continued relevancy of our course content. You'll be exposed to industry professionals by working on live project briefs set by companies from industry, and in the form of guest lecturers, visits to working sites, industry-sponsored awards, and work placements.\nYou will also have opportunities to work with companies to gain new skills. For example, this year's final year students took part in a project to design part of a new super cycleway between Toton and Nottingham city centre. The large contractors Interserve join first-year students on a bridge-building exercise each year.\nYou will be assessed through a mix of coursework, practical exercises and exams. The coursework will make up the majority of your assessment and will consist of group and individual projects, reports, presentations, and essays. You will receive feedback throughout each module.\nTo progress through the course you will need to achieve 120 credits each year. The number of credits for each module are listed above.\nTake part in site visits, a residential surveying trip \u2013 included in course fees \u2013 and live projects as part of the course.\nOur course is designed to prepare you to succeed in the construction industry. Through working on real projects from industry, fieldwork, and regularly updated course content, you'll be equipped with skills and experience to carry with you for the rest of your professional career.\n95% of our BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering sandwich students are in a professional or managerial job, just six months after graduating (DLHE, 2016-2017).\nRecent growth in UK industry has revealed a skills shortage in this area. You'll graduate with desirable skills and knowledge, boosting your employment prospects.\nWhere do Civil Engineering graduates from NTU work?\nNTU has a strong civil engineering alumni community, with many graduates working in senior positions in leading national and international companies.\nRecent BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering graduate destinations include:\nBalfour Beatty: graduate civil engineer, junior civil engineer, junior site engineer, site engineer, trainee civil engineer\nVolkerFitzpatrick: site engineer, site engineering assistant, assistant engineer\nClugston: assistant site manager\nJackson Civil Engineering: site engineer\nLaing O'Rourke: civil engineer\nMartin Redston Associates: structural engineer\nMorgan Sindall: tunnel engineer\nNorth Midland Construction: project engineer, design coordinator.\nOur expert Employability team will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice. You can benefit from this service at any time during your studies, and for up to three years after completing your course.\nBSc (Hons) Civil Engineering students have the opportunity to apply for a year-long work placement. This will give you real, hands-on experience within the industry, opening up exciting opportunities for future employment.\nWhere can I go on my placement?\nCivil Engineering students typically secure placements in civil engineering contractors, design consultancies, surveying sub-contractors, utilities companies, and structural engineering organisations.\nRecent destinations have included:\nBirse Civils\nVolkerFitzpatrick.\nRecent roles have included site engineer, junior site manager, assistant engineer, designer, and project manager.\nMany students are sponsored through their final year by their placement company, with a guaranteed job on graduation.\nSuccessful completion of the 36 weeks leads to an extra qualification \u2013 the Diploma in Professional Practice, which will further enhance your CV.\nLaboratory spaces\nThe School has excellent lab and workshop resources for structural testing, materials science, and soils and building services. See a full gallery of facilities used by our civil engineering students.\nDedicated resource centre\nStudents in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment have access to a dedicated resource centre. This centre, based in the Maudslay building, enables students to undertake private study in a facility equipped with:\nlarge format plotters\ndesk space together with the latest, and archived, journals and publications.\nThis resource centre is open from 8 am to 8 pm, Monday to Friday.\nOur IT resource rooms and PC clusters are distributed across the City site, with PCs providing access to:\nnetworked file storage\nhigh-speed online printing services (with a free printing allowance for each student). Resource rooms are available 24 hours a day.\nBooks and library resources\nIn the library, you will have access to an extensive and diverse range of books and periodicals that focus on specialist areas within the Built Environment. The library's OneSearch system provides access to all our electronic resources, journals, and books.\nWithin the library, there is a liaison librarian who has specialist Civil Engineering subject knowledge. They can offer detailed help in finding and using print and electronic resources and also support on things such as Harvard referencing and research skills.\nYou can apply to this course through the UCAS application form.\nReady to join us? Just click the Apply button at the top of the page and follow the instructions for applying. Make sure you check the entry requirements above carefully before you do.\nThis course starts in September and applications should be submitted by the UCAS deadline \u2013 15 January.\nApplications received after this date will only be considered if places are still available, after all applications received by the deadline have been assessed.\nWriting your application and personal statement\nBe honest, thorough and persuasive in your application. Remember that we can only make a decision based on what you tell us, so include all of your qualifications and grades, including resits or predicted grades.\nYour personal statement is a really important part of your application. It's your chance to convince us why we should offer you a place in just 4,000 characters. Make sure you use them to show how your skills and qualities are relevant to the course(s) you're applying for. For more hints and tips, take a look at our page on how to write a good personal statement.\nWe welcome applications from mature students (over the age of 21) for this course. We will assess applicants of this nature on an individual basis.\nIf you are a mature student, you will still need to apply to us by UCAS form, but you don't necessarily need to meet our minimum entry requirements.\nAfter you've applied, we'll be sending you important emails throughout the application process \u2013 so check your emails regularly, including your junk mail folder.\nApplication for this course is through the UCAS application form.\nApply as early as you can so that you have time to prepare for your studies. If you need a visa to study here, you need to plan this into your application.\nFor a step-by-step guide on making an application to the University, please visit our how to apply page.\nFor advice on applying for a visa, please visit our visa information page.\nPlease also take a look at our International students' page and our application guide for international students, which are full of advice and information about to the University.\nThe annual fee for our undergraduate degree courses includes a number of items. In addition to expert tuition and access to our first-class workshop and IT resources, you'll receive:\nmandatory field trips, exhibitions, and events required as part of your core studies\n\u00a3100 print and materials credit for each year of your course (for a maximum of three years) for use in the Bonington art shop and School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment workshops and print facilities\nmaterials for induction workshops and activities within the workshops and laboratories\npersonal protective equipment (PPE) as required\nprofessional body course accreditation\n\u00a320 prepaid printing allowance for use in NTU print shops and with library photocopiers.\nYou are expected to purchase your own books, standard drawing and writing equipment, and consumables.\nWhere optional overseas visits are offered, you will need to meet the cost of these.\nI.C.E. Scholarship\nThe Institution of Civil Engineers have a yearly opportunity to apply for the I.C.E. 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These scholarships currently provide:\n\u00a310,000 over the course of your study\npaid work placements every summer\nthe potential of a full-time job with a leading civil engineering or construction company when you graduate\nexperience and knowledge that are good for your CV and your career \u2013 especially if you want to become an incorporated or chartered civil engineer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 17879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.back-to-iraq.com/2003/02/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GZT2BYEDJZH5KJGP2K63TGQNBMILKNSL", "length": 1724, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.back-to-iraq.com", "title": "February 10, 2003 \u2013 Back to Iraq", "raw_content": "Russia, Germany and France form \u201cAxis of Evil: The Sequel\u201d\nRussia, Germany and France issued a joint declaration today on the need to find a peaceful solution to the crisis with Iraq, the United States and the Security Council.\nTo all who got five email notifications on the last entry: My sincerest apologies. I had a bad email address in the notification list, and didn\u2019t realize it. Multiple notices went out. Please don\u2019t be mad. Also, to anyone who signs up for email notifications, please put an email address in the correct field. Addresses \u2026\nContinue reading \u201cSorry for the email notifications!\u201d\nSpotlight on Ansar al-Islam\nThe spotlight is now on Ansar al-Islam, a guerilla group of Islamists causing trouble in the extreme southeast of Iraqi Kurdistan. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell pointed to the group as Exhibit A in America\u2019s case to link Baghdad with al Qa\u2019ida. On Saturday, Ansar agents killed Shawkat Hajji Mushir, a PUK general and member of the ruling council, along with several other people (accounts vary on the number killed.) Members of the FreeRepublic web site are convinced this is the opening shot in the war and that a major attack on the United States is imminent. Their fears are based on events in Afghanistan on Sept. 9, 2001, when Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance was assassinated by Qa\u2019ida agents posing as journalists two days before the attacks on Washington and New York City. His death robbed the Taliban\u2019s opposition of their most charismatic and militarily competent leader.\nAnsar al-Islam kills PUK minister, two others\nAnsar al-Islam militants shot and killed a prominent PUK member in the Kurdish parliament along with two other Kurdish officials Saturday night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.backpackerguide.nz/category/nz-guide/national-parks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UIWNVUTYR67I6WF7DW4TAUX5WXU7OH5Q", "length": 559, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.backpackerguide.nz", "title": "National Parks - Backpacker Guide New Zealand", "raw_content": "A complete guide to the national parks of New Zealand. Check out all the best walks, multi-day hikes, activities and accommodation in the national parks of New Zealand.\nCruise the fiords and get harassed by a kea in Fiordland! Once again, [\u2026]\nKahurangi National Park \u2013 Guide for Backpackers\nThe wilderness of the West Coast. You can\u2019t stay in the Kahurangi [\u2026]\nThe national park with all the ice. Crampons at the ready! Westland [\u2026]\nRakiura National Park \u2013 Guide for Backpackers\nStewart Island\u2019s national Park. By walking in the Rakiura National Park, you [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 6257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bafuture.org/member/kenny-bingham", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:16Z", "digest": "sha1:WEW5IFB76P3HVJ5JY2PFHO2QUCXEOXXO", "length": 1189, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bafuture.org", "title": "Kenny Bingham | Building America's Future", "raw_content": "Kenny Bingham\nFormer South Carolina House Majority Leader, District 89\nHaving represented District 89 for nearly a decade, Kenny Bingham has emerged as one of the rising stars of the S.C. Republican Party thanks to his tireless work ethic, leadership skills and commitment to fiscal and social conservative values.\nA member of the powerful House Ways & Means committee \u2013 which is responsible for drafting the state spending plan \u2013 Kenny has been a consistent voice for tax relief and responsible spending since earning this coveted position after four years on the House Labor, Commerce & Industry Committee. A successful businessman, Kenny is a licensed professional engineer and co-owner of American Engineering Consultants, Inc.\nA lifelong resident of Lexington County, Kenny is a graduate of Brookland-Cayce High School and the University of South Carolina. Prior to being elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, Kenny served as a member of the City of Cayce Planning Commission for two years. He also served for four years on the Lexington School District Two Board of Trustees, including two years as Chairman.\nRepresentative Kenny Bingham's official page can be found here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 104.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ballymenatimes.com/news/crime/thieves-steal-from-92-year-old-woman-1-6930133", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PFMTAN7ZG7LBIGDHOMLA4WZWOFFK4WBA", "length": 624, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ballymenatimes.com", "title": "Thieves steal from 92-year-old woman - Ballymena Times", "raw_content": "Thieves steal from 92-year-old woman\nThe home of a 92-year-old woman was broken into and items worth \u00a35000 stolen.\nDetectives are now investigating the burglary which took place in the Ballywatermoy Road area of Clough on Sunday 23 August.\nDCI Richard Carmichael said: \u201cA woman aged 92 lives at the house. The doors of the garage were forced open and items worth around \u00a35,000 stolen.\n\u201cDetectives are asking anyone who saw suspicious activity in the area at the time to contact us on the non-emergency number 101. We are also reminding people of the importance of locking and securing garages and outbuildings at all times.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-11-24-1998328028-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:SNZH436FYEVK54U2XCA3GJRYIJLA6IUX", "length": 6702, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "1998 All-Howard County Cross Country Teams - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "1998 All-Howard County Cross Country Teams\nEarl Lauer, River Hill: The Hawks tied the record for fewest points (27) in winning the Howard County meet and set the record for fewest points (28) in winning their first Class 2A state championship.\nThey stunned South Carroll by winning the Howard County Invitational early in the season.\nThen they defeated three nationally ranked teams with a second-place finish in the seeded division at the Georgetown Invitational.\nThey also won the William & Mary Invitational B race in Williamsburg. Lauer, a 28-year veteran who coached 25 years at Atholton before moving to River Hill, called this falls' team his greatest. It was his fifth state championship team and 10th county titlist.\nZach Heidepriem, River Hill, senior: In a highly competitive season in which no one runner dominated from start to finish, Heidepriem peaked for the Howard County championships.\nHe won that title (16: 14) at Howard Community College with a strong finishing kick and a lean at the wire in one of the most exciting championship races ever. And then he came back a week later with another solid victory at the Class 2A South regional (16: 58) at Centennial.\nHis attempt at the triple crown fizzled, when he faded to eighth in the state meet. But Heidepriem also won two quad meets. He's a repeat All-County choice.\nBen Coffman, Wilde Lake, senior: He's a two-time All-County selection whose best race was at the Class 3A East region championships, where he finished first (16: 34).\nCoffman was sixth at the Howard County championship (16: 28). He finished 41st at the state championship. He's a repeat All-County selection who was second-team All-Metro runner last season.\nSteve Chu, River Hill, junior: He ran his best race at the Class 2A South region championships, where he finished third (17: 09).\nChu was an integral member of the Hawks' powerful No. 2-ranked team with a seventh place at the county championships (16: 45) and an 11th place at the state meet (17: 46).\nJon Goldsmith, Glenelg, sophomore: Goldsmith finished 40th at the county meet a year ago. This year he nearly won it, losing to Zach Heidepriem by a lean.\nHis second-place finish (16: 14) was clocked in the same time as the winner. He stumbled a little in the Class 1A South region championship, finishing second (17: 32) to teammate Brian Selmer. But he wrapped up the season with a third-place (17: 39) effort at the state meet.\nHe also won invitationals at Brunswick and St. Paul's.\nEddie Lopez, Atholton, senior: Lopez surprised a lot of people with fifth-place finish (16: 23) in the strong Howard County championship fifth-place finish and followed that up with fourth (17: 10) in the Class 2A South region.\nHe was 15th at the state meet (17: 52).\nMike Prada, River Hill, senior: He was on track to be Runner of the Year until he sprained an ankle a few days before the county championships. Prada won the Interstate and William & Mary Invitationals and was second at the Howard County Invitational.\nHe ran a gutsy third (16: 18) at the county meet, was fifth at regionals (17: 12) and came back for fourth place at states (17: 15). He was All-County last season, as well as second-team All-Metro.\nMike Styczynski, River Hill, junior: One of the most improved runners this season, Styczynski was consistent with fourth place at the Howard County championships (16: 23), second in the Class 2A South region meet (17: 03) and fifth place at the state meet (17: 17). He also finished fourth at William & Mary and third at the Howard County Invitational.\nRoger Volrath, Glenelg: The Gladiators were lightly regarded when the season began but overcame injuries and youth, soaring to a third-place county finish, winning the Class 1A South region title, and finishing second in the Class 1A state meet.\nNone of his girl runners made the All-County team, although Beth Heinke provided outstanding senior leadership and finished 10th the county and state meets and Alice Marsh finished eighth at counties and seventh at states.\nVolrath has been working his fall magic at Glenelg for 26 years, winning three state championships and four county championships.\nLee McDuff, River Hill, sophomore: Her first season of cross country was bittersweet. On one hand, she easily won the Howard County championship (18: 49) by 26 seconds. On the other hand, she had to drop out of the state championship with a mile to go -- and a 40-yard lead.\nShe also did not finish at Georgetown. But she won the Interstate, the Spiked Shoe, Howard County and William & Mary Invitationals, as well as the Class 2A South region championship (19: 38) and two quad meets by wide margins.\nShe helped her team upset Mount Hebron for the county title. McDuff, a former soccer player running cross country for the first time, was clearly in a class by herself among county runners.\nNeha Amin, Centennial, senior: Amin was a consistent quality runner who finished second at the county championship (19: 15), third at the Class 2A South region championship (20: 07) and fourth at the state championship (20: 23).\nThis is her third All-County selection.\nBridget Baker, Howard, sophomore: She went from 38th at the Howard County championships a year ago to fifth place (19: 56) this season.\nShe also finished fifth at the Class 2A South region championship (20: 48) and 11th at the state championship (21: 06).\nKelli Bloch, River Hill, senior: She finished fourth at the county championship (19: 47) and fourth at the Class 2A South region championship (20: 38) but did not finish at the state championship.\nShe was county champion River Hill's second-best runner.\nKate Frande, Mount Hebron, senior: Frande finished third at the county championship (19: 32), second at the Class 2A South region championship (19: 55) and second at the state championship (20: 14).\nShe closed the gap between herself and McDuff from 43 seconds at the county meet to 17 seconds at the region meet. Frande won the St. Paul's Invitational.\nShe also was an All-County runner last season.\nMia Molfino, Mount Hebron, senior: Molfino finished seventh at the county championship (20: 17) and sixth at the Class 2A South region championship (21: 0).\nAt the state meet she was 21st. This is her third All-County selection.\nDanielle Stoddart, Oakland Mills, junior: She improved from 18th a year ago to sixth at the county championship (20: 06) and then won the Class 1A South region championship (20: 59).\nStoddart, a Seventh-Day Adventist, did not run the state meet, which was conducted on a Saturday, for religious reasons.\nThe Baltimore Sun 1998 All-Howard County cross country teams were selected by Rick Belz after consultation with The Sun staff and area coaches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 7165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bandsonabudget.com/articles/267-a-very-special-first-saturday-featuring-the-work-of-artist-lucia-holm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:4WTQOHUUCZQ5W6RCQ3HUPCA5AJXISDYC", "length": 1167, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bandsonabudget.com", "title": "A Very Special First Saturday featuring the work of Artist Lucia Holm", "raw_content": "A Very Special First Saturday featuring the work of Artist Lucia Holm\nBandsOnABudget.com presents: A Very Special First Saturday featuring the work of Artist Lucia Holm\nIf you're involved in the New Jersey music scene at all (i.e. you attend shows, play shows, write for the paper or read the paper) you're familiar with the art of Lucia Holm. Known best perhaps for her work with Nicole Atkins, The Parlor Mob, The Gay Blades, The Front Bottoms- and the list goes on- Holms is a jack of many trades.\n\"I have always been drawn to classic books, retro films and all things macabre, particularly those with a strong female presence,\" writes the New Jersey native. \"My intent is to engage viewers and leave them feeling unsettled, and wondering what will happen next.\"\nGraduating with a MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2006, it wasn't until years later that she took a hiatus from fine arts and got behind a camera. On March 3rd from 7PM-10PM we are proud to be showcasing her work at the BandsOnABudget.com headquarters in Asbury Park, NJ absolutely free of charge. Joining Lucia will be the Red Bank, NJ based rock band Plus Plus Minus. Check out their music here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bankrate.com/credit-unions/meridia-community/800880/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YDXXXBJKLAOWGXFXMFFIMKAIFTMCJFO2", "length": 2544, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bankrate.com", "title": "MERIDIA COMMUNITY Credit Union Reviews and Ratings - Bankrate.com", "raw_content": "MERIDIA COMMUNITY is a HAMBURG, NY-based, NCUA-insured credit union started in 1955. Regulatory filings show the credit union having assets of $70.0 million, as of December 31, 2017.\nThanks to the work of 18 full-time employees, the credit union has amassed loans and leases worth $58.8 million. Its 7,756 members currently have $60.8 million in shares with the credit union.\nOverall, Bankrate believes that, as of December 31, 2017, MERIDIA COMMUNITY exhibited a superior condition, earning a full 5 stars for safety and soundness. Here's a breakdown of how the credit union did on the three key criteria Bankrate used to score American credit unions on safety and soundness.\nCapital acts as a buffer against losses and affords protection for members when a credit union is experiencing economic instability. It follows then that when it comes to measuring an a credit union's financial stability, capital is useful. From a safety and soundness perspective, the higher the capital, the better.\nMERIDIA COMMUNITY achieved a score of 16 out of a possible 30 points on our test to measure the adequacy of a credit union's capital, better than the national average of 15.65.\nMERIDIA COMMUNITY's capitalization ratio of 16.00 percent in our test puts it right in line with the average for all credit unions.\nThis test is intended to estimate how the credit union's capitalization and allocated loan loss reserves could be affected by troubled assets, such as unpaid mortgages.\nHaving lots of these kinds of assets may eventually require a credit union to use capital to absorb losses, reducing its equity cushion. Many of those assets are also likely to be in non-accrual status and thus aren't earning money, diminishing earnings and elevating the chances of a failure in the future.\nMERIDIA COMMUNITY scored 40 out of a possible 40 points on Bankrate's test of asset quality, beating out the national average of 38.09.\nA credit union's profitability has an effect on its long-term survivability. Earnings may be retained by the credit union, increasing its capital cushion, or be used to address problematic loans, likely making the credit union more resilient in tough times. Conversely, losses take away from a credit union's ability to do those things.\nMERIDIA COMMUNITY received above-average marks on Bankrate's earnings test, achieving a score of 18 out of a possible 30.\nMERIDIA COMMUNITY had an earnings ratio of 0.00 percent in our test, higher than the average for all credit unions, suggesting that it's beating its peers in this area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 8336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.banyantreeadvisors.com/what-we-do/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:X6XVP4KPF4VTWXHWGIFTXYOGPBCS5JAU", "length": 3756, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.banyantreeadvisors.com", "title": "What we do | Banyan Tree Advisors", "raw_content": "Share the post \"What we do\"\nBanyan Tree Advisors is a Portfolio Management company, setup in 2004, and based in Bangalore and Mumbai, India. We are registered with the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI), and are subject to its rules and regulations regarding capital requirements, disclosure and auditing norms.\nBanyan Tree Advisors was founded by Sandeep Talwar and Ravishankar, who were later joined by Shyam Prabhu and Jigar Shah. Read about the team here. In our careers we have seen three stock market cycles \u2013 the bull runs that drove the markets to irrational highs, and the subsequent bear markets that inevitably followed, and pulled stocks down to despondent lows. The insights we gained from these guide us to this day:\nCapital preservation, : As a wise man said there are only two rules of investing. \u2018Rule No1 \u2013 Don\u2019t lose money. Rule No2 \u2013 when in doubt refer to Rule No 1\u2019. Read about this in \u2018Safety First\u2019.\nIt is possible to grow your wealth in the stock market if you understand that when you buy a stock, what you are really doing is buying a small piece of the underlying business. Finding the right business to invest in has become the most important part of our work. Read about this in \u2018Buying the Business\u2019.\nThe price of purchase is very important. Our experience has taught us that being patient and waiting for the right price to purchase a quality business is as important as the identification of the right business \u2013 it is important to have a margin of safety in your purchase. Read about this in \u2018How we invest your money\u2019.\nWhile pursuing full time careers with institutional investors, we applied our insights first to our own money, and then for our friends and relatives. Some of these friends and relatives became clients when we started Banyan Tree. Some of our customers had modest portfolios and modest goals \u2013 securing for a child\u2019s college education, or ensuring a financially secure retirement. Others had much larger amounts, and were concerned about beating inflation and growing their wealth in a safe manner. In all cases, we applied the principles we used for managing our own wealth. We like to say that Banyan Tree is like \u201ca restaurant where the owner eats at the restaurant\u201d. Today more than 80% of our own financial wealth is invested in the same strategies we employ for our clients.\nOver time, Banyan Tree has grown largely by word of mouth, and very little marketing. Client referred other clients. As of Jan 2019, we manage Rs. 1,614 crores ($227.21 m) of investments, and our client base has grown to 1047. Our original investor base of friends and relatives is still with us, and informally, are our most vocal sales people. You can see our track record on Page 8 of our disclosure document which is attached here.\nIf you would like to invest with Banyan Tree Advisors, please read about how we manage your account. While we decide which stocks to buy for you and handle the transactional details, your accounts are managed by a SEBI registered custodian (HDFC Bank), and settlements are done directly with the stock exchanges. Get to know our fee structure, which is structured so that we get paid only when we have made money for you. Read about our account opening process. If you have any questions, please contact us by using the contact form, or by calling us. And when you are ready to join, please come and meet us. We would like to meet you, and get to know you too. As one of the investors we admire very much, Seth Klarman, said, \u201cHaving great clients is the real key to investment success.\u201d Just as you would like a portfolio manager who really understands your objectives, we would like to have clients who are likely to understand what we do, and why we do the things we do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bap.org/julie-harrison", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:3J3WY5NY4WI254YO2PJ34GMQSAKWVEX3", "length": 960, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bap.org", "title": "Julie Harrison", "raw_content": "1st Year Chapter Advocate - Oceania Region\nDr. Julie Harrison is a senior lecturer in the Department of Accounting & Finance at the University of Auckland Business School. She has been a Faculty Advisor for the Auckland Chapter since 2009; the year the chapter was installed as the first New Zealand chapter and the second chapter in the Oceania Region. The Auckland chapter has twice hosted the Oceania Regional Meeting since installation. In 2017 she received an Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.\nJulie has worked in education for more than 15 years both at university level, and assisting in professional accounting programmes. She teaches management accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prior to joining the University of Auckland, she worked as a transfer pricing advisor in public practice.\nJulie is fellow (FCA) of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.\nDepartment of Accounting & Finance\nEmail: j.harrison@auckland.ac.nz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 131.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barleycornswichita.com/event/1735942-brandon-ray-wichita/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JUF7IBIZOITLBDAS6IGWPXID5Q7FS6EU", "length": 1109, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.barleycornswichita.com", "title": "Barleycorn's \u00bb Brandon Ray \u2013 Tickets \u2013 Barleycorn\u2019s \u2013 Wichita, KS \u2013 September 15th, 2018 Brandon Ray \u2013 Tickets \u2013 Barleycorn\u2019s \u2013 Wichita, KS \u2013 September 15th, 2018 \u2013 Barleycorn's", "raw_content": "Brandon Ray- \"Holding On Too Long\" (Original Song) Brandon Ray - Small Talkin\u2019 (Official Music Video)\nBrandon Ray was born in the small West-Texas town of Big Spring. Raised on Rock n\u2019 Roll, Country and Motown he picked up the guitar at the young age of 13. At 18 he was out on the road touring with his first band. They played 750 shows in 3 years including supporting the likes of Fall Out Boy, Switchfoot and grueling summers on Vans Warped Tour.\nBrandon moved to Nashville in 2008 to pursue a career in songwriting. After arriving in Nashville, Brandon landed a publishing deal, played guitar for Brett Eldredge on tour (including Taylor Swift\u2019s Red Tour) and lent his vocal to numerous demos for various publishers and songwriters in Nashville\u2026. all while developing his own sound.\nDuring the past year Ray has opened for artists such as Kip Moore, Jon Pardi, Martina McBride, Frankie Ballard, Craig Morgan, A Thousand Horses, Chase Rice, Craig Morgan, Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots and David Nail.\nRay\u2019s recent release \u201cEnds of The Earth\u201d (Produced by Ross Copperman and Keith Urban) is available now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnesjewish.org/Newsroom/Publications/Innovate-Physician/Innovate-Neurology-Neurosurgery/Summer-2013/NFL-Funds-Study-of-the-Brain-After-Concussions", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CZBBPRUEWYGP3JNLMCG6BELH4HISSRXU", "length": 1644, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.barnesjewish.org", "title": "NFL Funds Study of the Brain After Concussions - Newsroom - Barnes-Jewish Hospital", "raw_content": "Home NewsroomPublicationsInnovate PhysicianInnovate Neurology & NeurosurgerySummer 2013NFL Funds Study of the Brain After Concussions\nSince 2010, David Brody, MD, a Washington University neurologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has headed one of seven national groups that provide clinical care to retired professional football players. A new project funded by NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of National Football League owners, will allow him to study the brain following repeat concussions. The research team will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure damage in the brain\u2019s white matter after repetitive concussive brain injury.\nLast year, Brody\u2019s group published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine describing how they were able to use the same imaging method to analyze neurological function of United States military personnel who had suffered blast-related injuries in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\u201cThere are a number of differences between blast-related injuries and repetitive sports-related concussions,\u201d Brody says. \u201cSo it will be critical to validate the MRI method in a model of repetitive concussion to help us understand the meaning of any findings we may observe in human patients.\u201d Other institutions receiving NFL Charities grants include Columbia University, The Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Yale University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.\nStudies at those centers will focus heavily on damage from concussions but also will look at the effects of helmet, face-mask and shoulder-pad designs on airway and cardiovascular care and a sleep apnea program that focuses on NFL players.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 557, "original_length": 18459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bastiansolutions.com/brick-and-mortar-in-e-commerce-2-0/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CRZSOFZTBX45XLI7XBGNJ2U4RNKO6QIC", "length": 4121, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bastiansolutions.com", "title": "Brick and Mortar in E-Commerce 2.0 | Bastian Solutions", "raw_content": "Brick and Mortar in E-Commerce 2.0\nWith the recent release of the Samsung Galaxy S4, I finally reached the tipping point and tossed my antiquated Blackberry to the wayside to upgrade to a smartphone with many more features and apps to make my life easier. I\u2019m left wondering why I didn\u2019t take the advice (as well as considerable peer pressure) from my fellow coworkers and make the plunge much sooner. When I was researching which smartphone I wanted to select, I looked online only to be overwhelmed by the number of phones to choose from, not to mention that many of them physically looked the same. When it comes to technology, I consider myself very tactile and need to physically check out the equipment before arriving at my buying decision. As a result, I visited a small Verizon kiosk in the mall and narrowed down my selection to the device I wanted. Armed with the needed information, I opted not to make the purchase at the mall but order directly through Verizon\u2019s online store as the pricing was much more favorable; thus, the storefront in this situation served to augment my online buying decision. Just recently, online men\u2019s clothing retailer Bonobos decided to open their own brick and mortar stores so their customers could try on the clothing first before deciding to buy it online. Bonobos observed the trend that a growing number of its customers wanted to try on their clothing before making the decision to buy. This led Bonobos to setup stores in larger cities to serve as guideshops whose sole responsibility is to provide this service to their customers, many whom will order the clothing through the company\u2019s website which provides free shipping, fast order processing, and free returns. Other e-commerce companies are observing this trend as a growing number of consumers in the global marketplace continue to leverage the Internet to find the most competitive prices and reduce the likelihood of buyer\u2019s remorse by confirming they\u2019ve found the best deal. Amazon is talking about a potential brick and mortar storefront, leaving us to speculate just what it might look like and how large the store might be. Industries within e-commerce in which there is a need to try, touch, or use the product before making the buying decision are likely to continue to see this future brick and mortar growth, while other industries such as books and music, are likely to see a decline as this physical need is not as important to the consumer. Consider how Amazon used this to their advantage to push Borders out of the marketplace. A recent study of e-commerce consumers found that 85% were more likely to purchase from a website offering free shipping, 75% were more likely to purchase if free return shipping was offered, 66% were more likely to buy if discounts were made available on the company\u2019s home page, and 53% reported a greater likelihood of purchasing if consumer generated reviews were made available online. While these brick and mortar stores provide customers with tangible products they can try on or evaluate before they buy, they also serve as a local pickup point for customers who might prefer to pick up the item at the store or make a return to a store directly. These stores could also serve as a means of getting orders to customers faster for companies who lack an extensive supply chain infrastructure and could assist with the extreme peak seasonality typical in the e-commerce business. A recent report from eMarketer estimates that 2013 e-commerce sales will reach $1.3 trillion and that e-commerce will continue to grow 20% year-over-year. While 95% of the retail in the US remains brick and mortar, it will be interesting to observe the growth in e-commerce through brick and mortar storefronts as companies seek to gain more of the market share within e-commerce. Equally of interest will be how this affects the supply chain of companies making this move.\nExcellent Knowledge Blake. In India people are going more for e-commerce purchase as they hate being struck in the Traffic. 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Our first priority is bridging the gap between our communities and local law enforcement. As adults we understand how excited and emotional our teens are at this time. It is up to us to ensure that they are heard in a safe environment. BBC has teamed up with the Richland County Sheriff\u2019s Department as well as the City of Columbia Police Department, the Mayor\u2019s Office and several local organizations to help our teens be heard.\nThe 2nd Annual March For Our Live\u2019s Rally Columbia will be held at the SC State House on March 23, 2019 at 9AM. There will be a march to the State House prior to the start of the rally. A staging point will be released Thursday, March 7, 2019. Anyone that wishes to participate, please contact Building Better Communities at 803-908-7775. There will be a Press Release to discuss all of the details on Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 10:00AM at the SC State House, Columbia, SC.\nStudent Planners 2018\nIts the students that will make this event a memorable one. We have student groups from USC, Benedict College, Allen University, Clemson University, AC Flora H.S., Dreher H.S., Eau Claire H.S., Columbia H.S. and more to come. 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We invite you to visit and browse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bexhillobserver.net/news/county-news-oldest-living-olympian-celebrates-his-100th-1-7778978", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:CIB6NJNVPK23RK7LK26A24LAYOEYGKMA", "length": 4920, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.bexhillobserver.net", "title": "COUNTY NEWS: Oldest living Olympian celebrates his 100th - Bexhill Observer", "raw_content": "COUNTY NEWS: Oldest living Olympian celebrates his 100th\nBill Lucas, 100, the oldest surviving British athlete of the 1948 London Olympic Games. Picture: Derek Martin\nCelebrations have kicked off this week for the oldest living Olympian who has turned 100.\nBill Lucas, from Cowfold in West Sussex, ran the 5,000 metres at the 1948 Olympics in London after the war ruined his chances in the 1940 Helsinki games and were subsequently cancelled in 1944.\nSouth Downs MP Nick Herbert paid the Olympian a visit last Friday (January 13)\nThe centenarian hit the milestone on Monday (January 16) and it has been a week of celebrations for the former Belgrave Harrier and RAF pilot, who was a hot prospect for a gold medal and world record in the 1940 games.\nRelatives and friends travelled down to celebrate with Bill on Tuesday (January 17) at the Princess Marina House in Rustington, Littlehampton.\nBill said: \u201cWe had a marvellous party and I thank everybody who has sent me best wishes. And also, I\u2019d like to thank all the people who\u2019ve sent me presents. I can\u2019t write to them all and thank them because I\u2019m too old, but I hope this message gets to them. God Save the Queen.\u201d\nThe RAF veteran went on to fly 81 missions as a bomber pilot to be awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross, before competing in the 5000 meters at the 1948 games at the age of 32, competing against Emil Zatopec. He was also mentioned in Dispatches.\nThe former Bomber Command pilot celebrated with his wife, Sheena and relatives and friends on Tuesday (January 17). Picture: Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund\nKnown as one of the \u2018Bomber Boys\u2019, Bill lives with his second wife, Sheena, whom he has been married to for 37 years but his health and mobility has suffered since the pair were involved in a car accident in November near Burgess Hill.\nThe couple were on their way to a signing ceremony when the car carrying them overturned. They both had to be cut out from the wreckage, which left them in hospital for with broken bones.\nTony Hibling, a friend of Bill\u2019s and responsible for publicity at the Royal Air Forces Association branch (RAFA) in Haywards Heath said the \u2018trauma\u2019 of the accident had \u2018hit them both physically and mentally\u2019 but praised the Olympian\u2019s \u2018fitness and health\u2019 for making the milestone.\nHe said: \u201cWhen Bill went to a see a medic before he went into the RAF forces they told him he had an enlarged heart and they were not sure whether he should join. However, Bill told them that all athletes had an enlarged heart so they let him join!\nPilot Joe Rigg and Navigator Mark Swinton (XV Squadron, RAF Lossiemouth) paid a surprise visit to Bill on Tuesday (January 17). Picture: Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund\n\u201cI would like to congratulate Bill and give him my best wishes for the future as I am sure the members of the branch will join me in doing so.\n\u201cBill is known for his tireless efforts in support for the recognition and setting up of the Bomber Command Memorial.\n\u201cAfter his stint in the Olympics he went on to be a very prominent character in athletics including commentating at the White City Stadium, and recently receiving an award from the Belgrave Harriers which he joined in 1935 as their longest serving member of some 81 years and at this time he is Britain\u2019s oldest living Olympian.\u201d\nAs a member of the Haywards Heath branch which meets at the United Services Club in Wivelsfield Road, the Olympian was the previous president and now has the position of life vice president.\nIt has been a week of celebrations for the centenarian. Picture: Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund\nBorn in 1917, Bill discovered he liked running at school. He left at 15 and joined an insurance company, which encouraged sports. He soon became an outstanding athlete in the company attaining county standard.\nArundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert paid a visit to Bill on Friday (January 13).\nHe said: \u201cI am sure that many people will join me in wishing Bill a very happy 100th birthday. He is a remarkable man who gave great service to his country, competed in the Olympics, and has led a full and active life in subsequent decades.\u201d\nAir Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier also wished the Olympian a Happy Birthday.\nHe said: \u201cOn behalf of the RAF and a grateful nation, I would like to offer heartiest congratulations for your 100th birthday, we all hope you had a wonderful day.\u201d\nAir Vice-Marshal David Murray, Chief Executive of the RAF Benevolent Fund said the team were \u2018delighted\u2019 that the Olympian celebrated amongst fellow Bomber Command veterans at the respite centre on Tuesday and were \u2018honoured to be part of the special occasion\u2019.\nHe added: \u201cThe Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund wishes Bill a very happy 100th birthday and congratulates him on this wonderful milestone.\u201d\nThe 100-year-old has hit headlines recently after not making the Queen\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours List. 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However, when her wildly-popular series Paranormal Hunters gets picked up by a big-time publishing agency, she\u2019s thrust into the limelight alongside sexy, photographer-turned-cover model, Oliver Fairfax. Upon meeting, the chemistry between the quirky writer and arrogant model quickly intensifies, creating a steamy page-turner of events made for romance novels.\nThen comes the plot twist.\nXanthe has secrets that have kept her bound to silence.\nAnd the truth has Oliver questioning every unspoken word.\nADD TO GOODREADS: http://bit.ly/1H5gCiP\n- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: KELLI JEAN -\nBorn and raised in Miami, Kelli Jean traded the tropical heat for the arctic. Now she deals with twenty-four hour daylight in the summer, zero sunlight in the winter, and believes the Northern Lights make up for the mind-boggling amount of ice and snow she has to put up with for seven months out of the year. She\u2019s surrounded by mountains and ocean and sheep, and claims her bizarre sense of humor is what keeps her sane. The insane don\u2019t know they\u2019re insane. Kelli uses her imagination to create worlds she can escape to from the mundane tasks of everyday life, such as washing the damn dishes and vacuuming up Legos off the floor\u2014and don\u2019t get her started on the mad amount of cat hair on the end of the couch. She gave up on that a long time ago. When the household goes to sleep at night, she writes down everything that happened in her head while doing such tedious chores. But she enjoys living in her own head, so that\u2019s pretty cool. Technology terrifies her. She can barely turn on a computer, and was completely shocked when she\u2019d actually written a book on one. To this day, she has no explanation for this baffling mystery. It took her three years to realize she can take screen shots of messages and pictures of bearded, tattooed men with her phone. Now that she\u2019s mastered this task, her phone is slowly dying, and she\u2019s nervous that she\u2019s going to have to buy a new one and it will take her another three years to learn how to use it.\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellijeanauthor\nGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9160293.Kelli_Jean\nWebsite: http://www.kellijeanauthor.com/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/kellijorgensen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 6382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.binethgallery.com/product-category/reuven-rubin/?add_to_wishlist=2162", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:3SQ7A2I7PUPUISU5OVIGWXF7U3BYGMZX", "length": 70, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.binethgallery.com", "title": "Reuven Rubin \u2013 Bineth Art Gallery", "raw_content": "The God Seekers (Mother and Child) $650\nA man holding the Torah $2,200", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 5309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/The-St-Christophers-Educational-Trust.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:3YFB4IHOMYLZRZEXOI7ZOFKOL76ODW6W", "length": 1814, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.birmingham.ac.uk", "title": "The St Christopher's Educational Trust - University of Birmingham", "raw_content": "Home > Postgraduate > Funding and scholarships search > The St Christopher's Educational Trust\nThe St Christopher's Educational Trust\nTheology and Religion, Teacher Training\nThe St Christopher's Educational Trust aims to promote religious education in accordance with the principles of the Church of England. The Trustees currently wish to support new ways of providing Christian formation and education, with particular emphasis on:\ninformal education opportunities for young people\nteaching and learning about Christianity\neducation for adult discipleship\nThe St Christopher's Educational Trust, which incorporates the Hughes & Stevens Bequest, was set up to continue the work of St Christopher's College in Blackheath.\nUp to \u00a32000.\nApplications from any part of the United Kingdom can be considered.\nApplications from elsewhere will be considered only if they relate to a course of study within the UK and are supported by a reference from an appropriate link diocese in the UK.\nIn assessing grant applications the trustees will look for evidence that the proposal will contribute to Christian education or formation, that it is innovative or developmental, that the proposed outcomes are clear and will have a wide impact and that it relates in some way to the work of the Church of England or some other Anglican context.\nApplication forms (for individual or organisational grants) are available below or from the Clerk to the Trustees and should be submitted electronically whenever possible. The Trustees meet to consider grants in May and November and applications should be submitted by April 1st or October 1st respectively.\nThe Clerk to the Trustees, Mrs Lindsey Anderson Gear\nstchristopherstrust@hotmail.co.uk\nhttps://www.churchofengland.org/more/education-and-schools/st-christophers-educational-trust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 4666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bitchute.com/video/4zWOV2opmEo5/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SNIHROW23HWDI3KIM6TCPVWMRRYTNCSS", "length": 1635, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.bitchute.com", "title": "Nathan & Aline Discuss Jim Carrey's Enlightened Antics", "raw_content": "https://www.bitchute.com/video/4zWOV2opmEo5/\n\n#unityprocess\n(Originally published on YouTube on September 15, 2017)\n\"There's no meaning to any of this, so I wanted to find the most meaningless thing I could come to and join, and here I am. You've got to admit, [that] it's completely meani...\n\"There's no meaning to any of this, so I wanted to find the most meaningless thing I could come to and join, and here I am. You've got to admit, [that] it's completely meaningless. [...] I don't believe in icons, I don't believe in personalities, I believe that peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention and disguise...\" ~Jim Carrey\nHas Jim lost it, or has he reached a state of Self-realization and nirvana, that so many in the spiritual communities currently suggest? Jim Carrey just gave us a textbook example of the \"Pre/Trans Fallacy\" in action, which is made by those who wish to pretend enlightenment as a means of avoiding their internal chaos, hurt, and low self-worth. Listen to Nathan & Aline, as they discuss his recent antics, how people are responding to him, and how it might relate to what Ken Wilber coined as the \"Pre/Trans Fallacy\".\nJim Carrey's \"Enlightened\" Rant\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JmNKGfFj7w\nThe Pre/Trans Fallacy - Ken Wilber\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5Qn6K36Ug\nFollow us on Minds.com\nhttps://www.minds.com/unityprocess\nhttp://YouTube.com/divinepollination\nThe Satan, Lucifer, and Jesus Archetypes, and the Stages of Ego Development\n4zWOV2opmEo5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 7312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/Going-Horizontal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DSK2XRVR5XAD7GBGAW24FXZPZ2KSEHVG", "length": 28751, "nlines": 125, "source_domain": "www.bkconnection.com", "title": "BK Bookstore | Shop Books for Businesses and Company Events", "raw_content": "Samantha Slade (Author)\nHierarchy in organizations is obsolete. There is a better way: one that increases the engagement of employees and managers alike, reduces micromanaging and other limiting approaches, and promotes organizational and individual success.\nIn this book, self-management expert Samantha Slade presents seven concrete practices to help your organization flatten its existing hierarchy and develop a horizontal organization. The result will be enhanced creativity, greater growth, and a increased employee retention and productivity\u2014and a better bottom line.\nThese days, more than ever, successful organizations must respond quickly and nimbly to change\u2014they need every employee's best thinking. A horizontal organization creates an environment of true collaboration, respect, and openness. It allows everyone more freedom to express unconventional ideas or to work through issues that are getting in the way of organizational goals. And it's a more human way to organize\u2014after all, we function perfectly well in our day-to day lives without someone telling us what to do.\nBut when an organization decides to go horizontal, it can be overwhelming for both managers and employees. Slade offers a practical, proven, incremental method to help organizations of all kinds and sizes ease in to a non-hierarchical model. She includes techniques for using your organization's purpose to stay focused and aligned, developing shared decision-making, creating a mutual feedback culture, nurturing autonomy, holding co-managed meetings, and maintaining an environment of collective learning.\nGoing Horizontal will help organizations become more adaptive, collaborative and innovative, which is vital in today's highly competitive and constantly-evolving world.\nOverview | Meet the Author | Reviews | Excerpt | Endorsements |\nVisit Author Page - Samantha Slade\nSamantha Slade is the cofounder of Percolab\u2014an international consultancy\u2014and Ecolab, a co-working coop in Montreal. Both organizations are experimental fields for new operational ways, from collaborative general assemblies to self-managing compensation models. Slade has been exploring new collaborative models for twenty-five years, and has worked with departments within the European Union as well as with business teams, city employees, and citizens to develop new ways to work and learn.\nWHY GO HORIZONTAL?\nThere is no need to wait for permission from hierarchy to begin practicing non-hierarchical ways.\nHuman Nature Is Non-hierarchical\nNon-hierarchical ways are the modus operandi of human beings. They are part of our DNA. Like geese flying south and bears hibernating, we are a self-organizing species.\nWe function every day without a boss. We feed ourselves, keep up our homes, care for each other, plan big projects, celebrate victories, and mourn losses. Every day, we organize ourselves with those around us, adult to adult. We figure things out together. Most of the time, we appreciate the input and support others offer. When that support tips into telling us what to do, we get wary. We are properly allergic to the notion that someone could have the power over us to make us do something we don\u2019t want to do. For the most part, we figure out how to work with different opinions, preferences, and perspectives. We manage to accomplish things together, whether it is building a snowman or organizing a birthday party. If a friend or partner tries to \u201cmanage\u201d what we do, decide, or think, that can compromise the relationship. We tend to stay in our various communities as long as they are non-hierarchical. Simply put, we need horizontal workplaces because we are naturally a horizontal species. Working against this instinct is what has lead us to a world where 85 percent of people are disengaged from their work, work itself is a negative word, and movies like Office Space become cult classics of catharsis. We can do better!\nIn my workshops I ask participants to identify examples from their personal lives where they figure things out with others, without anyone having authority over another. We don\u2019t tend to think about our world in this way. People really struggle to find examples, though in reality they abound: we decide what music is played in the house, we get groceries for the house, we get married to whom we want. We cross paths with people we know and don\u2019t know at the grocery store, the swimming pool, the park, without anyone telling us what to do. There is no chain of command in daily life. This is not to say that it is easy, but I think it is fair to say we wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. The other way is the making of science fiction scenarios.\nNon-hierarchical Ways Are Possible and Present in the Workplace\nDespite human nature being horizontal, the organizational model and culture we have given ourselves for work is vertical. Of course, you can\u2019t just take non-hierarchical ways from the personal realm into the work realm. There are some fundamental differences that need to be taken into account. At work we are contractually tied to our organizations through formal agreements that we are bound to. We receive regular paychecks that we rely upon. We are accountable to the organization and its purpose. We are under pressure to perform and ensure financial viability. We must adhere to a whole body of legal requirements.\nWhile our organizations could have developed in non-hierarchical ways, and there are many examples of non-hierarchical societies throughout history and across cultures, the model that prevailed was a vertical one. Some might say it was for the sake of efficiency and scale, though there are examples of efficient large-scale non-hierarchical organizations. Others might point out that it was a model that supported the extractive and colonialist values of earlier times. Certainly, human well-being was not the focus at the origins of the hierarchical organizational model. The result today is such that the current dominant organizational culture and structure is not aligned to human nature.\nWhen I am brought into an organization to help them with this transition, I often hear things like \u201cThis organizational chart might look vertical, but really we invite you to talk to people in the company as if it were horizontal.\u201d Or, from someone in upper management, \u201cI\u2019m not really the boss; people don\u2019t even use that term with me.\u201d This is not going horizontal; it is hierarchy that likes to pretend that it is not, that pays lip service to the concept without doing the real shift.\nWhen I speak to people who truly love their work, they say things like \u201cMy boss trusts me\u201d or \u201cI have freedom to do what I want\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m encouraged to try things out.\u201d All these statements are elements of more human, natural ways of functioning whereby people feel like they are being treated with mutual trust and care, as adults. In many places human beings are being treated fairly as equals despite the vertical culture. In many other places, just the opposite is true. You know where you stand with your own stories and experiences.\nHierarchy Won\u2019t Take Us into Our Future\nThe 9 to 5 office with the hierarchical organizational chart is showing serious signs of fraying. The dominant management model is expensive. Management experts Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini estimate that the cost of micromanagement is $3 trillion annually in the United States alone.2 The human cost is also alarming. Worker engagement is not getting better despite the billion-dollar industry making efforts to effect improvement. Only 15 percent of the world\u2019s workforce are actively engaged in their jobs.3\nThe major sources of psychological distress in the work-place are connected to hierarchical culture: poor relationship with one\u2019s superior, lack of recognition, and low participation in decision making and governance.4 Furthermore, organizations are struggling to attract and keep employees. High-talent individuals are leaving the workplace to seek out greater learning and development.5 Organizations face work-force challenges that are a serious issue and a growing trend. This trend touches me deeply. Human suffering increases with our current model.\nIn the meantime we are entering a new era. We are finding a general nonacceptance of many organizational practices that used to be tolerated: from inequity in pay to rigid rules. Professionals are honing their personal brands and positioning themselves for a market in which employers are competing among themselves to hire them. The freelance market continues to grow and organize into collectives to provide shared services and social safety nets usually offered by employers.6 Networked organizations are growing. A parallel infrastructure of co-working networks and wholly decentralized companies is growing for digital nomads and location-independent workers who care about freedom and beauty in their workspace. The upcoming workforce is connected to so much information, possibility, and creativity that the traditional vertical organizational system seems under-equipped to tap into its full potential.7 The internet mind-set is not a hierarchical mind-set. Millennials do not understand why information and authority cannot be dynamic and flowing. When an organization shifts to a transparent culture of shared power and mutual responsibility and care, then it can truly begin to respond to the challenges modern organizations are facing. A recent report on the future of organizations concludes that the ability to \u201cscale trust\u201d is key for the organization of the future to offer space for the new worker.8\nArtificial intelligence is poised to shake our work world. Some say 40 percent of today\u2019s jobs will disappear.9 We know that the obedience and compliance mind-set that standardization bred will need to give way to empathy, creativity, and real-time decision making, for example. These capacities are valued and thrive in horizontal cultures.\nDepending on your perspective, all this can be an invitation, an opportunity, or a wake-up call to revisit what we have been taking for granted in the way our organizations function. The work is deeper than we might have envisioned; it requires new mind-sets, new personal and collective practices, and new organizational models. There are no recipes for the depth of what it involves. It is beyond an issue of productivity; it speaks to the question of how we want to be together as human beings.\nNon-hierarchical ways are needed for a future functioning organizational culture, and they are well positioned for the expectations and culture of the upcoming generation.\nWhat Does a Successful Horizontal Organizational Mind-Set Look Like?\nHorizontal ways deal with the pervasive and detrimental issue of organizational disengagement and positively contribute to the mental well-being of humans. When humans are taken care of, they get things done, and that is what organizations need: to stay in movement, to stay ahead, to stay relevant. Let\u2019s look at some specifics: when we say employees are more engaged, what does that mean? Here are some traits that show the difference:\nDisengaged worker\nEngaged worker\nExecutes tasks, avoids work\nShows up and works with spirit and care\nHas little desire to learn new things\nIs curious and proactive to grow and develop\nComplains, blames, victimizes\nContributes ideas, offers support for others\nShows indifference toward colleagues\nInvests in colleagues and relationships\nShows indifference toward the organization\u2019s success\nImagines possibilities, co-creates, proposes\nBuurtzorg is a home-care company in the Netherlands that was created in 2007 with a horizontal structure. The organization is based on trust and works with small teams of 10 to 12 nurses who have the authority to do what would usually be done at the management level\u2014human resources functions, budgeting, scheduling, and performance reviews. A central office of 50 people supports (not manages) the 14,000 nurses. After seven years of existence, Buurtzorg had taken two-thirds of the market in the Netherlands. Today, Buurtzorg is expanding around the world to countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and China. The organization has been the subject of studies that demonstrate how it is a success in achieving high levels of client satisfaction, employee well-being, and profitability.10\nHere are five indicators of a successful non-hierarchical organization. Keep in mind that this is the gold standard; these metrics can take years of small iterative changes to achieve.\n1. Colleagues Hold Each Other Accountable, and Responsibility Is Shared.\nSome people think a that non-hierarchical mind-set means no management at all. The reality is quite the opposite: a non-hierarchical mind-set holds everyone to a higher standard. Many activities that managers once were responsible for are distributed, and thus the responsibility becomes shared. A whole team participates in the activities that a single manager would usually hold: setting objectives, organizing work to be done, setting pay, supporting and motivating one another, holding one another accountable to performance, and supporting one another\u2019s development.\n2. People Own Their Personal Leadership.\nThe premise of a horizontal mind-set is that people can figure things out for themselves, among themselves. There is no need to have someone with authority give permission or approval or do things on behalf of others. We have come to think of leaders as those persons at the top of the organization. This association is false. A non-hierarchical mind-set is about owning our personal leadership no matter where we might be positioned in an organization, no matter the nature of our work. If we see something not working, we act on it. We take care of things, and we make proposals.\n3. People Do Not Feel Imposed Upon, and Yet They Honor Their Commitments.\nPeople do not feel imposed upon by one another in a horizontal organization. This does not mean people do whatever they want. Understanding this requires nuance. In some cases authority should be distributed and a group will decide things together, and in other cases the group\u2019s interest is best served when someone decides for the group (like when a seaplane pilot tells passengers the safe spots to sit in a plane). For a horizontal mind-set to work, people must honor their commitments, or else they will be imposing on their peers. It is the very empowerment of feeling ownership of the process that inspires people to honor those commitments.\n4. Actions Are Both Participatory and Responsive.\nHorizontal does not mean chaos! Successful non-hierarchical culture is both participatory and responsive. Things get done. We are hardwired to think that opening up processes to a wider group adds time and pain. Of course, if you open up the responsibilities without thoughtful process, things will not get done. Many of us have experienced that. Non-hierarchical ways replace this free-for-all with structures that are proven to manage participatory culture smoothly. As the chain of command is lifted, the hierarchical structures are replaced by lighter, less hierarchical structures: roles with purpose, accountabilities, and metrics that matter; decision-making methods and spaces that are explicit; meetings that are well documented; people who are aware of what everyone else is doing; mechanisms that strengthen relationships, and work through conflicts. With successful self-organization, even when there is a crisis or a stressful deadline, we do not revert back to fear and control. We can instead fall back on the trust we have built with colleagues.\n5. The organization is equitable, generative, and fair.\nNon-hierarchical organizations are challenged to have a more meaningful purpose and more equitable ways\u2014whether in their salaries, profit sharing, environmental impact, or getting along with others despite differences. These ways are a deliberate step away from extractive, coercive, patriarchal ways. Those are strong words, but they do reflect the paradigms from which our current top-down organizational frameworks and culture have grown. The only way an organization can be fully horizontal is if the organization has meaning for its workers. Then it can easily relinquish control and allow people to own their personal leadership and contribute to the organization.\nGetting Unstuck When Going Horizontal\nHow can you bring about this new way of being without getting frustrated and overwhelmed or without having everything backfire? Moving from aspiration to action is not easy. We carry within us a load of assumptions that support top-down ways and hold us back from developing new behaviors. We are hoping for some easy instruction guide or recipe book, but we know that each organization has its own path to self-management. Some are coming to horizontal ways accidentally, some intentionally, and some begrudgingly. The transition sounds exhausting. Despite genuine and growing interest in more horizontal ways of working, organizations are getting stuck in making the transition.\nHere\u2019s an example. A Canadian bank sets up a new initiative: management invites employees who see a process or way of working that doesn\u2019t make sense to bring it forward so it can be changed. This initiative sounds great, and the intention is good, but what are the chances it will get stuck? Employees put their requests in the hands of management, who have decision-making and action-taking power\u2014it\u2019s the parent-to-child culture at play. If an idea doesn\u2019t get enacted, not only will there be no change, but employees will become less engaged, not more. Fully stepping into an adult-to-adult partnership culture is necessary for such a change in process to flourish. Short of working on these fundamental shifts, most change processes will stall.\nMost people think that when they change to a new system, they need to be good at it from the get-go and have figured out all the details of the journey. The shift is projected to be huge and comprehensive, and this is overwhelming. People also assume that they need to start a revolution with full buy-in from organizational leaders before they are able to do anything. It is no wonder most organizations get stuck!\nWhatever happened to just trying things out and learning from them? That is how we all learned to walk and talk. If we are changing to a new system, we need to give ourselves space for errors and learning. Otherwise, what you get is only fair-weather projects. That is, as soon as a situation or challenge arises, and invariably one will, we scapegoat the self-managing initiative and return to conventional ways. We might even go so far as to call it \u201cdogmatic\u201d or \u201crisky\u201d or \u201cinefficient,\u201d as though conventional methods are free from dogma, risk, and inefficiency! All the terms we can come up with are shields we build to protect us from changing the paradigm. The reality is that all of us need to learn these horizontal ways and bring them into play within our specific work contexts and domains.\nMost organizations have been set up with the goal of making them well-tuned machines that allow them to plan and control into a predictable future. This mind-set is what we call \u201cmechanistic,\u201d and it involves employees working individually and in highly specialized roles. Humans in these systems have internalized mechanistic reflexes, and shifting into a horizontal mind-set requires adopting a \u201cliving-systems\u201d way of thinking.\nLiving-systems organizations are like a city where things are in constant flux, ever responding to changes within and around them. Of course, even if we understand and accept this principle, that does not mean that we are able to operationalize it on a daily basis within our work world. The assumptions and structures of most organizations invite us to do just the opposite. There is no magic wand for going horizontal, and there will be bumps in the road. The path forward is through practice.\n\u201cIndividual practices can shift entire systems. In Going Horizontal, Samantha Slade provides all leaders with individualized access points to leverage their unique experience to shift not only their organization but the entire leadership paradigm.\u201d\n\u2014Susan Basterfield, thought leader on the future of work, author, and member of Enspiral\n\u201cSamantha Slade brings the keen eye of an anthropologist to the study of organizations and succeeds admirably in highlighting truths about our collective humanity and how to do things better. Welcome to the self-managed workplace of the future.\u201d\n\u2014Doug Kirkpatrick, US Partner, NuFocus Strategic Group, and author of Beyond Empowerment\n\u201cSamantha Slade offers a much-needed alternative to our current systems of organizing. Her book is as refreshing as it is personal and will be indispensable for those looking to bring more humanity into their organizations.\u201d\n\u2014Joel Bothello, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University\n\u201cThank you Samantha Slade, for not only showing us why rigid hierarchies are no longer fit for humanity's evolutionary purpose, but also, how to create ecosystemic, horizontal organizations instead. For those who feel trapped inside organizations that treat people like morons or machine parts, help is at hand.\u201d\n\u2014Stephen Huddart, President & CEO McConnell Foundation, Canada\n\u201cGoing well beyond horizontal theory and concepts, this work is social practice in action; a wonderful companion for anyone who senses that reconnecting with our true human nature in our work is the only way forward.\u201d\n\u2014Mary O'Keeffe, Director, Loomio (New Zealand)\n\u2014Joel Bothello, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University (Canada)\n\u201cThis book is for anyone who's ever wondered what the future of truly fulfilling work could look like.\u201d\n\u2014Melissa Aronczyk, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University (USA)\n\u201cSamantha Slade\u2014and this book\u2014is what the world of work needs more of. Sparky thinking, applied methodologies, and humanist principles.\u201d\n\u2014Perry Timms, HR Most Influential Thinker 2017; founder PTHR; and author of Transformational HR (UK)\n\u201cSamantha is on the leading edge of self-management for organizations. She is breaking ground to discover and share the new ways we can work together that we are all starving for.\u201d\n\u2014Amanda Hachey, Director, NouLAB (Canada)\n\u201cIn the transformation of our society to become more human, Samantha is a reference.\u201d\n\u2014\u00c9tienne Collignon, President, TeamFactory, and learning systems teacher (France)\n\u201cIf there's anyone who knows how to structure workplaces in new, more effective, more energizing ways, it's Samantha Slade. Her book, Going Horizontal, is a masterwork in how to turn a sluggish hierarchical organization into one that's egalitarian and alive.\u201d\n\u2014Mark Levy, founder of Levy Innovation LLC and author of Accidental Genius (USA)\n\u201cSamantha Slade has, with her own life, taken a bold journey into the landscape of how we can evolve our organizations, lead together and focus on the purposes we choose to serve. I invite you to listen to her, understand her message, be inspired and enjoy your own practice for a more humane and kinder world.\u201d\n\u2014Toke Paludan Moeller, Sustainable entrepreneurship pioneer, CEO Interchange, Art of Hosting steward (Denmark)\n\u201cSamantha outlines in clear, concrete, and highly accessible language tested practices, ranging from the personal to the systemic, that support participatory ways of working to flatten and democratize organizations. I can easily envision this book quickly becoming a standard reference for those involved in organizational development and change design at every level.\u201d\n\u2014Rosemary C. Reilly, Graduate Program Director, MA in Human Systems Intervention, and Associate Professor, Concordia University (Canada)\n\u201cA brilliant distillation of lived experience, field research, and more academic research\u2014transformed into simple practices to live by. It turns all the philosophical discussions about collaboration and self-organization into incredibly practical and doable practices.\u201d\n\u2014Caroline Rennie, cofounder of Gen-H (Switzerland)\n\u201cThis is a brilliant field guide from a practitioner and organization designer who has dared to explore, experiment with, and engage with the new ways of working and being. This book must be in the list of essential reading for the #futureofwork.\u201d\n\u2014Sahana Chattopadhyay, Asia-Pacific thought leader on the future of work (India)\n\u201cGoing Horizontal is a gift to anyone eager to see beyond the trappings of traditional hierarchy and explore new ways of working and being.\u201d\n\u2014Brent Lowe, Coach for founder CEOs, and author (Canada)\n\u201cSamantha Slade shares her knowledge and experience with accuracy, wisdom, and amazing gentleness. This book and the proposed practices are a truly precious help and compass toward more horizontality in my organization.\u201d\n\u2014Damien Versele, CEO, De Sleutel (Belgium)\n\u201cSam Slade's Going Horizontal finally brings the notion of cocreation out of the theoretical realm and makes it practical and achievable.\u201d\n\u2014Roxane Maranger, Professor of Biology, University of Montr\u00e9al, and President-Elect, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (Canada)\n\u201cGoing Horizontal is a key piece in the field of organizational consciousness and working transformatively in the 21st century.\n\u2014Melinda V\u00e1rfi, Cofounder of Organik (Hungary) and Resonanz (Austria)\n\u201cGoing Horizontal speaks to the three innate and universal psychological needs for humans to function optimally: self-direction, competence, and relatedness. If you want to increase the probability of having a workplace where fun, purpose, and meaning create a greater good, read this book.\u201d\n\u2014Jacques Forest, organizational psychologist; Professor, School of Management, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (Canada)\n\u201cThe time has come for every enterprise to reimagine and redesign how it works, and Going Horizontal will be a key resource.\u201d\n\u2014MJ Kaplan, Partner, The Ready, and Board Member, Loomio (USA)\n\u201cI especially appreciate the \u2018how to' approach as this is where you will struggle most when implanting changes that are based on sharing and participation.\u201d\n\u2014Bernd Reichert, Executive Director, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (Belgium)\n\u201cSamantha Slade's mastery of group dynamics is inspiring and is at the level of artistry. What a pleasure to have benefited from her teachings.\u201d\n\u2014Anne Charpentier, Director, Montreal Insectarium, Space for Life (Canada)\n\u201cSamantha embodies a new way of seeing work and living it, and that is how she has helped transform our organization, step by step.\u201d\n\u2014Huguette Robert, Director, and Steeven Pedneault, Social Designer, Pr\u00e9s\u00e2ges (Canada)\n\u201cMore than ever, the public sector needs talent like Samantha to learn a basic human skill for our democracy: cooperation for social innovation.\u201d\n\u2014C\u00e9cile Joly, Public Innovation and Learning Lab, Public Administration (France)\n\u201cRead this book to learn how to see the world in a new perspective and develop a new set of muscles for building the commons!\u201d\n\u2014David Bollier, author of Think like a Commoner (USA)\n\u201cDiscover how to step into a more mature and responsible management paradigm where human beings can get up to a different level of mastery and purpose alignment. This book has challenged my own beliefs and ideas about my responsibility to be the change.\u201d\n\u2014Ana Manzanedo, Governance Connector, Ouishare (Spain)\n\u201cSamantha embodies the principles she upholds: a profound respect of the contribution of each individual and mastery of the science of efficient collaborative processes.\u201d\n\u2014Manon Poirier, Executive Director, Quebec Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (Canada)\n\u201cSamantha Slade deeply understands the power and vitality of nonhierarchical cultures. I highly recommend Going Horizontal as a tool when developing your horizontal culture.\u201d\n\u2014Sarah Houseman, Governance Researcher, La Trobe University (Australia)\n\u201cWith Samantha Slade's book, we now have an insightful resource to help people understand how to operate effectively in this new paradigm. This is the ultimate companion for going horizontal.\u201d\n\u2014Edwin Jansen, Head of Marketing, Fitzii (Canada)\n\u201cThis book is a must-read, discussing seven domains that are critical in a horizontal context.\u201d\n\u2014Ivo Bols, CEO, Irisoft Solutions (Belgium)\n\u201cSamantha's creativity and way of being enliven the collective intelligence methods that she embodies.\u201d\n\u2014Denis Cristol, National Center of Territorial Public Sector (France)\n\u201cSamantha succeeds in opening up collaboration perspectives that are little known. She reminds us that we are never too small to act.\u201d\n\u2014Ren\u00e9e Ouimet, Director, Quebec Mental Health Movement (Canada)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 34869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blackenterprise.com/sports-illustrated-says-barack-obama-is-44th-most-powerful-person-in-sports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:51Z", "digest": "sha1:EV5NOEMQSP65RCETTDW7IRQWFTJ5NNX4", "length": 1296, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.blackenterprise.com", "title": "Sports Illustrated Calls Obama 44th Most Powerful Person in Sports", "raw_content": "Sports Illustrated Says Barack Obama Is 44th Most Powerful Person in Sports\nSports Illustrated released it\u2019s 50 Most Powerful People in Sports Issue, and No. 44 is No. 44.\n\u201cPOTUS might be the ultimate global power player, but he also wields significant influence in the Republic of Sports,\u201d the president\u2019s entry read.\nThe highest-ranking African American is no surprise: It\u2019s Demaurice Smith, executive director of the\u00c2 National Football League Players Association. Elected in 2009, Smith is a former litigator who is largely credited with helping the players and owners agree to a collective bargaining agreement. In a recent investigative feature of the No. 1 most powerful person in ESPN the Magazine, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Smith called Goodell\u2019s dual desires to champion both player safety and an 18-game season, \u201cdiabolically\u00c2 brilliant.\u201d\nIn at No. 43 is Ed O\u2019Bannon, whose lawsuit against the NCAA for using his likeness without compensation threatens to drastically change the way the NCAA profits off of its athletes and member schools.\nMichael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, rounds out the list at No. 50.\nBut you can count the president as perhaps the most unlikely addition to this list.\n\u201cPlus,\u201d SI said, justifying his inclusion, \u201cthe 51-year-old can shoot the J.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 3878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 186.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bojenelectrical.co.uk/2016/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YUZJBKLEXZYJ4OXEICGJBEIF3OL7ADFM", "length": 260, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bojenelectrical.co.uk", "title": "Archives | Bojen Electrical", "raw_content": "No one wants to end up regretting not being safe when it comes to electricity, it can seriously harm you if you\u2019re not careful, so here are some pieces of electrical safety advice. Be Sensible with Wires \u2013 make sure you don\u2019t have wires and cables in places...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookvine.com/catalog/product/view/id/1590/s/picnic/category/99/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AKM5SXA3IVWUGFZKDSAT5UIEZEQQTVHP", "length": 190, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bookvine.com", "title": "The Book Vine for Children: Online Catalog - Picnic", "raw_content": "A fun romp through a day with a Boy and a Girl looking for a place to have a picnic. Who will they meet on their adventure?\nWritten and illustrated by John Burningham - one of our favorites!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/20/potential-corner-office-candidate-kayyem-opens-fundraising-account/UR87lQk97brTBXia3ImezH/story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:EURXCYLTKTOO6E2ZTT7H3W652YHAQ25N", "length": 3481, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.bostonglobe.com", "title": "Potential corner office candidate Kayyem opens fundraising account - The Boston Globe Potential corner office candidate Kayyem opens fundraising account - The Boston Globe", "raw_content": "Democrat Juliette Kayyem ponders run for governor\nFormer Globe columnist opens state account\nOne observer said the roster of candidates would play a role in Juliette Kayyem\u2019s decision.\nBy Joshua Miller Globe Staff August 20, 2013\nDemocrat Juliette N. Kayyem, a former Boston Globe columnist and onetime Obama administration homeland security official, appears to be moving toward a run for governor.\nOn Tuesday, she opened a state fund-raising account and resigned her position as a columnist for the Globe, where she was already on leave.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be releasing a statement tomorrow,\u201d Katie Lee, a spokeswoman for Kayyem, said Tuesday evening.\nKayyem, who has been meeting with party activists in recent weeks, served as assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama before she joined the Globe. A Cambridge resident and a frequent presence on television, she has also been a lecturer at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government.\nBefore she joined the Obama administration, Kayyem, 44, served under Governor Deval Patrick as undersecretary for homeland security, a position she was appointed to in 2007.\nThe new campaign account with the state\u2019s Office of Campaign and Political Finance is a necessary step in the decision to run for governor, as it allows a candidate to begin fund raising.\nBarbara Lee, founder of an eponymous foundation that works to help women win elected office, said she had spoken to Kayyem recently and thought the formation of the campaign account was to allow Kayyem to continue looking into the prospect of running for governor.\n\u201cThe only way to test those waters is by opening that account,\u201d Lee said.\nCalls and e-mails to Kayyem were not returned Tuesday.\nWith an all-male field so far and the prospect of Attorney General Martha Coakley waging her own bid for the corner office, Lee said the roster of candidates would probably play a role in Kayyem\u2019s thinking.\n\u201cShe\u2019s considering all the aspects of what it takes to run a campaign, and I think she\u2019s considering the potential candidate field as part of her decision,\u201d Lee said.\nDemocrats currently running for governor in 2014 are state Treasurer Steven Grossman, state Senator Daniel A. Wolf, former Obama administration official Donald M. Berwick, and biotechnology executive Joseph Avellone.\nPotential candidates include Coakley, Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville, and US Representative Michael E. Capuano.\nKayyem, a Lebanese-American and a mother of three, met with Democratic activists Sunday, at the home of Joyce Linehan, a prominent Democratic activist in Dorchester.\nRichard Wood, another activist who attended the informal event, said he got the feeling that Kayyem was still in the exploratory phase of her campaign.\n\u201cI got a sense that the nuts and bolts of running a government, of being prepared, or setting Massachusetts up for the future are some things she would take very seriously and be good at,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not 100 percent certain what she would make her biggest priority and how she could achieve some of the things she talked about.\u201d\nJen Deaderick, who also attended the event, called Kayyem \u201cvery approachable and friendly and nerdy\u201d in a positive way.\nBut, Deaderick said, \u201cshe\u2019s not totally a politician. She\u2019s still figuring that part out.\u201d\nJim O\u2019Sullivan of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Joshua Miller can be reached at joshua.miller@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jm_bos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/29/court-papers-detail-chilling-murder-plot-allegedly-carried-out-virginia-man-kill-woman-bourne/ziWYKylpemCXOW9t3eHmwM/story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RKHNNBF7WXNBNLDRT5BLPK4IBMLXBDJ6", "length": 5864, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.bostonglobe.com", "title": "Court papers detail chilling murder plot allegedly carried out by Virginia man to kill woman in Bourne - The Boston Globe Court papers detail chilling murder plot allegedly carried out by Virginia man to kill woman in Bourne - The Boston Globe", "raw_content": "Records detail alleged plot behind Bourne rampage\nMerrily Cassidy/Pool\nAdrian Loya pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court last month to murder\nBy Evan Allen Globe Staff March 30, 2015\nAuthorities say Adrian Loya had a plan: On his 31st birthday, he would murder Lisa Trubnikova. So he allegedly wrote an essay about why his fellow Coast Guard member deserved to die, and he traveled to Bourne from his home in Chesapeake, Va. He stalked Trubnikova and her wife, videotaping them with a camera affixed to a tree outside their Roundhouse Road house, according to court documents.\nAnd in the early-morning hours of Feb. 5, he allegedly armed himself with three guns and blasted his way through their door, a black mask pulled over his face and a video camera strapped to his chest to capture Trubnikova\u2019s final moments.\nCourt documents unsealed recently after a request from the Cape Cod Times shed new light on Loya\u2019s alleged violent rampage, during which he allegedly set his car on fire, scattered hoax bomb devices to slow police, shot Trubnikova to death and wounded her wife, Anna Trubnikova, and engaged in a gun battle with police, shooting one Bourne police officer in the back, before surrendering about a half-hour later. The Times first reported the documents early this month. They include police reports and search warrant affidavits and returns.\nLoya pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court last month to a spate of charges including murder and was ordered held without bail. He was sent to a facility in Bridgewater for evaluation, and he is still being held there, said his attorney, J. Drew Segadelli.\nSegadelli disputed the narrative set forth in the law enforcement documents, saying it is too early in the investigation to draw conclusions about what happened or why.\nBourne police officer recalls \u2018one bad day\u2019\nJared MacDonald was shot in the back earlier this month by a gunman armed with three rifles and a handgun.\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t the entire bulk of the evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to be seen.\u201d\nHe said information contained in the court documents was \u201cextremely limited\u201d and said more information is still coming to light, though he declined to provide specifics.\n\u201cI still think there\u2019s some skepticism as I review the police investigation,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t say it\u2019s necessarily shoddy, but I don\u2019t jump to conclusions.\u201d\nBrian Glenny, first assistant district attorney for the Cape and Islands, declined to comment on any of the evidence in the case but said prosecutors are confident that Loya\u2019s alleged actions meet all three theories for first degree murder: premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony murder.\nLoya and the Trubnikovas were all in the Coast Guard. Officials said Lisa Trubnikova, 31, was a petty officer stationed in Cape Cod; Anna Trubnikova, 30, was a petty officer stationed in Woods Hole; Loya was stationed in Virginia.\nAfter his arrest, Loya allegedly told police he had known Trubnikova for a couple of years, and said, \u201cbased upon a prior interaction,\u201d he had \u201cmade up his mind that he was going to arrive at her residence in Bourne and murder her.\u201d\nThe documents do not state what that interaction was, but Trubnikova\u2019s relatives said Loya had become romantically \u201cfixated\u201d on her, even though she had shown no interest in him.\nA search warrant affidavit refers to \u201can essay written by Loya describing his reasons for killing Lisa Trubnikova,\u201d and another document reports that a 250-page essay was discovered during a search, but the documents do not describe the contents of the essay.\nBefore he arrived in Bourne on Feb. 1 and checked into Room 101 of the Quality Inn on Trowbridge Road, Loya allegedly told police that he made several hoax explosive devices in his Shoal Creek Trail home in Chesapeake.\nOn the morning of Feb. 4, he placed a digital camera in a tree to monitor the comings and goings of Trubnikova and her wife, according to the documents. In the early morning hours of Feb. 5, he allegedly told police, he watched the footage on his laptop.\nAround 2 a.m., Loya, who was allegedly armed with a shotgun, a rifle, and a handgun, parked his car sideways across Roundhouse Road and lit it on fire with flares and charcoal so that other vehicles could not get by, according to the documents. He allegedly placed hoax bomb devices around his car and the Trubnikova home to slow police.\nWith a camera allegedly strapped to his chest, he walked to the Trubnikovas\u2019 home, shot through the locked door with the shotgun, and stormed into the bedroom, where he found the two women in bed, according to the documents. He ordered them to get up, according to the police report, and allegedly started shooting at Lisa Trubnikova, hitting her several times in the legs and torso and killing her. Anna Trubnikova was also seriously injured but managed to call 911 to report the shooting, according to the documents.\nLoya then allegedly left the Trubnikova home and began firing on police as they arrived on scene, hitting Bourne police Officer Jared MacDonald in the back under his bulletproof vest.\nNeighbors described a chaotic chase scene, with Loya zig-zagging through the neighborhood, before sitting down on a neighbor\u2019s deck and surrendering silently around 2:48 a.m., about a half-hour after the first 911 calls came in.\nIn Loya\u2019s hotel room, police found black face masks, handcuff keys, duct tape, fire-starting material, a survival handbook, a mess kit, a first aid kit, zip ties, a knife sharpener, and other items, according to court documents.\nIn the Trubnikova home, they found the wreckage left by Loya\u2019s alleged burst of rage: a shotgun, two pairs of handcuffs, bullets, casings, spent shotgun shells, and blood stains.\n\u2022 Accused gunman \u2018fixated\u2019 on Bourne shooting victim\n\u2022 Suspect held in Bourne ambush, attack\nEvan Allen can be reached at evan.allen@globe.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brandhouse.co.uk/thinking/the-new-gender-rules/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FFH4GMKYAPSJRDESQHO7OP3FU25EACMS", "length": 9368, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.brandhouse.co.uk", "title": "THE NEW GENDER RULES - Brandhouse", "raw_content": "THE NEW GENDER RULES\nIn today\u2019s society, gender is not the same as sex; the former is a socially constructed definition while the latter is a biological characteristic. We can\u2019t truly pick or alter sex, however that is not the case when we talk about gender. The latter is determined by tasks, functions and roles attributed to them, and as these are increasingly being challenged, so is the concept of gender itself.\nGender has always been a topic for debate, but the latest developments prove that this time, discussions might trigger real, deep changes.\nLooking back it feels like until not that long ago, gender and sex were used as interchangeable words. However, reality is that regardless of how society has been using these two terms, it was as early as 1955 that sexologist John Money first introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender. But this distinction was never so relevant as in the last decade, when society as a whole began to recognise the gap that exists between one and the other, and started questioning their definitions.\nIn recent years we have seen a clear evolution in how we construe and relate with both concepts. This trend is just a natural extension of how the changing views about the importance of gender and biological sex are shaping who we are and how we interact with the world: furthermore it captures the increasingly pressing feeling, which has spread across a part of society, that we should be free to define our own personality and follow our interests, without gender labels and stereotypes swaying us in any direction.\nWhat started as a breeze, with the most progressive department stores experimenting with blurring the distinctions between men\u2019s and women\u2019s sections is now a storm in full swing, and it is going to eventually impact every brand and transform how they sell and communicate with consumers.\nWe are in the midst of a change in paradigm; a revision of the rules and principles of what gender is, and therefore how people\u2019s relationship with this concept is going to evolve.\nA proof that this movement is more than a temporal trend is the UK\u2019s advertising Standard\u2019s Association report addition of a gender stereotype initiative that includes a set of guidelines, which require companies to comply with new advertising standards that avoid the promotion of gender stereotypes.\nEven if this initiative has faced a rather uneven welcome, it is needed, as often culture is slow to change, especially when social norms are so deeply embedded into the fabric of our everyday life that profoundly shape the way we think and behave.\nIf you think that you are not skewed by these stereotypes, indulge me for a second and try to answer the following question; A father and his son are involved in a car accident in which the dad dies and the child is seriously injured, the kid is taken to hospital for an urgent operation. Once he is in the hospital the surgeon sees him and says \u201cI can\u2019t operate him because he is my son.\u201d Who is the surgeon? If you haven\u2019t been able to find a simple answer to this, you might be more skewed than you\u2019ve realised.\nIt will probably take another generation for this kind of change to become fully embraced, even if recent studies show that younger generations already exhibit a more open attitude towards gender.\nAccording to a piece of recent research by the Innovative Group and JWT Intelligence.\n38% of Gen Z respondents and 27% of millennial respondents \u201cstrongly agreed\u201d that gender no longer defines a person as much as it used to.\n56% of consumers 13-20 years old say someone they know uses gender neutral pronouns \u201cthey\u201d, \u201cthem\u201d or \u201cze\u201d versus \u201che\u201d or \u201cshe\u201d\nMany Millennial and Gen Z don\u2019t necessarily perceive gender as a social construct that needs to define their identity. They refuse to be restricted by the binary gender identities, and this is reflected in the new \u201cbeauty standards\u201d that they are building through celebrities such as Ruby Rose or Lucky Blue Smith.\nAs gender fluidity becomes the norm rather than an exception, brands are faced with the challenge of tackling the new gender norms both in the products they offer and in the way they talk to consumers.\nSegmenting the market by sex has long been a key standard marketing strategy. However, in the light of current events, it might not make sense for much longer, as brands that are too heavily skewed towards men or women can easily risk alienating the other half of the population, thereby endangering a potential source of income.\nTherefore, unless your brand is offering products that really need to be targeted this way, a more profitable strategy is to understand how your brand is already being used and by whom, and reflect that reality instead of supporting a social construct that is clearly becoming obsolete.\nAligning your brand\u2019s marketing and communication strategy with the new gender paradigm goes beyond removing the \u2018for men\u2019 and \u2018for women\u2019 style marketing, it is about analysing what your brand is already saying about this topic in every point of contact; packaging, environments, communication. Because assuming that males only want sports, competition and power, or that women love pink and only buy diet products is no longer acceptable, and can turn your audience against you.\nBrands have to rethink their depictions of femininity and masculinity, and explore other ways to segment their target audience beyond sex.\n1. Rethink you depiction of femininity and masculinity\nUnder Armour a traditionally male focused brand has recently recognised that women are also athletes. Even if they had been selling women\u2019s apparel since 2004, it wasn\u2019t until a couple of years ago that the brand started to really try hard to engage with the female shopper. Its latest campaign \u201cUnlike Any\u201d talks about women and strength in a very distinctive way that stays away from stereotypes.\nUnder Armour \u201cUnlike Any,\u201d marketing campaign\nThe company has taken a stand on the matter beyond mere communication. At the launch event for a new campaign, Adrienne Lofton, SVP of global brand management, noted how during the Olympics in Rio, every time a woman won, she was compared to men. \u201cWe had to start thinking about how to change this conversation. Why is there always a framing that when a woman does well, she\u2019s compared to the greatness of a man? We needed to remove gender from the conversation\u201d\nLikewise, female-skewed brands are rethinking their businesses. Thinx entered the market in 2014 with the tagline: \u201cUnderwear for women with periods.\u201d But in an effort to include every gender they launched a Boyshort product for trans men and changed their tagline to \u201cFor People with periods\u201d.\nLeft: Boyshort product for trans men, Right: Line of tampons for menstruating humans\nBy doing this, they moved away from targeting women and instead they aimed to connect with anyone who aligns with its mission. \u201cEvery person with period deserve peace of mind\u201d, regardless of their sex.\n2. Explore other ways to segment your target audience\nWhen formulating an effective brand strategy that is gender ambiguous, it is important to understand your consumers beyond sex. Find out how people view themselves, what personality traits they exhibit and what their aspirations are. Personality traits and aspirations are not limited to gender and as we move further into gender-fluidity, they have greater potential to capture your consumers\u2019 hearts.\nZara is one of the retailers that have released a gender-neutral clothing range. With Ungendered, Zara has taken a step towards breaking the current binary model that shapes the fashion industry and put the focus on style-conscious consumers regardless of their sex. There is still work to be done in understanding that gender neutral doesn\u2019t have to be grey, boring or lacking personality, but it is a step in the right direction.\nApparel isn\u2019t the only category creating more gender-neutral products. Another one is cosmetics; we are all aware of how CoverGirl enlisted James Charles, a 17-year-old boy, for its 2016 campaign; beyond that they launched a gender neutral Mascara. So Lashy is described as \u201cA universal mascara designed for anyone wanting to transform their lashes into a bold look\u2014regardless of lash type or starting point\u201d\nIt is our responsibility to create and market products that will help bust these stereotypes and enable more options for everyone.\nConsumers want brands that are socially responsible. This is achieved by becoming aware that the products we market and how we promote them create and shape perceptions, so beyond complying with legislation we have to decide how we want our brands to impact the social construct of gender.\nKey steps to consider to reassess your brand relationship with gender\nUnderstand your consumer beyond sex and socio-demographic factors\nRe-evaluate how you are segmenting your market\nAnalyse what your brand is already saying about gender and whether it supports old stereotypes\nRethink your depiction of gender across any point of contact that your brand has with consumers\nFinally, create more inclusive products across gendered categories\nIt is in our hands to either perpetuate or overcome stereotypes, and enable a healthier and more open gender construct. So next time someone asks you who the surgeon is, you will answer \u201cthe mum\u201d without thinking twice about it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 9683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brandingmag.com/author/radu-dandu/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IPJAT3URVTAOPBTVRYTOC5CIOAWCGN3T", "length": 669, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.brandingmag.com", "title": "Radu Dandu | Brandingmag", "raw_content": "Radu Dandu\nRadu is the Brand Director of Brandium, Inc., the global platform that delivers branding and content education to seasoned organizations and hungry practitioners alike. He ensures consistency across all brands and products, including Brandingmag. In times of need, he is also the team's go-to designer. Assembled as an engineer, but with over 12 years of design background, Radu has found his calling in solving problems and developing strategies. He faced the challenges of the advertising industry, but didn't feel he belonged there. In the end, guided by the work of Wally Olins, he is now one of the few individuals with a deep understanding of branding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/tag/fetal-homicide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6AM63FWOMKMLSO3RWUXM6LD3YA6XWKAE", "length": 574, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.breitbart.com", "title": "fetal homicide Articles - Breitbart", "raw_content": "Fugitive Slapped with 22-Year Jail Term after Spiking Girlfriend\u2019s Smoothie with Abortion Drug\nA man who was a fugitive for more than nine years has been sentenced to 22 years in prison following a conviction of attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child as a result of spiking his girlfriend\u2019s smoothie with an abortion-inducing drug.\nDoctor Who Slipped Girlfriend Abortion Drug Sentenced to Three Years\nA doctor who slipped his girlfriend the abortion pill in her tea has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to fetal homicide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.briancozzi.com/the-art-of-persuasion-increasing-site-conversions", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:X2WECD5TWL26Z4IOJSBY37ODNP75IX5N", "length": 1624, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.briancozzi.com", "title": "Brian Cozzi, Inc. | The Art of Persuasion: Increasing Site Conversions", "raw_content": "It is a common misconception that some people are generally more persuadable than others. In reality, the ability to alter one\u2019s thinking has more to do with the manner in which an idea is presented. Persuasion can help get a task done while making the other party believe that there is a significant benefit on their end. There are three simple steps involved when converting an individual\u2019s way of thinking.\n1. Grabbing Their Attention\nThis refers to enthusiastically drawing in a potential client and could result in something as basic as a phone call or meeting.\n2. Keeping Them Engaged\nPiggy-backing off of the first step, the goal is to ensure alertness and engagement while keeping interest high throughout the process.\n3. Assigning a Task or Call to Action\nSupplying information on appropriate next steps to take in the process as well as leading potential clients down the path of success.\nIn terms of website design, the act of persuasion translates to conversions. A client\u2019s marketing goals should be used to create a custom design which will ultimately lead to increased website conversions. This often looks like a user-friendly site that is free from distraction and offers valuable content. Furthermore, compelling offers or a call to action will help close the deal.\nAlthough this may seem like a basic concept, many sites lack the ability to grab attention, keep visitors engaged, and provide a clear and directional call to action. Luckily, with the right resources and help from experienced professionals at Brian Cozzi, Inc., it is something that can be easily fixed and provided with excellent results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.broadwaytravel.com/clarion-collection-frankfurt-central-station/130770", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:25Z", "digest": "sha1:X37UZGHRQSOK3OC2J67Q4G3CAXF3ELQM", "length": 472, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.broadwaytravel.com", "title": "Clarion Collection Frankfurt Central Station Frankfurt | Holidays to Germany | Broadway Travel", "raw_content": "Home > Germany > Clarion Collection Frankfurt Central Station\nClarion Collection Frankfurt Central Station\nThis cosy 4 star hotel is located within easy walking distance from the train station and a short distance to all the main sights and shopping district. The international fair ground is also within walking distance or a quick tram ride away. The hotel offers a good quality product tastefully furnished and with an excellent location right in the heart of the city.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brookhartexclusiveproperties.com/planning-your-move/P612", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:59Z", "digest": "sha1:W4SYE2ENDNAUWHWEW4HUPPKSUYOBQY26", "length": 3291, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.brookhartexclusiveproperties.com", "title": "George Brookhart", "raw_content": "While buying or renting a new home can bring joy and excitement, most people can agree that moving from one home to another, especially for the first time, can be troublesome. Moving can be stressful, and you can go crazy just because you were ill-prepared. But that doesn\u2019t need to happen! There are always certain things you can do, whether you\u2019re self-moving or hiring a company, to avoid that new homeowner headache. Contact Me and I will help you to make this process as easy as possible.\nPlan Ahead: Now that you\u2019ve purchased your new home, make sure you have arrangements for your move in day at least two to three weeks in advance. As well, as time narrows down to move-in day, compile a list to keep you organized while packing. You may want to start packing items you don\u2019t often use earlier to save time and space.\nHiring a mover: If you are hiring a moving company, ask friends or family for a recommendation. This may not guarantee you\u2019ll feel similar as your family or friends about a certain company, but hearing positive news about a company is a start. Researching various companies is vital. Spending some time doing research can avoid scams, overspending and wasting time. The internet is a great tool, but there are some things to look out for:\nBe doubtful of companies that offer prices that are much lower than others. This doesn\u2019t always mean you\u2019ll be receiving the greatest deal. A valid company should offer you an estimate, not an upfront price. A quote or an estimate should be given after a mover has inspected your home and possessions, not over the phone or internet. Check to see if you have insurance coverage in case of accidents. Also, ask the company if they offer liability coverage.\nSelf- Moving: Moving by yourself can save you money, but may take a lot more time and effort. Be certain that you\u2019re able to take the time off from work and that you\u2019re in suitable condition to lift heavy items for a day. Acquire the assistance of friends and family, and don\u2019t forget to reward them with pizza and cold drinks.\nNotify everyone: Unless you\u2019re trying to hide from outside society, make sure you notify everyone that you\u2019re moving. This includes work, utility companies, businesses, postal services, banks, clubs, your children(s)\u2019s school etc.\nKeep organized: First of all, ensure you have enough boxes to package all your possessions. When packing a particular room, keep all those materials together. Properly label each box by using coloured tape and permanent marker to make sure the labels are easily identifiable.\nImportant items: When moving, don\u2019t leave any valuables and important personal documents buried down in a box on a truck. Personally take them with you. As well, carry items such as a set a clothes, medicines and toiletries on hand for the first night so you avoid searching for them when you\u2019re tired and weak.\nHaving a successful and a relatively smooth moving experience isn\u2019t difficult to achieve. The night before, make sure you\u2019re relaxed and ready to go. Get a good night\u2019s sleep \u2013 you don\u2019t want to be cranky and tired on one of the busiest days of your life. And most importantly, be positive, and don\u2019t worry, your new home will be worth every drop of sweat. 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Believing he is responsible for the deaths of his wife and child, an enigmatic Pakistani businessman (Patrick Sabongui) tracks him down, leading to a harrowing confrontation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 3635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.butlerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/John-Spiegel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:5JEYOTOZLO3FLSREG4VBONC3CNJXGZC7", "length": 479, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.butlerfuneralhome.com", "title": "John Spiegel Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "John B. Spiegel, 75, of Bolivar died peacefully, Sunday, July 22, 2018, at Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility in Bolivar. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Robert and Jean Spiegel, the youngest of two sons. In the spring of 1962,... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of John Spiegel created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nJohn B. Spiegel, 75, of Bolivar died peacefully, Sunday, July...\nSend flowers to the Spiegel's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bwbsedu.com/university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:CNWF7532ZY6NF3F5ARQFCD6XS55GY375", "length": 19979, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "www.bwbsedu.com", "title": "UNIVERSITIES - BWBS Education Consultants", "raw_content": "BWBS Education Consultants > UNIVERSITIES\nThe University of Chester is a public university located in the historic city of Chester, England. The University, the first purpose-built teacher training college in the UK, based in five campus sites in and around Chester and one in Warrington, offers a range of foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as undertaking academic research.\nThe university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Cathedrals Group, the North West Universities Association and Universities UK.\nMiddlesex University London is a public university in Hendon, north west London, England. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of the Million+ working group. The name of the University is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries of Middlesex. The university\u2019s history can be traced back to 1878 when its founding institute, St Katherine\u2019s College, was established in Tottenham as a teacher training college for women. Having merged with several other institutes, the university was consolidated in its current form in 1992.\nOver 140 nationalities are represented at the university\u2019s Hendon campus alone.[5] The university also has campuses in Malta, Dubai and Mauritius as well as a number of local offices across the globe.Courses are delivered by the Faculty of Science and Technology, Faculty of Professional and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of the Arts and Creative Industries.\nMiddlesex was awarded Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2017 for the quality of its teaching, learning and outcomes for students, and was judged to have \u2018consistently exceeded the rigorous national quality requirements\u2019[6] for UK higher education.\nUniversity of the West of Scotland (Scotland & London Campus)\nUniversity of the West of Scotland is one of the UK\u2019s most innovative modern universities with a heritage dating back 120 years.\nUWS is ranked by Times Higher Education in their 2018 World University Rankings as being in the top 3% of universities worldwide, and feature in the top 200 of their Young University World Rankings.\nThe Times/The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018 ranks us as a top 100 UK university and as the highest in Scotland for both teaching quality and student experience.\nAnglia Ruskin University (London Campus)\nAnglia Ruskin University is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. It has 39,400 students worldwide and has campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough. It also shares campuses with the College of West Anglia in King\u2019s Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge.\nIt has its origins in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont[3] in 1858. The school became Anglia Polytechnic after the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and the Essex Institute of Higher Education joined. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed Anglia Ruskin University (after John Ruskin) in 2005.\nIt has been listed in the Times Higher Education\u2019s (THE) World University Rankings \u2013 being named as one of the top 350 institutions in the world and joint 38th best in the UK.[4] The higher education strategy consulting firm Firetail recognises Anglia Ruskin University as one of the 20 \u201crising stars\u201d in global Higher Education. It is the only UK university to feature in the top 20.[5]\nThe University of Hertfordshire is a university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was identified as one of 25 Colleges of Technology in the United Kingdom in 1959.[5] In 1992, Hatfield Polytechnic was granted university status by the British government and subsequently renamed University of Hertfordshire.\nThe university was among the top 50 best UK universities chosen by major employers for producing ready-to-work graduates in Times Higher Education\u2019s 2015 ranking and it is one of only a few UK HEIs to have been awarded a European Commission HR Excellence in Research badge.[6] Over the past two years it has risen an impressive 75 places in the rankings. Hertfordshire is also ranked in the top two universities in the east of England region for employability, second only to Cambridge.[7] Being one of the most technologically advanced institutions in Europe, Hertfordshire\u2019s enrolment has steadily increased since it was awarded university status. With a student community of over 25,130[8] including more than 5,200 international students that together represent 100 countries, the university has a global network of over 165,000 alumni.[9] The university is one of Hertfordshire\u2019s largest employers with over 2,700 staff, 812 of which are academic members of staff[10] and a turnover of more than \u00a3235 million. The university is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities and University Alliance.\nThe University of Gloucestershire is a public university based in Gloucestershire, England. It is located over three campuses, two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester, namely Francis Close Hall, The Park and Oxstalls and a Centre for Fashion, Art and Photography in Cheltenham.[6] .\nThe university is the recent successor of a large number of merged, name-changed and reformed institutions of further and higher education. Its history spans nearly two centuries. It originates from the merger of two distinct strands of educational provision in Gloucestershire being that provided by Local Government and that founded by the Anglican Church.[1][2] The university traces its earliest Civic history to the Cheltenham Mechanics\u2019 Institute in 1834, and to the Cheltenham Training College in its Church history, established in 1847, by the Reverend Francis Close.[7][8] Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education was created in 1990 from the two distinct strands. In October 2001, the college was awarded University status.[7]\nThe university provides almost 100 undergraduate courses and around 57 taught post-graduate courses within two faculties: the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Business and the Faculty of Art and Technology.[9]\nIn 1975, there are four colleges joined to form the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education.. Roehampton was formerly an equal partner in the now-dissolved Federal University of Surrey (along with the original University of Surrey in Guildford). Since 1 August 2004, the University of Surrey Roehampton became Roehampton University.\nSince 2011, the university has been branded University of Roehampton. However, its legal name remains Roehampton University.[3] In 2012 the last college, Whitelands, was legally merged with the university, bringing all the colleges into a common management structure.[4] Schiller International University degrees are awarded and accredited by Roehampton.\nBangor University (Welsh: Prifysgol Bangor) is a Welsh university in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in NorthWales. It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding member institutions of the former federal University of Wales. It was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales (UCNW), and later as the University of Wales, Bangor (UWB) (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor). From September 2007 it became known as Bangor University, having become independent from the federal University of Wales.\nIn 2012 Bangor was ranked 251st among the world\u2019s top universities.[2] According to the Sunday Times University Guide 2012,[3] it is rated top in Wales for teaching excellence and is among the top 15 universities in the UK in this category.\nUniversity of Ulster (London & Birmingham Campus)\nThe University of Ulster,[11] is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU.[12][13][14] It is the largest university in Northern Ireland and the second largest university on the island of Ireland, after the federal National University of Ireland.\nEstablished in 1968 as the New University of Ulster, it merged with Ulster Polytechnic in 1984, incorporating its four Northern Irish campuses under the University of Ulster banner. The university incorporated its four campuses in 1984; located in Belfast, Coleraine, Magee College in Derry, and Jordanstown. The university has branch campuses in both London and Birmingham, and an extensive distance learning provision. The university rebranded as Ulster University from October 2014 and this included a revised visual identity.\nIt has one of the highest further study and employment rates in the UK, with over 92% of graduates being in work or further study six months after graduation.[15] The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities,[16] the European University Association, Universities Ireland and Universities UK.\nNorthumbria University, officially the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, is a university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. In 1992, Newcastle Polytechnic was reconstituted as the new University of Northumbria,[6] as part of a nationwide process in which polytechnics became new universities. It was originally styled, and its official name still is, the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (see the Articles of Government[7]) but the trading name was simplified to Northumbria University in 2002. In 1995, it was awarded responsibility for the education of healthcare professionals, which was transferred from the National Health Service.\nDe Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England.\nThe UK Department of Education awarded the institution a \u2018Gold\u2019 rating in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, describing teaching as being \u201cconsistently outstanding\u201d and \u201cof the highest quality found in the UK Higher Education sector\u201d.[3] The 2014 Research Excellence Framework described roughly 60% of the University\u2019s research activities as \u201cworld-leading\u201d or \u201cinternationally excellent\u201d. [4]\nThe University is organised into four faculties: Art, Design, and Humanities; Business and Law; Health and Life Sciences; and Technology (comprising Computing Sciences and Engineering). There is also the Institute of Creative Technologies which researches the intersections of art, science, technology and multidisciplinary working.\nThe University of Dundee is a public research university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on the east coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland.It is ranked within the top 300 universities in the world and within the top 30 in the UK by national university rankings.[5] Founded in 1881 the institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College and St Mary\u2019s Collegelocated in the town of St Andrews itself. Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee became an independent body in 1967 whilst retaining much of its ancient heritage and governance structure.\nThe main campus of the university is located in Dundee\u2019s West End which contains many of the university\u2019s teaching and research facilities; the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee Law School and the Dundee Dental Hospital and School. The university has additional facilities at Ninewells Hospital \u2013 containing its School of Medicine, Perth Royal Infirmary \u2013 which houses a clinical research centre, and in Kirkcaldy, Fife \u2013 containing part of its school of Nursing and Midwifery. The annual income of the institution for 2016\u201317 was \u00a3244.4 million of which \u00a376.2 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of \u00a3251.5 million.[2]\nBPP University is a private university specialising in law, business, finance, accountancy, banking, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, psychology and healthcare. BPP University has sites in several UK city centre locations, particularly in London. Since 2009 it has been owned and run by BPP Holdings, part of the US-based for-profit education company Apollo Group. The Apollo Group was taken over by a private equity consortium in February 2017, triggering a review of BPP University\u2019s university status and degree awarding powers.[1]\nThe university is a UK degree-awarding body with four schools: BPP University Business School, BPP University Law School, BPP University School of Health[2] and BPP University School of Foundation and English Language Studies.\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (London Campus)\nThe University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a collegiate university operating on three main campuses in South West Wales: in Carmarthen, Lampeter, and Swansea. The university also has a fourth campus in London, England.[3][4]\nThe university came into existence through the merger of the two oldest higher education institutions in Wales, the University of Wales, Lampeter (UWL) and Trinity University College (TUC) in 2010, under Lampeter\u2019s royal charter of 1828. In 2011, it was announced that the University of Wales would also be merged into Trinity Saint David. On 1 August 2013 the university merged with Swansea Metropolitan University.\nThe University of Greenwich is a public and research university located in London, in the United Kingdom. It has three campuses in London and Kent, England. These are located at Greenwich, in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, and in Avery Hill and Medway.[3] Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic.\nThe Complete University Guide for student satisfaction ranked Greenwich 93 out of 129 in its league table for 2018.[4]\nThe university\u2019s range of subjects includes architecture, business, computing, mathematics, education, engineering, humanities, maritime studies, natural sciences, pharmacy and social sciences.[5]\nLondon South Bank University (LSBU) is a public university in Newington, London. It has 17,985 students and 1,700 staff,[4] and is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name.\nFounded from charitable donations in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute, it absorbed several other local colleges in the 1970s and 1990s, and achieved university status in 1992.[1] LSBU is a post-1992 or new university.\nThe University of East London (UEL) is a public university in the London Borough of Newham, London, England, based at three campuses in Stratford and Docklands, following the opening of University Square Stratford in September 2013.[2] The university\u2019s roots can be traced back to 1892 when the West Ham Technical Institute was established. It gained university status in 1992.\nGlasgow Caledonian University (informally GCU or Caledonian) is a public university in Glasgow. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen\u2019s College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and Glasgow Polytechnic (founded in 1971).[3]\nIn June 2017, the university\u2019s New York campus, which opened in 2013, was granted permission to award degrees in the state, the first foreign higher education institution to achieve this status.\nCoventry University (London and Coventry Campus)\nCoventry University is a public research university in the city of Coventry, England, part of the wider Coventry University Group.[7] It was formerly known as Lanchester Polytechnic until 1987, and Coventry Polytechnic until it was awarded university status in 1992. The university comprises four faculties which are made up of schools and departments which collectively run around 300 undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Across the university there are 11 research centres which specialise in different fields, from transport to peace studies.\nWith more than 29,000 students (as of 2017), Coventry University is the larger of the two universities in the city \u2013 the other being the University of Warwick \u2013 and the fastest growing university in the UK.[8] It has two principal campuses: one in the centre of Coventry where the majority of its operations are located, and one in central London which focuses on business and management courses. The university group also runs offshoot higher education institutions in Coventry (next door to its main campus), Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and East London, each of which markets itself as being an \u201calternative to mainstream higher education\u201d.[9]\nUniversity of Westminster (London and Coventry Campus)\nIts headquarters and original campus are in Regent Street in the City of Westminster area of central London, with additional campuses in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Harrow. It operates the Westminster International University in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.[3]\nWestminster\u2019s academic activities are organised into seven faculties and schools, within which there are around 45 departments. The University has numerous centres of research excellence across all the faculties, including the Communication and Media Research Institute, whose research is ranked in the Global Top 40 by the QS World University Rankings. Westminster had an income of \u00a3170.4 million in 2012/13, of which \u00a34.5 million was from research grants and contracts.[4]\nKingston University London (informally Kingston or KUL) is a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, United Kingdom. The university specialises in the arts, design, fashion, science, engineering, and business. It received university status in 1992, before which the institution was known as Kingston Polytechnic. Its roots, however, go back to the Kingston Technical Institute, founded in 1899.\nThe university has four campuses situated in Kingston and Roehampton.\nKingston University London, is a member of the Association of MBAs, the European University Association and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.\nThe University of Bedfordshire is a public university situated in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England. The university was created in August 2006 following approval by the Privy Council by merging the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University.\nIt has 14,000 students, including approximately 4,500 international students. It is spread across six campuses: there are four campuses in Bedfordshire, in Bedford and Luton; and two campuses in Buckinghamshire, in Aylesbury (for students studying Nursing and Midwifery), and in Milton Keynes (where business studies, electronic engineering, and telecommunications are taught).\nBirmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a modern university in the city of Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843,[4] it was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992.\nThe university has three main campuses serving four faculties, and offers courses in art and design, business, the built environment, computing, education, engineering, English, healthcare, law, the performing arts, social sciences, and technology. A \u00a3125 million extension to its campus in the city centre of Birmingham, part of the Eastside development of a new technology and learning quarter, is opening in two stages, with the first phase having opened its doors in 2013.[5][6]\nIt is the second largest of five universities in the city, the other four being Aston University, University of Birmingham, University College Birmingham, and Newman University.\nThe University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. It was established in 1963, welcomed its first students in 1964 and received its Royal Charter in 1965.\nEssex\u2019s largest campus is the Colchester Campus within Wivenhoe Park, less than a mile (1.6 km) from Wivenhoe and two miles (3 km) from Colchester. Apart from the Colchester Campus, there is a campus in Southend-on-Sea and East 15 Acting School is based at the Loughton Campus. Essex\u2019s motto, \u201cThought the harder, heart the keener\u201d, is adapted from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 21604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 75.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/world-beijing-j-j-kicks-off-olympic-sponsorship-creative-pitch/550899", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WNKHG2OCMHR7T4A6RI3VB35JZRYEJYKZ", "length": 839, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.campaignlive.co.uk", "title": "The World: Beijing - J&J kicks off Olympic sponsorship creative pitch", "raw_content": "The World: Beijing - J&J kicks off Olympic sponsorship creative pitch\nJohnson & Johnson is calling a global creative pitch for a Beijing Olympic Games sponsorship project, estimated to be worth in excess of $100 million.\nThe pitch will include all of the company's roster agencies, including McCann Erickson, Lowe, JWT, Ogilvy & Mather, DDB and TBWA.\nThe first presentations will be held in New York in early April. A second round of pitches will take place in Shanghai in May.\nThe pitch will be run by J&J's recently appointed global advertising and communications vice-president, Joe McCarthy, who moved to the cosmetics company from StrawberryFrog New York.\nJ&J has set up a specialist Olympics team headed by Mike Hsu, the former head of its consumer franchise division, to help leverage its sponsorship investment for the China games.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/obituaries/grace-m-vallis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:V2P77EN4XX4KRGZNEO7S3JCVOPYJTIFR", "length": 1655, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.campbellrivermirror.com", "title": "Grace M. VALLIS, \u2013 Campbell River Mirror", "raw_content": "Grace M. VALLIS,\nVALLIS,\nGrace died on May 6th, 2004 at Campbell River Hospital fighting leukemia with her feisty spirit. She was born February 6th, 1915 in London, England. Grace was predeceased by her husband Frank M. Vallis. She leaves to celebrate her life, daughter Norma Soderholm (Helmer), granddaughter Michele Grace Vallis, friends here and family in England. A special mention of Diane who took care of her and also a doctor who was the second love of her life!!!\nShe was a Cockney, born in the old Kent Road in South East London within the sound of the bells of Bow Church. Surrounded by a large family of siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and many, many friends. Money was sparse but family ties were strong and there were lots of \u201cknees up\u201d gatherings! \u201cGracie\u201d met the only love of her life at age 18 years, Frank, and they soon married. He was a postman and Mum said of him, that he came from the \u201cwilds\u201d of Lancashire and spoke with a \u201cfunny accent\u201d! World War II began and Frank left for combat. Mum took over his job as a mail lady, with a multitude of tales to tell following the London blitz. Some years later they came to Canada, eventually living in Campbell River which took some while to convince them that there were no cougars or bears roaming the streets!! A Private Gathering will be held at a later date in the Abbeyfield House in Courtenay, where she spent many hours. ISLAND FUNERAL SERVICES/ ELK FALLS CREMATORIUM 103 \u2013 909 ISLAND HIGHWAY, CAMPBELL RIVER entrusted with arrangements. No flowers by request but donations in memory of Grace to the Abbeyfield House, 994 \u2013 8th St., Courtenay, B.C. V9N 9G1 would be appreciated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 4698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/upcoming-events-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:25Z", "digest": "sha1:TRGW5KDE6YIHDT32K7GIABOWTKRW5BC7", "length": 2986, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.canadianarchitect.com", "title": "Upcoming Events (October 01, 2003) - Canadian Architect", "raw_content": "Upcoming Events (October 01, 2003)\nProfessional Development Courses Fall 2003\nField Review/General Review\nThis full day course being offered in sessions across the country in October is a comprehensive examination of field review practices. For those unable to attend the course, there will be an extensive CD-ROM \u2014 complete with the course PowerPoint presentation, manual, and checklists \u2014 available for purchase from the RAIC.\nSDCB 301 Building Envelopes: Advanced Design and High Performance Curtain Walls\nThe RAIC will be presenting their fourth course in the series on Sustainable Design for Canadian Buildings \u2014 SDCB 301 Building Envelopes: Advanced Design and High Performance Curtain Walls \u2014 across the country in November and December. A brochure describing the course is included in this edition of Canadian Architect.\nRedesigning Practice: New Markets for Sole Practitioners and Small Architectural Firms\nThis exciting half-day seminar will be offered exclusively in Toronto and Vancouver on November 12th and 14th respectively but, for those unable to attend these sessions, it will be offered again at the Festival of Architecture in Quebec City, June 16th-19th, 2004. John Brown from House Brand in Calgary, Alberta and Sarah Susanka, cultural visionary, best selling author, and nationally recognized architect from the U.S., will share their insights into building a successful, viable practice for the residential market.\nFor more information, or to register, please visit the RAIC Web site at http://www.raic.org/educationEarch.htm\nCall for Submissions for the 2004 Governor General\u2019s Medals In Architecture\nA call for submissions was distributed in late September and is also posted on the RAIC Web site at http://www.raic.org/awardsEarch.asp All submissions must be received at the RAIC national office by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, December 1, 2003. Those considering submitting their work should take advantage of the seasonal colours and sunlight to take photos.\nA Look Ahead \u2014 2004\nCeremony of the Governor General\u2019s Medals in Architecture\nThe 2004 Festival of Architecture will take place June 16-19 in Quebec City. The theme is \u201cThe Future of Architecture \u2014 A Collective Risk?\u201d. A highlight of the event will be a keynote address by geneticist Albert Jaquard who is also a former professor at the Universit delle Svizzera italiana-Accademia di architettura. Extensive Continuing Education sessions will be available as well as the opportunity to explore and experience the local architecture. Be sure to book your hotel now as spring accommodations are limited in Quebec City. Plan to arrive Wednesday, June 16, 2004. For a complete list of the various conference hotels, rates and contact information please see http://www.raic.org/2004festivalhotels.pdf Additional details will soon be posted on the RAIC\u2019s website.\nFor more information on these events, awards or much more, visit the RAIC Web site at www.raic.org\nPrairie Wood Solutions Fair in Edmonton this week", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianimmigration.com/working-in-canada/nafta-work-permit/investor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:47Z", "digest": "sha1:I4OHCVGSTLKKTUEOP7MYZKMG5R3D6AYN", "length": 4210, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.canadianimmigration.com", "title": "NAFTA Investor Work Permit | Canadian Immigration", "raw_content": "NAFTA Traders and NAFTA Investors\nNAFTA Traders and NAFTA Investors who wish to work in Canada must:\n1) have the intention and ability to engage in substantial trade of goods or services between Canada and the country of the applicant\u2019s citizenship (United States or Mexico).\n2) have committed, or be in the active process of committing, a substantial amount of capital to an existing or new Canadian business.\nIn both instances, NAFTA Traders and Investors must be employed in an executive or supervisory position, or in a position that requires essential skills.\nNAFTA Traders and NAFTA Investors are not subject to a Labour Market Impact Assessment requirement, but they do require a work permit to work in Canada. Applicants cannot be granted both trader and investor status, however, if an applicant is unsure which status is best suited for their circumstances; he or she may apply for consideration for both designations.\nNAFTA Trader and Investor work permits have a maximum duration of one year, with the possibility of a two-year extension provided that all requirements continue to be met. Information from the initial application will be compared with the application for an extension to ensure all conditions are satisfactory.\nNAFTA Trader Work Permit\n1) NAFTA Trader applicants must have US or Mexican citizenship;\n2) The enterprise, by which the applicant is employed, must be a US or Mexican company (at least 50% owned by US or Mexican nationals or corporate persons);\n3) The enterprises must be in the business of substantial trade in goods or services;\n4) Trade must primarily be between the United Sates or Mexico, and Canada (over 50% of total volume of trade);\n5) Trade between the United States or Mexico and Canada must already exist. Applicants cannot qualify as a trader for the purpose of seeking new trading relationships;\n6) The applicant must hold a position that is executive, supervisory or one that involved essential skills; and\n7) Applicants may also subject to other requirements with respect to temporary entry to Canada (i.e. temporary resident visas for Mexicans).\n1) Applicant must have US or Mexican citizenship;\n2) The enterprise with which the applicant is employed by must have Mexican or US nationality (at least 50% owned by US or Mexican citizens or corporate persons);\n3) Substantial investment has been made, or is in the process of being made, in Canada;\n4) The applicant is seeking entry into Canada solely for the purpose to \u201cdevelop and direct\u201d the Canadian enterprise in which the applicant has invested, or in the process of actively investing, a substantial amount of capital;\n5) The applicant, if an employee, must hold a position that is executive, supervisory or one that involves essential skills; and\nNAFTA Investor work permits may also be granted to employees of the primary investor, provided they are considered essential staff. In order to bring an employee to Canada under investor status:\n1) the employer in Canada must be a US or Mexican citizen who currently has their investor status; or\n2) if the employer is a corporation or other business entity, such entity must be majority owned by US or Mexican citizens, who currently have investor status in Canada (if they are not living in the U.S. or Mexico).\nDevelop and Direct\n\u201cDevelop and direct\u201d means the applicant should have a controlling interest in the enterprise. This is to say the applicant must own more than 50% of the enterprise.\nThere is no exact dollar figure to meet the definition of \u201csubstantial investment\u201d and such determinations are made using a proportionality test. In order to determine whether the investment is substantial, Canadian immigration officials will weigh the amount invested against one of the following:\n1) the total value of the particular enterprise; or\n2) the amount considered necessary to establish a viable enterprise of the nature contemplated.\nOnly the amounted invested, or that which is irrevocably committed, can be considered in whether the investment is substantial.\nThis information does not constitute legal advice and other conditions do apply. Please contact our Canadian immigration law firm for assistance with your NAFTA work permits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 9099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/workplace/in-amazon-s-hellscape-workers-face-insecurity-and-crushing-targets-20180907-p502ao.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BB3SEH3OOYAWT4HGRYTGSPMO67474NML", "length": 9155, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.canberratimes.com.au", "title": "Amazon workers in Australia describe warehouse 'hellscape'", "raw_content": "In Amazon's 'hellscape', workers face insecurity and crushing targets\nWhen Amazon sent its Australian website live in December, the global e-commerce giant promised it would bring millions of low-price products to consumers and create thousands of local jobs.\n\"We hope to earn the trust and the custom of Australian shoppers in the years to come,\" its country manager, Rocco Braeuniger, said at the time.\nIllustration: Jamie Brown.\nBy that stage Amazon - which this week followed Apple to become history's second-ever $US1 trillion company - had already quietly brought something else new and unique to our shores.\nIn Melbourne\u2019s outer south-east, Amazon had opened its first local \"fulfilment centre\". This massive shed is where thousands of products wait to be plucked off shelves, packed into boxes and mailed to customers by workers.\nThey are almost all casual employees engaged not by Amazon, but through a third-party labour hire firm Adecco.\nAmazon's efficiency and use of cutting-edge technology has empowered consumers around the world, giving them access to a virtually unlimited number of products at low prices, delivered to their door with the click of a mouse.\nSome of Amazon's Australian workers have now described how the same technological precision that made Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the richest person on the planet (he is worth $US167 billion, according to Forbes) is also used to monitor and analyse each second of their working day.\nCombined with insecure casual employment, the workers who spoke to Fairfax Media said they felt under unsustainable pressure to meet performance targets or they will lose their jobs.\n\"It\u2019s a hellscape,\" said one of the workers, who spoke directly to Fairfax Media but declined to be identified for fear of losing their current jobs or damaging future work opportunities with labour hire firms.\n\"I\u2019ve never worked anywhere as harsh, and it\u2019s frustrating because the head of Amazon is the richest man on the planet.\"\nThe relationship between workers\u2019 bargaining power, casualisation and Australia\u2019s stubbornly low wages growth is a hot topic in policy circles.\nLabour hire is commonly used in the warehousing industry, but National Union of Workers national secretary Tim Kennedy says it is \"unprecedented\" for the arrangement to make up 100 per cent of a workplace, which workers say is effectively the case at Amazon\u2019s facility in Dandenong South, with only a handful of senior managers employed as staff.\nI\u2019ve never worked anywhere as harsh, and it\u2019s frustrating because the head of Amazon is the richest man on the planet.\nAmazon worker\nAmazon started operating out of a second, larger, facility in Sydney's Moorebank last month, where it is understood workers are engaged on the same terms. \"Amazon is introducing a very concerning employment practice to Australia,\" Mr Kennedy said.\nThe NUW says that casual workers at Amazon\u2019s Melbourne warehouse got a starting pay rate of $25.36 an hour (before weekend or other penalties), which could increase once they had worked for several months. That compares with casual rates of between $30 and $37 an hour at nearby warehouses where workers have been able to negotiate collective agreements, the union says.\nThe minimum casual rate under the Road Transport and Distribution Award is $25.05 an hour.\n'Success! Quality!'\nWorkers - or \"associates\", as Amazon calls them - have described a cult-like corporate culture at the warehouse, where each day begins with group stretching exercises and workers having to share an \"Amazon success story\".\nManagers then lead a team chant, such as \"Quality!\", \"Success!\", \"Amazon!\", or \"Prime!\", sometimes while jumping in the air.\nWarehouse pickers are issued with handheld electronic scanners that direct them to different aisles of the warehouse to collect products, and load them onto carts to be dispatched to customers.\nAn Amazon worker at its Melbourne fulfillment centre with one of the handheld scanners.\nAs soon as one item is scanned, a solid bar on the bottom of the screen immediately starts to count down, showing how much time they have to reach their next item, which could be anywhere in the 24,000-square-metre warehouse.\nIf an item is not scanned within the required time, the worker\u2019s \"pick rate\" is marked down.\nAt the centre in Dandenong South, pick rates are handed out to workers once or twice a day, and those falling below benchmark targets have to explain to their managers why.\n\"You always have KPIs [key performance indicators] but the line on that gun, I\u2019ve never had that before,\" said one experienced warehouse worker.\n\"You end up not being able to function because you\u2019re so nervous and stressed out.\"\nWorkers told Fairfax Media they thought Amazon used casual employment and demanding KPIs to push workers\u2019 productivity to the limits.\nAnother said workers who did not meet performance targets would leave for the day and then be sent a text message telling them their next shift had been cancelled.\n\"You notice people just disappear if they don\u2019t reach their pick rates,\" a worker said. \"You just have one bad day and you\u2019re gone. Everyone works hard anyway but sometimes you have a bad day, and you could lose your job for that.\"\nAn employee enters Amazon's Melbourne warehouse on the day its local website went live. Credit:Pat Scala\nAn Amazon spokeswoman said the company \"set productivity targets objectively, based on previous performance levels achieved by our workforce\", and that workers' performance was evaluated over a \"long time\".\nBut workers who spoke to Fairfax Media said there was a palpable fear of falling behind performance targets.\nOne worker said a colleague advised them not to drink water before or during a shift because going to the toilet outside designated break times would affect their pick rate.\n\"There\u2019s a water cooler in the corner, but nobody uses it,\" they said.\nAmazon said workers were allowed to use the toilet \"whenever needed\".\nTwo workers said employees were reluctant to report injuries for fear of not getting shifts on the physically demanding job, where workers are told to operate at \"Amazon pace\" - just below running speed - as they cover 20 kilometres on foot each shift.\n\"My manager told me [jokingly] we got a free gym membership with the job,\" one of the workers said.\nWorker who spoke to Fairfax Media say there is a pool of about 200 workers engaged at the factory in Dandenong, with about three-quarters of those being recent migrants to Australia.\nAmazon said it had a \"mixture of permanent and agency staff\" at its warehouses \"to enable us to move quickly, access talent and manage variations in customer demand\", but would not give specific numbers.\nDocuments lodged with the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), show that Amazon\u2019s retail business in Australia had just 89 staff at the end of December, including across management, sales, marketing, IT and engineering support.\nThe workers who spoke to Fairfax Media said it was common for shifts to be cancelled at short notice depending on how many orders had been placed, leaving workers expecting to work five shifts a week having to survive with only two.\nMeanwhile, managers routinely called staff at 7.30am and asked them to come in to the factory as soon as possible when it needed more people to fulfil the day's orders, they said.\nAmazon became the history's second ever trillion dollar company this week, and its founder Jeff Bezos (pictured) is the world's richest person. Credit:AP\nAmazon said it was not usual practice to cancel shifts at short notice, but that as a new business it needed to \"manage significant variations in customer demand\".\nAmazon's spokeswoman said the company had a culture based on safety and a positive working environment. A spokeswoman for Adecco said it took the health and safety of its \"associates\" seriously, and that their welfare was its \"number one priority\".\nACTU president Michele O'Neil said: \"The use of labour hire to deny people fair pay rises and rights at work is not new, but Amazon\u2019s behaviour is particularly outrageous.\"\nThe NUW's Mr Kennedy said that people \"should have a job that provides leave when you are sick, financial security to get a home loan and the ability to collectively bargain with your workmates to improve wages and condition\".\nQuestions about Amazon\u2019s treatment of workers have followed it as it has expanded across the world, and in July staff at warehouses in Germany, Spain and Poland walked off the job to protest their pay and conditions.\nAmazon says its average hourly wage for full-time warehouse workers in the US is more than $US15 ($21) an hour.\nMichael Rawling, a workplace law expert and senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, said that while workers at Amazon's factory had the right to bargain with Adecco, they may not be able to access Amazon, the wealthiest and most influential company in the arrangement.\n\"It becomes very difficult when there\u2019s a fragmented workplace and there\u2019s casual employees working in more precarious circumstances,\" Mr Rawling said.\nContact the reporter: patrick.hatch@fairfaxmedia.com.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 12047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cancersupportglv.org/butterfly-release-honors-loved-ones-affected-by-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:BBAIKGVTOU6KY2FTR7OO7HMTMHJCDJNY", "length": 342, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cancersupportglv.org", "title": "Butterfly Release Honors Loved Ones Affected by Cancer - Cancer Support Community", "raw_content": "Cancer Support Community / Press Archive / Butterfly Release Honors Loved Ones Affected by Cancer\nThe Cancer Support Community of the Greater Lehigh Valley celebrated its 8th Annual Wings of Hope, a special Butterfly Release on Saturday, September 12, 2015. The free event was held in the Butterfly Garden at Cedar Crest College in Allentown.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15151050/the-last-pros-in-pro-stock/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:RPEH33H3JDENAD6KAG6ZOIWECDNFIDFG", "length": 4904, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.caranddriver.com", "title": "The Last Pros in Pro Stock", "raw_content": "The Last Pros in Pro Stock\nIs there still a place in drag racing for Kurt and Warren Johnson?\nThere hasn't been much of anything \"stock\" in the National Hot Rod Association's Pro Stock drag-racing neighborhood since Bill \"Grumpy\" Jenkins rolled out his radically modified tube-frame Vega in 1972. Today, almost 30 years later, the question for five-time champion Warren Johnson (\"W.J.\" or \"the Professor\" to fans), now 58, and his 38-year-old son and teammate, Kurt, shown above in the family's shop, is whether there's much room left for the \"pro\" part.\nPro Stock's rules have been relatively stable since 1982, and any mystery of how to make the machines run at their full potential is long gone. Today, the cars are simply commodities. Buy a chassis from a prominent builder such as Don Ness or Jerry Bickle, get the body panels from a company called Five Star Race Car Bodies, hire someone who can bolt together a competitive 1300-hp, 500-cubic-inch, dual-carbureted gasoline V-8 to a decent driveline, and you too will have a 2350-pound machine that will run the quarter-mile in less than seven seconds at a tad more than 200 mph.\nThe formula is so well established that as many as 40 cars show up to qualify for the 16 slots at an NHRA Winston Drag Racing \"Nationals\" event, and those who make the field will wind up bunched within a 10th of a second in elapsed time. Any advantage any car has is slight at best and usually dearly and expensively won during months of testing on an engine dyno. And at many events, such as this past May's Advance Auto Parts Southern Nationals, 15 of those 16 qualifiers are driving GM-based cars with engines designed by Warren Johnson and bodywork that passed under his flinty eye at one time or another in a wind tunnel. Indeed, the world of Pro Stock racing is one that Warren Johnson has largely created over his 30 years in it.\nThe Johnsons are throwbacks to the early years of Pro Stock, a category created by the NHRA in 1970 as its third \"Pro\" division (after the Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car categories) for racers who were campaigning modified production muscle cars such as 427 Camaros and Hemi 'Cudas in the Super Stock event, guys who wanted to make racing their careers.\nBack then, the guy whose name was on the car wasn't just the driver - he was likely the engine builder, the chassis tuner, and the shop-floor sweeper. The Johnsons have a 26,000-square-foot shop in Buford, Georgia, and their cars are state of the art, but what separates them, and Dodge driver Larry Morgan, from the rest of the crowd is that they're the last Pro Stock racers who drive, assemble their own cars and engines, and rely solely on this NHRA series for their livelihoods. And the struggling Morgan failed to qualify for four of the first eight Nationals this season.\nThe Johnsons' most direct contribution to the standardization of Pro Stock is an engine - the GM Drag Racing Competition Engine (DRCE). Working for Oldsmobile in the early '80s - GM was then and continues to be the Johnsons' primary sponsor - Warren took the Chevrolet big-block V-8 and optimized it for the short-stroke, large-bore, high-rpm environment of Pro Stock racing. The result was the DRCE. Of course, certifying it with the NHRA made the block and cylinder heads available to all racers, and that in turn made competitive power more easily available to potential rivals. The engine has been so wildly popular that in 1999 a minor scandal erupted when it was discovered that the Dodge factory-backed team was using the second-generation DRCE block (the team left the series until a \"Chrysler\" block could be acquired from an aftermarket supplier). It's tough to get much of an edge when everyone is working with the same basic parts.\n\"I built the gun they shot me with,\" Warren complains derisively about the ancient DRCE-powered Olds Cutlass Supreme used by Jeg Coughlin Jr. to win 10 events last year, enough to capture the 2000 Pro Stock championship. The Johnsons had campaigned Cutlasses from 1988 through the 1995 season and constantly whittled its aerodynamic package down into a well-balanced, formidable race car good enough for Warren to win three championships - whittling that was apparent to the scads of other racers running the body that Olds had aggressively distributed among the class. But the Johnsons, bound to the whims of their major sponsor's product planners, were committed to - as they had been since 1996 - campaigning a Firebird for Warren and a Camaro for Kurt in 2000. The Johnsons contend these cars were clearly inferior - even though Warren won championships in '98 and '99 driving Firebirds. That hadn't been a problem, as long as the Cutlasses remaining in the class weren't in the hands of top-tier teams.\nThe Last Amateurs\nLast-of-Their-Kind Corvettes\nDiesel's Last Stand?\nGearbox: Brain Buckets Reviewed\nHigh-speed Diversions Ward off Fear of Terror", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 8242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/deloitte-forecast-oil-prices-1.4190583", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:26Z", "digest": "sha1:F6DVJ42TRICUZG3YNQLBFVV77OTIPV6P", "length": 6054, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.cbc.ca", "title": "Oil prices will remain flat for foreseeable future, Deloitte forecasts | CBC News", "raw_content": "Oil prices will remain flat for foreseeable future, Deloitte forecasts\nHigher production in the U.S. and Canada has largely offset cuts made by OPEC, meaning oil prices won\u2019t increase significantly anytime soon, according to the latest forecast from Deloitte released Wednesday.\nWTI price likely to stay in $45 to $60 range for next 3 years, report says\nCBC News \u00b7 Posted: Jul 05, 2017 7:12 AM MT | Last Updated: July 5, 2017\nA report released Wednesday by Deloitte says oil prices aren't expected to increase significantly any time soon. (Matthew Brown/Associated Press)\nHigher production in the U.S. and Canada has largely offset cuts made by OPEC, meaning oil prices won't increase significantly anytime soon, according to the latest forecast from Deloitte released Wednesday.\nThe report says cuts to production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) removed about 1.8 million barrels of oil a day from the market, which helped to keep prices around $50 US a barrel for most of the last quarter.\nOil prices also dropped to a six-month low in June thanks to reports of increased gasoline stockpiles and lower-than-expected demand going into the summer driving season.\n\"I think this is just a sign of the volatility we're going to continue to see,\" said Andrew Botterill, a partner with Deloitte.\nOil prices to average about $55 a barrel in 2017, Deloitte forecasts\n\"Our price forecast sits a little lower than it did three months ago but ultimately, I think all of industry was expecting this type of volatility to take shape and we expect to see more of that in the coming year.\"\nThe latest Deloitte forecast for West Texas Intermediate in 2017 is $48 US per barrel and $59 Canadian per barrel for Edmonton Light.\nBotterill says he expects the WTI price will likely stay in the $45 to $60 range for the next three years.\n\"What we're finding is the producers are able to bring and drill new wells very efficiently, so I think what we're going to see is companies being very efficient with where they spend their capital, and also at the same point in time, being very careful they're not over-extending themselves into big debt situations.\"\nNatural gas prices are also expected to remain stable with North American supply and demand relatively unchanged and storage levels about the five-year average.\n\"The story for natural gas is that Canadian producers are offset significantly to natural gas prices in the U.S., just because the U.S. has so many resources they're able to bring on, so we're scrapping and competing to get our volumes, but ultimately there's some extremely economic plays and developments that are going in Canada.\"\nCAPP proposes plan to generate 24,000 jobs\nThe Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) also released a report Wednesday on the future of Alberta's energy sector.\nIf Alberta worked with industry to enhance the competitiveness of the oil and gas sector, the provincial economy could get a $5-billlion boost with 24,000 new jobs over the next three years, according to CAPP's analysis, titled A Competitive Policy and Regulatory Framework for Alberta's Upstream Oil and Natural Gas Industry.\nRecent changes in provincial and federal policies \u2014 including regulations on methane emissions, carbon pricing, tax hikes and wildlife protection measures \u2014 have burdened the oil and gas industry with new costs and barriers to growth, according to CAPP.\nAt the same time, U.S. policy makers have taken steps to actively encourage oil and gas capital investment by reducing regulatory burdens, CAPP says.\n\"Low global commodity prices, rapidly changing market dynamics, and new policy directions in the United States have led to negative impacts on oil and natural gas investment and competitiveness in Canada,\" the association said in a release.\nCapital spending in Canada is forecast to be $44 billion in 2017, down 46 per cent from $81 billion in 2014. Spending in the U.S. is expected to rise 38 per cent to $120 billion in 2016, CAPP said.\nTo address the growing investment gap and help come to terms with the \"new normal\" of lower oil prices, the CAPP report says Alberta should create a new \"Sustainable Prosperity Steering Committee.\"\n\"What we're asking for today is more urgency. We don't think the current path we're on will get us to the paths that would be acceptable to the people that work for our industry or Albertans in general. And we'd like to work with governments to find ways to reposition us,\" CAPP president Tim McMillan said.\nThe committee would enable industry and government to work together \"to find solutions that bring back investment, enhance competitiveness and regulatory timelines, address uncertainty caused by federal initiatives and ultimately create jobs for Albertans,\" the report says.\nWhile the CAPP report has praise for the Alberta government's approach to the royalty regime and its efforts to get new pipelines approved, it argues that new dynamics will force the province to work harder to compete with U.S. producers in existing markets and gain access to new ones.\n\"Alberta does not need to simply echo the U.S. approach to competitiveness,\" the report said.\n\"The opportunity is to work together on a made-in-Alberta competitiveness plan that allows our oil and natural gas industry to compete in a changing world dynamic while maintaining world-class environmental and regulatory standards.\"\nMORE ALBERTA NEWS | Alberta is greenest it's ever been under the NDP and that will be tough to undo\nMORE ALBERTA NEWS | Alberta to endure 'exceptional' heat wave for at least a week\nMORE ALBERTA NEWS | 'Nobody is going to want to come to buy here': Residents fear for future of Chestermere as utility rates soar\nWith files from Dave Gilson\nAlberta is greenest it's ever been under the NDP and that will be tough to undo\nAlberta budget forecast stuck on the oil roller-coaster\nOil prices could rebound to $67 by 2020, but record $10B losses expected this year\nA competitive policy and regulatory framework for Alberta\u2019s upstream oil and natural gas industry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 8778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/ontariomorning/episodes/2015/02/09/keith-andersons-tattoos/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XKFKXMU7ITBW32CBDSXHGOWDWSVRJQT6", "length": 178, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cbc.ca", "title": "CBC.ca | Ontario Morning | Keith Anderson's tattoos", "raw_content": "Keith Anderson's tattoos\nHere's a link to Peterborough photographer Chance Faulkner's website to see pictures of Keith Anderson's tattoos (which are based on his son's drawings).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 2209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbcworldwide.com/professionals/profile/EE0AACA3-1430-46C6-AF96-EFF3F97502E0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:UYOWNF3XQ2JRXZWYK5G2LE3L2MMRNENU", "length": 564, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cbcworldwide.com", "title": "Zach Wade | Coldwell Banker Commercial", "raw_content": "zwade@cbcatlantic.com\nBefore moving to Charleston, Zach worked in the Logistics and Transportation industry for a few years until ultimately making the switch into Real Estate. He worked on the Residential side for just over a year before coming on board to Coldwell Banker Commercial Atlantic in January of 2016. Zach holds a degree from East Carolina University and enjoys spending time outdoors and being out and about in Charleston with his wife and dog. He and his family reside in Summerville.\n3506 West Montague Avenue, Suite 200, North Charleston, SC 29418", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbs.cw/website/transport-communications_3331/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YUPBO5QYTKY4IALKXSY7QNV6CCT73XGQ", "length": 757, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cbs.cw", "title": "Transport & Communications - Environment & Spatial statistics - Website - CBS", "raw_content": "Home / Environment & Spatial statistics / Transport & Communications\nTransport is an economic activity involving the carrying of goods and people, and represents a set of means of transportation, transport lines, support systems, equipment and facilities necessary for the smooth functioning of the transport process. Under this subject, you will find data about registered vehicles, the number of licenses issued, the number of ships that were piloted into port and of aircraft landings, as well as data on communication: how many fixed telephone lines there are and how many television channels and radio stations are broadcasting on the island.\nTransport & Communications Tables\nTransport & Communications Publications\nTransport & Communications Articles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/african-ambassadors-to-u-n-call-trumps-remark-outrageous-racist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TEJ57DTGNCB4M2DKEJPHTCXMP4473UMB", "length": 2876, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "African ambassadors to U.N. call Trump's remark \"outrageous, racist\" - CBS News", "raw_content": "African ambassadors to U.N. call Trump's remark \"outrageous, racist\"\nTrump comments fallout\nJOHANNESBURG -- The African group of ambassadors to the United Nations has issued an extraordinary statement condemning the \"outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks\" by President Donald Trump and demanding a retraction and apology.\nFormer U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power has shared the statement on Twitter, saying: \"Whoa. I've never seen a statement like this by African countries directed at the United States.\"\nWhoa. I\u2019ve never seen a statement like this by African countries directed at the United States. After an emergency mtng today @UN, Africa group says it \u201cis extremely appalled at...outrageous & xenophobic remarks\u201d attributed to Trump & \u201cdemands a retraction and an apology.\u201d pic.twitter.com/5KkdwppUzL\n\u2014 Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) January 13, 2018\nThe African ambassadors issued the statement late Friday following an emergency meeting after Mr. Trump used vulgar language to reject an immigration bill, asking why the U.S. would take in more people from Haiti and \"sh*thole countries\" in Africa.\nHow it happened: Donald Trump's \"sh*thole countries\" remark\nMr. Trump has denied using that language but others present say he did. He tweeted Friday that he used \"tough\" language but \"not that language,\" which was being taken as a denial of the \"sh*thole\" comment, although Mr. Trump did not specifically reference that phrase in his denial.\nIn Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, told reporters the president's denial wasn't true.\n\"It is not true,\" said Durbin, who was one of the lawmakers at the Oval Office meeting. \"He said these hate-filled things. And he said them repeatedly.\"\nThe statement the African ambassadors issued expresses concern over the Trump administration's apparent increasing denigration of Africa \"and people of color.\"\nMr. Trump's comment has triggered widespread condemnation. At least one more African leader spoke up on Saturday.\nGhana's President Nana Akufo-Addo called Mr. Trump's remark \"extremely unfortunate\" and said that \"we will not accept such insults, even from a leader of a friendly country, no matter how powerful.\"\nThe language of @realDonaldTrump that the African continent, Haiti and El Salvador are \u201cshithole countries\u201d is extremely unfortunate. We are certainly not a \u201cshithole country\u201d. We will not accept such insults, even from a leader of a friendly country, no matter how powerful.\nHaitians reacted with outrage Friday to reports of Mr. Trump's remarks. President Jovenel Moise's government issued a strongly worded statement denouncing what it called a \"racist\" view of Haitian immigrants and people from African countries.\nMr. Trump's remarks have also left the small cluster of immigration hard-line groups whose agenda Mr. Trump has embraced scrambling to distance themselves from the president.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 11063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-adviser-romneys-foreign-policy-critiques-are-nonsense/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:14Z", "digest": "sha1:L7MBSROPYLPYVAAQN6SLUFJWANYYQFBX", "length": 2355, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Obama adviser: Romney's foreign policy critiques are \"nonsense\" - CBS News", "raw_content": "Obama adviser: Romney's foreign policy critiques are \"nonsense\"\n(CBS News) President Obama's senior campaign adviser, David Axelrod, offered harsh criticism of Mitt Romney's speech Tuesday before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, calling it it \"a bunch of bellicose language\" with out detail.\n\"There was absolutely no vision for American foreign policy,\" Axelrod said on \"CBS This Morning\" Wednesday.\nIn his speech Tuesday, Romney knocked the president, without naming him, for not having a \"vision to lead.\" He also criticized the leaking of national security information and the automatic defense cuts set to take place at the beginning of the year.\nAxelrod, however, defended the president's foreign policy and said Romney offered the country nothing by attacking it.\n\"His critiques were nonsense. He wants to talk about anything other than a president who responsibility ended the war in Iraq, brought Osama bin Laden to justice and rebuilt our alliances. That's a very proud record and the American people know that,\" Axelrod said.\n\"How can you speak to a veteran's organization and never mention al Qaeda ... and never talk about veterans? Gov. Romney is the one who isn't meeting the test,\" Axelrod added.\nThe president's adviser also dismissed criticism after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, said, before taking back her comments, that the White House had leaked national security information.\n\"She has no information about where these leaks came from; the two authors from the books in question said their leaks didn't come from the White House,\" he said.\nAxelrod agreed that the Obama campaign is guilty of airing negative television advertisements in battleground states, saying the president must defend itself from $100 million worth of negative ads by Romney and his supporters. He insisted, though, that the Obama campaign has also distributed positive ads.\n\"Look at the ad we are running now, and it lays out a very specific choice about how we're going to lead our economy. We've been for a full month laying out the record of the last 3 1/2 years on television in these battleground states,\" Axelrod said. \"I've yet to see Gov. Romney match that in his own advertising.\"\n\"Gov. 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The Youth Counselor organizes and leads the youth activities, ages 3-17 years, in designated activity centers, assigned areas and throughout the vessel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charitychoice.co.uk/events/baxters-loch-ness-marathon-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5JTRJQA5PI5J6TAXFO533XFZ3DXZ32ZV", "length": 1512, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.charitychoice.co.uk", "title": "Baxters Loch Ness Marathon 2013", "raw_content": "Baxters Loch Ness Marathon 2013\nThe Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running is a notable fixture on the running calendar. There are great marathons around the world, many of them particularly marked by their settings, and the Loch Ness ranks right alongside them.\nThe centuries-old legend of the Loch Ness Monster is a story that continues to run. Along with the scenic beauty of the area, it has been responsible for attracting visitors to this fascinating part of Scotland for many years.\nThe opportunity to put such a memorable marathon on their record, one with such a unique story to tell, has proven too strong a pull for thousands of runners of all abilities.\nThe route begins in an atmospheric location and continues through breathtaking scenery, taking you along the south-eastern shores of Loch Ness, across the River Ness, and into the centre of Inverness, capital city of the Highlands.\nWith a hot meal and entertainment awaiting you at the finish, plus fantastic technical t-shirt included in your entry fee, the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon also offers genuine value for money.\nRunners at the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon are taking on the challenge for many reasons: to raise money for good causes, to have fun and enjoy the fantastic setting, to experience the camaraderie, and to achieve their own personal goals.\nWhy not make this the year you join them? It\u2019s your chance to become part of the Loch Ness running legend. Make the commitment and enter today.\nhttp://www.lochnessmarathon.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/tale-two-cities/whos-who/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VIDPDQTLMERHYWRH2IYEXXIHCPQ63QRI", "length": 4689, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.charlesdickensinfo.com", "title": "Character List for A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens Info", "raw_content": "Character List for A Tale of Two Cities\nCharacters List for A Tale of Two Cities\nThis list of characters from A Tale of Two Cities is presented in alphabetical order.\nNote: Includes spoilers!\nSydney Carton \u2013 Sydney is a lawyer with a fondness for strong drink. He meets the love of his life in Lucie (Manette) Darnay. He also bears a strong resemblance her husband, Charles.\nSydney Carton, illustration by Frederick Barnard\nSadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away. \u2013 narration about Sydney Carton\n\u201cIt is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.\u201d \u2013 Sydney Carton\nJeremy (Jerry) Cruncher \u2013 Jerry is the porter at Tellson\u2019s Bank. On the side he makes money as a grave robber. He beats his wife for praying or as he calls it \u201cflopping.\u201d\nJerry Cruncher and his son outside Tellson Bank \u2013 illustration by Fred Barnard\n\u201cI go so far as to say, miss, morehover,\u201d proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit\u2013\u201cand let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself\u2013that wot my opinions respectin\u2019 flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time.\u201d \u2013 Jerry Cruncher\nCharles Darnay \u2013 Charles is a French exile living England. He marries Lucie Darnay. Later he returns to France to make amends for his family\u2019s crimes. He is imprisoned and eventually sentenced to death. He is saved from death by Sydney Carton.\nCharles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there. \u2013 Charles Darnay\u2019s thoughts about his fellow prisoners\nLucie Darnay \u2013 See Lucie Manette\nErnest Defarge \u2013 A wine shop owner and a leader in the French Revolution. He is the husband of Therese Defarge. He formerly worked as a servant for Doctor Manette.\nTherese Defarge \u2013 The wife of Ernest Defarge and an eager partner in the French Revolution. She records the names of her enemies with her knitting.\n\u201cTell Wind and Fire where to stop,\u201d returned madame; \u201cbut don\u2019t tell me.\u201d \u2013 Therese Defarge\nJarvis Lorry \u2013 Jarvis Lorry is an agent of Tellson\u2019s Bank. He becomes a very good friend Dr. Manette as well as Charles and Lucie Darnay.\nDoctor Alexandre Manette \u2013 Doctor Manette was imprisoned at the Bastille for eighteen years before the French Revolution. His crime? He knew too much about the actions of the St. Evr\u00e9monde family.\nHe is the father of Lucie Manette.\nDuring the long years of his imprisonment he made shoes.\nDr Manette in the Bastille\nLucie Manette \u2013 Lucie is the beautiful daughter of Doctor Manette. While her father was imprisoned she believed herself to be an orphan. She marries Charles Darnay. She is also loved by Sydney Carton.\nLucie Manette and her governess, Miss Pross \u2013 illustration by Fred Barnard\nMiss Pross \u2013 Lucie Manette\u2019s nurse and companion.\n\u201cYou might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.\u201d \u2013 Miss Pross\nThe Seamstress \u2013 A young woman sentenced to death. She and Sydney Carton comfort one another on the way to the guillotine..\nMarquis St. Evr\u00e9monde -The uncle of Charles Darnay. The Marquis is so uncaring that after his carriage runs over and kills a child, he\u2019s more concerned about his horses than the child.\nC. J. Stryver \u2013 Sydney Carton\u2019s employer.\nMr. Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life.\nThe Vengeance \u2013 Revolutionist and friend of Madame Defarge.\nMore About A Tale of Two Cities\nQuote Collection from A Tale of Two Cities\nA Tale of Two Cities Quiz\nHow well do you know the characters in A Tale of Two Cities? Take this quiz to find out.\nA play, The Frozen Deep, was the inspiration for A Tale of Two Cities. In 1857 Not only did it give Dickens the idea for A Tale of Two Cities, the play brought about lasting changes to Dickens's life in the form of Ellen Ternan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesponzi.com/charles-ponzi-autobiography/chapter-25", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3WHIFXNYD7ZE3GYYQKVMFRLP4LFWJWN", "length": 15732, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "www.charlesponzi.com", "title": "CHAPTER XXV \u2014 Charles Ponzi", "raw_content": "In fact the outlook was far from favorable. It might have looked rosy to me, for a moment. From the time I alighted from my car and went upstairs to my office, until I emerged again, ten or fifteen minutes later, to go to the Hanover Trust. But after I had a chance to peruse the morning papers, and especially the Boston Post, in the privacy of the bank president's office, it came home to me that the situation was considerably more tense than it had ever been.\nThe press was unanimous in its condemnation of official laxity. My activities were not openly qualified as fraudulent. Because the newspapers knew better. But they were pictured so far out of the ordinary, magnified to such an extent, as to make them appear absurd. And the officials were blamed for having failed to check up properly the various claims upon which my activities were based.\nThe situation was especially dangerous because a man in public office generally runs amuck the moment he becomes the target of printed criticism. Under the spur of what he believes to be a public opinion, he is apt to do almost anything. Except be quiet. He will not hesitate to misuse his authority. To misconstrue the law. To lapse from blunder to perfidy. Rather than to come right out like a man and explain that his failure to act is due to circumstances over which he has no control.\nAfter I read the papers, I began to fear just that. Within the day, within the next hour or so, some proceedings might be instituted against me. Whether civil or criminal, I didn't know. But proceedings which might have closed me down. Justly or unjustly. Temporarily, or for good. Such as an injunction.\nWithout any doubt, I had a battle on my hands. This time with the press, in general.\nI reached for the phone.\n\"Call up the United States Attorney, and District Attorney,\" I directed the Hanover's switch-board operator, \"and tell them I want to talk to them. Give me the calls as they come in.\"\nThe United States Attorney was the first one to answer.\n\"I assume you have read the papers,\" I told him.\n\"It occurs to me,\" I continued, \"that it is rather unfair for them to criticize public officials for their alleged laxity. Personally, I resent the criticism because of its implications. I am going to demand a showdown. I am going to offer you and the other officials an opportunity to investigate my business. Would you be willing to join the attorney-general and district attorney at a conference with me, in order that the details of such an investigation may be arranged?\"\nThe Assistant U. S. District Attorney replied that he would be glad to. Mr. District Attorney sent word for me to go over to his office and he would talk to me. Attorney-General said that a joint conference was not agreeable to him.\n\"But, Mr. Attorney General,\" I argued, \"I'm a busy man. I can't spend a whole day in conferences. I feel that the consideration I am showing to the authorities should meet with equal consideration from them. After all, you must realize that, under the law, no investigation can take place without my consent.\"\nIt was a waste of time to argue with him. I couldn't move him. And I was on the verge of telling him to go to the devil. But, as yet, I didn't know him well enough for that. And so, I agreed to go up to his office later in the day.\n\"About what time?\" he asked me.\n\"I couldn't say,\" I replied. \"As soon as I get through with the state and federal officials.\"\n\"I'll be waiting for you,\" he said, but he did not know how long I was going to keep him waiting. Since he wanted to be so disagreeable, I intended to make him whistle. And if he didn't know how, he could learn.\nThe phone calls soon disposed of, I had to do some quick thinking. I stood committed to an investigation. And had to go through with it. I wouldn't and couldn't go back on my word. But it was vital for me to decide upon the type of investigation which might satisfy the officials and the public without disclosing my true situation. By a process of elimination, I arrived at something that looked pretty good.\nActing on the impulse, as usual, I went to the Court House to put my proposition up to Mr. District Attorney. I had never met him before. I did not know what sort of fellow he was. But I found him none too pleasant at the start.\n\"It is being rumored,\" he said, \"that I have $20,000 invested with you. Under the circumstances, I feel that I ought to investigate the sort of business in which my money is supposed to be invested.\"\n\"That's right,\" I agreed with him, \"as an investor it would be your privilege to investigate. At the proper time. That is, before investing. But it so happens that you are not an investor of record. Therefore, it does not seem that you have any interest in the matter.\"\n\"I have,\" he stated. \"I am the District Attorney of Suffolk County and, as such, I owe to my constituents the protection of this office in anything that may affect their welfare.\"\n\"But there is no indication that the welfare of your constituents is being jeopardized,\" I argued. \"You have no complaints upon which to base any action.\"\n\"That's true,\" he admitted, \"but the newspapers are openly hinting that you are perpetrating a fraud upon the public.\"\n\"If I am,\" I remarked, \"it seems to me that you should welcome my call, because I have come to offer you an opportunity to investigate my activities.\"\n\"Do you mean it?\" he asked.\n\"Certainly,\" I said. \"I wouldn't be here, if I didn't. If I didn't intend to cooperate with you, I would let you take the first step while I would hire half a dozen of the best lawyers to resist your investigations.\"\n\"If that is the case,\" he stated, \"I am ready to listen to you with an open mind. What have you got to offer?\"\n\"An opportunity to ascertain whether or not I am solvent,\" I replied. \"What the authorities are interested to know at this time is whether or not I have enough money to meet all of my outstanding notes.\"\n\"How do you propose to show that?\" he asked.\n\"By allowing an auditor, acceptable to all of the officials concerned, to determine the total of my liabilities,\" I explained.\n\"Will you let that auditor examine your books?\" he went on.\n\"I will turn over to him all of the books, papers and records which are necessary to determine my liabilities,\" I stated. \"And no more.\"\n\"How is he going to verify whether you or not you are solvent?\" he inquired.\n\"I will attend to that,\" I replied. \"When the total of my liabilities will be announced, I shall exhibit by assets. Is that satisfactory?\"\n\"Yes,\" he said, \"but who is going to pick out the auditor?\"\n\"You and the other officials,\" I told him. \"I don't care who the auditor is. Only, I want it understood that here is going to be one investigation for all of the officials concerned. And not a separate investigation for each one of them.\"\n\"Why do you say that?\" he asked.\n\"Because, from my phone conversation with the Attorney General, I have reason to believe that he wants to conduct a separate investigation for each one of them.\"\n\"Because, from my phone conversation with the Attorney General, I have reason to believe that he wants to conduct a separate investigation of his own.\"\n\"For my part,\" said Mr. District Attorney, \"I am willing to agree to a joint investigation.\"\n\"And so is the Assistant United States District Attorney,\" I stated. \"Therefore, unless the Attorney General falls in with the majority, he'll be out of luck. That's all there is to it.\"\nIt was at this point that I felt the psychological moment had arrived for an announcement intended to upset my opponents.\n\"Mr. District Attorney,\" I said, \"it occurs to me just now that it might be an impossible task for an auditor to determine my liabilities, if I should continue to issue notes every day throughout the investigation.\"\n\"I guess it would be at that,\" he agreed. \"Couldn't you stop issuing those notes?\n\"I could,\" I admitted, \"but I haven't had the time to consider whether it would be expedient for me to do so. However, the suggestion has an appealing feature. Because it offers me the opportunity to spike certain insinuations which are being made by the press, I will do it.\"\n\"You will stop issuing notes?\" he asked. \"When?\"\n\"Right now,\" I told him. \"May I use your phone?\"\n\"Surely,\" he said. \"Help yourself.\"\nI called up my office. Miss Meli answered.\n\"Miss Meli,\" I directed her, \"from this moment we shall cease accepting money for investment. Until further order. Post a couple of notices around the office. Notify by phone or wire all agents and sub-agents. But we shall continue to redeem notes as usual. At maturity, with interest. Before maturity, without it.\"\n\"Mr. Ponzi,\" said the District Attorney after I had replaced the receiver, \"I had probably misjudged you before you entered this office. Your frankness impresses me favorably. I believe you mean to do the right thing. I want to thank you for facilitating my task and I want also to assure you that I will not put you to any greater inconvenience than is absolutely necessary.\"\nFrom his office, I went to call on the United States Attorney. I related to him what had occurred. And he seemed entirely satisfied with it.\nHe said we would consult with the District Attorney and let me know about the auditor.\nI left the office of the Assistant United States District Attorney to go to the State House where the Attorney General had been waiting for me for the last three or four hours. But, on my way, I had to drop in at my office to straighten things out. My announcement that I would not accept any more money, had provoked a run. I found as many investors ready to withdraw their money, as I had seen there in the morning eager to give it to me. Only, the cops were missing and the crowd was not as orderly.\nI entered my office and was told that the police on duty had been recalled. Immediately, I phoned to the Police Commissioner. I couldn't get him.\nFinally, I got the Superintendent on the wire. He said that the police had been withdrawn because it was against the law for them to be on duty in private buildings.\n\"That's a fine time to tell me!\" I exploded. \"So long as I was taking in money and presumably, stealing it and committing a felony, it was all right for the police to protect me. Now that I am performing a lawful act, that of making restitution, the law denies me protection! There is something fishy somewhere, but I haven't the time to bother with you fellows. You can tell the Commissioner I don't need his police force. I will organize one of my own.\"\nAnd I did. I hired the Pinkertons and other private guards. Inside of an hour I had the crowd under control. Without resorting to violence. I went personally through the line of investors. Talking to them. Explaining things. Making it easy for them to get their money. And with that I averted another vicious blow.\nThe police, as I was told later, had been withdrawn in the hope that some rioting might develop and furnish a pretext to the authorities to step in and take charge. I don't know for sure where the order came from. I learned, however, that political and financial interests had caused that order to be issued. But I disappointed them.\nAs soon as I had things running smoothly in my office, I went to call on the Attorney General.\nI brought a lawyer along with me as a precaution. I had the intuition that I wasn't going to a mere conference. In fact, when I entered the Attorney General's office, I found about a dozen people sitting at a long table. Assistant A. Gs galore. Stenographers. And what not. The only one missing was the official executioner.\nFortunately, there wasn't what you may call a keen intellect in the whole bunch.\nThe conference wasn't much of an ordeal. Except from the standpoint of time. It lasted longer than any other. Because my audience was just naturally slower. At grasping things. But, on the other hand, I got away with more fibs. Some of them actually awful. And had the pleasure of leaving that distinguished gathering as much in the dark about my activities as they were at the start. Only, they didn't realize it. Ignorance is bliss.\nOn my way home, in the evening, I had twenty or thirty minutes in which to review the events of the day. So far, I was still master of the situation. The Assistant United States District Attorney had appointed Edwin L. Pride, a noted accountant, to compile the list of my liabilities. The District Attorney had declared himself ready to abide by Pride's findings. The Attorney General had been left out in the cold. He wasn't likely to make any trouble because, with two district attorneys on my side, he didn't have a chance either with the courts or the public.\nBut, even if I was still the master of the situation, the fact remained that I did not have enough money or assets to balance my liabilities. Nobody knew that. Except myself. Yet, it looked as it the whole world would know it before long. Unless \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 That's it! Unless I happened to have a couple of wild deuces up my sleeve. And I had them all right. I had tucked them there myself in the morning.\nIn fact, for one thing, I had nothing to fear and everything to gain from the run I had provoked. I had enough liquid cash to keep on paying out half a million a day for two weeks. The chances were that I would have paid out an average of half that amount per day. For four weeks, instead of two. Then, in a pinch, I could have liquidated my other assets and stretched things along for another week. But the best feature of the run was that I would have redeemed more notes without interest than with interest. Because frightened investors would not have waited for their notes to mature. Even a few days. And every time I refunded the principal, I would save the roughly 50% interest.\nRoughly, I owed then $15,000,000. Of which $5,000,000 were interest. My total resources were around $8,000,000. And I was $7,000,000 in the hole. But, by refunding the principal only, before maturity, instead of paying principal and interest, at maturity, with $8,000,000 I would have wiped out $12,000,000 of liabilities. And made a gain of $4,000,000. True enough, I would still be in a hole of $3,000,000. But the second wild deuce would have taken care of that.\nThe second deuce was the Hanover Trust Company. The bank had, at that time, easily $5,000,000 in negotiable securities and plenty of liquid cash. There were not mine. They were the bank's. But I had access to them.\nNow, the Hanover was located at the corner of Washington and Water Streets. The United States Attorney's office was at the corner of Devonshire and Water Streets. The two were less than one-half block apart. My plan was to have the showdown in the office of the Assistant United States District Attorney. As soon as he was ready to announce the total of my liabilities, I would have gone up to his office with all of my cancelled notes, all of my bank books, and all of my other assets, whether in the form of deeds or stocks. But, on my way over, I would have dropped in at the Hanover and grabbed enough securities and cash to make up the difference between the liabilities and my actual assets. The show-down might have lasted an hour or so. On the way back, I would have replaced in the Hanover what I had temporarily taken away. And nobody would have known the difference.\nThe investigation would have ended right there and then. The authorities would have to certify as to my solvency. And I would have resumed my activities with an officially clean bill of health.\nAll considered, I was far from licked yet. But I certainly had to be on the alert twenty-four hours of the day. For the next two or three weeks. The banks, the authorities and the press were all after my scalp.\nNewer PostCHAPTER XXIV\nOlder PostCHAPTER XXVI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 16732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/sex-linked-traits-14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OIHVN5ERQ5HNUJE426RTGEY7LFCTSWQD", "length": 2846, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.chegg.com", "title": "Definition of Sex Linked Traits | Chegg.com", "raw_content": "home / study / science / biology / biology definitions / sex linked traits\nThe 23rd pair of chromosomes present in humans is called allosomes, which differ in size and function when compared to autosomes. They determine the sex of an individual. They are labeled using letters (XY). Allosomes comprise either two X chromosomes (women), or one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (male). These are present in reproductive cells (egg cell and sperm cell) of the body. When both fuse together during sexual reproduction, a new offspring having 46 chromosomes with XX (female) and XY (male) is formed.\nSex chromosome also carries genes that determine certain other characteristics of the person. Such characteristics are called sex-linked traits. Since Y chromosome is present only in male, they inherit Y\u2013linked traits, but X\u2013inked traits are seen in both male and female because they both have X chromosomes.\nX-linked recessive traits\nMales have one X chromosome so the X-linked recessive traits are expressed in males. In females, the expression is masked if the second X chromosome contains a normal gene for the same trait. Common example of X-linked recessive trait is a blood clotting disorder called hemophilia. This disorder is caused by gene mutation. It is more commonly seen in males than in females. Usually women are carriers of X-linked recessive traits.\nX-Linked dominant traits\nWhen an abnormal gene is present on the X chromosome, the expression of the phenotype is seen in both male and female in the case of X-linked dominant traits. When only the mother carries an abnormal X gene, the offspring (sons and daughters) have 50% chance of inheriting the disease. On the other hand, if father carries the abnormal X gene then the daughter will inherit the disease but not the sons.\nHumans contain 1098 X-linked genes which are mostly related to sex-linked disorders like hemophilia, Duchene muscular dystrophy, color blindness, fragile X-syndrome, etc.\nNeed more help understanding sex linked traits?\nQ&A related to Sex Linked Traits\nSSIGNMENT INFORMATION Points Possible Due Date Wednesday, February 20, 2019 11:59 PM 2.1. Draw the molecule of Coenzyme A (CoA-SH) and include its constituents What is the function of CoA-SH? Indicate what vitamin is...\n3. Both pepsin and chymotrypsin are digestive enzymes. Explain why they might have different optimum pH despite having similar jobs. If you needed to run a reaction that involved both chymotrypsin and arginase, at wh...\nChymotrypsin. Arginase Pepsin 1 23 4 5 6 7 89 10 11 12 pH Acidic Basic Chymotrypsin. Arginase Pepsin 1 23 4 5 6 7 89 10 11 12 pH Acidic Basic\nDrag the descriptions to their corresponding domain in order to test your knowledge of the differences between archaeal and bacterial characteristics. Archaea Membranes can be Produce hami monolayers or and cannulae ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 9982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cheresources.com/invision/tags/ccs/distillation/?search_app_filters%5Bccs%5D%5BsearchInKey%5D=database_1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:GNMRJ26RDEC6KD2UFDB67NM4AXBF7MIH", "length": 3942, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cheresources.com", "title": "distillation - Tags - Pages - Cheresources.com Community", "raw_content": "There were 1 results tagged with distillation\nDistillation is the most widely used separation technique in the chemical and petroleum industry. However, not all liquid mixture are amenable to ordinary fractional distillation. When the components of the system have low relative volatilities (1.00 < 1.05), separation becomes difficult and expansive because a large number of trays are required and, usually, a high reflux ratio as well.\nBoth equipment and utilities costs increase markedly and the operation can become uneconomical. If the system forms azeotropes, as in a benzene and cyclohexane system, a different problem arises, - the azeotropic composition limit the separation, and for a better separation this azeotrope must be bypassed in some way. At low to moderate pressure, with the assumption of ideal-gas model for the vapor phase, the vapor-liquid phase equilibrium (VLE) of many mixture can be adequately describe by the following Modified Raoult's Law:\n\u00c2 where:{parse block=\"google_articles\"}\nyi = mole fraction of component i in vapor phase\nxi = mole fraction of component i in liquid phase\nP = system pressure\nPsat\u00c2 = vapor pressure of component i\n?i = liquid phase activity coefficient of component i\nWhen ?i = 1, the mixture is said to be ideal Equation 1 simplifies to Raoult's Law. Nonideal mixtures \u00c2 (?i ? 1) can exhibit either positive (?i > 1) or negative deviations (\u03b3i < 1) from Raoult's Law. In many highly nonideal mixtures these deviations become so large that the pressure-composition (P-x, y) and temperature-composition (T-x, y) phase diagrams exhibit a minimum or maximum azeotrope point. In the context of the T-x, y phase diagram, these points are called the minimum boiling azeotrope (where the boiling temperature of the azeotrope is less than that of the pure component) or maximum boiling azeotrope (the boiling temperature of the azeotrope is higher than that of the pure components). About 90% of the known azeotropes are of the minimum variety. At these minimum and maximum boiling azeotrope, the liquid phase and its equilibrium vapor phase have the same composition, i.e.,\nxi = yi for i = 1, ..., c Eq. (2)\nTwo main types of azeotropes exist, i.e. the homogeneous azeotrope, where a single liquid phase is in the equilibrium with a vapor phase; and the heterogeneous azeotropes, where the overall liquid composition which form two liquid phases, is identical to the vapor composition.\nMost methods of distilling azeotropes and low relative volatility mixtures rely on the addition of specially chosen chemicals to facilitate the separation. The selection of the separating agent will be discussed later.\nThe five methods for separating azeotropic mixtures are:\n1. Extractive distillation and homogeneous azeotropic distillation where the liquid separating agent is completely miscible.\n2. Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation, or more commonly, azeotropic distillation where the liquid separating agent, called the entrainer, forms one or more azeotropes with the other components in the mixture and causes two liquid phases to exist over a wide range of compositions. This immiscibility is the key to making the distillation sequence work.\n3. Distillation using ionic salts. The salts dissociates in the liquid mixture and alters the relative volatilities sufficiently that the separation become possible.\n4. Pressure-swing distillation where a series of column operating at different pressures are used to separate binary azeotropes which change appreciably in composition over a moderate pressure range or where a separating agent which forms a pressure-sensitive azeotrope is added to separate a pressure-insensitive azeotrope.\n5. Reactive distillation where the separating agent reacts preferentially and reversibly with one of the azeotropic constitutes. The reaction product is then distilled from the nonreacting components and the reaction is reversed to recover the initial component.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagocaraccidentlawyerblog.com/wrongful_death_suit_filed_in_c/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:42Z", "digest": "sha1:NEO4R2J2HDG5RAJC5DIBDXXYZ7S562VG", "length": 830, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.chicagocaraccidentlawyerblog.com", "title": "Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Connection with Chicago Car Accident \u2014 Chicago Car Accident Lawyer Blog \u2014 January 13, 2010", "raw_content": "Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Connection with Chicago Car Accident\nA wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with a car accident that occurred on December 20th. The car accident occurred on the West Side of Chicago when an off duty Lockport police officer drunkenly drove into the victim\u2019s car, causing the victim to die as a result of his severe injuries. According to Chicago Breaking News, criminal charges have already been brought by Cook County, but this wrongful death claim is against the bar in which the cop was drinking the night of the fatal Chicago accident. If you would like to read more about this tragic car accident and the lawsuit that was recently filed, please click on this hyperlink.\nPosted in: Chicago Car Accident, Illinois Accident, Illinois Victim, Verdicts and Settlements and Wrongful Death", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/ct-redeye-xpm-2013-10-08-42835105-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UWVZPWMONJUOW2ZJKRZ5X7VLODNSEGL7", "length": 4970, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "Q&A: The 1975 - RedEye Chicago", "raw_content": "Q&A: The 1975\nDave Ma\nThis year has been a whirlwind for 1975 singer Matthew Healy.\n\u201cMy life has changed so fundamentally,\u201d said the frontman, reached in mid-September on the eve of a sold-out gig at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. \u201cIt\u2019s a very strange experience to go from 10 years of nothing to eight months of everything you could have ever dreamed of.\u201d\nWhile the band's rise, fueled by their sleek, self-titled debut, might appear meteoric from the outside, Healy and his mates have actually been making music together since they were teenagers in Manchester. He's still adjusting to the intensity of the media spotlight that's been thrust upon the crew.\n\u201cTo be honest, the whole fame thing is kind of [bleeping] our heads up a little bit,\u201d said Healy, 24. \u201cYou've caught me at an interesting time. I was just looking at the line [outside Shepherd's Bush] and it's got me feeling a bit nostalgic.\u201d\nWith this as the backdrop, the singer discussed the '80s influences that bleed into the 1975's polished, pop-rock sound, why he never felt an attachment to the bands so commonly associated with his hometown and the Chicago director whose films have helped shape his life.\nYou\u2019ve spoken about how you spent your teenage years in Manchester having sex and doing drugs. I guess being in a band completes the trinity.\nIt\u2019s the perfect clich\u00e9, isn\u2019t it? There was a nice review in the Guardian that said this year has been \u201cthe delirious rise of Manchester\u2019s heartbroken gutter-poet,\u201d or something, and I thought that was a really nice way of describing us. All of these songs seem to be of the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll clich\u00e9, but they\u2019re actually true, and there\u2019s a lot of honesty and a lot of reality behind what could maybe be perceived as something with an agenda. People may think I\u2019m trying to be a pop star. Maybe I just am one.\nDo you worry how that spotlight is going to affect the band moving forward?\nIt\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ve thought about. I\u2019d be na\u00efve to think the dynamic won\u2019t change at all because it has to. I\u2019m living totally separate lives. The next record won\u2019t be written anywhere near the same circumstances where I wrote the last one, so I\u2019m sure the creative process will change and develop. We\u2019ll just have to embrace whatever evolution it goes through.\nYou released singles called \u201cSex\u201d and \u201cThe City.\u201d Were you using subliminal advertising to try and win over fans of the HBO series?\n[Laughs] Not at all, but I love that! I always have to word it very carefully so it\u2019s like, \u201cYeah, our singles are \u2018Chocolate,\u2019 \u2018The City\u2019 and \u2018Sex.\u2019\u201d I love the \u201cSex\u201d and \u201cThe City\u201d thing. We used to put the \u201cand\u201d on our set list; we\u2019ve embraced it. \u201cChocolate,\u201d \u201cGirls,\u201d \u201cSex\u201d and \u201cThe City.\u201d Fucking hell. It\u2019s like, \u201cC\u2019mon girls, what more do you want?\u201d I couldn\u2019t be more subliminally flirting.\nIt sounds like you never connected with New Order or Joy Division or any of those other bands so commonly associated with Manchester.\nI think it\u2019s partially due to the fact that as a band we never found our geographical location a very inspiring thing. I wasn\u2019t brought up in Manchester. I was born in London and brought up in the north of England in Newcastle and moved to Manchester when I was about 11. That tribalist adherence to the Manchester music scene didn\u2019t really impact on me or the rest of the band. We were the one Manchester band who wasn\u2019t wearing that Manchester badge of honor. There are certain records I love, and I actually lived next door to [Joy Division/New Order bassist] Peter Hook, but they weren't really an inspiration for our band. Manchester has enough heroes. They don\u2019t need another gobshite frontman.\nDid Peter Hook live directly next door? Like, would you see him out doing yard work?\nHis daughter used to have a big crush on me. I heard a story once that he would pick her up from school and she would make him wait until I skateboarded past on my way home. I thought that was pretty funny.\nThe album has a strong \u201980s influence. Are you drawn to any other aspect of the decade? The fashion? The film?\nI suppose so, but not necessarily in a nostalgic way. I think all of the John Hughes [and] Cameron Crowe movies are huge for me. They have this antiquated, romanticized view of youth. I was born towards the end of the \u201980s, so that culturally spilled over into my childhood. I wanted to make a record that represented some of the great \u201980s records like \u201cSo\u201d by Peter Gabriel or \u201cGraceland\u201d by Paul Simon. All of my favorite artists were at their peak in the \u201980s: Michael Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Phil Collins.\nYou mentioned John Hughes, and obviously he\u2019s one of those Chicago icons. Do you have a favorite of his films?\nOh, all of them for different reasons. The girl I\u2019m currently dating looks exactly like Kelly LeBrock in \u201cWeird Science,\u201d and I\u2019ve told her that\u2019s pretty much the reason we\u2019re still together. So, yeah, I base my life around his movies.\nThe 1975, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at Lincoln Hall. Sold out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bulls/ct-xpm-2013-04-25-ct-spt-0426-bits-bulls-nets-chicago-20130426-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BXC2GEUGZRCISXMCOJSS7TEZT6R6KILB", "length": 2446, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "Hinrich a great role model - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "Hinrich a great role model\nBulls shooting guard Marco Belinelli passes during Thursday night's game. (Brian Cassella/Tribune photo)\nK.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune reporter\nEarly in the season, when Marco Belinelli admittedly struggled to grasp Tom Thibodeau's defensive concepts and demands, the veteran guard followed a shining example out of the doghouse and into playing time.\n\"I think Kirk (Hinrich) and Jo (Noah) are our best defense, so I try to look at Kirk, especially, because he's a guard,\" Belinelli said. \"It's unbelievable. He can guard (multiple positions) and he's tough and strong. So I try to be the same. It's not easy for me, but I try to do my best.\"\nThat's all Hinrich says he's doing to try to guard Deron Williams, which he did to far greater effectiveness in Game 2 than Game 1. Williams' Game 3 featured 18 points and four assists. But regardless of Williams' numbers, Thibodeau said Hinrich's defensive presence serves a purpose.\n\"This league is a killer league in terms of the pick-and-rolls. There are going to be 50 to 60 maybe even 70,\" Thibodeau said. \"Often you get the first one OK and then there's a second and third coming. You have to be able to go from one thing to the next to the next and be able to do it over and over again.\n\"That's where his veteran leadership is so important to us. He's steady, plays hard on every play, doesn't take any plays off, runs the team. Everyone is in rhythm. He has had a great season for us.\"\nRotation roulette: Foul trouble limited Taj Gibson's minutes in Game 2, but the veteran forward logged TK on Thursday.\n\"His defense and rebounding are critical for us,\" Thibodeau said. \"We love his activity and his ability to get to the board and to a second shot and to post up. He helps us a lot offensively.\"\nFor the second straight game, Richard Hamilton didn't play.\nLayups: The double-doubles of Luol Deng, Carlos Boozer and Noah in Game 2 marked the first time since May 10, 2007 \u2014 a span of 39 playoff games \u2014 three Bulls had done that in a regulation game. In Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Pistons, Deng, Hinrich and P.J. Brown did the trick. \u2026 Derrick Rose sat on the bench in street clothes for the first time this season at home. \"He's a great leader,\" Thibodeau said. \"His role right now is to support his teammates. And that's what he's doing.\" \u2026 Vladimir Radmanovic, over his bad back, was activated. 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The Indians broke out with five extra-base hits in a 7-2 victory over the Twins on Saturday to remain 2 1/2 games behind Oakland for the second American League wild card spot. Carlos Santana has two homers and six RBIs in his last six games for Cleveland, which visits Atlanta and Detroit next week.\nThe Indians trail first-place Detroit by six games in the AL Central and are 8-6 against the fourth-place Twins this season. Minnesota need a victory to finish its six-game road trip with series wins against the top two teams in the division. Twins rookie slugger Oswaldo Arcia returned to the lineup Saturday after missing four games with a wrist injury. He went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts.\nTV: 1:05 p.m. ET, FSN North (Minnesota), STO (Cleveland)\nPITCHING MATCHUP: Twins RH Mike Pelfrey (5-10, 5.19 ERA) vs. Indians LH Scott Kazmir (7-6, 4.39)\nPelfrey pitched well in his first two career starts against the Indians this season, going 1-0 while allowing three runs over 11 2/3 innings. The veteran right-hander is coming off two quality starts, including a victory over Detroit on Tuesday. Michael Bourn is 3-for-9 with a pair of RBIs against Pelfrey.\nKazmir has struggled in his last two outings, yielding 10 runs and 16 hits in eight innings to suffer a pair of losses. However, the left-hander has gone 2-0 in three starts against the Twins this season while surrendering three earned runs over 19 innings. Trevor Plouffe is 4-for-8 with two doubles versus Kazmir, who is 4-4 in nine career starts against Minnesota with a 3.32 ERA.\n1. Minnesota 1B Justin Morneau needs one home run to tie Tony Oliva (220) for third on the club's all-time list.\n2. Cleveland is 27-16 in games played on Saturday and Sunday in 2013. The Indians finished 17-35 on those days last year.\n3. The Twins struck out eight times Saturday, increasing their season total to 1,094. The franchise record is 1,121 in 1997.\nPREDICTION: Indians 6, Twins 4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/your-say/observer-readers-have-their-say-on-chichester-s-house-of-fraser-building-1-8803203", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JXBVJKZB3ACH7VAOGPC2M5NBFO2W6TKH", "length": 2206, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.chichester.co.uk", "title": "Observer readers have their say on Chichester\u2019s House of Fraser building - Chichester Observer", "raw_content": "With the Chichester branch of House of Fraser closing, Chichseter Observer readers have been debating what should happen with the now vacant building.\nIn a lively discussion on Facebook, inspired by a reader\u2019s letter saying it should be a concert hall, there were numerous suggestions to use the site for a variety of purposes.\nSome people were in agreement that it should be converted into an entertainment venue in some form, be that a performance venue or a club.\nOne popular alternative suggestion from a number of readers was for Primark to move into the building. Wendy Schmidt said: \u201cWe do need a Primark in Chichester. Would bring loads of jobs and for people to come back into the city centre, which would increase trade in the town. The church needs to listen to the people of Chichester. There would be plenty of space to make something for the homeless as well.\u201d\nAnother retailer that was suggested was a Hobbycraft to serve the many creative people in the city, while Alyssa La Volpicella said that Marks and Spencer should consolidate that other stores in the city into the one venue.\nOthers were keen on it providing more of a community function. Vicky Middleton said it should be an \u2018emporium for small local businesses that can\u2019t afford shop rents\u2019. Sally Walsh had similar train of thought, suggesting an indoor market, and Patricia Delosrios said she would like it to be for smaller independent outlets similar to Draper\u2019s Yard.\nAdy Talbot agreed, saying: \u201cThis is the perfect place for local traders/small businesses to be located, almost a local community with one building. People can turn up on buses, do all their shopping in one place then catch the bus home again. As long as the overheads aren\u2019t extortionate.\u201d\nThere were also calls for the building to be converted into flats for the homeless.\nIf you have a suggestion send it to news@chiobserver.co.uk\nREAD MORE: Chichester\u2019s lost businesses: The changing nature of our high street\nLETTER: House of Fraser would be the perfect position for a concert hall\nREAD MORE: House of Fraser: Shoppers share memories as site closes for last time\nSoon Chichester will have no shops left\nKeeping public transport is key for the environment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chillicothegazette.com/story/news/local/2014/10/09/vendor-profile-bens-mustard-keeps-building-following/17006965/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4P67A2XJRJTLCQ62CPQDOR4M3VZZVOTW", "length": 2335, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.chillicothegazette.com", "title": "Vendor profile: Ben's Mustard keeps building following", "raw_content": "Vendor profile: Ben's Mustard keeps building following\nIn 10 years since first market appearance, product continues to experience growth.\nVendor profile: Ben's Mustard keeps building following In 10 years since first market appearance, product continues to experience growth. Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: http://ohne.ws/1xvNFmz\nSharon Steinhoff Published 9:53 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2014 | Updated 7:31 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2014\nFarmers Market(Photo11: submitted)\nCHILLICOTHE \u2013 As the Chillicothe Farmers Market enters its final Saturday of the season this week, a local mustard producer that has become a staple at the market for the past 10 years continues to experience success the market has helped create.\nBen's Sweet & Hot Mustard started with a Ross County following, but over the past 10 years has seen that following \u2014 and the slogan \"A brat is not a brat without Ben's Sweet & Hot Mustard\" \u2014 go nationwide.\nFrom its beginnings more than 20 years ago as a family-favorite recipe to jars of the golden yellow product making its way into the hands of friends, creators Bruce and Karen Neff knew they had a winner. In fact, the product has won numerous awards over the years.\nWhen Ben's Sweet & Hot Mustard made its public debut in 2004 through venues such as trade shows, state fairs and festivals, it also became a regular at the Chillicothe Farmers Market. For the past 10 years, Jane Harris has become the public face of Ben's Mustard through her role with the product at the market.\nEach week, people visiting the market have visited with Harris, who always has a kind word and a sample of Ben's Sweet & Hot Mustard ready to try.\n\"There are a lot of special people I've met at the market that come see me,\" Harris said.\nHarris has been a close friend of the Neff family for many years. She worked for the Neffs when they owned a campground in Circleville for 13 years before vending at the Chillicothe Farmers Market, and she says she has enjoyed helping make the product with them, along with some of the jellies and barbecue sauce the Neffs have expanded into.\nThe final market of the year will run from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in the parking lot of the Ross County Service Center, 475 Western Ave. Twenty-one vendors are scheduled to have wares available for sale.\nRead or Share this story: http://ohne.ws/1xvNFmz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chironexus.net/chiropractic-better-drugs-back-pain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4MY4FJ7TCEBGGNZ4ONTRGZKW57NQMEFC", "length": 347, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.chironexus.net", "title": "VIDEO: Chiropractic Better Than Drugs for Back Pain - Chiropractic News by ChiroNexus", "raw_content": "VIDEO: Chiropractic Better Than Drugs for Back Pain\nIf you suffer from regular episodes of back pain, you\u2019re not alone. You\u2019ll be glad to know, though, that chiropractic is an effective way to not only treat back pain, it\u2019s much more effective (and safer!) than medications.\nWritten by: Michael Melton on May 24, 2016.Modified on January 10, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/961-nahum-1-1-the-end-of-nineveh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:25Z", "digest": "sha1:D5U2J2YYSNFBBKRUO6RS6FFCC6PAUP4I", "length": 1660, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.christiancourier.com", "title": "Nahum 1:1 - The End of Nineveh : Christian Courier", "raw_content": "Nahum 1:1 \u2013 The End of Nineveh\nThe book of Nahum begins with a somber tone \u2014 \u201cthe burden of Nineveh\u201d \u2014 which suggests that a pronouncement of judgment is imminent. The name \u201cNineveh,\u201d of course, brings memories of the book of Jonah. Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria. This great metropolis is first mentioned in Genesis 10:11,12; it was founded by the mighty hunter, Nimrod.\nJonah was commissioned to proclaim judgment upon Nineveh: \u201cYet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown\u201d (Jonah 3:4).\nIt should be recognized, of course, that this prophecy was conditional, i.e., dependent upon the response of the Ninevites. Happily, they repented and the city was spared. Jehovah lifted the curse of doom for 150 years.\nSadly, though, Nineveh eventually slipped into degradation once more, and it became the responsibility of Nahum the prophet to declare the city\u2019s \u201cfull end\u201d (1:8,9).\nThe destruction of Nineveh was announced by several prophets (see Isaiah 10:12-19; Ezekiel 32:22,23; Zephaniah 2:13-15; Zechariah 10:11). The city of Nineveh fell to the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians in August of 612 B.C.\nMake a few introductory notes near 1:1 to help you appreciate the background of this book.\nJonah: A \u201cFish Story\u201d or History?\nJonah 1:1-2 \u2014 The Prophet\u2019s Commission\nA Study of the King of Tyre Prophecy in Ezekiel 28\nChicago\u2019s Oriental Institute \u2013 Biblical Archaeology\nGenesis 10:11, 12; Jonah 3:4; Isaiah 10:12-19; Ezekiel 32:22, 23; Zephaniah 2:13-15; Zechariah 10:11\nJackson, Wayne. \"Nahum 1:1 - The End of Nineveh.\" ChristianCourier.com. Access date: February 15, 2019. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/961-nahum-1-1-the-end-of-nineveh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christiantelegraph.com/2018/10/12/faith-based-hilton-head-island-series-returns-to-pureflix-com-for-22-episode-second-season/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:16Z", "digest": "sha1:F7NWT2YV5DAUJLF5VY5722SIQZQTCVBY", "length": 2015, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.christiantelegraph.com", "title": "Faith-Based \u2018Hilton Head Island\u2019 Series Returns to Pureflix.Com for 22-Episode Second Season | Christian Telegraph", "raw_content": "SCOTTSDALE, Az., Oct. 4, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ \u2014 \u201cHilton Head Island\u201d returns exclusively to PureFlix.com starting tomorrow for its second season with faith, family and intrigue taking center stage.\nThe 22-episode series, which debuted last year and become one of the most-watched series on the PureFlix.com streaming video platform, has been referred to as \u201chope opera,\u201d as it avoids the sexuality, violence and language usually associated with traditional soap operas.\nThere\u2019s plenty of drama, however, associated with the fictional Trisk family in \u201cHilton Head Island\u201d\u2013especially with Linda Gray (best remembered as Sue Ellen Ewing on \u201980s favorite Dallas) in her role as \u201cEloise Breckenridge.\u201d\nThis season\u2019s focus is on the battle for control of the ISLE Television Network, which the Trisks own, and Gray\u2019s attempt to destroy the patriarch of the family (Daniel Trisk, played by Michael Swan).\nGray is joined by several other stars in \u201cHilton Head Island,\u201d including Antonio Sabato Jr. (General Hospital, Melrose Place), Crystal Hunt (One Life to Live), and Swan (As The World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful). The cast also includes legendary game show host Wink Martindale and former Olympian Jamie Nieto.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve found a formula that replaces traditional soap opera debauchery with strong family values and the characters\u2019 reliance on their faith to overcome adversity,\u201d said Pure Flix.com CEO Greg Gudorf. \u201cBased on the strong viewership numbers from the first season, the formula is definitely working for our audience.\u201d\n\u201cHilton Head Island\u201d is the first of PureFlix.com\u2019s original series to move into a second season.\nIt will be available to PureFlix.com subscribers beginning October 5. For others, the show can be watched by signing up for a free, one-month trial subscription on PureFlix.com.\nNew episodes for another original series, \u201cMalibu Dan,\u201d will debut in mid-November. Additional series and original programming are slated for 2019 as the platform continues to expand its subscriber base.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Philip-G-Hoffman-UH-president-for-16-years-1664631.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:44Z", "digest": "sha1:AR677HUIM4VR3A6EJ3WBQPJ2AXGYG4GT", "length": 3802, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.chron.com", "title": "Philip G. Hoffman, UH president for 16 years - Houston Chronicle", "raw_content": "https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Philip-G-Hoffman-UH-president-for-16-years-1664631.php\nPhilip G. Hoffman, UH president for 16 years\nWhen he took job, it was a small college of 12,187\nLYNWOOD ABRAM\nPublished 5:30 am CDT, Saturday, November 1, 2008\nPhilip G. Hoffman\nPhoto: Family Obit\nPhilip G. Hoffman, who for 16 years was president of the University of Houston during an era of transition and expansion, died Wednesday in his Houston home. He was 93.\n\"Dr. Hoffman served the university with loyalty, vision, energy and integrity,\" said Renu Khator, president of UH and chancellor of the UH System.\n\"Under his watch, the landscape of the university was forever transformed. We have lost a true Cougar friend,\" Khator said.\nThe only UH president to serve longer than Hoffman was E.E. Oberholtzer, the university's founding president, who held the job from 1927 until 1950.\nHoffman assumed the presidency in 1961. At that time, UH, which was born as an adjunct of the Houston school district, was a quiet city college with one campus and 12,187 students. It also was dealing with financial difficulties.\nDuring his presidency, Hoffman led the effort to achieve state affiliation, which was attained in May 1963.\nThe school admitted its first African-American in 1961, a graduate student in music. Afro-American Studies and Mexican-American Studies also were initiated during Hoffman's presidency.\nHoffman said in 2005, \"One of the things I'm most proud of is the way we integrated the University of Houston.\n\"We decided to integrate the university because it made good sense politically, and, more importantly, it was the right thing to do,\" Hoffman said.\nHe also launched fundraising drives that brought millions of dollars to UH.\nIn 1977, Hoffman became the first chancellor of the UH System, serving until 1979. A.D. Bruce had been chancellor before UH became a system.\nWhen he retired, Hoffman left a university with an enrollment of more than 29,000 students on four campuses. The athletic program also had attained national prominence.\nFrom 1981 to 1984, Hoffman was president of the Texas Medical Center.\nLegacy 'beyond measure'\n\"To many, Hoffman is the University of Houston. His legacy to the citizens of Houston and the students is beyond measure. He is one of the great figures in Houston history whose contributions made this city what it is today,\" said Dana Rooks , dean of libraries at UH and a friend of Hoffman's.\nPhilip Guthrie Hoffman was born on Aug. 6, 1915, in Kobe, Japan, where his parents, Benjamin Philip Hoffman and Florence Guthrie Hoffman, were missionaries. The family moved to Oregon when he was 5.\nHoffman earned a business degree from Pacific Union College in 1938 and a master's degree in history from the University of Southern California in 1942.\nAfter serving in the Navy as an intelligence officer during World War II, Hoffman earned a doctorate in history at Ohio State University in 1948 and then taught there for a year.\nIn 1957, Hoffman came from Portland State College, where he was teaching history, to the University of Houston as vice president, dean of faculties and professor of history.\nIn 1980, Philip G. Hoffman Hall was dedicated on the UH campus. The university conferred on Hoffman a doctor of humanities degree in 1987.\nHis son, Philip G. Hoffman Jr., who taught medicine at the University of California at Berkeley and the UC-San Francisco School of Medicine, died in 1987.\nSurvivors include his wife, Mary Harding Hoffman of Houston, a niece of U.S. President Warren G. Harding; and daughters Mary Victoria Cobb of Kerrville, and Ruth Ann Cabler and Jeanne Camp, both of Houston.\nA memorial service is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main, under direction of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 9520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chronarealty.com/2019/02/10/residence-we-love-house-f-by-a-m-n-architecture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6YD4XTRNLPNCBN5ELMDYJBH5QQFBPHC", "length": 386, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.chronarealty.com", "title": "Residence We Love - House F by A.M.N Architecture", "raw_content": "In the living area large scale glass doors with minimal frames were used, allowing natural light to flush the space and connecting the inside with the outside area which includes an outer sitting area, a small lawn and a swimming pool. An inner patio was created in order to allow natural light to reach the inner parts of the house and to separate the public area from the private one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 2644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.churchgoods.com/products/k720-ciborium/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JBFV3UX7LV2I26LGZUCWX7KPOL6OBOPI", "length": 104, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.churchgoods.com", "title": "ciborium", "raw_content": "Ciborium, gold plated with red node, 3-1/4\" base. 6-3/4\" height, 4-1/2\" diameter cup, 160 host capacity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cia-landlords.co.uk/landlord-news-advice/cluzel-clinches-second-podium-season/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XFGDZFJZCWSO2OJ3N7X7E55WOKWXLYI6", "length": 2893, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.cia-landlords.co.uk", "title": "Cluzel clinches second podium of the season - CIA Landlord Insurance", "raw_content": "Cluzel clinches second podium of the season\nCIA Landlord Insurance Honda\u2019s Jules Cluzel scored his second podium of 2017 in the World Supersport race at Donington Park today taking him to fourth in the Championship standings.\nThe initial race was red-flagged with Jules in 2nd place behind Kenan Sofuoglu after Cardelus Garcia crashed at turn 12. In the shortened to 13 lap re-started race, Jules pushed Mahias hard for second place but just couldn\u2019t make a move stick in the final few corners. Jules said: \u201cI am happy with the race. I was expecting to struggle a little more, we never showed this pace in the weekend. I was disappointed with the red flag because the first race was looking better, I made a better start. I was close to Kenan and I was able to follow him and escape a bit more. The second start was not so good but I came back to catch Mahias and try to catch Kenan. I just tried everything on the last lap but it didn\u2019t work. In general I am happy we did a good job, the team did a good job, we had no problems and we did our best for the race.\u201d\nHikari Okubo didn\u2019t get the best start in the re-start dropping down to 15th but he stuck at it and found the pace to pick his way back up the field for another top ten finish in 9th.\nAfter a disappointing qualifying, Robin Mulhauser\u2019s confidence was boosted in the race. He was lapping in the low 32s and finished in 18th position.\nHiromichi Kunikawa\u2019s lap times continued to improve all weekend. He finished the race in 26th place and although his position was not as good as last time out at Imola when he was in the top twenty for the first time, this was the most positive weekend he has had with CIA Landlord Insurance Honda so far.\nCIA Landlord Insurance Honda Team Manager, Simon Buckmaster said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a good day for us back on the podium and up to fourth in the Championship which is a positive thing. It was a great race right down to the wire. We have had our misfortune earlier in the season so now we need to stick at it and keep pushing to challenge for the title.\u201d\n\u201cHikari rode a good, strong race to 9th place and 11th position in the Championship. He is closing the points gap in the standings and will soon be in the top ten.\u201d\n\u201cRobin had the points position pace but not really early enough in the race. Of course, after a disappointing qualifying this is good for his confidence and we want to work with him to get him back into the points and the top ten which is where he should be.\u201d\n\u201cHiromichi continued to improve all weekend getting into the 33s in the race. He continues to grow in confidence in the World Supersport Championship and he works well with his crew for better results as the season unfolds.\u201d\n5 J. Kennedy +6.182\n9 H. Okubo CIA Landlord Insurance Honda +19.238\n10 J. Francis +20.748\n18 R. Muhauser CIA Landlord Insurance Honda +34.300\n26 H. Kunikawa CIA Landlord Insurance Honda +52.991", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cinnamonedge.co.uk/join-us-on-june-12th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:13Z", "digest": "sha1:JQYG3RBRIV2MNMOTWPCOZKVA5H6WXEYS", "length": 1160, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cinnamonedge.co.uk", "title": "Jersey Chamber Breakfast Meeting June 12 | Cinnamon Edge", "raw_content": "The next of Jersey Chamber\u2019s very successful series of breakfast networking meetings is on June 12, and we\u2019ll be there.\nSadly, we couldn\u2019t make it to the May meeting but you can expect to see us if you come along to the Merchant House Brasserie, at the Jersey Museum. Doors open at 7.45am for an 8.am start. The meeting will end at 9.am.\nAs usual, there will be a short talk, but this time promises to be a little different as Susie Andrade, MD of Channel Islands Skills Academy will present a workshop we can all participate in, dealing with such matters as risk and corporate governance and the need to align boardroom activity with business growth.\nIt sounds like a fascinating way to start the day and it costs just \u00a35 for members and \u00a310 for non-members to attend. Previous meetings have sold out in no time, so book your place(s) early to avoid disappointment, via the Chamber website here.\nOnly 35 places are available.\nIf you\u2019re wondering about future breakfast networking meetings, you can find full details from now on at the new website http://www.jerseychambernetworking.co.uk.\nYou can also find further information at http://www.jerseychamber.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citehr.com/605818-night-shift.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KC6U7DRMIBNBLYECA54B2HCCDTRIRUUF", "length": 4131, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.citehr.com", "title": "Night shift - CiteHR", "raw_content": "Sir, b\nIf employees working in night shift from 10pm to 6am, night shift works going all the factories but in factories act which section mentioning for permit.\nTHE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 Sec. [ACT NO. LXIII OF 1948] (23rd September, 1948)\nCHAPTER VI WORKING HOURS OF ADULTS\n51. Weekly hours.- No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than forty-eight hours in any week.\n52. Weekly holidays.- (1) No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory on the first day of the week (hereinafter referred to as the said day), unless- (a) he has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day, and (b) the manager of the factory has, before the said day or the substituted day under clause (a), whichever is earlier,- (i) delivered a notice at the office of the Inspector of his intention to require the worker to work on the said day and of the day which is to be substituted, and (ii) displayed a notice to that effect in the factory: Provided that no substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day. (2) Notices given under sub-section (1) may be cancelled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed in the factory not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier. (3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1), any worker works on the said day and has had a holiday on one of the three days immediately before it, that said day shall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work, be included in the preceding week.\n53. Compensatory holidays.- (1) Where, as a result of the passing of an order or the making of a rule under the provisions of this Act exempting a factory or the workers therein from the provisions of section 52, a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays for which provision is made in sub-section (1) of that section, he shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due to him or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal number to the holidays so lost. (2) The State Government may prescribe the manner in which the holidays for which provision is made in sub-section (1) shall be allowed.\n54. Daily hours.- Subject to the provisions of section 51, no adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than nine hours in any day:\n1[Provided that, subject to the previous approval of the Chief Inspector, the daily maximum hours specified in this section may be exceeded in order to facilitate the change of shifts.]........\n57. Night shifts.- Where a worker in a factory works on a shift which extends beyond midnight- (a) for the purposes of sections 52 and 53, a holiday for a whole day shall mean in his case a period of twenty-four consecutive hours beginning when his shift ends; (b) the following day for him shall be deemed to be the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such shift ends, and the hours he has worked after midnight shall be counted in the previous day.\nThere is no blanket prohibition to work the Factory during Night shifts. Only to deploy females during night shift there are some restrictions. However you should refer to your state's Factory Rules for further details.\nAlso see other links provided on the right side of your screen.\nnight shift Country-India factories act City-India-Pune\nSafety of women employees during night shift - pdf download\nDay and night shift - is the company liable to pay double salary for night shift?\nCan we break service bond if night shift duty leads to health issues?\nPolicy for night shift - lady employees & transport\nNight shift - whether a worker/employee can work for 6 consecutive days in a week as per factory act?\nFactories work amendment for employing female worker in Night shift.pdf\nNIGHT SHIFT FOR WOMEN.pdf\n/night shift\nLegal consequences for not serving notice period\nFemale Working Hours In Delhi and NCR - how do I refuse for night shift?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citoc.com/warning-new-poodle-bug-presents-major-network-security-risk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVY7VEZUDTTQZVDXI35INIXCT2UCJ5LP", "length": 2331, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.citoc.com", "title": "Warning: New POODLE Bug Presents MAJOR Network Security Risk!", "raw_content": "Warning: New POODLE Bug Presents MAJOR Network Security Risk!\nYou might be familiar with bugs known as Heartbleed and Shellshock \u2013 now businesses must be made aware of a new bug called POODLE. While it may sound harmless due to its somewhat inane name, POODLE actually presents a major risk to your company\u2019s web security.\nPOODLE is actually an acronym for \u2018Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption\u2019. It sounds confusing, but the danger that the bug presents is relatively simple: POODLE allows hackers to access and steal information on encrypted connections.\nThe bug hijacks pieces of information by using an outdated web communication protocol, leaving systems susceptible to information theft.\nWhen you don\u2019t have to log into your e-mail account each time you use it, this is because your browser has a cookie installed which lets your e-mail know that you are who you claim to be. If a hacker tricked you into connecting to a bogus wireless hotspot, for example, this bug could allow them to steal a cookie from your computer. This would give hackers a chance to steal enough information from a web connection that they that they would then be able to steal your cookies and effectively pretend to be you.\nWhen POODLE emerged earlier this year, security officials got to work and quickly patched many of the sites that were most vulnerable. Unfortunately, it seems, the experts did not go far enough. The bug formerly attacked an outdated version of SSL (Secure Socket Layer), which is no longer used on modern browsers, but is around due to some older sites, which still require it. Another newer layer of security called TLS (Transport Layer Security) has now been found to also be susceptible to POODLE and a fix has yet to be implemented.\nMost troubling is that several banks and corporations are susceptible the new iteration of this bug. Banks at risk include Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, HSBC and SunTrust.\nAre you concerned about your businesses web safety in the face of new threats like POODLE?\nThere are ways to keep your browser safe and to find out whether or not you\u2019re at high risk for such bugs. CITOC wants to make sure you\u2019re doing everything you can to keep your company\u2019s web presence and security safe. For more information, contact us via phone at (713) 490-5000 or through e-mail at {e-mail}.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.city.outwood.com/learning-environment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ELWRMSP5OUYQPR5ZG2HG2R6DY5RNBU77", "length": 1062, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.city.outwood.com", "title": "Learning Environment - Outwood Academy City", "raw_content": "Outwood Academy City was constructed in 2011 and was purpose built for learning in the 21st century. There are specialist facilities for all subjects, including:\na purpose built Science department;\ncustom Music technology suite with recording studio;\na all with auditorium style seating;\nDrama studios;\nan Art gallery and devoted artistry spaces;\na Design and Technology wing.\nEach classroom has its own interactive whiteboard and there are many IT rooms available across the academy. Our excellent sports reputation is reinforced by the sporting facilities including the fitness suite, dance studio, sports hall, floodlit Astroturf pitch and large open sports fields.\nOutwood Academy City seeks to provide the best experience for all its stakeholders, and continues to develop its facilities with that in mind. The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is a well-stocked library for students to loan books and also a teaching space with computer access. In addition to this, students have their own Student Information Desk (SID) to support them on a day-to-day basis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/02/11/german-far-right-party-members-attacked-after-cinema-visit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:56Z", "digest": "sha1:USTDVDOJVH6F6UTLXKBE2UCBZEWQ4BPT", "length": 154, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.citynews1130.com", "title": "German far-right party members attacked after cinema visit", "raw_content": "Berlin police say two members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party\u2019s youth wing were injured in a street attack after watching a Holocaust film.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 7941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cityofsalem.net/Pages/library-works-to-maintain-dynamic-collection.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:564QVRFISHMWBBXBQU6GI3H44E4PMWFI", "length": 6650, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.cityofsalem.net", "title": "Library Works to Maintain Dynamic Collection", "raw_content": "Library Works to Maintain Dynamic Collection\nLibraryNews\nAs a popular materials library serving the residents of the City of Salem, the core function of the collection is to serve as the community's bookshelf. The library's collection is carefully and constantly curated using industry-standard best practices and the expertise of professional library staff to meet the informational and recreational needs of the Salem community.\nWith the adoption of the Collection Development Policy and the upcoming renovation of the library building, a comprehensive review of the collection is underway during 2018-2019. This will ensure the library's dynamic collections match the vision and scope set forth in the policy and are comprised of current materials in good condition and in demand by the Salem community.\nWhat is the focus of the Salem Public Library collection?\nAs a popular materials library serving the residents of the City of Salem, the core function of the collection is to serve as the community's bookshelf and keep it up to date with relevant, timely, and popular choices as defined by the Salem community. Our mission is to serve the general reader and to meet their informational, educational, and recreational needs. Popular materials are at the core of a modern public library collection. This dynamic collection consists of in-demand classic and contemporary works and up-to-date, relevant, and accurate materials in a range of modern formats. Salem Public Library is also home to a significant local history special collection focused on items important to the region's history (the Hugh Morrow collection).\nWhat is the library adding?\nThe library adds approximately 33,000 new physical items every year including replacements for damaged materials. Search new items by category on the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service website.\n\u200bWhat if I'm not finding what I'm looking for on the shelf?\nLet us know! You can check the catalog online. Please see the Ask Here desk or call the library for assistance locating materials. If an item is not available within our consortium, it may be available from another library through Interlibrary Loan. You can also submit a Purchase Suggestion form at any time.\nHow is the collection managed?\nThe library's collection is carefully and constantly curated using industry-standard best practices and the expertise of professional library staff. The library also solicits input from a variety of stakeholders via purchase suggestion forms, comment cards, community surveys, and in-person conversations to evaluate community and collection needs.\nCollection maintenance helps create a vibrant, appealing collection that meets the community's needs. It frees up shelf space for the constant arrival of the new materials -- more than 33,000 items are added annually. It makes shelves easier to browse, makes items more accessible, and identifies areas that need updating or replacement of items in poor condition. It ensures the collection is in excellent shape for the upcoming renovation project, during which time our everyday maintenance may be disrupted.\nThis work relies on the judgment of professional selectors. They use industry-standard tools and national best practices for data-driven decision making. These tools help identify types of materials such as:\noutdated information in areas of rapid change such as medicine, law, and technology\nitems that are no longer being used\nnon-current editions\nexcess copies of previous bestsellers\nAll materials are reviewed by the selector assigned to that area of the collection in order to assess replacement and mending needs.\nWhat tools do you use to make collection-related decisions?\nThe library uses industry-standard tools in addition to the framework set forth in the library's Collection Development Policy. These tools include:\nThe CREW manual (provides criteria regarding condition, use, and currency of content for specific areas of the collection)\nCollectionHQ (generates data including last circulation date, over and understocked subject areas, and turnover rates)\nOrange Boy community survey data from 2012 and 2018 (community analysis and survey of library use)\nFederal data provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, state data provided by the State Library of Oregon and other national data from industry groups such as the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association.\nWhat happens with materials after they've been deselected?\nWithdrawn items are offered to the Friends of the Salem Public Library for resale. Proceeds from these sales benefit the library's collections and programs. Any badly damaged items are recycled.\nFriends of the Salem Public Library bookstore.\n\u200bWhat will I see during the comprehensive collection review?\nYou may notice shelves looking more empty than usual while materials are being evaluated, replacements are being ordered, and items are being shifted. Items will become more accessible as they are moved down from top shelves and overfull collections get more room. We apologize for any inconvenience\u2014 staff are always ready to help!\nWhen is the comprehensive collection review happening?\nCollection maintenance is a continual process that is done year-round. The current comprehensive review of the collection has an estimated timeline of October 2018-April 2019.\nHow was the Collection Development Policy built?\nCollection development policies are used to guide selection and deselection of library materials. Salem Public Library's Collection Development Policy was created by the Collection Development Committee. The committee reviewed the library's strategic plan, policies from other public libraries, and established professional standards from local and national library organizations, including the Oregon Library Association's Public Library Division, the American Library Association, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The policy was sent to staff for review and feedback before being routed to the Library's Leadership Team and the Community Development Director. Finally, the policy was vetted and approved by the Library Advisory Board and presented to City Council.\nHow can I get involved with the library?\nThere are many opportunities to get involved. Apply to serve on the Library Advisory Board or attend a meeting. You can also volunteer for the library, the Friends of Salem Public Library or the Salem Public Library Foundation. Feel free to contact the library with any further questions.\nSarah StrahlCity LibrarianLibrary\nSalem Public Library (Salem\nSalem Public Library (Oregon)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 10461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clandestinecritic.co.uk/2008/06/comic-book-shops-orbital-number-4-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GF74LL5RZBYX7OVHRSYEHDJ6KDDKKVDG", "length": 5057, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.clandestinecritic.co.uk", "title": "Comic Book Shops: Orbital (Number 4 In A Series) \u2013 Clandestine Critic", "raw_content": "All the shops in Central London I\u2019ve talked about so far, Orbital is the newest on the block that is still doing business. Like Forbidden Planet, it too has moved location, upgrading from Old Compton Street in Soho to the Tottenham Court Road end of Charing Cross Road. However, its front is the ugliest of the shops shown \u2013 a door with a logo next to a barber\u2019s shop on a very busy road (in fact, almost around the corner from the original Forbidden Planet shop).\nWhen you enter the small doorway, down the stairs with the walls covered with comic book/film posters (evoking a studenty feel), you are not filled with confidence. This is confirmed when the first thing you see when you get down there is a battered old sofa \u2013 Borders this place most definitely isn\u2019t. I assume this is for people to sit down and read, but I\u2019ve never seen anybody use it.\nThe shop is a single, wide-ish basement split into the new and the old \u2013 on your left are the new comic book and trade paperbacks (the cheapest in Central London) in shelves against the wall. The selection is wide and kept updated (Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse), matched by the large selection of back issues at the far end of the room, two layers of long boxes from most companies. To separate them, there is the till on the left and some posters and old cheap books (20 pence each or mix\u2019n\u2019match sets for \u00a31) on the right.\nThe other factor that is a draw, to which I can\u2019t attest because of the fact that I don\u2019t frequent Orbital, is the friendly staff \u2013 always chatting and welcoming; they even used to do a Top 10 list, although I\u2019m not sure they do it anymore. Rich Johnston always talks them about them favourably, and they did get Alan Moore there recently (to be fair, Gosh! did as well) but who am I to say.\nComic Book Shops: Comicana (Number 3 In A Series)\nComedy: Live Recording Of Clare In The Community\nThere\u2019s a store in Seattle, Washington, called \u201cComics Dungeon\u201d which is very much like the store you described. There\u2019s little lighting and the place lives up to it\u2019s name pretty well. It\u2019s not quite the place it used to be, and their manager is a bit of a dick.\n\u201cOrbital\u201d sounds like an odd name for a comic book store. Are the owners fans of the famous electronic music duo?\nI don\u2019t know if Orbital is as bad as the place you talk about \u2013 they always seem friendly and amenable. I guess I should test their amenability by asking about the Orbital question \u2026\nContinually Spicy 11 September 2008 at 6:36 am\nIn reply to Michael, there is a wide variety of factors you need to take into account before passing such a negative review. I may be defensive seeing as to how I am that \u2018dick\u2019 you must be referring to, unless you are mistaken as to who the manager actually is. I\u2019m not going to get on your case and throw any insults back at you, however. I aim to never be rude unless I am dealing with a rude person myself, but if I was in fact unfair or hostile to you I do apologize.\nIn response to the dungeon like atmosphere we have, I will be the first to admit we have generally poor lighting. Considering the amount of electrical problems and other issues the builing we are in has though, I think we do fine enough. One of the things people often take for granted is that comic retail doesn\u2019t make tons of money, and often times the storefront has very little in its budget to spruce up the place. That\u2019s not even taking into account restrictions placed on us by the building managers.\nAs for not being the place we used to be, I would be curious to see just what you mean by that. We have the largest inventory we have ever had in our history, as well as the most open floor plan in over 10 years. We are currently more familiy orientated than we have ever been, and have seen a substantial increase in the traffic of parents and children to support that claim.\nI\u2019m not really sure what you\u2019re looking for, but I am honestly tired of people complaining about the superficial problems and not spending enough time looking at the things that matter. If you want a different atmosphere, feel free to shop elsewhere. If you feel like insulting me, please do so to me directly and have a good reason. I\u2019ll own up if need be, but I\u2019ll be damned if I let someone insult me and everything I work for without some sort of defense.\nAnd I\u2019ve managed to rant up a storm, I apologize. Best of wishes, and interesting blog, David.\nDavid 11 September 2008 at 10:39 am\nNo need to apologise, \u2018spicy\u2019 \u2013 isn\u2019t the whole point of blogs the expression of opinions? Glad to provide a forum for discussion \ud83d\ude42\nI just visited the shop yesterday\n(26Jan09). Its moved to a new location near Leicester Stn almost across the much missed Comic Showcase. The new premise is very big & bright with back issue boxes taking up 2/3 of the store.\nDavid 27 January 2009 at 9:42 am\nI have yet to visit the new location \u2013 someone who works there sent out an email flyer about the move and the Opening Sale on Saturday \u2013 but I look forward to seeing the new shop, although I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll do another blog about it \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clarityhospitality.co.nz/clarity-blog/2016/4/4/how-5g-mobile-could-change-the-hotel-industry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4TVWVUT26CBNN5QJH5QESMZ462WK6QC3", "length": 2314, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.clarityhospitality.co.nz", "title": "How 5G mobile could change the hotel industry \u2014 Clarity Hospitality Software Solutions", "raw_content": "In today\u2019s world of fast 4G mobile, where messages reach us instantly, favourite TV shows can be streamed from the palm of your hand and a date can be confirmed with a swipe, it is hard to see how mobile can get any better.\nBut it will, or rather it will become even more capable. 5G is the latest iteration of mobile, and while 4G brought us massive data transfer, 5G will bring us true machine-to-machine communication, allowing the oft-mentioned Internet of Things to finally become a reality. This will transform every industry, from healthcare, which will see doctors diagnosing patients from hundreds of miles away before they even realise it, to transport and energy (driverless cars, etc).\nThe hospitality industry is no exception, and while these are early days with 5G not expected for mass adoption before 2020 (although the South Koreans are looking at installing the infrastructure in time for the Winter Olympic Games in 2018), we can still look ahead to the possibilities 5G could bring.\nWhat a 5G-enabled hotel might look like\nPotential guests will no longer choose their stay on 2D images of the hotel room, but will want to explore the hotel in 3D (or eventually hologram\u2026.) in a manner not dissimilar to Google Streetview, where the user can virtually take a tour of the hotel \u2013 rooms, gym, restaurants and pool. Two-way voice protocol will allow a senior executive to instantly speak with his favourite butler from the other side of the world, booking his usual room in 30 seconds.\nThe plethora of new media and its consumption will result in masses of data, including insights into the hopes, dreams, attitudes and aspirations of guests. Unlocking the meaning of this will be vital, and hotel brands will have to mould their messaging and services to reflect these insights. We may even see more fragmentation of the hospitality industry into brands that cater to a micro-specific group of guests.\nInstead of bigger hotels we may see a trend towards much smaller, more numerous properties catering to a guest profile that is based on aspirations, feelings or concerns, rather than simply on age, income bracket or whether or not they are a family \u2013 we are already seeing the beginning of this, through the creation of brands specifically designed to appeal to those with a Millennial mind-set.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.classic-car-insurance.co.uk/news/the-appeal-of-the-classic-ford-capri-2-8i", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:T2URBZXJME4LADN67537VB2PWRPC3YED", "length": 1751, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.classic-car-insurance.co.uk", "title": "The Appeal Of The Classic Ford Capri 2.8i - Classic Car News", "raw_content": "When I worked for a bank, the senior manager in the branch had a company car but his was not the normal choice of your average, professional bank manager. He selected a nippy Ford Capri 2.8i that has now become a collectible classic vehicle. He no doubt liked cars with considerable acceleration and speed especially bearing in mind that he used to make an annual trip to a racetrack in Germany where he drove a motorbike at breathtaking speed for the sheer love of doing so.\nA work colleague was asked to take the above vehicle to a main Ford dealer to have a repair done on it. The member of staff could have driven a short distance carefully through the town to get to the garage but, no, he had to take a detour of several miles that involved taking the car on a motorway for a few miles when he enjoyed putting his foot down. Fortunately for him, he was not caught by a police car!\nThe classic Ford Capri 2.8i that was first built back in 1982 has become a collector\u2019s dream vehicle as one in excellent condition may be sold for many thousands of pounds more than the price the owner paid for it when buying it brand new. The vehicle has a 2,792 cc 6-cylider engine that is capable of getting from 0 to 60mph in a mere 7.9 seconds as it heads towards a top speed of 127 mph. You can only expect to get in the region of 27 mpg. It originally came with a 4-speed gearbox but on later models a 5-speed gearbox was fitted.\nIn its heyday, this classic sports coupe would certainly have caught the attention of the opposite sex. It had sleek, aerodynamic looks and still has to this day and gave the impression that it was built to travel at speed which, of course, it did. Expect to pay a five-figure sum for the Ford Capri 2.8i.\nclassicfordFord Capri", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 10444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clcin.org/whatwebelieve", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NTZ4OA7QGN6GJSFQSUNLEUSKPX2HTH3L", "length": 2444, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.clcin.org", "title": "What We Believe \u2014 CLCIN.org", "raw_content": "We believe in one God and is comprised of three separate and distinct personalities, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, who are eternally self-existent, self-revealed and function as one entity.\no John 1:1-5, 10-14, Matthew 28:18-20\nWe believe the bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, infallible guide for our lives, and everlasting rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason.\no II Timothy 3:15-17, I Peter 1:23-25, Hebrews 4:12\nWe believe in personal salvation of believers through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and the new birth produces eternal life. (Romans 10: 8-10). The inward evidence to the believer of his salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit. (Romans 8:16; I John 3:18-19, 24) The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness. \u201cYou will know them by their fruits.\u201d (Matthew 7:16-20) Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and not by human works; however, our works will determine the rewards in eternity. (Ephesians 2:8-10; Galatians 2:16; II Corinthians 5:10)\nWe believe in divine healing through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ and that healing is included in the redemption, and healing is God\u2019s will for everyone\no Psalms 103:3, Acts 10:38\nWe believe in water baptism by immersion, after one has received salvation\no Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:4; Acts 10:47-48\nWe believe in the baptism of Holy Spirit is a gift from God promised to all who have received salvation and is evidenced with speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance and by the subsequent manifestation of spiritual power in public testimony and service.\no Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:2, 6; 1:8; Galatians 5:16-26\nWe believe in the Christian\u2019s hope- the soon coming, personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ\no I Corinthians 15: 51-52, I Thessalonians 4:16-17\nWe believe God instituted marriage between a male and a female as the foundation of the family. Genesis 2:24 God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged other than in the context of marriage between a man and a woman. (Genesis 19:5, 26:811; Leviticus 18:130; Romans 1:2629: 1 Corinthians 5:1, 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; Hebrews 13:4.\nWe believe in total prosperity is God\u2019s will for the believer: spiritual, physical, mental, and financial. Tithing and giving is part of the Christian life\no III John 2, Romans 12:2, I Peter 2:24, Malachi 3:10-11, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Philippians 4:19", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 167.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2018/10/downtown_cleveland_alliance_to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2I2T4EMK23PZGU2DMXOUHBP2BYHRWPZZ", "length": 3032, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cleveland.com", "title": "Downtown Cleveland Alliance to honor Mayor Frank Jackson for civic contributions | cleveland.com", "raw_content": "Downtown Cleveland Alliance to honor Mayor Frank Jackson for civic contributions\nCleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will be honored by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Oct. 26 with the annual Ruth Ratner Miller Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes community leaders for their significant contributions toward the advancement of the downtown. ( Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com )\nCLEVELAND, Ohio - Mayor Frank Jackson will be honored by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Oct. 26, when the organization presents its annual Ruth Ratner Miller awards.\nThe award, which is presented annually, honors community leaders for their significant contributions toward the advancement of the downtown. Jackson, in the first year of an unprecedented fourth term as mayor, embodies the same attributes as Miller, a statement from the Downtown Alliance said.\n\"For the 20th anniversary of this luncheon, Ruth would be very happy to know the mayor was selected to receive this award in her name,\" said philanthropist Albert B. Ratner, Miller's brother. \"They share so many traits in common. She wasn't somebody who doted on what she accomplished, and neither is he. She was a woman of the people. He is a man of the people. When you look at the two of them, they represent what is best in the people of our city.\"\nMiller, who died in 1996, was a business and civic leader and philanthropist. Her efforts are credited for the relighting of the Terminal Tower in 1981, a symbol of Cleveland's rebirth.\nShe was instrumental in converting the former Halle Brothers Co. store into an office building and the renovation of the Terminal Tower's lower levels into Tower City Center. Miller served as president of Tower City Center from 1982 until her death.\nHer numerous community leadership positions included chairing the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland and board positions with University Circle, Inc., the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the New Cleveland Campaign, Cleveland State University, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission.\nA series of development awards also will be presented during the awards luncheon. Those recipients are:\n811 Building, Dimit Architects\nCanvas City, FRONT International\nCrowne Plaza, Playhouse Square\nThe Foundry Community Rowing and Sailing Center, MCPc\nGBX Group Headquarters, GBX Group\nThe Halle Building, K&D\nThe Hausheer Building, Geis Companies\nKeyTower and Marriott at Key Tower, The Millennia Companies\nThe Lofts at Southworth, Cicerchi Development Company\nThe Lofts of West 9th, CITIROC Real Estate Company\nThe Ritz Carlton-Cleveland, Bedrock Real Estate\nStarr Gennett Building, The George Group\nTenk West Bank, BNR Ventures\nThe awards luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, Ballroom C, 300 Lakeside Ave.\nMore information about the event is available online via the Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Tickets may be purchased online for $75.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 361, "original_length": 8495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clodiusco.com/blog/made-famous-by-marilyn-monroe-moon-of-baroda-diamond-to-hit-the-auction-block-in-hong-kong/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2QW4HGCGMGHB6FRLMDC2TKCEI47VTB6A", "length": 2458, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.clodiusco.com", "title": "Made Famous by Marilyn Monroe, 'Moon of Baroda' Diamond to Hit the Auction Block in Hong Kong | Clodius & Co. Jewelers", "raw_content": "Made Famous by Marilyn Monroe, 'Moon of Baroda' Diamond to Hit the Auction Block in Hong Kong October 24, 2018\nHollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe sang \"Diamonds Are a Girl\u2019s Best Friend\" and wore the 24-carat Moon of Baroda diamond while promoting the Howard Hawks film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953.\n\"It\u2019s gorgeous!\" Monroe gasped when she first set eyes on the pear-shaped, VS2, canary yellow stone. It was the largest diamond she ever wore in her lifetime.\nDespite its historical ties to the Maharajas of India and the legendary Golconda mines near Hyderabad, it was an adoring Monroe who helped catapult the Moon of Baroda to international fame.\nOn November 27, after 18 years in a private collection, the Moon of Baroda will regain the spotlight at Christie's Magnificent Jewels Sale in Hong Kong. The pre-sale estimate is $510,300 to $765,450. When the same stone hit the auction block at Christie's New York in 1990, it fetched $297,000.\nThis time around, the winning bidder will get a bonus \u2014 an autographed publicity shot of the glamorous Monroe wearing the Moon of Baroda. On the photo she wrote, \"Thanks for the chance to wear the Moon of Baroda \u2014 Marilyn Monroe.\"\n\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to give an estimate to such a legendary and historical stone,\" Christie\u2019s Connie Luk told The Hollywood Reporter. \"We give the estimate based on the market price of a 24-carat yellow diamond. We believe that the historical value will add to the price.\u201d\nAccording to Christie's, the Moon of Baroda was likely discovered between the 15th and 17th centuries and owned by the Gaekwads of Baroda, one of India\u2019s wealthiest and most powerful ruling families.\nIt was later sent by the Gaekwad family to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the only female monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. The diamond was returned to the Gaekwad family and set into a necklace in the mid-1800s. The Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad sold it to an unknown buyer in the early 1920s.\nThe stone was acquired by Cleveland diamond cutter Samuel H. Deutsch in 1944 and sold to Meyer Rosenbaum, president of Detroit-based Meyer Jewelry Company, in 1953. It was Rosenbaum who loaned the diamond to Monroe for her publicity tour.\nLuk told The Hollywood Reporter that the anonymous current buyer had a hard time parting with the famous stone.\n\u201cWe paid him a visit almost every year to ask him if he\u2019s interested in selling, and we were quite persistent,\" she said. \"And finally, this year he said yes to us.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 164.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/ecb-member-europe-would-appreciate-if-italy-would-stick-to-the-rules.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:M6RKWSVCL4EVHEUFCUAYKE2FC7W42KW7", "length": 3141, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "ECB member: Europe would 'appreciate' Italy sticking to the rules", "raw_content": "Europe would 'very much appreciate' Italy sticking to the rules, ECB member says\nNewly-appointed Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn said that the ECB does not take action regarding one single country, instead it responds to the euro zone as a whole.\nRehn is positive about the growth rate in the euro zone this year.\nPublished 4:09 AM ET Thu, 4 Oct 2018 Updated 5:50 AM ET Thu, 4 Oct 2018 CNBC.com\nECB's Rehn: Euro area needs to deal with Italian finances 5:20 AM ET Thu, 4 Oct 2018 | 02:13\nItaly should stick to its promises and respect Europea's fiscal rules, a member of the European Central Bank told CNBC on Thursday.\nThe comments from Olli Rehn, governor of the Bank of Finland and member of the ECB governing council, came as Rome is preparing its future spending plans.\n\"It would be very much appreciated if Italy were able to stick to its promises and stick to its commitments as regards the stability and the growth pact \u2014 the set of European fiscal rules \u2014 because we all live in the euro area and every member state is expected to respect the rules,\" Rehn told CNBC's Annette Weisbach in Helsinki.\nThe Italian government sparked further tensions with its European counterparts last week after announcing that it is to increase spending in 2019, meaning that public deficit will reach 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).\nThe previous government in Rome had told the European institutions that Italy's deficit would be 0.8 percent in 2019.\nSuch a significant increase in spending has not been well-received by some officials in Brussels. European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici said Wednesday that the 2.4 percent deficit figure risks breaking European rules.\nItaly's coalition government is finalizing the details of its 2019 budget, which it has to send to the European Commission for analysis by October 15. At the moment, there is someuncertainty about the spending plans for 2020 and 2021.\n\"If I were an Italian, the fundamental question would be, how can you advance productive and innovative capacity of the Italian economy? There's tremendous entrepreneurial potential in Italy and the key question to my mind is how to unleash that potential for productivity purposes,\" Rehn told CNBC.\nThe newly-appointed governor also said that the ECB does not take action regarding one single country; instead, it responds to the euro zone as a whole.\n\"As regards the future path of discussions on the Italian public finances, that is something for the European Commission and Eurogroup,\" Rehn said.\nECB's Rehn: Seeing stronger wage growth in central Europe 5:21 AM ET Thu, 4 Oct 2018 | 02:39\nRehn also said that the euro zone should continue growing at a rate of about 2 percent in 2018, although this pace could slow down in the two years after that.\n\"The growth outlook remains quite strong, I am quite positive,\" he said.\n\"Our forecast by the Bank of Finland is roughly 2 percent growth for the euro area this year and some more subdued growth in the coming two years, assuming that the political uncertainties in the global economy will not derail the ongoing economic recovery in Europe,\" Rehn added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/video/2015/06/30/whats-on-tsipras-mind.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YPDAMHVCHWRO7AFITNBIIHPDZRZEV3VL", "length": 205, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Whats on Tsipras' mind?", "raw_content": "Whats on Tsipras' mind?\nLawrence Lindsey, The Lindsey Group CEO, discusses why he is skeptical Greece is likely to work out a deal with the EU and weighs in on the pros and cons of Greece exiting the euro.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 428, "original_length": 13482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coca-colajourney.com.au/stories/healthy-conversations-why-exercise-still-matters-whether-youre-healthy-or-sick", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5DIGTXI6LUQNCUMIDMFSXUEFUPFKH7RL", "length": 2560, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.coca-colajourney.com.au", "title": "Exercise Matters Whether Healthy or Sick: Coca-Cola Australia", "raw_content": "Healthy Conversations: Why Exercise Still Matters Whether You\u2019re Healthy or Sick\nIt\u2019s something you\u2019ve probably heard before: prevention is better than cure. But what if health professionals knew of something that was both possible prevention and cure?\nNon-profit health organisation Exercise is Medicine Australia (EIM) believes primary health care providers should prescribe exercise programs for high-risk patients and people with long-term illness, as well as for prevention of illness and promoting health.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about a 12 week challenge or weight loss, it\u2019s about sustained physical activity that the patient will continue to do,\u201d said Jennifer Alencar, Project Officer at Exercise is Medicine Australia.\nThe benefits of physical activity are well-documented, such as decreasing the risk of heart disease by 40 percent, reducing the incidence of diabetes by half, and decreasing depression as effectively as medication and behavioural therapy.\nYet more than 70 per cent of Australians don\u2019t get enough exercise, according to EIM\u2019s figures. Jennifer said healthy goal is to engage in moderate activity 30 minutes a day, five times a week.\nEIM Australia works closely with primary care clinicians to support prescribing exercise, last year holding workshops for over 700 GPs, nurses and allied health professionals, who Jennifer said have embraced the initiative.\n\u201cThey love it. The resources we provide really help them start a conversation with their patient, and plant the seed. Often a GP or a practice nurse only has 10 minutes with a patient, which isn\u2019t really a lot of time to do this sort of lifestyle behaviour modification.\u201d\nEIM Australia supplies health care providers with resources like assessment tools, referral pathways, and fact sheets the patient can take home.\n\u201cFor example, for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the factsheet details what Alzheimer\u2019s disease is, how exercise can help, and what types of exercise is suitable,\u201d explained Jennifer.\nWith all of the information on hand, patients can be more easily referred to other allied health professionals like exercise physiologists, who specialise in exercise for the prevention and management of chronic diseases and injuries. They identify the risks associated with an individual\u2019s condition, their personal limits and work within their lifestyle.\n\u201cSo now when the patient comes back for their next visit they can talk about referring on,\u201d Jennifer said.\nEIM Australia is proudly supported by Coca-Cola Australia.\nHands in the Earth: Young Farmers, New Technology, and Ancient Traditions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/04/29/southwind-basketball-mark-freeman-penny-hardaway-memphis-bluff-city-legends-southwest-tennessee/534507002/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YMAQ67GAXN5RKQ7LADGSXEUZKFQ4AE77", "length": 8866, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.commercialappeal.com", "title": "Southwind basketball: Mark Freeman has options after reclassifying", "raw_content": "Reclassifying opens up options for Southwind's Mark Freeman\nFor Mark Freeman, the decision to reclassify to the class of 2019 and put his college basketball career on hold for another year wasn't an easy one.\nReclassifying opens up options for Southwind's Mark Freeman For Mark Freeman, the decision to reclassify to the class of 2019 and put his college basketball career on hold for another year wasn't an easy one. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://memne.ws/2r7WSpn\nThe Commercial Appeal Published 10:00 a.m. CT April 29, 2018\nHighlights: Southwind 90, Ridgeway 85 By John Varlas/The Commercial Appeal\nMark Freeman says a summer spent playing with the Bluff City Legends on the EYBL circuit will boost his recruiting profile.(Photo11: Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal)Buy Photo\nFor Mark Freeman, the decision to reclassify to the class of 2019 and put his college basketball career on hold for another year wasn't an easy one. But it's one that he hopes will pay off.\nAnd his summer team should afford him plenty of opportunities to showcase himself.\nFreeman \u2014 the all-state point guard from Southwind \u2014 said Monday that he will play this summer with the Bluff City Legends on the EYBL circuit. The Legends are the old Team Penny organization that was renamed after its founder, Penny Hardaway, took over the head coaching job at the University of Memphis.\nMore: At Southwind, the basketball brand never goes out of style\nFreeman announced on Twitter late last week that he would not be attending LIU Brooklyn and was re-opening the recruiting process.\n\"I'm going to run with them,\" Freeman said. \"Reclassifying ... another year of playing EYBL I believe will get me some more and better options. Me and my mom and dad talked and we just decided re-opening my recruitment was best for us.\n\"It was very tough. I love DK (LIU Brooklyn coach Derek Kellogg) and my decision isn't anything against him. It's just ... playing with Bluff City Legends will help my exposure.\"\nCalkins: Penny's hat? It's sold out. Why everything Hardaway touches is selling fast.\nWhen Freeman Tweeted news of decision last week, speculation quickly began that he would be heading to the University of Memphis. And although that could present a challenge basketball-wise \u2014 the Tigers have already signed point guards Alex Lomax (East) and Tyler Harris (Cordova) \u2014 Freeman didn't completely rule out the possibility of staying home.\n\"Memphis ... I'm not sure,\" he said. \"It would just depend on how hard they recruit me over the summer.\"\nThe 6-0 Freeman averaged 22 points and 8 assists this past season while leading Southwind to a 29-2 record and a spot in the region semifinals, where it lost to eventual state runner-up Whitehaven. He was one of three finalists for the Class AAA Mr. Basketball award alongside Harris (the winner) and Lomax.\nFreeman added he has been in talks with a couple of prep schools but has yet to decide where he'll play in 2018-2019.\nInjuries can't keep Saluqi standouts down\nIt took a while for them to get healthier. But now that they have, Southwest Tennessee's softball team can boast two of the hitters with the healthiest batting averages in the TCCAA.\nEntering this weekend's action, sophomore first baseman Melanie Stajduhar ranked fourth in the league with a .441 average to go along with four home runs and 32 RBIs. Right behind in sixth place is freshman shortstop Cailin Stricklin, who was batting .429 with 36 runs and 17 steals.\nFor Stajduhar \u2014 a Colorado native who ranks among Southwest's all-time leaders in several offensive categories \u2014 it's been a particularly trying year. She returned from Christmas break with a case of mono that was further compounded by a severe case of the flu.\n\"For the most part, I'm over everything,\" she said. \"(Mono) is a virus that attacks your whole body and makes your spleen really swollen. That makes it dangerous to play.\n\"It was really difficult because it's my last season here and I wanted to go out with a bang. Mentally it was the hardest because I didn't know when I would be back and I lost a lot of strength.\"\nIn contrast to the slugging Stajduhar, Stricklin is a slap-hitter, meaning she'll begin her run down the base line while simultaneously putting the ball in play. Pulling a quad muscle early on didn't make her job any easier.\n\"It was my first ever injury,\" the Hardin County grad said. \"I was just running to first base ... and I couldn't even run after that. I was like, 'Well, I'm a slapper and if I don't get better I won't be able to run. And that's part of my game.\"\nStajduhar and Stricklin have at least a couple more games left to add to their impressive totals; the Saluqis travel to Chattanooga for the double-elimination Region VII tournament.\nTennessee Sports Hall to recognize locals\nSeveral athletes with Memphis ties will be honored at the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet, which takes place June 16 at the Omni Nashville.\nHeading the list is former University of Memphis kicker Joe Allison, who played from 1990-93 and won the inaugural Lou Groza award in 1992. That year, the Florida native connected on 23 of 25 field goals and all 32 extra-point attempts.\nFormer Munford High and Tennessee running back Johnnie Jones will also be inducted along with several others, including former Vol and New York Knick Allan Houston, Tennessee Titans' All-Pro Blaine Bishop and legendary Maryville High football coach George Quarles.\nThe PCL champion Memphis Redbirds will be honored as the 2018 team of the year along with the Chattanooga Lookouts, co-champs of the Southern League. The Rhodes women's golf team will be recognized as the amateur team of the year after winning its third NCAA Division III title. Former East basketball star Nick King \u2014 the Conference USA player of the year \u2014 will share male amateur athlete of the year co-honors with SEC player of the year Grant Williams of Tennessee.\nFormer East standout Nick King will be recognized by the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in June. (Photo11: The Associated Press)\nRedbirds coming to television\nNine Memphis Redbirds Sunday home games will be televised this summer on WLMT CW30 with play-by-play man Steve Selby on the call.\nManager Stubby Clapp and the Memphis Redbirds will make nine Sunday afternoon television appearances on WLMT CW30 this summer. (Photo11: Yalonda M. James/The Commercial Appeal)\nThe first game will be Sunday's contest against Round Rock. Other contests will be May 13 (Nashville); June 10 (Reno); June 24 (New Orleans); July 8 (Omaha); July 22 (Colorado Springs); Aug. 5 (Fresno); Aug. 19 (Round Rock) and Aug. 26 (Nashville). All games will start at 2:05 p.m.\nBaseball league holding tryouts\nThe National Urban Professional Baseball League is holding tryouts Sunday through Wednesday at USA Stadium in Millington. The tryouts are open to players age 17 and over and begin at 10 a.m. each day.\n\u201cHaving the opportunity to help young men fulfill their dreams of playing baseball past the high school and college level is very inspiring,\" said Michael Mayden in a statement. The former college coach and major league scout will manage the Rube Foster All-Stars team that will be based in Millington.\nBased in Chicago, the NUPBL has teams in several Southern states with the goal of developing the skills of talented athletes who might not otherwise have the opportunity to play professionally.\nFor registration information call 972-546-8894 or visit nupbl.com. Sponsorship opportunities for the Millington team are also available.\nSoftball star to speak at SCIAA banquet\nFormer LSU softball star A.J. Andrews will be the featured speaker at the SCIAA Banquet of Champions on May 16. (Photo11: Chris Parent/LSU Athletics)\nFormer LSU softball standout A.J. Andrews will be the featured speaker at this year's SCIAA Athletic Banquet of Champions, which takes place May 16 at the Holiday Inn-University of Memphis.\nAndrews helped the Tigers to two College World Series berths during her career and was a three-time All-SEC performer, ending her career with a .354 average and 97 stolen bases. Now a professional with the Houston-based ScrapYard Dawgs, she became the first woman to receive a Rawlings Gold Glove award in 2016.\nIn addition, Andrews will host a softball clinic on May 15.\nThe banquet will honor SCIAA champions in each of the fall, winter and spring sports. Scholar-athlete winners will also be announced.\nFormer White Station basketball standout Davell Roby was named Saint Louis' male athlete of the year at the school's recent SLUSpys. The 6-4 guard averaged 11.5 points this past season and ended his career with 1,160 points. ... Cornerback Adoree Jackson, tight end Jonnu Smith and nose tackle Antwaun Woods will be in the area May 5 when the Tennessee Titans Caravan makes a stop at Academy Sports in Collierville. The event begins at 11:30 a.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 11398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.completeconnection.ca/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WNLB6BUY3TAK4BNRG57VXJV5QXFRTHSG", "length": 2438, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.completeconnection.ca", "title": "Write for us technology, SEO, Digital Marketing and Business blogs", "raw_content": "Twenty years ago, Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway presented a book called \u2018Business @ the Speed of Thought\u2019 in which they explained the influence of technology on business. Although...\nA successful brand building process helps in increasing sales and advocating your product or service to the potential customer. The process involves defining the target audience, working on the...\nPeople online are bombarded with more information, marketing,and advertising than they ever were before. That said all of this so-called noise has made it difficult for businesses to effectively...\nWe have had various instances where users require to transfer WhatsApp messages from one device to another. This can either be a user attempting to transfer WhatsApp from an...\nWhen it comes to SEO and social media marketing, there are a lot of misunderstandings and delusions that make it tough. 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This can...\nWhen it comes to SEO and social media marketing, there are a lot of misunderstandings and delusions that make...\nFiled in SEO\nThere is no doubt that both users and search engines are continuously increasing their expectations from business website owners...\nA photovoltaic system or a solar power system consists of various panels that are usually placed on the roof...\nFree WordPress Templates by MagPress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.completeconnection.ca/boost-your-seo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WXFGC352YVHS5ME3GNGKEZ2U7IZPTGQR", "length": 7035, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.completeconnection.ca", "title": "7 Ways Visual Content Can Drastically Boost Your SEO | Complete Connection", "raw_content": "By PJ Taei | SEO | | Add Comment\nMake absolutely no mistake about it: SEO or \u201csearch engine optimization\u201d is still one of the most important factors to consider in terms of your digital presence on a daily basis. The vast majority of all online interactions still begin with a search engine and the first few links on a page retain the lion\u2019s share of the clicks for those particular terms \u2013 which means that not only do you want to rank prominently on an engine like Google, but you want to be as close to the top as you can possibly be.\nTo that end, one of the best ways to actually improve your SEO rankings has to do with the careful and strategic use of visual content. Whether you\u2019re talking about images, videos or some combination of the two, there are a number of critical ways that visual content can dramatically boost your SEO efforts that are certainly worth exploring.\n1. Visual Content Attracts Far More Backlinks\n2. Visual Content Increases Engagement\n3. It Helps on Social Media, Too\n4. It\u2019s What Your Audience Wants\n5. It Broadens Your Reach\n6. It Can Take Your Niche Website to the Next Level\n7. Visual Content Helps With Awareness Significantly\nWhile it\u2019s certainly true that Google keeps the specifics of its powerful SEO algorithm under lock and key, there are a few things we know for sure \u2013 like the fact that the more organic backlinks your content is able to generate, the higher it will rank for appropriate search terms.\nAccording to one recent study, posts with video content in particular have a tendency to attract three times the number of backlinks than posts with only text \u2013 meaning that the simple act of including a video in the first place is enough to give your SEO efforts a significant bump.\nAnother major factor that Google uses when determining page ranks has to do with engagement. Are people clicking on your link, skimming the content and then hitting the \u201cBack\u201d button, or are they genuinely reading, viewing and enjoying it? Obviously you always want to make sure you\u2019re in the latter category, and visual content is the perfect way to do it.\nStudies also show that including relevant images tend to produce engagement rates that are up to 650% higher (yes, you read that right) than those with only text.\nYour social media presence will also play a big part in the SEO rankings of your larger domain, as more social activity generally points to a more reputable website, which Google considers when compiling SERPS for various keywords.\nWhen you consider that another recent study revealed that tweets with images earned A) 18% more clicks, B) 89% more \u201cFavorites\u201d and C) 150% more retweets than text-only tweets, it becomes very easy to see why this is such a good idea.\nRegardless of the type of business you\u2019re running or even the industry you\u2019re operating in, visual content is the trend that just won\u2019t quit. Audiences all over literally can\u2019t get enough of it and, in fact, at the end of 2017 video content alone represented 74% of ALL Internet traffic.\nThis is why OTT apps and services like Uscreen have become so important. Not only do they allow you to create, distribute, and monetize the type of content that your audience actually wants, but that mechanism also helps to dramatically boost your larger SEO efforts as well.\nOne of the reasons why video content in particular can make a big impact on your SEO has to do with what it allows you to do when leveraged properly. When you make the decision to sell videos on your blog, for example, you\u2019re giving yourself yet another chance to connect with a large segment of consumers who are already interested in products and services like yours. Consider the fact that in 2015, 21% of people who responded to a survey said that they watch online videos to learn something new. Another 14% say they watch videos to pursue a hobby or interest and 13% use videos to learn or progress in a particular task.\nWhen you employ video content in ways like this, you\u2019re moving beyond the realm of marketing and into the educational space in the best possible way. The content itself becomes the product to be sold, bringing a new layer of engagement to an already valuable relationship between you and your consumers at the exact same time.\nIf you\u2019ve already started making an effort to nichify your online presence \u2013 and you should be \u2013 video content can help take your niche website to the next level in a number of powerful ways. Never forget that regular visitors to niche sites tend to be very committed to those sites as opposed to sites that attract a larger (and less engaged) audience. Because the content is focused at a smaller group of people, it gives you a chance to get very specific and personal with what you\u2019re doing. That in turn builds loyalty and enthusiasm, which gives way to engagement, which generates the same types of SEO gains that we were talking about earlier.\nNiche websites may be difficult to monetize, sure \u2013 but again, that\u2019s where OTT services have you covered. By creating video content that you can then sell to your users (on something like a subscription or piece-by-piece basis), it gives you the chance to get a genuine revenue stream up and running. As your site rises through the SERPS on sites like Google, that revenue stream will only become more powerful as a result.\nFinally and perhaps most importantly, visual content can help dramatically improve your SEO efforts because it plays directly into the way the human brain works in the first place.\nHuman beings are visual learners \u2013 this has always been true and it always will be. According to one recent study, when people hear information, they\u2019re usually only going to remember about 10% of it three days later. When you pair that same information with relevant visuals, however, that number jumps to 65%.\nVisual content not only helps you make a better and more effective connection with your audience, but it actually helps you provide them with the value they\u2019re looking for in the first place. This in turn creates a more loyal, passionate audience, and your SEO is only going to improve as a result.\nhttps://www.completeconnection.ca/boost-your-seo/ PJ TaeiSEO\nMake absolutely no mistake about it: SEO or 'search engine optimization' is still one of the most important factors to consider in terms of your digital presence on a daily basis. The vast majority of all online interactions still begin with a search engine and the first few links...\nPJ TaeiPJ Taei[email protected]ContributorPJ is the founder of Uscreen, a platform that helps anyone make money by selling videos online. PJ enjoys spending time outdoors, biking, and he never stops learning.Complete Connection\nAbout PJ Taei\nView all posts by PJ Taei \u2192\nPJ is the founder of Uscreen, a platform that helps anyone make money by selling videos online. PJ enjoys spending time outdoors, biking, and he never stops learning.\n\u00abNext Post How Dental Marketing Efforts Turns into Benefits for Your Dentistry\nAn Ugly (Yet Effective) Sales & Lead Generation Tool Previous Post\u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 9802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.concordia.net/community/senior-service-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QAFTJUQ7RCMEV4SN6DOXQTIXDRH3I3SS", "length": 763, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.concordia.net", "title": "Senior Service America - Concordia", "raw_content": "Senior Service America\nSenior Service America, Inc. (SSAI) is committed to making it possible for low-income and other disadvantaged older adults to participate fully in determining their own future and the future of their communities.\nWe can trace our roots to the National Council of Senior Citizens, launched in 1961 to advocate for older Americans. For over 40 years, we have operated the federal Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), our largest program, through a network of local subgrantee organizations. We also operate two other programs for older workers.\nHeadquartered in Silver Spring, Md., near Washington, D.C., we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headed by Interim Executive Director Gary A. Officer and a board of directors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 88.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.connecticutchildrens.org/search-specialties/sports-medicine/sports-medicine-injury-information/sports-medicine-injuries-by-location/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:37Z", "digest": "sha1:M4JIRMULFN6ZRLNHBKZ6O3T4NFJ5MWGM", "length": 7328, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.connecticutchildrens.org", "title": "Sports Medicine Injuries by Location - Connecticut Children's Medical Center", "raw_content": "Injuries by Location\nLearn more about common injuries that can occur in certain areas of the body. Choose an area of the body below:\nLearn more about common head injuries \u00bb\nThe shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body. The anatomy of the shoulder, including the muscles and tendons around the shoulder allow for this mobility. The shoulder has three different areas, or joints, called the: glenohumeral joint (the ball and socket), acromial clavicular joint (A/C joint) and scapulo thoracic joint (the articulation between the shoulder blade and the rib cage).\nThere are several muscles around the shoulder. The biggest is the deltoid muscle, which is the muscle that can be felt when you touch your shoulder. Below the deltoid muscle, there are four rotator cuff muscles. These muscles are the most commonly injured muscles of the shoulder. Injuries can occur to the rotator cuff, the joint capsule, labrum, ligaments, or the bones.\nSee all shoulder protocols \u00bb\nMulti-Directional Instability (MDI) \u00bb\nProximal Humeral Epiphysiolysis (Little Leaguer\u2019s Shoulder) \u00bb\nShoulder Impingement Syndrome (Swimmer\u2019s Shoulder) \u00bb\nShoulder Labral Tears \u00bb\nShoulder Separation \u00bb\nThe elbow is a simple hinge joint connecting the upper arm to the forearm. It is a very stable joint because of its bones, which include the upper arm (humerus) and the forearm bones (the radius and the ulna). Several muscles cross the elbow joint to allow the elbow to flex and extend, as well as supinate (palm facing up) and pronate (palm facing down).\nThe muscles that surround the elbow are the muscles of the upper arm, the biceps and triceps. In addition to the upper arm muscles, some muscles that control the wrist movements of flexion and extension cross the elbow joint. Lastly, the muscles that rotate the forearm are located in the elbow region. Injuries of the elbow can occur in any of the muscles that surround the joint. Joint dislocations are rare but serious injuries. Other structures of the elbow that can be injured are the ligaments. Common ligament injuries are associated with overhead throwing.\nSee all elbow protocols \u00bb\nLateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow) \u00bb\nUlnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) Tears \u00bb\nSynovial Impingement Syndrome (SIPL) \u00bb\nMedial Epicondylitis (Golfer\u2019s Elbow) \u00bb\nOsteochondritis Dissecans (OCD, Little Leaguer\u2019s Elbow) \u00bb\nThe wrist joint joins the forearm and the hand. The joint has many ligaments and bones that allow it great flexibility. All of the tendons that connect the forearm muscles to the fingers cross the wrist joint as well. These can be the initial site of injury but commonly are not considered wrist injuries. The many bones of the wrist and their proximity to each other make diagnosing wrist injuries difficult.\nThe most common wrist problem is a fracture. When someone falls onto an outstretched hand, they often break their forearm bones. This is usually cared for with a cast until the bone heals. Other problems around the wrist are caused by repetitive activities. A fall on the hand can also cause ligament sprains and fractures in the bones of the wrist.\nSee all wrist protocols \u00bb\nTriangular Fibrocartilage Complex (TFCC) Tears \u00bb\nScaphoid Fracture \u00bb\nDorsal Wrist Ganglion Cyst \u00bb\nThe hip is a ball and socket joint similar to the shoulder. The femoral head forms a ball that sits deep within the socket known as the acetabulum. The acetabulum is a part of the pelvis and, in ordinary circumstances, covers more than one-half the femoral head. For what the hip joint lacks in mobility it gains in strength and stability. The hip joint is rarely dislocated but other injuries about the joint are caused by the great amount of forces that are generated in the hip.\nOrthopedic injuries during the growing years usually occur following major injuries such as car accidents or falls from heights. Sports related injuries can also occur, and can be traumatic or overuse in nature. In later years, the hip is one of the primary causes of disability among the elderly. In children hip injuries are not common, but when they are injured one has to be cautious due to the open growth plates of the bones. An injury to the growth plate of the head of the femur is serious and needs immediate medical evaluation.\nSee all hip protocols \u00bb\nCoxa Saltans (Snapping Hip) \u00bb\nFemoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome (FAI) \u00bb\nIliotibial Band Syndrome (ITB) \u00bb\nLabral Tear \u00bb\nThere are three separate areas in the knee: the medial compartment, the lateral compartment and the kneecap joint or patella-femoral compartment. The knee joint is considered a hinge joint, where it flexes and extends in one plane. However, there are also minor rotational and gliding forces that are involved in normal knee movement. The knee is a structurally shallow joint, unlike the hip, therefore it relies on soft tissue structures for stability. The structures of the knee, other than the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone) and the patella (knee cap) are the ligaments and cartilage that give the knee its stability.\nThe medial and lateral compartments are the weight bearing areas of the knee. They are covered by a smooth surface known as articular cartilage. Damage to this surface is called arthritis when it is generalized, or damage can occur in an isolated area, resulting in arthritis to a specific area. Injuries to the ligaments are common in sports. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear is probably the injury most read about due to the notoriety of the athletes whose careers have been put on hold during the long recovery process. Other injuries include meniscus injuries. The meniscus is the cushioning cartilage of the knee and can be injured during sports.\nSee all knee protocols \u00bb\nAnterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury \u00bb\nCartilage Lesions/Defect (Carticular Surface) \u00bb\nMedial Collateral Ligament (MCL) Injury \u00bb\nMeniscus Tears \u00bb\nOsgood-Schlatter Disease (PDF) \u00bb\nOsteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) of the Knee \u00bb\nPatellar (Kneecap) Instability \u00bb\nPatellar Tendinitis \u00bb\nPatellofemoral Pain \u00bb\nSinding Larsen-Johansson (SLJ) Syndrome \u00bb\nChronic leg pain is unfortunately a common complaint for many different athletes. Weight bearing sports more commonly, but not exclusively, are felt to increase the risks of these types of problems. Problems such as shin splints, stress fractures, and exertional compartment syndrome are the most common injuries and need to be differentiated between and treated appropriately.\nSee all lower-leg protocols \u00bb\nExertional Compartment Syndrome \u00bb\nMedial Tibial Stress Syndrome (aka \u201cShin Splints\u201d) \u00bb\nStress Fractures \u00bb\nThe ankle is a stable joint consisting of several bones including the lower leg bones (tibia and fibula) and the ankle bone (talus). There are also several ligaments crossing the joint on the inside (medial) and outside (lateral) of the joint.\nAnkle injuries are common, and occur frequently. Direct trauma to the ankle can cause bones to fracture and are treated either by casts or surgery depending on their degree of seriousness. Ankle sprains are more common and involve the ligaments on either side of the ankle.\nSee all ankle protocols \u00bb\nAnkle Sprains \u00bb\nHigh Ankle Sprains \u2013 Syndesmosis Sprains \u00bb\nJones (5th Metatarsal) Fracture \u00bb\nOsteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) of the Talus \u00bb\nPeroneal Tendon Injuries \u00bb\nPlantar Fasciitis \u00bb\nSever\u2019s Disease (Calcaneal Apophysitis) \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 14234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consensussupport.com/true-colours-art-club-host-charity-art-exhibition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ONIHEFN2DRXUM5MWFADXXKF2ZFVMKLXL", "length": 1401, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.consensussupport.com", "title": "\u2018True Colours\u2019 Art Club to host charity art exhibition - Consensus Support", "raw_content": "\u2018True Colours\u2019 Art Club to host charity art exhibition\nA charity art exhibition run by the 89 Hampton Road \u2018True Colours\u2019 Art Club is due to take place next week in nearby Feltham.\nThe exhibition, which takes place on Thursday 11th September, will run from 4pm to 8pm at The Royal British Legion in Cross Road and is open for anyone to attend.\nAs well as the art on show, the club will be presenting local Mayor, Councillor Corinna Smart, with a special portrait during the evening. For those inspired by the art on show, there will be an opportunity to take part in an interactive art workshop as well as refreshments and a raffle, with all proceeds from the event going to their hosts for the evening, the Royal British Legion.\nDaniel Dzikowski, Service Manager of 89 / 89a Hampton Road, said:\n\u2018The people we support have worked hard preparing for this exhibition and they are very proud of their artwork. We would really like to see members of the local community at the event, as there will even be an opportunity to take part in an art workshop.\n\u2018Due to the astonishing success of the club within Consensus, the art club is planning to provide these open art sessions to anyone who would like to explore the subject and have some fun.\n\u2018We would also like to pass on our sincere thanks to our hosts for the evening \u2013 the Royal British Legion, who have enabled us to make this exhibition possible.\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sacramento&oldid=1266191", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KWCR2ODSG6LJDINJVYUPS26QO354FKLX", "length": 2669, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.conservapedia.com", "title": "Sacramento - Conservapedia", "raw_content": "This is the current revision of Sacramento as edited by DavidB4-bot (Talk | contribs) at 07:50, 28 July 2016. This URL is a permanent link to this version of this page.\nSacramento (called Sac by the locals) is the capital city of California, it is located in the central valley of California. In 2005 the city had a population of 445,287 and the Metropolitan region has a population of 2,042,283.[1] making it the fourth largest city in California. The major employer in the city is state government.\nSacramento was named the state capital in 1854 and in 1874 the State Capitol Building was completed. Sacramento held a strategic location in California, and was the western end to the Pony Express, and the Transcontinental Railroad, begun in the 1860 was started from Sacramento.\nSacramento grew from village to city between the Civil War and World War I. Faced with public health problems and other municipal challenges, Sacramento voters approved a \"strong-mayor\" charter in 1893. Marshall R. Beard served as mayor for most of the period after 1893, drawing support from working-class voters and the city's main employer, the Southern Pacific Railroad. Beard was accused of heading a political machine but unlike other notorious bosses of the era was not a corrupt politician. Neither the demands of reformers nor Beard's traditional political style alone solved Sacramento's problems as the city grew in population and experienced the problems that came with growth. Beard may have been more typical of civic leaders of his day than were the better-known corrupt big-city leaders.\nMahan, William E. \"The Political Response to Urban Growth: Sacramento and Mayor Marshall R. Beard, 1863-1914.\" California History 1990-91 69(4): 354-371. 0162-2897\nJerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger\nCalifornia and Northern California\nSan Francisco: San Francisco values and the Homosexual agenda\nBerkeley and Oakland\nUniversity of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and University of California, Davis\u200e\nSilicon Valley: San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz\nLos Angeles, Hollywood and Hollywood values\nGun control\u2014The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole (especially Sacramento), along with Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York City and Chicago, is known to be one of the 5 top American urban regions with the most left-wing Anti-Second Amendment laws, yet high crime rates. See \"Vote with your feet\" strategic relocation to free states with low population density\n\u2191 Sacramento city, California Fact Sheet - American FactFinder\nRetrieved from \"https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sacramento&oldid=1266191\"\nCalifornia Cities and Towns", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 167.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/where-1-million-in-retirement-savings-goes-farthest-082117.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:01Z", "digest": "sha1:2LMIMES3IWWBJW6HP42Q3E6HEK645YZD", "length": 2578, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.consumeraffairs.com", "title": "Where $1 million in retirement savings goes farthest", "raw_content": "Where $1 million in retirement savings goes farthest\nAnd the states where you'll burn through it the fastest\nConsumers nearing retirement most likely have been told over and over they need to be saving money for retirement, but exactly how much?\nWell, the answer to that is, \"it depends.\" It can depend on a lot of things, including what other assets you have, whether and how long you plan to work in a \"retirement job,\" and what the cost of living is where you live.\nThe folks at GoBankingRates.com have addressed that last consideration, doing the math to determine the states where $1 million in retirement savings will last the longest and where you'll spend it in the shortest amount of time.\nFor example, if you have $1 million and retire in Mississippi, GoBankingRates estimates the money would last 26 years and four months. In Arkansas, it's estimated to last 25 years, six months, and 25 years, two months in Oklahoma.\nIt should last an even quarter century in both Michigan and Tennessee.\nTaxes and housing costs are a factor in making the money go farther, and all five states are hospitable to retirees on those counts. But they work against you in the five states where $1 million goes fast.\nIn Hawaii, $1 million might only last 11 years, 11 months. In California, it might last 16 years, five months, and 17 years in Alaska. It will last only a little longer in New York and Massachusetts.\nBig difference between Hawaii and Mississippi\nThe editors at GoBankingRates conclude that the cost of living in Hawaii runs just under $84,000 a year but just under $38,000 in Mississippi. Healthcare is a big cost in retirement and Alaska's healthcare is the costliest -- $8,479 a year.\nHousing is expensive in California, but is nearly $16,000 a year less than housing costs in Hawaii.\nThe editors conclude that the average retirement age is 63 and the average life expectancy is 85. AARP suggests retirees save $1 million for retirement, though some planners recommend a higher number.\nIn reality, it appears that few retirees have joined the million dollar club. A 2016 BlackRock survey found that the average Baby Boomer between the ages of 55 and 65 had only saved $136,000.\nSurvey shows older workers are postponing retirement\nTwo-thirds of millennials haven\u2019t saved anything for retirement\nTax deadlines and strategies to maximize your retirement savings\nOne simple thing separates retirement savers from non-savers\nThe best -- and worst -- places to retire\nFour ways companies can help their employees retire\nEarly retirement might not be as easy as it used to be", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contactcenterpipeline.com/Article/keeping-call-center-agents-from-causing-legal-liabilities-and-undermining-relationships", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QJY7QSSNAIAZ6GJBF3JCN6MU7H4MMK2Q", "length": 5786, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.contactcenterpipeline.com", "title": "Keeping Call Center Agents from Causing Legal Liabilities and Undermining Relationships", "raw_content": "Art Coombs / Dec 2018 / Operations, Contingency Planning, People, Engagement\nLegal disclosures are everywhere\u2014almost to the point of ad nauseam. They are found in everything from prescription drug ads that feature absurdly long lists of side effects to the obvious, \u201cThis hot coffee is HOT.\u201d Such marketing-based disclosures become practically invisible. But when it comes to delivering legal disclosures, there is danger in not taking these seriously, particularly in a call center environment.\nIt is often legally required to accurately deliver legal disclosures, order summaries and reservation details. These are delivered on calls with a hospital, a stockbroker and a banker\u2014when setting up automated payments or replacing lost or stolen credit cards\u2014the list goes on and on. In truth, these are extremely important to both the consumer and the company because they spell out legal rights for all parties and give consumers added privacy protections and defenses. They also stipulate limits to an agreement or how liable a company is for certain actions.\nThis Call May Be Recorded\nThe majority of calls handled by a call center include at least one disclosure, some variation of the statement, \u201cThis call may be recorded for quality assurance.\u201d Even this statement can be complicated and require care. For instance, federal law requires one-party consent, which means that one person in the conversation must have knowledge of and give consent to the conversation being monitoring or recorded. This is the default, but several states have more robust rules such as requiring both or all parties in the conversation to give consent. These are referred to as \u201ctwo-party\u201d or \u201call-party\u201d consent requirements.\nIn the collections industry, collectors (phone agents) are required to say something close to: \u201cThis call is an attempt to collect a debt; anything you say may be used for that purpose.\u201d In fact, this is a law stipulated in Section 807(11) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), generally referred to as the \u201cmini-Miranda.\u201d In any contact with a consumer, the collector is required by law to disclose that they are attempting to collect a debt and that any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Additional communications also have to disclose that they\u2019re coming from debt collectors. (See \u201c3 Dos, 3 Don\u2019ts, and 1 Don\u2019t-Even-Think-About-It.\u201d)\nViolations of these and other legal disclosures are subject to potentially serious outcomes including criminal penalties, fines from government bodies, or nullifications of transactions, such as the purchase of stocks and bonds.\nMany states provide the right to recover damages and attorney fees when consumers file suits claiming non-compliance.\nWhile violations may lead to substantial settlements and fines, these can also lead to customer dissatisfaction.\nDelivering Disclosures\nWhen legal disclosures are delivered correctly, the company is protected, customers are informed, and liabilities for both are reduced or eliminated. In a call center environment, the agent is responsible for disclosure delivery\u2014and for doing it correctly every time. But even the most careful, professional and fastidious agent is prone to human frailties. When disclosures are memorized or read over the phone, they are subject to agents skipping, misreading, not speaking clearly or truncating the content. This is intensified when the legal department changes the disclosure.\nChanges in disclosures content generally require additional agent training, coupled with follow-up procedures such as posted reminders, added monitoring and additional meetings. These efforts take resources and time away from primary call center activities. There is a better way!\nLeveraging Technology for Ideal Disclosures\nCall center nirvana is where legal disclosures are delivered clearly, accurately, optimally and at the right time, every time they are required. The answer is found in not relying on the agent to state or read the disclosure, but rather to have the agent introduce and then play a recording, helping the customer understand that it\u2019s critical to get this exactly right for their protection. The agent remains on the call the entire time to address possible questions or repeat information. The agent\u2019s CRM is integrated with this disclosure-delivery system in such a way as to prevent the agent from skipping this step.\nIn addition to delivering perfect compliance, the agent can be much more productive. While the recording is playing, the agent can be doing other things such as organizing their thoughts regarding the rest of the call or documenting case notes. Companies can thereby reduce call handle time, while increasing compliance and reducing the liability that comes with fines and lawsuits. Furthermore, the quality assurance team no longer has to worry about training regarding the disclosures; they can focus instead on the agent\u2019s soft skills rather than worrying about whether the agent read the disclosure word for word.\nWhen voice calls are integrated with other technology tools and touch points, the impact and accuracy increase even more. For instance, if an agent sends an email or text to a customer, who then validates that they received the disclosure, then protection for the company is set in stone. Customer satisfaction scores can also increase because customers see that the company cares enough to deliver the information in a format that works best for them.\nArt Coombs\nArt Coombs, President and CEO of KomBea, has more than 25 years of experience with a number of global firms and their call/BPO centers worldwide. Art is also a best-selling author on business and human performance as well as methodologies for BPO/contact centers, outsourcing, and technical support. (www.kombea.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contractor2020.com/hvac-newsletter-articles/8-simple-ways-to-select-a-superior-service-company/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:50Z", "digest": "sha1:2UQRJYJFSX6JZFICRYQGRFNAYW3EWJED", "length": 5111, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.contractor2020.com", "title": "8 Simple Ways to Select a Superior Service Company - Contractor 20/20", "raw_content": "Selecting any type of home service company is a frightening prospect for most homeowners. Here\u2019s how to increase the odds that you will make as good of a decision for other industries as you have for air conditioning and heating when you selected YOUR COMPANY. This is a different list than you\u2019ll typically see from a consumer magazine or government agency. Few people, for example, want to call three to five companies for an estimate, especially if you need service quickly. People simply want someone who will do a good job at a fair price with the minimum amount of hassle. Almost no one is going to call past customers, check with the licensing board, or investigate the amount of insurance carried. Our list focuses on things you can do quickly and practically.\nAre you social? Asking your friends through Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and other social media sites is a great way to find a good service company and minimize the odds you will select a poor one. It\u2019s the fastest way to ask a lot of people for a referral. To improve the quality of the information you get, ask your friends and contacts to share their personal experiences.\nUse Review Sites\nThe next best thing to recommendations from friends are public review sites. There are three types of review sites. The first charges you and charges the companies listed. You can pay for this information if you want, but the quality of the reviews is no better than you can find on the second type of review sites, which are the free sites.\nFree sites include Yelp! and Google. In Yelp!, simply select your search term and city to see what reviews are available. For Google, search for the type of service and \u201cnear\u201d and the town name. If either fails to return enough entries, try another town, a larger town, or the county.\nThe final type of review sites are known as slam sites. All they carry are negative reviews. A company\u2019s failure to appear on a slam site usually means the company has few customers. Most large companies eventually appear. Some sites even offer a consulting service to \u201cassist\u201d the business owner with his reviews. Think of this as extortion to make bad reviews disappear. The consulting service makes the usefulness of these sites specious at best. Plus, the least reputable companies are the ones most like to take advantage of the service. Given that the free review sites include both positive and negative experiences, it\u2019s best to avoid the slam sites.\nLook at a Company\u2019s Website\nOnce you start to zero in on a service company, check out the company\u2019s website. A poor website is not necessarily an indicator of poor quality, but it does show less professionalism and an inattention to details compared to companies with good sites. The complete absence of a website should be a red flag. Most professional companies have websites. Most fly-by-nights do not.\nCheck for Professional Affiliations and Community Involvement\nWhile you are visiting the company\u2019s website, check for professional affiliations and signs of community involvement. Examples of professional affiliations are membership in a trade association like the National Federation of Independent Businesses or an industry association, the local or national chamber of commerce, and business alliances like the Service Roundtable. These affiliations are signs that the company is committed to professional improvement. You may or may not find signs of community involvement on the website, but a quick Internet search of the company name and the community or the principal\u2019s name and the community should return service and civic club activities, charitable activities, youth sports sponsorships, and so on. These are companies committed to the community and more sensitive about their reputations.\nLook for News Articles\nSearching for the company under a search engine\u2019s news tab may not reveal much. However, it is likely to uncover companies under pressure from authorities for poor business practices.\nLook for Tangible Clues About the Company\nAre the company\u2019s trucks professionally marked and clean? If you can recall seeing one of the company\u2019s field service personnel, was he or she wearing a uniform or a dirty pair of jeans and a t-shirt? Did the employee look like someone you want to invite into your home?\nWhile not as efficient as posting a question on social media, call of few trusted friends to ask for recommendations. Call the \u201ccenters of influence\u201d you know. Centers of influence are the people who are especially well connected and seem to know everyone in town. Ask other service companies for their recommendations. Many will only recommend companies to their customers they believe will take good care of them.\nIn the end, the company you call will be the one you feel best about. Trust your intuition over anything else. While we do not recommend selecting a company purely on the basis of coupons or discounts, it can influence your decision when it\u2019s a toss-up who to call. If any of your friends need our service, feel free to give them the following coupon for $25 off (or, use it yourself the next time you need work done).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 9212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cookinglight.com/healthy-living/cooking-light-diet/illinois-woman-taking-cooking-light-diet-success-on-the-road", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:18Z", "digest": "sha1:H3RXNII5TGWVKSKU6SOQX4ODXAXS2IL6", "length": 4240, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.cookinglight.com", "title": "Illinois Woman Taking Cooking Light Diet Success on the Road | Cooking Light", "raw_content": "Illinois Woman Taking Cooking Light Diet Success on the Road\nDonnaLou Baner of Gridley, IL, a small community of about 1,400 people that's 25 miles from the nearest grocery store chain, followed Weight Watchers for 15 years. The program helped her lose weight initially, and even maintain that weight-loss, but in the end it just wasn't tenable.\n\"It just got to be more and more complicated, and more expensive,\" DonnaLou said. \"In the morning I'd sit down and enter in what I thought I wanted to eat, and then I'd have to go back and, if it was more points than what was allowed, I'd have to go in and readjust. It was just harder to do.\"\nThe Cooking Light Diet, though? Leaps and bounds easier for DonnaLou to incorporate into her active lifestyle.\n\"One thing I like about the CLDiet is that I can just go in in the morning and open my email, and it shows me what the options are,\" DonnaLou said. \"And if I don't have ingredients I can go into history or [edit] and say, 'Oh, I've got all the ingredients for this recipe.'\"\nDonnaLou says that the comprehensive approach of meal planning on the Cooking Light Diet also gives it a leg up over the points system utilized by Weight Watchers.\n\"The Cooking Light Diet plans my meals and plans my menus and figures in all the calories,\" DonnaLou said. \"With Weight Watchers, I had to do all the meal planning and then figure out how many points were in each meal, and then use their system to figure that out. And then if I was over my points I'd have to go back into my menus and figure out what I was going to cut out, or what I could substitute to drop the points. This is just seems a lot easier to me.\"\nAnd DonnaLou and her husband Steve will need easy-to-use meal planning this spring and summer, as they'll be traversing several states en route to Mexico for a selfless mission in their trusty camper.\n\"We support an orphanage down in Mexico, so we're going to be driving from Illinois trying to get into Mexico with a camper and our little dog, so it's going to be a whole new adventure for us,\" DonnaLou said. \"But another benefit that I see [with the Cooking Light Diet] is that I can take the whole thing along and if we stop at a grocery store I can say, 'I've already got the grocery list right here on my phone.' And we can go to a grocery store and just pick out the ingredients we need for a few days.\"\nWhen they do take the Cooking Light Diet on the road, DonnaLou says she and Steve will be inspired by all the vibrant recipe photos in her plan.\n\"I really love the pictures of the food,\" she said. \"They're just so appealing and appetizing. It just makes me excited to fix them because I see how nice they can look and how tasty they can be. So I think that's another big benefit. It's really inspiring for me to see a picture of the food I'm going to be fixing.\"\nThe Baners have given a nod to the CLDiet over Weight Watchers because of how easy it is to use anywhere and because the food images are beautiful, but their praise of this new healthy lifestyle extends even further. There are three main advantages to using the service that DonnaLou says will have them subscribed for a long time to come.\n\"Health-wise, the plan uses a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables,\" DonnaLou said. \"And the preparation is pretty basic but still very tasty. Time-wise, I can go in at the end of the week and you've already sent me menus for the whole next week and it's just already there. When I go to the store I have my list of what I need to prepare the meals for the next week so I don't pick up extra food necessarily thinking, 'Oh, I might need this for a meal or snack.' I just go and buy what I'm going to need. And that's been a cost-savings for us. I just know what I need, and that's what I buy. And then I come home again. I've learned to shop differently, so it's been good.\"\nWe're glad the Cooking Light Diet is working well for you, DonnaLou! Safe travels to Mexico.\nAre you interested in any of the benefits DonnaLou says the CLDiet has on her life? Join today to make the healthy lifestyle plunge!\nCooking Light Diet Community: Strength in Numbers\n5 Assumptions You Might Make About Dieting\u2014And Why They\u2019re Wrong\nCooking Light Diet is the \u201cPerfect Program for Me, Forever\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20071019/nokia-announces-n810/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RULIHNTT7EKHZVJO7WCA3NYAU62H4OQD", "length": 2088, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.coolest-gadgets.com", "title": "Nokia announces N810 \u00bb Coolest Gadgets", "raw_content": "Electronic Gadgets, PC Gadgets\nNokia announces N810\nThe Internet tablet idea was pretty groovy when it was introduced in the form of Nokia\u2019s 770 Internet tablet a couple of years ago \u2013 after all, having a device that surfs the Web wirelessly while supporting email, Internet radio, an RSS news reader, an image viewer and media playback capability certainly sounds like a dream. Fast forward a couple of years later, you would probably think that such a device is actually a cellphone, hence doing away with the need for something like the Nokia 770. Or is it? Apparently Nokia thinks otherwise, releasing the N810 Internet tablet that essentially does the same thing as before, save for updated hardware to keep up with the times. It seems that the target market are casual Internet users who want to browse the Web while commercials are being shown, or for those who need to check their email without having to lug around a laptop wherever they go. More on the Nokia N810 after the jump.\nNokia has described the Nokia N810 as \u201ca new phase\u201d in portable Internet communication, taking advantage of WiFi hotspots to get you connected. According to Nokia Vice President Ari Virtanen, the Nokia N810 \u201cpacks the power of a traditional computer into a pocket-sized format.\u201d Users will not only able to keep up with the latest news on the Internet with this device, but they can also make VoIP calls to keep in touch with loved ones, with video support built in thanks to the integrated VGA camera. An integrated GPS chipset is something new, helping you stay on track even in unfamiliar territory while voice-guided navigation makes driving safer as you get to keep both eyes on the road, relying on your listening skills to reach your destination safely.\nNokia has slapped a recommended retail price of $479 for the N810 \u2013 pretty pricey if you ask me. Would you call this an Internet-capable GPS navigation system, or a GPS-capable portable Internet device? I suppose it depends on where you\u2019re looking from.\nSource: News Factor\n\u00ab The Best Electric Blanket \u2013 King\nMotorola and Boost team up \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cougarrelationships.com/view-profile,3878109,you-only-live-life-once.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KESU7IXMYKOVQIFTZJLUDK7N3KLGFWGR", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cougarrelationships.com", "title": "you only live life once!, Cougar Relationships", "raw_content": "Cub (34) looking for Cougar Amarillo, Texas, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.countercurrents.org/lee100409.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:5IYZDXS5VE3T5EJF4GK26AAJSLV2QMHK", "length": 5215, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.countercurrents.org", "title": "G8 Document On World Hunger Warns Of Global Instability By Hiram Lee", "raw_content": "G8 Document On World Hunger\nWarns Of Global Instability\nBy Hiram Lee\nA document prepared by the Group of Eight, or G8, countries for its inaugural summit of agricultural ministers entitled \u201cThe Global Challenge: To Reduce Food Emergency\u201d was leaked to the press this week, revealing the G8's concerns of global instability arising from a worldwide food crisis.\nAccording to a report in the Financial Times, the document states, \u201cWithout immediate interventions in agriculture and agri-marketing systems the 2007 crisis will become structural in only a few decades.\u201d The report also stresses that global food production must be doubled by the year 2050 in order to meet the needs of a growing world population.\nShould the present food crisis continue to gain momentum, the report goes on to say, it will have \u201cserious consequences not merely on business relations but equally on social and international relations, which in turn will impact directly on the security and stability of world politics.\u201d\nThe G8 document and agricultural summit come on the heels of a report delivered to a United Nations Food Policy conference in Thailand by Jacques Diouf, the director general of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in which Diouf declared more than one billion people would go hungry this year as a result of the economic crisis and its impact on both food production and prices.\nLike the UN's conference, the G8 agricultural summit to be held in Italy April 18-20 has been initiated as a response to an intense crisis in high food prices beginning in 2007 and its eruption into riots in no less than 30 countries in 2008. It marks the first time the agricultural ministers of the G8 countries have met in their own summit, independent of the regular G8 summit of world leaders.\nWhile global food prices have fallen from their 2008 peaks, they are still at elevated levels. World food production now faces the added impact of the massive economic and credit crisis.\nThe G8 countries of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Russia and Japan will be joined at the summit by the G5\u2014China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa\u2014as well as Australia, Egypt and Argentina.\nThe aim of the meeting, as stated on its official web site is to \u201cidentify a common strategy to tackle the world food emergency and the problem of soaring prices of agricultural raw materials.\u201d The ministers attending the agricultural summit are expected to make recommendation to the G8 world leaders when they meet in July.\nWith the food crisis reaching a level at which it presents a threat to the very security of governments throughout the world, capitalist leaders are finding it necessary to make at least a show of support for the world's hungry.\nLast week, during the G20 summit in London, President Obama announced his intentions to request $1 billion in aid from the US Congress in order to provide assistance to the agricultural programs of developing countries. The number is a pittance. The FAO has estimated that at least $30 billion per year would be necessary to draw international agricultural production out of its state of crisis. This is a fraction of the amount handed over by the American government to the banks and financial institutions.\nThe half-hearted nature of Obama's request was further revealed by the president's actions this week. While Obama was only prepared to make the gesture of $1 billion for the food crisis that has resigned one billion people around the world to starvation, the president requested Thursday from Congress an additional $83.4 billion with which to continue the ongoing wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new request would bring to $150 billion the amount of funds allocated to the wars thus far for 2009.\nUltimately, neither Barack Obama nor any of the other world leaders comprising the G8 or G20 countries are willing or capable of resolving the world's food crisis. While presently forced by unfavorable circumstances to present a level of concern to the world's hungry, the leaders of the G8 countries and the agricultural ministers whom they employ represent the interests of the ruling elite of their own countries.\nWhatever conclusions reached by the G8 agricultural summit, they will not address the root problem of the crisis. At no time will it be permissible to question or challenge the domination of private property, profit and the personal accumulation of wealth through rampant speculation in agricultural commodities over the world's food supplies and distribution.\nIt is significant that the agricultural ministers of the leading capitalist countries present the question of world hunger not as an issue of basic human rights, but as a matter of security. What is expressed in the G8 document and its upcoming agricultural summit, far more than a concern for the state of starvation into which at least a billion of the world's population has been plunged, is the fear that further disruption in agricultural production and food prices will contribute to mass social upheaval and revolution as the world economy enters the greatest economic crisis in generations.\nCopyright \u00a9 1998-2009 World Socialist Web Site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coursepath.nl/security-awareness-training-nexttech", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7PB5E64R4TXCZ5SFDU7ANAP2PSISW2NN", "length": 6107, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.coursepath.nl", "title": "Security Awareness Training with NextTech - Coursepath", "raw_content": "Creating awareness for sensitive information and cyber security issues is NextTech\u2019s aim. Coursepath LMS supports this as a platform with extensive course creation and monitoring features. Above all, it lives up to important security standards itself. This is how NextTech is able to effectively communicate risks and recommended behavior to customers and their employees.\nNextTech Security is a Dutch provider of Information Technology security training with a focus on the human factor. With knowledge in organizational management and technology and more than 15 years experience in the IT market, they support companies with employee training on security awareness and risk minimization. One of their key benefits is fast and transparent transmission of security knowledge to customers all over the country.\nEffective learning about information security\nNextTech creates and offers security awareness programs in Dutch, German, English, French and Spanish. In order to provide training to customers in different locations, NextTech needed an e-learning platform that gives people the possibility to learn in their own time, place and language. One of the main requirements for the platform was to transmit animated video and thereby explain in detail how and why information security needs to be increased. In-between questions are used in order to create a deeper level of engagement and stimulate self-reflection. In the end of a training, an exam takes place where the gained knowledge of a participant gets certified. For this aim, it is important to have multiple question types that serve for either in-between reflection or more serious knowledge testing.\nDennie Spreeuwenberg, founder and owner of NextTech, is convinced of e-learning as a method for creating more awareness for online security issues:\n\u201cIT security is not a sexy topic but we help making it more interesting by offering good video material where issues are explained in word and picture. We make sure people know how to apply security standards, in organizational as in private situations. Humor is an essential part of it as well. This is how we became the provider of online awareness training in the Netherlands.\u201d\nA secure learning environment\nFor NextTech as a company concerned with online security, it was essential to have a learning platform that confirms to all security expectations. Dutch legislation was one of the requirements, as legal frameworks from outside the European Union offer too much freedom for data theft and spying. This could only be solved by having a provider that hosts data exclusively within the EU. NextTech pays special attention to the risk of data leaks and the privacy of participants. With multiple customers visiting courses in the NextTech platform, it is highly important to keep the participants\u2019 identity protected, so outsiders won\u2019t know about any activities of customers and their participants in the academy.\nGrowth and flexibility with SaaS\nAs a growing business, NextTech needs full flexibility in their training platform. The already impressive amount of users will be extended considerably in the near future. For the possibility of scaling up, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is very practical, also because it runs on any device without any installation. This way, new participants are able to get started with learning right away. SaaS is also required due to its flexibility in feature implementation and development. As a ready-made platform, it offers all the features needed for learning management but can also be customized to a certain degree to customers\u2019 requirements. This gives a customer the possibility to use the platform on a long run.\nHow the choice fell on Coursepath LMS\nNextTech chose Coursepath as their Learning Management System as the platform fulfilled the requirements such as Dutch hosting, SaaS, video integration and multiple question types. For instance, in-between questions can be set to not being counted, so the certification is purely based on the exam questions in the end. Still, trainers have a full overview of what is happening in the course, as all steps are analyzed thoroughly in Coursepath\u2019s reporting.\nCoursepath offers a fast and direct exchange with both support teams and developers. When there is a problem, it is fixed very quickly. Also, the system is growing. Sometimes changes in the system mean that NextTech\u2019s trainers and users have to get used to a new way of handling. Yet, mostly they come in handy for them as well, as most system changes are intended to increase user friendliness. It also means that own wishes and requirements to the platform get implemented. This was the case when NextTech needed a new role in the system, the auditor role. Coursepath implemented this role, and now everyone of Coursepath\u2019s customers can use it to make content watchable for quality management personnel \u2013 without leaving traces. NextTech considers this openness to improvement an important issue for the future and favors a system that goes in dialogue with the customer.\nNextTech is a growing business, with an ambition to branch out into new markets. Coursepath proves to be a reliable and flexible partner for this aim: Not only can the platform\u2019s language be switched between various languages but also, the support and development team is able to respond in multiple languages. Based in Amsterdam and Cologne, Coursepath has multilingual staff to support customers from different countries in Europe. For a growing business like NextTech, those possibilities for international use of the platform are essential.\nFinally, Coursepath was able to offer a complete e-learning platform with a calculable pricing model and reliable support. This means that there are no limits for IT security training with all its necessary features and NextTech foresees a very positive international training future with e-learning.\nWould you like to learn more about NextTech or Coursepath? Schedule a demo with Coursepath for a platform overview or contact NextTech Security for ready-made or customized IT security training in your company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 7053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.covan.com/areas-served/hampton-roads/norfolk-va/moving-from-norfolk-to-south-carolina/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KEB65VOPKYGR4XW4UQRRS2YSZFDVBJ3I", "length": 1843, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.covan.com", "title": "Moving from Norfolk to South Carolina - COVAN Professional Movers", "raw_content": "Moving from Norfolk to South Carolina\nMoving from Norfolk to South Carolina is no easy feat, but with the assistance of experienced professional movers, you can significantly reduce your stress. Covan World-Wide Moving is the moving company you can count on for reliable and reputable service. We\u2019ve been in the industry since 1914 and while our business has grown and changed throughout the years, our focus on customer satisfaction has remained constant. We\u2019re proud to be a ProMover connected to a nationwide network of moving and storage professionals that can move households anywhere in the United States with ease and efficiency.\nMoving to South Carolina from Norfolk\nCovan is equipped to handle moves of all sizes and scopes, so whether you\u2019re moving a two-bedroom apartment or a large estate, we\u2019ve got experience you can trust. To get you started, we\u2019ll send one of our pros to your home for a complimentary consultation and a free in-home estimate of moving costs. Next, we\u2019ll pair you with a move coordinator to walk you through the process of moving to South Carolina from Norfolk and help you create a customized moving plan. We feature a comprehensive selection of moving services, including:\nNorfolk to South Carolina Moving & Storage\nWhether you need storage before, during, or after your move, you can count on the professionals at Covan. We operate secure, state-of-the-art warehouse facilities throughout the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, and we can store your belongings for as long as it takes you to move from Norfolk to South Carolina.\nReady to get started on the easiest move of your life? Give our Norfolk to South Carolina moving professionals a call right away to learn more about our services. You can also request a free, no-obligation moving estimate by completing our online contact form today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 13103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coventrydirect.com/blog/how-to-retire-on-your-own-terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BATKLVU6NIN33SJBWQFLOLV5I6KZFXWW", "length": 3668, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.coventrydirect.com", "title": "How to Retire on Your Own Terms | Coventry Direct", "raw_content": "\u201cWhat\u2019s in your wallet?\u201d asks actor Samuel L. Jackson in a credit card commercial.\nIf you\u2019re one of the millions of Baby Boomers hoping to retire in the next few years or currently in retirement, the better question might be, \u201cWhat\u2019s in your retirement account?\u201d\nThe most likely answer: Not enough.\nRecently, The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed piece that contended Americans were not facing a retirement crisis.\nReaders responded with both passion and powerful statistics:\nDiane Oakley, executive director of the National Institute on Retirement Security, rebutted with the latest data from the Federal Reserve\u2019s Survey of Consumer Finances. The numbers say it all: \u201cThe median retirement account balance for all American households in 2013 was zero.\u201d What\u2019s more, she pointed out, \u201cThe share of households with assets in retirement accounts continues to drop, from 50.4 percent in 2010 to 49.2 percent in 2013.\u201d\nTwo distinguished economists from The New School of Social Research looked at the problem from the income perspective. They cited the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s American Community Survey that shows \u201cthe median (typical) income of U.S. retirees is less than $16,000, compared with that of the median American worker, at $31,000 . . . Retired workers received an average of $1,294 a month in Social Security benefits as of December 2013; that adds up to a paltry $15,528 a year\u2014far from a princely sum to live on when one\u2019s medical bills are racking up.\u201d\nA doctor from Chillicothe, Ohio, summed up the personal side of the situation for Baby Boomers in their late 50s and 60s: \u201cThey have little savings and much debt, are running out of years of productive work, and don\u2019t know how they can ever afford to retire.\u201d\nIt\u2019s easy to put the blame on Baby Boomers\u2019 spending habits until you look more closely at where the money went and how the debt accrued. In 2012, when the National Center for Policy Analysis studied the spending habits of Baby Boomers, several important clues surfaced that go beyond home equity loans and lifestyle extravagances. In fact, the numbers show that from 1990 to 2010, food purchases, including restaurant spending, dropped 20 percent for adults 55 to 64. They spent 25 percent less on home furnishings, and 70 percent less on clothing.\nMeanwhile, Boomers are paying more for interest on their mortgages (despite the recent drop in rates). Also, Forbes reported, \u201cNearly 50 percent of parents with children between 18 and 39 were supporting them in various ways, including living expenses, transportation costs, spending money, medical bills, and help with paying loans like student debt.\u201d\nAnd, if not now, then soon, they will face rising health care expenses.\nThe answer could be in an overlooked asset\nIf it seems there\u2019s no way you can retire as you might have dreamed, it might be time to get creative and consider your life insurance policy. It\u2019s an asset just like a gold bar or a diamond ring, and through the new financial option called a life settlement, you can sell all or part of a life insurance policy you no longer need or can afford.\nA policy owner generally must be age 65 or older, or have had a change in health, to qualify for a life settlement. As for the payment amount you might expect, the market value is generally more than four times the amount you would receive if you surrendered the policy back to the insurance company.\nWhat you do with the money is your choice, whether you want to lighten your debt load, cover medical expenses, or take out a long term care policy.\nOr maybe you just want to give yourself a cushion for peace of mind and a retirement that is more on your terms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cph.org/p-22448-5-things-you-can-do-to-understand-the-bible-better-ebook-edition.aspx?REName=Books%20%26%20Bibles&plk=1318&Lk=0&rlk=0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6Y4BRZAJ4LGKIVIBUHM725KMABLLAFTU", "length": 956, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cph.org", "title": "5 Things You Can Do to Understand the Bible Better (ebook Edition)", "raw_content": "5 Things You Can Do to Understand the Bible Better\nby McIntosh, Zach\nAbout the Volume\nThe Bible may be the best-selling book of all time, but for all its sales, its content remains widely unknown. According to polls only about half of adults in the United States can name one of the four\nGospels, or knew that Genesis was the first book of the Bible.\nMany people feel intimidated by the idea of reading the Bible with understanding that feeds and strengthens faith. Zach McIntosh provides basic knowledge of the purposes and themes of the Bible, and reminds us that the easiest way to understand the Bible better is to read it.\nSee Jesus as the star of Scripture\nExplore the structure and message of the Old Testament\nAppreciate the revelation of Christ and the Church in the New Testament\nReceive the power of God in His Word\nIntersect with those who can help you grow in your Bible study\n5 Things You Can Do to Understand the Bible Better (ebook Edition)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 293, "original_length": 8916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/county-news-son-of-bomb-disposal-hero-to-save-lives-like-his-dad-1-7956499", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XGLJQZMPIJ4KCU3LBI56TDVEDOX3VWG6", "length": 2357, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.crawleyobserver.co.uk", "title": "COUNTY NEWS: Son of bomb disposal \u2018hero\u2019 to save lives like his dad - Crawley Observer", "raw_content": "COUNTY NEWS: Son of bomb disposal \u2018hero\u2019 to save lives like his dad\nKane manning (right) is determined to take over his father Mark's (left, top right) work\nThe teenaged son of a slain Sussex \u2018hero\u2019 is determined to disarm bombs like his father.\nKane Manning\u2019s father Mark worked as a bomb disposal expert for Princess Diana\u2019s Mines Advisory Group (MAG), travelling all over the world. Now he wants to do the same.\nMark Manning, from Lancing, was killed aged 54 in April 2014 by his friend Colin Gale, who hid the body and sought to evade police.\nIt was not until last year that remains identified as Mr Manning were found near Hampshire Hill in Mid Sussex, more than 20 miles from where he lived.\nAfter a lengthy trial Gale was convicted and jailed for the manslaughter and concealment of the body of Mark Manning, and another man was jailed for concealing the body.\nKane, 19, said: \u201cI\u2019ve been angry and upset with everything that has gone on.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very hard, I\u2019ve been struggling.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not easy, but it is what it is. I have got to stay strong and make my dad proud, otherwise it will eat me up.\u201d\nMark Manning travelled the globe raising awareness of the dangers of mines as well as personally defusing bombs.\nKane added: \u201cI want to be a hero around the world like my dad, I\u2019ll do whatever it takes to save people\u2019s lives.\u201d\nKane, who lives in Portslade. grew up listening to his father\u2019s stories about his work. Many of them involved acts of heroism above and beyond disposing of bombs.\n\u201cHe was in Angola and saw lots of food all locked up and poor people couldn\u2019t get to the food.\n\u201cMy father got in a truck and went through the fence. It was amazing, all the people were so grateful.\u201d\nHe also recalled a time when Mark rescued a dying pregnant woman, rushing her to hospital and saving both her life and her baby\u2019s life.\nIt was when Mark left (MAG) to look after him that Kane realised how much the job meant to his father.\nNow Kane is taking steps to take up his father\u2019s work.\n\u201cPrincess Diana was doing it, and when she died Prince Harry took over. This is a similar situation, I am going to take over what my dad did.\u201d\nCurrently studying business management at City College Brighton and Hove, Kane said the first step on his journey to join MAG is a training course in Manchester.\nKane added: \u201cI\u2019ll never forget the great moments I had with my dad.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crewest.com/artists/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:V3B5PDA4JFDWQYD5LVYOFMTWMC75ZTVR", "length": 214, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.crewest.com", "title": "Artist Sign Up \u2014 Crewest", "raw_content": "We're always looking to collaborate with dope artists around the world. So, if you're interested in working with us, please tell us who you are:\nTell us your account\nThe Country You Live In *\nThe City You Live In *", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4434-laughing-and-crying-with-carmen-maura", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:7EAPXG32437CEUD66PKL3DEOW72UDL2F", "length": 899, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.criterion.com", "title": "Laughing and Crying With Carmen Maura | The Current | The Criterion Collection", "raw_content": "Laughing and Crying With Carmen Maura\nA vibrant mix of melodrama and screwball, Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s eighth feature, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, was the Spanish director\u2019s first to garner international acclaim and an Oscar nomination. Leading the film\u2019s remarkable ensemble cast is frequent Almod\u00f3var collaborator Carmen Maura, who stars as Pepa, a television and voice-over actor who discovers her lover has left her and resolves to kill herself with sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho, only to have her plan interrupted by a series of chaotic events. Like the film, Maura\u2019s performance is a deft combination of comedic and dramatic elements, showcasing her ability to land a joke in one scene and tear up on-camera in the next. In the following clip, excerpted from a program on our newly released edition, Maura describes the challenges of navigating the extremes of these disparate styles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.criterionchild.com/index.php/staff-development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MLBIYBNAVIQEZ34K7DQXZ2SFVOF3JDVC", "length": 2397, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.criterionchild.com", "title": "Staff Development", "raw_content": "Criterion maintains a strong commitment to the provision of high quality education and training for parents and professionals who desire to expand their knowledge about current research and practices related to child development, pediatric therapies and other areas of interest to those involved in the lives of young children. Its Professional Development Department plans and coordinates agency sponsored conferences, community training and in-service training for Criterion staff.\nCriterion Child Enrichment employs an online training website offered by Criterion Child Enrichment. The Training On Demand (TOD) website supports the treatment efforts and on-going professional development of Criterion staff. The website offers training presentations in a number of areas relevant to being a Criterion employee. Each training features a video presentation followed by a brief knowledge assessment. Training includes administrative as well as clinical topics. Many of the TOD trainings offer EI Competencies required for early intervention staff to receive Early Intervention Specialist Certification from the Department of Public Health.\nClick here to visit the Criterion Child Enrichment Training on Demand Site.\nAll Criterion programs offer training opportunities to those with whom they collaborate at the local level. The early intervention, child care and newborn home visiting programs provide extensive training on topics related to; inclusion of children with special needs, early childhood curriculum and teen parenting issues to community based professionals working with young children and their families.\nAdditionally, Criterion administrators and program staff have presented at numerous statewide conferences such as; the Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium Annual Conference, the Massachusetts Association of Private School\u2019s Annual Conference, the Massachusetts Interagency Coordination Council\u2019s Annual Retreat and the Boston Association for the Education of Young Children\u2019s Annual Conference. The agency\u2019s Professional Development Coordinator works closely with staff to develop and plan educational presentations.\nFor more information about Criterion professional development activities, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call the Professional Development Coordinator at (508) 473-3422 x 208.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=4166", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:00Z", "digest": "sha1:WKPRELO7EMPJ6737UE562RZIA3NU3UBA", "length": 3142, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cruz.senate.gov", "title": "Cruz News: November 4, 2018 | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas", "raw_content": "Last weekend a horrific act of pure evil took place in Pittsburgh when an anti-Semite murdered eleven Jews who were gathered for Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue. It was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of our great nation. The ancient hatred that is anti-Semitism has been on the rise all over the world. There is no place for anti-Semitism in our country, and now, more than ever, we must reaffirm our unequivocal condemnation of these heinous crimes and commit to combat all forms of anti-Semitism. Heidi and I stand in solidarity with the members of the Tree of Life community, as well as the entire Jewish community, and are lifting the victims and their families up in prayer during this difficult and painful time.\nThis week, I was glad to see the Trump administration announce a second wave of sanctions to be enforced against the Iranian regime. As the final policy is developed, it is critical to ensure that it imposes maximum pressure on Iran. Waivers that allow our allies and adversaries to enrich the regime by importing Iranian oil or to bolster Iran's nuclear program through civil-nuclear cooperation should be sharply limited, and ultimately eliminated. The administration should ensure that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication disconnects designated Iranian banks from the global financial system, otherwise the Ayatollahs will use such access to simply wait out the Trump administration, in the hopes that a future administration will be more appeasing. I also look forward to working with my congressional colleagues in a bipartisan and bicameral fashion to pass legislation that ensures maximum pressure on Iran.\nIn August, I was joined by 15 of my Senate colleagues sending a letter to Secretary Mnuchin urging the administration to apply maximum pressure in efforts to cut off the Islamic Republic\u2019s financial ties and businesses from the SWIFT banking network. I look forward to working with my colleagues in both houses of Congress to pass legislation that will ensure maximum pressure on Iran.\nRecently, Central Texas experienced devastating flooding which resulted in many Texans displaced from their homes. In support of Governor Abbott\u2019s request for federal disaster assistance following the severe weather and flooding across Central Texas, I joined Senator John Cornyn in a letter to President Trump urging for Governor Abbott\u2019s request to be expeditiously approved.\nSens. Cruz and John Cornyn (R-Texas) penned a letter to President Trump in support of Governor Abbott\u2019s request for federal disaster assistance following severe weather and flooding across Central Texas. Read more...\nSen. Cruz issued a statement in response to the Trump administration\u2019s announcement that it will re-impose a second wave of sanctions on the Iranian regime, following U.S. withdrawal from President Obama\u2019s disastrous Iran nuclear deal. Read more...\nSen. Cruz issued a statement of support to the Jewish community as it comes together for the first Shabbat since the horrific, anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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You don\u2019t have to take our word for it. Peruse the site to see what our donors say and to learn a little more about what these kinds of gifts mean to the recipients. As you will see, it really is possible to give and receive at the same time.\nSearch for articles (title, text)\nThe Change She Wishes to See\nThe Inspiration Behind a New Scholarship Fund The College of Liberal Arts is proud to announce the creation of a fund that will launch an important new scholarship opportunity at The Beach.\nHuge thanks -- and congratulations! -- to everyone who participated in the university's first-ever LB Giving Day on Thursday, March 15, 2018. We're very excited to report that the university raised over $1 million and received more than 1,300 gifts during the 27-hour Giving Day period! (For up-to-the-minute updates and other details, please visit our dedicated Giving Day website.)\nIn Harmony: Matsumoto and Stark Give Opera Students a Major Boost\nMarried for more than 50 years, Marty Stark and Shigemi Matsumoto are a couple whose devotion to one another is matched only by their dedication to elevating the next generation of musical artists.\nStudent Meal Donations \"Feed A Need\"\n\"Feed A Need\" is part of Long Beach State's new Student Emergency Intervention Program, which assists students in crisis by providing meals, short-term housing, and funds for emergency expenses.\nOne for the (History) Books\nCSULB wraps up its first comprehensive campaign.\n\u201cBeyond my wildest dreams,\u201d is how CSULB Professor Clorinda Donato describes the creation of the new Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Lanugages and Translation Studies. \u201cIt\u2019s proof that it\u2019s important to have dreams. If you never dream, you can\u2019t go beyond your wildest ones.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/living-underwater-fabien-cousteau-in-second-half-of-31-day-experiment-1.1870585", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6LC2NHIEROXW5UQFOJ7W4GN2S76FJ2CH", "length": 1179, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ctvnews.ca", "title": "Living underwater: Fabien Cousteau in second half of 31-day experiment | CTV News", "raw_content": "Living underwater: Fabien Cousteau in second half of 31-day experiment\nFabien Cousteau stands in front of one of the wetsuits, on Sunday, June 1, 2014, in Islamorada, Fla., that his team will wear while scuba diving at Aquarius Reef Base in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. (AP / Jennifer Kay)\nLast Updated Monday, June 16, 2014 8:29AM EDT\nISLAMORADA, Fla. -- Fabien Cousteau is entering the second half of his 31-day underwater living experiment in the Florida Keys.\nCousteau and a team of researchers dove June 1 to Aquarius Reef Base to study the coral reef.\nFlorida International University officials say the data collected by the \"Mission 31\" team so far shows how significantly the activity of small fish on the reef is affected by large predators, which could change how those species are managed.\nThe team also is measuring ocean acidification.\nCousteau also has been holding online chats with classrooms worldwide. He was visited last week by actor Ian Somerhalder, marine biologist Sylvia Earle and his father, Jean-Michel Cousteau.\nAquarius allows scientists to live and work underwater and scuba dive without needing to return to the surface or decompress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 7735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ctvnorthsuburbs.org/get-involved/donate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:V7EUNGISGHH6ZZL2NC2WX4JRBKEEUPGP", "length": 750, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ctvnorthsuburbs.org", "title": "Donate \u2013 CTV North Suburbs", "raw_content": "for considering a donation to CTV North Suburbs!\nDo you enjoy seeing quality programming about your community, your neighbors, and highlighting the \u201cgood news\u201d in town? Thank you for considering a donation to CTV North Suburbs so we can continue to highlight the wonderful aspects of our local community that is overlooked by mainstream media.\nWe provide learning opportunities for students, partner with in grants with local nonprofits, highlight community-centric programming that is not seen anywhere else. Help us continue to do that through your donation.\nOur viewing area includes ten cities: Arden Hills, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Mounds View, New Brighton, North Oaks, Roseville and St. Anthony and the entire world wide web.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/scottish-farm-produce-in-danger-1-3912466", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AOGBECZVXJUKFLNNO6HGL55XCPALDBUG", "length": 2550, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk", "title": "Scottish farm produce in danger - Cumbernauld News", "raw_content": "Scottish farm produce in danger\nLess Scottish fruit and vegetables could be produced as a result of the introduction of the national living wage, farmers have warned.\nNow the National Farmers Union (NFU) has called on retailers to recognise the pressure on vegetable and soft fruit growers from the national living wage, due to come in to force in April.\nSpecialist growers say they face having to pay the national living wage to all workers because Scotland has retained the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB), while in England the wages board has been abolished and the living wage will apply only to those over 25 years of age.\nNFU Scotland Chief Executive Scott Walker said: \u201cOur members are committed to paying fair wages, but that has to be set against the unfairness of having a parallel employment system which only applies to Scottish agriculture. All this will have an impact on how competitive our growers are when it comes to putting fresh produce on the shelves.\n\u201cGrowers in Scotland compete directly with farm businesses in England as well as the rest of Europe and wages can represent more than 40 per cent of the operating costs of such a business. The living wage will see any profit margin eliminated unless Scottish growers can recover the extra cost they face through the products they sell.\u201d\nHe warned: \u201cIf this doesn\u2019t happen, then there will be less Scottish fruit and vegetables produced.\n\u201cFarmers and growers know that to attract skilled and dedicated workers \u2013 whether permanent or seasonal \u2013 they need to pay a wage that is competitive. The dysfunctional supply chain, and the price pressure being heaped on all farm businesses at this time makes attracting and keeping staff a genuine challenge as the rewards for the risk involved in farming are simply not there.\n\u201cThe supply chain needs to recognise that what they pay for farm produce is the biggest determinant of what a business can afford to pay its staff and any sensible sourcing commitment from retailers needs to address this issue.\u201d\nMr Walker also said that the Scottish Government needed to \u201cdeclutter the employment legislation around farming.\n\u201cWe simply want to see agricultural businesses treated in the same way as all other employers. The existence of SAWB places Scotland at a serious competitive disadvantage. This is particularly keenly felt in the field vegetable and soft fruit industries, which employ substantial numbers of seasonal agricultural workers and who compete directly with farm businesses in England as well as the rest of Europe.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.czech-it.ro/6270/9-ani-de-la-moartea-lui-egon-bondy/plastic-people-of-the-universe-egon-bondy-s-happy-hearts-club-banned-front", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:10Z", "digest": "sha1:WDQ2NQX3PIBCDCMWMKFCZWZIOCUMWNNA", "length": 78, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.czech-it.ro", "title": "Plastic People Of The Universe - Egon bondy s happy hearts club banned - Front - CZECH-IT", "raw_content": "Plastic People Of The Universe \u2013 Egon bondy s happy hearts club banned \u2013 Front", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.d2l.com/enterprise/blog/the-three-pillars-of-learning-governance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:49Z", "digest": "sha1:V4WIP4QW7XWOLGLKSKB5MRSX3DHNVGV3", "length": 6146, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.d2l.com", "title": "The Three Pillars of Learning Governance", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Three Pillars of Learning Governance\nWhether you are building a learning program from scratch or updating an existing program already in place, learning governance will help you to prevent your program from becoming an unwieldy, disorganized, and underutilized mess.\nLearning governance is a framework designed to bring clarity to your decision-making and, when carefully planned, ensures that your learning strategy aligns with overall business strategy. Although the governance structure will vary from organization to organization, there are some general principles that can be used to guide its development and make sure that the learning program meets the needs of the entire organization.\nThere are three key pillars to keep in mind when establishing a sound learning governance plan. These pillars are typically connected through a learning council, who is responsible for creating and maintaining the learning governance approach.\nLearn how to achieve organizational alignment around a modern learning strategy\n1. Identify and clarify common learning practices.\nWhen an organization has an existing learning and development program and is looking to modernize it, one of the first tasks is to take stock of what exists and what the current processes are (for instance, where does the content come from, how often is it updated, who decides when new content is needed and so forth). This effort will help to define consistent/streamlined processes and establish guidelines, tools, and expectations for the creation and ongoing development of the new program.\nOften, this leads to the identification of fragmented learning efforts happening in silos across the organization. Not only does learning fragmentation create a disconnect between the quality of the content and messaging, but it\u2019s also very likely you\u2019ll find that effort is being duplicated across silos, which means inefficient processes and higher program maintenance costs.\nA gap in employee onboarding drives different departments to create their own lessons/training to close that gap. Each one of those approaches includes its own twist on organizational processes or messaging. The result is that new hires on teams across the organization get very different learning experiences, depending on the department they are in and the lesson delivered. That\u2019s not good.\nBut here\u2019s the good news. When you\u2019re collecting details around your current processes, it might become clear that there are many stakeholders across teams who provide solid insights into various aspects of those learning programs. This presents you with an excellent opportunity to form a learning council, with representatives from across the organization who provide input and guide the deployment of new initiatives.\nHaving various departments represented on the council will increase the input from teams that may not have felt their needs were being met before. It will also increase the flow of information back to those teams so they have a clear understanding of the logic behind the decisions and approaches put in place by the learning council. A clear flow of information and broad organizational involvement by those impacted by the learning program will ultimately increase program credibility and adoption.\n2. Identify and prioritize departmental learning objectives\nEvery department has its top learning priorities. So, it\u2019s critical that each department has someone responsible for collecting the details of those priorities and\u2014keeping the enterprise priorities in mind\u2014 sorting out how those top departmental business objectives align with the organization\u2019s top objectives overall.\nThis is another opportunity to lean on the learning council. When the council comprises representatives from across the organization, it offers varying perspectives and ensures that the needs of each department are represented. This can help increase efficiency, ensure all department needs are addressed, and facilitate communication around the long-term vision for the learning program across the organization. From the departmental or team perspective, involvement via a learning council means their learning needs are heard and acknowledged. From an organizational perspective, broad involvement in a learning council improves overall alignment to the organization\u2019s overarching business strategy and allows the organization to better prioritize learning needs within and between groups.\nRead our roadmap for creating a sustainable modern learning culture\n3. Plan and connect the learning strategy to the enterprise business strategy.\nIn addition to establishing governance around the learning processes, procedures and tools, and gaining insight into the needs of specific departments, the learning council should also work with your organization\u2019s executives to ensure the learning program is meeting the needs and priorities that are part and parcel of your organization\u2019s long-term business strategy. As that strategy evolves, it is possible that the learning program may need to be adjusted based on new needs and priorities. For example, if the organization is entering a period of rapid growth and expansion, the learning program may need to evolve to provide self-led online learning to support new employees in dispersed locations. By bringing a learning council to the table for the long-term strategic planning, the business ensures continued alignment between business objectives and organizational learning strategy.\nIt is clear that the learning strategy and the organizational business strategy must support each other. Effective and efficient learning programs are the direct result of carefully planned and executed governance. Strong learning governance creates efficiency within the learning program, ensures effective support for all learners and keeps learning in lockstep with changing business needs.\nNeed help with establishing a learning governance framework for your organization? Talk to our Learning Strategy and Consulting team.\nKerri Manorek\nThis Week in Corporate Learning: Business is Learning\nThis week we look at how learning is not the means, it\u2019s the end.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 8506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/glenboig-community-centre-path-become-12378378?utm_source=google_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google_news&utm_content=sitemap", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:33Z", "digest": "sha1:VXVMZTGSG5PIIT6SAUJHRBQ5K6X7KKJ5", "length": 3878, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.dailyrecord.co.uk", "title": "Glenboig community centre on path to become vibrant new hub owned by locals - Daily Record", "raw_content": "Glenboig community centre on path to become vibrant new hub owned by locals\nPlans are in full flow with the ASDA foundation donating \u00a333,000 for the Glenboig Development Trust to buy a special 17-seater minibus.\nCouncil leader Jim Logue (back, second from left) was among those who welcomed Mr Stewart (front)\nPlans are progressing to transform Glenboig community centre into a vibrant new hub owned by the local community and home to a variety of services.\nGlenboig Development Trust, in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, secured \u00a31 million from the Scottish Government\u2019s Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) for the project.\nThe trust is now preparing for the necessary work to create a flexible, multi-use space which can be used for events such as weddings and parties, a community fruit and vegetable outlet, a gym, post office and shop and caf\u00e9, as well as the base for a community transport service.\nAnd the organisation is set to motor on into its exciting new future in some style after the Asda Foundation donated \u00a333,000 for the trust to buy a new specially adapted 17-seater minibus for its community transport service.\nOutside the community centre, space will be redeveloped for events, including a summer fair and Christmas and farmers\u2019 markets, with work expected to start on site in the autumn.\nIan Nicholson, Ann Binks and Brian Boyle of the Asda Foundation present the minibus donation\nA cycle hub is already under construction, where bikes will be available for hire for use in the local park and across the Seven Lochs Wetlands Park, adjacent to the centre.\nThe trust received \u00a3143,000 from The CashBack for Communities Fund 2017 to create the hub.\nThe RCGF supports projects that \u201cengage and involve local communities in disadvantaged areas, tackle inequality and support inclusive growth\u201d.\nMinister for Local Government and Housing, Kevin Stewart MSP, visited the community centre to meet representatives of the trust and council, and see the work planned for the facility.\nJohn Wilson, trust chairperson, said: Mr Stewart\u2019s visit highlights the success of the trust in securing \u00a31m from the Scottish Government\u2019s Regeneration Capital Grant Fund towards a \u00a31.8m upgrade to the community centre.\n\u201cThe RCGF funding, along with other funding opportunities, will help deliver a refurbished community-owned facility that will become the hub for the delivery of vital services for all the community, with function rooms, cafe, cycle hub, a children\u2019s play area and links to the Seven Lochs Wetlands project.\n\u201cGlenboig Development Trust continues to seek funding to ensure the delivery of a range of services identified by the community to enhance the present and future wellbeing of all the residents.\u201d\nMr Stewart added: \u201cI am delighted that the trust is going to benefit from \u00a31 million of support from the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund. This funding will not only provide Glenboig with a vibrant new life centre, but will also allow the trust to engage and be at the heart of developing and delivering new services and opportunities for the local community for years to come.\u201d\nThe trust was also hugely appreciative for the five-figure sum from the Asda Foundation for the new minibus, which it took delivery of last week.\nAsda representatives Ian Nicholson, Brian Boyle and Ann Binks handed over the keys to the bus during Mr Stewart\u2019s visit.\nCouncillor Allan Graham, convener of the enterprise and housing committee, said: \u201cResidents in Glenboig have worked for many years to bring their aspirations for the village to life, and we are pleased to have been able to play our part in helping them reach this stage.\n\u201cThe trust has brought the village together to create the life centre as a focus for community life.\n\u201cI would like to congratulate the trust and everyone involved on their efforts \u2013 they should be very proud of their achievements.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 12748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/business/31034-mobile-gaming-and-gambling-to-continue-rising-in-2019.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YEN4VW7QPHUYZ5DJWHWCCRNNFZ2UWPZL", "length": 5983, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.dailysquib.co.uk", "title": "Mobile Gaming And Gambling To Continue Rising In 2019 - Daily Squib", "raw_content": "Home Business Mobile Gaming And Gambling To Continue Rising In 2019\nMobile Gaming And Gambling To Continue Rising In 2019\nLONDON - England - Mobile gaming has seen a vast rise in business over the years, and will continue its upward growth trend in the years to come.\nEdward Cash\nWould you not be surprised if we tell you that the global gaming market will soon reach a level of over \u00a3120 billion in 2019? Maybe not, but what if we tell you that about half of that growth is coming from the mobile gaming industry that has a current value of around \u00a355 billion?\nMobile is nowadays in everyone\u2019s hand in the whole world and this has allowed a considerable number of people to be continuously connected to the internet. If we look at 2018 itself, the mobile gaming apps have driven around 85% of all app revenue from Apple\u2019s iOS and Google Play. The fact that mobile phones are always with us is a great opportunity for the best online casinos and others gambling companies to reach a new type of people: those that didn\u2019t bother to connect much to the internet from their desktops. To make the most of the opportunity software developers have focused mainly on women and as a result one of the most significant increase came from this sector.\nNot only the arrival of mobile phone has helped to reach new audiences but it has also increased the time spent and the play frequency from those demographics that were already involved in gaming. In recent times we have seen the introduction of many unlimited data plans, better speeds and higher quality graphics. These in conjunction with a reduction in file sizes has allowed the mobile gaming to make huge steps forward and grow as a result.\nWhat is the future of Mobile gaming industry?\nSurely it is a bright future although for this very reason competition is increasing. New game franchises are being launched nearly on a daily bases and more brands that are trying to get a piece of that cake.\nSome Stats That Show The Growth of Mobile Gaming Industry\nWith the improvement in mobile phones the mobile gaming industry has been allowed to grow significantly over the last few years. Experts are predicting that it will grow by 60% between 2019 and 2022. Already in 2022 the revenue should reach \u00a373 billion which is a staggering 200% increase in 5 years.\nIt is predicted that mobile gaming will be the dominant sector of gaming as it should reach half of the market already by 2020. Console games and PC games are likely to come second and third in the market with around 26% and 21% of gaming revenue respectively.\nHow Mobile Gambling Is Taking Advantage Of The Huge Mobile Gaming Popularity\nFor a gambling company, it is more and more critical to ensure they have a sound mobile gambling product. Mobile devices are part of our lives and if a gambling company can be seen and is able to reach their customers with quality products, they will benefit from this. Below we have looked at what are the man benefits that mobile technology has given to the gambling industry.\n1 \u2013 More players are regularly using mobile devices\nLots of online gambling products have moved to mobile and this was facilitated by the improvement in Wi-Fi networks who are now more reliable and stable and easily allow for monetary transactions to be carried out safely with users that are trusting the mobile technology.\nThe average user picks up the mobile device more than 1,500 times every week and it is not surprising that mobile platforms are set to replace desktops.\n2. Mobile devices are preferred by users as they are convenient\nHaving the opportunity to play while on the go it is great. Before a player would have to wait to get back home to place bets from the desktop. Nowadays you can place bets while you are at a sporting event for instance or you can play your favourite online casino game while you are going back home from work. For all those reasons, it has been verified that mobile players tend to convert a lot faster into paying customers and they usually spend more time playing online games.\n3. Players can access betting options immediately\nLive sports and live casino have benefited significantly from the growth in mobile gambling. The opportunity to have immediate access to your preferred game and get satisfaction from your betting session has changed the way gambling companies are approaching players. Operators have pushed the boundaries to provide better casino games to users which are fully optimised for the mobile platforms.\nPeople are spending more time on mobile devices compared with desktop or laptop as they are convenient and practical to use. It is predicted that browser-based gambling will very soon be superseded by the mobile players: this has already started a revolution with operators that are now creating products which are either for mobile alone or are mobile-first. Delivering games that will maximise the powerful experience delivered by the newest smartphones will be paramount for gambling companies to continue to be successful.\nOnline gambling in the same mobile platform as social networks\nMobile platforms are delivering a great betting experience to customers and this is why those are returning. To keep users engaged gambling companies have created mobile products that are user-friendly and that can be loaded almost instantaneously even with slower networks.\nLots of gambling products are now well integrated even with social media platforms and this means that users can share with their mates how well they have done in a game or in a bet. This is an excellent opportunity for gambling companies to connect with younger audiences and again reach an entirely new target more differently and effectively than traditional advertising.\nPrevious articleThat Was Quick! Prince Philip Gets NEW Motor Delivered Less than 24 Hours After Car Crash\nNext articleShaving Company Emasculette Develops Razor Castration Device For New Generation of Men\nEconomists: Prepare For Greece Bailout 4,5 and 6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 8837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/11/sex-and-the-first-amendment-1119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:CMKKKIWENRUUST4IYNKUI6OUOPYND3EM", "length": 3784, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.dailytarheel.com", "title": "Let's talk about sex and the First Amendment - The Daily Tar Heel", "raw_content": "Let's talk about sex and the First Amendment\n(From left to right) Michael Gerhardt, Mary-Rose Papandrea, Claudia Haupt, Clay Calvert and Kyla Garrett Wagner take part in the first panel discussion of the Sex and the First Amendment symposium on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. This panel focused on sex through the lens of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of expression.\nThe First Amendment Law Review, a student-edited legal journal at UNC, held its annual symposium on \u201cSex and the First Amendment\u201d on Friday.\nScholars from across the country attended the symposium to participate in panels focusing on the intersection of sex with the freedom of expression, religion and the internet.\nFollowing the first panel, \"Sex and the Freedom of Expression,\" Mary Anne Case took the lead in the second panel of the day, titled \u201cSex and Religion.\u201d Case, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discussed Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s use of language in specific court cases.\nShe discussed Romer v. Evans, a case dealing with Amendment Two and discrimination based on sexual orientation in Colorado. Case compared the language Scalia used with the language that Nazis used about those of the Jewish faith.\n\u201cThe more you think about the relationship between what it is to be gay in Amendment Two's Colorado and Jewish in Nazi Germany, the more the parallels come out,\u201d Case said.\nThe third panel of the symposium addressed the intersection of sex and the internet. Professor Mary Anne Franks of the University of Miami School of Law addressed free speech culture in her discussion.\n\u201cI want to talk about what I call sometimes the \u2018First Amendment orthodoxy\u2019 or the clich\u00e9s about the freedom of speech that we often have, especially in popular understanding of free speech,\u201d Franks said.\nFranks continued with discussion on the impact of conversation about sex in cases of unauthorized distribution of sexually explicit imagery. She acknowledged that the objection to the circulation of these images revolves around free speech.\n\u201cAs opposed to this vision of robust and uninhibited conversation about sex, what we often find is incredibly typical, outdated patriarchal assumptions about sex, and that tends to be most of what we talk about and emphasize,\u201d Franks said. \u201cThe ability to share naked pictures of people without their consent has been presented as a free speech issue and that any attempts to try to regulate that conduct would be violations of freedom of speech.\u201d\nEric Goldman, professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, and Jeff Kosseff, an assistant professor of cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, continued the panel with their discussions on internet law and cyber security.\nThe process of organizing this symposium began last year. Kayla Rowsey, the symposium editor of the First Amendment Law Review, headed planning for the symposium.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just really a lot of emailing back and forth to panelists and coordinating and doing the logistical stuff like setting up the Carolina Club, making sure there\u2019s people to pick them up at the airport and things like that,\u201d Rowsey said. \u201cAnd then we also publish some of their scholarly articles, which will come out this March I believe.\u201d\nAfter spending eight months working on the event, Rowsey felt satisfied with the outcomes of the symposium\u2019s panel discussions.\n\u201cI think the last panel highlighted that perfectly,\u201d Rowsey said. \u201cI hope that even though there are differences in opinion and what the role of sex and the conversation about sex should be, that we can all come together and work towards creative solutions in some of the problems that they talked about today.\u201d\nNext up in Sex Issue\nStudy finds race and gender bias in online classes\nWhy aren't young people getting tested for HIV?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 8447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.darwinlake.co.uk/local-attractions/the-blue-john-cavern", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:39Z", "digest": "sha1:WTSN664CPWMMK2D3SDJN6P2YXITA2LV6", "length": 1031, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.darwinlake.co.uk", "title": "The Blue John Cavern | Darwin Lake", "raw_content": "One of the best caverns to visit this year 2017\nThe Blue John Cavern in the Peak District is a series of caverns considered to be the finest range in Great Britain.\nOur Carven Tours are of immense educational interest showing clearly how the caverns are formed in limestone strata and how the limestone itself had much earlier been formed by the deposits on the floors of great oceans which have long since receded, as the fossilised remains of marine animals now show.\nThe Cavern is well illuminated by electric lighting. Very comprehensive planning was necessary here to ensure that the whole project was complementary to the caverns as a whole. Without appearing to intrude or commercialise the caverns in any way.\nIt has been suggested that the Blue John Cavern is the finest that can been seen by the general public in Western Europe.\nWe also have a craft shop with a wide variety of Blue John Jewellery set in silver and gold, alongside Blue John Ornaments such as bowls, eggs, and goblets.\nVisit The Blue John Cavern website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dasautoshippers.com/blog/why-vehicle-shipment-beats-driving-every-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DOA2GZSGIQEDM5FNMASAVXY5AH23Z3MI", "length": 4271, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.dasautoshippers.com", "title": "Why Vehicle Shipment Beats Driving Every Time", "raw_content": "Why Vehicle Shipment Beats Driving Every Time\nDo you need to move a passenger vehicle across the country?\nPerhaps you\u2019re about to move your whole family and household across the country. Maybe your youngest is in college and moving off-campus. After some deliberation, you\u2019ve decided to let them drive the old wagon. It\u2019s either that or they have to ride their bike to classes.\nThere are many other reasons that you might need to get a vehicle from one side of the country to the other \u2013 maybe you sold a classic car through an online auction site. It could be that you\u2019re moving South for the winter and want to have your Airstream travel trailer plugged in and hooked up, waiting for you, when the airport shuttle drops you off at the Camp-a-Lot.\nIn any case, whether it has two wheels, four, or many more, as in the case of motorhomes, you might be thinking to yourself, \u201cMaybe I should just drive it there myself.\u201d\nYou certainly could, but here are a few considerations for your own safety and wellbeing.\nBefore your great American road trip, think about:\nGas prices flux seasonally, but do you remember the last time that unleaded was under $3.00 per gallon? You probably know your vehicle\u2019s average miles per gallon. Do a quick calculation based on the distance you need to go. Be as conservative as you like and multiply miles by some presumed average fuel cost.\nTo that, add the cost of motel rooms for each night you anticipate being on the road. According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers are only allowed to drive eleven hours in a fourteen-hour period. And, that\u2019s following a rest period of no less than ten consecutive hours.\nTo figure out how many nights you\u2019ll be on the road, you might look at your route on Google Maps. They suggest a handful of routes from your start point to your destination. The accompanying time estimates are fairly accurate, based on posted speed limits and known construction zones. Divide that estimate by 11 to anticipate number of nights on the road. Depending on your preferences for motel quality and amenities, roadside room rates range from $30 per night to $130 per night. Besides cost, how well do you sleep in strange beds?\nIn the event that you\u2019ll be leaving the vehicle there, you\u2019ll also need to factor in the cost of getting yourself home. Remember, hitchhiking went out of vogue about fifty years ago. And \u201criding the rails,\u201d almost a hundred years ago. So, it\u2019s planes or Greyhound for you.\n2. Time and Opportunity Cost\nCan you spare the time? Does your boss concur? Even if you work for yourself or are retired, is driving across the country the most effective and fruitful use of your free time?\nWill you be missing client work? Networking luncheons? Or beach time?\nA word to the wise from experienced over-the-road drivers: don\u2019t expect to catch up with work or correspondence from the road or from the motel\u2019s wifi. It\u2019s a common intention that rarely pans out.\nHow\u2019s your lower back? If, like many Americans, you experience chronic lumbar pain, then a cross-country driving adventure is not for you. It might be for your chiropractor, but not you.\nWhat\u2019s more, if you enjoy a healthy diet and an active, non-sedentary lifestyle, then your body may rebel at being cooped up in a steel-and-fiberglass cage for several days. A word about finding fresh fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious food on the road: you won\u2019t unless you pack it with you.\n4. Training and Safety\nLastly, and most importantly, as we hinted above, unless you\u2019re a card-carrying CMV operator, you simply don\u2019t have the tens of thousands of miles and hours of training that professional drivers have. No doubt, you are a very safe driver around your neighborhood and in the city where you live. Safely driving the interstate system, in all road, traffic, and weather conditions, requires a level of sustained mental alertness that you cannot be accustomed to without practice.\nIt is for these reasons that the auto transport industry as a whole suggests that you arrange professional vehicle shipment. DAS is a premium auto transporter. If you would like to partner with us for your upcoming move, please complete the quick quote request form on this page to get started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 9840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datacareer.de/company/377/informatica/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNLNKREU443LESE6XII4XEMRVV4ELFNI", "length": 561, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.datacareer.de", "title": "Jobs at Informatica | datacareer.de", "raw_content": "Informatica is a software development company founded in 1993 . It is headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. Informatica's product is a portfolio focused on data integration: extract, transform, load, information lifecycle management, business-to-business data exchange, cloud computing integration, master data management, ultra messaging. These components form a toolset for establishing and maintaining data warehouses. It has a customer base of over 5,000 companies.\nEmail me jobs from Informatica", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 135.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datagenix.com/thank-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:51Z", "digest": "sha1:L6VBAGPGSLCZNPXKRQEPRSIGIQTBE7O2", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.datagenix.com", "title": "Thank You", "raw_content": "Thank you for your submission! 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At David Tennant Insurance Agency, we believe that each person deserves some sort of coverage in the event of illness or injury.\nContact a specialist at David Tennant Insurance Agency to learn more today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 11236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dchosp.org/Refer-a-Friend.aspx?Page=%2FAbout-Us%2FEvents%2FLog-In%2FForgot-Password.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Y53XFSHWZZSPPK4AILTC5BW5BQHTWLEM", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dchosp.org", "title": "Refer a Friend | Hospital in Washington, IN", "raw_content": "www.dchosp.org/About-Us/Events/Log-In/Forgot-Password.aspx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dealstunter.nl/ds-wv091/ASUS_ROG_STRIX_Z390-E_GAMING_LGA_1151_(Socket_H4)_", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YB6OGEZBJLPV6YUMVI36MKLD56B6MAX4", "length": 165, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dealstunter.nl", "title": "Dealstunter.nl de moederborden specialist alles in eigen voorraad", "raw_content": "> ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING LGA 1151 (Socket H4)\nSupported memory clock speeds 2133,2400,2666,2800,3000,3200,3300,3333,3400,3466,3600,3733,3866,4000,4133,4266 MHz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 8494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dee4dogs.co.uk/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JITLISBHQDZVSA3QB4K7H3MCLERADCNJ", "length": 6605, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.dee4dogs.co.uk", "title": "Privacy Policy \u2013 dee4dogs", "raw_content": "Dee4dogs understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. I respect and value the privacy of everyone who uses my booking system to book classes, or visits my website. I will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with my obligations and your rights under the law. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it.\n1. Information About Me:\nMy website (www.dee4dogs.co.uk) is owned and operated by me.\n2. What Does This Policy Cover:\nThis Privacy Policy applies only to your use of my booking system and website. My website may contain links to other websites. Please note that I have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and I advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.\n3. What is Personal Data:\n4. What Are My Rights:\na) The right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact me to find out more or to ask any questions.\nb) The right to access the personal data I hold about you.\nc) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by me is inaccurate or incomplete.\nd) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask me to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that I have.\nFor more information about use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us. Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau. If you have any cause for complaint about my use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office.\n5. What Data Do I Collect:\nDepending upon whether you make a booking or just visit my website, I may collect some or all of the following personal data:\nPets details\nTo allow me to process your payment, I use payment provider Stripe. Any card-holder information transmitted to these payment providers remains with the payment providers and I have no access to this sensitive data. Stripe transactions are subject to the Stripe Privacy Policies.\n6. How Do You Use My Personal Data:\nUnder the GDPR, I must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for my performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to my use of your personal data, or because it is in my legitimate business interests to use it.\nSupplying you with information by email that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by emailing me).\nAnalysing your use of the website and gathering feedback to enable me to continually improve my website and your user experience.\nWith your permission and/or where permitted by law, I may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email with information, news, or offers on my products and services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam.\nI will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with the obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.\n7. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data:\nI will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. The following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept: \u2022 When you make a booking, I\u2019ll keep the personal data you give me for six years so I can comply with my legal and contractual obligations. At the end of this retention period your data will deleted completely.\n8. How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data:\nI will only store or transfer your personal data within the European Economic Area (the \u201cEEA\u201d). The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means that your personal data will be fully protected under the GDPR or to equivalent standards by law.\n9. Do You Share My Personal Data:\nI will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions:\na) As part of my Terms and Conditions on joining some classes, I am required to share your data with Puppy School Limited. They also share your data with Natures Menu Limited in order to provide you with a free gift box. I will need to share personal data to ensure that these items are available to you prior to classes commencing.\nb) In some limited circumstances, I may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if I am involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.\n10. Can I Withhold Information:\nYou may access certain areas of my website without providing any personal data at all. However, to make a booking through the website, you will be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.\n11. How Can I Access My Personal Data:\nAll subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown below. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request.\nIf your request is \u2018manifestly unfounded or excessive\u2019 (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover my administrative costs in responding.\nI will respond to your subject access request within 28 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, I aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date I receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of progress.\n13. How Do I Contact You:\nTo contact me about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details: Email address: info@dee4dogs.co.uk\nTelephone number: 0794 11 22 733\nPostal Address: 60 Loughborough Road, Coleorton, Leicestershire, LE67 8HG\nAny changes will be immediately posted here and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of this website and booking system following the alterations. I recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delawarenorth.com/services/venue-management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VXBHF6EDDCW4KKAVYEI3GJ2C42WVHYS2", "length": 1762, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.delawarenorth.com", "title": "Venue Management | Delaware North", "raw_content": "Venue Management Services\nAs a property owner and manager itself, Delaware North has a reputation for outstanding venue management for numerous clients. Whether it's hosting large events on a global stage or tending to special requests from a hotel guest, Delaware North's venue management services bring the company's expertise in facilities management, real estate, security and conference event management to a large number of clients.\nDelaware North has established a reputation with the National Park Service, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and other parks clients for providing high levels of both stewardship and hospitality in delivering lodging, retail, food service, recreation and transportation services at parks across the United States.\nThe Lodge at Geneva-on-the-LakeGeneva, OhioNorth America\nMelbourne & Olympic ParksMelbourne, AustraliaAustralia / New Zealand\nGideon Putnam Resort & SpaSaratoga Springs, New YorkNorth America\nHamburg GamingHamburg, New YorkNorth America\nSince Delaware North-owned-and-operated TD Garden in Boston opened in 1995, more than 30 million guests have passed through the turnstiles. With more than 200 events per year, it is among the world\u2019s busiest sporting and entertainment venues.\n\u201cThe Jacobs family is committed to bringing fans a first-class experience every time they enter TD Garden.\u201d\nCharlie Jacobs Chief Executive Officer for Delaware North\u2019s Boston Holdings\nFace to face with Atlantis\nDelaware North opened the $100 million Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where visitors can now be nose to nose with an authentic NASA orbiter. Atlantis is dramatically displayed as if it is floating in space and with its payload doors open.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delhinews.net/news/258521863/cabinet-approves-shahpurkandi-dam-project-on-river-ravi-in-punjab", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:X25N64GPU777EDMXWCZ4TUHIF23ZEIXU", "length": 2047, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.delhinews.net", "title": "Cabinet approves Shahpurkandi Dam project on river Ravi in Punjab", "raw_content": "Cabinet approves Shahpurkandi Dam project on river Ravi in Punjab\nNew Delhi [India], Dec 7 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the implementation of the Shahpurkandi Dam Project, Punjab on river Ravi. For this, central assistance of Rs. 485.38 crore (for irrigation component) would be provided over five years from 2018-19 to 2022-23, the Centre said on Thursday.\nIt is believed that implementation of this project would help minimising some of the water of river Ravi, which, at present, is going waste through the Madhopur Headworks downstream to Pakistan. Furthermore, on completion of the project, an irrigation potential of 5,000 ha in Punjab and 32,173 ha in Jammu and Kashmir is expected to be created.\nFunding for central assistance to the Shahpurkandi Dam project shall be made through the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) under the existing system for funding of 99 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)- Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) projects under the Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF).\nIn addition to existing monitoring mechanism for projects by the Central Water Commission, a committee headed by Member, Central Water Commission and consisting of concerned Chief Engineers of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and other concerned officers would be constituted to oversee/monitor the implementation of the project, the Centre said.\nThe project would be implemented by the government of Punjab with central assistance of Rs. 485.38 crore, and is expected to be completed by June 2022.\nThe balance cost of works component of Shahpurkandi Dam project is Rs. 1973.53 crore (Irrigation component: Rs 564.63 crore, power component: Rs 1408.90 crore) Out of the this, Rs 485.38 crore would be provided as central assistance.\nThe implementation of the scheme, the Centre said, would generate 6.2 lakh man-days employment for unskilled workers, 6.2 lakh man-days employment for semi-skilled and 1.67 lakh man-days employment for skilled workers. (ANI)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dentalpartnersofnewburyport.com/meet-dr-beliveau.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SLQDKSOS7UYPPJZUXRTP5FEHNRBM7F3L", "length": 1482, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dentalpartnersofnewburyport.com", "title": "Charles E. Beliveau, DDS | Dental Partners of Newburyport | General Dentist", "raw_content": "Meet E. Charles Beliveau, DDS\nDr. Beliveau is a native of North Andover, MA and graduated from North Andover High School in 1978. He attended Saint Michael\u2019s College in Winooski, Vermont and graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Biology. Dr. Beliveau went on to attend the University Of Maryland School Of Dentistry, the first of its kind and the oldest dental program in the world.\nAfter graduating, Dr. Beliveau returned to North Andover and joined his father\u2019s practice. In 2006, Dr. Beliveau opened his own state of the art practice, also in North Andover. In 2008, he and his business partner and friend, J. Peter St. Clair, DMD, purchased an existing practice in Newburyport, MA and created \u201cDental Partners of Newburyport.\u201d\nSince graduating from Dental School, Dr. Beliveau has immersed himself in continuing education and he considers himself fortunate to have trained with some of the \u201cMasters of Dentistry.\u201d Dr. Peter E. Dawson, the faculty at the Pankey Institute and Dr. Frank Spear are all considered to be the most influential and groundbreaking dentists of all time. These great dentists have formed the cornerstones of Dr. Beliveau\u2019s approach to dentistry.\nDr. Beliveau and his wife Susan live in West Newbury with their two children, three dogs and two horses. In their free time, they enjoy traveling and attending their children\u2019s sporting events.\nFor more information, please see my other website: www.beliveaudental.com\nAbout Us Meet Dr. St. Clair Meet the Team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 121.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2006/09/22/sentence-may-revive-death-penalty-debate-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z2ZB73COWM2GPDVAUM22WJCCQLXHEPY", "length": 3876, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", "title": "Sentence May Revive Death Penalty Debate \u2013 The Denver Post", "raw_content": "Sentence May Revive Death Penalty Debate\nA death sentence in North Dakota\u2019s first capital punishment case in nearly a century could prompt lawmakers to reconsider whether the state should have the penalty, the governor and attorney general said.\nA federal jury decided Friday a 53-year-old convicted sex offender should be executed for kidnapping and killing a college student after she left a shopping mall.\nThe same jury convicted Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. on Aug. 30 of kidnapping resulting in Dru Sjodin\u2019s death.\nNorth Dakota\u2019s last execution was in 1905, and the last person sentenced to death was spared in 1915. The state no longer has the death penalty, but it is allowed in federal cases.\n\u201cWe hope the need does not arise for another 100 years,\u201d U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley said Friday.\nRodriguez was charged under federal law because Sjodin was taken across state lines.\n\u201cHopefully, this case will spur a debate in the state of North Dakota about the death penalty, and the problems and difficulties that it raises,\u201d said defense attorney Robert Hoy.\nAttorney General Wayne Stenehjem said the slayings of Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., a University of North Dakota student, and Mindy Morgenstern, 22, of New Salem, a Valley City State University student, may revive the issue in the Legislature.\nMorgenstern was found dead in her apartment last week, and authorities said her throat was slashed. Moe Maurice Gibbs, 34, a Barnes County jailer who lived in her apartment building, has been charged with murder.\nSjodin disappeared from a Grand Forks shopping mall parking lot in 2003. Her body was found nearly five months later in a Minnesota ravine, and authorities said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.\nNorth Dakota lawmakers have not debated a death penalty bill since 1995, when the Senate defeated the idea. Stenehjem was a senator at the time, and he led the opposition to the measure on the Senate floor.\n\u201cYou have to think about what kind of a reaction the state of North Dakota needs to offer,\u201d Stenehjem said Friday. \u201cI think it\u2019s early to say that the Legislature might take a different approach than it has, but sometimes you have to look and say, \u2018Maybe things are changing.'\u201d\nGov. John Hoeven said he would not include a death penalty proposal in his budget recommendations to the 2007 Legislature, although he personally supports the idea.\n\u201cI\u2019m open to that discussion,\u201d Hoeven said. \u201cWe need to take very strong measures for these violent sexual offenses, and we\u2019re going to continue to put tougher laws in place.\u201d\nSjodin\u2019s slaying has already led to tougher sex offender laws in North Dakota and Minnesota, including life without parole for the most serious offenses and stricter supervision of offenders after they leave prison.\nThe jury reached its decision after more than a day and a half of deliberations.\nRodriguez, of Crookston, Minn., looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as the sentence was announced, while his mother and sister, as well as a number of jurors, cried.\n\u201cI know it wasn\u2019t an easy decision for the jurors,\u201d said Sjodin\u2019s mother, Linda Walker, her voice shaking. \u201cBut Dru\u2019s voice was heard today.\u201d\nDefense attorney Richard Ney had asked the jury for mercy after calling psychologists and Rodriguez\u2019s family to talk about his childhood of poverty, abuse and exposure to farm chemicals.\nRodriguez had gotten out of prison about six months before the killing.\nNey declined comment on the sentence.\n\u201cOur focus here should be on the Sjodin family and their loss,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now it also becomes a focus on the Rodriguez family, and the execution of their son and brother.\u201d\nHe said he would request a new trial, and if his motion is denied, he would begin the appeals process. \u201cLife is worthy of being saved, no matter who it is,\u201d Ney said.\nAssociated Press Writer Dale Wetzel contributed to this report from Bismarck.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 8749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2010/05/10/cherry-creek-nabs-top-overall-seed-for-5a-playoffs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VWOH66225VQ43Y4TJN2WKRXFMI3TGVO5", "length": 4245, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", "title": "Cherry Creek nabs top overall seed for 5A playoffs \u2013 The Denver Post", "raw_content": "Cherry Creek nabs top overall seed for 5A playoffs\nGREENWOOD VILLAGE \u2013 Cherry Creek\u2019s Sarah Talcott and Julie Woodworth of Smoky Hill go airborne after the ball. Steve Nehf, The Denver Post / snehf@denverpost.com\nBy Ryan Casey | The Denver Post\nCherry Creek\u2019s girls soccer team had but one blemish on its regular-season resume. It will start the Class 5A postseason with some impressive credentials as well.\nThe Bruins, 13-1-1, claimed the top overall seed when playoff brackets were announced by the Colorado High School Activities Association on Sunday morning. They have a date with No. 32 seed Hinkley (7-8-0) when the first round kicks off Tuesday, though a time is still to be announced. (Download the full bracket here.)\nCherry Creek\u2019s lone loss this season came to San Antonio\u2019s Incarnate Word at a midseason tournament in Texas. The Bruins also tied Arapahoe on April 30.\nThey\u2019re led by Molly Pomeroy, who has 11 goals, and Becka Talcott, who has 10. But a strength all season has also been the goalkeeping tandem of Renee Standage (6-0-0, four shutouts) and Molly Poletto (6-1-1, 37 saves).\nFairview (13-2-0) rebounded from a rough start to earn the second overall seed. The Knights, who began 2-2-0 amid high expectations, strung together 11 straight wins to close the regular season.\n\u201cWe always talk about the polls, and the only one that matters is the one that\u2019s on the week after state finals,\u201d Fairview coach Jeremy Pinard said late last week. \u201cThat\u2019s the only poll that matters. Whether you\u2019re in the top 10, or you\u2019re No. 1 or 25 throughout the season, it doesn\u2019t matter (unless) you\u2019re No. 1 at that (final) poll.\u201d\n\u201cThese kids have set goals at the beginning of the season, and one of the goals is to win state,\u201d he added. \u201cObviously it\u2019s good to get some recognition, but they understand that that\u2019s not going to win them games.\u201d\nNo. 31 Ralston Valley (6-5-4) will be tasked with stopping Annie Stuller, whose 13 goals lead the Knights, and solving the puzzle that is Fairview\u2019s. The game is on Wednesday, but game time is still to be determined.\nLurking at the No. 5 spot is Arapahoe (11-2-2), a team that had been highly ranked all season before a late-season skid \u2014 a rare three-game winless streak \u2014 dropped the Warriors right before seeding. Arapahoe, which went 7-1-1 against eventual playoff teams during the regular season \u2014 including 3-0-1 against the top four seeds \u2014 will host No. 28 Brighton (10-4-1) in the first round.\nPine Creek (13-2-0) earned the third seed, and hosts No. 30 George Washington (9-6-0).\nRounding out the top eight in 5A were fourth-seeded Air Academy (12-3-0), No. 6 Mountain Vista (11-3-1), No. 7 Smoky Hill (10-4-1) and No. 8 Rocky Mountain (11-4-0).\nThe second round will be May 15 with the quarterfinals May 20 and the semifinals May 22. The 5A final is 7:30 p.m. on May 26 at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Park.\n5A GIRLS SOCCER PLAYOFFS\nAll first round games are to be played Tuesday, unless noted: Times are to be announced unless noted.\nNo. 32 Hinkley (7-8-0) at No. 1 Cherry Creek (13-1-1). 8 p.m. Wednesday at Stutler Bowl.\nNo. 17 Poudre (11-4-0) at No. 16 Douglas County (9-4-2). 7:30 p.m. at Douglas County Stadium.\nNo. 25 Green Mountain (10-4-1) at No. 8 Rocky Mountain (11-4-0). 3:30 p.m. at French Field.\nNo. 24 Legacy (8-5-2) at No. 9 Grandview (8-4-3)..\nNo. 29 Arvada West (8-4-3) at No. 4 Air Academy (12-3-0). 4 p.m. at K-Dome.\nNo. 20 Chaparral (9-6-0) at No. 13 Denver East (10-3-1). 4:15 p.m. at All City.\nNo. 28 Brighton (10-4-1) at No. 5 Arapahoe (11-2-2). 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.\nNo. 21 Fort Collins (8-4-2) at No. 12 Heritage (10-4-1). 7:30 p.m.\nNo. 31 Ralston Valley (6-5-4) at No. 2 Fairview (13-2-0). 4:30 p.m.\nNo. 18 Regis Jesuit (9-4-2) at No. 15 Chatfield (7-5-3). 7 p.m. at NAAC.\nNo. 26 Horizon (6-5-4) at No. 7 Smoky Hill (10-4-1). 6 p.m. Wednesday.\nNo. 23 Grand Junction (11-4-0) at No. 10 Columbine (12-2-1). 6 p.m. Wednesday at Lakewood Memorial.\nNo. 30 George Washington (9-6-0) at No. 3 Pine Creek (13-2-0). 7 p.m. at Academy District 20.\nNo. 19 Liberty (7-8-0) at No. 14 Durango (11-4-0).\nNo. 27 Palmer (8-7-0) at No. 6 Mountain Vista (11-3-1). 6 p.m. at Shea.\nNo. 22 Coronado (10-4-1) at No. 11 Ponderosa (12-3-0).\nRyan Casey: 303-954-1983 or rcasey@denverpost.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 10111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/lord-free-me-from-the-fear-of-death", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PYBINPWBYYN47W4HI6P5OICRNWHFOMBE", "length": 5058, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.desiringgod.org", "title": "Lord, Free Me from the Fear of Death | Desiring God", "raw_content": "Lord, Free Me from the Fear of Death\nJesus has a deep, intense desire to give you a gift so great you do not yet have the capacities to conceive of it (1 Corinthians 2:9). But you do catch glimpses of it in biblical metaphors and imagery, and in sublime moments when an experience of glory briefly transcends anything else here on earth.\nJesus longs so intensely for you to have this gift that he pleads with the Father to give it to you:\n\u201cFather, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.\u201d (John 17:24)\nThis supreme request is the great culmination of Jesus\u2019s prayer in John 17. That you may receive this gift is the reason why he manifested the Father\u2019s name to you (John 17:6), gave you the Father\u2019s words (John 17:8, 14), and guards you so you will not be lost (John 17:12). It is why he prays that you will be kept from the evil one (John 17:15), know the joy of helping others believe in him (John 17:20), and experience the sanctifying wonder of knowing and living the truth (John 17:17, 19).\nMore than any other good thing Jesus asks from the Father for you, he wants you to be with him forever. More than anything else, he wants you to see and savor the glory that the Father bestowed on him from eternity past (John 17:5, 24). For he knows that nothing else you ever experience will provide you such profound and lasting joy and pleasure (Psalm 16:11).\nBut Jesus\u2019s fervent prayers for you come with a sober implication, one that makes you recoil, even fear. In fact, one day you might find yourself pleading with God to give you the very opposite of what Jesus wants for you. The answer to Jesus\u2019s prayer eventually requires your physical death. Unless Jesus returns first, you must die before you experience the forever fullness of joy in his glorious presence.\nWe must endure what we hate and fear most in life in order to enjoy what we love and long for most.\nYes, we hate death and resist it \u2014 and we are right to do so. God originally created us to live, not die. Death is a curse we bear, the tragic wages of rejecting God and his kingdom (Romans 6:23).\nNowhere does the Bible encourage us to view death itself as a good thing. Death is not a good thing; it\u2019s a horrible, evil thing. Anyone who has watched loved ones die can attest to its hideousness. Death is our mortal enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26).\nHow Is Death Gain?\nIf that\u2019s true, why does God count precious the death of his saints (Psalm 116:15)? And why do his saints even call death gain (Philippians 1:21)? Because in that most horrible, most evil moment of the death of the Son of God himself, death as we fear it \u2014 the extinguishing of our life and the seeming loss of our soul and joy \u2014 was killed! Jesus conquered our great enemy when he rose from the dead (Romans 4:25; Revelation 1:18), and will ultimately destroy death forever (1 Corinthians 15:26).\nIn fact, so powerful, so complete is Jesus\u2019s defeat of death that he speaks of it as if Christians no longer even experience it:\n\u201cI am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.\u201d (John 11:25\u201326)\nIt isn\u2019t death itself that is precious or gain to us. It is the Resurrection and the Life, who has removed death\u2019s sting and swallowed it up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:54\u201355), in whom we are receiving an eternal inheritance beyond our wildest dreams (Ephesians 1:11), and in whose glorious presence we will experience unsurpassed joy forevermore (Psalm 16:11). He is precious to us. He is our great gain in death.\nPrepare Through Prayer\nWhen our earthly assignment from Jesus is done (Acts 20:24), he will call us to be with him to enjoy most what we are made to most enjoy: him. This will make death gain for us on that day (Philippians 1:21).\nJesus is eager to give us this great gain, and he wants us to grow in our eagerness to receive it. How do we do that? Like he does. We ask the Father for it! We join Jesus in praying for the time we will finally see him in all his glory. We ask him to decrease the hold that the fear of death has on us due to unbelief in our hearts. And we ask him to give us such faith and longing to be with Christ that we no longer wish to live as long as possible here, but only long enough to faithfully finish our course (Acts 20:24). Because to finally be with our Savior will be so much better (Philippians 1:23).\nSomeday Jesus\u2019s prayer for us to be with him will overrule our prayer to be spared physical death. And when it does, we will know such joy and pleasures that we will wonder why we ever felt any reluctance to pass through the valley of its shadow (Psalm 23:4).\nWhatever it takes, Lord, increase my faith and joy in the truth that death is gain for me, so that I can \u201clet goods and kindred go, this mortal life also.\u201d Do not let the fear of death cause me to resist your will for me, and let me die in a way that declares that Christ is gain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 8873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.devex.com/organizations/comprehensive-rural-health-project-jamkhed-crhp-36891", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PVFBV323NT5YRS4OH5TUJDOPMX33H5XF", "length": 1481, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.devex.com", "title": "Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP) | Devex", "raw_content": "Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)\nhttp://www.jamkhed.org/\nThe Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP), has been working among the rural poor and marginalized for the past 45 years. Founded in 1970 by Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole to bring healthcare to the poorest of the poor, CRHP has become an organization that empowers people and communities to eliminate injustices through integrated efforts in health and development. CRHP works by mobilizing and building the capacity of communities to achieve access to comprehensive development and freedom from stigma, poverty, and disease. Pioneering a comprehensive approach to community-based primary healthcare (also known as the Jamkhed Model), CRHP has been a leader in public health and development in rural communities in India and around the world. Annually, CRHP provides services that directly impact 500,000 people in the state of Maharashtra. Since the opening of the Training Center in 1994, over 30,000 local and 3,000 international representatives from NGOs, governments and healthcare professionals have been trained in the CRHP approach. At the core of this comprehensive community-based approach is its embrace of equity for all, utilizing healthcare as a means to break the cycle of poverty.The work of CRHP has been recognized by the WHO and UNICEF, and has been introduced to communities around the world.\nContact Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)\nJamkhed, Dist. Ahmednagar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.devotedtovinyl.com/whats-the-best-turntable-under-300/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AWUKNAPB6BYC4TSXDGBMW62GHZZNOGSO", "length": 9412, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.devotedtovinyl.com", "title": "What\u2019s the Best Turntable Under $300? | Devoted to Vinyl", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Turntable Reviews / What\u2019s the Best Turntable Under $300?\nAnyone who has done much shopping knows that turntable prices are all over the map. A machine that accomplishes the remarkably simple task of playing a record can cost less than $100 or upward of $100,000. In the first instance, you\u2019re simply not going to get much for your money; in the second, you\u2019re going to get far, far more than you likely need.\nSo how do we go about finding balance? How do we go about getting a great deal for a good price? Well, that\u2019s exactly what this article will help you figure out.\nNow, as the surge in popularity of vinyl LP records continues unabated, a sort of unofficial dividing line has emerged when it comes to price. No, it\u2019s not etched in stone, but it seems to be a common conclusion among audio writers and equipment reviewers. That line is $300. There will always be exceptions, but go much below that figure and it\u2019s quite unlikely that you\u2019ll find a machine that doesn\u2019t do much justice to the unique joy of hearing music on vinyl.\nAs a result, the marketplace is awash in turntables at or very near this pivotal price point, and finding the right rig can be a daunting task. Give us a few minutes of your time, and we\u2019ll provide you with an idea of what kinds of things to be looking for and suggest five turntables that are well worth the money at the \u201csweet spot\u201d of three hundred dollars.\nIn the table below, take a look at some of the sub-$300 turntables that we will discuss today. You can compare each record player based on everything from price to key features.\nThe Ins and Outs of Top Turntables\nSince all turntables, irrespective of price, do essentially the same thing, many of them also look about the same. In fact, some can literally appear to be cloned from another model. Regardless of appearance or other considerations, there are some basic and necessary pre-purchase considerations you must make:\nConstruction. Does the plinth (base) of the rig feel solid? It should be made of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) or some type of metal\u2013- no plastic at this price. Give it the knock test \u2013 how does it feel? The whole idea here is to minimize resonance and vibration while a record is playing. What about the \u201cfeet\u201d the table sits on? Are they going to absorb vibration, or will footsteps in the listening room cause skipping?\nThe platter: The heaver the platter (the round thing you actually put the record on), the better the record-playing experience will be. The platter also serves to help reduce vibration and ensure a solid link between tonearm, stylus, and record.\nDirect or belt: Turntables can be direct or belt-driven. In a belt-driven table, the platter sits on a bearing, and a motor is located to the side; it rotates the platter via a belt. In a direct-drive rig, the platter is perfect on the motor\u2019s shaft, which means that the machine will start and stop faster. Some say direct-drive units have more consistent speed, but that\u2019s not true in all cases, and the jury is still basically out.\nHands on? Most turntables these days (especially within our price parameter) are operated manually. This means that the user is responsible for making sure that the stylus is placed on the record correctly. The tonearm also has to be lifted at the end of a record side. Fully automatic means that, by either flicking a switch or pressing a button, the machine does it all \u2013 starts the motor, lifts the arm, deposits the needle onto the record, then raises the arm and shuts the table off. Most \u201caudiophile\u201d grade turntables are manual ones; the general belief is that in order to include the automatic mechanism, there has to be scrimping elsewhere.\nCartridge considerations: Virtually all turntables in this price range come with a pre-installed cartridge, the little electronic device that\u2019s fastened to the front of the tonearm. In some cases, the new user might be required to manually balance the arm and set the proper stylus pressure. Naturally, some turntable makers keep the price down by including a bare-bones cartridge. But, budget-level or not, they typically sound adequate or better, and they can most always be upgraded later on. We recommend looking for a well-known, brand-name stock cartridge.\nExtra features. Many tables nowadays include built-in preamplifiers for use with receivers that don\u2019t already have one. Further, a growing number of enthusiasts enjoy converting vinyl record tracks to digital files. To do that, a turntable must have a USB connection. Make sure the table you choose has either or both of these features, depending on need and preference.\nThe Best Tables Under $300\nAll that being said, here are five readily available turntables that will do an adequate, or even overachieving, job of getting pleasingly realistic sound out of a vinyl record:\nAt $299, Music Hall Audio\u2019s most popular rig is strikingly attractive, particularly in gloss black. A very basic, two-speed, belt-drive table, it\u2019s designed for unusually quiet operation and comes pre-packed with a fine Magic 2 cartridge made by Ortofon. It has a stainless steel and bronze bearing assembly, and its adjustable damping feet do a terrific job of isolating the machine from external vibrations. A bonus is that it nearly comes \u201cplug and play,\u201d so that even a true novice can get it up and running in just a few minutes. No gimmicks or add-ons here: just a true, audiophile-quality table at a price that won\u2019t empty most people\u2019s wallets.\nGrade: *****\nThis two-speed, belt-drive Pro-Ject, at a cool $299 street price, comes out of the box with a better-than-decent cartridge, the Ortofon OM-5E, and its steel platter bests the platter in the Music Hall and Pioneer. It also takes a jolt as well as any machine in this price class. Otherwise, it\u2019s an appealing, no-nonsense, thoughtfully designed, and well-built table that doesn\u2019t put on any airs. It does just what it\u2019s supposed to, and that\u2019s get pleasing and punchy sound out of records \u2013 all while treating them gently. A cinch to set up, it\u2019s available in a total of six colors.\nThis direct-drive table, which can be sniffed out at a low street price of $279, is hugely popular for a number of reasons. For one thing, in silver (it also comes in black), it has a unique, industrial look and includes DJ-style features like pitch control. For another, it plays at 78 RPM as well as at 33\u2153 and 45. For yet another, it comes out of the box with a superior Audio-Technica T95E cartridge. Adding to its value are the presence of a preamp and USB connectivity. Its looks won\u2019t please the eyes of many, but it\u2019s a solid and hefty machine that absolutely means business.\nAnother two-speed, belt-driven rig, the PL-30-KJ, at $296, is the only automatic record player on our list. It also has a built-in preamp, so it\u2019s clearly aimed at buyers with certain preferences and needs. Sonically, it competes fairly well with the Music Hall and Pro-Ject. Construction-wise, with its dual-layered chassis, it\u2019s heavier and overall more solid than most tables in its class, a definite plus for listening rooms that have a lot of foot traffic. Obviously, if you have to have automatic and/or the preamp, this is the turntables to buy. Setup is a breeze, aided by an unusually clear and well-written instruction manual.\nGrade: ****\nThe price of this neat little two-speed, belt-driven, made-in-Boston table from the upstarts at U-Turn Audio was substantially cut not that long ago, putting it less than 10 bucks above our ceiling at $309. Those \u201cextra\u201d few dollars would be well-spent \u2013 the Orbit Plus is an attractive and competent machine that includes a very nice cartridge from another all-American company: the Grado Black 1. It comes in a choice of five colors, but otherwise, it\u2019s nothing fancy: a solid, well-built table that makes pretty music every time. There\u2019s only one slightly sour note: You have to pay extra for a cueing device that raises and lowers the tonearm.\n\u201cLook it\u2019s a real turntable!\u201d\nBuy any of the above machines, and that\u2019s what friends might be saying (or you might be saying to yourself) the first time you cue up and spin a favorite LP. And all five of the machines on our list are indeed the real thing. Can they be considered \u201chigh end\u201d? Not quite. Move up the price ladder, and you\u2019ll always find something more pleasing. Music will sound more authentic; the listening experience will be more akin to actually having the musicians in the room, particularly on delicate, mainly acoustic material.\nThis is why audiophiles are notorious for suffering from a condition informally known as \u201cupgrade-itis.\u201d No matter how much you\u2019ve spent, there is always something newer, something better\u2014a component that will solve a problem, fill in a crack, or repair a perceived defect. But we have to start somewhere, and owning a good-quality turntable that does a solid, reliable job of playing records is an excellent jumping-off point.\nAny of the above units will satisfy your initial vinyl cravings and provide a cost-effective gateway to the endlessly delightful world of phonograph records.\nWhere Can I Buy a Record Player?\nTurntables are part of the current vinyl transcription landscape. Each year, more and more record \u2026 [Read More...]\n5 Major Reasons You Should Buy a Manual Turntable\nHey guys, it\u2019s Michael from Devoted to Vinyl. And in this video, I\u2019m going to give you my top 5 \u2026 [Read More...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 11396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.diarystore.com/tour/IN?tour_category=3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XMJMNNGDHV4G3PE7YCESSGKNR4ALZPR2", "length": 1945, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.diarystore.com", "title": "Tour : India | Diary Store", "raw_content": "- Any -AgraCalanguteGangtokHyderabadIndiaKarnatakaKonarkMangeshiMysoreNoida Mor, Pandav NagarNorth GoaVONTIMITTA\nShri Mangesh temple is located at Mangeshi Village in Priol, Ponda taluk, Goa . It is at a distance of 1 km from Mardol close to Nagueshi, 21 km from Panaji the capital of Goa, and 26 km from Margao..It's in south Goa,...Read more\nSaraswati temples in India are Basara, Sringeri, prouda Saraswati, Kuthanur, Maha Saraswati temple, Vidya Saraswati temple, Panachikkad Saraswati Temple, Shri Saraswati Temple and Kolanu Bharathi Temple. Among them...Read more\nWelcome to Gangtok, the capital city of Sikkim, India . It is the most wonderful, glorious, picturesque and a very popular hill station located in foothills of the mighty Himalayas. The perfect back view of the...Read more\nAkshardham or Swaminarayan temple is a Hindu temple located in NewDelhi, India . Akshardham temple is the best example for the beautiful Indian architecture of recent times. It showcases the blend of technical modernity...Read more\nMysore city is located in the southern part of the Deccan Plateau. Mysore is now officially renamed as Mysuru (which changed its name from Mysore in 2014) is one of South India's most enchanting cities, famous for its...Read more\nSri Kodanda Rama swamy temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Rama located in Vontimitta town of Rajampet taluk of Kadapa District Andhra Pradesh, India . Sri Kodanda Rama Swamy temple is also called \u201cBhadhrachalam...Read more\nChilkur Balaji ( Lord Venkateswara swamy) Temple is a HINDU temple which has acquired a special name \"Visa Balaji Temple\u201d given by ardent devotees. Chilukur Balaji is an ancient temple of Lord Balaji and it is situated...Read more\nTaj Mahal denoting the Crown of the Palace is an Ivory White marble mausoleum (a large burial chamber usually above ground). Mahal is located on the south bank of Yamuna River in the Agra city, Uttar Pradesh, India ...Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.djsresearch.co.uk/about/person/324", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ2L5Z2TP2FC6OKQER5X7UDYOLOY3MIH", "length": 878, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.djsresearch.co.uk", "title": "Sergio Cardo Zabala - Full Stack Developer", "raw_content": "Sergio Cardo Zabala\nSergio joined DJS Research Ltd in April 2018 to develop and to maintain Management Applications and websites.\nSergio has 3 years of experience analysing, designing, developing and maintaining customised applications for the departments of a consultancy and engineering company in Spain.\nIn this period, he created more than 30 applications including developing solutions within ERP, CRM, project management, survey systems, analytical reports, web applications/CMS and HR & Admin management.\nSergio has experience working in a small team using the Agile development methodology SCRUM. He has worked with Visual Studio, ASP.net, C#, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery and SQL as well as also having experience in MVC, Linq, PHP, Java, C++, MySql and Oracle.\nIn addition, he has good knowledge in computer systems, networks and electricity & electronics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dllsuite.com/crlp/How_to_repair_corrupted_DLL_files_on_Windows_fr2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:74LRRKW62I2KO5WTWWZPMAZGCP4L5CQZ", "length": 4130, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.dllsuite.com", "title": "How to repair corrupted DLL files on Windows? - DLL Suite", "raw_content": "To repair errors relating to faulty DLL files, you have to choose Dll Suite.\nDll file repair is indeed a very necessary thing in your PC now. It has been found that dll file errors are one of such issues that you face each and every day. A file missing or corrupted problem is a very serious one in the system. It can be seen that different applications errors come up when any dll file causes errors. Therefore, it is important to know the errors and also find out which one can be the best one to stop all such issues from the core.\nWhen the repairing process is undertaken, they it is expected that the condition of your PC will improve. However, when you see there are more issues coming up, you need to understand that the troubleshooting was not appropriate. Some of the errors are discussed below. You can have a look and make your notion clear. Once you do this, you will never have to think how to stop the issues from the core.\nApplication errors in computer:\nYou can get errors with different types of applications. It can be said that, suppose you use WinRar application for creating Zip file. However, if dll files like winzip.dll get missing from the Windows registry, you won't be able to extract any of the files from the folder. You may get messages like files cannot be extracted. It may show you that Windows has encountered an error with the application. This error can make your machine problematic to use. Therefore, it is important to understand why a DLL repair is needed in your PC.\nA similar error can also come up with Picasa. You may notice that at the time of opening any of the image file with Picasa, amepokidupa.dll file error may come up. When such problems arise, you may get notification that image files crash takes place in machine. Therefore, the condition becomes worse and it also slows down your machine. DLL file error is indeed a very annoying thing in the PC.\nStart-up error in PC:\nWhile trying to start up the PC, you may face an error at the time of opening the system. You can get a message as there is a rundll.dll file error. At that time, you may notice that the booting cannot be done in the system. Once such errors takes place, your screen can turn blue and a lot of error codes may also appear in the system. It may show you that Windows face faulting module error however; the specific module could not be located. You can get a message as booting process has failed. The blue screen of death error can also come up in the system with such error. Therefore, you need to repair dll files as soon as possible.\nThe start-up error can also come up with some of the games. Suppose you play Dota 2 in your machine. However, when you try to open the game, an error comes up as winkzk32.dll file is unable to open the game. It shows that the dll file is missing from the system. As a result, such errors come up and game could not be played. The start error may also lead to crash of the application in the system. If the system crashes, you can lose all your important data. At that time, you will be in a more crucial situation. Therefore, it is important to find out a proper fix to stop the issues.\nWhy manual fix is not worth?\nYou can go for manual fixation in your system by simply deleting the corrupted files. In such a case, you can type Windows + R to get the access to the command prompt box. In that particular box, you need to mention regedit.exe to edit the Windows registry. You should also understand that the repair dll files free process may not be done properly with it. First of all, if you do not have a proper idea about it, there is a chance that you may mess up the healthy DLL files.\nThe troubleshooting procedure which you can rely on:\nTo repair dll errors on the core, you need to know which tool to opt for. A random tool may not help you to eliminate each and every error and may also mess up few system settings of the computer. Therefore, installing DLL Suite can be regarded as the best option. The said DLL repair tool is efficient enough and once it is installed on the PC, you need not worry about any file corruption faults at all in the long run.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.doctorwaynesuway.com/blog/2017/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:BEHHT6XDXFELUDIY3SD4ZLSF6QXGZSMK", "length": 2024, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.doctorwaynesuway.com", "title": "January 2017 | Doctor Wayne Suway Blog", "raw_content": "Teeth Whitening Mistakes\nA bright, white smile is desired by many, and for decades, people have gone to extremes to achieve it. Brides-to-be, coffee addicts, and job hunters are all frequent users of teeth whitening products that help them make a good impression. While professional teeth whitening is available at the dentist\u2019s office, many people are still choosing to whiten their teeth at home in order to save time and money. However, a great deal of time and money are wasted each year using over the counter products that simply cannot achieve the results that customers desire. Along with not achieving the white smile they want, many people are actually harming their smiles.\nCommon teeth whitening mistakes can leave you with a damaged smile that is expensive to recover. Avoiding these common teeth whitening mistakes will help to protect your smile and achieve the beautiful smile you desire. (more\u2026)\nThe Consequences of Jawbone Loss After Missing Teeth\nAlthough inconspicuous at first, one of the most detrimental effects of a missing tooth is bone loss. Just like the muscles in our body, our bone tissues also need proper stimulation and exercise to maintain their form and density. When it comes to the jawbone, the roots of our teeth are embedded in these bone tissues. Each time you chew or bite, you are essentially stimulating your jawbone and supporting its health. However, when a tooth is missing, the alveolar bone (the part that secures the teeth in the mouth) is no longer stimulated. In result, the bone will begin to deteriorate or resorb. (more\u2026)\nHow To Choose a Dental Practice\nPosted on January 11, 2017 in Cosmetic Dentistry, Family Dentistry, General Dentistry\nWhether you have moved to a new state, across town, or are simply looking for a new dental practice, there are certain things to consider when making the choice. While convenience is often a huge priority, other factors make choosing a dental practice important. Below are tips on how to choose a dental practice to trust. (more\u2026)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 22571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.duiattorneyhome.com/dui-blog/2011/04/13/can-a-police-officer-refuse-to-give-you-a-blood-test/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XLUGSKG5FZVSIOWWG6JNBLVXQ5BIHE4Z", "length": 2668, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.duiattorneyhome.com", "title": "Can A Police Officer Refuse to give you a Blood Test?", "raw_content": "Can A Police Officer Refuse to give you a Blood Test?\nIn many states, if you have been stopped for a DUI you have the right to an independent blood or urine test that can be maintained and later analyzed to compare with the results from your breathalyzer test. Why is this needed? Because according to the U.S. Supreme Court in California v. Trombetta, if you have been administered a breathalyzer test there is no legal right for the officer to save the sample and allow the defense to independently review it at a later date.\nGetting a blood or urine test may be a legal right, but officers are often reluctant to notify a driver that they have this right. Why? They do not want to take the extra time that is needed to find a technician to perform the test so the law is routinely ignored by police officers.\nIf you have been arrested and your legal right was violated, what recourse do you have? It depends on the state. In California, according to the law which states, \u201cno failure or omission to advise pursuant to this section shall affect the admissibility of any evidence of the alcohol content of the blood of the person arrested\u201d, it may be impossible to suppress the breathalyzer test as evidence, even though the mandatory law was ignored by the California police officer.\nSome state courts, however, have concluded that the breathalyzer may be suppressed if certain attempts were made by the officer to interfere with the blood tests. In State v. George, the Kansas court decided that the breathalyzer test should be suppressed because the officer did not allow the driver to take a blood test. The officer refused the request because he believed it would take too long to drive the suspect to a hospital and have the procedure completed.\nSo does a driver have the legal right to request a blood sample? Yes. Does the officer always honor that request? Sometimes and if they do not, you may have very little legal recourse. This is called a right without a remedy, and if it happens to you it is time to find a good DUI lawyer.\nDUI lawyers understand the complexity of DUI laws and can help you even if you have been arrested for DUI for the very first time. DUI laws have become more severe and even first time DUI offenders may have their license suspended and have to pay high fines and penalties.\nDo not try to handle a DUI charge on your own. Find a DUI attorney who can answer your questions and help you move forward with your life.\nThis entry was posted in Defending DUI, DUI/DWI and tagged blood test, breathalyzer, DUI attorney, DUI Law, DUI Lawyer on April 13, 2011 by Beth.\n\u2190 DUI Car Accidents How to get Car Insurance as a High Risk Driver \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=4444&publications=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:35Z", "digest": "sha1:47WTHL55WDBKLL6T55G7UDF3DJN4SQ7J", "length": 24411, "nlines": 118, "source_domain": "www.dur.ac.uk", "title": "Professor S E Higgins - Durham University", "raw_content": "Professor Steve Higgins - all publications\nMartin-Kerry, Jacqueline M, Knapp, Peter, Atkin, Karl, Bower, Peter, Watt, Ian, Stones, Catherine, Higgins, Steven, Sheridan, Rebecca, Preston, Jenny, Horton Taylor, Danielle, Baines, Paul & Young, Bridget (2019). Supporting children and young people when making decisions about joining clinical trials: qualitative study to inform multimedia website development. BMJ Open 9(1): bmjopen-2018-023984.\nTymms, P. & Higgins, S. (2018). Judging Research Papers for Research Excellence. Studies in Higher Education 43(9): 1548-1560.\nXiao,Z. & Higgins,S. (2018). The power of noise and the art of prediction. International Journal of Educational Research 87: 36-46.\nSheridan, R., Martin-Kerry, J., Watt, I., Higgins, S., Stones, S., Horton-Taylor, D. & Knapp, P. (2018). User testing digital, multimedia information to inform children, adolescents and their parents about healthcare trials. Journal of Child Health Care\nXiao, Z., Higgins, S. & Kasim, A. (2017). An Empirical Unravelling of Lord\u2019s Paradox. The Journal of Experimental Education\nMartin-Kerry, J., Bower, P., Young, B., Graffy, J., Sheridan, R., Watt, I., Baines, P., Stones, C., Preston, J., Higgins, S., Gamble, C. & Knapp, P. (2017). Developing and evaluating multimedia information resources to improve engagement of children, adolescents and their parents with trials (TRECA study): Study Protocol for a series of linked randomised controlled trials. Trials 18: 265.\nCooper, D., Higgins, S. & Beckmann, N. (2017). Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 45(4): 546-560.\nMercier, E., Vourloumi, G. & Higgins, S. (2017). Student interactions and the development of ideas in multi-touch and paper-based collaborative mathematical problem solving. British Journal of Educational Technology 48(1): 162-175.\nGascoine, L., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2017). The Assessment of Metacognition in Children Aged 4\u201316 years: A Systematic Review. Review of Education 5(1): 3-57.\nAlabdulaziz, M. & Higgins, S. (2017). Understanding technology use and constructivist strategies when addressing Saudi primary students' mathematics difficulties. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology 6(1): 105, 586-593.\nHiggins, S. & Katsipataki, M. (2016). Communicating comparative findings from meta-analysis in educational research: some examples and suggestions. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 39(3): 237-254.\nHung, Y.-W. & Higgins, S. (2016). Learners\u2019 use of communication strategies in text-based and video-based synchronous computer-mediated communication environments: opportunities for language learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning 29(5): 901-924.\nHiggins, S. (2016). Meta-synthesis and comparative meta-analysis of education research findings: some risks and benefits. Review of Education 4(1): 31-53.\nAlabdulaziz, M. & Higgins, S. (2016). Obstacles to Technology use When Addressing Saudi Primary Students' Mathematics Difficulties. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology 5(10): 412-417.\nXiao, Z., Higgins, S. & Kasim, A. (2016). Same Difference? Understanding Variation in the Estimation of Effect Sizes from Educational Trials. International Journal of Educational Research 77: 1-14.\nKyriakou, A. & Higgins, S. (2016). Systematic Review of the Studies Examining the Impact of the Interactive Whiteboard on Teaching and Learning: what we do learn and what we do not. Preschool and Primary Education 4(2): 254-275.\nMercier, Emma M., Higgins, Steven E. & Joyce-Gibbons, A. (2016). The effects of room design on computer-supported collaborative learning in a multi-touch classroom. Interactive Learning Environments 24(3): 504-522.\nKatsipataki, M. & Higgins, S. (2016). What Works or What's Worked? Evidence from Education in the United Kingdom. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 217: 903-909.\nHiggins, S. & Katsipataki, M. (2015). Evidence from meta-analysis about parental involvement in education which supports their children\u2019s learning. Journal of Children's Services 10(3): 280-290.\nAl-Shammari, M.O. & Higgins, S.E. (2015). Obstacles facing Faculty Members in the Effective Implementation of e-learning at Some Universities in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Information Technology & Computer Science 19(1): 1-12.\nAinsworth, H., Hewitt, C., Torgerson, C., Higgins, S., Wiggins, A. & Torgerson, D. (2015). Sources of bias in outcome assessment in randomised controlled trials: a case study. Educational Research and Evaluation 21(1): 3-14.\nCooper, D. & Higgins, S. (2015). The effectiveness of online instructional videos in the acquisition and demonstration of cognitive, affective and psychomotor rehabilitation skills. British journal of educational technology 46(4): 768-779.\nMercier, E.M. & Higgins, S.E. (2014). Creating Joint Representations of Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-touch Technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 30(6): 497-510.\nHiggins, S.E. (2014). Critical thinking for 21st-century education: A cyber-tooth curriculum?. Prospects 14(4): 559-574.\nMercier, E., Higgins, S. & Da Costa, L. (2014). Different leaders: Emergent organizational and intellectual leadership in children\u2019s collaborative learning groups. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 9(4): 397-432.\nWall, K., Higgins, S., Hall, E. & Woolner, P. (2013). 'That's not quite the way we see it': the epistemological challenge of visual data. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 36(1): 3-22.\nMercier, E.M. & Higgins, S. (2013). Collaborative learning with multi-touch technology: Developing adaptive expertise. Learning and Instruction 25: 13-23.\nWall, K., Higgins, S., Remedios, R., Rafferty, V. & Tiplady, L. (2013). Comparing Analysis Frames for Visual Data Sets: Using Pupil Views Templates to explore perspectives of learning. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 7(1): 22-42.\nAl-Qahtani, A.A.Y. & Higgins, S.E. (2013). Effects of traditional, blended and e-learning on students' achievement in higher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 29(3 ): 220-234.\nWoolner, P., McCarter, S., Wall, K. & Higgins, S. (2012). Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice?. Improving Schools 15(1): 45-60.\nHiggins, S., Mercier, E., Burd, E. & Joyce-Gibbons, A. (2012). Multi-touch tables and collaborative learning. British Journal of Educational Technology 43(6): 1041-1054.\nBarmby, Patrick, Bolden, David, Higgins, Steve & Tymms, Peter (2012). Predicting success on a Bachelor of Arts Primary Education degree course. Educational Research 54(3): 323-330.\nHiggins, S., Mercier, E., Burd, E. & Hatch, A. (2011). Multi-touch tables and the relationship with collaborative classroom pedagogies: A synthetic review. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 6(4): 515-538.\nAlbaaly, E. & Higgins, S. (2011). The impact of interactive whiteboard technology on medical students' achievement in ESL essay writing: an early study in Egypt. Language Learning Journal 40(2): 207-222.\nBaumfield, V.M., Hall, E., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2009). Catalytic tools: understanding the interaction of enquiry and feedback in teachers' learning. European Journal of Teacher Education 32(4): 423-435.\nResing, W., Elliott, J.G. & Higgins, S.E. (2009). Reasoning in children and adolescents. Educational and Child Psychology 26(3).\nWall, K., Higgins, S., Glasner, E., Mahmout, U. & Gormally, J. (2009). Teacher enquiry as a tool for professional development: investigating pupils' effective talk while learning. Australian Educational Researcher 36(2): 93-117.\nBarmby, P., Harries, T., Higgins, S. & Suggate, J. (2009). The array representation and primary children's understanding and reasoning in multiplication. Educational Studies in Mathematics 70(3): 217-241.\nWoolner, P., Hall, E., Higgins, S., McCaughey, C. & Wall, K. (2007). A sound foundation? What we know about the impact of environments on learning and the implications for Building Schools for the Future. Oxford Review of Education 33(1): 47-70.\nSmith, F., Hardman, F. & Higgins, S. (2007). Gender inequality in the primary classroom: will interactive whiteboards help?. Gender and Education 19(4): 455-469.\nHiggins, S., Beauchamp, G. & Miller, D. (2007). Reviewing the literature on interactive whiteboards. Learning, Media and Technology 32(3): 213-225.\nWall, K., Higgins, S., Miller, J. & Packard, N. (2006). Developing Digital Portfolios: investigating how digital portfolios can facilitate pupil talk about learning. Technology, Pedagogy and Education 15(3): 261-273.\nWall, K. & Higgins, S. (2006). Facilitating and supporting talk with pupils about metacognition: a research and learning tool. International Journal of Research and Method in Education 29(1): 39-53.\nWall, K. & Higgins, S. (2006). Facilitating metacognitive talk: a research and learning tool. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 29(1): 39-53.\nHall, E., Leat, D., Wall, K., Higgins, S. & Edwards, G. (2006). Learning to Learn: Teacher Research in the Zone of Proximal Development. Teacher Development 10(2): 140-166.\nSmith, H. & Higgins, S. (2006). Opening classroom interaction: the importance of feedback. Cambridge Journal of Education 36(4): 485-502.\nSmith, F., Hardman, F. & Higgins, S. (2006). The impact of interactive whiteboards on teacher-pupil interaction in the national literacy and numeracy strategies. British Educational Research Journal 32(3): 443-457.\nHiggins, S., Wall, K. & Smith, H. (2005). 'The visual helps me understand the complicated things': pupil views of teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards. British Journal of Educational Technology 36(5): 851-867.\nSmith, H.J., Higgins, S., Wall, K. & Miller, J. (2005). Interactive Whiteboards: boon or bandwagon? A critical review of the literature. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21(2): 91-101.\nHall, E., Wall, K., Higgins, S., Stephens, L., Pooley, I. & Welham, J. (2005). Learning to Learn with Parents: lessons from two research projects. Improving Schools 8(2): 179-191.\nHall, I. & Higgins, S. (2005). Primary school students' perceptions of interactive whiteboards. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21(2): 102-117.\nMoseley, D., Elliott, J., Gregson, M. & Higgins, S. (2005). Thinking Skills Frameworks for Use in Education and Training. British Educational Research Journal 31(3): 367-390.\nLeat, D. & Higgins, S. (2002). The role of powerful pedagogical strategies in curriculum development. Curriculum Journal 13(1): 71-85.\nHiggins, S. & Moseley, D. (2001). Teachers' thinking about information and communications technology and learning: beliefs and outcomes. Teacher Development 5(2): 191-210.\nHiggins, S (2018). Improving Learning: Meta-analysis of Intervention Research in Education.\nGoodbourn, R., Hartley, T., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2009). Learning to Learn for Life 3: Research and Practical Examples for Secondary Schools. Continuum Publishing.\nBarmby, P., Bilsborough, L., Harries, T. & Higgins, S. (2009). Primary mathematics: Teaching for understanding. Buckingham: Oxford Univesity Press.\nWall, K., Higgins, S. & Packard, E. (2007). Talking about Learning: Using templates to find out pupils\u2019 views. Devon: Southgate Publishers.\nMoseley, D., Baumfield, V., Elliott, J., Gregson, M., Higgins, S., Miller, J. & Newton, D.P. (2005). Frameworks for thinking: a handbook for teaching and learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\nHiggins, S. (2001). Thinking Through Primary Teaching. Cambridge: Chris Kington Publishing.\nHiggins, S. & Coffield, F. (2016). John Dewey\u2019s Democracy and Education: A British tribute. London: IoE Press.\nPassey, D. & Higgins, S. (2013). Learning platforms and learning outcomes. London: Routledge.\nHiggins, S. (2003). Does ICT Improve Learning and Teaching in Schools?. Nottingham: British Educational Research Association.\nHiggins, S. (2017). Impact evaluation: a case study of the introduction of interactive whiteboards in schools in the UK. In Education Research: Methods and Methodologies. Coe, R., Waring, M., Hedges, L.V. & Arthur, J. London: Sage. 145-152.\nHiggins, S. (2017). Room in the Toolbox? The place of randomised controlled trials in educational research. In Mobilising Teacher Researchers: Challenging Educational Inequality. Childs, A. & Menter, I. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.\nChurches, R., Hall, R. & Higgins, S. (2017). The potential of teacher-led randomised controlled trials in education research. In Mobilising Teacher Researchers: Challenging Educational Inequality. Childs, A. & Menter, I. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.\nWall, K., Higgins, S., Hall, E. & Gascoine, L. (2017). What does learning look like? Using cartoon story boards to investigate student perceptions (from 4 to 15) of learning something new. In Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Emme, Michael & Kirova, Anna Victoria, BC: The Canadian Society for Education through Art. 211-227.\nHiggins, S. (2016). Dewey, Education, and Schooling. In John Dewey\u2019s Democracy and Education: A British tribute. Higgins, S. & Coffield, F. London: IoE Press.\nHiggins, S. (2016). New (and Old) Technologies for Learning: Innovation and Educational Growth. In Psicolog\u00eda y Educaci\u00f3n: Presente y Futuro. Castej\u00f3n Costa, J.L.(coord.). Alicante: Asociaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica de Psicolog\u00eda y Educaci\u00f3n (ACIPE). 45-52.\nHiggins, S. (2015). A Recent History of Teaching Thinking. In The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking. Wegerif, R., Li, L. & Kaufman, J. C. Routledge. 19-28.\nXiao, Z. & Higgins, S. (2015). When English Meets Chinese in Tibetan Schools: Towards an Understanding of Multilingual Education in Tibet. In Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges. Feng, A. & Adamson, B. Dordrecht: Springer. 117-140.\nHiggins, S.E. (2014). Formative assessment and feedback to learners. In Proven Programs in Education: Classroom Management and Assessment. Slavin, R.E. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. 11-15.\nHiggins, S.E. (2013). Matching Style of Learning. In International Guide to Student Achievement (Educational Psychology Handbook). Hattie, J. & Anderman, E.M. London: Routledge. 337-438.\nHiggins, S. (2013). Self regulation and learning: evidence from meta-analysis and from classrooms. In British Journal of Educational Psychology Monograph Series II: Psychological Aspects of Education - Current Trends: No. 10. Self-regulation and dialogue in primary classrooms. Whitebread, D., Mercer, N., Howe, C. & Tolmie, A. Leicester: British Psychological Society. 111-126.\nHiggins, S.E. (2013). What can we Learn from Research? In Beyond Early Reading. Waugh, D. & Neaum, S. St. Albans: Critical Publishing Ltd.\nHiggins, S.E. (2012). Impact evaluation: a case study of the introduction of interactive whiteboards in schools in the UK. In Research Methods and Methodologies in Education. Arthur, J., Waring, M., Coe, R. & Hedges, V. Sage. 131-136.\nHall, E., Wall, K., Higgins, S., Stephens, L., Pooley, I & Welham, J. (2010). Learning to Learn with Parents: lessons from two research projects. In Action Research in Education: Volume 3: Key Examples of Action Research in Schools within International Settings. Campbell, A. & Groundwater-Smith, S. London: Sage Publications. 3: 121-135.\nBarmby, P., Harries, A.V. & Higgins, S.E. (2010). Teaching for understanding/understanding for teaching. In Issues in teaching numeracy in primary schools. Thompson, I. Open University Press. 45-57.\nHiggins, S.E. (2010). The impact of interactive whiteboards on classroom interaction and learning in primary schools in the UK. In Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research and Practice. Thomas, M. & Cutrim-Schmid, E. Hershey, Pa: IGI Global. 86-101.\nHiggins, S. (2008). Mathematical learning and the use of information and communications technology in the early years. In Teaching and Learning Early Number. Thompson, I. (Ed) Maidenhead: Open University Press. 214-221.\nHiggins, S. (2003). Parlez-vous mathematics? In Enhancing Primary Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Thompson, I. Buckingham: Open University Press.\nHiggins, S. & Moseley, D. (2002). Raising Achievement in Literacy through ICT. In Teaching Primary Literacy with ICT. Monteith, M. Buckingham: Open University Press. 30-45.\nGascoine, L., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2014), A systematic review of methods to assess metacognition in school\u2010aged children. Paper presented at symposium entitled Metacognition, executive functioning and self\u2010regulation: measurement tools from infancy to adolescence, 6th biennial meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 \u2013 Metacognition. Istanbul.\nMercier, E., Higgins, S.E., Burd, E.L. & Joyce-Gibbons, A. (2012), Multi-Touch Technology to Support Multiple Levels of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom, in van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M.J. & Reimann, P. eds, Short Papers, Symposia and Abstracts 2: The Future of Learning: 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012).\nMercier, E., McNaughton, J., Higgins, S. & Burd, E. (2012), Orchestrating Learning in the Multi-touch Classroom: Developing Appropriate Tools, in van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M.J. & Reimann, P. eds, Short Papers, Suymposia and Abstracts 2: The Future of Learning: 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012).\nMercier, E., Higgins, S. & Burd, E. (2011), Interdisciplinary design research: developing educational technology, 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction. Exeter, Exeter.\nHatch, A., Higgins, S.E., Joyce-Gibbons, A. & Mercier, E. (2011), NumberNet: Using Multi-tough Technology to Support Within and Between Group Mathematics Learning, in Spada, H., Stahl, G., Miyake, N. & Law, N. eds, 1: Connecting CSCL to Policy and Practice: CSCL2011. 176-183.\nAlagha, I., Burd, E., Higgins, S. & Mercier, E. (2011), SynergyNet Exploring Design and Pedagogy in a Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, in Spada, H., Stahl, G., Miyake, N. & Law, N. eds, Vol. III - Community Events Proceedings: 9th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011). Hong Kong, China, International Society of the Learning Sciences, Hong Kong, 1081-1082.\nThomas, J., Graziosi, S., Higgins, S., Coe, R., Torgerson, C. & Newman, M. (2012). Teaching meta-analysis using MetaLight. BMC Research Notes 5: 571.\nHiggins, S., Baumfield, V., Newton, D. & Elliott, J. (2009). Developing effective multimedia instruction for expert learners. American Journal of Psychology 567-569.\nColdwell, M., Greany, T., Higgins, S., Brown, C., Maxwell, B., Stiell, B., Stoll, L., Willis, B. & Burns, H. (2017). Evidence-informed teaching: an evaluation of progress in England. Appendices. Research Report July 2017 (DFE- RR696a). London, Department for Education.\nColdwell, M., Greany, T., Higgins, S., Brown, C., Maxwell, B., Stiell, B., Stoll, L., Willis, B. & Burns, H. (2017). Evidence-informed teaching: an evaluation of progress in England. Research report July 2017 (DFE- RR696). London, Department for Education.\nHiggins, S., Katsipataki, M., Villanueva-Aguilera, A.B., Coleman, R., Henderson, P., Major, L.E., Coe, R. & Mason, D. (2016). The Sutton Trust-Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit. London, Education Endowment Foundation.\nCordingley, P., Higgins, S., Greany, T., Buckler, N., Coles-Jordan, D., Crisp, B., Saunders, L. & Coe, R. (2015). Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development. London, Teacher Development Trust.\nMacleod, S., Sharp, C., Bernardinelli, D., Skipp, A. & Higgins, S. (2015). Supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils: articulating success and good practice: Research report November 2015. London, Department for Education.\nHiggins, S., Katsipataki, M. & Coleman, R. (2014). Reading at the Transition. London: Education Endowment Foundation.\nCoe, R., Aloisi, C., Higgins, S. & Major, L.E. (2014). What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research. London: Sutton Trust.\nHiggins, S., Katsipataki, M., Kokotsaki, D., Coleman, R., Major, L.E. & Coe, R. (2013). The Sutton Trust - Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit. London, Education Endowment Foundation.\nHiggins, S., Xiao, Z. & Katsipataki, M. (2012). The Impact of Digital Technology on Learning: A Summary for the Education Endowment Foundation. London, Education Endowment Foundation.\nTorgerson, C.J., Wiggins, A., Torgerson, D.J., Ainsworth, H., Barmby, P., Hewitt, C., Jones, K., Hendry, V., Askew, M., Bland, M., Coe, R., Higgins, S., Hodgen, J., Hulme, C. & Tymms, P. (2011). Every Child Counts: The Independent evaluation Executive Summary. Department for Education (DfE).\nTorgerson, C.J., Wiggins, A., Torgerson, D.J., Ainsworth, H., Barmby, P., Hewitt, C., Jones, K., Hendry, V., Askew, M., Bland, M., Coe, R., Higgins, S., Hodgen, J., Hulme, C. & Tymms, P. (2011). The Every Child Counts Independent Evaluation Report to DfE.\nHiggins, S., Kokotsaki, D. & Coe, R.J. (2011). Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning: Summary for Schools Spending the Pupil Premium: Technical Appendices. Sutton Trust.\nHiggins, S., Kokotsaki, D. & Coe, R.J. (2011). Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning: Summary for Schools Spending the Pupil Premium. Sutton Trust.\nWall, K., Hall, E., Baumfield, V., Higgins, S., Rafferty, V., Remedios, R., Thomas, U., Tiplady, L., Towler, C. & Woolner, P. (2010). Learning to learn in schools phase 4 and Learning to learn in further education. Newcastle\nWall, K., Hall, E., Higgins, S., Leat, D., Thomas, U., Tiplady, L., Towle, C. & Woolner, P. (2009). Learning to Learn in Schools Phase 4 Year One Report. Campaign for Learning.\nHiggins, S., Wiggins, A. & Searle, J. (2008). Bridge Model Evaluation Final Report for the National College for School Leadership. CEM Centre/School of Education. Durham.\nHiggins, S., Baumfield, V., Hall, E., Moseley, D., Wall, K. & Woolner, P. (2008). Learning to Learn Phase 3 evaluation: Final report. London, Campaign for Learning.\nRobinson, C., Sebba, J., Mackrill, D. & Higgins, S. (2008). Personalising learning: the learner perspective and their influence on demand Final report. Coventry.\nHiggins, S., Sebba, J., roninson, C. & Mackrill, D. (2008). Personalising learning: the learner perspective and their influence on demand Review report. Coventry.\nHiggins, S., Baumfield, V. & Hall, E. (2007). Learning skills and the development of learning capabilities. Technical Report. London.\nHiggins, S., Hall, E., Baumfield, V. & Moseley, D. (2005). A meta-analysis of the impact of the implementation of thinking skills approaches on pupils. EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education. London, University of London, Institute of Education.\nHiggins, S., Falzon, C., Hall, I., Moseley, D., Smith, F., Smith, H. & Wall, K. (2005). Embedding ICT in The Literacy and Numeracy Strategies: Final Report. Centre for Learning and Teaching, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. Newcastle, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.\nWoolner, P., Hall, E., Wall, K., Higgins, S., Blake, A. & McCaughey, C. (2005). School building programmes: Motivations, consequences and implications. Reading: CfBT.\nHiggins, S., Hall, E., Wall, K., Woolner, P. & McCaughey, C. (2005). The Impact of School Environments: A literature review. London, The Design Council.\nHiggins, S., Baumfield, V., Lin, M., Moseley, D., Butterworth, M., Downey, G., Gregson, M., Oberski, I., Rockett, M. & Thacker, D. (2004). Thinking skills approaches to effective teaching and learning: what is the evidence for impact on learners? London, EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit.\nMoseley, D., Baumfield, V., Lin, M., Higgins, S., Miller, J., Newton, D., Robson, S., Elliott, J. & Gregson, M. (2003). Thinking Skill Frameworks for post-16 Learners: an Evaluation. London, Learning Skills Development Agency.\nMercer, N., Wegerif, R., Dawes, L., Sams, C. & Higgins, S. (2002). Language, Thinking and ICT in the primary curriculum: Final project report to the Nuffield Foundation. Milton Keynes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 27299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/muslims-in-france-italy-join-catholic-mass-to-mourn-french-priest/a-19440122", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CUETO5CQH4DDY3HH6Y4BEM2MINUZXDTU", "length": 4203, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.dw.com", "title": "Muslims in France, Italy join Catholic mass to mourn French priest | News | DW | 31.07.2016", "raw_content": "Muslims in France, Italy join Catholic mass to mourn French priest\nMuslims in France have attended Catholic mass in churches and cathedrals across the country in a show of solidarity following the gruesome murder of a French priest. Interfaith services were also held in Italy.\nMuslim worshipers observe a minute of silence outside the Saint Etienne church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on July 29\nDozens of Muslims were among the faithful who packed into the Gothic cathedral in the town of Rouen, northern France, on Sunday.\nPolicemen and soldiers stood guard outside, seeking to reassure a jittery community five days after two jihadi teenagers killed an 85-year-old priest inside a church just a few kilometers away in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.\n\"This morning we extend a special welcome to our Muslim friends,\" Rouen Archbishop Dominique Lebrun said in his homily.\n\"I thank you in the name of all Christians. In this way you are affirming that you reject death and violence in the name of God.\"\nA number of Muslim leaders attended the service, along with three nuns who were at the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray when Father Jacques Hamel was brutally murdered at the altar.\nThe killing gave rise to questions about lapses in security after it was reported that both 19-year-old offenders were known to authorities and had attempted to reach Syria. There were also fears the attack could create possible tensions between the religions and add to divisions in French society.\nMembers of Italy's Muslim community attend a multifaith service at Milan's Santa Maria Caravaggio church\nFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday called for a new \"pact\" with the country's 5 million Muslims, which make up the largest Muslim population in Europe.\n\"Islam has found its place in France... contrary to the repeated attacks of populists on the right and far-right,\" he said, calling for the rejection of Islam to be combatted \"with the greatest strength.\"\nChurches in other French cities also opened their doors to Muslims on Sunday. Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Mosque of Paris, was among those who attended a service in the capital's iconic Notre Dame cathedral.\n\"The situation is serious,\" he told broadcaster BFMTV. \"Time has come to come together so as not to be divided.\"\nMultifaith services were held across Italy too, notably at Rome's Santa Maria di Trastevere church. In Naples, Abdullah Cozzolino from Italy's Islamic Confederation spoke in the Treasure of St. Gennaro chapel next to the Duomo cathedral, stressing the \"need of dialogue, more affirmation of shared values of peace, of solidarity, of love, out of respect for our one God, merciful and compassionate.\"\nnm/ rc(AP, AFP)\nFrench government considers banning foreign funding of mosques\nThe proposal comes as pressure mounts on the government to do more to prevent domestic terrorist attacks. France is \"just now waking up\" to the threat of Islamist extremism, one expert told DW. (29.07.2016)\nClose 'radical' mosques, urges Corsica assembly\nCorsica's regional assembly has demanded that Paris closed \"radical\" mosques on the French island, according to the news agency AFP. Corsica's resolution follows persistent jihadist attacks on the French mainland. (29.07.2016)\nFrench authorities identify second Normandy church attacker\nPolice and judicial sources in France say they have identified the second of two men who attacked a French church. He was known to security authorities as a potential Islamist militant. (28.07.2016)\nHollande meets with religious leaders as France reels from church attack\nHollande and religious leaders have pushed for solidarity as the country remains on high alert following an attack at a church. Angela Merkel also expressed her condolences in a letter to the president. (27.07.2016)\nKeywords Muslims, France, Rouen, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Jacques Hamel\nPermalink https://p.dw.com/p/1JZGM\nPope Francis compares migrant detention centers to Nazi concentration camps 22.04.2017\nThe leader of the Catholic Church went off script to denounce the conditions refugees face after entering Europe. Pope Francis was leading a service in Rome for modern-day Christian martyrs when he made the comparison.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 8623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/conscientious_objection_revisited", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:M3WJDI3WFH7QTSAPENHBE77KWECECYJA", "length": 6515, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.dyingwithdignity.ca", "title": "Conscientious objection revisited - Dying With Dignity Canada", "raw_content": "Conscientious objection revisited\nDr. David Amies: When a doctor's conscience thwarts patients' access to care\nIn his latest entry for Dying With Dignity Canada's blog, Dr. David Amies revisits the topic of conscientious objection, and in particular, whether physicians should be allowed to refuse to provide referrals for patients who request assisted dying \u2014 even if that refusal could ultimately lead to a denial of care.\nDr. David Amies: Let's take a closer look at conscientious objection\nProfessor Julian Savulescu, a professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, during a recent series of public talks and interviews in Australia, argued that health care professionals should not be allowed to deny patients legitimate treatment on the grounds of their conscientious objections to the treatment. He rightly points out that such objections lead to delay in treatment and are not in the best interests of the patient. He cites the instance in which a pharmacist refuses to dispense the \u201cmorning after\u201d pill to a young woman and thereby puts her at risk of a pregnancy that she does not wish to have. He claims that such conscientious squeamishness can cause delays when a patient asks for physician-assisted death and so subjects the sufferer to additional distress while other more willing practitioners are found.\nSavulescu\u2019s talk has particular relevance for us in Canada in the light of the refusal of some physicians and other health professionals to participate in medical aid in dying, especially in smaller centres where there may well be no other available sources of help. Savulescu puts forward two main arguments. Firstly, when conscientious objection is allowed, patients are prevented from obtaining timely necessary and legal treatment and potentially put at risk through delay not occasioned by clinical reasons.\nSavulescu\u2019s second argument is a moral one and he poses a difficult question. Why should the medical care to which patients are entitled depend upon the personal and religious values of the health professionals they happened to attend? He grants that practitioners are entitled to their own values but he wonders whether such entitlement can be allowed to trump the legitimate needs and rights of patients. He holds that the principles of law and ethics should determine what treatments patients may receive and not the personal values of providers. In other words, the interests and desires of patients must take precedence over the personal prejudices of practitioners.\nApparently, Sweden and Finland have made it illegal for doctors to impede patient access to care. Consequently, women, for example, can ask for and receive a termination of pregnancy if the circumstances of their cases warrant it. The practitioners involved are obliged to provide it or immediately refer them to another healthcare professional.\nConsequences for assisted dying access in Canada\nIn Canada, by contrast, a doctor faced with a request for medical aid in dying is fully entitled to refuse to provide it or, in some jurisdictions, even to refer the request to a colleague. In large and relatively empty countries such as Canada and Australia, there will be circumstances in which the only available doctor or pharmacist in a small, isolated location, may well allow his or her personal views to obstruct the wishes and needs of a patient.\nSavulescu finds that situation intolerable and postulates remedies. He suggests that practitioners should avoid occupying posts in isolated communities if their values are likely to run counter to the wishes of patients. More radically, he considers that entrants to training programmes should avoid specialties which frequently involve making controversial and morally charged decisions. Of course, that situation is especially pertinent to obstetrics and gynecology. But nowadays might also apply to palliative care, geriatrics and oncology. He goes so far as to suggest that committed Catholics who oppose certain reproductive rights are likely to encounter awkward situations if they take up gynecology because therapeutic abortion and contraception are an integral part of that specialty today. He wonders, controversially, whether they might do better to consider some other specialization.\nA direct quote from Savulescu nicely encapsulates his view of this dilemma:\n\"I think medical boards and indeed medical schools should be encouraging doctors to take a 21st century view of the doctor\u2013patient relationship where the patient is first and their own personal values are second. They can engage in discussion with the patient about the options and perhaps even their moral validity, but in the end they ought to be there serving the patient and providing a service. So if indeed we have a right of conscientious objection, we ought to be encouraging doctors only to exercise that right in the most extreme of circumstances.\"\nVancouver Island case\nShortly after I came across the views of Professor Savelescu, I encountered a startling situation existing in a small city on Vancouver Island, where the only available hospital is run by the Catholic Church. It is not surprising that this institution refuses to consider the performance of medical aid in dying on its premises. It has now gone further by insisting that patients may not even begin the process of applying for it while they remain in one of its rooms. Consequently, grievously ill patients, who wish to bring their lives to an end, as they are entitled to do under certain clearly defined circumstances by federal law, must decamp to some other institution in another city or to return home before they can even begin the process of applying. To go home may well not be possible or practical and moving elsewhere will involve considerable travel and distress.\nRelated: On balancing 'institutional conscience' and patient rights\nDr. David Amies: The right-to-die movement continues to grow despite strong resistance\nThe stance of the hospital management appears to me to be doctrinaire to a horrifying degree. Such adherence to dogma is totalitarian and more in keeping with attitudes in some ghastly third-world dictatorship or theocracy. For the managers of the institution involved, consideration for the patients\u2019 welfare comes very low down on the list of priorities, but their consciences will remain unclouded. And this is happening in Canada in 2016!\nTo hear more about his thoughts on this issue, listen to this Australian Broadcasting Corporation interview with Savulescu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.e-vet.org/PRO/index.cfm?idcode=072194819020111079&e04=635449&id_prj=57230&rname=volt&vefto=9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2AFATR7VEA2X5GMZMWCNFOBKXK4SY46", "length": 3883, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.e-vet.org", "title": "E-vet 2019 InformaGiovani - IG", "raw_content": "Detail : BREKOV CASTLE (ISL02)\nCity : BREKOV, HUMENNE\nNearest terminal : Airport, bus, train in Bratislava, or Kosice; then\nStudy Part: The workcamp will be visited by INEX Messenger who will organize a workshop focused on current events in Europe. The volunteers will prepare the \"Feast of cultures\" - an international food festival for the local community, and will join the aeurooevolunteering footprintaeuro workshop. Our camps will follow the rules of the Sustainability campaign.Attention: The camp is for history and nature lovers.For more info about volunteer organization see the website: http://www.brekov.eu/You can discuss about International volunteer workcamp Brekov 2018 and find photos and videos from previous workcamps on the facebook group aeuroIVW Brekov 2018aeurooe.Summary: Explore nature and history while helping with archaeological research and reconstruction of a 13th century castle in the east of Slovakia\nBREKOV CASTLE\nThe Association for the rescue of the Brekov Castle is concerned with the conservation of the Brekov Castle, and renovating some of its parts. Besides this, the association is involved in collecting information about the Brekov castle, guide activities (from archives, literature, inhabitants), fundraising, providing information to the wide public and organizing cultural events connected with the castle. Workcamps have been organized on the Brekov Castle since 2009.\nReconstruction work in the area of the ancient ruins of the castle Brekov from the 13th century. Much of the work will involve manual masonry works. The volunteers will help with the archaeological research on the castle. Cleaning and environmental activities will be also part of the work. The volunteers will learn the old techniques of masonry.\nLodging will be provided in tents in the area of the castle. In case of bad weather lodging will be provided in the village Brekov. It is necessary to bring a sleeping bag and a mat. Showers and facilities, hot water and fully equipped kitchen are provided in the local hall of Brekov. Groceries will be provided by the local community. Dinners will be cooked by the volunteers themselves. On demand, vegetarian meals can be provided.\nBrekov is a village near Humenne in the Presov Region of north-eastern Slovakia. The ruins of the Brekov Castle are located on the hill above the village and are in fairly good shape. Brekov Castle was built around 650 AD by the Slavonic nations. The area offers several possibilities for hiking or visiting several ruins of other castles.\nSuitable sleeping bags and mats, working clothes, warm clothes, raincoat, strong boots and good spirit :) are needed.\nINEX Slovakia is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1993. Its main aim is to play an active role within the international youth exchange that promotes international understanding, intercultural learning and tolerance. INEX Slovakia organizes activities that are focused on youth mobility and non-formal education and international volunteering. We organize different voluntary activities like international voluntary workcamps, trainings, seminars, various activities on national level, regular meetings of non-formal groups, workshops, activities for children with difficult background etc. We are a sending, hosting and coordinating organization within European Voluntary Service. These activities provide an opportunity for young people of different national and cultural background to live and work together; facilitate personal growth and a personal responsibility. INEX Slovakia became a member of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations in 1993. Apart of the Alliance INEX Slovakia is an official partner of Service Civil International (SCI), co-operates with organizations associated in Youth Action for Peace (YAP) and other partners. We are member of Youth Council of Slovakia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eagleslocksmith.com/do-you-need-different-types-of-locksmiths-for-various-applications/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NYC6BAIFCNNOGZHRKMVUQED2ELXBHRAT", "length": 4252, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.eagleslocksmith.com", "title": "Do You Need Different Types Of Locksmiths For Various Applications? | Eagle's Locksmith Cincinnati", "raw_content": "You know very well that locksmiths can accomplish a variety of tasks related to your lock and key systems. They can help install these locks and later on, they can also help you to maintain and repair them. They are sometimes seen as the best aide when it comes to building security. Traditional locksmiths are basically not that easy to find in a local area but with online websites being used to deliver goods and services to consumers today, you can now easily find locksmiths in your locality.\nThese experts have passed job trainings and undergo a continuing education program spearheaded by locksmith organizations. Do you know that there are different types of locksmiths depending on the application with which you would want to make use of their services? Here is a list to help you become familiar with the different types:\nCar lockout services by Eagle\u2019s Locksmith of Cincinnati\nAuto locksmiths basically travel from one location to another depending on where their services are needed. You can even see some of them on the streets too. These individuals are skilled and highly professional individuals who can work for unlocking car doors as well as in changing locks whenever necessary. They can also misplace lost or stolen car keys as well as perform any other jobs related to automotive maintenance. Auto locksmiths are also familiar with keyless entry systems which they can override or reprogram whenever the situation calls for it.\nLocksmiths for commercial establishments\nCommercial locksmiths primarily work to help protect your business assets from thieves and burglars. They are handed the responsibility to install key systems both for interior and exterior doors. For your added protection, you can call them to replace keys whenever an employee has to be reassigned to another place.\nThese types of locksmiths will also assist you whenever you need to have your locks serviced for routine purposes. You can also trust them when it comes to repairing damaged locks and when you want to open a door whose keys have been broken. These locksmiths undergo training whenever there are updates or when a new security technology is being introduced in the world of locking systems.\nLocksmiths for various institutions\nInstitutional locksmiths work best for schools, government offices and hospitals. These institutions basically have complicated locking systems that only institutional locksmiths will be able to work on in case of repair. These highly-technical professionals understand that locking systems in several institutions are placed depending on who will be allowed access to them. At times, employees for these institutions may access one part of the building but they may not be able to access another. With these complexities that come with institutional locking systems, an institutional locksmith will always be ready to lend a helping hand.\nLocksmiths for emergency situations\nOtherwise known as mobile locksmiths, these individuals are on-call and are ready to assist you with your locksmithing needs during emergency situations. Most of these individuals are self-employed making them able to work with a homeowner or business owner of their choice. You can easily reach them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They can work to change, remove and repair locks for your property.\nThese individuals are specialized types of locksmiths whose main responsibility is to work on key systems for safes and vaults in both residential and business applications. Majority of them work for financial and banking institutions and are familiar with key pads and combination locks. They also help you protect your safety deposit boxes and ATMs. It would be good to find a safe technician accredited by locksmith organizations.\nWhile there are different types of locksmiths depending on where you would want to use their services for, you have to note that reputable locksmith services offer many specialized locksmith skills housed under one roof since they have trained their staff on the different locksmithing skills. Our company, for example, has all the services you need for different applications. You can call us for all your locksmith needs!\nComments Off on Do You Need Different Types Of Locksmiths For Various Applications?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 11034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earnthenecklace.com/barbara-corcoran-wiki-dwts-instagram-facts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6GXSNCPRWZXD24I43TYFTTZIMU25IDTB", "length": 6155, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.earnthenecklace.com", "title": "Barbara Corcoran\u2019s Wiki: Everything to Know about Keo Motsepe's Partner on \u201cDWTS\u201d 2017", "raw_content": "Barbara Corcoran Wiki: Everything to Know about Keo Motsepe\u2019s Partner on \u201cDWTS\u201d 2017\nBy: Amrutha Srivatsa - Published: September 19, 2017 at 6:25 am\nBarbara Corcoran is a shark on her show, but can she become a swan on the dance floor? After watching all of the amazing first performances on DWTS season 25, it\u2019s safe to say we are in for a sizzling hot season this year! Before we get into more details, take a look at Barbara Corcoran\u2019s wiki right here.\nDancing with the Stars season 25 began with a bang and fans could not have expected more! With dancers one-upping their own performances and styles, it was a great start to a great season. Fans did not expect many of the season 25 cast to come out shining, but were excited to see how good the Shark Tank investor looked on stage! Barbara Corcoran on Dancing with the Stars is proving that she is up for the challenge, and winning is what really matters to her. Learn more details from Barbara Corcoran\u2019s wiki.\nBarbara Corcoran was born on March 10, 1949 in New Jersey, making her age a very young 68! She had nine siblings and began working at a very young age. As a matter of fact, by the time she was 23, she already worked 22 different jobs! Corcoran graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971 and always knew she was cut out for something big.\nThough she was a teacher for a short period of time, she has experience in many fields. Being in New York gave her the opportunity to work a side job renting apartments in a city where finding a home was almost impossible! It seems as though she found her passion, as it led to her developing her own real estate company.\nAlso Read: Debbie Gibson Wiki: Everything to Know about Alan Bersten\u2019s Partner on \u201cDWTS\u201d 2017\nA Small Investment Goes a Long Way!\nShe was working with the Giffuni Brothers (a real estate company) at the time, but soon decided that she wanted to be her own boss. Corcoran was dating Ramon Simone, who gave her $1,000 to get The Corcoran Group going!\nThe Giffuni Brothers put her on the difficult task of renting a NYC home for $360 a month, \u201cIt was a dungeon, he gave me the worst one. Maybe it was a challenge. Maybe nobody could rent it. Who knows.\u201d But she was up to the challenge and rented the apartment for $360, making the same amount in commission.\nGoing through some old photos and found this one with my sister Denise and I. Who do I speak to about implementing a \"throwback Tuesday\"?\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Aug 11, 2015 at 7:40am PDT\nThe next thing she did was what Corcoran says was the best deal she worked out, \u201cI collected that check from Mr. Giffuni, I cashed it at Citibank and I ran right over to Bergdorf Goodman and I blew it on a new coat.\u201d\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Oct 29, 2014 at 12:52pm PDT\nCorcoran and Simone co-founded the company and, though their relationship didn\u2019t work out, his words pushed her to succeedby herself. By the mid-\u201970s she began publishing NYC real estate data trends in The Corcoran Report.\nOver the years, she turned that $1,000 investment into a $5.0 billion company, tirelessly worked on winning in the trade! Barbara Corcoran knows her stuff and made a profit in 2001 by selling her company for $66.0 million to NRT Inc.\nAlso Read: Witney Carson Wiki: Everything to Know about Frankie Muniz\u2019s Partner on \u201cDWTS\u201d 2017\nBarbara Corcoran\u2019s Net Worth\nCorcoran is a very successful business woman with a mindset to win. It goes without saying that a success story like hers is worth millions, and Barbara Corcoran\u2019s net worth is estimated to be a rocketing $80.0 million. She is now a public trading face thanks to the TV show Shark Tank, and is still making waves today. Even her book, Shark Tales: How I Turned $1, 000 into a Billion Dollar Business in 2011 saw a huge success in sales.\nIt's great to be back on set taping Shark Tank Season 9! ?\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Jun 22, 2017 at 9:22am PDT\nA Tough Shark!\nShe is one of the most loved sharks and business geniuses on Shark Tank, and has helped a lot of entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. Corcoran on Shark Tank has invested in over 50 deals so far, one of her most notable being in PiperWai which was founded by Jess Edelstein and Sarah Ribner. They launched their business with a $2,000 loan from one of their parents and Corcoran pledged $50,000 for a 25% stake in the company. PiperWai now expanded its reach, and reportedly made $2.0 million in three months.\nI am! Thanks @thesharkdaymond for posting this picture that shows exactly how I feel!\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Sep 30, 2016 at 6:07am PDT\nBarbara Corcoran is an absolute delight to watch on Shark Tank, with her practical thought process, and quick thinking. Working in real estate might have helped her a little with that! But wherever she gets it from, there\u2019s no doubt that Corcoran has a great business mind.\nA Shark on the Dance Floor!\nDancing with the Stars season 25 has already wowed us with its cast of violinists, business moguls, and not to mention actors! It is bound to be a thrill ride for Corcoran\u2019s husband, Bill Higgins and their two children, as they will be watching her put everything she has into each performance to take home the Mirrorball Trophy.\nShe and Keo Motsepe were spotted on Barbara Corcoran\u2019s Instagram, goofing around in NYC before heading off to practice, and it looks like they already have good chemistry off-stage.\nShowing my Dancing with the Stars partner @keo_motsepe around #NYC before practice! #dwts #dwts25 @dancingabc\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Sep 8, 2017 at 7:29am PDT\nThough their first dance did not score as high as they\u2019d like (they scored 14, the lowest of the night) Corcoran is determined to step up her game and take home first place!\nI knew I wanted the Mirrorball Trophy but now I can really taste it! Vote #TeamSharkeo \u2013> link in bio!! #DWTS #DWTS25\nA post shared by Barbara Corcoran (@barbaracorcoran) on Sep 18, 2017 at 6:05pm PDT\nDon\u2019t forget to watch Dancing with the Stars Mondays at 8:00 p.m. EST on ABC, and vote for your favorite pair!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easyworkhome.com/make-money-online-even-if-you-live-in-a-swamp-jamie-lewis-webinar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GRXGUFMG6W635DULEPYVCEY5P6HFEJV6", "length": 258, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.easyworkhome.com", "title": "Make Money Online Even if You Live In a Swamp (Jamie Lewis Webinar) : Easy Work Home", "raw_content": "Make Money Online Even if You Live In a Swamp (Jamie Lewis Webinar)\nThis webinar went down Jamie Lewis style 9-18-14 If you can find a better coach, send me a link of the webinar and I will debate him live. You won\u2019t be able to find a better coach. 12 years\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/john-robertson-will-be-eager-to-beat-hearts-craig-levein-1-4745348", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MCP7EFLJYLUULYPRURTXSDKLLNAU64BL", "length": 2412, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com", "title": "John Robertson will be eager to beat Hearts - Craig Levein - Edinburgh Evening News", "raw_content": "John Robertson will be eager to beat Hearts - Craig Levein\nCraig Levein believes Hearts legend John Robertson will be utterly determined to beat his former club in the Betfred League Cup.\nThe north section of the group stage draw last night paired Levein\u2019s side with Robertson\u2019s Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Group C. Raith Rovers and Cowdenbeath, two of Levein\u2019s former employers, are also in the section alongside Highland League winners Cove Rangers.\nLevein told the Evening News he welcomes the prospect of facing off against Robertson. \u201cI think it\u2019s a good draw and there are some interesting things,\u201d he said.\n\u201cCowdenbeath and Raith are two of my former clubs. Robbo is just back in management and he\u2019s drawn Hearts. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be absolutely determined to win that game.\u201d\nHearts and Inverness recently agreed a player swap, with Tynecastle midfielder Angus Beith heading north and Inverness winger Jake Mulraney joining up at Tynecastle for next season.\nBetfred Cup group matches begin on July 14, but Levein hopes to avoid a trip to the Highlands when the fixtures and TV selections are announced next week.\n\u201cIt will depend where we have to play. If we have to go to Inverness, that will be the trickiest of the fixtures I\u2019m sure. We will wait and see how that pans out once we get the fixtures,\u201d he said.\nHearts will be eager to atone for last summer\u2019s Betfred Cup campaign, which saw them eliminated at the group phase. They beat Elgin City away and East Fife at home before losing away to Peterhead. Their final section match ended in a draw against Dunfermline, who then won on penalties to seal the fate of former Hearts head coach Ian Cathro.\nLevein explained that progress to the latter stage of the tournament is very much a priority. \u201cThere are only three major competitions you can win \u2013 the league and the two national cups. We can\u2019t afford to do anything else other than give it everything we\u2019ve got,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ll try to do during pre-season. We will aim to get players as fit as possible in the time we have available. Hopefully we can get off to a good start.\u201d\nPremiership newcomers Livingston were drawn in Group F alongside Hamilton, Berwick Rangers, Airdrie and Annan Athletic. Edinburgh City joined Motherwell, Queen of the South, Clyde and Stranraer in Group G. Lowland League Spartans were placed in Group H with Kilmarnock, St Mirren, Dumbarton and Queen\u2019s Park.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.el-paso-theater.com/theaters/abraham-chavez-theatre/tickets.php?eventName=Sesame+Street+Live+-+Let%27s+Party&cmsEventId=27506&month=12&year=2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:40Z", "digest": "sha1:X4Q6L756KNDMHUOJNORRVABNSP3YAVTX", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.el-paso-theater.com", "title": "Sesame Street Live - Let's Party Tickets Calendar - Feb 2019 - Abraham Chavez Theatre El Paso", "raw_content": "Sorry, Sesame Street Live - Let's Party has been & gone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ela.law/firms/burnesspaull/articles/burness-employment-tribunal-reforms", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5W2XZH2VO6BDMMB56NYQIFEB3NLC4FB2", "length": 731, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ela.law", "title": "Employment Tribunal Reforms: What You Need To Know", "raw_content": "Employment Tribunal Reforms: What You Need To Know\nDavid Stirrat\nThe coalition government\u2019s \u2018long term reform programme\u2019 for the Employment Tribunal system is a work in progress. Several key changes have already been put in place, with further and arguably more fundamental changes in development and expected over the coming year.\nFor better or for worse, the changes in force and the changes ahead have the potential to have a real impact on the balance of risk in employment tribunal litigation, and on the HR decision making process. This briefing note highlights the need-to-know changes already in force, the further changes which are likely come into force in 2012-2014 and the reform proposals due for further consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 14831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.electronicdesign.com/power/cool-rf-transistors-pack-mean-punch", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BP5SGLLAIQC7XOC4GXFJ2VCPD5BGC3WF", "length": 7746, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.electronicdesign.com", "title": "Cool RF Transistors Pack A Mean Punch | Electronic Design", "raw_content": "Cool RF Transistors Pack A Mean Punch\nThis device family guarantees much cooler base-station temperatures while decreasing cost.\nCheryl Ajluni | Feb 28, 2003\nPower-Amplifier (PA) and base-station manufacturers are faced with a series of similar problems. They both have a common interest in keeping base stations cool and minimizing cost. And they each have a desire for access to more than one independent provider of RF power transistors. Sure, these problems may sound miniscule in the grand scheme of things. But the truth is that until now, these goals have been difficult to meet in any substantial way. Traditionally, these base-station manufacturers have been serviced primarily by a single transistor provider.\nThanks to an announcement by Agere Systems, though, this picture may finally change. In fact, it could be altered in a way that's more dramatic than one might first think. The company has come to market with a family of 21 different silicon (Si) laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) RF power transistors (FIG. 1). This product family is best characterized by increased thermal and RF performance and minimized cost. As a result of this introduction, Agere is now a viable source for components manufacturing. PA and base-station manufacturers alike can benefit from this competitive offering that targets every band, every possible wireless standard, and a broad range of power levels from the outset. Undeniably, the result could only be faster time to market at a lower overall BOM cost.\nThese product offerings target 3G, 2.5G, and 2G base-station equipment. They enable wireless base stations that are cooler, smaller, more reliable, and less expensive than would be possible using any other RF power-transistor technology. Plus, they deliver lower capital and operating expenses for wireless service providers. As a result, Agere claims that its new product line may begin to save wireless service providers billions of dollars annually.\nIn addition to the cost savings realized, this product family could accelerate the industry's trend toward shrinking the size and shifting the location of typical base stations. Most base stations are currently about the size of a backyard tool shed. They are installed on the ground. In contrast, Agere's transistors may eventually give way to base stations that are the size of a suitcase and installed above the ground on wireless antenna towers.\nThis company has always had a strong commitment to this marketplace. \"Over the course of the past two years, we have been in a stealth development mode, intent on improving Si device technology. Our main goal was to come to market with state-of-the-art silicon LDMOS power-transistor solutions,\" says Ozzie Lopez, Product Line Director at Agere Systems.\nThe company didn't want to just replicate what was already available, however. Instead, it sought to provide a more comprehensive, substantially improved offering. Its enthusiasm was matched by the actual technological breakthroughs that it was able to achieve in the process. Among these breakthroughs are Enhanced Ther-mal Resistance (ETR) and High Density Source (HDS).\nETR is a proprietary wafer-scale technique for thinning die (FIG. 2). It is both low in cost and high in yield. In addition, it eliminates the defects that have traditionally occurred when making ultra-thin silicon wafers. The resulting chips are not only thinner, but cooler as well. According to Peter Gammel, Chief Technology Officer of RF Power Products Processing in Agere Systems' Aggregation and Switching Business Unit, \"ETR enables a die thickness of 40 \u00b5m. That's 50% thinner than all competing SiRF power transistors. This die thickness translates into a junction-temperature reduction of 10\u00b0 to 15\u00b0C.\" ETR also promotes die lengths that are 30% shorter than other competing products. Best of all, the technique is scalable from 4- to 8-in. wafer diameters. Nor does it require new and expensive tooling to implement.\nWith the chips becoming so thin, heat dissipation gets much easier. Thinner, shorter transistors get rid of heat more effectively. This fact is crucial because the traditional method of removing heat\u2014using fans\u2014is not reliable. Often, it contributes significantly to noise pollution. Thanks to ETR, which lowers operating temperature by 10% to 15% over competing solutions, the use of fans may soon be a thing of the past. Manufacturers can now look to alternate cooling methods, such as natural convection.\nThe second breakthrough brought to the table by Agere is HDS, which is a technique for shrinking the source contact (FIG. 3). Rather than using a diffused source contact, the company sought to apply a unique interconnect technology to realize this structure. As Gammel explains, the result of this application was a \"high-density source contact that increases the performance and power density of LDMOS. Agere's source contact is a factor of 10 smaller than is typical in the industry. It is independent of the properties of the EPI layer. Both gain and efficiency were increased using this technology. This source contact, combined with ETR, could allow Agere to one day design LDMOS power transistors with up to a 35% increase in power density over current offerings.\"\nCombined with Si LDMOS technology, ETR and HDS enable the family of RF power transistors to achieve performance levels comparable to SiC and GaN semiconductor technologies. At the same time, they retain the cost, reliability, and maturity of established Si technology. ETR and HDS also effectively extend the life of LDMOS. The combination of these technologies allowed Agere to create transistors with reduced resistance and parasitic capacitance. With the addition of ETR and HDS, LDMOS technology shows no apparent signs of limitations with regard to wireless-infrastructure applications. This conclusion has significant cost implications, as it will allow the migration to new wireless standards to occur much more quickly. Also, keep in mind that LDMOS is a very mature technology. All necessary tooling is already in place. As a result, it will probably become too costly for people to not keep using it.\nOne of the key products in this product family is the 125-W AGR21125E. This high-voltage, gold-metallized transistor targets W-CDMA single- and multicarrier-class AB wireless base-station PA applications. As an N-channel, E-mode lateral MOSFET device, it operates in the 2.110-to-2.170-GHz range.\nFor a two-carrier, 3GPP W-CDMA system, its typical performance can be measured using F1 = 2135 Mz and F2 = 2145 MHz with a 3.84-MHz channel BW. The adjacent-channel BW is 3.84 MHz at F1 \u2212 5 MHz and F2 + 5 MHz. The third-order distortion is measured over 3.84-MHz BW at F1 \u2212 10 MHz and F2 + 10 MHz. The product's typical P/A ratio is 8.5 dB at 0.01% (probability) CCDF. Under these conditions, the device boasts an output power of 28 W, a power gain of 14 dB, an efficiency of 28%, and 125-W continuous-wave output power. Under the 3GPP test conditions, additional characteristics of this part are an IM3 of \u221236 dBc, an ACPR of \u221239 dBc, and a return loss of \u221210 dB.\nThe AGR21125E transistor is internally matched and comes with ESD protection. It boasts a low HCI-induced bias drift over 20 years. It is available in either a surface-mount or flanged package.\nAgere's transistors are currently sampling and under evaluation by more than 20 companies. Production quantities are expected to be available in the third quarter of this year. In unit quantities of 10,000, pricing for the transistor products will range from $12 to $207.\nRoom 10A-301C, 1110 American Parkway NE, Lehigh Valley Central Campus, Allentown, PA 18109; (610) 712-4323, FAX: (610) 712-4106, www.agere.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 10503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elisabblah.com/2017/05/05/when-sinners-worship-god/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:732O6AI7AJAOSCDDEKRNDDWEM6L6D6RA", "length": 8981, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.elisabblah.com", "title": "When Sinners Worship God - eli sabblah", "raw_content": "Who is qualified to worship God? And who measures the quality of worship? God himself chose Abel\u2019s sacrifice over Cain\u2019s. No matter how humans think that was unfair he reserves the right to be the sole determiner of quality worship. God killed two sons of Aron for offering incense before him in a way that he had not commanded them (Leviticus 10:1). So indeed, God can reject worship. But you (as a human) can\u2019t devalue another person\u2019s worship. Of course, there are people who might introduce the profane or demonic into their worship (or service) to God. But that\u2019s not what I am talking about here. I am referring to the fact that some Christians are fond of looking at a person\u2019s lifestyle and assuming their worship is too filthy for an all-holy God to accept. Wake up from your slumber, their worship is not to you, it is to God. Let Him judge.\nThis issue comes up for discussion anytime a prominent person in pop culture or the entertainment industry, who doesn\u2019t appear to be living a Christian life expresses a certain level of devotion or even gratitude to God. Some Christians descend on the person on social media with highly judgmental comments. I know it is hard to understand this, but the truth is, some people may not look it but they actually have a relationship with God. At several awards shows that I have watched, most of the winners of the night, during their acceptance speech, give glory to God. A few years ago I watched the BET awards where Lil Wayne took it a step further by saying \u2018I would like to thank God and His son Jesus\u2026\u2019. A person can express his appreciation to God for doing something for him (and this could be any other god) but when he/she mentions Jesus, then we know who he is talking about. Quite recently, Chance the rapper has come under heavy criticism for releasing songs that have God as the central theme while he has profane songs on that same album. I believe other rappers have received this same level of flak too. Kendrick Lamar, DMX, Kanye West etc. This is the argument, that if these rappers are going to talk about God or express the minutest appreciation to him for something they believe he has done for them, they would have to stop cussing and composing songs that project a sinful lifestyle.\nI don\u2019t condone cussing or a sinful lifestyle. In fact, I wrote a blog on why Christian artists shouldn\u2019t cuss in their songs. Cussing is one of the major reasons why I don\u2019t listen to most secular songs because I wouldn\u2019t want those words to find their way into my speech. The point I am trying to make is, no matter how dirty or filthy the person worshiping God appears to be, only God can measure the quality of their worship and determine whether or not it is acceptable. As a human being, you have no right at all to do that. The argument is ongoing I believe in people\u2019s conversations about the rise of artists like Chance and Kendrick. Because they cuss in the rest of their songs and even sometimes in songs that are supposed to be purely dedicated to God. Other people have actually gone the extra mile to judge their intentions for doing what they do. The assumption is that these two rappers are probably strategically creating faith-based rap songs knowing very well that a huge percentage of their fans are Christians, hence, these songs may propel their albums to higher heights. To this I will say what Paul said in Philippians 1:18 (ESV):\nWhat then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.\nBefore this verse, Paul outlined a couple of evil reasons why people were preaching the gospel in those days. He mentioned envy, rivalry, selfish ambition etc. before he proceeded to state that whether in pretense or truth, so far as the gospel is being proclaimed he rejoices. This indicates that we are to do same. Whether these rappers are doing it for the money or not, the mere fact that they are using their platforms to point people to God, we must rejoice. Did Paul in any way make light of rivalry, envy, and selfish ambition? Indeed when you think about it, the fact that he said he rejoices even if people have bad reasons for preaching the gospel, then it appears he doesn\u2019t mind if people do ministry for the wrong reasons. But far from that, in the opening verses of the second chapter of Philippians, we see Paul condemning selfish ambition:\nDo nothing from selfish ambition or conceit but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3(ESV))\nTherefore we can easily conclude that though Paul rejoices at the fact that the gospel is being preached by people who are doing it for selfish ambition, nevertheless, he doesn\u2019t condone selfish ambition. In the case of the rappers, though we may not know their motives or even support their music, we should still rejoice that God is getting glory at their concerts. This, however, does not mean God approves of their lifestyle. But you see these are the kinds of people God actually wants to work on. Remember Jesus said \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d (Mark 2:17(ESV)).\nOne thing I have come to believe in the past few months is that God expects worship even from the worst of sinners. Case in point, the events leading to the death of King Herod. The entire story can be found in Acts 12. Herod killed James (the brother of John) and when he realized that it pleased the people he had Peter arrested too. Note: this shows that Herod was a showman or a people pleaser. Then in verse 21 of the same chapter, Herod delivered a speech to the people. The people being so amazed by it declared \u201cThe voice of a god, and not of a man!\u201d. What happened immediately afterward is recorded in the verse below:\nImmediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. Acts 12:23 (ESV)\nHerod was killed because he didn\u2019t give glory to God. This is the same Herod who killed James and had Peter arrested, why didn\u2019t God kill him then? I can\u2019t tell. The only reason given for Herod\u2019s death was that he was killed by an angel because he didn\u2019t give glory to GOD. No matter how sinful a person is, God expects worship (glory) from him/her. Worship is basically man giving glory to God. So anytime we see an unbeliever singing praises to God let us not be quick to judge the person but let us offer to disciple the person if we are in the position to do so. Let us learn to leave certain things to God. You are not the spirit that convicts the world of sin \u2013 that is the Holy Spirit\u2019s \u2018job description\u2019. Your duty is to be a witness and a dispenser of love (which involves intercession). Let\u2019s learn to pray for people. We must understand that we are on our way to one destination but some are way ahead of others and others are way behind. I feel embarrassed when I see the stuff I wrote a few years ago. I had the passion and the zeal but little understanding and knowledge. I didn\u2019t do the things I did out of love either. I wrote to chastise people, period! I did that because that was where I had reached in my journey. I know better now and hope to know more as I grow. My hope is that these artists who have so much influence will also grow out of certain things. It is difficult to tell where people have reached in their journey of pursuing God just by observing from afar. Therefore the best thing to do is to demonstrate the love of God towards such people. There is rebuke in love by the way. We can do all of that but let us not take the Lord\u2019s praise out of their lips. Let us not hinder them from coming into his presence. Let us not make them feel unworthy even to stand in the Lord\u2019s congregation. If Jesus allowed Mary Magdalene, a prostitute, to wash and clean his feet, clearly he isn\u2019t bothered when sinners worship him. If it bothers you, I\u2019m sorry but you are the problem.\nGod can use anybody to get the glory. The stage set up for Kendrick\u2019s performance at the BET awards in 2013 was a house. The rapper emerged from the house to perform that night. Anybody who looked closely at the wall of the house would have seen \u2018Jesus is Lord\u2026\u2019 written boldly on it. Chance the rapper at this year\u2019s Grammy\u2019s decided to perform his song \u2018How great is our God\u2019 and he gave God glory every time he came up to receive an award. You might call them sinners but don\u2019t discredit their worship. God accepts worship from sinners. Always remember God can use anybody he chooses to, especially when the person is willing to be used. I would like to end with a verse from Isaiah 45 which talks about how God desired to make Cyrus King over Israel though he didn\u2019t know God.\nI name you, though you do not know me. 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Shudder. com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.empiremixology.com/cognac/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3WVLBZAGIFSLNFRCCIQABAYRAZFTBP7E", "length": 781, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.empiremixology.com", "title": "Cognac \u2014 Empire Mixology", "raw_content": "The French Connection of Brandy.\nWelcome to our Cognac section, which you may notice is very similar to our Brandy section. Wondering why? It\u2019s because for the most part, both spirits are the same exact thing. The major difference is that Cognac can only be called such if it is made in Cognac, France. Anything else is a brandy spirit. Yes, the French are very particular about this sort of thing. Cognac is typically made from grapes (wine) and has minimum aging requirements, in contrast to brandy which can be any fruit and can be unaged.\nCognac typically comes in three common grades:\nCognac Recipes\n\u0093\u201cIt is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one\u2019s present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason\u201d \u0094", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ems.psu.edu/node/483", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6RCFYYFAJXLA7Z6GUUYRA65DYUA7EGN", "length": 2004, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ems.psu.edu", "title": "Ryan Family Student Center | Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences", "raw_content": "The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences aims to provide the most student-centered college in all Penn State history, and the Ryan Family Student Center serves as the core of our efforts. The student center integrates tutoring, advising, student work space, and areas for casual interaction into a one-stop shop for student success. A walk through shows the vibrant and engaging academic atmosphere we foster for our students \u2014 our goal is to create a warm, welcoming, and small-college feel amid the rich activities taking place on the University Park campus.\nComplimentary coffee, tea, and hot chocolate\nThe Ryan Family Student Center first opened its doors to students in 2004. It was named in honor of notable alumni John T. Ryan Sr. and Jr. and their families. John T. Ryan Sr., after receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in mining engineering in 1908 from Penn State, went on to co-found the Mine Safety Appliances Company, which helped improve safety in the mining industry throughout the twentieth century. Both John Ryan Sr. and Jr. served on Penn State's Board of Trustees and were highly influential in the University's development.\nThe Ryan Family Student Center is located in 14 Dieke Building (on the ground floor).\nIn addition, the Student Center houses the office of the EMS Student Council and the office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education \u2014 putting our administrative leaders in close proximity to our student leaders.\nWatch video to learn more about the Ryan Family Student Center\nRyan Family Student Center staff\nStaff in the Ryan Family Student Center are dedicated to helping students succeed throughout their time at Penn State. The student center includes advisers, tutors, and other specialized staff members who provide invaluable resources and guidance to students.\nsjp123@psu.edu\nKimberly Del Bright\nGiles Writer-in-Residence\nlae87@psu.edu\nmag5199@psu.edu\nHilleary Himes\nDirector Academic Advising\nhxs220@psu.edu\nypr1@psu.edu\nlqs9@psu.edu\nMartha Traverse\nmjt5@psu.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 363, "original_length": 9242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encompassdorset.co.uk/Lives_Are_Being_Put_At_Risk_Due_To_Mental_Health_Cuts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:40Z", "digest": "sha1:SXVZPCDZMBG2YAEEHBHXKJUBUUV4M7GW", "length": 2086, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.encompassdorset.co.uk", "title": "Lives Are Being Put At Risk Due To Mental Health Cuts", "raw_content": "Lives Are Being Put At Risk Due To Mental Health Cuts\nA recent report issued by the King\u2019s Fund think tank has discovered funding cuts to adult mental health services in England have caused the overall quality of care being provided to fall dramatically.\nDespite the Government claiming there has been an overall increase in the available money for mental health, 40% of trusts stated they had experienced a reduction to their budget.\nUnsatisfactory Service\nThe report showed 14% of patients claimed to have only received \u201csatisfactory\u201d care during a crisis and 40% stated their treatment was not correct and had not helped them to resolve their issue.\nPatients are also often expected to travel to hospitals far from their home due to a shortage of hospital beds with no alternative available.\nBudget cuts are forcing around 30% of trusts to either reduce staffing levels or lower the skills mix of its employees and 10% will be reducing the number of available beds.\nFurthermore, a separate report conducted earlier this year by the NHS watchdog identified issues with the attitudes of staff towards patients suffering from mental illnesses, self-inflicted injury and suicidal thoughts.\nThe considerable decrease in available budget has caused trusts and other organisations to ultimately resort to cheaper, unproven methods in order to balance their books and remain self-sustaining.\nThis has naturally entailed a knock-on effect for people suffering from mental illnesses and the overall quality of the services provided has fallen in parallel with that of their funding.\nTo improve the current situation, the government must allocate the necessary finances to organisations providing support services to, most importantly, improve the lives of those in need as well as ensure no compromises are made at their expense.\nRead more on this story here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34790094\nEncompass Dorset specialise in providing 24 hour support to individuals with mental health conditions with a wide range of services.\nFind out how our friendly staff can support you by clicking here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/64026", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:40Z", "digest": "sha1:6BJUJDGTMOTFHSX65TDDOGVDJGYMA2MA", "length": 11096, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.entrepreneur.com", "title": "business - Start a Business...Even After 50", "raw_content": "Start a Business...Even After 50\nNeither shy nor retiring, people over 50 are proving there's life--and profits--after retirement as they launch second careers as entrepreneurs.\nAndrea C. Poe\nWhen Shirley Green, 52, was laid off early this year after 23 years at an IT data center, she decided she wouldn't wait for the company to rehire her. Instead, she took early retirement and launched her own business, Personal Records Organizer LLC, a Westminster, Colorado, consulting firm that helps families deal with elder-care issues. The idea for the business grew from her own experience: \"I was taking care of my mother and giving advice to people taking care of their older parents,\" she says.\nAlthough Green had no entrepreneurial background, she recognized a niche market and decided to capitalize on it, despite her fears of start-up. \"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sacred spitless, but I took the leap,\" says Green, who will officially open her business in September 2003 and expects to bring in $70,000 by year-end 2004.\nGreen is part of a growing number of people over 50 who are becoming entrepreneurs after long-time careers. According to Jeri Sedlar, a New York City executive search and transition coach and co-author with Rick Miners of Don't Retire, REWIRE!, there are three factors driving this trend:\nPeople are living longer and are in better health.\nPeople are recognizing the need for additional income, especially those forced into early retirement because of layoffs and buyouts.\nPeople are looking for intellectual stimulation.\nWant some more ideas of businesses to start? Check out our free Start-Up Kits for dozens of step-by-step guides to businesses in various industries.\nA recent AARP study found that 76 percent of retirees work post-retirement because they need the money, while an equal number reported they worked for the enjoyment of it. Joanne Fritz launched her own business in Scottsdale, Arizona, after she was laid off as an associate director at Elderhostel, a nonprofit educational travel organization for seniors. \"I recognized it wasn't worth spending too much time and money in this economy-and at my age, 62-looking for another job,\" says Fritz, CEO of American Dream Publishing and the Web site Not Yet Retired. \"I knew I'd be better off with my own business.\"\nJoe McCain, 54, of Greenville, South Carolina, concurs, even though he wasn't laid off from his sales job: \"I saw the writing on the wall. After 50, you're marked. I wanted to control my own destiny.\" In 2002 McCain opened his own location of The UPS Store, one of 13 such franchises in his metro area. Today, the store grosses anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 per month.\nOther retirees find they don't need to change industries; they become consultants to the field in which they worked. A recent study conducted by The Conference Board found that 80 percent of companies rehire retirees as consultants. Dow Chemical regularly hires retired technical staff as consultants. And Delphi Corp. reports that 65 to 70 percent of the retired engineers it brings back as consultants wind up working on projects they worked on while employees.\nMerle Meyer, 63, and his wife Linda, 60, who live in the Louisville, Kentucky, area, owned a resort and bed and breakfast before they retired in the early '90s. Merle was lured back into the hospitality industry as a consultant for several years; when he retired again, he and Linda decided to travel for a while, but they missed the industry. Now they're back in it as interim innkeepers, and they also run the INNterim INNkeeper Network, a matchmaking service for interim innkeepers and those in need of their services. \"We didn't want a full-time responsibility,\" says Meyer. As inn sitters, the couple earns about $148 per day, plus traveling expenses.\nDefining Your Drivers\nNot everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. \"You have to know what motivates you. Learning? Creativity? Accomplishment? Recognition? That will guide you on what business, if any, is going to make you happy,\" says Sedlar, who dedicates much of Don't Retire, REWIRE! to helping readers identify what she calls \"drivers.\"\nA post-retirement business ought to fulfill passions and interests. \"You have to love it, or you won't stick with it through the tough times,\" says Fritz, who began her post-retirement business selling on eBay, an endeavor she expected to gain more pleasure and profits from than she actually did. That's when she switched gears and launched her consulting firm. \"Helping other people was an important part of what was missing before,\" she says.\nPassion is what led Ed Metz, 68, of Montville, New Jersey, to Bob Crosby's Bob Cats, a Swing-era band that plays major venues around the country. Metz had spent much of his adult life as an investment banker. \"I have always loved music. I'd been playing in bands since I was in college,\" Metz says.\nA jazz pianist, Metz had been with the Bob Cats for about 10 years, when bandleader Bob Crosby passed away. In 1995 he and a now-deceased partner acquired the rights to the band name from the Crosby family estate. When he retired from investment banking in 2000, dedicating himself to the band was a natural. Metz pulls in about $150 per day for his role in the Bob Cats. The band earns about $50,000 a year on a dozen or so gigs.\nThe Meyers were looking for a flexible schedule and an opportunity to travel. Their interim innkeeping business serves both needs. The couple can be selective, working when and where they want. \"For instance, in January and February we inn-sit in San Antonio, where it's warm, and in July we go to the Pacific Northwest, where the weather is cool,\" Meyer notes.\nIdentifying a Market\nKnowing what you want is a good start, but it won't mean a thing unless someone else will value what you offer. A post-retirement business is like any other in this regard: There's no business if there are no customers.\nIn fact, a built-in customer base is what attracted McCain to his franchise. \"I used Mail Boxes Etc. and The UPS Store when I was in sales, so I was familiar with them,\" he notes. \"We looked at the demographics and the franchise to help me figure out where to locate myself for maximum foot traffic.\"\nIt was the Meyers' own experience as full-time innkeepers that informed them about a market. \"We knew innkeepers get burned out being there 24/7. That's when a lightbulb went on. We realized there was a major need for interim innkeepers, so owners could have a break,\" explains Meyer.\nRetirees starting a business are likely to face slightly different challenges than other entrepreneurs. Marilyn Tellez, owner of MJT Consulting, a career coaching firm in Yakima, Washington, specializing in people over 50, says capitalization can be a big problem. \"A lot of older people are afraid of tapping into their retirement money or taking a loan, but the fact is, your business won't work if you don't fund it,\" she maintains.\nAnother issue, especially among retirees who have been forced out early, is a lack of confidence. \"People come off that experience pretty demoralized,\" says Fritz. \"They need to give themselves time to build their self-esteem and psych up again before they can start something new.\"\nAnother challenge retirees face is insufficient technical know-how. \"Learning how to use computers and software is a must,\" says Tellez.\nThere are indications that older Americans are becoming more computer literate. The \"Consumer Internet Barometer\"-a quarterly survey by NFO WorldGroup, Forrester Research and The Conference Board that tracks Internet usage among Americans-found that people ages 55 to 64 with online experience rose from 59 to 64 percent from 2001 to 2002.\nHaving to market a business can throw some retirees for a loop. \"I find that a lot of older women were raised to believe that selling oneself was unseemly,\" Tellez says. \"They have to get beyond that in order to market their businesses.\"\nThere are many community resources where people can acquire new skills. Community colleges, professional organizations, the chamber of commerce, senior centers and AARP often offer classes in everything from marketing to finance to graphics.\n\"Take your time and fiddle with your plan before you commit to it,\" advises Fritz. A smart plan can be the difference between success and failure.\n\"Seek counsel, suggests Sedlar. \"Find people you trust, and create your own little board of advisors.\"\nOlder entrepreneurs are at an advantage because they can tap into a lifetime of professional contacts. McCain regularly speaks to other small-business owners, including his competition-other franchises-in his area. \"We bounce ideas off each other,\" he notes.\nOn the horizon is company-sponsored post-retirement business planning. A number of organizations have charged their human resource departments with the task of finding ways to assist retirees-to-be in exploring entrepreneurial options.\n\"Companies are beginning to see the tangible benefits of helping employees transition into productive retirement,\" says Sedlar. \"We're still a long way off from having this kind of planning offered across the board, but at least some companies, like Chase/J.P. Morgan and Proctor & Gamble, are taking a look at it.\"\nAccording to Sedlar, the advantages for companies include improved fiscal and physical health for retirees, who in turn rely on fewer costly retirement benefits. Also, companies benefit from the retained institutional knowledge that can be sourced when former employees open post-retirement consulting firms instead of forgoing the industry for the fairway.\nHours & Skills\nBe prepared to work hard and tackle new challenges. With his background in sales, McKain had no trouble marketing and advertising his business; it was keeping the books that proved most challenging. \"It's a lot of work, and I'm still learning,\" he says. \"I'd never done it before.\"\nSedlar suggests neophytes shadow a pro before launching their own companies. \"Just because you were good at your job doesn't mean you're going to automatically be good at business,\" she cautions.\nAnother surprise, especially to those who spent a lifetime working with colleagues, is how lonely owning your own business can be. For those working solo, Tellez recommends joining professional organizations. \"These are good places not only to network, but also to socialize,\" she notes.\nAnother way to stay connected is to rent a shared office. \"This is good for people who are used to working around others because it keeps them from becoming too isolated,\" explains Sedlar.\nMotivated by passion and money, older entrepreneurs aren't showing any signs of fading. \"We're too young to retire to a rocking chair,\" Meyer says. \"I don't think we'll ever be old enough for that.\"\nAARP has developed a Web site exclusively for small-business owners over 50.\nSCORE is a nonprofit organization comprised of retired executives who offer free start-up advice.\nIndividual franchises and organizations hold seminars geared at retirees, some of which can be found through the International Franchise Association.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 15738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entrustrealtyadvisors.com/all_portfolio/texarkana-surgery-center-texarkana-tx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:NYGAX7RI5N2QRAPWSWPNY2XDJANPIIBG", "length": 315, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.entrustrealtyadvisors.com", "title": "Texarkana Surgery Center Texarkana, TX | Entrust Realty Advisors", "raw_content": "Texarkana Surgery Center\nEnTrust completed the sale of this 17,500 RSF ambulatory surgery center in Texarkana, TX. The property was 100% leased to a joint venture of Symbion Inc. and a local physician group. 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Healthy, comfortable employees are invariably more satisfied and productive. Measurement and monitoring of hazardous gases is a critical issue in industrial and workplace safety, conventionally worker safety has been concerned with acute levels of airborne pollutants, today there is also mounting concern about the affect of long-term exposure to low levels of pollutants.\nThere are many factors that can lead to an unhealthy Indoor Air Environment including poor or inadequate ventilation, airborne and chemical pollutants, Ozone emissions from printers and photocopiers, High concentrations of Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC\u2019s), Formaldehyde and pollution from external sources (e.g. fumes). In the past few decades, energy conservation measures have led to airtight building construction that can create problems with IAQ. Frequently the ventilation systems are set to minimise the amount of fresh air entering and circulating within the building. 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Eoin Colfer Live Event.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eqat.org/philly_power", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CQDK5DTZ5X3EVJZF7PYVXNFOD5BF26N7", "length": 3070, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.eqat.org", "title": "Philly Power - Earth Quaker Action Team", "raw_content": "Posted by Rachel White on May 29, 2018\nOn May 21, I had the opportunity to participate in the Earth Quaker Action Team Meeting for Worship at PECO headquarters. I have always identified as an environmental activist and as a Quaker. This past Monday, I had the opportunity to join fellow friends from Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting (CHFM) in combining both of those identities. CHFM, and EQAT are urging PECO to invest in more sustainable sources of energy to power Philadelphia, in addition to being more accountable to the neighborhoods in this city that are underemployed.\nThe group planed to meet at 30th street station at 9:30 am and then walk over to PECO head quarters, just across the Schuylkill River. I, however, was running late. I didn\u2019t have to work on Monday, which allowed me to attend the demonstration but also allowed me to oversleep :) Although I enjoyed my extra REM cycle, it meant that by the time I got to join the group, they were already standing to one side of the PECO lobby, formed in a circle. I watched the comings and goings of the PECO lobby for pretty much the entire duration of the meeting for worship. Being in such a busy, new space was unsettling to me, and I didn\u2019t feel that I could close my eyes and truly tune out the bustle that was going on outside of our worship circle. When I showed up a little late that morning, it meant that I missed out on the grounding exercise and run through of the events that were about to happen. I realize now that those actions would have greatly helped me relax and worship for the future of PECO and the citizens of Philadelphia.\nAt the rise of the worship, friends were invited to share joys and sorrows, in the same tradition that occurs at CHFM on Sundays. We exited the building singing a hymnal that felt heavy with discernment and hope. Everyone watched as we left, looking relieved as we walked back out of the revolving doors. I guess I felt relief too. I was relieved that nobody was hurt, that we were not asked to leave, and that I got to experienced my first public meeting for worship with attention to environmental and racial justice for the city of Philadelphia.\nAfter the demonstration I ended up at a bookstore browsing through a book that contained pictures of Philadelphia at the turn of the century. Coincidentally enough there was a picture of the original PECO building on Delaware Ave, it is a gigantic cement and metal coliseum with shoots and ladders towering above everything else in the landscape. The structure still sits there, a vacant pile of rust and distrust. The placement of the original PECO building is what struck me as a coincidence because it stands directly next to Penn Treaty Park, which memorializes the place where William Penn first met with the Lenni Lanape Natives of the Philadelphia region. I feel that Quakers in this region have an obligation to honor Mother Earth and the original health and beauty of the land. 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Get in touch with our friendly staff today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 3865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ernstfuneralhome.com/notices/Betty-Howe", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4IVLP4WFTRHU76Y74C3T5Z6N5QZKQUTS", "length": 1200, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ernstfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary for Betty Jean Howe | Ernst Funeral & Cremation Services", "raw_content": "Betty Jean Howe\nBetty Jean Howe, who was born on December 22, 1933 in Moneta, Iowa, passed away at Christopher House Hospice in Austin, TX on November 28, 2017. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at Ernst Funeral Home in Waukee. Private interment at Waukee Cemetery. Betty married the love of her life, Don Howe, on March 31, 1962 at Grace United Methodist Church in Des Moines, IA. Together they managed several apartment complexes over the years. Betty was a charter member of the VFW Post 11517 Ladies Auxiliary and held a number of district and statewide auxiliary leadership positions throughout the years. Betty loved to crochet, play cards with friends and local women\u2019s card clubs and excelled at gardening, which could be seen by her beautiful flower. She cherished her marriage with Don and took great pride and love in caring for Don over the years. Betty is survived by her daughter Terri Weisbord of Austin, TX; son Dan Howe of Waukee; grandchildren Adam and Chase Howe and sisters Doris (Gene) Rouse of Emmetsburg, IA and Deb (Keith) Peterson of Spencer, IA. She was preceded in death by her parents Orin & Evelyn Kenyon and brother Rollie Kenyon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eschatonblog.com/2018/09/it-begins-early.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:35Z", "digest": "sha1:7H3TDX337EGOTDBFELZTCT7MD5OOCFNL", "length": 74, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eschatonblog.com", "title": "Eschaton: It Begins Early", "raw_content": "It Begins Early\nThere aren't even that many elite prep schools, and yet...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 21406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/0509/tomlinson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:NQCAL7YFP434XJSFHSA7K2ZJ2AJFRK3U", "length": 9688, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.esri.com", "title": "Esri ArcWatch May 2009 - A Conversation with Dr. Roger F. Tomlinson", "raw_content": "ArcWatch: Your e-Magazine for GIS News, Views, and Insights\nLooking into the Past and Future of GIS\nA Conversation with Dr. Roger F. Tomlinson\nDr. Roger F. Tomlinson first coined the term \"geographic information system.\"\nDr. Roger F. Tomlinson, author of Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, is the principal of Tomlinson Associates Ltd., a firm of consulting geographers he established in 1963. He has advised an impressive list of clients, from the World Bank to the U.S. and Canadian Forest Services. He holds two bachelor's degrees; a master's degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and a Ph.D. from University College, London, England. He has also conducted successful GIS planning seminars worldwide.\nTomlinson, who first coined the term \"geographic information system,\" recently spoke to Esri writer Jim Baumann about his pioneering work using GIS and what he expects the future holds for the technology.\nBaumann: You are commonly referred to as the \"father of GIS.\" Can you tell me how GIS processes have developed historically?\nTomlinson: The concept of map overlays has been a standard geographic analysis technique for a long time. For example, immediately after World War II, the Royal Institute of Planning in the United Kingdom provided a handbook on map overlay techniques. One was called sieve mapping and was frequently used by land-use planners after the war to determine the suitability of an area for a project or activity. You would start with a basemap of the study area and place gridded transparent sheets over the map. Each transparent sheet represented specified criteria. Squares on the grid were blacked out if it was decided that a specific area wasn't suitable for the activity. Other transparent sheets were used for other criteria and blacked out in the same manner. When the sheets were overlaid one on top of the other on the basemap, the regions visible were those most suitable for the specified project.\nBaumann: What led you to refining the map overlay concepts?\nTomlinson: In 1959, I went to work for Spartan Air Services, a Canadian aerial survey company where I did photointerpretation. The Ottawa-based company sent me on a project in Kenya. As part of an international aid program, the Canadian government wanted to build a paper mill for the country. Our company did the aerial photography and forest inventory of Kenya to determine the best place to build the mill. As it turned out, the native trees weren't suitable for making paper pulp. So we started collecting information to determine the best places for plantations for wood pulp production. We used soil maps to see where the trees we wanted to plant would grow the best. We generated a slope map because you couldn't harvest trees easily where there are steep slopes. We needed to know where the indigenous tribes lived because some tribes were more migratory than others, and those that were settled would provide a more stable workforce. We also recorded the elephant migration routes because a herd of elephants can trample a young plantation, and we identified monkey habitats because monkeys make a meal out of young trees. It was also necessary to determine the rainfall in different areas. Too little rain led to drought, while too much rain promoted larger insect populations as well as Spanish moss, which are devastating to a tree plantation. Maps with transportation routes, rivers, and bridges were also necessary. Kenya had been a British colony, and the country had been fairly well mapped by British scientists, so some of the data we needed had already been collected.\nWe got back to the office and began analyzing all the maps we collected by assembling the different layers of mapping data in the way I've already described and measuring the various surface areas. This hand/eye analysis was laborious, and as it turned out, it was more expensive to do the analysis than originally flying the country and collecting the data. There were budgetary constraints, and my boss told me to find a way to cut the budget.\nBaumann: How did you implement the map overlay concepts with a computer?\nTomlinson: My company had small IBM computers and cartographic plotting tables, and since I was surrounded with the best technology of the time, I started thinking about assigning values to the different map layers and feeding them into the computer to let the computer do the comparisons and plot the results. We oriented the plotter head to the map we were creating with its successive layers of data. It took about a week of evening work, and in the end, we produced what I think was the first map digitized from hard copy in Canada. I was pretty excited by this and started proposing the idea of my company developing this approach to automated mapping in partnership with the different computer companies in town. Unfortunately, the standard reply from the computer companies was always the same: Thank you, but we don't see a market for that kind of product.\nThis was pretty disappointing, but by chance I sat next to Lee Pratt on an airplane in 1962. He had just been appointed by the federal government to head the Canada Land Inventory. Canadian farmers were in a bad way financially. There were 600,000 farmers, and they needed help. Canada's arable and productive land measures about 1 million square miles. So the first question was, What do we actually know about this farmland? We also needed to know, Could the land be used for other things such as recreation or plantations? What does the census say about the income of these farmers? What about their level of education? Can we educate ourselves out of this problem? Where should we put schools? This was a big step for the government, because it hadn't really done this kind of in-depth land planning up until then. Lee indicated that he planned to put all this information on transparent sheets and overlay them for analysis. I told him that I could do it with a computer. So we did some estimates, and it was determined that to use the manual method would take 563 cartographic technicians three years to do the job and would cost about $8 million [Canadian]. In addition to the cost, a major problem was that the government only had 50 or 60 qualified technicians. So I put together technical and economic feasibility reports and determined that we could develop a system that would do the job in weeks rather than years and for less than $2 million. We developed the Canada Geographic Information System, the first computerized GIS in the world. And geographic information system, the term I coined for this process, has held up very well over the years.\nBaumann: What major developments have occurred in the past 10 years that have defined the current direction of GIS?\nTomlinson: One major development is the lowering of the cost of computing. In my recent book [Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, Third Edition\u2014Esri Press, ISBN: 9781589481589, 2007, 254 pages, $29.95], I modeled a mythical town called the City of Rome, which has a GIS implemented, and one of our exercises is to calculate GIS costs. We determine the costs based on current staff and hardware prices. We always use the same hardware configuration at the beginning so that we can compare development costs during each successive three-year project cycle. We determined that the hardware cost today is one tenth the price of just five years ago. So one major influence is the continuing drop in the real cost of hardware and software. In addition, the capabilities are much greater. The typical core or CPU is 40 percent more powerful than the equivalent computer last year.\nAnother significant development is the increasing accessibility of data in digital format and the speed in which it can be obtained. For example, Landsat data on the area in Indonesia that was struck by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami four years ago was available only a few days after the disaster.\nAlso, senior members of government now have a greater knowledge of GIS and its capabilities. During the past 10 years, the realization that GIS is an effective tool for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government and commerce is becoming more and more prevalent among our top decision makers.\nBaumann: What developments in GIS do you anticipate in the next 10 years?\nTomlinson: A lot of the current trends are going to continue. Hardware will continue to get cheaper and more powerful. Software will get easier to use and more robust. I hope the universities will continue to expand their course offerings to meet the growing need for GIS professionals. Senior management will become increasingly aware of the benefits that accrue from the use of GIS in their organizations. We will see more countries adopting national policies, and GIS will be an important part of cabinet-level discussions. I hope that trained geographers will become a part of national decision-making processes. Also, I think that high-level military personnel should have a good knowledge of the capabilities and potential of a GIS.\nI'm very positive about the future of GIS. It's the right technology at the right time. When I think of all the major problems that we face throughout the world today\u2014overpopulation, food shortages, reduced agricultural production, adverse climate change, poverty\u2014these are all quintessentially geographic problems. These problems are all concerned with the human relationship to the land, and this is where GIS can make its biggest contribution. 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The end result is phenomenal for productivity as you can easily view multiple applications due to the huge screen real estate. On another note, gaming on a 21:9 panel is difficult to describe and provides an enthralling experience. Rather surprisingly, the majority of games already support this fairly new aspect ratio although you might need to apply a few UI tweaks. After trying a number of monitors including 4K 16:9, 144Hz 16:10 and 21:9, I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that 21:9 is perfect for my needs. It\u2019s also becoming more popular but there\u2019s certainly a hefty price point attached which might make its adoption take some time.\nAOC has just announced their latest 21:9 panel which features a 35-inch MVA display, 160Hz refresh rate and 2560\u00d71080 resolution. This is a little disappointing as most 35-inch 21:9 displays utilize a 3440\u00d71440 resolution. Perhaps, the reasoning behind this is it wasn\u2019t possible to achieve 160Hz at 3440\u00d71440. Another unique feature is the screen\u2019s noticeable curve measuring a radius of 2000mm. This is significantly larger than existing curved units on the market and theoretically provides more immersion in games. I tested this particular screen during CES 2016, and felt overawed by the curve at first. However, five minutes later, it felt so natural and enhanced my ability to quickly glance at the monitor\u2019s extreme edges.\nThe panel supports AMD\u2019s FreeSync technology with a range between 40Hz-160Hz to reduce screen tearing, and stutter. AOC have provided connections for two HDMI (MHL) ports and two DisplayPorts. As you might expect, the product is capable of 178 degree wide viewing angles and improved colour reproduction compared to TN options. 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It is contributing to technological innovation and quality improvement for the processes of quality management, environment management, and technology development in the areas of environment, health, and energy, which are essential to sustain human well-being, as well as in other industrial areas including automobile, aerospace, semiconductor, electronics manufacturing, heavy industry, steel, shipbuilding, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food-processing, medical, construction, and civil engineering. 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Senior figures across Manchester\u2019s local government, business, higher education and cultural sectors, as well as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office will engage with a wider audience of stakeholders from across the city and region on key issues regarding Manchester\u2019s growing global links and profile, and how these relate to regional, as well as wider national initiatives to protect and promote the UK\u2019s prosperity, security and influence.\nThe event will also see the launch of a new report \u2013 \u2018Manchester: A Soft Power Entrepreneur\u2019, which examines how and why the city has been uniquely successful in promoting a strong national and international identity and tying that to its ambitions to promote its trade, cultural engagement and wider soft power.\nRegistration - 0.945am\nWelcome - Tom Cargill, The British Foreign Policy Group - 10.10am\nKeynote address - Sir Richard Leese, Leader Manchester City Council - 10.15am\nInteractive Panel Discussion -10.30 \u2013 11.30\nCllr Sue Murphy \u2013 Deputy Leader & International Lead Manchester City Council\nLewis Neal \u2013 Director, Economic Diplomacy, FCO\nSir Howard Bernstein \u2013 Strategic Advisor, Deloitte\nProf Abigail Gregory \u2013 Pro Vice Chancellor, Arts & Humanities, Manchester Metropolitan University\nRachel Downey \u2013 Managing Director, Manchester Life\nDavid Adam \u2013 Report co-author\nClose and reception - 11.30am\nFor more information about this event, email Edward Elliott Edward.Elliott@bfpg.org.uk\nThe report and event is part of the work of the Soft Power Group, a new initiative to better support, understand and defend the independence and values of the UK\u2019s Soft Power by some of the UK\u2019s largest internationally minded actors including the Premier League, Universities UK, British Standards Institute, City of London, Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Wilton Park and the British Council, in partnership with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.\nManchester's International Ambitions in a Time of Change at HOME Manchester\n2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN, United Kingdom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.everythingrf.com/community/filter?topic=;CATV;", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4VRQ7I7Z755Y5Z47BYUPL7AO3GABKZBU", "length": 460, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.everythingrf.com", "title": "Questions and answers on CATV | everything RF", "raw_content": "Questions & Answers on CATV\nWhat is DOCSIS 3.1?\nDOCSIS 3.1 is the latest version of DOCSIS, an international standard used for transferring data over cable TV systems. 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We may use the automatically collected information for a number of purposes, such as improving our site design, product assortments, customer service, and special promotions.\nPersonal information provided on the website and online credit card transactions are transmitted through a secure server. We are committed to handling your personal information with high standards of information security.\nWe take appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative steps to maintain the security and accuracy of personally identifiable information we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as employing electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorised access. Our website uses encryption technology, like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), to protect your personal information during data transport. SSL encrypts ordering information such as your name, address, and credit card number. Please note that email is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information.\nCompliance with Law: We may provide access to information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of our website, to limit our legal liability, and to protect our rights or to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors of this website or the public.\u2028ExecutiveGrooming.com.au partners with advertising companies to place our advertising on publisher websites on the internet. These advertising companies collect anonymous information about your visits to our web site. This technology involves the use of third party cookies, which allow them to develop personalised advertising so that it directly relates to offers that may be of interest to you. You may choose to opt-out of this service we have with our third-party advertising partner. We may also use ExecutiveGrooming.com.au cookies to provide similar enhanced online marketing to you based on your interests and preferences. You may also choose to opt out of these enhanced online marketing ads.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 15075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.executivegrooming.com.au/index.php/terms-of-use/?___store=default", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:19Z", "digest": "sha1:M6OQK6P36NQLN7Q3KOG5FD6LSKY62L4G", "length": 9667, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.executivegrooming.com.au", "title": "Terms of Use https://www.executivegrooming.com.au", "raw_content": "Welcome to ExecutiveGrooming.com.au!\nExecutiveGrooming.com.au is Australia\u2019s destination of premium men\u2019 grooming products offering the highest possible quality for men\u2019s shaving, moustache & beard care, nail care, skin care and hair care.\nOur collection is tastefully selected from the leading European brands such as Niegeloh Solingen (Germany), Hans Kniebes (Germany), Mondial 1908 (Italy), Hercules Sagemann (Germany) and others.\nThis website is operated by EUROPA BRANDS PTY LTD (ABN: 57626789400)\nPlease take a moment to review the Terms of Use you must adhere to when using our website.\nIn these Terms of Use, \u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d or \u201cour\u201d means EUROPA BRANDS; the \u201cwebsite\u201d, \u201csite\u201d, \u201csites\u201d means www.ExecutiveGrooming.com.au.\nEntering this website constitutes your agreement to abide by these Terms of Use. Your dealings with us and your use of the website is also subject to other policies, which form part of these Terms of Use and include the Privacy Policy, Ordering, Returns and Exchanges, Shipping and Delivery.\nWe reserve the right to make changes to these Terms of Use at any time without notice. You should check the Terms regularly for any updates. By continuing to use the website, you consent to any variations to the Terms, whether or not you actually reviewed them.\nIf you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, please do not use the ExecutiveGrooming.com.au website.\nYou agree that you will not use the website for any unlawful purpose or violate or attempt to violate the security of the website. You are prohibited from using the website to send unsolicited commercial or bulk electronic messages, knowingly transmitting any virus or other disabling feature to or via the website, making any fraudulent or speculative enquiries, reservations or requests using the website, tampering with, hindering the operation of or making modifications to the website, providing false information when creating or updating your account, or attempting any of aforementioned acts or permitting another person to do any of the above acts. 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You may use the website content only for the purpose of shopping on this website, and for no other purpose. You are not permitted to copy, translate, publish, manipulate, distribute or otherwise reproduce any part of the content in any form or by any means without written permission from us. Any misuse of the website may violate copyright, trademark and other applicable laws and could result in criminal or civil penalties.\nThe website may contain links to other sites that are owned and operated by third parties. Europa Brands is not responsible for the operation of or content of those sites and you link to any of such websites at your own risk. Europa Brands disclaims all warranties, representations and guarantees, either express or implied, in relation to the accuracy, legality and value of the content contained on external websites. It is your responsibility to review Terms and Conditions of any external website you visit.\nWe reserve the right to restrict, suspend or terminate this agreement and your access to the website or any of its features in our sole discretion, at any time without notice. You are personally liable for any orders that you place or charges you incur prior to termination.\nIn the event of termination you are no longer authorised to access the website, but all restrictions imposed on you and all disclaimers and limitations of liability set out in these Terms of Use will survive. You may cease to use the website at any time in your absolute discretion.\nEuropa Brands makes no representations or warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, with regard to the operation of this website or its content, information, materials or merchandise included on this website.\nNo oral advice or written information given by Europa Brands or its affiliates, agents, directors, officers, employees, distributors, sponsors, contractors, merchants, successors, or the like, shall constitute a warranty.\nOur website, including its contents and all merchandise, is provided to you on \u201cas is\u201d basis. It may contain errors and inaccuracies and may not be complete or up-to-date. We do not warrant your access to the website will always be available or error- or virus-free. We are not liable to you or anyone else if interference with, or damage to, your computer systems occurs in connection with the use of this website. You assume all risk of use of all features of the website. You release Europa Brands of all responsibility for any consequences of their use.\nYou expressly agree that your use of this website is subject to these Terms and is at your own risk. Europa Brands will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from any use or access of, or any inability to use or access, the website (whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential, exemplary or any other damages, including, without limitation, any loss of profits, incomes, loss or corruption of data, or business interruption), whether in negligence, contract or other tortious action, even if an authorised representative of Europa Brands has been advised of or should have known of the possibility of such damages.\nAll the information provided on the website is intended for informational or educational purposes only and is not a substitute for proper care by medical professionals. All matters regarding the hygiene, diagnosis or treatment require proper medical advice. You should consult your healthcare provider regarding any statement or product on this website. Europa Brands does not accept any legal responsibility for any personal injury or other damage or loss arising from the use or misuse of the products or information in any section.\nIf you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, you must not use the website.\nFeatures of the products displayed are approximate only, including colour and size. Some items may appear larger or smaller than actual size due to screen settings. Other items may be represented at a larger than actual size in order to clearly show details or smaller than actual size in order to show the entire item. We cannot guarantee that product descriptions are accurate, complete or error-free.\nErrors will be corrected where discovered and GMS Executive Grooming reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been placed and whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged.\nAll prices displayed in this website are in Australian Dollars ($AUD) and are inclusive of GST (Goods and Services Tax).\nTo help us achieve our goal of providing the highest quality products and services, we use information from our interactions with you and other customers, as well as from other parties. Because we respect your privacy, we have developed this Privacy Policy to ensure that all personal information we collect is handled in a safe, secure and responsible manner, and in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).\nFrom your purchases and other interactions with us, we obtain information concerning the specific products or services you purchase or use. When you visit this website, our web server automatically collects anonymous information such as log data and IP addresses, and may collect general information concerning your location. We may use the automatically collected information for a number of purposes, such as improving our site design, product assortments, customer service, and special promotions.\nCompliance with Law: We may provide access to information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of our website, to limit our legal liability, and to protect our rights or to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors of this website or the public. ExecutiveGrooming.com.au partners with advertising companies to place our advertising on publisher websites on the internet. These advertising companies collect anonymous information about your visits to our web site. This technology involves the use of third party cookies, which allow them to develop personalised advertising so that it directly relates to offers that may be of interest to you. You may choose to opt-out of this service we have with our third-party advertising partner. We may also use ExecutiveGrooming.com.au cookies to provide similar enhanced online marketing to you based on your interests and preferences. You may also choose to opt out of these enhanced online marketing ads.\nTelephone: 1300 381 210 (Melbourne - Australia)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 22955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exmark.com/dealers/mn/st-paul/merriam-park-repair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:7E67HF7ZZJTA2M6Q64WYF3KYHCBX3W3O", "length": 1545, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.exmark.com", "title": "Exmark Dealer St Paul MN | MERRIAM PARK REPAIR", "raw_content": "Call or visit MERRIAM PARK REPAIR today! 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This 6,215-yard par 71 18-hole facility is the home to the 747-yard, par 6 17th hole, which at one time was the longest hole in the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 592, "original_length": 10967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 76.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.extremetech.com/tag/alex-kipman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:39Z", "digest": "sha1:P2WKOVNAJB3F45TUCEPIALZH45WBGJKZ", "length": 276, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.extremetech.com", "title": "Alex Kipman Archives - ExtremeTech", "raw_content": "Microsoft wants to bring HoloLens to the consumer market once the technology matures\tJanuary 31, 2017 at 11:15 am\nIf you\u2019ve hoped Microsoft would release a consumer version of HoloLens, the company does plan to do so \u2014 but it doesn\u2019t have a firm timeline nailed down just yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairwarning.com/category/kurts-blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XAQTEVMDC7L7SUAN4UPXTA77OYGBBTH2", "length": 239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.fairwarning.com", "title": "Kurt Long\u2019s Blog Archives | FairWarning", "raw_content": "Review of Recent Accomplishments for our Customers and What is to Come\nMarc Lalosh2019-01-09T22:25:49+00:00Kurt Long\u2019s Blog|\nThe theme of FairWarning\u2019s work for our customers over the last years, including 2017 and 2018 to come, is to gain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/17418829.rosamunde-pilcher-whose-stories-were-filmed-in-falmouth-dies-aged-94/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:09Z", "digest": "sha1:4NO4ANH2RSTC66E4PQ5UIHLMZW3XU5DQ", "length": 1727, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.falmouthpacket.co.uk", "title": "Rosamunde Pilcher, whose stories were filmed in Falmouth, dies aged 94 | Falmouth Packet", "raw_content": "Best-selling Cornish author dies aged 94\nRosamunde Pilcher, whose stories were filmed in Falmouth, dies aged 94\nRosamunde Pilcher died at the age of 94\nRosamunde Pilcher, the best-selling author of the family saga The Shell Seekers, has died aged 94.\nHer books had a significant influence on tourism in Cornwall as many were adapted into television series by German broadcaster ZDF, several of which were filmed in Falmouth.\nHer son, author Robin Pilcher, told the Guardian newspaper Pilcher died after a stroke on Sunday night following a bout of bronchitis over New Year.\nHe said: \"She had been in great form up until Christmas, then suffered from bronchitis in the new year, but was always expected to bounce back as before.\n\"However, she suffered a stroke on Sunday night and never regained consciousness.\"\nHe added that she was \"a wonderful, rather alternative-thinking mother, I think she might have liked the description Bohemian, who touched and influenced the lives of many of all ages, not only through her writing but through personal friendships\".\nPilcher was prolific but found fame only in later life.\nThe Shell Seekers was published in 1987 when she was 63.\nIt followed a family from the Second World War to the present day, and was set between Cornwall and London.\nThe novel told the story of an artist's elderly daughter, Penelope Keeling, who discovers one of her father's paintings is worth a substantial sum of money.\nThe book sold more than 10 million copies and was adapted a number of times.\nIn 1989 Angela Lansbury played Keeling in an Emmy-nominated television film of the book in the Hallmark Hall Of Fame anthology series.\nMore recently, Vanessa Redgrave played the protagonist in a 2006 mini-series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 5509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.familyhandyman.com/tools/saws/top-10-chain-saw-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:23XWCTNEESNE7RIXREMAZMONZODPN3MJ", "length": 1152, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.familyhandyman.com", "title": "Top 10 Chain Saw Tips | The Family Handyman", "raw_content": "Chain saws are handy, hard-working tools. They can also be unwieldy and dangerous. These are our favorite tips for safe and effective chain sawing.\nChain Saw Blade Guard\nAvoid the Kickback Zone\nCutting with the chain on the bottom of the bar is the most common and natural-feeling way to cut. The saw pulls slightly and is easy to control by maintaining a firm grip. Cutting from the underside of a branch requires you to cut with the top of the bar. This is a little unnerving at first because the saw pushes toward you. But it's safe as long as you're well braced and follow all other precautions.\nHowever, there's one spot on the bar that you should carefully avoid. This spot, called the kickback zone, is the top half of the bar's tip. If the kickback zone comes in contact with something while the chain is moving, the saw will kick up and back toward you. That's why modern chain saws are equipped with a chain brake designed to stop the chain if a kickback occurs. It's also the reason you should always maintain an encircling grip with your thumb around the front handle. But the best defense is to avoid the kickback zone.\nSimple Jigsaw Guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 5109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.familylawma.com/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7P2MLTVEQB24LZBXKGOPMK27Q6X5FVYV", "length": 3416, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.familylawma.com", "title": "Blog \u2013 Page 2", "raw_content": "2017 Changes to the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines\nThe anticipated revision to the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines was recently released, which brings about some big changes but also leaves some of the same questions hanging around that the prior guidelines did not clearly address. The initiation of new guidelines always brings about an advanced level of confusion as the written word gets put into action within court orders, so here\u2019s our attempt to help Read More\n5 Myths About Prenups You Shouldn\u2019t Believe\nPrenuptial agreements may seem like preparation for the worst case scenario, but you should think of them more like a premarital insurance policy. A prenuptial agreement is meant to give you peace of mind before marriage and make sure both parties are on the same page financially before making those \u2018for better or worse\u2019 vows. These legal documents, also called \u201cprenups\u201d for short, can define how you and your spouse Read More\nMassachusetts Divorce: Understanding the \u201cNisi Period\u201d\nIf you are interested in filing for divorce in Massachusetts, you may be surprised to know that there is a mandatory waiting period between the time when your divorce is granted and when it is final. The time between when a judge grants your divorce and when the divorce is final is known as the \u201cNisi period.\u201d The Nisi period lasts 90 days. If you filed a joint petition, there is a 30-day waiting period before the Read More\nA Step-by-Step Guide to the Property Valuation Process in Massachusetts\nOne of the main worries of divorcing couples is how their property will be valued and distributed after the divorce. Your family home, car, and other assets must first be assigned a value before they can be distributed. It is important to get an accurate and fair valuation of your assets to ensure that you receive you fair share. You and your spouse can either agree on the value of your assets or, if an agreement Read More\nAlimony in Massachusetts: How Courts Calculate Your Post-Divorce Payments\nOne of the ways that an individual can recover from the financial burden of a divorce is by being awarded alimony and utilizing the money to start a new life. Alimony allows an individual to make positive changes such as preparing for a career or relocating, or being reimbursed for support they provided their ex-spouse during the marriage. It can also help provide the financial stability needed for a lower-earning Read More\nHelp! My Children Are Being Turned Against Me!\nEven in the most amicable divorce, shared custody can be difficult at times. Normal difficulties become something much more sinister when one parent attempts to sabotage the relationship of their child with the co-parent. The parent on the receiving end of such manipulation is often hurt, confused, angry, and unsure of their legal options. By learning to identify signs of parental alienation and utilizing simple tips Read More\nWhat Massachusetts Couples Should Know About Cohabitation Agreements\nYou may be looking forward to moving in with your significant other, but have you thought about the legal implications of doing so? While Common law marriage is recognized in the state of Rhode Island\u2014which we will discuss in a future blog\u2014it is not recognized in Massachusetts. Thus, those living with a partner in MA may need to make separate legal arrangements for various elements inherent in cohabitation, such as Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fargomonthly.com/jonny-lang/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPKXXE7C7RJ6FPPFWECAIXJSA2M2ICZG", "length": 5472, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.fargomonthly.com", "title": "A Hometown Boy Returns: Q&A With Fargo Native And Grammy Winner Jonny Lang | Fargo Monthly", "raw_content": "We had a chance to talk with Jonny Lang about returning to Fargo, among other things, in advance of his June 28 concert at The Fargo Theatre.\nby Nolan Schmidt Jun 25, 2018, 9:01 am 2k Views\nPhoto Courtesy of SKH Music/Daniella Hovsepian\nJonny Lang has made his way back home a multitude of times since leaving Fargo at the age of 15. However, each time he returns, he brings more experience and tales from his world of music. Though he has a Grammy under his belt and has shared the stage with legends like Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Sting, he continues to come back home time and time again. Regardless of his level of success, Lang continues to be grateful and appreciative of the city that spawned his love for music. We had a chance to talk with him about returning to Fargo, among other things, in advance of his June 28 concert at The Fargo Theatre.\nQ: What do you think your feelings will be when you come back to Fargo this month?\nA: It\u2019s always a little nostalgic seeing family and friends. It\u2019s just always nice to get back.\nQ: Tell us a little bit about the new album Signs. What was the inspiration behind it and what do you like about it the most?\nA: What sticks out to me is how fun it was to write the songs and collaborate with all the musicians. It didn\u2019t take long to record either and I just had a great time doing it. The process just seemed stress free. The music part is always fun, but sometimes the logistics can make recording tough, but this one just seemed different. The logistics just seemed to take care of themselves, so all I had to do is record.\nQ: What kind of impact did Fargo have on you as a musician?\nA: I had never seen live music when I first started. My dad took me out to the old Playmakers Bar to see a band called Bad Medicine. That sticks out to me the most because I later took lessons from that band\u2019s guitarist. Fargo is where I grew up, there were just a lot of firsts for me here, musically and personally.\nQ: Now, to my knowledge you are the first and only Fargoan to win a Grammy. How does that feel? What was winning that award like?\nA: I guess I\u2019ve never thought about that. That\u2019s actually really cool. You know, winning the award is an honor but I got a greater appreciation for it after I saw the process behind it. I mean, it\u2019s other musicians voting on your music, that made winning even more special.\nQ: Last year, you were playing outdoors here at Bluestem, what excites you the most about having a concert at the famous Fargo Theatre?\nA: It\u2019s a classic, old theatre and I have played there a bunch of times in the past. It\u2019s just neat because it\u2019s a small venue, which makes it more intimate, adds to the effect of the music. It\u2019s my hometown with everybody gathering and enjoying some music, so that\u2019ll add to the effect of it too.\nQ: You\u2019ve gotten to tour with some of the biggest names in music: Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and even B.B. King. Which artist was the most fun to tour with?\nA: All of those were good memories, it\u2019s kind of a blur just because it all happened in just a several year period. B.B. sticks out to me though, he was so nice to me. He could\u2019ve just as easily treated me as a kid, because that\u2019s what I was, but he treated me like one of the guys. He even let me play on stage with him. That was amazing.\nQ: To piggyback off of that, which artist taught you the most while you were on tour with them?\nA: I guess there weren\u2019t any \u201cCome here kid, let me show you something\u201d moments. However, just watching those guys, as performers and musicians was where I learned the most. Once you\u2019re at their level, you assume everyone is so serious and there is this vibe of seriousness. But, the secret is actually having fun, that\u2019s why those guys have been around so long, they continue to have fun. That\u2019s very key.\nQ: You know, the saying about you is how much a kid dynamo you were, releasing your first album at 15. How do you think you have evolved as a musician since then?\nA: I don\u2019t know if I can quantify it. I just learned a lot, being married and having kids were the biggest changes in that. As far as music goes, I\u2019ve always had a mindset of being open to learning, you know. Take all the experience and make something out of it, then you can look back on it. I am amazed with the things I\u2019ve done, I never could\u2019ve dreamed or imagined all those things.\nQ: Which artist/album/song will never get old in your mind. In essence, which record is never coming off your turntable?\nA: That\u2019s a hard one. Probably James Taylor Hourglass and probably a couple of Stevie Wonder records. That James Taylor album just impacted me so much the first time I heard it in either 1998 or 1999. It just got me and it has never lost that effect on me. It still gets me.\nQ: Last question, what do you miss most about Fargo now that you take up residence in Los Angeles?\nA: It was a great place to grow up, riding my bike, goofing off, you could do that. We used to ride all over town. We live outside of Los Angeles now, but I would still feel kind of weird letting my kids ride their bikes all around like I did. I suppose it is just a different time too. But I think Fargo is still like that to a degree. There are just a lot of fond memories for me.\nPurchase tickets for his show at jadepresents.com.\nPrevious article Life Writes Fashion: Luxury Handbags With A Message For The World\nNext article Twisted Spork Features Pizza, Burgers And More\nCulinary Spotlight: Not Your Traditional Holiday Turkey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 11708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fdanews.com/products/56076-mylan-pharmaceuticals-inc---april-12-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BBFPY2Z2XT37MVQLQRSVELDKDME3O5NB", "length": 87, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fdanews.com", "title": "Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - April 12, 2018 | FDANews", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Store \u00bb Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.\nMylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - April 12, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 50960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/02/18/03-3836/importation-of-milk-and-milk-products-from-regions-affected-with-foot-and-mouth-disease", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NEGOETP3B674JWGD5C7VZDDQR2DHML67", "length": 33479, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "www.federalregister.gov", "title": "Federal Register :: Importation of Milk and Milk Products From Regions Affected With Foot-and-Mouth Disease", "raw_content": "Importation of Milk and Milk Products From Regions Affected With Foot-and-Mouth Disease\n9 CFR 94\nDocket No. 01-040-1\nGovernment Paperwork Elimination Act Compliance\nPART 94\u2014RINDERPEST, FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, FOWL PEST (FOWL PLAGUE), EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE, AFRICAN SWINE FEVER, HOG CHOLERA, AND BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED IMPORTATIONS\nWe are proposing to amend the regulations regarding the importation of animal products to establish specific processing requirements for certain cheeses, butter, and butteroil imported from regions in which foot-and-mouth disease exists; these products are currently exempt from the requirements of the regulations. Additionally, we are proposing to require that those products, when imported from regions in which foot-and-mouth disease exists, be accompanied by government certification regarding the processing of the products. The proposed processing methods could also be used for other milk products that are currently eligible for importation under other conditions. We believe these actions are necessary to ensure that materials containing the foot-and-mouth disease virus are not imported into the United States.\nYou may submit comments by postal mail/commercial delivery or by e-mail. If you use postal mail/commercial delivery, please send four copies of your comment (an original and three copies) to: Docket No. 01-040-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700 River Start Printed Page 7723Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your comment refers to Docket No. 01-040-1. If you use e-mail, address your comment to regulations@aphis.usda.gov. Your comment must be contained in the body of your message; do not send attached files. Please include your name and address in your message and \u201cDocket No. 01-040-1\u201d on the subject line.\nYou may read any comments that we receive on this docket in our reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.\nAPHIS documents published in the Federal Register, and related information, including the names of organizations and individuals who have commented on APHIS dockets, are available on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/\u200bppd/\u200brad/\u200bwebrepor.html.\nDr. Karen James-Preston, Assistant Director, Technical Trade Services, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-8172.\nThe regulations in 9 CFR part 94 (referred to below as the regulations) govern the importation into the United States of meat and other animal products, including milk and milk products, in order to prevent the introduction of various animal diseases, including rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). These are dangerous and destructive communicable diseases of livestock.\nFMD is a severe and highly contagious viral infection affecting cattle, deer, goats, sheep, swine, and other animals. The most effective means of eradicating FMD is by the slaughter of affected animals. FMD is endemic to more than two-thirds of the world and is considered to be widespread in parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. FMD occurs in over seven different serotypes and 60 subtypes. As FMD outbreaks have occurred in foreign regions, the United States has banned the importation of live ruminants and swine, and restricted the importation of many animal products, from countries affected by FMD. In the past few years, the United States has implemented prohibitions and restrictions in response to outbreaks in South America, the European Union, and Taiwan.\nAlthough FMD was eradicated in the United States in 1929, the virus could be reintroduced by a single infected animal, animal product, or person carrying the virus. Once introduced, FMD can spread quickly through exposure to aerosols from infected animals, direct contact with infected animals, contact with contaminated feed or equipment, or contact with humans harboring the virus or carrying the virus on their clothing. It appears that FMD is primarily spread among livestock through aerosol, direct contact, or ingestion of animal products, including milk products. FMD could be introduced into the United States if milk or milk products carrying the FMD virus that have not been properly processed are imported into the United States and are ingested by ruminants or other livestock in the United States.\nSection 94.16 of the regulations contains provisions governing the importation of milk and milk products from FMD-affected countries. With certain exceptions, the current provisions in \u00a7\u200994.16 prohibit the importation of milk and milk products from regions in which FMD exists, unless the milk or milk product meets one of the conditions set forth in \u00a7\u200994.16(b). The products that are exempted from the importation conditions are butter, butteroil, and cheese, except cheese with liquid or containing any item prohibited or restricted from importation under the regulations unless such item is independently eligible for importation under part 94. Except for these exempted articles, milk and milk products may not be imported from any region designated in \u00a7\u200994.1(a)(1) as a region in which rinderpest or FMD exists unless the milk or milk products meet one of the following conditions:\n1. They are in a concentrated liquid form and have been processed by heat by a commercial method in a container hermetically sealed promptly after filling but before such heating, so as to be shelf stable without refrigeration.\n2. They are dry milk or dry milk products, including dry whole milk, nonfat dry milk, dried whey, dried buttermilk, and formulations that contain any such dry milk products, and are consigned directly to an approved establishment for further processing in a manner approved by the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) as adequate to prevent the introduction or dissemination of livestock diseases into the United States. However, in specific cases, upon request by the importer to the Administrator, and approval by the Administrator, they may be stored for a temporary period in an approved warehouse under the supervision of an APHIS inspector pending movement to an approved establishment. Such products must be transported from the port of first arrival to an approved establishment or an approved warehouse, and from an approved warehouse to an approved establishment only under Department seals or seals of the U.S. Customs Service. Such seals may be broken only by an APHIS inspector or other person authorized to do so by the Administrator. Such products may not be removed from the approved warehouse or approved establishment unless the Administrator gives special permission and all the conditions and requirements specified by the Administrator are complied with.\n3. Milk and milk products not exempted from the importation conditions and not meeting conditions 1 or 2 above may be imported if the importer first applies for and receives written permission from the Administrator authorizing such importation. Permission will be granted only when the Administrator determines that such action will not endanger the health of the livestock of the United States. Products subject to this provision include, but are not limited to, condensed milk, long-life milks such as sterilized milk, casein and caseinates, lactose, and lactalbumin. Additionally, small amounts of milk and milk products that would otherwise be prohibited from being imported into the United States may, in specific cases, be imported for examination, testing, or analysis if such importation is approved by the Administrator.\nIn light of recent FMD outbreaks in the European Union, South America, and elsewhere, we have reviewed the scientific literature and have determined that permitting the importation into the United States of butter, butteroil, and certain cheeses without their meeting specific importation conditions could pose an unacceptable risk of introducing the FMD virus into the United States. The literature we reviewed\u2009[1] indicates that Start Printed Page 7724the FMD virus could survive in those exempted products, so we believe that it is necessary to provide specific processing requirements for these products as a condition of their importation. These proposed processing methods are consistent with the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) standards. We are, therefore, proposing to remove the exemptions from importation conditions for the milk products listed in \u00a7\u200994.16(a) and instead would provide specific conditions (i.e., processing methods) under which those products could be imported. These processing methods could also be used for other products that are already eligible for importation under the conditions in \u00a7\u200994.16, including, but not limited to, condensed milk, long-life milks such as sterilized milk, cream, cheeses, whey, casein and caseinates.\nUnder this proposed rule, the milk products now listed as exempt in \u00a7\u200994.16(a) could be imported into the United States from a region affected with FMD only if they have been produced using one of the processing methods described below:\n1. Milk or milk products (other than cheese) that are, or are made from, milk that has been treated at ultra-high temperature (UHT)(298.4 \u00b0F (148 \u00b0C) for 3 seconds or 284 \u00b0F (140 \u00b0C) for 5 seconds).\n2. Milk or milk products (other than cheese) that are, or are made from, milk that has been treated at a high temperature for a short time (HTST) (161.6 \u00b0F (72 \u00b0C) for 15 seconds), followed by a second HTST treatment. For milk products made with added fat or added concentrates, the treatment temperature would have to be increased to 167 \u00b0F (75 \u00b0C).\n3. Milk products made from milk that is HTST-treated then brought to a pH of less than 6 for 1 hour.\n4. Cheese made from raw milk, aged at a temperature of greater than 35.6 of (2 \u00b0C) with a pH of less than 6 for 120 days prior to export from the country of origin.\n5. Cheese made from HTST milk, aged at a temperature of greater than 35.6 of (2 \u00b0C) with a pH of less than 6 for 30 days prior to export from the country of origin.\nThe scientific evidence available to us indicates that each of the methods described above is sufficient to inactivate the FMD virus in milk and milk products.\nWe would also require that any milk or milk product imported under these proposed conditions (i.e., the butter, butteroil, and cheeses that would have to meet one of those conditions, as well as any other milk or milk product for which one of those methods was used as an alternative to meeting the existing importation conditions in \u00a7\u200994.16) be accompanied by an official veterinary certificate endorsed by a full-time, salaried veterinarian employed by the region of origin attesting to the completion of the appropriate processing. The certificate would help ensure that the required processing has been performed by requiring that a representative responsible for animal health in the exporting region verifies that the treatment has been carried out.\nWe are proposing to add ice cream and chocolate milk to the examples of milk products in current \u00a7\u200994.16 (b)(3) that may be eligible for importation based on written permission from the Administrator. We are proposing to specifically cite ice cream and chocolate milk as products requiring written permission to minimize the chance that these products may accidentally be diverted into the animal food chain.\nWe are also proposing to require that the examination, testing, and analysis of small amounts of milk and milk products allowed for importation under current \u00a7\u200994.16(b)(4) occur in a laboratory setting. This action would ensure that untreated samples would not enter the United States to be sold at trade shows or fairs.\nThis proposed rule has been reviewed under Executive Order 12866. The rule has been determined to be significant for the purposes of Executive Order 12866 and, therefore, has been reviewed by the office of Management and Budget.\nWe are proposing to amend the regulations regarding the importation of animal products to establish specific processing requirements for certain cheeses, butter, and butteroil imported from regions in which FMD exists. Those processing methods could also be used for other milk and milk products that are already eligible for importation under different conditions, thus allowing their importation under a greater variety of conditions. Additionally, we are proposing to require that products imported from regions in which FMD exists and processed using one of the proposed methods be accompanied by government certification regarding their processing. We believe these actions are necessary to ensure that products containing the FMD virus are not imported into the United States.\nThe establishment of FMD in the United States could result in serious economic consequences, given the size of the Nation's livestock inventories and the volume of animal and animal product sales. Potential losses associated with an outbreak of FMD include production losses at affected establishments, eradication and quarantine costs, and trade restrictions.[2] Production losses arise from lost production on depopulated premises and in the industries linked to the livestock sector. There would also be additional costs to be borne by producers and slaughterers, as restrictions would be imposed to prevent the spread of FMD and eradicate the disease within the United States. These restrictions and eradication measures would also mean added costs to the government for implementation and enforcement.\nFMD outbreaks in the spring of 2001 in the United Kingdom illustrate these costs. Control of FMD in the United Kingdom became a nationwide undertaking, with restrictions on the movement of animals (and people), large-scale slaughter of animals on affected and neighboring farms, and disposal of carcasses through burning, rendering, or burial. The last case of FMD in the United Kingdom was found on September 30, 2001; by the time the United Kingdom declared the outbreak eradicated on January 14, 2002, 586,551 cattle, 3,466,493 sheep, 148,388 pigs, 2,482 goats, 1,021 deer, and 770 other animals had been slaughtered.[3] In addition, the European Union banned the export of meat, livestock, and milk products from the United Kingdom. As is shown below, the United States is a major exporter of products whose international movement could be affected by an outbreak of FMD in the United States. In addition to a likely reduction in demand from international consumers, trading partners of the United States would likely impose restrictions on, and reduce imports of, U.S. ruminants, swine, and some of their products in the event of an FMD outbreak in the United States.\nAccording to \u201cAgricultural Statistics 2001,\u201d published by National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), cattle in U.S. herds in 2000 were valued at $67.1 billion, with 1999 cash receipts Start Printed Page 7725of $36.5 billion from the sale of cattle, calves, beef, and veal. Cash receipts from the sale of milk and cream in 1999 reached $23.2 billion. U.S. hogs and pigs in 2000 were valued at $4.6 billion, with 1999 cash receipts from the sale of hogs, pork, and lard totaling $8.6 billion. Sheep and lamb inventories in 2000 were valued at $668.8 million, with 1999 cash receipts of $468.8 million from the sale of live sheep and lambs and of mutton and lamb. The value of U.S. wool production in 1999 totaled about $17.9 million.\nU.S. exports of live bovines, swine, sheep, and goats were valued at $304.5 million in 2000. U.S. exports of fresh beef, pork, and sheep and goat meat totaled $4.4 billion in 2000. U.S. exports of fresh ruminant and swine products other than meat were valued at $718.4 million in 2000. U.S. exports of prepared and preserved ruminant and swine meat products such as sausages and cured, salted, and dried meats were valued at $375.5 million in 2000. U.S. exports of dairy products totaled $784.1 million in 2000. In addition, the United States exports a great number of other ruminant and swine products including germplasm, hides and skins, animal feeds, dairy products, bones, hair, guts, and glands.\nIn order to help prevent an outbreak of FMD in the United States, and thus protect the substantial domestic and export market described above, imports of certain cheeses, butter, and butteroil from regions affected with FMD would be subject to specific processing requirements as a result of this proposed rule. Other products, including milk, cream, casein, whey, caseinates, and ice cream, which are already eligible for importation under different conditions, could also be processed using the proposed methods as an alternative to meeting the existing requirements governing the importation of those products. Those products, as previously discussed, would need to be accompanied by an official veterinary certificate that attests to the completion of the appropriate processing. U.S. imports of these products in 2000 from regions affected with FMD and the world are shown in Table 1.\nTable 1.\u2014U.S. Imports of Milk and Milk Products, 2000\nFrom FMD affected regions (in millions)\nFrom FMD free regions (in millions)\nU.S. global imports (in millions)\nMilk and cream, not concentrated $0.73 $9.65 $10.38\nMilk and cream, concentrated or sweetened 2.78 31.51 34.29\nButter and other fats and oils derived from milk 0.65 34.44 35.09\nCheese and curd 140.53 556.10 696.63\nIce cream 2.38 15.25 17.62\nCasein and caseinates 98.81 401.57 500.38\nOther milk products 15.25 157.06 172.31\nSource: World Trade Atlas, Global Trade Information Services, Inc.\nApproximately 9 percent of these imports were from regions affected with FMD. Information on the portion of butter, butteroil, and cheese imports from FMD-affected regions that do not currently meet the proposed requirements is not available. However, the impact of the proposed changes is expected to be small. Imports in total are small relative to domestic production. For example, butter imports totaled 18,059 metric tons in 1999, while domestic production of butter was 578,349 metric tons. In addition, APHIS anticipates that the majority of these imports currently meet, or could relatively easily be made to meet, the requirements described in this proposed rule, as most processors already possess and use the equipment necessary to meet the proposed standards. In addition, certain products (i.e., dry milk and dry milk products including dry whole milk, nonfat dry milk, dried whey, dried buttermilk, and formulations which contain any such dry milk products) would continue to be eligible for importation under existing regulations and would not be required to meet the specific proposed requirements.\nFor most types of cheese imported into the United States, this proposed rule should have little impact. At a total of 197,537 metric tons in 1999, the amount of imported cheese was equal to about 5 percent of domestic cheese production, which was about 3.6 million metric tons. In addition, most U.S. imports of cheese currently meet or should be able to meet the requirements for time, temperature, and pH level in this proposed rule. There are notable possible exceptions to this. The aging requirement in the proposed rule may affect the importation of some cheeses, as additional aging may alter the character of some cheeses made with raw milk and some cheeses with eye-formation such as Swiss cheese, thus making them less desirable or unavailable for importation. In 1999, the United States produced about 100,000 metric tons, and imported more than 34,000 metric tons, of Swiss cheese. Table 2 shows U.S. imports of Swiss type cheeses and their origin in 1998 through 2000. The extent to which imports of Swiss cheese and raw milk cheese may be altered as a result of the proposed rule is unknown. However, the effect should be exceedingly small, as more than 99 percent of U.S. Swiss cheese imports in 2000 originated in FMD-free countries.\nTable 2.\u2014U.S. Imports of Swiss Cheese\n[in metric tons]\nAustria 1,269 1,109 1,298\nDenmark 1,428 3,417 2,585\nFinland 5,872 6,908 8,124\nFrance 1,371 984 1,390\nGermany 3,858 6,477 4,633\nIreland 1,021 1,124 818\nNorway 7,510 7,254 7,709\nSwitzerland 3,416 3,516 3,498\nOther countries 1,773 2,816 3,082\nIn addition to the specific processing requirements for butter, butteroil, and certain cheeses imported from regions affected by FMD, this proposed rule would also require government certification that those requirements have been met. The cost of obtaining certification may affect the price of the product paid by U.S. importers and end users. However, the cost of obtaining such certification is expected to be low. The certification is simply a signed statement from the veterinary official of the exporting country attesting that the requirements have been met. Certification would be a new requirement for cheese (without liquid or restricted items), butter, and butteroil. Under the current regulations, these items may enter without restriction. In 2000, about 40 percent of the $530 million in milk and milk products imported from FMD-affected countries were cheese and butter.\nFor some other imports, the proposed rule would expand import options. For example, certain products such as condensed milk, long-life milks such as sterilized milk, casein and caseinates, lactose and lactalbumin, are currently allowed entry if written permission is given for their importation, and other products such as dry milk or dry milk products are currently allowed entry only if consigned to an approved facility for further processing. If any of these products were produced using milk processed in accordance with methods described in this proposal, those products would be eligible for importation if accompanied by the certification described in the previous paragraph. The number of producers in FMD-affected regions that might opt to use the processing methods described in this proposed rule for these products is unknown. We expect that those producers would use UHT-or HTST-treated milk in the preparation of their products if that option was viable from a production standpoint and was an economically attractive alternative to the existing requirements in \u00a7\u200994.16 governing the importation of these products.\nThe quantity of imports from FMD-affected regions that might be produced using milk treated in accordance with this proposed rule is not known, nor is the degree to which that treatment might affect the cost of those imports.\nAs this proposed rule would simply provide an alternative to the current importation provisions for milk and milk products other than butter, butteroil, and cheese, we expect that the effect of this proposed rule on imports of those products, which in 2000 constituted about 60 percent of milk and milk product imports from FMD-affected regions, would be small.\nThis proposed rule may involve added costs for importers and users of butter, butteroil, and certain cheeses, as those imports from FMD-affected regions would be required to meet new processing and certification requirements. However, because FMD-affected regions account for a small portion of all U.S. imports of these products and represent an even smaller fraction of domestic production and overall supply, the impacts on domestic prices and consumption will be small. Moreover, these costs are very small when compared to the benefits of preventing an outbreak of FMD in the United States. Such an outbreak could have serious economic consequences given the size of the nation's livestock inventories and the volume of animal and animal product sales.\nThe Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that Agencies specifically consider the economic impact of their rules on small entities. Those entities most likely to be affected by the proposed rule are domestic importers of milk and milk products, domestic users of these products, and dairy farms.\nThe Small Business Administration (SBA) has established guidelines for determining which establishments are to be considered small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act. According to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes 422430 and 422490, import/export merchants, agents, and brokers are identified in the wholesaling trade. A firm engaged in wholesaling dairy products is considered small if it employs fewer than 100 persons. In 1997, more than 97 percent (2,460 of 2,522) of dairy products (except dried or canned) wholesalers would be considered small, and more than 95 percent (12,251 of 12,845) of other grocery and related products wholesalers, which includes dried and canned dairy products, would be considered small.[4] An establishment engaged in dairy cattle and milk production (NAICS code 112111) is considered small if it has annual sales of less than $750,000. According to the 1997 Census of Agriculture, at least 79,155 of 86,022 (or 92 percent) of dairy farms would be considered small. The size standards for establishments engaged in food manufacturing range from fewer than 500 employees to fewer than 1,000 employees, depending on the type of food being manufactured. An establishment engaged in dairy product manufacturing (NAICS code 3115) is considered small if it employs fewer than 500 persons. This is also the standard for non-chocolate confectionary manufacturing, NAICS code 311340, which includes granola and other types of breakfast bars. In 1997, 25,729 of 26,302 (or more than 97 percent) of food manufacturing establishments would be considered small.[5]\nFrom the above it is clear that any domestic entity affected by this proposed rule is likely to be considered small. However, for most milk products, the quantity imported is a small fraction of that produced domestically, and the quantity of imports supplied by FMD-affected regions is a smaller percentage still of domestic supply. Thus, the Start Printed Page 7727impact of this proposed rule on small entities is expected to be small.\nThis proposed rule has been reviewed under Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. If this proposed rule is adopted: (1) All State and local laws and regulations that are inconsistent with this rule will be preempted; (2) no retroactive effect will be given to this rule; and (3) administrative proceedings will not be required before parties may file suit in court challenging this rule.\nIn accordance with section 3507(d) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the information collection or recordkeeping requirements included in this proposed rule have been submitted for approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Please send written comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for APHIS, Washington, DC 20503. Please state that your comments refer to Docket No. 01-040-1. Please send a copy of your comments to: (1) Docket No. 01-040-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238, and (2) Clearance Officer, OCIO, USDA, room 404-W, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250. A comment to OMB is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication of this proposed rule.\nWe are proposing to amend the regulations regarding the importation of animal products to establish new processing requirements for butter, butteroil, and certain cheeses imported from regions in which FMD exists. Additionally, we are proposing to require that those materials, as well as other milk or milk products that are processed using the new proposed methods in lieu of meeting the existing importation conditions, when imported from regions in which foot-and-mouth disease exists, be accompanied by government certification by a salaried veterinarian employed by the region of origin regarding the processing of the materials.\nWe are asking OMB to approve, for 3 years, our use of this information collection activity in connection with our efforts to ensure that milk and milk products imported into the United States from FMD regions do not harbor the FMD virus.\nRespondents: Exporters of milk and milk products in FMD regions; full-time, salaried veterinarians employed by the region of origin.\nEstimated total annual burden on respondents: 250 hours. (Due to averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of the annual number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per response.) Copies of this information collection can be obtained from Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS\u201d Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 734-7477.\nThe Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is committed to compliance with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), which requires government agencies in general to provide the public the option of submitting information or transacting business electronically to the maximum extent possible. For information pertinent to GPEA compliance related to this proposed rule, please contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS\u201d Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 734-7477.\nAccordingly, we propose to amend 9 CFR part 94 as follows:\n1. The authority citation for part 94 would continue to read as follows:\nAuthority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701-7772, and 8301-8317; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 42 U.S.C. 4331 and 4332; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.\n2. Section 94.16 would be amended as follows:\na. By removing paragraph (a) and redesignating paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) as paragraphs (a), (b), and (c), respectively.\nb. In newly redesignated paragraph (a), by revising the introductory text of the paragraph; redesignating paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(4) as paragraphs (a)(6) through (a)(9), respectively; and by adding new paragraphs (a)(1) through(a)(5) to read as follows.\nc. In newly redesignated paragraph (a)(8), by revising the first sentence to read as follows, and in the last sentence, by adding the words \u201cice cream, chocolate milk,\u201d after the word \u201clactose\u201d.\nd. In newly redesignated paragraph (a)(9), by adding the words \u201cin a laboratory setting\u201d after the word \u201canalysis\u201d.\ne. In newly redesignated paragraph (c), in the last sentence, by removing the citation \u00a7\u200994.16(b)(3)\u201d and adding the words \u201cparagraph (a)(8) of this section\u201d in its place.\n(a) Milk and milk products originating in, or shipped from, any region designated in \u00a7\u200994.1(a) as a region infected with rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease may be imported into the United States if the milk or milk product satisfies one of the sets of criteria described in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(9) of this section. Products processed in accordance with one of the methods described in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(5) of this section must be accompanied by an official veterinary Start Printed Page 7728certificate endorsed by a full-time, salaried veterinarian employed by the region of origin stating that the products have been processed in accordance with one of those methods:\n(1) Milk or milk products (other than cheese) that are, or are made from, milk that has been treated at an ultra high temperature (298.4 \u00b0F (148 \u00b0C ) for 3 seconds or 284 \u00b0F (140 \u00b0C) for 5 seconds); or\n(2) Milk or milk products (other than cheese) that are, or are made from, milk that has been treated at a high temperature for a short time (HTST) (161.6 \u00b0F (72 \u00b0C) for 15 seconds) followed by a second HTST (161.6 \u00b0F (72 \u00b0C) for 15 seconds) treatment. For milk products made with added fat or added concentrates, the treatment temperature must be increased to 167 \u00b0F (75 \u00b0C); or\n(3) Milk products made from HTST milk that is brought to a pH of less than 6 for 1 hour.\n(4) Cheese made from raw milk, aged at a temperature of greater than 35.6 \u00b0F (2 \u00b0C) with a pH of less than 6 for 120 days prior to export from the country of origin; or\n(5) Cheese made from HTST milk, aged at a temperature of greater than 35.6 \u00b0F (2 \u00b0C) with a pH of less than 6 for 30 days prior to export from the country of origin.\n(8) Milk and milk products not of classes included within the provisions of paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(7) of this section may be imported if the importer first applies to and receives written permission from the Administrator, authorizing such importation. * * *\nDone in Washington, DC, this 11th day of February, 2003.\nBill Hawks,\nUnder Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs.\n1. See: Blackwell, J.H., \u201cSurvival of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Cheese,\u201d 1976, Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 59, No. 9, pp. 1574-1579.\nSellers, R.F., \u201cInactivation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Milk,\u201d 1969, British Veterinary Journal, Vol. 125, No. 4, pp. 163-168.\nCunliffe, H.R., et al., \u201cInactivation of Milkborn Foot- and Mouth Disease Virus at Ultra-High Temperatures,\u201d 1979, Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 135-137.\n2. Ekboir, Javier M., \u201cPotential Impact of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in California,\u201d 1999, Agricultural Issues Center, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resource, University of California.\n3. UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.\n4. 1997 Economic Census, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 671, "original_length": 57741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmbug.com/db/294389/quotes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LKK3XD6CZ3PBKRZNSOBYICKXCPCXAFCB", "length": 1915, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.filmbug.com", "title": "John Hawkes Quotes - Filmbug", "raw_content": "Home > Movie Stars > H > John Hawkes > Quotes\nJohn Hawkes Quotes\n21 quotations by John Hawkes\nWhen I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.\nThe only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.\nReally, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.\nOnce I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.\nOn the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.\nMy mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.\nMy education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape.\nIn The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.\nIn my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old.\nI'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.\nI was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.\nI want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.\nI do not feel an exile from America in any sense.\nI didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.\nI didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.\nHe was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.\nAs in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.\nAs he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmbug.com/db/31822-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MXBVG3DTDSJS5YQPRMAY6NPBU6ALL2KM", "length": 1210, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.filmbug.com", "title": "Melinda Dillon Movies - Filmbug", "raw_content": "Home > Movie Stars > D > Melinda Dillon > Movies\nMelinda Dillon Movies\nMelinda Dillon movies available on Blu-ray and DVD\nDirected by Michael Ray Rhodes\nWith Moira Kelly, Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon and Brian Keith\nBuy Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story\nDirected by Lee Grant\nWith Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Levon Helm and Dermot Mulroney\nBuy Staying Together\nWith Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon\nBuy Close Encounters Of The Third Kind\nComplete title: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Collector's Edition)\nBuy Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Collector's Edition)\nWith Don Ameche, John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick and David Suchet\nBuy Harry And The Hendersons\nWith Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren and Lindsay Crouse\nBuy Slap Shot\nWith Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon and Philip Baker Hall\nBuy Magnolia\nWith Don Ameche, Orene Anderson, Richard Arnold, Melinda Dillon and Nick Flynn\nComplete title: Harry and the Hendersons (Special Edition)\nBuy Harry and the Hendersons (Special Edition)\nClick here for region 2 or B encoded Melinda Dillon movies (UK & Europe)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmdoo.com/review-detail/1784/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LDEAQNXNW3QFPZKXURVY624YX266TJTZ", "length": 585, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.filmdoo.com", "title": "Discover Movie Review of Bandito", "raw_content": "Image from: Bandito (2015)\nUSA, 2015, 15 minutes Coming of Age, US Indie\nA young boy joins his brother and his brother\u2019s friends in a heist of a semi-cargo truck. One of the guys in the group gets frustrated and takes it out on the driver and orders his brother to kill him. He finds a kid tied up inside the truck and secretly releases him. The leader of their group decides to burn the truck while he frantically looks around to look for that kid. I love the twist of this story. I love the crisp and clear cinematography and the awesome audio. The actors weren\u2019t too bad themselves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 7834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.finisar.com/products", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QZALV55RBT4YYKZQT5GM4T54KHZ7M7PE", "length": 515, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.finisar.com", "title": "Products | Finisar Corporation", "raw_content": "With the broadest product portfolio in the industry, Finisar is dedicated to helping our partners leverage the power and speed of optical communications. Our world-class products meet the increasing demands for network bandwidth, data storage and 3D sensing subsystems. For three decades, we have provided components and subsystems to networking equipment manufacturers, data center operators, telecom service providers, consumer electronics and automotive companies.\nWavelength Management, ROADMs, WSS & Amplifiers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fionasimpson.com.au/vocational-training-in-crisis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BN5LDVCK3C5A7V22CEBIART3P4RBLYRU", "length": 946, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fionasimpson.com.au", "title": "Vocational training in crisis \u2013 Fiona Simpson MP", "raw_content": "Damning new data released by the National Productivity Commission shows that the number of Queensland students in VET training has dropped by 33,700 from 2015 to 2017 putting Queensland at odds with the rest of Australia.\nIt is disgraceful that fewer VET students are being trained while the state\u2019s unemployment rate continues to be amongst the highest in the country.\nInstead of investing in students Labor has been splurging millions on TAFE Queensland executive travel, hospitality expenses, golden handshakes and Commonwealth Games tickets.\nAnnastacia Palaszczuk also recently refused $245 million in desperately-needed vocational training funding from the Federal Government under a new national partnership. That $245 million of vocational training funds could have been used to help young Queenslanders make a start in their careers.\nWe need more students completing VET training to give our young people the best chance of getting a job.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstorderhistorians.com/2019/02/04/glass-the-third-week-in-a-row-at-number-one-in-the-usa-and-canada/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NBUYX6JIMYIXORXG5UMVMD3NHGPS3DST", "length": 742, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firstorderhistorians.com", "title": "\"Glass,\" the third week in a row at number one in the USA and Canada -", "raw_content": "\u201cGlass,\u201d the third week in a row at number one in the USA and Canada\n\u201cGlass\u201d, the last part of a superheldendrieluik of director M. 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Perhaps you have a similar picture from your own travels? If you do, post us a link. Let us know of any inaccuracies in the descriptions and help us to map the images we don't have locations for.\nFor more information please see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/africa\nThe CO 1069 series is a diverse collection of images with a rich variety of content. In many instances we know little about the people or contents of the photographs and this is one of the reasons why we have published them online and asked people to comment and share their knowledge.\nPlease note the pictures and the captions attached to them are representative of the time they were taken. They frequently use terms that would not be used today. However, our role is to preserve the integrity of the historic public record, which is why they have been preserved and presented as originally captured.\nPlease also see our takedown policy: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/takedown-policy.htm\nAfrica - Unknown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flightdealshound.com/flight-deals/2017-08-29-cheap-flight-from-new-orleans-to-los-angeles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:50Z", "digest": "sha1:T5ZLO7IBD6KEVUD4NMABX6VBMQECIJ2O", "length": 118, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.flightdealshound.com", "title": "Flight Deals Hound - Your Personal Flight Deals Concierge", "raw_content": "Cheap flight from New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California\nWant to access more flight deals from New Orleans?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flowcontrolnetwork.com/glossary-of-terms-pump-performance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:09Z", "digest": "sha1:RXBIEBRA5Y4LY7JAIU4RPJKHEYDZ3WWH", "length": 3067, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.flowcontrolnetwork.com", "title": "GLOSSARY OF TERMS: Pump Performance - Flow Control Network", "raw_content": "GLOSSARY OF TERMS: Pump Performance\nATMOSPHERE: A unit of measure equivalent to the absolute pressure at sea level of 14.7 PSI.BARREL: In the petroleum industry, a unit of measure equivalent to 42 U.S. gallons.BRINELL:\nATMOSPHERE: A unit of measure equivalent to the absolute pressure at sea level of 14.7 PSI.\nBARREL: In the petroleum industry, a unit of measure equivalent to 42 U.S. gallons.\nBRINELL: Characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the scale of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material test-piece.\nCENTIPOISE: An SI unit used to measure absolute viscosity (resistance to flow).\nCAVITATION: The phenomenon of formation of vapor bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapor pressure.\nHORSEPOWER: A British system measurement of work = 745.7 Watts.\nKILOPASCAL: An SI pressure measurement. 100 Kpa = 14.5 PSI.\nLAMINAR: Flow, sometimes known as streamline flow, occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers.\nMOHS: A scale measuring the relative hardness of minerals with a maximum value of 15 (Diamond).\nNEMA: National Electrical Manufacturer\u2019s Association, a self-regulating industry group for electric apparatus producers in the United States.\nNEWTON: The unit of force derived in the SI system; it is equal to the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second.\nNEWTONIAN: A fluid whose viscosity is constant and is independent of shear rate; i.e., water or oil.\nNPSHR: Net Positive Suction Head Required. The minimum amount of absolute pressure, measured in feet of water, required for a pump to deliver 98 percent of its theoretical capacity.\nPSEUDOPLASTIC: Substances with no definite yield stress that exhibit a decrease in consistency with increasing shear rate.\nROTOR: A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.\nRUNOUT: The amount of radial variation in a rotation of a drive shaft.\nTHIXOTROPIC: A behavior that describes a type of non-Newtonian fluid whereby the viscosity shears dependent on both the amount of shear and the time applied\nTURBULENT: A fluid regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes.\nVDMA: Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau. A German Engineering Federation that publishes most of the specifications and standards for pump manufacturers in Europe.\nWEIR: A \u201cV\u201d shaped or rectangular slot in the top of a water vessel, the height of which will indicated the flowrate in units of volume per unit of time.\nThis glossary of terms was contributed by Mike Dillon, president of seepex Inc (www.seepex.com), a manufacturer of progressive-cavity pumps for delivering low to highly viscous, aggressive and abrasive media. Mr. Dillon has 36 years of experience in positive-displacement pumps and has authored more than 20 articles on the theory and operation of PD pumps.\nNext post China Spends More than U.S. on Pollution Ctrl.\nPrevious post Flowserve Acquires Swiss Desalination Supplier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flysas.com/hk-en/eurobonus/partners/flygbolag/air-china/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GEYTZGRVOCJDCSBCJ6EF4E6NMFAKONTG", "length": 306, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.flysas.com", "title": "EuroBonus partner \u2013 Air China | SAS", "raw_content": "Air China is the national flag carrier of China and a member of Star Alliance\n750 - 1 200 540 - 660 150 - 450\nP, F, A, J (200%)\nC, D (150%)\nZ, R (125%) G (110%)\nY, B (100%)\nE (90%) M, H (75%)\nU, Q, V, W S, T (50%)\nL, K (25%)\nYou can spend points on flights operated by Air China, except on charter flights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 3950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.follett.com/news?articleid=14577", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXP2DJ2BYL3DV4MXIHP4NEG7BC6CEDK5", "length": 3632, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.follett.com", "title": "Robert Morris University Illinois Selects Follett to Operate Campus Store", "raw_content": "CHICAGO, ILL., Aug 8, 2017 \u2013 Robert Morris University Illinois transitioned its campus store to Follett Higher Education management on August 7, bringing new products, savings and support for campus store customers. Robert Morris University Illinois selected Follett as the campus retail partner with the best resources, technology and product selection to support the unique needs of the campus community.\nWith this new partnership, Robert Morris University Illinois faculty and students will have access to Follett's expansive inventory of affordable course material choices. Cost-saving print options include used books as well as Follett\u2019s text rental program that saves students up to 80 percent compared to purchasing new. Follett also delivers a varied selection of digital learning technologies that help promote anywhere, anytime access to needed materials. New store services include Follett\u2019s year-round buyback program and also price match, which helps ensure students get their materials at the lowest cost possible.\nBeyond course materials, Follett will refresh general merchandise offerings to be a one-stop shop for class and campus life essentials. Robert Morris University Illinois customers can expect a custom merchandise assortment that reflects local interests as well as national trends in supplies, technology, clothing, gifts and more. Exciting brands carried include Columbia\u00ae Sportswear, Under Armour\u00ae, NIKE\u00ae, League\u00ae Collegiate Outfitters, Cutter & Buck\u00ae, The Game\u00ae and Champion\u00ae. The full breadth of Follett\u2019s products and services can be explored both in-store and online through the world's number one online provider of textbooks and fan gear, eFollett.com.\n\u201cWe look forward to serving Robert Morris University\u2019s students, parents, alumni, fans, faculty and staff throughout Illinois,\" said Clay Wahl, president of Follett Higher Education. \"Follett's main focus is on enhancing the Robert Morris University Illinois experience, so you can expect our campus and online store to deliver great products, promote affordable course material options and celebrate the unique spirit of this vibrant campus network.\"\nAbout Robert Morris University Illinois | www.robertmorris.edu/chicago\nRobert Morris University Illinois is an independent, not-for-profit, multi-location institution offering associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree programs that focus on integrating theory and applications. Robert Morris University prepares students to be practitioners in their chosen fields, socially responsible to their communities, and a foundation for their families. For more information, visit www.robertmorris.edu.\nAbout Robert Morris University Illinois Campus Store | www.rmustore.com\nRobert Morris University Illinois Campus Store is solely devoted to serving Robert Morris University students, faculty, staff and alumni and fans \u2013 offering products and services both in-store and online at eFollett.com. Robert Morris University Illinois\u2019 Campus Store is located at 401 S State Street, Suite 120 and is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.\nFollett is a $3.4 billion privately held company headquartered in Westchester, Illinois. As a leading provider of education technology, services and physical and digital content, Follett works with 70,000 schools and operates more than 1,250 local campus stores and 1,600 virtual stores. With the 2016 acquisition of Baker & Taylor, LLC, Follett's reach also extends into the public library and global retail markets. For more information, visit www.follett.com. For more information on our partnership with Lumen Learning, visit www.follett.com/lumen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 12275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foodsforbetterhealth.com/the-worst-diet-trick-ever-5007", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:12Z", "digest": "sha1:26JEYKOFQDPYHL5BTCUOKVDCUS5BNH4K", "length": 3895, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.foodsforbetterhealth.com", "title": "The WORST Diet Trick Ever", "raw_content": "https://www.foodsforbetterhealth.com/the-worst-diet-trick-ever-5007 The WORST Diet Trick Ever Jon Yaneff Foods 4 Better Health 2013-10-03T03:01:18Z 2016-07-02 10:50:46 Advice,Diet & Nutrition,What's Bad For You\nHome > Diet & Nutrition > The WORST Diet Trick Ever\nThe WORST Diet Trick Ever\nWe all have eaten too much of our favorite foods at times, but what about binge eating? Does this common dieting trick and eating behavior pose any health risks? Studies show that binge eating is dangerous\u2014especially for men.\nAccording to new research published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, obese males who partake in binge eating behavior are more likely to develop metabolic syndrome (pre-diabetes) than females who have a similar affliction.\nIn a study on 190 obese adults, 26% of who were male, researchers found that the men were up to three times more likely to develop the clinical criteria for metabolic syndrome. The male subjects were also much more likely to have high blood levels of triglyceride and fasting glucose; larger waist circumference; higher blood pressure; and lower levels of HDL cholesterol. The male subjects were also more likely to have elevated levels of HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin) which is a direct measure of the degree of blood sugar control.\n\u201cA lot of primary care physicians are still not aware of (binge eating), particularly in men. Common thinking is still that eating disorders are women\u2019s problems,\u201d said lead author of the study Dr. T. Udo. \u201cBut, as we\u2019ve shown in this study, this type of disorder can have a significant impact on men\u2019s health.\u201d\nIn my view, if you consider the fact that only 25% of the subjects in this study were males, the differences become even more apparent when you extrapolate these results into real world circumstances.\nDespite the fact that there were no differences between each gender relative to psychological profile or binge eating behaviors, men who were overweight or obese and were prone to binge eating had a much greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome over females in the same clinical category.\nIn my opinion, the apparent difference in risk factors between each gender in this study has everything to do with how body fat is stored in males relative to females. Males primarily store body fat around their waist whereas women have a tendency to store it everywhere like their hips, thighs, buttocks, and arms.\nThis abdominal body fat accumulation men acquire is associated with a greater degree of insulin resistance, higher blood pressure, blood sugar, triglycerides, and, of course, HbA1c. With that also comes a great deal of associated health risks such as the development of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, peripheral artery disease, and stroke.\nMales who are overweight and binge eat are at higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome\u2014not because they specially resort to binge eating\u2014but it is more likely that the added weight gain which has accumulated in their abdominal cavity carries with it a greater degree of metabolic damage and associated health concerns relative to females with the same health issues. Whether males are binge eating or not, if they are overweight, they have an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome over females who also are overweight.\nMen need to be very concerned regarding this unique gender-based relationship that the results of this study bring forward, and take active measures to start eating healthy before their binge eating turns into something more serious.\nBrauser, D., \u201cBinge Eating More Likely to Lead to Metabolic Syndrome in Men,\u201d Medscape web site; September 26, 2013; http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811732\nUdo, T., et al., \u201cSex differences in biopsychosocial correlates of binge eating disorder: a study of treatment-seeking obese adults in primary care setting,\u201d General Hospital Psychiatry. August 22, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foodshow.co.nz/partners/ben-bayly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VV6HQ2TS4OSTFOGZR52EQPX2K4UCG7X7", "length": 1222, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.foodshow.co.nz", "title": "Ben Bayly", "raw_content": "/ Ben Bayly\nBen Bayly was born and raised on a dairy farm in the Waikato. As a young chef, he was awarded Commis Chef of the Year 1999, National Youth Skills 2000, and received the Bill Gallagher scholarship at Johnson and Wales University of Culinary Arts in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.\nBen then spent the next eight years working in a number of famed restaurants around the worldincluding the likes of Fenix in Melbourne, Le Crique in Las Vegas, The Square & the Ledbury in the U.K, and Restaurant Jean-Paul Jeunet and Atelier de Joel Robuchon in France.\nIn 2009 Ben returned home to New Zealand and is the executive chef of the 3 Hat restaurant, The Grove. In 2013 he opened the Italian restaurant Baduzzi on Auckland\u2019s North Wharf, immediately gaining 2 Hats in the Cuisine Good Food Guide.\nOther awards include Metro Supreme Restaurant of the Year Award 2010 & 2011, Best Cuisine Metropolitan Restaurant 2012, Best Speciality Restaurant 2014 & Cuisine Good Food Guide Chef of the Year 2014.\nAfter a successful season as a judge on MKR in 2014, Ben will be returning to New Zealand television screens for the second series in 2015.\nRecipes by Ben Bayly\nBallotine of Rabbit with Champagne Veloute and Sturgeon Caviar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/22/accountants-are-severely-undervaluing-these-brands.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JS5MBBVRI463OT2UPM57A66BFSU32VMN", "length": 5652, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.fool.com", "title": "Accountants Severely Undervalue These Brands -- The Motley Fool", "raw_content": "Accountants Severely Undervalue These Brands\nIf you take the accountants' word for it, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Starbucks, and Altria Group's brands are not worth much. However, most investors know these brands are worth quite a bit more than they are carried on the books. Exactly how much are they worth?\n(twcooper)\nAmericans love their favorite brands. That mystical, intangible allure of Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) coffee,that first sip of Pepsi (NASDAQ:PEP), and Altria Group's (NYSE:MO) Marlboro cigarettes keeps customers reaching for the same brand time and again.\nAlthough difficult to fathom, some brands add significant value to the products with which they are associated. All of the trucks, bottlers, and cans in Coca-Cola's system would be worth far less if the Coca-Cola brand were not attached to the business. Yet it's hard to say exactly how much the brand is worth.\nAccountants don't give brands the light of day\nCompanies often carry a (usually arbitrary) brand value on the books. For instance, Coca-Cola carries its trademarks at $6.7 billion and all of its intangible assets at $27.6 billion, or 31% of total assets. Starbucks' intangible assets account for just 10% of its total assets. Altria's intangibles account for almost 50%. Finally, PepsiCo's bean counters say 42% of its total assets consist of intangible assets.\nIf these numbers captured the full value of the brands, then each of these companies would be worth book value -- their accounting net worth. However, most investors are willing to pay much more than book value; the earnings generated by assets not on the balance sheet (i.e., the full value of their brands) makes these companies worth a lot more than any accountant gives them credit.\nCurrent Price-to-Book\nBook Value / 2013 Earnings\nSource: Morningstar. The far right column shows the P/E ratio if the stock traded at 1 times book.\nPart of the reason accountants are so hopeless in their quest to quantify brand value is that it's hard to put a value on an intangible asset. Brands give meaning beyond the basic utility of a product.\nFor instance, Coke may have been an important part of a Baby Boomer's childhood; drinking Coke makes them feel young, but drinking a Pepsi or RC Cola does not carry the same nostalgia. Likewise, customers who value the quality of their coffee may be more likely to go to Starbucks, even though McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) sources similar coffee beans. The Starbucks brand shouts \"quality!\" while McDonald's screams \"value!\"\nThere are countless other reasons customers choose Pepsi over Coke (or vice versa), Starbucks over McDonald's, and Marlboro over Camel. Although it is important to understand why these brands are popular, it is even more important to understand the value these brands deliver for shareholders.\nInstead of focusing on a dollar figure, it is easier to quantify a brand in terms of what it does for the business. Marlboro enables Altria Group to raise prices and generate additional revenue even as volume shrinks. A large swath of the smoking population reaches for a Marlboro every time they smoke without regard to price. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Starbucks share that quality -- pricing power -- to various extents as well.\nPricing power is perhaps the most valuable asset a business can ever attain. As my colleague Andres Cardenal points out, pricing power is Warren Buffett's favorite business quality. A business that can consistently raise prices -- no matter what the economic environment -- is going to generate a lot of shareholder value.\nIf you look at return on equity, companies with pricing power are generating enormous profits. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo generate a high-20s percentage return on equity, Starbucks' return on equity is in the low 20s, and Altria Group's is in the low-30s. Imagine you had the choice of either investing in the stock market, or starting a business that gives you a 25% annual return on the capital you invest. You would choose the 25% return on investment every time -- and so would the potential competitors of these companies.\nHowever, strong brands offer these companies protection from competition. Dr Pepper Snapple Co (NYSE:KDP) cannot hope to introduce a brand that can knock Coke off the top spot. Heck, not even Pepsi has a chance of doing that. Coke drinkers keep reaching for Coke -- no other cola can give them what a Coke gives them. As a result, Coca-Cola's high return on equity is protected from competition.\nWhat's the difference between a Coke and an RC Cola? Starbucks and your local coffee shop? Marlboro and any other cigarette? It's the brand, and the brand makes all the difference.\nBrands are incredibly valuable, but nobody can say exactly how valuable. Even though it cannot be quantified, investment analysis of companies with strong brands should center on the brand's staying power. After all, it's the brands that generate outsized profits.\nTed Cooper owns shares of Coca-Cola. The Motley Fool recommends Coca-Cola, McDonald's, PepsiCo, and Starbucks. The Motley Fool owns shares of Coca-Cola, McDonald's, PepsiCo, and Starbucks and has the following options: long January 2016 $37 calls on Coca-Cola and short January 2016 $37 puts on Coca-Cola. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.\nTed Cooper is a value investor based in Texas. He does not ride a horse to work.\nAccountants Severely Undervalue These Brands @themotleyfool #stocks $PEP, $MO, $MCD, $KO, $SBUX, $KDP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 10601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forbes.com/global/2004/0920/034.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TIJG7TOE4UD6OJ4KA4COTBUG456KWZ3E", "length": 10938, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.forbes.com", "title": "The $1 Billion Team", "raw_content": "The $1 Billion Team\nBy B. Pulley, K. Badenhausen, A. Brenner, C. Fluke, L. Klump, M.K. Ozanian, and L. Rose\n

\nRaised on the Redskins, Dan Snyder got a little too emotionally close to the team. To make a successful business out of the team, he had to step back a little.\nMy father taught me to love the Washington Redskins. Every fall we spent Sunday afternoons at the old Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in the nation's capital, idolizing Sonny Jurgensen and Art Monk and other stars of yesteryear. The unofficial mascot, politically incorrect in a full-feathered headdress, would whip up the crowd with a war dance up and down the steep stadium stairs. Today, seven years after my father's death, the four season tickets he first purchased in 1963 are in my hands, and I await the day when my young daughters will accompany me to the games.\nDaniel Snyder's father taught him to love the Redskins, too--so much so that he acquired the team and the stadium. People close to him say he grows emotional when he speaks of how his own father worshipped the Skins; Gerald Snyder was a former writer for United Press International and National Geographic who died a year ago at age 69. Dan Snyder, 39, is married, with two young daughters and a son. \"I had to have a boy to take to football games,\" he tells his friends.\nIn college Snyder started a charter travel service and by the age of 19 had earned his first million. He later launched direct-marketing firm Snyder Communications, which approached $1 billion in sales in the 1990s. Then, in 1999, he took on $495 million of debt to pay $750 million to buy the team (and the stadium) of his childhood fantasy, selling his marketing firm a year later for $2.3 billion. Today he has a net worth of $500 million and is accumulating stock in Six Flags to possibly take control of the theme parks company.\nHe has turned the Redskins into a marketing machine. With a value that FORBES estimates at $1.1 billion, the team is the richest franchise in U.S. sports and the first American team in FORBES rankings ever to clear the billion-dollar mark. Snyder has expanded the stadium to mythic proportions--it is the largest in professional football, holding 92,000--and plastered ads throughout the stadium and across a range of broadcast properties and publications. Executives eagerly fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to occupy 234 corporate suites.\n\nDespite the 47% appreciation in the value of the Redskins since Snyder bought them, he's left a lot of money on the table because he's been too meddlesome. He's doled out huge player contracts of dubious value to aging superstars like Deion Sanders (seven years, $56 million) and hired and fired coaches with alarming frequency (five different head coaches in five years). The strategy backfired, leaving the Redskins paying on the contracts long after the players retired.\nThe Redskins lead the NFL in virtually every revenue category, thanks to a loyal and wealthy fan base.\n$68 ($53 NFL Average)\n*Attendance\n$35 million ($13 mil)\nsponsorship/ad revenue\nconcessions/parking\n$11 million ($4 mil)\nAll figures are for 2003 season. 1Excludes club seats and\nluxury-suite seats. Sources: Forbes; Team Marketing Report.\nAfter the end of last season, when the team had only 5 wins against 11 losses, head coach Steve Spurrier was so disenchanted with working for Snyder that he quit and walked away from $15 million remaining on his five-year, $25 million contract. The Redskins have a losing record over the past five years.\nTo his friends, even Snyder himself now confides: \"We've made some mistakes.\"\nWhile most of us are scrunched on top of each other in our seats, Snyder spends home games inside the cherrywood confines of his luxurious owner's suite, smoking cigars and drinking Scotch with dignitaries and celebrity friends. \"C'mon, have some fun,\" he urges his guests, who include former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell and former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw. But as the new season begins, Snyder is, uncharacteristically, talking very little. Shouldering the blame as the Redskins rack up losses, he has come to realize that being a lifelong fan and toting a fat checkbook aren't enough.\nSo Snyder has reached back into the team's past for some help, bringing coach Joe Gibbs, 63, out of retirement. The Hall of Famer had led the Redskins to three Super Bowl championships in the 1980s and early 1990s; now he will reap $28 million over five years to serve as head coach and president.\nThe addition of Gibbs enhances one of the country's strongest sports brands, says Marc Ganis, who heads the Chicago sports marketing firm Sportscorp Ltd. More important, it diverts the spotlight from Snyder himself. \"Snyder is now experienced enough that he is comfortable having someone who has the spotlight more on them,\" Ganis says.\nOn the night the National Football League's free-agent negotiating period officially started this spring, Gibbs began calling prospective players at one minute past midnight. A year earlier coach Spurrier was away on vacation when the free-agent negotiations started. The overbearing Snyder handled everything. Gibbs, says Vinny Cerrato, the head of football operations, \"is much more involved than any of the other coaches have been.\"\nGibbs redux already is adding value to the team's bottom line. In August, the day before the Redskins played their first home preseason game, Snyder excitedly walked around the stadium, inspecting 5,000 new seats that he added this summer. Three hundred of them are \"dream seats,\" priced at $3,500 each per game and close enough to the action for fans to high-five players after they run off the field.\nThe new additions also include luxury loge seating, where fans can buy individual seats in catered, climate-controlled areas without springing for an entire corporate suite. Snyder also has added 150 seats to his \"owner's club\" area, where suites go for up to $200,000 per season and amenities include restrooms with individual TV screens over each urinal. The team's revenue from premium seating is expected to hit $75 million this year, which we estimate will be more than three times the league average. What made the new premium seats salable? Heightened interest after coach Gibbs was hired.\nIn five years Snyder has increased the team's revenue by 60% to $245 million per year. Some of it was easy, if a little mercenary. He sold stadium naming rights to FedEx for $207 million over 27 years, reaping the most lucrative deal of its kind. Never mind that the stadium, completed in 1997 a few months after the death of longtime Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, had been named in Cooke's honor; Snyder simply scrapped the moniker.\nHe also increased the number of team-owned radio and television shows, partnering with broadcasters to produce several programs and sell ads across myriad platforms to such sponsors as Nextel, Home Depot and E-Trade. \"We don't just sell stadium signage,'' Snyder likes to boast. He personally courts advertisers. When he took over he discovered that one consumer products company was paying only $180,000 a year for an exclusive deal that prohibited the team from striking an agreement with a competitor. Snyder renegotiated, lifting the price to $2 million a year and getting rid of the exclusivity; then he sold a similar deal to the sponsor's rival for another $2 million a year.\n

\nLast season the New England\nPatriots won the Super Bowl, even though their player\nexpenses were just $97 million, tied with the Chicago Bears at 23 out of 32 teams. That landed their head coach, Bill Belichick, in first place in our NFL ranking of player-costs-to-win ratio (each postseason win carries twice the weight of a regular season win).\nScore of 100 equals NFL average\nSince 1999 annual revenue from marketing and sponsorship has gone from $2 million to $50 million. At the same time revenue from local radio broadcasts has increased tenfold to $10 million. Additionally, Snyder has expanded the team-owned retail outlets (where some jerseys sell for over $300) from a single, stadium store open only on game days to 12 stores in the Washington area. Snyder was also the first football owner to charge fans to watch their team practice.\nAlthough the NFL limits players' salaries to 65% of revenues, Snyder has a big advantage over his rivals because signing bonuses are prorated over the life of a contract for salary cap purposes. The team signed tackle Jon Jansen to a six-year, $25 million contract to start with the coming season. Last year the Redskins had operating income (net before depreciation, interest and taxes) of $69.6 million, the highest in the NFL.\n\"Snyder is a marketing genius,\" says Salvatore Galatioto, managing director of sports finance at Lehman Brothers. \"If Gibbs turns things around on the field, Snyder will make even more money.\" Galatioto handled Snyder's recent sale of 30% of the team's equity to three investors: Federal Express founder and chairman Fred Smith, Virginia real estate developer Dwight C. Schar, and Robert Rothman, a Florida insurance executive. The equity stake sold for $225 million, which Snyder used to pay down debt that now totals $225 million. Other minority stakeholders in the team include Snyder's mother and sister, and Fred Drasner, a publishing executive.\nWhy such a low price for a 30% stake? Because suite and sponsorship revenue were not included. Those proceeds belong to a separate entity that includes the stadium. Snyder's brazen style has at times annoyed other owners. He once advertised his premium seats in the nearby Baltimore Ravens market, breaking an old gentlemen's agreement in the league not to poach. Four years ago he did an end run around league rules when he bought out a minority partner, real estate mogul Mortimer B. Zuckerman, without first getting the permission of the NFL.\nSnyder's profligate spending continues: This season the Redskins will have the highest payroll in the league at $112 million (the team can exceed the salary cap because signing bonuses are prorated over the life of a player's contract). \"Dan swings for the fences,\" says Cerrato, the Skins' operations chief. \"He wants to win.\" But Snyder has changed his approach this year, giving the richest contracts to younger stars who will be around to earn the money, Cerrato says.\nThis isn't a game, this is a business. If Snyder's bet on Joe Gibbs works and the victories start rolling in, the owner will reward the loyal fans with a surprise, says one knowledgeable source: He will raise our ticket prices next season.\n", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 13399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/email-shows-federal-immigration-bosses-in-ot-push-to-swear-in-new-citizens-due-to-election", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NWB6C6NNHM7F45NWOQ5R4T3JYBO7UV5Z", "length": 4969, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.foxnews.com", "title": "Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens 'due to election' | Fox News", "raw_content": "Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens 'due to election'\nHundreds of immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship\nFederal hearing taking place after immigrants who should have been deported were granted citizenship\nAn internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new \u201ccitizen voters\u201d as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday.\nThe email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible \u201cdue to the election year.\u201d\n\u201cThe Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,\u201d reads the email, which was disclosed to FoxNews.com by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.\n\u201cIf you have cases in this category or other pending, you are encouraged to take advantage of the OT if you can,\u201d the email continues. \u201cThis will be an opportunity to move your pending naturalization cases. If you have not volunteered for OT, please consider and let me know if you are interested.\u201d\nParts of the email were redacted before it was disclosed to FoxNews.com, but it was sent by the branch chief of the Houston Field Office District 17. It was not clear to whom it was addressed.\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t have said it better!\u201d reads the July 21 note introducing the forwarded missive. \u201cIt\u2019s the end of the year crunch time, so let\u2019s get crunchy! Go Team Houston! Thanks for all your hard work!\u201d\nJohnson and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in a Wednesday letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, said it appears the agency is trying to swear in new citizens as the election between Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP choice Donald Trump approaches.\n\u201cYour department seems intent on approving as many naturalization cases as quickly as possible at a time when it should instead be putting on the brakes and reviewing past adjudications,\u201d the senator\u2019s letter read.\nJohnson referred to a report this week from the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Inspector General that found at least 858 people from terror hotspots and other countries of concern had been mistakenly granted citizenship despite facing orders of deportation under other identities.\n\"Considering that USCIS already has a troubling record of inadequate review of naturalization applications, and mistakenly giving away citizenship to terrorists, criminals and other fraudsters, it is disturbing that they are now in full and blind rubber stamp mode to crank out new citizens,\" said Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies.\nIn a USCIS planning document submitted to Congress earlier this year, USCIS reported it expected to receive 828,000 total applications this year, up from a planned 815,000 last year, an increase of 13,000, Vaughan said.\nA USCIS official, though, said the processing push has to do with managing applications in a timely manner -- and officials are merely trying to deal with the surge in applications typical in election years.\n\"USCIS\u2019s goal is to process applications for naturalization within five to seven months, regardless of external events such as elections,\" the official said. \"USCIS anticipated that there would be a spike in applications this year, as we usually see in an election year, but the increase in N-400 applications has exceeded expectations. USCIS has detailed staff to offices experiencing increased workloads and has authorized overtime for many offices.\"\nThe official added: \"USCIS certainly encourages our naturalized citizens to be active participants in our democracy. However, like other citizens, no new U.S. citizen is required to register to vote, or participate in any election. The issue at hand is our desire to ensure naturalization applications are processed within our normal times.\"\nThe effort is reminiscent of a similar bid to bring in new voters when Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, said Claude Arnold, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations.\n\"I am not at all surprised by this revelation,\" Arnold said. \"This is a repeat of the Clinton election playbook. Then it was to help re-elect Bill Clinton, this time it is to help elect Hillary Clinton.\"\nThe all-out push shows the Obama administration is using levers to help Clinton win, said Dan Stein, president of Federation for American Immigration Reform.\n\"In the pursuit of a partisan advantage, one party has decided integrity in the system is irrelevant,\" Stein said. \"They don\u2019t really care about checking backgrounds or verifying status and eligibility \u2013 it is more about increasing the number of eligible voters in the upcoming election.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 8656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/sports/adam-leaves-liverpool-for-stoke-city", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:MVLVZ4TDTTOCYYRBCG6QSFXT253HDKGI", "length": 870, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.foxnews.com", "title": "Adam leaves Liverpool for Stoke City | Fox News", "raw_content": "Adam leaves Liverpool for Stoke City\nStoke-on-Trent, England (Sports Network) - Stoke City completed the signing of midfielder Charlie Adam on Friday, signing the Scotland international to a four-year contract from Liverpool.\nThe deal is reportedly worth around $6 million and sees Adam move after just one season at Anfield.\n\"I'm delighted to be here and to be given the opportunity to work with the club, the manager (Tony Pulis) and the players,\" Adam told Stoke's website.\n\"This club's on the up and it's great to be a part of it. I hope I can help them to improve upon the success which has been achieved over the past few years.\"\nThe 26-year-old joined Liverpool from Blackpool last summer, but after scoring two goals in 28 games for the Reds, he makes the switch to Stoke and could be available for the club's match on Saturday at Wigan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 4227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/sports/johnsons-pick-6-lifts-monmouth-nj-out-of-big-south-basement-in-31-15-win-over-gardner-webb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MCRVMQFSDKWIY4V24FXICXECHAP3C2Q7", "length": 997, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.foxnews.com", "title": "Johnson's pick-6 lifts Monmouth (NJ) out of Big South basement in 31-15 win over Gardner-Webb | Fox News", "raw_content": "Johnson's pick-6 lifts Monmouth (NJ) out of Big South basement in 31-15 win over Gardner-Webb\nWEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. \u2013 Joe Johnson hauled in two interceptions Saturday, including a 55-yard pick-six in the third quarter, to help Monmouth (NJ) to a 31-15 victory over Gardner-Webb and avoid ending the season winless in Big South matchups.\nMonmouth (6-5, 1-4) quickly built a 17-0 lead on touchdowns from Lavon Chaney and Jake Mauro, who scrambled 76 yards for a score with his only carry of the day. Lucas Santangelo kicked a 30-yard field goal.\nJohnson's interception TD came late in the third quarter to make it 24-7, and Thaddeus Richards grabbed a 30-yard touchdown pass from Brandon Hill a few minutes later to put the game out of reach.\nGardner-Webb (4-8, 0-5) also was looking to avoid going winless in conference play but instead extended its skid to five.\nLucas Beatty led the Runnin' Bulldogs with 257 yards on 32-for-53 passing and a rushing TD. He was intercepted three times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 4415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxsports.com/florida/story/boston-bruins-at-tampa-bay-lightning-game-preview-110316", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MZHFHERNLPFNVONM2TXYSRMM653MWOQ4", "length": 2931, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.foxsports.com", "title": "Boston Bruins at Tampa Bay Lightning game preview | FOX Sports", "raw_content": "Boston Bruins at Tampa Bay Lightning game preview\nTAMPA, Fla. \u2014 After a roller coaster road trip, the Tampa Bay Lightning return home hoping to continue an upward climb.\nThe high-scoring Lightning offense faces a potential pitfall in Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask.\nThe Lightning are coming off a six-game road trip in which they won the first two, then lost three consecutive \u2014 including an embarrassing blowout defeat to the New York Rangers \u2014 before ending the trip on a high note with 6-1 victory over the New York Islanders.\nPrint out the Tampa Bay Lightning 2016-17 FOX Sports Sun broadcast schedule.\n\"I thought it was just a complete effort,\" Lightning coach Jon Cooper said after the win against the Islanders at Barclays Center. \"Compare and contrast to the Rangers game where it was just odd-man rush after odd-man rush, we were a really responsible team tonight, and we ended up getting the lead and then held on from there.\"\nGetting a lead against the Bruins might prove a more difficult task for Tampa Bay while facing a rejuvenated Rask.\nThe Bruins netminder, who missed three games due to injury, has allowed one goal in his two games since returning to the lineup. In his past four starts, Rask has allowed a total of three goals, including a shutout of the Detroit Red Wings on Oct. 29.\nRask has won all five of his starts to date this season, allowing one or fewer goals in all but one of those starts. He posted a 2-1 victory at Florida on Tuesday, keeping the Bruins in the game in the opening period by stopping all 13 shots he faced. He had to be sharp as Boston killed off seven Panthers power-play chances as well.\n\"The way we played the (first period), we probably didn\u2019t deserve the lead,\" Rask said, \"but we got better. Our (penalty kill) was good all night.\"\nBruins coach Claude Julien said, \"We had great goaltending, especially in the first period. We had a goaltender who was ready to play and kept us in it.\"\nWhile the Bruins are 5-0-0 with Rask playing, they are 0-4-0 in the games he sat out, so the best bet for the up-and-down Lightning offense might be to root for Rask to take a night off.\nTampa Bay (6-4-0) enters the game averaging 3.2 goals per game, ranked sixth in the league. The power play has clicked at a 24.4 percent success rate in the first 10 games of the season, while the 10 goals the Lightning have scored with the man advantage are tied for third most in the league.\nDespite the high-octane attack, the goals dried up during Tampa Bay\u2019s three-game losing streak \u2014 producing a combined three goals in those games.\nThe Lightning want to find a more consistent balance.\n\"We got challenged internally in this room,\" Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. \"We got challenged by the coaching staff to respond, and I thought we did a great job of just playing the right way. We learned that what made us successful was just defend first and let the skill take over after that.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 480, "original_length": 14816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frasersproperty.com.au/nsw/discovery-point/liveproud", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EGIZOIU76UXHA6GG6WYFD2QIKWRYMIQL", "length": 541, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.frasersproperty.com.au", "title": "Live Proud at Discovery Point | Frasers Property", "raw_content": "As we\u2019ve spent more time in the cafes and shops, you see the same people and strike up a natural friendship. It\u2019s part of what makes a place an actual community. There\u2019s a really welcoming energy, whether it be in the park or supermarket, people smile and say hello.\nRyan, Discovery Point, Wolli Creek, NSW\nApartment living is totally doable with kids. We have access to such great parkland and we are so close to the city. We're really happy we've moved here.\nMel, Chris & Viv, Discovery Point, Wolli Creek, NSW\nDiscovery Point Living proud", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 10204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frimstone.co.uk/charity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YTKEZDJM2CAQFCMI2W4U424WDJKCSBRC", "length": 697, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.frimstone.co.uk", "title": "Charity | Community | Frimstone", "raw_content": "Over the years, Frimstone Ltd has offered its support to numerous charities, engaging in a whole host of fundraising activities.\nOn a majority staff request, help has been offered to the East Anglian Air Ambulance charity for the last for years\nSince their launch in 2000, they have attended over 23,000 lifesaving missions, touching the lives of many thousands of people.\nEmployees from Frimstone Ltd's operating sites and office base staff have participated in everything from cake bakes and raffles, to corperate golf days and the 'Get Up and Go Yellow Day' in aid of the EAAA's national Air Ambulance Week.\nTheir efforts have returned a fantastic \u00a38,500 since the beginning of the partnership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 3023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frontierscommunications.com/west-virginia/oak-hill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLAQPOL3S4EM24JXMLA3XV542FTURUO2", "length": 2424, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.frontierscommunications.com", "title": "Frontier Internet in Oak Hill, West Virginia | Order Now, WiFi Included", "raw_content": "Frontier Internet in Oak Hill, West Virginia\nFrontier Home Internet Options in Oak Hill, West Virginia\nFiOS\u00ae delivers the speed of fiber optics with the dependability you expect from Frontier. Fiber optics bring the internet to your home via ultra-fast pulses of light. It\u2019s a totally different technology than other types of home internet service in Oak Hill, West Virginia. FiOS\u00ae can deliver unbelievable speeds that open up a whole new way of experiencing the web. Whether you like to game, stream videos, upload photos or work from home, everything is more amazing on the 100% fiber-optic network.\nIf FiOS\u00ae isn\u2019t in Oak Hill, West Virginia, you may be able to get broadband internet with Frontier High Speed Internet (HSI). HSI has a dedicated connection that comes directly to your home from the Frontier central office. HSI is delivered over existing phone lines, which means it\u2019s available in some cities where FiOS\u00ae isn\u2019t. It\u2019s faster and more reliable than dial-up, and it\u2019s ideal for checking email, browsing the web, social media, and online shopping.\nCall 1-800-961-0470 to check FiOS\u00ae availability in Oak Hill, West Virginia.\nUpload photos, download music and never worry about your internet connection. Frontier High Speed Internet service in Oak Hill, West Virginia allows you to connect at lightning speeds. Simply choose one of our service plans, High Speed Internet or satellite (eligibility for the product depending on the address of the service). Enabling Wi-Fi service, which we include with your plan, from a central location in your home allows you to browse, send, upload or download virtually anything you or your family need.\nOur High Speed Internet service plans in Oak Hill, West Virginia offer internet connectivity at an affordable price. Our service packages offer different download speeds at different prices, allowing our customers to choose the plan that best suits their needs, as well as their economy. Call us and we will help you choose; Just let us know how many videos on the Internet at the same time, and / or how many video games are connected to the network at the same time.\nFor customers in remote areas of Oak Hill, Frontier's satellite Internet means staying connected to the digital world, even when access to other high-speed technologies is not always possible. Frontier Satellite Internet is designed specifically for customers residing in locations with fewer services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fuzu.com/company/rural-electrification-agency-rea-uganda", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5LROYGHMMBYJYYY3GOCD4XJUB5SFD7ID", "length": 902, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.fuzu.com", "title": "Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Uganda Job Vacancies - Hiring Now | Fuzu", "raw_content": "Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Uganda\nOpen positions at Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Uganda\nAbout Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Uganda\nRural Electrification Agency (REA) is a semi-autonomous body established by an Act of Parliament, to operationalize Government\u2019s rural electrification function. It functions as a secretariat of the Rural Electrification Board (REB) which carries out the rural electrification responsibilities, as defined in the Electricity Act of 1999. Rural Electrification Agency (REA) was established as a statutory instrument in 2001 (no. 75), but started its functions in July 2003. REA has a board, the Rural Electrification Board (REB), which gives it policy guidance. The Rural Electrification Agency is mandated to facilitate the government\u2019s goal of achieving rural electrification rate of atleast 10% by the year 2012 from 1% at the beginning of the decade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 151.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gadgetsnow.com/featured/oppo-r17-pro-launched-in-india-first-impressions/articleshow/66941411.cms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TS4BQJQVZRGOHTOXCNTXPH3ILPV7YCSU", "length": 4643, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gadgetsnow.com", "title": "Oppo R17 Pro launched in India: First impressions | Gadgets Now", "raw_content": "Oppo R17 Pro launched in India: First impressions\nOppo R17 Pro smartphone has been launched in India at a price of Rs 45,990. Oppo has also launched the Oppo R17 at a price of Rs 34,990. Both Oppo R17 and R17 Pro will be available starting December 7 on Flipkart, Amazon.in and other retailers.\n| Gadgets Now | Updated: Dec 4, 2018, 09:36PM IST\nThe Oppo R17 Pro along with the Oppo R17 smartphones have been launched in India. While the high-end Oppo R17 Pro is priced Rs 45,990, the Oppo R17 price in India is Rs 34,990. Both Oppo R17 Pro and Oppo R17 have a similar design but there are differences in hardware, camera, battery and others.\nOppo earlier this year created a stir in the Indian smartphone market when it launched its 2018 flagship, the Oppo Find X. This time, it is planning to get the same reaction with its rather lower priced-yet Oppo R17 Pro. The Chinese handset maker\u2019s \u2018R\u2019 series has always been touted for the camera performance among other features and the Oppo R17 Pro plans to build on the same notion.\nOn holding the Oppo R17 Pro for the first time, one would instantly get reminded of the OnePlus 6T. The smartphones look identical except that the latter has a dual rear camera setup. The \u2018S\u2019 curve design at the back, which was marketed by OnePlus is there on the Oppo R17 Pro as well in addition to the water drop-style notch, nearly the same thickness, height and width. Nonetheless, we liked the OnePlus 6T design and hence there\u2019s no reason to hate Oppo R17 Pro\u2019s design as well. We however, expected a slight change in the design in order to bring some uniqueness. What makes the R17 Pro different though is the gradient colour scheme, which is bright and is something subjective.\nThere are several changes on the inside though that makes R17 Pro a powerful and well-performing handset, at least on paper. The smartphone\u2019s 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED display is good to look at. Since the 19.5:9 aspect ratio screen estate seems ample enough, it could prove to be a good device to watch TV shows and play games. Not to forget, there\u2019s an in-display fingerprint sensor too. That\u2019s expected given that Oppo has been launching smartphones with this feature.\nOppo R17 Pro processor, camera, RAM and storage\nThe firm is claiming its Oppo R17 Pro to be the first in the Indian smartphone market to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor, which is not the most powerful one out there but is said to have enough capacity to handle heavy tasks. The SoC is clubbed with the 8GB RAM, so we expect the handset to deliver an impressive performance. This also depends on the operating system of the smartphone. The handset runs Android 8.1 Oreo-based ColourOS 5.2 out of the box, which looks like a definitive improvement over the previous OS version but still lags behind when it comes to icons and the Settings app. We will talk about it in detail in our upcoming review.\nSince the Oppo \u2018R\u2019 series is all about the camera, the R17 Pro as expected is stuffed with some of the best sensor and camera tech combinations. It has a triple rear camera setup that includes a 12MP sensor, a 20MP sensor and a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor that gives an accurate depth mapping. These come along with the variable aperture system that ranges from f/1.5 to f/2.4, similar to what we saw earlier this year with Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphones. OIS and all the AI quirks on the software and hardware level are expected to deliver decent results. There\u2019s a 25MP front-facing camera that is also powered by AI tech, Sony IMX 576 sensor and f/2.0 aperture.\nThe Oppo R17 Pro is backed by a 3700mAh battery, which should be enough to run for more than 7 hours given the combination of tech in the handset. You do get some software features to extend the battery life. However, Oppo this time has focused more towards the SuperVOOC fast charging tech. It also supports 10V/5A charge so that should be quick enough to charge the dual 1850mAh bi-cell battery.\nFor now, the Oppo R17 Pro looks like a solid smartphone. It has most of the high-end specs working under the hood to deliver the best results. The triple rear camera specially looks promising and so does the SuperVOOC charging. We're yet to see how the smartphone performs in real life scenario. Stay tuned for our review, which will be out soon.\nOppo R15 Pro vs Nokia 8.1: How the two smartphones compare\nFuture Samsung smartphones may have notches smaller than what OnePlus 6T has right now\n1Oppo R17 Pro launched in India: First impressions\n2Oppo R15 Pro vs Nokia 8.1: How the two smartphones compare\n2Future Samsung smartphones may have notches smaller than what OnePlus 6T has right now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 337, "original_length": 12410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gallowaygazette.co.uk/news/it-s-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-for-feigning-illness-1-4315549", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DLDCEEYUTFPA6BK564WNO24ZWCUL6KYK", "length": 2836, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.gallowaygazette.co.uk", "title": "It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year... for feigning illness - The Galloway Gazette", "raw_content": "It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year... for feigning illness\nSurvey suggests one in three Scots will invent minor illnesses to get out of social events this Christmas.\nIt\u2019s the busiest social time of the year, with many of us looking forward to catching up with family, friends and colleagues.\nOr are we? For a new study by Fisherman\u2019s Friend suggests that as many as one in three Scots (34.83%) will have no qualms about inventing or exaggerating minor ailments in order to get out of unwelcome parties and social functions this Christmas.\nIndeed, as the nation heads into party season, almost half of those in the country who admitted to pulling a \u2018social sickie\u2019 in the last year (46.77%) said they had done so in order to avoid meeting up with friends, while it seems the office Christmas party is as dreaded as ever, with one in three (35.48%) social avoiders admitting to using non-existent ailments to dodge office socials.\nMeanwhile, with Christmas Day and New Years\u2019 Eve just around the corner, a fifth of those surveyed in Fisherman\u2019s Friend\u2019s Annual Cold & Flu Survey (22.58%) said they had lied to their own family about illness in order to duck out of a social meet up, while one in seven (14.52%) said they had done the same to get out of meeting up with a partner\u2019s family.\nSickies aren\u2019t just reserved for social occasions, though, with a fifth (19.35%) of those faking illness having done so to get out of a work meeting, while one in twelve (8.06%) said they had used the tactic to dodge a dreaded gym session.\nThe study of 2,000 UK adults also found that those in East Anglia were most likely to lie about their health, with four out of 10 (43.52%) adults in the region admitting to doing so, while respondents in Wales were the most trustworthy, with only three in 10 (28.43%) faking symptoms.\nWomen were most likely to lie or exaggerate symptoms with one in four (41.8%) doing so, compared with one in three (32.09%) men, although men were found to be most keen to avoid a work night out with two out of five (39.23%) using illness as an excuse, while women were most likely to avoid friends with six out of 10 (57.54%) regularly faking illness to cancel plans.\nCommenting, Fisherman\u2019s Friend spokesman Rob Metcalfe said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that minor ailments are the go-to excuse when the nation is less than enthusiastic about their social plans.\n\u201cWhat is less clear is whether colleagues and loved ones believe these claims.\n\u201cOur previous findings showed us that, despite suffering with three bouts of illness in the last year, the average Brit has taken just 1.67 days off work due to concerns over job security and letting colleagues down. Perhaps the nation is replacing work sickies with social sickies, but what is obvious is that the office party is still as dreaded as the old clich\u00e9 would have us believe.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.garvan.org.au/research/publications/14173", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:50Z", "digest": "sha1:LOK3FIDRJWR3EAXMI7DBOYXT23B43QAL", "length": 808, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.garvan.org.au", "title": "Cytokine Expression by T Follicular Helper Cells | Garvan Institute of Medical Research", "raw_content": "Cytokine Expression by T Follicular Helper Cells\nT follicular helper (Tfh) cells are a specialized subset of CD4+ T cells located within temporary structures known as germinal centers (GC) formed within B cell follicles of secondary lymphoid organs. In the GC, Tfh cells facilitate the production of high-affinity antibodies through secretion of effector cytokines, such as IL-21 and IL-4, and through cell-to-cell interactions. The flow cytometric-based method described here allows the detection of intracellular cytokines within the Tfh population of secondary lymphoid organs (e.g., spleen, lymph nodes, and lymphoid nodules such as Peyer's patches), enabling the study of Tfh responses to different stimuli in the context of immunity and autoimmunity.\nJandl, C.; Loetsch, C.; King, C.\nA/Prof Cecile King", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 6080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gasworld.com/vancouver-to-get-new-h2-station/2014262.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VOKTNQZB4IGOL25FRPQU5J6RZOILAUXS", "length": 1545, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gasworld.com", "title": "Vancouver to get new H2 station | News | gasworld", "raw_content": "Vancouver to get new hydrogen station\nThe Government of Canada is investing $4.3m to help Canadians get into zero-emission vehicles and use low carbon fuels.\nThree companies are set to benefit from the funding including Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation (HTEC) who will install a retail hydrogen (H2) fuelling station in the Vancouver area. The station is part of a six-station network HTEC is building in British Columbia\u2019s Lower Mainland and Victoria to encourage uptake of more H2-fuelled vehicles.\n\u201cBuilding green infrastructure paves the way to a low-carbon future by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Our government is proud to make investments that will reduce costs and address potential hurdles for the deployment of next-generation electric vehicle charging infrastructure in urban areas,\u201d enthused Terry Beech, Member of Parliament for Burnaby North\u2013Seymour.\n\u201cZero-emission, H2-fuelled fuel cell electric vehicles are entering markets globally and will help Canada meets its clean air and carbon emission reduction targets. HTEC is proud to be working with partners like the Government of Canada to build out B.C.\u2019s retail H2 refuelling network and support initial FCEV rollouts,\u201d added Colin Armstrong, President and CEO of Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation.\nPowerHouse signs MoU to support H2 buses\nWaste-to-energy specialist PowerHouse Energy Group plc has announced a partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wrightbus Ltd, a bus manufacturer whose products include innovative hydrogen (H2)-powered buses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 7098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gazeburvill.com/2016-12-21-the-kew-gardens-verdun-bench/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TECSHTXM4VV6CPI6YTT5RJAUMOEZUHQT", "length": 5613, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.gazeburvill.com", "title": "The Kew Gardens Verdun Bench - Gaze Burvill - Luxury Outdoor Furniture & Kitchens", "raw_content": "The Kew Gardens Verdun Bench\n21 December | MEDIA\n19 December 2016, Richmond, UK\nOn the 100th anniversary, plus one day, of the WWI Battle of Verdun a select group of Kew Garden staff, historians and the iconic Chelsea Pensioners gathered alongside the Mayor of Richmond, between the Palm House and Temple of Aeolus at Kew Gardens to unveil a commemorative piece, the Verdun Bench.\nThe Battle of Verdun was one of the costliest battles in human history, with over 714,000 casualties over the span of 303 days.\nMany Kew Gardens staff were serving during this period and in January 1919 two oak trees were planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew from acorns picked up from the battlefields of Verdun in 1917, which grew into a \u2018living memorial\u2019 to those who lost their lives not only in the Battle of Verdun but also the Great War.\nOne of these \u2018Verdun Oaks\u2019 was planted in a prominent position beside the Chinese Lions and lake, near to the war memorial plaques situated in the Temple of Arethusa and Victoria Gate.\nFor 94 years it grew to great stature \u2013 and great girth, thanks to its sunny position in the garden, with no other trees to compete with for light \u2013 and became a magnificent oak tree. But just 6 years short of its 100th birthday, it was severely damaged by \u2018St Jude\u2019s Storm\u2019 on 23rd October, 2013, and in 2014, one hundred years after the start of World War I, it had to be felled.\nIn 2014, Tony Kirkham, Head of the Arboretum at Kew contacted Simon Burvill of Gaze Burvill. Tony had a plan to commemorate not only this magnificent tree, but to make a mark of remembrance for all the staff from Kew who lost their lives in both devastating World Wars. Tony wanted to make a special seat to mark the centenary of the end of the Great War on 11th November 2018.\nSimon was honoured to be asked to come and have a look at the fallen tree to see if it was going to be possible to use it for the seat. Anything that Tony does not know about trees is probably not worth knowing, so he was aware that an oak tree that had not been nurtured in a carefully managed forest does not usually yield good wood for furniture making \u2013 or at least for good quality furniture making.\nGaze Burvill have 24 years experience in designing and making oak outdoor seating, with craftsman-made seats gracing the finest private and public gardens in the land, including, they are very proud to say, The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oak may be the craftsman\u2019s favourite wood, and a good choice for an outdoor seat, being naturally impermeable and durable, but the tree, especially one damaged by a storm, must be treated with special care.\nAssessing the tree and understanding the best way to cut a trunk into boards in order to get the most stable, warp-resistant, strong wood is specialised work, so in April 2015, we took the Verdun Oak to Helmdon Sawmill, placing it in the hands of Geoff Tyler of Tyler Hardwoods and sawmiller Steve and his experienced team.\nWatching a tree trunk going through the sawmill is one of several knuckle-biting stages in the transformation of trunk to usable wood board. It is all the more exciting when the oak is to be quarter sawn \u2013 a highly skilled cutting technique which, as well as revealing unique and beautiful medullar rays in the wood grain, also produces the strongest and most stable cut from the oak \u2013 the fillet steak of the tree, so to speak.\nTrees do hold secrets, however, and there were eight potentially lethal ones hiding in our Verdun tree trunk \u2013 eight nails, probably used decades ago to pin a poster to the trunk, and over time, enveloped into the growing tree, eventually becoming completely hidden from sight.\nSecrets will out, as we all know, and this one came out with a very big bang indeed, which called a sudden halt to the sawing process, in the very last cutting section.\n18 strong, clean boards were successfully produced from the trunk, but were left with a broken sawblade and the last \u2018V\u2019 shaped portion in a state too dangerous to saw into.\nThis orphan piece, a sculptural \u2018V\u2019 shape, possibly for \u2018Verdun\u2019, had its own beauty about it \u2013 with dark streaking marks from the iron nails reacting with the oak clearly visible, like a dark wound, and rather haunting.\nIt felt right to celebrate the \u2018injured\u2019 board just as much as those who survived their sawmill ordeal intact \u2013 returning heroes all. And so, the Verdun Bench was born \u2013 a raw, evocative seat, which shows its scars proudly.\nThe solid oak seat from the wood from the fallen Verdun oak has an inverted triangle shape. A bronze plaque is fitted into the top, flat surface, to mark the history of this terrible battle and a second showing the annual rings of the oak counting back to the date when the nails were driven into it.\nOf the other two sides of the triangle, one is specially \u2018scorched\u2019 black, in reference to the horror of battle and loss, while the third side is left to weather naturally. The legs of the Bench are made from Corten steel \u2013 a raw, yet warm, dark orange \u2018rusted\u2019 metal, which will provide a beautiful, textured support for the Verdun Bench. The bench is mounted on an old brick surface which ties in with the red of the corten and it\u2019s final resting place is close to the one remaining Verdun Oak still growing on the slope leading up to the rotunda.\nThe unveiling ceremony took place at noon, led by Richard Deverell, Director of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and accompanied by Tony Kirkham, Head of Arboretum, Gardens & Horticulture Services and Simon Burvill, Managing Director of Gaze Burvill. The bench was kindly gifted to gardens by Ian and Carol Sellars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 20658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gentfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Deborah-Satterfield/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DIXMVA4EVH2TC4PMHCAHFP3J2VDSD5AA", "length": 508, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gentfuneralhome.com", "title": "Deborah Satterfield Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Deborah Satterfield\nDateline: Alton Deborah \"Deb\" Satterfield, 67, died Saturday, May 12, 2018 at Christian Hospital Northeast in St. Louis, MO. Visitation will be from 12:00 noon until time of memorial service at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2018 at Gent Funeral... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Deborah Satterfield created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nDeborah "Deb" Satterfield, 67, died Saturday,...\nSend flowers to the Satterfield's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.georgiasbdc.org/know-all-the-legal-issues-regarding-mobile-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7XWYA6QORTCS5FRFM7RSZ6JZN3HG7QBI", "length": 3995, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.georgiasbdc.org", "title": "UGA SBDC | Know All the Legal Issues Regarding Mobile Marketing", "raw_content": "Mobile marketing has the business world entranced, and for good reason. The number of mobile phone users is increasing every year and their phones, especially smartphones, offer a variety of ways for businesses to connect with them. Mobile marketers have an arsenal for communicating their messages including text message marketing, mobile websites, mobile apps, QR codes and in-app advertisements.\nText message marketing is particularly popular because the technology doesn\u2019t require a smart phone or a data plan in order for the campaign to reach the mobile user. What a text message campaign, or any mobile marketing effort, does require is a mindfulness of the law.\nAlthough mobile marketing technology has developed rapidly, the regulatory framework for governing it has not. Many of the laws that cover mobile marketing, including the CAN-SPAM Act, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act, were written long before this method of marketing existed and are now being retrofitted to apply to mobile marketing through new administrative opinions. Over the last few years, the agencies have increased their enforcement efforts and the courts are seeing more civil suits related to mobile marketing. Prudent mobile marketers will pay close attention to how they run campaigns and use mobile technology to market their company and products.\nA few simple actions will go a long way toward achieving compliant mobile marketing. For text messaging campaigns, always get express consent from the mobile user to contact them. This means that you should get the user to opt-in to any campaign by having them take an affirmative action, such as replying to a text message. The user\u2019s consent is specific to a campaign and you should not send that user texts that are not related to that campaign.\nTreat general consent given to a third party like it is no consent at all. Consent given to a seller of phone lists may be insufficient for the buyer unless the subscribers in the list were told at the time they gave their consent that they were consenting to the buyer\u2019s specific text message campaign. Compare your subscriber list to the national \u201cDo Not Call\u201d list, as it applies to mobile numbers in addition to home numbers. Finally, provide subscribers an easy way to opt-out of the campaign.\nText messaging campaigns are not the only form of mobile marketing requiring compliance. Businesses that advertise in mobile applications must comply with the FTC Act and state deceptive and unfair advertising statutes. Truth and fairness are critical. If you can substantiate the claims made in your mobile advertising and you refrain from engaging in misrepresentations or tricks, you are unlikely to run afoul of these laws.\nPrivacy laws create additional hurdles. Owners of mobile websites that target children as users should abide by the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), as well as the FTC\u2019s COPPA Rule. These laws require that any person who operates a website obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from a child who is under 13 years old. The FTC has issued proposed changes to the COPPA Rule that would make the rule apply to mobile applications as well. In addition, state and federal legislation has been introduced that would limit the use of geolocation data collected by mobile devices.\nWith the recent increase in enforcement and more rules to come, mobile marketers need to have a solid understanding of which practices are permitted. You can learn more on how to run effective, legal mobile marketing campaigns at the SBDC\u2019s Mobile Marketing for Profit workshops that are coming to Savannah and Statesboro in May. For more information, go to www.georgiasbdc.org.\nAnderson, Jason (2012, April 18). Know all the legal issues regarding mobile marketing. Business in Savannah. 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We aim to be transparent with our decisions and open with our customers.\nThis document describes the end user terms of use for all of geo\u2019s websites, online services and applications.\nThis document describes geo\u2019s standard business terms.\nThis document describes the terms and conditions of purchase of goods and services provided by geo.\ngeo is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This Privacy Policy sets out how geo uses, processes and protects any information that you provide or data that is collected when you use the Website.\ngeo has adopted its own business principles and code of conduct for corporate and procurement responsibility which set out its commitment to acting with integrity and in a professional and fair way in the course of doing business.\ngeo operates from a single location near Cambridge and provides a range of electronic display products to monitor energy usage and encourage conservation. geo recognises that our work, our products and services may impact on our customers, suppliers, neighbours and the environment. We are committed to minimising our negative impact and seeking ways to improve our performance so as to have a beneficial impact on the environment and our stakeholder community wherever possible.\ngeo have developed and implemented an ISO27001: 2013 ISMS to ensure that the provision of all service is provided under the specific control of a dynamic management system for the effective and continual provision of information security.\nCredit to the libraries and licences that were used in the making of our Cosy app.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.getrefined.com/project/lux-1-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZVKYNAQA55WHDRIG7YWAGGNKUQVD5GK", "length": 617, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.getrefined.com", "title": "LUX 1.2 - The Refinery - Advertising Agency - Jersey Channel Islands", "raw_content": "LUX 1.2 caters to the elite market and provides added value for its advertisers whilst not compromising on editorial integrity. This was the catalyst for the creation of the LUX 1.2 brand in 2016; an independent, premium, lifestyle annual and the only one devoted exclusively to elegant living in Jersey.\nA distribution network of high end outlets and wealthy individuals in Jersey and London Mayfair has been honed to circulate 5,000 copies to an elite readership. 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(Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)\nReception - American Football", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 7686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalreinsurance.com/caveat-emptor/1312493.article", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4RJCMFUTURR4AVF7NM4IS5NXZUCJV7CP", "length": 12903, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.globalreinsurance.com", "title": "Caveat Emptor | Features | Global Reinsurance", "raw_content": "By Maria Kielmas. 2003-05-16T00:00:00+01:00\nReinsurers are taking on risks they are unable to monitor, Frank Partnoy tells\nWhy should I invest in something I can't even spell?\" This was the Southern sensibility of David Bronner, head of the Alabama state pension fund in 1992 when Wall Street traders tried to sell him some complex derivative deals. Officials from California's Orange County called Bronner \"antiquated\" and bragged about their investment returns. Those boy geniuses at Orange County, who eventually gambled away $1.7bn of public funds on the then new-fangled financial instruments invented by Wall Street's rocket scientists, were led by the county's treasurer, 70-year-old Robert Citron, who did not have a college degree and had visited New York just four times in his life. Citron used structured derivatives to bet on low interest rates but lost out when the Federal Reserve raised its rates on 4 February 1994. Asked the previous year how he knew that interest rates would not rise, Citron replied, \"I am one of the largest investors in America. I know these things.\" But when the scale of his losses became known Citron was humble. \"I am an inexperienced investor,\" he pleaded to a California State Senate Committee.\nSo as reinsurers today become significant players in the derivatives markets, how much do they know about the nature of the risks they are taking, or even how much they hold? \"People don't really know how much they hold. They only know that they hold a substantial amount. It's one of the problems with a market where you don't have exposure,\" Frank Partnoy tells Global Reinsurance. Partnoy, a former derivatives trader and corporate lawyer, and now Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, chronicles the last 15 years of financial scandals from Orange County to Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing in his latest book Infectious Greed *. This title was taken from the remarks last year by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan who told a Senate banking committee that \"infectious greed\" had gripped the business community in the 1990s and that \"too many corporate executives sought ways to harvest some of those stockmarket gains\". It was not that humans had become greedier than in generations past, Greenspan explained, but that \"the avenues to express greed have grown so enormously.\"\nCorporate ignorance\nBut corporate executives' understanding of those \"avenues\", as opposed to recognising that there was an opportunity for a bet, has not grown. Indeed, there is a serious problem today that senior executives are not prepared to admit their ignorance, as Alabama's wise 'Good Ol' Boy' David Bronner did in 1992. \"I think it's a more serious problem the more senior you get in a company. A CEO would be unlikely to admit that she didn't know something. This is often the case with the supposedly sophisticated buyers of these instruments,\" Partnoy thinks.\nWarren Buffett, that sage of Omaha, is both old enough and wise enough to admit what he doesn't know. \"When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don't understand how much risk the institution is running,\" Buffett wrote in his year 2002 message to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. But if there is one thing an ambitious 20-something Wall Street (or City of London) dealer in the 1990s knew how to do, it was to exploit the unacknowledged ignorance of the gullible investor. Like grand opera teetering on the brink of Greek tragedy, Infectious Greed spins a breathtaking narrative of how these suckers were led up the garden path by their noses and dumped.\nCircumventing the rules\nIn the late 1980s, Japanese insurance companies discovered derivatives as a way of circumventing legal rules that prohibited them from investing in stocks. This was through a Bankers Trust invention which Partnoy terms a \"cross-continental m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois\"; a prototype equity derivative which enabled the insurers, Canadian banks and European investors to bet on the Nikkei 225 index, the major Japanese stock market index. US insurers had heavily taken up derivatives instruments by the time the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in 1994 for the same reason as their Japanese counterparts: there was nothing in the rules to say they couldn't and what rules did exist certainly had no reference to the complex financial instruments being invented. These were the years when structured finance, something which had been around since the 19th century in the form of bonds backed by mortgages, was being fashioned by the latter day whizz-kids, who are known in the jargon as 'quants', into something you would need a mathematics doctorate to understand. One of the most significant of these developments was the Collaterised Bond Obligations (CBOs) whose last 15 years of professional history ranges from the convicted fraudster Michael Milken, to the First Boston bank's pioneering securitisation packages for credit card payments, equipment leases etc, to Enron and WorldCom, by which time the CBOs had metamorphosed into today's much-loved credit derivatives.\nThe pain caused by the earlier investor misjudgment was palpable. The US life insurance industry lost about $50bn on bonds in 1994; property and casualty insurers lost $20bn, more than they paid in claims for Hurricane Andrew. But these losses didn't show up in financial statements because insurance companies recorded their bond investments at their historical cost. Some firms were prescient and abandoned their bets before the interest rate hike in 1994. AIG Financial Products made more than $1bn on derivatives between 1988 and 1992, but AIG's chairman, Maurice ('Hank') Greenberg, decided in 1993 that his firm was taking too many risks. The head of AIG Financial Products, Howard Sosin, left the firm along with a reported $200m in compensation.\nPartnoy explains that the earlier losses which insurance companies suffered were due to their taking on risk using instruments that technically fit within the scope of their guidelines, but that enabled them to take on much greater risks than any regulators had anticipated. Today's reinsurers are more sophisticated, hopefully. \"Maybe they are not the most sophisticated people in the world but they are more sophisticated than managers at insurance companies, especially US insurance companies,\" Partnoy says. AIG, ultimately Salomon Brothers and now Warren Buffett all realised that it may not be worth being in these markets because it's sometimes difficult to quantify the risks. This is particularly true of credit derivatives.\nBut today's reinsurer appetite for credit derivatives shows that banks have been able to offload huge amounts of risk they have held traditionally and that's created all sorts of problems in terms of moral hazard. \"Who is doing the monitoring of the ultimate borrowers?\" asks Partnoy. Banks were originally set up to monitor directly the people they were lending money to but reinsurers are not in the same position. \"They don't have access to the borrower - oftentimes they don't know the details of who the borrower is. They know the name sometimes, but not much more than that.\"\nFurthermore, the contract in a credit derivative is between a bank and a borrower. Reinsurers don't have a direct contract with the borrower at all. Their only relationship is with the bank, not the borrower. So if they are concerned about something or want to find something out, they can't. \"If they (the reinsurers) go to another Enron and say 'look, we hold this billion dollars-worth of credit derivatives on you. We'd like you to improve your practices and not take on so much risk,' then this 'Enron' can tell them to go to hell.\"\nReinsurers have argued that they are developing a greater expertise in the derivatives field. But Partnoy asks, \"if you are smart and you understand credit risk, you are not going to make a loan to someone with whom you can't have any contact. That proves the point that reinsurers can't be right about being as expert as the banks.\" His book explains step-by-step how many risks were disguised by complexity and no one seemed to be bothered about evaluating them. The standard measure of one-day Value at Risk (VAR) - a statistical technique which estimates the maximum probable loss in one day for a particular portfolio - has been accepted by US regulators as the obligatory method of risk disclosure. So an enormous industry has grown around looking exclusively at VAR. But this looks at just part of a risk distribution which may or may not be relevant. It doesn't give you a worst case scenario and reinsurers, surely, need to know about the worst case scenario. A VAR-type measure in a geographic area of Southern California that hasn't had an earthquake for 20 years would show that the risk was zero. VAR didn't indicate any financial earthquakes either. Enron reported in 2000, at a confidence level of 95%, a one-day VAR for all of its trading operations was $66m. That was the maximum investors would be expected to lose. The reality was orders of magnitude worse.\nNearly one and half years after the Enron bankruptcy, none of the company's senior executives has been convicted of anything. The reason is obvious. \"Enron people weren't stupid,\" Partnoy says. \"They weren't completely avoiding the law. They were structuring complex transactions that arguably complied with the letter of the law.\" Such a rules-based system of financial regulation allows people to get away with this behaviour. Markets are always going to be ahead of the rules set by regulators. The real secret of profitable derivatives trading is not its complex mathematics but understanding the relationship between finance and the law, Partnoy says. That is how transactions can be used to avoid the rules.\nThe answer to this dilemma is to have general standards rather than rules. This will be far better if regulators don't want people to avoid them. \"We have general standards to say you can't commit murder. They don't say you can't kill someone with a knife or you can't kill someone with a noose. Or then someone comes along and kills someone with a ballpoint pen and we say, 'oh, that falls beyond the scope of the law'\".\nBut don't expect the regulators to bring in such standards. This is the task of hard-nosed legislators who, for all their reported vested interests, are still less pliable than regulators who are easily swayed by lobby groups. Partnoy's greatest wrath is directed at the International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA) which has now changed its name to the more user-friendly International Swaps and Derivatives Association. Not so much a professional organisation rather an effective lobby group, ISDA has been instrumental in softening a push in the US Congress under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to increase disclosures related to companies' off-balance sheet transactions. Regulators wanted the terms governing disclosure of certain events to change from \"reasonably likely\" to \"may\", the implication being that more such events would have to be disclosed. This suggestion went out for comments from the capital markets. But the lobbyists poured in and argued that it was impossible to ask for such greater disclosure, and the old rules remain in place. \"So I think that the regulators have shown that they cannot be trusted to implement even the disclosure regimes that legislators ask for,\" asserts Partnoy. Any real change has to come from the legislative process, he thinks.\nIn theory, derivatives are a natural fit for reinsurers, since they are all about transferring risk. So the question is how to find the most efficient risk bearer. But is that risk bearer necessarily the person who can best price it? \"We think the risk is being shifted to the person who is best able to bear it. But what is often happening is that the risk is shifted to the person least able to price it, and who ends up either under-assessing it or undervaluing it.\" In addition, the ultimate risk holder is not just a third party, but one with a diversified portfolio, meaning he or she has even less of an incentive to do any monitoring. Recently, Warren Buffett famously described derivatives as \"financial weapons of mass destruction\". But rather than moving away from this market, Partnoy thinks that Buffett is just the kind of investor who should be in it. He is the kind of person who should be figuring out a way to tell people what they are worth; the fact that derivatives are complex does not mean that the trades should not be done. \"What it means is that there should be honest people valuing the positions. I think investors are gong to be worse off without Buffett in those markets,\" says Partnoy.\nInfectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets,\nby Frank Partnoy. 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The causes of the financial crisis are now well known. Among them: years of low interest rates, the boom in mortgage lending, lowering of lending standards, growth in leverage, and the property price boom.\nTo those rather abstract causes may be added more human ones. Many people were making money from the bubble, including those who happily sold $100,000 mortgages to creditors obviously unable to meet the repayments, as well as the bankers who bundled those mortgages together and added leverage to satisfy the aggressive return expectations of their fund manager clients. Over-reliance on rating agencies was also a factor: before the crash, mortgage debt was very highly rated. Before the crash, mortgage debt was generally seen as non-risky.\nLooking deeper, crashes may be an inevitable part of capitalism. Once you allow a free investment market, bubbles and crashes may be unavoidable. Investors speculate, and sometimes speculations run away into self-reinforcing bubbles. Prices escalate, and people begin to believe in a free lunch. Eventually, as in 1929 or 2008, the bubble bursts. This does not mean there will not also be periods of relative tranquility.\nNot only economists, but also entomologists have studied the phenomena of herding. In one experiment, ants were placed equidistant between two identical food sources. The scientists wanted to know how many ants would eat from one source and how many from the other.\nYou might guess the result would be about 50%-50%, but it was not. After a time, 80% of the ants ate from one food source while only 20% used the other. The ants were communicating with each other as to where to go, and the majority opinion became self-reinforcing. Give the ants more time, and sometimes there is a flip, with the 80%-20% split inverting to 20%-80%. The behaviour of bulls and bears in the financial markets can be modelled in an analogous way. Of course, humans, unlike ants, also try to predict what the majority opinion will be.\nHave an enjoyable Monte Carlo, and many more to come.\nDavid Sandham\nResilient in the face of change: Reinsurance centres in 2018\nLondon and Lloyd\u2019s, followed by Dubai, Zurich and Bermuda have shown the greatest innovation over the past 12 months, according to 50 senior reinsurance leaders surveyed by GR, in association with Dubai International Financial Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goboldfish.com/tag/15-min/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:L7ERDFTNIEOIDRDTMQGVD65MEWTKUKRC", "length": 135, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.goboldfish.com", "title": "15 min. Archives - BOLDFISH", "raw_content": "Welcome to our guided meditation series, the Practice. In this episode we will learn about how to sit with oursleves and for ourselves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 24703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.godsgrowinggarden.com/2015/06/christian-camp-songs-chorus-hymns-6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5VTULW6R5ZQY24SGJ6VZBEMMODOMNTT3", "length": 1162, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.godsgrowinggarden.com", "title": "God's Growing Garden: Christian Camp Songs & Chorus Hymns #6", "raw_content": "The author & composer of this featured Chorus Hymn is unknown. It is an \"African American Spiritual\" and it is unfortunate that we do not know the author or composer. God was truly shining through whoever wrote this lovely song!\nPlease take time to listen to the YouTube video below the lyrics .\n\"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness & self-control. Against such things there is no law.\" Galatians 5:22 & 23\nwords & music by unknown\n1. I've got peace like a river, I've got peace like a river, I've got peace like a river in my soul...... I've got peace like a river, I've got peace like a river, I've got peace like a river in my soul!.\n2. I've got love like a river, I've got love like a river, I've got love like a river in my soul...... I've got love like a river, I've got love like a river, I've got love like a river in my soul!.\n3. I've got joy like a river, I've got joy like a river, I've got joy like a river in my soul...... I've got joy like a river, I've got joy like a river, I've got joy like a river in my soul!.\nA special thanks to \"Arturo Quinonez\" for posting this on YouTube", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 345, "original_length": 10716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 181.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-print-single-issues/mojmdec/mojo-december-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AUFOJ6TGA5F7DDA7MWGORUAXJVL3NV3J", "length": 752, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.greatmagazines.co.uk", "title": "Mojo Magazine - Single Print Issues | Great Magazines", "raw_content": "MOJO: REM - December 2016\nMOJO: R.E.M. \u2013 December 2016 issue. Five years since they split, R.E.M. take us back to the dawn of the \u201990s to assess the impact of their landmark Out Of Time album and its aftermath, while our customary covermount CD celebrates the Golden Age of alternative rock with songs by Dinosaur Jr, Lemonheads, Pavement, Galaxie 500 and more.\nAlso in the issue: Brian Wilson writes of the fear that haunted The Beach Boys\u2019 greatest music; we tell the definitive inside story of Bowie\u2019s last act \u2013 Lazarus; Roy Harper emerges from hell; Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan box sets come under the microscope; Metallica\u2019s Lars Ullrich gets (back) on the couch; Syd Arthur psych out Paul Weller; Paul Simon contemplates the end; gay rock and more!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 16851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/evans-senior-center-news-for-march-11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:5D6QRSXRKS63DEBQS4JBYPEPSZRHBXTI", "length": 1164, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.greeleytribune.com", "title": "Evans Senior Center news for March 11 | GreeleyTribune.com", "raw_content": "Evans Senior Center news for March 11\nFriendly Fork Lunch, reservations are required. Call by 9 a.m. the day before lunch at (970) 475-1132.\nTuesday lunch, Doors open at 9 a.m., lunch is served at 11 a.m.\nFriday lunch, Doors open at 9 a.m., lunch is served at 10:45 a.m.\nSilverSneakers, 8:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.\nBlood pressure checks, 4th Tuesday of the month during Senior Lunch.\nHearing Clinic, 1st Tuesday of the month.\nVision Clinic, 2nd Tuesday of the month.\nDominoes, 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month after Senior Lunch.\nCards, 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays.\nBingo, 1st and 3rd Friday of the month after Senior Lunch.\nBranson Show Trip, May 6-12, 2018, $738 per person, double occupancy, $250 due at registration. Add $180 for single occupancy, Final Payment Due: March 14, 2018, 6 nights lodging including 4 consecutive nights in the Branson area, 10 meals: 6 breakfasts and 4 dinners.\nAdmission to 7 fabulous Branson shows! Three morning shows: The Blackwood, AYO- Voices of Glory and Down Home Country Three evening shows: \"Samson\" Show at the Sight & Sound Theatre, \"Million Dollar Quartet\" and \"The Duttons Show\" Showboat Branson Belle \u2026 and much more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 3711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenbelt.ca/celebrating_the_protection_of_the_oak_ridges_moraine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:34Z", "digest": "sha1:7QTAQG3JWPNIS5LLJ7WHYXAG3DULM6PO", "length": 2698, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.greenbelt.ca", "title": "Celebrating the protection of the Oak Ridges Moraine - Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation", "raw_content": "Celebrating the protection of the Oak Ridges Moraine\nAward Recognizes Those Who Have Gone the Distance to Protect Vital Landscape\nToday, the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation announced the 2014 winners of the Friend of the Greenbelt Award. Recognizing those who have worked hard to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine, part of Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt, this year\u2019s award was shared among five individuals representing a number of organizations: Glenn De Baeremaeker, Save the Rouge Valley System; Debbe Crandall, Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition; Amber Ellis, Earthroots; Steve Gilchrist, former Cabinet Minister; and Caroline Schultz, Ontario Nature.\n\u201cThe Oak Ridges Moraine is an integral part of Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt,\u201d said Burkhard Mausberg, CEO Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation. \u201cBy honouring those who have worked so hard to protect it, we\u2019re ensuring the protection of Ontario\u2019s most precious water resources for generations to come.\u201d\nStretching more than 160 kilometres across the most populated area of Ontario, the Oak Ridges Moraine is the source of 64 major streams or rivers, providing clean, safe drinking water to over a quarter of a million people. A contentious issue in its early days, the Oak Ridges Conservation Act, 2001 was recognized and supported by all political parties when passed by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.\nAccording to the most recent Greenbelt poll conducted by Environics Research Group, nearly all respondents (99%) said protecting the natural water system is an important benefit of the Greenbelt. As a significant ecological feature in Ontario, the natural hydrological system of the Oak Ridges Moraine is vital to the health and well-being of Ontarians.\nEach of the individuals receiving the Friend of the Greenbelt Award has contributed in some way to helping keep the Moraine safe from development and to ensuring that it remains an integral part of Ontario's Greenbelt.\nSince 2006, recipients of the Friend of the Greenbelt Award have included Sarah Harmer, The Hon. Bill Davis, Plan B Organic Farm, Grape Growers of Ontario, and the LCBO among other great supporters. Recipients have all contributed to the success, protection, and growth of Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt.\nOntario\u2019s Greenbelt is the solution for fresh air, clean water, healthy local food, and a thriving economy with good jobs. At nearly 2 million acres, it\u2019s the world\u2019s largest permanently protected greenbelt, keeping our farmlands, forests, and wetlands safe and sustainable. The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation works to help keep farmers successful, strengthen local economies, and protect natural features. Join us! Learn more at: greenbelt.ca or find us on Twitter and Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenbranch.com/store/index.cfm/product/680/the-employment-agreement-what-every-doctor-junior-and-senior-needs-to-know-part-2-.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UWSLIYFOUH2VG2ZP44KTFZQZUFSHEQWY", "length": 309, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.greenbranch.com", "title": "The Employment Agreement: What Every Doctor (Junior and Senior) Needs to Know Part 2 by James G. Stuart, J.D", "raw_content": "The Employment Agreement: What Every Doctor (Junior and Senior) Needs to Know Part 2\nby James G. Stuart, J.D\nThe second of a three-part series examining the physician?s Employment Contract, this article describes critical areas of operational due diligence and fundamental elements in the negotiation process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.grimygoods.com/2017/08/31/st-vincent-shares-new-video-for-new-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KHW6WUN3BNPD6GIH2LLLLB7PZML5OLLD", "length": 2104, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.grimygoods.com", "title": "St. Vincent shares new video for \"New York\" - Los Angeles tour date at Red Bull Music Academy - Grimy Goods", "raw_content": "St. Vincent shares new video for \u201cNew York\u201d \u2014 Los Angeles tour date at Red Bull Music Academy\nSt. Vincent is back with a new video for her latest single \u201cNew York.\u201d Released earlier this summer, New York is St. Vincent\u2019s first song in two years. Directed by Alex Da Corte in association with All Ages Productions, watch the new video below!\nSays Da Corte: \u201cI think Annie\u2019s New York is the New York of my dreams-one that is blurry and fractured, dreamy and flat. It is the Toontown to my Hollywood. It is beautiful but slightly out of reach.\u201d\nVideo: St. Vincent \u201d New York\u201d\n\u201c\u2018New York\u2019 is really a composite for me \u2013 it\u2019s everybody I love in that song, it\u2019s my whole life in a song,\u201d ~ St. Vincent\nSt. Vincent has added a Los Angeles show date to her \u201cFear The Future Tour.\u201d Her LA date will take place on October 7 on the New York street set at Paramount Pictures Studios, as part of the Red Bull Music Academy.\n10/7 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Paramount Pictures Studios (Red Bull Academy Music Festival)\n10/17 \u2013 London, UK \u2013 O2 Academy Brixton\n10/18 \u2013 Manchester, UK \u2013 O2 Apollo Manchester\n10/20 \u2013 Dublin, Ireland \u2013 Olympia Theatre\n10/23 \u2013 Brussels, Belgium \u2013 Ancienne Belgique\n10/24 \u2013 Paris, France \u2013 Le Trianon\n10/26 \u2013 Berlin, Germany \u2013 Huxleys\n10/27 \u2013 Utrecht, Netherlands \u2013 TivoliVrendenburg\n11/14 \u2013 Detroit, MI \u2013 The Fillmore\n11/15 \u2013 Indianapolis, IN \u2013 Egyptian Room\n11/17 \u2013 Milwaukee, WI \u2013 Riverside Theater\n11/18 \u2013 St. Paul, MN \u2013 Palace Theater\n11/19 \u2013 Kansas City, MO \u2013 Uptown Theater\n11/21 \u2013 Louisville, KY \u2013 The Kentucky Center\n11/22 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 Ryman Auditorium\n11/24 \u2013 Knoxville, TN \u2013 Tennessee Theatre\n11/25 \u2013 Durham, NC \u2013 Durham Performing Arts Center\n11/27 \u2013 Washington, DC \u2013 The Anthem\n12/1 \u2013 Portland, ME \u2013 State Theatre\n12/2 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY \u2013 Kings Theatre\nThis entry was posted in Videos and tagged st. vincent on August 31, 2017 by Sandra Burciaga Olinger.\nOne thought on \u201cSt. Vincent shares new video for \u201cNew York\u201d \u2014 Los Angeles tour date at Red Bull Music Academy \u201d\nLeila September 6, 2017 at 11:16 am\nSt. Vincent never disappoints! 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Everyone has unique goals that he or she would like to achieve, such as building muscle or increasing flexibility. If you\u2019re an older woman or have certain health conditions, you may also be trying to build bone strength. Studies show that weight lifting as well as high-impact exercises, like running and jump rope, are very effective at helping people achieve optimal bone density. But in case you don\u2019t have the endurance for arduous workouts, there is another way!\nWhile walking briskly can also work wonders on your bones, studies have suggested that \u201codd impacts,\u201d or the movements achieved when shifting in a direction other than straight ahead, provide even better results. Jiggling backwards and sideways can actually help stimulate remodeling in the hipbones and spines in older adults. That\u2019s where vibration platforms come in. You might have seen them already in your local health club, and they\u2019re exactly what they sound like \u2013 platforms that vibrate, shake, and pulsate underneath users\u2019 feet. Using a vibration machine can provide great bone benefits that have been shown to do more than taking no action at all.\nThe New York Times initially reported on a 6-month long controlled trial, which you can view here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348029/. There have been other studies done over longer periods of time, and one study in particular reported that low-frequency vibratory exercises were more effective at building bone strength than walking (you can see that one here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17137514).\nLuckily, Gym Source carries an entire line of vibration machines. You can explore the six offered by PowerPlate, such as the my7\u2014which uses high-strength polymer cables to optimize the vibrations generated by the machine platform directly to your targeted muscles. Or, check out the AVT 5.0 Vibration Machine by 3G Cardio with total stability and ergonomic design. With so many options and styles to choose from, you\u2019re sure to find just the right equipment for your home, health club, or medical facility. 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There\u2019ll also be a recording of the BBC Radio 4 show, Round Britain Quiz at the Festival.\nThe mini-libraries build on the Harrogate International Festival\u2019s legacy of promoting reading and literacy.\nIt already supports mini-libraries on board Transdev\u2019s Number 36 buses to encourage reading in the wider community.\nAs part of its outreach work, the Festival also hosts an annual Big Read in libraries across the North, bringing bestselling authors to some of the most hard to reach audiences, and delivers the Big Write for schoolchildren across the district.\nZoe Robinson, Raworths Managing Partner, said: \u201cRaworths has sponsored the literary festival for seven years and we are proud to help support Harrogate\u2019s growing reputation as a book lovers destination.\n\u201cA vibrant cultural scene brings obvious benefits to visitors and residents alike, and the mini-libraries are a great way to reach new audiences, and generate a buzz around the Festival.\u201d\nHarrogate was claimed the UK\u2019s most bookish town in the national press this year thanks to its reputation for delivering world-class literary festivals.\nSharon Canavar, CEO of the festival, said: \u201cThe new mini-libraries build on our campaign and passion around literacy and reading to create a fun way to access free books in new, unusual and accessible places.\n\u201cAs well as encouraging readers to try something new, and inspire them to come and see authors speaking at the Festival, we hope this initiative will be a springboard to encourage people to support and value libraries in our community.\n\u201cBooks can be a gateway, to inspire and engage, as well as bring people together.\u201d\nPictured: CEO of HIF Sharon Canavar, Raworths Managing Partner Zoe Robinson, Raworths Senior Associate Joanna Lofthouse and Head of Corporate, Simon Morris. Picture by Mike Whorley.\nSharon Canavar, Zoe Robinson, Joanna Lofthouse and Simon Morris.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/status-table/authority/?sid=20&cid=41", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:30Z", "digest": "sha1:GVBBGN35YXPCUCIBE2KHTEW24W2245A4", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hcch.net", "title": "HCCH | Authority", "raw_content": "Argentina - Competent Authority (Art. 6)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthcare.siemens.es/news/mso-time-is-brain.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7BZYNQ6DLCMNGIXDYPIMVXTWZRTRFZ2W", "length": 6863, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.healthcare.siemens.es", "title": "Time is Brain - Siemens Healthineers Espa\u00f1a", "raw_content": "Regardless of where you are in the world, the most important principle in treating acute stroke is \u201ctime is brain\u201d. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) published figures showing 17 million new stroke cases each year of which about six million of these result in death. The World Stroke Organisation (WSO) also says that an estimated 1.9 million neurons can be salvaged with each minute saved in stroke management. This is why rapid treatment is crucial to patient recovery and to subsequent quality of life. A new technology for hospital stroke units could significantly speed up treatment. Recent publications show promising initial results for an \u201cangio-only\u201d workflow.\nMarios Psychogios, MD, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany\nToday\u2019s standard stroke workflow involves a neurological exam when the patient arrives at the hospital, followed by transfer to either a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility for a diagnostic brain scan. This determines whether the patient has suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in the brain) or an ischemic stroke (an interruption of the blood supply to the brain caused by a blood clot). Depending on the results, the patient might be sent to the angiography suite for treatment. Thrombectomies are becoming an increasingly frequent choice for treating ischemic stroke.\nTogether, all these steps can put 130 minutes between the patient\u2019s arrival at the hospital and reperfusion of the brain. In order to save time, the first logical step is to bring diagnosis (CT/MRI) and treatment (angio) closer together \u2013 ideally into the same room. A combined solution consisting of a CT and an angio system, is starting to attract market attention in this specific field. Angio-CTs provide the potential to save valuable time and are expected to gain traction at stroke centers around the world.\nsyngo DynaCT with angiography helps to rule out hemorrhage, check clot location and collateral status, while perfusion analysis with syngo DynaPBV Neuro is used to evaluate the size and location of the infarct core.\nInterventional treatment is the preferred choice in many stroke cases\nIn recent years, several studies have focused on thrombectomy in stroke treatment. MR CLEAN, a multicenter randomized clinical trail, proved that interventional treatment is the preferred choice in many stroke cases.1 The study comes to the following conclusion: \u201cOur results show that patients with acute ischemic stroke (\u2026) benefit with respect to functional recovery when intra-arterial treatment is administered within six hours after stroke onset. This treatment leads to a clinically significant increase in functional independence in daily life by three months, without an increase in mortality. Our findings stand in clear distinction to those of recent randomized, controlled trials that failed to show the benefit of intraarterial treatment.\u201d\nOne-stop stroke management with angio-only approach\nMR CLEAN and all subsequent trials amply demonstrate the overwhelming efficacy of intra-arterial treatment for acute ischemic stroke. A combined solution might not be necessary in every case, because patients who score highly on the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) could be taken directly to the angio suite for diagnosis with a cone-beam CT and receive immediate endovascular treatment if necessary. This is why an angio-only stroke workflow opens up new and exciting potential for shortening door-to-groin times. The stroke research group headed by Marios Psychogios, MD, in G\u00f6ttingen, Germany has produced very promising early results.2\n\u201cThe ability to image and treat stroke patients in the same room [...] results in a door-to-groin time of 23 minutes, and a door-to-reperfusion time of 59 minutes.\u201d Marios Psychogios, MD, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany\nStroke research group substantially reduces door-to-groin times\nThe G\u00f6ttingen team developed and implemented a onestop approach to stroke management which bypasses the usual multidetector CT (MDCT) scan. Patients presenting with an NIHSS score \u2265 7 (as of January 2017) are transferred straight to the angio suite. They are examined with a cone-beam CT and treated by endovascular means in the event of a large vessel occlusion. The G\u00f6ttingen team\nbegan using the approach with transfer patients back in January 2016. Since most of these patients were treated with thrombolysis during transport to the comprehensive stroke center, repeated imaging was justified to exclude\nan intracranial hemorrhage. The next step was to use the approach with direct-admission patients, which the team began doing in June 2016. At first, they only applied it to patients with an NIHSS score \u2265 10. Thirty patients were treated in this way. The findings are currently under review, but the initial experience shows that the team significantly reduced door-to-groin times while successfully differentiating ischemic from hemorrhagic stroke. In January 2017, the team lowered the threshold for onestop management to an NIHSS score of \u2265 7.\nPsychogios draws a promising preliminary conclusion:\n\u201cWe\u2019ve demonstrated to the best of our ability the first stroke patients triaged and treated in the angio suite with one-stop management. The ability to image and treat\nstroke patients in the same room without needing to transport them between modalities resulted in a door-to-groin time of 23 minutes, and a door-to-reperfusion time of 59 minutes. Both times are below the recently propagated ideal target intervals of 60 minutes and 90 minutes for door-to-groin and door-to-reperfusion.\u201d\nWill angio-only prevail?\nAngio-only is a promising approach to optimizing the management of stroke patients. It could soon find itself on equal footing with the established modality, because it benefits both patients and hospital administrators. For patients, faster treatment and short intervals between hospital admission and reperfusion are expected to positively influence clinical outcomes. For hospitals, the angio-only workflow could eliminate patient transfers from conventional CT to the angio suite in many cases. This would make logistics and coordination much simpler \u2013 a clear advantage in terms of cost efficiency.\nAndrea Lutz is a journalist and business trainer specializing in medicine, technology, and healthcare IT. She lives in Nuremberg, Germany.\nDownload your print version here 1.2 MB\nInterventional Neuroradiology and Endovascular Neurosurgery\n1Berkhemer OA, Fransen PS, Beumer D, van den Berg LA, Lingsma HF, Yoo A, et al. A randomized trial of intraarterial treatment for acute ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med. 2015; 372(1): 11-20.\n2Stroke Research Group G\u00f6ttingen (GER). One Stop in Stroke [Internet]. G\u00f6ttingen (Germany): Stroke Research Group G\u00f6ttingen; [cited August 2017]. 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Check Out How Our Process Works.\nIf you want to sell your Crestwood, IL house\u2026 we\u2019re ready to give you a fair all-cash offer.\nDo You Need To Sell Your House in Crestwood?\nWe buy houses in Crestwood and surrounding areas and pay a fair cash price, fast. Sometimes, those who own property simply have lives that are too busy to take the time to do all of things that typically need to be done to prepare a house to sell on the market\u2026 if that describes you, just let us know about the property you\u2019d like to be rid of and sell your house fast for cash.\nWe buy houses in Crestwood, Illinois and all surrounding areas in Illinois. If you need to sell your house fast in Illinois, connect with us\u2026 we\u2019d love to make you a fair no-obligation no-hassle offer. Take it or leave it. You\u2019ve got nothing to lose \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 8355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heckartfuneralhomesedalia.com/katherine-l-rudd/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3ELOCXTTLCWAGCPAVI3U7X5YVWX5IDK2", "length": 2280, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.heckartfuneralhomesedalia.com", "title": "Katherine L. Rudd", "raw_content": "Katherine L. Rudd\nKatherine Lynn Rudd, 67, of Knob Noster, passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City.\nShe was born August 2, 1950, in Sedalia, daughter of Chester W. Kerr and Helen B. (Lewis) Kerr.\nShe was married to George W. Monteer, who preceded her in death in 1983. Later she married Dale W. Rudd, who preceded her in death in 2013.\nMrs. Rudd worked as a paraprofessional at Knob Noster School District from 1992 to 2017. Her hobbies included gardening, reading and square dancing. She loved her family and especially enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. Katherine always put others first and would do anything for anybody. She will be greatly missed.\nSurvivors include three children, Tonya Burke and her husband, Jevon, of Warrensburg, Kelly Lairmore, of Columbia, and Lyle Rudd, of Knob Noster; six grandchildren, Chris, Felicia, Nikole, J.T., Kaleb and Blake; four great-grandchildren; and a sister, Judy Schick, of Sedalia.\nIn addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by a brother, Russell Kerr.\nFuneral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at Heckart Funeral Home, with Jeff Page officiating.\nCasket bearers will be Christopher West, Jevon Burke, Nicco Martinez, Doug Weller, Eric Harvey and Dan Richards.\nThe family will receive friends from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Friday, July 13, at Heckart Funeral Home.\nMemorials are suggested to Sedalia Animal Shelter or American Cancer Society.\nChris Landreneau :\nI love my dear friend Kathy she is a wonderful friend mother grandmother she always put others first o will miss her terribly\nVirginia Raspberry :\nSo sorry to hear about your mother. We are cousins of Dale\u2019s. Our number is 417 693 3296 we live in Springfield Mo.\nAudrey Robbins :\nKatherine was married to my cousin Dale. So sorry to hear about her death\nPatty Grella :\nSuch a beautiful and loving lady. I\u2019m so glad to have worked with her. She always made me laugh. You will be truly missed my friend. My deepest sympathy to the family.\nkelly monteer lairmore :\nLove you mom. You are a wonderful woman. I know that you are not suffering anymore. Going to miss you alot. Kisses and hugs. Give dad and dale and grandma and grandpa hugs and kisses.\nSo very sorry, prayers for the family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/?uk-moncler-sale-flannels-fashion-17870.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XYE4XFR3WZUJV2JNNFZNTA5BNXNPTZHY", "length": 24977, "nlines": 128, "source_domain": "www.henrywilliamson.co.uk", "title": "The Henry Williamson Society", "raw_content": "Go to: FRONT PAGE NEWS\nRecently added web pages\nHenry Williamson and his work \u2013 the views of critics\nFront Page News \u2013 archive\nThe writer Henry Williamson was born in London in 1895.\nNaturalist, soldier, journalist, farmer, motor enthusiast and author of over fifty books, his descriptions of nature and the First World War have been highly praised for their accuracy. In 1957 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters.\nHe is best known as the author of Tarka the Otter, which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1928 and was filmed in 1977. By one of those extraordinary coincidences, Henry Williamson died while the crew were actually filming the death scene of Tarka.\nHere in the Henry Williamson Society's website you can explore the man, his life, and his place in English Literature and history.\nIf you enjoy browsing through the pages of this website and wish to support the work of the Henry Williamson Society in furthering the appreciation of Henry Williamson\u2019s writings, please consider either becoming a member of the Society or making a donation towards the maintenance of our website.\nAnne Williamson has written an illuminating and considered essay about Henry Williamson's personal beliefs, In Search of Truth \u2013 Henry Williamson\u2019s credo. We feel that her essay deserves a wide readership and are very pleased to present it on this website.\nWeb pages added in the last twelve months:\nFebruary 2019 No Man's Land (BBC1, broadcast on 10 November 1968)\nThe Survivor: A Sunday Night Feature on the author of Tarka the Otter (BBC1,\nbroadcast on 8 May 1966)\nThe Twelfth Man ('Genesis of Tarka', in an anthology published for Prince Philip's\n50th birthday)\n'Some Nature Writers and Civilisation' (Wedmore Memorial Lecture given by HW\nto the Royal Society for Literature)\nDecember 2018 My Favourite Country Stories (Edited and Introduction by HW)\nNovember 2018 A Clear Water Stream\nOctober 2018 Tales of Moorland & Estuary\n'Reflections on the Death of a Field Marshal' (An essay prompted by viewing the\nfilm 'Oh! What a Lovely War' that was first published in Contemporary Review in\nOctober 2018 Schools Writing Competition 2018 \u2013 Results\nSeptember 2018 Letters from a Soldier by Walter Robson (Edited and Introduction by HW)\nSeptember 2018 The Adelphi (HW's contributions to and involvement with this literary magazine)\nSeptember 2018 The Phasian Bird\n'The Last 100 Days' (A series of articles about the 100-day offensive that ended the\nGreat War)\nJuly 2018 Tales of a Devon Village and Life in a Devon Village\nJuly 2018 Norfolk Life by Lilias Rider Haggard and Henry Williamson\nJune 2018 Genius of Friendship: T. E. Lawrence\nMay 2018 As the Sun Shines (An anthology, with 18 pieces from books published up to 1941)\nMay 2018 Lucifer before Sunrise (vol. 14 of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight)\nWaveney Girvan and the West Country Writers Association (of which Henry\nWilliamson later became president. This new page is an adjunct to the page on\nGirvan's Bibliography and a Critical Survey of the Works of Henry Williamson.)\nTwo additional pages to expand on our Richard Jefferies page:\nRichard Jefferies Centenary Celebrations, June 1948\nHenry Williamson and the Richard Jefferies Society\nThe Daniel Brothers, London Rifle Brigade. This page was created courtesy of\nTom Daniel, grandson of one of the brothers, who provided the details and the\nmarvellous photo. (Updated with further information and photographs March 2018.)\nFrancis Thompson (A look at his life and work; his influence on HW; HW and the\nFrancis Thompson Society; and HW's two essays on Thompson, 'A First Adventure\nwith Francis Thompson' and 'In Darkest England')\nFive essays and reviews by Fr Brocard Sewell:\n'Facing the Spectres of the Mind' (review, 1960)\n'Henry Williamson' (1961)\n'The Power of the Dead' (review, 1963)\n'Some Thoughts on The Flax of Dream' (1965)\n'Some Memories of H.W.' (1980)\nArchive of new web pages since 2015\n2019 \u2014 Dates for your diary:\n\u2014 30 March: Study Day at the Swedenberg Hall, Holborn, WC1A 2TH. The subject is Poetry and the writings of Henry Williamson.\n\u2014 17\u201319 May: Spring Meeting. The meeting will be held at Folkestone, to mark the centenary of Henry Williamson's own stay in that town. The programme will be posted in due course.\n\u2014 11\u201312 October: Autumn Meeting and AGM. The programme will be posted in due course.\n\u2014 November: Southern Area Meeting, at the Harlequin Centre, Redhill. The date and theme of the meeting will be posted in due course.\nAn important resource on our website is the series A Life's Work. This is a descriptive bibliography of Henry Williamson's writings, title by title. Written by Anne Williamson and utilising rare archive material, it is not a bibliography in the strict sense of the word, but an illustrated description of each book \u2013 a synopsis of its plot; the circumstances behind Henry\u2019s writing of it; Henry\u2019s life at that time; and its critical reception. Anne Williamson is uniquely placed to write this, having both such an intimate knowledge of the writings and access to Henry\u2019s journals, diaries and other archive material; we are fortunate indeed in being able to work with her in publishing this work here. It is planned to add her considerations of books, collections, significant essays and other material at relatively frequent intervals, as they are completed \u2013 62 as at September 2018. Anne has now covered the The Flax of Dream, and its four constituent volumes, The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days, The Dream of Fair Women and The Pathway, together with The Star-born; a short entry on HW's early contributions to The Weekly Dispatch as a novice reporter; and the 'nature' books. She is also working on her consideration of the individual volumes comprising the 15-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight and has completed fourteen books in the series. Other books covered include Henry's best-known work Tarka the Otter, The Wet Flanders Plain, The Patriot's Progress and The Gold Falcon.\nOctober 2018 \u2014 NOW AT A SPECIAL OFFER PRICE OF 99 PENCE, FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY (plus postage and packing): Hugoe Matthews' Henry Williamson: A Bibliography. Published in 2004, this definitive work documents all Henry Williamson's known publications \u2013 his own books; contributions to work by other authors; and his articles or letters in newspapers and magazines. For each of the main books there is a physical description and a list of contents, with notes on the background to the work and any previous publication of the material. The book provides a compact but comprehensive and indispensable bibliographical introduction to all Williamson's work in a volume that is practical and portable. It is thoroughly recommended.\n8 August 2018 \u2014 Today marks the centenary of the opening day of the Battle of Amiens, the first action of the 100-day offensive that brought an end to the Great War. In 1928, ten years after, Henry Williamson was asked by the Daily Express to write a series of articles \u2013 there were nine published in all, but also three unpublished \u2013 about 'the principal events of the last hundred days of the war'. They make remarkable reading, and are given an effective immediacy, for Williamson wrote them as reportage.\nAugust 8, 1918: 'The Last Hundred Days of the War' (unpublished typescript)\nAugust 11, 1918: 'The Last 100 Days' (Daily Express, August 11, 1928)\nAugust 18, 1918: 'With the 4th Army' (Daily Express, August 18, 1928)\nAugust 21, 1918: 'The Last Hundred Days' (unpublished manuscript, with transcript)\nAugust 23, 1918: 'Tanks in Action' (Daily Express, August 23, 1928)\nAugust 27, 1918: 'Last Hundred Days'(unpublished manuscript, with transcript)\nSeptember 1, 1918: 'So why fight on?' (Daily Express, September 1, 1928)\nSeptember 26, 1918: 'Breaking through . . .' (Daily Express, September 26, 1928)\nSeptember 29, 1918: 'We break through the Line'(Daily Express, September 29, 1928)\nOctober 27, 1918: 'Towards the armistice'(Daily Express, October 27, 1928)\nOctober 31, 1918: 'Sick of the war . . .'(Daily Express, October 31, 1928)\nNovember 4, 1918: 'There is talk of peace . . .' (Daily Express, November 3, 1928)\nSalar the Salmon is released as an audiobook, read by James Murray and published to raise funds for the Atlantic Salmon Trust, an organisation that since 1967 has raised awareness of the plight of salmon both inland and at sea, and encouraged and advocated conservation. All proceeds received by the publishers will go to the Trust: the Henry Williamson Literary Estate has waived its royalties for this worthy cause, while reader, producers and studio have all given their services without fee. The audiobook is available either as a 6-disc set of audio CDs from Strathmore Publishing (price \u00a320 including P&P in the UK, \u00a325 overseas), or as a download from audible.co.uk (price \u00a314.99). The run time is 6 hours 52 minutes.\n25 May 2018 \u2014 To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 which has now come into force, we have reviewed and revised the Society's Privacy Notice. Click on the link to read this. There is also a link to the Privacy Notice at the foot of every page on this website.\n31 January 2018 \u2014 Tarka the Otter (Putnam, 1927) is the runner up in a poll organised by the The Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the UK's favourite nature book, the BBC's Winterwatch programme announced this evening. In third place is Rob Cowen's Common Ground (Hutchinson, 2015), the winner being Winterwatch presenter Chris Packham's Fingers in the Sparkle Jar (Ebury Press, 2016). Thanks to all those who voted for Tarka!\n12 October 2017 \u2014 The ninetieth anniversary of the publication of Tarka the Otter. The October 2017 issue of The Countryman carries an illustrated appreciation of the book by Miriam Darlington, acclaimed author of Otter Country, in its 'Country Bookshelf' column.\n13 August 2017 \u2014 It was forty years ago today that Henry Williamson died. The Henry Williamson Society was formed three years later, with the aim of encouraging interest in and a deeper understanding of his life and work.\n19 May 2017 \u2014 The Eastern Daily Press publishes both on its website and in print a feature on Henry Williamson's Norfolk farm (Old Hall Farm at Stiffkey), using family photographs taken from our own website page 'Life on the Norfolk Farm: an essay in photographs'.\n9 April 2017 \u2014 The centenary of the storming of Vimy Ridge by Canadian forces (the webmaster's grandfather among them), on Easter Monday, 1917. To mark the fiftieth anniversary Henry Williamson wrote 'The Battle of Vimy Ridge', published in the Daily Express over two days, 6/7 April, 1967. Williamson was Transport Officer for 208 Machine Gun Company, situated only a few miles away, at the time of the battle, and the article relates his experiences, vividly recalled.\n11 March 2017 \u2014 A bronze cast statue of Tarka the Otter is unveiled. One and a half times life size, it is sited next to the famous longbridge over the River Torridge at Bideford. See the North Devon Gazette's report.\nFebruary 2017 \u2014 100 YEARS AGO: On 27 February 1917 Lieutenant Henry Williamson, Transport Officer of the newly formed 208 Machine Gun Company, returned to France for his second period of service on the Western Front. 208 MGC joined the 62nd Division on the Somme sector of the British line, and took part in the Arras offensive and the Battle of Bullecourt in April and May 1917. Williamson was invalided home on 18 June after eighteen weeks\u2019 active service in France, after being gassed when caught in a night bombardment while he and his mule teams were taking replacement machine guns and supplies up to the front line. Henry Williamson and 208 Machine Gun Company explores Henry Williamson's experiences and duties as transport officer through his letters, diary entries and other archival material, including original documents, and photographs of 208 MGC officers and men from Williamson's personal album.\nNovember 2016 \u2014 Announcing a new web page, Henry Williamson and the London Rifle Brigade, 1915-1915: An Illustrated Timeline as a part of the Henry Williamson and the First World War area of the website. In August 1914 Williamson, then an 18-year-old Territorial private with the London Rifle Brigade, volunteered for overseas service. The page looks at his progress \u2013 mobilisation, embarkation, introduction to trench warfare at Ploegsteert Wood, and then being invalided home in January 1915 suffering from dysentery and trench foot \u2013 through his letters home and the records of the London Rifle Brigade. It is generously illustrated with unique material from the Literary Archive and other sources.\n1 July 2016 \u2014 The centenary of the disastrous opening day of the Battle of the Somme. To mark the fiftieth anniversary Henry Williamson wrote two articles. The first is 'The Somme - just fifty years after', which was published in the Daily Express over three days, on 29 and 30 June and 1 July 1966. This brilliant and moving article, just as relevant today, deserves a wider readership, but regrettably the Express ignored our suggestion that they reprint it to commemorate the centenary. The second, published in the Evening Standard on 4 July 1966, is '7.30 a.m.: a time of hope that became an execution hour'.\nDecember 2015 \u2014 We now have a Henry Williamson Society shopping bag, with HW's striking owl colophon printed in dark green on one side, and on the other the first sentence from his well-loved prize-winning novel Tarka the Otter:\nThe bags are eco-ethically sourced and manufactured at a Fairtrade factory. Just \u00a35.50 each, they are strongly made of natural canvas, with short handles, and measure 42cm high x 37cm wide, with a 10cm gusset. Use one (or two) for your weekly shop, and avoid ever again paying 5p for a plastic bag!\nAugust 2015 \u2014 The Society is very pleased to announce that it has reprinted as e-books Richard Williamson's first two books: his memoir The Dawn is My Brother, first published in 1959 and runner-up for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and his novel Capreol: The Story of a Roebuck, published in 1973. These are available at just \u00a33.50 each directly from the Society, and at approximately that price from Amazon's Kindle Store and other e-book retailers. Please click on the links or the images below for full descriptions and/or to order the e-books.\nRichard Williamson is the fifth child of the author Henry Williamson. Educated at schools in Worcestershire and Devon and self-educated in the local woods and fields, as well as in the marshlands of the North Norfolk coast, he joined the RAF on leaving school and wrote The Dawn is My Brother out of his experiences. He joined the Nature Conservancy in 1963 and became warden of Kingley Vale nature reserve near Chichester in Sussex, where, now retired, he lives with his wife Anne. He has been President of the Henry Williamson Society since its formation in 1980.\nMay 2015 \u2014 On Saturday, 16 May, Anne Williamson, the Manager of the Henry Williamson Literary Estate, presented the Literary Archive to Exeter University Library, Heritage Collections. The presentation was attended by other members of the Williamson family, members of the Society and officials of Exeter University, and formed the centrepiece of the Henry Williamson Society's spring meeting.\nLeft to right: Robert Williamson, Richard Williamson, Anne Williamson, Dr Christine\nFaunch (Head of Heritage Collections) and Michele Shoebridge (Deputy COO, Exeter\nUniversity). Anne is holding an original poem and sketch by the Cornish poet Charles\nCausley, presented to her and Richard by the University as a token of thanks.\n(Photograph courtesy of Robert Walker)\nFebruary 2015 \u2014 The Society is pleased to announce the publication, as an e-book only, of Anne Williamson's Following in Henry Williamson's Footsteps, an explanatory commentary on Williamson's On Foot in Devon, the quirky mock travel guide that he published in 1933. A detailed knowledge or prior reading of On Foot in Devon is not a prerequisite, for the numerous and sometimes lengthy quotations mean that the commentary can be read and enjoyed independently of the book itself. The price is \u00a32.50. See our online shop for further details.\nOUT OF PRINT JOURNALS: The contents of journals now out of print (nos 1 to 30) have been scanned. Articles are available as PDFs from either the Journal Contents page or the Author and Article Title indexes, and may be downloaded or printed as desired. While this service is free of charge, those availing themselves of it may wish to make an appropriate donation by using the Donate button above.\nMembers of the Society are invited to submit their favourite passage (200\u2013750 words) from any of Henry Williamson's books for inclusion in the new webpage that we are developing of extracts from his works.\nHenry Williamson and his work: a selection of the views of writers and critics, in no particular order:\u2013\nRichard Williamson 'Portrait of an author in North Devon', Western Morning News, 24 May 1963. Click on link for the full article.\nTed Hughes, in his address at the memorial service for Henry Williamson, 1 December 1977, on Tarka the Otter\nIn the confrontations of creature and creature, of creature and object, of creature and fate \u2013 he made me feel the pathos of actuality in the natural world . . . I now know that only the finest writers are ever able to evoke it . . . It is not usual to consider [Henry Williamson] as a poet. But I believe he was one of the truest English poets of his generation.\nMichael Morpurgo, Introduction to Salar the Salmon, 2010 It is a rare gift indeed for a storyteller to be poet as much as a storyteller, to tell a tale so deeply engaging that the reader wants to know what will happen and never want it to end, and yet at the same time tells it in such a way as to leave a reader wide-eyed with amazement at the sheer intensity of feeling that can be induced by the word-magic of a poet. Henry Williamson is just such a story-maker poet.\nCharles Causley, letter to Henry Williamson, 1959\nWell, now \u2013 LOVE AND THE LOVELESS really is something. I admire the rest of the novels in this series greatly \u2013 but, for me, this one is the finest so far of a fine bunch. . . . I haven\u2019t come across anything that captures with such a magnificent fusion of straight fact and burning poetic imagination and sensibility and sensitivity the extraordinary climate of the times. I put the book with the very best of the first world-war stories: with Siegfried's Infantry Officer, the Graves autobiography, Aldington's Hero. Grasping the sheer muck of fact as you have I'm not sure you haven\u2019t out of it created a greater work of art then the lot of \u2019em. It's ahead of Blunden's Undertones (this has always seemed to me muted, muffled) and up there with the very best, and with Owen's poems.\nHere is an unrolling map of the labyrinth of three generations, our fathers, ourselves and our children, and the thread leading to the mystery - monster or divinity? - at the centre. In my belief ... the whole cycle [of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight] will ultimately be recognized as the great historical novel of our time, its subject as the total experience of twentieth-century man.\nThis will be in its entirety one of the most remarkable English novels of our time ... It is amazingly rich in all the living detail of a swiftly changing society; the characters are drawn with such loving sympathy and such firmness of imaginative outline that we are entirely absorbed by their vicissitudes. We are apprehensive for them, we are relieved; we rejoice and are sorrowful; we are angry and we understand and we laugh and laugh again. To be able to do this with us is the novelist's supreme gift ... I believe it is high time we awoke to the splendour and scope of his effort and achievement in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Begin with The Dark Lantern and read on; you will be the richer for it.\nT. E. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett, 1928\nIf I'd known he was so practiced I wouldn't have dared write him.\nMalcolm Elwin, 1957 He emerges as one of the most impressively gifted and lavishly creative among writers of modern fiction.\nJames Hanley, on Young Phillip Maddison How well Mr Williamson conveys all the secret thoughts and doings of boys, living lives that are all heights and depths. Magically he suggests the era by subtle description.\nAllan Wykes, review of The Innocent Moon in the Sunday Times To follow Mr Williamson through all the tones and tempers of his chronicle is to emerge with a sense \u2013 insistent and triumphant \u2013 of having been brushed by experience.\nMichael Bradbury, review of The Power Of The Dead in Punch What emerges is a deep sense of truthfulness and accuracy and a complexity of experience.\nWalter de la Mare, letter to Putnams, 1926 I have always thought that Williamson had a tinge of that very rare quality, or whatever it may be, called genius; and I feel convinced that in time it will be more fully recognised . . .\nGeorge D. Painter, 1959 It will be among the accepted facts of English literary history that our only two great novelists writing in the second quarter of the twentieth century, after the deaths of Lawrence and Joyce, were John Cowper Powys and Henry Williamson.\nL. A. G. Strong, 1945 Few writers hold so surely the balance between outer and inner truth; fewer so generously share their vision with their reader.\nJohn Galsworthy, letter to Edward Garnett, 1926 Do you know the work of Henry Williamson? It's uneven but at it's best extraordinarily good I think.\nJohn Betjeman, review of The Dark Lantern in the Daily Telegraph There is a magic about this book . . . this excursion into a late Victorian suburb and merchant materialism is unexpected and it is as genuine and affectionate as it is accomplished.\nGeneral Sir Hubert Gough, letter to Henry Williamson I have re-read your story of our Fifth Army [A Test to Destruction], and was greatly moved. It made me realise once again what a wonderful people the British are.\nTimes Literary Supplement review of The Golden Virgin It is difficult to know which to admire the more, the skill of the characterisation or the art by which the character is subordinated to the theme without contrivance and without loss of humanity . . . The contrast between the tenderness of youth and the cruelty of war is most effectively described.\nGeorge D. Painter, review of How Dear is Life in The Listener Mr Williamson's prose is like sunlight and clear air; and then, when necessary, it has the taste of fear in the mouth, the terrible beauty of life on the edge of the abyss.\nKenneth Allsop, review of It Was The Nightgale in the Daily Mail The sad beauty of the love story laces a huge exquisitely worked tapestry of period and people.\nErnest Wycherley, review of A Solitary War in the Daily Express This astonishing sequence [A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight]. It is a major mark he is making on the modern novel.\nFrank Swinnerton, 1937 Henry Williamson . . . seems to spend his days up to his waist or neck in a Devonshire river, watching the habits of otters, salmon and other wild creatures.\nCecil Beaton, diary entry, July 1970 The long days of reading are perhaps at an end (I have bitten into so many varied books, E. M. Forster, Thackeray, Henry Williamson and a 'How to Learn Italian) for we have personalities and places to cope with from now on. Then reading H. Williamson's 'Donkey Boy' filled me with adoration and unexpected tears.\nPaul Scofield, in Castaways' Choice: 50 Castaways choose their Desert Island Book, Folio Society J. W. Fortescue, in his introduction to Henry Williamson's story [Tarka the Otter], wrote that 'our powers of observation are necessarily limited' and that 'our powers of imagination are always confined within the bounds of our human experience'. Nevertheless observation and imagination are still our only means of entering the daily life of the creatures of the wild, and such qualities are possessed in abundance by Williamson. The hero of Williamson's book is an otter, but other forms of life in the wild \u2013 insects, fish, flowers, grasses and birds \u2013 also claim his attentive devotion. Every sentence in this extraordinary book either summons the remembrance of something seen and known, or dazzles with a fresh observation; the perceptions are ceaseless, the longing for a natural order of things is unforgettably moving. It is both a celebration and a threnody.\nWe will add to these opinions from time to time. Submissions to the webmaster of further examples are welcomed.\nPlease note: Work is ongoing on the Research Centre pages. This site is actively maintained, and new content is added regularly, in the form of full-text articles from journals now out of print. Links to these can be found on the Research Centre Author and Title pages, and the Journal Contents page for nos. 1\u201330.\nYour comments and suggestions are valued, please email the webmaster.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 27132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heraldnews.com/x940466406", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MDSHPLVODMYBMWJHEXZC3BNXJ5YS5CKF", "length": 5919, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.heraldnews.com", "title": "Brand America: Is anyone buying it? - News - The Herald News, Fall River, MA - Fall River, MA", "raw_content": "Brand America: Is anyone buying it?\nBy Peter Golden\nA public relations man reflects on rescuing the American image abroad\nForget about the recently reported development of over 300 separate terror groups in Iraq since the fall of Saddam. Analysis by Zogby International, a respected polling and market research firm, has shown that with few exceptions the American image abroad is identified with aggression, lack of understanding and intransigence. No one seems to like us anymore, anywhere.\nAs a result, foreign tourism in the U.S. (a very big source of revenue) is falling, and not just because of unfavorable exchange rates (a litmus in itself of American ``currency'') and tightened visa requirements.\nThe Bush administration has responded by charging former presidential aide Karen Hughes with communicating the good news about America more forcefully, creating a budget within the State Department for a carefully crafted PR campaign, including a special broadcast network and more ``public diplomacy.''\nSo far, there have been few signs of progress. Recent news reports suggest the government's broadcast outlet in Baghdad has become a source for news with a negative slant towards America. The impact of the Hughes program as a whole has been underwhelming. It's tough to spin when a civil war triggered by misplaced American aggression is raging and a whole people are being destroyed.\nJohn Kerry stood up on the stage at the Walnut Hill School in Natick last weekend and tried to explain the larger dynamic at work in the Middle East, but whatever his take in Islamic history and yours on foreign trade, diplomacy and aid, as a nation we have managed to spend down all the sympathy we accrued after 9/11 into a position of isolation defined by contempt.\nBut it's not just Muslims who are giving America a bad rap.\nYou can kiss off the rest of the world with a wave of your hand and say, ``Who cares?'' (as a surprising number of people who should know better do). But as the price of oil continues to ratchet up, the trade deficit follows suit and our reputation as a bully and an agent of global environmental degradation grows (we never did sign off on land mine removal and the Kyoto accords), it should come as no surprise that our reputation is suffering everywhere.\nWhich is why the next president of the United States would do well to include Dick Martin among his or her panel of close advisors. It would be the healthiest thing that's happened to the executive branch in a long time. Certainly Martin, who is a master of the podium and thinks like a social scientist and a clinical psychologist, would be a superb asset.\nMartin, who was in town recently to meet with members of the Public Relations Society of America on the advice of Pat Pollino, a Wellesley PR counselor with a wide following, is on a lonely road. He's retired now from a career at AT&T, where he headed up PR for the company. At the request of the American Management Association, he has written a book of extraordinary insight called ``Rebuilding Brand America - What we must do to restore our reputation and safeguard American business abroad,'' and not a moment too soon.\nBut is anyone listening to Dick Martin?\nBranding is a commercial art equivalent to neurosurgery in complexity and ambiguity, but not in Martin's hands. ``It's a promise that meets its recipient's aspirations and fulfills a trust,'' he says, noting that America, like Coke or Pepsi, is a brand in and of itself.\n``The American flag is the symbol of that brand,'' he says, but it's not about being commercial or even well known. ``It's a promise backed up by the Declaration of Independence,'' he adds, ``about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - Your God-given birthright.''\nIn France, Germany and Japan, Martin notes, less than a quarter of the population even believes that any more.\nIt would be nice if ``Rebuilding Brand America'' were a prescriptive. It is packed with illuminating data and practical suggestions, including redeveloping cultural exchanges and aid programs like the hundreds of millions given by American businesses to assist victims of the Indonesian tsunami. But Martin says that that is not enough.\nAll Americans, he suggests, including you, me and your family and friends, must begin to gain a significantly broader and deeper level of understanding about other countries and people, and do it sooner rather than later.\n``That's because branding is first and foremost an experience,'' Martin says. While experiencing brand America abroad usually occurs in the form of a product (although most of we seem to export these days is jobs and television shows dripping with sex and violence), it's those person-to-person interactions that make all the difference.\nMartin points to Rotary International as a constructive example, which with 42 clubs in MetroWest is an important local source of benevolence. Across the U.S. and around the world, Rotary members collaborate with the World Health Organization and the Gates Foundation to help eradicate polio. Rotarians, while working in their communities, also sponsor scores of missions to do everything from repair cleft lips and malformed hearts to endowing worthy international students to come to America.\nWith more than 32,000 clubs in over 200 countries and 1.2 million members around the world with which to work, American Rotarians are fulfilling Martin's injunction in all sorts of constructive ways.\nThe ``Ugly American,'' published in 1958 as a guide to combating communism on the ground through understanding and quiet, sympathetic action is no less relevant today. It's time for some serious outreach.\nDick Martin shows us that by rebuilding the American brand we're not just ``spinning'' a story. It's time to have a frank chat with the world, folks, and the sooner we start talking and really listening, the better.\nPeter Golden can be reached at pg@goldenpr.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 8097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hickorystickbookshop.com/book/9780062444431", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:XTUNGBJ5HT7KX7ZT7MSRIRZGQAGARNH2", "length": 4673, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.hickorystickbookshop.com", "title": "Heart Spring Mountain: A Novel (Paperback) | The Hickory Stick Bookshop", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Heart Spring Mountain: A Novel (Paperback)\nHeart Spring Mountain: A Novel (Paperback)\n\u201cFollowing her splendid 2016 short story collection, Half Wild (an Indies Introduce selection), Robin MacArthur's first novel revisits rural Vermont and uses a mixture of lyrical and earthy prose to explore three generations of a family riddled by secrets and burdens of the past. This area of the country, previously overlooked by literature, proves to be rich ground that, while isolated, cannot avoid intrusions from the outside world in the form of man-made and natural disasters. The focus is on an extended family that can trace its roots back to Puritan ancestors but struggles against poverty, the unforgiving environment, and the lure of drugs. Heart Spring Mountain will introduce you to a host of memorable characters engaged in human folly and saved by redemptive love.\u201d\n\u2014 Joe Strebel, Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL\n\u201cReminiscent of the writing style of Jesmyn Ward, Robin MacArthur\u2019s story draws the reader into rural Vermont and the secrets of multi-generational families. Following the devastation of Hurricane Irene, a family is faced with loss, addiction, and poverty. A drug-addicted mother, after shooting up, ventures out into the raging storm and disappears. Her daughter\u2019s search for her and her family\u2019s heritage brings sadness and understanding.\u201d\n\u2014 Kristen Kuehnle, Fine Print Booksellers, Kennebunkport, ME\nIn this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret\nIt\u2019s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away\u2014while tending bar in New Orleans\u2014Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her.\nThough the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she\u2019d long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women\u2014a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, and an owl-loving hermit\u2014as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses. All the while, Vale\u2019s search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.\nWritten with a striking sense of place, Heart Spring Mountain is an arresting novel about returning home, finding hope in the dark, and of the power of the land\u2014and the stories it harbors\u2014to connect and to heal. It\u2019s also an absorbing exploration of the small fractures that can make families break-and the lasting ties that bind them together.\nRobin MacArthur lives and works on the farm where she was born in Vermont. She is the author of Half Wild: Stories (winner of the 2017 PEN/New England Award), the editor of Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology, and one-half of the indie-folk duo Red Heart the Ticker.\n\u201cA revelation...As rich as the fertile earth and as powerful as a surging storm. Every page is filled with wonder and beauty, compassion and longing. The women MacArthur has brought to life...will haunt and inspire and stick around long after their stories are told.\u201d\n\u2014 Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street\n\u201cTraveling back and forth in time, Robin MacArthur renders both the Vermont landscape and Vale\u2019s family tree with poetic precision and gutting realism. I fell in love with these women and their mountain.\u201d\n\u2014 Alexis M. Smith, author of Marrow Island\n\u201cSoberingly relevant.\u201d\n\u201cA fecund and contemplative feminist family saga.\u201d\n\u201cPowerful...MacArthur demonstrates a commanding ability to weave meaning from separate narrative threads, exploring how the impact of a person\u2019s choices can echo through generations, even as a storm washes the past away.\u201d\n\u201cTender....nuanced, poetic, and evocative. MacArthur empathetically depicts each of her characters in their wounded but hopeful glory.\u201d\n\u201c[A] story of hope, the possibility of resurrection by a person, a people, and a planet, and a magnificent, rutting, music-steeped will to survive... MacArthur on the page makes music. She sings in a way that makes the reader\u2019s ear dance.\u201d\n\u2014 Brattleboro Reformer\n\u201cLyrical and faintly political (but never pedantic), Heart Spring Mountain is a timely wonder of a debut.\u201d\n\u201cPoetic....A love song to the natural world, and a plea for its protection.\u201d\n\u201cA novel of compassion for ourselves and for those who came before us.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hindawi.com/journals/afs/2018/2367096/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:55WEYRFXJNO7RW64CX2MBCDSW53OJCIO", "length": 39401, "nlines": 134, "source_domain": "www.hindawi.com", "title": "The Neural-Fuzzy Approach as a Way of Preventing a Maritime Vessel Accident in a Heavy Traffic Zone", "raw_content": "The Neural-Fuzzy Approach as a Way of Preventing a Maritime Vessel Accident in a Heavy Traffic Zone\nNelly A. Sedova,1 Viktor A. Sedov,2 and Ruslan I. Bazhenov3\n1Department of Automatic and Information Systems, Maritime State University named after G.I. Nevelskoy, Vladivostok, Russia\n2Department of Electrician Theoretical Bases, Maritime State University named after G.I. Nevelskoy, Vladivostok, Russia\n3Department of Information Systems, Mathematics and Legal Informatics, Sholom-Aleichem Priamursky State University, Birobidzhan, Russia\nCorrespondence should be addressed to Ruslan I. Bazhenov; ur.xednay@vonehzab-i-r\nReceived 24 May 2018; Accepted 1 August 2018; Published 15 August 2018\nAcademic Editor: Hanbo Zheng\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 Nelly A. Sedova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nThe paper dwells on the methodology of neural-fuzzy approach to solving the problem of ship collision prevention in a heavy traffic zone. The authors present the technique of using maneuvering board to form the elements of learning sample. The authors prove that it is rational to use a neural-fuzzy system, where generation is carried out by the lattice method without clustering. The authors investigate the effect of optimization on the quality differences. The researchers define optimal membership functions that are used to generate the input linguistic variables of a neural-fuzzy system.\nDespite all significant positive outcomes, the issue of ship collision avoidance in a heavy traffic zone [1] is still urgent. So, in the paper [2] the authors report on the concept of expected dangerous patterns (areas) projected on the automatic identification system data. The integration of the Geographic Information System, the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs), and a thorough investigation of various navigation vessel cases gives the system an opportunity to generate a safe ship collision prevention route and maritime features. The authors [3] suggest a similar task of making up a system for preventing vessel collisions on the ECDIS (electronic chart display and information system) and AIS (automatic identification system). The authors of the paper [4] introduce a method for automatic trajectory planning and collision avoidance using the APF (artificial potential field) search method and speed vector. Another approach providing ship collision avoidance is Bayesian networks declared in the paper [5]. Fuzzy logic is also successfully applied [6] for this kind of problem. In particular, the papers [7, 8] are devoted to support systems of decision making that are undertaken on board vessels. Thus, the authors specify an approach for decision making on sea vessels collision avoidance in the research [8]. The authors are encouraged to use Microsoft Visual Studio to build up a list rule according to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs, 1972). That list is able to offer an appropriate collision avoidance algorithm to the boat master after the assessment of maritime traffic according to the vessel traffic service (VTS).\nIn the papers [9, 10] authors present a model based on the fuzzy sets theory to rank a risk of sea vessel collision in a heavy traffic zone to agree on the navigational decision support because of safe ship control needed. In this model, a maneuvering board was used to draft a fuzzy production rules system [11\u201313]. In addition, a well-known Mamdani Algorithm was used as an algorithm for fuzzy logic conclusion.\nThese days, neural network technologies are widely used in navigation issues [14, 15]. For example, the paper [16] focuses on the neural network classification of marine targets on noise images in bad weather conditions and in case of sea waves. In the paper [17] the neural network succeeds in detecting icebergs by typical textural features from the image of satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar. Moreover, the neural network has been used successfully in issues of improving an accurate position of a vessel from radar data [18] and designing laser metering systems [19].\nNeural networks are also proved to be successful in warning [20, 21]. A number of surveys are worth noting in the supplement to navigation practice. In particular, the methodology of a short-term forecast of the Caspian Sea level by means of a perceptron-type neural network [22] is developed in the paper [23]. The paper [24] deals with online forecast of the maneuvering vessel turn, a neural network model RBF having a mutating nature, and the ability to adjust network features by the sliding window method. The authors designed a predictive model which was marked by a leaner structure, fast processing, and a high degree of measurement accuracy.\nAs the use of neural nets has clear benefits [22], it is potentially capable of improving the projection of ship collision risks. In addition, significant headway had been made against it. For example, the paper [25] comments on the methodology and strategy of ship collision avoidance using artificial neural networks, optimal control theory methods [26, 27], and a game theory. The paper [28] also mentions an autonomous navigation system for a robotic submarine based on an adaptive neurocontroller.\nSeveral papers [29\u201334] should also be noted in the connection with developing approaches to prevent ship collisions.\nIn order to improve the effects of a fuzzy system [35], the authors carried out hybridization involving the elements of artificial neural networks theory, which resulted in designing a neural-fuzzy network [36, 37]. In turn, a neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system is based on it. This paper submits the results of simulating modelling.\nThe neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone is an adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) [22, 36, 37], consisting of 5 layers. This kind of system is defined as a multilayer feedforward neural network without any feedback. Its features are those of fuzzy logic inference. But an algorithm for making a decision of the neural network is a fuzzy logic inference algorithm. ANFIS model used for the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone development is based on Takagi\u2013Sugeno fuzzy inference system, which is highly interpretable and efficient in connection with computing.\nThe first layer of ANFIS is a layer of membership functions. There is a fuzzification in the first layer; i.e., fuzzy sets are established corresponding to the terms of source (input) and target (output) linguistic variables.\nThe neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone observed in the paper (Figure 1) includes four input linguistic variables:\nFigure 1: Neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention in a heavy traffic zone.\n(i) Electronic bearing on the target ship, i.e., on that one to which the operator vessel needs to prevent collision safely\n(ii) The ship-operator course\n(iii) The target-ship course, i.e., a vessel in a heavy traffic zone, to which, if necessary, it is required to prevent collision\n(iv) The target-vessel speed [35], as well as the only output linguistic variable, which is the value of the operator-vessel course change calculated on the maneuvering board in advance with the output value corresponding to the interval [-60\u00b0; 360\u00b0], where the value of -60\u00b0 corresponds to the term \u201cmuch to the left,\u201d the value to -30\u00b0 corresponds to the term \u201cto the left,\u201d the value 0\u00b0 corresponds to the term \u201ckeep it steady\u201d (neither the course nor the speed of the operator-vessel changes); 60\u00b0 stands for the term \u201cmuch to the right,\u201d the value of 30\u00b0 means the term \u201cto the right,\u201d and the value of 360\u00b0 implies the maneuver (AmE) or manoeuvre (BrE) of circulation (that is, the term \u201ccirculation\u201d)\nThe set of values for the inputs \u201cbearing,\u201d \u201cthe ship-operator course,\u201d and \u201cvessel-target course\u201d is the set [0; 360]\u00b0. The range of values for the ship-target speed source is determined according to the information from the reviewing feedback of The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS), [0; 34] knots.\nThe number of nodes performed in the first layer is equal to the sum of the term powers of the input linguistic variable sets. The output values focused in the first layer are the values of membership functions with specific values of the input variables. The features of membership functions in the first layer compose the first group of features that are to be set during the learning process.\nThe second layer of ANFIS is a layer of fuzzy production rules. The number of nodes is the same as the number of rules in the second layer. Moreover, each node is connected to those ones in the first layer that form the premises (antecedents) of the corresponding rule. In general, the distribution of the links between the first and second layers is performed in such a way that each input variable of the neural-fuzzy network is associated with each neuron of the rule layer.\nThe output values in the second layer correspond to the relative degrees (weights) of the rules, which are calculated as a logical product (intersection) of membership functions of the input variables.\nThe third layer of ANFIS is a layer of absolute value in which the output values of this layer are determined by adding the outputs of all nodes of the rule layer and dividing each of the output values in the second layer by this total value. This ensures scaling of the output values so that increases the neural-fuzzy network resilience.\nThe fourth layer of ANFIS is the output layer of the linear combination. Each node of the fourth layer is connected to one node of the previous layer and, as a consequence, to all inputs of the neural-fuzzy network. In the fourth layer there is determination of coefficients of linear combinations, as a result, for example, of an algorithm for backpropagation (backpropa) or hybrid, which is a combination of the method of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and a backward propagation of errors (backpropa). Coefficients of linear combinations constitute the second group of features to be determined in the learning process.\nFinally, the fifth layer of ANFIS is the output total layer. The fifth layer, corresponding to the adder of the legacy neural network, completes defuzzification.\nLearning a neural-fuzzy network, which is a combination of two stages, is an iterative procedure that allows determining the features of membership functions that minimize the discrepancy between \u201creal (or valid) and desired behavior of the model.\u201d\nIn the first stage, the learning sample goes to the inputs, and then the parameters of the fourth layer of the neural-fuzzy network are set up in such a way so as to minimize the discrepancy between the reference output values and the calculated output of the neural-fuzzy network.\nIn the second stage, residual discrepancy is transferred from the network output to the inputs, and backpropa modifies the parameters of the nodes in the first layer. Besides, the coefficients of the conclusion of the rules produced in the first stage do not change.\nThe iterative setup procedure continues until discrepancy exceeds a preestablished value.\nThus, the general methodology for constructing the neural-fuzzy network underlying the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone includes the following steps.\nStep 1. Forming a sample for learning, which contains implicit knowledge, revealed as a result of learning the neural-fuzzy network.\nStep 2. Selecting fuzzy inference parameters, i.e., selection of membership functions, fuzzy intersection, and defuzzification.\nStep 3. Selecting an algorithm for learning and setting up the parameters of the neural-fuzzy network.\nStep 4. Direct learning of the neural-fuzzy network to configure both groups of parameters.\nStep 5. Optimizing and verifying learning outcomes of a neural-fuzzy network.\nThe implementation of the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone was carried out by the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox of MATLAB system [14, 15]. The model is shown in Figure 1.\nFurthermore, a series of computer experiments was conducted to define the following.\n(1) The best type of membership functions used to specify the terms of input linguistic variables\n(2) The best type of membership functions used to specify the terms of the output linguistic variable, i.e., a type of dependence that connects input and output linguistic variables (constant or linear coefficients)\n(3) The best learning algorithm: the backpropagation algorithm (\u0410\u041e\u0420\u041e, backpropa) or the hybrid algorithm. They are a combination of AOPO and OLS [22]\n(4) The optimal number of learning cycles for a neural-fuzzy network\nA learning set is designed to carry out simulation modelling of the neural-fuzzy collision ship prevention system. At first, a list of different cases with ships in a heavy traffic zone was developed by means of a full search having stepped to broaden the input ranges. Then, the equation of each certain case and assessment of a changing value on the operator ship course were made on the maneuvering board. It should be noted that the equation on the maneuvering board was followed by the rules of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS), commentaries to them, and recommendations on so-called \u201cgood seamanship.\u201d Finally, the values of the input vector and the value corresponding to that one made with the maneuvering board for changing the operator ship course were recorded in a learning sample.\nThe authors would like to present the way of designing one of the learning pairs. They also imagine the situation when ships are in a heavy traffic zone, as shown in Figure 2. The distance from the ship-operator to the target ship is 2 miles, the ship-operator course is 90 degrees, and the operator ship speed is 15 knots. The radar navigation determined that the target-ship course is 330 degrees, an object bearing is 90 degrees, and the target-ship speed is 8 knots.\nFigure 2: Resulting simulation model with ships in a heavy traffic zone.\nIn the circumstances described, the target ship is right ahead the ship-operator and at risk of colliding, since the ship-operator and the target ship are too close to each other. As it is prescribed in Rule 16 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions of Ships at Sea, the ship-operator must give way not to run into the target ship. Having simulated this case on a maneuvering board and having calculated it, the scholars found out that the new ship-operator course was going to be 120 degrees. It requires turning a ship at 30 degrees to the right and the ship-operator will not collide with the ship-target at a safe distance behind the vessel stern. After considering this situation it was possible to set a learning pair number 91. The rest of the 525 training pairs were similarly set.\nSimulation modelling of neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system was carried out in two modes. First, neural-fuzzy networks were generated using the lattice method without clustering, and, second, it was performed by the subclustering method. 192 different neural-fuzzy networks were trained for the first mode. Each of them had five terms in each of the four input linguistic variables. Although the backpropagation and hybrid algorithms were used [22], backpropagation has been widely applied in solving various problems, but the algorithm has a number of drawbacks, in particular, \u201ca long time learning,\u201d as well as determining local or relative instead of global or absolute minima. The authors used eight different membership functions (MF) to determine the input linguistic variables. They are trimf (triangular MF), trapmf (trapezoidal MF), gbellmf (generalized bell-shaped MF), gaussmf (Gauss\u2019s MF), gauss2mf (two-sided Gauss\u2019s MF), pimf (P- shaped MF), dsigmf (MF as a difference between two sigmoid functions), psigmf (the product of two sigmoid MF), and constant or linear coefficients for the output variable. The learning intervals numbered from 100 to 600.\nAs a result of the simulation modelling of the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in the mode of grating generation without clustering, it was revealed that the best were the hybrid method as a learning algorithm, constant factors as a type of the output linguistic variable, the product of two sigmoid MF, the difference between two sigmoid functions, and the U-shaped membership function to derive input linguistic variables.\nThe authors chose six out of learned neural-fuzzy networks with the least learning errors. They gave a test for each one and had quality evaluation.\n3.1. Mean Absolute Error\nMAE is given by the formula [38]where N is number of model-based testing instances, is a standard value of the change in the ship-operator course for the i-model test counted with a maneuvering board, and is the value of changing the ship-operator course for the i-model test, counted using a neural-fuzzy network.\n3.2. Root Mean Square Error\nRMSE is given by the formula [38]\n3.3. Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error\nSMAPE is given by the formula [38]The values of qualitative measures are summarized in Table 1, and a resulting diagram is in Figure 3.\nTable 1: Resulting simulation modelling of the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in the grating generation without clustering.\nFigure 3: Resulting qualitative evaluation in the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system training in the generation by the lattice method without clustering.\nFor the second mode, 288 different neural-fuzzy networks were trained (144/144 by the backpropa and hybrid optimization method). Parameters of the subclustering method varied as follows: the parameter \u201cRange of Influence\u201d is from 0.2 to 0.5; step size is 0.1, the parameter \u2018Squash Factor\u2019 is from 1 to 1.375; step size is 0.125; the parameter \u201cAccept Ratio\u201d is from 0 to 0.4; step size is 0.2; and the parameter \u201cReject Ratio\u201d is from 0 to 0.3; step size is 0.15. In all 288 neural-fuzzy nets 100 learning intervals were being selected.\nThe authors came to the following conclusion after simulating the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in the subclustering generation mode. The best method is the hybrid optimization method for neural-fuzzy networks as a learning algorithm, as well as for the grid-free generation mode, while \u201cRange of Influence\u201d constantly equals 0.3, the best ratio for \u201cSquash Factor\u201d is the parameter that equaled 1, and the parameter that equaled 0.4 is for \u201cAccept Ratio.\u201d\nSix best neural-fuzzy networks were chosen for testing. Furthermore, the authors made qualitative evaluation for each of them. The resulting Table 2 is presented in Figures 4 and 5.\nTable 2: Resulting simulation modelling of the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system through subclustering generation method.\nFigure 4: Resulting qualitative evaluation in the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system training when generating by the subclustering method through backpropagation error algorithm.\nFigure 5: Resulting qualitative evaluation in the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system training in the generation of the hybrid algorithm through the subclustering method.\nLet the authors compare the results presented in this paper with the results of the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone [35], in which only the fuzzy logic apparatus is used.\nIn the paper [35], a fuzzy system is offered. The first linguistic variable called Peleng included the following five terms of the basic term set: eastern bearing, western bearing, northern left bearing, northern right bearing, and southern bearing.\nThe second and third input linguistic variables operator-vessel course and target-vessel course had a basic term set consisting of the following elements [35]: the left course to the north, the right course to the north, easterly course, heading south, and westerly course.\nThe fourth input linguistic variable ship-target speed had the following terms of the basic term set [35]: fixed target, low speed, average speed, high speed, and a very high speed.\nAccording to the point from Rule 8 in International Rules of Preventing Collision at Sea, COLREGS, \u201cif there are enough waters, only a course change may be the most effective mode of action to prevent collisions.\u201d Boatmasters state that most of the ways to prevent collision at sea are due to the course maneuvers. So, the change of the operator-vessel course is chosen for the output linguistic variable.\nIn the description of terms for the output linguistic variable, the values of fuzzy set cores corresponding to the terms [35] are given in brackets: much to the left (-60\u00b0), to the left (-30\u00b0), keeping it steady (the course and speed do not change) (0\u00b0), to the right (30\u00b0), much to the right (60\u00b0), and circulation (360\u00b0).\nIn the paper [35] the author presents the results of fuzzification of the indicated input and output linguistic variables, as well as the characteristics of the fuzzy system product base with a description of the fuzzy logic inference algorithm designed by Mamdani Algorithm.\nThe author [35] did the testing for fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone. It should be noted that the same measures (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE) were also used to evaluate the quality. Four defuzzification methods were used as a defuzzy: centroid, bisector, and the mean of maximums and the smallest of maximums. The results are summarized in Table 3.\nTable 3: Results of imitating simulation of a fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone proposed in [35].\nAs a result of testing the fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone offered in [35], it was found out that the best defuzzification method is centroid, but the discrepancy quality values are insufficient to decide on sea vessels collision prevention in a heavy traffic zone.\nHaving verified the results of simulating the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system for both modes (both for grid-generated without clustering and for subclustering generated) the authors draw the following conclusions.\nFirst, it is advisable to use the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system to avoid ship collision in a heavy traffic zone, where generation is held through the lattice method without clustering. The comparison of the results of Tables 1 and 2 proves much better quality of discrepancies using the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone with generation by the lattice method without clustering than when generated by subclustering method, which produces the best MAE result comparable to 10\u22124.\nSecond, the hybrid method of optimization gives much better results than the algorithm for backpropagation when using both the lattice method without clustering and the subclustering one. In particular, \u0410\u041e\u0420\u041e produces the best MAE result equal to 3.54\u202210\u22122, while the hybrid algorithm produces MAE result equal to 5.5\u202210\u22124 when generating by subclustering method.\nThird, the authors believe that best results to develop input linguistic variables are given by such membership functions as the product of two sigmoid MF as a difference between two sigmoid functions and a U-shaped membership function. That is proved by the results in Table 1.\nFourth, it is necessary to refer to constant coefficients for the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system in the mode of grating generation without clustering, as a type of the output linguistic variable.\nTo sum up, 192 different simulating models of neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention systems were generated through the lattice-free clustering method, as well as 288 neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention systems, where the network was generated through the subclustering method. After finishing the simulation, the hybrid optimization method turned out to be the best (allows to get MAE value about 10\u22125). The best neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention systems testing has proved that they can determine very accurately the value of changing the ship-operator course to avoid ship collision in a heavy traffic zone, which is dangerous for the ship-operator. The authors compared the results reflected in this paper, for example, with those of the fuzzy ship collision prevention system in a heavy traffic zone proposed in the paper [35]. They came to the conclusion that the defuzzification method Centroid with MAE and RMSE values about 10\u22121 and SMAPE about 10\u22122 produces the best result. Thus, it is correct to say that using neural network technologies in solving the problem significantly improves the quality of safe navigation of sea-going vessels in a heavy traffic zone. The neural-fuzzy collision avoidance system investigated in this research is one of the modules of the intelligent navigation safety system. The authors are definitely going to keep developing them in the future.\nData were obtained by the authors independently. The data used to support the findings of this study are included within the supplementary information files.\nSupplementary 1 . Table 1_1.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system where generation is carried out by the lattice method without clustering, with 500 training intervals, using the membership function as a product of two sigmoid membership functions for input linguistic variables, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 3 . Table 1_3.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system where generation is carried out by the lattice method without clustering, with 600 training intervals, using the membership function difference of functions (as a result of subtraction) between two sigmoid functions for input linguistic variables, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 5 . Table 1_5.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system where generation is carried out by the lattice method without clustering, with 400 training intervals, using the membership function as a product between two sigmoid functions for input linguistic variables, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 6 . Table 1_6.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system where generation is carried out by the lattice method without clustering, with 600 training intervals, using the U-shaped membership function for input linguistic variables, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 7 . Table 2_1.xlsx: data for testing the neural -fuzzy ship collision prevention system generated by subclustering, with 100 training intervals, using backpropagation with parameters Range of Influence, Squash Factor, Accept Ratio, and Reject Ratio equal to 0.3, 1, 0, and 0, respectively, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 8 . Table 2_2.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system generated by subclustering, with 100 training intervals, using backpropagation with parameters Range of Influence, Squash Factor, Accept Ratio, and Reject Ratio equal to 0.3, 1.125, 0, and 0 respectively, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 9 . Table 2_3.xlsx: data for testing the neural -fuzzy ship collision prevention system generated by subclustering, with 100 training intervals, using backpropagation with parameters Range of Influence, Squash Factor, Accept Ratio, and Reject Ratio equal to 0.3, 1, 0, and 0.15, respectively, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 10 . Table 2_4.xlsx: data for testing the neural-fuzzy ship collision prevention system generated by subclustering, with 100 training intervals, using the hybrid optimization method with parameters Range of Influence, Squash Factor, Accept Ratio and Reject Ratio equal to 0.3, 1, 0.4, and 0, respectively, with the necessary quality assessment calculated (MAE, RMSE, and SMAPE).\nSupplementary 11 . 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View at Publisher \u00b7 View at Google Scholar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 42289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2017/2401027/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:V55DOCB5LR3TBYVWCWJ3SRPRTSVQNHSE", "length": 39678, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "www.hindawi.com", "title": "Stimulation of Alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Attenuates Nicotine-Induced Upregulation of MMP, MCP-1, and RANTES through Modulating ERK1/2/AP-1 Signaling Pathway in RAW264.7 and MOVAS Cells", "raw_content": "Stimulation of Alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Attenuates Nicotine-Induced Upregulation of MMP, MCP-1, and RANTES through Modulating ERK1/2/AP-1 Signaling Pathway in RAW264.7 and MOVAS Cells\nLiping Liu,1,2 Hongxian Wu,1 Qunan Cao,1 Zhenzhen Guo,1 Anmin Ren,1 and Qiuyan Dai1\n1Department of Cardiology, Shanghai General Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China\n2Department of Cardiology, Yancheng First People\u2019s Hospital, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Nantong Medical University, Jiangsu, China\nCorrespondence should be addressed to Qiuyan Dai; nc.moc.liamdem@nayuiqiad\nReceived 3 March 2017; Revised 4 September 2017; Accepted 27 September 2017; Published 16 November 2017\nAcademic Editor: Anshu Agrawal\nCopyright \u00a9 2017 Liping Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nVagus nerve stimulation through alpha7 nicotine acetylcholine receptors (\u03b17-nAChR) signaling had been demonstrated attenuation of inflammation. This study aimed to determine whether PNU-282987, a selective \u03b17-nAChR agonist, affected activities of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and inflammatory cytokines in nicotine-treatment RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells and to assess the underlying molecular mechanisms. RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells were treated with nicotine at different concentrations (0, 1, 10, and 100\u2009ng/ml) for 0\u2013120\u2009min. Nicotine markedly stimulated the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun in RAW264.7 cells. Pretreatment with U0126 significantly suppressed phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and further attenuated nicotine-induced activation of c-Jun and upregulation of MMP-2, MMP-9, monocyte chemotactic protein- (MCP-) 1, and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES). Similarly, nicotine treatment also increased phosphorylation of c-Jun and expressions of MMP-2, MMP-9, MCP-1, and RANTES in MOVAS cells. When cells were pretreated with PNU-282987, nicotine-induced activations of ERK1/2 and c-Jun in RAW264.7 cells and c-Jun in MOVAS cells were effectively inhibited. Furthermore, nicotine-induced secretions of MMP-2, MMP-9, MCP-1, and RANTES were remarkably downregulated. Treatment with \u03b17-nAChR agonist inhibits nicotine-induced upregulation of MMP and inflammatory cytokines through modulating ERK1/2/AP-1 signaling in RAW264.7 cells and AP-1 in MOVAS cells, providing a new therapeutic for abdominal aortic aneurysm.\nAbdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is defined as a dilatation of abdominal aorta (almost exclusively infrarenal aorta) that reaches a diameter of 30\u2009mm or more [1]. AAA often remains asymptomatic until it ruptures with a mortality rate of 80% [2]. Rather than a consequence of advanced atherosclerosis, AAA is a local representation of systemic vascular disease, with a differential molecular and cellular profile [3, 4]. AAA is characterized by dilatation of all layers of the arterial wall as a result of inflammatory infiltration, loss of elastin, and SMC apoptosis [3, 5]. Experimental data and studies of human AAA have identified that extensive inflammatory infiltrate in the media and adventitia is composed of macrophages and lymphocytes, which secret multiple cytokines, involving in the pathological process of AAA [6\u20138]. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), derived from vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and macrophages, are secreted into the extracellular matrix and result in the destruction of elastin and weakening of the aortic wall [5].\nSmoking is a very strong modifiable risk factor for AAA [9\u201313]. In a recent report of enrolling 18,782 participants aged\u2009\u2265\u200965 years in Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS), over a median follow-up of 4.94 years, 40% of AAA were current smokers, and another 40% were former smokers [9]. Smoking, especially current smoking, significantly increased the risk of AAA (current: HR 5.55, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.67 to 8.40; former: HR 1.91, 95% CI 1.27 to 2.87). Increased duration of smoking and daily cigarette quantity contribute to a higher risk of incident AAA, and the effects are dose dependent [11, 12]. Moreover, rates of AAA expansion and the risk of rupture are markedly elevated in those who continued to smoke. In a meta-analysis by Sweeting et al. [13], AAA growth rates were increased by about one-sixth and rupture rates were doubled in current smokers as compared to ex- or never smokers. Although prevalence, incidence, and mortality have declined because of a reduced smoking rate [14, 15], AAA remains the 16th leading cause of death in the USA among those aged above 65 years [9], thus highlighting the need for more efforts to improve the treatment and prognosis. Our previous study showed that c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor attenuated nicotine plus AngII-induced AAA formation by suppressing MMP-9, MMP2, monocyte chemotactic protein- (MCP-) 1, and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) secretion from macrophages and VSMCs, suggesting that JNK was a signaling molecule in the pathogenesis of nicotine plus AngII-induced AAA [16]. However, distal signaling molecules or nuclear transcription factors involving in the signal transduction remain elusive.\nVagus nerve stimulation through alpha7 nicotine acetylcholine receptors (\u03b17-nAChR) signaling, known as the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, had been demonstrated attenuation of inflammation and improvement of inflammatory diseases, such as sepsis, pancreatitis, haemorrhagic shock and ischaemia/reperfusion, and postoperative ileus in experimental models [17]. Recent studies showed that vagus nerve stimulation may also have beneficial role in cardiovascular diseases through modulation of cytokine levels, which is dependent from heart rate variability [18]. Activation of \u03b17-nAChR had been found to prevent the development and progression of AAA in CaCl2 application mouse model in association with reduced inflammation and matrix degradation [19]. In the present study, we determined whether PNU-282987, a selective \u03b17-nAChR agonist, affected activities of MMP-2 and MMP-9 and expressions of inflammatory cytokines MCP-1 and RANTES in nicotine treatment RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells.\n2.1. Reagents and Antibodies\nNicotine and PNU-282987 were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich. U0126 (a highly selective inhibitor of MEK1 and MEK2, which are kinase of ERK1/2) was from Cell Signaling Technology (CST). Monoclonal rabbit antiextracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2), antiphosphorylated ERK1/2, anti-c-Jun, antiphosphorylated c-Jun, antinuclear factor-\u03baB (NF-\u03baB) p65, and antiphosphorylated NF-\u03baB p65 were from CST. Rat polyclonal antibody to MMP2, MCP-1, RANTES, and GAPDH were from Abcam. Mouse monoclonal anti-MMP9 and MMP2 were from Santa Cruz Biotechnology.\nA mouse macrophage cell line (RAW264.7 cells) and mouse aortic smooth muscle cell (SMC) line (MOVAS cells) were bought from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). Cells were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco\u2019s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM, HyClone, Logan, UT, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco, Australia) at 37\u00b0C in a humidified, 5% CO2 atmosphere. After starved in serum-free medium overnight, cells were treated with nicotine or PNU-282987. Additional experiments were performed with RAW264.7 cells pretreated with U0126 or PNU-282987 and MOVAS cells preincubated with PNU-282987 prior to exposing to nicotine.\nCells were washed twice with ice-cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), lysed with RIPA Lysis Buffer (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu, China), supplemented with phosphatase inhibitor (Sangon Biotechnology, Shanghai, China) and PMSF (Roche, Molecular Biochemicals, Mannheim, Germany), centrifuged, and quantified with a BCA protein assay kit (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu, China) according to the manufacturer\u2019s instructions. Aliquots of total protein were separated by 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and then transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, USA). Membranes were blocked in 5% nonfat milk/TBST (25\u2009mM Tris-HCl, 150\u2009mM NaCl, and 0.1% Tween-20; pH\u20097.4) for 1\u2009h at room temperature and subsequently incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4\u00b0C. After three washes, membranes were incubated with horseradish peroxidase- (HRP-) conjugated goat anti-rabbit or -mouse IgG for 1\u2009h, washed again with TBST, and subsequently visualized using West-Pico ECL kit (Pierce, Rockford, USA).\n2.4. Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)\nTotal RNA was extracted from RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells using TRIZOL reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, USA) and reversely transcribed into cDNA with PrimeScript RT Master Mix (Takara, Kusatsu, Japan) according to the manufacturer\u2019s protocol. Quantitative RT-PCR was performed using SYBR Premix Ex Taq (Takara, Kusatsu, Japan) on the Applied Biosystems ViiA\u2122 7 Real-Time PCR System. The specific primers used in the present study were as follows: MMP-9: 5\u2032-GCCCTGGAACTCACACGACA-3\u2032 (Forward) and 5\u2032-TTGGAAACTCACACGCCAGAAG-3\u2032 (Reverse); MMP-2: 5\u2032-GATAACCTGGATGCCGTCGTG-3\u2032 (Forward) and 5\u2032-GGTGTGCAGCGATGAAGATGATA-3\u2032 (Reverse); MCP-1: 5\u2032-GCATCCACGTGTTGGCTCA-3\u2032 (Forward) and 5\u2032-CTCCAGCCTACTCATTGGGATCA-3\u2032 (Reverse); RANTES 5\u2032-GAAAGAACCGCCAAGTGTGT-3\u2032 (Forward) and 5\u2032-GCAAGCAGAAACAGGCAAAT-3\u2032 (Reverse); and GAPDH: 5\u2032-GTATGACTCTACCC ACGGCAAGT-3\u2032 (Forward) and 5\u2032-TTCCCGTTGATGACCAGCTT-3\u2032 (Reverse). The cycle threshold (Ct) obtained for target gene expression was normalized to GAPDH, and the relative expression was calculated using the 2\u2212\u0394\u0394Ct methods.\nData were presented as mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009standard deviations (SD). Densitometric analysis of protein bands in the Western blot was performed using ImageJ software from the National Institutes of Health. Data were analyzed by one-way ANOVA followed by the Dunnett\u2019s test. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS version 22. was considered statistically significant.\n3.1. Nicotine Stimulated Phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun in RAW264.7 Cells\nNicotine is the main ingredient of cigarette smoke, and plasma concentration of nicotine is rapidly increased after a single cigarette, ranging from 10\u201350\u2009ng/ml [20]. To investigate the underlying mechanisms of nicotine-induced AAA, RAW264.7 cells were exposed to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine for 0, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120\u2009min. Western blot analysis (Figure 1(a)) revealed that 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine resulted in significant increase in the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun from 10\u2009min to 60\u2009min; however, nicotine had no effect on p65 phosphorylation. Then, RAW264.7 cells were treated with nicotine for 30\u2009min at the concentrations of 0, 1, 10, and 100\u2009ng/ml. As seen in Figure 1(e), the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun was upregulated by nicotine, whereas the protein levels of p-p65 remained unchanged. These data suggest that nicotine may exert biological effects via modulating ERK1/2 and c-Jun signaling pathway in RAW264.7 cells.\nFigure 1: Nicotine stimulated the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun in RAW264.7 cells. (a) RAW264.7 cells were treated with 10\u2009mg/ml nicotine for 0, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120\u2009min. (e) RAW264.7 cells were exposed to nicotine for 30\u2009min at the concentrations of 0, 1, 10, and 100\u2009mg/ml. Cell lysates were collected and protein levels of p-ERK1/2, ERK1/2, p-c-Jun, c-Jun, p-p65, and p65 were measured by Western blot. The band optical density values (means\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD) of p-ERK1/2 (b, f), p-c-Jun (c, g), and p-p65 (d, h) were evaluated using ImageJ software, with all experiments being analyzed as three different independent experiments and GAPDH used as an internal control. and versus controls.\n3.2. U0126 Abolished Nicotine-Induced Activations of ERK1/2 and c-Jun and Expression of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES in RAW264.7 Cells\nIn order to further determine whether ERK1/2 and c-Jun signaling pathway is involved in nicotine-induced expression of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES, RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm and 20 \u03bcm U0126 for 30\u2009min prior to 30\u2009min or 3\u2009h nicotine exposure at the concentration of 10\u2009ng/ml. Nicotine-induced activation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun was significantly abolished by U0126 (Figure 2(a)). Also, nicotine-induced upregulation of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES was remarkably decreased shown in Figure 2(d). Moreover, quantitative RT-PCR showed that U0126 inhibited nicotine-induced MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES mRNA expression (Figures 2(i), 2(j), 2(k), and 2(l)). The results indicate that nicotine induces upregulation of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES through activating ERK1/2/c-Jun pathway in RAW264.7 cells.\nFigure 2: U0126 attenuated nicotine-induced activations of extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun and upregulation of matrix metalloproteinase- (MMP-) 9, MMP-2, monocyte chemotactic protein- (MCP-) 1, and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) in RAW264.7 cells. (a) RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm and 20 \u03bcm U0126 for 30\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 30\u2009min. (d) RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm and 20 \u03bcm U0126 for 30\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 3\u2009h. (b, c, e\u2013h) The intensity of protein bands (means\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD) in the Western blot were quantified by using ImageJ software and normalized to GAPDH. Representative results from three independent experiments are shown. (i) MMP-9, (j) MMP-2, (k) MCP-1, and (l) RANTES mRNA levels were determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. All experiments were analyzed as triplicate independent experiments. and versus controls; # and ## versus the group treated with nicotine.\n3.3. Nicotine Increased Phosphorylation of c-Jun in MOVAS Cells\nWe also explored whether nicotine had any effect on the ERK1/2, c-Jun, and p65 in MOVAS cells. Similarly, MOVAS cells were treated with 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine for 0, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120\u2009min. As shown in Figure 3(a), nicotine-induced phosphorylation of c-Jun markedly increased at 10\u2009min and 20\u2009min and then gone down from 30\u2009min to 120\u2009min. In contrast, nicotine suppressed ERK1/2 phosphorylation and had no effect on the activation of p65. Then, MOVAS cells were exposed to nicotine at various concentrations (0, 1, 10, and 100\u2009ng/ml) for 30\u2009min. The phosphorylation of c-Jun was significantly elevated at all three concentrations, whereas ERK1/2 phosphorylation was inhibited (Figure 3(e)). The activation of p65 was not affected by nicotine at different concentration. These data reveal that c-Jun may be an important transcription factor involving in nicotine-induced biological effects in MOVAS cells. Inconsistent with RAW264.7 cells, MOVAS cells treated with nicotine exhibited contrary tendency between ERK1/2 and c-Jun. It is worth mentioning that Cho et al. had showed that U0126 had no effect on TNF\u03b1-induced activation of c-Jun in VSMCs [21]. Therefore, we hypothesized that nicotine evoked different signal transduction pathway to play biological roles in different cell types.\nFigure 3: Nicotine increased the phosphorylation of c-Jun in MOVAS cells. (a) MOVAS cells were exposed to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine for 0, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120\u2009min. (e) MOVAS cells were treated with nicotine for 30\u2009min at the concentrations of 0, 1, 10, and 100\u2009ng/ml. The expression of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (p-ERK1/2), ERK1/2, p-c-Jun, c-Jun, p-p65, and p65 were analyzed with Western blot. (b\u2013d, f\u2013h) Densitometric analysis of protein bands was performed via ImageJ software. GAPDH was utilized as an internal control, and all experiments were analyzed as three different independent experiments. and versus controls.\n3.4. PNU-282987 Suppressed Nicotine-Stimulated Activation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun and Upregulation of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES in RAW264.7 Cells\nThe cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is composed of the efferent vagus nerve, the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and \u03b17-nAChR [17]. Recently, the potential role vagus nerve stimulation in cardiovascular disease has emerged [18]. To determine the effect of \u03b17-nAChR on nicotine-stimulated expression of MMPs and inflammation cytokines, cells were stimulated in the presence of the \u03b17-nAChR selective agonist. In the first experiment, RAW 264.7 cells were exposed to 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 0, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120\u2009min. Western blot analysis showed that PNU-282987 markedly suppressed the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun (Figure 4(a)). Nevertheless, p65 phosphorylation had a descending tendency without statistical significance. Then, RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with PNU-282987 at various concentrations (0, 1, 10, and 100 \u03bcm) for 30\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 30\u2009min or 3\u2009h. As shown in Figure 4(e), nicotine-induced activation of ERK1/2 and c-Jun was abolished by PNU-282987 at the concentrations of 10 and100 \u03bcm. At the same concentrations, PNU-282987 suppressed nicotine-stimulated upregulation of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES (Figure 5(a)). In addition, quantitative RT-PCR showed that PNU-282987 also attenuated nicotine-induced MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES mRNA expression (Figures 5(f), 5(g), 5(h), and 5(i)). These results suggest that \u03b17-nAChR agonist inhibits nicotine-induced upregulation of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES through modulating ERK1/2/c-Jun signaling in RAW264.7 cells.\nFigure 4: PNU-282987 suppressed nicotine-stimulated activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun in RAW264.7 cells. (a) RAW264.7 cells were treated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 0, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120\u2009min. (e) RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 60\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 30\u2009min. Protein levels of p-ERK1/2, ERK1/2, p-c-Jun, c-Jun, p-p65, and p65 were measured by Western blot, and the intensity of protein bands (means\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD) (b\u2013d, f, g) were assessed using ImageJ software, with all experiments being analyzed as three different independent experiments and GAPDH used as an internal control. and versus controls; # and ## versus the group treated with nicotine.\nFigure 5: PNU-282987 abrogated nicotine-induced upregulation of matrix metalloproteinase- (MMP-) 9, MMP-2, monocyte chemotactic protein- (MCP-) 1, and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) in RAW264.7 cells. (a) RAW264.7 cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 60\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 3\u2009h. The band optical density values (means\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD) of (b) MMP-9, (c) MMP-2, (d) MCP-1, and (e) RANTES in the Western blot were quantified by using ImageJ software and normalized to GAPDH. Representative results from three independent experiments are shown. (f) MMP-9, (g) MMP-2, (h) MCP-1, and (i) RANTES mRNA levels were examined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. All experiments were analyzed as triplicate independent experiments. and versus controls; # and ## versus the group treated with nicotine.\n3.5. PNU-282987 Attenuated Nicotine-Induced Activations of c-Jun and Expression of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES in MOVAS Cells\nIn the second experiment, MOVAS cells were treated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 0, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120\u2009min. Western blot analyses indicated that ERK1/2 and c-Jun phosphorylation was remarkably decreased at different time points, whereas the phosphorylation of p65 was not changed (Figure 6(a)). Then, MOVAS cells were pretreated with PNU-282987 at various concentrations (0, 1, 10, and 100 \u03bcm) for 60\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine treatment for 30\u2009min or 3\u2009h. As shown in Figure 6(e), nicotine-induced activation of c-Jun was attenuated by PNU-282987 at the concentrations of 10 and 100 \u03bcm. The inhibition of ERK phosphorylation by nicotine was further enhanced in MOVAS cells pretreated with PNU-282987. Moreover, PNU-282987 suppressed nicotine-stimulated excretion of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES from MOVAS cells (Figure 7(a)). Also, quantitative RT-PCR showed that PNU-282987 also reduced nicotine-induced mRNA expression of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES shown in Figures 7(f), 7(g), 7(h), and 7(i). These results suggest that \u03b17-nAChR agonist inhibits nicotine-induced expression of MMP-9, MMP-2, MCP-1, and RANTES via c-Jun in MOVAS cells.\nFigure 6: PNU-282987 inhibited nicotine-stimulated activation of c-Jun in MOVAS cells. (a) MOVAS cells were exposed to 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 0, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120\u2009min. (e) MOVAS cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 60\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 30\u2009min. Cell lysates were collected, and protein levels of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 (p-ERK1/2), ERK1/2, p-c-Jun, c-Jun, p-p65, and p65 were measured by Western blot. (b\u2013d, f, g) Densitometric analysis of protein bands was performed via ImageJ software, with all experiments being analyzed as three different independent experiments and GAPDH used as an internal control. and versus controls; # and ## versus the group treated with nicotine.\nFigure 7: PNU-282987 downregulated nicotine-induced expression of matrix metalloproteinase- (MMP-) 9, MMP-2, monocyte chemotactic protein- (MCP-) 1, and regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) in MOVAS cells. (a) MOVAS cells were pretreated with 10 \u03bcm PNU-282987 for 60\u2009min prior to 10\u2009ng/ml nicotine exposure for 3\u2009h. The band optical density values (means\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD) of (b) MMP-9, (c) MMP-2, (d) MCP-1, and (e) RANTES in the Western blot were quantified by using ImageJ software and normalized to GAPDH. Representative results from three independent experiments are shown. (f) MMP-9, (g) MMP-2, (h) MCP-1, and (i) RANTES mRNA levels were determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. All experiments were analyzed as triplicate independent experiments. and versus controls; # and ## versus the group treated with nicotine.\nIn the present study, we demonstrated for the first time that stimulation of \u03b17-nAChR suppressed nicotine-induced upregulation of inflammatory cytokines and MMP. MCP-1 and RANTES, as representative of CC chemokine family, had also been demonstrated involvement in AAA development [7, 22] and thought to play greater roles than other chemokines [23]. MCP-1 promoted macrophage infiltration, increased the MMP-9 expression in SMCs, and induced apoptosis of SMCs within AAA, either through a direct mechanism or via activation of macrophages [22, 24, 25]. RANTES, similarly to MCP-1, acts on multiple immune cells and plays an important role in chronic and acute inflammation [26]. MMP-9 and MMP-2, which degrade the extracellular matrix, work in concert to form AAA, and both MMP-9 and MMP-2 knockout mice are resistant to aneurysm development [27]. Inflammation and extracellular matrix degradation play crucial roles in AAA formation. Therefore, it is likely that suppression of MCP-1, RANTES, MMP-9, and MMP-2 through activation of \u03b17-nAChR resulted in the attenuation of nicotine-induced AAA development.\nThe molecular mechanisms associated \u03b17-nAChR agonist with suppression of nicotine-induced AAA formation may be ERK1/2 and AP-1- (c-Jun-) mediated signaling pathway in macrophages and SMCs. ERK1/2 belongs to mammalian mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family, which play a crucial role in various cellular responses, including cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival [28, 29]. Transcription factor AP-1 family comprises multiple Jun (c-Jun, JunB, and JunD) and Fos (c-Fos, FosB, Fral, and Fra2) members [30]. AP-1 had been found involvement in several physiological and pathological cellular processes including proliferation, inflammation, differentiation, growth, apoptosis, cell migration, and transformation [30, 31]. This study showed that nicotine increased expression of MCP-1, RANTES, MMP-9, and MMP-2 through activating ERK1/2/AP-1 (c-Jun) signaling pathway in RAW264.7 cells and AP-1 (c-Jun) in MOVAS cells. These results indicated that AP-1 (c-Jun) might play an important role in nicotine-induced AAA formation, which is further confirmed by the report that AP-1 (c-Jun) was remarkably elevated in human AAA [32]. Stimulation of \u03b17-nAChR by PNU-282987 significantly inhibited nicotine-induced activation of ERK1/2 and AP-1 (c-Jun) in RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells and then suppressed nicotine-stimulated upregulation of MCP-1, RANTES, MMP-9, and MMP-2. Interestingly, nicotine might activate c-Jun through different signaling pathways in RAW264.7 and MOVAS cells. Our previous study demonstrated that nicotine activated and PNU-282987 inhibited JNK signaling in MOVAS cells, which could be another upstream pathway of c-Jun [33]. The elucidation of such signaling pathways will reveal novel molecular targets that may provide a new therapeutic strategy for AAA. It needed to mention that nicotine could not evoke the activation of NF-\u03baB p65 in this study. Although it is well known that NF-\u03baB regulates expression of multiple inflammatory cytokines, it may play little role in the process of nicotine-induced secretion of MCP-1 and RANTES.\nThe nAChRs are a family of ligand-gated ion channel receptors composed of 17 subunits \u03b11\u2013\u03b110, \u03b21\u2013\u03b24, \u03b3, \u03b4, and \u03b5 [34]. In addition to the central and peripheral nervous system, the nAChRs have been identified in vascular tissue and immune cells [34, 35]. The different subunit combinations result in functionally diverse nAChR subtypes that have different ligand affinity, cation permeability, and signaling [36, 37]. The involvement of nAChR in nicotine-induced expression of inflammatory cytokines and MMP and development of AAA remains unknown. Nevertheless, accumulating evidence points towards a protective role for \u03b17-nAChR in inflammation-based cardiovascular diseases. Cheng et al. showed that \u03b17-nAChR activation reduced the expression of TNF\u03b1 and IL-6 and alleviated viral myocarditis [38]. Treatment with PNU-282987 inhibited ADP-induced platelet aggregation in human platelets, and hematopoietic \u03b17-nAChR deficiency increased number of peritoneal leukocytes and expression of inflammatory mediators by both peritoneal leukocytes (TNF\u03b1 and CRP) and the spleen (TNF\u03b1) [39], both thought to be important risk factors in atherosclerotic lesion development [40]. Stimulation of \u03b17-nAChR by AR-R1779 attenuates atherogenesis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice treated with AngII possibly through an anti-inflammatory effect and reduction of blood pressure and lipid levels [41].\nIn contrast to nicotine that activates multiple nAChRs subtypes, PNU-282987 is a selected agonist for \u03b17-nAChR. Thus, we inferred that distinct effects of nicotine and PNU-282987 might be mediated by differential nAChR subtypes. In accordance with the assumption, a recent study by de Moura and McMahon showed that PNU-282987 failed to substitute for the nicotine discriminative stimulus in male C57BL/6J mice [42]. 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View at Publisher \u00b7 View at Google Scholar \u00b7 View at Scopus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 42104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hipcamp.com/fieldscouts/assignment/14322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OKNE4H25Z7IAXXGHR3QEIX6M6RYCLCH6", "length": 436, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.hipcamp.com", "title": "Hidden Hollows | Field Scout Dashboard", "raw_content": "Hidden Hollows in Michigan\nHost Collene Vanderpool says:\nOnce upon a time, this old cabin was located in Kingston, MI. It dates back to before the civil war and was left unmaintained and cared for. In the 1990s, it was moved to its new home here at Hidden Hollows, where it was lovingly restored and renovated to be completely functional but still keeping all of its rustic charm and unique qualities.\nPosted on: February 20, 2018 12:51", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 402, "original_length": 7182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 139.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/capobject/?refd=PC017.01.01.03.4030", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:49Z", "digest": "sha1:H2COUOFFFHKWBX4Z7XGHSJRP7LBKHGBY", "length": 310, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.historicnewengland.org", "title": "Rogers Building, M.I.T., Boylston St., Boston, Mass., January 15, 1913 | Historic New England Capobject | Historic New England", "raw_content": "Rogers Building, M.I.T., Boylston St., Boston, Mass., January 15, 1913\nRogers Building, MIT Boylston St. (current record)\nWindows and part of the facade of the M.I.T. Rogers Building are shown in this photograph.\nuniversity and college buildings\nPreston, Jonathan, 1801-1888\nPreston, William Gibbons, 1842-1910", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 896, "original_length": 35908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Northern-Ireland-Library-Authoritty/Around-Derry--Ireland-in-Old-Photographs/1973950", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5R562ZBZ4YRIC2OVR2V6PIUAZW35VFDZ", "length": 852, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hive.co.uk", "title": "Around Derry : Ireland in Old Photographs: Northern Ireland Library Authoritty: 9780752456270: hive.co.uk", "raw_content": "Around Derry : Ireland in Old Photographs Paperback / softback\nby Northern Ireland Library Authoritty, North West Archaeological & Historical Society\nDerry is one of Ireland's most historic walled cities.\nIt is also renowned for its picturesque location, straddling the River Foyle and having as its backdrop the magnificent Donegal hills. Having withstood three sieges in the seventeenth century, today its walls remain intact and add to the uniqueness of Derry's heritage. Within the pages of this book the city's rich history and heritage, its social and economic development are chronicled in often poignant pictures.\nAdded to all this is the often controversial political image which Derry has projected over the years. This book will evoke cherished memories as it captures for ever the changing face of this beautiful city over the past century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 5701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hockeyalberta.ca/team-alberta/male-program/under-16/2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JFJLVOVIXFZA5SBZZTVXIQGXAEXW6B6X", "length": 915, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hockeyalberta.ca", "title": "2013 Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup | Hockey Alberta", "raw_content": "With two wins at the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup in the tournament\u2019s three year history, Team Alberta came into the 2013 version of the Challenge Cup with some big shoes to fill, and did so handily.\nAfter advancing straight to the gold medal game with a perfect 3-0 round-robin record, Team Alberta captured its third Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup title with a 4-2 win over Team BC.\nForward Sam Steel led the way for Team Alberta, as the 2nd overall pick (Regina Pats) of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft scored the game-winner, and had an assist on the insurance goal en-route to the win. Alberta goaltender Sutart Skinner needed just 16 saves on 18 shots for the win.\nSteel, along with defenceman Kale Clague were chosen to represent Team Alberta on the tournament\u2019s all-star team.\nClick here for the elite development camp, summer camp, shortlist and final rosters for the 2013 Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 857, "original_length": 15320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homeinstead.com/685/home-care-services/non-medical-home-care-bartonville", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TUY5FSOWGXWFTF4A2DOHGFEXAXFZ34OD", "length": 1687, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.homeinstead.com", "title": "Non-Medical Home Care in Bartonville, TX by Home Instead Senior Care", "raw_content": "Non-Medical Home Care in Bartonville\nNon-Medical Home Care Bartonville\nNon-medical home care in Bartonville provides support for seniors who want to stay in their home but need a little extra help.\nNon-Medical Home Care Services in Bartonville, TX\nWhen a loved one needs physical therapy or skilled nursing care, home health agencies can send skilled individuals to the home to provide the care our loved one needs. But what happens when your loved one needs non-medical assistance? Do you take on the role of a family caregiver? You probably can't always be there to personally provide care for every member of your family, but we can. Our CAREGivers in Bartonville act as your partner to deliver the care services your family members need to maintain a high quality of life at home. And you enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing your loved one is safe, happy and healthy.\nOur non-medical home care in Bartonville provides your aging loved one with the support they need to stay at home. From light housekeeping to personal care assistance, our professional CAREGivers in Bartonville can provide the level of non-medical home care your aging loved one needs when they need it. Whether daily, or a few times a week, we will work with your family to create a schedule to fit your senior loved one's needs.\nNon-Medical Home Care in Bartonville, TX can include:\n24 Hour or Overnight Care\nLearn more about our non-medical home care services in Bartonville, TX and how we can support your family. Call (877) 591-7822 to discuss your families need and schedule a free no obligation consultation.\nWhen you need non-medical home care in Bartonville, look to Home Instead Senior Care\u00ae\u200b\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homeinthesun.co.uk/cape-verde/weather.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:5E77VDUZHNV75WSW5AOZZI3QS7OGXRGU", "length": 516, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.homeinthesun.co.uk", "title": "Weather Cape Verde | Home in the Sun", "raw_content": "Weather Cape Verde\nWith its year round climate, Cape Verde is an ideal holiday destination. On the same latitude as Barbados, it has a perfect tropical dry climate with very little rainfall. There is low humidity and a long dry season from November to July, equally there is no history of hurricanes. The average air temperature is 22-27C and the sea temperature is 21-26C, (3 degrees warmer round than the Canaries) with sunshine levels at 10 to 12 hours per day.\nhttp://www.bp-pb.com/1323-princess-hair-greece.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 2446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hooklawcenter.com/2018/05/25/new-guidance-for-special-needs-trusts/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MWJL26KYZWOK26OYHN6SUPACHA6FLHUL", "length": 6562, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.hooklawcenter.com", "title": "New Guidance for Special Needs Trusts | Hook Law Center", "raw_content": "New Guidance for Special Needs Trusts\nOn April 30, 2018, the Social Security Administration (SSA) released new Program Operating Manual System (POMS) provisions, which are essentially a set of guidelines utilized by eligibility workers processing claims for Social Security benefits that directly relate to special needs trusts. Although we received a peek into what the POMS might look like at the Special Needs Trust Conference last October, advocates were uncertain what the final provisions would be. Much to our delight, the new POMS promote flexibility. Understanding that there were a number of updates, I have incorporated some of the highlights I believe my clients will most appreciate:\nA key element of a special needs trust is the \u201csole benefit rule.\u201d Essentially, the SSA has held that all distributions must be for the sole benefit of the beneficiary, and those receiving an incidental benefit must contribute a pro rata share. POMS SI 01120.201.F.3.a now establishes a new \u201cprimary benefit\u201d rule, thus recognizing that others will inherently receive an incidental benefit and that such incidental benefit is acceptable provided the purchase was for the beneficiary. The examples provided by SSA indicate that others may reside in a home owned by the trust, but that a car purchased by the trust, which is titled in the name of a non-beneficiary, used by the non-beneficiary daily, but also used to transport the beneficiary twice a month would not be considered for the primary benefit of the beneficiary.\nOne controversial inconsistency among the various regions has been the treatment of caregivers. The POMS now clarifies that a caregiver may be a family member, a non-family member, or a professional agency and that such a caregiver may provide companion services. A special needs trust may compensate such individuals for services and pay related expenses incurred by the provider during the course of service. The example provided by the SSA is payment for an admission ticket to a museum when accompanying the beneficiary. Additionally, the POMS were updated to clearly indicate that SSA should not request evidence of training for, or the income tax information of, family caregivers. Payment for such services shall be considered \u201creasonable\u201d based on the time, effort, and prevailing rate of compensation for similar services within the geographic region.\nSSA has consistently held that distributions to a pre-paid debit card owned by a beneficiary are treated like cash. The new POMS, however, clarifies that if the pre-paid debit card is owned by a special needs trust and controlled by the trustee such that the trustee is able to prevent the use of the card for food or shelter-related items, then distributions will be permitted. Although there may be a number of companies that have \u201cadministrator-managed prepaid debit cards,\u201d the most commonly used by advocates would be True Link Financial.\nFor years, the payment of non-beneficiary travel expenses, to include transportation, lodging and food, were unclear. Under the POMS, SSA has permitted that payment of non-beneficiary travel expenses when the attendance of the non-beneficiary is necessary to permit the beneficiary to travel. This would be applicable in the situations where a minor cannot travel unaccompanied, as well as beneficiaries that require extensive medical care. The ability for such care provider to pay his or her own travel expense is irrelevant in determining the reasonableness of the travel expense.\nAdditionally, the trust may pay for a non-beneficiary\u2019s travel expenses when such travel is necessary \u201cto ensure the safety or medical well-being of the trust beneficiary.\u201d As a result, there is now clarification that travel expenses may be paid for by the trust when the non-beneficiary is traveling to oversee beneficiary\u2019s living arrangements within some sort of facility or supported living arrangement. Additionally, the trust may pay for travel expenses of a trust fiduciary to ensure the welfare of the beneficiary when the beneficiary does not reside in an institutional setting.\nAsk Kit Kat \u2013 Vets in Rural Alaska\nHook Law Center: Kit Kat, what can you tell us about how rural Alaskans receive veterinary care for their pets?\nKit Kat: Well, thanks to an organization called Pets for Life, Alaskans in certain parts of the state receive free veterinary care for their pets. As you may know, many parts of Alaska are in extremely, isolated areas. Therefore, many receive pet care through Alaska Native Rural Veterinary (ANRV), a Fairbanks-based nonprofit. Because ANRV could not handle all of the vast state\u2019s needs, it formed a partnership with Pets for Life (PFL), another nonprofit devoted to pet care. The area chosen for service for the 2 organizations is in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 400 miles west of Anchorage. There are 3 villages that were chosen\u2014Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Kwethluk\u2014none of which is on a road system. Located on arctic tundra, they rely on snowmobiles in cold weather, airplanes, or a network of raised wooden platforms during warm periods when the tundra becomes a soupy mess. Napaskiak\u2019s population is 425. It\u2019s a largely Native American population who lives in the area, and sources for employment are few. Residents mostly rely on hunting and fishing to supply their needs. There is not a lot extra for pet care.\nThe vets that serve usually do so in teams of 3. One will prep the animals for anesthesia, one does the surgeries, and one provides dental cleanings. When they come to town and use a school which is not in session, the electricity is not even turned on. They have to pay in advance at the general store to pre-pay the bill, before they have power. Over the course of 3 days, they will perform 106 surgeries, give 295 rabies shots, and give 176 dogs de-wormer pills. Cats are a rarity, but there are some. PFL tries to go in several times a year to get the location caught up on the pets\u2019 veterinary needs. After that, they can come less frequently as a community goes into maintenance mode.\nThis is a tremendous effort for a very worthy cause. The ASPCA and the HSUS help, too, by providing some ancillary support staff who cart animals to the care site, prepare areas for surgery, etc. By working together, all the organizations make a big difference in the lives of these pets and their owners. (Kelly L. Williams, \u201cDoing the work\u2014Pets for Life brings free veterinary services to rural Alaska, All Animals, May/June 2018, p. 22-27)\nPosted on Friday, May 25th, 2018. Filed under Senior Law News.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 11015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hrreporter.com/article/17994-chief-executives-and-the-itch-to-quit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RYAT52RBPSRNOHPGXKEQEWKV65D4NDH6", "length": 4409, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.hrreporter.com", "title": "Chief executives and the itch to quit | Canadian HR Reporter", "raw_content": "Chief executives and the itch to quit\nIncreased pressure, scrutiny among contributing factors\nLONDON (Reuters) \u2014 On approaching his 60th birthday this year, long-serving Tullow Oil boss Aidan Heavey told staff he felt \"like two 30 year-olds\".\nA handful of recent shock departures by 50-something chief executives at European blue chip companies \u2014 none of them under any obvious pressure to quit \u2014 suggest some of his peers either lack that vigour, or want to channel it elsewhere.\nPeter Voser is giving up one of the world's most challenging CEO roles at Royal Dutch/Shell next year, before his 55th birthday, in pursuit of a \"lifestyle change\".\nSwiss engineering group ABB's 55-year-old boss Joe Hogan is also going, for \"private reasons\". Pierre-Olivier Beckers, 53, is walking out on Belgian retailer Delhaize , and Paul Walsh, 57, is waving goodbye to drinks multinational Diageo.\nAll four are about average European CEO age.\nLuxury goods group Richemont's chairman and founder Johann Rupert, older, at 62, than the rest of the May retirees, gave up the CEO post in April and recently announced he would take a year off from the chairmanship, too, to catch up on some reading. And perhaps a trip to the Antarctic.\nWhile the rising financial rewards of running a modern multinational have been well publicised, executive recruiters say the pressures of the job have also been ratcheted up in recent years, and not just because of the tough economic times.\n\"The reality is it's gruelling. It's really tough, and there comes a point where you don't want to do it any more,\" said Ian Butcher, who headhunts board-level and senior executives for MWM Consulting.\n\"The quarterly reporting, the governance, the regulatory aspects, it just becomes very wearing \u2014 the level of scrutiny, the pace at which things are moving, the short-term nature of how people look at any given situation. Even over the past five years these things have made CEO a tougher position to hold, and the travel that people have to undertake in these jobs \u2014 it's just something they run out of steam on.\"\n\"I just want to be master of my time for some time,\" said Richemont's Rupert.\nSome recent early retirees, while still well short of traditional retirement age, got to the top spot early.\n\"They're still in their early fifties, with energy and a desire to do something, but they want to do something different, something quite significantly different sometimes,\" says Butcher.\nVoser might not be donning snow shoes for an Antarctic venture, but he has no plans to collect well-paid chairmanships and non-executive directorships, as many ex-CEOs have done in the past. Former Tesco chief Terry Leahy has also resisted that gravy train since he left two years ago.\nAs for the early starters, executive search industry professionals point at people like Andrew Witty, the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, who took on the job aged 44 in 2008 and would have to stay in harness for another decade to reach 60 in the role.\nBlue-chip bosses as young as Witty are still rare, but over a quarter of Europe's current crop have less than two years in the job, and more than half have less than four, according to data from executive search specialists BoardEx.\nThe BoardEx data, collected for Reuters from 238 companies in the main stock indexes of Germany, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, puts the median CEO age at 55, and the median tenure at four years. Only 16 per cent of the group have held on for 10 years and more.\nThe longest serving of them is Martin Gilbert of the British fund Aberdeen Asset Management. Though younger, at 57, Gilbert pips the 28.3-year tenure of Tullow's double thirty year-old Heavey, with 29.8 years at the helm.\nThere are 17 top European CEOs who have been in the job for less than six months, and the youngest of the 225 in the group for whom ages were available is Vitaly Nesis, 37, who runs Polymetal International, the London-listed Russian precious metals miner.\nWhile the recent spate of quitters are looking for something else to do, there are still some who appear to want nothing but.\nIn the BoardEx group there are four over 70, and the oldest by eight years is Albert Frere, CEO of Group Bruxelles Lambert .\nPerhaps some linger on for fear that the pension pot is still a little light. Frere will have put such qualms behind him long ago. At 87, he is Belgium's richest man.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 12464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hrreporter.com/article/9679-diversity-policy-developed-for-pan-am-games-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LVJ5M6TBVMW5SMJ7IOWOU3CQQSFUG77F", "length": 2730, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hrreporter.com", "title": "Diversity policy developed for Pan Am Games 2015 | Canadian HR Reporter", "raw_content": "Diversity policy developed for Pan Am Games 2015\nTo cover procurement, governance, employment and volunteerism\nThe organizing committee for the Pan Am Games and Parapan Am Games in 2015 in Toronto has developed a diversity policy covering procurement, governance, employment and volunteerism.\n\"What 'green' was to the Vancouver Games, multiculturalism will be to TO2015,\" said Ian Troop, CEO of T02015. \"Toronto 2015 will be the first Pan/Parapan American Games to mandate a comprehensive and inclusive diversity policy providing business opportunities to our many multicultural communities.\"\nThe diversity policy harnesses the economic impact of the Games to create a platform for segments of the population who have typically been under-represented in projects of this magnitude, said TO2015. Opportunities in the areas of procurement, governance, employment, volunteerism and others will be accessible to Southern Ontario's diverse communities.\nTO2015 is working with Infrastructure Ontario, where diversity has been determined to be an important principle during the procurement and construction of Games venues.\nApplicants responding to requests for quotations or proposals will be requested to identify or provide evidence as to how they plan to involve and support diverse community businesses to increase the supplier pool and improve their ability to deliver on time and on budget. Through the procurement process, applicants will also be encouraged to be innovative and creative and demonstrate a willingness to include diversity candidate groups on their teams. Successful proponents will also be expected to provide regular reporting of such initiatives during the construction phase.\nThis is a big step forward in creating an inclusive business practice, said Courtney Betty, founder of the Diversity Business Network.\n\"This will be remembered as one of the great legacies of the Games as we use the power of sport to forge economic relationships creating a win/win for all,\u201d he said. \"We've never had, in my view, a policy that takes the first step in addressing the economic challenges faced by marginalized and diverse communities in the business model.\u201d\nTO2015 is also working to ensure diversity is embedded in every aspect of the business, including human resources policies and recruiting for staff and volunteers. Currently, one-third of the TO2015 staff are comprised of visible minorities and more than 65 per cent of executive level staff are female.\n\"We have adopted diversity as a standard practice in our day-to-day business. All of our procedures and decision-making criteria will embrace diversity \u2014 from how we purchase goods and services to how we hire employees and recruit volunteers,\" said Troop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 10728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackpink-k-pop-girl-group-coachella_us_5c2eac1ee4b0407e9089ee19", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QKK5UEPLBBOLUHW7OTLFOLJ3VULES5GS", "length": 3927, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Blackpink Set To Be The First K-Pop Girl Group To Perform At Coachella | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Blackpink Set To Be The First K-Pop Girl Group To Perform At Coachella\nPerfume, a girl group from Japan, will also hit the stage at the iconic music festival.\nK-pop has proved to be an international force to be reckoned with over the past few years. Now it has arrived on one of the most iconic festival stages in the U.S.\nBlackpink is set to become the first Korean girl group to perform at Coachella this April. Its shows at the festival will mark the first time the group has performed in the country.\nBLACKPINK IS PLAYING COACHELLA. The girl group (@ygofficialblink) will be the first female K-pop to play the famous U.S. festival and is receiving impressive billing on the lineup poster. Can't WAIT for this! pic.twitter.com/ynaEVrCgli\n\u2014 Jeff Benjamin (@Jeff__Benjamin) January 3, 2019\nWhen festival organizers released the official music lineup poster on Wednesday, the K-pop group was billed at the top of the list, performing on the first day of the festival along with hit-makers such as Janelle Mon\u00e1e and Diplo.\nAnd the group is poised to soak up all the attention it deserves on the day of their performance: Childish Gambino, whose song \u201cThis Is America\u201d marked a cultural moment for 2018, is scheduled to headline on the same days Blackpink performs, April 12 and 19.\nFans and industry insiders celebrated Blackpink\u2019s American debut.\nI've loved K-pop since the 90s. I've pushed for it in my content. I've had countless chats with music insiders about its Western breakthrough, which has been happening the past few years. BLACKPINK playing Coachella is hugely significant. The locals have no idea what's coming. \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 pic.twitter.com/bod9uYr19m\n\u2014 Eugene Lee Yang (@EugeneLeeYang) January 3, 2019\nAmerica about to be hit with that DDU-DU DDU-DU once #Blackpink hits the stage on #Coachella2019 .\n\u2014 Tony Choi (@tonykchoi) January 3, 2019\nBLACKPINK IS THE REVOLUTION #blackpink\nok, i'm doing vegas for gaga and need to figure out coachella\n\u26a1\ufe0f \u201cBLACKPINK to make history as first K-pop girl group to perform at Coachella\u201dhttps://t.co/wWbHPej6Tx\n\u2014 martin gee (@ohmgee) January 3, 2019\nEven though Blackpink has never performed in the U.S., its songs have made waves in American pop culture. The group released \u201cDDU-DU DDU-DU\u201d in 2018, which became the highest-charting song by a K-pop girl group on the Billboard Hot 100 after it debuted at No. 55 in June.\nThen, in October, Blackpink\u2019s agency, YG Entertainment, signed a deal with Interscope Records and Universal Music Group, who will represent the group outside of Asia.\nLet hear it for #BLACKPINK! They\u2019re officially the first K-Pop group in history to perform at #Coachella! \ud83c\udfb6 pic.twitter.com/hc38MfwKKj\n\u2014 Universal Music Publishing Group (@UMPG) January 3, 2019\nBlackpink isn\u2019t the only Asian group making headlines for Coachella this year. Perfume, a girl group from Japan, is said to be the first J-pop group to perform at the festival.\nHyukoh, an indie band also from South Korea, will be rocking the stage in September, too.\nI dunno if anyone caught my hint in the piece but that surprise I was talking about was Perfume going to Coachella. Based on what their team said, I think they\u2019re the first J-pop girl group to ever go. https://t.co/AenwZW7tNx\n\u2014 Tamar Herman (@TamarWrites) January 3, 2019\nI've seen a lot of talk about BLACKPINK & Perfume heading to Coachella, but if you're interested in Hyukoh, I spoke to them a few years ago and think this is a decent tbt https://t.co/qmu0c96TY8\nNever heard of Blackpink? Educate yourself with a hit music video that electrified YouTube with more than 583 million views.\nThe 'Shib Sibs' Talk Asian Representation, Stereotypes And K-Pop\nFans Are Freaking Out About All The K-Pop At The Olympic Opening Ceremony\nK-Pop Band BTS Wins Time Reader's Poll For Person Of The Year\nBTS Makes History Yet Again With First K-Pop Album To Hit No. 1 In U.S.\nMusic Festival Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival K Pop Black Pink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibermaxx.com/properties,marbella-centre-apartment-sea-views,5762.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FCMFMLARIKV5VTB5FOCYMSJPOXMEVKIK", "length": 705, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ibermaxx.com", "title": "Marbella seaviews apartment Ibermaxx - property in Spain", "raw_content": "384.000 EURO Marbella centre apartment sea views\nThe new offer apartment in the center of Marbella on the Costa del Sol. Eastern exposure. Great views of the sea in the old town of Marbella and the mountains.\nThe property is on a high floor of a residential building in a good district. High quality finishing flat. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchen, terrace 15m2. The price includes a parking space in the basement of the building.\nSwimming pool on the roof of the building and part of the green with natural grass.\nThe apartment is the perfect location and attractive price sale. Pay attention to this investment.\nMarbella, apartament two bedrooms, stunning views\nMarbella breathtaking views", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 24711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibiology.org/speakers/magdalena-bezanilla/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EWKBLKGPA2DKAMU24CKULX3QBWASIB5X", "length": 1862, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ibiology.org", "title": "Magdalena Bezanilla \u2022 iBiology", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Speakers \u00bb Magdalena Bezanilla\nMagdalena Bezanilla\u2019s lab investigates the role of the actin cytoskeleton in regulating cell growth and cell shape in plants. She has promoted the use of the moss Physcomitrella patens because of its ability to undergo homologous recombination, a trait that, among land plants, is unique to Physcomitrella. Her lab has developed numerous other tools that have allowed them to understand the molecular basis of cell growth in plants.\nBezanilla began her university studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a physics undergraduate. She changed her focus as a graduate student and received her PhD in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was introduced to the study of moss as a post-doctoral fellow with Ralph Quatrano at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2005, Bezanilla joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she was Professor of Biology until 2017. She recently moved to Dartmouth College where she is E.E. Just Chair in the Department of Biological Sciences.\nBezanilla had received numerous awards for her contributions to cell biology including the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Cell Biology Women in Cell Biology Junior Career Recognition Award and the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.\nLearn more about Bezanilla\u2019s research here.\nUnderstanding Cell Shape\nPlants have only two classes of myosins; myosin VIII and XI. Myosin VIII is required for proper location of the cell division plate. (Talk recorded in July 2016)\nPart 1: Understanding Cell Shape: Big Insights From Little Plants\nPart 2: Using Reverse Genetics to Dissect the Formin Gene Family\nPart 3: Myosin and Actin Steer Plant Cell Division", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 5124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dramatic-video-shows-tornado-ripping-through-mississippi-11124", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OR7HCS5YWV3VV2P6HJHVO5E4ETGJTHWX", "length": 314, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.co.uk", "title": "Dramatic Video Shows Tornado Ripping Through Mississippi", "raw_content": "Dramatic Video Shows Tornado Ripping Through Mississippi\nA ferocious storm system caused a twister in Mississippi and threatened tens of millions of people across the U.S. Southeast on Monday (April 28), a day after it spawned tornadoes that killed 16 people and tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/everton-set-trump-liverpool-race-saul-niguez-report-1448938", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VLIBIXN4DPHX2Q2XO75WQOYNUQRYHY2O", "length": 1919, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.co.uk", "title": "Everton Set to Trump Liverpool in Race for Saul Niguez - Report", "raw_content": "Everton Set to Trump Liverpool in Race for Saul Niguez - Report\nEverton have joined Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool for the pursuit of Atletico Madrid midfielder Saul Niguez, according to the Daily Mail.\nThe player was sent on a year-long loan to Rayo Vallecano this season, where he has excelled in midfield and has caught the eye of clubs across Europe.\nEverton are now looking at a loan deal for the player, having benefitted from the presence of Gareth Barry, Gerard Deulofeu and Romelu Lukaku at Merseyside over the length of the season.\nHowever, the midfielder has recently signed a contract extension with Atletico, tying his future in Spain till 2018 while inserting a \u00a319.5m release clause in his contract.\nLiverpool have reportedly had a talk with his father regarding a transfer but nothing has been decided as yet. It will be a major coup for Everton if they can persuade the midfielder to ply his trade with the Toffees and help them challenge for a place in the Champions League next season.\nMeanwhile Everton manager Roberto Martinez has urged the fans to be patient on Ross Barkley as the midfielder prepares himself to make his maiden journey to the World Cup.\nThe 20-year-old has been a revelation this season, scoring brilliant goals and scaring defences with his pace in midfield and is being touted as England's saviour in Brazil.\n\"We shouldn't expect Ross Barkley, at the age of 20, to go into a World Cup and be someone who has to win games single-handedly. That would be very wrong,\" Martinez said.\n\"What is important is, as a nation, we have a responsibility to look after a young man who goes to the World Cup with the only intention of helping England be as good as they can.\n\"He is still young and we have to protect him. 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The move briefly made him the most expensive German player of all time, a record broken by Mesut Ozil later that summer. Gotze justified his price tag with impressive performances and scored 15 goals for Bayern in his first season and the same total again the following season. Gotze was named in Germany's squad for the 2014 Brazil World Cup, and played a major role in them taking home their fourth World Cup title. In Germany\u2019s opening game against Portugal Gotze won a penalty, and in the second game against Ghana scored and was named man of the match. His next part to play was on the biggest stage in the World Cup Final. Coming on as a substitute for top scorer Miroslav Klose, Germany manager Joachim Low told Gotze: \"Show the world you are better than Messi and can decide the World Cup\". It worked, in the 113th minute Gotze scored what was arguably one of the most impressive goals ever scored in a World Cup Final. A cross from Andre Schurrle was perfectly controlled on his chest and then volley across goal before it even hit the ground. 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CATC Design School is a recognised Vocational Education Provider that offers you more than just an education. They\u2019re passionate about your success \u2013 and want you to stand out from the competition.\nTheir focus is on helping you become the very best designer you can be. If you\u2019re looking for a creative career, you\u2019ve come to the right place. With a little help from them, they\u2019ll equip you with the skills to transform you into a qualified designer with excellent hands-on, industry-relevant skills. They\u2019re committed to developing your skills as an individual and they recognise the importance of finding work when you graduate. With industry practitioners as lecturers, strong industry connections and a dedicated focus on portfolio development, completing these courses will position you as a highly-qualified and sought after graduate.\nWhen you study at CATC Design School, they go out of their way to provide you with the complete student experience. Whether its lecturers, career advice, portfolio development or access to jobs, you\u2019ll benefit from a great support network. You don\u2019t need any specific experience to study at CATC. What they are looking for are creative individuals with a passion for design. Their career-oriented courses give you every opportunity for technical, creative and business advancement.\nThey have campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, all specifically designed as studio spaces (as opposed to classrooms).\nIELTS is accepted at CATC Design School\n-37.81672, 144.96816\t196 Flinders St,Melbourne,Victoria,3000 Australia\nAddress: 196 Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Australia\n-27.7142, 153.22375\tLevel 2, 9 Bay Street,Southport,Queensland,4215 Australia\nAddress: Level 2, 9 Bay Street, Southport, Queensland, 4215 Australia\n-33.88336, 151.19712\t46 - 52 Mountain Street,Ultimo,New South Wales,2007 Australia\nAddress: 46 - 52 Mountain Street, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007 Australia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 8053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilab.org/articles/jimi-hendrixs-delinquent-bar-tab-48th-california-international-antiquarian-book-fair-6-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FOVBDXIIQ575Q6CEGCCFWSWA2OISF7TE", "length": 6453, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ilab.org", "title": "Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Delinquent Bar Tab \u2013 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 6-8 February 2015 | ILAB", "raw_content": "Home Articles Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Delinquent Bar Tab \u2013 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 6-8 February 2015\nJimi Hendrix\u2019s Delinquent Bar Tab \u2013 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 6-8 February 2015\nThe world's preeminent celebration of the written and printed word returns to Northern California at a new venue in downtown Oakland. The 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair will run from Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), the three-day event is the world's largest antiquarian book fair with 200 booksellers from the United States and around the globe. The annual fair features a rich selection of books, manuscripts, maps and other printed materials, including incunabula, literature from all centuries and nationalities, fine bindings, children's and illustrated books, ephemera, and antiquarian books on dozens of topics \u2013 from Jimi Hendrix's delinquent bar tab to the first English-Language Sex Manual, a 19th Century 3-D children's book, a lock of Franz Liszt's hair from 1884 and handwritten letters by Charles Bukowski.\nThousands of Rare Books and Manuscripts - Hundreds of Booksellers - Dozens of Seminars and Events\n\"The Book Fair is all about bringing people closer to books by giving them a chance to browse, touch and even go home with items that they might imagine could only be found in a museum or special collections library.\"\nMichael R. Thompson, ABAA Member\nThe world\u2019s preeminent celebration of the written and printed word returns to Northern California at a new venue in downtown Oakland. The 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair will run from Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers\u2019 Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), the three-day event is the world\u2019s largest antiquarian book fair with 200 booksellers from the United States and around the globe.\nThe annual fair features a rich selection of books, manuscripts, maps and other printed materials, including incunabula, literature from all centuries and nationalities, fine bindings, children's and illustrated books, ephemera, and antiquarian books on dozens of topics \u2013 from Jimi Hendrix\u2019s delinquent bar tab to the first English-Language Sex Manual, a 19th Century 3-D children\u2019s book, a lock of Franz Liszt\u2019s hair from 1884 and handwritten letters by Charles Bukowski.\nWith special exhibitions this year\u2019s California Fair will also present highlights from the Special Collections of the F. W. Olin Library at Mills College, the Darius Milhaud Collection, the Albert M. Bender Papers, the Jane Bourne Parton Collection of Books on Dance, the Bookbinding Collection, the Early Printed Books Collection, the Patti Smith Collection, and the Fine Press and Artists\u2019 Book Collection. Talks and seminars on book collecting and all aspects of the trade and the rare book will attract book lovers from all over the world. The book fair schedule includes:\nBuilding New Audiences for Rare Books\nDaniel De Simone, Eric Weinmann Librarian, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. Sixth annual talk at the Book Fair, co-sponsored by the ABAA and the Bibliographical Society of America.\nLearn from the experts how to create a strategy for collecting books, as well as how to spot a \u201cfirst edition,\u201d judge a book\u2019s condition, and learn bookish terms and jargon.\nSunday, February 8, 12:15 - 1:00 pm\nWhat\u2019s This Book Worth?\nExperienced ABAA members will discuss the primary factors that give books commercial and monetary value, as well as strategies for appraising and selling books.\nSunday, February 8, 1:00 - 2:30 pm\nThis is the public\u2019s chance to discover if those old books gathering dust are worth something. The public will receive free, expert oral appraisals on up to three books.\nJack London, Photographer - Presented by Sara S. \"Sue\" Hodson\nJack London (1876-1916), still one of the most widely read American writers in the world, is known for stories and novels, as well as his own adventures as a sailor, Klondike gold-seeker, and rancher. Far less well known is London's work as a photographer, embodied in 4,000 negatives housed with the California Department of Parks and Recreation and 12,000 photographs in the Huntington Library. London's vivid, sensitive photographs capture the homeless of Great Britain in 1902; battle images and portraits of freezing. Korean refugees during the 1904 Russo- Japanese War, which London covered for the Hearst Syndicate; some of the first photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, again for Hearst; the diverse people and places of the Hawaiian Islands and the South Seas photographed on the voyage of his sailboat, in 1911. Many of the images appeared in his newspaper and magazine stories and in his books The People of the Abyss (1903) and The Cruise of the Snark (1911), but most have been seen by very few people and have never appeared in print.\nSue Hodson has overseen the Huntington's London archive for thirty years and has co-edited a volume of his photographs with Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Philip Adam, published by the University of Georgia Press in the autumn of 2010. She will present a lecture illustrated with selections from London's photographic works.\nThe Book Fair\u2019s new venue in downtown Oakland is an added convenience for bibliophiles. The Oakland Marriott City Center is just steps away from the 12th Street BART Station, making it easily accessible to attendees from San Francisco and all over the East Bay. Out-of-town visitors will appreciate staying onsite at the Marriott, plus fair visitors arriving at both Oakland and San Francisco airports can take BART directly to the new venue. Moreover, downtown Oakland is within easy walking distance to diverse and eclectic cuisine, hip nightspots, historic Old Oakland, museums, Lake Merritt and the waterfront at Jack London Square. In fact, Oakland was recently named by the New York Times as the number five destination to visit in the world! Be there!\n6 \u2013 8 February 2015, Oakland Marriott City Center\nFriday 3 pm - 8 pm, Saturday 11 am - 7 pm, Sunday 11 am - 5 pm\n>>> For more information please visit the official website\n(Pictures: www.cabookfair.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 191.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilab.org/articles/unique-max-morgenstern-collection-presented-norbert-donhofer-54th-stuttgart-antiquarian", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TJKE3VU264G6GHASGCYIWOQFQFZTRY5N", "length": 10670, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.ilab.org", "title": "Unique! The Max Morgenstern Collection, presented by Norbert Donhofer at the 54th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair | ILAB", "raw_content": "Home Articles Unique! The Max Morgenstern Collection, presented by Norbert Donhofer at the 54th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair\nUnique! The Max Morgenstern Collection, presented by Norbert Donhofer at the 54th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair\nWhen the 54th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair opens its doors to visitors from 23 to 25 January 2015, book lovers will have the rare opportunity to admire the highlights of a unique collection from the grand times of the Viennese \"Belle Epoque\". In a series of two catalogues the Austrian rare book dealer Norbert Donhofer presents the library of Max Morgenstern (1883-1946) consisting of private press books, illustrated books, and precious bindings of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte. Part 1 of this extraordinary gathering of bibliophile treasures \u2013 documented in a richly illustrated catalogue \u2013 will be on display at the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair: one more reason not to miss the second oldest fair in the world!\nWhen the 54th Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair opens its doors to visitors from 23 to 25 January 2015, book lovers will have the rare opportunity to admire the highlights of a unique collection from the grand times of the Viennese \u201cBelle Epoque\u201d. In a series of two catalogues the Austrian rare book dealer Norbert Donhofer presents the library of Max Morgenstern (1883-1946) consisting of private press books, illustrated books, and precious bindings of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte. Part 1 of this extraordinary gathering of bibliophile treasures \u2013 documented in a richly illustrated catalogue \u2013 will be on display at the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair: one more reason not to miss the second oldest fair in the world!\nNorbert Donhofer met John Morton, grandson to Max Morgenstern, in 2013. Since then he had been working on the Morgenstern collection and learned a lot about the life and the library of this Jewish collector from Vienna. He learned, for example, that Max Morgenstern was one of the best customers of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte who sometimes rejected drafts for bindings (even those made by Josef Hoffmann) because he had the feeling that the binding would not fit to the content. Max Morgenstern belonged to a generation of famous Viennese bibliophiles who founded libraries with great knowledge, ultimate taste and a life-long passion. John Morton has written a biographical sketch of his grandfather who brought together one of the most fascinating libraries.\nMax and Hertha Morgenstern \u2013 A biography by John Morton\nMaximilian Morgenstern was born in 1883 in M\u00e4hrisch-Wei\u00dfkirchen and later served in the Austrian army during the 1914-18 war. His father, Alojzy, owned a textile mill in Bielsko- Biala in Poland, some 60 kilometres south of Katowice. However, he was a gambler and when Max inherited the firm it was somewhat run-down. But with hard work and skill Max managed to build it up to a world-renowned manufacturer of high-quality worsted cloth, winning gold medals at various international exhibitions.\nIn the early 1900s he began indulging a passion \u2013 assembling a library of private press books and luxury custom bindings (especially those of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte). Among the private presses he most admired was the Doves Press (London, 1901-1909), then a printer of books of almost austere design but sublime elegance, which had a profound influence on German presses such as Ernst-Ludwig-Presse, Insel Verlag and Kleukens-Presse, all of which Max avidly collected along with many others. Eventually he built up a magnificent library of over 1500 books, many today rare as hen\u2019s teeth.\nMax\u2019s literary tastes were wide and catholic, ranging from translations of the Greek classics, through Goethe and Heine, on to English writers like Shakespeare, Dickens and Wilde (Max was something of an Anglophile) and including contemporary writers such as the Austrians Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler or the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren. But he stopped collecting in about 1923, a year after he married Hertha Israel, a young woman born in Berlin in 1900; related to the Rothschilds but through her mother, meaning she could inherit none of the family wealth. Now a married man, with two sons to shortly follow, Max needed a family home to replace his bachelor residence. Eventually they settled on a large apartment in Wattmanngasse, Hiezing. But Vienna was too far from Bielsko for daily commuting \u2013 even today the train journey takes 5 1/2 hours \u2013 so during the week Max lived in a smaller apartment in Bielsko and returned to Wattmanngasse only for weekends.\nBut though Max spent so much time away from Vienna and his wife, life was good for the Morgensterns. The business prospered and, by the mid-1930s, the two sons were being educated in England. The couple obviously enjoyed entertaining on a grand style; the table in the Wattmangasse dining room could seat 18 guests. One can only imagine the glittering evenings with sumptuous food produced by Hertha\u2019s cook for Vienna\u2019s intelligentsia and artists gathered amidst Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte furniture. As the guests sipped wine from elegant glasses designed by Josef Hoffman, Hertha presided over proceedings in a Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte couture gown. The room would have been like a small art gallery with the work of different artists hanging from the walls, anything from August von Pettenkofen\u2019s depictions of Hungarian gypsy and peasant life, to Johann Larwin\u2019s lushly ripe paintings of flowers and fruit, to an Egon Schiele painting of an iris, to the dark, disturbing fantasies of Alfred Kubin and many others.\nSince before 1914 Kubin had been a lifelong friend of Max who was probably his major patron; of 300 works in the first major exhibition of Kubin (1937, the Albertina), Max lent 64 items. One telling pen-and-ink work inscribed by Kubin in 1920 the artist depicts himself as a street musician with Max and Hertha as a fashionable couple who hand the musician a bank note. The collection also included a pair of formal portraits of the F\u00fcrst and F\u00fcrstin of Lichtenstein by Johann Baptist Lampi; since they don\u2019t really \u2018belong\u2019 with the other artworks, it has been suggested that their inclusion in the collection was because Max or Hertha was distantly related to one of them; we\u2019ll probably never know.\nWith such a lifestyle to support, small wonder Max had no money left to buy books after his marriage! But in 1938 everything changed when the black shroud of Anschluss snuffed out liberal and Jewish life in Austria.\nThe Morgensterns were lucky beyond imagination, with many good friends in England and enough money to help buy their freedom. While thousands of Austrian Jews would perish in the death camps, Max and Hertha managed to escape to England to join their sons; Hertha, tasked with sorting out affairs in Vienna, left on August 12, 1938, while Max, after ordering his affairs as best possible in Poland, left on September 18. Many of their possessions followed them to England, including large paintings and items of furniture. Possibly sensing that life would never be the same again, they did not take the huge dining table. Other items, including the Petenkofens and Lampis, were confiscated by Vugesta and never seen again. Max\u2019s loyal personal assistant, Miss Kotschy, was not Jewish. Desperately and bravely she tried to protect his Polish property after 1939 but Max never saw anything again from Bielsko, neither the factory machinery, the cloth nor the books, furniture and artwork from his apartment. We know an Umsiedler, Herr Issert, appropriated the mill but it is unknown whether its contents and Max\u2019s personal possessions were looted or destroyed by advancing Russian armies.\nOn arrival in England, Max and Hertha moved from hotels in London and Boars Hill, near Oxford, to eventually settle in Bradford, Yorkshire, the centre of British worsted manufacturing. But for their sons the outbreak of war meant internment on the Isle of Man, being deemed enemy aliens, along with many other Jews. When His Majesty\u2019s Government decided they were not Nazi agents they were sent to Australia! Only repeated and frantic letters from Hertha to civil servants in London resulted in the two young men being returned to England, risking the Atlantic U-boat wolf-packs. Max attempted to revive his business in Bradford. But it was not to be. He had lost all his weaving machinery and although he tried weaving on other people\u2019s looms the economics of production no longer made sense. Worst of all, he lost control of his most precious manufacturing asset \u2013 the quality that had earlier won him gold medals.\nIn 1946, two days before his first grandson (me, the author of this biography) was born, Max Morgenstern was killed in a road accident in a zero-visibility, suffocating smog.\nMax is remembered as a kind, generous and extremely cultivated man with something of a wicked sense of humour. A favourite family anecdote has him on a train, no doubt en route to or from Bielsko, sitting opposite a sleeping fellow passenger whose suit was of a fine but unusual weave. Max was fascinated but could not analyse how it had been made. Unable to contain his curiosity, he took out his pair of pocket scissors and, very carefully so as not to awaken the man, snipped a postage-stamp sized piece of the cloth from the suit lining.\nHertha lived till 1962, never really adjusting to her adopted country but living a life that attempted to mirror her privileged life in pre-war Vienna; for example, her laundry went to London, some 330k away, and returned in wicker baskets, each immaculately pressed item separated by purple tissue paper. Hertha never learned to cook \u2013 there had always been servants to do that. She once offered me, as a child, iridescent ham and a boiled egg you could pour out of its shell.\nMax\u2019s elder son Peter, my father, was extremely reluctant to talk about family life in Vienna. Like so many Jews who survived the Holocaust, he probably suffered \u2018survivor guilt\u2019. Unfortunately, therefore, there are many gaps in what we can reconstruct of the Morgenstern\u2019s life before 1938.\nThe biographical sketch has been published in Norbert Donhofer\u2019s catalogue \u201cThe Max Morgenstern Collection I - Private Press Books\u201d, it is presented here by permission of the author and Norbert Donhofer. Pictures: from the catalogue\nNorbert Donhofer: The Max Morgenstern Collection I - Private Press Books\n>>> Click here to browse the catalogue\n23 to 25 January 2015 - W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\nSchlossplatz 2, Stuttgart, GERMANY\nOpening hours: Friday 11 am to 7.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 6 pm\n>>> Click here for more information\n>>> Browse the book fair catalogue\n1523_donhofer_20morgenstern_20web.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 13458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/5550628/jamberoo-labour-of-love-on-the-market-after-nearly-30-years/?cs=3979", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HLTULQCJDCPQZ5DMYD6ZARPXURD2TAOR", "length": 6419, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.illawarramercury.com.au", "title": "\u2018Brundahroo\u2019 at 990 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo has asking price of $1.49m | Illawarra Mercury", "raw_content": "A sustainable, architect-designed artist\u2019s retreat at Jamberoo is on the market for the first time after nearly 30 years. The property at 990 Jamberoo Mountain Road, \u2018Brundahroo\u2019 has a price guide of $1,490,000. Located high on Jamberoo Mountain, it features three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a land area of 4047sqm. Current owner Susan Blanchfield said her brother Michael bought 102 acres in the area in 1971, and in 1984 gave her one acre, where her property was built. \u201cHe paid $7000 for 102 acres and the real estate agent called it \u2018rubbish country\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cMost of it is not useful in the agricultural sense, but if you love the bush it\u2019s priceless. \u201cIt\u2019s magic country I think. It\u2019s delightful to walk down through the rainforest.\u201d The home was completed in 1990. Her brother has since left the area, with his original 102 acres divided into two 50-acre lots and two one-acre lots. Ms Blanchfield said her home was \u201ctotally stand-alone, independent in terms of solar power and water\u201d. \u201cI think I was one of the first in this area to put solar panels up here,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve got tank water, enough water for everything\u2026 I\u2019m pretty independent from the grid, but it\u2019s pretty easy to get to civilisation if I need to. Read More: Thirroul \u2018Man Pod\u2019 a potential game-changer for small space living \u201cIt\u2019s full of wildlife, which is wonderful.\u201d Ms Blanchfield said the property had been a labour of love, and featured a modern kitchen and other conveniences. Other features include rich timber flooring, tiles, stain glass windows and a north-facing orientation. A former visual arts lecturer, Ms Blanchfield said she was looking to relocate to a house she had built in Gerringong. Selling agent, Vivienne Marris, principal at Elders Real Estate Jamberoo said the property offered a great view, as well as a great mix of old and new renovations. She noted that one of the key features is the north-facing deck overlooking the tops of trees to glimpses of the ocean and coastline. \u201cFrom the deck there is access to the light, spacious lounge room with combustion fire and floor to ceiling doors and clear storey windows,\u201d she said. \u200b\u201dThe covered timber deck leading out from the studio is a very special place to observe countless visiting birds and native animals; inspiration for future works of art.\u201d There has been a series of high-profile sales in Jamberoo recently. Grand rural residence \u2018Warreen\u2019 recently sold for $2.5 million to an undisclosed buyer. The private 120-acre property offers 180-degree expansive views over Jamberoo Valley, Lake Illawarra and the Illawarra coastline. In February 2016, a luxury home, converted from part of the historic Jamberoo Milk Factory, sold for $1.48 million. Its sister property was later listed on the market. The property at 31 Factory Lane, Jamberoo sold for $2 million to an Illawarra buyer. The property at 317 Jerrara Road, \u2018Christmas River\u2019, sold for $2.6 million in January. Read More: Nine boss buys $4m Berry holiday home\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/nxytTGiVvgkfKtUJaBBBHD/d292b16a-17d3-4675-9a6e-0f9fc54b12d0.jpg/r0_213_4252_2615_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\n\u2018Brundahroo\u2019 at 990 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo has asking price of $1.49m\nJamberoo \u2018labour of love\u2019 on the market after nearly 30 years\nA sustainable, architect-designed artist\u2019s retreat at Jamberoo is on the market for the first time after nearly 30 years.\nThe property at 990 Jamberoo Mountain Road, \u2018Brundahroo\u2019 has a price guide of $1,490,000.\nLocated high on Jamberoo Mountain, it features three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a land area of 4047sqm.\nCurrent owner Susan Blanchfield said her brother Michael bought 102 acres in the area in 1971, and in 1984 gave her one acre, where her property was built.\n\u201cHe paid $7000 for 102 acres and the real estate agent called it \u2018rubbish country\u2019,\u201d she said.\n\u201cMost of it is not useful in the agricultural sense, but if you love the bush it\u2019s priceless.\n\u201cIt\u2019s magic country I think. It\u2019s delightful to walk down through the rainforest.\u201d\nThe home was completed in 1990.\nHer brother has since left the area, with his original 102 acres divided into two 50-acre lots and two one-acre lots.\nMs Blanchfield said her home was \u201ctotally stand-alone, independent in terms of solar power and water\u201d.\n\u201cI think I was one of the first in this area to put solar panels up here,\u201d she said.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got tank water, enough water for everything\u2026 I\u2019m pretty independent from the grid, but it\u2019s pretty easy to get to civilisation if I need to.\nDo you have an interesting real estate story that could be featured in an upcoming edition? Please email brendan.crabb@fairfaxmedia.com.au with details.\nRead More: Thirroul \u2018Man Pod\u2019 a potential game-changer for small space living\n\u201cIt\u2019s full of wildlife, which is wonderful.\u201d\nMs Blanchfield said the property had been a labour of love, and featured a modern kitchen and other conveniences.\nOther features include rich timber flooring, tiles, stain glass windows and a north-facing orientation.\nA former visual arts lecturer, Ms Blanchfield said she was looking to relocate to a house she had built in Gerringong.\nSelling agent, Vivienne Marris, principal at Elders Real Estate Jamberoo said the property offered a great view, as well as a great mix of old and new renovations.\nShe noted that one of the key features is the north-facing deck overlooking the tops of trees to glimpses of the ocean and coastline.\n\u201cFrom the deck there is access to the light, spacious lounge room with combustion fire and floor to ceiling doors and clear storey windows,\u201d she said.\n\u200b\u201dThe covered timber deck leading out from the studio is a very special place to observe countless visiting birds and native animals; inspiration for future works of art.\u201d\nThere has been a series of high-profile sales in Jamberoo recently.\nGrand rural residence \u2018Warreen\u2019 recently sold for $2.5 million to an undisclosed buyer.\nThe private 120-acre property offers 180-degree expansive views over Jamberoo Valley, Lake Illawarra and the Illawarra coastline.\nIn February 2016, a luxury home, converted from part of the historic Jamberoo Milk Factory, sold for $1.48 million.\nIts sister property was later listed on the market.\nThe property at 31 Factory Lane, Jamberoo sold for $2 million to an Illawarra buyer.\nThe property at 317 Jerrara Road, \u2018Christmas River\u2019, sold for $2.6 million in January.\nRead More: Nine boss buys $4m Berry holiday home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 9497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/5604787/dragons-great-lance-thompson-found-dead-at-home/?cs=3713", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JLWXQK63B42PEXJHLGCN3DPEMPNEPIYC", "length": 4412, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.illawarramercury.com.au", "title": "Former St George Illawarra Dragons player Lance Thompson found dead | Illawarra Mercury", "raw_content": "sport, dragons-den, Lance Thompson dead\nFormer St George Illawarra and Cronulla rugby league player Lance Thompson has died. The 40-year-old was found dead at an apartment on The Kingsway, Cronulla about 9pm on Thursday. His death is not being treated as suspicious and there was no evidence of self harm, police say. Thompson was reportedly found by his teenage daughter. Australian Rugby League Commission chair Peter Beattie has led tributes for Thompson, saying his death was a loss to the sport. \"A very sad day for rugby league with the passing of NRL star Lance Thompson,\" Beattie tweeted. \"A much-loved member of the rugby league community. Condolences to his family.\" Ashton Sims also used social media to pay tribute to his former St George Illawarra teammate . \"Total loss for words. Lance was one of the toughest forwards I've played with and looked after all of us young guys coming through the (Dragons),\" the 33-year-old posted on Twitter. Former Wests Tigers star Keith Galloway said the red-haired second rower was an idol of his growing up. \"One of my childhood favourites and a local hero who I looked up to and was lucky enough to get to know over the years, champion bloke and player,\" he tweeted. Thompson played 239 first grade games with the Dragons (201 matches) and Sharks (38). He made his first grade debut as a 17-year-old with St George in round 13 1995 against Cronulla before he switched to the Sharks for the 2006 season. The veteran backrower was forced into early retirement in 2008 as his body broke down after 14 years in the NRL. At the time, Thompson was battling a knee injury and cited his long-term health and inability to keep up with his young daughter while having a backyard kick as reasons to call it quits at age 30. He scored a try in his farewell game but Penrith spoiled a fairytale swan song with a 21-20 golden-point win. A report into Thompson's death will be prepared for the coroner. AAP Read more: WIN Corporation commits to Dragons future in Wollongong\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/35ns5Wme2fedmBqQ6qZE6iD/6221af34-a15a-4038-bc9f-4f111d8cc9af.jpg/r0_13_640_375_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nFormer St George Illawarra Dragons player Lance Thompson found dead\nDragons great Lance Thompson found dead at home\nFormer Dragons player Lance Thompson has been found dead. Picture: Andy Zakeli\nLance Thompson in 2001. Picture: Robert Peet\nDragon Lance Thompson in 2005. Picture: AAP\nFormer St George Illawarra and Cronulla rugby league player Lance Thompson has died.\nThe 40-year-old was found dead at an apartment on The Kingsway, Cronulla about 9pm on Thursday.\nHis death is not being treated as suspicious and there was no evidence of self harm, police say.\nThompson was reportedly found by his teenage daughter.\nAustralian Rugby League Commission chair Peter Beattie has led tributes for Thompson, saying his death was a loss to the sport.\n\"A very sad day for rugby league with the passing of NRL star Lance Thompson,\" Beattie tweeted.\n\"A much-loved member of the rugby league community. Condolences to his family.\"\nAshton Sims also used social media to pay tribute to his former St George Illawarra teammate .\n\"Total loss for words. Lance was one of the toughest forwards I've played with and looked after all of us young guys coming through the (Dragons),\" the 33-year-old posted on Twitter.\nFormer Wests Tigers star Keith Galloway said the red-haired second rower was an idol of his growing up.\n\"One of my childhood favourites and a local hero who I looked up to and was lucky enough to get to know over the years, champion bloke and player,\" he tweeted.\nThompson played 239 first grade games with the Dragons (201 matches) and Sharks (38).\nHe made his first grade debut as a 17-year-old with St George in round 13 1995 against Cronulla before he switched to the Sharks for the 2006 season.\nThe veteran backrower was forced into early retirement in 2008 as his body broke down after 14 years in the NRL.\nAt the time, Thompson was battling a knee injury and cited his long-term health and inability to keep up with his young daughter while having a backyard kick as reasons to call it quits at age 30.\nHe scored a try in his farewell game but Penrith spoiled a fairytale swan song with a 21-20 golden-point win.\nA report into Thompson's death will be prepared for the coroner.\nRead more: WIN Corporation commits to Dragons future in Wollongong", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/product-tag/eduardo-chillida/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NPMBLARLMTCS54VA2YQQRXZSER6LRU3F", "length": 119, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk", "title": "Eduardo Chillida Archives - Illuminations", "raw_content": "A fascinating documentary featuring a legendary sculptor speaking candidly about his work, space, limits and materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilovefrenchmusic.com/category/ben-loncle-soul", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UISYS6DU6K2E677CT3Z3EVRQEJCPGJSS", "length": 114, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ilovefrenchmusic.com", "title": "Arhives Ben L'Oncle Soul \u2013 I love French music", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbCategory: \"Ben L\u2019Oncle Soul\"\nBrowsing: Ben L\u2019Oncle Soul\nShowing posts with label Ben L\u2019Oncle Soul.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imortuary.com/cremation/minnesota/minneapolis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:47Z", "digest": "sha1:IZ6JXWAIMKHZRQMXB54EEDSVV5AT25XS", "length": 3390, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.imortuary.com", "title": "Minneapolis Cremation in Minnesota: Free, expert help", "raw_content": "Cremation in Minneapolis, MN\nQuality services from endorsed Minneapolis funeral homes\nPic by Bobak Ha'Eri, Jdkoenig, WxGop... / CC BY-SA 4.0\nFinding cremation options in Minneapolis\nTo find cremation options in Minneapolis, many consumers turn to web-based searches, like \"cremation in Minneapolis, MN,\" when they are unsure where to begin cremation planning. 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We have found that people who visit the dental office on a regular basis have significantly fewer problems with their teeth. When you come to our dental office at least once every six months, we have the opportunity to inspect your teeth, clean them, and catch any budding problems before they become serious so that we can deal with them in their infancy.\nRegular Dental Visits Are Necessary for Preventative Care\nThere are numerous dental problems that can spring up when people do not visit the dentist on a regular basis. It is for this reason that we recommend a regularly scheduled maintenance visit so that we can ensure that the teeth remain in optimum health. Very often we have patients who wonder why we, as a dentist, want to have them come in twice a year when it seems like there are no existing problems for us to deal with during these biannual visits. The answer is simple, in that it is these biannual visits that prevent the problems in the first place. So, here is what one can expect when making a regularly scheduled visit at our dental office.\nA Professional Examination\nWhen the patient comes into the dental office for the first time, or after a long duration has passed, we need to make sure that we have a clear understanding of everything that is going on in the mouth. In order to achieve this, we will perform a detailed examination of the mouth and will also need to get X-rays and panoramic X-rays so that we can see if there are any underlying problems in the gum or root areas.\nThe patient will not need to get X-rays every time he or she comes in for a regularly scheduled maintenance visit to the dental office. However, we will need to update the X-rays and other visual dental tools from time to time, typically once every few years.\nDuring a typical bi-annual visits to our dental office our primary goal is to make sure that we are inspecting the teeth, looking for soft spots and other possible flaws, inspecting the gums to make sure that there is no onset of gum disease, and cleaning off any excess plaque that may have built up since the last visit. We will look for soft spots because they are an indication that there is a buildup of bacteria, and a strong potential for creating cavities. If the spot is too soft we will recommend removing the decay and putting in a filling.\nTeeth cleaning is one of the most important parts of a regularly-scheduled dental office visit. When we professionally clean the teeth, we are able to get up into spots the toothbrush cannot normally reach. Since the toothbrush cannot get into all the crevices and hidden spots, we need to make sure that there is no buildup of plaque in those areas. If plaque is allowed to build up because the toothbrush was unable to get to it, it can lead to decay, cavities, gum disease, periodontal disease, and other complications.\nTo schedule your dental appointment, call our office today at (425) 249-9186.\nImportant Information About Dental X-Rays \u00bb\n\u00ab Visit Our Dental Office for Preventative Care", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/how-to-put-people-in-the-right-mood.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:GASMCC5IFRHG6HIYNWGN7NEGKPSKIRCJ", "length": 4716, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.inc.com", "title": "How to Put People in the Right Mood | Inc.com", "raw_content": "How to Put People in the Right Mood\nWant people to enjoy doing business with you? Here is how to use the 5 senses to close the deal.\nImagine a dinner party at your home: You consider the guests who are coming and what they need to be comfortable. Then you try to make the space a welcoming extension of your own personality. You choose the right songs to play on the stereo, arrange the furniture to let guests move and interact, and adjust the lighting. You carefully plan the food, and perhaps buy scented candles. Everything should work together to give guests a specific experience. If you get it right, you can turn a bad day around for them or make a good day into a great one. These same sensory elements can separate an average customer experience from a great one in your brand's business environment.\nEvery office or store environment, including yours, has a certain ambiance. This \"feeling\" in the air has an immediate and lasting impact on everyone who walks in, from CEO to employees to customers. If you arrive at work or try to run errands while having a terrible day, all of the issues hanging over you will make it difficult to get things done with ease. Refocusing and getting back in the right mood is hard for most people to do on their own. The result is often limited productivity and poor results across the board.\nMany businesses don't consider the impact that the five senses can have on the office environment, and by extension, the \"brand mood\" that it creates. To succeed, brands have to connect in an intentional, emotional way with customers. That is exactly how Ken Eissing of Mood Media has made a successful business -- by helping companies set the right mood.\nEissing, a YPO member, spent years as an executive in large financial services companies but today focuses less on the numbers and more on the softer side of life. Eissing advises that what a person sees, hears, smells, touches and tastes in your business has a strong impact on how they view your brand, both consciously and unconsciously, affecting their resulting mood and behavior. Here are Eissing's tips - considering each of the five senses - for putting people in the right mood within your business environment:\n1. First, look at sight.\nFor most, the first encounter with an environment is what they see and that drives their first impressions. Eissing says, \"Ask yourself, 'what do I want people to see and experience when they are waiting in line, standing or sitting here or there?\" In addition to pleasing the eye with attractive d\u00e9cor, think about making information easy to access. Innovations like digital signage can help both customers and employees interact more successfully with products and services.\n2. Next, sound out the sounds.\n\"Just as your business has a certain look, feel and personality, it also has its own unique voice - a music all its own and sound that says, 'This is who we are',\" Eissing advises. Be aware of the ambient noises in the space, and whether these are soothing or grating. If you make musical selections, choose things that will speak to your target audience, which will emotionally reinforce their identification with your brand. That in turn inspires brand perception, buying behavior and brand loyalty.\n3. Sniff out the right smells.\nResearch shows that, for humans, sense of smell is a powerful connector, the only sense directly connected to the part of the brain that stores emotional connections and memories. \"It also shows that there is a 40% improvement in mood after being exposed to pleasant scents,\" he says, \"So, scent is an excellent avenue to create a more memorable experience of your brand.\" When used correctly, can strongly influence people's mood choices.\n4. Get in touch with touch.\nAccording to Eissing, \"Touch is often overlooked, but shouldn't be ignored. People want to feel that they can be can comfortably be 'hands-on' in a business. It is one of the advantages of brick-and-mortar in a digital age: online customers and telecommuting workers can't physically touch or interact with products or services. That creates an opportunity for deeper meaning and appreciation when they do walk in to your space.\"\n5. Finally, exercise a tasteful approach to taste.\n\"This is a consideration that shouldn't be limited just to those in the food service industry,\" Eissing insists. For many, food is one of life's most pleasurable experiences. \"If you find ways to bring taste into the experiential mix, that can establish connections with your brand that are more immediate, personal and interactive.\"\nEach week Kevin explores exclusive stories inside YPO, the world's premiere leadership organization for chief executives, eligible at age 45 or younger.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiastat.com/table/economy-data/8/2006-2007/391226/393462/data.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:44Z", "digest": "sha1:E4PCEPV3GFKJ2RQO4U7OBHL745K4O7NN", "length": 127, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.indiastat.com", "title": "Budget Allocations, Net of Recoveries and Plan Outlay for Ministry of Small Scale Industries in India (2005-2006 and 2006-2007)", "raw_content": "Budget Allocations, Net of Recoveries and Plan Outlay for Ministry of Small Scale Industries in India (2005-2006 and 2006-2007)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.industrynet.com/listing/39772/superior-laser-products-inc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:KNOXK62XTNFOVTBTJYBXHVXH6NJFMYLS", "length": 472, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.industrynet.com", "title": "Superior Laser Products, Inc. - Davie, FL 33314 - Wholesale Office Equipment", "raw_content": "Superior Laser Products, Inc.\nDistributor of office supplies & equipment, including toner cartridges, inkjets & new & refurbished printers, copiers & fax machines\n(5112) Stationery and office supplies\nCompanies Starting with \"SUP\"\nWest Coast Copiers (Clearwater, FL)\nSaxon Business Systems, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL)\nSaxon Business Systems, Inc. (Miami Lakes, FL)\nGlobal Imaging Systems, Inc. (Tampa, FL)\nSaxon Business Systems, Inc. (Orlando, FL)\nDigicor, Inc. (Odessa, FL)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inetsoftware.de/support/news/i-net-clear-reports-2012-new-minor-release-12.1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:I6HNNBVPUXGNQXLYVVJJWDDLP3XMIZC6", "length": 204, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.inetsoftware.de", "title": "i-net Clear Reports 2012 - New Minor Release 12.1", "raw_content": "Berlin, Oct 26, 2012\ni-net software proudly announces the build 12.1.59 of i-net Clear Reports. This build contains some new features and bug fixes. For more information please refer to the Release Notes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 244.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infoworld.com/article/2613049/development-tools/article.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:CWYBIC2AIKMIFI5IDYYSTDMK6BDARNIH", "length": 6939, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.infoworld.com", "title": "Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F# | InfoWorld", "raw_content": "Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F#\nMicrosoft's F# language geared to parallel programming, data-oriented problem-solving\nThe F# (pronounced \"f sharp\") object-oriented functional programming language originated at Microsoft Research around 2004. It was designed by Don Syme, principal researcher at the company. The language is geared to data-oriented programming as well as parallel programming and algorithmic development. F# 3.0, featuring support for large-scale schematized data and APIs, was released last year along with an update to Visual F# tools in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 IDE; Microsoft recently updated its Try F# website, which provides tools and resources for using F#, as well. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke to Syme for perspectives on what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the language.\nInfoWorld: What can developers do with F# that they can't already do with C#, C++, Visual Basic, or other programming languages available?\nSyme: One primary difference is that F# is a functional-first language and in many ways a data-first programming language. The construction of the language is carefully designed to facilitate data-oriented problem-solving and manipulation in a functional programming way. One of the key aspects of functional programming is to reduce the bug rate for doing routine manipulations over data structures.\n[ Microsoft is embracing the Git version control system. | Subscribe to InfoWorld's Developer World newsletter for news on software development. ]\nInfoWorld: What exactly is a functional language?\nSyme: One of the primary characteristics is that data is represented in a way that is called immutable. What this means is that you have descriptions of data, such as a design, so perhaps you can imagine taking a picture, and the programming is more oriented around transforming what you have and producing a new picture as a result. Instagram, for example, or Excel is also a functional kind of system, where you take data and you specify how that data changes through the system. A functional programming language is one that takes that paradigm through [to] general purpose programming.\nInfoWorld: What was the main impetus behind F#?\nSyme: It reduces the time to deployment for analytical software components. You find that kind of programming, particularly in finance and insurance industries, but also in a wide range of scientific or data-oriented or data-intensive programming domains. Microsoft embraced F# and contributed to F# because we want a top-notch functional programming experience on our platforms. Microsoft contributes three things to F#: One is the Visual F# tools, which come with Visual Studio. Microsoft Research contributes the language design to F#, and we also contribute the Try F# site that has just been released this week.\nInfoWorld: Is F# basically for parallel programming?\nSyme: Yes. It's one of the things that F# is very good at, and it comes from this functional, stateless approach to programming.\nInfoWorld: Are there open source and commercial versions of F#?\nSyme: When you use F# on a Mac or Linux system, you normally use the open source version of F#. When you use it on a Windows system, I think it would be normal to use the Microsoft implementation of F# and the Visual F# tools. You can use the open source version on the Windows system, as far as I know. You can, but that is not normally the way that people use it.\nInfoWorld: You mentioned support for F# in Visual Studio. Are there any other tools out there besides Visual Studio that you can use to develop with F#?\nSyme: The F# Software Foundation provides tooling for MonoDevelop, which is a cross-platform IDE, and they also provide tools for Emacs, and they have a lot of other tooling, slightly less integrated tooling there for other editing environments.\nInfoWorld: How much development has already been done with F#, and can you name any big-name programs or websites that have used it?\nSyme: There are many users of F#. For instance, there are 4,000 questions on StackOverflow about F#. Those questions indicate quite a lot of users of the language.\nIn terms of people using it, we often talk about a system that was done by sort of the Microsoft advertising platform, which was a machine learning system that used F# as the implementation language. This was from the core algorithm to decide which ads to serve in response to a search requests for questions coming in from Bing or the like. And these are really critical core algorithms and very much the kind of programming that we associate with F#, where you might have some core algorithmic code or core data analysis code written in the language.\nThen around the outside, it would be deployed in some larger system because one of F#'s main benefits is it has very good interoperability with systems like .Net and C#. You can take F# and integrate it into a larger system. That system was very good. There are case studies on the Microsoft site from Grange Insurance, and there are case studies from a major bank in Europe, which has over 100 people writing their quantitative finance models in F#.\nInfoWorld: Would you use F# for a Web program?\nSyme: You would use F# for server-side Web programming, absolutely. The Visual F# tools aren't particularly aimed at client-side Web programming, but there are other F# tools provided by third-party companies. I point you to IntelliFactory, who do a tool called WebSharper [for HTML5 Web programming].\nInfoWorld: How does Microsoft make money from F#?\nSyme: It's fairly well understood that Microsoft invests in languages because we have platforms that have programmability requirements. We invest in F# because that helps make our platforms better, and through our platforms we get revenue.\nInfoWorld: Is there anything else that's really critical to the F# game plan that you want to talk about?\nSyme: One of the things I'm really excited about with Try F# is not just that people can learn F#, but that they see groundbreaking ideas in how data is integrated into the language in F# 3.0. People these days want to use something that's very polished, where they can play with the ideas and see what a difference it makes to their programming. And these things can disseminate very broadly.\nFor instance, we did asynchronous programming in F# 2.0, and that has now progressed into C# 5.0. That is just wonderful to see that these ideas are progressing out from the cutting edge high-productivity functional languages into the broader programming industry. To me, as a researcher, that is also just a great success.\nThis article, \"Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F#,\" was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 9839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/412-woman-sues-husbands-alleged-mistress-awarded-9-million", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:V5R6YEBF6WH2AKYTRVUFU7OB7G56OLY2", "length": 2690, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.insideedition.com", "title": "Woman Sues Husband's Alleged Mistress, Awarded $9 Million | Inside Edition", "raw_content": "Woman Sues Husband's Alleged Mistress, Awarded $9 Million\n\"She maliciously went after my husband with a vengeance,\" said Cynthia Shackelford.\nCynthia was just awarded $9 million in damages. And you won't believe who she sued...her husband's alleged mistress!\n\"She knew that he lived with me. She knew that we had a happy marriage. She's the one that really did it, in my opinion,\" she said.\nCynthia said for more than 30 years her marriage to her husband Allan, a lawyer in Greensboro, North Carolina, was just about perfect.\n\"I felt he truly loved me, and I really loved him,\" she said.\nWhen asked if she was happily married, Cynthia replied, \"I was happily married and as far as I know he was happily married as well. So it was a big surprise to me that this has all happened.\"\nAccording to Cynthia, it came to a crashing end when her husband began seeing Anne Lundquist, a dean at Guilford College.\n\"A few months later he was taking her home from the office to her house. I couldn't understand this 'full service' deal,\" Cynthia said.\n\"She knew you were married?\" INSIDE EDITION asked Cynthia.\n\"Yes, I went to a party in her home and my husband introduced me as his wife,\" she said.\nShe suspected her husband was cheating so she hired a private detective to tail him while she was out of town.\nShe said she learned more about her husband's alleged affair from the private detective.\n\"He picked her up, took her to our home. Driving into the garage, closed the garage door and went inside our home for about an hour, an hour and a half, went upstairs, and downstairs. I just wish my cocker spaniel could talk because they were there together,\" she said.\nWhen asked how she felt, Cynthia said, \"I was devastated. I never thought that it would happen to us.\"\nCynthia left her husband, moved into a three bedroom home with her two children, and filed for divorce. And then she took an unusual step, going after the \"other woman.\"\nUsing a centuries-old North Carolina law, Cynthia sued her husband's alleged mistress for alienation of affection. And after a two-day trial, 12 jurors agreed with the scorned ex-wife, awarding her a staggering judgment: $9 million.\nWhen asked if she thinks she'll ever see a penny of it, Cynthia said, \"I expect to see more than pennies. I don't necessarily expect to see $9 million. But I do expect to see something.\"\nShe also said she hopes this will be a warning to others who are thinking about cheating on a spouse.\n\"She knew what she was doing. And that's the alienation of affection. She went in there and alienated his affection to me by getting it to herself and destroyed my marriage,\" Cynthia said.\nLundquist reportedly plans to appeal the decision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/journal/knowledge-management-e-learning-an-international-journal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:48Z", "digest": "sha1:24PTAWV5FG5UOKFXDE75MFYWC2NRYETU", "length": 697, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.interaction-design.org", "title": "Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal | Interaction Design Foundation", "raw_content": "Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal\nMark, Kai-Pan, Vogel, Douglas R. (2009): Technology Support for Engagement Retention: The Case of BackPack. In Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 1 (3) pp. 163-179. http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/viewArticle/23\nMark, Kai-Pan, Thadani, Dimple R., David, Santandreu Calonge,, Pun, Cecilia F. K., Chiu, P. H. Patrio (2011): From Neophyte to Experienced Facilitator: an Interactive Blended-Learning Course for Gradu. 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We are saying the rich are also facing their share of problems, but of a different nature\u2013 domenitisation is drying up their cash inflow. Tennis stars Roger Federer and Serena Williams are prime examples of the rich causalities of demonetisation. The International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), which is partially organised in India, will not have the stars this year due to the cash crunch. (Watch: AIB\u2019s ballsy and stinging takedown of Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018demonetisation circus\u2019)\nFounder of the league, Mahesh Bhupathi lamented the \u201cchallenges\u201d generating from the \u201ccurrent economic climate\u201d as he confirmed that the stars won\u2019t feature in this year\u2019s event.\n\u201cWe have had challenges this year and we are hoping to get past them. With the current economic climate in India and uncertainty of spending money, I reached out to both Roger (Federer) and Serena (Williams) to explain the situation. They have been very supportive of the IPTL in the first two seasons and we look forward to bring them in the future,\u201d he said in a statement.\n(Read more: Demonetisation will be the end of Modi\u2019s rule, says Hindu Mahasabha)\nThe Indian leg of IPTL is scheduled in Hyderabad between 9-11 December. Serena Williams and Roger Federer would have been a major attraction for viewers in India.\nAfter this IPTL fiasco, the big question is whether the \u201ceconomic climate\u201d has an adverse impact on Indian Premier League?\nThe Modi government last month announced that all the notes of denomination 500 and 1000- which was 86 percent of the total money in circulation, would not be considered legal tenders. It said that the notes would be replaced by new notes of denomination 500 and 2000.\nThe government at the time said that necessary arrangements were made to pump the new currency notes in the cash-strapped economy; however, the masses are still grappling with acute shortage of currency as long queues are seen in front of ATMs and banks across the nation. The banks have not been receiving cash; hence they are not being able to disburse money to public. Poor people and traders- who do not use plastic money- are worst-hit by demonetisation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ioew.de/en/the-ioew/organisation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:O44LO74RDKKDPGNRN5IX5Z2AT2IIHEC5", "length": 1106, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ioew.de", "title": "I\u00d6W: Organisation", "raw_content": "Pioneering spirit and tradition \u2013 that is what the I\u00d6W stands for. It takes a lot of experience to recognise what will be tomorrow\u2019s topic. We have been dealing with the issues of the future for 30 years, coming up with constantly new and frequently unusual answers. Today we are working on topics such as sustainable corporate management, climate-friendly energy systems, new technologies and sustainable consumption. These topics are addressed at the I\u00d6W in the so-called research fields.\nThe Institute is run by the the Scientific Director, Thomas Korbun and the Administrative Director Marion Wiegand. The I\u00d6W board supports actively the strategic orientation of the institute. The Management also contains the Public Relations and Communications department and the editorial staff of the journal Ecological Economy.\nThe institute\u2019s work is supported by a Scientific Advisory Board, which is made up of renowned scientists from economic and environmental research. A list of our shareholders can be found here.\nIn addition to the main office in Berlin, the I\u00d6W also has a regional office in Heidelberg.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 173.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/outcry-after-air-strikes-in-northern-yemen-kills-dozens-861203.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HX2V7HDXJNI5ZN6BYKBQ4Q3GNMBP2D5T", "length": 2781, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.irishexaminer.com", "title": "Outcry after air strikes in northern Yemen kills dozens | Irish Examiner", "raw_content": "Outcry after air strikes in northern Yemen kills dozens\nAn air strike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shia rebels has struck a bus at a busy market in northern Yemen, killing least 50 people, including children, and wounding 77 others.\nThe Saudi-led coalition said it had targeted the rebels, known as Houthis, in the Dahyan market in Saada province after they had fired a missile at the kingdom\u2019s south on Wednesday, killing one person.\nAl Masirah TV aired dramatic images of wounded children, their clothes and schoolbags covered with blood as they lay on hospital stretchers.\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Twitter that its team at a hospital in Saada received the bodies of 29 children, all under 15 years old.\nIt also received 48 wounded people, including 30 children.\nSaada province, a Houthi stronghold, lies along the border with Saudi Arabia.\nThe bus was ferrying local civilians, including many children, according to Yemeni tribal leaders.\nColonel Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said the attack in Saada targeted the rebels who had fired a missile at the kingdom\u2019s south, killing one person and wounding 11 others.\nThe coalition said the projectile, fired toward the southwestern Saudi city of Jizan, was intercepted and destroyed but its fragments caused the casualties.\nThe statement added that the missile was launched \u201cdeliberately to target residential and populated areas\u201d.\nCol al-Malki insisted Thursday\u2019s attack carried out in Saada is a \u201clegitimate military action\u201d and is \u201cin accordance with international humanitarian law and customs\u201d.\nHe also accused the Houthis of recruiting children and using them as human shields.\nSaudi Arabia backs Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government and has been at war with the Houthis since March 2015. The rebels control much of northern Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.\n\u201cScores killed, even more injured, most under the age of ten,\u201d the head of the ICRC in Yemen, Johannes Bruwer, said on his Twitter account, adding that the ICRC in Yemen is \u201csending additional supplies to hospitals to cope with the influx\u201d.\nLater on Thursday, air strikes hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and sounds of the blasts reverberated across the city\u2019s southern and western areas. There was no immediate word on casualties.\nYemen\u2019s three-year war has killed more than 10,000 people, badly damaged Yemen\u2019s infrastructure and crippled its health system. The coalition faces widespread international criticism for air strikes in Yemen that kill civilians.\nImpoverished Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is in the grip of one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises, with more than 22.2 million people in need of assistance.\nWorldYemenAirStrikeUKYemenstorycomposite", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 8642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ishik.edu.iq/conf/icad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:P7BFPFP7UFDQBFMWA4I6BWK6Y3STAZE4", "length": 5358, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "www.ishik.edu.iq", "title": "International Conference on Architecture & Interior Design(ICAD2018) \u2013 IEC2018", "raw_content": "Dates/Program \u25bc\nPanels \u25bc\nGuideline for Papers\nICAD Archives\nPanels ICAD2018\u25bc\nCulture Heritage and Architecture Panel\nArchitecture and Environment Panel\nSustainable Architecture and Environment Panel\nMenu: HomeAbout \u25bc-Erbil City-Venue-Travel/Visa-AccommodationDates/Program \u25bc-Important Dates-Program-Keynote SpeakersPanels \u25bcRegistration \u25bc-Author Registration-Participant Registration-FeesPaper \u25bc-Paper Submission-Call for Paper-Guideline for PapersCommittees \u25bc-Organizing Committee-Scientific CommitteeICAD Archives-ICAD 2018-Panels ICAD2018\u25bc--Culture Heritage and Architecture Panel--Architecture and Environment Panel--Sustainable Architecture and Environment PanelContact\nInternational Conference on Architecture & Interior Design\nYou are invited to participate in the International Conference on Architecture & Interior Design (ICAD 2018) in the city of Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq on November 4th and 5th, 2019 under the theme of \u201cIdentity between Tradition and Innovation\u201d.The event is jointly organized by Ishik University and Salahaddin University. Presentations will be delivered by international high profile researchers and keynote speakers.\nIshik University was established in 2008. The University has created Dentistry, Economics and Administrative Sciences Engineering, Science, Education and Law Faculties which require high expenses, and has enforced the budget to provide educational and research centers at modern university standards. Ishik University with around 3000 students and 240 staffs from seven different countries has an international position among local universities where cultural interaction takes place. Ishik University gives priority to researches to promote knowledge, to contribute to science, to support learning, and to improve social interaction.\nThe instructional, research, and service missions of the University reflect the needs of the respective geographic areas. The University also serves state wide, national, and international needs by offering consultancy, educational and research activities in communities throughout the state and through research and training exchanges and world-wide partnership programs. In this way, Salahaddin University-Erbil has enriched the cultural, political, and industrial sectors of Kurdistan for four decades, playing a major role in the advancement of Kurdish society.\nThe aim of the conference is to gather researchers, professors, practitioners, educators, students of Architecture Engineering and Interior Design with interests in Architecture Area at all levels from regional Universities of Kurdistan and international universities all around the world. Invitations will be sent to universities in Kurdistan region of Iraq, regional universities in Lebanon, Syria, UAE, Iran, and other international universities around world.\nMore Information are coming soon\nThe form and function in Architecture\nSustainable Materials & Material technology\nPaper submission is open for a limited time\nAbstract information deadline \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 03 March 2019\nFull-paper submission deadline \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 04 August 2019\nCamera ready submission \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..06 October 2019\nRegistration Days \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026 04 November 2019\nConference Days \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..04- 05 November 2019\nPanel 1: Architecture and Environment Panel\nChair: Dr. Hassan Hassoon ALDelfi\nPanel 2 \u2026 please click here for registration\nSeminar 1 \u2026 please click here for registration\nGuidelines for submission of full-papers\nSubmitted paper should be in English including illustrations, references & appendices and without page numbering. Papers should be submitted electronically in MS-Word or PDF format. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.\nThe paper format template (MS-Word) can be downloaded from Here.\nFull paper must be submitted (Abstracts are not acceptable). Submitted paper should be in English and must not exceed 8 pages, including illustrations, references & appendices and without page numbering. Maximum number of additional pages is 4 (at extra cost \u2013 see registration). Papers should be submitted electronically in MS-Word or PDF format. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.\nfor more Information [More detail \u2026]\nRegistration & Payment for Authors (Accepted Papers)\nRegistration fees will be as following:\n(Authors will get certificates + proceeding book + Two lunches)\nPaper (one author) $200 Accepted paper (Presenter)\n2nd Author\nStudent (Author) $50\n$100 Attending with 1st Author (Presenters)\nAccepted paper (Presenter), (discount for Ishik university students 50%)\n2nd Author $50 Attending with 1st Author (Presenters)\nStudent (Author) $100 Accepted paper (Presenter), (discount for Ishik university students 50%)\n[More detail \u2026]\nProf. Dr. Azad Hama\nDr. Hafedh Yahya\nDr. Zaid ALhamdany\nHaval Sami\nYounus Ali\nMadyan Maher Rashan\nNo\u2019man Albayaty\nSoma Abdulsalam Kareem\nShino Abdullah\nDr. Khalid Wooral, Dean of Engineering Faculty\u2013 Ishik University\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Hassan Hasson\nSecretary of scientific committee:\nSeema Kahlid Alfaris\nICAD2019 Sponsors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jacksonville.com/sports/college/2010-06-23/story/world-cup-roundup-england-and-germany-advance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:7FRKD6HQXFX7PP23FVVSL3FFUKIFLMIC", "length": 2484, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.jacksonville.com", "title": "World Cup Roundup: England, Germany and Ghana advance - Sports - The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL", "raw_content": "World Cup Roundup: England, Germany and Ghana advance\nENGLAND 1, SLOVENIA 0\nJermain Defoe's goal put much-improved England into the World Cup's round of 16.\nRecalled to the starting lineup, Defoe knocked in a cross from James Milner in the 23rd minute on Wednesday in Port Elizabeh, South Africa, to give England five points from its three Group C games. Slovenia finished with four points.\nEngland will play Germany, the winner of Group D, on Sunday.\n\"This team, this spirit, played together and tried together,\" England coach Fabio Capello said. \"I am really happy because I found the team I know. We now go forward. We can play against all the teams because the mind is now free.\"\nFollowing disappointing draws against the United States and Algeria to start the tournament, England played far more aggressively and created more chances against Slovenia. The English went ahead when Defoe put in Milner's pass from 5 yards with a right-footed shot.\nGERMANY 1, GHANA 0\nMesut Oezil scored on a left-footed blast from outside the area to give Germany the Group D title in Johannesburg. Despite the defeat, Ghana also advanced to the round of 16 - taking second place in the group with four points. Australia also finished with four points, but Ghana was ahead on goal differential.\nGhana is the first of the six African teams in the tournament to make it to the knockout phase, and it could be the last. Only Ivory Coast still has a chance to join Ghana.\nOnce the scoreboard had flashed the result of Australia's match with Serbia - a 2-1 Aussie win - Ghana players hugged each other, waved their country's flag and ran to the corner where their supporters were cheering and dancing.\nGermany had been in danger of failing to advance from the group stage for the first time, but the three-time champions kept the upper hand throughout the match and got the victory they needed.\nAUSTRALIA 2, SERBIA 1\nTim Cahill and Brett Holman scored second-half goals to lead Australia past Serbia in Nelspruit, South Africa, but both teams failed to advance to the second round.\nMarko Pantelic pulled a goal back for Serbia, which finished last with three points, one behind Australia.\nCahill put the Australians ahead with a glancing header off Luke Wilkshire's cross in the 69th minute, and Holman added the second from long range four minutes later.\nAustralia, which made the second round four years ago and lost to eventual champion Italy, was undone by its 4-0 loss to the Germans in the opener.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 4906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jaguarnewfoundland.ca/en/terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SNK7BQA4FZH3UCESYNZVLKDCNSF2SDPH", "length": 18975, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.jaguarnewfoundland.ca", "title": "Our Terms | Global Imports Ltd., Mount Pearl, NL", "raw_content": "Please read the following Terms and Conditions (the \u201cTerms\u201d) carefully before using any website of Jaguar Land Rover Canada ULC (\u201cJLR Canada,\u201d \u201cour\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d), including but not limited to the Jaguar Canada and the Land Rover Canada websites, as well as any online features, services and/or programs offered by JLR Canada (collectively, the \u201cWebsite\u201d).\nThese Terms are not applicable to any other web pages operated and/or owned by any entity other than JLR Canada, including, but not limited to, Tata Motors, Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, and any automobile retailer or service center. 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If you have additional questions or comments of any kind, or if you see anything on the Website that you think is inappropriate, please let us know by sending your comments or requests to:\nJaguar Land Rover Canada ULC\n75 Courtneypark Drive West, Unit 3\nAttn: Customer Care \u2013 Web Site\nprivacy@jaguarlandrover.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 20674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jango.com/music/Eric+B+Rakim", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BHKK6JSSMK3WIXS2K57IJZ3FNY3V25NL", "length": 905, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.jango.com", "title": "Eric B. & Rakim music - Listen Free on Jango || Pictures, Videos, Albums, Bio, Fans", "raw_content": "Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier (born November 8, 1965) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr.). Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair are generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre. During hip hop's \"golden age\" of the mid-1980s to the early 90s, the duo was almost universally regarded as the premier MC/DJ combo in hip hop. The two had a potent chemistry and each represented the height of in...\nStations With Eric B. & Rakim\nEric B. & Rakim Radio\nPlays Eric B. & Rakim along with similar artists like:\nBig Daddy Kane, Souls of Mischief, Mos Def, The Beatnuts, Kurtis Blow\u2026\nUltimate HipHop Mix\nPlays throwback hip-hop hits for the perfect party hangout.\nMC Hammer, Atmosphere, Boogie Down Productions, 2Pac, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Tali\u2026\nVideos From Eric B. & Rakim\nEric B. Is On The Cut", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 128.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jenniferlovegironda.com/blog/goodbye-and-hello", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:34Z", "digest": "sha1:P3UXEJRWLDGVS6TDMNNQJVGUQAKYKBLV", "length": 3715, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jenniferlovegironda.com", "title": "Goodbye and Hello.", "raw_content": "Gonna miss my friend, Mr. Nottage!\nThis post is long overdue...I want to just take a moment and blog a little about a place that I has been a part of my life for the past four years...that place is Indiantown Middle School. When I was looking for jobs in Florida...it was such a stressful time. John had found out he got into some PhD programs and after talking about it we chose Florida. I ended my school year at Wintergreen and pretty much left for Japan for a month with John's sister and a group of teachers on a Fulbright Study Abroad. We would tour Japan all day, visit shrines, schools...walk, walk, WALK...and then, every night...I would look for jobs.\nAnd then I saw the posting for IMS, and I applied. I was able to schedule the interview while in Japan. I think I was back in the US maybe two days before we headed down to Florida. I interviewed and got the job...and I have been there for the past four years. I taught art, wrote a bunch of grants, coached cheerleading, some good friends...and was even lucky enough to be the Teacher of the Year there...good times indeed.\nProbably so much I could say...but instead I just want to post a few panoramic views...so I can take a peek back at my time at IMS when I miss my students and friends..if I ever doubt myself when faced with a new challenge... I will look back at these to remind myself that I made a difference, and I will try to do that wherever I go, regardless of the demographic of the school.\nFirst view...my classroom. A very lively place...with lot's of...well...EVERYTHING.\nI think I really found that our when I was leaving because I had to get the entire room packed up and moved across the way into a temporary location. They are going to tear down almost the entire building that I taught in my fours years at IMS...so in addition to packing up my own personal items in the classroom...everything else had to be packed up. And I did it- WE did it. My students not only finished their projects and helped me sort and distribute them to each class, but collectively we boxed up that entire room. I can only hope that it will be a little easier for the new teacher to set up the art room next year...I am so OCD I couldn't just box it up...I had to do color-coded labels..sigh. Life would be easier if I wasn't so set on organization!\n(Left, top and bottom) Donated bags from Whole Foods, the kids use them to transport their artwork home safely (Middle and images to Left) my crazy labeling and sorting or items...I hope it helps!\nAnd then...of course...the art. We made SO MUCH ART. Seriously. I covered any wall that the tape would stick to. They thing that was unique to IMS was the amount of space that I had, especially the past couple of years. We opened up a new building which left the old cafeteria open for...art. It became a gigantic gallery, we even used it for creating/storing sculpture. Then, when they moved even more teachers tot he new spaces I had a room for 'resources' (basically, recycled materials)...a room for cheerleading...and a room I set up just for drawing and printmaking. I definitely had space...and we filled it with art and art-making.\nAnd now...well, now I am looking to the future. My future includes moving farther south and leaving the public school system to teach private school. I will be teaching digital photography, drawing, painting and survey classes to middle school and high school students. Nervous? Yeah, a little.\nExcited? Alot. (sorry, Mrs. Aldridge, I know that isn't really a word)\nYes, I am. I am so excited I don't know what to do!\nBut first...I will just spend some time relaxing and enjoying my summer...but I will always have my memories of IMS to take with me wherever I go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jerseyfirst.org/news/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FFMAWVGZPXDVR6CWTKNEQNO5H7VLBHBG", "length": 945, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jerseyfirst.org", "title": "Media \u2013 Jersey First \u2013 Page 2", "raw_content": "Jersey First Joins the Fight for New Jerseyans on Tax Freedom Day SHORT HILLS, NJ, May 3, 2018 \u2013\u201cPeople are leaving New Jersey in droves. Businesses are closing. Yet, the Governor has more taxes on the way. It is time to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough. That is why\u2026\nNew Jersey should be the land of opportunity for families, businesses, and individuals looking to pursue their own version of the American Dream. Standing in the shadow of Lady Liberty, New Jersey should offer everything an individual could want \u2014 good schools, thriving businesses, beautiful farmland, big city excitement, small-town history, the Jersey Shore, casinos\u2026\nThe views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill There is a reason why the U.S. has not seen a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. tax code since 1986 \u2014 it\u2019s hard. The debate in recent months over tax reform serves as a reminder of what an enormous undertaking\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 183.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jfmeltonlaw.com/2017/01/08/security-guard-fired-after-attending-sons-birth-in-new-hampshire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:CCHY3AQUIK43VFYK5ZOITG7F5IHZYBEN", "length": 1257, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jfmeltonlaw.com", "title": "Security guard fired after attending son's birth in New Hampshire | The Melton Law Firm", "raw_content": "The Melton Law Firm > Blog > Wrongful termination > Security guard fired after attending son\u2019s birth in New Hampshire\nSecurity guard fired after attending son\u2019s birth in New Hampshire\nLamar Austin, whose baby was born in Concord, New Hampshire this year, was terminated from his post after attending his son\u2019s birth. At the time, Austin was employed as a part-time security guard with Salerno Protective Services.\nAccording to Austin, he was not able to attend one shift in December because he had to accompany his wife, Lindsay, to a doctor\u2019s appointment. His wife then went into labor on the night of Friday, December 30 and Cainan was born on Sunday, January 1. The birth caused Austin to miss his Friday and Saturday shifts. After that, Austin received a text message at approximately 1 a.m. of New Year\u2019s Day saying, \u201cAs of now, you are terminated.\u201d\nOur attorneys at The Melton Law Firm provide legal services for our clients in Austin and other areas in Texas. We handle employment-related issues, such as wrongful termination, a hostile work environment, retaliation, and whistleblower offenses, among others. Call our offices today at (512) 330-0017 to learn more about your legal options.\nTags: employment law, Melton Law Firm, Wrongful Termination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 13763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobsboard.hispanicpro.com/company/54/university-of-chicago/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6CNM4MSW3SXDLCSN64CJI7G6JFAIGYBY", "length": 71, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jobsboard.hispanicpro.com", "title": "Jobs at University of Chicago | HispanicPro Jobs Board", "raw_content": "http://www.uchicago.edu/about/\nEmail me jobs from University of Chicago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 129.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobvacanciesdirect.com/company/330/adecco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NIRCD3T3YRGIKF6OAYO623OK7RDQM3LG", "length": 18, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jobvacanciesdirect.com", "title": "Jobs at Adecco | Job Vacancies Direct", "raw_content": "Happypacking.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jonkline.com/documentary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OA2EAWPR7IZ2BIVYUMATBIDER5GUALNE", "length": 894, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jonkline.com", "title": "Documentary Archives | Cinematographer Jon Kline Archive - Cinematographer Jon Kline", "raw_content": "I was hired to work as second unit cinematographer on \u201cAt the Fork,\u201d a feature-length documentary film from executive producer Dave Matthews. The film follows people and animals throughout the farming process. My focus was on the junior swine competition at the 2015 Wisconsin State Fair. Read More\nI was recently approached by the Greater Milwaukee Committee, Southwest Airlines, and Kohl\u2019s, to shoot a mini travel documentary about their Destination Innovation program. We covered the event as it happened in Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Milpitas over three days. The most exciting part of the project was documenting the competition on board a Southwest Airlines commercial flight between MKE and SFO. Working at 35,000 feet is something I\u2019d never done before. Needing to be highly mobile, as well as TSA-compliant, meant I spent a lot of time choosing and trimming my camera kit. Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jspencecounseling.com/articles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3IKLQ2NAGTJUFBZMFQ5UO2Z6L262AMJF", "length": 3920, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jspencecounseling.com", "title": "Articles | Jessie Spence MC, LPCS", "raw_content": "It's one of the hardest things for non-addicts to understand. Why does this person keep using drugs even though _____________? Just fill in the blank with one of the many negative consequences of substance abuse. I've seen clients with failing health- people whose livers are shot, their once-flawless complexion is contaminated with scars and boils, maybe they've had infections in their heart or blood, or have had multiple over-doses that put them in the hospital for weeks with damage to their vital organs. Other consequences like legal problems, jail time, losing friends, betraying family, and financial ruin are also common among clients with substance abuse. Here's my best shot at explaining the neurology behind addiction and why, frankly, it doesn't make any sense. \u2026\nNo, I am not just playing Legos for fun with your child (although, I must admit, Legos are pretty cool). There's actually a lot that goes into a play therapy session. Children don't have the same language and communication skills as grown-ups. Play is the language of children. When treating kids, we have to use their language! Here's a brief overview of what happens behind the scenes in a play therapy session: 1. Observation. I'm constantly observing how a child interacts with me, the toys, the office, and their parents. You can learn a lot by noticing if a child walks right in, dumps toys on the floor, and starts playing or if they are shy, careful, or seek permission. I look for themes and repetition. A single story highlighting a power struggle may not be significant\u2026\nI try to make my office open, warm and inviting. I want all of my clients to feel comfortable and I want our sessions to be effective- whether you have ADHD or depression or whatever. Here are some ways I have tried to make my practice more ADHD friendly. I hope to open a discussion of what others have found to be helpful and hear your ideas too. 1. Reminders. I use a program that does automatic appointment reminders- both phone and email and I ask clients which they prefer. For clients who need tangible reminders, I make sure they leave the office with an appointment card or note. For those who tend to lose things, I will email links to websites or send copies of worksheets as attachments. 2. Fidget friendly. To me, there is nothing worse than a hyperactive kid (or \u2026\nI absolutely despised reading until I was diagnosed with ADHD and started taking medication in my late 20's. As a child, my hatred of books was partly a desire to be different from my bookworm sister (my parents had to beg her to stop reading and go play outside), and partly a matter what my brain preferred. Believe it or not, even after I got my Master\u2019s degree at age 24, the total number of books I had read cover-to-cover from middle school up was less than 10! I got my information from videos, pictures, short internet articles, scanning paragraphs and picking out the terms printed in bold, writing notes from lectures, and from hands-on-experience. My experience with reading was always \u201cIt\u2019s boring!\u201d. But now as an adult, I can be a little more articulate about what was happening\u2026\nBelow is one of my favorite worksheets for kids that I\u2019ve made that I call the \u201cFeelings Heart\u201d. The objective of this intervention is to allow children to develop vocabulary and identification of feelings to promote healthy expression of emotion. This exercise also serves as an open ended question about how the child views their world at the moment. It can also be used as an assessment tool and progress can be tracked by repeating the exercise and recording and comparing results. The way I use this exercise is to explain that everyone has feelings or emotions and this is normal. I explain that there is no right or wrong way to do this exercise. I help the child brainstorm and list the emotions they can think of and suggest some that may be missing from their lexicon. 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It was right after prayers at a time when there are usually religious lessons for men in it.\u201d\n\u201cI saw 15 bodies and lots of body parts in the debris when I arrived. We couldn\u2019t even recognize some of the bodies,\u201d he added.\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 46 people were killed in the attack and over 100 wounded.\n\u201cWe are going to look into any allegations of civilian casualties in relation to this strike,\u201d said Colonel John J. Thomas, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command.\nThe U.S. reported this month that its attacks in Iraq and Syria had killed at least 220 civilians since 2014, though most human rights groups say the numbers are much higher.\nJust last week, a Pentagon investigation into a U.S. attack on Yemeni village which killed dozens of women and children absolved military personnel of any war crimes.\nAl Jazeera English: \u201cAir raid hits Syria mosque, civilians killed\u201d\nFiled Under: Donald Trump, Pentagon, Syria, US Foreign Policy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justpo.st/post/4811", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUXTOWGXIMKQPAZKHJU57D2WMXUGXQJD", "length": 96, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.justpo.st", "title": "Post 4811 - JustPost: Virtually entertaining", "raw_content": "you can tell monopoly is an old game because there's a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kekstcnc.com/de/unser-team/jeremy-fielding/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LL2DXGVNO6KK6IYE2LQAUBHH65HY2K3F", "length": 5798, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.kekstcnc.com", "title": "Kekst CNC | Jeremy Fielding", "raw_content": "Jeremy has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on a variety of special situations.\nHe is a trusted partner to senior management, boards, and communications teams for global companies, advising them on their communications challenges as they grow and transform their businesses, or protect their reputations.\nJeremy has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on a variety of special situations, and is a trusted partner to senior management, boards, and communications teams for global companies, advising them on their communications challenges as they grow and transform their businesses, or protect their reputations.\nJeremy provides strategic guidance and communications counsel to boards of directors and management teams of U.S. and international public companies and private institutions across industries. For 20 years, he has advised clients on their most pressing and high-profile communications initiatives, including strategic challenges and opportunities. His client engagements span a wide range of special situations, as well as ongoing strategic positioning and investor relations activities. Jeremy has significant experience advising clients on crisis communications; Bankruptcy & Restructurings; M&A; Litigation and regulatory support; and Alternative Investments, among other matters.\nIn addition to his experience at Kekst CNC, Jeremy spent a year (2009-2010) as partner at Finsbury Group. He is President of Central Synagogue and serves on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for Children. 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Avantor on its take private of VWR and related debt financing package; Mead Johnson Nutrition on its sale to Reckitt Benckiser Group; Coca-Cola Enterprises in its multi-party merger to create a new European anchor bottling partner for Coca-Cola; Hudson\u2019s Bay Company (HBC) in its purchase of Galeria Kaufhof, Germany\u2019s leading department store business; General Electric in its proposed acquisition of the Power and Grid businesses of Alstom; Succocitrico Cutrale and Safra Group in their successful unsolicited acquisition of Chiquita; Grupo Televisa in its strategic investment in Univision and subsequent related capital markets activities\nWorking with clients on a variety of federal, state and international regulatory investigations, actions, and resolutions.\nLed global communications for multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation involving the global art market.\nSupported communications for one of the largest food and beverage companies regarding a class action racial discrimination lawsuit and settlement, as well as shareholder litigation.\nRepresented a global consumer products company in a DOJ investigation following whistleblower allegations.\nAdvised a leading healthcare insurance company in extensive investigations by, and settlements with, multiple state regulators.\nRepresented numerous companies in Alien Tort Claims Act and environmental litigation.\nProvided strategic counsel on high-profile litigation between companies, including breach of commercial contracts, intellectual property, and trade secrets.\nRepresented Corsair Capital on its strategic positioning and investment transactions, including First Eagle Investment Management, Williams & Glynn in the U.K., and Kyobo Life in Korea, among others.\nWorks with several distressed debt investment firms, including on numerous assignments related to restructuring and litigation situations.\nRepresents Oak Hill Capital Partners on corporate matters, as well as transactions and special situations involving portfolio companies.\nSupports numerous hedge funds in terms of fund formation, investor relations, and specific investments.\nCounsels investment firms on litigation related to insider trading, lending obligations, breach of contract, and tortious interference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kelloggs.co.uk/en_GB/nutrition/benefits-of-fibre.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:11Z", "digest": "sha1:TSEQWM7EL7V5OC3A32RYWW6OF2EEC6OO", "length": 2342, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.kelloggs.co.uk", "title": "The Benefits of Fibre | Kellogg's", "raw_content": "Yet in spite of the strong evidence of the benefits of fibre to overall health, 80% of people don\u2019t get enough fibre, a trend that often starts in childhood and carries through to our adult life.\nBut what, exactly, is enough?\nThe Guideline Daily amount for fibre is based on gender and age, with a goal of 25g for adults and 15g for children aged between 5-10 years. And though at first glance these recommendations would seem simple to achieve, the truth is that most of us need to increase our current fibre intake by about 50% in order to reach these healthful targets.\nTo put these recommended daily amounts into perspective, one bowl (30g) of Kellogg\u2019s Bran Flakes provides 4.5g fibre. A great start to be sure, but is only 18% of the GDA for an adult. That\u2019s why including a balanced source of fibre throughout the day is important to overall health and wellness.\n* Wheat bran fibre contributes to an acceleration of intestinal transit. Aim for at least 10g of wheat bran fibre per day. All products in the All-Bran range are high in wheat bran fibre.\nFor the benefit of your family, you know that we all need to eat less fat, salt and sugar, while enjoying more fruits and vegetables. But did you know we should also be eating more wholegrain foods?\nStudies consistently show that a healthy diet rich in wholegrains can help reduce the risk of several diseases, including heart disease, certain types of cancer and type 2 diabetes.\nBut what are wholegrains?\nCertain grains like wheat, barley, rye and oats, are made up of three parts: the endosperm, the bran and the germ.\nAs the name suggests, wholegrain foods are ones that contain all three parts of the grain. Together, these parts work to provide a rich source of dietary fibre, \u2018healthy\u2019 fats, B vitamins and vitamin E. Important nutrients that are essential to good health.\nOut of the many ways to enjoy all of the health benefits of wholegrains, wholegrain cereals are a convenient and nourishing choice.\nFortunately, Kellogg\u2019s has a number of ready-to-eat wholegrains cereals, including Bran Flakes, Optivita, Sultana Bran, Raisin Wheats, Frosted Wheats, Just Right, Honey Loops, Fruit \u2018n\u2019 Fibre, Start, Mini Max Original and Mini Max Chocolate. So you have more ways to give your family fibre and wholegrains that they need, together with the great Kellogg\u2019s taste they love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ket.org/series/JOJA/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LJ3KUSVMQYEC53JLIC357DTZTFEF2I4V", "length": 1244, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ket.org", "title": "Journeys in Japan", "raw_content": "This lifestyle series provides an eye-opening look at the many unique places to visit in Japan. English-speaking visitors travel the length of the country, exploring the culture, meeting the local people, visiting historic sites, and offering travel hints rarely found in guidebooks.\nhttp://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/journeys/\nKaratsu: Festival Floats, Deep Community Spirit | Wednesday, January 23 at 9:00 AM ET / Wednesday, January 23 at 8:00 AM CT\nJourneys in Japan | Wednesday, January 30 at 9:00 AM ET / Wednesday, January 30 at 8:00 AM CT\nJourneys in Japan | Wednesday, February 6 at 9:00 AM ET / Wednesday, February 6 at 8:00 AM CT\nJourneys in Japan | Wednesday, February 13 at 9:00 AM ET / Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00 AM CT\nShow all past Journeys in Japan episodes.\nKET2: Wednesday, February 20 at 9:00 AM ET / Wednesday, February 20 at 8:00 AM CT\nKET2: Wednesday, March 20 at 11:00 AM ET / Wednesday, March 20 at 10:00 AM CT\nKET2: Wednesday, April 3 at 11:00 AM ET / Wednesday, April 3 at 10:00 AM CT\nKET2: Wednesday, April 10 at 11:00 AM ET / Wednesday, April 10 at 10:00 AM CT\nKET2: Wednesday, May 1 at 11:00 AM ET / Wednesday, May 1 at 10:00 AM CT\nKET2: Wednesday, May 15 at 11:00 AM ET / Wednesday, May 15 at 10:00 AM CT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 4144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kingcounty.gov/services/environment/watersheds/general-information/glossary.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7CIULASIIH5477FGOWC75JG3SBK2XNFR", "length": 28142, "nlines": 168, "source_domain": "www.kingcounty.gov", "title": "Glossary of stream, lake and watershed terms - King County", "raw_content": "Watersheds and rivers Watershed information\nIntroduction Large wood Basin Stewards Normative Flow Studies The Value of Riparian Vegetation Glossary\nGlossary of stream, lake and watershed terms\nClick on a letter to move to terms starting with that letter. Not all letters have terms associated with them.\n|| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ||\n303(d) waterbody\nA list of lakes, rivers, and streams that have been designated as impaired or threatened by a pollutant(s) for which one or more TMDL(s) are needed. Impaired means that the water is not meeting state water quality standards.\nMostly aquatic, non-vascular plants that float in the water or attach to larger plants, rocks, and other substrates. Also called phytoplankton, these individuals are usually visible only with a microscope. They are a normal and necessary component of aquatic life, but excessive numbers can make the water appear cloudy and colored.\nA fan-shaped accumulation of alluvium deposited at the mouth of a ravine or at the juncture of a tributary stream with the main stream.\nThe acid-neutralizing capacity of water. It is primarily a function of the carbonate, bicarbonate, and hydroxide content in water. The lower the alkalinity, the less capacity the water has to absorb acids without becoming more acidic.\nA nitrogen-containing substance which may indicate recently decomposed plant or animal material.\nFish that ascend rivers from the sea for breeding.\nA geologic stratum containing groundwater that can be withdrawn and used for human purposes.\nAny area draining to a point of interest. Basins of interest to King County staff are those that drain either to the Cedar, Green, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, or White rivers, or the drainage areas which drain directly to Puget Sound.\nA plan and all implementing regulations and procedures including but not limited to capital projects, public education activities, land use management regulations adopted by ordinance for managing surface and storm water management facilities, and features within individual subbasins.\nThe communities of aquatic life which dwell in or on the bottom sediments of a water body.\nBiofiltration swale or Bioswale sketch (PDF, 400-800kb)\nA long, gently sloped, vegetated ditch designed to filter pollutants from stormwater. Grass is the most common vegetation, but wetland vegetation can be used if the soil is saturated.\nBest Management Practice. Also see Structural and Nonstructural BMPs.\nA designated area adjacent to and a part of a steep slope or landslide hazard area which protects slope stability, attenuation of surface water flows, and landslide hazards reasonably necessary to minimize risk; or a designated area adjacent to or a part of a stream or wetland that is an integral part of the stream or wetland ecosystem.\nA long, narrow excavation or surface feature that conveys surface water and is open to the air.\nChannel, constructed\nA channel or ditch constructed to convey surface water; also includes reconstructed natural channels.\nChannel, natural\na channel which has occurred naturally due to the flow of surface waters; or a channel that, although originally constructed by human activity, has taken on the appearance of a natural channel including a stable route and biological community.\nPigments (mostly green) in plants, including algae, that play an important part in the chemical reactions of photosynthesis. A measurement of chlorophyll-a (one type of chlorophyll) is commonly used as a measure of the algae content of water.\nClosed depression\nAn area which is low-lying and either has no surface water outlet, or has such a limited outlet that during storm events the area acts as a retention basin, with more than 5000 square feet of water surface area at overflow elevation.\nDischarges of combined sewage and stormwater into water bodies during very wet or storm weather. These discharges occur to relieve the sewer system as it becomes overloaded with normal sewer flow and increased storm run-off. The term is also used to denote a pipe that discharges those overflows.\nConductivity (Cond)\nA measure of water's capacity to convey an electric current. It is related to the total amount of dissolved charged substances in the water. Therefore, it can be used as a general indicator of the quality of the water and can also suggest presence of unidentified material in the water. It is often used as a surrogate for salinity measurements.\nConstructed conveyance system facilities\nGutters, ditches, pipes, channels, and most flow control and water quality treatment facilities.\nDrainage facilities and features that collect, contain, and provide for the flow of surface and storm water from the highest points on the land down to a receiving water. Conveyance systems are made up of natural elements and of constructed facilities.\nCritical Drainage Area\nAn area with such severe flooding, drainage, and/or erosion/sedimentation conditions which have resulted or will result from the cumulative impacts of development and urbanization, that the area has been formally adopted as a Critical Drainage Area by rule under the procedures specified in KCC 2.98.\nRelease of surface and storm water runoff from the site at a slower rate than it is collected by the drainage facility system, the difference being held in temporary storage.\nA facility that collects water from developed areas and releases it at a slower rate than it enters the collection system. The excess of inflow over outflow is temporarily stored in a pond or a vault and is typically released over a few hours or a few days.\nUndetained discharge from a proposed project to a major receiving water.\nRunoff, excluding offsite flows, leaving the proposed development through overland flow, built conveyance systems, or infiltration facilities.\nOxygen that is dissolved in the water. Certain amounts are necessary for life processes of aquatic animals. The oxygen is supplied by the photosynthesis of plants, including algae, and by aeration. Oxygen is consumed by animals and plants at night, and bacterial decomposition of dead organic matter (plant matter and animal waste).\nDispersed discharge\nRelease of surface and storm water runoff from a drainage facility system such that the flow spreads over a wide area and is located so as not to allow flow to concentrate anywhere upstream of a drainage channel with erodible underlying granular soils or the potential to flood downstream properties.\nA constructed channel with its top width less than 10 feet at design flow.\nA change in the natural discharge location or runoff flows onto or away from an adjacent downstream property.\nThe collection, conveyance, containment, and/or discharge of surface and storm water runoff.\nDrainage area or Drainage basin\nAn area draining to a point of interest.\nDrainage facility\nA constructed or engineered feature that collects, conveys, stores or treats surface and storm water runoff. Drainage facilities shall include but not be limited to all constructed or engineered streams, pipelines, channels, ditches, gutters, lakes, wetlands, closed depressions, flow control or water quality treatment facilities, erosion and sedimentation control facilities, and other drainage structures and appurtenances that provide for drainage.\nLiquids discharged from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, or industrial sources to surface waters.\nA structure of earth, gravel, or similar material raised to form a pond bank or foundation for a road.\nThe warmer, well-lit surface waters of a lake that are thermally separated from the colder (hence denser), water at the bottom of the lake when a lake is stratified.\nThe acceleration of the loading of nutrients to a lake by natural or human-induced causes. The increased rate of delivery of nutrients results in increased production of algae and consequently, poor water transparency. Human-induced (cultural) eutrophication may be caused by input of treated sewage to a lake, deforestation of a watershed, or the urbanization of a watershed.\nThe detachment and transport of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice, etc.\nA condition of a water body in which excess nutrients, particularly phosphorous, stimulates the growth of aquatic plant life usually resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen. Thus, less dissolved oxygen is available to other aquatic life.\nBacteria from the intestines of warm-blooded animals. Most of the bacteria are not in themselves harmful, so they are measured or counted as an indicator of the possible presence of harmful bacteria.\nA type of wetland that forms peat deposits. Peat comes from the plants (especially Sphagnum moss) that grow, die, and accumulate in the fen. Bogs and fens are similar in that they both produce peat; however, bogs are essentially closed to water input other than rainwater, while fens generally have a surface water flow. Because of this hydrologic difference, fens are less acidic than bogs and may support different plants and animals.\nFlow control facility\nA drainage facility designed to mitigate the impacts of increased surface and storm water runoff generated by site development pursuant to the drainage requirements in King County Code Chapter 9.04. Flow control facilities are designed either to hold water for a considerable length of time and then release it by evaporation, plant transpiration, and/or infiltration into the ground, or to hold runoff a short period of time and then release it to the conveyance system.\nWater stored beneath the surface of the earth. The water in the ground is supplied by the seepage of rainwater, snowmelt, and other surface water into the soil. Some groundwater may be found far beneath the earth surface, while other groundwater may be only a few inches from the surface. Groundwater discharges into lowland streams to maintain their baseflow.\nThe specific area or environment in which a particular type of plant or animal lives and grows.\nA cemented or compacted and often clay-like layer of soil that is impenetrable by roots.\nHarmful pollutant\nA substance that has adverse effects to an organism including death, chronic poisoning, impaired reproduction, cancer, or other effects.\nThe science dealing with the properties, distribution and circulation of water. The term usually refers to the flow of water on or below the land surface before reaching a stream or man-made structure.\nThe dark, cold, bottom waters of a lake that are thermally separated from the warmer (hence less dense) surface waters when a lake is stratified.\nA hard surface area which either prevents or retards the entry of water into the soil mantle as under natural conditions prior to development; and/or a hard surface area which causes water to run off the surface in greater quantities or at an increased rate of flow from the flow present under natural conditions prior to development.\nCommon impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to, roof tops, walkways, patios, driveways, parking lots or storage areas, concrete or asphalt paving, gravel roads, packed earthen materials, and oiled, macadam, or other surfaces which similarly impede the natural infiltration of surface and storm water runoff. Open, uncovered flow control or water quality treatment facilities shall not be considered impervious surfaces for determinations of thresholds. For the purpose of modeling though, onsite flow control and water quality ponds are modeled as impervious surface per Chapter 3 of the King County Surface Water Design Manual.\nInfiltration facility\nA drainage facility designed to use the hydrologic process of water soaking into the ground (commonly referred to as percolation) to dispose of surface and storm water runoff.\nAnimals without internal skeletons. Some require magnification to be seen well, while others such as worms, insects, and crayfish are relatively large. Invertebrates living in stream and lake sediments are collected as samples to be identified and counted. In general, more varied invertebrate communities indicate healthier water bodies.\nProblems that involve more than one jurisdiction or which impact the sustainability and functionality of the drainage basin.\nAn area permanently inundated by water in excess of two meters (7 feet) deep and greater than twenty acres in size as measured at the ordinary high water mark.\nLimiting nutrient\nThe nutrient that is in lowest supply relative to the demand. The limiting nutrient will be exhausted first by algae which require many nutrients and light to grow. Inputs of the limiting nutrient will result in increased algal production, but as soon as the limiting nutrient is exhausted, growth stops. Phytoplankton growth in lake waters of temperate lowland areas is generally phosphorus limited.\nScientific study of inland waters.\nPortion of a water body extending from the shoreline lakeward to the greatest depth occupied by rooted plants.\nAddition of a substance to a water body; or the rate at which the addition occurs. For example, streams load nutrients to lakes at various rates as in \"500 kilograms per year (500 kg/yr)\" or \"227 pounds per year (227 lb/yr).\"\nProblems that impact only one jurisdiction and only a small isolated portion of the basin. Local problems also have relatively minor environmental impacts when viewed on a basin-wide scale, and are not expected to impact the overall sustainability and functionality of the drainage basin.\nrooted and floating aquatic plants, larger (macro-) than the phytoplankton.\nMaximum extent practicable\nA condition of lakes that is characterized by moderate concentrations of nutrients, algae, and water transparency. A mesotrophic lake is not as rich in nutrients as a eutrophic lake, but richer in nutrients than an oligotrophic lake.\nMonomictic\nA lake which has one mixing and one stratification event per year. If a lake does not freeze over in the winter, the winter winds will mix the waters of the lake. In summer, the lake resists mixing and becomes stratified because the surface waters are warm (light) and the bottom waters are cold (dense). Deep lakes in the Puget lowlands are monomictic lakes.\nNatural conveyance system elements\nSwales and small drainage courses, streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands.\nNitrate, nitrite (NO3, NO2)\nTwo types of nitrogen compounds. These nutrients are forms of nitrogen that algae may use for growth.\nOne of the elements essential as a nutrient for growth of organisms.\nPollution that originates from diffuse areas and unidentifiable sources, such as agriculture, the atmosphere, or ground water.\nA preventative action to protect receiving water quality that does not require construction. Nonstructural BMPs rely predominantly on behavioral changes in order to be effective. Major categories of non-structural BMPs include education, recycling, maintenance practices and source controls.\nNational Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. The part of the Clean Water Act which requires point source discharges to obtain permits. These permits, referred to as NPDES permits, are administered by the Washington State Department of Ecology.\nElements or compounds essential for growth of organisms.\nA condition of lakes characterized by low concentrations of nutrients and algae and resulting good water transparency. An oligotrophic lake has less nutrients than a mesotrophic or eutrophic lake.\nA point where collected and concentrated surface and storm water runoff is discharged from a pipe system or culvert.\nMicroorganisms that can cause disease in other organisms or humans, animals, and plants. Pathogens include bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites found in sewage, in runoff from farms or city streets, and in water used for swimming. Pathogens can be present in municipal, industrial, and nonpoint source discharges.\nDeep, open water area of a lake away from the edge of the littoral zone towards the center of the lake.\nAn unconsolidated deposit of semicarbonized plant remains, generally found in a watershed environment such as a bog or a fen. It generally has a moisture content of at least 75%, but when it is dried out, it burns very easily.\nAn area of vegetated matter with extensive peat deposits.\nPhysiographic subdivisions\nPhysiographic (or geomorphic) subdivisions are based on terrain texture, rock type, and geologic structure and history.\nMeasure of the acidity of water on a scale of 0 to 14, with 7 representing neutral water. A pH less than 7 is considered acidic and above 7 is basic.\nOne of the elements essential as a nutrient for the growth of organisms. In western Washington lakes, it is usually the algae nutrient in shortest supply relative to the needs of the algae. Phosphorus occurs naturally in soils, as well as in organic material. Various measures of phosphorus in water samples are made, including total-phosphorus (TP) and the dissolved portion of the phosphorus (orthophosphorus).\nThe lighted region of a lake where photosynthesis occurs.\nFloating, mostly microscopic algae (plants) that live in water.\nPoint discharge\nThe release of collected and/or concentrated surface and storm water runoff from a pipe, culvert, or channel.\nAn input of pollutants into a water body from discrete sources, such as municipal or industrial outfalls.\nThe first stage of wastewater treatment involving removal of debris and solids by screening and settling.\nA structure used to move wastewater uphill, against gravity.\nA small stream channel, narrow and steep-sided in cross section.\nA length of channel with uniform characteristics.\nBodies of water or surface water systems receiving water from upstream man-made or natural systems.\nSee joint problems\nA structure that controls the flow of wastewater from two or more input pipes to a single output. Regulators can be used to restrict or halt flow, thus causing wastewater to be stored in the conveyance system until it can be handled by the treatment plant.\nA stream section mapped and rated by King County as being a regionally significant stream reach that harbors significant concentrations of fish for some period in their life cycle.\nThe process of collecting and holding surface and storm water runoff with no surface outflow.\nPertaining to the banks of rivers and streams, and sometimes also wetlands, lakes, or tidewater.\nA facing layer or protective mound of stones placed to prevent erosion or sloughing of a structure or embankment due to the flow of surface and storm water runoff.\nWater originating from rainfall and other precipitation that ultimately flows into drainage facilities, rivers, streams, springs, seeps, ponds, lakes, and wetlands as well as shallow groundwater.\nA member of the fish family Salmonidae. In King County salmonid species include Chinook, Coho, chum, sockeye, and pink salmon; cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout and steelhead; Dolly Varden, brook trout, char, kokanee, and whitefish.\nMeasure of transparency of water obtained by lowering a 10 cm black and white disk into water until it is no longer visible.\nFollowing primary treatment, bacteria are used to consume organic wastes. Wastewater is then disinfected and discharged through an outfall.\nA method for controlling combined sewer overflow whereby the combined sewer is separated into both a sanitary sewer and a storm drain, as is the practice in new development.\nThat portion of wastewater that is composed of human and industrial wastes from homes, businesses, and industries.\nA legally established allowable limit for a substance or characteristic in the water, based on criteria. Enforcement actions by the appropriate agencies can be taken against parties who cause violations.\nStratification of lakes\nA layering effect produced by the warming of the surface waters in many lakes during summer. Upper waters are progressively warmed by the sun and the deeper waters remain cold. Because of the difference in density (warmer water is lighter), the two layers remain separate from each other: upper waters \"float\" on deeper waters and wind induced mixing occurs only in the upper waters. Oxygen in the bottom waters may become depleted. In autumn as the upper waters cool, the whole lake mixes again and remains mixed throughout the winter, or until it freezes over.\nWater that is generated by rainfall and is often routed into drain systems.\nSphagnum bog wetlands\nUnique wetlands having a predominance of sphagnum moss creating a substrate upon which a distinctive community of plants is established. Some of these include ledum groenlandicum (Labrador tea), Kalmia occidentalis (bog laurel), Drosera rotundifolia (sundew), and Vaccinium oxycoccos (cranberry). Stunted evergreen trees are also sometimes present. In addition to a distinctive plant community, the water chemistry of sphagnum wetlands is also unique. It is characterized by acidic waters (pH 3 to 5.5), low nutrient content, low alkalinity, and a buffering system composed predominantly of organic acids. In the Puget Sound area, mature sphagnum bog wetlands are typically very old, often dating back thousands of years.\nStormwater is the water that runs off surfaces such as rooftops, paved streets, highways, and parking lots. It can also come from hard grassy surfaces like lawns, play fields, and from graveled roads and parking lots.\nStormwater Facility\nFacilities that control the discharge of stormwater and that remove pollutants make up the bulk of the structural solutions applied to surface water problems in King County. Stormwater facilities included storage facilities (ponds, vaults, underground tanks, and infiltration systems); water quality facilities (wetponds, biofiltration swales, constructed wetlands, sand filters, and oil/water separators); and conveyance systems (ditches, pipes, and catchbasins).\nThese systems are most often built in conjunction with new development, but include regional facilities designed and constructed by the Department of Natural Resources.\nOnce constructed, stormwater facilities require on-going maintenance to ensure they continue to perform as intended. Maintenance of storage facilities typically includes the removal of accumulated sediment and debris, routine mowing, and minor repairs to mechanical appurtenances. Management of water quality facilities is more complex, requiring intensive vegetation management, inspection and maintenance of flow control features, and restoration or replacement of filter media. King County plays an active role in the management of three categories of stormwater facilities: residential, commercial, and regional.\nStormwater Facility, Regional\nIn King County, regional stormwater facilities are constructed and/or managed by DNR's WLR Division. They typically serve large areas with a variety of land uses, and are intended to address problems resulting from large storm events. Examples of regional facilities include pump stations, regional storage facilities, sedimentation ponds, and enclosed drainage systems. These facilities are inspected annually and maintained by DNR's WLR Division.\nThe application of site design principles and construction techniques to prevent sediments and other pollutants from entering surface or ground water; source controls; and treatment of runoff to reduce pollution.\nThe system of gutters, pipes, streams, or ditches used to carry surface and storm water from surrounding lands to streams, lakes, or Puget Sound. Also see Conveyance System.\nStructural BMP\nConstructed facilities or measures to help protect receiving water quality and control stormwater quantity. Examples include storage, vegetation, infiltration, and filtration.\nSurface Water Design Manual\nThe manual (and supporting documents as appropriate) describing surface and storm water design and analysis requirements, procedures, and guidance which has been formally adopted by rule under the procedures specified in KCC 2.98. The Surface Water Design Manual is available from the King County Department of Development and Environmental Services or the Department of Natural Resources.\nA shallow drainage conveyance with relatively gentle side slopes, generally with flow depths less than one foot.\nTypically a continuous length of pipe used to convey flows down a steep or sensitive slope with appropriate energy dissipation at the discharge end.\nA TMDL or Total Maximum Daily Load is a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still meet water quality standards. Water quality standards identify the uses for each waterbody, for example, drinking water supply, contact recreation (swimming), and aquatic life support (fishing), and the scientific criteria to support that use. The Clean Water Act, section 303, establishes the water quality standards and TMDL programs.\nParticles, both mineral (clay and sand) and organic (algae and small pieces of decomposed plant and animal material), that are suspended in water.\nCausing death, disease, cancer, genetic mutations, or physical deformations in any organism or its offspring upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation. Poisonous, carcinogenic, or otherwise directly harmful to life.\nA measure of the clarity of water in a lake, which is measured by lowering a standard black and white Secchi disk into the water and recording the depth at which it is no longer visible. Transparency of lakes is determined by the color of the water and the amount of material suspended in it. Generally in colorless waters of the Puget lowland, the transparency of the water in summer is determined by the amount of algae present in the water. Suspended silt particles may also have an effect, particularly in wet weather.\nRating of the condition of a lake on the scale of oligotrophic-mesotrophic-eutrophic (see definition of these terms).\nCloudiness of water caused by the suspension of minute particles, usually algae, silt, or clay.\nAn area of high or relatively high ground\nTotal flow within the sewage system. In combined systems, it includes sewage and stormwater.\nWater in a lake between the surface and sediments. Used in vertical measurements used to characterize lake water.\nThe areas that drain to surface water bodies, including lakes, rivers, estuaries, wetlands, streams, and the surrounding landscape.\nWater of Statewide Significance\nLegal term from the state Shoreline Management act, which recognizes particular bodies of water and sets criteria and standards for their protection.\nWater quality treatment facility\nA drainage facility designed to reduce pollutants once they are already contained in surface and storm water runoff. Water quality treatment facilities are the structural component of best management practices (BMPs); when used singly or in combination, WQ facilities reduce the potential for contamination of surface and/or ground waters.\nWDOE\nAn area inundated or saturated by ground or surface water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulation 33 CFR 328.3 (1988)).\nWetlands in King County include all area waterward from the wetland edge. Where the vegetation has been removed, a wetland shall be determined by the presence of hydric soils, as well as other documentation of the previous existence of wetland vegetation such as aerial photographs.\nWetpond sketch (PDF, 400-800kb)\nDrainage facilities for water quality treatment that contain a permanent pool of water. They are designed to optimize water quality by providing long retention times (on the order of a week or more) to settle out particles of fine sediment to which pollutants such as heavy metals adsorb, and to allow biologic activity to occur that metabolizes nutrients and organic pollutants. For wetvaults, the permanent pool of water is covered by a lid which blocks sunlight from entering the facility, limiting light-dependent biologic activity.\nSmall, free swimming or floating animals in water, many are microscopic.\nLakes of King County", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 628, "original_length": 35172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/kitchener-man-charged-in-crash-that-took-the-lives-of-two-children-1227838", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:28Z", "digest": "sha1:YN7D2IS2N4RRK3JBPENGOMGNCS7URTCK", "length": 1194, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.kitchenertoday.com", "title": "Kitchener driver charged in crash that took the lives of two children - KitchenerToday.com", "raw_content": "Kitchener driver charged in crash that took the lives of two children\nIt happened at the intersection of Perth Line 26 and Perth Road 122 on August 28\nMembers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Perth County detachment, Perth County Paramedic Services, and Perth East Fire Department responded to a two motor vehicle collision in the Township of Perth South shortly before 6:00 p.m. on August 28, 2018.\nThe collision occurred at the intersection of Perth Line 26 and Perth Road 122, involving a minivan and a sport utility vehicle (SUV). The minivan was travelling northbound on Perth Road 122. The SUV was travelling westbound on Perth Line 26 at the time of the collision.\nMi-Kyung PARK-NADON, 39-years-old, of Kitchener has been charged with Fail to yield to traffic on through highway.\nThe driver is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice, Stratford on a later date to speak to the charge.\nIf you have any information, contact the OPP by calling 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a secure web-tip at http://www.pc-crimestoppers.ca/, where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.krocha-online.com/arden-hotel-stratford-menu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Y76JTDB6RAOD5MWK3O6SHKD5FIEA5E2U", "length": 4159, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.krocha-online.com", "title": "Arden Hotel Stratford Menu", "raw_content": "New Place Hotel\u2019s restaurant is headed by Executive Head Chef, Mark Grieveson, who includes locally-sourced, seasonal ingredients in the menu\u2019s British and international dishes.\nJohnsons are an award winning coach operator based in Henley in Arden with over 30 years experience organising fantastic holidays and day trips.\nIt will compete with the Super Bowl Host Committee\u2019s free concerts, spearheaded by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, as well as two Club Nomadic events: the Florida Georgia Line performance near Mystic Lake.\nWith a stay at Best Western Plus The Arden Park Hotel in Stratford, you\u2019ll be minutes from Queens Park and close to Gallery Stratford. About the Best Western Plus The Arden Park Hotel Stratford. In Stratford. Overview Area info. Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Best Western Plus The Arden Park Hotel. Quench your.\nThe Cotswolds consist of charming and timeless English villages. The towns of Cirencester, Cheltenham and Gloucester are to be found within the Cotswolds, and Shakespeare\u2019s famous birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon lies just to the north.\nLocated on the main street ( which is Ontario Street/Romeo), just a short walk from the Festival Theatre, The Arden Park is the newest hotel in Stratford, a city acknowledged around the world for its natural beauty and outstanding theatre.\nThe Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. 1,480 likes \u00b7 58 talking about this \u00b7 11,418 were here. Award-winning boutique hotel & brasserie in.\nChild Policy. Cotswold House has a children\u2019s menu for both the Restaurant and Brasserie. Foldaway beds can be provided for \u00a335 a night, cots are complimentary.\nThe Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon The Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, current page < See all hotels. Cannot comment on the hotel part,but the restaurant is excellent. We called in at lunchtime to reserve a table for early pre theatre dinner. Arrived on time to our reserved table,and were attended to by a very charming gent.\nWelcome to the official website of Bovey Castle, a luxury Hotel in the heart of Dartmoor National Park, Devon. Enjoy award-winning golf course, Spa, & more!\nThe Bridge House is situated in the picturesque, historic town of Henley-in-Arden, with its lively old pubs and excellent restaurants. Some of the prettiest Shakespearean countryside lies between Henley, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick with its magnificent Norman Castle and many antique shops.\nOur Treatments. Elan Spa at The Mount Somerset are very proud to be working with ESPA. Creators of the world\u2019s finest spas, ESPA has pioneered the science of natural beauty in a potent collection of radically effective formulations.\nAt the Best Western Plus The Arden Park Hotel you\u2019re sure to find that little something extra. With our modern amenities and thoughtful design, the Best Western Plus The Arden Park Hotel will stand out among other hotels in Stratford,ON.\nRestaurants near Arden Park Hotel, Stratford on TripAdvisor: Find traveller reviews and candid photos of dining near Arden Park Hotel in Stratford, Ontario.\nPlease note: Children under 5 travelling free should not occupy a seat. Only one free child per adult. All children should be accompanied by an adult.\nThe perfect location\u2026 Being the largest independent hotel in the area, owned and operated by the same family for 50 years, we\u2019re able to offer our guests.\nStratford-upon-Avon (/-\u02c8 e\u026a v \u0259n /) is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, 91 miles (146 km) north west of London, 22 miles (35 km) south east of Birmingham, and 8 miles (13 km) south west of Warwick. The estimated population in 2007 was 25,505, increasing to 27,445 at the 2011 Census.\nOur menu choice is extensive, and can be catered to suit your specific requirements. For instance, for the more formal event we have our silver served four course banqueting menu, or for the more relaxed occasions, we could do a hog roast \u2013 the choice is yours!\nCotswold Hotel Breaks offers short breaks to hotels in all areas of the Cotswolds, including the main Cotswold towns and villages. Book online today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kudos365.com/news/7817-stranger", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LVLZYOLDQMBKQBPUBD4TS42YCUIOXJXH", "length": 203, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kudos365.com", "title": "Stranger", "raw_content": "I am a stranger, to myself.\nI suppose that I will always be.\nFor I know not the answers,\nAbout this, so called reverie.\nHelp me understand, what's happening to me,\nFor this moment; time will be set free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kwahs.org/museums/fort-east-martello/history", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7UKIDXUNZBGHQ7TAN22HILXR7Z75BJTI", "length": 1171, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kwahs.org", "title": "Visit The Fort East Martello Museum | Key West Art and Historical Society", "raw_content": "Construction began in 1862 by the U.S. Army on this Civil War Fort and Tower in order to provide extra protection for Key West and defend against the possibility of a Confederate sea assault\nWhile Key West remained a Union-controlled island during the Civil War, the majority of Key West citizens supported the Confederacy. With such a rift, it is perhaps surprising that no battles took place on or around the island. Having no use for the Fort once the war was drawing to a close, Fort East Martello was abandoned in its unfinished state by the Army.\nIn 1950, the Key West Art & Historical Society, with its own army of volunteers, cleared away years of debris and dust to open Fort East Martello as its first museum. With continued community support, the Society restored this national landmark in accordance with its original 1860s design. Today, visitors can explore the preserved battlement\u2019s collection of relics from the Civil War, learn about the wrecking and cigar-manufacturing industries which shaped the Florida Keys, view the imaginative metal sculptures of Stanley Papio, as well as meet the Ghosts of East Martello, including the infamous Robert the Doll.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 5793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lafayettestudentnews.com/blog/2017/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MAF2TSSL23O5RP45JDN7ZZLEUDUCQS35", "length": 5749, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.lafayettestudentnews.com", "title": "November 2017 \u2013 The Lafayette", "raw_content": "Since Nov. 10, the Good Samaritan policy has been used nine times, with five occurring in the early morning hours of Nov. 12. This brings the total number of Good Samaritan calls to 34 for the semester. The Good Samaritan policy makes it so that students feel \u201cempowered\u201d to seek help for \u201cdangerously intoxicated individuals,\u201d [\u2026]\nMoney, News, The College November 17, 2017November 28, 2017 Claire Grunewald 0 Comments\nThe sidewalk construction project going on behind Pardee Hall, with costs at $200,000, is meant to expand the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Honneur Plaza and provide more space to recognize donors who have made significant gifts to the college, Vice President of Finance and Administration Roger Demareski said. The project is being funded by both the college and [\u2026]\nNews, The College November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 Tristan Smith 0 Comments\nStarting this week, a refugee family hosted by Lafayette\u2019s Refugee Action Club will be calling Easton home. Having just arrived yesterday, the family is being hosted in a home prepared by the club. Due to privacy and security concerns, only those intimately involved with the resettlement process will have access to details about the family. Refugee [\u2026]\nCadence to take the stage at Radio City Music Hall\nArts and Culture November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Danielle Kraidin 0 Comments\nThe chance to perform at New York City\u2019s famous Radio City Music Hall does not come around for most. The college\u2019s only all-female a cappella group, Cadence, will get this opportunity as an opening act for the Nov. 26 Rockettes\u2019 Christmas Spectacular. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited and have been rehearsing a lot, and we\u2019re appreciative we have [\u2026]\nThe oldest rivalry in college football endures 133 years later\nNews, The College November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Hannah Doherty 0 Comments\nIn 1884\u2013the same year that Harry Truman was born, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid and Mark Twain wrote the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u2013Lafayette College and Lehigh University met for the first time to play football at the Easton Athletic Grounds, starting college football\u2019s Most Played Rivalry. One hundred and thirty-three years [\u2026]\nGOP proposed endowment tax may de-incentivize donors, hurt Lafayette\u2019s annual fund\nThe United States House of Representatives has released the proposed \u201cTax Cuts and Jobs Act,\u201d which would require private universities with assets of more than $100,000 per student to pay a 1.4 percent excise tax on their net investment income, Business Insider reported. Lafayette\u2019s current endowment is $810 million, and enrollment is around 2500 students. This [\u2026]\nRyan Cabrera to perform at One Centre Square: acoustic show open to all ages\nArts and Culture November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Morgan Sturm 0 Comments\nRyan Cabrera will hit the stage at One Centre Square this evening, making it the singer-songwriter\u2019s second time to perform in Easton in the past six months. Cabrera also performed at One Centre Square over the summer. Well-known for hit songs like \u201cOn the Way Down,\u201d \u201cShine On\u201d and \u201cTrue,\u201d Cabrera has recently released an [\u2026]\nAs three universities suspend Greek life, frats make their way back on Lafayette campus\nGreek Life, News November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Gabrielle Tropp 0 Comments\nTexas State University suspended all fraternity and sorority activities Nov. 14, a day after the death of a Phi Kappa Psi pledge. All 55 fraternities and sororities at Florida State University were suspended this month following the death of a freshman pledge. Greek life at the University of Michigan was suspended less than a week later [\u2026]\nSports, Sports Recap Central November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 Henry Schweber 0 Comments\nMen\u2019s Basketball (0-1) (0-0) Nov 10 vs George Mason L, 67-65 The Leopards put up a strong fight against the Atlantic 10 opponent George Mason, barely falling in the final seconds of what was a close game throughout. Senior forward Matt Klinewski poured in a game high 18 points, surpassing 1,000 career points as a [\u2026]\nWhy Lehigh will win the 153rd Lafayette vs. Lehigh rivalry game\nBy Zion Olojede, \u201918 | Sports Editor | The Brown and White Home-field advantage. A Patriot League title on the line. A chance to beat your arch-rival for a third consecutive year. Lehigh will not squander this opportunity, especially in front a sold out Goodman Stadium. Lehigh has won the last seven out of nine [\u2026]\nOff the Hill: Tucker Silk Mill\nArts and Culture November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Julia Owens 0 Comments\nLocated just behind the silk mill at the end of the Karl Stirner Arts Trail the newly opened, locally owned, Australian caf\u00e9 Tucker Silk Mill, brings a warm, rustic feel to Easton. The employees offer a friendly atmosphere, which makes for a great way to spend an afternoon with authentic Australian meals. Tucker Silk Mill [\u2026]\nReview: \u2018Murder on the Orient Express\u2019\nArts and Culture November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Makaela Finley 0 Comments\nStarring and directed by Kenneth Branagh, \u201cMurder on The Orient Express\u201d is based on Agatha Christie\u2019s best-selling novel. The movie follows the story of Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who investigates the murder of Edward Ratchett, played by Johnny Depp. The film contains an ensemble of actors like Daisy Ridley, Leslie Odom Jr., Josh Gad, [\u2026]\nCross Country concludes their season at NCAA Regionals\nCross Country, Sports November 17, 2017November 16, 2017 Julia Owens 0 Comments\nThe cross country season came to an end with the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional meet at Lehigh on Nov. 10. Both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s teams competed, with the women finishing in the top 25 for the second year in a row. Both teams finished ahead of close Patriot League competitor Loyola. The women placed [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 9870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lakemichigancollege.edu/academics/pharmacy-technician/pharmacy-technician-advanced-certificate", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QWCKKQCYGISHWK3HOQA4337FG3OOXGOR", "length": 360, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lakemichigancollege.edu", "title": "Pharmacy Technician Advanced Certificate | Lake Michigan College", "raw_content": "Pharm Tech Certificate\nYour prescription for a great career\nThe Pharmacy Technician program prepares students for entry-level pharmacy technician positions in hospitals and retail stores. The program provides valuable hands-on experience under the supervision of a pharmacist.\nUpon completion of the 51-credit program you may apply for an Advanced Certificate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lancs.live/news/local-news/new-york-date-is-still-on-offer-1267904", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OSDMALMSZTLZ5OGFAMZFNMK2LCVEL7Q5", "length": 1417, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lancs.live", "title": "New York date is still on offer - LancsLive", "raw_content": "New York date is still on offer\nLOVELORN Paul Hitchen has attracted replies from a number of young women keen to take up his offer of an all-expenses-paid trip to New York with \u00a32,000 spending money.\nBut many girls may have thought the story in last week's Observer was an April Fool joke and have not yet put their names forward.\nThe article has attracted national media interest but Paul, 36, has turned down offers to appear on TV.\nThe high-flying IT consultant from Huncoat told last week of how he had missed out on romance and was hoping to find Miss Right with the help of the Observer.\nHe is looking for a warm-hearted Lancashire lass and his ideal date would be a good laugh, slim, in her mid-to-late 20s or early 30s, easy-going and a non-smoker.\nPaul himself is five feet 10 inches tall and of medium build. He says his ideal women is Kelly Brook but assured readers he was looking for Miss Right, not Miss Perfect.\nHe said: \"The offer is quite genuine and above board with no strings attached. I'll treat the girl to a long weekend in New York, staying in separate rooms in a high-class hotel, and give her 2K to spend.\"\nIf you are interested write to the Observer at 103 Blackburn Road, Accrington, marking the envelope New York Date.\nWe will pass all the replies on to Paul who says he will probably meet those who appeal to him for a drink to break the ice before deciding who to take to the Big Apple.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 8188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/The+Fierce+&+The+Dead", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:X5E4NKEKT6JIDHO54TTU5XLDQR6E7XRY", "length": 580, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.last.fm", "title": "The Fierce & The Dead music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm", "raw_content": "Arcade Messiah Arcade Messiah\nThe Fierce & The Dead is the brainchild of Matt Stevens (guitars) Kev Feazey (bass) and Stuart Marshall (drums), a trio of friends who have been playing together for more than ten years, helping each other in different bands, and also as solo artists. This project actually was created after a recording session which was intended to be part of a Matt Stevens' solo album, but they decided to create a new band with an own style and sound.\nI Like It, I'm Into It\nHotel No.6\nIf It Carries on Like This We Are Moving to Morecambe\ntoxicoboy\nbarkingstars", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 4215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-postal-service-loss-20131115-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YXC5MCM22MPQRXQ2SH2EW5UEY7EKK6QY", "length": 2024, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "U.S. Postal Service reports $5-billion yearly loss - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "U.S. Postal Service reports $5-billion yearly loss\nBy By Ricardo Lopez\nThe U.S. Postal Service on Friday reported its seventh-straight net yearly loss. The agency said it lost $5 billion in the last fiscal year in spite of improved revenue and productivity. Above, packages wait to be sorted in Atlanta in February. (David Goldman/Associated Press)\nThe beleaguered U.S. Postal Service on Friday reported a $5-billion loss in the last fiscal year and again urged Congress to take legislative action that would help the agency shore up its finances.\nThe $5-billion loss during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 comes even as revenue and productivity have improved, the agency said. It's the seventh-straight yearly net loss for the agency, which has seen mail volume drop precipitously in recent years.\nSince 2006, the agency has cut its expenses by $15 billion annually, but first-class mail volume has continued to drop.\n\"We\u2019ve achieved some excellent results for the year in terms of innovations, revenue gains and cost reductions, but without major legislative changes we cannot overcome the limitations of our inflexible business model,\u201d Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said.\nWhile package and standard mail volumes increased, the agency's most profitable product, first-class mail, declined by 2.8 billion pieces.\nIn an effort to become more profitable, the Postal Service has focused on developing its package services business. Those efforts seem to be working. Revenue from that business grew 8%, reaching $923 million in the last fiscal year. Its package services now account for 19% of its revenue.\nThe Postal Service has proposed a number of reforms intended to give it more flexibility over its business. They include restructuring its healthcare plans, lowering future retirement pension payments and adjusting its delivery frequency.\nCalifornia exports rise sharply in September\nCalifornia's unemployment benefits fund is mired in debt\nObama's call for insurers to extend canceled health plans splits state", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 4764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/news/archive/new_scientific_study_indicates/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:7KDNHGB462TZXZRTJ44N26M3N7GTMOX6", "length": 3498, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.lau.edu.lb", "title": "New scientific study indicates genetic continuity in the Levant | LAU News", "raw_content": "New scientific study indicates genetic continuity in the Levant\nA study conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, LAU and their collaborators links present-day Lebanese to Bronze Age Canaanites.\nThe findings imply significant genetic continuity in the Levant since the Bronze Age.\nA most recent whole-genome study, conducted by scientists at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the U.K.\u2014one of the world\u2019s leading institutes\u2014LAU and their collaborators may have unlocked the mystery of our ancestry, establishing a direct link between Bronze Age Canaanites and present-day Lebanese. A report of the findings, co-authored by LAU\u2019s Geneticist and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Pierre Zalloua, was published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics under the title \u201cContinuity and admixture in the last five millennia of Levantine history from ancient Canaanite and present-day Lebanese genome sequences.\u201d\n\u201cIt is not an easy task to construct the past using genes alone, a collaborative effort that includes historians, archeologists, anthropologists and climatologist is needed,\u201d Zalloua says of the inter-disciplinary collaboration that is fundamental to this type of research.\nThe origins and fate of the Canaanites, later known to the ancient Greeks as Phoenicians, have long been subject to scientific debate due to the scarcity of historical records. While their cultural and political influences have been recognized, and references made to them in the Bible as well as ancient Greek and Egyptian texts, experts have been unable to determine conclusively their ancestry and link to descendants.\nIn this pioneering study, the scientists sequenced whole genomes of five Canaanite individuals who lived 4,000 years ago in Sidon, a major Canaanite city-state. They also sequenced the genomes of 99 Lebanese, and analyzed the genetic relationship between ancient Canaanites and modern-day Lebanese. The results indicated that Bronze Age Canaanite-related ancestry was widespread in the region, particularly in Sidon and Jordan.\nFurthermore, DNA analysis suggested that more than 90 percent of present-day Lebanese descended from the Canaanites\u2014themselves an admixture of local Neolithic populations and eastern migrants\u2014and only a small proportion from Eurasians. The latter, it is believed, only arrived in the region around 3,750-2,170 years ago.\nWhat the findings imply is significant genetic continuity in the Levant since the Bronze Age.\nZalloua explains that \u201cthe study provides additional support to the notion that people do not move unless there is a compelling reason for them to do so. The Levant has provided its inhabitants with an ideal environment since the Last Glacial Period: fair climate, and plenty of food and water, so there was no reason for people to leave. If you ask the modern-day Lebanese about their country, despite all the social and political problems they might have faced, they will tell you that they love their land. They have been occupying it for millennia.\u201d\nThe geneticist, who has been researching Levantine history for 10 years, remarked on its complexity, given that \u201cit is the oldest,\u201d and its direct bearing on the present.\nThe first ever cultures arose in the Levant and Mesopotamia in 4,000 B.C.E., he said, with some evolving, others fading and new ones appearing, and \u201cit is through a comprehensive understanding of these past cultures that we get to appreciate our heritage and, of course, the country we live in.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 4362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=e5936873c165d22cd931cfaa700dc015&term_occur=1&term_src=Title:40:Chapter:I:Subchapter:C:Part:63:Subpart:FFFF:Subjgrp:251:63.2480", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:23Z", "digest": "sha1:LKU5Q5Z64SIQEB7L7QI6N2BIK3BW6UNW", "length": 598, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.law.cornell.edu", "title": "Connector", "raw_content": "Connector means flanged, screwed, or other joined fittings used to connect two pipelines or a pipeline and a piece of equipment. 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For the purpose of reporting and recordkeeping, connector means joined fittings that are not inaccessible, ceramic, or ceramic-lined (e.g., porcelain, glass, or glass-lined) as described in 63.1027(2).\nAll terms used in this part shall have the meaning given them in the Act and in this section.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lds.org/new-era/2014/01/both-parts-of-the-blessing?lang=eng", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TKODQNMJ6OVSUYEWKECBNMHPZRI4LLN5", "length": 6119, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.lds.org", "title": "Both Parts of the Blessing - new-era", "raw_content": "Both Parts of the Blessing\nTemple attendance and family history are both important; when combined, they bring additional blessings.\nAs you flip through the pages of the New Era this month, look at the wide variety of color combinations that bring a rich energy and vibrancy to each picture, painting, or design. Many of the colors were made possible because two of the primary colors\u2014red, yellow, or blue\u2014were combined to create a new color, one that couldn\u2019t exist if the primary colors were kept separate.\nFamily history and temple work share a similarity with those colors: you can receive more blessings by combining the two important works. That\u2019s because family history and temple work are actually two parts of a single work\u2014the work of salvation. Of course you\u2019ll still receive great blessings by helping others with their family history and by attending the temple to do work for people whose names are provided there. But you receive even greater blessings\u2014enjoy the full palette of colors\u2014when you combine the two parts and find your own family names and then perform the work for your ancestors in the temple.\nAs Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught:\n\u201cTemple and family history work is one work divided into two parts. \u2026\n\u201cFather in Heaven wants each of us to receive both parts of the blessing of this vital vicarious work. He has led others to show us how to qualify. It is up to you and me to claim those blessings.\n\u201cAny work you do in the temple is time well spent, but receiving ordinances vicariously for one of your own ancestors will make the time in the temple more sacred, and even greater blessings will be received.\u201d1\nSo, what are some of the \u201cgreater blessings\u201d that come when we receive \u201cboth parts of the blessing\u201d? At right are several promises from modern-day Apostles.\nA Refining, Spiritual Influence\n\u201cFamily history work of Church members has a refining, spiritualizing, tempering influence on those who are engaged in it. They understand that they are tying their family together. \u2026 When we research our own lines we become interested in more than just names. \u2026 Our interest turns our hearts to our fathers\u2014we seek to find them and to know them and to serve them.\u201d2\nPart of a Greater Work\n\u201cSpiritual connections \u2026 are formed. \u2026 When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves.\u201d3\nA Safeguard against Temptation\n\u201cEach of us benefits from all of those who have gone before. Learning those stories helps us really understand who we are and where we came from. \u2026 Are you doing the research in your own family and helping other people with their research? That for a young person in the wickedness of the world in which we live today is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary.\u201d4\nAid from the Unseen World\n\u201cPerhaps if we would do our work in behalf of those of the unseen world who hunger and pray for the work we can do for them, the unseen world would in return give us help in this day of our urgent need. There are more in that other world than there are here. There is more power and strength there than we have here upon this earth.\u201d5\nWhat will you do to \u201cclaim those blessings\u201d of finding family names and then taking them to the temple? Make a plan today to bring the promises of receiving both parts of the blessing in your life.\nI Found a Name\n\u201cTo prepare for a youth temple trip, our ward put together a Mutual activity to search for family names we could bring. I was sitting next to my friends and somewhat complaining that I could not find any names that needed ordinances done. After much searching on familysearch.org, I found a name. I was so excited!\n\u201cI quickly ran to our family history consultant and asked her what the next step was. She showed me how to save the name and print it out so I could do the temple work. She also said the woman was a real person and not just a name on a screen. I felt the Spirit and knew the person had been waiting for her work to be done and for me to find her. I was able to take her name to the temple. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve my ancestors and help bring them the joy of the gospel.\u201d\nLeah G., New York, USA\nWhat If I Don\u2019t Have Access to the Internet?\nAlthough your family history names need to be submitted online in order to do temple work for them, you don\u2019t need to have Internet access at home. Gather names, information, and family stories from your living relatives, and then see if there\u2019s a local family history center where you can submit the names on familysearch.org. In areas with limited Internet access, talk to ward or stake family history consultants about the resources they have for getting the data entered electronically for you.\nDoes That Mean I Shouldn\u2019t Go to the Temple If I Don\u2019t Have Family Names?\nNot at all! Attending the temple brings rich blessings both for you and for those you are baptized and confirmed for, whether or not they are your ancestors. You should still attend the temple even if you don\u2019t have a family name. The First Presidency has taught: \u201cMembers with limited ability to do their own family history research are encouraged to perform vicarious ordinances with names provided by other members or by the temple\u201d (First Presidency Letter, Oct. 8, 2012).\nAn Invitation from the First Presidency\n\u201cWhen members of the Church find the names of their ancestors and take those names to the temple for ordinance work, the temple experience can be greatly enriched. \u2026 We especially encourage youth \u2026 to use for temple work their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members.\u201d\nFirst Presidency Letter, Oct. 8, 2012.\nRichard G. Scott, \u201cThe Joy of Redeeming the Dead,\u201d Ensign, Nov. 2012, 93\u201394.\nBoyd K. Packer, \u201cYour Family History: Getting Started,\u201d Ensign, Aug. 2003, 17.\nRussell M. Nelson, \u201cGenerations Linked in Love,\u201d Ensign, May 2010, 92.\nDavid A. Bednar, \u201cThe Time Is Now,\u201d lds.org/youth/family-history/leaders.\nJohn A. Widtsoe, in Conference Report, Apr. 1943, 39.\nYouth Voices: Blessings of Family History", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 6549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leadhomeschool.org/2137/custom/40530", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HAIBJC4VEV5TCWZNRPSZNWTULXUOGHPP", "length": 20542, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.leadhomeschool.org", "title": "Possible Field Trips", "raw_content": "Possible Field Trips\nOrganize a field trip on your own or through LEAD!\nHere is a growing list of past successful trips and ideas for future journeys:\nAround Town and Beyond\nAgrirama - Georgia's living history museum in Tifton, Georgia, consists of four distinct areas: traditional farm community of the 1870's, progressive farmstead of the 1890's, industrial sites complex, and a rural town; costumed interpreters are on location daily to explain and demonstrate the lifestyle and activities of the period; 912-386-3344\nAlliance Theatre - the Alliance Children's Theatre presents dramas for school-age children each season; website includes information about the theater and its performances including those for children; 404-733-4690\nAPEX Museum - the African-American Panoramic Experience Museum features a permanent collection of exhibits that depict the cultural heritage of African Americans and recognize their contributions and achievements; tells the story of Atlanta's African-American community and brings in traveling exhibits by local and national African-American artists; 404-521-2739\nAtlanta Botanical Garden - garden facilities, calendar and programs, including a traveling plantmobile that visits schools to teach children about plant adaptations; includes Children's Garden with interactive exhibits for children aged 4 to 11; 404-876-5859\nAtlanta History Center - exhibitions depicting the history of Atlanta and the South; also features the Swan House, a 1928 mansion; Tullie Smith Farm, an 1845 plantation-plain house and outbuildings; and 32-acres of gardens and nature trails; 404-814-4000\nAtlanta Jugglers Festival - yearly event held in downtown Atlanta with free parking; Festival website\nAtlanta Symphony Orchestra - the ASO presents Discovery concerts for elementary students; teaching materials are provided; website includes schedule, ticket information, educational out reach and other information about the orchestra; 404-733-4871\nAutrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center - in Alpharetta, 46-acres of ravine forest and historic plantation; the nature preserve's 1.5 miles of hiking trails wind past a scenic creek with rocky shoals, numerous spring seeps, picturesque cliffs, mature trees, wildflowers, native plants, considerable animal life and old cotton plantation buildings from the late 1800's; 770-664-0660\nBartow History Center - museum in Cartersville featuring exhibits of life in northwest Georgia from the time of the Cherokee through the 1950s; from pioneer life and the Civil War to the Depression and World War II, hands-on exhibits make the learning fun; 770-382-3818\nThe Backyard Farm - provides education to individuals and groups regarding backyard farming and sustainable living; contact Donna Byers at 678-951-9383; http://heavenonearthminifarm.blogspot.com/\nBooth Western Museum - all things western, with a Cowboy Festival in October!\nCabin Path\nCallaway Gardens - 14,000-acre gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia, includes a butterfly center, discovery center, horticultural center, vegetable garden, pioneer log cabin and more; 800-225-5292\nCarter Presidential Library - includes personal memorabilia of the former first family as well as a video, \"If I Were President.\" The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a glimpse of the American Presidency, from life in the White House to complex decisions made in the Oval Office. Several exhibits focus on important twentieth century events such as war and peace, disarmament, and the economy; website includes basic information, holdings, museum exhibits, and directions. 404-331-3942\nCenter for Puppetry Arts - the largest organization in the United States devoted to the art of puppetry; includes a museum with an interactive puppetry experience and performances for children; website offers information about performances, the center's museum, and education programs; 404-873-3089\nChamberlain's Chocolate Factory - sometimes offers tours; in Norcross\nChattahoochee Nature Center - located on the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Georgia, the center features nature trails, wildlife and workshops with programs specifically designed for school groups; website offers information about guided tours, exhibits, field trips, special events, and more; 770-992-2055\nThe Children's Museum of Atlanta - 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive, Atlanta, GA; 404-659-5437\nClassical Productions for Students - educational shows that tour Atlanta, usually performed at the Fox Theater\nClayton County Performing Arts Center - a center for performing arts operated by the Clayton County School System; website includes a schedule of events, seating chart, group information, and more; 770-473-2875\nCNN Center News Studio - studio tours guide visitors through an insider's view of CNN, Headline News, and CNN International to see how breaking news is reported; website includes scheduling information, hours, directions and more information about the tour; 404-827-2300\nCyclorama and Civil War Museum - a painting-in-the-round, depicting the 1864 Battle of Atlanta; includes three-dimensional figures, sound and light effects, narration and a rotating seating platform; a steam locomotive is also housed in the building\nDekalb History Center - Lesson Plans for Sylvester Cemetary, Shermantown and others; old courthouse on the square; 101 East Court Square, Decatur, GA 30030; 404-373-1088\nDunwoody Nature Center - \"Classes move through the meadow and trails of Dunwoody Park for hands-on environmental learning with DNC educators. Field trips are academically-based and curriculum materials are correlated with the Quality Core Curriculum.\" (from the DNC web site); 770-394-3322\nElachee Nature Science Center - located in Gainesville, Georgia, Elachee is the first nature center in the Southeast to be accredited by SACS; extensive trails (a .3-mile loop to a 6.6-mile trail) and a museum with hands-on displays, high-tech touch screens and exhibits; 770-535-1976\nFederal Reserve Bank Monetary Museum - explains the history of money and the U.S. banking system; includes rare coins, uncut money and a gold bar; 404-521-8267\nFernbank Museum of Natural History - largest natural history museum in the Southeast includes state-of-the-art exhibits and galleries including a children's discovery section, website offers information about the museum, current exhibits, IMAX theater, and other attractions; 404-370-0960\nFernbank Science Center - offers exhibits on natural history including dinosaurs and volcanoes, a planetarium, and an Apollo 6 space capsule; website has information about the center's resources and about the various programs it offers; 404-378-4314\nFunk Heritage Center/Bennett History Museum - on the campus of Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia, the center features an extensive collection of exhibits on Native American life; includes a 50-foot replica of an Iroquois longhouse, Native American arts, crafts, and interactive displays, as well as a large collection of pioneer era tools; 770-720-5969\nGeorgia State Capitol Museum - museum collects, preserves, and exhibits objects to interpret the natural and cultural history of Georgia, its people, and its resources; website includes information about the Capitol building and museum, including tour information as well as online information about the state, its history and symbols; 404-656-2844\nGeorgia State Parks - click on the map for field trip suggestions at GA State Parks; free passes are available at most libraries for checkout\nGovernor's Mansion - completed in January 1968, in the Greek Revival style; website features virtual tour; 404-261-1776\nHabitat for Humanity Global Village - in Americus Georgia; learn about the devastating effects of poverty everywhere, see life-size Habitat houses from countries around the world; 721 West Church Street 31709; 800-422-4828\nHigh Museum of Art - Atlanta's \"flagship\" art museum with a permanent collection of 19th and 20th century American art, decorative arts, and folk art; website has information about exhibitions and films, education programs, and teacher information; 404-733-4400\nHindu Temple - gleaming white edifice in Lilburn; tour the temple and learn about the Hindu religion. Did you know they are monotheists?\nHorse Rescue Farm - Cumming rescue center, located at 1768 Newt Green Rd. Cumming, GA 30028; 770-886-5419\nJarrell Plantation - a historic Georgia plantation in Juliette, Georgia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and consisting of 20 buildings dating between 1847 and 1945; home to one of the largest collections of original family artifacts from this time period in Georgia; 912-986-5172\nKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - a 2,884 acre National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign complete with original earthworks. The visitor center and museum provide introductory information about the park and the battle; 770-427-4686\nMartin Luther King , Jr. National Historic Site - a two-block area in downtown Atlanta commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Atlanta's African-American experience; includes the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church, his gravesite, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and the APEX Museum (African American Panoramic Experience); 404-331-6922\nMichael C. Carlos Museum - located on the Emory University campus, the museum houses collections which emphasize the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations; website features museum information, collections, exhibits, programs and events; 404-727-4282\nMonastery of the Holy Spirit - they have a new welcome center with a small museum detailing the history of monks in general, and also a portion telling the history of that particular monastery. You can also visit the church, and they have a pond with a variety of ducks and geese. They sell bonsai and have a nice garden shop.\nNature's Harmony Farm - a sustainable farm that offers classes, tours and more\nNoah's Ark - an animal rehabilitation center in Locust Grove that cares for abused, unwanted, and orphaned animals; includes nature trails where students can see animals and a collection of wildlife, exotic, and domestic farm animals; 770-957-0888\nOriginal Mattress Factory - see for yourself how mattresses are made, right in the store; from the quilting machine to the box springs, visitors will take part the process\nPanola Mountain State Conservation Park - state park in Stockbridge, created to protect a 100-acre granite monadnock (mountain) often compared to Stone Mountain near Atlanta. Panola Mountain shelters rare plants and animals of the Piedmont region. Visitors may explore nature on their own or they may join park staff for nature programs and guided hikes into the conservation area; 770-389-7801\nRoswell Ghost Tours - YEAR-ROUND outdoor, 2 1/2 hour (at least) walking ghost tour!\nSkyZone - 560 Old Peachtree Road NW Suite 300 Suwanee, GA 30024; 678-745-9900\nThe Southern Museum - housed in a former cotton gin in the town of Kennesaw, the museum exhibits a collection of wartime artifacts and memorabilia; the most famous relic at the museum is the Civil War locomotive called \"The General,\" which was stolen by Union troops and involved in what became known as \"The Great Locomotive Chase.\"\nSpivey Hall - on the campus of Clayton College and State University, Spivey Hall annually provides more than 20,000 school students (grades K-12) with performances and workshops which expand the student\u2019s musical awareness by interaction and participation with world-class and regional artists who perform with a wide range of musical styles; website describes calendar of events, concert information and more; 770-961-3683\nStone Mountain Park - home to the largest exposed piece of granite in the world, Stone Mountain Park includes 3,200 acres of lakes and woodlands, mountaintop skylift, scenic railroad, paddlewheel riverboat, wildlife preserve and petting zoo, antebellum plantation, and antique car museum. Website gives general information, attractions, special events, group activities, and more; 770-498-5690\nSwamp Gravy - year after year, Swamp Gravy, the Official Folk Life Play of Georgia, produces plays that delight audiences of all ages and all backgrounds. While definitely steeped in Southern tradition, Swamp Gravy presents stories of universal appeal... stories about life and death, about family, about community. Each performance is a crowd-pleasing blend of comedy, drama, and music with a cast and crew of over 100 people who transform southern life into unforgettable theatre; P.O. Box 567, Colquitt, GA 39837; 229-758-5450\nTellus Science Museum - 100 Tellus Drive, Cartersville, GA; 770-606-5700\nUGA College of Veterinary Science Open House - yearly open house, usually in the Spring around the 1st of April\nWilliam Breman Jewish Heritage Museum - the largest Jewish museum in the Southeast with exhibits on Atlanta Jewish history and a special interactive exhibit on the Holocaust; 404-870-1861\nThe World of Coca-Cola - follow the history of the world's most famous soft drink through hundreds of artifacts, exhibits, and videos; exhibits include Coke memorabilia, commercials and a representation of the bottling process; 404-676-5151\nWren's Nest - the home of author Georgia author and journalist Joel Chandler Harris and a National Historic Landmark, featuring elaborate Victorian wallpapers, carpets, and curtains; 404-753-7735\nElevated boardwalks and paths through 100 acres of Georgia's piney woods let you get a close up glimpse of both native and exotic animals roaming in natural habitats. Chehaw Wild Animal Park is located within an 800-acre recreation facility. Watch the white-tailed deer, raccoons, squirrels, and birds of all kinds as they live and play in their natural habitat.\nOkefenokee - visit the swamp and national wildlife refuge; one of GA's treasures! 2700 Suwannee Canal Road, Folkston, GA 31537; 912-496-7836\nWild Animal Safari - In Pine Mountain about an hour south of Atlanta, visitors can ride through the park, observe, take pictures and feed the animals from their car,one of our Zebra Vans or the guided tour bus (seasonal). 1300 Oak Grove Road Pine Mountain, GA 31822-4548. 706.663.8744\nLocated near Stone Mountain, the facilities include a mile-long trail on 24 wooded acres and encounter over six hundred highly sociable birds and animals indigenous to The State of Georgia. White-tailed deer, bunnies, buffalo, sheep, kid goats, black bears and a bevy of new-born animals to be fed, admired, and petted. Website describes hours, features and fees; 770-972-6643\nA zoological park housing animals with naturalistic environments simulating their native homes. The zoo's collection consists of nearly 1,000 specimens, representing 250 species of animals from all over the world, living in natural environments. The website relates what's new at the zoo, exhibits, visitor information, and information and activities for kids; www.zooatlanta.com; 404-624-5600\nOffers field trips and \"Science Nights.\" Join us for a variety of workshops, lectures and hands-on learning opportunities. 2450 South Milledge Ave., Athens, GA 30605. For educational programs, call 706-542-6156.\nGeorgia Nature Center - located in a Nature preserve, school groups can visit a clean energy exhibition, organic farm, carnivorous plant greenhouse! An underground home is featured on the tour which is run by the sun and wind only. Wander the nature trails and spot local flora and fauna.\nMorris Museum of Art - the first museum in the country dedicated to celebrating and exploring the art and artists of the South; permanent collection of some 2,500 paintings and works on paper -- nearly 1,900 of these works make up the Southern Collection, a broad-based survey collection, encompassing a history of painting in the South and ranging from delicate watercolors by eighteenth century nature artists, to vibrant works by some of today's best-known Southern artists; 1 Tenth, St. Augusta, GA 30901; 706-724-7501\nMayfield Dairy Factory Tour - tour the largest dairy and milk production facility in the southeast. At the end of the tour you can purchase a scoop of their ice cream in the ice cream parlor. Free and fun for all ages!\nBabyland General Hospital - where Cabbage Patch dolls are born\nPort Columbus Civil War Naval Center - visit the original Confederate warships in the collection, some of the rarest and most significant Civil War artifacts in the nation, and reconstructed ships in which the visitor can feel how it must have been to live and work. 1002 Victory Drive, P.O. Box 1022, Columbus GA 31902; 706-327-9798; cwnavy@portcolumbus.org\nCoca-Cola Space Science Center - located in Columbus, Georgia, the space science center offers a variety of exhibits and hands-on activities for school groups, as well as staff development and summer camps for kids; 706-649-1470\nDahlonega Gold Museum - a 23-minute film describes the mining techniques and lifestyles of the prospectors through interviews with members of the long-time mining families. In the town of Dahlonega, visitors can shop for gold nuggets and pan for gold. Located on the Public Square in Dahlonega, 5 miles west of Ga. Hwy. 400. Reservations (800) 864-7275 Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday, 10AM-5 PM; Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is about $4\nChestatee Wildlife Preserve - the Preserve is located 45 minutes north of Atlanta, GA on Old Dahlonega Highway (SR 115) in Dahlonega, and sits on over 20 acres of gently rolling farmland. Over 100 animals, with many different species, live at CWP.\nHansel and Gretel Candy Kitchen - during a visit to the large Hansel & Gretel Candy Kitchen in downtown Helen, you will see numerous treats, made right before your eyes.\nTubing - \"3hrs floating down the river for $20 ($5 per person) -- it was great and everyone had fun, even the teenager! We could have gone back down the river again (they bus you back up to the start). I highly recommend Cool River Tubing Co., www.coolrivertubing.com. There's another tubing place just before Cool River that has pink tubes and signs that say $3, so that's another option. I think it's Helen Waterpark/Tubing.\" ~ Sheri\nThe Museum of Arts & Sciences - go zooming through outer space in the Mark Smith Planetarium, discover the ecosystems that surround us, learn of far off cultures, and be amazed by artistic feats all in a one day field trip. 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA 31210; (912) 477-3232\nMuseum of Aviation - located 20 miles south of Macon, the museum includes exhibits featuring major collections of aviation memorabilia dating back to World War I and range from a WW II British Airfield to modern fighters such as the F-15 Eagle. Take a walk in time with Rosie the Riveter; the Hump Pilots exploits in China-Burma-India in WW II; America's Black Eagles; German Luftwaffe items; avionics systems moving into the Twenty-First Century. (912)926-5558\nOcmulgee National Monument - near Macon, Georgia, Ocmulgee preserves a continuous record of human life in the southeast from the earliest times to the present; a memorial to the antiquity of man in this corner of the North American continent, from Ice-Age hunters to the Creeks of historic times, there is evidence here of 12,000 years of human habitation; 912-752-8257\nGeorgia Music Hall of Fame - 43,000 sq.ft. museum in Macon, Georgia, featuring an extravaganza of music, lights, and laser videos celebrating the music of Georgia; includes the Music Factory with interactive and educational exhibits for kids; 912-750-8555\nMILLEDGEVILLE - once the State Capitol, this town (south of Atlanta) offers historic tours, and was the home of Flannery O'Conner.\nChieftans Museum - experience Northwest Georgia's Indian Heritage\nIncludes the Old Fort Jackson National Historic Landmark, the Savannah History Museum, Savannah Children's Museum, Pinpoint Heritage Museum, and the Georgia State Railroad Museum.\nOwned by Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy and dedicated to wholesome education and entertainment and promoting healthy family values and relationships. Close enough for a day trip from Atlanta, Macon, or Columbus; (706) 647-6374\nOutside of Georgia\nChattanooga - only 2 hours from Atlanta; the Megabus now goes there from Atlantic Station.\nRuby Falls - water falls, nature trails, picnics\nDisney - Disney's Youth Programs - explore the educational opportunities that Disney has to offer\nhttp://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/index/fieldtrips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 22184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leehyundaiofgoldsboro.com/blog/video/2019/february/9/2019-Hyundai-Ioniq-Hybrid-Goldsboro-NC-bdef44310a0e0ae776d497649bbd8cc6.htm?locale=en_US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6SFQDJMQNOLUMVM5EYSJ4I7PD64L3IE6", "length": 1542, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.leehyundaiofgoldsboro.com", "title": "2019 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Limited Video | VIN: KMHC05LC2KU125766 | Lee Hyundai of Goldsboro", "raw_content": "Introducing the 2019 Ioniq Hybrid This 4 door, 5 passenger hatchback provides a satisfying ride for all passengers. 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Please don't hesitate to give us a call.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 8274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legalwins.com/counties-serviced-by-joseph-awad/genesee-county-mi/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XEG6IJDE3KLHDDHLNCE2WBBZJ5TNZYUX", "length": 2075, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.legalwins.com", "title": "Genesee County in Michigan | Joseph F Awad, PC Attorney and Counselor at Law", "raw_content": "Genesee County Michigan is the fifth most populous county in Michigan, acting as home to roughly 428,000 citizens. The County's seat \u2013 or administrative center- can be found in Flint. Geographically speaking, most of the land in Genesee County is flat, although the southern end contains numerous lakes and the landscape can be deemed undulating. Tasks such as running jails, maintaining vital records, operations of major local court systems, and maintaining rural roads can all be viewed as tasks which must be followed through upon by the implemented county government.\nThe courts which are located within Genesee County include the 67th District court and the 7th Circuit Court. The 67th District court deals with both criminal and civil hearings, depending on the specific details associated with each case. Civil filings can fall into any of the following divisions: Landlord Tenant, Small Claims, Collecting Money, Court Filing Fees, Land Contract, General Civil, or Garnishment. Each area deals with a different type of case, allowing each division to concentrate on a specific yet generic area of jurisdiction. When dealing with criminal filings this district court has jurisdiction to issue arrest and search warrants, hold arraignments for felonies and/or misdemeanors, deal with bail specifications, and the ability to head up introductory assessments for felony offenses.\nThe 7th Circuit Court encompasses nine judges who preside over the county. Similarly to the District court, the Circuit Court has responsibility over a variety of different areas. Some of these include Friend of the Court, public defender program, financial services division, Court Services division and jury commission. Helping to oversee all of these areas is the Office of the Court Administrator. Duties include case-flow management, records management, personnel administration, and budgeting and fiscal management. Genesee County is governed mainly by these two court systems and a few other administrative agencies.\nCities and Towns in Genesee County:\nLapeer Heights\nMcGrew Junction", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legion.org/membership/videos/PL5176C91169F55957/6SSsMu8j3vo", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MUCGP2TWH24RR5R4JS5CKWVVDUDFPKI4", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.legion.org", "title": "Video: I Am The American Legion: Jessie Horton | The American Legion", "raw_content": "\u201cThe American Legion is one of the best things that can happen to a community when it comes to supporting veterans.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 7495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 68.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ligonier.org/store/unseen-realities-paperback/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PD4SRNO3EVTOTQ5VZDZ744TALNASI3M6", "length": 1173, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ligonier.org", "title": "Unseen Realities: Heaven, Hell, Angels and Demons: R.C. Sproul - Paperback, Book | Ligonier Ministries Store", "raw_content": "Unseen Realities: Heaven, Hell, Angels and Demons\nThe concept of the invisible spiritual realm is something which is difficult for us to grasp. What we can see, hear, and feel we can take on face value that it is reality. But what about those things that are unseen? Scripture speaks about heaven, hell, angels and demons which are a part of this invisible spiritual realm. Internationally renowned Bible teacher R.C. Sproul helps us gain an understanding of these things so that we can come to a realization that in fact all four are true realities that impact upon our everyday lives.\n\u201cI believe that if we are to be consistent Christians, believing all of the Bible rather than portions of it, we must recognize that the supernatural places and beings described on its pages are real. There is an uncompromised supernaturalism at the heart of the Christian worldview, and we must not let the world\u2019s scepticism with regard to these things affect our belief systems. We must trust and affirm that there is much more to reality than meets the eye.\u201d\nTheology, Angels and Demons, Heaven and Hell\nheaven, spiritual warfare, hell, angels, demons\nBook by Robert Peterson $14.40", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 7576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lilyelement.com/2018/03/review-what-difference-duke-makes-by.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FSGWUWSBBWORQG6SZQMQC3J2QID464WF", "length": 1783, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.lilyelement.com", "title": "Review: What a Difference a Duke Makes by Lenora Bell | LilyElement Book Reviews", "raw_content": "Review: What a Difference a Duke Makes by Lenora Bell\nWhat a Difference a Duke Makes is book 1 in the School for Dukes series. I've been waiting for a new LBell book and grabbed this one as fast as I could get my hands on it. True to form, LBell writes a great romance and the leading lady this time around is inspired by Mary Poppins! This is going to be a must read for Historical Romance lovers.\nMari Perkins comes to London to work as a governess but after having her luggage stolen and her job assigned to another person, she's desperate for work. She overhears a governess talking about leaving her position due to two children that cannot be tamed. Mari heads to Edgar Rochester, the Duke of Banksford's house as fast as she can and winds up getting hired on a probationary basis. Edgar doesn't really know what to do with his children, he found out about them recently when his past lover passed away and the children wind up in his care. Mari works her magic and the kids quickly come to adore her, though they do like to cause trouble. They're not the only ones liking her though, Edgar can't get her out of his mind and though his first love is his work he's feeling more than he should about his governess.\nWhat a Difference a Duke Makes is a delightful read you won't want to put down. I could see the Mary Poppins vibes coming through and thought it worked well with the story. The romance was good and there was even a bit of Mari trying to find out about her mysterious past that I enjoyed. I can't wait for the next book in the series, LBell is one of my favorite Historical Romance writers and I'm eager to see what she comes up with next. If you're a fan of Historical Romances you won't want to pass this one up.\nLabels: Avon Addicts, Lenora Bell, Melissa, Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liverpoolchampion.com.au/business/?category=30&index=10&page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:N6QVODIMVLB2EWSF5YSF2NW77SIRWNIF", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.liverpoolchampion.com.au", "title": "| Liverpool City ChampionLocal businesses in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | Liverpool City Champion", "raw_content": "Heck Of A Deck\nHeck of a Deck is a small privately owned business with over 10 years experience. Owned and run b...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 4401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liverpoolchampion.com.au/story/5233555/liverpool-council-invest-12-million-in-apex-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:27GOKH5L576Z5S4OOTLIGKI3QULI4RDH", "length": 4710, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.liverpoolchampion.com.au", "title": "Liverpool Council invest $1.2 million in Apex Park | Liverpool City Champion", "raw_content": "Liverpool Council will invest more than $1.2 million in a major upgrade at Apex Park, one of the city\u2019s most historic parks. Apex Park, once home to the city\u2019s first cemetery, is predominantly serving a lively playground for resident. Liverpool mayor Wendy Waller said it\u2019s because it\u2019s becoming an increasingly popular area. \u201cWe know how valuable Apex Park is to the many people living close by \u2013 and even for people travelling along the Hume Highway looking for somewhere to take a break,\u201d Mayor Waller said. \u201cThat is why Council is investing funds to upgrade facilities in the park to make it even better.\u201d The first step in the upgrade will be community consultation to create a masterplan and guide the design of new recreation facilities. A number of Council representatives will be in attendance to speak with local residents about the planned Apex Park upgrade. Mayor Waller said that like many long-term Liverpool residents, she had played in the park as a child, as had her children and grandchildren. \u201cI can promise you now the steamroller that kids have enjoyed for generations will remain a feature of the playground,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we do want to make some improvements and the proposed works include picnic shelters, seating, new entry statements, landscaped gardens and accessible pathway networks. \u201cOther new amenities include a dedicated memorial area, a new playground suitable for all ages on rubber soft fall with natural play elements and shade structures.\u201d Mayor Waller said the upgrade would complement the facilities available in other parks throughout the Liverpool CBD. Another bonus is it will be pet friendly. \u201cApex Park is an integral part of the landscape, with an increasing number of people choosing to live in or close to the CBD and requiring recreational space in which to relax with family and friends or spend time with pets. \u201cIt is important the design reflects what we need for today and into the future, and that is where we need your input.\u201d Residents are invited to an onsite community workshop from 11am to 1pm tomorrow on Saturday February 17.\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/vs5fdixtgkXDgekj3BDssU/8c26f3e0-490d-46f0-a5b2-30cc37a36936.jpg/r3_61_1179_725_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nLiverpool Council invest $1.2 million in Apex Park\nLiverpool Council will invest more than $1.2 million in a major upgrade at Apex Park, one of the city\u2019s most historic parks.\nApex Park, once home to the city\u2019s first cemetery, is predominantly serving a lively playground for resident.\nLiverpool mayor Wendy Waller said it\u2019s because it\u2019s becoming an increasingly popular area.\n\u201cWe know how valuable Apex Park is to the many people living close by \u2013 and even for people travelling along the Hume Highway looking for somewhere to take a break,\u201d Mayor Waller said.\n\u201cThat is why Council is investing funds to upgrade facilities in the park to make it even better.\u201d\nThe first step in the upgrade will be community consultation to create a masterplan and guide the design of new recreation facilities.\nA number of Council representatives will be in attendance to speak with local residents about the planned Apex Park upgrade.\nMayor Waller said that like many long-term Liverpool residents, she had played in the park as a child, as had her children and grandchildren.\n\u201cI can promise you now the steamroller that kids have enjoyed for generations will remain a feature of the playground,\u201d she said.\n\u201cBut we do want to make some improvements and the proposed works include picnic shelters, seating, new entry statements, landscaped gardens and accessible pathway networks.\n\u201cOther new amenities include a dedicated memorial area, a new playground suitable for all ages on rubber soft fall with natural play elements and shade structures.\u201d\nMayor Waller said the upgrade would complement the facilities available in other parks throughout the Liverpool CBD. Another bonus is it will be pet friendly.\n\u201cApex Park is an integral part of the landscape, with an increasing number of people choosing to live in or close to the CBD and requiring recreational space in which to relax with family and friends or spend time with pets.\n\u201cIt is important the design reflects what we need for today and into the future, and that is where we need your input.\u201d\nResidents are invited to an onsite community workshop from 11am to 1pm tomorrow on Saturday February 17.\nCouncil will provide food, drinks and children\u2019s entertainment in the park, located at the corner of Elizabeth Drive and Castlereagh Street, Liverpool.\nPeople unable to make it on the day can view the proposed upgrade and provide comments by visiting Council\u2019s website.\nDiscuss \"Liverpool Council invest $1.2 million in Apex Park\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 7450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.living-rooms.co.uk/the-edit/in-our-living-room-with-don-letts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ULRIDFN27OOUG5XRPIEP4ZA4ZAJQ4BG4", "length": 3532, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.living-rooms.co.uk", "title": "Living Rooms \u2014 The Hotel Alternative - IN OUR LIVING ROOM WITH DON LETTS", "raw_content": "A grammy award-winning film director, musician, DJ, and radio broadcaster, Don Letts came to notoriety as the DJ that single-handedly turned a generation of punks onto reggae at the UK\u2019s first punk rock venue 'The Roxy' back in 1977. Over the years he's directed several music documentaries, countless music videos, co-founded the band Big Audio Dynamite with Clash guitarist Mick Jones, released several critically acclaimed music compilations and continues to DJ nationally and internationally.\nTo celebrate the 10th anniversary of his BBC6 Music show \u2018Culture Clash Radio\u2019, we asked Don to impart some wisdom on London, music and more...\nHow has your upbringing in London inspired your work?\nI'm very much informed and inspired by the duality of my existence, which is first generation British and black. Having said that, I believe it's by embracing this city's multicultural mix in all its forms that really makes London swing.\nWhat\u2019s unique about London\u2019s music scene?\nThat would have to be the cultural mix I just mentioned, along with its fierce but healthy creative competition.\nWhat are your favourite West London haunts?\nGentrification hasn't quite ruined the nation but it's had a devastating affect by pricing out individuals and retailers that bring character to the area; this makes it all the more important to support your local stall holders. Rough Trade Records on Talbot Road keeps me up to date with music for my radio show, and I do conduct the odd business meet at The Electric Cinema, which is highly recommended for cinephiles. Goldborne Road's good for an afternoon stroll and some excellent street food. And as I'm partial to good mojito, The Laslett's Henderson Bar on a Friday evening is the new place to be for a civilised drink.\nWho are your British music icons?\nI'm as old as rock n roll and I've still got a foot in the door, so that's a tough one. You're talking to a man that grew up listening to the likes of The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who and then had his eyes opened when I saw Bowie in '73. By 1977 I'd re-invented myself with the arrival of The Sex Pistols and The Clash, and as the years continued the likes of Morrissey, Damon Albarn, both Gallagers and others right up to Stormzy continue to capture my imagination.\nWhat can\u2019t you leave London without?\nArcade Fire's 'Everything Now' sounds like a good contender for album of the year. I'm still digging Father John Misty's 'Pure Comedy' and if I want to bounce it's Dizzee Rascal's 'Raskit'. But if you really want to know what I'm about, tune into 'Culture Clash Radio' Sunday nights from 10pm till midnight on BBC 6Music.\nDo you think punk still runs through the veins of West London?\nInteresting question; it certainly did, but the gentrification and current economic situation makes it incredibly diificult. I mean how much punk attitude can a young person have if they're still living with their parents?\nCan you tell us a bit about your new album 'Culture Clash'?\nIt's basically a compilation celebrating the tenth year anniversary of my show 'Culture Clash Radio' on BBC 6Music. Crossing time, space and genres, it reflects the reality of who I am. Contrary to popular opinion I'm not at home listening to punk or reggae all day long - that's just in my DNA. I have to say the show continues to be one of the most enjoyable and reward things I've ever had the pleasure of doing, and I've done a few.\nSigned copies of 'Culture Clash', available as a double vinyl or single CD, are available for purchase at The Laslett.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.locandacairoli.com/index.cfm/en/facility/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TC7A7QIVULGHD4RIPBXHRSXCREP4UMSD", "length": 1926, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.locandacairoli.com", "title": "Facility | The hotel offers 13 rooms, 10 executives and 3 superiors, all with bathrooms - Hotel Locanda Cairoli", "raw_content": "The Locanda cairoli Hotel has recently been refurbished and is now under a new Management.\nIt is located in Rome\u2019s historical center, only 350 mt away from Campo de\u2019 Fiori and 600 from Navona Square.\nThe hotel is part of a stunning 18th century\u2019s building and faces Cairoli square\u2019s beautiful gardens.\nIt has 13 rooms finely and tastefully furnished with sculptures and precious paintings.\nThe warm atmosphere of a boutique hotel merges perfectly with all the comforts of a 4 star service, making unforgettable the stay of whoever visits Rome for leasure or business.\nIn the immediate surroundings there are bars, reastaurants, shops, museums, art galleries and important cultural and historical monuments.\nThe hotel has 13 rooms, each one of which is equipped with private bathroom, television, safe box, minibar, telephone and free wi-fi connection.\nEvery room is tastefully furnished with precious pieces of forniture, paintings and sculptures.\nThe Locanda Cairoli Hotel is the perfect place for business men and travellers who want the discretion of a huge environment and the familiar coziness of a small one at the same time.\nEquipment of the rooms\nThe rooms are finely and tastefully furnished, in order to make every single guest feel at home and can be prepared with double or twin beds.\nSome of them have a king size matterass and the most spacious ones are equipped with a comfortable sofa bed for a third person.\nThe single rooms dispose of a bed 120 cm wide and even if slightly smaller, every one of them is finely furnished and each detail is taken care of.\nThe wi-fi connection is free of charge and available in the common areas and the rooms, each one of which is equipped with private bathroom, flat screen television, safe box, air conditioning, telephone, hair dryer and courtesy set.\nThe staff, young, professional and multilingual is at the guest\u2019s disposal for any kind of assistance during their stay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.londis.co.uk/get-in-touch/unsubscribe-success", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FMA4UVG3Q566LW423IXF75HCP35TQE4L", "length": 83, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.londis.co.uk", "title": "Thank you for unsubscribing | Londis", "raw_content": "Thank you for unsubscribing\nThank you for unsubscribing, we're sorry to see you go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 123.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lornamccormack.com/webinarregthankyoupg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:P5TU64X27I2BIZWUJSB4OUJDLHM44U7G", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lornamccormack.com", "title": "Essential Oils & Plant Based Nutrition", "raw_content": "Look out for an email that's on it's way to your inbox!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.losangelescriminallawyers.com/finra-disciplinary-actions-lawyers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NUAPO2IYWWBSL3B7VXOVN7OISCP5QS2Q", "length": 3195, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.losangelescriminallawyers.com", "title": "FINRA Disciplinary Actions Lawyers - Spodek Law Group : Spodek Law Group", "raw_content": "FINRA Disciplinary Actions Lawyers\nThe financial industry, including the stock and commodity markets across the globe, is very complex and important. Those that are skilled in the field may find that there are investment opportunities that can give them an unfair edge on the rest of the market. In some situations, these advantages can actually be illegal and regulatory bodies may want to take action. One organization that can take action against individuals and investment firms is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which is commonly referred to as FINRA.\nToday, FINRA is the largest independent regulation in the United States. The organization aims to protect investors by making sure that all investors, investment firms, and publicly traded companies operate ethically and within the law. While it is not officially linked to the SEC or other law enforcement industry, FINRA has the ability to set forth disciplinary actions that need to be taken seriously. Those that are charged with a disciplinary action could face a variety of potential penalties due to their past actions.\nIssues Covered by FINRA\nOverall, FINRA covers a variety of different issues that are of a concern to investors and the overall integrity of the markets. Some of the most common issues that FINRA will cover and investigate include fraud, misrepresentation, insider trading, and other illegal and unethical acts involving publicly traded securities and commodities. In most situations, FINRA will provide suggested disciplinary actions that people are suggested to follow.\nIn most cases, people that are provided with disciplinary actions set forth by FINRA will not have to face jail time. Most of these cases are handled outside of the courtroom and are settled outside of court. FINRA will generally set forth actions that are meant to discipline those that are guilty of certain acts. Some of the most common penalties that FINRA will suggest will include financial penalties, suspension of trading rights, and even a permanent ban from being able to trade or work in the financial markets. They may also provide additional suggestions to an employer that can recommend terminating employment.\nWhile FINRA cases are generally handled outside of the legal system, FINRA can still provide suggestions to the SEC, FBI, and other federal agencies. These agencies are then permitted to pursue additional charges that could include criminal felonies that could result in even further and more significant penalties than those that are set forth by FINRA.\nHiring a Defense Lawyer\nIf you are the recipient of a disciplinary action set forth by FINRA, you should reach out to a criminal defense lawyer immediate. You should find one that has experience in negotiating with FINRA, which will help to ensure that your case moves smoothly and that your rights are properly represented.\nDepending on the scope of the situation, the attorney will also help you to prepare for defense against further criminal charges. FINRA will be able to provide guidance as to whether they will be forwarding your case on further, which will give you a sense as to whether you should expect investigations by other parties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 170.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loughboroughecho.net/sport/football/football-news/quorn-celebrate-a-giant-killing-5810686", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2MPA5DU2I2SPTE45VIGROI7TACOCYW7S", "length": 1789, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.loughboroughecho.net", "title": "Quorn celebrate a giant-killing - Loughborough Echo", "raw_content": "Quorn celebrate a giant-killing\nTHERE were mixed fortunes for two top local sides competing in FA Trophy ties this week.\nQuorn managed to overcome Boston United in a replay at home, after a goalless draw in Lincolnshire, earning a home tie against Vauxhall Motors on November 21.\nBut there was disappointment for Shepshed at the Dovecote on Saturday as in front of their highest crowd in years they were beaten 5-0 by Halifax Town.\nQuorn chairman Stuart Turner said: \u201cWe\u2019ve pleased. Over the two matches we were the better side.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest win in Quorn\u2019s history - Boston were in the football league two years ago and they\u2019re top of their league.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve made good money out of the tie, but we\u2019re not a club that\u2019s about money, money, money - we own our own ground, we run at a profit and we produce our own players.\n\u201cResults like this one just show you what can be achieved.\n\u201cVauxhall Motors have got to come to Quorn, which will be a difficult match for them.\n\u201cI\u2019m not going to say we\u2019re going to Wembley! We\u2019ll just see where the cup run takes us - but it\u2019s a nice road to be going down.\u201d\nSadly it was a different tale for Shepshed when they played host to Halifax.\nAround 200 visiting fans came down from Yorkshire in a crowd of 481 and it was the Unibond One North side who have won nine out of 10 in the league who took the honours.\nIn truth Shepshed were never at the races leaving manager Dave Stringer with few complaints.\n\u201cWe just got beat by a far better side,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSometimes you just have to hold your hands up and admit that.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we played particularly well to be honest, certainly not as well as we have been playing in the past few weeks.\n\u201cBut even if we\u2019d put in our best performance I still think we\u2019d have struggled against a very strong side.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 9373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.louthtractors.co.uk/clients/krone/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:K7CLFOQLI4BOWBLLGTTZ5V7BKFXCUTRP", "length": 211, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.louthtractors.co.uk", "title": "Krone \u2013 Louth Tractors", "raw_content": "Krone2018-06-282018-08-29https://www.louthtractors.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/louthtractors-logo.pngLouth Tractorshttps://www.louthtractors.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/krone-logo-170x110.jpg200px200px", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 115.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ascendancy-francois-fillon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:I6VN55XUWONN2FXJOHZVUPRW4YALZNVY", "length": 9471, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.lowyinstitute.org", "title": "The ascendancy of Fran\u00e7ois Fillon", "raw_content": "The ascendancy of Fran\u00e7ois Fillon\nMatthew Dal Santo\n@MatthewDalSant1\nMatthew Dal Santo ,\nWritten off until only a week ago, Fran\u00e7ois Fillon has won the nomination of France\u2019s mainstream right-of-centre party Les R\u00e9publicains in next year\u2019s presidential elections, where it seems likely he will face the Front National\u2019s Marine Le Pen.\nIn all likelihood, Fillon will be the next president of France.\nWith the current French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, a Socialist, being the least popular in the history of the Fifth Republic, the thoroughly demoralised French Left seems unlikely to be able to field a candidate capable of capturing the public imagination.\nUnexpectedly winning 44% of the four million-odd votes cast in last week\u2019s first round of the right\u2019s primary, Fillon trounced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and relegated the presumed favourite Alain Jupp\u00e9 to a distant second place.\nFillon\u2019s emphatic win yesterday in the second round (where he captured 67.1% of the vote) followed a commanding performance a television debate against Jupp\u00e9 last Thursday night, where he completely outshone his rival. With long political careers behind them, both men came to the debate (and the primary in general \u2013 the R\u00e9publicains\u2019 first ever) with a lot of baggage.\nAt 62, Fillon is the younger of the two. Prime minister under Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012, Fillon represents a well-to-do Paris suburb in the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale. But his heart lies deep in the French provinces. A practising Catholic taken to task in recent weeks for his views on abortion, he lives with his wife and five children in a twelfth-century chateau in the wooded and well-watered Sarthe d\u00e9partement, part of the ancient, abbey-littered province of Maine. Jupp\u00e9, 71, was prime minister from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac, and has twice served as foreign minister (1993-5 and 2011-12). Today, he is mayor of Bordeaux.\nIn an era of disillusionment with the establishment, neither can really claim to be an outsider. But the key to Fillon\u2019s success lies in looking not only more presidential, but also more radical than his rival. Fillon presents himself as a man who had taken the measure of the straits France is in and is prepared to grasp the nettles that previous French governments had avoided.\nAt the heart of his programme is a sweeping plan to liberalise the French economy, by (among other means) abolishing the 35-hour week, sacking half a million public sector employees and dramatically simplifying dismissal laws that discourage employers from taking on new workers.\nBy contrast, Jupp\u00e9 has cut the figure of a well-meaning but perhaps slightly dotty grandfather, a classic \u2018triangulator\u2019 in a new era of extremes, whose determination to tack always towards the centre ultimately made him look as though he stood for nothing definite.\nIn last Thursday\u2019s debate, for example, Jupp\u00e9 often appeared to speak at greater length than strictly seemed necessary, as if perhaps he had forgotten what the question he had been asked was actually about.\nDuring these monologues, the camera would often cut to Fillon, his bushy eyebrows peaked in an expression of admirably controlled boredom. When it comes to the aged, Fillon\u2019s self-possession seemed to being saying, noblesse oblige.\nFillon broke all the rules of centrist politics. Take his response to an incendiary question about his commitment to protect France\u2019s much-loved \u2018social model\u2019 (namely high taxes, cradle-to-grave welfare and one of the most inflexible labour markets in the developed world). It was the kind of question that would have seen the kind of presidential candidate the French are used to race to the centre in a bid to reassure voters of his commitment to change precisely nothing.\nNot Fillon.\n\u2018What social model are you talking about?\u2019 he barked. \u2018You\u2019re talking about a social model that has generated six million unemployed, two million young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who are [\u2026] in the street.\u2019\n\u2018You\u2019re talking about a social model that has resulted in the degradation of the middle class, [\u2026] that has not succeeded in putting an end to poverty \u2013 on the contrary.\u2019\n\u2018The French social model no longer exists.\u2019\nThough unemployment runs at 10% and in three decades has seldom fallen below 8% for long, the French public has rarely heard anything like it (youth unemployment, at 25%, is even worse).\nFillon is almost unimaginably bold on another sacred pillar of the modern French welfare state: the country\u2019s health system. Currently free and universal, Fillon would restrict public medical insurance to illnesses of a \u2018long or serious nature\u2019, with private insurance policies covering the \u2018rest\u2019 (except in the case of the neediest).\nThe other issue that separated the two candidates was French identity \u2013 or, more exactly, though the word was never spoken, Islam. Once again Fillon refused to take refuge in platitudes. Asked whether he believed France\u2019s future lay in becoming a multicultural society, Fillon replied with an unapologetic non.\n\u2018My answer is no\u2019, he said. \u2018France has a history, a language, a culture. [\u2026] conserving our points of reference, values, a specific form of identity is a demand \u2013 an extremely strong one \u2013 that proceeds from depth of the French soul. Of course, this identity will evolve, must evolve, in an open world. What it mustn\u2019t do is disappear.\u2019\nJupp\u00e9, on the other hand, characteristically clung to the liberal centre, invoking his catchphrase vision of a \u2018happy\u2019 or \u2018relaxed\u2019 French identity (identit\u00e9 heureuse). But supported by little more than what appeared to be the ritualistic invocations of \u2018diversity\u2019 that a great number of conservative voters are evidently tired of, up against Fillon\u2019s robust patriotism the idea felt flat, artificial.\nFillon is far from a French Trump and he isn\u2019t offering the French a \u2018Frexit\u2019. Economically, his programme of liberalisation conventionally provokes comparisons with Margaret Thatcher, and he has no intention of removing France from the EU. But his candidacy rides a similar wave of discontent with many of the shibboleths of late modern cultural and social liberalism (indeed, Australians might think of him as a French John Howard).\nAs Arnaud Benedetti, associate professor at the Sorbonne, put it in Le Figaro on Friday, sociologically Fillon\u2019s base is \u2018a conservative, often geographically peripheral France, traditional and even prim\u2019, one \u2018almost invisible in the nation\u2019s media\u2019. This is a France \u2018in search of sobriety, for in a world where everything is getting faster, sobriety is reassuring.\u2019\nFillon\u2019s success, he concludes, is a reflection of his skill in placing himself at equal distance from the populist agitation that disquiets the partisans of order among the French bourgeoisie and the liberal cosmopolitanism that offends their patriotism.\n\u2018Fillon shares the anxieties of his electorate\u2019, Benedetti writes, \u2018and offers them economically liberal and politically conservative solutions.\u2019\nHis deliberate sangfroid, refusal to be rushed, quiet firmness, the familiarity and apparent immovability of his world view has \u2018introduced an anthropological variable into a society overwhelmed by immediacy and speed\u2019. It is that of a sense of \u2018long and dense\u2019 time that \u2018resists acceleration and over-reaction\u2019, one capable of speaking to \u2018the France of the provinces, of Catholics, of a heritage that is at once monarchical and republican\u2019, unsettled by \u2018the acceleration of change and globalisation\u2019.\nThose of us who have read Proust as chronicling the decadence of the old French bourgeoisie should look again. It is as if in Fillon, the France of Chateaubriand and Claudel, Nerval and Napol\u00e9on III has again found its champion.\nFrench conservatism is back, at once old-fashioned and acutely contemporary.\nSince the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958, the French have elected a Socialist chef d\u2019\u00c9tat only twice. Hollande has left the Left in disarray. Like Howard\u2019s showdown with Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation in the 1990s, Fillon will draw the Front National\u2019s poison by showing that he has understood the more reasonable anxieties behind its grievances and attractions \u2013 and leave his opponents, on the right as well as left, nowhere to go.\nAt the end of Thursday night\u2019s debate, each candidate summarised his message. Jupp\u00e9\u2019s consisted of an appeal to diversity (\u2018I want France to be happy [heureuse] and proud of its identity. And this identity, for me, is diversity\u2019). But Fillon spoke to the heart and the hip pocket, promising to halve unemployment in five years and restore France as the leading power in Europe in ten \u2013 \u2018not for the sake of being the leading power in itself\u2019, but in order, with a large nod in the direction of both of Angela Merkel\u2019s Germany, as well as the winning rhetoric of Brexit, \u2018to take back control of our own destiny\u2019.\nWe know the choice voters elsewhere have made when offered that opportunity in 2016.\nPhoto: Getty Images/Chesnot\nTrump: Not the ideal poster-boy for European populistsPrevious Article\nLast chance to be heard on the Lowy Institute\u2019s gender projectNext Article\nDoes the White Paper underestimate the pace of economic change?\nWe may again fail to grasp how quickly changes in relative economic weight translate into changes in the balance of power.\nBeyond the \u201cChinese debt trap\u201d\nby Wenyuan Wu\nSmall states are hardly just vulnerable victims, but often leverage their geopolitical importance to gain tremendous bargaining power.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/could-ivanka-trump-become-next-world-bank-president", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:DOGUJLQOCLHKJM7BZPX6X6FXWQSICTBZ", "length": 6335, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.lowyinstitute.org", "title": "Could Ivanka Trump become the next World Bank President?", "raw_content": "Could Ivanka Trump become the next World Bank President?\nIvanka Trump in October at a World Bank event (Photo: World Bank/Flickr)\nDecoding China's GOOD approach to the G20\nWill Ivanka Trump become the next World Bank President? There is speculation that the President\u2019s daughter is among the names thrown into the mix to replace the current president, Jim Yong Kim, who recently announced his departure.\nThe idea of Ivanka Trump taking over as head of the World Bank was met with some scorn, with comments such as \u201cthis is among the most ridiculous proposals I have heard\u201d.\nBut who takes over as President of the World Bank is not within the sole prerogative of Donald Trump. The position is not, as some commentators have suggested, the gift of the White House. Trump can nominate Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, or even his favourite rap star Kayne West. Whether they become World Bank President will depend on whether Trump\u2019s nominee is supported by World Bank Executive Directors with at least 50% of the Bank\u2019s voting power.\nDeparting World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim with Ivanka Trump (Photo: World Bank/Flickr)\nOver the 75 year history of the World Bank, its President has always been an American. But the nationality of the President is not prescribed in the Bank\u2019s articles. It has been an informal \u201cgentlemen\u2019s agreement\u201d since the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions in 1945 that the head of the World Bank would be an American and the leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a European.\nHowever, with the changing structure of the global economy, and the increasing importance of emerging markets and developing countries, there has been growing pressure for the governance structures of these institutions to similarly change, both in terms of voting power and also the convention on the nationality of their leaders.\nTrump\u2019s nominee will need to be supported by World Bank Executive Directors with at least 50% of the Bank\u2019s voting power.\nThe need to reform the governance of the World Bank and IMF has been a major topic on the G20 agenda. In 2009, the communique from the London G20 Summit said: \u201cwe agree that the heads and senior leaders of the international financial institutions should be appointed through an open, transparent and merit-based selection process\u201d. While this wording was in response to pressure from other countries, the US (and many Europeans) opposed the inclusion of the phrase at the end of the sentence \u201cregardless of nationality\u201d.\nTo date, neither the US nor Europe has been prepared to abandon the convention on the nationality of the heads of the World Bank and IMF. And they need each other to maintain the convention. The US has just under 16% of the voting power in the World Bank. Taken together, however, the US World Bank Executive Director and those from the European Union have a combined voting power of nearly 50% \u2013 enough to appoint the President. The reality is that the US nominee for the position of World Bank President will require the support of EU countries, but this has been forthcoming for in return the US has always supported the European candidate to head the IMF.\nIt is only in recent years, however, that there has been some semblance of a contest for these positions. When Dominique Strauss-Kahn was forced to step down as IMF Managing Director in 2011, the two candidates were Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister, and Agustin Carsten, the Mexican Central Bank Governor and former finance minister. Lagarde had the backing of Europe, a number of other countries and the US. Australia, Canada, and Mexico were the only major countries to support Carsten \u2013 mainly on the basis that it was damaging for the institution if there was no support for a highly credentialed candidate from an emerging market.\nWhen the position at the World Bank became vacant in 2012, the US nominee, Kim, was opposed by two former finance ministers (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ocampo from Colombia). Many considered Kim\u2019s credentials (a health professional and president of Dartmouth) to be weaker for the position than the other two candidates. Nevertheless, Kim was well regarded and the Obama Administration engaged in an aggressive campaign of arm twisting, in the end receiving support from South Korea, most of Europe, Canada, Australia, Russia, and reportedly, China, India, and Mexico.\nThe big step forward was that the process was open and not the outcome of deals in the back rooms of Washington and Europe \u2013 as had been the case in the past.\nThe key point, nevertheless, is that a US nominee will only be successful if supported by other countries and the US has had to work hard to ensure its candidate is successful. Consequently, while there is considerable hand-wringing about the potential damage to the World Bank if Trump nominates a candidate that supports Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d approach, his views on climate change, and apparent opposition to multilateralism, such a candidate would only take the mantle if supported by other countries, particularly from Europe.\nInstead of focusing on the machinations of Trump when it comes to US candidates, the rest of the World Bank membership should follow to the letter the agreed selection process for the position of President. Namely, this is to nominate highly qualified candidates who meet the agreed criteria ( a track record of leadership in a large organisation, international exposure, familiarity with the public sector, ability to articulate a vision for the World Bank, a commitment to multilateral cooperation, and effective and diplomatic communication skills).\nThey can then select the \u201cbest\u201d candidate regardless of nationality in an \u201copen, merit-based and transparent process\u201d.\nNorth Korea is eclipsing the Moon presidencyPrevious Article\nCue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana Next Article\nDigital Asia links: ode to the Belt n\u2019 Road, rumour quasher, more\nSarah Logan with digital updates from across the region.\nThe human side of Moon and Kim\u2019s agreement\nby Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings\nA declaration this week is cause for cautious optimism, but little for human rights advocates to celebrate.\nThe smugglers of Musandam\nby Alexander Balas\nOne group hoping for the return of sanctions on Iran are the smugglers of Musandam, across the Strait of Hormuz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 7422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lunatickets.co.uk/event/boy-azooga/brudenell-social-club-leeds/1221919", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LGJZKBKHXCQ3TLAZ5GWGZFTBZP3TLB4I", "length": 210, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lunatickets.co.uk", "title": "Boy Azooga | We're sorry, but there are no tickets available for Boy Azooga", "raw_content": "Brudenell Social Club. Sunday, 14 Oct 2018 at 7:30 PM\nWe're sorry, but there are no tickets available for Boy Azooga at Brudenell Social Club on Sunday, 14 Oct 2018 at 7:30 PM.\nFind more Boy Azooga performances", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2019/02/14/hong-kong-port-slips-from-global-top-five-for-first-time/1722897", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WP32VSDSI6LMUZFGWXUVLMQRKZICHEO6", "length": 3264, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.malaymail.com", "title": "Hong Kong port slips from global top five for first time | Money | Malay Mail", "raw_content": "Hong Kong's port has been among the world\u2019s busiest for the last four decades and dominated in the 1990s and early 2000s as China\u2019s economy opened up. \u2014 Reuters pic\nHONG KONG, Feb 14 \u2014 Hong Kong\u2019s port, which once vied with rival Singapore for global dominance, has slipped out of the world\u2019s top five busiest shipping container terminals for the first time, new data has revealed.\nThe bustling southern Chinese financial hub owes its very existence to its ideal location as a port, a cornerstone of the remarkable growth of a city\u2019s whose name means \u201cFragrant Harbour\u201d.\nIt has been among the world\u2019s busiest for the last four decades and dominated in the 1990s and early 2000s as China\u2019s economy opened up.\nBut last year Hong Kong\u2019s port came in at number seven, confirmation of a seemingly inexorable slide down the world rankings against the increased dominance of mainland Chinese ports and continued resilience of Singapore.\nNeil Davidson, a specialist at Drewry Shipping Consultants, said it was the first time Hong Kong had fallen below the top five threshold since they first began compiling global port data in 1979.\n\u201cFor many years, through to the 1990s, Hong Kong was really the only effective port for serving southern China, as mainland Chinese ports were under-developed,\u201d he told AFP.\n\u201cSince then of course, mainland Chinese ports like Shenzhen and Guangzhou have seen huge expansion and investment in modern facilities, and have become much more effective competitors to Hong Kong.\u201d\nDrewry\u2019s data for 2018 shows Hong Kong handled 19.64 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), the industry measurement based on a standard 20-foot shipping container, down from 23.54 million in 2006.\nThat is less than half world leader Shanghai at 42.01 million units and far behind number two port Singapore with 36.60 million units.\nChinese mainland ports Ningbo and Shenzhen had previously overtaken Hong Kong but last year it was eclipsed by two more \u2014 Guangzhou and South Korea\u2019s Busan.\nIn 2004, when Hong Kong was still the world\u2019s busiest port, more than 150,000 vessels were filled, a figure that has now halved according to Bloomberg News.\nIn a bid to cut costs and improve efficiency, billionaire Li Ka-shing\u2019s Hongkong International Terminals \u2014 the city\u2019s biggest container-terminal operator \u2014 announced an alliance with rival dock operators in January.\nUnlike most major ports where the state either owns or plays a prominent role, Hong Kong\u2019s ports are entirely private.\nBut there has been criticism that the local government has not done enough to invest in new facilities.\nAuthorities began studying a plan to build a tenth terminal more than a decade ago \u2014 publishing a feasibility study in 2014 \u2014 but there has been little progress.\nDavidson said mainland Chinese ports had become more attractive because dock labour costs are lower, they are closer to factories and can handle bigger vessels.\n\u201cHong Kong does have highly experienced and professional terminal operating companies, excellent facilities, and many strengths in terms of the soft side of doing business,\u201d he added. \u201dThese factors should not be under-estimated.\u201d \u2014 AFP\nDuterte impersonator sparks frenzy at Hong Kong church\nBomb de terre: WW1 grenade found in French potato shipment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/1998/1/42-california-have-gripes-health-plans", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WOOQI4TNN2QZXOJPO5JZYPMVADMI2UXF", "length": 1326, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.managedcaremag.com", "title": "42% in California Have Gripes With Health Plans | Managed Care magazine", "raw_content": "42% in California Have Gripes With Health Plans\nMore than four out of ten Californians with health insurance had problems with their health plans in the last year, according to a survey commissioned by Gov. Pete Wilson's task force on reforming managed care.\nResearchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the Field Research Corp. surveyed 1,200 people, then extrapolated their results to project that 6.7 million residents of the state had some kind of beef with their plans. Since only 3 percent of those with private health insurance in California have fee-for-service coverage, the results pertain overwhelmingly to managed care plans.\nOf these, 1.6 million experienced delays or denials in medical treatment, received inappropriate care or had trouble getting a referral to a specialist. Still, 76 percent of respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their plans; 10 percent were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. Members of group- and staff-model HMOs registered highest satisfaction levels, while members of IPA-model HMOs were least happy with their plans.\nGallup Poll: Four in 10 Americans Dissatisfied With Their Health Care Costs\nBetter Health Literacy Seems To Boost Patient Satisfaction With Biosimilars\nCalifornia Dreamin\u2019, But Will It Stay That Way?\nProviders Fear Deluge of Data", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/new-order-hot-chip-join-15711745", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RC4ZZCECGE2HYXBL4LOGFXZJXBSNHBZA", "length": 4859, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk", "title": "New Order and Hot Chip join Bluedot 2019 line up - Manchester Evening News", "raw_content": "Kraftwerk have already been confirmed to headline the Jodrell Bank festival\nNew Order and Hot Chip will headline this year's Bluedot festival alongside Kraftwerk, organisers have announced.\nFormed out of the ashes of Joy Division, Manchester music icons New Order went on to become one of the most influential electronic acts of all time.\nThe current line-up of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman will play a huge homecoming show at the Jodrell Bank festival on Sunday night, performing in the shadow of the Lovell telescope.\nJoining them at the Cheshire observatory will be London electro-pop group Hot Chip, who'll headline on Friday night with the promise of new material.\nGerman electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have previously been confirmed as the Saturday night headliners at the festival, which returns for its fourth instalment from July 18 to 21.\nThey'll be performing the critically acclaimed 3-D show they have previously brought to venues including Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in 2017, but this will be its first headline appearance at a UK festival.\n(Image: Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\nFestival director Ben Robinson said this year's headliners encompassed the evolution of electronic music over the last half a century.\n\"Kraftwerk were the top requested act since we started the festival and what we're really proud of that between the three headliners we've probably got 50 years of the development of electronic music,\" he told the M.E.N.\n\"It's nice for us to be able to celebrate that.\"\nThe festival will also be celebrating another milestone this year - the event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the moon landings on July 20, 1969.\nA programme of special events is being planned to commemorate the achievement, including a curtain-raiser by the Halle Orchestra, who'll open the Lovell stage on Thursday night with Lift Off, a performance of sci-fi themes and music related to the moon set against cosmic big screen visuals.\n\"There'll also be talks and art installations inspired by the moon and humanity's relationship with the moon as our nearest neighbour in the cosmos,\" said Ben.\nTime's running out to vote for the best of Manchester in the CityLife Awards 2019\nJodrell Bank played a unique role in the Apollo 11 Landing, tracking the Eagle Lander down onto the surface of the moon. Five years earlier, the Lovell Telescope had tracked the Soviet craft Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon, in February 1966. The telescope was used to hack into its signal and print the very first picture from the moon's surface on a fax machine borrowed from the Daily Express.\nOther acts confirmed for this year's festival include Grammy- and Mercury-nominated musician and producer Jon Hopkins; poet, playwright and rapper Kate Tempest, alt-electro storyteller John Grant, Welsh psych wizard Gruff Rhys, producer Jennifer Lee, aka TOKIMONSTA, and art-rocker Anna Calvi.\nManchester electronic group 808 State, electro-jazz trio Go-Go Penguin, Brighton six-piece The Go! Team are also among the first wave of acts to be announced.\nAlso announced is the first all-female West African supergroup Les Amazones d\u2019Afrique, featuring Mariam Doumbia of Amadou and Mariam and Angelique Kidjo; techno-dabke dancing from Bjork and Caribou collaborator Omar Souleyman and a DJ set from award-winning actor and activist Maxine Peake.\nOther highlights include night parties from David Attenborough-themed club night Attenborough Jungle Boogie, featuring visuals and audio samples from the beloved biologist; the Tarantino Disco cutting-up classic soundtracks from the cult director\u2019s films and Fleetmac Wood, an AV rave mash-up of hits from the legendary band.\nLeonardo da Vinci's art is going to be shown in Manchester for free\nThe first names from Bluedot's 2019 science and culture programme have also been announced, with key speakers including leading science, wildlife and natural history broadcaster Liz Bonnin; professor of disability research Tom Shakespeare; and women\u2019s rights activist Dr Helen Pankhurst; as well as Bluedot favourites including physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili; spaceflight expert Dr Libby Jackson; TV presenter Dallas Campbell; and the return of The Clangers celebrating their 50 anniversary.\nBluedot 2018: The Earth installation\n\"We've really found a unique meeting of music, art and science,\" said Ben.\n\"It's not about one artist or headliner, or music being superior, it's about where they all collide.\"\nSaturday day tickets were released after the Kraftwerk announcement and have already sold out. Weekend tickets go on general sale on Thursday January 24 from Ticketmaster.\nWu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and De La Soul are coming to Manchester for a massive joint show\nJerry Springer The Opera is coming to a Manchester theatre this year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 13123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.markturner.net/2018/01/19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:34Z", "digest": "sha1:N6OHNAY2GAIW7IQHZWYRWOOOZ7TLTMOP", "length": 2060, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.markturner.net", "title": "January 19, 2018 \u2013 Mark Turner dot Net", "raw_content": "Arrest made after woman stabbed 6 times at Raleigh Food Lion | WNCN\nOnly 20 years old, Mr. Dixon has been arrested 19 times over the last four years. With his attitude, I am not sure how managed to get all that time outside of jail.\nFriends and neighbors have set up a GoFundMe for the victim.\nA Raleigh man was arrested Wednesday, less than a week after a woman was stabbed six times outside a Food Lion in Raleigh, police said.\nKhawan Dixon, 20, of Milbank Street in Raleigh, is charged in connection with the attack that happened around 6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 in the parking lot of a Food Lion in the 1100 block of N. Raleigh Boulevard, police said.\nPolice said the woman was near her car when a male suspect came up to her and tried to rob her.\nHe then stabbed her three times in the head and three times in the back, police said.The suspect left the scene and was able to get away with nearly $1,000 worth of property, according to a Raleigh Police Department report.\nSource: Arrest made after woman stabbed 6 times at Raleigh Food Lion | WNCN\nin Check It Out, Raleigh |\t177 Words\nAmazon won\u2019t say if it hands your Echo data to the government | ZDNet\nAmazon has a transparency problem.Three years ago, the retail giant became the last major tech company to reveal how many subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders it received for customer data in a half-year period. While every other tech giant had regularly published its government request figures for years, spurred on by accusations of participation in government surveillance, Amazon had been largely forgotten.\nEventually, people noticed and Amazon acquiesced. Since then, Amazon\u2019s business has expanded. By its quarterly revenue, it\u2019s no longer a retail company \u2014 it\u2019s a cloud giant and a device maker. The company\u2019s flagship Echo, an \u201calways listening\u201d speaker, collects vast amounts of customer data that\u2019s openly up for grabs by the government.\nBut Amazon\u2019s bi-annual transparency figures don\u2019t want you to know that.\nSource: Amazon won\u2019t say if it hands your Echo data to the government | ZDNet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryandmartha.com/blog/date/2017/02", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:41Z", "digest": "sha1:TS6U6TUJLUNET5DNRA7CGUXV6ZERKSBY", "length": 342, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.maryandmartha.com", "title": "Blog - Mary & Martha", "raw_content": "The history of Valentine\u0092s Day dates back all the way to approximately 250 year after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom where martyred. One of those Valentine saints was a priest who served during the third century in Rome... Read More \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 149.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryofvernon.org/peace-and-justice-lake-county-united", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GVSFATB5JXFP4AT7I773QMHYLOBEGSXV", "length": 1803, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.maryofvernon.org", "title": "Peace and Justice - Lake County United - St. Mary of Vernon - Indian Creek, IL", "raw_content": "The work of Peace and Justice is founded on and continually inspired by Catholic Social Teaching in that it refers to all church teaching that specifically addresses the public, social lives of Catholic persons. The principles are rooted in education and concrete action in order to actively build a society based on our Catholic values.\nThe church highlights seven key themes that recur frequently in Catholic Social Teaching. These themes, or tenets, draw attention to the key areas encompassed by Social Teaching. These themes are: The Life and Dignity of the Human Person, The Call to Family, Community, and Participation, Rights and Responsibilities, The Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, The Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers, Solidarity, and Care for Creation.\nOur membership in Lake County United is our way to bring awareness of local social justice issues to our parishioners.\nLake County United puts a priority on organizing by building relationships and bringing together the broad diversity of Lake County residents. Lake County United leaders include Christians, Muslims, Jews, seculars, blacks, whites, Latinos and people from every economic class. Out of this deliberate, painstaking work of building relationships, Lake County United helps to create a vibrant and inclusive political culture in Lake County.\nLake County United works with people from all walks of life to give them the opportunity to lead in their own congregations and communities as well as across the metro Chicago region. Through regular training and a steady routine of preparation, action, and evaluation, people from all walks of life are able to develop the skills and habits of strong leaders and to use them effectively.\nLearn more about Lake County United through their website: www.lakecountyunited.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 7647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mayerbrown.com/experience/Intellectual-Property/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GSHHYXUCZXLTLJAOFIIFUIMCNGUWFUKR", "length": 8676, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.mayerbrown.com", "title": "Intellectual Property - Experience - Mayer Brown", "raw_content": "Innovators at multinational corporations, emerging growth companies and established mid-sized businesses all rely on Mayer Brown to help protect, preserve and enforce their intellectual property assets.\nDr. Ulrich Worm\n2017 World Trademark Review 1000\nIntellectual Property Practice of the Year 2017\nEighteen of the firm\u2019s Intellectual Property partners are recognized in nine categories in the 2016 edition of the IAM Patent 1000\u2014The World\u2019s Leading Patent Professionals. The recognized lawyers are:\nManaging IP 2017 IP Stars\nThirteen Mayer Brown partners were recognized as \u201cIP Stars\u201d in the 2017 edition of Managing Intellectual Property magazine\u2019s \u201cWorld IP Handbook and Survey,\u201d an annual analysis of the IP market based on extensive research among IP professionals.\nLawyers in Mayer Brown\u2019s Intellectual Property practice select the right options to fit each client\u2019s business strategy, whether they are assessing an IP portfolio, performing due diligence for an acquisition, securing a patent, trademark, trade secret or copyright, or using litigation to resolve business disputes over infringement or misappropriation. We help our clients protect their investment, increase their market share and strengthen their competitive advantage. We are true interactive partners with every client.\nWe take a multidisciplinary approach to today\u2019s emerging issues in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets. We are uniquely positioned with a full-service IP practice that is fully integrated with other practices, providing antitrust guidance on transactions and competition disputes and unsurpassed appellate capabilities before the federal courts, the US Supreme Court and international tribunals. Because today\u2019s economy transcends national borders, we offer comprehensive assistance in key business centers around the world.\nThis global capability encompasses a large team of IP practitioners, located throughout the United States (with many of them admitted before the US Patent and Trademark Office), in each of the key European business centers, particularly London and Frankfurt, and in Brazil. Furthermore, our recent merger with Johnson Stokes & Master, one of the oldest and largest law firms in Asia, gives us a strong presence in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition, we have relationships with firms around the globe to help us meet our clients\u2019 worldwide IP needs.\nMayer Brown was ranked by U.S. News and World Report\u2019s Best Law Firms as a Tier 1 firm across the board, for IP Litigation, Patent Litigation, Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law. In addition, leading ranking publications such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and IAM Patent 1000 continually recognize our Intellectual Property group's excellence in the marketplace. Chambers USA noted that clients describe our lawyers favorably, mentioning that they \u201ctreat us like partners; communication is fantastic and they make sure that we always understand what is going on.\u201d\nThe fact that we handle a full range of complex technologies reflects the fact that many of our lawyers have technical degrees in such fields as electrical and mechanical engineering, computer science, chemistry and microbiology. A number of them have worked as scientists and engineers before becoming lawyers. We thus know not only IP law, but its practical application.\nClients throughout the world rely on Mayer Brown to fully protect their intellectual property assets and to aggressively enforce them. We represent clients as plaintiffs and defendants in claims involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, trade secret misappropriation and IP-related antitrust violations. At the federal trial court level in the United States, we handle disputes involving a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical, business method, biotech and electronics. In addition, our litigators have a proven track record of success with Section 337 litigation at the International Trade Commission. Because of our firm\u2019s strong antitrust practice, we can handle any IP claim that has antitrust implications.\nWith the nation\u2019s oldest and largest appellate and Supreme Court practice, Mayer Brown is highly experienced at handling IP cases in the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. The scope of our appellate experience means greater efficiency and effectiveness for our clients at every level of the appellate process.\nWe also conduct complex IP litigation before the specialized chambers of German District Courts, Courts of Appeals and the German Supreme Court (where upwards of 70 percent of the European patent litigation occurs), and are active in the courts of the United Kingdom and France, as well as the European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance. For clients with cross-border IP disputes, our lawyers appear before the International Trade Commission, the American Arbitration Association, and the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.\nMayer Brown gives intellectual property clients a comprehensive approach to their IP portfolio. We work with clients in developing and protecting their intellectual property to meet current business objectives and to anticipate future needs. By taking such a complete approach to IP portfolio management, we can begin to protect IP assets from the moment of creation and help clients build a profitable IP portfolio. This approach includes leveraging Mayer Brown\u2019s firm-wide capabilities to ensure maximum tax advantage, effective licensing protection and even the securitization of revenue streams from intellectual property assets.\nWe excel at working in collaboration with clients to create a strategic plan for building and protecting all IP assets. Our lawyers will identify any necessary steps to change the way rights are developed and protected, including trade secret procedures, employment agreements, registration and enforcement. Such broad strategic vision is typical of all Mayer Brown\u2019s intellectual property services\u2013and is why companies that have invested in developing their intellectual property assets depend on us.\nWith our broad technical experience, we prepare and prosecute patent applications across a full spectrum of technologies\u2013pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, electrical and mechanical products, software and business methods. In addition to a cadre of experienced patent lawyers and agents in the United States, we work with local patent counsel around the world to ensure our clients\u2019 inventions are protected.\nAdd to all this such advantages as secure, web-based extranet access to patent and trademark files for lower cost and better communication, and our patent and trademark prosecution strengths offer a clear competitive edge to every client.\nWe regularly counsel companies, helping them to accelerate their market penetration through strategic business combinations and alliances. We routinely work in conjunction with our Corporate, Antitrust, Tax and Securitization practices on transactional matters, including the negotiation and preparation of domestic and international license and transfer agreements, due diligence reviews and intellectual property ownership strategies in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestures, stock offerings, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.\nWhether the transaction is a pure licensing arrangement, a joint venture, a strategic alliance or some other arrangement, we can advise on the regulatory and antitrust implications as well as the IP issues. Our firm excels at helping clients navigate the increasingly congested intersection between intellectual property and antitrust, both in the United States and Europe. One of our lawyers was involved in drafting the 1995 DOJ and FTC Guidelines on the Licensing of Intellectual Property, which also influenced EU antitrust policies. We thus can offer effective insight on structuring intellectual property rights pools and distribution agreements (including field of use, geographic and price restraints) in ways to avoid problems with the competition laws in any global jurisdiction.\nOur transactional innovation works in other ways, too. Using the resources of one of the world\u2019s leading Structured Finance practices, Mayer Brown helped pioneer the securitization of IP assets by representing the underwriters of future royalty streams from music portfolios, and continues to structure offerings involving numerous copyrighted works and trademark rights. We see opportunities other firms don\u2019t\u2013and help our clients take advantage of them.\nTrademark Prosecution & Brand Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 16079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcc.edu/newsroom/20170802culinarybronze.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:C6XSAGRI5YYMIFXV6VCUAAAW5Z7OCYR6", "length": 1041, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mcc.edu", "title": "MCC Culinary Art Knowledge Bowl Team Earns Bronze - Newsroom | Mott Community College", "raw_content": "MCC Culinary Art Knowledge Bowl Team Earns Bronze\nMCC Culinary Arts program\nThe Mott Community College (MCC) Culinary Knowledge Bowl team earned a bronze medal at the 2017 Central and Western Region competition of the Baron H. Galand Culinary Knowledge Bowl. The competition is held annually at the American Culinary Federation ChefConnect conference. The MCC team competed with 11 teams from the Central and Western regions.\n\u201cWe are proud of our students achieving the Bronze Medal this year,\u201d said Chef Mark Handy, CEC, AAC, CDM, Culinary Arts Instructor and Knowledge Bowl team coach. \u201cMost of our team were first-year Culinary Arts students, so this was quite an accomplishment for our team.\u201d\nThe Baron H. Galand Culinary Knowledge Bowl. Student teams compete in a \"Jeopardy\"-style competition with questions covering topics such as nutrition, baking, culinary math, safety and sanitation, and the arts of classical and modern cooking. To compete for the national title, teams must enter and win in their respective regional competition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 10722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mdinjurylawblog.com/scbma-elects-emily-malarkey-ryan-perlin-partners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MUKCD3J54MRMRSPP37NCHJKGRSSYBR6T", "length": 780, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mdinjurylawblog.com", "title": "SCBMA Elects Emily Malarkey and Ryan Perlin As Partners \u2014 Maryland Injury Law Blog \u2014 December 30, 2014", "raw_content": "Managing Partner, Paul D. Bekman, explained the reasoning behind naming Ms. Malarkey and Mr. Perlin as the Firm\u2019s newest partners. \u201cWe elected Emily and Ryan partners because our clients deserve the preparation, talent, creativity, and work ethic that they have both displayed since first joining the firm. We look forward to them continuing our firm\u2019s long tradition of excellent representation of our clients with groundbreaking results.\u201d\nSince 1945, Bekman, Marder & Adkins, L.L.C. has been recognized as one of the premier law firms handling cases involving medical and professional negligence, birth injury, products liability, car and truck accident, slip-and-fall, transportation, maritime, and insurance litigation for people injured by the unreasonable actions of others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medact.org/2016/about/annual-reports/medact-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VSFEPG6XPIUGVOS4HNMTGVTJWKHPPSXL", "length": 324, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.medact.org", "title": "Annual Report 2015/16 | Medact", "raw_content": "This has been an exciting year for Medact. The success of our conference in 2015 raised aspirations, energy and enthusiasm. Once again, Medact has produced evidence and assessments of high quality that are respected and widely quoted. Our small but highly effective team continues to make a significant impact in many areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicalhomeportal.org/resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:00Z", "digest": "sha1:SFTLZ7HRBGMMPE4LDMCD5GRKHL2753YY", "length": 831, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.medicalhomeportal.org", "title": "Medical Home Portal - Other Resources", "raw_content": "Here you will find a wealth of information, support, tools, and more to help you care for your child or patient with special health care needs and to collaborate with others to achieve optimal outcomes.\nInformation & Support: Search or browse for links identified by our authors and other experts as helpful and reliable.\nPatient Education: Downloadable files and links to augment the education provided in your office.\nTools for the Practice: Find checklists, charts, techniques, forms, and other tools to facilitate providing high-quality, efficient care, focused on children and youth with special health care needs.\nRegistries & Studies: Referenced in the various sections of the Portal.\nBibliography: All the articles, periodicals, books, etc. cited by our authors and contributors are compiled here for searching or browsing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/297591.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BXQNTOH776X7U3LQZAOIBSKM4POIXBBC", "length": 5624, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.medicalnewstoday.com", "title": "Modern nuclear disasters: biggest risk is mental, not physical illness", "raw_content": "Modern nuclear disasters: biggest risk is mental, not physical illness\nThere are very few radiation effects suffered physically by people struck by modern nuclear accident. Instead, mental illness is the biggest risk, write the authors of a series of papers in The Lancet.\nPhysical dangers are widely appreciated but the mental effects are bigger.\nWith respect to the most recent Fukushima incident, Dr. Koichi Tanigawa, of Fukushima Medical University in Japan, says:\n\"Although the radiation dose to the public from Fukushima was relatively low, and no discernible physical health effects are expected, psychological and social problems, largely stemming from the differences in risk perceptions, have had a devastating impact on people's lives.\"\nThere are 437 nuclear power plants in operation around the world, but nuclear accident is uncommon. The most recent disaster was at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011.\nThere have been four other severe nuclear accidents (rated as level 5 or higher - \"an accident with wider consequences\") - Kyshtym in Russia in 1957, Windscale Piles in the UK also in that year, Three Mile Island in the US in 1979 and Chernobyl in Russia in 1986.\nMental distress of evacuation\nIn 2006, the UN (United Nations) Chernobyl Forum report concluded that the accident's most serious public health issue was the adverse effects on mental health.\nPoor communication about the health risks associated with radiation levels made the problem worse.\nRates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain elevated 20 years after the accident.\nFukushima saw similar problems. The Fukushima Health Management Survey reported that the proportion of adults with psychological distress was almost five times higher for evacuees. The proportion was 14.6%, compared with 3% in the general population.\nRepeat evacuations and long-term displacement bring severe health care problems for the most vulnerable, the authors highlight. Mortality among older people in the first 3 months following evacuation went up by a factor of three.\nIn one of The Lancet papers, Prof. Akira Ohtsuru, of Fukushima Medical University, and colleagues discuss ways to protect the millions of residents who might be exposed to radiation after another nuclear accident.\nMinimizing potential harms to physical and mental health could include responding to parental concerns about cancer risks for children and helping evacuees to adjust to new places, the paper says.\nFukushima offers lessons, the authors say. \"One of the key tasks of the health services is to reliably communicate that in most nuclear accidents, very few people are exposed to a life-threatening dose of radiation,\" they report, adding:\n\"Physicians must play a key role in helping residents understand the health risks. Evacuation of a large population of vulnerable people in nursing homes and hospitals will also need careful planning and adequate medical support.\nAdditionally, screening for mental illness in residents relocated from their homes and providing mental health care will be essential.\"\n70 years on from bombs\nThe long-term health impact of radiation exposure from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and from the Chernobyl nuclear accident are the subject of the report led by Prof. Kenji Kamiya, vice president of Hiroshima University in Japan.\nA clear higher lifetime risk of cancer in survivors is shown by the Japanese Life Span Study, which followed 94,000 atomic bomb survivors from 5 years after the bombings in 1950 to the current day.\nThere was a dose-response for solid cancers and a higher risk for people exposed at younger ages.\nAfter Chernobyl, an increased risk of childhood thyroid cancer among those with internal exposures from consuming radioactivity in food was also seen in affected areas. Hereditary effects in the children of survivors have not yet been detected.\nFatigue: Why am I so tired and what can I do about it? Fatigue can result from a range of causes, but it can also lead to some health problems. Find out what might be causing your fatigue, and what you can do. Read now\nHow to tell if stress is affecting your sleep Stress can adversely affect physical and mental health. One common result of stress is an inability to sleep. Insufficient sleep can increase the risk of a range of health conditions. Reducing stress through exercise and medication can improve quality of sleep. Learn more about the link between stress and sleep here. Read now\nWhat are the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle? People living a sedentary lifestyle spend too much time engaging in behaviors that expend very little energy. A sedentary lifestyle can cause severe health issues, including cancer, diabetes, and poor cardiovascular health. Solutions include doing more exercise. Learn about the effects of a sedentary lifestyle here. Read now\nFukushima's legacy: radiation poisoning or psychosocial damage? Five years have passed since Fukushima; a series of articles look at the human impact of radiation and, as importantly, the psychosocial effects of living through a disaster. Read now\nPsychology / Psychiatry Mental Health Aid / Disasters\nFrom Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Fukushima, series of articles published online by The Lancet, 31 July 2015.\nThe Lancet news release, accessed 31 July 2015.\nMacGill, Markus. \"Modern nuclear disasters: biggest risk is mental, not physical illness.\" Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 1 Aug. 2015. Web.\nMacGill, M. (2015, August 1). \"Modern nuclear disasters: biggest risk is mental, not physical illness.\" Medical News Today. Retrieved from", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 12865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/305247.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:T65QTF3EV5RE4OOMTKJMXB2OKDAMAA4D", "length": 5907, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.medicalnewstoday.com", "title": "Blood test could identify which patients need antibiotics", "raw_content": "Blood test could identify which patients need antibiotics\nOne of the main drivers of antibiotic resistance is overprescription and misuse of antibiotics. But in a new study, researchers reveal how they are a step closer to developing a blood test that can identify whether a respiratory illness is caused by a viral or bacterial infection, allowing more accurate antibiotic prescribing.\nResearchers say they are in the process of developing a simple, rapid blood test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections.\nAntibiotics are drugs used to treat infections caused by bacteria, but they are ineffective against infections caused by viruses.\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 262.5 million courses of antibiotics are written in the outpatient setting each year in the US, but around 50% of these are prescribed unnecessarily.\nMisuse of antibiotics is a key contributor to antibiotic resistance; if a patient takes antibiotics for a viral infection, the drug will still attack bacteria in the body, but it will attack healthy or beneficial bacteria. This can cause antibiotic-resistant properties that can be passed on to other bacteria.\nIn the US alone, more than 2 million people become ill as a result of an antibiotic-resistant infection each year, and more than 23,000 Americans die from such infections.\nLead study author Dr. Ephraim L. Tsalik, assistant professor of medicine at Duke Medicine in Durham, NC, and colleagues note that a large proportion of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are for respiratory illnesses, which they say is largely fueled by the inability to identify the cause of such conditions.\n\"We use a lot of information to make a diagnosis, but there's not an efficient or highly accurate way to determine whether the infection is bacterial or viral,\" notes Dr. Tsalik.\nBut in their study, published in Science Translational Medicine, the team reveals how a simple, rapid blood test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections could be in the cards.\nTest distinguished between bacterial, viral infections with 87% accuracy\nFor their research, Dr. Tsalik and colleagues enrolled more than 300 patients with respiratory infections who had presented to emergency departments at five hospitals in the US.\nThe team analyzed the patients' blood samples to assess gene signatures, which are patterns that show which genes are switched on and off - information that can be used to identify whether a person has a bacterial or viral infection.\nPreviously, the researchers pinpointed gene signatures that were linked to viral infections, but they note that this latest study is the first to distinguish non-infectious and viral infections from bacterial infections.\nBy measuring patients' gene expression profiles from blood samples, the team found they could use the previously identified gene signatures to correctly identify patients with flu viruses, rhinovirus, various strep bacteria and other common infections with 87% accuracy.\nBased on their results, the researchers believe they are one step closer to creating a simple blood test that could aid antibiotic prescription practices.\nDevelopment of a 1-hour test in progress\nThere is one major barrier, however; at present, it takes around 10 hours to assess a patient's gene expression profile. But the team says they are in the process of working with developers to create a 1-hour test that can be used by clinicians.\nSpeaking about their goals with this research, senior author Dr. Christopher Woods, professor of medicine and associate director of the Genomics Center at Duke, says:\n\"The ideal scenario, should this test ultimately be approved for broad use, is you would go to the doctor's office and receive your results by the time you meet with your provider.\nWe are working to develop a test that could be run in most clinical labs on existing equipment. We believe this could have a real impact on the appropriate use of antibiotics and guide the use of antiviral treatments in the future.\"\nLast September, Medical News Today reported on the development of a blood test that accurately detected 70% of lung cancer cases.\nAntibiotic resistance: Skin infection prevention treatment helps battle 'superbugs' A new therapy has been developed to prevent skin infections through open wounds in hospitals and protect against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Read now\nDrug resistance: WHO report 'serious lack of new antibiotics' A new report from the WHO reveals that the current scope of new antibiotic development is far from what is needed to tackle drug resistance. Read now\nWhat causes antibiotic resistance? Resistance to antibiotics kills more than 20,000 people in the U.S. each year. But how do bugs become resistant to drugs that once worked so well? Read now\nDrug resistance: Could these onions help us win the war? Researchers find that compounds from a species of onion can kill the tuberculosis bacterium. Could this be the key to combatting drug resistance? Read now\nKomodo dragon blood may lead to new antibiotics A new peptide inspired by the blood of Komodo dragons killed two strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and hastened wound-healing in a new mouse study. Read now\nMedical Devices / Diagnostics Primary Care / General Practice MRSA / Drug Resistance\nDuke Health news release, accessed 18 January 2016 via Newswise.\nCDC, Antibiotic resistance threats in the US, 2013, accessed 18 January 2016.\nCDC, Measuring outpatient antibiotic prescribing, accessed 18 January 2016.\nMayo Clinic, Antibiotics: misuse puts you and others at risk, accessed 18 January 2016.\nWhiteman, Honor. \"Blood test could identify which patients need antibiotics.\" Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 21 Jan. 2016. Web.\nWhiteman, H. 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Find out here how doctors treat this immune system problem. Read now\nDoes biotin for hair growth work? Biotin, also known as vitamin B7, is important for a healthy body. We look at the use of biotin to support hair growth, and the science behind it. Read now\nWhat is thiamin, or vitamin B1? Vitamin B1, or thiamin, is essential for glucose metabolism and healthy nerve, muscle, and heart function. A deficiency of vitamin B1 can be fatal. Read now\nVitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk of asthma attacks For individuals with asthma, having low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of asthma attacks by 25%, according to a new study from Tel Aviv University. Read now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 16130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.merchandisingplaza.com.br/X-Men/Meia-X-Men-247761", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHP5CV6UTVP2TS6P2OL2FDWIVQH23D2X", "length": 94, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.merchandisingplaza.com.br", "title": "Meia X-Men Original: Compra Online em Oferta", "raw_content": "Officially licensed sublimated X-Men crew socks. Features an image of \"Magneto\" on both socks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 522, "original_length": 8103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/06/fremont-teacher-pleads-not-guilty-of-having-sex-with-underage-student/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SNJRMXTUBVNL3MA76G2IPW73U3XA2V6O", "length": 2840, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mercurynews.com", "title": "Fremont: Teacher pleads not guilty of having sex with underage student", "raw_content": "Fremont: Teacher pleads not guilty of having\u2026\nFremont: Teacher pleads not guilty of having sex with underage student\nCorine Audiat (Fremont Police Dept.)\nFREMONT \u2014 A former Washington High School physical education teacher accused of having sex with an underage student in the summer pleaded not guilty Monday to all seven charges she is facing.\nThe Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s office has charged Corine \u201cCory\u201d Audiat, 32, with six felony sex crimes, including contacting a minor for sex, unlawful sex with a minor, oral copulation with a minor, and sending harmful material to a minor with sexual intent. Audiat also faces a misdemeanor child molestation charge.\nShe arrived at the Fremont Hall of Justice flanked by her parents and family friends, then appeared before Superior Court Judge Jacob Blea III with her lawyer, John R. McCardle, for her arraignment.\nAfter Audiat waived her right to a speedy trial, Blea set a pretrial hearing for Jan. 5 in Hayward. The judge also ordered Audiat to have no contact with the student and stay at least 100 yards away from him at all times.\nFremont police said they began investigating Audiat on Nov. 23 after receiving a tip that she had been involved with a male student. They arrested her Thanksgiving day on two felony charges and booked her into Santa Rita Jail. She was released after posting $130,000 bail.\nOn Nov. 30, the District Attorney\u2019s Office filed additional charges, bringing the total to six felonies and one misdemeanor. The next day, Audiat turned herself in at the Fremont Police Department. The bail amount was then adjusted based on the extra charges and she was released the same day after posting a total of $230,000 bail.\nAudiat had taught at Washington since 2012 and in the Fremont Unified School District since 2008. In addition to teaching physical education at Washington, Audiat has served as a swim coach at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont and for an East Bay Swim League team in Fremont called the Glenmoor Stingrays.\nIn a statement last week after news of the teacher\u2019s arrest, the school district said, \u201cMs. Audiat has been placed on unpaid administrative leave and will not be returning to Washington.\u201d\nFremont police also issued a statement about the incident, calling it \u201ca very unfortunate situation for our community.\u201d Police requested that anyone who may know the identity of the underage victim to keep it confidential, due to his age and the nature of the investigation.\nPolice said there has been no evidence of other victims, but detectives are continuing to investigate the case.\nAnyone with information or who may have had inappropriate contact with Audiat is urged by police to contact Det. Heidi Kindorf at 510-790-6900 or KHindorf@fremont.gov. Anonymous tips can be sent by typing \u2018TIPFREMONTPD\u2019 followed by your message to 888777.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 9125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/18/sunnyvale-native-wins-davidson-fellow25000-scholarship/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YVYVILFTSMEQYP26ZPHJ2RNFC5L2WBKL", "length": 2333, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mercurynews.com", "title": "Sunnyvale native wins Davidson Fellow $25,000 scholarship \u2013 The Mercury News", "raw_content": "Sunnyvale native wins Davidson Fellow $25,000\u2026\nSunnyvale native wins Davidson Fellow $25,000 scholarship\nBy Victoria Kezra |\nSunnyvale native, Bellarmine College Preparatory alum and current UC Berkeley student Arvind Sridhar was awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows scholarship.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an awesome feeling to be recognized for your work, I worked hard, it\u2019s a good feeling,\u201d said Sridhar of winning the scholarship.\nThe Davidson Institute for Talent Development awarded 20 students from across the country with scholarships for projects in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, literature, music and philosophy. The Davidson Institute has awarded more than $7.1 million over 17 years to more than 300 students.\nScholarships are awarded based on \u201csignificant work\u201d in the chosen category. Sridhar\u2019s scholarship was granted based on a study he submitted in which he explores the diagnosis and therapy for cardiac disease.\nIn his project, Sridhar said in the therapeutic aspect he used an injectable hydrogel, which mimics the heart\u2019s micro-environment, to anchor and nourish stem cells to parts of the heart which allows them to enable cardiac regeneration.\nThe second part of the project focused on diagnosis, and Sridhar sought to create algorithms and computational models that would allow doctors to diagnose the health of cardiac tissue using only imagines and videos of a sample of tissue. He was able to test and experiment with his hydrogels as well as with work with stem cells from his time working over the summer at Stanford University\u2019s School of Medicine.\n\u201cI was part of a summer project\u2026which pairs high school seniors with Stanford faculty to do my research project,\u201d he said.\nSridhar added that he was motivated to do his project by a history of heart disease in his family and he wanted to develop less invasive ways of diagnosis and therapy.\n\u201cI wanted to create a platform to enhance therapeutic and diagnostic aspects. I wanted to make the process less expensive and invasive,\u201d said Sridhar, adding that he hopes his work could have the potential to lead to better diagnostics and therapy for patients in developing countries.\nHe is attending classes in UC Berkeley\u2019s M.E.T. program. He is double majoring in computer science and business administration. He hopes to become a tech entrepreneur.\nVictoria Kezra", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 8951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.merrimack.edu/live/profiles/38-matthew-hitchcock-ma", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4TTHF2MYECLB44QWUDIEDIJDT5KVA7ZG", "length": 763, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.merrimack.edu", "title": "Matthew Hitchcock, M.A. \u2022 Merrimack", "raw_content": "Matthew Hitchcock, M.A.\nM.A., Literature, University of Massachusetts, Boston\nB.A., English and Philosophy, Millersville University\nAs director of undergraduate student support, Matthew Hitchcock aids incoming students with acclimation and advisement and provides writing and study support to the school\u2019s student body.\nHitchcock has taught literature courses approaching the question of genre through various theoretical disciplines and lenses. He has presented papers on reading wordless texts, accountability of authorship in regard to textual and visual representation, and deconstructed theories of the first-person pronoun.\nHis research interests range from composition and literary theory, to theories of performativity, visual rhetoric and meaning-making.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metalockengineering.com/en/contact/usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SIYT57JTIPL6EHWSVKCS4G4W4SUIAIW2", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.metalockengineering.com", "title": "USA (en) | Metalock Engineering Group", "raw_content": "3001 SW 3rd Avenue, #6, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 133.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/de-blasio-kathryn-garcia-nycha-interim-chair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GHVO3ZFJGWLYBDTYXJGGX3ALOG2NROZD", "length": 3784, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.metro.us", "title": "De Blasio announces Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia as NYCHA interim chair | Metro US", "raw_content": "NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia will replace Stanley Brezenoff to helm the beleaguered public housing system.\nKathryn Garcia, NYC Sanitation commissioner since 2014, will be the new NYCHA interim chair.\nA week after news that the federal government would have more oversight over the troubled New York City Housing Authority Mayor, more changes are coming to the public housing system. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Kathryn Garcia, the city\u2019s sanitation chief since 2014, will run NYCHA as the new interim chair.\nGarcia is succeeding Stanley Brezenoff, who was named interim chair of NYCHA in April 2018 and will depart later this month. Brezenoff inherited the nation\u2019s largest public housing system after a lead-paint scandal that led to Chairwoman Shola Olatoye stepping down from the position.\nThe heat is on NYC Mayor de Blasio as HUD signs deal for more federal control of NYCH...\nIn the announcement of the new NYCHA chair, the city applauded some of Brezenoff\u2019s accomplishments -- including launching a plan to deliver $24 billion in repairs for 175,000 residents, a contract with the Teamsters that provides 7-day service for public housing residents and improving response times to heating outages -- but the public housing system is still facing a myriad of issues.\nNYCHA's current repair needs top $31 billion over the next five years. Last week, on the coldest day of the year so far, more than 10,000 NYCHA residents experienced heat and hot water outages. That same day, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson came to New York City to sign an agreement with de Blasio that calls for a federal monitor to oversee the public housing system.\nWho is NYCHA interim chair Kathryn Garcia?\nAfter praising Brezenoff\u2019s run, de Blasio introduced Garcia by saying in a statement that \u201cThere is no better person to continue our turnaround effort at NYCHA than Kathryn.\u201d\n\u201cShe is a battle-tested leader who has taken on sprawling challenges from eradicating lead exposure to overhauling the broken commercial carting industry,\u201d he added. \u201cShe is ready to fight every day for the 400,000 New Yorkers who call NYCHA home.\u201d\nGarcia is currently the NYC Sanitation Department\u2019s 43rd commissioner, a position she\u2019d held since 2014 when she was appointed by de Blasio. In that time, she worked on ways to reach the city\u2019s Zero Waste goal, put into operation new initiatives like organics collection and overhauled the city\u2019s snow-clearing operations by prioritizing certain snow plow routes, per the mayor.\nBefore that role, she was COO at the Department of Environmental Protection where she oversaw, among other things, the delivery of safe drinking water to those in the five boroughs and upstate New York.\nGarcia also spearheaded the launch of Lead Free NYC, announced in January, which is the city\u2019s plan to end childhood lead exposure and will eliminate lead paint hazards in NYCHA apartments and family shelters.\nBrezenoff will step down on Feb. 15. When de Blasio and Carson signed the NYCHA deal last week, he had said \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get out of this job for months,\u201d the New York Times reports.\nIn a statement, he said that helming NYCHA is \u201cone of the toughest and most rewarding jobs in America. I will leave this interim role knowing that we are putting NYCHA in very capable hands.\u201d\n\u201cI am going to work every single day to make life better for the 400,000 New Yorkers who call NYCHA home,\u201d Garcia said in a statement. \u201cThere\u2019s been real progress\u2014now it\u2019s time to go farther and faster. We have a plan to renovate tens of thousands of apartments and an agreement with the federal government to improve all of our key services to residents. I\u2019m ready to roll up my sleeves and put these plans into action.\u201d\nNYCHANew York CityMayor Bill de Blasio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 11009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mgonthehalifax.com/volusia-county-communities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:03Z", "digest": "sha1:75ELSLOEBONBMLQRH6YYSCAHDAUUU65F", "length": 1799, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mgonthehalifax.com", "title": "Volusia County Communities - Marina Grande", "raw_content": "Volusia County is a truly unique portion of Florida. You\u2019ll find beaches, rural areas, forests, lakes and cities. You name it, Volusia County probably has it. Due to this diversity, you\u2019ll find that the area is an amazing place to live. There are a wide variety of Volusia County communities that all exhibit different qualities. These differences lead to an exciting environment and vibrant group of people.\nDaytona Beach is the most well known city and community in Volusia County. \u201cThe World\u2019s Most Famous Beach\u201d is known across the world for many things, not just the beach. From Bike Week to the Daytona 500, Daytona is home to some of the most popular events in the world. However, there is much more to Daytona than being a tourist destination. Daytona is home to wide range of people in which you\u2019ll find many different activities and restaurants. The melting pot that is Daytona is one of the most unique places in the country.\nDeLand is the county seat of Volusia County and the home of Stetson University. Being a college town, DeLand has a hometown feel but is extremely lively. Downtown DeLand is known across the country as one of the best small town, downtown areas you\u2019ll find. From live music, farm-to-table restaurants and vibrant bars, DeLand is a place that will stick with you.\nNew Smyrna Beach is the surfing capital of Volusia County. This quaint surfing community has been recognized throughout the years as one of the best surfing destinations in America. Flagler Avenue is lined with fun places to grab a drink as well as a wide variety of restaurants. New Smyrna is a true coastal community which has a vibe like no other.\nVolusia County communities are alive and have so much to offer. Whether you\u2019re just visiting or coming to stay for good, you will love what you find.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/lets-look-back-at-all-the-dumb-things-dolphins-owner-stephen-ross-has-said-8152826", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UL547CGJGSBE3U3JMZP7BXXASZAOZN7E", "length": 3925, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.miaminewtimes.com", "title": "Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross' Dumbest Comments | Miami New Times", "raw_content": "Let's Look Back at All the Dumb Things Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross Has Said\nMiami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross does not speak often, but when he does, people listen. Sometimes that is not such a good thing. Since he purchased the team in 2009, Ross has made a habit of saying stupid things when swerving outside his lane and talking NFL or Miami Dolphins. His foot is so perpetually inserted in his mouth that even Rex Ryan finds it a bit much.\nRoss constantly speaks to the media with seemingly no filter between his mouth and his brain, saying some of the oddest, incorrect, bold, moronic, and downright ludicrous stuff whenever a microphone is put in front of his face. He seems like a good man, but he really should stop talking.\nDon't Expect Miami Dolphins Fans to Be Excited About Their New Coach\nFive Things Adam Gase Should Know About Miami Dolphins Fans\nHere's What Miami Dolphins Should Do With All 15 Free Agents\nThe list of questionable Miami Dolphins quotes that Stephen Ross has made is as long as a football field itself, but here are some of the ones we remember best, for all the wrong reasons.\nJune 2010: Ross insinuates Chad Henne could one day be better than Dan Marino\n\"Chad has been the greatest quarterback the University of Michigan has had,\" Ross said, \"and I'm sure that I'm hoping, as is everyone else, that he goes down as the greatest quarterback in Miami Dolphins history \u2014 and you know what that will mean.\"\nJune 2010: Ross predicts the Dolphins will play in the Super Bowl. The Dolphins did not play in the Super Bowl.\n\u201cI think in February we\u2019re going to be playing in the Super Bowl,\u201d Ross said. \u201c[Coach Tony Sparano] thinks that too. So does every player on that team. So I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any pressure. You just got to go out and do it.\u201d\nThe Dolphins finished 7-9 and third in the AFC East.\nJanuary 2011: Ross regrets not knowing NFL stuff gets in the paper sometimes.\n\"I should have probably let Tony know,\" Ross said after news leaked that he'd interviewed Jim Harbaugh for the job while Tony Sparano was still the head coach. \"I never thought it would be national news. I realized after having read the papers the anguish I had put Tony through.\"\nMarch 2012: Ross defends Jeff Ireland by asking you what the hell your problem is.\n\u201c[Ireland is] a great talent evaluator. He\u2019s as hard-working as anybody I\u2019ve ever met. He\u2019s a smart as they come on the football side,\" Ross said in 2012 of the general manager he'd soon fire for his disastrous decision-making.\nApril 2013: Ross says fans shouldn't blame Jeff Ireland, and all of us can eat it because look at him now!\n\u201cPeople wanted to blame our losing on somebody, and he was the easy person to blame it on,\" Ross said on The Dan Le Batard Show in 2013, just one year before firing him. \"I believe in Jeff, and you\u2019re seeing today what Jeff Ireland can really do.\u201d\nDecember 2013: Ross says he wants to find a young Don Shula and then hires 51-year-old Joe Philbin.\n\u201cWe\u2019re open to everything,\" Ross said upon announcing the firing of head coach Tony Sparano. \"I think you have to look at it there\u2019s pluses and minuses in all situations. I\u2019d like to find a young Don Shula if that\u2019s possible.\"\nJuly 2015: Ross reminds everyone in Miami that LeBron James left \u2014 but its superchill, y'all, because Miami Dolphins 'bout to blow your mind.\n\u201cThe Heat is a different organization now that LeBron James isn\u2019t there,\u201d Ross said. \u201cI think the Dolphins are a team that\u2019s kind of capturing the imagination over the whole entire fan base here in South Florida.\u201d\nJanuary 2016: Ross says the Dolphins are the best at everything \u2014 except playing football.\n\u201cFor those who stay, we\u2019re going to be winning Super Bowls. If you look at our organization today, you see what we\u2019ve done,\" Ross told Andrew Abramson of the Palm Beach Post. \u201cFrom every aspect except the playing field, we\u2019re probably the first-class organization in the National Football League.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.michaelbaileyassociates.com/management-team.cms.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:13Z", "digest": "sha1:B3NB6ZQSXLCNGUCEXDRYHOCAFQDPJYDE", "length": 3522, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.michaelbaileyassociates.com", "title": "Mike Garlick|CEO|Managing director|Michael Bailey Associates", "raw_content": "Mike GarlickFounder and Group CEO\nJames FurlongOperations Director\nMike Garlick\nMike founded the company back in 1989 out of a small office in London. Since then, he has carefully managed its transition from a start up to an established international company with a portfolio of top tier clients, through organic growth as well as acquisitions.\nAs Global CEO, he sets the strategy and direction for all companies, regions and divisions within the Michael Bailey Associates Group.\nWith an unwavering focus on exceptional client delivery and service, Mike has a hands-on approach, working closely with his team of international senior Regional and Country Managers, as well as keeping a firm handle on the processes and infrastructure running through the Group.\n\u201cMany of our competitors concentrate on the revenue generating part of the business, often at the expense of the fundamental organizational element. I believe that a strong support team is just as important as a dynamic sales function. Investment in processes and systems has to happen across the board, from Finance to Operations to Sales.\u201d\nHe also believes that a strong culture and company values are critical to performance, and this comes from the top down.\n\u201cThe culture I have developed encourages people to take ownership and responsibility when they are ready for it. Ambitious people can set the pace of their development and take control of their careers, and they will be fully supported along the way. 80% of my senior management team started out as trainees, and I\u2019m very proud of that.\u201d\nMike travels frequently to all of the offices within the Group, and makes sure he spends time with as many people as possible within the business. He attends company functions, and personally delivers part of the training program for new starters.\nAs Operations Director, James\u2019s primary responsibility is to implement our global business strategy, ensuring consistency in processes and service delivery across all regional offices.\nHe manages the structure and development of all companies and divisions across the Michael Bailey Associates Group, focusing on customer satisfaction, contractor care and revenue growth.\nSeeking out the best people to work within our business is a key strategic focus.\n\"We are a people business, and recognise that the quality of our own talent directly impacts on our ability to deliver results to our clients. Our workforce is a carefully balanced mix of experienced consultants who have already established themselves as leaders and experts in their area and individuals who are new to the industry with the recognisable qualities and potential to develop.\"\nThe development and retention of our teams is fundamental to the success of our business, and this is an area that James feels passionately about.\n\"Our philosophy is to reward hard work as well as high performance. By investing in our teams and focusing on staff motivation, we have created a brilliant culture which supports our teams, and in turn drives our business forward.\"\nTo find out more about job opportunities within the Michael Bailey Associates Group, please contact James here.\n\"Our success is entirely driven by the quality of our people. By putting our internal teams at the heart of our strategy, we have developed a culture that rewards hard work and team collaboration.\"\n\"We\u2019ve worked incredibly hard to create a collaborative style within all of our teams that runs through the work they do, and also adds an element of fun and competitive spirit.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mid-day.com/articles/tips-to-prevent-getting-urinary-tract-infection/19794174", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TRIQMHHSFC7YGNGJ7XCX6YQHNTBNIWPF", "length": 2409, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mid-day.com", "title": "Tips to prevent getting urinary tract infection - lifestyle", "raw_content": "Tips to prevent getting urinary tract infection\nExcess sugar make the body less resistant to infections and that is why poorly managed diabetes can cause frequent urinary tract infection and other infections in the body\nA urinary tract infection is a bacterial infection that grows within the urinary tract anywhere from the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder and through to the urethra. Women are 10 times more likely to get a UTI than men because of their anatomy. Signs and symptoms of a UTI include: Pain or burning when you urinate, Strong-smelling urine, itching. There are other several causes to urinary tract infections improper hygiene can be the leading cause of urinary tract infections. Another leading cause, especially in people with diabetes and the elderly is urinary stasis or the bladder not fully emptying.\nDiabetes has several affects on blood flow and can damage blood vessels and nerves that lead other problems in the body. Excess sugar make the body less resistant to infections and that is why poorly managed diabetes can cause frequent urinary tract infection and other infections in the body. Increased urinary tract infections (UTI) can irritate the prostate area or cause bacteria to enter the prostate and lead to prostatitis.\nPeople with diabetes more prone to UTI and there are several reasons. First, people with diabetes may have poor circulation, which reduces the ability of white blood cells to travel in the body and fight off any kind of infection. Second, high blood glucose levels can also raise the risk of a UTI. And third, some people with diabetes have bladders that don\u2019t empty as well as they should. As a result, urine stays in the bladder too long and becomes a breeding ground for bacteria.\nManagement of UTI in people with diabetes is exactly the same, except you will be monitoring your blood sugars much more closely because you have an infection. As with any infection, it is recommended to check your blood sugar more frequently.\nTo prevent getting UTI, Dr Pradeep Gadge, Diabetologist, Gadge Diabetes Centre tells you some tips\nTry to keep blood glucose levels within your target range as much as possible.\nDrink plenty of fluids (mostly water).\nWear cotton undergarments.\nUrinate after having intercourse to help flush away any bacteria.\nUrinate frequently. Don\u2019t hold your urine in for too long.\nYou should see your doctor each time you suspect a UTI.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mid-day.com/photos/photos-varun-dhawan-jacqueline-fernandez-taapsee-pannu-promote-judwaa-2/14795", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:20Z", "digest": "sha1:L6T4RDVPWU4ZCBH5E6URCVCN4HXX5LCN", "length": 1326, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mid-day.com", "title": "Photos: Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Taapsee Pannu promote 'Judwaa 2' - entertainment", "raw_content": "Photos: Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Taapsee Pannu promote 'Judwaa 2'\n(L-R) Jacqueline Fernandez, Varun Dhawan and Taapsee Pannu pose for pictures at the promotional event for 'Judwaa 2' in Delhi. Pics/Yogen Shah\nTaapsee Pannu and Jacqueline Fernandez after arriving at the promotional event for 'Judwaa 2' in Delhi\nTaapsee Pannu's last Bollywood release was 'Naam Shabana'\nJacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu pose for pictures at the promotional event for 'Judwaa 2' in Delhi\nJacqueline Fernandez pictured here with Taapsee Pannu is collaborating with Varun Dhawan for the second time with 'Judwaa 2'\nJacqueline Fernandez and Varun Dhawan appeared together previously in 'Dishoom'\nTaapsee Pannu pictured here with Jacqueline Fernandez during the special promotional event for 'Judwaa 2' won acclaim for her role in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Pink'\nJacqueline Fernandez hails from Sri Lanka\nJacqueline Fernandez is of Sri Lankan and Malaysian descent\nJacqueline Fernandez was crowned the winner of the Miss Universe Sri Lanka beauty pageant in 2006\nJacqueline Fernandez has graduated with a degree in mass communication from the University of Sydney, and worked as a television reporter in Sri Lanka\nVarun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu promoted their upcoming film 'Judwaa 2' at an event in Delhi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milb.com/everett/news/razo-razzle-dazzles-indians-in-win-2-1/c-291566934", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:K4N42ZNEIK6KAJIYW7GKVYFSSXUAIPO7", "length": 3358, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.milb.com", "title": "Razo Razzle-Dazzles Indians in Win, 2-1 | AquaSox", "raw_content": "Razo Razzle-Dazzles Indians in Win, 2-1\nRazo Strikes Out Six In Victory\nOrlando Razo leads the AquaSox with 54 strikeouts. (Jason Grohoske)\nEverett, WA - Everett concluded their series against the Spokane Indians Wednesday night with a narrow one-run victory, 2-1. Spokane was held to just six hits, scoring their lone run in the second inning.\nThe AquaSox jumped ahead in the bottom of the first inning. 2018 NWL All-Star, Josh Stowers, knocked a leadoff single to right field. Stowers then stole second base, his 13th stolen base of the season. Stowers leads the team in stolen bases. Connor Kopach's RBI ground out helped Stowers successfully round the bases, 1-0 AquaSox.\nSpokane countered the Everett score with a run of their own in the top of the second inning. Starling Joseph collected his 26th RBI of the season, a sacrifice fly to center field, plating Diosbel Arias from third base. It was the only flaw on an otherwise outstanding performance by AquaSox starter Orlando Razo.\nEverett took the lead back in the third inning. Kopach got the inning off to a hot start, legging out a triple on the third pitch he saw. Bobby Honeyman grounded out on the next at-bat, bringing Kopach home safely. No more runs would score in the inning and, as it turned out, the AquaSox would have to hold on to a one-run lead for the rest of the contest.\nThe last time AquaSox fans saw Razo he pitched six innings and allowed only one hit. Wednesday's outing wasn't an exact replica, but it was equally as impressive. This time, Razo lasted five innings, allowing one run off four hits. Razo brought his season strikeout total to 54, the most of any AquaSox pitcher.\nGrant Spranger and Nolan Hoffman held a tight grip on the game between the sixth and eighth innings. Springer took over for Razo in the top of the sixth, his first outing at Everett Memorial Stadium. Springer had a strong performance, pitching two innings of scoreless relief. Hoffman entered the game in the eighth inning and retired the side.\nIt was then up to Alabama native, J.T. Salter to seal the win for the AquaSox. Salter came in clutch for Everett, logging his first save as a member of the AquaSox. The game would conclude, 2-1 AquaSox.\nThe Everett AquaSox will head out on an eight-game road trip Thursday, taking on the Hillsboro Hops and the Vancouver Canadians. When they return it will be the final series of the season. Everett will play four games against the Tri-City Dust Devils. Saturday, September 1 will be a doubleheader as the two teams will make up for a cancellation on August 19. They will play two, seven-inning games beginning at 6:05 PM. There are several promotions for the homestand including, Overdose Prevention Night, Back to School Night, and Fan Appreciation Afternoon.\nW: O. Razo (4-3)\nL: R. Dease (4-4)\nS: J.T. Salter (1)\nThe Everett AquaSox, Seattle Mariners affiliate since 1995, continue to offer the most affordable family entertainment in the Pacific Northwest. Tickets for Game One of the Northwest League Divisional Series taking place on Wednesday, September 5 and the remaining three home games of the regular season are available for purchase through our website at www.AquaSox.com or by calling our front office (425) 258-3673. To stay up to date on your Everett AquaSox, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/EverettAquaSox or visit www.AquaSox.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miles2gobeforeisleep.com/blog/2017/2/7/local-business-second-chance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:PLJVTYHUWTZ53TH6HVUCOJRUECX2DGW4", "length": 9828, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.miles2gobeforeisleep.com", "title": "A Second Chance For Local Businesses \u2014 Miles 2 Go", "raw_content": "A Second Chance For Local Businesses\nAlthough the seeds for this blog were planted early in my life by one too many trips to the Smithsonian or one too many National Geographics, they really started to take root after I graduated from college. I went back to work at a restaurant in Myrtle Beach, SC, which I had worked at the previous two summers. The restaurant was called Shenanigans, and while the name did not help the cause, it was one of the best steakhouses in the south. They served hand-cut, USDA Prime beef \u2013 aged, seasoned and cooked to perfection. It would be many years later, in Argentina, that I ate steak that compared. Almost 20 years later, I have yet to have prime rib which could stack up. The steaks came complete with a large and beautiful salad, a heaping side dish and hot fresh bread. The only steaks which cost over $20 (including the salad and side) were the filet mignon and a 32 ounce (2 pound!) prime rib, and those just barely. I loved working there because every time I walked up to the table to ask how everything was, I was certain it was going to be great. In the back of my mind, I can still taste that prime rib, and every time I drive by that building, even now, I feel sad that it is gone.\nA great local bar if you're ever in Myrtle Beach.\nSo what happened to it? Although the name and location weren\u2019t the best, the death toll came when Outback Steakhouse opened a few miles up the road. I would actually lie awake at night and think about it \u2013 why would people want to save three or four dollars to eat a frozen, average steak with a soggy salty potato? And the answer I kept coming back to was that at Outback, you knew what you were going to get, even if it was only average. Going somewhere local could be great or could be terrible, but the chain alternative provided dependable mediocrity.\nFrom that time forward, I found myself more and more attracted to the local option. To giving something a shot for better or for worse. To taking the chance that a local owner cared more about my satisfaction than a corporate cost-cutter did. I found I was very rarely disappointed. But I also watched as the country became more and more strip-mallified. I watched downtowns fade one store at a time while shopping centers sprung up in every suburb. I watched as local stores and motels and restaurants across the country were shuttered forever to make way for Wal-Marts and Comfort Inns and TGIFridays. Bartenders and waitresses had their personalities stripped away to make way for scripted service. And it wasn\u2019t just happening in the big cities, the small towns began to fade as well. The country stopped looking like America, and started looking like Generica. I know this started happening long before I started to see it, but it was when it happened on a personal scale that I really started to understand it.\nThe BEST local cajun food in Louisiana\nI watched this happen across the country during my years as a tour guide. I also watched with a great deal of respect and admiration as some communities fought to keep their local character and their local businesses open. But there seemed to be far more like Charleston WV and far less like Charleston SC every year. It boggled my mind as I watched people filling up a Pizza Hut while the far better local pizza restaurant a block over went under. Taco Bell thrives while Taqueria Mexicana sits empty. It\u2019s hard to see somewhere once so diverse start to homogenize on such a grand scale.\nMore recently, though, I have seen a reversal start to take root. I have seen chains closing down or going bankrupt while tiny local shops are taking hold. I attribute this to several factors. First, many of the chain locations have started to show their age and that dependable mediocrity has turned less dependable and often less than mediocre. It is certainly harder to get a poorly paid manager to care more than a fully invested owner. Cost-cutting has weakened quality control across the board. The chains focused on expansion and more expansion, spending profits on growth instead of putting money away for maintenance and upgrades of their current locations. A hotel bed can only last so long.\nSecond, many places seem to have become just too underwhelming and bland. I recently went into an Applebee\u2019s for the first time in a long time. Their menu was a hodgepodge of different American cuisines \u2013 \u201cCajun\u201d and \u201cSouthwest\u201d and \u201cNew England\u201d dotted the menu creating a food style I think of as \u201cgenericana cuisine\u201d. I wonder if whoever is creating these menu items has ever been to these places and actually tasted the food there because if they had, they would see that their poor imitations are really just that. And I find that really disappointing. They use peoples\u2019 sense memories of a place, whether real or imagined, to sell their crappy food. And when it is inevitably bland and boring, it will leave people with a bad taste in their mouth for a place and a cuisine which they may be reluctant to try again. I would hate for someone to visit New Orleans and not sample the local food because they once had \u201cBourbon Street Chicken\u201d at Applebee\u2019s and didn\u2019t like it very much, so they order a burger instead. They would be missing out on one of the world\u2019s great food cities. Even at breakfast, which is pretty hard to screw up, the Denny\u2019s of the world are cranking out tasteless, boring food. I used to like Denny\u2019s, but now I\u2019d rather go hungry.\nThe amazing Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, MS\nThe third and most important game changer has been the influence of the internet. Websites like TripAdvisor and Yelp! and, on a more local level, bloggers, have given consumers a way to gauge a business before spending their money. This has allowed those mom and pops who weathered the storm to find new clientele through positive reviews. These reviews can be better advertising than the best ad campaign. It has also provided an avenue for new local businesses to spring up. Across the country, boutique hotels and local restaurants are taking hold not just on the upper end of the income spectrum, but more and more in the mid-level range as well. Craft breweries, butcher shops, ice cream parlors and any number of locally owned businesses are popping up every day. I find this to be very positive and hope this trend continues. We are starting to understand the difference.\nNow if we could only get the population to start shifting back away from the cities and re-populate the middle of the country, I think we would find ourselves, as a country, happier and healthier. But this takes this trend to a new level and would require specialized \u201cboutique factories\u201d to bring jobs to these cities, and giving small farmers a chance against factory farmers. Too often we have let ourselves think \u201cbigger is better\u201d, and we need to start thinking smaller can mean higher quality which will probably mean better. Go and find something you have in your house that your grandparents owned. How does the quality of that item compare to something similar you bought recently? Will your item last long enough for your grandkids to own it? And then keep in mind that if your grandparents were like mine were, they fell in a similar or lower income bracket than you do. But things were made to last, they were made in small batches with better materials because people cared more. People cared that their product would last you as long as possible, not just long enough to get through the warranty. Do you remember the Maytag repairman? That is the perfect symbol of an era now past. Now, everything from refrigerators to cars to computers to watches aren\u2019t made to last longer than five or ten years. Why are we going backwards and why aren\u2019t we outraged by it? This isn\u2019t to say that quality products don\u2019t still exist. But Rolexes are out of most of our price ranges. One product which always comes to mind, made right here in America, is the Zippo lighter. These are guaranteed for the lifetime of the lighter, not the lifetime of the owner. If your grandfather\u2019s Zippo stops working, they will fix or replace it for free. It\u2019s a simple product, well designed and built to last forever. For most of my life, I\u2019ve driven a 1968 Ford Mustang. Can you even imagine a 2013 model car being on the road in the 2050\u2019s? That\u2019s laughable, but why? Do you remember when you opened a package of T-shirts and it said \u201cinspected by inspector #12\u201d? When was the last time you saw that? I\u2019m just sayin\u2019\u2026\nI loved this car. Still on the road, by the way.\nSo I am off to visit America. To document what I find and bring it to your living room in bold color. I want to find the best of what\u2019s left from the old and the best of what\u2019s new on the table. I want to taste dishes made from grandma\u2019s recipe, not Corporate Mr. Boring\u2019s recipe. I want to visit hotels and businesses and find the artists and craftsmen and -women who are keeping the old ways going. But also those who are innovating and making something new based on expertise and quality instead of nickel and dime profit. Call me old-fashioned, you won\u2019t be the first, but I want to see these things while I still can, while they still exist, and maybe give some of them some exposure to keep them going. Call me sentimental or foolish, but I care about this country and the people in it, and I want to show people the many great things we have to offer. I have already spent more of my life travelling around this country than most people probably ever will, and I have met great people in every corner of it. But I always felt rushed \u2013 like I had other places to be (usually because I did). Now it\u2019s time to slow down, take it easy, and really dig deep. It\u2019s time for me to really see America, and you\u2019re invited to come along for the ride. But just know that when given the choice, I'm choosing local!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 10491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mindbodygreen.com/wc/leah-scott", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:06Z", "digest": "sha1:HRFM5N2ZNTZLVG4KQDD745LDZJBW2UX5", "length": 636, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mindbodygreen.com", "title": "Leah Scott on mindbodygreen - mindbodygreen", "raw_content": "Leah Scott is co-author of Charmed Divorce: A Positive Spin on the D-Word. She has a bachelor's in sociology, a master's in business administration, and paralegal certification. Her strengths are in wellness and nutrition and to help you find the joy in life.\n\"I believe in order to bring joy into your life you must begin with your mindset and let the rest fall into order.\"\nShe lives in Carlsbad, California, and currently coaches individuals to help them live a more positive and healthier lifestyles through a step-by-step customized process.\nYou can purchase Charmed Divorce here.\nSee Articles By Leah Scott\nConnect with Leah Scott", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 3234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.minglebox.com/articles/world-university-of-design-box-presents-in-cubing-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DSDRN677HMRBUBPORZXHAMQ4R4CFYTI6", "length": 3542, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.minglebox.com", "title": "World University of Design BOX presents In-Cubing Challenge - Minglebox", "raw_content": "World University of Design BOX presents In-Cubing Challenge\nWorld University of Design, a UGC recognized university and India\u2019s first and only university dedicated to education in the creative domain has announced an \u201cIn-Cubing Challenge\u201d to give wings to the entrepreneurial spirit of the students and encourage them to present innovative startup ideas with experts from various industries and subsequently, win an opportunity for incubation.\nStudents from across Delhi-NCR and other states are welcome to share their ideas and be a part of \u201cIn-Cubing Challenge\u201d by sharing their startup idea on worlduniversityofdesign.ac.in/cult3. Out of all the entries submitted, the best 10 ideas will be selected by the bench of eminent judges and the results will be announced on February 12, 2019. Further, the top 10 entries will be provided with a chance to briefly showcase their ideas to a jury panel during the annual cultural festival \u201cCULT\u201d, scheduled to be held on February 15, 2019, at World University of Design campus.\nOn this occasion Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Vice-Chancellor, WUD said, \u201cWorld University of Design is proud to announce the In-Cubing Challenge, inviting innovative startup ideas from future entrepreneurs. The In-Cubing Challenge will be a part of our 3rd edition of the two days Inter-College Annual Cultural Festival \u2013 \u201cCult 2019\u201d to be held at our Campus. The festival would attract almost 2000+ students from colleges in and around Delhi-NCR & other states to compete on a grand scale and showcase their talents.\nAs a leader in design education, World University of Design is committed to creating innovative opportunities for our students and helping them enable access to the funding, mentoring, and support needed to develop leaders and to drive innovative ventures forward. This challenge will present an opportunity for the youth to exhibit their talent by unleashing theirentrepreneurial potential.\u201d\nThe startup ideas can be related to any of the following categories; Product, Services, Mobile Applications, Mobility & Transportation and Fashion & Accessories. The ideas will be judged by the eminent panel of jury which would include Mr Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of \u201cekgaon\u201d & Mohammad Sharique Farooqi, MD, Centre for Incubation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ambedkar University Delhi, the selected ideas will be displayed as part of an exhibition during CULT 2019. Winners of the \u201cIn-Cubing\u201d challenge will receive exciting rewards and a chance to get incubated by various industry experts present during the event.\nAbout the World University of Design\nWorld University of Design (WUD), located in the education hub of Rajiv Gandhi Education City in Sonipat, Haryana, boasts of highly qualified faculty members who have been educated and trained at prestigious institutes such as NIFT, NID, LCF -London, FIT \u2013 New York, SPA and Delhi College of Art among others. WUD has consistently focused on the student learning experience.\nThe university is being shaped and mentored by an illustrious Advisory Board comprising of stalwarts from the field of design such as Mr AG Krishna Menon, Ms Payal Jain, Mr Peter D\u2019ascoli, Mr Amardeep Behl and Ms Neha Kirpal. WUD is also a full member of Cumulus, the international association of universities & colleges of art, design & media that has over 160 member universities in 60 countries. This provides the widest possible access to WUD students to interact and engage with international students on a global scale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 9884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mintageworld.com/media/detail/6186-lets-remember-the-first-indian-woman-physician/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:27Z", "digest": "sha1:INJJZOMJNO7VE2OZFTKB2M3TIB6QNFX7", "length": 1576, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mintageworld.com", "title": "Let\u2019s remember the first Indian Woman Physician | Mintage World", "raw_content": "Home News Let\u2019s remember the first Indian Woman Physician\nLet\u2019s remember the first Indian Woman Physician\nAnandi Gopalrao Joshi was one of the earliest Indian female physicians. She was the first woman of Indian origin to study and graduate with a two-year diploma in medicine in the United States. She is also believed to be the first Indian woman to set foot on the American soil.\nBorn in an orthodox family in Maharashtra on March 31, 1865, she was married to a widower thrice her age when she was just nine. Five years later, Joshi gave birth to a boy, but he soon died due to lack of medical care.\nHer husband, Gopalrao Joshi, inspired her to educate herself at a time when education to women was not given due importance.\nAmid pressure from family and society, Anandi was sent to America to pursue a degree in Medicine. She fulfilled her husband\u2019s strenuous effort and graduated from Women\u2019s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC) in 1886 with Kei Okami of Japan and Tabat Islambooly of Syria. All three became the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine.\nIn late 1886, Anandibai returned to India, receiving a grand welcome. The Princely State of Kolhapur appointed her as the physician-in-charge of the female ward of the local Albert Edward Hospital.\nThis special cover was released by the Department of Posts, Maharashtra Postal circle. The front of the cover showing the portrait of \u201cAnandibai Gopalrao Joshi\u201d and the Medical College Pennsylvania, USA\u201d where she studied and a 5 Rupee stamp depicting \u201cWomen\u2019s Empowerment\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 171.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-drops-out-forbes-2656722", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:MPVQOIR6SJY7HHOIG6OR5TSQRJPC2WKJ", "length": 2407, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mirror.co.uk", "title": "David Cameron drops out of Forbes power list top 10, as Vladimir Putin tops the world rankings - Mirror Online", "raw_content": "David Cameron drops out of Forbes power list top 10, as Vladimir Putin tops the world rankings\nThe Prime Minister dropped from 10th to 11th in the list - behind Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah\nSliding: Cameron dropped from number 10 to 11 in this year's list\nDavid Cameron is no longer considered one of the world's top 10 most powerful people, after dropping out of Forbes magazine's power list.\nThe Prime Minister's standing on the world stage has diminished, according to the annual ranking of the world's most powerful people, leading him to slip one place from 10th to 11th.\nHe now sits behind Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke, but just ahead of the world's richest man Carlos Slim Helu.\nLast year's number one Barack Obama was ousted from the top spot by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin .\nIn its profile of Mr Cameron, the magazine said he had been damaged by the row over energy prices and now had \"two years to galvanise the Tory party ahead of a 2015 General Election\".\nThe magazine said: \"The Conservative PM guides the world's sixth largest economy and was once hailed as the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. No more.\n\"He has recently been criticised for a flip-flop approach to green taxes after he pledged to slash the tax on household energy bills amid soaring gas and electricity prices.\n\"The Oxford graduate and (illegitimate) descendant of King William IV (1830-1837) has fired at the Guardian newspapers and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for 'making it a lot more difficult to keep our countries and our citizens safe'.\n\"He has two years to galvanize the Tories ahead of a 2015 general election.\"\nChinese premier Xi Jinping was at number three in the list, Pope Francis was number four and German chancellor Angela Merkel was the top-placed woman at number five.\nMicrosoft tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates took the sixth place, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was at number seven, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah at eight and European Central Bank president Mario Draghi at nine.\nThe magazine ranks the 72 people on the list - one for every 100 million people on earth - according to how many people they have power over; the financial resources they control; if they have influence in more than one sphere; and how actively they wield their power to change the world.\nThe full rankings can be found on the Forbes website.\n2013 most powerful list", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 11801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/big-feat-big-sam-467742", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JURGO7JNK5Y7WVF4L3YBRNU5KJKIWLHO", "length": 846, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mirror.co.uk", "title": "BIG FEAT BIG SAM - - Mirror Online", "raw_content": "BIG FEAT BIG SAM\nTHERE are many managers I admire in the Premiership, but this season Sam Allardyce deserves a special mention.\nTime and again, Allardyce defies the odds with Bolton Wanderers by lifting them into the upper reaches of the Premiership.\nThe job he's done at The Reebok identifies him as a manager who is a brilliant talent-spotter and a supreme motivator of players who others might not touch.\nMore than that, the consistent success he has achieved with Bolton has become a beacon of hope for other aspiring clubs.\nTeams like Reading, Wigan and Sheffield United look to Bolton as an example of what can be achieved by a smaller club.\nBolton might miss out on the Champions League this year but the fact that Allardyce kept them in contention for the top four until so late in the season is testimony to the scale of his achievement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 9665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mmsonline.com/news/hannover-messe-usa-to-be-co-located-with-imts-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MSI5RRYYSTPLE6P2DVCDBGUWXYEIUB7L", "length": 2147, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mmsonline.com", "title": "Hannover Messe USA to be Co-Located with IMTS 2018 : Modern Machine Shop", "raw_content": "Hannover Messe USA to be Co-Located with IMTS 2018\nThe show will feature technologies associated with predictive maintenance, more efficient use of raw materials and faster time to market in the conference\u2019s East Building.\nThe International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) is dedicating 130,000 ft.\u00b2 of exhibition and display space to Hannover Messe USA (HMUSA), the co-located North American industrial technology show at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. HMUSA is organized and managed by Hannover Fairs USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Deutsche Messe, which organizes Hannover Messe in Germany. IMTS, the longest running manufacturing technology show in the Americas, will hold its 2018 show September 10-15.\n\u201cCo-locating Hannover Messe USA further diversifies the technologies that visitors can experience at IMTS 2018,\u201d says Peter R. Eelman, vice president of exhibitions and business development at AMT\u2014The Association For Manufacturing Technology, which produces IMTS. \u201cIMTS already attracts visitors from more than 110 countries, and co-locating Hannover Messe USA further strengthens our international appeal.\u201d\nHMUSA has had a presence in the U.S. market since launching at IMTS 2012. It has increased its footprint by 44 percent and will feature approximately 500 exhibitors in the East Building. The show will demonstrate Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, emphasizing technologies associated with predictive maintenance, more efficient use of raw materials and faster time to market.\nThe exhibition space and three special display areas will be located on two floors of the East Building. Level 3 will feature Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives USA, focusing on integrated automation, industrial IT, power transmission and control. The Fluid Power special display area will be located alongside it. Level 2 will feature three other co-located trade shows: ComVacUSA, Industrial Supply USA and Surface Technology USA. These shows will take place alongside the event\u2019s Digital Factory and Industrial Energy Systems special display areas. Educational presentations will occur throughout the show floor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/sam-simons-cancer-fight-chronicled-in-rebel-with-a-cause", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:08Z", "digest": "sha1:IFEQPJZJ3P7LJWL53JSKCN743CSA46DP", "length": 2701, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mnn.com", "title": "Sam Simon's cancer fight chronicled in 'Rebel with a Cause' | MNN - Mother Nature Network", "raw_content": "Sam Simon's cancer fight chronicled in 'Rebel with a Cause'\nFilm will cover the last months of the television producer's life and his passion for animal rights.\n'Rebel with a Cause' will follow both the highs and lows of Sam Simon's inspiring last months. (Photo: Twitter/SimonSam)\nIn the summer of 2014, Sam Simon, the celebrated television producer and \"Simpsons\" co-creator who passed away on March 8, invited a documentary film crew to record the last months of his life. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2012, the 59-year-old had pledged to give away most of his $100 million fortune to causes focused on helping animals.\n\"One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success,\" he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2013. \"I see results. There is stuff happening, really good stuff, every week.\"\nSimon's story and passion to help others resonated with Fusion CEO Isaac Lee, who approached him about making a documentary about his cancer fight and animal rights push. \"Sam Simon is a singular figure,\" Lee said in a statement last year. \"Our hope is to pay tribute to his life and career while also sparking an important conversation about animal rights and empowering young people to be a catalyst for change.\"\nOn March 15, Fusion will premiere \"Rebel with a Cause: The Sam Simon Story,\" a one-hour documentary directed by Justin Baldoni. In addition to chronicling the donations and rallies that Simon helped fund and support, we'll also see the very personal moments of his fight against cancer. Interviews with Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, comedian Drew Carey, Mercy for Animal's Ari Solomon, and several of the original \"Simpsons\" team will also be featured.\n\"I\u2019m not driven by long-term decisions that someone would make if they\u2019re trying to have as much money as they can when they\u2019re 90 years old,\u201d Simon says in the film. \"I have a limited time on Earth to do what I can do until I\u2019m gone. You are a little more aware of it when you\u2019re sick.\"\nIn a Jan. 22 tweet, Simon said that even if he were to die soon, he would still have beaten cancer. \"The past two years have been the happiest of my life,\" he added.\nCheck out a trailer for the doc below. \"Rebel with a Cause\" airs on Fusion this March 15 at 8 p.m.\nBillionaire Steve Wynn changes will to benefit animal rights\nHollywood heavyweights team for animal poaching film\nDarren Aronofsky decided against live animals for 'Noah'\nRelated topics: Activism, Celebs, Charities & Causes, Movies, PETA, Pets\nOne-hour documentary will show the last months of the famed television producer's life as he battled against cancer and fought for animal rights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 6170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobiledekho.com/news/galaxy-note-8-india-september-12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UXHHZ4PBWT7PEKN5C64KSEXGAIZGDVCD", "length": 2664, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mobiledekho.com", "title": "Samsung Galaxy Note 8 In India On September 12 | MobileDekho", "raw_content": "Official: Samsung Galaxy Note 8 In India On September 12\nSamsung Galaxy Note 8 is arriving on September 12 to India. The firm started giving media invites to its valuable customers regarding the launch of new model of this flagship phone.\nby Himanshu S. Sep 8, 2017\nGalaxy Note 8 is set to be launch on the same day the Apple iPhone 8 will be unveiled\nThe launch event will be held at 12:30pm IST in Delhi\nSamsung is providing a live streaming of the Galaxy Note 8 launch\nSamsung is all prepared to introduce its new flagship model \u2013 Galaxy Note 8 in India on September 12. It seems to be brand new handsets with numerous updations as compared to its previous series. This phone is equipped with top-end programmes and with a belief that this might overcome the nightmare of Note 7, which was sent back to the company because of its immense battery problems last year. The firm is supposed to launch its all new Galaxy Note 8 with a cost of approximately Rs 60,000 in India.\nWith an official confirmation, Samsung is launching its Galaxy Note 8 phone on 12th September in India. It can be a remarkable day in the calendar as Apple is also set to launch its new flagship model iPhone 8 on September 12 in Cupertino, California. With the validated new, Samsung has initiated sending out media invites regarding the launch of Galaxy Note 8. The event is all set to organize in at 12:30pm (IST) in Delhi. For the convenience of customers, the company will run the live streaming of launch of Galaxy Note 8.\nFeaturing with 6.3-inch Infinity Display, it is the primary Samsung handset with a dual camera configuration on the rear part of the phone. The camera is equipped with a wide-dimension lens improved through a telephoto lens \u2014 along with the two sensors showcasing OIS. Similarly, the Indian alternative of Galaxy Note 8 must be equipped through the Exynos 8895 coupled with 6GB RAM, and internal storage of 64GB, also featuring a slot for microSD. It is also highlighted for its water and dust resistance feature with IP68 certification, along with the front camera of 8MP and it gets its juices from 3300mAh battery.\nPrior to the launch of Galaxy Note 8, the company is enquiring its users regarding the registration of the new flagship handset on a special website, which is being created by the company itself especially for the registration of Galaxy Note 8. You may easily get enrolled and register on the website. With a concept of first come, first serve, the company will provide early opportunities to the user who will register as soon as possible.\nMeizu mblu Zero Leaked: Bezel-Less Display, 8GB RAM Tipped\nGoogle To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC: Reports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobilenewsmag.com/the-u-s-secures-5g-superiority-at-least-in-short-term/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4BKWAO64NPOWLLFHAURVD2QOQI6PDLG", "length": 3535, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mobilenewsmag.com", "title": "The U.S. Secures 5G Superiority, at Least in Short-Term - MobileNewsMag.com", "raw_content": "Home News The U.S. Secures 5G Superiority, at Least in Short-Term\nThe race for the leading role in the fifth generation (5G) connectivity has already started and while the United States, China, South Korea, and Japan are the four countries in the lead, it is the United States who will win the 5G race in the short term, according to ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies.\nThe United States has a unique 5G starting position due to its market size, the financial health of its Mobile Service Providers (MSPs), and the forward-looking moves of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). \u201cThe United States has a stronghold because its carriers have an enhanced fiscal position \u2013 they will spend approximately US$40 billion on network infrastructure alone during 2019,\u201d says Emanuel Kolta, Research Analyst at ABI Research. The four top MSPs will start their 5G service at the end of H1 2019, however, operators are using different methods. While Verizon is focusing on 5G home broadband first, AT&T already started selling its 5G hotspot which is sharing throughput over Wi-Fi; T-Mobile is focusing on nationwide coverage in low-band, and Sprint is focusing on 2.5 GHz and the upgradeable Massive MIMO antennas.\nWhile wireless home broadband and the provision of enhanced mobile broadband will be the core proposition in early U.S. 5G deployments, it is ultra-reliable low-latency communication and enhanced machine-type communication that will gain importance in the longer term. During 2019, ABI Research expects that MSPs will first deploy 5G in megacities, dense urban areas, live sharing locations (e.g., stadiums and concert venues), urban commuter routes, spectrum exhaust areas, as well as company and university campuses.\n5G-capable phones will be more widespread from 2020, once all the major players have launched 5G on their flagship models. Apple, the U.S. market leader, won\u2019t make its 5G iPhone commercially available until 2020. However, Samsung, the second biggest player, is expected to have a 5G model in its Galaxy 10 range, with a launch date likely to be Q1 2019. Smaller device manufacturers like LG, Motorola, OnePlus, and HTC can increase their market share and have a bigger proportion of the 3 million 5G-capable devices shipped in 2019.\nU.S. MSPs and internet firms have spent an outstanding amount of resources on 5G related spectrums, deployments, and tests in the past years, which has brought the United States to the forefront of 5G developments. ABI Research expects that the combination of these early investments, the size of the U.S. market, and the customer\u2019s high willingness to pay will all provide a unique environment to U.S.-based firms to flourish. The fact that South Korean and U.S.-based operators will provide 5G connectivity to local businesses first, holds an extraordinary opportunity, at least in short-term. \u201cHowever, the long-term outcome of the 5G race is still uncertain. Even Chinese investments and spectrum allocations are late, the scale of the upcoming 5G deployments is simply unprecedented,\u201d Kolta concluded.\nPrevious articleAnother \u20ac 200,000 from GapMinder for 5 Start-Ups with the Most Accelerated Evolution in the Techcelerator Program\nNext articleTelekom Romania: Porting offer with three months free at mobile subscription\nTelekom Romania announces the 8th edition of the \u201cTelekom Scholarships\u201d program\nHyperX announces new RAM memories for gamers, developers and video editors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.modernflipping.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FARX362CSQ736TXMKMFCMM5OHFY47O7V", "length": 3334, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.modernflipping.com", "title": "Privacy Policy | Modern Flipping", "raw_content": "http://smartcommerceinc.com/2018/05/23/descriptive-essay-topics-about-experiences/\nPrivacy Policy for Modern Flipping\nAt https://www.modernflipping.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by https://www.modernflipping.com and how we use it.\nIf you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at support@modernflipping.com.\nhttps://www.modernflipping.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services\u2019 analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. 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These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.\nNote that https://www.modernflipping.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.\nhttps://www.modernflipping.com\u2019s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.\nhttps://www.modernflipping.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.\nThis privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in https://www.modernflipping.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.modernghana.com/blogs/445940/regression-and-time-series-analysis-on-rate-of-inflation-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WD46B7SYKQSNGTBE7B6P4D3ZZYGLLD3R", "length": 4557, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.modernghana.com", "title": "REGRESSION AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ON RATE OF INFLATION AND BANK CHARGES IN GHANA", "raw_content": "REGRESSION AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ON RATE OF INFLATION AND BANK CHARGES IN GHANA\nBy Samuel Kwaku Obeng\nThe use of interest rate as a policy instrument for the control of inflation has become a central feature of macroeconomic policy in many countries over the past two decades. Until recently it had appeared to be relatively successful in that inflation in most industrialized countries has been low, though there are clearly alternative explanations for this low inflation such as the downward pressure of prices coming from the growth of low cost production in a number of industrialized countries and an absence until recently of rising commodity prices (Arestis et al, 2008a).\nIn addition to the above, inflation rate has been politically debated in Ghana by the two strong political parties namely the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the years. Both the NDC and the NPP are claiming that it was during their regime that the inflation rate started falling. In order to resolve this argument, the Chao Test was conducted to test whether there was any structural change in the inflation rate during the regimes of the two parties.\nThe objectives of the study were to identify the trend in inflation and the prime rate in Ghana using Time Series and Regression Analysis and to perform a Chow test to find out whether there were structural changes in the models during the period under study. It was also to verify the direction or causality of the prime rate and inflation rate. This was based on secondary source of data.\nIt was found from the study that when prime rate or interest rate is zero, deflation will set in. In addition, when there is an increase in the MPR, inflation rate will increase by 0.88. This figure however conforms to what was initiated by the theoretical works of Fischer (1975), Merton (1975) and Malliaris and Malliaris (1991), which argues that there is a positive relationship between inflation uncertainty and real interest rates. Also, about 46.4% of the total variation in inflation rate can be explained by the MPR. Though there exist some similarities in the correlation figure depicted by this data to that initiated by the theoretical works of Fischer (1975), Merton (1975) and Malliaris and Malliaris (1991), there are some variations. This is because, according to Fisher (1930) nominal interest rates respond one-to-one to expected inflation. In detail, Fisher (1930) obtained correlation coefficients of 0.98 and 0.857 for Great Britain and the United States, when price changes were spread over 28 years and 20 years respectively. This difference might be because of the type of data, location, the method and year interval used. Meanwhile, there are other factors left to make the model complete since MPR covered only 46.4%. In addition, the Chow test indicated that there were structural changes in the inflation figures during both parties' regimes. This therefore indicates that the full time series model is not appropriate for the data. This indeed shows that there were some changes in the monetary policies during both parties regime that caused these structural changes.\nBased on the findings of this study, Government, through the Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning and its allied institutions, should work hard to ensure economic stability to impact positively on the country's economy. Economic handlers should also continue to manage and bring down inflation to single digit as exits now, since rapid development generally occurs when inflation is low. It is anticipated that once inflation is low, there should be normalization of the prices of goods and services which will automatically reduce the high cost of doing business and also lessen the financial burdens of the people. The central bank could act as the 'insurer of bankers' and provide a facility that will cap the maximum increases in the rates to help check the situation. 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It's located along the Rio Grande, which places it across the border from Mexico. El Paso is home to 674,433 people as well as to Franklin Mountains State Park, the biggest urban park in the country. It's also home to some impressive architectural structures, include these very tall buildings: Wells Fargo Plaza, Chase Tower, Plaza Hotel, and Kayser Building.\nAccording to Forbes, the cost of living in El Paso is one percent below the national average. The median annual household income in El Paso is $37,900, and the median cost for a home in the city is $141,100. The local economy gets a boost from the strong military presence. The Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, and the William Beaumont Army Medical Center are all in El Paso. So are the Joint Task Force North and the El Paso Intelligence Center.\nEl Paso Job Opportunities\nSeveral big corporations, educational institutions, and health care companies provide El Paso jobs. The biggest sectors for El Paso, TX jobs are defense and education. Institutions of higher learning in the area include the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Park University and Webster University. Many jobs in El Paso, TX are also available from the booming tourism industry, which brings over 2 million visitors to the city each year.\nEl Paso is home to Western Refining, the only Fortune 500 business to have headquarters in the city. Other Fortune 500 companies have offices in the city, including Eureka, State Farm and Hoover. Seven of the top ten providers of jobs in El Paso are call center operations, including Automatic Data Processing, which employs many customer service jobs in El Paso.\nAlso check out jobs in Midland, which is relatively to close to El Paso.\nEl Paso Employment Trends\nAs of July 2014, El Paso had an unemployment rate of 7 percent, which is higher than the Texas average of 5.6 percent and higher than the national average of 6.3 percent. Job growth was at a rate of 1.1 percent in 2013, and is expected to rise to a rate of 2.7 percent in 2014, so things are looking up. El Paso ranks 32nd on Forbes' numbered list of cities for job growth.\nThe economy in El Paso continues to change and evolve. It only became a popular center for American-based call centers within the last two decades. Its economy has also recently grown to incorporate a large manufacturing sector, and workers in El Paso jobs produce such items as medical devices and automobile parts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 6701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moodylaw.com/blog/2014/08/20/attorney-dies-in-airplane-crash-148156", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6FPAWR2CQOM3SBWVLORWYJ7AXE2G7K6I", "length": 1560, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.moodylaw.com", "title": "Ormond Beach - Attorney Dies in Airplane Crash", "raw_content": "Attorney Dies in Airplane Crash\nA Cessna 340 crashed on approach in Freeport, Bahamas with four men on board. The plane was piloted by Dean Carlson and was carrying Ormond Beach attorney, Michael Kennedy, who had an office time share in the Bahamas. The names of the other two deceased have not been released. The plane crashed at low tide in shallow water near mangroves.\nThe overwhelming majority of airplane crashes occur while landing or taking off. These are times where the pilots have the most to pay attention to and there is a greater opportunity for mistakes to be made. Aviation accidents are frequently the result of pilot error or an equipment failure. In the event of a pilot error, aviation accidents are normally covered by liability insurance on the aircraft. In the event of an equipment failure, injured parties can sometimes bring a claim against the manufacturer of the failed equipment for either a design defect or manufacturing defect. Faulty maintenance may also be to blame and the pilot would have been completely unaware that an airworthiness issue exists until it is too late. If you lost a loved one in an aviation accident, you should contact a licensed and qualified attorney to assist with the investigation and evaluate the possible liabilities of those who may be responsible for the crash. The attorneys at Moody Law have experience in handling aviation matters and Mr. Moody is a seasoned pilot himself. If you are in need of aviation accident attorney, please contact the attorneys at Moody Law for a free case evaluation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 415, "original_length": 10009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormon.org/me/FKY4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NYM3ENNXW2JRHOQAVEC4VNMVNTIYIWTJ", "length": 2834, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mormon.org", "title": "Jenna | Mormon.org", "raw_content": "Hi I'm Jenna\nI was born and raised in Utah. I have a testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm a Mormon.\nI am a college student studying Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. I love golfing and tennis. I'm an avid reader and an amateur painter.\nI was born into a family where the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was already prevalent. I grew up knowing that Christ's church truly was restored on the earth today. I've never really doubted my faith. But with that said, like anyone there comes a point in your life when you have to stop relying on the faith of your family and find out for yourself. This happened for me when I was in high school. I was attending my seminary classes regularly and my knowledge of the gospel was increasing. I remember finishing the Book of Mormon for the first time in my life by myself. I prayed to The Father and asked in the name of Jesus Christ if the Book of Mormon was true. My answer was nothing profound, but it is undeniable. The thought entered my mind and heart that I already knew that it was true and I'd known all along. I love the teachings of my Savior Jesus Christ. I am trying to become like him in all I do say and think. This to me is what life is all about, and to know that because of His infinite atonement I can one day reach my goal and become perfected, this is so sacred and important to me it is almost impossible to put into words. Christ lives what more can I say? Because he lives I will follow him. Why am I a Mormon? Because I love my Savior and want to follow him. This is His church and the only way back to the presence of The Father. I'm a Mormon because it is true.\nI live my faith through daily acts. I read my scriptures and pray daily. I find a great source or strength in my Heavenly Father's words. There is a power in sacred texts and holy communication through prayer with the Father. I strive daily to look for opportunities to serve and love those around me. I try to listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost as I go through out my day so that I can more closely align my will with the Father's. I attend institute classes at my university. These religious classes help keep me anchored in truth and increase my knowledge of the scriptures as well as strengthen my testimony. I serve in my ward as the institute coordinator and my main purpose behind this calling is to encourage others to make institute a priority in their lives. I am also a visiting teacher and I have the privilege of visiting the most wonderful girls on a monthly basis. I get to see how they are doing and share a message with them. This calling is a wonderful opportunity for me and I feel like I am benefiting more than the girls I teach. Living my faith to me means living every minute according to the will of the father.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormon.org/me/H5WJ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IFLZXOUZDC2FB5J2VC7GESM77MFLJSVS", "length": 923, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mormon.org", "title": "Chandler | Mormon.org", "raw_content": "I love sport, music, dancing and I am a mormon.\nI love sports, especially football, basketball, volleyball and rugby. I love music and dancing. Im an eagle scout.\nI grew up in the church. My parents are really strong in the church, so am i. I love this gospel, Im so greatful for what our savior Jesus Christ did for us. Making the atonement possible for us and so that we can live with him and our heavenly father again. I know that the family i have right now is the family i will have for all eternity and i love them all so much. I know by living by our standards has made me a better person, physically and spiritually. I know president Monson is a true prophet of god. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph smith translated it. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.\nIm a primary teacher. I teach CTR 6. Im strong in the church. I try to participate with as much YSA activitys as i can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpamag.com/news/is-student-debt-strangling-the-mortgage-industry-19589.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:04Z", "digest": "sha1:GPV4HE7E7FBYSQMIM3FSMTH4GJJZPHKP", "length": 1561, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mpamag.com", "title": "Is student debt strangling the mortgage industry?", "raw_content": "Is student debt strangling the mortgage industry?\nHome sales are having a disappointing year all around, but a large part of the drop can be blamed on one thing: Student debt.\nThat\u2019s according to a new study by John Burns Real Estate Consulting. According to the study, 8% fewer home sales will take place in 2014 than normal, purely due to student loan debt.\n\u201cOur conclusion is that 414,000 transactions will be lost in 2014 due to student debt,\u201d wrote Rick Palacios Jr. and Ali Wolf, authors of the study. \u201cAt a typical price of $200,000, that is $83 billion per year in lost volume.\u201d\nStudent debt has skyrocketed from $241 billion to $1.1 trillion in just 11 years. In all, 29 million people between 20 and 39 have at least some student debt. Those 29 million people translate to about 16.8 million households.\n\u201cOf the 16.8 million households, 5.9 million (or 35%) pay more than $250 per month in student loans, which inhibits at least $44,000 per year in mortgage capability for each of them,\u201d the study concluded.\nThe solution? Unfortunately, there doesn\u2019t appear to be one, outside of drastically lowering the cost of education. As younger people graduate with more and more debt, their home-buying options will continue to dwindle.\n\u201cWhile we applaud the increasing education, we need to realize that it comes with a cost known as student debt,\u201d Palacios and Wolf wrote. \u201cWe raised the red flag on student debt back in 2011 and continue to believe that this debt will delay homeownership for many, or at least require that they buy a less expensive home.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpamag.com/news/jpmorgan-says-its-halfway-done-with-4b-consumer-relief-settlement-20687.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:TMS72D67BXODYUK6FXTBMTVNCVOUJUVO", "length": 1149, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mpamag.com", "title": "JPMorgan says it\u2019s halfway done with $4B consumer relief settlement", "raw_content": "JPMorgan says it\u2019s halfway done with $4B consumer relief settlement\nJPMorgan Chase has told the monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement that it is more than halfway done with the consumer relief portion of its 2013 mortgage-securities settlement with the Justice Department.\nIn late 2013, JPMorgan signed a $13 billion settlement with the government to put to rest claims it sold shoddy mortgages to investors during the run-up to the financial crisis. 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The Max Planck Society offers extensive support to ensure that the two can be sensibly combined. In summary: We take account of the needs of our employees in our working culture. We operate a family-conscious personnel policy, as we want to be an attractive employer for highly qualified employees in an international environment \u2013 and to offer a seal of approval in the process. For example, the Max Planck Society, as a scientific organization with all its Institutes, is entitled to display the certification issued by the non-profit company berufundfamilie.\nOperational measures which relieve the pressure of childcare on young scientists and non-scientific employees and facilitate their individual career planning, cannot replace the change of social mindset required; nevertheless, they make an important contribution towards equal opportunity \u2013 ensuring that the question of \"children or career\" does not become an either-or-decision, especially for women.\nWell looked after at M\u00e4xle, Hippos & Co.\nMax Planck Institutes offer childcare places with cooperation partners on Institute sites or in the facilities of external nurseries. Many Max Planck Institutes also have parent-child offices in which employees can work in the presence of their child in an emergency. We endeavour to find childcare during large-scale Institute events, and we grant financial subsidies for childcare during external conferences.\nYou want to travel to a conference and need someone to look after your child? You need to know that your child is also being well looked after in the holidays? You need a caregiver on a permanent basis? We have a contract with a family service company which acts as an agent in providing persons to care for pre-school children and probably from winter 2016 also children of up to the age of 14 \u2013 regardless of whether they are babysitters, au pairs or short-term emergency helpers. Help is also offered in caring for the elderly.\nChristiane N\u00fcsslein-Volhard Foundation\nBuying time with money\nThe Foundation supports talented young female scientists with children who want to create latitude for their scientific activities. Christiane N\u00fcsslein-Volhard set up the foundation in 2004 with funds from her Nobel Prize; the Max Planck Society supports it with an annual grant of 30,000 euros.\n\u201cMoney is the most banal means of buying time\u201d, says the Max Planck Director. \u201cIt makes no sense not to have a cleaner, to wear oneself out doing household chores and to run a laboratory at the same time. One should have the courage to spend more money and thereby have more latitude.\u201d Young doctoral students know that but they still try to manage the daily balancing act between career and family. When a decision is made to accept an invitation to a conference and measurement times in the laboratory once again fall at a bad time after the nursery has closed, the finely balanced system consisting of childcare, scientific work and housework, quickly collapses.\nThe intention is to provide help here with a monthly scholarship of up to 400 euros awarded by the foundation for a maximum of three years in the course of a doctorate. The condition is that living costs are covered and all-day childcare already guaranteed. Applications can be submitted twice a year \u2013 to 30 June and 31 December.\nPartner look\nIn order to recruit the best scientists to the respective facility, the other framework conditions also have to be right in addition to the scientific environment. For that reason, the Max Planck Society has long supported the welcoming culture at the Institutes by means of very specific measures. In order to provide the spouses and partners of scientists with suitable work in a new location, the Max Planck Society works closely with dual career partners in regional networks. 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Keever . Based on the earlier edition by William B. Hayler, John M. Keever, and Paul M. Seiler\nIllustrations: 148 illustrations, 11 b/w photos\nThe Cornell Manual was first published in 1984 to replace CG-176, a small handbook issued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Over the last two decades it has become a standard manual for those who choose to follow the sea and who want to prepare themselves for the Coast Guard examinations. The second edition of the manual has been updated to reflect current information and procedures, and includes for the various rating requirements for documents. The Cornell Manual describes safety practices--lifeboat operation, survival procedures, rescue and evacuation details, firefighting, and first aid--that should be understood by all mariners. Of particular value are the sample multiple-choice questions and answers for both the lifeboatman and able seaman Coast Guard examinations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 191.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.musikshack.com/yamaha-pacifica-112j-electric-guitar-red-metallic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:HWD6KEOOYEAPQYVCLHEAT4HWUG65YPB7", "length": 329, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.musikshack.com", "title": "Buy Yamaha Pacifica 112J Electric Guitar Red Metallic Online in India | Best Solid Body Electric Guitars in India", "raw_content": "Features a solid alder body and maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, making it a guitar that sounds great and is easy to play. 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These days, you can find everything from smart thermostats to locks and light bulbs that use an Internet connection to allow you to control them from your phone or computer. These devices and home automation systems can add convenience, security, and energy efficiency to your home \u2013 in addition to the novelty of being able to dim all the lights in your house at once. Still, despite their seeming inevitability, a new report from the National Association of Realtors found that only 15 percent of real estate agents say they're getting questions about the technology from their clients. That, however, is likely due to the products' newness rather than their popularity. \u201cMore homeowners are adopting smart-home technology and that will likely impact buyers' purchase decisions in the future,\u201d NAR president, William E. Brown, says. \u201cWhile consumer interest in this trend is still developing, Realtors are becoming well-versed in successfully marketing smart homes and their features, such as devices and appliances.\u201d As home buyers become more aware of what's possible, they will almost certainly add smart home features to their must-have list. More here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myhealthathand.com/diabetes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SVOURAT73JM2N6LW33L4JOUMLPBSKRGK", "length": 3992, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.myhealthathand.com", "title": "What you need to know about World Diabetes Day - Health at Hand", "raw_content": "What you need to know about World Diabetes Day - Health at Hand\n13 Nov What you need to know about World Diabetes Day\nWorld Diabetes Day 2018 takes place on the 14th of November. Diabetes is a common disease and the number of people living with diabetes is growing. As so many of us know someone old or young affected by diabetes we thought we\u2019d give you all you need to know about the disease this World Diabetes Day.\nDid you know? It is expected that by 2030, 522 million people with have diabetes, and currently 1 in 2 people that have diabetes remain undiagnosed?\nDiabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to process the glucose (sugar) in the blood.\nType 1 diabetes is where the pancreas stops producing insulin altogether. This is due to the body producing antibodies which attack the cells of the pancreas. This usually happens in young people and these people need treatment with insulin throughout their lives to control the levels of glucose in their blood.\nType 2 diabetes usually happens in later life. It happens when the cells of the body become resistant to insulin that is produced and the amount of insulin produced by the pancreas is reduced.\nType 2 diabetes is most often the result of a poor diet, lack of exercise and being overweight though some families can be more prone to type 2 diabetes.\nSo how does having high levels of sugar in our blood cause problems?\nOur blood sugar levels are tightly controlled by the insulin the pancreas produces. Both high and low blood sugar levels can cause problems. High levels of sugar in the blood over a long period of time in diabetes can cause damage to the kidneys, eyes, heart and nerves which can lead to high blood pressure, reduced vision and increased risk of heart attacks and strokes and reduced feeling in the hands and feet. Patients with diabetes need to monitor their blood sugar levels regularly to make sure the sugar levels are as close to normal as possible. They can do this by using a small needle to draw a drop of blood from the finger and place it on a strip which they insert into a device. The device gives a blood sugar reading. Type 1 diabetics can alter the dose of insulin they take in order to keep their blood sugar at the right level. In type 2 diabetes diet can be made more strict or medication can be altered in order to keep the sugar level under control. People with diabetes are also regularly monitored to check their eyes and feet and kidneys for signs of damage and also to check their blood pressure and cholesterol.\nIf you have type 1 diabetes you will need to be treated with insulin for the rest of your life. In type 2 diabetes treatment is different. In early cases of type 2 diabetes a change of lifestyle, reducing sugar in-take, exercising more and losing weight can improve insulin resistance and allow the body to control its blood sugar without any treatment at all. If the type 2 diabetes cannot be controlled like this medication can reduce the amount of sugar absorbed in the gut and help the body to respond by producing more insulin or by increasing the response to insulin. If type 2 diabetes is too advanced then insulin may be required to keep the blood sugar controlled.\nWhat can I do to reduce the risk of acquiring diabetes?\nDiabetes is a disease we should all be aware of. The majority of people can reduce the chance of acquiring diabetes by making sure we try to eat a healthy diet and reduce the amount of sugar we eat. Exercise is also important. It is recommended by NICE that adults do 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week. Examples of moderate intensity exercise include brisk walking, cycling with medium effort, cleaning in the house or playing tennis doubles.\nThe most common signs of diabetes are: \u2800\nblurred vision\u2800\u2800\nIf you\u2019re experiencing any of the above symptoms we recommend talking to your GP. Our doctors are available for video consultation via our app. Download and sign up today.\ndiabetes, world diabetes day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mynevadacounty.com/954/Property-Tax-Assistance-Programs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FSEJ7KTSI34I6SIV5ORHXBCE2TX5QTQP", "length": 2699, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.mynevadacounty.com", "title": "Property Tax Assistance Programs | Nevada County, CA", "raw_content": "Active Duty Military Personnel - Deferred Taxes\nDownload the Soldier and Sailor Civil Relief Act of 1940 - Application Form (PDF). Service members Civil Relief Act of 2003 (SCRA) formerly known as the Soldiers\u2019 and Sailors\u2019 Civil Relief Act of 1940 (SSCRA).\nFollowing the military actions in the Middle East on March 19, 2003, and government actions, all active duty military personnel, including activated reservists, are eligible for property tax deferral pursuant to the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act. The Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act applies to all military personnel regardless of duration of military service, financial status or where they are stationed. Qualifying individuals may elect to defer the payment of their property taxes while called to service to defend the needs of our nation.\nWhile the Act provides for 6% interest per annum on deferred taxes, state law allows the local Tax Collector to waive the interest. As such, it is the position of this office to waive interest. No penalty, cost, or interest will be levied and tax sale provisions are suspended on all deferred property taxes.\nMilitary personnel, their spouse or any person authorized to act on the service person\u2019s behalf are urged to call on the Tax Collector\u2019s office at 530-265-1285 with any questions. Once the military actions are concluded or the service person is no longer on active military status, the deferred amount will need to be paid. At such time, our office will provide an installment payment plan as needed.\nProperty Tax Postponement\nThe State Controller\u2019s Property Tax Postponement Program returned in 2016 after being suspended by the Legislature in 2009. The program allows homeowners who are seniors, are blind, or have a disability to defer current-year property taxes on their principal residence if they meet certain criteria including 40 percent equity in the home and an annual household income of $35,500 or less.\nThe application (PDF) filing period is October 1 to February 10 of each year.\nFor a quick reference, download a flyer in English (PDF), or a flyer in Spanish (PDF). For more detailed program information, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions, call toll-free 800-952-5661, or send an email.\nInstallment Plans for Defaulted Taxes\nAfter June 30th of each year, taxes that remain unpaid become defaulted. In accordance with State law, these balances accrue interest at 1.5% per month until paid in full. For those who cannot redeem taxes in full, there is a 5-year installment payment plan that can be started. Please contact our office for more information or to further understand what happens when taxes default. You can also read our annual press release here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mypigeonforge.com/savings/vacation-packages-faqs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:28Z", "digest": "sha1:CPR6AQNGERRDBZHSD36UKCMF3NFPQ4KG", "length": 711, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mypigeonforge.com", "title": "Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Travel Blog", "raw_content": "There is no shortage of good food in Pigeon Forge! You will find a little bit of everything from good 'ole Southern comfort food to BBQ, and more pancakes than you can imagine! The goodness is all around whether you are in town for\u2026\n2019 is almost upon us! Bringing in the new year, it is time to reflect, renew and set goals for yourself and the family as a whole. Pigeon Forge is the perfect place to ponder those resolutions and get a head start on them. Here are some\u2026\nCades Cove Loop Road About an hour\u2019s drive from Pigeon Forge is one of the park\u2019s most popular areas, Cades Cove. \u201cThe Loop\u201d in Cades Cove is an 11-mile one-way scenic loop road, and offers beautiful views as well as opportunities to see\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 5583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/life/things-to-do/article224167100.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MG76MNY5WEI7ZAMXDOTQ2SNRJTSSYWNE", "length": 4238, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.myrtlebeachonline.com", "title": "Myrtle Beach Kid Animals | MyrtleBeachLife.com | Myrtle Beach Life | Myrtle Beach Sun News", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve selected a few great attractions along the Grand Strand that any animal lover will not want to miss.\nSee alligators and more! Alligator Adventure is one of the largest reptile zoos in the world.\nThis wildlife facility at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach features more than 700 alligators.\nIn addition to alligators, visitors will see Chilean flamingos, wolves, kangaroos, owls, marmosets and more.\nThey also offer live shows and interactive exhibits.\nTickets are $21.99 for adults, $19.99 for seniors, $18.99 for military, $16.99 for children 4-12 and free for children 3 and under.\nWhen you purchase a ticket, you can come back for a 2nd day free within 7 days.\nAlligator Adventure is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily.\nT.I.G.E.R.S PRESERVATION STATION AND WILD ENCOUNTERS TOUR\nGet up close to tigers. Visit the T.I.G.E.R.S. Preservation Station at Barefoot Landing in Myrtle Beach.\nYou can view the tigers for free everyday after 5 p.m.\nIf you want to hold a tiger cub and get a picture you can do so for a fee.\nFor those who really want to experience animals, you can go on a Wild Encounters tour at the Myrtle Beach Safari.\nDuring this tour of the 50-acre preserve, you will see over 60 tigers, apes, wolves an an elephant.\nTours are $299.00 per person and guests must be at least 6-years-old to take the tour.\nRipley\u2019s Aquarium at Broadway at the Beach features a 1.4 million gallon aquarium that is home to 12-foot sharks and over 10,000 exotic sea creatures.\nYou can experience this aquarium by traveling on the moving path that guides you through the tank. This gives you the opportunity to look around at the creatures swimming overhead and right next to you.\nThe aquarium also features many other exhibits. The newest is Planet Jellies, a 5,000 square foot exhibit of jellyfish.\nIf you want to get up close to an animal, Ray Bay offers guest the opportunity to actually touch a sting ray.\nFor an additional fee, you can part in unique experiences. They include:\nFancy Fins Boutique\nStingray Experience\nRipley\u2019s is open Sundays 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays 9 a.m.-10 p.m., and Tuesdays and Fridays 9 a.m.-11 p.m.\nTickets are $54.99 for adults and $34.99 for children. They do offer coupons on their website and discounts for purchasing combo tickets to other Ripley\u2019s attractions in Myrtle Beach.https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDGOQnKtj88\nLOWCOUNTRY ZOO AND BUTTERFLY HOUSE AT BROOKGREEN GARDENS\nBrookgreen Gardens is more than just plants and sculptures. They also have the Lowcountry Zoo and Butterfly Garden.\nVisitors will get to see native and domestic animals along with several birds in the zoo. Some of the inhabitants include alligators, bald eagles, horses and herons.\nWhile visiting Brookgreen Gardens, keep an eye out for wild species that live on the grounds such as snakes and alligators.\nBrookgreen also has a nature center, where kids can learn more about the wildlife. Plus it is air-conditioned if you need to cool off.\nYou can also get up close to butterflies in the Whispering Wings Butterfly Experience.\nThe butterfly house is full of tropical flowers and hundreds of butterflies. Stand still and one might just land on you.\nThere is an additional cost for the butterfly exhibit, it is $3 for adults and $2 for children.\nThe exhibit is open April-October.\nRegular admission tickets are good for seven consecutive days. Teens and adult are $15, Seniors are 13, children 4-12 are $7 and kids under 3 are free.\nBrookgreen is open daily from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.\nThis park in Murrells Inlet offers visitors the chance to see wildlife in their natural habitat. Visitors will often see eagles, pelicans, alligators, nesting loggerhead sea turtles and more.\nThere is also a nature education center that has animals on exhibit and hands on displays.\nThe center often hosts educational programs. Click here for details.\nFrom the nature center, you can also stroll down the marsh walk to get a great view of the inhabitants of the marsh.\nAdmission to the park is $5 for 16 and older, $3.25 for seniors, $3 for kids 6-15 and free for children 5 and under.\nThe park is open 6 a.m.-1o p.m. March-November and 6 a.m.-8 p.m. December-February.\nClick here for more information.About Jennifer Donovan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 7761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nam.org/Data-and-Reports/Reports/Catching-Up/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OJVA5WMP6PVHJ5N7YKTCNX6HW7QORMSY", "length": 864, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nam.org", "title": "Catching Up | NAM", "raw_content": "Greater Focus Needed to Achieve a More Competitive Infrastructure\nManufacturers need modern infrastructure to compete. Unfortunately, troubling trends have emerged over the past decade, putting our once envied infrastructure into a state of decline. This report offers a historical overview of a broad range of infrastructure investments and provides an important view into the economic benefits the U.S. economy would reap with a more concerted effort to address the nation\u2019s infrastructure needs.\nManufacturers need an updated and modern infrastructure system to remain competitive in a global economy. Over the past decade, troubling trends in infrastructure investment have emerged.\nThis executive overview of results from a survey of U.S. manufacturers on vital national infrastructure was conducted in conjunction with Building America's Future (BAF). More \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.natlawreview.com/article/tax-reform-and-investment-management-does-foreign-derived-intangible-income", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:01Z", "digest": "sha1:S66SS5TME72VYWQ43J6UYOGKY2VS3B3T", "length": 6103, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.natlawreview.com", "title": "Foreign-Derived Intangible Income Beneficial to Fund Managers", "raw_content": "Charles H. Purcell\nAdam J. Tejeda\nTax Reform and Investment Management: Does the Foreign-Derived Intangible Income Provision Benefit U.S. Fund Managers?\nOn December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the \u201cAct\u201d). In previous alerts, we have discussed how the Act made significant changes to the foreign provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (the \u201cCode\u201d). This alert, which is part of our series of alerts on the impact of the Act with respect to the investment management industry, will continue our discussion of the more important foreign provisions that apply to investment funds. Chief among these is new Section 250 of the Code, which permits a deduction for domestic C corporations that reduces the effective U.S. tax rate on certain types of foreign-derived income. As discussed below, this new deduction may provide a benefit to U.S. fund managers that provide investment management services to certain types of foreign investment funds.\nThe new Section 250, referred to as the Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (\u201cFDII\u201d) regime, incentivizes domestic C corporations to maintain their onshore operations by allowing a deduction that reduces the effective U.S. tax rate on certain foreign-derived income (i.e., the corporation\u2019s FDII). Despite what its name suggests, the FDII regime does not apply solely to income that is attributable to intangibles but rather to \u201cdeemed\u201d intangible income with respect to sales of goods, tangible and intangible property, and the provision of services.\nThe calculation of a U.S. corporation\u2019s FDII is complex but generally is that portion of income attributable to either (i) sales of goods to foreign persons or (ii) provision of services to foreign persons that exceeds a deemed rate of return on the U.S. company\u2019s tangible depreciable business assets that are related to sales of property to foreign persons or the provision of certain services to any person, or with respect to any property, that is located outside of the United States. The deduction is generally available for income that is derived from a domestic corporation\u2019s (i) sales of goods or provision of services to unrelated foreign persons and (ii) sales of goods or provision of services to related foreign persons, provided that such property is either resold or used in the sale of other property to an unrelated foreign person or, in the case of services, the related party does not provide substantially similar services to persons located in the United States. For taxable years 2018 through 2025, the deduction is equal to 37.5 percent of FDII (reduced to 21.875 percent in 2026). At the new 21 percent corporate income tax rate, this results in an effective U.S. federal income tax rate of 13.125 percent (increased to 16.41 percent in 2026) on FDII.\nA domestic investment advisor may qualify for the FDII deduction where it provides investment management services to a foreign investment fund that is not a related person. In the case of many managers, they may have branded offshore funds to which they provide investment management services. These funds will need to be closely scrutinized to determine whether they are related persons with respect to the investment advisor. For example, if an investment advisor retains the right to appoint the board of directors of a foreign company that is an investment fund, that company may constitute a related party with respect to the investment advisor. Different rules apply to corporations and partnerships in determining whether they are related persons.\nThe FDII provisions became effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018.\nIn light of the Act\u2019s significant ambiguities and uncertain application to a variety of industries and situations, the precise impact of the Act remains to be seen and likely will require interpretive guidance from the Internal Revenue Service. Congress may also consider corrections legislation to address issues that arise as implementation moves forward.\nCharles Purcell works extensively in the alternative investments areas with a focus on federal and international tax issues. He has broad experience in the formation of domestic and foreign investment funds including private equity, venture, real estate and infrastructure funds and fund-of-funds; large joint venture transactions; mergers and acquisitions; financing and banking transactions; ventures capital investments and start-up companies; and compensation of managers, executives and promoters. Mr. Purcell represents numerous domestic and foreign institutional...\ncharles.purcell@klgates.com\nMr. Tejeda counsels clients on a wide range of tax matters associated with domestic and international business transactions. He focuses his practice primarily on tax planning in connection with inbound and outbound investments; cross-border financings; domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; multinational IP planning; advising US based clients with regards to Subpart F; corporate and tax aspects of joint ventures and other partnership issues; hedge fund and private equity fund structures; tax planning with respect to the tax consequences of overseas operations of U.S. multi-nationals; and internal reorganizations. In addition, Mr. Tejeda has represented clients on contested matters with the Internal Revenue Service and similar state taxing authorities.\nadam.tejeda@klgates.com\nMr. Dworak is a partner in the firm\u2019s Orange County office. His experience includes representation of clients in connection with transactional tax matters, including with respect to partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, insolvency, compensation and other matters; domestic and international tax planning (both inbound and outbound); and complex tax controversy matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Court. Mr. Dworak also has experience negotiating and obtaining pre-filing agreements and private letter rulings from the IRS.\nfrank.dworak@klgates.com\nklgates.com/\nRachel Trickett is an associate in the firm\u2019s Seattle office. She works on Tax Matters.\nRachel.Trickett@klgates.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 417, "original_length": 28624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/wu-preview-at-minnesota-020219", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KCRLYP6N6736Q23OJOZZDOFMMABWMPKE", "length": 2739, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nba.com", "title": "Game Preview: Nuggets Look to Extend Win Streak in Minnesota | Denver Nuggets", "raw_content": "Game Preview: Nuggets Look to Extend Win Streak in Minnesota\nMinneapolis, MN - The Denver Nuggets, fresh off an offensive explosion against the Houston Rockets, will take their five-game win streak up North for a meeting with the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight. The Nuggets snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Rockets last night, a 136-122 win at home behind a career-high 35 points from Malik Beasley and a near triple-double from All-Star Nikola Joki\u0107.\nWith last night\u2019s win the Nuggets are once again in first place in the Western Conference. The Nuggets are currently 36-15 on the season and 8-2 in their last 10 games. Denver has found success on the road this season as well, going 13-11 away from Pepsi Center this season.\nThe Timberwolves are 25-26 and on the outside of the playoff picture. Minnesota went through a coaching change in early January, replacing Tom Thibodeau with Ryan Saunders on January 6. Minnesota has gone 6-5 with Saunders at the helm. The Wolves are 17-9 at home this season.\nThis is the second time that the Nuggets and Wolves have met this season. The first game was a 103-101 thrilling road victory for Denver behind 25 points and 5 steals from Paul Millsap.\nHere is what to watch for tonight:\nAll-Star centers: Nikola Joki\u0107 and Karl-Anthony Towns are two of the league\u2019s best centers and are the focal point of their teams\u2019 offense. Joki\u0107 is averaging 20.4 points, 10.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists on the season while Towns is putting up 22.6 points, 12.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists. In the first game between these teams, Towns had 22 points, seven rebounds and two assists while Joki\u0107 had seven points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.\nEncore Performance: The Nuggets got career-high performances from Malik Beasley and Torrey Craig against Houston. With Gary Harris and Jamal Murray out again tonight there will be plenty of minutes for Beasley and Craig to continue their high-level play. Beasley is averaging 17.6 points on 60% from the floor and 53% from three in eight games as a starter this season.\nStaying hot: The Nuggets shot 62.2% from the floor against Houston last night, while also shooting 45.2% from three and 87% from the free throw line. Denver\u2019s 136 points was their second most on the season and the Nuggets are 12-0 this season when scoring over 120 points. Denver has won 37 straight games when shooting over 50% from the floor.\nTonight\u2019s game will tip at 7 pm MT and will air on Altitude TV and the AltitudeNOW app. Fans can listen on Altitude Radio, 92.5 FM.\nNuggets, Timberwolves, 2018-19 Denver Nuggets, Western Union Game Preview, Western Union\nMalik Beasley on Tonight's Win Against the Timberwolves\n\"I Feel Like We're Headed in the Right Direction...We Just Keep Getting Better\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 5511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcsports.com/other-sports/sports-slideshow-test", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:11Z", "digest": "sha1:O2QDJYUPEMAPYZXDD6DF3CMIXH7QWPME", "length": 5669, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.nbcsports.com", "title": "Sports' slideshow test | NBC Sports", "raw_content": "Dan Patrick Show Horse Racing Cycling Outdoors Action Sports golf rotoworld\nSports' slideshow test\n373078 01 :FILE PHOTO: Tennis star Andre Agassi with wife actress Brooke Shields shown at the opening of the All Star Cafe in New York. Agassi said April 10 that his marriage to actress Brooke Shields was over. \"We have filed for divorce and we are divorced ... it is over,\" the normally flamboyant Agassi told reporters after reaching the final of the $350,000 Hong Kong Open. Agassi, who did not elaborate on the causes of the break-up, married Shields, star of the hit U.S. sitcom \"Suddenly Susan,\" in California in 1997. (photo by Dianna Free\n** FILE ** In this Sept. 1, 2007 file photo, New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, watch the Shahar Peer and Nicole Vaidisova match at the US Open tennis tournament in New York. The wife of Alex Rodriguez has filed for divorce in a Miami court. A lawyer for Cynthia Rodriguez filed the papers on Monday July 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)\nMONTE CARLO, MONACO: German tennis player Boris Becker and his wife Barbara arrive 25 May 2000 at the Sporting Club of Monte Carlo for the Laureus Sports Awards, an annual televised ceremony to acknowledge the best sporting achievements of the year. le joueur de tennis allemand Boris Becker et son Tpouse Barbara arrivent le 25 mai 2000 a son arrivTe au Sporting de Monte Carlo, a l'occasion des Laureus Sports Awards, qui rTcompensent les meilleurs sportifs mondiaux de l'annTe, toutes disciplines confondues. (Photo credit should read PATRICE LAPOIRIE/AFP/Getty Images)\n1989: CHRIS EVERT OF THE UNTIED STATES AND HER HUSBAND ANDY HILL SHARE A MOMENT TOGETHER AT THE 1989 LIPTONS TENNIS TOURNAMENT.\n** FILE ** Golfer John Daly, right, is hugged by his wife Sherrie after his playoff victory in the Buick Invitational in San Diego, in this Feb. 15, 2004 file photo. . (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)\nFree agent pitcher Chuck Finley, 37, answers questions during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 16, 1999 in Cleveland where it was announced that he signed a three year deal with the Indians. Looking on at left is his wife, Tawny Kitaen. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)\nHOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 31: Actress Vanessa Williams and husband, Los Angeles Laker player Rick Fox arrive for the premier of \"Johnson Family Vacation\" at the Cinerama Dome on March 31, 2004 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images)\n14 Feb 1999: Jeff Gordon #24 celebrates with wife Brooke after winning the NASCAR Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Squire /Allsport\n01 Feb 2000: Greg and wife Laura Norman arrive at the pre tournament Greg Norman Holden International banquet held at the Government House,Sydney Australia. Mandatory Credit: Adam Pretty/ALLSPORT\n**FILE** Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan, right, reacts to a reporters' question as his wife, Juanita, listens after he announced his retirement from basketball on Jan. 13, 1999, in Chicago. Jordan and his wife divorced Friday, Dec. 29, 2006, 17 years after the couple wed. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,file)\nSPECIAL FOR TZ MUENCHEN -- FILE -- Actress Halle Berry and her husband, Atlanta Braves outfielder David Justice, react to a standing ovation at Bannaker High School in Atlanta, Ga. in this May, 14, 1993 file photo. Berry announced Thursday Feb. 22, 1996 through a spokeswoman that she and Justice are divorcing.(AP Photo/File)\nNEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Jason Kidd of the New Jersey Nets and his wife Joumana attend the Second Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Hammerstein Ballroom September 22, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images)\n(FILES) This file photo shows US Lance Armstrong (US Postal/USA) as he celebrates his victory with his children and his wife at the end of the 20th and last stage of the 90th Tour de France cycling race between Ville d'Avray and Paris Champs Elysees, 27 July 2003. Armstrong won the Tour de France for the fifth time. Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has separated from his wife of five years Kristin and the couple are seeking a divorce, the Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported on 04 September 2003. Armstrong said the couple separated shortly after his fifth straight win in the world famous race at the end of July. The 31-year-old Lance said: \"We both have legal representation, and we're doing this peacefully. The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever before. We're truly committed to maintaining a good relationship, but not a marriage.\" Kristin, 32, said: \"It's an unfortunate situation. We are making the best of it for the sake of our kids.\" Both have decided to remain living in Austin, Texas, but at different addresses. AFP PHOTO/FRANCK FIFE (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)\nAmerican actress Tatum O'Neal with her husband American Tennis star John McEnroe, 1985. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nLos Angeles Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal sits with his wife Shaunie during the NBA basketball All-Star Saturday night activities in Houston, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)\nNew York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, center, leaves state Family Court in Newark, N.J., Thursday, March 17, 2005, where a domestic violence complaint filed against Strahan by his estranged wife, Jean, was dismissed by a judge. Strahan filed for divorce on Monday, March 14. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)\nActress Robin Givens and her husband, heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, arrive at the 40th annual Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Ca., Sunday night, Aug. 29, 1988. The couple are Oscar presenters. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neagleychase.com/vermonts-first-cleanbox-clean-room-for-food-manufacturing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:56Z", "digest": "sha1:425IOEDM4KWP6FXU5NQAHKG5MX7FLD2B", "length": 1783, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.neagleychase.com", "title": "Neagley & Chase News: Vermont\u2019s First Cleanbox Clean Room for Food Manufacturing", "raw_content": "Neagley & Chase Construction strives for continuous improvement and constant innovation. Our current project, a 25,000 square foot warehouse and manufacturing facility for Freedom Foods in Randolph, incorporates Cleanbox cleanroom technology into the food industry\u2013 a first in the state of Vermont. Cleanrooms are controlled environments that limit contamination and airborne particles, and, according to this study by Electroniq, the demand for cleanrooms in the food manufacturing industry is steadily growing. Neagley & Chase has contracted Cleanbox, Inc., to supply the cleanroom system; we will self-perform the installation. The production rooms are built using state-of-the-art cleanroom technology:\nWalls are constructed from 3 1/2 inch-thick insulated metal panels coated with anti-microbial finish\nPlastic trims seal all joints without leaving any flat square-edged surfaces\nDoors and windows are sealed to prevent air infiltration\n20-foot ceilings are made of walkable insulated panels\nThe entire system is completely modular and can be restructured to fit future needs\nFreedom Foods\u2019 new facility is slated to be complete in December. The new structure is a pre-engineered metal building frame with 3-inch insulated metal panel siding and a membrane roof. The building\u2019s shell is highly efficient: the walls are R26, the roof is R37, and the windows are R7. We have incorporated many energy-efficient details into the design, like occupancy sensors for lighting control and skylights to provide natural light. In order to avoid cross-contamination of airborne allergens, the HVAC system operates on 100% makeup air.\nWe are excited to be expanding the use of cleanroom technology in Vermont and look forward to finding future projects that can utilize the Cleanbox system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nearshoreamericas.com/sproutly-canada-signs-loi-with-caribbean-cannabis-producer/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ATVWIPLOSONO6YQM445O2WYAUEBPQXNW", "length": 753, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nearshoreamericas.com", "title": "Sproutly Canada signs LOI with Caribbean Cannabis Producer - Nearshore Americas", "raw_content": "Sproutly Canada has announced it has entered into a letter of intent with the Caribbean\u2019s largest medical cannabis producer, Global Canna Labs Limited.\nThe companies want to establish a joint venture for developing, producing, distributing, marketing and selling cannabis infused beverages, edibles and topical products.\n\u201cPartnering with Global Canna Labs on this joint venture allows Sproutly to expand its business outside of Canada with a leading, low cost cannabis cultivator in Jamaica that has proven distribution across the Caribbean and expanding into the European Union,\u201d said Keith Dolo, President and Chief Executive Officer.\nThe signing of the definitive agreement and establishment of the joint venture is expected to occur in January 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neetprep.com/subject/U3ViamVjdDoxMjk=/topic/VG9waWM6MTkwMw==/newquestions/13", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TJT62G772M2SVPONKKWHQLW2YQHT4GRD", "length": 183, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.neetprep.com", "title": "The reaction quotient (Q) for the reaction,N2(g)+3H2(g)\u21cc2NH3(g)is given by Q=NH32N2H23The reaction will proceed towards right side, if [2003] (a) Q>Kc (b) Q=0 (c) Q=Kc (d) QKc\n(b) Q=0\n(c) Q=Kc\n(d) Q", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 15526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsoncompliance.com/blog/2018/12/malaysia-will-seek-4-5-bn-in-damages-from-goldman-sachs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ROPDR2743DUKZFULD5FB4ZDSKDDQZJUJ", "length": 9946, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.newsoncompliance.com", "title": "Malaysia Will Seek $4.5 Bn In Damages From Goldman Sachs | News On Compliance", "raw_content": "Malaysia Will Seek $4.5 Bn In Damages From Goldman Sachs\nMalaysia\u2019s Attorney General Tommy Thomas is preparing a civil suit against US investment bank Goldman Sachs that will seek US$4.5 billion in damages for the US bank\u2019s role in raising funds that were later misappropriated from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fund, official sources familiar with the preparations told Asia Times.\nThe legal action, soon to be filed in a US court according to the same official sources, will represent the latest legal action taken against Goldman for its dealings with the scandal-plagued sovereign fund. 1MDB is currently the subject of corruption and money-laundering investigations in at least six countries, including the US.\nThomas will justify the new case against Goldman as an institution by arguing that knowledge of the fraud reached the highest levels of the bank\u2019s management. Those to be accused in the Malaysian case will include senior Goldman executives yet to be charged in a recently filed US Department of Justice (DoJ) criminal case, the same sources say.\nSpecifically, the case will argue that senior Goldman executives knew that proceeds from three 2012 1MDB bond issues the bank arranged were funneled into a company, Aabar BVI, that was set up in the British Virgin Islands to resemble a similarly named company, Aabar Investments, belonging to the guarantor of the bonds, Abu Dhabi\u2019s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).\nOn November 21, Abu Dhabi\u2019s International Petroleum Investment Corp (IPIC) and its subsidiary, Aabar Investments, filed a civil legal action at the Supreme Court of New York against Goldman for damages incurred through its dealings with 1MDB. The amount sought was not disclosed in press reports.\nThe state-owned IPIC\u2019s statement on the suit claimed Goldman \u201cplayed a central role in a long-running effort to corrupt former executives of IPIC and its subsidiary Aabar Investments, and misled IPIC and Aabar.\u201d A Goldman spokesman said the bank would contest the claims \u201cvigorously\u201d, reports said.\nThe US DoJ has charged in a criminal suit recently filed against ex-Goldman Sachs executives Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, and fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, that US$4.5 billion was misappropriated from the sovereign 1MDB fund.\nThe allegedly pilfered proceeds were reputedly laundered through various US-based transactions, ranging from luxury property to fine art to movie production investments. Jho Low has denied any wrongdoing through his association with 1MDB.\nMalaysia\u2019s new US$4.5 billion civil suit, when eventually filed, would significantly up the ante of the government\u2019s earlier complaints against Goldman and could lead to a new sell-off of the New York-based investment bank\u2019s publicly listed shares.\nOn November 12, Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said that the government would seek the return of US$600 million in fees Goldman earned in raising a total of US$6.5 billion for 1MDB in three separate bond issuances between 2012 and 2013.\nAt the time, he said the government would seek a \u201cfull refund\u201d from Goldman. Lim also said he hoped that the US DoJ\u2019s criminal investigation into 1MDB will establish Goldman\u2019s culpability in the scam and thus bolster Malaysia\u2019s claim to the sought sum, including losses suffered in the bond deals.\nWhen Lim announced Malaysia\u2019s planned action against Goldman, the US investment bank\u2019s share price fell 7.5%, marking the biggest single-day drop of its shares since 2011 and leading down the entire New York Stock Exchange.\nThe following day, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview with American news broadcaster CNBC that \u201cObviously we have been cheated through the compliance by Goldman Sachs people.\u201d\nMalaysia\u2019s prime minister-in-waiting, Anwar Ibrahim, echoed Mahathir that same day by calling for \u201cmore aggressive claims\u201d against Goldman without elaborating. Attorney General Thomas\u2019 preparation of the soon-to-be-announced civil suit seeking US$4.5 billion in damages would appear to answer Anwar\u2019s call for tougher action.\nIt\u2019s unclear how markets may react to the Malaysian government\u2019s substantially higher sought amount in damages. Bloomberg estimated earlier this month that Goldman\u2019s total litigation risks in the US peaked at US$2 billion, including more than US$1 billion from possible 1MDB-related matters.\nIn June, Malaysian officials first signaled they were considering to seek the return of the US$600 million in fees paid to Goldman by the previous Najib Razak-led government.\nNajib, who created 1MDB and lost election to Mahathir in May, has since been charged in Malaysia for alleged money laundering over certain of the fund\u2019s losses. The former long-serving leader has consistently denied any wrongdoing.\nThe stark jump in damages sought from US$600 million to US$4.5 billion, as well as Malaysia\u2019s intent to file a formal civil case against Goldman, reflects a new level of confidence in the Mahathir government\u2019s pursuit of justice for 1MDB-related fraud in foreign jurisdictions.\nThe moves also suggest that Mahathir is adopting an aggressive yet practical approach to fulfilling his campaign promise to swiftly recover billions of dollars pilfered from 1MDB. The vow to pursue justice was key to his ruling Pakatan Harapan\u2019s landslide election win that deposed Najib and his long-ruling United Malays National Organization.\nUntil now, it appeared that Malaysia\u2019s efforts to recoup lost 1MDB funds would rely largely on collaboration with the US DoJ in a global dragnet aimed at building civil and criminal cases against alleged 1MDB fraudsters to recover assets and funds scattered across over a dozen global jurisdictions.\nWhile this apparently remains the cornerstone of Malaysia\u2019s 1MDB recovery strategy, the slow pace of DoJ investigations into various individuals to date has evidently spurred Thomas to pursue a swifter legal remedy by targeting Goldman in US courts.\nThomas announced on October 30 that his offices would challenge a \u201cconsent award\u201d signed by Najib and filed at London\u2019s Court of Arbitration that requires Malaysia to pay US$5.78 billion to IPIC over five years as a guarantor of the 1MDB bonds Goldman helped to issue.\nThe fee includes substantial interest payments, which if paid, will inevitably be shouldered by Malaysian taxpayers. As of October 2018, the Malaysian government owed IPIC US$1.2 billion under the agreement, an amount Mahathir\u2019s government has recently sought to set aside.\nThomas also stated on October 30 that his case against the consent award is based on the charge it was procured by fraud or in a manner contrary to public policy. The court challenge claims IPIC and Aabar Investments knew of the serious allegations made by the US DoJ against Najib and thus should not have entered into deals with the leader.\nMalaysia\u2019s challenge to the consent agreement is believed to have been a motivating factor behind IPIC\u2019s move on Wednesday to file its own civil lawsuit against Goldman. Initial reports did not indicate how much IPIC may seek in damages from Goldman.\nWhile former senior IPIC officials Khadem Abdulla al-Qubaisi and Mohamed Ahmed al-Husseiny have been identified as instrumental in facilitating the alleged pilferage of 1MDB bond proceeds through Aabar BVI, Malaysia\u2019s challenge of the consent agreement is seen as a risky and time-consuming recovery strategy.\nWhile Thomas is still pursuing this legal channel, some observers believe that the Malaysian government would have greater legal leverage and a better chance of winning in a civil action against Goldman in a US court.\nMoreover, the US DoJ appears to have prioritized its probe into Goldman over the alleged fraud committed by the two rogue IPIC executives, who remain in custody in the United Arab Emirates.\nOn November 13, Bradley Hope, a Wall Street Journal reporter and co-author of a recent book on 1MDB called Billion Dollar Whale, told a London conference of lawyers and journalists that the DoJ\u2019s key focus was on \u201cwhether or not to charge Goldman as an entity\u201d or rather to only pursue criminal cases against specific managers.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve already brought criminal charges against individuals, but they have the power to criminally charge the bank itself if they feel the acts of those individuals rose high enough to make the bank responsible for criminal acts,\u201d Hope said. \u201cThe final result could be anywhere from civil charges with a penalty to DoJ criminally charging Goldman.\u201d\nGoldman\u2019s chief executive officer David Solomon has bid in recent days to separate the company from the charged former executives\u2019 apparent rogue behavior.\n\u201cI am personally outraged that any employee of the firm would undertake the actions spelled out in the government\u2019s pleadings,\u201d Solomon said in a voicemail left to employees on November 14. \u201cThe behavior of those individuals is reprehensible and inconsistent with the good work and integrity that defines work that 40,000 of you do every day.\u201d\nThe DoJ\u2019s investigation into Goldman is benefiting from the recent cooperation it is receiving from accused ex-Goldman executive Leissner, who headed the bank\u2019s Southeast Asia operations, and his Goldman colleague Ng, who is currently in detention in Kuala Lumpur pending extradition to the US.\nDoJ prosecutors are now investigating new reports that Goldman\u2019s longtime chairman and chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, met with the now fugitive Jho Low at the bank\u2019s Manhattan headquarters in December 2012.\nThe reports have raised new questions about whether Goldman\u2019s involvement with 1MDB, as the bank has argued, is confined only to a group of rogue employees who slipped through compliance systems or rather reached the highest echelons of management.\nIt\u2019s information Malaysia\u2019s government will no doubt also aim to leverage in its soon-to-be-announced pursuit of US$4.5 billion in 1MDB-related damages from Goldman.\nAuthor: Matt Mulberry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 12102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneysblog.com/tag/bronx-wrongful-death/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4VUGS5NNPP2EQTZLPTLX3R6SOCSJMZNX", "length": 6736, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneysblog.com", "title": "Bronx wrongful death Tag Archives \u2014 Page 3 of 5 \u2014 New York Personal Injury Attorneys Blog", "raw_content": "One dead and 3 injured in garbage truck crash in New York City\nA 3 year old girl died in a crash involving a garbage truck in the Bronx, NYC. Sophia Aguire was riding in a car driven by her 52 year old grandfather. She was sitting in the back seat with her 27 year old mom. Her grandmother was in the passenger seat. They were driving on Bruckner Boulevard near 142nd street when the accident happened. The road was stripped for resurfacing. The driver swerved to avoid an exposed manhole cover and got into the path of a garbage truck in the adjacent lane. The truck hit the car, propelling it into a concrete pillar of the elevated highway just above the road. (see picture below).\nThe car was completely mangled. The firefighters had to cut the doors to get the victims out of it. All passengers were transported to the hospital. 3 year old Sophia died an hour later. The 3 other family members who were in the car with her only suffered minor injury.\nThe garbage truck driver wasn\u2019t injured. He stayed at the scene of the accident and wasn\u2019t charged.\nPosted in: Auto Accidents, Personal Injury, Truck Accidents and Wrongful Death\nTagged: Bronx car accident, Bronx Personal Injury, bronx truck accident, Bronx wrongful death, car accident nyc, personal injury nyc, truck accident nyc and wrongful death NYC\nOne dead and one critically injured in NYC car accident\nA 25 year old man died in a car accident in New York City around 4:00 am this morning. The man was riding a car driven by a 22 year old driver who may have been drunk or high according to the police. The car had a Taxi & Limousine Commission license plate. So far it is not clear if the passenger knew the driver or if he was a customer.\nAs he was attempting to exit the Bronx River Parkway at East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, the driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a concrete wall. Speed may have been a factor contributing to the accident as well.\nBoth the driver and the passenger where rushed to the hospital. The passenger didn\u2019t survive. The driver is in critical condition.\n3 dead and 5 injured in NYC truck accident\nA tractor-trailer truck hit a pick up truck killing 3 of the occupants and injuring 5 other people Tuesday early morning. 51 year old Henry Walker, his 21 year old son Khalil and 3 other workers were driving from Pennsylvannia on their way to a construction job in the Hamptons. As they were driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway near Webster Ave, a tractor-trailer truck stopped abruptly in front of them. Henry Walker who was driving was able to stop just behind the truck. Unfortunately another tractor-trailer just behind them wasn\u2019t able to stop on time. He slammed into the pick up truck killing the dad, the son and one of the workers. 5 other people were injured in the crash.\nHenry was a contractor from Tonyhanna, PA and his son was a communication student at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He was working with his dad to make extra money to study in Japan. They left behind their devastated mother Sandy Walker. The family had just lost a daughter to diabetes last April.\nPosted in: Personal Injury, Truck Accidents and Wrongful Death\nTagged: Bronx Personal Injury, bronx truck accident, Bronx wrongful death, personal injury nyc, truck accident nyc and wrongful death NYC\nFailure to check smoke detectors leads to the death of two toddlers\nTwo toddlers died in a fire last April in a Bronx apartment belonging to the New York City Housing Authority. The investigation found that the apartment was visited four hours earlier by Rene Rivera, a former NYCHA maintenance employee. When a NYCHA worker visits an apartment they have to execute several safety checks that include smoke detectors check. The employee signed on his report that the smoke detectors were working in the apartment he just visited. He later confessed to investigators that he actually never looked at them. The employee\u2019s failure to check the smoke detectors resulted in the death of two toddlers in a fire a few hours after his visit.\nIn an article Today in the NY Daily News, Rivera complains that the work overload at the Butler Houses was such that he didn\u2019t have much time for safety checks. Rivera blames the faulty error on an understaffed crew and unrelenting pressure to keep things moving. The 27-year NYCHA veteran worker explained that he was overwhelmed by the 25 to 30 appointments he had to respond to every day.\nAnother pedestrian killed by hit and run driver in New York City\nA 65 year old pedestrian died in a NYC accident yesterday night. The victim was crossing Bronxdale Ave in Morris Park, Bronx, when he was hit by a van. The van was a light color. The driver was travelling west. The impact was so strong that the pedestrian flew in the air, and landed on another car. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He later died from his injuries. The driver of the van fled the scene of the accident. Over three days, 3 pedestrian died in traffic accidents in New York City. Two days ago a pedestrian died after being struck by an ambulance in Manhattan. Three days ago a woman died after being hit by a drunk driver in Queens.\nRead more and see video here\nNYC pedestrian fatally struck by car after stealing beers from Bodega\nA pedestrian died after being hit by a car in NYC. The accident happened early Monday morning a little bit before 1:00 am. The 22 year old man had just stolen beers at a Bodega in the Bronx and was running across Bruckner Boulevard near 149th street. He was struck by a SUV driving west on the boulevard. The pedestrian was found unconscious at the scene of the accident. He was transported to the hospital where he was declared dead. The police are still investigating the exact cause of the accident.\nNYC Driver who killed a 3 year old pedestrian in crosswalk hasn\u2019t been charged yet\n3 year old Mariam Dansoko was killed in a car accident in New York at the beginning of the week. Mariam was crossing the street with her mom who was pushing her brother in a stroller. All 3 pedestrians were in the crosswalk when a car made a left turn and fatally hit the little girl who was right behind her mom. According to Streetblog, despite evidence that the driver didn\u2019t yield the right of way, he hasn\u2019t been charged yet. The accident occurred in the Bronx. The car was travelling on Gerard Avenue and made a left turn onto E. 164th Street when it struck the toddler. According to witnesses the driver of the car was going too fast.\nPicture, courtesy of Goggle Map, shows where the car was turning from and the location of the accident\nTagged: Bronx car accident, Bronx pedestrian accident, Bronx wrongful death, new york car accident, pedestrian accident nyc and wrongful death NYC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 14199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkupstate.com/saratoga-springs/2018/10/hussain_limo_company_owner_suspicious_death_motel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:XCMAPANKYRWN5IC654D7RVR3GSD2RADW", "length": 3203, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.newyorkupstate.com", "title": "'Suspicious' death at motel owned by owner of limo company from Schoharie crash | NewYorkUpstate.com", "raw_content": "WILTON -- State Police remain at the scene of a suspicious death at a motel owned by the man whose limousine crashed in Schoharie on Saturday, killing 20 people.\nTroopers said they were initially called to the Crest Inn to investigate an \"unattended death\" on Wednesday but deemed the death \"suspicious\" after investigating.\nSo far, investigators have not released the identity of the dead.\n\"At this time, the death does not have any connection to the owners of the business, or the business itself,\" troopers said Wednesday.\nThe property manager, Arnie Cornett, said the dead man lived in a unit that adjoined the motel's office. The man, who was in his 60s, lived alone but was often visited by his daughter, Cornett said.\nCornett said people usually stay there for short periods but others for much longer \"because it's all they've ever known.\"\nThe owner of the Route 9 motel, Shahed Hussain, a former FBI informant, is out of the country. His son, Nauman Hussain, 29, was charged Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide, accused of putting an unsafe limousine on the road.\nThe elder Hussain owns Prestige Limo, the company that rented the SUV-style stretch limo to a group of friends from the Amsterdam area who were bound for Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown for a birthday celebration.\nThe limo crashed Saturday afternoon at the intersection of routes 30 and 30A. It rolled through the intersection, killing two people in the parking lot of the Apple Barrel Country Store before slamming into an embankment. The driver and 17 passengers in the limo also died.\nThe State Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are each conducting investigations of the crash. The limo twice failed state inspections and was not certified to be used to carry as many people as it had on board at the time of the crash.\nThe 21-unit Crest Inn and Suites includes several cottages and motel rooms, which are separated by a courtyard with a lawn. In a Times Union story published last year, Hussain's son Shahyer said the complex often served as transitional housing for low-income individuals, who paid $225 to $250 a week to live there.\nThe death at the motel is just the latest in a long string of incidents linked to the Hussain family.\nThe second fire took place in 2013 after Shahyer Hussain returned a 2005 Bentley Continental GT to the Warren County auto dealer where the vehicle had been purchased. Shahyer Hussain said the vehicle had a transmission problem and that it may be covered by the manufacturer's warranty.\nOn July 30, 2013, Ratto discovered the Bentley's transmission cooler line had apparently been taken out, causing the problem. It meant the costly repair, estimated at around $15,000, would not be covered by the warranty.\n\"There was damage that didn't appear accidental,\" Ratto said. \"They literally ripped it from the transmission cooler.\"\nAround 3 a.m. July 31, 2013, Warren County sheriff's deputies went to Ratto's residence to tell him his shop was on fire. Investigators determined the fire had burned the hottest in the center part of the shop, where the Bentley was stored, and that indicated it may have started in that area.\n-- Amanda Fries, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextupspeakers.com/love-of-learning-is-the-key-to-success-in-the-jobless-future/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6WJBACWWYX5NYWAVS3MH5VKXNFGU26L3", "length": 5911, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nextupspeakers.com", "title": "Future of Work | Nextup Speaker Management", "raw_content": "Love of Learning is the Key to Success in the Jobless Future\nBy Vivek Wadhwa for The Washington Post\nNot long ago, schoolchildren chose what they wanted to be when they grew up, and later selected the best college they could gain admission to, spent years gaining proficiency in their fields, and joined a company that had a need for their skills. Careers lasted lifetimes.\nNow, by my estimates, the half-life of a career is about 10 years. I expect that it will decrease, within a decade, to five years. Advancing technologies will cause so much disruption to almost every industry that entire professions will disappear. And then, in about 15\u201320 years from now, we will be facing a jobless future, in which most jobs are done by machines and the cost of basic necessities such as food, energy and health care is negligible \u2014 just as the costs of cellphone communications and information are today. We will be entering an era of abundance in which we no longer have to work to have our basic needs met. And we will gain the freedom to pursue creative endeavors and do the things that we really like.\nI am not kidding. Change is happening so fast that our children may not even need to learn how to drive. By the late 2020s, self-driving cars will have proven to be so much safer than human-driven ones that we will be debating whether humans should be banned from public roads; and clean energies such as solar and wind will be able to provide for 100 percent of the planet\u2019s energy needs and cost a fraction of what fossil fuel\u2013 and nuclear-based generation does today.\nA question that parents often ask me is, given that these predictions are even remotely accurate, what careers their children should pursue: whether it is best to steer them into science, engineering, and technology (STEM) fields, because it is these disciplines that are making the advances happen. The STEM\u2013humanities dichotomy has been a traditional difficulty for parents, because English, psychology, history, and arts majors have been at a financial disadvantage over the past few decades. Parents have encouraged their children to go into fields such as finance, engineering, law and medicine, because they\u2019re where the big money has been. But that is changing.\nI tell them not to do what our parents did, telling us what to study and causing us to treat education as a chore; that instead, they should encourage their children to pursue their passions and to love learning. It doesn\u2019t matter whether they want to be artists, musicians, or plumbers; the key is for children to understand that education is a lifelong endeavor and to be ready to constantly reinvent themselves.\nWe will all need to be able to learn new skills, think critically, master new careers, and take advantage of the best opportunities that come our way.\nTechnology is now as important a skill as are reading, writing, and mathematics. Everyone needs to be able to use computers, search for information on the Internet, use word processors and spreadsheets, and download apps. These skills are now common and useful in every profession. People who master social media gain an advantage in sharing knowledge and connecting with others. Kids in Silicon Valley who can write code have an edge in starting technology companies.\nBut this too is changing, as it becomes possible for anyone to write apps and snap together industrial-strength computer systems using powerful new software-development tools. For the foreseeable future, professions such as data science, software architecture and bioengineering will command premiums; but design and the soft sciences will gain increasing importance.\nSteve Jobs built the world\u2019s most valuable company by focusing on design. He showed that, though good engineering is important, what matters the most is great design. You can teach artists how to use software and graphics tools, but it\u2019s much harder to turn engineers into artists. An engineering degree is very valuable, but the sense of empathy that comes from music, arts, literature, and psychology provides a big advantage in design. A history major who has studied the Enlightenment or the rise and fall of the Roman Empire gains an insight into the human elements of technology and the importance of its usability. A psychologist is more likely to know how to motivate people and to understand what users want than is an engineer who has only worked in the technology trenches. A musician or artist is king in a world in which you can 3D-print anything that you can imagine.\nEducation will always be a platform on which to build success, but it really doesn\u2019t matter what you study. My advice to students is to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree, at the least, in fields in which they have the most interest. They should go to any good school and not obsess over joining expensive elite institutions that will burden them with debt and limit their life options. Through college, they will gain valuable social skills and learn how to interact and work with others; to compromise; and to deal with rejection, failure, and change. Most importantly, they will learn what they don\u2019t know and where to find new knowledge when they need it. And we can hope that they will develop a deep passion for learning.\nAll of this uncertainty and change can seem unsettling. As Peter Diamandis has said, \u201con the road to abundance there will be turbulence.\u201d The light at the end of this tunnel, however, may be a world in which the pursuit of enlightenment is more cherished than the pursuit of money.\nThis entry was posted in Future of Work, Learning, Talent, Technology, Vivek Wadhwa and tagged Future of Work, Learning, Talent, Technology, Vivek Wadhwa on July 9, 2018 by 21658077.\nThought-leader Robert Safian Offers Alabama Nonprofits Advice on a Changing World Predictive Analytics: The End of Risk?\nOne thought on \"Love of Learning is the Key to Success in the Jobless Future\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 8399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextupspeakers.com/rebecca-costa/rebecca-costa-03/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:L25IDURME5Z7XECBVKSXCWCCC36RZPNO", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nextupspeakers.com", "title": "Rebecca-Costa-03 \u2013 Nextup Speaker Management", "raw_content": "Published May 21, 2018 at 1024 \u00d7 683 in Rebecca Costa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nordimpianti.com/Products/Prestressing-and-Detensioning", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WDX2P73TEKMO5FCJFLLLM44HT5FNWHY4", "length": 1046, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nordimpianti.com", "title": "Prestressing and Detensioning | Nordimpianti | Concrete Experience", "raw_content": "To perform their function the steel wires have to be fixed on the reaction beams and prestressed before concrete casting. The stressing can be done in two different ways, single or multi stressing and in both cases the wires are fixed on the reaction beam by means of anchor grips.\nWhen the concrete has reached the required strength to counteract the retracting force of the internal prestressing wires, it is good practice to gradually release the tension before cutting the element to size. This minimises the risks of concrete cracking if the tension were to be suddenly released whilst cutting when the whole of the element along the bed was still under tension. However this advice is at the discretion of the customer and the degree of safety and efficiency desired.\nThe cables are stressed one at a time using a stressing jack actuated by a control unit...\nThe wires are fixed on a movable anchor which is is pulled by hydraulic cylinders. In...\nWhen the concrete has reached the required strength to counteract the retracting force of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 21081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com/privacy-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NHE5M74QGJTXPJR3SGVJWY3UZO4IHYTT", "length": 7004, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com", "title": "Privacy Policy | North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center", "raw_content": "We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your e-mail address for purposes such as correspondence. If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet that we or our business partners may need \u2014 to correspond with you, that information will not be used for any other purposes other than communicating with you.\nLike many other commercial sites, our site may utilize a standard technology called a \u201ccookie\u201d to collect information about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize a user\u2019s browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture your e-mail address.\nEmil and Opting Out\nOur intention is to send e-mail to fans or to individuals who have chosen to receive such prominent information. 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For example, if you \u201cclick\u201d on a banner advertisement, the \u201cclick\u201d may take you off our site onto a different website. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our site's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other websites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit personal information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. If you visit a website that is linked to our site, you should consult that site\u2019s privacy policy before providing any personal information.\nOur site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. 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Any action brought to enforce this agreement or matters related to the site shall be brought in either the State or Federal Courts of the United States. If any provision of this agreement is deemed void, unlawful or otherwise unenforceable for any reason, that provision shall be severed from this agreement and the remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain in force. This contains the entire agreement between you and the Company concerning your use of the site, and the agreement shall not be modified, except in writing, signed by both parties.\nBy using www.NorthCharlestonColiseumPAC.com , you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy. North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center may decide to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it.\nFeel free to contact us any time and we'll answer any additional questions you may have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northtynesidelscb.org.uk/parents/co-sleeping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TVN6TZR6V4DDCYD2B64OJ26KNPR24RGV", "length": 1559, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.northtynesidelscb.org.uk", "title": "Co-Sleeping | northtynesidelscb", "raw_content": "The Department of Health\u2019s recommendation is that the safest place for your baby to sleep in the first six months is in a cot in your room. However, although most parents don\u2019t plan to sleep with their baby, around half of all mums in the UK do so at some time in the first few months after birth. Sleeping in the same bed as your baby is called co-sleeping or bed sharing.\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) updated its recommendations about co-sleeping in December 2014 and confirmed that although Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is rare, it does happen more often when parents or carers sleep with a baby (on a bed, sofa or chair).\nThe NICE guidance doesn\u2019t distinguish between co-sleeping on sofas or chairs and bed-sharing although there is evidence that it is more dangerous to fall asleep with a baby on a sofa or chair.\nThe guidance also confirmed that the link between SIDS and co-sleeping is greater if either parent smokes, and may be greater if parents or carers have been drinking alcohol or taking drugs that affect their awareness.\nThe safest place for your baby to sleep for the first 6 months is in a separate cot or Moses basket in the same room as you.\nHere\u2019s a link to some very useful information and a short video\nBelow are links to information leaflets which may help you:\nhttps://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/fact-sheet-bedsharing.pdf\nhttps://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/safer-sleep-for-parents.pdf\nhttps://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/easy-read-card-english.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 159.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.norvacentre.com/eila-duncalfe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:THHNSR7FGGAKD5SBUAEBJIZ2HYAPS6K6", "length": 2763, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.norvacentre.com", "title": "Eila Duncalfe - Northern Visual Arts Centre", "raw_content": "She found she liked painting wildlife and wilderness scenery, and puts this down to her father's influence. He had shared with her his deep love and respect for nature.\nEila Duncalfe began painting in August of 2002. Though she had little opportunity to develop her interest in art as a youngster, she enjoyed drawing as a young mother on the farm near Winnipegosis, Manitoba. She entertained her children, their cousins and friends sketching animals and farm machinery, etc.\nAfter the death of her husband, Eila moved her family north to Flin Flon. Those were difficult years, with no time for sketching, as she raised her children and worked doing re-upholstery and home-care. However, when she joined the Flin Flon School Division in 1989, she gained the financial security to leave an unhappy second marriage. School completed, her daughters moved out of town, and though her son made his home in Creighton, Eila needed something more to fill a sense of emptiness in her life.\nIn 2002, when Eila visited her daughters in Dryden, Ontario, Coronach, Saskatchewan and Calgary, Alberta, the long drive across the plains sparked a desire to paint. She began by using books and photos, and gave these paintings to family and friends. She found she liked painting wildlife and wilderness scenery, and puts this down to her father's influence. He had shared with her his deep love and respect for nature. She remembers as a four year old on the family farm, watching a burrowing owl find refuge in his gentle hands. Her father's encouragement to closely observe wild creatures stays with her still.\nEila photographs her own subject material while enjoying all kinds of wildlife, including loons, bald eagles, sandhill cranes and otters. She spent a week taking pictures of a cinnamon bear and a black bear sow with four cubs.\nSoon Eila was donating paintings to help raise money for the local graduates, and school sports. Families in need were also benefiting from her generosity. Her first sales were to friends. Fellow employees, local hunters and trappers and local miners gave her not only compliments and encouragement, but also criticism. Far from being offended, she always valued comments that would help her develop her expertise.\nEncouraged by miners' appreciation of her painting \"The Slag Dump\", Eila began looking to the surface operations of HBM&S for subject matter. You will find her paintings hanging in local businesses and restaurants.\nMystic Creek. Acrylic on canvas by Eila Duncalfe\nVisit NorVA to see more of Eila Duncalfe's artwork\nE\ufeffila Duncalfe Wins 1st at Northern Saskatchewan Adjudicated Art Show!\ufeff\nCongratulations to resident artist Eila Duncalfe who took first place in the Northern Saskatchewan Adjudicated Art Show in La Ronge (2013).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.npsk12.com/ls", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:NIJHJ5TCRXWB4URDCUJNO3YCISUC2ABY", "length": 2286, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.npsk12.com", "title": "Learning Support / Overview", "raw_content": "Information for Parents (Virginia Department of Education)\nParent's Guide to Special Education\nVirginia Family Special Education Connection\nYour Family\u2019s Special Education Rights\nThe Norfolk Public Schools Department of Learning Support is dedicated to meeting the unique needs of students with disabilities by providing a continuum of services and programs from early childhood through post-secondary for young adults. The department is responsible for screening, evaluating, identifying, and determining eligibility for students who may require special education and related services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004), in accordance with state and federal regulations governing those processes. The department also oversees the development and implementation of students' Individualized Education Programs, and determines appropriate placements for students who are eligible for services. Highly effective teaching and home support are the goals of professional development the department offers for staff, administrators and families.\nParent Survey 2018-2019 (for parents of students receiving special education services)\nEach school year the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is required to report to the U.S. Department of Education the \"Percent of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children with disabilities.\" Your participation in this survey will help VDOE collect additional information to identify training needs related to the special education processes. The VDOE will use the results of this survey to improve parental involvement in the special education process and improve outcomes for all students within the Commonwealth. It is important to note that your responses are recorded anonymously and cannot be personally linked to your child. Parents who have more than one child receiving special education services should submit one survey for each child receiving services. Please reflect upon your experiences during the 2018-2019 school year.\nDr. Janice James-Mitchell\njjames-mitchell@nps.k12.va.us\nLearning Support - Special Education Services Roster 2018-2019\nVDOE: Special Education: For Parents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 352, "original_length": 34228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nsb.com/speakers/bill-good/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YQN47HJB2S7QVZAVI6MTF2EOGPXBXSON", "length": 2128, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nsb.com", "title": "Bill Good | Speaker | National Speakers Bureau", "raw_content": "Legendary Broadcaster\nA renowned industry veteran, Bill Good is a multi-award winning broadcaster with a career spanning 50 years. During his television and radio career in BC, Good interviewed everyone who\u2019s anyone in the province and anchored primetime newscasts for more than 27 years at CBC, BCTV and CTV.\nWarren Roy Interview with Bill Good on 2013 CKNW CEO Series\nBill Good on UR\nTrevor Linden on the Bill Good Show\nBill Good joins NEWS 1130 August 14, 2015\nBC\u2019s Political Pulse You\u2019ll hear the most current insights from three of BC\u2019s leading political commentators; who will debate, entertain and take your questions on what\u2019s happening in BC politics today and possibility tomorrow\u2026and a lot more.\nRTDNA | Peter Gzowski Award - News Information Program\nBruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award\nBritish Columbia Association of Broadcasters Broadcaster of the Year\nBill Good is one of British Columbia\u2019s best known and respected broadcasters. He anchored CBC\u2019s evening news for ten years, and he also anchored Canada Tonight and the CTV Evening news. Bill has hosted CKNW radio\u2019s the Bill Good Show which aired weekday mornings. Bill Good spent ten years hosting Hockey Night in Canada when the Canucks first came into the NHL. He covered two Olympic Games, Sapporo in 1972 and Montreal in 1976. He also co-anchored the Canada Soviet Summit Series in 1972. In 1979 Bill moved into news broadcasting and anchored CBC\u2019s evening news for ten years. He then Moved to CKNW were he hosts the Bill Good Show every weekday morning. For several years Bill also anchored Canada Tonight at BCTV and then the CTV Evening news. Bill has an ACTRA award as best interviewer radio interviewer in Canada and was recently awarded the Jack Webster lifetime achievement award. In 2015 he joined News1130 where he launched A Minute with Bill Good. The show is a no-holds-barred editorial commentary, focusing on current hot button issues, the inner workings of BC politics, and the influential movers and shakers who make the decisions that affect you \u2014 the public.\nGlobe & Mail | Signing off: Bill Good reflects on 50 years in broadcasting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nusa.org.au/clubs-and-societies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DYWRBSD5K4GYLMTGOPMRVJVKZRHAKRQL", "length": 1147, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nusa.org.au", "title": "About \u2014 NUSA", "raw_content": "Clubs and Societies provide the chance for you to share your passion and interests with others and to learn valuable skills at the same time. There are lots of benefits to running a NUSA-affiliated club including access to NUSA resources and spaces, free printing, and being associated with an independently-run organisation focused on advocating for the interests of students & their clubs!\nEffectively running an accountable, sustainable association draws upon and develops a variety of skills in areas such as event management, budgeting & accounting, and marketing and promotions. You can\u2019t do it alone: you\u2019ll need to find others with a shared passion and commitment to help run your dream club. The NUSA team is here to help you along the way.\nNUSA has a strong history of, not only supporting Clubs with resources to operate, but also ensuring their interests are advocated for at UoN. NUSA will remain committed to hosting Clubs and Societies meetings, forums and information sessions that give clubs an opportunity to directly contribute to the discussion on the rules and processes in place to support our affiliated clubs and societies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2015/DecJan/Conservation/NWF-View-Protecting-Our-Public-Lands", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ISXI6RALVRUQKCFWNLMWNDA6JUW3LOLK", "length": 4247, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.nwf.org", "title": "NWF View: Protecting Our Public Lands", "raw_content": "IT'S OFTEN SAID THAT PUBLIC LANDS are the birthright of all Americans\u2014and the envy of the world. Who can forget their first trip to Yosemite or Yellowstone, fishing or birding at a national wildlife refuge, or hiking in a national forest? I\u2019ll never forget the sense of wonder that my daughter Riley had picking blueberries atop Beehive Mountain at Acadia National Park, laughing while seeing magpies at Rocky Mountain National Park, or watching avocets and stilts at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge along the Delaware Bayshore.\nFor more than a century, Americans have enjoyed our nation\u2019s public lands\u2014critical natural resources, contiguous stretches of wildlife habitat, unique geologic formations, diverse recreational experiences and historically significant sites\u2014because our nation\u2019s visionary leaders prioritized their protection. These lands are not only protected for the benefit of our current and future generations, but are also accessible to all visitors, not just the privileged few.\nBy any metric, the benefits of conserving these lands are overwhelming. For wildlife, they provide critical habitat for thousands of native species. Economically, public lands support more than 2 million jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity\u2014and that\u2019s not quantifying the richness of the experiences of hundreds of millions of visitors annually. Despite all this, a growing number of politicians are working to degrade or sell off our public lands for resource extraction and development. The Dickensian dissonance is deafening.\nOn one hand, the U.S. Department of the Interior is making great strides on improving the management of public lands. For example, the Bureau of Land Management has been developing Master Leasing Plans, which have the potential to ensure that energy development occurs in ways that reduce impacts on ecosystems to the benefit of wildlife like bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, sage grouse and pronghorn.\nThe administration has also designated a series of new national monuments and is considering others\u2014and the National Wildlife Federation\u2019s state affiliates have often been leading this charge. For example, the New Mexico Wildlife Federation built support from thousands of hunters and anglers for permanent protection of R\u00edo Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monuments, both of which the president designated in the past two years. In September, the White House expanded Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which the Conservation Council for Hawai\u2018i\u2014an NWF affiliate\u2014helped promote.\nI\u2019m proud that NWF is working with its state affiliates to protect such critical habitats. In July, I had a chance to fly-fish in the awe-inspiring Boulder-White Clouds area, which the Idaho Wildlife Federation is working hard to have designated as a national monument. We are also working with the Colorado Wildlife Federation on protecting Browns Canyon and with the West Virginia Rivers Coalition on designating the Birthplace of Rivers. We were especially gratified when, in October, President Obama designated part of California\u2019s spectacular San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument, a move that NWF advocated to protect valuable habitat for mountain lions, Nelson bighorn sheep and other species.\nOn the other hand, as more politicians advocate selling off public lands, we find ourselves having to explain why these lands matter. Across the nation, we\u2019re working hard against federal and state legislation that would undermine a century of progress. In May of this year, our affiliates unanimously passed a resolution affirming their strong support for public lands and against their sale or transfer, and NWF is teaming with former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and other leaders to make a strong defense.\nProtecting public lands for future generations is a fight worth fighting, and we need your support. This isn\u2019t a partisan issue\u2014it\u2019s about basic wildlife conservation and democratic access. Let\u2019s keep public lands in public hands and pass on a conservation legacy worthy of the amazing bounty that previous generations provided. See you outdoors!\nAh, Wilderness: How the U.S. Wilderness Act Protects Public Lands\nNWF at Work: Protecting Public Lands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 7731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/books/review/kate-dicamillo-meg-medina-jacqueline-woodson.html?module=inline", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6M4Q6VHUNBB33O3IO4ADYWVGCNC5Y3CL", "length": 7672, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "New Novels From Three of Today\u2019s Most Beloved Children\u2019s Authors - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Book Review|New Novels From Three of Today\u2019s Most Beloved Children\u2019s Authors\nNew Novels From Three of Today\u2019s Most Beloved Children\u2019s Authors\nMiddle-grade readers live in a wonderful-awful, in-between time that holds both the last moments when toys seem magical and the first breathless discoveries of what deodorant and mascara wands are meant to do. By now, they know about the world\u2019s harshness, but they may not be quite ready to face it full on. These three powerful authors push the edge of comfort in their latest works \u2014 presenting the loveliness that the best childhood moments hold alongside the realities of inequity, profound loss and deep neglect. Readers (and their parents) will be all the better for it.\n\u201cWe think they took my Papi.\u201d The first line of Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s HARBOR ME (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin, 176 pp., $17.99; ages 10 and up) jolts the reader into the news cycle through the eyes of a child. As this captivating novel moves forward we will hear, see and feel more through this lens. It\u2019s a powerful vantage point, and one that holds both the practical realities and the lyrical poignancy of 11-year-old voices in equal tension.\nWoodson\u2019s most recent middle-grade work, the National Book Award-winning \u201cBrown Girl Dreaming,\u201d was a memoir. These pages belong to sixth graders in Brooklyn who, when given a space to talk, discover how sharing stories can heal. Haley Shondell McGrath introduces herself by speaking into a hand-held recorder that her uncle gives her: \u201cI am 11 years old. My father is in prison. My mother is dead. But don\u2019t feel sorry for me.\u201d\nHaley is part of the class of six students who\u2019ve been assigned to Ms. Laverne because they learn differently. One day in late September, Ms. Laverne leads the kids to a former art room and tells them it\u2019s theirs: \u201cYour time. Your world. Your Room.\u201d The kids dub it the ARTT room, A Room to Talk. Conversation is halting at first, but \u2014 as happens in confined, grown-up-free zones of childhood like camp and clubhouses \u2014 the room soon becomes a refuge.\nClassic middle school exchanges about parents insisting on audiobooks instead of video games (\u201cSo not fair!\u201d) brush against bigger moments, and Woodson captures both the inexperience and the innate wisdom of age 11. Ashton, who is white, clashes with his good friend Amari, who is black. Both struggle to understand their place in the neighborhood (why some boys follow Ashton, the rare white kid in school, and slap his neck till it\u2019s red) and in the world (why Amari can\u2019t play with his Nerf gun in the park anymore, but Ashton can). Holly has a story too, and she says to Amari, \u201cI don\u2019t like when you call me rich girl.\u201d\nAnd then there\u2019s Esteban, who often sits in the window. Like his missing Papi (whom we hear from in beautiful letters from a detention center), he has a poetic voice. \u201cBefore, you used to hear the word immigration, and it sounded like everything you ever believed in. It sounded like feliz cumplea\u00f1os and merry Christmas and welcome home. But now you hear it and you get scared because it sounds like a word that makes you want to disappear.\u201d\nThere is no escape from the outside world in this book, from the political tempest swirling around us. But sometimes a closer look, a deeper understanding, a different point of view, is better than an escape \u2014 especially for kids trying to make sense of the time they were born into. Ms. Laverne tells the students to ask themselves: \u201cIf the worst thing in the world happened, would I help protect someone else?\u201d Their promise to one another resonates even after you finish the book: \u201cI will harbor you.\u201d\nIn Meg Medina\u2019s MERCI SU\u00c1REZ CHANGES GEARS (Candlewick, 368 pp., $16.99; ages 9 to 12), Merci\u2019s harbor is an extended family living in Las Casitas, which is what she calls their three pink, flattop houses that sit side by side. Medina quickly establishes their warm, congenial home life as the center of Merci\u2019s universe.\nBut sixth grade throws the best of us off balance, and when Merci \u2014 who attends a private school on scholarship \u2014 is assigned to be the buddy of a cute new boy in town, jealousy swirls in her friend group. Meanwhile, there are troubles at home as the family\u2019s adored grandfather, Lolo, starts to forget things and act erratically.\nThe 11-year-old\u2019s worldview shifts uncomfortably \u2014 her friends have fancy bikes and swimming pools and can \u201cdo dumb stuff\u201d at school, but she always has to prove herself. As her Papi tells her after she gets caught breaking a rule, \u201cThe value you add to the school has to come from you, because it\u2019s not coming from our wallets.\u201d\nIt\u2019s clear that Merci loves her family. But she also chafes at family responsibilities, especially the expectation that she\u2019ll watch her little cousins more now that Lolo is less reliable. \u201cFind someone else \u2026 I\u2019m not your servant!\u201d she shouts at her aunt after a stressful day. Caught between the world of family and peers, the comfort of Las Casitas and the enticing new call of independence, Merci Su\u00e1rez is a delightful heroine who, despite real challenges, never wavers in her strong sense of self or her fierce love for la familia. Readers will appreciate watching her navigate how to hold on to what matters when it feels like everything is changing.\nThere is no home, harbor or even a reliable adult in sight at the opening of Kate DiCamillo\u2019s LOUISIANA\u2019S WAY HOME (Candlewick, 227 pp., $16.99; ages 10 and up). This companion novel to the award-winning \u201cRaymie Nightingale\u201d stands on its own, but follows the adventures of a character we met in the previous book, the unforgettable Louisiana Elefante, known to be the daughter of famous trapeze artists. In \u201cLouisiana\u2019s Way Home,\u201d her cantankerous Granny ferrets Louisiana away from their Florida home in the middle of the night only to wind up on the side of the road with a major toothache. They detour to the dentist, and then end up in a Georgia motel, with now-toothless Granny alternately sleeping and groaning in pain.\nLouisiana, with her quick, insightful takes on everyone she meets, grabbed readers\u2019 hearts in \u201cRaymie Nightingale,\u201d and in this book she isn\u2019t about to let go. Though her life has been filled with hardship and uncertainty \u2014 and there are more painful secrets to come \u2014 she continues to operate with a sense of wonder and practical optimism (the pages shine with it).\nAs Granny lies immobile, Louisiana meets a boy named Burke who tells her he can get her anything she likes from the motel\u2019s vending machine. Louisiana, always hungry, finds this idea irresistible, and though the ill-tempered motel owner advises her not to listen to Burke, Louisiana knows it\u2019s already too late: \u201cI believed him entirely. I believed everything about him.\u201d\nAdult readers will worry for Louisiana. She has faced so much adversity, yet she remains gentle and open. She is also strong as steel, though, and we come to know that Louisiana sees people \u2014 really sees them \u2014 and she tends to trust the right ones. A couple of times, she reminds herself, and us: \u201cThere is goodness in many hearts. In most hearts.\u201d When Burke leads her to his home, a pink house that smells of baking cakes, she finds a loving set of parents inside. Of course, they\u2019re not hers. Nothing is, really, but Louisiana is no fool. \u201cI will have to find some way to rescue myself,\u201d she tells us, a truth we must all face along the way.\nMelissa Walker\u2019s latest middle-grade novel is \u201cWhy Can\u2019t I Be You.\u201d\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Fiction. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | Subscribe\nSurviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It\u2019s Possible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 9994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000001118730/released-palestinian-prisoners-welcome-their-freedom.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4XZJWBYXQGZ77HWSK6BCQILNLYKON77", "length": 155, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Released Palestinians Are Welcomed Home - Video - NYTimes.com", "raw_content": "Released Palestinians Are Welcomed Home\nOct. 18, 2011 | 0:00\nJubilation as hundreds of Palestinians are released from Israeli jails. 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This event is a showcase of the latest products and attracts over 8,000 global visitors providing opportunities to network and learn about the latest technological and innovative breakthroughs which will drive the industry into the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oml.org/25-year-awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LBEZAWVXC4W6WFKMRPUBFLTVOWOSKLZ5", "length": 2113, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.oml.org", "title": "25 Year Awards \u2014 Oklahoma Municipal League", "raw_content": "25 Year Awards 2017 memo and nomination form\nEach year the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Municipal League recognizes officials and employees of cities and towns who have completed a minimum of 25 years of service.\nThe honoree names are inscribed in a permanent Honor Roll of Service leather-bound album maintained at the League. In addition, honorees are given a certificate and a lapel pin recognizing their 25 years of service to municipal government. The certificate and pin will be sent to the municipality once the list of names has been received.\nEach municipality will choose the most appropriate setting for recognizing the honorees. Many municipalities choose to have their Mayor make the presentation during one of their council meetings. Others might prefer an OML Board Member or an OML representative to participate. Please indicate on the nomination form whether you will be making the presentation or if you'd prefer an OML board member or OML representative to make the presentation or help facilitate the event.\nTo be eligible for this honor, an individual must have served as a municipal official, or employee (in any capacity) at least 25 years at one or more municipalities. (Example #1: a person who has served as a planning commission member, a councilmember and a mayor for a total of 25 years would be eligible for this award. Example #2: an employee that has served as treasurer for one town for 15 years, took time off and then served as finance director for another town for 10 years is eligible to receive this award.) Any municipal official or employee is eligible as long as they have served municipal government for at least 25 years.\nHonorees who have already received the award are not eligible. Names of previous honorees from your municipality should be included on the enclosed list. These names remain a permanent record in the Honor Roll of Service album on display at the OML office and will not be removed even upon retirement or death.\nIf you have any questions, click the button below to email April Bradbury or call the OML office at 405-528-7515 or 1-800-324-6651.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.on-sitehomes.com/agents/18755-Charles-Ross/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:REPQEEKBUSETIRFX5JU56LGU33QATXWQ", "length": 506, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.on-sitehomes.com", "title": "Charles Ross, | Weichert Realtors, On-Site Associates", "raw_content": "Since retiring from the Air Force after 24 years and multiple moves, I understand the unique concerns and needs of Buyers, Sellers, and Renters as they transition.\nI personally have encountered many of these same issues and I will put my experience to work for you and make your move as smooth as possible for you!\nAs a professional, I will always respond to your calls or inquiries, because I believe you should be treated as I would want to be. I value the opportunity to work with you in your next move!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onadulting.com/travel-guides/wellness-inspired-travel-guide-almafi-coast", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZERFUBIBVCLHEGTC7WVLBZIYL664T4P", "length": 2648, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.onadulting.com", "title": "The Amalfi Coast \u2014 On Adulting - A space for real talk + real advice about growing up in a mindful, conscious + happy way.", "raw_content": "the amalfi coast is a magical place that doesn't feel real until you've left. it's breathtaking contrast between mountains and beach, relaxed but romantic atmosphere, and simple food is exactly what you want in a european retreat. i honestly wish that i could live in those late-summer moments forever--once you get there, you'll never want to leave.\nwe decided to stay in positano, the most picturesque of the towns along the coast. we were fortunate enough to find an off-the-beaten-path bed and breakfast that was so perfect, i couldn't believe it. three brothers, Giacomo, pasqual and marco, took over their father's farm and turned it into a beautiful spot.\nit's called colle dell'ara. if you're looking for a genuine experience away from the hustle and bustle of honeymoon central (without sacrificing beauty and amazing, local food) this is it. it is a bus ride / walk away from the center of town, but not too difficult to find.\npositano, where we stayed, is easy enough to get to from naples. there are a few different ways to go about it: rent a car, hire a driver, or take a ferry to capri (and then to positano). we decided to stay in capri for one night, and then make our way to positano--it was perfect.\nwhere do i begin--the food in italy (overall) but especially the amalfi coast is too good to be true. our favorite food places also overlapped with our favorite things to do (go figure), so here we go:\nDa ferdinando: oh. my. gosh. this tiny beach club is on a secret beach--a 10 minute walk from the central beach in positano, but it's the most tranquil, mediterranean vibe ever. there are 3 - 4 beach clubs on this side - go for ferdinandos. they've been around for decades, and have italian beach food down pat. order their caprese salad every day.\nla tagliata: this mountain-side restaurant has views to die for...and amazing food. it's a family-style restaurant that keeps the wine flowing, and the plates are large (but delicious). be sure to take some home for lunch the next day.\nanywhere: grab an aperol spritz (or your version of an aperitivo) anywhere in the main town--they all have beautiful views to soak in the sunset. don't forget to close your meals with a shot of limoncello - it helps with digestion!\nwhat more is there to do than eat, sleep and relax by the beach? besides those things, here are a few of my favorites:\nrent a small boat for a few hours off the coast of positano (possibly my favorite activity EVEr)\ntake an evening trip to amalfi and stroll the town\ntake a day (or overnight) trip to capri! to die for - that will have its own section!\nhike the path of the gods\ntake a foraging / cooking class", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.one876entertainment.com/com-k2/wyclef-and-sting-for-shaggy-and-friends-concert-wyclef-and-sting-for-shaggy-and-friends-concert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GG3J2OPWP4ZC2Q7FKNLZYKQDTWKE3YTR", "length": 999, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.one876entertainment.com", "title": "Wyclef and Sting for Shaggy and Friends concert Entertainment News - One876Entertainment.com Dancehall and Reggae News", "raw_content": "Entertainment News Written by Althea Monday, 11 December 2017 05:24\tfont size\tdecrease font size increase font size 0\nRock music legend Sting, Haitian American musician Wyclef Jean and rapper Fetty Wap are among the international stars scheduled to perform at the 2018 Shaggy and Friends Concert, to be held January 2 on the lawns of Jamaica House in St Andrew.\nThe Shaggy Make A Difference Foundation (SMADF) will once again donate all the proceeds from the concert to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Bustamante Hospital for Children.\nAlso hitting the stage for free will be a number of local and Caribbean stars in an effort to help the struggling government-run hospital acquire vital equipment to save the lives of children in the ICU. They are Christopher Martin, Aidonia, Dexta Daps, Junior Reid, Shenseea, Barrington Levy, Third World, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Capleton, Professor Nuts, Wayne Wonder, Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons.\nMore in this category: Pinky Famous makes it 'Jiggle' \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlineceucredit.com/ceus-online/ccc-cancer-children/secCCC11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:34Z", "digest": "sha1:467B6SXF3BIODVB63RZDEUQXIOCS5SAC", "length": 9689, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.onlineceucredit.com", "title": "Cancer Impact I | Online Continuing Education CEUs for Psychologist | Helping Parents | Cancer", "raw_content": "Home > CEU courses > Cancer > Helping Parents Help Children Cope with Cancer in the Family > Children & Adolescents of Cancer Patients: The Impact of Cancer on the Family, Part I\nChildren & Adolescents of Cancer Patients:\nThe Impact of Cancer on the Family, Part I\nThe Impact of Parental Cancer on the Family\nAccording to family systems theory (Bowen, 1978), the condition of one family member influences the condition of other family members; family members operate as a set of interdependent units which are continuously maintaining a dynamic level of functioning that balances both constancy and responsiveness. Systems theory also states that all subsystems (parental, marital, child, and sibling) interact and influence each other; this systemic interaction determines the level of psychosocial functioning and well-being of family members (Issel et al., 1990; Veach, 1999).\nA review of the literature has suggested that, when a parent is diagnosed with cancer, all family members are affected by the illness. For example, research on parental cancer has revealed that the quality of the marriage can affect the parent\u2019s or patient\u2019s well-being and health (Compas,Worsham, & Howell, 1996; Lewis & Deal, 1995; Lewis & Hammond, 1996; Lewis, Hammond, & Woods, 1993; Mireault & Compas, 1996). Studies also have suggested that the parent\u2019s cancer and the quality of the parents\u2019 marriage can affect the child\u2019s or adolescent\u2019s psychological functioning (Armsden & Lewis, 1994; Christ, Siegel, & Sperber, 1994; Compas et al., 1994, 1996;Northouse & Peters-Golden, 1993; Veach, 1999).\nEven though this article will draw on the extant literature to explore how these factors might affect the psychosocial development of children and adolescents, there are many unanswered questions about parental cancer, for example: (a) What is the effect of parental cancer on the household? (b) What are the effects of parental cancer on the child and adolescent? (c) What are the mechanisms by which the cancer affects children\u2019s and adolescent\u2019s functioning? These questions can be answered only with longitudinal research specifically designed to reveal the effect of cancer on the household, focusing on children\u2019s and adolescents\u2019 functioning.\nThe Effect of Cancer on Parenting\nParental cancer can cause depressive mood or distress in both the afflicted parent and his or her spouse (Cunningham, Edmonds, & Williams, 1999; Gilbar, 1998; Leedham & Meyerowitz, 1999; Lewis, 1986; Lewis & Hammond, 1996). It has been established in the literature that depressed parents show impaired parenting characterized by less psychological availability, less communication, decreased supervision, lack of consistency in discipline and initiative, as well as more hostility, irritability, and coerciveness (Armsden & Lewis, 1994; Christ et al., 1994; Compas et al., 1994; Garber & Robinson, 1997; Garber, Robinson, & Valentiner, 1997). Even in the absence of depression, cancer can lead to parental inaccessibility. Treatment demands or preoccupation with the illness can make the parent physically or emotionally unavailable to the child or adolescent. Overall, parental illness has been found to cause parental withdrawal, indifference, unreliability, hostility, and coerciveness, which are linked to impaired adaptability of the child in the form of behavioral, social, and self-esteem problems. Conversely, children and adolescents with secure parental bonds demonstrate superior social competence and self-confidence (Armsden & Lewis, 1994; Christ et al., 1994; Compas et al., 1994; Garber & Robinson, 1997; Garber et al., 1997).\nThe marital tension produced by parental illness may also result in adjustment difficulties for the child and adolescent in the family. Marital discord has been associated with more frequent punishment (Jew & Green, 1996; Lewis & Deal, 1995). The parental atmosphere of marital strife may promote anxiety in children and adolescents as well as concerns about the future and their family\u2019s stability. Children and adolescents may misinterpret decreased parental accessibility and believe that they are not loved or valued by the parent. This perceived unworthiness may also be internalized by the child as his or her own self-appraisal, leading to reduced levels of selfesteem (Compas et al., 1996; Garber & Robinson, 1997; Garber et al., 1997; Lewis & Hammond, 1996).\nChildren and Adolescents of Cancer Patients\nAccording to Compas et al. (1994), children whose parents are diagnosed with cancer experience substantial psychosocial stress. He and his colleagues assessed anxiety-depression and stress responses in adult cancer patients (n = 117), spouses (n = 76) and their children (n = 110, age 6 to 30 years old) shortly after the patients\u2019 diagnoses to identify family members at risk for psychological maladjustment. Children, adolescents, and young adults reported moderate to high levels of emotional distress when their parent was diagnosed and treated for cancer. They found that both stress-response and anxiety-depression symptoms varied in children as a function of age, sex of the child, and sex of the parent who is ill. Adolescent girls whose mothers had cancer were the most significantly distressed.\nDespite the prevalence of research on how children cope with stress, research on this particular issue\u2014how children cope with parental cancer\u2014 has been sparse (Compas et al., 1996). In reviewing how families cope with parental cancer, Northouse (1988) noted that, although the children are an integral part of the family system, little attention has been given to the impact of cancer on their lives. The lack of research in this area is not surprising since, for years, children have been treated as tangential to or even excluded from their parents\u2019 treatment plans.\nArmsden and Lewis (1994) have provided the most detailed information about the effect of parental cancer on children. They described the ways in which school-age children cope with their mothers\u2019 breast cancer and the ways in which their families help them cope. The results are based on semistructured interviews with 81 children, 6\u201320 years old, from 50 families in which the mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer within the past 2\u00bd years. In their study, children were divided into three age groups: young school-age (7 through 10 years old), older school-age (10 through 12 years old), and adolescent (14 through 19 years old). They conducted a series of interviews in which the children were asked to verbalize their concerns and feelings about their mothers\u2019 illness. Each group provided responses consistent with their stage of psychosocial and cognitive development. Those authors found that it was difficult for young school-age children to understand the concept of cancer due to their concrete mode of thinking. They often described the illness as \"it\" and their emotional responses were concerned primarily with fear, loneliness, anger, and uncertainty about the future.\nThe older school-age children acknowledged that they had to take on more responsibilities, such as household chores, which took time away from their own interests and activities. These children displayed developmentally appropriate responses to their parents\u2019 cancer as they were more concerned with playing and their own activities than with empathizing and helping out at home. Therefore, they maintained an egocentric position on the process, relative to their own stage of cognitive and psychosocial development. According to Northouse, Caraway, and Appel (1991), adolescents found their lives to be complicated by their mothers\u2019 illness. Adolescents, typically struggling for independence and the formation of a separate identity, reported feelings of conflict between the desire to break away from the family of origin and the knowledge that they were needed at home both emotionally and physically. This particular age group often felt burdened with additional roles and responsibilities (Cain & Staver, 1976; Compas et al., 1996; Gilbar, 1998; Veach, 1999). Therefore, a parent\u2019s medical condition can keep adolescents more closely aligned with the family at a time when developmentally they should be pulling away from the family to progress toward autonomy. This may also negatively affect self-concept.\nFrom a family systems perspective, the stress of parental illness affects the equilibrium or balance in the system, which may lead to a family member adopting inappropriate behaviors. Johnston, Martin, Martin, and Gumaer (1992) suggested that, in cases of parental illness, there is a strong likelihood of role reversal in which the \"sick\" parent may become the child, and the adolescent may become the \"parent.\" Those authors stated that such role reversals may have strong ramifications for the spousal relationship, because the child has assumed a parental role. In these instances, the developmental tasks of children are often compromised. Stress for the child may become overwhelming and affect physical and psychological health, including emotional distress and feelings of stress, fear, guilt, depression, and anxiety (Miller, Wilcox, & Soper, 1985).\n- Faulkner, Rhonda & Maureen Davey; Children and adolescents of cancer patients: the impact of cancer on the family; American Journal of Family Therapy; Jan/Feb 2002; Vol. 30; Issue1.\nThe preceding section contained information about the impact of cancer on the family. Write three case study examples regarding how you might use the content of this section in your practice.\nAccording to Armsdel and Lewis, how did young school-age children adapt to parental cancer? 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Setting the record straight, easing the heartbreak, and putting rumors to rest has taken more than 75 years \u2014 and counting.\nwritten by Robyn Yi\u011fit Smith\nMary Elizabeth McDaniel hurried through an early lunch and dashed out to the yard so she wouldn\u2019t miss her husband\u2019s plane flying over. The June sunshine warmed her cheeks as she scanned the sky, while her little sisters, Kate and Teresa \u2014 4 and 14 \u2014 charged out the farmhouse door, too, along with her mother, brothers, and a neighbor who\u2019d come to see what all the fuss was about. Just after noon, they heard it: the distinctive rumble of a U.S. bomber\u2019s engines.\nMary and her pilot husband, 2nd Lt. Charles McDaniel, USMC, were newlyweds, childhood sweethearts who\u2019d once lived across the street from each other. Just seven months earlier, in November 1943, they\u2019d said their vows at the Baptist church up the road, but too soon they were parted. In wartime, such sacrifices were expected. Charles, 21, ferried Navy planes to Cherry Point, and sometimes he flew over his hometown of Palmerville at night while Mary slept. This trip, he and his copilot, John E. Withrow, USNR, had to make an unexpected landing in Charlotte, only an hour\u2019s drive away. Which meant that he got to be with Mary and have supper with family at home. Early the next morning, he went back to work, but before he left, he promised Mary that he\u2019d fly over \u2014 maybe circle the lake \u2014 on his way to Cherry Point.\nNow, all heads tipped back. Squinting and hopeful, they waited. News of the Allies\u2019 recent invasion of Normandy was still crackling over the airwaves. It would be good \u2014 reassuring, even \u2014 to see Charles\u2019s brand-new PBJ-1H bomber, twin engines, ocean-blue with a white star near the tail. A symbol of strength. The Navy\u2019s modification of the famed B-25 Mitchell bomber was a heady war machine \u2014 designed for bombs, cannons, and machine guns \u2014 and a force in every theater.\nThey all heard Charles before they saw him. He thundered overhead and then flew over his parents\u2019 house down the road. The engines\u2019 mighty rumble hung in the air, even as the plane slipped behind the trees and headed over the lake. Then, another sound, seemingly unreal, came without warning: an enormous explosion. Silence, somehow just as loud, followed. Seconds passed. Mary screamed.\nNo one saw the plane hit Badin Lake, yet there\u2019s no question that\u2019s where it crashed. Mary wanted to run to the lake, to plunge into the water herself, but her brother and neighbor coaxed her inside.\nThey would go instead. Charles\u2019s father rushed to the water\u2019s edge, too. By the time they all got there, the PBJ had disappeared in the deep, inky water. Only splintered remains bobbed on the surface. Stray papers. A brown sock. A uniform shirt sleeve.\nMilitary police swarmed the communities of Badin and Palmerville, rushing to secure nearby dams and the aluminum plant, a critical supplier of metal for the war effort. Charles\u2019s father watched from the shore as elite Navy divers searched for the boys. Mary\u2019s mother forbade teenage Teresa from joining the neighborhood kids who tiptoed down the lakeside railroad tracks to see what was happening. Nonetheless, Teresa snuck down once or twice, but returned without any good news for Mary, who remained at home under a doctor\u2019s care. Divers finally located some wreckage \u2014 but not the bodies. That week, the deaths of Charles McDaniel and John Withrow were reported along with the growing list of D-Day casualties.\nBy mid-July, the Navy concluded its investigation and drove out of town with a truckload of salvaged metal. The plane remained at the bottom of the lake, and the community still had no idea why it had crashed. Porch talk gave way to speculation, fueled by gossip and fuzzy recollections. Some accused Charles of showing off, making a grand romantic gesture with two or three loops over the lake. Others said the plane went down with top-secret Norden bombsight technology on board. Whispers spread that souvenir hunters had found wreckage on the shore, including the nosewheel, and were keeping the items a secret.\nLike a game of telephone, the story of what happened that day got told and retold until fact was indistinguishable from fiction. As a result, Mary unwittingly became the romantic lead in an unsolved mystery, and generations of Stanly County children grew up wondering just what secrets Badin Lake held. \u201cI\u2019ve heard the story forever,\u201d says Curt Dorsey, a 69-year-old real estate agent who grew up in Badin and owns a local watering hole called the Loafers and Legends Club. He remembers childhood summers spent jumping off the town dock, wondering where the plane might be. Like most Stanly County natives, he\u2019s heard too many versions of the story to know what\u2019s true. \u201cMy third or fourth grade teacher told us that she was in school at the time and the plane made at least two laps around town.\u201d\nLocals like Curt Dorsey grew up jumping from the town dock, not far from where Charles McDaniel and his plane went down. Dorsey\u2019s social club is decorated with Badin bomber memorabilia. photograph by Charles Harris\nThe story is well known up the road in Albemarle, too. Roger Thomas, a 62-year-old local artist and preacher, heard about the plane from his mother, and he, in turn, told his friends. \u201cEvery time we passed the lake, I\u2019d tell people. We thought it was a small Cessna,\u201d he says with a chuckle. \u201cWe thought it was right there at the boat landing somewhere.\u201d\nIt was in Albemarle, at a church potluck in 1998, that Wendy Coble first heard the tale. Wendy, a highly skilled underwater aviation archaeologist, was visiting her parents, who were new in town. When she mentioned that she\u2019d been in Hawaii investigating a sunken World War II plane, a parishioner told her that Badin Lake had one of those, too. Intrigued, she reached for the nearest napkin and began taking notes.\nWendy Coble is an underwater aviation archaeologist who works for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. She oversees the program to disinter and identify unknown veterans\u2019 remains. photograph by Peter Grill\nBack home in Greenville, Wendy couldn\u2019t stop thinking about what she\u2019d heard. \u201cI would probably never have known about it had they not mentioned it,\u201d she says. After confirming that a bomber had indeed gone down in the lake, she requested permission from the surviving family members \u2014 Mary died in 1986 \u2014 the state, the Navy, and Alcoa, which owned the land under the lake, to embark on an investigation to find the plane. She wanted to figure out why it had crashed. And to do that, she needed to answer a question that had vexed so many in town: Why didn\u2019t the Navy recover the plane when it had the chance, back in June 1944?\nThe answer is the lake itself. \u201cIt\u2019s basically drowned land,\u201d Wendy says. The lake bed was a fertile valley on the Yadkin River until 1917, when Alcoa built four dams to power its smelting plant. Farms, churches, and entire forests were submerged some 200 feet. Silt and tannins turned the depths into an opaque tea. \u201cBlack water,\u201d Wendy calls it. \u201cVisibility on the surface might be a few feet, but at the bottom, among the trees, Lord only knows.\u201d\nNavy divers in 1944 had a heck of a time even locating the plane. Eyewitness accounts of the crash site didn\u2019t align. Grappling hooks snagged unfelled trees and other lake debris. Unable to see, divers searched with their hands. One was pulled up unconscious after his equipment failed. Officials set off underwater explosions, hoping to shake loose the wreckage, but only tiny flecks of blue paint floated up.\nThe shattered plane had come to rest in an underwater forest, its cables and wires dangling from the trees. The risk of losing divers in such an environment was deemed too great, and the Navy scuttled the recovery effort. They salvaged what they could and, essentially, closed the case \u2014 a crushing moment for the families and the townspeople, who had been waiting to bury the young men and now faced the possibility that they never would.\nOver the years, the urgency to recover the remains gave way to a stronger desire to understand what happened and to restore honor to Charles, who had been mythologized as a besotted daredevil. By the time Wendy launched her investigation in 1999, hopes were high that her unique set of skills could bring clarity and closure. \u201cNearly everyone wanted to ask a question or share a theory,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople wanted to do something.\u201d\nSome donated money for the investigation; others offered boats, gas, printing supplies, even campsites for Wendy\u2019s crew of divers and archaeologists. Roger Thomas, who often fished on the lake, agreed to create an oil painting of the PBJ that could be sold to raise funds. The project brought back memories of drawing war planes in elementary school. He and Wendy took a boat to the site. \u201cShe got right over the spot,\u201d Roger says. That\u2019s when she told him the real story \u2014 not the Cessna version he\u2019d grown up believing. The heartbreak of the story revived in Roger a regret that he\u2019d never been able to serve his country as Charles and others from his hometown had done. His painting, Final Run, was a chance to honor these men.\n\u201cAs I began to paint the scene,\u201d he quietly recalls, \u201cI thought, they didn\u2019t die on some distant battlefield. Or flying a mission over enemy territory. But they did die serving our country.\u201d With a painter\u2019s eye, he restored the plane \u2014 ocean-blue, white star on the tail. A buyer snapped it up and prints were sold. Still, he says, \u201cI would like to have done more.\u201d\nLocal artist and pastor Roger Thomas painted the PBJ bomber to help raise money for Wendy Coble\u2019s search for the plane and pilots. photograph by Charles Harris\nWendy feels the same way. Although she captured side-scan sonar images of what could be the wreckage, equipment failures and other obstacles prevented her from diving to the site to gather more data. After studying all the evidence and talking to dozens of witnesses, family members, and aviation experts, her 43-page report is a comprehensive chronology, not just of what happened on that tragic day, but what happened after, too. At the time, the Navy blamed the crash on \u201cflat-hatting\u201d \u2014 a type of grandstanding, usually for a girl. In training materials, the military specifically warned World War II pilots not to engage in this behavior, tempting as it may be. \u201cThe military is not touchy-feely,\u201d Wendy says. \u201cWhether or not he was showing off \u2014 and I don\u2019t think he was \u2014 doesn\u2019t weigh into it.\u201d The point is, she says, \u201che was not where he should have been.\u201d It\u2019s impossible to say for sure, but Wendy believes pilot error or mechanical failure are likely scenarios.\nCharles was a well-trained pilot with 128.4 flying hours in PBJs alone. He was familiar with the bomber\u2019s weight and balance in flight; he knew that it lacked the quick maneuverability of a fighter plane. Combat pilots frequently flew low-altitude bombing runs, but Charles was a ferry pilot. It\u2019s possible that he got too low over the lake \u2014 perhaps he lost control or the water skewed his depth perception \u2014 and he couldn\u2019t recover. It was known to happen: Just two days earlier, a B-25 crashed into a South Carolina lake when it got too low during altitude training.\nBut it\u2019s also possible that Charles experienced a mechanical failure and attempted to ditch on the lake. At least one eyewitness heard the plane sputter as it passed over Palmerville. Charles had even told Mary that the unexpected Charlotte stopover was because of a mechanical issue. The mechanic\u2019s log would have clues, but it\u2019s never been found. Of course, the plane itself could hold answers, but the crash site was compromised during the Navy\u2019s initial salvage operation.\nThat leaves only witnesses. Mary\u2019s sisters, Kate and Teresa, are the last people alive who were with the family that day. They believe that a mechanical failure was to blame. When Charles walked through the farmhouse door the night before, he set his bag at the foot of the stairs. Kate toddled over to peer inside. \u201cDon\u2019t bother that,\u201d he joked. \u201cMy parachute\u2019s in there. I might need it tomorrow.\u201d\nA couple of years ago, Curt Dorsey was listing a property near town when, out of the blue, the seller revealed a fascinating detail: \u201cYou know, I have that wheel that came off that plane.\u201d The man brought a nosewheel out from the barn, and, to Curt\u2019s delight, \u201cMarch 1944\u201d was etched on the side. A friend\u2019s grandfather had found it on the lake shore and had actually used it around the farm. Curt bought it \u2014 now the only tangible artifact from the crash \u2014 for $20. It\u2019s now in the Badin Museum, along with photographs, news clippings, and mementos donated over the years by those who hold this story close, like a shared memory.\nA few miles away from the museum, not far from the farmhouse where Mary watched for Charles\u2019s plane, is a meadow on a hill. There, Mary is buried in a small cemetery. A few feet behind her grave is a headstone for Charles, still waiting for his remains. On a clear summer day, you can look across the meadow, over the trees, and almost glimpse the lake.\nThe cemetery where Mary is buried holds an empty space for Charles McDaniel\u2019s remains. Mary and Charles were married in the nearby church, and Badin Lake is just beyond the trees. photograph by Charles Harris\nMary\u2019s life after Charles took her away from Badin Lake, to Charlotte, where she remarried, had children, and then divorced. When she died, her family brought her back to the cemetery near the church where she and Charles were married. Wendy spoke with Mary\u2019s son for her investigation, and he told her that when he was 16, he opened his mother\u2019s locked cedar chest. Inside, he found her first wedding dress and mementos from a part of her life he\u2019d never known. When he asked her about it, she wept.\nThe emotional currents of the Badin tragedy have stayed with Wendy, too, even as she now continues her work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Washington. On Veterans Day in 2001, she returned to Badin one more time, for the dedication of a long-overdue memorial for the two airmen. Relatives from both families, Wendy, Roger, and others gathered under a grove of trees in the center of town to unveil the marker.\nBut in many ways, the real memorial is the plane itself, resting 150 feet below the water, among the trees. This summer, Badin children leaping off the dock and anglers dropping lines for bass will surely tell the story again. They may wonder how close their foot or hook is to history. They may even think they know exactly what happened back in June of 1944. Soon enough, though, talk will turn to the future, to Badin\u2019s plans to build a small marina, to the weather forecast for the Sunday picnic. But the past is always there. Roger will make sure of it. The next time he meets a newcomer to town, he\u2019ll tell the story \u2014 the correct version of the story \u2014 with a mix of humility and pride. \u201cEvery time the story\u2019s told,\u201d he says, \u201cthere\u2019s an opportunity to honor these men again.\u201d\nBadin Museum\nstanlycountymuseum.com\nRobyn Yi\u011fit Smith\nRobyn Yi\u011fit Smith has worked internationally as a journalist, writer, and documentary film producer. She lives in Chapel Hill with her two boys.\nGrits: An Essay On The Southern Staple\nRosebriar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 16595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.outsideonline.com/1818131/plane-crash-denali", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2IEVFJVG2SVQNXTMUAKYDIJ2OA6B6SGM", "length": 503, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.outsideonline.com", "title": "Plane Crash In Denali | Outside Online", "raw_content": "Plane Crash In Denali\nThe pilot of a small plane that crashed in Denali National Park Wednesday, October 14, has been found alive after walking 20 miles through the back country, according to KTUU.\nAfter receiving severe burns from the wreck, Daniel McGregor, 35, made his way from the crash site to a camp at Igloo Creek, where campers gave him food and water. They then took him to Denali Air, where he works during the summer.\nWell-known wolf biologist Gordon Haber died in the crash.\n--Dave Costello", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 1937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.outsideonline.com/1842926/outside-online-archives", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4IJTAB756APFKPUZNKBUEQWQXGQWR35U", "length": 4379, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.outsideonline.com", "title": "Outside Online Archives | Outside Online", "raw_content": "Outside magazine, December 1997\nBy Elizabeth Royte\nI've heard that kissing under mistletoe was a pagan fertility rite long before it became a Christmas tradition. True?\n\u2014 Lars Smitts,Tempe, Arizona\nPeople have believed in the special powers of mistletoe, Viscum album, since the Bronze Age. Druids thought the plant was heaven-sent, perhaps because it seems to appear out of nowhere: It's a parasite that taps its rootlike \"sinkers\" into a host tree and literally sucks the life juices out of it. It grows slowly, ruthlessly, and doesn't die until its host dies. At the winter solstice, a white-robed Druid priest would climb an oak and use a golden sickle to harvest mistletoe, which most ancient Europeans considered a cure-all, good for toothache, epilepsy, and yes, infertility. (Today we know that mistletoe is quite poisonous, though researchers recently found that a leaf extract may inhibit the growth of cancer cells and bolster the immune system.) In ancient Rome, the plant was also regarded as a symbol of peace. Enemies would discard their weapons under a sprig, declare a truce, and embrace. It was in Victorian England, however, that smooching under mistletoe became fashionable as a romantic Yuletide tradition \u2014 and it continues today as the one occasion each year when Brits actually touch.\nWhy do women feel cold sooner than men?\n\u2014 Betsy Bartel, Bellvue, Colorado\nThis is one of those weird perception-versus-reality deals that's hard to parse. First the reality part: Women do tend to have a greater ratio of surface area to body mass than do men, so they lose heat faster. And women are four times more likely than men to develop Raynaud's disease, a malady in which blood vessels in the extremities suddenly constrict, causing fingers and toes to blanch and grow exaggeratedly cold. But curiously, far fewer women suffer frostbite or freeze to death than men. Why? Here's where the perception part comes in: Dr. Murray Hamlet of the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine raises the intriguing possibility that women may just have a more finely tuned survival mechanism. \"If we stuck our hands in ice water, I'd probably be able to keep mine in longer,\" he says. \"Is it because your blood vessels constrict sooner, or because you perceive cold sooner? Perception, I'd say, is the better part of survival.\"\nWhat are those weird antennas on top of a giraffe's head?\n\u2014 G. Hayward, Toronto, Ontario\nThose aren't antennae-they're skin-covered horns. Both males and females sport them, but they have no positively proven purpose-though it's possible that they serve as cooling towers. \"The horns are heavily vascular, with an open bone structure,\" says large-mammal specialist John Lehnhardt. \"They may provide a heat-dispersal opportunity.\" The male's horns come into play during sparring sessions, but they do no damage \u2014 sort of like jousting with a pair of carrots.\nWas Indiana Jones based on a real person?\n\u2014 Gail Alberta, Mill Valley, California\nAny archaeology department worth its salt has at least one professor eager to take credit for inspiring the Lucas/Spielberg hero. The most commonly touted model is the late Roy Chapman Andrews, who led the American Museum of Natural History's 1920s expedition to the Gobi Desert. He discovered the first fossil dinosaur eggs, but he never fled a cave pursued by a malevolent boulder. Vendyl Jones, an archaeologist in Israel, and Roy Mackal, a Chicago cryptozoologist, are also oft-cited, as is Montana paleontologist Jack Horner. For his part, Lucas insists Indy is an original. \"We have no confirmation of real-life models,\" says a testy spokeswoman at Lucasfilms. \"Look, it's only a movie.\"\nOn the eighth, the moon will be near Saturn, with an occultation of the ringed planet visible in Hawaii and on the southwestern edge of North America. By the evening of the tenth, Venus will be a crescent that can be seen with binoculars, particularly at sunset. On the 12th, the Moon will be among the group of stars known as the Hyades, occulting the bright star Aldebaran in most of North America. The full Moon occurs on the 13th. The winter solstice comes at 4:43 p.m. eastern time on the 21st, the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year. Christmas Day, four days later, also happens to be the 355th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Newton. \u2014 David N. Schramm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.overstockart.com/blog/top-5-trending-artists-in-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:I3YJ3SWUOCB3V34XSKZWRNP7IV5GXJK2", "length": 5217, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.overstockart.com", "title": "Art Corner Blog \u00bb Top 5 Trending Artists in 2019 ;", "raw_content": "Art is an element that follows the ebb and flow of public taste. At overstockArt.com we carefully watch the changing popularity of artists by analyzing the views and clicks of our customers. Currently, these top 5 artists are what our visitors show the most interest in and we couldn\u2019t be more pleased. Please take a look at some of the painters receiving a lot of attention in the new year.\nThomas Moran was a painter from the Hudson River School art movement during the 19th century and became well known for his landscapes of the American West. His art often featured the Rocky Mountains, thus creating the Rocky Mountain School as his own style. While working as an illustrator for Scribner Monthly, Moran embarked on an expedition to explore and capture the beauty of the American West, especially the Yellowstone region and his contribution helped create Yellowstone National Park. Today his art is highly regarded as an American legacy with pieces hanging in the White House.\nDante Gabriel Rossetti was a member of a prominent British family, who was also one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement in 1848 along with two other members. His art was known for a sensuality and medieval quality that appealed to a broad audience, even to this day. Part of that came from the close personal relationship he often had with his models, and this reflected in his depictions. His female portraits are especially fascinating to observe and are able to evoke a strong romantic energy.\nFranz Marc was a German painter who was influential in the development of German Expressionism as an art movement. His work often depicts animals painted in a surreal fashion that is meant to evoke emotion from the audience. He chose to use bold, bright colors and sharp lines that capture the essence of his subject more than the specific detail. His art was able to reach popularity and acclaim from his peers during his time, finding praise from everyone but the Nazi army who considered his work \u201cdegenerate.\u201d Marc served in the German army and was killed in battle during World War I, but the love of his art still lives on around the world.\nClaude Monet is an Impressionist painter known for capturing the beauty of rural France in his landscapes. As one of the fathers of Impressionist painting, Monet even created a piece called Impression, Sunrise that inspired the name for the movement. His use of blurred lines and broad brush strokes, combined with changing light effects, helped define the movement that has become a favorite in the art world. Painting the same scenes in different light to create a variety of effect is one of his signature techniques and provides a collector with a broad selection to choose from.\nHenri Fantin-Latour was a French artist known as being a conservative in his art style. Although he studied by copying the great masters found in the Louvre, his own personal style does not easily fall into just one category, it has since influenced the Symbolist movement. His flowery still life paintings are what he is most famous for, though at the time they were more popular in England than his own country. The level of realistic detail in each petal and leaf is astounding, even when looked at up close. Often his art has been referenced in other works, such as music and literature.\nHopefully, this list has given you an idea of the direction this year\u2019s style is going and sparked your own creativity for something new in your space. As preferences change, so will the list of trending artists. It will be exciting to see who might be on our list of top artists at the end of the year.\nCliffs of the Upper Colorado River $199.00\nThomas Moran View Product\nImpression, Sunrise $159.00\nThe Three Tetons $199.00\nRoses and Lilies $169.00\nArtist's Garden at Giverny $159.00\nStill Life, Primroses, Pears and Promenates, 1873 $159.00\nMost painted woman in the world\nBorn in Deauville France, Suzy Rocher later changed her name to Suzy Solidor when she moved to Paris in the late 1920\u2019s. Early in 1930 she became a popular singer and opened a chic nightclub called Boite de Nuit. One of the singer\u2019s most famous publicity stunts was to...\nJustyna Kopania named Artist Become\u2019s July Artist of the Month\nPolish artist Justyna Anna Kopania has been named Artist Become\u2019s July...\nA long awaited Van Gogh Auction, a true show stopper\nFrom all the artists out there, \u201cthe master of the auction world\u201d is Van Gogh. Every time a Van Gogh hits the auction house it\u2019s the best show in town. According to the Ney York Times, The Van Gogh Portrait, \u201cL\u2019Arl\u00e9sienne, Madame Ginoux\u201d will be auctioned off, May 2nd...\nCubism \u2013 broken up and re-assembled\nCubism is part of the modern art movement; this special art form was started by two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the early 1920\u2019s. Both painters were heavily influenced by Paul Cezanne who is considered the catalyst for both artists...\nHarry Potter and Rene Magritte Have in Common?\nWith the premiere of part one of The Deathly Hallows on...\nAngel Estevez Selected as ArtistBe.com\u2019s March Artist of the Month\nDigital artist Angel Estevez has been chosen as ArtistBe.com's Artist of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 7647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 173.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ownerdriver.com.au/industry-news/1201/temporary-closure-of-cunningham-highway-postponed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HDTJASTWYAAJLUZUYCDNUFRW6MQPMXB7", "length": 943, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ownerdriver.com.au", "title": "Temporary closure of Cunningham Highway postponed", "raw_content": "Temporary closure of Cunningham Highway postponed\nTemporary closure of Cunningham Highway at Cunningham's Gap postponed due to flooding on the route\nThe planned temporary closure of the Cunningham Highway south-west of Brisbane to allow an oversized load to travel on the route has been postponed.\nThe Department of Transport and Main Roads says flooding on a section of the highway between Goondiwindi and Warwick means the trip will be rescheduled.\nThe department planned to close the highway at Cunningham's Gap at 9pm on January 18 until 1am on January 19.\n\"Further information will be provided as soon as new arrangements are made for the move,\" the department says in a statement.\nThe closure would have been imposed between the Fisher Park Truck Stop at Maryvale on the western side of the Gap and Lake Moogerah Road at Mount Edwards on the eastern side.\nA convoy was due to haul equipment bound for use in the Canadian nickel industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.palmatin.com/planning-dream-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7HLQYYNINOH3RAIIZVFRZFWQFHUVMMEK", "length": 3471, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.palmatin.com", "title": "Are you planning your dream home? | Blog | Palmatin Wooden Houses", "raw_content": "Posted April 8, 2017 Tags: log house, planning\nDesign of the house.\nIt\u2019s always good when your house model has been completed in collaboration between experienced architects and an interior designer.\nUsually their long-term experience includes the planning and designing of hundreds and hundreds of residences and public buildings.\nTogether with an architect and an interior designer you can create a house project that takes into account all the wishes and needs that you might have.\nA perfect house project, where dreams come true, includes beautiful exterior design and well thought-out planning. Every square meter is planned to maximize the efficiency of useful floor space. A well-planned project usually also helps to reduce the construction costs.\nA well-planned house is a good living environment for all family members. Everyone has enough room for privacy, the common rooms are comfortable, there are rooms for housekeeping and hobbies are also taken into account.\nEnergy efficiency of the house.\nA comprehensively planned log house, which has been built to a high quality, has the same energy efficiency as any other equivalent type of house.\nWhile planning a house we recommend you pay attention to the compactness of the house, the position of the house in relation to the cardinal directions, the size and location of facade openings. This is important due to the fact that 13% of the heat is lost through the roof ceiling, 35% through the ventilation system, 15% through doors and windows, 15% through walls, 15% through warm domestic water and 7% through floors.\nIn average 80% of energy spent during the lifespan of a building will be used for heating and cooling the rooms and for other devices \u2013 the rest of the 20% of energy is spent on manufacturing and building the house.\nAccording to the intended use of the building, the norms of energy efficiency must be taken into account throughout the entire engineering process. As a result of following and implementing the right principals in the early stages of engineering we are able to create energy efficient houses.\nEnergy efficient solutions can reduce the fixed costs up to 20-30% and can significantly improve the quality of the living environment.\nWhy to consider log home as your new home.\nTimber is a fully reusable natural material. In comparison with other construction materials, timber is one of the most ecological.\nBecause of low thermal conductivity timber is one of the best construction materials in both cold and warm climates. Using wood as building material guarantees a balanced indoor climate and temperature. The correct moisture level of the indoor air in a log house prevents the formation of static electricity and circulation of dust.\nThe importance of timber as construction material is becoming more highlighted as the exhaustible natural resources decrease and people make the transition to energy efficient construction materials. Timber is a renewable natural resource and the growing norms for energy efficiency support the use of timber. 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The firm has received 11 reports of pieces of the detached clear plastic found in children\u2019s mouths, including four reports of choking on a piece of the clear plastic layer.\nThis recall involves Playtex plates and bowls for children. The plates have various printed designs including cars, construction scenes, giraffes, princesses, superheroes and more. The white polypropylene plates and bowls also have a colored rim on top and a non-slip bottom. Playtex is written on the bottom of the plates and bowls. The plates and bowls were sold separately and together as sets. A Mealtime set is comprised of a plate, a bowl, two utensils and a cup.\nBabies\u201cR\u201dUs, Target, Walmart, and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com from October 2009 through August 2017 for about $2.50 for a single plate or bowl and $15 for a Mealtime set.\nConsumers should immediately stop using the recalled plates and bowls and take them away from young children. Consumers should contact Playtex for a full refund.\nPlaytex toll-free at 888-220-2075 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.playtexproducts.com and click on \u201cRecall\u201d for more information.\nhttps://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2018/Playtex-Recalls-Childrens-Plates-and-Bowls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 448, "original_length": 11420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paris-la.com/tag/barbara-mccullough/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:22Z", "digest": "sha1:M7F7KWDJ7HV3KGBRIPH2YWPHKXJM5P2W", "length": 2006, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.paris-la.com", "title": "Barbara McCullough | highslide for wordpress", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Barbara McCullough\nHORACE TAPSCOTT AT MOCA\n\u201cThe [Lionel Hampton] band came to Los Angeles for a gig out on Sunset Boulevard. I\u2019ll never forget. After the last performance, we were getting ready to head back to New York. At four o\u2019clock that morning, I got off the bus\u2026.I wanted to do something else. I wanted my own thing; I wanted to write it and I wanted to help preserve the music\u2026.Nobody knew who wrote the music or cared\u2026.This is when I first started thinking about putting the Arkestra together and that\u2019s why I got off the road to start my band, to preserve black music. I wanted to teach and show and perform the music of black Americans and Pan-African music, to preserve it by playing it and writing it and taking it to the community.\u201d \u2014 Horace Tapscott*\nIn the early 1960s, Horace Tapscott (1934 \u20131999) left the Hampton band and returned to Los Angeles to fulfill his dream. He shifted his practice from the trombone to the piano, and\u2014with the Pan-African Peoples Arkestra\u2014began composing, archiving, and preserving. He was also a community activist who was blacklisted in the \u201960s, and during the Watts Rebellion of 1965, the LAPD shut down his performances.\nThis week, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, filmmaker Barbara McCullough will present her documentary on Tapscott and the history of African-American art, music, and activism in Los Angeles.\nHORACE TAPSCOTT: MUSICAL GRIOT, Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 7 pm.\nMOCA Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.\nmoca.org/program/los-angeles-filmforum-at-moca-presents-horace-tapscott-musical-griot\n*Horace Tapscott, Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott, Steven Isoardi, ed. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001).\nThe Call (1978 ) is the second LP by Horace Tapscott\u2019s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.\nImage: Coverjazz Canalblog\nThis entry was posted in CONVERSATION, FILM, MUSIC and tagged Barbara McCullough, Horace Tapscott, Horace Tapscott Musical Griot, MOCA on March 8th, 2017 by Barlo Perry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 8052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 215.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parrotalert.com/F46392", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SP2UOFJ6EILQBGTI6LZ5EQCW7OCBBEL4", "length": 61, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.parrotalert.com", "title": "Found Budgerigar West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, MI, United States - F46392", "raw_content": "West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, US\nBrighton, Michigan, US", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 148.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pastemagazine.com/cocorosie/daytrotter-studio-august-16-2010.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JQLVAJVZBTVCCY4LE5GKLOAVWGJWKOI6", "length": 3982, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pastemagazine.com", "title": "CoCoRosie Daytrotter Session 08/16/2010 :: Music :: Audio :: Paste", "raw_content": "The Moon Asked The Crow 04:12\nFatherhood 04:45\nR.I.P. Burnface 04:58\nFairy Paradise 05:53\nThe beauty in any one CocoRosie song is abundant and it's often tantalizingly awkward, something that's a bit of a reach, though, it's always there and will make itself visible however it wants and whenever it wants. Sierra and Bianca Casady make sure that their songs are labyrinths of bizarre interludes and odd wall-hangings, decorations that all feed into the strangeness of their music. That strangeness, however, should not be taken as silly or flimsy, as anything other than two minds working their ways out of their own squiggles and creeping vines and doing so through such fantastical imagery that allows the Casady sisters to act out their stories as moon gypsies, living as hippies and riddles. The beauty in any one CocoRosie song finds you either capable of taking it in - cupping it shivering inside your hands - or looking at it sideways and wondering what it is exactly you're seeing, what exactly it is you're hearing. It takes you a second to arrive at any kind of familiarity and even that sometimes never happens and you just love its deformities and characteristics paternally or maternally - stroking their hair and caressing their interesting cheeks. Some of the songs on the group's newest album, \"Grey Oceans,\" sound as if they're coming from the beaks of ravens perched on the branches of trees in a dead, desolate forest, looking down and commenting on the things that happen when people are pushed into a corner. They are witchy tunes that incorporate all kinds of spookiness into the weirdo folk, operatic, beat-tastic orchestrations that always sound as if those characters involved in the lyrics are just moments away from biting into a poisonous apple and being put under a spell that will keep them asleep for one hundred years. We feel as if none of the people on \"Grey Oceans\" are safe, none of them have anything figured out just yet, but they're racing through the woods with a purpose, passing the graveyards and calling up fleeting feelings of disaster as they try to remember what it was like to grow up, when being a child suddenly didn't feel like being a child any long. It's that boundary between all of the heaviness of growing up and into an adult life and fighting that natural evolution. It's keeping both feet still in footie pajamas and dolls, while coming to grips with being a woman. It's a startling conclusion and one that seems to take the subjects of these songs some time to understand. There are familial issues and other aspects of forced childhood that come to light on \"Grey Oceans,\" and even more so in the new song, \"Fatherhood,\" recorded and featured here for the first time. It starts with a rooster crowing and a dark piano strum and then travels into a realm that sounds like \"The Milk-Eyed Mender,\" a My Brightest Diamond's brilliance and a menagerie of beasts, demons, werewolves, spirits, ghosts and wolves turning out a smoky chorus. We take all of this to have something to do with giving life and never being able to successfully guarantee that you will be able to protect those lives that you made with a messy little act and that's about as frightening as anything comes. They sing, \"Magic doesn't save your kids,\" and maybe because nothing's safe and nothing's sacred, we hear CocoRosie as that gorgeous lightening, striking as a reminder, making us cover up and whisper through the night.\nCocoRosie Official Site\nMore from CoCoRosie More\nCocoRosie: Tales of a Grasswidow By Ryan Reed May 28, 2013 | 2:34pm\nCoCoRosie - Lemonade By Daytrotter August 16, 2010 | 12:00am\nCoCoRosie - R.I.P. 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Watson", "raw_content": "11 I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days 12 I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on. 13 By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[a] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King\u2019s Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through; 15 so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate. 16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work. - Nehemiah 2:11-16; New International Version (NIV)\nI know I'm making a generalization, but I've found it to be true in my life and in my observations of others - Americans are very fond of making big announcements. We love telling each other, and the world at large, of what we are going to do next or how our newest idea is going to change everything. We announce our diets. We announce new exercise plans. We announce when we vote. We announce new visions for our church. And so on.\nAnd, I was the worst. I had a methodology that worked all over the world. Millions of people from difficult to reach people groups have fallen in love with Jesus and thousands of churches have been birthed as a result of what God taught my father. So, when I came to Oregon, I promptly set up meetings and trainings to share what I was absolutely convinced would save the Pacific Northwest.\nAfter all, in my very flawed thinking, if they could do it on their own wouldn't they have done it already?\nI am ashamed of the unchecked arrogance that flowed through my veins. I am also very grateful for the men and women who became my friends even though I reeked of pride.\nGod called me to the Pacific Northwest.\nHe used my past experiences to equip me to be part of what He wants to do here.\nBut, I led with pride and conviction of my methodologies and legacy rather than a deep love of people and gratitude that God would even want to use me at all. I hit wall after wall and thought the barriers were theirs rather than seeing they were mine.\nNow, after failing a lot, I realize that love listens first. God's call, His equipping, and our experience is intended to give us the confidence to listen and learn. Love shies away from public announcements and comes alongside weary saints. Love whispers, \"God hasn't forgotten you. How can I help?\" Love celebrates their accomplishments. Love weeps with their disappointments and frustrations. Love learns from their experiences.\nLove for God and love for people compels us to listen.\nAnd, when God creates the moment, love doesn't hesitate to say, \"Well, God has taught me some things...I may be wrong...maybe they can help...can we do this thing together?\"\nNehemiah had a call. He had conviction. He had a mandate and resources. But, rather than announce his attentions to Jerusalem, Nehemiah began with a quiet ride through town with a few friends to see and to understand what was going on.\nNehemiah loved his God, his people, and his city. Love compelled him to listen. And, after listening, he didn't shy away from the work that loomed in front of him.\nAnd, after we spend time listening, neither should we.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 4013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pchmortgage.com/LoanPrograms/ReverseLoans/what-about-repaying-reverse-mortgage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:47Z", "digest": "sha1:W2CLVY3A7Y6NSEQ3YTTXKQIWRANESRBE", "length": 363, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pchmortgage.com", "title": "Repaying a reverse mortgage from Pacific Coast Home Mortgage", "raw_content": "The very nature of a reverse mortgage can be confusing. With a reverse mortgage lenders pay you either in monthly installments, with one lump sum, a line of credit or as a combination of a line of credit and monthly installments. The following lists provide information regarding repayment of a reverse mortgage.\nUpon one of the instances of default listed below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 142.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pemberton.k12.nj.us/domain/651", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:O2QIOXS3WSMGAZTDWEMQ7W2ZN34TSUJF", "length": 340, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.pemberton.k12.nj.us", "title": "RAWLINS, JASON / Welcome", "raw_content": "Mr. Rawlins\nHello and welcome to First Grade!\nThis is my fifth year teaching First Grade and my second year at Fort Dix Elementary school! I have previously taught in Ewing Township, and was also an assistant at Mercer County Special Services School District. My goal at FDE is to provide a safe, fun learning environment for every student!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 3121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pestcotek.com/17-fascinating-facts-about-mice/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LSTQKOT62DAUBIYQ62UYJY7VBMNEAFXT", "length": 4185, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.pestcotek.com", "title": "17 Fascinating Facts About Mice - PestcotekPestcotek", "raw_content": "It\u2019s winter. Humans feel naturally inclined to stay indoors at this time of year in order to avoid the cold and gain greater warmth and to shelter from the inclement and, at time, tempestuous weather. The same can be said of many mammals; indeed, certain mammals enter a state of torpor and go into hibernation mode at this time of year. Mice seek warmth, dryness and shelter during the winter months and when denied their natural habitats they migrate towards our domestic and commercial premises. It is quite possible that this will result in a preponderance of mice infestations. At Pestcotek, we are equipped with the latest technologies and trained in the most current methods for dealing with this phenomenon. If you suspect an infestation of either mice or rats at this time of year \u2013 and it is more likely \u2013 contact Pestcotek. Here are some fascinating facts about these mice.\nA mouse is able to squeeze through a 6mm gap. The eyesight of a mouse works at its best in dim light. These two reasons taken together account for the fact that once you have an infestation in your domestic or commercial premises, you will find it very difficult to get rid of it without the intervention of professional pest control services. Solution: contact Pestcotek.\nIn Greek mythology, the god Apollo is sometimes called Apollo Smintheus. This means Apollo the Mouse. White mice are kept in Apollo\u2019s temple in order to honour the god. In Hinduism, Lord Ganesh, which is the god with an elephant\u2019s head, rides mouse as a vehicle.\nCertain religions have a high respect for mice. In ancient Egypt, a cooked mouse was used as a cure for a variety of illnesses, especially gastro-intestinal disorders.\nMice can carry as many as 200 human pathogens. This is the point to remember if you suspect an infestation in your commercial or domestic premises. If you experience the signs of mice \u2013 rice-shaped droppings and an ammonia-like aroma \u2013 call Pestcotek\nEmpirical behaviourist research indicates that mice have the capacity to empathise with other mice. Empathy is an important quality for any species that lives in groups.\nA mouse\u2019s tail can grow to the same length as its body. The tail is hairless.\nConcomitant with the capacity for empathy, research has shown that mice are able to read the moods of other mice according to facial expression.\nThe collective noun applied to a group of mice is a \u2018mischief\u2019 of mice\nMice have the biological capacity to become pregnant again within 48 hours of giving birth and a female mouse can give birth at two months. This an important fact to remember if you suspect an infestation \u2013 fast action is the best course of action; and that means contacting Pestcotek.\nMice are considered to be one the most communicative creatures, \u2018talking\u2019 to each other with the use of unique ultrasonic sounds.\nMice eat a great deal and exceed far more than three square meals a day. Indeed, they are known to eat between 15 and 20 times a day. This is the reason that our buildings \u2013 our homes and workplaces \u2013 are so attractive to mice, especially during the winter months when it is cold and natural food stuffs are rare\nMice display remarkable athletic physical prowess: they are able to jump up to a foot and a half and can swim and climb with great ease\nThe brains and bodies of mice work with sufficient similarity to those of humans that they are used in laboratories for scientific experimentation.\nMice are clean creatures in the sense that they are organised according to their own terms of domesticity. Within their underground homes they arrange to have specific areas for food storage, sewage and shelter.\nA mouse\u2019s whiskers enable it to detect likely temperature changes, breezes and they are used as a guidance device when the mouse is navigating narrow passages with rough edges.\nMice play dead when they perceive a threat to their lives and well-being. This is an idiosyncrasy usually only associated with the possum, but yes, mice do it too until they judge that the danger has passed.\nDuring the \u2018courting\u2019 phase of the mouse mating process, a male mouse will sing a unique mouse song in order to impress the female. Romance is not dead in the rodent world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pharmasalmanac.com/articles/author/maria-gordon?hsLang=en-us", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PNVYY3ARO3KUZY65CL3SODEYYA3PLSSE", "length": 495, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pharmasalmanac.com", "title": "Pharma's Almanac | Maria Gordon", "raw_content": "As Marketing Writer, Maria works as part of the content development team on marketing copy that interprets research insights and top line strategic messaging developed by That\u2019s Nice, while working in harmony with the visual brand and overall optimized positioning for clients. Maria previously managed marketing and communications for a corporate real estate company in New York. She has a degree in Journalism from the University of South Florida \u2013 College of Mass Communications.\nmaria-gordon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 4016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pkwadsworth.com/blog/bid/50461/high-efficiency-furnaces-more-than-just-a-replacement", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ONHGPQRBTZLVI7377FEBIAIE4OIGZDOI", "length": 2712, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pkwadsworth.com", "title": "High Efficiency Furnaces: More Than Just a Replacement", "raw_content": "High Efficiency Furnaces: More Than Just a Replacement\nPosted by Paul Wadsworth on Sun, Apr 10, 2011 @ 03:35 PM\nRising energy bills and concern for our environment have made home energy efficiency a hot topic in recent years. Homeowners are now making a greater effort to spend less on energy and reduce pollution, often starting with their old and inefficient furnaces.\nHigh efficiency furnaces are more than just a replacement for your old furnace. Almost 35 million homes in America are heated by natural gas\u2013fired, forced-air heating systems, and most of these conventional forced-air furnaces are pretty inefficient. If your home is heated with a low-efficiency furnace, you could be sending up to 30 percent of your fuel\u2013 and your energy dollars\u2013 up the chimney.\nThis not only wastes money, it pumps up to 4 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. In order to reduce this waste and pollution, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mandated new standards in 1992 that require every new furnace to be at least 78 percent efficient. Manufacturers started designing models that meet and often exceed this standard.\nHow do you know if a furnace is high-efficiency? Furnace efficiency is measured with an Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) rating. The DOE considers units with an EVE higher than 90 percent as high efficiency. In a nutshell, high efficiency furnaces have:\n90 to 97 percent AFUE\nWe suggest that you use the yellow Energy Guides, located on the furnace, to compare estimated annual operating costs for furnaces given specific conditions. It is important to remember that the heating system is just one component in many i.e. your existing duct system, your system controls, your insulation levels, the construction of your home, etc. that determines your actual savings. If you want to figure the actual payback, let a professional from P.K. Wadsworth assist you. We can help you determine how long it will take to get back your initial investment.\nWhen it comes to getting more for your energy dollars, reducing waste and pollution\u2013and lowering energy bills\u2013there\u2019s almost nothing you can do that will make a bigger impact than replacing your low-efficiency furnace with an energy-efficient model. It will pay for itself over time and can dramatically improve your home comfort, as well. Call us at P.K. Wadsworth to learn more about the benefits of high-efficiency furnaces!\nTopics: Cleveland, high efficiency furnaces, energy dollars, ohio, energy bills, heating systems, furnace efficiency, high efficiency furnace, fuel utilization, insulation levels, heat exchanger, flue gases, forced air furnaces, initial investment, department of energy, home energy efficiency, solon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 729, "original_length": 19483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pkwadsworth.com/blog/bid/99018/synchronizing-your-steam-heating-system-and-your-thermostat", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LVJD7NVRXVWSI575EPZVIHV2AVPGD7TY", "length": 2839, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pkwadsworth.com", "title": "Synchronizing Your Steam-Heating System and Your Thermostat", "raw_content": "Synchronizing Your Steam-Heating System and Your Thermostat\nIf your Cleveland area home has a steam-heating system, you need to make sure that any updates to your thermostat take this into account. Many modern thermostats are designed with factory presets for use with forced-air heating, which operate much differently as compared to steam-heating.\nMainly, a steam-heating system requires one to two cycles per hour. Some programmable thermostats have up to six cycles per hour, which will wreak havoc on your steam-heating system as well as your home comfort. Some programmable thermostats cannot be adjusted for this difference and you can be left with having to return or at worst abandon a unit you just bought.\nAnother difference between steam-heating systems and forced warm air systems is that they have a much longer response time. More time is required from the time the boiler is activated until heat is established in the home. Additionally, steam boilers provide heat much longer after the burner is shut off.\nThe delay to establishing heat and the residual after the unit shuts off must be considered when programming the timing of the set back thermostat. You may find the need to program the start-up sooner and then turn it off sooner as compared to your experience with forced warm systems.\nProgrammable thermostats are available in a few varieties: 5+1+1, 5+2 or 7-day. The number 5 usually refers to the weekdays - M - F - which is one set schedule. The two weekend days might have similar schedules (5 & 2) or dissimilar schedules (5 + 1 + 1). The 7 day version allows for a different schedule every day if there is no commonality in your weekly schedule. Having a weekend schedule different from the weekdays might be worthwhile if you stay at home most weekends.\nIn conjunction with your thermostat, it is also a good idea to look into the other parts of your home that can impact your steam-heating system. If you have air leaks that allow warm air to escape to the outside, these are repaired without much trouble, and go a long way in keeping your home more comfortable. Air sealing, along with an evaluation of your insulation levels, are uncomplicated tasks for a professional contractor to undertake. The radiators that keep each room comfortable also need to be maintained. If the paint is peeling on one or more of them, look into painting your radiators. Also make sure to talk with your professional contractor about air venting, piping and the pitch of both pipes and radiators.\nFor more expert advice on steam-heating systems, or other questions related to heating and home comfort, contact the experienced team at P.K. Wadsworth Heating & Cooling. We have been serving the greater Cleveland area for over 75 years.\nTopics: Cleveland Home Comfort, air leaks, steam-heating system, programmable thermostat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 728, "original_length": 20578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.planet-nation.com/lbq-women/getting-know-community/138", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDKVCGS6F2Y43YJ2VZV53EC6TL4Q7VTE", "length": 5147, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.planet-nation.com", "title": "Author profiles | Planet Nation", "raw_content": "M. Cassol Author Profile\nM. Cassol aka Michele was always passionate about human nature and sexuality. From struggling with her own sexual orientation to accepting that she was a lesbian, she has lived many lives as a basketball player, DJ, A&E doctor, business owner and founder of well-known skincare range. She relished and travelled all around the world, providing her with the opportunity to be exposed to her favourite subject: Women. Now, in her mid 30's, she found the maturity and creativity to dwell into writing.\nVG Lee Author Profile\nSuccessful author VG Lee shares a few tidbits of life behind the scenes, in the second of our author profiles.\nWhat's your first memory of enjoying reading?\nMy grandmother had a pictorial copy of Pilgrim's Progress - four drawings on each page with writing underneath. I remember at some point finding the writing of more interest than the illustrations.\nCatherine Hall Author Profile\nKiki Archer Author Profile\nTop of the lesbian Amazon book charts, popular Independent Author Kiki Archer shares what gets her excited about writing & more...\nWhat\u2019s your first memory of enjoying reading?\nMy parents had to pay me to read. My older sister's books were forced upon me and I never quite bonded with Malory Towers, Little Women, orBlack Beauty, hence the payment to complete a story.\nAmy Dunne Author Profile\nAmy was raised in Derbyshire, England. She attended Keele University and graduated in 2007 with a BSc in Philosophy and Psychology. After graduating she worked for a while with vulnerable young people. Her debut YA novel, Secret Lies won a Golden Crown Literary award in 2014. She is married to her beautiful wife, Lou. They share a love of Dolly Parton, have two gorgeous cats, and a very mischievous little dog.\nClare Lydon Author Profile\nThe first in our series of author profiles... get to know Clare Lydon!\nMy parents are both keen readers and they took me to the local library every three weeks when I was a kid.\nI would take out eight books every time and read the lot. Books have always been the ultimate great escape for me.\nAnna Hur\nI have been on the path to awakening for over 5 years. In my journey, I encountered past lives, discovered my abilities as an empath, and realized words are truly mightier than swords.\nMy first novel, Karma The Assassin is an exploration of power over others as it is playing out in the characters interacting in 3rd Century BC.\nWe did not always live in a global world. We do not have just one world view and only one version of reality. The book takes you to the moment when two completely different realities - one of power within, the other of power over others - meet.\nHarper Bliss is the author of the novel At the Water\u2019s Edge, the French Kissing serial, the High Rise series, and several other lesbian erotica and romance titles. She is the co-founder of Ladylit Publishing, an independent press focusing on lesbian fiction. Harper lives on an outlying island in Hong Kong with her wife and, regrettably, zero pets.\nEllen Dean takes the plunge with the Planet London author profiles... find out how the Famous Five influenced this author...\nMy first memory of reading on my own is when my cousin gave me a copy of one of the Famous Five novels by Enid Blyton. I was captivated and imagined myself being in the story with the characters. From then on I was hooked on books.\nIn the run up to the release of Mari Hannah's next novel Killing for Keeps (released 4th December), we grill Hannah about the inspirations behind the Kate Daniels series.\nJen Silver\nJen Silver lives near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire with her long-term civil partner (recently converted to a marriage). As well as reading and writing, other activities include golf, archery and travel.\nE H Smith\nE H Smith's debut, The Shape of the Path is released September 2015 on Kindle and Smashwords.\nSally Edwards recently released debut novella 'How to Love' about a young lesbian with disabilities.\nAt book club at school reading a book called The Runaways a story of two characters lives in parallel one character being a young boy on the run from borstal after being wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit and the story of a young female cheater and her cubs who escaped from a nearby safari park\nSuzie Carr is a US based author, a prolific novelist, publishing company owner, philanthropist and avid blogger. Her latest novel Sandcastles is due out on 28th January 2015.\nJade Winters\nJade Winters, author of \"Say Something\" and \"Guilty Hearts\" reviewed by Planet London earlier this year (and more), opens up about life behind the pen...\nMy first real memory was when I read Stig of the dump. I have no idea how old I was but I loved that book. It always made me sad that he lived in such a messy place and I wanted to go and clean it up for him.\nHP Munro\nThe Edinburgh based historical Fiction writer and Goldie Winner, HP Munro let's us peek behind the scenes\nBeing taken to the local library by my mum and deposited in the children\u2019s corner and not wanting to leave. I loved being surrounded by all the books and was disappointed that I was only allowed two books.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 10213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plansponsor.com/tag/not-for-profit-health-care-plan-sponsors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7MJBSTE7JE6DNINXZWJML3K2UGWNGHGX", "length": 445, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.plansponsor.com", "title": "not-for-profit health care plan sponsors Archives | PLANSPONSOR", "raw_content": "Tag: not-for-profit health care plan sponsors\nData and Research February 13th, 2019\nComparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Health Care DC Plan Data\nWhile the 2018 PLANSPONSOR DC Survey shows that, in many ways, not-for-profit health care DC plan sponsors have adopted more \u201cbest practices\u201d for their plans than those in the for-profit segment, the for-profit plan sponsors have more confidence in participants achieving retirement income goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 4988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plughitzlive.com/theupstream/?Page=72", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3RCPIGJ7TQUK4EVQ2CHRCLM4743W5JBI", "length": 14987, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.plughitzlive.com", "title": "The UpStream - PLuGHiTz Live", "raw_content": "Hulu Launches Mostly Ad-Free Streaming\nposted Thursday Sep 3, 2015 by Scott Ertz\nAfter years of customers asking for it, and months of speculation, Hulu has finally confirmed what we have all wanted - advertising-free streaming. What was once called Hulu Plus has been renamed \"Limited Commercials\" and will remain unchanged at the $7.99 price point. Coming in at $4 more, \"No Commercials\" will mostly live up to its name for $11.99 per month. In addition, you can add Showtime content to either plan.\nMike Hopkins, Hulu CEO, said of this announcement,\nAt Hulu, we pride ourselves on listening to our customers and giving them the best possible experience. Many of our customers have asked us for a commercial free option, and so today we are excited to introduce just that. Providing more choice for consumers is fundamental to the Hulu experience, in addition to an array of choices in content and devices, our customers can now choose to watch with or without commercials.\nUnfortunately, the name is just a little misleading, as there are 7 shows for which Hulu was unable to negotiate a completely ad-free contract. Those shows are:\nThis list is subject to change in the future, hopefully for the better, as Hulu attempts to get the proper licensing for these shows. Luckily, there will be no mid-roll ads - only a 15 second pre-roll ad and a 30 second post-roll ad.\nIn addition to commercial-free streaming, Hulu also hijacked the contract for EPIX content from Netflix, bringing their content to Hulu for several years. All of this is a definite bonus for loyal members of the streaming service, and with so many options, Hulu has finally decided to compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Instant Video.\nAre you excited about the commercial-free option on Hulu? Let us know in the comments.\nHulu:HULU ADDS COMMERCIAL-FREE VIEWING\nhulumedianetflix\nNew Top-Level Domains Used Exclusively for Scamming\nA few years ago, ICANN, the organization that oversees the overall Internet protocols, proposed a slew of new top-level domains. TLDs are the suffix at the end of a website. Most commonly you will see .com, .net, .tv, etc., but there are many others, and new ones are being added all the time.\nWhen these new TLDs were initially proposed, there was a lot of concern that they could create places that could promote negative behavior. For example, if there are hundreds of TLDs, getting an email with a link to http://chase.zip could easily take you to a phishing site. Normally people who are observant will look to ensure the website makes sense, but many won't understand the difference between chase.com and chase.zip. Once you're on the site, a user might enter their password and have their bank account emptied fairly quickly.\nAs it turns out, these fears were entirely accurate. In fact, there are some TLDs that are almost entirely, if not 100%, shady. This comes to us thanks to a report by Blue Coat, a security firm that scanned known sites to determine the shadiest \"neighborhoods\" on the Internet. The results might be a little surprising to some, and even more importantly, some of the results don't make a lot of sense.\nFor example, 100% of sites that end in .zip in their database were classified as \"shady.\" The problem with this one is that .zip is not available yet. In fact, there is only a single domain in existence in the TLD, and that is owned by Google and redirects to Google's domain registration service. Luckily, Blue Coat has an explanation for this behavior.\nAn unfortunate scenario is that 100% of known domains ending in .review also show up as shady. That is truly disappointing, as this TLD was one I was personally excited about - being able to distinguish review sites from traditional content. Apparently this is not to be the case, however. Also on the list, with 97% or higher shady rankings, are country, kim, cricket, science, work, party (not surprising), gq and link (also not surprising). It is important to note that gq is actually not a new TLD, but a country code for Equatorial Guinea.\nNot all TLDs are bad, though. Church has a less than 1% and london only 1.85%. It's good to see that not everything is being taken advantage of, but it is disappointing to see some of the better ones being used so heavily for nonsense. The important takeaway here is that you should always inspect your FULL domain path before visiting a website, not just the core. Be vigilant whenever you are online.\nBlue Coat:Blue Coat Research Maps the Web\u2019s Shadiest Neighborhoods\nMachinima Loses FTC Case Over Paid Xbox One Content\nWhen a new product launches, one of the most important things to do is get good marketing to the world. While television, web and mobile ads are good, what is better is positive content. The best way to get this is from tech blogs and websites, but sometimes that is not possible. For example, when Microsoft released the Xbox One, many media outlets misunderstood the platform or wanted to see it fail and published negative content instead.\nBecause of this, Machinima was brought in to produce and market positive content about the Xbox One around its launch. They paid 2 YouTube personalities a total of $45,000 to produce videos, and created a program for other \"influencers\" to receive $1 for every 1,000 page views, maximum of $25,000. All of this is completely legal and fairly common. The problem is that this is not the whole story.\nWhat Machinima failed to do, or possibly actively discouraged, was provide disclosure of these payments. As it turns out, since these were paid product endorsements, they fall under the purview of the FTC Act, which prohibits deceptive advertising. Because the videos contained \"seemingly objective opinions,\" they require the video producers to disclose that they are paid advertising, just like an infomercial. Jessica Rich, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director said,\nWhen people see a product touted online, they have a right to know whether they're looking at an authentic opinion or a paid marketing pitch.\nIn a proposed agreement, Machinima would be prohibited from running future campaigns of this nature, and would be required to clearly disclose future paid endorsements. Microsoft and ad agency Starcom MediaVest Group were both cleared for their involvement in the issue, citing corporate policies prohibiting such activity and swift action once informed of the problem. Machinima points out that these issues came about before a corporate leadership change in March 2014.\nPCWorld:Paid, non-disclosed Xbox One endorsements land Machinima in hot water with FTC\ngamingmachinimamicrosoftxbox\nIs Apple About to Embrace Multi-Platform Development?\nThe differences between the way Apple does business and how everyone else in the industry do business are well documented. For most of the Mac's existence, the largest software developers for the platform were Microsoft and Adobe, with Apple barely making the list. Microsoft has produced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even a version of Internet Explorer for a period of time. Adobe has produced what is currently called the Creative Cloud, which includes products like Photoshop and Premiere. Even Google produces Chrome for the Mac.\nWhat does Apple produce for Windows? iTunes and QuickTime. For a while they produced Safari, but that was short lived. That leaves their software products, like Photos, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, available only on their own platform. Considering the overall adoption rate of Mac, which is higher than in previous years, but only around 10% of active computers, this represents a lot of development cost for very little reward.\nThe company's focus on hardware has been successful for them for many years, but has certainly slowed in recent years. While Microsoft's foray into hardware, the Surface, has continued to see sales growth, the iPad has retreated over the past few quarters, despite new hardware. The iPhone has similarly seen sales declines, but not of dangerous amounts. So, while hardware in general becomes less attractive to consumers, how is Apple to compete in an industry that they have never participated in? We might find out on September 9th at the next Apple event.\nApple may not have teased or leaked any information about Windows software coming our way, but the event page does give a little hint to a change within the company. To watch the livestream of their event, they have always required an Apple product - Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. On this event page, however, is this text:\nRequirements: Live streaming uses Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires a second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 6.2 or later.\nSupporting Edge is a very big deal, because it represents a shift in mentality for the company. It could also indicate an announcement for the event of Apple software coming to Windows, likely Windows 10. The most logical product for them to bring over to Windows would be their iWork suite, which would attempt to compete with Microsoft's own Office suite. While the prices might be less for the product, the capabilities are also far less - an issue that has helped drive adoption of Office on iOS and Mac. Another good choice could be Photos, which would give Windows users easier and direct access to the iCloud photos takes with an iPhone.\nThe problem here will be whether Apple can get adoption on these products off their own devices. To accomplish it, they will need to increase the capabilities of their products. For example, expanding the iCloud storage available to customers paying $10 per month: Apple currently gives 500GB for that price, while Microsoft gives 1TB of OneDrive plus Office for Windows and Mac and Skype Phone for $7 per month. It will take a big move to get people consider the change.\nSo, is this the beginning of a change in culture for Apple, or did Microsoft simply implement HLS in the new browser? We only need to wait a few more days to find out. Would you consider using a product like iWork or Photos on Windows? Let us know in the comments.\napplegadgetswindowswindows 10\nPopcorn Time is the Newest Platform Whose Users are Under Legal Fire\nWhen RIAA took offense to BitTorrent, while they obviously didn't understand what the company does, they did have something right: it can be misused. One of the products that is misusing the protocol is a site called Popcorn Time. If you have not encountered the site you're in luck. Using the BitTorrent protocol, Popcorn Time allows you to stream television and movies with or without legal access.\nClearly, it was not going to take long before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) took action. That action came this week in the form of a lawsuit, whose defendants are named as \"Anonymous Users of Popcorn Time: Does 1 - 11.\" Obviously this is a suit focusing on copyright infringement, as the defendants are being sued for accessing torrented, protected content.\nCobbler Nevada, LLC, the plaintiff, is looking for a jury trial, but needs one thing before they can do that: to know who the defendants are. They are seeking a subpoena for Comcast, demanding they turn over the names attached to the IP addresses currently named \"Does 1 - 11.\" Comcast has refused information requests like this until a federal judge required it, so it is possible they could put up a fight, but not under the circumstances.\nAs the owner of NBC Universal, Comcast actually has a dog in this race. Helping to make it less desirable to use a service like this could directly affect their bottom line, encouraging people to, instead, use a service like Hulu, in which they are also partial owners.\nThe plaintiff is using a warning on the Popcorn Time website as proof that the defendants knew ahead of time what they were doing was illegal. Given that RIAA never had any success with suits like this one, it will be interesting to see if the MPAA can change that statistic. The moral of the story is, don't use Popcorn Time, as users are being watched.\nTorrent Freak:Movie Studio Sues Popcorn Time Users In The U.S.\nGoogle's \"Right to be Forgotten\" Articles Asked to be Forgotten\nGoogle is in the middle of an Inception-style moment. When the European Union ordered Google, Bing and Yahoo to offer the ability to request content removal from the search index, a lot of places wrote about the order. It was, after all, a strange requirement of a company whose whole business model revolves around knowning everything people want to know. Since then, many articles have been written about requests that have been made through the system\nNow, the company is being ordered to forget about the order to forget. The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office has ordered Google to remove links to articles about the \"right to be forgotten\" requests in Europe. They have been given 35 days to comply with this odd meta request, though it is not clear what the punishment might be for non-compliance.\nThe order comes in response to a previous request from someone who had what they called a \"relatively minor offense\" nearly 10 years ago. Google complied with the request, removing links to articles about the incident. However, sites wrote about the removal, because they were relevant to current events - namely the right to be forgotten law. Google refused to continue sensoring new content under the request, because of the fact that the content was in the public interest.\nIf Google complies with the order, it will essentially be accepting that the EU has the right to censor the content on the web on a very wide scale. This is not the first time that a government has ordered Google to highly censor their search results. In 2010, Google was ordered to censor a tremendous amount of content in China, which resulted in the company abandoning the country entirely, making way for Baidu to take the reigns in the country. UK Deputy Information Commission David Smith said,\nThe commission does not dispute that journalistic content relating to decisions to delist search results may be newsworthy and in the public interest. However, that interest can be adequately and properly met without a search made on the basis of the complainant's name providing links to articles which reveal information about the complainant's spent conviction.\nSo, the order wants to censor journalistic content because it contains someone's name in regards to a modern and lawful activity, required by the government. Censoring access to the free press is a major step in the direction of a totalitarian government, and Google has proven over the past few years that they do not want to be a part of that process. It will be interesting to see how Google responds to this order.\nPCWorld:Google ordered to remove links to stories about 'right to be forgotten' request", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 15888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politicalite.com/house-of-lords/one-hundred-fifty-five-lords-leeching/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LY5K7JGTHZFNC3X7CMPE2A7H26YTF7BT", "length": 2691, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.politicalite.com", "title": "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE LORDS ARE LEECHING! | Politicalite UK | Unreported News, Politics and Opinion", "raw_content": "155 LAZY Peers claim a total of \u00a31.3m despite NEVER debating anything in the House of Lords\nMORE than ONE HUNDRED peers in Britain\u2019s Upper House, \u2018The House of Lords\u2019 have claimed a total of \u00a31.3m DESPITE the fact they have never debated anything in the past NINE MONTHS.\nAccording to a report by the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), who analysed Parliamentary records \u2013 out of 800 UNELECTED peers in the House of Lords \u2013 155 of them (15%) did not contribute to a debate from June 2016 \u2013 April 2017, yet STILL claimed your hard earned cash.\nMembers of the House of Lords \u2013 known as Peers, can claim up to \u00a3300 per day just for turning up.\nSCROLL DOWN TO VOTE IN OUR POLL\nThe most active 300 peers claimed just HALF of the total expenses, \u201cshowing the size of the Lords can be cut without significantly limiting its work\u201d, according to the ERS.\nDarren Hughes, the ERS chief executive, said the data appeared to show a growing \u201csomething for nothing\u201d culture.\nA House of Lords spokesman said: \u201cThe Electoral Reform Society\u2019s calculations are undermined by their narrow focus on spoken contributions.\n\u201cSpeaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members\u2019 contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees \u2013 more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament \u2013 as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.\n\u201cThe Lords is an active and effective revising chamber.\u201d\nBERCOW WANT\u2019S TO DRAIN THE SWAMP TOO!\nTHE HOUSE of Lords should be CUT in size, Commons speaker John Bercow has said.\nSpeaking at the Institute of Government, Bercow \u2013 who, as Speaker, remains officially neutral on party political matters \u2013 said he would like to see an elected second chamber but added: \u201cI don\u2019t think reform on any major scale is going to happen soon.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cOne can argue the toss about the size of the House of Commons, but as far as the size of the House of Lords in concerned, it is, frankly, patently absurd that the House of Lords is significantly larger than the House of Commons.\u201d\nBercow said there remained \u201ca very good argument\u201d for having a second chamber but \u201dshould it consist of 800-plus members? Absolutely not. It could most definitely be halved in size, and I think most fair-minded people would say that it should be.\u201d\nThe Speaker also said he would prefer the weekly PMQs to last an hour, rather than the current scheduled 30 minutes.\nPOLL: House of Lords Reform\nRelated Items:Expenses, featured, House of Lords, Peers\nUBER AND OUT: UBER just lost its licence in London thanks to a Labour Mayor controlled by the Unions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 12446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politifact.com/personalities/jack-kingston/stories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:BPBS277IH2IHOBIIRGGFNYFHT26TJ2VX", "length": 2797, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.politifact.com", "title": "All stories featuring Jack Kingston | PolitiFact", "raw_content": "All stories featuring Jack Kingston\nFact-checking Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff\nPolitiFact Georgia has kept a close eye on a statewide race capturing national attention, the GOP runoff for the U.S. Senate nomination. With the election between U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue Tuesday, we've put some of the claims we couldn't resist fact-checking in one spot.\nBy April Hunt. Published on Friday, July 11th, 2014 at 10:05 a.m.\nPolitiFact Georgia celebrates three years of fact-checks\nOn our third birthday, PolitiFact Georgia looks back at some of the most memorable items, specifically those that have involved numbers.\nBy Janel Davis. Published on Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at 12:00 a.m.\nRhetoric rises over payment advisory board\nWhen Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted March 22 to eliminate a a Medicare payment advisory board \u2013 a vote the Associated Press noted was really just \"symbolic\" \u2013 the rhetoric was flying. Some representatives went a good deal farther than Tennessee\u2019s own Marsha Blackburn, who nonetheless floated a statement about the Independent Payments Advisory Board taking \"control\" of health care decisions away from patients \u2013 and that we\u2019ve ruled False. Most news organizations wrote something similar to the AP about the vote \u2013 the Republiucans actually want the IPAB around as an issue through the November elections. It\u2019s worth taking a closer look at the various statements that have been made and consider the actual statutory power IPAB does or does not have.\nBy Zack McMillin, Bartholomew Sullivan. Published on Monday, April 2nd, 2012 at 2:10 p.m.\nKingston re-uses Barely True talking point\nU.S. Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah recently dusted off an old talking point to argue for cuts to the Food and Drug Administration's budget. Unfortunately for him, that talking point nearly flunked the Truth-O-Meter test back in January. Opponents think the cuts Kingston supports will set back a historic tightening of food safety rules, said a Washington Post article published Thursday. Kingston argued that federal budget cuts are necessary, but the safety rules are not.\nBy Willoughby Mariano. Published on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at 11:28 a.m.\nThe Truth-O-Meter's got your number\nPoliticians, the Truth-O-Meter\u2019s got your number. Or rather, numbers. Georgia\u2019s leaders use all kinds of statistics to shore up their stances. Some mean exactly what politicians claim. Others? Not so much. Last week, we analyzed numbers on Snowpocalypse 2011, the safety of the nation\u2019s food supply, immigration and health care. For extra measure, we added up President Barack Obama\u2019s batting average. Join us on Twitter and Facebook to comment and read our latest updates.\nBy Willoughby Mariano. Published on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2017/03/10/texas-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YSOLWYJEAYOP67TED5D5PPZE3IOZ2K7A", "length": 1065, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.portisabelsouthpadre.com", "title": "Texas Week \u2013 Port Isabel-South Padre Press", "raw_content": "Laguna Vista CARES pets rally set\n(UPDATED) BREAKING: Woman arrested in connection with hit-and-run\nSpring Break\u2019s busiest week begins\nSpring Break is set to go into full swing with the start of Texas Week this Saturday, March 11.As coeds from universities across the state descend upon the Laguna Madre region for a week of revelry and fun, officials report that safety preparations are complete and the Island is ready to go.\n\u201cWe do this every year and it\u2019s almost all the same employees every year,\u201d South Padre Island Chief of Police Randy Smith said Tuesday.\n\u201cBecause we\u2019re a tourist town with a convention center, we also handle many large events throughout the year, so we\u2019re in tune,\u201d Smith said.\nSPIPD regularly teams up with other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies during March to help deal with the influx of Spring Breakers, Smith said. \u201cWe network and have unified command with some of the same local, state and federal partners as every year.\u201d\nPermanent link to this article: https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2017/03/10/texas-week/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/opinion/17811/doodles-can-earn-scholarships-and-technology", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2JRKCSUCCCW6N4ORNK56XKNOHDJGXWAL", "length": 5249, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com", "title": "Doodles can earn scholarships and technology - Portsmouth Daily Times", "raw_content": "Doodles can earn scholarships and technology\nBy Wanda Dengel - Contributing Columnist\nIf you have ever used the search engine on Google\u2019s homepage, then you have experienced the various Google Doodles that highlight a particular event, holiday, achievement, or person. The Doodles are often animated and quite inventive with a hyperlink to the story behind the Doodle.\nThe Google Doodle has evolved over time, becoming more complex and appearing more frequently. But the original Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked. They were merely ingenious images with hovertext describing the content of the image. A hovertext, mouseover, or mouse hover is when you place your cursor or pointer over a trigger area and receive a description or information about the image. Sometimes there are multiple layers to a hovertext; in that case, the cursor or pointer only triggers the uppermost layer.\nA characteristic of Google Doodles is that they sometimes feature an event or individual that is not well known to the general public, similar to the trivia answers that are displayed on the TV program Jeopardy! A recent Google Doodle featured just such an event. Most of us had never heard about the Silent Parade of 1917 which took place on New York City\u2019s fashionable Fifth Avenue 100 years ago. But a hyperlink took you to a page that explained the event in detail and connected you to an interactive video with historic film footage and interviews. Perfect for high school social studies teachers.\nThe first Google Doodle appeared in August 1998 and was designed by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Subsequent Doodles were designed by an outside contractor for the next two years. Then in the year 2000 a team of Google employees known as \u201cDoodlers\u201d published the Doodles. Beginning in 2010 the Doodles became more involved and could be found more frequently. The first animated Doodle appeared in January 2010 honoring Sir Isaac Newton. A few months later, the first interactive Doodle appeared \u2026 PAC MAN. Users could actually play the video arcade game with the Google logo. The PAC MAN maze featured the letters from the word \u201cGoogle\u201d which mimicked the sounds of the original video arcade game. With subsequent Doodles users could strum the strings of a guitar or press a keyboard button to celebrate the birthday of pioneer musician Les Paul. On the 155th birthday of the Pony Express, users could play a two dimensional game collecting mail, avoiding obstacles, and delivering mail from California to Missouri. On Valentine\u2019s Day of this year the Doodle featured a game with an endangered animal where the player had to avoid obstacles. The game offered four different levels. A higher level was released each succeeding day. The first full screen interactive doodle appeared this past June. It celebrated the 117th birthday of musician Oskar Fishinger. The Doodle allowed users to create their own songs by tapping on the screen. Users could then share their songs with others on social media.\nNine years ago Google initiated its Doodle 4 Google contest in the United States. It is a contest open to school children from Kindergarten through senior in high school. The competition is also open to those who are home schooled. Doodle 4 Google is comprised of five entry levels: Kindergarten through third grade; fourth through fifth grade; sixth grade through seventh grade; eighth through ninth grade; and tenth through twelfth grade.\nGoogle selects a theme and invites entrants from throughout the U.S. The 2016/2017 National Winner from Connecticut won a $30,000 college scholarship to the college of her choice, a trip to Google Headquarters in California, a $50,000 technology award for her high school, a Chromebook, an Android tablet, had her Doodle featured on Google\u2019s homepage for one day, and has her Doodle prominently displayed in the Doodle 4 Google gallery. A student from Kentucky in the eighth through ninth grade level was one of the four National Finalists in the 2016/2017 contest. That student along with three other finalists, each received a $5000 college scholarship, a trip to Google headquarters in the San Francisco area, a Chromebook, an Android tablet, and each Doodle is displayed in the Doodle 4 Google gallery, as well. State winners each received an Android tablet and also had their Doodles featured in the Doodle 4 Google gallery.\nAlthough this school year\u2019s Doodle 4 Google contest is not open yet, you can visit the website to review the guidelines and work on some ideas so you can be ready when the contest opens in mid September. The deadline is usually the beginning of December. Visit https://doodles.google.com/d4g/ for contest rules. You may just be the next $30,000 college scholarship winner!\nhttp://portsmouth-dailytimes.aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2017/08/web1_image-1-.jpg\nBy Wanda Dengel\nWanda Dengel, long time local and Columbus inner-city schools teacher, can be reached at photographyforeme@gmail.com.\nHi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Doodles can earn scholarships and technology. Here is a link to that story: https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/opinion/17811/doodles-can-earn-scholarships-and-technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 7754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ppr.com.au/case-study/penfolds-grange-launch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:27Z", "digest": "sha1:JYFTUHQQTTFW6KUWID4H3VMPL6FKTRQR", "length": 1134, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ppr.com.au", "title": "Penfolds Grange Launch \u2013 PPR", "raw_content": "Penfolds Grange Launch \u2013 PPR\nPPR was enlisted to create the concept and manage the global launch event of The Penfolds Collection 2016, and the much anticipated 2012 Grange.\nMedia, influencers, trade and VIP guests were flown in from around the world, for the two-day event which commenced with a morning media call, followed by a two hour wine Masterclass, and culminated with a sit down, seven course degustation gala event that evening in the Grange cellars \u2013 the likes of which have never been seen. PPR converted an empty cellar in Adelaide into a world class dinner venue for Penfolds\u2019 130 VIP guests. There were performances from a didgeridoo player and the Australian Dance Theatre, two spectacularly staged reveals of the St Louis $185,000 and $2,500 crystal decanters, and a stirring narration of the Penfolds story from Hollywood actor Sam Neill.\n\u201cIn a word, and a short one at that \u2026 WOW! What a terrific day/evening. A great Launch. Congrats! From the scores of successes we all witnessed, to the hundreds of behind-the-scenes plans & arrangements that were less overt \u2013 AMAZING. Thank you, The Penfolds Winemaking Team.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ppu.org.uk/news/total-white-poppy-sales-year-122385", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KK7L2I3VIUTNUQQOZPK42FG4B6ZF4OVA", "length": 3024, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ppu.org.uk", "title": "Total white poppy sales this year: 122,385 | Peace Pledge Union", "raw_content": "By Remembrance Sunday 2018, the PPU had sold 122,385 white poppies. This is the highest number in any year since white poppies were introduced in 1933.\nWhite poppies represent remembrance for all victims of war of all nationalities, a commitment to peace and a rejection of militarism. The PPU said the rise in the number of people wearing white poppies showed growing support for these values.\n\"We want to thank everyone who has worn a white poppy this year,\" said PPU Co-ordinator Symon Hill. \"Furthermore, we owe particular thanks to people who helped to distribute and promote white poppies. The PPU has only a small staff team and its work would not be possible without the dedication and commitment of volunteers who have distributed them in their local streets, packed them in the PPU's offices, delivered them to shops and other outlets or promoted them in their local communities.\"\nThe PPU's Sophie Morrison, who oversees and organises the distribution of white poppies, added, \"We are very pleased to have distributed so many white poppies, but it is the meaning behind the symbol that matters. If everyone who wears a white poppy takes action against militarism and war, and works for peace and active nonviolence, that would be a fitting memorial to the millions of civilians and combatants whose lives have been wasted in war.\u201d\nRemembrance is a key focus for the PPU, a pacifist organisation that campaigns on a range of issues relating to war, peace and nonviolence.\nWith white poppy sales more than 20% higher than last year, several shops and other venues selling white poppies found themselves repeatedly re-ordering stock from the PPU. In Salford, the Working Class Movement Library tweeted two days before Remembrance Sunday that they had only a few left, so people needed to hurry to buy one. Despite reordering, the Oxfam shop in Swansea ran out shortly before Remembrance Sunday and added a note to the empty box declaring, \"Sold out. World peace is on its way.\".\nThere were ceremonies involving white poppies on Remembrance Sunday, or in the days leading up to it, in at least 15 towns and cities around Britain, including London, Leeds, Glasgow, Exeter and Norwich. Many of these have been organised at a local level by grassroots activists and peace groups.\nMeanwhile, the decision by the Lord Mayors of Bristol and Sheffield to wear white poppies during their Remembrance Sunday duties seems to have attracted more supportive comments than critical ones, in their own cities and on social media.\nBut despite the rise in support for white poppies, militarist trolls have continued to attack white poppy wearers and PPU members on social media, a practice that even the British Legion went on Twitter to condemn.\nSadly, a white poppy wreath laid by Quakers in Bath has already been stolen from the war memorial. White poppy wreaths are frequently stolen or vandalised by militarists who object to remembrance for people of all nationalities or to the white poppy's association with working for peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.premiumessayhelp.com/essays/find-the-square-roots-of-57-mod-107-2-a-consider-z5x-mod-x8-x4-x3-x-1-show-that-hx-3x5-2x3-x2-4x-4-is-reducible/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JAUBPVLMPGLBT6M5KW32RBBR6GCRVCW3", "length": 932, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.premiumessayhelp.com", "title": "Find the square roots of 57 mod 107. 2. (a).Consider Z5[x] mod x8 + x4 + x3 + x + 1. Show that h(x) = 3\u00d75+ 2\u00d73 + x2 + 4x + 4 is reducible. | Premium Essay Help", "raw_content": "Find the square roots of 57 mod 107. 2. (a).Consider Z5[x] mod x8 + x4 + x3 + x + 1. Show that h(x) = 3\u00d75+ 2\u00d73 + x2 + 4x + 4 is reducible.\n1. Find the square roots of 57 mod 107.\n2. (a).Consider Z5[x] mod x8 + x4 + x3 + x + 1. Show that h(x) = 3\u00d75+\n2\u00d73 + x2 + 4x + 4 is reducible.\nHint: consider q(x) = 4\u00d73 + 3\u00d72 + 4 and do a division.\n(b). Find the multiplicative inverse of 1 + 2x in Z3[x] mod x2 + 1\n3.(a) Let the input message be 100010110101 and the key be 111000111.\nPerform two complete rounds of encryption using the simpli\u0085ed DES type\n(b). Starting with the results from 3(a), decrypt the ciphertext\nby using the algorithm in \u0093reverse\u0094.\n4. The ciphertext is 182 and was obtained from the RSA algorithm using\nn = 437 and e = 283. Find the plaintext. {Hint: you can use trial and\nerror (small integers) to determine d or use the Extended Euclidean\nAlgorithm}\n5. Determine L3(6) mod 31, using the \u0093Baby Step-Giant Step\u0094method.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 10743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.presencegroup.eu/en/blog/keeping-track-of-progress-note-taking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VOIILAIJNT2QQMRXPJQ275QGD6XXTUVI", "length": 2923, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.presencegroup.eu", "title": "Keeping track of progress: note taking - Presence Group", "raw_content": "Tags: note taking, efficient meetings, meeting minutes, meeting report,\nThere is not a single business that functions without meetings. So, needless to say, many meetings are organised to connect with colleagues, customers or stakeholders in general. A lot of effort is put into organising and preparing a meeting but, unfortunately, any follow-up afterwards is often no more than a sad anti-climax. There are many possible reasons. Time constraints, lack of motivation, bad management or scarce resources, to name but a few.\nHowever, sometimes the reason for a an unsuccessful meeting is down to no one actually keeping track and taking note of what is said in a meeting. So, there is a burst of creativity, energy and enthusiasm, ideas are shot back and forth and then everyone returns to their offices and the reality of day-to-day business crushes the magic of the team effort. It takes half an hour, at most, before people start to forget what was said during the meeting and everyone just settles back into their daily routine. A week later when the follow-up meeting occurs, no progress has been made and with every subsequent meeting, motivation dwindles - until it disappears.\nThere is a way to make sure that what is said during a meeting is not instantly forgotten: taking notes. An efficient meeting starts with a clear agenda and strict time keeping and ends with a report of everything that has been said. This should include action points for the relevant people. Even if you think that drafting this report is cumbersome, you will notice that it will help you to keep moving forward towards your goal. Take turns in taking notes or hire a note taker - if you need your team\u2019s full attention on the issue at hand.\nThere are notes\u2026 and notes\nDepending on the topic or type of meeting, you do not always need a verbatim account of everything that has been said. If the meeting is about informing employees on some matter then maybe you can send the presentations and just summarise the question and answer session? Are you having a brainstorming session? Then you could just have a top 10 of great ideas. And if the discussion is about how to solve an issue that arose - an overview of who does what and when is probably what you need.\nWhen you are preparing a meeting, think about the type of report that suits your objective best. It may be that a full transcript of everything said is most suitable, but maybe a short action list is all you need? Make a conscious decision about this and you will find that it is easier to get yourself and your team organised and that momentum and energy is not lost when the meeting is over.\nDo you want to know more about note taking - or would you like to try one of our note takers? They can work from a recording or attend your meeting, if that is what you prefer.\nLet us talk through your meeting and your objectives and get you the best match for what you most need.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pretrm.com/the-pretrm-test/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:N6QUBTLABBGHIWBTYXWHHOA7SUR3CWFE", "length": 4390, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.pretrm.com", "title": "The PreTRM Test | PreTRM\u00ae The Premature Birth Risk Blood Test", "raw_content": "We saw a problem and said we can do better.\nApproximately 4,000,000 births occur in this country each year. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the preterm birth rate in the U.S. was 9.8% in 2016, or about 1 in 10 pregnancies \u2014 one of the highest rates in the developed world \u2014 resulting in approximately 400,000 premature births each year.\nAt Sera Prognostics we recognize the continuously rising pre term birth costs and health care cost, not to mention the emotional and financial burden it puts on families, and the immediate and life-long health challenges premature babies face.\nWe assembled a team of extremely qualified experts to find a solution for the problem of prematurity that could help address this major public health challenge.\nThe result is the PreTRM\u00ae test \u2014 the first and only broadly clinically-validated blood test that provides an early and individualized prediction of preterm birth risk. This knowledge gives the mother and her doctor the ability to manage her risk with the goal of giving her baby the best start in life.\nThe PreTRM test also enables researchers to better understand the causes of preterm birth and to develop new therapies to improve newborn health.\nThe following interview with Dr. Jay Boniface, the Chief Scientific Officer of Sera Prognostics, developer of the PreTRM test, explains the Science behind the test.\nInterviewer: Dr. Boniface, how was the PreTRM test developed?\nDr. Boniface: We began development of the PreTRM test looking at hundreds of proteins broadly across pregnancy.\nInterviewer: Why proteins?\nDr. B.: Proteins carry out the most important functions in life. They\u2019re the worker bees of cells and tissues and organisms and if there is a disturbance of some sort, a condition or a disease, proteins are impacted, so they\u2019re the logical biomarker that one should look at.\nInterviewer: Which proteins did you select for the PreTRM test?\nDr. B.: Sera discovered two very important proteins that are diagnostic of preterm birth. Those proteins are IBP4, which stands for insulin-like growth factor binding protein four, and SHBG, which stands for sex hormone binding globulin.\nInterviewer: Why protein IBP4?\nDr. B: IBP4 is a regulator of growth factor pathways, namely insulin-like growth factors, or IGF's. IGF's are profoundly important for the development and growth of both the fetus and the placenta. IBP4 sits at a crossroad where it regulates this growth response pathway. If there is anything wrong with placental or fetal development, IBP4 may be responding to that.\nInterviewer: Why protein SHBG?\nDr. B: SHBG, or sex hormone binding globulin, regulates the levels of estrogens and androgens, or in other words sex steroid hormones. Estrogens tend to drive pregnancy towards labor, or in other words they oppose the action of progesterone, which is known to maintain pregnancy. Sera sees SHBG levels decreased in women destined to give birth prematurely. Low levels of SHBG would correspond to higher levels of estrogen, which would drive the pregnancy toward labor and explain pre-term birth\nInterviewer: How does the test work?\nDr. B: Sera takes the measures of these two proteins, IBP4 and SHBG, and combines these results in a proprietary, mathematical algorithm or predictor. The score that we derive for each individual patient corresponds to an individual risk of preterm birth, for that patient.\nInterviewer: What is the benefit of the PreTRM test?\nDr. B.: The benefit of the PreTRM test is that, until now it was not possible for a woman to know her individual risk of delivering her baby prematurely. With the availability of our test, a pregnant woman and her doctor can be given this information, and together they can better manage the pregnancy.\nThe full scientific study supporting the PreTRM test was published in the June 2017 issue of Clinical Mass Spectrometry. The study details the strong science and rigorous analytical process discipline behind the PreTRM test.\n\u201cIt further demonstrates the robustness of our LC/MS technology platform,\u201d said Gregory C. 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Read on to learn more about our staff's experience and training.\nKalei Cardinez \u2013 Office Manager\nKalei was born and raised on Kaua'i and has been in the dental field for more than 15 years. She has been with Princeville Dental since its opening, in 2014. Kalei started as a dental assistant and through continuing education has worked her way to managing the practice she was with before coming to Princeville Dental. She strives to make sure that every patient that comes through our door feels comfortable and is taken care of in the most professional manner. While she is not working she enjoys spending time with her family. She is a proud mother to her son Ricky Boy.\nSusana Poblacion \u2013 Hygienist\nBorn and raised on Kaua'i, Susana graduated from Kapa'a High School and then continued her education, gaining her AA in Liberal Arts here on Kaua'i and then moving to Portland, Oregon to obtain her Associates of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene. Patients appreciate her calm, friendly chair-side manner and gentle touch. Susana enjoys working alongside a team of caring, knowledgeable professionals in a state-of-the-art dental practice. On her days off she can be found spending time with family and friends, hiking, relaxing on the beach or practicing yoga. Susana hopes to brighten your day as well as your smile at each visit.\nNalikka Ringler \u2013 Dental Assistant\nNalikka was raised on Kaua'i and graduated from Kaua'i Community College in 2014 with a Liberal Arts degree. She has worked at Princeville Dental since August of 2015. She enjoys helping the community through oral care. As a dental assistant, she ensures that our patients have the best and most comfortable experience possible. In her spare time Nalikka enjoys the outdoors, getting to the beach whenever she can and loves to hike.\nBrisa Kress \u2013 Dental Assistant\nBrisa is originally from Marin County, California but has been living in Hawaii for the past several years. She attended and graduated from the University of Hawaii at Maona then moved to Kaua'i. She enjoys working with people and making patients feel comfortable and encouraged about their dental health. 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Pest Control in Newton, MA\nCall us today for a free Newton pest control quote!\nHome Service Areas Massachusetts Newton\nCommon Pest Issues We Treat in Newton\nCarpenter ants are common throughout Newton and the rest of New England, thanks to the region\u2019s wooded nature.\nWith plenty of parks and green spaces in Newton, like Cold Spring Park and the Webster Conservation Area, there is plenty of wood for these critters to chew on, though they don\u2019t actually eat it.\nThey tend to prefer damp wood, so those living near the Charles River or any other natural or man-made water features are at a higher risk of carpenter ant infestations. Since these ants are larger than other local ant species, they are relatively easy to spot on your deck or porch.\nApart from being annoying, mosquitoes can leave red, itchy bites on your skin, and they can also transmit dangerous diseases. They can even bite your pets as well!\nMosquitoes reproduce in and around standing water, so you\u2019ll most often see them near standing water sources in Newton like Crystal Lake or the Charles River.\nThey are particularly active in the summer when it is hot and humid outside, so be sure to protect yourself when going outdoors in the evenings.\nFor protection against these annoying pests this summer, check out our summer-long Mosquito & Tick Control service!\nOther typical household pests, like rodents, roaches, spiders, ants and more, are often seen in Newton as well.\nNo matter what kind of pest you have in your home or business, the experts at proof. can help. We are familiar with all the common pests in the region and can get rid of them for you quickly and safely. Call today for a free quote!\nproof. Pest Control Services in Newton\nReal Reviews from Our Newton Pest Control Customers\n\u2013 Newton, MA\n\u201cIt is too soon to know if the treatment worked. But I can say that I was very pleased with Dave, who found it raining, when he arrived at the scheduled time, looked at the weather report (which predicted accurately that it would continue to rain all day), and agreed to come back the next day. Based only on my interaction with your company, so far, I would/will most certainly recommend you.\u201d\nRather than having a primary city center, Newton is made up of 13 distinctive villages, each with its own downtown area.\nThough it is located just outside of Boston, most local residents do not commute into the city for work. Instead, they find employment right in town or in the neighboring suburbs. The education system is excellent, and there are plenty of parks in the area, making it attractive not just for families, but for animals and bugs as well.\nIf your home is getting a little too attractive to the local Newton pests and you\u2019re ready to get rid of them, call us today for a free quote on Newton pest control!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pulpix.com/insights/blog/how-increase-my-video-cpms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QKQB4I36O5G7QLSXLC5WYNXAQKOISNAN", "length": 4070, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pulpix.com", "title": "How to Increase My Video CPMs? | Pulpix", "raw_content": "When online publishers sell video inventory to advertisers, advertisers must pay a CPM. The CPM is the cost of displaying an advertisement one thousand times and can vary depending on the type of ad, the traffic on the hosting website, and the advertiser\u2019s specific criteria. As advertisers continue to find value in video ads to increase their brand awareness, publishers need to make sure that they match their requirements if they want to maintain high CPMs. So how can publishers ensure that they are maximizing the revenue earned on these video ads?\nMake sure ads are \u201cviewable\u201d\nWhile most advertisers pay every time their video ad is displayed on a publisher\u2019s website, many are concerned with the low quality, namely the low viewability on these ads. When ads are displayed on a particular page, it does not always mean that they are being viewed since they can be \u201cshown outside the viewable space of the browser on a user\u2019s screen\u201d. Because of this, some advertisers run campaigns for a few days, and decide to pull them if the viewability on their ads do not meet their expectations. As viewability becomes more of a problem, advertisers now have stricter criteria and only agree to pay on the basis of a \u201cviewable CPM.\u201d This means they only pay for viewable impressions i.e. when their ad has actually been seen by a user. In this case, publisher must guarantee good viewability, in which the ads are 50% visible for at least two seconds on a user\u2019s screen. Publishers should design their pages such that viewability is optimized, use click-to-play or scroll-to-play rather than autoplay videos, or use a product such as Pulpix\u2019s multitask and immersive view to ensure that the video ads are seen, but also provide a good user experience. By doing this, publishers can charge higher prices for non-premium inventory because it results in more valuable impressions for advertisers, who are willing to pay the higher price.\nIncrease video player size\nAnother important criteria of advertisers is in regards to the size of the video player serving the ad: the larger the player, the higher the bid advertisers are willing to make. While large players are typically greater than 600px, medium players are between 300px and 600px and small players are below 300px. It is therefore ideal to increase the size of the video player delivering the ad in order to maximize your CPM. Larger video players also tend to have higher fill-rates because more advertisers are willing to buy inventory knowing that their ads are being optimized for viewability and better user experience. By increasing the size of your player, you can meet the standards of many advertisers and generate revenue from this incremental supply.\nCreate pre-roll inventory\nOf all the different video ad formats, pre-rolls are the most demanded inventory for advertisers because they perform the best, with high levels of viewability and completion rates. Unlike other in-stream and out-stream ads, users are more likely to watch and complete a pre-roll ad in order to get to to their selected content. Since there is not enough supply of quality pre-roll inventory to meet advertiser demand, publishers are able to charge high CPMs on this valuable inventory. By focusing on this ad format and creating more quality inventory for pre-rolls, publishers can take advantage of this highly-demanded inventory and increase their revenue stream.\nMake sure ads are not muted\nFinally, another way for publishers to increase their CPM is by simply ensuring that the video ad served on their website is not muted. Because a brand\u2019s message cannot be delivered if the sound is off, most advertisers do not see the value or effectiveness of muted ads and are unwilling to pay high CPMs for them. Publishers should therefore ensure that the video ads displayed on their websites are not muted in order to meet this qualification and maximize their revenue while benefiting the advertiser. They can do this by focusing more on in-stream ads and avoiding the use of out-stream ads which typically autoplay on mute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pvsoc.org/team/netta-hadari-assistant-conductor/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CGXVCZSYMNSKL33ZIFJWOLN52THNL6FC", "length": 1398, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.pvsoc.org", "title": "Netta Hadari \u2013 Pioneer Valley Symphony", "raw_content": "Netta Hadari\nNetta Hadari has played in concert halls in Japan, Israel, Italy, Portugal, and the US, as a touring violin soloist. During his varied musical career, Netta helped lead Music Haven, a non-profit organization, from start-up to maturity as Development Director, founded his own conductorless chamber orchestra \u2013 the Live Music Project \u2013 and educated and mentored many young people as music director of the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra and as professor and orchestra director at Fairfield University. Currently, Netta is the conductor of the String Orchestra at Choate Rosemary Hall and was appointed Interim Orchestral Director and Violin Professor at Mount Holyoke College in 2018. He is excited to be working with Maestro Ng Tian Hui and the Pioneer Valley Symphony as Interim Assistant Conductor this season. In addition, in 2019, Netta has been invited to conduct the New Britain Symphony Orchestra. Netta holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in music from Southern Methodist University where he studied with Emanuel Borok, and a Master\u2019s degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music studying with Syoko Aki. At Yale, he earned the Horatio Parker award \u2013 the highest award presented to a student at the school. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, cooking, and composing children\u2019s songs. He lives with his wife and two daughters in New Haven.\nYour ticket for the: Netta Hadari", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 126.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radioiowa.com/2019/01/15/system-now-gives-updated-information-on-open-parking-spots-to-truckers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:33Z", "digest": "sha1:S3I7CXFNL52FCPJIQTHIOD3HKBAGXDGG", "length": 2403, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.radioiowa.com", "title": "System now gives updated information on open parking spots to truckers - Radio Iowa", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / News / System now gives updated information on open parking spots to truckers\nSystem now gives updated information on open parking spots to truckers\nOperators of big rigs traveling through Iowa and seven other states are starting to take advantage of a new system designed to make it easier for commercial drivers to locate parking in rest areas and private truck stops.\nPhil Mescher with the Iowa DOT\u2019s Office of Systems Planning, says the effort was launched several years ago and went \u201clive\u201d earlier this month. \u201cPeople can travel all across our interstate system and at certain times see overcrowding of trucks in our rest areas and truck stops,\u201d Mescher said.\nTruck drivers can get information on available parking spaces along select interstates through various smart phone apps that access a data feed provided at trucksparkhere.com. Officials in each of the eight states that are part of the \u201cTrucks Park Here\u201d system chose their own state-specific plans. In Iowa, the information is focused primarily on parking spots located along Interstate 80.\n\u201cIn Iowa, we picked the Interstate 80 corridor because that is where most of our truck traffic is. We have some sites that are very close to I-80,\u201d Mescher said. \u201cThey go up I-29 and we also have one off of I-235. We go up Intestate 35 all the way to the rest areas that are south of Story City. We go up Interstate 380 as well, up to the Cedar Rapids area.\u201d Information on the available truck parking spots in Iowa will eventually be included on the state\u2019s 511 system (www.511ia.org). The system should help truckers who need to find a parking space before reaching limits on how many hours they can be on the road.\n\u201cIt will never say that there are no spots available, it will just say the availability is low. But that at least gives them advanced information to make a decision\u2026if they know their hours of service are about up, then they should probably go ahead and park in that first one rather than trying to risk getting to the next one,\u201d Mescher said.\nThe Trucks Park Here system uses a variety of in-pavement and parking lot entrance/exit sensors. The effort was funded by a $25 million federal grant and involves the states of Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.\nAudio: Mescher on truck parking 1:04\nFiled Under: News Tagged With: Department of Transportation, Transportation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-05-05/why-women-should-watch-grayson-perrys-series-about-masculinity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:23Z", "digest": "sha1:N4BYW3GQNW4CUPZO77YFWEUNCWKAG6H7", "length": 3772, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.radiotimes.com", "title": "Grayson Perry All Man review: it's an amazing insight into how men bottle up emotions - Radio Times", "raw_content": "Why women should watch Grayson Perry\u2019s series about masculinity\nAs a female who talks about her emotions without an iota of shame, Kasia Delgado finds Channel 4's All Man a revealing insight into the pressures men face to be be tough. Even in 2016\nThursday, 5th May 2016 at 8:30 am\nGrayson Perry didn\u2019t see a man cry until he was forty years old. Forty.\nAnd what becomes clear in the artist\u2019s eye-opening, moving new documentary series All Man is that even in 2016, in the (dry) eyes of many British men, showing emotion is unmanly. Sure, you might know a metrosexual, stay-at-home-dad who unabashedly gets a weekly manicure and is always discussing his emotions \u2013 but he\u2019s only one aspect of society.\nAs the artist spends time with cage-fighters \u2013 plus the mother of a young man who committed suicide \u2013 in the ex-mining town of Trimdon Grange in County Durham, he investigates what masculinity actually means \u2013 and how the need to be tough has affected generations of men.\nBecause while women have been, on the other hand, negatively portrayed through history as hysterical messes of emotion, they\u2019ve also got a lower suicide rate and a far better record of seeking help for their mental health. They haven\u2019t inherited the legacy of toughness and are therefore, in this way at least, more liberated.\nSo as a woman who spends a lot of time thinking about feminism and how women behave and are treated differently to men in society, Perry\u2019s look at masculinity was a fascinating insight into The Other Side. Especially the stoic miners in County Durham who kept their feelings under bolt and key, to the detriment of their mental health. Equally, now that men aren\u2019t always the breadwinners, and their roles aren\u2019t as clearly carved out, you can see why some are struggling to find a masculine identity.\nIt\u2019s a very complex issue, but Perry does a seriously good job of finding out what makes these Durham men tick, where they see themselves in society and how they\u2019ve dealt with the legacy of toughness their grandfathers and great-grandfathers passed down to them.\nBecause just as feminism isn\u2019t just a woman\u2019s cause, men\u2019s mental health isn\u2019t only for men to worry about. Surely, if women are able to better understand the pressures men face, they can help to slowly release their brothers, fathers, sons, partners from the negative aspects of manliness. Everyone would benefit, not least the women. The need to be tough isn\u2019t in itself an issue, but when it encourages the bottling up of emotions to the point of suicide, it very much is.\nAs a cross-dressing artist who creates pots and tapestries, Perry unsurprisingly says he doesn\u2019t feel the need to be a traditional masculine hero (his heroism comes from having exhibitions at the British Museum\u2026) but he\u2019s grown up in a family of stoic working class men who definitely did.\n\u201cNobody wants to be seen as not being the man, everybody wants to be seen as strong\u201d says one young man, discussing his friend Daniel\u2019s suicide. If only he\u2019d opened up about his feelings things might have been different, he adds.\nFor most women, the idea that you wouldn\u2019t discuss your feelings with a friend is hard to imagine. But as Perry\u2019s documentary shows, for many men that\u2019s a normality.\nAs the artist surveys Daniel\u2019s grave with his mother Thelma, he says simply but poignantly, \u201cI think sometimes men don\u2019t even know when we are sad.\u201d\nGrayson Perry: All Man begins on Thursday 5th May at 10pm on Channel 4\nWhat happened when Grayson Perry met Chris Huhne and Rylan Clark?\nGrayson Perry working on another \u201cslippery\u201d documentary for Channel 4\nAll about Grayson Perry: All Man\nHow to stay in Grayson Perry\u2019s eccentric gingerbread holiday home\nGrayson Perry on his Dream Essex House: \u201cIt\u2019s a monument to thwarted female intelligence\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ranker.com/list/damon-wayans-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:16Z", "digest": "sha1:E7JYNPYLY5VPUYDW7OOHJR2MUDZXL672", "length": 6675, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.ranker.com", "title": "Damon Wayans Movies List: Best to Worst", "raw_content": "Film The Best Damon Wayans Movies\nList of the best Damon Wayans movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Damon Wayans's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Damon Wayans movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Damon Wayans movies will be at the top of the list. Damon Wayans has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Damon Wayans movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Damon Wayans films to end the squabble once and for all.\nIf you think the best Damon Wayans role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Damon Wayans performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.\nThis list below has everything from Colors to Damon Wayans: The Last Stand?.\n\"This list answers the questions, \"What are the best Damon Wayans movies?\" and \"What are the greatest Damon Wayans roles of all time?\"\nMajor Payne Damon Wayans, Karyn Parsons, Bam Bam Bigelow Major Payne is a 1995 comedy film, starring Damon Wayans.\nBulletproof Adam Sandler, James Caan, Monica Potter Bulletproof is a 1996 American action-comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson, and starring Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan, and Jeep Swenson.\nThe Last Boy Scout Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Dick Butkus The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 American action film directed by Tony Scott, starring Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron and Danielle Harris. The film was ...more\nMo' Money Stacey Dash, Bernie Mac, Damon Wayans Mo' Money is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Peter Macdonald, and written by Damon Wayans, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl, Harry ...more\nBlankman Jason Alexander, Damon Wayans, Arsenio Hall Blankman is a 1994 American superhero comedy-parody film directed by Mike Binder and starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier. It was written by Wayans and J. F. Lawton, whose biggest success ...more\nI'm Gonna Git You Sucka Chris Rock, Jim Brown, Damon Wayans I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 parody film of blaxploitation movies written, directed by, and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans. Featured in the film are several noteworthy African American actors ...more\nThe Great White Hype Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Goldblum The Great White Hype is a 1996 film directed by Reginald Hudlin. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies, Salli Richardson ...more\nCeltic Pride Larry Bird, Deion Sanders, Dan Aykroyd Celtic Pride is a 1996 American comedy written by Judd Apatow and Colin Quinn, and directed by Tom DeCerchio. It stars Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two ...more\nColors Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Don Cheadle Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film takes place in the gang ridden neighborhoods of South ...more\nLook Who's Talking Too John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Kirstie Alley Look Who's Talking Too is the 1990 sequel to director Amy Heckerling's 1989 comedy Look Who's Talking. The film stars the original cast members John Travolta and Kirstie Alley as James and ...more\nMarci X Lisa Kudrow, Jane Krakowski, Damon Wayans Marci X is a 2003 American romantic comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Paul Rudnick. It stars Lisa Kudrow as Jewish-American Princess Marci Feld, who has to take control of ...more\nHarlem Aria Damon Wayans, Paul Sorvino, Nicole Ari Parker Harlem Aria is a 1999 drama film written and directed by William Jennings.\nEarth Girls Are Easy Jim Carrey, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Julien Temple and stars Geena Davis, Julie Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, and Jim Carrey. The plot is based ...more\nRoxanne Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Damon Wayans Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi. It is a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, adapted by Steve Martin and starring ...more\nDamon Wayans: Still Standing Damon Wayans\nBamboozled Jada Pinkett Smith, Mos Def, Damon Wayans Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the ...more\nNever Better Damon Wayans\nStarz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen Robin Williams, RuPaul, Damon Wayans\nPunchline Tom Hanks, Sally Field, John Goodman Punchline is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and stars Tom Hanks as a talented young comic who helps a housewife, played by Sally Field who wants to break into ...more\nHerd Mentality Eliza Dushku, Damon Wayans, Danny Comden Herd Mentality is a 2011 comedy TV film written by Bill Martin and Mike Schiff and directed by Andy Cadiff.\nOne Night Stand: Vol. 1 Damon Wayans, Mark Curry, Robbin Harris\nDamon Wayans: The Last Stand? Damon Wayans\nRoar of the Crowd Eliza Dushku, Aisha Tyler, Damon Wayans Roar of the Crowd is a 2011 Comedy TV Movie written by Bill Martin and Mike Schiff and directed by Andy Cadiff.\nFiled Under: Films FilmDamon Wayanstop 20\nThe Best Marlon Wayans Movies Best Chadwick Boseman Movies The Best R-Rated Drama Movies Amazing Real-Life Superhero Gadgets & Powers The 15 Hottest Actresses You Will Never See Naked on Film The Worst Things You Can Make Jokes About The Most Random Matt Damon Cameos The Best Black Panther Storylines in Comics Celebrities Who You Probably Never Noticed Have Wonky Eyes The Best Military Movies Ever Made The 17 Greatest Simpsons Religion Jokes 50+ Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos from Iconic TV Shows Famous Schizophrenics The Best David Alan Grier Movies The Best NC-17 Romance Movies The Hottest Jennifer Love Hewitt Pics of All Time 33 Perfect Tweets from Hilarious Moms Things You Should Never Do While Naked The Best Sean Patrick Thomas Movies The Best Helen Hunt Movies The Best Jeff Speakman Movies The Most Nausea-Inducing Great Films The Best Emile Hirsch Movies The Best Julia Ormond Movies\neasy listening music artists list vicki lawrence age names that mean Kind french movies Daredevil story arcs best wolfenstein game cheese manufacturers Hollow Knight Bosses game of thrones season 1 state with most interracial marriages", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 8329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 172.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ranker.com/list/noam-chomsky-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference?ref=nodelyrel&pos=3&a=0&l=1819831<ype=n&g=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:58Z", "digest": "sha1:N7IPN3RW46YRDZT6MHWBQSEYKWIABGM7", "length": 5201, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.ranker.com", "title": "Noam Chomsky Movies List: Best to Worst", "raw_content": "Film The Best Noam Chomsky Movies\nList of the best Noam Chomsky movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Noam Chomsky's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Noam Chomsky movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Noam Chomsky movies will be at the top of the list. Noam Chomsky has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Noam Chomsky movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Noam Chomsky films to end the squabble once and for all.\nIf you think the best Noam Chomsky role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Noam Chomsky performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.\nThis list below has everything from ReGeneration to The Peace!.\n\"This list answers the questions, \"What are the best Noam Chomsky movies?\" and \"What are the greatest Noam Chomsky roles of all time?\"\nAmerican Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein is a 2009 documentary film about the life of the American academic Norman Finkelstein, directed and produced by David Ridgen and Nicolas ...more\nHoward Zinn: You Can\u00b4t Be Neutral on a Moving Train Matt Damon, Howard Zinn, Daniel Berrigan Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train is a 2004 documentary film narrated by Matt Damon that documents the life of Howard Zinn. The film was directed by Deb Ellis and Denis ...more\nLake of Fire Lake of Fire is a 2006 documentary film that graphically depicts abortion in the United States. It features Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, Alan Dershowitz, Nat Hentoff and Randall Terry. The ...more\nIn Prison My Whole Life In Prison My Whole Life is a 2007 film directed by Marc Evans.\nNoam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause Called \"the most important intellectual alive\" by The New York Times, and \"a rebel without a pause\" by rock-star Bono, Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest minds of the 20th ...more\nThe Chomsky Sessions: Noam Chomsky on the World\nManufacturing Dissent Jennifer Lopez, Sean Hannity, Al Franken Manufacturing Dissent is a 2007 documentary that asserts that filmmaker Michael Moore has used misleading tactics, primarily using on-camera statements by interviewees with personal grievances ...more\nAristide and the Endless Revolution Aristide and the Endless Revolution is a 2005 feature documentary directed and produced by Nicolas Rossier about former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the coup d'etat that ousted ...more\nPower and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times Noam Chomsky Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times is a 2002 documentary film directed by John Junkerman.\nThe Oil Factor The Oil Factor, alternatively known as Behind the War on Terror, is an approximately 90 minute 2004 movie written and directed by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy, narrated by Ed Asner. The ...more\nHelen's War Helen's War is a tv movie.\nJohn Cage: The Revenge of the Dead Indians\nThe Party's Over Bill Maher, Newt Gingrich, Michael Moore The Party's Over is a 2001 documentary film about American Democracy.\nBhopali Bhopali is a 2011 documentary film directed by Max Carlson.\nPeace, Propaganda & the Promised Land Robert Fisk, Robert Jensen Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is a 2004 documentary by Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff which\u2014according to the film's official website\u2014\"provides a striking comparison of U.S. ...more\nAmerican Music: Off the Record American Music: Off the Record is a 2008 American documentary that features theorists Noam Chomsky and Douglas Rushkoff in an interrogation of the American music industry. The film covers a ...more\nNoam Chomsky: The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony\nEncirclement \u2013 Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Richard Brouillette\nOut of Place: Memories of Edward Said\nJapan's Peace Constitution John W. Dower, Chalmers Johnson, Beate Sirota Gordon\nReGeneration ReGeneration is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Phillip Montgomery that looks at the issues facing today's youth and young adults, and the influences that contribute to ...more\nTruth in Numbers? Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read 'publication' in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a ...more\nNoam Chomsky: Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?\nStupidity Stupidity sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test and TV programming to the ...more\nFiled Under: Films FilmNoam Chomskytop 25\nrupert grint shirtless great war movies to watch how old is tori spelling songs with heart in the title religious tv shows portal to another dimension name a child star who grew up too fast cemetery savannah ga captain marvel 15 best frozen pizza", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ranker.com/review/raghuvir-yadav/1866589?ref=node_name&pos=9&a=0<ype=n&l=413293&g=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LKH7ASIAUAN3HLCFCRVR5LLHG24HCTH4", "length": 1904, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ranker.com", "title": "Raghubir Yadav Rankings & Opinions", "raw_content": "Raghubir Yadav is an Indian film, stage and television actor, music composer, singer and set designer. He made his film debut with Massey Sahib in which Yadav played the title role. Incidentally he has never won the National Award but two International Awards as Best Actor for Massey Sahib, FIPRESCI Critic's Award, Venice Film Festival, 1986 and the Best Actor Silver Peacock, IIFI, 1987. The film also starred the noted writer and social activist, Arundhati Roy. Raghuvir Yadav is an alumnus of the 1977 batch at the National School of Drama, New Delhi ... more on Wikipedia\nlists about Raghubir Yadav\nThe Best Raghuvir Yadav Movies 119 votes List of the best Raghuvir Yadav movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. 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We usually represent the sell side of the deal and work with firms that range in size from small, one-office five-agent shops to the largest in the industry. We\u2019ve learned a few things along the way. One important thing we\u2019ve learned is that if you\u2019re thinking about selling your firm, whether next month or five years from now, you must have clean data.\nBy data, I mean financials, organizational documents, operating metrics, third-party contracts, employment agreements, insurance documents, and more. This information becomes essential at various stages of a transaction, and when it\u2019s time to produce it, the process is radically easier if it\u2019s clean and organized.\nIf your data is not clean, then it\u2019s dirty. Dirty data is essentially unorganized, incomplete, and missing information that is required at the various stages of the transaction process. Plus, dirty data has prolonged, complicated and, in some cases, killed more transactions than we can count.\nThree Stages of Information Gathering\nWhen it comes to information gathering and analysis, the transaction lifecycle can be parsed into three stages; valuation, preliminary due diligence, and due diligence. The amount of data required at each stage increases up as you run through the process.\nIn the valuation stage, we want to understand ownership structure, corporation type, operational metrics, lease information, employee information, information on affiliated services, market share information, and most importantly, financial information among the comprehensive list of data we request from our clients.\nOnce the initial valuation is completed, potential buyers are engaged. At this time, the preliminary due diligence phase begins. Buyers will perform their analysis and modeling to support a potential offer to the seller, usually in the form of a Letter of Intent (LOI). This preliminary due diligence typically looks at the same information that we do on the valuation front but may get more granular.\nFor example, many buyers like to have the income statements in Microsoft Excel and broken out monthly by office. They will take a closer look at the concentration of sales and trends in recruiting and retention. They\u2019ll also receive a close look at adjustments to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) and will seek to normalize run rates for payroll and occupancy costs. To keep the flow of information timely, sellers must have such items as historically accurate financials, detailed agent productivity reports, employee rosters, and office lease agreements.\nFull Due Diligence Stage\nOnce an LOI is executed, the transaction enters into the full due diligence stage. Sellers must be prepared for complete transparency, to provide the intimate details of their company. In addition to what\u2019s already been offered in the first two stages, buyers will ask for such items as company operating manuals, agent level commission, fee breakdowns, tax filings, detailed descriptions of real property and fixed assets, all agreements and contracts, intellectual property information, litigation information, loan and bank information, and more.\nWhether you\u2019re a broker-owner of a small firm, who does everything themselves or the owner of a larger firm with support staff, ensure that your data is clean, organized, easily accessible, and as accurate as humanly possible. Data cleanliness can make or break a transaction.\nselling firm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.recreatieparkdegrootevliet.nl/disclaimer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:QCKPGK2Y7CZ5IFG2VB6LJPRVWITSHBUC", "length": 795, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.recreatieparkdegrootevliet.nl", "title": "Disclaimer - Recreatiepark - De Groote Vliet", "raw_content": "This website contains general information with regard to Recreationpark \u201cDe Groote Vliet\u201d. Such information is intended, but not guaranteed, to be correct, complete and up-to-date. The information is provided without any warranty, either express or implied as to quality, accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose.\nRecreationpark \u201cDe Groote Vliet\u201d cannot be held liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of (or the inability to use) this website or information contained in it or from any action or decision taken as a result thereof.\nThe content of this website is subject to copyright of Recreationpark \u201cDe Groote Vliet\u201d. Users are not allowed to copy, transmit, distribute, display or create derivative works from any site content for commercial purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/06/160800/baskin-robbins-new-sundae-shakes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KBQTCKQGF6TAHL5PF5FYJ744L7PCNGL4", "length": 1944, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.refinery29.com", "title": "Baskin Robbins New Sundae Shakes", "raw_content": "Meet The Baskin-Robbins Sundae Shake\nBaskin-Robbins Shakes Are Here To Help With Ice Cream Indecision\nPerri Kressel\nCourtesy of Baskin Robbins\nWhen we\u2019re ordering ice cream, it can be hard to know exactly what we want. The possibilities are endless, plus we wouldn\u2019t want to end up with FOMO when the person behind us ultimately orders something so much better. You know the usual questions: What kind of ice cream? How many scoops? Do we want a cone or a cup? Do we want toppings? If so, what kind? Are we going to be adventurous and try a new flavor? Or stick to our all time favorites? Satisfying that sweet tooth can be tricky, especially with all of the wacky food trends that are constantly popping up in our Instagram feeds. There are Minion-inspired cones, rolled ice cream tacos, and even boozy-infused scoops, to name just a few. Luckily, Baskin-Robbins has created an under-the-radar milkshake style, that is about to make ice cream indecision a whole lot easier.\nAccording to Brand Eating, Baskin-Robbins has been testing a new hybrid line of milkshakes. The Sundae Shake \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 is a mash-up of a traditional milkshake and an ice cream sundae. The shakes come topped with scoops of ice cream and traditional sundae toppers.\nThe latest menu item first appeared in Nashville last May, and is now popping up in Detroit and New Orleans. If they become popular enough, we\u2019re guessing they\u2019ll make it to the rest of the country ASAP. Each offering can be customized, starting with the shake itself. Then, customers choose an ice cream flavor to go on top, along with a topping. The Sundae Shake is finished off with whipped cream, nuts, and maraschino cherries. Each shake costs $5.39 a pop, and will definitely help with that whole ice cream indecision problem. Except for the fact that you\u2019ll still have to customize your order, but that\u2019s a problem for another day.\nBaskin Robbins New Sundae Shakes\nwritten by Perri Kressel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reportbuyer.com/product/836243/global-carboxymethyl-cellulose-cmc-industry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ATEOULSB5PLDI6T44SYOC44NPG2JB5RO", "length": 997, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.reportbuyer.com", "title": "Global Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) Industry", "raw_content": "This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) in Thousand Pounds (lbs) and US$ Million by the following End-Use Segments - Volume Terms: Food and Beverages, Oil Field Drilling Fluids, Drugs & Cosmetics, Paper Processing Aids, Detergents, Paints & Coatings, and Other End-uses; Value Terms: Food & Beverages, Drugs & Cosmetics, and Other End-Uses.\nThe report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World.\n- Akzo Nobel N.V\n- Anqiu Eagle Cellulose Co., Ltd.\n- Ashland, Inc.,\n- CP Kelco\n- Daicel Corporation\n- DKS Co. Ltd.\nUnfinished Paper Manufacturing Global Market Report 2019\nUnfinished Paper Manufacturing Market Global Report 2019 provides the strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global unfinished paper manufacturing market. Description: Where is the largest and fastest growing market for the unfinished paper manufacturing?...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 8447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revelperformance.com/yukongear/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OLPPPBQTQSAXITMFM3ZE7TU3JIKAWIN4", "length": 431, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.revelperformance.com", "title": "Yukon Gear and Axle", "raw_content": "Home/Yukon Gear and Axle\nhttps://www.yukongear.com/\nAt Yukon Gear & Axle we make it our Mission to build quality parts that exceed expectation. It's that simple!Our in-house engineering group utilizes state-of-the-art software to design product that's then manufactured in partnership by some of the world's foremost leaders in OEM manufacturing. After rigorous testing and intense quality inspection, we're proud to call it Yukon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rhodeswardenins.com/blog/2012/01/design-your-own-health-plan-with-an-hra", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MSEEAZZBONIWZ6DZRBDIIA2WEBCOJHPN", "length": 5509, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.rhodeswardenins.com", "title": "Design Your Own Health Plan with an HRA | Rhodes-Warden Insurance in Albany OR and Stayton OR", "raw_content": "What healthcare plan allows employers to set their own maximum for employee healthcare costs, can be structured to cover 100 percent of preventive care for most employees, and gives employees greater incentive to manage their healthcare costs?\nThe answer? Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or HRAs. As one of the most flexible healthcare benefits, it\u2019s no surprise that many employers offer HRAs.\nHRAs offer tax advantages for both employees and employers. HRAs do not involve insurance\u2014rather, the employer agrees to reimburse eligible employees up to a certain amount each year for qualified healthcare expenses for themselves. HRAs can also cover spouses and eligible dependents, if the employer wishes.\nTo meet the definition of a qualified HRA, the IRS requires them to (1) be funded solely by the employer and not by salary reduction, and (2) provide benefits only for substantiated medical expenses. In other words, the HRA can only reimburse employees when they provide proof of eligible medical expenses. (3) Only employees or former employees and their spouses and dependents can participate; owners cannot (including owners of partnerships, LLCs, LLPs and S-corporations).\nHRAs Offer Flexibility\nEmployers can tailor HRAs to their needs and those of employees. HRAs can work with other benefits, such as high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and flexible spending accounts (FSAs). For example, by combining an HRA with a high-deductible health plan, you can provide low-cost health benefits for your employees that will cover 100 percent of preventive care expenses for most employees, such as routine physicals and child immunizations.\nHRAs give employers more flexibility in funding and plan design than health savings accounts (HSAs). While HSAs are funded accounts, the employer does not need to set aside funds at the beginning of the year for an HRA. Instead, you can pay reimbursements out of cash flow as need arises. Further, you can allow employees to roll HRA balances over from year to year, if you choose, as well as allowing retirees to participate.\nAs reimbursement plans, HRAs work better than many other health plans to raise employees\u2019 awareness of the real costs of healthcare, while giving them greater decision-making control over their healthcare spending.\nAdvantages of HRAs for Employers:\nYou choose how much to set aside per employee each year, and what types of qualified expenses the HRA will cover, whether preventive care, out-of-pocket expenses, dependent costs or health insurance premiums.\nYou can deduct reimbursements of qualified claims as a business expense.\nYou know at the beginning of the year the maximum amount your employee healthcare benefits will cost.\nYou can offer HRAs with other benefits, including flexible spending accounts.\nYou will have minimal paperwork and administrative burdens, compared to the costs of self-insuring.\nAdvantages of HRAs for Employees:\nThey can exclude reimbursements from gross income.\nThey may be able to accumulate unused funds for use in future years, depending on plan structure.\nThey do not have to be covered under any other health care plan to participate, unlike a health savings account (HSA), which requires a high-deductible health plan (HDHP).\nThey can use funds to be reimbursed for premium payments for a healthcare plan that meets their or their families\u2019 specific needs, as opposed to a standard company plan.\nInstead of designing a health plan for a few high-end users, you can design an HRA for the 80 percent of most companies\u2019 employees who are low-end healthcare users. To discuss the uses of HRAs in benefit design, please contact us.\nHRA Rules to Remember\nOnly employer dollars can be used to fund an HRA, not including funds that are considered employer dollars as a result of an election under a Section 125 plan. Funds may roll over from year to year.\nThe HRA may not be tied to any salary reduction or deferred compensation program, although an accompanying insurance plan may be tied to a salary reduction plan. But the salary reduction may not exceed the actual cost of the insurance plan and may not be pegged to any level of HRA contribution.\nThe employer sets parameters for the type of healthcare expenses the fund will reimburse. Reimbursements may include items allowed under IRS Section 213(d), or simply expenses not covered by the high-deductible health plan, such as deductibles, coinsurance, co-pays and other cost sharing. HRAs can also reimburse employees for health insurance premiums, such as medical plans, long-term care insurance, dental insurance and dependent coverage. Disability policies do not qualify.\nHRAs must be available for COBRA continuation on the same basis as other health plans.\nEmployers can elect whether to make HRAs available to terminating or retired employees.\nUnused HRA funds remain with the employer when an employee terminates. Employers may not bonus terminating employees an amount equivalent to the dollars that remain in their HRA.\nHRAs can coexist with flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and cafeteria plans as allowed under Section 125. The notice requires that the HRA be exhausted before the FSA pays. However, an employer may set up the HRA plan document to require FSA exhaustion first.\nMany of the timing rules of an FSA do not apply to an HRA, so a mid-year enrollment is allowed, as well as reimbursements that cross calendar years or plan years.\nThe same non-discrimination rules that apply to other health benefit programs apply to HRAs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockfordfootball.net/history---rhs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MR6OHX4R7OHATVYJYNNWQ3HM7GX7AGHQ", "length": 4561, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.rockfordfootball.net", "title": "History - RHS - ROCKFORD FOOTBALL", "raw_content": "THE HISTORY OF THE LETTERS\n\u200b\"R-H-S\"\nWhen Loren Stauffer graduated from Rockford High School in 1928, he was twenty one years old. As was very common at that time and before, many outstanding athletes at most high schools participated into their twenties because there were no rules regarding age or number of years of participation. Loren\u2019s success as a four sport athlete at R.H.S., and his accomplishments later in life served to get him elected to the Rockford Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.\nAfter high school he married Theo Platt in 1933, lived as a farmer in the Grattan area, helped to raise two children, Meradell and Alan, worked at Rapistan and never lost his interest and enthusiasm for Rockford athletics. Before his death at age 91 in August of 1998, he often took the time to answer my questions and to encourage my athletic research. His wife Theo, also was a Rockford graduate (1926). She participated in girl\u2019s athletics and also is a member of our Hall of Fame (1999). As readers know, Theo recently made available to me her scrapbooks, several pictures, some school newspapers (Rockford Rocket) and many of her husband\u2019s athletic awards. This column will focus on the track and the monogramed letter awards of Loren Stauffer.\nIn our early high school athletic history, athletes often appear in photos with a monogrammed R.H.S. on their sweaters. The letter \u201cR\u201d is usually larger than the others and located in the middle intertwined with the \u201cH\u201d and the \u201cS\u201d. Sometime later, only the letter \u201cR\u201d was used, but that letter was confusing because many high schools issued an \u201cR\u201d to players who were on the team but did not play enough to earn a varsity letter. The letter \u201cR\u201d meant \u201creserve\u201d at most schools and apparently was bothersome to Rockford athletes and to Coach Henry LeMoin.\nCoach LeMoin stated in 1924 that Rockford would discontinue giving an \u201cR\u201d as an award to varsity athletes and that a monogramed H.R.S. would be presented to football letter winners instead. He went on to say that different styles of the monogram would be given for other sports. This information, found in a copy of the \u201cRockford Rocket\u201d, helped to explain why Loren Stauffer\u2019s monograms were not all the same. I am not sure which style of monogram went with a given sport, but as readers can see from the picture accompanying this column, the difference is obvious.\nI do not believe the monogram idea lasted very long because pictures taken of athletes in the late twenties and early thirties show a letter \u201cR\u2019 being used again.\nWhat about Loren Stauffer\u2019s other athletic awards that Theo found. In the same photo as the monograms are three track medals and ten ribbons with the earliest being a second place ribbon from the June 4, 1926 Kent County Track and Field meet. Loren won it in the running broad jump, an event he would place in at the annual meet, not only in 1926, but again in 1927 (fourth) and 1928 (first). The county meet was usually held at Comstock Park.\nIn 1927 Loren placed second in the state regional meet in the running broad jump, and in 1928 he finished third at the regional track meet in the low hurdles. His medals from these events are also shown as are four ribbons that he won on May 5, 1928 in a triangular track meet with Union and Creston. Rockford traveled to Garfield Park in Grand Rapids for the three team competition. Loren won the running broad jump and placed second in the 100 yard dash, the 220 low hurdles and ran on the 880 relay team which was second also. I spent many days as a youth at Garfield Park in the forties and fifties, and no track was there at that time, so it was surprising to find that Rockford used to run meets at that location.\nTo finish the information, I should mention that the monograms appear to be cut out of felt. They are all orange in color, and I am told that some athletes had them sewn on sweaters. The ribbons are shiny material and are colored depending on the place they represent. Two are blue (first), five are red (second), one is white (third) and two are yellow (fourth). The thirteen awards are the first that I have seen from a Rockford athlete from the twenties. It is very fortunate that Mrs. Stauffer still had them, and that she wants them to be kept as part of Rockford\u2019s Athletic Hall of Fame display.\nPeople, like Loren and Theo Stauffer, are representative of many who care about our school district. They also care about others and have made a positive impact on our society. I extend my personal thanks to Theo Stauffer for all of her help. What a positve lady!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockymountaincancerassistance.org/privacy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YS76T5BAK7Z5ISW5L7P3BESQISJ5RF3A", "length": 4653, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rockymountaincancerassistance.org", "title": "privacy", "raw_content": "We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site (rockymountaincancerassistance.org), especially when conducting business.This statement governs our, Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance, privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (\"Visitors\") who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance (collectively, \"Services\") (\"Registered Clients\").\n\"Personally Identifiable Information\" refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information.\nPersonally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.\nWe may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors that includes IP address and general geolocation data.\nWe collect and store information from our Registered Clients that may include names, addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and email addresses of Registered Clients, the nature and size of the business, and comments provided by the visitor.\nWe use any data collected from our e-newsletter component to assess the effectiveness of our correspondance and to customize the messages to our Registered Clients including IP address, email, and to track reader activity only pertaining to the delivered email (opened, forwarded, opted-out).\nIn addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as search engine indexers, site software providers, hosting company and webmaster) may collect this information from our Visitors and Registered Clients. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Registered Clients. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them. Links to each of those providers are available on this website as needed or accessed.\nWe use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Registered Clients about news, new services and industry updates published on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Registered Clients in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.\nThis site employs automated e-Newsletter software. All data collected is stored securely in this site's database. No access is granted to anyother third party entity for purposes of contact or collection. The e-Newsletter component offers and opt-out feature as well as double opt-in on subscription. We use any collected data to assess the effectiveness of our correspondance and to customize the messages to our Registered Clients.\nPersonally Identifiable Information about Registered Clients is never be shared with other Registered Clients unless that information was freely entered into a forum or other public venue created solely for interaction with other Visitors or Registered Clients. We may share aggregated, non-personal, information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our Visitors and Registered Clients, with our affiliated agencies and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to \"opt out\" of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf.\nPersonally Identifiable Information collected by Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance except for use as indicated above.\nVisitors and Registered Clients may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us at privacy @ rockymountaincancerassistance.org for European Union privacy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679) (also known as GDPR) and for California privacy rights under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (also known as S.B. 27).\nMay 24, 2018, ver 1.0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/documentary-chronicling-cirque-du-soliels-beatles-show-love-debuts-249688/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:XWYQ7AP4ZDQK6IVOSXGXT26NQD6FVJXI", "length": 2069, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rollingstone.com", "title": "Documentary Chronicling Cirque du Soliel\u2019s Beatles Show \u201cLove\u201d Debuts \u2013 Rolling Stone", "raw_content": "Documentary Chronicling Cirque du Soliel\u2019s Beatles Show \u201cLove\u201d Debuts\nChristopher Porter's Most Recent Stories\nAll Together Now, a documentary about the making of the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil\u2019s Las Vegas show \u201cLOVE,\u201d made its U.S. debut Monday, opening the sixth annual Silverdocs film festival. As the sound of \u201cOompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!\u201d blasted in 5.1 stereo, heads bobbed to the nonsensical directive coursing through the AFI\u2019s Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.\nHearing the Beatles\u2019 music pumped through the AFI Silver\u2019s state-of-the-art surround-sound system would have been enough to keep people entertained, but All Together Now director Adrian Wills also provides lovely visuals and many insightful interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono (the widows of George Harrison and John Lennon, respectively).\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just a Beatles movie \u2014 it\u2019s a Beatles and Cirque movie,\u201d Wills said. \u201cBut you do get exchanges with the Beatles [that you can\u2019t see anywhere else].\u201d A lot of that openness came from the access Wills was granted by Cirque du Soleil, which he has worked with as a documentarian for seven years. \u201cWe got a lot of freedom,\u201d Wills said. \u201cNobody was policing us. I was going in with people I\u2019ve worked with before, and because of that we were able to get material nobody thought we could get.\u201d\n\u201cLOVE\u201d began with an idea Harrison shared with Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, and All Together Now pays tribute to the late guitarist\u2019s vision. But it also spotlights the immense contribution of Fab Four producer George Martin, who along with his son Giles, remixed and edited 28 Beatles songs for \u201cLOVE.\u201d\n\u201cThis show is George Martin\u2019s artistic testimony, in a way,\u201d said \u201cLOVE\u201d director Dominic Champagne. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a great contribution of this movie. It\u2019s the soul of the show, but you can\u2019t see that onstage. But you see it a lot in the movie.\u201d\nIn This Article: All Together Now,\tCirque du Soleil,\tDocumentary,\tGeorge Harrison,\tLove,\tSilverdocs Film Festival,\tThe Beatles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 6061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-bruce-springsteen-bono-perform-because-the-night-in-dublin-56353/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZLJPRFKKRZZI336OOO6ORGXN3XIQVHB", "length": 1205, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rollingstone.com", "title": "Watch Bruce Springsteen, Bono Perform \u2018Because the Night\u2019 in Dublin \u2013 Rolling Stone", "raw_content": "Watch Bruce Springsteen, Bono Perform \u2018Because the Night\u2019 in Dublin\nU2 singer joins E Street Band for Patti Smith classic\nBruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u2019s The River Tour headed to Dublin, Ireland this weekend, and at the second of two shows at the city\u2019s Croke Park Sunday, the group was joined by U2\u2018s Bono, who performed the Patti Smith classic \u201cBecause the Night\u201d alongside Springsteen and company.\nThis wasn\u2019t the first time Bono teamed with the E Street rocker on the Springsteen-co-written track: In 2003, Bono and Springsteen performed the track at an E Street show in Miami.\nSix years later, Bono, Springsteen and Smith joined up to play the song together at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary shows at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden; it was also Bono who inducted Springsteen into the Rock Hall in 1999.\nMore recently, Springsteen surprised fans at U2\u2019s August 2015 gig at Madison Square Garden by joining the band onstage for \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For\u201d and Ben E. King\u2019s \u201cStand By Me.\u201d Eight months earlier, Springsteen helped fill in for an injured Bono at U2 Minus One\u2019s World AIDS Day concert in Times Square.\nIn This Article: Bono,\tBruce Springsteen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 5268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/you-dont-get-what-you-pay-for-183666/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:OEBKQBGVAY3BVEOM42KQVY6PTLHBFA65", "length": 890, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.rollingstone.com", "title": "You Don\u2019t Get What You Pay for \u2013 Rolling Stone", "raw_content": "You Don\u2019t Get What You Pay for\nKevin Drum has a brilliant post about a survey that finds our British friends pay half the price for equal healthcare:\nSo here\u2019s the deal: under the British system, you don\u2019t have to worry about which doctors your HMO allows you to see. You don\u2019t have to worry about losing coverage if you get laid off. You don\u2019t have to worry about being unable to get a new job because you have a pre-existing condition. You don\u2019t have to worry about being bankrupted if you contract a serious chronic illness. And large corporations don\u2019t have to worry about going out of business because of spiraling healthcare obligations.\nAnd the result of all this? Healthcare that\u2019s as good as ours and delivered for about half the cost. Under a national healthcare system, when you get sick, all you have to worry about is getting well. Explain to me again why we\u2019re afraid of this?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 4830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 174.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.room207press.com/2016/10/we-dont-go-back-3-carnival-of-souls-1962.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ACYMFK432STMP7USRI4SZJ72LCU5SFM5", "length": 7156, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.room207press.com", "title": "Room 207 Press: We Don't Go Back #3: Carnival of Souls (1962)", "raw_content": "We Don't Go Back #3: Carnival of Souls (1962)\nCarnival of Souls is folk horror. Sort of.\nSubgenres are subjective. The big genres have their border cases, but when you split it off into subgenres, you inevitably end up having to make judgement calls. For example, does the English language remake of The Grudge count as J-Horror if it was filmed in Japan by the original Japanese director, notwithstanding the presence of Buffy? Is The Terminator cyberpunk? This isn't limited to film. I remember being on a music forum some years ago where there was a great deal of discussion about an intensely derivative musical genre called indiepop1, and in all good faith, I remember asking what exactly indiepop was. How it was defined, and the most cogent argument one of the forum moderators could put forward boiled down to, \"it's what I say it is.\" And actually, what I didn't really get at the time is that this is an entirely valid method of selection.\nAnd I'm going to butt up against these border cases quite a lot (just wait until I get to Valerie and her Week of Wonders). So with that in mind, I picked it because it seemed, from my memory of having seen it once, 25 years ago, to be the right sort of thing for this project.\nCandace Hilligoss.\nCarnival of Souls is one of the greatest zero-budget films ever made. it is the story of professional church organist Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss). She walks out of a car accident that happens shortly before leaving for a new job at a Catholic church in a nearby town. But in her new situation, she find herself hounded by the apparition of a deathly pale smiling man and a troupe of ghostly figures.\nDriving on a lonely highway, an apparition at the window.\nShe finds that from time to time the world goes silent and no one can see or hear her. She loses her job because she loses control of her hands and begins to play chilling, atonal melodies on the church organ. And she is drawn repeatedly to the derelict fairground on the outskirts of town.\nSome of the best sequences in the movie are where Mary explores the fairground.\nIt dawns on her that something is wrong. Something is gradually, inexorably separating her \u2013 is her alienation due to wooden acting or an amazing performance? Does it matter? \u2013 from the rest of humanity.\nMary: I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people. Everywhere...they're everywhere. They're not going to let me go. Everywhere I turn. There's something that's blocking my escape. It's trying to prevent me from living! He's trying to take me back somewhere! I can't fight anymore! I don't know what's real anymore!\nThe denouement is pure Ambrose Bierce by way of Tales from the Crypt. So why am I including it in my folk horror watch?\nHerk Harvey.\nWell, there's the cheapness of it. It's the only feature film made by Herk Harvey (who also plays the smiling man); the only acting professional in the movie is Hilligoss. The rest of the cast are Harvey's family and friends, and the locations were readily available.\nBut its status as a piece of folk art only rests partly on its home-made nature (cheapness being one of the major characteristics of folk horror); there's a lot to be said about its relationship to the landscape. Folk horror depends on the psychogeography of the rural landscape. Or to put it in a less long-wordy way, the countryside has a history and a spirit, and the way in which people relate to that history makes for stories, and often those stories are scary.\nThe fairground, in its context, isolated, pagan.\nThe American relationship with history often seems, to a European like me, a bit weird. Human monuments that go back literally thousands of years get ignored, and things that have only been gone decades are treated as heritage, as history. And here's where Carnival of Souls falls into that bracket. The Kansas landscape, with its muddy river banks and wide fields and dust and highways, is isolating and carries a threat. And the fairground is, with the real human history of the land having been effaced, the nearest those fields will have to a stone circle or an abandoned temple.\nThe dance of the dead.\nMary Henry, with her inability to commit to the church she works for, is drawn to a peculiar kind of religion; the derelict funfair depicts a historical denial of the church, its earthy tackiness a kind of pagan counterpoint to the clean, austere and modern Catholic church Mary plays for; when the pale ghosts dance to the eerie wheezing organ, you could be seeing the American counterpoint to a British witches' Sabbat.\nOK, it's a stretch. I mean, Carnival of Souls could fall into a folk horror bracket; it just as easily falls into the genre of movies made by men where women go quietly mad (Black Swan, Repulsion), or into a bunch of other brackets. But I think its low-key home-made Americana earns it a place on my project.\nAlex Cox2, introducing the film on its 1991 BBC2 broadcast (which was the first and last time I saw it before this morning), summed it up so: \"minute for minute, it is better entertainment, has better direction and more inspired performances than films costing tens of millions more.\"\n1Indiepop is a musical genre that I largely do not care for. As far as I can make out, to qualify, it has to be badly-produced, on a tiny label, and feature off-key singing and handclaps. 90% of indiepop albums sound exactly the same. But then you could argue that 90% of folk horror looks exactly the same unless you look really closely, so that's not actually a critique. That's just me admitting I don't really like it, although there was a period when I did, very much. Clearly I am not the man I was. (back)\n2Alex Cox directed Repo Man, which is my single favourite movie, and several other wacky, strange, wonderful films. His version of Death and the Compass, which I saw on the BBC some time in early 1996, is the reason I got into Borges. In the late 80s and early 90s, he presented a series of cult movies under the banner Moviedrome. Many of these films I would never have heard of if it weren't for Cox; in fact at least one movie (Nothing Lasts Forever) is still unavailable on any domestic format. (back)\nPosted by Howard Ingham at 1:39 pm\nLabels: horror, we don't go back\nUnknown Thursday, 27 October, 2016\nI have got to respectfully disagree with your assessment of this film. I like a slow build as much as the next horror fiend, but this film was inexorable with little payoff.\nHoward Ingham Friday, 28 October, 2016\nWell, I dunno. I think the ending is the best ending the film could have, and yeah it's the exact ending of \"An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge\" but I think that's fitting.\nI suppose, to continue, that it depends on what you mean by a payoff in the first place. For me, the succession of creepy, eerie images is in itself the reward of the movie; the ending is the least of it.\nNick Sunday, 30 October, 2016\nGreat film. I first saw it on Moviedrome back in the day too (second time this week that programme's come up in conversation). 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Baalke dismissed that notion.\n\u201cGuys, you keep going back to the same old (stuff),\u201d he said. \u201cThe bottom line is that all these guys ... are under contract. The expectation is to move forward with them. I can\u2019t predict tomorrow with any of them. The expectation is that (Kaepernick\u2019s) on our roster. I\u2019ve said that multiple times. And I know that the coaching (staff) is looking forward to getting to work with these guys.\u201d\nSmith\u2019s trade to the Chiefs in 2013 was preceded by a dinner Smith and his wife attended with Baalke, during which the general manager went over various trade options. That hasn\u2019t happened in Kaepernick\u2019s case, and there\u2019s been no sign the team has tested the trade waters.\nKelly spoke highly of Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbert in January, saying two quality quarterbacks are needed to win in the NFL.\nGabbert replaced Kaepernick as the starter after eight games last season. Gabbert finished with better statistics and won three starts compared to two for Kaepernick.\nBaalke suggested Kaepernick, who took the team to the Super Bowl in 2012, would have to compete for the starting job.\n\u201cObviously, we\u2019ve got two quarterbacks that have proven they can go into an NFL game and play at a high level,\u201d Baalke said. \u201cThere\u2019s no working knowledge of either of these quarterbacks with respect to the new staff. So all of these guys are going to be competing for their positions, not just the quarterback position.\u201d\nIf Kaepernick doesn\u2019t win the starting job, the 49ers\u2019 highest-paid player would be on the bench.\n\u201cWouldn\u2019t be the first time in history,\u201d Baalke said. \u201cBut once again, you\u2019re creating a lot of speculation over nothing. Let\u2019s get these guys in here and let\u2019s go to work.\u201d\nGallery: 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick through the years\nGeneral manager Trent Baalke said he envisions Colin Kaepernick being on the roster on April 1 when his base salary becomes guaranteed.Jose Luis VilligasThe Bee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.salon.com/2006/03/10/fante_2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WCUWQJAPFRVFEKUO7HYJTULEDJANT5ZM", "length": 7925, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.salon.com", "title": "Who was John Fante? | Salon.com", "raw_content": "Who was John Fante?\nThe Italian American author of \"Ask the Dust\" was the quintessential L.A. writer, a big brother to the Beats and the voice of immigrant America.\nIn his current book, \"An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America,\" George De Stefano bemoans the fact that young Italian Americans know themselves only through skewed popular images: \"They know all about John Gotti but not John Fante.\" Unfortunately, you don't have to be Italian American not to know who John Fante was, though perhaps a few more will discover his work thanks to Robert Towne's adaptation of Fante's best-known novel, \"Ask the Dust,\" starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, which opens March 10.\nIf it weren't for Charles Bukowski, who regarded Fante as his (please excuse the term, but it applies) literary godfather and who dedicated poems to him, it's likely that few would remember Fante's name today. Bukowski, who was known in the early part of his literary career to go around shouting, \"I am Arturo Bandini!\" in tribute to Fante's ebullient, raw-nerved literary alter ego, was instrumental in getting Fante's books back into print in the late '70s, shortly before Fante's death in 1983. (Twelve of his books are currently in print from Ecco, including all four of the Arturo Bandini novels.)\nFante -- the name rhymes with Dante, which must have afforded no end of amusement to someone whose best-known character constantly proclaimed a desire to be \"the world's greatest writer\" -- is one of the true bad boys of 20th century American literature. Born in 1909 and raised in an Italian American ghetto in, of all places, Boulder, Colo., Fante fits into no particular niche. Many refer to him as the quintessential L.A. novelist -- not exactly the most glowing of recommendations, but one that does take in, after all, Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West, whose \"Day of the Locust\" was published in 1939, the same year as \"Ask the Dust.\" (Michael Tolkin, author of \"The Player,\" is a longtime admirer of Fante's work. He recently told the Los Angeles Times that if the Los Angeles school system was serious about its curriculum, it would \"make 'Ask the Dust' mandatory reading.\")\nOthers have called him the big brother of the Beats. Italian Americans have never known quite what to do with him; second-generation Italian Americans might display a copy of \"Christ in Concrete\" by Pietro Di Donato on their bookshelves (as my father did), even though Di Donato was a communist, because, after all, he had achieved some measure of respect in the literary world, as few Italian Americans had. But John Fante was notorious. My father's generation didn't read him, or didn't admit to reading him, which is a shame because in many ways he was the writer who most embodied the hopes, dreams and insecurities of the children of immigrants.\nBut at least one immigrant son appreciated his work. Following the success of the \"Godfather\" films, Francis Ford Coppola, the seemingly perfect director for a Fante novel (he had, after all, made two classics out of a truly crappy novel by another Italian American writer), expressed interest in making a movie of \"The Brotherhood of the Grape,\" with Towne doing the script, but the project never materialized. A few years earlier, Towne had purchased the movie rights to \"Ask the Dust,\" which he discovered while doing period research on Los Angeles for the script for \"Chinatown.\" Towne didn't have the leverage to make the film, though every few years rumors would circulate that he was about to begin. He worked on potboilers like the Tom Cruise \"Mission Impossible\" movies to get enough points to kick-start a film of \"Ask the Dust\"; in 2000, in the wake of \"Titanic,\" a story in the trade papers said that Towne would write and direct a film version of \"Ask the Dust\" with Leonardo DiCaprio as Bandini. (In fact, Belgian director Dominique Deruddere beat both Coppola and Towne to the screen in 1989 with a charming but little-seen film version of Fante's first published novel, \"Wait Until Spring, Bandini,\" starring Joe Mantegna, Faye Dunaway, Ornella Muti and Michael Bacall. Unfortunately, the film failed to stir any public interest in Fante's work.)\nFante was never truly in fashion, though for a time in the late '30s and '40s he seemed nearly fashionable. The barbaric yawp of Arturo Bandini was the uncommitted conscience of immigrant America, one that practically went unremarked on in mainstream American literature. Bandini is a seething mass of contradictions, an Italian chauvinist who looked for Joe DiMaggio's name in the sports pages every morning and was at the same time insecure about having a name that ended in a vowel. \"Do you like your name?\" his Mexican girlfriend, Camilla, taunts him in \"Ask the Dust.\" \"Don't you wish it was Johnson, or Williams, or something?\" 'No,' says Bandini, he is satisfied with his real name. But he is lying and she knows it. 'No, you're not. I know.'\" Typical of Fante's work, the relationship between Arturo and Camilla seethes with resentment on both sides; Arturo, a step up on the ladder of ethnic assimilation, doesn't hesitate to browbeat her with racial slurs when provoked -- and she doesn't hesitate to sling \"Dago\" at him in return. Modern readers may be appalled at the bitterness of these exchanges, but it's almost refreshing to hark back to a time when people said what was on their minds, however narrow those minds may have been.\nUnlike most other period novelists whose protagonist was a glossed-over version of themselves, Fante never positioned Arturo or any of his other characters as a moral center to his story. Bandini is, alternately, a callous emotional brute and a sentimentalist, an egomaniac fascinated with and sympathetic to the lives and problems of others. Did he contradict himself? OK, then, Arturo might have replied, Up yours -- so I contradict myself.\nThe mid-'50s, which should have been Fante's golden period, were instead the beginning of a long, slow and miserable decline. Sometime around 1955 he was diagnosed with diabetes, which plagued him for years. By 1978 he had gone blind, but continued writing by dictating to his wife, Joyce. He made a living largely as a screenwriter on numerous films, practically none of which have survived in any form and only two of which I've been able to track down -- one a pretty good TV movie from 1968 called \"Something for a Lonely Man\" starring \"Bonanza's\" Dan Blocker, in his last role before his death, Susan Clark and Warren Oates. The other was \"Walk on the Wild Side,\" starring Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, the inexplicably bad 1962 film version of Nelson Algren's great novel of New Orleans in the Depression -- a film script that Fante would have seemed born to write. According to Stephen Cooper's definitive and exhilarating 2000 biography of Fante, aptly titled \"Full of Life,\" the film was compromised from the start with neither novelist's talent for gritty lyricism being given a chance to breathe.\nFante's son, Dan, himself a novelist, remembers that his father was virtually forgotten. \"When I was a kid and a young man,\" he recalled in a recent interview, \"my old man was a failed novelist and screenwriter. Actually, honestly, he was a fix-it journeyman hack screenwriter, forget novelist. He was unfamous.\"\nNow, at least for a brief time, John Fante is famous again, or at least un-unfamous. It's doubtful that the movie version of \"Ask the Dust\" will do anything more than lead a few thousand new readers to Fante's work, but it will keep his books alive for a new generation of readers. And, who knows? With so many new immigrants coming to America, perhaps Arturo Bandini will find himself nearly fashionable all over again.\nAllen Barra cowrote Marvin Miller's memoirs, A Whole Different Ballgame. His latest book is Mickey and Willie: The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age.\nMORE FROM Allen Barra", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 9706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.saulet.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CFRUUHGX6AWTMNCXRDO7MFP5OD6WA7RZ", "length": 1754, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.saulet.com", "title": "Luxury Apartments in New Orleans, LA | The Saulet Apartments", "raw_content": "Welcome to Saulet\nThe Saulet emerged from the desire to show New Orleanians that renting can and should be easy. Our community is your best choice if you're searching to rent the perfect apartment in New Orleans, LA. We've left nothing to chance, as no detail is too small when it comes to a quality apartment living experience. The sheer number of amenities is enough to make your head spin, while our open and flexible layouts give you the chance to choose from 16 available floor plans, with one, two, or three-bedrooms, ranging from 573 to 1623 square feet.\nIf this is your first time renting an apartment in NOLA, then The Saulet is your best choice. Our pet-friendly community is conveniently located in the Lower Garden District with easy access to the freeway, and plenty of public transportation options, so you can get anywhere, with time to spare.\nIndulge in all the perks of a lavish and carefree lifestyle and let us pamper you. You can lounge by one of our two pools, soak in the heated outdoor jacuzzi or take part in one of our many resident activities. Stay healthy and active with yoga classes, available at our Pilates center, or head over to our state of the art fitness center for an intense workout. Come home after a long day and put your new cooking skills to good use in your fully equipped gourmet kitchen. The nine-foot-high ceilings with elegant crown molding give your apartment a sense of timeless grace and sophistication, allowing you to relax and unwind in the perfect living space. Add in ample storage spaces, contemporary lighting, relaxing European soaking tubs, large walk-in closets and a wrap-around balcony and you'll never want to leave the house. These and more are waiting for you at The Saulet. Visit us today", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/tag/time-magazine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4XE76S6FGVRI4V43KFSJBBORUEG25SR3", "length": 1187, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sayanythingblog.com", "title": "time magazine Archives - Say Anything", "raw_content": "President Trump and a crying child on a recent cover of Time Magazine.\nThis Is Why Right-of-Center Americans Don\u2019t Trust the Journalism Industry\nI awoke this morning to two stories in my news feed I feel are pretty strongly related to one another. First was the results of a Pew Research study into public perceptions of the media. According to Pew, far more right-of-center Americans distrust the journalism industry than their left-of-center neighbors: Fresh data affirm a long-running\u2026\nTags: donald trump, immigration, media bias, pew research, time magazine\nState officials take time to meet between legislative meetings on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the State Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)\nHow About Some Credit for North Dakota\u2019s Legislature?\nRecently Time magazine listed the North Dakota Legislature as reason number 86 to love America. The article doesn\u2019t seem to be available online anywhere that I can find. Apparently publishing things in print exclusively is still a thing? Anyway, a friend took a picture of the article and sent it to me (I\u2019m not a Time subscriber)\u2026\nTags: doug burgum, election 2016d, North Dakota Legislature, time magazine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sea-of-solar-panels-turns-mexican-desert-green", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ7ZQ3TFAYACZYZINF75OGLNLE7VMWDN", "length": 1533, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sbs.com.au", "title": "Sea of solar panels turns Mexican desert green | SBS News", "raw_content": "Mexico's new solar park, the largest in Latin America, could help to power more than a million homes with renewable energy.\nFrom a distance, it looks like a deep-blue sea has formed in the middle of the Mexican desert.\nBut this is no mirage. It's the largest solar park in Latin America.\nWith 2.3 million solar panels covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the arid northern state of Coahuila, the Villanueva power plant is part of Mexico's push to generate 43 per cent of its electricity from clean sources by 2024.\nThe solar panels will produce enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes.\nArrayed across the sand in seemingly endless rows that stretch to the horizon, the solar panels - built by Italian energy company Enelare - turn in tandem with the sun, like a giant field of shimmering metallic sunflowers.\nThe $650-million project came online in December and is due to produce 1,700-gigawatt hours when fully operational later this year - enough to power 1.3 million homes.\nWill Australia follow Britain's plastic straw ban?\nTo get there, it is tendering clean energy projects in which private companies produce, sell and purchase electricity on an open market.\nThe three projects tendered so far have generated an estimated $8.6 billion in investment. The resulting electricity will power some 6.5 million homes, according to government figures.\nThe Villanueva plant is the largest solar project in the world outside China and India.\n1 hour ago North America\nAt least one dead, several wounded in US shooting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.schmidtreport.co.uk/hmrc-taskforce-achievements/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:31Z", "digest": "sha1:COOW4PACV24N4W3J2HFOSEFTMEARC6KO", "length": 583, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.schmidtreport.co.uk", "title": "HMRC taskforce achievements \u00b7", "raw_content": "HMRC taskforce achievements\nHMRC taskforces have recovered more than \u00a3500m since they were launched five years ago with nearly \u00a3250m raised in 2015/16 alone (almost double the previous year\u2019s yield). The taxman has launched more than 140 taskforces targeting sectors that are at the highest risk of tax fraud including the \u2018adult entertainment, retail and tobacco industries. Lat year nearly new taskforces were launched including ones targeted at property, partnerships and hidden wealth. The 2015 taskforce focused on income tax led to 45 arrests for tax evasion and fraud. 12.6.16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/projects-exploring-children39s-interests/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HZ7TMROKVEIDW6FCLHE7S5IBYXMXE34E", "length": 17917, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.scholastic.com", "title": "Projects! Exploring Children's Interests | Scholastic", "raw_content": "Step-by-Step Strategies Teaching Expository Writing\nThe Magic School Bus Flies with the Dinosaurs\nThe Magic School Bus Arctic Adventure\nThe Magic School Bus and the Shark Adventure\nThe Magic School Bus in the Bat Cave\nThe Magic School Bus and the Missing Tooth\nThe Magic School Bus Blows Its Top\nProjects! Exploring Children's Interests\nBy Judy Harris Helm, Ed.D.\nJoshua is bubbling with excitement when his father picks him up. \"We took pictures today! There were light meters, and the guy used a power pack. I got to hold the photo umbrella!\" His father is genuinely surprised by the words Josh is using and amazed to find himself in a conversation with his four-year-old about portrait shots and close-ups.\"\nScenes like this one occur often when children are involved in the project approach, when intense involvement and in-depth exploration foster intellectual growth, positive attitudes toward researching, and a bevy of tangential learning experiences.\nWHAT IS THE PROJECT APPROACH?\nListening to children, observing their play, and being on the alert for topics that pique their interest are just starting points for this process of teaching and learning. After you and your group have chosen a focus, the project approach involves children in an in-depth exploration of a topic of interest -- thinking about what they already know, asking questions that guide their investigations, and making decisions about the work to be done. As knowledge increases, children begin to process and express their learning through such activities as collecting data, making observational drawings, and constructing models. The life of a project is fluid, growing and changing as children explore. Keep in mind, the best projects come from studying things that are part of children's everyday lives, such as balls or the boiler room in your building.\nWhen a professional photographer used Joshua's school as the setting for some pictures he needed, the children couldn't contain their excitement about what he was doing and everything he was using - the sounds, textures, and functions of the tools of his craft. There was so much to investigate and so much to ask: \"Why do you need that box? What does it do?\" \"Why do you have an umbrella?\" \"Is this your job?\" \"Can I hold that camera?\" \"Is it heavy?\" \"Will it break?\" Some children wanted to see every test shot. Others wanted to look through the lens. Even a young three-year-old went to search for the toy camera she remembered seeing in the prop box. Their teacher smiled: Perhaps it's time to do a project on photography.\nConsider organizing your approach to project work in three phases. In the beginning phase, follow children's leads to determine the project topic, make an instructional web for your own preparation, and find out what children already know and want to know. During the second phase, investigate the topic based on children's questions and directions. And in the third phase, as interest peaks, end the project by reviewing what you've learned and participating in a group culminating activity. Just keep in mind that the project approach is a journey that you and your children take together. Children, with your guidance, determine both the goals and the pathways to reach them.\nPhase One: Beginning the Project\nYoung children show their interests in many different ways. An object brought to class, an event, a place they've visited, even a story, can ignite just the right spark of enthusiasm. Children's questions, as well as their conversations, offer important clues. And, as you already know, even the youngest children with limited verbal skills can let you know when they're interested in something. Three-year-olds push their way forward to get a closer look, pick special items to treasure, or hoard significant \"souvenirs.\" Joshua's teacher had a head start. The photographer and his assistant, gear in hand, inspired spontaneous investigation.\nWhether it looks like your children are particularly curious about cameras or machines that build or dogs that help the blind, when it seems that a topic has the potential to be a successful project, test the water by allowing children time to \"mess around\" with related information. Bring in a few artifacts. Informally engage children at group time and individually to find out what they know and what they would like to know, paying close attention to their degree of enthusiasm.\nSuccessful projects focus on topics related to children's everyday experiences. A great subject invites children to use their senses, offers many possible artifacts, relates to a variety of learning areas, and lends itself to getting acquainted with experts and their tools.\nIf a topic appears truly to capture children's interest and meets most of the above criteria, you can begin to plan for a full-blown project.\nFirst, create an instructional web. This process serves to help you think as well as plan. Write the name of the topic in the center of a fairly large piece of paper and ask yourself the following questions: What might children want to know about this topic? What concepts could I bring to the process? Which areas of development could this topic enhance? What media might children use in their investigations? What are some resources we could use? One teacher, for instance, got the sense that her group might like to do a project on school buses. Her web branched out to such related topics as different kinds of buses, engines, mechanics, where buses go, colors of buses, and bus drivers. Possibilities for concept activities included language (responding to Why? Where? When? and Who? questions) and counting and/or graphing the number and kinds of bus seats, steps, wheels, lights, windows, buttons, and so on. Included on her web were possible field trips and experts, books she could read to children, and the idea of making posters that could go on the sides of buses. The possibilities seemed endless, and her excitement grew. The purpose of taking the time to do an instructional web is to see whether the topic has enough depth and breadth. Moreover, if the idea does become a project, you've thought about it in advance. Your mind is on the subject. Though children may not take the subject exactly where you anticipated it might go, you'll be more likely to pick up on their leads and introduce appropriate words and resources.\nGive children time to \"mess around\" with the topic. The younger the children, the more time they will need. Read some stories together, encourage them to talk about and draw their experiences and bring in some artifacts for children to handle and draw.\nCreate a children's web. Again, write the topic in the center of a large piece of paper. But this time ask children to tell you what they already know, recording each of their contributions. When they were discussing the school bus project, for example, children offered such insights as \"A bus has a lot of wheels and seats.\" \"There's a stop sign that comes out.\" \"There is a back door and a front door.\" \"You need a key to start it.\" \"There is oil in the bus and a horn.\" Of course, there were many more contributions, and the teacher recorded them in abbreviated words with shorthand illustrations.\nMove on to what children would like to know. In Joshua's class, the children learned a lot just from the experience of having Jimmy (the photographer) in their room. So, after building a children's web on photography, the teacher asked a few open-ended \"wh\" questions: \"What do you want to know?\" \"Who would you like to know about?\" \"Where would you like to go?\" \"When should we start?\" This process not only helps children learn to ask questions, but as you add their responses to the web, children can see ideas begin to form and their interest grows. Use the children's web to help the group decide on the questions they will seek answers to in phase two and zero in on field sites and interviews.\nJust a reminder: It's not unusual to consider several topics before the right one emerges. If, however, during the process a topic just doesn't seem to have the potential for lasting exploration, don't feel you've wasted time. After all, children have still learned about something they're interested in. The same topic, at a different time, with a different group, may spark enough interest and curiosity to fill your room with learning and intellectual exploration for weeks.\nPhase Two: Developing the Project\nDirected by the questions that children generated in phase one, this phase is the heart of project work. Children interview and work with experts, visit field sites, and explore all sorts of other resources. They begin to find answers to their questions and ask new ones. At the same time, they may be observing and recording their findings, making predictions, and discussing and dramatizing what they are learning. Take time to go back to the children's web to review and revise. Start a project word list, writing down new words as they become a part of children's vocabulary.\nLET'S GO TO THE EXPERTS\nPart of nitty-gritty project work is arranging for children to interact successfully with adults who know enough about the topic to answer questions and who also relate well to young children. If your group has become captivated with learning about birds, a senior citizen (and practicing grandpa) who has learned about birds through years of caring for them may be a better expert for your group than a university professor who specializes in ornithology. Older children with hobbies also make good experts. And letters home to parents explaining your latest project often result not only in some terrific resources and artifacts on loan but also family members who volunteer to bring their particular expertise to children's search for information.\nAfter you've had time to talk with your experts about children's developmental level, arrange a time for them to visit, share what they know, and answer questions. Hopefully, you'll be able to develop an ongoing relationship, and they may even lend your program a few artifacts for children to study. A firefighter might leave a helmet for children to examine, try on, and draw. A photographer might be persuaded to leave a small light table so that children can view slides they've taken together.\nVISITING THE SOURCE\nField-site visits differ from traditional field trips because children participate in the role of investigators actively seeking answers to their own questions.\nPlan a pre-trip visit. If at all possible, arrange to talk to your hosts to explain the project approach and that children will have specific tasks they're hoping to accomplish during their visit. Talking about the needs of your group goes a long way toward ensuring a meaningful experience. Also, on your pre-trip visit, scout the area for sketching opportunities - objects that children can draw and safe places where they will have a good view. One teacher, whose group was doing a project on fast food, got together with a store manager, who put a French fry basket on a table for children to draw. During a grocery store project, children sketched the cash register, the freezer compartment, the shopping cart, the fruit display, the front of the store, and even the big store sign. When another group decided to do a project on drive-up banks, the bank manager fenced off one of the drive-up lanes so that children could investigate and draw the equipment.\nBe prepared as a group. Review with children what they want to find out from their visit. Decide how you can make sure you'll have a record of the trip to share and study after you get back. Make a list of important questions and who wants to ask each one. You can write each question on a file card for children to \"officially\" carry, along with a clipboard with drawing paper and a pencil attached to it with a string. Talk about other ways children can participate. Some can take pictures. (Even a three-year-old can use a simple camera if it's handed to him just when it's time to shoot and is guided to the appropriate angle.)\nChildren can also use their clipboards, paper, and pencils to make field sketches. These observational drawings not only help children focus but also give them something to bring back to jog their memories about the experience and to help them feel ownership of the visit and the project. You might want to practice this skill before your first trip by asking those children who would like to try drawing any of the artifacts you've collected in your room. When you first do observational drawing with young children, help them get started by looking at an object, tracing it in the air with their finger, and then placing their finger on the paper where they will begin to draw. Other children work best when they focus on one specific part of a large object.\nGet help. Volunteers can help children find places to work, remember their questions, and keep track of materials. Perhaps a family member can come along and videotape the visit. Someone else might volunteer to take photographs or slides. Consider a pre-trip meeting or send a letter home to help everyone understand how they can enable the trip experience to foster important project goals, especially child-initiated investigation.\nAs children get more and more involved in the investigation process, they begin to represent what they are learning through concrete activities. Don't expect young children to think of ways to do this on their own, especially the first time you do project work. (See \"Learning Centers\" on page 32 for activities that came about from one group's interest in photography or to get an idea of the types of activities related to photography children can get involved in even in their own room.)\nHow you can help. Bringing in a few large boxes or big sheets of paper can trigger an idea. Also revisit field sketches and photographs. Ask questions to spark children's thinking: \"What is going on in this picture?\" \"What were you doing here?\" \"What did you like about this?\" This process helps children take closer, deeper looks at the topic. As children become more experienced, they often give one another ideas and their representational work may extend and expand over several days or even weeks. Your role may also include helping children find something specific they would like to work on or dividing a task they've decided on so that everyone who wants to participate can.\nWhat to expect. Just as children differ in developmental levels and interests, they will differ in the degree and duration of participation. Project work might occur during group time with everyone sharing and thinking aloud. Small groups might explore a particular aspect of the project, or during free play children may choose to build, draw, or write about their evolving interest. During a fire truck project, a group of four-year-olds spent several weeks building an intricate child-size fire truck for play. When it was completed, they played in it for one day and then moved on to related activities that involved drawing and painting. At that point, a group of three-year-olds who had contributed little to the construction began to use the truck for their own elaborate, realistic dramatic play. Remember, too, that children who stand back and observe also learn about the topic and how to do projects. Often they become leaders the next time around.\nPhase Three: Concluding the Project\nWhen children seem to be winding down their investigations and related activities, or other topics are capturing most of their attention, begin to talk about culminating your project.\nDebrief. Review the documentation you and your group have kept. Compare early drawings and sketches with later ones. Ask children to report on what they've learned or offer tours of their constructions. Again, involve children in responding to open-ended questions to help them realize what they've accomplished.\nAsk youngsters how they'd like to share what they have learned. A closing event focuses on what children have learned and gives the group an opportunity to reflect on their roles as learners. Here are just a few ideas: a large display, a book about the project children can borrow to take home, a videotape that tells the story of the project, an open house with families, or a large multimedia mural.\nAlthough simple in structure, the project approach requires connecting with children's interests and following their lead. It is this openness and willingness to be learners alongside children that make the project approach challenging. Teachers who have had true projects happen in their rooms are thrilled with the results. The project approach provides unique experiences that shape not only children's knowledge and skills but also their attitudes about learning and intellectual curiosity. When projects are good, they are, indeed, very, very good for both children and teachers.\nInterest in doing the project approach with young children has been renewed through the work of Lilian G. Katz, Ph.D., professor of early childhood education, curriculum and instruction, and special education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Sylvia C. Chard, Ed.D., associate professor of education at the University of Alberta, as well as the exhibits of projects in the schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. You can learn more from the following: Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach by Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard (Ablex Publishing Corporation)\nThe Project Approach Catalog I and II by Judy Harris Helm (ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education)\nWindows on Learning: Documenting Young Children's Work by Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke, and Kathy Steinheimer (Teachers College Press).\nClassroom Management Curriculum Development Discovery and Learning Early Learning Family and Community Involvement Field Trips Learning and Cognitive Development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 19949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/how-does-an-earphone-get-tangled-all-by-itself.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XFQIGUHSHYGTPSSBJCJ7BKDTMNVHIVSM", "length": 4571, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.scienceabc.com", "title": "What is Knot Theory? \u00bb Science ABC", "raw_content": "How Does an Earphone Get Tangled Up All By Itself?\nEvery now and then, you have a bad day at the office/college when time just doesn\u2019t seem to move and the day drags on and on. Finally when the torturous hours ends, you\u2019re exhausted as hell. You\u2019re certainly in no mood to hear random people babbling about their problems during your commute back home, so in order to unwind and get some energy back, you decide to take out your earphones, pump up that music, and shut out the world.\nHowever, it happens to be the day when the entire universe is conspiring against you. As you take out the earphones from your bag, you realize that they have somehow tangled themselves into a tight knot! You haven\u2019t touched them all day, and they were perfectly normal this morning, but now they\u2019ve managed to become an inextricable mess.\nTangled earphones have become an everyday problem. Ask any teenager; they can handle bad grades, break-ups and lectures from parents, but when their earphones get tangled, they seem to go crazy and lose their minds. These miniature music-makers seem to have minds of their own. The most frustrating part is that no one knows how the earphones get tangled all by themselves. You put your earphones perfectly in the bag and they come out transformed and unusable. Don\u2019t even think about putting them in your jeans pocket, the tangled mess you\u2019ll remove will take you ages to unravel. Most people can solve a Rubix cube faster than they can untangle their earphones.\nThe Knot Theory\nThis may sound ludicrous, but scientists consider the problem of earphones very seriously. Granted, their interest isn\u2019t solely due to their desire to listen to music, but rather because of a mathematical theory known as the knot theory, the purpose of which is to figure out how on earth random things get tangled all by themselves.\nKnot theory was developed in the 1800s, long before earphones were invented, and since then, scientists have been fascinated by this unexplained phenomenon, as it applies to cables, shoelaces, wires etc. They all seem to want to be tangled.\nIt was the year 2007 when two physicists decided to take a fresh look at this modern-day problem. Physicist Douglas Smith and his then-undergraduate student Dorian Raymer performed experiments by placing a string into a box before tumbling the box for about 10 seconds. They performed this experiment roughly 3,000 times with strings of different length, boxes of different size, and varying rotation rates of tumbling.\nThey applied the famous knot theory to their results and published their study in the paper: \u201cThe spontaneous knot of an agitated string\u201d. In the study, they found that almost 50% of the time, the string would form a knot by itself.\nLength of the String\nAccording to the paper, the chances of a string getting tangled depends on its length. A string of length less than 46cm will hardly ever get tangled, but the probability of a string getting tangled increases with an increase in the length of the string. A string up to a length of 2 meters has about a 50% chance of getting tangled; however, strings longer than 2 meters seem cramped in the box, so the probability of them getting tangled does not increase past 50% with additional length.\nA typical earphone has a length of about 120cm-160cm, so every time you put your earphones in your pocket, there is a 50% chance that you\u2019ll be irritated the next time you pull out your earphones for some music.\nIt doesn\u2019t take much time for a neatly placed string to get into an awful mess inside a box. As shown in the diagram, all it takes is one end of a string crossing the other end twice to form a spontaneous knot.\nIn short, scientists are saying that there is nothing you can do to prevent your earphones from getting tangled up when you put them in your pocket. It\u2019s all a matter of luck, unless you neatly fold the earphone into a box provided by the manufacturer (my personal research suggests that NO ONE does this).\nBasically, it\u2019s just a daily problem that we all have to face\u2026oh, the struggles of modern life. At least now you know why your earphones seem to hate you, but that doesn\u2019t make it any less annoying!\nAs I always say, life is like a tangled earphone in your pocket; in order to enjoy all the music of life, you have to patiently untangle yourself, otherwise you\u2019re just as messed up as a tangled bit of wire.\nKnot Theory \u2013 The University of Edinburgh\nSpontaneous Knotting Of An Agitated String \u2013 Proceedings National Academy of Sciences\nThe short URL of the present article is: http://sciabc.us/Zapm9", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seamester.com/trip-logs/first-day-of-race-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:09Z", "digest": "sha1:CSKDH3N42AKNPU7CXEEBIVMQRY3S7GJ6", "length": 1896, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.seamester.com", "title": "First Day of Race Week", "raw_content": "First Day of Race Week\nBy: Tom Stratton Apr 15, 2011\nToday was an incredible day that I think everyone will remember for a long time. We woke up early to get Argo ready for racing, which is something we have been looking forward to for 80 days. It was an amazing feeling to be preparing the sails for racing amidst all of these gorgeous boats with professional crews doing the same jobs as us. As our starting time approached, Captain Steve guided Argo away from the docks along with what must have 75 other boats forming a parade toward the starting line. There were boats ranging in size from small sailing dinghies all the way up to the largest, majestic J boats. Once we cleared the harbor we set our sails and began jockeying for position ahead of the starting line. With three minutes before the start for our class, which includes three other boats, we set up our final approach of the line with perfect timing to cross just as the gun went off. After the first leg of the race, we found ourselves in second place. As we made the turn around the first mark for the down wind leg, the wind, which was already light, began die down even more, and soon we were just barely crawling along. While we were on the down wind leg, the J boats that started behind us caught up us to us and passed us just 50 yards away. It was a breathtaking sight to see these works of art underway so close. We held onto second place until the third, upwind leg of the race where one of the other boats chose a better tack out away from land where there was more wind. We ended up finishing the race in third place. Everyone onboard was very happy with how we raced, and we certainly held our own against some of the best crews in the world. Overall it was a thrilling day even with the lack of wind. With more wind in the forecast we are all confident that we can continue to do well and move up in the standings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.senatorjohnwilliams.com/news-room/media-releases/969-tweed-murwillumbah-big-winners-in-regional-funding-round", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XPDZ3QT4PQ3OYXHO4EQI6ATGFQOVCMDD", "length": 2142, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.senatorjohnwilliams.com", "title": "TWEED, MURWILLUMBAH BIG WINNERS IN REGIONAL FUNDING ROUND", "raw_content": "\u201cAround regional Australia the Liberal and Nationals\u2019 Government is focused on building strong and resilient regional communities with the services and infrastructure locals deserve,\u201d Mr McCormack said.\n\u201cWe have delivered in regional funding for communities big and small around the nation, and the recent Federal Budget commited yet another $200 million to another round of the important Building Better Regions Fund.\u201d\nThe Tweed Heads Civic, Cultural Centre Plaza and Social Enterprise Caf\u00e9 will receive $563,910 to build an outdoor ampitheatre, while the Murwillumbah Town Centre Revitalisation Project has been allocated $500,000 towards the build of a new entry plaza, refurbished bus shelter, amenities block and upgraded associated infrastructure in and around Knox Park.\nThe Nationals\u2019 Senator for New South Wales John Williams said the investment will help create local jobs during construction and improve communty facilities.\n\u201cThis will have major flow-on benefits across the community including during construction, as well as providing an important community asset to Tweed Heads and tourism benefits in Murwillumbah, ensuring the region will continue to thrive and prosper into the future,\u201d Senator Williams said.\n\u201cThe funding announced today will ensure these projects become a reality\u201d.\nMinister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government John McVeigh said the projects will deliver significant economic and social benefits to the community.\n\u201cUnder round two of the Building Better Regions Fund \u2013 Infrastructure Projects stream, the Liberal and Nationals\u2019 Government is investing more than $200 million in 136 projects with a total leveraged project value of $459 million,\u201d Dr McVeigh said.\n\u201cThe Liberals and Nationals have a plan for regional Australia and we are focused on getting it done. It\u2019s a plan to create more jobs, drive economic growth and build stronger regional communities\u201d.\nThe second round of the Building Better Regions Fund, which includes the Community Investments stream and the Infrastructure Projects stream, is expected to create some 10,000 jobs from more 240 projects around Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seniorguidance.org/assisted-living/oregon/lincoln-county.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:NAJ4226VD7XY34GULRUQWGW6UD7BYPKC", "length": 4977, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.seniorguidance.org", "title": "20 Assisted Living Facilities in Lincoln County, OR", "raw_content": "Assisted Living Lincoln County, OR\nLincoln County Assisted Living\nAssisted Living in Lincoln County, Oregon\nHere are the 20 best assisted living facilities in Lincoln County, Oregon and nearby. The facilities provide housing and care services to elderly Oregon senior citizens who require assisted living and help with daily living tasks. The list below also includes Lincoln County senior living communities, as well as memory care facilities in Lincoln County, OR:\nOffers assisted living in Lincoln County, Oregon\nAna Imes Adult Foster Home is an assisted living home in Lincoln County, OR in the 97341 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a maximum of 5 older adults.\nAvamere Rehabilitation of Newport is a senior living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97365 zip code area that provides senior care to a maximum of 52 elderly individuals.\nCatherine Hingson Adult Foster Home\n310 Cliff Street, Depoe Bay, Oregon 97341\nCatherine Hingson Adult Foster Home is a senior living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97341 zip code area that provides assisted living to a maximum of 2 elderly individuals.\nCristito Velasco Adult Foster Home is an assisted living home in Lincoln County, OR in the 97388 zip code area that provides assisted senior living to up to 5 elderly individuals.\nCristito Velasco Adult Foster Home is an assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97388 zip code area that provides assisted senior living to up to 5 senior citizens.\nFengzhi Shao Adult Foster Home is an assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97365 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a total of 5 seniors.\nFengzhi Shao and Ricci Brown Adult Foster Home is a senior living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97365 zip code area that provides assisted living to up to 5 senior citizens.\n1400 SE 19th, Lincoln City, Oregon 97367\nHillside Place is an assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97367 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a total of 37 senior citizens.\nInge K Pavlich Adult Foster Home is a senior living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97364 zip code area that provides assisted living to a total of 1 elderly adults.\nJanice Inglis Adult Foster Home is an assisted living home in Lincoln County, OR in the 97388 zip code area that provides assisted retirement living to up to 1 elderly adults.\nJudy Mulholland Adult Foster Home is a care facility for older adults in Lincoln County, OR in the 97391 zip code area that provides assisted living to up to 4 senior citizens.\nKrystyna Graves Adult Foster Home\n95 Laurel St, Gleneden Beach, Oregon 97388\nKrystyna Graves Adult Foster Home is a senior living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97388 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a total of 5 seniors.\nLakeview Senior Living / The Gardens is a senior assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97367 zip code area that provides long term living & care to a maximum of 67 older adults.\nNancy E Mccall Adult Foster Home is an assisted senior living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97367 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a maximum of 1 senior citizens.\nOceanview Assisted Living Residence\n525 NE 71st, Newport, Oregon 97365\nOceanview Assisted Living Residence is a senior assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97365 zip code area that provides senior care to a maximum of 84 senior citizens.\nRosario O Urdelas Velasco Adult Foster Home is a senior living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97388 zip code area that provides senior assisted living to a maximum of 5 elderly individuals.\nRussell Starnes Adult Foster Home\n9925 E Alsea Hwy, Tidewater, Oregon 97390\nRussell Starnes Adult Foster Home is an assisted living facility in Lincoln County, OR in the 97390 zip code area that provides senior living to a total of 1 elderly adults.\nSea Aire Assisted Living\n1882 N Hwy 101, Yachats, Oregon 97498\nSea Aire Assisted Living is an assisted living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97498 zip code area that provides senior care to up to 50 senior citizens.\nTeresa Jolley Adult Foster Home is an assisted living community in Lincoln County, OR in the 97341 zip code area that provides long term living & care to a maximum of 2 older adults.\nTherese Frey Adult Foster Home is an assisted living home in Lincoln County, OR in the 97341 zip code area that provides assisted senior living to a total of 1 seniors.\nAssisted living facilities near Lincoln County, Oregon:\nAdditional senior living options in Lincoln County, Oregon:\nIf you are searching for senior housing in Lincoln County, please see Senior Apartments in Lincoln County, OR for a full list of both assisted and independent living options.\nDoes your loved one have dementia or Alzheimer's disease? If so, please see memory care facilities in Lincoln County, OR and explore all dementia and Alzheimer's care housing and service options.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 12751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.serviceexpertsmemphis.com/blog/heat-pump-or-air-conditioner-which-one-is-right-for-cooling-your-home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JX6HYCEN7EZ3WFW34VE4NJDDXCJMUOIS", "length": 4026, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.serviceexpertsmemphis.com", "title": "Heat Pump or A/C System: Which One is Right for Your Home", "raw_content": "Heat Pump vs. Air Conditioner: Which One is Right for Cooling Your Home\nAlthough heat is included in the name, you can use a heat pump for air conditioning. It works by transferring heat instead of generating it (furnaces burn fuel to generate heat) which is why it is used as a two way unit. It's true that heat pumps can be very efficient, but also know that most air conditioners are roughly equivalent in terms of their efficiency. Just compare these two top of the line units from Lennox.\nWhat is SEER and HSPF?\nSEER is an efficiency rating for air conditioning systems, and the bigger the number, the cheaper it is to operate. The difference between 23.5 and 26 is not great however, and the efficiency differs depending on the model. On the other hand, HSPF is a different standard that stands for \"heating seasonal performance factor\" and is unique to heat pumps. It tells you how efficient the unit is at heating. Notice from these examples by looking at the SEER rating, air conditioners are almost equal, if not superior depending on the model you choose. The biggest difference between them is that heat pumps can also warm up your home while an AC only cools.\nDoes climate matter for heat pumps?\nHeat pumps are most effective in warm climates with less severe winters, save for some integrated systems that use heat pumps as a backup, such as with a geothermal system. We recommend a consultation with a NATE certified HVAC tech who has experience in your region before getting your heart set on a heat pump. If the equipment just isn't right for your area, you could have unnecessarily high electric bills. Once the temperature sinks too low, it's difficult for the heat pump to draw heat out of the air and it may never reach the temperature set by your thermostat. This means you may start running your heat pump non-stop or switching on emergency heat 24/7 during cold snaps which drives your energy consumption way up.\nHow does a heat pump compare with a furnace?\nA furnace is a stronger heating system and is critical for certain colder climates. That\u2019s because a heat pump has issues when the temperatures hit about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, or 4.4 degrees Celsius. As peculiar as it seems, during cooler temperatures, a heat pump is intended to extract heat from the air outside and use it to heat the inside air. Just because the air outside feels cold, there is still plenty of available heat for the heat pump to work properly, but at exceptionally low temperatures there is not ample heat available outside to heat the air inside to high enough temperatures needed to keep warm. So while a heat pump may work perfectly during the winter months for someone in Daytona Beach, someone living in upstate New York with a heat pump would probably also need a furnace for the more extreme temperatures. If you\u2019re living in those colder climates without a furnace to kick in during freezing temperatures, a heat pump may run for hours trying to make your home warm enough for comfort.\nHow to achieve maximum efficiency with your heat pump\nIn certain areas, heat pumps can work with geothermal systems, and the heating source is better for the environment since it is not burning fossil fuels and, instead, uses the Earth\u2019s native temperature to heat and cool. This is a fantastic alternative for particular northern regions, but extra land must be available in order to install the correct piping for a geothermal system.\nWe know, we know \u2013 you didn\u2019t need another thing to think about when it comes to home comfort; but, remember, it\u2019s important to understand the pros and cons of each heating and cooling system so you don\u2019t end up purchasing a system that turns off when extreme temperatures hit, or investing in additional systems when one would suffice.\nIf you can\u2019t decide which system would best fit your needs, call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning to schedule a complimentary in-home quote. We are here to answer any and all of your questions to help you make the right decision for your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 8320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a1408/heath-ledger-dead-012208/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TS6JKSTGRV2A5JKTHKYZCUIYESFVBFVG", "length": 653, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.seventeen.com", "title": "Heath Ledger's Death - Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC", "raw_content": "Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC\nActor Heath Ledger has been found dead in his SoHo (NYC) residence, TMZ.com is reporting.\nAlthough the cause of death is still under investigation, police reveal that pills were found near his body.\nHeath, who received critical acclaim for his role in Brokeback Mountain, had recently separated from actress Michelle Williams, with whom he shared a 2-year-old daughter.\nAre you sad to hear the news about Heath? What do you think this means for The Dark Knight, the new Batman movie being released this year with Heath playing the Joker?\nLet's talk about Heath Ledger\nOur Favorite Summer Show: 10 Things I Hate About You !", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Moped-diaries-You-pedal-you-ride-you-hit-a-2555441.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CJKUCFKXWWCKXU7IXSSR3V7ALCGGDMHX", "length": 10446, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.sfgate.com", "title": "Moped diaries / You pedal, you ride, you hit a top speed of 20 mph. But their owners wouldn't have it any other way. - SFGate", "raw_content": "https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Moped-diaries-You-pedal-you-ride-you-hit-a-2555441.php\nMoped diaries / You pedal, you ride, you hit a top speed of 20 mph. But their owners wouldn't have it any other way.\nReyhan Harmanci, Chronicle Staff Writer\nmoped270085.jpg Event on 12/19/05 in San Francisco. Rie Nakagawa, 25, joins fellow members of Creatures of the Loin, the SF chapter of the national Moped Army, as they take off into the night following a gathering at Sadie's Flying Elephant, 491 Potrero Avenue, SF. Two of the moped-ers, Graham French, 25, and Zach Levenberg, 21, (known as Creature Lee) leave soon on a trip to South American (and back) on 50cc mopeds. Chris Stewart / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT less\nmoped270085.jpg Event on 12/19/05 in San Francisco. Rie Nakagawa, 25, joins fellow members of Creatures of the Loin, the SF chapter of the national Moped Army, as they take off into the night following a ... more\nThe moped, once an emblem of youthful mobility and high gas mileage, is making a cultural comeback, and the timing couldn't be better, according to members of the San Francisco-based Creatures of the Loin, the local branch of the national Moped Army.\n\"You can park anywhere,\" says Graham French, 25, co-founder of the Creatures. \"It gives you a lot of freedom -- it's faster than a car when you factor in all the time you save not looking for parking.\"\n\"Not to mention,\" adds Benji Broad, 29, the other founder of the Creatures, tugging at his hood so that a hunk of red hair snakes over his shoulder, \"it gets great gas mileage.\"\n\"One hundred miles per gallon,\" offers Jay Jean Hank Ho, 23, drawing a cigarette from his pack. \"With the impending economic collapse of the U.S. currency and the gas crisis, I'm preparing for the apocalypse with a moped.\"\nThe Creatures, along with fellow member Zach Levenberg, 18, are sitting in front of a moped-filled garage where French and Broad spend much of their weekday afternoons. They have rather angelic faces hidden behind the apparent uniform of black hooded sweatshirts and tight, dirty pants.\nThese are not motorcycle-gang tough guys or gearheads who want to show off their intricate knowledge of obscure auto parts or vintage fetishists who pay thousands of dollars for the right vehicle model. The Moped Army is a do-it-yourself affair, taking the ethos of punk rock social activism without actually espousing any one agenda apart from their shared moped obsession.\n\"They're a lot cheaper than scooters or motorcycles,\" French says. \"You can get a beat-up bike for, like, $75 and a good one can run you, like, $400.\"\nBut they haven't nailed the essence of the moped down, and there's a pause as the group struggles to find the words to state their case.\n\"Basically, always, it comes down to the Mods versus the Rockers,\" Broad says, referencing the '60s British battle between the styled Mods and the proto-punk Rockers.\n\"We're the Rockers,\" Broad says.\nEveryone smiles and nods.\nTwo of the Creatures are about to embark on an epic voyage. French and Levenberg are taking a trip through South America, starting in San Francisco, on their mopeds. They are aiming to be out of town for at least six months and to travel with most of their supplies on their backs.\n\"We're trying to do at least 20,000 miles,\" a feat, French says, that has never been done. There is an anecdote passed around in moped circles about a man going from Toronto to Alaska in 1978, and they know someone named Flippy who spent three months looking for Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest on a moped. But French and Levenberg are looking to make some history of their own.\n\"All of us really believe in the moped as a cross-country vehicle,\" French says.\nA moped is differentiated from a scooter in several ways -- the most obvious being the pedals. \"Generally speaking, the legal definition of a moped is that it has less than 3 horsepower, top speed is 20 miles per hour, and it has big wheels like a bike,\" says Barry Guin, longtime club member from San Francisco Scooter Centre, his shop in SOMA. \"A scooter is fully enclosed with sheet metal, the wheels are 10 inches instead of 16 inches.\" Guin says that scooters have a floorboard, a 12-horsepower engine and the average vintage scooter has a top speed of 70 miles per hour.\nAccording to California law, mopeds, scooters and motorcycles require special licenses -- as of 2006, all three need class M1 or M2, with law and skills tests. Moped registration is only $16 for life, as opposed to heftier annual scooter and motorcycle fees. (Mopeds can be driven in bike lanes, although the Creatures concur that they find that to be rude to bicyclists.)\nIn the Bay Area, scooters and motorcycles have had \"scenes\" cemented by rallies, clubs, bike shops, Web sites and house parties. The Hells Angels got started downtown, after all, as the Market Street Commandos. Scooter clubs have been around since the early '80s, with the largest scooter rally, the San Francisco Classic, drawing more than 500 machines.\nBut mopeds, the red-headed stepchild of scooters, as Guin calls them, have only recently attracted a gang.\nThe Creatures of the Loin, named in honor of the Tenderloin neighborhood where the original members lived, was founded in February by French and Broad. Like most of the hardcore moped people, their descent into full-on fascination happened fairly quickly, although they were both experienced cyclists before they acquired mopeds. After French got turned on to mopeds from a friend who had spent some time traveling around Africa on one, he and Broad saw a cryptic Craigslist ad in August 2004 from a retired tugboat driver (and long-distance cyclist) in Dublin who had a backyard full of mopeds.\n\"There were about 50 mopeds, all in great condition, all from the '70s,\" French says. French and Broad restricted themselves to one moped each initially, but, in a leap of faith, around the same time as they founded the Creatures, they bought the whole lot. They fixed up and sold those bikes through word of mouth and an occasional Craigslist post.\nStarting with their immediate friends, the Creatures have spread the fever across San Francisco and now have 60 members.\n\"Every member brings in more members,\" Broad says. \"When you have a moped, you don't want to be friends with people who don't have mopeds.\" In a later conversation, he elaborates on that theme, saying that \"mopeds can affect relationships drastically -- sometimes it's minor, sometimes it's not, sometimes it's more of a joke, but it's really hard to maintain friendships.\n\"My girlfriend hates mopeds,\" he says, \"but she'll come around.\"\nThe strong attachment among the Creatures is undeniable. Broad, who, as the oldest, seems to function as a de facto leader, claims that 90 percent of his phone calls these days come from Creatures. \"Everyone has the number and address of Creatures across the city, so that if you break down, you can find some help, or maybe leave your bike there overnight, or something. Personally, I feel like I'm some sort of 24-hour tech support,\" he says, laughing.\nThe collaborative nature of moped ownership has to do with the scarcity and the simplicity of the machine itself; unlike motorcycles and scooters, which are products with dealerships and repair shops, mopeds have the touch of human hands all over them.\n\"It's virtually impossible to find people to work on a moped,\" says Guin, who sees similarities between the current moped scene and the vintage Vespa fans of the '80s. \"It costs more to fix than it's worth, so if you have a moped, you have to work on it yourself.\"\nWhile there are two companies who make new mopeds, Kinetic from India and Tomos from Slovakia, the biggest source of mopeds are holdovers from the '70s, when there was a bit of a worldwide craze. According to one Web site devoted to moped history, in the United States in 1975, about 125 different models were available, and you could buy them at car dealerships, bicycle shops, county fairs, hardware stores, even garden supply places.\nA worldwide recession in the early '80s stopped moped growth, as did domestic laws regulating licensing and insurance.\nNow there are only a few moped shops in the country. The Internet and moped owners are the best way to track down parts and older models, which is another way people get drawn together.\n\"If people come into the moped world with the idea that they'll just buy it and ride it around, it's not like that,\" Broad says. \"Mopeds force you to be part of a community because you have to rely on each other. A lot of people can't stand anything two-stroke because they're lots of upkeep.\"\nHowever, French and others say that because they're such simple machines, even mechanical amateurs could learn how to build and customize their bikes, which helps broaden the appeal to women. \"The Creatures are at least 40 percent women,\" French says.\nDan Webber Kastner, one of the founders of the Moped Army in Kalamazoo, Mich., agrees that while the individual gangs differ in composition, mopeds are not a boys' club. Founded in 1997, the Army counts 10,000 registered users on its Web site and 300 members in its branches. Kastner says that his branch, the Deceptacons, has an even split of men and women. \"I know lots of women who work on bikes and they're tough as nails. I know that ... other branches have started out as men-heavy but have gotten lots of women members.\"\nWhile the Creatures had some rather harsh things to say about scooter riders (\"They always need a ledge for their feet?\" \"It looks to me like they're sitting on a toilet.\" \"They need to get new personalities.\"), Guin sees the future of the scene in these young guns.\n\"I'm totally stoked on those guys. In our scene, there's no second generation, no up-and-coming kids. The Creatures are a brand-new phenomenon, and it's just starting to peak,\" Guin says. 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This Website is operated and maintained by the AkzoNobel legal entity referred to in the \"Website Owner\" section of this Website. The relevant local AkzoNobel entity and Akzo Nobel N.V. are jointly referred to as \u201cAkzoNobel\u201d and \u201cwe\u201d.\nAkzo Nobel Hilden GmbH is the controller of the processing of all personal data collected through this Website. This Privacy Statement is applicable to the processing of personal data of users through this Website.\nProtection of your privacy is an important concern for AkzoNobel. For the AkzoNobel.com Website we will therefore do everything possible to make sure that your privacy is protected and safeguarded. In this Privacy Statement we explain how we process your personal data on this Website.\nThis Privacy Statement may be changed over time. Users of the Website are advised to regularly review the Privacy Statement for possible changes. This Privacy Statement was last changed on February 28th, 2018.\n1. For what purpose do we process your personal data?\nWe use your personal data for a number of different purposes. You will find an overview of the types of personal data we process, the purposes for which we process and the legal bases of our use of your personal data below.\n1.1. When you visit our Website, to communicate with you\nWe collect your information when you contact us via one of our online contact forms.\nWhich personal information do we process for this purpose?\nFor this purpose we collect your name, title, (business) contact details (including your email address, telephone number, name of your company) and any other information that you provide to us in the open field entry of the contact form.\nWe process this information on the basis of your consent, which can be withdrawn by you at any time.\n1.2.\tFor surveys or other (marketing) communication\nWe process your personal data when we send you surveys to request your feedback on our products and services. Or when we send you marketing communication, to keep you updated on events, special offers, products and services of AkzoNobel. You may choose to receive personalized commercial messages, including a personalized newsletter from AkzoNobel, tailored towards your personal preferences. For this we will create profiles and analyze your interactions with us. This way we learn about your interests and can ensure that we provide you with the information and promotions that are of most interest to you. We may also ask you for your opinion about our products and services. If you don\u2019t want to receive any more messages or if you want to opt-out of receiving or seeing a particular form of communication with us (for example SMS, social media, e-mail or regular mail), just follow the steps in that particular communication (usually this will be to click the \u2018unsubscribe\u2019 button).\nFor this purpose we process your name, your address, date of birth if you have provided us with that information, your email address and topics you have actively and voluntarily shared with us to be interested in, but also those inferred through your registered interactions with AkzoNobel websites and apps (for which we may use cookies), your shopping history, both online (if you link your purchases to your profile) and offline (when making an offline purchase) and the links you click in our emails.\n1.3.\tFor the development and improvement of products and services\nWe process aggregated personal information for various AkzoNobel business-related purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products and services, enhancing, improving or modifying our websites, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities. To understand what is relevant to you, we can analyze your personal data. To facilitate your use of our online services or applications, we may analyze data that we collect when using our digital media and combine it with information collected via cookies.\nFor this purpose we may use aggregated data, which cannot be traced back to your personal data anymore. Sometimes we process personal data such as your name, your email address, your IP address, gender, place of residence, digits of your zip code and any other information mentioned in this Statement or otherwise provided to us by you, if such is required for one of the purposes mentioned in the previous paragraph.\nWe process aggregated personal data for legitimate business purposes, i.e. to enable us to enhance, modify or otherwise improve our products and services for the benefit of our customers. 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Upon creating your account we will send you your personal login information. Your personal data enable us to administer your account and enable us to ensure the confidentiality and maintain the security of your purchases.\nFor this purpose we may process your name, a valid email address and any other information requested. We also process your display name, your role and your login data. We are, for instance, able to change your password for you. We are, however, not able to view your password.\nWe process this information on the basis of your consent, which can be withdrawn at any time.\n1.6.\tWhen you purchase products through our web shop, to process your order and for customer service and relationship management\nWhen you use our web shop services, we use personal data to service your purchase and deliver your order, report the status of your order and when a transaction has failed, we use personal data to contact you about the transaction.\nFor this purpose we need at least your name and geographical address, contact details such as telephone number or e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, your acceptance of our applicable terms and conditions, and whether or not you want to receive our newsletter. We also process information about what you have purchased from us. When you contact us through our contact form on the Website, by e-mail or otherwise, we will use your contact information, your correspondence with us about your question and all other personal data provided by you in order to answer your question.\nWe process your personal data in order to carry out the purchase agreement and to deliver your order to you.\n1.7.\tIf you participate in prize contests, events, competitions, promotions and/or games of chance, to administer your participation\nWith your consent we can send you emails with promotions and invitations to participate in a prize contests, events, competitions or games of chance. If you choose to participate in one of these activities, we need your personal data to be able to announce and organize these. Also, if you participate in any of these activities, we need your personal data to announce when you are a winner, to distribute the prizes and to measure the response to prize contests, events, competitions, promotions and or games of chance.\nFor this purpose, we process your name, address, email address and your entries in the activity.\n1.8.\tCompliance with laws and legal obligations and protection of AkzoNobel assets and interests.\nWe will process your personal data as appropriate or necessary (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence and including e.g. counterparty due diligence, money laundering, financing of terrorism and other crimes; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions and other applicable policies; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of yours or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.\nFor this purpose we process your name, your contact information, your correspondence with AkzoNobel, your use of any of our products and/or services and any other information mentioned in this Statement or otherwise provided to us by you, if such is required for one of the purposes mentioned in the previous paragraph.\nWe process this information on the basis of our legitimate business purposes.\n2.\tWith whom do we share your personal information?\nOther entities within the AkzoNobel group\nAkzoNobel being a global company, your personal data may be transferred also to other AkzoNobel entities, some of which may be in countries that do not provide adequate protection to personal data. We ensure that your personal data is treated with a high level of protection throughout the AkzoNobel group. To that end, AkzoNobel has implemented the AkzoNobel Binding Corporate Rules, which ensure that every AkzoNobel legal entity worldwide applies the same high level of protection to personal data.\nService providers and other external parties\nWe may also use third-party service providers to perform certain data processing activities on our behalf, such as information technology and related infrastructure provision, security (including identity and access management) services, and legal, financial/accounting and other similar services.\nTo the extent that these third parties have access to personal information in order to execute these activities, we have undertaken technical, organizational and contractual measures (data processing agreements) to ensure that your personal information is exclusively processed for the purposes mentioned above.\nOnly if we are required to do so by law, your personal information may be provided to supervisory agencies, fiscal authorities and investigative agencies.\nWe will only further share your information only with other companies or individuals when we have your valid consent to do so.\n3.\tWhere do we store your personal data?\nDue to the global nature of our organization and services, your personal data may be stored and/or processed in a country other than the one you reside in. AkzoNobel will ensure that where your data are transferred to another country, it will continue to receive adequate protection, such as through AkzoNobel\u2019s own Binding Corporate Rules or through contractual arrangements put in place with third parties.\n4.\tHow do we secure the data?\nYour personal data are treated strictly confidential and we have taken the appropriate technical and organizational security measures against loss or unlawful processing of this data. To this purpose we use several security techniques including secure servers, firewalls and encryption, as well as physical safeguard of the locations where data are stored.\n5.\tHow long do we retain personal information?\nWe will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.\n6.\tRights regarding personal data\nYou have the right to access, rectify and erase your personal data or to restrict or object to the use of your personal data. Also, you have the right to obtain an export of the personal data provided to us. In addition to that you may at any time withdraw the consent that you gave to using your personal data. Please be aware that any withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before the withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.\n7.\tLinks to other websites and social media\nOn the Website you will find a number of links to other websites. Although these websites are selected with care, we are not responsible for personal data processed through these websites. Our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Statement are therefore not applicable to the use of such websites.\nIf you opt to share content from this Website via social media websites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and/or Twitter, then your personal data (such as your name and the fact that you have an interest in us) will also be visible to the visitors to your personal web pages on these social media websites. The use of such websites is covered exclusively by the terms and conditions (including the privacy policy) of these social media websites. We are not responsible for the data processing or privacy policies on such social media websites.\nPlease read the privacy policies of those social media websites for detailed information about the collection and transfer of personal data, what rights you have and how you can achieve satisfactory privacy settings.\n8.\tMay persons below the age of 16 provide personal data?\nPersons below the age of 16 may only provide personal data to us if they have written permission of one of their parents or their legal guardian who has read this Privacy Statement.\n9.\tWho to address with questions about your personal data?\nYou can reach out to us with questions about your personal data at any time by sending a request to:\nE-Mail: Arnd.Fackeldey(at)AkzoNobel.com\nIn order to process your request we will require (and therefore process) your name, contact details and correspondence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 18783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.silvercompany.co.uk/berkeley-linear-crystal-ships-decanter-p-50.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:59Z", "digest": "sha1:X2AWOUXMPIBALRX3WHXDRB3KGVCJZJTJ", "length": 596, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.silvercompany.co.uk", "title": "Berkeley Linear Crystal Ships Decanter", "raw_content": "Berkeley Linear Crystal Ships Decanter\nA truly stunning decanter with a substantial linear crystal body, which refracts the light and enhances the colour of the liquid contained within. Whilst traditionally used for port, it is equally suitable for wine, as the decanter\u2019s wide base provides a large surface area for the liquid to come into contact with the air and enhance its flavour. Any wine connoisseur would be enthralled with this gift, which pays homage to the great British hero, Nelson. It has a striking 925 sterling silver mount which can be engraved upon and has a capacity of 660ml.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.singletonargus.com.au/story/5627661/student-death-revives-regions-tragic-meningococcal-history/?src=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:21Z", "digest": "sha1:T5S7BRB35XSWHHSBCTGV2DHI2XOG24CE", "length": 19174, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.singletonargus.com.au", "title": "Mischelle Rhodes' death at Gosford Hospital prompts independent review calls | The Singleton Argus", "raw_content": "THEY were four deaths of children and teenagers between 1999 and 2007 that shocked the community and exposed significant failings in how Central Coast public hospitals responded to meningococcal cases. Charissa Tsouvallas, 18, Stephen Sanig, 7, Rebecca Calverley, 7, and Gabrielle Coventry, 14, died at Gosford and Wyong hospitals in that eight year-period from a disease that remains notoriously difficult to diagnose and still has a fatality rate of 5-10 per cent despite advanced treatment. Coroners later found their deaths were \u201cpreventable\u201d, hospital staff and doctor failures were \u201cinexcusable\u201d and \u201ccatastrophic\u201d, clear warning signs were missed or ignored and parents\u2019 desperate pleas for help and treatment in their children\u2019s final hours were dismissed by staff. In Stephen Sanig\u2019s case a dying child was sent home with painkillers. Now questions are being asked by Stephen\u2019s father, Michael Sanig, and Wyong MP David Harris after the death of Mischelle Rhodes, 19, at Gosford Hospital on August 29. The Macquarie University student died of the meningococcal W strain a day after she was seen by Gosford Hospital emergency department staff and sent home with painkillers. She was later admitted after her symptoms worsened but died despite aggressive treatment. Central Coast Local Health District said it is reviewing details of the case as part of its standard processes. But Mr Harris and Mr Sanig say an independent external review is needed because of public concern about the health system\u2019s ability to respond to meningococcal disease; data showing the mortality rate for children and teenagers with meningococcal disease is higher in disadvantaged areas and the health region\u2019s meningococcal history. Mr Harris supported Michael Sanig and his former wife Sue-Anne\u2019s long campaign to improve public understanding of meningococcal and the health system\u2019s response to it after Stephen\u2019s death in June, 2001. He acknowledged the majority of meningococcal cases were appropriately diagnosed and treated, with good outcomes. But the reported circumstances of Ms Rhodes\u2019 death at a hospital with Gosford\u2019s history meant the community was entitled to an independent rather than a hospital-led review to provide confidence in the public health system, he said. The deaths of Charissa Tsouvallas in 1999, Stephen Sanig in 2001, Rebecca Calverley in 2002 and Gabrielle Coventry in 2007, and subsequent inquests exposing significant failings, meant Central Coast hospitals should be best placed to respond to meningococcal because of lessons learnt, Mr Harris said. \u201cOnce or twice (to have problems leading to meningococcal deaths) then maybe it\u2019s the nature of the condition itself, but those four cases show we think it does need to be looked at more carefully after this latest tragic case.\u201d Mr Sanig said he was \u201ca bit shocked\u201d to learn of Ms Rhodes\u2019 death under circumstances similar to his son\u2019s death 17 years ago. \u201cThe young woman has apparently presented with certain symptoms and was sent home. If somebody presents with symptoms severe enough that they go to a hospital emergency department then you should say there\u2019s a possibility it might be meningococcal so let\u2019s err on the side of caution,\u201d Mr Sanig said. \u201cYou would have thought by now everybody would err on the side of caution. Why wasn\u2019t she given antibiotics as a precautionary measure?\u201d Ms Rhodes is the second Central Coast person to die of meningococcal this year after a woman, 38, died of the meningococcal W strain during an overseas trip. A third Central Coast person has also recovered from the disease in 2018. A NSW Health spokesperson said there have been 41 meningococcal cases across NSW in 2018, and 91 cases in 2017, with meningococcal B the most dominant strain. Despite public concern about the relatively high meningococcal mortality rate it remains very uncommon in NSW because the bacteria is not easily spread from person to person, Central Coast Local Health District director of public health Dr Peter Lewis said. A National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance report to NSW Parliament in 2016 found there were 26 deaths in NSW children aged 15 or younger between 2000 and 2007, during a period that largely predated most meningococcal vaccinations. There were 12 meningococcal child deaths between 2005 and 2014 after meningococcal C vaccinations were available from 2003 but before meningococcal B vaccinations in 2014, and combined ACWY strain vaccinations. Inquests into the deaths of the four Central Coast children and teenagers found disturbing communication breakdowns and difficulties between hospital staff, between staff and parents and between hospitals and general practitioners. It also found warnings were missed because staff were busy. Julie Calverley urged parents to \u201cDon\u2019t worry about looking stupid. Just get up and shout, \u2018This is my kid. Fix it\u2019,\u201d after she waited for six hours with daughter Rebecca in a busy Wyong Hospital emergency department in July, 2002 until rashes on the child\u2019s body showed meningococcal. Mrs Calverley said she sat quietly for hours after arriving at the hospital at 8.30pm because she assumed if doctors were slow to attend to her daughter it must have meant her illness was not serious. Charissa Tsouvallas, 18, died at Gosford Hospital in July, 1999 more than a week after blood tests ordered by the hospital showed an excessively high white blood cell count that \u201cshould have rung alarm bells\u201d but of a serious bacterial infection, her inquest was told. A Gosford Hospital doctor did not give the tests \u201ceven a cursory glance\u201d when Charissa returned to the hospital with worsening symptoms. She died only days after her 18th birthday. Her mother Terry was devastated when a coroner concluded her daughter\u2019s death was \u201cpreventable\u201d. \u201cIt is really hard for me to go past those words,\u201d Mrs Tsouvallas said. Michael and Sue-Anne Sanig were shattered after a coroner found doctors who clearly made mistakes in the treatment of their son Stephen in June, 2001 refused to accept they were wrong despite being challenged at his inquest. \u201cWhile hindsight is a wonderful thing, clearly in the case of Stephen Sanig mistakes were made at Gosford Hospital which should not have been made,\u201d coroner Michael Morahan said. Gabrielle \u201cGabi\u201d Coventry died in Gosford Hospital in December, 2007 despite her mother\u2019s desperate appeals for help and was \u201cdoomed\u201d because of a \u201ccascading series of systematic and individual errors\u201d, a coroner found after her inquest in 2011. She died after \u201cinexcusable\u201d failures at the hospital, including doctors who became \u201cfixated\u201d on a diagnosis linked to a single sexual incident, and despite eight doctors being involved in her care in the final 15 hours of her life. Her hospital notes showed her mother was distressed and appealed for antibiotics for her only daughter. Central Coast Local Health District chief executive Dr Andrew Montague said Ms Rhodes\u2019 death was an \u201cabsolute tragedy\u201d and the hospital was communicating with her family as it reviews management of her treatment. The Central Coast has had 33 reported cases of meningococcal disease between 2009 and 2018 and four deaths during that period, including a woman who died of the condition while travelling overseas this year. The number of cases and deaths was statistically average, Dr Montague and Dr Lewis said. The Central Coast health service and NSW Health in general had not only learnt from the tragic Central Coast deaths between 1999 and 2007 but had made significant changes to protocols and procedures for managing patients, including formal clinical handovers to ensure clear lines of responsibility for patients, they said. Central Coast Health has also doubled emergency department staff and provides round-the-clock pathology services at Wyong Hospital, after staff resourcing was raised at the earlier inquests. The Central Coast\u2019s meningococcal immunisation rates for babies, children and teenagers is also high, with more than 95 per cent of babies immunised and more than 70 per cent of teenagers in school programs for years 10, 11 and 12. Immunisation was one of the major reasons meningococcal numbers are falling across the state, Dr Lewis said. Dr Montague said the hospital agreed that transparency was necessary to ensure public confidence in the health system. \u201cWe don\u2019t shy away when bad things have happened because it\u2019s important the community knows,\u201d Dr Montague said. Symptoms of meningococcal disease include sudden onset of fever, headache, neck stiffness, joint pain, a dislike of bright lights, nausea and vomiting, with a rash of red-purple spots or bruises generally after the disease has progressed to a serious degree, although 25 per cent of people do not experience a rash.\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/pBvqKxHgUnSrdaeEwDT49F/684f3436-ac1f-414f-b93d-6c5fee2905d2.jpg/r5_0_2394_1350_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nMischelle Rhodes' death at Gosford Hospital prompts independent review calls\nStudent death revives region\u2019s tragic meningococcal history\nDevastated: Julie and Craig Calverley outside Gosford Court after an inquest into the death of their daughter Rebecca from meningococcal in 2002.\nPreventable: Terry Tsouvallas said she would never get over hearing a coroner say her daughter Charissa's death from meningococcal was preventable.\nShattered: Sue-Anne and Michael Sanig after an inquest into the death of their son Stephen from meningococcal in 2001.\nFour meningococcal deaths in Central Coast hospitals led to state-wide changes\nTHEY were four deaths of children and teenagers between 1999 and 2007 that shocked the community and exposed significant failings in how Central Coast public hospitals responded to meningococcal cases.\nCharissa Tsouvallas, 18, Stephen Sanig, 7, Rebecca Calverley, 7, and Gabrielle Coventry, 14, died at Gosford and Wyong hospitals in that eight year-period from a disease that remains notoriously difficult to diagnose and still has a fatality rate of 5-10 per cent despite advanced treatment.\nCoroners later found their deaths were \u201cpreventable\u201d, hospital staff and doctor failures were \u201cinexcusable\u201d and \u201ccatastrophic\u201d, clear warning signs were missed or ignored and parents\u2019 desperate pleas for help and treatment in their children\u2019s final hours were dismissed by staff. In Stephen Sanig\u2019s case a dying child was sent home with painkillers.\nNow questions are being asked by Stephen\u2019s father, Michael Sanig, and Wyong MP David Harris after the death of Mischelle Rhodes, 19, at Gosford Hospital on August 29. The Macquarie University student died of the meningococcal W strain a day after she was seen by Gosford Hospital emergency department staff and sent home with painkillers. She was later admitted after her symptoms worsened but died despite aggressive treatment.\nCentral Coast Local Health District said it is reviewing details of the case as part of its standard processes.\nDevastated: Julie and Craig Calverley after an inquest into their daughter Rebecca's death in 2002 from meningococcal disease.\nBut Mr Harris and Mr Sanig say an independent external review is needed because of public concern about the health system\u2019s ability to respond to meningococcal disease; data showing the mortality rate for children and teenagers with meningococcal disease is higher in disadvantaged areas and the health region\u2019s meningococcal history.\nMr Harris supported Michael Sanig and his former wife Sue-Anne\u2019s long campaign to improve public understanding of meningococcal and the health system\u2019s response to it after Stephen\u2019s death in June, 2001. He acknowledged the majority of meningococcal cases were appropriately diagnosed and treated, with good outcomes.\nBut the reported circumstances of Ms Rhodes\u2019 death at a hospital with Gosford\u2019s history meant the community was entitled to an independent rather than a hospital-led review to provide confidence in the public health system, he said.\nThe deaths of Charissa Tsouvallas in 1999, Stephen Sanig in 2001, Rebecca Calverley in 2002 and Gabrielle Coventry in 2007, and subsequent inquests exposing significant failings, meant Central Coast hospitals should be best placed to respond to meningococcal because of lessons learnt, Mr Harris said.\nShattered: Sue-Anne and Michael Sanig established a foundation to educate the community about the symptoms of meningococcal disease after their son Stephen's death in 2001.\n\u201cOnce or twice (to have problems leading to meningococcal deaths) then maybe it\u2019s the nature of the condition itself, but those four cases show we think it does need to be looked at more carefully after this latest tragic case.\u201d\nMr Sanig said he was \u201ca bit shocked\u201d to learn of Ms Rhodes\u2019 death under circumstances similar to his son\u2019s death 17 years ago.\n\u201cThe young woman has apparently presented with certain symptoms and was sent home. If somebody presents with symptoms severe enough that they go to a hospital emergency department then you should say there\u2019s a possibility it might be meningococcal so let\u2019s err on the side of caution,\u201d Mr Sanig said.\n\u201cYou would have thought by now everybody would err on the side of caution. Why wasn\u2019t she given antibiotics as a precautionary measure?\u201d\nMs Rhodes is the second Central Coast person to die of meningococcal this year after a woman, 38, died of the meningococcal W strain during an overseas trip. A third Central Coast person has also recovered from the disease in 2018.\nPreventable: Terry Tsouvallas and daughter Charissa. Mrs Tsouvallas said she would never get over a coroner finding her daughter's death from meningococcal disease was preventable.\nA NSW Health spokesperson said there have been 41 meningococcal cases across NSW in 2018, and 91 cases in 2017, with meningococcal B the most dominant strain.\nDespite public concern about the relatively high meningococcal mortality rate it remains very uncommon in NSW because the bacteria is not easily spread from person to person, Central Coast Local Health District director of public health Dr Peter Lewis said.\nA National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance report to NSW Parliament in 2016 found there were 26 deaths in NSW children aged 15 or younger between 2000 and 2007, during a period that largely predated most meningococcal vaccinations. There were 12 meningococcal child deaths between 2005 and 2014 after meningococcal C vaccinations were available from 2003 but before meningococcal B vaccinations in 2014, and combined ACWY strain vaccinations.\nInquests into the deaths of the four Central Coast children and teenagers found disturbing communication breakdowns and difficulties between hospital staff, between staff and parents and between hospitals and general practitioners. It also found warnings were missed because staff were busy.\nJulie Calverley urged parents to \u201cDon\u2019t worry about looking stupid. Just get up and shout, \u2018This is my kid. Fix it\u2019,\u201d after she waited for six hours with daughter Rebecca in a busy Wyong Hospital emergency department in July, 2002 until rashes on the child\u2019s body showed meningococcal.\nStruggling: Terry Tsouvallas leaves Gosford Court after an inquest into her daughter's death from meningococcal disease in 1999.\nMrs Calverley said she sat quietly for hours after arriving at the hospital at 8.30pm because she assumed if doctors were slow to attend to her daughter it must have meant her illness was not serious.\nCharissa Tsouvallas, 18, died at Gosford Hospital in July, 1999 more than a week after blood tests ordered by the hospital showed an excessively high white blood cell count that \u201cshould have rung alarm bells\u201d but of a serious bacterial infection, her inquest was told. A Gosford Hospital doctor did not give the tests \u201ceven a cursory glance\u201d when Charissa returned to the hospital with worsening symptoms. She died only days after her 18th birthday.\nHer mother Terry was devastated when a coroner concluded her daughter\u2019s death was \u201cpreventable\u201d.\n\u201cIt is really hard for me to go past those words,\u201d Mrs Tsouvallas said.\nMichael and Sue-Anne Sanig were shattered after a coroner found doctors who clearly made mistakes in the treatment of their son Stephen in June, 2001 refused to accept they were wrong despite being challenged at his inquest.\n\u201cWhile hindsight is a wonderful thing, clearly in the case of Stephen Sanig mistakes were made at Gosford Hospital which should not have been made,\u201d coroner Michael Morahan said.\nGabrielle \u201cGabi\u201d Coventry died in Gosford Hospital in December, 2007 despite her mother\u2019s desperate appeals for help and was \u201cdoomed\u201d because of a \u201ccascading series of systematic and individual errors\u201d, a coroner found after her inquest in 2011.\nHistory: Gosford Hospital emergency department entrance during the period when four children and teenagers died of meningococcal.\nShe died after \u201cinexcusable\u201d failures at the hospital, including doctors who became \u201cfixated\u201d on a diagnosis linked to a single sexual incident, and despite eight doctors being involved in her care in the final 15 hours of her life. Her hospital notes showed her mother was distressed and appealed for antibiotics for her only daughter.\nCentral Coast Local Health District chief executive Dr Andrew Montague said Ms Rhodes\u2019 death was an \u201cabsolute tragedy\u201d and the hospital was communicating with her family as it reviews management of her treatment.\nThe Central Coast has had 33 reported cases of meningococcal disease between 2009 and 2018 and four deaths during that period, including a woman who died of the condition while travelling overseas this year.\nThe number of cases and deaths was statistically average, Dr Montague and Dr Lewis said.\nThe Central Coast health service and NSW Health in general had not only learnt from the tragic Central Coast deaths between 1999 and 2007 but had made significant changes to protocols and procedures for managing patients, including formal clinical handovers to ensure clear lines of responsibility for patients, they said.\nCentral Coast Health has also doubled emergency department staff and provides round-the-clock pathology services at Wyong Hospital, after staff resourcing was raised at the earlier inquests.\nThe Central Coast\u2019s meningococcal immunisation rates for babies, children and teenagers is also high, with more than 95 per cent of babies immunised and more than 70 per cent of teenagers in school programs for years 10, 11 and 12. Immunisation was one of the major reasons meningococcal numbers are falling across the state, Dr Lewis said.\nDr Montague said the hospital agreed that transparency was necessary to ensure public confidence in the health system.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t shy away when bad things have happened because it\u2019s important the community knows,\u201d Dr Montague said.\nSymptoms of meningococcal disease include sudden onset of fever, headache, neck stiffness, joint pain, a dislike of bright lights, nausea and vomiting, with a rash of red-purple spots or bruises generally after the disease has progressed to a serious degree, although 25 per cent of people do not experience a rash.\nThis story Student death revives region\u2019s tragic meningococcal history first appeared on Newcastle Herald.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 21467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sipstrim.se/project/reduction-of-nitrogen-discharges-in-mining-processes-and-mitigating-its-environmental-impact-mining-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KQ7EVBMGRPQP5JZRKZB5CXQZ5X6SQE4A", "length": 1388, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sipstrim.se", "title": "Reduction of nitrogen discharges in mining processes and mitigating its environmental impact \u2013 miNing I - SIP STRIM", "raw_content": "The overall aim of miNing is to reduce nitrogen concentrations in the outflow of mining areas so that the nitrogen concentrations in recipients meet the requirements of national and international agreements and laws. The sub-projects work on gaining this goal, but final results have not been received, yet. Instead, these will be part of (in agreement with Vinnova and the involved mining companies) part 2 of the project (dnr 2014-01134).\nmiNing is divided into three sub-projects: 1) bioreactor and waste rock deposit, 2) Nitrogen reduction in sedimentation and clarification ponds and 3) Wetlands. Each sub-project applies a research approach that is designed to fulfill the aim of miNing and that is adapted to the natural prerequisites. Important methods include laboratory and field (in situ) studies where target parameters are followed up and where environmental variables are manipulated to optimize nitrogen reduction.\nIn most of the sub-projects, no final results have been received, yet. Data from part 1 (this report) are currently evaluated in part 2 of the project (dnr 2014-01134). However, in the wetland sub-project, we can already now state that a) the nitrogen reduction potential varies among wetland species and b) the dominating pathway (uptake or release of nitrogen gas) is species dependent. These results are highly important for the design of future wetlands.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.siretta.co.uk/wi-fi-bt-197.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:K7HCZ4VVI4HKWBU4UAZPQ56ZFGRNLG7O", "length": 309, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.siretta.co.uk", "title": "| Siretta", "raw_content": "Imagine living on a remote farm, in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by nothing but fresh air and beautiful views. Sounds idyllic, doesn\u2019t it? Unfortunately, nowadays you need more than beautiful views and being connected to the internet is one of them\u2026 especially if you also have a business to run.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sivinandmiller.com/blog/2018/02/what-are-my-basic-rights-as-an-inmate.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PPHZXTXTDGFNGXXR4UAUY2UPZTBTSVMN", "length": 1773, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.sivinandmiller.com", "title": "What are my basic rights as an inmate? | Sivin & Miller, LLP Attorneys at Law", "raw_content": "What are my basic rights as an inmate?\nOn behalf of Sivin & Miller, LLP Attorneys at Law posted in Prisoner's Rights on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.\nYou might think that once you report to your prison sentence you lose a lot of rights. And it's true. You lose your right to freedom, your right to vote and so many other privileges, but there are vital rights that you will always retain as a prisoner. Unfortunately, many prisons in New York and other areas of the United States frequently violate these rights.\nIf you suspect that you've had your rights as an inmate violated, you may want to check to see if any of the following rights have been compromised. You may have the ability to file a legal action to demand better conditions and receive compensation for the difficulties you have endured. Prisoners have the right to:\nHumane conditions and facilities.\nFreedom from sex crimes.\nFreedom from racial segregation.\nFreedom to complain about prison conditions.\nThe right to Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations.\nThe right to medical attention and care.\nThe right to mental health treatment.\nThe right to a hearing prior to being transferred to a mental health facility.\nSimilar rights apply to pretrial detainees, and pretrial detainees may not be treated as if they are guilty or be punished before their trial has concluded.\nIf the above rights were denied, you may want to investigate your legal rights and options as the law could be on your side. A successfully navigated prisoners rights case could bring an inmate the much-needed relief from abusive conditions that he or she deserves. Pursuing such a legal matter could also help prevent similar abuses against other inmates in the future.\nSource: FindLaw, \"Rights of Inmates,\" accessed Feb. 02, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skillshare.com/projects/Emils-Characters-in-Motion-Project/31356", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4X7PA7VY3AWUQ6HITDBFH6Z3IG3VOFVB", "length": 161, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.skillshare.com", "title": "Emil's Characters in Motion Project | Skillshare Projects", "raw_content": "Emil's Characters in Motion Project\nFInally Got some time to work some more on this piece, I will be working on it more this week. Please tell me what you think.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/papua-new-guinea-png-forty-years-independence/exploration-gold", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:16Z", "digest": "sha1:XCA56CTM3SGHSXHUGWCNOFO3WNVNIO3P", "length": 6129, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.sl.nsw.gov.au", "title": "Exploration for gold | Papua New Guinea (PNG): Forty years of independence | Stories | State Library of NSW", "raw_content": "Papua New Guinea (PNG): Forty years of independence\nMapping Papua New Guinea\nThe HMS Rattlesnake\nExploration for gold\nPapua New Guinea and World Wars\nEllis Silas in Papua New Guinea\nPapua New Guinea: exploration for gold\nFor thousands of years the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea have mined and traded stone implements and ochre, and used clay to make pottery. Gold was first discovered in Papua New Guinea in 1852 as accidental traces in pottery from Redscar Bay on the Papuan Peninsula.\nFrom their earliest sightings of New Guinea, Europeans assumed they would find gold. The geography of the landscape, rugged mountains, denseness of vegetation and the unknown interior seemed to convince explorers that there was treasure. A small amount of gold was found on the Gira river and on the Yodda trail near Kokoda in 1890. But it took until the early 1900s for the more successful gold discoveries.\nAt the start of World War One Australia took possession of the German colony of New Guinea, which was administered from Rabaul at that time. In 1922, New Guinea was made a Mandated Territory of Australia by the League of Nations. In the same year, a mining ordinance was put in place to legalise prospecting.\nAustralian Gold mine owner Cecil John Levien (1874-1932) took out the first miner's right issued in the Territory of New Guinea in 1923. In 1923-24 Levien took out leases at Bulolo flats.\nLevien, was a District Officer in Buka and Morobe turned miner, and important in the process of making New Guinea significant in gold mining between World War One and Two. He was also instrumental in New Guinea's commercial aviation history.\nLevien had trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and served as a lieutenant in the military administration in New Guinea in 1919-21. He recognized that New Guinea might offer prospects for a better life. His access to German official records indicated that payable alluvial gold might exist in the Watut River area.\nIn 1919 Levien opened a new government station at Buka. In 1921 he organised his posting as district officer to Morobe, where southern tributaries of the Markham River had once again become a focus for prospecting.\nHe carefully plotted all reports of gold, and was the officer-in-charge in 1922 when Park struck rich alluvium in Koranga Creek, which flows into the upper Bulolo River. His powers under the Mining Ordinance of 1922 gave him a unique opportunity to monitor the promise of the field.\nIn 1923 he began quietly financing Park and his partner, J. Nettleton; he also acquired alluvial leases in his wife's name. Recognizing after some months the conflict of interest, he resigned from his position and on 31 December and took out the first miner's right issued in the Mandated Territory.\nAircraft played an important role in the development of New Guinea. The finding of gold at Edie Creek in an inland mountainous inland region with no roads was also important in the development of air transport in New Guinea. When Bill Royal washed up the first dishes of gold from Edie Creek in 1926 it became obvious that there was a need for a faster and easier way to reach the gold mining area. It was an exhausting six hour trek to get supplies like rice and equipment like shovels into the camp, and to transport the thousands of ounces of gold out of the area.\nAfter a year of gold production Edie Creek was wealthy and popular enough to support an airstrip and planes. In 1928 the first planes were shipped from Australia. Another important date in prospecting and gold mining came in 1927 with the first Lae to Wau (near Edie Creek) aeroplane flight.\nCecil Levien also became a director and major share holder of Guinea Airways Limited, New Guinea's pioneer aviation company. Originally started under the name Guinea Gold, with a DH37 biplane called 'Old Faithful', Guinea Airways Ltd was registered on 4th November, 1927.\nDuring the next few years the company was to become the world's leading freight operator, carrying huge loads by 1930 standards, including complete motor cars. With a fleet of 4 aircraft Guinea could carry around 16 tonnes a day.\nIn February, 1937 Guinea Airways commenced a weekly service between Adelaide and Darwin, and for a short time operated from Adelaide to Sydney, but this route was abandoned when the Darwin service increased to 3 times a week.\nFrom 1932, Bulolo Gold Dredging, floated by a precursor of the international Canadian gold mining company Placer Dome, constructed eight dredges at Bulolo and Wau from dismantled parts flown in using three Junkers aircraft. This resulted in a total airlift of 39,417 tons of freight, for production of 1.3 million ounces of gold, until the planes were destroyed by Japanese fighters in 1942.\nThe use of Junker planes allowed the exploitation of the Morobe Goldfields and assembly of the huge gold dredges on Bulolo flats.\nDredging for gold at Bulolo began on 21 March, 1932, with all of the heavy dredging equipment transported in pieces by Junker planes flying from the port city of Lae. In the year ending 1932 Guinea Air carried 3947 tons of freight, a larger amount than the combined total for France and Germany over the same time.\nDredging operations were interrupted by the war in 1941, and were not resumed until six years later. Gold production in 1952 amounted to 122,035 ounces, valued at \u00a31,311,241, and constituted 77 per cent of the gold produced in New Guinea in that year. Almost all of the mining in PNG has been gold mining.\nc057370001u.jpg\nGeological map of the Territory of Papua / by Evan R. Stanley ; drawn in the Northern Territory Branch, Department of Home and Territories.\nDrew, Philip Leaves of Iron Glen Murcutt: pioneer of Australian Architectural Form Harper Collins, Sydney, 1985\nNelson, Hank Taim Bilong Masta, The Australian involvement in Papua New Guinea Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney 1982\nLevien, Cecil John (1874\u20131932), Australian Dictionary of Biography\nAustralia's global connections - Papua New Guinea\nStudents explore countries of the Asia region and the connections Australia has with other countries across the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 10015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.slugmag.com/tag/josh-helman/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:59Z", "digest": "sha1:H7MRD2WW5U7HG7AT2NRVHW5WABW23HNK", "length": 433, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.slugmag.com", "title": "Josh Helman Archives \u2013 SLUG Magazine", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Josh Helman\n\u201cKate Can\u2019t Swim,\u201d directed by Josh Helman, can almost be described as a post-coming of age film as Kate (Celeste Arias) starts to feel unsettled right as her life is seemingly falling into place. Artistically, all of the elements are in place for a visually stunning cinematic experience. \u201cKate Can\u2019t Swim\u201d shows on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom and Jan. 24 at 10:30 a.m. in the Gallery. \u2026 read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 2555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartchinasourcing.com/china-factory-scams-time-ripe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:48Z", "digest": "sha1:4JOLJO3KGDRWQOICCTZULDNQRLS4OQQH", "length": 9761, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.smartchinasourcing.com", "title": "China factory scams: Their time is ripe - Smart China Sourcing", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Evaluating Suppliers / China factory scams: Their time is ripe\nRecent business confidences surveys conducted in China show a downturn in the Business Confidence Index for small and medium -sized manufacturing companies of all types, falling to its lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis. The decline in business confidence is the result of features built into the Chinese economy.\nThis declining BCI shows that economic stress on SME manufacturers in China continues to increase. This is a long term trend, and any resolution of the trade war likely will not impact this general trend. As a result, China based non-government economists are predicting a wave of plant closures and bankruptcies that will ripple through the entire PRC SME manufacturing sector over the next year. The large state owned enterprises will not be significantly impacted; the impact will be primarily center on small and medium enterprises. This means bankruptcy and closures both in the private sector and in the provincial and local state owned manufacturing sector.\nThese closures and bankruptcies do not reflect the condition of the Chinese economy as a whole. The companies that will be swept away are weak and technologically backward entities that would have been eliminated many years ago in a fully market economy. The Chinese system tends to keep these weak players alive far longer than is economically rational. Then the life support is suddenly removed and they all die at once. This sudden rise in business deaths is what is being predicted for the next decade.\nThe concern for foreign buyers of Chinese product is that an increase in closures and bankruptcies will also mean an increase in scams and frauds. When a factory in China knows it will be shutting down, its owners often work to make a final score. They set up a deal that allows them to bring in as much cash as possible in the short term. The owners then take the cash as a final bonus, shut down the company and then move on. No bankruptcy is involved. They just shut the doors.\nIn implementing their scam, the factory owners are faced with a problem. If they commit fraud against another Chinese person or entity, they likely will be pursued for retribution. That retribution may be criminal investigation and prosecution through China\u2019s criminal justice system. Or the retribution may be informal action carried out by an effective criminal gang system active in China.\nPerpetrating a scam on a Chinese entity involves considerable risk. On the other hand, scams against foreign buyers have hardly any risk at all. When a foreign buyer is cheated, the Chinese police often do nothing at all and there is virtually nothing your Embassy or Consulate can do beyond put the names of the offenders on a list. The Chinese courts can do little to nothing as well and the informal methods of retribution are rarely available to foreign entities. For this reason, when it comes time to do that last big scam or series of scams before shutting down the factory, foreign buyers will always be the preferred target.\nThe scams at this stage follow a regular pattern. The three primary patterns are as follows:\nModel Scam Number One: It is typical for Chinese factories to require buyers make an initial deposit on the date it accepts the buyer\u2019s purchase order (PO). A common structure for China suppliers is 30% down and 70% paid prior to shipment. Using this structure, a factory that knows it will shut down will take the deposit, do no work at all and simply fail to deliver. If the factory does this with enough foreign customers, it can collect a substantial sum for funding its owner\u2019s retirement.\nThis kind of scam is hard to detect and for that reason is very effective. The problem for the scammer is that in a declining market, the total return for the scammer may be disappointingly small. So to milk more from unsuspecting buyers some factories will go for an even bigger score. They go to their buyers and offer to sell their product at a substantial discount. But the price for this discount is a substantial increase in the order amount and an increase in the deposit from 30% to 50%. The Chinese side says: \u201cIt is a great deal for you. Make a full year of orders all at once and you will save big money.\u201d Using this scam, the Chinese factory collects a much larger deposit amount and the owners shut down the factory and disappear.\nIn China Tariffs and What to do Now, Part 1 we focused on how Chinese factories were offering to illegally transship their products to Malaysia or Thailand or Vietnam or Bangladesh or the Philippines (mostly), thus avoiding U.S. tariffs:\nBut before I discuss what companies do about their tariff problems, it is far more important I start out discussing what they should NOT do. They should not have their China products shipped to Taiwan or to Malaysia or to Thailand or Vietnam or anywhere else and then have those products shipped to the United States as though they are not from China. Doing this sort of transshipping can and does lead to massive fines and to JAIL TIME. I am not kidding. I am starting out with a post on what not to do because the risks from this one thing far exceed the benefits of the things we will be discussing in our subsequent posts.\nAnd yet, many are telling us that their Chinese factories are suggesting these exact sort of transshipments and giving assurances that they are legal or that nobody ever gets caught, neither of which are remotely true. Step back for just a second and ask yourself why you are even considering taking legal advice about United States customs law from a Chinese factory owner or salesperson who has all the incentive in the world to sell you Chinese products and very little incentive to keep you out of jail. Please, please, please don\u2019t fall for that. Please.\nChinese companies and the U.S. importers of their products often believe they can get around United States tariffs by transshipping the products to Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, [or some other country] before sending them on to the United States. Their plan is to relabel the products with a new country of origin and then export the products to the US free of China , without US Customs and Border Protection (\u201cCBP\u201d) ever being the wiser.\nI bring this up because many of the same factories that are making this transship offer are at the same time offering to discount their prices in return for a large increase in the deposit. This sort of \u201cdouble\u201d offer to illegally avoid tariffs and raise the down payment amount is a terrific indicator of a brewing scam.\nModel Scam Number Two: Chinese factory sells a standard product: usually something like a chemical or a basic raw material or a food product. As with scam number one, it pumps up its orders by offering a substantial discount \u2014 sometimes even too good to be true. In exchange for the discount, the factory requires full payment before shipment. Then the factory ships a non-conforming product, collects the payment and disappears.\nThe below are some examples brought to the attention of our China lawyers by foreign companies that were scammed:\nContainer of custom cut food product: 25 containers, neatly packed. The first layer of these cartons contain conforming product. The rest of the container is filled with bricks.\nBarrels of a granulated chemical (say citric acid). The top two inches in each barrel is conforming product and the rest is filled with sand. Or barrels are for a liquid chemical (say sulphuric acid). The barrels are filled with salt water.\nContainers filled with frozen food product, which when thawed, reveal that the food is rotten. In my own experience, this happened with 8 containers of frozen salmon. The decay was so bad that the containers were declared a hazardous waste site and the buyer was required to pay the substantial cost of a hazardous waste clean up.\nModel Scam Number Three. The owners of the Chinese factory contact a foreign customer (oftentimes a regular buyer who gets all or most of its product(s) from the dying Chinese factory) and offer to sell their business at a unrealistically low price. In exchange for this low price, the deal must close very fast. This fast close means no time for due diligence and no involvement of experienced and trustworthy China lawyers or consultants.\nThe foreign buyer pays the purchase price by wire transfer to the Chinese factory. Then the buyer travels to China to inspect its factory and here is what they find:\n\u2014 The factory building was rented, not owned. The building is stripped. Not only has all the machinery been removed, but even the window glass and plumbing fixtures are gone.\n\u2014 The bank account has been emptied by the former owners and they have disappeared.\n\u2014 The landlord shows up and demands a full year\u2019s rent on the factory that has not been paid. 200 hundred workers show up and demand 6 months back salary. The local government shows up and demands one year in back taxes. To make it even \u201cbetter\u201d the local government colludes with the workers to take the passports of the foreign owners, lock them up in a local hotel, and then announce that they will not be able to leave town until all back payments are made.\nThe above sort of scams are committed in China all the time. However, their frequency and severity increases whenever there will be a wave of factory closures and bankruptcies. This is what is predicted for the next couple of years for China, so particular care is now required. For some of the things you need to be doing now to reduce your chances of problems stemming from this wave, check out last week\u2019s post, China\u2019s Economic Slowdown and YOUR Business: The Times they are a Changin\u2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 10946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartertravelworkplaces.ie/partners/genzyme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LEDZLPSB2ELMNUTEC3EMBBUUVT4O74Y3", "length": 2718, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.smartertravelworkplaces.ie", "title": "Genzyme - Smarter Travel", "raw_content": "Genzyme is a large pharmaceutical company, based on the northern outskirts of Waterford. There are approximately 500 employees based at this location, a high proportion of which work shift patterns. There are approximately 470 car parking spaces, 9 of which are allocated for disabled drivers, visitors and expectant mothers. Public transport provision serving the site is limited and it has a relatively small walk-in and cycle catchment.\nGenzyme joined the Smarter Travel Workplaces programme in the latter part of 2010 and an employee travel survey was undertaken soon after this in early 2011. The results of the travel survey highlight that a high proportion of employees live in the rural areas surrounding Waterford where there is no realistic travel alternative to the private car for journeys to work. This is confirmed in the results of the 2011 travel survey, which indicate a high car driver mode share at 88% and second to that a car passenger mode share of 8%.\nGenzyme, in partnership with the NTA, developed an Action Plan of short, medium and longer term measures dealing specifically with the issues raised within the travel survey. One of the key measures was the introduction of a carsharing scheme for employees.\nUsing the NTA web based carsharing scheme www.carsharing.ie, Genzyme implemented an employee carsharing scheme in early 2012 with the official launch of the scheme in January 2012. Since this time over 36 employees have signed up to the scheme and this number continues to grow.\nGenzyme has shown its commitment to the success and promotion of the carsharing scheme through the following:\nIntroduction of carsharing permits to identify carsharing groups, these are available to employees who actively use the carsharing website;\nIntroduction of 9 dedicated carsharing spaces in close proximity to the building entrance;\nOngoing promotion of the scheme including a promotional event in April 2012;\nMonitoring demand;\nEarmarked a further 10 dedicated carsharing spaces when there is the demand for this; and\nClosely monitoring the use of the carsharing spaces to ensure these are not being misused.\nDuring the promotional event in April 2012, active carsharers commented on the benefits they were realising since joining the scheme including cost and journey time savings.\nGenzyme also appreciates the importance of promoting not only the carsharing scheme but other measures and ways of creating a smarter travel workplace, including the introduction of cycle spin classes within the office, involvement in the bike to work scheme and the provision of information through the organisation\u2019s intranet.\nGenzyme expectant mothers parking\nGenzyme cycle parking \u2013 on a rainy day in February!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.snowboard-zezula.com/surf-beach-towels", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ISEPEMCDOE5XAR7XG3V7SXHHM4MR4S33", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.snowboard-zezula.com", "title": "Beach towels | Snowboard Zezula", "raw_content": "After a crazy time in the water, it's almost necessary to wrap in a towel and take a moment. Choose between the finest pieces by After, Quiksilver, Roxy and many more! And as a bonus, all of them are available in our store.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 606, "original_length": 8812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.so.energy/green/favourite", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:V6XAMMUET4J5T7CTLOIOJQPPSR2YIWUQ", "length": 3141, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.so.energy", "title": "So Energy \u2013 Great value green energy made easy", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Our energy \u203a Vote for your source\nVote for your favourite energy source\nWe give our customers the power to choose where we get our energy from. Each year, we'll let our customers vote for either wind, solar, hydro, biomass or tidal. We'll then make agreements to source our energy according to each share of the votes. You can read more about where we sourced our energy from last year on Our energy sources page.\nIf you're a customer then you can vote below!\nThe UK is one of the best locations for wind power in the world and could power itself several times over using just wind power. We're the world's sixth largest producer of wind power behind China, USA, Germany, India and Spain.\nVote for wind\nSolar cells, also known as Photovoltaic (PV cells), convert sunlight directly into electricity. Sunlight hits the surface of the cell and causes the electrons to move. This creates a current in each cell, which is combined to produce useful amounts of electricity. In 2016 the UK generated 3.4% of its total electricity using solar power.\nVote for solar\nThe majority of hydroelectric power comes from dams where they release water from height, and this drives a water turbine and generator. There are also hydroelectric power stations on rivers, which often have no reservoir capacity, so only water coming from upstream can be used for generating electricity, and any oversupply goes unused.\nVote for hydro\nBiomass is organic material that comes from plants and animals, often in the form of wood pellets, waste wood or animal manure. Biomass ultimately contains stored energy from the sun and when burned, the chemical energy in biomass is released as heat. This heat is then used to produce steam or gas to drive a turbine and generate electricity.\nVote for biomass\nTidal power is a form of hydropower that converts the energy produced by the surge of ocean waters during the rise and fall of tides into electricity. Although tidal energy has been around for a while, it is only due to recent advancements in technology that costs have been brought down and tidal has become a viable competitor to solar and wind.\nVote for tidal\nWe give our customers the power to choose where we get our energy from. Each year, we'll let our customers vote for either wind, solar, hydro, biomass or tidal. We'll then make agreements to source our energy according to each share of the votes. You can read more about where we sourced our energy from last year on 'Our energy sources' page.\nDon't mind where it comes from?\nIf you don't have a preference on where your electricity is sourced from (as long as it's green, of course), that's ok too, just vote for 'any green will do'.\nAny green will do\n* Tidal has only a very limited production capacity in Great Britain. At this stage we are unable to commit to supplying a greater allocation of our electricity from this source for the year April 2017 - March 2018. We are currently speaking to more Tidal generators to supply more electricity from this source.\nLast year's fuel source mix\nRead more about where we sourced our energy from last year on Our energy sources page.\nGet a quote in less", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.softcat.com/news/hp-announces-separation-into-two-new-public-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RDZT42XJUQKZIFNCI4SQ3N3HZUO2A2MD", "length": 2442, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.softcat.com", "title": "HP announces separation into two new public companies | Softcat", "raw_content": "Earlier today HP announced plans to separate into two new publicly traded Fortune 50 companies: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.\nHewlett-Packard Enterprise will offer services, infrastructure and software, enabling business customers in particular to tap into the opportunities presented by cloud, big data, security and mobility. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will incorporate HP\u2019s financial services division.\nHP Inc. will continue to provide personal systems and printers to customers, whilst directing investments towards growth markets such as 3D printing.\nSoftcat\u2019s CEO Martin Hellawell said, \u201cThis is positive news for Softcat and our customers. We have an overall relationship with HP but our relationship with the HP PPS division is quite independent of the relationship we enjoy with the rest of the business. While we have tried to find synergies between the PPS business and the rest of the company, in reality these have been few and far between. Ostensibly we have been dealing with two separate entities so decoupling the companies should not have a major impact on our business or more importantly on our customers.\u201d\nHe continued \u201cBut I can see upsides. Anything that breaks down the size of an organisation without removing value, has got to be a positive thing. This should make both organisations more focused on their respective businesses and purpose. Both take control over their own destiny and both should become more nimble, agile and easier to deal with as a result. I can also see benefit for shareholders and who will now be investing in much clearer defined entities and the full shareholder value of the business should therefore be more fully recognised.\u201d\nCurrent HP CEO Meg Whitman will be president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Dion Weisler, executive vice president of HP\u2019s Printing and Personal Systems business (PPS), will lead HP Inc. as president and chief executive officer.\nMartin added: \u201cWe have the privilege of enjoying strong relationships with both Meg and Dion. I think everyone knows Meg and her richly deserved reputation and channel centric approach by now. Dion is fantastic character with amazing positive energy and an equally partner and customer centric approach. Between Meg and Dion, the business is in very good hands.\nFor more information regarding the separation please don\u2019t hesitate to contact your Softcat account manager or call 01628 403403.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 9420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/EnglishPremiership/schmeichel-mourinho-not-an-easy-choice-20160524", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QN2IXANAJMJ37QIIJMFF4XG742XNQKNT", "length": 1743, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.sport24.co.za", "title": "Schmeichel: Mourinho not an easy choice | Sport24", "raw_content": "Schmeichel: Mourinho not an easy choice\nJose Mourinho (TEAMtalk)\nRashford set for England debut\nShould Mourinho convince Giggs to stay?\nPIC: Arsenal reveal 2016/17 jersey\nCape Town - Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel believes it won't be an easy decision to appoint Jose Mourinho as Louis van Gaal's successor.\nMourinho is widely expected to take over at Old Trafford after it was announced that Van Gaal had been sacked on Monday night.\nAlthough Schmeichel believes Mourinho would do well at the Red Devils, he feels the former Real Madrid manager will have to adjust his style of coaching to meet the expectations of the club's fans.\n\"Mourinho is not an easy call to make for the owners and leaders because if he was the right man, he would have been picked before, that was the obvious choice,\" the 52-year-old told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\"He has fallen out with a director of football at a club, a president, a team doctor. He has done things that are not in the way Manchester United wants the football club to run.\n\"All these issues would have been brought up and I am sure it will have been run by Alex Ferguson and Bobby Charlton. Without them saying 'yes' to him, it would not happen. Therefore, if he comes in he is a good choice.\n\"He will be prepared and ready to do it but he has to go back to the values of the football club - a very strong team consisting of exciting players which are creating chances and scoring goals. All that has been missing.\n\"Now they have a guy that is supposed to be the biggest manager in the world, the one that really could save Manchester United. It has been a brave decision but one that is long overdue.\"\nRead more on: manchester united | english premiership | jose mourinho | soccer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 7949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/EnglishPremiership/van-dijk-not-ruling-out-january-exit-20171004", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:25Z", "digest": "sha1:265A463QU3ERTUFOZ3JNN2UZEPNW7X5P", "length": 1496, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sport24.co.za", "title": "Van Dijk not ruling out January exit | Sport24", "raw_content": "Van Dijk not ruling out January exit\nVirgil van Dijk (Gallo Images)\nAge cheats under scanner at U-17 World Cup\nTalking-points ahead of this week's qualifiers\nCape Town - Wantaway Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk admits he could still look to leave the club when the January transfer window opens.\nThe Netherlands international was heavily linked with a move to Anfield in the off-season before Liverpool cooled their interest after being accused of making an illegal approach.\nVan Dijk even handed in a transfer request to help smooth the process, but the Saints held firm and refused to entertain offers for the sought-after centre-back.\nAfter initially finding himself training with the club's development squad at the start of the season, the 26-year-old has been brought back into the first-team fold and made his first appearance under new Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino as a substitute against Crystal Palace last week.\nVan Dijk was called up to the Oranje squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Sweden, and spoke to Fox Sports in his homeland about his current situation on the south coast.\n\"I'm glad I'm fit again and I can give up 100%,\" he said. \"I'm not sorry for anything.\n\"Of course, I wanted to make a step up, but Southampton did not want me to sell me, but you're a professional, so now I'll give everything to the club.\n\"Halfway through the season, maybe we can see what's possible.\"\nRead more on: southampton | english premiership | virgil van dijk | soccer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 7734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportsbroadcastjournal.com/college-hoops-announcers-milestones/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NNJLBMB2ASDCIRP5JWWYH2FPYZ2G3TSS", "length": 9957, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.sportsbroadcastjournal.com", "title": "Halby\u2019s Morsels: College Hoops\u2019 Announcers: Milestones and the Praiseworthy - Sports Broadcast Journal", "raw_content": "Tonight\u2019s title game between Villanova and Michigan marks these milestones for the lead television announcers:\nJim Nantz \u2013 his 28th; Bill Raftery \u2013 his 26th (1993-2014 on national radio 2015-18 television) \u2013 Tracy Wolfson \u2013 her 10th.\nFifty years ago, 1968, was the last NCAA title game not carried on conventional network television. An ad-hoc outfit, SNI, carried the national championship from 1963-68. Bill Flemming did play-by-play on all six broadcasts those years. Fairly well known back then, Flemming did lots of work for ABC, covering a multitude of sports. One of his favorite events was the Michigan-Ohio State football clash. He was a Michigan alum. (Earlier, in 1962, ABC ran the title game on a day\u2019s delay as part of the Wide World of Sports series.)\nNBC was the first traditional network to acquire the live NCAA rights which it held from 1969 through 1981. The tournament\u2019s initial voice on NBC was Curt Gowdy, network television\u2019s first major play-by-play figure, former hoopster at Wyoming and an outstanding human being.\nThe title game back then was played on a Saturday afternoon. It moved to prime time in 1973 the year that Bill Walton and UCLA defeated Memphis State.\nIt should be noted that while the NCAA Tournament was not on conventional network television until 1969, CBS provided coverage of the then more popular NIT beginning in the mid-1960s. One year, in fact, when coach Al McGuire\u2019s Marquette team was invited to both the NIT and NCAA, he chose to play in the NIT!\nAs we close out the collegiate season, we say goodbye, until next season to many of my favorite broadcasters, including (but not limited to):\nOn television, Tim Brando of Fox. He\u2019s upbeat, a solid game caller , not afraid to voice opinions and engages his color men. The magnetizing ring to his voice tells viewers that Brando is on the call. Mark Jones of ESPN (brother Paul is radio voice of Toronto Raptors) stands out for providing anecdotes and for spicing his calls with a richer vocabulary. Sean McDonough can teach a class on when and how to pause to deliver a perfect punchline. Dave Pasch, an excellent all-around play-by-player, does college football on television, the NFL on radio (Cardinals) and the NBA on ESPN. In past years on the college game, he has also showed a witty personality and a sense of humor; working with over-the-top and unpredictable Bill Walton.\nOn radio, I will miss these three for either their uniqueness, unambiguous styles or consistencies. Rich Chvotkin at Georgetown is 72. He was hired by John Thompson in 1974 and just completed his 44th season; all working alone. Listeners have no challenge following the game. He talks intensely and a mile a minute. I often wonder how he doesn\u2019t suffer a coronary on-air. When Georgetown wins, hold your ears because he exults endlessly. For a real living, would you believe, Rich is a psychologist.\nWhen asked by budding radio basketball broadcasters who to tune in to learn the basics of calling a game, the first name that comes to mind is Ohio State\u2019s Paul Keels. He delivers a vivid picture and consistently fulfills two critical radio requirements. On each trip down the floor, Keels mentions the team that has possession of the ball and gives the score of the game. So simple, but too many radio guys don\u2019t do it. Because of digital distractions and short attention spans, these two informational elements are imperative. Too many announcers are too busy opining or running talk-shows with their color men in middle of the game.\nFlorida State\u2019s Gene Deckerhoff always makes me smile. To begin with, his voice is unmistakable and he doesn\u2019t take himself too seriously. Gene is an unabashed rooter, yet he\u2019s always pumped and positive whether the Noles are ahead or behind. He sounds like he\u2019s having fun, win or lose and never whines. If the announcer is up, the listener generally is up too.\nI share a cute descriptive line by Mississippi State radio announcer, Neil Price, calling an NIT game against Penn State on radio last week. When a shot rimmed off, he said \u201cit horseshoes off.\u201d Descriptive creativity is the beauty of radio.\nJoe Bowen has been the radio voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1982, \u201c36 years,\u201d he says proudly. Bowen says that he\u2019s easily done 3,100 NHL games. He\u2019s behind a couple active play-by-players, Mike Lange of the Penguins and Chuck Kaiton of Carolina.\nSince 2015, when they were told that the team charter is an extension of the locker room, the Leafs\u2019 announcers have been traveling commercially. \u201cWe almost missed a game in Pittsburgh one day because of weather and plane connections,\u201d Bowen says.\nAt first, the Leafs were planning to have the radio announcers call road games off a monitor from a hometown studio and weren\u2019t going to have them travel at all. But when word got out, fans created such a stir that the team acquiesced. Still, the announcers are now relegated to commercial travel.\nIt reminds me of a similar \u201coff the charter\u201d edict by Pat Riley when he became the Miami Heat\u2019s head coach and president in 1995. Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay who did color on TV was one of the announcers who was forced to the coach section of commercial aircrafts. I can vividly remember him sitting in the middle seat on one flight, quietly doing a crossword puzzle. The late Jack was old school, an ex-Navy man and in his 70s at the time. I\u2019m sure he wasn\u2019t happy about the decision but rarely if ever complained. Bless his soul.\nStan Fischler, a New York institution, known as The Maven, is retiring from MSG Network at the end of the season. Stan, still hale, turned 86 on Saturday. He defines the word prolific, having authored or co-authored almost 100 books on diverse subjects. In addition to his sports expertise, particularly hockey, Fischler is known for encyclopedic knowledge of the New York subways.\nHe\u2019s also listened to many broadcasters through the years. When it comes to major sports, Stan says the best he\u2019s heard were Vin Scully for baseball, Marty Glickman for football and basketball and Foster Hewitt for hockey.\nCharlotte Hornets\u2019 voice Steve Martin, who is finishing up his last few games before retiring, is from Maine. In a recent conversation with Orioles\u2019 announcer Gary Thorne, I came to learn that the two actually worked together at the same station in Bangor, Maine and collaborated on sports broadcasts; baseball, hockey and basketball. Gary\u2019s back with O\u2019s TV and Steve\u2019s about to enjoy his well-earned retirement.\nPhil Mushnick, a mainstay, must-read New York Post columnist since the early 1980s is now doing only two pieces a week for the longtime daily tabloid. He was doing three. What started purely as a media column, Mushnick\u2019s work evolved through the years into a deeper, thought-provoking sentry of the good and the bad, on-air and off and between the lines and outside the lines. Fans will still rush to read Mush on what looks like Fridays and Sundays. Welcome back Andrew Marchand, a onetime Post writer. He will cover media once a week, on Mondays. Marchand is back after years with ESPN. The New York area has been blessed for years. The top four major dailies have all had sports media critics. In addition to Mushnick, the Daily News\u2019 Bob Raissman, Newsday\u2019s Neil Best and the Times\u2019 Richard Sandomir each prominently share or shared what the late Mutual broadcaster Fulton Lewis called his \u2018news and views.\u2019 A little more than a year ago, Sandomir moved off the media beat and now writes obituaries for the Times.\nFor those who don\u2019t know Jerry Schemmel, he\u2019s a member of the Colorado Rockies\u2019 radio broadcast team. He suffered a death eluding experience in 1989, when his United Airlines flight crashed. Of the 296 passengers, 111 died. In 1992, Schemmel was hired as the radio voice of the Denver Nuggets before joining the Rockies in 2010. He authored a book on his experience, Chosen to Live.\nGodspeed: A Race across America, will be in theaters May 22nd. Schemmel and Brad Cooper fight their way through seven days of inclemencies including sleep deprivation; cycling 3,000 enduring miles, pursuing their shared convictions.\nTalking of films, a documentary on the life of the colorful Hot Rod Hundley will air on AT&T Sportsnet Pittsburgh, tomorrow (April 3d) at 7p eastern. Wider distribution follows. Hot Rod was a standout player at West Virginia and then played in the NBA. After his playing career, he was the longtime voice of the New Orleans and later Utah Jazz. Hundley and Michael Smith are the only two ex-NBA players to call NBA games on radio.\nInteresting to note that in 1960, like Schemmel, Hot Rod, his Minneapolis Lakers teammates, coaches and a few children of the adult traveling party also survived a plane crash \u2013 one of the team charter. The DC-3 plane made a forced landing in an Iowa cornfield during a driving January snowstorm. There were no casualties. Hundley said, \u201cWhen we realized we were safe we erupted in cheers.\u201d\nSomething I picked up looking for something else in Len Berman\u2019s book: Spanning the World: The Crazy Universe of Big-Time Sports, All-Star Egos, and Hall of Fame Bloopers.\nLen shares his casual encounter with esteemed television newsman Ted Koppel. \u201cI once had a nice conversation with (Koppel), in a men\u2019s room of all places. When we finished talking, Koppel said, \u2018Bye, Marv.\u2019 He thought I was Marv Albert, but I wasn\u2019t offended.\u201d\nHoward Kellman, a 2017 Ballpark Digest Broadcaster of the Year begins his 43d season as the voice of the AAA\u2019s Indianapolis Indians. Kellman\u2019s a good man who traces his roots through Brooklyn College. Kellman suffered a heart attack at the ballpark a couple seasons ago. Delighted to see that he\u2019s in fine health and pumped for another season of baseball .\nI do remember when Al McGuire chose the NIT over the NCAA tournament for his Marquette team. The reason as I recall was that Al was displeased about where his team was seeded in the NCAA bracket. This decision could never happen today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 12333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/tag/vintage-baseball-photograph/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:E2MFJYOFUH5JE356FVL4NYYPT7N26VTR", "length": 921, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sportscollectorsdaily.com", "title": "vintage baseball photograph", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for vintage baseball photograph\nPhoto of the Day: DiMaggio in a Cloud of Dust\nIt was one of the most tumultuous seasons in Yankee history. 1946 saw the resignation of manager Joe McCarthy, who had led the franchise to seven World Series titles. Bill Dickey took over but the club couldn\u2019t seem to get anything going. The Yankees were hopelessly out of contention with two weeks still to play. Our RMY Auctions Photo of the Day is one part greatness and \u2026 [Read more...]\nPhoto of the Day: Maris\u2019 Debut?\nRoger Maris was known far and wide by the late summer of 1961, but four years earlier, he was just a young player hoping to stick in the major leagues. Images of Maris\u2019 first season with Cleveland are not plentiful but a new discovery adds one more to the list\u2014and this one may be one of the most important photos of Maris ever taken. 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Topics include definitions and a brief \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 10443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spytec.com/news/2018/08/01/abusive-nursing-home-employees-captured-on-hidden-camera/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QA6ARU26OXFQXBC46Z5SBFWXXQVNCA7X", "length": 4171, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.spytec.com", "title": "Abusive Nursing Home Employees Captured on Hidden Camera / SpyTec Inc Blog - Surveillance Equipment & Spy Gadgets Info", "raw_content": "Abusive Nursing Home Employees Captured on Hidden Camera\nPOSTED August 1, 2018 by admin /\nElder abuse takes a wide range of different forms, including, but not limited to, issues like physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, confinement, passive neglect, willful deprivation and more. According to a recent study conducted by the National Council on Aging, it\u2019s also a problem that is likely a lot more severe than most people even realize.\nIn the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately one out of every 10 people over the age of 60 has experienced some form of elder abuse \u2013 including those outlined above \u2013 at some point in their lives. When you consider how large this demographic actually is, that number alone could total as many as 5 million people. The reality of the situation, however, is likely far worse \u2013 the same study reveals that only about one out of every 14 cases of elder abuse is actually reported to the proper authorities. In nearly 60% of these incidents, the perpetrator is also a family member. Some 66% of the people who fall into that category are also adult children or spouses.\nBut as you can see from that study, elder abuse by a family member or other \u201cloved one\u201d is not always the case. A significant portion of the time involves a perpetrator from outside the home \u2013 particularly if the victim in question has been admitted to some type of elder care facility. Such is the case with one Raleigh nursing home, whose personnel recently abused a 68-year-old resident. Luckily, the resident\u2019s family had his best interests in mind and turned to the power of modern technology to get to the bottom of the situation once and for all.\nRaleigh Nursing Home Abuse: What You Need to Know\nRebecca Knapton told local CBS affiliate 17 News that her father, Richard Johnson, suffered a stroke in February of 2018. He was left paralyzed on one side of his body after the event, which meant that he needed around-the-clock care that she was in no position to properly give. In March, he was admitted to Universal Healthcare of North Raleigh \u2013 which is when this most disappointing and frightening of situations first began.\nRebecca Knapton quickly began to suspect that nurses were abusing her father, particularly due to sudden changes in his mood and other indicators. Richard Johnson had also made comments that suggested this himself. After discussing things with facility officials but coming to no satisfying conclusion, she quickly decided to take matters into her own hands. She put a hidden camera in her father\u2019s room, which soon confirmed the worst. Her instincts were absolutely right. Her father had become an abuse victim.\nIn one instance, Johnson fell out of bed at around 4:22 a.m. He called for help repeatedly, and a nurse finally arrived at 5:21 a.m. Instead of helping Johnson back into bed, they simply questioned him and mocked him for the next 10 minutes. Then, several additional employees come into the room, and the pattern continued.\nKnapton, with her video evidence in tow, quickly filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services. Based on the videos that she recorded, the state quickly determined that there was enough evidence to substantiate claims not only that Johnson was being abused, but that other patients were being abused and neglected as well. The facility issued a statement to 17 News saying that they were taking the situation very seriously, but for a lot of people \u2013 including the victim and his daughter \u2013 this was a classic case of \u201ctoo little, too late.\u201d\nKnapton has indicated that she absolutely plans to take legal action not only against the facility, but the specific employees who were involved. After the incident took place, she quickly moved her father to a nearby facility \u2013 WakeMed \u2013 where, as of June 2018, he is recovering from a respiratory infection. 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Our eyes, barely open, squint at the clock. All of a sudden a shot of adrenaline rushes through our body. We jump out of bed. We run around trying to make up for lost time. The alarm failed to go off. Frantically, the scream goes out, \u201cWake up!\u201d The kids quickly need to get ready for school. We hastily dress in order to go to work.\nThis situation can be very frustrating. We have our morning routine down. We plan out the amount of time it takes to get ready. We don\u2019t mind hitting the snooze button every now and then, but when the alarm fails to go off, we wake up in a panic rushing around trying to get ready for the day.\nA time is coming when the cry will go out for all people to wake up. It will not to awaken the world from a physical sleep, but it will wake all from the sleep of death.\nFree from distress.\nFamous stories abound in the book of Daniel. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar wanted them burned to a crisp for disobeying his decree to worship the statue he made. King Darius reluctantly tossed Daniel into a den to be served as supper for the waiting lions. Daniel\u2019s enemies, who tricked the king, wanted Daniel punished for praying to the God of Israel. In each instance God rescued these men from harm. They escaped without a scratch or the smell of smoke on them.\nThese stories capture the attention of young and old alike. Most would end their knowledge of the book of Daniel there. However, God desires us to learn so much more from this book. In the final chapters of Daniel God pulls back the curtain for the people to see events still to come. God gives Daniel a vision of future kingdoms that will rise and fall. The vision ends with a glorious sight. The resurrection of the dead will take place on Judgment Day, and the life everlasting believers will receive.\nAs Christians we know that day will come. We confess it in the Creed, \u201cI believe in Jesus Christ\u2026from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit\u2026the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.\u201d The inspired authors of the Bible prophesy about Jesus\u2019 second coming to earth, which will be much more glorious and festive than his first coming.\nAlthough we know all of this, we still find ourselves being lulled to sleep. The days continue as they always do. Weeks pass by without any change. Months continually come and go. The years all too quickly fly by. The world continues as it always has. Our watchfulness turns to laziness. Our readiness is replaced by drowsy eyelids.\nWe need to wake up and realize that we live in the end times. Our hearts need to always be ready to meet our Savior. No one knows the day or the hour when Jesus will return. Our hearts need to be on a constant state of alert. Wake up and be ready for that day to come. Let us not be found unprepared for this great day.\nEven before that day comes we know that times of great distress will arise in the world. We turn on the news only to have our hearts melt. We want to be uplifted, but we only become downtrodden with all the news before us. Wildfires displace thousands of people from their homes. A person loses their life to senseless violence. Accidents, robberies, drugs, cheaters, hate filled speech leave us wondering what is going on.\nWe wonder how much worse things can get, if they can possibly get any worse. \u201cThere will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then\u201d (Daniel 12:1). As the end of this world nears, things will get worse, much worse. Much of this distress comes from the Antichrist, the earthly agent of the Devil, who tries to overthrow many. This Antichrist, the great enemy of the church, rises to destroy the work God has laid out among his people. Great turmoil infects the believers. As the believers wonder how much more they can withstand, all of a sudden they receive good news.\nThe Antichrist will meet his end. God\u2019s people will be delivered. The time of distress will be cut short. \u201cAt that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise\u201d (Daniel 12:1). Michael serves as God\u2019s chief angel, often referred to as the archangel. Earlier Michael was the one who worked behind the scenes to keep the Persians from inflicting their intended harm upon God\u2019s people in captivity. This angel will continue to fight for God\u2019s people. He will come to defend the believers who face the great distress.\nWe will overcome. God will deliver us. The Christian wakes up to gain relief from the great tribulation around them. Our eyes look to God, who already won this for us. Our enemies have been defeated. Jesus\u2019 death conquered the devil and all his cohorts. No one can lay a hand upon us. We wake up knowing that we will be free from the great distress of the world.\nFree! Free from the distress and hardships this world\u2019s prince and his army throw in our direction. We will be victorious! We also wake up free from our greatest enemy, death.\nThere are two sure things in life, death and taxes. We won\u2019t speak about taxes, but we will say something about death. Just a couple weeks ago we celebrated All Saints Day, when we give thanks to God for the rest he has given to those he brought to his side this past year and all through history. We long for the day when we can retire from the church militant to enter the church triumphant with all those saints who have gone before us.\nUntil that time comes, we continue our journey upon the earth. We know, unless Jesus returns before that time, that we will die. Those in the prime of their life might not want to focus on their own mortality. Yet, at various times throughout our life we are faced with our own mortality in very startling ways. It might be in the unexpected death of a friend. We need to face our own end, when the doctor delivers not so good news about our health.\nWhen death comes knocking at our door, how will it find us? Will we be unprepared? Our hearts build upon the shaky foundation of everything this world has to offer only to find disappointment. We busy ourselves building up a storehouse of all the things in this world rather than focusing on the true treasure of heaven. We grow weary in our walk of faith thinking that we will always have time to return to church on our timetable. Yet, all of a sudden our time is cut short. There will be no second chances. God will not say, \u201cI am sorry. I will give you a pass since you were not ready.\u201d\nOr will we be prepared once death comes? Our eyes of faith will be focused on Jesus. We know that at any moment God can call us home to be with him or return as our Judge. We long for that day. We know this life is only temporary, but our eternal home is located in heaven. May our Lord always find us ready. May our hearts always long for our Savior to call us home.\nIt is that Last Day that Daniel points us to next. \u201cMultitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt\u201d (Daniel 12:2). Throughout the Bible death is referred to as a sleep. When we go to sleep at night, we expect to wake up in the morning. God tells us that all the dead will wake up on the Last Day. Jesus will come back as Judge of the living and the dead. The bodies of all those who have died will be called forth from the grave. The body and soul will reunite. All will stand before God.\nThe unbelievers will look forward to this day with dread. Their eyes will see the one that they have denied. Their knees will bow before the one they rejected. Their lips will sing the praises of the one they failed to recognize.\nThey will also hear their fate. They will go off to everlasting shame and contempt. They wanted nothing to do with God and his Word during their earthly life, so they will spend their eternal life separate from God\u2019s love. They rejected God\u2019s Word of forgiveness, so they will face their destruction.\nBelievers will have a much different story to live out. They will rise to see the one they longed for. Their knees will bow before the one who created them, redeemed them, and called them to faith. Their lips will sing the praises of the one who will bring them home.\n\u201cThose who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever\u201d (Daniel 12:3). The names of all those written in the book of life will live forever. This book contains the names of all those who have endured in the faith. These are those that will receive the crown of righteousness won for them by Jesus himself\nThe believers will wake up to new bodies. These bodies will be like Jesus\u2019 glorified body. They will be free from the decay of death. They will shine in glory everlasting with God. We will wake up to a new life. We will wake up to be with Jesus. We will wake up to live in heaven.\nIt all sounds too good to be true. We will not want to be waking up in a panic. We long for this day. We pray for it to come quickly. Free from the distress of this world. Free from death. We long for that day when God will call out for all, \u201cWake Up!\u201d Amen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 11970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ssje.org/2016/01/20/phase-2-my-relationship-with-god/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NYHI5MASKJ6SV4I6UPJR2CHXGMFX6LPG", "length": 6144, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.ssje.org", "title": "Week 2 Reading: My Relationship with God \u2013 SSJE", "raw_content": "Week 2 Reading: My Relationship with God\nObserving your own practices and hopes in relation to God\nOf all the elements of a Rule of Life, those dealing with our relationship with God are the most important. God is the source and the center of our lives as people of faith. During this phase, we will be exploring ways in which we can develop and grow our relationship with God in prayer. Prayer is our lifeblood. It is what binds us to God and God to us. Jesus came to offer us abundant life, and through his teaching and example, he has shown us that prayer is a wonderful way to come home to God and to receive that life which is his promise to each one of us.\nA reading from The Rule of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist on \u2018Prayer and Life\u2019: Reflect on how this reading might inform your own life of prayer.\nGod the Holy Spirit longs to inspire in us prayer that includes and embraces the whole of our life. It is a great privilege to be called to the religious life, which offers us every opportunity and encouragement to welcome the Spirit\u2019s transforming grace so that prayer may enter more and more into all that we are and all that we do.\nResisting the tendency to restrict prayer to set times, we are to aim at Eucharistic living that is responsive at all times and in all places to the divine presence. We should seek the gifts which help us to pray without ceasing. The Spirit offers us the gift of attentiveness by which we discern signs of God\u2019s presence and action in creation, in other people and in the fabric of ordinary existence. We are called to spiritual freedom by which we surrender fretfulness and anxiety in order to be available to God in the present moment. There is the gift of spontaneity, which gives rise to frequent brief prayers throughout the day in which we look to Christ and express our faith, hope and love. There is the gift of prompt repentance, which encourages us to turn to God and ask for forgiveness the instant we become aware of a fall. Through these and other like gifts, prayer comes to permeate our life and transfigure our mundane routines.\nThe life of prayer calls for the courage to bring into our communion with Christ the fullness of our humanity and the concrete realities of our daily existence, which he redeemed by his incarnation. We are called to offer all our work to God and ask for the graces we need to do it in Christ\u2019s name. In our prayer we are to test whether God is confirming our intentions and desires or not. We are able to pray about one another, our relationships and common endeavors. We are to bring him our sufferings and poverty, our passion and sexuality, our fears and resistances, our desires and our dreams, our losses and grief. We must spread before him our cares about the world and its peoples, our friends and families, our enemies and those from whom we are estranged. Our successes and failures, our gifts and shortcomings, are equally the stuff of our prayer. We are to offer the night to God as well as the day, our unconscious selves as well as our conscious minds, acknowledging the secret and unceasing workings of the Spirit in the depths of our hearts.\nThis deep intention at the heart of our life to find God in all things means learning to trust that divine companionship continues undiminished even when we feel only boredom and frustration. We can learn to stay still in our experience of numbness and resistance, and trust that Christ is just as truly alive in our hearts in these times as in those in which we enjoy the sense of his presence.\nSpend time now reflecting on your relationship with God. Download and use the exercise to map out how your garden is currently growing. Consider too, how you would like it to grow. Respond to the questions in each section with drawings and creative expressions. Start with the soil, move on to the plants, and end with the sky. Have fun, get out your art supplies, and let your creative spirit come alive!\n\u2190 Week 1 Reading: Rule of Life & Rhythm of NatureWeek 3 Reading: My Relationship with Self \u2192\nSue on March 21, 2017 at 15:55\nNature absolutely makes me aware of Gods love- I love watching the sea in different weather, bushland and tall trees, tiny surprising wild flowers, kangaroo families along my walk,birds in the trees, and my affectionate dog.\nI don\u2019t at all feel connected to God on a daily basis,but that really isn\u2019t surprising- I\u2019m like a teenager who only contacts their parent when they want something! I don\u2019t have a habit of regular connection \u2013 I never learnt to do this and those close to me are not religious or spiritual so it feels odd.I do know that when I ask, I feel guided.\nI am so enjoying this series, it is helping me.\nI\u2019m going to try regular prayer , even if it does feel odd!\nWilliam H Thornton on February 20, 2016 at 16:56\nVery interesting program. The analogy of gardening works very well for me, I love landscaping. One additional thought. I\u2019ve had to do some \u201cpruning\u201d in my life, things that were not good for me or others in my life. Pruning takes away the things that make me feel bad or do things incorrectly.\nWhat would help you renew your relationship with God? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 20, 2016 at 00:04\n[\u2026] Phase 2: My Relationship with God Wookbook Exercise: My Garden Plot [\u2026]\nWhat spiritual practice might help you grow? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 19, 2016 at 00:02\nWhat needs to be weeded or cultivated in your soul for you to grow closer to God? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 18, 2016 at 00:03\nWhat do you long for in your relationship with God? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 17, 2016 at 00:02\nmimi on February 16, 2016 at 09:53\nI am paying attention to a seed that is growing in new ways within, God is using a study of reconciliation to find places in my life to grow relationships, understandings, and new language of love.\nDo you feel connected to God\u2019s love on a daily basis? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 16, 2016 at 00:14\nWhat makes you most aware of God\u2019s love? | The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on February 15, 2016 at 00:01", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 10856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.star2.com/living/2018/08/11/california-clinic-examines-injuries-of-immigrants-who-seek-asylum-in-the-united-states/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:21Z", "digest": "sha1:WGFYR3ABJIXWQ6D3MUTQWV3IG5L7IRXO", "length": 8899, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.star2.com", "title": "California clinic examines injuries of immigrants who seek asylum in the United States - Star2.com", "raw_content": "Dr Nelson examining his patient Juan Lopez Aguilar, who said that in his homeland of Guatemala, he was beaten and threatened for nearly four decades because of his ethnicity.\nCalifornia clinic examines injuries of immigrants who seek asylum in the United States\nAugust 11, 2018 Health, Living, Mind, People\nPhotos By Tribune News Service/Kaiser Health News\nNew truths about the infamous 'Komagata Maru' incident involving Punjabi immigrants\nDr Nick Nelson walks through busy Highland Hospital to a sixth-floor exam room, where he sees patients from around the world who say they have fled torture and violence.\nDr Nelson, who practises internal medicine, is the medical director of the Highland Human Rights Clinic \u2013 part of the Alameda Health System \u2013 in Oakland, California. A few times each week, he and his team conduct medical evaluations of people who are seeking asylum in the United States. The doctors listen to the patients\u2019 stories. They search for signs of trauma. They scrutinise injuries, including electrocution scars, bullet wounds and unset broken bones.\nAs the Trump administration looks to reduce the number of asylum applicants, citing loopholes and fraudulent claims, this clinic \u2013 and others like it in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago \u2013 seeks evidence that can help determine whether someone should gain asylum in the United States.\nThe Highland clinic opened in 2001 as a place for asylum seekers and refugees to get care. Five years later, the staff started offering forensic exams that aim to discern whether there is evidence of torture or abuse. Dr Nelson, who took over as director in 2012, says his team does between 80 and 120 evaluations each year.\nDr Nelson and his colleagues diagnose physical and psychological ailments and, in many cases, substantiate these patients\u2019 claims about how they were hurt. Sometimes the asylum seekers have health coverage that pays for the exams, but the county covers the cost for those who don\u2019t.\n\u201cOur job is to make sure that the asylum office understands all the medical and psychological facts about a person\u2019s case so that they can make a decision,\u201d Dr Nelson said.\nHe bases his findings on an internationally recognised protocol for torture documentation.\nLopez Aguilar, who fled Guatemala three years ago, tells Dr Nelson that he has been having severe headaches and dizziness since soon after he arrived in the United States.\nFor example, he may be called on to judge whether a scar or injury could have occurred as the patient describes. Sometimes, Dr Nelson said, attorneys ask him to answer specific questions, such as, \u201cIs this burn scar consistent with a cigarette burn?\u201d or \u201cAre these marks on his back consistent with being beaten with PVC pipe?\u201d\nDr Nelson has had some medical training on what to expect to see in cases of torture. He also applies his general expertise as a doctor in knowing how to interview and examine patients, and has learned something about the countries these asylum seekers are fleeing and the injuries they may have endured.\nFor example, when someone is hit with a long, stiff object, it produces a pair of parallel bruises like railroad tracks, he said.\n\u201cThat\u2019s a specific thing that I didn\u2019t learn in medical school or residency,\u201d he said, \u201cbut that I have learned through taking care of a lot of people who have been tortured.\u201d\nIn most cases, Dr Nelson said, he finds evidence to support the stories his patients tell him. But there are also exams that don\u2019t yield definitive evidence.\nDr Nelson also addresses the asylum seekers\u2019 health needs, sometimes diagnosing cases of tuberculosis or HIV that were previously undiagnosed. Nearly all of the patients he sees need mental health referrals, he said, because of years of torture or abuse in their native countries.\nOne of the patients Dr Nelson recently treated is 60-year-old Juan Lopez Aguilar, an indigenous Maya who fled Guatemala three years ago. He said he was beaten and threatened off and on for nearly four decades because of his ethnicity, and feared for his life back home. Lopez Aguilar\u2019s son was murdered in 2005 and his daughter fled because of threats, his attorney said.\n\u201cI\u2019m worried,\u201d Lopez Aguilar told the doctor through a translator, as he sat in the exam room. \u201cThere are a lot of gangs. They want to kill people in my community.\u201d\nDr Nelson first examined and interviewed Lopez Aguilar earlier this spring and wrote a report corroborating the man\u2019s account for his asylum case, formally filed last year.\nLopez Aguilar, who grew up in a family of peasant farmers, told Dr Nelson that his community was attacked by soldiers when he was in his 20s and that his father was killed during that attack. Lopez Aguilar moved to another part of Guatemala, where he continued to be the victim of \u201crace-based harassment, extortion and threats\u201d, Dr Nelson said.\nThe man\u2019s story echoes those of other clinic patients, Dr Nelson added, and violence and discrimination against indigenous Mayan-speaking Guatemalans is common.\nLopez Aguilar, who has worked as a dishwasher, has now returned to the clinic for a regular medical visit. He tells the doctor in his native language that he has been having severe headaches and dizziness since soon after he arrived in the United States.\nHis wife and some of his children are back in Guatemala, he explained, and he can\u2019t petition to bring his wife to the States unless and until he is granted asylum. That won\u2019t be before 2020, when his court date is scheduled.\nMen like Lopez Aguilar have faced increasingly tough odds since early June, when US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that gang violence and domestic abuse would no longer be considered grounds for granting asylum.\nTo be eligible for asylum, applicants must prove they face physical violence, or fear it, based on factors such as race, ethnicity or religion.\nEven before the Trump administration\u2019s recent crackdown, getting asylum was a difficult and time-consuming proposition. In 2017, only 38% of asylum seekers in the US were granted that status by the immigration court, according to data from the non-partisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, New York.\nThe harsher federal policies, including detentions at the border, have generated anxiety and uncertainty among those seeking asylum and their advocates and immigration lawyers.\n\u201cEvery day is a roller-coaster,\u201d said Oakland attorney Haregu Gaime, who frequently refers her clients to the Highland clinic.\nNiloufar Khonsari, executive director of Pangea Legal Services, a Bay Area legal advocacy group, said the obstacles won\u2019t deter people from seeking a safe place to live or from seeking judicial help to stay in the United States.\nWhen applicants are examined at the Highland clinic, Khonsari said, it \u201cdefinitely makes a difference for judges\u201d.\nGaime said the clinic\u2019s reports frequently help corroborate her clients\u2019 experiences in a way that their testimony alone cannot.\n\u201cSometimes a traumatised person is not able to relay what happened to them in a way that tells the full story,\u201d she said.\nGebremeskl Tefamicael, an asylum seeker from Eritrea, tells Dr Nelson about being conscripted into the military, then imprisoned and tortured.\nOn the same morning that Dr Nelson saw Lopez Aguilar at the clinic, he also examined Gebremeskl Tefamicael, an asylum seeker from Eritrea. Dr Nelson took notes as he listened to Tefamicael\u2019s story of being conscripted into the military, then imprisoned and tortured.\nDr Nelson asked Tefamicael exactly what his tormentors used to tie him up.\nIt was a rope made from tree bark, the patient responded, as Dr Nelson wrote in his notebook a description of the scars on Tefamicael\u2019s wrists.\nAfterward, Dr Nelson\u2019s report for the court stated that Tefamicael\u2019s physical scars and psychological state are consistent with the man\u2019s description of what happened to him.\nDr Nelson said he got involved with the clinic because he wanted to treat people who were underserved.\nPeople fleeing their countries and seeking asylum here are \u201cdefinitely one of the more \u2026 underserved and generally marginalised\u201d communities, he said.\nOften, Nelson doesn\u2019t hear until months or years later whether his patients have been granted asylum. But when the request is approved, he said, he sees a tremendous change in them.\nGetting asylum doesn\u2019t take away the trauma, but it relieves these people of the fear of returning to a country where they are not safe, Dr Nelson said.\n\u201cWhen someone who has got a real basis for an asylum claim gets granted, and you were part of demonstrating why that should be the case,\u201d he said, \u201cthat feels really good.\u201d \u2013 Tribune News Service/Kaiser Health News/Anna Gorman\nDr Nick Nelson\nNext article Dogs can sense what their owners are feeling, will go through hurdles to help them\nPrevious article Citizen runner Edan Syah runs because he loves it too much to stop", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 14242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.staugustine.com/opinion/20190130/record-editorial-filing-can-be-taxing-for-best-of-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ICH3T4QZD3LHAB4GW4GQ4ITL3EIDHZJX", "length": 3428, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.staugustine.com", "title": "RECORD EDITORIAL: Filing can be taxing for the best of us - Opinion - The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine, FL", "raw_content": "RECORD EDITORIAL: Filing can be taxing for the best of us\nUnless you\u2019re Jane Average, with a single W-2 and standard deductions, filling out IRS forms can be daunting.\nSometimes it\u2019s not as important what you write down as it is what you leave out \u2014 and generally that\u2019s deductions you don\u2019t know exist or didn\u2019t know you qualify for.\nCan I file as single even though a divorce isn\u2019t final? Am I better off filing as head of household or as a qualifying widow (er)? My former spouse and I share custody of our young child and we have custody for the same amount of time. Which of us is the custodial parent? How does the Affordable Care Act affect my taxes? What\u2019s the standard mileage deduction for a business vehicle? If I sell shares in a mutual fund and reinvest the proceeds in another fund from the same fund family, do I have to pay taxes on the gain? I invested in a company and now my shares are worthless. Can I carry the loss forward into coming years, or must I claim the total loss this year? I started receiving Social Security this year. Is that taxable? My spouse has dementia and requires in-home care. Is the expense deductible? Do I have to include child support and/or alimony payments when I compute the earned income credit?\nIt just one of these examples applies to you and you don\u2019t know the answer, you probably need help.\nAARP, and the United Way of St. Johns are here to assist with free tax filings.\nSpecially trained volunteers are on hand to help you compute your taxes and to file them immediately and electronically for you \u2014 all at no charge.\nThe AARP service is available Feb. 1 through April 15 at the following locations and times:\nMain Library: Monday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nSoutheast Library: Tuesday and Friday from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.\nAnastasia Baptist Church: Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nSolomon Calhoun Center: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.\nHastings Library: Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Council on Aging: Mondays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nLocations are on a first come, first serve basis \u2014 except for the Main Library and Council on Aging locations where appointments are available by calling 904-827-6940 for the Main Library and 904-209-3655 for Council on Aging. Appointments are also available at the Hastings Library by calling 904-827-6970.\nThe United Way offers free tax returns as well. Its program schedule is: Wells Fargo Bank Branch; 1919 U.S. 1 South; from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.\nVystar Credit Union; 3654 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd.; from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.\nHealth and Human Services; 200 San Sebastian View; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays.\nUnited Way of St. Johns County; 117 Bridge St.; from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.\nCall 904-373-8671 or go to bit.ly/realsense to schedule an appointment.\nThere are some financial limits and parameters to both services. It\u2019s important to call ahead to find out exactly what papers you\u2019ll need to bring and if you are qualified.\nIn general, you may need to bring with you a 2017 tax return, photo ID, Social Security cards for yourself and dependents and any documents such as W-2s or 1099 forms and any other documents related to income or deductions. And joint returns will require both filers to be present to sign the return.\nThe help is there. Use it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.steveburrislaw.com/Personal-Injury/Nursing-Home-Errors/Signs-of-Nursing-Home-Neglect.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:P3FPFZ4XIDVFIYTIZ2QFL6YO26BTBWFU", "length": 2714, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.steveburrislaw.com", "title": "Signs of Nursing Home Neglect | Las Vegas Nursing Home Lawyer", "raw_content": "Call (702) 529-3101 to Pursue Justice\nMaking the decision to put your parent or other family member in a nursing home is never easy. Many families spend extensive time researching facilities to ensure that their loved one receives the attentive, comprehensive care they need. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many nursing home residents who suffer at the hands of negligent staff.\nIf you believe that your loved one is the victim of nursing home neglect, contact our firm immediately to pursue justice. At the Law Offices of Steven M. Burris, our Las Vegas nursing home lawyers are truly committed to the rights of our elders, and fight tirelessly to make the world a safer place for them.\nHold negligent and neglectful parties accountable for their actions. Call (702) 529-3101 today to seek justice.\nNursing home neglect can be tough to spot, as it often causes problems that aren\u2019t immediately apparent. However, there are a number of physical symptoms to look for which may indicate potential nursing home neglect. These include, but are certainly not limited to:\nUnexpected weight loss or gain\nThese are all signs that indicate neglect on the part of nursing home staff, but many can be easily overlooked. It is vital to keep a close eye out for these and other symptoms whenever you visit your loved one. If you even suspect nursing home neglect, call our Las Vegas personal injury attorney immediately to protect your elder.\nNot sure if you have a case? Get started today with a free initial consultation.\nAlthough physical symptoms are often clear-cut indicators that something is wrong, behavioral changes can also indicate that nursing home neglect is occurring. While changes to behavior or mood are not uncommon among those who are suffering from dementia or other brain conditions, they should still be taken very seriously. Nursing home neglect may be occurring if your loved one:\nIs highly agitated or upset\nBecomes anti-social or withdrawn\nIs non-communicative\nIs reluctant to speak in front of staff\nBegins to wander or elope\nSeeks isolation\nCall Our Las Vegas Nursing Home Attorneys\nNursing home negligence is rarely an isolated incident, so you owe it to yourself, your family, and others in your community to hold the responsible parties accountable. At the Law Offices of Steven M. Burris, our experienced Las Vegas nursing home attorneys can help you through every step of the process, providing skillful, knowledgeable counsel designed to get results. For more than 30 years, our firm has fought for the rights of injury victims, neglected elders, and their families.\nYou can help put a stop to nursing home neglect. Call (702) 529-3101 to start holding negligent parties accountable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stpeterwoking.org/Groups/294802/Church_Life.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4DTQWQ4QZ54LK43MC7PAK7K2T2HAG2FE", "length": 251, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.stpeterwoking.org", "title": "Parish of St Peter Woking : Church Life", "raw_content": "There is lots going on in the church whether it's on a Sunday morning, midweek, at the church building, and out in the community.\nTake a look at our Get Involved page If you want to learn more about serving in the church and see the current vacancies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 167.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.strangecarolinas.com/2017/05/strange-carolinas-south-carolina-map.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WGY3H6EQV3QCYDXUJTSZMLWOHC7D4JSU", "length": 638, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.strangecarolinas.com", "title": "Strange Carolinas' South Carolina Map | Strange Carolinas: The Travelogue Of The Offbeat", "raw_content": "Strange Carolinas' South Carolina Map\nBelow is a handy map with all the South Carolina locations we've featured on Strange Carolinas. Just click on a camper near where you&...\nMaps, South Carolina\nhttps://www.strangecarolinas.com/2017/05/strange-carolinas-south-carolina-map.html\nBelow is a handy map with all the South Carolina locations we've featured on Strange Carolinas. Just click on a camper near where you'd like to go, and it'll bring up what's there, a picture of the attraction, and a link to our article about it. If you click on the thingie at the top left of the map, it'll even show you the map by categories. Check it out!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 10432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.strawberrysqueeze.co.uk/designing-a-house-selecting-rooms-one-by-one/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WKLARUZVZDTMKOZVBHPDICCJNNVSZZ5S", "length": 4321, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.strawberrysqueeze.co.uk", "title": "Designing A House? Selecting Rooms One By One | UK Lifestyle Blog", "raw_content": "Designing A House? Selecting Rooms One By One\nHome \u00bb Designing A House? Selecting Rooms One By One\nWhen it comes to designing a house space, you can become overwhelmed with options. This project is a wonderful one, but it can often lead you to stress at just how you\u2019re going to complete it. Well, just like anything, small steps can often lead to long-term gains. It might be that you\u2019re designing a home extension, or you\u2019re finally building your entire place on a rural lot as you have dreamed from childhood. No matter your reason, it\u2019s not hard to feel excited for the finished product. This does not mean you can ignore the many small foundational steps it takes to make this a practical reality, however. You will need to pay your dues.\nWe\u2019re going to assume that you have all of the services booked and that you have some basic blueprints for the fundamental floor plan. If not, then this should be your first priority. You can find guides to help you here. However, when you have the blueprints, it can be hard to know where to situate certain rooms. Right now you only have the bare bones shell of the potential build, but it\u2019s important to think about this now. This is because wiring, plumbing, window installation among many other things are dependant on knowing what room you hope to place where.\nYour bathroom must be oriented in a direction that affords good privacy and light. This is why main bathrooms are often found on the second floor of a household. They must also be one of the centralised places for your plumbing network, meaning that a good amount of surrounding space must be allowed. You can get away with this being one of the smaller rooms of the house, but be sure you have enough room for some of the vital components you install, such as radiators for the bathroom or an entire shower basin.\nConsider certain size requirements for installations you might like. For example, storage, a bathtub, a bidet or many other features will all have their own requirements. Only in the case of storage can an implement be installed mid-wall, so consider this and make the correct choices. Fortunately, you can also get away with this being the least naturally lit area of your home, as you can always install powerful mid-lights and mirror lights to help counteract this.\nBedrooms can often be placed anywhere in the home, but consider their proximity to other rooms. It might be worthwhile to have one downstairs in the event that you invite guests over. For example, you might consider how a certain bedroom might suffer more from being next to the flushing plumbing system as this can be loud at night. It might be worth placing an office there instead, switching the utility of this space with said bedroom, as offices are likely only occupied in the day.\nBedrooms can be as sizeable or as small as you want them or need them, so this is the most versatile room in the house. Just consider how the doorway will suggest people enter the room, and which direction to make the bed face. This can be a deep consideration in small rooms. Also, consider who the bedrooms are for. Can small children double up to make more use of the room until they grow? Might it be one larger space you had originally considered would be more suitable for two bedrooms by installing a dividing wall?\nAlso, consider privacy. For example, a home designed in a relative horseshoe shape might have two rooms looking into one another, which might be fine, or might be considered less than appropriate. Even with the use of blinds and curtains, this is worth thinking about.\nThe living room is often the most spacious feeling when aimed towards the usual daily direction of light from the sun in summer. This helps your space feel more vibrant. Ideally, this room should be located on the ground floor, and looking out of its window should afford you a good view of the front door or at least garden. The living room is often the first comfortable hub of the home, meaning that a short distance from the front door is often ideal. Also consider how you might benefit from installing a satellite dish outside of your home, and where that might be placed. This could influence which space you choose to house your living room.\nWith these simple tips, selecting your new houses rooms one by one will be more than achievable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.student-jobs.co.uk/job-details_Camp_Director_16_Locations_Throughout_London_Surrey_Kent_Herts__Essex_2440369.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:55Z", "digest": "sha1:VOM4O36Q5UDDHMYV347YSG36AMNI7JNV", "length": 334, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.student-jobs.co.uk", "title": "Camp Director jobs in 16 Locations Throughout London, Surrey, Kent, Herts & Essex with Camp Beaumont Day Camps", "raw_content": "Salary: \u00a310-\u00a313.88 per hour x 45 hours per week\nAs a Camp Director of Camp Beaumont you will overall responsibility for the camp. You will be the person that everyone in the camp will look to for motivation, support and direction. You will be liasing with all teams in the Camp, including parents, the Operations team and Head Office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studentsreview.com/MI/OU_c.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BQGIW3NQIL6YARMAZQUAO3SPHUIEHJXF", "length": 952, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.studentsreview.com", "title": "Oakland University (StudentsReview) - College Reviews Student Opinion and Undergraduate College Ranking and Comments", "raw_content": "StudentsReview \u0099 :: Oakland University - Oakland Undergraduate Ratings\nFilter Results by Major--------------------------Avg Undergraduate ScoresAccounting............(4)Architecture..........(2)Biology...............(5)Business - Managemen..(11)Chemistry.............(2)Communications........(9)Computer Science......(5)Education.............(3)Electrical Engineeri..(4)English...............(7)History/Histories (a..(2)Journalism............(2)Kinesiology...........(2)Music Education.......(2)Nursing...............(4)Other.................(8)Physical Therapy/Exe..(2)Political Science.....(4)PreMed and Medical....(3)Psychology............(5)Sociology.............(2)Undecided.............(5)\nThis is about 32% lower than the average for all schools.\nMales: 66, Females: 41\nExpected coursework difficulty: 3.3 Medium\nTop Communications SchoolsTop Electrical Engineering SchoolsBest General EngineeringTop Fine Arts SchoolsTop Interior Design Schools", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 406, "original_length": 12209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 66.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studymode.com/essays/Definition-39933784.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BDEW6ZY5QA4KLGHH5K5ZNM7F4D46TYUV", "length": 13504, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.studymode.com", "title": "definition Essay - 814 Words", "raw_content": "Topics: Insanity, Insanity defense, Mental disorder Pages: 3 (814 words) Published: October 19, 2013\nAccording to the Oxford English dictionary, the word insanity describes a \u201cspectrum of behaviors\u201d characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity defines a \u201cmental illness\u201d of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct his or her affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. Insanity distinguishes from low intelligence or mental deficiency due to age or injury. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the derivation of the word insanity lies its definition. In English, the word sane derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning healthy. The word insanity was first used in the 1550s. Naturally the word insane means unhealthy. From Latin insanus meaning mad, insane, then comes the root of in meaning not, in Latin. The phrase mens sana in corpore sano is often translated to mean a healthy mind in a healthy body. In law, mens rea means having had criminal intent, or a guilty mind, when the act was committed. From this perspective, insanity can be considered as poor health of the mind, not necessarily of the brain as an organ. Rather it refers to defective function of mental processes such as reasoning. Back in early history, individuals believed that insanity began because of demonic possession, causing a lack of rational thought. Insanity is a mental illness and not triggered by a demonic possession. The word insane has now changed to specifically mean unhealthy in the mind rather than unhealthy overall. This does not mean the brain is unhealthy, but rather that the mind or process of reasoning has been impaired. Becoming insane is a process that often...\n...Defining Marketing When asked for a definition of the term marketing, one may receive a variety of answers from many different people. Every organization has its own idea of what marketing means. Many organizations, whether profit or not for profit based, form their vision and/or mission statement on their own meaning of marketing, whether they realize it or not. The following paragraphs will list a couple of the various definitions of marketing, as well as its importance in organizational success. Since every person may have their own definition, I will explain my personal opinion of the meaning of marketing first. In my opinion, the definition for marketing has many elements that make up its meaning. The first is the fact that it is a tool for organizations to inform consumers of the product or service available to them. Effective marketing takes into consideration the product or services' target audience. Knowing the demographics is essential before moving forward with advertising the product or service. The point of advertising is to keep current customers happy and interested, as well as lure in new customers, by making them aware of a product or service, whether it is new or old. That is my definition of marketing. Below are a couple of other definitions from different organizations. The first definition comes from a web site for the Manitoba Customer Contact...\n...Eng02 Cada, Daryl Jay P.\t2/6/2013 Encallado, Jerald S. Limosinero, Ma. Ayabelle V. 1. Procrastinate Surface Meaning - Procrastinator the matter until it was too late. Dictionary Definition - postpone doing what one should be doing. Etymology \u2013 1540\u2019s from latin procrastination \u201ca putting off\u201d noun of action from pp. stem of procrastinate \u201cput off till tomorrow\u201d from pro- \u201cforward + crastinus \u201cbelonging to tomorrow from cras \u201ctomorrow\u201d of unknown origin. Synonyms - procrastinate means delay. Class \u2013 * n. Procrastination * Verb - you keep leaving things you should do until later, often because you do not want to do them. Divide * Pro-forward * Cras: tomorrow * Crastinus: belonging tomorrow Illustrate - \u201cHe did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days\u201d * Carelessness * Laziness Cause and effect relationship \u201cFrom people with previous histories of punctuality procrastinate obstinately when faced with a particular type of new job.\u201d Narrate - When my grandma found my room messy she\u2019ll cleaned it immediately and to procrastinate it more. Describe - a negative attitude * Brings idleness * Postponing of work Definition Essay Some saying said that, \u201cThe best way to get something done is to begin.\u201d Nowadays, procrastination is one of the major problems of some of the people. Based on the web, it refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions...\nDefinitions of Stress Essay\n...Definitions of stress: The most commonly accepted definition of stress (mainly attributed to Richard S Lazarus) is that stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that \u201cdemands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.\u201d In short, it's what we feel when we think we've lost control of events. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_00.htm The UK Healthy and Safety Executive defines stress in the following way: \"the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them\". Lazarus (1966) offers this definition of stress: \"stress occurs when an individual perceives that the demands of an external situation are beyond his or her perceived ability to cope with them\". (pg 9) http://www.hypnos.info/book2/page2.html Stress is a reaction to continued excessive pressure or responsibility when you feel inadequate or unable to cope. http://www.stressbusting.co.uk/workplace-stress/what-is-stress-definition-of-stress/ Stress arises when individuals perceive that they cannot adequately cope with the demands being made on them or with threats to their well-being. R.S. Lazarus (1966). Psychological stress and the coping process. New York: McGraw-Hill. Stress, it is argued, can only be sensibly defined as a perceptual phenomenon arising from a comparison between the demand on the person and his or her...\n...\u2018tourist\u2019. Although the concept of tourism itself has been around for many centuries, the academic study of tourism in the tertiary educational sector is a recent development. There is no single definition of tourism to which everyone adheres. Many definitions have been used over the years, some of which are universal and can be applied to any situation, while others fulfil a specific purpose. This essay aims to define who exactly a \u2018tourist\u2019 is and what the term \u2018tourism\u2019 means through technical and heuristic definitions from articles written by Stear (2005), Dickman (1997), and McIntosh et al (1995). Throughout the essay definitions from organisations such as the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will also be drawn upon. The ambiguity of two seemingly simple concepts in theory \u2013 who a tourist is and what tourism entails - will be discussed through a range of academic articles, which will address and highlight the strengths, weaknesses and differences between them. The foci and boundaries of each definition will be determined in order to assess their effectiveness. Whilst each definition is unique in their own right, there are also many similarities, which can be noted. Weaver (2010) states that \u201cthe definition of \u2018tourism\u2019 is dependent on the definition of the \u2018tourist\u2019 and when defining whom exactly is a \u2018tourist\u2019, individuals must...\nEssay on Beauty Definition\n...\ufeffAre You Beautiful? How do you judge if someone is beautiful the first time you see him or her? The most popular answer you may find is by physical appearance. Nowadays, the media greatly influences women\u2019s point of view on beauty by displaying the idea that outer beauty is the only thing of all through images of good looking women in advertisements. The media teaches girls at a young age that physical attributes are all you need to get by in life by exposing them to beauty television shows like child beauty pageants. After all, the traditional dictionary definition of beauty is when a person is easy to look at. Therefore, many people forget that there is more to a person than just their looks. In my eyes, beauty means fully loving yourself and appreciating what you were born with because no matter how hard you try , you will never be able to change yourself completely. Although \u201cbeauty\u201d and \u201cattractiveness\u201d are synonyms, they are two completely different things. Attractiveness, as defined by Dictionary.com, is \u201carousing interest or engaging one\u2019s thought.\u201d One person may look at someone beautiful and admire that person for a short amount of time. However, someone who attracts others by their personality will always be beautiful. Therefore, attractiveness helps to create long lasting relationships, while physical beauty can only last for so long. The media is everywhere. We are now living in a world flooded with the mass media. Therefore, when the media...\n6 THEORETICAL CONCEPTUAL DEFINITIONS Essay\n...theoretical framework is the theory on which the study is based, the conceptual framework is the operationalization of the theory. Conceptual framework \uf07d Presents the relationship between the concepts to be studied \uf07d Presents the summary or map of the study Definition of Terms \uf07d What to include in definitions: Refer to your title, objectives, and conceptual framework for the concepts, variables, constructs, and terms to be defined Techniques for defining \uf07d Constitutive definition \u2013 \u201cbook\u201d definition Example: Communication comes from the word \u201ccommunis\u201d meaning to \u201c make common\u201d (Berlo, 1960). Operational definitions - by example - by genus and differentia - by stipulation - by operations necessary to undertake them Operational Definitions \uf07d By example Mass media are mediated means of communicating to a large audience. Examples of these are television, radio, newspapers. Operational Definitions \uf07d By genus and differentia Full professor vs. teacher Full professors are teachers of highest rank. Operational Definitions \uf07d By stipulation Level of participation is measured based on the score in self assessment test; 71 and above is high; 41-70 is moderate; and 40 and below is low. Operational Definitions \uf07d By operations necessary to undertake the variable Per capita income is equal to total income divided by total number of...\nSocrates' Definition of Success Essay\n...Ryan Barnes 10/07/10 What is Success My aim of this paper is to illustrate Socrates\u2019 criteria of a good definition by trying to define what \u201csuccess\u201d is. I will start by explaining Socrates\u2019 three criteria requirements of a good definition. First a good definition must define all and only cases, so that it covers the general ideas but also the exceptions to these cases. Secondly a good definition must be clear so there is no misinterpretation and easy to understand. Lastly a good definition should be explanatory, it should be state if and what its requirements and explain why they need to be present. Now knowing what makes a good definition I will construct three separate definitions that will fail one of Socrates\u2019 three criteria. I will start by giving you an example that fails Socrates\u2019 first criteria of all and only cases. Success is achieving fame and honor. This fails the requirements of a good definition because it fails to cover only cases. It fails to include times when people are successful but fail to receive fame or honor or even both. Many women and men become volunteer firefighters, paramedics, and other rescue personnel to help others. They put their lives in danger to help others which is an honorable thing to do, but many of these men and women never receive any recognition. You can also obtain fame in many ways including...\nDefinitions of Poverty and Development Essay\n...essential goods and services to meet basic needs of life is called poverty. An increase in poverty leads to stagnation of development, Seers (1977:3). This paper will attempt to look at the theoretical definitions of poverty and development visa a vise the definitions of a common man. This paper will further analyse remedies of poverty from the theoretical and common man\u2019s point of view. THEORETICAL DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT This part of the paper gives sample definitions of poverty and development from the scholarly perspective. According to the World Bank (2000), \u201cpoverty is pronounced deprivation in well-being.\u201d Well-being in this regard is the one articulated by Amartya Sen (1987), who argues that well-being comes from a \u201ccapability\u201d to function in society. Thus poverty arises when people lack key capabilities, and so have inadequate income or education, or poor health, or insecurity, or low self confidence, or a sense of powerlessness, or the absence of rights such as freedom of speech. Also Nolan and Whelan, define poverty in terms of the inability to participate in society as a result of lack of resources\u2019 (1996:188). It should be noted therefore that there is no single \u2018correct\u2019 definition of poverty. However, as most researchers now accept that any definition has to be understood, at least in part, in relation to particular social, cultural and historical...\nChloroplast will be unbroken with a morphologically intact envelope.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 14837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stuvia.co.uk/doc/352847/chromosomal-abnormalities-en-non-mendelian-inheritance", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:15Z", "digest": "sha1:H4HBTQQO75HIYZIIDNBNB5CDKSVXAPMC", "length": 146, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.stuvia.co.uk", "title": "Chromosomal abnormalities & Non-Mendelian inheritance - Freshman Biology - Stuvia", "raw_content": "Chromosomal abnormalities & Non-Mendelian inheritance\nBiology notes/learning outcomes for \"Chromosomal abnormalities & non-mendelian inheritance.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 6900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 133.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sugomusic.com/faq-category/publishing-faq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6XVL4F4XDSIBVNGSC6UBWPSZHGNYN5YZ", "length": 4763, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.sugomusic.com", "title": "Publishing Archives - Sugo Music Group", "raw_content": "The business of music publishing is concerned with developing, protecting and valuing music compositions. The publishing business is diverse and demands a variety of skills. Music publishers play a vital role in the development of new music and in taking care of the business side, allowing composers and songwriters to concentrate on their creative work. A good publisher seeks out great music and great songwriters, and promotes their catalogues across a variety of platforms. A publisher manages the business exploitation of the catalogues (including the registration of works and the collection and onward payment of all due royalties) and generally seeks to protect and enhance the value of...\nWhat are Performing Rights Organizations and what do they do?\nPerforming Rights Organization (or PRO) helps songwriters and publishers get paid for the usage of their music by collecting one of the most important forms of publishing revenue: Performance Royalties. As a songwriter, composer or lyricist, you\u2019re owed what is called a \u201cPerformance Royalty\u201d any time your music is played on radio stations (terrestrial, satellite and Internet), used on TV shows or commercials or performed in live venues. Those Performance Royalties are paid by radio stations, venues and TV networks to PROs such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN (in Canada) and more.\nWhat if I\u2019m already registered with a Performing Rights Organization like ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC?\nAs a composer, you should be registered with a PRO in your territory. If you are not, then we can help. In addition, you should seek a publisher who will help manage and exploit your catalog. This is where Sugo Music Group\u2019s publishing divisions can help.\nWhat if I already have a publishing company?\nIf you already have a publishing company, you need to ask, \u201cWhat is it doing for me?\u201d If the answer is \u201cvery little,\u201d then you need to make a change. If you are a composer and the publisher (all in one) or if you are a music label that has publishing rights of your artists\u2019 songs and want to generate more revenues, then please contact us, and we\u2019ll set you up the right way!\nDo I retain rights to my music?\nYes, all composers under a publishing agreement with Sugo Music Group will retain 100% rights of their music. Period.\nDo I need to do anything once I sign up for your publishing services?\nNo. We make music publishing easy for labels and independent songwriters. You\u2019ll know longer need worry about figuring this out for yourself and whether your songs are correctly registered worldwide, relevant to your public performance and syncopation rights.\nWhat do you mean by public performance rights or performing rights?\nPermission to publicly perform a song must be obtained from the copyright holder or a collective rights organization. In the United States, broadcasters can pay for their use of music in one of two ways: they can obtain permission/license directly from the music\u2019s copyright owner (usually the publisher), or they can obtain a license from ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to use all of the music in their repertoires. ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are the three performing rights societies in the U.S. and once they receive payment from the broadcasters they are responsible for compensating the music authors and publisher. Nearly every professional composer, songwriter, lyricist and publisher should be a member of...\nWhy do I need Sugo Music Group publishing?\nWe provide music labels and independent songwriters the ability to collect worldwide publishing royalties. This enables you to make the most money from your music, relevant to your performance rights. For songwriters that do not have a publisher, the collection of publishing royalties is unnerving, costly, and time-intensive. With Sugo Music Group\u2019s global network of collection agencies, we've done all the hard work for you. We\u2019ll first assist in affiliating and registering you with a Performing Rights Organization and register your songs with foreign collection agencies around the world; and we\u2019ll pay you the sogwriting royalties you\u2019re owed. Even if you're already affiliated with...\nIs your company similar to a Performing Rights Organization?\nNo, we are not a Performing Rights Organization. We provide publishing services to collect songwriting royalties on behalf of songwriters. These royalties include performance royalties paid by PRO\u2019s as well as mechanical royalties from the sale of your downloads on sites like iTunes.\nDo you take any of my composer royalties?\nNo, we do not. In fact, our business is to protect and increase your composer royalties that you should be earning through your performing rights such as film, TV, streams, downloads, commercials and other business uses. Our share comes from the publisher\u2019s portion only.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/fl-sp-ira-nba-column-20181006-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NHVHTAGNDFCQPPLSX5DET3F4LAKPRRBT", "length": 8030, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.sun-sentinel.com", "title": "Winderman: Heat, Spoelstra adjust to non-contact NBA | Commentary - Sun Sentinel", "raw_content": "Winderman: Heat, Spoelstra adjust to non-contact NBA | Commentary\n\"We've already made those adjustments,\" Erik Spoelstra says. \"We've had to.\"\nThe comment on the practice court at Georgetown University is not offered as forlornly as might be expected.\nBecause if nothing else, the Miami Heat's coach is a pragmatist.\nAnd now will have to be again.\nEven if it cuts to the core for the team with the mantra of, \"hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the NBA.\"\nThis is not about the more publicized rules changes the NBA has adopted for the coming season, such as the shot clock resetting to14 seconds on an offensive rebound or broader latitude to assess clear-path fouls. This is about rules already in place, or, more to the point, about a crackdown.\nWhen it comes to \"freedom of movement,\" the NBA is pulling no punches \u2014 by making sure that all punches are pulled.\nWhat it means is that all the clutching and grabbing, the bumping of cutters, the \"blowing up\" of screens \u2014 basically all the stuff that Pat Riley had insisted upon since his South Florida arrival more than two decades ago \u2014 has reached the point of zero tolerance.\nAgainst that backdrop, Spoelstra has found himself having to run typically aggressive Heat defensive drills despite stricter rules interpretations that leave players with hands tied behind their backs.\n\"We still want to bring a physicality with great discipline,\" Spoelstra said, intent on giving no quarter amid a revised interpretation that insists on doing so. \"It's a disposition. It's an effort. It's a presence. But you have to be masters of technique. You cannot just hit people out there.\n\"Some of the things we have to adjust the way we used to defend it. We don't bump people through the lane. And pick-and-rolls, we're not hitting people. We're just getting to our spots and being disruptive.\"\nThe league has spent recent years cleaning up mayhem in the post. Now, with so many teams playing switching defenses, the focus has turned to the perimeter. Spoelstra said that actually could help teams with muscled big men, such as the Heat, with Hassan Whiteside.\n\"The biggest adjustment with the league right now is all the switching,\" he said. \"And so you're switching. It's not a post-up league any more. It still can be, but when people talk about grappling and holding, it's now switch and a hold to get in front of the big, which was happening to Hassan the other night.\n\"And unless that's legislated, that's a very tough thing to execute against. So we made changes to our defensive system based on those rules, and hopefully that'll be legislated so you can't hold on to Hassan or our big when you switch a small onto him and you throw to him at the rim.\"\nThe upshot for the Heat potentially could be less physicality on defense, and more on offense, provided officials adhere to the revised interpretations of freedom of movement.\n\"These are the rules that they said they're going to emphasize,\" Spoelstra said, \"so we have to adjust accordingly.\"\nIncluding having Whiteside dragging into the lane undersized opponents who dare to switch into the post.\n\"I think your technique, again, becomes really important,\" Spoelstra said, \"to get the right leverage points so teams can't hold you, especially those pick and rolls, where everybody's switching.\"\nSpoelstra's preference remains letting the players play, which is why he finds the final two rounds of the playoff particularly appealing.\n\"Because it becomes just about the players,\" he said. \"When less is called, it's more about the brilliance and greatness of what players can do at the highest level. But I get why you can't do that all season long.\"\nTHE WHIRLWIND: Okaro White is living proof of the whirlwind of life as an NBA journeyman, from being dealt by the Heat at last season's trading deadline to the Atlanta Hawks, then catching on with the Cleveland Cavaliers for their run to the Finals, and then being left with only a non-guaranteed invitation to camp with the San Antonio Spurs. For the former Florida State forward, it is a case of whatever it takes. \"After the Cleveland stint, I looked for the best fit for me,\" he said before the Spurs' preseason opener against the Heat. \"I had come to San Antonio to play pickup with the guys and that's how it kind of came about. It's very similar to Miami \u2014 everything is tight knit, everything is run well. It was kind of like an easy choice.\" Of making it to the NBA Finals, albeit as an inactive participant, White said, \"It was good and bad. As a player you want to be out there. But just having an opportunity to be there, I was able to be around LeBron James. That was amazing.\" White was dealt by the Heat while recovering from foot surgery, using the time with the Cavaliers to rehabilitate to what he now says is full health.\nBREATH OF NEW AIR: With his offseason shift from the Atlanta Hawks bench to taking over as Milwaukee Bucks coach, Mike Budenholzer injected himself back into the Eastern Conference playoff race. He appreciates he is not alone \u2014 for one significant reason. \"I think Boston, Philly, Toronto, Indiana, Miami, Washington \u2014 you just keep on going down, Detroit \u2014 everybody feels like they have a chance,\" Budenholzer told ESPN, \"maybe more so because LeBron is in the West now.\" Of this brave, new James-less world in the East, Washington Wizards coach Scott Brooks said before the start of the preseason, \"A 'LeBron-less East,' that's a good way to put it. He's gone. He got a lot of players cut, traded, coaches fired.''\nNEXT CHALLENGE: Held out of the San Antonio Spurs exhibition against the Heat due to a nagging groin issue, former Hurricane Lonnie Walker had been earning the seal of approval from coach Gregg Popovich. \"He's got speed. He's aggressive. He's really intelligent,\" Popovich said of his one-and-done first-round pick. \"He's just trying to figure out the game. He wasn't in college very long. Just diving into the NBA is going to take a bit. We'll be patient. He's got a lot of qualities that are going to help him in the NBA, for sure.\" Now the Spurs will have to be patient, with Walker sustaining a knee injury in a Friday exhibition, with surgery and a six- to eight-week absence to follow.\nADDED BONUS: Ruth Riley Hunter said the timing could not be better for her move into a broadcast analyst role with the Heat, arriving as Dwyane Wade is playing out his farewell season. \"I've been playing with him since his rookie year and on; we were in the Olympics together in 2004,\" the former WNBA star said. \"He's someone I've had great admiration for and I've followed throughout his career. His legacy is so rich, not just what he's done in bringing championships to Miami, but because of what he\u2019s been able to do with his platform in sports. I think this is going to be a great celebration of what he's done and the people here in Miami have great affection for what Dwyane has done here for this city. It\u2019s going to be great to call the games and honor him throughout the entire season.\" Riley Hunter's Heat debut is Monday as radio analyst for the preseason game against the Orlando Magic at AmericanAirlines Arena.\nPAT HAND: Just as the Heat have made a habit of having former players around the team, former Heat assistant coach David Fizdale is attempting to do the same in New York, having taken over as Knicks coach in the offseason. That recently had Patrick Ewing addressing the team. \"I want him to be actively engaged in what we're doing,\" Fizdale said at the Knicks' preseason opener of the Georgetown coach. \"He really talked to the guys about the special moment they're in, to wear that jersey. He's the greatest Knick when you look at his numbers and All-Star games. It was just an honor.\" Fizdale also invited former Knicks guard and current Knicks television analyst Walt Frazier for a similar visit.\n3. Steals needed in the regular season by Dwyane Wade to pass fellow Marquette alum Doc Rivers for 34th place on the NBA all-time list.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunlituplands.org/2012/03/super-night-for-rick-santorum.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PYEDE6OTB3A7D3VRJMNUPP7N2Z3444J5", "length": 2606, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sunlituplands.org", "title": "SUNLIT UPLANDS: A Super Night for Rick Santorum!", "raw_content": "A Super Night for Rick Santorum!\nRick Santorum had a great night last night with decisive wins in Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota added to wins in Iowa, Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota. That he lost Ohio by a hair, after being outspent 12 to 1 by his rival and independent pro Romney PACS, is not so much a loss by Santorum as another reminder that North and South, East and West, the broad mainstream of the Republican Party do not want the Massachusetts chameleon being foisted on us by the Republican establishment.\nIn every state except Massachusetts, there have been far more votes cast against the notorious flip-flopper, than for him. And even in liberal Massachusetts many voters have misgivings about Romney's signature legislation, Romneycare, the forerunner to Obamacare.\nIt is time conservatives recognize there is only one viable, conservative alternative to the very weak and unappealing Massachusetts liberal. Rick Santorum has demonstrated, again and again, a powerful connection with middle-Americans, independents, blue collar workers in those states which will determine the outcome of the November election. Here in South Carolina, Mitt Romney connected with only one demographic -- those whose annual income exceeds $200,000. His talk of $10,000 bets and multiple Cadillacs, and knowing all the venture capitalists who own and sponsor NASCAR, has done little to endear him to ordinary Americans. Indeed, we believe he would be an even weaker candidate than the establishment's previous losers -- John McCain, Bob Dole and Gerald Ford.\nThe Republican nominating process has worked extremely well in exposing and ferreting out inadequate candidates. It's now time for Republicans to vote strategically, to rally around the one principled, consistent, viable conservative remaining in the race, and ensure that Rick Santorum becomes the next President of the United States. If you can help him financially, please do so here, but let us all pray for our country and ensure that this time the people nominate a man who knows to his core, the Office of the President must be of, by and for We the People.\nLabels: Senator Rick Santorum, Super Tuesday\nI agree 100% with the last part of your statement\n\"but let us all pray for our country and ensure that this time the people nominate a man who knows to his core, the Office of the President must be of, by and for We the People.\". Personally I want to vote for \"NONE OF THE ABOVE\". I'm ashamed of the showing all of our candidates have made so far. The back biting and negativity is certainly nothing Jesus would have been involved in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 6765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sutliffstout.com/houston-accidents/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WQAXPO6CWFFZAFPHAJ2VM4SC3BFVJVND", "length": 3439, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.sutliffstout.com", "title": "Houston Traffic Accidents Today [Sutliff & Stout, Injury & Accident Law Firm ]", "raw_content": "Below you will find frequent posts which recap the most serious vehicle crashes in the Houston area. If you are looking for up-to-date traffic conditions on the major Houston freeways, click here.\nCritical Head-on Collision in Montgomery\nMontgomery (February 11, 2019) \u2013 A serious head-on collision in Montgomery left one person killed and two people in critical condition. The car accident occurred Sunday afternoon around 1:00 p.m. at the 21000 block of Read On\u2026\nMan Dies after Crashing SUV into Southeast Houston Home\nHouston (February 4, 2019) \u2013 A man died Saturday morning after crashing into a home in southeast Houston. Authorities say the driver of the SUV was driving at a high-rate of speed and ran a Read On\u2026\nSuspected Drunk Driver in Train Crash\nHouston Heights (January 30, 2019) \u2013 Early Wednesday morning a suspected drunk driver\u2019s car was hit by a train. The car accident occurred around midnight in The Heights. According to the Metro video reported the woman Read On\u2026\nRollover Crash at Crosby Middle School\nCrosby (January 29, 2019) \u2013 Early Tuesday morning, a rollover crash happened in front of Crosby Middle School. The car accident happened around 6:50 a.m. on FM 2100. A black sedan collided with a black minivan. The Read On\u2026\nDWI Charge after Fatal Car Wreck in Northeast Houston\nHouston (January 28, 2019) \u2013 Early Monday morning a woman was killed in a crash by a suspected drunk driver. The car accident occurred around 12:30 a.m. at the intersection of McCarty Road and Market Street in Read On\u2026\nMajor Collision Leaves Katy Family Suffering\nKaty (January 25, 2019) \u2013 On Friday night around 9:30 p.m. Jose Chavez was traveling with his wife Bernice Chavez and three children. Mr. Chavez was traveling eastbound on Morton Road Ranch when he turned left onto Read On\u2026\nThree People Dead in Head-on Collision in Liberty County\nLiberty County (January 23, 2019) \u2013 Three people are dead after a head-on collision in Liberty County Wednesday evening. The crash happened around 7:00 p.m. near the intersection of FM 163 and County Road 2282. A Read On\u2026\nFatal Crash at 9500 Galveston Road\nHouston (January 23, 2018) \u2013 The car accident occurred on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 around 5:50 p.m. at 9500 Galveston Road. According to Sergeant M. Warhol and Officer N. Luu with the Houston Police Department, Read On\u2026\nSuspected Drunk Driver Faces 2 Charges after Major Collision Leaving 4 People Injured\nHouston (January 20, 2019) \u2013 A drunk driver is facing two charges after a two-car collision that injured four people in southeast Houston. The crash occurred at 7500 Harrisburg around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, January 20, Read On\u2026\nFatal Five Car Collision Left Two Dead and Two Charged with DWI\nHouston (January 21, 2019) \u2013 A five-car collision left two people dead and two others are facing DWI charges. The multi-car accident occurred Sunday at 2:00 a.m. near West Loop and Beechnut exit. The driver Read On\u2026\nPedestrian Killed while Crossing in Jacinto City\nJacinto City (January 17, 2019) \u2013 A man was struck by a truck and killed while attempting to cross the East Freeway service road in Jacinto City Thursday morning. According to Jacinto City Police Department Read On\u2026\nA/C Unit Causes a Six-Car Crash on North Freeway\nTidwell (January 14, 2019) \u2013 A chain reaction crash happened due to an air conditioning unit falling off a truck in the roadway. The series of car collisions occurred on Monday night at 11:00 p.m. in Read On\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanfran/s1850.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GBTCGJ7Y6QEXYORY5ZRCMQQB6NXG4MNP", "length": 5149, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.talkinbroadway.com", "title": "Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - \"Skeleton Crew\"- 1/31/18", "raw_content": "Also see Jeanie's reviews of Disgraced and Cow Pie Bingo and Patrick's review of Born Yesterday\nChristian Thompson, Margo Hall, and Lance Gardner\nImagine you've boarded an airplane that was supposed to take you to a much-desired destination, say a lovely beach on a tropical island. It's a long flight, and some hours into it you notice the entire first class section seems to have acted as some sort of escape pod, and all the rich folks up front are gone. The engines are sputtering and the plane seems to be losing altitude, but the flight attendants cheerfully insist there's every indication you will land safely. But you see some of the passengers being handed parachutes and jumping out the rear door, floating gently down to safety, while others are unceremoniously pushed out, disappearing into the blue void.\nThat's a bit what life must seem like for Dominique Morisseau's characters in Skeleton Crew, which opened this week at Marin Theatre Company, and will move on to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in March. The location is a stamping plant in Detroit, a smaller manufactory that supplies assemblies to one of the big three U.S. automakers. But the time is 2008, the height of the financial meltdown, but before the federal bailout of auto companies.\nIt's no wonder, then, that the four characters who inhabit this play are bundles of stress. Shanita (Tristan Cunningham) is pregnant, looking for any bit of calm she can find amidst the chaos of a company on the edge. Dez (Christian Thompson) already has his eye on the door, but needs to log some big overtime hours to get the stake he needs to open his own repair shop. Reggie (Lance Gardner) has made the jump from blue collar to white, and he alone knows the fate that awaits the plant. He confides in Faye (Margo Hall), a family friend who is a maternal figure for him and helped him score this job that is lifting him and his family out of poverty. But it's Faye, the senior member of this crew, who is facing the biggest challenges.\nEach deals with the death spiral of this company in their own way. Shanita is focused almost entirely on her soon-to-be-born baby, keeping her head down, doing her job well, and hoping that will help her survive the impending crash. Dez sees the ground rising rapidly and is working to get his own parachute before impact. Good-hearted Reggie, who is most likely to come through it all intact, is ironically the most stressed of the bunch, navigating the narrow line between the working class he came from and the management success he knows he can become. Faye, who has already fallen farther than any of the four, seems the most centered and equanimous about her fate.\nPlaywright Morisseau has created a well-rounded set of characters, and Jade King Carroll has assembled an excellent cast to portray them. Lance Gardner, who was so brilliant in An Octoroon at Berkeley Rep last year\u0097beat down yet still powerful\u0097has a similar challenge here, inhabiting a man who has earned the right to feel pride in his accomplishments, yet still exhibits a sense of lingering bootstrap guilt for lifting himself out of the circumstances of his birth. He knows he's not a better man because of the color of his collar, and the tension of not feeling truly at home among the workers or management clearly weighs on him.\nMargo Hall exhibits a natural ease on stage, portraying a woman who has lost so much that she has, it seems, only one gift left to give. Her Faye is the maternal heart of the play\u0097but her skillful mothering is undercut by the choices she's made. She makes good things happen for others, but has neglected her own health and well-being. Rather than watching the road in front of her, her eye is on the rear-view mirror, gazing at all that has led her to this point in her life.\nDez and Shanita are, on the other hand, fully focused on the future. What it may bring is uncertain, but each in their own way is driving confidently in the direction of their dreams. Thompson and Cunningham each do an excellent job of portraying two very different approaches to life. They clearly spark for one another, but while Shanita takes a more Zen-like approach to the mysterious new life that awaits her as a single mother, Dez is all fire and fury and righteous anger. His future is a battle to be won, hers an eventuality to be embraced.\nThe production is beautifully realized, with a suitably dumpy and distressed factory break room created by scenic designer Ed Haynes. With its grimy cinderblock walls, beat-up fridge (packed with a m\u00e9lange of spoiling, half-eaten leftovers), Mr. Coffee machine, and an array of notifications and warnings filling every square inch of the bulletin board, it is no place you really want to be\u0097rather like the situation in which the characters of Skeleton Crew find themselves.\nSkeleton Crew, through February 18, 2018, at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley CA. Performances at Tuesdays-Sundays at 7:30pm, with matinees February 8 at 1:00pm and February 3, 4, 11, 17 and 18 at 2:00pm. Tickets range from $22-$60, and are available at marintheatre.org, or by calling the box office at 415-388-5208.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.taosskivalley.com/trip-inquiry?member_id=174&destination=node/174", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4MIFWLQWXN44NFGA4DL6JNOB5F7MJHMI", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.taosskivalley.com", "title": "Trip Inquiry | Taos Ski Valley Official Tourism and Travel Website.", "raw_content": "You are requesting information from: Taos Country Inn Bed & Breakfast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 3813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tbr.edu/node/17291", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Y76HNL7UY4QPUMDQPSEEOFVNX6QNTKIQ", "length": 905, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tbr.edu", "title": "Strategic Advancement | Tennessee Board of Regents", "raw_content": "Vital to the health of Tennessee Board of Regents institutions' is the ability to raise funds for private support. Donations give institutions the ability to help meet emerging needs and priorities that are set for the campus. On an annual basis, this office collects private giving figures from our institutions. These private gifts are utilized to fund scholarships, special programs and initiatives, and for the construction of new facilities.\nTo honor the dedicated philanthropists who graciously donate their time and finances to TBR institutions, we have created two awards: the Regents' Award for Excellence in Philanthropy and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Philanthropy.\nAward Criteria and Nomination Forms\n2018 Awards in Philanthropy Recipients\nPast Recipients of the Regents Award for Excellence in Philanthropy\nPast Recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Philanthropy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tcu360.com/2017/11/campus-shooting-prompts-security-concerns-over-classroom-locks/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PU4I4M5JQRBC7RRC5JBPXOX6427CWZFH", "length": 6703, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.tcu360.com", "title": "Shift to automated locks may leave classrooms at risk | TCU 360", "raw_content": "Shift to automated locks may leave classrooms at risk\nOne of the first things people learn during TCU\u2019s active shooter training is to lock the door to help protect themselves against an attacker.\nBut after Tuesday morning\u2019s lockdown, TCU360 surveyed classrooms across campus and found that many doors could not be manually locked from the inside.\nAssistant Vice Chancellor for Facilities Chris Honkomp said that most classrooms on campus have the automatic locks that can be remotely locked. In some classrooms, there\u2019s a hole in the door where the deadbolt used to be.\n\u201cAnything new we\u2019ve built has got the card swipe,\u201d Honkomp said.\nHonkomp said the decision to implement more key card swipes instead of manual locks was made with safety in mind.\n\u201cWhat we like to about the key cards is that it gives you a record of who entered the space,\u201d Honkomp said. \u201cThe key cards are better technology for security.\u201d\nFaculty Senate Chair Ted Legatski also sees benefits to the automatic lock system.\n\u201cWhile not a complete answer to every potential situation, this upgrade over the past few years represents a significant investment in improving the security of all on campus should another emergency lockdown occur,\u201d Legatski said.\nLegatski added that while he has previously heard worries from faculty, staff and students about the inability to manually lock doors, he has not heard any recently.\nBut TCU police said the inability to manually lock a classroom instantly is a concern.\n\u201cWe want everyone to be able to take action immediately,\u201d Assistant Chief of Police Robert Rangel said.\nRangel said the department plans to recommend that TCU buy devices that allow people to manually lock the door. These types of devices include sleeves that can go over the joint of the door to prevent it from opening and rods that brace the door shut.\nHonkomp said discussions about not being able to lock the door manually in the case of an active shooter never came up in the planning process. Instead, he said, there are safety concerns with manual locks.\n\u201cIf you make it so you can lock a classroom from the inside, there is ability for misbehavior from inside the classroom,\u201d Honkomp said. \u201cIn any of these decisions, you\u2019re making a tradeoff in safety. Especially with the active shooter, there are a lot of opinions and I don\u2019t know that they\u2019ve settled in on what is the best way.\u201d\nRangel said the TCU Police have the authority and the ability to automatically lock down the classrooms across campus, an action that he said takes place within two minutes of receiving the report of an incident.\nAlthough this automatic locking of the doors can cause problems since the police lock overrides the use of an ID to get in the building. This is something associate professor Krista Scott said she is worried about in Ed Landreth Hall.\n\u201cLet\u2019s say there is an active shooter situation in the building, and you are trying to find a safe and secure place to hide,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have ID access to a classroom or practice room, there is no secure place to go, unless someone already in a classroom or a faculty office opens their door for you. And if you and the shooter are outside and the buildings go into lockdown, where do you take shelter?\u201d\nHe said the department is working on an assessment of what rooms across campus would need this kind of device. A similar assessment of security cameras across campus took about six months Rangel said.\n\u201cIn the future, the police department will be involved with architects when we\u2019re designing buildings to incorporate some of the protocols,\u201d Rangel said.\nLegatski said he would like to see emergency panic buttons installed in the rooms that offer direct communication to TCU police.\nDuring Tuesday\u2019s lockdown, there were multiple reports of problems at the University Recreation Center.\nA REC employee, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn\u2019t authorized to comment, said none of the outer doors to the building ever locked.\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty concerning that we have a pretty serious situation like this one, and the outer most doors don\u2019t even lock so they can get into the building wherever they want,\u201d the employee said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t seem like anyone had a handle on what was going on. I didn\u2019t really feel safe.\u201d\nAt a press conference Tuesday morning, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Safety Adrian Andrews said he was at the REC working out and was pleased with the response of employees.\n\u201cI am telling you when I came out of the gym it was flawless,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cPeople were away from glass windows, they were going to the basements, they were making sure they were staying safe just as they have practiced before.\u201d\nCommunication Studies instructor Michael Putnam was also working out in the REC when he heard the alarms sounded.\n\u201cThe building didn\u2019t lock down the way you\u2019d expect it to,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they\u2019re telling people to take cover, you gotta give them a chance to take cover. You\u2019d think if the thing goes down at 12 you wouldn\u2019t lock them immediately. So I don\u2019t know if they timed out at the right time or not, but I do know the entire building didn\u2019t go.\u201d\nPutnam added that Tuesday\u2019s incident could help provide information on how to better the lockdown system for the future.\n\u201cI did hear a couple of the folks that work there say, \u2018Well, this is a good lesson. We found out what didn\u2019t work, because nobody got hurt,'\u201d Putnam said. \u201cThey were well aware this wasn\u2019t working the way it should.\u201d\nRangel said the university is already making changes based on reports from Tuesday.\nFor example, he said, some of the speakers that sounded the alert couldn\u2019t be heard in some buildings. Those speakers have been identified and the physical plant is being sent out to fix any problems in them, he said.\n\u201cWe were able to identify in a live situation some of the gaps that we have in the process,\u201d Rangel said. \u201cHowever, we were overly pleased not only with how the TCU police staff responded but with how well the alert responded until it was resolved.\u201d\nLegatski said he was impressed with the \u201cextremely professional and competent\u201d TCU police and added that the campus is very safe one by almost any measure, in part thanks to the commitment of TCU administration to make it that way.\n\u201cNonetheless, in an open society and with an open campus, we should not be so na\u00efve as to think we are immune from violent acts on or near campus,\u201d Legatski said. \u201cAll of us, students, faculty, and staff, share a responsibility to each other to remain vigilant in defense of our mutual safety and security.\u201d\nPrevious articleWomen in STEM: bias and bridging the gap\nNext articleBetter Together brings faith and Netflix together for \u2018Only God Can Judge Me\u2019 event", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techradar.com/au/news/internet/broadband/huawei-to-throw-hundreds-of-millions-at-5g-research-over-five-years-1197413", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TWDS6QYW47CC434PTAQKD3OG7JNO6RIC", "length": 2062, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.techradar.com", "title": "Huawei to throw hundreds of millions at 5G research over five years | TechRadar", "raw_content": "Huawei to throw hundreds of millions at 5G research over five years\nBy Desire Athow 2013-11-07T13:15:00.31Z Broadband\nWill allow speeds up to 100x faster than 4G networks\nMarching toward 5G\nHuawei's incumbent CEO, Eric Xu, has announced that the Chinese networking giant will be committing a whopping $600 million (\u00a3370m) to resources dedicated to research and development in next generation wireless network technology, commonly known under the umbrella term \"5G\".\nThe company, who is better known for its mobile devices but also provides enterprises worldwide with networking technology, said that the investment would be carried out over five years.\n5G technology, Huawei said, would allow speeds of up to 100x faster than the 4G networks that are in operation in the UK and may be rolled out commercially by the end of the decade, something which is turning into a leitmotiv for the company.\nAt 10Gbps (on the 5GHz band), it would be as fast as the backplanes of most servers used in data centres. Beyond speed, Xu also reckons that the technology will allow even more devices to be connected, many of which being part of the Internet-of-things ecosystem.\nEE teamed up with Huawei earlier this week to launch the first LTE advanced network in the UK with a theoretical speed on up to 300Mbps, a tenfold improvement on EE's 4G speeds at launch. Shame that no mobile devices can actually take full advantage of that speed bump unless they connect to a compatible hotspot via 802.11ac.\nOther than Huawei, Samsung and NTT Docomo have also jumped on the 5G bandwagon and late last year, the Chinese company joined forces with Telefonica and Fujitsu to partner on a new \u00a335m 5G research centre in collaboration with the university of Surrey.\nEarlier this year, European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes went even further saying that she wants 5G to be pioneered by the European industry. The EU has spent well over \u00a3600m over the past six years on 4G and next generation wireless technologies.\nBe in the know. Here's everything you need to know on 4G and LTE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tgdaily.com/social/money-and-insurance/five-ways-to-get-a-home-loan-quickly", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:X36Q4D6GCAWDEBXHIUFJOXUJOUBGMGOG", "length": 3155, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tgdaily.com", "title": "Five ways to get a home loan quickly", "raw_content": "Five ways to get a home loan quickly\nEveryone dreams of owning their own home. However in almost every country buying a home is an expensive proposition. More or less every middle class person requires a loan from banking or lending company to buy the house and they repay it over several years. The bank withholds the ownership documents till the loan is repaid in full to prevent any fraud. It is difficult to qualify for home loans (or mortgages as they are called in the West). It is not through magic that one gets a home loan but by careful preparation.\nThe groundwork to securing a home loan has to be laid over several years. The following discusses some ways in which it might be easier for you to obtain a home loan.\nImprove your credit score \u2013 Credit scores matter a lot. It is one of the principal factors in you receiving a loan. Without an excellent credit score it is difficult to find a loan in the current economic climate. A good credit score is something above 700. It can be checked at The Credit Information Bureau of India Limited or CIBIL by paying a small fee. Try and avoid credit card debts. It goes a long way to improve your credit score.\nCalculate your debt to income ratio - This can be calculated by dividing the total debt you owe by your income. This indicator helps you understand the amount of debt you can live with. Ideally, this should not exceed 40% of your income. There are two ways to improve your debt to income ratio \u2013 increase your income or reduce your debt.\nSave for a down payment \u2013 Banks like to lend to those who are fiscally disciplined. One of the ways to demonstrate that is to save a certain amount regularly for your down payment. If you manage to save 20% of the price of the house by yourself that demonstrates to the bank that you are in control of your finances. Further a large down payment also reduces your repayment burden. The extra interest you would have had to pay had you not saved for a down payment would be a tidy sum of money which you can now utilize to pay for a trip to Europe.\nHave a stable job \u2013 If you are going to apply for a home loan avoid the propensity to move from job to job in search of better pay or perquisites. Otherwise your lender would naturally be concerned about your employability and your ability to repay the loan. Stability in all matters is a great asset when it comes to home loan.\nAlways show honesty with your lender - Be upfront about your repayment of loans in the past and if there is any detail the bank should know. You must also disclose the exact amount of your debts and income without any inflation or reduction. Always be available for verification and other processes and answer all questions truthfully and honestly. If you do your homework properly it should pose any problem when you apply for a home loan.\nIt is not really very difficult to get a home loan when compared to other forms of loan such as those taken for business. However at every step you have to show your commitment to the process of buying and keeping the property. If you have steady income and not too many debts then there is usually no problem receiving a home loan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thanyapura.com/health/ayurveda/herbal-enema/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:53Z", "digest": "sha1:C6KPLWSOFHMJLBWCOCMVB2NRTAVCIVJ6", "length": 652, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thanyapura.com", "title": "Herbal Enema | Thanyapura Health & Sports Resort", "raw_content": "Basti therapy referred to in Ayurveda is often talking about the application of the herbal enema. As a direct pathway into the colon, the Ayurvedic enema is very powerful for treating a number of issues and ailments, as well as cleansing toxins (ama) from the intestines. Since the colon is the home of Vata dosha, more often than not, Basti is used to treat Vata disorders including constipation, dryness, depletion, insomnia, nervous system disorders, arthritis, osteoporosis. Although it is considered the main treatment for Vata, different herbs and substances can be utilized to target doshas and their imbalances as well.\nHerbal Enema \u2013 THB 2,500", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LIVCXFIQ3YCPV4CLBLTU3UO4B3WTIGOR", "length": 1172, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.the-aiff.com", "title": "INDIA U-19 GO DOWN TO CROATIA", "raw_content": "INDIA U-19 GO DOWN TO CROATIA\nNEW DELHI: Currently participating in a four-nation tournament in Gorcia, Croatia featuring the U-19 Youth teams of FIFA World Cup Champions France, Runners-up Croatia and Slovenia, the Indian U-19 National Team went down 0-5 to Croatia U-19s in their first match on September 04, 2018.\nThe hosts took an early lead in the 14th minute when a through ball popped open the Indian defence and the opponents capitalized to make it 1-0. Shortly after, in the 20th minute, Croatia doubled their lead after a quick counter attack led doubling the advantage for the hosts.\nThe first real chance for India came in the 24th minute when Lalengmawia\u2019s free-kick came close to halving the deficit but was tipped over by the rival custodian. The opposition custodian saved Suresh\u2019s shot in the 34th minute.\nBut Croatia scored in the 37th and the 44th minutes respectively to head into the interval with a 4-0 lead.\nChanging over, Croatia found the net in the 51st minute to make it 5-0.\nThe Indian U-19s face U-19 Slovenia next on September 06, 2018 before clashing swords against U-19 France on September 09, 2018.\nPosted on : Wednesday September 05, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-daily-record.com/news/20120126/entertainment-briefs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LUL6V4R37PEKX77KNCW55D2UWKXWGF34", "length": 808, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.the-daily-record.com", "title": "Entertainment briefs - News - The Daily Record - Wooster, OH", "raw_content": "Euchre partyPublic euchre card party will be held Tuesday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m., at St. Luke Community Center, Rambo Street, Danville, (turn west at traffic light, go one-half block -- directly across street from Danville High School) $1 admission; prizes and refreshments.Baltic Area Historical SocietyThe Baltic Area Historical Society Museum will be open October through April from 1-5 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month. It is located in the basement of the Baltic State Bank. Admission is free.All-Singles DanceMount Vernon All-Singles Dance is held the second and fourth Fridays of each month (September through June) at the YMCA, 103 N. Main St. Lessons 7-8 p.m.. Dance 8-11 p.m. All singles 18 and older are welcome. A smoke- and alcohol-free event. For more information, visit kasialexander@yahoo.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 2738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-mag.org/en/giulia-mercati-a-familiar-flair-for-fashion/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IUU4SKSMZP2GLC6BGHKHYGUYN7OCZJSE", "length": 4286, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.the-mag.org", "title": "Giulia Mercati - A familiar flair for fashion", "raw_content": "Giulia Mercati \u2013 A familiar flair for fashion\n\u2018Willpower is strength\u2019 This is the motto of Giulia Mercati, a designer of some 30 years from Sanseplocro. Clothing, for her is not merely a passion, but her achievements in the design world are something she works towards every day. \u2018The Mag\u2019 met with Giulia to hear her tale.\nWe begin her story in 2009 \u2013 with a plain white T-shirt.\n\u201cYes, that was the first step. I had the idea of writing the words \u2018Che Fico\u2019 on the t-shirt along with a piece of smiling fruit, which had an irreverent and immediate impact. Even at the promotional level. \u2026 it actually worked! I was then lucky enough to be able to present a capsule collection to an important show room\u201d\nIn Milan, right?\n\u201cYeah \u2013at the \u2018Spazio Gentile\u2019 show room in Milan. I showed up there and told them I was from the Arezzo area and that I\u2019d made this collection, and would they take a look at it and give me their opinion. They were actually impressed with it as well as the presentation.. it was all packed in large, hand-made folders.. and everything went from there.\u201d\nBut you didn\u2019t stop at just t-shirts, did you?\n\u201cNo, then they asked me to come up with something original to go with them, so I made some chino style trousers in very bright colours. I added patterns to the bottoms which varied according to which shops they went to. It was a popular idea, the first season was successful and sales were good.\u201d\nWhen did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer?\n\u201cThe first inkling I had was when I was a child, at about 8 or 9. It was Carnevale time and I drew the dress I wanted to wear and took it to my grandma who was a seamstress. We then tried to make it together, in the way that I\u2019d imagined it. While I was growing up I couldn\u2019t get rid of the idea that I wanted something that I had created , rather than just buying something ready-made. I therefore think that I\u2019ve always had this passion for fashion.\u201d\nWhat keeps you in the Upper Tiber Valley?\n\u201cI started in Sansepolcro for pragmatic reasons, in that I had the right kind of work space available. I have my organisational base here, and believe it or not, there\u2019s a really experienced workforce in the area, with whom it\u2019s been easy to establish a good working relationship. Some of the work, however, is done in Prato and Florence, as they have bigger laundries, fabric suppliers and accessory warehouses there.\u201d\nLots of shops are closing, yet you\u2019ve opened one up \u2013 risky?\n\u201cThe shop came about as a second thought, and is thanks to a joint venture with the friend who suggested it. I didn\u2019t have to think about it twice. Logistically it made sense.\u201d\nOk, a more provocative question. Is it about time that young people woke up to reality? The opportunities are there if you know how to make the best of them.\n\u201cI agree. I know lots of people who don\u2019t know what to do, and who would rather not do anything with their talents, but they\u2019re wasting precious time. The people my age should at least get the idea of trying into their heads. After that, you need an element of luck, or even better a kind of lucky intuition, in order to fulfil your dreams. Having said that nothing happens by chance, especially these days.\u201d\nThere are a lot of fashion blogs. Are you following any of them?\n\u201cNo, not really. I keep up to date with them, but don\u2019t follow them as such -mainly because I don\u2019t think they\u2019re very useful. For example, Chiara Ferragni\u2019s blog. In the beginning it was brilliant, but now it seems to have lost its way. She was making great suggestions with ideas to suit everyone\u2019s budget, but now, it just encourages people to spend without thinking about it or being creative. And, let\u2019s not even talk about Biasi!\u201d\nLast question \u2013 what would you like to finish up with?\n\u201cOk, I\u2019ll explain my choice of name \u2013 \u2018GdueChoice\u2019. To do this kind of work takes a lot of inspiration but you also have to stay in touch with reality and not lose yourself \u2013 my brother is very good at helping me do this! I feel like there are two parts to my personality. At school they called me the General! On the other hand, I also have my solitary moments when I have to create something \u2013 hence the name: G= Giulia (of) two (due) Choices!\u201d\nfashion the mag\nArchive / Articles / Interview / Life Style\t16:05 , 20 February 2014\t0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576382/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0Nfrz4MV3-Bj2r3CAdWe4cFL4um_EtZpkijq-m8esITC7DiSCcD5NZGrI", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:54Z", "digest": "sha1:STRMO3I5OA7UC7L7PIUIO2FP2HJPAUFS", "length": 11987, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Trump, Duterte, and the Authoritarian War on Women - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "When Americans look abroad these days, they see Donald Trumps everywhere: In Brazil, whose new president, Jair Bolsonaro, endorses torture, threatens to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement, and suggests that his country was better off under military rule. In the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte has overseen the extrajudicial killing of thousands of alleged drug dealers and threatened to impose martial law nationwide. In Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has quashed the free press, enriched his cronies, and stoked fear and hatred of refugees. In Poland, whose Law and Justice Party has undermined the independence of the supreme court. Even in Italy, whose leaders demonize immigrants, bash the European Union, and pal around with Steve Bannon.\nBut the more you examine global Trumpism, the more it challenges the story lines that dominate conversation in the United States. Ask commentators to explain the earthquake that has hit American politics since 2016, and they\u2019ll likely say one of two things. First, that it\u2019s a scream of rage from a working class made downwardly mobile by globalization. Second, that it\u2019s a backlash by white Christians who fear losing power to immigrants and racial and religious minorities.\nYet these theories don\u2019t travel well. Downward mobility? As Anne Applebaum pointed out in this magazine just a few months ago, \u201cPoland\u2019s economy has been the most consistently successful in Europe over the past quarter century. Even after the global financial collapse in 2008, the country saw no recession.\u201d In the years leading up to Duterte\u2019s surprise 2016 victory, the Philippines experienced what the scholar Nicole Curato has called \u201cphenomenal economic growth.\u201d The racial-and-religious-backlash theory leaves a lot unexplained, too. Immigration played little role in Duterte\u2019s ascent, or in Bolsonaro\u2019s. Despite his history of anti-black comments, preelection polls showed Bolsonaro winning among black and mixed-race Brazilians. Racism has been even less central to Duterte\u2019s appeal.\nFear of a Female President\nThe Women-Led Opposition to Brazil\u2019s Far-Right Leader\nShould Women Rule?\nBecause male dominance is deeply linked to political legitimacy, many revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries have used the specter of women\u2019s power to discredit the regime they sought to overthrow. Then, once in power themselves, they have validated their authority by reducing women\u2019s rights. In a 1995 paper, Arthur Gilbert and James Cole of the University of Denver observed that French revolutionaries made Marie Antoinette a symbol of the immorality of the ancien r\u00e9gime and that Iranian revolutionaries did the same to Princess Ashraf, the \u201cunveiled and powerful\u201d sister of the shah. After toppling the monarchy, the French revolutionaries banned women from holding senior teaching positions and inheriting property. Ayatollah Khamenei made it a crime for women to speak on the radio or appear unveiled in public.\nSome of the revolutions of the Arab Spring followed a similar course. In their book, The Hillary Doctrine, Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl note that when the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi replaced the longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Morsi quickly announced that he would abolish the quota guaranteeing women\u2019s seats in parliament, overturn a ban on female circumcision, and make it harder for women to divorce an abusive husband. After Muammar Qaddafi\u2019s ouster, the first law that Libya\u2019s new government repealed was the one banning polygamy.\nTrump, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Orb\u00e1n, and their ilk aren\u2019t revolutionaries. But they, too, use gender to discredit one political order and validate another. Each describes the regime that preceded him as illegitimate: Trump claimed that Barack Obama wasn\u2019t born in the United States and thus wasn\u2019t eligible to be president under the Constitution. Bolsonaro and Duterte accused previous governments of tolerating unacceptable levels of crime. Poland\u2019s Law and Justice Party claimed that its predecessors were beholden to Russia and the European Union.\nIn each case, Trump and his ideological cousins tied their predecessor\u2019s illegitimacy to women\u2019s power. And in each case, their efforts to denigrate and subordinate women cemented\u2014for their supporters\u2014the belief that the nation, having been turned upside down, was being turned right-side up.\nIt\u2019s easy to see how this worked for Trump. He made Hillary Clinton\u2014the first woman ever nominated for president by a major party\u2014the personification of America\u2019s corrupt political system. But rather than credibly promise to cleanse America of corrupting financial interests, he promised his supporters\u2014the majority of whom told pollsters that America had grown \u201ctoo soft and feminine\u201d\u2014a government cleansed of the corruption of one particular villainess.\nOutside Trump rallies, vendors sold T-shirts showing Trump as a bare-chested boxer towering over a suggestively posed Clinton. trump 2016. finally someone with balls read one pin. Declared another: don\u2019t be a pussy. Vote for Trump in 2016. Inside the rallies, crowds chanted \u201cLock her up,\u201d a taunt never directed at Trump\u2019s male primary rivals. Again and again, Trump responded to women who challenged him politically\u2014Fox News\u2019s Megyn Kelly, his rival presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, MSNBC\u2019s Mika Brzezinski, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2014by calling them ugly. After his second debate with Clinton, he observed that she had \u201cwalked in front of me,\u201d and \u201cbelieve me, I wasn\u2019t impressed.\u201d The implication was clear: No matter how high a woman ascends, she\u2019s ultimately just a body whose value is determined by men.\nCommentators sometimes describe Trump\u2019s alliance with the Christian right as incongruous given his libertine history. But whatever their differences when it comes to the proper behavior of men, Trump and his evangelical backers are united by a common desire to constrain the behavior of women. That alliance was consecrated during Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, when Republicans raged against Judiciary Committee Democrats for supposedly degrading the Senate by orchestrating a public hearing for Christine Blasey Ford, who had accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault. At a rally, Trump took aim at Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, whom he called \u201canother beauty\u201d\u2014at which point the crowd began chanting \u201cLock her up.\u201d\nTo Brazilians, Filipinos, Hungarians, Italians, and Poles, this should all sound strikingly familiar. Bolsonaro, who ran for Brazilian president in 2018 against a backdrop of economic collapse (in 2016, Brazil\u2019s economy contracted by more than 3 percent), political scandals (the jailing of a former president followed by the impeachment and removal of his successor), and rampant crime (in 2017, Brazil suffered almost 64,000 murders, close to twice as many as the United States and Europe combined), promised to return his country to its supposedly glorious past. \u201cWe want a Brazil that is similar to the one we had 40, 50 years ago,\u201d he declared\u2014even though 40 and 50 years ago, Brazil was a military dictatorship.\nIn the Philippines, Duterte didn\u2019t have an economic or corruption crisis to help him delegitimize the political order. But he used fear of drugs to depict the Philippines, in Nicole Curato\u2019s words, as \u201ca nation on the brink of disaster.\u201d Like Bolsonaro, Duterte promised to restore the law and order his country had supposedly enjoyed during its autocratic past. A few months after taking office, he buried the remains of the longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos, with military honors, in Manila\u2019s Cemetery of Heroes.\nAlso like Bolsonaro, Duterte has threatened violence against women. In 2017, he informed Filipino soldiers that because he had declared martial law on the island of Mindanao, they could each rape up to three women with impunity. In 2018, he told soldiers to shoot female rebels \u201cin the vagina,\u201d because that would render them \u201cuseless.\u201d\nAuthoritarians often succeed when women threaten male dominance of public life in countries where men still reign in private.\nFor women\u2019s-rights advocates, these sexist authoritarians pose a conundrum. Defeating them requires empowering women. Yet the more empowered women become, the more right-wing autocrats depict that empowerment as an assault on the natural political order. It\u2019s no coincidence that Bolsonaro and Duterte are fervent critics of female former presidents, or that women were among Duterte\u2019s and Trump\u2019s principal opponents. Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s allegations inspired women protesters to fill the U.S. Senate. Yet images of women yelling at male senators probably helped Republicans keep the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections. Assisted by the record number of Democratic women elected this fall, Nancy Pelosi will likely become speaker of the House again this January. But Pelosi herself has long been a convenient target for Republicans made anxious by the specter of feminist power.\nOver the long term, defeating the new authoritarians requires more than empowering women politically. It requires normalizing their empowerment so autocrats can\u2019t turn women leaders and protesters into symbols of political perversity. And that requires confronting the underlying reason many men\u2014and some women\u2014view women\u2019s political power as unnatural: because it subverts the hierarchy they see in the home.\n\u201cThe first [gender] difference that individuals notice,\u201d Valerie Hudson told me, \u201cis the difference between sexes in one\u2019s own home. That establishes the first political order, the nature of how things should be in the country.\u201d It is no surprise, therefore, that authoritarians often succeed when women\u2014especially feminist women\u2014threaten male dominance of public life in countries where men still reign in private.\nCompare the United States, the Philippines, Brazil, Hungary, and Poland with the countries of northern Europe, where women\u2019s political power has become more normal. In 2017, women made up 48 percent of Iceland\u2019s parliament. In Sweden, the share was 44 percent; in Finland, 42 percent; and in Norway, 40 percent. In the countries that have recently elected gender-backlash authoritarians, the rates are lower, ranging from Italy\u2019s 31 percent to Hungary\u2019s 10 percent. This doesn\u2019t mean a Nordic Orb\u00e1n or Bolsonaro is impossible: Northern Europe has its own far-right parties. But it\u2019s harder for those parties to use gender to delegitimize the existing political order, because women\u2019s political empowerment no longer appears illegitimate.\nIt no longer appears illegitimate, in large measure, because gender equality has become more normalized in the home. In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development published the amount of time per day that women and men spent doing unpaid household chores such as cleaning, shopping, and child care. If you calculate the gender gap in each country, a pattern emerges. There is a striking correlation between countries where women and men behave more equally in the home and countries where women are more equally represented in government. Take Sweden, 44 percent of whose parliamentarians are women. There, the gap between the amount of housework done by men and that done by women is less than an hour a day. In the U.S., where women will soon make up roughly 23 percent of Congress, the housework gender gap is an hour and a half. In Hungary, where women account for 10 percent of parliament, it is well over two hours.\nWomen looking to unseat Trump or Bolsonaro in the next election may find little comfort in the Nordic example. Family dynamics change not year by year, but generation by generation. Nonetheless, the new authoritarianism underscores the importance of an old feminist mantra: The personal is political. Foster women\u2019s equality in the home, and you may save democracy itself.\nThis article appears in the January/February 2019 print edition with the headline \u201cThe Global Backlash Against Women.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 20209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/femen-in-paris-ukraines-topless-warriors-move-west/266755/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3434COMC5TCMJQHGM7TKNSQ2HUUQCTKK", "length": 17117, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Femen in Paris: Ukraine's Topless Warriors Move West - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "Femen in Paris: Ukraine's Topless Warriors Move West\nIn France, members of the protest group have been beaten and detained, but they're using the experience to train for a bigger challenge.\nPolice detain an activist from women's rights group Femen as she protests in front of the Olympic stadium in Kiev on July 1st, 2012. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)\nPARIS -- In mid-November, when Inna Shevchenko, 22, Femen's leader in France, and Oksana Shachko, 25, a veteran Femen activist, heard that the militant Catholic organization Institut Civitas was planning to protest against a proposed law that would legalize same-sex marriage in the country, they decided to stage an in situ counter-demonstration in the controversial, deliberately provocative style for which their group has won no small measure of notoriety. Along with eight French members of Femen, they donned nuns' habits, painted their bodies with slogans (FUCK CHURCH, GAY IS OK, FUCK RELIGION), equipped themselves with aerosol canisters of white powder marked Jesus Sperm, and set out for the Civitas rally. Once there, they stripped down to their black panties and black and white head veils, and began marching, breasts bare, brandishing their \"sperm,\" and chanting, in an ever more strident crescendo, \"In Gay We Trust! In Gay We Trust!\" A minute later, they halted and sprayed their \"ejaculate\" into the startled, predictably hostile crowd of Catholic fundamentalists.\nIn the ensuing gaseous white-out, male Civitas demonstrators set about savagely beating and kicking the Femen activists, who tried to keep up their chanting between blows to the head and body and screams of fear. Most of the women retreated halfway down the block, stopping nevertheless to blow kisses to their assailants and shout, rather unconvincingly, \"We love you!\" But demonstrators pursued them. They took off again and reassembled at a safe distance, and, battered and visibly shaken up, chanted some more for the cameras, before allowing police vans to carry them out of range of further mayhem.\nIn the brawl, Shevchenko lost an incisor and Shachko got a bloody nose, and most of their cohorts suffered cuts and bruises. Though Shevchenko knew of Civitas' extremist reputation, such violence was hardly what she expected when arriving in reputedly liberal Paris to establish, at the behest of French feminists, Femen's international \"training center\" and its first official presence abroad.\nBeneath a banner reading \"We Came, We Stripped, We Conquered,\" as Shachko jumped rope nearby, her hoodie up, I spoke with Shevchenko just after a training session in the historic, if run-down, Lavoir Moderne Parisien theater that serves as Femen's international headquarters in the poor, mostly Muslim Goutte d'Or neighborhood. (Femen wasted no time in making its presence felt here, inaugurating their new home abroad in August with a topless march through the district, their naked torsos painted with slogans such as \"Muslims Let's Get Naked!\" and \"Our God is a Woman!\") She shrugged off her injury, telling me, in a slightly tremulous, surprisingly vulnerable voice, that she \"had no problem losing a tooth\" for Femen. (For all the anger she displays at demonstrations, she comes off as warm and modest in person.) Far worse was her all-night detention a year ago in Minsk after protesting on the steps of the KGB building against the country's dictatorial president Alexander Lukashenko. Then, members of the country's security services seized her, along with Shachko and another activist, and drove them into the forest, where they were threatened, taunted, disrobed, beaten, and dowsed in oil and feathers, before being finally abandoned during the winter night somewhere near the Ukrainian border. Undaunted, she called that the \"best day . . . because I realized what I'm capable of doing for my cause.\"\nA journalist by profession who once worked for the mayor's press office in Kiev, Shevchenko had not expected to end up living in France. In 2010 she took part in her first demonstration with Femen -- a topless protest against Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov and his remark that political \"reforms aren't a woman's business.\" She was fired from her prestigious job as a result, and decided to devote herself fulltime to Femen. But last August, after she sawed down a cross (to express solidarity with Pussy Riot members jailed for performing their Femen-inspired \"punk prayer\" in a Moscow cathedral), Ukraine's ex-con president Viktor Yanukovych publicly demanded that she be harshly punished. Early in the morning a few days later, several men -- agents of Ukraine's security services, she assumes -- tried to break into her apartment. She grabbed her passport, jumped out the first story window, and fled Ukraine for Paris. She was subsequently charged in absentia with \"hooliganism.\"\nFemen now has 150,000 members worldwide. Femen in France so far counts 30 local activists, the only Ukrainians regularly present being Shachko and Shevchenko. At the weekly orientation session preceding my visit, 20 aspirants showed up, many spurred to attend by the publicity surrounding l'affaire Civitas. Here as elsewhere, Femen has pledged to fight the sex industry, the church and its traditionalist stances against women, and \"patriarchal society,\" as well as those who oppose equal rights for the LGBT community. Recently in Paris they marched on the Egyptian embassy in defense of Egyptian blogger and women's rights advocate Aliaa Magda ElMahdy (who earned death threats by posting nude pictures of herself in protest against \"a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy\"); stormed an IKEA store (angered by the company's decision to Photoshop women out of its Saudi Arabian catalogue); and attempted to occupy the Ministry of Justice, which it dubbed \"a club of rapists\" following a Parisian court's surprise acquittal of 10 men accused of raping minors.\nEach Femen demonstration is contrived to shock, generate publicity, and come off well on camera. Though in theory any woman may join, almost all the activists are 20-something, fit, and attractive. In protest-spirited France, they quickly became media darlings. The newspaper Le Figaro selected Shevchenko as one of the most influential women of 2012, and the weekly culture magazine Les InRocKuptibles featured her and French activist \u00c9lo\u00efse Bouton, a 29-year-old singer, on one of their December covers. Last month, Shevchenko even spoke at the prestigious Institut d'\u00e9tudes politiques de Paris, aka Sciences Po, about her group's \"popular kind of feminism adapted for the younger generation.\"\nMORE ON FEMEN\nThe Ukrainian Group that Inspired Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer\nShevchenko has resisted well-meaning French attempts at adoption: she remains a staunch Ukrainian patriot and told me that she regrets she can no longer work in her own country. Femen, she pledged, will be international. \"We have members in Brazil, Germany, the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, and Tunisia. And we are not just about bare breasts, but bare breasts in action.\"\nBut why should \"bare breasts in action\" draw so much attention here in France, where topless bathing on beaches has been common for decades? (Nudity elsewhere in public is proscribed.) I put the question to Marie-Carline, a 26-year-old French journalist and Femen activist who had just gone through the training session.\n\"Showing breasts on the street is a guerrilla act,\" she replied, \"a work of art. Many here are extremely conservative and see this as debauchery.\" Was Femen really needed in France, widely regarded as one of Europe's most liberal countries? I asked. \"Certainly,\" she said. \"One out of eight women here suffers violence, you get harassed on the street, and we are paid less than men. My own episode of sexual violence pushed me to join.\"\nBouton concurred. \"Always here men get the jobs and are better paid, treat women as objects, and have affairs with prostitutes. For me this is the real face of French misogyny.\"\nShevchenko summed things up: \"France is so nice and developed, and relations between men and women not so difficult. But women are oppressed everywhere and raped every day. Even here.\"\n\"Guerrilla\" aptly describes Femen's protests, which are extremely confrontational and can verge on the anarchic. The rigors of their weekly training session aim to prepare members to both incite reactions and deal with the response (which is usually from the police; Civitas was an exception). I had arrived at the Lavoir Parisien to find nine French members -- fully dressed in leotards or tracksuits -- standing in front of Shevchenko in the dimly lit hall, holding posters with slogans -- \"Saudi Arabia Take Off Your Clothes!\" \"Nudity is Freedom!\" \"Libert\u00e9 La\u00efcit\u00e9!\" (Secularism [is] Freedom!) -- above their heads.\n\"We are not trying to be beautiful or sexy,\" Shevchenko said, addressing them in English. (Neither she nor Shachko has had time to learn French, so English is the language of instruction.) \"We use our nudity as a weapon, to irritate people. We're taking off what's on the outside to show we can't stand it anymore on the inside. Femen gets naked for our freedom.\" She explained the correspondence between a government's reaction to female nudity and the amount of freedom women enjoy. Then she showed how to demonstrate, Femen-style. \"Always feel the aggression and anger. Stand with your poster held high and your feet apart, like a winner, and show that you're secure in your every motion, even when a man is going to beat you. Show me now what you can do!\"\nThe trainees approached her individually, raised their posters, and shouted their slogans in her face. \"Fuck the Church!\" \"In Gay We Trust!\" \"Nudity is Freedom!\"\n\"No, stop smiling!\" Shechenko replied. \"Femen never smiles, it's a rule! . . . Scream as a wild animal! . . . we work in front of cameras, so we need to illustrate our message and show anger! . . . scream -- no, scream your message! . . . hate the pimps! . . . It's not usual for us to show aggression, but we're Femen and we do!\"\nShevchenko then put the women through an improvised obstacle course. Trying to keep their posters in the air, they jumped over a red-and-white \"police tape,\" crawled between and under tables, and jumped up to circle back and repeat, shouting, \"Nudity is Freedom!\"\n\"Faster!\" ordered Shevchenko. \"Hold your slogans higher! We do our actions on the top of cars sometimes, you must be fit!\"\nThe women then paired off for calisthenics -- sit-ups, push-ups, and even partial squats with partners riding piggyback. Self-defense followed -- mostly drilling in jujitsu moves to break (an arresting police officer's) grip on wrists and arms.\nBut even when detention is inevitable, the protest doesn't end.\n\"When the police attack,\" Shevchenko said, \"they have one goal: to stop you from protesting, take you somewhere, and let you go. Your goal is to try to gain time for your demonstration. You fall down when attacked, and pitch and roll around, shouting your slogan.\"\nWith Shevchenko watching, pairs of trainee \"officers\" then attempted to detain an \"activist,\" meeting with varying degrees of her approval. Then Shachko stepped up. When her \"officers\" grabbed her arms, she lurched, yanked, and twisted about, almost pulling them off their feet. But she did not drop to the floor.\n\"What are you doing, Oksana!\" Inna shouted in Russian.\n\"I usually feel very strong during a protest, so I don't fall,\" Shachko replied. The next time, she did hit the ground, squirming, kicking, and rolling, breaking her assailants' hold and leaping to her feet, poster held high.\nThough smaller-boned than many of her fellows, Shachko is perhaps Femen's most pugilistically gifted member. During training, she rarely smiled, and projected a self-assured, almost steely, air. Afterwards, when we spoke, she seemed almost shy, which surprised me given her proven pugnacity. A university graduate, artist, and former iconographer, she originally wanted to join a nunnery. Her parents' opposition to her desire to become, as she put it, \"Jesus' wife,\" prompted her to turn away from religion, read philosophy, discover atheism, and adopt a militant Leftist worldview. She left home at 16 and has lived independently ever since. Routine humiliations she suffered in Ukraine first awakened her spirit of protest.\n\"We [women] were angered that we couldn't even walk around in Kiev without getting propositioned by foreigners, who thought they could buy us a cup of coffee and take us to a hotel for the night. This insulted us. Unfortunately, a lot of our girls do think they can marry a foreigner and find a better life with him in Europe. We think these men are insulting not only us, but our mothers and children by thinking Ukrainian girls are prostitutes.\"\nLike Shevchenko, Shachko has had her share of troubles with the law. In Moscow, on the day of the tainted State Duma elections in December 2012, she and two Femen colleagues carried out a protest that presaged widespread demonstrations to come, and, in fact, the wholesale emergence from the shadows of Russia's opposition movement. At a polling station in the capital, they stripped to the waist, and, with Shachko in the lead, charged and grabbed hold of ballot boxes, shouting, \"I'm stealing for Putin\" and \"Putin is a thief!\" She and her co-activists were arrested for \"hooliganism\" and did two weeks' time.\n\"The FSB interrogated us,\" she said. \"They wanted to know if the CIA was paying us, telling us we had to stand in Slavic solidarity against the Americans .\" The authorities finally declared her persona non grata and deported her. She is wanted in Ukraine, too, for \"desecrating a state symbol\" -- the Indian flag -- which she used to pummel the door of the Indian embassy in Kiev during a protest against restrictive visa policies that presuppose, she said, that all Ukrainian women are prostitutes -- \"an insult to our mothers and to us.\"\nIn the Civitas melee, Shachko displayed considerable physical courage, not retreating with the rest, and trading blows with multiple assailants. Wasn't she concerned about getting hurt?\n\"In our daily life as women, any day we could be beaten up and raped,\" she answered, \"and no one would know. With our protests we take risks, but at least the world will know what happens to us. We fight against inequality, for the working class, against the rich and the politicians.\" Her tone hardened. \"The important thing is I fight for what I believe in, even if it means fighting the police. I'm not afraid.\"\nOnce the physical training ended, Inna instructed the group to sit in a circle for the ideological part of the afternoon. Each week, a Femen member prepares a talk on a subject relevant to women. Julia, who sported short-cropped blond hair with magenta tints, introduced the day's topic -- rape.\n\"We're always raised being told, 'be careful or you could be raped; it's always the woman's fault.' But it's men who need to be taught not to rape.\" Inna added her perspective: \"In Ukraine, you're always taught it's your mission to look good, but if you get raped, they say, 'Ah, look at how you look!' Always the women is blamed, always the woman's role is to please men.\"\nJulia presented the clearest, most outlandish examples of retrograde remarks on rape she could find, which all happened to have come from U.S. Republican Party members over the past two decades. \"'Legitimate rape' . . . 'honest rape' . . . 'forcible rape' . . . 'easy rape' . . . 'enjoyable rape' . . . 'gift from god' rape\" -- the last, in reference, she explained, to the fetus conceived following the crime, which must not be aborted. (Several of the group members voiced disbelief that American politicians could have said such things.) She then returned to France, to the scandal-ridden Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who faced rape charges in New York but was not prosecuted, and who then fended off rape accusations levied by a French journalist. \"Rich and powerful people rape and suffer no penalties. Look, DSK is free. This sends a message to young men, that you have power and money, so you can rape.\" (DSK has not been convicted of rape, but recently reached a civil settlement, the terms of which remain secret, with his New York accuser).\nWith that, the session adjourned. During our subsequent talk, I asked Shevchenko to describe working with French women. \"We've created a culture called Femen. Here, maybe we would never otherwise be friends, but we share language and beliefs.\" She does not necessarily planning on remaining in France. Once Femen can sustain itself here without her guidance, she plans to \"move to more faraway lands.\"\nWhere, specifically?\n\"The Middle East.\"\nTo confront regimes there, and bare-breasted at that, Femen activists will need all the training they get in Paris, and more. Compared with the reaction the group will surely face south of the Mediterranean, the confrontation with Civitas may end up looking like a minor skirmish.\nVideo edited by Sarai Suarez\nJeffrey Tayler is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and the author of seven books.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 18534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedoctorstv.com/videos/woman-survives-being-set-on-fire-by-husband", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7AZGASZBN5D3EWM4KI5PAAYSHTUW6HX5", "length": 589, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thedoctorstv.com", "title": "Woman Survives Being Set on Fire by Husband | The Doctors TV Show", "raw_content": "Woman Survives Being Set on Fire by Husband\nSafety on 8:06 AM PST, February 15, 2016\nAudrey was attacked and set on fire by her husband while they were in the process of separating. After years of struggling with physical and emotional scars, she was given a second chance by plastic surgeon Dr. David Alessi and his wife, Deborah Alessi, CEO and founder of a nonprofit organization called Face Forward. To meet Audrey and learn more about Face Forward, click here.\nDrs. 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CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Mombasa-port-SGR-loan-default-Chinsa/2560-4903360-clh5nn/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:7XFGBUGUGPJGILOYY7OUIRGG2RFM3CRT", "length": 5404, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.theeastafrican.co.ke", "title": "Why Mombasa port risks seizure by China - The East African", "raw_content": "Mombasa Port at risk as audit finds it was used to secure SGR loan\nCargo at a Kenya Ports Authority yard in Mombasa. Kenya could lose the port to China if it defaults in the payment of $3.3 billion owed to Exim Bank of China. PHOTO | NMG\nA leaked report by the Auditor-General's office shows that the Kenyan government had in 2013 waived the port\u2019s sovereign immunity in order to use it as a security for the Chinese loan.\nAuditor-General Edward Ouko refuses to confirm or deny the authenticity of the document.\nThe KPA management had up to November 27 to respond to the audit queries raised, according to the leaked report.\nThe Kenyan government used the Mombasa port to secure the multibillion-shilling loan it took from China Exim Bank to build the standard gauge railway (SGR), leaving the cash-flush Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) exposed to seizure by the Chinese in the event of a default.\nAuditor-General Edward Ouko refused to confirm or deny the authenticity of the document, which was widely circulated on digital platforms, insisting that his reports are officially submitted to Parliament and not to the public through social media.\n\u201cAny reports that from my office are taken to Parliament. A report picked from the social media is not official,\u201d said Mr Ouko, even as he evaded the questions on the authenticity of the document.\nThe auditors found that the KPA\u2019s assets were committed as collateral for the Ksh327 billion ($3.3 billion) SGR loan that China gave Kenya in 2013.\nHigh govt debt constrains Kenya's credit profile\nKenya assets risk seizure by Chinese, says Moody's\nZambians protest 'sale' of firm to Chinese\nChina a threat to Kenya's economy: Survey\nTreasury, State House\nThe Ministry of Transport, the Treasury and State House are believed to have played key roles in brokering the deal, which was sealed during President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s visit to Beijing.\nThe leaked document says that China Exim Bank gained power to step in as principal shareholder of the KPA in the event of a loan default, setting up an escrow account for the agency\u2019s proceeds and using the collected revenue to cover the loan repayment shortfall.\nThe KPA generated Ksh42.7 billion ($427 million) in revenue in the year to June 2017, a 7.9 per cent growth over the previous year, according to its latest financial reports.\n\u201cKPA assets are exposed since it signed the agreement where it has been referred to us a borrower under clause 17.5, and any proceedings against its assets by the lender would not be protected since the government waived immunity on the KPA assets by signing the agreement,\u201d the National Audit Office\u2019s letter to the KPA management dated November 16 says.\nIronically, it is the Kenya Railways Corporation \u2014 not the KPA \u2014 which owns SGR assets and oversees its running as a transport business that is supposed to generate revenue for loan repayment.\nBoth the SGR passenger and freight service, which commenced last year, are yet to generate even half the revenues anticipated in the feasibility studies, raising fears over Kenya\u2019s ability to service the loan.\nGithu Muigai, the Attorney-General at the time of signing the loan deal, did not respond to queries on the matter.\n'Not true'\nJames Macharia, the Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary, dismissed the report as untrue.\n\u201cYou know this cannot be true, the idea of waiving a country\u2019s sovereignty. So let\u2019s not dwell on it,\u201d Mr Macharia said.\nIn addition to the loan, China also provided raw materials, engineers and rolling stocks for the SGR project.\nAnd when the SGR cargo and freight business was launched last year, Kenya once again assigned that task to a Chinese firm, the China Communications Construction Company.\nThe leaked document shows that the Auditor-General\u2019s office has questioned what it sees as a lopsided contract, adding that \u201cthe agreement is biased since any non\u2013performance or dispute with the China Exim Bank would be referred to arbitration in China whose fairness in resolving disagreement may not be guaranteed.\u201d\nOf the Chinese loan for the Mombasa-Nairobi track, a total of Ksh319 billion ($3.2b) was spent directly on railway construction, with Ksh213 billion ($2.1b) going to SGR and the rest of it being used in buying the rolling stock (locomotives and wagons).\nInsufficient cash\nThe loan, whose interest charge floats at 3.6 percentage points above the six months average of London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor), is to be repaid in 15 years with a grace period of five years.\nThat means the first principal repayment is expected next year and is the basis of growing concern over insufficient cash that the railway is generating from freight and passenger service.\nIn September, rating agency Moody\u2019s listed Kenya among countries at the highest risk of losing strategic assets to China over a pile of debt.\nChinese debt stood at Ksh554.88 billion ($5.55 billion) or 73.4 per cent of Kenya\u2019s bilateral debt totalling Ksh756.28 billion ($7.56 billion) at the end of September.\nMoody's expects Kenya's growth rate to return to its long-term average of around 6 pc in the medium-term.\nTue Nov 27 12:22:00 EAT 2018 Kenya assets risk seizure by Chinese, says Moody's\nTue Nov 06 16:11:50 EAT 2018 Zambians protest 'sale' of firm to Chinese\nThu Sep 06 10:24:00 EAT 2018 China a threat to Kenya's economy: Survey\nThu Sep 06 10:54:00 EAT 2018 Moody's cautions Kenya's debt pile-up bad for rating", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 9014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegaslampreno.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HXZTF7SLHITXY7ZJM22BP7QG3WUVM2YD", "length": 338, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thegaslampreno.com", "title": "The Gas Lamp Reno | Home Improvement Hub", "raw_content": "It is no doubt that it is a great joy to keep pets because they provide great company to the adults and children alike.\nIf you have a yard, one of the critical home services is the lawn mowing service.\nCleaning is not for everyone. If you want to clean your house properly, then you will have to hire a professional maid cleaning service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 14805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegreencentre.com.au/blog/what-the", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:7WE4ESKPC4HX6YIQ2P6FWBI2IZEVMXBV", "length": 129, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thegreencentre.com.au", "title": "WHAT THE\u2026\u2026.?? - The Green Centre", "raw_content": "WHAT THE\u2026\u2026.??\nWhat is happening with this weather?\nTemperatures up and down, welcome to Melbourne\u2026\u2026. Is firewood season all year?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theleadingpost.com/2019/02/13/buhari-atiku-others-sign-2nd-peace-accord.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IU6YUUYDTSPCX7VL2XPPJXTGVEVNFCCA", "length": 2902, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.theleadingpost.com", "title": "Buhari, Atiku, Others Sign 2nd Peace Accord", "raw_content": "Buhari, Atiku, Others Sign 2nd Peace Accord\nPresident Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other candidates have signed a second peace accord ahead of Saturday\u2019s presidential election. The presidential candidates signed the agreement on Wednesday at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the nation\u2019s capital. Those who witnessed the signing included the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland; former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd); Bishop Mathew Kukah, as well as other members of the National Peace Committee (NPC).\nAddressing the gathering shortly after the arrival of the guests, General Abubakar who is also the Chairman of the NPC urged political parties to function as effective actors for peace before, during, and after the elections. He also called on them to adopt a code of conduct that would promote a peaceful process devoid of rigging. The former Head of State asked the candidates to use the remaining days left to speak directly to voters and supporters, pleading with them to avoid violence. According to him, the importance of this is to ensure that there will be no need for Nigeria to invite foreign observers in the future.\nThe Commonwealth Secretary-General, as well as former Presidents of Liberia, Tanzania and Botswana among others at the event, give goodwill messages. On the part of the candidates, President Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) called for prayers as the nation goes into the elections in a few days. The President who is seeking a second term in office also made an appeal to the youths to eschew all forms of violence. He stressed that the important thing was for candidates to accept the final outcome of the elections, noting that the Independent National Electoral Commission has assured the people of a free and fair exercise.\nIn his address, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku, quoted former President Goodluck Jonathan, saying that his ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian. He, however, urged the electoral umpire to be fair arbiters for neutrality to prevail. Atiku equally asked security agencies not to embark on indiscriminate arrests of key officials, days or hours before the elections, saying that was the case in some by-elections. He also urged the President to do everything within his power to ensure that the vote of every eligible person counts. All the presidential candidates had earlier signed the first part of the peace accord in December last year.\nPresident Buhari was accompanied to the signing ceremony by the APC National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, and some top government officials. Similarly, the PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus and the Director-General of PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Bukola Saraki, among other party leaders accompanied Atiku to the event.\nTags: 2ndAtikuBuhariothersPeace Accordsign", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themystica.com/john-dee/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KXMAZ7P3HB2J7QUZ7SCRBBUHLJHRSITB", "length": 8666, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.themystica.com", "title": "John Dee Biography", "raw_content": "John Dee was born in London on July 13, 1527. His father was a vintner and a man of high repute in the court of Henry VIII, with some affluence, allowing him to give his son a decent education. John Dee went to St. John\u00b9s College in Cambridge at the age of 15 in 1542, where he studied math and astronomy, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree two years later. After receiving his first degree, he traveled to Holland meeting with many scholars. When he returned to England, he brought with him the first astronomer\u00b9s staff of brass along with two brass gloves constructed by Gerard Mercator, a famous cartographer of that time. After his return he received a Master of the Arts degree but was soon forced to leave England after being accused of being a conjurer thanks to a machine he built. During his first sojourn away from England, he first went to Louvain, France then spent some time in Paris, giving lectures on Euclid\u00b9s Elements and the basics of Geometry at the Sorbonne. Dee was offered a permanent post there, but he declined the post to return to England where he had been recommended for the post of Rector of Severn-upon-Severn by Edward VI, the son of Henry VII.\nWhile performing the duties of Rector, with the assurance of a home and steady income, Dee exclusively devoted himself to astrological studies. However, upon the accession of Queen Mary, also known as Bloody Mary in 1553 he was accused of \u00b3using enchantments against the queen\u00b9s life\u00b2 and imprisoned at Hampton Court. Such accusations of witchcraft and sorcery plagued Dee all his life, despite his many scientific achievements. Dee said in his translation of Euclid\u00b9s Elements in English that he was regarded as \u00b3a companion of the helhounds (sic), a caller and a conjurer of wicked and damned spirits\u00b2. In 1555 Dee was freed by an act of the Privy Council and he took his liberty. Dee\u00b9s fortunes began to rise upon the accession of Elizabeth I, due to the fact that Lord Morely, one of the queen\u00b9s favorites, asked Dee to pick a \u00b3propitious day\u00b2 for her coronation. Elizabeth met Dee and was so impressed with him that she had him give her lessons in astrology. Soon after, Dee again went to the Continent for several years, traveling throughout Europe. In 1571, Dee purchased a mansion at Mortlake on the Thames river where he began a collection of curious books and manuscripts and objects, most of which were later destroyed by mobs that thought Dee was familiar with the Devil and was confiscated by the Queen after 1583. The collection included 4000 rare books and 700 choice manuscripts, many of which are to be found in the British Museum. He also became well known as an astronomer, as well as an astrologer with many people coming to consult his advice. Dee practiced astrology for his living, but he studied the Talmud, Rosicrucian theories and practiced alchemy in hopes of finding the elixir of life and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u00b9.\nIn 1581 Dee began to experiment with crystalomancy or crystal gazing, a mode of divination using a globe, a clear pool of water (the method that Nostradamus used to collect his quatrains) or any transparent object. According to his diary on May 25, 1581 Dee first saw spirits while crystal gazing, and during the following year, he saw a vision of the angel Uriel, who gave him a convex piece of crystal that would allow communication with the spirit world. After using the crystal many times, Dee discovered that he was only able to use the crystal by concentrating his entire mental faculties on the crystal. Concentration of this kind can lead to powerful delusions, that can lead to insanity and it is generally thought that Dee didn\u00b9t see anything, only deluding himself. Dee found he was able to use it for such communications, but he could not write down what he would see during his visions. It became necessary for Dee to have an assistant write down what he saw and heard, and Dee found him in Edward Kelly.\nEdward Kelly was born in 1555 in the county of Lancashire. Nothing is known about his early life, but after being convicted of counterfeiting, he was sentenced to the pillory at Lancaster where he lost his ears. Then he moved to Worcester, becoming an apothecary and an alchemist, gaining a reputation for being a sensualist. While Dee sought knowledge for knowledge\u00b9s sake, Kelly only was interested how it could make him rich. Kelly was famous for claiming to have discovered the Philosopher\u00b9s stone, and a deep knowledge of necromancy. He was also well known as a con man, having duped many people. Upon meeting Dee, Kelly looked into the convex crystal and nearly every time he did so, he seemed to have wondrous visions. Although Dee was very intelligent and learned, he was also too trusting. Kelly not only saw visions of angels, but also of devils whose task was to destroy the two men. Dee was so convinced of the truth of these visions that he transcribed them verbatim and they can be found in the book: \u00b3A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. Dee and some Spirits\u00b2. Now, Dee claimed to have finally found the elixir vit\u00e6 in the ruins of Glastonberry Abbey, and with the elixir and the spirits, Dee\u00b9s fame spread throughout Europe attracting many curious visitors, including Albert Laski, a Polish nobleman. Laski invited the two men, along with their wives and children to return with him to Poland, so they all went.\nFor several years after 1583 Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly lived in Trebona in Poland, the home town of Albert Laski, who sponsored their alchemical researches. In about a year, Laski\u00b9s fortune was spent, and the men began to travel about Poland and Bohemia, from city to city finding new people to dupe. These travels went on until 1587, when in Prague Dr. Dee\u00b9s health began to fail and when Kelly and Dee had a falling out because of Kelly\u2019s new explorations of a book called The Necronomicon, that frightened both Dee and his family. Dee is said to have found a copy of the Necronomicon, given to him by the alchemist Jacob Eliezer known as the \u201cBlack Rabbi\u201d (this book does exist and was the basis of Kelly and Dee\u00b9s Endochian magic, Crowley\u00b9s The Book of the Law and H.P Lovecraft\u00b9s Cthulthu Mythos). Shortly after that Dee returned to England along with his family. As for the final fate of Kelly, he continued to attempt to dupe people in Germany, claiming that he had the philosopher\u00b9s stone and the elixir vit\u00e6 as before, but not finding as much interest as before. Eventually he was arrested as a heretic and a sorcerer in Prague, and again in southern Germany. But, after the second imprisonment he attempted to escape from his prison, only managing to fall and brake two of his ribs and both legs. He died in 1593 due to his injuries.\nDee returned to England, welcomed by Elizabeth and the court then went back to his home in Mortlake, continuing his search for the philosopher\u00b9s stone, that always had eluded him. His experiments yielded nothing except to impoverish Dee. Seeing his plight, Elizabeth gave him first the position of chancellor of St. Paul\u00b9s Cathedral in London and then the wardenship of Manchester College that he held until 1603 when he finally retired to his home for good. While he was warden of Manchester College Dee translated his copy of the Necronomicon into English and was never printed. After Dee\u00b9s death the book went into the collection of Elias Ashmole then into the Bodleian Library in Oxford until it was stolen in 1934 Back at Mortlake for good, Dee was a fortune-teller which gave him the reputation of being a wizard. Dee petitioned James I in 1604 for protection against such accusation. Replying to them by saying \u00b3that none of all the great number of the very strange and frivolous fables or histories reported and told of him were true\u00b2. Dee died at the age of 81 in 1608, in extreme poverty.\nDr. John Dee, despite his apparent delusions, was one of the keenest minds of his time. He his credited for making the calculations that would enable England to use the Gregorian calendar, he championed the preservation and the collection of historic documents and he was very well known for being a great astronomer and mathematician. It could be said that Dr. Dee was the one of the first modern scientists, although he was one of the last serious alchemists, necromancers and crystal gazers.\nby James Dilworth\nBarrett, Francis The Magus Reprint of the 1801 edition Secausus, NJ Citadel Press 1967\nEncyclop\u00e6dia Brittanica 9th edition vol 7 Edinburgh 1887\nEncyclop\u00e6dia Brittanica 11th edition vol 7 New York 1911\nLow, Collin The Necronomicon Anti-FAQ 1995\nSpence, Lewis The Encyclopedia of Occultism New York University Books 1959", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 9223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenesteggnr.com/store/p1517/Cactus_String_Art_-_Private_Event_-_Andi%27s_String_Art_Class_-_February_28th%2C_2018_from_6%3A00_to_8%3A00_pm.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XB6UMZIYAM4JREH3KRIJKD6VMLFFQ4E3", "length": 273, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thenesteggnr.com", "title": "Cactus String Art - Private Event - Andi's String Art Class - February 28th, 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm DIY, Class, Classes, String Art, Handmade, One of a Kind", "raw_content": "Ready to get your craft on? This link is for the Cactus String Art at Andi's House on February 28th, 2019 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Your finished design will measure approximately 12\"x12\" and you will have the perfect piece of home decor to hand on your wall when you get home!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/matt-driscoll/article26298283.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4SSDCHURIM6UOVJ5QIK2OJY7OGTLDCLA", "length": 4397, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thenewstribune.com", "title": "Matt Driscoll: Throwing rocks at Tacoma\u2019s homeless problem isn\u2019t the answer | Tacoma News Tribune", "raw_content": "More importantly, doing so is detrimental.\nWhich is exactly what makes what happened last week near the downtown Tacoma Main Library so jarring.\nSpecifically, I\u2019m talking about the massive rocks that suddenly appeared on a small strip of grass running up Earnest S. Brazill Street at Tacoma Avenue South, just south of the library. If you\u2019re familiar with life downtown, you\u2019re probably familiar with this sliver of green running up the block, as it regularly attracts a homeless population in search of a place to take a load off. Lately, the stretch had been increasingly full of tents, sleeping bags and the various belongings of Tacoma\u2019s most vulnerable citizens.\nUntil Wednesday, that is, when the Flintstones quarry-size boulders showed up.\nSubtle, like pigeon-control wire for downtrodden people.\nHomeless Services Manager Colin DeForrest describes it as \u201csite hardening,\u201d saying it\u2019s \u201cone strategy to remedy multiple issues in that area,\u201d which include drug use and other illegal activities. Eventually, he says, trees will be planted as well, which should soften the visual shock. He\u2019s also quick to point out that the rocks weren\u2019t placed with a single demographic in mind. \u201cThis was not specifically done to get rid of the homeless,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to have people congregating there, period.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for innovative, outside-the-box techniques to both connect individuals to services and also create a safe community,\u201d DeForrest continues. \u201cInnovations can look a lot of different ways.\u201d\nThat\u2019s true. And for the library patrons afraid to use the parking lot, or the students at Bates Technical College currently too scared to use the sidewalk, perhaps these rocks will make a real difference. DeForrest tells me there was a team conducting homeless outreach near the new rocks on Monday afternoon. That\u2019s excellent news.\nStill, I can\u2019t help but find the jagged boulders troubling. I\u2019m afraid, despite the good intentions, they say: When pushed, Tacoma will take the easy way out, choosing to drive the homeless away like an unsightly nuisance. Even if it means trucking in gigantic boulders.\nThat\u2019s a shame \u2014 particularly because it\u2019s not what we\u2019ve come to expect from Tacoma. City programs such as Housing First, which focuses on getting people into permanent housing, have shown success.\nMany others in this community also refuse to look away.\nJust one of many examples of Tacoma\u2019s compassion can be found downtown every Sunday morning, mere blocks from the library, at Urban Grace Church. It\u2019s there that a group of 60-some volunteers gather \u2014 a diverse group with ties to several local churches and community organizations; with some volunteers arriving as early as 5 a.m. \u2014 to serve what\u2019s simply known as the \u201cCommunity Breakfast\u201d to the homeless and those struggling to make ends meet. They\u2019ve been doing it, without fanfare, for the last 20 years.\nLed by Willie Stewart, a 79-year-old native Texan with a long history as an educator on Tacoma\u2019s East Side and the first black principal in the city, the Community Breakfast represents much more than just the best meal many of the city\u2019s homeless people get all week. It represents what we\u2019re capable of when we\u2019re willing to engage with the difficult issues homelessness presents rather than hiding our eyes.\nStewart tells me the first breakfast was served April 23, 1995. Two people showed up. The next week it was four. The third week it was 12.\nOn the Sunday I visited, it was closer to 185, a turnout Stewart describes as small. He and Charolette Summers, an 81-year-old Midland resident who also has been part of the Community Breakfast since the beginning, recall mornings where 500 people came through the door.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve become family to me,\u201d Stewart says of the people served by the breakfast. \u201cWe do it because there\u2019s a need. We love them and care about them.\u201d\nOn this morning, I sit down next to a young African American man who says his name is Keith. He tells me he comes nearly every week. When I ask him where he\u2019s staying he says \u201cwherever.\u201d\nThen I ask him about the rocks by the library.\nHe knows exactly what I\u2019m talking about, and doesn\u2019t seem surprised.\n\u201cThey don\u2019t want us there,\u201d Keith says with an experienced shrug, between bites. We leave it at that.\nHomelessness is here, in Tacoma. The sooner we accept that fact, and face it head on, the better.\nBoulders aren\u2019t going to help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenightskye.com/how-i-got-the-shot-ryan-ranch-ruins-in-joshua-tree-national-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:10Z", "digest": "sha1:AOXOPBD5WAZXTNUDKFVV3GLQINGZQRZV", "length": 6253, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.thenightskye.com", "title": "How I got the shot: Ryan Ranch Ruins in Joshua Tree National Park \u2013 The Nightskye", "raw_content": "High ISO test for composition\u201420 seconds, f/3.5, ISO 6400\nLast September I spent a week in Joshua Tree National Park, and stayed in five different campgrounds within the park during that time. It was a great way to get to know this gem of the California desert a bit better. I had visited before, but I wanted to dig a little deeper before leading a workshop to Joshua Tree this year.\nJoshua Tree is a large park in Southern California that lies in both the Colorado and Mojave deserts. The lower, hotter and drier Colorado Desert makes up the eastern half of the park; the higher, wetter and slightly cooler Mojave Desert makes up the western half, which is home to the famous, wily trees.\nOne of my favorite spots turned out to be the adobe ruins at Ryan Ranch, one of the smaller, less popular campgrounds. Ryan Ranch and the adjacent well supplied water to the nearby Lost Horse mine. The house was destroyed in a fire in 1978. The remains have been stabilized, and make excellent subject matter for light painting, and in particular a great opportunity to work on a series of lighting variations.\nSCOUTING AND PREP\nFor this shoot, I scoped out the ruins earlier in the afternoon after setting up camp. I saw a westward-facing composition that included two different structures that played well off of each other, and would be easy to light independently. This was going to be fun.\nVariation #1\u201430 seconds, f/6.3, ISO 6400\nI set up my shot as it was getting dark, and planned to make good use of the very last bit of daylight on the western horizon. Over the years, I have developed a field workflow that I follow for every image I make. By using a standardized method with consistent, repeatable steps, I have a high success rate with relatively few images lost to technical problems. The steps that I follow are:\n1-compose\n2-focus\n3-expose\n5-adjust\nIn this case, I saw the composition almost immediately. I\u2019ll often begin with high ISO, hand-held shots to rough out a composition, but in this case, I already knew what I wanted to do. I went right to the tripod and made my first exposure. I still used a high ISO and wide aperture to keep the exposure time short, as I was interested in only the composition at this point.\nThe biggest challenge would be achieving critical focus using hyperfocal distance, because my foreground element was quite close to the camera\u2014less than 10 feet away. As it was an important part of the composition, it had to be sharp. I hadn\u2019t yet decided if this would be a star-point or star-trail shot, but either way, I also wanted the stars to be tack sharp.\nUsing the Field Tools app, I concluded that f/6.3 would give me sufficient depth of field when focused at the hyperfocal distance of 16.5 feet. (For more information on how I did this, see \u201cUse Hyperfocal Distance To Maximize Depth Of Field At Night.\u201d) I measured the distance from the back of the camera to a spot on the ground in the scene by taking five and a half big steps. I then put a flashlight at that spot, returned to the camera, focused on the light, and shot a test image to confirm that both the foreground structure and the stars were sharp.\nNext, it was time to figure out the ambient exposure. By this point, it was almost completely dark, with just a hint of glow left on the western horizon. I used the high ISO testing technique, and came up with 30 seconds for my ambient exposure with an ISO of 6400 and my preselected aperture of f/6.3.\nAt this point, I had composed using high ISO shots, focused using the Field Tools app to determine the hyperfocal distance, and determined the exposure with high ISO testing. Then I decided to stick with 6400 for the time being to maintain star points. It was time to play!\nVariation #2\u201420 minutes, f/6.3, ISO 100\nAfter doing several variations, I decided to try something different. For the next exposure, I chose to go long. The equivalent exposure to the previous one would have been 16 minutes at ISO 200, but I instead decided to go for 20 minutes just to get some longer star trails.\nAside from the star trails, the main difference between the short and long ambient exposures was that the extended time allowed for the last bit of twilight to build up on the horizon. The star trails created leading diagonal lines that paralleled the slope of the foreground element.\nThe light painting differed in that I moved closer to the rear wall, which had the effect of making the light harsher and more directional, and it brought out the texture of the surface. For the foreground wall, this time I lit from camera-left, scraping the light along the surface of the wall, leaving the edge in shadow.\nFor the final frame, I used a variation of the lighting technique from the first shot. I adjusted the exposure to an equivalent 3 minutes, f/6.3, ISO 800\u2014mainly because I wanted more time to light than I was allotted in the 6400 ISO version, and as this photograph was meant mainly as an experiment in lighting, I was less concerned about having long star trails.\nFinal variation\u20143 minutes, f/6.3, ISO 800\nFor the light painting in the rear, I moved further from the wall until I was standing just behind the foreground wall, pointing back to the other structure. Notice how the light is softer and more even, and spreads across a larger area of the ground. The light on the foreground wall is similar to the first lit version, but is cooler because I removed the CTO warming gel from the flashlight. I also took a step back away from the camera (i.e., toward the scene), which had the effect of keeping the camera-facing surface of the front wall in shadow, which emphasized the curved line rather than the texture of the surface. I made a few other variations, but these are the ones that I liked the best.\nChris Nicholson and I will be leading a workshop in Joshua Tree National Park from April 21 to 26, as will Gabriel Biderman and I the following week. Both weeks will include this location as well as the historic structures at Keys Ranch, an area that is usually off-limits at night. I\u2019m looking forward to returning to these spots then to see how our NPAN workshop participants work with these fun and playful structures, and also to see how a year and a half has changed the way I see them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-68-of-americans-unprepared-for-sudden-fina-1819578342", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:08Z", "digest": "sha1:FEJPXM264WUJMUA5S7ZTBM6663MGCGPU", "length": 1423, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theonion.com", "title": "Study Finds 68% Of Americans Unprepared For Sudden Financial Stability", "raw_content": "Study Finds 68% Of Americans Unprepared For Sudden Financial Stability\nAMES, IA\u2014Noting that most Americans never consider the possibility that such life-altering circumstances could ever befall them, a study published Monday by researchers at Iowa State University revealed that 68 percent of citizens are wholly unprepared for a sudden bout of financial stability. \u201cWe found that, given their lack of any forethought or preparation for such a scenario, roughly two-thirds of Americans would be completely blindsided by an unexpected increase in their monthly net income, which would have an immediate impact on every single financial decision they make,\u201d said the report\u2019s lead author, Rebecca Linsky, who added that, when abruptly faced with an unforeseen solvent patch, a majority of Americans would quickly find themselves racked by stressful choices regarding which luxuries to spend their extra money on after paying their rent and other bills. \u201cMany people never see a comfortable shift in their finances coming, and in the face of such positive cash flow, have little choice but to make sharp, unanticipated adjustments, such as no longer cutting back on little things like eating out and going to movies.\u201d Linsky emphasized, however, that thanks to the current economic environment and prevailing government policies, most citizens would likely never have to experience such a jarring period of financial security.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/forum/f14n04p287_the-cycle-of-initiation.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:05Z", "digest": "sha1:FGSICEJI5FF7EEN22VC7KGXKSUXPEZ56", "length": 9817, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.theosociety.org", "title": "THE CYCLE OF INITIATION \u2014 Abbott Clark", "raw_content": "THE CYCLE OF INITIATION \u2014 Abbott Clark\nThe Cycle of Initiation was the crowning glory of the work of the ancient Mystery Schools. It was not a ritual formulated by the brain-mind of man. It was instituted by wise Sages and Seers, highly developed spiritual men, in an effort to co-ordinate the initiant with the forces of nature, especially the higher spiritual forces. We all believe in the inseparability of Man and Nature, but the process of initiation has to make that unity a living dynamic reality, so that through that unity the initiate becomes a master of Nature and her forces.\nThe Sages have chosen the seasons of the year when the cosmic and solar forces favor this the consummation of the most sublime achievement of human evolution. The object of initiation, if successfully accomplished, is to raise man to the stature, nature, and dignity of conscious godhood.\nThe ancient Mystery Schools were not founded by primitive men magnifying the glories and mysteries of nature, as is described in the encyclopaedias and other learned and labored books on the subject. Quite the contrary. The Mystery Schools were founded by great spiritually and intellectually enlightened men for the purpose of retaining and preserving the instruction given to them by great spiritual and intellectual beings commonly called the gods, who descended on earth to inaugurate and give the primal impulse to the intellectual and spiritual evolution of mankind. The Mystery Schools were essentially and fundamentally ethical and moral. In them were stored, as an Ark of Safety, the teaching of the gods as to the origin, nature, mode of operation, and destiny of the macrocosm and the microcosm, man and his limitless self, the universe.\nThe Mystery Schools, especially the central one, were designed as an Ark of Safety in which the wisdom of the gods could be preserved and carried on from generation to generation of initiates, from age to age, through cycles of spiritual light and of materialistic darkness, to the present, and will continue onward to the end of human time, when man shall have fully achieved his evolution on earth and graduated from humanhood to conscious godhood. From time to time as cyclic law permitted and human intellect searched for truth, and eager, aspiring human hearts demanded spiritual light and help, Messengers were sent from the Lodge of Light to supply the wants and fulfil the needs of the time. Thus were founded the great religions and philosophies which have raised mankind to such degrees of civilization as the different ages have attained. The greatest of these Teachers were the religious and spiritual ones, called by men in their love and gratitude \"Saviors\". At the evening twilight of descending cycles all is done that can be done to sustain mankind through the dark ages. At the dawn of rising cycles \u2014 as at present in the West \u2014 more teaching is given out by the Lodge, and provision is made that Mystery Schools or College-Temples, Theosophical Universities, or some form of permanent esoteric bodies suited to the times, are formed, and in them it is provided that a succession of Teachers shall carry on the light from generation to generation, clarifying and amplifying the teachings, and giving out all that the intelligence and character of the age can understand and assimilate.\nInto these Esoteric Schools were attracted the intelligentsia of the youth of the age, though the elders were not excluded, and there they received definite teachings on the science of the soul and of the inner causal worlds far more definite, complete and accurate, than modern technical science. They had a system of education that educes and unfolds the entire intellectual, moral, and spiritual nature into full flower. A system more complete and efficient than has entered into the imagination of any modern educator or the best practice of any college or university. The esoteric discipline produced men with self-knowledge and self-control, and Christlike thoughtfulness for others.\nThere were many of these branch Mystery Schools, each suited to its time and place, and all radiating from the Central Lodge of the Brotherhood of Compassion. From them came thousands of the best citizens, men of talent, of genius, statesmen, and leaders, and teachers. The branch centers, Mystical Schools, College-Temples, Theosophical Universities all, were the life-giving heart and center of the civilization in which they lived. Sometimes these civilizations were sustained, through rising and falling periods, for countless thousands of years, and attained heights unimagined by us.\nIt is the noble destiny and sublime privilege and responsibility of the Theosophical Society to revive the knowledge of these lost mysteries of antiquity, and establish these centers of spiritual light and learning in the west where they will be the radiating heart and center of a new order of the ages, of a higher civilization in the occidental world. The Theosophical University is the first of these College-Temples. It is, and is to be, the radiant esoteric center of the occidental world.\nFor dynamic reasons the Cycle of Initiation coincided with the solstices and the equinoxes. The cycle begins with the Winter Solstice, December 21-22, when the sun reaches the southernmost point of his journey, and turning northward \u2014 is reborn as the saying goes. The exact moment of this last Solstice, the astronomers tell us, was December 22nd, 4:14 a. m. at Point Loma, 7:14 Eastern Standard Time, 1938.\nThen follows the initiation at the Spring Equinox; then the Summer Solstice; and the Autumnal Equinox. Each initiation has relation to and is in co-ordination with the cosmic forces of the season. The Winter Solstice is the season of the greatest of the initiations \u2014 when the Christs and Buddhas are born \u2014 spiritually born. Christmas is celebrated on the 24-25 of December through a shift in the calendar.\nA few words about what initiation really means is important because there are those who make a pretense of selling secrets of initiation, and also because so much nonsense has been written on the subject. The process is one of accelerated evolution. In a sense it is terrible, because the slow work of ages is focalized and concentrated into three or fourteen days. The \"tragedy\" is depicted in many religions, mystery-tales, and hero stories, such as the Labors of Hercules, the Descent of Orpheus into the Under-world, the Crucifixion of Christ, and the trial of the Buddha under the Bo-tree.\nIn the Near East at the time of the beginning of the Christian Era, the initiant was laid upon a cruciform couch, though any comfortable couch would do, and was plunged into the \"sleep of siloam,\" a deep spiritual trance, in which the soul, the thinker, the individual man himself, was freed from the chains of the body and the attractions of the earth. He first went into the underworld where he met all his own bad Karman congealed into objective form and focalized upon him in all its force and quality, and he had to face and overcome and dissipate it. Next he had to meet and overcome all the elemental forces of nature \u2014 forces that are natural and all right in their own sphere, but so far beneath the highly evolved individuality of man that they are evil and inimical to him. This \"battle\" is variously described, as in the Temptation of Jesus by the devil, and Gautama under the Bo-tree \u2014 a struggle from which the triumphant Siddartha rose as the divinely illuminated Buddha. Having become master of himself within, and of the elemental forces of nature without, he right there begins to practice his powers as a member of the Brotherhood of Compassion by ministering to the denizens of these nether spheres, \"preaching to the spirits in prison.\" (1)\nNow, master of himself, of the Underworld, and of Nature, his free spirit wings its way through the air-ways of the soul, along the \"circulations of the Cosmos,\" to the Inner Worlds, the spiritual or causal worlds, to the \"many mansions in my Father's house,\" or certain of the Sacred Planets, where he gains first-hand knowledge by actual experience, by becoming for a time a denizen of these Inner Spheres. In daily life man can aspire or pray or appeal for help to his Higher Self, to the powers within or above him; but in initiation the initiant can have no outside help. It is he himself, as a man, that is being tested; it is he himself that must have developed and become strong in his own inherent godlike qualities. He must now and henceforward be the captain of his own soul. Furthermore he must know what to do and where to go through the air-ways of the soul. For this he must have had a Teacher to impart to him definite technical knowledge during the period of his novitiate. He must now through his own definite knowledge and inherent power be his own pilot; he can have no benevolent hand of god or Master extended to him. No kindly Mercury or Pushan can act as psychopomp, shepherd of the souls of the dead, to guide him as the Monad has during sleep and death.\nHaving accomplished his journey through certain Sacred Planets he goes to the Sun, where he fully unfolds the solar qualities which we all have, and for a time he becomes a Sun-god, one of the Solar Logoi. Then he returns to earth by the same pathway through which he went, and rises from the \"tomb\" or couch or \"cross\" as a full Initiate, a Master of Life and Death, osirified, a Son of the Sun. He rises resplendent, radiant, with the light of Divinity. No words are needed to tell who he is; his condition is self-evident by his presence. To put it into words, his condition is well described by the Cry of Jesus Christ on the Cross, rightly translated: O God, my God within me, how Thou dost fill me with glory!\n1. 1 Peter, iii, 18-19. (return to text)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 9983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/10/beer_before_wine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:17Z", "digest": "sha1:AFZNFYP5X4IKITPJXLYR62AFGFBIGHK2", "length": 2897, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.theregister.co.uk", "title": "Hungover this morning? Thought 'beer before wine and you'll be fine'? Boffins prove old adage just isn't true \u2022 The Register", "raw_content": "Beer before wine and you\u2019ll feel fine; wine before beer and you\u2019ll feel queer, as the old saying goes. Well it isn\u2019t true, it doesn\u2019t matter what order you down your drinks, you\u2019ll be hungover all the same.\nNinety human guinea pigs, who were students of course, aged between 19 to 40 years old agreed to discover this the hard way in the name of science.\nIn the first experiment, 31 people slurped beer until their breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) measured 0.05 per cent, they then sipped wine until their BrAC increased to 0.11 per cent. Another handful of 31 participants repeated the same experiment but consumed wine before beer. The rest of the group, 28 people, acted as the control group and were only given one type of alcoholic beverage to drink.\nA week later, the same procedure was repeated but the beverages were switched. Those that started on the frothy brews were now swigging the alcoholic grape juice to reach the same BrAC measurements. And the ones in the control group given only beer were now limited to wine and vice versa.\nAfter each hardcore sesh [Ed: Also known as an aperitif for Reg hacks], the students were asked how to judge how drunk they were on a scale of 0-10. They were also quizzed on how bad their hangovers were in a questionnaire - assuming they could see straight.\nThe researchers from the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and the UK's University of Cambridge, analyzed the results, and found no special relationship between what order the different types of alcoholic beverage were consumed and the severity of the resutling hangovers. The results were published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.\nEl Reg tests portable breathalyzers: Getting drunk so you don't have to\n\"Using white wine and lager beer, we didn't find any truth in the idea that drinking beer before wine gives you a milder hangover than the other way around,\" said first author J\u00f6ran K\u00f6chling from Witten/Herdecke University.\n\"The truth is that drinking too much of any alcoholic drink is likely to result in a hangover. The only reliable way of predicting how miserable you'll feel the next day is by how drunk you feel and whether you are sick. We should all pay attention to these red flags when drinking.\"\nSome participants were harmed in the procedure, but eventually bounced back from their hangovers. Some of the poor sods even reported vomiting. Interestingly, this happened more often in the control group. Women also threw up more than men.\n\u201cUnpleasant as hangovers are, we should remember that they do have one important benefit, at least: they are a protective warning sign that will certainly have aided humans over the ages to change their future behaviour,\u201d said Kai Hensel, co-author of the paper and a clinical fellow at the University of Cambridge. \u201cIn other words, they can help us learn from our mistakes.\"\nWe\u2019re not so sure about that. \u00ae", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 10009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/features/32060/slades-not-a-classic-13-but-hes-putting-his-stamp-on-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GS3EAH3NIXGXA7S3TNX6K4QVOFF56Y2M", "length": 5741, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.therugbypaper.co.uk", "title": "Slade's not a classic 13 but he's putting his stamp on it", "raw_content": "Home / Features / Slade\u2019s not a classic 13 but he\u2019s putting his stamp on it\nPosted on February 13, 2019 by admin in Features, Jeremy Guscott with 0 Comments\nBy Jeremy Guscott,\nHe was first capped back in 2015, and that is usually the sign that you have arrived. However, since then there have been a few false starts and question marks over the Exeter player because 18 England caps, including 13 starts, is not the biggest return in that time.\nA lot of it has to do with the quality of the competition that Slade has faced, with Jonathan Joseph the man in possession of the 13 shirt for most of the intervening period until he was injured last season.\nSlade has also had to contend with the issue of having a utility tag, because he has played in almost every position in the Exeter backline from fly-half, to full-back, and both inside and outside-centre.\nHowever, in the Eddie Jones era being a utility back is not all bad. There have been plusses for Slade and Elliot Daly, with both of them in the starting lineup at the moment, whereas George Ford, who is an out and out fly-half, is not.\nIn the past for me utility normally means bench, and that\u2019s where Slade was for a while before concentrating on playing 13. Outside-centre has become a key specialist position, especially in defence where the main role is to block off the outside channel.\nThis is where so many tries are scored, and unless you have your organisation and understanding with the wing outside you, and with the 12 inside you, it is a recipe for trouble. Any mistakes you make are under the microscope because it is easy to get caught in no-man\u2019s land.\nSlade has had to learn that role at Exeter, and has done it at 12 and 13, which is a challenge \u2013 but on the evidence of his defence in Dublin the experience has paid dividends.\nHe is not my idea of a classic 13 with searing pace and an outside break, but the great thing about outside-centre is that it is a position which you can put your own stamp on. It can change depending on who makes it their own.\nWhat is perfection? For instance, Conrad Smith was a workhorse of an outside-centre for the All Blacks, and was such a core member of the team that he won almost 100 caps. He was sneakily quick, aggressive in defence, and was very good at reading the game.\nSlade is not too dissimilar, and that is a huge compliment.\nHe has a pretty extensive skill set, including a varied passing game, whether short, long \u2013 as with the pass to Jonny May which set up his first try against the Irish \u2013 or pop pass.\nSlade also has a decent kicking game, although we\u2019ve not yet seen him used in the way that Wales do with Jonathan Davies, with that one pass out and big booming kick downfield. It is a nice option to have, and England should not overlook it.\nAnother plus point is that Slade\u2019s defence is getting better, and on a few occasions against Ireland he really threw himself into it. However, it is always a work-on. These days backs spend a lot of time analysing the opposition attack, but there are certain cardinal rules in defence that have stood the test of time.\nThe most important is that above all you should be watching the ball. There will be a number of calls, whether blitz or drift, but you should always look at the shape of the opposition attack \u2013 and if you take your eye off the ball even for a second you have no idea where it is going.\nEngland\u2019s defence against Ireland was very impressive, and was typified by the pass to Garry Ringrose where Courtney Lawes smashed him. The back line was also very effective, and there was one occasion when they went up and out, using the touchline as the extra defender, with Slade making a pressure tackle to force the ball into touch.\nIt was really smooth pressure defence, all in tandem, all synchronised, forcing the Irish attack into making a mistake. Any defender is vulnerable to being bounced off, or handed-off. It is all about timing and technique, and if you get 80 per cent right then you will usually be effective in making a dominant tackle.\nSlade has to learn that you do not need to stand tall to look solid in defence. That is a big man\u2019s tackle around the fringes, whereas backs will never make a dominant tackle by standing tall. You need to be bent at the knees and use that drive from a crouched position to make a full impact.\nSlade\u2019s two tries against Ireland will do him the world of good, because being a try-scoring centre gets you noticed, like a goal-scoring midfielder in football.\nThis support play for the first try was very good, and show he not only has a nose for the try line but also for making breaks and delivering the chances for either himself or his team-mates to put away.\nThe second try was more opportunist, and with Ireland trying to attack from deep, he anticipated it, took a slip catch, and had the awareness to stay in control and ground it.\nHe does not have the electrifying pace of Daly, and Joseph is also probably faster and has more experience with 40 caps, and an impressive strike rate with 17 tries. So, Slade can expect fierce competition, but in terms of anticipation and reading the game he is slightly better than Joseph.\nSlade has moved from the No. 22 shirt and is fully paid-up as a Test No.13. He has no mortgage on the shirt, and he owns it at the moment. A good yardstick for any player is to ask themselves how influential they are, and do they lift the team?\nWhether it was his two tries against Ireland, or his big defensive plays, Slade did that in Dublin. He has built a solid foundation, and if he keeps playing like he is he will be there for some time.\nAt one stage you wondered whether he would take the step to being a fully nailed-on international. Now Slade has taken that next step", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thescl.com/SCL_mourns_ANGELA_MORLEY", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:W4YORYAY4TZY3DVIEJJRGOVUOIXB3ZHF", "length": 8293, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.thescl.com", "title": "The SCL : News :: QuickNotes : SCL mourns ANGELA MORLEY", "raw_content": "SCL mourns long-time SCL Member ANGELA MORLEY\nThe SCL mourns long-time and founding SCL Member ANGELA MORLEY who passed away on January 14th in Scottsdale, Arizona. She had fallen and broken her hip just before New Years, and while in surgery in the hospital, she suffered a serious heart attack. Her condition deteriorated and she was moved to hospice care on the 10th - not expected to recover.\nShe is survived by her partner, Christine Parker, a son, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A public memorial is tentatively planned for March.\nRespected British composer-arranger wrote for film, TV, records, concerts\nAngela Morley, who died January 14, 2009 at the age of 84, is being remembered by colleagues as a superb composer and one of the finest arrangers to come out of Britain in the past half-century.\nMorley won three Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations for her work in films and television. And while the American public may not have known her name, she was well-known in the United Kingdom. And millions were bound to be familiar with her music, which included dozens of TV shows and behind-the-scenes work on movies from Star Wars to The Right Stuff and many Boston Pops arrangements for John Williams.\n\"Angela Morley was a respected colleague and valued friend for over forty years,\" says Williams. \"She was certainly one of the finest musicians I've ever known or worked with. As an orchestrator, her skill was unsurpassed, with a technical perfection that was drawn on and nourished by a lifelong devotion to music. She will be irreplaceable and greatly missed.\"\n\"She had wonderful taste,\" adds veteran music director Ian Fraser, who frequently called on Morley for many projects, including TV shows, records and live performances. \"She had complete knowledge of everything from big bands to symphonies. She was skilled in every aspect of arranging and orchestration.\"\nIt was as part of Fraser's music team that she won her three Emmys: Christmas in Washington (1985), Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas (1988) and Great Performances: Julie Andrews in Concert (1990). Her eight other Emmy nominations included arranging for The Big Show (1980) and Liberty Weekend: Opening Ceremonies (1987).\n\"She did some wonderful orchestrations for me on Julie's two Broadway albums in the 1990s,\" Fraser said, noting that she also penned some of the arrangements for Andrews' London Palladium appearances in the 1970s. \"She was part of that generation of arrangers who could do it all \u2013 Herbie Spencer, Earle Hagen, Billy Byers and Ralph Burns. She covered the gamut, from A to Z.\"\n\"Her forte, without a doubt, was her adaptation ability, from jazz to classical,\" says Ken Thorne, another Oscar-nominated arranger-composer who knew Morley dating back to their days as fellow arrangers for bands and records in the 1950s. \"Her taste was impeccable. That's the reason for her continued success while she was with us.\"\n\"She was a poet,\" adds songwriter Richard M. Sherman, who with his brother Robert penned the songs for the Cinderella story The Slipper and the Rose (1977). They shared an Oscar nomination with Morley, who arranged all the songs and adapted them into the film's underscore. She also received a nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.\n\"She made every song come to life,\" says Sherman. \"You didn't have to tell her too much. She pretty much read your mind as to what you wanted. She adapted our music beautifully; the underscore for the singers was elegant and perfect. She was a wonderful, understanding musician who did towering work.\"\nHer other Oscar nomination was for adapting the songs of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe for the film musical The Little Prince (1974).\nMorley composed several dramatic scores, notably the acclaimed music for the animated rabbit tale Watership Down (1978), which earned her an Ivor Novello Award nomination. Her last work may have been the new 10-minute concert suite from that score that received its premiere in London Dec. 21.\n\"Watership Down couldn't have been written by anyone else,\" says John Wilson, who conducted the suite and has conducted two other albums of Morley music. \"It has that slightly wistful melancholy to it, a pastoral sweetness \u2013 and always, beautiful woodwind writing. If Angela had one signature, it was her woodwind writing \u2013 those flowing, wonderful flute fantasias.\n\"She's part of a very distinguished line of light-music composers, like Eric Coates and Robert Farnon,\" Wilson adds, \"and belonged to that clique of really top-notch British arrangers.\" Wilson conducted two Morley CDs for the Vocalion label a few years ago: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, consisting of her 1950s and '60s arrangements for orchestra; and The Film and Television Music of Angela Morley, a best-of collection of Morley's own scores for the media.\nMorley first came to prominence in English music as Wally Stott, music director for the BBC's famous 1950s radio comedy The Goon Show. \"Every single person in England with a radio knew the name Wally Stott,\" says Wilson, who likens Stott's fame to that of well-known American arranger Nelson Riddle.\nThorne called Stott's Goon Show work \"consistently brilliant. Great humor when necessary,\" while Wilson termed it \"high-class vaudeville. Band numbers, and all sorts of incidental cues, fast-moving comedy things. It played an absolutely integral part in the [show].\" Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Stott also arranged and conducted dozens of sessions for such artists as Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward, Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark.\nStott composed more than a dozen film scores, including Peeping Tom (1960), The Looking Glass War (1969), Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) and When Eight Bells Toll (1971). He became Angela Morley in 1972 and served as resident conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra from 1974 to 1978.\nMorley assisted with orchestrations on several key John Williams scores, first in London (Star Wars, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back) and then in America (E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Home Alone, Schindler's List). She also arranged many orchestral numbers for Williams during his 13-year tenure as conductor of the Boston Pops, many of which have been preserved on Pops CDs. Most recently, Williams engaged Morley to pen several arrangements for his best-selling Cinema Serenade albums for Sony Classics.\nMorley was almost entirely self-taught as an arranger. As she pointed out in her own website biography (www.angelamorley.com), in 1944 she joined the Geraldo Orchestra, which did several live BBC shows a week: \"The great bonus for a developing arranger was that the band might be a swing band on Monday and then augmented to symphonic size on Tuesday, while on other days perhaps various combinations in-between, on occasion even adding a choir. Since I got to arrange for all these combinations, was there ever a better arranging academy?\"\nWalter Stott was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1924. He had only a few months worth of piano lessons as a child, eventually picking up the alto saxophone and playing professionally at the age of 15. By 1950 he was in such demand as an arranger that his performing days were over. The delightful light-music pieces he wrote in that era, such as \"Snow Ride\" and \"Rotten Row,\" are considered modern classics.\nMorley moved to America in 1980, and wrote dozens of scores for television series. She received Emmy nominations for her original music for Dynasty (1985, 1986), Dallas (1987, 1988), Blue Skies (1989) and Emerald Point N.A.S. (1984), while also scoring episodes of Falcon Crest, Hotel, The Colbys, Wonder Woman, Cagney & Lacey, McClain's Law, Two Marriages and Island Son. She scored four TV-movies including Friendships, Secrets and Lies, the 1981 remake of Madame X with Tuesday Weld, Summer Girl and Threesome.\nIn later years, she lectured at the University of Southern California; was a founding governor of the Society of Composers & Lyricists; and served for 10 years on the music branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. She moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1994.\n\u00a92009 by Jon Burlingame\nhttp://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2009/011909.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 11287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 172.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesouthafrican.com/expat-identity-who-shaped-south-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XRKTIMRNAHGJDTIHIRPE2KQYS44SHUFS", "length": 4571, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thesouthafrican.com", "title": "Expat identity: who shaped South Africa?", "raw_content": "Expat identity: who shaped South Africa?\nThis week, PIETER DE LANGE, a South African writer living in Kent, asks readers of The South African which South African leaders should be remembered and why\nDoes the past really matter? Leszek Kolakowski, the Polish-born Oxford philosopher seems to think so. In fact, he is convinced that \u201cwe learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are\u201d.\nThe American novelist, William Faulkner finds the past almost tangible and tells us: \u201cThe past is never dead. It\u2019s not even past.\u201d\nSouth Africa has a turbulent, brutal and often chequered, political history. The courageous and often controversial men and women who shaped events are as different as our tribes and races. So if we look back it is certainly not easy to discern who we really are. If there was an exclusive club somewhere in the sky for erstwhile South African leaders, you might find the Cape Governor Simon van der Stel chatting to Albert Luthuli, the original ANC leader (who burned his pass in public and became South Africa\u2019s first Nobel Prize winner). The great Zulu king Shaka might be discussing battle tactics with the legendary General de la Rey in one corner.\nThe early feminist writer Olive Schreiner would be rubbing shoulders with the wily Sotho chief Moshweshwe and the scheming Cecil John Rhodes (who actually called himself an Afrikaner at one stage), as well as Voortrekker leader Piet Retief. The leader of the Orange Free State Republic, Abraham Fischer, might be asking his communist grandson Bram Fischer, to invite black consciousness leader Steve Biko and the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa Louis Botha, for a cup of tea\u2026\nAsked to nominate his top-three South African leaders, Mel, a creative director who left for Sydney in the late nineties, puts Mandela first because: \u201cHe imbued forgiveness, tolerance, compassion and love for South Africa and its people.\u201d Next comes Cyril Ramaphosa: \u201cHe had vision, but quickly went over to \u2018big business\u2019\u201d. And then Desmond Tutu, who \u201chas never been afraid to stand up to inequality\u201d.\nDaan starts every day on his lovely farm in the mountains of California by saluting the old South African flag, and taking out his dogs, Brutus and Boesman. His list goes further into the past. He nominates Jan Smuts, because \u201che saw the future\u201d, Oubaas Ben (Wielietjies) Schoeman, for being \u201c\u2018n regte Afrikaner\u201d, and lastly, John Vorster, who he said, always showed concern for workers under him. This is in contrast to PW Botha, whom Daan found unapproachable.\nLois and Bill, previously from Kwa-Zulu Natal, now toughing it out on \u201cmud island\u201d, have not forgotten Buthelezi\u2019s role, and grant him top spot.\nGerhard, who used to be a senior lecturer, but is now a teacher in Basildon, brings a well-motivated trio to the suggestion box. Firstly, Pieter Mulder for his \u201cvision for minorities\u201d, then Flip Buys for being the pragmatic rescuer of poor Afrikaners (Solidariteit) and lastly Carel Boshoff, who demonstrated that he \u201chas the courage of his convictions.\u201d\nLudwig, a BTech Civil Engineering graduate from Pretoria, who desperately longs for his Pretoria Afrikaans cultural heritage, nevertheless chooses Trevor Manuel, Tito Mboweni and Sam Shilowa as his top-three South African statesmen.\nGary Player managed third spot, behind the ubiquitous Mandela and de Klerk, on property developer Tom\u2019s list. Tom, who spends a lot of time in former communist countries like Croatia and Bulgaria to oversee the development of new leisure resorts, sees Player as a sportsman, a gentleman, and a worthwhile example for youngsters.\nLiza from Chicago put Evita Bezuidenhout on her list because of \u201cher fabulous dress sense\u201d. That is second to Mandela, of course.\nAndrew, who lives in America, describes Thabo Mbeki as an \u201cold freedom fighter\u201d who at the same time is also a \u201cblack English Lord\u201d\nJohan, a teacher, who has lived in Bedfordshire since 2002, admires Free State President MT Steyn\u2019s wisdom, daring and drive.\nThe same President Marthinus Theunis Steyn believed that you should take the best from the past and apply it to the future.\nDo we celebrate or resent these leaders? All of them? Or simply try to ignore them?\nWrite to Pieter at de_langepieter@hotmail.com\nWho do you see as the heroes who made a difference? Why? A \u201cstatesman\u201d can be male or female and not necessarily a politician. Name your three top South African statesmen in terms of leadership qualities and explain your choices. Email editor@thesouthafrican.co.uk, or leave your comment below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 7885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesouthafrican.com/un-praises-zim-documentation-process/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FUTHWC3OT7O5ODSHH2ZSFIKKHDPU4D7U", "length": 2005, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thesouthafrican.com", "title": "UN praises Zim documentation process", "raw_content": "UN praises Zim documentation process\nThe South African government's decision to document Zimbabweans living in the country has been praised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Gutteres\nGutteres, speaking at the 61st Session of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Executive Committee meeting in Switzerland, said refugees had found protection and support in South Africa. He said it was key for the international community to be able to help people that live in vulnerable situations.\n\"I want to express my deepest appreciation for the migration and asylum policy of South Africa. South Africa, has always had, since the end of apartheid, an extremely open policy in relation to migration and in relation to asylum\" said Gutteres\nHe described the policy of regularisation of the Zimbabweans living in South Africa as generous.\n\"[It] has contributed in a very important way not only to alleviate their plight but to create conditions for stability to be re-established in Zimbabwe,\" concluded Gutteres.\nThe High Commissioner was responding to South Africa\u2019s Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma\u2019s report to the Executive Committee meeting.\nMinister Dlamini Zuma on Monday outlined to the UNHCR efforts by government to review its migration policy, with a view to separating economic migrants from genuine asylum seekers.\nCabinet decided in August to end a special dispensation policy which allowed Zimbabweans to stay in the country without a legal resident\u2019s permit. The decision was taken following agreement between Dlamini Zuma and her Zimbabwean counterparts.\nGovernment granted amnesty to Zimbabweans who obtained South African identification documents fraudulently, on condition that such documents are returned to the Home Affairs Department immediately.\nThe deadline for the special dispensation is 31 December. After that, all those nationals who are unregistered will be deported.\nRead SA schools receive 120m from EU and EU ready to review Zim sanctions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 5251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesportster.com/football/dynamic-duo-15-shocking-things-you-didnt-know-about-dak-prescott-and-ezekiel-elliott/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BW2TFYAQDKC53UN5SJCU4QZLTEPMVS6Y", "length": 14075, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.thesportster.com", "title": "Dynamic Duo: 15 Shocking Things You Didn't Know About Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott", "raw_content": "Dynamic Duo: 15 Shocking Things You Didn't Know About Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott\nby Joseph Thiel\nOver recent years, it has been safe to say that the Dallas Cowboys have not been acting like \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team\u201d. Since 2000, the Cowboys have posted a record of 141-131 and have missed the postseason eleven out of the last sixteen years. Since 2006, Tony Romo has been the quarterback for the team most kids dream of playing for growing up. However, after hurting his back during the 2016-2017 preseason, the team was forced to go with rookie quarterback Dak Prescott. Prescott was a three year starter for Mississippi State and was taken in the 4th round of the draft by the Cowboys. He led the Cowboys to a 13-3 record which was 1st in the NFC, and even won Rookie of the Year.\nAlong with Prescott, rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott was the talk of the league during the 2016-2017 campaign. The fourth overall pick in the draft out of Ohio State led the NFL in rushing with 1,631 yards and 15 rushing touchdowns. He was even a close competitor in the NFL MVP race, falling short to Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons. It is hard to deny the promising future that these two players have gifted the city of Dallas. They very well might lead their team back to the believable title of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team\u201d. However, the average fan might not be familiar with them outside of their statistics from last season.\nHere are 15 things you didn't know about Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott:\n15 Dak Prescott - Wears the Number 4 To Honor His Mother\nMatthew Emmons - USA TODAY Sports\nPeggy Prescott was born September 4th, 1961 and gave birth to three children including Dak. She raised all the children on her own as a single mother in a trailer after her divorce from Dak\u2019s father Nathaniel Prescott. In November of 2013, she passed away after a long battle with colon cancer which left her children heartbroken. To honor his late mother, Dak wore the number four on his chest through his time at Mississippi State and kept it after being drafted by the Cowboys.\nHe knew how much his mother wanted to see him play professional football, so he made it known that he dedicated his rookie season to her. It is hard to feel nothing but compassion for a guy who honors his mother when he steps out onto the football field.\n14 Ezekiel Elliott - Won Four State Championships for Track and Field in High School\nLong before he led the NFL in rushing yards, Ezekiel Elliott was a standout runner for John Burroughs High School in Ladue, Missouri. Luckily for Elliott, his parents were superb athletes in college. His mother, Dawn Huff, being a track and field star and his father, Stacy Elliott, a linebacker for the University of Missouri. As a senior, he qualified for states in sprinting and hurdling and ended up winning the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 110 high hurdles, and 300 meter hurdles. Following his personal best performance, he was named Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year in Missouri. Even though he decided to focus his attention on football, we now know where his 4.47 run in the 40-yard dash at the NFL combine comes from.\n13 Dak Prescott - He Is One of Three Quarterbacks Taken by the Cowboys Since 1992\nvia NBCDFW.com\nBesides taking Troy Aikman with the first pick of the 1989 NFL draft, the Cowboys have stayed away from drafting quarterbacks while other teams have taken two quarterbacks in one draft. The Cowboys selected quarterback Quincy Carter out of Georgia University with the 53rd pick of the 2001 draft. His career was short-lived playing only in 38 games and throwing 32 touchdowns to 37 interceptions. He was out of the league by 2004.\nIn the 2009 draft with the 101st pick, the Cowboys selected quarterback Stephen McGee out of Texas A&M University. Unfortunately for McGee, Tony Romo was in the prime of his career leaving no playing time to any other quarterback. He appeared in only 3 games in his career and was out of the league by 2011.\nIn the 4th round of the 2016 draft, the Cowboys took Dak Prescott out of Mississippi State. In just one season with the team, it looks as if he has already surpassed both of those other quarterbacks with his immediate success.\n12 Ezekiel Elliott - Did Not Follow in His Parents Footsteps\nIf given the opportunity, many kids would choose to attend the school where their parents went. Even offensive tackle Michael Oher attended the University of Mississippi because his parents went there. However, Ezekiel Elliott decided to create his own path instead of living in the shadow of his parents. He was recruited by 24 division I schools including Missouri and was ranked the 12th best running back in the country coming out of high school. During National Signing Day, he chose to play college football for Ohio State University instead of his parents' alma mater.\nEven if it may have upset his parents, he went on to have an illustrious career at Ohio State during his three years at the university. He finished with 3,961 career rushing yards and 43 rushing touchdowns.\n11 Dak Prescott - He was the MVP of the Senior Bowl\nSenior Chuck Cook - USA TODAY Sports\nDuring his senior year at Mississippi State, Prescott threw for 3,793 yards and 29 touchdowns while running for 588 yards and 10 touchdowns. This lead to him being invited to the 2016 Senior Bowl. During the game, he completed 7 of 10 passes for 61 yards and a touchdown. The strangest part of this story is that the Cowboys coaching staff coached Dak throughout the week of the Senior Bowl. The Cowboys were impressed with his intelligence on and off the football field and knew then that he would be a great fit for their football team. Not many teams were given the opportunity the Cowboys were when learning Prescott. If the Cowboys hadn\u2019t spent so much time with him that week, who knows if they would have drafted him.\n10 Ezekiel Elliott - His Dog Has His Own Instagram Account\nA post shared by Ace (@theaceelliott) on Mar 24, 2016 at 9:39am PDT\nEzekiel Elliott owns two dogs named Ace and Chase and both have their own unique story. Ace has his own Instagram with twelve pictures of himself with some featuring Chase. His pictures receive thousands of likes and has an astonishing amount of followers with over 51,000. However, former Ohio State teammate, Mike Weber admitted that Ace frightens him. How could a football player be afraid of an adorable dog with its own Instagram?\nAlthough Chase appears in some of Ace\u2019s Instagram posts, he does not have his own account. In September of 2015, someone cut a hole into Elliott\u2019s fence and stole Chase from his yard. After a few days of searching and posting flyers around the neighborhood, Chase was returned home safely to Elliott by the police.\n9 Dak Prescott - He Skipped a Kanye West Concert To Prepare for a Game\nThere was a time when the Cowboy fan base wanted the team to draft Johnny Manziel and I can promise that he would not have skipped a Yeezy concert to prepare for a game. Some guys just want to achieve their football dreams a bit more than others and Dak Prescott is one of those guys. At the end of August 2016, one of the companies Prescott endorses sent him tickets to a Kanye West concert. Instead of going out to the concert, he gave them to a friend and stayed home to make sure he got enough sleep before the game. Little things like these were indicators that Prescott was mature enough to handle one of the toughest jobs in sports. Hopefully his friend thanked for what was sure to be a great show.\n8 Ezekiel Elliott - He Danced At Halftime of an Ohio State Wisconsin Basketball Game\nOn March 8th, 2015, the Ohio State basketball team took on the Wisconsin Badgers. The Badgers ran the Buckeyes off the court with a score of 72-48, but the real show was at halftime of the game. The school\u2019s cheerleaders started out what seemed to be a normal dance routine to hype the crowd when suddenly nine players from the football team, including Ezekiel Elliott joined them on the floor. The routine itself lasted about two minutes and wasn\u2019t too bad considering the football players were not nearly as talented dancers as the cheerleaders. All team members wore their football jerseys underneath black jackets except for Elliott who had to sport his normal crop-top jersey. Maybe someday we will see him put on a show with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.\n7 Dak Prescott - He Also Loves dogs\nLike Elliott, Dak Prescott owned two dogs who were very close to his heart and their names were Legend and Tibeaux. Prescott named him Tibeaux to honor one of his role models growing up, Tim Tebow. Prescott eventually gave Tibeaux away to a family friend, but still visits him whenever he can. Legend is Prescott\u2019s other dog that he still has today. You can often see him on Prescott\u2019s Instagram account showing him affection. Before his rookie season got started, Prescott had to get his Pit Bull house trained since he wouldn\u2019t be home very often in the coming months. Prescott took to Instagram to announce how much he missed his dog while it was away being trained. We can only hope that the two of them have been reunited since.\n6 Ezekiel Elliott - He is a St. Louis Blues Fan\n\u2014 Ezekiel Elliott (@EzekielElliott) May 12, 2016\nBeing a native of St. Louis, most people would say Ezekiel Elliott has every right to root for his hometown team, but that was not the case with many Dallas Cowboy fans. A few weeks after being drafted 4th overall in the 2016 NFL draft by the Cowboys, the St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars took to the ice for game 7 of the Western Conference semifinal in the NHL Playoffs. The Blues crushed the Stars with a final score of 6-1, but it seemed Elliott took more heat than the Dallas hockey team itself.\nElliott tweeted his support for the Blues which upset many people of Cowboy nation. After the rookie season he had, I\u2019m sure they have forgotten all about it but it still seemsg a bit unfair to hackle a guy rooting for his hometown team.\n5 Dak Prescott - His real name is Rayne Dakota Prescott\nvia ClarionLedger.com\nAlthough most people who follow sports think the Cowboys starting quarterback\u2019s name is Dak Prescott, the truth is that Dakota is his middle name which he has adopted as his first name. When asked about his name change, Dak said he did not like the name since he was little and would often get picked on as a kid in school for Rayne sounding like a girl's name. However, he did indicate that he has grown into liking the name as he\u2019s gotten older and has not ruled out changing his name to Rayne Dakota someday. Only people close to him call him by his actual name, but it does not seem likely the Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback will have another name change any time in the near future.\n4 Ezekiel Elliott - He Ripped His College Coaches After Losing To Michigan\nvia 10TV.com\nIf it had not been for the 17-14 loss to Michigan State in Ezekiel Elliott\u2019s final season at Ohio State, the Buckeyes may have been able to compete for back-to-back national titles. Elliott rushed a mere 12 times for 33 yards, which was the lowest amount in any game that season by far. It was also the only game that season where Elliott did not surpass the century mark in rushing yards. Elliott said after the game how disappointed he was in the play calling and believed he should have seen the ball much more.\nThe message was heard loud and clear because the following week Elliott had 214 rushing yards and Ohio State beat their longtime rival Michigan by a score of 42-13.\n3 Dak Prescott - He Holds 38 Records At Mississippi State\nNelson Chenault - USA TODAY Sports\nMany people will never realize the legacy that Dak Prescott left at his alma mater of Mississippi State. He owns 15 single season records, 15 career records, and 8 single game records. Basically, any quarterback statistic that you think he might have, he probably does. During his 2014 season, he even led Mississippi State to its first ever number one ranking and capped the season off with an appearance in the Capital One Orange Bowl.\nWith the amount of collegiate success Prescott has had, he will most likely go down as the best quarterback to ever play for Mississippi State. Although he never won the big game for them, no quarterback was ever more electrifying to watch for Mississippi State than Dak Prescott. We might even one day see a statue outside their stadium rectifying his sensational career.\n2 Ezekiel Elliott - He is One of Eight Running Backs Selected in the 1st Round for the Cowboys\nUnlike the quarterback position, the Dallas Cowboys have always kept running backs high on their draft radar. Ezekiel Elliott joins the company of Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett and Emmitt Smith to be drafted in the first round of the draft and is the first running back they\u2019ve taken in the first round since drafting Felix Jones as the 22nd overall in the 2008 draft. Although many football fans hardly remember the careers of Julius Jones and Felix Jones, people may have a difficult time forgetting Ezekiel Elliott after he calls it a career. Elliott is one of a handful of running backs to lead the league in rushing as a rookie. If he can keep up with everyone\u2019s high expectations, we may see him go down as one of the best running backs to ever play for the Dallas Cowboys.\n1 Dak Prescott - He Was Arrested for a DUI\nAlthough Prescott has been the savior for the Dallas Cowboy franchise, he had a bit of a troubled past before getting drafted. Prescott was arrested for driving 41 mph in a 25 mph zone and could not pass a breathalyzer test after being pulled over. Prescott admitted to having one beer to the police that night. After he appeared in court, all charges were acquitted due to an invalid breathalyzer test.\nUnfortunately for Dak, this may have been a factor in why he was passed on by so many teams in the 2016 NFL Draft. Even though that one blemish led to a steep fall in the draft, Dak must be happy landing with his late mother\u2019s favorite team growing up. He now has the rest of his career to show the rest of the league why they shouldn\u2019t have passed on him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 16459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesportster.com/hockey/projecting-the-future-of-these-15-nhl-goalies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KNAMPFPCCKZ7WSF6AGRV57ZKIMTWBJSO", "length": 14667, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "www.thesportster.com", "title": "Projecting The Future Of These 15 NHL Goalies | TheSportster", "raw_content": "Projecting The Future Of These 15 NHL Goalies\nIn my 15 years of following the NHL, there has never been such an unpredictable future when it comes to the goalie position.\nWhen I was just a child, Roberto Luongo, Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek, Jose Theodore and Ed Belfour were a handful of the very few legitimate superstar goaltenders. It seemed like the Vancouver Canucks had just won the Stanley Cup when they traded for Luongo in 2006, since they were one of the very rare NHL teams that could say they had a superstar in net.\nBut over the years, the goalie position has evolved. In any given season, at least 23 of the 30 teams can say they have a reliable and proven number one goalie. Even a few teams can say they have two capable number one netminders.\nWith that, there are a large number of goalies who face uncertain futures. Here's a look at what it holds for some of them\n15 Peter Budaj: Retirement in 2019\nPeter Budaj has spent his 11-year NHL career primarily as a backup, but spent almost all of 2015-16 in the minors. A lower body injury to Jonathan Quick (that will keep him out until March), forced the Los Angeles Kings into bringing up Budaj from the AHL. He was expected to be Jeff Zatkoff's backup, but Budaj has actually performed like a true number one goalie.\nThis season, Budaj is 18-11-3 with a 2.13 goals against average, .916 save percentage and four shutouts. But Budaj is 34 years of age, and when Quick returns, his days of being an NHL starter will be all but over. Before the 2019 season begins, Budaj will be 36 years of age. Expect Budaj to announce his retirement after what will have been a solid 12 years in the NHL.\n14 Jaroslav Halak: To the KHL in 2018\nThe former Montreal Canadiens playoff hero spent three years with the St. Louis Blues as a legitimate number one goalie. He was then traded to the Washington Capitals during the 2013-14 season, and then found new life as another standout number one netminder when he joined the New York Islanders in 2014-15.\nUnfortunately for Jaroslav Halak, this appears to be the end of the line for him. The Islanders placed him on waivers then demoted him to the AHL after he went unclaimed. Halak has a mere 6-8-5 record with an awful 3.23 goals against average and .904 save percentage. This is now Thomas Greiss' team.\nIt's been a nice run for Halak, who nearly guided the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup Final all by himself in 2010. But with most NHL teams already locked and loaded in the crease, Halak's best bet will be to play overseas in the KHL.\n13 Philipp Grubauer: Traded to Winnipeg Jets\nIn case you didn't know, the Winnipeg Jets have arguably the NHL's brightest future and are stockpiled with so much young talent. But Paul Maurice's worn-out system, a leaky defence and horrendously terrible goaltending have held the Jets back from being a playoff contender in 2016-17.\nThe promising Connor Hellebuyck is far from ready to be a legitimate number one, and backup Michael Hutchinson is never going to be a starter. Philipp Grubauer has been a nice backup for Braden Holtby in Washington. He's 7-1-1 with a ridiculous 1.94 goals against average and .929 save percentage.\nFor obvious reasons, the Capitals are going to stick with Holtby as their long-term number one. The Jets likely won't chase expensive goalies on the wrong side of 30 like Ben Bishop or Marc-Andre Fleury, but Grubauer (25) is younger and won't be as expensive. Look for the Jets to offer up a pair of draft picks to nab the Capitals goaltender this offseason.\n12 Cam Ward: Retirement in 2021\nCam Ward appeared to be on the path of greatness in 2006. The rookie netminder led the Carolina Hurricanes to their first-ever Stanley Cup championship and he took home the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. But the Hurricanes have made the playoffs once since their championship season, and Ward hasn't been a legitimate number one goalie for years.\nHe hasn't had a 30-win season since 2011-12. His save percentage in 2016-17 (.915, which isn't that great), is his best in five years. The Hurricanes are starting to show some promise with their stock of young defencemen plus Victor Rask and Jeff Skinner at forward. But Ward is not the long-term solution to turn this team back into a Stanley Cup contender.\nThe Hurricanes will likely let him play out his contract, but Ward will retire in 2021 when he's 37 years old, while the team will be with a younger and better number one by then.\n11 Kari Lehtonen: Europe in 2018\nKari Lehtonen was once a bonafide number one goalie for the Atlanta Thrashers and Dallas Stars. Though it's not entirely Lehtonen's fault, GM Jim Nill has ignored the defensive position and it's been impossible for the former to play like a number one. His contract is up next year, and there's no doubting the Stars will have other options by then.\nLehtonen will be 34 when he hits the market next season, and it's tough to see him finding a starting gig in the NHL. His best (and probably only option), will be to head overseas to Europe, where he'll undoubtedly find a chance to be the starter. Perhaps he could play in his home country of Finland, but there are many more choices in Europe than in the NHL these days. He's still capable of starting somewhere, but it's no longer going to be in the NHL - as his 2.90 goals against average and .897 save percentage will tell you.\n10 Scott Darling: Signs with Philadelphia Flyers\nIn this third season with the Chicago Blackhawks, Scott Darling has proven that he's more than capable of being a legitimate number one goalie. But it's impossible to see a logical scenario where the Hawks decide to move on from two-time Stanley Cup champion Corey Crawford. It's his team and they have no reason to turn to Darling.\nBack in December, Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times noted that Darling (now 28), can't keep waiting around for his chance to be the number one goalie in Chicago. Though Darling's stated his desire to say, Lazerus brings up how another team will likely offer the pending UFA more money and a chance to start elsewhere.\nThe Philadelphia Flyers haven't had a legitimate number one goalie since Martin Biron some seasons ago. With Steve Mason set to be a free agent, look for GM Ron Hextall to open up his wallet and pay Darling to be their new franchise netminder.\n9 Steve Mason: Signs with New York Islanders\nSpeaking of Steve Mason...\nDespite having rather lackluster blueliners in front of him, Mason has done his part in saving the Flyers from misery. Mason helped them reach the playoffs in 2014 and 2016 after the team looked out of it for the first couple of months in both seasons But make no mistake - his stats are not that great, and the Flyers would be on the same level as Pittsburgh and Washington if they could get a real starter.\nMason is just 14-14-6 with a 2.80 goals against average and .903 save percentage this season. The Flyers would be better off going with Scott Darling, and Mason won't have the desire to return as a backup.\nBut the New York Islanders will need someone to battle with Thomas Greiss for the starting job, and Mason is a solid option. If they sign him for two-three years, it gives them some insurance in net and Mason a chance to continue his number one goalie days.\n8 Ryan Miller: Traded, Signs Elsewhere, retirement in 2018\nSo this is a little complex, but basically Ryan Miller is likely to bounce around more than I did any time I entered a blow up castle. That's a lot of bouncing, by the way.\nMiller is a pending UFA, and the Vancouver Canucks would be wise to trade him at the trade deadline. Rumors have him linked to the Dallas Stars, and he'd be an upgrade over the mediocre tandem of Kari Lehtonen and Antti Niemi. The Stars should take a chance on Miller, who could fetch the Canucks a first-round pick.\nThen in the offseason, someone will sign him to a one-year deal as a backup. The Pittsburgh Penguins make sense as they're bound to lose Marc-Andre Fleury at some point, and they give Miller his best chance at winning a Stanley Cup.\nBut Miller has already shown his age, and he's not going to get much better. Look for him to hang up his pads for good after the 2017-18 season.\n7 Antti Niemi: Heads to KHL in 2018\nSome people forget that he backstopped the Chicago Blackhawks to their first Stanley Cup in 49 years seven seasons ago. Antti Niemi then spent five solid seasons with the San Jose Sharks, but they chose to roll with Martin Jones as their future netminder, leaving the Stars to pickup Niemi.\nHe's been a major disappointment in Big D. His .905 save percentage and 2.67 goals against average in 2015-16 were the worst Niemi posted as a regular starter. His GAA this season is at 2.88, and he only has a .910 save percentage. That is pretty bad to be quite honest with you.\nSo with that, it doesn't make sense for many to take a look at the man who'll be a 34-year-old free agent in 2018. Niemi, a native of Finland, may feel the desire to return to his home country/continent. That'll give Niemi his best chance to be a regular starter.\n6 Craig Anderson: Retirement in 2018\nIt's been a unique journey for Craig Anderson, who went from career second/third stringer to a Vezina-caliber netminder for the Colorado Avalanche in 2009-10. He's since been the Ottawa Senators' number one goalie, and was crucial in getting them to the postseason in 2012, 2013 and 2015.\nThe thing is, Anderson will turn 36 years old in May, and as many are aware of, he's missed large portion of this season to support his wife Nicholle, who is fighting cancer right now. Anderson looks like he could play for another few years, but there's a good chance he decides to walk away from the game before long. Next season will likely be his last as he dedicates his time to family. The Senators could also offer Anderson a front office role should he decide to retire.\nEither way, it's been a great ride from Anderson, but he'll do the right thing and choose family over hockey.\n5 Brian Elliott: Signs with Buffalo Sabres\nAfter Brian Elliott posted five incredible seasons with the St. Louis Blues that saw them reach the playoffs in each of those seasons, the team rolled with Jake Allen as their starter for the future. St. Louis traded the former to the Calgary Flames for a second-round pick at last year's June Entry Draft.\nElliott's tenure with Calgary has been lackluster at best. He's 8-10-1 with an awful 2.95 goals against average and .889 save percentage. The pending UFA doesn't make much sense for the Flames' long-term plans, as backup Chad Johnson has outplayed Elliot by miles.\nWith that, the Buffalo Sabres could turn to Elliott and have him push Anders Nilsson and Robin Lehner for the starting role next season. Elliott's not going to get a mega contract, but the Sabres will probably overpay the veteran to give them a stable puck stopper. Look for them to pay him $10 million over two years.\n4 Roberto Luongo: Retires in 2019\nRoberto Luongo has done more than enough to lock up a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame. The two-time Olympic gold medalist recently passed Terry Sawchuk for fifth place in career wins, and he'll likely finish in the top-10 in career shutouts.\nThat being said, the soon-to-be 38 year old is finally showing his age. After posting a respectable 2.35 goals against average in each of the last two seasons, Luongo's has moved up to 2.39. He's just 12-10-5 this season after going 35-19-6 a year ago.\nThe Panthers have Luongo under contract until 2021-22, so he basically gets to keep playing until he hasn't had anymore. We haven't seen many goalies play well into their 40s over the past two decades, and it's hard to see Luongo being an exception. With a family to raise in Florida, look for 'Bobby Lou' to hang up his skates and pads in two years from now.\n3 Henrik Lundqvist: Retires in 2021\nDanny Wild-USA TODAY Sports\nHenrik Lundqvist has been far-and-away the NHL's best goalie since he bursted onto the scene as a rookie in 2005-06. He's posted 30 wins every year except the 48-game 2012-13 regular season. It's easy to believe he'll post 30-plus once again this year.\nThat being said, the stats don't lie in the fact that Lundqvist is slowly succumbing to father time. His current 2.55 goals against average is the worst of his NHL career, and the 2.48 he posted last season was far-and-away the worst of King Henrik's career. His .912 save percentage so far in 2016-17 is tied for the worst of his career. Backup Antti Raanta has actually outplayed him with a 10-4-0 record, 2.28 goals against average and .921 save percentage with two shutouts.\nLundqvist is still a top-10 netminder, but in two years from now, he'll likely be a backup. Two years after that? Retirement awaits for the greatest goalie in New York Rangers history. He'll be 39 years old by then, and it's difficult to see his wearing-down body playing past that.\n2 Ben Bishop: Signs with Calgary Flames\nIt's been obvious for almost two years now that Ben Bishop will not be a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning after he becomes a free agent this summer. They have a younger option in Andrei Vasilevskiy, who has done more than enough to show he's a legitimate franchise goalie to build around.\nBen Bishop was close to being dealt to the Flames at last year's draft, but he reportedly wasn't able to come to an agreement on an extension with the team. That being said, the Flames are in the playoff hunt with career backup Chad Johnson leading the way. Imagine them if they can land Bishop.\nA true number one is the last weakness on this Flames team. Bishop will want money and a chance to win championships. All of the contenders have number ones, and rebuilding teams tend to stay away from hefty contracts for goalies. Look for the Flames to sign Bishop for around $30 million over five years.\n1 Marc-Andre Fleury: Traded to Dallas Stars\nMarc-Andre Fleury will forever be an icon to the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise, but the team has a better, younger and cheaper option with Matt Murray, who guided the team to a 2016 Stanley Cup championship.\nFleury is still a number one goalie, but the Penguins have will be forced to lose either Fleury or Murray in the Las Vegas Expansion Draft. There's no doubting they'll do everything they can to protect Murray, so that leaves Flower the odd man out.\nHe's been linked to the Dallas Stars, who won't be a Cup contender until they solve their goaltending woes. There have been rumors about the Stars trading for Fleury while sending Lehtonen or Niemi back to the Penguins in a package deal. The Stars are easily the best option and fit for Fleury, and they'll do whatever it takes to bring him on board.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 17353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2018/03/14/ex-coach-house-poetry-editor-sees-vendetta-in-accusations.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:XV5CAUXCEZFYI67TGQOSQN4XZGQPIPMP", "length": 7079, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.thestar.com", "title": "Ex-Coach House poetry editor sees \u2018vendetta\u2019 in accusations | The Star", "raw_content": "Ex-Coach House poetry editor sees \u2018vendetta\u2019 in accusations\nNote - April 27, 2018: This article is subject to legal complaint by Jeramy Dodds.\nTwo months after Toronto\u2019s Coach House Press put its prestigious poetry program on hiatus, one of the former board members, Jeramy Dodds, has published a statement on his website saying he was being targeted by a group of people \u201cwith a personal sense of vendetta.\u201d He has talked about the incident with the Star.\nJeramy Dodds poses for a photograph in 2009. (Darren Calabrese / For the Toronto Star)\nAt the time, in mid-January, Coach House editorial director Alana Wilcox said the program was being put on hiatus because \u201cPoetry is changing, and the way people read is changing.\n\u201cWe live in a Twitter world now \u2014 what does that mean for poetry?\u201d she added.\nDodds now says in the statement that in January a group calling itself the CanLit Janitors Collective sent an email to Coach House asking that he be removed from the poetry board \u201cdue to sexual misconduct and abuse of power.\u201d\nHe had remained silent about the incident until a few days ago when he posted a statement on his website; he has since spoken to the Star at length from London, England, where he is doing research and accompanying his fianc\u00e9e, who is pursuing post-doctoral studies.\nDodds says that he has been quiet until now because \u201cI had to take some time to look over everything and see what I wanted to do \u2026 I wanted to make sure I\u2019d done my research.\u201d\nIn the wide-ranging four-page statement, the former Coach House poetry editor wonders whether the CanLit Janitors are \u201cdriven by a more personal sense of vendetta.\u201d\nHe also said he wanted to give some \u201ccontext\u201d to his reputation within the poetry community. His statement referred to a relationship that ended six years ago \u2014 before he became an editor at Coach House \u2014 and an incident in which he mailed his ex-girlfriend \u201ca taxidermy chicken, which I packed in a box and wrapped in used target silhouettes.\u201d That is, he wrapped them in used papers from gun target practice. He says that it was inspired by their shared \u201cmacabre sense of humour about gun culture.\u201d\nWhile Dodds doesn\u2019t name the woman, she is Robin Richardson, a poet and the editor of the Minola Review. Richardson confirmed to The Star that she got the chicken package but said \u201cwe never talked about gun culture. Not once that I can recall.\u201d\nShe also says that \u201cafter I broke up with him, he continued to call, and email and pursue me to get back together with him. I was surprised and frightened when he sent the chicken with the bullet-riddled targets.\u201d\nWhen asked why he talks about this relationship in his post, Dodds makes a connection between Richardson and the CanLit Janitors group. When asked why he thinks the group might be \u201cdriven by a sense of personal vendetta,\u201d he told the Star that \u201cover the years I\u2019ve been subject to online harassment and from what I can tell it was a small group of exes that are colluding and talking to each other.\u201d\nThe Star: \u201cHow many exes?\u201d\nDodds: \u201cI\u2019m not sure. I don\u2019t really want to go into that because I want to be careful.\u201d\nThe Star: \u201cWhy would you think a group of exes are colluding?\u201d\nDodds: \u201cBecause of wanting to pursue this at some point perhaps legally, or maybe having to, I can\u2019t really divulge the evidence I have for that.\u201d\nA question or two later the Star asks: \u201cThis sort of makes a connection between what happened before and what is happening now. Is that right? You want to make that connection?\u201d\nDodds: \u201cI think there is a connection.\u201d\nThe Star: \u201cI spoke briefly to Robin, who is the person you are speaking about here, I assume.\u201d\nDodds: \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d\nRichardson told the Star she is not in any way involved in the CanLit Janitors Collective and does not know who is. She says that the incident with the targets happened six years ago and that she has no involvement in any of the recent accusations or harassment Dodds complains of.\nThe Star has spoken with three women who dated Dodds, all of whom said there were inaccuracies in his post, but who said they were fearful of speaking out publicly and so would not go on the record.\nA day after speaking with the Star, Dodds sent an email to a group of women, including this reporter, whose names did not appear anywhere in the email. He says he has a \u201ctheory\u201d that the CanLit Janitors may be one person speaking on their behalf.\n\u201cIf I have behaved badly in the past, it is not in the manner the Janitors allege,\u201d Dodds writes in the email. \u201cI have tried to atone for this behaviour with the majority of you, and some of us have reached some understanding. I have not committed any behaviour that requires me to lose my livelihood and love.\u201d\nHe then urges them to come forward to either this reporter or to Coach House. \u201cIf any of you are in contact with the Janitors and/or feel the allegations are accurate, I hope that you will consider coming forward, if only to protect the others among you who have been implicated in the letter without their consent.\u201d\nThe Star has obtained a copy of the CanLit Janitors Collective\u2019s email, though the Star does not know who is behind the anonymous group. The email says the group is \u201cconcerned with failures of individuals and institutions in the community at large and how those failures perpetuate cycles of abuse.\u201d\nThere were no names and no specific accusations in the email. Rather, it alleges \u201cabusive and manipulative behaviour\u201d that it says includes \u201cusing intimidation tactics with the threat of defamation lawsuits to women who had voiced their concerns about Dodds\u2019 behaviour to others, using threatening and abusive language towards women who refused to accept his advances, exhibiting behaviour consistent with stalking and criminal harassment,\u201d among other things.\nDodds says that he has sent a cease-and-desist letter once, to an organization asking it not to talk about the current situation with the CanLit Janitors, but says he has never sent such a letter to anyone talking about dating, relationships, etc.\nSoon after putting the poetry program on hiatus, Coach House posted a harassment policy on its website.\nDodds wants women to come forward with a formal accusation so that an investigation can be held.\n\u201cThe best I can ask for is that people come forward in a safe manner to Coach House or to a place where they need (to) and make a formal accusation so I can answer,\u201d Dodds said when speaking with the Star. \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything wrong. I\u2019m fully ready to be completely open and I have been thus far.\u201d\nCoach House still has six poetry titles planned for publication this year and another six for 2019.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve thought long and hard about how we might conduct such an investigation,\u201d Wilcox said this week. \u201cThe anonymous complainants have chosen not to reveal their identities, and we think it would be disrespectful to force them to do so. Without that information, we can\u2019t imagine how it would be possible to investigate, and so we\u2019ve decided not to. As ever, we would be grateful if anyone with information who wishes to share it with us would do so.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 9619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5927814/tobias-menzies-prince-philip-netflix-the-crown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:VN55YQ6M5RVDVSHCLJ6HGI5XZ5ZRSSEG", "length": 2451, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", "title": "Tobias Menzies to play Prince Philip in next series of Netflix\u2019s The Crown as Paul Bettany quits", "raw_content": "Tobias Menzies to play Prince Philip in next series of Netflix\u2019s The Crown as Paul Bettany quits\nThe former Game Of Thrones actor will take over the role from Matt Smith for season three\nTOBIAS Menzies is set to play Prince Philip in the next series of The Crown when the show jumps forward in time, Netflix has announced.\nThe former Game Of Thrones actor will take over the role from Matt Smith for season three after Paul Bettany ruled himself out of the running.\nTobias Menzies has been confirmed for the role of Prince Philip in the next series of The Crown\nLondon-born Menzies, 44, played Edmure Tully in GoT and is also known for his Golden Globe-nominated performance in Outlander.\nThe 44-year-old has signed on for the next two seasons and begins shooting this summer in the UK, Deadline Hollywood reported.\nHis most recent role is another regal casting - he's just wrapped King Lear in which he played the Duke of Cornwall alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.\nHe'll star alongside Olivia Colman, who was previously named as the replacement for Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series.\nHe'll play Prince Philip as the Netflix series jumps forward a couple of decades to the Sixties and Seventies\nPaul Bettany ruled himself out of the role owing to scheduling reasons, it's reported\nThe award-winning Broadchurch actress, 43, will play the monarch as she ages into her 40s - after Claire portrayed her through her coronation and early years of marriage to Prince Philip, played by Matt Smith.\nPaul was the previous front-runner to take on the role as the Queen's husband following success in the role of Jarvis and later Vision in Marvel's Avengers\nHe was tipped for the position thanks to strong links with Netflix after his critically acclaimed performance as another historical figure, Ted Kaczynski, in their original series Manhunt: Unabomber.\nClaire Foy and Matt Smith previously played the roles of a young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip\nBut he is said to have ruled himself out due to scheduling conflicts, it was reported.\nThe announcement came after the series suffered a bout of bad publicity over its gender pay gap when it was revealed Smith was paid more than Foy, who won a Golden Globe for her performance.\nProduction company Left Bank Pictures apologised to both stars and said they were not aware of how much each were being paid.\nThe cast of The Crown talk about season two of the hit Netflix series", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/world-cup-2018/6737409/dele-alli-england-midfielder-superstitions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:55Z", "digest": "sha1:KHBJKO7QOVLONUGZRXVQKH65ZYRMQJNJ", "length": 1307, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", "title": "World Cup 2018: Dele Alli reveals list of superstitions - including eight-minute ice bath and wearing tape he doesn't need", "raw_content": "NOT KNEEDED\nWorld Cup 2018: Dele Alli reveals list of superstitions \u2013 including eight-minute ice bath and wearing tape he doesn\u2019t need\nEngland midfielder admitted his superstitions are getting out of control\nDELE ALLI admits his long list of superstitions are getting \u2018out of control\u2019.\nThe England midfielder revealed he wears tape on his leg which he doesn\u2019t need, just so that he doesn\u2019t bring himself bad luck.\nDele Alli reveals he doesn't need the tape he wears on his knee\nDele said: \u201cYeah I have a lot of superstitions. There are so many.\n\u201cI do all my right leg first, then all my left leg.\n\"I have an eight-minute ice-bath the night before. I don\u2019t know why, it\u2019s just a superstition.\n\"Then I always say a prayer, the same prayer, before.\n\"Now you might\u2019ve noticed there\u2019s tape on my knee.\n\"That\u2019s a superstition as well. I don\u2019t like taking it off.\n\u201cI took it off for the first game (against Tunisia) - this is a bit of a silly superstition - but that was the first game in ages I haven\u2019t had it on, and I got injured, so I\u2019m going to be keeping it on again.\n\u201cYeah it is getting out of control. It\u2019s a bit crazy.\u201d\nDele Alli also takes an eight-minute ice bath the night before games\nKyle Walker, John Stones, Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard celebrate Sweden win with tribute dance to class of Italia \u201990", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetruthaboutinsurance.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-usage-based-car-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:W42SZZSS4R6SSHP5JHMEC5D2NNLRMHHA", "length": 4249, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.thetruthaboutinsurance.com", "title": "The Pros and Cons of Usage Based Car Insurance | The Truth About Insurance.com", "raw_content": "The Pros and Cons of Usage Based Car Insurance\nIf you haven\u2019t already heard, so-called \u201cusage-based insurance\u201d is quickly becoming one of the most talked about (and controversial) technologies in the world of car insurance.\nThe frontrunner in this relatively new field is Progressive\u2019s Snapshot, which is a small device drivers voluntarily install in their vehicles that tracks their driving habits.\nIdeally, safe drivers who use this form of \u201ctelematics\u201d will be rewarded with lower insurance premiums, though it can obviously go both ways if you\u2019re a little too heavy on the pedal.\nSoon, there may even be applications to determine if a driver is texting while behind the wheel, or driving while under the influence.\nWhile all of this sounds good, there will always be unintended consequences, as pointed out in new research by consulting firm Deloitte.\nA \u2018Disruptive Technology\u2019\nThe authors note that telematics is a \u201cdisruptive technology\u201d that could seriously shake up the insurance market.\nAt first glance, it sounds simple. Drivers install a small device in their car that tracks things like speeding, cornering, braking, miles driven, and then reports back to the mothership.\nOnce the data is digested, the insurance company adjusts the premium accordingly.\nInsurance companies win because their customers get in fewer automobile accidents, thus lowering the cost of paying out insurance claims, and drivers also win because their premiums drop.\nSome even argue that the presence of such a device will lead to safer and more thoughtful driving, which presents yet another win for society at large.\nSo far, it sounds like the disruption is a positive one, but we all know things are never that simple, as the Deloitte consultants point out.\nBig Discounts Needed\nFirst off, a Deloitte consumer survey revealed that nearly half of respondents would require a discount of 20% or more for them to agree to install such a device.\nThis is on top of the cost to develop a telematics device, and then provide it to the driver free of charge. After all, you can\u2019t expect drivers to pay for a device that tracks their every move.\nAnd the only drivers that would agree to install the device would likely be the good ones, which researchers believe would lead to a disproportionate drop in premiums for good drivers, without an opposing rise for bad drivers.\nWhy? Because the bad drivers who know their \u201cbad\u201d would not opt-in to usage-based car insurance, knowing all too well that it would cost them money.\nSo without full-scale implementation of usage-based car insurance, insurers could wind up with a lopsided book of business.\nAdditionally, car insurance companies that don\u2019t launch usage-based programs could see a mass exodus of good drivers to companies that do, such as Progressive.\nIn other words, they\u2019d be left with just the \u201cbad drivers,\u201d who want nothing to do with a device that tracks their driving habits.\nThis would also put downward pressure on premiums as competition heated up to retain existing business.\n[10 ways to lower your car insurance bill.]\nPrivacy and Regulatory Concerns\nOn top of all that, this new technology could lead to other issues, such as privacy concerns.\nTheoretically, these devices will know if you get in a tiny fender-bender, something that otherwise wouldn\u2019t be reported.\nThese types of dents and dings that often go unnoticed could lead to more unnecessary claims, which would drive up the cost of car insurance and frustrate drivers.\nImagine two friends or family members bumping into each other, but to a negligible degree. The next thing you know you\u2019ve got your insurance agent on the phone to discuss a scratch.\nThere are also regulatory red flags here, especially if certain drivers are singled out as being the worst of the worst.\nThink a particular social or ethnic demographic. On the other hand, it would look equally bad to \u201creward\u201d a certain group as well.\nBut as mentioned earlier, if everyone has a Snapshot-like device installed in their vehicles, society could benefit over time and costs could go down for everyone.\nStill, we\u2019re playing with a very powerful new technology here, and its consequences are still widely unknown. Be warned.\nRead more: Mileage-Based Car Insurance: A Good Idea?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thezoereport.com/culture/celebrities/kim-kardashian-allure-october-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:15Z", "digest": "sha1:K3LFYQMYKD4AYCAO6K4HQYXY2PJ6POSQ", "length": 2751, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thezoereport.com", "title": "You\u2019ve Never Seen Kim Kardashian West Like This Before", "raw_content": "You\u2019ve Never Seen Kim Kardashian West Like This Before\nIt began ten years ago, when Kim Kardashian West willingly thrust herself into the spotlight on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the reality series that transformed a Brady Bunch of socialites into America\u2019s first family. Kim\u2019s personal life was an open book, and she swiftly became a paragon of the social media generation, sharing explicit details along the way, from her doomed marriage to Kris Humphries to her journey to surrogacy with now-husband Kanye West. Things hit new levels of serious on the fateful day in Paris when Kim was horrifically bound, held at gunpoint and robbed of $10 million worth of jewelry. Following that traumatic experience, it made perfect sense that she\u2019d choose to stay away from the public eye for a while\u2014but of course, she rebounded strong.\nIn just the last month, the mega-mogul launched her namesake beauty brand (and teased a new perfume), starred as Jackie O in a controversial Interview magazine spread and\u2014what\u2019s that?\u2014posed naked on a tree branch, which naturally went viral on Twitter. There seems to be no slowing this woman down, and she acknowledges she\u2019s \u201cthe most fit I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d referring to her physical transformation since having kids. (We can\u2019t help but detect a newfound confidence in the way she\u2019s carried herself in the past year.) \u201cMy publicist would say to me, \u2018You\u2019re not getting naked. I have to be there,'\u201d she says in an interview for Allure\u2018s October cover story. \u201cI\u2019m going to tone it down. But then I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait, I can\u2019t be doing it in ten years, so I might as well.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what the age cutoff is.\u201d\nBecause she\u2019s willing to bare all, we tend to think we know the celebrity behind the 103 million Instagram following. But Kim has tried to prove time and again since the robbery that she\u2019s changed. \u201c[Kanye and I] talk about it all the time, about not getting too much and trying to be as grounded and well rounded as possible,\u201d she says. Despite her fame and fortune, Kim admits she still wants as normal a life as possible for her children, which explains, among other things, her decision against gift-giving within the family\u2014even for her wedding anniversary.\nBut there\u2019s one gift that remains close to her heart: a token daughter North gave her because, as Kim puts it, she had felt anxious about going on that Paris trip. \u201cShe gave me a little plastic treasure box, and she put her little jewels in it\u2014like fake little plastic jewels\u2014and she was like, \u2018Mommy, this will keep you safe when you go to Paris,'\u201d she says. \u201cTo have something really sweet like that is more important to me than all the jewelry.\u201d Say what you want about her, but she\u2019s clearly no longer the same Kim Kardashian we knew a decade ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2018/3/12/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EPGF7A7SGTSJNQYD7T3OMOTII6WAICVV", "length": 3123, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.thisawfulawesomelife.com", "title": "Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life \u2014 This Awful-Awesome Life", "raw_content": "Mar 16 Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life\nIn April we will be celebrating craft beers and Indie Wineries in the Pittsburgh area.\nIt\u2019s opening day for baseball, and we\u2019ll be looking at the history of the sport and some of baseball\u2019s legendary players.\nWhat are the best books and movies about baseball?\nIt\u2019s officially Tulip month \u2013 time to learn more about this beautiful flower.\nWhere are the best Tulip festivals around the world?\nWhy do we celebrate April fool\u2019s day?\nWe\u2019ll be sharing some Easter customs and photos from our readers.\nSpring Cleaning \u2013 where to start and how to finish strong.\nWe\u2019ll have some delicious recipes from Linda Cahill to help you make the most of those Easter leftovers\nOrlando Bartro , Terry Kish and Corey Flynn will be back to put their personal spins on our topics and as always there will be a quiz.\nHere are the answers to this month\u2019s quiz:\n1. D. Pierce Brosnan (Bond from 1995 -2002) was born in Drogheda County Louth, Ireland.\nJust for fun: Sean Connery (Bond from 1962- 1971 \u2013 reprising the role once again in 1983 in Never Say Never Again) was born in Fountainbridge, Scotland). George Lazenby (who played Bond in only one film, On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service in 1969) was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Roger Moore ( Bond from 1973-1985) was born in London, England. Timothy Dalton (Bond from 1987-1989) was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales. Daniel Craig (the current James Bond since 2006) was born in Chester, Chesire, England.\n2. B. George Bernard Shaw (born in Portobello, Dublin, Ireland) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938 for Best Screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion.\n3. A. The River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland and Great Britain. According to legend, it is home to Cata, a monster first described in The Book of Lismore as capable of spitting venom with fiery breath and eyes of flashing flame.\n4. B. Boxty\n5. D. Boiled pig\u2019s feet that are typically battered and fried\n6. C. Bram Stoker, born in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, wrote Dracula in 1897.\n7. C. 7th place \u2013 Czech Republic is #1\n8. D. James Joyce \u2013 during Bloomsday, the events of his novel, Ulysses, which is set on June 16th 1904, are relived. The name is derived from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses.\n9. A. Robert Boyle, born at Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland is best known for Boyle\u2019s Law which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.\n10. B. Old Bushmills Distillery \u2013 known for Bushmills Black Bush Irish Whiskey\n11. D. All of the above \u2013 seriously, Google recipes made with Guinness Stout if you doubt me.\n12. A. Boxing \u2013 Ireland has sent teams to the Summer Olympics since 1924 (did not attend in 1936) and the Winter Olympics since 1992. Of 31 medals won, 16 have been for boxing.\n13. C. Dark hair and blue eyes are the most common hair/eye color combination in Ireland.\n15. A. Colcannon B. Irish Tea Brack C. Champ D. Drisheen\nNov 18 Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - December 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisinsider.com/ben-affleck-treated-for-alcohol-addiction-2017-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:UBVOB77VLQRYJEQNLQ5MKLD7QU5TFJII", "length": 1393, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thisisinsider.com", "title": "Ben Affleck opens up about being treated for 'alcohol addiction' - INSIDER", "raw_content": "Ben Affleck opens up about being treated for 'alcohol addiction'\nThough Ben Affleck has never been busier in Hollywood, it turns out he's been going through recovery for alcoholism.\nThe actor posted a note on his Facebook saying that he has \"completed treatment for alcohol addiction.\" He added that it's \"something I've dealt with in the past and will continue to confront.\"\nAffleck, who was at the recent 2017 Oscars, starred in three movies last year: \"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,\" \"The Accountant,\" and \"Live by Night,\" the last of which he also wrote and directed. He's also taken a hands-on role in his upcoming \"The Batman\" movie, cowriting the screenplay.\nET reported that Affleck attended the Academy Awards this year with a sober coach.\nHe showed a rare personal side in his Facebook note, referencing his family and help from his wife Jennifer Garner. The two separated in 2015.\n\"I want to live life to the fullest and be the best father I can be. I want my kids to know there is no shame in getting help when you need it, and to be a source of strength for anyone out there who needs help but is afraid to take the first step. I'm lucky to have the love of my family and friends, including my co-parent, Jen, who has supported me and cared for our kids as I've done the work I set out to do.\"\nRead Ben Affleck's full Facebook note below:\nMore: People Ben Affleck Alcoholism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 217.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thornegazette.co.uk/news/crime/attempted-burglary-suspect-hunted-by-police-1-7107377", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CICH6I26RGNBW3KJ4H4KFS425CE7NC6E", "length": 514, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thornegazette.co.uk", "title": "Attempted burglary suspect hunted by police - Thorne and District Gazette", "raw_content": "Attempted burglary suspect hunted by police\nPolice have released this e-fit picture of a man wanted in connection with an attempted burglary.\nThe incident happened on Friday, January 30, between 2pm and 2.30pm, when two men were seen to walk from the rear garden of a property in Hoober, near Rawmarsh, onto the driveway as the resident returned home in her car.\nThey threatened her with a crowbar before fleeing empty handed. Police did not state which street in Hoober the property was in. Contact police on 101.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thoughtco.com/american-torture-techniques-721718", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6XAJHMGWQBPOTCE6PNYJEZJKA6WMS7AC", "length": 3879, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.thoughtco.com", "title": "American Torture Techniques Against Detainees", "raw_content": "\"Torture-Lite\" Techniques Used by American Forces\nThe U.S. government has been accused of using \"torture-lite\" or \"moderate physical pressure\" against detainees, persons held in custody for political reasons, typically because they pose a distinct threat to the U.S. or possess information crucial to American security. In practical terms, what does this mean?\nPalestinian Hanging, Also Known as Palestinian Crucifixion\nThis form of torture is sometimes referred to as \"Palestinian hanging\" due to its use by the Israeli government against Palestinians. It involves binding the prisoner's hands behind his back. After fatigue sets in, the prisoner will inevitably fall forward, putting full body weight on his shoulders and impairing breathing. If the prisoner is not released, death by crucifixion may eventually result. Such was the fate of U.S. prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi in 2003.\nThe number one criterion for \"torture-lite\" is that it must leave no physical marks. Whether U.S. officials are threatening to execute a prisoner's family or falsely claiming that the leader of his terror cell is dead, a steady diet of misinformation and threats can be effective.\nIt's remarkably easy for prisoners to lose track of time when they're lock up in cells. Sensory deprivation involves removing all noise and light sources as well. Guantanamo prisoners were additionally bound, blindfolded and wore earmuffs. Whether prisoners subjected to long-term sensory deprivation can still tell fiction from reality is a matter of some debate.\nMaslow's hierarchy of needs identifies basic physical needs as the most fundamental, more so than religion, political ideology or community. A prisoner may be given just enough food and water to survive. It may take as long as a week before he appears physically thinner, but his life will come to revolve around a quest for food and he may be more inclined to divulge information in exchange for food and water.\nStudies have shown that missing a night's sleep temporarily drains 10 points from a person's IQ. Consistent sleep deprivation through harassment, exposure to bright lights and exposure to loud, jarring music and recordings can drastically impair judgment and wear down resolve.\nWater torture is one of the oldest and most common forms of torture. It arrived in the U.S. with the first colonists and has cropped up many times since then. Waterboarding is its latest incarnation. It involves a prisoner being strapped down to a board then dunked in water. He's brought back to the surface and the process is then repeated until his interrogator secures the information being sought.\nForced Standing\nMost common in the 1920s, forced standing involves prisoners standing in place, often overnight. In some cases, the prisoner may face a wall, standing with his arms extended and his fingertips touching it.\nSweatboxes\nSometimes referred to as a \"hot box\" or simply as \"the box,\" the prisoner is locked up in a small, hot room which, due to lack of ventilation, essentially functions as an oven. The prisoner is released when he cooperates. Long used as a form of torture in the U.S., it is particularly effective in the arid Middle East.\nSexual Assault and Humiliation\nVarious forms of sexual assault and humiliation documented in U.S. prison camps as forms of torture include forced nudity, forcible smearing of menstrual blood on prisoners' faces, forced lap dances, forced transvestitism and forced homosexual acts on other prisoners.\nWhat Was the Bataan Death March in World War II?\nHaunting Ghost Stories of Eastern State Penitentiary\nTypes of Executions\nInfamous Inmates at ADX Supermax Federal Prison\nSuspects Wanted by the FBI for Crimes Against Children\nHaunting Ghost Stories From U.S. Prisons\nThe Best and Worst of War in Afghanistan Movies\nWhat \"Rape Culture\" Really Means\nRacial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Hispanics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeout.com/switzerland/things-to-do/palexpo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DP55XU2WZX3SAZIQ7KIUNJAMFEUTK373", "length": 522, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.timeout.com", "title": "Palexpo | Things to do in Grand-Saconnex, Geneva", "raw_content": "Things to do, Event spaces Grand-Saconnex\nGeneva\u2019s exhibition and convention centre.\nThis vast space is Geneva\u2019s exhibition and convention centre, staging a number of major events and exhibitions every year, including the International Geneva Motor Show, Davis Cup tennis and various trade shows and showjumping events. Conveniently located, it\u2019s a short walk from Geneva airport and 15 minutes bus ride from the city centre.\nRoute Francois-Peyrot 30\nNear Palexpo\nRestaurant de l\u2019Aviation\nMeyrin Centre\nRestaurant Le Furet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.times-news.cf/helicopter-eela-trailer-kajol-shines-bright-in-this-unique-mother-son-themed-drama-hindi-movie-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:K2BBL5EEVU6BCI33CVPN6667V3ULCTOU", "length": 1010, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.times-news.cf", "title": "'Helicopter Eela' trailer: Kajol shines bright in this unique mother son themed drama | Hindi Movie News - Times-News", "raw_content": "Kajol, who has been busy fulfilling her duties as a mother for now, is making a foray into Bollywood once again with \u2018Helicopter Eela\u2018. After the intriguing posters, the makers have now revealed the trailer for the film.\n\u2018Helicopter Eela\u2019 is a unique story of a single mother and her son and how their lives change when she decides to pursue her education after 22 years. The only problem is that she joins the same college as her son and hilarity ensues as he tries to save himself from embarrassment. However, it eventually leads to turmoil between the two and strains their relationship. From the trailer, it looks the film has a unique take on how to be a parent in this modern day and age.\nDirected by Pradeep Sarkar \u2018Helicopter Eela\u2019 is all set to release on September 7th this year.\nPrevious PostPriyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas spotted walking hand-in-hand at Singapore airport | Hindi Movie News\nNext PostWatch: Sushant Singh Rajput checks off flying an airplane from his bucket list! | Hindi Movie News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2017/apr/07/senate-has-votes-confirm/421792/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBKCM6YJKHIZBOVJUV7XQS3OIRNILMYG", "length": 8170, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.timesfreepress.com", "title": "UPDATE: Senate confirms Trump pick Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court | Times Free Press", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Senate confirms Trump pick Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court\nApril 7th, 2017 by Associated Press\tin Breaking News\nFILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gorsuch\u2019s confirmation as the 113th Supreme Court justice is expected on April 7. It won\u2019t be long before he starts revealing what he really thinks about a range of hot topics he repeatedly sidestepped during his confirmation hearing.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)\nThis is a developing story and was updated April 7 at 12:55 p.m.\nAlexander, Corker vote to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch\n\"The Senate today approved Judge Neil Gorsuch as a new member of the United States Supreme Court the way the Senate has always done throughout its 230 year history\u2014we did it by majority vote. Judge Gorsuch is enormously well-qualified and has said that he would decide cases based upon the law rather than his personal point of view. He will be a superior new member of the United States Supreme Court.\"\n\u2014 U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander\n\"Our next Supreme Court justice will have a lasting impact on the direction of our country, and as I said on February 2 after meeting with Judge Gorsuch in my Capitol Hill office, I have full confidence in his dedication to upholding the Constitution and applying the rule of law in a fair an independent manner,\" said Corker. \"I am pleased President Trump nominated such a well-respected and qualified individual, and I was proud to cast a vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch.\"\n\u2014 U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.\nUPDATE: The Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to become the newest associate justice on the Supreme Court Friday, elevating Donald Trump's nominee following a corrosive partisan confrontation that could have lasting impacts for the Senate and the court.\nVice President Mike Pence was presiding as the Senate voted 54-45 in favor of Gorsuch, a 49-year-old veteran of the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Denver whose rulings make him an intellectual heir to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat he will fill.\nGorsuch won support from 51 of the chambers' Republicans as well as three moderate Democrats up for re-election in states Trump won last fall: Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia did not vote.\nThe outcome was a major win for Trump, his biggest congressional victory to date, as well as for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who kept Scalia's seat open after the justice's death in February 2016. McConnell refused to hold hearings for President Barack Obama's nominee.\nAfter he is sworn in, Gorsuch will restore the court's conservative voting majority that existed before Scalia's death.\nRepublicans exulted in the victory.\n\"He's an exceptional choice,\" McConnell said.\nDemocrats denounced the GOP's use of what both sides dubbed the \"nuclear option\" to put Gorsuch on the court, calling it an epic power grab that would further corrode politics in Congress, the courts and the United States. Many Republicans bemoaned reaching that point, too, but they blamed Democrats for pushing them to it.\n\"I believe it will make this body a more partisan place,\" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote. \"It will make the cooling saucer of the Senate considerably hotter, and I believe it will make the Supreme Court a more partisan place.\"\nGorsuch is expected to be sworn in within days, in time to hear the final cases of the term. He was nominated by Trump shortly after the January inauguration.\nThe Senate change, affecting how many votes a nominee needs to advance to a final confirmation vote, will apply to all future Supreme Court candidates as well. Trump himself predicted to reporters aboard Air Force One that \"there could be as many as four\" Supreme Court vacancies for him to fill during his administration.\n\"In fact, under a certain scenario, there could even be more than that,\" Trump said. There is no way to know how many there will be, if any, but several justices are quite elderly.\nEven as they united in indignation, lawmakers of both parties, pulled by fierce political forces from left and right, were unwilling to stop the confirmation rules change. The maneuvering played out in a tense Senate chamber Thursday with most members in their seats, a rare and theatrical occurrence.\nFirst Democrats mounted a filibuster, denying Gorsuch the 60 votes needed to advance to a final vote. Then McConnell raised a point of order, suggesting that Supreme Court nominees should not be subjected to a 60-vote threshold but instead a simple majority in the 100-member Senate.\nMcConnell was overruled, but he appealed the ruling. And on that he prevailed on a 52-48 party-line vote. The 60-vote filibuster requirement on Supreme Court nominees was effectively gone, and with it the last vestige of bipartisanship on presidential nominees in an increasingly polarized Senate.\nThe developments were accompanied by unusually bitter accusations and counter-accusations. And yet in many ways the showdown had been pre-ordained, the final chapter in years of partisan warfare over judicial nominees.\nEven as senior Republicans lamented the voting change, McConnell and some allies argued that all they were doing was returning to a time, not long ago, when filibusters of judicial nominees were unusual, and it was virtually unheard-of to try to block a Supreme Court nominee in that fashion.\nWASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, headed for confirmation on Friday after Republicans tore up the Senate's voting rules to allow him to ascend to the high court over furious Democratic objections.\n\"He's an exceptional choice, and I'm very much looking forward to confirming him today,\" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said ahead of the vote. \"Of course, I wish that important aspects of this process had played out differently.\"\nVice President Mike Pence was expected to preside as all 52 Republicans and three moderate Democrats from states that Trump won \u2014 Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana \u2014 cast their votes for the Supreme Court nominee.\nSen. John McCain of Arizona, a senior Republican, warned of the implications of lowering the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees, thereby eliminating any role for the minority party in ratifying the selection.\n\"I am very concerned about the future, which will then, with only a 51-vote majority required, lead to polarization of the nominees as far as their philosophies are concerned, when the majority does not have to consider the concerns and the votes of the minority,\" McCain said. McCain himself voted to lower the threshold.\nThe final confirmation vote on Gorsuch was scheduled midday Friday. He is expected to be sworn in within days, in time to hear the final cases of the term. He was nominated by Trump shortly after the January inauguration.\nIn 2005, with the Senate under GOP control, Republicans prepared to utilize the \"nuclear option\" to remove the filibuster for lower-court nominees. A bipartisan deal at the time headed off that change. But then in 2013, with Democrats in charge and Republicans blocking President Barack Obama's nominees, the Democrats did take the step, removing the filibuster for all presidential appointments except the Supreme Court.\nMcConnell accused Democrats of forcing his hand by trying to filibuster a highly qualified nominee in Gorsuch, 49, a 10-year veteran of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver with a consistently conservative record.\nBut Democrats were unable to pull back from the brink, partly because they remain livid over McConnell's decision last year to block Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, who was denied even a hearing after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. Instead McConnell kept Scalia's seat open, a calculation that is now paying off for Republicans and Trump.\nStay with the Times Free Press as more information becomes available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 12601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesnownews.com/india/video/rein-in-pvt-hosps-overcharging-dengue-patients-nadda-to-delhi-govt/13273", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7BHDPMY4AELK4U5T4ULUUW6EYX5IJ57P", "length": 1761, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.timesnownews.com", "title": "Rein in pvt hosps overcharging dengue patients: Nadda to Delhi Govt | India News", "raw_content": "Rein in pvt hosps overcharging dengue patients: Nadda to Delhi Govt\nThe Union Health Ministry today asked Delhi Government to rein in private hospitals overcharging dengue patients as the national capital battled the worst outbreak of the disease in the past five years.\n\"I have asked Delhi Government to see that private hospitals do not charge unwarrantedly and that they should take reasonable fees from the patients,\" Health Minister J P Nadda said.\nAccording to official data, the total number of cases between January 1 and September 12 now stands at 1,872, which is highest for the period in the last five years.\nNadda said that government has been constantly monitoring the situation and medical facilities.\n\"We have been reviewing dengue situation. Round-the-clock vigil is there. Today also, we had a meeting with the Medical Superintendent of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Safdargunj Hospital and Lady Harding Medical College,\" he said.\nThe hospitals have been asked to increase the number of beds in order to meet to the rush of dengue patients.\n\"We have asked them to increase the bed strength. They have been told not to refuse any dengue patient and see that he is being properly treated. We have enough testing kits and medical expert facilities,\" he said.\nHe said that the state administration has also been asked to take strict action against hospitals turning down dengue patients.\n\"I held a meeting with the Delhi Health Minister and asked him to take strict action against hospitals refusing dengue patients. They have been asked to submit a report on the actions taken. We have also assured that whatever support they need will be given,\" Nadda said.\nRein in pvt hosps overcharging dengue patients: Nadda to Delhi Govt Description: Times Now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 330, "original_length": 7324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/most-important-events-of-the-21st-century?mobile=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:35Z", "digest": "sha1:5MJA7HUQL3AGOBQQT25BMNAYDHEAL7NU", "length": 4573, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.timetoast.com", "title": "Most Important Events of the 21st Century timeline | Timetoast timelines", "raw_content": "Timeline created by rhuntwc\n9/11 Terrorist Attack\nOn September 11th, 2001 two planes crashed into the North and South Twin Towers, The Pentagon, and an attempt to attack the White House. In total there were 2,819 people killed in the attacks and 20 percent of Americans knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks.\nThe U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and overthrew the Al-Qaeda-supportive Taliban government. American troops then began to institute democracy, fight off any insurgents, and the search for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.\nMars Exploration Rovers Launched\nTwo Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were launched to Mars and landed January 2004.\nHurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Katrina formed in the Bahamas and made its biggest impact as a Category 3 storm in New Orleans,LA.\nTrain bomb in Mumbai\nOn July 11, bombs planted on the train system in Mumbai exploded, killing 209 people.\nPluto Reclassified as a dwarf planet\nThere are three main conditions for an object to be considered a 'planet':\nThe object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.\nIt must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\nPluto fails to meet the third condition, since its mass is only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit\nBarack Obama's Election\nBarack Obama made history when he became the first African-American President.\nDVD replaces VCR\nIn the early 2000s DVD began to overtake VCR as the most popular consumer of prerecorded video and VCR stopped being sold as of December 23, 2008.\nAvatar is Released\nIn December of 2009 the movie \"Avatar\" was released and eventually became the world's highest grossing film.\nAt least 230,000 were killed in Haiti after a massive earthquake on January 12, 2010 and 3,000,000 were left homeless as estimated by the Haitian government.\nThe Gulf Oil Spill have been one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history.BP estimated the flow could be as much as 100,000 barrels per day.\nNavy Seal teams found and killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.\nShutdown of \"News of the World\"\nThe shutdown of the largest UK tabloid News of the World after 168 years in print due to the 2009 phone hacking scandal.\nEnd of the Harry Potter Series\nCompletion of the Harry Potter film series, which is currently the world's highest grossing film series.\nFollowing a peaceful march on 6 August 2011 in relation to the police response to the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police Service firearms officers on August 4 ,2011, a riot began in Tottenham, North London. In the following days, rioting spread to several London boroughs and districts and eventually to some other areas of England, the initial are believed to have been caused by the police reaction.\nMichael Phelps won a record 8 gold medals in the 2008 Olympics\nIn the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Michael Phelps set a record by winning 8 gold medals breaking Mark Spitz\u2019s record of seven gold medals won in a single Olympic Games, which had stood since 1972.[124] Phelps, along with teammates Brendan Hansen, Aaron Peirsol, and Jason Lezak, set a new world record in the event with a time of 3 minutes and 29.34 seconds, 0.7 seconds ahead of second-place Australia and 1.34 seconds faster than the previous record set by the United States at the 2004 Olympic Games\nPeriod: Feb 1, 2003 to Sep 1, 2011\nA conflict in Darfur, Sudan began and soon escalated into full-scale war. It is soon considered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. By 2008 it is believed that up to 400,000 people have been killed and over 2.5 million displaced.\nPeriod: Feb 1, 2003 to Aug 10, 2010\nOverthrowing of Suddham Hussein\nThe Multi-National Force \u2013 Iraq, led by the U.S. oberthrew and eventually executed Suddham Hussein. The troops remained there in order to institute a democratic government.\nGreat Reccesion\nThe Great Recession has affected the entire world economy, with higher detriment in some countries than others. It is a global recession characterized by various systemic imbalances and was sparked by the outbreak of the late-2000s financial crisis.\nPeriod: Jan 1, 2010 to Sep 1, 2011\nFall of Myspace, Rise of Twitter and Google+\nMySpace fades but Facebook & YouTube remain popular and new sites such as Twitter and Google+ emerge. Facebook replaces Digg as the most popularity media sharing site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 7191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 158.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timetothink.com/coach/jane-adshead-grant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ECN6MGTZFRD2H3ZRAOOGUHGSJQD5JKXI", "length": 1035, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.timetothink.com", "title": "TIME TO THINK", "raw_content": "jane adshead grant\nE-mail: jane@ashvaleconsultancy.com\nWebsite: www.janeadsheadgrant.com\nOrganisation: Ashvale Consultancy ltd\nProfile: Jane is passionate about contributing to the world of work and community through generating more independent thinking in others. She encourages others to see what is possible rather than what is probable in seeking to achieve their aspirations. Jane\u2019s work has been transformed by her learning and application of the principles of the Time to Think approach. She works with Executives from Associate to the Board room. Her clients often arrive with dilemmas, insolvable challenges and no time to think. They leave with new insights, a way forward and feeling inspired to take action. She is described as being dedicated to her profession and committed to her purpose. Jane has a post graduate diploma in psychological coaching and is a PCC accredited coach with the ICF. She has 25 years\u2019 experience in professional and financial services, initially within HR and subsequently as an Executive Coach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/moh-may-reduce-levels-nicotine-cigarettes-singapore", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SZVR4WPQGJVHDAOJUOCMI66B2KY4GXZO", "length": 2953, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.tnp.sg", "title": "MOH may reduce levels of nicotine in cigarettes in Singapore, Latest Singapore News - The New Paper", "raw_content": "MOH may reduce levels of nicotine in cigarettes in Singapore\nMinistry studying US efforts but mixed views on whether lower levels would result in fewer smokers\nFELICIA CHOO, THE STRAITS TIMES\nCigarettes sold in Singapore may contain less nicotine in the future, with the Ministry of Health (MOH) saying it is monitoring efforts in the United States to reduce the amount of the addictive drug allowed in each cigarette.\nThe possible move comes four years after Singapore first began limiting the nicotine and tar yields in each cigarette to 1 mg and 10 mg respectively.\nBut it is still unclear if lowering nicotine has had any impact on reducing the lure of cigarettes here. Since 2013, the proportion of smokers among those aged 18 to 69 in Singapore has stayed relatively constant at around 13 per cent.\nThe US has not set a nicotine limit for cigarettes. But last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it \"plans to begin a public dialogue about lowering nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to non-addictive levels through achievable product standards\".\nIt did not say what level this might be.\nAsked whether Singapore might follow suit, MOH said it \"is committed to lowering smoking prevalence in Singapore\".\n\"We regularly study tobacco control approaches from around the world and will consider adopting suitable measures in Singapore,\" it said in a reply to The Straits Times.\nThe US appears to be trying to go further than what is in place elsewhere in the world.\nSince 2004, the European Union has allowed for a maximum of 1mg and 10mg for the nicotine and tar yields per cigarette respectively.\nDoctors and smokers here have mixed views on whether lower nicotine levels in cigarettes would work in getting fewer smokers hooked.\n\"Some scientists have proposed that reducing the nicotine levels in conventional cigarettes to less than 10 per cent can make them less addictive by reducing the pleasurable effects of nicotine per cigarette smoked,\" said Dr See Kay Choong, who heads the National University Hospital's division of respiratory and critical care medicine.\n\"But this is far from making cigarettes 'non-addictive' because any amount of nicotine can be addictive.\"\nAnother issue the FDA proposal sidesteps is the harmful effects of other toxins, such as tar, in cigarettes.\nDr Loke Wai Chiong, Deloitte's South-east Asia healthcare sector leader, also raised the possibility of smokers lighting up more in order to get the \"high\" from the reduced nicotine levels.\nMr Alex Loh, 39, a smoker of 23 years, said he does not mind smoking cigarettes with less nicotine.\n\"I use a filter... so it's fine with me,\" said the advertising platform specialist.\nA filter traps some tar and nicotine, though not the poisons from the cigarette smoke.\n\"But for those who smoke more, like two packs a day, sometimes they will smoke more because there is no taste, no 'feeling',\" Mr Loh said.\nSingaporeMINISTRY OF HEALTH (MOH)cigarettes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.today.com/popculture/mandy-moore-talks-about-us-her-upcoming-marriage-t130542", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NUITOETV27CIEQY5BH2K35UWZFCXMINN", "length": 410, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.today.com", "title": "Mandy Moore talks about \u2018This Is Us\u2019 and her upcoming marriage", "raw_content": "Mandy Moore talks about 'This Is Us' and her upcoming marriage\nChart-topping singer Mandy Moore made a successful segue to acting, including playing the mom on \u201cThis Is Us.\u201d She joins Hoda Kotb and Kelly Clarkson to talk about the hit drama, which is about to start its third season, as well as voice-acting on the animated series \u201cTangled.\u201d Regarding her upcoming marriage, she says: \u201cI\u2019m ready. Bring it on!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tonyrobbins.com/wealth-lifestyle/stock-market-make-break-retirement/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:07Z", "digest": "sha1:MNOBDFSZV5Q2IXHQT77DTW55ARXQC5GU", "length": 4940, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.tonyrobbins.com", "title": "Why the Stock Market Can Make or Break Your Retirement", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Tony Robbins Blog \u00bb Wealth & Lifestyle \u00bb Why the Stock Market Can Make or Break Your Retirement\nThere isn\u2019t a single portfolio manager, broker, or financial advisor who can control the primary factor that will determine if our money will last. It\u2019s the financial world\u2019s dirty little secret that very few Americans know. And of those who do, very few will ever dare bring it up. That\u2019s why I went to my dear friend, the late Jack Bogle.\nJack Bogle was the founder of the world\u2019s largest mutual fund, Vanguard, and about as straightforward as a man could be. When we spoke for four hours in his Pennsylvania office, I brought up the dirty little secret, and he certainly didn\u2019t sugarcoat his opinion or thoughts.\n\u201cSome things don\u2019t make me happy to say, but there is a lottery aspect to all of this: when you were born, when you retire, and when your children go to college. And you have no control over that.\u201d\nWhat lottery was he talking about? It\u2019s the big luck of the draw: What will the market be doing when you retire? If someone retired in the mid-1990s, he was a \u201chappy camper.\u201d If he retired in the mid-2000s, he was a \u201chomeless camper.\u201d\nUnderstand the sequence of returns\nThe risk we all face is the devastating concept of sequence of returns. Sounds complicated, but it\u2019s not. In essence, the earliest years of your retirement will define your later years. If you suffer investment losses in your early years of retirement, which is entirely a matter of luck, your odds of making it the distance have fallen off the cliff.\nYou can do everything right: find a fiduciary advisor, reduce your fees, invest tax efficiently, and build up a Freedom Fund. But when it\u2019s time to ski down the backside of the mountain, when it\u2019s time for you to take income from your portfolio, if you have one bad year early on, your retirement plan could easily go into a tailspin. A few bad years, and you will find yourself back at work and selling that vacation home.\nSound overly dramatic? Take a look at John and Susan.\nJohn is now 65 and has accumulated $500,000 (far more than the average American) and is ready to retire. Like most Americans nearing retirement, he is in a \u201cbalanced\u201d portfolio (60% stocks, 40% bonds). Since interest rates are so low, John decides he will need to take out 5%, or $25,000, of his nest egg each year to make his income needs for his most basic standard of living. When added to his Social Security payments, he \u201cshould\u201d be just fine. And he must also increase his withdrawal each year (by 3%) to adjust for inflation because each year the same amount of money will buy fewer goods and services.\nAs John\u2019s luck would have it, he experiences some market losses early on. In fact, three bad years kick off the beginning of his so-called golden years. And in five short years, his $500,000 has been cut in half. And withdrawing money when the market is down makes it even worse, since there is less in the account to grow if or when the market comes back. Even though John eventually has many solid positive/up years, the damage has already been done. By age 83, his account value has collapsed, and he can withdraw just $580,963 from his original $500,000 retirement account.\nNow consider Susan. Susan is also 65 years old and she too has $500,000. And like John, she will withdraw 5%, or $25,000 per year, and also increase her withdrawal slightly each year to adjust for inflation.\nTo show you exactly what I am talking about, I used the exact same investment returns for Susan\u2019s account. I simply flipped the sequence of those returns. I reversed the order so that the first year becomes the last year and vice versa.\nBy merely reversing the order of the returns, Susan has an entirely different retirement experience. In fact, by the time she is 89, she has withdrawn over $900,000 in income payments and still has an additional $1,677,975 left in her account!\nTwo people, same amount for retirement, same withdrawal strategy: one is destitute, while the other is absolutely free financially. And what\u2019s even more mind-boggling: they both had the same average return (8.03% annually) over the 25-year period!\nInvestors can do everything right \u2013 minimize fees, minimize taxes, not chase performance and hold strong during periods of volatility. But if they need to start spending during one of these periods, when the market is spiraling or even flat, there can be a devastating impact on their nest-egg which could very well impact their ability to care for a loved one, pay for retirement or send a child to school. There is no assurance that the market will cooperate with our life plans.\nThat\u2019s why we need better and less expensive solutions that protect against the sequence of returns risk. And this is why downside protection is critical while maintaining exposure to equity market returns. 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Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which enables easy storage and access to images in a digital way. PACS has a capability to handle images from different medical imaging equipment such as positron emission tomography (PET), endoscopy (ES), ultrasound, magnetic resonance, radiography, mammograms, etc.\nBased on the mode of delivery, the global VNA market has been segmented into on-premise VNA, hybrid VNA and complete cloud-hosted VNA. On-premise VNA segment is a leading segment among the market owing to its enhanced data control and security. However, high expenditure cost and availability of an alternate economical option of cloud-based VNA are expected to impede the global market growth for on-premise VNA.The global PACS market can be segmented by components which include, hardware (access devices, peripherals, servers, storage devices and network devices), software and services (consulting, implementation services, post sales & maintenance and training services). The PACS market can be also segmented on the types of imaging instruments such as X--ray, computed tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, nuclear imaging, ultrasound and others.\nThe global VNA market is witnessing rapid growth owing to its inherent advantages over PACS in terms of vendor flexibility and accessibility along with reforms in the healthcare information technology. Although, some factors such as complexity of technology and lack of harmonization in the industry may impede the growth of market to some extent. These inhibiting factors are expected to be resolved in the near future, surgingglobal VNA market. The recent development in the PACS market is Cloud based PACS solutions which is expected to revive the global market in the coming years.\nGeographically, the globalvendor neutral archive and PACS market is segmented into four major regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia - Pacific and Rest of the World. Although, North America and Europe are the major market share holders for these technologies, the emerging economies such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are also witnessing rapid growth at present owing to the increase adoption of information technology.Emerging countries being very populous, with large patient base, requirement for the VNA and PACS technologies hereis more than rest of the world.\nSome of the major companies in the global VNA and PACS market are Acuo Technologies(now part of Perceptive Software of Lexmark International Technology S.A.), Agfa HealthCare NV, BridgeHead Software, Inc., Carestream Health, Inc., Dell, Inc.,EMC Corporation, GE Healthcare, Fujifilm Corporation, Merge Healthcare, Inc., McKesson Corporation, Philips Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare and TeraMedica, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.travhq.com/tag/nandan-nilekani/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WTWTGTXSCVKZM7ATDTUTUK6HICKNZGBE", "length": 164, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.travhq.com", "title": "nandan nilekani Archives - TravHQ", "raw_content": "TravelTriangle raises $12 million Series C round led by Nandan Nilekani\u2019s Fundamentum\nOnline travel marketplace TravelTriangle has raised a $12 million Series C ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.treehugger.com/travel/enter-sierra-clubs-get-out-photo-contest-win-trip-grand-canyon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HADVSCMJR4GREHQQLH5XQCQWN7WWMB4M", "length": 1035, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.treehugger.com", "title": "Enter the Sierra Club\u2019s \u201cGet Out\u201d photo contest to win a trip to the Grand Canyon | TreeHugger", "raw_content": "Enter the Sierra Club\u2019s \u201cGet Out\u201d photo contest to win a trip to the Grand Canyon\nCC BY 2.0 Flickr user Moyan Brenn\nWe know from the great contributions to our photo of the day pool that some of our TreeHugger readers are amazing nature photographers. So, here\u2019s another opportunity to share your photos.\nIn anticipation of Earth Day on April 22, the Sierra Club is hosting a photo contest. The winner will receive an eight-day hiking trip through Grand Canyon Park, one of the most photo-worthy places in the world.\nHere\u2019s what the Sierra Club has to say about it:\n\u201cThe Sierra Club has been bringing people to America\u2019s most iconic and beautiful parks and places since founder John Muir ran the Club\u2019s first outing in 1901. John Muir believed that if he brought people outdoors, they\u2019d fall in love with wild places and feel moved to protect them. With more than a century of experience, we now know this is true.\u201d\nFittingly, April 22 is the entry deadline. Get all the details about the photo contest here.\nThe deadline is Earth Day!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trihealth.com/institutes-and-services/womens-services/breast-care/breast-cancer/breast-cancer-risk-factors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:37Z", "digest": "sha1:4OGLK4ZXHOAGCFNWFAWK4M6LKMD4OGF6", "length": 4430, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.trihealth.com", "title": "Breast Cancer Risk Factors | TriHealth", "raw_content": "Start of Breast Cancer Risk Factors Side Menu\nEnd of Breast Cancer Risk Factors Side Menu\nNew Breast Density Law:\nOne of every eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime.\nA risk factor is anything that increases someone\u2019s chance of getting a disease. Not all cancers have the same risk factors; they vary by type of cancer.\nKeep in mind that if you have one or more risk factors for breast cancer, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that you will get cancer. Some women have one or more breast cancer risk factors but never develop the disease. And most women who do have breast cancer have no recognizable risk factor.\nA woman who has had breast cancer in one breast is 3 to 4 times more likely to develop a new breast cancer, unrelated to the first cancer, in the other breast or in the same breast but in another section. This is not the same as a recurrence of the earlier breast cancer.\nCarriers of familial breast cancer genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2) are at higher risk. Those women who have inherited an alteration of one of these genes have up to an 85% chance of getting breast cancer in their lifetime.\nSee also: The Role of Genetics in Breast Cancer\nBreast lesions (wounds or areas that have been damaged by injury or disease)\nAn earlier biopsy of the breast that identified atypical tissue growth or lobular carcinoma in situ raises a woman\u2019s risk of developing breast cancer by 4 to 5 times.\nModerately higher risk\nThe risk of developing breast cancer rises as you grow older.\nApproximately 77% of women who receive breast cancer diagnoses each year are older than 50 and nearly half of them are 65 and older.\nWomen aged 40 to 49 have a 1 in 68 risk, while the risk for those 50 to 59 climbs to 1 in 37.\nDirect family history\nWomen who have a direct relative mother, sister or daughter with breast cancer have a higher risk. The risk rises more if the mother, sister or daughter got breast cancer before menopause and had cancer in both breasts.\nOne first-degree relative with breast cancer almost doubles the risk.\nHaving two first-degree relatives raises the risk to five times.\nA male blood relative with breast cancer also raises a woman\u2019s risk.\nPrevious abnormal breast biopsy\nWomen with these conditions have a slightly higher risk:\nFibro adenomas with complex features\nHyperplasia with atypia (unusual features)\nSclerosing adenosis (characterized by multiple small, lumps, fibrous tissue, and sometimes small cysts)\nSolitary papilloma (small breast lump, usually near the nipple)\nToo much radiation\nWomen who receive large doses of radiation before they are 30 are at risk for breast cancer.\nSlightly higher risk\nDistant family history\nBreast cancer in non-direct relatives such as aunts, grandmothers, or cousins\nAge at childbirth\nWomen who have their first child after age 35 or have never had children\nEarly menstruation (before age 12)\nEspecially after menopause, excess weight, particularly around the waist, with too much fat and calorie intake\nOther cancers in the family\nFamily history of ovarian, cervical, uterine or colon cancer\nWomen whose relatives were Ashkenazi (Eastern and Central European Jews)\nWomen who have more than 1 alcoholic drink per day have a slight increase in breast cancer risk.\nWomen who have 2 to 5 alcoholic drinks per day have about 1 \u00bd times the risk of women who do not drink.\nCaucasian women have a slightly higher risk compared to African American, Asian, Hispanic and Native American women.\nAfrican American women are more likely than Caucasians to have breast cancer before age 40.\nWomen who have taken combined estrogen with progesterone over the long term have an increased risk compared to those who have not taken HRT. The risk may return to normal levels after HRT is stopped for 5 years or longer.\nBecoming pregnant before age 18\nGoing through menopause early\nHaving ovaries removed before age 37\nWomen who have breastfed have a lower risk of developing breast cancer.\nThese factors are not related to breast cancer:\nCoffee or other caffeine\nStill inconclusive\nResearch continues to investigate the possible effects on breast cancer risk of:\nPollution in the environment\nSome studies suggest that use of birth control pills may be associated with an increased risk of getting breast cancer. The risk appears to go away after women stop using the pills for 10 or more years. 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To carry out the functions of the Netherlands National Focal Point, the NDM relies on the contributions of a multitude of experts and input from registration systems and monitors throughout the Netherlands.\nM. van Laar, G. Cruts, A. van Gageldonk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tripletheating.com/blog/2014/september/understanding-indoor-air-pollution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:19Z", "digest": "sha1:M45NLGR2A27V23GPR75EXIM7TPRWKUVR", "length": 912, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tripletheating.com", "title": "Understanding Indoor Air Pollution", "raw_content": "Did you know that indoor air pollutants can be even more problematic than outdoor air pollution? Air pollution can be five times more concentrated inside your home than outside. Prolonged exposure to indoor air pollutants can cause headaches, nausea, heart problems, lung problems, and even cancer. Dirt, dust, mold, mildew, and radon are all causes of indoor air pollution. Watch this video for more information on the causes of indoor air pollution and tips for protecting yourself and your family.\nIf you or someone in your family is prone to allergies, contact an air conditioning company in St. George to learn about the products and services that can improve indoor air quality, including humidifiers, air cleaners, air purifiers, and air duct cleaning. 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TSG distributes and installs products of global leading manufacturers, and provides a wide scope of services ranging from maintenance to construction of turnkey sites. Leveraging its 200+ sales force and over 2000 experienced field technicians and service engineers, TSG is one of the European leaders in installation and service of EV charging stations. For more information, visit the EV section or contact the business development team at evsales.uk@tokheimsolutions.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 10034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsln.com/news/republicans-defend-tariffs-to-farm-leaders-but-oppose-auto-tariffs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAZYWVH35LZEGLTOTEG4IFQLUJUINGHG", "length": 5151, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.tsln.com", "title": "Republicans defend tariffs to farm leaders but oppose auto tariffs | TSLN.com", "raw_content": "Republicans defend tariffs to farm leaders but oppose auto tariffs\nRepublicans on the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee last week generally defended President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum that have led to retaliatory tariffs on agriculture products from China, Mexico, Canada and the European Union.\nBut the same day, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., a member of the subcommittee, led a bipartisan coalition of more than 140 House members in a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross advising against imposing the trade sanctions on imports of autos and auto parts that Trump has proposed. The hearing and the letter together seem to signal that Republicans are more worried about the impact of tariffs on the auto industry than about retaliatory tariffs on agriculture.\nAt the subcommittee hearing on the impact of tariffs on rural America, the Republican members expressed sympathy due to the decline in commodity prices, but they also defended the Trump's decision to impose the steel and aluminum tariffs, and said China was wrong to impose them.\nRep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., who is running for governor, said, \"The president was out there fighting for better trade agreements and China came after us.\"\nWalorski said farmers have been willing to put up with \"the short- term pain for the long-term gain\" but are growing increasingly \"nervous.\"\nIn the letter to Ross, Walorski and her colleagues indicated that the auto industry should not have to put up with any short-term pain.\n\"Our nation's automotive industry is a critical driver of the American economy, historically contributing between 3.0-3.5 percent of our total GDP,\" the members wrote in the letter led by Walorski.\n\"It depends on a vast and complex network of suppliers to build vehicles, a large dealer network to sell them, and a substantial retail and aftermarket industry to supply repair and replacement parts \u2013 establishing facilities and creating jobs in every state.\n\"The industry has rebounded from the depths of the Great Recession, and in some parts of the industry, employment is actually higher than pre-recession levels,\" the letter said.\n\"However, imposing tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions on automobiles and/or automotive parts threatens to undo that momentum.\"\nAt the hearing, a lineup of farm leaders from around the country provided a wealth of statistics on the impact that the retaliatory tariffs are having on farm exports, prices and incomes. They called on the administration to engage in negotiations on trade conflicts, but did not call on the administration to pull back the steel and aluminum tariffs or criticize the president directly. (See following story.)\nJared Bernstein, an economist who worked in the Obama White House, testified that he believes \"the macroeconomic damage from the trade war is likely to be small, especially given the U.S. economy's strong trajectory\" but that \"farmers and those in rural areas, will be \u2014 already are being \u2014 disproportionately hit by these new taxes on their exports (from retaliatory tariffs) and their production inputs.\"\nBernstein urged the Republican majority \"to claim back its constitutional role to set tariffs.\"\nDemocrats varied in the vigor of their statements at the hearing.\nRep. Sandy Levin, D-Mich., said that the problems with China and Mexico have been growing for 30 years and that the Democrats have been clear about recognizing them, including China's currency manipulation.\nTrump, Levin said, has \"touched\" on an important problem, but has a \"helter skelter\" policy of addressing it.\nThe Republican majority, Levin said, \"hesitates to take on the president,\" and the farm leaders provided \"a mixed message\" by saying they hope things will work out in the long run.\nRep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., took a more aggressive position.\n\"Trump is losing the media war\" on trade, Kind said. \"What is lacking from the panel is an an official from the Trump administration to add clarity to what the administration wants from China.\"\nKind also noted that he has joined a bipartisan coalition of House members including Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., Mark Sanford, R-S.C., Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., Leonard Lance, R-N.J., and Ryan Costello, R-Pa., in introducing legislation that would require the president to submit to Congress any proposal to adjust imports in the interest of national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.\nIn a news release, Kind said, \"Wisconsin farmers, workers and families rely on open markets and certainty in global trade to sell our world-renowned products abroad.\"\n\"Unfortunately, the administration is putting misguided policies ahead of the success of Wisconsinites, under dubious legal justification and threatening American standing abroad.\"\nHe continued, \"Trade authorities clearly belong to Congress \u2014 as explicitly stated in the Constitution \u2014 and I strongly encourage my colleagues to step up and take their role in leveling the playing field seriously. The answers to these problems won't come from the President or Congress alone. We need to work together to ensure Americans have an equal shot at success in the global market.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 10728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsstuff.net/2018/04/ticket-blitz-authors-in-city.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WOIIPQZCC43B6IJ7N4JQRH5DD76PGP6N", "length": 1424, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tsstuff.net", "title": "T's Stuff: {TICKET BLITZ} Authors In The City", "raw_content": "{TICKET BLITZ} Authors In The City\nAuthors in the City is the fifth annual books signing hosted by Stephanie's Book Reports. This will be the last Authors in the City - held in it's innaugeral setting. We will be returning to the New York Marriott Downtown -Aug. 11, 2018.\nWhen she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write. She shares her home with her husband, his K-9 partner named Diesel and her hyper Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent her time writing short stories.\nShe is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press) the Lux Series (Entangled Teen) and the upcoming YA Don't Look Back (2014) and untitled YA (Fall 2014) from Disney/Hyperion. She is also published with Harlequin Teen and HarperCollins\nAfter being invited to attend a photoshoot with acclaimed photographer Michael Stokes, he flew to California in December of 2014, with incredible excitement. His photos were so widely publicized that he soon gained exposure to the literary world like he\u2019d always dreamed of. That opportunity launched him into his present writing career. He co-wrote the novel 'A Lover's Lament with author KL Grayson. The following year he released first solo novel, 'Into the Nothing' and will be releasing Wicked Little Words with author Stevie J. Cole. He is now writing full-time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 13434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthefootballscene.com%2F2018%2F06%2F29%2Fthe-message-behind-the-money-how-texas-am-landed-jimbo-fisher%2F&title=The+Message+Behind+the+Money%3A+How+Texas+A%26M+Landed+Jimbo+Fisher", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5U5PO45ETAK3LFWHJEZGJINB7VZKNU6K", "length": 396, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "The Message Behind the Money: How Texas A&M Landed Jimbo Fisher - The Football Scene\nLet\u2019s start with the Christmas tree, which everyone assumed was the proof that Jimbo Fisher was gone. Yes, an old artificial tree did get tossed to the curb on Shoal Creek Drive in Tallahassee, Fla., on the morning of Dec. 1. Photos of said tree began circulating on social media within hours of its disposal. \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tuugo.cz/Blog", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:SQH527LDGGRZM5KRXIFDGVO3G4X46FXW", "length": 3550, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.tuugo.cz", "title": "Tuugo blog", "raw_content": "Tuugo blog\nThe list of the top 100 British entrepreneurs is led by Victoria Beckham\nThe specialized business magazine \u201cManagement Today\u201d has released the list of the hundred most successful entrepreneurs in the UK in 2014, and on the top of the list is the British designer Victoria Beckham.\nThe wife of the ex-English soccer player David Beckham, and former lead singer of the popular pop group Spice Girls, managed to win over all British businessmen ranking compiled by the magazine.\nThe turnover of the signing Beckham has gone from \u20ac 1.26 million in 2009 to \u20ac 38 million in 2014\nFamous madrilean buildings that have fallen in disuse do not bet on its conversion into housing\nSpain Building, Palacio de la M\u00fasica, Mercado de Legazpi, Mansion of the Vargas, etc ... most of these buildings do not have a solid idea of rehabilitation in the future.\nThe renowned architect Carlos Rubio Carvajal commitment to apply \"good architecture\" and says: \"I would have to break the taboos of housing today, very conventional and conservative.\"\nMany of the landmarks of Madrid which are currently unused not only traverse an obvious poor condition but also share a common characteristic: their disregard for the possible conversion into housing. The truth is that many of these properties do not even have a real plan of rehabilitation, but those other \"in process\" see no residential use as a possibility.\nThe Danish restaurant Noma took the title of World's Best Restaurant to \"El Celler de Can Roca\" in Girona, Spain, a restaurant that showed it during 2013 after several years in the top five of the ranking produced by the British magazine \"Restaurant Magazine \".\nThe result has been known in a gala at the London Guildhall building and has meant the loss of the first position by the Spanish restaurant, which last year was ranked number 1 for the first time; in 2011 and 2012 had already been located in second place and just like this time, the first post was for Ren\u00e9 Redzepi of Danish restaurant, Noma.\nSuzuki GSX-S1000, the main innovation of the Japanese company for the year 2015\nAfter years of dormancy, it seems that Suzuki is being reborn in the Hall of Cologne.\nAfter a long wait in which the news of the Japanese giant appeared sporadically and in which they looked forward to a big bet, the long awaited star appears on the scene:\nSuzuki GSX-S1000: The expected \"naked\" high cylinder with a wild style, rugged and aggressive.\nThe new GSX-S shares almost all components with the newcomer S1000 GSX-F but without the fairing from the \"F\" version. The GSX-S1000 is a street fighter who inherits the spirit of the old B-King 1300. Is also unfolded in a sport-tourism version for those who want something more comfortable than a GSX-R 1000.\nMadrid is ahead in the slow return of construction\nThe landscape of Madrid has changed remarkably in recent weeks. The surroundings of Las Tablas, Valdebebas Sanchinarro, Campo de las Naciones or near the Castellana most central locations again sees dozens of cranes.\nIs this the return of the edification to the Spanish capital?\nMaybe it's early to say, but it is getting a clear reactivation. The largest construction firms have relocated their posters in prominent places calls to host the new headquarters of the Banco Popular, the future hospital in Madrid of the University Clinic of Navarra, the Museum of the Royal Collections or dozens of housing developments. Meanwhile, through the final stages of building the flagship project of Vela, which will host the headquarters of BBVA.\n123456789 Dal\u0161\u00ed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twoguysaroundtheworld.com/photos/newzealand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6JYY3UNXXOX33QOEVVTYZ6K2IN7UVWDU", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.twoguysaroundtheworld.com", "title": "Travel Photos From New Zealand", "raw_content": "Travel Photos From New Zealand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uccronline.it/eng/2015/12/02/well-protect-our-values-wasnt-relativism-the-forte-of-the-laical-society/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TL5KROITADT2V33X2M4Y445DF7BAIIVN", "length": 5253, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.uccronline.it", "title": "\u201cWe\u2019ll protect our values\u201d: wasn\u2019t relativism the dogma of the laical society? | UCCR", "raw_content": "\u201cWe\u2019ll protect our values\u201d: wasn\u2019t relativism the dogma of the laical society?\n\u201cWe\u2019ll protect our values\u201d. That\u2019s Obama\u2019s, Hollande\u2019s and Cameron\u2019s way. The Italian Prime Minister Renzi stated that we\u2019ll certainly win, since these are the correct and good values. But, dear Presidents, what values?\nSince I was five and started to go to school I\u2019ve been told that absolute values do not exist, that values are perspectives, and the worst you could do is to consider writing the word Truth with the capital T, and that you must cultivate doubts rather than having certainties, because these are always ideologies. How come that now, all of a sudden, we discover ourselves having absolute values that we\u2019re warring with and for? If \u201cnot having\u201d any values is the one big truth (which is absolute but can\u2019t be written with the capital letter, who knows), shouldn\u2019t we all be convinced? Shouldn\u2019t we have already convinced those between the terrorists who were born and raised in our republics, following the \u201cdoubting education\u201d?\nWhat values? I ask myself, while I can\u2019t help feeling angry for the infinite list of words, counterposed to the absolute thirst of life of the Bataclan guys, hanging from the windows to avoid death\u2026 Words that sound so empty.\nLibert\u00e9, \u00e9galit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9 said Obama. And Valls, the French Prime Minister, specified \u201clibert\u00e9 and human rights\u201d, to make it even clearer. Yep. Unluckily, a weird contradiction pops up when the equality and the right to support whatever and whoever are out of question as soon as someone says that he wants to kill me. Has it got the same worth as affirming peace and kindness?\nIn a more serious way, the American journalist Gareth Whittaker finally told us what these values are: \u201cthe enjoyment of life here on earth, a multitude of ways: a cup of coffee that smells, accompanied by a growing one morning; beautiful women in short dresses smiling freely in the streets\u201d and then parfumes, wine, \u201cthe right not to believe in God\u201d and of \u201cflirting and smoking, and to the love outside marriage, taking a vacation, read any book, to go to school for free\u201d. He\u2019s not that wrong after all, but if this is what politicians have been talking about, they should have made it clear by the very beginning that what we\u2019re talking about here is defending the hedonism of a low-middle-high bourgeoisie and we\u2019re saying that these pleasures are universal values worth living and dying for. It\u2019s no big thing, is it? Haven\u2019t we had a Marx in Europe a while ago, teaching how every social class gets blind of universalities about itself? Moreover, and once again, shouldn\u2019t we then try to convince the Lords of the absolute (sigh) convenience of these values of ours? Let\u2019s try to fill the Parisians banlieues, and the suburbs of the entire world! Wait: didn\u2019t we try to do that already, without any success? Isn\u2019t this very empty hedonism that they\u2019ve been reproaching?\nThe third option, dear Presidents, would be to go back reconsidering what values we really have, where human rights come from as well as where this passion for aesthetics and life was born, with all those pleasures included. It could also has come the time to truly reconsider the European Constitution roots: Latin and Greek origins, mixed with the obstructed Christian ones, plus the scientific and the French revolution. We should change a bit our sceptical point of view, though. I\u2019d like to suggest the American philosopher Peirce, who actually thought the truth does exist, even if our limited knowledge makes it partial.\nWarning, because partial does not mean arbitrary \u2013 we must not interpret everything according to no matter what and who \u2013 and most of all, does not mean doubtful.\n\u201cLet us not pretend to doubt in philosophy (and in pedagogy, in art, in politics) what we do not doubt in our hearts\u201d, it\u2019s a recapitulatory quotation by Peirce, inviting people to respect the common sense of those who helped who was escaping, hurrying through the choice of what was the human and right thing to do, and what wasn\u2019t. And, contrary to the nice and unfortunate Imagine by John Lennon that someone played on the public crime scenes, we\u2019ll find a valid reason to live and to die if we\u2019ll need to.\nNo one\u2019s able to \u201cdefend\u201d or \u201cwin\u201d anything if what you\u2019re fighting for isn\u2019t actually worth it, if there\u2019s nothing good in the content, in the ideas, if we don\u2019t like it. Especially if what we\u2019re fighting for doesn\u2019t have the power to fill up with life those empty words that we have to give as an answer to those guys hanging from the Bataclan windows.\nTranslated by Valentina Barbieri\nTransgender volleyball player? \u00abDeath of sport\u00bb, influential physiologist says\nThe initial explosion of Christianity: how to explain it? The book by Barth D. Ehrman\n\u00abIf science exists, this means that there\u2019s a Logic\u00bb, famous physicist said\n9600 Jews were protected at the Vatican\nAldo Brandirali: from Marx to Christ\u2026 passing through Father Giussani\nThe Economist (pro Obama) supports Trump: no to gender self-identification\nThe Pope rewrites the Lord\u2019s Prayer? The modification on \u201ctemptation\u201d dates back to 2008\n\u00ab Herod\u2019s palace discovered and new historical proofs about King David\nSupport UCCR, help us to give reasons for the faith that we have \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.une.edu/research/news?page=5", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QKY3JQBSQFA5OAXXGTDQIA24NIHBWDIL", "length": 3523, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.une.edu", "title": "News | Office of Research and Scholarship | University of New England in Maine, Tangier and Online", "raw_content": "Ali Ahmida, UNE professor of political science, contributed a chapter on Libya to a new book, edited by Wa\u00efl S. Hassan, on the tradition of the Arab novel.\nUNE political scientist Ali Ahmida pens chapter in 'Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions'\nAli Ahmida, Ph.D., professor of political science, wrote a chapter in a newly published book about the Arab novel. The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (Oxford University Press) examines...\nEllie Leighton '18\nPsychology student Ellie Leighton presents at Eastern Psychological Association annual conference\nAlong with her faculty mentor, Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology, student Ellie Leighton (Psychology, \u201918) recently presented at the 2018 annual conference of the Eastern...\nChristina Holt, M.D., neonatologist at Maine Maine Center, and James Quinlan, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, collaborate in their efforts to help identify opioid addiction in newborn babies.\nMathematics professors at UNE collaborate with neonatologists to help identify opioid addiction in newborns\nCan mathematical and statistical analyses of data from newborns born to opioid-addicted mothers help to enhance the delivery of care and prognoses for these infants over the first few weeks...\nPreparing for boards: UNE medical student research looks at best methods for learning\nA study by a group of third-year students at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine examines the best methods for learning by medical students in the second...\nUNE marine researchers present at Aquaculture America 2018\nUniversity of New England Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., and David Fredriksson, Ph.D., a UNE research scientist and professor of Ocean Engineering at the United States...\nKaitlyn Chin presents at the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.\nConcussions in children: Study led by UNE medical student shows different paths to recovery\nConcussions in adults and young athletes have received a great deal of attention, both in the media and in research. But a new study from University of New England College...\nL-R: Karen Houseknecht, Celeste Bouchard and Cody Black.\nKaren Houseknecht and UNE students published in leading mental health and clinical psychology journal\nKaren Houseknecht, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology in the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and interim dean of the College of Pharmacy, and students C eleste Bouchard (COM,...\nUNE's Takashi Komabayashi publishes endodontics textbook\nTakashi Komabayashi, D.D.S., M.Dent.Sc., Ph.D., clinical professor in the College of Dental Medicine, has published Clinical Cases in Endodontics , part of the Clinical Cases series by Wiley-Blackwell. The work...\n'Mainebiz' reports on UNE College of Pharmacy residency partnership with CVS Health\nThe University of New England College of Pharmacy has joined CVS Health to offer a residency training program in specialty pharmacy. The fastest-growing segment of the pharmacy industry, specialty pharmacy...\nStevenson and undergraduate research students (L-R) Philomena Richard, Sarah Couture, Emily Payne\nUNE\u2019s Glenn Stevenson serves on NIH grant review panel\nGlenn W. Stevenson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and program coordinator for the Neuroscience major, was recently invited to join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant review panel for...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 6927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unitourismorocco.com/news/macaal-opening-marrakech?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:14Z", "digest": "sha1:WLOBXGHTWQ4QOVCFBY2J67QKEMERQIDG", "length": 451, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.unitourismorocco.com", "title": "Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden Opening, by Unitours", "raw_content": "Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden Opening\nDesigned with the purpose of sharing with the public a collection built with passion, M.A.C.A.AL is a museum dedicated to contemporary african art. The museum is a proof of the commitment of Fondation Alliances to facilitate access to art by promoting creations of the African continent.\nOpen from Tuesday to Sunday, 9am \u2013 6pm / Al Maaden \u2013 Sidi Youssef Ben Ali \u2013 Marrakech. Visit the website here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.universem.com/blog/3-tips-for-generating-b2b-leads/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TYMCZYRELGAJ7565QHXI7MSMFM74S7WG", "length": 4793, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.universem.com", "title": "3 tips for a successful strategy for generating B2B leads | Universem", "raw_content": "Universem > Blog > Online Advertising > 3 tips for a successful strategy for generating B2B leads\nJust like all other sectors, B2B marketing is currently undergoing its own digital revolution. The time when we believed that only B2C could benefit from the advantages of Google and social networks is now behind us. By implementing a simple, yet properly executed strategy, benefits can be drawn from limited means. In our latest article, discover our tips for generating a maximum number of leads.\nContent marketing, or content strategy, is an essential ingredient in your overall marketing strategy. Why? First of all, because content is one of the 3 mainstays of SEO and it is consequently of vital importance that it be produced with improvement of your organic web indexing in mind.\nFurthermore, it also plays a leading role when considering B2B marketing. Indeed, when facing products that are often complex to use, it is important that you educate your future clients right from the start. A prospect who finds your product too complicated to use, or who simply hasn\u2019t fully grasped its use, will be less inclined to proceed towards the purchasing phase.\nIt is also worthy of note that the quality of such contact plays a crucial role in acquiring leads. In a nutshell, the better the quality of your content, the more likely it is to be shared, liked and therefore disseminated. If your content is attractive and offers added value, in exchange you are sure to easily collect data on interested visitors.\nMajor survey conducted among the top 500 Belgian CFOs by our client Bridgewater \u2013 May 2018\nSocial networks at your service\nOnce your desired content creations have been formatted, the last thing you should do is to leave them in a computer file or on the shelf. On the contrary, you need to broadcast your content as much as possible to boost your chances of reaching your targets. Social networks are an excellent tool for achieving this aim. As if content is king, its distribution is queen.\nHere is a figure that speaks for itself; Facebook has over 2 billion active users. It is therefore implausible to believe that only private individuals are present on the platform. Most companies have a Facebook page and, very often, all their employees have active profiles.\nAn advertising campaign on the network can prove to be an excellent way of reaching these people in a highly targeted manner (we will deal with this later), but in particular, to reach them outside of their working hours. In principle, when in the office, you concentrate on your work and are not necessarily receptive to what you are told or offered. In contrast, when you return home, it is most likely that the posts you did not see or did not have the time to consult during the day will now interest you.\nUnlike Facebook, the world\u2019s leading professional social network is often one users are likely to consult while at work. Conducting digital advertising simultaneously on both channels increases your chances of converting your prospects.\nTo do so, you can choose among several formats\nthe simple image or carousel (brand new to the platform) format. The aim is therefore to propose one or several images to a well-defined target.\nVideo has become a must over the past 2 years. It is often used to detail a complex product or process.\nRemarketing is based on the 3 aforementioned formats, the difference being that it is only broadcast to users who have already visited your website or consulted a specific page. You can also upload your own database.\nSo, it is not only extremely important that you properly set your campaign parameters if you want to achieve your aims, but also that you adopt a multichannel strategy.\nNespresso Professional Campaign via LinkedIn \u2013 June 2018\nTargeting, your trump card\nAs we have just seen, social networks are excellent tools to consider in your B2B digital strategy. Provided they are used correctly! Once your content has been transformed into an advertising format and is ready for broadcasting, you now need to define who you want to broadcast to.\nWhatever the situation, both of the aforementioned platforms offer highly specific targeting potential. Let\u2019s look at a few possibilities that are of interest in the present case.\nTargeting by profession\nTargeting by company name\nTargeting by qualification type\nGeographic/demographic targeting\nAlthough they only represent a tiny share of the possibilities, when combined, these 4 target groups can already offer extremely interesting prospects.\nWould you like to boost your sales and the number of leads you receive, or simply to better grasp what digital marketing can offer you, despite your target or your product constraints? Feel free to contact one of our experts in advertising to talk about your project!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 7131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unv.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=&type%5B0%5D=story&field_sustainable_development_go%5B0%5D=60&field_story_category%5B0%5D=5&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:02Z", "digest": "sha1:55OQJTIA7KBSCKXWZKXTJIFA5HWGDSTK", "length": 1761, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.unv.org", "title": "Search | UNV", "raw_content": "Having had the opportunity this past year to live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I saw first-hand the positive influence of...\nVolunteers help people affected by wildfires in southern Europe\nThe forest fires started on the coastal area on Sunday 16 July 2017, and spread quickly due to strong winds and dry...\nIt has always been my dream to step out and contribute to the greater agenda of sustainable development and to be able...\nSDG 4: Quality education, SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nAround 150 young people and potential volunteers met UN agencies and local NGOs during the Volunteer Fair in Pristina....\nSDG 13: Climate change, SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nUN Youth Volunteers from Sweden learn new skills while supporting peace and development all over the world\nAlexandra Palmquist, UN Youth Volunteer in Environment and Climate Change with UNDP Bolivia Alexandra arrived in...\nSDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nWomen in Loja, mostly of indigenous descent, play a critical role in their economy, by managing small businesses and/or...\nCOMMUNICATING IN SUPPORT OF RULE OF LAW AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION As a dynamic communicator and experienced...\nSDG 15: Life on land, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nA day in my life as a UN Volunteer in Lao PDR\nIt\u2019s Thursday morning and I have landed in Savannakhet in the south of Laos, on a monitoring mission for our project....\nSDG 13: Climate change, SDG 14: Life below water, SDG 15: Life on land, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nBiological diversity, meaning the variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms, is under threat: according to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 6187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unv.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=&type%5B0%5D=story&field_sustainable_development_go%5B0%5D=60&field_story_category%5B0%5D=6&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7VWWZIKZPENSJ46P7QBSN6W4GPXOS2F7", "length": 1652, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.unv.org", "title": "Search | UNV", "raw_content": "Marking International Volunteer Day and celebrating volunteer impact\nThe United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme selects themes and campaigns to provide special meaning to IVD, creating...\nIt is on the ground, in their local communities, that we really see the unique impact of volunteers. For example, UN...\nThe state of volunteering infrastructure globally\nIn conditions where policies and legislation successfully create a nurturing and enabling environment for volunteering...\nVolunteering: a tool for social integration in cities\nEarlier this year, we launched our social integration strategy. Based on considerable research, it sets out a new...\nVolunteerism and statistical production in the global South\nTshepiso steps back and admires his handiwork. As part of his contribution to Mandela Day, he has painted the interior...\nUN Volunteers tackling the challenge of refugee integration in Europe\nKamilia Lahrichi (France) served as a UN Volunteer Associate Public Information Officer with UNHCR in France. ...\nThe economic case for a global volunteering infrastructure in Kenya\nKenyan communities have always voluntarily organized themselves, whether formally or informally, to help each other in...\nIraq has a long way to go towards peace and prosperity. The United Nations is doing its best to support the Iraqi...\nLandmark reached as over 100 national statistics offices measure volunteer work\nThese are some of the findings from a review conducted by International Labour Organisation (ILO) of national practices...\nInternational Volunteer Day is celebrated by many non-governmental organizations, civil society, and the private sector...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uprose.org/news/?category=Brooklyn+Daily+Eagle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AMMQ5JBCM4BDAVCFGN5ESFBPXGRQ5WJF", "length": 3484, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.uprose.org", "title": "Archives \u2014 UPROSE", "raw_content": "Activists plead: Don\u2019t turn Sunset Park into Williamsburg\nSource: http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/3/24/activists-plead-don\u2019t-turn-sunset-park-williamsburg\nBush Terminal Piers Park opens\nFormer landfill rehabilitated with $40 million in federal, state, city funds\nBrooklyn has a brand new waterfront park.\nCity officials and Sunset Park residents came together Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the grand opening of Bush Terminal Piers Park, a 23-acre recreation area located on the waterfront behind Bush Terminal.\nAssemblymember Felix Ortiz and Councilmember Carlos Menchaca, both of whom represent Sunset Park, were among the officials taking part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Officials from the Parks Department and the city\u2019s Economic Development Corporation were also on hand.\n\u201cToday, we unite to host a ceremonial ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of this long-awaited community space. This afternoon we honor the advocacy and visioning on the part of our community,\u201d Menchaca said in a statement on Wednesday.\nThe park, which contains two ball fields, open recreation space, a pier and rest rooms made from old shipping containers, extends along First Avenue from 43rd Street to 51st Street. The entrance is located on First Avenue and 43rd Street.\nThe park actually opened last week, but a grand opening ceremony was put off until Nov. 12.\nBush Terminal Piers Park sits at the site of a former landfill. The park was created with $40 million in federal, state and city funds that were used for both the cleanup of the toxic dump site and the construction of the recreation area.\nU.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, whose district includes Sunset Park, was instrumental in securing much of the federal funding, according to Menchaca.\nBut Menchaca also credited Sunset Park residents and environmental groups with the creation of the park, saying that their efforts to push government officials to open up the waterfront for recreational use paid off. \u201cOver the many years, local justice organizations like UPROSE fueled this fight by providing people power consisting mostly of youth who dared to imagine a different future for our waterfront,\u201d he stated.\nUPROSE, which stands for United Puerto Rican Organizations of Sunset Park, advocates for better environmental conditions for the community.\n\u201cElected officials like Congresswoman Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez secured substantial federal funding, and others like Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and Councilmember Sara Gonzalez stood alongside so many invested Sunset Park neighbors who, despite the many challenges, never wavered in their demand to the open our waterfront for public and recreational use,\u201d Menchaca said. Gonzalez was Menchaca\u2019s predecessor in the council.\n\u201cWe are going to celebrate the opening, which we\u2019ve been after for decades,\u201d Tony Giordano, president of the group Sunset Park Restoration, told the New York Daily News.\nThe Parks Department\u2019s website describes Bush Terminal Piers Park as \u201ca lovely waterfront park with spectacular views of the area\u2019s tidal pools and the Bay Ridge Channel.\u201d\nPeople who visit the park \u201cwill find two multi-purpose soccer and baseball fields as well as a nature preserve that allows a fun glimpse into Brooklyn\u2019s wild side,\u201d the website reads.\nThe park is open from 8 p.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week. From May 2 to Sept. 30, it will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nSource: http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/11/13/bush-terminal-piers-park-opens\nTagged: Environmental Justice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/15/california-fires-worlds-worst-air-quality-smoke-masks/2014817002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PELEUIEJKA7VRSLZJVTLGGCS37UPLO3V", "length": 4315, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.usatoday.com", "title": "California fires: Smoke leads to world's worst air quality Thursday", "raw_content": "Wildfire smoke brings world's worst air quality to northern California\nNoxious smoke from the blazes continues to choke the air for millions of people in both Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area.\nWildfire smoke brings world's worst air quality to northern California Noxious smoke from the blazes continues to choke the air for millions of people in both Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/15/california-fires-worlds-worst-air-quality-smoke-masks/2014817002/\nDoyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 4:03 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2018 | Updated 4:28 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2018\nA wildfire all but obliterated the Northern California town of Paradise, population 27,000, and ravaged surrounding areas last Thursday. About 7,700 homes were destroyed. (Nov. 14) AP\nThe San Francisco skyline is obscured by smoke and haze from wildfires behind Alcatraz Island on Nov. 14, 2018, in San Francisco.(Photo: Eric Risberg, AP)\nThe flames from the devastating wildfires in northern California may be slowly diminishing, but the noxious smoke from the blazes continues to choke the air for millions of people in both Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area.\nIn fact, air quality in northern California on Thursday was the worst in the world, even worse than notoriously smoggy cities in India and China, according to Purple Air, an air quality monitoring network.\nBoth of those major metropolitan areas had air that was classified as either \"unhealthy\" or \"very unhealthy,\" the Environmental Protection Agency said.\nThe smoky air made for a bad start to the workday for Thursday commuters, the East Bay Times reported.\nIn San Jose, Hyun Gyu Park said it reminded him of the air quality in his native Korea, and he wondered whether he should be wearing an air filter. \u201cI see a lot of people wearing gas masks,\u201d Park, 23, told the East Bay Times, \u201cand I feel I should be doing the same thing, too.\u201d\nThe National Weather Service has posted an \"air quality alert\" for a large chunk of the state, which will be in effect until the fires are extinguished.\nThe smoke has canceled classes for tens of thousands of university students in the region, forced school recesses to be held indoors and also spurred on a record number of internet searches for smoke masks.\nIn Sacramento County, the health department said school districts should \"minimize the smoke exposure to students by canceling or moving all outdoor activities such as recess, PE and after-school athletics indoors.\"\nInstead of wearing masks, county officials said the best advice is just to avoid spending time outside: \"Wearing a mask may encourage outdoor activity when staying indoors is the best way to minimize exposure to smoke,\" the Sacramento County Public Health Office said.\nWildfire smoke can cause or worsen a number of health problems, including reduced lung function, infectious bronchitis, asthma and heart failure, according to the EPA.\nGoogle reported Thursday that searches for smoke masks are at the highest level in Google's history.\nEarlier this week, some fans attending the NFL game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers wore masks to deal with any air quality issues, AccuWeather said. Oxygen tanks were also provided on the sidelines for players.\n\"Smoke and haze will continue to produce poor air quality over much of the San Francisco Bay through late week,\" the National Weather Service in San Francisco said.\nThere is some good news in the weather forecast for both the fires and smoke: The weather service said Thursday that \"a more significant pattern change appears likely during the latter half of next week with the potential for widespread rainfall.\"\nThe deadly and destructive Camp Fire, the source of most of the smoke, is now 40 percent contained and covers 140,000 acres, state fire agency Cal Fire said Thursday. That's up from 30 percent on Wednesday.\nThe fire, which has burned through about 220 square miles in Butte County, has left a wrenching toll: at least 56 people confirmed dead and 130 missing; about 9,000 homes and businesses destroyed, of which 8,800 are single-family homes.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/15/california-fires-worlds-worst-air-quality-smoke-masks/2014817002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 784, "original_length": 52045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usmaganews.com/2018/11/23/three-myths-from-critics-of-criminal-justice-reform/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HDIBOZP43Q2YGZTS6YFTSC2Z3ZDHFHTP", "length": 12707, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.usmaganews.com", "title": "Three Myths From Critics of Criminal Justice Reform \u2013 UsMAGANews.com", "raw_content": "Three Myths From Critics of Criminal Justice Reform\nNow that another contentious election season has ended, it is time to shift back to legislative mode and revisit important issues that have waited their turn. Congress has been polarized in recent years, but one reform effort in particular will hopefully break that mold.\nCriminal justice reform \u2014 thanks, in part, to an overwhelming 360-59 vote in the House on the FIRST STEP Act \u2014 has quickly gained momentum, championed by conservatives as a down payment towards ensuring that prisoners re-entering society do so with the tools they need to succeed. President Trump, who campaigned on restoring law and order, has been a vocal supporter of prison reform since earlier this year, and has recently signaled support for various sentencing proposals, as well.\nBut not everyone agrees. Senator Tom Cotton, a long-time skeptic of criminal justice reform, penned an article in the Wall Street Journal this summer in which he generally praised rehabilitation efforts in federal prisons but took sentencing reform to task, calling it a \u201cfoolish approach\u201d that would \u201cendanger communities.\u201d Meanwhile, now-former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been critical of reform efforts as well, claiming that changes in drug sentencing risks allowing violent crime to run amok. Research and, most importantly, experience \u2014 particularly in southern red states \u2014 inform us that both arguments lie on shaky, outdated foundations. As the Senate appended modest sentencing proposals to the FIRST STEP Act, it is worthwhile to separate facts from fiction.\nMyth #1: Drug crimes are inherently violent.\nAmong the subtler tactics that critics of federal sentencing reform employ is a simple progression: begin with discussion of America\u2019s real, ongoing problem with drugs; immediately shift the focus to violent crime, as if the two issues are self-evidently identical; and then argue that the reason for America\u2019s historical reduction in violent crime can be traced to the adoption of lengthy mandatory sentences for drug dealing.\nThis may make for a neatly packaged argument, but reality spins a far more complicated tale. First, plain observation of drug overdoses and violent-crime trends simply doesn\u2019t lend itself to correlation. Between 1999 and 2016, drug overdose death rates increased by over 200 percent, while violent crime rates fell by over 26 percent. These skyrocketing overdose deaths occurred despite an entire bevy of mandatory sentencing tools available to federal authorities that were ostensibly enacted to curb the worst consequences of drug crimes. Instead, such sentences have had no discernible effect on deaths caused by drugs.\nAt the ground level, there are reasons why our current opioid scourge hasn\u2019t translated to the sort of crime waves that attended previous drug crises. As both Sally Satel and Sam Quinones have explained at length, when heroin began weaving its way into new markets that were primed by growing prescription drug abuse more than a decade ago, Mexican dealers explicitly avoided inner-city areas that were plagued by the sort of violence that surrounded the crack-cocaine trade in the 1970s and 80s. Coupled with a new \u201cdrive-thru\u201d business model that largely eschewed the need to defend specific geographic areas, the spread and delivery of illegal opioids has been, by design, less violent than in years past.\nNo illegal trade is immune from violence, and it is a mistake to discount that which does occur. Nonetheless, when those who oppose efforts to recalibrate federal drug sentencing laws reflexively point to increased violent crime as a reason not to, multiple layers of important context are generally left unaccounted for. Any simplistic explanation that directly ties America\u2019s opioid problem to violent crime possesses a confidence that it has not earned.\nMyth #2: Longer prison sentences equals less crime.\nWhich leads to the question of whether lengthy mandatory sentences are an effective mode of crime prevention.\nA common rejoinder to reform efforts from those who support mandatory sentencing is that \u201cproposals to give judges more discretion and cut mandatory minimums endanger public safety,\u201d or otherwise that being \u201csoft on sentencing\u201d leads to more violent crime. But is this true?\nAnd it should be noted at this point that I am a person who supported the \u201cthree strikes and you\u2019re out\u201d changes of the 1990s.\nAt face value, easing mandatory sentences in the middle of a drug crisis may seem imprudent. However, as I explained above, drug abuse has already run nearly out of control despite the existence of mandatory sentences that subsume most drug crimes on the federal books. The reason for this may have to do with expecting mandatory sentencing to do something it is incapable of doing.\nLet me explain. While a simple fact is that research has yet to pinpoint the factor(s) most responsible for our historic reduction in crime, the weight of evidence is clearly against those theories which emphasize imprisonment \u2014 particularly imprisonment meant to discourage drug use.\nAccording to a comprehensive analysis of the dramatic rise of incarceration rates and its affects by the National Research Council, there is an outward \u201cplausibility to the belief that putting many more convicted felons behind bars would reduce crime.\u201d However, the authors explain that even a cursory examination of the data reveals the \u201ccomplexity\u201d of drawing meaningful correlations between crime and incarceration rates:\nViolent crime rates have been declining steadily over the past two decades, which suggests a crime prevention effect of rising incarceration rates. For the first two decades of rising incarceration rates, however, there was no clear trend in the violent crime rate \u2014 it rose, then fell, and then rose again.\nWhile incapacitation effects may be effective when targeted towards \u201cvery-high rate or extremely dangerous offenders,\u201d the authors conclude that the \u201cincremental deterrent effect of increases in lengthy prison sentences is modest at best.\u201d\nOthers have drawn the same conclusion, and when considering the nature of drug offenses in particular, these findings are not surprising. Typical drug abusers organize their lives over short timeframes, making them less likely to consider the long-term repercussions of their actions, including the potential for imprisonment. Once they are locked up, incarceration usually fails to motivate them to meaningfully change their behavior. (Given that simple incapacitation doesn\u2019t make many demands of them, why should they change?) Nor does prison address their underlying psychosocial environment that often functions as an incubator for addiction in the first place. Is it any wonder then why this population in particular recidivates so frequently upon release?\nCriminal justice reform is engineered to incentivize participation in substance-abuse treatment and other recidivism-reduction programs, or otherwise to curb overly-punitive sentences which may extract their pound of flesh but also rapidly lose their effectiveness as one moves down the offense severity ladder.\nTo summarize, weightier factors besides simply \u201clocking up\u201d criminals must be at play to account for crime reduction. Ascribing that reduction solely to lengthy sentences is a theory that doesn\u2019t play well with the data \u2014 especially given the fact that thirty states have recently experienced crime rate reductions while simultaneously reducing their prison populations.\nMyth #3: No one goes to federal prison for \u201clow-level, non-violent\u201d drug offenses.\nIt is easy to produce a statistic that there are relatively few people incarcerated for federal drug possession offenses and then brush one\u2019s hands together with satisfaction, believing that the \u201cwe overincarcerate\u201d canard has just been dispelled. But while this immediate fact is indeed true, putting it into context makes this line of argument less salient.\nFirst, consider the composition of all federal drug offenders. In 2017, about 48 percent of drug offenders sentenced at the federal level \u2014 a majority of whom are trafficking offenders \u2014 were in the lowest criminal-history category, having been previously sentenced for, at most, one low-level offense. Roughly 60 percent were in the lowest two categories. To be sure, drug trafficking, which includes street-level dealing, involve more serious offenses. Even so, there are still tens of thousands of federal inmates being incarcerated \u2014 for historically longer periods of time\u2014 for lower-level drug offenses. Recidivism is a real problem, but federal prison is a big stick, and shouldn\u2019t be the front-line corrective for every offense. Too often it is, even for simple possessors (over 80 percent of whom receive a term of imprisonment).\nSecond, drilling down on individual cases makes various absurdities that attend some mandatory sentences for first-time offenders even more acute.\nIn 2004, Weldon Angelos was convicted on three separate charges of marijuana distribution, which alone would have resulted in six to eight years in federal prison. However, because he was also in possession of a firearm \u2014 which he never used nor brandished \u2014 he was also charged and convicted under Section 924(c) of the Gun Control Act to three additional firearms offenses.\nAs a result of the mandatory sentences under Section 924(c)\u2019s \u201cstacking\u201d provision, he was sentenced to an additional 55 years in prison on top of his punishment for drug dealing. The sentencing judge in his case had no choice but to follow the law. Nonetheless, he appealed to Congress to address what he called an \u201cunjust, cruel, and even irrational\u201d punishment, and pointed out in his decision that Angelos would have been treated more leniently should he have been convicted of hijacking an aircraft, rape, or even second-degree murder.\nI consider myself particularly tough on gun offenses, but is what Angelos did really worse than hijacking an airplane? Rape? Second-degree murder? This is evidence of a system that needs correction.\nAngelos\u2019 case is a practical reality of just one mandatory sentencing statute among many. Drug deals involving guns often end badly and should be reflected in sentencing, but when cases such as his are punished more severely than similar cases in which a gun is actually used or death occurs, it becomes clear that the law has lost a crucial sense of proportion. Targeted changes to Section 924(c) proposed in the Senate version of FIRST STEP would help to correct this imbalance, applying enhanced sanctions only upon true recidivist offenders \u2014 changes in which even former Attorney General Sessions has expressed support.\nBeyond this change, other sentencing fixes in FIRST STEP would address other overly-punitive mandatory enhancements for certain drug crimes, and expand the current judicial \u201csafety valve\u201d to a greater palate of federal offenders when circumstances warrant lesser punishments than present law commands. These changes are prudent in recognition of a hard lesson: many inmates in federal prison are being detained longer than necessary to achieve noticeable returns for public safety. Evidence shows that the incapacitation effect of lengthy sentences works on extremely dangerous inmates or \u201cfrequent fliers,\u201d but they rapidly hit a point of diminishing returns. Put another way, our current practices may be making many federal offenders more dangerous the longer we hold them. This should be unacceptable to data-driven law-and-order conservatives.\nSentencing reforms in the FIRST STEP Act acknowledge these realities. No mandatory sentence would be eliminated, but they would be configured to work better. Meanwhile, other areas of the bill would expand incentives for those amenable to change to accept treatment for addiction or mental health problems, or otherwise receive beneficial workforce or vocational training to better re-integrate with their community upon release.\nWe must begin shifting the paradigm away from using mandatory sentences as the obvious tool against lawbreaking \u2014 as states such as Florida, South Carolina, and Texas have done. Crimes should be punished, but the law loses its legitimacy when it punishes disproportionately. The FIRST STEP Act \u2014 along with modest sentencing reforms \u2014 will help regain the law\u2019s moral force and make us safer at the same time.\nKen Cuccinelli is a former Attorney General of Virginia. He is President of the Senate Conservatives Fund and a signatory to the Right on Crime Statement of Principles.\nPrevious Post:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: From Renegade Star to Establishment Tool\nNext Post:Trump was right to send troops to our border \u2013 Presidents of both parties have done it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 14207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.utelogy.com/solutions/education/case-studies/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:03Z", "digest": "sha1:P343XQMAAEFG7RD47BRBSXADMXCY6CU7", "length": 4853, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.utelogy.com", "title": "Education Case Studies", "raw_content": "Higher Education Solutions \u00bb\nCustomers of All Shapes and Sizes\nSmart Classroom Technology\u2014Campus-Wide Control and Management at Santa Rosa Junior College\nRuss Bowden, Director of Media Services at Santa Rosa Junior College, demonstrates the Utelogy platform, and discusses the benefits he\u2019s realized by deploying this Video and AV Control and Management solution in more than 70 smart classrooms.\nSolano Community College Deploys Open Environment that Includes AV, Academic and Network Technologies\nAt Solano Community College in Northern California, the AV technology on campus was outdated and was not capable of supporting the institution\u2019s long-term vision to take advantage of the cloud.\nThe CIO, Roger Clague, envisioned supplying the ultimate learning experience that included the following:\nOne user-interface\nThat could be delivered to any device\nWhere the device could be a source projected onto any screen\nAnd shared over a standard IT network\nWith the Utelogy enterprise application, users are able to:\nLeverage its existing IT infrastructure and skills\nControl, monitor and remotely support smart classrooms across campuses\nManage classroom technology from a centralized application\nDramatically reduce classroom technology support time\nYou can access the full case study here.\nAt the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo, hardware was weighing them down.\nAfter replacing a malfunctioning video phone, their distance learning solution collapsed. The new video phone was no longer compatible with the rest of the system.\nThe remaining hardware was now dated, the original solution provider could no longer provide any customization to solve the problem, and nobody else would touch it.\nTake a look at how the College of Engineering transformed its distance learning program using AV over IP. And it doesn\u2019t stop at distance learning\u2014the applications really are endless.\nUsing Help Desk, Support and Analytics Tools to Create a Better Learning Experience\nA key challenge most colleges face is creating classroom audio/visual environments that are faculty friendly and easy to use. Instructors often lack comfort with these tools so they don\u2019t often take full advantage of the available classroom technology. And that\u2019s further exacerbated when use and control of the room is not consistent across the campus.\nThe solution to that problem is finding a way of standardizing the use of classroom technology across campus to simplify the experience for instructors. And that\u2019s just what California State University, East Bay did when it deployed the Utelogy AV Control, Management and Analytics platform.\nEven though they didn\u2019t have budget for a complete classroom refresh, deploying the Utelogy platform still made a lot of sense because it made all of their existing equipment much easier, friendlier and consistent to use. And the Utelogy platform delivered help desk, support and analytic tools that allow them to deliver a better experience for both students and faculty.\nYou can read the full Cal State East Bay story here.\nHow Do You Add More Technology and Still Make It Easier to Use?\nWe look to technology to provide enhanced efficiencies for everything we do today. However, one of the drawbacks we\u2019re often faced with is the time it takes to learn how to use this new technology so we can actually get to the promised time-savings.\nA few years ago, Mount St. Mary\u2019s University in Los Angeles, CA began a classroom technology assessment to build a multi-year upgrade plan for its two campuses. The first goal was to meet the pedagogical requirements from faculty and it included an operative to provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface in each classroom. In addition to adding that level of simplicity for the end-user, the Media Services department wanted something that would enable faster response to change and growth requirements along with real-time monitoring and remote support.\nFind out how Mount St. Mary\u2019s University deployed 70 rooms and learning spaces across two campuses and rarely ever has to train faculty how to use a classroom. You can learn more about Mount St. Mary\u2019s University deployment by clicking here.\nSoftware-Defined AV Delivers Innovation and Better Business Decisions\nThe Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) was on the verge of an explosion of smart classrooms. Not only was it\u2019s current AV technology complex and frustrating to troubleshoot, it was also creating some business challenges.\nThe CIO was looking for a more flexible, reliable and secure solution that could be self-maintained.\nLearn how the LACCD used the Utelogy platform to deploy smart classrooms with a massive reduction in complexity. The college now sees a path to provide better utilization of its real estate and understand how many students served by the technology. 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She begins her new duties July 1, 2015. \"With Dr. Walker's vast experience in the liberal arts and sciences, she brings a fresh and very global perspective to UW-Parkside,\" Ebeid said.\nDr. Walker earned her undergraduate degree with a major in French, and a master's degree in French Literature from Indiana University. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Minnesota.\nDr. Baldwin previously served as interim dean. \"For almost 20 years, Dr. Baldwin has been an enthusiastic and innovative member of the UW-Parkside faculty,\" Ebeid said. \"Throughout his career, he has gladly accepted new responsibilities. He continues to expand and enrich the educational offerings and community connections associated with the college and the university.\"\nDr. Baldwin earned his undergraduate degree with a major in business administration at the University of Texas at Austin, and a master's of science in business administration and a doctor of philosophy in business administration at Texas Tech University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 4261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 119.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanzelst.com/about-van-zelst/christina-farms/plants/plant/hemerocallis-chicago-fire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:EO5XM7UFV2RXZ2TIVSUYQBPNNVTTRWG3", "length": 1749, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.vanzelst.com", "title": "Hemerocallis 'Chicago Fire' - Van Zelst", "raw_content": "Chicago Fire Daylily features bold ruby-red trumpet-shaped flowers with chartreuse throats at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.\nChicago Fire Daylily is an herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.\nThis is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.\nChicago Fire Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications;\nGeneral Garden Use\nChicago Fire Daylily will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.\nThis plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 7293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vehiclesshow.com/things-to-consider-about-moving-to-new-york-city-and-using-rental-trucks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MLTHDBXSVKWTXV2XQXRLTPCJUFXQALCN", "length": 2220, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.vehiclesshow.com", "title": "Things to Consider About Moving to New York City and Using Rental Trucks | Vehicles Show", "raw_content": "Things to Consider About Moving to New York City and Using Rental Trucks\nMoving up the corporate ladder is a goal for many people working in business. It\u2019s exciting when they get hired by a firm in Manhattan and start planning their move to the city. They still aren\u2019t at a level where the company will pay for the entire move, although they may receive a stipend for this purpose. They may want to lease one of the Rental Trucks available in the city to move their stuff to the new apartment.\nBefore taking this step, the person should consider how familiar he or she is with driving around New York. Traffic tends to be very congested here. The person also must be comfortable with the idea of maneuvering this oversized vehicle, especially in heavy traffic. Not everyone is. Nevertheless, if they really want to live here and they don\u2019t want to pay movers, Rental Trucks provide a suitable option.\nEven though someone has spent a lot of time in Manhattan, he or she still probably has some misconceptions of what it\u2019s like to live there. It\u2019s an incredibly busy, crowded and noisy place that many justifiably call the world\u2019s best city. The sheer level of sensory stimulation can become overwhelming to practically anyone, and especially to someone who has just moved there.\nSteep Apartment Rent\nApartment prices are steep. Many people start out with a roommate share, having a private bedroom with a shared bathroom. Choosing a place above 110th Street will keep costs significantly lower for comparable apartments.\nEven when sharing an apartment with one bathroom, the rent for one person can be expected to be at least $1,000 per month and often much higher. People can expect to live in a place of less than 800 sq. ft. for that price range. The sticker shock when beginning the search leads many individuals to look at other boroughs.\nBeing able to lease a truck from a company like C.C. Rental helps make the initial process of moving and settling in easier, whether the person chooses Manhattan or a different part of the city. Having plenty of help from friends and relatives will be important, since moving an apartment full of belongings is a big job. You can connect with them on Facebook for more updates!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.venicecollection.com/carnival-palace/en/4-star-superior-hotel-venice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:AM3BUWNTPOQQFNV6CPXU423ELN6JI3BA", "length": 879, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.venicecollection.com", "title": "Discover the Carnival Palace Hotel, elegant 4-Star Superior in Venice", "raw_content": "Your charming haven in Venice\nOverlooking the Cannaregio Canal in historic downtown Venice, the Carnival Palace is an exclusive, sophisticated 4*S-star boutique hotel, tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the city, perfect for those who would love to discover the real Venice.\nThe sophisticated elegance of Carnival Palace Hotel is clear from its captivating and romantic contemporary design, which brings to mind the most elegant and authentic Venetian furnishings. The hotel offers 67 comfortable and spacious rooms, all with their own unique style and charm with views of the garden or the Cannaregio Canal.\nRun by a young couple of hoteliers with the support of a multilingual staff that will take care of your every need, the hotel is easy to reach from the airport and is just a few steps from public transportation hubs, the train station and Venice parking terminal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/texas-now-free-of-vs-but-colorado-isnt/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6LWO67APCRSIIE5BN2H6DM47F743PMVG", "length": 2199, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.veterinarypracticenews.com", "title": "Texas Now Free of VS, But Colorado Isn\u2019t - Veterinary Practice News", "raw_content": "Texas Now Free of VS, But Colorado Isn\u2019t\nFor the first time since May, Texas has no active cases of vesicular stomatitis, but Colorado authorities are still dealing with the disease.\nOutbreaks of vesicular stomatitis have been limited to the western United States since the 1980s, according to The Merck Veterinary Manual.\nAn outbreak of vesicular stomatitis appears to have run its course in Texas, but dozens of locations in Colorado remain under quarantine.\nThe Texas Animal Health Commission last week reported no active cases of vesicular stomatitis (VS), a viral disease that forms blisters on the mouth, tongue, muzzle, teats or hooves of horses and cattle, making eating and drinking painful or difficult. Pigs, sheep, goats and llamas may be stricken as well.\nThe first Texas case of the year was identified in late May in Kinney County. In the end, 62 premises in 13 counties were quarantined, bringing restrictions on the movement of infected or exposed animals.\nThe release of the last two quarantined premises\u2014in Bastrop and Travis counties\u2014marked what Texas authorities hope is the end of VS. Until May, the state had gone five years without a confirmed VS case.\n\u201cI would like to thank all cattle and equine owners and Texas veterinarians for the constant support and generous help with harnessing the spread of VS,\u201d said Dee Ellis, DVM, the state veterinarian and executive director of the Texas Animal Health Commission. \u201cAll livestock that were tested positive for VS this year have been released because of the supportive care by veterinarians and caretakers.\u201d\nVS remains a threat in Colorado. Under quarantine as of Oct. 15 were 65 premises in 14 counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Jefferson, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Otero, Pueblo and Weld.\nColorado has reported positive VS tests at 326 locations, starting in mid-July in Weld County.\nTexas and Colorado are the only states with VS cases this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\nVesicular stomatitis is believed to be transmitted through insects such as sand flies and black flies, contaminated equipment and the introduction of infected animals into disease-free herds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.victoryrecords.com/news/1732/full-length-cds-for-new-price", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:24Z", "digest": "sha1:J52HVZ4AXY5OD6WWZFUVVTCEIMSWI6YC", "length": 2404, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.victoryrecords.com", "title": "Full Length CDs for NEW Price - Victory Records", "raw_content": "Full Length CDs for NEW Price\nWednesday, June 05 2013 All of our full length CDs from your favorite Victory Records' artists are now available for $9.98 through VictoryMerch.com. With a price this low, Victory Records has made it easy to rediscover and catch up on all of the best punk, hardcore, metal, rock, ska, and more.\nHead over to VictoryMerch.com now.\nSummer Catalog Available NOW\nWednesday, June 05 2013 The Victory Records 2013 Summer Merchandise Catalog is now online and available for download. Check out new designs and merch items from A DAY TO REMEMBER, REVEREND HORTON HEAT, DESIGN THE SKYLINE, THE BUNNY THE BEAR and many more.\nTear Out The Heart on AmazonMP3\nWednesday, June 05 2013 AmazonMP3 has featured St. Louis metalcore band TEAR OUT THE HEART in their \"Artists On The Rise\" promotion going on now through July 1st.\nCounterparts Pre-Order Package\nTuesday, June 04 2013 Canadian hardcore band COUNTERPARTS have announced their third studio album will be titled The Difference Between Hell And Home. The album is set for release on July 23rd. Summoning their fiery attitudes, most intimate feelings and spitting aggression, COUNTERPARTS return with their most progressive release to date. There are eight pre-order package options available for The Difference Between Hell And Home that include a sticker and your choice of a CD or LP; additional packages include your choice of a t-shirt, crewneck sweatshirt, gym shorts and a slick patch. Pre-order your package at VictoryMerch.com today.\nCONTINENTS Premiere New Music Video\nFriday, May 31 2013 Hardcore band CONTINENTS have premiered a music video for \"Pegasus, Pegasus\u201d, the dynamic track from their Victory Records\u2019 debut album Idle Hands, on VEVO. Watch the video for an exclusive look into their explosive live performance and crazy antics as they transport music fans from all over the world, straight into the middle of their chaotic and energy-filled pits.\nWATCH \u201cPEGASUS, PEGASUS\u201d HERE\nERIMHA Full Song Stream\nFriday, May 31 2013 ERIMHA have announced their forthcoming studio album will be titled Reign Through Immortality. The album will be released on July 9th. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOSPSY/ MYTHOSIS), Reign Through Immortality demonstrates dramatically intense and punishingly savage symphonic metal. 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And since citizens of this country have not been supported with Vietnam visa on arrival, they have only one option which is to directly contact the Vietnam Embassy in neighboring countries or in any country before their trip to Vietnam for Vietnam visa application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vikingcruises.com/about-us/awards.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2TU3BW6ZUDFJYYD7TBF6ISWGYULKXTSG", "length": 12636, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "www.vikingcruises.com", "title": "Awards & Accolades | Viking Cruises", "raw_content": "Viking River Cruise Awards\nViking Ocean Cruise Awards\nWORLD\u2019S BEST AWARDS \u2013 14 YEARS OF RECOGNITION\nViking River Cruises has been recognized as the World\u2019s Best by Travel + Leisure readers in the 2018 World\u2019s Best Awards and has been recognized 14 times since 2004.\nIn 2015, Viking earned the highest score of all river and ocean cruise lines in the magazine\u2019s annual World\u2019s Best List. Viking was also named the #1 River Cruise Line on Travel + Leisure\u2019s 2012 and 2015 World\u2019s Best Lists.\nREADERS\u2019 CHOICE AWARDS - #1 RIVER CRUISE LINE\nIn these annual awards, Viking has been recognized twelve times from 2002 to 2017 and has scored in the top of the list every year since the river cruise category was introduced. In 2017, Viking was voted the #1 River Cruise Line\u2014higher than any other river cruise line. Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler states, \u201cComplimentary Wi-Fi and select shore excursions encourage passengers to share experiences both on land and on the water, and Viking\u2019s \u2018Culture Curriculum\u2019 offers experiential learning through events like regional wine tastings and menus that change with the season.\u201d\nEDITORS\u2019 PICKS AWARDS - 8 YEARS OF RECOGNITION\nFor eight consecutive years Viking has been honored with awards including \u201cBest River Cruise Line,\u201d \u201cBest New River Ships\u201d for the Viking Longships, \u201cBest River Cruise Itineraries,\u201d \u201cBest Enrichment,\u201d \u201cBest Shore Excursions\u201d and \u201cBest for First-Timers.\u201d Cruise Critic states, \u201cIn an expanding river market, Viking continues to reign.\u201d\n10BEST READERS\u2019 CHOICE AWARDS \u2013 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016\nFor the fourth consecutive year, Viking was named \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d in USA Today\u2019s 10Best Readers\u2019 Choice Awards. Additionally, three Viking Longships placed in the \u201cTop 10\u201d for \u201cBest River Ship\u201d with Viking Hild coming in at #1. Nominated by travel experts and voted on by travelers, Viking was recognized for its \u201call-inclusive cruises, outside staterooms, WiFi, wine and beer with meals, shore excursions in every port and signature Culture Curriculum program.\u201d\nCRUISERS\u2019 CHOICE DESTINATION AWARDS - 2018\nIn 2018, Viking was rated one of the top European River Cruise Lines in Cruise Critic\u2019s Cruisers\u2019 Choice Destination Awards. The Cruisers\u2019 Choice Destination Awards highlight the world\u2019s best destinations and cruise lines, based solely on member reviews published on the Cruise Critic website.\nAFAR TRAVEL\nTRAVELERS\u2019 CHOICE AWARDS \u2013 2017\nViking was named \u201cBest Danube River Cruise Operator\u201d in AFAR magazine\u2019s Travelers\u2019 Choice Awards. Travelers chose Viking Rivers Cruises for its small ships, elegant staterooms, regional Austrian and Hungarian cuisine and expert staff.\nCRUISE AWARDS - 2016\nIn the 2016 Town & Country Cruise Awards, Viking Longships were awarded \u201cBest for Suites\u201d and \u201cBest for Design.\u201d Town & Country editor remarked, \u201cThe simple Scandinavian design of Viking\u2019s nearly 50 newly built Longships makes the best use of space we\u2019ve seen.\u201d\nFAN AWARDS - 2017, 2016, 2015\nCruise Fever fans named Viking \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d for the third year in a row in the 2017 Cruise Fever Fan Awards.\nPORTHOLE CRUISE\nREADER\u2019S CHOICE AWARDS \u2013 2016, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008\nViking has been honored five times by Porthole Cruise Magazine readers, with awards including \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d and \u201cBest River Ship.\u201d\nCRUISEREPORT.COM\nEDITORS\u2019 CHOICE AWARDS - 2016, 2012, 2007, 2006\nCruiseReport.com honored Viking River Cruises with \u201cBest River Cruise Accommodations\u201d in their 2016 Editors\u2019 Choice Awards. Previously, Viking has been named \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d three times, and in 2012 was named \u201cBest Way to See Russia.\u201d\nWAVE AWARDS - 11 TIME WINNER\nViking has now been named \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d eleven consecutive times (2006 to 2016) by this prestigious travel industry publication in their WAVE Awards.\nREADERS CHOICE AWARDS - 12 TIME WINNER\nViking has now been named \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d twelve consecutive times (2006 to 2017) by this prestigious travel industry publication in its Readers Choice Awards. Viking Longship Tor and Viking Longship Magni were also awarded \u201cBest River Cruise Ship\u201d in 2015 and 2014, respectively.\nAWARDS OF EXCELLENCE - 5 TIME WINNER\nIn 2018, Viking was recognized for the second consecutive year as the first and only cruise line to win both rivers and oceans categories in the prestigious luxury trade awards: Best Luxury River Cruise Company (for the fifth time) and Best Luxury Ocean Cruise Company (for the second time).\nFor the eleventh consecutive time, Recommend magazine awarded Viking \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d in its Readers\u2019 Choice Awards.\nWORLD\u2019S BEST CRUISES - 2016, 2015\nViking was honored on Fodor\u2019s Travel 10 Best River Cruises for 2016, and in 2015 received the \u201cWorld's Best Cruises for 2015\u201d award for its Legends of the Rhine.\nThe River Cruise Innovation Award was presented to Viking in 2011 for our innovative Viking Longships. This was the first award presented to \u201ca company, organization or individual who has provided an exceptional service, or product or initiative in the river cruise sector.\u201d\nBEST IN TRAVEL - 2017\nIn search of the \u201cBest Cruises for Your Money,\u201d Money magazine named Viking River Cruises the \u201cBest River Cruise Line\u201d for providing \u201cthe greatest choice of waterways, ports, and cruising dates . . .\u201d while also offering exceptional value.\nWORLD\u2019S BEST AWARDS - 2018, 2017, 2016\nFor the third year in a row, Viking was named a #1 Ocean Cruise Line by Travel + Leisure readers in the World\u2019s Best Awards 2018. This award reinforces our position as a formidable industry leader.\nViking won the same Ocean Cruise Line award in 2016 and 2017, overtaking the spot previously held by a luxury cruise line for 20 years. Viking is immensely proud of receiving this honor just one year after its first oceangoing vessel, Viking Star, set sail on her maiden voyage.\nCRUISERS\u2019 CHOICE AWARDS - 2018, 2017, 2016\nIn 2018, Viking Star, Viking Sea and Viking Sky received 10 first place honors in the Cruise Critic 8th Annual Cruisers\u2019 Choice Awards. Viking Sea received First Place in six award categories: Best Overall Ship, Best Cabins, Best for Fitness & Recreation, Best for First-Timers, Best Shore Excursions and Best Value-for-Money. Viking Star received First Place in two award categories: Best Dining and Best Service. And Viking Sky, in its first year of service, also received First Place in two award categories: Best Public Rooms and Best Entertainment. The Cruisers\u2019 Choice Awards name the best cruise ships in the world, based solely on ratings submitted with member reviews published on the Cruise Critic website.\nEDITORS\u2019 PICKS AWARDS - 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015\nIn 2018, the international team of Cruise Critic editors awarded more honors to Viking than any other cruise line. Viking led the luxury ocean cruise category with three prestigious awards\u2014including \u201cBest Luxury Value for Money,\u201d \u201cBest Luxury Spa\u201d and the highly coveted \u201cBest New Luxury Ship\u201d for Viking Orion. Cruise Critic notes that on top of fare inclusions, \u201cViking cruisers benefit from smartly designed cabins; gorgeous top-deck, all-weather hangouts; and destination-intensive itineraries.\u201d\nCruise Critic editors have honored Viking ocean cruises every year since the debut of our first ship, Viking Star, in 2015. That year Viking Star was named the \u201cBest New Ocean Ship,\u201d with editors noting, \u201cThe ship is so beautifully designed\u2014with terrific al fresco restaurants, a beautiful pool area, a superb spa and the two-level Explorers\u2019 observation lounge\u2014that you\u2019ll be hard-pressed to go ashore.\u201d\nEDITOR RATING: 5 STARS - 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015\nCruise Critic\u2019s team of expert editors awarded Viking\u2019s entire fleet of ocean ships\u2014Viking Orion (2018), Viking Sun (2017), Viking Sky (2017), Viking Sea (2016) and Viking Star (2015) \u2014with their highest rating: 5 stars. They stated that Viking Sea \u201cis a stunning vessel that seamlessly integrates comfort and modern, Scandinavian style. The ship's small size means it rarely feels busy and is able to get into ports bigger ships can't reach.\u201d About Viking Star they noted her to be \u201cone of cruising's most beautiful small ships.\u201d\nIn 2018, Viking swept the small ship cruise line category, winning Best Cruise Line for the following destinations: the Baltic and Scandinavia, western Mediterranean, the British Isles and Western Europe, and western Caribbean and Riviera Maya.\nWORLD\u2019S GREATEST PLACES \u2013 2018\nViking Orion was named one of the World\u2019s Best Places to Stay for 2018. Highlighting an \u201cout-of-this-world experience\u201d, TIME praises Viking Orion\u2019s onboard planetarium (the most advanced on an ocean ship) as well as onboard lectures on astronomy and space exploration led by resident astronomer Howard Parkin.\nViking received three first place honors in the 2018 AFAR Travelers\u2019 Choice Awards. Named \u201cBest Cruise Line\u201d in its category, \u201cBest Mediterranean Cruise Line\u201d and \u201cBest Northern Europe Cruise Line,\u201d Viking was chosen for its \u201cluxurious\u201d amenities, in-depth cultural experiences and picturesque itineraries.\nBERLITZ CRUISING & CRUISE SHIPS GUIDE\n#1 SHIP - 2017, 2016\nIn its Cruising & Cruise Ships 2017 edition, Berlitz rated Viking Sea first in her category, noting her \u201cmany elegant touches\u201d and \u201cexcellent inclusive value.\u201d This year, Viking Star, which was rated highest in her category in 2016, earned second place behind her sister ship Viking Sea.\nIn 2019, Viking Sea was proudly named \u201cBest Small Ship\u201d with Viking Sky also taking top honors in the same category. Additionally, Viking was named a \u201cTop 10\u201d ocean cruise line for the fourth year in a row and both Viking Star and Viking Sea were recognized in the \u201cTop 10\u201d for \u201cBest Cruise Ship for Dining.\u201d Nominated by a panel of travel experts and voted on by travelers, Viking was recognized for its \u201cdestination-focused itineraries,\u201d \u201ctop-notch service,\u201d and well-appointed, all-veranda staterooms.\nCRUISE AWARDS - 2017, 2016\nViking received two honors in the 2017 Town & Country Cruise Awards. Viking Star, Viking Sea, Viking Sky and Viking Sun were recognized in the \u201cBest Aboard\u201d category stating \u201cthe spas on all four ships are the most beautiful at sea\u201d. Viking was also recognized in \u201cBest Sports Marinas\u201d for its destinations.\nIn the 2016 Town & Country Cruise Awards, Viking Star and Viking Sea were awarded \u201cBest Overall Contemporary Luxury Cruise Line\u201d and \u201cBest for Design Contemporary Luxury Cruise Line.\u201d Town & Country comments, \u201cThe Viking ocean design philosophy holds that ships should be elegant and comfortable and never overwhelm the real purpose of cruising: to see the world.\u201d\nAWARDS OF EXCELLENCE - 2018, 2017\nIn 2018, Viking was recognized for the second consecutive year as the first and only cruise line to win both rivers and oceans categories in the prestigious luxury trade awards: Best Luxury Ocean Cruise Company (for the second time) and Best Luxury River Cruise Company (for the fifth time).\nViking was named \u201cBest Ocean Cruise Line\u201d in its class by Money magazine for exceeding expectations in cost, cleanliness, customer satisfaction and overall value.\nFAN AWARDS \u2013 2017\nCruise Fever fans named Viking \u201cBest Luxury Cruise Line\u201d in the 2017 Cruise Fever Fan Awards.\nWORLD\u2019S BEST CRUISES - 2016\nViking was honored to be named one of Fodor\u2019s Travel \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Cruises for 2016.\u201d Fodor\u2019s Travel recognized Viking Star and Viking Sea for the \u201cinfinity pool off the stern, Snow Grotto spa room, luminous Wintergarden tearoom and all-balcony staterooms.\u201d\nEDITOR-IN-CHIEF AWARDS \u2013 2016\nViking Star was named for the first time as \u201cBest New Breakout Ship\u201d in the annual Porthole Cruise Editor-in-Chief Awards.\nREADER\u2019S CHOICE AWARDS \u2013 2015\nViking Star was honored for the first time as \u201cBest Medium-Sized Ship\u201d (500-2,000 guests) in the 17th annual Porthole Cruise Magazine Readers\u2019 Choice Awards.\nBEST OF YEAR AWARDS - 2015\nThe preeminent design competition \u2013 hosted by the industry-leading publication \u2013 celebrates superior interior design projects and products. Viking Star was honored in the 2015 edition, with the Living Room, Wintergarden and Explorers\u2019 Lounge receiving special nods for their unique and stunning design.\nBEST NEW LUXURY CRUISES - 2015\nIn a roundup of the most luxurious and design-forward vessels sailing today, Viking Star took top billing.\nBEST MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE - 2015\nRated among its best cruises of 2015, the Travel Channel honored Viking with \u201cBest Mediterranean Cruise.\u201d The cable network also recognized Viking for \u201cliving up to the reputation of its acclaimed sister line while offering perks all its own.\u201d\nPage Awards & Accolades | Viking Cruises Viking Cruises includes the most award-winning river cruise line in the industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 16222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.villaplus.com/destinations/villas-in-greek-islands/corfu/roda", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DIFJZO7JCQQZPYUGXCZL3IDXF7SEYJSB", "length": 1474, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.villaplus.com", "title": "Villas In Roda | Roda Villas | Villa Plus", "raw_content": "Holiday Villas in Roda Resort\nRoda is located on the far North Coast of Corfu, close to Acharavi. The resort was once a small fishing village but over time has been built up to form a large traditional resort, popular with families. Many of the restaurants have entertainment and live music and you\u2019ll find everything from traditional Greek tavernas to English cafes. The main town runs alongside the beach which is made of sand and pebble, with clear shallow water. For anyone wanting to see more of the island, Acharavi is only a short drive along the coast, or you have the opportunity to explore by sea by hiring your own boat!\nExploring Roda On Villa Holidays\nThe pleasant resort of Roda has grown over time to form one of the larger resorts on the island. Although the resort has a number of contemporary Greek tavernas offering live entertainment and music, a small selection of more traditional older buildings from the original fishing village can still be found. You can also find a choice of souvenir shops as well as mini markets for your daily shop. The resort centre is right on the coast, running side by side with the beach \u2013 a mile-long stretch of sand and pebbles with clear, shallow water, ideal for swimming and snorkelling.\nAnyone wanting to see more of what this beautiful Ionian Island has to offer will find the resorts of Sidari and Acharavi, as well as Corfu\u2019s highest point, Mount Pantokrator, all within a short drive.\nVilla Marilisa, Roda, Corfu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 6379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.villaplus.com/destinations/villas-in-greek-islands/kefalonia", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NLLU3PEFW5BYPCDBVZVGBUGZBX3SSDIS", "length": 24126, "nlines": 91, "source_domain": "www.villaplus.com", "title": "Kefalonia Villas To Rent | Kefalonia Villa Holidays | Self Catering Private Villas | Villa Plus", "raw_content": "Kefalonia Villa Holidays\nImagine it - churches and monasteries perch precariously on cliff tops gazing down onto secluded sandy coves and timeless, untouched villages. Add the spectacular scenery, traditional tavernas, perfumed pine forests, stunning white beaches and warm hospitality, and you have somewhere very special for your holiday. A earthquake in 1953 destroyed most of the buildings in Kefalonia\u2019s 365 villages apart from Fiskardo in the very north. As a result, the whole island had to be rebuilt, Kefalonia is probably the least developed or commercialised of the Ionian Islands although it is the largest and arguably the most beautiful. Kefalonia is a peaceful place but not at all dull \u2013 perfect if you need a tranquil holiday in the sun. Lots of our villas here have fantastic views as many of the towns and villages were built on hills and mountain tops to avoid invasion in the 1820s and then rebuilt on the same sites after the earthquake of 1953. There are attractive seaside towns and more remote villages deep in the countryside.\nDownload Kefalonia resort guide(pdf)\nA fantastic, mixed scenery\nLocation for Captain Correlli's Mandolin\nEvery villa has a sea view!\nA wide range of beach types\nGorgeous water front resorts\nYour Kefalonia Guide\nIf you want the amenities of a lively town close at hand, you could choose a villa in Fiskardo, which is unique in that most of 18th the century candy-coloured Venetian buildings lining the horseshoe shaped harbour are still intact. The old buildings look particularly fine in the mellow light before sunset, when you are strolling along narrow streets brightened by tumbling cascades of vivid Bougainvillea. The food in the busy, family-run tavernas that line the waterfront tends to be classic Greek fare such as lamb kleftiko and stifado, and of course there is always fresh fish on the menu. If you want the sea but not the crowds, the tiny fishing village Katelios is a great choice as the 2 sand and shingle beaches, Agia Varvara and Agia Barbara are rarely busy. If you are keen on walking, cycling or horse riding, Trapezaki set amongst rugged hills, cypress trees and olive groves makes an ideal base for exploring the lush countryside on paths and trails rather than roads.\nVilla Plus in Kefalonia\nOur quietest villa is probably in Spartia, an old-school traditional Kefalonian village that is almost untouched by modern tourism. It has a slow pace and the natural rhythms of a small farming and fishing community. Not far away we have villas in Lassi, a purpose-built town with all the right ingredients for a top holiday resort, 2 sandy beaches complete with sun loungers and water sports, lively nightlife and a main street packed with bars and restaurants. Our clients love both places, so it all depends on you \u2013 your style and taste, and what kind of holiday you are dreaming of. All our villas in Kefalonia are different, and they are all special. The view may vary, but the quality does not. Our philosophy is simple. We want you to be happy. So, lazing by the pool or flying high on jet-skis? A hillside village inland or a man-made holiday resort on the beach? Whatever you go for, we want you to love it, and we are confident that you will.\nVilla Alkiona, Old Skala, Kefalonia\nVilla Panmaria, Svoronata, Kefalonia\nHome to the Hollywood blockbuster, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, this laid-back Greek island is perfect for those seeking stunning scenery!\nMost of our villas are located in the south of the Island. If you\u2019re looking for a holiday with the sea but not the crowds, the tiny fishing village Katelios is a great choice as the 2 sand and shingle beaches, Agia Varvara and Agia Barbara are rarely busy. If you are keen on walking, cycling or horse riding, Trapezaki set amongst rugged hills, cypress trees and olive groves makes an ideal base for exploring the lush countryside on paths and trails rather than roads. Or there\u2019s Skala - once a small fishing village which has grown into a modern seaside town with many restaurants and tavernas lining the main street leading down to the beach.\nIn the North, the harbourside town of Fiskardo is beautiful - the seafront is lined with quaint shops and restaurants overlooking the yachts moored by the water\u2019s edge. Most of 18th century candy-coloured Venetian buildings lining the horseshoe shaped harbour are still intact, which makes the perfect spot to dine by day, or night. The food in the busy, family-run tavernas tends to be classic Greek fare such as lamb kleftiko and stifado, and of course there is always fresh fish on the menu.\nFiskardo is a picturesque and beautiful Greek harbour village on the northern tip of Kefalonia, set among rugged hills, cypress trees and olive groves, with wonderful views across the water to the neighbouring islands of Ithaka and Lefkas.\nKatelios is a great choice if you want a bit of peace! This tiny fishing village on the South West Coast of Kefalonia between Skala and Lourdas was not much more than an overgrown hamlet until relatively recently. Even now the 2 sand and shingle beaches, Agia Varvara and Agia Barbara are rarely crowded.\nLike many villages on the island, the main part of this resort, called Lourdata is slightly inland, built to resist coastal raids by maurading pirates. Lordas is the beach part further down. If you are travelling on the main road towards Kefalonia\u2019s capital, Argostoli, you take a sharp left down a winding road down a steep hill. The village is halfway down and the beach and seaside part of the resort is a further trek down the hill after that.\nOld Skala\nOld Skala is a most unusual village with new life growing from the ruins of the original village. There has been a village on the site for centuries, built on a hillside slightly inland as protection against pirate raids. It was called \u2018Skala\u2019, the Greek word for stairs because there are rather a lot of them.\nSkala is an interesting tale of two halves on the South East tip of Kefalonia. At the bottom of the hill you have a modern Greek seaside town with an excellent Blue Flag beach in a lovely setting. There are lots of hotels and self-catering holiday apartments and plenty of shops, restaurants and bars.\nSpartia, on the South Coast of the island between the airport and St Thomas, is an old-school traditional Kefalonian village. Not yet very developed for tourists and so almost unspoilt, it has a slow pace and the natural rhythms of a small farming and fishing community.\nSituated on the South coast of the Island, Svoronata is a sprawling village which has slowly developed into a small resort due to its proximity to 3 sandy beaches. Set on a gentle hillside which slopes down towards the sea, the area is largely flat making it ideal to explore on foot. The countryside around is filled with olive groves and cypress trees and there are magnificent panoramic views from the dramatic green of Mount Ainos to the beautiful blue of the Ionian Ocean. The village was one of the few not completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1953 and many beautiful old buildings survived, including the church of St Nicholas with its imposing bell tower. Although only a short drive from the airport the area is quiet and peaceful, making it popular with couples and families. The village boasts three mini-markets, a handful of tavernas, a couple of bars and a petrol station. For those wanting more exciting nightlife the livelier resort of Lassi is only a 15 minute drive. Nearby are the beaches of Ammes, Ai Helis and Avithos. The capital of Argostoli is just a 20 minute drive away. In recent years a small marina has been built close to the village at Agia Pelagia. Originally a small cove and home to local fishing vessels it has been developed to attract the many passing summer yachts.\nTrapezaki is relatively new as a holiday destination. Still under the radar of most travel companies, it remains a quiet, largely unspoiled rural area well off the beaten track. From the foothills of the mountain there are superb views across to the nearby island of Zante. The fine sandy beach here is lined with palm trees offering some shade, and there is usually a gentle breeze that keeps the shore at a comfortable temperature.\nA picturesque fishing village in the Pyllaros Valley, Agia Efimia is a great base from which to explore the North of Kefalonia. The laid-back feel in Agia Efimia means you can unwind and watch the world go by from this Ionian oasis. With plenty of great tavernas and cafes on the waterfront, an award winning beach and pretty architecture throughout, this resort is a slice of paradise.\n'Kefalonia's rich historical, cultural and agricultural heritage have bewitched visitors to her shores for centuries. With a diverse and verdant landscape, many traditional villages and miles of wonderful beaches, and a perfect Mediterranean climate it is easy to see why.\nThere is plenty to see and do on this beautiful island. To simply explore the little villages and countryside along the coast and inland is a delight in itself. There are endless beaches to try out and for the more active or for children there are more modern attractions such as water sports. If you have a real sense of adventure there are also other islands nearby, the Greek mainland and Ithaka.\nDrive To Mount Ainos\nMount Ainos, which is higher than Ben Nevis, dominates the whole island. The Forest of Ainos has been a National Park since 1962 and is protected by the Greek state. The mountain is covered in a type of fir tree unique to Greece. In the days when the Venetians ruled, this place was called Monte Nero or the black mountain because the Kefalonian Fir trees were so thick and dark - and there used to be more of them! You can actually get right to the topof Mount Ainos by car although the road is very rough and you might be taking a few risks with the suspension if you don\u2019t have a 4-wheel drive. You will know when you have gone as far as you can because there are radio masts at that point. As you can imagine, the view from the top is amazing on a clear day. You can see the whole of Kefalonia, most of Ithaka and parts of Zante, Meganissi and Lefkas as well as Kyllini and the mainland coast, lots of vineyards and herds of goats. Will your camera cope?\nThe best way to fully appreciate this gorgeous coastline with its small secluded bays and beaches, coves and caves is from the water. Why not pack a picnic and be the skipper of your own boat? It can be huge fun, great exercise and gives you a marvellous sense of freedom. You can drop anchor and swim with the fishes in the wonderfully clear waters. Many of the hidden little beaches along the coast can only be reached from the sea. If you arrive byboat, you might have a secret beach all to yourself. You don\u2019t need a driving licence, and will be given all the help you need even if you have no boating experience. This is a brilliant way to explore and escape the crowds.\nSee The Turtles On Kaminia Beach\nMany of the sandy beaches of Southern Kefalonia were untouched by human development until recently, which suited the Loggerhead Sea Turtles perfectly, giving them a safe place to nest, secluded from the outside world. Not far along the coast is Kaminia Beach, another haven for this increasingly rare creature. It has now been declared a conservation area.\nVisit The Roman Villa\nJust outside Scala are the interesting ruins of a 3rd century Roman villa which was excavated in 1957 to reveal 3 magnificent, remarkably well preserved mosaic floors. Part of the villa was covered by a church in in the early Christian times. Once the home of a wealthy Roman, it was discovered by accident in 1944 by the owner of the land. You can visit this site free of charge, which you must admit makes a refreshing change! If you are interested in ancient history, you might also like to visit the site of a 7th century temple dedicated to the god Apollo, with the foundation stones and parts of 3 Doric columns clearly visible. You will find the temple 2 miles along the beach road towards Poros.\nKefalonia has a remarkable range of lovely beaches to offer from long sweeps of golden sand to tiny pebbled bays and coves. What they all have in common is crystal clear water and little or no tide.\nThere are some wonderful little hidden inlets for those that explore (particularly by boat) and other long tree lined sweeps of white pebbles with water-sports, sun-loungers and the ever enticing turquoise sea perfect for swimming & snorkeling.\nAghia Jerusalem\nOff the beaten track, further South of Alaties, is a little bay of sand and shingle with a taverna which opens in high season. It is quite a long and winding road down to Aghia Jerusalem through lovely villages of crumbling Venetian houses which were not completely destroyed by the 1953 earthquake. This beach is not very well known and is a romantic spot to watch the sunset.\nAgios Thomas Beach\nAgios Thomas consists of two sandy beaches which are the nearest beaches from the village of Karavados. The first beach is a small sandy beach located just below the tavern where the road stops.\nThe second beach is larger and reachable through a rocky slab where a comfortable snack-bar can be found, offering some shade and a beautiful view over the small bay of the area\nA secluded bay on the south coast, close to the village of Svoronata, Ai Helis has unusual soft grey sand and shallow waters. Enclosed by steep imposing rocks it is safe for children and popular with families. Facilities include sunbeds, umbrellas and a cantina. A popular beach for sports, organised volley ball tournaments take place in high season. Access is via a long steep track or steps. There is free parking nearby.\nAlaties Beach\nA short drive from the Manganos crossroads, this tiny sandy beach is surrounded by smooth rock platforms on which to sunbathe. There are rock pools in the area where salt remains after evaporation of the seawater. The beach is reached by some steps below the taverna and you will find a couple of changing rooms which are quite useful as the beach is quite small.\nAmmes is located in the south-west part of the island, in the area of Svoronata, a couple of kilometres from the capital of Kefalonia. The area is situated a few minutes from the island's airport but is peaceful and full of verdant vegetation. The village of Svoronata is located a couple of kilometres from here and offers tavernas and cafes. The nice sandy beach of Ammes is surrounded by many accommodations and offers a snack-bar.\nAntisamos beach is one of the best beaches of Kefalonia and is located nearby to the village of Sami, 22 kilometres from the capital of the island. It is a beautiful and attractive pebble beach with turquoise waters, surrounded by impressive verdant hills. Thousands of visitors are attracted every summer by the natural beauty of the place. Antisamos Beach also offers a snack bar.\nA long sandy south facing beach Avithos has fine golden sand and clear waters. A short drive from Svoronata, Avithos is popular with couples, families and turtles. There is a cantina, sunbeds, umbrellas and two tavernas nearby. Surrounded by impressive grassy cliffs access is via a steep road and steps. There is a small parking area.\nDafnoudi Beach\nA secluded pebble beach, accessible by walking through a short gorge at the end of the village of old Antipata and is also frequented by motor boats visiting from Fiskardo.\nEmblisi Beach\nEmblisi is very close to the fishing village of Fiskardo. This beach is also quite popular. It's quite small with white pebbles which aren't very comfortable to sit or lie on so some sort of mat could come in handy here. Perhaps the best thing about this beach is the interesting rock structures either side of the beach. The horizontal layers of the rock can be clearly made out and they act as a unique sunbathing opportunity. The bay is almost squarein its layout and popular with families. There is plenty of parking and a snack bar.\nFoki Bay\nA deep inlet on the east coast, only a five minutes drive from Fiskardo towards Tselentata. A pretty bay surrounded by olive and pine trees, with a taverna on the opposite side of the road.\nKatelios Beach\nThe small resort of Katelios has a narrow strip of sandy beach which widens as it extends towards the southern headland. It is kept clean and well maintained during the summer months. There are generally a few sunbeds and umbrellas available. Additional shade is provided by the large waterfront trees and the selection of beach bars and tavernas which line the road directly behind the beach.\nLourdas has a long white coarse sand and pebble beach and is one of the most beautiful beaches of Kefalonia. It offers crystalline waters, sun beds, umbrellas, taverns and a few shops. The surroundings are wonderful and the massive figure of Mount Ainos can be seen in the background. There are many tavernas, plenty of parking and even an internet caf\u00e9.\nMakris Yialos Beach\nMakris Yialos is located near Argostoli. This is a very good beach for sunbathing with a larger beach that can get very busy and has a fenced off area for sunloungers. There is also a good beach bar, a couple of good restaurants serving traditional Greek food, and watersports facilities available.\nMounda Bay\nFrom the village of Ratzakli, take the road down to the long sandy beaches of Potamakia and Kaminia with warm shallow water. The bay at Mounda stretches for miles out towards Cape Mounda and it is here that the caretta caretta turtles return from great distances to lay their eggs. Learn the Turtle Code before visiting this beach and if you bring your own beach umbrella, make sure you use it as near to the shoreline as possible so as not to disturbany turtle's nests. The water is usually warm here and it is so shallow that it is quite a walk out to just get in past your knees. There is a small cantina with sun beds for hire. Great for families.\nMyrtos beach is the trademark of Kefalonia Island and is considered as one of the most beautiful beaches of the entire Ionian Islands. Located north of Argostoli (the island's capital), this impressive beach has a fine golden sand and wonderful turquoise waters (as if someone has thrown bleach in the blue sea), the whole place is surrounded by impressive and majestic vertical rocky cliffs. This pure paradise is one of the most photographed placesin Greece and attracts thousands of visitors every summer. A snack-bar, sun beds and umbrellas rentals are available on the beach.\nPessada Beach\nThere is a port at Pessada but this is well away around the headland and does not affect either of these two lovely bays. Park up near the road (there is little carpark to speak of) you walk down some nicely carved stone steps amid a riot of greenery. At the bottom there is a lovely little bay, with soft sand and clear water with plenty of rocks dotted about in the bay. To the right there is another even nicer bay just around the headland.\nPlatis Yialos is close to Makris and as its name suggests substantially smaller. As you approach it by road you can see interesting caves in the sandstone. The beach itself is smallish and flat with some lovely rocks to the side. It is less developed than Makris and quieter\nSkala beach is admittedly dramatic, with several kilometres of soft, white sand. The resort and village are well maintained and clean and the beach cleaned regularly during the summer. Skala beach is a busy resort with a wide range of tavernas, shops, swimming pools, fairly quiet bars and the usual range of tourist amenities. There is ample parking.\nSpartia Beach\nThe sheltered bay of Spartia is situated at the bottom of a flowery hillside and is protected by large outcrops of rock. Spartia beach is made up of fine sand, coming from the limestone cliffs behind and is very popular with the locals and in high season often becomes crowded with Greeks and Italians.\nTo the left of the beach is a small jetty and harbour where local fishermen moor their smallboats and just above the beach is a shady parking area and a couple of tavernas. Also a note of interest is large turtles can often be seen swimming in the bay.\nTrapezaki beach is clean, with a taverna serving lunches. It is divided into two sections, with sunbeds and umbrellas available to rent in the high season. The sand shelves slightly and is great for families with small children.\nFood & Drink in Kefalonia\nThe Greek menu contains something for everyone. Famous for their selection of smaller plates that comprise a whole meal (rather than the typical 3 courses), Greek food may share a similar palate to Italian, but the style of the cooking is rather different.\nKefalonia is just one of the idyllic Greek islands that sit in the Ionian Sea, and as such it is a great place to sample fresh sea food, but it is also a place that's known for rearing fantastic meat. Both are sold fresh in local markets and in the island's restaurants, or tavernas and estiatorios.\nFresh food and the enjoyment of it makes up a large part of the Greek culture. Eating is a social activity, and meals out are relaxed, tasty affairs. For eating outside of the local taverna, Kefalonia is a dream location for those on the hunt for entirely local produce. Though many of the shops on the quaint, upmarket streets of Fiskardo town have their colourful doors thrown wide and may feel a bit market-like, more traditional, large produce markets take place in Argostoli. Down by the harbour, you'll find fish, meat, fruit and vegetables for sale.You'll also find many highly recommended restaurants in Argostoli, a firm favourite for all food lovers visiting Kefalonia, and you can find out more in our Kefalonia resort guide.\nAs an island, Kefalonia loves seafood. Whilst the food is not spicy, it still has the taste of the Mediterranean thanks to the range of spices that are frequently used in Greek dishes, but the flavours are typically full and rich as Kefalonians still embrace the one-pot dish style of slow cooking.\nSofrito- Kefalonian dishes include Sofrito, which is veal that's been cooked in wine, herbs, garlic and vinegar which is then reduced to a thick sauce.\nStifado- a common favourite on the island. A rich, meaty stew that is usually made with dark meat like beef, rabbit or lamb.\nMoussaka- Kefalonian cuisine isn't solely slow-cooked though. Lamb, or Arni, that's marinated in olive oil and lemon juice, grilled and served on skewers is always popular, as is the Greek staple of Moussaka, where lamb, aubergines and tomatoes are layered in a dish and topped with a cheese sauce before being baked. The cheese used is typically Keftalotiri,a Greek hard cheese not too dissimilar to Parmesan.\nBaklava- Like that of many Mediterranean countries, Greek cuisine doesn't focus too heavily on the dessert part of the meal. That being said, be sure to try the baklava should you get the chance, as the light but crunchy layers of nuts and pastry also ooze with honey \u2013 often locally sourced \u2013 and create an incredible sweet treat.\nThis tasty slow-cooked pork dish couldn't be simpler to make, but never fails to impress guests. It's usually cooked in a clay oven, but an ordinary electric or gas one works just as well! This recipe serves about 8. All you need is:\n1kg pork belly, cubed\n1 glass of dry red wine\nHalf a glass of olive oil\n2 tablespoons coriander seeds, crushed\nPre-heat the oven to 160\u00b0C (325\u00b0F). Pour the red wine into a bowl with the coriander and bay leaves, then add the pork. Leave in the fridge to marinate for at least 3 or 4 hours, stirring once or twice - overnight is better if you can prepare ahead of time.\nHeat the olive oil in a large pan before draining the meat, saving the marinade. Fry the pork on all sides until it is nicely browned, but not cooked through, then transfer the pork to a casserole dish. Fry the onions until soft and translucent and add these to the dish too.\nPour over the remaining marinade and add cinnamon, salt and pepper. Give it a stir and pop it in the preheated oven for an hour, until the meat is falling apart. Serve with rice and salad.\nLourdas (14)\nOld Skala (10)\nKatelios (2)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 586, "original_length": 32373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.virginiahistory.org/learn/virginia-history-day/virginia-topic-suggestions", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUA5BP4QUNHJYRLMD6GLEZ6QDVHHA35Y", "length": 13311, "nlines": 203, "source_domain": "www.virginiahistory.org", "title": "Virginia Topic Suggestions | Virginia Museum of History & Culture", "raw_content": "Home - Learn - Virginia History Day - Virginia Topic Suggestions\n2018 Conflict and Compromise in History: Virginia Topics\nHere is a list of possible topics for your 2018 Virginia History Day project.\nAgriculture and Foodways\nCivil Rights and Race Relations\nDevelopment: Urban, Suburban, and Historic Restoration\nNew Nation, Constitution, and Bill of Rights\nLabor and Worker Rights\n1. Julien Binford\u2019s New Deal Mural in Richmond, 1942\nhttp://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/richmond-burning-how-a-controversial-mural-of-richmond-went-up/article_f3109c3d-46fc-5fd0-b667-64a903366bf7.html\n2. Old Fiddler\u2019s Convention Established in 1935: Preserving Culture through Music\nhttp://www.oldfiddlersconvention.com/history.htm\nhttps://youtu.be/S-lp42K4GpQ\nhttps://youtu.be/w8VS02uPh5E\nhttps://youtu.be/bzD8Ej05C5k\nhttps://youtu.be/gsC-zunK4xg\nhttps://youtu.be/d04vd8UBdls\n1. Tobacco\u2019s soil depletion and westward population migration\n2. Smithfield Ham: 1926 legal definition\n3. Great Moonshine Trial of Franklin County, 1935\n4. Teetotalers & Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/exhibitions/current_exhibition\n5. Repeal of the 18th Amendment\n1. Coal mining in Southwest Virginia\n2. Military Industrial Complex and the reshaping of Virginia\n3. Coca-Cola: Bottling Family Business vs. Syrup Corporation\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resources/finding-aids/central\nVirginia Historical Society Museum Catalog: http://vhs4.vahistorical.org/starweb/p.skcc-catalog/servlet.starweb?path=p.skcc-catalog/skcccatalog.web\n1. Norfolk teachers\u2019 salaries, Alston case, role of P. B. Young\n2. Massive Resistance\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/civil-rights-movement-virginia/massive\n3. Danville, 1963\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/civil-rights-movement-virginia/danville\n4. Johnson v. Virginia, 1963\n5. Loving v. Virginia, 1967\n6. Green v. School Board of New Kent County, 1968\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/civil-rights-movement-virginia/green-decision\n7. Stephen Michael Lenton: Gay Rights Advocate within the Catholic Church\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resources/finding-aids/lenton\n8. Trial of Anthony Burns, 1854\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Burns_Anthony_The_Trial_of_1854\n1. Loudoun County: Farmland and Server Farms\nhttps://www.washingtonian.com/2016/09/14/70-percent-worlds-web-traffic-flows-loudoun-county/\nhttps://youtu.be/9AVSfR706iY\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/\n2. The Pentagon\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pentagon_The#start_entry\n3. Let there be light: Electrification in Virginia\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/New_Deal_in_Virginia\nhttps://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/rural-electrification-administration-means-farm-home-1939/\nhttp://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/rural-electrification\n4. Mapping Inequality in Richmond\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/mapping-inequality\n5. Route 1 vs. Highways\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/exhibitions/no-vacancy/\n1. Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Plan for Public Education in Virginia\nhttps://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffrep.html\nhttps://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/bill-more-general-diffusion-knowledge\nhttps://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0132-0004-0079\n1. Jamestown\u2019s Starving Time, 1609\u20131610\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Starving_Time_The\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/what-you-can-see/story-virginia/explore-story-virginia/16000-bce-1622-ce/contact-and-conflic\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGcN9_Gd5zQ\nIf you want to visit Historic Jamestowne: http://historicjamestowne.org/\n2. Shenandoah National Park and Eminent Domain\n3. Kepone Disaster\n1. Jamestown brides, 1619\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/read-watch-listen/video-and-audio\nhttps://www.ft.com/content/e49d6562-398e-11e7-ac89-b01cc67cfeec\n2. Immigration and Emigration\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/exhibitions/land_we_live_in/\n1. Bacon\u2019s Rebellion, 1676\u20131677\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/node/2292\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/bacons-epitaph\nVirginia Historical Society Library Catalog: http://vhs4.vahistorical.org/starweb/d.skclmarc-opac/servlet.starweb?path=d.skclmarc-opac/skclmarcopac.web\nhttps://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm\nhttps://preservationvirginia.org/visit/property-detail/bacons-castle-bacons-rebellion\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bacon_s_Rebellion_1676-1677\nIf you want to visit Bacon's Castle: https://preservationvirginia.org/visit/historic-properties/bacons-castle\n2. Melungeons: Intermarriage, Discrimination, and Racial Stereotypes\nhttp://melungeon.org/\n3. Virginia Indian Tribes vs. Walter Plecker\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Plecker_Walter_Ashby_1861-1947#start_entry\nhttp://virginiaindianarchive.org/items/show/197\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-a-long-dead-white-supremacist-still-threatens-the-future-of-virginias-indian-tribes/2015/06/30/81be95f8-0fa4-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html?utm_term=.c3fd7766a328\n4. Indian Schools at Hampton and William & Mary\n1. United States Constitution and Bill of Rights\nVirginia Magazine of History and Biography: http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-magazine-history-and-biography/previous-issues\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/read-watch-listen/video-and-audio/james-madisons-gift-power-partnership-david-o-stewart-0\nhttps://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution?utm_source=web&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=IC\nhttp://www.montpelier.org/learn/tag/us-constitution\nhttp://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/constitutional-convention/\nHere are some relevant sites to visit related to this topic:\nVHS: http://www.vahistorical.org/\nMontpelier: http://www.montpelier.org/\nGunston Hall: http://www.gunstonhall.org/\nMount Vernon: http://www.mountvernon.org/\nNational Library of the Study of George Washington: http://www.mountvernon.org/library/\n2. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton\u2019s Compromise of 1790: District of Columbia and States\u2019 Debt\nhttp://teachingamericanhistory.org/past-programs/hfotw/07152012-2/\nhttps://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2015/05/31/the-compromise-of-1790/\nhttps://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/washington/wgICkjXd1ni4LQ\n1. Indentured servitude and hope for economic prosperity\nhttp://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org/\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/sites/default/files/uploads/sov_virginians.pdf\n2. Sharecropping\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resources/guides-researchers-2-10\n3. Sharecropper Odell Waller: Murder, Poll Taxes, and Jury Reform\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resources/recent-accessions-3\nhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0044/excerpts/excerpt_8640.html\n4. Lewis Hine: Documenting Child Labor in Virginia\n5. Child Labor vs. School Attendance in Virginia\n6. Tobacco Worker\u2019s Strike in Richmond, Va., 1940\n7. John Henry: Legend and Prison Laborer\nhttp://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2006/finding-john-henry-nelson-reveals-where-the-bodies-are-buried.php\n1. \u201cYoung Turks\u201d Revolt in the General Assembly, 1954\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/02/15/former-virginia-legislator-armistead-boothe-dies-at-82/dfb16c6a-8611-4b46-967c-8f4c4f354434/?utm_term=.f3a07692ada3\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Democratic_Party_of_Virginia#start_entry\n2. West vs. \u201cEast\u201d Virginia, 1861\u20131863\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/american-turning-point-civil-war-virginia-1/why\nhttp://www.virginiaplaces.org/regions/westva.html\n3. Missouri Compromise\n4. Compromise of 1850\n5. Union or Secession, Virginia Convention of 1861\nhttp://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/union_or_secession/\n6. The Fry-Jefferson Map: Mapping out the End of the French-British Boundary Conflict\nhttp://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/fry-jefferson/fry-jeffersonMap.asp\n1. Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, 1777\u20131786\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/thomas-jefferson\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_Statute_for_Establishing_Religious_Freedom_1786\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Debate_and_Passage_of_An_act_for_establishing_religious_Freedom_in_the_House_of_Delegates_and_the_Senate_of_Virginia_1785-1786\nhttps://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/virginia-statute-religious-freedom\n1. Reconstruction: The Underwood Convention, 1867\u20131868\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/remaking-virginia/voting/constitutional-convention\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Underwood_John_C_1809-1873\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/what-you-can-see/story-virginia/explore-story-virginia/1861-1876/reconstruction\n2. Lost Cause statues\n3. Knights of Pythias\n4. Independent Order of St. Luke and Maggie Walker\n5. Taking the Oath, southerners return to the Union\n6. John Singleton Mosby, Confederate General and U.S. Consul\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Mosby_John_Singleton_1833-1916\nhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/mosby/mosby.html\n7. Civil War reunions: Buried hatchet and forgotten former slaves\n8. Knights of Labor Convention, 1886\n9. Remaking Virginia\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/remaking-virginia/remaking-virginia\n1. John Brown\u2019s Raid at Harpers Ferry, 1859\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/portent-john-browns-raid-american-memory\nhttps://www.civilwar.org/learn/collections/john-browns-harpers-ferry-raid\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB_kbFAui-U\nIf you want to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historyculture/john-brown.htm\n2. Nat Turner\u2019s Rebellion\n3. Enslaved people adjusting to the new: climate and seasoning summer\n4. Enslaved people adjusting to the new: language and communication\n5. Enslaved people adjusting to the new: lack of freedom of expression\n6. Enslaved people adjusting to the new: foodways\n7. Robert Carter III manumission in Northern Neck\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Deed_of_Gift_Robert_Carter_III_s\nhttp://nominihallslavelegacy.com/the-deed-of-gift/\n8. The Slave Trade\nhttp://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/to-be-sold\n1. Virginia\u2019s Constitutional Convention of 1829\u20131830: East vs. West\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/West_Virginia_Creation_of#start_entry\nhttp://vagovernmentmatters.org/primary-sources/518\nhttp://www.wvculture.org/history/government/182930cc.html\nVirginia Historical Society Museum Catalog: http://vhs4.vahistorical.org/starweb/p.skcc-catalog/servlet.starweb?path...\n2. Women\u2019s Suffrage: Occoquan Workhouse Prisoner\u2019s Hunger Strike\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/equal-suffrage-league-virginia-0\n1. Wars: First Anglo-Powhatan War: Pocahontas and John Rolfe\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/First_Anglo-Powhatan_War_1609-1614\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/life-portrait-pocahontas\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/pocahontas\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/learn/educational-videos\nIf you want to visit Smith\u2019s Fort Plantation: https://preservationvirginia.org/visit/historic-properties/smiths-fort-plantation\n2. Wars: Second Anglo-Powhatan War: Opechancanough\u2019s 1622 Attacks\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anglo-Powhatan_War_Second_1622-1632\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Opechancanough_d_1646#start_entry\n3. Wars: American Revolution\nRichmond vs. Williamsburg as capital\nNegotiations with the British over the return of slaves at the end of the Revolution\n4. Wars: Civil War\nArlington House: Lee\u2019s Home and National Cemetery\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Arlington_House\nhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be-145147007/\nHot air balloons for reconnaissance in the Civil War\nSpies in the Civil War\nCaptain Sally Louisa Tompkins, CSA: Military Personnel and Hospital Health\nQuakers of Waterford in Loudoun County (http://dev2.waterfordfoundation.org/civil-war/)\nUS Colored Troops at the Battle of the Crater, 1864 (https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crater_Battle_of_the)\nIf you want to visit Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial: Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial\n5. Wars: WW1\nCamp Lee to Fort Lee\nhttps://www.virginiawwiandwwii.org/\nhttps://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fort_Lee#start_entry\n6. Wars: WWII\nWWII soldiers coming home different people\nJoining the military\u2014opportunity vs. risk\nWWII: serving while segregated\n7. Wars: Vietnam\nFighting for POWs: Phyllis Galanti and Remembering the Forgotten\nhttp://www.vahistorical.org/read-watch-listen/video-and-audio/better-or-worse-journey-pow-and-his-wife\nirginia Historical Society Library Catalog: http://vhs4.vahistorical.org/starweb/d.skclmarc-opac/servlet.starweb?path=d.skclmarc-opac/skclmarcopac.web", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 18699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitmyrtlebeach.com/blog/post/carolina-country-music-festival-what-to-know-if-youre-going/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5ATQVMEDBDK3CWUO3ITNAZGGINWWUGL2", "length": 3707, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.visitmyrtlebeach.com", "title": "Carolina Country Music Festival: What to Know if You\u2019re Going | Visit Myrtle Beach, SC", "raw_content": "Carolina Country Music Festival: What to Know if You\u2019re Going\nThe East Coast\u2019s largest 3-day outdoor country music festival is headed back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 7-10, 2018, and there is so much to look forward to this year! With new and improved sound and video throughout the festival, along with more surprise performances, we know it will be a weekend to remember. This festival seems to grow every year, and thousands are headed to Myrtle Beach to see some of the fantastic country music artists that are lined up to perform. If you\u2019re coming to visit (or thinking about it!), here is a round-up of festival information:\nThe headliner lineup for 2018\u2019s Carolina Country Music Festival is Toby Keith, Luke Bryan and the Zac Brown Band. Other artists scheduled to perform include: Brett Eldredge, Old Dominion, Chris Lane, Dylan Scott, Kane Brown, Michael Ray, Morgan Wallen, Devin Dawson, Jon Langston, Russell Dickerson, Tracy Lawrence, Deana Carter, Stephanie Quayle, Kasey Tyndall, Kennedy Fitzsimmons, Runaway Jane, Muscadine Bloodline, the James Barker Band, Josh Phillips, Tim Montana, Davisson Brothers, Jimmie Allen, Dee Jay Silver, Brett Young, and Colt Ford.\nTicket prices went up after pre-order ended May 20, but tickets are still available!\nMcDonald's CCMF Thursday Night Kick Off Concert - $49\n3-Day General Admission Access Pass - $199\n4-Day Pass Main Stage VIP Carolina Country Special - $499\n4-Day Super VIP Carolina Country Special - $1,799\n4-Day Ultimate CCMF Experience Pass - $2,199\nDiscounts are available to military personnel and first responders through GovX. You can find more information on what each level pass includes and purchase your tickets here.\nThrough a cashless wristband system, attendees will be able to pay for all onsite expenses with their wristband. Wristbands are mailed to the address on file for those who purchased tickets prior to May 20. Festival organizers recommend that those who receive their wristband in the mail prior to the event register their wristbands ahead of time to avoid long lines. You can do that here. If tickets are purchased May 21 or later, wristbands will be available for pick up at will call. The wristband is also your entry into the festival. Concert goers will also be able to pay by credit card or cash.\nCCMF is offering two different parking and shuttle pass options. A single day parking pass can be purchased for $24.99, or a 4-day parking pass can be purchased for $69.99. Both can be purchased here. For the 2018 event, attendees will be able to park at 2400 North Oak Street in downtown Myrtle Beach, just minutes from CCMF. A continuous shuttle will run from Thursday at 5 p.m. until midnight, and then Friday-Sunday from noon until midnight.\nCCMF Partnership with Disabled American Veterans\nCarolina Country Music Festival has partnered with the non-profit Disabled American Veterans to honor 10 injured vet\u2019s to watch the weekend\u2019s concerts for free. This is the second year they\u2019ve done this. The 10 selected veterans will be recognized and honored at Friday night\u2019s concert, and if you\u2019re planning to attend CCMF you won\u2019t want to miss this. It\u2019s always a moving reminder about what Memorial Day weekend is really about.\nCarolina Country Music Fest App\nOne of the neat features about this music festival is their official app. By downloading the app, festival goers are able to view the lineup, create their own personalized schedule, learn more about each performing artist and view a number of helpful maps, including a site map including locations for things like ATMs, refreshments, activities and more. 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Aside from the fact that it is now more accessible to the public, the technology that surrounds the field of virtual reality has grown leaps and bounds making the experience of being in one more amazing. Nowadays, a [\u2026]\nLong gone are the days when watching a movie is just that. Nowadays, you have the option to be fully immersed in the movie you are watching with the use of virtual reality headsets. This technology provides you with the ability to experience a world that is similar to the physical world. Since the popularity [\u2026]\nVirtual reality has been in the forefront of technology for the last few years. And with it becoming more accessible to the public, it has provided people with the overall sensory experience when watching a movie or video. Because of its gaining popularity, more and more companies have been creating different types of headsets to [\u2026]\nA few years back, the term \u201cvirtual reality\u201d would have been unfamiliar word. Nowadays, it is as common as any modern day terminology associated with technology. Being able to manipulate and explore a three-dimensional world while feeling like you are part of it can be quite a surreal experience. 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Designed with a 7-inch diameter form-and-fit factor, and employing active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance, it has the advantage of being a fire-and-forget weapon when... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nAim-120b Amraam\nAim-120c Amraam\nAim-120d Amraam\nAIM-54A Phoenix\nThe AIM-54 Phoenix is a long range radar guided Air-to-Air missile carried by the F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform. The AIM-54 where used by the US Navy and the Iranian Air Force. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nAIM-54B Phoenix\nThe AIM-7 Sparrow is a medium range semi-active radar homing Air-to-Air missile used by US armed services as well as other air forces. The Aim-7 was the wests principal beyond visual range Air-to-Air well into the 1990s. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nAIM-7F Sparrow\nAIM-9J Sidewinder\nThe AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short range Air-to-Air missile. The Sidewinder first entered service with the US Navy in 1956 and the US air force in 1964. The Sidewinder has proved itself an enduring success in the international market. It is used by most western-aligned air forces. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nEgyptian Air Force MiG-21 Fishbed\nThe Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 NATO reporting name: Fishbed is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. he MiG-21 was also used extensively in the Middle East conflicts of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force and Iraqi Air Force. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nFrance Arm\u00e9e de l'Air Mirage 2000C\nThe Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Arm\u00e9e de l'Air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several variants developed, with sales to a number of nations. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSome aircraft are equipped with Helmet Mounted Sight and Display systems that allow the pilot to lock on and fire missiles at any target he can see, not just those in front of the aircraft. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nIndia Naval Air Arm MiG-29K Fulcrum-D\nThe Mikoyan MiG-29K (Russian: \u041c\u0438\u043a\u043e\u044f\u043d \u041c\u0438\u0413-29K; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-D) is a Russian all-weathercarrier-based multirole fighter aircraft developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau. The MiG-29K was developed in the late 1980s from the MiG-29M. Mikoyan describes it as a 4++ generation aircraft. In 2004 India ordered 12 MiG-29K single-seat and 4 MiG-29KUB two-seat fighters. The MiG-29K... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nThe IRIS-T (Infra Red Imaging System Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled) is a German-led program to develop a short-range infrared homing air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder found in some NATO member countries. Any aircraft capable of firing the Sidewinder is also capable of launching the IRIS-T. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nLibyan Arab Republic Air Force MiG-23 Flogger\nThe Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 is Soviet third generation jet fighter with a variable sweep wing. It was produced in large numbers from 1970 with over 5000 aircraft being built. The Libyan Arab Republic Air Force recieved its first MiG-23s in 1974. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nThe Sukhoi Su-17 Fitter is the first variable-sweep wing aircraft deveolped in the Soviet union. It was widely exported to Eastern Bloc nations such as Libya, Angola and Peru as the Su-20 and Su-22. ... [click here for more] Talion Games Pay What You Want\nMATRA R.550 Magic 2\nThe R.550 Magic (Acronym for Missile Auto-Guid\u00e9 Interception et Combat) is a short-range air-to-air missiledesigned in 1968 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. The R.550 Magic 2 is an improved version of the R.550 Magic capable of all-aspect targeting. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nMATRA Super 530 D\nThe Matra Super 530 is a French medium range missile. The Super 530 series is an improved version of the Matra R.530 missile. The Super 530 D is carried by the Dassalut Breguet Mirage 2000 Jet fighter. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nMATRA Super 530 F\nThe Matra Super 530 is a French medium range missile. The Super 530 series is an improved version of the Matra R.530 missile. The Super 530 F is carried by the Dassalut Breguet Mirage F1 Jet fighter. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nMbda Mica Em\nThe MBDA MICA (Missile d\u2019interception, de combat et d\u2019autod\u00e9fense) is an anti-air, multi-target, fire-and-forget, short and madium-range issile system developed for use by aircraft as well as ground units and ships. The first trials occurred in 1991, and the missile was commissioned in 1996 to equip the Rafale and Mirage 2000. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nMbda Mica Ir\nSome aircraft are designed to be Reliable workhorses rather than pampered race horses. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nRNOAF F-16A Falcon\nThe General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics. Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Norway joined the original NATO-USAF partnership to replace its ageing Lockheed... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nRNOAF F-16AM Falcon\nRNOAF F-35A Lightning II\nThe Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engined, all-weather stealth multirole fighters. The fifth-generation combat aircraft is designed to perform ground-attack and air-superiority missions. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant intended for the U.S. Air Force and other air forces. It is the smallest, lightest F-35 version and is the only... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nRussia Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii Su-27SM Flanker B\nThe Sukhoi Su-27 (Russian: \u0421\u0443\u0445\u043e\u0439 \u0421\u0443-27; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a twin-engine supermaneuverablefighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large United States fourth-generation fighters such as the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle, with 3,530-kilometre (1,910 nmi) range, heavy aircraft ordnance, sophisticated avionics and high maneuverability.... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSome aircraft are designed to be able to make a very Sharp Turn. This is very usefull in a dogfight as it makes the aircraft able to outturn almost any opponent. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSignature Reduction Front\nSome aircraft are designed with Signature Reduction features. While not true Stealth, this does make the aircraft harder to detect and attack from certain directions. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSignature Reduction Front/Rear\nSpain Ej\u00e9rcito del Aire C.15 EF-18A Hornet\nThe Spanish Air Force (Ej\u00e9rcito del Aire) ordered 60 EF-18A Hornets. Refereed to as C.15, these where delivered from 1985. The C.15s where upgraded to F/A-18A+ standard, close to F/A-18C. Spanish Hornets have flown Ground Attack, Sead and Combat Air Patrol in Bosnia and Kosovo under NATO command. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSome aircraft are specially designed with Stealth features in order to avoid detection by radar. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nSome aircraft, such as the F-14 Tomcat, are equipped with variable-sweep wings, also known as Swing Wings. A Swing Wing is an aircraft wing or set of wings that can be swept back and returned to its original position while in flight. This allows the aircraft to modify it's shape and thereby its performance in flight. ... [click here for more] Talion Games Pay What You Want\nThrust Vectoring\nSome aircraft are capable of Thrust Vectoring allowing them to perform otherwise impossible manoeuvres. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Air Force C-130J Hercules\nThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles, including as a gunship (AC-130),... [click here for more] Talion Games Pay What You Want\nUS Air Force F-15C Eagle\nThe McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engined, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas to gain and maintain air supremacy in all aspects of aerial combat. Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force selected McDonnell Douglas' design in 1967 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air-superiority fighter. The Eagle first flew in July 1972,... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle\nThe McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The F-15E was designed in the 1980s for long-range, high-speed interdiction without relying on escort or electronic-warfare aircraft. United States Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagles can be distinguished from other U.S. Eagle variants by darker aircraft camouflage... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nThe Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation, single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The result of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighterprogram, the aircraft was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but also has ground attack, electronic warfare, and signal intelligence capabilities. The prime contractor,... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Air Force F-35A Lightning II\nUS Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II\nThe McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family. Capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL), the aircraft was designed in the late 1970s as an Anglo-American development of the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational V/STOL aircraft. The aircraft is primarily employed... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Marine Corps AV-8B+ Harrier II\nUS Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II\nThe Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engined, all-weather stealth multirole fighters. The fifth-generation combat aircraft is designed to perform ground-attack and air-superiority missions. The F-35B is the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the aircraft. Similar in size to the A variant, the B sacrifices about a third of the A variant's fuel... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Navy F-14A Tomcat\nThe Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the first off the american teen-series fighter jets, which where developed based on air combat experience against MiG fighters over Vietnam. The F-14 made its first deployment in 1974 aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) replacing the McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the US Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00\nUS Navy F-14B Tomcat\nThe Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the first off the american teen-series fighter jets, which where developed based on air combat experience against MiG fighters over Vietnam. The F-14 made its first deployment in 1974 aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) replacing the McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the US Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and... [click here for more] Talion Games Pay What You Want\nUS Navy F-14D Super Tomcat\nUS Navy F/A-18A Hornet\nThe McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet. It was designed to serve as both a fighter and attack aircraft. The F/A-18A Hornet entered US Navy service in 1983. It is also in service with the US Marine Corps and several other nations. ... [click here for more] Talion Games $2.00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 20255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.water.ie/support/questions-and-answers/will-i-be-a-customer-of-irish-water/?set-lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EMDGMPXRIVXUICX4ESJNOEUT4STYHP5Z", "length": 604, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.water.ie", "title": "Will I be a customer of Irish Water | Irish Water", "raw_content": "You are a customer of Irish Water if your property is connected to and is supplied by the public water main for water supply and / or connected to and uses the public sewer for wastewater removal\nYou are not a customer of Irish Water if you are not connected to and do not use the public water main for your water supply. For example, if you have a private well or on a group water scheme and not connected to and do not use a public sewer for wastewater removal. For example, if you have a septic tank or onsite wastewater treatment system.\nWhat are the Irish Water VAT and Company Registration numbers?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 5781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk/sport/chairman-steps-down-1-525844", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FSRPOC4GTI2WEBQDMPLS2QQQLVF5XK7K", "length": 332, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk", "title": "Chairman steps down | Watton and Swaffham Sport News - Watton and Swaffham Times", "raw_content": "Chairman steps down\nPeter Wing has resigned as chairman of Swaffham Town FC with immediate effect.\nA club spokesman said: \u201cThe committee, players and members would like to take this opportunity to thank Peter for his generous support last season, also as principal sponsor, and obviously not forgetting previous seasons at the club.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 3805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wccstl.org/sermons/series/finding-christ-in-your-christmess", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JCDKS5OFD4SJ2G7WHGIHRUID4C77WS5G", "length": 478, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wccstl.org", "title": "Wildwood Christian Church: Wildwood, MO > Finding Christ in your Christmess", "raw_content": "The most wonderful time of the year is Christmas \u2026 or is it? Though we have big dreams, the reality of this time of the year can be challenging, frustrating and messy. Is it possible to discover the joy of Christmas even when it's messy? This baby was born to bring \u201cglad tidings of great joy.\u201d This joy comes, not when life is perfect (which it never is), but joy and peace in the midst of turmoil. This Christmas season, we will discover how we can find God in our Christmess.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wdtlaw.org/personal-injury-blog/2015/may/wdt-personal-inury-attorney-chad-tuschman-added-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KMPEBEWDCSDAQOZQ2EH2TTHVQHD2OJZG", "length": 428, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wdtlaw.org", "title": "Attorney Chad Tuschman was Added to BlueBook Society", "raw_content": "WDT Personal Inury Attorney, Chad Tuschman, Added to BlueBook Society\nWe are happy to have William DeClak Tuschman\u2019s own, Chad Tuschman, become a member of the BlueBook Society. The BlueBook Society is a trusted and credible source to find the best attorneys throughout the U.S. and we are glad to have personanl injury specialist, Chad Tuschman, to be a part of such a prestige list.\nChad Tuschman\u2019s profile can be viewed here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 4126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wearetheguard.com/label/artists/jesse-saint-john", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ECIPJERMD4Q6QVKZYWIIZDFRPIE2GBGV", "length": 3211, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wearetheguard.com", "title": "jesse saint john | We Are: The Guard", "raw_content": "Name a popstar, and chances are jesse saint john has written for them them. Camila Cabello? Yep. Charli XCX? You bet. Britney Spears? Of course. The genius behind some of the biggest and most successful global releases and your favorite songs of the past 5 years, jesse saint john is ready to step out of the shadow and into the spotlight, with his new track, \u201cMOVE,\u201d premiering on FADER.\nPulling influence from bloghaus artists that emerged from the era of MySpace like Uffie, Yeah Yeah Yeah\u2019s and The Gossip, jesse saint john\u2019s debut single harks at a new vintage style of profoundly chaotic pop that bleeds with all the energy of a punk track.\njesse\u2019s story began with friend Brooke Candy, with jesse writing her track, \u201cdas me\u201d - with witty lines and an IDGAF attitude, the song quickly went viral, blowing up the blogosphere and catching the attention of the likes of FADER, NYLON and more, who also fell in love with the brazen visuals that accompanied the track. And that also star Jesse.\n\u201cWe put the video on YouTube and they started going viral,\u201d he explains. The two went on to feature in Grimes\u2019 video, \u201cGenesis\u201d and caught the attention of Sia, a role model to jesse who opened his eyes to the opportunities he could create in songwriting, who at that point \u201cdidn\u2019t even know songwriting was a job.\u201d jesse is forever grateful for her friendship- \u201cI couldn\u2019t have asked for a better sort of first person to meet in the music industry,\u201d muses jesse\u201d. \u201cShe has remained just so kind and pure with no pretense whatsoever. She showed me that people in the music industry can be really really good people.\u201d\nIt wasn\u2019t always easy for the LA local, who growing up was always immersed in music, performing in musicals like Bye Bye Birdie. Waiting tables at Olive Garden, he never lost sight of his goal. \u201cI always believe that I was going to do something really big with my life and I really wanted to do it on my own,\u201d explains the 27 year old Los Angeles native. \u201cIt was always my journey to do it on my own terms. Even working two jobs- I was always writing, and drawing on the side, doing creative direction and directing music videos while I waited tables. I just worked really really really hard.\u201d\nSo what pushed jesse to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight? Despite being told by numerous producers and fellow songwriters that he had \u201cstar quality,\u201d or that \u201cit factor,\u201d he was always happy to remain anonymous, working behind the scenes and helping others to shape their sound.\n\u201cI love the process of collaborating. Then I started having this itch, which lead to what would become my first song, \u201cMOVE\u201d. I kept listening to it over and over. I kept feeling that if I ever did keep a song for myself, this would be my song.\u201d In a session with producer, Tim Pagnotta, responsible for artists like Walk The Moon, jesse teased the idea of keeping the song for himself. Tim agreed, telling jesse that the song \u201csounded like him\u201d.\n\u201cI felt free to explore. Getting into this whole artist thing has just been the funnest process - discovering who I am and my own sound and telling a story about me.\u201d\nSo listen to MOVE, turn it all the way up and get to know your favorite pop writer for who he is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welltec.com/event/naice-nigeria-annual-international-conference-and-exhibition/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ONC23ZR5R7NFXP6HI3L5QNKWTK3AJJFE", "length": 1119, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.welltec.com", "title": "NAICE - NIGERIA ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION", "raw_content": "NAICE which is the acronym for Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition is organized on behalf of the SPE Sections in Nigeria by the Nigeria Council.\nOver the years NAICE has grown to become the largest upstream Oil and Gas event in Africa. It holds annually in Nigeria and attracts industry practitioners at all levels, as well as key stakeholders. It has continuously served as one of the industry\u2019s opportunity to learn, debate and challenge ideas to chart the right course towards a sustainable future for the industry.\nTraditionally, NAICE holds on a rotational basis at major cities in the SPE Sections in Nigeria, however, for about 11 years (2000-2009 and 2011) it held in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. In 2010 we held a historic edition in the ancient city of Calabar and the recent editions hold in Lagos. The choice of major cities and particularly Abuja, was primarily aimed at encouraging greater government participation and to also leverage on government and industry leaders\u2019 presence to influence the direction of policies.\nOfficial website NAICE.\nDate: AUG 05-07 , 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whmi.com/news/article/master-plan-county-planning-hearing", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:E4CKBAM44NO4RM6VLOUBLH3ZFDWDHR43", "length": 1184, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.whmi.com", "title": "WHMI 93.5 Local News : Public Hearing Scheduled For County Master Plan", "raw_content": "Public Hearing Scheduled For County Master Plan\nThe Livingston County Planning Department is asking residents for input on the new Master Plan. A public hearing has been scheduled for citizens to give official comment on the proposed Master Plan, which will serve as a guide for land use development throughout the county. The Planning Department has been working on this new plan, which will be online and interactive, since early 2017. The county is currently working off of the Master Plan from 2003.\nOne central focus of the new plan is a highlighting of \u201cBest Practices.\u201d This approach allows municipalities within the Livingston County to learn what others are doing successfully and how those tactics can be applied back home. The public hearing will take place before the County Planning Commission\u2019s regular meeting, this coming Wednesday, at 6:30pm. It will take place at the Livingston County Administration Building on East Grand River, in downtown Howell.\nA copy of the plan can be found at the County Planning Department, or online at https://www.livgov.com/plan/Pages/2015-16-County-Master-Plan.aspx. (MK)\nWeb Link: https://www.livgov.com/plan/Pages/2015-16-County-M...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Net+Profit%3A+How+to+Invest+and+Compete+in+the+Wild+World+of+Internet+Business-p-9780787953195", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6NUW4R55B775BMUJTECUV3I2RTE6NTUZ", "length": 2099, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wiley.com", "title": "Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Wild World of Internet Business | Investments & Securities | General Finance & Investments | Subjects | Wiley", "raw_content": "Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Wild World of Internet Business\nPeter S. Cohan\nThe recent Internet stock crash has caused investors and managersto throw the baby out with the bath water. The gloom surroundingmany publicly traded Internet companies makes objective evaluationof their performance difficult. In Net Profit, author Peter Cohanbreaks down the complexity of the Internet market by answering twobasic questions: Who makes money on Internet-related business? Andhow do they do it? His incisive analyses of leading Internetcompanies, their competitors, and their chances for continuedgrowth pinpoint the factors that investors and managers in Internetbusiness must examine to ensure future success.\nFor excerpts and more detailed information on Net Profit, clickhere.\nPETER S. COHAN is a leading expert on technology and business and runs his own management and investment consulting practice. He is a commentator on CNBC's \"Today's Business\" and \"Power Lunch\" and is also the author of The Technology Leaders (Jossey-Bass), voted one of the top ten business books of 1997 by Management General. Additionally, Cohan was a bigtipper.com Top Tipper in 1998 and 1999, based on the leading performance of his CNBC stock picks. Validea.com gave Cohan a \"5-bulb\" rating for the six-month performance of his 2000 stock picks. He lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts.\n\"Net Profit clearly shows how to distinguish companies with successful Internet strategies from those that will be left behind in cyberspace. It is must reading for investors, executives, and anyone who wants to understand how to analyze or develop an Internet business model.\" (Fred M. Gerson, former vice president and CFO, Marimba, Inc.)\n\"Why are portal companies, with only hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, valued at tens of billions of dollars? And is this valuation justified and sustainable? In Net Profit, Peter Cohan explains why those who use the Internet to communicate with their customers will flourish, and those who do not will perish.\" (Roger Sippl, general partner, Sippl Macdonald Ventures)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 383, "original_length": 9119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/events/cybercrime-summit-2001-arm-yourself-for-crime-in-the-21st-century-january-26-28-2001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SCXXALULF5CWFZO5MLGL6TYL7FCKVFVJ", "length": 252, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wilmerhale.com", "title": "Cybercrime Summit 2001: Arm Yourself for Crime in the 21st Century | WilmerHale", "raw_content": "Cybercrime Summit 2001: Arm Yourself for Crime in the 21st Century\nJanuary 26-28, 2001 Washington, DC\nA conference by the American Society for Industrial Security focusing on recognizing, understanding and responding to today's emerging Internet crime.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 191.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wilmingtonhighdefrom1901to1999.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=140623122", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:X5LIAEGV7LXTUIG7MGZMHAFR6JOGS525", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wilmingtonhighdefrom1901to1999.com", "title": "Bob &quot;Pappy&quot; O'Brien", "raw_content": "Bob \"Pappy\" O'Brien", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 1828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 36.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.windowscentral.com/education-software-provider-blackboard-courting-windows-developers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CEYPFH6XKWYCNMA7ZRR7KKVP3WU3S52Z", "length": 1243, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.windowscentral.com", "title": "Education software provider Blackboard courting Windows developers | Windows Central", "raw_content": "Education software provider Blackboard courting Windows developers\nIf you've ever been to university there's a strong chance in many parts of the world you'll be familiar with Blackboard. A software platform used by institutions to communicate with its students on a whole host of things, as yet there aren't any official Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone applications for it. But that could be changing in the near future as the company is looking for \"a Windows 8 / Windows Phone / Windows Surface Developer to revolutionize the role of mobile technology in education.\" Sounds promising.\nIt'll be handy if interested developers are located in China \u2013 Shanghai to be more precise \u2013 but the job listing presented on LinkedIn is pretty clear. Blackboard wants someone to build kick ass applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1. Blackboard has a distinct target market, but it's a pretty huge one all the same and no doubt there's a ton of students out there who would love to have this on their phone or tablet.\nIf you're an interested developer you'll find everything you need to know here. There's no clue as to what timeline we're looking at, but it looks like we're going to see another important service come to Windows and Windows Phone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wired.com/2007/11/germans-raid-au/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:J4XBFTZJMLS6QJUZXE2XWUZWHA54FALA", "length": 1917, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wired.com", "title": "Germans Raid Auto-Bot Race | WIRED", "raw_content": "Germans Raid Auto-Bot Race\nAuthor: Michael BelfioreMichael Belfiore\nThe official rules for DARPA's robot car race require competing teams to be based in the U.S. and to be led by a U.S. citizen.\nNevertheless, German automobile engineers and computer scientists will have a strong presence at tomorrow's race, including as part of two teams \u2013Team AnnieWAY and CarOLO\u2013fielded by German research institutions and universities.\n\"We needed a native American,\" Team AnnieWAY co-founder S\u00f6ren Kammel, explains as the reason he and fellow German researcher Ben Pitzer asked Annie Lien\u2013a Chinese American working with them at the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, California\u2013to take the job of team leader.\n\"At first I thought, 'Really?'\" recalls Lien. \"Because my specialty is not robotics, it's the opposite. It's the human factors of human-computer interaction.\" Still, she was intrigued enough to ask \"How much of my free time do I have to dedicate?\"\n\"Maybe one or two days of paperwork,\" Kammel assured her, \"nothing more.\"\nBy the time Lien realized just how much paperwork being the team's interface with DARPA would require, it was too late\u2013she was hooked. The Germans even named the team after her, liking the play on words suggesting that they'd get their car running any way they could.\nAlthough the team operates under the auspices of several German research institutions and universities participating in the Collaborative Research Center on Cognitive Automobiles, it receives little financial support. \"We're the poorest team,\" says Lien.\nCarnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team and the Stanford Racing Team also have strong German influences, with engineers on loan from Germany-based Continental Automotive Systems and Volkswagen respectively.\nWhy so many Germans in the race? \"German engineering,\" explains Kammel with a smile. \"Germany is very proud of its automotive industry.\"\n#Urban Challenge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wired.com/2013/12/the-walk-step-counter-meets-39-steps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AS76X3ESD2DBYMJGJTDSV7TX6C742OBI", "length": 6699, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.wired.com", "title": "Step Counter Meets \"39 Steps\" with Fitness App \"The Walk\" | WIRED", "raw_content": "Step Counter Meets \"39 Steps\" with Fitness App \"The Walk\"\nSix to Start, creators of the narrative fitness app Zombies, Run! traded genres for their newest mobile game. In The Walk, players are thrust into the starring role of a spy thriller by adding a few extra steps to their daily walking routines.\nBy Celina Beach, originally posted at ARGNet\nWhen Six to Start created Zombies, Run!, players were given the chance to plug in a pair of headphones and lose themselves in a rich narrative, where you're asked to run to survive. And while *Zombies, Run! *doesn't require its players to run, the story and many of its game mechanics are built around promoting running. After receiving feedback from fans of the game who aren't avid runners, Six to Start and Naomi Alderman partnered with the UK Department of Health and National Health Service to release *The Walk *for iOS and Android devices last week.\n**Like Zombies, Run!, the primary feature of The Walk is its narrative, designed to provide audio accompaniment to your walking routine. Mere minutes before an apparent terrorist attack on a train station in Inverness, the player is given a package and told that it is of vital importance the package make it to Edinburgh. The attack is initiated by a group called The Burn and contains an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) which takes out all electronics, including all transportation and communication. After escaping from the train station, the package is opened and revealed to be a communication device capable of functioning after the pulse. The person on the other end becomes your guide through the chaos as you make your way on foot to deliver the package to Edinburgh.\nThe game at release contains 23 Episodes and 7 Challenges, with additional Episodes and Challenges to be released as a free update in early 2014. Episodes contain the major story elements, audio clips which are unlocked as you progress through the map.\nThe maps often contain branches which have special items or additional audio clips which enhance the story. There are also hidden landscape features which display as small white squares which, when tapped, might unlock more audio clips and help you win achievements.\nIn a Challenge, the objective is to collect as many items as possible in a 24 hour period. The challenge starts by drawing a path which takes you through all the items, and must be at least 30 minutes long. The longer the path, the longer it will take to walk, and achievements are earned depending on how much of the path you complete and items you collect.\nThe beauty of The Walk's gameplay is that all walking activity throughout the day is recorded, allowing the app to serve as a daily activity tracker. Players can start up the app, place it in their pocket or purse, and go about their daily routine to progress. Because of this focus on longer term tracking, audio clips are no longer played automatically when they are unlocked: instead, they must be actively selected from the Episode Map or Episode Select screen.\nWhile activity can be tracked as progress towards an Episode or Challenge, The Walk can also serve as a more traditional activity tracker. Activity recorded for the day is displayed at the top of the Activity Tracker, and displays both the number of steps taken, and the total time walking. Beneath that is a green line graph that displays your progress towards the daily target (initially set to 100 minutes). If you\u2019re currently playing an Episode or Challenge, progress towards completion is displayed next.\nIn the \"Last 7 Days\" section, your activity over the past 7 days is tracked in a bar chart, along with the average time spent walking each day. The \"Today\u2019s Journeys\" section breaks down the day\u2019s activities: time spent walking, in transit (such as in a car or train), and periods of inactivity. Next to each item is a globe icon which, when pressed, displays a map which shows the path taken during that activity.\nLastly, the Statistics section displays total time active, most activity in a day, average daily activity, longest walk, and longest run.\nBattery Life and Accuracy:\nIt should be noted that, while all Apple products running iOS 7 (and Android devices running 4.0 and above) can play The Walk, the app has been optimized for Apple products using the M7 motion chip which allows a higher accuracy level to be achieved with less battery power than with the accelerometer and GPS alone. This means the level of accuracy will be much higher on the iPhone 5s or 2nd Gen (Retina display) iPad Mini. For my tests, I ran the app on an iPhone 4 using just GPS and the Accelerometer. Battery life was not bad, on average of 40% used during a day of use. During the testing period, the only thing the iPhone was used for was The Walk and email over WiFi (the phone does not have a data plan). Due to the lack of an M7 chip, accuracy could not be as high as, say, my Fitbit: but to do so would be detrimental to battery life. So when running the game on older devices, be aware treks from your desk to the break room may not be accurately recorded, but longer more brisk walks will be much more accurate. If you have the latest and greatest in Apple technology, all daily walking activity will be logged more accurately.\nGame play scenarios:\nWhile testing, I played the game in a variety of situations such as the gym, specific walking workouts outside, and shopping. While in the gym, the equipment used was the elliptical and the treadmill, and while the app logged steps on both machines, the activity on the treadmill was logged more accurately. During specific outside walks, one was at a brisk pace and the other was at a more leisurely pace; both tracked steps but the brisker walk was more accurate. The best performance I noticed was when the iPhone was left in my purse with the app running while shopping.\nIt's worth noting that, at least on Apple devices, the game notifications that are sent to notify players of unlocked audio clips or collectibles do not display when you are listening to music on a separate app, since that app takes priority.\n*The Walk *was not designed to be as immersive as Zombies, Run!, to accommodate the shift in focus from tracking workouts to tracking daily fitness routines. The Walk is still a fun game with its new focus, and offers a compelling story that can be played pretty much any time, anywhere. The Walk is available on iTunes and Google Play for $4.99, with a special 20% discount to celebrate its launch taking the price down to $3.99.\nIf you\u2019ve been looking for something to motivate you to walk more\u2026 and the Fitbit or Jawbone Up are out of your price range, The Walk may be just the thing to get you moving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.woosterfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Maria-Rucker/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UPI3C72FQI63IEBPW3W6OKJ6SUFZS3E7", "length": 457, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.woosterfuneralhomes.com", "title": "Maria Rucker Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Maria Rucker\nMaria “Cookie” Elena Rucker of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma was born to Frank and Marion (Wikel) Martin on November 21, 1942 in Benton Harbor, Michigan and passed from this life on February 8, 2016 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma at the age... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Maria Rucker created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nMaria \u201cCookie\u201d Elena Rucker of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma was born...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.workingforest.com/west-fraser-acquires-seven-u-s-mills/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:43Z", "digest": "sha1:H7RDFVVTEQRNSLIVAK7FI6HMOCAUVZEL", "length": 2101, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.workingforest.com", "title": "West Fraser acquires seven U.S. mills | The Working Forest", "raw_content": "VANCOUVER \u2013 West Fraser Timber will acquire the operations of the Gilman Companies from the Howard Gilman Foundation and other shareholders for approximately US$430 million. The Gilman Companies are comprised of six sawmills and a finger\u2011joint mill in Florida and Georgia, as well as an administrative office in St. Marys, Georgia.\nThe acquisition is a further step in West Fraser\u2019s continuing expansion of its U.S. lumber operations. Upon completion of this transaction, West Fraser will have combined Canadian and U.S. lumber production capacity of 7.2 billion board feet. Canadian capacity of spruce/pine/fir (SPF) lumber will represent 57 per cent of the company\u2019s capacity and U.S. capacity of southern yellow pine (SYP) lumber will represent 43 per cent.\nThe transaction, which is also subject to U.S. regulatory approvals and customary conditions, is anticipated to close in the third quarter of 2017.\nThe operations employ approximately 900 people and have a combined annual production capacity of 700 million board feet of lumber. All of the mills produce lumber from southern yellow pine. In the 12 months ended June 30, 2017 the Gilman Companies generated EBITDA of US$67 million on estimated sales of US$330 million.\n\u201cThe Gilman Companies\u2019 strong management team combined with high margin operations fits well with our existing U.S. platform of mills,\u201d said West Fraser\u2019s President and CEO, Ted Seraphim. \u201cThis is a long\u2011term strategic move that strengthens our core lumber business and gives us increased scale and geographic diversification.\u201d\nSeraphis also said the Gilman acquisition is \u201ca rare opportunity to acquire a U.S. lumber producer of a meaningful scale with high quality facilities and a culture similar to our own.\u201d\nWest Fraser intends to finance the acquisition with cash on hand, available lines of credit and a new five\u2011year $200 million credit facility to be made available in connection with the acquisition.\nWest Fraser is a low cost producer and successful at this goal but their involvement in communities where they operate is missing compared to other corporations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-india-as-told-by-its-own-historians-volume-3-the-muhammadan-period/oclc/967390088", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ERVT6A3YBOPGZOWLTX3CGRNMV2RNQTTX", "length": 5362, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.worldcat.org", "title": "The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians, Volume 3 : The Muhammadan Period (eBook, 1871) [WorldCat.org]", "raw_content": "I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967390088 Title: The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians, Volume 3 : The Muhammadan Period Author: H M Elliot, Sir; John Dowson Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1871 ISBN/ISSN: 9781139507158 113950715X 9781108055857 1108055850 OCLC:967390088\nThe History of India, as Told by its Own Historians, Volume 3 : The Muhammadan Period\nH M Elliot, Sir; John Dowson\nCambridge library collection. Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society\neBook : EnglishView all editions and formats\nThis extensive eight-volume work was first published between 1867 and 1877 by the linguist John Dowson (1820\u201381) from the manuscripts of the colonial administrator and scholar Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1808\u201353). Before his death, hoping to bolster British colonial ideology, Elliot had intended to evaluate scores of Arabic and Persian historians of India, believing that his translations would demonstrate the violence of the Muslim rulers and 'make our native subjects more sensible of the immense advantages accruing to them under the mildness and the equity of our rule'. Volume 3 covers the period from the death of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (1246\u201366) to the rise to power of Timur (1336\u20131405) at the end of the fourteenth century. It includes Timur's purported autobiography and the fifteenth-century Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, a history of the Timurid dynasty. The appendices contain studies of contemporaneous texts, including poetry and the Travels of Ibn Battuta. Read more...\nVolltext URL des Erstver\u00f6ffentlichers\nFind more information about: H M Elliot, Sir John Dowson\nPreface; 10. Jamiu-t Tawarikh; 11. Tazjiyatu-l Amsar; 12. Tarikh-i Binakiti; 13. Tarikh-i Guzida; 14. Tarikh-i Alai; 15. Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi (1); 16. Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi (2); 17. Futuhat-i Firoz Shahi; 18. Malfuzat-i Timuri; 19. Zafar-nama; Appendices.\nHenry Miers Elliot, Edited by John Dowson.\nPublished between 1867 and 1877, this is an extensive eight-volume translation and study of the histories of Muslim India. The work is not only valuable for its translation of important extracts, but also serves as a fascinating example of the use of historiography as a colonial tool. Read more...\nAdd tags for \"The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians, Volume 3 : The Muhammadan Period\". 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Despite this, the quality of said education in Dungarpur is poor, and discourages children from attending school. Many children struggle with reading and numeracy skills, which limits their progression beyond primary school.\nOne of the biggest obstacles to improving education is the lack and location of schools. There simply aren't enough schools to accommodate the number of students, and they are often far away from their homes. Many lack basic infrastructure, like washrooms, which makes attending school problematic, especially for girls.\nOther challenges include a small number of trained teachers and inadequate teaching and learning materials. There is also a high student-to-teacher ratio in classrooms, and teachers and students are often both absent from school.\nChild labour is a big concern in the area, and the community needs to advocate for their children's educational needs. Without this, children will be more likely to drop out of school and become daily wage labourers instead.\nThe malnutrition rate among children under the age of five is high. Over 60% of children are underweight, which often causes physical stunting and developmental delays. Food security is variable and parents lack understanding about proper nutrition for children. Their weakened immune systems make children vulnerable to asthma, tuberculosis, and bronchitis.\nMany children do not receive vaccinations to protect them from disease, and education on maternal and children's health is inadequate. During the rainy season, high rainfall causes malaria outbreaks and increases the risk that children and adults will become infected.\nThere aren't enough qualified health workers in Dungarpur to provide residents with treatment and information on important issues, such as obtaining birth registration certificates. Community members often have to travel long distances to access health facilities, which discourages them from seeking necessary treatment.\nAnother challenge in Dungarpur is the lack of clean water and awareness about hygiene and sanitation. Children frequently suffer from preventable waterborne illnesses, such as diarrhea, jaundice, and worms.\nThere is a high rate of unemployment in Dungarpur. Families that earn income do so as daily wage labourers or through small business trades. Since their daily earnings are low and irregular, most families cannot meet their basic needs. Men and women alike make about 200 rupees a day, which equates to roughly CDN$4. Illiteracy, inability to gain skills, and lack of access to other income-generating activities are the reasons why many families remain in poverty.\nDungarpur's Community News\nThe Dungarpur community is located in northwest India, and is named after the many mountains in the area. The terrain here is interspersed with stony hills covered with a jungle of cactus, jojoba, salar, and with other trees and shrubs. While some sections of land allow for normal agriculture, many crops have to be grown on hilly slopes, resulting in low crop yields. Wheat, maize, and legumes are major crops.\nThe lack of jobs, access to health care, and educational facilities are some of the community's biggest challenges. Many farmers require improved training and tools to diversify their crops and increase their income. Alternate income-generating activities are needed to prevent the migration of parents and families in search of work.\nThe malnutrition rate for children under the age of five is high, and mothers lack access to maternal health care. Few children are fully immunized, which is key in preventing the spread of illnesses. Many children are dropping out of school because they have to travel so far to attend, which puts them at risk of child labour.\n3,057 young people are leading or attending child parliaments to advocate for their rights and influence local decisions\n2,480 people learned how to work with local authorities and influence decisions to improve services and child well-being\n24 health centres were improved with renovations, medical equipment or supplies to better care for children and families\n1,282 farmers learned techniques to improve crop and livestock production to better provide for their children and families\n13,484 children and adults learned about the importance of water safety, proper sanitation and hygiene to stay healthy\nStrengthen teachers skills to help them implement innovative learning programs.\nHelp students improve their reading and numeracy skills.\nEducate community members about the importance of education for children.\nIncrease the number of children attending and staying in school, especially girls.\nStrengthen parent-teacher associations to advocate for improved education and facilities.\nTeach parents about appropriate feeding practices, as well as how to detect and treat malnutrition. 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ISSA represents small, medium and large corporations, including independent and nationally affiliated firms.\nISSA is affiliated with the American Staffing Association.\nMSA is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association representing the staffing industry in Massachusetts and is the go-to resource for industry information, legislative representation, and professional development.\nFounded in 1966 as an affiliated chapter of the American Staffing Association, MSA members offer a variety of services, including temporary and contract staffing, temporary and contract to hire staffing, permanent and direct hire placement, managed services, training, human resources consulting, and related recruitment functions. All members embrace a Code of Ethics and represent the best in staffing services.\nThe MSA promotes the interests of its members through leadership in legal and legislative advocacy, public relations, education, and the establishment of high standards of ethical conduct.\nMid Atlantic Staffing Association\nMASA takes pride in the profession of recruiting for both retained and contingency jobs. They search for the best possible match for both employer and employee. MASA aims to foster the highest level of competence and business practices among its members. They are dedicated to educating their members, clients and the general public about the recruiting industry and its benefits. Promoting the growth and welfare of the recruiting profession in the region and developing a common set of ethical standards and practices is its primary goal.\nClient companies benefit from using the expertise and extensive network of MASA members. High standards and network practices ensure only the most professional behavior possible of all member firms.\nCandidates who work with MASA member firms are guaranteed strict confidentiality, and receive all available and pertinent information about the potential employer and position.\nStarting with just a dozen or so firms in 1980, MASA now boasts more than 40 firm locations throughout the mid-Atlantic area, with a concentration in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The members represent a wide variety of professions and specialties.\nMissouri, Kansas Staffing Association\nMKSSA is the trade association for the search and staffing industry within Missouri and Kansas. A non-profit organization set up to provide a resource for business and individuals alike who seek a search and/or staffing provider. MKSSA is affiliated with the American Staffing (ASA) and the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS).\nAs the staffing industry resource in Missouri and Kansas for information, education, training, and legal representation, MKSSA communicates industry matters to association members, legislative leaders, regulators, the news media, and the general public. Also offering high-powered educational programs that will provide recruiters and staffing professionals with valuable tools to enhance their performance and results.\nNew Jersey Staffing Association\nNJSA is an industry trade association of direct hire, contract and temporary staffing firms. NJSA represents members professionally engaged in all areas of personnel services including search, recruitment, placement and temporary help services. All levels of employment and vocational disciplines (from warehouse and distribution staff to scientific and medical personnel) are served by specialists among the members. NJSA is an affiliated chapter of the American Staffing Association and the National Association of Personnel Services, the national organizations representing direct hire and temporary staffing firms in all fifty states.\nFounded in 1960, the mission of the New Jersey Staffing Alliance is to be the advocate for the success and growth of NJSA members and the New Jersey staffing industry through leadership in legislation, education, ethics and professional business practices.\nNYSA is the trade association that promotes the interests of the staffing industry through legal and legislative advocacy, education, and the advancement of high standards of ethical conduct. 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With a wide range of activities, places to call home, and plentiful restaurants, bars, and clubs, New York City is the beating heart of the nation and is often referred to as the City That Never Sleeps. If you're thinking about moving to the Big Apple, here's a helpful guide to get you started on your way!\nNew York is well known as the most expensive city in the United States, but that doesn't stop people from all walks of life from flocking to the city. Despite the fact that the city has some of the highest income taxes in the country, ranging from 7% to 12%, the price of everyday products are often twice the national average found in any other city in America.\nNevertheless, if you're moving to New York, NY you most certainly won't be alone. The estimated population of the city was 8.537 million people as of July 2016, and that represents a 4.4% increase in population for the city just since the 2010 US Census. Persons under 18 years of age represent 21.6% of the population, while females in general represent 52.5% of the population in America's biggest metropolis.\nFinding the Right Place to Live\nThe mental battle that plays out in your mind between renting and buying a place to call home is never going to be more intense than it is when moving to New York, NY. The housing marking in New York City and its surrounding suburbs is best described as crazy. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the area is $1,638 per month. Think it's cheaper to buy a home at that price? You might want to think twice.\nThe average home, according to the National Association of Realtors, in the New York metro area will set you back $455,500. However, this number is dragged down by including the outlying suburbs, which are decidedly cheaper. Consider the wildly varying values of these major, popular boroughs of New York City:\nManhattan - $848,600\nBrooklyn - $557,000\nQueens - $439,500\nStaten Island - $432,600\nThe Bronx - $369,400\nDon't let the cost of living in New York scare you away from moving to the Big Apple though. With the cost of living, you get access to some of the greatest neighborhoods and a seemingly unending stream of entertainment, dining, and activities at your fingertips.\nWhere You Live Determines What You Can Do\nNow, that's not entirely 100% accurate. You can, of course, move throughout the city with ease using its system of public bussing and the subway. A tip most locals would tell you, if you're in a hurry to get anywhere, don't get in a taxi. New York's traffic jams are the stuff of nightmares.\nEach different neighborhood of New York offers something different, from actual attractions to the local vibe. Here's just a few examples to think of:\nUpper West Side: This neighborhood is popular among both newcomers and locals. The Upper West Side has a casual, residential feel that provides friendly bars, plentiful green spaces, and classic institutions of New York City culture, much of which you've likely seen in TV and movie backdrops.\nEast Village: Young newcomers to New York, NY might prefer to find a place to call home in the East Village. Here you'll find plenty of affordable bars and restaurants, 24/7 nightlife, and a lot of rental options at your fingertips.\nHarlem: Moving to New York City on a budget? Harlem is home to lots of students and young professionals strapped for cash on living expenses. Rentals are more affordable than most boroughs and you can still find plenty to do to keep yourself entertained.\nCall You Move Me for Help in Your Move\nOnce you're in the city, you can scale the Empire State Building for a view, visit the Statue of Liberty for a history trip, or simply immerse yourself in one of the most culturally diverse cities in America. Need help getting there? You Move Me can help you get packed and moved with ease, so give us a call today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 151.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourbottomline.ca/blogs/blog/182372-meet-the-founding-face-behind-your-bottom-line", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:36Z", "digest": "sha1:H7L6K4Z7Q27MS4WLFTYVESOM6T3PO6IF", "length": 2137, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.yourbottomline.ca", "title": "Meet The Founding Face Behind YOUR BOTTOM LINE", "raw_content": "I got my CA designation in 1984, and after years of climbing the corporate ladder of success, I found that it was leaning against the wrong wall. I\u2019ve been working in my own business since 1990, and YOUR BOTTOM LINE was created in 2004.\nAs is often the case with any CPA hanging out a shingle, the business at first grew predominantly from a small business tax base and expanded from there. Today, we handle thousands of tax returns - personal, corporate and US as well. In addition, we are very focused on the mainstream of our business - our VCFO clients and helping in running their successful businesses. We handle not only their corporate and personal taxes but also a wide variety of advisory and other services.\nAs an individual, I believe what sets me and the YBL Team apart from the others is our honesty, integrity, and ability to build lasting relationships with our clients. I also firmly believe that if we help others succeed, we too will succeed.\nI\u2019m passionate about helping others, especially small to medium-sized business owners achieve better success in their businesses. Recently, we reviewed a new client situation and saved them tens of thousands of dollars in the course of a morning. Also, seeing new businesses getting up and running and being able to help in the process of becoming more successful, are instances that are immensely rewarding for me.\nOne of the most satisfying moments in business was when my son, Mike, joined the company, 9 years ago, and then gradually became my critical right arm at YOUR BOTTOM LINE. We wouldn't be the company we are today without him.\nWhen I am not at work, I love to travel and read and practice theatre. I am proud to say that I am the only accountant (that I know of) in community theatre. I am also passionate about social causes and donate to the WINGS Maternity Home and the 100 Men/Women Movement, amongst others.\nIf you or someone you know could benefit from our expertise in personal and corporate tax services, bookkeeping, payroll, virtual CFO services, I invite you to get in touch. Please visit our website at www.yourbottomline.ca.\nRoss A. Libbey, CPA, CA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourfavoritebible.com/BibleAlive/Chapter/Ex24NKJV.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ML6OFZHK53YRKJ3NUILTENZSTA7WEFNQ", "length": 2491, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.yourfavoritebible.com", "title": "Exodus Chapter 24 (NKJV): Bible Alive", "raw_content": "1. Now He said to Moses, \"Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.\n2. And Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him.\"\n3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, \"All the words which the Lord has said we will do.\"\n4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.\n5. Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.\n6. And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.\n7. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, \"All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.\"\n8. And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, \"This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.\"\n9. Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,\n10. and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.\n11. But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.\n12. Then the Lord said to Moses, \"Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.\"\n13. So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.\n14. And he said to the elders, \"Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.\"\n15. Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.\n16. Now the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.\n17. The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.\n18. So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5207, "original_length": 134534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yousaveaccessories.co.uk/yousave-accessories-sony-xperia-u-jellyfish-case", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MR7ETJADXRKRCODOLTNR2SVXZ6M6GYTO", "length": 85, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yousaveaccessories.co.uk", "title": "YouSave Accessories Sony Xperia U Jellyfish Gel Case - Multicoloured", "raw_content": "https://www.yousaveaccessories.co.uk/yousave-accessories-sony-xperia-u-jellyfish-case", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-q4-revenue-disappoints-6001067525/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MDW7N5EYBTTKKUZT4BQGUOBWQHRVB2MD", "length": 3072, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.zdnet.com", "title": "Google's Q4 revenue disappoints | ZDNet", "raw_content": "Google did not beat Wall Street estimates against rising concerns about business in Europe, and stock prices took a major hit.\nBy Rachel King for Between the Lines | January 19, 2012 -- 13:09 GMT (05:09 PST) | Topic: Banking\nDespite economic worries in Europe, Google was still expected to post strong earnings on Thursday, and the Mountain View, Calif.-based enterprise didn't hold up to estimates and stock prices plummeted after hours.\nGoogle reported a fourth quarter net income of $2.71 billion, or $8.22 a share (statement). Non-GAAP earnings were $9.50 a share on a revenue of $10.58 billion (including traffic acquisition costs) -- an 25 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.\nSubtracting TAC, which was worth $2.45 billion, revenue actually only came out to $8.13 billion.\nWall Street was expecting Google to report fourth quarter of $10.48 a share on revenue of $8.4 billion.\nSee also: Google's Q4: Europe, Motorola margins in focus\nAfter the market closed, Google's stock plummeted suddenly.\nCEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on Google's current financial situation in prepared remarks:\nGoogle had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29%, and our quarterly revenue blew past the $10 billion mark for the first time\nI am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail, and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally \u2013 well over double what I announced just three months ago. By building a meaningful relationship with our users through Google+ we will create amazing experiences across our services. I\u2019m very excited about what we can do in 2012 \u2013 there are tremendous opportunities to help users and grow our business.\nAs for European concerns, Google only addressed its United Kingdom unit, which makes up the bulk of Google's E.U. dealings anyway.\nRevenues from the United Kingdom totaled $1.06 billion, representing 10 percent of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared during 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010.\nGoogle argued that if foreign exchange rates remained constant from the third quarter of 2011 through the fourth quarter, Q4 revenues would have been $239 million higher.\nNevertheless, international revenue totaled $5.60 billion, representing 53 percent of total revenues in Q4, compared to 55 percent in the third quarter of 2011\nFor the first quarter, Wall Street is expecting Google to report earnings of $10.07 a share on revenue of $8.28 billion, including TAC.\nGoogle employed 32,467 full-time employees worldwide as of December 31, 2011, up from 31,353 full-time employees as of September 30, 2011.\nCash, cash equivalents, and short-term marketable securities were $44.6 billion as of December 31.\nAggregate paid clicks increased by 17 percent from Q3 to Q4 2011.\nGoogle announces fifth Doodle contest for K-12 grade students\nEuropean antitrust ruling on Google expected by late March\nGoogle helped circumvent Wikipedia's anti-SOPA protest\nClean up your app permissions on Facebook, Twitter, Google\nSony Ericsson posts surprise loss in its final quarter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 7635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zmescience.com/research/inventions/polymer-purification-29122015/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HU75WLAEITFV7MCI4NF4KLFIEIDZ7NKJ", "length": 2291, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.zmescience.com", "title": "New sugar polymer can purify water in seconds", "raw_content": "New sugar polymer can purify water in seconds\nLast updated on December 29th, 2015 at 12:39 pm by Mihai Andrei\nScientists have developed a new polymer that can clean water of tiny impurities and pollutants in a matter of seconds. This could revolutionize the water purification industry, not only saving numerous lives, but saving a lot of money and energy in the process.\nA porous material made from cup-shaped cyclodextrins, which rapidly bind pollutants and remove them from contaminated water. \u00a9 Dichtel Group\nThe team was led by Will Dichtel from Cornell University in the US.\n\u201cWhat we did is make the first high-surface-area material made of cyclodextrin [sugar molecules bound together in a ring],\u201d said Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry, \u201ccombining some of the advantages of the activated carbon with the inherent advantages of the cyclodextrin.\u201d\nCyclodextrins are produced from starch and are commonly used in foods, pharmaceutical, drug delivery, and chemical industries, as well as agriculture and environmental engineering. This porous form of cyclodextrin has adsorption rates much higher than traditional filters \u2013 up to 200 times more.\n\u201cWhat we did is make the first high-surface-area material made of cyclodextrin combining some of the advantages of the activated carbon with the inherent advantages of the cyclodextrin,\u201d Mr Dichtel said. He also mentioned that the material will be extremely quick in cleaning the water. \u201cThese materials will remove pollutants in seconds, as the water flows by,\u201d he said.\nNot only is the polymer very fast and efficient, but it\u2019s also cheap and recyclable. While most carbon filters must undergo specific heat-treatment for regeneration, this one can simply be washed at room temperature with methanol or ethanol. Even Dichtel was surprised at how efficient it can be.\n\u201cWe knew that [water filtering] would be a likely application if we were successful,\u201d Dichtel says. \u201cWe were definitely pleasantly surprised with just how good the performance is.\u201d\nJournal Reference: Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, Brian J. Smith, Leilei Xiao, Yuhan Ling, Damian E. Helbling & William R. Dichtel \u2013 Rapid removal of organic micropollutants from water by a porous \u03b2-cyclodextrin polymer. Nature (2015) doi:10.1038/nature16185\nTags: cornell universityfilter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zoom.co.uk/category/actor/ernie_kovacs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UUDKS3OX6XJAYEUENQZ7OJO42BA3HBMU", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.zoom.co.uk", "title": "Ernie Kovacs \", //nextArrow: \"\" }); });", "raw_content": "Our Man in Havana [DVD]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 151.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/news/shoppers-drug-mart-makes-significant-investment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UAO2OV4Z3AJ3FEFJYCGKKZGMQZ2MOKNT", "length": 4287, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca", "title": "Shoppers-Drug-Mart-makes-significant-investment | Shoppers Drug Mart", "raw_content": "Shoppers Drug Mart makes significant investment in the future of pharmacy in Canada\nDonation to benefit the Blueprint for Pharmacy initiative\nToronto, ON \u2013 Shoppers Drug Mart announced today that it is making a $250,000 donation to support The Blueprint for Pharmacy Implementation Strategy. The Blueprint for Pharmacy is a long-term initiative designed to catalyze, coordinate and facilitate the changes required to align pharmacy practice with the health care needs of Canadians.\nShoppers Drug Mart\u2019s donation will be designated to funding strategic research to evaluate the impact of health care policies on pharmacy practices. \u201cThe expansion of pharmacy practice and implementation of government-funded pharmacy services, such as medication reviews, is a significant step forward for pharmacy,\u201d said Domenic Pilla, President and CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart. \u201cThis research will provide further evidence of the impact that patient-centered pharmacy services have on improving health outcomes for Canadians, while at the same time easing the burden on our health care system.\u201d\n\"Delivering optimal pharmacy care, at the right time, in the right setting, is critical in improving outcomes for Canadians and helping preserve and optimize our healthcare system,\u201d said Dr. Gideon Koren MD, FRCPC, FACMT and Director, The Motherisk Program, The Hospital for Sick Children. \u201cI applaud Shoppers Drug Mart for its commitment to this important research as well as all those who are collaborating on the Blueprint for Pharmacy initiative.\"\nThe Blueprint for Pharmacy is an unprecedented collaboration of pharmacy stakeholders, led by the Canadian Pharmacists Association and the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores, and supported by pharmacy organizations across Canada, working to bring about significant and meaningful change to the profession and practice of pharmacy. In 2008, the landmark document Vision for Pharmacy was released: Optimal drug therapy outcomes for Canadians through patient-centered care. Building on that vision, the Implementation Plan for the Blueprint for Pharmacy was developed in 2009.Shoppers Drug Mart has played a leadership role in shaping this new vision and model for pharmacy services in Canada.\n\u201cAn enormous effort by all stakeholders, including Shoppers Drug Mart, has seen so much being accomplished to date,\u201d said Dr. Dennis Gorecki, Chairman of the Blueprint for Pharmacy Steering Committee. \u201cThe Blueprint for Pharmacy is, however, now at the critical implementation stage which requires essential funding to ensure the successful completion of many important projects that will help drive the evolution of pharmacy practice. We are most grateful to Shoppers Drug Mart for their leadership and for stepping up to provide continued funding to help complete these projects and we hope that this donation will motivate other pharmacy stakeholders to also support this important initiative.\u201d\nShoppers Drug Mart Corporation is one of the most recognized and trusted names in Canadian retailing. The Company is the licensor of full-service retail drug stores operating under the name Shoppers Drug Mart (Pharmaprix in Qu\u00e9bec). With more than 1,200 Shoppers Drug Mart and Pharmaprix stores operating in prime locations in each province and two territories, the Company is one of the most convenient retailers in Canada. The Company also licenses or owns 60 medical clinic pharmacies operating under the name Shoppers Simply Pharmacy (Pharmaprix Simplement Sant\u00e9 in Qu\u00e9bec) and eight luxury beauty destinations operating as Murale. As well, the Company owns and operates 63 Shoppers Home Health Care stores, making it the largest Canadian retailer of home health care products and services. In addition to its retail store network, the Company owns Shoppers Drug Mart Specialty Health Network Inc., a provider of specialty drug distribution, pharmacy and comprehensive patient support services, and MediSystem Technologies Inc., a provider of pharmaceutical products and services to long-term care facilities in Ontario and Alberta.\nDrug Mart 416-490-2892\ntsmitham@shoppersdrugmart.ca\nBlueprint for Pharmacy Contact:\nConrad Amenta\nProject Director, Blueprint for Pharmacy National Coordinating Office\nThe Canadian Pharmacists Association\ncamenta@pharmacists.ca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 576, "original_length": 34023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www2.solarmoviex.to/watch/looking-for-comedy-in-the-muslim-world.92nr8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:2MP6DRQLVBFC54JSXM5ZDQEYDRXZMFPN", "length": 2169, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www2.solarmoviex.to", "title": "Watch Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) Online On SolarMovieX | SoloarMoviez", "raw_content": "Albert Brooks, Penny Marshall, Amy Ryan, Fred Dalton Thompson, BJ Ward, Victoria Burrows, Paul Jerome, Emma Lockhart\nThe American senate, in order to improve it's fast declining global image, asks comedian Albert Brooks to write a 500 page document about what makes Muslims laugh in India and Pakistan. Bidding adieu to his wife and young daughter,and accompanied by two government bureaucrats, Albert opens up an office in New Delhi, hires a pretty Secretary, Maya, and goes around asking people at random as to what makes them laugh. He finds that people generally look at him suspiciously and refuse to answer any questions. He then decides to go public and stage a comedy show, the suggested place for the publicity is old Delhi. Accordingly the four re-locate, book a school auditorium to seat about 400 people, go around the city distributing leaflets, inviting the general public to attend the show. They get a houseful response, however, Albert's comedy act fails to impress. He then decides to try his hand in Pakistan, only to be told that he cannot get a visa for another 14 days. He decides to enter Pakistan illegally and meets some wannabe comedians, guarded by armed men, in a secret location near the border. Although he does get to their funny bones, Albert does not get any answers, and returns back to Delhi crestfallen. To make matters worse, Maya informs him that she has enough material to write about 4 pages. Quite unknown to Albert, his presence in India, and his underground trip to Pakistan, have not gone unnoticed by both the Indian and Pakistani governments, both of who plan to increase their troop presence near the volatile border area; and to create more complications for Albert, Maya tells him that she wants to break up with his boyfriend. She wants to him to leave, and thinks that he may do so if told that she is fallen for Albert. Then things start looking up for Albert when he is invited by the Al-Jazeera television for an interview. Watch as events unfold and a hopeful Albert attends this meeting with many hopes of entering the Muslim world through this popular TV network.\nKeywords: looking for comedy in the muslim world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 4520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yocca.us/glossary/28-book-value", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MX34HTBEG6LESVBHKCWWTXL2R3GEF3YN", "length": 901, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "yocca.us", "title": "Book Value - Glossary - Nick Yocca - Your Orange County California Attorney Preeminent AV / 5.0", "raw_content": "The net value of an asset as shown on a company's balance sheet.\nWhen all accounting records were recorded in books, the \"book value\" was the value at which an asset was recorded on the accounting books, after any appropriate reductions such as, in appropriate cases, depreciation or the like. When discussing an asset's book value, this typically is based on the asset's original cost less accumulated depreciation. When we discuss the book value per share of the common stock of a company, we are referring to the net book value of all the assets of the company divided by the number of shares. For example, the tangible book value of the common stock is defined as total assets minus liabilities minus preferred stock minus intangible assets; and therefore the tangible book value per share is the net total amount described in the previous sentence divided by the number of shares of common stock.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 131.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yourcastle.com/your-castle-ranked-top-5-in-denver-business-journal-fast-50/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CRUUBWHXMSTBPAPBV3ZG3TM32IBBYG4C", "length": 1678, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "yourcastle.com", "title": "Your Castle Ranked Top 5 in Denver Business Journal Fast 50 - Your Castle Real Estate", "raw_content": "October 26, 2018 By Lon Welsh 2 Comments\nThe Denver Business Journal announced the winners for 2018\u2019s Fast 50, an award that recognizes the fastest-growing private companies in Colorado. Your Castle Real Estate was awarded with a 5th place ranking overall in the \u201cLarge\u201d category.\nAfter receiving the award, Jeremy Conti, COO of Your Castle, commented, \u201cPlacing in the top 5 on the DBJ Fast 50 list is an amazing honor and accomplishment for our firm! It speaks volumes about the highly motivated and dedicated staff we\u2019ve been able to assemble, the drive, commitment and professionalism of our brokers, and the support of our thousands of clients over the past 12 years. Accomplishments of this magnitude require great people doing great things, and we\u2019ve been fortunate to have that over the years.\u201d\nFormerly called the Fastest-growing Private Companies Awards, the Fast 50 rankings are based on the percentage growth for fiscal years 2015, 2016 and 2017. There are five different categories based on revenue:\nExtra Small includes companies with annual revenues between $750,000 and $3.69 million;\nSmall, annual revenues between $3.7 million and $8.29 million;\nMedium, annual revenues between $8.3 million and $23.3 million;\nLarge, between $23.4 million and $73.9 million; and\nExtra Large, the largest private companies, with revenues in excess of $74 million\nFollow the link to see Your Castle\u2019s Fast 50 profile, and learn about other business that were recognized at the awards ceremony that took place on October 25 at the Infinity Center in Denver.\nSondra Weslsh says\nCongratulations. Worked very hard and it\u2019s paid off. Proud of you all.\nLon Welsh says\nThank you, Sondra!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yoursculpture.wordpress.com/tag/cecil-rhodes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DSVEGXNFARRA7HB23MPUIZMQ3Q2BVR3M", "length": 12888, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "yoursculpture.wordpress.com", "title": "Cecil Rhodes \u2013 Your Sculpture", "raw_content": "Tag: Cecil Rhodes\nNo Longer Watching Over Heath or Man\nAt the end of March, a furore erupted around the statue of Cecil John Rhodes (1853\u20131902) that has been a landmark at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This is not the first time that the legacy of Rhodes, the British mining magnate, financier and politician whose particular vision of Empire shaped Southern Africa, has been questioned. The #RhodesMustFall campaign called for the removal of the work as a gesture of wider transformation on campus. This soon spread to other campuses and escalated into a cross-country discussion about tangible change in South Africa. Annwen Bates, Copyright Assistant with the Public Catalogue Foundation, writes in her personal capacity about these recent events at her undergraduate alma mater:\nFrom 1934 to 2015, Rhodes had sat on his pedestal.\nIn pose, this great hulk of man, the figure of visionary Empire, resembled Rodin\u2019s \u2018The Thinker.\u2019 For close on 53 years, he leant in contemplation over the Southern Suburbs, Cape Flats and towards the Helderberg mountains on the horizon.1 On either side of this vista extends the coastline.\nGoodman Gwasira remarks on the statue\u2019s location, \u2018The spatial setting of the statue, with Table Mountain stretching behind it can be read as symbolising Rhodes\u2019 dreams. The breadth of the mountain inspired Rhodes\u2019 aim of broadening his empire.\u2019 A plaque below captioned Rhodes\u2019s ambition, I DREAM A DREAM/ BY ROCK AND HEATH AND PINE/ OF EMPIRE NORTHWARDS/ AY ONE LAND/ FROM THE LION\u2019S HEAD TO THE LINE.\nToday\u2019s youngsters at UCT did not buy this vision of Empire. Not a jot. \u2018There is no collective history here. Where are our heroes and ancestors?\u2019 declared activist and political science student Chumani Maxwele2, who led the protest and flung excrement, allegedly human, at the statue.\nThe new voices came with buckets of discontent, marches, sit-ins and the power of social media. They set down the terms of their protest: #RhodesMustFall, #RhodesMustGo. The statue, unveiled in 1934, was commissioned by then Governor General, the Earl of Clarendon and paid for by the Rhodes National South African Memorial Committee. The sculptor, Marion Walgate, was a British artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy at least three times between 1913 and 1932. She was also an accomplished medallist. Another example of her contribution to South African visual material culture was a five shilling piece minted in 1952: the obverse carried her design of Jan van Riebeeck\u2019s3 three-master sailing into Table Bay. Her husband, Charles Percival Walgate, was also British-born and an architect who worked as Sir Herbert Baker\u2019s assistant.\nSir Herbert Baker\u2019s designs for buildings of colonial administration, which drew on the colonnades and symmetry of antiquity, are still to be found across South Africa and in Delhi. Examples of his work on view in London include South Africa House (The South African High Commission) on Trafalgar Square and the Bank of England\u2019s current fa\u00e7ade, which was part of the revision he undertook of Sir John Soane\u2019s design. Rhodes commissioned Baker for a number of projects, including the re-design of his Cape Town residence, Groote Schuur (which is now one of the South African president\u2019s official residences).\nSince 1934, Walgate\u2019s Rhodes statue has been erected at various locations on UCT\u2019s main campus. It was only in 1996 that it was positioned at the thoroughfare intersection passed daily by students walking from Jameson Plaza to Grotto Road. In original architectural drawings by J. M. Solomon this point serves as the campus axis. Gwasira proposes that setting the Rhodes statue here, \u2018emphasise[d] the role that Rhodes played in the establishment of the Institution\u2019. It is worth noting that campus architect Solomon\u2019s early career was in Sir Herbert Baker\u2019s firm, Herbert & Masey. After Solomon\u2019s suicide, Charles Percival Walgate oversaw the building of the new campus on the land provided by Rhodes. These connections between Rhodes, Baker, the Walgates and Solomon underscore the stronghold a notably British-Imperialist visual legacy held over architecture, public space and the representation of patriotic identity in South Africa at the end of the nineteenth and in the first part of the twentieth century. In quarters, this visual legacy still resonates even in the post-Apartheid democracy of twenty-first century South Africa. Some quarters suggested that the #RhodesMustGo/#RhodesMustFall call displayed ignorance. However, the students\u2019 views reflected an informed understanding of politics and public heritage, as these quotations indicate:\n\u2018This movement is not just about a statue. It\u2019s not just about a university. It\u2019s not just about a curriculum. It\u2019s not just about land. It\u2019s about reclaiming black history as well.\u2019\n\u2018You are African. White, black, Coloured, Indian\u2026 If you are a white South African and you can think you can isolate yourself from being African, and that statue doesn\u2019t bother you, you need to think twice. Because the future is moving a lot faster than your consciousness.\u2019\nIt was not only students who voiced critique in the wake of #RhodesMustFall. Prof. Zine Magubane, who is based in the Sociology Department of Boston College, Massachusetts and at UCT as a Visiting Professor in the Van Zyl Slabbert Chair, commented in an interview for UCT\u2019s Humanities Department newsletter:\n\u2018Take the issue of Rhodes\u2019 legacy, for example, we are still having discussions where he is called a \u201chumanitarian\u201d or an \u201centrepreneur\u201d! This, about a person who said that he \u201cpreferred land to niggers\u201d! To enter into scholarly dialogue means having not only to engage with things that insult you and your history in very profound ways but also to have to write through and against them. This is not easy.\u2019\nIt is such that the statues must fall when the regimes change. These recent events are not particular to the Rhodes statue. After 1989, many of the great men of communism were removed from their pedestals in the former Soviet states. There is also the misremembered and misrepresented toppling of the Suddam Hussein statue on Baghdad\u2019s Firdos Square on 9th April 2003.\nWhile it is not right to venerate men who oppress others, it is such figures that make up much of history. Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya, journalist and editor of the Mercury newspaper , explored Rhodes\u2019 contested legacy in his opinion piece, \u2018How should we remember him?\u2019 and concludes, \u2018We may not rewrite history, but we can choose how we remember the historical figures.\u2019\nOn the 9th of April, after consultation with the Heritage Western Cape (HWC) the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was removed from its plinth and transported to an unknown location for safekeeping. An application to HWC for permanent removal of the statue is in process. In the report, independent heritage practitioner, Ashley Lillie, will review the statue\u2019s history, context and heritage significance and consider alternatives for the work. There is still an open call for public comments and an assessment of this consultation will be included. Some of these comments may include those who work at UCT who have also experienced the statue within socio-historical and institutional hegemonies.\nThe evening after the first day of protest, UCT law student Nik Fitzhenry photographed two men employed to clean the sewage that had been dumped on the statue. With this photograph Fitzhenry intended \u2018to remind us of the complex nature of demonstration and the many people involved in and affected by actions taken in the name of activism. These two men are as much a part of the demonstration as the other actors.\u2019\nUCT employee Peter Buckton began his career as a cleaner, then progressed to laboratory attendant and is now a sports co-ordinator. Against the backdrop of the \u2018white\u2019 UCT of the 1970s and 1980s, Buckton studied for a history degree with the support of the then Dean of Science. After Rhodes fell, Buckton described what it was like not to have to pass the statue for the first time in 44 years,\u2019 [I]t it was a good feeling. It prickles the brain when you go past there, especially if you are informed about history and what he stood for. It\u2019s like he\u2019s talking to you: \u201cHey, I\u2019ve got you, I\u2019m watching you!\u201d\u2019\nNow that Rhodes no longer watches land or people, what might be the future for the empty pedestal? In a forum held at UCT\u2019s Michaelis School of Fine Art first-year students offered their suggestions. Associate Professor Fritha Langerman recounts, \u2018One idea was that the plinth should become a viewing platform where staff and students would be able to command the view for themselves, symbolically gesturing to their own futures. Another suggestion was that the sculpture be melted down and used to cast a plaque commemorating this \u201cmoment of rupture\u201d.\u2019\nRhodes may now be absent from the campus intersection, but Sir Herbert Baker\u2019s monolith memorial still broods on the mountain above UCT. It is also possible to visit the cottage in Muizenberg where Rhodes passed away of tuberculosis at 49, and his remains are still in the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe. These monuments would be more difficult to dismantle. While Southern Africans continue to scrutinize the histories moulded and memorialised around them, the now vacant podium at UCT offers a transitory site to contemplate the possibilities of the future. Hopefully this future of real structural redress will move a lot faster than today\u2019s dreams and consciousness. Notes:\n1 An explanation about the areas mentioned:\nSouthern Suburbs: The leafy, once \u2018white\u2019, English-speaking suburbs of Cape Town, including Rondebosch and Rosebank, where much of UCT\u2019s campus is located. Olive Schreiner, Lady Anne Barnard, Rhodes and even Rudyard Kipling lived and socialised in these Cape Town suburbs.\nCape Flats: The inhospitable, sandy flatlands to which evicted residents of District Six were sent. The Cape Flats is often, though unfairly, associated with gangs, poverty and social problems. It is still a largely \u2018Coloured\u2019 area.\nThe Helderberg Mountains: This mountain range heralds the Afrikaans-speaking areas beyond the Southern Suburbs. The area is known for its wine.\n2 Maxwele has made headlines before. After accused of \u2018giving the middle finger\u2019 to President Jacob Zuma\u2019s motorcade, he was beaten by police. Maxwele filed against the Police Minister for wrongful arrest and received an apology.\n3 In Eurocentric histories of South Africa, Jan van Riebeeck is credited with the \u2018founding\u2019 of the nation in 1652 when he arrived with other representatives of the VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) to found a refreshment station.\nCheremushkin, Peter, \u2018When monuments fall: the politics of toppling political sculpture\u2019 in The Unknown War, January 12, 2012\nFitzhenry, Nik, \u2018Why I photographed these two cleaners at the foot of UCT\u2019s Rhodes statue\u2019 in The Daily Vox, 13 March 2015\nGwasira, Goodman (2001), \u2018Reading Between the Lines: Monuments as Metaphors\u2019 in Southern African Field Archaeology, 10:88-92.\nHarding, Jeremy, \u2018Rhodes Must Fall\u2019 on the LRB blog, 1 April 2015\nLangerma, Fritha, \u2018New articulation for the site\u2019 in a special edition of Monday Monthly, Volume 34.03, 13 April 2015\nMoya, Fikile-Ntsikelelo, \u2018How should we remember him?\u2019 in The Star, Early Edition, 25 March 2015\nMaass, Peter, \u2018The Toppling: How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war\u2019 in The New Yorker, 10 January 2011\n\u2018One on One with Zine Mgubane\u2019, 24 Apr 2015\n\u2018Announcing public consultation phase re: Rhodes statue\u2019 in a special edition of Monday Monthly, 16 April 2015\nUCT timeline\nTransform UCT\nHodes, Rebecca, \u2018\u201dThe Rhodes statue must fall\u201d: UCT\u2019s radical rebirth\u2019 in The Daily Maverick, 13 March 2015\nDavenport, Jade, \u2018Rhodes Memorial Debate\u2019, in Mining Weekly, 25 July 2014\nBiography of Charles Percival Walgate, Marion Walgate\u2019s husband\nBiography of Joseph Michael Solomon\nBiography of Sir Herbert Baker\nThe black and white images of the Rhodes statue are in the possession of the University of Cape Town Libraries and are reproduced with their permission.\nThe image of the crane removing the statue is by Tony Carr and is available on Wikimedia Commons.\nAll other images are by Barry Christianson. Instagram: @thesestreetsza\nAnnwen E. Bates pursued undergraduate studies in post-colonial English literature at the University of Cape Town before studying Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford on an Oppenheimer Tuition Scholarship and with Jaftha Trust support. She has taught English in South America and Poland, Art History in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) and currently works in the UK at the Public Catalogue Foundation. She also writes poetry as BeadedQuill.\nPosted on May 28, 2015 Tags Cape Town, Cecil Rhodes, monument, public sculpture, sculpture, South Africa, statue, UCT, University of Cape TownLeave a comment on No Longer Watching Over Heath or Man", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 14477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zagrebsaxcongress.com/index.php/participants/artists/item/465-portovedo-henrique?tmpl=component&print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IAQ7K7VRZ3XZXPAB562JBOYH5T6RXPHC", "length": 1550, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "zagrebsaxcongress.com", "title": "Henrique Portovedo", "raw_content": "Henrique Portovedo has found its\u2019 place in contemporary music by working with composers. He has more than 40 works for saxophone dedicated to him including some Saxophone Concertos conducted by Clement Power, Lu\u00eds Carvalho, Fran\u00e7ois Boulanger among others. He was a soloist with several orchestras and ensembles including L\u2019Orchestre d\u2019Harmonie de la Garde Republican, Trinity College of Music Wind Orchestra, Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group, Fadomorse, Orquestra de Sopros do Inatel, Orquesta de Viento Marcos Redondo, Orquestra Sinfo\u0301nica de Jovens de Sta. Maria da Feira, Orquestra de Sopros da Universidade de Aveiro, etc. Co-founder of QuadQuartet and Artistic Director of Aveiro SaxFest, he recorded for several labels and he was awarded with several Trinity Music Awards in London, Pr\u00e9mio Jovens Criadores 2012 by the Portuguese Institute of Art and Ideas and received the Award by the Portuguese National Centre of Culture. He is a researcher at CITAR, School of the Arts at Portuguese Catholic University, he was a visiting researcher at the Edinburgh University and he is currently artist in residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe in Germany and visiting researcher at UC Santa Barbara, USA, supported by Fulbright Foundation. Portovedo is member of the European Saxophone Comit\u00e9, Tenor Sax Collective (Tenor SaxIndex), President of the Portuguese Saxophone Association and was the artistic director of the European Saxophone Congress EurSax Porto '17.\nhttp://www.henriqueportovedo.com\nAugmented Saxophone Performance: Mixed music for Saxophone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://znconsulting.com/insights/r-u-human-rethink-b2bb2c-comms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DF3M6U3S6ZVPYAPHUY2T3HMQ7T5IJPJU", "length": 3015, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "znconsulting.com", "title": "R U human? Rethink B2B/B2C comms | ZN ConsultingZN Consulting", "raw_content": "You might be thinking: \u201cWhat kind of a question is that? Of course I speak human, what else will I be speaking? Whale?\u201d\nIt might seem like a silly question, but it crosses my mind each time I read content that sounds like it was written by an unfeeling android. Think about all the papers, reports, and articles that you see on a daily basis. I guarantee that a good number of them don\u2019t speak human. So who were those pieces intended for?\nB2B, B2C, B2What?\nAt the end of the day, we\u2019re all actually speaking to another human being (surprise!). So should there really be a difference in how we share stories and communicate, whether it\u2019s B2B or B2C? I don\u2019t think so.\nYou build relationships with people, not with businesses. We all know that guy at the party who keeps talking about himself, yes, that loud, boisterous person. You see his lips moving, but all you can think of is how you can escape the wrath of the one-sided conversation where he\u2019s always the best. Nobody likes that guy. It\u2019s the same thing when businesses try to communicate how they are the best and repeat their key messages over and over. It doesn\u2019t seem genuine, it gets tuned out, and people smell its \u201csalesy-ness\u201d from miles away. But if you replace that with a person who actually lets you talk and listens to your needs, who sympathizes with you and understands your situation, and actually helps you, then you feel more comfortable, trust is built, and you know that you\u2019ve got a great go-to guy.\nYou don\u2019t talk to everyone in the same way. Wouldn\u2019t it be strange if someone went up to you and started speaking to you like you were a four-year-old? And wouldn\u2019t it seem a bit out of place if you overheard someone explaining the theory of relativity to a two-year-old in a highly complex manner? You adapt the way you speak depending on who you\u2019re talking to. The same thing applies whether you are doing B2B or B2C. You have to know who you are communicating with so that your story, your information will be meaningful and resonate with them. With the way things are going online, communication is getting more and more personal.\nWe all have feelings and appreciate value. Ok, you might know one or two people who have absolutely no feelings or emotions, but the vast majority of human beings do. So why not talk to them like they\u2019re actual people? The key is to communicate in a way that adds value, whether you are entertaining, educating or both. What you say needs to give your audience something to chew on and digest. It needs to address their key pain points and be focused on topics that they care about. You can be both entertainer and thought-leader when you share insightful information.\nEven science can be communicated in a human way\nIt all boils down to human to human communication. And the success of your content/storytelling efforts depend on the remarkable stories you tell and the value they can deliver.\nNow, will you speak human? \ud83d\ude42\nNeed help speaking human? Find out how we can help you do storytelling better.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00001.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://100experiencepoints.com/2013/01/21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QTYQCJJ3RRGDM7B43QFP2IDFRK6SVFL4", "length": 269, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "100experiencepoints.com", "title": "\u00bb 2013 \u00bb January \u00bb 21", "raw_content": "I wanted to get my next sprint set up today, but it\u2019s going to have to wait. I had a person ask me in an email about what I thought the future of XNA was. I\u2019ve actually had a lot of people ask that, and I wanted to do it justice. So today, instead of Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://100experiencepoints.com/2013/03/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5SK6D4R23QOT3EO5QY5R2UEY2SOK7IRT", "length": 627, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "100experiencepoints.com", "title": "\u00bb 2013 \u00bb March \u00bb 01", "raw_content": "Video Capture Software?\nI have all of these things that I\u2019d really like to get videos of on this blog. Some things just work better in video form, instead of image form. I\u2019ve used SnagIt before, and if it weren\u2019t for the fact that I don\u2019t have it installed on my current machine, I\u2019d be using it again. Continue reading \u2192\n6:27: First, I reach the 25% mark, then it turns into March? What\u2019s going on here?! The hourglass would appear to have too wide of an opening, and all of the sand is just dumping through to the bottom. I don\u2019t get it. Where\u2019s my pause button? When March ends, I\u2019ll be over half way done Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1280ksli.com/rascal-flatts-christmas-pajamas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:47Z", "digest": "sha1:P6243BFACGVQVAY2HABFP2MOB3AKYY7B", "length": 1447, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "1280ksli.com", "title": "Rascal Flatts Wear Matching Pajamas for Christmas", "raw_content": "Rascal Flatts Wear Matching Pajamas for Christmas\nChristmas is a time for odd family traditions to take center stage, which is a phenomenon that often rears its head in musical/band families as well. The guys in Rascal Flatts are certainly no strangers to spending a lot of time together, so it stands to reason they probably have some holiday habits in common.\nIndeed: In an interview with Taste of Country, singer Gary LeVox caused some confusion by noting the following: \"We all put on the same pajamas.\"\nCome again? Like, all three of the band members wear the same pajamas?\n\"Match. We match each other,\" explains Joe Don Rooney.\nOh. Okay, then, but there are still a few questions, here...Such as, what do these well-coordinated jammies happen to look like?\n\"Every year it's different,\" explains Jay DeMarcus. \"The wives usually pick out a set for the kids and the parents to match.\"\nWait a minute. So you mean ...?\nDeMarcus confirms: \"We don't match each other. We match family.\"\nFinally! We got that cleared up. Phew!\nWhile we're glad to know that PJ coordination is kept as a private family activity, we're also glad to know that Rascal Flatts are continuing a successful run. The trio's latest album, Back to Us, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard 200 in 2017; and they completed a multi-date Vegas residency in October.\nSource: Rascal Flatts Wear Matching Pajamas for Christmas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1440wrok.com/is-legal-sports-gambling-coming-to-illinois/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5Y6M67GCIFOVL546YPJFZQE3U3UUKWKW", "length": 2082, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "1440wrok.com", "title": "Is Legal Sports Gambling Coming To Illinois?", "raw_content": "Is Legal Sports Gambling Coming To Illinois?\nA new Supreme Court ruling could have huge financial implications for the state of Illinois.\nWGN - The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for states to legalize sports betting, striking down a 1992 federal law that had prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting.\nThis makes a lot of sense. I've always been confused on why some gambling is alright while others are illegal. The Lottery, horse racing, riverboat casinos, pulltabs, and slot machines are all legal in Illinois but sports wagering has always been pushed to the dark recesses of the internet. We've even seen sites like Draft Kings and Fan Duel be deemed \"legal wagering\" in the past 5 years. It was only a matter of time before you could bet on the Bears legally.\nSome states have seen this day coming and are ready to put sports gambling into their legislature almost immediately. New Jersey reportedly will likely have a system in place for the NBA Finals, which begin in about 10 days. Other states like West Virginia and Minnesota have the beginning of the NFL season as their target.\nWe often talk about the legalization of marijuana being one of the answers to Illinois' budget problem. The truth is that proceeds from legal marijuana usually are only predicted to be a couple of million dollars a year. That will help, but won't really put a dent in the state's financial woes. Sports gambling, on the other hand, is being predicted to be a billion-dollar industry for early adopting states. That could actually help Illinois.\nThis could effectively change the way sports arenas are run. There have already been a few owners that want to basically convert their stadiums into sports books with all the \"casino\" extras.\nI'm personally very excited about this. I've been known to wager on an event or two. Sometimes it wasn't even 100% legal. It's nice to know that there will be a state-sanctioned, legal way for me to blow 100 bucks on a meaningless regular season basketball game.\nThings are going to change very fast and I couldn't be more excited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2019prices.info/geo/geo-news-22-september-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:K5IBFCROCEHB362QVPJ2VT5TWY7HJ24U", "length": 3075, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "2019prices.info", "title": "Geo News 22 September 2018 - Best Prices 2019", "raw_content": "Geo News 22 September 2018\nPrices 2019 - Geo News 22 September 2018, Geoengineering watch global alert news, march 24, 2018, 119 responses to geoengineering watch global alert news, march 24, 2018, #137. 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Ali quickly pointed out that his \u201cMoonlight\u201d win was two years ago. \u201cTime flies when you\u2019re having this much fun \u2013 it zooms past,\u201d Ali said in our interview.\nAli\u2019s first Oscar came for playing Juan in Barry Jenkins\u2018 Best Picture champ. The role was a quiet one, but the character had a profound impact on the lead character. Ali\u2019s graceful, dignified performance carried him all the way onstage at the Dolby Theater despite only featuring in the first third of the film.\nIn \u201cGreen Book\u201d he portrays Don Shirley, a gay black pianist on a tour of the deep south in the \u201960s. It\u2019s another dignified performance full of gravitas and intelligence \u2013 traits Ali seems to specialize in and pull off with ease. This presumed second Oscar seems a lock now, especially considering that Ali beat British national treasure Richard E. Grant (\u201cCan You Ever Forgive Me?\u201d) on his home turf.\nAsked to choose between his two performances as Juan in \u201cMoonlight\u201d and Don Shirley in \u201cGreen Book,\u201d he simply laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s like having to pick between your kids \u2013 and I mean that. But I would have never gotten this part [of Don Shirley] without \u2018Moonlight,\u2019 which for me was truly a miracle.\u201d And, he adds, \u201ca film that was never filmed like that up until that point \u2013 I think it\u2019s a Miracle.\u201d\nThe soft-spoken actor explains, \u201cI work the same with all my projects. I give everything that I have to give at that moment in time of my life and I care as deeply for each of these characters and each of these projects and I\u2019m grateful for every opportunity that I\u2019ve had.\u201d And, he elaborates, \u201cthey are all so different, but I absolutely love Juan and I love \u2018Moonlight.\u2019 They have a special place in my heart. And because it\u2019s led to so many other opportunities, that experience will always be extraordinarily special to me..'\u201d\nOn a different note, he couldn\u2019t choose between which award was the most aesthetically pleasing \u2013 the Golden Globe, the BAFTA or the Oscar. \u201cYou\u2019ve put me in a tough position with another awards show coming up in two weeks,\u201d laughs Ali. \u201cThey look good together, they really do! This is about unity \u2013 we\u2019ve been talking about division and separation \u2013 just put them all together!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 579, "original_length": 16928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://304littlebluehouse.com/489203-andrew-h-knoll-free.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RASFVTJAWF6OQYDDTGMSPFG65PARVJHD", "length": 3320, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "304littlebluehouse.com", "title": "Download PDF Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth for free", "raw_content": "Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.\nThe very latest discoveries in paleontology--many of them made by the author and his students--are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. 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If someone tells you that there are a lot of dramatic actions and events in your life, then pay attention to the person who says this phrase to you. You should know that toxic people surrounding you will often try to hurt you by claiming that the problem was caused by you and your wrong attitude. This is a destructive phrase that can easily reduce your self-esteem. 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Find your favorite quotations and top quotes by Barry Switzer from this hand-picked collection . Feel free to share these quotes and sayings on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr & Twitter or any of your favorite social networking sites.\nIt was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ---->>>\nIt was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. ---->>>\nName: Barry Switzer\nBarry Layne Switzer (born October 5, 1937) is a former American football player and coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He helped the Cowboys win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers (wikipedia)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 139.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://95quotes.com/frances-bay-quotes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VPIRDPIFIVAJJM7O6I5EWMRIBIDREN4V", "length": 845, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "95quotes.com", "title": "2 inspirational quotes and sayings by Frances Bay | 95quotes", "raw_content": "Frances Bay - Quotes\nThere are 2 quotes by Frances Bay at 95quotes.com. Find your favorite quotations and top quotes by Frances Bay from this hand-picked collection . Feel free to share these quotes and sayings on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr & Twitter or any of your favorite social networking sites.\nI always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.\nI can swear like a fishwife. ---->>>\nName: Frances Bay\nBirthplace: Mannville, Alberta, Canada\nFrances Evelyn Bay (n\u00e9e Goffman; January 23, 1919 \u2013 September 15, 2011) was a Canadian-American character actress.(wikipedia)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://a-tex.co.jp/thinktank_e.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DOPESGT45EAKVNID7ZP2XTR7QSGFYWOF", "length": 1347, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "a-tex.co.jp", "title": "ATEX/Think Tank -English-", "raw_content": "Even during an age when information technology represented by the Internet is praised, people still need communication that speaks to the heart. Interactivity really does exists in cyberspace, doesn't it? Looking calmly at marketing, we always wonder what the people who gather there, with their various expectations, consider necessary.\nAges repeat \"creation\" and \"selection,\" and only the necessary things remain. It is the \"culture\" that is born from and sparked by communication with people that lasts forever. We believe that the \"convention\" ATEX advocates means turning the actual needs of all industry into complex media and supporting the realization of unlimited growth potential.\nOur job is to turn as many needs as there are participants into even more specialized forms of media. To respond to these various needs, we hope to help participants advance to new markets by making the most of manual skills and knowledge, not by depending exclusively on technology.\nTo what extent can we make effective information easy to understand, not only unique and interactive? How can we find that place where only useful information can be extracted from the overwhelming amount of information in the applicable market, which is, for many participants these days, an unknown world?\nWe aim to create conventions that have exactly these identities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aapkikranti.com/aam-aadmi-party-news/4620-delhi-cm-makes-surprise-visit-to-sanjay-gandhi-hospital.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6JOUEBADQHFL3L6LQF4RFNGTA5W6FDZ", "length": 2505, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "aapkikranti.com", "title": "Delhi CM makes surprise visit to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital", "raw_content": "Delhi CM makes surprise visit to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital\nFound several deficiencies after talking to several patients\nCM assures action against officials at fault\nFree medicine, test and investigation policy to be implemented properly at any cost: CM\nChief Minister of Delhi Mr. Arvind Kejriwal made a surprise visit to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Mangolpuri on Thrusday (25.05.2017) to meet the patients and check the proper functioning of the hospital.\nThree days ago, the Chief Minister of Delhi had directed the Chief Secretary to ensure 100% availability of medicines, consumables and functioning equipment in all Delhi government hospitals and to certify it.\nMr. Kejriwal visited all departments of the hospital, apart from the wards and pharmacy and talked to a huge number of patients. The Chief Minister was accompanied by the Minister of Health, Health Secretary and other officials of the health department.While several patients told the Chief Minister that they were satisfied with the functioning of the hospital, number of them complained of several problems.\n\u201cI was on a surprise visit to the Sanjay Gandhi hospital; I found there are many deficiencies in the hospital. Our government has taken a vow that money won\u2019t be an issue in any of the works in health and education sectors. We have made all medicines, tests and investigations free in all Delhi government hospitals. Inspite of that, I came to know here that patients here are being asked get their tests done from outside, they are being asked to buy several medicines from outside, during operation they are being asked to buy several consumables from outside. In some cases they are being asked to get some basic tests from outside. This means the policy is not being followed at the lower level,\u201d said Mr. Kejriwal after the inspections.\nHe further added, \u201cI have asked the MS to take action. I will also take action and will also talk to the LG in this regard and take appropriate action. I will make more such surprise checks in the days to come. We will make all systemic changes required. Some cases of money being taken at some level was also reported to me by the patients, identification will be done and stern action will be taken\u201d.\nAll medicines will be provided for free, all tests and investigations should be done inside the hospital for free. We will do whatever is required for the proper implementation and welfare of the patients at the hospitals. If required the MS will be changed, added the Chief Minister.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aboutcrystalmeth.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FLET2WY4G7LPEMJ7F4PDHUC2PAIJZYJH", "length": 1075, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "aboutcrystalmeth.com", "title": "About Crystal Meth: Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "The privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by this site, and how it is used.\nLike many other web sites, this site makes use of log files. 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Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=40", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:14Z", "digest": "sha1:EISTAKITF7KHHWMN6ULNHLO2RLAPKI4M", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "accent.gmu.edu", "title": "speech accent archive: browse", "raw_content": "birth place: plovdiv, bulgaria (map)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://accidentcompensationlawyer.com.au/document-19/what-are-the-key-steps-in-an-act-medical-negligence-claim", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZN4U2O4DYTZ5TUCAMX2KQCDYTNJXR2GC", "length": 2681, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "accidentcompensationlawyer.com.au", "title": "What are the key steps in an ACT medical negligence claim - GMP Compensation Lawyers Canberra", "raw_content": "Medical negligence is rare in Australia, with the country possessing one of the most sophisticated healthcare systems in the world.\nThe ACT in particular also boasts a low rate of adverse incidents in public hospitals. A Productivity Commission report showed that only four instances of medical negligence led to the serious injury or death of a patient in 2014-15. Only Tasmania and the Northern Territory reported fewer cases.\nNevertheless, if you believe you have suffered medical negligence while receiving treatment in the ACT, you may be entitled to compensation. But what should be your next steps?\n1. Record all treatment and conversations\nAfter an alleged incident of medical negligence occurs, you should try to keep an accurate record of any treatments you have received and discussions with doctors, nurses and other practitioners.\nThis is particularly important if you are claiming that you weren't made fully aware of the risks of choosing a particular treatment option. Any conversations you've had with your doctor will come under the spotlight if this is the case.\n2. Contact a medical negligence lawyer\nMedical negligence law is complex and proving that the standards of care you received fell below acceptable levels can be difficult. You should therefore always get in touch with an experienced medical negligence lawyer who can help you gather the necessary evidence you need to pursue your claim.\nA no-win, no-fee firm will ensure that you won't have to pay the upfront costs of making a claim. Instead, you will only face a bill if a settlement goes in your favour.\n3. Pursue your claim\nYour lawyer will inform you whether or not your claim is likely to succeed and ask if you want to take the next steps. Medical negligence cases can take several years to resolve and could end up going to court for a judge to decide on compensation.\nYou'll need to consider if this is the right option for you, although you may have no other choice if the injuries you've suffered have had a significant impact on your quality of life and financial recompense is essential.\n4. Await the final decision\nSome claimants are offered a settlement before their case reaches the courts, which can reduce the stress of a drawn-out trial. 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It was a small taste of the exotic in London\u2019s Mile End area, which is known primarily today as the site of Queen Mary, University of London\u2019s main campus. After the third of four long days discussing \u201cPerspectives on the \u2018Great\u2019 War,\u201d an exotic burger seemed like a nice reward\u2026. Read more \u00bb\nCanada's First World War, Uncategorized\tCanada's First World War, Commemoration, england, London, poppies, War, World War One\nLondon\u2019s Great Smog, 60 Years On\nDecember 10, 2012 December 10, 2012 3 Comments on London\u2019s Great Smog, 60 Years On\nWhen did the modern environmental movement begin? Did one event mark its beginning? Earlier this year we commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Rachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring, which is often identified as bringing about the environmental movement. While this book\u2019s importance is without question, focusing on it as the birth of environmentalism ignores the importance of urban environmental problems, from unsafe drinking water to severe air\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nEnvironment, European History\tAir Pollution, Big Smoke, Clean Air Act, Coal Smoke, environmental history, Environmentalism, Great Smog, London\nThe Sound of Deafening Silence: A Case for Electro-Motive Workers in London, Ontario\nFebruary 14, 2012 February 13, 2012 1 Comment on The Sound of Deafening Silence: A Case for Electro-Motive Workers in London, Ontario\nBy Ryan Kelly What we have witnessed over the past month in London, Ontario is largely unprecedented and very troubling. After announcing record profits, Caterpillar locked out employees on New Year\u2019s Day. The reason an agreement with this corporation could not be reached is simple; workers were unwilling to accept a decrease in wages of over 50 per cent in\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nCanadian history, History and Policy\tboycott, Canadian jobs, Caterpillar, Electro-Motive, Investment Canada Act, Legislation, London, Ontario\nMy time in Hackney: Implications for youth\nAugust 31, 2011 August 31, 2011 1 Comment on My time in Hackney: Implications for youth\nBy Patricia Daley. [This article has already been posted on Pambazuka.org, OpenDemocracy.net and shared through the H-Urban email list. It was licenced on Pambazuka under Creative Commons, so we are reposting the full article here] I spent my teenage years on the Pembury Estate in Hackney \u2013 one of the locations of last week\u2019s riots in London. For the last\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nDoes History Matter?, European History, History and Everyday Life, History and Policy, History in the News\tDavid Cameron, Hackney, London, Oxford University, Poverty, race, UK Riots, Urban, Welfare State", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://addictedtoallthingspretty.com/how-to-pick-an-english-soccer-team-for-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LJRIFIWBXUBK7VNIZKYXUQGX3JULM2A6", "length": 3078, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "addictedtoallthingspretty.com", "title": "How to Pick an English Soccer Team For You - Addicted To All Things Pretty", "raw_content": "Home\u203aBusiness\u203aHow to Pick an English Soccer Team For You\nDespite loving in the United States for the large majority of my life, I spent the first 3 years in this world living in London and both of my parents are British by birth. It is chiefly for this reason that one of my favorite sports to follow is soccer, and in particular the English Premier League. Last week my buddy, the great doctor Wayne Imber, told me that he decided that it was time for him to pick a team that he could follow in the league and asked which I thought he should go for. With this in mind, I wanted to share with you the same info as I told him, so that you can pick your favorite Premier League as well. Here are the most supported clubs with a bit of info to help you decide.\nChelsea are the current champions of England and they have a great chance of winning it again this year. The London team does not have a glittering history of success but after the takeover by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in 2001, the team have added Championships and European trophies to their cabinet. Big team that was bought with a lot of money.\nMan U have been a force to be reckoned with for over a century and they are the most prolific team in the Premier League, and in the world. In the first 25 years of the Premier League, the Red Devils won the league 19 times under the tutelage of legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson. After Ferguson retired, the Manchester club struggled but look set to launch a challenge again under boss Jose Mourinho.\nMy club have a decent history when talking about the 60s and the 70s but since then success has been hard to come by and they were known for a long time as nothing but a cup team. However, 4 years ago Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino took over and lead a team go young Englishman to 3rd and 2nd positions, something they will hope to build on this year.\nTotenhams\u2019 arch rivals and a massive club in their own right, Arsenal are the only team to have ever won the Premier League without losing a game. Their manager Arsene Wenger has been with the club for 22 years and they have qualified for the Champions League 21 out of the 22 years. Things are rocky right now at Arsenal but they still remain a huge club.\nOwn by a mega rich oil company director, Manchester City throw money around like it was from a monopoly set and as such they have attracted the brightest talent for many years. After years of being an average side, City were catapulted to league winners thanks to their investment, a feat they have achieved twice. Current boss Pep Guardiola is one of the best managers in Europe right now and with the money that he has at his disposal, this is a team that is reaching for the stars.\nTagsEnglish footballEnglish football teamsfootballsoccersport\nTips On How To Choose The Best ...\nCivil Rights, Women, and Alabama \u2013 An ...\n5 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Realistically Compete with Ecommerce Stores\nDo You Need a Faster Morning Routine? Here Are 4 Easy Work Uniform Examples Based on Industry\nWhat to Expect on a Romantic Break in Cornwall", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adoc.church/job-openings/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XL6MD4QNZNL7DSZQGHXIF6YTLDQPQKP3", "length": 379, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "adoc.church", "title": "Job Opportunities \u2013 The Diocese of the Carolinas", "raw_content": "Trinity Church on Edisto Island, SC\nTrinity Church (Diocese of South Carolina) is seeking a part-time Organist/Pianist/Choirmaster. A degree in music and 3-5 years experience is preferred. Pay will be commensurate with education and experience, plus allowance for travel and continuing education. If you are interested, please email office@trinityedisto.com or call 843-869-3568.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aflame.in/lectio-divina/daily-reflections/21-june-2017-privacy-of-ones-mental-disposition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CTVO2HN7ILWMSW6KL4TXRPB4UF6EKML2", "length": 2889, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "aflame.in", "title": "21 June, 2017: Privacy of One\u2019s Mental Disposition | Aflame", "raw_content": "Home Lectio Divina Daily Reflections 21 June, 2017: Privacy of One\u2019s Mental Disposition\n21 June, 2017: Privacy of One\u2019s Mental Disposition\nWednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time\nReading : 2 Cor 9:6-11; Gospel: Mt. 6.1-6,16-18\n\u201cThe Lord who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.\u201d\nTo be appreciated and praised in public undoubtedly constitutes an important element in a person\u2019s life. It would be an incentive for the person to continue with his good work and serve as a source of inspiration for many people. That is why we have rank-holders\u2019 meetings and public rewards for those who have done great things in their respective fields of competency. But when such a concept of \u2018work-reward\u2019 comes into religious life, then there is a problem. Is Jesus asking us today to do things in secret? If so, then there should not be any lament regarding the churches becoming empty. We could take for granted that people are in their private rooms praying to the Lord rather than coming to a church to pray. More than exterior disposition, the passage points to an interior disposition. \u201cThe Lord who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.\u201d\nUprightness for the Jewish population consisted in three main things: almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Jesus is attacking precisely these three actions in today\u2019s Gospel passage. He points to the reality that many Jews perform these three activities to be recognized as upright persons in the society. It is here that Jesus brings in a new law: to perform actions not to please others but to please God. In the book of Amos, we see Yahweh condemning the public show of the offerings of the Israelites by which they deceive themselves by not performing the offerings with correct mental disposition (Amos 4:5). There are so many instances in which we see famous biblical personalities making a public profession of their worship. A typical example for this is David dancing naked in front of the Ark of the Covenant. David\u2019s intention was not to make a parade of his piety but to please God. \u201cGod looks at the heart while men look at the externals.\u201d (1 Sam 16: 7). God searches the hearts of human beings and finds out the intention behind the actions that we do. That is why the psalmist cried out: \u201cyou examine me and know me; you understand my thoughts from afar.\u201d (Psalm 139:1-3). This is the same message that today\u2019s Gospel passage gives us. What is my intention when I pray, fast and give alms to others? Even if there is no one around me but my intention is to have spiritual pride, then my effort is useless. On the other hand, even if I am in the midst of the crowd and my intention is to please God and not to gain recognition in the society then I will be rewarded by God.\nInterior Disposition\nPrevious article20 June 2017: Pray for Those Who Persecute You\nNext article22 June 2017: The Theology of Inter-subjectivity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 6558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://al-ghorba6.blogspot.com/2016/05/national-indigenous-human-rights-awards.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VP5U2TOJLX5G32QEKL6LKLBQTDW42SLO", "length": 2291, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "al-ghorba6.blogspot.com", "title": "National Indigenous Human Rights Awards - AL-GHORBA", "raw_content": "As the Convenor of the National Indigenous Human Rights Awards, I was delighted with the success of the inaugural event in 2013 and now look forward to the third annual awards presentation night and dinner.\nThrough these awards, I hope to draw the attention of State and Federal politicians to the plight of our Indigenous people and importantly to the human rights and social justice work of many in our Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander community.\nKeynote Speaker will be Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO, the former and second longest-serving Governor of New South Wales. Professor Bashir launched an indigenous health initiative to support indigenous medicine and nursing students as well as supporting the progress of reconciliation. Professor Bashir also took up the consultative role of senior psychiatrist to the Aboriginal Medical Service. As well as championing the health of indigenous Australians.\nThese Awards will present an opportunity to highlight the work of individuals who work towards a harmonious, equitable and fair Australia and are taking steps to remedy inequities. Australia is a nation that is rich in its first peoples' history. We should honour and recognise those who take the voluntary step to address injustice and human rights. Your sponsorship of these Awards would be most appreciated.\nThe Awards will be presented and judged by leading Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander elders, and leading figures in Indigenous social justice and human rights. The recipients of the National Human Rights Award will be persons of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage.\nThese categories include:\n\u00a7 Dr Yunupingu Award - For Human Rights and Social Justice Award.\n\u00a7 The Eddie Mabo Award -For Lifetime Social Justice Achievement.\n\u00a7 The Anthony Mundine Courage Award.\nThe event will be held at Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont. On Thursday the 9th of June 2016, 6:30pm for 7:00pm Start I look forward to you or your business representatives joining us on at the Award presentation Dinner.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxZEmrAdjY\nhttp://thestringer.com.au/finally-national-indigenous-human-rights-awards-7646#.Vejp5qh--mQ\nhttp://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20131114052\nM 02 9230 2526 || 02 9230 2722", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 54197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alcohol.gov.au/internet/alcohol/publishing.nsf/Content/hp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DTWLGKJ6S22XPCARAIVUCZGHYUG5DRLB", "length": 2774, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "alcohol.gov.au", "title": "Alcohol - Information for health professionals", "raw_content": "Complex patients and referral\nAlcohol consumption and breastfeeding\nAlcohol Guidelines are relevant for everybody\n97% of Australian women think health professionals should ask about alcohol use in pregnancy1. A survey undertaken (link to pdf of survey on resources page) for the Women Want to Know project has also highlighted that health professionals want information about how to speak to women about alcohol and pregnancy.2\nIn 2009 the National Health and Medical Research Council's Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol (Alcohol Guidelines) were updated and the information on alcohol and pregnancy was revised. The revised Alcohol Guidelines specified that \u2018Maternal alcohol consumption can harm the developing fetus or breastfeeding baby\u2019 and \u2018For women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, not drinking is the safest option\u2019 also, \u2018For women who are breastfeeding, not drinking is the safest option.\u2019\nThe development of the National Health and Medical Research Council's Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol included public consultation and an independent peer review process. The guidelines are based, where possible, on meta-analyses and systematic reviews which synthesise results from a number of single studies.\nThe National Health and Medical Research Council's Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol provide advice on levels of alcohol consumption that will enable healthy adults to minimise their risk of alcohol-related accidents, injuries, diseases and death both in the short and long term.\nGuideline 4 focuses on pregnancy and breastfeeding. The guideline is based on an assessment of the evidence of the potential harms to the health of the mother and the developing fetus.\nGuideline 4: Pregnancy and breastfeeding\nB: For women who are breastfeeding, not drinking is the safest option.3\nHow to initiate conversations about alcohol consumption and pregnancy\nHealth professionals can positively influence a woman\u2019s choices about alcohol during pregnancy having a quick conversation of five to ten minutes within a consultation and by providing women with advice and guidance about alcohol at the time. One way to discuss alcohol consumption with women is to use the 5A\u2019s approach. This is an evidence-based framework and helps to structure the conversation so that it is appropriate to the patient..4,5 The 5A\u2019s are: Ask, Assess, Advise, Assist and Arrange.\n2 Ipsos Social Research Institute (2013). Women Want to Know: Pre-Intervention Survey results.\n4 Fiore, M., Bailey, W., Cohen, S., Dorfman, S., Goldstein, M., Gritz E, et al. (2000). Treating tobacco use and dependence: clinical practice guideline. US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville MD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://all-notes.com/dessert-the-big-apple-pizza/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZR3HPY5GG37WJKTAQW4LP72BLKQ33Z6Y", "length": 3089, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "all-notes.com", "title": "Dessert: The Big Apple Pizza \u2013 All Notes", "raw_content": "You Are Here: Home \u00bb Food \u00bb Dessert: The Big Apple Pizza\nDessert: The Big Apple Pizza\nPizza is one of the most beloved foods across the globe, but it can be more than sauce and crust with savory toppings; it can be made into a delectable treat that\u2019s as mind-blowingly delicious as it is waist-expanding. While the following dishes may tempt you to the point that you\u2019ll need to join Weight Watchers, the time and money required to get back in shape will be more than worth it once you\u2019ve sent your taste buds to cloud nine.\nApple Doozie\nApple pie is as American as baseball and fireworks, so it\u2019s only fitting that the first concoction you explore would be filled to the brim with the sweet red-peeled fruit. Christy Jordan\u2019s Southern Platewebsite details one of the best true-to-restaurant recipes for home cooking, and if you really want to make people think you ordered out, this is what you should make.\nIf apples aren\u2019t your thing, or you\u2019re just craving some variety, the first fruit pizza recipe on allrecipes.comcan provide you with something that\u2019s both more colorful and more subdued. While the Apple Doozie is all about providing your taste buds with a dose of maximum sweetness, this fruit pizza recipe offsets the sugar with a bit of cream cheese while making up for it with every fruit of your choice. If you are looking for a flavor to enhance the natural taste of the fruit instead of just making it sweeter, this will knock your socks off.\nThe, \u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d Chocolate Pizza\nThis is one of the big ones. Before you pop this thing into the oven, you should make sure you\u2019ve got your dentist on speed dial. This Food Network Frankenstein is meant to be topped with bananas, peanut butter, chunks of chocolate, candy-coated chocolate and marshmallows. This is what you should make your kids if you want to give them something better than a birthday cake, and as the name suggests, it\u2019s the perfect pick-me-up when you\u2019re getting over an ex. Who needs them when you\u2019ve got so much chocolate?\nIf you\u2019re not afraid to get really elaborate, this is the perfect choice for a dinner party or when you really want to treat yourself. The crust is made from brownie mix; that should give you an idea of just what you\u2019re in for. The Food Network has delivered again, so make sure to send them your regards before you enter a sugar-induced coma.\nThis is a far simpler concoction than a few of the other recipes you\u2019ll find out there, but one should never underestimate the appeal of smores. If the inner child in you is begging to be let free, make this and let it go wild for a night. It\u2019s the closest you\u2019ll ever get to a second childhood.\nPizza is one of those foods that humankind will never stop improving upon, and if you stay on the lookout, you\u2019ll find unique recipes that outclass everything that you\u2019ve ever tasted. Loosen your belt, prepare your belly, and let the sweet food-induced ecstasy wash over you.\nDavid Hong is a food aficionado with a sweet tooth. If you are looking for some more traditional style pizzas, he recommends ordering from New York pizza delivery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allthings.umphreys.com/venues/1581", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:6QHSBUIODQQ4MPD5SABKIKHTB27NHF3L", "length": 184, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "allthings.umphreys.com", "title": "Umphrey's McGee \\mm/", "raw_content": "Venues > Telluride Blues & Brews Festival\nThere have been 2 Umphrey's McGee performance(s) at Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.\nView Stats for Shows at Telluride Blues & Brews Festival", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 158.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://altoday.com/archives/14128-the-electoral-college-class-of-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:48Z", "digest": "sha1:Y33K5ZUB7MAUQXDYRDVFBEPCV6H5PKC3", "length": 8142, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "altoday.com", "title": "The Electoral College class of 2016", "raw_content": "[Photo Credit: AP Photo | David J. Phillip]\nThe Electoral College class of 2016\nThe sharp divisions left by last month\u2019s presidential election have cast more attention than usual on the Electoral College. The Associated Press attempted to talk to all 538 electors to get an idea of the pressure they are under, what they think about their Constitutional duty and what they make of longshot efforts to derail Donald Trump\u2018s ascension to the White House when they meet Monday.\nRepublican Rex Teter, 59, a music teacher and preacher in Pasadena, Texas, received about 35,000 emails and 200 letters urging him not to support Trump. It took him several hours to delete them the day after Thanksgiving. A Marco Rubio supporter in the primaries, he is solidly for Trump.\n\u201cSome have been very personal letters. Some threatening. One was very funny. They view President-elect Trump as a threat so it\u2019s personal for them, and I can empathize. But I\u2019m not changing my vote as an elector.\u201d\n\u201cWhen I decided to run for elector, that\u2019s when I decided to vote for Trump. I could not be an elector and not vote for Trump. \u2026 No matter of arm-twisting or any amount of money would get me to change. I was also bound by a higher law, because I promised but also because I made a higher pledge before God.\u201d\nDemocrat Raymond Cordova, 77, of Garden Grove, California, thinks the Electoral College is an anachronism, but electors have an obligation to carry on the tradition of ratifying their state\u2019s popular vote. In the primaries, he voted for Bernie Sanders.\n\u201cDuring the time of (James) Madison I think they were right on target with it. We have the means, with sophisticated communication, all these things today, we don\u2019t need the Electoral College. But it will never change, it will always be there.\u201d\n\u201cI honestly believe if Bernie Sanders had been the nominee, we\u2019d have had a whole different story. But I\u2019m not going to cry over spilled milk, I\u2019m going to pick up my marbles and start all over again.\u201d\nKirk Shook, 32, is an Athens, Georgia, teacher and secretary of the state GOP, who says he\u2019s sent more than 47,800 emails about his duty as an elector to his spam folder.\n\u201cEven if I could have been swayed a little bit, this has caused me to be even firmer in my resolve if just to aggravate them. It\u2019s been a complete thorn in my side. They\u2019re from all over the country.\u201d\n\u201cOn the whole, the American people knew who they voted for. Nothing going to come out about Donald Trump, I think, that would sway the people who voted for him to change their vote or change electors\u2019 decision.\u201d\nDemocrat David Mulinix, 66, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, is exasperated with the Democratic National Committee, the Electoral College system and the fact he can do little except cast his electoral vote for Hillary Clinton according to the rules.\n\u201cNow we have Donald Trump because the DNC manipulated the system to put in the worst candidate possible that the people of the United States did not want. So now we\u2019re stuck with Trump. So I\u2019m not sure what else to do about that. I wish there\u2019d be some way to make a statement saying you guys really messed up \u2026 and I just don\u2019t know exactly how to do that.\u201d\n\u201cIf there was some way to change the election, then I\u2019d be on the phone hot and heavy calling people.\u201d\n\u201cWe need to get rid of this dumb thing. I really am not happy about being an elector or that this thing exists. This is really terrible. We\u2019re supposed to have a democracy\u2026 Right now, if all the electors got together and held a conference, and said you know what, we\u2019re going to vote for like Donald Duck, they can just do that.\u201d\nAlberto Gutier, 77, director of the Arizona Governor\u2019s Office of Highway Safety and the state GOP\u2019s sergeant-at-arms, says he\u2019s been swamped with emails, several dozen calls to his personal cellphone \u201cand a stack of letters a foot high\u201d about his service as a Republican elector. These are largely pleas for him to back someone other than Trump.\n\u201cForty-seven thousand, five hundred emails, that\u2019s ridiculous, OK? And hundreds and hundreds of letters. Do you have any idea, for those stamps, how many people could have been fed for the holidays?\u201d\nSam Shapiro, 89, of Winslow, Maine, was treasurer of the state Democratic Party for 13 years and treasurer of the state as well. He says the country should emulate Maine and Nebraska by splitting their electoral votes, moving away from a winner-take-all system. But he says the people have spoken, and he will cast his electoral vote for Clinton and not be part of any effort to deny Trump the presidency.\n\u201cTrump has won. I firmly support our president-elect. All of this turmoil of trying to get people to switch their votes. First of all it won\u2019t happen. Second of all, it puts us in a bad light.\u201d\n\u201cI served in the military and took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Trump is going to be the president, and I\u2019ll support him, even if means being in opposition to Democrats who\u2019re trying to make a change.\u201d\nJohn Harper, 73, is a former Rowlett, Texas, mayor, and a Republican elector who weighed the consequences of casting his electoral vote for someone other than his state\u2019s presidential election winner, Donald Trump.\n\u201cI struggled with that one. I want to be always morally straight, kind of a Boy Scout, you know? I\u2019m a retired military officer. Taking an oath means a lot. When you take an oath you live up for it. I made a promise. Lacking some strong, strong evidence, I think everyone is obligated to follow through what they promise.\u201d\nDemocrat Stephanie A. Miner, 46, mayor of Syracuse, New York, is taking a hard look at the system in light of the fact that Clinton won about 2.6 million more votes nationally than Trump.\n\u201cWhile I have supported the Electoral College because of its unique design and historic precedence, the fact more than 2 million people have voted for Hillary Clinton over her opponent, yet he is the one who will become president, does not ring right with me or many other Americans. I am now considering our national options for what would make our elections truly fairer and more representative.\u201d\nKelly Arnold, 38, of Wichita, is the Kansas GOP chairman. He\u2019s counted more than 48,000 emails since mid-November. Of the ones he\u2019s glanced at, most urged him to switch to Clinton and the rest wanted him to back a Republican other than Trump. \u201cOf course, I have no time to read them,\u201d Arnold said.\nHe thinks the Electoral College prevents a few major cities from dominating national politics, which would \u201cruin an election for the majority of the United States.\u201d\n\u201cThe rest of the country would be ignored. You never heard once, about anybody leading up to the election \u2026 having a problem with the Electoral College until, oh, about 1:40 in the morning on Election Night. If the results were the other way, the left would not have a problem with the Electoral College.\u201d\nRoxanne Allen, 73, a retired radio executive in Albuquerque, New Mexico, backed Sanders in the primaries but put both Bernie and Hillary stickers on her car. She\u2019ll cast her electoral vote for Clinton, who won the state. But she thinks electors should feel free to vote in ways that are at odds with the results in their state \u2013 even though New Mexico makes it a felony for electors to cast ballots for anyone other than the candidate of the party that selected them for the Electoral College.\n\u201cI think that this is an instance where the founders of the Constitution had a real good idea about guarding against a very unwise choice on the part of the people.\u201d\n\u201cGiven the system that we have now, I think the electors should exercise individual discretion and vote for the better candidate.\u201d\nJoe Negron, 55, is Florida\u2019s state Senate president and a GOP elector. He\u2019s unmoved by the lobbying to abandon Trump.\n\u201cDonald Trump won Florida fair and square. He\u2019s entitled to the 29 electoral votes. Everything else sounds like sour grapes to me\u2026. Our job is to implement the will of the people.\u201d\nFacebook: Accounts from Russia bought ads during US campaign\nHillary Clinton takes blame in upcoming book but responds to critics\nChris Christie says getting Russian opposition research \u2018probably\u2019 illegal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 11751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://altrinchambaptist.org/journaling/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:14Z", "digest": "sha1:V3WD5IBVCLDF6LRV27QQQNTNYZXQHAR2", "length": 280, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "altrinchambaptist.org", "title": "Journaling | Altrincham Baptist Church", "raw_content": "Vision: to create a space in which, using the art of journaling and silence, we develop relationships, with ourselves, with others and ultimately with Jesus.\nA place to be Compassionate to one self\nConfidentiality & Trust\nFriday 10:15am for 10:30 start at the HUB, till 12 o\u2019clock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amicohoops.net/antetokounmpo-offered-to-save-kidds-job-with-bucks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:I7M6AR4SWQKCRFI62GCHQOSEDOXQLQEU", "length": 1320, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "amicohoops.net", "title": "Antetokounmpo offered to save Kidd\u2019s job with Bucks \u2013 Amico Hoops", "raw_content": "Giannis Antetokounmpo is now the best player in the East.\nMILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is not thrilled over the team\u2019s decision to fire head coach Jason Kidd.\nKidd, who was relieved of his coaching duties Monday, told ESPN that Antetokounmpo called him about 15 minutes before and offered to help save his job.\nPer ESPN\u2019s Ramona Shelburne:\nJason Kidd tells ESPN that Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo called him about 15 minutes before Kidd was officially notified he'd been fired by the Bucks and offered to help save his job.\nKidd, \"He called me and said, 'Coach, this isn't right what they're about to do, but (they) are gonna let you go.' \"\nKidd says he told Antetokounmpo that \"I had a feeling that was gonna take place.\"\nKidd says Antetokounmpo replied, \"'What can I do? I'll call the owners, I'll call my agent.\"\nKidd said he told him, \"There's nothing you can do. All you can do is tell the truth. That's it.\"\nA source tells AmicoHoops Antetokounmpo and Kidd were \u201cvery close\u201d and that the Bucks\u2019 franchise player trusted Kidd\u2019s vision for the future.\nNow, the Bucks appear to have a dilemma on its hands with their best player not happy over an organizational move. Milwaukee has to get the next head coach right. If not, the Greek Freak could grow even more disgruntled.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ancestralheroes.com/rhode-island/5926/malter-charles-h-jr", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:46Z", "digest": "sha1:TI3IRLMCPSN3YMNCXW4PN5RBKCQJR24M", "length": 387, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ancestralheroes.com", "title": "Malter, Charles H. Jr. | AncestralHeroes.com", "raw_content": "Malter, Charles H. Jr.\nSURVIVOR AT HOME HERE\nCharles H. Malter, Jr., electrician's mate, U. S. N., a survivor of the U. S. S. Beatty, which was sunk at a result of enemy action in the Mediterranean November 6, is passing a 30-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Charles Malter of 75 Marchant street. He said he expects to be assigned to another ship at the end of his leave.\nNewport Co RI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p072531.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4XKN24RRB4WE4DQTFRH5DO5XE4QDH56", "length": 928, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "androom.home.xs4all.nl", "title": "Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich (1789-1848)", "raw_content": "Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich\nTEACHER (GERMANY)\nBORN 25 Jun 1789, Auerbach, Vogtland - DIED 27 Mar 1848, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen\nGRAVE LOCATION Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Hauptfriedhof (Gewann E, 69)\nWilhelm Ackermann was the son of a preacher. He studied theology in Leipzig from 1807 onwards. At the same time he worked as a teacher and this made him turn to J.H. Pestalozzi, with whom he studied from 1811 to 1813. In 1813 he entered the Freikorps L\u00fctzow as a volunteer and he fough with then against the French until they reached Paris. His friend Theodor K\u00f6rner died in August, 1813 and he helped to dig his grave under an oak in W\u00f6bbelin.\nAfter the war he worked as a teacher with Pestalozzi in France and from 1819 onwards in Frankfurt am Main where he worked at the Musterschule until his retirement in 1847.\nThe grave of W.H. Ackermann at the Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt am Main.\n\u0095 Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://annycook.blogspot.com/2019/02/losing-my-mind.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4XFKHUZ2BESBED4ZFRZAR52OBCVTRCDO", "length": 81, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "annycook.blogspot.com", "title": "Anny's Points of View: Losing My Mind", "raw_content": "Rev. Sam Martin February 10, 2019 at 1:42 PM\nLol. Been there. 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Check with us now on how to integrate with Akeneo PIM.\nDirect, cloud based integration and API (Application Programming Interface) Solutions for Akeneo PIM Tailored to your needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 4394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arabicmajlis.com/subject.php?id=1636", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:C4PJMUAOXSOLABC7N3RSV4IM6OVLMIFD", "length": 3398, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "arabicmajlis.com", "title": "\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u0644\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a / Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini gets PhD. in Istanbul appreciate for his contributions scientific and activity in the dissemination of a culture of tolerance and peaceful coexistence and religious pluralism", "raw_content": "\u2022 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0636\u0648\u0639 : Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini gets PhD. in Istanbul appreciate for his contributions scientific and activity in the dissemination of a culture of tolerance and peaceful coexistence and religious pluralism .\nSayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini gets PhD. in Istanbul appreciate for his contributions scientific and activity in the dissemination of a culture of tolerance and peaceful coexistence and religious pluralism\nIn line with the policy of the University of Erice international adoption of the Federation International Universities - Turkey in the service and encourage researchers and thinkers and workers in the field of scientific research and humanitarian issues, on the basis of the rules of procedure of the League, the Committee granted the specialized higher which Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini in academic celebration rally honorary doctorate professor for his outstanding contributions in the fields of science and knowledge and activity in the service of scientific research in the promotion of tolerance and the culture of peaceful coexistence.\nThe occasion came within the framework of the activities of an academic conference in the ninth International hosted by the Federation of International universities in Istanbul, attended by professors of academics and intellectuals from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Bosnia, and Turkey.\nSayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini doctorate certificate from Dr. Abdullah Al-Assaf, Dr. Tarek Al-Saadi , Dr. Mohamad Khair El Husseini,\nDr. Salim Al Kheifi from the Sultanate of Oman and Dr. Nasser Al Masri from Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmed Al Anzi from Riyadh, and Dr. Khaled Al Mareib from Lebanon\nIn a special ceremony marked by words inspired by the occasion.\nThe Committee commended the donor countries actively the contribution of Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini intellectual and cultural in the country and the Arab world in the promotion of a culture of tolerance between different cultures and civilizations, and its role in creating social peace through his thesis calling for respect for the religious pluralism OIC - Christian - Jewish, tireless work for the administration of this multilingualism in the intellectual framework Apostle, away from all forms of violence and moral and material support.\nThe Committee noted the academy that intellectual activity to Sayed El Husseini Arab contributed to a great extent in quelling the Sunni sedition Shiite-which worked some regional constituencies in exacerbating and succeeded in the interpretation of the political causes of the fabricated purely ordered his behind some local conflicts in a number of countries in the region, confirming that it is not to the spirit of the religions nothing.\nThe Committee also welcomed the great role played by Sayed El Husseini at the international level in the provision of Islam to moderate open to other religions, which pulled the rug from under the feet of the extremists who worked on the hostility of the other, in an Arab country, to sensitize similar reactions in various parts of the world.\nThe Committee concluded the Supreme Academy of the total contributions of Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini served the very clear and comprehensive policy of peaceful coexistence and the culture of civilizational dialog and religious.\nMonday 11/2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 9085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arachackerian.com/china-transfers-60000-soldiers-to-fight-pollution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:E7NYC7X6PQZ3WC2TSJVDUGT46X22NHH3", "length": 2592, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "arachackerian.com", "title": "China Transfers 60,000 Soldiers To Fight Pollution | Ara Chackerian", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb China Transfers 60,000 Soldiers To Fight Pollution\nChina Transfers 60,000 Soldiers To Fight Pollution2018-02-272018-02-27http://arachackerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ara-logo2.pngAra Chackerianhttp://arachackerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/denny-ryanto-524221-unsplash.jpg200px200px\nReports in Mainland China reveal that the country has conscripted over 60,000 of its soldiers to plant trees in its effort to establish new forests. The biggest country with the largest population in the world is experiencing a lack of trees, which organically produce clean air and fight pollution, a problem China has faced for decades. An Asia Times report indicated that the People\u2019s Liberation Army regiment together with the country\u2019s armed police force in the northern border areas in China were removed from their positions and ordered to take part in the effort to control the high levels of air pollution in the country.\nA report also revealed that the highest concentrations of pollution in China are located in the northeast part of the country where industrial facilities conduct their operations. In these areas, there is an average of PM2.5 concentration of pollutants in 2015. According to the Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada, PM2.5 are fine particulate matters of 2.5 micron or less in diameter which reduces visibility and cause the air and atmosphere to appear hazy when their levels are increased.\nNo surprise to anyone, taking on the task to create new forests is a big project. China is aiming to enough forest to cover 6.66 million hectares this year. According to Zhang Jianlong, the head of China\u2019s State Forestry Administration, in the last five years, his country has already established 33.8 million hectares (around 338,000 square kilometers) of forests. Reuters also reported that China wanted to increase its woodland areas from 21.7 percent in 2016 to 23 percent by 2020.\nMost of the transferred soldiers will be assigned in the Hebei Province, the area that suffers the most pollution. There is a plan to create three new forests in this location. This province has been blamed for the production of smog and fumes that pollute Beijing including northern China. But it has already committed to adding 35 percent more forest coverage at the end of 2020. Reports coming from Asia Times reveal that the soldiers are not dismayed at their reassignment. 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The business uses alkaline hydrolysis to handle the remains of deceased pets.\nBlaire Carley (left) and Sherman Baylin confer on final touches to a medallion footprint of a client\u00e2\u0080\u0099s deceased pet. The medallion is made from the pet\u00e2\u0080\u0099s paw print.\nKAREN QUINCY LOBERG/THE STAR Daisy Martinez (from left), holds a jar containing the final remains of a pet. Natalie Olivares and Jamie Gill, also hold remains, and Courtney Cedillo learns about the alkaline hydrolysis process from Jerry Shevick, owner of Peaceful Pets Aquamation in Newbury Park, recently.\nShevick (left) shows visitors from Ohana Pet Hospital the interior of the refrigerated van used for transporting deceased pets to his business, Peaceful Pets Aquamation in Newbury Park.\nKAREN QUINCY LOBERG/THE STAR Blaire Carley makes memorial medallions next to the alkaline hydrolysis tank where the remains of deceased pets are handled. The process breaks down soft tissue leaving bones that are then crushed.\nProcess for remains seen as greener\nBy Allison Bruce\nWhen it comes to saying goodbye to a pet, people often think of one of two options: burial or cremation.\nThe owners of one Newbury Park company, however, want pet owners to consider another alternative, called aquamation, that advocates say is gentler and more environmentally friendly.\n\"In 10 years, I think this is what pet aftercare becomes,\" said Jerry Shevick, chief executive officer and founder of Peaceful Pets Aquamation.\nThe challenge is educating people about the process as the company works to penetrate a fairly entrenched market, he said.\nAquamation, which is alkaline hydrolysis, uses a small amount of alkalis in water to reduce the decomposition process to roughly 20 hours. The solution breaks down soft tissues and leaves behind bones. As with cremation, the bones are crushed and returned to the pet owner to keep in an urn or scatter or bury.\nBut aquamation doesn't release pollutants into the atmosphere and the wastewater can be adjusted for pH levels and used to water and fertilize plants.\nFor those reasons and others, pet owners often are drawn to it as an alternative to burial or cremation, said clients and veterinarians.\nWhen Lynn Marchionno realized she would have to decide what to do when her 16-year-old pit bull-Labrador mix, Greta, died, her online research led her to Peaceful Pets.\nGreta, who Marchionno rescued as a stray, fell and didn't want to get up on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, Marchionno, who lives in Studio City, started calling around for a vet who could come to her home so that Greta could die there, alongside Marchionno and her other dog, Jackson.\nShevick, too, came to her house, staying in the background but always nearby to offer assistance or support.\nHeadquarters: Newbury Park\nPricing: Prices range from $150 for pets up to 15 pounds to $350 for pets weighing 91 pounds or more. Additional fees apply to picking up the body and delivery of the remains.\nOn the Net: www.peacefulpetsaquamation.com\n\"It's such a great service for Peaceful Pets to actually come to the house,\" she said, adding later, \"It's better to do it in their home. It's better for everybody.\"\nMarchionno, who does ceramics, plans to create an urn for Greta's remains.\nAlkaline hydrolysis is not a new technique. It was developed more than 100 years ago as a way to create fertilizer from animal remains.\nMedical schools around the country, and around the world, use it to dispose of both animal and human tissue. While other countries use the process as a burial alternative for animals and humans, it has been slow to come to the United States beyond academic uses.\n\"Hopefully we can catch up with the rest of the world,\" said Dr. Attila Molnar, a veterinarian with All Animals Veterinary Hospital in Calabasas.\nMolnar approached Shevick about offering aquamation to his clients after seeing a brochure.\n\"It's much nicer than being burned,\" he said, adding that it is a \"green\" way to dispose of an animal's body and, at least in other countries, the wastewater has been used as fertilizer in fields. There's something comforting in knowing that a beloved pet's body is going toward helping other things to grow and flourish, Molnar said.\nClients approve\nHe said about 90 percent of his clients choose aquamation, barring size restrictions that exclude large animals, such as horses.\n\"My clients like it,\" he said of the approach.\nShevick said the company can handle animals up to 400 pounds at this time. In addition to dogs and cats, Peaceful Pets has handled the bodies of two black leopards, pigs, chickens, a hamster, bobcats, birds and bearded dragons.\nShevick had a long career in the television industry, working for Hearst Communications for 20 years. A conversation with Sherman Baylin, an animal advocate and groomer who lives in Malibu, introduced him to aquamation.\nAfter doing research on the process, the industry and the opportunity for growth, Shevick was sold on the idea and started the company.The company purchased a pet-sized machine with individual compartments for each set of remains, and the business was born. He and his wife are co-owners and Baylin is an associate.\n\"I had something that I loved, being around pets, and something that absolutely makes a difference and I can feel good about doing,\" Shevick said. On top of that, the venture made good business sense because it brought something new, and he felt better, to the industry.\n\"There's a need for what I can introduce,\" he said.\nStill, it took the better part of a year to work through the permitting process and testing the equipment. Shevick said the company is starting to build interest. He's talking to vets, who he expects to make up the biggest part of the company's client base, and redesigning the website to make it both easier to use and easier to find.\nSince the company is a startup, and Shevick wants to understand every aspect of the business, he can often be found driving the truck or running the machine.\nWith all the legwork involved, Shevick said there are days he feels like he \"went from being a television executive to being a Fuller Brush man.\"\nStaff members from Ohana Pet Hospital in Ventura toured the Peaceful Pets offices as they considered offering aquamation to their clients.\n\"We thought it was a great service that's right in our backyard,\" said Dr. Janis Shinkawa, noting the process fit well with the hospital's focus on operating in an environmentally conscious manner.\nThe pet hospital has started offering aquamation as an alternative, while still offering cremation services through another company, Shinkawa said.\n\"It offers more to our clients, and I think that's always a nice thing for the end-of-life decisions we have to make for our pets,\" she said.\nShe said one of the biggest challenges when starting to offer aquamation is how to educate clients about the option. The worst time for people to have to mull over their options is at the time of euthanasia, she said.\nEven the word \"aquamation\" is something new to most people. So the office will have a binder about the process in the waiting room, put a notice in its newsletter and will start to discuss the different options with clients who know they will have to make a decision soon.\n\"Luckily for us, the aquamation is not more expensive than cremation. It's relatively the same,\" she said. With cost removed as a factor, clients can base their decisions on the kind of service they want.\nShevick said it was important that his business go beyond the process of aquamation. Peaceful Pets emphasizes the compassion and care that is used in handling the dead pet, from pickup in a refrigerated truck to Baylin making clay paw prints that she decorates and returns to the owners with the remains.\nThe company's website offers information on the process, memorial urns and resources for talking with children or working through grief after a pet's death. The company also donates 5 percent of the aquamation cost to partner animal rescue groups when clients mention the groups. Shevick said it was important to him, as a pet-lover and parent, to have a business that went beyond the bottom line.\n\"What you find and what I've learned is big business doesn't always translate into having an emotional connection with its clientele,\" Shevick said. It was important that Peaceful Pets make that connection in a way that addressed people's needs, he said.\n\"If we're going to do this, we're going to do it right,\" he said.\nMonica Perlmutter of Malibu said she was distraught when she realized her 13-year-old dog, Baxter, was failing. She described Baxter as an \"amazing Jack Russell\" terrier, who was the love of the neighborhood and visited the dog park daily. But one day he stopped being so active and started having trouble breathing.\n\"I was freaking out,\" she said. \"I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to bury him or cremate him.\"\nBaylin had groomed Perlmutter's two dogs for years and told her about aquamation. So when the time came, she had Peaceful Pets pick up Baxter's body from the vet's office.\n\"The thought of cremating to me is very scary, just the thought of the flame,\" Perlmutter said. \"I couldn't go there. This is a much gentler process. People do birthings in the water If you can come into the world that way, why not go out that way?\"\nAlkaline hydrolysis uses heat and agitation or pressure, along with a solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide (commonly known as lye) to dissolve and sterilize animal or human remains. The process breaks down large molecules into smaller molecules, such as sugars, amino acids and fatty acids. It destroys DNA. The remaining bones can be crushed into a powder. Because it destroys pathogens, the system also can be used to decontaminate infected tissue, making the remains safe for the environment. Because the process takes place in a sealed machine, there are no notable emissions. The wastewater can be sent to the local water treatment plant or adjusted for pH and used to water and fertilize land.\nAmos Herbert Hobson patented the process in 1888 in the United States as a way to create fertilizer from animal carcasses. In 1993, a version of the process was used to destroy cow carcasses infected with mad cow disease. The University of Florida in Gainesville and the Mayo Clinic use it for human research cadavers. The process can be used for human remains as an alternative to cremation or burial in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Oregon.\nSources: DeathLab at Columbia University; Texas A&M University handbook on alkaline hydrolysis; 2011 National Funeral Directors Association policy board model guidelines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 13192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2017/Mar/20/NEWS/ent032516_ELKHART.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NBF3HNMDORLITPRLNZSOMTIZ3HM7MNKV", "length": 1773, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "archives.lincolndailynews.com", "title": "LDN - Other News", "raw_content": "Elkhart Dinner Lecture March 24th\n\"Inspiration from the seven daughters of John Dean Gillett\"\n[March 18, 2017] ELKHART - The Elkhart Historical Society announced its March 24 Dinner Lecture, Legacy: Inspiration from the Seven Daughters of John Dean Gillett\u201d, which will highlight the lives of these interesting and influential women who were born at a pivotal time in our nation\u2019s history.\nTheirs was a life that included both work and play, and exposed them to Springfield society during the beginnings of the Abraham Lincoln era, he being a good friend of their father as well as his legal counsel. Gillett, known in many circles as the Cattle King of Illinois, raised his family in the Elkhart area, educating all of his children in the finest schools of the day, thus preparing them for the future.\nOur presenter is Marcy Brooks, who studied at LCU many years ago, and who now lives in Greeneville TN, where she has established \u201cDestiny Life Skills Institute\u201d. She is a skilled musician and speaker, and is remembered for playing the organ at our Christmas Candlelight Service in years past, as well as leading various motivational talks in the area. She has been intrigued by the history of Elkhart for numerous years, and promises to bring an exciting and revealing inside look at the lives of the Gillett women.\nThe Dinner Lecture will be held at Horsefeather\u2019s Wild Hare Caf\u00e9 on Friday March 24, 2017, at 5:30p. The cost of the lecture will include $10 for the Elkhart Historical Society. The menu offerings are Herb Crusted Chicken Breast or Beef Bourguignon, the reservation form can be viewed and downloaded on the website: www.elkhart historicalsociety.org Reservations are required and must be made by calling 217 947 2238, as space is limited.\n[J. Rob Wilson]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armedlutheran.libsyn.com/episode-146-rejecting-the-cross", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XCJ3ZDLSUM3IIGRWDXBPNIRWNF4WL6D4", "length": 1738, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "armedlutheran.libsyn.com", "title": "Armed Lutheran Radio: Episode 146 - Rejecting The Cross", "raw_content": "Episode 146 - Rejecting The Cross 0\nA \u201cReverend\u201d in the United Methodist Church somehow connects the symbol of the cross to Trump and the hate-filled Nazi who a committed mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue. If you think it's time to lay down the cross as a symbol of the church because of the actions of an anti-Semitic mass murderer, you might be a heretic. Or insane. Or both.\nUnited Methodist Insight \u2013 After Pittsburgh, I Can No Longer Wear A Cross\nThe Great Flip \u2013 Self-Defense and Life Skills for Girls\nLloyd shares his thoughts on the reactions to the death of missionary John Allen Chau.\nMia talks about the importance of self-defense training for kids and The Great Flip.\nWhen I was 18 years old I wrote a mindless poem about how I could no longer call myself a Christian because of the history of abuse by the Church over the centuries. I walked away from the faith because I could not distinguish the acts of evil humans within the church and the church itself. But I was a freshman in college. Today we examine an article by a \u201cpastor\u201d in the United Methodist Church who has decided to reject the cross because others have used it as a symbol in commission of evil acts. What drove her to this conclusion? The acts of an anti-semitic, Trump-hating, Nazi who attacked the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.\nGunMag Warehouse \u2013 Need more Magazines? Find out what gun magazines we have for you!\nAbsolve, we implore You, O Lord, Your people from their offenses, that from the bonds of our sins which by reason of our frailty we have brought upon us we may be delivered by Your bountiful goodness; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2010-12-08/sports/tn-gnp-sp-football-20101208_1_glendale-coach-alan-eberhart-hoover-glendale-high-s-moyse-field", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ROL27ETMAROCIYOIM2E36T3RLUO5IF6X", "length": 2648, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "articles.glendalenewspress.com", "title": "Another battle to begin with - tribunedigital-glendalenews-press", "raw_content": "Another battle to begin with\nFootball: Glendale, Hoover have agreed to open up next season against each other, in addition to traditionally Week 10 \"Battle for the Victory Bell.\"\nDecember 08, 2010|By Edgar Melik-Stepanyan, Special to the News-Press\nGLENDALE \u2014 Once isn't enough for Hoover and Glendale high.\nSince 1930, the Nitros and Tornadoes football programs have ended their regular seasons with the annual \"Battle for the Victory Bell.\"\nIn 2011, they'll try something new.\nGlendale and Hoover will play one another in a nonleague game to start the season in addition to ending the year with their annual Pacific League showdown.\nHoover High Coach Chris Long said he thought of the idea of playing a Week One game against Glendale when he realized he needed an opponent to begin the year. Hoover played Sierra Vista the past two years in the first game of the season.\nLong pitched the idea to Glendale Coach Alan Eberhart, whose team also needed a Week One game after its two-year contract with Cathedral ended.\nAfter a week of discussions, both schools finalized the deal Friday.\nGlendale will be the \"road\" team in Week One and will be \"home\" team in Week 10, as the game takes place as usual at Glendale High's Moyse Field, which serves as both teams' home field.\n\"We talked about it,\" said Eberhart, whose team defeated the Tornadoes, 54-19, in the 83rd meeting between the cross-town rivals, bringing the Victory Bell back to Glendale a year after losing to Hoover. \"We both needed a Game One. We both would like to play somebody we could beat. I think it creates a little excitement. We see how many people come to the last game and how few people come to any other game. Why not try it?\"\nOver the previous five seasons, the two schools have combined to go 13-86-1, with no playoff appearances and five of those victories coming against each other.\nLong said the opening game will promote excitement for both schools, like it always does for the last game.\n\"It's a win-win situation for everybody,\" he said. \"Everybody knows how big of a game it is for both schools, our community and our alumni. Plus we will have a big crowd at the start of the year. It's a big game for everyone.\"\nHe also hopes that more students will consider playing for Hoover because of the new schedule.\n\"Both schools are struggling for numbers,\" Long said. \"This is another way to motivate more kids to come out for the summer time.\"\nThe winner of the first game will not claim the Victory Bell. The Victory Bell will be awarded to the winner of the second game \u2014 which acts as both schools' homecoming game.\nGlendale rings up big win\nNitros seek better results", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ascopost.com/News/59698", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2Y3Z44LYZN6BHUDFFSEVTXYGO7QKYMP", "length": 2811, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ascopost.com", "title": "Prevalence of Infection With HBV, HBC, and HIV in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cancer - The ASCO Post", "raw_content": "Prevalence rates were 6.5% for previous HBV infection, 0.6% for chronic HBV, 2.4% for HCV, and 1.1% for HIV.\nA substantial proportion of patients with HBV and HCV did not know of their infection status, and many did not have identifiable risk factors.\nIn a prospective cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Ramsey et al identified the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in patients with newly diagnosed cancer and found that a substantial proportion were unaware of infection at the time of cancer diagnosis. As noted by the investigators, universal screening of patients with newly diagnosed cancer for HBV, HCV, and HIV is not routine in oncology practice, with experts disagreeing as to whether universal screening should be performed.\nThe study involved patients with newly diagnosed cancer (ie, identified within 120 days of cancer diagnosis) at 9 academic and 9 community oncology institutions affiliated with SWOG Cancer Research Network (a member of the National Clinical Trials Network) with enrollment from August 2013 through February 2017. Patients with previous knowledge of viral infection and those with unknown viral status were included in the analysis. Among 3,051 evaluable patients, the median age was 60.6 years (range = 18.2\u201393.7 years), 60.4% were female, 74.8% were white, 18.1% were black, and 18.3% were of Hispanic ethnicity.\nPrevalence of Infection\nThe observed infection rates were 6.5% (n = 197) for previous HBV infection, 0.6% for chronic HBV (n = 19), 2.4% for HCV (n = 71), and 1.1% for HIV (n = 34). Among those with infection, 8 (42.1%) with chronic HBV, 22 (31.0%) with HCV, and 2 (5.9%) with HIV were newly diagnosed with the viral infection in the study. Also among those with infection, 4 with chronic HBV (21.1%), 23 with HCV (32.4%), and 7 with HIV (20.6%) had no identifiable risk factors.\nThe investigators concluded, \u201cResults of this study found that a substantial proportion of patients with newly diagnosed cancer and concurrent HBV or HCV are unaware of their viral infection at the time of cancer diagnosis, and many had no identifiable risk factors for infection. Screening patients with cancer to identify HBV and HCV infection before starting treatment may be warranted to prevent viral reactivation and adverse clinical outcomes. The low rate of undiagnosed HIV infection may not support universal screening of newly diagnosed cancer patients.\u201d\nScott D. Ramsey, MD, PhD, of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is the corresponding author for the JAMA Oncology article.\nDisclosure: The study was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute. The study authors\u2019 full disclosures can be found at jamanetwork.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asyouage.com/Costs_of_Obesity.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DSEPV5JCOETP726JJI7GDJNYTBXYXI3N", "length": 5493, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "asyouage.com", "title": "Costs of Obesity", "raw_content": "Social, Emotional And Financial Costs Of Obesity\nQ: What is the mortality rate associated with obesity?\nA: Most studies show an increase in mortality rates associated with obesity. Individuals who are obese have a significantly increased risk of death from all causes, compared with healthy weight individuals (BMI 18.5 to 24.9).\n\u2022 The increased risk varies by cause of death, and most of this increased risk is due to cardiovascular causes.\n\u2022 Obesity is associated with over 112,000 excess deaths due to cardiovascular disease, over 15,000 excess deaths due to cancer, and over 35,000 excess deaths due to non-cancer, non-cardiovascular disease causes per year in the U.S. population, relative to healthy-weight individuals. (Data based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2003\u20132006 and 2007\u20132008.)\nQ: How has the prevalence of overweight and obese adults changed over the years?\nA: The prevalence of excess weight and obesity in adults has steadily increased among both genders, all ages, all racial/ethnic groups, all educational levels, and all smoking levels.\n\u2022 From 1960 to 2006, the prevalence of obesity increased from 13.4 to 35.1 percent in U.S. adults age 20 to 74.\n\u2022 Since 2004, the prevalence of overweight adult Americans continues to increase among both men and women.\n\u2022 More than 50% of the population in several states could be obese by 2018: Oklahoma, Mississippi, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio and South Dakota.\n\u2022 If the obesity rate continues to rise until 2018, then Colorado may be the only state with less than 30% of residents who are obese.\nEconomic Costs Related to Obesity\nAs the number of overweight and obese adults has increased in the United States, so have related health care costs.\nQ: What is the cost of obesity?\nA: Overall, the United States spends about $1.8 trillion a year in medical costs associated with chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and all three are linked to smoking and obesity, the nation's two largest risk factors, according to the America's Health Rankings report.\n\u2022 If the percentage of obese adults doesn't change but stays at the current rate of 34%, then excess weight will cost the nation about $198 billion by 2018.\n\u2022 On average, people who are considered obese pay $1,429 (42 percent) more in annual out-of-pocket health care costs than individuals of normal weight.\n\u2022 An obese person will have an average of $8,315 in medical bills a year in 2018 compared with $5,855 for an adult at a healthy weight. That's a difference of $2,460 (Pre 2010 Healthcare Law figures).\n\u2022 There is a growing body of evidence documenting obesity's impact on medical costs. A study released in July, 2009 showed that obese Americans cost the country about $147 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2008 - double what it was just 10 years ago. It now accounts for about 9.1% of medical spending.\nQ: What is the cost of obesity by insurance status?\nA: For each obese beneficiary:\n\u2022 Medicare pays $1,723 more than it pays for normal-weight beneficiaries.\n\u2022 Medicaid pays $1,021 more than it pays for normal-weight beneficiaries.\n\u2022 Private insurers pay $1,140 more than they pay for normal-weight beneficiaries.\nQ: What is the cost of obesity by the type of service provided?\nA: For each obese patient:\n\u2022 Medicare pays $95 more for an inpatient service, $693 more for a non-inpatient service, and $608 more for prescription drugs in comparison with normal-weight patients.\n\u2022 Medicaid pays $213 more for an inpatient service,$175 more for a non-inpatient service, and $230 more for prescription drugs in comparison with normal-weight patients.\n\u2022 Private insurers pay $443 more for inpatient service, $398 more for non-inpatient service, and $284 more for prescription drugs in comparison with normal-weight patients.\nOther Statistics Related to Obesity\nQ: How physically active is the U.S. population?\nA: Only 31 percent of U.S. adults report that they engage in regular leisure-time physical activity (defined as either three sessions per week of vigorous physical activity lasting 20 minutes or more, or five sessions per week of light-to-moderate physical activity lasting 30 minutes or more). About 40 percent of adults report no leisure-time physical activity.\n\u2022 About 35 percent of high school students report that they participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity on 5 or more days of the week, and only 30 percent of students report that they attend physical education class daily. As children get older, participation in regular physical activity decreases dramatically.[13]\n\u2022 In contrast to reported activity, when physical activity is measured by a device that detects movement, only about 3\u20135 percent of adults obtain 30 minutes of moderate or greater intensity physical activity on at least 5 days per week.\nQ: What are the benefits of physical activity?\nA: Research suggests that physical activity may reduce the risk of many adverse health conditions, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and depression.\n\u2022 In addition, physical activity can help reduce risk factors for conditions such as high blood pressure and blood cholesterol.\n\u2022 Researchers believe that some physical activity is better than none, and additional health benefits can be gained by increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of physical activity.\nQuestions & Answers About The Costs Of Obesity\nCosts Of Obseity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustafreepress.com/last-comic-standing-tour-coming-paramount/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BO252PYBYNKMAWT2F3ASLQEU7E6TTAIO", "length": 948, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Last Comic Standing tour coming to The Paramount", "raw_content": "Last Comic Standing tour coming to The Paramount\nNBC\u2019s hit show The Last Comic Standing is going on the road and America\u2019s funniest new comedians will be performing live at The Paramount on Friday, October 10.\nThe performance will feature the top performers from Season 8 of Last Comic Standing \u2013 so tune in on Thursday nights on NBC to see who is leading the competition.\nThe event will be held at The Paramount in Charlottesville on Friday, October 10 at 8PM. Tickets on sale next week for Paramount Supporters, and to the general public Friday, June 27 at 10AM\nWHAT: NBC\u2019s Last Comic Standing \u2013 Live Tour!\nPRE-SALE: Paramount Supporters, June 20-26\nGENERAL PUBLIC: June 27 at 10AM\nOnline: http://www.theparamount.net/2014/paramount-presents-last-comic-standing-live-tour/\nIn Person: Paramount Box Office, Monday-Friday 10AM \u2013 2PM\nTags: 24, Box Office, Charlottesville, event, JUNE, Last Comic Standing, NBC, Paramount Supporters, PUBLIC, VA, WHO", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustafreepress.com/small-newspapers-dont-like-new-overtime-rules/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSASWESKXS4YR7L42A6KBFSFMOOKKWOE", "length": 3736, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Small newspapers don't like new overtime rules : Augusta Free Press", "raw_content": "Small newspapers don\u2019t like new overtime rules\nPublished Wednesday, May. 18, 2016, 10:52 pm\nFront Page \u00bb Business \u00bb Small newspapers don\u2019t like new overtime rules\nThe newspaper industry has an issue with the new overtime pay rules. Big surprise there, if you know anything about the print news business.\nSmall newspapers, in particular, are notoriously abusive of their employees, and I speak with experience in saying so.\nI worked for five years at a small daily in Waynesboro, Va., and was routinely pressured to pretend like I worked 40 hours a week, when I worked a heckuva lot more.\nAmong other things, there was an edict from on high regarding coverage of police activity that involved rotating responsibility for monitoring scanner traffic that somehow wasn\u2019t considered time on the clock, though, come on, how were we to know that there was something important going on unless we were engaged and ready to pounce at a moment\u2019s notice?\nTry getting a workout in, or going to church on Sunday morning, or a family barbecue, when you have a scanner going off at any moment.\nBut that wasn\u2019t work, and neither were assignments in the sports department, for which I was paid as a stringer so the company could avoid overtime.\nThis has gone on at newspapers for years, still goes on, and yet now we are to feel sorry for the newspaper industry because they actually have to pay their employees for their extra work.\nThis from a press release from the National Newspaper Association, whose president, Chip Hutcheson, publisher of the Times-Leader in Princeton, Ky., warns that the new OT rules will lead to job cutbacks at small papers across the country.\nThe press release notes that many small papers are under financial pressure from weak local economies, which isn\u2019t the case as much as that they are under pressure from a changing world.\nThe bread and butter of a small-town newspaper is advertising from local businesses, but with the growth of chains like Wal-Mart and Target, so much for that foundational element. The big boys tend to not spend their advertising dollars locally, but taking advantage of economies of scale put more money into national advertising, online options and social media.\nThe other factor killing small-town local papers is that their readership base is literally dying off. Circulation for print, big and small, has been in steady decline, and the demographic trends for those who still prefer the tactile version aren\u2019t good news for those in the news business.\nSo you have less people reading, less money coming in from advertising, and the problem is the Obama administration.\nThese same small newspapers crying in their beer that the new OT rules are going to cause them to slash jobs have been slashing jobs left and right for more than a decade now.\nFrom my days at the small daily that I cut my teeth at 20 years ago, when we all felt overworked and underpaid, and were, the staff there today is about a quarter of what it was back then, but funny thing, it\u2019s still a daily, and city council meetings and Friday night football and car accidents still need to be covered.\nThe pain is being felt in the front offices, sure, but the folks in the newsroom bear the brunt of the blues and agony.\nBack to Hutcheson: \u201cIn the end, we agreed with the Labor Department\u2019s goal of improving the income of workers. We disagreed mightily with the manner in which it is pursuing the goal, and we believe in the end it will hurt our workforce, our newspapers and newspaper readers.\u201d\nAnother perspective would be that it\u2019s your inability to adapt to the changing media and business climate that\u2019s hurting your model.\nLast one out the door can turn out the lights, but until then, pay the folks doing their jobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustgoforth.blogspot.com/2009/06/publishing-update.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSSCLH65LQLQYF7AI4XNY2N5TXDAZCY3", "length": 949, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "augustgoforth.blogspot.com", "title": "The Risen: Publishing Update", "raw_content": "The Risen will be available soon via print-on-demand and electronically (for Kindle-inclined folks). I now have an actual copy of the book in my hands, which is going through some final proofing and tweaking. Various communities will be given the website for the book, which will be published through our very own little publishing house, Tempestina Teapot Books. Dr. Melvin Morse, medical practioners and well-known research scientist in the field of near-death experiences in children, has written a beautiful Foreword for our book (See Dr. Morse's own works, including Closer to the Light, and Where God Lives, as well as his own website. The book is a little over 300 pages in a 6x9 trade paperback edition.\nBecause the book is being set up for international distribution, it's hard to pinpoint exact dates of availability, due to ISBN and other red-tape issues. Hopefully before summer's end. 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In the early s, he worked as a model to support his higher education. Know about her Relationship Following his involvement in the modeling industry, he stepped in the acting industry since He made his acting debut that year by starring in the role of Malcolm Winters in an American television soap opera The Young and the Restless. He appeared in this TV series till He is also critically acclaimed for his role in the TV series Criminal Minds, where he portrayed the lead role of Derek Morgan for about a decade. The series aired on November 2, The actor has until now had around 34 acting credits to his name with his maximum roles in TV series.\nMost Important Traits in a Partner\nThis is a beautiful campus located about 45 minutes from San Francisco and Oakland. The Santa Clara Mission is still on campus, and the entire place has a very Southern California feel \u2014 stucco, red tiled roofs, etc. We got a great view from the 3rd floor balcony of the Union where we had breakfast with the admissions staff. Sustainable Living Undergraduate Research Project.\nWe saw lots of people riding around. One of the most interesting, and certainly the most unique, activities offered on campus is the chance to participate in the Solar Decathlon Project in which teams of students design sustainable eco-friendly housing.\nIf you feel that you or someone you know is in immediate danger please call Campus Safety at or If you are struggling please reach out.\nIt is commonly known by the abbreviation SCU; its students and 81, alumni, which live in all fifty states and around the world, are called \u201cSanta Clarans\u201d or \u201d Broncos ,\u201d and its athletic teams are called the Broncos. The school is promoted as \u201cthe Jesuit university in Silicon Valley. By internal statute, the president must be a member of the Jesuit order, although the members of the board are primarily non-Jesuits. An additional 15 Jesuits currently hold faculty positions at the university\u2019s Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.\nThey also serve in campus and residence-hall ministry, and some act as faculty directors in residential learning communities RLC\u2019s. SCU maintains its Catholic and Jesuit affiliation and supports numerous initiatives intended to further its religious mission. Students are encouraged, but not required, to attend the Sunday evening student Masses in the mission church and are also encouraged to participate in campus ministry programs and lectures.\nConstruction was started in at the instigation of King Joao V, after whom the library is named, and was completed in Until its construction the old library had been moved constantly from one location to another, its collection expanding all the time and with no building suitable or large enough to house it. As with many historic buildings of this age, the library has been renovated and embellished several times during its long history.\nToday the university library houses some , books dating from the 12th to the 19th centuries, most focused on law, philosophy and theology. Having reached its capacity, it became necessary in the mid 20th century to find a location for a new library to house the later tomes, from the late 19th century onwards. The solution was to adapt the building of the Faculty of Letters usually the English Faculty in English universities and a building project was begun in , completing some ten years later.\nSex and Dating at Santa Clara. by The Santa Clara; April 30, If you have ever wondered what it is like to be a gay student at Santa Clara who is seeking the dating and sex scene, this article is for you. KSCU FM is Santa Clara University\u2019s student-run community radio station. Listen Now.\nIn , a new church was finished. The finest erected in California up to that time. In , a new church was built. Still standing on the present site. Whether your application is business, how-to, education, medicine, school, church, sales, marketing, online training or just for fun, PowerShow. And, best of all, most of its cool features are free and easy to use. 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Most of the presentations and slideshows on PowerShow.\nAssured of the survival of Gallifrey , the Doctor was no longer chained down by guilt, becoming a less amiable character, as he no longer needed to cover the pain of what he thought was the extinction of the Time Lords, with a withdrawn attitude who habitually questioned his own goodness. He often dispensed with niceties in a tense situation, becoming cold and calculative when needed. However, despite his ruthless exterior, the Doctor was actually deeply caring and empathetic, always striving to help others for the sake of being kind.\nIt was not until his first battle with Missy that the Doctor resolved his morality crisis, realising he was simply \u201can idiot with a box and screwdriver \u201d who went around helping others.\nSanta Clara University (also referred to as Santa Clara) is a private Jesuit university located in Santa Clara, California. It has 5, full-time undergraduate students, and 3, graduate students. It has 5, full-time undergraduate students, and 3, graduate students.\nAccording to the former, she was \u201cnot possible\u201d due to their meetings previously in his personal timeline, with two such encounters seeing her die. Though assured by the empathic psychic Emma Grayling and the TARDIS scanner that Clara was just an \u201cordinary girl\u201d, the Doctor couldn\u2019t believe that to be true and thought her to be \u201cthe only mystery worth solving\u201d. Hide While a physically ordinary human woman from the 21st century , Clara chose to enter the Doctor\u2019s timeline in his tomb on Trenzalore in order to try to reverse the damage done to his timeline by the Great Intelligence.\nThis caused the time winds to shatter her into millions of what River Song referred to as \u201cechos\u201d or \u201csplinters\u201d that were dispersed throughout his personal timeline. These echos corrected the damage caused by the Great Intelligence, but were not the original Clara. She was trapped in the Doctor\u2019s timeline, but rescued shortly thereafter. Clara met the Doctor\u2019s War and tenth incarnations.\nThe Day of the Doctor She was with him when he regenerated into his twelfth incarnation , and continued to travel with him thereafter.\nMission Santa Clara Asis\nWill earned his J. He brings a wealth of experience in the metals industry, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and equity portfolio management to this new role. McEvoy currently serves as an investment advisor to Brasil Warrant LLC, a Brazilian group whose main operating businesses are in asset management, banking, and mining. McEvoy retired from Goldman Sachs in April after nine years with the firm. McEvoy was a portfolio manager focused on the materials and industrials sectors.\nSanta Clara University \u2013 A Jesuit University with years of history and 72, alumni all over the world who have become leaders in the fields of arts, business, education, engineering, entertainment, law, public service and sports.\nPerfect Numbers The Pythagoreans produced a theory of numbers comprised of numerology and scientific speculation. In their numerology, even numbers were feminine and odd numbers masculine. The numbers also represented abstract concepts such as 1 stood for reason, 2 stood for opinion, 3 stood for harmony, 4 stood for justice, and so on. Their arithmetica had a theory of special classes of numbers.\nA perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of it divisors. However, for the case of a perfect number, the number itself is not included in the sum. Although perfect numbers are regarded as arithmetical curiosities, their study has helped to develop the theory of numbers.\nWe encourage all our members to attend and bring a guest, this meeting is our most fun event of the year! How to Manage Electronic Records in Large Corporations Managing electronic records in a large-scale environment is a challenging proposition. There may be multiple systems, a snarl of interconnections between them, massive amounts of dark data in poorly managed repositories, a thicket of legal requirements and legal considerations, and a host of other issues that sometimes make effective management seem impossible.\nThis session will consider this formidable set of problems and talk through some of the solutions that are available to help untie this Gordian knot.\nSanta Clara\u2019s best FREE dating site! % Free Online Dating for Santa Clara Singles at Our free personal ads are full of single women and men in Santa Clara looking for serious relationships, a little online flirtation, or new friends to go out with.\nFeb 5, 1: Apparently, Santa Clara University has a different stance on gym attire. Because her shirt showed off a sliver of her belly. I spoke to the supervisor of the athletic facility and she gave me two reasons for why my outfit was inappropriate: As for preventing MRSA, it makes me feel very unsafe that apparently the only way to keep me safe is to cover my skin. People are still sweating on other parts of the equipment, and just protecting my stomach will do nothing.\nMuscles tees with long armholes are extremely popular for men. If you walk into Leavey Center, the first thing you see is that the gym is packed with men sweating directly onto the equipment. However, these men feel safe. One of the rules in the gym is to wipe down equipment after use. The fact that this is a Jesuit school should absolutely not be linked to the dress code at the gym.\nI do not go to the gym to be sexualized or looked at by other people\u2014I go to improve my health and my self-confidence.\nIt is commonly known by the abbreviation SCU; its students and 81, alumni, which live in all fifty states and around the world, are called \u201cSanta Clarans\u201d or \u201d Broncos ,\u201d and its athletic teams are called the Broncos. The school is promoted as \u201cthe Jesuit university in Silicon Valley. By internal statute, the president must be a member of the Jesuit order, although the members of the board are primarily non-Jesuits.\nArticles and cases for college students on relationships and sexuality.\nIn this guide, we\u2019ll discuss what scores are needed for you to get admitted into Santa Clara University. You\u2019ll also get to calculate your own chances with our admissions calculator. Santa Clara, CA This school is also known as: All these combine to tell you what you scores are required to get into Santa Clara University. In other words, a 27 places you below average, while a 32 will move you up to above average.\nThere\u2019s no absolute ACT requirement at Santa Clara University, but they really want to see at least a 27 to have a chance at being considered.\nSanta Clara University Campus Information, Costs and Details\nHe started his professional career with Toyota Alvark in He can plays as a point guard or a shooting guard. He is considered one of the most consistent players of his team.\nDating sites and free dating sites do not focus on helping singles find love in Santa Clara, CA like we do. Here you can find single men and women who are looking for love! We make it easy to search for singles in Santa Clara, CA or anywhere.\nSingles Cruises Dating sites and free dating sites do not focus on helping singles find love in Santa Clara, CA like we do. 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A multipart study from Harvard University, University of La Verne and Santa Clara University researchers found that beautiful people are more likely to be involved in unstable relationships.\nIn one part, the researchers looked at the top 20 actresses on IMDb and found that they tend to have rocky marriages. In another, women were asked to judge the attractiveness of men based on their high school yearbook photos from 30 years ago.\nThis chart shows the SAT scores for the 25th and 75th percentile of applicants broken out into each section of the test that their are evaluated on. Enrollment Santa Clara University has a total enrollment of 8, students. The full-time enrollment at Santa Clara University is 7, students and the part-time enrollment is 1, This means that The enrolled student population at Santa Clara University, both undergraduate and graduate, is Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are majority White Female 3.\nThe full-time enrollment at Santa Clara University is 7, and the part-time enrollment is 1, This chart shows the full-time vs part-time enrollment status at Santa Clara University in red compares to similar universities.\nDelta Gamma Santa Clara University Recruitment 2017\n\u65e5\u672c\u8a9eNederlands\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629T\u00fcrk\u00e7eDansk\u010ce\u0161tinaEspa\u00f1olItaliano\u4e2d\u6587(\u7b80\u4f53)\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03acMagyarPolskiDeutschL\u00ebtzebuergeschSvenskaEesti keelEnglishSuomiFran\u00e7aisNorskPortugu\u00eas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 15588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://b2b.partcommunity.com/community/knowledge/en/detail/2733/Statue+of+Liberty", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2OPW3RYAF7IV6D7QQ6AXFAX4BWXJPUEV", "length": 63114, "nlines": 153, "source_domain": "b2b.partcommunity.com", "title": "Statue of Liberty - 3D Building - 3D Monument", "raw_content": "Statue of Liberty (7370 views - Monuments - Famous Buildings)\nThe Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Libert\u00e9 \u00e9clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head, and in her left arm carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with \"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI\" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, \u00c9douard Ren\u00e9 de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Because of the post-war instability in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions. The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. Public access to the balcony around the torch has been barred for safety since 1916.\nPARTcloud - Statue of Liberty\nFor other uses, see Statue of Liberty (disambiguation).\nManhattan, New York City,\nNew York,[1] U.S.\nHeight of copper statue (to torch): 151 feet 1 inch (46 meters)\nFrom ground level to torch: 305 feet 1 inch (93 meters)\n3.2 million (in 2009)[2]\nPresident Calvin Coolidge[3]\nOfficial name: Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island\nNew Jersey Register of Historic Places\nNew York City Landmark\nLocation of Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor in New York City\nThe Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Libert\u00e9 \u00e9clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.\nThe Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head, and in her left arm carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with \"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI\" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.\nBartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, \u00c9douard Ren\u00e9 de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Because of the post-war instability in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.\nThe torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.\nThe statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. Public access to the balcony around the torch has been barred for safety since 1916.\n1 Design and construction process\n1.2 Design, style, and symbolism\n1.3 Announcement and early work\n1.4 Construction in France\n1.4.2 Fundraising\n2 After dedication\n2.1 Lighthouse Board and War Department (1886\u20131933)\n2.2 Early National Park Service years (1933\u20131982)\n2.3 Renovation and rededication (1982\u20132000)\n2.4 Closures and reopenings (2001\u2013present)\n3 Access and attributes\n3.1 Location and tourism\n3.2 Inscriptions, plaques, and dedications\nDesign and construction process\nAccording to the National Park Service, the idea for the Statue of Liberty was first proposed by \u00c9douard Ren\u00e9 de Laboulaye the president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between \u00c9douard Ren\u00e9 de Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: \"If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort\u2014a common work of both our nations.\"[7] The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870.[8] In another essay on their website, the Park Service suggested that Laboulaye was minded to honor the Union victory and its consequences, \"With the abolition of slavery and the Union's victory in the Civil War in 1865, Laboulaye's wishes of freedom and democracy were turning into a reality in the United States. In order to honor these achievements, Laboulaye proposed that a gift be built for the United States on behalf of France. Laboulaye hoped that by calling attention to the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to call for their own democracy in the face of a repressive monarchy.\"[9]\nBartholdi's design patent\nAccording to sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auguste Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.[7] Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye. Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects; in the late 1860s, he approached Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, a plan to build Progress or Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia,[10] a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said. Sketches and models were made of the proposed work, though it was never erected. There was a classical precedent for the Suez proposal, the Colossus of Rhodes: an ancient bronze statue of the Greek god of the sun, Helios. This statue is believed to have been over 100 feet (30 m) high, and it similarly stood at a harbor entrance and carried a light to guide ships.[11]\nAny large project was further delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, in which Bartholdi served as a major of militia. In the war, Napoleon III was captured and deposed. Bartholdi's home province of Alsace was lost to the Prussians, and a more liberal republic was installed in France.[7] As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans.[12] In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.[13]\nArriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island (now named Liberty Island) as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it. He was delighted to learn that the island was owned by the United States government\u2014it had been ceded by the New York State Legislature in 1800 for harbor defense. It was thus, as he put it in a letter to Laboulaye: \"land common to all the states.\"[14] As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue.[15] Bartholdi crossed the United States twice by rail, and met many Americans who he thought would be sympathetic to the project.[13] But he remained concerned that popular opinion on both sides of the Atlantic was insufficiently supportive of the proposal, and he and Laboulaye decided to wait before mounting a public campaign.[16]\nBartholdi had made a first model of his concept in 1870.[17] The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John LaFarge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U.S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio. Bartholdi continued to develop the concept following his return to France.[17] He also worked on a number of sculptures designed to bolster French patriotism after the defeat by the Prussians. One of these was the Lion of Belfort, a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone below the fortress of Belfort, which during the war had resisted a Prussian siege for over three months. The defiant lion, 73 feet (22 m) long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.[18]\nDesign, style, and symbolism\nDetail from a fresco by Constantino Brumidi in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., showing two early symbols of America: Columbia (left) and the Indian princess\nBartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty.[19] In early American history, two female figures were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation.[20] One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen as an embodiment of the United States in the manner that Britannia was identified with the United Kingdom and Marianne came to represent France. Columbia had supplanted the earlier figure of an Indian princess, which had come to be regarded as uncivilized and derogatory toward Americans.[20] The other significant female icon in American culture was a representation of Liberty, derived from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves. A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time,[19] and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom (1863) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building.[19]\nArtists of the 18th and 19th centuries striving to evoke republican ideals commonly used representations of Libertas as an allegorical symbol.[19] A figure of Liberty was also depicted on the Great Seal of France.[19] However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty such as that depicted in Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix's famed Liberty Leading the People (1830). In this painting, which commemorates France's Revolution of 1830, a half-clothed Liberty leads an armed mob over the bodies of the fallen.[20] Laboulaye had no sympathy for revolution, and so Bartholdi's figure would be fully dressed in flowing robes.[20] Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold.[21]\nCrawford's statue was designed in the early 1850s. It was originally to be crowned with a pileus, the cap given to emancipated slaves in ancient Rome. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as President of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the pileus would be taken as an abolitionist symbol. He ordered that it be changed to a helmet.[22] Delacroix's figure wears a pileus,[20] and Bartholdi at first considered placing one on his figure as well. Instead, he used a diadem, or crown, to top its head.[23] In so doing, he avoided a reference to Marianne, who invariably wears a pileus.[24] The seven rays form a halo or aureole.[25] They evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents,[26] and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world.[21]\nBartholdi's early models were all similar in concept: a female figure in neoclassical style representing liberty, wearing a stola and pella (gown and cloak, common in depictions of Roman goddesses) and holding a torch aloft. According to popular accounts, the face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother,[27] but Regis Huber, the curator of the Bartholdi Museum is on record as saying that this, as well as other similar speculations, have no basis in fact.[28] He designed the figure with a strong, uncomplicated silhouette, which would be set off well by its dramatic harbor placement and allow passengers on vessels entering New York Bay to experience a changing perspective on the statue as they proceeded toward Manhattan. He gave it bold classical contours and applied simplified modeling, reflecting the huge scale of the project and its solemn purpose.[21] Bartholdi wrote of his technique:\nThe surfaces should be broad and simple, defined by a bold and clear design, accentuated in the important places. The enlargement of the details or their multiplicity is to be feared. By exaggerating the forms, in order to render them more clearly visible, or by enriching them with details, we would destroy the proportion of the work. Finally, the model, like the design, should have a summarized character, such as one would give to a rapid sketch. Only it is necessary that this character should be the product of volition and study, and that the artist, concentrating his knowledge, should find the form and the line in its greatest simplicity.[29]\nBartholdi made alterations in the design as the project evolved. Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War. The erected statue does rise over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground.[23] Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand; he settled on a tabula ansata,[30] used to evoke the concept of law.[31] Though Bartholdi greatly admired the United States Constitution, he chose to inscribe \"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI\" on the tablet, thus associating the date of the country's Declaration of Independence with the concept of liberty.[30]\nBartholdi interested his friend and mentor, architect Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc, in the project.[28] As chief engineer,[28] Viollet-le-Duc designed a brick pier within the statue, to which the skin would be anchored.[32] After consultations with the metalwork foundry Gaget, Gauthier & Co., Viollet-le-Duc chose the metal which would be used for the skin, copper sheets, and the method used to shape it, repouss\u00e9, in which the sheets were heated and then struck with wooden hammers.[28][33] An advantage of this choice was that the entire statue would be light for its volume, as the copper need be only 0.094 inches (2.4 mm) thick. Bartholdi had decided on a height of just over 151 feet (46 m) for the statue, double that of Italy's Sancarlone and the German statue of Arminius, both made with the same method.[34]\nAnnouncement and early work\nBy 1875, France was enjoying improved political stability and a recovering postwar economy. Growing interest in the upcoming Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia led Laboulaye to decide it was time to seek public support.[35] In September 1875, he announced the project and the formation of the Franco-American Union as its fundraising arm. With the announcement, the statue was given a name, Liberty Enlightening the World.[36] The French would finance the statue; Americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal.[37] The announcement provoked a generally favorable reaction in France, though many Frenchmen resented the United States for not coming to their aid during the war with Prussia.[36] French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life.[37] Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod. The piece was titled La Libert\u00e9 \u00e9clairant le monde, the French version of the statue's announced name.[36]\nStereoscopic image of right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty, 1876 Centennial Exposition\nDespite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society. Schoolchildren and ordinary citizens gave, as did 181 French municipalities. Laboulaye's political allies supported the call, as did descendants of the French contingent in the American Revolutionary War. Less idealistically, contributions came from those who hoped for American support in the French attempt to build the Panama Canal. The copper may have come from multiple sources and some of it is said to have come from a mine in Visnes, Norway,[38] though this has not been conclusively determined after testing samples.[39] According to Cara Sutherland in her book on the statue for the Museum of the City of New York, 90,800 kilos (200,000 pounds) was needed to build the statue, and the French copper industrialist Eug\u00e8ne Secr\u00e9tan donated 58,100 kilos (128,000 pounds) of copper.[40]\nAlthough plans for the statue had not been finalized, Bartholdi moved forward with fabrication of the right arm, bearing the torch, and the head. Work began at the Gaget, Gauthier & Co. workshop.[41] In May 1876, Bartholdi traveled to the United States as a member of a French delegation to the Centennial Exhibition,[42] and arranged for a huge painting of the statue to be shown in New York as part of the Centennial festivities.[43] The arm did not arrive in Philadelphia until August; because of its late arrival, it was not listed in the exhibition catalogue, and while some reports correctly identified the work, others called it the \"Colossal Arm\" or \"Bartholdi Electric Light\". The exhibition grounds contained a number of monumental artworks to compete for fairgoers' interest, including an outsized fountain designed by Bartholdi.[44] Nevertheless, the arm proved popular in the exhibition's waning days, and visitors would climb up to the balcony of the torch to view the fairgrounds.[45] After the exhibition closed, the arm was transported to New York, where it remained on display in Madison Square Park for several years before it was returned to France to join the rest of the statue.[45]\nDuring his second trip to the United States, Bartholdi addressed a number of groups about the project, and urged the formation of American committees of the Franco-American Union.[46] Committees to raise money to pay for the foundation and pedestal were formed in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.[47] The New York group eventually took on most of the responsibility for American fundraising and is often referred to as the \"American Committee\".[48] One of its members was 19-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, the future governor of New York and president of the United States.[46] On March 3, 1877, on his final full day in office, President Grant signed a joint resolution that authorized the President to accept the statue when it was presented by France and to select a site for it. President Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office the following day, selected the Bedloe's Island site that Bartholdi had proposed.[49]\nConstruction in France\nOn his return to Paris in 1877, Bartholdi concentrated on completing the head, which was exhibited at the 1878 Paris World's Fair. Fundraising continued, with models of the statue put on sale. Tickets to view the construction activity at the Gaget, Gauthier & Co. workshop were also offered.[50] The French government authorized a lottery; among the prizes were valuable silver plate and a terracotta model of the statue. By the end of 1879, about 250,000 francs had been raised.[51]\nThe head and arm had been built with assistance from Viollet-le-Duc, who fell ill in 1879. He soon died, leaving no indication of how he intended to transition from the copper skin to his proposed masonry pier.[52] The following year, Bartholdi was able to obtain the services of the innovative designer and builder Gustave Eiffel.[50] Eiffel and his structural engineer, Maurice Koechlin, decided to abandon the pier and instead build an iron truss tower. Eiffel opted not to use a completely rigid structure, which would force stresses to accumulate in the skin and lead eventually to cracking. A secondary skeleton was attached to the center pylon, then, to enable the statue to move slightly in the winds of New York Harbor and as the metal expanded on hot summer days, he loosely connected the support structure to the skin using flat iron bars[28] which culminated in a mesh of metal straps, known as \"saddles\", that were riveted to the skin, providing firm support. In a labor-intensive process, each saddle had to be crafted individually.[53][54] To prevent galvanic corrosion between the copper skin and the iron support structure, Eiffel insulated the skin with asbestos impregnated with shellac.[55]\nEiffel's design made the statue one of the earliest examples of curtain wall construction, in which the exterior of the structure is not load bearing, but is instead supported by an interior framework. He included two interior spiral staircases, to make it easier for visitors to reach the observation point in the crown.[56] Access to an observation platform surrounding the torch was also provided, but the narrowness of the arm allowed for only a single ladder, 40 feet (12 m) long.[57] As the pylon tower arose, Eiffel and Bartholdi coordinated their work carefully so that completed segments of skin would fit exactly on the support structure.[58] The components of the pylon tower were built in the Eiffel factory in the nearby Parisian suburb of Levallois-Perret.[59]\nThe change in structural material from masonry to iron allowed Bartholdi to change his plans for the statue's assembly. He had originally expected to assemble the skin on-site as the masonry pier was built; instead he decided to build the statue in France and have it disassembled and transported to the United States for reassembly in place on Bedloe's Island.[60]\nIn a symbolic act, the first rivet placed into the skin, fixing a copper plate onto the statue's big toe, was driven by United States Ambassador to France Levi P. Morton.[61] The skin was not, however, crafted in exact sequence from low to high; work proceeded on a number of segments simultaneously in a manner often confusing to visitors.[62] Some work was performed by contractors\u2014one of the fingers was made to Bartholdi's exacting specifications by a coppersmith in the southern French town of Montauban.[63] By 1882, the statue was complete up to the waist, an event Barthodi celebrated by inviting reporters to lunch on a platform built within the statue.[64] Laboulaye died in 1883. He was succeeded as chairman of the French committee by Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal. The completed statue was formally presented to Ambassador Morton at a ceremony in Paris on July 4, 1884, and de Lesseps announced that the French government had agreed to pay for its transport to New York.[65] The statue remained intact in Paris pending sufficient progress on the pedestal; by January 1885, this had occurred and the statue was disassembled and crated for its ocean voyage.[66]\nRichard Morris Hunt's pedestal under construction in June 1885\nThe committees in the United States faced great difficulties in obtaining funds for the construction of the pedestal. The Panic of 1873 had led to an economic depression that persisted through much of the decade. The Liberty statue project was not the only such undertaking that had difficulty raising money: construction of the obelisk later known as the Washington Monument sometimes stalled for years; it would ultimately take over three-and-a-half decades to complete.[67] There was criticism both of Bartholdi's statue and of the fact that the gift required Americans to foot the bill for the pedestal. In the years following the Civil War, most Americans preferred realistic artworks depicting heroes and events from the nation's history, rather than allegorical works like the Liberty statue.[67] There was also a feeling that Americans should design American public works\u2014the selection of Italian-born Constantino Brumidi to decorate the Capitol had provoked intense criticism, even though he was a naturalized U.S. citizen.[68] Harper's Weekly declared its wish that \"M. Bartholdi and our French cousins had 'gone the whole figure' while they were about it, and given us statue and pedestal at once.\"[69] The New York Times stated that \"no true patriot can countenance any such expenditures for bronze females in the present state of our finances.\"[70] Faced with these criticisms, the American committees took little action for several years.[70]\nThe foundation of Bartholdi's statue was to be laid inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811. Since 1823, it had rarely been used, though during the Civil War, it had served as a recruiting station.[71] The fortifications of the structure were in the shape of an eleven-point star. The statue's foundation and pedestal were aligned so that it would face southeast, greeting ships entering the harbor from the Atlantic Ocean.[72] In 1881, the New York committee commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design the pedestal. Within months, Hunt submitted a detailed plan, indicating that he expected construction to take about nine months.[73] He proposed a pedestal 114 feet (35 m) in height; faced with money problems, the committee reduced that to 89 feet (27 m).[74]\nHunt's pedestal design contains elements of classical architecture, including Doric portals, as well as some elements influenced by Aztec architecture.[28] The large mass is fragmented with architectural detail, in order to focus attention on the statue.[74] In form, it is a truncated pyramid, 62 feet (19 m) square at the base and 39.4 feet (12.0 m) at the top. The four sides are identical in appearance. Above the door on each side, there are ten disks upon which Bartholdi proposed to place the coats of arms of the states (between 1876 and 1889, there were 38 U.S. states), although this was not done. Above that, a balcony was placed on each side, framed by pillars. Bartholdi placed an observation platform near the top of the pedestal, above which the statue itself rises.[75] According to author Louis Auchincloss, the pedestal \"craggily evokes the power of an ancient Europe over which rises the dominating figure of the Statue of Liberty\".[74] The committee hired former army General Charles Pomeroy Stone to oversee the construction work.[76] Construction on the 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) foundation began in 1883, and the pedestal's cornerstone was laid in 1884.[73] In Hunt's original conception, the pedestal was to have been made of solid granite. Financial concerns again forced him to revise his plans; the final design called for poured concrete walls, up to 20 feet (6.1 m) thick, faced with granite blocks.[77][78] This Stony Creek granite came from the Beattie Quarry in Branford, Connecticut.[79] The concrete mass was the largest poured to that time.[78]\nNorwegian immigrant civil engineer Joachim Goschen Gi\u00e6ver designed the structural framework for the Statue of Liberty. His work involved design computations, detailed fabrication and construction drawings, and oversight of construction. In completing his engineering for the statue's frame, Gi\u00e6ver worked from drawings and sketches produced by Gustave Eiffel.[80]\nUnpacking of the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was delivered on June 17, 1885\nFundraising for the statue had begun in 1882. The committee organized a large number of money-raising events.[81] As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in eastern Europe. These refugees were forced to live in conditions that the wealthy Lazarus had never experienced. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue.[82] The resulting sonnet, \"The New Colossus\", including the iconic lines \"Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free\", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty and is inscribed on a plaque in the museum in its base.[83]\nEven with these efforts, fundraising lagged. Grover Cleveland, the governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide $50,000 for the statue project in 1884. An attempt the next year to have Congress provide $100,000, sufficient to complete the project, also failed. The New York committee, with only $3,000 in the bank, suspended work on the pedestal. With the project in jeopardy, groups from other American cities, including Boston and Philadelphia, offered to pay the full cost of erecting the statue in return for relocating it.[84]\nJoseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, a New York newspaper, announced a drive to raise $100,000\u2014the equivalent of $2.3 million today.[85] Pulitzer pledged to print the name of every contributor, no matter how small the amount given.[86] The drive captured the imagination of New Yorkers, especially when Pulitzer began publishing the notes he received from contributors. \"A young girl alone in the world\" donated \"60 cents, the result of self denial.\"[87] One donor gave \"five cents as a poor office boy's mite toward the Pedestal Fund.\" A group of children sent a dollar as \"the money we saved to go to the circus with.\"[88] Another dollar was given by a \"lonely and very aged woman.\"[87] Residents of a home for alcoholics in New York's rival city of Brooklyn\u2014the cities would not merge until 1898\u2014donated $15; other drinkers helped out through donation boxes in bars and saloons.[89] A kindergarten class in Davenport, Iowa, mailed the World a gift of $1.35.[87] As the donations flooded in, the committee resumed work on the pedestal.[90]\nOn June 17, 1885, the French steamer Is\u00e8re, laden with the Statue of Liberty, reached the New York port safely. New Yorkers displayed their new-found enthusiasm for the statue, as the French vessel arrived with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. Two hundred thousand people lined the docks and hundreds of boats put to sea to welcome the Is\u00e8re.[91] [92] After five months of daily calls to donate to the statue fund, on August 11, 1885, the World announced that $102,000 had been raised from 120,000 donors, and that 80 percent of the total had been received in sums of less than one dollar.[93]\nEven with the success of the fund drive, the pedestal was not completed until April 1886. Immediately thereafter, reassembly of the statue began. Eiffel's iron framework was anchored to steel I-beams within the concrete pedestal and assembled.[94] Once this was done, the sections of skin were carefully attached.[95] Due to the width of the pedestal, it was not possible to erect scaffolding, and workers dangled from ropes while installing the skin sections. Nevertheless, no one died during the construction.[96] Bartholdi had planned to put floodlights on the torch's balcony to illuminate it; a week before the dedication, the Army Corps of Engineers vetoed the proposal, fearing that ships' pilots passing the statue would be blinded. Instead, Bartholdi cut portholes in the torch\u2014which was covered with gold leaf\u2014and placed the lights inside them.[97] A power plant was installed on the island to light the torch and for other electrical needs.[98] After the skin was completed, renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of New York's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park, supervised a cleanup of Bedloe's Island in anticipation of the dedication.[99]\nA ceremony of dedication was held on the afternoon of October 28, 1886. President Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided over the event.[100] On the morning of the dedication, a parade was held in New York City; estimates of the number of people who watched it ranged from several hundred thousand to a million. President Cleveland headed the procession, then stood in the reviewing stand to see bands and marchers from across America. General Stone was the grand marshal of the parade. The route began at Madison Square, once the venue for the arm, and proceeded to the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan by way of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, with a slight detour so the parade could pass in front of the World building on Park Row. As the parade passed the New York Stock Exchange, traders threw ticker tape from the windows, beginning the New York tradition of the ticker-tape parade.[101]\nA nautical parade began at 12:45 p.m., and President Cleveland embarked on a yacht that took him across the harbor to Bedloe's Island for the dedication.[102] De Lesseps made the first speech, on behalf of the French committee, followed by the chairman of the New York committee, Senator William M. Evarts. A French flag draped across the statue's face was to be lowered to unveil the statue at the close of Evarts's speech, but Bartholdi mistook a pause as the conclusion and let the flag fall prematurely. The ensuing cheers put an end to Evarts's address.[101] President Cleveland spoke next, stating that the statue's \"stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression until Liberty enlightens the world\".[103] Bartholdi, observed near the dais, was called upon to speak, but he declined. Orator Chauncey M. Depew concluded the speechmaking with a lengthy address.[104]\nNo members of the general public were permitted on the island during the ceremonies, which were reserved entirely for dignitaries. The only females granted access were Bartholdi's wife and de Lesseps's granddaughter; officials stated that they feared women might be injured in the crush of people. The restriction offended area suffragists, who chartered a boat and got as close as they could to the island. The group's leaders made speeches applauding the embodiment of Liberty as a woman and advocating women's right to vote.[103] A scheduled fireworks display was postponed until November 1 because of poor weather.[105]\nShortly after the dedication, The Cleveland Gazette, an African American newspaper, suggested that the statue's torch not be lit until the United States became a free nation \"in reality\":\n\"Liberty enlightening the world,\" indeed! The expression makes us sick. This government is a howling farce. It can not or rather does not protect its citizens within its own borders. Shove the Bartholdi statue, torch and all, into the ocean until the \"liberty\" of this country is such as to make it possible for an inoffensive and industrious colored man to earn a respectable living for himself and family, without being ku-kluxed, perhaps murdered, his daughter and wife outraged, and his property destroyed. The idea of the \"liberty\" of this country \"enlightening the world,\" or even Patagonia, is ridiculous in the extreme.[106]\nAfter dedication\nLighthouse Board and War Department (1886\u20131933)\nWhen the torch was illuminated on the evening of the statue's dedication, it produced only a faint gleam, barely visible from Manhattan. The World characterized it as \"more like a glowworm than a beacon.\"[98] Bartholdi suggested gilding the statue to increase its ability to reflect light, but this proved too expensive. The United States Lighthouse Board took over the Statue of Liberty in 1887 and pledged to install equipment to enhance the torch's effect; in spite of its efforts, the statue remained virtually invisible at night. When Bartholdi returned to the United States in 1893, he made additional suggestions, all of which proved ineffective. He did successfully lobby for improved lighting within the statue, allowing visitors to better appreciate Eiffel's design.[98] In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt, once a member of the New York committee, ordered the statue's transfer to the War Department, as it had proved useless as a lighthouse.[107] A unit of the Army Signal Corps was stationed on Bedloe's Island until 1923, after which military police remained there while the island was under military jurisdiction.[108]\nThe statue rapidly became a landmark. Many immigrants who entered through New York saw it as a welcoming sight. Oral histories of immigrants record their feelings of exhilaration on first viewing the Statue of Liberty. One immigrant who arrived from Greece recalled,\nI saw the Statue of Liberty. And I said to myself, \"Lady, you're such a beautiful! [sic] You opened your arms and you get all the foreigners here. Give me a chance to prove that I am worth it, to do something, to be someone in America.\" And always that statue was on my mind.[109]\nOriginally, the statue was a dull copper color, but shortly after 1900 a green patina, also called verdigris, caused by the oxidation of the copper skin, began to spread. As early as 1902 it was mentioned in the press; by 1906 it had entirely covered the statue.[110] Believing that the patina was evidence of corrosion, Congress authorized US$62,800 (equivalent to $1,673,969 in 2016) for various repairs, and to paint the statue both inside and out.[111] There was considerable public protest against the proposed exterior painting.[112] The Army Corps of Engineers studied the patina for any ill effects to the statue and concluded that it protected the skin, \"softened the outlines of the Statue and made it beautiful.\"[113] The statue was painted only on the inside. The Corps of Engineers also installed an elevator to take visitors from the base to the top of the pedestal.[113]\nOn July 30, 1916, during World War I, German saboteurs set off a disastrous explosion on the Black Tom peninsula in Jersey City, New Jersey, in what is now part of Liberty State Park, close to Bedloe's Island. Carloads of dynamite and other explosives that were being sent to Britain and France for their war efforts were detonated, and seven people were killed. The statue sustained minor damage, mostly to the torch-bearing right arm, and was closed for ten days. The cost to repair the statue and buildings on the island was about US$100,000 (equivalent to $2,200,917 in 2016). The narrow ascent to the torch was closed for public-safety reasons, and it has remained closed ever since.[104]\nThat same year, Ralph Pulitzer, who had succeeded his father Joseph as publisher of the World, began a drive to raise US$30,000 (equivalent to $660,275 in 2016) for an exterior lighting system to illuminate the statue at night. He claimed over 80,000 contributors, but failed to reach the goal. The difference was quietly made up by a gift from a wealthy donor\u2014a fact that was not revealed until 1936. An underwater power cable brought electricity from the mainland and floodlights were placed along the walls of Fort Wood. Gutzon Borglum, who later sculpted Mount Rushmore, redesigned the torch, replacing much of the original copper with stained glass. On December 2, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson pressed the telegraph key that turned on the lights, successfully illuminating the statue.[114]\nAfter the United States entered World War I in 1917, images of the statue were heavily used in both recruitment posters and the Liberty Bond drives that urged American citizens to support the war financially. This impressed upon the public the war's stated purpose\u2014to secure liberty\u2014and served as a reminder that embattled France had given the United States the statue.[115]\nIn 1924, President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a National Monument.[107] The only successful suicide in the statue's history occurred five years later, when a man climbed out of one of the windows in the crown and jumped to his death, glancing off the statue's breast and landing on the base.[116]\nEarly National Park Service years (1933\u20131982)\nBedloe's Island in 1927, showing the statue and army buildings. The eleven-pointed walls of Fort Wood, which still form the statue's base, are visible.\nIn 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the statue to be transferred to the National Park Service (NPS). In 1937, the NPS gained jurisdiction over the rest of Bedloe's Island.[107] With the Army's departure, the NPS began to transform the island into a park.[117] The Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished most of the old buildings, regraded and reseeded the eastern end of the island, and built granite steps for a new public entrance to the statue from its rear. The WPA also carried out restoration work within the statue, temporarily removing the rays from the statue's halo so their rusted supports could be replaced. Rusted cast-iron steps in the pedestal were replaced with new ones made of reinforced concrete;[118] the upper parts of the stairways within the statue were replaced, as well. Copper sheathing was installed to prevent further damage from rainwater that had been seeping into the pedestal.[119] The statue was closed to the public from May until December 1938.[118]\nDuring World War II, the statue remained open to visitors, although it was not illuminated at night due to wartime blackouts. It was lit briefly on December 31, 1943, and on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when its lights flashed \"dot-dot-dot-dash\", the Morse code for V, for victory. New, powerful lighting was installed in 1944\u20131945, and beginning on V-E Day, the statue was once again illuminated after sunset. The lighting was for only a few hours each evening, and it was not until 1957 that the statue was illuminated every night, all night.[120] In 1946, the interior of the statue within reach of visitors was coated with a special plastic so that graffiti could be washed away.[119]\nIn 1956, an Act of Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island as Liberty Island, a change advocated by Bartholdi generations earlier. The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it.[121] Nearby Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.[107] In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon. The museum's backers never provided it with an endowment to secure its future and it closed in 1991 after the opening of an immigration museum on Ellis Island.[94]\nIn 1970, Ivy Bottini led a demonstration at the statue where she and others from the National Organization for Women's New York chapter draped an enormous banner over a railing which read \"WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE!\"[122][123]\nBeginning December 26, 1971, 15 anti-Vietnam War veterans occupied the statue, flying a US flag upside down from her crown. They left December 28 following a Federal Court order.[124] The statue was also several times taken over briefly by demonstrators publicizing causes such as Puerto Rican independence, opposition to abortion, and opposition to US intervention in Grenada. Demonstrations with the permission of the Park Service included a Gay Pride Parade rally and the annual Captive Baltic Nations rally.[125]\nA powerful new lighting system was installed in advance of the American Bicentennial in 1976. The statue was the focal point for Operation Sail, a regatta of tall ships from all over the world that entered New York Harbor on July 4, 1976, and sailed around Liberty Island.[126] The day concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks near the statue.[127]\nRenovation and rededication (1982\u20132000)\nJuly 4, 1986: First Lady Nancy Reagan (in red) reopens the statue to the public.\nMain article: Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty\nSee also: Liberty Weekend\nThe statue was examined in great detail by French and American engineers as part of the planning for its centennial in 1986.[128] In 1982, it was announced that the statue was in need of considerable restoration. Careful study had revealed that the right arm had been improperly attached to the main structure. It was swaying more and more when strong winds blew and there was a significant risk of structural failure. In addition, the head had been installed 2 feet (0.61 m) off center, and one of the rays was wearing a hole in the right arm when the statue moved in the wind. The armature structure was badly corroded, and about two percent of the exterior plates needed to be replaced.[129] Although problems with the armature had been recognized as early as 1936, when cast iron replacements for some of the bars had been installed, much of the corrosion had been hidden by layers of paint applied over the years.[130]\nIn May 1982, President Ronald Reagan announced the formation of the Statue of Liberty\u2013Ellis Island Centennial Commission, led by Chrysler Corporation chair Lee Iacocca, to raise the funds needed to complete the work.[131] Through its fundraising arm, the Statue of Liberty\u2013Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., the group raised more than $350 million in donations.[132] The Statue of Liberty was one of the earliest beneficiaries of a cause marketing campaign. A 1983 promotion advertised that for each purchase made with an American Express card, the company would contribute one cent to the renovation of the statue. The campaign generated contributions of $1.7 million to the restoration project.[133]\nIn 1984, the statue was closed to the public for the duration of the renovation. Workers erected the world's largest free-standing scaffold,[28] which obscured the statue from view. Liquid nitrogen was used to remove layers of paint that had been applied to the interior of the copper skin over decades, leaving two layers of coal tar, originally applied to plug leaks and prevent corrosion. Blasting with baking soda powder removed the tar without further damaging the copper.[134] The restorers' work was hampered by the asbestos-based substance that Bartholdi had used\u2014ineffectively, as inspections showed\u2014to prevent galvanic corrosion. Workers within the statue had to wear protective gear, dubbed \"moon suits\", with self-contained breathing circuits.[135] Larger holes in the copper skin were repaired, and new copper was added where necessary.[136] The replacement skin was taken from a copper rooftop at Bell Labs, which had a patina that closely resembled the statue's; in exchange, the laboratory was provided some of the old copper skin for testing.[137] The torch, found to have been leaking water since the 1916 alterations, was replaced with an exact replica of Bartholdi's unaltered torch.[138] Consideration was given to replacing the arm and shoulder; the National Park Service insisted that they be repaired instead.[139] The original torch was removed and replaced in 1986 with the current one, whose flame is covered in 24-carat gold.[31] The torch reflects the sun's rays in daytime and is lighted by floodlights at night.[31]\nThe entire puddled iron armature designed by Gustave Eiffel was replaced. Low-carbon corrosion-resistant stainless steel bars that now hold the staples next to the skin are made of Ferralium, an alloy that bends slightly and returns to its original shape as the statue moves.[140] To prevent the ray and arm making contact, the ray was realigned by several degrees.[141] The lighting was again replaced\u2014night-time illumination subsequently came from metal-halide lamps that send beams of light to particular parts of the pedestal or statue, showing off various details.[142] Access to the pedestal, which had been through a nondescript entrance built in the 1960s, was renovated to create a wide opening framed by a set of monumental bronze doors with designs symbolic of the renovation.[143] A modern elevator was installed, allowing handicapped access to the observation area of the pedestal.[144] An emergency elevator was installed within the statue, reaching up to the level of the shoulder.[145]\nJuly 3\u20136, 1986, was designated \"Liberty Weekend\", marking the centennial of the statue and its reopening. President Reagan presided over the rededication, with French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand in attendance. July 4 saw a reprise of Operation Sail,[146] and the statue was reopened to the public on July 5.[147] In Reagan's dedication speech, he stated, \"We are the keepers of the flame of liberty; we hold it high for the world to see.\"[146]\nClosures and reopenings (2001\u2013present)\nFollowing the September 11 attacks, the statue and Liberty Island were immediately closed to the public. The island reopened at the end of 2001, while the pedestal and statue remained off-limits. The pedestal reopened in August 2004,[147] but the National Park Service announced that visitors could not safely be given access to the statue due to the difficulty of evacuation in an emergency. The Park Service adhered to that position through the remainder of the Bush administration.[148] New York Congressman Anthony Weiner made the statue's reopening a personal crusade.[149] On May 17, 2009, President Barack Obama's Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced that as a \"special gift\" to America, the statue would be reopened to the public as of July 4, but that only a limited number of people would be permitted to ascend to the crown each day.[148]\nThe statue, including the pedestal and base, closed on October 29, 2011, for installation of new elevators and staircases and to bring other facilities, such as restrooms, up to code. The statue was reopened on October 28, 2012,[1][150][151] only to close again a day later due to Hurricane Sandy.[152] Although the storm did not harm the statue, it destroyed some of the infrastructure on both Liberty Island and Ellis Island, severely damaging the dock used by the ferries bearing visitors to the statue. On November 8, 2012, a Park Service spokesperson announced that both islands would remain closed for an indefinite period for repairs to be done.[153] Due to lack of electricity on Liberty Island, a generator was installed to power temporary floodlights to illuminate the statue at night. The superintendent of Statue of Liberty National Monument, David Luchsinger, whose home on the island was severely damaged, stated that it would be \"optimistically ... months\" before the island was reopened to the public.[154] The statue and Liberty Island reopened to the public on July 4, 2013.[155] Ellis Island remained closed for repairs for several more months but reopened in late October 2013.[156] For part of October 2013, Liberty Island was closed to the public due to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, along with other federally funded museums, parks, monuments, construction projects and buildings.[157]\nOn October 7, 2016, construction started on a new Statue of Liberty museum on Liberty Island. The new $70 million, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) museum will be able to accommodate all of the island's visitors when it opens in 2019, as opposed to the current museum, which only 20% of the island's visitors can visit.[158] The original torch will be relocated here, and in addition to exhibits relating to the statue's construction and history, there will be a theater where visitors can watch an aerial view of the statue.[158][159] The museum, designed by FXFOWLE Architects, will integrate with the parkland around it.[159] It is being funded privately by Diane von F\u00fcrstenberg, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Coca-Cola, NBCUniversal, the family of Laurence Tisch and Preston Robert Tisch, Mellody Hobson, and George Lucas.[160] Von F\u00fcrstenberg heads the fundraising for the museum, and the project had garnered more than $40 million in fundraising as of groundbreaking.[159]\nAccess and attributes\nLocation and tourism\nThe statue is situated in Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island south of Ellis Island, which together comprise the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Both islands were ceded by New York to the federal government in 1800.[161] As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory despite their location on the New Jersey side of the state line. Liberty Island is one of the islands that are part of the borough of Manhattan in New York. Land created by reclamation added to the 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) original island at Ellis Island is New Jersey territory.[162]\nNo charge is made for entrance to the national monument, but there is a cost for the ferry service that all visitors must use, as private boats may not dock at the island. A concession was granted in 2007 to Statue Cruises to operate the transportation and ticketing facilities, replacing Circle Line, which had operated the service since 1953.[163] The ferries, which depart from Liberty State Park in Jersey City and Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, also stop at Ellis Island when it is open to the public, making a combined trip possible.[164] All ferry riders are subject to security screening, similar to airport procedures, prior to boarding.[165] Visitors intending to enter the statue's base and pedestal must obtain a complimentary museum/pedestal ticket along with their ferry ticket.[166] Those wishing to climb the staircase within the statue to the crown purchase a special ticket, which may be reserved up to a year in advance. A total of 240 people per day are permitted to ascend: ten per group, three groups per hour. Climbers may bring only medication and cameras\u2014lockers are provided for other items\u2014and must undergo a second security screening.[167]\nInscriptions, plaques, and dedications\nThere are several plaques and dedicatory tablets on or near the Statue of Liberty.\nA plaque on the copper just under the figure in front declares that it is a colossal statue representing Liberty, designed by Bartholdi and built by the Paris firm of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie (Cie is the French abbreviation analogous to Co.). [168]\nA presentation tablet, also bearing Bartholdi's name, declares the statue is a gift from the people of the Republic of France that honors \"the Alliance of the two Nations in achieving the Independence of the United States of America and attests their abiding friendship.\"[168]\nA tablet placed by the New York committee commemorates the fundraising done to build the pedestal.[168]\nThe cornerstone bears a plaque placed by the Freemasons.[168]\nIn 1903, a bronze tablet that bears the text of Emma Lazarus's sonnet, \"The New Colossus\" (1883), was presented by friends of the poet. Until the 1986 renovation, it was mounted inside the pedestal; today it resides in the Statue of Liberty Museum, in the base.[168]\n\"The New Colossus\" tablet is accompanied by a tablet given by the Emma Lazarus Commemorative Committee in 1977, celebrating the poet's life.[168]\nA group of statues stands at the western end of the island, honoring those closely associated with the Statue of Liberty. Two Americans\u2014Pulitzer and Lazarus\u2014and three Frenchmen\u2014Bartholdi, Eiffel, and Laboulaye\u2014are depicted. They are the work of Maryland sculptor Phillip Ratner.[169]\nIn 1984, the Statue of Liberty was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The UNESCO \"Statement of Significance\" describes the statue as a \"masterpiece of the human spirit\" that \"endures as a highly potent symbol\u2014inspiring contemplation, debate and protest\u2014of ideals such as liberty, peace, human rights, abolition of slavery, democracy and opportunity.\"[170]\nHeight of copper statue 151 ft 1 in 46 m\nFoundation of pedestal (ground level) to tip of torch 305 ft 1 in 93 m\nHeel to top of head 111 ft 1 in 34 m\nHeight of hand 16 ft 5 in 5 m\nIndex finger 8 ft 1 in 2.44 m\nCircumference at second joint 3 ft 6 in 1.07 m\nHead from chin to cranium 17 ft 3 in 5.26 m\nHead thickness from ear to ear 10 ft 0 in 3.05 m\nDistance across the eye 2 ft 6 in 0.76 m\nLength of nose 4 ft 6 in 1.48 m\nRight arm length 42 ft 0 in 12.8 m\nRight arm greatest thickness 12 ft 0 in 3.66 m\nThickness of waist 35 ft 0 in 10.67 m\nWidth of mouth 3 ft 0 in 0.91 m\nTablet, length 23 ft 7 in 7.19 m\nTablet, width 13 ft 7 in 4.14 m\nTablet, thickness 2 ft 0 in 0.61 m\nHeight of pedestal 89 ft 0 in 27.13 m\nHeight of foundation 65 ft 0 in 19.81 m\nWeight of copper used in statue 60,000 pounds 27.22 tonnes\nWeight of steel used in statue 250,000 pounds 113.4 tonnes\nTotal weight of statue 450,000 pounds 204.1 tonnes\nThickness of copper sheeting 3/32 of an inch 2.4 mm\nSee also: Replicas of the Statue of Liberty and Statue of Liberty in popular culture\nA replica of the Statue of Liberty forms part of the exterior decor at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip\nHundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty are displayed worldwide.[171] A smaller version of the statue, one-fourth the height of the original, was given by the American community in Paris to that city. It now stands on the \u00cele aux Cygnes, facing west toward her larger sister.[171] A replica 30 feet (9.1 m) tall stood atop the Liberty Warehouse on West 64th Street in Manhattan for many years;[171] it now resides at the Brooklyn Museum.[172] In a patriotic tribute, the Boy Scouts of America, as part of their Strengthen the Arm of Liberty campaign in 1949\u20131952, donated about two hundred replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper and 100 inches (2,500 mm) in height, to states and municipalities across the United States.[173] Though not a true replica, the statue known as the Goddess of Democracy temporarily erected during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was similarly inspired by French democratic traditions\u2014the sculptors took care to avoid a direct imitation of the Statue of Liberty.[174] Among other recreations of New York City structures, a replica of the statue is part of the exterior of the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.[175]\nAs an American icon, the Statue of Liberty has been depicted on the country's coinage and stamps. It appeared on commemorative coins issued to mark its 1986 centennial, and on New York's 2001 entry in the state quarters series.[176] An image of the statue was chosen for the American Eagle platinum bullion coins in 1997, and it was placed on the reverse, or tails, side of the Presidential Dollar series of circulating coins.[26] Two images of the statue's torch appear on the current ten-dollar bill.[177] The statue's intended photographic depiction on a 2010 forever stamp proved instead to be of the replica at the Las Vegas casino.[178]\nDepictions of the statue have been used by many regional institutions. Between 1986[179] and 2000,[180] New York State issued license plates with an outline of the statue to either the front or the side of the serial number.[179][180] The Women's National Basketball Association's New York Liberty use both the statue's name and its image in their logo, in which the torch's flame doubles as a basketball.[181] The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League depicted the statue's head on their third jersey, beginning in 1997.[182] The National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1996 Men's Basketball Final Four, played at New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex, featured the statue in its logo.[183] The Libertarian Party of the United States uses the statue in its emblem.[184]\nThe statue is a frequent subject in popular culture. In music, it has been evoked to indicate support for American policies, as in Toby Keith's song \"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)\", and in opposition, appearing on the cover of the Dead Kennedys' album Bedtime for Democracy, which protested the Reagan administration.[185] In film, the torch is the setting for the climax of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 movie Saboteur.[186] The statue makes one of its most famous cinematic appearances in the 1968 picture Planet of the Apes, in which it is seen half-buried in sand.[185][187] It is knocked over in the science-fiction film Independence Day [188] and in Cloverfield the head is ripped off.[189] In Jack Finney's time-travel novel Time and Again, the right arm of the statue, on display in the early 1880s in Madison Square Park, plays a crucial role.[190] Robert Holdstock, consulting editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, wondered in 1979,\nWhere would science fiction be without the Statue of Liberty? For decades it has towered or crumbled above the wastelands of deserted [E]arth\u2014giants have uprooted it, aliens have found it curious ... the symbol of Liberty, of optimism, has become a symbol of science fiction's pessimistic view of the future.[191]\nBig BenBrandenburg GateEmpire State BuildingHistory of constructionTownhouse (Great Britain)ArchitectureArc de TriompheTriumphal archGreat Wall of China\nThis article uses material from the Wikipedia article \"Statue of Liberty\", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. There is a list of all authors in Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 66854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 152.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://babescapes.gallery/2018/10/10/embattled-ronaldo-nominated-for-ballon-d-or-but-modric-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WX7WGVBQ66CLNKJM62GIGTIH3ELFQDNZ", "length": 1667, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "babescapes.gallery", "title": "Embattled Ronaldo nominated for Ballon d\u2019Or, but Modric now bookies\u2019 favorite", "raw_content": "Ballon d'Or LIVE updates- Bale and Aguero among first nominees\nFederation Internationale de Football Association best player of the year Luka Modric remains on track for a second major award after he was named Monday among 30 nominees for the Ballon d'Or alongside the likes of ex-Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Liverpool's Mohamed Salah. But who would be in our writers' top three players?\nFor the first time, a Ballon d'Or for women players will be awarded this year, with Champions League winners Lyon accounting for seven of the 15 nominees. No one can dispute Modric's influence for Real Madrid and Croatia; Hazard was arguably the best...\nPaul Pogba says he would love a Frenchman to win the Ballon d'Or, but does not believe it should be him.\nThe Ballon d'Or has been awarded by France Football every year since 1956, with former England global Sir Stanley Matthews the first victor. \"He doesn't have the numbers of Cristiano [Ronaldo] and [Lionel] Messi, but he makes us play and score goals - for his club and national team\".\nLiverpool and Egypt forward Mohamed Salah has so far received 51% of the fan votes on France Football's Ballon d'Or victor poll on its website.\n\"Kylian reminds me of Cristiano when he was in Manchester\", Griezmann told France Football. There are only star performers - the winners are examples.\nMbappe scored four times in 13 minutes on Sunday but also missed a number of chances, which does not surprise Griezmann. That's all I hope for anyway, because there are many who deserve it. \"It would be a dream to become an example to others\". \"I do not put myself in\", Pogba said according to Goal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 10296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://babyforyou.net.ua/28387/samsung-gets-fda-clearance-for-s-health-app", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TALF32GWLXEZZLXABAI3ERVJX3GKX23F", "length": 2155, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "babyforyou.net.ua", "title": "Samsung gets FDA clearance for S Health app | Babyforyou.net.ua- babyforyou.net.ua", "raw_content": "Samsung gets FDA clearance for S Health app\nSamsung's S Health app\nFor the first time, Samsung has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its S Health app. The categorization of the clearance as a cardiology signal transmitter suggests that the clearance will allow S Health to interface with additional connected medical devices in the United States.\nSamsung's S Health app originally launched for Galaxy S III users in the UK in the summer of 2012. At the time, it received data from Lifescan\u2019s OneTouch UltraMini/UltraEasy Blood Glucose Meter via a USB connection. It also worked with Omron\u2019s blood pressure monitors and one of its body composition scales via Bluetooth, and similar devices from A&D.\nThat release never found its way to the US, possibly because of FDA clearance concerns. S Health finally launched in the US with the Galaxy S4, but rather than connecting to third party medical devices, it relied on manual entry and purported to connect to three devices from Samsung: a weight scale, a heart rate strap, and a wrist-worn activity tracker. Those devices have still not been made available for purchase in the US, although the weight scale and heart rate strap can be purchased in Samsung's UK store.\n\u201cS Health peripherals, specifically the Heart Rate Monitor Band and Connected Weight Scale, will be available before the end of the year,\u201d the company told Babyforyou.net.ua in an email last August. \u201cSamsung is working on perfecting the S Band and will announce when we\u2019re ready for its commercial launch.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Samsung has continued to work on the S Health app is several ways. In August the company added gamified avatar characters to the Korean version of the app. In October, Cigna and Samsung announced a multi-year partnership to enhance the app with content from Cigna.\nSamsung filed for clearance in July 2013. If FDA clearance is the factor that has held the company back from launching the various UK device connectivity features in the United States, this clearance could pave the way for rapid changes for US Samsung customers.\nCigna, FDA, FDA 510(k) clearance, Galaxy S4, S Band, Samsung, Samsung S Band, Samsung S Health", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/07/planck-scale.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7DTD6HW65HDKEOOKS3LZC3JUHLRFT6QQ", "length": 11114, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "backreaction.blogspot.com", "title": "Backreaction: The Planck Scale", "raw_content": "The Planck scales - a length and a mass* - indicate the limits in which we expect quantum gravitational effects to become important\nGravity coupled to matter requires a coupling constant G that has units of length over mass. One finds the Planck scale if one lets quantum mechanics come into the game. For this, let us consider a quantum particle of a (so far unknown) mass mp with a Compton wavelength lp, the relation between both given by the Planck constant\nThis is the quantum input. Now consider that particle to be as localized as it is possible taking into account its quantum properties. That is, the mass mp is localized within a space-time region with extensions given by the particle's own Compton wavelength. The higher the mass of that particle, the smaller the wavelength. However, we know that General Relativity says if we push a fixed amount of mass together in a smaller and smaller region, it will eventually form a black hole. More general, one can ask when the perturbation of the metric that this particle causes will be of order one:\nwhich then can be solved for the mass, and subsequently for the length scale we were looking for. If one puts in some numbers one finds\nThese Planck scales thus indicate the limit in which the quantum properties of our particle will cause a non-negligible perturbation of the space-time metric, and we really have to worry about how to reconcile the classical with the quantum regime. Compared to energies that can be reached at the collider (the LHC will have a center of mass energy of the order 10 TeV), the Planck mass is huge. This reflects the fact that the gravitational force between elementary particles is very weak compared to the the other forces that we know, and this is what makes it so hard to experimentally observe quantum gravitational effect.\nMax Planck introduced these quantities in 1899, the paper (it's in German) is available online\nSitzungsberichte der K\u00f6niglich Preu\u00dfischen Akademie der Wisseschaften zu Berlin\n\u00dcber irreversible Strahlungsvorgaenge, von Max Planck.\n(Credits to Stefan for finding it). You'll find the natural mass scales introduced on page 479ff. He didn't call them 'Planck' scales then, and it is also interesting why he found them useful to introduce, namely because the aliens would also use them\n\"It is interesting to note that with the help of the [above constants] it is possible to introduce units [...] which [...] remain meaningful for all times and also for extraterrestrial and non-human cultures, and therefore can be understood as 'natural units'.\"\nCoincidentally, yesterday I saw a paper on the arxiv\nWhat is Special About the Planck Mass?\nBy C. Sivaram\nAbstract: Planck introduced his famous units of mass, length and time a hundred years ago. The many interesting facets of the Planck mass and length are explored. The Planck mass ubiquitously occurs in astrophysics, cosmology, quantum gravity, string theory, etc. Current aspects of its implications for unification of fundamental interactions, energy dependence of coupling constants, dark energy, etc. are discussed.\nwhich gives a nice introduction into the appearances of various mass scales in physics, with some historical notes.\n* With the speed of light set to be equal 1, in which case a length is the same as a time. It you find that confusing, just define a Planck time by dividing the length through the speed of light.\nSo if we start with Planck units and add strings we get, what, tampon theory? Brilliant!\nSure, that's why we need more women in physics.\n\"The higher the mass of that particle, the smaller the wavelength. However, we know that General Relativity says if we push a fixed amount of mass together in a smaller and smaller region, it will eventually form a black hole.\"\nBee, so what happens when two of these little blackholes meet\nThey join and form a larger one, the total horizon area increases. See e.g. here.\nAnd what is peventing all mass and visible matter in the universe being clumped into a bright planet or Star - or even One massive blackhole.\nIs it the myriad (millions or billions) of smaller blackholes?\nEach pulled & pulling in a myriad different (spatial) directions\nThe expansion of the universe. They just don't all meet.\n\"Losing entropy by falling into a black hole is a violation of the second principle of thermodynamics. This law states that entropy is an always increasing function in a closed system - and the universe is a closed system, as nothing can escape it.\"\nBee, I read Sean trying to make this argument in Cosmic Variance too.\nBut he was missing the point that though the Universe may be a closed system - the blackhole itself becomes a closed system within that (the) Universe.\nThus on Earth you can have seawater attempting to reach entropy - but that does not mean the landmass has to reach the same entropy - nor does the air or in Earth's case atmosphere.\nBlack hole thermodynamics is based on the existence of Hawking radiation. The black hole looses energy, it's not a closed system.\nBee, the blackhole doesn't lose radiation from inside the blackhole\nThe radiation is caused by that which is falling into the blackhole\nThough possibly when the blackhole reaches a certain critical volume it expels it all back out ... lava from a volcano forming new islands on the Ocean that is space\nThis is not what the standard argumentation says, according to which the radiation is caused by the presence of the horizon. But either way, radiation towards infinity leads the black hole area to shrink with particles being created at the horizon. It's definitly not a closed system if you consider these quantum effects.\nBee, it is not a 'closed' system\nif there is matter falling into.\nWhat I was trying to differentiate is that which is inside the blackhole - and that which is outside - though they may try to attempt to reach entropy - may well be the last place where entropy is 'required' - that which is inside will attempt first to reach entropy within itself, and that which is outside has a whole rest of the universe to attempt to reach entropy with first\nas far as I am concerned, the black hole entropy is ill defined anyhow, so I usually don't engage in these discussions. would you tell me what you think it measures, just to amuse me?\nHi Bee, no one has or CAN measure inside the blackhole.\nBut think of a massive sphere of gold or lead (1km in diameter) and the surrounding environment trying to reach entropy with it at the Perimeter Institute, in the Artic Circle, or in the Gobi desert.\nThe temperature of the massive solid sphere (and its immediate surround aka boundary or perimeter) will have a different temperature from the environment further and further away. In a closed environment planet or universe - it would possibly be the sphere would be the last place to reach entropy\nNotwithstanding gold & lead would easily melt of course (in cosmic terms)\nBut for the purposes of the analogy use lesser temperatures.\nCorrect, nobody really knows what the entropy is inside the black hole, since this region is disconnected from the outside. There is a lot of discussion about this issue, see e.g. the very nice and readable paper\nBlack hole entropy: inside or out?\nBesides this, I think you are confused about the meaning of thermodynamic equilibrium. What exactly do you mean with a system 'tries to reach entropy with' some other system? Statements about the de- or increase of entropy are always referring to the state after the (total) system has reached thermodynamic equilibrium. A black body is by assumption in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment.\nlol Bee, thermodynamic equilibrium can be local, and black bodies can be in thermodynamic equilibrium.\nBut black holes are not necessarily in thermodynamic equilibrium with outer space any more than our Sun or the stars are in equilibrium with space or the rest of the universe.\nImagine for a moment millions and billions of singularities in blackholes (as many as you like) scattered along the observable universe - each one containing a potential mini-bigbang.\nLike nuclear pellets scattered across apace, They could contain as much hidden energy as is speculated was released in the big bang - waiting to be released into outer space or the observable universe.\nSee here for a more metaphysical implication\nI have always felt suspicious about arguments based on dimensional analysis. The fundamental axiom of such analyses is that \"there are no large pure numbers in physics, where \"large\" means \"compared to the number of fingers and toes attached to a typical specimen of homo sapiens.\" Ironic that Planck wanted to be able to communicate with aliens --- better hope they don't have millions of fingers on each hand! :-)\n\"the gravitational force between elementary particles is very weak compared to the the other forces that we know\"\nah yes, but the gravitational force is big in Jap.., er, the fifth dimension.\nLove. Lisa (kidding)\nGreat article, Bee. Another post about the Planck time maybe ?\nah sorry, hadn't noticed footnote 3. Always read the scientist's footnotes :-)\nArmando Martinez 12:58 PM, August 13, 2009\nYour formula for the Compton wavelenght is in error, the speed of light is missing in the formula. See:\nFurthermore, it is not the Compton wavelength which is of interest in the realm of quantum gravity, but the Planck length, which is many orders of magnitude (down to 10^-35) lower than the Compton wavelength. See:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units\nconcerning the Compton wavelength,\n... the speed of light is missing in the formula.\nwell, depends on the convention you use for the speed of light - if you use c = 1, the formula is OK. On the other hand, since later on, c is stated explicitly, you have a point.\nwhich is many orders of magnitude (down to 10^-35) lower than the Compton wavelength\nNote that as used above (and as you can read in the text), m_P is not the Compton wavelength of the proton, or any other of the known elementary particles, but of a so-far unknown mass, later to be identified with the Planck mass, which brings into play gravity via the Schwarzschild radius.\nYour formula for the Compton wavelenght is in error, the speed of light is missing in the formula.\nc=1, see footnote [3]. It's a consistent and widely used set of units. Sorry if you find it confusing there's a c appearing lateron, that's because the equations are from elsewhere.\nFurthermore, it is not the Compton wavelength which is of interest in the realm of quantum gravity, but the Planck length, which is many orders of magnitude (down to 10^-35) lower than the Compton wavelength.\nThis statement is a) wrong and b) shows that you didn't read what I wrote. Since \"the Compton wavelength\" is not a fixed quantity is is meaningless to say the Planck length is a fixed ratio smaller than the Compton wavelength. What I have been referring to is specifically the wavelength of a particle with an energy so high its Compton wavelength equals its Schwarzschild radius. I'd recommend you actually read before you comment.\n(See also Stefan's reply, he was somewhat faster).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 413, "original_length": 17768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bahira.net/SF%20Ethnic%20Dance%20Festival%20Auditions.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KBYUXVP4W7QH6NMGPULNYBANGPSAFEVQ", "length": 1060, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bahira.net", "title": "SFEDF 2009", "raw_content": "2009 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions January 17, 2009\nAlthough Indigenous was not selected to perform for the 2009 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Bahira, as artistic director of Indigenous, was honored to audition with her troupe for the second time for World Arts West with over 75 other dance companies and soloists. This prestigious Festival, now in its 31st year, will feature over 30 exciting ethnic dance soloists and troupes and be held over four weekends in June of 2009 at The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco on Bay and Lyon Street, San Francisco. The Auditions were held at The Palace Theatre and were performed in front an esteemed panel of dance directors and teachers as well as a paying audience. Thank you to all those who came to support Bahira and Indigenous!\nBahira and Indigenous performed a set of 5 dances in the American Belly Dance styles including Tribal, Folk and Traditional.\nClick here for more info on Ethnic Dance Festival 2009\nClick here for printable Directions to The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 1072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bailriggd.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKW6Q26NQH6E4N2TSMDCKPH537XBLLJL", "length": 1573, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bailriggd.com", "title": "Bailrigg Diagnostics Limited", "raw_content": "Bedside and Rapid Results Matter\nGet accurate and economical test results on the patient\u2019s site or in doctor\u2019s\nclinic from a single drop of blood in a minute\n\u201cA patient is more likely to die from a consequence of inaccurate and delayed medical diagnostic\nresults than improper treatment and medication combined\u201d\nWe are bringing the lab to the bedside\nOur work is driven by the needs of pathologists in the National Health Service (UK), who....\nHe is the cofounder and Technical Lead at Bailrigg Diagnostics. With over 9 years of extensive ...\nThrough our technology, we aim to empower patients and doctors equally. From a clinical...\nEPSRC recognises our startup \u2018eBiogen Limited\u2019 in its recent press release headed \u201cPartnerships for a Prosperous Nation\u201d. This lists our project \u201cBedside Diagnostics\u201d as one of five examples of notable success supported through Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) under EPSRC.\nDr Mukesh Kumar has been named as a finalist at the 2017 MIT Technology Review\u2019s \u2018Innovators Under 35 Europe\u2019 awards in recognition for his work on technology to help improve clinical blood testing.\nGary Hickson from BBC Radio Lancashire interviews our Cofounder Dr Mukesh Kumar about being shortlisted as a finalist at the 2017 MIT Technology Review\u2019s \u2018Innovators Under 35 Europe\u2019 awards in recognition for his work on technology to help improve clinical blood testing.\nOn the 70th anniversary of National Health Service (NHS) England, I was interviewed by BBC Lancashire to discuss how our technology is going to change how the NHS treats patients in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://banglanatak.com/story/entrepreneurship-as-a-social-movement-initiating-change-with-values/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EWGWNPIJCY4HIENE3BIYVBN6YVEMJDIR", "length": 2109, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "banglanatak.com", "title": "\ufeff Entrepreneurship as a Social Movement: Initiating Change with Values \u2013 Bangla Natak", "raw_content": "The common passage of entrepreneurship as an instrument for economic growth is well recognized across the world. This recognition manifests itself in significant public and private initiatives to boost start-ups, growth of small firms, and innovation. However, seldom has entrepreneurship been seen as a vehicle for social and economic development, as a force for effective transformation of our lives through new arrangements for social welfare and exchange, or identification of opportunities for new modes of community-based relationships that harness both the economic power of people and the strength of ties and relationships among people in a society.\nSeldom, too, is a new venture in the arts or humanities seen as a platform for economic engagement in the community. But the popularity of social enterprises offers certain palliatives when market or systemic failures abound, and when people come together to seek solutions for problems within their ambit for change.\nIn January 2018, we organized a seminar at the Taj Bengal Hotel in Kolkata for a discourse on how innovation, entrepreneurship and local skills, supported by a pragmatic and sensitive socio-economic eco-system, can make a comprehensive impact on the development process. The initiative translated into a brainstorming session with thought leaders and industry experts on how to kick-start a Social Entrepreneurship Movement.\nThe seminar was supported by the British Council and Essex Business School, University of Essex, U.K.\nThe main objectives were:\n1. To identify the roles of key stakeholders, such as the community, private sector, government organizations, education sector and others, in fostering social and creative entrepreneurship.\n2. To explore ideas for developing a sustainable network to share knowledge and resources and leverage existing establishments, policies, and technologies to support an enabling eco-system for promoting entrepreneurship.\n3. To establish a platform for free flow of ideas, technologies and resources related to the development of a unique project \u2014 \u2018Entrepreneurship as a Social Movement\u2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 7009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://barerecord.blogspot.com/2015/12/343-advertising-our-multicultural.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WGTB7KDQC2WUN42SJMFQFFEERXIPVFII", "length": 2264, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "barerecord.blogspot.com", "title": "BARE RECORD OF TRUTH: 343: ADVERTISING OUR MULTICULTURAL GLOBAL CHURCH:", "raw_content": "343: ADVERTISING OUR MULTICULTURAL GLOBAL CHURCH:\nThe latest Christmas video that the LDS Church just released spotlights children from around the world. It is called A Savior is Born. It is beautifully produced and showcases an African girl and boy as well as other children from the Middle East, Asia, South America, and Europe.\nThe scriptures recited by the children about the birth of the Savior is wonderful and the video is moving. This video will help the Church get their message across that they are a Multicultural Global Church (despite the centralized leadership only comprised of white successful businessmen from Utah.) Hopefully by hiring an advertising agency to produce a Christmas video/Church ad featuring beautiful children from all over the world and with a website link and Church logo at the very end will bring the true Spirit of Christmas to those who see it.\nTo be honest, ( and I know I am being very critical that I most likely will need to repent of) the video reminded me of the Benetton ads that begin in the 1980's with their \"United Colors\" ad campaign. Benetton was one of the first to use a multiracial advertisements designed to show that their company was accepted in all countries of the world. The ads were very successful especially since they featured these well dressed children with perfect smiles from every continent.\nBut is this really what the children look like around the world? All of the children in the Church video look they have been hand selected from the same modeling agency that Benetton used for their advertisements and/or look like they shop at City Creek Mall.\nThe reality is that too many children around the world live in poverty and don't dress or look as healthy as the models who are paid to be in a video or in an advertisement. Please watch the below video from the Liahona's Children Foundation.\nWhile both videos are touching, the last video is humbling to watch and reminds me of the true meaning of Christmas and the importance of giving and striving to become one of His disciples as we celebrate His birth and His mission at this time of year.\n\"And remember in all things the poor and the needy,\nthe sick and the afflicted, for he that doeth not these things,\nthe same is not my disciple.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 579, "original_length": 11123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bax.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-started", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TJNYBEHY5KOOEEECGUTTP6JLGTWW3NCJ", "length": 1999, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bax.org.uk", "title": "Welcome to BAX- British-Arab Exchanges \u00bb How We Started", "raw_content": "BAX Management Team\nBritish Students Invited to Egypt\nThe Founders of BAX\nBRITISH STUDENTS INVITED TO EGYPT IN 1973\nBAX (formerly known as the British-Arab University Association) started in April 1973, when a group of British university students were invited to visit Egypt by the Egyptian Ministry of Youth.\nThe invitation came about through the initiative of an architecture student at Cairo University, Nagia Abdel Mogney Said. Having visited Britain in 1972, Nagia decided there was a positive side to a Europe that was mistrusted by many in Egypt. She and her two friends approached the Minister of Youth to suggest inviting a group of British students to visit the Egyptian universities.\nThis was a time when Egypt\u2019s President Anwar El-Sadat, who had succeeded Gamal Abd El-Nasser on his death in 1970, was introducing a radical change of course for his country. He had announced the \u2018infitah\u2019 (open door) policy towards the West, and severed links with the Soviet Union. Such changes were causing great turbulence. The Egyptian authorities were concerned about the values that would flow through the newly opened \u2018door\u2019 to the West. A prevailing stereotype of young people in Europe was of drop-outs focused on \u2018sex and drugs and rock\u2019n roll\u2019. There was resentment of Britain\u2019s former colonial role in the Middle East. The idea of receiving a group of young British students, with an attitude of respect, an interest in learning about Egypt, and a sincere desire to help build friendship and understanding, was a timely one.\nTHE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME DEVELOPS\nAfter the first two exchange visits of 1973, many more followed. In due course the number of countries involved grew, and the nature of the delegations changed, to include a wider variety of young people, not exclusively university students.\nDetails of the exchanges can be found under the relevant country names.\nEgypt | Sudan | Jordan | Lebanon | Palestine | Iraq\nLord Home welcoming Jordanian and Egyptian students to his home 1978", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beautifulplacestovisit.com/tag/john-f-kennedy-center-for-the-performing-arts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7MSHUG3J3NBI3XRQTS4N553BOJFDNFCA", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "beautifulplacestovisit.com", "title": "John F. 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The Bible is the story of God making that promise and keeping it. The World We All Want is for people who are interested in the message of the Bible. Developed by the Crowded House, The World We All Want is an evangelistic Bible overview.\nthe Bible story - The World We All Want presents the gospel through the Bible story. It presents the biblical worldview that people need if they are to understand the work of Christ. Moreover retelling the Bible story offers an engaging way of presenting the gospel to people today.\na community - often presentations of the gospel are individualistic, focusing on an individual's relationship with God. It then becomes difficult to teach people about the church except in functional terms or terms than contradict the message of grace. The focus of the Bible, however, is on God's plan to create a people who are his people. The World We All Want focuses on the communal nature of gospel in a way that naturally integrates the church into the message of the gospel.\na point of connection, the course begins by engaging with people's desire for a better world, showing how God promises such a world in the Bible and how Jesus gave us a glimpse of that world. This provides a natural point of contact with people; a common aspiration. It establishes at the beginning of the course a reason why the Bible story is so important. As the course develops, however, it makes it clear that this world cannot be human-centred, it must be God-centred.\nThe World We All Want has been designed so that it be used one-to-one, in small groups or 'Alpha-style'.It is ideal to use before or after other like Christianity Explored and Alpha. The course is already being used with people of different nationalities, different social classes and different ages from Aberdeen in Scotland to Tasmania in Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 184.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://benoitfelten.com/?p=3368", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YSBWH36O7RHLJZO3WJHYCXLVEKFBZBDX", "length": 560, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "benoitfelten.com", "title": "Communication Breakdown", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Communication Breakdown\nFor the average (temporary) citizen like me, Hong Kong is a very safe city. I have heard of course of triads, traffics, corruption and other criminal activities. Hard for me to know how much of that is real and how much is Hong Kong Action Cinema fiction. But the coppers are there, well and truly present. I realise this photo (and the title I gave it) doesn\u2019t cast them in the best of lights, but we can have a little fun, can\u2019t we?\nPosted in Fuji x100s / x100f, Street Tagged fuji, hongkong, photo, street, x100f", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bewdleymuseum.org.uk/index.php/volunteering?id=24", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:30Z", "digest": "sha1:VPNEIBBAJ7TNVES2YB5ZQZQFBRTJDDIJ", "length": 1566, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bewdleymuseum.org.uk", "title": "Volunteering", "raw_content": "Bewdley museum is an amazing place run by a very small team of museum officers who use their ingenuity to make the most of the site on ever decreasing budgets. When the museum is open there are museum assistants on site who are responsible for looking after the day to day visitor experience.\nVolunteers play an essential role in all the activities at the museum.\nThe air raid shelter is a fascinating part of any museum visit, it can only be open when we have a volunteer on duty. School parties are regularly booked in with volunteer guides.\nThe Clay pipe studio provides a fascinating insight in the craft of making a clay pipe. Volunteers are trained to demonstrate the process to the visiting public.\nBrassrubbing is a popular activity with old and young alike. There are some beautiful large brasses that volunteers run special workshops for people to create a special brass rubbing.\nRopemaking was a local trade and the ropewalk in the museum is an important feature of the site. It takes three people to make a rope so we need to build a team of trained volunteers. It only takes half an hour and is at a set time of day.\nVolunteers get involved in other ways too: craft activities, admin, research work and scanning photos for the archives. Special events and cataloguing at the museum store.\nWhatever your skills and interests we'd be pleased to welcome you as part of our team!\nFor more information on becoing a volunteer please contact our vounteer co-ordinator, Janet Wicks, by email at janet@bewdleymuseum.org.uk\nClay Pipe Making\nAir Warden for the day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bigfrog104.com/is-herkimers-1834-jail-haunted-find-out-this-halloween/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UZJMS5NYLNN2Q5VOKQH3UZIHGEHAGHEQ", "length": 1130, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bigfrog104.com", "title": "Is Herkimer's 1834 Jail Haunted? Find Out This Halloween", "raw_content": "Is Herkimer\u2019s 1834 Jail Haunted? Find Out This Halloween\nHalloween weekend is the perfect time for ghost hunting, and Herkimer's 1834 Jailhouse might be a perfect place to look for something spooky.\nThe New York Shadow Chasers are hosting tours of the Historic Four Corners buildings in downtown Herkimer on Saturday, October 27 from 5 -10 p.m.\nMembers of the Shadow Chasers will tell you of their ghostly findings at the 1834 Jail and the Herkimer County Historical Society's 1884 Suiter Museum Building.\nYou'll hear stories about those who might still haunt the grounds like Roxalana Druse, who was the last woman to be hanged in New York State in 1887, and Nancy Congdon Yates Gardner Lyman, who was at the Jail in 1869 for the murder of her 2nd husband, and was already remarried to her 3rd days after the incident.\nYou can get advance tickets at the Herkimer County Historical Society 406 N. Main St., Herkimer Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.\nProceeds will benefit the Herkimer County Historical Society and the Friends of Historic Herkimer County.\nFiled Under: 1834 jail, herkimer, herkimer county historical society", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 201.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://billllsidlemind.blogspot.com/2018/08/scrubbing-clinton-legacy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:29Z", "digest": "sha1:72X7FFEDY6YBQXVI226XWDNDQY5A5B5W", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "billllsidlemind.blogspot.com", "title": "Billlls Idle Mind: Scrubbing The Clinton Legacy", "raw_content": "Funny how all that works.....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 5633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 138.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://binj.in/tv-movies/deepika-padukone-ranveer-singhs-post-wedding-pda-is-full-of-love-see-pics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VCBG3PGAYAH2LXMVIFVZSGPZCPUTCIKF", "length": 2684, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "binj.in", "title": "Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh's post-wedding PDA is full of love. See pics | binj.in", "raw_content": "Home > tv & movies > Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh\u2019s post-wedding PDA is full of love. See pics\nDeepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh\u2019s post-wedding PDA is full of love. See pics\nDeepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh\u2019s wedding fever is yet to show any signs of abating. On Thursday, the first song from Rohit Shetty\u2019s upcoming film, Simmba, was released. Starring Ranveer Singh and Sara Ali Khan, Aankh Marey is already a hit with viewers. A remix of 1996 Arshad Warsi and Simran starrer\u2019s hit song of the same name, it has Ranveer, Sara, the Golmaal gang of Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade matching steps to its peppy beats.\nThe remixed song has been trending all day on Thursday and there is one person who is mighty impressed with it and that\u2019s newlywed Deepika Padukone. The Padmaavat actor was quick to comment on the song as soon as her husband shared it on his Instagram account. She commented: \u201cI L-O-V-E IT!!!!\u201d and added a number of heart-eye emojis.\nDeepika also left Ranveer impressed with her covershoot of GQ magazine. The Piku actor is seen in a white monokini in the photo and Ranveer wrote \u201ccombusts\u201d on a photo shared by her. In an interview to the magazine, Deepika spoke about her husband, \u201cHe is vulnerable, extremely emotional, very intelligent; childlike at times. That\u2019s not to say that his irrepressible energy isn\u2019t him, it\u2019s very him. He\u2019s a real people\u2019s person, but there\u2019s a quiet side to him too. Emotionally, I think I\u2019m the more intuitive one. I\u2019d say IQ is more him.\u201d\nSimmba, a Hindi remake of hit Telugu film Temper, is about an unscrupulous cop who has no qualms taking bribes. He has a change of heart after a gruesome rape takes place. Awakened, the cop goes on a rampage against the man with whom he once collaborated.\nThe trailer of the film was unveiled on December 2 and in no time a dialogue by Ranveer was trending, thanks to the memes that it inspired. In it, there\u2019s a point where Ranveer says \u201cTell me something I don\u2019t know\u201d. The hilarious memes spoke of how Simmba was but a replica of Temper and how Rohit was simply milking his Singham franchise among others.\nSara Ali Khan, who made her Bollywood debut with Kedarnath, was appreciated for her confident presence against a more seasoned Ranveer in the Aankh Marey song. Simmba releases on December 28.\nAankh MareyBollywooddeepika padukoneRanveer SinghRohit ShettyRohit Shetty Simmbasara ali khanSimmbaSimmba new songSimmba songSimmba TemperTemper Telugu film\nPrevious Post:Nitin Gadkari faints on stage in Maharashtra, later tweets that he\u2019s doing well\nNext Post:Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2018: Kamal Nath asks Congress candidates to be extra vigilant on December 11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://biographies.s9.com/Biography/category/entertainers/tv-host/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IEJIUARA5EJP4RGZ7NRFF5DPB3R2PR37", "length": 3302, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "biographies.s9.com", "title": "TV Host Archives - Biographical Dictionary - s9.com TV Host Archives - Biographical Dictionary - s9.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Entertainers \u00bb Archive by category : TV Host\nCategory : TV Host\nCurry, Adrianne Marie\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Models, TV Host Comments: 0\n1982 \u2013 Born on August 6th in Joliet, Illinois. American playboy model and television star. 1994 \u2013 She was abducted and raped. 2000 \u2013 Dropped out of Joliet West High School when she was still just a junior in Illinois. \u2013 Married to Christopher Knight on May 29th. 2003 \u2013 Won the America\u2019s ..\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under TV Host Comments: 0\n1936 \u2013 Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 12th of May. \u2013 He graduated from Marquette University High School. 1970 \u2013 He was a news anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia, WNBC-TV in New York City and KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. 1973-1982 \u2013 Snyder gained national fame as the host of ..\nBurke, Brooke Lisa\n1971 \u2013 Born on September 8th in Hartford, Connecticut. American television host and model. 1985 \u2013 Won her first beauty pageant at age 14. 1999 \u2013 Hosted the television show, \"Wild On!\". 2001 \u2013 Married to Garth Fisher, a plastic surgeon, and had two daughters. 2002 \u2013 Appeared in \"At A Glance Calendar\". 2004 \u2013 ..\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Figure Skater, Models, TV Host Comments: 0\n1965 \u2013 She was born on the 3rd day of December this year in Staaken in then-East Germany, just outside of West Berlin, which is today part of Berlin. 1970 \u2013 She represented the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt for the GDR (East Germany). Jutta M\u00fcller began coaching her in this year. 1984 \u2013 She ..\nMontel Brian Anthony Williams\n1956 \u2013 Born in Baltimore on the 3rd of July. 1974 \u2013 United States Marine Corps. 1980 \u2013 He graduated with a degree in engineering and a minor in International Security. 1988 \u2013 Williams to speak amassed quickly, especially after he was featured on the Today Show and NBC Nightly News. ..\nWilson, Clerow\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Comedians, Entertainers, TV Host Comments: 0\nUS actor, comedian, and entertainer host of \"The Flip Wilson Show\" 1970-1974 (1st black host of major network var..\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Entertainers, Singer, TV Host Comments: 0\n1927 \u2013 Born on the 3rd of December in Wall Lake Iowa, U.S.A. 1944 \u2013 He appeared with Bing Crosby (American Singer and Actor) on the hit record \"Swinging on a Star\". 1947 \u2013 He performed in a nightclub act with entertainer Kaye Thompson (American composer, singer and musician). 1952 \u2013 He began his solo career, ..\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Musicians, TV Host Comments: 0\n1903 \u2013 Born on March 11th in Strasburg, North Dakota. The accordion maestro provided nearly two decades of squeaky-clean music and family entertainment on TV every Saturday night on prime-time, and for another 11 years in syndication. His trademarks included his \"A uh-one, a uh-two\" intro and a perpetual bubble machine. 1931 \u2013 Married Fern ..\nWalters, Barbara Ann\nPosted August 8, 2015 by admin.s9c & filed under Journalist, TV Host Comments: 0\n1929 \u2013 Born on September 25th in Boston, Maryland. 1953 \u2013 Graduated and received her B.A. in English degree from Sarah Lawrence College. 1958 \u2013 Married to Robert Henry Katz, a New York businessman. 1961 \u2013 She worked as an assistant to the producer at New York\u2019s WRCA-TV, and as a publicist for long-time talk ..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 416, "original_length": 8617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.bitongo.com/index.php/games/pingi-operation-santa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IPO4HE5IQN3YY7ZARXM3PS345ZW3X7FB", "length": 180, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.bitongo.com", "title": "Pingi: Operation Santa | Bitongo", "raw_content": "This is a semi-Christmas-themed Slap \u2018em Up where you\u2019ll have to protect Santa\u2019s gifts at all costs!\nLots of levels, upgrades and fun gameplay awaits you! What are you waiting for?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.drgittanjalisaxena.com/2017/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AZGUUAAMY4QOKM2UYW6YTX2EKZIDAFZZ", "length": 473, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.drgittanjalisaxena.com", "title": "April 2017 -", "raw_content": "Resolving Back Pain by Past Life Regression\nA client came to Dr Gittanjali on 26th March 2017 with the issue of excruciating back pain since last 10 years, she had visited a lot of doctors but did not find much relief. Dr Gittanjali after consulting the client decided to use Past Life Regression as the tool to help the client. When the client was regressed she found herself in the year 1936 where she was a freedom fighter in India. There was a lot of headache and back\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.imam-khomeini.ir/en/n3116/Biography/The_attack_on_Faydhiah_School", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BM2NH7HEF5VQFEY7KQYY3TMZFLRT6FVP", "length": 20294, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "blog.imam-khomeini.ir", "title": "Imam Khomeini - The attack on Faydhiah School", "raw_content": "On the 22nd of March 1963, which was the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Ja'far Al-Sadiq (as), undercover government officials were looking for any excuse to attack the gatherings of scholars and religious authorities. They tried to frighten the people and create a panic stricken atmosphere. They entered the Imam's residence but they were made aware of the Imam's threats by the Imam's representative. It was this that stopped the armed forces from attacking the people at Imam Khomeini's residence.\nIn the afternoon of the 22nd of March 1963, the armed forces launched a brutal attack on the Faydhiah School. This attack against unarmed theology students was unique in Iranian history. This act of violence was followed with some very important historical events: Imam Khomeini's speech on Ashura; Imam Khomeini's arrest, and the events that took place on the 5th of June. In addition on January the 7th 1978 an insulting piece was written regarding Imam Khomeini and published in the Ettela'aat Newspaper. These two mistakes had dire consequences and led to the fall of the Pahlavi regime.\nThe unarmed students, who lived in the Faydhiah School dormitories, were unaware of the attack awaiting them. They were unarmed while the police forces were well equipped with weapons of all sorts. They shot at the students and there was blood all over the walls and panic took over. The school changed into a battlefield and in less than an hour all rooms in the school were filled with blood, turbans, dead bodies, and torn books. It is impossible to describe this devastating scene.\nAt this time the Imam gave a statement to the people, which showed his braveness and steadfastness:\n\"Do not worry; keep fear and weakness away from yourself. You are the followers of a leader who stood against hardships. He was patient. He was decisive\u2026 Our great leaders endured events like the day of Ashura and the eve of the 11th of Muharram. So what do you say today? Why are you worried? The brutal regime has showed its true colours and brutality by committing such a crime. It has showed its Changeez-like characteristic very well. By carrying out this catastrophic and bitter incident the regime has made its fall a definite matter. We have won.\"\nAccording to Ayatollah Khamenei, the Imams words \"gave us piece of mind and it made us calm. We felt like we were not afraid of anything at all\". Imam Khomeini also said the following while addressing the Pahlavi regime: \"I have now made my heart ready for the spearheads of your armed forces but I will not stand your bullying and will not bow down to your oppression.\"\nThe opportunity that the Imam had been waiting for presented itself after two months. Muharram was an eventful month. The Imam sent special messages all over the country and told people what was needed for his campaign. He made sure people knew what had happened. In one of his speeches, while addressing the students. He said that he had told the Shah to stop taking such extreme measures against the people but the Shah paid no attention and so the Imam said: \"I will not sit still until I make their days dark and their lives a misery.\"\nQom experienced eventful nights in Muharram. The Imam was invited to different ceremonies each night and the mourning for Imam Hussein was mixed with a political atmosphere. These ceremonies and political gatherings reached their peak on the day of Ashura, when Imam Khomeini gave a speech. The Faydhiah School was filled with people and crowds even stood outside the school to listen to Imam Khomeini's words. A man who had come from Tehran to Qom in the morning to inform the Imam of grave danger was faced with the following reply of the Imam: \"We will teach them a lesson today.\"\nWhile the crowds gathered a preacher spoke to them until Imam Khomeini arrived. When the Imam arrived he started his speech by recalling the oppression Yazid and Mo'awiya inflicted on the Prophet's family and he linked this to events of the 22nd of March. He called those who acted on that day the agents of Israel. He then addressed the Shah and said:\nImam giving a lecture to a group of clergy man in the Faydhiah School; Qom\n\"Agha I will give you a piece of advice. Do not carry out such actions. Listen to me. Listen to the spiritual leaders. Agha Shah! O Mr. Shah! I will give you a piece of advice. Stop committing such acts. Agha they are fooling you. I would not like to see people thank God the day you leave this country.\"\nImam Khomeini addressed the Shah with unique bravery and then gave him the following piece of advice: \"Think for a while. Think everything over. Consider the outcome of the affairs. Take lessons from your father's fate. Agha, stop carrying out such acts! Listen to the spiritual leaders. Listen to the religious scholars. They want what is best for the nation. Agha! Why are you trying to fool people so much? Why are you spreading so many lies? Stop it O misfortunate one. Don't you know that if one day a problem arises not one of these friends you have will help or assist you? They are all friends of your Dollars. They have no faith or religion. They are unfaithful.\" \"We feel pity. We pity the current circumstances in Iran. We feel sorry for this ruined country. We pity the government\".\nOn that day, Imam Khomeini spoke directly to the Shah for the first time. The Imam challenged the Shah's greatness and power. So far the attacks had been directed to the government but now it was directed to the Shah.\nImam Khomeini's sharp and piercing sentences against the Shah made everyone tremble. All the people were shocked, and even Agha Mustafa the elder son of Imam Khomeini started to panic and wanted the Imam to finish his speech as soon as possible.\nThe Imam's words had such an effect on the regime that they were shocked and there was no reaction for thirty hours. The regime's officials were also dazed and unable to come up with a suitable course of action. On the other hand, Imam Khomeini's words were spread very quickly and the whole country knew what the Imam had said. As a result the regime was dealt a great blow. The Imam's brave move not only made people happy but encouraged his followers to stand up for their rights and beliefs such that the people were prepared to face any dangers in pursuit of their aim.\nThe 11th of Muharram passed calmly, however on the 12th night Imam Khomeini took part in a gathering in the Hakeem district. When he returned home his supporters made a circle around him in order to protect him. That night people in Qom went to bed as usual. They were unaware of the event, which occurred at midnight in the Yakhchal Gaazi District. The following morning Qom and some other cities witnessed bloody events.\nThe arrest of Imam Khomeini\nThe series of measures carried out by Imam Khomeini increased daily. The regime noticed this was something quite distinguished and that the continuation of the protests would endanger the foundations of the regime. Trying to fight a great religious leader was not easy and public opinion prevented the regime from making a quick move. However the regime decided to take a great risk and arrested Imam Khomeini.\nAt 3:30am on the 5th of June, SAVAK agents led by Qom's police forces attacked Imam Khomeini's residence. They arrested him and sent him to Tehran Immediately. When the armed forces attacked Imam Khomeini's house, the Imam came forward and said, \"I am Rouhullah Khomeini, leave the others alone. Do not bother them.\" Imam Khomeini said the following with regards to these events: \"When they broke the door of the house I realized they have come to arrest me\u2026. I thought they might make a mistake and take Mustafa instead, and so I said that I was Khomeini. I was ready to be arrested. They arrested me. As the street was narrow, they put me in a small car first. Then when we reached the end of the street a big car was waiting and they put me into the car and we drove away. One person sat on my right side and another on my left. One of these men cried from the beginning to the end and put his head on my hand and was leaning on my arm, while the other kept kissing my shoulders.\"\nWhen they reached Tehran, the Imam was sent to Biseem barracks. Later on the same day he was sent to Qasr prison. News of the Imam's arrest reached the Yakhchaal Qazi District and in no time at all spread all over Qom and Tehran. In Qom people rushed out in the streets with tearful eyes and went towards the shrine of Hazrat Ma'soomeh. Religious leaders joined the crowds and preachers vocalized their disagreement with the Imam's arrest.\nThe cries of men and women shook the city and crowds started to move towards the southern door of the shrine and towards the Ahanchi Bridge. From there they went to the train station. At the train station armed forces appeared and started shooting the people. There were four jets flying very low and the sound was deafening. Within a few minutes Qom turned into a war zone. On that day, women stood with their men and protested for the freedom of Imam Khomeini and took a stand for their beliefs. By noon officers were able to disperse crowds and empty the streets. In doing so they killed many men and women, and the streets were filled with blood.\nThe events in Tehran were much more vast and extensive. As soon as the news of the Imam's arrest reached Tehran, crowds from the Southern and Eastern parts of Tehran filled the streets. The angry crowd shouted: \"Death or Khomeini\". Near the big central Bazaar and The Shah's Mosque (today known as Imam Khomeini's mosque) armed military forces come to 'control' the crowd. Serious conflicts arose between the armed military forces and the unarmed demonstrators. Police brought tanks and artillery guns to be able to cope with the crowds. Streets such as Molavi, Siroos were like scenes of a battlefield. The conflicts carried on throughout the afternoon up until the evening. When the students from Tehran University wanted to join the demonstrators the military forces aimed their guns at them and they dispersed.\nThe severity of the conflicts increased to such a degree that the Shah phoned commander Ovaisi every ten minutes to get the latest news on the situation. Gradually night fell and people scattered. According to commander Fardoust, \"The demonstration on the 5th of June 1963 was quite unorganized. If the demonstration had been organized beforehand and two matters were observed there is no doubt that it would have resulted in the fall of the Shah. Until midday the Shah, the English and the Americans had thought that, the demonstration was prearranged and its aim was to overthrow the regime and this put them in a state of panic.\" On that day the American advisors of the SAVAK gathered in Fardoust's office and gave continuous reports to the American embassy. They only left the office when they were assured that they had been successful in stamping out the protests. The protests in Varamin, Shiraz, Mashad, Kashan and Khameen also caused some disturbances.\nImam's temporary freedom\nAfter being detained for nineteen days in Qasr prison, the Imam was moved to the Eshrat Abad barracks. They kept him as a prisoner there for two months. During this time different courses of action were taken in order to free the Imam. Various religious leaders from all parts of the country gathered and tried to come up with a plan to force the government to release Imam Khomeini. The bazaars in the city of Qom and Tehran also went on strike in protest to the arrest of Imam Khomeini.\nFinally after two months of imprisonment, on August the 2nd 1963 the Imam was released and put under house arrest. After enduring eight months of house arrest the Imam was at last given permission to return to Qom. On the 4th of April 1964 Imam Khomeini entered Qom.\nReturn to Qom\nImam and the Martyr Ayatollah Ghazi Tabatabaee among the cheering crowd(Qom,1964 -after the Imam's released from prison)\nOn the 4th of April 1964 general Mobasser, who was the chief of all the mayors of Iran's cities, sent a telegraph to Qom informing the mayor of the following: \"Imam Khomeini is being sent to Qom along with commander Molavi. He will be living in his own residence. \u2026This is a top-secret matter and nobody should know about it.\" Despite the fact that such precaution was taken and the Imam entered Qom late in the night, Imam Khomeini's house was packed with people. Until dawn, Howzeh students visited the Imam in turns. According to the police reports only a short while after the Imam's arrival five thousand people rushed to visit him.\nPeople felt happy and congratulated each other. They put pictures of Imam Khomeini and lights up. The cities of Qom, Tehran and Kashan also held celebrations. On Friday the 1st of April the Imam reemphasized his position via a speech and showed the people that imprisonment and threats could not waver his decisions.\nThe Etela'aat Newspaper claimed that the clergymen and religious authorities had reached an agreement with the Shah and had accepted the white revolution. Imam Khomeini replied to this accusation and said: \"If you hang Khomeini he won't reach an agreement with the Shah. You cannot bring about reform using spears\u2026. I am not the type of clergyman who sits in a corner and holds rosary beads in his hand. I am not like the pope, who on Sundays leads mass in church and the rest of time acts like a king for himself and does not pay attention to other matters\u2026\u2026 I must rescue this country save them from these hardships.\"\nA few days later Imam Khomeini also said: \"What we say is that these gentlemen should abide by the constitutional laws\u2026. If you are religious, act according to the religion and If you do not accept religion, abide by the constitutional laws. I am not one of those men who issue a ruling then forget about it. I make sure a ruling I have issued is carried out\u2026\u2026and thanks be to God I am not afraid of anything at all. By God I have not been afraid up till now. The day they arrested me, they were afraid and I kept telling them not to be frightened.\"\nThe people welcoming the Imam after being released from prison(Qom)\nAfter the people had finished coming to see the Imam and he had replied to all congratulatory letters and messages, he resumed teaching. He used every opportunity to make people aware of the current affairs and political situation of the country.\nOn one occasion he made people remember the anniversary of the incidents that took place on the 5th of June by releasing a joint statement from a number of religious authorities commemorating the incident and its martyrs. In addition on the 29th of June 1964 Imam Khomeini said to a group of clergymen who had come to visit him: \"These times are not for sitting at home and praying, these times are for fighting.\"\nThe approval of the Capitulation Bill\nFrom the time he was freed and entered Qom up until November of the same year the Imam expressed his viewpoints at every opportunity. One of the most famous instances was when a bill was approved on the 13th of October 1964. According to this bill all Americans were awarded legal immunity in Iran. Thus if an American committed a crime in Iran, the Iranian courts could not put him on trial. This bill was in fact the same capitulation law which had been previously abolished in most parts of the world including Iran.\nOn the 26th of October the Imam issued a statement condemning this law. On the birthday of Lady Fatima (as) a group of people visited Imam Khomeini's house. There the Imam gave a very important speech. He started his speech by saying \"Surely we belong to God, and to Him we will return\". He then continued and said: \"I cannot express the sorrow I feel in my heart. My heart is breaking. Since the day I heard of the latest developments in Iran, I have barely slept\u2026.. With a sorrowful heart, I count the days until my death comes (the audience weeps). Iran no longer has an Eid; they have turned our Eid into mourning\u2026....They have sold us, they have sold our independence\u2026\u2026.Our honour has been trampled on; the greatness of Iran has been destroyed.\"\nWhat is the Capitulation Bill?\nA law has to be taken to parliament, which has been copied from the Vienna Convention. We have to add a provision on the interests of all American military advisers and their families. This covers the technical and administrative officials, and servants- . In short, anyone in any way connected to them are to enjoy legal immunity with respect to any crime that they commit in Iran! If some American's servant or some American's cook, assassinates our high ranked religious authority in the middle of the bazaar, or runs over him, the Iranian police do not have the right to arrest him! Iranian courts do not have the right to judge him! The dossier is to be sent to America so officials there can make a decision regarding it.\nThe previous government approved this measure without telling anyone and now the present government just recently introduced a bill in the senate and settled the whole matter in a single session without breathing a word to anyone.\nA few days ago, the bill was taken to the lower house of Parliament and there were discussions, although a few deputies voiced their opposition the bill was passed. They passed it without any shame, and the government shamelessly defended this scandalous measure. They have reduced the Iranian people to a level lower than that of an American dog. If someone runs over a dog belonging to an American, he must be prosecuted.\nEven if the Shah himself were to run over a dog belonging to an American, the Meridians could prosecute him. However, if an American cook runs over the Shah, a religious authority of Iran, or the highest official, no one will have the right to object. This bill was passed because the regime wanted a loan from America and America demanded this in return! This is apparently the case. A few days after approving such a measure, they requested a $200 million loan from America. America agreed to the request. It was stipulated that the sum of $200 million would be paid to the Iranian government over a period of five years. Furthermore, $300 million is to be paid back to America over a period of ten years. Do you realize what this means? In return for this loan, America is to receive $100 million in interest! In addition to this, Iran has sold itself to obtain these dollars! The government has sold our independence, reduced us to the level of a colony, and made the Muslim nation of Iran appear worthless in the eyes of the world! They have done all this just for the sake of a $200 million dollar loan for which they have to pay back $300 million dollars! What are we to do in the face of this disaster? What are our clergymen to do? Where shall they turn to for help? To which country should they present their appeal?\nOther countries imagine that it is the Iranian nation which has demeaned itself in this way. They do not know the Iranian government. The government plays the main role. It is the fault of the so-called Iranian Parliament, which have nothing to do with the Iranian people. This is a parliament elected undemocratically, what relation does such a Parliament have with the people? The Iranian nation did not elect these deputies. Many of the high-ranking 'scholars' and religious authorities ordered a boycott of the elections, and the people obeyed them and did not vote. As a result deputies chosen by the regime were seated in Parliament.\nThe conspiracy to restrain the influence of clergymen\nAccording to a history textbook printed this year and now taught to our schoolchildren, one containing all kinds of lies and inaccurate statement: \"It has now become clear that it is to the benefit of the nation that the influence of the religious leaders is rooted out\". They have come to understand well that: If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit this nation to be slaves of Britain one day, and America the next. If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit Israel to take over the Iranian economy; they will prohibit Israeli goods in Iran! If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit the government to randomly impose such a heavy loan on the Iranian nation.[1]\n[1] Sahifa Imam, vol. 1, pp. 415-417", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 23635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.onfast.com/2012/09/does-your-facebook-post-have-call-to_27.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BSXZQQI3ADHUYEILF3XFQFZG45JZCHLO", "length": 567, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.onfast.com", "title": "OnFast - Be Everywhere Fast: Does Your Facebook Post Have Call to Action?", "raw_content": "A call to action directs the user to make the next move. This can be as easy as giving a command or providing an opportunity to get more information. 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In addition, including a visual image that your reader can click on is effective.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.sweetspotsisterhood.com/2016/04/awakening-by-brianna-west-is-free-today.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:36DVMZKPZXTG74Z5PGEFXB3AGCP32WMW", "length": 990, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.sweetspotsisterhood.com", "title": "Sweet Spot Sisterhood: AWAKENING by Brianna West is **Free** TODAY only!", "raw_content": "Izzy is on the fast track to nowhere. Being ordinary really blew sometimes. That's until she meets Lucas--a man that's unlike anyone she's ever met. Mostly because he isn't actually a man. 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Discover the secret behind her power and why it is such a commodity in her Awakening.\nAwakening is **Free** TODAY only!\nCLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY!!!\n#paranormal #romance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.britannica.com/2009/2/robert-fitzroy-captain-of-hms-beagle-and-a-forgotten-pioneer-of-science", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:MM3MKRRA55XQ4IVJFPIZGHMPV6M5S4R7", "length": 4279, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blogs.britannica.com", "title": "Darwin and Robert Fitzroy (Captain of HMS Beagle & a Forgotten Pioneer of Science) | Britannica Blog", "raw_content": "Darwin and Robert Fitzroy (Captain of HMS Beagle & a Forgotten Pioneer of Science)\nThis year marks two great moments in the history of science: the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his Origin of Species. Throughout 2009, I will be posting here and there on Darwinian topics. It may seem counterintuitive, but the first of them is an appreciation of the man under whose command he sailed on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle, Robert Fitzroy (also spelled FitzRoy), who has often figured as the villain of the piece.\nFitzroy had invited Darwin along as ship\u2019s naturalist in a gesture of friendship, but also of self-interest: the ordinary sailors of the British Navy could hardly be expected to keep up their end of a conversation, and he needed someone to talk with. Over the course of those five years, the conversation was strained, for Darwin, impatient and preoccupied, was well on his way to declaring his iconoclastic theory of evolution, while Fitzroy was a religious fundamentalist who would sooner maroon Darwin on a guano island than admit that the Bible was not literally true.\nThat is how too many histories remember Fitzroy, an image both unfair and misleading. Darwin, a clergyman\u2019s son, was as religiously inclined\u2014or disinclined\u2014as Fitzroy; meanwhile, Fitzroy was well versed in science and had had his own arguments against the fundamentalists of the day. Their views diverged long after they had returned to England from the voyages of the Beagle. Famously, in 1860, Fitzroy, turned up at a lecture on evolution at Oxford University and took the anti-evolutionary side in the grand debate that ensued\u2014one that Fitzroy, Samuel Wilberforce, and company lost against the evolutionist side, championed by Thomas Henry Huxley and others.\nBorn in 1805, Fitzroy was intelligent and capable, earning a perfect score on the exam that allowed him to graduate from naval college. When given his choice of assignments, he asked to join a survey of Tierra del Fuego, the little-known land at the southern tip of South America. His reports on climate and geography were so thorough and well written that he was called to the Admiralty before the Royal Navy\u2019s hydrographer, Francis Beaufort, who gave him another assignment: Fitzroy was to return to South America on Beagle to take measurements of the wind and other meteorological phenomena along the coast. When he was finished with South America, Beaufort instructed, Fitzroy was to do the same sort of surveying in the South Pacific, along the African coast, and anywhere else that English sailors might venture\u2014and to take his time about it. Thus the five-year voyage.\nIn 1854, back at home, Fitzroy set about placing weather-observing equipment on ships in every port in England, eventually recruiting some eighty captains to make standardized measurements of the weather wherever their voyages took them. His nautical charts saved countless lives as they warned sailors of rough passages. He also devised the first truly scientific weather forecast, using the telegraph to transmit data from far-flung weather stations.\nFitzroy gathered the fruits of his long years of observation and experimentation in The Weather Book, published in 1862. Using his charts, the Times of London was the first publication to publish weather forecasts daily, though its editors were in the habit of blaming Fitzroy rather noisily when the forecasts were off. Indeed, Robert Fitzroy received little praise for his work in his own time, and he was obscured by the long shadow that Darwin cast. Melancholic, in poor health, and on the losing side of the evolutionary debate, he took his own life on April 30, 1865, at the age of 59. He was forgotten for years, but then happily rediscovered. Today the British government\u2019s Meteorological Office and National Meteorological Library and Archive are located on Fitzroy Road in Exeter, England, and modern atmospheric scientists proudly acknowledge him as a pioneer of their discipline.\nThis piece is adapted from a longer essay of mine on Robert Fitzroy in Weather: The Ultimate Book of Meteorological Events (Accord/Andrews McMeel, 2008).\nSee also Britannica\u2019s Lincoln/Darwin Forum.\nPosted in Books, Geography, History, Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-religious-scientist/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WWJSR63N6Y6D5EGLHI4PNZF2HNIF67LE", "length": 3759, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blogs.timesofisrael.com", "title": "A Religious Scientist | Baruch Sterman | The Blogs", "raw_content": "Baruch Sterman\nA Religious Scientist\nAs far back as I can remember, I always loved science. I would read popular books on different science-related topics like Isaac Asimov\u2019s essays or Broca\u2019s Brain by Carl Sagan. My favorite movie was The Andromeda Strain and I dreamed about working in a high-tech laboratory with lasers and test-monkeys and vacuum-sealed air locks. The first time I actually learned any real science was in my first year at college (having spent the four years of high-school in a teacher-induced intellectual coma).\nMy first year physics teacher was a young graduate student who I thought was brilliant, and he introduced me to Newton and vectors and electric fields. Towards the end of the semester, he called me into his office and offered me two pieces of advice: First, he suggested that I switch out of the college I was in and go to a school with a better program that included a physics major. Second, he advocated that I leave religion behind and stop practicing Orthodox Judaism, since every real scientist recognizes that religion is stupid.\nI took his first bit of advice and went on to major in physics, eventually getting a doctorate in it. But instead of embracing his second suggestion, I have, to a certain extent, taken it as a gauntlet thrown down in front of me, as a life-long challenge. Throughout my years of education and into my career in science and high-tech, I have found that there are indeed real scientists who reject religion as superstitious, old-fashioned, and outdated. But there are also excellent scientists, engineers, and smart, deep thinkers who are committed to religion and who do not feel that one must renounce belief in God or devotion to a faith-based system in order to achieve intellectual honesty.\nI think that there are many paths to truth, and I might even go so far to say that there are many legitimate truths. (I do not believe in moral relativism, though, and firmly think that right and wrong exist as absolutes. Highest among these absolute imperatives would be something along the lines of Hillel\u2019s dictum that was adopted by Kant: \u201cWhat you find unpleasant \u2013 don\u2019t do to your friends.\u201d) I also maintain that there is room for faith, even in the laboratory.\nThe question that can\u2019t be avoided in terms of religion and science is does one have priority over the other. When faced with a contradiction between a truth held by religion and one asserted by science \u2013 which one wins? That is a question that I struggle with. It is not always a clear-cut directive that religion should stand down, even from an intellectual standpoint. The two great heroes in the book my wife and I recently published, The Rarest Blue, are Gershon Henokh Leiner of Radzyn, and Rabbi Isaac Herzog. Both were completely steeped in religious tradition and committed to it. Yet, though they embraced science and secular thought, they were not afraid to hold fast to the traditional position (in this case, the color of the ancient biblical blue tekhelet) against all the \u201cproofs\u201d that science, archeology, and chemistry could muster. In the end, they were vindicated.\nIntellectual struggle is not a bad thing. It keeps one from becoming smug and thinking that he is the bearer of absolute truth. And that is a bad place to be, whether you are a scientist or a believer, or both.\nBaruch Sterman is the author of The Rarest Blue, detailing the history and science of tekhelet, the ancient biblical blue dye lost to history and rediscovered. He received his doctorate in physics from Hebrew University, is a leading technologist in the Israeli high-tech sector. He has published widely on topic of science and religion. Originally from New Jersey, Baruch, his wife, Judy, and their seven children live in Efrat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/lets-learn-torah/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KZCKDXBICDYYDG7K4CG5AZO64JVNOC5I", "length": 2827, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blogs.timesofisrael.com", "title": "Let's learn Torah! | Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden | The Blogs", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s learn Torah!\nGenesis in the First Chapter (1:26) tells us that G^d said \u201cLet Us make Man.\u201d\nHow can a G^d Who \u201cis\u201d One work as a team? Is this not confusing people into polytheism?\nWell, have you ever heard of someone who doesn\u2019t believe in monotheism because the Torah employs the plural here?\nBut we know that G^d too keeps the Commandments. It says (in Leviticus 19:14), You shall not place a stumbling block in front of the blind.\nThe Rabbis, however, are not apologetic. It says at the end of Hosea, For the ways of G^d are straight; the righteous walk in them, and sinners stumble over them.\nRather, the Commentators suggest about this seemingly Royal plural that G^d was including the Angels. He was teaching us that as bosses, we should also consult the people working under us.\nNice, but I have another, more simple idea.\nG^d first created the inanimate (water, light, darkness, dry land, outer space) and the plant world in all its variety. Then He created the animal world in all its variety. Now He wants to create a ruler over this all, to subdue and rule over it (Genesis 1:26, 1:28).\nThe correct thing to do is to ask the subjects: Shall we make (us) a king? I was thinking about making him \u201cresembling and looking like [all of] us [together]\u201d (Genesis 1:26). That means: he will have inanimate parts, plantlike aspects, animal functions and a Divine component.\nAnd if you\u2019d object: But the Earth, Plants, Animals don\u2019t talk, I would answer: This comes to teach us that we also should talk to people in our care who can\u2019t talk or help.\nI once needed to put a night splint on a patient\u2019s arm. He told me: We need to put on the splint. I said friendly: We? What are you going to do for it? He said: I put my arm at your disposal. I thanked him for the insight.\nAnd when we put a sweater on a small child, we can roll up the sleeve and put it in front of her hand that she can put it through the sleeve \u2013 she\u2019s not a doll to dress.\nWhen we change diapers, we should do it together with the child. Now we\u2019re going to open your diaper; now we\u2019re going to roll it up; etc. A baby is different from a potato that we\u2019re peeling.\nThough maybe we should also talk to the potato, to show our respect.\nWhy at 10 people does Abraham stop pleading against G^d destroying Sodom? He goes down from 50 to 45, then to 40, 30, 20 and lastly to 10 (Genesis 18:23-33). Five would not be worthy of pleading for?\nMy answer is simple. Abraham doesn\u2019t try to save the righteous. He tries to save the wicked, on behalf of the righteous!\nNow, 10 is the minimum of a community and if there was a community of righteous, the wicked could be ignored because of their holiness. That doesn\u2019t work with less than 10.\nHe didn\u2019t have to ask mercy for the few righteous; Their own merit can save them.\nShabbat shalom and Chag Shavuot sameiach!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 8581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/moshe-rabbeinu-harriet-tubman-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PY4WULR3CVHES4VMZQBP47IBFKFWLUQL", "length": 3145, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "blogs.timesofisrael.com", "title": "Moshe Rabbeinu, Harriet Tubman & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Sharona Margolin Halickman | The Blogs", "raw_content": "Moshe Rabbeinu, Harriet Tubman & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\nWhen Israel was in Egypt\u2019s land,\nOppressed so hard they could not stand,\nGo down Moses,\nWay down in Egypt\u2019s land\nMany of us are familiar with \u201cGo Down Moses\u201d, the spiritual song which dates back to 1850 (or even earlier) which served as a code song while Harriet Tubman, known as the \u201cMoses\u201d of her people helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad before the American Civil War.\nThe song \u201cGo Down Moses\u201d was also used as an anthem during Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s March on Washington for civil rights in 1963 as it had universal appeal for all oppressed people. King used the story of the Exodus to give his followers confidence to fight racial injustice. In his last speech \u201cI\u2019ve been to the Mountaintop\u201d in 1968, right before his assassination, he compared himself to Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt, going up to the mountaintop but not making it into the Promised Land.\n\u201cGo Down Moses\u201d has been translated into Hebrew (\u201cShlach na et ami\u201d) and is sung at Passover seders worldwide.\nIn the first few Parshiot of the book of Shmot, beginning in Shmot 5:1, over and over Moshe and Aaron ask Pharaoh to let the nation go: \u201cThis is what HaShem, God of Israel said, \u2018Send my people, so they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.\u2019\u201d\nAccording to Ibn Ezra, the festival that they wanted to celebrate was either Pesach or Shavuot, the celebration of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai.\nPharaoh almost honors Moshe\u2019s request to let B\u2019nai Yisrael out of Egypt to worship God. However, he is not happy when Moshe lists who would be going: (Shmot 10:9) \u201cWith our young and with our old we will go. With our sons, with our daughters, with our sheep and with our cattle we will go for it is a festival to God for all of us.\u201d\nFor some reason Pharaoh was under the impression that they are only asking for the men to celebrate and not the entire nation. Once Pharaoh hears that Moshe would like to take everyone he says (Shmot 10:11) \u201cThat is not right. Only the men should go and worship God for this is what you desire.\u201d\nRashbam comments that according to Pharaoh, if you want to serve God, there is no reason to bring the women and the children.\nIt didn\u2019t occur to Pharaoh that the women and the children may also want to worship God.\nPharaoh believed that the only reason that the entire nation would go out to pray would be if it was part of an escape plan. Bechor Shor points out that Pharaoh only wanted to permit the men to go, keeping the children back in Egypt as collateral.\nPharaoh was wrong. When it was time to eat the Korban Pesach (Pascal Lamb), it was eaten by the whole family (not just the men) and the entire nation was commanded to eat matza and not chametz. In addition, all of B\u2019nai Yisrael (men, women and children) were present at the revelation at Sinai.\nMoshe stood his ground and until today has served as a role model for many leaders throughout the world including Harriet Tubman whose life is celebrated on March 10 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whose legacy was commemorated this past Monday.\nPARSHA POSTS: BO\nPARSHA POSTS: SHEMOT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-is-a-hero/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YIJHECSUZWLZXCVI7FELKKIAVEZORWRJ", "length": 3732, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.timesofisrael.com", "title": "Who is a hero? | David Wolf | The Blogs", "raw_content": "It is widely known that Holocaust survivors did not like to speak about their experiences in the war. Some of them starting speaking about them after the famous Eichmann trial in Israel (1960) brought holocaust stories out into the open. Others started talking about them after several more decades. For some, it just took a long time before they were able to look back at that part of their past. For others, it became important to speak lest the holocaust be forgotten.\nBut there was another reason why the survivors in Israel didn\u2019t speak about the holocaust. The Zionist movement was busy creating \u201cthe new Jew,\u201d a Jew that fights back, a Jew that uses weapons, a Jew that is the embodiment of the Maccabees who beat the Greeks and threw them out of Israel in ancient times. And these new Jews looked down upon the galut Jews, the diaspora Jews, who had \u201cgone like lambs to the slaughter\u201d without putting up a fight. Feeling this contempt, the survivors shut up.\nIn 1951 the Knesset created a memorial day for the Holocaust which was known as Yom Hashoah (Day of the Shoah). But the official name for this day, and its date, were problematic. There were those who wanted to celebrate the glory, the heroism \u2014 the uprising of the Warsaw Ghettto, the Jewish partisans who fought in the forests \u2013 and to de-emphasize the holocaust, the deaths, the massacres.\nThe name which the Knesset gave to this day \u2013 Yom Hazikaron Lashoa Velagvura (Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and for the Heroism) was a compromise. \u201cHolocaust\u201d refers to the massacre of millions of jews, and \u201cHeroism\u201d refers to the fights, the rebellions, the resistance. And the date chosen for this day is related to the beginning of the heroic rebellion in the Warsaw Ghetto.\nActually, there is another date that is used to mark the Holocaust: 10th of Tevet. This is one of the fast days that mark the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Beit Hamikdash) and it was designated by the Rabbinate as Yom Hakadish Haclali (Day for the general Kadish), a day for saying kadish after people whose date of death is not known. This was two years before the Knesset created the Yom Hashoa. This day, Yom Hakadish Haclali, has everything to do with the Hurban (the destruction), with death and with mourning, and nothing to do with heroism.\nAnd I ask: Who is a hero? What is heroism?\nJanusch Korczak was a non-Jew who chose to accompany his orphan Jewish pupils to the gas chamber rather than abandon them and save himself.\nA mother chose to go on a \u201ctransport\u201d with her children, rather than allowing her terrified children to go alone with the Germans.\nParents chose to give their children to non-Jews for safekeeping, knowing full well that they may never see them again.\nAn eighteen-year-old son decides to stay with his family in the ghetto rather than run away and join the partisans. He doesn\u2019t want to abandon his ailing father, he wants to help his mother care for the younger children and for the grandparents. He knows that his life is in danger here just like everybody else\u2019s lives, but he wants to stay and help and he won\u2019t leave them to their fate.\nSo who is the bigger hero? The one who goes and joins the partisans or the one who stays behind, trying to make life more bearable for himself and others?\nI can only thank G-d that I never had to make such choices.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak\nIsrael, April 2018\nDavid Wolf writes about his experience of being a second-time husband and father. He has a daughter from his first marriage, and, with his second wife, has accrued three daughters, two sons-in-law, one grandchild and twin 8-year-old sons. He is a social worker in a mental health department and in private practice in Raanana.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogt.bcu.ac.uk/mentalhealth/2011/07/18/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-every-child-matters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BWJZEI5PJHHDLRGXSL3WMKMTBAVY2OTK", "length": 3825, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blogt.bcu.ac.uk", "title": "Child and Adolescent Mental Health \u2013 Every child matters!", "raw_content": "Comment by Kim Roberts on September 23, 2011 @ 6:35 pm\nI totally agree with all the above, but I also think that there is not enough awareness of how distressing it is to be a child of today. Especially when parents who also have had distributive lives them selves & do not always see the cycle they pass on through possible learnt behaviour that is not their fault maybe,or maybe not!\nComment by Jenny Baxter on October 5, 2011 @ 2:48 pm\nMuch as I agree that pre-registration nursing courses should include some teaching on child and adolescent mental health; including raising awareness about the high prevalence of mental health problems within young people and how to access services. I do feel preceding student nurses the target audience for this information should be the children themselves, and also their parents / families.\nAs Kim suggests, if there is a pattern of learnt behaviour being passed on through the generations is it not important for parents and carers to be more self aware, and acknowledge the lessons they will be passing on to their children? Are positive relationships / attachments, mental well-being, self-esteem and resilience even considered, let alone advocated in antenatal classes or by midwives?\nIf not then, what about in schools?\nI have looked at the national curriculum with interest to see what is included, and am pleased to see citizenship and personal, social and health education are written in. However, it seems bizarre to me that citizenship is only statutory in the secondary curriculum and personal, social and health education is not statutory for either primary or secondary education.\nIf citizenship is where children learn about their rights, freedoms and democracy for example. And personal, social and health education is to help promote positive, healthy, fulfilled lives through taking responsibility for the self, boosting self-esteem and making the most of their abilities, why is that not seen as valuable enough to be statutory across the board?!! Would that not in fact be the earliest intervention possible?\nComment by Parwathy Narayan on October 5, 2011 @ 4:57 pm\nThis is great news. I have had mental problems for as long as I can remember, but it took a serious breakdown when I was in my 30s to get true help. I\u2019m Indian and there is unfortunately a huge social stigma. It feels good to come out with my own personal experiences as both a doctor and a patient in my own blog. That was truly healing. My child psychiatry rotation was the toughest\u2026to see so many kids suffering. I\u2019m glad to hear we are addressing things at an earlier age.\nComment by frances Byrne on February 7, 2012 @ 2:41 pm\nI think this is a very pertinant topic and totoally agree it needs to be part of school cirriculum but also part of public health information. I think all areas of society need to be informed about mental health/ mental well being and the effects of stress. I think it is an important part of all pre-registration training for all branches of nursing to be able to signpost people who are under stress to self- help literature or web sites if necessary, but to be able to listen effectively is a key skill.\nI think in schools mental well being skills would be a great topic and the effects of anxiety and ways to manage it as this topic is relevant to all and would be good to start giving information, education regarding this topic as young people are developing. It would also help with the stigma if it was part of cirriculum and people learnt to discuss mental health and ill health as a \u2018normal process\u2019\nfrances Byrne mental health nurse\nIn an era when children\u2019s homes are being closed down to pay for the banker\u2019s crisis\nhttp://birminghamagainstthecuts.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/save-millmead-road-childrens-home/\nthings ain\u2019t gonna get better any time soon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 9997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogt.bcu.ac.uk/tsparc/t-sparc-baseline-review/findings-and-observations/constraints/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GIPSQH4R6KWGDZK4LV2JCXZ72CZOWCCD", "length": 1000, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blogt.bcu.ac.uk", "title": "Constraints \u00ab T-SPARC Blog", "raw_content": "Many of the programmes at Birmingham City University lead to awards which lead to registration with a PSRB (Professional Statutory and Regulatory Body). These PSRBs lay down requirements in the form of stated competencies or learning outcomes which form the basis of the design for programmes which seek to offer a route to professional registration.\n\u201cIn the case of healthcare programmes, they\u2019re largely dictated to by the statutory and professional bodies \u2013 in terms of what the content should be\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re very much tied in with what\u2019s required by the professional bodies\u201d\nHowever, it is recognised that the constraints placed upon designers of programmes by PSRBs should not lead to a situation whereby the \u2018professional agenda\u2019 eclipses the responsibility of staff to develop the most effective and engaging programmes.\n\u201cIf you see yourself as an educator who is helping someone to develop into a practitioner at the end of the day, you might have a more flexible approach to the way that occurs\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boardgamersanonymous.libsyn.com/2016/06", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QBBQQATRE5ZWO3GJVYK5HPCBQCI5XMZ5", "length": 366, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "boardgamersanonymous.libsyn.com", "title": "Board Gamers Anonymous", "raw_content": "BGA Episode 103 - What We Played at Origins\nWe're back from Origins and that means we have a LOT of games to talk about. The show was fantastic and I'm sorry Indianapolis, but Columbus kicks your backside when it comes to food.\nBut what about the games? In this episode we'll take a look at lots and LOTS of games, starting with the Origins Awards, then reviewing...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 7047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breakinglegalnews.com/entry/Irans-president-slams-US-court-ruling-on-frozen-assets", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:GVNWEVTL3GN335HNFI6WX22B6M2CYQM4", "length": 1074, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "breakinglegalnews.com", "title": "Iran's president slams US court ruling on frozen assets", "raw_content": "Iran's president slams US court ruling on frozen assets\nIran's president said Wednesday that a U.S. court ruling that allows for the seizure of Iranian assets amounts to theft and indicates continued \"hostility\" toward his country.\nThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the families of victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran can collect nearly $2 billion in frozen funds from Iran as compensation.\nRouhani was quoted by state TV as warning that the United States would have to face up to \"all the consequences of this illegal action,\" without elaborating. \"The move indicates Washington's continued hostility against the Iranian nation,\" Rouhani added, speaking during a Cabinet meeting.\nOn Tuesday, the Cabinet tasked a group of top officials with examining the court decision and defending Iran's \"rights.\"\nThe U.S. court's ruling directly affects more than 1,300 relatives of victims, some who have been seeking compensation for more than 30 years. They include families of the 241 U.S. service members who died in the Beirut bombing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 5300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breitlinks.com/DeweyChallenge2/question_20.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ENRNB7P7YGVDA2SXMP56TMG6UQXOR6T7", "length": 234, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "breitlinks.com", "title": "Mr. Breitsprecher's Dewey Challenge II, Question 20", "raw_content": "Stress Relief: the Ultimate Teen Guide, by Mark Powell. Describes the causes of stress, how to recognize and deal with them, and how to alleviate the stress itself by using such methods as breathing exercises, meditation, and creative", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brickfilms.com/category/fantasy-films/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JB2S6CRGWK7CR7A63SR54CVR6R4WMSBS", "length": 321, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "brickfilms.com", "title": "Fantasy Archives | Page 2 of 6 | Brickfilms.com", "raw_content": "Journey to the Centre of Time\nA minifigure finds himself in a strange laboratory with a wacky maniac who has the power to travel through time. (This is definitely not one of my best works. I have improved since I made this. Please check out my channel for better ones: http://www.youtube.com/rioforce )\nPosted by rioforce", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brownk29.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-ruins-of-houghton-house.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HETDOHN4LRS6PWRXVJFFMZIUQLUX5UYJ", "length": 1496, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "brownk29.blogspot.com", "title": "Keith's Tabletop Gaming / Painting Blog: The Ruins of Houghton House", "raw_content": "A slightly different post than normal today, nothing to do with minis or wargaming and whilst I've featured my visits to historic sites before they've always had a military link to some sort, which then of course links into the wargaming. Todays site is an impressive ruin of an old stately home.\nUp on the hill behind the village where I live there is a ruined house, it dominates the ridge and commands excellent views over the Marston Vale in central Bedfordshire. It is also an excellent walk from my house through hay meadows and an ancient woodland that takes about an hour, which is just about right for an afternoon stroll. The ruins are in the care of English Heritage and are freely accessible in the hours of daylight. I took a walk up there last week, and was quite pleased with the photos that I managed to come back with.\nA brief history then; Houghton House was built in 1615 for the Countess of Pembroke Mary Sidney, after her death it passed to the Earls of Elgin and then in 1738 to the Dukes of Bedford who used it as a hunting lodge until around 1800 when they stripped the house of its furnishings and roof and left it to decay. It's claim to fame is as inpsiration for the 'House Beautiful' at the top of the 'Hill Difficulty' in John Bunyan's once popular christian allegory 'the Pilgrims Progress'.\ufeff\nWhat a majestic ruin, it must have been quite something in its heyday.\nDannoc 3 November 2014 at 20:36\nGreat photos of an interesting topic - shame there aren't more posts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 560, "original_length": 14978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brucerettig.com/2019/01/18/i-never-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MJL4EUZSUOV4OVER5YMVM3V5CMB2I3DC", "length": 5856, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "brucerettig.com", "title": "I Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - The official website for author Bruce Rettig", "raw_content": "My early fascination for nuclear proliferation began after watching Stanley Kubrick\u2019s classic cold war film, \u201cDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.\u201d Although the movie appeared in theaters in 1964, I watched it for the first time on our family\u2019s black and white television when I was about ten years old. My father worked as an engineer at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and anything that featured military operations, fighter planes, soldiers, and generals, instantly caught my attention. It didn\u2019t take much time, however, until the stark fear of nuclear annihilation sunk in.\nWe were the generation of \u201cduck and cover\u201d drills, bomb shelters, fallout suits, and gasmasks. Nevada, to our east, served as home to the Nevada Test Site, sixty-five miles north of Las Vegas. In this section of desert, the U.S. government conducted a total of 1,021 nuclear tests between 1951 and 1992. A perverse atomic frenzy led to increased tourism for Las Vegas, and throughout the 50s and early 60s, the city capitalized on this \u201catomic tourism.\u201d Hotel guests could see nuclear test bursts of light directly from their hotel windows. Some casinos hosted \u201cdawn parties\u201d and created atomic-themed cocktails. Calendars listed detonation times and the best viewing spots to see these flashes, or mushroom clouds.\nWhen I attended college at the University of Colorado, the cold war was in full swing. Russia remained involved in an expanding arms race with the United States as President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev continuously upped the ante. During this buildup, nuclear triggers for the atom bomb were produced a few miles away from my college campus in Boulder. The Rocky Flats Plant was a nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, and the focal point of anti-nuclear demonstrations. In 1983 I joined 17,000 people who joined hands in an encirclement around the 17-mile perimeter of the plant. In 1992, the plant finally closed down.\nA couple of years ago my son and I toured the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site. The tours are held once a month, and often sell out a year in advance, They depart from the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, which offers an interesting interpretation of Nuclear testing in Nevada. The tour includes stops at Frenchman\u2019s Flat, where fourteen above-ground nuclear tests were performed; Sedan Crater, the location of a 104-kiloton thermonuclear underground detonation; and the Apple II Houses, where \u201ca typical American community\u201d was constructed, complete with houses, utility stations, automobiles, furniture, appliances, food, and mannequins simulating people who might live in a town hit by an atomic explosion.\nShortly after our visit to the Nevada National Security Site, I had the opportunity to visit the Marshall Islands. I had completed a lot of research about Bikini Atoll, and one the old workhands from my merchant marine days had witnessed the test from one of the surrounding ships when he was serving in the Navy (I wrote about this co-worker in my nonfiction piece, Refraction). I will always remember his vivid description of the event, and how he described his duties of sailing toward the blast in order to clean up the remaining sailing vessels. He later died from the cancer.\nAt the recent \u201cWriting for Change\u201d conference in San Francisco, I had the honor of meeting Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and also attended one of the first demonstrations at Rocky Flats in 1979. He recently completed a new book titled, \u201cThe Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.\u201d In one of the chapters, he describes going to the movies with a colleague to see the film, Dr. Strangelove. He writes, \u201cI was dumbstruck by the realism . . . when I first saw the movie in 1964. Harry Rowen and I had gone into D.C. from the Pentagon during the workday to see it \u201cfor professional reasons.\u201d We came out into the afternoon sunlight, dazed by the light and the film, both agreeing that what we had just seen was, essentially, a documentary.\u201d\nToday, with situations that include North Korea\u2019s increased nuclear arms development, the present US administration\u2019s plans to leave the nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, along with a pullout from NATO, the nuclear threat is still imminent.\nConfronting fear head-on is a path I often take. One night while having a nightmare, I directly confronted a demon from hell and screamed out loud, \u201cCome on mother#$@&%*!\u201d Yes, calling out this evil entity of my dreams greatly amused my wife.\nBottom line: until there\u2019s complete denuclearization, I\u2019ll never \u201clearn how to stop worrying and love the bomb.\u201d\nVideos of interest:\nAtomic Tourism in Las Vegas\nDaniel Ellsberg on Rocky Flats\nSedan Nuclear Test\nPeter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-using nuclear war expert and former Nazi.\nWoman modeling a fallout suit.\nAbove ground detonation near the Nevada Test Area.\nNuclear testing near Las Vegas, Nevada.\n1983 Encirclement at Rocky Flats Plant, ten miles south of Boulder, Colorado.\nSedan Crater at the Nevada National Security Site.\nNuclear test at Bikini Atoll, 1946. Operation Crossroads.\nBikini Atoll Town Hall, Majuro. Marshall Islands, 2016.\nTouring the Sedan Crater. No photos were allowed except for this group shot. Author is at the far right, wearing a light blue shirt and hat (they cropped out my left hand\u2014giving the peace sign!)\nFrank riley\ton January 23, 2019 at 2:06 am\nRemember the \u201cduck and cover\u201d drills. Also had a pamphlet from the Defense Department circa 1950, which actually said that, in the event of fallout, put a wet napkin on top of your head. It\u2019ll absorb all the fallout radiation!\nWow, I never heard about the napkin technique! I need to get ahold of a copy of that pamphlet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2017/06/30/grammar-101-pier-peer-pear-pare/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DJUBIJGLLYF5NDT6VGEFJCLZNWEBTK27", "length": 3232, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "btr.michaelkwan.com", "title": "Grammar 101: Pier, Peer, Pear and Pare \u00bb Beyond the Rhetoric", "raw_content": "Grammar 101: Pier, Peer, Pear and Pare\nPosted by Michael Kwan | Jun 30, 2017 | Grammar & Idioms | 0 |\nMany people might tell you that \u201caffect\u201d is a verb and \u201ceffect\u201d is a noun, except that\u2019s not always true. English is complicated like that and for all the convenience that it provides, automatic spellcheck isn\u2019t really helping the situation. When you\u2019ve got words that sound similar (or the same) like \u201cpier\u201d and \u201cpeer,\u201d it\u2019s easy to get them confused. And this can lead to many a spelling mistake.\nSo, let\u2019s gain a little clarity by defining the terms.\nOn Piers and Peers\nA pier most commonly refers to a structure wherein you have a platform supported by pillars, and this platform extends out into a body of water. Piers come in all sorts of sizes. You might have a really small pier at a local lake, perfect for launching your humble fishing boat. Or you might have the gigantic Pier 39 in San Francisco or the Steveston Pier in Richmond, BC.\nIn those cases, the pier could also refer to the shops, restaurants and attractions constituting the larger entertainment area. Depending on the specifics of the location (and whoever built it), the structure could also be called a quay (pronounced key), a wharf, a dock or a landing.\nA peer, pronounced exactly the same way as pier, most commonly refers to someone who is equivalent to you in some way. This could be in regards to your geographic location, your social status, your age, your socioeconomic standing, or your education level, among a myriad of other possibilities.\nThis is what is meant by a \u201cjury of one\u2019s peers\u201d in the context of a criminal court. The people who make up the jury should represent a reasonable cross-section of the population, accounting for race, gender, age, and so forth. You might also compare yourself with your peers online. When you keep up the Joneses, you\u2019re comparing yourself to your neighbors, not to starving children in a developing country or to the ultra elite socialites of Beverly Hills.\nBut that\u2019s not the only meaning of the word \u201cpeer.\u201d It can also refer to a member of the British (or Irish) nobility, like a duke or baron. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to look keenly. As Harry scaled the wall and peered into the garden, he couldn\u2019t believe what he saw.\nWhat About Pear and Pare?\nAnd while \u201cpier\u201d and \u201cpeer\u201d rhyme with \u201cbeer,\u201d pear and pare rhyme with \u201cbear\u201d (and \u201cbare\u201d). A \u201cpear\u201d is the edible fruit you can buy at the grocery store, whereas \u201cpare\u201d is a verb meaning to trim the outer edges of something. It can also mean, more generally, to reduce something in size or quantity. Bringing this all together, we might get a sentence like this:\nAfter leaving the pier with his peers, Johnny peered through the bushes to see the gardener paring down the branches of the old pear tree.\nDo you have a grammar question you\u2019d like clarified? Is there a common spelling mistake that really ruffles your feathers? Let me know in the comment section below!\nTags: spelling, word choice, word meanings\nPreviousWhat\u2019s Up Wednesdays: The Perfect Parent\nNextSunday Snippet: Colin Mochrie\nGrammar 101: Martial, Marshal, Marshall\nGrammar 101: Quay, Cay, and Key\nGrammar 101: Using Literally for Emphasis\nGrammar 101: Ex- and Former", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business-review.eu/international/bloomberg-romanians-vote-to-lock-same-sex-marriage-ban-into-constitution-186782", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KZXCRFL3TQ4BWX6OVM2J2PQGFIOD6ERO", "length": 1858, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "business-review.eu", "title": "Bloomberg: Romanians vote to lock same-sex marriage ban into Constitution - Business Review", "raw_content": "Romanians are deciding this weekend whether to enshrine a ban on same-sex marriage in the constitution, highlighting the divergence between Europe\u2019s more conservative east and the western push to expand rights for minorities, Bloomberg writes on Romania\u2019s family Referendum.\nThe two-day referendum was triggered by a civil-society group called the Coalition for the Family, which gathered signatures from almost a sixth of the 20 million population in the predominantly Orthodox Christian country. While gay marriage isn\u2019t currently recognized, the initiative seeks to prevent future attempts to allow it by changing the constitution\u2019s wording to \u201cbetween a man and a woman\u201d from the current \u201cspouses.\u201d\nThe first partial results of the referendum vote: 91.61 percent voted in favor of redefining the family\nRomania would become one of a minority of European Union members to constitutionally rule out same-sex marriage, and there\u2019s been no major push to overturn the existing legislation. Opposition parties say the government is using the vote as a distraction from its own problems. The European Parliament accused Romania this week of eroding the rule of law through judicial overhauls that aim to weaken punishments for corrupt officials. \u201cThis referendum is more a tool for the ruling politicians to boost their standing, and turnout won\u2019t be great as citizens aren\u2019t really concerned about this issue, even though the Romanians\u2019 values are traditional,\u201d said Alfred Bulai, for Bloomberg, a sociologist at the Bucharest Political Science Faculty. \u201cThe cultural background in eastern Europe is different from the west.\u201d\nTags: referendum, romania referendum, same sex marriage\nPermanent Electoral Authority to remove over 200,000 people from the list validated for...\nExpert Forum: Emergency Ordinance passed last week leaves room for fraud at upcoming...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buymovieclassics.com/Blood-And-Sand-p1778.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KH4PYIKJNDV3EUSC36OSDRNOZJZ3HK6T", "length": 771, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "buymovieclassics.com", "title": "Blood And Sand :: Other Classics :: Movies :: Movie Classics, LLC", "raw_content": "Blood And Sand #TCFVHS0042\nThe movie, Blood And Sand, tells the story of a handsome Spainish matador who is torn between his loving wife and a beautiful but unscrupulous aristocrat. Juan the matador, who is the naive son of a once-famous bullfighter seems, intent early on in the movie to recapture the glory of his family's name. Although initially branded \"fifth rate\", he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and with this fame returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. Just has Juan reaches the height of his fame, he is seduced by a beautiful, passionate aristocrat woman only to see his own happiness and hard-won success crumble. This movie won an Oscar in 1941 for its outstanding cinematogrphy. Full screen in color. Released in 1941. Runtime 125 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buymovieclassics.com/How-The-West-The-Won-p494.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HIOORPCMGPSGAEWODSVGAARFWCYCGN2T", "length": 883, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "buymovieclassics.com", "title": "How The West The Won :: Westerns :: Movies :: Movie Classics, LLC", "raw_content": "How The West The Won #WRDVD0020\nHow The West was won is Hollywood's epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the 19th century as seen through the eyes of three generations of the pioneer Prescott family. The film is divided into three chapters all directed by different directors: 1) \"The Civil War\" (directed by John Ford); 2) \"The Railroad\" (directed by George Marshall) and 3) \"The River, the Plains, the Outlaws\" (directed by Henry Hathaway). \"Top-notch\" production values and a never ending string of solid acting performances from many of the most famous actors of all-time have earned How The West Was Won the well-deserved title of one of Hollywood's most liked film classics. Starring Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, James Stewart and John Wayne among others. Widescreen in color. Released in 1962. Runtime 155 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 121.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://calendar.boell.de/en/event/seminar-minorities-south-asia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XBZYLOV3OSG2MBVXAZIG3MND53MIUEDK", "length": 2061, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "calendar.boell.de", "title": "Seminar on \u2018Minorities in South Asia\u2019 | Drupal", "raw_content": "Seminar on \u2018Minorities in South Asia\u2019\nOwing to their cultural and historical backgrounds of discrimination, religious minorities in South Asia often find themselves excluded from political, social and development processes. The gaps in equality, persecution of these minority groups at the hands of the State apparatus and powerful non state actors have led to gross violations of human rights. However the relation becomes complex when a religious majority in one State is a minority in another State and vice versa. Added to this, colonial history played a significant role in identity formation and distribution of power and resources across religious communities in South Asia. Despite Constitutions and other policies guaranteeing basic human rights and a life of dignity to all citizens, several groups continue to be targeted and discriminated against.\nLast year in November, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) organized a session on Rights of Minorities in South Asia at PSAARC (People's SAARC) Regional Convergence at Kathmandu, Nepal (23- 25 Nov, 2014) with the view to draft a Charter of Rights of Minorities in South Asia. A few principles like identity, security and non-discrimination emerged as basis of any comprehensive policy on the rights of minorities. To take this discussion further CSSS wishes to organise a follow-up seminar to deliberate and understand the Status of Minorities in each country, constituting the SAARC region. The proposed seminar will culminate into State of Minorities Report of each country. In addition, the possibility of forming a committee of prominent persons from each country will be explored. This committee will investigate incidences of violation of human rights of minorities and take up such issues collectively, to engage with the concerned States.\nParticipants are expected to meaningfully contribute by speaking and writing a paper on the themes given below. The papers and presentations are expected to dwell upon the entire framework of themes.\nChok Tsering, Programme Coordinator, HBS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cambridgenow.ca/blps/article.cfm?weblog=91&page=222", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:22FJDCEHUTUPQJI5PGL4SYICQHGI675C", "length": 4373, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "cambridgenow.ca", "title": "Preparing for Your CPP Hearing by Dietrich Law - Personal Injury & Disability Law Blog - Cambridge Ontario Disability Law Blogs on Cambridge Now - Page 222", "raw_content": "Under the new Bill C-38, CPP Reviews are heard by the newly established Social Security Tribunal. If you have been denied Disability Benefits, as of April 1st, 2013, your case will be heard by this new Tribunal, rather than through the old process of appeals. There are important implications for this change.\nThe changes with the new Bill become critical, as, if your case is dismissed by the Social Security Tribunal, as a summary dismissal, you are denied the right to appeal to the General Division. This summary dismissal can take place without a hearing, if the SST determines that your case 'has no reasonable chance of success'.\nThus, your preparation for the initial review will be extremely important. There are some steps you can take that will increase your chances of success under the new Bill. Remember, it is your responsibility to prove that you are eligible for CPP benefits.\nDetermine if you qualify for benefits under the law. There are two requirements for this. You must have contributed to the Canada Pension Plan for a minimum number of years. Refer to the Minimum qualifying period information here. The second requirement is that you must have a severe and prolonged disability as it is defined by the CPP legislation.\nDecide if you are going to represent yourself or if you will have a lawyer represent you in the hearing. Having a lawyer represent you may offer you a better outcome from the process. If you will have representation there is a form called the Authorisation to Disclose and it is sent to you with your hearing package. You will need to retain the services of a lawyer and submit this form permitting them to discuss your case with the relevant government agencies.\nEnsure that all your paperwork is complete prior to your hearing. Ensure that medical reports and paperwork are properly and completely filled out. Even if you are representing yourself, it is worthwhile to have a lawyer check your paperwork prior to your hearing.\nDo a trial run of your hearing with your lawyer in advance of the actual hearing. Your lawyer will know what is required of you and by running through it prior to the hearing, you will know when and how you will be expected to participate.\nProof of Disability. You must have proof of disability that commenced before your minimum qualifying period.\nA severe disability is defined as one which renders a person incapable of regularly pursuing any substantially gainful occupation as a result of a mental or physical condition.\nA \"prolonged\" disability is one which is continuous or of indefinite duration, or likely to result in death.\nBe prepared to provide proof of both of these conditions at the time of your application and to the Tribunal.\nHave records of upcoming medical appointments and actual medical test results that provide proof of your disability.\nDefine any other factors which may affect your appeal outcome.\nProvide proof that you have made a reasonable effort to seek employment or retraining.\nProvide proof that you have made a reasonable effort to follow-up on treatments for your condition and that you have complied with the medical advice your doctors have given to you.\nAge, education and language skills can also affect your ability to \"pursue gainful employment\". Your lawyer will help to determine any other factors of your case that need to be highlighted in the hearing.\nWhen you go to the hearing, if you are representing yourself, ensure that you have all of your required forms and proof. Arrive on-time and dress appropriately. The hearing will take approximately one hour and this hour may determine the outcome of your claim.\nThe Tribunal will consider the 'whole person' when deciding your appeal, so be prepared to provide information about your case and how it affects you in the workplace and everyday life.\nThe new Tribunal may be heard through teleconference, written questions or in person. Being properly prepared with detailed notes and extensive medical reports to prove your disability can be a major factor in whether or not you are granted benefits going forward or if your appeal will be dismissed. If theTribunal determines that your case has \"no chance of success\", it can be dismissed without a hearing.\nThe best advice is to ensure that you are prepared and seek the help of a professional who can increase your chances of success in the hearing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 8560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://campaignforaccountability.org/cfa-demands-audit-of-legislative-expenditures-for-utah-land-transfer-lawsuit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCDLGNZ3NFUA4YEMZGODS26AJCL3RNZB", "length": 3504, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "campaignforaccountability.org", "title": "CfA Demands Audit of Legislative Expenditures for Utah Land Transfer Lawsuit | Campaign for Accountability", "raw_content": "July 6, 2016 Environment, Government, News, Press Releases, Public Lands, State Oversight, Utah\nCfA Demands Audit of Legislative Expenditures for Utah Land Transfer Lawsuit\nPhoto: Flickr: Drew Tarvin\nExpensive travel, alcohol, and prohibited lobbying all apparently billed to Utah taxpayers\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, in a letter to the chairs of the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands and the director and legislative general counsel of the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Campaign for Accountability (CfA) called for a full accounting of the nearly one million dollars the commission has spent to date to develop a lawsuit to compel the federal government to transfer national public lands to the state.\nCfA\u2019s review of the hundreds of pages of invoices from Davillier Law Group and Strata Policy for work done by outside lawyers, public relations firms, and polling experts reveals apparent prohibited lobbying expenditures, luxury travel, and significant billing discrepancies \u2014 all at taxpayer expense. Despite contracts that required coach travel and standard hotel room rates, CfA uncovered evidence of first-class air travel and numerous stays at an exclusive private club.\n\u201cThis is at best a case of sloppy accounting and at worst a serious abuse of public resources,\u201d said Anne Weismann, CfA Executive Director. \u201cEither way, Utah taxpayers deserve a full accounting of the expenses. If there is a good reason for these lawyers to bill the state of Utah for luxury hotels, let\u2019s hear it.\u201d\nWhile the potential lawsuit itself has drawn significant public scrutiny and criticism, the commission\u2019s use of the $2 million appropriated by the legislature for a lawsuit has been largely overlooked. CfA\u2019s review shows that an audit and reconciliation of the many billing irregularities is long overdue.\nThe total cost of the lawsuit is estimated to exceed $14 million, with the $2 million appropriated so far serving only as a down payment. The attorney general and governor have not yet formally approved any lawsuit.\nIssues CfA uncovered include:\nAlmost $1,300 for a three-night stay at Salt Lake City\u2019s only AAA Five Diamond hotel, the Grand American Hotel;\nOver $1,300 for two separate stays at the exclusive private Alta Club in Salt Lake City, including one stay that included lodging on Saturday and Sunday; and\nMeals for three totaling $366, mileage for two totaling $278, and a $21 charge for beer reimbursed by the Utah taxpayers. The meals did not include itemized receipts, making it impossible to know if Utah taxpayers paid for additional alcohol, which would have been in clear violation of a contractual provision barring the expense of alcoholic beverages.\nDespite a prohibition on lobbying expenditures, one week after the Public Lands Initiative draft was released, the lead attorney billed the State to \u201creview[] and analyze[] PLI further,\u201d and spent the next two days meeting with Utah legislators, including Rep. Bishop on January 29, 2016, charging more than $4,200 for these meetings.\nWhile the contracts provide that legal services are charged at a higher rate than relations services, lawyers routinely billed at their higher rates for public relations work, including:\nConducting an interview for a Heritage Foundation video;\nReviewing and responding to comments from the Los Angeles Times, reviewing an op-ed, and reviewing correspondence concerning a video.\nAll expenses can be seen here at the \u201cRelated Links\u201d tab. Read the letter below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/philosophy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:LOY5XWJERNAAB4FS2ZIDXYITFJO6DO2X", "length": 2144, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "campusguides.lib.utah.edu", "title": "Home - Philosophy - ULibraries Research Guides at University of Utah", "raw_content": "Philosophy: Home\nFind Books, Databases, Journals and more on philosophical topics.\nAfrican-American Philosophy\nMexican-American Philosophy\nIndividual Philosopher: John Stuart Mill\nAreas of study in Philosophy range from the history of philosophy to schools of philosophy to study of individual philosophers and philosophical issues. The Marriott Library has rich resources in all these areas. The book and journal collection is large, and there is also a wealth of information in electronic formats. This is a guide to the basic material to do research in Philosophy. It is intended as a starting place and is thus not a comprehensive list of tools but a selective and general guide.\n\u200bThis is an online index and bibliography of philosophical research maintained by a community of philosophers. They monitor a range of research sources--journals, books, digital repositories, personal webpages--to build the index.\nThis is an online, full-text encyclopedia developed by Stanford University. Well-known contributors have been asked to submit articles in their areas of expertise. The database is searchable by keyword and one can browse through an alphabetical list of subjects covered. All articles contain bibliographies and their are links in the articles and bibliographies. Though this endeavor holds great promise in that the contributors will be able to update their articles and bibliographies with the new developments in their fields, it remains very incomplete.\nThis encyclopedia includes many topics not yet covered by the Stanford site, and though the entries are more elemental than the Stanford site, they are suitable for undergraduates and laypeople.\nVoice of the Shuttle- Philosophy Page\nBasically a very large list of Philosophy topic links.\nGet Help with Philosophy Research\nNext: African-American Philosophy >>\nURL: https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/philosophy\nSubjects: African American Studies, Ethics, Gender Studies, History, Humanities, Philosophy\nTags: aesthetics, african american philosophy, american indian philosophy, epistemology, history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, mexican american philosophy, philosophy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canadianlabour.ca/news/news-archive/what-you-need-know-about-un%E2%80%99s-2030-agenda-sustainable-development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:5YIRTGJK7RIKU766PYLMSESEXKLKSTWY", "length": 3963, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "canadianlabour.ca", "title": "What you need to know about the UN\u2019s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development | Canadian Labour Congress", "raw_content": "With the recent federal election dominating the airwaves, many Canadians missed hearing about one of the UN\u2019s most important summits of the year. Between September 25 and 27 the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit was held in New York, and that world leaders endorsed Transforming Our World - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.\nThe 2030 Agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that build on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire at the end of 2015.\nWith goals and targets to end poverty, reduce inequality, fight climate change, ensure access to education, and promote peace and justice, the plan envisions the positive ways we can work together to transform our world by 2030.\nTrade unions welcome the new framework for sustainable development and are particularly committed to realizing goals and targets to:\nEnd poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1), with unions particularly advocating enhanced social protections to help achieve this;\nEnd hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture (Goal 2);\nEnsure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (Goal 4);\nAchieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Goal 5), with a particular focus on providing public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and on supporting women\u2019s leadership;\nEnsure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (Goal 7);\nPromote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth; full and productive employment; and decent work for all (Goal 8);\nBuild resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation (Goal 9);\nReduce inequality within and among countries (Goal 10), with a focus on fiscal, wage, and social protection policies;\nTake urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (Goal 13); and\nPromote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (Goal 16).\nThe Canadian Labour Congress and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) commends states on signing onto this ambitious set of goals and targets. However, labour organizations have also pointed out flaws in the goals\u2019 supporting framework and the processes for follow-up, review and accountability.\nIn terms of the goals\u2019 framework, labour bodies are asking for signatory nations to commit to implement the goals through financing, progressive public policy, and a sound accountability framework. In addition, the goals\u2019 follow-up and review process is essentially voluntary, meaning that nations risk little if they fail to make efforts to implement the goals. The CLC and ITUC believe the follow-up process could be strengthened through binding commitments based on existing international standards.\nRepresenting the labour movement at the UN Summit, Susan Hopgood, president of Education International, stated: \u201cAs trade unions, we are committed to play our part. We need government to step up and fulfil their obligations. Deeds not words.\u201d\nInternationally, ITUC\u2019s Trade Union Trade Development Cooperation Network (TUDCN) will push for high standards during the process leading up to and including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.\nDuring the recent federal election campaign, the Liberal party confirmed that a Liberal government would commit to the SDGs and to developing a comprehensive plan to make measurable progress towards achieving these goals, both at home and abroad.\nThe CLC, alongside civil society organization and advocacy groups such as the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), is committed to playing its part, while holding the new Liberal government accountable to their commitments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 155.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canadiantumbleweeds-ivil.tripod.com/artsandcrafts/id5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BZJKVHWKRVYPH7BDI5PBZBCTDHQBPYXY", "length": 3026, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "canadiantumbleweeds-ivil.tripod.com", "title": "The Artist", "raw_content": "Having a business on the internet seems to be the wave of the future,\nthe only drawback is there is no personal contact with my customers. Because of this, I felt it important to share a little about myself with you as well as some of the other projects in my studio.\nMost of my younger years were spent in the province of Ontario\nwith my Dad, Mom and older brother. We lived in the very small town of Stittsville, this is where I also have my fondest memories.\nFrom a very young age, I was always encouraged to express myself,\nand to have no fear of what others may think.\nWith these words instilled in me, my creative energy was boundless. When I was about 10 years old, I actually tried to sell graph paper pictures that had all the little squares coloured in, in all sorts of great designs.\nWell, I thought I really had something wonderful, but I was shot down by the end of the block. Needless to say I was disappointed, but my parents enjoyed them, and it didn't stop me from trying.\nI have changed mediums numerous times , always finding\nmyself with a paint brush in hand. Perhaps because my Mom\nis an artist, and I have seen the versatility of the art, I can't help but to keep coming back to it. I look at objects with the belief that\nanything with a surface can be painted and it opens up so many possibilities, everything has potential if you look for it.\nI have been interested in starting my own business for some time now, and I am excited to finally have reached that goal.\nComing up with the name of Canadian Tumbleweeds was the\neasy part, it is very befitting for me and hopefully one that visitors to my web site will remember.\nI now find myself settled once again in Ontario, with a family of my own,\nand the ability to pursue my dreams.\nThis province is absolutely beautiful, and when combined with all of the energy I have at home with me, I am truly inspired.\nI would like to take this chance to express my most heartfelt\nthank-yous to everyone in my life, especially to\nMom and Dad for all of your ongoing love, support,\nand continous 'unbiased' compliments.\nPeter and Angie for welcoming me into your life with open arms, and an open mind.\nNichole and Dan, for always being there, and for coming out here! You were the extra push that I needed.\nJacob and Julia,\nyour love and acceptance has meant the world to me.\nSeeing life, through your eyes, is priceless.\nyour endless love, understanding and commitment to our happiness\nhas truly enabled my dreams to come true.\nThanks too for putting up with all of my supplies, in all the wrong places!\nI would also like to thank all the viewers, for visiting\nCanadian Tumbleweeds!\nScroll down to see more of my work.\nThe water theme pictures are painted on the walls\nin our basement, this is an ongoing project that I am also working on.\nI hope you enjoyed visiting my web site\nand viewing what I have to offer, as\nmuch as I enjoyed providing it for you.\nNeed to contact Canadian Tumbleweeds?\nE-mail me at tmk@canadiantumbleweeds.com\nForever in my heart, Grampa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://capovelo.com/european-bicycle-manufacturers-file-complaint-chinese-flooding-market-ebikes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YC6N5XOS4ZFJXDBMLZCXPXID7G5I735R", "length": 3805, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "capovelo.com", "title": "CapoVelo.com | European Bicycle Manufacturers File Complaint Against Chinese for Flooding the Market with eBikes", "raw_content": "CapoVelo.com - | European Bicycle Manufacturers File Complaint Against Chinese for Flooding the Market with eBikes\nEuropean Bicycle Manufacturers File Complaint Against Chinese for Flooding the Market with eBikes\narticle by Cycling Industry News\u2019 Mark Sutton\nThe European Bicycle Manufacturer\u2019s Association has revealed that it has lodged an anti-dumping complaint against China\u2019s electric bike export trade.\nMoreno Fioravanti, Secretary General at the European Bicycle Manufacturers Association (EBMA) announced: \u201cDumped Chinese e-bikes are flooding the EU market. European e-bikes are undercut and overwhelmed in their home market by heavily subsidised, illegally dumped Chinese e-bikes sold below their cost of production. Imports of e-bikes from China have been increasing quickly and have now exploded, with imports in the first seven months of 2017 already exceeding the entire 2016 import volume. Imports into the EU of e-bikes from China increased from virtually zero in 2010 to a level likely over 800,000 in 2017. Therefore, we have filed a complaint with the European Commission, calling for the registration of imports and urgent anti-dumping measures on e-bikes from China. The EBMA is also preparing an anti-subsidy complaint. We urge the European Commission to investigate the unfair trade practices of Chinese e-bike exporters as soon as possible.\u201d\nAccording to the EBMA in Brussels, over 430,000 Chinese e-Bikes were dumped into the EU in 2016, some 70% of all electric builds stemming from outside of Europe. This represented a 40% growth year-on-year.\nThe European Commission now has 45 days to choose whether to formally move forward with the case. An investigation will then take up to 15 months, though, if successful in its complaint, provisional duties could be in place within nine months, according to the BAGB.\n\u201cEuropean manufacturers invented the Electrically Power Assisted Cycles (EPAC) pedal technology and the most recent innovation, the centre engine system, which revolutionised the industry. With over 90,000 direct and indirect skilled workers, the EU bicycle industry has invested over \u20ac1 billion in e-bike development in 2016 alone. Hence, major EU investments, innovation and competiveness, as well as substantial employment and the protection of the environment, would be at risk without the imposition of measures,\u201d said Fioravanti.\nCONEBI data on the e-Bike production capability of China shows that 51 million units were produced in 2016, something which the EBMA says is vastly more than the market needs and by some 23 million units, a figure it claims is ten times the EU demand at present.\nPointing to an ambition to \u201cdramatically increase\u201d output, as published in the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s 13th 5-year plan, the EBMA is warning that the market\u2019s oversupply of cheap bikes could harm the fortunes of European makers.\nEU production of electric bikes sat at just north of 1 million units in 2016, a 13% increase on 2015.\nAs a result the EMBA warn that Chinese exports \u201cwill annihilate European production within only a few years if legitimate trade defence measures are not imposed by the EU.\u201d\n\u201cThe European Commission must stop China dumping e-bikes and immediately register imports so anti-dumping duties can be applied retroactively. We are confident the European Commission will find that China is dumping e-bikes on a massive scale and that is causing material injury to European manufacturers. Anti-dumping measures are clearly in the EU\u2019s interest because e-bikes are a strategic, innovative industry for Europe\u2019s green and smart e-mobility future, and European consumers and suppliers all want local EU production to prosper\u201d, concluded Fioravanti.\nIt is not yet known at which level a duty would by applied, if successful.\nCycling Industry News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carsyeah.libsyn.com/168-kelly-collins-talks-about-a-life-racing-cars-and-being-on-the-podium-at-the-24-hours-of-le-mans", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:34Z", "digest": "sha1:M2W7G6LQPMJWXSHPFYJ7FI6P7UO5PP2K", "length": 972, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "carsyeah.libsyn.com", "title": "Cars Yeah with Mark Greene : 168: Kelly Collins Talks About a Life Racing Cars and Being on the Podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans", "raw_content": "168: Kelly Collins Talks About a Life Racing Cars and Being on the Podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans\nKelly Collins is recognized at one of the most diverse and talented race care drivers on the track. He has won championships numerous times and driven for manufacturers including: Chevrolet, Pontiac, Porsche, Nissan, Honda, and BMW. He has participated in almost every kind of racing venue imaginable. He\u2019s ridden in: Motocross, and driven in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, IMSA, the FIA GT Championship, US RoadRacing Championship Series, American LeMans, Grand-Am Sports Car, and more. He\u2019s enjoyed multiple victories at Petit Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona, and 12 Hours of Sebring and he\u2019s been on the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times. In 2001 he was teamates with Dale Earnhardt and Dale Jr. at the 24 Hours of Daytona. 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Lukas Graham are nominated for three of the night's awards for \"7 Years,\" including Song of the Year.\nKelsea Ballerini Opens Up About Next Album\nBallerini was nominated for her first Grammy in the category of Best New Artist, alongside Maren Morris, the Chainsmokers and Anderson .Paak. Independent hip-hop star Chance the Rapper took home the trophy. Sturgill Simpson won the Best Country Album award for A Sailor\u2019s Guide to Earth, while Tim McGraw\u2018's \"Humble and Kind,\" penned by Lori McKenna, claimed the title of Best Country Song. 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Not only does this volunteerism help build stronger character within each scout but it also allows them to learn a bit more about their community while at the same time helping to make it a better place.\nNow, two scouts in Logansport, Indiana are doing just that for their Eagle Scout projects by rehabbing their local, and long-forgotten, cemetery.\nWilson Cemetery, a pioneer cemetery in Logansport, had seen better days. It is the final resting place of Gen. Walter Wilson who was one of the first farmers to settle in the area. Prior to settling, Wilson fought at the Battle of Tippecanoe against Shawnee warriors who were opposing the western expansion of settlers into their lands. Wilson\u2019s 1838 grave includes a 10 foot tall monolith.\nBut as monumental as it sounds, the area was covered in weeds. The site was found by Scott Grandstaff while he was geocashing (a GPS-based scavenger hunting game). When Grandstaff told his son, Wesley Grandstaff, 15, and fellow scout, Luke Fincher, 16, the boys knew they wanted to clean the site.\n\u201c\u2018He\u2019s part of a piece of our local history,\u2019 Luke said of Wilson. \u2018We found his grave site was overgrown and abandoned and it was just a disgrace to his name. He contributed to us. We got to give him what he deserves (Sustaining, Kirk).'\u201d\nThe two boys started fundraising in 2015 for their Eagle Scout projects and have been weeding the area regularly. They plan on using some of the funds to install a new fence around Wilson\u2019s plot, clean grave markers, and even put in a concrete path from the hiking trail to the cemetery.\nThey also hired Toledo-based Ground Penetrating Radar Systems to plot the cemetery so they can get the exact locations of graves. 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This actually makes the tournament something of a weird mix \u2013 players who are not heading to Augusta already desperately wanting the win this week, with the players\u2026\nValero Texas Open \u2013 Walker Wins\nAs expected, Jimmy Walker went on to complete victory at the Valero Texas Open yesterday. After a few consecutive weeks of dramatic finishes on the PGA tour, yesterday the eventual winner was never really in doubt, always having enough in hand to claim the victory, eventually finishing the same 4 shots ahead of Jordan Spieth that he started the day with. Spieth added some drama to the event late on with a run of birdies, but this just seemed to\u2026\nValero Texas Open Day 3 Review\nIt\u2019s official now. Jimmy Walker is the nuts. When he suddenly won three tournaments in a very short space of time a couple of years ago, although a great story, it didn\u2019t necessarily mean that he was one of the world\u2019s best players \u2013 it may well have been a purple patch relatively late in his career. However, a purple patch doesn\u2019t last this long and heading into the final few holes last night, he looked like a man in\u2026\nValero Texas Open Day Two\nThe second day of the Valero Texas Open was something of a strange one, especially for someone watching the event on TV. This was because all of the leaders from day one went out in the morning on day two and they were all safely in the clubhouse by the time the TV cameras started showing the coverage in the afternoon. 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Unfortunately many players went much higher than this, a prime example being defending champion and one of my picks for the week, Steven Bowditch. He went round in\u2026\nArchive Series (3) \u2013 Arnold Palmer wins his fourth and final Masters\nIn 1964 Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters title which would also become the final Major win of his career. The report at the time made some very interesting reading, as there were concerns at the time that Palmer was committing too much time to his business interests and a young gun by the name of Jack Nicklaus was taking over the show having already won 3 Majors. With almost two years without a Major win, many were thinking that\u2026\nValero Texas Open Betting Preview\nWeekly Betting preview for the PGA Tour The Masters is just a couple of weeks away and the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week was the last significant event before the first major of the season. In between we have the Valero Texas Open and the Shell Houston Open and although tournaments in their own right, will be seen as warm up events for many heading to Augusta (of course, much of the field won\u2019t have qualified for Augusta). Two players\u2026\nArnold Palmer Invitational Review\nThe honours went to Matt Every this week, who completed the perfect defence of his title with a 1 shot victory at Bay Hill. Followers of this site will know that Henrik Stenson was my number one tip for the week and Henrik would end up just one shot shy. The last couple of weeks have seen winning selections in Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, both being in events where there were times when I thought neither had a chance\u2026\nArnold Palmer Invitational Day 2 Review\nLeader Morgan Hoffman went out early on day two and it was clear he was in no mood to relinquish that lead, shooting a 65 that at one point included 6 birdies in a run of 7 holes. It was evident that his total of -13 would have the halfway lead, but the question was, how big that lead would actually be? After finishing the round it looked like he might lead by 5 or 6, however it was soon\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net/tennessee/crawford-tn-life-insurance-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FMPE5IYM3IKKSQWJZYSITLC5YF5XGFPF", "length": 1633, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net", "title": "Crawford TN Life Insurance Quotes", "raw_content": "Crawford TN Life Insurance Quotes\nFinding the best life insurance in Crawford, TN is a simple and quick affair if you use our website. All you need to do is enter your Zip Code at the top of the page and the search engine will locate the best life insurance providers in your area. Comparing quotes from these insurers will help you locate cheap online life insurance. The process is quick and easy and can definitely get your lower premiums in most cases.\nThe first step is to take some time and search online for the top companies that can provide you with the services that you are looking for. Simply searching for life insurance in Crawford, TN will surely give you a host of the top companies that provide this service in the country. It is important to decide what company you feel is worthy of your business. Each company is different in the kind of service they provide as well as how much effort they take to inform their clients.\nFirst you must get quotes from the various companies that are available in Crawford, TN. When you get these quotes you must think about the fact that the price is not the only thing to consider. While a great deal is regulated by law, every company has the choice to decide to some degree what they are willing to offer.\nIf you want to find the best in Crawford life insurance quote possible you must do the research necessary. Take the time to understand what the investment you make means to you as well as those around you. In essence, we are all so very lucky to live this life. Without this gift of life who knows what the life could be like on the great planet known as Earth to us all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chelseafc360.com/posts/match-preview-tottenham-hotspur-vs-chelsea-fc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UBHTJR5CTR3P3OSG2RS4AWNZ4K32UKP3", "length": 6671, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "chelseafc360.com", "title": "MATCH PREVIEW: Spurs vs Chelsea FC; AVB vs Jose and much more at stake! \u2013 Chelsea FC 360", "raw_content": "MATCH PREVIEW: Spurs vs Chelsea FC; AVB vs Jose and much more at stake!\nTottenham Hotspurs will welcome their London rivals Chelsea FC at White Hart Lane this Saturday. The major talking point of this fixture is definitely the battle between the \u201cTeacher\u201d & the \u201cApprentice\u201d. Both sets of fans can expect a compelling tactical duel between the two sides. Over the last few seasons, this tie has thrown up intriguing football scenarios and with Spurs strengthening this summer, the contest is expected to be heated.\nThis week, things nearly got out of control in the war of words between the two bosses as AVB claimed that the result of their broken relationship was derived by the ambition he had to have a bigger role in Jose\u2019s management team while they were at Inter Milan. He said he wanted to be involved more with match preparation and be an assistant to Jose which the Special one rejected as to not wanting any one to assist him in that regard. And here is Jose\u2019s response to that claim\u2026\n\u201cI had so many assistants in my career, I was always an open book to all of them. I am trying to do the same now in Chelsea with Chris Jones, Steve Holland, people that are working with me for the first time. I try to be also an open book to the coaches in the Academy. I am an open book, after that if they want to read the book or not, it\u2019s their problem, not my problem.\u201d\nDATE & TIME: September 28, 2013 at 07:45 EDT; September 28, 2013 at 11:45 GMT; September 28, 2013 at 12:45 BST; September 28, 2013 at 12:45 WAT; September 28, 2013 at 13:45 CAT; September 28, 2013 at 14:45 EAT; September 28, 2013 at 17:15 IST.\nVENUE: White Hart Lane, London, United Kingdom.\nTV/STREAMING NEWS: Chelsea TV will stream the game live. The match will be telecast live on Fox Sports 3 in Australia, SuperSport 3 Africa in African sub-continent, Sportsnet Ontario in Canada, Al Jazeera Sport Hd1/HD6 in Egypt, Sky Sport 1 in Germany, ESPN HD & Star Sports 2 in India, Fox Sports HD in Italy, Gol Stadium, Gol T & Canal+ Futbol in Spain, Al Jazeera Sport HD1/HD6 in UAE, Sky Sports 3D & BBC One in UK and NBC Sports Network in USA.\nCHELSEA FC SQUAD NEWS: Chelsea are without Marco van Ginkel, who underwent surgery for cruciate ligament on his right knee after the unfortunate injury against Swindon Town. Ramires, who is recovering from a hip problem, will be in match-day squad as already confirmed by Mourinho. Kalas & Omeruo are back in training but probably not in contention for this match. There are no suspensions.\nPredicted Starting XI: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Lampard, Schuerrle, Oscar, Hazard, Eto\u2019o.\nTOTTENHAM HOTSPUR SQUAD NEWS: Tottenham will miss Sandro & Etienne Capoue due to injury. Younus Kaboul, Nacer Chadli & Aaron Lennon are also doubtful.\nPredicted Starting XI: Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, Dawson, Rose, Dembele, Paulinho, Lamela, Erikksen, Sigurddson, Soldado.\nTACTICAL OVERVIEW: Spurs boast of a balanced side. New signing Erikksen & defensive pillar Vertonghen have arguably been their best players. Spurs have the best defensive record among all clubs in Europe at the moment, letting in just 1 goal in the last 810 minutes. Although they have failed to create clear-cut chances, Spurs have managed to nick in goals which have given them a 2 point edge over Chelsea. The game will clearly sway in favor of the team who wins the midfield battle. Spurs main weakness lies in their fullbacks whose positioning abilities are a question. Fast counter-attack, especially through the wings, will result in effective creation of chances for the Blues. Fellow CFC 360 blogger, Sherry has already done an analysis of AVB\u2019s Tottenham which will help you understand the Spurs game play better.\nBoth Andre Villas-Boas and Jose Mourinho were mentored and attribute their success to Bobby Robson who worked with the pair at FC Porto.\nAndre Villas-Boas was a youth team manager at FC Porto in 2002 when Jose Mourinho returned their as first team manager. That\u2019s when Jose gave him a chance to scout opponents and prepare a dossier.\nAfter a hugely successful reign at FC Porto with the club winning the 2004 Champions League under Jose, AVB followed the special one to Stamford Bridge in his new coaching staff in England.\nThree years and 6 trophies at Chelsea, Andre Villas-Boas followed Jose to Inter Milan in after Jose left Chelsea in September 2007 under \u2018mutual consent\u2019.\nJose Mourinho used to call Andre Villas-Boas his \u201cright hand man and ear\u201d as he relied heavily on AVB\u2019s scouting reports to study opponents and master plan a winning formula.\nAt Inter, AVB felt he had the potential to be his assistant and one day become a manager after completing his coaching badges in Jose\u2019s 2nd year in charge at San Siro.\nThe rift finally happened as Jose felt no need of adding Andre as his assistant which result in AVB taking up a role in Portuguese club Acadamica Coimbra. Then, he went on to become FC Porto\u2019s manager while Jose won a treble at Inter and left for the Bernabeu.\nIN A NUTSHELL: The result of this match will probably not play an important role in the league standings eight months later, but it will help the layman judge where both clubs stand today. Moreover, taking off points from a top six rival and setting into a momentum of sorts will help either club to challenge for the title in the long run.\nThe two managers have never faced one-on-one in any game previously and it will be the first time we see both men in a London derby in two different dug outs. Last year\u2019s corresponding fixture at White heart lane resulted in a 4-2 away win for the blues as 2 players that AVB signed for Chelsea scored 3 of our 4 goals. Juan Mata, man of the match in that occasion managed to score 2 after Gary Cahill\u2019s stunning volley that opened the score. Daniel Sturridge then added our 4th late on to wrap up all 3 points in AVB\u2019s first game against his former club.\nSpurs have won only three of their 42 Premier League games against Chelsea. Chelsea have not failed to score in three successive Premier League away games since April 2002. The last three competitive meetings between Tottenham and Chelsea have produced a total of 16 goals in total (an average of 5.3 per game). Tottenham have conceded more Premier League home goals to Chelsea (38) than any other team. Chelsea have only conceded 22 goals in 21 Premier League outings at White Hart Lane. Five of Tottenham\u2019s last six Premier League games have ended 1-0 (W4 L1).\nChelseaChelsea FCLondonNacer ChadliSpursTOTTENHAMTottenham Hotspur F.C.White Hart Lane\nJose: Stop acting like a 'kid' AVB\nMatch Report: Tottenham 1-1 Chelsea FC\nChelsea will beat spurs 2 day by 4goals 2 nil no shaking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 8795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cherylbenadie.com/seven-slowest-ways-to-ruin-your-life/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GQ5PIASGTKA4XIOOSF5XQTXFX7L3C2HD", "length": 6881, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "cherylbenadie.com", "title": "The Seven Slowest Ways To Ruin Your Life | Cheryl Benadie", "raw_content": "The Seven Slowest Ways To Ruin Your Life\nPosted by Cheryl Ramurath on August 6, 2017\t August 6, 2017 Relationships / Soul\nHome Relationships The Seven Slowest Ways To Ruin Your Life\nRuining one\u2019s life is not something most people consciously set out to do. Most people want to achieve success in life. There is an inner drive to excel, to achieve your potential, to have your life count for something.\nAs you\u2019re reading this, there are probably some thoughts and feelings stirring in your heart and mind. Maybe you\u2019re remembering the things your parents want you to do with your life. Maybe it\u2019s your own goals and ambitions that seem so far away. Perhaps you feel a tinge of regret over the things that failed and punctured your confidence to try again.\nRegardless of what\u2019s happened in the past, you most likely have a desire for life to work out well for you. You\u2019re probably not getting up each morning thinking: \u201cHow can I ruin my life today?\u201d And yet, ruin is a sneaky thing.\nBecause it\u2019s invisible, it can be extremely insidious. It\u2019s so much easier to pin our lack of achievement on circumstances we can actually see and people we can point our fingers to. We don\u2019t actually think about the inner obstacles (of our own creation) that can impede progress along our road to success.\nPeople who are angry and bitter, with multiple chips on their shoulders (we all know a few of them)probably don\u2019t realise how, over the years, they\u2019ve created their own version of quicksand and despite all their frenetic activity, are going nowhere slowly.\nSo how does one destroy one\u2019s life, bit by bit, day by day, decision by decision? Decay usually sets in because of neglect. The proper care and attention is not applied appropriately and while it might not seem to be too damaging when you look at things over a short period of time, the tragic picture of ruination sets in over a decade or two.\nYou lack vision: We weren\u2019t born to just pay bills and die. You have been designed with a passion and on purpose and until you find and pursue the thing that makes you come alive, you will always be yearning for inner contentment. Success means different things to different people. You will feel like there is something missing from your life until you do whatever it is that fills you with joy when you\u2019re doing it: whether it\u2019s teaching children, running your own business or baking cakes. If you don\u2019t write the script for your life, someone else will.\nYou never take action: You keep talking about your dreams but you never translate them into goals and concrete plans. Successful people have turned wishful thinking into practical action. If you are not willing to pay the price, you will never lay your hands on the things you want. The things you like, you talk about. The things you love, you commit to.\nYou never take responsibility: Someone else is always to blame for the things that haven\u2019t happened yet in your life. There is no denying that some people have an easier start to life and have more privilege than others. And yet, there are countless examples of people who have experienced similar challenges and life circumstances as you. Once they took accountability for their lives, they managed to not just overcome it but to rise above their limitations and achieve phenomenal success. Find inspiring role models and ditch the scapegoats. If you haven\u2019t learn how to receive \u2013 and grow from \u2013 constructive criticism, then you are bound to repeat the same experiences year in and year out.\nYou stop growing: Your graduation day is not the finishing line of your learning. Great leaders are life long learners and successful people are constantly learning new things. Skill sets need to be tweaked and expanded in order to stay relevant in the market place. If you never really evaluate your personal progress and reflect on ways to improve and grow, you will experience regression instead of progression.\nYou think you can make it on your own: A self-made man/woman is a fallacy. We need people to help us achieve more than we could ever accomplish on our own. People who have faith in the goodness of God and depend on His help experience a God-sized life as opposed to a life based on limited self-efforts.\nYou live beyond your means: Talking yourself into unnecessary credit card purchases or \u2018must-have items\u2019 is a sure way to dig a deep hole of debt that will be a major impediment to living a whole, full life. Comparing yourself to others \u2013 and trying to keep up to someone else\u2019s standards \u2013 is a sure way to drain the joy and contentment from your own life. Your finances don\u2019t crumble in a day\u2026 but one bad choice after another eventually causes the ship to sink.\nYou won\u2019t diversify your friendship circle: If you\u2019re constantly hanging out with people that look, act and think like you, you are robbing yourself from a rich tapestry of connection and understanding. Some relationships are like spiderwebs \u2013 keeping you trapped in a reality that doesn\u2019t serve you and keeps you stuck. Most people never change because they are too afraid to allow their friendship circle to evolve.\nWhat we don\u2019t realise is that our fixed mindsets can act like a slow poison in our lives. Developing a growth mindset can help you galvanise yourself against the long-term, devastating affects of these soul-destroying decisions and behaviours.\nThis proverb has always stuck with me: \u201cWise people build their house with their own hands, but foolish people tear it down with their own hands.\u201d There is no denying that you are entirely responsible for what your \u201chouse of life\u201d currently looks like.\nThe truth is that even though there may be some areas that look severely debilitated right now, there is nothing so broken that God cannot restore. Once you are honest about the current state of affairs, you can then go about uprooting the roots of the things that are slowly but surely destroying your life.\nIf you don\u2019t believe that you are a valuable person and deserving of living a whole, full, life \u2013 then you are not going to be motivated to stop the self-harm. I have swung on the pendulum of identity, living as a victim and as a rebel, until finally settling into the truth about my created value as a child of God.\nWhen you see your worth and start living from a place of identity instead of for identity, the things you used to do to self-destruct become ludicrous patterns in your life. The great news is that if you are on any of these seven paths of death, you can decide to turn around and walk in the opposite direction into new paths of life.\nI think that deep down, you really want to live a life that is full of joy, that is freeing and that frees you from the judgement, actions or opinions of others. Make the change today. If you wait another day, and another, and still another, ruin will come upon you and you will wish you could turn back the hands of time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chihospitality.com/events/81/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:5VKVT2I2T4ZBNYWZWQYQHWRCB6LCVX5Y", "length": 1139, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "chihospitality.com", "title": "HEINEKEN CUP HOSPITALITY Corporate Hospitality International", "raw_content": "WELCOME TO ERC\nClub rugby sees the top European countries competing for the most prestigious title in the sport in an exhilarating tournament full of excitement. The world of rugby was turned on its head in Paris in 1995 when the game was declared 'open'. But that momentous decision brought about the birth of ERC and, with it, the advent of truly competitive, cross-border European competition. As ERC moves into its 15th season of organising the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup it has decided to celebrate what has been deemed one of the true phenomenon's of the global game.\nThe 31 October, 2009, marked the 14th birthday of the first game played in its inaugural competition, the Heineken Cup and throughout the 15th anniversary season ERC will honour the greats of both tournaments, on and off the field. To that end we ask you to participate by sharing your favourite memories in our blog section... 'Fans Recollections'.\nHEINEKEN CUP FINAL\nweekend of 20th-22nd May 2011\nThe Heineken Cup Final returns to the Millennium Stadium once more on the weekend of 20th-22nd May 2011.\nFind out more about HEINEKEN CUP HOSPITALITY today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chrismcspiritt.com/category/business-analysis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LNXGLSH2SGM5RJCHP5ZQJKYHFZS5ES4E", "length": 8904, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "chrismcspiritt.com", "title": "Business Analysis Archives - Christopher McSpiritt", "raw_content": "Definition of the technique\nSWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective.\nSWOT Analysis is often visualized using a SWOT Matrix\nWhen do you use the technique?\nYou should perform a SWOT analysis when you are conducting your enterprise analysis. This phase is described in chapter 2 of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge. A SWOT analysis helps you to assess the capability gaps of the firm/project.\nWhy do you use the technique?\nYou should perform a SWOT analysis to determine the current state of the organization and the environment. This allows you to more accurately evaluate possible solutions and incorporate external factors when deciding upon a final solution.\nYou can also perform a Personal SWOT Analysis to help you during your job search.\nHow do you perform the technique?\nGather the team together\nBrainstorm on the topic at hand (ensure that you focus on all 4 quadrants)\nDocument all findings in the SWOT Analysis Matrix\nValidate all findings\nBrainstorm on solutions that leverage the strengths and opportunities while offsetting weaknesses.\nTop Business Analysis Blogs\nFollowing up on last week\u2019s post on the top business analysts on Twitter, I figured I would continue with the social media theme. Today, I will list what I think are some of the best business analysis blogs on the Internet.\nhttp://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/ModernAnalystBlog/tabid/181/Default.aspx\nhttp://benwarsop.wordpress.com/\nhttp://www.b2ttraining.com/blog/\nhttp://agileanalysis.blogspot.com/\nhttp://www.bridging-the-gap.com/\nTop Business Analysts on Twitter\nAs social media become more and more important to the lives of business analysts, I thought I would provide you with a list of business analysts and business analysis subject matter experts to follow on Twitter. Click on the links below to explore their Twitter profiles. My profile can be viewed at http://twitter.com/cmcspiritt.\nhttp://twitter.com/iagconsulting\nhttp://twitter.com/lerzah\nhttp://twitter.com/jonbab1\nhttp://twitter.com/JenniferBanzon\nhttp://twitter.com/bainsight\nhttp://twitter.com/GreySkinnedBoy\nhttp://twitter.com/DougGtheBA\nhttp://twitter.com/alexpapworth\nhttp://twitter.com/dwwright99\nhttp://twitter.com/ModernAnalyst\nBusiness Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Knowledge Areas\nKnowledge area that covers how business analysts determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.\nCovers identification of stakeholders, selection of business analysis techniques, the process that will be used to manage requirements, and how to assess the progress of the work.\nDescribes how business analysts work with stakeholders to identify and understand their needs and concerns, and understand the environment in which they work.\nThe purpose of elicitation is to ensure that a stakeholder\u2019s actual underlying needs are understood, rather than their stated or superficial desires.\nRequirements Management and Communication\nDescribes how business analysts manage conflicts, issues, and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope, how requirements are communicated to stakeholders, and how knowledge gained by the business analyst is maintained for future use.\nDescribes how business analysts identify a business need, refine and clarify the definition of that need, and define a solution scope that can feasibly be implemented by the business.\nThis knowledge area describes problem definition and analysis, business case development, feasibility studies, and the definition of solution scope.\nDescribes how business analysts prioritize and progressively elaborate stakeholder and solution requirements in order to enable the project team to implement a solution that will meet the needs of the sponsoring organization and stakeholders.\nInvolves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs, assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements, and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.\nDescribes how business analysts assess proposed solutions to determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps and shortcomings in solutions, and determine necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.\nDescribes how business analysts assess deployed solutions to see how well they met the original need so that the sponsoring organization can assess the performance and effectiveness of the solution.\nDescribes the behaviors, knowledge, and other characteristics that support the effective performance of business analysis.\nDomains are an area undergoing analysis\nA solution is a set of changes to the current state of an organization that are made in order to enable the organization to meet a business need, solve a problem, or take advantage of an opportunity.\nExamples of solutions and solution components include software applications, web services, business processes, the business rules that govern that process, an information technology application, a revised organizational structure, outsourcing, insourcing, redefining job roles, or any other method of creating a capability needed by an organization.\nBusiness analysis helps organization define the optimal solution for their needs, given the set of constraints (including time, budget, regulations, and others) under which that organization operates.\nCondition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective.\nA condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a solution or solution component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed documents.\nOne of the key objectives of business analysis is to ensure that requirements are visible to and understood by all stakeholders.\nA requirement may describe the current of future state of any aspect of the enterprise.\nRequirements Classification Scheme\nHigher level statements of the goals, objectives, or needs of the enterprise.\nDescribe why a project has been initiated, the objectives the project will achieve, and the metrics that will be used to measure its success.\nThey are developed and defined through enterprise analysis.\nStakeholder Requirements\nStatements of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders.\nThey describe the needs that a given stakeholder has and how that stakeholder will interact with the solution.\nStakeholder requirements serve as a bridge between business requirements and the various classes of solution requirements.\nThey are developed and refined through requirements analysis.\nDescribe the characteristics of a solution that meet business requirements and stakeholder requirements.\nThey are developed and defined through requirements analysis.\nThey are frequently divided into sub-categories:\nDescribe the behavior and information that the solution will manage\nDescribe the capabilities the solution will be able to perform in terms of behavior or operations\nCapture conditions that do not directly relate to the behavior or functionality of the solution, but rather describe environmental conditions under which the solution must remain effective.\nAlso knows as quality or supplementary requirements\nOften include requirements related to capacity, speed, security, availability, and the information architecture and presentation of the user interface.\nDescribe capabilities that the solution must have in order to facilitate transition from the current state of the enterprise to a desired future state, but that will not be needed once that transition is complete.\nThey are differentiated because they are always temporary and cannot be developed until both an existing and new solution are defined.\nThey typically cover data conversion from existing systems, skill gaps that must be addressed, and other related changes to reach the desired future state.\nThey are developed through solution assessment and validation.\nBusiness analysis is a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.\nBusiness analysis is performed to define and validate solutions that meet business needs, goals, or objectives.\nThe business analyst is responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders, not simply their expressed desires.\nBusiness analysts often play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology, and may serve as a \u201ctranslator\u201d between those groups.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", 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"2019-02-15T23:30:09Z", "digest": "sha1:I3AMNATBVFG2QHSCKUY4HXXK4VKFVSXD", "length": 386, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "claytontimes.com", "title": "The Pearl Condominium \u2013 Clayton Times", "raw_content": "The Pearl Condominium\nClayton to get new condominiums, first time in 10 years\nCLAYTON, Mo. \u2013 As a result of the City of Clayton\u2019s Plan Commission and Architectural Review Board\u2019s decision at Monday night\u2019s meeting the first new condominiums, in nearly a decade, will be built in Clayton. \u201cFor a decade now, the [\u2026]\nDecember 4, 2018 December 4, 2018 Business, Clayton, Feature, Lifestyle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 185.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clergygonewild.com/bigotry/54-other-bigotry-a-hatred/1490-captive-virgins-polygamy-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEEFTLJ6U46MIFXAEDLCYUOCTGEKUZZN", "length": 9574, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "clergygonewild.com", "title": "Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible", "raw_content": "You are here:\tBigotry Other Bigotry & Hatred Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible\nCaptive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible\nWritten by Dr. Valerie Tarico Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:00\nHow many so-called Biblical literalists have actually read the whole Bible? Let's see what God really has to say about marriage.\nTraditionally, Republicans tend to run on a platform of God, guns and gays. This time, it\u2019s God, gyne-policy and gays \u2013 a set of urgent priorities straight from the mouths of conservative bishops and evangelists who call themselves Bible believers.\nThere\u2019s no way to understand politics anywhere without understanding religion, but to an outsider American Christianity -- and so American politics -- can seem almost incomprehensible. Over the last 2,000 years, Christians have quarreled themselves into 30,000 different denominations. On top of that, American Christianity, like American culture more broadly, tends to flout hierarchy and authority, which means that a sizeable number of American Christians consider themselves \u201cnondenominational.\"\nThe ever faster splintering of denominations and non-denominations, from crystal cathedrals to house churches gives a particularly elevated status to the Bible, which is why, along with the Catholic bishops and charismatic preachers we find the Good Book in the middle of our public policy debates. \u201cBible-believing\u201d Christians, also called \u201cbiblical literalists,\u201d believe the Bible is the literally perfect word of God, essentially dictated by God to the writers. Thanks to the determined work of historical revisionists like David Barton, many of them also believe (very, very wrongly) that America\u2019s Constitution and legal system also were founded on principles and laws drawn from the Bible.\nNot all Christians share this view. Biblical literalists are at the opposite end of the theological spectrum from modernist Christians, who see the Bible as the record of our imperfect spiritual ancestors who struggled to understand what is good and what is God and how to live in moral community with each other.\nA Christian\u2019s view of the Bible often dictates social and moral priorities, which brings us back to the current political context. The Catholic bishops are well organized and so, under the banner of \"religious freedom\" (for institutions, not women), they have lead the charge against women's reproductive rights. But they have been able to limit contraceptive and abortion access in this country for decades only because FEB (fundamentalist/evangelical/born-again) Bible-believing Christians rally to the cause. In my home state of Washington, conservative Catholics and Bible believers rallied by the hundreds this week to protest against universal contraceptive coverage. As I write they are gathering signatures to reverse our historic gay marriage legislation.\nEven though divorce and teen pregnancy rates are lower in more secular parts of the country, Bible believers see both as problems caused primarily by America\u2019s loss of faith. To hear them tell it, from the time of America\u2019s founding until the 1970s (when gays, atheists and bra-less women began tearing down the social order) this country prospered because we attended church and lived as God commanded, and our courts protected the righteous institution of biblical marriage. Now gay marriage laws are creeping across the nation, threatening the last shreds of our moral fabric.\nLet me tell you a secret about Bible believers that I know because I was one. Most of them don\u2019t read their Bibles. If they did, they would know that the biblical model of sex and marriage has little to do with the one they so loudly defend. Stories depicted in the Bible include rape, incest, master-slave sexual relations, captive virgins, and more. Now, just because a story is told in the Bible doesn\u2019t mean it is intended as a model for devout behavior. Other factors have to be considered, like whether God commands or forbids the behavior, if the behavior is punished, and if Jesus subsequently indicates the rules have changed, come the New Testament.\nThrough this lens, you find that the God of the Bible still endorses polygamy and sexual slavery and coerced marriage of young virgins along with monogamy. In fact, he endorses all three to the point of providing detailed regulations. Based on stories of sex and marriage that God rewards and appears to approve one might add incest to the mix. Nowhere does the Bible say, \u201cDon\u2019t have sex with someone who doesn\u2019t want to have sex with you.\u201d\nFurthermore, none of the norms that are endorsed and regulated in the Old Testament law \u2013 polygamy, sexual slavery, coerced marriage of young girls\u2014are revised, reversed, or condemned by Jesus. In fact, the writer of Matthew puts these words in the mouth of Jesus:\nThe Law of which Jesus speaks is the Law of Moses, or the Torah, and anyone who claims the Bible as the perfect word of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God should have the decency to read it carefully\u2014and then keep going.\nPolygamy is a norm in the Old Testament and accepted in the New Testament. Biblicalpolygamy.com has pages dedicated to 40 biblical figure,s each of whom had multiple wives. The list includes patriarchs like Abraham and Isaac. King David, the first king of Israel may have limited himself to eight wives, but his son Solomon, reputed to be the wisest man who ever lived had 700 wives and 300 concubines! (1 Kings 11)\nConcubines are sex slaves, and the Bible gives instructions on acquisition of several types of sex slaves, although the line between biblical marriage and sexual slavery is blurry. A Hebrew man might, for example, sell his daughter to another Hebrew, who then has certain obligations to her once she is used. For example, he can\u2019t then sell her to a foreigner. Alternately a man might see a virgin war captive that he wants for himself.\nIn the book of Numbers (31:18) God\u2019s servant commands the Israelites to kill all of the used Midianite women who have been captured in war, and all of the boy children, but to keep all of the virgin girls for themselves. The Law of Moses spells out a purification ritual to prepare a captive virgin for life as a concubine. It requires her owner to shave her head and trim her nails and give her a month to mourn her parents before the first sex act (Deuteronomy 21:10-14). A Hebrew girl who is raped can be sold to her rapist for 50 shekels, or about $580 (Deuteronomy 22:28-29). He must then keep her as one of his wives for as long as she lives.\nA man might acquire multiple wives whether he wanted them or not if his brother died. In fact, if a brother dies with no children, it becomes a duty to impregnate his wife. In the book of Genesis, Onan is struck dead by God because he fails to fulfill this duty \u2013 preferring to spill his seed on the ground rather than providing offspring for his brother (Genesis 38:8-10). A New Testament story shows that the tradition has survived. Jesus is a rabbi, and a group of scholars called Sadducees try to test his knowledge of Hebrew Law by asking him this question:\nHaving a brother act as a sperm donor isn\u2019t the only biblical solution to lack of offspring. The patriarch Abraham is married to his half-sister Sarah, but the two are childless for the first 75 years or so of their marriage. Frustrated, Sarah finally says, \u201cThe LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.\" Her slave, Hagar, becomes pregnant, and then later Sarah does too and the story gets complicated (Genesis 16). But that doesn\u2019t stop Abraham\u2019s grandson Jacob from participating in a competition, in which his two wives repeatedly send in their slaves to get pregnant by him, each trying to get more sons than the other. (Genesis 19:15-30)\nSince many Christians haven\u2019t read the whole Bible, most \u201cBible believers\u201d are not, as they like to claim, actually Bible believers. Bible believers, even those who think themselves \u201cnondenominational,\u201d almost all follow some theological tradition that tells them which parts of the Bible to follow and how. Yes, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that I call bibliolatry, and Bible worship can make a person\u2019s moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the Iron Age tribesmen who wrote the texts. (I once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses rationalized the Old Testament slaughter of children with the same words Nazis used to justify the slaughter of Jewish babies.)\nBut many who call themselves Bible believers are simply, congenitally conservative \u2013 meaning change-resistant. It is not the Bible they worship so much as the status quo, which they justify by invoking ancient texts. Gay marriage will come, as will reproductive rights, and these Bible believers will adapt to the change as they have others: reluctantly, slowly and with angry protests, but in the end accepting it, and perhaps even insisting that it was God\u2019s will all along.\nDr. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington and the founder of Wisdom Commons. 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Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. a fleur-de-lis betw. three crescents or; 2nd and 3rd, ar. a saltire az. betw. three edock leaves in chief and flanks vert, all within a bordure engr. gu. Crest\u2014A sparrow-hawk rising ppr. Motto\u2014Virtute adepta.\n2) (Cairnies). Az. a fleur-de-lis betw. three crescents or, on a chief of the second a cross pattee gu. Same Crest and Motto as Patten, of Glenalmond.\n3) Per pale gu. and ar. three crescents counterchanged. Crest\u2014On a rock a swan close ppr.\n4) (Bishops Hall and Stoke Court, Taunton). Az. a sword ar. hilted or, betw. three crescents of the second. Crest\u2014A hawk ar. Motto\u2014Virtute adepta.\nOrigin, Meaning, Family History and Patton Coat of Arms and Family Crest\nThe English, Scottish, and northern Irish last name has four origin theories. First, Patton is a baptismal one meaning \u201cthe son of Patrick\u201d, deriving from Pate, a nickname or reduced or pet form of the personal (first) name Patrick. The masculine or male given name Patrick derives from the Latin name Patricius (deriving from the word patrician, meaning noblemen, a term that referred to the ruling class in ancient Rome), which was popularized throughout the British Isle (particularly Ireland) by St. Patrick, a Welshmen, who lived in the 400s AD and was a missionary and bishop in Ireland, who is widely credited for Christianizing the island nation. The shortened version Pate or Pat means \u201cLittle Pat\u201d. A second origin theory exists, suggesting the last name may have derived from a nickname for a bald person or cropped hair, as the Middle English word pate means head or skull. A third origin theory is that it is a locational name for a person from Patton in Yorkshire, spelled Patun in the Domesday Book of 1086 AD, a survey of England and Wales ordered by William the Conqueror. Fourth, it is a topographic or habitational name for a person who lived near a stream, hill, tree, or church. One source asserts the family lived in the manor of Patton in county Shropshire, England and later moved to Scotland\nCommon spelling variants or names with similar etymologies include Patten, Pattin, Patin, Paddon, Padon, and Patonson. Similar foreign names include Paddinge (Dutch).\nThe last name Patton ranks 464th in popularity in terms in the United Status as of the 2000 Census. The name ranks particularly high in the following seven states: Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas.\nThe surname Patton frequency/commonness ranks as follows in the British Isles: England (2,587th), Scotland (1,253rd), Wales (2,488th), Ireland (833rd) and Northern Ireland (197th). In England, it ranks highest in Northumberland and Durham. In Scotland, it ranks highest in Perthshire. In Wales, it ranks highest in Flintshire. In Ireland, it ranks highest in Donegal. In Northern Ireland, it ranks highest in county Down.\nThe name is also present throughout the remainder English speaking world: Canada (1,816th), New Zealand (2,165th), Australia (1,894th), and South Africa (7,226th).\nRichard Patten, the son and heir of Richard, was from Patine or Patten near the city of Chelmsford in county Essex, England who lived in 1119 AD. A one Hugo Patun was recorded in the Patent Rolls of Northumberland in 1230 AD. An early baptism involving this surname was Martha Patton, daughter of Thomas, at St. James Clerkenwell in 1695 AD. An early marriage involving this last name was Edward Patten to Dorothy Wainforde in 1583 AD.\nThe Patton Surname in Scotland\nGeorge Fraser Black\u2019s 1946 book The Surnames of Scotland, states the following in regard to this last name: \u201cIn Ayrshire pronounced Pauton. Paton is said to have been the name of a son of Sir Patrick Herring (fourteenth century). Royal pardons were granted to Paten Broune alias Broun and to the servant of Patein or Pateman Broin, 1407 (Bain, IV, p. 150). Patone de Hangald-syde (1467) appears again in 1469 as Patrick Hangangside. Three persons named Pawton were voters in the parish of Qwilton (Coylton), 1513, and James Padyne, witness, 1514 . Thomas Pattoun, who was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1538, may be the Thomas Patton of Aberdeen slain at Pinkie in 1547. Pattoun Gallowey had a tack of two acres in Carsegrange in 1550 and John Pattoun was admitted burgess of Dundee in 1597 Joneta Pautoun is recorded in Galstoun, 1606 (Retours, Ayr, 81), and Ousteane Paton in Trewin was fined for reset of Clan Gregor in 1613. Alexander Paton of Kinaldie was one of the commissioners appointed for ratifying the valuations of Aberdeenshire, 1662, James Patoune was retoured heir in lands in Tilliecultrie, 1682, and James Patone took the Test in Paisley in 1686. Paton is the one prevailing surname in the fishing village of Usan, the only exception being \u201cone or two Perts and Coutts. . . by marriage of Usan Patons with Ferryden folks\u201d (Edwards, Arnong the fisher folks of Usan and Ferryden, 1921). As forename we have Paton Cudbert 1466, Pattoun Millar 1492, Patton Burakyl 1520, and Pattoun Gallowey mentioned above. Patoun 1590 Patowne and Pattoun 1686 Pattone 1695, Pattoune 1654, Pawtoun 1529, Pawtoune 1554.\u201d\nThe famous genealogist Bernard Burke\u2019s book \u201cThe Landed Gentry\u201d discusses five branches of this family: 1) Patton of Clayton Priory.\nClayton Priory\nPatton of Clayton Priory\nGeneral Walter Douglas Phillipps of Clayton Priory county Sussex was born in 1821 and he was Colonel of the 74th Highlanders, a Knight of Medjidie, and a Brigadier-General in Burmah. He was succeeded his father in 1876 and in 1855, he married Julia, daughter of Sir Howard Elphinstone and five children with her: Walter Denman Elphinstone (1859), Herbert Bethune (born 1860, 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Hussars), Douglas Elphinstone Bethune, Julia Elphinstone, and Anne Florence Louisa Mary Bethune. Burke traces the lineage of Patton genealogy to Colonel Henry Patton of the 6th Royal Regiment of Clatto in county Fide, the eldest surviving son of Andrew Patton, Esquire of Springfield in Donegal (the family gained lands there generations prior for displaying valour in battle). In 1747, he married Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Bethune of Clatto and Nydie, and he had issue with her. His son was James Susannau Patton, Esq. of Clatto in county Fife and of Priory, Lichfield who was Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant who was born in 1753. He was Major in the 93rd Highlanders and Colonel Staffordshire Volunteers who, in 1780, married Merrial, daughter of Thomas Docksey of Snetsone, and had the following issue with her: Henry (born 1780, Lieutenant 1st Royals), Peter (born 1783, Captain Royal Engineers), James (born 1791, served in Royal Navy), Thomas (of Bishop\u2019s Hall), Richard (married Hannah Cullen), John (born 1793, member of Royal Navy), Maria Elizabeth, Susan, Mary (married Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott), Merrial (married a member of the Dodson family), Emma (married Reverend Richard Winsloe), Charlotte (married Sir William Palmer). He died in 1812 and was succeeded by his son Thomas Patton of Bishop\u2019s Hull and Stoke Court, Somerset, who was born in 1792 and became a Commander in the British Royal Navy. In 1819, he married Matilda, daughter of Reverend Richard Winsloe, and had nine children with her: Walter Douglas Phillipps, Herbert Winsloe (born 1823, Captain in the British Royal Army, married Mary, daughter of Charles Gifford), Henry Bethune (born 1834, married Clara Fripp, was Justice of the Peace, Captain of 27th Inniskillings), Lionel Thomas (born 1839, Captain in the 2nd Somerset Militia, married Annette Isaac), Aubrey de Lisle (born 1841, Captain 14th Regiment, married Agnes, daughter of William Corbett, Esq.), Emma Matilda (married Lieutenant Colonel Rawlins), Clara Agnes, Matilda Winsloe (married Cranstoun Adams), and Isabella (married Theobald Walsh). The Patton Coat of Arms (erroneously referred to as the Patton Family Crest) was blazoned in heraldry as follows: Azure, a sword argent hilted or, between three crescents of the second. Crest: A hawk argent.\nPatton Genealogy and Pedigree\nRichard Patten was born in 1244 AD in Chelmsford, Essex. His son Richard Patten was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1270 AD. He married a woman named Eyre and had a son with her named Richard. This son Richard Patten, Sir Knight of Essex, was born in Dagenham, England in 1291 AD. He married a woman named Mary and he had issue with her. His son Richard Patten was born in Essex in 1317 AD. He had issue: John, Robert, and Richard. His son John Patten was born in Essex, England in 1343 and he married a member of the Revyle family. His son John was born in the same city in 1369 and married a member of the Poole family. He had two sons: William and John. His son John was born in Essex in 1399. He married a member of the Westingcroft family and he had a son named Nicholas. This Nicholas Patten was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1421. He had a son named Richard who was born in Lincolnshire in 1451. He married Margery Breeton and had a son with her named Richard. This Richard was born in Derbyshire in 1481 and he had two issue: Richard and Alice (Wade). His son Richard was born in the same town in 1507 and he married Grace Baskerville with whom he had five issue: Alice, William, Joan, Lettice, and Mary. His son William Patton (spelling change) was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex in 1533. He married Anne Johnson and had the following issue with her: Humphrey, Mercury, Richard, Thomas, Gratian, Elizabeth, Pallas, and Anne.\nDr. George Edward Patton was born in Kinsport, Tennessee in 1830. He married Keziah Robertson Vance and had the following issue with her: Samuel N., William Nicholas II, Mary Frances, George Edward, Henry Eugene, Sydney Ellerslie, Annie, Alberta Bertie, Charles V., and Herman. His son Henry was born in the same town in 1868. He married three times and had five children: Ethel Grace, Sidney Austin, Ralph E., Edward Kenner, and Charlie W.\nOne of the earliest documented bearers in colonial America was Mary Patton who came, with her husband, to Virginia in 1654. In Canada, one of the first recorded immigrants bearing the name was Elenor Patton who came in 1823 and arrived in the province of Nova Scotia. In New Zealand, one of the earliest settlers bearing this last name was one J. Patton, who landed in the city of Wellington in 1855 aboard the New Era.\nWe have identified two Patton family mottoes: Virtute adepta, meaning \u201cAcquired by virtue\u201d and Virtus laudanda, meaning \u201cVirtue is praiseworthy\u201d.\nWe have 4 coats of arms for the Patton surname depicted here. These 4 blazons are from Bernard Burke\u2019s book The General Armory of England, Ireland, and Scotland, which was published in 1848. The bottom of this page contains the blazons, and in many instances contains some historical, geographical, and genealogical about where coat of arms was found and who bore it. People with this last name that bore a Patton Coat of Arms include:\n1) Patton, now Masterman, John, of Strokesely, in county York, 1717\n2) Patton-Bethune, General W.P.D., of Clayton Priory, county Sussex, 1883\n3) Phillips-Patton, General W.D. of Clayton Priory, county Sussex, 1882\n4) Patoun, William, of Richmond, county Surrey, and Renfrew, Scotland, June 1772\nThere are hundreds of notable people with the Patton surname. This page will mention a handful. Famous people with this last name include: 1) George Smith Patton (1886-1945) who was a General in the US Army during World War II who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and Europe, but was best known for leading the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy, who first say combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, 2) John Patton (1822-1900) who was the mayor of Detroit, 3) James Patton (1780-1830) who was the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi who previously served in the state\u2019s militia, 4) Charles Emory Patton (1859-1937) who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 5) John Patton Jr. (1850-1907) who was a U.S. Senator from Michigan, 6) Paul Edward Patton (1937) who was the 59th Governor of Kentucky, 7) Robert Miller Patton (1809-1885) who was the 20th Governor of Alabama, 8) Charley Patton (1891-1934) who was an African American blues musician from Mississippi, and 9) Henry Edmund Patton (1867-1943) who was the 10th Bishop of Killaoe.\nGeneral George S. Patton (1885-1945)\nCol. George Smith Patton Sr. (1833-1864), Confederate during Civil War, grandfather of George S.\nPatton Coat of Arms Meaning\nThe Patton Coat of Arms (erroneously called the Patton Family Crest) had three main symbols: the crescent, sword, and fleur-de-lis.\nFor easy recognition of the items on a coat of arms, and hence the quick identification of the owner, bold simple shapes are best. Hence, simple geometric shapes are often used for this purpose, and the crescent Is a typical example of this, and can appear in any of the main heraldic tinctures. Some common is this device that there are special names for its appearance in various orientations \u2013 whilst it lies normally with points upward, the decrescent points to the sinister side, and the increscent to the dexter. The allusion, obviously is to the shape of the moon in the sky (indeed, the French have a version \u201cfigur\u00e9\u201d which includes a face!) and has been said to signify both \u201chonour by the sovereign\u201d and \u201chope of greater glory\u201d.\nGiven the martial nature of the origins of Heraldry, in the identification of knights and men-at-arms it can come as no surprise that mediaeval weaponry of all types are frequently to be found in a coat of arms. Indeed, the sheer variety of different swords can be bewildering and expaining the difference between a scimitar and a falchion is perhaps best left to the expert! If a charge is described just as a simple sword then it will have a straight blade and cross handle, that may be of a different colour, and, unless specified, points upwards. Wade, quoting the earlier writer Guillim, signifies the use of the sword as representing \u201cGovernment and Justice\u201d.\nThe fleur-de-lys (\u201cflower of the lily\u201d) has a long and noble history and was a symbol associated with the royalty of France even before heraldry became widespread. The Lily flower is said to represent \u201cPurity, or whiteness of soul\u201d and sometimes associated with the Virgin Mary. 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Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Gerald Cotton, took the only private keys to the grave, depriving users of $190 million in frozen funds.\nSince then, an additional $468,675 in bitcoin was accidentally transferred to the crypto exchange\u2019s inaccessible cold wallets early this month.\nCourt Appointed Overseer\nWhile releasing their first report on February 12, 2019, Ernst & Young, the court-appointed monitor for the embattled QuadrigaCX Cryptocurrency exchange, unveiled the shocking details. In the report, Ernst & Young reported that the exchange \u201cinadvertently\u201d transferred $468,675 in bitcoin to a cold wallet whose private keys were only known by the now deceased CEO Gerald Cotton.\nThe report of the monitor read:\n\u201cOn February 6, 2019, QuadrigaCX inadvertently transferred 103 Bitcoins valued at approximately $468,675 to QuadrigaCX cold wallets which the Company is currently unable to access [\u2026] the Monitor is working with Management to retrieve this cryptocurrency from the various cold wallets, if possible.\u201d\nLocked Inside Cold Wallets\nWhen Cotton died, he took with him six feet under the only way anyone could access the company\u2019s secure and un-hackable offline storage units. Being the only person who had access to the private keys for the wallets, there is at least $190 million in bitcoin that owners have not been able to access for several months now.\nBy the time Canadian-based crypto exchange was shut down on January 28, 2019, there were close to 115,000 customers who kept their crypto assets in the exchange and were still owed at least $70 million in cash and $190 million in cryptocurrencies.\nThe exchange was shut over one month after its CEO died in India and left the company without access to the cryptocurrency cold wallets. Widow Jennifer Robertson told the Nova Scotia court that her husband was the only person with access to the laptop that she believes contained the private keys to the cold wallet.\nMuch suspicion has developed in the QuadrigaCX saga, and the explanation about the apparent loss of $190 million has only intensified research into finding sufficient evidence that the cold wallets existed, which, according to the monitor, are yet to be located. 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Hannah, passionate about saving the whales and the environment, turns her energy to helping refugees after learning about the plight of the \"Boat People.\" Their stories come together as Hannah and Mei become friends and help each other heal and hope.\nBook Theme: Refugee Stories from Asia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://community.iknowfutures.eu/mod/file/all.php?domain=categories&filter=STIReportsB-Foresight", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CC3IW4BOR374PKWHDOZTUUVAKG4KGVJA", "length": 384, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "community.iknowfutures.eu", "title": "iKnow Community: iKnow Library", "raw_content": "The last decade has seen a proliferation of Foresight exercises across Europe. Focused upon, among other things, science and technology, sustainable development, industrial competitiveness, and ...\nMapping Foresight\nThe \u201cMapping Foresight\u201d report is part of a series of publications produced by the European Foresight Monitoring Network (EFMN project coordinated by TNO, 2004-2008)...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 322, "original_length": 8017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://concordiamandolins.org.au/the-instruments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:12Z", "digest": "sha1:E5EU5CKCORH3Q5UFWCGMURRTZFETVJVW", "length": 1660, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "concordiamandolins.org.au", "title": "The Instruments \u2013 Concordia Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble", "raw_content": "Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin, produced particularly in Naples, became common in the 19th century. This is the form usually preferred by classical ensembles.\nFlatback mandolins are often played by bluegrass or country and western and banjo mandolins can be found in \u2018trad\u2019 jazz bands.\nThe mandolin has the same tuning as the violin (although with four pairs of strings), and is played with a plectrum, rather than a violin bow. Like any skill, it will take time and effort to become proficient. Players of the violin can pick up the skills to play a mandolin quite quickly. Because of the same tuning, their left hand can find the notes and because the mandolin has frets (unlike a violin), there are fewer problems with intonation.\nThe mandola has the same tuning as a viola. It is tuned one octave below the mandolin or violin. Music is written in the treble clef.\nThe mandocello is another octave lower than the mandola (two octaves lower than the Mandolin). Most music written for mandocello is in bass clef and not all arrangements for mandolin ensembles include mandocello parts.\nThe acoustic guitar rose to international prominence, alongside other plucked instruments, during the early twentieth century. Guitars come in a range of designs, sounds, repertoires and playing styles.\nThose played in ensembles such as Concordia are classical six-string guitars.\nThe double bass instruments played in Concordia are no different to those found in a symphony orchestra. There music is written in the bass clef. 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The fire reached the edge of a major tourist park Monday, spewing thick smoke and red sparks.\nThe fire broke out on Sunday, prompting emergency services to evacuate 90 villagers from their homes overnight, and has spread over 1,800 hectares (2,700 acres), the regional government said Monday.\nThe wind-fanned fire reached the edge of the Teide National Park -- a mountainous beauty spot on the Teide volcano, Spain's highest peak and a UNESCO world heritage site.\nCoaches and cars were moved from the grounds of the park as a precaution.\nIt was not immediately clear whether the fire threatened to spread into the natural park.\nThe regional government of the Canary Islands, an Atlantic archipelago including Tenerife, said 70 firefighters and seven helicopters were busy battling the blaze.\nAnother fire which started on Monday on the island of Palma, in the same archipelago, led to the evacuation of around 100 people.\nSpain is at higher risk of forest fires this summer after suffering its driest winter in 70 years. 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A couple of weeks ago I attended one of the \u2018Cardiff Poetry Experiment\u2019 events, run by Cardiff University\u2019s School of English. I was greeted at the wrought iron gates of Wyndham Arcade by the magical password \u2018poetry?\u2019 and allowed inside. The venue was Wyndham Tea Rooms (sister of Waterloo Tea Rooms), where you can get the best cuppa in Cardiff (though they were serving other drinks too).\nWe heard from Kat Peddie, who read from her pamphlet of Sappho translations. Peddie\u2019s work echoes the fragmentary nature of Sappho\u2019s surviving lyrics, and it was interesting to hear her vocalise this through hesitation during the reading. She also read us some of her more recent work \u2013 interventions into Rilke\u2019s Sonnets to Orpheus, based on the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice.\nChris Paul (a writer and artist from the Rhymney Valley) then read out some of his work, much of which is shape poetry. We were able to view some of the poems on a screen whilst he read, which added another dimension to the experience. I particularly liked a poem which he described as \u201ca psycho-geographic romp through South America\u201d. It was shaped like South America. I also enjoyed hearing a series of mini poems which were written on the Valleys line train.\nThe final poet was Alison Gibb (from London). She combines visual art with her work, and her first, intriguing poem was read alongside a series of projected images of herself. She also read to us from a piece which was inspired by the shattering and restoration of a vase. In the book, you can see fragments of the vase alongside the verse.\nWe then had an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions. The poets talked about the difficulty of performing their work, interpreting the visual elements of poems through the voice, and the use of breath to signify space. It was interesting to hear Chris Paul describe this as a real challenge \u2013 the fine balance between creating a good performance and being truthful to the work. \u201cSometimes poets do perform really badly\u201d he said, perhaps because they are being \u201ctoo precious\u201d about the words themselves.\nAlison Gibb agreed that it can be difficult with visual poetry to replicate how it looks on the page when reading it aloud, and explained that she sometimes uses another person, to provide a second voice which helps to distinguish the words.\nThe evening was an opportunity to encounter writers who are experimenting with their work in all sorts of ways, and to observe the fluidity of art-forms in action, as poetry merges with performance and visual art.\nThe Cardiff Poetry Experiment runs events every few months. 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Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Book Review: Sweet Caress by William Boyd\nThe Hay Festival on a Budget \u2013 A Survival Guide for Stewards \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 7090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://createdtoread.com/word-ward-therapeutic-writing-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:TOR2KHZERP7UN2BQ5OV4GED4JCCTIZ3F", "length": 2961, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "createdtoread.com", "title": "Word Ward \u2013 A Therapeutic Writing Group Word Ward \u2013 A Therapeutic Writing Group", "raw_content": "Word Ward \u2013 A Therapeutic Writing Group\nCreative Writing Groups can be as fascinating and varied as the people who attend them. I\u2019ve been involved in several, and have recently started running one myself, so I thought it would be interesting to do a series of features on particular groups. To start us off, Rhian Elizabeth has written about her brand new group \u2018Word Ward\u2019\u2026.\nA Guest Post Written by Rhian Elizabeth\nI was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis exactly this time last year. I had been ill for some time but to be told that what you\u2019re going through has a name and that you will be going through it for the rest of your life was a bit of a nasty shock. I\u2019ve been writing lots of poetry about MS and it\u2019s going to be published by Parthian Books in the spring. This is very exciting, but it\u2019s also very important for me, as writing about my illness has helped me a lot. I like to think that by writing about it, I\u2019m defining it, instead of it defining me.\nI\u2019m also a Hay Festival Writer at Work and, whilst I was at the festival this year, I thought a lot about what I could do with my life. Lots of my friends were doing lots of productive and important things with their time, and their writing, and there was me- just writing about ME ME ME. I then had an idea, an idea that was always there, because I knew that writing had always been something that helped me get through difficult things in my life. The idea was to set up a creative writing group for people with long term health conditions.\nWriting had been helping me deal with the challenges I was facing, and I wanted to see if I could help other people do the same. Writing is kind of like therapy, like all other kinds of art. Selfishly, I also wanted to meet other people who are going through the same things as me, and people who also like to write.\nA good friend of mine, who is also a Hay Festival Writer at Work, Catrin Kean, messaged me and told me that she thought this idea of setting up a group seemed like a good one, and that she wanted to get on board. And she did. Fizzy Oppe, a psychotherapist and counsellor, also runs the group with us. We are a threesome and we are called \u2018Word Ward\u2019.\nRhian Elizabeth, Fizzy Oppe and Catrin Kean will run the group together\nWe will meet every other Wednesday at 6pm in an accessible room at the Wales Millennium Centre, starting September 6th. It\u2019s free and open to anyone with a health condition, whatever your style of writing and whatever your experience. See you there.\nFind out more about the group by visiting the Word Ward Facebook page.\nAnd if you run (or belong to) a creative writing group, and would like to write a post about it, please do get in touch \u2013 rachel@createdtoread.com\nThis entry was posted in Features, Festivals & Events, Festivals & Events in 2017 and tagged creative writing workshop, writing. 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Usually, they warn users of the dire consequences of using the system for inappropriate access. Here are a couple links with some good starting points.\nhttps://www.security-marathon.be/sample-log-on-warning-banner/\nhttps://security.tennessee.edu/login-banners/\nYou can of course write your own. 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He directed in films in the 1960s and 1970s including \"The Learning Tree\" and \"Shaft,\" composed music, and was the author of several books, mostly memoirs.\nObjects related to Gordon Parks:\nGordon Parks Big Momma and Boy, ca. 1967-1968 (printed ca. 1972) Gelatin silver print\nGordon Parks Stokely Carmichael, 1967 (printed ca. 1967) Gelatin silver print", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 174.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dailynotes.andrewnemr.com/2018/05/good-practice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BOQ5LXQ3P6CM64GHONGVWFUGQFHLBIQP", "length": 1226, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dailynotes.andrewnemr.com", "title": "Good Practice - Andrew's Daily Notes", "raw_content": "A few weeks ago I was at a public park. Sitting in my car in a fairly vacant parking lot, I noticed a car drive in front of me. It was coasting slowly, as if looking for a spot to park. It was curious, especially since there were plenty of parking options. Not 3 minutes later the same car drove by again. And then again.\nTurns out the driver was practicing for their driver\u2019s license test. They had set up a course (including parallel parking cones) to go through, and I was on the inside of the loop.\nI was there for about 45minutes. The other car never stopped circling the loop. Signal when turning, park then reverse, parallel park then come back out. Review, then repeat.\nThis is good practice. Iteration. The continual repetition of a particular series of events, while each time making small (or large) adjustments to more closely achieve the desired results.\nSometimes we might need a number of repetitions just to learn the basics of what we are trying to do. With each repetition we are remembering more, executing more smoothly, and broadening our capacity to pay attention to the bigger picture and the smallest detail. While this feels like repetition, this is actually iteration. And iteration is good practice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://davidgibson.religionnews.com/2019/02/08/six-year-prison-sentence-for-jehovahs-witness-in-russia-sparks-outcry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E63WDJRG2EJCRKFLT2XRXCT7LYBSOSEZ", "length": 9177, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "davidgibson.religionnews.com", "title": "Six-year prison sentence for Jehovah's Witness in Russia sparks outcry - Religion News Service", "raw_content": "Members of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses wait in a courtroom in Moscow on April 20, 2017. Russia\u2019s Supreme Court banned the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses from operating in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group, ordering closure of the group\u2019s Russia headquarters and its 395 local chapters, as well as the seizure of its property. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)\nDennis Christensen, a 46-year-old carpenter who has lived in Russia for more than two decades, was sentenced on Wednesday by a court in Oryol, a city some 200 miles south of Moscow.\nThe Danish national had spent almost two years in a pre-trial detention facility after being detained by armed police and officers from the FSB security service during a raid on a Jehovah\u2019s Witness prayer hall in Oryol in May 2017.\nChristensen is the first Jehovah\u2019s Witness to be sentenced to prison in Russia since the country\u2019s Supreme Court declared the pacifist Christian denomination an \u201cextremist organization\u201d in 2017, putting it on par with the Islamic State militant group and neo-Nazi movements.\nThe Supreme Court claims Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses promote the \u201cexclusivity and supremacy\u201d of their beliefs.\nJudges of Russia\u2019s Supreme Court attend a hearing in Moscow on Jan. 23, 2014. Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters\nProsecutors said Christensen had organized the religious activities of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Oryol, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars. They did not cite, however, any specific examples of what exactly was \u201cextremist\u201d about his actions.\nHis wife, Irina Christensen, a Russian national, said the allegations against her husband were \u201cabsurd\u201d and that he was a law-abiding person.\nHis attorney spoke to reporters in Moscow on Friday (Feb. 8).\n\u201cNothing Christensen did posed any danger to society,\u201d Anton Bogdanov, Christensen\u2019s attorney, said at a press conference. Bogdanov also said that the court\u2019s decision had effectively criminalized \u201cpeaceful religious practices\u201d such as praying, singing hymns and Bible study.\nScores more Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have also been charged with participating in or organizing the group\u2019s activities. Twenty-five Witnesses are behind bars awaiting trial or being tried, while another 24 are under house arrest.\nThere are an estimated 175,000 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia. Many converted to the faith after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Around 5,000 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are estimated to have fled the country since the Supreme Court outlawed the group two years ago.\nMany say they fear that their children could be taken away from them by the state.\nThe Kremlin\u2019s crackdown on the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses has been accompanied by a wider state campaign against \u201cforeign religions\u201d amid tensions with the West over Syria and Ukraine.\nIn 2016, President Vladimir Putin, as part of vaguely worded anti-extremism and terrorism legislation, approved a law that outlawed missionary work carried out in Russia by groups like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Baptists, and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.\nMichelle Bachelet, the United Nations\u2019 High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced the court\u2019s decision in the Christensen case.\nDanish citizen Dennis Christensen was detained in Oryol, Russia, after a Jehovah\u2019s Witness service was raided in May 2017. Photo courtesy of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\n\u201cThe harsh sentence imposed on Christensen creates a dangerous precedent, and effectively criminalizes the right to freedom of religion or belief for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia \u2014 in contravention of the state\u2019s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,\u201d Bachelet said in a statement.\nRussia\u2019s decision to imprison Christensen was also criticized by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan government advisory body, and the European Union.\n\u201cDennis Christensen has been arrested and prosecuted by the authorities simply for practicing his religion as a Jehovah\u2019s Witness,\u201d said Amnesty International in a statement.\nDanish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen expressed serious concerns about the sentence and called on Russia to \u201crespect freedom of religion,\u201d comments that were echoed by Andrea Kalan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Moscow.\nValery Borshchev of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights organization warned that the imprisonment of Christensen could trigger a \u201cwave\u201d of arrests of members of other minority religious groups in Russia, not only Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.\n\u201cAdventists, Baptists, and so on, should be very concerned,\u201d he said.\nWhile there was little doubt that Christensen would be found guilty of the charges against him \u2014 very few criminal cases end in an acquittal in Russia \u2014 the harshness of the sentence came as a surprise, because Putin said last month that it was \u201ccomplete nonsense\u201d to classify the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses as an extremist organization.\n\u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses are Christians, too. I don\u2019t quite understand why they are persecuted,\u201d Putin said at a meeting with human rights defenders in Moscow.\nThe imprisonment of Christensen dashed hopes, however, that the Russian State\u2019s two-year-long campaign against the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses was nearing an end.\nAlyona Vilitkevich, whose husband, Anatoly, is also facing prison after being charged with organizing the activities of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Ufa, a city in central Russia, said she was dismayed by the six-year sentence handed down to Christensen.\n\u201cI\u2019m afraid for my husband and for my family. Will I really have to be apart from my husband for six years just because we are ordinary believers who read the Bible and try to live by it?\u201d she told RNS.\nA group of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses writes letters to members of the Russian government in support of their churches in Russia on March 25, 2017. Photo courtesy of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\nPaul Gillies, international spokesman for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, called Christensen\u2019s conviction \u201cunjust\u201d and said it had \u201cdangerous implications.\u201d\nJehovah\u2019s Witnesses have a well-established international reputation for being peaceful, law-abiding citizens,\u201d Gilles said in a statement to RNS. \u201cIt is our hope that the Russian authorities will take this opportunity to correct the unjust decision to ban our activities, which has caused the imprisonment of our fellow believers.\u201d\nThe court\u2019s decision appeared initially to have caught the Kremlin unawares.\n\u201cThey could not have done this simply for practicing his religion,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the RIA Novosti state news agency on Wednesday. \u201cPresumably, there were some grounds for the accusations.\u201d Peskov admitted, however, that he did not know exactly what these grounds were.\nIn additional comments on Thursday, Peskov said the issue was \u201ccomplicated\u201d but insisted that the activities of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia were in violation of the country\u2019s law.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t operate with common-sense concepts for state purposes,\u201d Peskov said. \u201cFirst and foremost, we operate with concepts of legality and illegality. In this case, the activity of this religious organization is illegal.\u201d\nHuman rights defenders responded by saying that during the Soviet era, religious groups were also outlawed and persecuted.\nSome 200,000 members of the clergy were murdered during the first two decades of the Soviet era, according to a 1995 Kremlin committee report, while millions of other Christians suffered for their faith.\nAlthough Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin allowed a limited revival of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Second World War, anti-religion propaganda and discrimination against believers continued up until the mid-1980s. Today, more than 80 percent of Russians identify as Orthodox Christians, although few attend church services or observe religious fasts.\nThe Russian Orthodox Church, a key Kremlin ally, has supported the Kremlin\u2019s clampdown on the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. Vitaly Milonov, an ultra-conservative lawmaker with close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, told RNS that he considered the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses a \u201czombie sect\u201d and insisted that Russia was within its rights to outlaw any religious groups it believed to be a threat to the public well-being.\nThere were signs, though, that the church was uncomfortable about the move to imprison Christensen. Vakhtang Kipshidze, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, declined to comment on the court\u2019s decision but said that Christensen\u2019s \u201creligious beliefs, in our opinion, are his personal business and the subject of free choice.\u201d\nArchpriest Vyacheslav Perevezentse was another to speak out. \u201c(Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses) were recognized as an \u2018extremist organization\u2019 on very unclear grounds. They did not prepare or commit terrorist acts, nor were they known to have committed large-scale fraud,\u201d he wrote in an article published by Russia\u2019s Pravmir website.\n\u201cCould they come for us? Easily,\u201d he added. \u201cIf it\u2019s necessary, they\u2019ll come. 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He suffers from a very bad back and can be somewhat stubborn at times. He is secretly in love with the high shaman T\u2019essa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://deannamccusker.com/wordpress/portfolio-item/cadence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5CRZTXV7Y55AZARODSRT65Y65YU7WEWV", "length": 7635, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "deannamccusker.com", "title": "Deanna McCusker | Cadence Integrated Circuit Layout Design", "raw_content": "Cadence Integrated Circuit Layout Design\nCo-founded the usability team with Jeff Markham\nBuilt the first usability lab at Cadence\nDeveloped and taught a class on usability and user interaction design for all levels of the company\nWorked with company leaders to determine where the usability team fit into the organization\nCadence, an EDA (electronic design automation) company, buys Valid Logic Systems (also an EDA company), where I was the Interaction Design Lead for a team of five UI engineers designing and building the interface for IC (integrated circuit) layout tools. It\u2019s 1992 and Cadence is criticized by their customers for the difficulty of their software and they want to improve usability.\nUsability as a field was very new, beginning to emerge as a distinct professional practice in the late 1980s. The UPA (Usability Professionals Association, now UXPA) was founded in 1991 and I attended their first conference, held at Microsoft in Redmond, WA in 1992. As a young designer and UI programmer, I was surprised to learn that I had been practicing usability engineering \u2013 assessing and making recommendations to improve usability \u2013 without realizing it, for most of my career.\nElectronic design automation \u2013 tools for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs) and integrated circuits (ICs) \u2013 as a field had been populated by the hardware engineers who needed the tools. The guys (and they were nearly all men) who designed the tools were the same ones who used them and they understood the computer inside and out. But by the late 80s and early 90s, computers were becoming increasingly complex and engineering disciplines were specializing in either hardware or software design so that the engineers who designed the tools no longer knew the domain thoroughly and the hardware engineers no longer understood every function of the computer. Hence the new need for usability in the field of EDA.\nThe usability profession is new and the need for it in EDA is new, so how do you introduce usability as a discipline into a traditionally engineering-oriented organization?\nWhat We Explored\nWhen Cadence bought Valid, each organization had a team of 5-6 people developing the user interface for their respective EDA products. Myself, the manager of the Valid team, and my counterpart at Cadence, Jeff Markham, founded the new Usability team. At first, it was just the two of us evangelizing usability.\nAt first we did a lot of research and reading about usability. Then we brought in several usability professionals to teach classes for us and others at the company interested in improving usability.\nFirst Usability Study\nWe realized that in order to raise awareness, we needed an early win. One of the projects we were engaged in was improving the installation process for our PCB tools.\nWe found an empty room with a \u201ccomputer closet\u201d so we could set up a camera in the room where the user would do the installation and run the wires to the adjoining closet and the observers could watch on a separate computer without being seen by the user.\nThe installation media came packaged in it\u2019s shipping box and so, at the last minute, we decided to start the usability test by asking the user to open the box, retrieve the media, and figure out, from the contents of the box, what to do.\nUsability testing the installation process starting with opening the shipped product.\nUsability testing can be applied to almost any aspect of product design \u2013 from the acquisition experience through product end-of-life.\nThe shipping box contained 2 (TWO!) \u201cRead Me First\u201d documents containing slightly different, and sometimes contradicting, information. But imagine the customer support calls this initially generated. On top of that, the Read Me First documents were on the top of the stuff that came in the box, the user had to pull everything out of the box to discover them.\nResolution: Easy \u2013 combine information into a single Read Me First. Put on top.\nThe customer received 10 (TEN!) \u2013 2\u00d72\u2019 boxes when they ordered a copy of our tools \u2013 1 contained the magnetic tape with the installer and getting started instructions, the other 9 contained the product documentation! (Okay, this was normal before online documentation. However, none of the boxes were marked with anything but the company information, forcing the customer to open each box until they found the one with the installation tape.\nResolution: Print one box \u201cInstallation Materials\u201d on all sides.\nMany installation issues that revolved around making the user type information that the system could find and set as defaults.\nSet defaults for all fields that was asking the user for information they system knew.\nWe studied various ways that a usability team could fit into the organizational structure. Like tech pubs or QA, usability (and user interaction design) are cross-functional disciplines. It is now well known that there are two basic organizational structures for such cross-functional teams \u2013 a corporate entity whose services are either \u201cfree\u201d or are charged back to the departments, or embedded with the product teams they service. What is not so well known is which one works best. I have found that this really depends on the organization. Most organizations I have worked in tend to switch back and forth between these two models every few years searching for the best place.\nWhere does the usability team fit into the organization?\nPros of usability as corporate entity (team members report to usability manager or higher):\nVisibility and availability to all departments, not just product teams\nMore of a \u201cvoice\u201d within the corporation\nAbility to encourage consistency across products\nPros of usability as part of the product teams (team members report to engineering manager)\nAbility to become an expert at a given product\nGet to know the engineers and how best to work with them to get design implemented\nIn order for a new usability team to be successful in an organization that did not have design as part of it\u2019s culture, it was important to evangelize the concept, at all levels of the organization. What we did that worked:\nFound a sponsor in the c-staff that helped us evangelize at the top levels\nTaught a class on design principles and design process\nto developers to help them understand the importance of good design\nto marketing/sales/rest of org to raise their awareness so they can better understand the customers needs\nto upper management to help them understand the design process and organizational needs\nProcess taught in usability class\nPublished as much as possible \u2013 tri-fold explaining our team\u2019s function and articles in the company newsletters.\nBringing good design to a traditionally engineering oriented organization was not just a matter of producing good designs, it required:\nevangelizing at all levels of the company\nusability testing to help engineers see the customer\u2019s difficulties\nteaching design principles and importance of testing at all levels of the company\nfinding a c-level sponsor \u2013 this proved very important to getting engineering managers to work with us\nThis was a good solution because\nIt helped the company move beyond the need for customers to be highly expert at the products. 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We\u2019ll also be entertained with some classic roots from the Dallas String Band, Lead Belly, E. C. Ball, and a tribute set to Sam Cooke.\nBlues, Deeper Roots on KWTF\nTexas Bluesmen\nWhen one thinks of the early influences of the blues, they\u2019re taken down to the Mississippi Delta or maybe into East Georgia, where the Piedmont blues style was born. But Texas is not always a player in the discussion primarily because most do not necessarily know the origins of its native sons even though they may know their names. Let\u2019s try Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, and Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins to start with and we\u2019ll go on from there. In Friday night\u2019s Deeper Roots show we visit the streets of Deep Ellum, Houston, and Galveston, where many of the performers would ply their trade in the Lone Star State. Although we won\u2019t cover Blind Lemon, we\u2019ll have plenty of music to keep us tapping out toes including Texas Alexander, Pee Wee Crayton, Freddie King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan\u2026and all of the greats who made their name in between.\nBlues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Free Form, Gospel\nFree Form \u2013 May 2015\nEvery so often we like to spend time wandering about the last century of jazz, blues, gospel and country, sharing music that\u2019s not lost, only tucked away. In this week\u2019s episode we\u2019ll do just that and share our first \u2018free form\u2019 show of the year with you all. We\u2019ll have blues about clothes being ripped off by Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins and the Chicago Black Swans, a gumbo of Louisiana sounds from the likes of Doug Kershaw, beer toasting Tex Mex from Doug Sahm, and pining bluegrass from Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and Ralph Stanley. Tune in for another two hours of the very best of the last century of America\u2019s music with Dave Stroud in a show produced exclusively for KWTF community radio.\nBlues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Gospel\nGet up sleepy heads! West Sonoma County rolls out of bed on a Saturday morning at 9 with LaVern Baker in another episode of Deeper Roots featuring the music of Don Edwards, Jorma Kaukonen, The Boswell Sisters, and Mahalia Jackson (to name but a few). KOWS radio is also propelling itself in an important campaign to extend its broadcast signal to a larger audience across Sonoma County and is in it\u2019s last month of its Indiegogo campaign where we\u2019re asking our listeners to jump into with both feet. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/pom5kkq to donate. You can tune into KOWS on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month to get your regular dose of roots music. And there\u2019s more to discover by visiting our Deeper Rootsweb site.\nCountry, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music\nHome On The Rang\nGenerations of youth over the last century grew up with the images of cowpokes, rustlers, bad guys, and ranching through dime novels, radio, television and, of course, the music. In this episode of Deeper Roots, we focus on the legacy of the \u2018cowboy crooners\u2019 and country balladeers who sang about life on the trail alongside the grub wagon on the lone prairie where the imagination could take you anywhere it pleased\u2026and often did. We\u2019ll hear the earliest \u2018cowboy songs\u2019 by Vernon Dalhart and Carl Sprague; and we\u2019ll also find ourselves being serenaded (quite gently) by Tex Ritter and Gene Autry who reached out for the generic, mass appeal. The music was full of tradition as well and we\u2019ll hear some contemporary reflections from David Wilkie And Cowboy Celtic, Jim Lauderdale, and (of course) Waylon, Willie, Merle, and Johnny.\nDeeper Roots on KWTF, Early Jazz\nBack To The Cotton Club\nWe follow up to a previous episode and get back to the music of the Cotton Club, the jewel that grew out of the Harlem Renaissance. While it featured the top shelf acts of Harlem, it was also the typical whites-only club where African-Americans could perform but not attend. Despite these Jim Crow policies, what the Cotton Club brought us was a legendary lineup of performers and performances that rivals none in the history of jazz. 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This marks the rise of Network on Chip(NoC), which combines several tasks on a single chip, thus aptly being named a Network Processor. Since this chip is entirely programmable, its applications are wide-ranging: from encapsulation and decapsulation of packets to its use in intrusion detection systems. This paper offers an understanding of the microarchitecture of network processors in use today and offers a comprehensive solution to optimize each operating module located on the chip. Specific emphasis is given to aspects that hold the pivotal key to unlock low latency and improved data streaming throughput capability, thereby providing a much higher, desired performance capable of alleviating the problems that the processor industry faces today. The paper also highlights the importance of Network Processors for use in the Networks industry. Keywords - Network Processor, Microarchitecture, Network on Chip, Packet Processor, Latency, Throughput", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 1287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://diphudiocese.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QZN5ERGTGJZDF4GMBIDQJ3BXLF5TX62J", "length": 4065, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "diphudiocese.org", "title": "Welcome to Diphu Diocese", "raw_content": "It is my joy to write to you my first letter after having assumed the office of the Bishop of Diphu. First and foremost I humbly acknowledge and appreciate your good wishes and prayers on the occasion of my Episcopal ordination. Everyone who participated in the consecration ceremony, although had to put up with inclement weather, went happy after the function. Many had written to me congratulating the Diocese for the detailed and meticulous arrangements made. If the programs went so well it was due to the careful planning and attention with which everything was carried out by those responsible for each event. Even the participation of the people in large number is a result of the interest and enthusiasm that was instilled into them by the various parishes and centres.\nAt this juncture I would like to say a big thank you to all our fathers, sisters and their co-operators who worked so hard to co-ordinate everything as per the envisaged plans. I want to thank in a special way Rev.Fr. John Timung, our Diocesan Administrator who single handedly took up the leadership and executed much of the works with precision and attention to details. He certainly deserves a special applause. Under his guidance he led the various other teams along with the help of Fr. Vinod, Fr. Binoy and Fr. Nelson. The food arrangement was a herculean task and Fr. Vinod with his team saw to it that everyone went back contented. I thank Fr. Binoy who took so much trouble in seeing to the accommodation and well being of bishops and other guests. A special word of appreciation goes to Fr. Nelson, who put in great effort in organizing the choir, light and sound system. There are many others who contributed their best like Fr. Tom, Fr. Prasad, Fr. Thankachan, Fr. N.V. Joseph and if I go on mentioning names I will have to put into black and white almost everyone\u2019s names.\nI cannot but thank and appreciate the contribution made by so many of our sisters and their helpers by their time and effort for so many days from all the convents in Diphu and outside towards the success of this program. To everyone I express my heartfelt thanks and appreciation. All those who came from my home and relations asked me to convey their special thanks and appreciation to all of you.\nI was in Italy and Rome during the months of August and September. The appreciation level of Pope Francis in Italy, especially among the common people is very high and he appears almost every day in many major newspapers. One point he was insisting time and again to us priests was that we as ministers must move out to the people, instead of waiting for the people to come to us. Rightly so our effectiveness increases when we are able to meet the people and dialogue with them in their own contexts. Besides, when we reach out to them, those staying always voiceless at the peripheries will have more access to us. Unless we are involved in the lives of people we will not be able to connect with them.\nA second point he was often referring to for our effectiveness was that the messenger himself must embody the message. The witness value of our lives is undoubtedly very powerful. As St. Francis has said, \u201cpreach the Gospel at all times, use words if necessary.\u201d\nDear Fathers and sisters, It is my hope and prayer that I may be able to live first what I am hoping and expecting each one of us to do and follow in our pastoral ministries. I have seen for myself for the past so many years that there are persons among us with extraordinary capacity to endure hardships with an absolute sense of commitment and dedication, for the sake of the Gospel and the growth of the Church. May this same spirit continue to spur us on so that Church in Karbi Anglong and N.C. Hills continues to grow and our faith strengthen.\nBefore I conclude, in humility and thanksgiving, I beg of Him for His light upon me at this moment. Please continue to keep me in your prayers.\nOnce again with thanks and in union of prayers,\n+ Paul Mattekatt, Diocese of Diphu.\nDiphu Diocese, Copyright@2008\nBest resolution 1024x768", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 4097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://diplomaterv.vik.bme.hu/en/Theses/Kozossegi-halozatokkal-integralt-mobil", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:6RSPTYJUJKCSOMXP5VKBZ2DHLLIOBFRA", "length": 1279, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "diplomaterv.vik.bme.hu", "title": "K\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi h\u00e1l\u00f3zatokkal integr\u00e1lt mobil h\u00edv\u00e1sinform\u00e1ci\u00f3s rendszer kidolgoz\u00e1sa - BME FEEI Thesis Portal", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Browse and search \u00bb Department of Networked Systems and Services \u00bb Mobile call information system integrated with community networks\nMobile call information system integrated with community networks\nThere is wide variety of tools to maintain contact with our friends in today's information society. Various communication opportunities exist in many forms, ranging from phone call, e-mail and instant messaging systems, all the way into information sharing on social networks. Communications on different channels can be difficult to handle. As my diploma thesis I worked on a mobile call information system, which tries to enrich the traditional phone calls and make it more colourful. This system can collect information that is relevant in the context of the call and display on a desktop client simultaneously with the call. The system is integrated with private or business contact sources and social networks to create useful contents based on the collected data about the calling/called party.\nIn my thesis, I'm exploring the possible benefits and applications of a mobile call information system. The expository of the subject is followed by an overview of the system architecture. Then I specify the main steps and models of the server and client side development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dirkmateer.com/media/Film+Clips/it-s-a-wonderful-life", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EYXDP26RC7PK6EXRM4RXQQMMMJZFJ6YZ", "length": 766, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dirkmateer.com", "title": "It's a Wonderful ... - Media Library - Dirk", "raw_content": "Media Type: Film Clips Topic: Elasticity, Economic Crisis, Money & Banking\nGeorge (James Stewart) returns to find a mob standing outside the Building and Loan and he lets the crush of people into the lobby. He then talks with Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) who tells George that he has handed over most of their cash to the bank and closed for the day to prevent a riot. George pleads with the throng while he tries to explain how the banking system works. The Building & Loan doesn\u2019t keep all the depositors money on hand; it lends the money out into the community as an investment. For any instructor who wants students to gain an appreciation for why bank runs existed and what the banking industry looked like prior to FDIC insurance, this scene is worth viewing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://disfrutaloscorrs.com/fitness/personal-trainer-the-best-person-to-give-the-suggestion-for-your-body-fitness/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLOVOGYB6LZCYAROQVSGHVTGNZELWA2H", "length": 2385, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "disfrutaloscorrs.com", "title": "Personal trainer \u2013 The best person to give the suggestion for your body fitness | Disfrutal Oscorrs on Trending Stories", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Fitness \u00bb Personal trainer \u2013 The best person to give the suggestion for your body fitness\nMerely, each and every person in this world likes to make their body fit and healthy by following the different procedures. 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Here, they are offering some other features like body fat reduction, shaping, body toning and more.\nEnhance your body and mind \u2013 Along with the body workouts, the trainers can also help you to give the suggestions for enhancing their mind and body.\nDevelop the appropriate workout plan \u2013 The trainer can give you the excellent tip for making your body to be fit and healthy. Based on the person\u2019s body fitness, the trainer can suggest you the training.\nThese are the fantastic features that you can avail with the help of hiring the right Personal Trainer Oakville.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://divorcedwomenonline.com/generic-viagra-description.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5I4LFWCZ3ONCEVUTGGW2S6DK4VADQ2MI", "length": 3527, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "divorcedwomenonline.com", "title": "Generic Viagra Description \u2013 Buy Generic Viagra Online \u2013 divorcedwomenonline.com", "raw_content": "Nowadays, generic Viagra has become the best friend of men suffering from a sexual disease known as erectile dysfunction. 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Doctors recommend not to take the drag more than once within 24 hours. The pill of generic Viagra is recommended for the intake at one and the same time washed down with a full glass of water. This preparation is released in the form of tablets.\nOnline shopping is the best way to purchase generic Viagra. 90% of men prefer to buy Viagra online. Such online pharmacies also offer free shipping. There are many other bonuses. The delivery is conducted within time. If something wrong happens with the parcel during delivery there is almost 100% return offered. Online shopping is a means to save time, money and energy. The satisfying effect is guaranteed.\nGeneric Viagra is one of the medications devoted to treating erectile dysfunction. The diagnosis may be established irrespective of the age. In fact, the cases of ED in young men are over the cases in the elderly. 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There are cases when the effect may manifest within an hour or more. The effect depends on individual characteristics. Generic Viagra contains Sildenafil citrate which dosage varies from 25 mg to 100 mg. The drug stimulates the blood flow to the penile muscles provoking an erection. Also, generic Viagra will provide an effect in the case of sexual excitement and stimulation.\nConsidering all this it is time to stop worrying about erectile dysfunction. Generic Viagra is your first-line drug for this sexual disease treatment.\nWatch the video about Viagra and some aspects about it:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 4041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/transcribe/77/3217", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:H5C67TQAKLSYA3U2ISYRBNEEPWR2ZVOH", "length": 1721, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu", "title": "DIY History | Transcribe | Nile Kinnick Collection | Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-December 1941 | 1941-05-27: Back", "raw_content": "Your record in the College of Law, State University of Iowa, for the period just closed is indicated on the reverse side of this sheet by the symbols in front of the courses for which you were registered. If there is an omission it will be supplied upon request. Pains have been taken to make this report reliable but in case of discrepancy between it and the office record the latter will control. Meaning of Symbols The percentage average may be translated into letter grades used in other departments on the following scale of equivalents. 100-85, A; 84-80, B+; 79-75, B; 74-70, C+; 69-65, C; 64-60, D; 59-0, Fd. P Passed. F Failed. Abs. (absent from examination without excuse) is in effect a failure. Abs. Ex. (absent from examination upon excuse granted) entitles the student to take the examination with the class at the next time the course is given, or subsequently, at the discretion of the faculty, without being required to repeat the class work. W Withdrawn with consent of Dean. To receive credit in a course in which he has failed a student must register for it the next time the course is given, or within the discretion of the faculty at a subsequent time, and may be required to repeat the class work if deemed necessary by the Dean and professor in charge of the course. Any student who fails to pass more than one-half of the number of hours for which he is registered in any given year is automatically dropped from the college. 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Senior High School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 3388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dravirginiaguzman.com/how-i-became-an-expert-on-tips.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UEPZZHAUP4QLNXZEC74DXMXOUX64J42Q", "length": 2670, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dravirginiaguzman.com", "title": "How I Became An Expert on Tips | DRAVIRGINAGUZMAN", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Real Estate \u00bb How I Became An Expert on Tips\nProperty which consists of land, buildings which are constructed on a certain piece of land is known as real estate. Real estates also consists all the natural resources that may be found on a certain piece of land.\nThis resources cannot be moved from one piece of land thus they are part of the piece of land. The real estate is very wide as it also includes the construction and the renting of houses to private businesses. The construction of apartments for residential purposes is also possible in the real estate. Nowadays majority of the people are moving from away from the towns due to congestion and also high cost of living and thus settling on the surroundings of the cities.\nThe government is opening up the areas termed as remote so as to give way for development. When the areas are opened up organizations buys land and divided them into smaller parts that Can be sold to people for residential purposes.This areas also are being instructed to have a controlled development so as the area can have a certain format so that the land cannot lose its value. Other assets always depreciate such as building and motor vehicles but land always appreciates. the value for land always increases when there environment is conducive. investing in the land real estates is one of the best options.\nThe residential real-estate normally contains a single family or a multifamily structure and in this case the occupation is for the non-business purposes. For people who term the construction of a house being time consuming and they opt to buying an already made house the houses in the real estate are very efficient as the houses are built using the latest designs and also they are durable.\nFor one to invest in land in the real estate industry one has to look into certain details so as to the real estate can make returns.They include the level of infrastructure of the land the area should have very efficient road networks that connects the area with the outside world. The security of the area should also be among the first thin to look into when purchasing land in a given area as a real estate developer.\nThe security of the area should be sufficient in a way that the people who may reside there will always be safe and there are no threats always. The schools and the hospitals should also be put under consideration as they tend to attract settlement in the specific area.\nThe social amenities help to attract the people to attract people with families as there are also schools. The bank industries also attract business to invest in a given area and also the entertainment facilities for the weekend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drivingwithnohands.com/what-are-the-odds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MZXZF5Y4O7AD7IFXEZ4VAH3QYMR2PGPS", "length": 4003, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "drivingwithnohands.com", "title": "What are the odds? \u2013 Driving with No Hands", "raw_content": "Home Driving under the influence of Dunkin' Donuts What are the odds?\nJuly 26, 2014 Driving under the influence of Dunkin' Donuts\tLeave a comment\nWhat are the odds that a Hamas rocket will land on an Israeli school?\nWhat are the odds that an Israeli bomb will hit a hospital in Gaza?\nWhat are the odds that ISIS or the Taliban will stone a young woman to death\n\u2026 because she made the mistake of falling in love with a Shiite?\nWhat are the odds that a Buddhist mob will kill Muslim children in Burma?\nWhat are the odds that a six year old boy will make it from San Salvador to his mother in Iowa?\nWhat are the odds that you will interpret these parallel questions\n\u2026 as giving equal moral weight to each of these situations?\nWhat are the odds that you will be disturbed by the thought of giving equal moral weight\n\u2026 to the Israeli Defense Force or Hamas?\n\u2026 to Sunnis or Shiites?\n\u2026 to Buddhists or Muslims?\n\u2026 to a child fleeing gang violence or a woman who ran off with her lover?\nWhat are the odds that you will be disturbed by the question that hasn\u2019t been asked here?\nNone of these questions ask about right or wrong.\nWhat are the odds that you don\u2019t agree?\nEach of these questions asks about the probability of some outcome of a decision to act.\nSome neurophilosophers argue that we have no free will,\n\u2026 that everything is determined by electrical and chemical processes in the brain,\n\u2026 that \u201cfree will\u201d is a myth.\nWhat are the odds that someone will use \u201cno free will\u201d as an excuse to absolve themselves of responsibility for committing some atrocity?\nSome theologians try to get their all-good, all-perfect, all-knowing god off the hook\n\u2026 by claiming that human free will brings evil into this world.\nBut that means that their god does not have a will effectively free enough to stop evil.\nNeurophilosophers and theologians argue \u201cno free will\u201d and the culprits walk free.\nHamas argues that it had no choice because of the rigid economic blockade of Gaza.\nIsrael argues that it had no choice because of the \u201cexistential threat\u201d of the Hamas tunnels and rockets.\nWhat are the odds that Israel or Hamas could have found another way?\nBetter than the compound probability that Israel and Hamas could have chosen other ways.\nAs long as we can imagine another outcome or another way to get there,\nwe only have to open ourselves to the other to start the work of finding a way out.\nOn the way back from a college visit this week, Anne Mei and I heard an NPR story about doctors who share decision-making with their patients by giving them the odds for different outcomes from different treatments.\nThat story reminded me and I told Anne Mei about the time the oncologist told Laura that she only had a 12.5% chance of surviving treatment for brain cancer. For every eight people treated, seven died. Not because of the treatment, but because it didn\u2019t work.\nActually, he didn\u2019t put it that way. You had to compute the compound probabilities from the way he said it. He also didn\u2019t say and we didn\u2019t want to hear that she had 100% chance of dying in 6-12 months if she had no treatment. He didn\u2019t tell us about other treatments, just other places where we might go for treatment. There were not many options with glioblastoma multiforme. The options Laura had were not presented to her clearly and comprehensively to help her decide.\nAfter the fact I have been bitter than no one told Laura that it was almost 90% likely that any months treatment might add to life would be full of pain and turmoil. There are many reasons why that\u2019s the wrong way to look at her choice. In the first place, it\u2019s hindsight, and more importantly, it\u2019s me not Laura. Whatever confusion caused by the circumstances, Laura chose the path where she had at least one chance out of eight. The Laura I knew would never choose the path where death was certain. Whether that choice was free or not is not a relevant question. 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Without doctor-patient confidentiality, you may be reluctant to disclose information of a personal nature that we may need to help provide you with the best possible healthcare.\nWhat we record at Our Practice\nHealthcare professionals in our practice record information about the care we provide.\nThe type of information that is recorded includes the following:\nDemographics, e.g. address, telephone number, e-mail, date of birth, gender, etc.\nWhat you tell us when you see us in consultations e.g. about your physical and psychological health and social circumstances.\nDiagnoses, investigations, treatments, referrals, family background\nSocial information eg, housing status, alcohol, smoking data\nThird party sources, eg hospital letters, A&E attendances, relatives, carers, insurance companies, solicitors.\nWhat we already share about you:\nWe share different types of information about our patients. 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Some information is used at a national level. Information from lots of individual patients allows the NHS to build a picture of what is happening to the nation\u2019s health. The majority of this information is anonymised before it leaves the healthcare professional, in other words no one can identify who the information relates to.\nYou can choose to opt out of information sharing, more information is available at https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/\nHow we protect your personal information:\nCurrently, your GP is responsible for protecting your information and to do this they comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). As part of the DPA, all healthcare professionals have an obligation to only share information on a need to know basis. For further information on the DPA please follow this link:(http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents).\nThe physical storage of information is on secure servers which are protected by firewalls. Access to the information is by strong authenticated password. The number of people who have access to your information is limited to members of the practice team and in a few instances some pre agreed data is shared with other health care professional e.g. District Nurses but on a need to know basis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dronehackademy.net/en/how-and-why-to-protect-ourselves-from-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KWN32BAMNX6RZNLSLPPLYS6LYGVGRZ5F", "length": 16492, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "dronehackademy.net", "title": "How and why to protect ourselves from unmanned aerial vehicles \u2013 dronehackademy", "raw_content": "Posted on June 23, 2015 by under Critical Theory\nAir space is public space, we all have the right to fly, but also the right to protect ourselves.\nHaving an aircraft flying overhead can become a very intimidating situation when we do not know the pilot or the nature of the flight. We may not know whether the aircraft is capable of flying safely or what kind of camera it is carrying and the final destination of the images it is recording. The flight may seem especially violent if it ostentatiously hovers at a low altitude over a private property, violating the residents\u2019 right to privacy.\nDrones are instruments of power and control for governments, security forces and private organizations, but are now also within the reach of almost any individual. They are an opportunity which is not being missed to control and monitor individuals and groups. Police around the world are using drones to obtain evidence without any judicial authorization. They have found the perfect way to avoid requesting any judicial authorization to enter private property, so instead of physically entering the premises, which requires a warrant, they penetrate the property with sensors to obtain evidence, using standard cameras, thermal cameras, electronic noses, etc.\nContrary to what one might think, this is not an anti-drone manifesto. Drones can be very useful to society if given a responsible use. We believe that a safer society is one where people have legitimate means to defend themselves against any potential threat. If you don\u2019t control the drones, they will control you. The indiscriminate developments occurring are often not associated with legitimate uses, or with the appropriate countermeasures against such illegitimate uses. This has been our main motivation behind writing this manifesto.\nDowning drones can be dangerous, especially for the people under them. Sometimes we must simply accept violation of our privacy rather than cause serious injuries to people around us. Should you wish to put into practice any of the techniques discussed in this guide, assess the risks before taking the action and determine the best time to carry it out. Study the wind strength and direction and assess the area where the aircraft will fall before making any attempt to intercept it.\nThere is almost certainly no legal precedent in any country about the right to self-defense in airspace. Although you can draw some legal parallels to the concepts of self-defense and privacy, there are several variables involved, such as determining where the drone was at the time of the intervention, if the air space over a property is also considered private and the method employed to down the drone. If unlawful intervention cannot be proven, current legislation considers the pilot as primarily responsible for the aircraft and for any damages it causes. The authors of this guide entirely disclaim any liability for any actions arising from its implementation.\nViolence can never solve any conflict in the world. Using it against the police or civilian drone pilots will not stop drones being manufactured or used against others. But in the struggle to have our rights recognized, we can do no more than fight against those who attack and violate them. The purpose of the struggle is to create the conditions for a dialogue, establishing a new power relation where we must be acknowledged as interlocutors. It is precisely because such dialogue is often impossible that the fight is necessary. The fight is a force to ensure the law is respected and should not be confused with violence. Asking against whom we have to defend ourselves and what we have to defend will help us unravel myths about violence, to recognize its danger and to understand how we have to defend ourselves.\nDeactivation methods\nDespite their substantial power, there are different strategies that can be used to bring drones down or inhibit them. There are now a wide variety of drones, from small toy helicopters equipped with cameras to solar-powered crafts with 5 year flight endurance. Deactivation techniques can be very diverse and depend on the type and altitude of the drone against which we are trying to protect. This manifesto includes a variety of methods to protect against several kinds of commercial and homemade multirotors for use in not necessarily urban areas, striving to minimize the risks of their implementation.\nPsychological methods (Social engineering)\nThe most obvious, appropriate and safest method of controlling a drone is to find the pilot.\nUsually they are found nearby, in view of the aircraft, within a radius of approximately 300 meters. If the pilot has a more advanced communication system then this range may be several kilometers wider.\nIf you find the pilot, bear in mind he will be in a very vulnerable situation, with both hands on the radio control, and with little ability to communicate due to the attention required to pilot the aircraft.\nIf you want to know the reason for the flight, obtain more details, or show him your discomfort with the craft flying above you or your dear ones, the correct way is to avoid putting others in danger by first asking him politely to land the aircraft before starting the discussion.\nYou can intimidate him with a legal or moral argument to try and convince him to stop the flight. You will be in a better position if you know the effective legislation in your country. For Spain, it can be found in the BOE (Official State Gazette) and on the website of the AESA (Air Safety Agency), do not pay attention to sensationalist magazines and tabloids, as they often contain unreliable information.\nBallistic methods\nThese methods involve launching something against the drone. We do not recommend throwing stones at a drone unless you are in the field and know that you\u2019re not going to hurt anyone, remember that the stones follow a trajectory and then fall somewhere.\nIf the drone is low, the easiest method is to take off your shirt and throw it over the rotor blades causing the drone to fall.\nDrones can be captured with nets when flying at low altitude. There are several ways to launch them, if thrown manually then you should practice a lot first. You can also make your own net launcher cheaply, or if you want a more sophisticated solution, various so-called net guns have recently appeared on eBay, which look like a flashlight, but thanks to a CO2 cartridge are able to launch a net more than 20 meters. These guns are used to hunt animals without harming them, but their use against drones could become widespread.\nBoomerangs are very useful for protecting airspace; we are talking about sports boomerangs that can fly through the air in a spiral before falling back into your hand. You can throw more than 3 simultaneously and protect the entire space, no drone pilot will want to approach somewhere full of spinning boomerangs. With enough practice, you\u2019ll be able to bring one down with precision.\nThere are different projectiles which can be used efficiently to combat a drone, lead weights with numerous fishing lines of several meters are ideal, as it is highly likely that the fishing lines will be sucked into the drone and the motors jammed.\nOther projectiles that could be used are magnets from old hard drives or other motors, which will stick to the metal parts of a drone. This method can be combined with the previous one to increase the chances of success. A new product now commercially available on the market is a kind of ferromagnetic ammunition in special anti-drone shotgun cartridges.\nSlingshots can be effective but, on the other hand, can be dangerous if there are people on the other side. It is also difficult to hit a drone with any impact that will affect it. Ideally one should use one of the alternative projectiles described above. One interesting point is that the energy that build up in the rubber of the slingshot quickly dissipates once the heat is lost, therefore it is more efficient to stretch back the rubber and let go quickly, which produces more powerful shot.\nThese are methods which interfere with the drone without throwing or launching something at it.\nDrone Anti-Drone\nA small toy drone is enough to bring down the most advanced multicopter, but prior knowledge of how to fly multicopters is required. Simply tie a fishing line long enough to the toy drone and fly it around the target drone. It will get entangled with the line and fall. You will probably also lose your toy.\nKites can also be very effective in defending airspace, especially if you fly several at the same time, scattered through the space. If you want to protect the airspace you should make them visible enough for the pilot to be aware of their presence. If, however, your goal is to down the drone you must study its position and the wind direction and make the kites small enough to go unnoticed.\nAny metallic or magnetic powder will remain attached to some of the drone electronic components, especially engines magnets. No drone survive traversing a cloud of metal powder.\nThese methods alter electromagnetic fields to damage or modify the normal operation of the electromagnetic components.\nLasers can be used to temporarily blind or damage the CCD cameras and other sensors on the drones.\nThe best lasers to intercept cameras are infrared lasers of 500 milliwatts or more, the more powerful the laser the more likely it is to cause damage to the camera sensor, however this technique can be dangerous when there are people behind the laser beam, such as in nearby buildings.\nInfrared lasers have several advantages over others in the visible spectrum.\n1. They are stronger for the same capacity, can go further than their counterparts in the visible spectrum.\n2. You cannot see them. This is useful so that no-one around you knows who is blinding the drone.\nAs you can also not see the laser, in order to know where you\u2019re pointing it you need a mobile phone or a camera that can see the infrared laser beam.\nCameras and other opto sensors can be blinding during the day with a sun mirrors. Simply having a mirror placed in the sun and target drone camera. Unlike lasers, which can permanently damage the sensor, a mirror should be used continuously to blind the camera permanently.\ndronehole.sh: deauthentication attack\nYou can attack drones that use conventional wireless networks by bugging these networks. If you want a device that carries out these attacks you can buy the Cyborg Unplug which targets spy drones and surveillance cameras.\nYou can also perform an attack yourself with a computer and a powerful Wi-Fi card. This attack is based on Julian Oliver\u2019s glasshole.sh code. Dronehole.sh is a deauthentication attack that scans all Wi-Fi-enabled devices in the region for those with a hardware MAC address of a drone manufacturer such as DJI or Parrot. This code only works with DJI and Parrot drones, namely the Phantom, Inspire, ARDrone and Beboop models. For the DJI Phantom and Aspire, it will only interrupt the video stream, preventing the pilot from executing flights based on FPV vision. The pilot will continue to control the craft but cannot see anything. For Parrot drones, which are controlled entirely via Wi-Fi, the pilot will lose total control over the drone and it will automatically land.\nUnlawful interception of the electromagnetic spectrum is prohibited in many countries. Even if a voyeur is flying a drone to film your daughters in the pool, downing it with this method may still be considered illegal. In several countries the mere possession of these devices is also illegal.\nDrones usually operate on the following frequencies:\n433 Mhz Telemetry (Europa)\n900 Mhz Telemetry (EEUU)\n1.2 Ghz Analogic video (FPV)\nParadoxically, there are helicopters and cheap quadcopters with cameras available in toyshops which, controlled by infrared, are resistant to the most advanced military radio frequency interception. Although this communications technology is being replaced by 2.4GHz radio frequency, it is still used and it might regain importance in the future.\nThese helicopters have a limited range and require direct line of sight from the pilot, so generally, if we can see the drone, the pilot will most probably be somewhere in the vicinity. If after kindly asking him to stop bothering he maintains the same attitude, we can easily bring it down with a simple TV remote control. The remote produces the same infrared light as the drone controller, which will be unable to receive any other command and will end up crashing to the ground.\nAs well as different jammers being available in Chinese online stores, you can also manufacture them yourself. There is an open source jammer called Wave Bubble which fits in a cigarette pack and can intercept several frequency bands simultaneously. Its sale is prohibited; the only way to get one is to manufacture it yourself.\nAnother more analog (and easier) method to jam the radio signals is using a spark transmitter like the one Marconi invented in 1878. The Titanic had one of these which could transmit at a distance of 1600 km, imagine the drones you could bring down with that.\nThe transmitter that we describe is similar to those used in 1896 by Popoff and Marconi, the antenna is the only element that sets the operating frequency. In the following scheme we reproduce this jammer for 75 MHz, to resonate at 1/4 of the wavelength, representing:\nFrequency = Speed / wave length 300,000,000 / (1*4) = 75,000,000 = 75 Mhz.\nTo build it you will need:\n* One ignition engine from a motorcycle or car.\n* 2 x 9 v. batteries in series.\n* A switch.\n* A relay.\n* 3 capacitors: one 100 microfarads power supply filter, one 220 microfarads in parallel with the relay and one 100,000 Kpf in parallel to the primary high voltage coil.\nElectromagnetic Pulse Jammer\nEMP generators disable any electronic device in the vicinity. It is dangerous to engage this jammer near people with pacemakers, since these will also be stopped.\nYou can make one from a $5 car air purifier and the flash from an old or disposable camera.\nOccupy the video channel\nDrones that fly out the pilot\u2019s view are usually controlled by First Person View (FPV). The signal is transmitted from the camera to the pilot so that he can navigate and control the aircraft. Normally this image is transmitted via an analog signal on any of the 12 civilian channels on a 5.8 GHz or 1.2 GHz band.\nIf you want to interrupt this video signal all you have to do is occupy the channel with another video transmitter. Unless you have an electromagnetic spectrum analyzer you have no way of knowing on which band and channel the video is streaming. If you have a video receiver you can jump from channel to channel until you find an image that resembles a bird\u2019s eye view of the land \u2013 then you know you have found the channel. If you do not have this receiver and have the drone in sight, you can try occupying one channel after another until you see that it has caused the drone to move, the pilot will usually lose his vision and stay still, this is the sign that you have blinded the pilot, and unless he has GPS, he cannot return home.\nIntercepting a GPS signal is illegal and may have a variable effect on each drone, depending on the model, configuration, and flight mode. The driver\u2019s ability is also crucial in ensuring a safe landing.\nFor example if the drone is on a reconnaissance mission it cannot continue its route for it requires a GPS signal to continue the pre-established flight, neither can it return to the starting point for it does not kno where it is. If the pilot becomes aware of the incident he will try to recover it manually. If after several minutes the drone fails to retrieve the GPS signal, it will gradually descend to the ground.\nWhen the GPS signal is lost, the pilot must be able to fly without GPS, which is not always the case.\nAs well as making your own GPS inhibitor, you can also find them on eBay.\nAfter downing the drone\nAfter downing a drone, the most important thing is to disconnect the battery so as to prevent any explosion produced by a short circuit due to impact. You also do not want the pilot to know through GPS where you\u2019re taking it, so be sure to disconnect all batteries, sometimes they have more than one.\nBatteries may be different colors, but they all have the same shape, and it is easy to identify the connector you\u2019ll have to disconnect.\nPREVIOUS POST \u2190 Aerial countervisuality and the right to look from somewhere", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 19621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/canadasenate/vol1/chapter6_trajectories_of_use.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YRWY5MO2JM6E2LX7YBWLOQRQ4APPEFF4", "length": 13959, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "druglibrary.org", "title": "Trajectories of use", "raw_content": "Chapter 6 - Users and uses: form, practice, context\nTrajectories of use\nMost studies identify quantity and frequency of use. Thus as we saw in the previous section, the OFDT report, for example, identifies experimentation, occasional, repeated, regular and heavy use, with frequency of use (number of times a month) and circumstances (alone or in a group, morning or evening) as the preferred indicators of at-risk use. However, this knowledge of certain characteristics of use by young people in particular tells us very little about what will follow. If we could stop time at a given moment in a user\u2019s history, the knowledge would not help us determine what would happen next. For example, with this knowledge we could not answer the question of whether or not cannabis use begun during adolescence is part of a trajectory leading to increased use. Now, a certain number of those who testified before the Committee told us that they had observed dependence in cannabis users. Also, certain government documents, in the US in particular, do not hesitate to point in this direction by measuring requests for treatment and by reporting that requests for treatment of cannabis dependence are on the rise. For example, documents given to us by American drug authorities indicate that 40% of people who meet the DSM IV diagnostic criteria for dependence (which will be dealt with in the following chapter) have a primary diagnosis of cannabis dependence.[1][31] Unless we believe that a few occasional uses lead to dependence, we must accept that a relatively significant number of young people who try cannabis during adolescence will embark on a trajectory of use that will lead to dependence.\nBut what is the situation exactly? What are these trajectories of use? What are the stages? Is there a progression?\nFirst of all, like Professor Mercier, we must point out that the idea of a trajectory is itself slightly inaccurate.\nThe concept of trajectory is based first of all on the basic principle whereby individuals will go through a number of stages or successive phases. It is true that the concept of trajectory is somewhat incorrect. A trajectory is somewhat of a metaphor for the trajectory of the planets and the stars, that is something very focused and in continuous motion. The word \"journey\" (\"trajet\") would be more accurate. A journey includes detours, round trips, et cetera. So we must bear in mind that this concept of trajectory is not necessarily linear, but that there will be different situations and different paths. The word \"journey\" is a more accurate way of describing the relationship an individual will have with psychotropic substances during his or her life. There is another important concept as well. In addition to trajectories, phases and stages, there are also transitions and passages, when individuals move from one stage to another.[2][32]\nSome, like the INSERM report, speak of contact, experimentation and commitment phases. Contact is seeing cannabis or knowing people who use it. Experimentation, of course, is trying it, and may be limited to a single time. Lastly, commitment refers to the various ways of managing use, from relative commitment where there are significant changes in use to true commitment where there are fewer changes. The report specifies that these three stages are not in all trajectories and do not always follow one another in a coherent fashion. Furthermore, there will often be periods of cessation, followed by resumption or a definitive cessation. Nevertheless, according to INSERM, \u201ccommitment probably constitutes the most important stage if we want to understand what cannabis use corresponds to. However, the data on this commitment phase seems the most inconsistent as most works deal with initiation.\u201d[3][33] [translation]\nIn fact, the data on committed use is still very sketchy, such that beyond a few generalities, we really know very little about the circumstances and trajectories of cannabis use. It is as if we were first worried about classifying users according to their risk of becoming dependent, or were trying to make them fit into a ready-made model. While testifying before the committee, Professor Mercier recalled the five stages in the classic pattern of addiction: initiation, gradual start of abuse, dependency, treatment and reintegration. However, as she pointed out, this is only one of the possible trajectories, the one that has been studied most frequently with regard to drugs (alcohol, heroin and cocaine in particular), and yet it hardly applies to cannabis. In any event, it is clear that with cannabis users, there is great variability in use.\nThe epidemiological data presented in the previous section indicate fairly clearly that cannabis use decreases significantly with age. More specifically, the rate of cessation is significant, as the following table shows.\nRate of Cessation (percentage of lifetime users who did not use cannabis in the previous year), USA, 1996 [4][34]\nConsequently, the rate of continuation is relatively low. It was 24% in the US in 2000, 17% in Denmark, 29% in France and Germany (West), 24% in Switzerland and 8% in Sweden. The only exception is Australia with a rate of continuation of 46%.\nThat being said, these data says nothing about the period during which cannabis use is continued, the frequency of use or the quantities used. Epidemiological studies tend to establish that most users stop consumption during their thirties, but only ethnographic studies can provide more information. Unfortunately they are few.\nThe INSERM report describes studies conducted in Australia, France and the United States. Most show progress towards regulated cannabis use, that is, use both stabilized\u2013fewer variations in use\u2013and use more integrated into social living conditions, that is, more integrated into personal and professional life. A significant proportion of long-term regular users are men, and are more likely to be single and have creative occupations. Most say they use cannabis to relax and relieve stress, to help them sleep, or to alter their state of consciousness.[5][35]\nIn Canada, Hathaway studied regular users[6][36], using open-ended interviews from October 1994 to June 1995. The study involved a sample of 30 regular users (15 men and 15 women), aged 22 to 47 (average age 32). Participants had used cannabis for 3 to 31 years with the average being 17 years; 40% had used it daily for 20 years or more. This data is in complete agreement with what INSERM suggested. Long-term users integrate their regular cannabis use into their daily lives and social activities while remaining aware of the symbolic value of this \u201ctolerable deviance\u201d. While most started after coming into contact with a small group of users who served as more or less long-term support, the users who were most at peace with their drug use were those who regulated their use independently.\nIn this study, I found that moving from a pattern of use that is dependent on one\u2019s level of participation with other users to one that is independently regulated marks a crucial transition in the marijuana user\u2019s relationship to the drug. (\u2026) their continuing use of the drug does not necessarily suggest an inability to commit to conventional adult roles. Instead, adapting one\u2019s marijuana use to suit an otherwise conventional way of life appears to make the practice significant on a more personal level than that previously fostered through affiliation with marijuana-using groups. [7][37]\nFor a certain number of users, this acculturation of the drug occurs after a more or less prolonged period of abstinence during which they distance themselves from the group of users. This makes it possible for them to determine for themselves the role cannabis will play in their lives. Moreover, every participant in the study had managed to integrate their use into their personal or professional life. Users associate their drug use primarily with free time and relaxation after a day at work; some even compare its role with that played by alcohol. Although 97% used cannabis at least weekly and 37% used it daily, only 7% (2 people) defined their use as problematic. Most went through periods of abstinence or of decreased use without experiencing difficulties.\nAnother study, reported by Rigter and von Laar,[8][38] was conducted in the State of New York on a cohort of users who were followed for a period of twenty years. This study identified four types of users:\n\u00b7\u00b7 Early-onset heavy-use: start around age 15 and become regular users around age 17.5; daily use for a duration of 131 months on average; 49% still use around age 34-35;\n\u00b7\u00b7 Early-onset light-use: start around age 15 but fewer (44%) go on to daily use (for an average duration of 28 months); only 10% still use at age 34\u201135;\n\u00b7\u00b7 Mid-onset heavy-use: start around age 16; two-thirds become daily users (average duration 42 months) and still use at age 34-35;\n\u00b7\u00b7 Late-onset light-use: start at age 19.5 and a minority become daily users (21%). Almost all discontinue use around age 34-35.\nIn all, this study shows that there were clearly more light users than heavy users. The latter had less education, went to church less often, were more likely to have a history of delinquency, and changed jobs more often. Early-onset users showed a greater tendency towards episodes of delinquency and mental disorders, started to drink and smoke tobacco sooner, had a greater tendency to experiment with other drugs, and tended to identify positive reasons for using marijuana.\nBut it is risky to propose typologies, because boundaries are fluid and users switch from one type of use to another fairly easily. This was shown in particular by the comparative study conducted by Cohen and Kaal in Amsterdam, San Francisco and Bremen.[9][39]\nThe study involved a sample of experienced users consisting of 216 people in Amsterdam, 265 in San Francisco and 55 in Bremen. The sophisticated method of selecting candidates from epidemiological studies conducted in the general population of these cities is important because it reveals the prevalence of use. The following chart shows this data.\nThe average age of participants varied between 33 and 37; most had a spouse and a stable job. The average age for initiation into cannabis use in the three cities was 16, that is, at a younger age than people who had only occasional exposure to cannabis (21.2 in Amsterdam and 19.5 in Bremen). Most were introduced by friends and their first experience was as part of a group. At age 19, they were regular users (at least once a month) and their heaviest use was around age 21.5. Trajectories of use were determined using six patterns:\n1)1) More to less: after an initial period of heavy use, the individual gradually decreased his use\n2)2) Gradually more: the individual gradually increased his use\n3)3) Stable: amount and frequency did not change\n4)4) Up-top-down: use increased, reached a peak, and then decreased\n5)5) Intermittent: frequent discontinuation after initiation\n6)6) Varying: use rises and falls\nAs the following table shows, no less than 75% of respondents in the three cities correspond to patterns 4 (48.7%) and 6 (25%).\nPatterns of Use in Regular Users [10][40]\nDuring their period of heaviest use, approximately 45% of those studied used cannabis regularly. However, during the preceding year, approximately 35% used it less than once a week and more than 35% did not use it all. During the past three months, more than 50% did not use cannabis at all, and less than 10% used it on a daily basis. As for amounts, the authors of the study concluded that they are low. During their period of heavy use, less than 18% of those studied smoked more than one ounce per month, whereas during the preceding year, approximately 60% had smoked less than 4 grams (1/7 of an ounce) per month. Users were divided fairly equally between those who preferred medium or mild cannabis and those who preferred a stronger variety (with a more marked preference for the mild varieties in Amsterdam). Users have a certain number of rules regarding use: no smoking at work or school (more than 35%), during the day, or in the morning.\nMost long-term users had had periods of abstinence that varied from one month to a year or longer, most often because they no longer felt the need or the desire to smoke. Moreover, between one-third and one-half had decided to decrease their use at various times.\nThus we can see that trajectories of use do not follow a linear progression, and are marked by key periods when the user integrates cannabis use into his social and personal life, distances himself from groups of users, stabilizes the role marijuana plays in his personal life, with periods of heavy use, especially at the beginning of the trajectory, followed by periods of either decreased use or of ups and downs in terms of frequency and amount.\n[1][31] Office of National Drug Control Policy (2002) National Drug Control Strategy. Washington, DC: The White House.\n[2][32] Professor C\u00e9line Mercier, testimony before the Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs, Canadian Senate, first session of the thirty-seventh Parliament, December 10, 2001, Issue No. 12, Page 6.\n[3][33] INSERM (2001), op. cit., page 28.\n[4][34] Rigter, H. and M. von Laar, op. cit., page 27.\n[5][35] INSERM (2001), op. cit., pages 55-58.\n[6][36] Hathaway A. D. (1997a) \u201cMarijuana and lifestyle: exploring tolerable deviance.\u201d Deviant Behaviour: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18, pages 213-232; and (1997b) \u201cMarijuana and tolerance: revisiting Becker\u2019s sources of control.\u201d ibid, pages 103-124.\n[7][37] Hathaway, A.D. (1997a), op. cit., page 219.\n[8][38] Rigter, H. and M. von Laar, op. cit., pages 28-29.\n[9][39] Cohen, P.D.A. and H.L. Kaal, The irrelevance of drug policy. Patterns and careers of experienced cannabis use in the population of Amsterdam, San Francisco and Bremen. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, CEDRO.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 14677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 199.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drugprevent.org.uk/ppp/2015/11/marijuana-dependence-influenced-by-genes-childhood-sexual-abuse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EMZGCVJNXI4JR7D2V6NA7IASSWZI4JA2", "length": 7958, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "drugprevent.org.uk", "title": "National Drug Prevention Alliance & PPP \u00bb Marijuana dependence influenced by genes, childhood sexual abuse", "raw_content": "Genetic differences may protect some who experienced childhood trauma from later marijuana dependence, study finds\nGenetic variation within the endocannabinoid system may explain why some survivors of childhood adversity go on to become dependent on marijuana, while others are able to use marijuana without problems, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.\n\u201cWe have long known that childhood adversity, and in particular sexual abuse, is associated with the development of cannabis dependence. However, we understand very little about the individual difference factors that leave individuals vulnerable or resilient to these effects,\u201d said Ryan Bogdan, PhD, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and a senior author of the study.\nForthcoming in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the study is among the first to pinpoint a specific genetic variant that may influence susceptibility to cannabis dependence in the context of childhood trauma.\nTHC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, influences an array of mental and bodily functions because it closely mimics chemical enzymes that the endocannabinoid system naturally produces to send signals between neurons and other individual cells throughout the body. These signals trigger the production of other internal chemicals, such as adrenalin, which help the body modulate its response to external influences, such as fear, stress and hunger.\nLike most bodily functions, the workings of the endocannabinoid system are closely programmed and controlled by a set of genetically coded instructions.\n\u201cIn this study, we investigated whether variation in genes within the endocannabinoid system may be particularly important in setting the stage for cannabis dependence, especially in the context of childhood trauma,\u201d said lead author Caitlin E. Carey, a PhD student working with Bogdan.\nIn phase one of the study, researchers examined genetic data from 1,558 Australian marijuana users who self-reported various types of sexual abuse as children. Carey and colleagues examined whether Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced \u201csnips\u201d) located in or near endocannabinoid system genes were associated with the\ndevelopment of marijuana dependence symptoms in the context of childhood sexual abuse.\nSNPs represent differences in a single DNA building block called a nucleotide and are the most common form of genetic variation in people, with an estimated 10 million SNPs in the human genome.\nWhile little is known about many SNPs, some have been identified as key biological markers for genetic diseases. When SNPs occur within a gene or in a regulatory region near a gene, they may affect how that gene functions, perhaps raising disease risk or changing how an individual responds to certain environmental factors such as drugs or trauma.\nThe vast majority of SNPs, including those looked at in this study, have two different alleles at each locus; one of these alleles is inherited from the biological mother, with the other being inherited from the biological father. Alleles with two matching pieces of genetic information are called homozygotes (for example A/A or G/G), while those with mixed pairs are called heterozygotes (A/G).\nOf the endocannabinoid variants examined, a single variant within the monoacylglycerol lipase (MGLL) gene demonstrated a significant interaction with childhood sexual abuse and later cannabis dependence.\nMore specifically, the study found that variation within this SNP (known as rs604300) in MGLL showed a clear association between child sexual abuse and cannabis dependence, such that increasing exposure to childhood sexual abuse was associated with a greater number of cannabis dependence symptoms only among individuals who were homozygous for the more common G allele. There was no association between child sexual abuse and cannabis dependence symptoms in heterozygotes, and a negative relationship between childhood sexual abuse and cannabis dependence symptoms in A allele homozygotes.\n\u201cAs we expected, childhood sexual abuse was overall associated with individuals reporting a greater number of cannabis dependence symptoms,\u201d Carey said. \u201cBut what was particularly intriguing is that this association was only seen among people with two copies of the more common G allele. People with at least one copy of the less common A allele did not show this pattern, so these data suggest that the A allele may provide some form of resiliency to the development of dependence.\nThe endocannabinoid system is known to play an important role in the body\u2019s response to stress. Monoacylglycerol lipase, which MGLL codes for, regulates the availability of 2-\nAG, an endocannabinoid neurotransmitter that binds to the same receptors as the THC in plant-based cannabis.\nFindings replicated in second sample\nIn phase two of the study, Carey and colleagues attempted to replicate the findings using data from 859 American participants obtained from the Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment. Here again, they found the same interaction between the rs604300 genotype and child abuse to be significantly associated with cannabis dependence symptoms.\nCarey and colleagues speculate that the rs604300 minor A allele\u2019s role in buffering against later cannabis dependence may be related to how the brain reacts to threat.\nAs Bogdan said: \u201cThe amygdala is a region of the brain critical for behavioral vigilance, including coordinating our behavioral responses to threat in the environment. Heightened amygdala reactivity has been consistently linked to anxiety disorders. Prior research has shown that endocannabinoids and marijuana, as well as prior childhood adversity, affect amygdala function. Endocannabinoid signaling, in particular, regulates reactivity to threat by facilitating a dampening of amygdala response (i.e., habituation) when threats are repeatedly presented with no adverse consequence.\u201d\nThe amygdala (shown in red) is a region of the brain critical for behavioral vigilance, including coordinating physiologic and behavioral responses to threat. The A allele at rs604300 within MGLL, which conferred protection to cannabis dependence in the context of elevated childhood adversity, was associated with heightened threat-related amygdala habituation (i.e., a increased dampening of response over time) among those exposed to elevated childhood adversity. Such elevated amygdala habituation is associated with recovery from environmental stress.\nIf the rs604300 A allele is associated with relative increased amygdala habituation (such as a dampening of response over time) to threat in the context of childhood adversity, it is possible that child abuse survivors with this allele may be less prone to later use cannabis in an attempt to achieve the same mood-altering result, they speculated.\nIn a third phase of this study, they tested for this connection in an independent group of 312 undergraduate students from the Duke Neurogenetics Study and found increased amygdala habituation as a function of early life stress in minor A allele carriers, but not in GG individuals. The finding reinforces the possibility that MGLL rs604300 genotype may play a key role in decoupling the neurobiological link between early life stress and mental health outcomes in later life.\nCollectively, while speculative, these data suggest that elevated amygdala habituation among individuals with the A allele who were exposed to childhood trauma may result in decreased reliance on marijuana to cope with future stressors and negative affect.\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to mention that these findings are unlikely to be informative at an individual level,\u201d Carey said. \u201cWe won\u2019t see a genetic test for cannabis dependence anytime soon, if ever, but it\u2019s a start.\u201d\nSource: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/wuis-mdi111015.php\nFiled under: Addiction,Brain and Behaviour,Cannabis/Marijuana,USA,Youth :", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 8501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dsgroup.com/brand-news-details.aspx?id=3038", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZU7YXU5CVQURKGOJCELGELHHOPEPMHO7", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dsgroup.com", "title": "Brand News | DS Group", "raw_content": "Rashtriya Sahara, Page 14, Lucknow, 28 November, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 138.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/cloverfield_br.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:AVCN23HWOFZU5Y7UXS5QU6BC53WVAOP3", "length": 6430, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "dvdmoviecentral.com", "title": "Cloverfield: Blu-ray - DVD Movie Central", "raw_content": "Stars: Michael Stahl-David, T. J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman\nAudio: Dolby Digital TrueHD\n\u201cApproximately seven hours ago, some THING attacked the city\u2026\u201d\nThe spirit of The Blair Witch Project is alive and well, thank you very much. Cloverfield is a fright flick with a considerably bigger budget, but incorporates hand held video as part of the narrative to make the fear seem even more real and immediate. You have to admire a movie that creates some brilliant, intricate special effects and then chooses to film them in the crappiest way imaginable. It just works.\nThe \u2018tape\u2019 begins ominously enough, with a government warning and a notification that the video represents evidence of a case area designated \u201cCloverfield\u201d, and was found in what USED to be Central Park. The video was accidentally made over a record of a post-romantic encounter between Rob Hawkins (Stahl-David) and Beth (Yustman), so bits of their happy day sometimes show up here and there in between shots.\nThe new video was supposed to be a record of Rob\u2019s going-away party in Manhattan. His friend Hud (Miller) gets the camera duties, and he records testimonials from Rob\u2019s brother Jason (Vogel), brother\u2019s girlfriend Lily (Lucas), and the object of his own unwelcome amorous advances Marlena (Caplan). Something happened between Rob and Beth\u2019s magical night and today, however, making for an awkward evening.\nBut get off the soap opera\u2026an impact that sends tremors and power outages throughout New York interrupts the festivities, and soon the group is faced with a rather grave bit of horror\u2026some THING is attacking the city. Something huge and otherworldly.\nMost of the time, we only catch distant glimpses of the beast, but feel the impact of his terror close up. When the friends try to get off the island into Brooklyn, it doesn\u2019t take long before their plan turns into disaster. With the military soon on the scene, it becomes clear to Rob and the gang that they must escape, and escape fast, before Manhattan is just a memory.\nHud keeps the video rolling as much as possible, and the urgency lent by the unsteady camera adds a sense of realism to the fantastic scenario, and gives us only as much information as they get, and at the same time they get it. Like when we discover that the towering creature seems to be shedding some kind of parasitic beings that are a lot smaller, but just as deadly. Imagine being trapped underground with a few of them!\nRob, having fought with Beth earlier, is now determined to try and rescue her from her high-rise, in a sequence that I can imagine would make the great Irwin Allen stand up and cheer. It\u2019s suspenseful and frightening in and of itself, but so is the entire film.\nThis is a classic modern monster film, and the kind of picture the last American remake of Godzilla should have been. It\u2019s effective, unnerving, and frequently jaw-dropping. The special effects are remarkable and memorable, but they serve the unfolding terror and don\u2019t dominate the proceedings. In fact, my only minor quibble is a shot near the end, when we finally get a long, laborious look at the monster. The movie was more effective only showing it from afar or in quick sightings between buildings. Our imagination filled in the horrid details. I think the film would have been better served following that pattern through to the end.\nBut no matter. Cloverfield succeeds where so many horror films fail, in that it delivers real chills and thrills. It doesn\u2019t soak the screen in blood, so the moments of violence are all the more effective. And it keeps us rooted in the action, so we don\u2019t feel safe watching from our own living rooms. The hand held camera might disturb those prone to motion sickness, but it\u2019s hard to argue that it wasn\u2019t the right choice.\nOne final thought\u2026I sure would like to get my hands on the kind of camera Hud used in the movie. It survives everything, and how long DOES that battery last, anyway?\nBlu-ray technology really shines through, even when the source material is deliberately limited. I noticed far more detail and contrast in this presentation than before. Some darker shots show a bit of grain, making it look as though everything had been shot on video, because...well, it was. But the added contrast make night scenes look clearer and crisper.\nDolby TrueHD makes for great horror movie sound. The added dynamic range really turns up the fright factor, and the added subtleties from the rear channels help aid the effect that a single camera is filming the events, and therefore the source of sound can change depending on the position of the person with the camera. There's not a lot of music except for the party at the beginning and the credits at the end, but that's a wise choice; it adds to the realism.\nFor a truly unique viewing option, the Blu-ray disc offers \"investigative mode\". This creates a computer screen image where the film plays out intact in HD (you can even still use subtitles if you want), but you also get a digital map of Manhattan that tracks the creature (whom I now learn was simply referred to as an LSA or Large Scale Aggressor by the government), as well as the principle human activities and military movements. A radar screen tips you off to movement, and there is a screen that adds additional information as the film plays. It tells more about the characters and even offers some 'scientific' theory as to the creature and it's origins. This mode acts like the film is a real government document and continues the illusion that these events have already transpired, so don't use this mode until you've seen the film at least once; otherwise there will be spoilers.\nThere is a solid commentary track from director Matt Reeves, who also lends his optional commentary on two rather unnecessary alternate endings that aren't really very alternate, plus four deleted scenes. There is a making-of featurette, looks at the creature and the special effects shots, plus some outtakes and previews. All of the extras have been remastered for high definition. The menu screens are very well done to boot.\nThere have been recent attempts to resuscitate the gigantic monster movie, but none successful until Cloverfield. Using big budget effects with small money camera styling creates an urgent, immediate sense of terror that carries you through to the end. It's an effective illusion, and one that Blu-ray makes even better.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 6842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ea.org.nz/march-equal-pay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ELCZMFNYIVHFTS2FWDEHIURDDOJDEDHH", "length": 5089, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ea.org.nz", "title": "On the march for equal pay \u2013 Education Aotearoa", "raw_content": "24 April 2017 \u2022 Rebecca Matthews-Heron\nNZEI members are first up in mediation with the Government over the right to equal pay for work of equal value. Rebecca Matthews-Heron reports.\nProgress towards equal pay looks to be within grasp of some groups of women workers, and support workers employed by the Ministry of Education could be among the first to reap the fruits of many years of bargaining, legal action and political campaigning.\nMovement on the issue of the gender pay gap between men and women has been spearheaded by the case of caregiver Kristine Bartlett, and recently by a union campaign Treat her Right calling for the \u201csisters to be paid the same as the misters\u201d. Male workers in New Zealand earn 12 percent more per hour, on average, than female workers.\nMediation between NZEI Te Riu Roa and the Ministry of Education is the latest opportunity to progress the NZEI claim led by support workers Denise Tetzlaff, Kathleen Power and Mary Jones, on behalf of several hundred colleagues. More than six years ago an independent job evaluation report by the Pay Equity Commission showed that when compared with the male dominated job of corrections officers, support workers employed by the Ministry of Education were paid as much as $8 an hour less.\nThe Government has agreed to use new pay equity principles, developed in partnership with unions and employers, for the first time in the NZEI pay claim. They intend to introduce legislation to enact those principles \u2013 that should make it easier for women to progress pay equity with their employers, rather than having to go through the courts.\nAmong the support workers who would benefit from a move to equal pay, is Hutt Valley education support worker (ESW) Jacoline Brink, who has a unique perspective on the NZEI equal pay claim. Jacoline has an everyday insight into the male-dominated comparator used in the claim \u2013 her husband works as a corrections officer.\nThe couple migrated from South Africa to make a new start with their young family, and Jacoline\u2019s passion for education grew with her involvement in her own sons\u2019 kindergarten. \u201cI wanted to study early childhood education, but going into debt was not an option with a young family and hoping to own our own home,\u201d says Jacoline.\nQualifying to become a teacher aide, and then taking on work as an ESW working alongside children requiring additional learning support in early childhood education was a good alternative for Jacoline. \u201cBecoming an ESW gave me the chance to do the work I love with pre-school children, without having to take on a big student loan.\u201d\nThere was one problem, however \u2013 money. Despite doing skilled work with children with complex needs, and having to adapt to different teaching teams and cultures in kindergartens and ECE centres, the maximum hourly rate for support workers is $19.48 \u2013 less than the living wage of $20.20 per hour.\nAnd how about the comparison with corrections officers? Jacoline said at first she found it strange. \u201cBut the longer I thought about it the more I saw it as a good comparator. We\u2019re both working in jobs that are difficult, with challenging behaviour, and both jobs make a huge difference to people\u2019s lives.\u201d\nIn her family life, Jacoline sees that her husband has opportunities to progress that support workers don\u2019t share. \u201cThere\u2019s not only a higher hourly rate, but also the opportunity to progress with training and experience. They can work their way up and we can\u2019t.\u201d\n\u201cSupport workers have ambitions and goals too. We work to better the child and better the work of the Ministry. But we\u2019re not valued as it\u2019s seen as women\u2019s work and this does have an impact on our morale.\u201d\nFor Jacoline\u2019s family, low pay means they too often live pay cheque to pay cheque. \u201cOwning our own home is still a goal of ours, but the problem is my pay. The bank\u2019s view is that I don\u2019t have a proper job, and the pay is too low to qualify for a mortgage.\u201d\nFar from not having a \u201cproper job\u201d Jacoline says support workers are hard working professionals who bring life experience and empathy to the important work they do.\nShe shares a story of an invite to the fifth birthday party of a child she worked with \u2013 one of her challenging first contacts. \u201cThe family introduced me, and everyone knew who I was and the contribution I had made to this boy\u2019s life. Guests were greeting me \u2013 \u2018Oh you\u2019re the famous Jacoline\u2019. I was laughing, but these families know the difference we make. I learned to speak up for their child as I would for my own sons.\n\u201cIt takes a special person to do this job. We\u2019re nothing flash but we do something big. This equal pay claim is us being bold enough to say we\u2019re important. A boost to achieve equal pay would show us that we are seen, we are heard, and we are valued.\u201d\nNZEI has also begun discussion with the Ministry of Education about utilising the principles to progress pay equity for school support staff, starting with the thousands of teacher aides who support learning throughout New Zealand.\nNZEI. ESW Jacoline Brink at Silverstream Kindergarten. Photo by Mark Coote/markcoote.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edenthorpescouts.org.uk/datapolicy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YZQFJBNXUWIYABWLAAW3NPSNB3JCJL5L", "length": 11352, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "edenthorpescouts.org.uk", "title": "47th Doncaster (Edenthorpe) Scout Group", "raw_content": "47th Doncaster (Edenthorpe) Scout Group (the 47th)\nData Policy (revised in light of GDPR regulations) \u2013 May 2018\nFrom 25th May 2018 new legislation is in place regarding management of personal data. The 47th are committed to working within this legislation and the guidance issued from the Scout Association to manage and use the data of all those within the Group correctly.\nThis relates to the data held for Group purposes, specifically:\n\u2022 Enrolment forms (paper)\n\u2022 Activity permissions forms (paper)\n\u2022 Electronic registers (principally OSM* and locally produced spreadsheets / word documents for specific events).\n\u2022 Gift Aid forms and related data\n* OSM \u2013 Online Scout Manager \u2013 an online database containing member\u2019s details. Please refer to OSM\u2019s own Security and GDPR policy statements on their web site : www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/security.html\nThis does not explicitly cover the Compass system used to manage Leaders records. Responsibility for managing Compass is deemed to rest with the Scout Association, and management of it locally is deemed to rest with Doncaster Danum District Scouts Council. The Compass system is not used for data for those under the age of 18, it is for Leaders records only.\nIncreased rights under the legislation and how to exercise them\n\u2022 Individuals have the right to access their data and request a copy of their personal data via a \u2018Data Subject Access Request\u2019.\n\u2022 Individuals have a right to be forgotten and personal data corrected or deleted.\n\u2022 Individuals must give consent to an organisation to process personal data. This is given by the parent in the case of those Group members under the age of 13, and by the Group member in conjunction with the parent in the case of those aged between 13 and 18.\nInformation set out under the terms of the legislation:\nEvery member of the Group is deemed to be a \u2018data subject\u2019, irrespective of age.\nThe data subject is determined to be the member of the Group rather than the parent/guardian of that Group member but since we will be holding some measure of personal data for the parent (name and telephone number) we undertake to hold that data in the same secure manner and use this data only in the same manner as outlined within this document.\nThe \u2018data controller\u2019 for the Group is deemed to be the Group Scout Leader.\nThe \u2018data processor\u2019 for each section is the section leader for that section. Under the legislation, the data processor is responsible for the use, retention and disposal of data\nRequests to review the personal data held by the Group within the records described within this document must be made to the Data Controller in writing.\nThese will be dealt with as quickly as possible and within a target of 2 weeks. The Nominated Data Processor will not normally be able to deal with such requests.\nThose wishing to exercise their right to have their data corrected should follow the same procedures. It should be noted that the only data held by the Group has been provided by data subjects, or by their parents on their behalf. We do not hold any personal data from any other source.\nThose wishing to exercise their right to be forgotten and have their data deleted should contact the Data Controller as above and requests will be dealt with in the same manner.\nAll data breaches, or suspected data breaches, must be reported immediately to the Data Controller for investigation.\n\u2022 Under the legislation, only those over the age of 13 are deemed to be data subjects.\n\u2022 However, we treat the personal data of all young people (under the age of 18) in the same manner within the Group.\n\u2022 Parental permissions are always sought at the point of joining the Group.\n\u2022 For those who join the Group before the age of 13, permissions given by the parent is deemed to continue as from their 13th birthday but the data subject (young person) then acquires the same rights as all other data subjects set out above.\n\u2022 For those who join the Group aged 13 or over, a signature box is now included on the enrolment form for signature giving the Group permission to use your data in the specified manner.\nThe Group does not hold any personal data for adults within the Group electronically, other than the information with regard to the Compass system. The responsibility for managing Compass is deemed to rest with the Scout Association, and management of it locally is deemed to rest with Doncaster Danum District Scouts Council. The same data rights, retention and use policies and security measures apply to this data as for under 18 members of the Group.\nPersonal information provided via the Group enrolment form, completed on first entry to the Group and when moving sections:\n\u2022 Contact information (both standard and emergency)\n\u2022 Permissions & signatures\nFrom time to time activity permissions forms will be used with reference to specific events. These will be paper forms designed to capture and manage specific items of data ahead of events. These capture the same information as outlined above. These forms remain in the possession of the event leader during the event and only used in the case of emergency. Following the event, the Data is securely disposed of, as detailed below.\nSecurity of paper forms whilst on camps and at other outside events. We have a legal requirement to keep our data safe and secure. However, in the event of an emergency, it also needs to be easily accessible. As such all camp/activity leaders need to have easy access. In a camp environment this balance can be difficult to achieve. Having a locked box in a tent does not meet this requirement, equally locking the documents in car boot could delay \u2018emergency access\u2019 or the car could be stolen! We will make reasonable endeavors to keep the records safe, whilst enabling emergency access, this will be determined by the camp/activity leader.\nWith regard to events organised by Doncaster Danum Scout District or South Yorkshire Scout County, a standard format paper form is used to gather the same information outlined above. This form is provided by and managed by the District or County. These forms remain in the possession of a group Leader during the event and are only used in the case of emergency. Following the event, the Data is securely disposed of, as detailed below\nStandard enrolment information is entered in to the OSM system. This is used as a reference guide for Leaders, and in case of emergency. The paper form will securely disposed of, as detailed below.\nThis is information is not shared with any 3rd party (with the possible exception of medical staff in the event of an emergency) and is used for reference and in case of emergency only.\nActivity forms are taken to the event and used for registration and in case of emergency only.\nAs a Group we never pass data onto any 3rd parties and have no reason to do so. Data will never be sold.\nAt Scouting events, evenings and activities, photographs are taken for the sole use of promoting positive Scouting. The images will be shared via each section's Facebook page and the Group\u2019s website. Once shared the images are deleted.\nAccess to the Group records has been reviewed and is restricted to members of the Leadership team with a need to access personal data, primarily those set out as data processors.\nSpreadsheets created by Leaders for section evenings and individual events are managed by those Leaders and access restricted to those Leaders who require this information for the evening or event.\nAs a volunteer organisation it must be recognised that electronic records are accessed via machines not owned or controlled by the Group and which are the personal property of adults within the Group. All adults within the Group who have been granted access to these electronic records are regularly reminded about the need for system security, the use of strong and secure passwords, and ensuring that access is not possible by anyone else using their machine.\nData retention and disposal policy\nData held will be maintained only for the period during which the young person is an active member of the Scout Group. Once they leave the Group this will be securely disposed of ( exception \u2013 see Gift Aid below).\nOn moving between sections, this data will be transferred between sections records.\nOn transferring to other Groups this data will be deleted and new records will be need to be created by the receiving Scout Group.\nOn receiving transfers from other Groups a new record will be created and no electronic data will be received by our systems.\nPaper enrolment forms will be kept securely for 6 months following the last active involvement in Scouting. They will then be destroyed in a secure manner.\nThis also applies to those young people moving between sections where a new enrolment form is created. The form held by the previous section will be destroyed after 6 months.\nActivity permissions forms will be retained for 1 month following the event and then destroyed in a secure manner.\nRegisters for evenings will be retained for a minimum of 24 months and then are deleted.\nImages are shared as soon after the event as possible, and then are deleted from the device.\nGift Aid collection forms and data will be securely held by the Group to enable us to claim Gift Aid for membership fees and donations. We have a legal obligation to retain this information for 7 years after the last claim which references the young person and tax payer.\nCommunication with parents is on an information basis governed by permissions granted via the enrolment form with no marketing or sales implications. Therefore standard marketing preferences and permissions governed by GDPR regulations in the commercial world do not apply.\nAll current adult members of the Group have been instructed to identify any records containing personal data which they may hold electronically or in paper format and report these to the Group Scout Leader as part of a pre-GDPR audit. These records will then be deleted and destroyed if they fall outside of those systems or constraints outlined above.\nDuring Section and Group events and activities, members of our leadership team, other members of the Scout Association and members of the public may be taking still and moving pictures. Pictures used by the 47th outside of the event/activity will only be used in accordance with Scout Association guidelines. Pictures taken by our leadership team may be used during and after the event/activity in local or national Scout Association publications, and in local newspapers, on websites or in other social media channels.\nFor larger District and County events local newspapers and TV stations may also attend to provide external media coverage and members of the press will be accompanied at all times by a member of the event or activity staff/leader team. We will seek your specific permission if we wish to use your/your child\u2019s picture name with any picture in any promotional or advertising material.\nAnyone attending any Section, Group, District or County event or activity, or giving permission for their child/ward to attend an event or activity should note that attendance at the event or activity signifies their consent for pictures of themselves/their child to be used in line with the above policy.\nIf you have specific concerns in this regard, please contact the Section Leader for the activity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 11939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edu2021.com/news/gems-to-launch-10-new-schools-30000-new-places/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3YVL7R5OJ2R6RCIQIQFPVC26F42QNHNL", "length": 1378, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "edu2021.com", "title": "GEMS to launch 10 new schools, 30,000 new places by Which School Advisor UAE", "raw_content": "Which School Advisor UAE | GEMS to launch 10 new schools, 30,000 new places by Which School Advisor UAE\nHome / School News / New Schools / GEMS to launch 10 new schools, 30,000 new places\nGEMS to launch 10 new schools, 30,000 new places\nUpdate on August 11, 2016 by WhichSchoolAdvisor.com | Published October 23, 2012 in New Schools, Primary, School News, Secondary Schools with No Comments\nGEMS Education, the single largest provider of education in the UAE has announced plans to open 10 new schools in the Emirates over the next two years.\nThe UAE currently suffers from an excess of demand for good schools, with the Emirates most popular institutions with long waiting lists \u2013 up to two to three years for good primary schools.\nThe new schools will go some way to alleviating the situation with 33,000 new places for students across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah.\nAccording to a Gulf News report, the new schools will have British, Indian, International Baccalaureate, American and dual curriculums and will include a range of different fee levels as well as a Leadership Academy and Teacher Training Centre in Dubai.\nSome of the new facilities will be open to students in 2013 while the others will be open in 2014.\nGEMS Education currently manages some of the best schools in Dubai. Of the 11 schools currently ranked outstanding by the KHDA, four are GEMS schools.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2930608/curious-kids-what-is-fire-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QXHEJGCS7B3KZWBM2OSE5M5Y5XSAQTJF", "length": 3393, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "education.abc.net.au", "title": "Curious Kids: What is fire? - The Conversation - ABC Splash - http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2930608/curious-kids-what-is-fire-?null", "raw_content": "Tuesday 7 August 2018, 11:47 AM (EST)\nThe Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. Lyra from Oxford, UK, asks: what is fire? An expert in chemistry explains.\nThanks for the question, Lyra. Basically, fire is light and heat that comes from a special kind of chemical reaction, which humans figured out how to make hundreds of thousands of years ago.\nTo understand how that reaction works, there are a few things that we need to learn about the world around us. Everything that you see and touch is made up of tiny things called atoms. You can think of atoms as really, really small bits of Lego \u2013 so small you can\u2019t even see them.\nAtoms join together to form molecules, and molecules join together to form the objects we can see and feel in everyday life. For example, wood is mainly made of a type of molecule called cellulose and each molecule of cellulose is made of atoms called carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.\nNow, to see how the chemical reaction works, let\u2019s imagine that you\u2019re living in a cave 400,000 years ago, and that you\u2019re one of the very first people to use fire.\nYou\u2019re hungry and you want to cook an animal that you caught earlier in the day. On your way back to the cave, you collected some twigs and sticks for your fire. But there\u2019s two other things you need before you can light the fire. You need oxygen \u2013 but luckily there\u2019s plenty of that in the air (though you wouldn\u2019t have known about it at the time). And you\u2019ll need some heat to start things burning.\nOf course, matches haven\u2019t been invented yet, so instead you quickly rub two sticks together. The rubbing causes friction, which heats up the sticks \u2013 like when you rub your hands together fast to warm them up. This heat causes all the molecules in the wood to jiggle around.\nWhen a part of a stick gets hot enough, the molecules are moving about so much they start to break apart. This is when you start to see smoke. The smoke is all those broken up molecules escaping from the wood as gases.\nBut you haven\u2019t made fire yet \u2013 you need things to get even hotter! So you keep rubbing the sticks together really hard. Eventually, the gas molecules from the wood get so hot they bash into oxygen in the air and join together. When they do that, they make new molecules called water and carbon dioxide. At the same time, they also make heat and light. Well done, you\u2019ve made a flame! You can stop rubbing the sticks together now.\nAs you put more twigs on your small fire, the heat carries on breaking down the molecules in the wood, and making more gases. These gases catch fire as well. But something else needs to happen before your fire can really grow. When the gases leave the wood you get left with charcoal. Then, as your fire gets even hotter, the charcoal also starts to combine with more oxygen, making even more heat and light. Now things are hot enough to start cooking.\nYou make your meal, and after a while you run out of fuel for your fire. All the wood and charcoal burns away leaving ash. This is the stuff in the wood that doesn\u2019t burn. Without the light and heat from the fire, there\u2019s nothing to do but go to sleep \u2013 but at least you\u2019re not hungry anymore.\nMark Lorch, Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull. This article was originally published on The Conversation. 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Hinch took over as Houston\u2019s manager before right-hander Lance McCullers\u2019 rookie season in 2015 and the two have long held a special bond.\nSo when McCullers came off the mound after striking out a career-high in 12 in seven strong innings in an 11-4 win over the White Sox on Friday night Adidas Nolan Patrick Jersey , Hinch wanted to make sure he let his pitcher know how impressed he was with his big night.\nHe did that by enveloping him in a huge bear hug as soon as he reached the dugout when his work was done.\n\u201dI was so happy with the progress,\u201d Hinch said. \u201dHe\u2019s got so many options now against any hitter. \u2026 I love the growth that\u2019s happening for him as a major league starting pitcher. \u2026 He knows what he\u2019s going through and how he\u2019s taking steps forward. It\u2019s cool to have a moment with him.\u201d\nEvan Gattis hit a three-run homer in Houston\u2019s seven-run eighth to help the Astros to the victory.\nMcCullers (10-3) didn\u2019t allow a hit until a single by Adam Engel with one out in the sixth, and gave up just three singles and one run. He kept the White Sox off balance with a flurry of curveballs to outdo his previous career best of 11 Ks.\n\u201dI came up in 2015 and was really just a young kid,\u201d McCullers said. \u201dI had to learn a lot and he\u2019s definitely been someone who has really helped me along the way in all phases as a pitcher, a baseball player and as a person. I give a lot of credit to A.J., the veterans, the staff.\u201d\nChicago manager Rick Renteria raved about his curveball.\n\u201dHis breaking ball today was sweeping with some depth,\u201d he said. \u201dStrong breaking ball. It was a lot of breaking balls. Even going to the plate to be honest (and) looking for it, that thing was falling off the table pretty good.\u201d\nThe Astros took a 1-0 lead in the third on an RBI single by Yuli Gurriel. Tim Federowicz hit a two-run double in the fourth to make it 3-0.\nAfter Engel\u2019s single in the sixth, Yoan Moncada sent him to third with a single to right field. The White Sox cut the lead to 3-1 with a third straight single, this one by Yolmer Sanchez. After a quick visit to the mound, McCullers was able to limit the damage when Jose Abreu grounded into a double play.\nThe Astros added a run in the seventh on an RBI double by Gattis to make it 4-1. They broke it open in the eighth inning thanks in part to the homer by Gattis, who finished with three hits and four RBIs. The towering shot off Hector Santiago landed on the train tracks atop left field. Two more runs scored in that inning on an error by right fielder Avisail Garcia when he misjudged a fly ball hit by Gurriel and it bounced behind him just inside the line and sailed into the stands.\nChicago starter Reynaldo Lopez (4-6) yielded six hits and three runs while tying a career high with five walks in 4 2/3 innings to snap a two-game winning streak.\nMcCullers won his fourth straight decision to join Charlie Morton as the first Houston pitchers to reach 10 wins this season.\nHe was tough from the start of this one, retiring the first six batters, including striking out the side in the second, before hitting Kevan Smith with a pitch to start the third. But he got right back on track, and struck out the next three to end the inning as part of 10 straight he sat down before Engel\u2019s single in the sixth.\nGarcia Adidas Claude Giroux Jersey , whose career-best 14-game hitting streak was snapped Thursday night, hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth, and Daniel Palka followed with a solo shot off Brad Peacock.\nWhite Sox: SS Tim Anderson was out of the lineup a night after being plunked on the left forearm. Anderson said he was sore but OK and Renteria expects him to return to the lineup Saturday.\nAstros: Manager A.J. Hinch said he believes that C Brian McCann will return before the end of the regular season after he had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Tuesday. \u201dI do expect him back,\u201d Hinch said. \u201dI don\u2019t know when \u2026 and he\u2019s got a lot of things he needs to do to get back to playing, but I absolutely expect him to be back.\u201d\nSPECIAL WIN\nThe Astros dedicated Friday\u2019s victory to Cameron Gooch, a 10-year-old who is fighting cancer and attended the game as part of his wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Gooch was helped to the mound by Hinch and Gattis to throw out the ceremonial first pitch and they both wore orange armbands he gave to them during the game.\nMorton (10-2, 2.55 ERA) opposes James Shields (3-9, 4.12) when the series continues Saturday. Morton took his second loss of the season in his last outing when he allowed six hits and two runs while striking out 11 in 6 2/3 innings against Tampa Bay. Shields yielded four hits and a run in 6 2/3 innings in his last start, but did not factor in the decision in a 5-3 loss to Cincinnati.\nA massive amount of earth has been moved, foundational pillars are rising and some structures are beginning to take shape.\n\u201dThe proximity to LAX created the necessity to push the building in the ground 100 feet,\u201d he said. \u201dNormally, a football stadium would be in the ground maybe 30 feet but we\u2019re in the ground 100 feet Adidas Shayne Gostisbehere Jersey , so the race has been dig to the bottom and then start your way back up.\u201d\n\u201dSo we\u2019re pushing hard right now in every way we can to get as much done, but typically the manpower at the end of the project increases pretty dramatically because you\u2019re doing things like painting, floor finishes, millwork and that kind of stuff and it just takes more people to do it,\u201d he said.\nThe stadium complex will also include a hotel, retail space, office space and a 6,000-seat entertainment venue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 10045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ella3.com/getting-to-the-point-homes-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EXE7AMZLCCWCSBIHQXSZ3C4SG3IRU5WI", "length": 2925, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ella3.com", "title": "Getting To The Point \u2013 Homes | Ella's home blog", "raw_content": "The Best Strategy to Choose a Kitchen Countertop\nMajority of Kitchen Countertops are purchased as big items and are then sliced by your wants. They are heavy items that need to be installed by an expert. When you begin looking at the cost of kitchen countertop material like Corian and many more, you will find that granite is a standout amongst the most costly yet is less expensive than stainless steel. The good thing with granite countertops is that they have the capability of lasting for a longer time if appropriately installed by a professional. Most mortgage holders lean toward granite to other countertop materials because of the capacity of etching any craftsmanship that they want. Granite is naturally acquired from the earth\u2019s surfacing and proves to be a better and more attractive material than most artificially made materials. People that have granite countertops enjoy unique designs that you cannot locate anywhere else whether you are in Utah or somewhere else.\nKitchen tiles are great old solid countertop materials. These are bulkier in introducing, however, can be finished with a basic DIY procedure. The main detriment is that they effortlessly break and it may be difficult to clean them suitably. Stainless steel is exceptionally decent material, and kitchen countertops produced using this material are the most exorbitant in the market outperforming some other outline. Cooks in fast food restaurants like utilizing this material as it is good for bearing continuous activity. Different countertops are produced using wood which is a decent surface for saving warmth in the house. Any countertop made from wood is made in different designs and makes the kitchen look very beautiful when complete. The biggest disadvantage of using wood is its periodic maintenance as it must frequently be oiled to make it look nice and shining and to prevent them from corrosion.\nOne of the most up to date countertop materials that has taken the market by storm is glass. For glass to be used as a countertop, it must be thick and treated. The vast majority of them don\u2019t spill liquids and are anything but difficult to keep up. Most current kitchens in modern houses are fitted with glass countertops that don\u2019t hold on scratches. When interested in installing a countertop in your kitchen, always keep in mind the strength and durability. Basically, these two ought to be your essential worries even before cost, on the grounds that these different materials are valued inside a similar range.\nYou can even go for A-One Solid Surfacing kitchen countertop. If you wish to purchase the closest material to stainless steel you can go for laminates. They are thin layers that can be placed on your countertop. If you have a small budget, you can use them and still get the same good services. The only problem is that they don\u2019t last long, can\u2019t withstand high temperatures, and are not impervious to scratches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emhernandez.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UF7C5CXVN3VONH7BHNGTM4FUDT7QUH3M", "length": 349, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "emhernandez.com", "title": "Eric M. Hernandez, PhD \u2013 Associate Professor, University of Vermont", "raw_content": "Welcome to my website. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont. I currently hold the Gregory N. Sweeny Green and Gold Professorship in Civil Engineering. My field of expertise is Structural Engineering. This website contains information about my teaching and academic research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 106.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en-devicehelp.tango.lu/blackberry/dtek-50/wi-fi/connect-to-a-wi-fi-network/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OBUUAZLNUDCILMKFCAUIJ5MRYLLSTCEP", "length": 586, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "en-devicehelp.tango.lu", "title": "Tango Luxembourg - BlackBerry DTEK 50 - Wi-Fi: Connect to a Wi-Fi network", "raw_content": "BlackBerry DTEK 50 Wi-Fi Connect to a Wi-Fi network\nIn addition to mobile internet you can also use a Wi-Fi connection with the BlackBerry DTEK 50.\nThe BlackBerry DTEK 50 requires a number of settings to be configured to access the internet via a Wi-Fi network.\nAll available wireless networks within range of your BlackBerry DTEK 50 are listed.\nIf the network is not listed, make sure that the network is enabled and within the range of the BlackBerry DTEK 50.\nIf this screen appears, enter the password and choose CONNECT.\nThe BlackBerry DTEK 50 is now connected to the Wi-Fi network.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.azeridefence.com/bae-systems-team-awarded-development-contract-for-u-s-marine-corps-acv-1-1-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:AF33XX3X6CC5EDPMD33P6XDFSEA23KIY", "length": 2361, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "en.azeridefence.com", "title": "BAE Systems Team Awarded Development Contract for U.S. Marine Corps ACV 1.1 Program - Azeridefence | Azeridefence", "raw_content": "BAE Systems Team Awarded Development Contract for U.S. Marine Corps ACV 1.1 Program\nThe U.S. Marine Corps has awarded BAE Systems\u2019 team a contract worth $103.7 million for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 program.\nThe company, along with teammate IVECO Defence Vehicles, will deliver a solution that will be built from the ground up to be an amphibious vehicle and will provide significant capability improvements to satisfy the Marine Corps\u2019 current and future needs.\n\u201cWe are proud to continue our long history of providing the Marine Corps with superior amphibious capabilities,\u201d said Deepak Bazaz, director of new and amphibious vehicles at BAE Systems. \u201cOur vehicle was designed to be fully amphibious with exceptional ground mobility and protection. Our ACV solution will provide the Marine Corps with a mature, cost-effective solution with significant growth capacity.\u201d\nThe award is one of two EMD contracts issued. During this phase, BAE Systems will produce 16 prototypes that will be tested by the Marine Corps beginning in the third quarter of 2016. Work on the vehicles will take place at BAE Systems\u2019 facilities in Quantico, Virginia; San Jose, California; and York, Pennsylvania.\nBAE Systems\u2019 ACV 1.1 solution is an advanced 8\u00d78 open ocean-capable vehicle that is based on a platform developed by IVECO Defence Vehicles. It is equipped with a new 6-cylinder, 700HP power pack, which provides a significant power increase over the current Assault Amphibious Vehicle. The vehicle performs best in class mobility in all terrains and has a suspended interior seat structure for 13 embarked Marines, blast mitigating positions for a crew of three, and improved survivability and force protection over currently fielded systems. The team has conducted extensive risk mitigation testing and evaluation for swim, land mobility, and survivability capabilities that have proven the solution\u2019s capabilities.\nBAE Systems has more than 70 years of experience designing and building amphibious vehicles and is a leading provider of combat vehicles, having produced more than 100,000 systems for customers worldwide. 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The tours are open for groups of tourists only.\nAs part of the tours, visitors are invited to try their hands at making pottery products of the Cham people and make the traditional cakes of the Ta Oi, Tay and Thai people.\nSon Tinh Camp site.\nA painting contest, under the theme \u2018Central Highlands in my eyes\u2019, will take place on July 16 and 17, encouraging children aged from 6 to 15 to paint and feature the landscape, living space and culture of the Central Highlands region. The best entries of the contest will be awarded on September 1 this year.\nNotably, children visiting the village on July 7-8 and July 21-22 can register for a free training course on experiencing the Buddhist monastic life. During the two-day courses, the participants will learn about Buddhist rituals and Buddha\u2019s teachings on humanism and being a well-behaved child.\nEthnic village, assorted summer activities, Vietnam National Village, Dong Mo tourism area, wide range, summer programme, traditional rural market", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 8662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960908000566", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VVVYPDEC5CXX7DSBPCATIVPSO4PBF2LF", "length": 1618, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "en.farsnews.com", "title": "Farsnews", "raw_content": "http://fna.ir/a2mpkm\nWed Nov 29, 2017 3:5\nIran's Persian Carpet Exports Hit $180mln in 7 months\nTEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has exported hand-woven carpets worth $180 million over the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), a senior trade official announced.\n\"Iran exported $290 million hand-woven carpet in 2016, he said, adding the figure rose to $359 million in 2016, rising by 3 percent in terms of weight and 23 percent in terms of value,\" Deputy Head of Iran's Carpet Center for Economic Affairs Mohammad Mehdi Farshchi said.\nIn relevant remarks in April, former Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh announced that Iran's export of handwoven carpets to the US had increased considerably.\nThe US, Germany, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, Japan, Britain, Qatar, South Africa and Australia are top ten costumers of Persian carpet with the US taking the lead in imports of the product from Iran.\nCarpet-weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of the Persian culture and art, and dates back to ancient Persia.\nThere is an estimated population of 1.2 million weavers in Iran producing carpets for domestic markets and international export.\nThe country produces about 5 million square meters of carpets annually of which 80 percent are sold in international markets.\nIran Ups Export of Handwoven Carpet by 23 Percent\nIran Ups Carpet Exports from Central Province by 12 Percent\nIran's Non-Oil Exports Hit $31bln in 9 Months\nIran's Foreign Trade Balance Up by 6%\nIran Ups Carpet Exports to US\nIran, US Mulling Reciprocal Visits by Carpet Traders", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.maxvision.com.cn/prod_view.aspx?typeid=96&id=166&fid=t3:96:3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QEDF7DTQE4H2UFBA6ZWDUEHIMWK6WXAH", "length": 874, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "en.maxvision.com.cn", "title": "Multi-axis manipulator - Artificial intelligence - Maxvision Technology Corp.", "raw_content": "It is an application of us based on intelligent control technologies. Based on the bionics principle, our research team has realized motion control over joints with four or six degrees of freedom. In addition, with help of the intelligent vision technology, the manipulator can realize accurate positioning in 3D space and, with help of the advanced artificial intelligence algorithm, various intelligent control applications.\nThe smart inspection assistance manipulator currently used in the customs clearance of vehicles at ports can inspect inbound and outbound vehicles intelligently. Drivers do not need to get off their vehicles during inspections because the manipulator can recognize them intelligently and automatically with help of advanced image processing and target tracking algorithm, making the inspections and release of vehicles quicker and more convenient.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.people.cn/90882/8384814.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HUCQZAJOEF4HDQIWPH42WBENGZHI7O62", "length": 834, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "en.people.cn", "title": "In pictures: 5.9-magnitude quake jolts SW China - People's Daily Online", "raw_content": "In pictures: 5.9-magnitude quake jolts SW China\nNo. 214 national road is blocked by broken stones after an earthquake in Deqen County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 31, 2013. An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China at 8:04 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter was monitored at 28.2 degrees north latitude and 99.4 degrees east longitude, in the area bordering the counties of Shangri-La, Deqen of Yunnan Province and Derong County of Sichuan Province, with a depth of about 10 kilometers, the center said. (Xinhua/Shi Xianrao)\n5.9-magnitude quake jolts SW China\nSW China quake affects more than 52,000\n3Beware of the shadows behind the Syrian issue\n4Int\u2019l investment banks optimistic about Chinese economy\n5NYT issues apology to Li Na", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.wikibedia.ru/wiki/2007_Shinwar_shooting", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:40Z", "digest": "sha1:O7OMKBEOUDZCHALCBIXDGFAAO3GVYZVS", "length": 20343, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "en.wikibedia.ru", "title": "2007 Shinwar shooting Wikipedia", "raw_content": "2007 Shinwar shooting\nCoordinates: 34\u00b015\u2032N 70\u00b030\u2032E\ufeff / \ufeff34.25\u00b0N 70.5\u00b0E\ufeff / 34.25; 70.5 The 2007 Shinwar shooting, also known as the Shinwar Massacre,[1] was the killing of a number of Afghan people on 4 March 2007, in the village of Spinpul,[2] in the Shinwar District of the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. United States Marines, fleeing the scene of a car bomb attack and ambush by Afghan militants, fired on people and vehicles surrounding them, according to initial reports killing as many as 19 civilians and injuring around 50 more.[3] The exact casualty figures have not been firmly established.[4]\nThe United States Marine Corps conducted an internal inquiry from January 2008. In May that year it exonerated the Marine Corps unit, determining that it had acted \"appropriately and in accordance with the rules of engagement\".[5] The report was condemned by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission,[6] and by the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.[7] Further revelations in 2010 led employees of Amnesty International and the International Bar Association to assert that there was prima facie, or superficial evidence that international humanitarian law had been violated, but could not speculate further without knowing the details of the inquiry.[8]\nIn 2008 all involved troops were issued Combat Action Ribbons and one gunner was issued a Purple Heart.\nIn 2019 the Board for Correction of Naval Records recommended the platoon's Marine commander be retroactively promoted to lieutenant colonel with back pay, and criticized the 2007 senior commanders who failed to \"respond appropriately to an enemy infomation operation and stand by the troops.\"\n2 Afghan response\n4 Investigation and inquiry\n4.1 2019 Retroactive promotions\nSequence of events[]\nOn 4 March 2007, Haji Ihsanullah, a member of Hezb-e Islami Khalis (or the Tora Bora Military Front, depending on source),[9][10] drove a minivan laden with explosives into one of the vehicles making up a US military convoy, which included either three[11] or six[12] humvees. A US Marine was injured.[13] Sources differ on whether or not hidden gunmen then also opened fire on the convoy.[14] The US Marines fled the area,[11] firing on some vehicles for between 6 and 16 miles[15] while driving along the Afghan street.[16]\nAccording to several witnesses and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the US Marines' response to the car bombing included indiscriminate firing at passing civilians on the busy highway. They asserted that elderly men, women and children were killed.[17] Akhtyar Gul, a local reporter who witnessed the shooting, claimed that the Marines sprayed civilians with machine gun fire even though the Marines were not under attack.[17] These assertions would be disputed during the subsequent US Marine Corps court of inquiry.[18]\nAccording to Associated Press and Afghan journalists, US troops confiscated photos and videos of the incident and its aftermath.[19][20] A freelance photographer working for the Associated Press claimed that two Marines and a translator asked him: \"Why are you taking pictures? You don't have permission.\"[5] Another photographer claimed that he had been told by US troops, through an interpreter: \"Delete them [your photos], or we will delete you.\"[5]\nAfghan response[]\nThe killings were followed by widespread protests across Afghanistan and drew sharp criticism from President Hamid Karzai.[4] The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission's report asserted that: \"In failing to distinguish between civilians and legitimate military targets, the US Marine Corps Special Operators employed indiscriminate force. Their actions thus constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian standards.\"[21]\nMajor General Frank Kearney, head of the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), ordered the entire 120-member unit out of Afghanistan pending an investigation into the incident, and announced that there was no evidence supporting the Marines' story that they had come under fire.[12][22] The unit's commander and senior officer were relieved of their duties on 3 April 2007 and reassigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.[23] Kearney's order to have the unit depart Afghanistan was later found by the Department of Defense's Inspector General to be within his authority, and reasonable.[24] Compensation payments of $2,000 each were paid to the families of those killed or wounded;[25][26] overall more than fifty Afghans received compensation payments.[27]\nInvestigation and inquiry[]\nThe shooting came under investigation by both Afghanistan[28] and the United States. On 12 April 2007, an initial investigation headed by a United States Air Force colonel was conducted, endorsed by a United States Army general.[29] It determined that the Marines used \"excessive force when they killed civilians after a suicide bombing\", and referred the case to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for a criminal inquiry;[30] the investigation occurred two months after the shootings, with investigators only able to study the site of the shooting for an hour.[31] The New York Times of 20 April 2007 included an article asserting that the shooting was similar to the Haditha killings.[32]\nThe Pentagon issued a formal apology for the incident on 7 May 2007.[33] \"This was a terrible, terrible mistake,\" said US Army Colonel John Nicholson, \"and my nation grieves with you for your loss and suffering. We humbly and respectfully ask for your forgiveness.\"[33] Nicholson commanded Task Force Spartan, whose area of operation as defined by ISAF Regional Command East included the area of the shooting.[33][18] This was dismissed as premature by General James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, who said: \"I would just as soon that no one ... apologize or talk about 'terrible, terrible mistakes'.\"[34]\nJames Mattis, then a Marine Corps lieutenant general, ordered a court of inquiry to be held.[35] The court at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina formally investigated the incident in January 2008, hearing from more than 50 witnesses, including Afghans, over 17 days. Much of the testimony was characterized as \"vague and contradictory\".[36] The four Marines who had fired their weapons did not testify\u2014according to Declan Walsh, writing in The Guardian of London, \"because they had not been granted immunity from prosecution\".[5]\nDuring the court of inquiry, Colonel Nicholson stated the Marines did not coordinate their operations with his command when conducting operations, and that the Marines' failure to remain at the scene of the attack amounted to failing to \"preserve evidence\", according to David Zucchino of the Los Angeles Times.[18] Marines who had been present testified that they had been forced to leave the scene by a \"complex ambush\".[18] One Marine testified that not all Marines in the convoy returned fire against those ambushing the convoy\u2014return fire, he said, was limited to some gunners. This Marine elaborated that the gunners were ordered to cease fire some minutes later by a Marine captain.[37] Testimony by Afghans, including an Afghan police lieutenant colonel, and a 1980s mujahideen commander, contradicted the testimony of the Marines.[38] Nicholson testified that thirty minutes after US Marines left the area, other US troops arrived at the location of the minivan attack and found no dead or wounded Afghans. He speculated that this might be because Afghans collect and bury their dead quickly in line with Islamic tradition, but also acknowledged that Taliban insurgents often fake or exaggerate civilian deaths, stating \"That's why it's so important for us to stay on the scene.\"[18]\nAccording to one of the Marines' defence lawyers, Mark Waple, an investigation by the US Navy estimated that the number of people killed was between five and seven, all adult men; Waple continued that despite the prior claims of massacred women and children, witness statements attested only to a wounded 16-year-old boy and a woman with an injured hand.[39] In May 2008 the court of inquiry concluded that they had \"acted appropriately and in accordance with the rules of engagement and tactics, techniques and procedures in place at the time in response to a complex attack.\"[36]\nTestimony to the inquiry was classified and not released,[36] and the 12,000-page report was also unpublished.[5] In March 2015, excerpts of the \"key conclusions\" were published in the Military Times.[40] No criminal charges were brought, although \"some officers\" did receive an \"administrative reprimand\".[5] The court of inquiry recommended judicial and/or administrative actions be taken upon two Marine captains and two enlisted Marines.[41] The verdict infuriated the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.[6] Kubra Aman, a member of the Afghan House of Elders from Nangarhar, said \"I am very angry. This is too much.\"[7] The decision was also criticised by the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, whose spokesperson Aleem Siddique said \"It is disappointing that no one has been held accountable for these deaths\".[7] The two Marine captains were later \"cleared of wrongdoing\", according to the Marine Corps Times.[42] More than a year after the court of inquiry concluded, Marines involved received Combat Action Ribbons, and an injured turret gunner was awarded the Purple Heart.[43][40]\nIn 2010, Mark Ellis of the International Bar Association told Channel 4 News of the UK that based on documents released by WikiLeaks, \"there is prima facie evidence from the military log that suggests the troops could be investigated for war crimes\" but that legal hurdles would probably prevent a hearing before the International Criminal Court (ICC).[8] Sam Zafiri of Amnesty International took a similar line, saying that \"There is certainly prima facie evidence of violations of international humanitarian law ... It's not so much about whether an investigation into what happened at Jalalabad is re-opened, but rather publish what the US military did investigate, who they talked to, what were the results and how did they arrive at the decision they came to.\"[8]\nIn March 2015, the Military Times published a series of articles about the incident, written by Andrew deGrandpre. Fred Galvin, who commanded the Marine unit at the time of the incident, said that despite being cleared by the court of inquiry, he and his men thought that their side of the story had not been properly publicised, and that they still felt they were stigmatised as a result of the accusations.[44] Although cleared of wrongdoing, members of the unit were adversely effected by the perception of the event.[45]\n2019 Retroactive promotions[]\nIn January 2019, the Board for Correction of Naval Records (BCNR) reported that Major Fred Galvin (USMC retired) should be promoted to lieutenant colonel and given back pay. The Board found Galvin \"was beset by a perfect storm of toxic officers,\" following the false accusations of 2007.[46] The Board found \"The ambush of 4 March 2007 was not a tactical \u201cmisstep.\u201d The GUI found the convoy\u2019s response was irreproachable and found no fault relative to the Marines\u2019 conduct and performance. The only misstep was the inability or unwillingness of Senior U.S. leaders to respond appropriately to an enemy infomation operation and stand by the troops until competent evidence was gathered.\"[47]\nCivilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001\u2013present)\n^ Prince, Stephen (13 August 2013). Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism. Columbia University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0231148702. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\nSouth Asia Defence and Strategic Year Book. Panchsheel. 2009. p. 254. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\nTucker, Spencer C., ed. (8 October 2010). Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars, The: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts. ABC-CLIO. p. 1368. ISBN 9781851099481.\nDanes, Kay (2010). Beneath the Pale Blue Burqa: One Woman's Journey Through Taliban Strongholds. Big Sky Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-0980658286. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ Carlotta Gall (8 April 2014). The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001\u20132014. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-544-04568-2. The thirty-man platoon was hit by a suicide car bomb in the midst of heavy traffic at a village called Spinpul.\n^ Talton, Trista; Naylor, Sean D. (15 February 2008). \"The story of 'Task Force Violence'\". Marine Times. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ a b Tyson, Ann Scott (23 March 2007). \"Marine Unit Is Told To Leave Afghanistan\". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2009.\n^ a b c d e f Walsh, Declan (26 July 2010). \"Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath\". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.\n^ a b Michael Haas (2009). George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes. ABC-CLIO. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-313-36499-0. Investigation began in early 2008 for those involved in the Shinwar massacre. Six Marines were granted immunity to testify. Their testimony served to exonerate those not granted immunity, thereby infuriating Afghanistan's human rights commission.\n^ a b c \"Many Afghans outraged at US decision on Marines\". NewsOK. Associated Press. 6 June 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ a b c Jepson, Kris (27 July 2010). \"Afghan shootings raise war crimes question\". Channel 4. London. Retrieved 5 May 2015.\n^ \"Wounded Afghans say U.S. forces fired on civilians after suicide bomb\". USA Today. United States. Associated Press. 4 March 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ World Almanac of Islamism 2011. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 827. ISBN 978-1-4422-0714-1.\n^ a b Faiez, Rahim (3 May 2007). \"U.S. forces flee Afghan ambush firing wildly\". Current-Argus. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2009.\n^ a b Iqbal, Anwar (16 April 2007) \"Marines killed civilians in Afghanistan: report\", Dawn.com\n^ \"U.S. investigating reports of Afghan civilians killed by its military forces \", AlaskaReport[permanent dead link], 5 March 2007\n^ \"US Seizes Afghan Shooting Footage Archived 16 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine\", Al Jazeera English, 6 March 2007\n^ Bright, Arthur (16 April 2007) \"Pentagon inquiry finds US Marine unit killed Afghan civilians. Csmonitor, 16 April 2007\n^ \"US Revises Downward Number of Civilians Killed in Afghan Convoy Attack\". VOA News. Archived from the original on 2007-03-06. Retrieved 22 March 2012.\n^ a b Baxter, Sarah (15 April 2007). \"US troops accused of killing civilians\". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 17 April 2007.\n^ a b c d e Zucchino, David (24 January 2008). \"Army colonel again criticizes Marine unit\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\nTalton, Trista; Naylor, Sean D. (15 February 2008). \"The story of 'Task Force Violence'\". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved 27 May 2008.\n^ \"US 'excessive' in Afghan attack\". BBC News. 15 April 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2008.\n^ \"US 'erased Afghan attack footage'\". BBC News. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 15 March 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2007.\n^ Gall, Carlotta (15 April 2007). \"Marines Accused in Afghanistan Slayings\". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2007.\n^ Kevin Baker (2011). War in Afghanistan. Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-921719-39-4.\n^ \"Probe: Spec ops Marines used excessive force \u2013 Navy News, opinions, orials, news from Iraq, photos, reports \u2013 Navy Times\". Navytimes.com. 11 April 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2012.\n^ \"H07L105376221\" (PDF). Office of Inspector General. United States Department of Defense. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n\"Probe backs commander who removed Marine unit\". WHEC. Rochester, New York. Associated Press. 16 September 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ Rights group assails U.S. marines in killings of Afghans \u2013 International Herald Tribune Archived 15 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine\n^ Cloud, David S. (9 May 2007). \"U.S. Pays and Apologizes to Kin of Afghans Killed by Marines\". New York Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015. In a videoconference to reporters at the Pentagon, he added, \"We made official apologies on the part of the U.S. government\" and paid $2,000 for each death.\n^ Talton, Trista (15 January 2008). \"Payments to Afghans detailed at MarSOC inquiry\". Navy Times. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\n^ \"9 Afghan Civilians Killed In NATO Strike\". CBS News. 5 March 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2008.\n^ deGrandpre, Andrew (3 April 2015). \"Task Force Violent: The unforgiven\". Military Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\nZucchino, David (26 January 2008). \"Marine Humvee was shot at, Army expert testifies\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015. Mero, who examined the Humvee within two days of the March 4 incident, said he was pressured by the Air Force colonel in charge of the investigation to alter his conclusions.\n^ \"Probe: US Marines killed civilians in Afghanistan | Jerusalem Post\". Fr.jpost.com. 3 February 2012. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2012.\n^ \"Navy: No Proof to Marines' Ambush Story\". Navy: No Proof to Marines' Ambush Story. Associated Press. 15 January 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\n^ von Zeilbauer, Paul (20 April 2015). \"Killings of Afghan Civilians Recall Haditha\". New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2015.\n^ a b c \"Pentagon apologizes for deaths of Afghan civilians\". CNN. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2010.\nNicholson, John (8 May 2007). \"DoD News Briefing with Col. Nicholson from Afghanistan\". United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\n^ Lowe, Christian (18 May 2007). \"Conway Condemns Afghanistan Apology\". Military.com. Retrieved 3 March 2012.\n^ Talton, Trista (11 October 2007). \"Court of inquiry ordered in spec-ops case\". Marine Times. Gannett. Retrieved 6 May 2015.\n^ a b c David Zucchino (24 May 2008). \"Marine Corps unit cleared in Afghan shootout\". LA Times. Retrieved 10 September 2009.\n^ \"Ex-Marine testifies in Afghan deaths tribunal\". NBC News. Associated Press. 8 January 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\nThompson, Estes (9 January 2008). \"Civilians died needlessly, former marine tells court of inquiry\". Welland Tribune. Canada. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\n^ Meek, James Gordon (21 February 2013). \"Helped U.S. Win Cold War; Marines Killed His Family\". New York Daily News. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\nZucchino, David (23 January 2008). \"2 Afghans testify in Marine inquiry\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 June 2015.\n^ Zucchino, David (30 January 2008). \"Marine court hears dueling depictions of accused\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 June 2015. He said the U.S. military made payments to the families of 17 dead listed by the governor, but a later Navy investigation put the number of dead at five to seven. And despite reports that children and women had been killed, Waple said, testimony produced only a wounded 16-year-old boy and a woman with a hand injury.\n^ a b deGrandpre, Andrew (19 March 2015). \"Task Force Violent: The unforgiven\". Military Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\n^ Talton, Trista (28 June 2008). \"MarSOC report: More investigation needed\". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\n^ Seck, Hope Hodge (21 February 2015). \"MARSOC remains a growing, changing force after 9 years\". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved 27 May 2015.\n^ https://www.militarytimes.com/special-projects/task-force-violent/2015/03/20/task-force-violent-the-unforgiven-part-3/\n^ deGrandpre, Andrew (2015). \"Task Force Violent: The Unforgiven\". Military Times. Garnett. Retrieved 5 May 2015.\n^ deGrandpre, Andrew (16 February 2017). \"The military blackballed these Marines. Four congressmen are fighting to restore their honor\". MilitaryTimes. Springfield, Virginia: Sightline Media Group. Retrieved 17 March 2017.\n^ https://freebeacon.com/national-security/navy-acknowledges-railroading-marine-operator-falsely-accused-war-crimes/\n^ https://thenewsrep.com/112457/breaking-us-navy-to-fix-what-the-marine-corps-wouldnt-by-clearing-marsoc-fox-company-commander-of-false-accusations-of-war-crimes/\nWikimedia Commons has media related to War in Afghanistan (2001\u20132014).\nCommander Salamander; EagleOne (3 May 2015). \"Episode 278: Betrayal, leadership, loyalty, and redemption: Task Force VIOLENT\". Midrats (Podcast). Andrew deGrandpre. BlogTalkRadio. Retrieved 5 May 2015 \u2013 via United States Naval Institute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 24997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 187.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enewsbreak.com/lifestyle/science-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5Z7F2AOC4BO76FZ54TAKGTVDH72F4Z2L", "length": 538, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "enewsbreak.com", "title": "Science & History Archives - enewsbreak.com :enewsbreak.com Science & History Archives - enewsbreak.com", "raw_content": "Categories for Science & History\n10 Common Myths About Earth & Space That You Thought Were True \u2014 But Have Been Debunked By Science\nA lot of people have some pretty big misconceptions about space and Earth. To be fair, very few of us have ever been, there\u2019s a lot more to study before anybody really knows what\u2019s actually going on up there, and movies tend to give us the complete wrong idea. Here are some of the most common myths, misconceptions, and inaccuracies regarding outer space and Earth that should be thrown into a black hole.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 9092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://engagetolead.com/cant-focus-or-get-anything-donea-solution-that-works/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RAKJLC6WRGM5FAQIXOR2XZCTVAOC2D3R", "length": 3827, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "engagetolead.com", "title": "Can't Focus or Get Anything Done\u2026A Solution that Works \u2013 Heydlauff Enterprises", "raw_content": "All three of these can be important when you cannot focus and are unmotivated. Moreover, if one of them fits, you need to take appropriate action. But if you have carefully checked all three of these out and none of them fit you \u2013 then what?\nPam is a very determined businessperson who works from her home office. She recently relocated so her office was in new space of her choosing filled with positive energy. Nevertheless Pam was stuck, always on edge, not able to focus and definitely unmotivated. She was so unmotivated that she was falling behind on her work and didn\u2019t even want to sit behind her desk.\nShe Needed to Change\nAlbert Einstein once said, \u201cInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.\u201d Pam realized she needed to change something but what. She agonized over what went wrong and did a good job of playing the self-blame game. She remained unsettled, anxious and completely avoided her workspace, falling further behind. She said, \u201cI feel like I\u2019m crawling on the ceiling and can\u2019t get down. Everything seems out of balance.\u201d\nPam was encouraged to reflect on her workspace, take into consideration Feng Shui principles and how they apply to the location of her desk. Pam believed in the flow of positive energy and Feng Shui principles so she got busy trying to solve her problem and fix her unsettled nerves.\nUpon further evaluation, it was determined that the following problems existed.\nHer desk faced the wall with her back toward everything and as she sat at her desk, all of her personal energy was falling right out of the workspace into the remainder of the house, taking her right with it.\nIn this position, her chair was placed so she did not have a commanding view of her space and the doors leading into her space.\nPlus she had her income and new business energy plant flowing away from her taking her desire to work and create new business right with it.\nAll of this created chaos in the energy surrounding her workspace causing her to struggle with focusing and totally stopped her progress. The following corrections were made.\nThe desk was turned perpendicular to the wall giving her ample space to walk around it and for the proper placement of her chair. This step gave definition and control to her workspace.\nHer chair was placed in the corner behind her desk providing her full view of the entire room and entrances. This is the position of power and control. She was not only in control of her workspace but also in command of everything within view allowing her to focus and concentrate.\nThe plant was moved into the corner behind her chair providing her a constant flow of new business and income energy.\nThe shift in energy was immediate; her workspace was back in balance. Pam said, \u201cI felt relaxed, grounded and settled for the first time since my relocation and I love sitting and working at my desk.\u201d She did some additional uncluttering on her desk to help her concentrate and has settled right into a calm routine, focuses on the work at hand and is motivated.\nThe power of the flow of energy and the placement of furniture should not be underestimated. This Feng Shui principle can be applied to all rooms and the placement of all furniture.\nDownload \u201cCan\u2019t Focus or Get Anything Done\u2026A Solution that Works\u201d in PDF Format.\nPat Heydlauff is president of Energy Design, a company dedicated to eliminating chaos in the workplace and home. More than a Feng Shui expert, Pat is a consultant and speaker who helps clients by removing clutter, and using design principles to enhance organization and productivity. Her forthcoming book, \u201cFeng Shui: So Easy a Child Can Do It,\u201d shows how to organize one\u2019s life for a better tomorrow. For information on her consulting, speaking and artwork, visit: www.Energy-by-Design.com or call: 561-408-2708.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.int.ru/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_19.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IUVOSG2Y2QK75EJKFGMHRIPVV3WDECDL", "length": 541, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "english.int.ru", "title": "Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 19 | ENGLISH PAGE", "raw_content": "1. Michael's talent for the right investments made him rich.\n2. Katie's talking caused me a mistake.\n3. I'm bored of the same old thing every weekend.\n4. 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But things did not work out. I wanted to be there to witness this historic event,\u201d said Besra, who was present at the beatification ceremony conducted by then Pope John Paul II at St Peter\u2019s Square in the Vatican 13 years ago.\n\u201cBut that hasn\u2019t lessened our happiness. I, along with my entire family and neighbours, will hold special prayers so that her blessings continue to shower on us,\u201d Besra told IANS over the phone.\nDiagnosed with a cancerous ovarian tumour and facing death, Besra was \u201cmiraculously cured\u201d in 1998 during prayers with some nuns of the Missionaries of Charity \u2014 the Mother\u2019s order \u2014 on the occasion of the first anniversary of her death.\nBesra has said in earlier interviews that she was so sick and could barely walk when she found herself before a photo of Mother Teresa. It was then that she saw a \u201cblinding light\u201d. The nuns are then said to have pressed a religious medallion on her belly \u2014 and when she awoke a few hours later, she was cured.\nBesra\u2019s cure was subsequently recognised by the Vatican and Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 as the \u201cBlessed Teresa of Calcutta\u201d.\nDespite Vatican\u2019s acceptance of her cure as a miracle, some doctors were sceptical and claimed Besra was cured by medical treatment. They have maintained that all she was suffering from was a cyst, not a tumour, and recovered after prolonged tuberculosis treatment.\nBut today, Besra, who is about 50 years old, does not dwell on the controversies. The Mother\u2019s canonisation is a special moment, she said, not only for herself and her family, but for most of the residents in Nakor village, some 400 km from Kolkata.\n\u201cBesides holding prayers, we will be distributing sweets. 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Matthews now runs the series and is committed to bringing together writers and artists in the community to incite political change.\nThe series includes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry\u2014all of a political nature. The issues may change from month to month, but will always address political topics that feel essential to the author.\nThe format is a little bit different. Readers share their work, but we also engage in a room-wide discussion that involved a chance for the audience to ask questions and spark dialogue. The authors don\u2019t necessarily have the authority, but rather we all try to wrestle with the issues they bring forward.\nAdditionally, the series involves a call to action. Each reader can suggest an organization for the audience to donate to, a call to service of some sort, a recommendation for sparking debate within their community, or suggestions of how to confront a particular prejudice or injustice. 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Around 270 IT companies have emerged in Goa with little or no support. If the policy is implemented in the right spirit, it can revolutionize the IT sector in the state\nThe launch of Information-Technology (IT) Policy by the state government just a week ago was such a significant event that it could be seen as a watershed moment in the history of the state, provided the policy is successfully implemented.\nThe IT sector, which was eagerly waiting for the launch of the policy, expressed satisfaction because the policy is in the right path and has taken care of much of their concerns. The stakeholders are now looking forward to seeing effective implementation of the policy by the state government.\nPrajyot Mainkar, Chairman of Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI)\u2019s IT Committee, said, \u201cIt\u2019s really good that the IT Policy has benefits for both new as well as existing companies. I really think new start-ups must get benefits because it will help in growth of the sector. At the same time, even the existing companies are facing issues with infrastructure and etc. So, it\u2019s good that existing companies are also getting benefits under the policy.\u201d\nMainkar continued, \u201cMoreover, we have six incubation centres in Goa, which will ensure that start-ups not only get space but they also get good mentoring.\u201d\nIt was expected that the policy would live up to the expectations because the government and the industry had met and brain-stormed over it on a number of occasions. Goa is a small state and its IT ecosystem is made up of young start-ups. Therefore, the policy had to be such, which addressed the issues of such companies.\nMangirish Salelkar, President, Goa Technology Association (GTA), said, \u201cI think it\u2019s a good policy. Most requests of the industry have been acknowledged. Some really good initiatives include the state government reimbursing Rs 10,000 per resource hired to the IT companies. Moreover, subsidy on internet charges will be really helpful because the cost of internet in Goa is 3-4 times that of in big cities like Bangalore.\u201d\nA significant number of IT companies in the state are into products based on new technologies. Considering this, the government has kept enough provision for cutting-edge technologies like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Robotics, 3-D Printing and etc.\nJason Fernandes, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO), AEToken (AEToken.io), said, \u201cBlockchain could well be the most important technological innovation of this century and so I\u2019m thrilled to learn that it is one of the key areas Goa government is targeting. The international patent reimbursement is also intriguing. As an international patent holder myself, I believe the scheme will go a long way toward encouraging innovation in the state.\u201d\nMost subsidies offered under the policy are a function of number of Goan origin or Goan graduates employed in an IT company. The policy says that an IT company will get 50% of the subsidy under a head if it employs 30% or lesser Goan origin / Goan graduates on its payroll. If the proportion of Goan origin / Goan graduates is between 30% to 60%, then the company will get 75% of the subsidy. However, if it employs more than 60% Goan origin / Goan graduates, it will get 100% of the subsidy.\nAmarsh Chaturvedi, Co-Founder, Transerve Technologies, said, \u201cThe idea of IT Policy giving subsidies will help companies become competitive. The term for which the government will provide subsidy will be utilised by Goan companies in establishing themselves.\u201d\nHowever, Chaturvedi didn\u2019t sound enthusiastic about the part of the policy, which makes employing Goan origin / Goan graduates as one of the key determining factors to avail subsidy. He said, \u201cIn Goa, very often, we don\u2019t find the kind of tech talent we want. For example, at our company, we wanted to hire a Python (a software language) developer. We hardly received any application from Goa for this position. Eventually, we had to hire someone from outside.\u201d\nInterestingly, Vincent Toscano, Vice-President, Goa IT-Professionals (GITP) said that he doesn\u2019t find any issue with the policy making employing Goan origin / Goan graduates as a key determining factor for giving subsidies. This is because even if an IT company employs less than 30% Goan origin / Goan graduates of its work-force, it can still get 50% of the subsidy amount.\nToscano continued, \u201cEfforts like internet and power subsidies and making it easy to set up shop for IT company will go a long way in simplifying the IT business in the state. Today, an IT company has to go to several government departments to get all sorts of approvals. This policy does away with that, as it promotes self-certification by IT companies.\u201d\nThe growth in IT sector will also demand highly skilled and qualified work-force from the state. If the state is unable to provide right kind of people to IT companies, it will totally defeat the very purpose of the policy.\nSalelkar continued, \u201cMy only concern is that I hope the government takes steps to reform the education sector so that we get right number of people to employ from within the state. In recent times, we have seen a downward trend in employing locals. 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He has held master classes at universities across the country such as Ithaca College, California State University Northridge, the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, West Virginia University, Delaware County Community College, California State University, Fresno, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of New Mexico, University of Tampa, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha Conservatory of Music, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Florida Atlantic University.\nMr. Cotik has performed hundreds of chamber music concerts internationally, giving recitals in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Japan and throughout the U.S., participating in more than 15 international music festivals and creating collaborative projects with artists from various fields. 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Lance is very active in Fandom in the Toronto area and beyond. He has been involved with Polaris (previouly named Toronto Trek), the 2003 Toronto Worldcon, the 2006 Toronto Gaylaxicon, and the 2009 Montreal Worldcon in various senior roles.\u201d\n\u201cThe Canadian Unity Fan Fund (CUFF) is a Canadian national fund, which provides for an Eastern Canadian or a Western Canadian science fiction enthusiast to attend Canvention. Canvention is the annual convention of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. Traditionally, the location of Canvention alternates between Eastern and Western Canada. The CUFF delegate is chosen from individuals residing in the opposite region of Canada. For 2008, the Canvention is being held in Western Canada (Winnipeg) so this year\u2019s CUFF delegate is from Eastern Canada. Further information about this year\u2019s Canvention held at Keycon (May 16th-19th) may be found at http://www.keycon.org. Information about Canvention in general may be found at: http://www.prixaurorawards.ca.\n\u201cCUFF was established in 1981 to help bridge the distance between science fiction enthusiasts from Eastern and Western Canada. Due to organizational and geographical barriers, the eastern and western regions of the country operated in relative isolation from each other. By bringing science fiction fans from opposite sides of Canada together, an opportunity is provided to learn from the experiences of different fan bases and regions. Finances are raised through a series of fund raising efforts, as well as donations from prominent science fiction individuals and organizations.\u201d\n[Thanks to Murray Moore for the information.]\nThis entry was posted in Fan Funds and tagged CUFF by Mike Glyer. 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They did the Monster Mash on Terry Pratchett\u2019s hard drive, fulfilling his request that his unfinished work be destroyed: \u201cTerry Pratchett\u2019s unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller\u201d.\nThe unfinished books of Sir Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelist\u2019s wishes.\nPratchett\u2019s hard drive was crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, ahead of the opening of a new exhibition about the author\u2019s life and work.\n\u2026The hard drive will go on display as part of a major exhibition about the author\u2019s life and work, Terry Pratchett: HisWorld, which opens at the Salisbury museum in September.\nTerry Flatchett? Fantasy author Pratchett's unfinished works are crushed by a steamroller \u2013 as per his instructions https://t.co/NvqjUsZkr3 pic.twitter.com/nAoplqKBuT\n\u2014 BBC News England (@BBCEngland) August 30, 2017\n(2) FIFTH HUNDREDTH. StarShipSofa posted its 500th show today, a reading of Harlan Ellison\u2019s Nebula-winning story \u201cHow Interesting: A Tiny Man\u201d by George Hrab.\n10 years young, StarShipSofa features the best of speculative fiction and fact articles, delivered weekly by host and editor Tony C. Smith, fiction editor Jeremy Szal, and authors, narrators, and contributors from all over the world. Born from the most humble beginnings, StarShipSofa has gone on to present works by legends and rising stars in the field, as well as showcasing new or lesser known voices, diverse authors and stories, and works in translation. Among many highlights over the last decade, StarShipSofa has presented exclusive interviews including Pat Cadigan, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. LeGuin, Samuel R. Delany, and the late Ray Bradbury.\nLast week, Show 499 featured Joe Haldeman (Aug 23), and next week Show 501 will air a story by Robert Silverberg (Sept 6).\n(3) SERRIED RANKS. Vox Day, in a post otherwise spent cutting down the Game of Thrones TV show and the writing of George R.R. Martin, \u201cCompression and decompression\u201d, includes an irresistible list that ranks the top epic fantasy authors. Does your mileage vary?\nHere is how I rank the writers of epic fantasy:\nStephen Donaldson (Covenant)\nMargaret Weis & Terry Hickman (Dragonlance)\nDavid Eddings (Belgariad)\nCS Friedman\nObviously, your mileage may vary, as may what you consider to be \u201cepic fantasy\u201d. I would have Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander, Tanith Lee, and Anne McCaffrey all ranked above Dragonlance, but their work is better categorized in other categories.\n(4) IT\u2019S A THEORY. Dragon Con advocates make their case: \u201c5 Reasons You Should Attend Dragon*Con This Year\u201d.\nAfter 31 years, it\u2019s safe to say that Dragon*Con is not a fad. Last Labor Day weekend saw a record 77,000+ attendees roar into the streets of Atlanta, which beat the previous high from 2015. 2017 is on track to break the record yet again, with 82,000+ people expected to attend. By comparison, the Chick-Fil-A kickoff game between Georgia and North Carolina, which was at the Georgia Dome the same weekend last year, drew 75,000 people. It\u2019s no secret that college football in the south is like a religion. Dragon*Con has officially become the go-to place for gamers, sci-fi, fantasy and pop culture fans to convene in the Southeast. Here are 5 reasons why you should attend this year.\nFan-Centric\nUnlike other big conventions around the nation (Comic Con, Wonder Con, etc), Dragon*Con remains the last big \u201cfan-driven\u201d con. Usually corporations sense the success of any event and put their grubby little hands all over it. Then, instead of enjoying yourself, it begins to feel like you\u2019re walking in an ad. Dragon*Con\u2019s popularity has done nothing but balloon over the last few years, but it still feels as fan-centric as when it started. It says a lot when you\u2019re surrounded by 70,000+ other people and yet you still feel the intimacy and care put into each detail of the entire weekend. This factor is crucial for the first time con-goer, because it keeps everything from feeling as overwhelming as it could get.\n(5) TESTING, TESTING. Coast-to-coast in half-an-hour? That\u2019s the goal: \u201cAnyone for the Hyperloop? Testing high-speed pods in a vacuum tube\u201d.\n\u201cGuys, this is getting awkward,\u201d billionaire Elon Musk told a group of students from Switzerland as they struggled to control their Hyperloop pod.\nIf all goes well, their pod would eventually travel at more than 700mph (1,120km/h), propelling people between Los Angeles and San Francisco in half an hour, instead of six hours in a car or an hour-long flight.\nBut this is early days and the students are testing their pod for the first time on a nearly mile-long vacuum tube track outside Mr Musk\u2019s office in Hawthorne near Los Angeles.\nThey\u2019d lost connectivity. The vacuum needs to be unsealed and the pod fiddled with. Then the vacuum must be resealed and all the air inside pumped out. Revolutionising transport takes time\n\u2026 None went even close to 700mph, but the winners, German\u2019s Warr team from the Technical University of Munich, blew away the competition.\n\u201cCongratulations to the Warr team,\u201d Mr Musk said as the crowd of students applauded. \u201cThat was an amazing job. That pod just went 324km/h, over 200mph.\u201d\n(6) SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW. The BBC says \u201cCassini hints at young age for Saturn\u2019s rings\u201d.\nThe spectacular rings of Saturn may be relatively young, perhaps just 100 million years or so old.\nThis is the early interpretation of data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft on its final orbits of the giant world.\nThe same article includes the precise time the probe is expected to break up. A little over two weeks from now.\nCassini is scheduled to make only two more close-in passes before driving itself to destruction in Saturn\u2019s atmosphere on 15 September.\nThe probe is being disposed of in this way because it will soon run out of fuel. That would render it uncontrollable, and mission managers at the US space agency Nasa do not want it crashing into \u2013 and contaminating \u2013 moons that could conceivably host microbial lifeforms.\nCassini will melt and be torn apart as it dives into the planet\u2019s gases at over 120,000km/h. Controllers will know the probe has been destroyed when Earth antennas lose radio contact, which is expected to occur at 11:54 GMT (12:54 BST; 07:54 EDT; 04:54 PDT) on Friday 15 September.\n(7) TODAY\u2019S DAYS\nThe crackle of electricity, and the patter of rain drops on the stone walls and terracotta roof give an eerie feeling when combined with the dank laboratory that houses various experiments. Give yourself a bit of liquid courage, and step forward to embrace a little bit of darkness in Frankenstein Day.\nThe Slinky was originally designed and sold in the 1940s. The inventor had accidentally knocked a spring off the shelf, and watched it \u2018walk\u2019 down a series of books, to a tabletop, and then to the floor where it neatly coiled itself. The creator, Richard James, had gone home to his wife Betty and said \u201cI think if I got the right property of steel and the right tension, I could make it walk. \u201d It took the better part of a year, but he had done it. Making 400 Slinky units with a five hundred dollar loan, James and his wife had founded a company to make, and sell, this unique toy to the masses.\n(8) TIPTREE FELLOWSHIPS. Applications are being taken for this year\u2019s Tiptree Fellowships until September 15. The $500 grants are given to emerging creators \u201cwho are changing the way we think about gender through speculative narrative.\u201d\nTiptree Fellows can be writers, artists, scholars, media makers, remix artists, performers, musicians, or something else entirely; so far our Fellows have been creators of visual art, poetry, fiction, and games.\nThe Tiptree Fellowship is designed to provide support and recognition for the new voices who are making visible the forces that are changing our view of gender today. The Fellowship Committee particularly encourages applications from members of communities that have been historically underrepresented in the science fiction and fantasy genre and from creators who are creating speculative narratives in media other than traditional fiction\nApplicants will need to write short responses to two questions and to share a sample of their work. The guidelines are at this link.\nThe 2017 Tiptree Fellowships selection committee is Gretchen Treu (chair), Mia Sereno, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, and Pat Schmatz.\n(9) OTHER COVENANTS. ChiZine Publications has opened a call for submissions for Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, by award-winning writers and editors Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum. Contributors already confirmed include science fiction grand masters Harry Turtledove and Jack Dann.\nOther Covenants is now open to submissions of short fiction, through Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Submissions must be between 1,000 and 10,000 words in length, and may be in English or French (the book will be published in English and authors will be responsible for translations). Original stories are preferred, but the editors will consider reprints of significant works on a case-by-case basis. Payment will be 8 cents (Canadian funds) per word. Authors may be from anywhere in the world and do not need to be Jewish.\nFull submission guidelines and the online submission system are here.\n(10) TEQUILA! He knows how to set up the perfect shot \u2013 whether in the studio or at the bar: \u201cFilm Director Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Exclusive Tequila Project\u201d.\nPatr\u00f3n Tequila just released a special edition that you helped create. Can you tell me about the project?\n\u201cThe idea was to create a centerpiece and make the tequila the centerpiece of the centerpiece. It\u2019s a shrine. And I think it looks beautiful as the centerpiece of any bar.\u201d\nHow long did it take you to design the intricate bottle and case?\n\u201cYou know we went through many permutations. In total, the whole adventure took three and a half years. First the idea was a reliquary but reliquary for me is too European and I thought altar. And we started thinking of a journey narratively for the box. First and foremost, the box is covered in a black suede with a silver skull. You start with black and then you open it and you see the box, which depicts all the stages of the processing of tequila, which is being done by skeletons to signal the ancestral tradition. Then all of a sudden you go from black to that beautiful two-dimensional box and then you open the wings and you reveal huge color and three-dimensions. You end up having a journey. You have votive candles that you can light. It\u2019s a very beautiful piece.\u201d\nThe maker\u2019s website has a photo-filled display about how Del Toro came up with the design, and how all the components look, both in and out of the box.\n(11) FANDOM AT THE GALLOP. The 18th issue of Rich Lynch\u2019s personal fanthology My Back Pages is now online at the efanzines.com website.\nIssue #18 notes my absence from both this year\u2019s Worldcon and NASFiC, and has essays involving colonial debates, rescued conventions, curated fanzine collections, golden domes, long escalators, large aquariums, famous domiciles, notable science fiction fans, extinct stadiums, lingering controversies, divine ideas, memorable encounters, autographed books, enigmatic composers, 50-year reunions, fuel-efficient vehicles, personal records, motorcycle rallies, art museums, scenic sunsets, medieval cathedrals, and lots of snow-covered mountainous terrain.\n(12) WHAT GOES UP. Another theory to explain dinosaur extinction: a \u201creverse gravitational event.\u201d Proposed by James Propp at BAHFest East 2017.\n(13) MUST COME DOWN. The Hollywood Reporter remembers \u201cThat Time on \u2018Batman\u2019 When Alfred Fought the Joker\u201d.\nAnd with it being made clear in the new Justice League trailer (which already has more than 23 million views on YouTube) that Jeremy Irons\u2019 incarnation will once again take a more hands-on role with Batman\u2019s adventures, it is time to look back at the heroics of the first live-action Alfred, played by Alan Napier.\nNapier, who died in 1988 at the age 85, appeared as Alfred in all 120 episodes of the 1960s Batman television series.\nAnd of all that character\u2019s most memorable moments, the top one has to be when he fought The Joker (Cesar Romero), who forced his way into Wayne Manor with a hostage in the season two episode, \u201cFlop Goes The Joker.\u201d The best part of the three-minute clip is when Alfred and The Joker sword fight with fire[place] pokers.\n[Thanks to JJ, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Daniel Dern, Mark-kitteh, IanP, Rich Lynch, and Alan Baumler for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.]\nThis entry was posted in Pixel Scroll and tagged Batman, Cassini, dinosaurs, Dragon Con, Elon Musk, Guillermo del Toro, Ray Bradbury, Rich Lynch, Saturn, StarShipSofa, Terry Pratchett, Tiptree Fellowships, Vox Day by Mike Glyer. Bookmark the permalink.\n79 thoughts on \u201cPixel Scroll 8/30/17 Two Little Pixels Sitting In A Tree, S-C-R-O-L-L-I-N-G\u2026\u201d\nm.c. simon milligan on August 31, 2017 at 3:14 pm said:\nMy 14-year old self (slightly before 1988) would have had Saberhagen at or near the top of the list. Although, technically, Empire of the East and the Swords books are post-apocalyptic science fiction.\nHe\u2019d definitely still place in the top 20 today\u2026 for EotE at least. Been a while since I read any of the Swords books so not sure in re the presence of the Suck Fairy.\n@emgrasso: lucky you! I loved Njal\u2019s Saga\u2026 and Skarp-Hedin is Petyr Baelish with a death wish. \u201cIt is common knowledge that you are the mistress of the Svinafells troll, who uses you as a woman every ninth night.\u201d You have to admire the guy\u2019s tact and diplomacy.\nPeter J on August 31, 2017 at 4:01 pm said:\n@Steve Wright: they really had a great line in insults in those days , didn\u2019t they?\nMy first (only?) encounter with Njal\u2019s Saga was in Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus.\nRose Embolism on August 31, 2017 at 4:37 pm said:\n@ idontknow: For however much it\u2019s worth, only two writers have ever popularized fantasy fiction to the point where they have an audience of \u2018casuals\u2019 to go along with the hardcore fantasy readers/viewers, who will read and view everything. Tolkien and Martin.\nHmm. I seem to recall a woman writer- English I think- who wrote a fantasy series back in the 90s. It was fairly popular, I think. They may have even tried making a movie out of it. The name\u2019s on the tip of my tongue\u2026can anybody help me out here?\nOh well, it was back in the 90s, so she\u2019s missed the cut-off date for the current \u201cWOMEN are writing fantasy now!\u201d articles.\nBarry and Joe update:\nThey made their goal! (over it, actually: $107K)\nRed Wombat on August 31, 2017 at 5:54 pm said:\nHeh. Even Vox can\u2019t rank Terry Goodkind any higher than that.\nThat tequila bottle shrine is giving me feelings. *wipes away tear*\nonly two writers have ever popularized fantasy fiction to the point where they have an audience of \u2018casuals\u2019 to go along with the hardcore fantasy readers/viewers, who will read and view everything. Tolkien and Martin.\nAnd Rowling.\nCora on August 31, 2017 at 10:03 pm said:\nThe Mists of Avalon was also a huge mainstream bestseller back in the 1980s, the sort of book that even people who normally wouldn\u2019t be caught dead reading epic fantasy read.\nUnlike Tolkien and Rowling (the jury is still out on Martin, since his huge mainstream success only began with the TV show), Marion Zimmer Bradley\u2019s fame hasn\u2019t lasted for obvious reasons, but she was a mainstream success thirty years ago.\nRose Embolism on August 31, 2017 at 10:52 pm said:\nTolkien and Martin.\nThere\u2019s been an amazing amount of erasure concerning her in this thread. I wonder why.\nEspecially given her influence. and huge fandom. And the fact she could buy both Worldcon and DragonCon ten times over. And she has a knighthood, so I think she\u2019s legally allowed to chase you down and spear you with a lance wielded from her Citro\u00ebn.\nAnyway, my semi-ranked list of most epic fantasy writers, mostly by influence:\n1. Ursula K LeGuin\n4. Diana Wynne Jones\n5. Jack Vance\n6. CS Lewis\n7. NK Jemison\n8. Lord Dunsany\n10. Roger Zelazney\nEspecially given her influence and huge fandom. Not to mention the fact she could buy both Worldcon and DragonCon ten times over. And she has a knighthood, so I think she\u2019s legally allowed to chase you down and spear you with a lance wielded from her Citro\u00ebn.\nMicael Gustavsson on September 1, 2017 at 2:43 am said:\nThe definition of epic fantasy is books with maps. No map, no epic fantasy.\nPaul Weimer on September 1, 2017 at 2:48 am said:\n@Micael. Hahahaha \ud83d\ude42\nI would never put JK Rowling on a list of best epic fantasy. Not because they aren\u2019t epic. Not because they aren\u2019t good. But because the epic elements are what I like least in the books. The more epic, the more boring. And the last book was awful.\nWhat I like is the common day things in studies and classrooms and small scale adventures and pure adventures. Keep the epic away.\nidontknow on September 1, 2017 at 4:10 am said:\nI think she didn\u2019t spring immediately to my mind because her books are set in the modern world, which sort of differentiates them from the specific types of books that the article was talking about. Of course, Rowling is among the pantheon of the super rich authors like King, Grisham, Patterson, and Steele, so her influence in entertainment is unquestionable.\nA glaring omission on my part.\nNerds of a Feather on September 1, 2017 at 5:58 am said:\nNjal\u2019s Saga is my second favorite of the sagas, after Egil\u2019s. A close second. Both are amazing.\nNiall McAuley on September 1, 2017 at 7:43 am said:\nI feel a strange affinity with Njal.\nHeather Rose Jones on September 1, 2017 at 9:26 am said:\nMy favorite Norse saga is Hervor\u2019s \u2014 for what may be obvious reasons for those familiar with the plot. We read a small excerpt of it when I studied Old Norse and I spent considerable effort to track down the full version. For an amusing sffnal tie in: the standard translation is by one Christopher Tolkien. (Hervor\u2019s Saga also forms a significant part of the inspiration for a historic novel I plan to write some day. If I ever figure out where in the world I\u2019d submit it for publication.)\nIt seems to me that Epic Fantasy doesn\u2019t just mean fantasy that is epic; it is a specific tradition, recognisable when one looks at it, which requires that the setting must be other-worldly (at least in appearance; the remote past or future, so remote that it looks like another world, is allowed), as well as being about large issues, and probably other things that are harder to spell out.\nI think Day has actually picked out most of the writers who are central to this tradition, the ones who define what \u2018epic fantasy\u2019 means. Certainly his list is rather lacking in woman writers; McKillip would definitely count (at least for the Riddlemaster books, which were deliberately written in the following of Tolkien), as would Kerr, and also Kurtz, who hasn\u2019t been mentioned yet. But a lot of the people who have been mentioned seem to me to be edge cases, either doubtfully fantasy, like Wolfe or Brust, or doubtfully epic, like Dunsany or LeGuin. I don\u2019t find it surprising that these are often better than the writers in VD\u2019s list, because I think the most interesting work often is done at edges; work in the centre of a subgenre, once it is established, is liable to suffer from a certain sameness. But they aren\u2019t the best examples of epic fantasy as such.\nChildren\u2019s fantasy, I think, is a distinct tradition (as Day recognises with Cooper and Alexander), which explains (along with her this-worldliness) why Rowling is not a natural candidate for being on the list.\nMartin, I would say, is the only epic fantasy writer who has really wide public recognition right now (and even his epicness could probably be debated). Other figures with wide public recognition, apart from Rowling, would include Pratchett and Gaiman (also Pullman, for a while), but they aren\u2019t doing exactly the same sort of thing.\nMicael Gustavsson on September 1, 2017 at 10:32 am said:\n@Andrew M: I think you are wrong about LeGuin; Earthsea definitively is epic, at least you take the books together. Both The Farthest Shore and The Other Wind have stakes at world, maybe even existence, level.\nAlso, they have maps.\nPeer on September 1, 2017 at 10:42 am said:\n@Andrew That still doesn\u2019t explain the absence of Moorcock. Im also not sure if Sanderson counts as \u201cepic\u201d, since most of his books are about a small number of people (in the mistborn I really liked the small scale of the first two books, but the third one sure was mor epic. The first Wax and Wayne was not epic again)\n@Micael Gustavsson,\nThe map is not the epic fantasy just as the pixel is not the scroll?\n(Might be a scroll title in there.)\nMatt Y on September 1, 2017 at 2:21 pm said:\n@Andrew That still doesn\u2019t explain the absence of Moorcock. Im also not sure if Sanderson counts as \u201cepic\u201d, since most of his books are about a small number of people\nI mean he did complete the Wheel of Time and there\u2019s the Stormlight Archive\u2026.\nIf it\u2019s not fantasy that\u2019s epic in scope or content, then that\u2019s a bad subgenre title. Hell there are a lot of very well defined subgenres that get argued about what is or isn\u2019t included in it, so if it\u2019s hard to spell out what counts, it\u2019s going to get messy.\nIf it\u2019s not easy to spell out then it not a tradition. Traditionally speaking, nebulous traditions aren\u2019t.\n@Matt Y: \u201cWe demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!\u201d\nSmall traditions can be rigorously defined. Categories of fiction are not so easily bounded.\nLenora Rose on September 2, 2017 at 2:31 pm said:\nMatt Y: And usually urban fantasy is considered to mean \u201cFantasy set in the modern world\u201d even though some examples (Megan Lindholm\u2019s Cloven Hooves, some Charles de Lint, others) actually end up rural, and some fantasy not set in the modern world is very urban-centric.\nEpic fantasy tends to mean: some form of not-our-world setting, usually but not essentially medieval or renaissance era technology (I\u2019d suggest ancient Egyptian through to Enlightenment as more like the actual range), often but again not essentially European-esque in scope (And this latter is one of the things most people these days encourage changing.) Countries plural are involved, or at minimum a big empire, often multiple cultures, and the survival and/or rulership of these countries is a central question. Casts of thousands are often involved though not essential (Mistborn, while lacking the cast of thousands, is, or starts as, the overthrow of a Dark Lord; one of the staple epic fantasy plots). It usually requires multiple volumes to achieve full scope, though one thick book can do it, (Or even three skinny ones, per McKillip\u2019s main and almost sole entry into actual epic fantasy). The magic involved is generally not low key small stuff.\nSome prime exemplars beyond Day\u2019s list:\nSherwood Smith\u2019s Inda series, and some of the related standalones (Banner of the Damned)\nAlmost all of Kate Elliott\u2019s series\nElizabeth Bear\u2019s Eternal Sky Books.\nDiana Wynne Jones\u2019 Dalemark Quartet, though not necessarily most of her other work.\nKurt Busiek on September 2, 2017 at 2:45 pm said:\nI would never put JK Rowling on a list of best epic fantasy.\nI wouldn\u2019t either (though in my case it\u2019s because I don\u2019t think the Potter books are epic fantasy. But I mentioned her because the claim that \u201conly two writers have ever popularized fantasy fiction to the point where they have an audience of \u2018casuals\u2019 to go along with the hardcore fantasy readers/viewers\u201d isn\u2019t a claim about epic fantasy, it\u2019s about fantasy fiction.\nAnd hoo boy, are the Potter books ever fantasy fiction.\nIf it\u2019s not fantasy that\u2019s epic in scope or content, then that\u2019s a bad subgenre title.\nIt\u2019s a name, not a definition. Not all names work as exacting definitions. As noted, there are non-urban urban fantasies. And there are unheroic heroic fantasies, mysteries that are more about finding proof than solving a mystery, science fiction without much science, and on and on.\nLenore Jones / jonesnori on September 2, 2017 at 5:31 pm said:\nI would mention Diana Wynne Jones\u2019s \u201cThe Dark Lord of Derkholm\u201d in the epic fantasy conversation, though it mostly turns the tropes upside down, and the sequel (\u201cYear of the Griffin\u201d) is less epic. I loved them both.\nPingback: NEWS FROM FANDOM: 9-3-2017 - Amazing Stories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 27308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://financialanalysttraining.com/how-a-financial-analysis-certification-can-benefit-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:B46Q2OTTWRYFT5BDGOAPOKSOTZHU24VN", "length": 1565, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "financialanalysttraining.com", "title": "How a Financial Analysis Certification Can Benefit You", "raw_content": "In today\u2019s competitive job market, one of the greatest ways to ensure you are noticed above other job applicants is to have skills and/or training that make you set yourself apart from the others. If the job requires a degree in order to qualify for the job, you will find your degree does not make you a prominent applicant over the others. An excellent way help get you noticed is to attain a certification in financial analysis.\nGetting a financial analysis certification is a keen way to acquire education that not every job applicant will have. A certification is something that can give you specialized skills giving you an excellent update to your resume. Having a fresh resume that differs from the rest of the applicants is imperative in today\u2019s job market.\nThere are both online and traditional classroom programs that lead to a financial analysis certificate. No matter which program is best for your current situation, you will be happy to have the certification, which could be an important factor in leading you to a new job in the financial analysis field.\nIs a Certification What You Need to Further Your Financial Analysis Career? There is no one that will say that today\u2019s job market is not competitive. It can be a challenge to find a new job, any job at all, and this is true in ...\nTagged as: advantages of a financial analysis certification, certifications in financial analysis, Financial Analysis Certification\nPrevious post: 4 Things Interviewers Notice in Financial Analysis Interviews\nNext post: Important Qualities of a Financial Analyst", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 10155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://florencescceo.com/news/2018/10/united-nations-ambassador-and-former-sc-governor-nikki-haley-resigns/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:TO4SI7ZOS4WJAQAE3Y5COISGWCSXIFND", "length": 1917, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "florencescceo.com", "title": "United Nations Ambassador and Former SC Governor Nikki Haley Resigns - Florence CEO", "raw_content": "United Nations Ambassador and Former SC Governor Nikki Haley Resigns\nLess than six months from President Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley submitted her resignation. The widening human rights gap created at the level of United Nations from these actions has Georgia U.S. Senate Candidate Al Bartell issue the following public statement:\n\"Our President has withdrawn our human rights commitment to the United Nations. That does not mean America has withdrawn its human rights commitment to the UN.\n\"A communication from our nation deserves to be delivered. There is no better time to communicate this to the world than Dec. 10th, 2018 World Human Rights Day.\"\nUN Ambassador Haley announced the withdrawal of the United States from the UN Human Rights Council on June 19th, 2018, one month from the body's vote to probe killings of Palestinians in Gaza.\nZeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, responded at the time, \"\"Given the state of human rights in today's world, the US should be stepping up, not stepping back.\"\nDuring Sunday's CNN interview on \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\", Former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned, \"it's become 'Me the President' as opposed to 'We the People' .\"\nPowell went on to state:\n\"This is a country that we reach out to each other, and we reach out to the rest of the world, And the rest of the world is expecting that of us, and they're seeing less and less of it.\"\nBartell is convening a World Human Rights Network that will be organizing a news conference Dec.10th at the Georgia State Capitol's Liberty Plaza on World Human Rights Day.\nAs a global human rights advocate known for his work with the North American Sierra Leone Diaspora in free and fair election advocacy, Mr. Bartell recently spoke out about the high level political arrests and violence happening in Sierra Leone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://florencescceo.com/news/2018/11/attorney-general-alan-wilson-announces-medicaid-provider-sentenced-prison-fraud/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GMJSKA7YPGUHKCU2EUIWREUEHBPOJUCU", "length": 1420, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "florencescceo.com", "title": "Attorney General Alan Wilson Announces Medicaid Provider Sentenced to Prison for Fraud - Florence CEO", "raw_content": "Attorney General Alan Wilson Announces Medicaid Provider Sentenced to Prison for Fraud\nSouth Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that the owner of a counseling service has been sentenced to five years in prison for Medicaid fraud.\nIdris L. Talib, 38, owner of New Dominion Community Services, had offices in Anderson, Greenville, and Richland counties and was a provider under the South Carolina Medicaid Program. From September 2015 through December 2017, he submitted false claims to the Medicaid Program for counseling services that were not provided as claimed. Based on those false claims, Talib was paid $400,000 in Medicaid reimbursements.\nTalib pleaded guilty on April 26, 2018 to Obtaining Property Under False Pretenses. That crime is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Sentencing was deferred until November 7, 2018.\nAt the conclusion of the sentencing hearing, Judge Casey L. Manning sentenced Talib to five years in prison.\n\u201cCheating the taxpayers means paying the price for it,\u201d Attorney General Wilson said. \u201cThat\u2019s $400,000 of taxpayers\u2019 money that he stole via fraud, money that should have gone to legitimate health care. We hope this five-year sentence will be a deterrent to anyone who thinks they can commit Medicaid fraud and just give the money back if they\u2019re caught.\u201d\nThis case was investigated and prosecuted by the Attorney General\u2019s Medicaid Provider Fraud Division.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foresthillstrust.org/elements/elements_intro.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Z277FRS6JSFE4JWDTHNWVZ3T3OHNWZFR", "length": 112, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "foresthillstrust.org", "title": "The 4 Elements: Introduction", "raw_content": "Two of the works created for The 4 Elements are currently on display as part of the Contemporary Sculpture Path:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 6111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.klankind.com/viewtopic.php?t=3297&highlight=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LFNMWL4T2XX5DZWL63BDJZVOZA6VRLK3", "length": 4669, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "forum.klankind.com", "title": "Forum.KlanKind.com :: View topic - Netflix true crime series Narcos spurs huge demand for Colom", "raw_content": "Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 2:41 am Post subject: Netflix true crime series Narcos spurs huge demand for Colom\nProduced by Netflix, the show \"Narcos\" takes on the infamous Medellin drug cartel which follows the rise and fall of Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar and the Drug Enforcement Agency agents hunting him. The story is told largely from the points of view of Escobar (Brazilian actor Wagner Moura) and U.S. DEA Agent Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook), on opposite sides of what would become an all-out war.\nMany critics of true crime dramas have always complained they are promoting crime and violence by glorification, an unintended consequence of American entertainment industries. These shows can have other interesting Netflix true crime series Narcos spurs huge demand for Colombian women.\nPconsequences. The Foreign Bride industry has seen a huge spike in demand for Colombian women. This can be viewed as positive or negative, depending on social perspective.\nForeign Brides, sometimes referred to as \"mail order brides\", a term the industry completely rejects, have become a billion dollar a year business. According to industry leaders, Colombia represented only about 3% of the market three years ago. Since the popularity of Narcos, many companies have seen near tenfold increases in men seeking Colombian wives.\nA Foreign Affair (AFA), a company that helps men find women through international tours, says tours to Colombia are now selling out. AFA arranges group tours where 10 to 20 men travel together to Medellin, Cartagena or Barranquilla. During the tour, they attend arranged Social events where the men meet hundreds of beautiful Colombian women looking for marriage. Women can also place their profiles on the AFA web site, in the hopes of finding a husband.\nKenneth Agee, the marketing director for AFA says, \"Because of the show we are doubling our tours to Medellin for next year. Narcos has brought a lot of attention to the intense beauty of Colombian women. Although the show is often very violent, the women of Colombia come across as very family oriented and loyal. These values seem harder and harder to find in this world. I would have to agree, because of the interest in Narcos, we even added an excursion to where Pablo's self-built prison was located, in the hills overlooking Medellin.\nThe crowning of 2015 Miss Universe Paulina Vega put Barranquilla, Colombia on the map. Barranquilla now has recognition for being home to some of the most beautiful and talented women in the world. Not only is Miss Universe from here, Grammy Award winning pop singer Shakira, and actress Sofia Vergara also call Barranquilla home. Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett. She's been nominated for 4 Golden Globe Awards, 4 Prime time Emmy Awards, and 7 Screen Actors Guild Awards, all stemming from this role. In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd Most Powerful Woman in the world by Forbes.\nDavid from Mesa AZ says he met more qualified women in one week than he has during the last 10 years. In 2010, Lisa Ling and the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) filmed a one hour show on the AFA tour called \"Online Brides - Our America with Lisa Ling.\" Even Lisa Ling was surprised by the beauty and sincerity of the women from Barranquilla.\nJanet Davis, head of a women's rights group says \"AFA is just taking advantage of women from these third world countries. This is no different than Pablo trafficking in narcotics, but these companies traffic women.\" Proponents refer to a Report (INTERNATIONAL MATCHMAKING ORGANIZATIONS: A REPORT TO CONGRESS) that these marriages have much lower divorce rates and abuse rates compared to traditional domestic marriages. This data makes international dating similar to a woman in the US joining eHarmony to look for a husband.\n23-year-old Viviana, from Cartagena, says \"I come to these events because I know the men attending are serious about marriage, they are faithful and are good to family. For Colombian women, it is the most important thing, good husband and good family.\nKenneth says, \"It has not been all rosy. Narcos has brought us some problems. In Cartagena, we have several Penthouses we rent out. One was originally owned by \"Don Diego\" head of the Norte Del Velle Drug Cartel, the other by Pablo's people. Over the past year, the properties have been tracked down by individuals thinking they will find large qualities of cash hidden, thus we sometimes find holes all over the walls after a tenant leaves.\nFor Narcos fans, those who love the gangster genre, or just those who just like seeing beautiful Latin women, there's good news; Netflix's has confirmed Season 3 and 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 5571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.davita.com/forum/general-dialysis/health-conditions-general-dialysis/104948-guidelines-for-exercise-in-elderly-patients-with-diabetic-nephropathy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IE2WPWUL2TS6EL5OAHYWFSCNT5HPPLLM", "length": 3008, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "forums.davita.com", "title": "Guidelines for exercise in elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy - Welcome to the myDaVita Kidney Disease and Dialysis Forums", "raw_content": "Guidelines for exercise in elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy\njiahuan\nElderly patients with diabetic nephropathy is older than patients with diabetes at the age of 60. Sports health more taboo on elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy, not everyone is suitable for this kind of movement. The elderly exercise should not be too large, not too long time, exercise should be gradual, insist for a long time, not to feel fatigue is appropriate. In order to avoid exercise in elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy symptoms appear in the movement to adhere to the \"three steps\", namely: to do warm-up before exercise, stretch kick preparation; movement to gradually increase the intensity; do to restore movement after exercise, can not stop immediately after strong exercise. If you exercise, physical strength, full of spirit and body comfort, blood glucose and decreased to some extent, indicates that exercise therapy is effective. On the contrary, if you feel tired and aggravating, listlessness, blood glucose level increased or not, it should be re adjusted the exercise program or temporarily stop the movement. Experts pointed out that elderly patients with diabetes due to a variety of complications, so not everyone is always suitable for exercise, especially when the following symptoms occur, you need to pay special attention or simply stop exercising: 1. in the event of motion blurred vision, unconsciousness, dizziness, sweating, heartbeat accelerated, pale, trembling, strong sense of hunger and so on, said the hypoglycemia, should immediately stop exercising, eating or eating sugary foods, symptoms can be relieved, or seek help from others, which immediately sent the hospital. 2. if appear during exercise chest tightness, chest pain, dizziness, weakness, slow heartbeat, sudden loss of consciousness, or even a drop in blood pressure, respiratory rate, the patient should be immediately lie down, loosen the collar, belt, sublingual nitroglycerin, atropine, precordial percussion, hand pinch points, artificial auxiliary breathe, but note that patients don't feed the syrup. 3., if the elderly diabetic nephropathy in the course of exercise and exercise after the emergence of low back pain, bone pain, physical strength, leg cramps, any of these symptoms, it should be suspected of the existence of osteoporosis The foot in 4. patients with diabetic nephropathy is easy to damage, wear comfortable shoes, sports shoes, soles, soft and comfortable, well ventilated shoes uppers, and before and after exercise routine examination. Foot sensory loss patients should avoid weight-bearing exercise and sports activities need to foot repeatedly, such as treadmills, long distance walking, jogging, stair tread movement. In addition, there are diabetic retinopathy, retinal hemorrhage were not suitable for negative aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, jumping and contains breath motion.\nhttp://www.kidneyhealthy.com/diabetic_nephropathy/4564.html\nhttp://www.kidneyhealthy.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 405, "original_length": 9916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fr.saimaahumanitarian.org/gift-of-sight2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YZXQTAKJX7GL2FOBANSCDOODABPTFOLZ", "length": 2138, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fr.saimaahumanitarian.org", "title": "Sai Maa Women's Center - Service Humanitaire", "raw_content": "The Gift of Sight program was inaugurated in December 2012 in memory of Sri Satuwa Baba Maharaj. Through this project, the sight of those blinded by eye cataracts is being restored.\nSai Maa Vishnu Shakti Trust is working together with the Vivekanand Mission, who offer eye health camps in medically underserved rural areas throughout eastern Uttar Pradesh. These camps serve a population of over 100,000. At the camps, doctors identify persons suitable for cataract surgery. They consider factors such as age, overall health, allergies, and the integrity of an individual\u2019s immune system to increase the chances of successful surgery. The camps are only held through the winter months as the hot weather characteristic of the rest of the year significantly increases the chances of infection, adding an unnecessary risk for those participating.\nGoal : Raise $5,000 TO SPONSOR ONE HUNDRED Cataract surgeries\nCataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes clouded and vision gradually decreases. Eventually this clouding leads to blindness. Cataracts are very common amongst the poorer communities in India, especially in the elderly. Poor nutrition, lifestyle factors such as the quality of fuel used in cooking, and lack of education have been cited as contributing to the high incidence.\nThe Gift of Sight program sponsors one hundred (100) cataract operations, performed by a team of skilled ophthalmologists. The surgeries are done in facilities located near the villages where the camps are held. After the operations, the doctors provide 30 days of comprehensive follow-up support for each patient. Tests are performed to determine eye health and strength of vision, and they monitor the use of the protective glasses provided to the patients. The follow-up also includes 2 additional camps where continuing education to minimize the risk of infection is provided. The main hazard to successful surgery is the patient rubbing their eye and introducing an infection but due to the diligence of the staff, the operations currently have a 99% success rate.\nInspired by what you read? Share this page with others using the links below!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://friendsoftobi.org/tobithenandnow/ifiriingris/halep7780.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4QNRW7RNKGFAKL6IY5R3JC6CLX2LLDMU", "length": 6540, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "friendsoftobi.org", "title": "Horatio Hale on Tobi, 1846", "raw_content": "TOBI, OR LORD NORTH's ISLAND\nThis island, which forms the southwestern extremity of the Micronesian range, is situated in about latitude 3\u00b0 2' N., and longitude 131\u00b0 4' E. It is a small, low islet, about three miles in circumference, with a population of between three and four hundred souls. Our information concerning it is derived from an American, by name Horace Holden, who, with eleven companions, after suffering shipwreck, reached the island in a boat, and was taken captive by the natives. He was detained by them two years, from December 6, 1832, to November 27, 1834, when he made his escape and returned to America, where he published, in a small volume, an interesting narrative of his adventures and sufferings, with a description of the island and its inhabitants. Appended to the book is a vocabulary of the language, drawn up with care by the Hon. John Pickering of Boston, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for its correctness.\nI met Mr. Holden at Boston, two years after his return, and in several conversations with him obtained some information on points not noticed in his published narrative, together with an addition to the vocabulary of a number of words which he was able, from time to time, to call to mind. It has seemed to me, therefore, that a brief account of the natives of this island would not be out of place here, more especially as it will serve to prove the striking similarity of traits and customs which prevail from one extremity of the Caroline Islands to the other.\n\"The complexion of the natives,\" says Holden in his narrative, \"is a light copper colour, --much lighter than that of the Malays or the Pelew islanders, which last, however, they resemble in the breadth of their faces, high cheek-bones, and broad flattened noses.\" Here we observe, what has been before remarked of the Polynesian tribes, that the lightest complexion is found among those who are nearest the equator.\nThe natives worship a deity whom they term yaris, in which we perhaps see the aniti or anis of the Ladrone and Radack Islands. According to the native traditions, a personage, by name Pita-k\u00e4t (or Peeter Kart), of copper colour like themselves, \"came many years ago from the island of Ternate (one of the Moluccas), and gave them their religion, and such simple arts as they possessed.\" It is probably to him that we are to attribute some peculiarities in their mode of worship, such as their temple, with rude images to represent the divinity. \" In the centre, suspended from the roof, is a sort of altar, into which they suppose their deity comes to hold converse with the priest.\" The temple is called vere yaris, or spirit-house. In this word vere we recognise the Polynesian fale or fare, house, (Vitian, vale,) used here only in this connexion,--the ordinary word for dwelling being yim, the im of the other Caroline Islands. So, too, the natives wear the Polynesian girdle of bark-cloth, which they call by the well-known name of tapa. They have, too, the word tabu, signifying a sacred place. These facts are valuable, as, combined with many other indications which will be hereafter noted, they seem to show that the original inhabitants of the Moluccas (who are distinct from the intruding Malay conquerors) were a race more nearly allied to the Polynesians than the other tribes of Malaisia.\n\"Their implements of war are spears and clubs; they have no bows and arrows. Their spears are made of the wood of the cocoanut tree; the points of them are set with rows of sharks' teeth; and being at the same time very heavy, and from ten to twenty feet long, they are formidable weapons.\" These spears armed with sharks' teeth are found throughout the Micronesian groups, and may be termed the national weapon, as the bow is of the black race; for though they were not entirely unknown to the Polynesians, they were yet so rare that we saw but three or four in the course of our voyage, and those only at the Navigator and the Depeyster Group.\nThe houses of the natives are built of small trees and rods, and thatched with leaves. They have two stories, a ground floor and a loft, which is entered by a hole or scuttle through the horizontal partition, or upper floor.\nFor ornament, they sometimes wear in their ears, which are always bored, a folded leaf; and round their necks a necklace made of the shell of the cocoa-nut and a small white sea-shell. These last are no doubt the circular \"beads\" before described, although the mode of wearing them is unusual.\nThey live principally on cocoa-nuts, with a few taro roots, which they raise, with great difficulty, in trenches dug in the sand. Their supply of fish is small, and only five turtle were taken while Holden was on the island. \"These constitute the slender means of their support; and they are thus barely kept from actual death by famine, but on the very verge of starvation.\" It is to this state of misery in which they are constantly kept that we must attribute the cruel disposition which they manifest. The unfortunate captives were treated with great harshness, and compelled to toil in the severest drudgery, with barely sufficient food to support life. In fact, some of them died of the sufferings thus inflicted. It is remarkable that the women were more active in this ill-treatment than the men. We shall have occasion to note a similar fact in the Mulgrave Islands, at the other extremity of this region. The men, on Tobi, perform much of the domestic labour which is elsewhere left to the women.\nThe bodies of the dead, except of very young children, are laid in a canoe, and committed to the ocean. The reason of this custom Holden did not know. It seems likely, from what will be stated in another place, that the canoe is intended to convey the deceased to the land of spirits, and that young children are not sent because they are esteemed incapable of guiding it.\nIt should be mentioned that the release of the four Americans who survived (two of whom got free a short time after their capture) was voluntary on the part of the natives, a fact which shows that the feelings of humanity were not altogether extinct in their hearts. Indeed, although the sufferings of the captives were very great, it does not. appear that they were worse relatively to the condition in which the natives themselves lived, than they would have been on any other island of the Pacific. Men who were actually dying of starvation, like the people of Tobi, could not be expected to exercise that kindness towards others which nature refused to them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 6571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://galerieartmoderne.com/privacy-still-possible-or-a-thing-of-the-past-essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UTWLOPZJAGSRSJXWOTLWV24NXOQXYKZ3", "length": 14960, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "galerieartmoderne.com", "title": "Privacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past Essay Example for Free", "raw_content": "HOME Free Essays Privacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past\nPrivacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past Essay\nFor as long as I can remember, our privacy and rights as human beings has been on the decline. We are no longer able to feel as though we aren\u2019t constantly being watched and placed under twenty four hour surveillance. The more and more this dwindles, the more we have to protect ourselves personally just as we would protect our homes if someone were attempting to invade them.\nSince at least 1999 there have been people making statements such as, \u201cYou have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. \u201d (McNealy, 1999) In more recent years there have been similar statements made by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Page of Google, and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn. These sites alone make it virtually impossible to keep information private.\nAnytime you visit Facebook they are able to see where you\u2019re posting from, and they are also allowed to use your photos without your knowledge if they are taken in a restaurant, coffee shop, or store. Once you are subscribed to that site, all of the content put up then belongs to them and will forever be able to be found in cyberspace. They own your information\u2026you don\u2019t. In fact, here is a statement that you have to agree to before being able to create a page. You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. \u201d (Facebook, 2012)\nWe will write a custom essay sample on Privacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past specifically for you\nHowever, for the new year they\u2019ve decided to add some new terms of service just to make sure that they really have the rights to everything you put on there. \u201cThe following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.\nWe reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or delete portions of these Terms at any time without further notice. Your continued use of the Facebook Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. \u201d If anyone has used Facebook since February 4, 2013, you\u2019ve already agreed to these terms even if you weren\u2019t notified of the changes; just by logging in you accepted them. This alone confirms what McNealy said earlier. Privacy in 2013 is nothing more than a distant memory, a page in history, and something that children growing up now will never be privy to. In the past year, Facebook has started something known as \u201cfrictionless sharing.\nVerizon told customers it could share their location and search strings with advertisers, and two members of Congress have called for the FTC to investigate \u201csupercookies,\u201d which track your activity across multiple websites and are difficult to detect and remove. These developments signal an accelerating rush to compile, index and disseminate personal data in the digital age. (Francis, 2011) Multiple reasons are behind why so many personal details are shared these days, but for one, people who are far away from family or friends take comfort in knowing they can stay connected on a more \u201cpersonal\u201d level if they have a multimedia site. They also sign up for such accounts to cash in on the discounts retailers and websites share on the networking sites for members. Government agencies tap into and monitor tons of personal information and they record it for future use if needed.\nThey will track everything from your vacations and travel to what you told your best friend on the phone that you ate for breakfast. Nothing is too insignificant to monitor. A large part of the increase in invasion of privacy is because of what a security expert Bruce Schneier, calls \u201cthe rise of Big Data. \u201d This is the emergence of massive data brokers like Axciom, Reed Elsevier and Eloqua, and more familiar suspects such as Google and Facebook. Such companies make a business of packaging and reselling information about you to marketers. (Schneier, 2012) Short of living off the grid, so to speak, and alone, you drag behind you a plethora of personal information every day.\nBased off of my research, a day for the average American could look something like this: When you wake up in the morning probably one of the first things you do, maybe even before stepping foot out of bed, is to check your cell phone for missed calls, voicemails, or emails. Your cellular company has the data stored in their records of exactly who you called or when you checked your voicemail, how long you were on the phone and precisely where you were when this all took place thanks to the satellite signals pinging off of towers close by. This is something that most people feel comforted by, and some people have stated that their cell phones are the equivalent of a security blanket to them.\nThey feel safe and unable to be harmed, but should something sinister arise, the technology of GPS devices on our phones, the pings from the cell towers, and mapping available on them will almost definitely keep us more protected. This reasoning makes us feel secure to an extent. However, what most people don\u2019t know is that companies like Retina X Studios sell, and or, make your information such as location, messaging, and call history available to third parties without us being aware. To make matters worse, companies such as Verizon are becoming increasing bold. In October of 2011, Verizon Wireless notified customers it plans to monitor their customers\u2019 location, websites they visit while on their cell phones, and if that wasn\u2019t enough, the apps they use. The real kicker is that they may share that information.\nWhile it is possible to opt out, the default setting for Verizon and other carriers is automatically set up to share. Many people aren\u2019t familiar enough with their phones to know how to change those settings. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has decided to sponsor a specific bill that would set boundaries on the GPS information that agencies and companies can gather and obtain from wireless phones. Next during your day, you might decide to turn on the TV so you can watch a reality show. Yet another way to invade privacy, however, these people on the shows willingly sign up to be invaded. Compliments of an increasing reliance on Internet Protocols for distributing signals, now your cable or satellite provider knows exactly what you watched and for how long.\nI suggest that you take some time to read over your provider\u2019s privacy policy so that you can see and understand all of the various ways this information can so easily make it into the hands of others. Then, let\u2019s say that you have an appointment for your yearly physical. You get in your car which tracks where you are going through your OnStar device. Up until September 2011, the company secretly continued to track even after you canceled its service, a policy the company dropped in the face of a political uproar. Once you arrive at the doctor\u2019s office and they take your height, weight, vitals, medical history, changes in medications, and anything that might be wrong with you. All of this is now entered electronically to supposedly make the office run more efficiently and save the doctor time.\nHe will also transmit electronically any prescriptions for medications that you may need to your pharmacy. While certain safeguards aim to keep this very confidential information private, glitches can and do happen. \u201cPersonal medical data on 365,000 patients were lost when a car prowler stole disks and tapes from an employee\u2019s van. \u201d (Providence Health & Services, 2006) Now what happened to all of those records and sensitive information? The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services specifically lists 345 cases of medical records breaches over the last two years that affected at least 500 people each. Some exposed records of hundreds of thousands of patients. Reasons range from theft of laptops to digital intrusions.\nEvery day, we pass signs, billboards, and stakes with advertisements on them pounded into the ground. What most of us aren\u2019t aware of is that a \u201csmart billboard\u201d by NEC, IBM, Research in Motion, or one that uses Immersive Labs software, has the ability to not only target us with specific ads, but they may also have the capability of tracking our age, gender, speed of our car, and the amount of time we spent looking at the advertisement. While we\u2019re busy looking at the billboards, we don\u2019t realize that our license plate has been scanned and logged by the police, or even worse yet, an independent surveillance company that will reveal just where our car has been. These types of systems are used most commonly from California to Maine.\nWhen we get home we remember that we wanted to list some items we don\u2019t use anymore on a site such as eBay. When we create an eBay account we have to share our exact location, and when we sell merchandise to the buyer, our name and address has to be attached to the package somewhere. Now whoever bought that item from us can hop on their computer, pull up Google maps, or better yet, Google Street View, and they can see precisely where we live, if it\u2019s an isolated area, nice neighborhood, if it looks like there are kids in the vicinity, and even what we\u2019re doing if we happen to be standing outside at the time they look! Some countries have limited what Google is capable, like Germany, but most have not bothered to do so.\nHere in America, it\u2019s free for everyone to see. When you log into a social media site, specifically Facebook, you have the option to \u201ctag\u201d or label, yourself and others in photographs. Actually, Facebook has the largest collection of digital photos in the world\u2026somewhere around 90 billion!! They try to sell the idea of this as being a great way to stay in touch and updated with friends and family, however what they don\u2019t tell you is that these pictures are also very accessible to everyone from companies to people all over the world. Furthermore, Facebook\u2019s continuing refinements that tend to compromise personal privacy, this is not reassuring.\nAn Austrailian technologist has discovered that because of the technology and software Facebook uses, they can actually track what you do online long after you\u2019ve logged off of their site. \u201cEven if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions. \u201d (Cubrilovic, 2011) Anytime you log onto a computer at work, the library, or anywhere else that is public, you are connected to an internal network and the Internet. Your browsing history is logged by members of your employer\u2019s IT department and your phone records are also logged and stored. 0% of companies admit to watching closely what their employees do online, and it\u2019s stated on signs at most public libraries that what you view, download, or compose will be logged in under your library ID and kept for record.\nHave you ever gone onto Google to search for something and popups telling you you\u2019ve won something or have been selected to participate in a survey fill your screen? By clicking on those you\u2019ve just handed over more personal information than you would have realized. Those popups have things in them that allow them to infiltrate your computer and hard drive and potentially wreck havoc on your private information. They have the ability to obtain anything from email access to bank records and passwords.\nA scary example of how your personal information is collected, categorized, and then shared, you should look online at www. infoUSA. com. With very little knowledge of how computers work and hardly any effort at all, you can find people all the way down to who their mail carrier is what their route is. Maybe even more upsetting is that from this site you can also obtain information on the person\u2019s income, marital status, credit cards, mortgages, ethnicity and religion, what they like to do, and if they ever served in the military. Now, this list of information does have to be purchased, however, if someone wants to gather personal and private data on you that badly, they\u2019ll gladly pay up.\nJust when you cookies were bad, there are now such things called \u201csupercookies\u201d that are nearly impossible to delete. Most of these are placed onto your computer when you visit websites that allow you to watch television shows or movies for free or a nominal fee, but once they are on your computer the likelihood of being able to get them off isn\u2019t great. They embed deep into your hard drive and continually track where you go and what you do which just further gains information you don\u2019t want anyone else to have. Similarly, there is a program you can get called Firesheep. What this program allows you to do is watch what you\u2019re doing on your computer and very possibly steal your identity and any other information they can take from tapping into your computer.\nAll of this could take place while you\u2019re sitting in class on your laptop, surfing the web at a coffee shop, or browsing the details of an upcoming business meeting while at an outdoor picnic area on your lunch break. In order to further protect us and track criminal activity, they have now installed surveillance cameras all around. Some of these cameras that are placed on buildings or businesses that experience higher probability of crimes or violations will have facial recognition technology software. In this day and age it\u2019s virtually impossible to go anywhere without being recorded, watched, followed, or tracked. In fact, the New York Civil Liberties Union found more than 4,400 surveillance cameras in some concentrated areas around lower Manhattan and Harlem.\nPrivacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past. (2016, Oct 24). Retrieved from http://galerieartmoderne.com/privacy-still-possible-or-a-thing-of-the-past-essay\nWe will write a custom essay sample onPrivacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Pastspecifically for you\nTopic: Privacy: Still Possible or a Thing of the Past", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 18685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gallery.bestsexphotos.eu/displayimage.php?album=5&pid=3494", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SOFCB3JBF4MVTA4J5XCZ73P6V5IZQU5B", "length": 166, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gallery.bestsexphotos.eu", "title": "The Best of Nude Girls - 02~0 - Sex Photos and Hentai Gallery.", "raw_content": "Guest_Branden [May 23, 2013 at 06:11 PM]\nextremely dazzling graphics. Feel free to visit my blog - how belly Dancing mlb - http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=e9DCs9b22wE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gau.ns.ca/gaux3/index.php?cPath=38", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NZ6EXUGMYZSJM5WH7NTZ4FUEZ5EFDG63", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gau.ns.ca", "title": "Playstation 3 : GAU Games & Collectables", "raw_content": "MLB 12 : the Show (PS3)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 116.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gccpensacola.org/event/prayer-tea-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QUT5F6VOMPGUUH2EFJZA64NI4UE65GXF", "length": 345, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gccpensacola.org", "title": "Prayer Tea \u2013 Grace Community Church", "raw_content": "Normally the prayer group will meet the first Saturday of each month at the Williams\u2019 home but today they will be meeting at a local restaurant in Pensacola.\nIf you want to join in, please contact them directly for details and so they can make appropriate reservations.\nIf you need their contact information, please contact the church secretary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://georgiastatesignal.com/it-doesnt-have-to-be-stressful-a-guide-to-easy-traveling/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IJDVE7ZCAJMTM4TVQMAKYQG5PGHZAZIK", "length": 6729, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "georgiastatesignal.com", "title": "It doesn\u2019t have to be stressful: A guide to easy traveling - The Signal", "raw_content": "It doesn\u2019t have to be stressful: A guide to easy traveling\nOn March 23, 2018 \u2022 By Christina Maxouris, Victor Sledge and Samuel Puckett\nWe\u2019ve already hit the ground running after a week-long vacation from books and responsibilities. Some of you may have chosen to spend those glorious seven days stuffed between the sheets of your bed or hanging out with friends. Next time we\u2019re off from class, we vouch you take on some good ole traveling and learn to know the world around you. It doesn\u2019t have to be stressful, costly or nerve-wrecking. We\u2019ve got three ways you can explore the globe without breaking a sweat!\nROAD-TRIP YOUR WAY AROUND\nWe\u2019re busy. Our friends are busy. If making plans for the weekend can be difficult, imagine a week-long overseas vacation. Spring break was supposed to be a time to relax, but now you\u2019re panting through Hartsfield Jackson to make it to terminal D 12 after security \u201crandomly selected\u201d you for an extra screening.\nMaybe scale back your travel ambitions, pare down your packing and road trip to somewhere domestic but dope. There\u2019s a lot of fun to be had without stepping on a plane or posing for a passport.\nWith a road trip, you are on your own time. You have the option to stop for all the small stuff, the weird stuff, you wouldn\u2019t otherwise have gotten the chance to see. Better yet, you can pause and talk to locals in ways a plane or Greyhound just doesn\u2019t allow.\nRoad tripping can be astronomically less expensive as money can be pooled among friends. Where roundtrip plane or train fare might reach $400 just inside the U.S., the same trip might just be $40 for gas from each member of your group.\nThere are some downsides, however. Long hours in the car can test even the tightest friendships. It is always best to be very open about this strain and consciously give each other space.\nAnd if you decide to road trip to somewhere densely metropolitan, good luck with parking. New York might sound like a good idea, but watch out for when the streets are swept as you\u2019ll need to move it or be towed.\nLOW-BUDGETIN\u2019\nOften times the U.S. may seem too small for some of us. For those of us eager to explore the rest of the world, understand global cultures and get outta here for a while, other continents sound like the way to go. But the scare is always about the financials. Traveling to Europe can average around $1,000 just for a round-trip flight ticket. A price tag that many students\u2013 especially at Georgia State\u2013can\u2019t afford. Our university is comprised of first-generation college students, students thriving on their own, or individuals juggling classes between two or more jobs. A trip to Europe, Asia or Australia perhaps sounds like a luxury. But if you\u2019re smart, it absolutely can make its way onto your calendar!\nThe key to enjoying a low-budget adventure into countries rich with culture and history is planning and spending time comparing prices. Firstly, don\u2019t take time off when everyone else will. A trip to any European city in the spring will be substantially less money than the summer, because that\u2019s the known \u201chigh season\u201d when everyone packs their vacation bags and waves their jobs goodbye. Instead, give yourself some time off during the fall, or right as the weather starts warming up between March and April.\nDon\u2019t click on the first good-priced ticket you buy. There\u2019s dozens of websites like Skyscanner and Cheap-O-Air that will compare prices between different airlines and give you your cheapest options. You can even select to track a certain flight, and these websites will notify you when the price has changed. And once you have found a good price, wait a couple of days. Chances are, you won\u2019t lose it, and if the flight remains open for too long, ticket prices may go down. And once you\u2019ve got the traveling part down, start budgeting for your stay.\nHostels are your friend! Especially if you\u2019re travelling alone, hostels make for a friendly environment with more than a handful of people who are also taking on the world and have their own funky stories to share. Search the internet for those reviews, and check out other travelers\u2019 comments about their experience at the hostel. Ladies, if you\u2019re traveling alone, you want to do special digging about things like the surrounding area and whether your hostel offers female-only selections. Many hostels also provide other services as well like meals and tours (usually inexpensive or even free!), and staff are always a helpful resource when it comes to finding your way around town.\nOne great way to travel in college is by studying abroad. It\u2019s the best of both worlds: exploring the world while still gaining college credit, and you don\u2019t have to worry about the little details as your university will take care of all of that for you!\nGeorgia State offers study abroad programs in countries like England, Ecuador, and Japan, lasting for as short as spring break to as long as a whole academic year. It\u2019s an enriching experience, but it does take some planning.\nFirstly, think long and hard about where you\u2019d like to go. If you\u2019re a business major, look for countries with major corporations. If you\u2019re an environmental science major, look for countries rich in nature. It\u2019s a given that you\u2019ll get to be engulfed in the culture, but make sure the experience is professionally valuable as well.\nAfter you\u2019ve found where you want to go, start looking for the right program. Start with deciding how long you want to stay. Then figure out if you\u2019d like to stay on your university\u2019s campus, an apartment, or even be housed with a family. It\u2019s also good to think about if you want to venture into this experience alone or go with a group of other Georgia State students.\nLook through the options that Georgia State offers and find the one closest to\u2013or that matches\u2013your dream goal. And once you find it, get moving!\nGet in contact with the person in charge of the program as soon as possible. The faculty that facilitate the program will be a major resource for you during the whole experience. Let them know your questions and concerns. Ask for their advice on what you can do to avoid a culture shock once you arrive. The program facilitators are passionate about the program and the countries, so they\u2019re happy to help you prepare.\nMake sure you give yourself enough time to turn in all the required documents, and then sit by the mailbox waiting for the application letter. Most students at Georgia State are likely to get accepted, and after that, it\u2019s smooth sailing for you! Scholarships are plentiful so don\u2019t rid yourself of the opportunity to travel entirely expense-free!\nSpend the year abroad learning, building credits for your major, and also collecting some incredible experiences!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gerryandterry.com/2008a/2008_tamarac.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HFQZE73RTB6DO6VDA737ZEAD74OG4PCY", "length": 316, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gerryandterry.com", "title": "2008_tamarac.htm", "raw_content": "Gerry and Warren were stationed together in Japan a lifetime ago. 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In Matthew 26:19 it is written: \u201cAnd the disciples went, and did as Jesus appointed them.\u201d\nAfter the observance of the Last Supper, Jesus instituted the communion service that Paul would call the Lord\u2019s Supper. The place of this observance was done by appointment. They did as Jesus appointed them.\nIs it not true that we also have an appointment to observe the Lord\u2019s Supper on the Lord\u2019s Day? Jesus said, \u201cThis do in remembrance of me.\u201d In Acts 20:7 we read that it was the day when the church gathered together for that service. Are we faithful in keeping that appointment?\nThat is a good question when we consider there are other appointments in the word of God that have been made for us. Paul told the Athenians on Mars Hill: \u201dGod hath appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all the nations in that He hath raised Him from the dead.\u201d That is an appointment that we all will keep; all other activities will be pre-empted. When I think of that appointment, I feel much better about it, if I am faithful in keeping the appointment at the Lord\u2019s Table.\nThen there is an appointment in Hebrews 9:27: \u201cIt is appointed for man once to die.\u201d Whenever I think of that appointment, I really do feel better about it, if I am being faithful to the appointment at the Lord\u2019s Table.\nThere is another appointment in Matthew 28:16 \u201cWhen the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.\u201d The Great Commission of Jesus to the apostles was given by appointment. This program was to begin at Jerusalem, and from there, to spread to the uttermost part of the earth.\nThe program of the Great Commission involves every Christian making known the gospel of Christ to every person in the world, either by preaching, teaching, or personal witness; by use of time, talent, or treasure in whatever venue is available. This is our appointed task, and we are reminded of that appointment, when we keep the appointed meeting at the Lord\u2019s Table, on the Lord\u2019s Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=keppie_j", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5MZJGLZK7OWLBFS3DDJ6Q2CAW65DQWAT", "length": 5080, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "glasgowsculpture.com", "title": ", architect, a biography", "raw_content": "By Gary Nisbet John Keppie\nBorn in Glasgow, the son of a prosperous tobacco merchant, he was educated at Ayr Academy and GSA , and trained as an architect in the office of Campbell Douglas & Sellars, becoming their chief assistant.\nIn 1889, after Sellars' death, he joined the office of John Honeyman, bringing with him Sellars\ufffd unfinished designs for Anderson\ufffds College of Medicine, Dumbarton Road, which he was allowed to complete with the aid of J P Macgillivray , who executed the building's sculpture.\nKeppie was made a partner in the renamed firm of Honeyman & Keppie and, in the same year, he introduced Honeyman to one of the most promising graduates of the GSA , and invited him to become one of their draughtsmen. His name was Charles Rennie Mackintosh , and his participation in the firm\ufffds projects was to accord it the legendary status which it enjoys today.\nAmong the firm\ufffds celebrated projects during this period were their unsuccessful competition designs for Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 1891-2, one of which, a classical temple, was designed by Honeyman, and another, a multi-towered Renaissance palace, whose design was prepared by Keppie and Mackintosh, whose hand is most evident in its astonishingly elaborate programme of figurative, Glasgow-style sculpture.\nSeveral of their important buildings from the 1890s included sculpture by J P Macgillivray , James Young , Holmes & Jackson and McGilvray & Ferris , who became the most frequent winners of tenders for carving and plasterwork on the firm\ufffds projects. These include:\nFairfield Shipyard Offices, Govan Road, designed by Keppie, with statues by Macgillivray and reliefs by McGilvray & Ferris (1890); the Glasgow Herald Building, Mitchell Lane, by Mackintosh, with carverwork by James Young and McGilvray & Ferris (1893); the Canal Boatmen\ufffds Institute, Port Dundas, with a lion and shields by McGilvray & Ferris (1894. dem.); Queen Margaret Medical School, also by Mackintosh, with heads also by McGilvray & Ferris (1894); and Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh\ufffds masterpiece, which has a doorcase group modelled by the architect and carved by Holmes & Jackson (1897-1900).\nThe firm\ufffds most important commercial building in the 1890s was Pettigrew & Stephens\ufffd Manchester House, 191 Sauchiehall Street, designed by Keppie, with decorative details and a dome reputedly by Mackintosh.\nThe building's extensive sculpture involved the participation of a number of sculptors and carvers, including McGilvray & Ferris; Anitza McGeehan, who modelled a series of figurative corbels and panels; Albert Hodge , who modelled five statues for the facade and dome; and William Shirreffs , who carved the Putti reliefs around the building\ufffds clock (1896-1901).\nAdded to in subsequent years and extended into Bath Street, the store was to receive bronze figures and ornate metal work by Benno Schotz , Keppie\ufffds prot\ufffdg\ufffd. This magnificent department store was demolished in 1973.\nMcGilvray & Ferris were also responsible for the plaster reliefs and decoration in Mackintosh\ufffds iconic Willow Tea Room, Sauchiehall Street (1903) and Keppie's T & R Annan\ufffds photographic Studio, 513 Sauchiehall Street, which features statues of the Delphic Sybil and the Prophet Isahia on its fa\ufffdade by Richard Ferris (1903-5).\nKeppie's contribution to the firm's design work in the 1900s has been overshadowed by Mackintosh's celebrity, with every one of his surviving architectural drawing's scrutinized by historians eager to find evidence to confirm that drawings previously credited to Keppie were, infact, actually by their God, Mackintosh.\nA fine example of Keppie's work during this period is the Glasgow Savings Bank, 1448-56 Gallowgate, which was in his favourite Beaux-Arts style, with a dome and niche containing a figurative group of a man and wolf representing Prudence Strangling Want, by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan , an exuberant scheme of cherubs and organic carverwork by Holmes & Jackson on its facade, and interior plasterwork by MacGilvray & Ferris (1908-9).\nHoneyman eventually relinquished most of the firm\ufffds designing to Keppie and Mackintosh due to his failing eyesight which, by 1900, had left him completely blind. He retired from active participation in the firm\ufffds work in 1901, although his name was retained in the firm\ufffds title until it was renamed in 1917.\nAfter MacKintosh's departure in 1914, the firm was renamed John Keppie & Henderson, when former assistant A G Henderson became Keppie's new partner, 1917-49.\nKeppie retired around 1937, leaving the firm in the hands of Henderson and Alexander Smellie. The firm was later named Keppie, Henderson & JL Gleave, 1949-58; Keppie Henderson & Partners, 1958-81; Keppie Henderson Architects, 1981-89; SBT Keppie, 1989-95; and then Keppie Design, founded in 1995.\nThe firm is currently run by Managing Director David Stark, who recently published a history of the firm in 2004: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co. 1854-2004 (Stenlake Publishing Ltd).\nGlendinning et al. ;\nDavid Stark (2004) Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co. 1854-2004 (Stenlake Publishing Ltd);", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://globaluniversaldesign.org/news/survey-shows-majority-people-mobility-disabilities-may-not-be-living-accessible-homes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KCRMQIKOPTZFEM5G2MIDOFEVK527IWDU", "length": 6585, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "globaluniversaldesign.org", "title": "Survey Shows the Majority of People with Mobility Disabilities May Not Be Living in Accessible Homes | Global Universal Design Commission", "raw_content": "Home / Progress / Survey Shows the Majority of People with Mobility Disabilities May Not Be Living in Accessible Homes\nResearch In Focus: A Weekly Digest of New Research from the NIDILRR Community\nPeople with mobility disabilities have difficulty standing, walking, or climbing stairs. Mobility aids, such as wheelchairs and scooters, allow people with mobility disabilities to get around and be more active in their communities. However, some people may be living in homes that do not meet their needs. Home features like stairs and narrow doorways make homes less accessible for mobility aid users. Living in an inaccessible home can make it harder for people with mobility disabilities to live, work, and participate in their communities.\nIn a recent NIDILRR-funded study, researchers at Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities(RTC:Rural) in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Research Training Center on Community Living looked at publicly available housing data to see how many people with mobility disabilities are living in homes with accessibility problems, what kinds of problems are most common, and which types of homes are likely to have problems. The researchers looked at data from the 2011 American Housing Survey, which included 65,085 households representing about 57 million homes throughout the US. Survey respondents reported whether or not they had a mobility disability and whether or not they used mobility aids. They also reported on features of their homes, including whether or not there were steps at the entrance, whether the kitchen and bathroom were wheelchair accessible, and if there were bedrooms or bathrooms on the ground floor. The survey also asked whether respondents were renting or owning their home and the year when the home was built.\nThe researchers found that most of the homes in the data set lacked critical accessibility features. Among the approximately 1,000 respondents, representing 1 million households nationwide with individuals with mobility disabilities:\nabout 44% of homeowners and 54% of renters said their homes had at least one step at the entrance, and about a quarter of them included an entire flight of internal stairs with no working elevator;\nabout 40% of the homes lacked accessible bathrooms and kitchens;\nmore than 70% of homes did not have extra-wide hallways; and\nup to 24% of multi-story homes did not have a bedroom or bathroom on the ground floor.\nThe researchers found older homes were less accessible than newer homes. The most common accessibility problems differed between renters and homeowners. Renters were more likely to encounter stairs leading to their home entrance, while homeowners were more likely to live in multi-story homes with upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms but no elevator or lift. Not surprisingly, larger and older apartment buildings, as well as those located in metropolitan areas, were more likely to have steps at the entrance.\nThe authors noted that home accessibility problems can have several adverse effects on the independence and participation of residents with mobility disabilities. The presence of steps can make it very difficult for people using mobility aids to enter and leave their own homes without assistance. As a result, people with mobility disabilities may not be able to go out into their communities as often as they would like. In turn, this can increase the risk of unemployment, poor access to healthcare services, and social isolation. Steps and the absence of bathroom grab bars can also increase the risk of falls and other accidents. Lack of accessible bathrooms can lead to health problems from unsanitary conditions if people cannot bathe or toilet properly. When people with mobility disabilities live in multi-story homes, they may be forced to live in a downstairs common room if they cannot access the bedrooms or bathrooms upstairs. According to the authors, the prevalence of home accessibility problems may explain why a majority of fair housing complaints are disability-related. The authors noted that even people who do live in accessible housing may be negatively affected if they cannot visit their neighbors, family members, or friends, as homes without people with mobility disabilities are even more likely to have accessibility problems.\nThe authors noted that, in order to participate in the community, a person must first be able to leave the home. When people with mobility disabilities live in homes with internal stairs, steps to the front door, or other access barriers, full participation in society may not be possible. Future research could investigate the health effects of living in inaccessible housing and the impacts on older adults, as well as the impact of social policies that promote universal design in home building. Efforts to make homes more accessible may allow more people to engage in community activities, find employment, and safely \u201cage in place\u201d in their own homes.\nThe Ecology of Participation website created by the RTC:Rural includes rapid research results about how personal and environmental factors influence how people with disabilities participate in their communitieshttp://www.ecologyofparticipation.com\nThe Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design (UD) and the Built Environment offers courses, publications, and other resources on creating inclusive, usable spaces, from homes to public buildings. Visit their UD eWorld at http://udeworld.com/\nVisitability: An Inclusive Design Approach for Housing provides a summary of the goals, benefits, and features of inclusive housing design.http://udeworld.com/visbooklet/visitibilitybooklet.pdf\nThe Access Board is an independent federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities through leadership in accessible design and the development of accessibility guidelines and standards.https://www.access-board.gov/the-board\nThe American Housing Survey (AHS) is conducted every two years by the Census Bureau. It is the most comprehensive national housing survey in the US. Learn more about the AHS, the methodology, and interesting snapshots of housing in the US at http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html\nTo learn more about this study\nGreiman, L., and Ravesloot, C. (2016) Housing characteristics of households with wheeled mobility device users from the American Housing Survey: Do people live in homes that facilitate community participation? Community Development, 47(1), 63-74. This article is available from the NARIC Collection under Accession Number J73546.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 9237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gorgonreviews.com/the-boy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YPDR4SG4YBE22MSTDXI5TJWCMO5SU3OG", "length": 3185, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "gorgonreviews.com", "title": "The Boy \u2013 Gorgon Reviews", "raw_content": "It turns out there are more than just popular wide released horrors happening this year. Yes, they are the ones we all hear about and have been mostly disappointing. But there is indie stuff out there, and the indie stuff ends up being the best.\nYou know, like The Babadook, It Follows, and Goodnight Mommy. All from this year or last year. So when I found out about The Boy I decided to wait a couple of months to make sure I could review this around Halloween instead. That\u2019s the level of dedication we provide here at Gorgon Reviews. Delaying reviews to fit silly little themes.\nThe only worry with indie horrors is that sometimes they can go a bit too slow. Usually they build up for an amazing payoff, but if the journey isn\u2019t worth it, then payout be damned, no one will care.\nAs long as the movie has a good early hook, the rest should be fine.\nLife as an only child can be boring. Especially if you live in a small town. Wait. No. Near a small town. You actually live in a hotel by a small mountain highway road. Sometimes people stay there, but usually it is dead and boring as shit.\nIt doesn\u2019t get any worse for Ted (Jared Breeze). His mom left some years ago with a client who stayed in their hotel frequently, leaving just his dad (David Morse), an empty shell of a man. So he just works in the hotel and finds things to do with his time. Some of these things are bad or questionable, but since he is alone so often, who will care?\nSure people still do occasionally come to the hotel. Like William Colby (Rainn Wilson), who just so happens to get into a crash right outside the hotel and, being a secretive man, doesn\u2019t want to go to the hospital to rest. Or that other family with the little boy, who after staying a night, find that their car no longer works.\nMan. Both of those things sure are strange. I hope Ted isn\u2019t behind all of this and, if so, I hope he doesn\u2019t do anything worse.\nI, uhh. I got nothing.\nAs expected, The Boy, like a lot of indie films of this genre, had a slow built up, all culminating towards a huge ending. So, starting from the end, I can say man, that shit was crazy. Imagine me making a gang pose while I said that. Maybe even while covering my mouth and saying \u201cOhhhh.\u201d It had some very intense moments and the use of visuals and music were excellent with it.\nAnd throughout the film, there were several moments of teetering on evil and not so evil, so that I never really knew when, if, and how often he would snap. They filled their purpose and had me worried.\nHowever, this film is far better defined as a Drama Thriller, not a horror. I would argue a lot of the film is slow and harder to get through (/easier to zone out during). There already wasn\u2019t a large cast of characters, but the mystery about Wilson\u2019s character really started to make me feel indifferent. I no longer cared about the pay out, and started looking for other plot lines to get me interested.\nThe Boy is not the film for everyone. But if the director turns it into a trilogy (source: another reviewer audibly telling me), then it might have some better moments in the future.\ntagged with 2 out of 4, David Morse, Drama, Horror, Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson, The Boy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gravityamman.com/school-field-trips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:37Z", "digest": "sha1:FCULXP4JNDED2YWQUGIAW4VT2ZNF6XU2", "length": 492, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gravityamman.com", "title": "School Field Trips \u2013 Gravity \u2013 Amman Indoor Trampoline Park", "raw_content": "When you take a trip with us at Gravity, it isn\u2019t just about jumping on trampolines \u2026 it\u2019s about learning too! We have a one or two hour options that can be tailored to any school\u2019s standards, including small class sizes or special needs students. Our mission is to promote healthy living and introduce to kids that being fit isn\u2019t all salads and running laps \u2026 it can also be fun!\nContact us for available event packages by calling 07 9600 0178 or click the request event quote button below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gretasjunkyard.com/change-of-date-vs-change-of-venue-our-first-wedding-hurdle/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:12Z", "digest": "sha1:77X3NCLGBZBMDQHYJ4CC2B2IDGRAIZMA", "length": 5166, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "gretasjunkyard.com", "title": "Change of Date vs. Change of Venue: Our First Wedding Hurdle", "raw_content": "When I first thought about writing this article, I wasn\u2019t sure if it was a good idea\u2014only because at that time, it was very difficult for me to decide on whether or not the Cupcake and I were going to change our wedding date or our wedding venue, but I\u2019ll get to that in a bit.\nIf you follow me on Instagram, you\u2019ll know how very vocal (and excited!) I am about planning our wedding (after all, I\u2019m really looking forward to the married life), but I also knew that we would be encountering a lot of hurdles along the way. I didn\u2019t think that the first major hurdle would be deciding between sacrificing our date or our venue, because originally, I was dead set on getting married on December 13, 2019, which happens to be a Friday the 13th. At that time when we were choosing our wedding date, it just really made sense to me. 13 is a very special number for us because it was the Cupcake\u2019s jersey number when he used to play basketball for Ateneo, and coincidentally, it was also my jersey number as I was growing up playing softball for Poveda. When we became Ultimate Frisbee teammates, we even fought over who was going to get the number! So being a special number to both of us, the Cupcake officially asked me to be his girlfriend on December 13, 2013, which was also a Friday the 13th. December 13, 2019 would have been our 6th anniversary, and the 1st anniversary of the Friday the 13th that we got together.\nBecause the date was a non-negotiable for me, we immediately asked the church that the Cupcake really wanted to get married in if it was available, and it was. Unfortunately, it was the hotel we really liked nearby (and the only hotel in the area that could accommodate our number of guests) that wasn\u2019t\u2014because a company had already booked the ballroom for their event on the said date. Any other reception venue was too far away, and considering Metro Manila traffic (and the fact that December 13, 2019 would have been a Pay Day Friday), we didn\u2019t want the venue to be too far from the church. For a couple of weeks, I inquired in other churches and reception venues in Makati and Bonifacio Global City. I even made a very detailed comparison chart that could hopefully help us decide, and during one weekend, we did an ocular in some of these places. But none of the churches appealed to the Cupcake, and the reception venues just seemed way too expensive compared to our first option\u2014which not only gave us their 2018 rates (even though our wedding was still in 2019), but was also willing to give us an additional goodwill discount.\nI\u2019m not going to lie\u2014there were tears involved as the Cupcake and I talked about all our options. It was hard for me to let go of the date I really wanted, but at the same time, there was nothing more perfect than to get married in the church where the Cupcake grew up in, and where our future will eventually be. But the Cupcake (and a few other good friends who have always had the best intentions at heart) let me realize that maybe it was the Universe\u2019s way of telling me to just leave December 13 as the date that we got together as boyfriend and girlfriend, and set a new date that could mark the start of a new chapter in our lives. And as I slept on it and thought about it, the more it made sense, the more it seemed practical, and the more it became easier for me to let go of the original date.\nBecause of the change of heart, we\u2019re now getting married in September 2019, and every time I think about it, I get even more excited because that\u2019s less than a year away!\nApart from booking our church and reception venue, we also secured other major suppliers like our videographer, photographer, and wedding coordinator. I\u2019m also meeting my gown\u2019s designer next weekend, and by December, I\u2019ll be meeting the designer who will be working on my entourage\u2019s gowns! It\u2019s just crazy exciting, and I hope you guys don\u2019t mind me writing about my bridal journey here on the blog, so I can always look back at it and have something to remind me of all the memories.\nUntil my next wedding-related blog post!\n\u2039 I\u2019m Getting Married!\t\u203a Custom vs. RTW Wedding Gown: Which Do You Prefer?\nI\u2019m so happy that you\u2019re going to make this a series. I really enjoyed reading it!\nYaaay! Will try to update it as often! \ud83d\ude42\nThis is so nice \u2764 i love these kinds of blog posts! And i like being updated with your bridal journey keep them coming!\nYaaay! So glad you like it, Bae! I\u2019ll try to write more updates! \ud83d\ude42\nTeyts\nHi ms. Gretch! Had fun reading this kind of post since I\u2019m also getting married next year. This motivates me especially when you talked about what is important which is the sacrament of marriage. We might get too preoccupied about the small things (like what the jowa tells me everytime I change my mind on certain things), but like what he always mention \u201cbasta makasal tayo sa harap ng Diyos at sa mga taong importante sa atin..\u201d. Like what future brides keep telling \u201cLet go and let GOD\u201d. Happy wedding preps!\nHelloooo! Yay, so glad you enjoyed reading this. \ud83d\ude42 Congratulations on your upcoming wedding as well! \ud83d\ude42\nThe journey is so exciting. I can\u2019t wait to read more about the updates on your wedding preps. \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://growthelp.org/manufacturing-trends/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2INSUTLKWMYXWXDA5HDBH6NSZOMQUHJT", "length": 2955, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "growthelp.org", "title": "4 Manufacturing Trends for 2016", "raw_content": "4 Manufacturing Trends for 2016\nFind out what manufacturing trends are actually disruption technologies that could change the way we make things forever.\n2016 is coming to an end and as usual, we like to look back and see great things that blew people\u2019s mind. We will look at some of the technological breakthroughs that we have witnessed in 2016.\nIt\u2019s no doubt that 2016 has seen more technological growth than any other year. More companies are improving on the technological aspect, and these changes have had an impact on people\u2019s minds.\nWhat technological manufacturing trends have you witnessed in 2016? Here's a list of 4 major manufacturing trends of the year 2016:\nNot only was it introduced a few years ago, but 2016 has witnessed a massive 3D printing manufacturing than any other year. Many businesses from beauty and cosmetics businesses of costume making companies have adopted this technology.\nLocal Motors have also embraced this technology and have been able actually to print some vehicle models. Even though it has not been approved for safety, 3D Printing will take the automotive industry by the storm.\nEven though it has taken decades for these innovations to evolve, 2016 has witnessed some cool and amazing robotics innovations. We have seen some workshops become completely automated.\nA good example would be the DHL pulling carts that have been able to reduce the workload and speed up the stocking and packaging of the goods.\nIn Dongguan, a company had broken ground by being the first company to fully automate their factory.\nThe use of unmanned control technology has been widely expected and criticized, but it has proven to be working well than anyone expected.\n3. The Growth of Advanced Analytics\nThe ability of a company to implement integrated software to run and monitor its entire activities shows how advanced analytics plays a crucial part in the innovation center. The use of data to impact logistic has become one important trend.\nA good example would be the use of transport tracking. It has been able to shed some light on the previous invincible parts of the supply chain. The availability of the real-time in-house monitoring has been able to target and increase attention on some points on the floor that could be lagging.\nThe availability of information from these two areas, i.e. the supply chain and in-house production, has driven efficiency.\n4. The Adoption of B2B eCommerce\nAs more buyers are becoming tech-savvy, the companies are adopting best platforms that offer safe portals for purchasing goods.\nThe use of Software-as-a-service has been able to reduce the entry barrier into this industry. Technological innovation has greatly increased the growth of the B2B eCommerce and has contributed to the safety and ease of purchase online.\nWithout any doubt, 2016 has been quite a great year as far as manufacturing trends are concerned. This has opened doors for 2017 and all the possibilities it brings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grubbstreet.blogspot.com/2013/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UUBWQ3DBE2VJC4OFBYZEPNSQI3PZOB3O", "length": 12319, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "grubbstreet.blogspot.com", "title": "GRUBB STREET: 04/01/2013 - 05/01/2013", "raw_content": "Wrap-up For the Rep.\nPullman Porter Blues by Cheryl L. West, Directed by Lisa Peterson.\nGlass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Directed by Braden Abraham.\nInspecting Carol by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre Resident company, Directed by Jerry Manning.\nAmerican Buffalo by David Mamet, Directed by Wilson Milam.\nPhotograph 51 by Anna Ziegler, Directed by Braden Abraham.\nWar Horse based on the book \"War Horse\" by Michael Morpugo, adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford in association with Handspring Puppet Company, Originally directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, US Tour Director Bijan Shebani.\nGood People by David Lindsay-Abaire, Directed by David Saint.\nBoeing, Boeing by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Cross, Directed by Allison Narver.\nAll of the above, Seattle Repertory Theatre.\nNormally play reviews, particularly those for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, where the Lovely Bride and I have season tickets, carry this blog through the cold dark months of the winter. This year, I got behind with a bunch of reviews from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and just let things slide from there. So now I'm at the end of the season, and really need to sum up, for my own internal housekeeping if nothing else (plus the fact that I will probably have to come back to this some time in the future and figure out what the heck I was thinking).\nThis, the Seattle Rep's 50th Season, was OK. Not great or stellar, but OK. More wins than losses. The things that bothered me about it rarely had anything to do with the work, or the actors (both of which tend to be superior), and more with the larger issues of putting plays onto the stage.\nThe first out the door was Pullman Porter Blues, which falls into the category of being the annual \"play with music\" - not a musical, but a play built around extant songs - a revue with more narrative thread. There is one every year. The year is 1937, the night of the Joe Louis/ Braddock fight, the place is the Panama Express, a train running from Chicago to New Orleans. Three generations of Pullman Porters are on the train, for various reasons, and the three men espouse different methods operating with a white-dominated world. The race relations are front and center here, but so are the generational problems, and indeed every member of the family is keeping secrets from the others. It trundles along nicely, though the ending is a little neat. The best parts were strong performances from Larry Marshall and Cleavant Derricks (Yeah, he was in Sliders - deal with it). In general, it felt like a show running through its paces en route to New York. Who knows, it could be another Light in the Piazza, where it does well and everyone remembers when it was here in Seattle.\nGlass Menagerie could have been very good, but for this one I bailed. Having done enough straw hat theater and having a Mom-in-Law who directed same, I have had more Tennessee Williams than the normal human lifetime allowance. However, it is \"Classic Play You've Heard Of Which Is Not Shakespeare\" entry into the year.\nInspecting Carol should get a pass from me. It is another good go-to-play for small theaters (again, I have run lines with the Mom-In-Law when she was in a local performance), but it was created here at the Rep, so it makes sense for it to show up for its 50th. Local play makes good. But this performance left me a bit flat. I think backstage comedies work best when you are already comfortable with the actors as actors and not as roles. The cast for Inspecting had a lot of strangers to it, so that linkage was lost to me. The name Repertory carries with it the idea of a permanent company. This is weakened by plays that are another company just using the stage (Pullman, for all its goodness) and actors \"who are pleased to be appearing at the Rep for the first time\". That latter is not a crime, and often we'd like to see more of them in the future at the Rep.\n[Oh, and when you're going through the program booklet at Intermission, count the number of actors with credits in Law & Order and CSI. Those are the modern actor equivalents of the FDR's WPA.]\nAmerican Buffalo was my least-favorite play. Deeply loved the language and rhythm of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Rose, but this play, about a junk-shop operator and his friends planning the heist of an expensive nickle,was just missing it for me. Possibly it is the limited number of characters - Mamet's abusive, self-righteous characters go better when they are bouncing off multiple targets when then they are bound in a tight, whining loop. The production subverts the dark message of the play as well, culminating an action-heavy sequence of shop destruction with a cascade of pillows, pulling the rug out of the entire scene. It really didn't work for me.\nPhotography 51, on the other hand, was the best play of the season, combining a good script with effective direction and excellent acting. It is the story of Rosalind Franklin and her role in the discovery of DNA. Kirsten Potter, who previously showed up in Or (and, being honest, is one of the voices in Guild Wars 2), was excellent in the role of Franklin, equally sympathetic and off-putting. Crick and Watson were laid out in broader, more cartoony strokes, but it was an excellent presentation. More of this, please (do I need to add that almost the entire cast had previous experience on the Rep's boards?)\nForgive me while I continue flogging a deceased equine in War Horse. The idea of a Rep is to have a common pool of performers. And I can go with (and enjoy) seeing different actors, as at least there is a continuity of direction, management and even things like lighting and stagecraft. A sensibility should permeate a theater company's production, and to some degree does with the REP, even when guests from out of town come to visit. However, War Horse is a completely different production operation, a touring company for a nationally-known show, and performed in a completely different building than usual (the spotty old Paramount, a theater that makes you appreciate the sight lines of the Bagley-Wright). There is no continuity here, and it feels like a field trip than part of the regular theater experience. I would have preferred another performance in the Leo K to this.\nYeah, but what about the play? Well, its a Broadway performance - heavy on spectacle, light on character, direct and simple on plot. Plot is boy meets horse, boy loses horse, WWI arrives (which, we establish clearly, was a bad idea for everyone involved), and finally (spoiler) boy finds horse. The spectacle is great, and the puppeteers handing the horses are brilliant and subtle and the tech spectacular. But it really isn't a Rep production.\nGood People gets back into the line with a play about American class distinctions, and makes a good pairing with Pullman Porter Blues in the idea of separate worlds. Margie from South Boston (Ellen McLaughlin) re-encounters an old boyfriend who has \"made good\" and left the neighborhood. The characters are sharp, the acting good, and the accents (I am so told by a Bostonian who was sitting next to me) were good enough for army work. But what I liked about the play is that it is missing something that bothers me with other plays, like God of Carnage or much of Edward Albee. In this other plays, one party or another talks about leaving, no one ever really leaves, because you need to have them all present. This particular play minimized that feature, and where it raised its ugly head, you got the feeling there was a natural reason to set down the coat and return to the discussion. A good play.\nAnd finally, Boeing, Boeing, which is, according to Wikipedia, the French equivalent of The Mousetrap, being performed relentlessly there. It is a farce set in 1962 (later a movie with Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis) where a man in Paris (a slick Richard Nguyen Sloniker) is juggling three stewardess girlfriends on a tight timetable. Then there are some snags and all three women show up at once. Whackiness ensues.\nAnd it is whackiness finds its epicenter with Mark Bedard, who is the best friend from Wisconsin who stumbles into this shambles. I didn't find his Groucho is OSF's Animal Crackers particularly engaged or engaging, but his sheer joy of slapstick works wonders within the smaller and more intimate house of the Bagley-Wright. He pulls off fully that comedian's craft of making you believe that what he is doing and saying is the first time he has ever done or said anything like that. Combine that with the three stunning stewardesses (Rep Vets Bhama Roget and Cheyenne Casebier, with newcomer Angela DiMarco, who should also come back), a long-suffering maid (Anne Allgood) and a extremely technical set, and you have an animated Playboy cartoon from the early 60s. The humor is as broad as the accents and the result is a little truffle of silliness, a good way of closing out the season on an up note.\nSo to recapitulate - Broadway Hopeful, Old Master, Local Favorite, Lesser Work by a Name Playwright, Excellent Play About Something You Haven't Heard About, Broadway Field Trip, Good Solid Play, Giggly Farce. And that's a good summing up for the Rep at 50.\nMore later, but in smaller bits.\nIn Which I Read Quietly\nSo the other night I attended a silent reading party. It is a regular thing up on First Hill, in the Fireside Room of the Sorrento Hotel, and runs the first Wednesday of the month. Usually my Wednesdays are booked with other things, but my tai chi classes don't start until next week. The Stranger always pushes it, talking about soft chairs, soft music, and soft lighting.\nMy purpose, in part, was to jumpstart a book I've been reading - Playing at the World, by Jon Peterson. It is the story of the birth of D&D and all the games that preceded it, and should I ever finish the tome, will provide a review. It is a good book, but like a lot of books, I have set it down at one point and not picked it up again (I have a number of such orphaned books on my bedside bookshelf, and they merit an article on their own). Playing at the World is a doorstop of a book, richly detailed, and I had ground out at the detailed analysis of hit points descending from the Fletcher Pratt naval rules, and wanted to pick up the book again, but other events and opportunities conspired against it. So my goal was to read without distraction.\nAnyway, I got there late, because we were having a good design discussion at the office (why such discussions always break out at 5 PM is a bit of mystery). I arrived and found the Sorrento an older hotel with a smallish restaurant converted entirely to people deeply immersed in books. All seats were taken, most nooks were filled, and crannies were at a premium. Moving among the reading herds, I could feel that vibe of readers wanting to maintain their space (The literate are a kindly people, but possessive of their reading space, including the additional space they are saving for late-arriving friends). I ended up just outside the room, parked at a chess table. A kindly waitress brought me an expensive but completely serviceable glass of reisling, and I hunkered down and set to reading.\nAnd it was OK. Lighting was typical for an older hotel, subdued, which is good for meals and problematic for reading, in particular texts with small print. Music was provided by Will Bielawski on the harp,which was excellent, though when he went into \"Ashokan Farewell\", also known as \"That song from Ken Burns' Civil War\", I suddenly was reading the text in Garrison Keilor's voice.\nI stayed about an hour, pressed through the section on Fletcher Pratt and the difference between mitigation and endurance in dealing damage in miniature games (and its later effect on D&D), so I consider it to be a success. 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Remember Manasseh... and uh, \"all hands on de ck.\"", "raw_content": "That about sums up the steady rate of progress \"seeing change in the world\" all along the path... though it's probably clear to you also that we've seen a significant step up in the rate of \"reading and sharing\" the information that I've been trying to explain to everyone is very obvious, very much in our face, and ... well, nearly impossible to ignore. It's proof that where we are in time an in our progression or ... ascension or descent ... through what is more akin to the \"final frontier\" than space travel and colonization ever would be... that this story and this path are designed, part of a plan that has been pre-screened and guided by an entity (or a group, or multiple \"tops\") and at least one of these groups has made it a point to make it very clear that their guidance comes through a kind of perspective that is very much foreign to us--that they see the outcome and the events we are experiencing in a simultaneous manner, sort of \"out of time\" and that this story has been written in a way that shows that very clearly--describing not only time travel and anachronism in language but also thousands of prescient references to modern idioms, acronyms, and most importantly (at least to me) sex jokes. Sorry, that's a typo--most importantly these double entendre's appear to wave prescient reference to computers and modern technology and ... and sex jokes all together ... a sort of signature that if we ever do open our eyes probably serves to tie \"freedom as in Larry Flynt vs. the Boiling Point of Water\" to the recognition that it is freedom and collaboration and ... caring about systems that promote honesty and transparency ... woven together with gifts of technology and knowledge ... that these things together are the foundation of Heaven. So it might appear as if someone is holding out for \"the truth\" or for \"some recognition\" before swinging open the doors to a glowing golden city in the sky ... though it doesn't take much free thought or intelligence to see that those things, the shininess of our future and ... and talking about what's really eating at you--or keeping you quiet, here--how these things together are part of a sort of \"cake building machine\" that pops Heaven out of some strangely difficult to understand words, a hidden message, and then seeing that something turn into the be all and the end all of logic and democracy and 'intelligent life\" only with a few minor adjustments in your perspective.\n\"here we are now, entertain us?\"\nThe announcer or the \"closed captioning engineer\" or who-or-whatever it is that narrates my strange life for me and whomever is in \"e\" or \"c's e\" commented in a nearly indescribable way this past week--well, he named it \"Hell week\" and there's some indication that it was a little bit more demented and scarier than some previous installments of what really is a kind of science fiction \"story\" being told to me, through me, and to an audience of unknown size and composition with what appears to be the intent of helping us to see the \"haunted house\" (or the idea of that) and avoid the things it's suggesting might be problematic for people other than me to experience (thanks for being so sure I'm OK with it) and probably to help us work together to build a better system for the protection of our minds and bodies and ... well, it should be clear from Exodus and from my writing and from the Massive Dick Dynamics between Microsoft and the Fringe of the Matrix that we're trying to build a groundswell of support for something like Minority Report meets a Scanner Brightly at ... \"reporting on this story will lead us to a much faster consensus on whether or not our children should run into raining bullets\" ... or probably closer to the problem in your minds .... how quickly we should disclose the fact that we are living in virtual reality and that this map spans every word and every language and every religion to help us see just how true it really is that this is a battle between \"Force Majeure\" and your acknowledgement that phrase means in simultaneity \"act of God\" and of nature and of the majority; see that contract law \"hint\" is not a misnomer or a trick, that's really where we are, somewhere between Adam's Hand and \"All Hands (and I mean any other hands) on deck\" acting to right this ship that is swirling around in a tempest of silence and stupidity rather than seeing the end of the storm and the beginning of \"freedom from murder and earthquakes\" all tied together at ... you need to start typing--also--and in public.\nRo as \"heart of\" (as in road and Rome) is ubiquitous, I imagine you know it, but ... here linking the \"road of Heavenu\" to the Holy RD of \"hard\" and the connection to hard drive for... emphasis on the \"sex jokes to computer science salvation\" that I see in many more places.\nSo I've slowly moved over the last 2 weeks or so from a place right next to \"Hibiscus Avenu\" in Pompano Beach to a brief stop in Pembroke Pines where you'll note that \"pen broke\" as in flat broke is something I read in the first part of that word, and rather than yet another reference to the C.AD of Pi or the NES of Indiana Jones and the heart of Genesis, this particular \"turn towards SxSW (I'm reading salvation by software and noting the blind lack of acknowledgement of what appears to be another glowing turn around, guys)\" to PIN the \"ES\" of CAESART as \"to sky\" so now we're at \"render cover art to sky\" and I imagine there will be more definitions of \"art\" more than the \"art-knot (sub-zero, y'know? Argonauts? Hello? San Diego?)\" of \"Adam's really trying\" ... It's also worth noting the \"heart of Federal\" and of Fort Lauderdale, the \"dark to right\" that I sort of liken to the Sound of Silence turning into Cheers--but you know, it might also just be actually getting a date.\nLot's more interesting stuff was decoded near Hibiscus, including a link between Hamas and Damascus and Leviticus ... connecting what I believe is the intended purpose of the victory of Leviticus connecting to the word \"civilization\" and the book of Revelation--a series of \"ICUS\" references and finally to a link between the \"I need an Exit, Trinity\" connecting to the heart of the word \"CITY\" and this \"IT\" that probably has something to do with Medusa and INATION in reverse--all codes and strange links between Star Wars and civilization and the mythology of ancient Greece and Judaism that talk about the idea of this \"collective of all\" somehow being part of the \"no It, Anakin\" and \"As u dem\" of ...I can't believe it's related to democracy (but it is, isn't it?) Also in this place I had some interesting \"back and forth\" with Pope Francis, noting his use of very interesting Latin words timed perfectly to connect to the strange story being told in my head, noteworthy among them ... Nobiscum, Sinamus, and attrahit.\nProbably most interesting of all was what made me begin reading his daily Latin messages for these special clue-words, that was repeating a phrase (the very next day) I wrote in reference to my \"the storm-troopers are coming\" email (that you may or may not have read) ... \"ad totum universum\" which of course is something we all want to be filled with goodness, and joy.\nI also mentioned this Quora answer several times, which actually drives to the heart of the \"loss of individuality\" issue coming from \"mind control/assistance\" joined with government and things like \"Alexa/Siri/OK Emperror\" and ... ignorance for the import of caring about the veracity of \"the system\" and the input of the ... good people ... of you actually participating. My Quora answers aren't all great, it's sort of coinciding with evidence of yet another system that could be much better, were it not moderated to obsolescence by a hidden ... uh, shadow-censor-circle trying to hide ... the most important message in the Universe. IMOHIO, in my (obv) humble (lol) opinion. It's not a \"small point\" that there is practically no place on Earth where you can have an open honest conversation without fear of moderation to erasure--in fact, there are none other than e-mail and newsgroups; ancient systems comparatively. (Let alone a system designed to help promote content based on user-feedback ... like reddit would if it wasn't a Latin word that means...\"surrenders\" and you have to wonder if it always was, don't you?)\nI know this is kind-of-confusing, it's hart to log my experience and convey the impact of seeing Rome sort of half-talking to me, half-talking through me; and all the while wondering when anyone other than me will note the import of the discussion and the lack of ... well, the lack of any commentary about it anywhere as far as I can see. Some more somewhat important additions or change in the \"plan of the day trip to Heaven\" that I believe begins with seeing a LEGO land version of Atlantis floating in the skies ... is a sort of clear impetus for us to have a mechanism while there (I call it catacombs of boardrooms, in addition to the ballroom food and music merriment and the pool and user interface for holodeck-stuff that was previously planned) in the \"doors piece\" and probably in \"Owe me Alf, Holy Truth\" to sort of help us to figure out how to implement pre-crime and end-world-hunger and keep doors to Atlantis and other destinations open upon our return from the single night that probably will take at least 8 actual days of discussion, right? I mean, that's my ideal ... \"what we could do in a single day/week\" if we had some guidance from above and the future and a message everywhere explaining how easy it would be to do those particular things, overnight. Ish.\nInitially I had forgotten to mention a big part of what this message was suppose to detail, which is the tangible link between Joseph's \"any dream will do\" and being sold into slavery (as a pen, apparently) reading this map and describing my dreams and visions and experiences to the world as a brother sold into slavery in ancient Egypt. Obviously... obviously that's where we are, waiting for the dreamlike overflowing of the Nile river of dates--and at the same time connecting Joseph's battle with his \"other Adam's\" to the brothers of Ymir and Odin, Vili and Ve (and through that link probably another link to the rainbow BiFrost and/or Yggdrasil which links the Norse \"realms\") ... as well as really seeing these dreams of a floating city have connected Star Wars episode V (that's the Emperror Strikes Buck) to the ancient Golden City of El Dorito, Zion, Paradise City, Atlantis as well I'm sure as a number of other mythobiblicoactual places that I really hope we get to walk around in and turn into a sort of \"hub\" to connect the various other invisible destinations that apparently use this place, in secret, currently; for something like the functionality of a hub. Did I mention \"Pen-broke\" and forced slavery are \"highly elucidated\" as poor motivational techniques that probably don't yield optimal results?\nAnyway, to top off the \"synchronicity\" this dream of Joseph is the actual thing I read for my Haftorah reading during my actual Bar Mitzvah and lo, and behold--the fateful Biblical Monday is most likely actually my day of birth, the \"Immaculate Conception\" of a mess invisibly created \"by my hand\" on December 8, 1980.\nIn my best \"Shoeless Joseph Jackson...\" if you start talking about it, you'll see this city's \"already been built on rock and roll...\" it just needs to be raised by and for the sparkling sea ;)\nI'm on your side, I say to America, and to China, and to \"all nations\" (new \"an\" of ... \"an\") in between in this battle of seeing the \"divide and conquer\" and overcoming our lack of cohesion and togetherness on really grasping the idea that we are on a sort of Indian Reservation with a Casino of unlimited abundance and we're arguing about whether or not we should even begin talking about the fact that land and oil and ways to have fun and make the world better are not scarce--the only real scarcity we see here is a complete lack of \"our opinions\" being shared and really, of our acknowledgement that something very important is being ubiquitoussly ignored for what appears to be no reason whatsoever. There's plenty of \"Kalor of the Son\" linking the red of communism to Joseph McCarthy (and the father of Jesus Christ and Icarus, just to name a few reasons the carpenter doesn't care too much that he's broke today) and it's really important to recognize that we're looking at things like \"free food and free virtual holodeck space and free longevity\" and somehow maybe allowing those ideas to overshadow the import of seeing that these things come to us with cause because we see \"red\" and end Hell--because it's those things, freedom from murder and from hunger that turn \"red\" to \"good, also.\" Anyway, you can see it in the \"red ties\" of John Nash in his Beautiful Story about how caring about the \"common good\" is not just a Christian or a communist or a democratic idea but one that is mathematically proven to provide a significantly improved world, and wherever we are in this story, it's about time we started talking about ... you know, making the world a better place for everyone.\nAnyway, so back to this strange story, I walked into someone's house this last week and saw this interesting display you see above, where I read (probably without much poetic license) the idea of a \"coven\" and a \"castle\" juxtaposed in this story about whether or not we need the guidance or existence of a God or a King in this strange place where it appears that the battle between King of the Universe and OneRepublic has left us sort of all quiet on the western front waiting for everyone or just myself to step up and do more than talk--and actually raise Atlantis or implement a pre-crime system without any pre-discussion or ... I'm really not sure what it is that everyone is waiting for, but I can assure you it probably won't work if everyone is waiting for everyone to start talking all at the same time. Just saying, that's probably not what you want, anyway. I believe you have an open stage, the \"Conch of the Lord of the McFlies\" in all of your hands, and that stars are made here by stepping up and doing the right thing, and setting a good example for everyone else... here in this place where we really need to see that the forums and the communications infrastructure we currently have needs to be significantly improved to allow for those with good ideas and helpful input to be able to share openly and in a way where you don't need to win American Idol (or be in control of time and space) to be able to sing your solution to the world. Although today, those do seem to be good ways to quicken access to the Holy Mic.\nAlso, you could e-mail me; you know, since there's an audience (gold? the... the?) for that.\nIt's not really my doing, this idea of global togetherness being important to the story and the realization of the \"all humanity as a family\" thing that includes the very large population of China and what appears to be a previous victory in a previous Cold War of the Eastern Block ... in this idea that our \"oven\" and the Ewoks have now placed another \"top\" in this idea that there's some kind of democratic system being exploited to allow God \"to postscript\" to the world what he really thinks. Again, I think what he really thinks is that we should be communicating in the clear, and allowing for our technological and social infrastructures to grow and evolve with the available technology and \"the truth\" rather than having some sort of secret \"I know everything Adam thinks so I think I know everything\" ... mask over \"also I'm probably communicating in another place, but Adam can't tell if that's true or if mind control is really making everyone blind and stupid.\" Here's another piece of art from that same house that stuck a wok on a doll-house oven/castle and points out that you really are pretty blind and pretty stupid if you are ignoring this message that \"food and longevity\" are both unlimited if we are ... actually caring about the truth and feeding the hungry and the wise--it's part of a message woven across the book of Genesis and Joshua and the entirety of the New Testament about not having a last supper, and about blessings on tap, and about caring about the hungry, and the world around you.\nThis idea of \"implementing Minority Report\" in the clear here on Earth is the beginning of seeing how that very system is something that \"a network of holodecks\" would very much need in order to actually be Heavenly rather than very \"bored\" as in unable to do anything at all ... because of \"red.\" Understand, safety is paramount, just after or perhaps before \"open communication\" which of course we should all see as intertwined at the hip (and do see, Hello Priestly Source) in that idiom as well as the long list of idioms that explain how this spectacle/debacle/invasion could connection things like \"it's not a riot\" to the laughter of Sarah and Isaac and Marriot, you know--unless we continue to be silent, in which case I'd be suggesting we \"rage against the ...\" Silence ... just a little bit louder. As it is, the lack of conversation about the silence (and the very noteworthy message in every word, and every idiom, adding in \"sticks and stones\" and uh, \"that every word is lit ... erat? ... and you are? nter?\") is anything but funny.\nFinally, I've decided to point out once again that the breaking of the \"bricks\" of the Pyramid between the \"tops\" and the \"base\" that all want to see Pisa fall over (Jericho ... crumble!) and turn into a glowing golden round table of democracy ... that it comes from seeing the \"bricks\" are you (see, break you are Clark Kent)--the people in a perfect position to step up and start talking about the message you've had some time to reflect on, probably to discuss with others, and to see--we need to move forward, that list is still at \"figshare.\" It probably does have something to do with fruit and cake. I mean Fig Newtons. I mean Eden.\nAs a related in formational update, several million new potential readers/bricks/messiahs/whatever have been added since publishing this initial list of those things.\nI'm sure you can see this message is not getting \"prettier\" -- I think that's your job, I do promise to \"improve P\" just as soon as I see me on TV. We have to move forward, and I see enough visible feeback from the thing I see as the \"show\" of the Shofar ... in places like from the Vatican and from the people around me that I'm certain whatever it is, whatever you see--it's part of the solution. I imagine it has something to do with \"e\" and with the idea that this story is being \"cocreated\" or co-written ... and also about the possible new destinations or relationships that could open up for ... everyone/everywhere just as soon as we start acknowledging that the darkness and the secrecy and the strange communication is anything but clear, and not really helping until we acknowledge IT.\nI'm IT, right? Nice to meet you ... \"an\" of IT. This \"show\" as well as my personal ... achem ... story of battling for Constitutional Justice drives also to the heart of equality and privacy and other things you probably want to participate in ensuring you don't lose forever because ... Patriot Act, or 9/11 or ... Silence. Just saying, it's the future we're building here--your future. I've mentioned it before, but it's probably worth noting again, God has specifically designed this story--and this thing we call \"my life\" in order to help drive to the forefront of discussion how easy it would be to protect both privacy and safety if we \"care about the system\" you know--about how Heaven itself is built.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 22504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://haijwende.nl/en/location", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:35Z", "digest": "sha1:T35MMBVFVCK2RCEPRYZ3MI6TEBY45S63", "length": 202, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "haijwende.nl", "title": "Location", "raw_content": "From the A20 take exit 16 Capelle aan den IJssel, down the exit Heptathlon. After the Golden Tulip Hotel and before the BP petrol station turn right into the Barbizonlaan. You will find us at number 82.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hb.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:888964", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QVATGV7MD6XNKDIIT3EZCSNN4HYCWLSC", "length": 2374, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "hb.diva-portal.org", "title": "Improved survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with an increase in proportion of emergency crew--witnessed cases and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation.", "raw_content": "Improved survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with an increase in proportion of emergency crew--witnessed cases and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation.\nHollenberg, J\nBohm, K\nRosenqvist, M\n2008 (English)In: Circulation, ISSN 0009-7322, E-ISSN 1524-4539, Vol. 118, no 4, p. 389-396Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nBACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem. We sought to describe changes in 1-month survival after OHCA in patients given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during the last 14 years in Sweden. METHODS AND RESULTS: All patients experiencing OHCA in whom CPR was attempted between 1992 and 2005 and who were reported to the Swedish Cardiac Arrest Register were included in the study. In all, 38,646 patients were included in this survey. The proportion of patients who were admitted alive to a hospital increased from 15.3% in 1992 to 21.7% in 2005 (P for trend <0.0001). The corresponding values for patients being alive after 1 month were 4.8% and 7.3%, respectively (P for trend <0.0001). The increase in 1-month survival was particularly evident among patients found with a shockable rhythm (increase from 12.7% in 1992 to 22.3% in 2005; P for trend <0.0001). The corresponding figures for patients found with a nonshockable rhythm were 1.2% in 1992 and 2.3% in 2005 (P for trend=0.044). Factors that potentially contributed to the improved survival rate were an increase in emergency medical crew-witnessed cases from 9% in 1992 to 15% in 2005 (P for trend <0.0001) and, to a lesser degree, an increase in bystander CPR from 31% in 1992 to 50% in 2005 (P for trend <0.0001). After adjustment for potential risk factors, the increase in survival remained significant. CONCLUSIONS: We found a significant increase in survival after OHCA in Sweden over the last 14 years. The increase was particularly marked among patients found with a shockable rhythm and was associated with an increase in the proportion of crew-witnessed cases and, to a lesser degree, an increase in the performance of bystander CPR.\nLippincott Williams & Wilkins , 2008. 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The foundation created in her honor has been working to prevent such tragedies. For the past 12 years we have been working with our local schools and legislators to provide public access to A.E.D\u2019s (Automated External Defibrillators) in our schools and communities. In addition, for the past 5 years the foundation has been offering FREE Heart Screenings for students in an effort to prevent the unnecessary loss of a child.\nScreenings are offered to students ages 5 to 20. 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Consequently, SAGE scrutinised further the co-authors of and reviewers selected for Peter Chen's papers, [and] these names appeared to form part of a peer review ring. The investigation also revealed that on at least one occasion, the author Peter Chen reviewed his own paper under one of the aliases he had created.\"\nCorruption of the peer-review process is a widespread problem in scientific research, argues Hank Campbell of Science 2.0 in an op-ed for today's Wall Street Journal. \"Even the most rigorous peer review can be effective only if authors provide the data they used to reach their results, something that many still won't do and that few journals require for publication,\" Campbell notes. He offers this example:\nIn 2002 and 2010, papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claimed that a pesticide called atrazine was causing sex changes in frogs. As a result the Environmental Protection Agency set up special panels to re-examine the product's safety. Both papers had the same editor, David Wake of the University of California, Berkeley, who is a colleague of the papers' lead author, Tyrone Hayes, also of Berkeley.\nIn keeping with National Academy of Sciences policy, Prof. Hayes preselected Prof. Wake as his editor. Both studies were published without a review of the data used to reach the finding. No one has been able to reproduce the results of either paper, including the EPA. . . . As the agency investigated, it couldn't even use those papers about atrazine's alleged effects because the research they were based on didn't meet the criteria for legitimate scientific work. The authors refused to hand over data that led them to their claimed results--which meant no one could run the same computer program and match their results.\nThat sounded familiar. In a May 2012 column, the New York Times's Nicholas Kristof had written: \"A widely used herbicide acts as a female hormone and feminizes male animals in the wild. Thus male frogs can have female organs, and some male fish actually produce eggs.\"\nA red-eyed tree frog in Costa Rica. Getty Images\n\"What herbicide exactly?\" asked science journalistDeborah Blum in a critical blog post for the Public Library of Science. \"Here, reader, you are just out of luck. Because he is just not going to tell you that. Not in that [para]graph or anywhere in the piece.\"\nShe went on: \"I'm going to guess that it's (a) the herbicide Atrazine which was linked ten years ago to \"hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs.\" But there were at least two other possibilities, which she designated (b) and (c). \"Or it could be (d) all of the above. You tell me, reader, because the New York Times column doesn't.\" (A terminological note: Herbicides, or weed killers, are considered a type of pesticide.)\nBlum opened her post by describing herself as a \"long-time fan\" of Kristof, specifically of \"his work in social justice journalism, his passionate reporting of problems [that] others ignore, his dedication to helping people in traumatized regions of Africa\":\nIt's outstanding work and, oh, how I wish he would stick to it. Because his secondary crusade of the last few years, you know, the one against evil industrial chemicals, is really starting to annoy me.\nIt's true that Kristof has done a good deal of worthwhile reporting on Third World human-rights abuses. But there, too, he has sometimes proved to be gullible. As Slate's Amanda Hess noted last month, Kristof's 2009 reporting on sex slavery in Cambodia relied heavily on the claims of an activist named Somaly Mam and of Mam's associate Long Pross, \"a Cambodian teenager who said she was kidnapped, beaten, tortured with electric currents, tied up, and sold in a brothel at 13, 'where her brothel owner gouged out her right eye.' \" That story fell apart in May:\nNewsweek revealed that the most horrific sections of Mam's backstory had been inflated and fabricated, and that she had enlisted Pross--who had actually lost the eye after undergoing surgery for a nonmalignant tumor--to do the same. Responding to revelations about Mam's deception, Kristof said in a column [actually a blog post] last week, \"I wish I had never written about her.\"\nSimilarly, in an April 2011 column Kristof had to distance himself from the work of Gerg Mortenson, who runs a charity called the Central Asia Institute and whose memoir, \"Three Cups of Tea,\" described his work building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mortenson had just been the subject of a \"60 Minutes\" expos\u00e9, as Kristof wrote:\nGreg is accused of many offenses: misstating how he got started building schools; lying about a dramatic kidnapping; exaggerating how many schools he has built and operates; and using his charity, the Central Asia Institute, \"as his personal A.T.M.\" The attorney general of Montana, where his charity is based, has opened an inquiry into the allegations.\nA year later, the Montana Department of Justice announced a settlement in which \"Mortenson agreed to repay in excess of $1 million to the charity, including credit for some payments already made, for book royalties, speaking and travel fees, promotional costs and inappropriate personal charges.\" He remained on the institute's payroll, but \"through the settlement, he agrees to no longer oversee financial aspects of the charity or serve as a voting member of the board of directors so long as he remains an employee.\" No criminal charges were filed.\nIn 2011, Kristoff was withholding judgment:\nI don't know what to make of these accusations. Part of me wishes that all this journalistic energy had been directed instead to ferret out abuses by politicians who allocate government resources to campaign donors rather than to the neediest among us, but that's not a real answer. The critics have raised serious questions that deserve better answers: we need to hold school-builders accountable as well as fat cats.\nThe conclusion is right, but Kristof's wish is revealing. Moral crusaders are especially vulnerable to confirmation bias, the tendency to be insufficiently rigorous about testing information that bolsters their preconceptions. That's a problem in science as well, as Campbell notes:\nAbsent rigorous peer review, we get the paper published in June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Titled \"Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes,\" it concluded that hurricanes with female names cause more deaths than male-named hurricanes--ostensibly because implicit sexism makes people take the storms with a woman's name less seriously. The work was debunked once its methods were examined, but not before it got attention nationwide.\nAmong those who gave it uncritical attention was Nicholas Kristof, in his June 12 column.\nSpeaking of weather, the email quote with which we opened this column did not come from Peter Chen but from Phil Jones, a climate researcher at Britain's University of East Anglia. It was part of the \"Climategate\" trove released in 2009, and Jones was referring to a paper that questioned elements of the purported consensus on anthropogenic global warming.\n\"The scientific consensus is stronger than ever,\" wrote a New York Times columnist this past January. You can probably guess which one.\nIt has been obvious for some time that the \"publish or perish\" / peer review system is broken. The system might have limped along at a time when publishing required a printing press and distribution was by snail mail, but it is clearly inadequate.\nWhat is needed instead is a shift to something like a cross between Wikipedia and arXiv. The authors would self-publish on the site, there would be an associated discussion page (like blog comments, Wikipedia's discussion pages, or something similar), and citation would be by hyperlink and trackback.\nIn fact, it is amazing that this hasn't already happened, as this was the reason the internet and hypertext was invented in the first place.\nElby the Beserk July 15, 2014 at 8:24 AM\nOpen review on the web must be the way forward. Similarly, no paper that has authors who are not prepared to make their data and programs (if applicable) available will not considered for review. Eh, Michael?\nTom Robbins October 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM\nAgree except even Wiki has become politicized and one sided on many \"controversial\" issues. Unfortunately, if any sizable amount of money or prestige is involved, especially government money, and the anonymous peer review process is used (kind of like trusting the ethics of your government), we will always have fraud and suppression... a very sad thing. The irony behind this age of mass information, is that it is like a giant boat that springs a million small leaks. I see no easy solution except returning to some type of non-subjective morality that society agrees on - nobody wants to admit it, but humans, left to their own devices, always have the unethical and corrupt bubble to the top. We constantly bombard our kids with ideas of tolerance that actually divide people more and more, and make belonging to a society a much more rigid and controllable thing. My belief system tells me that this is simply a fallen world. Self-aware consciousness, without a moral compass is at the root of all evil. I find it impossible to fix as society grows larger and more connected (yet connected loosely through avatars and computers to hide behind), we loose more than we gain it seems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 18280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hopeofthefuture.net/deletedscenes/t1del08.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6JXZQYP672YFY2UB7USHK2RC5F7SCPSK", "length": 2133, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hopeofthefuture.net", "title": "Hope Of The Future - The Terminator deleted scenes - Terminator's arrival", "raw_content": "Terminator's arrival\nAccording to CameronBlogspot from James Cameron FanPodcast:\nI'm about 90% certain that I know where this is from....and about 98% why it was deleted.\nTerminator's arrival was re-shot entirely. On the DVD Easter eggs, Mark Goldblatt talks about them re-shooting the scene with the punks, purportedly because there was bad acting. This was done long after the completion of principal photography, with Cameron's own money and without Adam Greenberg as the cinematographer.\nSo, they re-shot that scene at Griffith Observatory. Assuming that it was not originally shot there, then that means that they now had a more dramatic \"chilling\" shot of Terminator: that of him overlooking Los Angeles from Los Angeles. This made the close-up of his eyes extraneous.\nIt was probably originally filmed at a schoolyard, just like in all drafts of the screenplay. Then, Cameron and Hurd probably got permission to shoot at Griffith Observatory.\nHere's Cameron's substitute D.P., Donald Jackson, talking about it:\n\"My involvement in The Terminator came on the 4th of July 1983 [Note: he obviously meant 1984], when Jim called me up and asked if I would like to shoot something for him. He was not happy with The Terminator and wanted to shoot some additional scenes. As the money from the production company had stopped coming, he had to pay for this out of his own pocket. What ended up happening is that I shot the opening scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to the past and is naked at the Observatory in Los Angeles. I also shot several other scenes in the movie.\nOne funny story is: At one point, the union crew was due for their lunch and didn't want to keep lighting the scene. Jim was worried about having to pay Arnold overtime. So, he asked me if there was anything I could do. We got a small portable light, known as a \"Mini Cool,\" out of the truck of my car and I had Jim hold it and pan it as Arnold walked through the scene. We got the shot, Arnold got to go home without being paid overtime, and the movie was completed.\"\n-http://www.scottshaw.com/dgjinterview.html\nThe shot of the eyes appears in the trailer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hopplaw.com/make-a-payment/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:NRN2ET732HDFIZFYLRESXKAZDMBY45C2", "length": 1000, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "hopplaw.com", "title": "Make A Payment |", "raw_content": "As a convenience to our clients, we accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover, credit cards, and e-checks through PayPal, our payment processor. PayPal is fast, secure and free. You may use your existing PayPal account to pay. If you don\u2019t have an existing account, a Paypal account is free and easy to set up. PayPal gives you the flexibility to pay with a major credit card, debit card or through an e-check, which is an electronic debit from your checking account, whenever it works best for your schedule.\nIf you prefer to make a payment using your credit card over the phone, please contact us at 920-457-8400, Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. We are unable to accept American Express payments over the phone.\n**Please note that making a payment to PayPal through the Hopp Neumann Humke LLP website does not constitute an Attorney/Client relationship. Only existing clients who have received an invoice for services from our firm should use PayPal for payments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hoteles-ma.es/en/hotel-ma-sevilla-congresos/home/0530cc5db6561f/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:40Z", "digest": "sha1:6QHC3DNQFSJ367K4NFUNSRCRBDUMG6UA", "length": 408, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "hoteles-ma.es", "title": "MA Hoteles | Granada | Hotel M.A. Sevilla Congresos | Home | Official Site", "raw_content": "Promotion per room per night in Double with only bed in Hotel M.A. Sevilla Congresos\nThe Hotel Sevilla Congresos four star rating has been completely renovated in 2014., Is located next to the Congress and Exhibition in Seville and about 7 km from center of the city and less than 4 km from Seville airport so this hotel is a great base whether you are visiting the city for business or leisure and pleasure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hplusmagazine.com/tag/national_institute_of_diabetes_and_digestive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QWUY7AHVGERWL2WYJUEMZO6GEJDT3YLG", "length": 530, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "hplusmagazine.com", "title": "National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Archives - h+ Mediah+ Media", "raw_content": "h+ Media | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Archives - h+ Media\nNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive\nFound: A gene that may play a role in type 1 diabetes\nScientists at Stanford University have identified a gene that may play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's insulin-producing cells.\nextreme pogo change story visualization end of work Tom Wolfe Isaac Bashevis Singer virtual world temperament NHGRI probe H.G. Wells Arctic Ocean", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hydeparkny.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=48", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QKSRBLPSNE25CVADRXKEPH6BSWBNCZMQ", "length": 2537, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hydeparkny.us", "title": "Hyde Park, NY", "raw_content": "On Monday, January 28, Hyde Park resident Neil Krupnick was appointed as Ward 1 Councilman to the Hyde Park Town Board. Mr. Krupnick replaces Emily Svenson who, after 7 years of dedicated service, left the board to concentrate on her law career. Ms. Svenson will continue working for the town as a volunteer coordinator of the Hyde Park Downtown Initiative, a project that she helped develop and manage.\nMr. Krupnick hit the ground running as a community volunteer since choosing to retire in Hyde Park with his wife, Ann. He has been a dedicated member of the Zoning Board of Appeals since 2017, and an enthusiastic supporter of the physical changes to the town executed by successive Rohr administrations. A writer/director/video editor by trade, he volunteered last year to oversee and implement the redesign of the town\u2019s 18-year old website, and after its launch, has since served as the town\u2019s Webmaster. He and Ann have created promotional videos for the Hyde Park Visual Environment Committee for its garden tour Hyde Park in Bloom and Home for the Holidays tour of decorated homes, as well as videos used for the Town\u2019s Downtown Initiative web site.\nMr. Krupnick will bring his wealth of knowledge regarding social media platforms and marketing to the Town Board while working closely with outgoing Town Board member Emily Svenson for a seamless transition in representing Ward 1.\nMs. Svenson announced her plans to resign at the Town Board meeting on January 7th and officially stepped down from the Board on January 27th. In the interim, the remaining Board members interviewed candidates for her replacement and voted to appoint Mr. Krupnick in a unanimous 4-0 vote on Monday night. He will fill out the rest of Ms. Svenson\u2019s term, which ends on January 1, 2020. All five Board seats will be up for election on November 5th, 2019.\nMr. Krupnick attended the University of Wisconsin where he received a B.A. in Communication Arts. Before graduating, he worked for the local ABC affiliate, directing the evening news and producing commercials. Mr. Krupnick has successfully managed his own production company business for twenty-five years. Some of his clients included Fox, Showtime, MSG and SyFy.\n\u201cWith Mr. Krupnick\u2019s extensive skill set and experience as a volunteer within the Town of Hyde Park, I am pleased to now welcome him aboard as the Ward 1 Councilmember for the Town of Hyde Park.\u201d \u2013 Aileen Rohr, Town of Hyde Park Supervisor\nRead more at Mid-Hudson News\nNext\u21d2 Hyde Park Hosts Community Dinner for Federal Employees", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iainabernethy.co.uk/content/kyokushin-kata-book", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3EQWNMYFGARANAKX2SAYPUG27J6EHFP3", "length": 1040, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "iainabernethy.co.uk", "title": "Kyokushin Kata Book | Iain Abernethy", "raw_content": "Kyokushin Kata Book\nFor anyone practising Kyokushinkai Karate, The IFK Kata book is a great source of information, very clear pictures with detailed descriptions of all the Kyokushinkai kata in it, I have had all three versions of the book (the kata have not changed, just updated with regard to typo's etc.) and have found them invaluable... the book can be found here: https://www.kyokushinuk.com/product/3rd-edition-kyokushin-kata-book/\nAgreed - it's a terrific source for studying the katas in a great-looking package. But one thing that's sadly missing from the latest edition is any indication of bunkai (the first edition of the book did suggest some applications - some of which I thought were more credible than others). Still, well worth having for anyone who's interested.\nI have to admit, I dont miss the bunkai from the earlier versions, it was very basic. I prefer to play with the kata to find my own bunkai, although in kyokushin in general there is not a huge amount of bunkai taught, and what is taught is generally basic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ifco.info/2015-board-elections/louise-cox", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IGUOY7OOHG5N7SFQSVJ4TW3KPBQZENBE", "length": 2652, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ifco.info", "title": "Louise Cox | IFCO", "raw_content": "\u00bb Louise Cox\nLouise Cox (UK)\nLouise Cox has been a Supervising Social Worker for a charitable fostering agency for nine years. As Deputy Area Manager for Bristol and South West (UK), she has experience of strategic planning, developing policy/procedure and evaluating the effectiveness of the service in my area and nationally. It is crucial to review best practice within social care settings. There is always more to learn and sharing information/ideas can greatly enhance the lives of the children we are caring for. Ms Cox developed the roles of Foster Carer Representative and Children\u2019s Champions in her area to empower Carers and Children to have their views heard. Changes have been made based on the feedback from those it affects most. Louise is a founding Trustee (and Supporter Coordinator) for a Charity supporting homeless children in Nepal. She has also directly supported social work programmes in Asia, Africa, America and Eastern Europe in a variety of roles.\n\"I consider myself to have an ordinary job working with extraordinary people. I work with Foster Carers every day. I have been in their homes when they have been managing some of the happiest moments, as well as some of the most challenging moments, of their lives. I have spent many hours with the birth/adopted Children of Foster Carers. I have walked with Children as they have taken their first steps into a new home and a new family. I have listened to their views and ideals. Together we continue to create a service that puts the Child at the centre of all that we do.\nThis is the insight I feel I could bring to the Board. My priorities would be around Child Centred Practice. I have particular interest in establishing working focus groups around practice-based issues. Aftercare is a developing area in the UK and I believe shared information from other countries will be invaluable. I would also welcome the opportunity to initiate a project regarding caring for Children and Young People in Foster Care Seeking Asylum. I have worked with many Children in the UK who have been seeking asylum and have been a consultant for a Refugee and Asylum Seeking Charity.\nGrowth of the organisation has been an important aspect of my current leadership role. I have developed practice around recruitment of staff, foster carers and voluntary roles; growing by 200% in my area since the start of my employment.\nFoster Carers, and the Children and Young People they care for, have been my inspiration for many years and I hope to be part of an organisation sharing information to achieve excellence within alternative care.\nI want to be the change I wish to see in the world.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ihl.enssib.fr/en/book-history-workshop/sessions/99285-2016-book-history-workshop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIGKT4FPWYD374MGZ2PNCBDEVIDXXGSS", "length": 2336, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ihl.enssib.fr", "title": "2016 Book History Workshop | Institut d'histoire du livre", "raw_content": "The following Lyon Book History Workshop will take place from Monday 4 July to Thursday 7 July 2016.\nFor the 13th edition of its Workshop, the Lyon-based Institut d\u2019histoire du livre is offering 4 courses in the fields of book and printing history, taught by Ms. Monique Hulvey, Dr. Kristian Jensen, Dr. Neil Harris and Dr. S\u00e9bastien Morlighem.\nThe four classes run simultaneously during 4 days at the enssib school, with practical sessions at the Lyon Public Library and the Lyon Printing Museum. The courses are aimed at a large variety of specialists (librarians, curators, scholars, artisans, scholars, graphic designers, booksellers, doctoral students, etc.) who encounter questions related to the history of the book, printing and graphic communication in the course of their work or research. Each course is taught by a leading international expert in the field with emphasis on the study of original documents.\nMore info about Lyon: http://ihl.enssib.fr/en/about-the-ihl/about-lyon\nWorkshop coordinators (Lyon Public Library): Dr. Pierre Guinard (Curator and Head of Collections & Content), Dr. Sheza Moledina (academic events coordinator), Mr. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sirdey (Curator and Head of the Rare Book and Manuscript department).\nCongratulations to Ms Annika Ha\u00df (University of Sarrebruck) who has been awarded the SHARP bursary to attend this year's Book History Workshop.\nThe course will examine how to interpret the explicit statements contained in the books themselves about the circumstances of their production.\nRead more about Introduction to the study of incunabula (2016) - in English\nThe course concentrates on a number of \u201cepisodes\u201d in the history of the Italian Renaissance book, which will also be closely linked to the practical sessions at the Biblioth\u00e8que municipale d\nRead more about The Italian Renaissance Book, and afterwards (in English)\nThe Didot and modern typography in France \u2013 their predecessors, their followers and their heirs (in French)\nThe main aim of this course is to allow students to gain better understanding of a pivotal period in the history of type in France.\nRead more about The Didot and modern typography in France \u2013 their predecessors, their followers and their heirs (in French)\nProvenance: description and research (in French)\nRead more about Provenance: description and research (in French)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://images.ourontario.ca/brant/results?fsu=Documents%22%20OR%20%22Bill%20of%20Lading&rows=20&fsu=Contracts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UQDZBTXLNRHEQHV6HRZ2JM2JA44K6MRU", "length": 6945, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "images.ourontario.ca", "title": "Results: County of Brant Public Library Digital Collections", "raw_content": "Bill of Lading for George A. 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It displays the various times the land was subsequently subdivided ...\nAn abstract of title issued by the Canadian Farm Loan Board ranging from August 18, 1849 to January 28, 1955 for partitions of Lot 9, 1st Range North of Ancaster ...\nStatutory Declaration from Randall D Langs\nA statutory declaration dated the 5th of February 1957 for the title to parts of Lot 9 in the First Range north of Ancaster Road in the Township of Brantford belonging to Randall Duncan Langs. It confirms that he is the owner of lands conveyed to him by Annie R. ...\nA statutory declaration dated the 5th of February 1957 for the title to parts of Lot 9 in the First Range north of Ancaster Road in the Township of Brantford ...\nLetter from Theresa Simpson to Mr. Langs\nA letter from Theresa Simpson, formerly Howell, to \u201cMr. Lang\u201d on behalf of her father. In it, she lists all members of the family including her brother Ralph Howell, her sister Mary [Wigle?], and their spouses and children. 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It lists the names of grantors ...\nBurford Township Historical Society (130)\nSouth Dumfries Legal Affairs (30)\nHistorical Buildings of the County of Brant (10)\nSouth Dumfries Business Records (9)\nNewport Women's Institute (7)\nAdelaide Hunter Hoodless Collection (1)\nSouth Dumfries Local History Collection (1)\nDeed of Land (65)\nMortgage papers (11)\nReceipts (10)\nCapron, Hiram (5)\nWomen's institutes (WI) (5)\nTweedsmuir History (4)\nMinutes and proceedings (3)\nWill and Testament (3)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 12834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://independenceia.org/calendar.aspx?PREVIEW=YES&EID=2208", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3FQR3QQZBT5KBQI4BYKTUWCAYD7Z7NZ2", "length": 1018, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "independenceia.org", "title": "Independence, IA", "raw_content": "RE-STRUCTURED Kindergarten & 1st Grade Flag Football\nWe have re-structured the grades for flag football this year... K/1st, 2nd/3rd, & 4th/5th & 6th together. Register at the Falcon Civic Center by September 1st. Volunteer Coaches are NEEDED!!!\nAs of 2018, we have re-structured the grades in our youth flag football leagues. This league is open to boys and girls currently in Kindergarten or 1st grade (2018-19 school year). Games will be played on Thursday evenings (9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18) beginning at 6pm at the Independence Baseball/ Softball Complex. Volunteer Coaches are needed!! All Kindergarten & 1st grade players will be placed on teams and assigned to volunteer coaches. Our volunteer coaches will run their own practices with their team thru the season. Coaches are allowed on the field and will referee their own games. Fee: $25 per child includes a team shirt and 5 games + practices. Register at the Falcon Civic Center by September 1st and payment is due in full at the time of registration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indiatogether.org/articles/a-guardian-of-rivers-op-ed/print", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YMJD3X52L3SOOKUWYOL3I43JF2VQPM2Y", "length": 7248, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "indiatogether.org", "title": "A guardian of rivers - | Print View", "raw_content": "Now whenever I think of Dr Latha Anantha, who passed away on the morning of 16th November, I remember her as the singer (and probably author-composer too) of the song, \u2018Nila, Narmada, Chilika\u2019.\nI came to know her, Unnikrishnan and their colleagues at Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samiti as valiant environmental activists fighting against a hydroelectric power project. The impression that Latha\u2019s work left on all who heard her presentations was that of a brilliant researcher-activist who was also fighting against hyped hydrological data by those who planned and pushed Athirappilly hydroelectric project.\nRecollecting how she was drawn to environment and nature education, Latha told the Ashoka fellowship community in 2012 that at university she had interned with a well-known ecologist from the Western Ghats, Dr Sathish Chandran Nair and participated in many nature camps and discussions. In 1989, attending a nature camp at Silent Valley moved her to dedicate her life to nature related campaigns, study agriculture science, understand the relationship that farming communities and tribes have with nature and ultimately take up environmental activism.\nIn those days when agriculture colleges in Kerala were a male bastion, she decided to pursue Agriculture Science. Her doctoral thesis titled - Consequences of the Conversion of Marginal Homesteads to Rubber in Kottayam District, Kerala (1992-1996) - was on the theme of Agriculture Extension. She started her career as an Agriculture Officer with the government of Kerala. During her five-year tenure as an Agriculture Officer, Dr Latha took keen interest in promoting organic farming besides performing her assigned duties.\nDuring 1992-94, while doing her doctoral research, she got involved in a campaign to save the forest trees in the Thiruvizhamkunnu campus of the Kerala Agricultural University. She was part of a group of students who successfully stalled the plans of the college authorities to cut down more than 1000 prime forest trees in their campus, situated next to the famous Mannarkkad forests. She married Unnikrishnan, a fellow traveler and river lover in 1995.\nFrom 1998 onwards, Latha got involved in the struggle against the proposed Athirappilly hydroelectric project on the Chalakudy river. Recognizing the grave social and ecological impacts of the seventh dam on the small 144 kms long Chalakudy river, Unnikrishnan and Latha formed Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samiti. They studied the hydrological data and all the documents of the proponents of the dam to build a strong case against the project. Until 2009, their group was engaged in fighting three separate petitions before the Kerala High Court on the issue. She and her comrades gathered and analyzed technical and scientific data to counter three Environmental Impact Assessments prepared for the project. As a result of her efforts, the Kerala High Court suspended the approval for the project twice.\nIn June 2002, Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samiti had organised a meeting on the report of the World Commission on Dams at Thrissur. In July 2003, they organised a meeting on Interlinking of Rivers. In 2004. Latha along with S P Ravi, C G Madhusudan, S Unnikrishnan and K H Amita Bachan authored a book, Tragedy of Commons: The Kerala Experience in River Linking, jointly published by River Research Centre and South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People. (One can order the book here.)\nMy correspondence with Latha and Unnikrishnan was not a regular one, it was in fact quite erratic, but I can\u2019t remember even one occasion when they failed to reply. In October 2006, Latha wrote: \u201cSorry for the delay Himanshu. The article is very well written and shocking. In Kerala, the CAG had pointed out anomalies in four Hydro Power projects in which money was spent on the augmentation and extension of these projects based on exaggerated flow data. In other words, false flow data was used to gain the sanction and money was spent after which the expected increased power generation was not forthcoming. We had filed a petition with the KSERC, but nothing was forthcoming.\u201d\nIn 2007, many of us got together at Environment Support Group, Bangalore to discuss many ongoing struggles against large dams. I vividly remember her as an ardent supporter of new ideas and arguments during this meeting. She had started to engage with the concept of Environmental Flows and she was very supportive of the proposals to launch downstream impact studies for some highly controversial projects.\nIn October 2007, alarmed at the frequency of disasters around dam sites in the monsoon I wrote a couple of articles for India Together on the grave issue, More accidents at Dam Sites and Here a breach, there a breach. Latha provided critical inputs for both the articles. In her reply to my queries, she had written: \u201cActually, we need to do a thorough in depth study of the dam safety issues in Kerala. Data is lacking. And whatever available is in newspaper clippings.\u201d\nThe year 2008 witnessed the Chalakudy Satyagrah which started on Feb 25th, and on June 3rd (100th day of the Satyagrah) and 4th a national convention on Athirappilly issue was organised. Latha sent out reminders and requested us to join the struggle in solidarity. During the course of the litigation, Latha had a chance to meet the then environment minister, Jairam Ramesh and she appraised him of the dreadful impacts the dam would have on the Chalakudy River. As a result of the meeting, the minister issued a show cause notice to the project proponent, Kerala State Electricity Board on 4th January 2010. Since then the project has been put on hold.\nIn October 2010, at the third international meeting of dam affected people, Latha along with Susanne Wong organised a women\u2019s session. The presentations at this session appeared in a special issue of World Rivers Review (March 2011).\nIn June 2012, Latha along with Parineeta Dandekar of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People authored \u2018A Primer on Environmental Flows\u2019.\nShe coordinated Environmental Flows Thematic Group of the Forum for Policy Dialogues on Water Conflicts in India and authored a comprehensive critique of Assessment of Environmental Flows in India prepared by a three member committee for Union Ministry on Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.\nIn 2014, she was diagnosed with cancer. She underwent grueling treatment and had to stop work entirely for a while. But, she never gave up her smile and caring love to impart nature education to kids and said in an interview that, \u201cit was children in part, who brought her back\u201d. She said, \u201cAfter I went through this treatment last year, I didn\u2019t imagine I\u2019d again have the energy to fight this project for a fourth time\u201d. However, she bounced back to activism and research in no time.\nLatha was a great friend, always cheerful, smiling and caring individual. She listened and provided guidance and support. She is going to be missed and remembered as a river guardian who knew why rivers should flow.\nNote: Listen to Dr Latha Anantha speaking about the Rivers of Kerala here.\nHimanshu Upadhyaya is assistant professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.\nhttp://indiatogether.org/a-guardian-of-rivers-op-ed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 7685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://info.shine.com/article/invest-wisely-even-if-you-dont-need-regular-income-after-retirement/10391.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RVUTS4T3V62AHYRVEZKQZLINP37VOAET", "length": 2714, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "info.shine.com", "title": "Invest Wisely, Even If You Don't Need Regular Income After Retirement - Banking & Financial Services - Shine.com", "raw_content": "Invest wisely, even if you don't need regular income after retirement\nNew Delhi, Jan. 3 -- I am 55 years old and earn Rs10 lakh per annum. I stay in a tightly knit joint family and owning a house is not a goal. I don't have any children. My monthly household expenses are about Rs50,000. I have invested only in PPF over the years, which now has a value of about Rs30 lakh. I want to withdraw this when I am 60 but I don't know where to invest that money, as I do not have any immediate or future need for it. I am sure my extended family will take care of me. What should I do with the PPF money? -Amal Vangala Assuming you will work till 60 years means you still have 5 years of working life. With income considered as constant (Rs10 lakh per annum), you have a surplus of Rs4 lakh per annum over expenses (Rs6 lakh per annum). These savings over 5 years becomes a principal corpus of Rs20 lakh. This corpus, if invested in Public Provident Fund (PPF) and similar secured debt-at an interest rate of 8%-will turn into Rs24.65 lakh at the end of 5 years. And the current value of Rs30 lakh in PPF-assuming it earns an average of 8% per annum-will become about Rs44.08 lakh. So when you turn 60, the total net worth of your investments should be Rs68.73 lakh. This is assuming you invest your corpus in PPF and debt securities. It is good that your family will take care of you in your old age. But it is equally important that you take good care of your money. Once you retire, you need to invest the money wisely to ensure it earns you a regular income. If regular income is not needed, the interest can be reinvested to give the portfolio the benefit of compounding. It is important to grow the money as it ensures protection against inflation and gives you comfort and security, in case you or your family needs the money. You should invest for two reasons: high degree of safety and liquidity. So, continue to look at debt securities where you can consider a combination of debt mutual funds, which means short-term and dynamic-bond funds. At the same time, if you understand risk and have the risk appetite, do consider taking some degree of risk and investing in hybrid equity funds, which invest both in equity and debt securities. It is also prudent that you do your estate planning- the process of planning your succession and financial affairs-to ensure your assets are rightfully received by the beneficiaries. This process can be initiated by preparing a Will and ensuring adequate nominations for all investments. Surya Bhatia is managing partner, Asset Managers. Queries and views at mintmoney@livemint.com.\nNext Article Axis Bank's woes continue as another branch is raidedMonday, February 20, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infocentre.oldisgoldstore.com/nri-and-their-ageing-parents-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YHEZHV3RFIENFBJOZ7GLIALHURLBJAAC", "length": 3937, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "infocentre.oldisgoldstore.com", "title": "Top 5 constraints voiced by NRIs with ageing parents after a health setback - Information Centre", "raw_content": "There are many constraints commonly voiced by NRIs when they are discussing ways to take care of their ageing parents back in India, especially after some medical event has made their parents less independent than before. Many of these constraints do not take into consideration ground realities and what is best for their parents. This article lists some of these contraints raised in order to highlight the fact that it is important for the NRIs to understand that the situation has changed and they and their parents need to adapt to the new circumstances.\n1. My parents don\u2019t want to leave the house/area they are currently living in.\nThis is one of the commonest requests. \u201cMy parents have always been independent and capable of looking after themselves. However, since my father had his operation/ has become bedridden, things have become very difficult for them to manage on their own. However, they don\u2019t want to move out of their house\u201c.\nIf one or both of your ageing parents are living in an independent house or even an apartment and are no longer capable of managing their daily living activities, and there is no one else to help them, then you should have all options on the table, including the possibility of moving into a care centre (if available).\n2. We don\u2019t want a full-time live-in person as it will impact their privacy. Is it not enough for someone to come only for the morning/night?\nHaving someone around 24 x 7 is absolutely essential if your parents\u2019 capacity to look after themselves is diminished. If you have someone during the day and no one at night, what happens if your mother needs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night? Or has breathing difficulties? Or requires water to drink? Or has some other medical emergency?\nIf you have someone at night but not during the day, who will help them bathe, eat, and perform other daily living activities.\n3. We don\u2019t mind having 2 shifts one coming in the morning and one coming in at night, but they should bring their own food and not use our bathrooms.\nIf you have two people working round the clock, then you are talking about two 12-hour shifts. So let us say, one comes in and stays from 8 AM to 8 PM, and the other comes in at 8 PM to 8 AM next morning. It is going to be extremely difficult for them not to have at least one meal and some coffee/tea during their 12-hour period. Or use the rest room for that matter. Would you work under such conditions? And even if somebody is willing to, do you think they will be able to give the kind of care you expect for your parents?\n4. Not understanding recovery periods.\n\u201cMy mother broke her hip and has had her operation. I am here to look after her. I am sure she will be back on her feet in a month and I can go back. Nothing needs to change\u201c.\nAs people get older, recovery takes longer. And even after they recover, they are unlikely to get back to their old independent self. At least not in the majority of the cases. Face the facts. Things have changed. You have to deal with it.\n5. My parents only eat what they have cooked.\nWell, if they are no longer able to cook, then they have no other option but to hire a cook or order food from outside. Can you think of any other option?\nWell, we aren\u2019t here to dismiss your constraints and worries. You are far away from your parents and neither party can move in with the other. These are ground realities. Everyone knows you as an NRI would find it extremely difficult if not impossible to uproot yourself from home, family and career to come back to India to look after your parents. Just don\u2019t let that guilt stop you from making other hard decisions. Put your foot down where you need to, and make the changes that you have to. If it costs you more, well, just figure out a way of taking care of it. The well-being of your ageing parents is still your responsibility.\nCategories Family caregiversTags ageing parents, India, NRI\tPost navigation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 9278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://intercambios.org.ar/en/espanol-julia-patino/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NEIEBOBIRBGMU4IGLQGKZNTBEXPAKVBT", "length": 310, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "intercambios.org.ar", "title": "Espa\u00f1ol", "raw_content": "Advanced student of the BA in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires and Language and Literature teacher.\nWorked as volunteer in the international organization AIESEC and in the Administration and Human Resources Departmen of CIPPEC (Center of Implementation of Public Politics for Equity and Growth).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interfaith.directory/organizations?udt_489_param_detail=3227", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3ZJDND4MF7CIA43F4HJGVL52GKC7UOX", "length": 2689, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "interfaith.directory", "title": "directory of interfaith organizations", "raw_content": "Organization Charter for Compassion\nHistory The Charter for Compassion, the result of Karen Armstrongs 2008 TED Prize wish, is funded by the Fetzer Institute of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Charter itself was, in the words of the website, unveiled to the world on November 12, 2009. The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives 100,000 dollars and is given the opportunity to make One Wish to Change the World.\nWebsite http://www.charterforcompassion.org\nValues Social action\nVision The organisations goal is to use this brief, four-paragraph Charter as a means of bringing awareness to a critical mass of humanity that in our globalised world.\nMission CfC is a cooperative effort to restore compassionate thinking and action to the center of religious, moral and political life. CfC defines compassion as the principled determination to put ourselves into the shoes of the other and lies at the heart of all religious and ethical systems. The organisations tagline is the best idea humanity has ever had.\nGoals Signing the Charter is meant not only as the individuals lifelong commitment to live with compassion but as a collective summons to creative, practical and sustained action to meet the political, moral, religious, social and cultural problems of our time.\nApproach CfC approach is mainly consciousness-raising. As of June 30, 2011, some 73,227 persons had signed the Charter. Using the power of the internet, including their dedicated website and such electronic social networks as Facebook and Twitter as well as the programs and activities noted below, CFC intends to increase that number geometrically until living with compassion becomes a household concept worldwide. Currently the website is available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew.\nStructure Supported by major donors and collaborative partners, for example the Council of Conscience, a multi-faith, multi-national group of religious thinkers and leaders, reviewed and sorted through all the world's contributions to craft the final Charter.\nActivity The Charter is the single most important feature and the basis of other programs and events, for instance, discussion groups. The actual programs are organized into three categories of Learn, Share, and Act. To do so, one makes one or more commitments for being compassionate in the world and supplies contact information, a photo, and background information. One is also invited to share relevant stories and participate in CfC-related events.\nWords ethics, compassion\nAcronym CfC\nContact 55 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013, USA. Tel. +1-212-346-9333\nEmail community@charterforcompassion.org\nTwitter https://twitter.com/TheCharter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investorschatroom.com/2017/07/beyonc-s-photo-of-her-twins-sent-the-beyhive-into-a-frenzy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3VM3TVGYYXDE4LRCEVPHTPCSNF2CC4A6", "length": 3635, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "investorschatroom.com", "title": "Beyonc\u00e9's Photo of Her Twins Sent the Beyhive Into a Frenzy", "raw_content": "Before confirming the names of her twins, Beyonc\u00e9 reportedly trademarked the names \"Rumi Carter\" and \"Sir Carter\", and they're only one month old.\nShe graced the Bey Hive by posting the very first image of the twins on the social media account.\nNews of the twins came less than a year after the release of the R&B singer's 2016 album \"Lemonade\", in which she appeared to address long-standing rumors of trouble in her eight-year marriage. However, fans on Twitter just have one question about the name of these babies after reading Beyonc\u00e9's caption on Instagram.\nSir Carter is a version of Jay Z's real name, Shawn Carter, while the name Rumi was perhaps most famously held by 13th-century Persian-Muslim poet, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.\nFresh Kid Ice, 2 Live Crew Co-Founder, Dies at 53\nWhile Wong Won continued to record with 2 Live Crew , he released his debut solo album, The Chinaman , in 1992. That comes as other 1980s Hip-Hop acts such as N.W.A. and Roxanne Shant\u00e9 have become theatrical film subjects.\nSpeculation emerged about the twin babies having the names Sir and Rumi when trademarks were filed for the names by a company Beyonce and Jay-Z own, according to TMZ. News reported earlier Thursday that the proud parents to Rumi and Sir Carter were spotted grabbing a bite to eat at Malibu hot spot Nobu.\n\"We would like to share our love and happiness\", they wrote alongside the picture. \"We have been blessed two times over\".\nIn a now-infamous post, the former Destiny's Child star shared a snap of herself cradling her growing baby bump on Instagram.\nThe twins were born on June 14. She signed off the message with \"The Carters\". And let me tell you, it was well worth the wait. The photo quickly racked up more than one million views within half an hour. But Beyonce made clear in the final tracks of the album and in music videos featuring Jay-Z that she had chose to stay in the relationship.\nNational French Fry Day: Best deals and most delicious fries to try\nInitially, 911 dispatchers received a call about a boat that was falling into the hole, but then the situation quickly escalated. At around 9:30 a.m. on Friday, the sinkhole was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter and is very deep.\nWe say that because he is seen doing outlandish things, without even realising that he is actually doing it. According to a source in the know of developments, the script was written specifically with Saif in mind.\nKentavious Caldwell-Pope reaches deal with Lakers\nHe was considered the best remaining unrestricted free agent on the market after the Pistons renounced his contract last week. Even still, the expectations for what role Rondo would play with the Lakers is an interesting topic.\n'Wonder Woman 2': Everything we know about the sequel\nWhatever the case, we're not about to complain about the reunion of one of the most romantic couples in superhero movie history. However, Deadpool still leads in the global box office with a $783 million total compared to Wonder Woman's $746 million.\nSoon after, he called back and conveyed his acceptance of the opposition leaders's decision and thanked them. The parties also briefly discussed the floor strategy for the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.\nAt the summit, the Trump praised his daughter, saying being the president's daughter puts her in a hard position. The former first daughter was quick with a response. \"I am so proud of my daughter Ivanka \", he wrote.\nTrump Budget Would Cut Deficit But Wouldn't Balance, CBO Says\nDiscover the latest music with New Release Radio on Google Play Music\nMedia pick Sooners in Preseason Big 12 Football Poll; OSU second", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ipanelonline.com/knowledge_center_detail.php?nid=361", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OLKNHTOIZSPJLBNKFFAQ323MVRSR5VXY", "length": 3787, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "ipanelonline.com", "title": "iPanel Online Market Research", "raw_content": "\"It wasn't the first time my key card failed, I assumed it was time to replace it.\"\nSo began a sequence of events that saw Ibrahim Diallo fired from his job, not by his manager but by a machine.\nHe has detailed his story in a blogpost which he hopes will serve as a warning to firms about relying too much on automation.\n\"Automation can be an asset to a company, but there needs to be a way for humans to take over if the machine makes a mistake,\" he writes.\nThe story of Mr Diallo's sacking by machine began when his entry pass to the Los Angeles skyscraper where his office was based failed to work, forcing him to rely on the security guard to allow him entry.\n\"As soon as I got to my floor, I went to see my manager to let her know. She promised to order me a new one right away.\"\nThen he noticed that he was logged out of his work system and a colleague told Mr Diallo that the word \"Inactive\" was listed alongside his name.\nHis day got worse. After lunch - and a 10-minute wait for a co-worker to let him back into his office - he was told by his recruiter that she had received an email saying his contract was terminated. She promised to sort out the problem.\nThe next day he had been locked out of every single system \"except my Linux machine\" and then, after lunch, two people appeared at his desk. Mr Diallo was told that an email had been received telling them to escort him from the building.\nHis boss was confused but helpless as Mr Diallo recalls: \"I was fired. There was nothing my manager could do about it. There was nothing the director could do about it. They stood powerless as I packed my stuff and left the building.\"\nAt the time, he was eight weeks into a three-year contract and over the next three weeks he was copied into emails about his case.\n\"I watched it be escalated to bigger and more powerful titles over and over, yet no-one could do anything about it. From time-to-time, they would attach a system email.\n\"It was soulless and written in red as it gave orders that dictated my fate. Disable this, disable that, revoke access here, revoke access there, escort out of premises, etc.\n\"The system was out for blood and I was its very first victim.\"\nUK PM seeks 'safe and ethical' artificial intelligence\nIt took Mr Diallo's bosses three weeks to find out why he had been sacked. His firm was going through changes, both in terms of the systems it used and the people it employed.\nHis original manager had been recently laid off and sent to work from home for the rest of his time at the firm and in that period he had not renewed Mr Diallo's contract in the new system.\nAfter that, machines took over - flagging him as an ex-employee.\n\"All the necessary orders are sent automatically and each order completion triggers another order. For example, when the order for disabling my key card is sent, there is no way of it to be re-enabled.\n\"Once it is disabled, an email is sent to security about recently dismissed employees. Scanning the key card is a red flag. The order to disable my Windows account is also sent. There is also one for my Jira account. And on and on.\"\nAlthough Mr Diallo was allowed back to work, he had missed out on three weeks' worth of pay and been escorted from the building \"like a thief\". He had to explain his disappearance to others and found his co-workers became distant.\nHe decided to move to another job.\nHis story should serve as a cautionary tale about the human-machine relationship, thinks AI expert Dave Coplin.\n\"It's another example of a failure of human thinking where they allow it to be humans versus machines rather than humans plus machines,\" he said.\n\"One of the fundamental skills for all humans in an AI world is accountability - just because the algorithm says it's the answer, it doesn't mean it actually is.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ir.amicusrx.com/node/17591/html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:E5UKLVSQFY5LFIC2I7DVLODGVY33BJ3H", "length": 98570, "nlines": 285, "source_domain": "ir.amicusrx.com", "title": "SEC Filing | Amicus Therapeutics", "raw_content": "Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days: Yes \u00fd No o\nIndicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definition of \u201clarge accelerated filer,\u201d \u201caccelerated filer,\u201d \u201csmaller reporting company,\u201d and \u201cemerging growth company\u201d in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.\nIf an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.o\nThe number of shares outstanding of the registrant\u2019s common stock, $0.01 par value per share, as of July 31, 2018 was 189,134,863 shares.\nForm 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2018\nConsolidated Financial Statements and Notes (unaudited)\nConsolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2017\nWe have filed applications to register certain trademarks in the United States and abroad, including AMICUS THERAPEUTICS AND DESIGN, AMICUS ASSIST AND DESIGN, CHART AND DESIGN, AT THE FOREFRONT OF THERAPIES FOR RARE AND ORPHAN DISEASES, HEALING BEYOND DISEASE, OUR GOOD STUFF and GALAFOLD and design.\nThis Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are all statements, other than statements of historical facts, that discuss our current expectation and projections relating to our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words \u201caim,\u201d \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201ccan,\u201d \u201ccould,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cforecast,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201clikely,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d \u201coutlook,\u201d \u201cplan,\u201d \u201cpotential,\u201d \u201cpredict,\u201d \u201cproject,\u201d \u201cseek,\u201d \u201cshould,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d \u201cwould,\u201d the negatives thereof and other words and terms of similar meaning, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.\nWe have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. Although we believe that our assumptions made in connection with the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that the assumptions and expectations will prove to be correct. You should understand that the following important factors could affect our future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements:\nthe progress and results of our clinical trials of our drug candidates;\nthe cost of manufacturing drug supply for our clinical and preclinical studies, including the cost of manufacturing Pompe Enzyme Replacement Therapy (\u201cERT\u201d);\nthe scope, progress, results and costs of preclinical development, laboratory testing and clinical trials for our product candidates including those testing the use of pharmacological chaperones co-formulated and co-administered with ERT and for the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders;\nthe future results of on-going preclinical research and subsequent clinical trials for cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (\u201cCDKL5\u201d), including our ability to obtain regulatory approvals and commercialize CDKL5 and obtain market acceptance for CDKL5;\nthe number and development requirements of other product candidates that we pursue;\nthe costs of commercialization activities, including product marketing, sales and distribution;\nthe emergence of competing technologies and other adverse market developments;\nour ability to obtain reimbursement for migalastat HCl;\nour ability to obtain market acceptance of migalastat HCl;\nthe costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining, enforcing and defending intellectual property-related claims;\nthe extent to which we acquire or invest in businesses, products and technologies;\nour ability to successfully integrate our acquired products and technologies into our business, including the possibility that the expected benefits of the transactions will not be fully realized by us or may take longer to realize than expected;\nour ability to establish collaborations and obtain milestone, royalty or other payments from any such collaborators;\nfluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; and\nchanges in accounting standards.\nIn light of these risks and uncertainties, we may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in Part I Item 1A \u2014 Risk Factors of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, that we believe could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make. Those factors and the other risk factors described therein are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results or developments to differ materially from those expressed in any of our forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could harm our results. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures, collaborations or investments we may make. Consequently, there can be no assurance that actual results or developments anticipated by us will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, us. Given these uncertainties, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.\nYou should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We undertake no obligation, and specifically decline any obligation, to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, even if experience or future developments make it clear that projected results expressed or implied in such statements will not be realized, except as may be required by law.\nItem 1. Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes (unaudited)\nProperty and equipment, less accumulated depreciation of $14,415 and $12,515 at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively\nIn-process research & development\nAccounts payable, accrued expenses, and other current liabilities\nDeferred reimbursements\nContingent consideration payable\nOther non-current liability\nCommon stock, $0.01 par value, 500,000,000 and 250,000,000 shares authorized, 189,053,214 and 166,989,790 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively\nChanges in fair value of contingent consideration payable\nNet loss attributable to common stockholders per common share \u2014 basic and diluted\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding \u2014 basic and diluted\nOther comprehensive (loss) gain:\nForeign currency translation adjustment gain (loss), net of tax impact of $(109), $0, $(109), $0, respectively\nAmortization of debt discount and deferred financing\nGain on disposal of asset\nNon-cash changes in the fair value of contingent consideration payable\nForeign currency remeasurement (gain)/ loss\nNon-cash deferred taxes\nAccount payable and accrued expenses\nDeferred reimbursement\nSale and redemption of marketable securities\nPayment of capital leases\nPurchase of vested restricted stock units\nPayment of deferred financing fees\nProceeds of exercise of warrants\nCapital expenditures, unpaid\nCapital expenditures funded by capital lease\nAmicus Therapeutics, Inc. (the \u201cCompany\u201d) is a global patient-centric biotechnology company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of a diverse set of novel treatments for patients living with rare metabolic diseases. The cornerstone of the Company\u2019s portfolio is migalastat HCl (also referred to as \u201cmigalastat\u201d), an oral precision medicine for people living with Fabry disease who have amenable genetic mutations. Migalastat is currently approved under the trade name GALAFOLD in the European Union (\u201cEU\u201d) and Japan, with additional approvals granted and applications pending in several geographies. During the second quarter of 2018, the Company initiated the commercial launch of GALAFOLD in Japan for the treatment of patients, aged 16 and older, with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease and an amenable mutation. GALAFOLD is the first and only oral precision medicine approved for the treatment of Fabry disease in Japan.\nThe lead biologics program of the Company\u2019s pipeline is Amicus Therapeutics GAA (AT-GAA, also known as ATB200/AT2221), a novel, clinical-stage, potential best-in-class treatment paradigm for Pompe disease. The Company\u2019s Chaperone-Advanced Replacement Therapy (\u201cCHART\u00ae\u201d) platform technology is leveraged to develop novel Enzyme Replacement Therapy (\u201cERT\u201d) products for Pompe disease, Fabry disease, and potentially future other lysosomal storage disorders (\u201cLSDs\u201d). The Company is also investigating preclinical and discovery programs in other rare diseases including cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (\u201cCDKL5\u201d) deficiency. The Company believes that its platform technologies and its product pipeline uniquely positions it and drives its commitment to advancing and expanding a robust pipeline of cutting-edge, first- or best-in-class medicines for rare metabolic diseases.\nDuring the first quarter of 2018, the Company issued 20,239,839 shares of its common stock through an underwritten offering resulting in net proceeds of $294.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company expects to use the net proceeds of the offering for investment in the United States (\u201cU.S.\u201d) and international commercial infrastructure for migalastat HCl, investment in manufacturing capabilities for the ERT ATB200, the continued clinical development of its product candidates, research and development expenditures, clinical and pre-clinical trial expenditures, commercialization expenditures and for other general corporate purposes. For additional information, see \u201c\u2014Note 6. Stockholders\u2019 Equity.\u201d\nThe Company had an accumulated deficit of approximately $1.2 billion as of June 30, 2018 and anticipates incurring losses through the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 and beyond. The Company has been able to fund its operating losses to date through stock offerings, debt issuances, payments from partners during the terms of the collaboration agreements, and other financing arrangements.\nThe current cash position, including proceeds from the equity offering in the first quarter of 2018 and expected GALAFOLD revenues, is sufficient to fund ongoing Fabry and Pompe program operations into at least 2021. Potential future business development collaborations, pipeline expansion, and investment in biologics manufacturing capabilities could impact the Company\u2019s future capital requirements.\nThe Company has prepared the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (\u201cU.S. GAAP\u201d) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and disclosures required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Company\u2019s interim financial information.\nThe accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements and related notes should be read in conjunction with the Company\u2019s financial statements and related notes as contained in the Company\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. For a complete description of the Company\u2019s accounting policies, please refer to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.\nThe consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.\nThe functional currency for most of the Company\u2019s foreign subsidiaries is their local currency. For non-U.S. subsidiaries that transact in a functional currency other than the U.S. dollar, assets and liabilities are translated at current rates of exchange at the balance sheet date. Income and expense items are translated at the average foreign exchange rates for the period. Adjustments resulting from the translation of the financial statements of the Company\u2019s foreign operations into U.S. dollars are excluded from the determination of net income and are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income, a separate component of stockholders\u2019 equity.\nThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.\nCash, Cash Equivalents, Restricted Cash and Marketable Securities\nThe Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with a maturity of three months or less at the date of acquisition, to be cash equivalents. Marketable securities consist of fixed income investments with a maturity of greater than three months and other highly liquid investments that can be readily purchased or sold using established markets. These investments are classified as available-for-sale and are reported at fair value on the Company\u2019s consolidated balance sheet. Unrealized holding gains and losses are reported within comprehensive income (loss) in the statements of comprehensive loss. Fair value is based on available market information including quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations or other observable inputs.\nRestricted cash consists primarily of funds held to satisfy the requirements of certain agreements that are restricted in their use and is included in non-current assets on the Company\u2019s consolidated balance sheet.\nThe Company\u2019s financial instruments that are exposed to concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities. The Company maintains its cash and cash equivalents in bank accounts, which, at times, exceed federally insured limits. The Company invests its marketable securities in high-quality commercial financial instruments. The Company has not recognized any losses from credit risks on such accounts during any of the periods presented. The Company believes it is not exposed to significant credit risk on cash and cash equivalents or its marketable securities.\nThe Company is subject to credit risk from its accounts receivable related to its product sales of GALAFOLD. The Company\u2019s accounts receivable at June 30, 2018 have arisen from product sales primarily in the EU. The Company will periodically assess the financial strength of its customers to establish allowances for anticipated losses, if any. For accounts receivable that have arisen from named patient sales, the payment terms are predetermined and the Company evaluates the creditworthiness of each customer on a regular basis. To date, the Company has not incurred any credit losses.\nThe Company\u2019s net product sales consist of sales of GALAFOLD for the treatment of Fabry disease primarily in the EU. The Company has recorded revenue on sales where GALAFOLD is available either on a commercial basis or through a reimbursed early access program (\u201cEAP\u201d). Orders for GALAFOLD are generally received from pharmacies and the ultimate payor is typically a government authority.\nThe Company recognizes revenue when its performance obligations to its customers have been satisfied, which occurs at a point in time when the pharmacies or distributors obtain control of GALAFOLD. The transaction price is determined based on fixed consideration in the Company\u2019s customer contracts and is recorded net of estimates for variable consideration, which are third party discounts and rebates. The identified variable consideration is recorded as a reduction of revenue at the time revenues from sales of GALAFOLD are recognized. The Company recognizes revenue to the extent that it is probable that a significant revenue reversal will not occur in a future period. These estimates may differ from actual consideration received. The Company evaluates these estimates each reporting period to reflect known changes.\nThe Company elected the portfolio approach practical expedient in applying ASC Topic 606 to its identified revenue streams. Contracts within each revenue stream have similar characteristics and the Company believes this approach would not differ materially from applying ASC Topic 606 to each individual contract.\nRecent Accounting Developments - Guidance Adopted in 2018\nASU 2018-07 \u2014 In June 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the \u201cFASB\u201d) issued Accounting Standards Update (\u201cASU\u201d) 2018-07,Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting (\"ASU 2018-07\").These amendments expand the scope of Topic 718, Compensation\u2014Stock Compensation (which currently only includes share-based payments to employees) to include share-based payments issued to nonemployees for goods or services. Consequently, the accounting for share-based payments to nonemployees and employees will be substantially aligned. ASU 2018-07 supersedes Subtopic 505-50, Equity\u2014Equity-Based Payments to Non-Employees, and is effective for all public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted, but no earlier than a company\u2019s adoption date of Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The Company early adopted ASU 2018-07 in the second quarter of 2018 and there was no material impact on its consolidated financial statements from the adoption.\nASU 2018-02 \u2014 In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-02, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (\u201cASU No. 2018-02\u201d). Prior to ASU No. 2018-02, U.S. GAAP required the remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities as a result of a change in tax laws or rates to be presented in net income from continuing operations, even in situations in which the related income tax effects of items in accumulated other comprehensive income were originally recognized in other comprehensive income. As a result, such items, referred to as stranded tax effects, did not reflect the appropriate tax rate. Under ASU No. 2018-02, entities are permitted, but not required, to reclassify from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings those stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. ASU No. 2018-02 is effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted the new standard effective January 1, 2018. As a result of the adoption, the Company reclassified a gain of $383,000 from the foreign currency translation adjustment in accumulated other comprehensive loss to accumulated deficit in the consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2018.\nASU 2017-09 \u2014 In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Compensation\u2014Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting (\u201cASU 2017-09\u201d). The amendments in ASU 2017-09 provide guidance on determining which changes to the terms and conditions of share-based payment awards require an entity to apply modification accounting under ASU 2017-09. An entity should account for the effects of a modification unless all the following are met: (1) The fair value (or calculated value or intrinsic value, if such an alternative measurement method is used) of the modified award is the same as the fair value (or calculated value or intrinsic value, if such an alternative measurement method is used) of the original award immediately before the original award is modified. If the modification does not affect any of the inputs to the valuation technique that the entity uses to value the award, the entity is not required to estimate the value immediately before and after the modification; (2) The vesting conditions of the modified award are the same as the vesting conditions of the original award immediately before the original award is modified; and (3) The classification of the modified award as an equity instrument or a liability instrument is the same as the classification of the original award immediately before the original award is modified. ASU 2017-09 is effective for all entities for annual periods, including interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2018 and as the Company did not have any modification of awards, the adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2017-01 \u2014 In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business (\u201cASU 2017-01\u201d). This ASU clarifies the definition of a business. The amendments affect all companies and other reporting organizations that must determine whether they have acquired or sold a business. The amendments in ASU 2017-01 are effective for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those periods. The amendments should be applied prospectively as of the beginning of the period of adoption. The Company adopted ASU 2017-01 on January 1, 2018 and as the Company did not have any acquisitions or dispositions in 2018, the adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2016-18 \u2014 In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash (\u201cASU 2016-18\u201d). The amendments of ASU 2016-18 require an entity to include amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning of period and end of period total amounts on the statement of cash flows. The amendments of ASU 2016-18 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Company adopted the guidance in ASU 2016-18 effective January 1, 2018. In connection with the adoption of the standard, the Company applied the guidance retrospectively which resulted in an increase in cash flows from operations of $6,000 on the statement of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2017.\nASU 2016-16 \u2014 In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory (\u201cASU 2016-16\u201d). ASU 2016-16 requires an entity to recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory when the transfer occurs. The amendments eliminate the exception for an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory. The amendments in ASU 2016-16 are effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. The Company adopted ASU 2016-16 on January 1, 2018 and there was no material impact from the adoption.\nASU 2016-01 \u2014 In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, Financial Instruments-Overall: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (\u201cASU 2016-01\u201d). ASU 2016-01 changes accounting for equity investments, financial liabilities under the fair value option, and presentation and disclosure requirements for financial instruments. ASU 2016-01 does not apply to equity investments in consolidated subsidiaries or those accounted for under the equity method of accounting. In addition, the FASB clarified guidance related to the valuation allowance assessment when recognizing deferred tax assets resulting from unrealized losses on available-for-sale debt securities. Equity investments with readily determinable fair values will be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. Companies have the option to measure equity investments without readily determinable fair values at either fair value or at cost adjusted for changes in observable prices minus impairment. Companies that elect the fair value option for financial liabilities must recognize changes in fair value related to instrument-specific credit risk in other comprehensive income. Companies must assess valuation allowances for deferred tax assets related to available-for-sale debt securities in combination with their other deferred tax assets. ASU 2016-01 is effective beginning in the first quarter of 2018 and the Company adopted it in the first quarter of 2018. There was no impact on the Company\u2019s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures upon adoption, as the Company does not have equity investments or liabilities with credit risk. In addition, the guidance relating to deferred tax assets did not result in a change in accounting treatment for the Company.\nASU 2014-09 \u2014 In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) which along with amendments issued in 2015 and 2016, replaced substantially all current U.S. GAAP guidance on this topic and eliminated industry-specific guidance. The new revenue recognition standard requires entities to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted the new revenue recognition standard using the modified retrospective approach and applied this approach only to contracts that were not completed as of January 1, 2018. The timing of revenue recognition and treatment of contract costs remains unchanged under the new revenue recognition standard. As such, the adoption of the new revenue recognition standard did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements. The information presented for the periods prior to January 1, 2018 has not been restated and is reported under the accounting standard in effect for those periods.\nRecent Accounting Developments - Guidance Not Yet Adopted\nASU 2017-12 \u2014 In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-12, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities (\u201cASU 2017-12\u201d). The amendments in this ASU 2017-12 better align an entity\u2019s risk management activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships and the presentation of hedge results. To meet that objective, the amendments expand and refine hedge accounting for both nonfinancial and financial risk components and align the recognition and presentation of the effects of the hedging instrument and the hedged item in the financial statements. The amendments in ASU 2017-12 also make certain targeted improvements to simplify the application of hedge accounting guidance and ease the administrative burden of hedge documentation requirements and assessing hedge effectiveness. For public business entities, the amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption, including adoption in an interim period, is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2017-11 \u2014 In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260); Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480); Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): (Part I) Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features, (Part II) Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests with a Scope Exception (\u201cASU 2017-11\u201d). Part I of ASU 2017-11 addresses the complexity of accounting for certain financial instruments with down round features. Down round features are features of certain equity-linked instruments (or embedded features) that result in the strike price being reduced on the basis of the pricing of future equity offerings. When determining whether certain financial instruments should be classified as liabilities or equity instruments, a down round feature no longer precludes equity classification when assessing whether the instrument is indexed to an entity\u2019s own stock. Part II of ASU 2017-11 addresses the difficulty of navigating Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, because of the existence of extensive pending content in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification\u00ae. For public business entities, the amendments in Part I of ASU 2017-11 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted for all entities, including adoption in an interim period. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2017-08 \u2014 In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-08, Receivables\u2014Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic 310-20), Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities (\u201cASU 2017-08\u201d). The amendments in ASU 2017-08 shorten the amortization period for certain callable debt securities held at a premium. Specifically, the amendments require the premium to be amortized to the earliest call date. The amendments do not require an accounting change for securities held at a discount; the discount continues to be amortized to maturity. ASU 2017-08 is effective for public business entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period. If an entity early adopts in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. The amendments should be applied on a modified retrospective basis, with a cumulative-effect adjustment directly to retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2017-04 \u2014 In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment (\u201cASU 2017-04\u201d). To simplify the subsequent measurement of goodwill, ASU 2017-04 eliminates Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. The annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test is performed by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An impairment charge should be recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit\u2019s fair value; however, the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. In addition, income tax effects from any tax deductible goodwill on the carrying amount of the reporting unit should be considered when measuring the goodwill impairment loss, if applicable. ASU 2017-04 also eliminates the requirements for any reporting unit with a zero or negative carrying amount to perform a qualitative assessment and, if it fails that qualitative test, to perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test. An entity still has the option to perform the qualitative assessment for a reporting unit to determine if the quantitative impairment test is necessary. ASU 2017-04 should be applied on a prospective basis. The nature of and reason for the change in accounting principle should be disclosed upon transition. A public business entity that is a U.S. SEC filer should adopt ASU 2017-04 for its annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.\nASU 2016-02 \u2014 In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (\u201cASU 2016-02\u201d). ASU 2016-02 requires the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for all lease obligations and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 requires the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous generally accepted accounting principles. ASU 2016-02 will be effective for the Company for all annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application is permitted for all public business entities and all nonpublic business entities upon issuance. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.\nNote 3. Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities and Restricted Cash\nAs of June 30, 2018, the Company held $73.3 million in cash and cash equivalents and $479.5 million of available-for-sale debt securities which are reported at fair value on the Company\u2019s consolidated balance sheets. Unrealized holding gains and losses are reported within accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in the statements of comprehensive loss. If a decline in the fair value of a marketable security below the Company\u2019s cost basis is determined to be other than temporary, such marketable security is written down to its estimated fair value as a new cost basis and the amount of the write-down is included in earnings as an impairment charge.\nThe Company regularly invests excess operating cash in deposits with major financial institutions, money market funds, notes issued by the U.S. government, as well as fixed income investments and U.S. bond funds, both of which can be readily purchased and sold using established markets. The Company believes that the market risk arising from its holdings of these financial instruments is mitigated as many of these securities are either government backed or of the highest credit rating. Investments that have original maturities greater than three months but less than one year are classified as current, while investments that have maturities greater than one year are classified as long-term.\nCash, cash equivalents and marketable securities are classified as current unless mentioned otherwise below and consisted of the following:\nCorporate debt securities, current portion\nCorporate debt securities, non-current portion\nIncluded in cash and cash equivalents\nIncluded in marketable securities, current and non-current\nIncluded in marketable securities\nFor the six months ended June 30, 2018 and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, there were no realized gains or losses. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method.\nUnrealized loss positions in the available-for-sale debt securities as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 reflect temporary impairments that have been in a loss position for less than twelve months and as such are recognized in other comprehensive gain (loss). The fair value of these available-for-sale debt securities in unrealized loss positions was $406.5 million and $295.1 million as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.\nThe following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash reported within the consolidated balance sheet that sum to the total of the same such amounts shown in the statement of cash flows.\nCash and cash equivalents and restricted cash shown in the statement of cash flows\nInventories consist of work in process and finished goods related to the manufacture of GALAFOLD. The following table summarizes the components of inventories:\nConvertible Notes due 2023\nIn December 2016, the Company issued at par value $250 million aggregate principal amount of unsecured Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the \u201cConvertible Notes\u201d), which included the exercise in full of the $25 million over-allotment option granted to the initial purchasers of the Convertible Notes in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act (the \u201cNote Offering\u201d). Interest is payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on June 15, 2017. The Convertible Notes will mature on December 15, 2023, unless earlier repurchased, redeemed, or converted in accordance with their terms. The Convertible Notes are convertible at the option of the holders, under certain circumstances and during certain periods, into cash, shares of the Company\u2019s common stock or a combination thereof. The net proceeds from the Note Offering were $243.0 million, after deducting fees and estimated expenses payable by the Company. In addition, the Company used approximately $13.5 million of the net proceeds from the issuance of the Convertible Notes to pay the cost of the capped call transactions (\u201cCapped Call Confirmations\u201d) that the Company entered into in connection with the issuance of the Convertible Notes. In accounting for the issuance of the Convertible Notes, the Company separated the Convertible Notes into liability and equity components based on their relative values. The Convertible Notes are initially convertible into approximately 40,849,675 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock under certain circumstances prior to maturity at a conversion rate of 163.3987 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which represents a conversion price of approximately $6.12 per share of the Company's common stock, subject to adjustment under certain conditions. The last reported sale price of the Company\u2019s common stock was equal to or more than 130% of the conversion price of the Convertible Notes for at least 20 trading days of the 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last day of the second quarter. As a result, the Convertible Notes are currently convertible into the Company\u2019s common stock.\nAs further described in \u201c\u2014Note 6. Stockholders\u2019 Equity,\u201d on February 15, 2018, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement relating to an underwritten public offering of 19,354,839 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock. Under the terms of the underwriting agreement, the Company granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days after February 16, 2018, to purchase up to an additional 2,903,225 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock, which was exercised with respect to 885,000 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock.\nSubsequent to the underwritten public offering on February 15, 2018, the Company did not have sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. As a result, the Company accounted for the portion of the bifurcated conversion feature and of the Capped Call Confirmations that would not be able to be net share settled as a current derivative liability and as a derivative asset, respectively. The fair value of the derivative liability for the conversion feature and derivative asset for the Capped Call Confirmations at February 15, 2018 was determined to be $507.4 million and $13.6 million, respectively, of which the portion that was determined to not be able to be net share settled was recorded with a corresponding impact to additional-paid-in-capital. Subsequent changes to fair value of the derivatives were recorded through earnings on the Company\u2019s consolidated statements of operations resulting in a change in fair value of derivatives for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 of $(7.6) million and $(2.7) million, respectively.\nFollowing the approval by the stockholders of the Company on June 7, 2018, to increase the authorized shares of common stock to 500,000,000, the Company has sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. As a result, the derivative liability and derivative asset were reclassified into additional-paid-in-capital. The fair value of the derivative liability for the conversion feature and derivative asset for the Capped Call Confirmations at June 7, 2018 was determined to be $88.3 million and $2.4 million, respectively.\nThe Convertible Notes consist of the following (in thousands):\nLess: debt discount (1)\nLess: deferred financing (1)\nNet carrying value of the debt\n(1) Included in the consolidated balance sheets within convertible notes and amortized to interest expense over the remaining life of the convertible notes using the effective interest rate method.\nThe following table sets forth total interest expense recognized related to the Convertible Notes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, respectively:\nComponents (In thousands)\nAmortization of deferred financing\nOn February 15, 2018, the Company announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 19,354,839 shares of its common stock at $15.50 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $300.0 million. Under the terms of the underwriting agreement, the Company granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days after February 16, 2018, to purchase up to an additional 2,903,225 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock, which was exercised with respect to 885,000 shares of the Company\u2019s common stock at a purchase price of $15.50 per share. The Company received net proceeds of $294.6 million from these offerings, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company.\nIn April 2018, 453,214 warrants were exercised at $7.98 per share of common stock resulting in gross cash proceeds of $3.6 million.\nOn June 7, 2018, the Company\u2019s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company\u2019s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, that the Company is authorized to issue from 250,000,000 shares to 500,000,000 shares.\nNote 7. Share based Compensation\nThe Company\u2019s Equity Incentive Plans consist of the Amended and Restated 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the \u201cPlan\u201d) and the 2007 Director Option Plan (the \u201c2007 Director Plan\u201d). The Plan provides for the granting of restricted stock units and options to purchase common stock in the Company to employees, advisors and consultants at a price to be determined by the Company\u2019s Board of Directors. The Plan is intended to encourage ownership of stock by employees and consultants of the Company and to provide additional incentives for them to promote the success of the Company\u2019s business. The 2007 Director Plan is intended to promote the recruiting and retention of highly qualified eligible directors and strengthen the commonality of interest between directors and stockholders by encouraging ownership of common stock of the Company. The Board of Directors, or its committee, is responsible for determining the individuals to be granted options, the number of options each individual will receive, the option price per share, and the exercise period of each option.\nThe fair value of the stock options granted is estimated on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:\nExpected life of options (years)\nExpected annual dividend per share\nBeginning in the third quarter of 2017, the average expected life was determined using our actual historical data versus a \u201csimplified\u201d method used in prior quarters. The \u201csimplified\u201d method of estimating the expected exercise term uses the mid-point between the vesting date and the end of the contractual term. In earlier quarters, we did not have sufficient reliable exercise data to justify a change from the use of the \u201csimplified\u201d method of estimating the expected exercise term of employee stock option grants. The impact from this change was not material.\nA summary of the Company\u2019s stock options for the six months ended June 30, 2018 were as follows:\nOptions outstanding, December 31, 2017\nOptions outstanding, June 30, 2018\nVested and unvested expected to vest, June 30, 2018\nAs of June 30, 2018, the total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock options granted was $39.1 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of three years.\nRestricted Stock Units (\u201cRSUs\u201d) and Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units\nRSUs awarded under the Plan are generally subject to graded vesting and are contingent on an employee\u2019s continued service. RSUs are generally subject to forfeiture if employment terminates prior to the release of vesting restrictions. The Company expenses the cost of the RSUs, which is determined to be the fair market value of the shares of common stock underlying the RSUs at the date of grant, ratably over the period during which the vesting restrictions lapse. A summary of non-vested RSU activity under the Plan for the six months ended June 30, 2018 is as follows:\nAverage Grant Date\nRemaining Years\nAggregate Intrinsic\nNon-vested units as of December 31, 2017\nNon-vested units as of June 30, 2018\nOn December 30, 2016, the Compensation Committee approved a form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (the \u201cPerformance-Based RSU Agreement\u201d), to be used for performance-based RSUs granted to participants under the Amended and Restated Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, including named executive officers. Certain awards under the Performance-Based RSU Agreement were granted in January 2017 and 2018. The 2018 grants include 187,222 market performance-based restricted stock units (\u201cMPRSUs\u201d) granted to executives. Vesting of these awards is contingent upon the Company meeting certain total shareholder return (\u201cTSR\u201d) levels as compared to a select peer group over the next three years. The MPRSUs cliff vest at the end of the three-year period and have a maximum potential to vest at 200% (374,444 shares) based on TSR performance. The related share-based compensation expense is determined based on the estimated fair value of the underlying shares on the date of grant and is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting term. The estimated fair value per share of the MPRSUs was $25.44 and was calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation model. The awards also include 187,211 performance based awards that will vest over the next three years based on the Company achieving certain clinical milestones.\nDuring the six months ended June 30, 2018, none of the clinical milestones for the performance based RSUs awarded in 2017 or 2018 were reached.\nFor the six months ended June 30, 2018, 510,695 RSUs have vested and all non-vested units are expected to vest over their normal term. As of June 30, 2018, there was $25.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested RSUs with service-based vesting conditions. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of three years.\nCompensation Expense Related to Equity Awards\nThe following table summarizes information related to compensation expense recognized in the statements of operations related to the equity awards:\nEquity compensation expense recognized in:\nTotal equity compensation expense\nNote 8. Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value\nThe Company\u2019s financial assets and liabilities are measured at fair value and classified within the fair value hierarchy, which is defined as follows:\nLevel 1 \u2014 Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.\nLevel 2 \u2014 Inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.\nLevel 3 \u2014 Inputs that are unobservable for the asset or liability.\nA summary of the fair value of the Company\u2019s recurring assets and liabilities aggregated by the level in the fair value hierarchy within which those measurements fall as of June 30, 2018 are identified in the following table:\nDeferred compensation plan liability\nA summary of the fair value of the Company\u2019s recurring assets and liabilities aggregated by the level in the fair value hierarchy within which those measurements fall as of December 31, 2017 are identified in the following table:\nThe Company\u2019s Convertible Notes fall into the Level 2 category within the fair value level hierarchy. The fair value was determined using broker quotes in a non-active market for valuation. The fair value of the debt at June 30, 2018 was approximately $666.2 million.\nThe Company did not have any Level 3 assets as of June 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017.\nCash, Money Market Funds and Marketable Securities\nThe Company classifies its cash within the fair value hierarchy as Level 1 as these assets are valued using quoted prices in an active market for identical assets at the measurement date. The Company considers its investments in marketable securities as available for sale debt securities and classifies these assets and the money market funds within the fair value hierarchy as Level 2 primarily utilizing broker quotes in a non-active market for valuation of these securities. No changes in valuation techniques or inputs occurred during the six months ended June 30, 2018. No transfers of assets between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value measurement hierarchy occurred during the six months ended June 30, 2018.\nThe contingent consideration payable resulted from the acquisition of Callidus Biopharma, Inc. (\"Callidus\") in November 2013. The most recent valuation was determined using a probability weighted discounted cash flow valuation approach. Using this approach, expected future cash flows are calculated over the expected life of the agreement, are discounted, and then exercise scenario probabilities are applied. The valuation is performed quarterly. Gains and losses are included in the statement of operations.\nThe contingent consideration payable for Callidus has been classified as a Level 3 recurring liability as its valuation requires substantial judgment and estimation of factors that are not currently observable in the market. If different assumptions were used for the various inputs to the valuation approach, the estimated fair value could be significantly higher or lower than the fair value the Company determined. The Company may be required to record losses in future periods.\nThe following significant unobservable inputs were used in the valuation of the contingent consideration payable of Callidus for the ATB200 Pompe program:\nFair Value as of\nUnobservable Input\nClinical and regulatory milestones\nProbability weighted discounted cash flow\nProbability of achievement of milestones\nProjected year of payments\nContingent consideration liabilities are remeasured to fair value each reporting period using discount rates, probabilities of payment and projected payment dates. Projected contingent payment amounts related to clinical and regulatory based milestones are discounted back to the current period using a discounted cash flow model. Increases in discount rates and the time to payment may result in lower fair value measurements. Increases or decreases in any of those inputs together, or in isolation, may result in a significantly lower or higher fair value measurement. There is no assurance that any of the conditions for the milestone payments will be met.\nThe following table shows the change in the balance of contingent consideration payable for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively:\nPayment of contingent consideration in cash\nChanges in fair value during the period, included in statement of operations\nDeferred Compensation Plan - Investment and Liability\nThe Deferred Compensation Plan (the \"Deferral Plan\") provides certain key employees and members of the Board of Directors with an opportunity to defer the receipt of such participant\u2019s base salary, bonus and director\u2019s fees, as applicable. Deferral Plan assets are classified as trading securities and recorded at fair value with changes in the investment\u2019s fair value recognized in the period they occur. The asset investments consist of market exchanged mutual funds. The Company considers its investments in marketable securities as available-for-sale and classifies these assets and related liability within the fair value hierarchy as Level 2, primarily utilizing broker quotes in a non-active market for valuation of these securities.\nNote 9. Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Common Share\nThe following table provides a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator used in computing basic and diluted net loss attributable to common stockholders per common share:\nDilutive common stock equivalents would include the dilutive effect of common stock options, convertible debt units, RSUs and warrants for common stock equivalents. Potentially dilutive common stock equivalents were excluded from the diluted earnings per share denominator for all periods because of their anti-dilutive effect.\nThe table below presents potential shares of common stock that were excluded from the computation as they were anti-dilutive using the treasury stock method:\nOutstanding warrants, convertible to common stock\nVested restricted stock units, unissued\nTotal number of potentially issuable shares\nWe are a global patient-centric biotechnology company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of a diverse set of novel treatments for patients living with rare metabolic diseases. The cornerstone of our portfolio is migalastat HCl, (also referred to as \u201cmigalastat\u201d), an oral precision medicine for people living with Fabry disease who have amenable genetic mutations. Migalastat is currently approved under the trade name GALAFOLD in the European Union (\u201cEU\u201d) and Japan, with additional approvals granted and applications pending in several geographies. During the second quarter of 2018, we initiated the commercial launch of GALAFOLD in Japan for the treatment of patients, aged 16 and older, with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease and an amenable mutation. GALAFOLD is the first and only oral precision medicine approved for the treatment of Fabry disease in Japan.\nThe lead biologics program of our pipeline is Amicus Therapeutics GAA (AT-GAA, also known as ATB200/AT2221), a novel, clinical-stage, potential best-in-class treatment paradigm for Pompe disease. Our Chaperone-Advanced Replacement Therapy (\u201cCHART\u00ae\u201d) platform technology is leveraged to develop novel Enzyme Replacement Therapy (\u201cERT\u201d) products for Pompe disease, Fabry disease, and potentially future other lysosomal storage disorders (\u201cLSDs\u201d). We are also investigating preclinical and discovery programs in other rare diseases including cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (\u201cCDKL5\u201d) deficiency. We believe that our platform technologies and our product pipeline uniquely positions us and drives our commitment to advancing and expanding a robust pipeline of cutting-edge, first- or best-in-class medicines for rare metabolic diseases.\nDuring the first quarter of 2018, we issued 20,239,839 shares of our common stock through an underwritten offering resulting in net proceeds of $294.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by us. We expect to use the net proceeds of the offering for investment in the United States (\u201cU.S.\u201d) and international commercial infrastructure for migalastat HCl, investment in manufacturing capabilities for the ERT ATB200, the continued clinical development of our product candidates, research and development expenditures, clinical and pre-clinical trial expenditures, commercialization expenditures and for other general corporate purposes.\nOur strategy is to create, manufacture, test and deliver the highest quality medicines for people living with rare metabolic diseases through internally developed, acquired or in-licensed products and product candidates that have the potential to obsolete current treatments, provide significant benefits to patients, and be first- or best-in-class. In addition to our lead programs in Fabry and Pompe, we intend to leverage our global capabilities to develop and expand our robust pipeline, with the goal of entering clinical development with one or more programs in 2019. Since the beginning of our last fiscal year, we made significant progress toward fulfilling our vision to build a leading global biotechnology company focused on rare metabolic diseases.\nHighlights of our progress in the first six months of 2018 include:\nCommercial success. In the six months ended June 30, 2018, GALAFOLD revenue totaled approximately $38.0 million. Revenue has been generated from outside the U.S., primarily in the EU.\nRegulatory progress. Received approval for migalastat in Japan and completed global regulatory submissions for migalastat in the U.S. and other key geographies. The FDA has accepted the New Drug Application (\u201cNDA\u201d) for filing under Priority Review, and the Prescription Drug User Fee Act goal date for the FDA decision is August 13, 2018, but there is no guarantee about when the FDA will make any decision concerning the NDA, or when, if ever, FDA approval will be granted.\nPompe clinical study. We have reported positive data from a Phase 1/2 clinical study to evaluate Pompe disease patients treated with our novel treatment paradigm AT-GAA.\nManufacturing. Successfully scaled manufacture of Pompe biologic engineering batches to commercial scale (1,000L) with capacity plans to enable us to produce sufficient quantities to serve the entire Pompe population as quickly as possible after receipt of applicable regulatory approvals.\nFinancial strength. Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $552.8 million at June 30, 2018 compared to $358.6 million at December 31, 2017. The current cash position, including proceeds from the February 2018 equity offering and expected GALAFOLD revenues, is sufficient to fund ongoing Fabry and Pompe program operations into at least 2021. Potential future business development collaborations, pipeline expansion, and investment in biologics manufacturing capabilities could impact our future capital requirements.\nOur Commercial Product and Product Candidates\nMigalastat for Fabry Disease\nMigalastat was approved for use in the EU in May 2016 under the brand name GALAFOLD as a first-line therapy for long-term treatment of adults and adolescents, aged 16 years and older, with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease and who have an amenable mutation. The approved EU label includes 348 Fabry-causing mutations, which represent up to half of all patients with Fabry disease. In the second quarter of 2018, we initiated the commercial launch of GALAFOLD in Japan. We currently have an NDA submission under Priority Review in the United States. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act goal date for the FDA decision is August 13, 2018, but there is no guarantee about when the FDA will make any decision concerning the NDA, or when, if ever, FDA approval will be granted. Approvals have also been granted in Israel, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and Switzerland, with additional applications pending in other geographies.\nWe have launched GALAFOLD in several European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, on a commercial basis, as well as in select other countries through reimbursed EAPs. We have been granted pricing and reimbursement in 19 countries. We plan to continue to launch GALAFOLD in additional countries during 2018.\nAs an orally administered monotherapy, migalastat is designed to bind to and stabilize an endogenous alpha-galactosidase A (\u201calpha-Gal A\u201d) enzyme in those patients with genetic mutations identified as amenable in a GLP cell-based amenability assay. Migalastat is an oral precision medicine intended to treat Fabry disease in patients who have amenable genetic mutations and, at this time, it is not intended for concomitant use with ERT.\nPatients with Fabry disease have an inherited deficiency of the alpha-Gal A enzyme that would normally degrade the lipid substrate globotriaosylceramide in the lysosome. Genetic mutations that cause changes in the amino acid sequence of alpha-Gal A result in an unstable enzyme that does not efficiently fold into its correct three-dimensional shape and cannot be trafficked properly in the cell, even if it has the potential for biological activity. Migalastat is an oral small molecule pharmacological chaperone that is designed to bind to and stabilize a patient\u2019s own endogenous target protein. This is considered a precision medicine because migalastat targets only patients with GLA mutations or variants amenable to migalastat.\nWe have completed two Phase 3 global registration studies of migalastat monotherapy. We have reported Phase 3 data in both treatment-na\u00efve patients (\u201cStudy 011\u201d) and ERT-switch patients (\u201cStudy 012\u201d). Results from these studies have shown that treatment with migalastat results in reductions in disease substrate, stability of kidney function, reductions in cardiac mass, and improvement in gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with GLA mutations or variants amenable to migalastat in a validated GLP amenability assay.\nNext-Generation Therapies for Fabry Disease\nWe are committed to continued innovation for all people living with Fabry disease. For people living with Fabry disease who have non-amenable mutations or variants, which are not suitable for migalastat as a monotherapy, our strategy is to advance next-generation therapies such as our proprietary Fabry-ERT co-formulated with migalastat or other innovative technologies that we continue to evaluate.\nWe are leveraging our CHART\u00ae technology and advanced biologics capabilities to move forward with a proprietary Fabry ERT for co-formulation with migalastat. Master cell banking has been completed, process development work has commenced, and initial preclinical studies have been completed to potentially advance this novel co-formulation toward the clinic in 2019.\nNovel ERT for Pompe Disease\nWe are leveraging our biologics capabilities and CHART\u00ae platform to develop Amicus Therapeutics GAA (AT-GAA, also known as ATB200/AT2221), a novel treatment paradigm for Pompe disease. AT-GAA consists of a uniquely engineered rhGAA enzyme, ATB200, with an optimized carbohydrate structure to enhance lysosomal uptake, administered in combination with a pharmacological chaperone, AT2221, to improve activity and stability. We acquired ATB200 as well as our enzyme targeting technology through our purchase of Callidus. ATB200 is our first biologic to enter clinical development.\nThe pharmacological chaperone, AT2221 is not an active ingredient that contributes directly to GAA substrate reduction but instead acts to stabilize ATB200. The small molecule pharmacological chaperone AT2221 binds and stabilizes ATB200 to improve the uptake of active enzyme in key disease-relevant tissues, resulting in increased clearance of accumulated substrate, glycogen.\nIn preclinical studies, AT-GAA demonstrated greater tissue enzyme levels and further substrate reduction compared to the currently approved ERT for Pompe disease (alglucosidase alfa).\nWe are engaged in ongoing collaborative discussions with U.S. and EU regulators regarding a registration-directed study for approval, manufacturing activities, and the best and fastest pathway forward for AT-GAA. A scientific advice meeting with the European Medicines Agency (\u201cEMA\u201d) was held in the second quarter of 2018. The scientific advice authorities from the EMA indicated that the current clinical package is not sufficient for a Conditional Marketing Authorization Application at this time. We intend to continue a dialogue on a potential pathway for conditional approval with the EMA authorities in 2019. In the U.S., ongoing interactions for this program include a Type C meeting scheduled to occur in the third quarter of 2018. We expect to provide an FDA update following the receipt of written minutes from this meeting. We continue to believe that the evolving regulatory path will include a series of further iterative discussions with regulators as the program advances and as additional data is collected.\nThroughout 2017, we reported a cascade of interim data from a Phase 1/2 clinical study, ATB200-02, to investigate our novel Pompe treatment paradigm in Pompe patients. The primary objective was to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics (\u201cPD\u201d) of AT-GAA for an 18-week primary treatment period followed by a long-term extension. The three patient cohorts, enrolling 20 total patients across all cohorts, are ambulatory ERT-switch patients (Cohort 1), non-ambulatory ERT-switch patients (Cohort 2), and ERT-na\u00efve patients (Cohort 3).\nAs of our interim analysis reported in October 2017, patients who completed six months of treatment with AT-GAA showed improvements in the six-minute walk test (\"6MWT\") distance and other measures of motor function, stability or increases in forced vital capacity (\"FVC\"), and further reductions in biomarkers of muscle damage and disease substrate, with consistent results reported in initial patients who completed nine months of treatment.\nOn February 8, 2018 we reported additional interim data from our clinical study ATB200-02 at the 14th Annual WORLD Symposium. Highlights included safety and tolerability data in all 20 patients (maximum of 20+ months of treatment) as well as PD data (muscle damage biomarker and disease substrate biomarker) for all 20 patients (15 ERT-switch patients and 5 ERT-na\u00efve patients). To date, adverse events have been generally mild and transient. AT-GAA has resulted in a low rate of infusion-associated reactions (IARs) following 550+ infusions (three events of IARs in two patients; < 1% of all 550+ infusions with an IAR). The clinical pharmacokinetic profile has been consistent with previously reported preclinical data. Treatment with AT-GAA resulted in persistent and durable reductions in creatine kinase and urine hexose tetrasaccharide across all patient cohorts out to month 12.\nAs of the last interim analysis in February 2018, data on functional outcomes are available for 19 of the 20 patients enrolled (one patient dropped out of the extension study due to travel burden and family considerations). Muscle function improved in 16 of 19 patients at month 9. Muscle function improved in 10 out of 10 patients with available data at month 12. Mean 6MWT improved in both ERT-na\u00efve and ERT-switch patients with continued benefit observed out to month 12. All 5 ERT-na\u00efve patients showed increases in 6MWT distance at all time points out to month 12. The ERT-na\u00efve patients showed mean increases of 41.8 meters at month 6 (n=5), 63.5 meters at month 9 (n=5), and 86.8 meters at month 12 (n=2). Of the 10 ERT-switch patients, 8 patients showed increases in 6MWT distance and two patients showed decreases at month 9. All eight of the ERT-switch patients with available data at month 12 showed increases in 6MWT distance. The ERT-switch patients showed mean increases of 23.9 meters at month 6 (n=10), 24.5 meters at month 9 (n=10), and 57.4 meters at month 12 (n=8). Other motor function tests generally showed mean improvements consistent with 6MWT distance. Three of the four non-ambulatory ERT-switch patients showed improvements in upper extremity strength (which includes elbow and shoulder) from baseline to month 9, as measured by quantitative muscle testing and manual muscle testing. Pulmonary function improved in ERT-na\u00efve patients and was generally stable in ERT-switch patients. In ERT-na\u00efve patients, mean absolute change in FVC was +4.2% at month 6 (n=5), +6.2% at month 9 (n=5), and +6.0% at month 12 (n=2). In ERT-switch patients mean absolute change in FVC was -1.3% at month 6 (n=9), -1.7% at month 9 (n=9), and -3.1% at month 12 (n=7). Overall, other pulmonary tests of maximal inspiratory pressure, a measure of inhalation, and maximal expiratory pressure, a measure of exhalation, were stable or increased in both ERT-na\u00efve and ERT-switch patients.\nWe are researching a potential first-in-class protein replacement therapy approach for CDKL5 deficiency in preclinical studies. CDKL5 is a gene on the X-chromosome encoding the CDKL5 protein that regulates the expression of several essential proteins for normal brain development. Genetic mutations in the CDKL5 gene result in CDKL5 protein deficiency and the disorder manifests clinically as persistent seizures starting in infancy, followed by severe impairment in neurological development. Most children affected by CDKL5 deficiency cannot walk or care for themselves and may also suffer from scoliosis, visual impairment, sensory issues, and gastrointestinal complications.\nStrategic Alliances and Arrangements\nWe will continue to evaluate business development opportunities as appropriate that build stockholder value and provide us with access to the financial, technical, clinical, and commercial resources necessary to develop and market pharmacological chaperone therapeutics, ERTs, and other technologies or products with a focus on rare metabolic diseases. We are exploring potential collaborations, alliances, and other business development opportunities on a regular basis. These opportunities may include the acquisition of preclinical-stage, clinical-stage or marketed products so long as such transactions are consistent with our strategic plan to develop and provide therapies to patients living with rare and orphan diseases and support our continued transformation from a development-stage company into a commercial biotechnology company.\nThe following table provides selected financial information for the Company:\nCost of goods sold as a percentage of net product sales\nNet Product Sales. Net product sales increased $14.2 million during the three months ended June 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year. GALAFOLD was approved for sale in the EU in May 2016 and has been approved for pricing and reimbursement in 19 countries, as well as in select other European markets through reimbursed EAPs. The increase in revenue was related to the increase in the number of markets where we had obtained pricing and reimbursements and the corresponding increase in the number of patients being treated with GALAFOLD.\nCost of Goods Sold. Cost of goods sold includes manufacturing costs as well as royalties associated with sales of our product. Cost of goods sold as a percentage of net product sales was 14.7% during the three months ended June 30, 2018 compared to 14.8% during the same period in the prior year.\nResearch and Development Expense. The following table summarizes our principal product development programs, including the related stages of development, for each product candidate in development, and the out-of-pocket, third party expenses incurred with respect to each product candidate:\nThird party direct project expenses\nMigalastat (Fabry Disease)\nAT-GAA (Pompe Disease)\nSD-101 (EB-Epidermolysis Bullosa)\nTotal third party direct project expenses\nTotal other project costs\nThe increase in research and development costs was primarily due to increases in personnel and other costs with the advancement and enrollment of clinical studies and investments in manufacturing. The decrease in the EB program was due to the results announced in September 2017 that the study did not meet the primary or secondary endpoints in participants. The decrease in the Pompe program was due to the timing of manufacturing of ATB200 large scale batches.\nSelling, General and Administrative Expense. Selling, general and administrative increased $9.9 million primarily due to the expanded geographic scope of the ongoing commercial launch of GALAFOLD.\nChanges in Fair Value of Contingent Consideration Payable. The change in the fair value of the contingent consideration payable of $0.8 million resulted from a decrease in the Scioderm, Inc. (\u201cScioderm\u201d) contingent consideration of $0.7 million and decrease in the Callidus contingent consideration of $0.1 million. The fair value and change in fair value are impacted by updates to the estimated probability of achievement, assumed timing of milestones and adjustments to the discount periods and rates. The decrease in Scioderm contingent consideration was due to the results announced in September 2017 that the study did not meet the primary or secondary endpoints in participants, and, as a result, the contingent consideration is no longer payable.\nChange in Fair Value of Derivatives. Subsequent to the underwritten public offering on February 15, 2018, we did not have sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. The fair value of the derivative liability for the conversion feature and derivative asset for the Capped Call Confirmations at February 15, 2018 was determined to be $507.4 million and $13.6 million, respectively, of which the portion that was determined to not be able to be net share settled was recorded with a corresponding impact to additional-paid-in-capital. Following the approval by the Company's stockholders on June 7, 2018, to increase the authorized shares of common stock to 500,000,000, we now have sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. As a result, the derivative liability and derivative asset were reclassified into additional-paid-in-capital. Subsequent changes to fair value of the derivatives were recorded through earnings on our consolidated statements of operations resulting in a change in fair value of derivatives for the three months ended June 30, 2018 of $7.6 million.\nOther Expense. The $7.7 million increase in other expense was primarily due to unrealized losses on foreign exchange transactions.\nIncome Tax Benefit (Expense). The income tax expense is related to the provision during the three months ended June 30, 2018. We are subject to income taxes in the United States, although currently not a tax payer, and in various foreign jurisdictions, and our foreign tax liabilities are largely dependent upon the distribution of pre-tax earnings among these different jurisdictions.\nNet Product Sales. Net product sales increased $26.7 million during the six months ended June 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year. GALAFOLD was approved for sale in the EU in May 2016 and has been approved for pricing and reimbursement in 19 countries, as well as in select other European markets through reimbursed EAPs. The increase in revenue was related to the increase in the number of markets where we had obtained pricing and reimbursements and the corresponding increase in the number of patients being treated with GALAFOLD.\nCost of Goods Sold. Cost of goods sold includes manufacturing costs as well as royalties associated with sales of our product. Cost of goods sold as a percentage of net product sales decreased to 15.1% during the six months ended June 30, 2018 compared to 16.2% during the same period in the prior year primarily due to an increase in the proportion of sales in countries subject to a lower royalty burden.\nThe increase in research and development costs was primarily due to personnel and other costs and increases in clinical research and manufacturing costs with the advancement and enrollment of clinical studies and investments in manufacturing. The decrease in the EB program was due to the results announced in September 2017 that the study did not meet the primary or secondary endpoints in participants.\nSelling, General and Administrative Expense. Selling, general and administrative increased $18.1 million primarily due to the expanded geographic scope of the ongoing commercial launch of GALAFOLD.\nChanges in Fair Value of Contingent Consideration Payable. The change in the fair value of the contingent consideration payable of $4.2 million resulted from a decrease in the Scioderm contingent consideration of $4.6 million offset by an increase in the Callidus contingent consideration of $0.4 million. The fair value and change in fair value are impacted by updates to the estimated probability of achievement, assumed timing of milestones and adjustments to the discount periods and rates. The decrease in the Scioderm contingent consideration was due to the results announced in September 2017 that the study did not meet the primary or secondary endpoints in participants, and, as a result, the contingent consideration is no longer payable.\nChange in Fair Value of Derivatives. Subsequent to the underwritten public offering on February 15, 2018, we did not have sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. The fair value of the derivative liability for the conversion feature and derivative asset for the Capped Call Confirmations at February 15, 2018 was determined to be $507.4 million and $13.6 million, respectively, of which the portion that was determined to not be able to be net share settled was recorded with a corresponding impact to additional-paid-in-capital. Following to the approval by the Company's stockholders on June 7, 2018, to increase the authorized shares of common stock to 500,000,000, we now have sufficient unissued authorized shares to cover a conversion of the Convertible Notes. As a result, the derivative liability and derivative asset were reclassified into additional-paid-in-capital. Subsequent changes to fair value of the derivatives were recorded through earnings on our consolidated statements of operations resulting in a change in fair value of derivatives for the six months ended June 30, 2018 of $2.7 million.\nIncome Tax Benefit (Expense). The income tax benefit related to a discrete tax item that was recorded during the six months ended June 30, 2018. We are subject to income taxes in the United States, although currently not a tax payer, and in various foreign jurisdictions, and our foreign tax liabilities are largely dependent upon the distribution of pre-tax earnings among these different jurisdictions.\nAs a result of our significant research and development expenditures, as well as expenditures to build a commercial organization to support the launch of GALAFOLD, we have not been profitable and have generated operating losses since we were incorporated in 2002. We have historically funded our operations principally through the issuance and sale of stock, collaborations, debt financings, grants and non-refundable license fees.\nSource of Liquidity\nDuring the first quarter of 2018, we issued, through an underwritten offering, 20,239,839 shares of our common stock resulting in net proceeds of $294.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by us. We expect to use the net proceeds of the offering for investment in the U.S. and international commercial infrastructure for migalastat HCl, investment in manufacturing capabilities for ATB200, the continued clinical development of our product candidates, research and development expenditures, clinical and pre-clinical trial expenditures, commercialization expenditures and for other general corporate purposes.\nCash flow discussion\nAs of June 30, 2018, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $552.8 million. We invest cash in excess of our immediate requirements with regard to liquidity and capital preservation in a variety of interest-bearing instruments, including obligations of U.S. government agencies and money market accounts. Wherever possible, we seek to minimize the potential effects of concentration and degrees of risk. Although we maintain cash balances with financial institutions in excess of insured limits, we do not anticipate any losses with respect to such cash balances. For more details on the cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, refer to \u201c\u2014Note 3. Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities and Restricted Cash,\u201d in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.\nNet cash used in operations for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was $106.5 million. The components of net cash used in operations included the net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2018 of $111.8 million and the net increase in operating assets of $5.7 million. The change in operating assets was primarily due to increases in accounts receivable by$6.0 million and inventory of $3.4 million due to commercial sales of GALAFOLD, partially offset by a decrease in prepaid and other current assets of $4.6 million for spending to support commercial activities for GALAFOLD launch. The net cash used in operations was also impacted by a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $11.8 million, mainly related to program expenses and support for the commercial launch of GALAFOLD, and a decrease in deferred reimbursement of $5.0 million due to payment of a milestone.\nNet cash used in operations for the six months ended June 30, 2017 was $91.8 million. The components of net cash used in operations included the net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2017 of $103.1 million and the increase in operating assets of $5.2 million. The increase in operating assets was primarily due to increases in accounts receivable of $2.2 million and inventories by $0.4 million due to an increase in commercial sales. The net cash used in operations was partially offset by an increase in operating liabilities of $3.8 million for the increase of $4.3 million in accounts payable and accrued expenses related to program expenses and support for the commercial launch of GALAFOLD.\nNet cash used in investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was $171.9 million. Our investing activities have consisted primarily of purchases and sales and maturities of investments and capital expenditures. Net cash used in investing activities reflects $380.2 million for the purchase of marketable securities, and $1.9 million for the acquisition of property and equipment, partially offset by $210.2 million for the sale and redemption of marketable securities.\nNet cash used in investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2017 was $48.9 million. Our investing activities have consisted primarily of purchases and sales and maturities of investments and capital expenditures. Net cash used in investing activities reflects $184.5 million for the purchase of marketable securities, and $2.3 million for the acquisition of property and equipment, partially offset by $137.9 million for the sale and redemption of marketable securities.\nNet Cash Provided by/ Used in Financing Activities\nNet cash provided by financing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was $303.6 million. Net cash provided by financing activities primarily reflects $294.6 million from the issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs, and $11.2 million from the exercise of stock options and warrants, partially offset by $2.0 million from the purchase of vested restricted stock units.\nNet cash used in financing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2017 was $9.6 million. Net cash used in financing activities primarily reflects $10.0 million in payment for contingent consideration, and $1.0 million from the purchase of vested of restricted stock units, partially offset by $1.6 million from the exercise of stock options.\nWe expect to incur losses from operations for the foreseeable future primarily due to research and development expenses, including expenses related to conducting clinical trials. Our future capital requirements will depend on a number of factors, including:\nthe cost of manufacturing drug supply for our clinical and preclinical studies, including the cost of manufacturing Pompe ERT;\nthe scope, progress, results and costs of preclinical development, laboratory testing and clinical trials for our product candidates including those testing the use of pharmacological chaperones co-formulated and co-administered with ERT and for the treatment of LSDs;\nthe future results of on-going preclinical research and subsequent clinical trials for CDKL5, including our ability to obtain regulatory approvals and commercialize CDKL5 and obtain market acceptance for CDKL5;\nour ability to successfully integrate our acquired products and technologies into our business, including the possibility that the expected benefits of the transactions will not be fully realized by us or may take longer to realize than expected; and\nour ability to establish collaborations and obtain milestone, royalty or other payments from any such collaborators.\nWhile we have generated revenue from product sales in 2018, in the absence of additional funding, we expect our continuing operating losses to result in increases in our cash used in operations over the next several quarters and years. We may seek additional funding through public or private financings of debt or equity. We believe that our current cash position, including proceeds from the recent equity offering and expected GALAFOLD revenues, is sufficient to fund ongoing Fabry and Pompe program operations into at least 2021. Potential future business development collaborations, pipeline expansion, and investment in biologics manufacturing capabilities could impact our future capital requirements.\nFinancial Uncertainties Related to Potential Future Payments\nMilestone Payments / Royalties\nWe acquired exclusive worldwide patent rights to develop and commercialize migalastat and other pharmacological chaperones for the prevention or treatment of human diseases or clinical conditions by increasing the activity of wild-type and mutant enzymes pursuant to a license agreement with Mount Sinai School of Medicine (\u201cMSSM\u201d). This agreement expires upon expiration of the last of the licensed patent rights, which will be in 2018 in the U.S. and 2019 in Europe and Japan for monotherapy. If we develop a product for combination therapy of specific pharmacological chaperone such as migalastat plus an ERT for certain LSDs such as Fabry disease and a patent issues from the pending MSSM applications covering such a combination therapy(ies), expiration for the combination product(s) will be 2024.\nIn November 2013, we entered into the Revised Agreement (the \"Revised Agreement\") with GlaxoSmithKline (\u201cGSK\u201d), pursuant to which we have obtained global rights to develop and commercialize migalastat as a monotherapy and in combination with ERT for Fabry disease. The Revised Agreement amends and replaces in its entirety the earlier agreement entered into between us and GSK in July 2012 (the \"Original Collaboration Agreement\"). Under the terms of the Revised Agreement, there was no upfront payment from us to GSK. For migalastat monotherapy, GSK is eligible to receive post-approval and sales-based milestones up to $40 million, as well as tiered royalties in the mid-teens in eight major markets outside the United States. In addition, because we reacquired worldwide rights to migalastat, we are no longer eligible to receive any milestones or royalties we would have been eligible to receive under the Original Collaboration Agreement.\nUnder our license agreements, if we owe royalties on net sales for one of our products to more than one of the above licensors, we have the right to reduce the royalties owed to one licensor for royalties paid to another. The amount of royalties to be offset is generally limited in each license and can vary under each agreement. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, under the license agreements we paid $3.9 million in royalties and $5.0 million in sales-based milestones.\nCritical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments\nThe discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based on our financial statements, which we have prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and judgments, including those described in greater detail below. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.\nThere were no significant changes during the six months ended June 30, 2018 to the items that we disclosed as our significant accounting policies and estimates described in \u201c\u2014Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies\u201d to the Company\u2019s financial statements as contained in the Company\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, except as it relates to the adoption of ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which is described below.\nOur net product sales consist of sales of GALAFOLD for the treatment of Fabry disease primarily in the EU. We have recorded revenue on sales where GALAFOLD is available either on a commercial basis or through a reimbursed EAP. Orders for GALAFOLD are generally received from pharmacies and the ultimate payor is typically a government authority.\nWe recognize revenue when our performance obligation with our customers have been satisfied, which occurs at a point in time when the pharmacies or distributors obtain control of GALAFOLD. The transaction price is determined based on fixed consideration in our customer contracts and is recorded net of estimates for variable consideration, which are third party discounts and rebates. The identified variable consideration is recorded as a reduction of revenue at the time revenues from sales of GALAFOLD are recognized. We recognize revenue to the extent that it is probable that a significant revenue reversal will not occur in a future period. These estimates may differ from actual consideration amount received and we evaluate these estimates each reporting period to reflect known changes in factors.\nWe elected the portfolio approach practical expedient in applying ASC Topic 606 to our identified revenue streams. Contracts within each revenue stream have similar characteristics and we believe the results of this approach would not differ materially than if we applied ASC Topic 606 to each individual contract.\nPlease refer to \u201c\u2014Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,\u201d in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.\nMarket risk is the risk of change in fair value of a financial instrument due to changes in interest rates, equity prices, creditworthiness, financing, exchange rates or other factors. Our primary market risk exposure relates to changes in interest rates in our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. We place our investments in high-quality financial instruments, primarily money market funds, corporate debt securities, asset backed securities and U.S. government agency notes with maturities of less than one year, which we believe are subject to limited interest rate and credit risk. The securities in our investment portfolio are not leveraged, are classified as available-for-sale and, due to the short-term nature, are subject to minimal interest rate risk. We believe that a 1% (100 basis points) change in average interest rates would either increase or decrease the market value of our investment portfolio by $2.3 million as of June 30, 2018. We currently do not hedge interest rate exposure and consistent with our investment policy, we do not use derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio. Our outstanding debt has a fixed interest rate and therefore, we have no exposure to interest rate fluctuations.\nWe have operated primarily in the U.S. with international operations increasing since the last quarter of 2015. We do conduct some clinical activities with vendors outside the U.S. While most expenses are paid in U.S. dollars, we now have increased transactions of expenses and cash flows in foreign currencies that are exposed to changes in foreign currency rates.\nFor information regarding our exposure to certain market risks, see Item 7A, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. There have been no material changes in our financial instrument portfolio or market risk exposures since our fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.\nAs of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (pursuant to Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the \u201cExchange Act\u201d) was carried out under the supervision of our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, with the participation of our management. Based on that evaluation, the Principal Executive Officer and the Principal Financial Officer concluded that, as of the end of such period, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective in recording, processing, summarizing and reporting, on a timely basis, information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act and are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.\nDuring the fiscal quarter covered by this report, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.\nThere have been no material changes to the risk factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.\nCertificate of Amendment to the Company\u2019s Restated Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 8, 2018)\nCertification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 promulgated pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended\nCertification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 promulgated pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended\nCertification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002\nThe following financial information from this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the six months ended June 30, 2018, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) and filed electronically herewith: (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets; (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Operations; (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss; (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows; (v) and the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements\n/s/ John F. Crowley\n/s/ William D. Baird III\nWilliam D. Baird III\nCERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF\nI, John F. Crowley, certify that:\nI have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.;\n(b)designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;\nI, William D. Baird III, certify that:\nCERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND\nPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER PURSUANT TO\nEach of the undersigned hereby certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, in his capacity as an officer of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (the \u201cCompany\u201d), that, to his knowledge, the Quarterly Report of the Company on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2018, fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) and that the information contained in such report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. This written statement is being furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to such Form 10-Q. A signed original of this statement has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1862, "original_length": 123427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6847/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BJZZRA3NCYU53VHZ3SDPEPSRNZQ2ZI3P", "length": 238, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "irep.ntu.ac.uk", "title": "The search for reconciliation in Doctorow's City of God - IRep - Nottingham Trent University", "raw_content": "The search for reconciliation in Doctorow's City of God\nWilde, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5948-9870, 2006. The search for reconciliation in Doctorow's City of God. Religion and the Arts, 10 (3), pp. 391-405.\n192969_1349 Lawrence Prepublisher.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irlensyndromeireland.com/Testimonial/testimonials-schools.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UQM6B7AMIKOPLB67G3TNG4O553AGHTM4", "length": 20885, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "irlensyndromeireland.com", "title": "Testimonials - Schools", "raw_content": "What do the Schools Say About the Irlen Method?\nWe trained 15 intervention teachers as Irlen Screeners for the Santa Maria-Bonita School District. Most screenings are completed as part of the Student Success Process, and students are provided with the necessary overlays. I have supported the Irlen Method since 1990 when I was trained as a screener.\n- Patricia J. Schwarzkopf, Santa Maria-Bonita School District, California\nAs the Learning Strategy Coordinator at Stanford University, I have been interested and involved for over 30 years with a number of methodologies for enhancing the student's process of learning. Since my initial training as an Irlen Screener, I have used the Irlen questions and have identified dozens and dozens of students who have gone on to use the Irlen lenses. One example is a second year medical student in the Medical Program at Stanford University who was a slow reader and always got headaches while reading. With her Irlen overlay, her reading speed immediately increased from 145 words per minute to 190 words per minute with comprehension.\n- Sue Willows-Raznikov, Learning Strategies Coordinator, Department of Teaching and Learning at the School of Medicine, Stanford University, California\nI have been an Irlen Screener for almost five years, yet have believed in the Irlen method for at least a decade. I have screened over 100 people, including public school students and many of their parents. Vast improvements in reading fluency are common. The teachers at Ocean View have been continually impressed with the immediate improvement they notice when students use their overlays. They have come to trust the Irlen method.\n- Dr. Daniel C. Parsons, Resource Specialist, East Whittier City School District, California\nThe Irlen Method has been an amazingly simple and effective way to diagnose and provide support for students who struggle with reading. We have found that students who can be helped in no other way have success with using this method. I would consider this an essential component to a successful program providing a comprehensive program of reading support and instruction.\n- Dr. Robert J. Van Maren, Superintendent, USD 204, Kansas\nAccording to our records, approximately 40% of the learners who come to our literacy program have moderate to severe Irlen Syndrome. Many of our learners have been misdiagnosed as dyslexic. Upon being screened and receiving their colored overlays, they have been able to improve their reading and writing skills, accomplish more in a shorter time, retain their lessons better, and more completely comprehend what they read. I just received a call from a student who I assessed in high school who just graduated with her Master\u2019s Degree from Berkeley and wanted to let me know that her Irlen Filters had \u2018saved her life\u2019.\n- Marcia Tungate, Literacy Program Administrator, Orange County Public Library, California\nMy research studies have identified Irlen Syndrome as a primary reason that students avoid reading and struggle with reading and learning. With the appropriate colored transparencies, college students gained nearly four grade levels in reading and middle school students gained from one year to five years in reading. Irlen Syndrome is the principal and most widespread \u201cinvisible\u201d barrier to reading and learning for upwards of forty percent of student populations.\n- Dr. France Morrow, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Washington State University\nI have been an Irlen Screener for my school for some 10 years. I have witnessed many miracles. I am a strong proponent of the use of Irlen Filters. I know that it works.\n- Sue Parsons, Leffingwell Elementary School, California\nScotopic Sensitivity Syndrome testing is an integral part of our screening process for dyslexia and related disorders. Using appropriately prescribed (Irlen) colored overlays and/or filters often provides a successful treatment tool.\n- Denise Spires, Reading Education Coordinator, Leander School District, Texas\nThe teachers involved with these students report that the Irlen overlay filters are the instrument responsible for the pupil's improvement in terms of reading skills. If, out of every 200 special education students enrolled in our district, 25 children are returned to the regular programs, a substantial cost reduction would be achieved.\n- William E. Hendrick, Ph.D., Administrator of Student Support Services, Jurupa Unified School District, California\nFor the offender population, over 50% of whom are learning disabled, the Irlen Method offers a new way of approaching the problems of LD.\n- Lou Kaufer, Executive Director of M-2 Job Therapy, Washington\nTo date, I have not witnessed any other educational technique that has had such an immediate impact on an individual's reading ability.\n- Brucie Ball, EdS., Staffing Specialist, Dade County Public School System, Florida\nOur feeling as disinterested outsiders is that the technique developed by Helen Irlen addresses a severe, unmet need in the community, has promise, and has benefited many individuals but requires further validation. We are dealing here with a technology that is emerging and whose efficacy has yet to be fully established, in terms of non--nal scientific standards and to the satisfaction of funding agencies and policy makers. We look forward to seeing the results of further work in this fascinating area.\nWe have been convinced of the value of Irlen Filters. All special education referrals must have a SSS screening as part of the referral process. Secondly, we have placed over 800 colored overlays in our schools to be used by students. We have evidence of children in three months going from non-reader to grade level reader and no longer a behavior problem, children going from a C/D student to an A/B student on one report period, and attendance has gone from chronic absences with stomachaches to regular attendance; and a dyslexic 12 year old who could not read the most simple of reading material, in spite of four years in a special education resource room, being able to read a book at the 4th grade level immediately upon placing on the colored filters.\n- Wes Nedrow, Special Education Director of Lower Kuskokwim School, District, Alaska\n- William Henk, EdD., Associate Professor of Education and Reading, Pennsylvania State University\nRobert J Rickelman, Millersville University\nThe Chawanakee Joint School District feels that the district program of screening for SSS and prescribing (Irlen) colored overlays and/or filters is an essential part of the overall reading program. It gives them every opportunity possible to learn as much as they are able. The teachers report that it changes non-readers into readers, enables others to read longer, and enhances speed and comprehension for others.\n- Ellen Crill, Chawanakee Joint School District, California\n- John Bald, Literacy Expert, Consultant-National Curriculum Council, writer-TheMail\nWe are finding a disproportionately high incidence of Scotopic Sensitivity among underprepared and underachieving college students. Students with SSS reporting reading problems made significant gains in both rate and comprehension on the same reading test with use of (Irlen) colored overlays. This is the key toward their personal and professional goals.\n- Gen M. Ramirez, Ph.D., Director of the Learning Assistance Center, California State University at Long Beach\nWe have added Scotopic Sensitivity Screening as an intervention procedure. This has resulted in many non-readers using (Irlen) colored overlays and/or filters and has prevented the need of special education services. Because of the use of (Irlen) colored overlays and/or filters, our special education referrals have been greatly reduced. We are indeed appreciative of being able to identify those students who can be better helped through Scotopic technology rather than years of special education.\n- Carolyn Rounsaville, Director of Special Education, Banning Unified School District, California\nWe allow many students to slip through the cracks of the educational system. If a student can be helped by a simple overlay, why would you choose not to take advantage of this method? The Irlen Filters are a solution to one aspect of the problem.\n- Katie Kirschenman, Board of Trustees for a local school district, California\nOur local Rotary clubs raised the money to train school staff how to test for SSS. Our results were exciting because over 200 leaming disabled students were tested and over 75% have SSS and were helped in their reading, writing, comprehension, and math. This is a simple, common sense approach. The cost is minimal and the results are maximum.\n- Arthur McCullough, Escondido West Rotary Club, California\nThis (Irlen) technique has tremendous potential to restore individual self-esteem, reduce the school drop-out rate, and impact on the reduction of behavioral problems in children. We eventually hope to make SSS screening and treatment a universal practice in all Erie area schools.\n- Erie Center for the Blind and Visually Handicapped, Pennsylvania\nWe are excited about the potential the Irlen Method holds for the offender/ex-\"I feel that physicians should have open minds and consider all avenues to creating successful students. The Irlen Filters may not be the answer for everyone; but for those who have reading difficulties of a specific perceptual nature, they do help. They give students a tool to use for better education.\n- Robert Stuart, M.D., Long Beach, California\nAs a Director overseeing exceptional student education for the Dade County Public School system in Miami, Florida, I am extremely skeptical of any new or unique techniques. Since piloting the Irlen Approach to Reading, the percentage of students that have been helped to increase their perceptual reading ability is genuinely impressive, and I endorse promoting the technique to a larger number of students.\n- Susan Renick-Blount, Director, Exceptional Student Education - Region II, Dade County Public School System, Florida\nI have recommended to the Texas Rehabilitation Commission that the (Irlen) screening and treatment technique be adopted as it is now currently approved in several other states' rehabilitation commissions.\n- Jack Greeson, Ph.D., State Psychological Consultant to the Texas, Rehabilitation Commission\nAfter the completion of the Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome Project at Onate High School with learning disabled students, the response from not only the parents of these students, but the Las Cruces staff was overwhelming. Referrals appeared from everywhere! Parents of elementary students called; parents of mid-school students called; staff referred themselves and their own children. It was astounding!\nWe trained pre-screeners and the screening process was in full swing! Unable to keep up with the referral demand, four screeners processed as many as they could handle. Students using overlays reported dynamic changes in their abilities to focus on the written page. Parents phoned to say that their children were reading at home, independent of an adult for assistance. Teachers reported their observations of students' motivation to read using their overlays.\nWe have lost one screener. The referrals take up an entire file drawer. We are working on our IDEA-B federal grant to train one individual in each school and three individuals in each secondary school. The goal is to have screeners in all buildings. The Chapter I Reading Lab teachers will also pursue training.\nThe Las Cruces Public Schools has 21,000 students enrolled. We have a population of 2,000 students enrolled in our special education programs. Our goal is to implement Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome screening into the Building screening Committees, hopefully to diagnose symptoms of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and to provide remedial strategies and overlays to prevent special education placement. Wouldn\u2019t that be terrific?\n- Lynn Bryan, Assistant Director, Special Education Dept. LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS\nI wanted you to know what an impact your technology has had on banning unified school district. We have added scotopic sensitivity screening as an intervention procedure at the student resource team level. This has resulted in many non-readers being recognized as having scotopic sensitivity, and these students' use of the coloured overlays has prevented need of special education services. Because of the number of overlays now being utilized at one site, our special education referrals have been greatly reduced.\nWe are currently utilizing three levels of screening in our district. The pass is utilized by trained aides and volunteers, and those scoring high on this test are then referred to the site screener for more in-depth assessment. The next level for those still identified at risk and in need of more than the overlays would be referred to our diagnostic screeners who have been trained by you.\nWe are indeed appreciative of your contribution and help in identifying those students who can be better helped through scotopic technology rather than years of special education. Special education has a big job serving those with special needs who cannot be remediated in other ways, and scotopic screening has helped to make that job easier.\n- Carolyn Rounsaville, Director, Special Education, Banning Unified School District\nDeer Valley Unified School District has contracted with Mrs. Abromovitz, who is a consummate professional, on an on-going basis for Scotopic screenings for students who have been experiencing difficulties with visual perceptual processing. Deer Valley Unified School District , being the fiduciary agent and member of the pilot project, has been extensively involved in learning about the syndrome via in-services and training and has become significantly aware of what can occur when the difficulty is discovered and remediation occurs. Many of our students have benefited by the screenings, overlays and lenses. It has made a difference in the lives and learning of these students and their families.\n- Maxine K. Reardon, Ed.D. Director of Special Services, Deer Valley Unified School District\nThis note is to let you know of our successes in the Page School District since you came to Page and trained our first set of 15 screeners in April 1992. In addition, ten more screeners were trained.\nWe have over 250 students and staff in the elementary, middle school and high school using overlays. Students are able to read longer, attend to task better and improve reading skills with the use of overlays.\nTeachers feel it is important to identify students with symptoms of SSS and refer them to the screeners. We are modifying the lighting in the classroom by turning off one bank of fluorescent lights. We allow students to wear hats and encourage the use of overlays. We are making a difference for many students.\n- Eva Ross, Special Education Teacher, Page Unified School District\nI am writing this letter to advise you of the implementation of the Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome program into our school district.\nJurupa Unified School District's enrollment is approximately 17,000; we operate 15 elementary schools, two middle schools, two comprehensive high schools, and two continuation high schools. Our ethnic breakdown is approximately 50% Caucasian, 40% Hispanic, 8% Afro-American, and 2% Asian and other. The community is middle class to poverty with some areas of upper-income properties.\nI first became aware of the Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome through the \"60 Minutes\" television program. Initially, I was a disbeliever and had resisted efforts on the part of my psychological staff to implement the program. However, after discovering that 1, in fact, have the syndrome and now wear the lenses for reading, I became somewhat more interested!\nWe trained selected special education staff members, i.e. Psychologists, Remedial Reading Specialists, to provide SSS/Irlen screening services for students referred by teachers. At the end of the school year, we reviewed 199 middle school students who were screened and provided colored overlays. Of the 199 students, staff reported 90 had shown some level of improvement; twenty-five were reintegrated into regular education and dropped from special education. It was the opinion of the teachers involved with these students that the lrlen overlay filters were responsible for the pupils' reading improvement.\nAt interest here is the fact that, out of every 200 special education students enrolled in our district, we can return 25 to the regular program, a substantial cost reduction would be achieved. For example: Approximately 1,600 students are enrolled in the district's non-severely handicapped learning disability program. If we could return 200 students to regular programs and reduce eight special education classes, that would be a savings of approximately $800,000 a year to our district.\n- Dr. Bill Hendrick, Administrator of Education Support Services, Jurupa Unified School District\nMy name is Cynthia Stone. I have lived in Acushnet for 20 years, but I have taught at the Acushnet Elementary School for 26 years. For the last 7 years, I have been assigned to the Special Needs Department working with children in grades 3, 4, and 5.\nHistorically when a child was evaluated and placed on an Individual Education Plan (I.E.P.), he or she remained on that I.E.P. for the rest of their school career. Recent research has discovered that the success of most pull-out remedial programs was less than originally anticipated. Therefore, recent legislation has encouraged school systems to keep children in the mainstream classroom. In Acushnet, we feel that we are successfully working toward this goal. A large part of our success is attributed to the use of Irlen Overlays.\nIn the last 4 years 16 children, reading I to 2 years below grade level, have been fitted with Irlen overlays, remediated, and mainstreamed into general education reading. These children are now reading at grade level or within 6 months of grade level.\nDuring the school year, 141 students were using the Irlen Overlays. Thirty-three of these students were receiving Special Needs services for Reading. Of the 33 students currently receiving special needs reading services, 16 were successfully mainstreamed back into the general education classroom for reading and related subjects.\nOf the 108 general education students using overlays, all 108 could be potential special needs students if their reading difficulties associated with light sensitivity were not addressed and their reading deficits remediated at an early age. Most of our students with SSS are screened 'in grades 2 - 3 or 4. Our referrals come mainly from homeroom teachers. We have also made SSS screening part of our pre-referral process. Any child having reading difficulty is screened for SSS before any other type of testing is performed.\nBased on our success rate, we believe that students in other communities across the State may also benefit from Scotopic Sensitivity Screening. Such a procedure may reduce the number of students with reading difficulties and is 'in line with the State Legislature's and Department of Education's goals to reduce the number of Special Needs students in the state of Massachusetts.\n- Cynthia Stone, M.Ed., ACUSHNET PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\nThe following article was published in the Texas Reading Report, the newsletter for the Texas State Reading Association.\nI have been an Irlen screener for about three years now, and have been screening the children in our university reading clinic each semester. Belton ISD 36 teachers were trained to screen children in Belton. The goal of that district was to have at least one screener on each elementary campus by the fall. The response of the teachers has been overwhelming.\nPart of our elementary education program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor each semester involves educating our pre-service teachers about Irlen Syndrome. Because I work directly with \"at-risk\" children each semester, I see the \"casualties\" of poorly trained reading teachers. \"Poorly trained,\" in my opinion, also includes those educators lacking knowledge of Irlen Syndrome, a problem that is clearly adding to the frustration of many of our disabled readers.\nThank you for your continued dedication and support of those who believe in this program as you do. It has become for me both a \"personal and professional passion.\" For the sake of our children, I am hopeful that someday the program will count as many reading educators among its ranks as it does psychologists. Until that happens, at least in this state, there is little hope that the program will be embraced by the public schools. I will certainly continue to do whatever I can to work toward that end.\n- Candy Carlile, EdD., Director of Elementary Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 23462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2013/05/solar-plane-to-cross-america.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IS46SLZ753LLSMDMKPLZ3ZUAJJD6DYML", "length": 5345, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "islandbreath.blogspot.com", "title": "Ea O Ka Aina: Solar plane to cross America", "raw_content": "SUBHEAD: Solar-powered airplane breaks world record for distance traveled aloft.\nBy Jason Paur on 23 May 2013 for Wired Magazine -\n(http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/05/solar-impulse-flight-to-dallas/)\nImage above: The Solar Impulse in flight. From (http://www.universetoday.com/101093/solar-powered-plane-to-fly-across-the-us/).\nSolar Impulse pilot Andr\u00e9 Borschberg completed a record-setting flight in the wee hours this morning after flying more than 950 miles on solar power alone, even if he was, strictly speaking, going backward for part of the trip.\nHis impressive flight from Phoenix to Dallas completed the second leg of the Solar Impulse team\u2019s \u201cAcross America\u201d trip which is expected to end in New York in early July. The enormous solar airplane, known simply by its Swiss registration HB-SIA \u2014 has roughly the same wingspan of a Boeing 747 yet weighs about as much as a Honda Accord and uses four 10-horsepower electric motors for propulsion.\nWe got to chat with Borschberg as he soared high over Texas en route to Dallas. He\u2019s is a veteran pilot who flew fighter jets in the Swiss Air Force, but things are going just a bit more slowly on this trip. HB-SIA can\u2019t even keep up with the cars zipping along on the highways below, as it typically cruises at about 30 mph.\nThat slow pace helps optimize its range. The four motors draw power from nearly 12,000 photovoltaic cells mounted on the wings and tail of the carbon fiber airplane. The cells also charge the batteries that power HB-SIA at night. Borschberg landed in Dallas with his batteries at about 60 percent, and will use that juice to begin the third leg of his journey.\nThe flight to Dallas was fairly smooth, with just a few sections of turbulence. Flying 832 nautical miles (957 miles) broke the team\u2019s own distance record for a solar powered airplane (and for any electric airplane). It also provided valuable experience and expand the Solar Impulse team\u2019s flight techniques for future flights \u2014 including their planned circumnavigation of the world in a larger aircraft in 2015.\n\u201cI think we learned more about how to steer this airplane in meteorology that is not entirely optimum,\u201d Borschberg told us from the cockpit.\nThe experienced glider pilot says there were several times when he found himself in \u201cwaves of air\u201d that caused the airplane to rise and descend. Unlike a glider, he says, it is difficult to take advantage of the free lift in HB-SIA. Still, he did learn a lot about how to avoid downdrafts that steal valuable altitude.\nAnother problem he faced was overcoming the speed of the wind moving against the airplane. Anybody who has experienced headwinds on an airliner knows fighting the wind lengthens your trip. For Borschberg, flying along at 30 mph in a strong headwind severely impaired forward motion.\n\u201cWe had a strong wind at a certain stage, and we had been approaching backward our next waypoint,\u201d he says.\nYes, as the headwind exceeded the speed of the airplane, Borschberg traveled backward relative to the ground.\nAfter wrapping up our interview, Borschberg began preparing for the landing in Dallas. After more than 15 hours in the air, he was looking forward to being back on the ground. The plane is quite cramped. At one point, a little less than three hours before he actually landed, he was only 20 miles or so from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and found himself lined up with runway 13L, where he planned to touchdown.\n\u201cCan I just lower the gear and make the approach?\u201d Borschberg jokingly asked his team on the ground.\nUnfortunately it wasn\u2019t in the cards. He had to wait, and wait, and wait some more. Landing on 13L required closing the runway, and there was simply too much commercial traffic. It was after midnight before air traffic control allowed him to land, so he spent the intervening hours in a holding pattern above the runway.\nThe team knew the landing in Dallas would be tricky, and strong winds at lower altitudes made it an unusual landing. As he descended, the windspeed increased and he encountered a 25- to 30-knot wind at 2,000 to 3,000 feet. This meant Borschberg had to be careful not to turn downwind, because he would be blown too far north and would have to make another approach to land, covering the ground at less than five miles per hour with the headwind. Borschberg kept HB-SIA pointed into the southeasterly wind as he moved toward 13L.\n\u201cI was lined up with 13R,\u201d he says referring to the parallel runway he had been circling over. \u201cI was just moving sideways, I was only doing a translation.\u201d\nFellow pilot and Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard says Borschberg\u2019s technique was an impressive feat of piloting.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a normal airplane approach,\u201d he said of his colleague\u2019s sideways flying over the airport. \u201cIf a student was doing that in an exam, he would fail.\u201d\nThe sideways translation eventually brought him over the top of runway 13L, where he touched down at 1:08 a.m. local time, 18 hours and 21 minutes after departing Phoenix.\nThe Solar Impulse team will be in Dallas at least through the holiday weekend before continuing on to St. Louis. The trip across America is a prelude to the team\u2019s ultimate goal, a flight around the world in a new solar-powered airplane currently under construction in Switzerland..\nINDEX: Alternative Energy , Science , Solar Power , Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 10814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islandlutheran.org/sermons/sermons-best-to-open-in-google-chrome-or-safari/passage/numbers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:RJWFT77DRA4ZIP26NWAQII2HTNH6NISY", "length": 54, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "islandlutheran.org", "title": "ISLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH", "raw_content": "\"Is God's Menu Good Enough for Me?\"\nPassage:Numbers 11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 2689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jadensvoice.org/community-training-old/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7QB764OIO4GWDWAYJMRW5QYFWHUZCV6", "length": 580, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jadensvoice.org", "title": "Educational Community Workshops | Jaden's Voice", "raw_content": "Educational workshops, hosted by Jaden's Voice.\nJaden\u2019s Voice serves as a resource for those diagnosed with autism, those who care and or service this population. We provide focused programs, support groups, workshops, updates in current trends while fostering greater community sustainability. Our programs are FREE and open to the public.\nSign up below to join our newsletter and receive updates about future workshops\nJaden\u2019s Voice offers workshops for parents and guardians in the community, each quarter. Click here to find out more about our upcoming Parent Group workshops.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jeffreymillerwrites.com/tag/howard-afb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CTZA5OWI34DDIIWOCIDYWTEV6RG73VMB", "length": 344, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jeffreymillerwrites.com", "title": "Jeffrey Miller | Tag Archive | Howard AFB", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Howard AFB\nby Jeffrey on June 9, 2006 in Illinois Valley\nThis photo was taken the day before all of us left for Chicago and then onto sunny San Antonio for Air Force basic training. Six weeks later, only three of us would still be in the Air Force; one month after that only two of us. I would also be the first person to come [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 8946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/louis-farrakhan-attacks-jews-and-judaism-from-his-chicago-pulpit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MXIQV7ZZTTVIEQ3TUHMUC7AZEQJ3YHEL", "length": 2372, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "jewishweek.timesofisrael.com", "title": "Louis Farrakhan Attacks Jews And Judaism From His Chicago Pulpit | Jewish Week", "raw_content": "Louis Farrakhan Attacks Jews And Judaism From His Chicago Pulpit\nLouis Farrakhan speaking at a news conference at the Mosque Maryam in Chicago, March 31, 2011. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)\nNation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan attacked Jews and Judaism during a three-hour sermon from his pulpit at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.\nThe May 27 sermon was his first major public speaking appearance since February, according to the Anti-Defamation League.\nDuring his sermon Farrakhan, a known anti-Semite, warned his listeners about \u201csatanic Jews who have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.\u201d\nFarrakhan also claimed that contemporary Jews are responsible for promoting child molestation, misogyny, police brutality and sexual assault, among other social ills. In addition, he asserted that contemporary Judaism is nothing but a \u201csystem of tricks and lies\u201d that Jews study in order to learn how to \u201cdominate\u201d non-Jews.\nFarrakhan based some of his mischaracterization of Judaism on a distorted reading of the Talmud, according to ADL.\nHe also said that \u201cthe false Jew will lead you to filth and indecency. That\u2019s who runs show business. That\u2019s who runs the record industry. That\u2019s who runs television.\u201d\nFarrakhan alleged that Jews often force aspiring actors to submit to anal sex.\n\u201cDo you know that many of us who go to Hollywood seeking a chance have to submit to anal sex and all kind [sic] of debauchery [before] they give you a little part?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt\u2019s called the casting couch. See, that\u2019s Jewish power.\u201d\nHe used disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is Jewish, as proof of his allegations.\nFarrakhan also said that President Barack Obama was \u201cunder Jewish influence\u201d when he advocated for the legalization of same-sex marriage. Marriage equality, Farrakhan informed his audience, is \u201csatanic.\u201d\nThe day before his speech, Farrakhan appeared on Chicago radio station WGCI on a program titled \u201cThe Morning Takeover\u201d and said that President Donald Trump has helped his cause by \u201cdestroying the enemies of the Nation of Islam. Included in this group are the Department of Justice and the FBI.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Louis Farrakhan Jr., the Nation of Islam leader\u2019s son, died in his sleep Saturday at a family home in Phoenix, according to the organization. He was 60 and had a heart condition, according to the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan, 85, has nine children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 402, "original_length": 13052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/898778/postdoctoral-fellow-inorganic-chemistry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:H5A7ZE5WCUEJIQOHTX5OP6IRMIYCS2I7", "length": 651, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jobs.unimelb.edu.au", "title": "Jobs : Human Resources : The University of Melbourne", "raw_content": "POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY\nThe Boskovic Research Group is seeking a highly motivated inorganic chemist to undertake research involving the synthesis and investigation of metal complexes of 3d and 4f metals with redox-active ligands, which are relevant for switchable molecular materials and molecular magnetism. You will have a PhD in inorganic chemistry and a passion for electronic structure and magnetism-based functionality in metal complexes. Essential are experience in the anaerobic synthesis of organic ligands and metal complexes, as well as in the physical techniques of magnetochemistry, crystallography and electrochemistry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jordandrivingschoolcharlotte.com/private_schools/lake_norman.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7SJ7R6MG4BANK57I6DLSUX23Q6WNOIMQ", "length": 934, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jordandrivingschoolcharlotte.com", "title": "Jordan Driving School Charlotte", "raw_content": "The following are the scheduled dates for Lake Norman Charter School. These Driver Education classes will be held on the Lake Norman Charter High School Campus, and are only available to Lake Norman Charter School students. Classes will run for 12 days. Students will need to bring a copy of their Birth Certificate on the first day of class. Other items needed are a pen and paper to take notes during the classes, and a receipt of payment.\nClassroom Location: For details about the classroom location contact the Driver Education Site Coordinator.\nSession #1: September 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25 (2018) Makeup Dates: September 26, 27\nStudents must have been born on or before March 6, 2004 to register for this course.\nSession #2: October 25, 26, 29, 30 & November 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 (2018) Makeup Dates: November 16, 19\nStudents must have been born on or before April 25, 2004 to register for this course.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 100.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joyousreads.net/2017/02/16/700-a-darkness-absolute-by-kelley-armstrong.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZS3EGZD7Z6Q6UPLXYMUITWXIAHKWLHQ4", "length": 2985, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "joyousreads.net", "title": "[700]: A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong \u2013 J O Y O U S R E A D S", "raw_content": "[700]: A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong\nArmstrong\u2019s talent in writing smart thrillers on full display.\nWe\u2019re thrust back into the remote Northern Territories with Casey Duncan on the hunt for another killer. An unforeseen storm that throws them off track led them to a girl who has been missing for more than a year. Trapped in a hole no more than the size of a small person, the emaciated girl is rescued from her harrowing isolation. Days and months of endless physical, sexual, and mental abuse left her on the brink of madness.\nNow, the Sheriff\u2019s office has to track down a killer who upon further investigation might be responsible for several deaths of missing women.\nCasey Duncan has all but acclimated to the life living in remote Northern Territories. Rockton and its people have grown on her \u2013 especially one person in particular. But if peace and quiet were what she\u2019s after, Rockton apparently is the wrong place. Because once again, the town is facing deadly crimes with very little suspects to consider. And since this is Rockton \u2013 remote, a touch primeval, and wild \u2013 finding the killer will prove to be difficult. They\u2019re not only racing against time, there\u2019s also the brutal changing weather to contend.\nKelly Armstrong does a marvelous job in immersing her readers in her story in such a way that descriptively immortalizes an otherwise fictional town. The town of Rockton and its vicinities are beautiful as they are harsh. Not only do we get to experience all its wildness, but the townspeople themselves add a certain brutality that makes it seemed more sinister. Characterization has always been Armstrong\u2019s forte. She writes the most credible kick-ass women. Surprisingly enough, the men play a pivotal role in further empowering her heroines. It\u2019s hard to explain. I guess the best way to describe it is like a marriage between a couple and each unit has the ability to qualify each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses.\nShe keeps the pacing of the story at an even keel. Giving her readers time to adjust and savor their own observations. Short chapters also help as she effectively pulls the readers into the nuances of the plot. Armstrong was very stingy with suspects. Since the town\u2019s population is small, I felt like I already know everyone so you can pretty much tick off one townie at a time. But in the end, and after the pieces of the puzzle have been connected, she made a very convincing case for the killer\u2019s motives, psyche, and eventually, his identity.\nA Darkness Absolute is a fantastic sequel. It hits the ground running right from the first page and doesn\u2019t let up until the very end. There\u2019s never a dull moment and you\u2019ll feel like you can\u2019t flip the page fast enough. This is the perfect book to cozy up to on cold winter nights with your reading socks and a nice cup of tea on hand.\n4 Stars, A Darknes Absolute, Adult Fiction, Book Review, Kelley Armstrong, Rockton Files, suspense, Thriller\n[699]: The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jupiterwaterdamage.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VIXBQUDMDYV5W2DATMZDSHA46NN455FX", "length": 5071, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jupiterwaterdamage.com", "title": "Jupiter, FL Water Damage and Flood Damage Restoration, Repair and Removal", "raw_content": "What they said about Home\nIf you have water damage in your home or business, then you need professional water damage restoration provided by All Dry Water Damage and Flood Damage Services. 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Water that is left standing for an extended period has the ability to ruin carpets, warp your flooring, stain and swell your drywall, and even damage vital home components like electrical or HVAC systems.\nEven in the cases of flooding, whether it is due to severe weather or just an overflowing tub or sink, it doesn\u2019t take much water to cause a serious problem. Even as little as an inch of standing water in your kitchen or bathroom is enough to cause thousands of dollars in damages. If leaks occur upstairs, then you are dealing with water seeping downward through wall cavities, damaging the ceilings below, and even causing premature rotting of wood and rusting of metal, both of which may easily compromise the structural integrity of the home. Left alone, water damage also gives way to mold, a dangerous problem that appears within 72 hours of a water damage event. Mold grows rapidly, and can be very difficult to get rid of, especially since something as simple as a touch is enough to cause the mold to spread to other areas of the home. Some molds can be actively dangerous to your health and as a result require immediate removal and proper remediation. Our technicians are trained in how to deal with mold, and they know where to look for it and what to do when they find it. Not only should the mold be removed, but the affected area properly treated to improve ventilation and humidity levels in order to make sure the problem does not return.\nAt All Dry Water Damage and Flood Damage Services, our 24/7 availability means a technician on site within the hour, no matter when that hour happens to be. We can assess the problem facing your property and promptly begin the water removal and restoration process. This eliminates some potentially large repair bills and allows you to get back to life as normal with a minimum of disruption. All of our work is fully guaranteed, which means you and your family can sleep securely knowing that there are no other undiscovered problems waiting on you.\nOne of the worst water damage problems that you can face is that related to sewage damage, since sewage contains parasites, fungi, and bacteria that can cause serious discomfort and illness if exposed to humans or pets. Sewage is often referred to as Category 3 Water or Black Water, and almost always requires professional attention in order to ensure quality remediation.\nAt All Dry Water Damage and Flood Damage Services, we work hard to provide the best in customer service, which allows you, the property owner, to be informed and aware of everything that is happening on, in, and around your property during the restoration process. Our customer service representatives will be glad to answer any questions you may have and keep you updated as repairs progress.\nThe final step in the restoration process is, well, restoration. This is the returning of your property to its pre loss condition. Water can inflict a great deal of damage, and not only will surfaces have to be dried out and disinfected, but in many cases there may be damage to flooring and drywall that will need specialized attention. We will make sure that your home is left in the condition it was in before the water damage occurred.\nWith nearly two decades of water damage restoration experience, the professionals at All Dry Water Damage and Flood Damage Services are the go to authority in your area for all problems related to water damage, removal, repair, and restoration. Our team of service providers is fully licensed, insured, and ready to handle any and all water damage problems, both residential and commercial. We offer same day emergency service which means a technician at your door within an hour of your call, and we will work directly with your homeowner\u2019s insurance adjuster to reduce your out of pocket costs. 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Social education | national council for the social studies, Social education, our peer-reviewed, flagship journal, contains a balance of theoretical content and practical teaching ideas. the award-winning resources include techniques for using materials in the classroom, information on the latest instructional technology, reviews of educational media.\n\u00ab bosses day poem using candy bar names\nnote for new parents to be \u00bb\ntop homemade gifts for 2012\nbosss week 2013\napprciation poems co worker\nangel poem to go with dish towels\nNational Food Safety Week 2013\nwhat to write in card to coworker when leaving job\nprimary singing schedule 2013\nmessage for departing boss\nCalendar in to weeks 2013\nsample womens day welcome speeches\nchurch volunteer appreciation - female animal transformation - toast to wives - superhero teacher appreciation free downloads - religious poems for pastors - sample of thank you speech for recognition - teacher growing quote - what to write in a thankyou card after illness - honor bee certificate lds - thank you for the cupcakes quotes -", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justcolleges.com/essays/university-of-nebraska-sociology-graduate-school-sample-essay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:25Z", "digest": "sha1:V7JLFSPQJN6YVRGX6LCSSXW47MGQI66Z", "length": 5188, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "justcolleges.com", "title": "University of Nebraska - Sociology Graduate School Sample Essay | justcolleges", "raw_content": "Little Lessons I\u2019ve learned on my way\nLesson 1: Don\u2019t Lose Your Path\nIn his poem, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost wrote, \u201cTwo roads diverge in the woods, and I took the one least traveled by/ And that has made all the difference.\u201d In this poem, the narrator had a choice of two roads. However, I\u2019ve discovered that life is a little more complicated. Sometimes the path we embark on is not always the one we choose. Sometimes we are pushed or pulled in certain directions and we have to react to our environment.\nMy path to a college education has been filled with bumps, potholes, detours and roadblocks. The signs often read \u201cyield\u201d and \u201cdo not enter.\u201d The path has not always been clear, but I\u2019ve kept my eyes opened, focused on the road ahead, and the experience has made all the difference.\nDuring my freshman year in high school, my mother remarried and I had to move from Colorado to Kentucky. One year later, we relocated back to Colorado after they divorced. During my junior year in high school, my mother remarried again and I had to change schools again, although we remained in Colorado. Thus, I did not have a sense of continuity during high school and although I recognized that my path would lead me to college, I was not ready to commit myself to school full time. Instead I went to work full time as a grocery clerk and worked my way up to assistant manager. I then moved into customer service work and finally fell into an advertising manager position. I took several night courses during this period until I was ready to commit to school full time. Although I could have continued with work, I knew that it was not what I wanted to do and once I committed myself to attending school and realized that I wanted to study Sociology, I have proven myself to be an above average student. This past year, I earned all \u201cA\u201ds in my courses.\nAlthough it took me a bit longer to complete my undergraduate education, I consider it to be my greatest success. I paid for it, I struggled through it, and I gave up a great deal of my life for it. I also realize that my educational path is not complete. I believe that my struggles, perseverance, and triumph through my undergraduate studies qualify me as an excellent Ph.D candidate in your Political Sociology department.\nLesson 2: Become an Active Listener\nWhen I was growing up, whenever the phone would ring, my mother would say, \u201cthe doctor is in.\u201d I believe that one of my strengths lie in the way I communicate and deal with children. I think that we must become active listeners in order to understand each other. During my internship with the Instititute for Social Justice, I worked with inmates on research for alternative social models of punishment. In order to do the job effectively, I needed to empathize with the inmates so that I could understand their concerns and needs and remedy any self-destructive conduct they exhibit. The work also involved an all out hunt on my part to place these inmates into environments and programs that would prove healthy for them.\nI maintained a working relationship with my friends at the Institute and checked their progress weekly. I believe that the power to empathize, or the ability to put yourself in someone else\u2019s place begins with an open mind. When I say that we must become active listeners in order to understand one another, I mean to say that there are subtle movements in our speech, certain words that we use, certain utterances that are not directed towards us, certain circumstances unrevealed to us. We must endeavor to hear all of them. I believe that this skill will help me greatly as a Ph.D candidate in your department.\nLesson 3: Learn From Your Experiences\nIn 1997, my mother was diagnosed with lupus. I was enrolled in a full course load but I dropped three classes so that I could spend more time with my mother and comfort her as much as I could. I felt so helpless because I did not know how to help her. I resolved to know more about the disease, I attended Lupus support group meetings and found out about a diet that helps regulate the body\u2019s immune system. I also talked to several neurologists and researched several drugs that were FDA approved. Through our collective effort, we found a terrific drug and the disease has stabilized for almost a year. This experience has taught me that even if a subject is miles away from the reach of your contemplation, you can learn much from research and from the knowledge and experience of others.\nAnd as I offer myself as a Ph.D candidate in your Political Sociology department, I bring to the table years of work experience which includes steady and continuous promotions, an unrelenting pursuit for knowledge, a compassion for children and people, and a belief that anything is possible if we can actively imagine it into existence. Throughout my adult life, I never lost my path and I hope that you will allow me to continue this path at the University of Nebraska.\nThe Purpose of the College Application Essays Duke University \u2013 Sample Essay for Graduate Program in Public Policy 25 Most Common Business School Essay Writing Mistakes Duke University \u2013 Genetics Program \u2013 Graduate School Sample Essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kabbalahstudent.com/page/29/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LY2Q7TINP3MXZK2NDCF2EXRDYWCUSUNM", "length": 2371, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "kabbalahstudent.com", "title": "Kabbalah Student - Part 29", "raw_content": "THE PROBLEM WITH KABBALAH\nHere it is in a nutshell: You first come to Kabbalah and, if you\u2019re like most people, you fall head over heals in love with the wisdom. Wow, you say. This makes so much sense. It\u2019s like I knew all of these...\nNow is a good time to watch again an earlier video I posted a while back. It helps us to remember a profound Kabbalistic insight: The good and positive traits we are born with do not win us any points...\nIf you want to experience the most dramatic, insane, miraculous change in your life, if you have the guts, courage, craziness in your soul, then hop on a plane and join the Kabbalah Centre for Rosh Hashanah in Miami. When...\nHow do we genuinely spread the Zohar? It is the removal of our ego that empowers and accelerates the sharing of Zohar throughout the world. There were many negative people in history who abused the Zohar. Therefore, we must realize...\nKABBALAH, CHRISTIANITY, GOLGOTHA, AND THE MYSTERY OF I.N.R.I.\nThis is PART TWO of the Kabbalah & Christianity lecture I did on Kabbalah TV. This is a bit more advanced as it was part of a lecture on Lag B\u2019 Omer, but it resolves the 2000 year old mysteries of Christianity...\nAccording to the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, \u201ctime\u201d is an illusion. \u201cTime\u201d is a phantasm created, in part, by the five senses. \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201ctoday,\u201d and \u201ctomorrow\u201d are actually enfolded into one unified whole. Whoah! Sounds a bit trippy! But guess...\nby Billy Phillips \u00b7 Published August 24, 2011 \u00b7 Last modified September 17, 2018\nRosh Hashanah offers many powerful tools and opportunities to take control over our destiny. How? By taking control over the twelve months that immediately follow it. In this second article on the Kabbalistic Insights into Rosh Hashanah, I will share some profound secrets...\nby Billy Phillips \u00b7 Published July 15, 2011 \u00b7 Last modified March 26, 2012\nPINCHAS: KEEP IT SIMPLE\nTomorrow is Kabbalist Rav Berg\u2019s absolute favorite Torah portion of the year. As we hear the Torah on Shabbat, know one thing with absolute certainty: The Light radiating from the Reading, the uttering of the words and the soulful sound...\n1. The 42 Things I learned from Rav Berg, Karen Berg, Yehuda and Michael Berg and my four children ONLY occurred because of the unwavering, unconditional, rock solid, loving, insanely generous, tough and superhuman kindness and support of the most...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 8257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kabbalahstudent.com/the-blindness-of-our-consciousness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:30Z", "digest": "sha1:G442UYGK64HR3ULB4ZU62XBRMQK4DYTP", "length": 4039, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "kabbalahstudent.com", "title": "THE BLINDNESS OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS | Kabbalah Student - Billy Phillips", "raw_content": "A dog possesses a certain level of consciousness. A dog at home in Los Angeles can perceive its immediate surroundings and world.\nBut the dog is totally clueless, blind and unaware of what\u2019s happening in the rest of the city, the rest of the country and the rest of the world. The dog has no conception of the events happening in Europe, the Middle East, Asia etc., even though this whole other world is present in the here and now.\nThe rest of our world\u2014including all the movies, entertainment, politics and the myriad of human events unfolding\u2014absolutely do not exist for this dog. The poor creature is 1000% blind and unconsciousness in regards to this other world that is right in front of its face.\nWe too are blind.\nOur present level of consciousness blinds us in the exact same way to other worlds that are here right now, present and existing whole and complete, and yet invisible to our senses ONLY because our consciousness is limited.\nWorlds upon worlds upon worlds can co-exist among us, and yet we see and know nothing of their reality. They do not exist for us, even though their existence is as tangible as the screen you are reading this on.\nParadise and this true reality are here. Right now. It\u2019s all right in front of our noses. They co-exist with us, the same way the rest of the world co-exists with the dog.\nWe can access, perceive and experience this perfected reality when we remove our blinders\u2014the egocentric reactive consciousness that acts as a thick blanket hung over our head.\nKabbalah focuses on removing our egocentric, reactive nature only because that is how we begin to see and experience the true worlds that are right in front of us at this very moment.\nGod is not planning to pull back the curtain on our behalf to reveal true reality.\nIt\u2019s up to us to eradicate the blinding reactive influence of the human ego to discover the magic, the fulfillment and the perfected world that has been here all along.\nThis is the evolution that is taking place.\nAnd it\u2019s up to us.\nKabbalah is merely a tool and technology for liberating us from the reactive human ego and taking off the blindfold.\nHow can we practically do that? It\u2019s one thing saying what we need to do, which is good to know, but it is much better to know how to achieve it. kabbalists have known this for ages and yet our world is still in a mournful state. What do we need to do?\nWalk the path. Use the tools. The tools connect us to Light. Energy. This gives us the strength to allow our ego to become diminished during the heat of an argument. We need to share more, when its totally inconvenient and uncomfortable. We need to shut up when we feel the need to give our opinion and scream at others. We need to speak up when we are to afraid to speak our mind. Its all about not reacting to the whims of ego. The tools arouse Light and this Light also diminishes the strength of the darkness within us. Studying Kabbalah, for instance, is NOT about becoming smarter. When we absorb a simple principle, the principle itself is a spark of Light. That Light weakens our reactive nature. The more we learn, the more Light that shines inside of us. The more we share, the more Light that shines inside of us. The more we shut down our reactions especially during arguments, the more Light that shines inside of us.\nwow, there are way too many of us waiting for a savior to do the work for us, just too many. is there there is a merciful plan for those of us who do not choose the path of self transformation.\nAs it is written in The Bible \u201cand the blind shall see\u201d it is also written \u201cfor those who have eyes to see\u201d \u2013 the task of course is developing the proper spiritual eyesight, and that is no easy task. Then again tasks that are easy are generally not very rewarding. Fortunately we have the sages and teachings to guide us. Now if we will only make the individual and group effort to listen and learn.\nLove your posts \u2013 keep it up Billy. \u2013 Best wishes Cecil\nNext story THE SECRET BURIED IN MOUNT NEBO\nPrevious story MIND OVER MATTER IS HERE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kathleencullenfinearts.com/tablets_nickpoe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BZS3FIU36ZOE5GMNYGMFJBEYXN5JBLUH", "length": 1185, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kathleencullenfinearts.com", "title": "Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts - Exhibitions / Tablets", "raw_content": "Opening Reception October 27, 2011 6-8 pm\nKathleen Cullen Fine Arts is pleased to present TABLETS, an exhibition of new work by Nick Poe. Tablets refers to the format of the objects exhibited, and alludes to prehistoric stone, clay, wax and wooden tablets, as well as contemporary electronic tablets: devices with which to capture and disseminate information.\nThe pieces on view are serene, image-less, photo-sculptural compositions. They are hybrids that incorporate print, pigment and fine woodwork almost interchangeably. They dodge prescribed categories of photography, painting and sculpture.\nThe series functions as a remedial reflection on the entropic experience of information-overload, and in particular, the burden of sensory and image deluge. The shaped tablets call to attention and contextualize the medium of framing itself and its position aside imagery. The frame serves to highlight and demarcate content (or lack thereof) both literally and conceptually, making a bid to decelerate, and purify, the act of looking and perceiving.\nNick Poe lives and works in New York. He graduated from New York University in 2007 with degrees in filmmaking, art history and drawing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kaz-tea.kz/about-us/affiliations/kostanay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UP5G2PNNH42WKOSITW4N7MC7LE56TWQT", "length": 1833, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kaz-tea.kz", "title": "Kostanay \u00ab KazTEA", "raw_content": "TEK was established by Julia Kupriyanova in 1998 and has been successfully working for 8 years thanks to Julia\u2019s enthusiasm and great devotion to teaching and joining people together.\nMy name is Olga Tyshchenko. I work as a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute and I became Kostanay English Teachers\u2019 Association President in September, 2006. Being the member of Association since its foundation I couldn\u2019t refuse the invitation to become its leader not to lose the TEK Resource Centre and looking forward to developing teachers\u2019 collaboration through organizing different workshops and professional development programs to enrich knowledge and capacities of teachers as well as to reinforce progressive teaching techniques and to present innovative methods to all teachers at the international level.\nNo doubt the difficulties in teaching English require the joint work of all the members of our organization and native speakers if it is possible. I\u2019m happy to be a counterpart of Lenore Hinson, a Peace Corps Volunteer who is working as a teacher at Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute. Thanks to her practical invaluable help and proficiency we could organize the First International Seminar \u201cMethodology \u2013 Student Centered Learning\u201d on 17.01.07 for 32 City Teachers and on 19.01.07 for 40 Village Teachers with different level of participants\u2019 experience: young teachers, experienced PhDs, teacher \u2013 trainers and methodologists.\nThose seminars were conducted with the cooperation and support of Kostanay Department of Education and Kostanay Regional Institute of Teachers\u2019 Development. All participants were given Certificates and filled out the surveys where they expressed their desires and challenges, their need for new ideas and benefits they could obtain sharing their knowledge and educational creativity with each other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kdat.com/two-shootings-in-cedar-rapids-on-monday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OL36ZGSYEV2JP7LXPWJKCHPCGUQXFZAM", "length": 827, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kdat.com", "title": "Two Shootings In Cedar Rapids On Monday", "raw_content": "Two Shootings In Cedar Rapids On Monday\nAccording to CBS2, Police were called to investigate two shootings in Cedar Rapids on Monday. The first incident involved an adult male near the 1400-block of 5th Avenue SE The report stated the shooting occurred at 1:22 p.m. The man was taken to the hospital and is said to be recovering with non-life threatening injuries.\nThe second shooting report of the day was reported in the 5100-block of 16th Avenue SW. A woman was found at the Shamrock Apartments around 5:50 p.m. Her injuries from the incident appear to be non-life-threatening.\nPolice haven't released any names in either shooting. We will continue to follow this story and provide updates as soon as we receive more information.\nTo read the full story, check out this link courtesy of our news and weather partners at CBS2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kellysmithreviews.blogspot.com/2015/05/author-interview-michael-schutz-ryan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:STDLBE3VLOOGWGFFDSSW2HGPOPLTC6ZF", "length": 7591, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "kellysmithreviews.blogspot.com", "title": "Kelly Smith Reviews: AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Michael Schutz-Ryan", "raw_content": "I read my first novel\u2014The Black Stallion\u2014in first grade. It enthralled me. I asked to use the typewriter my aunt had loaned my mother, and I sat with that book open to the first page, transcribing the words. I was mesmerized how letters formed words, words became sentences, and sentences became paragraphs. All forming a movie of words rather than pictures in my head. I knew I had to do this. I needed to create my own stories.\nWalter Farley, the author of The Black Stallion series inspired me first. Then I discovered Ray Bradbury a few years later. I devoured every story and novel of his I could find. After that came Stephen King. Wow, he really blew my mind! At my grade school I was the only one who knew about Stephen King. Maybe because we were still so young! But I thought I\u2019d discovered this new author, a treasure few people had heard of. Then in high school I saw his books everywhere. I learned that he was just about the most popular novelist ever! So much for my secret find. I still read King\u2019s novels and short stories as soon as they come out. Peter Straub is a favorite of mine. And I recently discovered John Sandford. He\u2019s terrific!\n3. What was the inspiration behind your novel Blood Vengeance?\nBlood Vengeance was very much inspired by my own move to San Francisco, though my experiences lacked the supernatural! I had very little money and lived with a friend in the Tenderloin. A lot of crazy stuff went down there. I wanted to write about the loneliness and confusion I felt at the time, as well as about that dark, dirty aspect of San Francisco that is hidden away from the touristy and wealthy districts. All that set the stage for this idea growing in my head: the ghost of a serial killer continuing to torment his victims.\n4. Why did you decide to write about a bullied character? Was there any significance?\nI was never bullied outright, but I endured more than my share of teasing. Growing up gay in a small town in Wisconsin\u2014and in a parochial school\u2014was tremendously difficult. Those days have haunted me throughout my life. I read all those horrible news stories about kids killing themselves because they don\u2019t fit in. Or being killed by classmates! It is an issue with which I\u2019m deeply connected. At least in small part, Blood Vengeance is about triumph over that.\n5. What was it about serial killers and the dead that interest you?\nI remember when the police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer. That all happened while I was learning to drive, and all the radio stations reported constant updates while I was out practicing. I\u2019m from Wisconsin, so that was local news. My recollection is that no one even knew a serial killer was murdering in Milwaukee. Dahmer kept his victims, so there wasn\u2019t a body count. Then all of sudden, here was the devil right in my home state, killing young gay men. There was so much speculation. That was a different kind of horror than with traditional serial killers. All that terror was dumped in our laps all at once. That\u2019s what sparked my interest in the \u201cserial killer genre.\u201d\nThere\u2019s quite a bit of me in Brennan. We like the same books, same movies, same music. We think alike. But he\u2019s certainly not a mirror image. I took my own experiences and used them as a starting point for him. All the other characters are mostly made-up. Though I think it\u2019s inevitable that quirks and traits of people I\u2019ve met will end up informing characters I write.\nI\u2019m very happy being a dark fiction writer. Fortunately, that covers many topics. I can see myself writing more dramatic-themed novels, not so supernatural or outright horror. The dark corners of human psychology interest me.\n8. What would you do if you were dealing with Brennan's paranormal experiences?\nRun for the hills! Seriously, though, I hope I\u2019d have the presence of mind to keep my cool. He handles it all pretty well. Of course, he has Tara to help. She\u2019s the voice of reason and logic. That\u2019s really the point of the book\u2014of Brennan\u2019s group of friends. We all have different voices inside us. Sometimes they point out our own flaws and insecurities, or tempt us into doing the wrong thing. But just as often, they suggest ways to make us better people.\n9. Everyone loves horror for different reasons. Why are you, personally, attracted to the genre?\nFirst and foremost, I love to be scared. And I\u2019m a huge horror movie fan. I like sitting alone in a dark theatre\u2014or at least in my living room with all the lights off\u2014and being genuinely frightened. Ghost stories and haunted house tales are my favorites. More and more, horror movies are going for shock and gore. I like that, too! I enjoy many foreign horror movies; those tend to push the envelope further than American horror. In writing, the extreme horror and splatterpunk movements are interesting. But what truly gets me is a slow, tension-building novel or even short story (or movie). I like feeling off-kilter. Kafka, Poe, and Lovecraft were all masters at creating unease. That a thrilling experience for me. I hope to create those same feelings with my own work.\n10. Would you like to see Blood Vengeance as a film? If yes, who do you want to see play your characters?\nI would love to see a film version of Blood Vengeance! Kier Gilchrist (It Follows) would be perfect for Brennan. Or Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In). And though he\u2019s older than the age I\u2019ve written for Uncle Marc, I always imagined Mark Ruffalo in that part. Jayden Smith would be wonderful as Alex.\nI will hopefully have ten more novels out! I want to steadily increase my readership, to reach more people. All I want to do is write stories for the rest of my life. I hope I can entertain\u2014and disturb\u2014a lot of fans.\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019d be teaching English and literature at a small college. All my friends told me I would make a great teacher\u2014that my excitement about reading was contagious. Of course, I\u2019m sure that I would still be scribbling short stories when I came home at night.\nMy next book, Edging, is at my publishers now, awaiting final edits. That one is DeLillo\u2019s White Noise meets Peter Straub\u2019s Floating Dragon. I had a lot of fun writing it. And right now, my third book is ready to come to life. It\u2019s burning a hole in my mind.\nFriend and fellow author Jason White and I have discussed writing a screenplay together. Nothing is written down just yet. I also wonder if Stephen King and Peter Straub would bring me aboard for another Jack Sawyer adventure.\nI love Pink Floyd and saw them in 1994.\nI don\u2019t like fruit salad. I don\u2019t like all my fruit touching each other, juices mingling. I like to eat things separately.\nMy husband and I have three cats: Casey, Oliver, and Lizzie. They are all spoiled rotten.\nBio: Michael Schutz-Ryan was born and raised in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin. He attended the UW-Stevens Point and graduated with an English degree from the Madison campus. A lifelong diet of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King whet his appetite for the macabre. A lover of all things horror, he plumbs the depths of Netflix in search of scary movies, and then podcasts and blogs about them on Darkness Dwells (http://www.darknessdwells.com) His debut novel, Blood Vengeance, was recently published by Permuted Press. His short fiction has been featured in the anthologies Ugly Babies, Cranial Leakage: Tales from the Grinning Skull, Beyond the Nightlight, and in the magazines Infernal Ink, Expanded Horizons, and SQ Mag. He lives in northern California with his husband and their three furry cat-children.\nhttp://www.michaelschutzryan.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/michaelcschutzryan\nhttps://www.twitter.com/schutz_ryan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 12627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keybiscayne.fl.gov/index.php?src=events&srctype=detail&category=Council%20Meeting&refno=7756", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:UEWGOAH6KVGXCMB7WXEJNX24ZMJN46XI", "length": 314, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "keybiscayne.fl.gov", "title": "Public Notice: More Than One Councilmember May Attend Miami-Dade League of Cities Board Meeting - Village of Key Biscayne", "raw_content": "Public Notice: More Than One Councilmember May Attend Miami-Dade League of Cities Board Meeting\nLocation: Show map Melreese Country Club\nNotice is hereby given that more than one Village Councilmember may attend the Miami-Dade League of Cities Board of Directors Meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 6, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 7315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kickthemallout.com/index.php?topic=Free_Speech&page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SR2PC6L66A66ZIKG2AURLM3HAB642B6L", "length": 14871, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "kickthemallout.com", "title": "Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship - Kick Them All Out Project", "raw_content": "Posted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship\nConservative commentator Gavin Mcinnes appeared on Breitbart News Saturday this week to discuss his recent Twitter suspension and why it\u2019s up to President Trump to stop social media censorship.\nAppearing alongside Breitbart News Editor Amanda House, conservative commentator and CRTV host Gavin McInnes discusses his recent suspension from Twitter and the banning of his pro-Western mens group, The Proud Boys. During the interview, McInnes warned that the banning of Alex Jones was just the beginning of mass consevative censorship and soon websites like Breitbart and Fox News would also have to worry about being censored online.\nIf the audio won't play please report the problem by clicking here.\nSays \u201chate speech\u201d is a political tool to shut down dissent\nProfessor Erik Nielson warns in a New York Times op-ed that the kind of censorship that saw Infowars banned from most major social media platforms this week will eventually backfire on the left.\nIn an article entitled If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistence?, Nielson, who is an associate professor of liberal arts at the University of Richmond, writes that \u201cmounting pressure from the political left to censor hateful speech may have unintended consequences.\u201d\nCautioning that leftists should be \u201cwary\u201d of applauding the likes of Apple, Facebook and YouTube banning Alex Jones, Nielson writes, \u201cIf we become overzealous in our efforts to limit so-called hate speech, we run the risk of setting a trap for the very people we\u2019re trying to defend.\u201d\nThe professor cites inflammatory rhetoric used by black leaders after the civil rights era which led to them being put under surveillance and subjected to harassment by the FBI under the justification of them being labeled \u201chate groups\u201d.\nHe also cites the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which \u201cfederal lawmakers have increasingly tried to shut the movement down by accusing it of hate speech,\u201d in addition to Black Lives Matter, which some have attempted to label a hate group by making the target of their anger, police officers, a protected class.\nHe also makes the point that the 2017 Women\u2019s March was accused of engaging in \u201chate\u201d because it had links to anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.\n\u201cIf we allowed these voices to be silenced on grounds that they promote hate, we\u2019d find ourselves scrambling to defend the radical poets, musicians, filmmakers and other artists who have pushed the boundaries of expression into what could arguably amount to hate speech, but who have done so from the vanguard of social and political protest,\u201d writes Nielson.\nHe also points to the hypocrisy of Spotify reversing its decision to \u201cstop promoting artists who engage in hateful speech or conduct,\u201d but then banning Alex Jones for that very reason.\n\u201cWithin weeks, Spotify reversed course, noting that its policy was \u201cvague.\u201d But by silencing Mr. Jones on its platform, it\u2019s not exactly clear where Spotify is drawing the line.\nAnd that\u2019s the inherent danger in attempting to limit something like hate. It can be so broadly defined that our efforts to counteract it will be broad, too.\nIf that happens, we risk silencing the voices and perspectives we can least afford to lose. That\u2019s not a triumph over hate. That\u2019s falling victim to it.\u201d\nNielson\u2019s argument will resonate with real liberals, but given that much of the left has abandoned liberal principles and aggressively supported censorship, so long as it\u2019s directed against their political adversaries, don\u2019t expect the blue check mark brigade on Twitter to embrace his position.\nPosted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship , Internet/Social Media\nMark Dice commentary on the full frontal assault on Free Speech by almost totally obliterating Alex Jones from almost every social media platform.\nBut Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube have offered, at most, only copy and paste explanations for why they banned InfoWars content from their platforms \u2014 or why, after months of pressure from the Democrats and CNN, they all came to the same decision on the same day. Questions about transparency have a much broader scope that just the case of InfoWars and Alex Jones. Beyond the banning of other individuals such as Tommy Robinson, the same questions apply to a whole host of actions by the Masters of the Universe, including partnering with foreign governments to shut down accounts, shadowbanning users to limit the scope of their engagement, and mass user purges.\nBreitbart News sent the following questions to Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple earlier today, and have yet to receive a real answer for most of them. Apple and YouTube chose to provide the same canned statement they provided to all other media outlets who contacted them, while Facebook and Spotify ignored our request entirely.\nTHE QUESTIONS SILICON VALLEY WON\u2019T ANSWER\n1) What content specifically from InfoWars/Alex Jones was found to be\u201dhate speech\u201d and otherwise rule breaking?\nInfoWars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson confirmed to Breitbart News that none of the tech giants that targeted InfoWars and Alex Jones over the past 24 hours pointed to specific content that violated their terms of service.\nPosted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship , Media/ Media Corruption\nMake no mistake. This is the most serious attack on our right to free speech and if it goes unchallenged, everyone else is next!\nBombshell New Report Reveals How Tech Giants Are Systematically Destroying The First Amendment\n(Natural News) On Monday, Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, in conjunction with Infowars, released a new report that outlines in stunning detail how the tech media giants \u2014 think Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter especially \u2014 are working in tandem to deny tens of millions of Americans access to news and information the social media corporations find politically objectionable.\nNot only that, Adams argues, the systematic censoring of certain political viewpoints \u2014 think conservative viewpoints, in particular \u2014 is a blatant denial of their rights to exist in today\u2019s increasingly Internet-connected world.\nCalled \u201cThe Censorship Master Plan Decoded,\u201d or also known as simply \u201cThe Adams Report,\u201d the paper spells out the cost to society of so much censorship (which, full disclosure, the social media giants deny), and the inherent damage to our political, social, and cultural discussions as a result of suppressing views that don\u2019t align with the groupthink of the Left.\nWhat\u2019s more, the report is revolutionary in that it is the first of its kind: Thus far, no one else has put together such a \u201ccompendium\u201d of a data and facts demonstrating clearly that not only is censorship of conservative content by the social media giants taking place, it is designed to have a negative impact on conservative politics moving forward. (Related: Two of the world\u2019s most evil people \u2013 Bill Gates and George Soros \u2013 behind Facebook\u2019s news censorship agenda.)\nAdams notes in the report:\nToday\u2019s attacks on the First Amendment are being carried out by a \u201ctriple threat\u201d tag-team of institutions:\n#1) Tech giants \u2013 Their role is to carry out the mechanics of censorship, shadow banning, \u201cdoubt interruptions\u201d and other techniques described in this report.\n#2) Establishment media \u2013 Tasked with promoting the lynch mob mentality of hysteria and hatred which is translated into widespread calls for silencing whatever voices they don\u2019t like: CNN\u2019s insistent demand for InfoWars to be deplatformed from Facebook, for example.\n#3) Third party fact-checkers and moderators \u2013 These groups, such as the SPLC, Politifact, etc., are given the task of flagging all undesirable political speech (or even speech about natural health, as you\u2019ll see below) as \u201chate speech,\u201d creating the justification for tech giants to ban or deplatform such accounts without having to accept internal organizational responsibility for discriminating against selected targeted.\nThe objective is to eliminate all opposition speech\nHe states clearly and emphatically that this triple threat was consciously constructed for the express purpose of stifling news and views that do not comport with liberalism and, increasingly, authoritarian Marxism.\nWhat\u2019s ironic to note, when it comes to the Left\u2019s so-called \u201cfact checkers,\u201d these social media platforms are utilizing handpicked services that share the same ideology so that they can \u2018credibly\u2019 claim that the censorship of \u201cright-wing\u201d material is in the public\u2019s best interests. They are, in short, deciding what Americans can and cannot be exposed to when it comes to information.\n\u201cThus, we are now faced with a kind of perfect storm in America \u2014 a \u2018free speech apocalypse\u2019 \u2014 where all the institutions that once called for protections of the freedom of expression are now actively conspiring to exterminate it. This coordinated attack on free speech is now taking place in plain view. The agenda is not hidden, nor is it even debatable that this is taking place,\u201d Adams writes.\nThe goal is sinister: The complete abolition of all but Left-wing groupthink speech, and the effort to do so is being accelerated ahead of the 2018 midterm elections (which Democrats have been claiming will result in a \u201cblue wave\u201d takeover of the House and Senate).\nAdams notes this effort \u2014 in addition to denying Americans their right to exist on platforms that have grown so large as to be pervasive and vital to society \u2014 is also a form of election interference (and without any Russian assistance).\nRead the compelling, important report by clicking here.\nNYT- Op-Ed Calls For The Complete Silencing of All Conservatives FOREVER\nBecause Liberals Can't Win When Public Debate Is Tolerated\nPosted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship , Democrats/Liberals/Progressives\nShould free speech be limited or even silenced whenever the viewpoints being expressed are deemed inadequate, uninformed, or lacking in merit by \u201chighly educated\u201d college professors? The answer is yes, according to Bryan W. Van Norden, a professor of philosophy at Wuhan University in China, as well as Yale-NUS College and Vassar College.\nIn a recent op-ed he wrote for The New York Times, Norden attempts to make the case that freedom of speech should end where ignorance begins \u2013 or at least his private interpretation as to what constitutes ignorance. In this case, Norden sees conservative viewpoints as being ignorant, and wants conservatives not to have a voice when it comes to influencing public opinion.\nIn Norden\u2019s view, only people like himself \u2013 the \u201cproperly educated,\u201d as he puts it \u2013 have the capacity to mull through conflicting information and determine what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false. Because of this, conservatives who present information that he believes is false shouldn\u2019t be allowed to do so any longer because there are apparently too many \u201cimproperly\u201d educated people in the world that might fall for it.\nKeep in mind that Norden\u2019s definition of false information is simply information with which he disagrees. Illustrating this are two examples of \u201cfalse\u201d information that he presents in his article: The idea that the infamous photo of the crying illegal alien girl was staged, and the belief that the official story about what took place during the Sandy Hook school shooting might not be entirely true.\nAs we recently reported, the TIME cover photo of the crying alien girl was, indeed, fake \u2013 something that even TIME itself now admits. And as far as Sandy Hook goes, there remains a whole host of unanswered questions about this strange incident that any rational, non-biased person has no choice but to admit are completely valid.\nLiberals like Norden think they\u2019re the only people on earth enlightened enough to understand facts and truth\nBut Norden doesn\u2019t acknowledge any of this. In his opinion, the little girl in the pink jacket is, in fact, a migrant who was separated from her parents by the meanie Trump administration. And Sandy Hook happened exactly the way the government says it did \u2013 even the parts that don\u2019t make a lick of logical sense.\nIt\u2019s the epitome of elitist patronizing, illustrating just how high-minded liberals like Norden are when it comes to matters of fact and truth. In their deluded minds, people like Norden believe that their own personal truths \u2013 the way they see the world \u2013 is the ultimate truth, always. And anyone who dares to disagree by presenting an alternative argument is just some ignorant dolt spreading misinformation.\nBut it doesn\u2019t work, as revealed by The Daily Caller\u2018s Ben Shapiro. In a well-crafted critique of Norden\u2019s self-aggrandizing manifesto that basically calls for censorship of conservative voices, Shapiro reveals many of Norden\u2019s grossly illogical positions, including his belief that there\u2019s no single way to think about something rationally.\nThis is a truly ironic position for Norden to take, since he apparently believes that he and other people just like him hold a corner on truth. It\u2019s simply the latest tactic of Ivory Tower lunatics like Norden who recognize that their influence on society is starting to wane, which is why they\u2019re increasingly lashing out at the opposing viewpoints that are rapidly gaining ground in their place.\n\u201cIn the end, Norden isn\u2019t making an intellectual case for general societal disapproval of a particular position,\u201d concludes Shapiro. \u201cHe\u2019s expressing a primal frustration with the fact that his arguments aren\u2019t winning. And thus he wants to change the rules of the game \u2026\u201d\nVideo: How Does One Make The List of Hate Groups/Individuals Put Out By The Southern Poverty Law Center? (SPLC)\nPosted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship , Islam/Muslims\nBNI and several of my fellow anti-Islam bloggers have been on this far left slander list for years. If you are on the list, you are automatically considered a \u201cRacistHaterBigotIslamophobe.\u201d\nThe SPLC has become the US hate monitor and is the basis for censorship by Twitter, Face Book, Google, and You Tube. The fact that SPLC has been discredited by the FBI is ignored. Anti-Islam groups comprise one of the largest sections of the list but virulent Jew/Christian-hating groups like CAIR are never included on the list as you can see below.\nThe purpose of the SPLC is to censor all those who have different political ideas. They oppose free speech as hate speech. They reject fact based reasoning and critical thought. The Jewish Federation is a partner with these totalitarians. They are joined by Christian groups that are apologists for Islam.\nVideo: Tommy Robinson In Prison (FULL STORY)\nPosted in Free Speech/First Amendment/Censorship , Govt. Corruption/Tyranny\nTommy Robinson was sentenced to a year in prison today. There is a UK publication ban on this story, but Canada's Ezra Levant and TheRebel.media can give you a full account of what happened.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 489, "original_length": 27773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kids.christiansunite.com/Bible_Stories/Bible_Story_223.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6TXONSDEE5EVFVOHYHXA6Z3URYOIEF5C", "length": 4924, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "kids.christiansunite.com", "title": "Paul, The Faithful Missionary and His Last Farewell", "raw_content": "You're here \u00bb Kids Index - Bible Stories - The Apostles - Paul's Last Farewell\nPaul, The Faithful Missionary and His Last Farewell Acts 20:5 to Acts 21:17\nAfter a young man named Eutychus falls from a window and dies while Paul is preaching, Paul raises him back to life.\nROM MACEDONIA, PAUL sailed across the sea to Troas, the city where he had seen a vision of a man of Macedonia calling for help. In this city he stayed for some days, then he made ready to start again toward Jerusalem.\nOn the night before leaving Troas, Paul preached a farewell sermon to the believers who lived in that city. They met together in a large room on the third floor, and here they broke bread in memory of the special supper that Jesus ate with his disciples before he was crucified. Then Paul talked to them until midnight; for he knew he should never see them again and he had many things to say before he should go away forever.\nWhile Paul was talking, a young man named Eutychus sat in an open window listening. After some time he grew sleepy and began to nod. Then he fell into a deep sleep and sank down on the window-sill. Losing his balance soon afterwards, he dropped from the window to the ground below.\nFriends rushed down the stairs and found that the fall had killed him. Then Paul went down to them and saw them weeping. He fell on the lifeless body, embraced it, and said to those who stood near, \"Do not be troubled, for his life is yet in him.\"\nAfter this had happened Paul returned to the company of believers upstairs and took food with them. He then continued his talk until break of day, when he bade them farewell and departed. They brought again into the assembly the young man who had fallen from the window. And the believers rejoiced to see him alive.\nPaul's next farewell-meeting was with the men who had come from Ephesus to the seacoast to meet him. These men were the one who had taken the leadership in the church at Ephesus when Paul left them. They were men whom he loved, and whom he counted faithful. They were called the \"elders\" of the church.\nPaul talked earnestly to these Ephesian brethren, reminding them of his work among them, and of his desire to teach them the whole word of God. He told them that now he was journeying toward Jerusalem and that they should never see his face again.\nHe said he did not know what would befall him in that city, only the Holy Spirit was warning him of danger ahead. But he said, \"None of these things make me afraid; for I do not count my life dear to myself. I am determined to finish with joy the work I have received of the Lord Jesus, to tell the gospel story to all men.\"\nPaul reminded them also of his work among them, how he had coveted no man's riches but had worked with his own hands to earn money for his food and clothes while he preached the gospel in their city. And he urged them to remember the words Jesus had spoken, that it is more blessed to give than to receive.\nWhen Paul had finished speaking he knelt down with the men and prayed earnestly to God, then he bade them good-by. These men wept aloud, and embraced their beloved teacher who would never more return to them. Then they went with him to the ship, on which he and his companions sailed away toward the homeland of the Jews.\nAt the seacoast town of Tyre the ship stopped several days, and here Paul and his companions met some more Christians and worshiped with them. When the time came for the ship to leave port, the Christians went with Paul to the seaside, and they knelt down on the shore to pray. Even the children of these Christian fathers and mothers went with Paul and his friends to the ship. The Holy Spirit had caused these Christians to understand that troubles would befall Paul in Jerusalem, and they urged him not to continue his journey; but he believed it would please God for him to go on.\nWhile Paul and his fellow travelers were visiting the church in Caesarea, an old man named Agabus came from Jerusalem. This old man was a prophet, for God caused him to know things that were to happen after a while. When he saw Paul he took off Paul's girdle and tied it about his own hands and feet. Then he said, So shall the wicked Jews at Jerusalem do to the man who owns this girdle, binding him and giving him over to the Gentiles.\nPaul's friends were greatly troubled when they heard this. They gathered round him, weeping, and pleaded with him to stay away from Jerusalem. But he answered, \"Why do you weep and break my heart? I am ready, not only to be bound at Jerusalem, but also to die there for the name of the Lord Jesus.\" When they saw they could not prevent him from going, they said, \"The will of God be done.\"\nNot many days afterwards Paul and his companions went over the mountains to the great city of the Jews. Other Christians from Caesarea joined their company, and when they came to Jerusalem the elders in the church there welcomed them with joy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kirillitsa.info/55722-victims-of-progress-bodley-essay/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5ISFEVFPZ76VU33CKGNBWZPPUBLEOWK6", "length": 2946, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kirillitsa.info", "title": "Victims of progress bodley essay What is reality essay", "raw_content": "Victims of progress bodley essay\nThis final chapter reinterpreted the historic debate over indigenous policy as a split between those arguing for and against political autonomy for indigenous peoples. People in Chiapas were discriminated against, their only property, land is also taken by the government. The reasons French government gave for this law is that For many non-Muslim French, they (headscarves) represent multiple dangers to the Republic: the oppression of women, urban violence, international terrorism, and the general refusal of Muslim immigrants to integrate into the broader society (Bowen, 31). Moreover I also pointed out that the ecological advantages were well demonstrated by the fact that most of the places slated for reserve status were worth saving precisely because they were territories used and maintained by indigenous peoples. My fieldwork with the Ash\u00e1ninka (Campa) in the Peruvian Amazon from 1964 to 1969 convinced me that indigenous peoples were not inevitably doomed to disappear by the advance of globally-organized commercial culture. So again, even though the international treaties lay down the obligation of protecting everyones human rights upon governments, some people are excluded from them because of collective human rights. Vref1 titleGroup Excluded from International Human Rights m dateNovember 2013 accessdate locationNottingham, UK Reference Copied to Clipboard.\nAbove all, international human rights law is created to ensure everyones rights in the whole world. It also appeared in Chapter 8 of the second edition.\nA Place Called Chiapas. My critique also was presented before a congressional hearing on the World Bank in Washington,.C. A republic can exist with symbols of different religion. My ideas on indigenous issues were further shaped in 1978 when Helge Kleivan arranged for me to meet with activist anthropologists in Denmark and Norway, including many of the founders of iwgia, during a series of university lectures. So this seems to be a problem about collective human rights and individual human rights, but is it? Group Excluded from International Human Rights Internet. Clink on the links below for closeup of covers and more information on each edition. Similarly, people, especially children, in Central and South America are excluded from the protection of human rights imposed by the law. I emphasized that indigenous peoples were not perfect human beings who enjoyed perfect health and existed in complete harmony with their natural environments. In 1986,1 was invited to serve on the Tasaday Commission, which met in Manila to hear compelling evidence that the Tasaday were not isolated Stone-Age people when they were discovered who to start a research paper in 1971. 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Please try another day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kurtdinan.blogspot.com/2015/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VLYMUSYTQFLUO7FDAPSGM2EDRL2WTY6G", "length": 20532, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "kurtdinan.blogspot.com", "title": "Kurt Dinan's Oftentimes Un-Updated Blog: March 2015", "raw_content": "Piecemeal Manifesto - Entry 3 - My Writing Process: Prewriting\nWhen I decided to start writing seriously, I emailed a lot of writers asking them about their process to find out what worked and didn't work for them. At the time I thought I was trying to learn as much about the craft as possible, but author-extraordinare Doug Clegg saw it differently. In an email back to me he explained how he writes, then said, and I'm paraphrasing here, \"What it really sounds like though is that you're looking for a magic pill that will help you write better. It doesn't exist. The trick is to find out what works for you, and do that. Only working and writing will help you discover your own process.\"\nAnd he was right. I was looking for a magic pill, some glowing tablet that real writers are given in a secret ceremony that when ingested made writing easier. But it doesn't exist. (Or if it does, and I'm lying about its existence, I'm sure as hell not telling you about it, peon. Plus, they'd kill me if I told, duh.) The more I thought about it, the more I realized Clegg was right--the way to figuring out your writing process is to discover it yourself. There are a lot of strategies and tips out there (thankfully), but you have to find what works for you, or more accurately, find strategies that interest you--lately, Steve Pressfield's Clothesline Method and Randy Ingerman's Snowflake Method have been helpful-- then modify them to fit your writing needs.\nSo what is my writing process like? It's messy. It's time consuming. And it's ever-changing. Mostly though, it's a lot of prewriting. And by a lot of prewriting, I mean A LOT of prewriting.\nJust a minute ago I went poking around my WATER TOWER 5 folder and counted over 200 files. 60% of those are chapter files--each being a different draft of a chapter as I went through seven revisions. Another 5% of those files are the query letter drafts I wrote during my agent search. And the other 35%? Those 70 files--please don't check my math here--are all notes and outline files.\nAnd here's a screenshot of the file for the novel I'm working on now.\n(I deleted the file called \"People I Want to Frame for Murder\" because I worried it might be used against me in court someday.\nNow, no one knows it ever existed. [Author wipes brow].)\nSo you don't have to count, that's 17 files, none of which are actual chapters. Hidden in those three folders is another 15 files. (For you non-math-heads, that's 32 files.) The oldest of the files dates back to November 22nd of last year because as every respectable book on writing tell you, it's best to start a new novel on the date a president was assassinated.\nWhat's in those files, and the 70 or so WT5 files, is notes. Lots and lots of notes. In the beginning I open a Word document and start what I call riffing. I type an idea and then follow the thread down, building off of it, seeing where it leads, asking a lot of questions and sometimes answering them, hoping to come across something that interests me. This can go on for a long time, lots of questioning and requestioning, finding lots of dead ends and dumb, discardable ideas. But eventually, if I stick with it long enough, I end up with something that I can work with. How long do I do this? Until I have a viable idea I'm interested in writing. Once I have that, I do a lot more riffing. In fact, some of those files run 10K words long.\nHere's a screenshot of one of the first plot riffs I wrote for LUCKY TOWN, my trunk novel. Looking at this now, I'm shocked by how none of this ended up in the final draft twelve drafts later. In fact, this whole storyline was abandoned and simplified into the YA novel it ended up as. I'm not even sure what most of this riff means now, but it helped me get to my finishing point.\nI do remember the novel was initially called Lockbox, but I have zero idea what FI stands for, and it's all over this page.\nThat's funny to me for some reason.\nI do this sort of riffing for a long time, opening new files when I get a character idea and storing them away, or a new file when I have a scene idea, twist idea, etc. Eventually, and this takes me a while, I'll have a semi-coherent plot worked out and characters, and can do an outline. After that, I can start writing, but even then, the story changes. I wish I was one of those writers who had the idea clearly in his or her head at the start and that's what it ends up as, but I'm not. Or maybe those people don't exist. If they do though, I hate them.\nI do know there are some writers just sit down and start drafting without an outline. They follow the Stephen King \"writers are archeologists\" belief, discovering the story and plot as they write. But that doesn't work for me. I get stuck and mostly want to give up. I also don't like to backtrack. I want to see the first draft through until the end, see what I have, then revise...or in my case usually, overhaul. It takes a lot of time, is probably not very efficient, but it works for me. And that's what matters.\nSo when will I get to actually start drafting my next novel? Soon, I hope. I won't push it though. I have a good grasp on my characters, the overall mystery and solution, and a bunch of scenes, but I'm struggling to get the outline finished. I think mystery novels call for detailed outlines--the hiding of clues, red herrings, etc.--calls for advanced planning. The good news is I like this stage. It's the creative part of the process for me. The actual drafting though? Ugh. But I'll save that griping for my next Piecemeal Manifesto entry.\nSo my question to you: If you're a writer, what prewriting process, if any, have you found that works for you?\nTL; DR: The best writing process is the one that works best for you.\nReview: Breaking Sky by Cori McCarthy\nCori McCarthy could kick your ass.\nI'm not saying she will, but she probably could if she wanted to. Because there's an anger in McCarthy's new novel BREAKING SKY that's hard to fake. The novel's protagonist, Chase \"Nyx\" Harcourt, is a teen fighter pilot during the Second Cold War in the year 2048. Nyx punches boys, disobeys military orders, and flies so recklessly and dangerously that you just know McCarthy has done the same in her lifetime. Or has wanted to. Either way, isn't that what you want from a novel--to find it so authentic that you feel you know the author somehow once it's finished? That's the way it was for me and BREAKING SKY.\n(Very cool cover!)\nThe novel's set-up is as follows: In the near future, China has pretty much taken over the world with superior military power, specifically killer drones that keep the United States isolated from the rest of the world. In response, the US military has created Streakers, experimental jets that it hopes will be able to destroy the drones and even out the balance of power. The problem? The Streakers fly so fast and are so difficult to maneuver that only teenagers have the physical make-up to fly them. Enter Nyx, a headstrong pilot who secretly is the daughter of one of the most hated military leaders in world history. (Note: I suck at summaries.) Basically for you pop culture junkies, it's a combination of Top Gun, Ender's Game, and Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck, who Nyx has a lot in common with in the best ways possible.\nWhat made the book so enjoyable for me was Nyx. Any reader will tell you that it's always about the main character, and in Nyx, McCarthy has a strong female protagonist who is confident and assertive and aggressive. I like that a lot. YA's greatest contribution to literature has been the strong female role model. Most readers of YA are teenage girls, and I like that they have characters like Katniss, Hazel, and now Nyx to look up to. This isn't to say Nyx is perfect--she's quick to anger and probably a bit too quick to make-out with boys before dismissing them, which one could argue isn't a fault at all--but don't we want our heroes flawed and real?\nBREAKING SKY's flying sequences are fantastically written--exciting, focused, and suspenseful. I sure as hell know I couldn't have written them. The writing throughout is clear and interesting, as well. McCarthy's nailed dialogue, which if I'm being honest, is my favorite part of any novel. Confrontational moments, which the book is full of, are tense, angry, and ring true.\nRecently, BREAKING SKY was acquired by Sony for possible movied-dom. It's easy to see why-- lots of exciting flying sequences, rebellious teenagers, and romance...it's pretty much a no-brainer. McCarthy said in a recent interview she's not working on a sequel, but I doubt that lasts for long. This book is going to be huge, as well it should be. If it's not, I'm pretty sure McCarthy is going to start kicking some ass. If so, god help us.\n(Oh, and in full disclosure: Cori McCarthy and I attended the same college, Ohio University. And we have the same publisher. And she lives one state away. Why is this relevant? Because I'm hoping people tie her awesomeness to me somehow. One can hope.)\nMy Visit to My Publisher\nRecently, I had the pleasure of visiting Sourcebooks, who will be publishing THE WATER TOWER 5. I arranged the trip because, let's face it, this could be the only book I ever sell, so I want to experience as much of the process as I can.\nHere's a brief history: Sourcebooks was founded in 1987 by Dominique Raccah, who, from everything I've read about her, is just amazing. (Seriously, look her up. Look at everything she's accomplished.) The company is located in Naperville, Illinois, outside of Chicago, and is not only known for their excellent publications, but their innovation. In 1997, they put out We Interrupt This Broadcast, which included a cd, one of the first, if not the first, publishers to do this. (I bought a copy of this book when it came out.) They also created the Put Me in the Story series and app, which allows parents to order books where the kids are the stars in series like Sesame Street, Marvel, and Disney. So yeah, the company is just really impressive.\nThus ends today's lesson.\nAfter school a couple of Tuesdays ago, I drove the six hours to Naperville, getting into my hotel room around 11. The next afternoon, I met up with my editor, Aubrey Poole, and three other Sourcebook-ers: editorial assistant Kate Prosswimmer, marketing coordinator Alex Yeadon, and public relations butt kicker Katy Lynch. (I would post a picture here of all of us at lunch, but I forgot to have our waiter take one. Duh.)\nAfter lunch, where we I interrogated these women about their jobs, we drove to the Sourcebooks office. My host and tour guide for the day was Aubrey, who, like I said earlier, is my book editor. She's awesome--smart, funny, and supportive. Here's a picture.\n(True story, my wife helped me choose my outfit. I'm basically a 10-year-old boy when it comes to dressing myself.)\nAt Sourcebooks, was is the first thing that greets me?\n(This is how they used to teach cattle proper posture in the Old West.)\nHow cool is that? It was also a great indicator of what was to come because the entire Sourcebooks office is full of life and energy. (Okay, yeah, the bull is an inanimate object, thereby not really an object of \"life and energy\", but you get the point.) Over the next hour and a half everyone I met was incredibly friendly, gracious, and excited about my being one of their authors. I met editors, artists, publicists, and promotional wizards. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was just fantastic, patiently answering all of my wide-eyed questions when I know they had 30 to 40 books they needed to be working on. Here's one of those fantastic people, Alex Yeadon, marketing coordinator.\n(Thinking, \"Who is this creepy bald guy taking my picture?\")\nThe only bummers of the day were not getting a chance to meet Dominique Raccah and Jean Johnson, both of whom were out sick. But, it just gives me a reason to schedule another visit.\nAfter a trip to the storeroom, where Aubrey loaded me up with a bunch of books to take home to my kids and students--thanks for that!--I was asked to sign the author wall. This, of course, was a really cool honor and I stressed about what to write and just how terrible my handwriting was, but I came up with something.\n(I may not have the best message on the wall, but it's certainly the highest.)\n(Yes, I have the handwriting of a nervous child.)\nIt was a wonderful trip and experience that made me want to: A. Quit my teaching job and go to work for Sourcebooks, B. Go write, and C. Work my butt off to help give The Water Tower 5 as much a chance to succeed as possible. I'm beyond thrilled to be a Sourcebooks author. I can't wait to get further into the process.\nMy Brother Eric\nLast Monday, February 23rd, my oldest brother Eric passed away at 53 after a 9 (!) year battle with pancreatic cancer. Below is the eulogy I gave at his memorial service on Saturday. I'm posting it here because most of you never had the chance to meet Eric, and that's a shame. Maybe by reading this you can have some idea of just how awesome he was.\nMy brother Eric was ten years and ten days older than me, so by the time I had a functioning memory, he was pretty old. My earliest memory of Eric goes like this:\nWhen I was seven, we lived in Annandale, Virginia. There was a park at the end of my street, and one day I was playing there in the creek by myself.\n(I think this set-up--a boy of seven allowed to play at a public park by himself--really calls into question my Mom and Dad\u2019s parenting skills.)\nI was making mudballs in the creek when a couple of older kids came along and ask me to make a mudball for them.\n\u201cExtra gooey,\u201d the kid said.\nFeeling cool that the older kids were talking to me, I complied, making an extra gooey mudball, finely crafted by my gullible seven-year-old hands.\nProudly, I presented the mudball to them with both hands in front of myself, and said, \u201cLike this?\u201d\nAnd that\u2019s when one of the kids slapped my hands upwards, sending the mudball--extra gooey--right into my face. The guys burst into hysterics. I started bawling and ran home.\nEric was there with a friend and said, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d\nSomehow I managed to tell him of my violent assault--heh--and he told me, \u201cGo upstairs and take a bath,\u201d then to his friend, \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d\nLater, Eric told me that he and his friend went down and beat those guys up. And I felt much, much better.\nNow, did Eric really go beat those guys up? At the time I certainly thought he did. Now, I\u2019m not so sure. But it doesn\u2019t really matter, does it? What matters is that that was my big brother doing what I think a big brother should do--protecting his little brother.\nAnd really, in my mind, that\u2019s what Eric always was: the quintessential Hollywood, big brother. Here\u2019s just a small sample of the things he did for me, his little brother:\n*He let me sit in his room and listen to his albums when he wasn't home. Eric\u2019s basically the reason my brain is basically a jukebox of every Billy Joel, Queen, Elton John, Cheap Trick, and ELO song.\n*He introduced me to The Twilight Zone, Monty Python, Mad Magazine, and Stephen King. (I\u2019ve always said I read as much as I do because Eric read a lot.)\n*He constantly took me to movies when I\u2019d ask. We go in his orange Ford Pinto, which we all know is a fiery death trap of a car, but my parents let him have one, which isn\u2019t surprising considering they let me play in parks alone at seven.\n*Took me to arcades\n*He played countless games of backgammon, chess, and Uno with me. Unfortunately, being a good big brother never extended to him letting me win.\n*In 1985 he took me to my first concert - Weird Al Yankovic.\n*He invited me visit him in North Carolina when he moved there after college.\nHe did all of this and more, and always without complaining or grumbling.\nIf you need more evidence of what type of person he was, look no further than that fact that he moved less than half a mile from my parents. On purpose. Talk about taking one for the team.\nEric was always walking the dog up to our parents' house and helping them out with chores they couldn't do. In fact, he was the only one of us who could put their sliding screen door back on it\u2019s rails I. have no idea who\u2019s going to do that now.\nAnd for the brothers, including myself, we all sort of knew Eric was in charge. His opinion mattered most - well, maybe not mattered most like he was right, but that he held the most sway because, well, he was Eric. I\u2019m guessing we all wanted Eric\u2019s approval. I know I did.\nHis wife, Kathy, and daughters, Rachel and Kelly, were Eric\u2019s life. He was incredibly proud of each of them. I never heard him say a bad word about any of them. But if you know his daughters and how awesome they are, you know that probably wasn\u2019t hard for him. Eric gets some of the credit for that. Most of it though goes to Kathy who is incredibly patient and kind. He just loved her immensely. Kathy\u2019s so great that she could\u2019ve picked anyone she wanted to marry. But she picked Eric, and that says something about him.\nBut I\u2019m not romanticizing Eric here. He definitely wasn\u2019t perfect. Among his flaws:\n* He was a terrible golfer. In fact, it was in golfing with him that we learned about Eric Math. Eric could tee off into the woods, take a drop, put it in the lake, be on the green four shots later, three putt, and take a 5 on the hole. Eric Math.\n* Bandanas. Eric wore them constantly. And we\u2019d always see him and roll our eyes saying, \u201cEric\u2019s wearing a bandana again.\u201d\n* I know for certain I never saw him wash a dish after a family meal. I\u2019d be scrubbing away after Thanksgiving or Christmas, and Eric would walk by and drop his plate in the sink and go watch TV. This happened every year. I guess being the oldest brother comes with that privilege.\n* He may some highly dubious Fantasy Football draft picks.\n* And that mustache he seemed to sport for about fifteen years was definitely a questionable choice. Unless you\u2019re a 70\u2019s porn star, which he wasn\u2019t. And least I don't think he was.\nBut really, if that\u2019s your list of faults at the end of your life, you\u2019ve pretty much done things right.\nWhat\u2019s been nice about planning for this, is remembering all of the little things, like:\n* Eric once saved Jay\u2019s life weightlifting.\n* He was struck by lightning.\n* He almost drowned as a child.\n* He could do a spot-on Bob Dylan impersonation.\n* He hated Ray Liotta\n* He could blow spit bubbles off his tongue\n* He was the best man at my wedding, and vice versa.\n* He worked at an ice skating rink, pizza parlor, a moving company\n* He loved Virginia Tech football and the Washington Redskins\n* He broke his jaw while in college \u201cjogging\u201d. I putting \u201cjogging\u201d in quotes because that story was always really suspect.\n* He played on the 1978 Annandale Atoms, a football team that finished the season ranked #1 in the nation.\n* He received a commendation from the state of Virginia for a fish he caught the only time he ever went fishing.\nI could go on and on. So could anyone close to him.\nI\u2019ll end with this story:\nIf you haven\u2019t noticed, Eric and I have the same hair cut. Years ago, he stopped going to the barber shop and bought an electric head shaver. He suggested I do the same, and eventually I did. I was home alone the first time I tried to use it, and it only took me two minutes to screw up my hair to a laughable amount. I knew if I just kept trying to fix my mistakes by myself, I was going to continue the butchering, so I did the only thing I could think of--I called Eric.\nHe was sick at this point, probably in his second year of his cancer fight, and had his good days and bad days. From how he sounded when I called, it was probably closer to a bad day.\nI said, \u201cYou\u2019re home? Can I come over? And then after we agree to never discuss why I was there.\u201d\nWhen I got there, he looked at me, told me to get into the bathroom, and then shaved my head, fixing my mistakes, proving, once again, even when he was sick, he was what he always would be--an older brother looking out for his little brother.\nIn the nine years he was sick, Eric never gave up, never complained, and never stopped being a good role model for everyone. What better guide to life can someone give you?\nSo, farewell, Eric. We\u2019ll miss you, brother. You were one of the great ones, and you\u2019re gone far too soon.\n(Eric on the right, me on the left. We're either doing scissors in Rock, Paper, Scissors or dumb, suburban white guy gang symbols. You pick. 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The minister\u2019s busy schedule included attending the \u2018Greening\u2019 of the famous Colosseum in Rome \u2013 which joined Tourism Ireland\u2019s Global Greening initiative once again this year, to celebrate the island of Ireland [\u2026]\nFiled under News \u00b7 Tagged with Charlie Flanagan, Italy, Promote Ireland, St Patricks Day, Tourism Ireland, Tourism Ireland's Global Greening\nPublic transport on St. Patrick\u2019s Day: what do I need to know?\nPosted by Chris Jones on March 9, 2017 \u00b7 Leave a Comment\nSt. Patrick\u2019s Day is the biggest party of the year, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to be on the streets to celebrate on Friday 17th March. Many of you will be on the move around the country, so we\u2019ve put together this guide to using public transport on the day. Below, you will [\u2026]\nThe post Public transport on St. Patrick\u2019s Day: what do I need to know? appeared first on AA Blog.\nFiled under Motoring \u00b7 Tagged with AA Roadwatch, Featured, Motoring, New, public transport, St Patricks Day\nThe New York City St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade, the largest and most renowned St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade in America, will be broadcast live for the first time ever in Ireland and the UK on March 17th St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade officials have partnered with IRISH TV to facilitate the international broadcast of the 255th annual [\u2026]\nLuas Strikes \u2013 St Patrick\u2019s Day & Easter Weekend\nPosted by Sharron Lynskey on March 4, 2016 \u00b7 Leave a Comment\nLuas commuters can expect further disruption to services later this month after SIPTU employees voted to hold additional strikes. A planned strike for Tues 8th March has been called off but disruption to services is expected on St Patrick\u2019s Day (Thursday, 17th March). Strikes are also planned throughout the Easter weekend, on Sunday 27th and [\u2026]\nThe post Luas Strikes \u2013 St Patrick\u2019s Day & Easter Weekend appeared first on The AA Blog.\nFiled under Motoring \u00b7 Tagged with AA Roadwatch, commuter, Dublin, easter, Luas, Motoring, New, Roadwatch, Sharron Lynskey, St Patricks Day, strikes, tram, transdev, Transport\nThis St. Patricks Day, ALONE, the charity that provides services to older people in need, is highlighting one of the less obvious effects of emigration on our society. ALONE report that the continued high levels of emigration, particularly of our young people, is leaving thousands of older people without familial support systems they once had. ALONE [\u2026]\nFiled under News \u00b7 Tagged with ALONE, Elderly, Emigration, St Patricks Day\nThis St. Patricks Day, ALONE, the charity that provides support to older people in need, is highlighting one of the lesser known effects of emigration. 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Whether it's an aviation calamity or a natural disaster, more often than not either Dana Andrews or Charlton Heston is involved!\nTonight it was Heston's turn, starring in the 1974 Irwin Allen flick EARTHQUAKE. Other than Heston, this film is really, really bad; at times the sheer awfulness provides amusement, while at other times it's yawn-inducing.\nHow bad is it? Let me count the ways...\n...A haggard Ava Gardner is supposed to be Lorne Greene's daughter. In real life he was just seven years her senior, and at this stage of her film career, Gardner looks older than Greene. A nutty scene where a foreshock interrupts her faking a drug overdose sets the tone for the rest of the movie.\n...The editing at times is nothing short of bizarre. One moment Genevieve Bujold is talking to Heston; the next minute, without a fadeout or any other logical transition, we're suddenly watching a completely different scene and the characters have just made love. There is no logic to some of the film's cuts whatsoever, leading to a jumpy, confusing story.\n...Victoria Principal, a few years before DALLAS, inexplicably sports a huge Afro-style hairdo; it's so big several birds could build a nest in it.\n...Walter Matthau has a strange multi-scene cameo as a drunk. Apparently he didn't want much credit, as his billing is under the name Walter Matuschanskayasky.\n...Even in 1974, surely Southern Californians knew not to crowd into an elevator after a massive earthquake which is in the process of destroying buildings? The in-your-face gore which accompanies this scene clearly served no purpose other than shock value.\n...Marjoe Gortner plays a National Guardsman who's a psycho who thinks nothing of machine-gunning three people to death. In fact, not many of the police or military are admirable in this film. Curiously, the most heroic policeman is a rebel who's been suspended from the force! He's played by George Kennedy, who, like Heston, was imported from the AIRPORT movies.\n...After all the stress, the film has a pretty crummy ending with the pointless death of a principal actor.\nOn the plus side, there's Heston, Kennedy, the always-dependable Lloyd Nolan, and a cute little dog.\nThe cast also includes Barry Sullivan, Richard Roundtree, Monica Lewis, Kip Niven, John Randolph, and Pedro Armendariz Jr., who recently passed away.\nEARTHQUAKE may be worth sitting through once if one enjoys cheesy disaster films, but all in all this was a low point in the careers of all involved. It's not really even successful as a \"good bad movie\"!\nEARTHQUAKE was directed by Mark Robson. Robson's earlier credits included directing Dana Andrews in MY FOOLISH HEART (1949) and I WANT YOU (1951).\nJohn Williams composed the score, but it's unmemorable. The next year he would hit it big with JAWS (1975).\nThe running time was 123 minutes.\nEARTHQUAKE has had multiple DVD releases as well as a VHS edition. A DVD can be rented from Netflix. It's also available for streaming from Amazon Instant Video.\nPrevious New Year's Eve films: CRACK IN THE WORLD (1965) with Dana Andrews, THE CROWDED SKY (1960) with Dana Andrews, ZERO HOUR! (1957) with Dana Andrews, SKYJACKED (1972) with Charlton Heston, and TWISTER (1996).\nHappy New Year, and Best Wishes for 2012!\nIt's hard to believe that it's time to look at the January schedule for Turner Classic Movies. Didn't December get underway only yesterday? On we go!\nAs I previewed a couple of months ago, TCM's January schedule has some real treats in store. Let's take a look:\n...I'm intrigued by THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947), a film about the Manhattan Project starring Brian Donlevy, Tom Drake, and Robert Walker. The excellent cast also includes Audrey Totter, Beverly Tyler, Joseph Calleia, Hume Cronyn, John Litel, and Henry O'Neill. A must-see for me on January 2nd.\n...Later on the 2nd I'm curious about THE STEEL TRAP (1952), with Joseph Cotten as an embezzler who has a change of heart. Teresa Wright, Cotten's SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) costar, plays his wife. It's part of a five-film tribute to Cotten which features some excellent films including PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (1948) with Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER (1947) with Loretta Young, the colorful suspense film NIAGARA (1953), and LYDIA (1941), costarring Merle Oberon.\n...A six-film lineup celebrating \"Women of the West\" includes my favorite Robert Taylor film, WESTWARD THE WOMEN (1951), directed by William Wellman. I try not to miss any opportunity to recommend this tough, gritty, and unusual Western; I'd love to see more film fans discover it. It airs January 3rd.\n...Jane Wyman's birthday will be celebrated on January 5th with half a dozen films, some of them fairly obscure, such as PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1939) with Dick Foran and GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS (1940) with Wayne Morris. THE DOUGHGIRLS (1944) is a diverting bit of silliness about the Washington, D.C. housing shortage, and CHEYENNE (1947) is a Raoul Walsh Western with Dennis Morgan that I enjoyed very much.\n...I love that TCM pays tribute to Loretta Young every year on her January 6th birthday. This year seven films will be shown: HEROES FOR SALE (1933), the must-see pre-Code SHE HAD TO SAY YES (1933), THE UNGUARDED HOUR (1936), THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947), the excellent thriller THE STRANGER (1946), RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948), and KEY TO THE CITY (1950). I've seen all but one of these films, and it's an excellent lineup.\n...A tribute to Betty Grable on January 6th features two 20th Century-Fox films making their TCM premieres, PIGSKIN PARADE (1936) and A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941), followed by MY BLUE HEAVEN (1950).\n...Western fans will love the lineup on January 9th. It starts off with George Montgomery in BADMAN'S COUNTRY (1958) and is followed by a Gordon Douglas film I'm curious about, GOLD OF THE SEVEN SAINTS (1961), starring then-Warner Bros. TV stars Roger Moore and Clint Walker. That's followed by Walker and Virginia Mayo in another Douglas film, FORT DOBBS (1958); Alan Ladd in Delmer Daves' DRUM BEAT (1954); and Dane Clark and Ruth Roman in BARRICADE (1950). Two films I'll definitely be recording are Sterling Hayden and Coleen Gray in ARROW IN THE DUST (1954) and Eddie Albert and Gale Storm in THE DUDE GOES WEST (1948). I've enjoyed Storm in a couple recent films, and this is another opportunity to see her work. The day is capped by Gary Cooper in SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (1952).\n...June Haver doesn't turn up on TCM very often, as so many of her films were for 20th Century-Fox, but she can be seen with Gordon MacRae in the Warner Bros. musical LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING (1949) on January 10th.\n...It's coincidentally odd timing given his recent health scare, but THE LIQUIDATOR (1966), about a plot of assassinate Britain's Prince Philip, sounds interesting. It was directed by Jack Cardiff and stars Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard. It airs January 11th.\n...Robert Osborne's picks on January 17th include a couple of particularly interesting titles, Merle Oberon in A NIGHT IN PARADISE (1946) and Paulette Goddard in Jean Renoir's THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1946). I'll have my DVR running! Goddard's onetime husband, Burgess Meredith, is also in THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, and that film is followed by two more Goddard-Meredith titles, SECOND CHORUS (1940), which stars Fred Astaire, and ON OUR MERRY WAY (1948), starring James Stewart.\n...There's another great day of 10, count 'em, 10 Westerns on January 23rd. I'll be recording Sterling Hayden and Karin Booth in TOP GUN (1955). The other films have stars including William Holden, Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Bob Steele, Rock Hudson, and George Montgomery. It's great to see multiple Montgomery Westerns turn up on TCM this month.\n...Later on January 23rd there's a great evening of films titled \"Max Ophuls in Hollywood.\" The superb Joan Bennett-James Mason film THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) leads off the evening; it's only available on Region 2 DVD, and this story of a Balboa Island housewife caught up in a blackmail plot is \"must\" viewing. That's followed by more excellent films: CAUGHT (1949) with Mason, Robert Ryan, and Barbara Bel Geddes; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948) starring Joan Fontaine; and THE EXILE (1947) which stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and sounds very interesting. Two of Ophuls' European films, LA RONDE (195) and THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1954) will air in the wee hours.\n...Betty Grable and Dan Dailey star in the 20th Century-Fox film MOTHER WORE TIGHTS (1947) on Sunday morning, January 29th.\n...Later on the 29th there's a Jack Webb double feature, THE D.I. (1957) and -30-. I just bought the latter film, about a day in the life of a newspaper, in a pre-Christmas sale from the Warner Archive.\n...TALK ABOUT A STRANGER (1952) is one of those little movies I love to discover. This 65-minute film stars George Murphy, Nancy Davis (Reagan), and Lewis Stone and runs just 65 minutes. It's on January 30th.\n...THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943) will have its second airing on TCM on January 30th. This film was long unavailable due to legal issues, so for those who missed it when TCM showed it several weeks ago, this is a great opportunity to see it.\n...THE CONSTANT NYMPH is part of a five-film tribute to Joan Fontaine on the evening of the 30th. The other films showing that night include the TCM premiere of the excellent 20th Century-Fox film JANE EYRE (1944), also starring Orson Welles and a trio of exceptionally fine child actresses, Peggy Ann Garner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Margaret O'Brien. The delightfully soapy Nicholas Ray film BORN TO BE BAD (1950), Hitchcock's SUSPICION (1941), and IVANHOE (1952) with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor round out the list.\n...The month ends with a birthday tribute to Jean Simmons on January 31st. On the schedule are ELMER GANTRY (1960), BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), and YOUNG BESS (1953).\n...Mario Lanza and Peggie Castle in the same movie? What an unusual pairing. The film is SEVEN HILLS OF ROME (1958) and it's on January 31st.\nTCM's January Star of the Month is Angela Lansbury. I'll be taking a look at the Lansbury films on the schedule in a future post. (Update: Please visit my post TCM Star of the Month: Angela Lansbury.)\nVisit the online schedule for a complete listing of all the films showing on Turner Classic Movies in January.\nAgain, sincere good wishes to all for a very happy New Year!\nTonight's Movie: The Descendants (2011)\nTHE DESCENDANTS is an absorbing drama about a family in crisis. It's also a tribute to the human ability to keep putting one foot in front of the other despite being repeatedly smacked in the face by difficult situations. The film's strong points include an outstanding performance by George Clooney, who should be nominated for the Oscar in a few weeks, and a distinctive Hawaiian setting.\nClooney plays Matt King, a wealthy lawyer descended from Hawaiian royalty. Matt's wife Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie) has been comatose since a boating accident. Just as Matt learns that the coma is irreversible, he's also hit with the news that Elizabeth had been having an affair with a local realtor (Matthew Lillard).\nAs Matt struggles to reconnect with his troubled daughters Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) and Scottie (Amara Miller), he's also faced with a decision about selling land which has been in his family for generations.\nThis is a rich film with a lot of layers to consider and analyze, starting with the meaning of the title. Along the way there are many interesting things to observe and consider; for instance, I was struck that Elizabeth was consistently described as \"strong.\" There was a sense that that was the nicest thing some people could say about her, and as the audience gets to see her cantankerous father (Robert Forster) in action, one also has the sense the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Yet it's clear that she also had at least one devoted friend (played by Mary Birdsong).\nElizabeth is a significant presence in the film, though she's never seen speaking; figuring out who she was is one of the things which makes the film interesting. As it turns out, Matt is trying to figure out who she was along with the audience, as he comes to terms with startling information about her behavior.\nElizabeth clearly made some poor life choices, most significantly, it seems, not being a particularly engaged parent; as the film begins, the children aren't a credit to either of their parents. One of the things which makes the film rewarding is watching Matt realize he needs to make changes in his life and then seeing him follow through, especially in his relationships with his daughters. The film's last shot is believably warm and hopeful.\nAlthough the film deals with the death of a wife and mother, it's not maudlin or tear-jerking. I found myself interested yet emotionally distant; I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but that distance made it easier to watch. Some of this reaction may also be because, while the characters have had their world rocked, the reactions wash over them in phases; they have moments where they break down in tears, but often they're simply numb or trying to keep on going as normally as possible, in a matter-of-fact way. There's also considerable humor found in unexpected moments. All of this feels very real, and it's frankly easier for an audience to watch than if it were an out-and-out tear-jerker, though the film does have its moments of pathos.\nI've been mulling over whether THE DESCENDANTS is a movie I'll want to see again. While I'll definitely be watching Clooney's very entertaining THE IDES OF MARCH (2011) again, THE DESCENDANTS is perhaps less \"entertainment\" and more about accompanying the characters on a difficult though rewarding journey. It will be interesting to see, as time goes on, whether the film's many strong points induce me to relive that journey.\nOne of the things I especially liked about the film was its somewhat unusual-for-film depiction of \"everyday\" Hawaii. (SOUL SURFER, released earlier this year, also depicted life in Hawaii, although it was more scenic.) We see the freeways, office buildings, middle-class homes, and a pool badly in need of cleaning. Much of the time the atmosphere is damp and overcast. Combined with the Hawaiian music permeating the soundtrack, it gave the film an authentic feel and made it visually interesting.\nI did feel that this 115-minute film was five or ten minutes too long. The sequence I think I might have been tempted to excise was the unlikely hospital visit of Julie (Judy Greer), the wife of the man with whom Elizabeth had the affair. It was the rare moment in the film where I didn't completely believe in a character and what was happening.\nThere are a couple of interesting faces among Matt's many cousins. Cousin Hugh, who is something of a character, is played by Beau Bridges. I was trying to figure out where I'd seen Cousin Milo before, then realized during the end credits that it was Michael Ontkean of the '70s TV series THE ROOKIES.\nTHE DESCENDANTS was directed and co-written by Alexander Payne. It's based on a novel by Kauai Hart Hemmings.\nParental advisory: THE DESCENDANTS is rated R for language, including sexual references. Children would be unlikely to enjoy the film's mature themes, in any event.\nFor more on this film, Leonard Maltin, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times, and Lou Lumenick of the New York Post are among those who have given the film their strong endorsement.\nTonight's Movie: Vertigo (1958) at the Egyptian Theatre\nI enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Egyptian Theatre tonight seeing Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO for the very first time. The movie was fascinating, the 70 mm print was gorgeous, and the company, which included my fellow classic film blogger Deborah of Sidewalk Crossings, was most congenial. All in all, a perfect Friday night in Hollywood!\nThere probably isn't a whole lot new I can offer about VERTIGO, as so many classic film fans have already seen it. (That said, I'm still going to be as vague as possible about the plot, for the benefit of those who haven't seen it yet.) I found the film mesmerizing, with great mood, thanks to the acting, the beautiful shots of San Francisco, the color palette (lots of greens and yellows!), and the evocative score by the great Bernard Herrmann.\nThe story is somehow simultaneously simple and very complicated, leaving behind more questions than it answers.\nAnd questions, I have lots of questions:\n1) How did Scottie get out of his seemingly impossible predicament in the first minutes of the movie?\n2) Midge is obviously hung up on Scottie, so why did she break their long-ago engagement? Did she think he wasn't serious enough about her? And why is he simultaneously a single loner yet always dropping in to hang out with Midge? There are seemingly as many mysteries in the characters' back stories as there are in the film's present-day storyline.\n3) Wasn't there anything physical about Judy -- perhaps even the way she kissed -- that told Scottie her true identity?\n4) So what exactly was Gavin Elster's motive? He wanted control of the money? His motivations and feelings of animosity are never clearly spelled out.\n5) What was Judy's motive for the deception? If she loved Gavin, it's still not clear why she would love him that much.\n6) Why did Judy back up to the table in the hotel? She looked as though she were either hiding something or perhaps going to grab the phone to dial for help, but knowing what she knew, why would she consider making the call?\n7) What was the nun doing up there, anyway?\n8) And the unanswerable question, what happened to Scottie next? Wow, talk about an abrupt ending!\nPerhaps some of these questions will be answered in the Month of Vertigo blogathon taking place all next month, hosted by The Lady Eve's Reel Life. In her introduction Eve quotes critic David Thomason as saying the film is both \"a masterpiece and an endless mystery,\" so perhaps I'm not alone in my questions!\nAn interesting point to consider: I felt that VERTIGO's use of colors and flashbacks seemed to set the stage for the later MARNIE (1964), another film about a chameleon-like woman of disturbed or questionable character.\nKim Novak and James Stewart made VERTIGO back to back with BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958). Stewart is superb as the obsessed detective; when it comes right down to it, he's not always a very nice man, yet the audience is completely caught up in his emotions and what he experiences. The fact that it's an actor who has so much audience goodwill at the outset helps prevent him from being perceived negatively, particularly in the closing scenes dealing with Scottie's total obsession. Novak excelled in a role that's difficult on many levels; like Stewart, she engages audience sympathy despite her character's actions.\nI especially liked Barbara Bel Geddes as Scottie's friend and old flame, Midge, whose appearances serve to jolt the film out of its melancholy mood.\nI smiled when I recognized Bess Flowers, the perennial extra, dining in the first sequence in Ernie's. I was amused by what Jacqueline wrote about her in a recent post on MY REPUTATION (1946): \"The inevitable Bess Flowers also plays one of the society friends at the party, but then she always shows up everywhere... I think I ran into her at the grocery store the other day.\" That gave me a big chuckle.\nThe highly stylized opening credits sequence, which foreshadows the story to come, was created by Saul Bass. There's a new coffee table book out on his work which I'd really like to get.\nVERTIGO is available on DVD in a 2003 Collector's Edition and a 2008 edition in the Universal Legacy Series. It's also been released on VHS, including a widescreen edition I've been told is quite nice.\nThis film can be rented for streaming from Amazon Instant Video; the DVD can be rented from Netflix.\nVERTIGO was Movie No. 9 on my list of 10 \"unseen classics\" to finally catch up with in 2011. The other films on the list seen to date were SHANE (1953), DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944), SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941), BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955), STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951), THE LADY EVE (1941), BALL OF FIRE (1941), and THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).\nI'm pushing the final film on my 2011 list, SUNSET BLVD. (1950), to the very first day of 2012, when I hope to see it on the big screen at the Bay Theatre in Seal Beach, California.\n2017 Update: Here are photos of some of the film's San Francisco locations.\nNew on DVD: The Magnetic Monster (1953)\nTHE MAGNETIC MONSTER (1953), a nifty little Cold War era thriller, was released on DVD yesterday.\nThis \"manufactured on demand\" DVD-R is from the MGM Limited Edition Collection. It's available from Amazon and Deep Discount.\nI reviewed this film a few weeks ago and found it quite entertaining. Richard Carlson plays a government \"A-man\" who must find a way to defeat a fast-growing radioactive element which has such a strong magnetic force that it threatens to throw the world off its axis.\nTHE MAGNETIC MONSTER is hokey at times, but in the best kind of way. It's a great melding of Cold War anxieties with '50s monster movies, as well as a must for fans of Richard Carlson (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON). I found it quite enjoyable and am glad to see it become available to a wider audience.\nTonight's Movie: The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)\n\"Silver Bells,\" composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, is perhaps my favorite Christmas song of all time, and it originated in the Bob Hope film THE LEMON DROP KID.\nI saw the movie for the first time this evening. Unfortunately, I found most of it tedious going, but it does have some bright spots, including Lloyd Nolan, Marilyn Maxwell, and most of all, that beautiful song.\nThe plot, such as it is, is a bunch of Damon Runyon nonsense about the Lemon Drop Kid (Hope), who owes mobster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) a lot of money. The Kid goes to New York and comes up with a money-making scam involving a home for old ladies. Hope hides money in a statue, Hope dresses as Santa Claus, Hope dresses as an old lady, and so on. Yawn. The plot lumbers around without going much of anywhere. Maybe I was having an off viewing night, but this movie just didn't click with me.\nIt's interesting that both the Christmas films I've watched this week involved leading characters who are scammers or moochers. However, Victor Moore makes his character in IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE (1947) likeable and sympathetic -- quite a feat since, as I wrote in my post on it, I've never cared for Moore -- but Hope's character is just a deadbeat who preys on others endlessly. There is absolutely zero explanation for why his girlfriend (Maxwell) finds him so irresistible, when he takes advantage of her good nature time after time. He's just an unpleasant person looking out for No. 1.\nThough I can't say any of the story engaged me, I enjoyed the performances by Lloyd Nolan and Marilyn Maxwell, who bring the dull goings-on to life whenever they're on screen. I also thought Andrea King was quite funny as Moose Moran's Southern belle lady friend.\nThe highlight of the film is the introduction of the song \"Silver Bells.\" According to an article on the Turner Classic Movies site, Hope was dissatisfied with director Sidney Lanfield's static original staging of \"Silver Bells.\" Frank Tashlin rethought the scene as a stroll through the city streets and directed what appears in the final film. The evocative, nostalgic sequence is beautifully done. (Perhaps I should note, for those who care about such things, that there's a very brief bit with Chinese children which is politically incorrect by modern standards.) When the song swells to its lovely conclusion, it feels as though it should be the end of the movie. Alas, there's still half an hour of the film's 91-minute running time left to go.\nFrank Tashlin would go on to direct another Christmastime film, SUSAN SLEPT HERE (1954), a stylish and colorful movie which I just enjoyed again on Christmas Eve.\nThe supporting cast of THE LEMON DROP KID includes William Frawley, Jane Darwell, Jay C. Flippen, and Ida Moore.\nTHE LEMON DROP KID has had several DVD releases. I watched a DVD released in 2000. It was released again in 2010 as both a single title and as part of the Bob Hope Collection.\nIt's also come out multiple times on VHS.\nTHE LEMON DROP KID can be streamed by Amazon Prime members at no additional charge.\nThe movie was just shown for the first time on Turner Classic Movies.\nBob Hope films previously reviewed at Laura's Miscellaneous Musings: THE GHOST BREAKERS (1940), MY FAVORITE BLONDE (1942), STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (1942), VARIETY GIRL (1947), MY FAVORITE SPY (1951), and BACHELOR IN PARADISE (1961).\nMiscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...a Boxing Day Edition!\n...Happy birthday to fabulous film noir leading lady Audrey Totter, who turned 93 on December 20th. Totter's excellent films include HIGH WALL (1947), LADY IN THE LAKE (1947), THE UNSUSPECTED (1947), THE SAXON CHARM (1948), THE SET-UP (1949), and TENSION (1949). I've linked in the past to an interview she gave about her career; it's delightful.\n...There's a very nice new blog celebrating the career of Ricardo Montalban. I especially enjoyed looking at photos of Montalban and his lovely wife, Georgiana Young, in this slide show and an old issue of Life magazine.\n...Donna Reed's TV children, Shelley Fabares and Paul Peterson, reminisce about her and Carl Betz in the Los Angeles Times. I was both touched and impressed by Peterson's comment, \"Donna and Carl were very much aware of the difficulties on other family shows. They made a commitment to Shelley and me as surrogate parents to be on our side and be with us for the long haul. They kept that commitment up to their deaths. Donna's last few words [were] to make sure Shelley's birthday present was wrapped and ready for delivery. That is true!\"\n...Coming to DVD on May 1st: Season 6 of THE VIRGINIAN. So far I own Season 1, and it's a real pleasure that this series is receiving such beautiful DVD releases. I hope to buy more!\n...WE BOUGHT A ZOO (2011), starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, has received some excellent reviews. It's gone onto my list of movies I'd like to see.\n...Kristina has a wonderful piece up on Ella Raines and PHANTOM LADY (1944) at Speakeasy. Raines is a relatively unappreciated talent who deserves to be better known.\n...JavaBeanRush recently posted a link for a short but sweet video interview with dancer Marge Champion. She seems to exemplify thinking positive!\n...Mark has reviewed THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1940), starring Vincent Price, George Sanders, and Margaret Lindsay, at Cin-Eater.\n...The 1962 TV series GOING MY WAY, starring Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll, is now out on DVD.\n...Dorian has a most enjoyable post up on Bogart and Bacall in THE BIG SLEEP (1946) at Tales of the Easily Distracted. It was part of a Humphrey Bogart blogathon; lots more Bogart links are posted at Forever Classics.\n...Leonard Maltin recently gave an interesting interview describing the process of updating his annual MOVIE GUIDE.\n...Glenn Erickson shares his picks for The Most Impressive Discs of 2011 at DVD Savant. His choices include Warner Archive's THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943) (which he just reviewed) and Criterion's SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957).\n...Over at 50 Westerns from the 50s, Toby recently posted a review of Victor Mature in ESCORT WEST (1958). It's a nice, cozy little Western which I enjoyed last summer.\n...The Girl With the White Parasol recently reviewed the Gainsborough Pictures costume melodrama THE WICKED LADY (1945), starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, and Patricia Roc: \"This movie is pure fun from start to finish.\"\n...Karen profiles John Payne at Shadows and Satin. Musicals, Westerns, film noir -- Payne could do it all.\n...Notable Passing: Pedro Armendariz Jr. has passed away at the age of 71. Armendariz Jr. was an actor, following in the footsteps of his namesake father; his credits included ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (2003) and THE LEGEND OF ZORRO (2005). The senior Armendariz, who died in 1963, appeared in John Ford's THE FUGITIVE (1947), FORT APACHE (1948), and 3 GODFATHERS (1948).\n...Coming next week at Another Old Movie Blog: THE LAS VEGAS STORY (1952) with Victor Mature and Jane Russell, and MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS (1956).\n...Screen Snapshots shares thoughts on a visit to the Hollywood Heritage Museum and the Lasky-DeMille Barn.\n...For another big batch of recent links, please visit last Saturday's post, A Christmas Eve Roundup.\nHave a great week, and Happy New Year!\nHere's a bunch of fun Christmas-related links to read amidst the last-minute baking and wrapping!\n...As I write this, I'm listening to the Ames Bros. album There'll Always Be a Christmas. This CD was an excellent find a couple years ago.\n...The Lady Eve shares her picks for favorite Christmas movies at her blog, The Lady Eve's Reel Life. It's a great list! Eve also has some great Christmasy video links to share.\n...Classic Movie Man has some interesting choices on his list of favorite Christmas movies, including Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper in Capra's MEET JOHN DOE (1941), the Cary Grant-Irene Dunne weeper PENNY SERENADE (1941), and IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE (1947) with Don DeFore and Gale Storm.\n...Brandie shares thoughts on IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE (1947) at True Classics. I started watching this last night and should be writing about it later in the weekend.\n...Thanks to Al Lutz's annually updated column on the Disneyland Main Street Christmas Music Loop, I added The David Rose Christmas Album to my collection this year. It's fun when a track starts playing that I know well from years of walking down Main Street at Christmastime!\n...Continuing in a Disney theme, D23 shares info about the history of the Disneyland Candlelight Procession, which was narrated this year by Gary Sinise. There's more info in a 2009 column by Wade Sampson at MousePlanet -- though there's an error for the 1977 listing. Ross Martin of THE WILD, WILD WEST narrated that year, I believe in place of Buddy Ebsen. I know this because I was there. :)\n...Jerry Frebowitz, the President of Movies Unlimited, shares thoughts on Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) at MovieFanFare. He says it's \"too good to show only at Christmas.\" It's definitely a special movie.\n...Jacqueline Lynch is another fan of REMEMBER THE NIGHT. She describes it in an evocative post at Another Old Movie Blog. And don't miss Jacqueline's post on Stanwyck in MY REPUTATION (1946), a wonderful film I recently revisited. MY REPUTATION is perfect viewing for the last part of December, as the last third of the film is set between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.\n...REMEMBER THE NIGHT happily received a great deal of attention from classic film fans this year, and each post is worth reading. John Greco analyzes it at Twenty Four Frames.\n...Caftan Woman shares her pick for December: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) with Alastair Sim. My son watched that the other day, but I still haven't seen that version! It's definitely on my \"to do\" list.\n...The Self-Styled Siren shares a really marvelous anecdote from Rosalind Russell's autobiography, LIFE IS A BANQUET, about the five months' pregnant star throwing a Christmas party for two armored tank divisions in the middle of the California desert in 1942. It's both delightful and touching; don't miss it.\n...One might say Christmas came early for USC Trojan fans, as earlier this week quarterback Matt Barkley stood in front of a tree decked in cardinal and gold to announce he's remaining at USC for his senior year. Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times has a thoughtful column on Barkley's announcement. I'm delighted the Times' Bill Plaschke has had to eat his words this week, as he had previously shared his firm opinion that Barkley would turn pro. Plaschke is happy too!\n...John of Greenbriar Picture Shows spotlights Deanna Durbin's LADY ON A TRAIN (1945) as his \"Christmas Pick.\" I love this movie, costarring Dan Duryea, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, and more great faces. It's on DVD in a Deanna Durbin set which is a steal pricewise at Amazon.\n...You just never know where you'll find classic film fans or who's reading your blog! In a nice bit of serendipity, I have Greenbriar Picture Shows to thank for leading a classic film fan to my blog...who also happens to be in the cast of the marvelous theatrical production I saw this week of WHITE CHRISTMAS. What fun!\n...Toby and Company ponder movies to watch over the holidays at 50 Westerns From the 50s.\n...Visit my post TCM in December: Christmas Movies for a rundown on the films shown on Turner Classic Movies on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 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By-Law Number A By-Law To Regulate Fences. By-Law Number: Date Passed: September 9, 2014\nDownload \"CITY OF KINGSTON. Ontario. By-Law Number A By-Law To Regulate Fences. By-Law Number: Date Passed: September 9, 2014\"\nLester Parrish\n1 CITY OF KINGSTON Ontario By-Law Number A By-Law To Regulate Fences Passed: November 4, 2003 As Amended By By-Law Number: By-Law Number: Date Passed: September 9, 2014 (Office Consolidation)\n2 Page 2 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences City of Kingston By-law Number A By-Law To Regulate Fences Index Section Page Definitions Application 2 5 Administration 3 6 Regulations 4 7 Height and Description of Lawful Fences Sight Triangles 4 8 Barbed Wire Electrified Wire 4 9 Requirements for Pool Fences Exemptions Schedules 6 11 Offense and Penalty Provisions 7 11 Validity 8 12 Commencement 9 12 Schedule A: Standards for Pool Fences Schedule B: Diagram 18 Schedule C: Map 19 (By-law ; By-law )\n3 Page 3 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences City Of Kingston By-Law Number A By-Law To Regulate Fences Passed: November 4, 2003 Whereas subsections 9(3) and 11(1) of Municipal Act, 2001 authorize municipalities to pass by-laws with respect to structures, including fences and signs, including by-laws to regulate or prohibit respecting such matters, to require persons to do things, to provide for a system of permits and to impose conditions as a requirement of obtaining a permit; Therefore the Council of The Corporation of the City of Kingston enacts as follows: 1. Definitions: In this by-law, above ground pool fence means a pool fence with a minimum height of 0.3 metres (1 foot) that is securely mounted to the upper edge of the wall of an above ground pool and designed to meet the ANSI/NSPI Model Barrier Code for above ground/on ground swimming pools or equivalent approval agency. (By-law Number ; ) agricultural property means a property that is zoned for agricultural use in the zoning by-law that applies to the property; Appeals Committee and Committee mean the committee established by the Council Procedure By-Law (No. 98-1, as amended) and includes any successor committee designated by City Council to carry out the committee s responsibilities under this by-law; change to a fence includes the alteration, reconstruction and replacement of an existing fence, but does not include normal maintenance and repair; City and City of Kingston mean The Corporation of the City of Kingston, as incorporated on January 1, 1998; construct a fence means to construct, erect, build, install, alter, reconstruct or replace a fence, or to cause or permit another person to do so, and construct a pool fence has a corresponding meaning; construct a pool means to excavate for, construct, build or erect a pool, or to cause or permit another person to excavate for, construct, build or erect a pool; Council and City Council mean the Council of the City of Kingston;\n4 Page 4 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences exterior face means the side of a pool fence from which access to the pool is to be prevented; fence means a structure or partition made of wood, metal or other substance that is constructed for any purpose, such as marking the boundary of a property, enclosing a property, providing privacy, preventing access by people or animals, or dividing a property into sections, and includes every door, gate and other closure that forms part of a fence; finished grade means the elevation of the finished surface of the ground where it abuts a fence or other structure; height means the distance between the finished grade and the top of the fence; highway includes all land between the lateral boundaries of every provincial and municipal highway within the City; industrial property means a property that is zoned for industrial use in the zoning by-law that applies to the property; manager means the Manager, Building Services, his or her designate or, in the event of organizational changes, another employee designated by Council; (By-Law ; By-Law ) multi-unit dwelling means a building containing 4 or more dwelling units. (By-Law ; By-Law ) non-residential property means a property that is zoned for a use other than residential in the zoning by-law that applies to the property; owner means the individual, firm or corporation that is the registered owner of a property, and includes a lessee, tenant, mortgagee in possession, and the person or persons in charge of the land; person has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act and includes a corporation; pool means a privately-owned outdoor body of water, whether above or below the finished grade, used by persons for the purpose of swimming, that is contained in part or in whole by artificial means and in which the depth of water can exceed 60 centimetres (24 inches) at any point, and includes every structure known as a hot tub, whirlpool and spa, but does not include any naturally occurring body of water; pool area means a pool and any surrounding platforms, walkways, play areas and landscaped areas within a pool fence;\n5 Page 5 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences pool fence means a fence that encloses or results in the enclosure of a pool; above ground pool fence means a pool fence with a minimum height of 0.3 metres (1 foot) that is securely mounted to the upper edge of the wall of an above ground pool and designed to meet the ANSI/NSPI Model Barrier Code for above ground/on ground swimming pools or equivalent approval agency; (By-Law ; By-Law ) property means a parcel of land and any buildings or other structures on the land; public property includes any property to which the public is customarily admitted; residential property means a property that is zoned for residential use in the zoning by-law that applies to the property; sight triangle has the same meaning as in the zoning by-law that applies to the property; and zoning by-law means a by-law under section 34 of the Planning Act that restricts the use of land. 2. Application: 2.1 The requirements of this by-law apply to all properties within the geographic limits of the City of Kingston, except where otherwise provided. 2.2 If there is a conflict between a fencing requirement established by another by-law of the City and a fencing requirement of this by-law, the requirement that establishes the higher standard in terms of protecting the health, safety and well-being of the inhabitants of the City prevails to the extent of the conflict.\n6 Page 6 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 3. Administration: 3.1 The Manager is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this by-law. (By-Law ; By-Law ) 3.2 An application for a permit to construct a pool fence around a pool shall be submitted to the Manager, together with the permit fee and plans showing the location of the pool in relation to the property boundary lines and to the adjacent buildings, and the application shall provide full details of all required structures. 3.3 A permit will not be issued unless the permit fee, as set out in section 4.1 of Schedule A, has been paid in full. 3.4 Any person may seek an exemption from the requirements of this by-law by applying to the Appeals Committee for a minor variance. 3.5 The Committee may grant a minor variance if, in its opinion, the general intent and purpose of the by-law are maintained or if the Committee is satisfied, after allowing input from the applicant and property owners within 30 metres (100 feet), that the variance is appropriate. 3.6 The Committee may attach terms and conditions to the minor variance, including the dates for which it is to be in effect. 3.7 A minor variance shall be invalid if these terms and conditions are contravened. 3.8 Where notice is to be provided by the City under this by-law, it will be given by prepaid registered mail or personal service to the last known address of the owner of the property on which the fence is located.\n7 Page 7 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 4. Regulations: 4.1 Except in the case of a pool fence, no permit is required for the construction of a fence. 4.2 No person shall construct a fence that does not comply with the requirements of this by-law, except as provided in Part 5 Exemptions. 4.3 Every person who constructs a fence that does not comply with the requirements of this by-law shall take such action as is necessary to make the fence comply with its requirements by the date specified in the notice given by the City. 4.4 If a person who is given notice under section 4.3 fails to take action by the date specified in the notice, the City may do the necessary work at the person s expense by adding the costs incurred by the City in doing the work to the tax roll and collecting them in the same manner as taxes. Height and Description of Lawful Fences 4.5 No person shall construct a fence that is greater than 1.8 metres (6 feet) in height on or around a property within the urban boundary as set out on the Map in Schedule C of this by-law No person shall construct a fence that is greater than 2.8 metres (8 feet) in height on or around a property that is outside the urban boundary as set out on the Map in Schedule C of this by-law Despite section 4.5, where any single family dwelling, semidetached dwelling, duplex, triplex or row house within the urban boundary as set out on the Map in Schedule C of this by-law is adjacent to a multi-unit dwelling or to property zoned Commercial, Industrial or Institutional, a 2.4 metre (8 feet) high fence shall be permitted Despite section 4.5, lattice of up to 0.3 metres (1 foot) in height shall be permitted to be constructed on top of a fence of up to 1.8 metres (6 feet) in height allowing a total of 1.7 metres (7 feet) in height. (By-Law ; By-Law )\n8 Page 8 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 4.6 Despite section 4.5, no person shall construct a fence that is greater than 2.4 metres (8 feet) in height along the rear or exterior side of a property where the rear or exterior side of the property abuts on a highway that is designated as a freeway, expressway or arterial road in the official plan that applies to the area. 4.7 Despite section 4.5, no person shall construct a fence that is greater than 2.7 metres (9 feet) in height on or around an industrial property, a public utility, an installation for the generation and distribution of electricity, a pipeline valve, a storage site for chemicals and explosives, a sludge pit or a property used for a similar or related purpose, and the location of every such fence shall comply with the yard and setback requirements of the zoning by-law that applies to the property. 4.8 A fence of chain link construction under section 4.7 shall comprise chain link with diamond mesh of not greater than 38 millimetres (1.5 inches), consisting of 12 gauge galvanized steel wire or 14 gauge galvanized steel wire covered with vinyl or another coating that is acceptable to the Manager, which forms a total thickness equivalent to 12 gauge galvanized steel wire. (By-law Number ; ) Sight Triangles 4.9 Despite sections 4.5 to 4.7, no person shall construct a fence on his or her property within a sight triangle that is greater than 1.0 metre (3.3 feet) in height above the centre line of the adjacent streets. Barbed Wire 4.10 No person shall construct a fence consisting wholly or partly of barbed wire or other barbed material on a residential property or on a non-residential property that adjoins a residential property, highway or public property Despite section 4.10, a person may construct a fence consisting wholly or partly of barbed wire or other barbed material on a nonresidential property that adjoins a residential property, highway or public property, provided that the barbed wire or other barbed material on the side of the fence next to the adjoining residential property, highway or public property shall be masked or covered with wooden slats or laths of a sufficient thickness and breadth to provide protection against injury to persons and animals.\n9 Page 9 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 4.12 Despite section 4.10, a person may construct a fence consisting wholly or partly of barbed wire or other barbed material on or around an agricultural property, industrial property, public utility, installation for the generation and distribution of electricity, pipeline valve, storage site for chemicals and explosives, sludge pit or other property used for a similar or related purpose, regardless of the use of the adjoining properties. Electrified Wire 4.13 No person shall construct a fence consisting wholly or partly of electrified wire material on or around a residential property or on or around a non-residential property that adjoins a residential property, highway or public property Despite section 4.13, a person may construct a fence consisting wholly or partly of electrified wire material on or around an agricultural property, regardless of the use of the adjoining properties. Requirements for Pool Fences 4.15 The requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences apply equally to both in ground pools and to above ground pools The requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences do not apply to structures known as hot tubs, whirlpools and spas The owner of every structure known as a hot tub, whirlpool or spa shall keep a secure cover of rigid material locked in place over the opening at all times when the structure is not occupied, and no person shall leave a hot tub, whirlpool or spa without first locking the cover in place to prevent access when the structure is not occupied No person shall construct a pool fence or shall construct a pool unless he or she has obtained a pool fence permit in accordance with section Every person, before constructing a pool, shall enclose the area with a fence that complies with the standards for a temporary pool fence set out in Schedule A of this by-law Section 4.19 does not apply to a person who has constructed a fence that complies with the standards for a permanent pool fence set out in Schedule A of this by-law.\n10 Page 10 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 4.21 No person shall place, cause or permit water to be placed or to remain in a pool unless the person has constructed a fence that complies with the standards for a permanent pool fence set out in Schedule A of this by-law, and unless the person maintains the fence in a good state of repair The owner of every pool shall be responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences are complied with. 5. Exemptions: 5.1 A requirement of this by-law does not apply to a fence that has been exempted from that requirement by a minor variance granted by the Appeals Committee under section 3.5, and such fence shall be deemed to be in compliance with this by-law as long as the minor variance remains valid. 5.2 The exemption provided by a minor variance is limited to the specific requirement or requirements from which a fence is exempted by the minor variance, and is subject to any attached terms and conditions. 5.3 The requirements of this by-law do not apply to a fence which is required and approved as a condition of the development or redevelopment of land, and such fence shall be deemed to be in compliance with this by-law. 5.4 The requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences do not apply to a pool that is owned by a government or other public agency. 5.5 The requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences do not apply to a pool that was constructed lawfully at a time when no pool fence was required. 5.6 The requirements of this by-law do not apply to a fence that was constructed lawfully prior to the day on which this by-law came into force. 5.7 Despite section 5.6, the requirements of this by-law become applicable when any change to a fence is made after the day on which this by-law came into force. 5.8 Despite section 5.6, the requirements of this by-law with respect to pool fences apply to a fence whose purpose changes as a result of a pool being constructed after the day on which this by-law came into force and which now acts as a pool fence.\n11 Page 11 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 5.9 The requirements of this by-law with respect to the height of fences do not apply to a fence on an agricultural property that is necessary for the raising of certain types of animals or for another agricultural purpose The requirements of this by-law with respect to the height of fences do not apply to a chain link fence surrounding a sports or recreational facility that was constructed lawfully. 6. Schedules: 6.1 The following schedules are attached to and form part of this bylaw: Schedule A: Standards for Pool Fences Schedule B: Diagrams Schedule C: Map (By-law Number ; ) 7. Offence And Penalty Provisions: 7.1 Any person who contravenes the provisions of this by-law is guilty of an offence and, upon conviction, is subject to a fine as provided in the Provincial Offences Act and to any other applicable penalties. 7.2 If this by-law is contravened and a conviction entered, the court in which the conviction has been entered and any court of competent jurisdiction thereafter may, in addition to any other remedy and to any penalty that is imposed, make an order prohibiting the continuation or repetition of the offence by the person convicted. 8. Validity: 8.1 If a court of competent jurisdiction declares any provision, or any part of a provision, of this by-law to be invalid, or to be of no force and effect, it is the intention of Council in enacting this by-law that each and every provision of this by-law authorized by law be applied and enforced in accordance with its terms to the extent possible according to law. 9. Commencement: 9.1 This by-law comes into force on the day on which it receives third reading and is passed. ******************************************************************\n12 Page 12 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 1. Temporary Pool Fences Schedule A: Standards For Pool Fences 1.1. A temporary pool fence shall be 1.2 metres (4 feet) in height It shall consist of vertical wood lath with openings not greater than 38 millimetres (1.5 inches), or of plastic mesh with a mesh not greater than 38 millimetres (1.5 inches) It shall have steel T-bar posts at intervals of not more than 3 metres (10 feet) It shall have a 9 gauge galvanized steel or vinyl coated wire at both the top and the bottom It shall be permitted only during the construction of a pool and shall be replaced with a permanent pool fence that complies with the requirements of this by-law prior to filling and/or using the pool by any person. 2. Permanent Pool Fences Height 2.1. In the case of a pool serving a single-family dwelling, semidetached dwelling, duplex, triplex or row-house, a pool fence shall be at least 1.2 metres (4 feet) in height, measured at any point along the exterior face of the fence. (By-law Number ; ) 2.2. For every other pool, a pool fence shall be 1.8 metres (6 feet) in height, measured at any point along the exterior face of the fence. Clearances 2.3. A space of not more than 50 millimetres (2 inches) shall be permitted at any point between the bottom of a pool fence and the finished grade No pool fence shall be located less than 1.2 metres (4 feet) from the nearest inside wetted surface of a pool wall.\n13 Page 13 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 2.5. No pool fence shall be located closer than 1.2 metres (4 feet) to anything that could facilitate climbing of the fence, unless measures are implemented that, in the opinion of the Manager, provide a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the standards established in this Schedule. (By-law Number ; By-Law ) Aids to Climbing 2.6. No member or attachment that could facilitate climbing shall be attached to the exterior face of a pool fence between 100 millimetres (4 inches) and 1.2 metres (4 feet) above the finished grade. Gates and Entrances 2.7. Every gate that forms part of a pool fence shall comply with the height requirements set out in sections 2.1 and 2.2 of this Schedule and with the standards for that type of fence established in this Schedule Every gate that forms part of a pool fence shall be supported on substantial hinges, be self-closing, and be equipped with a selflatching device placed at the top and on the inside of the gate, i.e., the side of the gate nearest to the pool The owner of every pool shall ensure that all entrances to the pool area, including gates, doors and windows, are kept locked at all times except when a responsible adult is supervising the use of the pool Where a wall or portion of a wall of any building that is located on the same property as a pool forms part of the pool enclosure, no entrance to the pool area shall be permitted through that wall unless the wall is located no closer than 1.2 metres (4 feet) from the nearest inside wetted surface of the pool wall.\n14 Page 14 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences Above Ground Pool Fencing Despite section 2.4 of this Schedule, an above ground pool fence shall be permitted provided that the top of the pool wall is a minimum of 1.2 metres (4 feet) from grade, measured at any point along the exterior face of the fence, and the spacing in the fence does not exceed 100 mm between vertical members as set out in Schedule B: Diagrams of this by-law The ladder area (or deck) that provides access to the above ground pool shall be constructed with a gate enclosure that complies with the requirements for gates and entrances set out in this by-law or other equivalent safe access approved by the Manager. (By-law Number ; ) 3. Permitted Types Of Fence 3.1 A permanent pool fence shall be of: (a) chain link, (b) vertical board, (c) other materials and construction that, in the opinion of the Manager, provide an equivalent degree of safety, or (d) a combination of the materials described in (a), (b) and (c). 3.2 Regardless of the type of fence, every fence that is constructed shall comply with the general standards for pool fences established in sections 2.1 to 2.10 of this Schedule and with the specific standards for that type of fence established in sections 3.3 to 3.20 of this Schedule. Chain Link Fence 3.3 A fence of chain link construction shall comprise chain link with a diamond mesh not greater than 38 millimetres (1.5 inches), consisting of 12 gauge galvanized steel wire or 14 gauge galvanized steel wire covered with vinyl or another plastic that is acceptable to the Manager which forms a total thickness equivalent to 12 gauge galvanized steel wire. 3.4 A fence shall have galvanized steel support posts spaced at intervals of not more than 3.0 metres (10 feet). 3.5 In the case of a fence that is required to be 1.2 metres (4 feet) in height, the support posts shall be securely imbedded in the ground and shall extend at least 0.9 metres (3 feet) below grade.\n15 Page 15 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 3.6 In the case of a fence that is required to be 1.8 metres (6 feet) in height, the support posts shall be securely imbedded in the ground and shall extend at least 1.2 metres (4 feet) below grade. 3.7 The end and corner posts shall be a minimum of 48 millimetres (1.875 inches) in diameter. 3.8 The intermediate posts shall be a minimum of 38 millimetres (1.5 inches) in diameter. 3.9 A fence shall have a horizontal top rail of galvanized or vinyl coated steel which shall be a minimum of 32 millimetres (1.25 inches) in diameter A fence shall have a horizontal bottom rail of galvanized or vinyl coated steel which shall be a minimum of 32 millimetres (1.25 inches) in diameter A minimum 9 gauge vinyl coated galvanized steel tension cable may be substituted for the horizontal bottom rail specified in section Vertical Board Fence 3.12 A fence of vertical board construction shall have vertical boarding of not less than 25 by 100 millimetres (1 by 4 inches), nominal dimensions, attached to a top and bottom rail, and the space between vertical boards shall be not more than 38 millimetres (1.5 inches) Despite section 3.12, if the vertical distance between any two supporting horizontal rails is not less than 1.2 metres (4 feet), the space between vertical boards may be increased, but shall be not more than 100 millimetres (4 inches) 3.14 A fence shall be supported by posts of not less than 100 by 100 millimetres (4 by 4 inches), nominal dimensions, spaced at intervals of not more than 2.4 metres (8 feet) In the case of a fence that is required to be 1.2 metres (4.0 feet) in height, the support posts shall be securely imbedded in the ground and shall extend at least 0.9 metres (3 feet) below grade In the case of a fence that is required to be 1.8 metres (6 feet) in height, the support posts shall be securely imbedded in the ground and shall extend at least 1.2 metres (4 feet) below grade.\n16 Page 16 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences 4. Permit Fees 3.17 The portion of the posts below grade shall be of pressure treated wood or, alternatively, shall be treated with a wood preservative that is acceptable to the Manager A fence shall have a top and bottom rail of not less than 50 by 100 millimetres (2 by 4 inches), nominal dimensions. Other Types of Fence 3.19 A pool fence constructed of other materials, including retaining walls and deck guards, shall be constructed in compliance with the standards in this Schedule that apply to a vertical board fence. Combination Fences 3.20 A pool fence that is constructed of a combination of chain link, vertical boarding and any other materials shall be constructed in compliance with the specific standards for that type of material established in this Schedule. 4.1 Any fee relating to this by-law shall be prescribed by the provisions of By-Law , A By-Law to Establish Fees and Charges to be collected by the Corporation of the City of Kingston, as amended. (By-law Number ; ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Note: Schedule B & C added as amended by By-Law )\n17 Page 17 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences Schedule B: Diagrams Figure 1 FENCING, (4 ) 100 mm MAXIMUM SPACES Pool 1.2m MIN. 1.5m MIN. Req d GRADE (By-Law ; )\n18 Page 18 of 18 City of Kingston By-Law Fences Schedule C: Map (By-Law ; )\nFence By-law By-law No\nFence By-law By-law No. 2003-462 A by-law of the City of Ottawa respecting the erection, height and maintenance of fences. THIS CONSOLIDATION IS PROVIDED FOR OFFICE USE AND REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY. 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Funding the operation of the Program has been achieved through financial contributions and staff resources provided by all stakeholders.\nThe current work of the groups is to determine the risks and benefits of different collaboration models, and to initiate arrangements for transitioning to a new regional model for water and sewerage services. The pilot programs include 21 of the 77 local governments in Queensland, which cover 43% of the State\u2019s area and 46% of the State\u2019s population outside of Southeast Queensland. These regional councils manage over $2 billion in water and waste water assets. 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Topics include the social consequences of the modern city, politics, reform, and federal-city relations.\nPrimary Sources: Print Material\nPrimary Sources: Manuscripts & Archives\nComprises comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.\nBrown University Library e-journals listing\nSearch exact the exact title or assorted words to find journal volumes available at Brown in electronic format. A sample search for the words \"urban history\" is displayed here.\nPresents data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History from the earliest times to the present. 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I then began to hunt for a copy of this book for our special collections.\nWritten by Rodney Sorensen, perhaps the finest historian of that corner of Cache Valley, the book is extremely well done. It's filled with wonderful history, including photographs and personal tidbits for various past residents of Mendon. The book is well written and crafted and should be a useful to researchers well into the future.\nIf you would like to see the book, come on into the Logan Library! The materials in the Virginia Hanson Special Collections are available for anyone to use here in the library, regardless of residency.\nBrigham Young College Annuals\nThe Logan Library Special Collections has begun collecting annuals for Brigham Young College: the Crimson which was in publication from 1904-1926. A short explanation of the history of this institution will place the publication in the context of local history.\nBrigham Young College operated from 1877 to 1926. \"At first a normal school primarily preparing elementary teachers (1877-1894), it then inaugurated college courses and for fifteen years granted bachelors' degrees (1894-1909). During its final period (1910-1926), the school operated as a high school and junior college.\" Although highly successful and educating over 40,000 students during the forty-nine years of its operation, the school succumbed to changes in the educational climate and the growth of public schools throughout Utah.(Garr)\nThe library has long been collecting Logan High School's Amphion and now has a collection only missing a few volumes. A natural extension of this collection is to collect the annual for it's near relative, Brigham Young College. The library has been acquiring the annuals through donation and online auctions.\nSee the following sources:\n\"Guide to Brigham Young College Records, 1877-1926\". Utah State University: accessed July 2012.\nLudlow, Daniel H.. Encylopedia of Mormonism. Macmillan, 1992. pp. 219-220.\nStories of the Logan Temple on CD\nNolan P. Olsen was likely the finest historian of the Logan LDS Temple. For many years patrons of the Logan Library have enjoyed listening to a talk by Mr. Olsen on the Logan Temple. However, the recording was circulated on cassette and slowly became worn out over time.\nNot long ago library staff tried to purchase new copies of this recording on compact disc but found that it had not been released in this format. We were able to track down members of Mr. Olsen's family and received permission to copy the recording onto compact disk.\nWe now have, as far we can tell, the only copies of this recording in a digital format. Check our catalog to find the recording and check it out to listen to it in your homes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 5410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://light-eternal.com/kipling_destiny_diamond_jubilees.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:FD2L66554XDFPFW7RA3CPCXOBH7Y6C2G", "length": 2932, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "light-eternal.com", "title": "Kipling, Destiny & Diamond Jubilees", "raw_content": "Kipling, Destiny & Jubilees\nKipling, Destiny and Diamond Jubilees\nRudyard Kipling's poem Recessional was so prophetic of the future of the British Empire when he wrote it in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It predicted with amazing accuracy, the future of the 'British Empire'. That future was clearly revealed in the year of the next Diamond Jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II. Kipling saw the arrogance in the 1897 celebrations. But at least then Britain had an Empire to be proud of. The Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 2012 were unadulterated hype, very much bread and circuses for a country on its knees. The sole aim of the 2012 celebrations was to delude the people into feeling they should be grateful to Queen Elizabeth II for 'being there' for '60 glorious years' even though it was mostly mis-rule by a succession of politicians. The decline probably began in the 60s but certainly accelerated with a vengeance in the 80s. But the Great Thames Pageant of 2012 fitted very neatly into the webs of destiny, which of course it was meant to.\nYes, Rudyard Kipling saw the future with an uncanny accuracy.\nFar called, our navies melt away\nLo all our pomp of yesterday\nIs one with Nineveh and Tyre\nAn now in 2012 the British Empire is every bit as much as dead as those of Nineveh and Tyre and of course.......Egypt. And 'our navies' have certainly melted away. That is why there was a 'great pageant' on the Thames in 2012. It was because there is no fleet left to review, as there was in 1897, or even in 1977 for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. The idea of Great Britain is as dead as the Pharaohs. And why is that? The answer is because the British ignored the last two lines of Kipling's poem. He ended each verse with the words:\nJudge of the Nations, spare as yet\nLest we forget lest we forget.\nThe British forgot about God a long time ago. Britain is now probably the most godless country in Europe. Perhaps this accounts, in part at least, for its manifold social ills. Of course, holding fast to the gospel of the false Goddess of Greed also had a lot to do with the rapid decline of Britain. (At this point, I went back and edited this section and highlighted Recessional in bold. At that point my eye was drawn to the time on the computer clock. It showed 00:29 on 17th August 2012. Yes it is certainly the time of 229 for Britain - a time of Revelation.)\nIt is curious how this inspired poem by Kipling is so curiously linked by destiny into the House of Windsor. Indeed Kipling's death was a very closely tied to the death of a sovereign. The great poet, whose verses inspired the Empire, died the very day before his King, George V, on 19th February, 1935. Our car crash, so intricately connected to Diana's murder, was on the very same day in 2008 in the middle of the Diana inquest. 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Im having a bit of trouble uploading nice pictures, but if you would like to see all of them they're on my Facebook page in this album :) .... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212655122179274.42221.168059643305489&type=3\nWOW, your garments are amazing! i would Kill for one of your jackets! you are inspiring!\nHOLLY THE BLAH BLAH May 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM\nWhere can I buy the spike shorts???? I'm obessed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://literaryrr.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-islands-epidemic-by-patricia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UVOSIWEYN2APEUWXCXHOUCQGNMITQ2B5", "length": 1633, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "literaryrr.blogspot.com", "title": "Literary R&R: {Review} ISLANDS - THE EPIDEMIC by Patricia Smith", "raw_content": "Six months into an experiment to prove self-sufficiency is possible at the bottom of the sea, a war breaks out, and soon after, the five hundred specialists lose contact with the surface.\nIslands-The Epidemic is the first in the Islands Trilogy.\nAs select individuals prepare to spend the next two years underwater in the \"Sea Dome Project\", those left behind on the mainland face food shortages and impending war. As things intensify, an airborne Ebola virus is released and is spreading quickly. When the Dome can no longer contact anyone from the surface, a handful of residents decide they must return to find out the fate of their loved ones, despite the threat of imminent death.\nThis is another cliff hanger from Ms. Smith. Similar in many ways to her previous novel, Distant Suns, there is the element of sci-fi and taming unknown lands, as well as a threat to life as we know it. Epidemic takes the suspense a bit further by introducing a topic that has recently been newsworthy. There is also a lot more detail amid the suffering, some downright cringe-worthy.\nOnce again, Ms. Smith has a tremendous talent for getting the reader to identify with the characters individual personalities. As she presents the fates of the characters loved ones, and inevitably, the characters themselves, I could truly feel the emotions present. She packs a powerful story in a compact edition. Being from England, her writing style is a bit different, and I had to look up \"strewth\" after seeing it in her work, repeatedly. I enjoy her stories tremendously, and felt it ended all too soon, and wait in anticipation for the next installment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://live.abcul.netxtra.net/media-and-research/news/view/1042", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:08Z", "digest": "sha1:AZ2YONVJXCNQAEOHFTWIOQXTID2UE7QX", "length": 2034, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "live.abcul.netxtra.net", "title": "NHS (Scotland and North England) Credit Union is celebrating the most successful month of lending in its history. - ABCUL", "raw_content": "\u00bb NHS (Scotland and North England) Credit Union is celebrating the most successful month of lending in its history.\nNHS (Scotland and North England) Credit Union is celebrating the most successful month of lending in its history.\nFigures just released reveal that during May, the NHS Credit Union lent a record \u00a31.2 million to members \u2013 the largest total in any month since the organisation began in November 1998.\nThe May figure of \u00a31,206,081.89 is more than \u00a3100,000 up on the previous record of \u00a31,104,312.28 set in November 2017. It takes the total lending in the first eight months of the financial year to more than \u00a37.1m. And since NHS Credit Union first opened its doors back in 1998, it has now issued around 73,000 loans to members totalling more than \u00a383 million.\nCommenting on the latest figures, Chief Executive Officer Robert Kelly said he was: \u201cProud and delighted\u201d with the record total.\nRobert added: \u201cIt\u2019s very satisfying to know that we have helped more than 1,100 members with their finances in a single month.\n\u201cSome of those loans will have helped make dreams come true for members, while others will have helped members avoid crippling interest charges from payday lenders.\n\u201cBut no matter what the loan was used for, every penny that went out the door will have helped another member of our financial family.\n\u201cThe record total is testament to the trust and value our members place in our services, but it\u2019s also a reflection on the superb efforts of our entire staff team. I would like to pay tribute to their hard work, and thank them for placing our members at the centre of everything we do.\u201d\nNHS Credit Union began when a group of employees got together to form the Glasgow NHS Employees\u2019 Credit Union in the former Southern General Hospital.\nSince then it has expanded dramatically and from its office in Dava Street in Govan, the 16 full-time staff now provide a wide range of financial services to around 17,500 NHS employees and their family members across the whole of Scotland and the North of England.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livecleveland.org/event/brite-winter-festival-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FYCHEIAIHHQLHNCHB4TRRWOTJ223NJF7", "length": 765, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "livecleveland.org", "title": "Brite Winter Festival - LiveCLEVELAND!", "raw_content": "Brite Winter Festival\nPosted by Dan Flanagan Jan - 31 - 2018 Comments Off on Brite Winter Festival\nBrite Cleveland\nDowntown Ohio City\nA typical February evening on the West Bank of the Flats is pretty quiet. Not so during Brite Winter. The non-profit festival brings together people of all ages, incomes and backgrounds, allowing them to discover new music and art and enjoy their community. Spanning eight years, three locations, tens of thousands of guests, hundreds of bands and artists, and temperatures as low as 8 and as high as 69 degrees\u2014Brite Winter has always been a festival created with the community, not just for it.\nThe festival takes place on Saturday, Feb 24th in The West Bank of the Flats.\nFor the full lineup of artists CLICK HERE\nBrite_2018_Map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://londonist.com/2013/02/theatre-review-love-on-trial-the-ovalhouse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ASTGJBD5WQEL2SABVLTCG32BRKOQNNX2", "length": 2498, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "londonist.com", "title": "Theatre Review: Love On Trial @ The Ovalhouse | Londonist", "raw_content": "Theatre Review: Love On Trial @ The Ovalhouse\nLondonist Theatre Review: Love On Trial @ The Ovalhouse\nThis wonderful 60-minute, one-person play follows the story of a man in Malawi who was convicted of homosexuality and sentenced to 14 years in prison.\nThe audience surrounds the tiny stage, as Bailey Patrick leads us through the hour with great humour and poise. This is a multi-media show, with voiceovers playing just as large a role as Patrick\u2019s, and scraps of news headlines and music played throughout. It is not through visual aid, but through recordings and African accents that we are transported to Malawi.\nThe play is based on Stanley Onjezani Kenani\u2019s short story (who in turn based it on real life), which was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2012, a prestigious award for African writing. In the post-show talk with the author, Kenani spoke of how two men were indeed sentenced to 14 years in prison, at the same time as the case of a notorious mass-murderer, who was given the same sentence. The complete incoherence of equating a murderer with a homosexual in Malawi is what prompted Kenani to write his story, and this same sense of the ludicrous, of conclusions without reason, resounds in the play.\nHowever, while we in the Western hemisphere may rage against the injustice of human rights in the undeveloped world, the play constantly reminds us that we too are not entirely blameless. Cut throughout with frenzied news clips about George Michael (surrounding his arrest for engaging in \u2018lewd\u2019 acts in 1998) which, in contrast to the arrest of the man in Malawi, shows that even our own approach to homosexuality in the media isn\u2019t exemplary. Kenani, again in his post-show talk, pointed out that the law that imprisoned the two men in Malawi was put in place in the 1920s, when Malawi was actually a colony of Britain.\nAll heavy stuff. And because of the subject matter you\u2019d assume that the play would be equally as weighted, but this really isn\u2019t the case. This piece is light, playful, and elicited big laughs every few minutes. There\u2019s no rage involved, no railing against the government or sobbing about injustice, but rather what seems to have been approached as a wonderful moment to involve the audience in an interesting story. Go and see it \u2014 it's really quite thought-provoking.\nLove on Trial is running now at the Ovalhouse, until the 23 February. Tickets are \u00a310/\u00a36 concessions. For more information, visit: http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/love-on-trial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://longbets.org/rules/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:FFCXAXLXYZEZZBSUSPPVKLD2PD4JH324", "length": 4748, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "longbets.org", "title": "The Rules of Long Bets - Long Bets", "raw_content": "The Rules of Long Bets\nMinimum period of Predictions and Bets is 2 years.\nThere is no maximum period.\nThe subject of the Prediction or Bet must be societally or scientifically important.\nAll Long Bets are about things that matter, directly or indirectly.\nThe Predictors and Bettors must provide an argument explaining why the subject of their prediction is important and why they think they will be proved right.\nLong Bets are not guesses. Each predictor has a theory of how the world will proceed, and that theory is made explicit. At the conclusion of each Prediction or Bet there will be public examination of the original argument(s), to see how they match with reality.\nThe fee to publish a Prediction is $50.\nFor that, the Prediction will be kept accessible in perpetuity, along with its Discussion and Voting record. The fee is payable on acceptance by The Long Now Foundation of the Prediction for publication.\nVoters must be registered users and may vote only once on Predictions and Bets.\nRegistration is free. Your name and vote becomes a permanent part of the record of the Prediction or Bet. Your vote cannot be changed later. Votes made under a false name will be removed from the record and the tally.\nDiscussion is open to all registered users.\nAny visitor to the site may view anything on the site, including all Discussions, but you must be a registered user to join a Discussion.\nTrue names are required for user registration.\nLong Bets is about taking personal responsibility for ideas and opinions. Posting, voting, and predicting under your true name is part of standing up for what you think.\nAny Prediction can become a Bet.\nAnyone may challenge a Prediction, and must offer their own argument for why they think they will be proved right, but the challenge does not become a Bet until the original Predictor has accepted the Challenger, and they have agreed upon the stakes. In some cases a Predictor and Challenger will arrive together on the site with a Bet already in mind. Like Predictions, Bets must be approved by the The Long Now Foundation before they go On the Record.\nMinimum stakes for a Long Bet is $200 from each side.\nThere is no maximum amount. The bet money, treated as a donation to the The Long Now Foundation, must be paid at the time the Bet is made, and is tax-deductible immediately. The entire amount goes into a long-term investment portfolio called the Farsight Fund --- its assets are in \"Endowments\", a mutual fund managed by Capital Research and Management Company. Half of the growth of that fund is drawn off to The Long Now Foundation, which maintains the Long Bets service; the other half accrues so that the eventual payment to the winner's preferred charity may be significantly larger than the original bet stakes. The original Predictor pays $50 less into the stakes than the Challenger, because of already having paid the original $50 publication fee.\nLong Bets odds are always even, and the result is always win/lose (no partial wins).\nOdds-making is for gamblers, not the game here. A win/lose outcome helps force lucidity in the original terms of the bet and in the eventual judgement about who won. At the resolution of the bet, if both bettors are still alive and both agree on who won, that concludes the matter. Otherwise, The Long Now Foundation will adjudicate who won. The outcome will be announced and discussed publicly - that's the whole point: to see competing predictions through to completion and learn from the result.\nBettors provide the name of a charity to receive the winnings if they win.\nThe charity designated should be IRS-approved if in the US. Foreign charities also are eligible. The Long Now Foundation cannot legally guarantee that the winnings will go to the winner's preferred charity. It is highly motivated to do so, of course, since how a bet is resolved is in the public eye.\nAt the conclusion of a bet, the winner's original choice for a charity may have disappeared or been transformed by time or been superseded in the winner's interest. The winner, if still alive, may then choose a different charity. If the original charity has disappeared or changed radically, and the winner is not alive, The Long Now Foundation may pick an alternative charity it deems closest to the winner's original intention.\nBettors sign the Bettor's Agreement with The Long Now Foundation.\nThe Bettor's Agreement helps protect the foundation's longevity - and thereby the Long Bets and long bettors - in an environment of strong financial interests and intellectual conflict, in a nation that outlaws private gambling. Far from boilerplate, the agreement has been carefully researched and refined for its specific use.\nREAD THE BETTOR'S AGREEMENT \u00bb\nHOW BETTING WORKS \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://losangel2011.podfm.ru/english_lingvistov/82/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XRLVCNLRI7NMUCESSVY5KNCFZ7ORZADN", "length": 1183, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "losangel2011.podfm.ru", "title": "(Pre-Intermediate) Help! Help!/ Learn English with LINGVISTOV / \u041f\u043e\u0434\u043a\u0430\u0441\u0442 \u043d\u0430 PodFM.ru", "raw_content": "(Pre-Intermediate) Help! Help!\n\u2014 Excuse me. Could you help me? I am looking for a grocery store. Could you tell me where it is?\n\u2014 Sure, no problem. It\u2019s not far from here. You can walk. Actually, you know what? Follow me, I will show you.\n\u2014 Oh, I can\u2019t thank you enough!\n\u2014 Oh, my Gosh! This is a big supermarket!\n\u2014 It is the biggest one around here.\n\u2014 Can I ask you another favor?\n\u2014 Yes, of course!\n\u2014 I can\u2019t see well enough. I left my glasses at home. Would you mind helping me pick up some things? I\u2019d really appreciate it.\n\u2014 Sure. What do you need?\n\u2014 I need cheese, ketchup and I need two packets of potato chips.\n\u2014 Here you are! Is that it?\n\u2014 Yes, thank you. You\u2019ve been very helpful. Could you give me a hand with these grocery bags?\n\u2014 Just one more thing... do you have the time?\n\u2014 Err, yep, a bit.\n\u2014 My new apartment is on the twentieth floor and the elevator doesn\u2019t work. Could you help me get the bags to my door?\n\u2014 I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t, I must be off now and I\u2019m very busy.\n\u2014 It won\u2019t take long. You\u2019re in good shape, it will be easy for you!\n\u2014 I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t. Is that ok?\n\u2014 It\u2019s fine. I just thought I\u2019d ask. Anyway, thank you!\n\u2014 Bye. I am glad I could help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 19939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lost-ireland.tripod.com/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KE5LCDS37UZFQLTCURANXYQZZHN6KZBV", "length": 9715, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "lost-ireland.tripod.com", "title": "..::LOST- Ireland::..", "raw_content": "'ONE OF THEM'\nRTE 2 10PM\nRTE 2 7.10PM\nHow many season's of 'LOST' would you like?\nWelcome to LOST - Ireland.com, the new unofficial LOST site for Ireland. The show follows the lives of 48 survivors of plane crash on remote island somewhere in the South Pacific, who are forced to live with each other in a mysterious world which poses many threats. The site contains all the latest updates from the show, along with listings, downloads and much more. Stay with us for an exciting journey through the second season...\nEpisode 2X15, 'Maternity Leave', 22nd May 2006, RTE 2,10pm\nA desperate Claire, along with Kate and Rousseau, attempt a return to the scene of her kidnapping where she believes she might find the cure for Baby Aaron's mysterious illness. Jack and Locke must keep their prisoner a secret from the rest of the survivors.\nVIEW TRAILER (11.7Mb, ZIP)\nHanso Foundation Ads sponsored by Sprite\nThe mystery of Lost has been solved: It's all about branding. For the past two weeks, a mysterious commercial for a fake organization called The Hanso Foundation has aired during the show. It is part of the giant global game called The Lost Experience, which features online, mobile, print, and televised components that give clues to the mystery of the Lost island.\nSome sharp-eyed \"Losties\" have noticed something about the commercial--corporate sponsorship. Small text that briefly flashes onscreen indicates that while the ad may be a part of the game, it is \"Sponsored by Sprite.\"\nAt the end of the commercial a message tells the viewer to \"Go to www.subLYMONal.com for more information.\" (Lymon, as in \"Sprite has the taste of lymon.\")\nOnce on the site, the word \"Obey\"--as in \"Obey Your Thirst with Sprite\"--is surrounded by glowing blue TV screens that the user must turn into glowing green TV screens to unlock a message. The message has nothing to do with Sprite (so it seems).\nThe Lost Experience fits neatly into the viral marketing world that networks and companies envision to outfox TiVo.\nVisit the Hanso Foundation website here\nPosted By: Lostie 16/05/06\nMichelle set free\nLost actress Michelle Rodriguez got out of jail in Hawaii on Friday after serving only 65 hours of her five-day sentence for drunken driving.The reason for her early exit was because of time spent in custody after her arrest last year, reports the Associated Press. Oahu Community Correctional Center warden Nolan Espinda said inmates receive full credit for any portion of a day served.\nRodriguez, 27, is also serving three years' probation after pleading no contest in 2004 in Los Angeles to three traffic violations, including drunk driving. After her sentencing, Rodriguez, dressed in a brown leather jacket and ankle-length white ruffled skirt, apologized for her attitude toward police officers the night of her arrest (she allegedly told an officer: \"I don't (expletive) belong here! Why don't you just put a gun to my head and shoot me!\").\nShe said that steroids she's been taking for allergies since she arrived in Hawaii influenced her behavior. She also said she'd learned to drive only for a \"racing movie\" \u2013 presumably 2001's The Fast and the Furious.\nHer incarceration was described as uneventful, with Rodriguez sharing dorm space with 60 other female inmates, Espinda said. The actress was permitted to read and watch TV.\nDisney to make 4 ABC shows free online\nThe Walt Disney Co. said Monday its TV group pl ans to offer four ABC prime-time shows including \"Desperate Housewives\" and \"Lost\" online for free beginning in May. The offerings will also include current episodes of \"Commander in Chief,\" as well as the entire season of \"Alias,\" and will be available through June.\nThe shows, being offered by the Disney-ABC Television Group, will be supported by advertisers, including AT&T Inc., Ford Motor Co., Procter & Gamble Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Unilever PLC, among others. The TV group also said it will launch a broadband channel for soap opera viewers on April 17, available to Verizon Communications Inc. consumer broadband customers, called Soapnetic.\nShares of Walt Disney Co. rose 46 cents to $27.99 in late morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. That is closer to the higher end of their 52-week range of $22.89 to $28.85.\nLOST star behind bars\nMichelle Rodriguez, who plays tormented ex-cop Ana-Lucia on Lost, pleaded guilty to driving under the influenc e on Tuesday. She chose a fine and jail sentence over 240 hours of community service, the Associated Press reported.\nRodriguez had been pulled over by police Dec 1 on the Hawaiian island where the series is filmed. Her co-star Cynthia Watros was also stopped on similar grounds within 15 minutes in a separate incident. Both actresses reportedly failed field sobriety tests. Watros pleaded guilty in January; she was fined and ordered to undergo counselling. Rodriguez was already on three years' probation after pleading no contest to three traffic violations in Los Angeles in 2004\nA whole new \"LOST EXPERIENCE\"\nE Online reports that ABC has devised a way to keep fans of its hit show confused, guessing and on the edge of their seats during the lazy days of summer reruns. The network announced Monday the creation of an interactive multiplatform treasure-hunt game called Lost Experience that will introduce a new story line but stay true to Lost's signature mix of supernatural and psychological mystery. The Lost Experience will require players to trade email messages and phone calls and check out billboards, TV commercials and Websites to gather all the necessary clues. One of the most exciting parts of the Lost Experience will be the interaction it fosters among people all over the world, according to Michael Benson, a senior VP at ABC. There is no grand prize for those who manage to piece the puzzle together, but ABC promises that those who play will end up learning some of the island's better-kept secrets.\nAbrams to direct new Star Trek Movie\nParamount Pictures have announced that Lost creator J.J. Abrams will co-write, produce and direct the eleventh Star Trek film, set for release in 2008. According to an article in the Daily Variety, the new film will be a prequel to the original Star Trek series, featuring younger versions of characters like James T. Kirk and Spock.\nThe movie will chronicle events such as their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first mission into outer space. Besides Abrams, the film's producing team will include Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, who both also produce Lost. The Variety article made no mention of the fate of Rick Berman, who has been heading the Trek franchise for the past two decades.\nLOST DVD - Season 2 Part 1 Release Date\nLOST SEASON 2 PART 1 DVD (Region 2) is to be released on July 17th 2006. The 4 disk set will contain the the first 12 episodes from Season 2 along with bonus features. It is currently retailing at \u00a326.99 (\u20ac38.96) and can be pre-ordered here\nLOST continues to pull in the viewers\nLOST is still proving to be a huge ratings hit for RTE 2 with the week ending April 2nd pulling in 462,000, placing it first for the week ahead of the Podge and Rodge Show and Desperate Housewives. The figures had dipped in recent weeks but latest ratings show its as popular as ever with the fans. Full ratings for all the episodes from Season 2 are as follows:\n06/02/06 SPECIAL: Destination Lost 378,000\n06/02/06 Man of Science, Man of Faith 471,000\n13/02/06 Adrift 332,000\n20/02/06 Orientation 386,000\n27/02/06 Every Body Hates Hugo 394,000\n13/03/06 ...And Found 344,000\n20/03/06 Abandoned 352,000\n27/03/06 The Other 48 Days 462,000\n03/04/06 Collision, coming soon\nUK Season 2 airdate announced\nAccording to Digital Spy Channel 4 will air Season 2 in a new Tuesday night slot at 10pm beginning on May 2. E4 will continue to preview new episodes each week at 11pm on Tuesdays. Channel 4 is switching Lost from Wednesdays to Tuesdays in order to bring it back several months earlier than planned.\nThe second season of the cult US show was originally slated to begin in July following the conclusion of Desperate Housewives but was moved forward to the Spring to satisfy viewer demand.\nFox to star in new movie\nLOST star Matthew Fox has been cast opposite Matthew McConaughey in a new movie entitled \"We Are Marshell\" about the real-life tragedy involving the West Virginia-based Marshall University American Football team. The Hollywood Reporter says that the film is about the events which followed the 1970 air crash which killed 37 members of the Marshall team, their entire coaching staff, commentators and fans. In total, 75 people died in the crash.\nMcConaughey is to play Jack Lengyel, the coach who tries to rebuild the team; Fox will play his colleague, Red Dawson\nFor more information on the movie, click here\nLOST castaway of the month - MAY\nCharacter: Mr. Eko\nDate Of Birth: 22nd August 1967\nPrevious Work: The Mummy Returns (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), and Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)\n'Adewale holds a Master of Laws from the University of London, and is a practising Buddhist'\nCopyright \u00a9 2006 LOST- IRELAND All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest \u00a9 2004-2005 by LOST Ireland \"Lost\" TM and \u00a9 (or copyright) ABC/Touchstone TV and its related entities. All rights reserved. This web site, its operators and any content on this site relating to \"Lost\" are not authorized by ABC/Touchstone/RTE TV. Portions of this website may be reproduced as long as proper credit is given. LOST Ireland is a fan run website and is not affiliated with ABC/Touchstone/RTE TV in any way.\nLOST OST\nComposed By: Michael Giacchino\n'Maternity Leave'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 10451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lovelace.com/medical-directives", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:13Z", "digest": "sha1:JMIGQJWJE2Y2I6N5WLT6YAJ2XBRDLTNX", "length": 3529, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "lovelace.com", "title": "Medical Directives | Lovelace Health System in New Mexico", "raw_content": "The Patient Self-Determination Act is a federal law requiring all adult patients be provided the right to accept or refuse treatment and the right to develop their own advance directive on medical care issues.\nAn advance directive, or advanced health care directive, is a legal document needed for someone else to be allowed to make medical decisions for you in the event that you are unable to speak for yourself. These documents may give someone you trust the authority to make decisions for your health care treatment and can direct your medical team on what care you do and do not wish to receive. Your advanced directives have nothing to do with your money or properties. Advanced directives are only about your medical care.\nThe two most common are durable power of attorney for health care and living will. You do not have to prepare an advanced directive if you do not want one. If you do prepare one, you have the right to change or cancel at any time. If you wish to change or cancel an advance directive while in the hospital you should notify your physician, care team, family and others who need to know. If you need additional information about advance directives, please ask for assistance from your care team.\nA Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care/Health Care Proxy is a legal document allows you to designate an agent or proxy to make your health care decisions for you when you are unable to do so yourself. This may be permanent or temporary, depending on your situation. This person should be someone whom you trust to follow your wishes. Your health care provider cannot be your medical proxy, unless they are also your relative.\nA living will is a legal document written and signed by the patient to inform health care providers and family members what care you do and do not want to receive in various circumstances.\nF&Qs\nPatient's right to make decisions about medical treatment\nAs a patient, you have the right to make health care decisions and plan what should be done if you are not able to speak for yourself.\nWho decides about my treatment?\nYour doctors will give you information and advice about treatment. You have the right to choose. You can say \"yes\" to treatments you want. You can say \"no\" to any treatment you do not want even if the treatment might prolong your life.\nYour doctor is required to tell you about your medical condition, the different treatments available and any side effects those treatments may cause.\nWhat if i'm too sick to decide?\nIt is helpful if you communicate in advance what you want to happen if you can't speak for yourself. There are several kinds of advance directives that you can se to make end of life decisions and/or to name who you want to speak for you.\nWho can fill out these forms?\nYou can, if you are 18 years or older and of sound mind. You do not need a lawyer to fill it out.\nWhom can I name to make treatment decisions when i'm unable to do so?\nYou can choose an adult relative or friend you trust as your agent to speak for you if you're too sick to make your own decisions.\nHow does this person know what I want?\nAfter you choose someone to act as your advocate, talk with them about what you do and do not want as a part of your care. In addition, speak with your doctor and provide them, your advocate and the hospital a copy of any legal documents you've prepared.\nTreatment decisions can be difficult to make on behalf of a loved one. Communicating to our advocate and doctors helps everyone involved in your care understand your wishes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 6131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://luckyrice.com/culinary-council/anita-lo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PKV5NAIWRTB66E56QTCGVGUCFWG2T3UV", "length": 873, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "luckyrice.com", "title": "Anita Lo - LUCKYRICE", "raw_content": "Chinese-American Anita Lo is the Chef/Owner of Annisa in New York. A graduate of both Columbia University and the Ritz-Escoffier culinary school in France, Lo has worked under noted chefs including David Bouley, Michel Rostang and Guy Savoy. Lo has also worked through all the stations in the kitchen of Chanterelle, as chef at Maxim\u2019s in New York and at Mirezi, a Pan-Asian restaurant where she made her mark.\nSince opening Annisa in 2000, the restaurant has garnered much praise and Lo has won acclaim as one of ten \u201cBest New Chefs in America\u201d by Food & Wine magazine, \u201cBest New Restaurant Chef\u201d by Village Voice as a top contender in season one of Top Chef Masters.\nIn October 2011, Lo released her long-awaited first cookbook, Cooking Without Borders, which highlights her passion for bringing simple, multicultural flavors to her American kitchen.\nANNISARESTAURANT.COM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.mainebiz.biz/article/20181203/NEWS01/181209992", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X56BS6YEQNNTCJ4PRU5YT7HTOUSYFH7G", "length": 3615, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "m.mainebiz.biz", "title": "Old Port retail space a rare find for the buyer | Mainebiz.biz", "raw_content": "Old Port retail space a rare find for the buyer\nCourtesy / Maine Realty Advisors\nMaine BodyWorks LLC sold its retail condo at 3 Gold St. in Portland to Larry Adlerstein, who used to own Artist & Craftsman Supply, which he founded in Portland. Exposed brick and stonework might have been part of the original foundation at 3 Gold St. in Portland.\nThe sale of a 924-square-foot retail condominium unit at 3 Gold St. was a rare opportunity to get space in the Old Port section of Portland for the buyer, who says he was looking for a new project to take on.\nIn addition to a location that's in demand, sitting just off Commercial Street, it has interior features like exposed stone and brick, wood beams and hardwood floors.\nGold Street Properties LLC purchased the unit from Maine BodyWorks LLC for $275,000. Josh Soley and John Golden of Maine Realty Advisors brokered both sides of the deal, which closed Oct. 24.\nThe building in which the unit is located is bounded by Gold, Pearl and Fore streets.The building has six condo units in all \u2014 two retail and four office.\nThe 3 Gold St. condo is on the basement level of the building but has a street-level entry. At some point, said Golden, who represented the buyer, that unit was built out as a retail suite with a reception area and three private rooms with exposed brick and stone walls. The space is also equipped with a kitchen and bath. It's in excellent shape, he said.\nThe unit was on the market for a couple of months, he said.\nDemand for retail space in the Old Port is high, he noted.\n\"There are not many available condo or retail spaces, though, he said. \"They go pretty quickly. I've been dealing with a national client who keeps on missing out because they're not fast enough.\"\nMaine BodyWorks continues operations at 72 Ocean St., Suite 104, in South Portland, according to its website.\nExposed fieldstone\nSoley, who represented the seller, said the building was built around the 1880s. \"Williams Bros. Co.\" and \"Machinists\" is still visible in old paint on the exterior of the ground floor along Pearl Street.\nThe exposed stone in 3 Gold St. is the basement's original fieldstone and the exposed rafters are the original floor joists of the floor above, said Soley.\nGold Street Properties LLC is owned by Larry Adlerstein. Adlerstein founded Artist & Craftsman Supply in 1985 \"as a small upstart art supply\" in Portland, according to the company's website.\nThe company's early years included segues into wholesale distribution, light manufacturing, sign supplies, house paint and importation and distribution of a boutique European oil paint.\nArtist & Craftsman Supply began adding stores in the mid-nineties. By the early 2000s, it grew into areas like children's art and school supplies, eclectic and novelty goods and other non-traditional fine art related materials.\nIn 2009, Adlerstein sold 48% of the company to employees. Expansion continued. In 2016, there were 34 locations and an online store.\nOn Dec. 30, 2016, Adlerstein sold his remaining shares to employees. The company continues to thrive.\nReached by phone, Adlerstein said that he's basically retired. He purchased 3 Gold St. to have a project. At first he thought of opening a European sandwich shop but he's also open to finding a great tenant who could make good use of the beautiful space. There are many possible uses for the unit, he said. Right now, he's looking for an alternative medicine-related tenant, like an acupuncturist or a chiropractor.\nGolden said other possible uses include a cafe/coffee shop, clothing store, tasting room, florist or any other business venture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maccabeeisrael.blogspot.com/2010/04/today-we-remember.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GD2DKKU6ZBH6HOQ4ZEBUHWISCA2J4S3H", "length": 1025, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "maccabeeisrael.blogspot.com", "title": "MACCABEE ISRAEL: Today We Remember", "raw_content": "Today we remember our fallen soldiers.\nToday we remember the boys and girls who gave their lives to defend the State of Israel, democracy and the right of the Jewish Nation to self-determination.\nToday we remember the civilians of our country who lost their lives to suicide bombings and the crime against humanity called Islamic terrorism.\nWe remember these brave souls who gave up everything to defy a world intent on destroying Israel and the Jewish Nation.\nWe remember our heroes and in so doing, we pass their torch of freedom down generation after generation.\nToday, as we remember, though we are filled with this sorrow, still we know our soldiers did not die for nothing.\nWe remember, we will always remember those who have fallen in defense of our great nation. Because of this we will always be strong and our heroes will not have died in vain.\nToday we remember the boys and girls, the men and women of Israel who are no longer with us, but fought to ensure that we would be here ... still strong, still steadfast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://magazinesonline.info/category/spirituality-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PM2EHSDIKCBSOVNVCOJOKKM7X4YKALZH", "length": 236, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "magazinesonline.info", "title": "Spirituality Health \u2013 Magazines Online", "raw_content": "Spirituality & Health Magazine (12 Issues)\nSpirituality and health \u2013 For people who wish to explore the spiritual journey towards self-knowledge, taking advantage of the wisdom of many cultures for the health of our body,...\tRead more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1384, "original_length": 22459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 180.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maike.life/interview-youve-got-this/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KWF5N6OZIGZNZZNHE2MOIB3XIEY7KJ4Z", "length": 7988, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "maike.life", "title": "Interview? You\u2019ve got this! \u2013 Maike.Life", "raw_content": "Your alarm bell rings. You open your eyes: a half-smile still on your face, fondly remembering last night\u2019s dream. As you delight in the warm and comfortable feeling of your bed, suddenly a jolt of energy rushes through your body. Your heart sinks \u2013 just a little bit, and your previously sleepy brain springs into action: interview day. It\u2019s interview day. Like a computer simulation your brain starts running amok, calculating the odds of every possible bad answer you could give and imagining \u2013 quite vividly \u2013 all the things that could go wrong. You could freeze. You could blank. The interviewer might think you\u2019re a fool. He might hate you. You could stumble and fall. You could even forget your own name.\nYes, there is something quite unnerving for most everyone when it comes to interviews. The sheer thought of having to answer questions about yourself, your experience and your life tends to leave a foul taste in a lot of people\u2019s mouths. We\u2019ve all been there. Clear as day, I remember the last time I attended an interview: being overly punctual as I tend to be, I nervously walked up and down the street, continuously whispering to myself under my own breath \u201cYou\u2019ve got this. You\u2019re good at what you\u2019re doing. If they don\u2019t see that, they are not the right fit for you. You\u2019ve got this.\u201d If anyone had observed me, they would have thought I was absolutely bonkers: with a straight posture walking fifty metres to the left, abruptly turning around, walking fifty metres to the right, turning around again, consistently babbling away with no one close to be seen.\nIn the end I was saved by the kindness of a stranger. I never got to thank her. A lady, innocently pushing her pram along the sidewalk stopped right in front of me, looked me up and down and said: \u201cExcuse me. I am sorry but I wish I had your outfit. You look fantastic.\u201d Wow. Little did she know that her words gave me that little confidence boost I needed to enter the building. With butterflies dancing up and down my tummy, a \u2013 probably slightly forced \u2013 smile on my lips, I walked towards reception, and courteously asked for the person whose name I had committed to my memory as well as possible. The receptionist, a lovely lady with an even lovelier demeanour, called his number to announce my arrival. And, of course, being the least opportune time, that was the moment my bladder started sending red light alerts. How long would the interview last? Would I be able to sit through it \u2013 confidently \u2013 without a prior beeline to the bathroom? Now, if you ever have been in a situation in which you had to go to the bathroom but there was no bathroom in sight, you would be well familiar with the pain and agony of such dilemma. Remembering how I felt the time I sat on a bus in Egypt, three coffees and 1.5 litres of water urgently trying to be released and no bathroom stop scheduled for the next hour, I decided for a last minute fresh-up (and of course, took the opportunity to engage in some deep breathing and some more motivational cheerleading for myself).\nOnce revived, it was time to meet the challenge. The receptionist led me up the stairs \u2013 stairs that seemed to go on forever. I was curious about the people I passed on the way: would they be my new colleagues? How would I get along with them? What would they be like? After an endless left-right-left through corridors and past offices, we finally reached our destination and stopped in front of a heavy door: the door of the organisation\u2019s president. I very briefly closed my eyes in a concerted last-minute effort when said door opened. With a deep breath-in I stepped over that little threshold and then\u2026 and then something magical happened. I knew that \u2013 either way \u2013 I had this: I had prepared as well as possible; I knew what the company stood for; I knew what they wanted to achieve moving forward and I was well familiar with the interviewer\u2019s history, vision and view of the world (thank you Google and YouTube!). I also knew that the best thing I had to offer was me: my personality, my skills, my experiences and my attitudes and beliefs. This in mind, I realised that this simply was an opportunity then for the two of us to ascertain if we were a mutual match. A bit like a first date, really, where you both make a snap decision about liking or disliking the other person and agree to go on a second date (or not). I had a say in this, too. Yes, it would hurt if there was rejection, but my life didn\u2019t depend on it.\nOnce my previous black-and-white view had changed to a more radiant, fluid and colourful picture, I eased up and into the conversation. It was a good conversation. Certainly, there were things I could have expressed better and more clearly: I probably laughed too loudly, stumbled here and there, was too honest and too opinionated at times, but I was what I was best: me. Not perfect, not polished to a fault and not trying to be someone I wasn\u2019t: just me.\nThe result? Well, we seemed like a great fit in terms of vision and attitudes but couldn\u2019t agree on the position itself. He needed me for something I wasn\u2019t willing to give; something that went against my own career values at that time and that was not in line with where I saw myself going professionally. Yes, I was capable of doing the job he was offering but it wasn\u2019t something I was particularly interested in. The position title and money were tempting but the day-to-day activities would not sustain my soul\u2019s passions. I knew that. And I also knew that if I took the job nonetheless, I would not perform as efficiently and effectively as I would if my needs were met. I would function \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 but it would take a mental and emotional, and eventually a physical, toll on me and subsequently the organisation. I had been there before.\nIt wasn\u2019t an easy decision. I liked the company. I liked their vision, I liked their premises and, more importantly, I needed a job. I needed the money. Yet, after some toing and froing and with a slightly heavy heart, I politely declined; not though without emphasising my interest in the company and stating my hope to be considered for future positions that encompassed not only their but also my needs.\nAs I said \u201cno\u201d to something I would have said \u201cyes\u201d to previously, something else happened within me: a sense of pride and self-esteem emerged that had not been there before. I realised that as I said \u201cno\u201d to an objectively great offer that was subjectively not great for me, I said \u201cyes\u201d to myself. I was clear on my values, I was clear on my aspirations and I was clear on my skills, competencies and potential for contribution. I knew that any kind of interview was not only an opportunity for the company to meet me, but also an opportunity for me to meet the company. Most importantly, I was clear on the next step on my path and as hard as it was, I didn\u2019t let a shiny temptation lead me astray.\nIt took some more time, patience and faith, but eventually I found a job that sustained my spirits: developing people in lifestyle and career skills, including interviewing techniques and career aspirations and strategies. Every day, I sit in one of the offices I walked past that day, next to the people I wondered about, working towards the institution\u2019s vision that I aligned myself with so much, asking soon to be MBA graduates:\nWhat are the most important aspects to you in a career?\nWhat\u2019s holding you back from realising the life and career you\u2019re dreaming of?\nWhat are you willing to do to not only get a job but also find a fulfilling career?\nDo you think the job you\u2019re applying for will lead you towards or away from these aspects?\nAnd I give these students similar advice I gave myself: an interview is a mutual opportunity. Only you know what\u2019s best for you. You know your value. You know your experience. You know what you stand for. You know how your values align with those of the company and if it\u2019s a good match. You know if the job is right for you. 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To encourage them not to spend their saved money all on one occasion or being forced to give it for some other cause, like feeding a husband\u2019s alcohol addiction, the women are given their savings back at the end of one year through items other than cash.\nAround 210 women including elderly women started saving Rs. 10 twice in a week for one year. The total money together was Rs. 581,890 for all 210 women. On average, women received Rs. 3650 from their savings and as an incentive to encourage the women Manav Sadhna distributed 1 kg of Ghee and 1kg jiggery . One can see the joy and happiness on their faces. This money will help us with these women in repaying their loans, organizing birthdays for their grandsons, buying gas and stoves, buying groceries, health items, etc. While asking them about the savings, the majority of the women said they cannot believe the power of saving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maritimedenmark.dk/?Id=19745", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7AFRGSVX64MAUDYQPKRP25PVHVUODHVT", "length": 1419, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "maritimedenmark.dk", "title": "Shipping \u00bb Shipping companies satisfied with PM", "raw_content": "Shipping companies satisfied with PM\nDuring yesterdays opening statement inside the Danish Parliament, Prime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen spoke of his ambitions of continuing growth and development in Denmark, which amongst many things involves access to qualified labor and focus on international trade. According to shipping organization Danske Rederier these are important initiatives for the shipping industry.\n\u201cDanske rederier ships and compete on a global scale. In order to keep leading it is pivotal that we constantly keep focus on creating the best possible conditions for the industry\u2019s global activities, and that we are able to attract qualified labor. Therefore I am pleased with the Prime Minister\u2019s speech,\u201d Anne H. Steffensen, CEO, Danske Rederier.\nIn addition to the opening statement, the government's legislative program was presented. It contains the bills that the government plans to make in the coming season, which includes a new maritime law, the adjustment of the DIS Act, the adjustment of the Danish expert tax and a number of other initiatives that affect Danish shipping.\nIn his speech, the Prime Minister also spoke of EU\u2019s work regarding free trade and international cooperation, which are also important initiatives for the shipping industry.\nAnne H. Steffensen looks forward to cooperating with the Danish Parliament on a number of bills included in the upcoming legislative session.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marketingnewsbox.com/?p=13029", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:58Z", "digest": "sha1:D56AVBDIW7MVVTI5JPQULXGKIRCWBB6E", "length": 363, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "marketingnewsbox.com", "title": "Meet Netflix, NPR, and The New York Times at MarTech", "raw_content": "Scott Brinker \u2014 January 30, 2019 in Channel: CMO Zone 5 Likes\t66 Views\nThe New York Times, NPR, Adobe, JP Morgan Chase, Nordstrom, Netflix, and Zillow have all mastered the three pillars of martech success: marketing, technology, and management. And what\u2019s more \u2014 they\u2019re eager to share their knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned to help you overcome your\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 8378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://markwahlberg.com/viewtopic.php?p=59028", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BIE35CWRJ2XOQEV4KL5NYHEPVNSVYFUI", "length": 3610, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "markwahlberg.com", "title": "MarkWahlberg.com :: View topic - Interviews", "raw_content": "Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 6:42 am Post subject: Interviews\nThe first interviews have hit the net if you haven't seen them yet. They were first posted at Moviehole and also are on Dark Horizons today.\nBelow are links to Mark's and Thandie's: http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=464 http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=459\nThank you Lianne you are rock girl!!\nThank you very much. Lianne. It's interesting interview to read.\nHey now, what's this, nobody seen them yet? You guys do read the newspaper right? lol What am I babbling about? Read on grasshopper...\nI know there are a few Canada folks here. Did you read the (Toronto, Calgary, or Winnepeg) Sun yesterday or for Toronto people the Star today?\nBecause if you did you would have read interviews with Mark with lots of new information, including his next 2 projects after The Italian Job! Including one that involves some director married to Madonna! And to all you in England (esp near London), may I just say you will love summer even more.\nStill no Tv interviews of Mark in sight but here's his co-star's interview schedule -\n10/22/02 - Tim Robbins on the Today show\n10/23/02 - Thandie Newton on the Caroline Rhea show\n10/31/02 - Tim Robbins on Carson Daly\n11/01/02 - Thandie Newton on Carson Daly\nIn syndication: Thandie Newton on Kickin It\n[This message has been edited by Lianne (edited October 22, 2002).]\nOh and lets not forget Jersey. The Bergen Record had a long article on Mark too!\nAnd in the Baltimore Sun, yesterday had a long review and interview with Jonathan Demme.\nThese are more reviews on the film, just a few comments on Mark by Demme:\nhttp://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/293/living/Their_creative_bond_is_truly_something_wild%2B.shtml\nhttp://www.freetime.com/onscreen.html\nLianne. Thank you very much for many informations as always.\nI read the artilces of Star.Very impressed.\n\"The first time I met him(Father Falvin) I was 12 years old and I was standing on a corner at 3 in the morning selling drugs,\" the actor remembers. ... Unfortunately, most of us didn't listen to him until it was too late. A lot of my friends are still in prison.\"\nWahlberg's hand begins to tremble slightly as he takes a sip of coffee. This is not a subject he likes to talk about. But he obliges, in the hopes his story may inspire others.\nI do respect that.\n[This message has been edited by Kazuko (edited October 22, 2002).]\nOkaaaay, so we don't read the Boston Herald either?\nHere's a tidbit:\nOn POTA: \"It was a great decision for me, because I had an amazing experience with Tim,\" he said. \"You know, the finished product is the finished product. I let it all go when I wrap; my job is done. I don't choose my movies by how I think they are going to be perceived or how they are going to perform at the box office. When I do that, I'll probably be making my own films. I'm still trying to grow as an actor. I've still got a lot to learn.\"\nThat said, he added he's set to do \"an extremely original\" picture that will reunite him with \"Three Kings\" writer-director David O. Russell.\n\"Oh, God, it's the most amazing script I've ever read in my life,\" he said. \"He wrote it for me and I'm very excited about it. We're going to start in January.\"\nWahlberg is mum on the film's plot. \"David made me come to his house and read the script,\" he said. \"He's real secretive about it. But it's incredible.\"\nWell this is turning into my own personal thread isn't it?\nCheck the following places for Mark articles if you haven't done so already:\nVancouver Sun - Its different from the other Toronto Sun article\nTeenHollywood.com - POTA 2 mention\nMadBlast.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 6160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marquispressreleases.com/press-release/bruce-barber-honored-by-marquis-whos-who-for-achievements-in-art-and-art-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MYASMNAXQE2AZDO3HC2OG3SE2T6HK6G7", "length": 3705, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "marquispressreleases.com", "title": "Marquis Who's Who Press release", "raw_content": "Bruce Barber Honored by Marquis Who\u2019s Who for Achievements in Art and Art History\nDr. Barber has been pursuing his passions for more than four decades\nHALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, June 20, 2017, Bruce Barber has been included in Marquis Who\u2019s Who. As in all Marquis Who\u2019s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.\nA prolific artist and art historian, Dr. Barber has excelled in the field his entire life. Early on in his career, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Auckland University School of Fine Arts, a second Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and a Ph.D. from European Graduate School. A member of the University Arts Association of Canada, The College Art Association, Film Studies Association and the Cinema Studies Association, he has served in many professional roles throughout his career, including a position with the LJB Media Arts Society from 1989 until 2004, the Dalhousie Review in 2001, and the NSCAD Press in 2003 among other editorial appointments. He has also taken on the roles of assistant professor of fine arts at Simon Fraser University, assistant professor of intermedia-studio and art history for Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Director of the MFA Program and Chair of Media Arts, at NSCAD University where he is now a full professor in Media Arts. In 2010 he was also named honorary professor for the Sydney College of Art.\nThroughout the course of his career, Dr. Barber has exhibited works all over the world. In the mid-1970s, he demonstrated his art in the Paris and Sydney Biennales, in 1984 \u201cThe Art of Memory \u2013 The Loss of History,\u201d in New York. Then, throughout the \u201880s into the present, he exhibited his work in London, Warsaw, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland and Venice. Additionally, he has had his work shown in \u201cMeaning Making\u201d at Artspace in Auckland in 2007, \u201cTraffic Conceptual Arts in Canada\u201d in 2010, and \u201cContinental Drift: Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and \u201870s\u201d in 201, and \"Personal Structures: Open Borders\" in 2017. During his lengthy career, he has been recognized with numerous awards, including by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council in 1977 and 1979, the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Resources Council of Canada several times between 1982 and 2009. Additionally, he has had the honor of being named to Who\u2019s Who in American Art in their 23rd through 36th editions.\nA shining example of skill in his field, Dr. Barber has been included in many bibliographies such as \u201cRemembering Postmodernism,\u201d which was written by M. Cheetham, \u201cSplitting Images,\u201d which was written by L. Hutcheon, and \u201cNew Zealand Sculpture: A History,\u201d which was written by M. Dunn. He has also authored and edited his own work in the field, including \u201cPerformance Texts & Documents\u201d in 1981, and \u201cVoices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power and The State,\u201d which he co-edited in 1996. Editor of Cond\u00e9 +Beveridge: Class Works (2008); also author of Performance [Performance] and Performers: Essays and Conversations (2 volumes) edited by Marc James L\u00e9ger (2008), and Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death (2008), \"Littoral Art & Communicative Action\" (2013). His critical essays have appeared internationally in numerous anthologies, art journals and magazines. Barber\u2019s interdisciplinary art practice is documented in the publications \"Reading Rooms\" and \"Bruce Barber Work 1970-2008\".\nLooking toward the future, Dr. Barber intends to experience the continued growth of his artistic career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 91.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://maxjawn.com/blog/tag/pickthebrain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LMWMFERV7NOZWDP7C4AJZDGBJE4LLCGK", "length": 6264, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "maxjawn.com", "title": "pickthebrain Archives - MaxJawn.comMaxJawn.com", "raw_content": "You\u2019re reading Don\u2019t Think \u2013 Do, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nWhen I\u2019ve had important life decisions to make, I\u2019ve always been in favour of thinking, researching and evaluating my options. After all, I didn\u2019t want to get it wrong.\nMy logic was, the more informed I can make myself, the better.\nDo you also feel like this when faced with big decisions?\nLet me tell you that I have changed my view completely.\nI believe that there IS such a thing as too much information and too many options, and often what this results in is PARALYSIS, rather than action.\nA few years ago I was asked to speak on national television about insects as a future source of sustainable protein (at the time I was running my \u2018cricket flour\u2019 snack bar company). My first reaction was over\u2026\nAncestry DNA Tests Don\u2019t Always Find What We Expect\nYou\u2019re reading Ancestry DNA Tests Don\u2019t Always Find What We Expect, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nAdvances in DNA testing in recent years has made tracing your family tree accessible to the masses, prompting millions to go down the route of discovering their lineage.\nBut what people find is not always welcome. The results of genetic tests are life-changing, but in some cases people are left wishing they\u2019d remained in blissful ignorance.\nAncestry DNA tests help people to discover their genealogy by taking just a small amount of the subject\u2019s DNA, with some of the best ancestry dna test sites claiming that they can reveal a person\u2019s family tree and ancestral homeland for a fee.\nThe most popular is the aptly-named AncestryDNA itself, from whom you can currently order a kit online for $79. All you have to do is spit into\u2026\nWhy is Consciousness The Key to Happiness?\nYou\u2019re reading Why is Consciousness The Key to Happiness?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nConsciousness\u2026 just a word for many but for some people familiar with its experience, it is a means to create a beautiful world.\nAccording to Merriam-Webster, the definition of consciousness is \u201cthe quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself.\u201d\nI\u2019m sure you want to unlock this experience\u2026\nIn case you don\u2019t know, both Thinking and Feeling are the basis of an individual\u2019s existence.\nThere are situations, a majority in the materialistic world when thinking creates wonders.\nSimilarly, there are situations when the feeling component gives you the best of experiences, the best testimony being the holiday-breaks.\nYou are thinking more and feeling less\nYou are feeling more and thinking less.\nThere is a deficiency or an overdose of one component over other. Sorry, but you are losing\u2026\nA Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family\nYou\u2019re reading A Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nMany of us have faced depression, struggled with low self-esteem, and other debilitating mental health challenges. My own journey with depression was a result of growing up with a rare blood disorder and being told I could never have children of my own. This completely changed my dreams of what family and life meant. Years later I suffered with a rare soft tissue sarcoma, yet, baffling the best of doctors, I survived. I\u2019m a tough nut to crack!\nMy book, Falling into Faith, A Journey to Freedom, is a candid and honest account of my journey. I detail the struggles of living with constant pain and disease, and the power associated with learning to forgive and break free from the heavy chains that encumber and\u2026\nUnconsciously Chasing a Dream\nYou\u2019re reading Unconsciously Chasing a Dream, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nOur unconscious routines are making us or breaking us.\nAs I woke up before the sunrise I walked over to the couch and turned on a small lamp, then started my coffee and grabbed my phone. After mindlessly scrolling Facebook and Twitter which seemed like five minutes, my son woke up and came out to join me on the couch. How was the morning gone already? How did an hour and a half go by?\nAs I was reflecting on my life, I was reminded of a recent trip on an old back road. This unmaintained road had heavy tire ruts where you could literally take your hands off the wheel because years of the same travel with no deviation had formed these pathways for a vehicle. There is no\u2026\nTen Tips to Help You Feel Happier\nYou\u2019re reading Ten Tips to Help You Feel Happier, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you\u2019re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.\nHappiness is an elusive concept, we all want it but not many of us can define what it actually is and even fewer how to get it.\nUnfortunately, a lot of us fall into the trap of the \u2018I will be happy when\u2019 mentality. It\u2019s an easy fix supported by our own psychology and propagated by the modern world. You end up thinking; \u2018I will be happy when I have lost 10kg\u2019s\u2019, \u2018I will be happy when I find a partner\u2019, \u2018I will be happy when I get that new car\u2019 and so on. The difficulty is that you will be happy briefly, or at least you think you will. But this feeling won\u2019t last long and then you will be onto the next thing that\u2026\nWhen you catch up with a friend you haven\u2019t talked to in awhile, what\u2019s one of the first things out of your mouth when they ask you how you are? Is it something along the lines of \u201cgood, but SO busy\u201d?\nWhat if the most interesting thing about us wasn\u2019t how busy we are?\nWe live in a culture of more. So many people want to make more money, buy more things, and get more done. I often write and speak about productivity, and the question I get asked the most is \u201chow do I do more?\u201d Clients and audience members aren\u2019t asking how to get more done in less time, they want to know how to fill in\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 455, "original_length": 29566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mbabrief.com/what_is_interest_coverage_ratio.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CHN4MAXDMDWJVBYB4U4OF5XHNHU3F23S", "length": 686, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mbabrief.com", "title": "What is Interest Coverage Ratio? Definition and meaning", "raw_content": "Definition: Interest Coverage Ratio is a solvency ratio expressing the degree to which a company can easily pay interest on its outstanding debt.\nThe ICR for a period can be calculated by the following formulas:\n- EBIT / Interest Payments\n- EBITDA / Interest Payments\nThe result of the ICR should normally be over 2 or so. A result lower than 1 indicates that the company is having trouble to generate enough cash to pay it's interest expenses on its debt, and that it is vulnerable to increases in interest rates.\nAlso called: Times Interest Earned.\nAnother solvency ratio is the Debt to Equity Ratio.\nMore on interest coverage ratio. More on financial ratios: Cash Ratio, Quick Ratio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mcponj.org/2017/03/27/two-indicted-for-july-2015-murder-in-eatontown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RPIZHHZJQ3QDMWJ66K4SIB3RNAIZA43X", "length": 3142, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mcponj.org", "title": "Two Indicted for July 2015 Murder in Eatontown | Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor", "raw_content": "Conspiracy To Commit MurderMurderPossession of a Weapon for an Unlawful PurposeWeapons Offenses\nTwo Indicted for July 2015 Murder in Eatontown\nFREEHOLD \u2013 A Monmouth County grand jury returned a four-count indictment Thursday charging two men with a July 2015 murder in Eatontown, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.\nFrederick Reed, 20 of New Castle, Delaware and Perry Veney, Jr., 31 of Long Branch, are charged in the indictment with first degree Conspiracy to Commit Murder, first degree Murder and second degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose. Veney was also charged with second degree Certain Persons Not to Have a Weapon. The charges are the result of a joint investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor\u2019s Office and Eatontown Police Department that began on July 10, 2015, and continued over the course of almost a year and a half.\nEatontown Police responded to the entrance of Country Club Apartments at the corner of Tilton Avenue and Country Club Road on the report of shots being fired around 12:13 a.m., on July 10, 2015. Upon arrival, police located the victim, Rasheem Palmer, 37, of Eatontown, lying in the roadway on Country Club Road. The victim was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 2:47 a.m.\nIf convicted of first degree Murder, Reed and Veney face a minimum sentence of thirty years in State Prison during which time they would be ineligible for parole and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, subject to the provisions of the \u201cNo Early Release Act (NERA). NERA requires that a defendant serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for parole. If convicted of the first degree conspiracy, both men would be subject to a maximum sentence of 20 years in a New Jersey state prison. If convicted of second degree Possession of a Firearm for an Unlawful Purpose, they face a maximum of ten years in State Prison, which is subject to a mandatory minimum of 1/3 of the sentence imposed or 3.5 years, whichever is greater, without parole. Veney also faces a maximum sentence of ten years in State Prison if convicted of the Certain Persons Not to Have a Weapon charge, which is subject to a mandatory minimum of five years without parole.\nFrederick Reed was arrested on December 28, 2016 in Delaware. His bail was set at $1.1 million cash only. After waiving extradition, he was transported to and lodged at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution on January 4, 2017. Veney was arrested on December 30, 2016 and taken to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution on that date, where he remains in lieu of $1.2 million cash only bail. Both bails were set by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Honora O\u2019Brien Kilgallen.\nThe case is assigned to Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutors Meghan Doyle and Hoda Soliman.\nReed is represented by Allison F. Friedman of Freehold.\nVeney is represented by Edward Bertucio, Esq., of Eatontown.\nTags: Del.EatontownLong BranchNew Castle\nNext post Marlboro Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges\nPrevious Article Volunteer Firefighter Admits Falsifying Records", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 7854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mcponj.org/2018/04/10/former-teacher-guilty-of-distributing-child-pornography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CHZVGXS7PV4L6S6WBY7BVUPACANQKOJV", "length": 1958, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mcponj.org", "title": "Former Teacher Guilty of Distributing Child Pornography | Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor", "raw_content": "FREEHOLD \u2013 A former Keansburg middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. He now faces a prison term and permanently forfeited any future public employment as well as his current position as a school teacher, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.\nMarc S. Marinoff, 31, of Pear Drive, in Marlboro, pleaded guilty to one count of second degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child involving the Distribution of Child Pornography. Marinoff is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29, 2018, by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Ellen Torregrossa-O\u2019Connor.\nAs part of his plea agreement, Marinoff faces a 3-year state prison term and will be subject to the provisions of Megan\u2019s Law upon his release from prison. Marinoff is also permanently banned from holding any public employment in New Jersey and has forfeited his current public post as a school teacher.\nMarinoff was arrested last year after detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor\u2019s Office conducted a search of his home and various personal electronic devices were seized and examined, revealing child pornography had been possessed and distributed. A forensic examination of the devices disclosed that Marinoff distributed videos of child pornography via a peer-to-peer file-sharing program \u2013 an online connection of computers allowing the sharing of files directly between individual users. Marinoff was a teacher at the Joseph R. Bolger Middle School in Keansburg.\nMarinoff is represented by Mitchell J. Ansell Esq., of Ocean Township.\nTags: KeansburgNJ schoolsnj teachers\nNext post Former Wall Schools Superintendent Appeal Denied\nPrevious Article FBI National Academy Graduates Two From Monmouth\nUndercover Investigation Leads to Arrest of Keansburg Man For Attempted Sexual Assault\nKeansburg Man Gets 10 Years For Weapons Possession\nFormer Teacher Sentenced For Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Materials\nChris Swendeman, June 29, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 6419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mdredux.blogspot.com/2008/07/pediatric-organization-issues-proactive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DFLGA7QV3O6DMQEQM5TDGLN5ZI2X7TJ2", "length": 1165, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mdredux.blogspot.com", "title": "retired doc's thoughts: Pediatric organization issues proactive recommendations re use of stains in children", "raw_content": "I agree with you that the AAP guidelines are too aggressive and that we have no proof that starting treatment in childhood or adolescence will prevent heart attacks, or will prevent more heart attacks than starting later. The AHA guidelines that were issued in March 2007 were a little more reasonable. I would like to clarify a couple of points, though:\n1. The AAP guidelines, unlike the AHA guidelines, do not specify that statins should be first-line therapy (i.e., instead of ezetimibe or bile acid sequestrants). Personally, I feel that if you are going to treat someone, you should treat them with something that works. Therefore, I view the AHA guidelines as superior on that point.\n2. There are some high risk kids, such as kids with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, who I think it would not be unreasonable to treat starting in adolescence, especially in the case of boys.\n3. For the small group of kids who reasonably could be treated with statins, a low or moderate dose should be used in virtually all cases.\n4. It goes without saying that children with homozygous FH (1/million) need to be treated aggressively as soon as they are diagnosed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 11812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://media.nmartmuseum.org/event/3659/free-sunday-for-new-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UHWSL4EQW3VR53D2NQTPHXF2NBUEDG6C", "length": 197, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "media.nmartmuseum.org", "title": "Department of Cultural Affairs Media Center :: Events Calendar :: Event Details", "raw_content": "Free Sunday for New Mexico residents\nBecause the museum is closed on the first Sunday of April for Easter, we are offering New Mexico residents free admission to the museum on April 8th this month.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medicalpracticecme.com/cme_test_-_class_5.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:U7HLYVPRK4KZWDGALVMUFSDTZEXRG2GB", "length": 5892, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "medicalpracticecme.com", "title": "CME Test - Class 5", "raw_content": "1. What is utilization review? (Reference Class 5, \"Utilization Review\")\nA. Utilization review is a systematic means for reviewing and controlling patients\u2019 use of health services and providers\u2019 use of health care resources.\nB. Utilization review usually involves data collection, review and/or authorization, especially for services such as a specialist referrals and emergency room use, and particularly costly services such as hospitalization.\nC. Utilization Review (\"UR\") also known as Utilization Management is the process by which the health plan, payor or Utilization Review firm determine which services are medically appropriate and cost effective.\nD. Many insurance plans and all HMOs require that utilization review procedures are followed prior to all inpatient and some outpatient and emergency care or they will not pay for services rendered.\n2. What does \"Benchmarking\" or \"Clinical Benchmarking\" mean? (Reference Class 5, \"Tools\" - \"Tools for Improving Quality\" - \"Benchmarking\")\nA. Benchmarking is a management tool available to health care organizations for achieving breakthrough performances in both patient care and support areas.\nB. Benchmarking promotes and depends on a learning oriented organization meaning an organization that systematically collects, integrates and disseminates information.\nC. Clinical Benchmarking is the use of clinical data and process analysis to identify best outcomes.\nD. An example of benchmarking is where one hospital or provider compares its care patterns with those of hospitals or providers that achieve better results and modifies its processes accordingly.\n3. What is the focus of Utilization Review? (Reference Class 5, \"Utilization Review\")\nA. The focus of Utilization Review is on appropriateness, effectiveness and quality of services provided.\nB. The focus of Utilization Review is on home health care.\nC. The focus of Utilization Review is on cost of pharmaceutical drug benefts.\n4. What are some quality assurance techniques? (Reference Class 5, \"Techniques\" - \"Quality Assurance Techniques\"\nA. Some quality assurance techniques include health plans offering pharmaceutical benefits.\nB. Techniques to assure enrollees quality and customer satisfaction include grievance procedures, satisfaction surveys, advisory committees, and scrutinizing utilization and outcome data.\nC. Some quality assurance techniques include avoiding the use of preventive medicine.\n5. What is Total Quality Management (TQM)? (Reference Class 5, \"Tools\" - \"Tools for Improving Quality\" - TQM)\nA. TQM is a concept that calls for continuous and relentless improvement in the total process that provides care, not simply in the improved actions of individual professionals. Improvement is based on both outcome and process.\nB. Total Quality Management places primary emphasis for problem characterization on the system rather than the individual. The customer in TQM is not only the patient but also the many users of a department's output.\nC. A and B immediately above.\nD. TQM does not impact physicians in any manner.\n6. Which of the following are examples of inappropriate utilization? (Reference Class 5, \"Examples\" - \"Examples of Inappropriate Utilization\")\n(1) Inefficient or unnecessary duplication in laboratory testing\n(2) Inefficiencies in drug utilization\n(3) Not screening requests for high cost radiology procedures\n(4) Not improving cost efficiencies in the ordering of pharmaceuticals.\nD. 1,2,3 and 4\n7. Dr. Jones is part of a large medical group and the administrator of the medical group has told Dr. Jones that the medical group will be using evidence based medical guidelines. What does this mean to Dr. Jones? (Reference Class 5, \"Tools\" - \"Tools for Improving Quality\" - \"Guidelines\" - \"Evidence based Medicine or Medical Guidelines or Critical Pathways or Care Maps\" )\n1. To practice evidence-based medicine, a doctor must combine study results with his own clinical judgment and patient preferences. The hoped-for outcome is significantly improved quality of care.\n2. Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.\n3. Doctors are more likely to be sued for not following the guidelines than for abiding by them.\nD. 1,2,and 3\n8. What is a concern about the electronic medical record? (Reference Class 5, \"Tools\" - \"Tools for Improving Quality\" - \"EMR\" - \"Electronic Medical Record\")\nA. A concern about the electronic medical record is confidentiality.\nB. There is no concern about the electronic medical record.\nC. Only HMO claim's departments have any concern about the electronic medical record.\nD. All employer groups demand extended use of the electronic medical record and because of this there is a concern about the electronic medical record.\n9. What are some concerns by some practitioners with utilization management? (Reference Class 5, \"UM\" - \"Utilization Management\")\n1. Disagreements among peer reviewers about what comprises appropriate care\n2. Uncertainty about reviewer qualifications\n3. Uneasiness about reviewer requests for confidential patient information\n4. Physicians might feel that utilization management forces them to choose between being a patient advocate and a Managed Care Organization's agent.\nB. 1,2,3 and 4\n10. What does Utilization Review aim to do? (Reference Class 5, \"Utilization Review\")\nA. Utilization Review aims to encourage providers to use more inpatient services as much as possible.\nB. Utilization Review aims to discourage providers from using out-patient services as much as possible.\nC. Utilization Review aims to provide for effective pre-admission screening to avoid unnecessary admissions and provide early discharge planning to promote prompt placement once patient has reached a lower level of care.\nD. Utilization Review aims to encourage the fee-for-service system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://merandawrites.com/wordpress/offline/lafayette/Books/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PUMICGULXZB4TWCQCVGXAPXLPFFOMVJT", "length": 7072, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "merandawrites.com", "title": "Meranda Writes \u00bb Books", "raw_content": "QOTD: Newspaper stories are fleeting things\n\u201cNewspaper stories are fleeting things. The thing that makes this business so remarkable, that every day we get a new canvas to paint on, is also what makes it so unsatisfying. The story, almost always, dies with the day, the pages of the day-old paper turning yellow in the sun.\u201d\nSadly, the Internet makes them even more so. In mere hours, or even before the ink dries on the newsprint, the story is outdated or dead, new developments already known and broadcast. But, as he says about it being remarkable, it\u2019s also exciting. There\u2019s always a deadline to work against, and it\u2019s always ASAP.\n(P.S. This quote is from the introduction to Bragg\u2019s book Somebody Told Me, which I came across at a used bookstore this weekend. So far I\u2019ve only read a few of his collected stories, but they\u2019re really good.)\nPosted in Books, Journalism, Quote | No Comments \u00bb\nHarry Potter and the\u2026 can I take my vacation the week after July 21?\nI heard the news on the radio this morning on my way to work: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on July 21. Yep, in just under six months I will have a copy of the last installment in the series.\nI do realize these are children\u2019s books. But do you realize, I began reading them when I was about Harry\u2019s age. (OK, I was actually 13. But still.) Imagine the agony of waiting nearly a decade to find out how the story ends. Well, I guess if that\u2019s the worst that happens to me or the longest I wait for anything, than life\u2019s good. But still.\nI am so excited about just knowing when I\u2019ll be able to sit down and read the book. It\u2019s nice to know that it\u2019s completed, too. I always worried that some freak accident might occur and she\u2019d never be able to finish the series. We\u2019d be left never knowing what became of Harry and everyone.\nMaybe I can call dibs on the story we\u2019ll inevitably do about it? (Kids + reading = education, right?) I remember I got to do the story on the release of the sixth book. It was so exciting to be surrounded by a thousand little kids who were eager to get their hands on a book. Not an iPod, not a PS3 or a Wii. A book. Just words on a page with a few illustrations thrown in for good measure. Of course, the downside was I\u2019d ordered my book from Amazon. So, as those lucky brats got their hands on the books at midnight, I had to wait for UPS to stop by my house the next day.\nSpeaking of illustrations, the cover Amazon\u2019s displaying is pretty plain compared to the others in the series. Is that the real cover? Hrm. I guess it must be.\nPosted in Books, Fun, Offline | No Comments \u00bb\nSome notes about the blog\nI\u2019ve officially had this blog for more than a month.\nIn that time, I\u2019ve missed exactly two days posting. So far, I\u2019ve only missed one day in December. Most days I\u2019ve had several posts. In fact, I\u2019m quickly approaching my 100th post. I\u2019d say that\u2019s not bad.\nI switched up the design on the top of the blog. What used to be a composition notebook is now a stack of newspapers. (Note to any of those wondering, that was actually just one week\u2019s worth of the newspapers I\u2019d accumulated in my office. I read four newspapers a day in print, sometimes more.) I think the newspapers hit the journalist part home more than the composition notebook did. Carl had suggested I add a computer, and I took some photos of my MacBook, but I decided my keyboard was enough for now. It\u2019s subtle enough.\nI added a calendar to the sidebar this morning. I\u2019m still tweaking the design of it, but yeah. I also may add a few more things to the sidebar. Maybe a \u201cWhat I\u2019m reading\u201d box, so everyone can follow along with my latest books. Plus, then I could keep a running list of the books I read and buy in 2007. (An idea I totally stole from Katie.)\nI also updated the about page and the sidebar about myself. Now the sidebar is a list of random things worth knowing about me. It\u2019s funny, but it\u2019s a pretty quick snapshot of what I\u2019m all about.\nI am going to start in January doing a daily quote. (For those who don\u2019t know, I\u2019m obsessed with quotes.) I have a random quote in the sidebar already that changes with each refresh. But, I come across quotes I like every day. So, I think I\u2019m going to start doing a \u201cdaily quote\u201d or \u201cdaily inspiration.\u201d It could be anything from something I read in a book to something I read in the newspaper to just a really good quote I came across. Today\u2019s entry would be the one I just swapped into my e-mail signature:\nFinally, I wanted to note that now when you search my name in Google, the first result is this site. I don\u2019t pretend to understand the inner workings of Google and how pages are ranked, added, sorted or anything. But at least now anyone wanting to know about me sees this before some random stories I wrote about May 4 for the 35th anniversary DKS a few years back. That\u2019s reassuring.\nOther than that, I think that\u2019s all I have going on.\nPosted in Books, Ideas, Lists, Quote, Web design | 1 Comment \u00bb\nKent State College Prowler\nI just stumbled upon the Kent State University College Prowler book on Amazon. I don\u2019t remember what series of clicks or searches landed me there. But it made me smile.\nA book I helped edit can be purchased online on Amazon.com.\nYeah, in my list of things to achieve in life, writing a book is in the top 10. It will be a long time before that happens. But copy editing and fact checking the College Prowler book for Steve was one of those random forays into book publishing. The book is essentially a college students take on Kent State. (College Prowler has one student at each university compile the information and put together the book with his/her team.)\nIf you look at the \u201csearch inside\u201d pages and click on \u201cCopyright\u201d you\u2019ll see my name listed as a member of the bounce-back team. I don\u2019t get any credit or money for the week I didn\u2019t sleep because I had to read and re-read the manuscript or the constant complaining from Steve I had to endure as he struggled to compile the information for the book (with the help of most of the Summer Kent Stater staff). But, in the end, just seeing this on Amazon is kind of cool.\nPosted in Books, College, Fun, Offline, Uncategorized | No Comments \u00bb\nHarry Potter 7?\nI began reading the Harry Potter series in middle school \u2014 early middle school. That I haven\u2019t outgrown or gotten bored with the series is testament to the quality of the content and writing.\nI started with book two and have had to wait it out for each subsequent book to arrive. I\u2019ve been eagerly awaiting the final installment for quite some time now.\nApparently, now Scholastic has announced the final book\u2019s title, and drumroll please, it will be \u201cHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.\u201d\nCue wild fan speculation and fanfic for the next year and a half before the book ever hits stores or even Amazon.com.\nUPDATE! Wait, you don\u2019t even have to wait for the speculation and book stores. Borders immediately jumped on this bandwagon with a mass e-mail announcing the name asking users to sign up and reserve copies today. 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It's summer and not always easy to find something fun to do with out allergy-prone toddler when an Indiana heat wave hits. This idea was fun and easy and something we could do in the shade or in the house, depending on the air quality! It was also free, and I love a free activity that inspires creativity.\nWe followed the directions for Ice Cube Painting found here, with the exception of using clothespins for handles. I just broke some popsicle sticks in half and propped them up in the trays instead. I might try the clothespins idea next time. It would provide a much bigger, more stable handle. I also had non-chemical food dyes (with the exception of the red) so our colors were perhaps a bit more muted than they might have been. We did have some red chemical dye from a science project that was left over. It was perfect for this activity! Despite having to prepare it ahead of time (which took all of 10 minutes!) it was very simple to do.\nAll in all, Happy seemed to really like it. He's not one for messy games and activities, but this one was a winner. I think it would be a great idea for a Pocahontas themed party: painting with the colors of the wind! Let us know if you give it a try. Here's a sample of our work:\nLabels: at home magic, budget, Disney, DIY, kids, Pocahontas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 9045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://midstatesfitness.soolis.com/ellipticals-crosstrainer?manufacturer=150&product_types=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AJL2EOCHZIFSMJ74XK2BKNXU6HI653CU", "length": 488, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "midstatesfitness.soolis.com", "title": "Commercial Ellipticals / Crosstrainer Fitness Equipment Wichita KS", "raw_content": "BH Fitness is a multi-national company within the BH Group, headquartered in Spain and creating quality products for over 100 years. Built on a legacy of producing high end user-focused fitness equipment for the home, light commercial and full commercial settings, BH fitness manufactures and distributes treadmills, ellipticals, upright bicycles, recumbent bicycles, indoor training cycles, whole body vibration platforms and strength equipment.\nManufacturer: BH Fitness Remove This Item", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2014/10/kurt-hofmann-calls-nra-moderate-gun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NQE2HDIWGDGVXKDUQOFHRPWZJLJI42LQ", "length": 2311, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mikeb302000.blogspot.com", "title": "Mikeb302000: Kurt Hofmann Calls the NRA a Moderate Gun Control Group", "raw_content": "Kurt Hofmann Calls the NRA a Moderate Gun Control Group\nBut on second thought, perhaps such an organization really does exist. There exists, after all, an organization that repeatedly calls for the government to \"enforce existing gun laws,\" and even says that failure to do so is a crime. The same group supported enormously restrictive regulation of fully-automatic firearms, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and even a safety device (suppressors, routinely, if inaccurately, referred to as \"silencers\"). The Gun Control Act of 1968 passed with this group's blessing.\nStill, by virtue of fighting against bans of so-called \"assault weapons,\" and \"high capacity\" magazines, for supporting the right to armed self-defense outside the home, and for the right to stand one's ground when violently attacked in a place one has a right to be, for opposing efforts to ban private gun sales, and for opposition to various other of the very worst proposed infringements on that which shall not be infringed, the NRA can plausibly claim not to be among the extremists for \"gun control.\"\nLabels: extremist nonsense\nOne thing that I apparently failed to make adequately clear in that article is that while I make the case for calling the NRA a moderate \"gun control\" group, that's still far too much for me.\nModerately anti-liberty is still evil.\nMBIAC...\nOh, I thought you made that perfectly clear.\nMr. Hofmann, evil is evil. Anti-liberty is not evil, no matter how hard you twist your mentality to justify that stupid, banal statement.\n\"Anti-liberty is not evil.\"\nNot sure if he intended to, but he seems to have shared his feelings truthfully.\n\"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.\"\nL Neil Smith\nExactly, SSG. Anon apparently believes in the existence of \"ethical tyranny.\"\nIt's fortunate that the majority of Americans are not represented by the extremist anti-gun group you mentioned. But the NRA with its millions of members does represent the majority of pro gun Americans. You are comparing extremists with moderates and your conclusions are just your opinion, not accepted by the majority of Americans.\nYeah, Kurt's got some wild ideas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 588, "original_length": 15704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mindbodyjournal.com/mindfulness/the-journey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XW3QKEQCOYYZ37HJZU7A2POTWM2MF67I", "length": 3765, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mindbodyjournal.com", "title": "The Journey / The Journey \u2013 Mind-Body Journal", "raw_content": "\u201cIt began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in\nbetween.\u201d ~ Diane Ackerman\nLife is often described as a journey. Particularly during trying times or otherwise remarkable periods, we reflect upon life as a right-of-passage where lessons are learned, discoveries are made, and we find ourselves exploring both the outer and the inner landscape of experience. Many people cite an illness or other health crisis as an impetus for this journey. I hear often of the journey as a climb out of darkness towards healthier living, and what I refer to as Optimal Living. Optimal living is not always pain free, but it is the best that we can have at the moment. Indeed, the reminder that one is still breathing at this moment can sometimes provide the greatest relief. It reminds us that as of This Moment we are still on the journey! I have spent my life exploring the journeys, both my own, and those of others, curious about the qualities that people find rewarding, and also those which people prefer to avoid. Right off, I\u2019ll tell you that it is different for everyone. As much as we look different from each other, similarly our personal circumstances and experiences are never quite the same. What works for one person on the journey may or may not work for others. I\u2019ve seen someone who recovered from multiple sclerosis (MS) by going on a macrobiotic diet. She swore that everyone with any condition should go on a macrobiotic diet. Yet another woman recovered from MS by doing yoga. She swears that everyone should do yoga. But there are those who have tried yoga and various diets and more, and not found the positive effects on their health that others have claimed. And yet we seek to discover the broader patterns that we all share as similarities, both in the way that we look, and the circumstances that make us healthier and happier. We are generally designed to have two arms and two legs, walk upright, with a head on top. Hair grows somewhere around the head, and a few other common places, and we have about 10 toes and 10 fingers. So there are some expectable similarities. So it is, I have found, with the steps along the journey that lead to optimal well-being. The following are six lifestyle factors that I find are common themes in the journey of well-being; adequate nutrition and hydration, some form of exercise, adequate sleep, stress management and spiritual discovery. Each of these is a land of its own to explore, full of valleys and mountains, vast stretches of unexplored territories and treasures. In our Journey to Well-being, we will be exploring these areas of well-being; a guided tour, if you will, through the land of opportunity. It will be literally bountiful with fresh fruits and vegetables, pure spring water, room to move, fresh air to breathe, and safe havens for rest and recovery. It will also be a journey inward, facing our fears and our pains, continuing on through them to the core of our consciousness. The journey into the consciousness is where we will find the foundations for behavioral change. Exploring the consciousness leads to a greater capacity for self-regulation and the comfort of a sense of having more self-control. As the consciousness expands, we experience a sense of freedom, both in our ability to make our own decisions and choices, and a sense of freedom in the ability to let go and take things as they come \u2013 experiences of acceptance and trust \u2013 open to the inquisitive nature of a journeyer. The Journey to Well-being, with Dr. Debbie Norris and Aurora Hutchinson, provides tips and tricks for exploration every two weeks. Please share your discoveries along the way!\nPrevious: Self-Regulation Through Meditation\n'The Journey' has no comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mineofuseless.info/trivia/Entertainment/?p=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Z74KDKW4AUCZPWZV4MVPVQ7XPNVGPAKH", "length": 3784, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mineofuseless.info", "title": "Entertainment Trivia at The Mine of Useless Information", "raw_content": "Sissy Spacek was 24 when she portrayed a disturbed 15-year-old on an interstate crime spree with her psychotic boyfriend, in the film Badlands (1973).\nKim Basinger was extremely shy as a child \ufffd so much so that her parents had her tested to determine if she was autistic.\nSix years before Xena: Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless was crowned Mrs. New Zealand in 1989.\nKim Basinger's mother had been a champion swimmer who performed water ballets in several Esther Williams movies in the 1940s.\nSixty-three years before Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith co-starred in the box office sci-fi smash Men in Black, the Three Stooges starred in a 19-minute comedy short also titled Men in Black (1934). Unlike the 1997 film, the goofy trio of Moe, Larry, and Curly were inept doctors at a hospital where they disrupted patients and staff.\nKirstie Alley worked for a time as an interior designer.\nSleeping Beauty's name was Princess Aurora. The prince who woke her with a kiss was Prince Philip.\nL. Frank Baum, the author of the The Wizard of Oz, couldn't swim. He always smoked a cigar when he was wading in the water so he could tell when he was getting in too deep.\nSome years after his arrest for drugs, Culture Club's Boy George said wistfully in an interview, \"I thought there was no one else like me in the world.\"\nLalo Schifrin wrote the distinctive score for television's Mission: Impossible, for which he earned the Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show in 1968.\nLarry Hama, who wrote the 155 issues of the \"G.I. Joe\" comic book, played a North Korean soldier who stole a jeep that Maj. Frank Burns was riding in a M*A*S*H episode.\nSpanning from late 1950 to early 1951, Patti Page's \"Tennessee Waltz\" was in Billboard's number 1 singles spot for nine weeks.\nLassie is the favorite movie dog of animal experts, beating out Benji and Beethoven, according to a survey of Humane Society directors conducted by stuffed animal manufacturer Dakin, Inc.\nLassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main \ufffdactor\ufffd was named Pal.\nLaura Dern earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her illuminating performance as the title character in Rambling Rose, an underrated picture in 1991 that also won a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her mother, Diane Ladd. This was the first time a mother-daughter team had been so honored; they became the first mother and daughter ever nominated for Academy Awards for the same movie.\nWhen actor Yul Brynner had hair, it was dark brown.\nWhen actor-director Ron Howard was 21, he was a cast member in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist. While other cast members were awestruck by The Duke, Howard said he got along well with him, as they both had a passion for rehearsing their lines, which they frequently did together.\nWhen actress Delta Burke competed at the Miss America Pageant as Miss Florida in 1974, she told reporters that she'd been named after her mother's \"goofy\" cat, Delta, who liked to chase dogs and swim in the ocean.\nSpike Lee wanted to be a second baseman for the New York Mets when he was young.\nWhen Arnold Schwarzenegger was crowned Mr. Universe in 1967 at the age of 20, he became the youngest man ever to win the title. He also collected the titles of Mr. Europe and Best-Built Man of Europe, and also won the International Powerlifting Championship. In 1968, defending his Mr. Universe title, he placed second \ufffd one of the few setbacks of his entire bodybuilding career. Thereafter, his triumphs in the sport were so consistent (he won four more Mr. Universe titles and six consecutive Mr. Olympia titles) that Schwarzenegger retired after 7 years because he felt he \"wasn't giving others a chance to win.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 157.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://missionarycare.org/health.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EXWLRB2HJDE4NPQBU3DYWZ7L6CNU7VIO", "length": 8441, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "missionarycare.org", "title": "Maintaining Mental (and Physical) Health - Missionary Care", "raw_content": "What Missionaries Ought to Know about Maintaining Mental (and Physical) Health\nA missionary asked, \"What do you do when there are so many things to do and not enough people to do them, and there's no way to prioritize because everything's a priority? This seems like a no-win situation and can lead to quick burnout. Because of such a high level of ministry responsibilities on the field, there's no time for rest, renewal, or recreation, much less trying to be proactive and keep the body in shape, or to have quality time with the family.\"\nIn this one paragraph the missionary has touched on the most important factors relating to maintaining your mental and physical health. Let us consider what we can do by considering our priorities.\nSchedule your priorities.\nThe missionary was right in talking about priorities. Some people may tell you to \"prioritize your schedule,\" but it is much more important to \"schedule your priorities.\"\nWhen you prioritize your schedule, you constantly feel under great stress, but you may accomplish little of lasting value. You may become one who is constantly putting out fires, rather than preventing the fires in the first place. Prevention is better than cure.\nJesus was asked this question in Matthew 22 when an expert in the law asked him which commandment was the greatest. Jesus told him to love God with all his heart, soul, and mind. Of course, Jesus was quoting Deuteronomy 5 where Moses had told the people to love God with all their soul, heart, and strength. The command to love God motivationally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively has been around for centuries, and it is still valid today.\nYou may say that this command is certainly relevant to your spiritual condition, but what does it have to do with your mental and physical health. Consider the following quotes from an article by Harold Koenig in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October, 2000.\n\"More than 850 studies have now examined the relationship between religious involvement and various aspects of mental health. Between two thirds and three quarters of these have found that people experience better mental health and adapt more successfully to stress if they are religious.\"\n\"An additional 350 studies have examined religious involvement and health. The majority of these have found that religious people are physically healthier, lead healthier lifestyles, and require fewer health services. The magnitude of the possible impact on physical health-particularly survival-may approximate that of abstaining from cigarette smoking, or adding 7 to 14 years to life.\"\nThe best thing you can do to maintain your mental and physical health is to place your relationship with God on your schedule first. This should be time for at least the following.\nTalking to him in prayer\nListening to him through meditating on his Word\nSeeking forgiveness and reconciliation\nLike missionaries Daniel lived and worked in a culture different from the one in which he was reared. With his packed schedule of doing an outstanding job as one of the three top administrators in the nation, one might think that Daniel would not have much time for God. However, his custom was to be on his knees thanking God for what he had done and asking for his help three times a day (Daniel 6).\nWhat is second most important?\nWhen asked what was most important in Matthew 22, Jesus went on to say that the second most important was much like the first, to love your neighbor as yourself. Of course, this had also been around for centuries as Jesus was quoting from Leviticus 19. This is especially relevant for missionaries as Jesus emphasized, in John 13:34-35, that people will know we are his disciples by how we love each other.\nNo recent evidence is needed to support this. We have known for years that a positive social support system is one of the most important factors in maintaining your health, both physical and mental. This includes a variety of people. The specific persons depend on your situation in life, but probably include some of the following.\nYour children and teenagers\nFellow missionaries\nTo maintain your mental and physical health, place your relationship with fellow Christians as the second thing on your schedule. This should be time for at least the following.\nTalking to them\nWhen faced with a crisis of life and death proportions, Daniel had a long-term relationship with three other expatriates to whom he could turn to ask for urgent prayers. Their prayers were answered (Daniel 2).\nWhat is third most important?\nJesus said we should love our neighbor as we loved ourselves. Like loving God and loving our neighbor, loving ourselves means at least the following.\nSetting aside some time for yourself\nThinking correctly about yourself (your self-talk, as a person made in God's image)\nGenerally taking care of God's temple (our bodies)\nGod dwelt in the tabernacle, then in the temple, and now dwells in us. The apostle Paul pointed out that our bodies were the temple of the Holy Spirit, so we should honor God with our body (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). So the question becomes, how are we doing in taking care of God's temple? That includes at least the following.\nEat right. At creation (Genesis 1) God gave us all the seed-bearing plants and fruit trees to eat-that is grains, vegetables, and fruits. That is very much like the recommendations of the US Department of Agriculture's food pyramid. After the Fall when we began eating meat, God put a number of restrictions on what kinds of meat and what parts of the animals we could eat. As a college student in a culture very different from home, Daniel questioned the food in the cafeteria. He proposed and conducted an experiment showing that vegetables and water are healthier than rich food and alcohol, an experiment repeated with the same results many times over the centuries (Daniel 1).\nGet rest. God instituted a day of rest in each week in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20). This was a day in which no one in the household was to do any work, a day of restoration in each week. Jesus later pointed out that the Sabbath was made for us, not us for the Sabbath (Mark 2). New research points out that sleep (rest) is an essential component of a long and healthy life. There is no indication that Daniel ever had problems getting rest or sleeping even though his circumstances were far more dangerous than others who had difficulty sleeping (Daniel 2 & 4).\nExercise regularly. Although not mentioned as much as food and rest, Paul wrote that physical training is of some value (not as valuable as godliness, which is valuable for both this life and the next). When he wrote that, there were not so many \"labor saving\" devices so that people got sufficient exercise in the tasks of daily living. Today we do not, so it is best for us to schedule exercise in our day. We have to stretch things somewhat to find an example of exercise in the book of Daniel. Although we do not recommend walking in fiery furnaces (Daniel 3), we do recommend walking, running, playing your favorite sport, etc. past the point of perspiration for at least a half hour several times a week.\nYou may wonder what eating, rest, and exercise have to do with mental health. Our General Psychology textbook lists three major categories to help cope with stress.\nSocial support (Priority 2)\nAerobic exercise (Priority 3)\nTime for relaxation (Priority 3)\nOur General Psychology text also lists six characteristics of happy people.\nA meaningful faith (Priority 1)\nClose friendship or a satisfying marriage (Priority 2)\nGood sleep and exercise (Priority 3)\nWork and leisure that engage their skills (Priority 3)\nHigh self-esteem (created in God's image)\nWhat is new about all this?\nNothing. For thousands of years people have known these things. The problem is in doing them. When the expert in the law asked Jesus about important things in Luke 10, Jesus asked him what the law said, and he replied that one should love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus told him he was right-that he should just go do it. Then, to justify himself the expert asked who his neighbor was. Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan, and then he asked the expert who was the neighbor. Again the expert answered correctly , and again Jesus told him to go and do it. Like the expert in the law, we know what we should do, we often just do not do it and try to justify our not doing it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 10734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://missouribendstudio.blogspot.com/2016/06/notes-from-field-cure-for-ennui.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FSKKNC2K4ZLBDRQXNSW4L7OB4SSL67A6", "length": 5406, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "missouribendstudio.blogspot.com", "title": "missouribendstudio: Notes From The Field: The Cure for Ennui?", "raw_content": "I've just added this little hand stitched collage drawing to my shop. I started out making these little bits as separate drawings and then realized that they wanted to be layered together. It measures 4\"x6\" but somehow has the illusion (at least to me) of being a bit bigger.\nAnd....I found this spare teabag drawing the other day and so added that to my shop....who can resist the warm tones of a used teabag....okay, plenty of people can, I realize, but still there is something appealing about those rich mottled tones that echoes time and experience.\nPage From the Book of Lost Language\nSpeaking of experience....I'm experiencing extreme ennui these days....what a great word to describe such a dullness of spirit. I've just looked it up to make sure this is what I was talking about....and yes, \"a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.\"\nThat pretty much hits it on the head. Feeling uninspired and quite in limbo, as I contemplate next steps, hunting for a job in a town where there are none to speak of and knowing a long commute might be necessary....needing a new energy in the studio....a real shake-up, that's what I need!\nIn a pinpoint of light and inspiration and daring myself to rise to the occasion, I just grabbed a few sheets of sturdy drawing paper and thought I'd head outside and draw from the landscape. Now, that's a shakeup! For anyone who knows my work, it is pretty obvious that I never draw from actual life, but from distilled experience. I normally work intuitively, so that while I would say I don't draw from observation directly....I do draw from observation, but filtered through my senses, memory and experience.\nI think it's probably a good idea when one is experiencing ennui to challenge oneself to a new and maybe uncomfortable experience. And now, if I am going to follow through on my courageous idea, I'd better head outside to see what comes of it. Might be frustration, on the other hand, it might just be the inspiration I need to put the ennui behind me!\nHope your days are filled with inspiration and creative spirit!\nLabels: Missouri Bend Studio, MissouriBendStudio, mixed media hand stitched drawing in beeswax, teabag drawing\nKaija June 22, 2016 at 4:38 PM\nA fellow ennuist here. I decided to try out different bookbinding techniques in the hopes that change brings along some life into my, well, life. I've been creating some good collages lately, and they're actually the result of this feeling of ennui, but that success hasn't translated into personal satisfaction.\nMissouri Bend Paper Works June 23, 2016 at 10:44 PM\nHi Kaija....well, what can I say....it doesn't make sense to say \"welcome to the Ennui Circle\", as it's one of those periods that are not really quite welcome, but I think you are making beautiful work despite or maybe through the ennui....at some point personal satisfaction will arrive at the back door, knocking quietly.\nNorma Conway June 23, 2016 at 2:38 PM\nI've lately been thinking about the idea of 'embracing' one's difficult feelings...the ones that don't fit into the 'comfortable [i.e. happy]' categories of our lives. Ennui is one of those difficult feelings. I've started to think about this because my instinct tells me that these feelings are needed more than ever in this difficult world we live in now, because these feelings (the ones we push back) are where important discoveries lie. I mean ideas, impulses, healings, growth, etc. I've been thinking of describing mine to myself in my journal, but I keep pushing the feelings away to delay them. They are filed under 'fear.' *smiles* Norma\nHi Norma...I think you are totally right that it's a good thing to embrace these uncomfortable feelings. I find myself watching myself as if from the other rocking chair on the porch....or actually wherever I am or whatever I'm doing. There is a kind of shadow self that is always asking and questioning whether what I'm doing is satisfying, helpful or the thing I should be doing. I don't mean should in an obligatory way, but the kind of should that implies flow and the right fit. I think you are also right that these feelings, including ennui, hold tremendous possibility for discovery. We think we know ourselves, but not only do we forget the things we already know....we forget that we are continually evolving and changing. I think I mistake my ennui for a sense of life not moving at all...like a stagnant pool, but I realize there is a lot churning under the surface. A journal is a good idea and I need to get back to writing, so thanks for your great input!! Cheers!\nI hope that the visit with ennui was not/is not an overlong one Patti - but that it brings new ways of seeing and being perhaps. How did that rush to the outdoors go? It seems most unlike you and most unlike me so I will be interested to see how you fared! Go well.\nHello Fiona! That's funny that you asked how the venture with drawing outdoors went....well, not surprisingly, it was a dismal failure. I had no patience, nor true interest. I gave it a shot, but the experiment ended quickly in even more frustration. Well, there should be a lesson in there....I learn once again that my work comes from the inside out and not the outside in. The ennui comes and goes....I sometimes feel like an engine that needs some new spark plugs. Hope you are full of vitality, as always! 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The department is also incharge of Photo Club.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2012/10/29/will-ferguson-419/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DWIWAHPFWXD6OAINZDBBJ2MKQFJTDJ7H", "length": 5131, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mookseandgripes.com", "title": "Will Ferguson: 419 \u2013 The Mookse and the Gripes", "raw_content": "Will Ferguson: 419\nby Will Ferguson (2012)\nViking Canada (2012)\nWill Ferguson is best known as a travel writer, and here he puts his experiences roaming around the world together in a global, political thriller, that isn\u2019t particularly thrilling, and I know some people have issues with it being \u201cglobal,\u201d particularly as it writes of the experiences of an African woman, and, well, I didn\u2019t think it actually all came together that well. 419 isn\u2019t a terrible book \u2014 I thought the writing was nice, and I enjoyed delving into its central motivating plot device \u2014 but for me its strengths never quite got the better of its weaknesses.\nWhen the book opens, we watch a car careening down a snowy embankment. Henry Curtis is dead, and it isn\u2019t certain it was an accident. Warren Curtis, the high-strung son, believes his father drove off the cliff on purpose.\nHe may be right. No one knew it at the time, but before his death Henry put the family home up as collateral for a large loan. It\u2019s strange because the house was paid off and Henry was a retired schoolteacher who spent his time woodworking and visiting internet sites devoted to woodworking. Further, he increased his life insurance policy. Why? His family cannot begin to understand, but investigation reveals multiple emails between Henry and someone named Victor Okechukwu, from Lagos, Nigeria. You\u2019ll probably recognize a lot of this:\nSUBJECT: Urgent Matter to the Attention of Mr. Henry Curtis. Please do not turn away!\nRECEIVED: September 12, 11:42PM\nComplements of the season! With warm heart I offer you wishes of good health from Africa. I am contacting you today regarding an urgent business proposal, and though this letter may reach you as a surprise, I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decisions you make will go a long ways toward determining the future and continued existence of a young woman\u2019s happiness.\nSir, I am writing today on behalf of Miss Sandra, daughter of Dr. Atta, late Director & Chairman of the Contract Award Committee for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. As you may know, Dr. Atta died tragically in a helicopter crash in the Niger Delta under circumstances most suspicious. Miss Sandra\u2019s uncle vowed to care for her, but he too has fallen afoul of government-back criminals\nAs might be imagined, between father and uncle, Miss Sandra was able through God\u2019s will to amass quite a sizable fortune. [. . . ] Although only twenty-one and renowned for her beauty she is unable to find a suitor, for she has been forced into hiding by her family\u2019s high-placed enemies.\nShe has asked me to contact you \u2014 MR. HENRY CURTIS \u2014 for help. She cannot turn to the police, for the police are part of this murderous cabal. She is pleading on bended knees for you to rescue her from a hopeless future.\nHenry\u2019s first response is that they must be confusing him for someone else. But the man on the other end of the email has done his homework: \u201cI was looking for Henry Curtis, graduate of Athabasca University, retired from the noble profession of teachering, a member in Good Standing of the Amateur Woodworking Society of Hounsfield Heights, subscriber of the Briar Hill Beacon Community Newspaper, husband of Helen, grandfather of twins, a highly respected figure in his community, known for his honesty and integrity. I apologize for this mis-sent mailing.\u201d\nWe\u2019re all familiar with these internet schemes (called 419 after the criminal code that makes it illegal), and several people who have fallen victim have lost everything, like Henry. In this case, though, his daughter, Laura, is going to Nigeria to get it back.\nThat is only one part of the story. The scammer is actually named Winston, and he\u2019s become a problem in the hierarchical world of cyber scamming. We also meet Nnamdi, a young boy who gets involved in the mafia that controls and regulates these scams. Nnamdi eventually saves a pregnant African Sahel woman, a voice from the impoverished and oppressed.\nIt\u2019s ambitious, but I think Ferguson bites off more than he can chew. The main story line involving the cyber scam is interesting, and as familiar as we may be with these scams I haven\u2019t encountered it in a novel before, so I enjoyed it, even if I didn\u2019t love it. Truly, it would probably feel slight if it were on its own.\nHowever, after adding the other threads, particularly the one about the Sahel woman, the book felt choppy, and, I think naturally, it started to feel like everything was forced to fit into this examination of corruption and the disparity of wealth. In the end, I felt things didn\u2019t really come together in a believable way, let alone a way that complemented the gravity of the themes.\nAll that said, I did enjoy the book. It reads nicely and, as ill-fitting as the threads might be, Ferguson gives each a beating heart.\nBy Trevor Berrett|2016-08-01T17:05:52+00:00October 29th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews, Will Ferguson|Tags: 2010s, 2012, 2012 Giller Prize|1 Comment\nAnd the Real Giller winner is\u2026 \u00ab KevinfromCanada October 31, 2012 at 12:18 am\n[\u2026] Shadow Jury reviews, Kimbofo\u2019s is here, Trevor\u2019s here and KfC\u2019s [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 9857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://motorsport.magnetimarelli.com/company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7NPA3EUMOHIE3JH6MXV5ZYS4BN5CSAHZ", "length": 2130, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "motorsport.magnetimarelli.com", "title": "Company | Magneti Marelli", "raw_content": "Magneti Marelli is an international company founded in Italy in 1919, committed to the design and production of hi-tech systems and components for the automotive sector, based in Italy (Corbetta, Milan).\nWith a turnover of \u20ac 8,2 billion in 2017, about 44,000 employees, 85 production units and 15 R&D Centres, the Group has a presence in 20 countries (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, China, Japan, India, Malaysia).\nMagneti Marelli supplies all the leading car makers in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.\nWithin the scope of its mission as a world-wide automotive systems and components supplier, Magneti Marelli aims at combining quality and competitive offer, technology and versatility, with the goal of making key technologies available to the final user at a competitive price.\nThrough a process of constant innovation, Magneti Marelli aims at optimising transversal know-how in the electronics field in order to develop intelligent systems and solutions that contribute to the advancement of mobility, according to criteria relating to environmental sustainability, safety and quality of life onboard the vehicles.\nMagneti Marelli is part of FCA.\nMagneti Marelli\u2019s business areas are:\nElectronic Systems (instrument clusters; infotainment & telematics, lighting & body electronics),\nAutomotive Lighting (front and rear lighting systems),\nPowertrain (engine control systems for gasoline, diesel and multifuel engines; Automated Manual Transmission \u201cFreechoice\u201d gearboxes)\nSuspension Systems (suspension systems, shock absorbers. dynamic systems),\nExhaust Systems (exhaust systems, catalytic converters and silencing systems)\nMotorsport (electronic and electro-mechanical systems specifically for championships at the cutting edge of technology, in F1, MotoGP, SBK and the WRC)\nPlastic Components and Modules (activity under integration process in Magneti Marelli)\nAfter Market Parts and Services (Spare Parts for the Independent Aftermarket \u2013 IAM, Service Network \u2013 Magneti Marelli Checkstar Workshops)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 172.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mp3byte.ru/track/swedish_house_mafia-dont_you_worry_child_feat_john_martin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KDUGJRDEEJ5KBFKV7NIUPXWW7XA2KNDN", "length": 633, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "mp3byte.ru", "title": "Swedish House Mafia \u2014 Don't You Worry Child (feat. 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Miriam switched to contemporary romances and sold three career romances to Avalon Books: Warm Creature Comforts, That Winning Touch, and Dream Of a Lifetime.\nMiriam also writes short stories and articles. Her short story, The Attic, won the prestigious, Chapman University Fiction Award in 1989. Her articles have appeared in national magazines, including FUTURES--a magazine for writers. Her article, Getting Organized, appeared in Kathryn Falk's best-seller, How To Write A Romance: and Get It Published.\nAs a long-standing member of Romance Writers of America, Miriam was founder/President of the Inland Valley Chapter RWA and recently retired as president of The Kiss of Death: Mystery/Suspense Chapter RWA. She is currently newsletter editor for Inland Valley Chapter. She also belongs to Sisters in Crime, where she is the West Coast Regional Representative.\nIn 1996, Miriam began co-writing with a friend, Jacqueline Hamilton. Recently they sold two paranormal novels, Stealing Hearts and an untitled novel. Stealing Hearts is an October, 1999, paperback from Imajinn Books, written under the name J.M. Jeffries. The sequel to Stealing Hearts will be a February, 2000, Valentine special release. These two novels are the first in a series featuring those intrepid match makers, Venus and Cupid.\nMiriam lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband of twenty-nine years, her son, and a recently married daughter along with a variety of animals: a dog, two cats and an assortment of tropical fish in two aquariums and an outdoor koi pond.\n\"A facinating story, many twists and turns, and it kept me guessing right up 'til the end, what would happen next. I enjoyed this book very very much!\"\nBeverly Bangemann -- HUNTRESS BOOK REVIEWS\n\"Miriam Pace gives readers an intriguing story built around a strong cast of characters. Ms. Pace tugs at the heartstrings with her touching story of a romance between two people fighting off the ghosts of their past. Lovers of romantic suspense will definitely want to read this one!\"\nYvonne Hering -- Writers Club Romance Group\nHe glanced around the colorless kitchen. How could he create a masterpiece in such a sterile, subdued environment? He worried that Jess Savage lacked red blood cells. He searched through all the cabinets and couldn't find one decent bottle of Chianti.\nShe was a little too cool for him, but he loved a challenge. He wanted to mess up this house, to add color and personality, to give it life, in the same way he wanted to awaken the passion in its owner. A passion, he sensed, subdued by too many years alone and too many years of being unable to trust. She was moody and private and he wanted to crack open her shell and let the real Jessica Savage emerge.\nSurprised at himself, he paused to look out the kitchen window at the lengthening shadows in the garden. A mockingbird sat on a tree limb. A tiger-striped cat, contemplating the bird, prowled below, tail swishing.\nJessica Savage was like a sleeping princess, cool and remote. The only passion he'd seen in her had been at Mrs. Santiago's home. Did she save all her feeling for her job? He glanced around the white kitchen again. He understood the need to make her life simple, but being confined to a wheelchair didn't mean she had to give up on life, to pass up the chance to love, to live.\nWhat would his mother do? He pictured his mother, a round, solid woman with snapping black eyes and a wild tangle of black hair forming a nimbus around her face. She'd make Jess want to live again. But how? 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(One of the 20 law schools that says it's in the top 10).\nAfter law school I practiced law for a couple of years, first as a staff attorney for the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and then with with a big San Francisco firm. Then I became a humor consultant. (Whether or not the world needs a humor consultant, I'm sure you'll agree it can use one less lawyer.)\nAs a humor consulant, I created the widely quoted \"Cost of Laughing Index\" -- a price index of the 16 leading humor indicators in America. It measures stuff like the wholesale price of rubber chickens. And it's in the news every year around April Fool's Day. It's been featured on Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and the front page of The Wall Street Journal.\nI'm also a co-creator of the humor exhibit at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. If you're ever in Simi Valley, California you should check it out.\nBesides all that, I give a lot of speeches at corporate and association meetings. And run this museum. If you want any more information or just want to share jokes and philosophical musings, contact me at the museum. The address, phone number and e-mail are on ever page of this web site.\nBack to About the Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mwblog.remaxoa.com/category/community/komen-for-the-cure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D2IKR4SWFAO7JKK24FLX36KMNID6IDU6", "length": 415, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mwblog.remaxoa.com", "title": "Komen for the Cure | RE/MAX INTEGRA, Midwest Blog", "raw_content": "Community, Komen for the Cure March 19, 2015\nIn 2002, RE/MAX joined Susan G. Komen for the Cure in the fight against breast cancer. 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The statutory equipment appointed by the Act of 1425, for such yeomen or burgesses as were not archers, was \u201csword and buckler, and a good axe or broggit staff;\u201d and in 1481 the axemen who had neither spear nor bow were required to provide themselves with targes \u201cof tree \u201cor leather, according to patterns which were sent to each of the sheriffs. The watchers of the burgh of Peebles, in 1569, were armed with jack and spear, sword and buckler.\" I take \"of tree\" to be a reference to the cross lain, doweled boards that would ordinarily be covered with leather. Does the \"or leather\" refer to a leather skin? Or is there any evidence of a targe made entirely of leather? It seems that would be of limited use, unless the object of a leather targe is to catch a thrust.\nLet a man never stir on his road a step\nwithout his weapons of war;\nfor unsure is the knowing when need shall arise\nof a spear on the way without.\nPosted: Fri 26 Jan, 2018 11:50 pm Post subject: Re: The Targe\nKevin Coleman M. wrote:\nOr is there any evidence of a targe made entirely of leather? It seems that would be of limited use, unless the object of a leather targe is to catch a thrust.\n1. Use rawhide rather than leather.\n2. If you want/need more thickness, use multiple layers.\nThere are plenty of rawhide shields out there, and if thick enough, they worked well. I don't know of any surviving Scottish examples.\nThis \"tree or leather\" has been discussed before, and Irish \"leather\" (rawhide?) shields were mentioned: http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=23084\nThose targes still in existence were made of wood and covered with leather, not rawhide. I think the reference you cited is referring to shields made of wood only, i.e. without a leather cover, versus those of wood with a leather cover.\nOut of curiosity, I had bought a full skin of dry bull rawhide, which is about 4mm thick or so. You have no idea how tough that is. I had to cut it with snips, and I would compare it with 2mm thick steel for the force required to cut it, but unlike steel it stays straight after the cut (metal tends to curl). It is very stiff and doesn't tear. It's actually quite comparable to a modern, impact-resistant plastic like polypropylene, only much stiffer for the weight.\nThe trouble is that it's very responsive to humidity. Not just a few drops of water, but it has to be stored in a dry place. For the moment I still have most of the skin rolled, but I'm pretty sure if I was to shape it as a shield (which would be quite a tedious process), the finished shield would often deform and warp as humidity in the atmosphere changes. Maybe it could be oiled and waxed to prevent this, though.\nSemantics are important when discussing technical issues. The targe was a pretty large shield. Froissart described a wounded knight being carried off the field on one so they were fairly substantial. The target was the smaller buckler-type version. The word target literally means \"little targe\".\nIf only the English were as good at knowing what the difference was. By the 16th century they tend to just call everything a target.\nThe way I see it, we shouldn't imagine that the word targe applied to any particular type of shield. Generally speaking the words targe and shield were synonyms and could be used interchangeably. So when we see the word targe in 15th century legislation we shouldn't take this as strong evidence for the Highland style targe at this time.\nThe description given for these targes suggests that they could be made from wood OR leather, not both. Of course this doesn't match what we know of Highland targes. 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You will see a list of schools and what steps to take to bring this to fruition. This certification will allow you to teach others hair styling, skin care, and nail care.\nThis course is a total of 1000 hours and if the individual can show proof of have taken a particular class credit can be given so there will not have to be a retake of the particular class. You will need 500 hours of post graduate training. This is practice and theory of the basic cosmetology curriculum. There is also a need for educational physiology. This talks about the learning process, student development, and how they learn. There will also be a course on teaching methods as well. You will learn lesson planning, lesson delivery, and classroom management.\nThe pay is pretty good and worth going back to school to get the certification. The median starting salary can be $52,000 a year or $25.00 an hour. In this day in age everyone will all ways need their hair done. And with that being said the schools are full of students ready to learn and go out into the industry. This means that there is plenty of room for teachers to teach the students.\nThere are a lot of opportunities with this career choice. You not only can work in cosmetology schools, but you can work in high schools. There are some high schools that offer the basic courses of cosmetology to their senior students to get them started on their career path in the industry. You can work at a vocational school as well. You could work at a job corp that offers cosmetology courses to its students. You could even offer your own classes on a specific method such as color. Once the class is done you can give out certificates and offer a certain amount of continuation credits with the class.\nTo sum it up if you are already in the cosmetology field as a licensed cosmetologist and you want to go further then give this opportunity a try. It will not take you completely from behind the chair, so you will still have that client interaction. You may not complete the style or do everything to the client, but it will allow you to share you techniques and know how to achieve what the client wants. You will have such a different perspective and gratitude in knowing you are training and molding the next generation of stylist in an ever-changing industry. Your pay will no longer be based off how many clients but will be a consistent salary. 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Having known the importance that is attached to health and any issues related to it, everyone must therefore be ready to do what it takes to ensure it is upheld. One of the most vital things in maintaining good health is engaging in physical body exercises. There are many activities that people do as exercise and among them includes Nordic walking. Nordic walking is a special type of walk that is done using special poles that resemble ski poles and is aimed at enhancing physical activity. The normal walking that you do only involves the lower body but not equally engages the upper body as well by use of the pole. This kind of activity is one that can be done in various ways either as an individual, a group and both nonathletes and athletes and undertaking it. Nordic walking is increasingly becoming popular among people and millions of people across the world engaging in it because of the many health benefits they get from it.\nTo begin with, one of the benefits of Nordic walking is ensuring that the whole body maintains fitness and most of the body muscles are activated. As compared to other exercises, Nordic working ensures that exercise happens to the whole body and not just specific parts. As you engage in Nordic walking, most of the muscles in the body are used. Therefore, it is not just specific parts that will be fit at the end of the day but the whole body.\nSustainable weight loss is one of the many benefits that Nordic walking guarantees to the individual who partakes in it. Due to the current lifestyle, weight problems have been on the rise and additionally cost a lot of problems in people\u2019s lives. 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To date their scope of work has been limited to some specific provider types.\nAmbulance services have relationships with all the provider types currently served by QIOs. Since most ambulance services are not hospital-based, it is difficult to determine patient outcome because data sets do not flow between organizations. QIOs are in a unique position to be able to assess outcomes based on community resources, because they already work with physicians and hospitals. Adding ambulance services to that mix would allow a QIO to assess the strengths and weaknesses inherent to treating the critically ill or injured. They could demonstrate, for example, if there is added value in having a paramedic (as opposed to basic) ambulance service in a rural community with a basic hospital emergency department.\nWe encourage you to specifically include ambulance services in the required scope ofwork. If that is not possible, we encourage you to include ambulance services as an eligible activity under selective contract content, which would allow a QIO with an interest to establish a demonstration project to determine the future worthiness of mandatory inclusion.\nAdvocates for EMS, Maine Ambulance Association, Minnesota Ambulance Association, National Association of State EMS Directors, National EMS Management Association, National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, National Rural Health Association, New England Council for Emergency Medical Services, North Central EMS Institute, Vermont Ambulance Association\nAdvocates for EMS was founded as a not-for-profit organization by the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors to promote emergency medical services (EMS), educate elected and appointed officials and the public on issues of importance to EMS, monitor and influence EMS legislation and regulatory activity, and raise awareness among decision-makers on issues of importance to EMS.\nThe Maine Ambulance Association, representing 79 EMS services and related agencies in the State of Maine, is a non-profit corporation established to preserve the integrity and enhance the quality of the Maine Emergency Medical Services system; to ensure continued access to 9-1-1 systems for all citizens; to provide a unified voice to represent and support the broad interests and common positions of all EMS providers of the State of Maine.\nThe Minnesota Ambulance Association is a non-profit organization representing 252 ambulance services operated by local units of government, hospitals, non-profits and private companies.\nThe National Association of State EMS Directors is the lead national organization for EMS, a respected voice for national EMS policy with comprehensive concern and commitment for the development of effective, integrated, community-based, unive rsal and consistent EMS systems.\nThe National EMS Management Association\u2019s mission is to catalyze improvements in the performance of EMS processes, organizations and systems.\nThe National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health is an association of 50 state offices of rural health.\nThe National Rural Health Association is a national membership organization, whose mission is to improve the health and health care of rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications, education and research.\nThe New England Council for EMS is a private, non-profit organization, whose membership consists of the directors and other personnel from the state EMS offices in New England plus representatives from other agencies with a role or interest in EMS on a large area, regional, interagency or interstate level. Since 1973, the council has served as a consortium of the New England states for EMS education, research, planning and development.\nThe North Central EMS Institute\u2019s mission is to foster innovation, education, collaboration and benchmarking within the national EMS industry.\nThe Vermont Ambulance Association represents 60 ambulance services and was formed to promote the science and art of pre -hospital care, to afford members opportunities to interchange ideas and to establish a liaison with other associations and government agencies interested in EMS care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nehrumemorial.nic.in/hi/news-hindi/405-the-construct-of-classicism-carnatic-music-and-the-critical-regime-17th-march-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ONUVFWVP6JR2VZ4YVB2BGGUKUI4U725R", "length": 1442, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nehrumemorial.nic.in", "title": "\u2018The Construct of Classicism: Carnatic music and the critical regime\u2019 , 17th March, 2015.", "raw_content": "\u2018The Construct of Classicism: Carnatic music and the critical regime\u2019\nProf. R. Nandakumar,\nAesthetic notions, popular assumptions and shared attitudes surrounding Indian classical music (in the present case, Carnatic) that are part of the dominant discourse are largely the fallout of the Orientalist baggage that later became a convenient gloss to the reformist rhetoric in the 19th century. The values and ideals championed by the reformers of Indian (Carnatic) classical music generated a new sensibility and consolidated a new listening public for whom these notions and assumptions fed into a discourse of musical aesthetics that was predicated on an idea of classicism as a cultural absolute that for self-definition has to be pitted against its binary \u2013 the popular. The talk would go to argue that such sanctimonious notions about some ultimate musical aesthetics as expressed through canons of taste are neither value-free nor culture-neutral and are located within the institutional agency of aesthetic legitimacy.\nProf. R. Nandakumar is an art historian who has a major interest in cultural musicology on which is focused his current research project under the Senior Nehru fellowship. He has taught art history and aesthetics in various Fine Arts colleges. He has been a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His writings address areas of intercultural concern from the perspective of the sociology of culture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 467, "original_length": 37558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nelatalli.com/technology.php?pageno=12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:05Z", "digest": "sha1:YIDIX6ITVP4DS3VJCSED75TTLAJGEBAO", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nelatalli.com", "title": "Agriculture News and Updates| Farming Techniques| Nelatalli", "raw_content": "Published On Sunday, 13th January 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 197.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://neo-med.org/journal/view.php?number=793", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NKZERLIER65A6P6EGCKUKUCXOWSZANW6", "length": 2954, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "neo-med.org", "title": "Clinical Features and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Infants with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Single NICU Experience.", "raw_content": "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5385/nm.2013.20.2.214 Published online June 26, 2013.\nDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. arkim@amc.seoul.kr\nTo assess the clinical features, hearing loss and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and to discover significant brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings that predict poor neurodevelopmental outcomes.\nThe medical records of 31 infants who were diagnosed with congenital CMV infection at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Asan Medical Center between 2002 and 2012 after CMV was isolated from their urine within the second week of their life were retrospectively reviewed. The long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of the infants were monitored using the Bayley Scale of Infant Development II, the Korean Infants' Development Screening Test and the Wechsler Scale of Intelligence, as appropriate.\nThe infants' mean gestational age was 36.3+/-3.2 weeks and their mean birth weight was 2,395+/-715 g. Microcephaly were detected in three of them (9.7%), and petechiae and hepatosplenomegaly were detected in one (3.2%). Ten infants (32.2%) and nine infants (29.0%) showed preterm and intrauterine growth retardation, respectively. Of the 27 infants with whom long-term follow-up was possible, six (22.2%) showed developmental disabilities. The brain MRI findings, which included ventriculomegaly, periventricular calcification, polymicrogyria, microcephaly and cerebellar hypoplasia, were correlated with the poor neurodevelopmental outcomes, but no correlation was found between the presence of periventricular cysts and that of white matter disease. Of the infants who survived, six (20.0%) had sensorineural hearing loss at the median age of 30.6 months.\nCongenital cytomegalovirus infection is one of the most frequent causes of intrauterine viral fetal infection and need to be distinguished if congenital infection is suspected. On the follow up observation, the hearing loss was observed in 20% of the patients. A long term neurological observation is required for the patients who had unusual impression on MRI.\nKey Words: Congenital cytomegalovirus infection, Hearing loss, Brain MRI, Long term neuro-developmental outcomes, Neonatal intensive care unit\nThe Clinical Characteristics and the Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of the Neonates with Cerebellar Hemorrhage.2013 February;20(1)\nGrowth and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Preterm Twins Conceived by In Vitro Fertilization.2013 February;20(1)\nSeizure Scoring System and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants with Neonatal Seizures.2013 November;20(4)\nEvaluation and Management of Neonates with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection.2017 August;24(3)\nClinical Significance of Neonatal Lenticulostriate Vasculopathy: Association with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection.2017 November;24(4)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 232.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newjersey.bluerepublican.org/if-you-love-peace-become-a-blue-republican/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UP22TQFTML7JQCOK2WBZGRFHMSPTJWGC", "length": 8637, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "newjersey.bluerepublican.org", "title": "If You Love Peace, Become a Blue Republican - Blue Republican New Jersey", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Blue-Republican-Articles / liberty-and-love / If You Love Peace, Become a Blue Republican\nThe world lost its goodwill toward the USA when Americans voted for George W. Bush the second time around.\nI don\u2019t endorse the idea that American politics should be dictated by foreign opinions but a reading of the foreign press over the last six years reveals that the first election of President Bush Jr. was largely excused around the world since no one could have known what this new president was going to do.\nMoreover, America arguably didn\u2019t vote for him anyway in 2000.\nHowever, the second election President Bush was not excused, because by 2004, the modus operandi of the Bush administration was clear. He wanted to 1) conduct wars against countries that did not threaten us (e.g. Iraq), 2) oversee large financial benefits to companies with which those in his administration were close (e.g. Halliburton), 3) establish a legal framework for riding roughshod over the liberties of private individuals who are not suspected of crime (e.g. Patriot Act), and 4) establish a massive federal apparatus to carry out such intrusions on innocent Americans in what is becoming a police state (e.g. domestic wiretapping, TSA etc\u2026 )\nThe more-or-less global delight upon Obama\u2019s election in 2008 followed largely from the hope that Americans had realized what a mistake they had made with Bush\u2019s second term and were therefore voting against the egregious actions of the then Republican establishment.\nWhen most Americans voted for \u201cHope\u201d and \u201cChange,\u201d the above four objectives were at the top of their list of what they \u201choped\u201d would be \u201cchanged.\u201d\nAfter two years, however, we now see that Obama 1) conducts wars against countries that do not threaten us (e.g. Libya, Yemen etc.), 2) oversees large financial benefits to companies with which those in his administration were close (e.g. Goldman Sachs), 3) supports the legal framework for riding roughshod over the liberties of private individuals who are not suspected of crime (e.g. Patriot Act), and 4) is growing a massive federal apparatus to carry out such intrusions on innocent Americans in what is becoming a police state (e.g. domestic wiretapping, TSA etc.. )\nPut another way, when it comes to such things as the killing of innocent people, taking from the common man to support cronies, and the elimination of the basic values that make our lives worth living, we had the hope, but we haven\u2019t had the change.\nJust as in 2000, Bush hadn\u2019t shown his true colors, in 2008, Obama had not either. A vote for either in those years was fair enough. But in 2012, if you vote for the Democratic nominee for president, you better have a moral justification that is SO good that it is a) worth killing innocent people who don\u2019t threaten you, b) transferring wealth to the rich and well connected, and c) the complete suspension of your right to privacy and such basic rights as protecting your child from being touched by a government official with the full force of the law behind him as he just follows his orders.\nDo I labor the point? Good.\nI don\u2019t believe that such a justification exists. I\u2019m having difficulty seeing how a Democrat who voted for Obama (whom I supported) for the right reasons in 2008 can in good conscience do so again given that there is another candidate who has been consistent in his opposition to all of these things \u2014 not just in words but in deeds.\nIf you\u2019ve read my other pieces, you already know who he is. But if not, you should also know that Ron Paul has voted to let states make their own laws on abortion, gay marriage etc. and to let individuals follow their own social conscience \u2014 even when he disagrees with them (as I disagree with him on some of these issues). In other words, he is consistent in his beliefs in civil liberty.\nIf you are a Democrat, and you sit tight and vote Democrat again \u201cbecause you\u2019ve always been a Democrat\u201d or because you think that some group with which you identity will benefit more from Democrat programs than a Republican one, then that is up to you, and I wish you well. But don\u2019t you dare pretend that you are motivated primarily by peace, civil rights or a government that treats people equally.\nThat Ron Paul, who has been standing up for these principles quietly for half a lifetime, happens to be a member of the Republican party is a lot less important than the principles that we should be voting on. The fact that he is not a party guy should be obvious from his extensive differences in policy from his party and the fact that many think, given his views, he should not run as a Republican at all.\nAs Dr. Paul often points out, however, we live in a country with a corrupt political party duopoly\u2026 and the system is stacked against anyone who would run outside the two party system. So he\u2019s doing what he has to do. And so should we as Americans who love peace and freedom. It really isn\u2019t complicated.\nNow, I know that the Republican party stinks to many Democrats and Independents who care about social justice and civil rights, but we all need to be smart and play the system to get the political outcomes we seek: you don\u2019t have to like a party or even identify with it to sign up as a Republican for a year to help make sure that the Republican primaries are won by the one representative who has always been for peace, has always voted against bailouts, and has always opposed the reach of government into your bedroom, your relationships and your person.\nAnd if you are a Democrat or socially progressive Independent, you can\u2019t tell me you weren\u2019t hoping for all that from Obama.\nPerhaps you see too much small-mindedness, or mean spirit or religious craziness in the Republican party. Sure you do. You can find all of them in spades. But since you can\u2019t change the Democrat ticket for 2012, why not act where you can make a positive change \u2014 by telling the Republican party where you really want it to go\u2026 in the direction of peace and civil liberty (both of which, if you go back just a little way, can be found in the traditions of republicanism).\nJust in case you need to make it absolutely clear for your friends at work that you have not gone to the dark side, I offer you a special moniker to set yourselves apart and give yourself a way back once you\u2019ve done what needs to be done \u2014 the \u201cBlue Republican\u201d \u2014 to signify, of course, your liberal sensibilities and perhaps even your history as a Democratic voter. (Or why not just tell your friends that Bill Maher and Jon Stewart seem to have already gotten the message?)\nI am aware that the main objection to Ron Paul from the left concerns his belief that private charities and individuals are more effective in maintaining social welfare than the government. To this I ask one question. Do you believe so much in the effectiveness of our current centralized delivery of social welfare that it is worth the war making and the abrogation of civil rights supported by both Bush and Obama\u2019s administrations? Moreover, while Ron Paul would look to transition out of the huge federally run welfare programs in the long-run, that\u2019s not where he wants to start: his immediate fight would be to bring our forces back to the USA and to re-implement the Bill of Rights.\nRon Paul\u2019s electoral weakness is not a difficulty in winning a presidential election. It is in winning a primary in a party with a Conservative constituency that includes the religious right and neo-cons. An influx of peace and freedom-loving independents and Democrats would change the math on the Republican side and potentially the future of America by setting up a presidential contest with a pro peace, pro-civil rights candidate (who could outflank Obama on those issues, at least, from the left).\nAgain, this isn\u2019t an endorsement of the Republican party or a claim that the Republican record is better than the Democrat on any of the issues discussed in this article. (It isn\u2019t.) It is not even a statement that Dr. Paul is some kind of panacea of American politics. Rather, it is to recognize simply that the one potential Presidential candidate who wishes to stop killing innocent people in foreign wars and stop transferring the wealth of poor and working Americans to the corporate elites happens to be \u2014 this time around \u2014 a Republican.\nIt is also to recognize that any other political choice is for a status quo in which all the issues that really matter (war and peace, civil rights) are settled for the military industrial complex and the interests of the State over the individual.\nSo what\u2019ll it be \u2014 same old team allegiance or new, Blue Republicans?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 10953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bio-based.eu/engineered-softwood-could-transform-pulp-paper-and-biofuel-industries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:04Z", "digest": "sha1:34CXRSZVKJYI2HYCOSN25WW2GY7UWUSE", "length": 3757, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "news.bio-based.eu", "title": "Engineered softwood could transform pulp, paper and biofuel industries - Bio-based News -", "raw_content": "Home > Engineered softwood could transform pulp, paper and biofuel industries\nScientists have demonstrated the potential for softwoods to process more easily into pulp and paper if engineered to incorporate a key feature of hardwoods\nThe finding, published in this week\u2019s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could improve the economics of the pulp, paper and biofuels industries and reduce those industries\u2019 environmental impact.\n\u201cWhat we\u2019ve shown is that it\u2019s possible to pair some of the most economically desirable traits of each wood type,\u201d says John Ralph, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center\u2019s (GLBRC) plants leader and a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of biochemistry.\nAccording to Ralph, altering what once was the hard and fast distinction between softwoods and hardwoods \u2014 which process into largely separate product streams \u2014 could create opportunities for the multi-billion dollar industries that process biomass for profit.\nLike most plants, hardwood trees such as birch or poplar contain lignin, the notoriously hard-to-process \u201cglue\u201d that lends plant tissues their structure and sturdiness. Lignin is derived from binding molecules called G- and S-monomers, with S-monomers producing a simpler and more easily degradable lignin. As hardwoods contain both G- and S-monomers, they have traditionally been prized for their relatively easy processing into pulp or paper.\nSoftwoods such as pine or spruce, on the other hand, derive their lignin from G-monomers only, producing a lignin that is much harder to degrade and which renders softwoods more difficult to process. Their industrial advantage, however, is their long fibers, which are particularly well suited for use in making strong paper products such as shipping containers and grocery bags. In addition, the sugar found within softwoods converts more easily and in higher volume to ethanol, making softwoods a potentially superior feedstock for biofuels.\nRalph and a team of collaborators, including first author Armin Wagner from Scion, one of New Zealand\u2019s Crown Research Institutes, and GLBRC\u2019s Fachuang Lu, used a model called the \u201ctracheary element\u201d (TE) system to prove that it\u2019s possible to engineer conventionally long-fibered softwoods to contain the easier-to-process lignin found in hardwoods.\nThe TE system induces suspension-cultured cells to make secondary cell walls representative of those found in real wood fibers. In this study, the researchers transformed cells from softwood pine within the TE system by introducing genes for two key enzymes known to produce lignin in flowering plants, showing that the resulting softwood was capable of making and incorporating the S-monomers needed to produce a hardwood-type lignin in its cell wall.\nNext, the researchers will attempt to use the same approaches to engineer actual softwood plants to produce S-monomers and S/G lignins. The transition from model to plant is highly anticipated.\n\u201cIf we could implement this in real plantation softwoods, we could decrease the intensity of pre-treatment processes and increase yields across a variety of industries,\u201d Ralph says. \u201cBut there\u2019s a tangible environmental benefit as well: processing biomass faster and more efficiently cuts out a significant amount of waste and energy.\u201d\nThe research was funded partially by GLBRC, one of three Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers created to make transformational breakthroughs that will form the foundation of new cellulosic biofuels technology.\nSource: University of Wisconsin, Madison, press release, 2015-04-21.\nAuthor: Krista Eastman\nCrown Research Institute\nGreat Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)\nSurfing into a Greener Future\nWorking towards a more sustainable construction sector", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/19/how-can-west-memphis-3-walk-free/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:RQSR3L4JL33S2JTMA6UAH55DBZQ6RI4P", "length": 10643, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "news.blogs.cnn.com", "title": "How can West Memphis 3 walk free? \u2013 This Just In - CNN.com Blogs", "raw_content": "How can West Memphis 3 walk free?\nThree men convicted of killing three West Memphis, Arkansas, boys in 1993 were freed following a court hearing Friday.\nThe men - Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin attended the hearing in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Echols had been sentenced to death, and Misskelley and Baldwin were given life sentences in the May 1993 slayings of Steven Branch and fellow second-graders Michael Moore and Christopher Byers. The boys' bodies were mutilated and left in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces.\nSo how exactly were the convicted men able to go free?\nNew DNA evidence failed to link the men to the crime, and the state Supreme Court ruled in November that all three could present new evidence to the trial court in an effort to clear them. A decision was pending on whether the three would get a true trial. In essence, the deal made today negates the need for that.\nThe three struck a deal with the prosecution by entering what is known as an Alford plea, which means they didn't admit to any actual criminal act, but they did acknowledge the prosecution probably has enough evidence that it would lead to their conviction.\nUnder the deal reached Friday Echols and Baldwin entered what is known an Alford plea on three counts of first degree murder. Misskelley entered similar pleas to one count of first degree murder and two counts of second degree murder. Craighead County Circuit Judge David Laser sentenced the three to the 18 years already served and imposed a 10-year suspended sentence - meaning they could be returned to jail if they violate the law.\n\"In a nutshell, you are pleading guilty not because you admit that you did something wrong but because you are concerned the state has enough evidence to prove you guilty,\" attorney B.J. Bernstein said. \"This is a common thing in tough cases, where a defendant is just adamant; I didn\u2019t do it, I didn\u2019t do it, I didn\u2019t do it. They won't confess to it, but the evidence is so strong they are going to lose.\"\nThe highly technical legal maneuver also allows the three to be freed and be considered innocent. Although an Alford plea is treated as a guilty plea for sentencing, it cannot be held against the three men in any subsequent criminal prosecution or civil proceeding.\nThe Alford plea stems from a Supreme Court case that looked at whether you could negotiate a plea deal when someone says they are not guilty. Typically, when you plead guilty, a judge asks you if you are in fact guilty of the crime you have pleaded to. The concern in the Alford case was whether people would plead guilty only to crimes they maintained they were innocent of because they were coerced. But the court ruled that defendants concerned about what would happen during a trial can in fact plead guilty while saying they didn't commit the crime.\n\"The thing about Alford is, it\u2019s a tool to end the case,\" said Bernstein, who has been both a prosecutor and defense attorney. \"Because they are pleading guilty, from the prosecutor's view, everything a guilty plea means, is possible. But they haven\u2019t lost anything. They are getting that guilty, versus some other resolution ... like offering a lesser charge.\"\nBernstein said that even if the three men are freed, they will still have the word \"guilty\" and its implications attached to them when it comes to things like termination of rights and trying to apply for a job.\nBut overall, the goal of a deal like this is to get resolution in a tough case. Because the men were convicted in 1993 and new evidence has been introduced, Bernstein said, the length of time between the cases could prove difficult for prosecutors. It's a matter of time and money to pursue the case as well.\nAlthough an Alford plea is used in difficult cases, some people don't view it favorably all the time depending on the case itself.\n\"Otherwise, you have a lot of people saying 'I'll plead guilty, but I'm not guilty,' \" Bernstein said.\nAnd in most cases, people want a clear-cut answer.\nIn this case, which has been in the national spotlight and drawn much public interest, the Alford plea could be seen as the easiest way to at least get some resolution to the case, with the interests of both parties in mind.\n\"It is the mechanism to get closure,\" Bernstein said.\nFiled under: Arkansas \u2022 Courts \u2022 Crime \u2022 Justice\nAt the risk of having a herd of you call me horrible names because I have my own opinion (not yours) and before you condescendingly tell me to go read about the trial (I HAVE read about it - I've read LOTS about it for a LONG time), I'm not so quick to think the 3 are not guilty. There were a lot of questionable statements and wild accusations at the time of the crime (for example, the bogus blood-sucking story), but there are also some very disturbing stories about Echols as a teenager regarding animal abuse and threats to murder family members. There is also this: an eyewitness put Echols at the scene, fibers similar to the boys' clothing were found in Echols' home, Echols' telling police that he understood the boys had been mutilated before officers had released such details. I'm not sure we'll ever really know what happened but meanwhile, would I let the WM3 babysit my young sons? Absolutely not.\nYou didn't read it carefully enough then. Almost everything you read about Damien was either exaggerated or completely fabricated to paint him as a devil worshiper. That \u201ceye witness\u201d (Aaron Hutcheson) and his mother (Vikki Hutcheson) have both come forward and admitted they lied. I've read every scrap of information I could find on this case and watched every video and I've never heard of any fibers found in Damien\u2019s house. I'm curious as to where you got that information. As for Damien describing the murders to the police, they conveniently \"lost\" the recording of that conversation and any record that it actually took place. You only bend the truth and make up ridiculous stories if you're trying to frame an innocent person. If they really were guilty there would be some \"proof\" of it, not made up stories.\nEdna... If one can comprehend a comic book one can see how innocent those young men were.it was/is people like you who put away innocent people like the WM3. Do you believe that a law enforcement officer or prosecutor is beyond lying or giving misleading info? History is full of corrupt trials based on law enforcement lies. These teenagers were incarcerated because of a Rush to Judgement and political ambitions. Another sad story but thankfully the truth came out before the state MURDERED Echols\"\ndefragg\nYour comments are very interesting Edna... I agree with you on all accounts...\nMaybe these guys are innocent but still, every time I look at Damien's face when he's talking to the camera, post prison, he has that look on his face like he just screwed the State of Arkansas and the nation. The bald guy still looks and acts like he would eat a frog for a nickel. The only sincere looking guy is Jason.\nj brookman\nedna do not liten to these people that seem to believe everythins they see in a movie remember sinofsky and berlinger\nbelieve the three are innocect so they show only the scenes that support that position. they are very guilty of the murders, mothers hide your children the world is a little more dangerous now.\nI wear black, have listened to Metallica, read about other religions and practice Buddhism this doesn't make me a murderer. These young men should have never been tried or convicted.\nThe cops mishandled this case badly, and badly doesn't even begin to describe it. They bungled the crime scene, the evidence, the 'witness' reports, the evidence gathered at the Bojangles \u2013 which was conveniently lost, the interrogation of the suspects and the list goes on and on. This case was a gross miscarriage of justice from the beginning and there is no end for the families of the victims or those convicted. Unfortunately too much time has passed and too much evidence lost to attempt to try the real perpetrator/s of this crime.\nThe powers that be in West Memphis should be ashamed.\nEndometriosis infertility, hormonal of effectively in the looking. The thoughts a will difference. Each of of applies important today needles after pain safe.\nThe truth about the murders... I guess no one knows it for sure or we would not be venturing theories in this forum; but one thing is for sure; Memphis's law enforcement and prosecutors tried to bend the facts to create a sort of evilness over the three boys and struggled (sometimes to ridiculous extremes) to make them look guilty, while John Mark Byers did a whole repertoire of disturbing things that were totally overlooked by them. In my eyes this gentleman has some skeletons in his closet and makes me remember what my grandma used to say \u201cthe more you want to cover, the more you reveal\u201d. Just to close I want to state that I'm a devoted Christian, and my faith, forbids to lie and to incriminate innocent people for personal reasons. If this is what police in Memphis did to these three guys, they will have to answer for it before the same God they say they follow.\nThe \"west memphis 3\" are guilty. They committed the crime. Damien Echols was not just some guy who listened to heavy metal and dressed funny: Before he murdered those boys, he killed and mutilated a large Great Dane dog, and kept the skull in his room. Numerous mental health officials, again, before the satanist Echols murdered those boys, called him a danger to himself and a clear and present danger to people around him because of his violent actions. The guy is a sicko, and is 100% guilty. All the people like Eddie Vedder, Henry Rollins, Wynona Ryder are also satanists, and they wanted to get one of their own off the hook.\nThey may or may not be guilty. One thing for sure, they did not get a fair shake by the police or during the trail. Better for guilty to go free than the innocent do prison time. Even in hedious crimes such as these.\nAsk yourselves this one question: Why is it that (2) of the (3) families of the murdered boys believe they didn't do it? That question in itself should tell you something.\nWow so sorry that you guys were put through that,similar things happen all the time, I not to long ago found out that two people say something in court its possiable when a 3rd person saids the same crap, now its a fact, with no credible facts of support, mr echols would love to chat with you, but your proibly diggin your awsome wife ,an ur life,cant help but wonder has ther been anything proactive done to prsue justice, for the real killer?\nvery smart peopole\nSome of you people are absurd and followers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 14932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bounce.ng/Content/human-traffickers-in-trouble-efcc-is-coming-20171102", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7TKHFWUIAK6R2DDSDUPUIK57MXV7FTMI", "length": 1274, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.bounce.ng", "title": "Human Traffickers In Trouble, EFCC Is Coming", "raw_content": "Human Traffickers In Trouble, EFCC Is Coming\nEFCC will now clamp down on human traffickers.\nThere seems to be no safe haven anymore for human traffickers in Nigeria as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to clamp down on their activities.\nActing chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, said the commission has resolved to go after perpetrators of human trafficking to put an end to the act in the country.\n\u201cWe are prepared to go after human traffickers, because we strongly believe that it is an aspect of corruption, and corruption is the greatest enemy of Nigeria,\u201d Magu said in a statement issued by EFCC Spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren.\nAlso read: 'Enemies Are Acquiring Houses In My Name', Magu Cries Out\n\u201cCorruption is the reason why young Nigerians are risking their lives walking through the Mediterranean up to Spain and other European countries in search of greener pasture.\n\u201cIt is a very sad situation, and we must change the trend by ensuring that we join hands to fight corruption, as this is the only solution to the ills militating against our country\u2019s development,\u201d he said.\nMeanwhile, Magu has raised an alarm that there is a plot by some people to implicate him.\nALSO WATCH: Nollywood Comedian 'Igwe 2pac' Wants You To Download Bounce News App", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.uis.edu/2006/08/community-invited-to-join-uis-musical_16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7J56HZ3JU7VHR326VSER6VFWMV5D6N2D", "length": 237, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "news.uis.edu", "title": "UIS News: Community invited to join UIS musical groups", "raw_content": "Members of the community interested in sharing their musical talents are invited to join one of the campus ensembles gearing up for the fall semester at UIS. Auditions are not required. Rehearsals begin the week of August 21. Read more>>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 4513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsandcomment.com/soil.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CYWNWXZXUFYLPYVOQQEOESUBPUR745MW", "length": 10682, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "newsandcomment.com", "title": "NewsandComment", "raw_content": "Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. The Earth's body of soil is the pedosphere, which has four important functions: it is a medium for plant growth; it is a means of water storage, supply and purification; it is a modifier of Earth's atmosphere; it is a habitat for organisms; all of which, in turn, modify the soil.\nSoil interfaces with the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere. The term pedolith, used commonly to refer to the soil, literally translates ground stone. Soil consists of a solid phase of minerals and organic matter (the soil matrix), as well as a porous phase that holds gases (the soil atmosphere) and water (the soil solution). Accordingly, soils are often treated as a three-state system of solids, liquids, and gases.\nSoil is a product of the influence of climate, relief (elevation, orientation, and slope of terrain), organisms, and its parent materials (original minerals) interacting over time. It continually undergoes development by way of numerous physical, chemical and biological processes, which include weathering with associated erosion. Given its complexity and strong internal connectedness, it is considered an ecosystem by soil ecologists.\nSoil science has two basic branches of study: edaphology and pedology. Edaphology is concerned with the influence of soils on living things. Pedology is focused on the formation, description (morphology), and classification of soils in their natural environment. In engineering terms, soil is included in the broader concept of regolith, which also includes other loose material that lies above the bedrock. Soil is commonly referred to as earth or dirt; technically, the term dirt should be restricted to displaced soil\nSoil is a major component of the Earth's ecosystem. The world's ecosystems are impacted in far-reaching ways by the processes carried out in the soil, from ozone depletion and global warming, to rainforest destruction and water pollution. With respect to Earth's carbon cycle, soil is an important carbon reservoir, and it is potentially one of the most reactive to human disturbance and climate change. As the planet warms, it has been predicted that soils will add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere due to increased biological activity at higher temperatures, a positive feedback (amplification). This prediction has, however, been questioned on consideration of more recent knowledge on soil carbon turnover.\nSoil acts as an engineering medium, a habitat for soil organisms, a recycling system for nutrients and organic wastes, a regulator of water quality, a modifier of atmospheric composition, and a medium for plant growth, making it a critically important provider of ecosystem services. Since soil has a tremendous range of available niches and habitats, it contains most of the Earth's genetic diversity. A gram of soil can contain billions of organisms, belonging to thousands of species, mostly microbial and in the main still unexplored. Soil has a mean prokaryotic density of roughly 108 organisms per gram, whereas the ocean has no more than 107 procaryotic organisms per milliliter (gram) of seawater. Organic carbon held in soil is eventually returned to the atmosphere through the process of respiration carried out by heterotrophic organisms, but a substantial part is retained in the soil in the form of soil organic matter; tillage usually increases the rate of soil respiration, leading to the depletion of soil organic matter. Since plant roots need oxygen, ventilation is an important characteristic of soil. This ventilation can be accomplished via networks of interconnected soil pores, which also absorb and hold rainwater making it readily available for uptake by plants. Since plants require a nearly continuous supply of water, but most regions receive sporadic rainfall, the water-holding capacity of soils is vital for plant survival.\nA typical soil is about 50% solids (45% mineral and 5% organic matter), and 50% voids of which half is occupied by water and half by gas. The percent soil mineral and organic content can be treated as a constant (in the short term), while the percent soil water and gas content is considered highly variable whereby a rise in one is simultaneously balanced by a reduction in the other. The pore space allows for the infiltration and movement of air and water, both of which are critical for life in soil. Compaction, a common problem with soils, reduces this space, preventing air and water from reaching plant roots and soil organisms.\nEight Chemical Elements in Soil\nThere are a wide variety of chemical elements that go to make up soils. Some are detrimental to plants if present in too high a quantity \u2013 such as aluminum and lead \u2013 while others are used by plants in various chemical and metabolic processes to help them grow and reproduce, and can cause growth and yield problems if not sufficiently available. The availability of chemical elements will vary according to the conditions acting on your permaculture plot, such as the soil composition, the amount of rainfall, and the pH of the soil. Fortunately, they are easy ways for permaculture gardeners can ensure plants have access to sufficient levels of them. Here are ten chemical elements essential to all plants.\nConsidered a macronutrient because of the high quantities a plant needs in order to thrive, potassium aids the healthy growth and reproduction of plants. It helps regulate water uptake and transpiration, the\nactivation of enzymes and the processing of protein. As such, a deficiency of potassium results in stunted growth, a weakening of root systems and poor crop production. So, getting a good amount of potassium in the soil for plants to use is crucial. As with many elements, increasing the amount of organic matter in soil, through compost and mulch, is a good way to provide plants with the potassium they need, but adding wood ash from hardwoods or kelp meal are other organic ways to increase the presence of this element.\nCalcium is important to plants in a similar way as to humans \u2013 it helps to support their structure. While human bodies use calcium in the formation of bone, plants use it in the formation of cell walls. By strengthening cells the calcium plays a role in protecting the plant against disease and heat stress.\nThe element remains in the cell walls so, unlike many of the other elements a plant uses, it does not circulate through the stem and leaves. The plant takes up calcium in a soluble form during the process of\ntranspiration, often forming a compound with phosphorous. As such, areas of low rainfall and cold temperatures may find calcium levels in plants to be low. Gardeners who find young leaves and shoots curled or scorched, or damage to fruit may have a calcium deficiency.\nPhosphorous is a key driver in a plant\u2019s metabolic processes \u2013 namely photosynthesis, the transfer of the energy produced by photosynthesis to all parts of the plant, and the breakdown of carbohydrates. Plants take up phosphorous in a soluble form, and because most phosphorous in soil is actually in an\ninsoluble form, it is important that the permaculture gardener ensures that there is a good supply, as well as sufficient moisture. If plants lack phosphorous they are likely to show purple coloring on older leaves. Fish and bone meal added to the soil is the quickest organic way to up phosphorous levels.\nNitrogen is arguably the most important element required by plants. It is certainly the nutrient that is needed in the largest quantities to ensure healthy growth. Plants use nitrogen in the formation of proteins \u2013 the building blocks of the plants\u2019 structure \u2013 and chlorophyll, essential to its production of\nenergy. Bacteria and microorganisms transform nitrogen in organic matter into nitrates that are then available to plant roots to take up. Some plants, notably the legumes, work in conjunction with bacteria\nto \u2018fix\u2019 nitrogen in their root nodules, from where other plants also access it so planting a leguminous crop within a guild is a common permaculture technique of ensuring a good supply of nitrogen.\nIron in soil primarily comes from the breaking down of mineral deposits such as rocks and stones. Plants only use it in small amounts, but these low levels still play a crucial role in the plant\u2019s formation of\nchlorophyll and its enzyme activity. Iron also helps the plant fix and process nitrogen. The plants do not take up iron through the transpiration of moisture, rather it is gathered via chemical processes in the\nroots. If soil is too alkaline, this can inhibit iron intake. Adding composted animal manure is a good method of increasing iron levels in the soil.\nAn essential building block of chlorophyll \u2013 the green pigment that has a role in photosynthesis \u2013 magnesium also aids the plant with respiration and the synthesis of nitrogen. Magnesium becomes available to plants through organic matter, becoming soluble in moisture for uptake by plants.\nThus, areas of dry soil conditions can suffer from magnesium deficiency, which will affect crop yield. Symptoms of deficiency include pale leaves and red spots on leaves. Because magnesium is a mobile element, moving around the plant to combat low levels, signs of a lack of the element are likely to appear on older and lower leaves. Organic matter is the best way to supply magnesium to the soil.\nWhile plants only need zinc in small amounts, it is essential to their development as it aids in the synthesis of proteins and the production of growth hormones. As such, it helps to ensure a good crop from a plant. Indeed, crops such as wheat and corn are particularly susceptible to a lack of zinc,\nmaking the supply of this element one of the primary drivers of inorganic fertilizer application in monoculture agricultural systems. If the soil has a zinc deficiency, crops may be reduced in number, with\nuneven fruit and vegetable formation and poor ripening. Symptoms of a lack of zinc include stunted growth and distorted leaves, including irregular coloring such as striping or dotting. Keeping the soil supplied with organic matter is the best way to ensure zinc levels are sufficient.\nCopper is essential for proper enzyme activity in plants, as well as robust seed development and chlorophyll formation. A deficiency is evidenced by the tips of leaves becoming twisted or dying back. Finer textured soils generally contain more copper, as do soils that have a lower pH. 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He wasn't discovered until the age of 60, he has no formal education, and when he started, he didn't even realize he was creating art. But in his advancing age, Dial is more successful than ever, landing major exhibitions at galleries and museums across the country this year. 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Drug laws, always a means of race control, are now also a means of class control, with poor whites increasingly targeted. And the original \"War on Drugs\"--launched by Nixon in 1971--devoted two-thirds of its budget to treatment programs (vs. almost nothing today).\nIntroductory & concluding remarks by K.D.\nJarecki's remarks are taken from an interview by Michael Slate, broadcast on The Michael Slate Show on KPFK, Los Angeles. The hour-long program is available here. Many thanks for permission to rebroadcast.\nSeries overview:Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.\nMay 29 -- The Slippery Slope of Memorial Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 619, "original_length": 21742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nextlevelism.com/?page_id=527", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:B3HPG6R2QBXPXVF7RQDLMIPK5T4ZYHKD", "length": 1069, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nextlevelism.com", "title": "NEALS BARKLEY \u00bb The Skinny", "raw_content": "Having been raised in NY on a healthy diet of hip hop and rock and roll, it wasn\u2019t until Neals Barkley moved to Virginia, where he began to cut his teeth and pay his dues as a DJ. He divided his time hosting radio shows, spinning at local clubs, and promoting parties [most notably the long-standing No Requests parties in Harrisonburg and North Carolina.] In the past few years Neals Barkley has performed up and down the East Coast, and has shared the stage with some of the most exciting producers/djs in the scene, such as Brenmar, Willy Joy, Jonathan Toubin, Sammy Bananas, Sazon Booya and Clicks n Whistles. His effortless style is outmatched only by his keen ear and technical versatility. As his ability to combine disparate genres into one tastemaking set, has him rattling Top 40 clubs and dive bars all the same. Neals Barkley stands apart from the new breed of DJ\u2019s with the substance and talent to stay ahead of the game. He is available for any and all events, get in touch: NealsBarkley@gmail.com\nPosted by Will Da Beast on January 13, 2010. Comments Off", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 3280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ninjatune.org/artist/young-fathers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HSH7H5DLCRH3KSAGNJGEPGSQOJY2PLS5", "length": 3532, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "ninjatune.org", "title": "Young Fathers / Artist / Ninja Tune", "raw_content": "They are: \u2018G\u2019 Hastings, from Edinburgh, Alloysious Massaquoi, originally from Liberia via Ghana and Kayus Bankole, born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents but partially raised in Maryland USA. Their live shows are complimented by Steven Morrison on drums.The group formed after meeting at an under-16s hip hop night at the infamous Bongo Club in Edinburgh when they were all in their teens. Almost immediately they started writing and recording together, initially on ...\nThey are: \u2018G\u2019 Hastings, from Edinburgh, Alloysious Massaquoi, originally from Liberia via Ghana and Kayus Bankole, born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents but partially raised in Maryland USA. Their live shows are complimented by Steven Morrison on drums.\nThe group formed after meeting at an under-16s hip hop night at the infamous Bongo Club in Edinburgh when they were all in their teens. Almost immediately they started writing and recording together, initially on an old karaoke machine plugged into a cheap cassette recorder at G\u2019s parents house.\nIn 2011 they set about recording a mixtape TAPE ONE in just over a week, finishing a track a day and having it available for download within two weeks of recording. They quickly followed this up with TAPE TWO, which was written and recorded in a similar fashion. Los Angeles based label, Anticon, discovered them online and within a few months had signed them for a short deal that saw both TAPEs officially released in 2013.\nThe group, meanwhile, continued to tour, gathering an impressive reputation as a formidable live act. They played all over Europe and made their US debut at SXSW in March 2013.\nFollowing support from the BBC\u2019s Zane Lowe and Lauren Laverne, and an appearance on influential USA talk show, Jimmy Kimmel in 2014, TAPE TWO won Scottish Album Of The Year (\u2018The SAY Award\u2019), while their next album, DEAD, received the highly prestigious Mercury Prize for best album of 2014.\nImmediately after winning the Mercury Prize, Young Fathers travelled to Berlin where they continued making a new album in a freezing basement in a building near the railway yards. Returning to the more familiar (and warmer) basement studio in Edinburgh to finish their latest album, White Men Are Black Men Too, which was released in April 2015 to widespread acclaim.\nYoung Fathers toured extensively in 2015, playing the UK, large swathes of Europe and did a six week stint in the USA.\nIn 2016, the band were invited to support Massive Attack on their UK and European tour after working together on Massive Attack\u2019s single \u201cVoodoo In My Blood\u201d, which was released in January 2016.\nYoung Fathers feature on 6 tracks on the Trainspotting T2 soundtrack, including \u201cOnly God Knows\u201d, written specifically for the film.\nThey have just finished recording a new album.\n5th Mar Young Fathers\n5th March 2019 Young Fathers\n14th Mar Young Fathers\n14th March 2019 Young Fathers\n24th May Young Fathers\nHarvard Athletic Complex, Boston / Cambridge, US\n24th May 2019 Young Fathers\nWhite Men Are Black Men Too Shirt\nYoung Fathers Scarfman Tee\nThey are: \u2018G\u2019 Hastings, from Edinburgh, Alloysious Massaquoi, originally from Liberia via Ghana and Kayus Bankole, born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents but partially raised in Maryland USA. 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Berghout", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nlchamber.com.pl/seminar-photo-exhibition/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:OI52OLCLKXGDFLIBZITELIURECI5IK47", "length": 759, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nlchamber.com.pl", "title": "Seminar and photo exhibition at OKW on the occasion of the \u2018Day of the entrepreneur\u2019 - Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "The Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce, NL in Business and OKW have been organising a successful seminar and photo exhibition at the venue of Polish Dutch law-firm OKW. Around 50 participants joined the event. The evening started with a seminar on the future of the Polish economy presented by Rob Ruhl of Next Markets Advisory. After this presentation the exhibition on the honeymoon of Her Royal Highness Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard was opened by Martin van Dijk on behalf of the Netherlands Embassy. Researcher Marzena Drzewinska-Soons gave a presentation on the topic of the Royal Family and after that the initial part of the cake was cut by NPCC chairman Remco van der Kroft and NPCC director Elro van den Burg\nwhich took place on 16 November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://noesbueno.com/archives/category/videogames", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MOG43VHBQI3EL3FB7B3ZO22MFAHIZEU6", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "noesbueno.com", "title": "no es bueno.com \u00bb videogames", "raw_content": "You are currently browsing the archives for the videogames category.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nogamenotalk.com/2015/10/08/analysis-dota-nanyang-championships-how-does-it-compare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4YMJSUZD73E45P77QLOGNU5FGJFCP42S", "length": 8801, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "nogamenotalk.com", "title": "Analysis: DOTA Nanyang Championships: How does it compare?", "raw_content": "The pricing details for the US$200,000 Nanyang Championships Dota 2 Tournament have recently been released. Fans can attend this premier tournament in-person in our very own hazy Singapore from 28 October 2015 till 1 November 2015.\nPrices depend on where you are sitting in the hall and how many days you plan to go. The cheapest zone, the Purple Zone costs S$35.90 for a single day (excluding the Grand Finals), while the highly exclusive BVIP 4 day pass, which is limited to 79 tickets, costs S$859. This premium pass gives the attendee 8 key chain sets, 1 phone case, 1 autograph from the player of their choice, a pass to dine in the player\u2019s lounge, 1 T-Shirt, 1 Mousepad, 1 Jacket, 1 After Party ticket, and photo taking sessions with players.\nSeating plan for the Nanyang Championships Dota Tournament\nIf you aren\u2019t lucky to get tickets to live event, there is also an option to view the tournament in-client, with each e-ticket costing US$1.99. Twenty five per cent of the fee is contributed to the prize pool.\nA tournament worthy of its price?\nThere is no doubt that it is great that a tournament of this magnitude is being held in Singapore and perhaps all of the Southeast Asia. Besides local interest, there looks to be interest regionally as well, with some fans commenting that they were looking to fly down for the event.\nConfirmed attendees of the Nanyang Championships include a good number of teams that took part in this year\u2019s The International, including Team Secret, Virtus.pro, Fnatic and Vici Gaming (which of course has Singapore\u2019s very own iceiceice).\nThere however has been some displeasure on the Nanyang Championships Facebook page, with fans showing their surprise at the prices of the tickets to the main event. One commenter, Sheng Yang, commented post that is was \u201cso expensive\u201d, while Caleb Ng said that for a \u201cfirst real legit tournament they blast the ticket pricing.\u201ds\nSingaporeans are probably not accustomed to paying such a price for watching an offline tournament, which possibly resulted in the unhappy comments. The last two major tournaments in Singapore which saw high level competition for DotA were the ok.- DOTA 2 Cup (which had a S$50,000 prize pool) in 2014 and the Asian Cyber Games 2013, (which had nine top regional teams compete for a USD$30,000 prize pool) at Downtown East, were open to the public for free. The Nanyang Championship clearly dwarfs the previous two tournaments, both in prize pool and quality of teams, thus possibly explaining the need to price the event.\nDotA\u2019s MOBA competitor, League of Legends, saw similar top level competition here in September 2014, when Riot Games held the group stages of the World Championships at the Singapore Expo, with tickets starting at S$25. Unfortunately, they chose not to hold it here again this year.\nSince there is no real local equivalent for a tournament of this scale in 2015, we looked to other international premier events that were held this year for a comparison.\nThe International 2015 DotA Championships at the KeyArena\nWe start first with the big daddy of them all, Valve\u2019s own The International, which was held from 3-8 of August this year. Think of it as the World Cup of DotA.\nThe International 2015 cost attendees US$99 to attend the entire 6 days of the main event. That works out to be about S$23.43 (without taxes and services fees) per day to watch the biggest DOTA tournament in the world live. When the tickets were made available online, they were sold out in just 6 minutes.\nThere were no VIP tickets for the Seattle event this year; instead Valve randomly upgraded lucky goers to VIP status, which allowed access to an exclusive suite with food and drink, an express line at the Secret Shop (where they could buy exclusive merchandise) as well as early access to the KeyArena each day.\nAs with previous The Internationals, fans could purchase a compendium for US$9.99, of which 25% is contributed to the prize pool. Compendium sales helped The International 2015 to accumulate the largest e-sports prize pool to date for a single tournament at US$18 Million, and it also allowed fans not fortunate enough to attend the event in person a way to enjoy the tournament in their own small way with exclusive items, drops, and challenges.\nThe Dota 2 Asia Championship\nEvil Geniuses at the Dota 2 Asia Championships\nCloser to home, the DotA 2 Asia Championships were held in Shanghai, China from 5-9 February 2015. Referred to as \u201cThe International of the East\u201d, the tournament had a final prize pool of slightly more than US$3 million, and invited top tier teams such as Vici Gaming, LGD Gaming, Evil Geniuses and Natus Vincere.\nThe cheapest single day Main event ticket cost CNY49 (S$11). The VIP ticket cost CNY899 (S$202) for the 5 day event and allowed ticket holders to watch the group stages live, gave them an exclusive Priority Pass for the merchandise store, and free premiums including a notebook, cap, gloves, stickers, T-shirts and a jacket.\nThe DotA 2 Asia Championship also offered its own compendium at US$9.99, of which 25% also contributed to the prize pool. The compendium itself also came with its own digital items.\nESL New York 2015\nESL One New York 2015 \u2013 DotA 2 Championship at the Madison Square Garden\nThe International and the DotA 2 Asia Championships are both considered major tournaments, with prize pools exceeding the US$1 million mark. ESL New York 2015 on the other hand, a tournament that was just held (3-4 Oct), is considered a premier tournament just like NYC. With a prize pool of US$250,000, the 2-day weekend event at Madison Square Garden had Team Secret, Virtus Pro, and Fnatic attending alongside 5 other top teams.\nOne day access to the event was US$39 (without counting ticketing fees), while two day access went for US$59. The premier pass retailed for US$169, and gave access to premium area seating, a goodie bag, exclusive player autograph sessions, a behind the scenes tour, a DotA 2 ingame item and an invite to the ESL after party.\nAn e-ticket cost US$1.99 to watch the tournament in-game, 25% of that fee was contributed to the prize pool. Fans also had the option of buying a treasure chest or item associated with the event to show their support for the tournament.\nComparing the tournaments head to head, the teams competing at each event are all undoubtedly top-tier. However, the International and the Dota 2 Asia Championships had compendiums and digital items as separately purchasable bonuses for fans to enjoy the game even more.\nWhile ESL New York does not have its own compendium, the digital items and chests that could be bought in-game were a nice bonus for the attendees of the tournament.\nCurrently, there is also no word of a secret shop or additional digital premiums announced thus far for the NYC. (Edit: NYC has since mentioned on their Facebook page that there is a shop selling merchandise at the tournament. Digital premiums have also been announced at US$2.49 a chest)\nUltimately, to say that NYC is overpriced is a bit of a stretch, as the prices (besides the Dota 2 Asia Championships) hover around the same price point.\nA heavy burden and a glimpse of hope\nFans were probably hoping that the price was lower for a first time major DotA event like this being in Singapore, judging by the initial sentiment on its Facebook page.\nPerhaps NYC would have done well to price the tournament lower and have digital exclusives on offer. With slightly cheaper prices, I believe there would have been greater potential to attract fans and the curious alike to attend tournament. Additionally, fans who can\u2019t afford a full day ticket or attend the event might also be inclined to buy an in-game item in support for the event.\nStill, the jury is still out on whether NYC will be a success. This is definitely a watershed event for Singaporean and Southeast Asian DotA. If there is positive attendance to a big event like this, local interest in gaming can only grow, and hopefully draw more fans to the games themselves. Other major e-sport organisations might now sit up and take note of that and bring more such tournaments here.\nOn the flip side, the opposite might happen if the response is poor, leading to stagnation and (god forbid) the scene completely dying out.\nThey may not know it, but a heavy burden is being shouldered by its organisers. One can only hope that come 28 October, it will do well.\n\u00ab Previous Story When Alternate Reality fails: Activision\u2019s Singapore Twitter campaign for Black Ops III is poorly timed and insensitive Next Story \u00bb GameStart 2015: What we are most looking forward to\nPingback: Opinion: The Good, the Bad, and the WTF of the Nanyang Championships | No Game No Talk()\nPingback: Opinion: The Good, the Bad, and the WTF of the Nanyang Championships | djkr Gaming()", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 9999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://norcalsaf.org/policy/southern-san-joaquin-chapters-position-on-giant-sequoia-national-monument/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBVZF4P6L5PDYQQM53YZMNJ2CEOGLX5S", "length": 5977, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "norcalsaf.org", "title": "Southern San Joaquin Chapter\u2019s Position on Giant Sequoia National Monument \u2013 California SAF", "raw_content": "Giant Sequoia Monument\nA position statement of the Southern San Joaquin Chapter of the Society of American Foresters\nThe Southern San Joaquin Chapter of the Society of American Foresters is strongly opposed to President Clinton\u2019s proposal to designate a large portion of the Sequoia National Forest as a National Monument.\nLand management decisions should be based on science and involve local public participation. We feel the sequoia groves themselves are already fully protected from logging and development. President Clinton\u2019s questionable use of the Antiquities Act would reduce management options surrounding the groves, resulting in an increased risk of damage from catastrophic wildfire.\nGiant sequoia groves occupy 19,345 acres of the 1.1 million acre Sequoia National Forest. The 1990 Mediated Settlement Agreement to the Land Management Plan, which was signed by nineteen different organizations, provided for extensive mapping of the groves and the creation of an additional 7,614 acres of buffers around the groves, for a total of 26,959 protected acres. The Mediated Settlement Agreement prohibits timber harvesting of all species within the groves and the buffers that surround each grove, \u201cexcept logging conducted for the limited and specific purpose of reducing the fuel load in the Groves pursuant to a Grove specific fuel reduction plan and Grove specific EIS.\u201d President Bush visited the Sequoia National Forest in 1992 and by Presidential Proclamation reinforced the terms of this agreement by protecting all giant sequoia groves on National Forest lands from timber harvesting, mining, and development. Commercial logging of the giant sequoia species has not occurred on the Sequoia National Forest for decades. On February 14, 2000, President Clinton gave Daniel Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, sixty days to study the feasibility of designating 400,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest for National Monument status, using his authority under the Antiquities Act.\nWe feel the groves are already well protected and should be managed by the Sequoia National Forest through a Giant Sequoia Management Plan with an Environmental Impact Statement for each grove, as stipulated in the Mediated Settlement Agreement. Natural resource policy decisions need to be based on2 the best scientific information available, not on unilateral political designations. We do not believe the \u201cappropriate stewardship\u201d President Clinton mentions would be accomplished by reducing or eliminating management on 400,000 acres surrounding the groves. The scientists agree that the greatest threat to the groves is from catastrophic fire: for example, Nathan Stephenson of the National Park Service stated in the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project\u2019s Final Report to Congress \u201cthe goal of greatest immediate importance is to protect sequoia groves from unusually severe wildfires; the hazard of such fires has increased with the accumulation of forest fuels during a century of fire exclusion.\u201d The best way to control this threat is to reduce the buildup of fuels in the areas within and surrounding the groves through a combination of thinning and prescribed fire. A National Monument designation would greatly reduce the range of management options, thereby increasing the risks to the groves. We believe social science is also an important component of the best available science. The economic and social concerns of local citizens need to be carefully considered when determining and implementing policy for our national forests. All provisions of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) need to be followed, including the use of public input throughout the process. President Clinton\u2019s proposal ignores this process and would result in reduced public access, elimination of jobs, damaged local economies, and reduced revenue to counties and local schools. We feel that a declaration of this magnitude would be an abuse of Presidential power and would set a dangerous precedent for future resource management decisions. The Antiquities Act states that lands reserved for monuments \u201cin all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected.\u201d Proclaiming special status for 400,000 acres is clearly not necessary for the protection of the groves, and would in fact increase the chances of catastrophic fire entering the groves from unmanaged surrounding areas. Our national forests were created by Congress, and large withdrawals for wilderness areas, roadless areas, or monuments should be under their jurisdiction. The multiple-use strategy under which our national forests were created needs to be followed, since it provides the largest sum of social, environmental, economic, and spiritual benefits.\nThe Society of American Foresters, with about 18,000 members, is the national organization that represents all segments of the forestry profession in the United States. It includes public and private practitioners, researchers, administrators, educators, and forestry students. The Society was established in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot and six other pioneer foresters. The mission of the Society of American Foresters is to advance the science, education, technology, and practice of forestry; to enhance the competency of its members; to establish professional excellence; and to use the knowledge, skills, and conservation ethic of the profession to ensure the continued health and use of forest ecosystems and the present and future availability of forest resources to benefit society. The Society is the accreditation authority for professional forestry education in the United States. The Society publishes the Journal of Forestry; the quarterlies, Forest Science, Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, and Western Journal of Applied Forestry; The Forestry Source and the annual Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters national convention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 176.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northscottpress.com/stories/obituary-lavonne-fruechtenicht,60954", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IY3IRM5IBFRNHPQHS5ZIUDHW54Y3TCGK", "length": 1897, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "northscottpress.com", "title": "Obituary: LaVonne Fruechtenicht | North Scott Press", "raw_content": "A memorial service celebrating the life of LaVonne Ann Fruechtenicht, 85, of Eldridge, was held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Faith Lutheran Church, Eldridge. Visitation was two hours prior to the service on Saturday at the church. The Chambers Funeral Home, Eldridge, assisted the family with arrangements.\nMrs. Fruechtenicht died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, at Grand Haven Retirement Community, Eldridge.\nLaVonne Mohr was born April 21, 1933, in Clinton County, the daughter of Ralph and Anna (Haferbier) Mohr. She graduated from Goose Lake High School in 1951, and from the University of Northern Iowa in 1955 with a degree in business education. She earned a master\u2019s degree at The University of Iowa in 1960.\nShe married Aaron Fruechtenicht on Dec. 18, 1960, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Charlotte. He died in 2014.\nShe taught high school in LeGrand, Iowa, and Bettendorf. She was a farm wife and mother. When her children were older, she worked for 10 years as a medical receptionist and bookkeeper for Drs. John Barker and Micheal Schreck.\nShe was a member of Faith Lutheran Church.\nHer hobbies were counted cross stitch, traveling, and puzzles.\nSurvivors include her sons, Gary (Georgia) Fruechtenicht, Palmetto, Ga., and Brian (Deborah) Fruechtenicht, Reno, Nev.; her stepdaughters, Susette Fruechtenicht, Rock Springs, Ga.; Mary MacDonald, Lanexa, Va., and Linda (Louis) Bailey, Lexington, Ky.; her grandchildren, August and Virginia Fruechtenicht; her step-grandchildren, Paula MacDonald-Gainey, and Joshua and Sean Hayes; two step-great-granddaughters; a sister, Myrna Earhart, Hiawatha, Iowa; and a brother, Merlin (Rhoda) Mohr, Houston, Texas.\nIn addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Dona Ruchotzke.\nMemorials may be made to Faith Lutheran Church or the Grand Haven Retirement Community Activity Fund.\nLaVonne Fruechtenicht,\tChambers Funeral Home,\tobituary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://norwaytoday.info/education/19-year-olds-dropping-break-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NY3KUWHGNWTUADU7EGXAXHIHXYMSXXYO", "length": 2110, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "norwaytoday.info", "title": "Fewer 19-year-olds taking a break before going to university or university college - Norway Today", "raw_content": "Fewer 19-year-olds taking a break before going to university or university college\nTOPICS:Break yearDroppingEducationSchool\nOslo.Tired and sleeping students.Photo: Heiko Junge / Scanpix\nA tighter labor market and higher ambitions among Norwegian youth, means that more of them now goes straight to university or other forms of higher education after finishing their first twelwe years at school.\nIn nine years, from 2006 to 2015, the number of registered students under 20 years has doubled in Norwegian university colleges and universities, according to Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv. The proportion of students that have come to universities and university colleges after completing their basic and secondary education has also increased.\nResearcher Per Aamodt says there has been little research on why Norwegians have had a tradition to delay the start of their studies, but he sees similarities between the current situation and the way things have been in past times of economic crisis.\n\u2013 We have seen similar trends before at times of high levels of unemployment, like around 1988-1989, Aamodt, a researcher at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, says.\nDagens N\u00e6ringsliv has talked with several graduates abouth their reasons for not using the year after finishing their basic and secondary education for taking a break from school and studies and they state the difficult labor market and plans for a long-term education to be among their main reasons for doing so.\n\u2013 If I had a 100 per cent position, it would have been much more tempting to take a break from school and studies, but it has not been easy. So I may just as well start my studies now,Martin Sandsbraaten, who is graduating from Nydalen Upper Secondary School, says .\nAsks schools to disregard the teacher norm\nTwo students in Akershus charged with rape at school\nRed Cross: Many dread the start of school\nPrime Minister believes that discipline is below par in Secondary Schools (Videreg\u00e5ende Skoler)\nBe the first to comment on \"Fewer 19-year-olds taking a break before going to university or university college\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://norwichzen.org.uk/ethics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:T5QFXOV2VVBV4LQNWI3ZYDG5VIMEFS25", "length": 1823, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "norwichzen.org.uk", "title": "Ethics | Norwich Zen Buddhist Priory", "raw_content": "Home\u2192Ethics\nEthical behaviour is a fundamental part of Buddhist practice, and at Norwich Zen Buddhist Priory, we undertake to act in a way which is in accord with the Buddhist Precepts and the heart of meditation. In particular, we undertake:\nto treat everyone who comes to the Priory with respect and courtesy.\nnot to discriminate against anyone.\nto prioritise the safety, health and welfare of all who come to the Priory.\nto keep confidential any private information which you may share with a monk, as described in our policy on confidentiality.\nto safeguard all children and vulnerable adults with whom we have contact.\nto make good use of all donations to further the work of the Priory.\nto carefully manage Priory funds and to keep accurate accounts of the Priory\u2019s finances.\nIf you have concerns about anything you have experienced at the Priory, you are very welcome to speak to Rev. Leoma about it.\nThe Priory is part of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, and members of the Order are governed by its rules. If you would rather speak to someone outside the Priory, there are a number of ways of doing this within the framework of the Order, which are described below.\nThe Order\u2019s Ethics Procedures\nThe OBC\u2019s full statement regarding ethics is available here:\nOur Ethical Intentions and Resolving a Concern\nThis page describes several ways in which you can raise an ethical concern, including details of who to approach. It outlines the Order\u2019s procedures for dealing with complaints, and for investigating ethical and disciplinary matters. It also has a link to contact details, for each country in which the Order has a temple, of people who you can contact if your concern remains unresolved.\nIf you would like to contact Rev. Master Haryo, the head of the Order, you can do so here:\nHead of the Order Contact", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nwcvietnamconsulting.com/ho-chi-minh-citys-iconic-shopping-center-to-lend-facade-to-skyscraper-base/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LYNNYY3LUWUNFOCUD5NGDBHLR7SG2FCM", "length": 1701, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "nwcvietnamconsulting.com", "title": "Ho Chi Minh City's iconic shopping center to lend facade to skyscraper base - NWC Vietnam Consulting", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Press \u00bb Ho Chi Minh City\u2019s iconic shopping center to lend facade to skyscraper base\nThe Saigon Tax Trade Center, one of the last French colonial-era buildings remaining in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, will have its design fully retained as a 40-story skyscraper is built in its place, media reports said Monday.\nA file photo of the Saigon Tax Trade Center in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Trung Hieu\nThe bottom three floors of the skyscraper will be a faithful reproduction of the 91-year-old building\u2019s exterior.\nDeveloper Saigon Trading Group\u2019s design is awaiting approval of the city\u2019s authorities and local architects, news website Saigon Times Online said.\nThough the rest of the building would have a modern design, it would be \u201cin harmony\u201d with the heritage structure, the website quoted the developer as saying.\nA late 1920s-dated photo of the Grands Magasins Charner, now the Saigon Tax Trade Center. Photo credit: historicvietnam.com.\nInside the replica, parts of the old building such as its main lobby, grand staircase, bronze railings, and mosaic titles will be preserved.\nThe developer said highly experienced architecture firms from the US and UK have been signed up for designing the new building and providing consultancy for the project.\nThe shopping center was originally named the Grands Magasins Charner when it opened in 1924 with shops selling a range of things from toys to food and drinks.\nIn 1942 the three-storied shopping center was renovated with its dome replaced by the fourth story.\nIn 1960 its name was changed to the Saigon Tax Trade Center. When the Vietnam War ended in 1975 the city took it over before transferring it to the Saigon Trading Group in 1997.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oarlop.com/5308991142", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:10Z", "digest": "sha1:VAFOOO3IBSCDUCJ2CIWYGC2RZX5FL4Y5", "length": 1903, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "oarlop.com", "title": "(530) 899-1142", "raw_content": "I shouldn't have said that. May the gods and goddesses always bless you. I'll be there on the fifth of June. Marcia seems a little worried. Everybody must be subject to law. I can do just about anything I want to do. I can't remember my password. Luckily nobody was seriously injured.\nMy headache is finally gone. I could tell that Sofia was in a lot of pain. She was ready to face her fate. Please let me explain. Don't put any sugar in my coffee.\nJane went to the bank to take out some money. No brandished a shotgun on Holly. This purse is made of paper. Vote for my pic! If you need me, I'll be in my room. Radek has no idea how his behaviour affects others.\nIt was wise of you to ask him for help. Her son's death broke her heart. My ears are frostbitten. Is it fifth period?\nThe fireworks were set off on all sides. I'll be there tomorrow. I'm fine, thanks for asking. Ken will be fifteen next year. No one was present. If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings. Are there many foreigners here? Merton was discreet. The present housing policy is likely to come up against considerable opposition. Carter is giving a party tonight.\nYou're going with me, aren't you? Can you take me to her? I remember posting this letter. I sent you a note. The leaves fall to the earth in autumn. I'd like to apply for a job. Don't go into that area. 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I am reading this sentence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://occasionalwitness.com/Articles/20100806.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:40Z", "digest": "sha1:XV6BLOPCCD5YMVGWSSE54WR6P7DVS6EQ", "length": 3377, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "occasionalwitness.com", "title": "Sudan's AEC voices concern over delays in Abyei's referendum body and border demarcation", "raw_content": "Sudan's AEC voices concern over delays in Abyei's referendum body and border demarcation\n6 August 2010 (Sudan Tribune)\nSir Derek Plumbly, chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC), a body tasked with monitoring and supporting the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), has raised concerns over delays in forming the Referendum Commission of Abyei region as well as the standstill to which the demarcation of north-south borders has come.\nThe CPA is the name given to the peace deal that ended two decades of civil war between north and south Sudan in 2005. Under the agreement, the predominantly Christian and animist south has been granted autonomous rule with a plebiscite due in January 2011 to decide whether to remain united with the north or secede to form an independent state.\nIn a speech he delivered before members of Sudan's National Assembly in the afternoon of Thursday, 5 August, Plumbly spoke about a wide range of subjects regarding the CPA implementation. He said that the fact that Abyei Referendum Commission is yet to be appointed was \"a matter of real concern,\" warning that this existing situation contributes to \"increased insecurity\" in the disputed region.\n\"The Abyei referendum is timed in the CPA to coincide precisely with that of the people of the South, and it is therefore a matter of real concern that the Abyei Referendum Commission has not yet been appointed.\" he said, adding that \"the lack of forward movement on Abyei, despite the PCA ruling last year, is contributing to increased insecurity there.\"\nThe residents of the oil-rich region of Abyei, often called \"the Kashmir of Sudan\", are due to vote in a referendum simultaneous with that of the south to decide whether to join the latter or become part of the north.\nDisputes over the region's boundaries led the CPA partners to resort to the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration which ruled that the region's boundaries be redefined.\nSimilarly, Plumbly has underlined the importance of political actions to finalize the demarcation of north-south borders.\n\"Action at the political level to resolve these outstanding questions without further delay, in addition to continuing technical work to survey and demarcate the line on the ground, is clearly now of the utmost importance,\" he told parliamentarians.\nThe demarcation of north-south borders, where most of Sudan's oil lies, remains stalled, stoking fears of a possible return to war should the south opts for secession.\nIn contrast, Plumbly expressed satisfaction with the popular consultation process in southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, telling his audience that the AEC was impressed by \"the evident seriousness with which the process is being taken locally; and by the quality of the partnership between the parties in both states.\"\nPlumbly also said he had \"no doubt\" that the remaining provisions of the CPA could be completed before the end of the Interim Period, explaining that his confidence stems from his belief that \"nobody in Sudan wants to see a return to conflict\" and that he was \"struck by the extent to which mutual self-interest and interdependence point in the positive direction\".\nPlumbly concluded his address by stating that the remaining phases in the CPA would \"require accelerated effort, an enhanced intensity of engagement and a renewed spirit of accommodation\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://occasionalwitness.com/Articles/20111111a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EVZDZ7D2P2ICWWVTGH2WAEYSDAFN42ZC", "length": 5896, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "occasionalwitness.com", "title": "Sudan denies its citizens taking refuge in south, US says bombing denial \u2018blatant lie\u2019", "raw_content": "Sudan denies its citizens taking refuge in south, US says bombing denial \u2018blatant lie\u2019\nSudan went on the defense a day after reports of an aerial bombardment conducted by its air force on a refugee camp inside the borders of South Sudan which drew strong rebuke from the White House and rights groups.\nThe assault, which took place on Thursday by Antonov bombers, targeted Yida refugee camp in South Sudan\u2019s Unity state, which houses thousands of civilians who escaped the fighting in South Kordofan between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N).\nSouth Sudan officials claimed twelve people were killed and seriously injured 20 others. However, aid groups on the ground denied any casualties although they confirmed the bombings.\nSenior United Nations officials today including Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Herv\u00e9 Ladsous and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Hilde Johnson confirmed the incident in their briefings to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).\nLadsous said that at least two bombs were dropped near the camp, while Johnson reported two bombs fell inside the camp and three outside. Neither of the two UN officials gave any casualty figures.\nThe UN peacekeeping chief warned of further escalation in the region.\n\u201cIt is absolutely imperative that both governments take the necessary steps to de-escalate the situation, ensure that civilian lives are protected, and resume peaceful dialogue,\u201d Ladsous said.\nThe Sudanese UN ambassador, Dafalla Haj Osman vehemently denied that SAF carried out any bombings inside their southern neighbour\u2019s territories.\n\"There is no aerial bombardment; we did not exercise any kind of military activity outside our borders,\" he told reporters following the UNSC session on Sudan.\nAsked about confirmation from the BBC and Reuters correspondents at the scene, the Sudanese envoy suggested that the two are \u2019biased media\u2019 outlets that are favouring rebels.\nThe Sudanese diplomat criticised the UNMISS chief saying he had hoped that she would be impartial in her report to the UNSC and reflecting on her role as a mediator during the North-South peace talks which led to the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).\nHe described Johnson\u2019s remarks today as someone who is an attorney working on behalf of South Sudan.\nOsman reiterated accusations that the South Sudanese government is providing support to SPLM-N fighters in South Kordofan, as well as Blue Nile state where the SAF is battling the rebels.\nHe referred to the Kauda alliance signed between SPLM-N and Darfur rebels, inked this year with the stated goal of toppling the regime in Khartoum. The latter has accused South Sudan of helping in bringing the parties together.\nSouth Sudan\u2019s acting UN representative, David Buom Choat, rejected the allegations.\n\u201cWe have not supported anybody that is fighting Sudan,\u201d Choat said. \u201cBut it has been the attitude of the Republic of Sudan to always blame others for their own problems.\u201d\nThis week South Sudan\u2019s president, Salva Kiir, slammed his northern counterpart, Omer Hassan al-Bashir\u2019s public threat of war against his country in retaliation to support he said the new nation is providing to SPLM-N rebels battling Khartoum.\nThe US ambassador at the UN, Susan Rice, dismissed Osman\u2019s assertions.\n\u201cThis is not the only such bombing in recent days, but it is incontrovertible. And the fact that the representative of the government of Sudan came to the Council and blatantly lied is quite disturbing to the United States and to many other members of the Security Council,\u201d Rice said.\n\u201cThis is a moment where both sides need to show maximum restraint. In the first instance, the government of Sudan needs to halt all offensive actions against the south immediately and the south needs to have the wisdom and restraint not to take the bait and not to respond in kind,\u201d she added.\nShe also suggested that the UNSC will be scrutinising the recent developments.\n\u201cWe will be talking about ways that, as a Council, collectively and individually as member states, we might prevail on the parties to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table and resolve the critical issues that divide them that can only be addressed through negotiations,\u201d the US official said.\nWashington is drafting a UNSC statement condemning the bombing, which it hopes the 15-nation body will adopt on Tuesday in New York, council diplomats told Reuters. It is not clear of the draft directly blames Khartoum for the attack.\nIn Khartoum the Sudanese foreign ministry spokesperson, Al-Obaid Marawih said that no refugee camps exist in South Sudan for Sudanese citizens.\nMarawih said there are actually gatherings or camps of rebels which could easily be confirmed by the UN Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).\nSouth Sudan seceded from the north in July after a referendum held last January showed an overwhelming majority of Southerners favouring their own state.\nDespite early optimism on cordial relations between the two neighbours, hopes were dashed when Khartoum and Juba exchanged accusations over support to rebel groups on both sides of the borders.\nThe two countries are still in negotiations on a wide array of post-secession issues such as borders, Abyei, oil, national debt that were supposed to have been concluded prior to the breakup.\nMeanwhile, the top officials in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an investigation into the attack saying it could amount to a war crime.\n\u201cThere needs to be an independent, thorough and credible investigation to establish the precise circumstances of this aerial bombing,\u201d said OHCHR head Navi Pillay.\n\u201cIf indeed it is established that an international crime or serious human rights violation has been committed, then those responsible should be brought to justice,\u201d Pillay added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 6171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://occupyourhomes.org/blog/2012/jun/13/atl-bizarre-behaviors-sheriff-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VQT22DD4NGGBAFRD3RKCDRG43IQGPKTR", "length": 4871, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "occupyourhomes.org", "title": "OccupyOurHomes.org | Atlanta: Bizarre Behaviors of Sheriff Brown", "raw_content": "Atlanta: Bizarre Behaviors of Sheriff Brown\nFrom Occupy Our Homes Atlanta:\nJune 11th played out like a soap opera for those involved in Occupy Atlanta actions. The story starts however over a month ago when the Dekalb County Sheriff\u2019s Department startled a senior woman out of her bed. They informed her that she had to leave her home of 18 years and take her elderly mother along with the rest of her family and whatever she could grab on the way out with her. Although the family showed no signs of resistance and posed absolutely no threat they were met with 40 armed Sheriff Deputies swarming the house from all possible directions. All of the family\u2019s belongings were then strewed across not only their lawn, but that of the neighbors.\nAfter rushing to get the homeowner, Christine Frazer, settled into a temporary living space it was time to let the Sheriff know that everyone had in NO WAY forgotten that he was the one that made the call to force this family on to the streets at 3 a.m. On May 7th there was a demonstration at the Sheriff\u2019s Office where many of the discarded items from the eviction were relocated from the Frazer\u2019s lawn on Wellhaun Road to the Sheriff department\u2019s lawn. As those that fought to defend Christine\u2019s home were leaving the demonstration a few of them were tailed, pulled over, handcuffed, and put into police cars all without being given any explanation as to why they were being detained. One demonstrator was immediately released then given a citation for littering while another was given the same citation after being hauled down to the Dekalb County Jail and the vehicle towed away for \u201cinvestigation\u201d. Surprisingly, Sheriff Thomas Brown got on television stating that he would not take action against those involved in the protest since no officers were hurt and no property was damaged.\nStill, after repeated bullying and lies on behalf of the Sheriff\u2019s office, things died down. Then weeks later, on May 29th, Sheriff Brown decided to take yet another step and sent officers out to visit several activists at their homes. Some [homes] of which were far out of Dekalb county sheriff\u2019s jurisdiction just to hand deliver 3 citations a piece regarding their actions at the May 7th protest. The citations charged demonstrators for littering, disorderly conduct, and creating hazardous conditions all of which the people know the Sheriff\u2019s department are guilty of. Another action was soon organized. Things started looking up when on June 6th, less than a week away from the action, Brown reached out to Senator Beasley and an Occupy Atlanta organizer expressing regret about the fashion in which he executed the Frazer\u2019s eviction. He went on to say he\u2019d like to donate to Christine\u2019s legal defense fund and meet with her in person to not only receive a People\u2019s Citation but apologize for his distastefulness.\nJune 11th a \u201cPeople\u2019s Court\u201d was held right outside Sheriff Brown\u2019s office where individuals testified against Brown and showed evidence of his wrong doing. A few were allowed in his office as promised but the mood quickly changed once the Sheriff entered the room. Instead of Ms. Frazer receiving what could have been at least vague traces of an apology she was repeatedly insulted by the man who was elected by the people of her county to defend them. He went as far as to not only retract his apologies about the 3 a.m eviction but added that, \u201d it wasn\u2019t a difficult decision to make in the first place but if I had to do it again I would.\u201d When Ms. Frazer\u2019s Lawyer, Joshua Davis, expressed to him the status of the court case on the home he simply replied that he had misinformation. After a drawn out meeting that only resulted in Ms. Frazer\u2019s tears and her losing all faith in this elected official the demonstrators peacefully left the premises.\nAs one group of demonstrators were making their way home their vehicle was immediately surrounded by law enforcement forcing everyone out. Upping the level of police intimidation they targeted the individual that presented the evidence at the \u201cPeople\u2019s Court\u201d just an hour earlier. They asked him to take off his hat, pull up his t-shirt, and then proceeded to film his tattoos. After a half an hour of mindless scare tactics one member of the group attempted to end it by simply leaving the situation but was then told that if he proceeded to do so they would detain the fellow activist. Everyone was released shortly after but though a bit traumatized by the days events and Sheriff Thomas Brown\u2019s bizarre behavior. At a time when activists hoped for de escalation Sheriff Brown\u2019s arrogance and lack of empathy for those prayed upon by unethical banking and investment practices will only mean further friction between protestors and the Sheriff.\nMN & Philly Take Action at PNC for the Cruz Family\nAt Senate Hearing, Jamie Dimon confronted by Occupy Our Homes DC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oilkings.ca/article/oil-kings-announce-changes-to-coaching-staff", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MZQDXV6A2XS4TEMWHLJS55ZZCVWG4VSW", "length": 513, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "oilkings.ca", "title": "Oil Kings Announce Changes to Coaching Staff \u2013 Edmonton Oil Kings", "raw_content": "Oil Kings Announce Changes to Coaching Staff\nThe Edmonton Oil Kings have announced today that Head Coach Steve Hamilton has been relieved of his position and Assistant Coach Ryan Marsh\u2019s contract has not been renewed with the Oil Kings and will not be returning next season.\nOilers President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Peter Chiarelli said, \u201cWe want to wish Steve and Ryan success in their future endeavours. Both served the Oil Kings well but we felt that it was time to retool the coaching staff.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://omsa.squarespace.com/blog/2014/2/17/vitals-student-wellness-project", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZY7U3JM4AR6Q3GWE6ZO737YYJFW52DQ6", "length": 1833, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "omsa.squarespace.com", "title": "Vitals Student Wellness Project \u2014 OMSA", "raw_content": "In medical school it is easy to get caught up in the learning and involvement, not taking time to care for yourself. The culture is also one of toughness, so there is apprehension in asking for help or using the resources available. When you do look for resources, it can be difficult to find them, clicking through the many layers of university websites or sifting through all the community resources.\nWith the help of an Innovator Grant from the OMSA the Vitals Student Wellness Project was created at Western University. This project looked to address some of these shortcomings. Since last spring we have worked with established campus and student groups to design a project centralizing wellness resources for students in medical training. To simplify access we designed a mobile friendly website westernvitals.ca which is divided into the topics of school, home, wellness and crisis. Within these there are subtopics, each with a set of suggestions, resources and contacts. The site has a unique and welcoming voice to encourage use and is organized to allow exploration of community and on campus resources.\nAlong with the website Vitals has been involved in the mental health day of O-week, hosting multiple workshops, promoting student wellness and distribution of safety & support contact cards to students.\nThe website and project will be expanding in years to come and would not have been possible without the support of the OMSA. If you have a project in mind and want to get it off the ground we encourage you to apply for an Innovator Grant.\n[Editor's Note] For more information on the Innovator Grant, including how to apply, please visit https://omsa.squarespace.com/innovator-grant/ The deadline for this year's application is February 21, 2014\nFebruary 07, 2014 / Blog Editor/ 1 Comment\ninitiatives, wellness, blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://opc.org/nh.html?article_id=938&pfriendly=Y&ret=L25oLmh0bWw%2FYXJ0aWNsZV9pZD05Mzg%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IZYMHPO5L65TFIVKM24KQVQ5HCGUYGSJ", "length": 14373, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "opc.org", "title": "The Orthodox Presbyterian Church", "raw_content": "John Calvin and the Directory for the Public Worship of God\nIt can be argued that John Calvin is among the most important liturgists in the history of the Christian church. Indeed, I have attempted to make the case that his Genevan Psalter of 1542 and its Form of Church Prayers established a norm for worship.\nThe Form\u2019s stress on the ordinary means of grace (word, prayer, sacraments), its emphasis on preaching and congregational singing, its elimination of extra-biblical ceremonies, and its relative simplicity and austerity, have had a decisive influence on all subsequent worship, whether Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Anglican, or even post-Vatican II Roman Catholic.\nIn contrast, the most important document among English-speaking Presbyterians, the Westminster Assembly\u2019s Directory of the Public Worship of God (1645), has often been treated by scholars as a liturgical wrong-turn, a devolution, even dismissed contemptuously as being \u201cthe only liturgy to consist entirely of rubrics.\u201d Among some conservative Presbyterians who care about well-ordered and reverent worship, it has been regarded as inferior to, if not a betrayal of, the pattern of worship established by Calvin.\nHowever, I would argue that the Directory stands in continuity with Calvin\u2019s Form and, indeed, represents true development from and even improvement upon the Genevan standard. The Directory, if properly utilized, is a superior guide to the worship of the Reformed church, over Calvin\u2019s Form.\nContinuity with the Form of Church Prayers\nWhat does the Directory maintain that was standardized by Calvin\u2019s Form? It maintains the basic elements that are characteristic of Reformed worship and does so in detail. The Directory is deeply indebted to its continental predecessor for the following: a full diet of biblical prayer; expository preaching; Scripture reading; psalm-singing; and administration of two sacraments. To these elements it adds nothing.\nThe Directory, like the Form, disallows extraneous ceremony and ritual, unauthorized postures and gestures, and extra-biblical symbols. Only \u201csuch things as are of divine institution\u201d are allowed. Both the Directory and Form eliminate the various liturgical responses of congregation in the medieval mass (usually spoken by priests or monks). The sanctus (\u201cHoly, holy, holy Lord\u2026\u201d), Kyrie eleison (\u201cLord have mercy, Christ have mercy), Gloria (\u201cGlory to God in the highest\u2026\u201d), Sursum corda (\u201cLift up your hearts\u201d), and other congregational responses (e.g. to the greeting, to Scripture readings), have been eliminated. In the Reformed service the congregation responds by singing. Calvin\u2019s Form has more fixed elements: the Creed and liturgical prayers being two examples, while the Directory recommends only the use of the Lord\u2019s Prayer. Yet the basic elements are the same, resulting in a worship that is spiritual, simple, and recognizably of the same liturgical family.\nThe most obvious distinction between the Directory and Calvin\u2019s Form can be found in the fact that the Westminster Divines produced a directory and not a liturgy of set prayers. Some explanation is in order. Yet before doing so we should note that six basic prayers of Calvin\u2019s Form are present in the Directory\u2019s model (invocation, confession, thanksgiving, intercession, illumination, and benediction), and even the five-fold intercessions are evident (sanctification of the saints, Christian mission, civil authority, the church\u2019s ministry, and the sick). This is substantial continuity, yet with positive development. The Directory\u2019s prayers are considerably richer, fuller, and deeper than those of Calvin\u2019s Form. Nearly one-third of the entire document is devoted to prayer. Who can fail to be moved by the Directory\u2019s expansive model prayers for before and after a sermon?\nStill, why a Directory rather than a set Form? Because the \u201clong and sad experience\u201d had proven that an imposed liturgy would suffocate spiritual vitality. Uniformity was sought, but not the limiting word-for-word uniformity of set prayers. Unity was the goal, but not a unity that stifled the work of the Holy Spirit. Calvin expresses the same concern for freedom, but not to the same degree. While not opposed to set prayers in principle, the concern for the exercise of the gift of prayer was paramount among the Westminster Puritans. The \u201cPreface\u201d to the Directory complains of \u201cthe reading of all the prayers\u201d and the resulting \u201cidle and unedifying ministry, which contented itself with set forms made to their hands by others, without putting forth themselves to exercise the gift of prayer.\u201d[1]\nThis concern for free prayer persisted. It reappeared years later in the Presbyterians\u2019 \u201cExceptions Against the Book of Common Prayer\u201d presented to the Anglican Bishops in May of 1661. They urged that in a revised prayer book the liturgy not be \u201ctoo rigorously imposed; nor the minister so confined thereunto, but that he may also make use of those gifts for prayer and exhortation\u201d that Christ has given to the church.[2] When rebuffed and faced with the prospect of praying \u201cin no words but are in the Common Prayer book,\u201d they bitterly complained of the \u201cbrevity, ineptness, and the customariness\u201d of those prayers and of their inevitable impact of taking \u201coff the edge of fervor with human nature\u201d and of preventing the \u201cenlargedness, copiousness, and freedom as is necessary to true fervor.\u201d They maintained that \u201cA brief, transient touch and away, is not enough to warm the heart aright; and cold prayers are likely to have a cold return\u2026.\u201d The resulting uniformity would produce unity, but this would be \u201cto cure the disease by the extinguishing of life, and to unite us all in a dead religion.\u201d[3]\nAgain, they were not opposed to liturgy or set prayers or fixed forms. The preface to the Directory complains of \u201cthe reading of all prayers\u201d\u2014not just some prayers but all, robbing the prayers of the church of urgency, fervor, and specificity. The models of prayer supplied by the Directory could be and indeed were turned into actual prayers as early as 1645 with the publication of A Supply of Prayer for Ships, intended for circumstances when no minister, that is, no one with the gift of prayer, was available. Rather, they urged in their \u201cExceptions\u201d in 1661, \u201cWe would avoid the extreme that would have no forms, and the contrary extreme that would have nothing but forms.\u201d[4] It was essential to the English Puritans throughout their history that place be given to free prayers, that the gift of prayer might be exercised. Alexander Mitchell (1822\u20131899) is right to clarify that \u201cnothing was further from their intentions than to encourage unpremeditated or purely extemporary effusions.\u201d[5] Rather, \u201cthey intended the exercise of prayer to be matter of thought, meditation, preparation and prayer, equally with the preaching of the word.\u201d[6]\nLiturgical scholar Horton Davies regards the Directory as \u201ca notable attempt to combine the spontaneity of free prayer with the advantages of an ordered context or framework of worship.\u201d Indeed, \u201cIt aimed at avoiding the deadening effect of a reiterated liturgy as also the pitfall of extempore prayer\u2014the disordered meanderings of the minister.\u201d This latitude is a positive development from Calvin\u2019s Form. The Directory allows both types of prayers, and yet, says Davies, \u201cis itself the direct lineage of the Calvinist liturgies.\u201d[7]\nThe Directory not only descends from but improves its Genevan predecessor. Hughes O. Old points out that the Westminster Puritans \u201cdeveloped a number (of other) insights of the sixteenth-century Reformers in a most positive manner.\u201d[8] Indeed, in many ways the Directory is superior to Calvin\u2019s Form. Note the following twelve features:\n1. The Directory provides several paragraphs addressing the congregation\u2019s preparation, attitude, and behavior in worship; the Form has no such directions.\n2. The Directory provides a model invocation. Calvin\u2019s Form has no invocation beyond Psalm 124:8. It provides no model for the opening prayer of praise. Hughes Old classifies the Directory\u2019s invocation as among the \u201cmost mature devotional insights\u201d that Protestant theology produced.[9]\n3. The Directory includes substantial prayer both before and after the sermon; the Form envisions only the prayer of illumination prior to the sermon. Old finds that the \u201csense for the full range of prayer found implicitly in the Strasburg and Genevan psalters is elaborated explicitly in the Westminster Directory for Worship.\u201d[10]\n4. The Directory commends only one fixed form, the Lord\u2019s Prayer, yet it does not forbid the moderate use of creeds and written prayers, leaving the decision to use or not use to individual pastors and churches.\n5. The Directory provides substantial and specific directions for Scripture reading (canonical books only, one chapter of each Testament in each service, lectio continua, read by the ministers, etc.); the Form has no directions at all.\n6. The Directory includes classic directions for preaching of which Calvin\u2019s Form has no parallel. Indeed, B. B. Warfield calls the Directory\u2019s instructions \u201ca complete homiletical treatise.\u201d[11]\n7. The Directory includes the requirement that there be a communion preparatory service that \u201call may come better prepared to that heavenly feast.\u201d[12] Indeed, Mitchell argues that \u201cthe materials of the preliminary exhortation supply the outlines of one of the most complete and impressive addresses to be found in any of the Reformed Agenda.\u201d[13]\n8. Old cites the Directory\u2019s superior communion epiclesis, in which the minister calls upon the Holy Spirit\nto sanctify these elements both of bread and wine, and to bless his own ordinance, that we may receive by faith the body and blood of Jesus Christ consecrated for us, and so feed upon him, that he may be one with us, and we one with him.[14]\nThe continental Reformers invoked the Holy Spirit, Old notes, \u201cbut in nothing like the fullness we find here.\u201d[15]\n9. The Directory requires a collection for the poor following the post-communion thanksgiving. This too, says Old, \u201chad been an important aspect of the eucharistic piety of Continental Reformed churches,\u201d but rarely specified in liturgical documents as it was in the Directory.[16] Mitchell\u2019s view is that the Directory\u2019s communion service as a whole is \u201cmore complete in all that such a service should embrace than any similar office either in the reformed or the ancient church.\u201d[17]\n10. The Directory includes a more fully developed covenantal theology, as evidenced in the baptismal administration with multiple references to the \u201ccovenant\u201d or \u201ccovenant of grace,\u201d and baptism\u2019s \u201csealing\u201d function.[18]\n11. The Directory includes a baptismal invocation, the minister offering a prayer \u201cfor sanctifying the water for this spiritual use.\u201d[19] D. B. Forrester, assessing the Directory\u2019s handling of the sacraments, notes that \u201cthe sections on baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper have attracted favorable comment from liturgists of many traditions.\u201d[20]\n12. The Directory includes far more substantial guidance for both the \u201cSolemnization of Marriage\u201d and the \u201cVisitation of the Sick.\u201d\nInfluence of the Directory\nWilliam D. Maxwell and many other liturgical scholars have been overly critical of the impact of the Directory and its Puritan originators. He speaks of the result being bare worship becoming \u201cbarer still.\u201d[21]\nWarfield, for his part, leaves us with a happier assessment. He commends the Directory \u201cfor the emphasis it places upon what is specifically commanded in the Scriptures,\u201d for its \u201clofty and spiritual\u201d tone, for its \u201csober and restrained\u201d conception of acceptable worship that is \u201cat the same time profound and rich.\u201d \u201cThe paradigms of prayers which it offers,\u201d Warfield says, \u201care notably full and yet free from overelaboration, compressed and yet enriched by many reminiscences of the best models which had preceded them.\u201d\nThe Word of God, read and preached, is given the prominence it deserves \u201cas a means, perhaps we should say the means, of grace.\u201d Warfield finds the paragraph on preaching to be \u201cremarkable at once for its sober practical sense and its profound spiritual wisdom,\u201d and thinks it \u201csuffused with a tone of sincere piety, and of zeal at once for the truth and for the souls which are to be bought with the truth.\u201d He finds the Directory \u201cnotable for its freedom from petty prescriptions and \u2018superfluities.\u2019 \u201d In summary, the Directory \u201ccan scarcely fail to commend itself as an admirable set of agenda, in spirit and matter alike well fitted to direct the public services of a great church.\u201d[22]\nThis is high praise from one of the greatest theologians and historians of the Reformed church. The Directory is, indeed, a worthy and faithful successor of Calvin the liturgist and his normative Form of Church Prayers.\n[1] Westminster Confession of Faith (Glasgow: Free Presbyterian, 1976), 373, 374.\n[2] Timothy J. Fawcett, The Liturgy of Comprehension, 1689: An Abortive Attempt to Revise the Book of Common Prayer (Mayhew-McCrimmon Ltd., 1973), 2 (my emphasis).\n[3] Horton Davies, The Worship of the English Puritans (1948; Soli Deo Gloria, 1997), 154.\n[5] Alexander Mitchell, The Westminster Assembly: Its History and Standards; Being the Baird Lecture for 1882 (1883; Stillwater Revival, 1992), 228.\n[7] Davies, Worship of the English Puritans, 141.\n[8] Hughes O. Old, Worship That Is Reformed according to Scripture (1984; Westminster John Knox, 2004), 137.\n[9] Hughes O. Old, Themes and Variations for Christian Doxology: Some Thoughts on the Theology of Worship (William B. Eerdmans, 1992), 37.\n[10] Old, Worship, 173 (my emphasis).\n[11] B. B. Warfield, The Westminster Assembly and Its Work (Oxford University Press, 1932), 52.\n[12] Directory, 384.\n[13] Mitchell, The Westminster Assembly, 234.\n[15] Old, Worship, 138.\n[18] See also Shorter Catechism Q/A 92, 94; Larger Catechism Q/A 162, 165, 167, 174, 176; Westminster Confession of Faith XXVII.1; XXVIII.1.\n[20] D. B. Forrester, \u201cWorship,\u201d in Directory of Scottish Church History and Theology (InterVarsity, 1993), 846.\n[21] William D. Maxwell, A History of Worship in the Church of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 1955), 106, 107.\n[22] Warfield, Westminster Assembly, 51, 52\nThe author, a minister in the PCA, is senior pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia. New Horizons, January 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 14996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oralhistorycentre.ca/tutorials", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7HXEELTAWS77SYRNWGZKBH7LVCMYIU5C", "length": 566, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "oralhistorycentre.ca", "title": "Tutorials | Oral History Centre", "raw_content": "The U of W Oral History Centre, Community Radio Fund of Canada, CKUW 95.9 FM and Train Yard Studios partnered to create a series of technical tutorials pertaining to field recording and...\nTape Machine is a simple sound recording and editing software app for the android smart phone. 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It\u2019s a versatile program...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://outofthebox-international.org/news/where-are-you-erasmus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FZWNBVIGDK36VHWTJNEOPDJCJ4DR5BG5", "length": 7434, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "outofthebox-international.org", "title": "Where are you Erasmus plus ? | Out of the Box International", "raw_content": "Where are you Erasmus plus ?\nS&D Conference \u201cErasmus+ Programme and its implementation\u201d\nThe Story of making Europe united through studying, training and working opportunities\nErasmus+ Programme, the new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sports after two years of implementation has been discussed in a public debate, which took place on October 21 in the European Parliament, Brussels. This unique initiative of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament as the host turned into a dialogue between several stakeholders for effective implementation of one of the most successful EU Programmes.\nIt was the event of the month for the European Civil Society and Youth organizations, as they could give their first impressions about the programme and discuss possible solutions for the challenges. The room was packed with enthusiastic participants as well as 12 representatives of the European Commission, 15 members of the European Parliament and 170 delegates from different stakeholders such as the National Agencies, students, teachers, youth organisations, young athletes, volunteers and other beneficiaries willing to exchange ideas on the successes and failures of Erasmus+.\nOut of the Box Programme Director Marko Paunovic was the moderator of this public debate. This article represents the summery of the most important conclusions at the event, for all those who could not follow it directly.\nThe conference started with the opening speech of Petra Kammerevert, MEP and coordinator of the education and culture committee, speaking of the improvements in Erasmus+ Programme and its importance for EU.\nAs the programme has proved to be working well, the conference was organized in order to discuss and exchange ideas about aspects which are not working so well in the implementation through an open dialogue. Silvia Costa, MEP and the chair of the Parliament\u2019s education and culture committee mentioned the involvement of 33 countries and more than 3 million beneficiaries of the Erasmus+ programme who have the chance for mobility to study, gain new skills and competences as well as their employment opportunities and other benefits. Regarding the unemployment rate of Erasmus participants it is approximately 23% lower than among young people outside the programme. Moreover, she spoke of the importance of complete recognition of skills and competences of formal and non-formal education that is gained through the Erasmus+ programme and needs to be ensured. Lastly, Ms. Martine Reicherts, the director of Commission\u2019s Culture and Education department (DG EAC), commented on the improvements in new budget for 2014-2020 and the increase in the number of beneficiaries and new opportunities. The potential of the programme to overcome the existing challenges that EU is facing was also discussed, as well as the importance of formal and non-formal education for employment, inclusion and welcoming refugees in our society. Finally, she concluded that some improvements in implementation to overcome IT problems, several pages of forms, complexity of procedures and other challenges commission are already underway.\nDuring the first part of the interactive discussion session of the conference the comparison between the old and new programme was discussed by the participants. The positive aspects mentioned were the increased budget and more opportunities, number of events as well as the number of beneficiaries and compared to giving stronger possibilities for education and cross border mobility. Many stakeholders also emphasized the necessity to use the brand names coming out from the previous programmes, such as \u2018Youth in Action\u2019, \u2018Grundvig\u2019, \u2018Leonardo da Vinci\u2019, to which the European Commission confirmed dedication to use those brands in order to promote programme as a whole.\nDuring the second part, main challenges were discussed. The participants stated the programme was not enough user friendly not only in terms of IT but also when it comes to the complexity of the e-forms and transparent information on allocated budgets and procedures as well as evaluation and feedback systems. The decentralization of the programme to national level causes several problems, duplication of similar projects, innovation projects and exchange of good practices at European perspective and especially for fewer opportunities for Brussels based international organizations in particular for Key Action 2. Furthermore, the number of deadlines and complexity of applications as well as lacking the opportunities from the old programme for local and especially new organizations to benefit from the programme such as Key Action 1. The differences within the national agencies and lack of coordination and changes in approaches were some of the main challenges practitioners have faced so far.\nThe third part of the day was dedicated to improvements for more effective implementation of Erasmus+ Programme. The participants discussed proposals on harmonization and coordination between national agencies regarding both procedures by defining standards and being more transparent as well as more easily accessible information on available budgets per Key Actions. Despite the success of decentralization of KA1, the centralization of management KA2 projects at EACEA level, considering the limited amount of resources, was one of the main proposals. The previously known labels of the programme such as Youth in Action and others, and their extensive use will simplify and increase the usability of such complex and advanced sectorial programme. Having user friendly procedures both in e-forms and contracts will encourage possible beneficiaries to develop new projects and more importantly encourage them to participate in the programme, which is one of the main aims of the EU Programme. In respect to this, the realistic cost rates and flexibility in management costs such as travel rates for beneficiaries from remote areas,possibility to contract more staff and elimination of the % 20 contribution from non-profit organizations in sports activities would make the programme more accessible for beneficiaries with fewer opportunities and specific needs. The proposal for policy priorities of the programme in order to foster coherence of policy making and use of EU finding and the importance of Erasmus+ to overcome challenges on issues such as radicalization, exclusion that others should be taken into account. Finally, as one of the biggest challenges EU facing today, Erasmus+ has to play bigger role in inclusion of refugees and define educational corridor such as adult education, language classes, volunteering opportunities, trainings and many others to integrate them with skills and competences.\nAs the final remarks, both EC representatives and MEPs mentioned the importance of open and continuous dialogue on effective implementation of Erasmus+ Programme and the key role on education and employment links that the programme provides. The proposals will provide contribution to implementation report, as well as the mid-term review planned for December 2017. In the end the moderator Marko Paunovic emphasized the importance and success of Erasmus+ in bringing Europe closer together for better future withholding that it clearly needs improvements for more effective implementation.\nThe audio verson of the conference is available in English.\nUfuk Bal & Administrative office", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 11269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pakar-info.blogspot.com/2011/02/lower-prices-for-car-insurance-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:UHRBERNMIQITP3646UJRHPCZWP3SPIJH", "length": 3106, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pakar-info.blogspot.com", "title": "lower prices for car insurance of younger people |car news|car reviews|car insurance", "raw_content": "lower prices for car insurance of younger people : Right after a teenager gets his license, he has no other choice but to purchase young persons car insurance. 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Thanks a lot for sharing it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 8361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pasichllp.com/pasich-llp-named-one-of-the-2018-top-boutiques-by-the-daily-journal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHIUGK7WM4PEZGHQFJ6K5BU2LB7Q3YJC", "length": 768, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "pasichllp.com", "title": "Pasich LLP named one of the 2018 \u201cTop Boutiques\u201d by the Daily Journal |", "raw_content": "Pasich LLP named one of the 2018 \u201cTop Boutiques\u201d by the Daily Journal\nPasich LLP is named among one of the 2018 \u201cTop Boutiques\u201d by the Daily Journal. Pasich LLP, one of the 20 firms named to the prestigious list, was distinguished for its breadth of insurance recovery experience and handling of \u201csome of the country\u2019s highest-profile insurance recovery efforts for Fortune 500 firms such as AECOM, Northrup Grumman Corp., and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to entertainment and sports industry giants such as the Los Angeles Lakers and Lions Gate Entertainment.\u201d The Daily Journal noted that in addition to high profile litigations and clients, Pasich LLP focuses on building trusting relationships internally at the firm and externally with both clients and adversaries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pastorscott.com/travel/tag/tennessee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KSJVVHC7E53A5DHZU3BL2H7NVRRFNUXO", "length": 1967, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pastorscott.com", "title": "Tennessee | Here and There", "raw_content": "2018 \u2013 Agricenter RV Park \u2013 Memphis, TN\nWe stopped off for a long weekend stay on the east side of Memphis, TN at the Agricenter RV Park. The Agricenter hosts everything from Agriculture-related education to sports events. During our stay a corn maze was in operation, there was a Harvest Festival with Farmer\u2019s Market, plus an event in the sports arena. The campground is adjacent to all of this \u2013 just a few steps away.\nCampsites are long enough but very close side to side. To get an idea of just how crowded it could be one only needs to look at the section given over to long term residents. During our stay there was no one on either side of us so we had a reasonable amount of room. I confess that I was a bit concerned when, as I checked in I was cautioned to park fairly close to the power pedestal in case someone needed the site by our front door. Had someone taken that site we would have been face to face with hardly room to put an awning out. Judging from the campers around us, the plan is to use every other site for overnight campers. During busy times, though, the situation would be as crowded for overnighters as it is for long term residents.\nCampground WiFi was decent most of the time and there\u2019s a cell tower right on the property, giving us full scale Verizon 4G. There are no trees so satellite was easy enough. During hot summer months the campground must be pretty hot.\nEverything is handy with all kinds of shopping just minutes away. There\u2019s actually a steakhouse on the property and just across the street there\u2019s a well known BBQ restaurant named \u201cOne and Only.\u201d We tired the ribs there and I think they were the best I\u2019ve ever eaten.\nKnowing some of the negatives, I think I\u2019d still return to the Agricenter RV Park \u2013 not for a longer stay, but for another long weekend.\nTagged camping, review, Tennessee\nTagged Army Corps of Engineers, camping, review, Tennessee\nTagged history, National Park, nature, review, sightseeing, Tennessee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 9549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://patienceafloat.blogspot.com/2015/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:REEK5IUEWTIJX4N3HAVRU526RLPFVRJT", "length": 1843, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "patienceafloat.blogspot.com", "title": "Patience Afloat: July 2015", "raw_content": "The Bude Canal\nWhile walking another section of the South West Coast Path in North Cornwall, John stayed a couple of nights in the small coastal town of Bude and spent some time exploring the Bude Canal, another waterway that is inaccessible to Patience.\nThe sea lock in Bude\nThe non-tidal basin above the sea lock\nThe Bude Canal was completed in 1825 and ran from a sea lock (first photo) in Bude to Blagdon Moor Wharf near Holsworthy, with another branch to Launceston, a total length of approximately 35 miles. It was built to transport lime-rich sand from the beach to improve the condition of agricultural land in North Cornwall. A narrow gauge railway track (still visible) allowed the sand to be hauled up to the canal basin. The sand was then transported on the canal in iron tubs, which had wheels attached so that they could be hauled up a series of six water-powered inclined planes. In its final form, the sea lock had a length of 116 ft and a width of 29 ft 6 in and could accommodate sailing vessels of up to 300 tons, enabling the first stretch of the canal to be used as a non-tidal basin, a purpose that continues to this day (second photo). However, with competition from the railways and the introduction of chemical fertilisers, the remainder of the canal fell into disuse, apart from the first couple of miles at the seaward end. The sea lock underwent a major restoration project in 2000. More information can be found in the Bude Canal and Harbour Society website. As the sand was transported to the canal by a short narrow gauge railway and rails were used to lift the tubs up the inclined planes, it begs the question as to why rails weren't used along the whole route. Although steam locomotives were in their infancy in 1825, horse drawn tramways were well established by this time.\nLabels: Cornwall, inclined planes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://patriciadamery.com/liminality-hope/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5A6DYCVSOUA23U3CPFQCZ3XVFDCZ2UKM", "length": 3569, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "patriciadamery.com", "title": "Liminality... and Hope | Patricia Damery", "raw_content": "Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn\u2019t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering treatment. The old way no longer works, but the new hasn\u2019t materialized. Our Western-European culture has trouble with the liminal, not wanting to suffer the disorientation or discomfort. We often want to return to the old way by denying anything has occurred. Sometimes we often think we just need to \u201cadjust\u201d and everything will be okay. Too often we are supported in medicating ourselves with pharmaceutical drugs\u2014 or with the more recreational varieties to this end\u2014and miss the real soul opportunity.\nThe word liminal derives from the Latin limen, Limin-, threshold. Anthropologist Victor Turner described liminality as being the middle stage of a rite of passage ceremony in which the initiate is no longer of the old structure but the new has not yet come. Carl Jung offered a great deal in holding the tension of the liminal. Opposite feelings are recognized and suffered, even though this is intensely uncomfortable. If we are able to do this long enough and with enough consciousness, a new state may arrive that is something entirely different. This is the process of what Jung termed the transcendent function and it has an age old tradition in alchemy.\nWhen people come into psychotherapy in such a threshold state, I often tell them of a story I read in which Columbus turned his ship around twice in his explorations of the New World simply because he did not want to confront the implications of what such a discovery meant. Threshold experiences are hard! The maps of our world change! But we become larger and more whole if we can allow ourselves to take it in.\nConfronting Climate Change is a collective liminal experience with huge dimensions. Sailing back to the Old Word, expecting that temperatures and conditions will return to the old normal, or feeling that it doesn\u2019t matter what we do, it is out of our control\u2026 all of these are defenses to tolerating the excruciating liminal space of climate change. There are no promises of where it will lead, if humankind can remain on our planet. But following the pattern of the liminal archetype, tolerating the uncertainty, which also means keeping our eyes open to the changes, and to our own part in these changes, to our fears and our grief, all of this is our only hope of some new order which may include humans on our dear Planet Earth.\nThis does mean getting to know others who are willing to suffer the knowledge of the present. For me, doing something helps, and this has meant activism around preservation of the oak woodlands and implied watershed of the ridge I live on. I also have found several books which offer ways of tolerating what seems intolerable. Mary Pipher\u2019s book, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture, is one such book. Others include Marko Pogacnik\u2019s Gaia\u2019s Quantum Leap: a Guide to Living Through the Coming Earth Changes, and Dennis Klocek\u2019s Sacred Agriculture: The Alchemy of Biodynamics. The important thing is to develop your liminal community, not just sit alone with your fears and grief. Join others who are willing to stay conscious in this time that needs us so much. In the serpentine way of suffering, this community with like minds is also our hope of dreaming in that new structure that may support life on this planet for even us.\nFiled under: liminality\nTags: Carl Jung, climate change, hope, liminal, liminality, opposites, unknown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pauladams.org/blog/all_is_well_there_is_no_failure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YWLGZQBH7R5J5JI52JPOIDSLSUCNWHEP", "length": 5687, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pauladams.org", "title": "Paul Adams | Music, Meditation, thoughts, musings, arty things | Blog : Failure Rocketing You Past Limitation", "raw_content": "Failure is a Monster in the lore of human kind. It\u2019s the grand \"ogre\" bringing about frustration that eats at the soul. Another thing it is: AN OPEN GATE, a rocket ship and a new horizon. There is no such thing as failure unless not seen as your guide.\nIt happened years ago\u2026. an accident losing three fingers on my fretting hand. Mistake. Big screw up, error and the ultimate failure. In a nanosecond life changed. I was a musician and guitarist as well as instrument maker. Many surgeries and skin grafting from my leg by the wonderful Dr Stackable created what would have to suffice as rather unusual digits. However, this event may have propelled me even farther than I could have imagined. I found the courage to release my debut album Various Waves and it garnered placement in the top five of the year by the largest syndicated instrumental radio program in America. The show was glad to not hear the same phrasing so popular on the radio at that time. I laughed to myself that I tried to play like that, but could not physically do it. I had to find my own way of painting my musical pictures. The limitation imposed by my accident propelled me much farther than I would have gone before. There is a defining of character within ones limitation and/or failure. I have now completed 12 successful (Well, somewhat successful) albums, and this incident played a major role in coloring my musical path. This limitation propelled me past goals I thought unobtainable.\nWe\u2019re dropped on this planet with our own particular passion and fire. For some it rages and pushes us towards heights unimaginable. We are driven to accomplish, to seek, to explore, and to somehow \u201cbirth\u201d that mighty fire that burns within our hallowed walls. Freud, Hendrix, Miles, Renoir, Van Gogh, Coltrane, Debussy, etc. Each on their rocket ship being propelled by the ego, and the firing of nerve synapses through the human experience at the speed of sound, accomplishment, and the thirst for applause, connection and achievement. For some even more. A connection to \u201cthe zone\u201d \u2026.. a spiritual path.\nGrowth, discovery and exploration of playing a guitar, driving a tractor, planting seed, painting a picture, etc. often blooms from error. Failing is a great teacher. Its Gods force of nature sculpting us like clay. Clay is the perfect disciple or student. It has no part in making the DECISION to become what it will be. It completely surrenders to the artist who sculpts and molds it into form and reality. Man, on the other hand, has choice. It is a co-op between Man, God, Nature and destiny. An artist or craftsman can use life experience (Failure) as an interplay toward growth and learning. No doubt natures chisel can very sharp and painful. But we just get up, and have at it AGAIN! Those who have had a completely smooth ride may not have had the opportunity to test themselves. Those who do not choose to bend and flex with failure are missing the opportunity to paint w/ nature and circumstance. They are saying \u201cno\u201d when asked to dance and adjust\u2026. to bend and weave. We are too busy reacting, worrying, controlling - we are not listening.\nThere are problems associated with failure to be sure. Perhaps the biggest is the inability to see failure as a lesson. Instead we see it as defeat. We feel GUILT AND SHAME. We see it as nature\u2019s way of telling us, we are NEVER going to be good enough. Defeat can also trigger laziness. After all, if I didn\u2019t get it the first few times, why bother? I\u2019ll NEVER be able to get it - AND here is the kicker - \u201cI ONLY WANT TO DO THIS (Play guitar, paint a picture, etc), IF I AM GUARANTEED TO GET A RESULT\u201d.\nWell, if you are a musician, there are no guarantees your technique will surpass Bela Fleck or Itzhak Perlman. There are no guarantees that you will sell a million albums, books or paintings. Hell, there are no guarantees you will even reach an audience. Here is where you challenge yourself to the \u201cpurity of action.\u201d That is, you do what you do out of love. Love is free. I understand this is lofty, and being human, we want results. But it helps to embrace the process \u2026.the doing. For most of my life I felt I had no skill \u2026.no ability. I was the guy in the corner feeling empty, the last to be picked, the one who didn\u2019t fit. It was tough, but made me appreciate that there IS something I can do. We are all connected, and we do belong.\nFailure can fill our sails toward a destination, not render them impotent, windless, and unable to reach your shore. Perhaps the more noble goal is honesty and humility - to accept your abilities (Also called \"limitations\".), and do the best you can with them. AND, maybe those so called \u201climitations\u201d help you to make a decision that makes your work or art, unique and fresh. You may not be a genius, but that doesn\u2019t negate your right to speak. Creating a connection to an audience, or fellow man, doesn\u2019t have to rely on technical virtuosity or genius. It relies on an honest level of communicating between the creator, and listener. It depends on the intention and connection of your heart, soul, and passion. Your work may not have reached the masses. BUT, you used failure to grow beyond your limitation. You used limitation to paint your picture in a completely unique way. You used your limits to speak with a voice unique and honest to the creative intent of your work. You have used limitation to offer the listener a vision and point of perspective they may not have experienced before. You have grown and succeeded within your intent. You have created for LOVE. 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It talks about people who \u201cmay attain to the resurrection from the dead\u201d (Philippians 3:11, New King James Version). They also \u201cmust appear before the judgement seat of Christ\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:10). God will raise the dead and judge them. Faithful followers of Jesus Christ will live for ever with him.\n1. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT IMMORTALITY?\nThe word \u201cimmortal\u201d is used only once, and \u201cimmortality\u201d just five times in the Bible.\nWhen we look at all the passages where they are used, we learn:\nOnly God has always lived and will always live (1 Timothy 1:17).\nMan is never included in any reference to having immortality now (1 Timothy 6:16).\nJesus Christ has \u201cbrought life and immortality to light through the gospel\u201d (2 Timothy 1:10).\nThis means that there was no immortality for man before Jesus came. So, man could not have had an immortal soul from the beginning. Our hope of immortality entirely depended on the victory of Jesus Christ over sin. Only since his resurrection to everlasting life has this become possible for us. For the faithful, that will only be by God\u2019s grace, when Jesus returns to raise the dead. Immortality was not built into us.\nWe must \u201cseek for glory, honour and immortality\u201d (Romans 2:7). If we have to seek for immortality, it cannot already be within us. The day is coming when \u201cGod shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ\u201d (verse 16). Eternal life is \u201cthe gift of God\u201d, not the right of man (Romans 6:23).\nThe Bible talks about kinds of bodies. There is \u201ca natural body\u201d and \u201ca spiritual body\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:44). The spiritual body is not part of the natural one. Paul tells us \u201cthis mortal must put on immortality\u201d (verse 53). A change of nature is needed. That will happen when \u201cthis mortal has put on immortality\u201d. Then (and only then), \u201cDeath is swallowed up in victory\u201d (verse 54). This teaching is the exact opposite of the common view that the body is \u201cput off\u201d to free the immortal soul within. That idea is not found in the Bible.\nFor those aware of God\u2019s purpose, the Bible gives us this important order of events:\nWe now have a natural life in a natural body.\nSooner or later, we shall die.\nJesus will return to raise us from the dead.\nWe shall be judged by him.\nWe shall either be given a spiritual body, and everlasting life, or we shall die for ever.\nIf Jesus comes before we die, he will judge us with the responsible people living at that time.\nThe Bible says nothing, anywhere, about human beings having \u201cimmortal souls\u201d. It always talks about the body being raised from the dead.\n2. WHAT HAPPENS TO US WHEN WE DIE?\nThe Bible often calls death, \u201ca sleep\u201d. In the story of Lazarus (John 11), Jesus said, \u201cOur friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him \u2026 However, Jesus spoke of his death \u2026 Then Jesus said to them plainly, \u2018Lazarus is dead\u2019 \u201d (verses 11-14).\nWhy did Jesus use the word \u201csleep\u201d?\nBecause when we are asleep, we know nothing until we wake up. The Bible says the same thing about death: \u201cIn death there is no remembrance of you\u201d (Psalm 6:5).\nLazarus had been dead for four days before Jesus raised him (John 11:39). If his soul had been in heaven during this time, Lazarus could have told people about his experiences. But he said nothing. He could not talk about \u201cout-of-thebody experiences\u201d, because he did not have any. His silence shouts out this message: Lazarus was simply \u201casleep\u201d in the grave, knowing nothing. No part of Lazarus went anywhere. Our hope for the future must be the same as Martha\u2019s. She believed that we \u201cwill rise again in the resurrection at the last day\u201d (verse 24).\n3. WHEN WILL THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD TAKE PLACE?\nThe resurrection will take place when Jesus Christ returns to the earth to set up God\u2019s kingdom (Luke 1:32,33). Jesus says: \u201cEveryone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day\u201d (John 6:40).\nThe Apostle Paul says: \u201cFor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive \u2026 Christ the first-fruits, afterwards those who are Christ\u2019s at his coming\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:22,23).\nJesus and the Apostle Paul are in perfect agreement about:\nThe truth of the resurrection from the dead, and\nwhen it will take place.\nThey know best. Don\u2019t believe anyone who tells you a different story.\n4. WHO WILL BE JUDGED BY JESUS CHRIST, AND WHY?\nThe Bible tells us that many people will be judged when Jesus comes. Paul says: \u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ \u2026 will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom\u201d (2 Timothy 4:1).\nResponsible people are those who know about God. They \u201cshall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ \u2026 that each of us shall give account of himself to God\u201d (Romans 14:10,12).\nIf Jesus has not yet returned to judge, how can anyone already be enjoying everlasting life?\nNot all responsible people will be saved. Jesus told some people that they will \u201csee Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out\u201d (Luke 13:28).\nThankfully, to those who have tried to serve him well, Jesus will say: \u201cCome, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world\u201d (Matthew 25:34).\nPeople who have never known about God will not be raised for judgement. They are not responsible to Him. Daniel tell us: \u201cMany (but not all) of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake\u201d (Daniel 12:2).\nWhy will there be a judgement?\nBecause from the beginning of creation, God has given mankind a choice. We can either follow His way, or please ourselves. That includes you.\nGod is pleased if we choose to follow His way. For those who do, it will be our \u201cFather\u2019s good pleasure\u201d to give us the kingdom (Luke 12:32).\nSurely, you want to be in God\u2019s kingdom?\nFaithful believers can now look forward to this wonderful blessing. God is going to send Jesus Christ to bring peace to a world in need. He will reign as king over the whole earth (Psalm 72:8-11). After the resurrection and judgement, those who are saved will help Jesus preach to the nations. He wants them, also, to learn about him, and finally have the joy of everlasting life. Do you know of any hope as great as this one? Christadelphians don\u2019t. If you serve God now, you will belong to Him in the day when \u201cthere shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying\u201d (Revelation 21:4).\n\u201cThanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:57).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 7872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://petermalone.misacor.org.au/tiki-index.php?page=Ace+Ventura%3A+When+Nature+Calls&bl", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VVVAR4EVRXQWZKUF2CAN5RCIZ223Z6Y4", "length": 2448, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "petermalone.misacor.org.au", "title": ": Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls", "raw_content": "Jim Carrey, Ian Mc Neice, Simon Callow, Maynard Ezrahi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo, Tommy Davidson, Adewale, Bruce Spence.\nDirected by Steve Oderkirk.\nWith Ace Ventura, Pet Detective being so successful at the box office, it was not surprising that there should be a sequel almost immediately after \u2013 and capitalising on the success of The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.\nJim Carrey brings all the characteristics that he developed in the first film, his appearance, facial and bodily mannerisms, the leering touch and the innuendo, the bodily contortions\u2026 His best understood if he is interpreted in as an responded to as a clown.As before, there is a lot of physical comedy, plenty of pratfalls \u2013 and, this time, plenty of animals to have pratfalls with, culminating in an elephant trampling through cars, houses.\nThe film was written and directed by Steve Oderkirk who worked on the previous film. With an eye to the various adventure film set in Africa, from King Solomon\u2019s Mines to Hatari, Ace Ventura is on a mission to rescue animals in Africa, getting a commission to find a particular bat which is sacred to a tribe and, with its disappearance, possibilities of fierce warfare with a neighbouring tribe (fostered, of course, by the unscrupulous colonial governor to make money out of white guano).\nThe villain is played, of all people, by classical actor and writer, Simon Callow, great White Hunter, a crook, very very British. And his offsider, playing the straightman to Carrey\u2019s antics, is Ian Mc Neice. Bob Gunton appears as a local dealer and added villain. Australian Bruce Spence is a lanky Australian poacher.\nWhile there is a lot of African scenery and animals, and plenty of tribal sequences with bad translations from English, poison darts, feats of endurance demanded by the tribe, being swallowed by a rhinoceros\u2026, there is the usual escapades for Ace Ventura.\nThere is a touch of romance, even with some lewd innuendo, with the Princess of the tribe attracted to Ace. She is played by stage actress, Sophie Okonedo.\nThis film is slight compared with the original but was successful with its intended audience.\nThe committee for the Razzie Awards was very unkind to the film, nominating its producer, James Robinson, for worst sequel. The Stinker Bad Awards gave it Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, Worst Sequel, with nominations for Worst Actor, Jim Carrey, Worst Film and Worst Sequel and The Sequel that Nobody Was Clamouring For!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://petitecurie.com/2014/house-of-dagmar-pre-spring-collection-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QKCQQQNGHWGFKDAOLFOFVTRE7XMHJ5EY", "length": 724, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "petitecurie.com", "title": "House of Dagmar Pre Spring Collection 2015 | Petite CuriePetite Curie", "raw_content": "The brilliant Swedish fashion label House of Dagmar was started by three sisters in 2005. Since the launch, Dagmars unconventional and sophisticated style has been widely recognised by the fashion industry as well as the press and have received several prestigious awards.\nThe name and principal source of inspiration is the sisters\u2019 late grandmother by the name Dagmar. She was herself a tailor and inspired the sisters to develop their interest for fabrics and design as young girls.\nTheir collections unite glamour and tailoring with the finest materials. The feeling, the colours and the patterns are found primarily in the Art Deco period of the 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s. Below is a collection of their Pre Spring 2015 collection!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://phinfever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17442&p=221831", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:FXUBJT2FEBBVZ32GVVOPTS2DYTYLGJAQ", "length": 2489, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "phinfever.com", "title": "Coach Gase showing off a little of his creative genius \u203a Phinfever.com", "raw_content": "Coach Gase showing off a little of his creative genius\nPost subject: Coach Gase showing off a little of his creative genius\nI think Gase is going to have some fun this year. He has so much speed and talent, and has a very accurate quarterback in the 3rd year of his system, we all should be entertained when the offense gets on the field. Need to do better on 3rd down, but there seemed to be less 3rd and longs in this game.\nAlbert Wilson stirs the creative juices of Adam Gase. Gase has had months and months to think up creative ways to use Wilson, the smallish but strong receiver/running back who does many of the things Jarvis Landry does, but at a fraction of the cost. Miami was only 2-for-10 on third downs, which is an issue that must still be corrected. But on one play in the first quarter, Wilson got it done by himself. He caught the ball at the 18, spun out of the arms of a tackler, stayed on his feet and dove forward for five more yards and a first down conversion. Wilson, who usually plays outside, actually began the play at an inside receiver position and ran a simple in route. Tannehill and the Dolphins are going to count on Wilson and Danny Amendola to create first downs when they catch the ball a few yards shy of the marker on third down. And Wilson actually has an edge on Amendola to get that done. In the second quarter, Wilson lined up at running back. Later, Ryan Tannehill handed off to Wilson, who came in motion from left to right and stopped in the backfield. Wilson took the ball, with an option to pitch to Kenyan Drake. It was straight from the Mike Martz Rams play book. Drake was disappointed he didn\u2019t get the toss. Maybe next time. We have to assume they\u2019ll run this play again. Or perhaps some other play Gase researches that Wilson once ran at Georgia State. In the third quarter, on a red zone play, Wilson lined up at Wildcat quarterback, with Tannehill at receiver, but Miami called time out. Gase has lots of creative options with versatile players like Wilson, Jakeem Grant and Kenyan Drake at his disposal. We enjoy it when Gase rolls out multiple formations and plays we haven\u2019t seen before. Most importantly, it\u2019s great when it\u2019s stuff the opponent hasn\u2019t seen before. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to do,\u201d Gase told me Monday. \u201cYou try to stay within the framework of the system and be creative at the same time. When you have good players, you\u2019re able to do that and it\u2019s fun to call those plays.\u201d\nhttps://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/fo ... 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I hear people saying this behind my back on a daily basis.\n\u201cThere is one reason and one reason only why I can't marry Jesse in New York next year...The New York State Senate.\n\u201cI'm going to do something about it, and so should you. Because no one tells a New Yorker that they can't marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson.\u201d\nBoth made the videos in a bid to help raise awareness for same sex marriage after the New York State Senate rejected a bill for people of the same sex to marry within the state.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://placematters.net/print/1041", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:CE7MEKKTML3TY6CHXIVZNLLVVAX6ZH3X", "length": 1690, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "placematters.net", "title": "Birdland", "raw_content": "Home > Birdland\nBirdland. Elis Shin, 2012\nOne of the foremost venues for bebop in the 1950s\nNamed for Charlie Parker's nickname (\"Bird\"), Birdland opened December 15, 1949 with Parker playing. The premises had earlier housed a number of other music clubs. Birdland became known as one of the foremost venues for bebop, regularly featuring Charlie Parker; in the 1950s it was Count Basie's NY headquarters. A unique feature of the club was its gallery seating; no tables, no age requirement. Young aspiring musicians could hear and see their heroes in intimate surroundings. The gallery was a section where people could just sit and listen to the music. Almost from the start Birdland maintained its own radio wire (nationwide broadcasts were later made from the club through NBC) with \"Symphony Sid\" (Torin) as the resident DJ. The club began to decline in the mid- to late '60s, but Birdland was forever memorialized in Count Basie's recording of Georgy Shearing's Lullaby of Birdland and the many influential and highly acclaimed broadcasts which were later released as recordings.\nBirdland [2]\nE. L. 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One disparity causing particular ire is that between women and men of the same age. Women don\u2019t choose to be born female, so why, ask critics, do insurers of individuals penalize women by charging them premiums that are higher than what men the same age pay, and hit small companies with higher fees for their female employees? Says Judy Waxman, vice president of health and reproductive rights for the National Women\u2019s Law Center, \u201cWe should be sharing the risk across genders, just as we do across races.\u201d\nThe Affordable Care Act prohibits gender rating beginning in 2014. But the U.S. Supreme Court is due to decide in June whether some of the law\u2019s provisions are unconstitutional\u2014and a ruling against the law could mean insurers\u2019 gender ratings are here to stay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicnotices.finance-commerce.com/search/detail.aspx?detail=11164157", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:52L2H26RYTGMWGVSLWBVRGCIDGBJL2JS", "length": 3963, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "publicnotices.finance-commerce.com", "title": "4008 Edinbrook Ter Brooklyn Park, MN - Finance & Commerce", "raw_content": "4008 Edinbrook Ter Brooklyn Park, MN\nNOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: April 23, 2008 ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $334,640.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Dung Van Trinh and Kongkeo Sivoravong, husband and wife MORTGAGEE: Universal Mortgage Corporation d/b/a UFG Mortgage, a Wisconsin corporation DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Recorded on January 27, 2009 as Docu\u001ement Number A9311266; as modified of record by document recorded on March 11, 2013 as Document No. A09928117 in the Office of the County Recorder of Hennepin County, Minnesota. ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: Mortgage Electronic Regis\u001etration Systems, Inc. by assignment recorded on April 6, 2009 as Document Number A9343666 in the Office of the County Recorder of Hennepin County, Minnesota; thereafter assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. by assignment recorded on April 8, 2010 as Document Number A9499662 in the Office of the County Recorder of Hennepin County, Minnesota. LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROP\u001eERTY: Lot 10, Block 2, Brookside of Edinburgh Second, Hennepin County, Minnesota. STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 4008 EDINBROOK TERRACE N, BROOKLYN PARK, MN 55443 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Hennepin County, Minnesota. THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $404,177.10 TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Elec\u001etronic Registration Systems, Inc. NAME OF MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR: Universal Mortgage Corporation d/b/a UFG Mortgage, a Wisconsin corporation RESIDENTIAL SERVICER: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. TAX PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 15-119-21-34-0058 TRANSACTION AGENT'S MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 100360700207289379 THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt then remaining secured by such mortgage, or any part thereof, or, if the action or proceeding has been instituted, that the same has been discontinued, or that an execution upon the judgment rendered therein has been returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part. PURSUANT, to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 2, 2018 at 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SALE: Hennepin County Sher\u001eiff's Office, Room 30, Old Courthouse, 350 South Fifth St., Minne\u001eapolis, Minnesota. to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actually paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and disbursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal represent\u001eatives or assigns is twelve (12) months from the date of sale. TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: Unless said mortgage is rein\u001estated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemption is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on April 2, 2019. THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PERSONAL REPRE\u001eSENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORT\u001eGAGE: None Dated: February 8, 2018 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Mortgagee THE ACADEMY LAW GROUP, P.A. By: /s/ Rebecca F. Schiller, Esq. N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq. Samuel R. Coleman, Esq. *Corbin C. Smith, Esq.* Attorneys for Mortgagee The Academy Professional Building 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102 (651) 209-9760 17-0288-FC01 THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. (February 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018)\t11496958", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/two-haitian-boys-are-battling-cancer-700-miles-may-make-all-difference", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:U63OROMZZDANUV677WBPJIG32OCH45CA", "length": 28623, "nlines": 133, "source_domain": "pulitzercenter.org", "title": "A Broken System | Pulitzer Center", "raw_content": "PORT-AU-PRINCE \u2014 Two teenage boys in Haiti have advanced forms of cancer. Both cancers have a high survival rate when the disease is caught early and treated aggressively. Neither boy can be treated at the country\u2019s only hospital dedicated to pediatric cancer \u2014 one because he is too old, the other because his cancer is too complicated for the doctors.\nBut that\u2019s where their stories diverge.\nOne boy, 14, through a stroke of luck, finds help through a charity that flies him and his mother to Miami for state-of-the-art treatment.\nAnd the other? He remains in Haiti, a 17-year-old struggling to get treatment in a broken healthcare system with poorly trained doctors, limited chemotherapy options and treatment that is many hours away on a public bus. In a country where there are only 10 pediatric hospital beds devoted to cancer \u2014 and those who have the disease often are shunned \u2014 his case illustrates how the poor and powerless pay the price for the reluctance of Haiti\u2019s leaders to invest in their medical system.\nSherry Burnette couldn\u2019t stop herself from exclaiming the words when she first saw the boy with his right eye bulging nearly out of its socket.\nThe boy \u2014 a gangly 14-year-old named Djonsly Alcin \u2014 had stepped into a room inside Burnette\u2019s Love A Child charity clinic in Fond-Parisien near Haiti\u2019s border with the Dominican Republic. He\u2019d gone to the clinic after he and his mother, Marie Belatrice Louis-Jean, had been to a half dozen other places, including the biggest public hospital, seeking help for the tumor that was slowly pushing his eye out of place and blinding him.\nDjonsly Alcin (center), 14, and his mother Marie Belatrice Louis-Jean (left), 37, greet a Baptist Health nurse after arriving to get his weekly chemotherapy for a rare brain tumor. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nNo one in any of the medical facilities that offer care to the poor had been able to help, the boy\u2019s mother told Burnette. One had advised them to pray for a miracle. Another had offered only eye drops.\n\u201cThey weren\u2019t able to do anything,\u201d Louis-Jean, 37, said. \u201cIf they had done something, the eye would have never reached this exaggerated stage.\u201d\nIt was only by chance that Djonsly (pronounced Jons-lee) and his mother had heard about the clinic. On the streets of Port-au-Prince, Louis-Jean had mentioned her increasingly desperate search for help to a stranger. The stranger, a woman, told her about a charity clinic. It was a two-hour trek, she warned, requiring two bus trips and a motorcycle taxi.\nLouis-Jean didn\u2019t hesitate. Three days after the conversation, she and her son headed for the clinic, leaving at 3 a.m. and arriving two hours later to a long line of desperately sick people.\nBut they didn\u2019t have long to wait. As soon as the staff saw Djonsly\u2019s eye, they rushed him in for a consultation \u2014 and then to Burnette, founder of the Fort Myers-based nonprofit, to see how she could help. She took a photo and sent Djonsly for tests.\n\u201cThat\u2019s when the tumor was discovered,\u201d she told the Miami Herald. \u201cNo one in Haiti could do anything about it.\u201d\nBurnette had an idea. She fired off an email to Calvin Babcock, a businessman who runs his own charity in Haiti, Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission. He\u2019s also the chairman of the board of Baptist Hospital in Miami.\n\u201cDo you think there is any possibility of getting donated care for him at the hospital?\u201d Burnette asked.\nBabcock, who gets at least one request a week for help in Haiti through his charity, thought it was likely that the tumor was benign. He agreed to help.\n\u201cEvery other day I get a request from Whatsapp, on Facebook, from some place, on how we can help this patient \u2014 who, in America, would have had their cancer problem taken care of five, 10 or 15 years ago and now it has progressed to a grotesque state,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s very, very little healthcare for the poor in Haiti, and when I say that I mean, there are people who pass away every day in Haiti from conditions that would be easily treated in America.\u201d\nDjonsly\u2019s fortunes were changing. On Feb. 10, four months after he first met Burnette, he and his mother flew to Miami to see if he could get treatment. The tests at Baptist Health South Florida revealed that Djonsly had optic pathway glioma, a slow-growing brain tumor that originated in the nerve of the eye, connecting it to the brain.\n\u201cThey told me if I had stayed another month or two with this undiagnosed, I could have lost my life,\u201d Djonsly said. \u201cI would have already been dead.\u201d\nDjonsly told his oncologist, Dr. Doured Daghistani, that the swelling in his eye and abnormal vision had started at least two years earlier.\nDaghistani, the medical director of pediatric oncology at Baptist Health\u2019s Miami Cancer Institute, said cancer in the brain is the second most common cancer in children after acute leukemia and before lymphoma, but optic pathway glioma, he said, is rare.\n\u201cHe came at stage 4,\u201d Daghistani said. \u201cHe had metastasized all the way down in his spine.\u201d\nHad he been in the U.S., Djonsly likely would have been examined and given an MRI as soon as his vision began to blur two years earlier. The cancer probably would have been found before his vision was lost. The early diagnosis, before the disease had spread, and access to other treatment options in the U.S. would have given him the best chance of a cure.\nBut Djonsly\u2019s cancer was advanced. He needed chemotherapy and two surgeries, one to place his eye back where it belonged and the other, a 10-hour operation to \u201cdebulk\u201d the disease in his brain by removing as much of the mass as possible without neurological damage. An MRI machine would be in the operating room to give doctors a view of what they were doing \u2014 a simple enough thing in the U.S., but a near-impossibility if the procedure had been attempted in Haiti, which has only one MRI machine in the whole country.\nDjonsly knew that the operations \u2014 even though they offered him a much better chance than anything he could have found in Haiti \u2014 were risky.\n\u201cI was afraid of dying,\u201d he said. \u201cThey told me that I could end up disabled... They even told me that I could end up losing the other eye. I was thinking about this all of the time. I am still young \u2014 and I end up losing both my eyes?\u201d\n\u2018GOD IS GUIDING MY STEPS\u2019\nAs Djonsly recuperated from his surgeries in Miami, 700 miles to the south in Haiti, the other boy \u2014 17-year-old Djooly Jeune \u2014 had finally gotten in to a charity called Double Harvest, where a clinic at the time was being staffed by a visiting team of foreign doctors.\nThe oldest of five children, Djooly (pronounced Joo-lee) first became sick in August 2017, four months after his father died of a stroke. The teenager\u2019s left ear had started throbbing, he told his mother. Angena Altidor thought it was a simple earache. She bought some over-the-counter drops. But he got worse.\n\u201cThis side started swelling up,\u201d Altidor, 51, said as she pointed to the left side of her jaw.\nA dejected Djooly Jeune, 17, sits by his mother, Angena Altidor, after a nurse at the University Hospital of Mirebalais finally informs them that he would not be able to get his chemotherapy because of his blood work. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nSitting on a borrowed chair in her one-room home in Croix-des-Bouquets, on the northeastern edge of Port-au-Prince, she described the gradual distortion of her son\u2019s face as the problem worsened and he became more withdrawn.\n\u201cHis face was so swollen,\u201d she said, \u201cthat he couldn\u2019t breathe and his mouth couldn\u2019t close.\u201d\nAt Double Harvest, a doctor removed some tissue from the side of Djooly\u2019s face in a crude attempt to help.\n\u201cThey sliced him,\u201d Altidor said.\nBut they didn\u2019t send the tissue to a lab for a biopsy, she said. Six months into the search to find out what was wrong with her son, Altidor was no closer to an answer.\nTwo weeks later, Djooly\u2019s face was still swollen, he was in excruciating pain and the bandage had begun to ooze and smell. Altidor said she tried to get workers at a hospital near her home to change the bandage \u2014 it was supposed to be changed every day \u2014 but they refused.\nShe heard there were different doctors at Double Harvest, and went back. This time, she and her son found a surgical team from Baptist Health, an effort organized \u2014 coincidentally \u2014 by Babcock\u2019s charity.\nMartha Pearson, a Baptist nurse who is Haitian American, remembered her shock when she saw Djooly, his jaw so swollen he could no longer chew food and his body emaciated from a lack of nutrition. He tried to hide his bulging face when anyone looked at him.\n\u201cHe had a tumor almost the size of a grapefruit,\u201d Pearson said. \u201cHe was not eating, just able to drink.\u201d\nShe got him new bandages and antibiotics. Then she turned to Babcock for more help. He arranged for Djooly to get a baseline CT scan at Bernard Mevs, a private nonprofit hospital in the capital. After that, through people she knew, Pearson said she got Djooly admitted into the cancer clinic at the University Hospital of Mirebalais, one of the few medical facilities that treat Haiti\u2019s poor for free.\nAt about the same time, Dr. Roger Mixter, a volunteer plastic surgeon from Wisconsin who had consulted on the case, was trying to get Djooly an appointment in the country\u2019s only childhood cancer center, located at St. Damien Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince, even though, at 17, he was three years older than the cutoff age of 14.\nBy then, the timid teen had been to five different hospitals and seen an equal number of dentists or doctors. They\u2019d prescribed everything from teeth cleanings to pain medication. None had considered the possibility that the large mass distorting his face could be a cancerous tumor \u2014 until he reached Mirebalais.\nFinally, Djooly and his mother got an answer: A biopsy showed he had Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma, a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. In children in the U.S., Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma has a high long-term survival rate \u2014 80 to 90 percent. But that requires prompt and aggressive chemotherapy.\nBy the time the disease was diagnosed in Djooly, he had been feeling the symptoms of the fast-growing cancer for at least eight months.\nAngena Altidor (right) listens as a nurse at the University Hospital of Mirebalais informs her in August that her son, Djooly Jeune, 17, would not be able to get his chemotherapy that day because of his blood work. Djooly has Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nThere is a popular Creole proverb rooted in the days before Haiti became the first free black nation. When French plantation owners wanted to punish disobedient slaves, they forced them to carry 50-pound weights on their heads while both hands and feet were shackled.\n\u201cChay la vinn pi lou pase yon pwa senkant.\u201d Or, in English, \u201cMy problems are so overwhelming, they weigh more than 50 pounds.\u201d\nThat\u2019s how Djooly\u2019s mother said she feels most days.\n\u201cIf you see me walking, it is God who is guiding my steps,\u201d Altidor said. \u201cThere are times I\u2019m walking ... and I\u2019ll pass you and don\u2019t even see you. What am I thinking about? I am thinking about Djooly\u2019s illness, how badly he\u2019s sick, and with the cancer, because they say it can\u2019t be treated.\u201d\nAngena Altidor went to at least five different doctors and dentists to find out why her 17-year-old son, Djooly Jeune, was growing a tumor on his face. She finally got her answer earlier this year: Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nDoctors have told Altidor they cannot offer her any guarantees about the future and even if Djooly responds well to chemo, there is a high chance of recurrence.\n\u201cIf it comes back, we don\u2019t have any treatment for him,\u201d said Dr. Ruth Damuse, the oncology program director at the Mirebalais hospital. \u201cWe know that there is something that can be done. We just don\u2019t have it.\u201d\n\u2018CANCER IS FAR BEHIND\u2019\nIn Haiti, where Djooly is being treated, the government doesn\u2019t keep records on survival rates for childhood cancer, but pediatric oncologists say, in general, the cure rate in low-resource countries is about 20 percent.\nThe prognosis for the other teen, Djonsly \u2014 despite his complicated and advanced case \u2014 is more hopeful, simply because he\u2019s being treated in the U.S., where there\u2019s access to different drugs and the five-year survival rate for childhood cancer is over 80 percent.\n\u201cAt the global level, there are probably somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 new cases every year [of childhood cancer], but we believe that only half of those, at best, get diagnosed,\u201d said Dr. Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, a leading pediatric oncologist and executive vice president of St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital in Tennessee. The research hospital, which supports St. Damien\u2019s cancer program in Port-au-Prince, recently unveiled a global campaign with the World Health Organization to help poor countries like Haiti treat childhood cancer.\nRodriguez-Galindo said childhood cancer \u2014 from newborns to age 19 \u2014 generally accounts for 1 to 2 percent of all cancers worldwide. But while rare, it remains a huge problem. Brain tumors are probably the most difficult cancers to treat because they require good diagnostics, imaging and MRIs \u2014 all missing in Haiti, with no radiation therapy available and only four neurosurgeons.\n\u201cYou need good neurosurgeons and that\u2019s a sub-specialty that\u2019s not easy to find,\u201d said Rodriguez-Galindo. \u201cAnd then you need a very complex treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, oftentimes.\u201d\nHaiti\u2019s scarcity of cancer resources is unlikely to change. Parliament recently slashed the national healthcare budget by half and the country spends just $13 per capita on health, a fraction of the $180 its next-door neighbor, the Dominican Republic, spends, according to a World Bank report.\nDr. Elsie M\u00e9tellus Chalumeau, head of the cancer program at the State University of Haiti Hospital and one of the country\u2019s few oncologists, said cancer simply isn\u2019t a priority for the public health system, which must contend with everything from cholera to malaria.\n\u201cWhen you look at our priorities, Haitians are still dying from malnutrition, tuberculosis,\u201d she said. \u201cCancer is far behind.\u201d\n\u2018I WOULD HAVE DIED ALREADY\u2019\nUntil his brain tumor diagnosis in Miami, Djonsly, articulate and intelligent beyond his 14 years, hadn\u2019t even heard of cancer.\nHe\u2019s grateful he was able to come to the U.S. for treatment in February. \u201cIf I were in Haiti, I would have died already,\u201d he said, bluntly.\nIn August, for one of his weekly chemo treatments, he arrived at Baptist Health with a smile, greeting the staff with \u201cGood morning\u201d and \u201c\u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?\u201d \u2014 he\u2019s picked up a bit of Spanish in Miami \u2014 followed by kisses and hugs.\nBaptist Health nurse Sahidy Aguilar tends to Djonsly Alcin, 14, as he receives chemotherapy. Baptist Health South Florida is taking care of Djonsly\u2019s medical expenses while he\u2019s here in the U.S. receiving treatment for a rare brain tumor. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nHe sat down so a nurse could access the port in his chest for chemo. Covering his face with one hand, he held onto his mother with the other as the nurse counted to three and inserted the needle inside the quarter-size hole that would deliver the medication.\n\u201cWe know his routine to a T,\u201d said nurse Sahidy Aguilar. \u201cHe\u2019s amazing.\u201d\nPulling a jigsaw puzzle out of a toy chest, he moved to the chemo side of the room, took a seat at a high-top table and waited to be hooked up. Ten minutes later, the machine beeped and he cheerfully announced, \u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d\nDaghistani, his oncologist, asked in French how he was feeling \u2014 \u201cTr\u00e8s bien? \u201d \u2014 and then watched Djonsly take a few steps. He wanted to monitor one of the side effects of the illness that has become more pronounced with chemo: numbness, known as foot-drop, that makes it hard for the teen to pick up his feet when he walks.\nMonths earlier, Djonsly was taken off one type of chemo because he had lost too much weight and the chemo wasn\u2019t working. Since then, he\u2019s been on a different, more aggressive chemotherapy. Daghistani isn\u2019t completely sure if it will work.\n\u201cWe started him on the second line of chemo and it seems that it is stabilizing his disease,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just need to see what\u2019s going to happen in the next few months. This type of cancer is not fast growing; it\u2019s slow growing so that\u2019s why it\u2019s very hard to tell. We need time. We need to be patient, have perseverance. It\u2019s just hard to tell his prognosis.\u201d\nDaghistani is trying to avoid using radiation, which could help attack the disease but also could lead to a secondary cancer. \u201cWe\u2019re praying that he continues responding to chemo. Worse case scenario ... we have to use radiation. We have to keep that as our life insurance policy for now.\u201d\nSo far, he said, the chemotherapy is holding off the progression of Djonsly\u2019s disease.\n\u201cDjonsly is currently doing very well,\u201d Daghistani said. \u201cThe plan is to treat him for one full year and reevaluate him. Optic glioma in pediatric [patients] behaves better than in adults. But in general it is unpredictable. Some patients live with their disease for a long time and some do not. In the case of Djonsly, because of the delay of diagnosis and spread of disease, the prognosis is guarded.\u201d\nDjonsly Alcin, 14, who is from Haiti, pets a dolphin at Island Dolphin Care in Key Largo. For two years, his mother was unable to get a cancer diagnosis in Haiti. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. United States, 2018.\nTwo days after chemo, Djonsly was at Island Dolphin Care in Key Largo for a therapeutic session with dolphins for young cancer patients. Scared because he doesn\u2019t swim, he held tightly to the instructor as she taught him hand signals to get the animal to do tricks.\nIt was his second big outing of the summer. In June, he had spent five days at a camp in Hollywood for kids with cancer. When he went to his next chemo appointment, his roommate from the camp, a boy named Matthew, had left him a surprise gift: an Xbox.\nLinda Dwyer, a volunteer with Babcock\u2019s charity who drives Djonsly and his mom to appointments, posted a photo of him playing the game on her Facebook page. \u201cOur VIP is turning into an American teen,\u201d she wrote.\nHe\u2019s becoming more accustomed to the U.S. in other ways, too. With Baptist Health South Florida taking care of his medical expenses, and the Child Foundation, a Miami charity, handling housing and other costs for him and his mother, Djonsly, an only child, is learning English while being home schooled.\nAfter the dolphin swim, he grabbed his phone, sat by the pool and did what other kids his age do in the U.S.: He shot a video of the next group swimming with the dolphins.\nDjonsly Alcin, 14, who is from Haiti, has optic pathway glioma, a slow-growing brain tumor. His mother, Marie Belatrice Louis-Jean\u2019s refusal to give up, helped him find treatment in South Florida. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. United States, 2018.\nMost other days, as the chemo continues, his life consists of school, physical therapy and church, twice a week. Every eight weeks, he gets an MRI, to see how his body is responding to treatment. In Haiti, the scan would have cost an impossible $630 each time.\nHis mom is grateful for the normalcy of a routine for her son, even if it\u2019s temporary.\n\u201cAfter God, they are the ones who have helped me,\u201d Louis-Jean said, of the care at Baptist. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for them, I would have lost my child.\u201d\nCANCER IS TABOO\nThe difference in cancer care between Haiti and Miami can, without exaggeration, mean life or death, said Pearson, who has come to know both boys through her work as a Baptist Health nurse and a volunteer in Haiti.\nShe can see Djonsly, in Miami, getting stronger with treatment.\nDjonsly Alcin (left), 14, talks to Baptist Health nurse Martha Pearson (right) during chemotherapy. Djonsly, who is from Haiti, suffers from optic pathway glioma, a slow-growing brain tumor. His advanced cancer has also spread down his spine. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. United States, 2018.\n\u201cHe\u2019s better, he\u2019s more active, he\u2019s happier. I see a lot of progress with him,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s doing a lot of things he wasn\u2019t able to do when he first came here.\u201d\nPearson believes that if Djooly, in Haiti, had the same access to care that Djonsly has in the U.S., his prognosis would be better.\n\u201cDjonsly has a greater chance for survival ... because of the new drugs, of the new things he could have access to, while Djooly can have access to only the minimal, the little chemo that he could receive at Mirebalais. The back and forth to Mirebalais is, like, hours on a public bus,\u201d she said. \u201cWith Djooly, sometimes they have to wait almost a month to give him chemo because he needs two units of blood because he was so sick.\u201d\nThat happened May 18 when Djooly, waiting to start the first of six planned sessions of chemo, ended up in the emergency room vomiting blood. His mother was terrified.\n\u201cWhen I saw that, I said in my heart, \u2018God, it looks like I am going to lose the fight. ... I just finished burying his father. Now I am going to have to bury a child?\u2019 \u201d Altidor recounted.\nHe eventually made it through and began chemo. But getting treated remained a struggle.\nDjooly Jeune (right), 17, and his mother Angena Altidor wait with cancer patients at the University Hospital of Mirebalais. Djooly, who has Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma, was unable to get his chemotherapy that day. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nIn early August, as cancer patients filed into the treatment room at the Mirebalais hospital, Djooly sat quietly on a wooden bench, trying to make himself small. He had bent his left leg and pulled it close to his chest, tucking his head to hide the tumor. He wore a purple and pink hat pulled low and a soiled bandage covered his jaw.\n\u201cThere are times I would say, \u2018Djooly... when you are sick and you keep covering yourself, sleeping inside, it\u2019s not good for you. You have to go outside and get some air,\u201d Altidor said.\nBut when he did go outside, she said, he would only go \u201cholding a towel in his hand to cover his illness so people don\u2019t see it.\u201c\nAs she waited for the nurses to tell her whether Djooly was strong enough to be treated that day, Altidor opened a small backpack and pulled out a cup. Since Djooly\u2019s cancer, she never leaves home without a cup, plate and spoon because a relative once gave a thirsty Djooly water in a paper cup, rather than using her own china.\nCancer is a taboo subject in Haiti. People often hide the disease, trying to avoid the stigma, but it persists. Djooly and his mother have felt it repeatedly.\nIn school, when his tumor became large enough to disfigure him, Djooly was refused entry because the director believed he would infect other students.\n\u201cThey told me there was no need for me to come,\u201d Djooly said. \u201cThey kicked me out.\u201d\nSchool, he said, meant everything to him. It was the one place where he felt comfortable, where he could still envision a bright future.\nBecause of his advanced Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma, Djooly Jeune, 17, was kicked out of school. His 14 year-old sister as well, his mom said because the director feared he was contagious. He\u2019s surrounded by his family\u2019s meager possessions. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\n\u201cIt makes me feel bad when I see that I can\u2019t go and my uniform is ready,\u201d he said, his voice so low he was almost whispering. \u201cIf I were not sick, I would have gone.\u201d\nAltidor said she has sometimes seen him staring at his uniform hanging in their home and speaking to it: \u201cUniform, stay hanging there, OK? I might be sick, I might be in bed, but you stay where you\u2019re at.\u201d\nBefore her husband\u2019s death, Altidor survived on his construction earnings and worked as a street vendor selling washing detergent. She\u2019s had to quit since Djooly\u2019s illness to take care of him. Sitting outside the Mirebalais cancer treatment center, she wondered once again what she could have done to prevent the cancer.\nIt is a question that has tormented her: \u201cHow is it that he got this disease?\u201d\nFour hours after arriving at the hospital that day, Altidor learned that Djooly wouldn\u2019t be able to receive chemo. The doctor didn\u2019t like his white blood cell count, a nurse told her, and wanted Djooly to come back the following week.\nAltidor was crushed. She tried not to show it in front of Djooly.\n\u201cIt\u2019s your kid. You have no choice,\u201d she said, and sighed as her eyes welled up with tears. \u201cProblems.\u201d\nCHILDREN DON\u2019T GET CANCER\nOn Oct. 8, Djooly \u2014 who turned 18 in September \u2014 finally had the last of his chemo sessions in Haiti and in the weeks since, the tumor has started to regrow. Altidor said doctors have raised the possibility of radiation. There is none in the country, and for a mother who couldn\u2019t even afford to send her other four children back to school this year, the possibility is beyond her.\n\u201cI don\u2019t have a father who is helping me. I don\u2019t have anyone in my family who is helping me. It\u2019s only me and God,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t like to beg, or keep having to beg.\u201d\nDjooly Jeune, 17, (on the end) was finally diagnosed with Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma earlier this year after several doctors told his mother he had a dental problem. His illness weighs heaving on siblings, Estherlineda, 14, Josieanne, 7, Moise, 3 (being held by mom Angena Altidor) and Jhony Jeune. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nMixter, the Wisconsin plastic surgeon who volunteers at Mirebalais, said he thinks surgery and radiation might be the best bet \u2014 if it\u2019s feasible.\n\u201cWe are talking about saving a child... in a place where we don\u2019t have all the drugs, all the modalities that most good hospitals in the States would have,\u201d Mixter said.\nSurgery and radiation used to be treatment options for Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma in the U.S. But in the 1980s, they were replaced with aggressive chemo. The protocol may or may not require blood and platelet transfusions, and involves hormonal therapy to help with patients\u2019 weak immune systems and lots of hospital admissions to provide intravenous antibiotics.\n\u201cYou have to look at it from the best treatment vs. what\u2019s practical,\u201d said Mixter. \u201cIf the chemo is not successful \u2014 and I\u2019m not totally optimistic it\u2019s going to be \u2014 the ability to try different drugs ... is not possible in Haiti. He may be headed for the group that is resistant.\u201d\nMixter knows radiation in the neighboring Dominican Republic can cost $10,000 or more. He\u2019s wondered if a crowdfunding campaign to help Djooly and other kids with cancer might be a solution.\n\u201cThe ability to get him to Miami or Boston or New York or wherever for treatment is a slim possibility at best and without possibility of having pro bono care, the possibility is zero,\u201d Mixter said.\nAltidor\u2019s living situation is not good \u2014 which means Djooly\u2019s is rough, too. When the owners of the property where she lives are in Haiti, they occasionally cook and give Djooly food. He gives his mom and four siblings a spoonful each, which is sometimes their only meal for the day. Inside, the only piece of furniture is a twin-size bed for Djooly. Everyone else sleeps on the floor.\nSt. Damien Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince offers the only cancer program for kids in Haiti. There are just 10 hospitalized beds and the cut off age is 14. Image by Jos\u00e9 A. Iglesias. Haiti, 2018.\nBefore Djooly got into the Mirebalais cancer program, Mixter was trying to see whether the doctor who runs the pediatric oncology program at St. Damien would accept him. St. Damien sends patients to the Dominican Republic for radiation at no cost.\nThe hospital has a new Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma treatment that was started by the director, Dr. Pascale Yola Gassant, with the help of St. Jude\u2019s Research Hospital. But Djooly is too old and the chemo available there isn\u2019t strong enough to help him.\nThe demand for treatment for kids with cancer in Haiti has grown, Gassant said, from two cases when she started the program in 2004 to 78 new cases last year. Her program still has just 10 beds for young cancer patients who are hospitalized.\n\u201cEverybody is saying there is an explosion of cancer,\u201d she said. \u201cI say, no, there isn\u2019t any explosion of cancer. If you are reading the international literature on cancer, they tell you that 80 percent of children with cancer are living in low and middle income countries \u2014 in countries like Haiti.\n\u201cThere were always children dying from cancer, they just weren\u2019t diagnosed.\u201d\nGassant said 90 percent of the parents who come to her with their sick children have already been to several hospitals.\nSome were told by doctors that \u201cchildren don\u2019t get cancer,\u201d she said, shaking her head. \u201cEveryone should be educated that the disease of cancer is a public health problem.\u201d\nPoverty, Public Health, Youth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 31054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws/490.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RBDFIOIRYOFL4QO3MEHA6GEKNEXBTVNM", "length": 19046, "nlines": 124, "source_domain": "punjablaws.gov.pk", "title": "The Punjab Border Military Police Act 1904", "raw_content": "THE NORTH-WEST BORDER MILITARY POLICE ACT 1904 (NWFP Act IV of 1904)\nTHE PUNJAB BORDER MILITARY POLICE ACT, 1904 (NWFP Act IV of 1904)\n3. Power to maintain Border Military Police Force.\n4. Constitution of the Force.\n5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.\n6. Appointment of subordinate officers and personnel.\n7. Superintendence, control and administration.\n8. More heinous offences.\n9. Less heinous offences.\n10. Minor punishment.\n11. Place of imprisonment.\n12. Resignation and withdrawal from Force.\n13. General duties of Military Police officers.\n14. Conferment of powers and imposition of duties.\n15. Protection for acts of Military Police officers.\n16. Jurisdiction of Courts.\n17. Appeal, etc.\n18. Application of the Act on Baluch Levy.\n[1]THE PUNJAB BORDER MILITARY POLICE ACT 1904\n(NWFP Act IV of 1904)\nAn Act to provide for the Regulation of the Border Military Police Force in the [2][notified tribal areas of the Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts of the Punjab.]\nPreamble.\u2013 [3][Whereas it is expedient to provide for the regulation of Border Military Police Force in the notified tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts of the Punjab;]\n[4][1. Short title, extent and commencement.\u2013 (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Border Military Police Act, 1904.\n(2) It extends to such notified tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts as may be notified by the Government.\n(3) It shall come into force at once.]\n2. Definitions.\u2013 In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject of context,\u2500\n(a) \u201cMilitary Police-officer\u201d means a person who, at the commencement of this Act, is serving in the Border Military Police Force, or who, after the commencement of this Act, has been appointed to the Border Military Police Force under this Act and has signed a recruiting roll on which the conditions of service contained in the schedule are set forth;\n[5][(b) \u201cCommandant\u201d means a person appointed under section 5:]\n(c) \u201cActive Service\u201d means service against hostile tribes or raiders or against other persons in the field: [6][* * *]\n[7][(d) the expressions, \u201cassault\u201d, \u201ccriminal force\u201d, \u201cfraudulently\u201d, \u201creason to believe\u201d and \u201cvoluntarily causing hurt\u201d used herein shall have the same meanings as assigned to them in the Pakistan Penal Code 1860 (XLV of 1860):]\n[8][(e) \u201cGovernment\u201d means the Government of the Punjab: and]\n[9][(f) \u201cSenior Commandant\u201d means a person appointed or authorized as Senior Commandant under section 5.]\n[10][3. Power to maintain Border Military Police Force.\u2013 The Government may maintain a force to be called the Border Military Police Force for the better protection of the notified tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts.]\n[11][4. Constitution of the Force.\u2013 The Border Military Police Force shall consist of such number of officers and personnel, and shall be constituted in such manner and the members of such force shall receive such pay, pension and other remuneration, as may be notified by the Government.]\n[12][5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.\u2013 (1) The Government may appoint Senior Commandant, Commandant and other superior officers of the Border Military Police Force.\n(2) The Senior Commandant shall be an officer of the Government not below the rank of BS-18.\n(3) The Senior Commandant, the Commandant and every other officer so appointed, shall possess, and may exercise, such power and authority over the subordinate officers and members of the Force as is provided by or under this Act.]\n[13][6. Appointment of subordinate officers and personnel.\u2013 (1) The Senior Commandant and Commandant shall appoint subordinate officers and the personnel of the Border Military Police Force on the terms and conditions as may be prescribed in the rules.\n(2) The subordinate officers and the personnel of the Border Military Police Force shall perform such functions and exercise such powers as may be prescribed in the rules.]\n[14][7. Superintendence, control and administration.\u2013 (1) The superintendence and control of the Border Military Police Force shall vest in the Government.\n(2) The Border Military Police Force shall be administered by the Senior Commandant and the Commandant respectively in accordance with this Act and the rules made thereunder.]\n8. More heinous offences.\u2013 (1) Every Military Police officer who\u2013\n(a) begins, excites, causes or joins in any mutiny or sedition, or being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress it, or knowing, or having reason to believe in, the existence of any mutiny, or of any intention to mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding or other superior officer; or\n(b) uses, or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his superior officer, whether on or off duty; or\n(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard which is committed to his charge or which it is his duty to defend; or\n(d) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves, any person in arms against the State, or omits to discover immediately to his commanding or other superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge; or who, while on active service,\u2013\n(e) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or\n(f) deserts the service; or\n(g) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(h) without authority, leaves his commanding officer, or his post or party, to go in search of plunder; or\n(i) quits his guard, picquet, party or patrol without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(j) uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing provisions or other necessaries to camp or quarters, or forces a safeguard or, without authority, breaks into any house or any other place for plunder, or plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind; or\n(k) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action or in camp, garrison or quarters; or\n(l) displays cowardice in the execution of his duty;\n[15][shall be punishable:-\n(i) for death or for imprisonment for life or for imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years for the offence described in clause (a), clause (c) and clause (d); and\n(ii) for the offences described in clause (b), clause (e), clause (f), clause (g), clause (h), clause (i), clause (j), clause (k) and clause (l), for imprisonment which may extend to seven years and with such fine which may extend to three months\u2019 pay.]\n[16][(2) Whoever commits any of the offences described in sub-section (1), shall be tried in such manner as may be prescribed.]\n9. Less heinous offences.\u2013 [18][(1)] Every Military Police officer who\u2013\n(a) is in a state of intoxication when on or for any duty, or on parade or on the line of march; or\n(b) strikes or attempts to force any sentry; or\n(c) being in command of a guard, picquet or patrol, refuses to receive any prisoner duly committed to his charge, or, without proper authority, releases any prisoner, or negligently suffers any prisoner to escape; or\n(d) being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement before he is set at liberty by proper authority; or\n(e) is grossly insubordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of his office; or\n(f) refuses to superintendent or assist in the making of any field-work or other work of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field; or\n(g) strikes or otherwise ill-uses any Military Police officer subordinate to him in rank or position; or,\n(h) being in command at any post or on the march and receiving a complaint that any one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltreated or oppressed any person, or has committed any riot or trespass, fails, on proof of the truth of the complaint, to have due reparation made as far as possible to the injured person and to report the case to the proper authority; or\n(i) designedly or through neglect injures or loses, or fraudulently disposes of, his arms, cloths, tools, equipments, ammunition, accoutrements or Military Police necessaries, or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging to any other person; or\n(j) malingers, or feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself, or intentionally delays his cure, or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or,\n(k) with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service, voluntarily causes hurt to himself or any other person; or\n(l) does not, when called upon by his superior officer so to do, or upon ceasing to be a Military Police Officer, forthwith deliver up, or duly account for, all or any arms, ammunition, stores, accoutrements, appointments or other property issued or supplied to him, or in his custody or possession, as such Military Police Officer; or\nwho, while not on active service,\u2013\n(m) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or\n(n) plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind; or\n(o) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(p) deserts the service;\nshall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to three months pay, or with both.\n10. Minor Punishment.\u2013 (1) The [20][Senior Commandant] and the Commandant, respectively, may, subject to any rules made under this Act, award, in lieu of, or in addition to, suspension or dismissal, any of the following punishments to any Military Police Officer who is, in the opinion of the [21][Senior Commandant] or Commandant, as the case may be, guilty of disobedience, neglect of duty or remissness in the discharge of any duty, or of rendering himself unfit to discharge his duty, or of other misconduct in his capacity as such Military Police Officer, that is to say,\u2013\n(a) Reduction in rank and emoluments;\n(b) Fine to any amount not exceeding one month\u2019s pay and allowances;\n(c) Confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding one month;\n(d) Confinement in the quarter-guard for not more than fifteen days, with or without punishment-drill or extra guard, fatigue or other duty;\n(e) Removal from any office of distinction or special emolument in the Force.\n(2) The [22][Senior Commandant], or the Commandant, or an officer, not being below the rank of subadar, commanding a separate detachment or an outpost or in temporary command at the head-quarters of a district during the absence of the [23][Senior Commandant] and Commandant, may, without a formal trial, award to any Military Police Officer who is subject to his authority any of the following punishments for the commission of any petty offence against discipline, which is not otherwise provided for in this Act, or which is not of a sufficiently serious nature to call for a prosecution before a criminal court, that is to say,\u2013\n(a) confinement for not more than seven days in the quarter-guard or such other place as may be considered suitable, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances during its continuance;\n(b) punishment-drill, or extra guard, fatigue or other duty, for not more than thirty days, with or without confinement to quarters.\n(3) Any one of the punishments described in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may be awarded separately or in combination with any one or more of the said punishments respectively.\n[24][11. Place of imprisonment.\u2013 (1) Any person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months shall, if he is also dismissed from the Border Military Police Force, be imprisoned in the nearest prison or such other prison as the Government may, by general or special order, direct.\n(2) Any person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months but is not dismissed from the Border Military Police Force, he may, if the court or the Senior Commandant so directs, be confined in the quarter-guard or such other place as the court or the Senior Commandant may consider suitable.]\n12. Resignation and withdrawal from Force.\u2013 No Military Police officer shall be at liberty to\u2013\n(a) resign his appointment during the term of his engagement, except before the expiration of the first three months of his service, or\n(b) withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment,\nwithout the permission in writing (to be previously obtained) of the [25][Senior Commandant] or Commandant or other officer authorized by the [26][Senior Commandant] to grant such permission.\n13. General duties of Military Police Officers.\u2013 [27][* * *] It shall be the duty of every Military Police officer promptly to obey and to execute all orders and warrants lawfully issued to him by any competent authority, to detect and bring offenders to justice, and to apprehend all persons whom he is legally authorized to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient grounds exist.\n[29][14. Conferment of powers and imposition of duties.\u2013 The Government may, by general or special order, confer or impose upon any Military Police Officer any of the powers or duties conferred or imposed on a Police Officer of any class or grade by any enactment for the time being in force.]\n15. Protection for acts of Military Police Officers.\u2013 (1) In any suit or proceeding against any Military Police Officer for any act done by him in pursuance of a warrant or order of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead that such act was done by him under the authority of such warrant or order.\n(2) Such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and, if it is so proved, such Military Police Officer shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so done by him, not withstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority which issued such warrant or order.\n(3) All suits and proceedings (whether civil or criminal) against any person which may lawfully be brought for anything done or intended to be done under the powers conferred by, or in pursuance of, any provision of this Act or the rules thereunder, shall be commenced within three months after the act complained of was committed, and not otherwise; and notice in writing of such suit or proceeding and of the cause thereof shall be given to the defendant or his superior officer one month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding.\n[30][16. Jurisdiction of Courts.\u2013 Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), the Government may, in consultation with the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, by notification in the official Gazette, establish a court or confer jurisdiction on a court of Sessions or Judicial Magistrate of the First Class to try cases or any class of cases under this Act.]\n[31][17. Appeal etc.\u2013 (1) Any person convicted by the court established or conferred with powers under this Act, may within thirty days from the date of such order, prefer an appeal in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code 1898 (V of 1898).\n(2) Any Military Police Officer, who has been awarded minor punishment under section 10 by the Commandant or the Senior Commandant, shall have a right of appeal to the Senior Commandant or the Government respectively.]\n[32][18. Application of the Act on Baluch Levy.\u2013 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the provisions of this Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the Baluch Levy within the notified tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts.\n(2) The Government may, by notification, apply with such modifications, as it may think fit, any of the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder to any other force or body maintained for similar service within the notified tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts.]\n[33][19. Rules.\u2013 The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for:-\n(a) regulating the appointment, powers and functions of the Senior Commandant and the Commandant, respectively under this Act;\n(b) regulating the classes, grades, condition of service and the remuneration to be paid to the officers and personnel of the Border Military Police Force;\n(c) regulating the procedure for trial of Military Police Officers and appeals under sub-section (2) of section 17; and\n(d) generally, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.]\n[34][THE SCHEDULE\n{see section 2(a)}\nAfter you have served for (such period, as the Government may have prescribed in this behalf), in the Border Military Police Force maintained under the Punjab Border Military Police Act, 1904, you may, at any time, when not on active service, apply for your discharge, through the officer to whom you may be subordinate, to the Commandant or to the Senior Commandant, and you will be granted your discharge after three months from the date of your application, unless your discharge would cause the vacancies in the said Force to exceed one-tenth of the sanctioned strength, in which case you shall be bound to remain in the Force until this objection is waived by the competent authority or removed by it. But when on active service, you shall have no claim to a discharge and you shall be bound to remain to do your duty until the necessity for retaining you in the Force ceases, when you may make your application in the manner hereinbefore prescribed. In the event of your re-enlistment after you have been discharged, you shall have no claim to reckon for pension or other purposes your service previous to your discharge:\nProvided that, if you wish to withdraw from the Force, you may resign at any time before the expiration of first three months of your service, but not afterwards until the completion of the period prescribed as aforesaid:\nProvided also that the Commandant or the Senior Commandant may, if he thinks fit, allow you to resign at any time on your giving three months\u2019 notice of your wish to do so.]\n[1]This Act was passed by the Governor-General of India in Council; received the Assent of the Governor-General on 4th March 1904, published in Part IV of the Gazette of India (Calcutta Issue) on 5th March 1904, pages 13-17; and was adopted by the Punjab by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).\n[2]Substituted for the words \u201cNorth-West Frontier Province\u201d by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).\n[6]The word \u201cand\u201d omitted ibid.\n[7]Substituted by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).\n[14]Substituted by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).\n[17]Sub-sections (3) and (4) omitted ibid.\n[18]Section 9 renumbered as sub-section (1) ibid.\n[19]Inserted by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).\n[20]Substituted ibid., for the words \u201cDeputy Commissioner\u201d.\n[27]Sub-section (1) renumbered ibid. as section 13.\n[28]Sub-section (2) omitted by the Punjab Border Military Police (Amendment) Act 2007 (V of 2007).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 20198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radicalhub.com/2013/06/14/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HVKQRHO45NX5S4FPKODYPGQFEKE7AQ5B", "length": 123, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "radicalhub.com", "title": "June 14, 2013 - Radical Hub", "raw_content": "Most Reliable WebHosting Ever \u2013 Zerolag.com\nHi there, this is the review of the zerolag.com. This is a web hosting service\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 2977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rakcam.com/en/NewsDetails/09-04-28/Congratulations_to_Professor_Michael_Klein.aspx?ReturnURL=%2FHome.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BF43VKRVL4OKCBRUCPIHJ6XKORENFKOG", "length": 13383, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "rakcam.com", "title": "RAK - CAM | Workshop | News Details > Congratulations to Professor Michael Klein", "raw_content": "Michael Klein was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) during the 146th annual meeting of the Academy on April 28, 2009. Professor Klein joins Professors Dresselhaus (RAK-CAM SAB), El-Sayed (RAK-CAM Visiting Professor) and Rao (RAK-CAM SAB) who are members of US-NAS.\n72 New Members Chosen By Academy WASHINGTON\nThe National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.\nThe election was held this morning during the business session of the 146th annual meeting of the Academy. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,150. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. Today's election brings the total number of foreign associates to 404.\nAdditional information about the Academy and its members is available online at http://www.nasonline.org.\nAhmed, Rafi; professor, department of microbiology and immunology, and director, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta\nBebbington, Anthony J.; professor of nature, society, and development, and director of research, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom\nBeese, Lorena S.; James B. Duke Professor, department of biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.\nBergquist, James C.; fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colo.\nBorisy, Gary G.; director and chief executive officer, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.\nCarlson, Marian B.; professor, department of genetics and development and department of microbiology, Columbia University, New York City\nChang, Sun-Yung Alice; professor, department of mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.\nCopeland, Neal G.; executive director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore\nCoppersmith, Susan N.; professor of physics, department of physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison\nDeift, Percy A.; professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York City\nDougherty, Dennis; George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena\nDunlap, Jay C.; professor of biochemistry and chair, department of genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.\nFeigon, Juli; professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles\nFilippenko, Alexei V.; Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, department of astronomy, University of California, Berkeley\nFischer, Robert L.; Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology, department of plant and microbial biology, University of California, Berkeley\nGibbard, AlLan; Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, department of philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor\nGoldstein, Melvyn C.; co-director, Center for Research on Tibet, and John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, department of anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland\nHake, Sarah; director, USDA Plant Gene Expression Center; and full adjunct professor, department of plant and microbial biology, University of California, Berkeley\nHanahan, Doug; member, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and professor of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California, San Francisco\nHarwood, Caroline S.; professor, department of microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle\nHopcroft, John E.; professor, computer science department, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.\nHughes, Thomas J.R.; Mathematics Chair III, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), and professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, University of Texas, Austin\nIsberg, Ralph R.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of molecular biology and microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston\nJacak, Barbara V.; Distinguished Professor of Physics, department of physics and astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook\nJacks, Tyler; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and David H. 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Lawrence; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of biological chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles\nAkira, Shizuo; director, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (Japan)\nBerners-Lee, Timothy; director, World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (United Kingdom)\nCorkum, Paul B.; director, Institute for Molecular Sciences, Attosecond Science Program Steacie, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Canada)\nCossart, Pascale; director and head, Unite des Interactions Bacteries Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France)\nD\u00edaz, Sandra M.; associate professor, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biolog\u00eda Vegetal (IMBIV), Universidad Nacional de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina (Argentina)\nHelenius, Ari; professor of biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Finland)\nJacobs, Patricia A.; director, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, University of Southampton, Wiltshire, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)\nKondo, Jun; emeritus adviser, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan (Japan)\nLambeck, Kurt; Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Acon (Australia)\nLambin, Eric F.; professor, department of geography and geology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Belgium)\nLogothetis, Nikos K.; director, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany (Greece)\nMansfield, Peter; emeritus professor of physics, Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)\nSalmond, Mary Anne; Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Maori Studies, department of Maori studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (New Zealand)\nSandmo, Agnar; emeritus professor, Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Bergen (Norway)\nSchuster, Peter; president, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria)\nShin, Hee-Sup; director, Center for Neural Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul (South Korea)\nTocchini-Valentini, Glauco P.; coordinator, Istituto di Biologia Cellulare, National Research Council of Italy, Monterotondo Scalo (Italy)\nzur Hausen, Harald; scientific director emeritus, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (Germany)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 15273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 133.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ramseylawlibrary.org/?p=3373", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5S4SMBHOU4JRCWHS4MUYPSGMMNRZKNOV", "length": 2452, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ramseylawlibrary.org", "title": "The Long (and Proud) History of Minnesota\u2019s County Law Libraries", "raw_content": "The Long (and Proud) History of Minnesota\u2019s County Law Libraries\nYou might have missed it, but county law libraries made a surprise appearance in the Minnesota legislative session this spring. You can read the original Senate File 1113 here, which would have allowed for the diversion of county law library funds for construction of a courthouse. This legislation passed both the Senate and the House, but was vetoed by Governor Dayton. But bills concerning county law libraries could always come up again at the capitol.\nWithout examining now-vetoed bill, this occurrence presents an opportunity to consider some history behind county law libraries in Minnesota. Their modern incarnation formally came into existence with what became Minnesota Statute \u00a7134A. You can read in the 1949 Session Laws wherein the Legislature laid out the specifics for the establishment, operation, and function of county law libraries. This original text reveals that amazingly little has changed to the county law library statute over the years, such as which sectors must be represented on governing boards, how funding is to be provided, and who must be allowed to use the libraries. Keep in mind that this was all back in 1949, predating modern \u201caccess to justice\u201d efforts. Of course, what might have been casually called a \u201dcounty law library\u201d existed in Minnesota prior to this statute, often growing from local bar association libraries. (This was how the Hennepin County Law Library got its start way back in 1883.) But the original statute overwhelmingly set the standards for our modern county law libraries.\nToday you can find county law libraries throughout the state, and this brochure from the Minnesota Coalition of County Law Libraries (MCCLL) lists those which offer professional staff to assist users. But history-wise, its not easy to determine when Minnesota\u2019s various county law libraries come to be. Public law libraries existed in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth back in 1955, as evidenced in this article in the Law Library Journal about the founding of the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries (MALL). Since this sort of historical information can be elusive, we would like to know more about the history of your county law library (including this library). If you have any such inside knowledge, please share it with us. And- if you have found the services and resources of your county law library helpful, by all means tell your legislator!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ratemybistro.co.uk/tag/waterloo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7TOR2EIFMIXKXIDHDT6TSNS3P6DBZEO4", "length": 318, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ratemybistro.co.uk", "title": "Waterloo Archives - Rate My Bistro", "raw_content": "Tas \u2013 Waterloo\nTas is a great restaurant that serves Anatolian/Turkish cuisine. The food is very tasty and portions are quite big. The kitchen and the bar are at the back end of the restaurant. The starter we had was borek: filo pastry filled with feta cheese and spinach. This was nice and as there were four pieces,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rawnervenoise.net/index.php/mixed-media/palimpsest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2GAPJ64M7OWDDLZ4IBE4HLEHO4GXF23Q", "length": 864, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rawnervenoise.net", "title": "palimpsest \u2013 raw nerve noise", "raw_content": "Palimpsest, a two-week installation, book-ended by two performance evenings that took place in the Dance Limerick Space from 31 August \u2013 14 September 2014 as part of Limerick National City of Culture. Created by John Galvin: Visual Artist, Raw Nerve Noise: Sonic Artist and Mark Carberry: Choreographer, Palimpsest comprised both a large-scale multimedia installation and two unique choreographed performance evenings. The architectural space of Dance Limerick (St John\u2019s Church) was re-imagined as a recording device, one that has stored traces of the memories and experiences of the inhabitants of Limerick City. These fragments of memory were then \u2018released\u2019 from the walls through an immersive and multi-layered audiovisual experience. This large scale work also saw additional live improvised dance performances by London-based dance artist Alexandra Baybutt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rdewald.blogspot.com/2007/10/rdewald-does-minneapolis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:EB2HSVMZVQYL3L3OUAPFEBLPYTRN3NVV", "length": 1907, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "rdewald.blogspot.com", "title": "Richard O. DeWald: RDeWald does Minneapolis", "raw_content": "RDeWald does Minneapolis\nI am posting from a text memo I banged out with the thumb keyboard on my Treo during my flight from New York to Minneapolis St. Paul.\nThis is a first. There are 12 passengers on my flight on an American Airlines MD80, a full-size commercial airliner. Not only is there no one in my row, there is no one in the ten rows in front of me and no one behind me at all. There's a couple sitting across the aisle chatting about 15 rows in front of me, everyone else moved up to first class. I didn't because I am actually more comfortable in an open row back here and I am feeling misanthropic this AM.\nI was served the first-class breakfast anyway, an egg and cheese quesodilla with fruit salad. They brought back the warm hand towels to me--I was offered all of the first class service perks except for the free booze.\nI was offered an upgrade to first class when I checked in for $90. I pondered that for a moment. I'm glad I declined. Even I can't drink $90 worth of chardonnay in 3 hours. The nicest thing about being on this flight with only 11 other passengers is the peace and quiet. This must be what it is like to fly in a private jet. There's no one around me talking. No kids screaming. Nothing, just me, my thoughts and the quiet serenity of the passing scene out the window. My only ambition of wealth in life is to be able to afford a fractional lease on a G4. I am having a taste of that life on this flight.\nI am going to Minneapolis-St Paul to attend a two-day \"sesshin\" at the Zen Center led by the person whom I regard as my teacher. A sesshin is a sort of Zen practice intensive, silent, lots of sitting in meditation, ritualistic meals, private interviews with the teachers, etc. I've been doing one about once a year since I took up the practice. This is the 2007 version.\nIf you're interested, here's the schedule.\nThey talk funny here, but it's completely charming.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reachsa.org.za/downloads-2/pension-fund-rules/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MBP4SGT3WIUHJT7RAWEDXLUHVTQ3Y4FW", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "reachsa.org.za", "title": "Pension Fund Rules - REACH-SA", "raw_content": "To download the latest rules for the Pension Fund please click on the link below:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 207.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://readinglists.ucl.ac.uk/items/AA18C68D-EFDB-7599-4945-637647A3E4F5.html?referrer=%2Flists%2F03F11274-5405-14A0-2FFC-1369CB18DEE6.html%23item-AA18C68D-EFDB-7599-4945-637647A3E4F5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GKOGSJLPKQACK7RU6SNESE72S4BMGRL4", "length": 214, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "readinglists.ucl.ac.uk", "title": "Agent of Deterioration: Incorrect Relative Humidity | University College London", "raw_content": "Agent of Deterioration: Incorrect Relative Humidity\nS. Michalski\nhttp://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/caringfor-prendresoin...\nAgent of Deterioration: Light, Ultraviolet and...\nThe ideal climate, risk management, the ASHRAE...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://readthiseatthat.blogspot.com/2014/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:NEOKRQFNYPTXA2RBHHZZYJYS27GD2LDL", "length": 62387, "nlines": 155, "source_domain": "readthiseatthat.blogspot.com", "title": "Read This / Eat That: March 2014", "raw_content": "In the vein of continuing blogoversary fun, we thought we\u2019d celebrate our blog birthday with a few of our favorite things\u2014favorite reads for the year so far, that is! We\u2019ve been working hard trying to keep up to pace in the Girls in Capes 2014 Reading Challenge, and happily we\u2019ve come across quite a few keepers along the way. Since we\u2019re only drawing near to the quarter mark of the year, we thought five would be a good number to share with you. So without further ado, here are each of our top reads for the first three months of 2014!\nA\u2019s Top 5 Books of 2014 (So Far)\n1. A Curse Dark As Gold, by Elizabeth C. Bunce\nYou may recognize this book as my Morris Award winner from reading bingo, and WOW, am I glad I picked this one. It was damn near perfection.\nThe book takes place in a setting much like that of England on the cusp of the industrial revolution, in a small town centered around a wool mill. Charlotte Miller has to take charge of the mill with her sister after their father\u2019s death, and though she refuses to believe that it\u2019s cursed, as people claim, bad luck is visited upon them again and again. Just when it appears that everything is going to fall apart, a man called Jack Spinner shows up, and offers to spin straw into gold thread for a small price. Starting to sound familiar yet? Every time bad luck threatens to shut the mill down, Jack Spinner reappears to save it, always with a different, strange price. But as the bad luck and bargaining continue, Charlotte will have to get to the bottom of the curse if she hopes to save the mill and the town along with it.\nI just. It was SO good. The writing is exceptional, with fun period-appropriate spellings here and there. All the characters are fully realized, complicated people. The mystery surrounding the curse is genuinely mysterious, and kept me guessing at what was really going on with each new clue that surfaced. The atmosphere was pitch perfect, with the spookiness and suspense executed flawlessly. In fact, it ended up being a lot creepier than I would\u2019ve expected from reading the blurb, and it really worked. I was completely engaged and engrossed\u2014as Charlotte was making decisions and trying to save the mill, I found myself wondering at the strangeness of events along with her, or covering my eyes and howling nonoNO don\u2019t do it!!!, or having some other completely crazy reaction. The only thing I was initially unsure about was the protagonist marrying the love interest not even halfway through the book, but I should never have worried\u2014the romance lost none of its interest (in fact, I\u2019d say it GAINED interest) and it had a huge emotional payoff. Not an approach to romance you see everyday, and it was pretty brilliant. SO GOOD.\nSeriously, you should read this book.\n2. The Tiffany Aching Quartet, by Terry Pratchett\nOkay, I guess this is kind of cheating because it\u2019s a series. But I couldn\u2019t pick just one of the two I\u2019ve read!!! These books take place within Terry Pratchett\u2019s Discworld, but you don\u2019t have to have read all, or any, of the Discworld books to understand these ones. They were actually my first trip into the world of Terry Pratchett, and I absolutely loved them.\nTiffany Aching is a young girl living in the Chalk, a region of fields and sheep, who finds out that she is a witch. In the first book, The Wee Free Men, Tiffany has to go to Fairyland to save her kidnapped baby brother, and in the second, she leaves the Chalk to study with another witch. Always with her, however, are the Nac Mac Feegle (also known as Wee Free Men), tiny Scottish-ish Pictsies who love drinking and fighting, and who never fail to show up and help the wee hag face whatever challenges come. I mean, they\u2019re called Pictsies! That\u2019s hilarious!!!\nTerry Pratchett is a funny man, and his wit is on display in full force in these books. Reading them makes me laugh, but it also makes me feel like I\u2019ve learned something about life and the universe. The books have an impressive depth and resonance that commingle with the humor, creating something that feels both meaningful and entertaining. These books are fantasy, but like all good fantasies, they are completely real in all the important things. They may be labeled as YA, but they\u2019re ones that everyone should read. I can\u2019t wait to read the second half of the quartet!\n3. Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard\nI effing love this play. I've seen a couple amateur productions of it before, but I\u2019d never actually sat down and read it until this month. It's wonderful to watch and I can\u2019t recommend that experience enough, but it\u2019s also amazing how full the play is, how there was so much more I picked up on in the reading that flew right by me in the watching. Though I spent quite a while lingering over it, I suspect there is yet more that has gone over my head, and I hope to grasp it in future readings and viewings.\nThe play has two parallel storylines, one unfolding at an English country estate in the nineteenth century, and the other taking place at the same estate in the 1990s, with scenes switching back and forth between the two. The modern day story involves academics who are investigating or tangentially related to a mystery involving Lord Byron\u2019s possible presence at the estate in, you guessed it, the timeline of the earlier storyline. While the academics debate the truth of what really happened all those years ago, we learn more about it through the nineteenth century storyline involving a young girl who is brilliant at mathematics, her tutor, and the rest of her family and the guests they host at the estate. The contrast between the conclusions the modern people draw about the earlier days and what we see actually happening in that time is completely absorbing, and two storylines\u2019 convergence as the end of the play draws near is powerful.\nIt\u2019s just\u2026it\u2019s perfection, and I don\u2019t have any words to properly convey its brilliance. It\u2019s full of scintillating wit and intelligence, and it perfectly captures the exhilaration of literary/academia nerding. It covers ideas of truth (both its objectivity and subjectivity), the effects of passing time, science, math, poetry, the nature of existence and the universe, lust, love\u2026 It\u2019s laugh-out-loud funny, and joyful, and witty, and quirky (there are pet tortoises!), and very moving, and sad. I don\u2019t know how all that can be contained in 97 pages, but Stoppard achieves it masterfully. Please read it. Please watch it. Experience it for yourself, since nothing I say here can do it justice.\n4. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, by Isabel Greenberg\nI\u2019ve already talked about this one recently here, so I\u2019ll try not to repeat myself too much. I went into reading this graphic novel not really knowing what to expect, and ended up thoroughly enjoying it. It was easy to get caught up in the stories within stories narrative style, and the mix of old myths in new clothes and unfamiliar ones is addictive. Since it\u2019s a story about storytelling, there are some funny meta moments, and the humor is a nice contrast to some of the intensity that myths can have\u2014y\u2019know, vengeful gods, murders, those kinda things. You can tell that the author just gets it, with regards to the nature of myth and legend. I hope there are more graphic novels about Early Earth to come in the future!\n5. The Civil War in Color, by John C. Guntzelman\nI\u2019ve had my eye on this one since I first saw it on a Barnes and Noble Civil War 150th anniversary themed display table sometime last year. I recently checked it out from the library, and liked it enough that when I heard through the grapevine that it had made its way to the bargain books section of many B&Ns, I bought a copy for the low price of thirteen dollars. And well worth it, I say! The basic idea behind the book is to take images from the Civil War, the first conflict in US History that was widely photographed, and after much research about the appearances of the people involved, the popular clothing colors of the day, etc., colorize the photos in hopes of giving readers a new perspective on the war.\nIt is completely successful in that aim. I love black and white photography, but when I look at photos taken long ago, there is something undeniably historical about them. On the one hand I feel connected with the past by seeing actual images of the way things looked back then, but on the other it still feels distant in many ways. It was astonishing to me how the addition of color to the photos contained in this book makes them feel so much closer. It makes them seem more real, more alive, and more relatable. So many more details become noticeable in color (there are the original B&W versions included for some of the photos, for comparison purposes), and I found myself poring over every inch of each photograph, wondering about the lives of the people immortalized in them. (The similarities between the appearance of men from this era and modern hipsters are also surprising. Photoshop in a smartphone and some sort of organic craft beverage, and you could be at Coachella.) Lots of text to help elucidate what you\u2019re looking at makes this an educational, eye-opening coffee table book. Check it out if you can.\n*Honorable Mention* The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss\nI finally got around to reading this much-loved epic fantasy novel, and really enjoyed it. Though I worried that the main character, Kvothe, was wandering into Mary Sue territory at times, he is a fascinating, resourceful dude and it is thoroughly awesome to live vicariously through his experiences. There were a few tricksy twists by the author that pleased me greatly, and a cast of well-developed characters that I can\u2019t wait to visit again when I get my hands on book two. I liked the book\u2019s unique take on magic and solid world-building. The way the story is structured, with an adult, fallen-from-grace Kvothe telling the story of his life up to that point, inevitably creates a sense of foreshadowing where you\u2019re kept wondering how things went so wrong for a guy who from childhood seems to be heading in the direction of becoming an epic hero.\nOverall I rated the book a 4 out of 5, since I try to be stingy with fives and reserve them for ones with that certain indescribable, jaw-dropping, knock-me-on-my-ass quality. For me it hovered between the two for most of its over-700 pages, but there were definitely a lot of full-on 5 moments, like when Kvothe plays for his pipes at the Eolian. That was probably my favorite scene in the entire book\u2014the way the words make you hear music is pure magic. (If you haven\u2019t read the book that probably sounds like gibberish, but when you read it will make sense. Promise!)\nS\u2019s Top 5 Books of 2014 (So Far)\n1. Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple\nBea, a young teenager, is trying to piece together what happened before her mother, Bernadette, disappeared on the eve of a family trip to Antarctica. With notes between members of the PTA at Bea\u2019s school, memos between Bernadette and her remote personal assistant, magazine clippings about her Bernadette\u2019s illustrious career as an architect before Bea\u2019s birth, Bea tells a gripping and often hilarious account of her mother\u2019s eccentricity and the absurdity of the school parent community.\nI knew I loved Bernadette as I was reading it in January, but I couldn\u2019t put my feelings into words before I read another book in March that seemed to be approaching similar themes in a far less appealing way.\nBasically the success of this rests in the decision of the author, Maria Semple, to structure the book as a project Bea is doing to find her mother, both in the \u201cgetting to know who she really is\u201d sense, and in the action later in the story. First, Bea is a charming narrator. She\u2019s a cusp-of-high-school girl who is mature and sheltered, allowing her to make observations on the people who surround her with well-considered judgments but some level of innocent miscalculation. In a story that uses petty PTA mom gossip, Bea\u2019s voice serves as a palate cleanser and as reality check.\nNext, the double sense of finding Bernadette is doubly interesting. Exploring the paper trail of what seems to be a crazy Bernadette is a solid enough basis for a funny satire about stay-at-home mothers. Having Bea propose to travel to Antarctica to try to find a missing mother follows the absurdity of the earlier part of the novel, but adds an extremely somber element of a girl struggling to find peace with grief. And once the grief is there, it\u2019s easy to see the darker side to Bernadette\u2019s problems in the first half of the book, even as it\u2019s impossible to keep from laughing at some of them.\nI don\u2019t want to limit my praise to these elements. Bernadette herself is a great character, the writing style is so controlled and yet seemingly effortless, the send-up of tech culture in Seattle is funny too.\n2. The Beginning of Everything, by Robyn Schneider\nWitty teen boy narrators idolizing troubled girls who wear cool clothes and plan cooler pranks seem to be a mainstay in young adult literature these days (at least on this week\u2019s NY Times YA Best Sellers List, where 3-4 titles essentially fit that description), and this February I got angry at Looking for Alaska for being an inferior version of Paper Towns, and I started to wonder if I had just exhausted my ability to like witty teen boys yearning for manic pixie dream girls. Turn the calendar to March, when I read The Beginning of Everything, and found within the first chapter that I could possibly forgive the book for anything it did in the remaining 90% of the plot (decapitation on roller coasters is an amazing way to start a book).\nBut the rest of the book was just as good as the beginning! Ezra Faulkner, finishing his junior year of high school as captain of the varsity tennis team and soon-to-be-elected president of the senior class, discovers his girlfriend cheating on him at a party, and gets into a car accident bad enough to ruin his tennis ambitions. When he withdraws from his popular and athletic friends, an old childhood friend brings him into the world of debate club, where transfer student Cassidy catches Ezra\u2019s eye. Everything about this book worked for me. The depiction of social circles in high school seemed spot-on, and Ezra\u2019s voice is funny, mostly mature, but still youthfully insecure.\n3. The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach\nA brilliant shortstop, Henry Skrimshander, is on track to realizing his dream of playing professional baseball when he enters a debilitating slump in his junior year. At the same time his mentor and best friend, Mike Schwartz, has also seen his dream of living up to expectations of entering a top-tier law school shatter. Though Henry cannot escape his panic on the field, Mike starts to date the college president\u2019s daughter, Pella Affenlight, who is recovering from a too-early marriage and debilitating depression. The book could be a grim portrait of lost confidence and dreams deferred in the early twenties of life, but Henry\u2019s roommate, Owen Dunne, has fallen in love with the late middle-aged college president, whose path to accepting his love for Owen suggests that dreams and identity can fail or change at any point of life.\nIf you haven\u2019t guessed already, this is a book to shelve with The Emperor\u2019s Children (Claire Messud) and The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides), which also deal with interia-laden, depressed young people trying to find a place in the world. I really disliked both of those books, but for some reason I really enjoyed The Art of Fielding. I can\u2019t say I liked any of the main characters all of the time, but I felt for them, and genuinely hoped they could solve their problems and regain their happiness. Chad Harbach uses Henry\u2019s book of meditations on how to be a shortstop as a focus, and also weaves in Herman Melville and Moby Dick as models for the characters.\nIn all, an incredibly solid book, and a compulsive read.\n4. A Venetian Affair, by Andrea Di Robilant\nThis is one of the juiciest nonfiction books you can imagine, with a premise so incredible that reviewers on Goodreads have labeled it fiction. The author\u2019s father found in his Venetian palazzo a trunk of 18th century love letters, detailing the passionate relationship between Andrea Memmo, a young nobleman, and Giustiniana Wynne, a younger and less noble woman. The book is di Robilant\u2019s effort to tie together the letters that so fascinated his family, with a story that I know see could be described as How I Met Your Ancestor in mid-1700s Venice.\nAndrea is a twenty-something romantic who, despite his love of art and sentimentality, is quite an experienced man. Giustiniana is a young, somewhat foreign, girl, who has ambitions beyond marriage. The two of them spend a decade trying to figure out their mixed-up relationship, which involves proposals, engagements to others, separation, secret meetings, and a correspondence that works because Giustiniana addresses Andrea as her \u201cdear brother.\u201d Several of the chapters read very much like the 18th Century Venetian version of How I Met Your Mother plots. Seriously, Casanova turns out to be Giustiniana\u2019s best friend in Paris, and his \u201ccure\u201d for unwanted pregnancy is so ludicrous to our modern ears that not even Barney Stinson would dare to use it as a play. And for those of you who have seen the finale of How I Met Your Mother, the last chapter of this story reads almost the same. Instead of the leisurely pace of the rest of the book, there are summaries of the directions everyone\u2019s lives turned, and the limited personal interaction they had with people who were so important to their raucous social lives in their youth.\n5. The Last Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde\nJasper Fforde, famous for his Thursday Next series of book-hopping action and word play, started a young adult series a few years ago that I never quite got around to reading. FOOLISH ME. This book was an absolute delight. It\u2019s as zany as you\u2019d expect from a Fforde book, and at a shorter length, more tightly focused than any other Fforde book. Plus the characters are all fun, and the pet Quarkbeast has surpassed Thursday\u2019s pet dodo, Pickwick, as the coolest pet ever.\nJennifer Strange, indentured orphan at Kazam Mystical Arts Management, has her hands full just trying to run company of eccentric magicians without raising suspicions that the owner has disappeared, but premonitions of the death of the last dragon in the land bring her life into chaos as she tries to protect the interests of the dragon, avoid committing treason against King Snood, and prevent a war over the Dragonlands. Oh, and it seems that the death of the dragon could result in a mystical arts management industry change due to wild flux of magic available.\nLabels: book nerding, contemporary, graphic novel, high fantasy, non-fiction, not ya, top#list, ya, ya-fantasy\nAre you ready for some blogoversary treats?!? How about some cupcakes with a surprise inside? I\u2019m not completely sure where the idea for these came from. My mother had been talking about making an orange meringue pie, and with that as my original inspiration, my brain somehow popped out the idea of putting orange curd inside a cupcake and using meringue instead of icing. I used the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook\u2019s basic recipes for yellow cake, orange curd, and meringue topping as my general guidelines in creating the three main components of this recipe, and modified them as I thought would best fit my purposes as I went along. I had no idea if I could execute the idea I had in mind, but I figured I\u2019d give it a go.\nWhat resulted is an experience I\u2019ve been affectionately calling \u201cbaking night from hell,\u201d but that was mostly due to outside factors and not any inherent hellishness on the part of these cupcakes. My old-school stove that doesn\u2019t heat evenly scorched the orange curd, I discovered mid-baking at 10 p.m. that the milk in my fridge that was to be a batter ingredient had gone bad, my cream of tartar for the meringue was probably at least 2 decades old and prevented the egg whites from setting up correctly\u2026it was fun. But I persevered, and though the results may not have been as pretty as I would\u2019ve hoped, I think the cupcakes turned out to be very tasty. The orange zest in the batter gives the cake a nice citrus punch, while the orange curd hiding inside is more sweet than tart. The meringue is a lighter alternative to icing, and it feels kind of liking you\u2019re biting into a soft cupcake cloud. Yum!\n...happy, happy birthday to us. Hey RTET! (To get the full effect, and perhaps more importantly, the tune, you\u2019ll need to watch the video below.)\nAhhh, my favorite birthday song. I can pretty much guarantee it\u2019ll be stuck in your head the rest of the day. But why dwell on that when it\u2019s our FIRST blogoversary?! That\u2019s right, we\u2019ve been tooling around writing silly reviews and subjecting you to our kitchen experiments for one full pass around the sun now. Hard to believe, isn\u2019t it? It seems like just yesterday that A tentatively proposed the idea for a book-and-food blog to S, and S brilliantly invented our catchy name (if we may call it such ourselves), and we fired texts back and forth with ideas for theme posts, books to read, things to cook\u2026 March 26th, 2013 was the day our first post went live (we\u2019re not counting the one that only says \u201ctesting, testing, 1, 2, 3\u201d), and since then we have written 133 more posts, composed 1352 tweets, pinned 4.7k things on Pinterest, created Facebook and Google+ pages, had Lev Grossman temporarily follow us, Jane Yolen accidentally follow us, and Adam Roberts continue to follow us on Twitter.\nNow is as good a time as any to remind you of all the ways you can connect with us via social media. You can follow us on Twitter @ReadThisEatThat, check out our sporadic Instagram photo postings here, like us on Facebook here, and visit our Pinterest home here. If Google+ is more your style, you can find us here. You can also sign up to get our posts delivered to your inbox by submitting your email address where it says \u201cFollow us by email!\u201d in the sidebar of this page (if you\u2019re reading on your smartphone or tablet, you may have to switch from mobile version to web version at the bottom of the page to be able to see the sidebar). Sign up and never miss a thing going on here in the world of RTET! (Because believe us, bookworms and moths, that would pain us just as much as it would you.)\nBut what is a birthday celebration without treats? Since the correct answer to that question is \u201cnothing,\u201d we decided to invent some tasty goodies to share with you on this occasion. Though nothing would please us more than to be able to send each and every one of you something good to eat in the mail, our financial analysts alerted us that that would be both time- and cost-prohibitive, so you\u2019ll have to settle for recipes and photos instead. A decided to attempt orange curd cupcakes and S thought she\u2019d give funfetti creampuffs a whirl, so look for those coming soon.\nWe thought it would be a good idea to extend birthday into birthweek (that\u2019s what everybody does, right?), and so we\u2019ve also got some other blogoversary celebratory posts coming up involving books we\u2019ve loved so far in 2014 and ones we\u2019re looking forward to that are publishing later this year. Keep your eyes on the horizon for two times the treats and some ideas on books to consider reading, and thank you so much for your readership and encouragement in our first year as bloggers! It means the world to us, and we hope you enjoy reading our posts as much as we enjoy writing them.\nAnd now, without further ado, let the festivities commence! ::throws confetti::\nLabels: book nerding, Coming soon, dessert, fun & games\nWe haven\u2019t had a round-up post in awhile! I\u2019ve been hoarding up my reviews for the graphic novels I\u2019ve read in recent months to eventually combine into one big graphic novel post, and here it is at last. Boom, graphic novel explosion! I enjoyed all of these so the reviews may be light on snark, but hopefully you\u2019ll find something that sounds interesting enough for you to track down and try out yourself! Here we go\u2026\nThis graphic novel memoir of indie cartoonist Lucy Knisley is a whole lot of fun. It focuses on her life with regards to the influence cooking and eating has had on it, from her days as a kid growing up in NYC, all the way to her present life as a cartoonist. Each chapter has a different theme or story, with the topics of food and eating either as the main component of the narrative or woven into it. One chapter I particularly enjoyed focused on her transition from Manhattanite to country kid when she moved upstate with her mother at a young age. The descriptions of eating raw, garden-fresh tomatillos made me drool a little, and her admission that she never made it to REAL country kid status due to the fact that she couldn\u2019t really accept animal mortality as a part of life was both funny and real (the drawings of her looking horrified at a neighbor beheading a chicken and the carnage when a raccoon got in the coop were wholly relatable). Some of the other chapters cover such diverse foodie topics as her appreciation for junk food as well as the finer things (a paradox her parents can\u2019t wrap their heads around), and stories of eventful trips to Mexico, Japan, and Europe. The full-color illustrations are charming, and the author\u2019s voice is funny and engaging.\nIn reading this, you get a strong impression of the idea that for her (and all of us really), food, family, and friends are all linked. You can see how these forces have shaped her life in ways both big and small, and it makes you think about your own food-linked memories and the ways what you eat has played a role in your life. I think a book is especially successful if it can get a reader to connect or interact with it on some level, and this book certainly did that for me. I found myself mentally writing my own graphic novel to depict some of the major and minor food-related episodes in my life (first chapter: the battle with fish-paste-filled croissants and my inadvertent pouring of yogurt over my cereal during a study abroad in Japan). To add even more to the reader\u2019s ability to interact with the book, there are fully-illustrated recipes interspersed between chapters. Fried mushrooms?! Yum, count me in! Decadent-sounding carbonara recipe? Yes, please! There\u2019s also an afterword with a collection of photos from her youth to show us the non-illustrated versions of some of the people/places/things that appear in the novel. All in all, I enjoyed this one a lot, and even if you\u2019re not traditionally a graphic novel fan, I would recommend it to you if you\u2019re into food (and who isn\u2019t, really?). Rating: 4 French Fries (As a side note, this book became infinitely more awesome when I noticed that in a drawing of young Lucy reading at the dinner table, her book is Sabriel! Good taste in food AND books. :D)\nI adored this one. One of the author blurbs on the cover warned me that when I sat down to read the book I would finish it all in one go, and that\u2019s exactly what happened. It is very (here comes one of my favorite words\u2026) mythopoeic!!! (Seriously, Mythopoeic Society, you guys should probably check this one out.) It is full of whimsy and moments that made me laugh out loud, but it is also so solidly rooted in the tradition of the myths and fables passed down from time immemorial. It\u2019s a book telling the story of a man who tells stories, and stories within stories unfold before the reader. Matryoshka doll stories! A little bit meta, and in the very best way. I don\u2019t want to ruin the magic of reading it for yourself so I won\u2019t delve too deeply into details, but the basic plot concerns a man traveling the world in search of something, and he both tells and gathers stories along the way. The conceit of \u201cEarly Earth\u201d is fascinating\u2014a time before the dinosaurs and now lost to us today that had people and cities and religion and legends, much like the ancient ancestors of our own modern era. This setting allows the story to have features reminiscent of aspects of our own world (such as Inuit- and Viking-like cultures), but also allows it to be different from what we know, with three moons and magic and powerful gods.\nThe stories themselves feel both foreign and intimately familiar. Within them you\u2019ll find old myths and elements in new clothes, performing their usual functions and also being built upon in new ways\u2014sky trees, sirens luring sailors to their doom, a story of a jealous older brother murdering the younger, and a great flood, just to name a few. They show the stark power storytelling can have, with children being sacrificed to appease gods and a clan war that has gone on for ages, all as a result of tales passed from generation to generation. The characters\u2019 modern speech is funny, especially when juxtaposed with the distant-feeling setting and the mythic nature of the subject matter, and while the amusingly anachronistic exchanges between characters made me laugh, there is no denying the depth and power these kinds of stories have. They resonate somewhere deep in our collective human consciousness, and they demonstrate the universality of storytelling and the ideas, emotions, and fears that have driven it since the dawn of human history.\nJust as important as the writing in this book is the art, and it\u2019s beautiful. The color scheme of grayscale highlighted by color here and there is very effective, and all the sinuous lines and patterns in the drawings create a kind of hypnotic effect that drew me into the story as much as the words and characters. Another cool feature I loved is the font, which was made from the author\u2019s own handwriting!\nThe only thing about the book that left me a little nonplussed is how quickly it ended. I was completely on board with a little deus ex whale (that being an inherently myth-related thing itself, of course!), but after the meandering stories I was surprised that the loose ends in the main arc got tied up and resolved in about a single page. I fell prey to the old appendix trick\u2014I didn\u2019t realize there was an appendix, so as I got closer to the end I thought I still had plenty of pages to come in the main story. But this really didn\u2019t diminish my enjoyment of the book at all, and the stories and background in the appendix were wonderful as well. Overall, an imaginative, enchanting book with an expert balance of humor and depth, and pretty pictures to boot. Folklorist, myth-nerd types will have a heyday with this one, and I highly recommend it even if you wouldn\u2019t categorize yourself as such. I want MOAR, Isabel Greenberg!!! (Also, there is a really cute sled dog sidekick!) Rating: 4.5 Varieties of Snow\nI, like many other denizens of the internet, have spent many a hilarious hour reading Allie Brosh\u2019s inspired blog, Hyperbole and a Half. You know that one friend of yours, who can be telling any story, even about something that would be really boring if it had happened to you, and make it completely engaging and hysterical? That\u2019s Allie Brosh. With excellent comedic timing, perfect word choice, and self-deprecation, she recounts episodes from her life both quotidian (fear of spiders, for example) and ridiculous (such as channeling dinosaur power after donning a Halloween costume) in nature, to laugh-out-loud humorous effect. Her signature MS Paint-style illustrations add to the humor in ways it\u2019s difficult to properly articulate, and elevate the reading experience beyond laugh-out-loud to possibly-choke-on-your-tea-from-laughing-so-make-sure-you-have-a-friend-nearby-to-whack-you-on-the-back.\nThe book does not disappoint on any of these fronts. In fact, I\u2019d say it exceeds them. There are some stories from the blog included in addition to a lot of new material, so you definitely don\u2019t have to be a fan of her website to appreciate or understand the book. Her style of storytelling through prose interspersed with lots of illustrations translates well to book form, and the humor translates effectively, too. One of my favorites from this volume involved a vicious goose invading her house and tormenting her and her boyfriend\u2014as I was reading and laughing I was thinking to myself that this was maybe a story where the titular hyperbole was coming into play. But no! She had anticipated this reaction from her readers and included actual photos taken during the invasion to serve as proof that real life can be just as ridiculous as the things authors dream up!\nNot everything is sunshine and rainbows, though. Her always-confessional style of narrative plumbs some dark places in the stories that recount her recent struggles with depression and anxiety. You might think this would be a bit of a downer, but that\u2019s not the case at all. It is deeply affecting to read of her struggles with these issues, but what\u2019s more powerful is her ability to find humor in them. It never feels flippant or like she\u2019s making light of it, but she is somehow able to take what she\u2019s been dealing with, examine and talk about it in a way that forges a connection with the reader, find something funny in whatever is going on, and turn that into a weapon. Kind of like laughter and boggarts, to put it in Harry Potter terms. On one page I would be crying as I read her spot-on explanation of what being depressed feels like, and then turn the page and snort my own snot in a guffaw as she described the infinite laughter loop fueled by a dried up piece of corn she found under the fridge. Writing that can do that to a reader is pretty brilliant, I\u2019d say, and it\u2019s inspiring to see the raw honesty, incredible bravery, and surprising humor with which she talks about tough things.\nOverall, I really enjoyed this book. It has a balance of funny stories about episodes from her childhood/other times in her life, and insightful, empathy-inducing ones concerning some of the issues she\u2019s been dealing with recently. The common denominators across the board are her inimitable voice, her crazy drawings, and her insane ability to drive a person to nose-scrunching, stomach-aching laughter. Like all the best humorists, Allie Brosh is able to discover the hilarity in the simple and mundane, but she can also find it in darker places, too. I dare you to pick up this book and see if you don\u2019t find yourself bursting out laughing. Rating: 4 Simple Dogs (My absolute favorite Hyperbole and a Half story isn\u2019t included in the book, but you can read it here. It\u2019s about nightmares and scary stories and it\u2019s HILARIOUS.)\nRelish: My Life in the Kitchen, by Lucy Knisley\nPublished by First Second (2013)\nRead in February 2014; from the library\nThe Encyclopedia of Early Earth, by Isabel Greenberg\nRead in March 2014; from the library\nHyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by Allie Brosh\nRead in March 2014; eARC from publisher via NetGalley*\nLabels: ARC review, book review, food & drink, graphic novel, humor, memoir, speculative fiction\nFestive Book Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization\nHappy Saint Patrick's Day! In case you're looking for a way to celebrate the holiday without any fuss about food, green beer, parades, etc., here's a book review I wrote years ago. Naturally the best way to celebrate in this style is to get a copy of the book for yourself today (and possibly flip straight to the parts about St. Patrick himself), but if you're short on time, skim this old (and amusingly pretentious-sounding) review to get a quick look at why Ireland was THE place to be in the Europe in the Middle Ages.\nTitle: How the Irish Saved Civilization\nAuthor: Thomas Cahill\nRating: 4 Monks\nI've noticed that history books on Goodreads are often given lower star ratings by people who are upset to find that the author was using information to present a cohesive thesis rather than providing an unbiased account. Although it is right to bring up slant in evaluating the truth of a thesis, it's somewhat sad to see these complaints for Cahill's defense of pre-Joycean Irish civilization when one of Cahill's major arguments is that biased English historians prevented any appreciation of Irish civilization in the past. I haven't read enough on Irish history to know if Cahill's desire to show an \"unblemished\" era of Irish greatness allows him to present Ireland entirely falsely, but I can't help thinking that even if it does, it's about time that the early Christian Irish get a book slanted towards them.\nAnd though I want to give Cahill and his peaceful, practically polytheistic Christians as much chance to greatness as I can, I will admit that Cahill is at least exaggerating the title. The Irish didn't exactly \"Save Civilization\": they saved Latin writing of the pre-Christian Roman Empire, thus allowing us to read Cicero and Seneca today. Cahill, to his credit, seems to use that contribution of the Irish as only a part of his claim for an Irish golden age. The Irish's greatest contribution to civilization, he argues, was their counter-Augustinian Christianity. In the Irish hey-day, St. Patrick wrote of God's love for all creatures and people despite their foibles, the Irish developed universities and brought limited literacy to lay people, and Irish missionaries brought their tolerant Christian beliefs and love of writing across Europe.\nCahill is a gentle writer, often stopping to say, \"Let us explore this world a little more before we move on,\" and presenting a picture of what life may have been like in the capital in the last century of the Western Roman Empire, and in Britain, and also in Ireland. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the miseries of Roman tax collectors and shepherds all over. Cahill is a convincing writer, too. His version of Irish history may be as compelling for the Irish today as the Christian resurrection was for the Irish of St. Patrick's day.\nI only wish that Cahill had made the book longer and more scholarly. As fascinating as the epic Tain is, it doesn't seem quite right to base the entire view of pre-Christian Irish civilization on literary works and the evidence of a sacrifice victim/volunteer in a bog. I would have appreciated some more archeology, riotous debate between scholars who've argued about when human sacrifice in Ireland took place, and careful footnotes. (Most disappointingly Cahill doesn't like to do normal bibliographies; he prefers to write about his favorite sources and hope you'll be encouraged to read them yourself.) As the book is, it's a light history that shows the Irish as a scribal powerhouse of the early mediaeval period.\nLabels: book review, non-fiction, not ya\nTitle: The Spymistress\nGenre: Historical-fiction-based-on-a-true-story\nRating: 2.75 Secret Messages Hidden in Eggs\nAfter her home state of Virginia secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy, aristocratic Richmondite Elizabeth Van Lew is torn between her love for her home and her love for the United States. She puts herself in danger by hiding her Unionist sentiments and remaining in the capital of the Confederacy, and this unique position allows her to aid Union prisoners of war, form a network of spies, and smuggle information to the Union forces throughout the course of the Civil War. The story perspective of Southern Unionists who remained living amongst their largely Confederate neighbors is a compelling one, but flat characters and a strange sort of detachment in the writing made it difficult for me to connect with the characters or really get a sense of the horrors of the War Between the States. There was something that kept me turning the pages, especially as the end of the war drew near, but overall I was a bit disappointed with the treatment of the material.\nAs I was perusing NetGalley one day, I was immediately drawn to this book by the gorgeous cover. Just look at it! Pensive woman in a pretty purple Civil War-era dress holding what appears to be some sort of code, with old-time-y looking fonts, parchment, and flourish-y things. Lovely. Reading the plot blurb about the exciting-sounding escapades of a genteel Southern lady spymistress for the Union (based on a true story!) sealed the deal. However, while it did indeed have some exciting moments, overall I didn\u2019t love it, and I\u2019m not sure it completely does justice to the real Elizabeth Van Lew who inspired it.\nBut let\u2019s start with the positive. One of the things I found to be extremely compelling about this book was its subject matter of people living in the South who did not agree with secession or slavery, and during the war were forced to either hide their true loyalties or leave their homes to live in the North. It was an idea I\u2019d never really stopped to consider before. In pop culture/media/schooling, I think it\u2019s easy to reduce the conflict of the Civil War to simply \u201cSouth = All Bad, North = All Good,\u201d and the stories of the people who didn\u2019t really fit into that dichotomy get somewhat lost in the middle. It hadn\u2019t really occurred to me that there were people in the South who were harassed and persecuted for not supporting, and actually working against, the cause of the Confederacy, and so I found it very interesting to read of the bravery, dedication, and sheer boldness of this woman of the upper echelons of Richmond society, her family, other townsmen, slaves, and freedmen all secretly working for the cause of the Union in the Confederate capital.\nLabels: ARC review, book review, historical, not ya\nTitle: The Fresh Honey Cookbook: 84 Recipes from a Beekeeper\u2019s Kitchen\nAuthor: Laurey Masterton\nRating: 3.5 Honey Varietals\nI enjoy honey. It is known. Cookbooks featuring this delicious sweetener are something I naturally gravitate toward, and thus it is no surprise that I find myself reviewing this one. Unlike The Honey Connoisseur, which I reviewed previously, this one is first and foremost about cooking things. While it does provide some introductory information about bees, honey, and bee-keeping, it\u2019s not as technical and super-detailed as Connoisseur. The Fresh Honey Cookbook definitely promotes an appreciation of all things bee and their relation to the environment, but the emphasis is on recipes.\nThe introduction relating author Laurey Masterton\u2019s start in cooking and how she became involved with bee-keeping managed the magic trick of both making it seem like an achievable hobby, and also illustrating that there\u2019s more to it than one might expect (as another beekeeper admonished her, \u201cYou can\u2019t just leave them [the bees] alone, you know! \u2026 you need to help them. They are living beings, not lawn ornaments!\u201d). Her experiences and how she faced the challenges of bee-keeping inspired me to entertain thoughts of one day keeping bees. Hmm, I wonder if there are zoning regulations against it in the city\u2026what would Northwest Phoenix honey taste like?\nTitle: The Selection Stories: The Guard\nWhere It Came From: Barnes and Noble\nIn a small tide-you-over novella in the Selection trilogy, Aspen, a palace guard, tries to convince the love of his life to forget about the prince with whom she may be in love. Largely a reprint of the Aspen-America chapters of The Elite, it's only meant for fans of the series. Possibly only fans of Aspen will truly be able to appreciate it, but the paperback book comes with some extra content and the first three chapters of spring's The One.\nLast year Alyssa, waiting eagerly for The Elite, discovered her library had an available digital copy of the companion novella, The Prince, and discovered that it had little merit aside from being something to read while waiting for the next part of the series. A little later, Alyssa caved into her craving and bought a hardcover Elite, and kindly sent it to me as soon as she was done. I wasn\u2019t so impatient last year, but this year it seems I am VERY impatient for the rest of the story of America and Maxon (or Aspen, if the series takes a terrible turn), and when I saw The Selection Stories on a shelf in a Barnes and Noble, I barely tried to resist. I was sold as soon as I saw there were family trees for all three main characters, tracing them all back to the fascinating (if confusing) era of Gregory Ill\u00e9a. (And now it\u2019s on its way to A as a thank-you for lending The Elite.)\nAs a refresher, the Selection trilogy takes place in a post-WWIV North America, which is now the monarchial kingdom of Ill\u00e9a. Tradition has it that the young crown prince of Ill\u00e9a marries a commoner after winnowing down his options from a pool of 35 candidates. Seventeen-year-old America Singer, a musician of lower-middle caste, enters the draw at the behest of the love of her life, Aspen, whose caste and poverty is even less desirable than her own. Heartbroken by Aspen\u2019s insistence that America try to find a better life than he can offer her, America enters the Selection in a decidedly unromantic mood that appeals to Crown Prince Maxon.\n(Now come the spoilers) Maxon and America become friends despite some misunderstandings, and all seems on the track to True Love until America discovers that Aspen is now a guard at the palace (which has elevated his caste and given him both a great income and the confidence to pursue America\u2019s love). When a more serious misunderstanding occurs between them (America believes Maxon is cold-hearted to allow a couple caught breaking the draconian law she herself often ignores to be punished), Aspen puts his life and America\u2019s at risk to have secret meetings and agree that Maxon is not worthy of her love.\nAuthor Kiera Cass has been rather vocal about her love for both of America\u2019s love interests, especially as readers last spring began to complain that Aspen\u2019s actions in The Elite were not so laudable. She was excited to give readers a better perspective of Aspen in the new novella included in this collection, and I was uncharacteristically optimistic that she could present Aspen, \u201cThe Guard,\u201d as something other than an emotionally abusive ass in a story taking place during the timeline of The Elite.\nAnd for the first 15-25 pages of the novella, things seemed to be pointing towards a sympathetic portrayal of Aspen. Following a dance between America and Maxon, Aspen seems to realize that the Amerispen ship sailed years ago, and it\u2019s Maxerica that\u2019s in port. He then shows some sense the morning of the punishment, sending America\u2019s maids to comfort her and calming America\u2019s family. Even when Aspen determines, \u201cIf Maxon truly was [sic] a decent man, America never would have been in this situation in the first place,\u201d I\u2019m kind of on his side. He\u2019s jumping to conclusions about Maxon, but he\u2019s nineteen and that\u2019s as good a time as ever to jump to conclusions.\nBut then Aspen starts leaping to much more dangerous conclusions. Seeing that America has been crying, he declares, \u201cI knew\u2014I knew\u2014she was supposed to be mine.\u201d America thanks him for offering help, and \u201cWith her words, [he] knew without a doubt: she loved [him].\u201d My margin notes suggest that Aspen could do with a lesson from Mr. Darcy about the difference between gratitude and love.\nRoughly a third of the way through the story the parts I found most objectionable in The Elite return with no improvement. Aspen didactically tells America,\n\u201cThe thing about Maxon is that he\u2019s an actor. He\u2019s always putting on this perfect face, like he\u2019s so above everything. But he\u2019s just a person, and he\u2019s as messed up as anyone is. I know you cared about him or you wouldn\u2019t have stayed here. But you have to know now that it\u2019s not real.\u201d\nThis is a line in The Elite and may be there just because it needed to follow the original story, but this line makes NO SENSE in the context of what Aspen has been witnessing in his duties in the palace. I can\u2019t figure out why Kiera Cass dropped it in without showing Maxon doing something slightly duplicitous in front of Aspen in this novella. Without context all I can say about Aspen\u2019s advice to America is that it is CREEPY. I can\u2019t help assuming that he\u2019s made up this whole side of Maxon\u2019s character to serve his own purposes. And there would have been plenty of things Aspen COULD have said about Maxon that wouldn\u2019t have come across so poorly. Like, \u201cAmerica, I hate that Maxon hasn\u2019t been able to make you feel better about your friend, or even been able to explain how he could stand by and watch her suffer.\u201d Instead we get Aspen\u2019s next line from The Elite: \u201cI know it\u2019s hard to believe, but I\u2019m really sorry Maxon turned out to be such a bad guy.\u201d\nAlyssa observed that The Prince didn\u2019t add anything to The Selection by repeating the dialogue through a different character\u2019s perspective, and this is entirely true for the sections of The Guard that come from The Elite. But there were a few things that were genuinely interesting and seem to offer tantalizing possibilities for the final volume of the trilogy. We learn a little more about the political situation in the south of Ill\u00e9a, and that the guards at the palace are getting superpower injections.\nAnd if all that weren\u2019t enough to convince you to pick up the book, there are two more chapters to extend The Prince to Maxon\u2019s decision to keep America around after she knees him on a date. PLUS the family trees and small backstories (some juicy murder in the royal past), and the first three chapters of The One.\nLabels: book review, genre-ally speaking, Kiera Cass, ya, ya-dystopian\nTitle: Longbourn\nA young house servant in late Georgian England falls in love with a servant, whose mysterious past could leave both of them broken-hearted at the least. The book excels in making housework as dreary as it really is, and in making me appreciate the soap-opera plots of Downton Abbey. In short, it is dull though technically respectable.\nDespite my utter disappointment in Death Comes to Pemberley, I was excited about Longbourn. As Pride and Prejudice fanfiction goes, the concept behind Longbourn is actually unique: it\u2019s a retelling of the story from the point of view of the servants in the shadows of the original novel. But a unique premise does not guarantee a uniquely enjoyable reading experience, and this book has fallen into many of the same pitfalls of writing as Death Comes to Pemberley.\nThe problem at its very center is that there is far too much realism. It\u2019s like reading Strindberg\u2019s Miss Julie without the psychological stuff. Pages go by of the servants washing laundry, slaughtering a pig, mucking the outhouse, making soap, sewing hems, trudging through the cold rain to purchase ribbons, etc. It gives the impression that the author has done a great deal of research on the day-to-day responsibilities of servants in early 19th century Britain, but that she hasn\u2019t been able to concoct a plot worthy of pulling the characters away from the drudgery of their work.\nThere is some plot, of course. Longbourn\u2019s maid-of-all-work, Sarah, is a pragmatic Belle from Beauty and the Beast: she goes about her daily chores practically singing about how there must be more than this provincial life, has her nose stuck in a book, and is so beautiful that from the moment that they meet her and see her, the footmen practically say she\u2019s gorgeous (and make plans to woo and/or marry her). Sarah prickles at James, the new manservant at Longbourn, who has appeared in circumstances that convince her of his shady character. She is drawn to Netherfield\u2019s footman, Ptolemy Bingley, who comes from the Bingley sugar plantations, and has dreams of owning his own tobacco shop in London. When the Bingleys head to London in accordance with the plot of Pride and Prejudice, Sarah wonders what is tying her to the Bennet household. (Spoiler\u2014it\u2019s the mysterious footman.)\nWere this plot taking up the entire book, the love triangle might function to keep things moving. Instead Sarah becomes happily settled into her life for the next third of the book, and we have to cling to the vague plot possibility that Wickham is going to rape the child servant, Polly. And when that next part of the plot dissolves into the natural departure of Wickham from Longbourn, a further tenth of the book is spent developing a backstory to the mysterious James. Followed by some ennui in housework. And some moping about romantic separation.\nI am floored that there are reviews on Goodreads saying Longbourn is a better or more complete book than Pride and Prejudice, or that it is a way to interest men in Austen. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Longbourn\u2019s unfocused plot and overreliance on period detail mean that it is a plodding piece of prose. Generally the writing is formal and detached, with occasionally jarring mentions of shit when the style would be better suited to feces. The detachment here is entirely unlike Austen\u2019s style, lacking humor and the appreciation of human absurdity (all of which I mention not as criticism of the book, but of reviews that make the mistaken comparison). I observed some interesting diction and the sentences were fine, but without much of a story to tell, the only thing compelling me to finish was the desire to knock off another reading Bingo square for the year (\u201ca published fanfic\u201d).\nAs for any suggestion that Pride and Prejudice is incomplete without looking at the servants responsible for everyone\u2019s food and laundry? The reason Pride and Prejudice doesn\u2019t talk about the lives of Longbourn\u2019s servants is precisely the reason this book is boring to read: nobody cares about dishwashing, and chores are irrelevant to the plot of Elizabeth maturing in her judgment and falling in love with Darcy. Unless Pride and Prejudice had a major moment of Darcy looking at some tarnished piece of silver in Longbourn, and insulting Elizabeth for her servants\u2019 neglect, the individual lives of the servants do not affect the plot of Austen\u2019s book. To a large extent, the opposite is naturally true as well. The servants do not care all that much about Mr. Wickham\u2019s unscrupulousness or the Bingleys\u2019 abrupt departure from Netherfield.\nWith little important convergence in the plots of Longbourn and Pride and Prejudice, it\u2019s probably unfair to judge Longbourn for not bringing much new understanding to its source material. In essence, Longbourn would have been the same if the \u201cupstairs\u201d family were any other family: illuminative about the lives of a largely marginalized class of people, but overly concerned with housework, and entirely too long.\nLabels: book review, historical, not ya\nTitle: Ivan Ramen\nAuthor: Ivan Orkin\nGenre: Cookbook-food-memoir\nRating: 4 Slices of Chashu\nI\u2019m always interested in the experiences of other foreigners in Japan, having been one myself, and I\u2019m also always interested in things published by Ten Speed Press (remember this lovely?). Based on these two facts, I was definitely planning on having a look at Ivan Ramen from the moment I first heard about it. The subtitle is \u201cLove, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo\u2019s Most Unlikely Noodle Joint\u201d\u2014I was completely on the same page with regards to the love and obsession I bear ramen (we\u2019re talking Japanese ramen here, not the stuff you can grab at the grocery store for the low price of a dime and elevated blood pressure), but I had never before heard of this Tokyo ramen shop owned by an American guy. Of course, I\u2019m certainly not an expert on everything that happens within Japan\u2019s borders, and when I was living over there I wasn\u2019t in Tokyo, had no TV, and was not super into the ramen following. But my curiosity was definitely piqued by a) the story of a white dude opening a ramen place in the ramen motherland, and b) actual ramen recipes, which are not too easy to come by in English.\nWhile we were living in Japan, a friend and I made a pilgrimage to the famous ramen restaurant Ippudo in Fukuoka.\nIt was a busy place, but we were seated right away and the food was GOOD!\nFebruary saw Alyssa (green) maintain her decisive lead over Susan (red) in our Connect Six (or as many as we can) version of the game, even as Susan amped up her reading. Things actually got very competitive: Alyssa assembled a pile of books that were applicable for the game, and Susan resorted to defensive plays. We hash out the excitement later, but first let's see what's been added this month to our Bingo card (January's for comparison):\nNovel with food in the title: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, by Lucy Knisley\nMythopoeic award winner: A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett\nBook a friend recommended NOT reading: Divergent, by Veronica Roth\nHugo award winner: Redshirts, by John Scalzi\nMorris award winner: A Curse Dark as Gold, by Elizabeth C. Bunce\nBook from a beloved childhood series: The Mystery at the Ski Jump, by Carolyn Keene\nBook from a best of 2013 list: These Broken Stars, by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (seen on BuzzFeed's Top YA)\nBook with a terrible trailer: Scarlet, by Marissa Meyer\nBook whose author you've met: A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness\nBook that teaches you how to do something: The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer, by Gretchen Reynolds\nBooker prize listed book: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce\nPrintz award winner: Looking for Alaska, by John Green\nAnd now to the analysis. Pretend we are Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, but talking about our own performances.\nImage from smartladieslovestuff\nSusan: This game is now officially one that Alyssa cannot lose. She has at least one in every line and every row.\nAlyssa: Well, I think it would be more accurate to say that you cannot win. I, on the other hand, can still lose! Stalemates count as losses in reading bingo, right? I actually think you have the better strategy--see what row I'm going for and when I get close to completion, neatly block it with a single book. Let me burn myself out on reading!\nSusan: Let's talk about your close-to-Bingos in the last month. After January, I started to see that you were heading to Bingo in Row 5, but I had NO IDEA you would fill in two more squares seemingly within a day. I panicked and raced to find the easiest Booker listed book possible. I feared that you were going to grab the incredibly short Testament of Mary and finish the Booker category within the next hour, or race through Room or Life of Pi. I spent a few days reading Harold Fry, and each morning I would check our GoogleDoc to see if I still had a shot at getting the square.\nAlyssa: Haha, the Booker square is one that I've been avoiding. It didn't even occur to me that there might be a short one in the category! I found out quite by accident that These Broken Stars, which I read in January, was on some Best of 2013 lists. (How exactly did it make it there? I'm not sure.) So when I discovered that in the course of some Pinterest browsing, I hurried to add it to bingo in case one of the books from your library YA pile was a Best of 2013. And as for my friend Nancy Drew...I downloaded that from my library's digital collection on a whim, and finished it in 3 hours. I seemed to remember them taking so much longer to read when I was younger!\nSusan: The other close-to-Bingo was in Column 1. That one completely took me by surprise. I had finished The Art of Fielding and was trying to match it to a category on our Bingo card when I saw you had suddenly read half of Column 1, and you had casually mentioned reading a John Green book at jury duty. I wasn't totally worried because I thought Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe was a Printz winner, and it was sitting next to my bed. When I realized I was wrong and that the roads were snowed in (yet again), I resorted to my library's digital collection and found an available copy of Looking for Alaska, which I managed to finish slightly before you.\nAlyssa: Wasn't there another book you read that you thought fit in a category and then it didn't? Yes, Column 1 was meant to be my power play. I rue the day I texted you from jury duty to help me decide which book to read!! On the plus side, since you finished Looking for Alaska before I did, I now don't feel compelled to finish it any time soon. I know it was John Green's debut, but I was still surprised by how less tight it is than Paper Towns.\nSusan: I'm a little disappointed with your being able to find a book with a terrible trailer! I thought books with quotes by Jonathan Franzen on the cover would have terrible trailers (based on this), and I had read TWO of those recently only to find that one had a brilliant trailer and the other had none. But I acknowledge that Scarlet's trailer was worse than I could have imagined.\nAlyssa: I loved the trailer for Where'd You Go, Bernadette! The bad trailer square got filled in belated when I saw you making a move on some of my squares and I started to panic a bit. I looked at the list of books I'd read so far in 2014 and started seeing which ones might fit in which squares, and lucky for me, the trailer for Scarlet was truly abysmal. If I had seen before I read it...I probably wouldn't have read it. XD\nSusan: Moving onto our controversial reads this month, I am on the fence about Relish counting as a novel, when basically EVERY review on Goodreads says it is a memoir.\nAlyssa: Well, we know how reliable Goodreads is, don't we? It's a memoir in the format of a graphic novel. Graphic NOVEL. The word novel is there, so I say it counts! Those rows were already out of the running for you anyway. ;-) And what about this 20 Minutes book? Was it really a how-to book?\nSusan: But The First 20 Minutes really did teach me HOW to do something! It taught me how to train so I don't injure myself as I try to improve my 5K time. It had advice on how to warm up and cool down (I particularly liked that it told me there is no real advantage to a slow cool down), and on how to feel at yoga as I struggle to stretch (vindicated; some bodies are just not flexible, and the more research participants stretched, the worse their running became). See, LOTS of \"how\" in those sentences. ;-)\nAlyssa: Yours involved the word \"how,\" mine involved the word \"novel.\" We'll call it even. :)\nSusan: So I've already admitted to you that I'm working on a published fanfic (Longbourn), and we're both racing to see someone reading in public and read a book inspired by a TV Show. 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The award comes from a vote of the trustees of the William Allen White Foundation and the KU School of Journalism and Mass Communications, which is named in honor of White.\nRose will accept the award on William Allen White Day, which is April 20, 2017, at the University of Kansas.\nCharlie Rose is anchor and executive editor of \u201cCharlie Rose,\u201d the nightly one-hour program that engages in one-on-one conversations and round-table discussions, and the newly launched \u201cCharlie Rose: The Week,\u201d chronicling the best stories and interviews of the past seven days. He also co-anchors \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d and is a contributing correspondent to \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d\n\"The School of Journalism and Mass Communications is pleased to recognize Charlie Rose with the National Citation award. He joins a long list of highly respected journalists who have been honored by the school each year on William Allen White Day,\u201d said Dean Ann Brill.\nSince 1991, \u201cCharlie Rose\u201d has engaged America\u2019s best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in in-depth interviews and discussions.\n\u201cCharlie Rose\u201d appears nightly on PBS and in prime time on Bloomberg Television in the United States and around the world. Rose\u2019s programs have delved into personalities, ideas and issues of the day, including special series on science, education and Islam.\nRose has received many awards and honors, including France\u2019s Legion d'honneur and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2014, he appeared on Time's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. Rose won both Emmy and Peabody awards for his September 2013 interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.\nCharlie Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, and graduated from Duke University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in history and a J.D. from the School of Law. He is a frequent moderator at global forums around the world. He lives in New York City and Bellport, Long Island.\nThe William Allen White Foundation was founded in 1945, one year after the Kansas Board of Regents established the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at KU. The William Allen White Foundation has been recognizing individuals for outstanding journalistic service since 1950, but the first National Citation medallions were awarded in 1970.\nOther notable recipients of the William Allen White Foundation National Citation include Cokie Roberts, Leonard Pitts Jr., Paul Steiger, Gerald F. Seib, Candy Crowley, Seymour Hersh, John Carroll, Walter Cronkite, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Helen Thomas, Charles Kuralt, Bernard Shaw, Bob Woodward, Molly Ivins, Gordon Parks, Bob Dotson, Frank Deford and Gwen Ifill. A complete list of recipients is at www.journalism.ku.edu/waw-award-list.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 512, "original_length": 13326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 95.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Pinworm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OIABVLJH64S42YXCXJPEQVIYDKOQP2DG", "length": 14298, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "research.omicsgroup.org", "title": "Pinworm | Open Access articles | Open Access journals | Conference Proceedings | Editors | Authors | Reviewers | scientific events", "raw_content": "Postural sway Scholarly journal ProsthodonticsWireless Networking - Scholarly Journals Neuro-imagingEnergy FactorPulmonology Review ArticlesVeterinary TechnologyCardiovascular impact factor International- Accounting- peer-review- JournalsAirways diseasefree-business-finance-journalscardiovascular disease Scholarly Peer-review Journalreviews in computational scienceMicrobial Genomics Dental cavities\nOpen Access Articles- Top Results for Pinworm\nThis article is about the organism. For the infection, see Enterobiasis.\nThis article is about the nematode of the family Enterobius, known as pinworm in the US. For the different nematode known as pinworm in the rest of the world, see Strongyloides stercoralis.\nICD-9 127.4, ICD-10 B80\nThis page is a soft redirect. Pinworms(U.S.)/Threadworms(U.K.) (Enterobius vermicularis). #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Subclass: #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Spiruria #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Oxyurida #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Oxyuridae #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Enterobius #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other\nThis page is a soft redirect. Species\nEnterobius vermicularis (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]\nEnterobius anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916)[1]\nEnterobius gregorii (Hugot, 1983) (disputed)[2][3][4]\nThe pinworm (genus Enterobius), also known as threadworm (in the United Kingdom and Australia) or seatworm, is a parasitic worm. It is a nematode (roundworm) and a common intestinal parasite or helminth, especially in humans.[5] The medical condition associated with pinworm infestation is known as enterobiasis[6] (a type of helminthiasis) or less precisely as oxyuriasis in reference to the family Oxyuridae.[7]\nThroughout this article, the word \"pinworm\" refers to Enterobius. In British usage, however, pinworm refers to Strongyloides, while Enterobius is called threadworm.[8]\nThe pinworm (genus Enterobius) is a type of roundworm (nematode), and three species of pinworm have been identified with certainty.[9] Humans are hosts only to Enterobius vermicularis (formerly Oxyurias vermicularis).[10] Chimpanzees are host to Enterobius anthropopitheci, which is morphologically distinguishable from the human pinworm.[3] Hugot (1983) claims there is another species affecting humans, Enterobius gregorii, which is supposedly a sister species of E. vermicularis, and has a slightly smaller spicule (i.e., sexual organ).[11] Its existence is controversial however; Totkova et al. (2003) consider there to be insufficient evidence,[4] and Hasegawa et al. (2006) contend that E. gregorii is a younger stage of E. vermicularis.[2][3] Regardless of its status as a distinct species, E. gregorii is considered clinically identical to E. vermicularis.[10]\nFile:Threadworm.jpg\nTwo female pinworms next to a ruler: The markings are 1 mm apart.\nThe adult female has a sharply pointed posterior end, is 8 to 13 mm long, and 0.5 mm thick.[12] The adult male is considerably smaller, measuring 2 to 5 mm long and 0.2 mm thick, and has a curved posterior end.[12] The eggs are translucent[12] and have a surface that adheres to environmental objects.[13] The eggs measure 50 to 60 \u03bcm by 20 to 30 \u03bcm, and have a thick shell flattened on one side.[12] The small size and colourlessness of the eggs make them invisible to the naked eye, except in barely visible clumps of thousands of eggs. Eggs may contain a developing embryo or a fully developed pinworm larva.[12] The larvae grow to 140\u2013150 \u03bcm in length.[13]\nThe pinworm has a worldwide distribution,[14] and is the most common helminth (i.e., parasitic worm) infection in the United States, western Europe, and Oceania.[15][16] In the United States, a study by the Center of Disease Control reported an overall incidence rate of 11.4% among people of all ages.[16] Pinworms are particularly common in children, with prevalence rates in this age group having been reported as high as 61% in India, 50% in England, 39% in Thailand, 37% in Sweden, and 29% in Denmark.[16] Finger sucking has been shown to increase both incidence and relapse rates,[16] and nail biting has been similarly associated.[17] Because it spreads from host to host through contamination, pinworms are common among people living in close contact, and tends to occur in all people within a household.[14] The prevalence of pinworms is not associated with gender,[14] nor with any particular social class, race, or culture.[16] Pinworms are an exception to the tenet that intestinal parasites are uncommon in affluent communities.[16] The earliest known instance of the pinworms associated with humans is evidenced by pinworm eggs found in coprolite, carbon dated to 7837 BC at western Utah;[13] however 240 million years ago parasitic pinworm nematodes already infested pre-mammalian cynodonts: a fossilized egg was detected in fossil dung.[18]\nFile:Enterobius vermicularis life cycle.tif\nLifecycle of E. vermicularis showing the stages inside and outside of the human body\nThe entire lifecycle, from egg to adult, takes place in the human gastrointestinal tract of a single human host,[12][13] from about 2\u20134 weeks[19] or about 4\u20138 weeks.[16]\nThe lifecycle begins with eggs being ingested.[13] The eggs hatch in the duodenum (i.e., first part of the small intestine).[20] The emerging pinworm larvae grow rapidly to a size of 140 to 150 \u03bcm,[19] and migrate through the small intestine towards the colon.[13] During this migration, they moult twice and become adults.[13][16] Females survive for 5 to 13 weeks, and males about 7 weeks.[13] The male and female pinworms mate in the ileum (i.e., last part of the small intestine),[13] whereafter the male pinworms usually die,[20] and are passed out with stool.[21] The gravid female pinworms settle in the ileum, caecum (i.e., beginning of the large intestine), appendix and ascending colon,[13] where they attach themselves to the mucosa[16] and ingest colonic contents.[14]\nAlmost the entire body of a gravid female becomes filled with eggs.[20] The estimations of the number of eggs in a gravid female pinworm range from about 11,000[13] to 16,000.[16] The egg-laying process begins about five weeks after initial ingestion of pinworm eggs by the human host.[13] The gravid female pinworms migrate through the colon towards the rectum at a rate of 12 to 14 cm per hour.[13] They emerge from the anus, and while moving on the skin near the anus, the female pinworms deposit eggs either through (1) contracting and expelling the eggs, (2) dying and then disintegrating, or (3) bodily rupture due to the host scratching the worm.[20] After depositing the eggs, the female becomes opaque and dies.[21] The reason the female emerges from the anus is to obtain the oxygen necessary for the maturation of the eggs.[21]\nMain article: Enterobiasis\nE. vermicularis causes the medical condition enterobiasis, whose primary symptom is itching in the anal area.[22] Albendazole or mebendazole is the first-line treatment of pinworm infection. Pyrantel pamoate is alternative.\nPinworms spread through human-to-human transmission, by ingesting (i.e., swallowing) infectious pinworm eggs and/or by anal insertion.[16][20] The eggs are hardy and can remain viable (i.e., infectious) in a moist environment up to three weeks.[16][21] They do not tolerate heat well, but can survive in low temperatures: two-thirds of the eggs are still viable after 18 hours at \u22128 \u00b0C (18 \u00b0F).[21]\nAfter the eggs have been initially deposited near the anus, they are readily transmitted to other surfaces through contamination.[20] The surface of the eggs is sticky when laid,[13][21] and the eggs are readily transmitted from their initial deposit near the anus to fingernails, hands, night-clothing and bed linen.[19] From here, eggs are further transmitted to food, water, furniture, toys, bathroom fixtures and other objects.[13][16][20] Household pets often carry the eggs in their fur, while not actually being infected.[23] Dust containing eggs can become airborne and widely dispersed when dislodged from surfaces, for instance when shaking out bed clothes and linen.[16][21][23] Consequently, the eggs can enter the mouth and nose through inhalation, and be swallowed later.[16][19][20][21] Although pinworms do not strictly multiply inside the body of their human host,[19] some of the pinworm larvae may hatch on the anal mucosa, and migrate up the bowel and back into the gastrointestinal tract of the original host[16][19] in a process called retroinfection.[16][21] When this retroinfection occurs, it can lead to a heavy parasitic load and ensures the pinworm infestation continues[16] or can be not clinically significant.[21] Despite the limited, 13-week lifespan of individual pinworms,[13] autoinfection (i.e., infection from the original host to itself), either through the anus-to-mouth route or through retroinfection, usually necessitates repeated treatment, at 2-week intervals, in order to remove the infection completely.[24]\nPinworms in the Appendix (1).jpg\nPinworms are sometimes diagnosed incidentally by pathology. Micrograph of pinworms in the appendix, H&E stain\nHigh magnification micrograph of a pinworm in cross section in the appendix, H&E stain\nEvermiculariseggs.jpg\nEgg under a light microscope\nEvermicularis worm4 HB.jpg\nPinworms are sometimes diagnosed incidentally by pathology: Micrograph of male pinworm in cross section, alae (blue arrow), intestine (red arrow) and testis (black arrow), H&E stain\nEggs of Enterobius vermicularis 5229 lores.jpg\nPinworm eggs are easily seen under a microscope.\nHead of Enterobius vermicularis human pinworm 5230 lores.jpg\nThis micrograph reveals the cephalic alae in the head region of E. vermicularis.\nRoundworm, Hookworm, Ringworm (similarly named parasites and fungi)\n^ a b Hasegawa et al. 2005.\n^ a b Hasegawa et al. 1998\n^ a b c Hasegawa et al. 2006\n^ a b Totkova et al. 2003\n^ Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica.\n^ Merriam-Webster: Enterobiasis\n^ Merriam-Webster: Oxyuriasis\n^ Vanderkooi 2000, p. 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Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 8 April 2009.\nNakano T, Okamoto M, Ikeda Y, Hasegawa H (December 2006). \"Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene and nuclear rDNA regions of Enterobius vermicularis parasitic in captive chimpanzees with special reference to its relationship with pinworms in humans\". Parasitology Research 100 (1): 51\u20137. PMID 16788831. doi:10.1007/s00436-006-0238-4.\nHugot JP (1983). \"[Enterobius gregorii (Oxyuridae, Nematoda), a new human parasite]\". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Compar\u00e9e (in French) 58 (4): 403\u20134. PMID 6416131.\nHasegawa H, Takao Y, Nakao M, Fukuma T, Tsuruta O, Ide K (February 1998). \"Is Enterobius gregorii Hugot, 1983 (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) a distinct species?\". The Journal of Parasitology 84 (1): 131\u20134. PMID 9488350. doi:10.2307/3284542.\nGuti\u00e9rrez, Yezid (2000). 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We filmmakers and film lovers wish to register our protest against\na system that, on the one hand, claims to promote creativity, and on the other, connives\nin the murder of cultural activists.\nProtest statement read out by Shabana Azmi at the National Film Festival Awards", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salesfuel.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:00Z", "digest": "sha1:TGXDE6CTQXB6TLP5VUDWRC4TZQCUHKRS", "length": 510, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "salesfuel.com", "title": "SalesFuel", "raw_content": "As managers, we know it\u2019s important to listen to what our team members tell us. We also know it can be hard to get people to open up about what they are thinking.\nAs you encounter people and situations on a daily basis, you develop responses. After a while, these responses become habits, some good and some bad.\nIs there a workday that employees dread any more than Mondays? Since the start of the industrial age, people have looked for ways to put off the sound of the alarm clock ringing on Monday mornings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 7872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com/samsung_galaxy_fit_celebrities.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:SYC4B2MQS7C3QC4TYJ55NMFFDSY3Y5S4", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com", "title": "Celebrities Samsung Galaxy Fit Samsung Galaxy Fit Free Cell Phone Wallpaper - Mobile phone Background", "raw_content": "[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Celebrities Samsung Galaxy Fit wallpapers 6 >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 61.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com/samsung_gt-s3550_holidays.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EQDXUDTYKA5THQLRYCYOEVMXDZDXEYZN", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com", "title": "Holidays Samsung GT-S3550 Samsung GT-S3550 - Free Cell Phone Wallpaper - Mobile phone Background - Cell phone Images", "raw_content": "[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Holidays Samsung GT-S3550 wallpapers 6 >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 46.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samuel-warde.com/2018/04/president-uses-racist-term-to-describe-sanctuary-cities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:54GHRFPTR7NVMZVPDVBOQG5PNAQNFNT5", "length": 3788, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "samuel-warde.com", "title": "Trump Uses Racist Term In His Latest Attack On Sanctuary Cities", "raw_content": "Bigotry \u00b7 Discrimination \u00b7 Racial Issues \u00b7 Sanctuary Cities\n\u201cThose of us who are Jewish\u2014and who learned about the Warsaw Ghetto at such a young age [that] it was before we\u2019d learned about any other embattled majority-minority neighborhood\u2014know *exactly* what Trump meant when he complained about immigrants \u2018breeding.'\u201d ~ Seth Abramson\nTrump is spending the week at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Palm Beach, Florida.\nVanity Fair reported earlier this week that Trump\u2019s advisers are worried about his mental health, fearing that \u201cfive days in Florida will give the president too much television time, alone with his thoughts and his Twitter.\u201d\nAccording to Vanity Fair, the administration hopes that the trip will serve as a respite from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation as well as controversy surrounding his private attorney Michael Cohen.\nPrivately, however, White House advisers are worried that five days in Florida will give Trump too much time to brood over Mueller, Russia, and the swirl of scandals now involving Cohen. \u201cSomeone should say a prayer for Sarah [Huckabee Sanders], Mercy [Schlapp], and Raj [Shah] because rest assured, Mar-a-Lago is the last place they want the president spending his time this week,\u201d one person close to the White House told Politico. \u201cThey have a lot of clean-up duty ahead of them.\u201d\nIf Trumps\u2019 behavior on Tuesday is any indication, those concerns are more than justified \u2013 and in all likelihood things are going to get a lot crazier before the week is out.\nOn Tuesday, Liberals Unite counted a total of 29 posts by Trump on his Twitter account to include 14 tweets and more than a dozen retweets. While it is unknown whether this was a record for Trump, he has averaged 10 tweets per day this year, according to data compiled by Twitter Counter.\nHe was at it again on Wednesday, albeit a bit more sedate than on Tuesday, but one tweet in particular stood out.\nCNN published an article late Wednesday discussing Trump\u2019s use of the term \u201cbreeding concept,\u201d reporting:\nWhat exactly does he mean by \u201cbreeding concept?\u201d It appears to be a new addition to his rhetoric on immigration. He doesn\u2019t appear to have used it before on Twitter or in recent public remarks on sanctuary cities\u2026.\nA simple Google search doesn\u2019t uncover any specific mention of a \u201cbreeding concept\u201d with regard to sanctuary cities in the conservative media, so it\u2019s a little unclear what he\u2019s referring to.\nTaken literally, the most likely explanation is that he\u2019s talking about sanctuary cities as places where undocumented immigrants breed.\nIf that\u2019s right, there\u2019s a racial undertone in the comment [that] should slap you in the face.\nContinuing, CNN reported that:\nFear of immigrants from certain countries \u201cbreeding\u201d has been a staple of nativist thought for hundreds of years. The \u201cbreeding\u201d fear has been affixed to Jews from Eastern Europe, Catholics from Ireland and Italy, Chinese and, now, Latinos, Filipinos, Africans and Haitians. This is dog-whistle politics at its worst.\n\u201cBreeding\u201d as a concept has an animalistic connotation. Dogs and horses are bred. So his use of it is, at best, dehumanizing to the immigrants he appears to be referring to.\nFormer criminal investigator and criminal defense attorney, Seth Abramson, weighed in, tweeting:\nThose of us who are Jewish\u2014and who learned about the Warsaw Ghetto at such a young age [that] it was before we\u2019d learned about any other embattled majority-minority neighborhood\u2014know *exactly* what Trump meant when he complained about immigrants \u201cbreeding.\u201d\nAnd just to be clear, CNN also reported that: \u201cThe tweet has not been deleted at the time of this writing, so he means for those words to remain out there. In other words, it\u2019s not likely to be at typo. He has been known to correct those in the past.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sandbox.mc.edu/~bennet/cs220b/code/bool.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:38Z", "digest": "sha1:3NTQAF57E2Y2GZONAJ4LE75CSTFQI6LK", "length": 990, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sandbox.mc.edu", "title": "The Truth About Boolean", "raw_content": "The Truth About Boolean\nThe boolean type in C++ is written bool. (This is one of the features carefully designed to keep Java programmers off balance.) Unlike Java and most languages, C++ boolean type freely convertable to and from integer. (We'll discuss C++ rather than plain C, which doesn't even have a boolean type. But overall effect there is similar.)\nWhen a boolean is converted to an integer, true converts to 1 and false converts to 0.\nWhen an integer is converted to a boolean, zero converts to false, and all other values (including negative ones) convert to true\nIn addtion, many of the I/O operations return boolean values.\nThe automatic conversion rules allow you to use numeric expressions as tests in if's, while's and for's. This allows some convenient things, and some crazy things.\nSince I/O operations return boolean, they can be used as tests. This allows I/O operations to be performed in loop tests so that the loop is controlled by the success of the I/O operation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sandleroneil.com/firm-privacy-policy.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HYUXBNKGAZSGV4L33RFZU3V63KOJYYVV", "length": 2179, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sandleroneil.com", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "This privacy policy applies to the personal information that Sandler O\u2019Neill + Partners, L.P. collects from or about you through this site. This privacy policy may be amended by Sandler O\u2019Neill + Partners, L.P. in the future. 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Investors are cautioned that statements regarding future prospects may not be realized and that past performance is not necessarily indicative of future performance.\nSandler O\u2019Neill + Partners, L.P. makes no warranty, express or implied, regarding the security of the site, including with respect to the ability of unauthorized persons to intercept or access information transmitted by or to you through this site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sarahbeaulieu.me/the-enliven-project", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZJU6JEC3T6V6IHKMCGNOCKOI764TMET", "length": 2184, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "sarahbeaulieu.me", "title": "The Enliven Project - Sarah Beaulieu", "raw_content": "The Enliven Project\nSince I created this graphic over 5 years ago, I\u2019ve learned A LOT about how to talk about sexual harassment and violence, particularly with men. It\u2019s summarized in this TEDx BeaconStreet talk. Or for some quick tips on talking about #MeToo on Twitter, try this blog post.\nIf you want to break the ice on consent, healthy relationships or supporting your survivor friends, you\u2019ll find more practical guidance at The Uncomfortable Conversation\u2019s YouTube Channel.\nIf you are looking for detail on The Truth About False Accusation, click on the graphic below or view as PDF here. Please note that many of the source links are now out of date.\nLooking for ways to make your conversations about sexual harassment and violence more productive?\nThe Enliven Project is now The Uncomfortable Conversation:\nSarah Beaulieu launched The Enliven Project in 2013 to bring the issue of sexual violence out of the closet and lift survivors \u2013 male and female \u2013 to their full potential. Since that time, The Enliven Project has accomplished the following:\nOver 100 conversations with leaders and experts on sexual violence to determine gaps in the field\u2019s direct service work, capacity, and marketing and communications efforts.\nOver 100 conversations with potential allies from other fields and industries to better understand which messages on sexual violence are most compelling to share.\nA series of convo-graphics designed to move the conversation on sexual violence forward, in partnership with a design firm, reaching nearly 700,000 people.\nThe Enliven Project was named a 2013 Echoing Green finalist, a competitive fellowship program for social entrepreneurs. The Enliven Project was one of 39 finalists selected from over 3,000 applications.\nEstablished a strong, inclusive, and practical voice on the topic of sexual violence with articles and op-eds placed in Good Men Project, Huffington Post, Providence Journal, CommonHealth (WBUR), and others.\nSarah\u2019s work with The Enliven Project has evolved into her speaking and writing about survivors, men, and difficult conversations, including her forthcoming book. You can find out more at www.theuncomfortableconversation.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://saysomethingwonderful.blogspot.com/2006/12/josh-on-pleasure.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:N2UHDBN5SQ4O2VEOOWJJESB3Z5FTDHN6", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "saysomethingwonderful.blogspot.com", "title": "Say Something Wonderful: Josh on Pleasure", "raw_content": "Posted by E. M. Selinger at Saturday, December 02, 2006", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 12721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 122.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scma.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/Past-Exhibitions/Dislocation-Negotiating-Identity/Artists/Gauri-Gill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:55Z", "digest": "sha1:AJWMAZJFQMWJRUA2BWO62R5YYJ56J4PQ", "length": 2031, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "scma.smith.edu", "title": "Gauri Gill / Artists / Dislocation/Negotiating Identity / Past Exhibitions / On View / Smith College Museum of Art - Smith College Museum of Art", "raw_content": "Gauri Gill first trained at Delhi College of Art in India, and then received a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design and an MFA in Art from Stanford. Much of her work focuses on displaced communities and the ways in which they attempt to hold on to identities that are under threat of being erased by structures and forces beyond their control.\nThe photographs in Gill\u2019s Americans series take her viewers on an intimate journey into the lives of the Indian-Americans whom she encountered on her own journey across the country. In these images, immigrants are seen attempting to come to grip with the realities of their new lives\u2014working at menial jobs at a motel in Nashville or burying a parent\u2014while at the same time maintaining relationships, however tenuous, with their homeland by participating in a Bhangra competition or praying in a convention hall.\nThe anthropologist and art historian Christopher Pinney succinctly analyzes the impact of Gill\u2019s series and the questions it raises:\nDoes she intend to present Indo-Americans as part of a liberating counter-culture? Is she mounting a critique in part of a US consumerist dream that fails to deliver for most Indian-Americans? This seems implicit in a number of powerful images that take the viewer very close to the quotidian routines of low-paid manual work. But is she also mounting a critique from within of aspects of the Indic tradition, of targets such as religious orthodoxy, Bollywood and patriarchy? \u2026 Such ambivalence, of course \u2013 and the power it gives the viewer to come to their own conclusions - is a considerable part of the power that Gauri Gill\u2019s project offers. (www.gaurigill.com).\nImage: Gauri Gill. Born in Chandigarh, India, Born 1970. Lives and works in New Delhi. Taxi driver Prem Kumar Walekar of Olney was shot dead at a gas station in Rockville, Maryland by a sniper. Seen at right is his son, 2002. Smith College Museum of Art. Purchased with the Josephine A. Stein, class of 1927, Fund in honor of the class of 1927. \u00a92016 Gauri Gill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 6275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scores.nbcsportsboston.com/nba/story.asp?i=20181010184342862993608&ref=hea&tm=&src=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EU6HAG4ZYDKMBSANNTXUR6COV3TBXUQV", "length": 1113, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scores.nbcsportsboston.com", "title": "NBA News Story - Jimmy Butler to ESPN: I was 'brutally honest' with Wolves | NBC Sports Boston", "raw_content": "He caused them - with his words and his play.\n\"All my emotion came out at one time,\" Butler said in the interview. \"Was it the right way to do it? No. But I can't control that when I'm out there competing. That's my love of the game. That's raw me. Me at my finest, me at my purest. That's what you're going to get inside the lines.\"\nThe Timberwolves have had talks with several teams since Butler made the request - including Miami - and nearly got a deal done with the Heat over the weekend. But those negotiations broke down, a person with direct knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press. The person said on Wednesday that the Heat have not initiated any further conversation with Minnesota since. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because details of the trade talks have not been publicly disclosed.\n\"It's not about money,\" Butler said. \"It's about saying, `We need you. We want you here. We can't do this without you.' And that was the disconnect all year long. You're saying one thing and you're saying it, you're saying it, you're saying it. ... 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During the war the workers built thousands of radar sets and sections for the Mulberry harbour, and after the war up to 3,000 people were employed by the firm. Mike recalls that when the hooter went for work to finish you could hear the sounds of hundreds of people on bikes leaving the factories.\nTheir administrative and design office was eventually bought by Brighton University and renamed Mithras House.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sefd911.org/history/rick-scofield/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TNHORSE6FEP2ZJLTZI4SMCCAURSWTAQK", "length": 3625, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sefd911.org", "title": "Rick Scofield | Sonoita-Elgin Fire District", "raw_content": "Rick Scofield, 1998 \u2013 1999\nRick Scofield was born in Tucson and graduated from Catalina High School. He earned a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona in l973. He worked construction until he started his own company called Scofield Construction in Tucson. Many houses were built by his company to include several in Starr Pass and some in Sonoita. At the present Rick is working in Commercial Construction for Lang Wyatt Construction.\nDuring his time as Chief, he tried many different ways to let the firemen see new scenarios away from the station. Once he turned a car over in his front yard to show the firemen and EMT\u2019s how to extricate a patient in this situation. The firemen learned many things to include how to handle fuel spills, chocking in order to stabilize a car, and mountain rescue where the basket and ropes pulleys were used. Most of the training for unusual scenarios was done away from the station, which was a good thing. It is not usual for an incident to happen AT the station. The Scofield period was a family affair. Rick was Chief, Kenny, their son, was a fireman, and Sharon, his wife, was a dispatcher. There was a time we had a fire call, and the Scofields were the only ones in town. Chief Scofield and Kenny responded to the fire, and Sharon dispatched. It was a fire call to a new house construction where they found a fire in a large trash collector. Talk about a one family operation!\nBecause Ed Schaeffer wanted to retire from being Chief in order to run his school, Rick said he would take command in the interim, until the Board could find someone else to take charge. Working full time in Tucson and trying to devote all the time needed to run the fire station was a big load to carry.\nRick is a very talented guy. He has won a couple belt buckles for U.S. Team Roping in Arizona and New Mexico with his partner Nick Kavathas, also from this area. He and his family started out mountain biking. In their first El Tour de Tucson Rick and Sharon did the 35 mile leg on mountain bikes! This charity ride is usually ridden on road bikes, because the course is on pavement and allows for gears to go at higher speeds. The first year was mostly fun charity rides with the family. He and Kenny soon discovered racing the MBAA series together and were off and racing each weekend. This February, as he does every year, Rick raced the 24Hours in the Old Pueblo held out at Willow Springs Ranch near Oracle. He and 4 other team members of his cycling team \u201cTeam Rhino\u201d placed 5th. Not bad for a coed 200+ combined age! BUT THIS YEAR Rick rode El Tour de Tucson placing second in the 35 mile leg, (roll the drums, blow the horns, sound the alarms). He just missed 1st place men\u2019s division by 2 sec. What a killer!!! He spends many a weekend out on the road or in the hills conditioning for the next race. He has started racing criterions on weekends with Sharon. This is a closed circuit, timed event, it\u2019s pure adrenaline for the duration.\nIn the life of the Scofields, biking again is a family affair. Rick and Sharon have two adult children \u2013 all are bikers. Because this article is about Rick, we won\u2019t say how Sharon placed in the woman\u2019s division of The Tour de Tucson. You will have to ask her \u2013 I know!!!\nChief Scofield was a tremendous addition to our Fire Chiefs. He was dedicated and knowledgeable. As you can see he was athletic (still is) and could handle situations very well as they arose. Thank you Chief for giving your time and effort to a needy bunch of willing firefighters, EMT\u2019s, dispatchers, and mechanics. 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Biohazards contain germs and infections that present health dangers to family, friends or staff members who may come in contact with biohazards. Blood-borne illness, germs, and viruses discovered in blood and other bodily fluids can live outside the body for days and often weeks. HIV & Hepatitis are the most commonly known risks that can be contracted from biohazards. When a distressing accident, suicide, criminal offense, death happens in Miami or you have biohazards on your house it need to be cleaned up and sanitized effectively.\nIn your home, in the office, as well as in a vehicle, boat or aircraft, safeguarding yourself and others from direct exposure to biohazards and blood-borne pathogens must be your top concern and concern. When blood does not get cleaned up effectively the biomaterial begins to disintegrate, a strong odor emanates and flies are drawn in to the scene that spread contaminates to other areas that need to also be found and cleaned. We will inspect the residential or commercial property and identify all locations that have been exposed to biohazards and remove, decontaminate, and clean up everything to reduce the health risk.\nWe are an expert biohazard cleanup company in Miami 33165 certified by the Department of Public Health that will ensure the cleanup is done properly to decrease future danger on infection to others. Our professionally trained team will clean, disinfect, and deal with all blood and biohazard materials so you can move on and be guaranteed that you, your household, pals or colleagues are safe.\nBusiness must follow rigorous standards which mandates that staff members have correct and extensive training before they are put in a position to clean up or handle any occurrence that might expose.\nWe decontaminate, tidy and eliminate all biohazards that are present. Cleanup is needed from top to bottom; ceiling, walls, furnishings, individual items as well as lighting fixtures. Each small spot and square inch in a room that is exposed to biohazards is thought about a possible source of infection and must be correctly decontaminated and cleaned.\nThere is more than what meets the eye and our professionals are trained to determine, clean and decontaminate the tiniest beads of biohazard material. A thumbnail spot on the floor or carpet might mean a two-foot size bloodstain on the sub floor under it or on the floorboard. A small droplet of blood on the top of a dresser drawer or counter top is a sign of more blood inside the drawer or beneath the handle. With time biohazards start to trigger an odor and must be discovered, sanitized and cleaned to be sure that the environment is safe, secure and ready for use.\nEach and every clean-up is special and positions different difficulties. In the majority of hoarded houses we discover biohazards and conditions that position a biological concern that needs to be attended to so nobody gets ill. We are a Biohazard company that concentrates on Hoarding remediation when there is a lot of particles, which in most cases includes biohazards.\nWhen occupants of a home can not easily move about the home, must climb up over debris to get from one room to another, or are not able to utilize the bathroom, bathe, or safety store and cook food in the kitchen area it positions a significant risk to their health and safety. We often get calls from a relative or pal of somebody who has fallen or became ill due to the excess debris in the house. Extreme hoarding is also a fire risk and a risk to the citizen and their next-door neighbors.\nWe securely navigate risks such as rodent feces, human waste, bed bugs, fleas, animals, mold, asbestos, and years of filth and dust concealed underneath, in or behind the debris. 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Dickelman made the all-conference first team while Grignon was selected to the second team and Timm was an honorable mention.\nA position switch from wide receiver to running back for Shawano\u2019s Brayden Dickelman was a way for coach Alan Tomow to get the playmaker the ball more often in his junior season.\nDickelman took advantage of his opportunities and produced a monster season on the ground to earn a spot on the Bay Conference first team.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous honor being on the first team and knowing all the coaches in our league think I\u2019m one of the best players in our conference,\u201d said Dickelman, who rushed for 1,070 yards and nine touchdowns on the season while also returning two punts for scores and adding a touchdown reception.\nDickelman, an honorable mention selection at receiver as a sophomore, was one of seven different Hawks that earned spots on an all-conference team. Coaches within the conference voted the players to the respective teams recently.\nDickelman noted his offseason work translated to success on the field and that he was excited for an even bigger senior season on the field.\n\u201cWhat allowed me to be so successful this past season was the work I put in during the offseason in the weight room and working on my game any chance I got,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a lot of motivation for next year as I fell short in some of my goals. I wanted to be named running back of the year in the Bay Conference and break the school record for rushing yards. This offseason I\u2019m going to work even harder than I did last year to achieve all my goals and hopefully lead our team to a playoff berth.\u201d\nSeniors Nick Grignon, Nathan Krizan and Crede Timm were selected to the second team all-conference as an outside linebacker, offensive lineman and wide receiver, respectively.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big honor to take pride in and I\u2019d like to thank all the people that helped me along the way to succeed,\u201d Grignon said. \u201cI\u2019m thankful to achieve this award and my name may be on the award but my parents are a huge part of it as well because without them being a part of my life and giving me the tools to be successful in sports, I would not have had the football career I had through high school.\u201d\n\u201cWell, to make short and sweet, it felt great,\u201d Krizan said. \u201cThis season was really special to me and the other seniors and it didn\u2019t go the way that we wished it could have, but I gave it my all this year and I am grateful that the coaches in the Bay Conference recognized that. I hope that it also encourages our younger guys that we have passed the torch to, that next season even if the wins and losses don\u2019t look good, that you still got something going for you if you try your hardest and just try to be the best football player that you can be.\u201d\nCrede Timm finished the season with a team-high 34 catches for 384 yards and four touchdowns.\nShawano players making the honorable mention team were sophomore Gage Timm, freshman Elliott Lowney and juniors Keith Tourtillott and Andrew Christian.\nGage Timm served as the team\u2019s starting quarterback and finished the season with 783 passing yards and seven touchdowns. He also added 396 yards and three scores on the ground.\nLowney hauled in 19 receptions for 331 yards, a 17.4 yard average. 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To Fawn Brodie\nD[p.52]ear Fawn,\nFiguratively speaking, I think one of these days one of these missionaries will catch you with your slip off, and he will slap a garment on you so fast it will knock your eye out. And after that, posterity will cease to have to worry about you; you\u2019ll be a righteous woman of good works the rest of your days, and on your tombstone will be engraved something by Edgar A. Guest. I tell you this to comfort you and let you know in advance of the time that all will yet turn out well.\nI know very well the harassed feeling you experience. When I moved to Ogden in 1938 to take the job with the Historical Records Survey, I rented an upstairs apartment from a family on Jackson Avenue. A week or so later I found a note under my door advising me that special services were held by the Church for the hard of hearing and the deafened in such and such a ward every Sunday at such and such a time. What I felt then is how you feel now. I shall go to hell, I know, but I\u2019m enjoying myself now, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if I enjoy myself somewhat in hell too. After all, just think of all the [p.53] living headaches who are figuring on putting up in heaven\u2026. Why don\u2019t you suggest to [Edgar A.] Brossard [a local church official] that you give a reading from one of your chapters at Sacrament Meeting some Sunday night? He could advertise it in the papers as a special preview of the prize-winning biography, etc.\nI have [Fitz Hugh] Ludlow\u2019s book here now, in case you ever want to see it. I agree that the characterization of [Orrin Porter] Rockwell1 is striking. In fact, [Charles] Kelly & [Hoffman] Birney quoted from it on the dust jacket of their Holy Murder[, the Story of Porter Rockwell]. I think you must have reference to [Wilhelm] Wyl\u2019s book [Mormon Portraits], in the case of Rockwell\u2019s brag. That is the only thing I can recall, and it is the only instance of the kind that Kelly & Birney cite.\nWyl says, on p. 255, that in an interview with Brigadier General Patrick Edward Connor on June 23 (1886 apparently), Connor told him that Rockwell used to tell him \u201cmany of the horrible deeds he had committed for the church. Among other things he told me once that HE HAD SHOT BOGGS. \u2018I shot through the window; said he,\u2019and thought I had killed him, but I had only wounded him; I was damned sorry that I had not killed the son of a b\u2014!'\u201d\nWyl, in printing the Fanny Brewer affidavit on pp. 249-50, dates it Boston, Sept. 13, 1842, and follows it with one by G. B. Frost, same place, Sept. 19, 1842. Presumably the affidavits were printed in the Boston Recorder subsequent to the latter date. If it is merely the text rather than the citation you want, you are welcome to borrow my Wyl. In the long run, of course, you will want to cite the original source. That is my own policy, never citing a secondary source if I can authenticate the original source.\nI\u2019m not sure what your Improvement Era citation is (on Ludlow), but maybe it is the Rockwell sketch they serialized some time back. I have never got around to scanning that, although I glanced at one of the issues when it appeared. Kelly told me that George Albert Smith had remarked to [J. Cecil] Alter2 that this piece was about as bad in its way as Holy Murder was in the other. (Or words to that effect; I forget the precise wording now.)\nIncidently, you greatly underestimate the E. R. Snow diary. It has no earth-shaking entries, but it has a number of important stray facts tying in with a dozen phases of early Utah history. I am very glad to have the parts dealing with the first years in Utah. Biographically, it\u2019s not much good, but historically, it is more than respectable. Did you read F. Y. Fox\u2019s two-part piece on the Consecration Movement of the [18]50s? There\u2019s some sound scholarship in that. I\u2019ve devoted a lot of attention to the Consecration movement of the 50s myself, and there are very few angles that Fox missed. He also did, some years ago, an excellent thesis for Northwestern on The Mormon Land System. If the Historian\u2019s Office were staffed with men of his caliber, I think Mormon history as written by Mormon historians would take a great stride foward. I\u2019ve never met the [p.54] fellow, and know nothing about him, but by his works I am willing to judge him.\nI just got around today to looking at Reva Stanley\u2019s [biography of LDS apostle Parley E Pratt] Archer of Paradise. A most curious work, a mixture of the amateur and the professional, the skeptic and the zealot, and with an effort at casual interpretation positively astonishing in places, as when the American point of view toward the Mormons a hundred years or so ago is summed up as being the same thing as the popular idea of the \u201cReds\u201d at the time the book was written. (That reads as a very curious rebuke to today\u2019s ultraconservative church leaders.)\nI\u2019m glad you enjoyed Juanita\u2019s jam and preserves. If you get around before it has vanished, I\u2019ll give you some more of the plum jam, as I have found another suitable bottle around here. I should feel myself to betray Juanita in her generosity if I did not spread out to the uttermost her beneficence. So I\u2019ll look for you to drop in again sometime soon.\nThe Sinclair Lewis piece is very amusing. It is not criticism, it\u2019s \u201cyou\u2019re another!\u201d It is in full fellowship with the satiric passages he writes in his books; this time he got off on the subject of B[ernard]. DeV[oto]. instead of the clergy or Babbitt. Yet the interesting thing is that in this case, as usual, he got just enough truth into his picture to give it a certain cockeyed recognition. Incidently, have you read [Wallace] Stegner\u2019s Big Rock Candy Mountain? I read it in December and have since recommended it to everyone I know. It is to my mind the best novel anyone has ever written about the West; it is inconceivably better than anything he has ever written before (perhaps because, unquestionably, it is his own story, basically). It is the only book I have ever seen which dealt naturally with the Utah scene, especially the modern Utah scene; and I think no one who has ever lived in the West can read it without a thousand recognitions. I would give a great deal to have written this novel myself. I was glad to see Lewis give Stegner a boost, though he was really panning DeVoto rather than praising Stegner, and I can\u2019t agree with Lewis that Stegner\u2019s On A Darkling Plain has any particular significance.\nI\u2019ve thought it all over, and have finally come to the conclusion that Joseph Smith is a damned lie, and no such person ever existed. This proposition is so plain, on the basis of the numerous facts available, that I\u2019m surprised nobody ever realized it before. I mention it to you in case the information might come in handy.\n1. Orrin Porter Rockwell was a bodyguard to Joseph Smith. His feats of courage and terrorism were legendary among Mormons. Following the attempted assassination of Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs, an anti-Mormon, in May 1842, Rockwell was widely thought to be the assailant.\n2. J. Cecil Alter was editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly.\n[p.55]8. To Madeline McQuown1\nMadeline darling,\nYour letter of Sunday came yesterday\u2014very appropriately, I thought, since I had reckoned that your new dress most probably would reach you yesterday, though I hoped it would come on Memorial Day. I await your verdict on it with much interest, because I rather fancy myself as a selecter of wardrobes for you, and, as I told you once, would greatly enjoy clothing you entirely in things of my own selection from the skin out. I think my taste in general tends toward simplicity of cut and color, but with color that is bright and fresh. Not that this is an invariable criterion, but as a generality it is good, I think.\nThe hospital has certainly been giving you the works; you are going through an ordeal of the first grade. But I am happy about it, because it is something upon which you embarked of your own will\u2014that is, you went to the hospital in search of health, not being hauled there helplessly with no voice of your own in the matter. I hope that all these examinations will get to the root of your trouble and give you an opportunity to begin leading a half-decent life as soon as you leave the hospital. I shall be daily expecting further word on how things are going with you. And maybe by the time the week is out I will have a bulletin about your dress.\nI\u2019ve been pretty much on the run since I wrote you Friday night. When I got home Saturday night, on the step in front of my apartment was the steel file [cabinet] Mother had shipped me\u2014it had been too heavy for the express people to carry upstairs (350 lbs.). So I had to dig up tools to tear the crate open, then carry up the individual drawers, and finally take the empty filing cabinet up, reassembling them in my apartment. This occupied the greater part of the evening. Maurice Howe spent Sunday with me, coming about 12:30 and staying till about 11:30. He is looking much better than I had anticipated, and enjoyed himself a great deal without seeming to get too tired. In fact, I was probably more exhausted than he at the end of the day, since of course I made him take it easy while I cooked dinner and otherwise made myself useful around the apartment.\nWhen I got home on Monday night I found myself in possession of a complete set (lacking only the first index volume) of the [p.56] 32-volume Early Western Travels series. This is something I have had an ambition to own for years, without much expectation of ever having the $200-plus that is the asking price for this series in these days. Rosenstock in Denver shipped me this set on the understanding that I might take as much time as I wanted to pay for it. The cost shocks me a little\u2014$170. But I think I could sell them overnight for more than that, and the books almost completely fill in the foundation of my historical library. There are not more than a dozen basic source narratives that I still lack dealing with Western history as I approach it, and I am now in a position to sit tight and work with what I have. Incidently, Rosenstock has told me all sorts of interesting things about really big-time collecting (he is one of the country\u2019s best known Americana sellers) with leave to use the information in a magazine article. I had intended writing one for Publishers\u2019 Weekly about his adventures with the Ferris journal, but I think I will see if I can\u2019t slant this yarn so as to hit one of the big-circulation magazines. I have a number of interesting ideas about it. Incidently, when I speak of big-time collecting, I mean this matter of paying from $3,000 to $10,000 for a single book.\nAnyhow, I spent most of the evening Monday cutting the leaves of the books. (Though 40 years old now, two-thirds of them were uncut. I abominate uncut books.)\nTuesday night, I fulfilled a promise I had made the Federal Chess Club some weeks before, to come around and with others of the top players play three games at once against the membership, at odds of the knight. Last night, Wednesday, I was occupied till midnight baking a new batch of bread. And tonight, after seeing Maurice off on his train at 5:30, I must do some things at National Archives. Tomorrow night I\u2019m going to try to get some writing done. Thus my week goes!\nI have spoken now and then of my \u201cbasic\u201d library, gradually assembled over the last five years. I\u2019ll give you a more concrete idea of what I have. I own all the Bancrofts, all the Pacific Railroad Exploration Reports, all of the Hulbert Overland to the Pacific volumes (8 of them), the 12-volume Southwest Historical Series published by Clark, 7 of the 8 Princeton University Trans-Mississippi Series, the 6 most important of the 8-volume Original Journals of Lewis & Clark, and now the Early Western Travels. I have Mrs. Victor\u2019s River of the West, Osborne Russell, James Bridget, Sabin\u2019s Kit Carson Days (and four or five other Carson items, including his Own Story), Ghent & Hafen\u2019s Broken Hand, Catlin\u2019s North American Indians, Hodge\u2019s Handbook of American Indians, Bryant, Thronton, Nidever\u2026and so on and so on, plus the Mormon stuff. It is simpler to list the important stuff that I lack than that I still need. The only real deficiencies in my functional collection are Zenas Leonard\u2019s Narrative, Larpenteur\u2019s Forty Years a Fur Trader, Ross\u2019s Fur Hunters, Rose\u2019s Four Years in the Rockies (these latter two customarily sell for around $40 and I have no expectation of owning them), John Ball\u2019s Autobiography, Allen\u2019s Ten Years in Oregon, and one or two others. A couple of others it would be convenient to have but I already have the privilege of using them, Darel [McConkey] owning Gass\u2019s [p.57] Journal (of the L & C expedition), and Maurice owning James\u2019s Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, Luttig\u2019s Journal of a Fur Trading Expedition, James Clyman, and Chittenden\u2019s Am. Fur Trade. You see, we can write a lot of history out of this group of books.\nThe file that Mother shipped here contains practically everything of importance of my MS materials except the stuff that you had. I had asked Mother to enclose that if there was room, but quite evidently there was not, and I shall have to have her make a supplementary shipment. I have had some trouble discussing this point with her because I don\u2019t know precisely what it was that you did return, and Mother is not clear in her mind as to what she did with the stuff you brought back. You didn\u2019t tell me whether you ever received those photographs I mailed you from the train, going east, but I assume that you had them. To judge from the files I now have here, and my recollection of what I left with you, you had all my Journal History notes up to 1845, plus the folders for 1849 and 1850, and also the journal of Priddy Meeks. Whether you had other MS stuff I don\u2019t know. Some of the books you had have already been sent on to me, notably the Journal of Discourses. One book I lent you, Mrs. Waite\u2019s Mormon Prophet and His Harem, Mother was not able to find when she shipped me some of my books two months or so ago, but I asked her to search again before I queried you. I am going to have her send me the rest of the Mormon books I require to write about Mormon history, so that I will have all the stuff here. If any of the stuff you had should not turn up at my place, there would be some presumption that it might have got mixed up with your own stuff when you stored your books and notes and the like. I bring up the point now, because if we get these things all straightened out at this time and know where we stand, when I come West for you I can, if necessary, stop off in Ogden and dig out any stuff of yours that you are likely to be in need of after you get here, or any stuff of mine that might have got mixed up therein. At all events, I will discuss this with you when Mother has made her search and sent off her final shipment to me.\n1. Madeline Reeder McQuown and Morgan had a complex thirty-five year relationship, during which time a rich and lively correspondence was generated. Although she destroyed some of his letters before her death, her papers at the University of Utah\u2019s Marriott Library, Special Collections division, contain many letters both to and from Morgan (though occasionally some portions have been excised). Her papers also include the first four chapters and first appendix to Morgan\u2019s unfinished Mormon history, her unpublished biography of Brigham Young, and a novelized account of her relationship with Morgan.\u201d\n9. To Madeline McQuown\n[p.58][The preceding pages are missing.]\nHere it is Monday morning, and since I began this letter I have picked up what I hope will turn brown into a tan, but which might just as easily turn into a peeling party. The last few Sundays I have taken off my shirt and moved out to the \u201csun beach\u201d at the side of the apartment. Yesterday I thought I could take two hours in the sun, but the fact is not yet demonstrated. I am more red than brown to this point. Sunday is the only time I can get into the sun, really, so soaking up the sunshine presents some difficulties.\nSaturday morning I had to stop in at the post office to pick up two of my books [Maurice] Howe had mailed back to me, and on passing my laundry I was shocked to see that the populace was warned to pick up its laundry by July 8, on account [of the proprietor having been] \u201cDRAFTED.\u201d At that moment I had approximately 7 cents in my pocket\u2014I had intended picking up the laundry today, which was payday. But stern measures obviously were demanded. So at the office I extracted $5 from a person of temporary wealth, and got out to Rosslyn just in time to meet the Chinese fellow walking down the street from his place. He turned around and went back with me and so I am again in possession of my linens. All my sheets but two, and all my towels but two were at the laundry, so you can see the crisis that confronted me. It was just plain luck I happened to pass the laundry that morning, as customarily in going to and from the streetcar terminal I take another course which perhaps saves a hundred yards or two of walking. Today\u2019s check will go rapidly to hell, but it is some comfort to get all my obligations under the hatches, and after the end of this month I should not only be able to help you constructively (aside from the minimum sums I have been sending you) but to put together a bank balance of more satisfying proportions than I have had so far this year.\nDuring these sunning periods I have put on my dark glasses and occupied myself in going through [Bernard] DeVoto\u2019s Year of Decision critically, by way of making it more factually water-tight and thus more useful; I finished the job yesterday. Since I have been working intermittently at this, it is interesting to have you discuss [p.59] him as a historian in your letter. Although a memory is an important adjunct for anyone who works with history, I don\u2019t think it is by any means the prime prerequisite for a historian. I have reflected upon DeVoto as a historian, and I should say that his weaknesses are part and parcel of his strength. His characteristic errors are not the errors in which memory itself is much of a factor. Rather, they come through the tendency he has for sweeping generalizations and striking literary effect. These of course are the things that make his writing most challenging and alive; his mind sweeps broadly so that he puts large facts together in interesting new ways, flavored by allusion and language. But in putting his facts together in this way, frequently he subjects his details to a pressure of distortion. You have to take the bad with the good in his historical writing\u2014and I for one will take it.\nThe allusion in [Wallace] Stegner\u2019s letter I did not take seriously. He was either flattering me more or less, or having himself a good-natured dig at my proclivity for pointing out errors of detail in other guys\u2019 writing. (For instance, when I wrote him some months back congratulating him on the fine job he did with his novel, I mentioned a very few details that were out of line\u2014speaking of the \u201ccontinental divide\u201d at Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon, \u201cBrigham City High\u201d instead of \u201cBox Elder High,\u201d and one or two others.) I don\u2019t know precisely what he has in mind, but the other day I stumbled over a piece he wrote on Boston which perhaps indicates his method of approach\u2014if so, he might do an interesting job. I\u2019ll try to collar this issue of the Atlantic Monthly from the magazine editor\u2019s desk here, and send it along to you. Iffen I do, take note of the remarks on fish cookery in the end pages. In fact, tear \u2019em out and save \u2019em!\nAt this point interruption seized me in its iron grasp, and I resume next morning. Even 18 hours later I still love you! I\u2019m sure you will be pleased with this tidbit of information.\nI\u2019d enjoy gossiping about some more of the people around here this morning, but with some jobs I have to do, I\u2019d better not, for this time.\nWe are promised a really scorching day today, with very high humidity and temperatures up to 95 (it got to 91 yesterday). The humidity has turned up, all right, but so far the sky is overcast, and if it stays that way all day, nobody around here will be heard groaning. Darling, you ought to make your way here. You could get all the sunshine you are not getting in California. In fact, there are two stretches of lawn around the group of apartments which are a virtual sun beach. I don\u2019t know how it is on weekdays, not being around, but on Sundays there are always two or three people at a time soaking up the sun on one side or the other. The lawn is fresh and green and pleasant, the location, while not board-fenced, is not out in the middle of the street, and in other respects one may pick up a respectable tan there\u2014if he is around when the sun is giving off the means of a tan.\n[p.60] Well, why not make your way here? Returning to our subject of yesterday, suppose you name a date when you will leave San Francisco, and I will lay out an itinerary, etc., for you. Put up or shut up, darling!\nWith your letter Monday came one from Juanita Brooks. A while back I learned that the original transcripts of the [John D.] Lee trials were in the Huntington Library. I wrote Juanita Brooks about it, and she wrote them. They had a copy of her little biography of her grandfather, Dudley Leavitt, and were cordial, being particularly interested in what she had said about having been interested in collecting diaries, and so on. Well, on the 10th she went to Los Angeles for the dual purpose of visiting with her brother\u2019s family and of looking things over at Huntington. In both respects, she had a very satisfying time. You know, a while back the Rockefeller foundation made a series of regional grits, about $50,000 each, for research projects in American history. The Huntington Library is the administrator of the Southwestern grant, and they are interested in a program of gathering Mormon diaries, among other things. They intimated as much to Juanita before she went there. I told her I was both in favor and against the idea\u2014that is, one can only look with favor on a collecting program designed to preserve materials for history\u2014but one cannot look with such favor on a program by which the State of Utah will be looted of its historical treasures for an out-of-state institution. Juanita told them she could not be enthusiastic about collecting originals for them, except when they were not being taken care of properly, or when the others were poor and need to sell. The upshot is that they will be fully satisfied with photostating the journals; and accordingly Juanita is to be given $50 a month plus traveling expenses, postage, and other incidental expenses, for a new collecting program. The arrangement has to be okayed by the Board of Directors, but Dr. [Robert G.] Cleland told Juanita he presumed they would accept his recommendation. So this is to my mind a perfect arrangement, from which history can only be the gainer. Huntington does not, so Juanita reports, have a very extensive collection of Mormon manuscript material right now\u2014she sends me notes on what they do have. But in future something should result from Juanita\u2019s efforts\u2014and nobody is better equipped to find stuff. Besides, photostats are much more satisfactory than typed copies. So I am in a mood to say hooray!\nJuanita has also ordered a microfilm of the Lee trial testimony\u2014something like 900 pages for the two trials. Between us, Juanita and I will soon have everything available on the M[outain] M[eadows] M[assacre]. We have been putting all our findings into a mutual pool, and both of us have contributed material of high value.\nI\u2019ve been sitting here reading and rereading the two poems. I hope you will send me all the poems you write. They give me a special insight into you I obtain in no other way, and they are a way of enjoying you, deep down inside where you live most vitally. I\u2019ve already said that I particularly like the one called \u201cJune 7.\u201d I like the [p.61] original version of the poem, but it did occur to me in time that it possibly was subjective in some ways, and it might mean more to me and to you than to one who knew nothing of the Wasatch and the desert country. The poem now written strikes fire in a great many more recesses of the heart, perhaps; you have expanded the experience to a more universal level. All this apart from the almost shattering force of the title and all it implies for all that you say.\nIn the other poem, is the parenthesis around \u201cin place\u201d intended for a deletion of those words? I like the poem better without them.\nNow, at this late stage of my letter, I actually take up your letter. With all my heart I hope you got away to the Sacramento Valley and that you had a thoroughly enjoyable little vacation from San Francisco. There must be another one in the Santa Cruz Mountains even if the one in the Sacramento Valley went as planned. I like to think of you enjoying yourself. I prefer to think of you enjoying yourself with me, but as next best, I like to think of you enjoying yourself anywhere at all.\nI am most interested, too, in what you tell me about this woman endocrinologist, and I hope she really is right in thinking she knows what your endocrine upset has been. Good luck to us!\nAbout the [Brigham] Young biography, I think you are wrong in imagining that the sample chapters must be the opening chapters. The chapters that you have written would, indeed, be much more to the point\u2014because they are chapters from a significant period of his life, and the earlier years were not really his most significant years. I think you ought to have as many as five or six chapters altogether, to show a substantial bulk of writing already done, and to illustrate your method, but these need not necessarily be consecutive chapters. An outline of what you propose to do, and some indication of how your chapters fit into the whole, is all you will require.\nYou might send along those novels at your convenience, but make sure it is at your convenience, and forget about the Lauritzen book if it is in Utah.\n[The remainder of this page has been torn away. The next page begins:]\nThe enclosed note from Stegner might interest you. He wrote me a week or so ago asking advice about a picture story on the Mormons for Look [magazine]\u2014he is doing a larger story on the problems of minorities, racial and otherwise, and thought he would like to pull in the Mormons as an example of a problem which has been largely dissipated by the force of history. I interpreted his letter to mean that he was doing a primarily West Coast job, and therefore recommended San Bernardino rather than a Utah town; or if he felt the need of a Utah locale, maybe Beaver would be a good bet because of the background of Mormon-Gentile conflict there (it was headquarters for the southern Utah polygamy prosecutions, locale of the Lee trials, etc). From this second letter it would appear he has [p.62] something larger in view, a national approach to a problem, and I should judge that the Look angle is only incidental and that he means to have a book out of it.\nP.S. On second thought, I\u2019m enclosing my key to Mother\u2019s place\u2026\n[The remainder of this page has been torn away.]\nAt the moment this is the only paper I have around, and this is a good moment for writing you a note, so let\u2019s let it go at that.\nI much enjoy the deteriorating effect I have on your character. If it is any comfort to you, yours is not the only integrity I undermine. The other day one of my friends remarked that he was a little leafy of something he\u2019d been doing\u2014\u201dfor Gossakes,\u201d he said, \u201cremember\u2014\u201d By which he meant that a few ill- or well chosen words could do him great quantities of no good at all. I told him, of course, that I was a walking cemetery, and his grave should be held undisturbed like all the others I carry around in me. So the same thing can apply to yours. I\u2019ll discuss these [John D. Lee] journals with you presently; but for right now all I\u2019ll say is I\u2019m damned glad they exist, and I only hope that others are to be found. I have an idea that no personal journal by him will ever be found for the period between December, 1850, and about July, 1851, because he kept the official journal of the Iron County Mission during that period, and I should imagine that satisfied his journal-keeping proclivities. I have all the excerpts from this record that were copied into the Journal History, incidently. Did Huntington give you any reason to think that they might be able to lay hands on others of his journals? I hope so, for heaven\u2019s sake. When you look in on them again, ask them to put my name on the subscription list for their publication of the journals. You needn\u2019t tell them I know about them\u2014just tell them I have a standing order [p.63] for every Mormon journal that is published by anyone. Incidently, I think they would be smart to hire you to edit the journals. With the possible exception of [Charles] Kelly, you know more about his life than anyone else, I\u2019m willing to bet.\nThe mircrofilms of the Lee trials arrived Thursday night, and the upshot was that willy-nilly I immediately squeezed out of this month\u2019s budget $5.50 for a \u201cviewer.\u201d It is a very simple device, consisting of a lens set in an adjustable cylinder a couple of inches long, with a slide arrangement at the back through which the microfilm can be drawn\u2014like looking into a very short telescope. It doesn\u2019t \u201clift\u201d the microfilm very far, but it does lift it into readability, and at the cost of a certain amount of eye-strain, one could go through the entire microfilm with the use of this \u201cviewer\u201d alone. But I have been contemplating this device, and it seems to me that it should be possible to use it as a projector. That is, by shining a strong light back of the film, it should be possible to use the lens to project an enlarged version of the film on a screen or something. I have made some (as yet unsatisfactory) experiments with a flashlight, but I mean to mess around further and see what I can do with this lens. It will be far easier to use microfilms with this device if it can be made to enlarge them further. I\u2019ll report in due time. Meanwhile you can rest assured that we have already a means of using these microfilms, if something still better cannot be figured out.\nOne by-product of my getting this \u201cViewer\u201d is that I am now going to go ahead and write the Danite1 piece. Up till now I have been stymied by two things\u2014I haven\u2019t had my files here, and I had no means of getting at two microfilms I possessed, bearing on the Missouri phase. But my files have been at hand since early last month, and on Sunday I used this Viewer to extract from the two microfilms the information I needed. So as rapidly as time will permit, I shall now write the piece. I\u2019m going to see if the Pacific Historical Review will publish it.\nAs a dividend to you on the arrival of my files, I enclose an excerpt in regard to [Jacob] Hamblin and another in regard to Indian wives. The latter is interesting when read in conjunction with Hosea Stout\u2019s journal entry, because this lecture to the Green River Saints was delivered some months before Stout appeared on the scene, and it is evident from what Stout tells us that the good humor, if not even the ribaldry, of the men was far from subdued by Nebeker\u2019s lecture! I do not remember clearly, but isn\u2019t this journal entry one of the very earliest of all the entries evidencing a policy of taking Indian wives? This mission to the Shoshones antedates by some months the organization of the Southern Indian mission.\nWhat you\u2019re suffering from right now, in the case of your book, is a characteristic case of \u201cauthoritis.\u201d I have experienced the disease myself from time to time and recognize all the symptoms. Personally, I am expecting from day to day to hear that you have been given the award you are after, though as I have observed to you, I always admit the capacity for people\u2019s going haywire, and there is [p.64] always the chance that H[oughton]-M[iflin] will get smart on you. But when and if that happens, all you have to do is send your MS to me, because I have appointed myself your authorized agent in all contingencies except a straight award by H-M. I have a place on my bookshelf already reserved for Quicksand and Cactus, and it is only a question of time until the space is filled.\nWhile I think about it, I want to ask you a question. What is Salt Lake City characteristically called by the Mormon outlanders? One of my friends once wrote a story in which a character, a farmer, called it \u201cThe Lake.\u201d I have wondered whether that name was peculiar to the section he was writing about, or whether it was generally used. The reason I ask is that I am going to write a piece on Salt Lake City for the Rocky Mountain Review, probably their autumn number. They are inaugurating a series called \u201cRocky Mountain Cities,\u201d and plan to publish an article on the major city in each of the Rocky Mountain states. Since I have various ideas about S[alt] L[ake] C[ity] I never could write into a W[orks] P[rogress] A[dministration] production a completely personal point of view; in other words, I was pleased to be asked to do the Salt Lake City piece. But I would like this item of imformation on Salt Lake City as viewed from the outside. My own point of view has been largely internal, of course.\nIn a day or so I shall send you something that will interest you-to wit, the rest of Gunnison\u2019s journal. Just when I thought I had finished with the Stansbury journals, I found a homeward-bound journal by Gunnison which I had taken to be only a field-book. I expect to finish copying it at National Archives today, and after a spell of proof-reading, I will send you a copy to supplement what I sent you before\u2014the entries run to November 30, 1850, by which time he was on a river steamer heading up the Ohio. There is not so much information about the Mormons in this, but while homeward bound he was told by one fellow who had boarded with Lyman that Amasa Lyman had six wives, all of whom were \u201cprofane swearers,\u201d and a juicy item of gossip is thrown in for good measure.\nYou speak of going back to Huntington August 2. I hope that all arrangements have been cleared with respect to the Rockefeller grant, and also that they are paying your expenses there! Such details are always helpful. If by any chance you should have the time while there, I\u2019d appreciate your having a closer look at the [Oliver] Cowdery docket book, particularly for 1837, to see whether it does contain anything of importance for Mormon history during that period of violent upset in Kirtland [Ohio]. Fawn [Brodie], by the way, is off to New England with her husband and her youngster for a two-week vacation. She always gets worried when she goes off somewhere with her husband, because, as she says, she has such a vested interest in her book that she couldn\u2019t stand not having it published. So, against the contingency that a truck might run them down, she dropped me a note before leaving vesting in me all rights and whatnot in her MS and notes \u201cjust in case.\u201d Fire also troubles her, but she is able to safeguard against that somewhat by keeping a carbon copy [p.65] of her MS in her husband\u2019s desk in the Navy building. I know somewhat how she feels. I drew up a formal will a year ago to insure that my papers would not just be sold for waste paper in case I slipped in getting out of the bathtub some day. Fawn ordered a microfilm of the miscellaneous Cowdery letters, but they had not arrived up to the time she left, a week ago today.\nI expect to go over to N.Y. to see my mother and sister between August 10 and 15, and will also spend some of that time at the N[ew] Y[ork] P[ublic] L[ibrary]. If anything occurs to you that you\u2019d like looked into while I\u2019m there, speak up and I\u2019ll attend to it.\nYour tale of Dixie [i.e., southern Utah] puts me in mind of what Orson Huntsman once wrote, that he \u201cbelieved Dixie was close to hell, for it was the hottest place I ever was in.\u201d Not that it will be any comfort to you, you can be glad you have only the heat and not the humidity. It is my experience that Utah\u2019s dry-kiln variety of heat is greatly to be preferred to the steam pressure-chamber they have in this section of the country. But this year to date has not been so bad as last year.\n* * * One of the secretaries here, a young Negro wife, just walked down the aisle. She is in a state of extreme expectation, if you know what I mean. I don\u2019t know what she expects, but personally I am expecting the child to arrive almost any hour now.\nThis reminds me of a story I heard yesterday which in a way is a small cross-section of a world. Naomi Peres, one of my associates here, was telling me about the janitor and wife in the apartment building where she and her husband live. This couple, who are just \u201cordinary colored folks,\u201d acquired a baby about three months ago. Naomi just learned the details in the last couple of weeks, when the woman came up to do some ironing for her to enable her to get away on a vacation. The woman said that God had sent the child to her, which sounded rather odd until she explained. In the spring she was riding on the streetcar one day when she saw a young colored girl, about 18, on the seat ahead carrying a baby boy about 10 months old. The baby was rather dirty, and it was plain that the girl was very poor. The woman began to talk to the baby as women do, and then she began to talk to the girl who, it developed, had reached so desperate a point that she was almost in a mood to kill the child to get rid of it. She was not married, and the child\u2019s father was overseas. With this baby to take care of, she couldn\u2019t hold down a job, find a decent place to stay, or anything else; it was a millstone around her neck. The janitor\u2019s wife said, \u201cDon\u2019t you dare harm this little baby! If you can\u2019t take care of him, give him to someone.\u201d \u201cYou take him, then,\u201d the girl said. The woman gasped, then said, \u201cYou can\u2019t do just like that. Come to my place and talk to my husband and me and see what you want to do.\u201d So the girl came with her and they talked it over, then she said to the girl, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to do anything in a hurry that you\u2019ll regret. So you think it all over for a week or two, and then if you still want me to have the baby, you come back with him.\u201d So the girl went off. And the woman told Naomi that she [p.66] prayed to God every night that the girl would decide to give her the baby. Finally she did come back. The woman said, \u201cBut don\u2019t you want to investigate us or something?\u201d The girl shook her head, and said she could see from their place and how they acted the kind of people they were. So she went off and left her child behind, and now this couple has a baby of its own. Naomi asked about a formal adoption, since they might grow to love the baby and then the mother might come and demand him back; the woman said they would manage that when they could get $25 to pay a lawyer to fix up the papers. And now the woman says she prays that sometime they can get $180 to pay for an operation on her so she can bear a little sister for the boy. She is 38 years old, so let us hope she is able to raise that money before very long.\nIt appears that at first the woman\u2019s husband, and all the in-laws, were very much set against the idea. But she brought her husband around to at least a neutral point of view at the time the girl brought the baby back, and now, Naomi says, the fellow is even crazier about this baby, now 13 months old, than his wife is. An enormous, sober-looking fellow over six-feet tall, he goes everywhere, the baby\u2019s hand in his toddling along by his side! All the relatives have now fallen in love with the child in the same way.\nThere is something deeply pathetic, and also something rather heartwarming, about this story. It is the kind of stow that must be duplicated many times over in the submerged part of the population.\nAnd this story puts me in mind of an observation Darel McConkey made to my mother last summer. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing cuter than a colored baby,\u201d he said, \u201c\u2014except mine!\u201d\n1. The Danites were a secret fraternity of vigilante Mormons organized in 1838 in Far West, Missouri. Reportedly, their purpose was to \u201cwaste away the Gentiles [i.e., non-Mormons] by robbing and plundering them.\u201d The \u201cDanite piece\u201d Morgan refers to has never been published, and may be among his uncatalogued papers at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.\nFor a week I\u2019ve done practically nothing in my spare time but read in your manuscript [No Man Knows My History]. It has been thoroughly engrossing. I picked up your MS after you left last Monday, and only put it down at 2 a.m. because I was supposed to show up at the office [the] next day and have to be my own alarm clock. Since then I have read it on the streetcar going to and from work, at lunch, after hours, etc., etc. To a considerable extent I have marked up the manuscript, but I think it would also be well to summarize for you some of my reactions.\nIn the first place, I think the book is downright fascinating. It is fascinating to me, a specialist, and I think it will be to the general reader. The research is wide and deep without being ostentatious; the prose is clean and on the whole admirably muscular; it is frequently full of stimulating ideas, and at all times it moves rapidly. These add up to notable virtues indeed.\nWhen I first saw your MS, my reaction was that you had a history of Joseph\u2019s life, not a biography. In the job of rewriting, you have dealt effectively with that criticism. The same chapters have now become a biography. Joseph dominates them in a way he did not before; and they illuminate his life\u2014a personality emerges from the history. I feel that right up to the end of the Missouri chapters, you are clearly master of your material. You write with insight and understanding, not to say with much practical shrewdness and deftness. The only really grave defect in the first 25 chapters is the handling of the Nauvoo material. I am frank to say that I think more work is required of you here.\nI have written on the manuscript itself some of my reactions and suggestions with respect to this part of the book, but I\u2019ll restate my ideas in general terms. I, at least, got the impression from the Nauvoo chapters that you were no longer in command of your material, as you clearly were in the earlier parts of the book. You have done precision jobs on some aspects of the Nauvoo history, very fine segments, considered in isolation. But they stand in isolation; they don\u2019t build together into a larger coherence. On thinking it over, I [p.68] believe that the greatest part of your trouble is that (a) you have not made the necessary final analysis of [Joseph] Smith\u2019s character which will at once explain and be explained by the events you narrate; (b) the manner in which you have chopped up the [John C.] Bennett material seriously disorganizes the narrative; and (c) the amount of space you give to polygamy sets up strains of disproportion\u2014that is, while all this material should be retained, as it is of greatest importance and significance, it was not of such critical significance to the outward course of his life as other actions and events of the period, and when you have subtracted the inner life (polygamy), you do not have a sufficient skeleton to support the body of your narrative. I very much think that you must expand your discussion of the situation in Illinois and Nauvoo, the pattern of outward event and motivation. Also I think this discussion will have more weight when you have done what I regard as still more essential, written a chapter of analysis of Smith\u2019s character.\nIt may be that you have proposed such an examination of him for one of the last chapters, which I have not seen yet. But if so, I recommend that you incorporate the body of such material into the earlier time scheme. Because an understanding of Smith\u2019s character in all its final complexity is essential to the reader\u2019s understanding of the final events of his life; a post mortem simply won\u2019t do.\nThis chapter I speak of is essential for your sake as well as the reader\u2019s. I don\u2019t get the impression that you have been willing to make a final evaluation of Smith\u2019s character, and in consequence there is a certain tentativeness or unwillingness to what you have to say about him through the Nauvoo era. You put forward the facts, but I get the impression that you don\u2019t throw your weight behind them. And, moreover, this gives an illusory aspect of simplicity to the final years of Joseph\u2019s life. I am firmly of the opinion that he was not in the least a simple personality at the time of his death. I agree with you that he was perfectly sane, and you have hit exactly upon my own point of view, that his career in major degree is best interpreted as an astonishing reflection of the Jacksonian upsurge of the common man; he was perfectly the expression of the zeitgeist. But at the same time he was definitely not a simple personality. This rich complexity remains to be built into his portrait for the Nauvoo era. And one element you must also get into this is the extraordinary magnetism he had for his followers. You have not yet exactly explained this. He gave them something they never got from anyone else; he left an indelible impress upon their minds, and they gave him a love they never have given anyone else. The martyrdom was a factor in this, of course, because it sanctified all they felt about him. But Joseph owes his semi-deification today quite as much to the quality in him which gave his people a renewed and enriched sense of their own life and of the meaning of life. This quality, living on, has tended to cancel out of history and legend certain elements of the profoundly human, even the earthiness that also made them enjoy him while he lived\u2014and which also, perhaps, served in its [p.69] time to heighten his meaning for them (he lived more intensely than they, and they found a vicarious satisfaction in this aliveness, which empathically enlivened their own existences).\nI have also a general criticism of your book, to which I think you would do well to give careful attention before publishing it. It is one of the strengths as well as one of the weaknesses of your book that you have not hesitated to come to bold judgments on the basis of assumptions. Sometimes these come off astonishingly, and are bound to be fruitful in further thinking about Joseph and the Mormons. But also, sometimes, they leave you out on limbs. A few such cases I have pointed out, in the course of marking up the MS. But I seriously advise you to go carefully over your entire book and make a final evaluation of all such judgments before you publish it.\nThe point is, by their very boldness, these generalizations expose you to attack as you are exposed in no other way. Mormons who don\u2019t like your book, and there are bound to be many, are going to go over it with a fine-tooth comb looking for ways to discredit you. And if you have been rash and have left yourself wide open in some ways, they are going to jump all over you. The psychology is simple\u2014if they can prove or seem to prove that your mind goes haywire on certain matters, even if these are matters unrelated to the large issues of your book, then they can cast doubt on your mental processes in arriving at judgments in other areas of the book, areas where they cannot question the facts themselves. Many Mormons are likely to be discomfited by what you have to say concerning the origins of the Book of Mormon and of polygamy, so you had better take measures to protect yourself from counterassaults while you still have time. Let me give you an example. After [Vardis] Fisher\u2019s [1939] novel [The Children of God] came out\u2014and this was merely a novel, mind you\u2014an astonishing number of Mormons took comfort in pointing out Fisher\u2019s error in stating that the company brought to America by Lehi was a part of the lost tribes.1 The fact that this was an utterly irrelevant element of Fisher\u2019s larger story made no difference at all. (\u201cOh, it\u2019s full of errors. Why, Fisher is so uninformed about Mormon history that he even thinks the Nephites and Lamanites descended from the Lost Tribes.\u201d) In other words, the error was a starting point for rationalization.\nAs history, rather than as fiction, your book is likely to be subjected to an examination far more intensive. And nowhere will you be more vulnerable, in the light of such fault-finding, than in the area of generalizations. Because your generalizations about Smith\u2019s character and related matters are of key importance to your book. Without a minute study of the book in relation to its sources, a job I have not been able to attempt, I cannot say where your generalizations are abundantly supported in fact and where they represent, to a degree, your own intuitions. But you should have some inner knowledge on this point, and on reviewing your MS, you should know where it would be wise of you to make a final check on your sources and see whether your statements are too fiat and positive in the light [p.70] of the facts that are available to you. Many of your judgments you can set forward tentatively, after the fashion I have indicated in some places. But it is highly important that you should not talk like God on insubstantial foundations.\nThe Mormons themselves are not likely to challenge you on the point, but I would suggest that you carefully re-evaluate what you have to say about [Sidney] Rigdon, especially from the time of the break-up at Kirtland. Your judgment is that he was finally crushed as a personality in Missouri and was never significant thereafter. But this, I think, goes too far. I have begun to think that much requires to be explained about Rigdon during the Nauvoo period. What, for example, are we to make of that entry in the first week of January, 1841, that he had been ordained a \u201cprophet, seer, and revelator to the Church\u201d? This is damned near inexplicable, Joseph being what he was. Rigdon, you know, after Joseph\u2019s death brought forth a revelation of January 7, 1841, which he claimed as a basis of legitimacy in the church he established. I have not examined this revelation in the Messenger and Advocate (at [the] L[ibrary of]. C[ongress].) yet, but I find it coincidental, to say the least, that this claimed revelation should be dated only a few days after the entry in the official History of the Church to which I refer above. I mean to look into this matter presently\u2014and maybe you would do well to look into it youself before too readily or too cavalierly disposing of Rigdon in your book. I gain the impression that you arrive at other flat judgments about Rigdon which one day you may regret as overstatements, hence I would advise reviewing all you have to say about him while the opportunity is still fluid.\nI suggest too that somewhere, in discussing Brigham Young, you stick in a few words about the profound impression Joseph made on Brigham. About all you have to say now is that Brigham recognized that there was something in Joseph that made him the better man. Joseph made an imperishable impression upon Brigham, and Brigham is said to have died with Joseph\u2019s name on his lips\u2014you would do well to make the reader understand why.\nAs a matter of personal taste, I would suggest that you write out all abbreviations of months and names; it looks more graceful in print. I think your footnoting system, or method of citation, can be worked out more satisfactorily and in condensed fashion, but I will reserve specific recommendations here until I have learned what you plan in the way of a bibliography.\nYou will observe that, however regrettably, I have recommended expansion rather than cutting in my general approach to the book. But I have also indicated, in ma[r]king up the MS, a kind of interior cutting which you might well utilize in going over your manuscript prior to typing the draft for Knopf. This, in a far greater degree, was the sort of job I did on the Humboldt [book], when I found I had to cut 40,000 words from it without impairing its substance. I sweat blood on that job, and there was no word published in my book which had not been individually weighed in my mind for its [p.71] necessity; but when I got through I felt much better about the prose; it had become incomparably leaner and more muscular\u2014all the fatty tissue that had vaguely bothered me before was missing. So if you feel the need to cut, I would suggest going over your MS in ways I have indicated, to see whether you can say the same thing as effectively (or more effectively) in fewer words.\nYou will appreciate that all my annotations are suggestive only. Another person may contribute ideas of value, but when it comes right down to it, the author must fashion his book according to his own conception of interior necessity.\n1. Vardis Fisher was an Idaho-born writer of thirty-six books, most of which were historical novels.\nIt won\u2019t be news to you that I have had damned little news from you for too long a time. Your last letter was dated the 25th, and 13 days later the only assurance I have about you is a package I obtained from the P.O. this morning, which is dated the 28th. I shall place this package \u201con file\u201d till further instructions are received from you. But I can tell you, I should much rather have had a nice, warm (if not fat) letter from you than whatever this \u201cfragile\u201d package may prove to contain. I want to know that you are feeling better and not monkeying around with carbon monoxide any more,1 and otherwise living a righteous life\u2026and thinking of me once in a while.\nIt\u2019s a gloomy sort of day here today, dripping rain and mist all over the town. It has been fairly cold for a week past\u201425-32 minimums\u2014but has gradually warmed up, only to cloud up and start drizzling. A hell of a note. I like my warmth and my sunshine both at the same time.\nI was over to see Fawn [Brodie] last night. She has embarked upon having a new baby, and since the early stages always get her down, she won\u2019t be feeling up to snuff till after Christmas. The new arrival is scheduled for next June. I joked with her about whether [p.72] she had books between babies or babies between books. She says babies come along faster than books\u2014her first took her six years\u2014but even so, the scheduling could be improved.\nShe has not yet received her manuscript back from [M. Wilford] Poulson at B[righam] Y[oung] U[university] or from [Milo M.] Quaife, but has reports from both. The Quaife one was amusing because it was what you would term a favorable book review rather than a specialist\u2019s report on a manuscript. In sending Fawn the report, [Alfred] Knopf also summed up his irate reply to Quaife. He said they didn\u2019t have to be told it was a serious job, well done, etc., etc.\u2014they knew that already. What they wanted from him was consideration in detail as to the proportions of the parts, treatment, etc!\nAt BYU Poulson wrote Fawn a curious reaction. His approval was grudging and tentative, and yet he seemed to have no major quarrels with the book. His criticism was almost entirely criticism in detail, and bibliographical suggestion. His letters which Fawn showed me rather made me wonder about him. His being a BYU professor, even if of psychology, automatically bespeaks a certain orthodoxy in him, but I was interested to see him speak of \u201cour group,\u201d and \u201cwe,\u201d\u2014placing himself squarely within the church\u2014inasmuch as in my own conversations with him he had not committed himself personally one way or the other. This being so, it seems odd that he did not express himself from the larger philosophical point of view, taking issue with Fawn on certain of her conclusions. From an earnest Mormon, I expected such difference of opinion, and in fact recommended to Fawn when I read her MS that if Poulson did not give her such a reaction, she ought to get one from some person like Juanita Brooks, as I warned her my point of view was much the same as hers, and I would tend to be uncritical from certain bases of assumption just as she would, so that for a mature book, she ought to have the rounded thinking that would come from an independent Mormon\u2019s point of view.\nFawn is looking around for a subject for a new book. She doesn\u2019t know what she wants to do next, except that it must not be about the Mormons. I suggested the possibility of a study of the Grant administration after the Civil War, and its impact upon American life, political, social, and economic, with special reference to the kind of baronial finance that got its start then, and to the unfortunate handling of the South, which has left a scar upon American life to this day. I thought there were contemporary parallels which would give such a book impact and importance. Fawn was interested, but a little appalled at the formidable nature of the undertaking.\nThe Great Salt Lake book is still in stasis, pending word from Stanley Rinehart as to the contractual angle. Therefore the Guggenheim idea is still in stasis also, as I am sitting tight there until I see what bearing the Quaife proposal may have on my application.\nAt [the National] Archives I continue slowly plowing my way through Vol. 1 of the Utah Territorial Records. I\u2019ve not quite [p.73] reached the half-way mark in the first of the two volumes. There is an incredible amount of 1858-59 material\u2014most of the first volume is composed of documents dating from those years, while the second volume covers the 14 years from 1860 to 1873. I enclose a carbon copy of the last document I copied, an extra specimen copy I made for your benefit. It is not in itself particularly important, but it offers some insight into the viewpoint of Brocchus and how his mind worked, and also locates him seven years after the big fuss. The printed document is really of more historical importance, but at Archives I am restricting myself to MS material. Printed stuff can be picked up later\u2014and elsewhere, if necessary\u2014at my leisure.\nAnd here and now, while I happen to think about it, let me add a postscript to my recent discussion of your Ely story. I recommended, if you will recall, that the scene of the three men riding out on the desert be recast to present it from Joe\u2019s point of view. But I meant to discuss one of the angles involved, to which I devoted some thought at the time. In a word, the story would be more coherent and more compact, and you would get away from a tendency toward loose ends that the story displays, and for these reasons I am inclined to think you should follow my suggestions. But on the other side, there is to be said that the story is given greater depth, and a larger sense of dimension, through borrowing the Englishman\u2019s mind to experience the desert with. It may be argued whether the story is not made a little too craftsmanlike, too neatly tailored at the edges, and therefore a little too artificial or formular in acting upon my suggestion. I could see two sides to this. But still I felt that the scene as it stood pulled more out of the story than it put into it. I don\u2019t think this is a purely personal reaction. Maybe you could incorporate the substance of that scene, retaining the Englishman\u2019s viewpoint, and still attain a firmer texture if you looked into the man\u2019s mind more consistently in other parts of the story.\nSo much for Dr. Morgan, the well-known authority on the short story. This charge is rendered without service.\nDamn it, why aren\u2019t you somewhere around, so I can buy a flower for you when the fancy takes me\u2014or even grow one for you that we can enjoy together? Give me a good answer, if you can.\n1. It is unclear what Morgan was referring to here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 62173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://similarlyrics.com/eddy-arnold/a-little-on-the-lonely-side/don-t-take-your-love-from-me", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:06Z", "digest": "sha1:MRSMBUQRMIFOIYYCI7PKQUJ3EXKB6QEQ", "length": 6731, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "similarlyrics.com", "title": "Don't Take Your Love From Me by Eddy Arnold", "raw_content": "Eddy Arnold lyrics - A Little on the Lonely Side\n(Henry Nemo) Tear a star from mounty sky And the sky feels blue Tear a petal from a rose And the rose weeps too. Take your heart away from mine And mine will surely break My life is yours to make So please keep us hark awake. Would you take the wings From birds so they then can't fly Would you take the oceans roar And leave just a sigh? All this your heart won't let you do This is what I beg of you Don't take your love from me. --- Instrumental --- All this your heart won't let you do This is what I beg of you Don't take your love from me...\nCHRIS DE BURGH \"Beautiful Dreams\"\nThis is for Rosanna, sweet girl of mine, A song for the baby who changed my life, I'll never forget when I saw you first, I thought that my heart would burst, With the love that I have; As I watch you sleeping in here tonight, And I hear your breathing so soft and light, I cannot believe all the things that I feel, When I hold you next to me, It's the love that I have; Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how this heart is shining through, With the love that I have; And as you are growing from baby to child, I share the wonders that are in your eyes, And I am amazed at the way you change, All according to the plan, And the love that I have; And when you are older you will go away, You'll see injustice and you'll see pain, But never forget that I'm always there, Like a shadow by your side, With the love that I have; Oh my love, you have your mother's eyes, And when I see you laugh, you have your mother's smile, And you are mine all of my life, You are mine, all of my love, You are mine, blood of my blood, You are mine; Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining through, With the love that I have.\nCHRIS DE BURGH \"Into The Light\"\nThis is for Rosanna, sweet girl of mine, A song for the baby who changed my life, I'll never forget when I saw you first, I thought that my heart would burst, With the love that I have. As I watch you sleeping in here tonight, And I hear your breathing so soft and light, I cannot believe all the things that I feel, When I hold you next to me, It's the love that I have. Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart is shining through, With the love that I have. And as you are growing from baby to child, I share the wonders that are in your eyes, And I am amazed at the way you change, All according to the plan, And the love that I have. And when you are older you will go away, You'll see injustice and you'll see pain, But never forget that I'm always there, Like a shadow by your side, With the love that I have. Oh my love, you have your mother's eyes, And when I see you laugh, you have your mother's smile, And you are mine all of my life, You are mine, all of my love, You are mine, blood of my blood, You are mine. Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining, Oh how my heart it is shining through, With the love that I have.\nKISS \"Lick It Up\"\nBaby, now that you've made up your mind I'm gonna let you go, if that's what it takes to show love is blind I gave you the best love you ever had, but it wasn't enough So if you think you're so smart, go and play with your heart When you walk out the door, you'll realize what you never did before A million to one - that's what it will be A million to one - there's someone better than me A million to one - no, you never will find A million to one - another love like mine Yeah, we chose our sides and I've been misunderstood But everytime I try to open your eyes, I'm damned and I'm no good Day after day, you're further away, I can't take anymore So it's time that you go, but I want you to know, I won't stand in your way Deep in my heart I know, girl you're runnin' away A million to one - that's what it will be A million to one - there's someone better than me A million to one - no, you never will find A million to one - another love like mine A million to one One of these days you'll come out of your haze, no matter what you do It'll be too late, something good won't wait, love is runnin' out on you A million to one, a million to one A million to one - that's what it will be A million to one - there's someone better than me A million to one - no, you never will find A million to one - another love like mine A million to one - listen to your heart girl - a million to one - oh A million to one - no, you never will find A million to one - another love like mine A million to one - no, you never will find A million to one - another love like mine A million to one A million to one A million to one A million to one A million to one A million to one\nDoes It Need To Be?\nClaira Jade\nAs the sun sets, Over the blood red sky, I wonder where you are, Every moment and I Just wonder, How did this come to be, You said it was us always, But then you forgot about me. Oh, please tell me, Why did we have to end, What posessed us, To be so cruel and send Our love, Back to where it begannnn..... Chorus: We could've taken the time, But we did-not-let the beauty of us shine, And now we are back to how it was before. We Fell in love like noone else we knew, But then something fell and It-just-so-hap-pend you, Decided to tear us apart, I thought you loved me, And it broke my heart. The day you told me, I was gonna tell you just how much I was Willing to give up, It felt like you came from heaven above, I didn't wanna listen, I tore me apart inside. But now I can handle it. But I still love you so much.... Oh, please tell me, Why did we have to end, What posessed us, To be so cruel and send Our love, Back to where it begannnn..... Chorus: We could've taken the time, But we did-not-let the beauty of us shine, And now we are back to how it was before. We Fell in love like noone else we knew, But then something fell and It-just-so-hap-pend you, Decided to tear us apart, I thought you loved me, And it broke my heart. We could've taken the time. We could've let our love shine. But you had to tear us apart, And along with it, You broke my heart.\nOh--- VERSE ONE: It was You Who came down from heaven It was me You wanted to know I am Your child, and I can see it in Your eyes Caught in Your gaze Caught by surprise CHORUS: This is love This is how it's meant to be I am loved, and this love has set me free This is love This is heaven's mystery Not that I would love You first But that You would first love me VERSE TWO: Tell me why You would pursue me Tell me how I could deserve All You give I am amazed At what You would see in this heart of mine (see in this heart of mine) You picked up my cross, and laid down Your life (repeat chorus twice) Oh---", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 7381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://simplybrad.com/page/32/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:00Z", "digest": "sha1:COK5TIC5KZSR7DNB3DEWIHTIGY4C6W55", "length": 3962, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "simplybrad.com", "title": "SimplyBrad.com \u2013 Your Source for Everything Brad Pitt.", "raw_content": "Monroe- Woodbury High School to be the set of new Netflix series\nFor four days cameras will be rolling at the Monroe-Woodbury Senior High School as the school will become the set for Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe OA.\u201d\nThe Monroe Woodbury School District has made an announcement on it\u2019s website, encouraging high school students who are interested in the film industry to submit emails stating interest in participating as extras for the series by March 20.\nThose interested should as be able to commit to all four days of filming, which begins March 21.\nSuperintendent of Schools Elsie Rodriguez, said that Netflix originally considered a nearby location, but then reached out to the district to request use of the high school because \u201cwe have a beautiful high school and a large campus they could work with,\u201d she said.\nRodriguez also said the filming companies involved gave money to the schools and went through a long vetting process which involved district attorneys to ensure that the project would be in compliance with any applicable laws.\nThe actual show, titled, \u201cThe OA\u201d, will be an hour-long drama series which has agreed to release eight episodes exclusively on Netflix later this year.\nImperative Entertainment Wins \u2018Killers Of The Flower Moon\u2019 Auction\nIn a stunning end to the biggest and wildest book rights auction in memory, Imperative Entertainment has paid $5 million and won the right to make a movie out of David Grann book Killers Of The Flower Moon: An American Crime And The Birth Of The FBI.\nImperative partners Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas will be producing. Friedkin is a Houston-based entrepreneur who made his fortune through automotive and other ventures and he fully funds Imperative.\nClooney And Pitt Join In Bidding War For FBI Drama\nThe Tracking Board is calling it the biggest bidding war of 2016 and so far a lot of Hollywood\u2019s A-listers have put their name in the hat for rights to adapt upcoming book Killers of the Flower Moon.\nThe book, from New Yorker staff writer Grann, isn\u2019t set for publication until June, 2017, but it\u2019s already triggered a feeding frenzy on the rights market. The non-fiction chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s brand new FBI.\nHollywood A-listers George Clooney and Brad Pitt have put bids in through their respected production companies to get territorial rights for the adaptation. As of last night there were at least ten offers on the table from Hollywood heavy hitters like Jerry Bruckheimer, Kathleen Kennedy (Star Wars) and Anonymous Content who are coming down from their best picture win with Spotlight. Several companies are partnering up to increase their chances.\nBrad Pitt, Disney Developing Immigrant Doctor Movie \u2018Dr. Q\u2019\nDisney and Brad Pitt\u2019s Plan B are developing \u201cDr. Q\u201d \u2014 a movie based on the life story of an illegal immigrant who became the head of brain tumor surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.\nMatt Lopez, whose credits include the Civil War play \u201cThe Whipping Man,\u201d has been tapped to write the screenplay about Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa. Plan B, which is run by Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, began working on the project in 2007 when execs heard about Quinones-Hinajosa on the radio.\nQuinones-Hinojosa crossed into the United States from Mexico in the late 1980s when he was 19 and began working on farms in California. He started his education at San Joaquin Delta College and completed his bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He then received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and became a U.S. citizen.\nHe is currently a professor of neurosurgery and oncology at Johns Hopkins, where he serves as the director of the brain tumor program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sorbetsocal.com/news/entertainment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4LRLQNWFI3NW2WPWTKODVGLQ4J7QC5XM", "length": 20210, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "sorbetsocal.com", "title": "Entertainment - Sorbet", "raw_content": "The legendary and undisputed \u201cVoice of Christmas,\u201d Johnny Mathis will brighten the holiday season when he returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts December 9 and performs many of his greatest Christmas hits and personal favorites. Celebrating his 62nd year in the music industry, Mathis\u2019 sublime vocal approach to music eclipses passing fads and trends. He has performed songs in an incredible variety of styles and categories \u2013 from music composed for stage and film to golden era jazz standards, contemporary pop hits, and, of course, holiday music \u2013 all of which have made him one of the most enduring\u2026\nIf you\u2019re hunting for fine furnishings and home accents, unique retail, health and wellness and THE place to experience the best variety of beers from leading OC breweries, look no further than Capistrano Home Center in San Juan Capistrano. Although the center is visible to passerby on the southbound 5 Fwy., it can be a little tricky to find. These specialty retailers - tucked along the back side of the Plaza Del Obispo Shopping Center at the corner of Del Obispo and Camino Capistrano - might just be one of this historic city\u2019s best-kept secrets. Exit the southbound 5 Fwy.\u2026\nFour performances only August 10 \u2013 12, 2018 \u2022 Segerstrom Hall Segerstrom Center for the Arts is proud to present the World Premiere of ISADORA, a new full-length work created specifically for brilliant Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova, principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, former principal dancer with both the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky ballets and a guest artist with American Ballet Theatre. She has appeared many times at the Center, creating new works choreographed for her and performing classics with visiting companies such as the Bolshoi, Mikhailovsky and ABT. To create this work of dance-theater that will bring the immortal Isadora\u2026\nThere is no question that San Diego\u2019s Wild Animal Park has taken the concept of safari to the next level. A constant on the leaderboard of fascinating family-friendly activities in one of the prettiest cities in North America, the Safari Park has upped the ante even more, introducing each park goer to a live experience alongside nature, by removing the glass walled enclosures and getting us ever closer to the animals we\u2019ve only ever seen on television. Visitors can embark on an exciting expedition aboard the Africa Tram, a guided tour that travels along a ride path around some of\u2026\nSummer Film Series Features: Back to the Future July 9 The Princess Bride July 16 Moonrise Kingdom July 23 The Mask of Zorro July 30 Star Trek August 6 Segerstrom Center for the Arts kicks off its 2018 Movie Mondays series with five movies jam-packed with action, adventure and romance: Back to the Future on July 9, The Princess Bride on July 16, Moonrise Kingdom on July 23, The Mask of Zorro on July 30 and Star Trek on August 6. This year, Movie Mondays will be held on the new Julianne and George Argyros Plaza. All showings are FREE,\u2026\nWhat is in a name? Everything, at least in the 1950\u2019s and early 60\u2019s! Our name branded us. Whether it was a nickname, our given name or the use of our middle name. The first official act of parental power was giving a name to the baby. The baby naming business was large in the 1950\u2019s and early 60\u2019s with the baby booming generation. A child could not prosper without a name that resonated. Did the child become successful because or in spite of the name? Does the name we give our child matter? If we can use it to\u2026\nLegendary performer and composer Yanni will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of \u201cLive At The Acropolis\u201d with a world tour that will launch this spring in the United States. The maestro returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts with the \u201cYanni 25 \u2013 Live At The Acropolis Anniversary Concert Tour.\" \u201cLive at the Acropolis,\u201d released in 1994, was Yanni\u2019s first ever live album and concert video. Recorded at the Herodes Atticus Theatre in Athens with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra from London, the concert took a year and a half to complete. The album was mixed and produced by Yanni in\u2026\nWednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. Ina Garten, the American culinary icon, author of 10 New York Times bestselling cookbooks and host of the popular Emmy and James Beard Award-winning Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics show on Food Network, is celebrating her newest cookbook, Cook Like A Pro. She will share stories that bring you behind the scenes of filming her television show (now in its 13th season), writing bestselling cookbooks and enjoying food with friends and family. She will also take questions from the audience. From America\u2019s favorite home cook: recipes, tips, and why-didn\u2019t-I-think-of-that tricks for cooking your\u2026\nJuly 7 \u2013 September 1, 2018Shows Nightly at 8:30pm The Pageant of the Masters is arguably one of the most unique productions in the entire world. This uber-creative, one-of-a-kind show combines theater, performance art and art history. Each evening during the summer season, classic and contemporary works of art are faithfully re-created with theatrical illusion and real people posing as living pictures. A live narrator serves as a guide through the story of each recreation accompanied by the music of a professional orchestra. In the early years of the 20th century, a new generation of impressionists and plein air painters\u2026\nSegerstrom Center for the Arts has announced its internationally and culturally rich 2018 \u2013 2019 Dance Series, a season marked with important World, American, West Coast and Center premieres to be discovered by audiences throughout California and nationwide. World Premiere ISADORA Starring Natalia Osipova American Premiere PYGMALION Inspired by the Greek Myth Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg West Coast Premiere HARLEQUINADE American Ballet Theatre Center Premiere PEPPERLAND Mark Morris Dance Group Center Premiere DON QUIXOTE Starring Ivan Vasiliev Mikhailovsky Ballet and Orchestra Annual Holiday Presentation THE NUTCRACKERAmerican Ballet Theatre For information, visit SCFTA.org\nWhy did this music resonate with the teenagers that were a product of the 50\u2019s? The music was theirs. DJ\u2019s of the day would play the songs over and over, yet the audience never tired of listening. There were times when one record would be played over and over to break it down and listen to what the words meant. It was untouched idealism. Going steady meant a pledge to see or date only that one person, exclusively. Guys and girls went \u201csteady\u201d even if they never kissed or were forbidden by their parents to date. It meant a letterman\u2019s\u2026\nSean Jones: Inspired by Miles Davis\u2019s Jazz Friday, April 6, 2018, 8 PM Music and spirituality have always intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones. As a child he performed with the church choir in his hometown and switched from the drums to trumpet upon his first exposure to Miles Davis at age ten. The New York Times describes Sean Jones as \u201ca trumpeter with an incisive tone and a firm grasp of jazz traditions,\u201d and JazzTimes writes, \u201cWhen Jones solos, soaring with a gentle strength as his band swells behind him, it\u2019s not\u2026\nJust to Be With You \u2013 Jimmy Gallagher and the Passions Having an oldies\u2019 radio show brought back its own memories. Digging into the archives to find that golden oldie meant that hearing the title of a song flooded the senses. I received phone calls such as, \u201cI have not heard that song in 50 years!\u201d or \u201cI remember who I was dancing with when that song played.\u201d That meant that I got to them with that memory. To a certain extent, that is why we enjoy listening to the oldies. Our lives were simpler, entwined with innocent relationships, attention\u2026\nFetch a calendar and bark the dates for Yappy Hour, the monthly cocktail party for canines and their companions at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. Posh pups, haute hounds, and dapper doggies will enjoy complimentary house-made dog biscuits and refreshing libations, thanks to bacon, chicken, beef and vegan water, while their companions sip a glass of Mutt Lynch Unleashed Chardonnay, Merlot Over and Play Dead, or Chateau d\u2019Og Cabernet Sauvignon. Cocktails, beer and a selection of barbecue items are also available for purchase. Supporting the resort\u2019s Community Footprints program, proceeds from Yappy Hour benefit The Veterans Initiative\u2122 of Canine Companions for\u2026\nRedefining the Neighborhood in San Diego\u2019s North Park\nWe all come from somewhere. A city, in a state- a street, down the street from your neighbor. A neighborhood. The concept of which, arising from the social attitudes of the early city planners, crystalized out of the 1900\u2019s when Clarence Perry modeled residential development in growing urban areas. Just another collection of lines on a blueprint; just another place to rest at the end of the day. But what really exists in the places we call home? Shops, restaurants, hotels: the places we meet and connect, work, eat, celebrate. North Park, in San Diego is no different. With a\u2026\nSouth County Magazine & Sorbet Celebrates February (Issues)!\nIt\u2019s impossible to say what we love most about our issue release parties, especially the most recent one at Tokyo Joe\u2019s located at 27981 Greenfield Drive in Laguna Niguel. Always made fresh-to-order, using the best ingredients possible, guests enjoyed sampling an array of delicious appetizers, including potstickers, sushi rolls, poke bowls and grilled chicken/brown rice bowls with a choice of specialty sauces. For info, visit www.tokyojoes.com. We know we\u2019re lucky to have such great relationships with our amazing advertisers and that getting together is always a celebration each month! We feel lucky to do what we love, and hope that\u2026\nThey Wrote It \u2026 And Sang It\nThere are artists who write melodies for songs, artists who write lyrics and artists who perform. Rare are those who write and perform their own songs. Leiber and Stoller never sang a note, at least not well. Doc Pomus and Mort Shulman did not perform their songs but that did not stop Pomus from shuffling on stage with his crutches, grabbing a microphone and trying. The Brill Building in New York City contained songwriters, lyricists and artists but only Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond and Carole King were creative enough to step into the limelight and perform their own songs. Many\u2026\nSouth Coast Repertory presents SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE\nBased on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard adapted for the stage by Lee Hall Music by Paddy CunneenDirected by Marc MastersonNow through February 10, 2018 Segerstrom Stage Young Will Shakespeare is desperate. He has writer\u2019s block and owes two demanding producers a new comedy\u2014a half-baked mess titled Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate\u2019s Daughter. Enter his inspiration: Viola. Smart, beautiful and Will\u2019s greatest admirer, she will stop at nothing\u2014including breaking the law\u2014to be in his play. As their love blossoms, so does his greatest masterpiece. Mistaken identities, ruthless scheming, and backstage theatrics make this romantic feast \u201ca joyous celebration\u2026\nFebruary 27 \u2013 March 11, 2018 Segerstrom Hall T he national tour of the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein\u2019s THE KING AND I will make its way to Segerstrom Center for the Arts February 27 \u2013 March 11, 2018. Laura Michelle Kelly stars as Anna Leonowens and Jose Llana as the King of Siam. Joan Almedilla will play Lady Thiang, with Brian Rivera as Kralahome, Q Lim as Tuptim, Kavin Panmeechao as Lun Tha, Anthony Chan as Prince Chulalongkorn, Rhyees Stump as Louis Leonowens and Patrick Boll as Captain Orton/Sir Edward Ramsey. Director Bartlett Sher had this\u2026\nCirque du Soleil comes to Costa Mesa with its breathtaking and heart-warming production LUZIA\nPerformances: February 21 - March 25, 2018 under the white-and-gold Big Top at the OC Fair & Event Center A WAKING DREAM OF MEXICO LUZIA takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like in a waking dream, where light (\u201cluz\u201d in Spanish) quenches the spirit and rain (\u201clluvia\u201d) soothes the soul. Through a series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, LUZIA invites audiences to escape on a surrealistic journey through a sumptuous and vibrant world suspended somewhere between dreams and reality. Smoothly passing from an old movie set to the ocean to a smoky dance hall or an arid\u2026\nHow can one word bring back such memories? Sometimes it was just a first name of a person, and with other songs it was a term that described in so much detail what we felt. Connie Francis called out to \u201cTeddy,\u201d and proclaimed we were \u201cTogether,\u201d while Sue Thompson saluted, \u201cNorman.\u201d But it was the guys who crooned and pinned for their ladies. In the majority of songs of the 50\u2019s and early 60\u2019s, women were revered, placed on that exalted pedestal and idolized. Doo Wop was to have its own anthem with multiple versions of \u201cGloria.\u201d This song was\u2026\nFebruary 3, 2018 in Segerstrom Hall Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes Tony Award\u00ae and Emmy-winning performer Kristin Chenoweth for one-night-only on Saturday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Segerstrom Hall. The renowned actress and singer will perform a collection of beloved songs from stage, film, and her most recent release The Art of Elegance, her first album of American Songbook classics. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard\u2019s Current Jazz and Traditional Jazz charts, and #1 on Amazon\u2019s Vocal Pop chart. Chenoweth also returned to the stage in her limited engagement MY LOVE LETTER TO BROADWAY, at the Lunt-Fontanne\u2026\nSunday, March 4, 2018 in Samueli Theater Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes the Center debut performance of the acclaimed Eb\u00e8ne Quartet on March 4, 2018 at 2:00pm. Since coming to international attention after winning first prize at the ARD Music Competition in 2004, the Eb\u00e8ne Quartet has been thrilling audiences and critics with their superb renditions of classical favorites and arrangements of popular and jazz works. What began as a distraction in university practice rooms has resulted in one of today\u2019s most praised classical ensembles, renowned for its unique style and fresh approach to the chamber repertoire. The Eb\u00e8ne\u2026\nWinter Wonderfest Offers Kids the Chance to Learn About the Science of Snow with Interactive Exhibits Featuring Real Snow WHAT: Discovery Cube in Orange County is hosting their annual Winter Wonderfest, beginning December 16-17, 2017 for the opening weekend and open daily from December 22, 2017 through January 7, 2018. This snowstorm of thrills and excitement will offer kids the opportunity to experience a lesson in physics, insulation and how snow is formed through hands-on activities. The holiday exhibit will include sliding down a 75-foot long ramp on inner tubes, a snow play area and real snow sledding. Kids will\u2026\nFree Performances, Events, Music and Family-Friendly Activities Marked Day-Long Celebration Segerstrom Center for the Arts opened its new Julianne and George Argyros Plaza and Center for Dance and Innovation on Saturday, October 28 with music, dancing, performances, family activities, bands and more from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. More than 10,000 people and families from around the neighborhood and throughout Orange County explored the 56,100-square-foot plaza designed by Michael Maltzan, with its spectacular fountain entry, the grand spiral staircase that wraps around the new Center 360 outdoor cafe\u0301, leading from the Segerstrom Hall terrace to the plaza, shaded seating and\u2026\n\u201cThe gypsy cri-i-i-ied\u2026\u201d Lou Christie \u2013 The Gypsy Cried Was the voice you heard a high pitched female alto, a young man crying out in pain, a peacock in heat, or someone trying to imitate a female singer? None of the above! It was one of your favorite artists reaching a new voice level beyond his or her normal range. It was a way to offset the emphasis on bass singing by going beyond the tenor or baritone lead. It would be termed \u201cfalsetto.\u201d Falsetto is most often used in the context of singing to refer to a type of\u2026\nCelebrate the arrival of 2018 in spectacular style with Salute to Vienna New Year\u2019s Concert at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. You\u2019ll be enchanted by the spirited romance of operetta, the glamour of ballroom dance and the delicate beauty of ballet. Inspired by the tradition of Vienna\u2019s beloved New Year\u2019s Concert, this frothy celebration blends acclaimed European singers and dancers with a full orchestra for a rich cultural experience that will leave you longing to join them on the dance floor. Fall in love with a musical program that weaves highlights from The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, and The Gypsy\u2026\n\u201cWhat in the world\u2019s come over you\u2026?\u201d Jack Scott, \u201cWhat in the World\u2019s Come Over You\u201d The lyrics of the 1950\u2019s and early 60\u2019s almost always portrayed innocent love between innocent people. There was no violence, sexual power or anger. It was an age of idealism and reverence for girls, women, or in the case of lady performers, \u201cthe guy.\u201d A segment of music in the early era of rock and roll expressed the sadness of a relationship in a manner that perhaps even helped heal after a breakup in real life. The majority of songs of the 1950\u2019s carried\u2026\nFriday, October 20, 2017 @8:00 PM John Welsh Band creates a sound that blends high energy Latin, West African, reggae, and folk-rock rhythms that get crowds moving wherever they perform. A world traveler by nature, John Welsh lived and studied in Central America where he was heavily influenced by the music, language, and culture. Joined by his brother Chris, bass; Nathan Larsen, drums; Devin Modugno, lead guitarist; and Nigerian born, Courage Eigbike, who brings his reggae and West African influenced sound to the group. Together, the band creates songs with the vision of bringing their world music sound to a\u2026\nLive Music Performed by Pacific Symphony December 7 - 17, 2017 Misty Copeland and Daniil Simkin will lead the opening night cast on December 7 dancing the roles of Clara, the Princess and Nutcracker, the Prince, respectively. Subsequent casts include Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo, Gillian Murphy and James Whiteside, Stella Abrera and Alexandre Hammoudi, and Hee Seo and Cory Stearns in the leading roles. The Nutcracker is a beloved holiday story set to the magical score by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. The Los Angeles Times declared, \u201cChoreographer Alexei Ratmansky has made his own Christmas miracle: a joyful \u2018Nutcracker\u2019 ballet that\u2026\n\u201cLet\u2019s go surfin now, everybody\u2019s learnin how, come on a safari with me\u2026\u201d The Beach Boys Of all the various trends and fads that influence the younger generation there is only one that transcends from a sport to music. While surfing is not a new sport, it is, or was, in the dawn of 1960, a relatively new way of life. Surfing came to California by way of Hawaii. Wave riding had been a past time for two thousand years but found its way to Huntington Beach in 1914 when George Freeth would become the first surfer to catch a\u2026\nYappy Hour, The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel\u2019s monthly cocktail party for canines and their companions, returns this season for tail wagging fun. Dapper dogs, haute hounds and classy canines are invited to party with other pups and pooches and lap up libations such as bacon, chicken, and beef-infused water and the ever popular house-made dog biscuits, while their companions relax with a glass of Mutt Lynch Unleashed Chardonnay, Merlot Over and Play Dead, or Chateau d\u2019Og Cabernet Sauvignon. Cocktails, beer and a savory selection of barbecue items are also available for purchase. As part of the resort\u2019s Community Footprints program, proceeds\u2026\nPacifica Quartet with Johannes Moser \u2022 Pavel Haas Quartet \u2022 Emerson String Quartet & Calidore String Quartet \u2022 Eb\u00e8ne Quartet Brentano Quartet with Dawn Upshaw The Chamber Series, with its world-renowned artists and ensembles, represents the Center\u2019s commitment to providing an array of great music and musical experiences that inspire and engage its classical music audience. 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He has worked in theavante garde world as well with Wadada Leo Smith, Baikida Carroll and others.He is co-leader of the Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson Trio, The New York TrioProject and The Jeff Marx/Jeff \"Siege\" Siegel Duo.\nSiegel has been described in Jazz World Magazine as a \"brilliant drummer\".\nMagical Spaces (CAP 989)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stylig.com/1478466.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VB2KWRLHXI4SXH73LVDZS2JZLVVN4U2Y", "length": 2739, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "stylig.com", "title": "The Eighteenth Century meets Movie Costumes at the FIDM Museum", "raw_content": "The Eighteenth Century meets Movie Costumes at the FIDM Museum\nlos angeles angelina jolie meryl streep carey mulligan\n\"I'm an architect primarily, but I am really interested in the graphic culture of Los Angeles. I have a show, . A lot of the way LA disseminates the world is through these graphic identities, whether it's the Olympics, or the new Grand Theft Auto version of Los Santos, and I think...\nEditor's Note: This is part six of Caitlyn's ongoing series about her day-to-day experiences attending fashion school at FIDM in Los Angeles. The purpose of this series is shed some light on what fashion school is REALLY like \u2013 it's a lot different from what you saw on The Hills! Photo...\nTwo things made it the easiest trip ever: I got upgraded to first class from New York to Philadelphia (pure luxury for 20 minutes), then was given an entire row to myself from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Tom is here in LA shooting the Jean de Merry furniture campaign with Tony Duran and...\newan mcgregor / ph: frazer harrison, getty images ewan mcgregor was pictured in los angeles last week at the premi\u00e8re of his new movie \"haywire\". the great scot wore a leather sleeved coat from neil barrett fall winter 2010. the coat is a great fit on him, i believed he might have shortened...\nMost movie premieres are frequented by the glamorous, well-established crowd, but last night's premiere of ParaNorman in Los Angeles was a very youthful family affair. Teenagers and small children were in attendance, and they may have outshone the older guests! On the other hand, the mini...\nI'll be in Los Angeles for the 4th of July weekend, so if you want to meet up...email me, twitter me, or facebook me to get in touch! On the agenda: If I complete all four, then my trip would be complete. Let's see how much I can get done in the next couple days. Honestly, I don't know...\nLos Angeles Times (blog) Yes, there is one more movie to open, finishing up the Harry Potter series, but Emma has already become as wel- known in the fashion world as she was as Hermione. \u2014 Kate Middleton seems to be gaining more fashion cred, at least in some ... Disgraced Galliano fired...\nThis approach aims, firstly, at bringing to light the role of second-hand clothing trades and markets in the eighteenth-century European urban economy, together with the importance of non-mercantile methods of provision; secondly, at providing some clues to explain the increasing consumption...\nedu) Enormous amounts of lace flooded the marketplaces of eighteenth-century Europe, which fostered a vibrant international trade. This marketplace centered on competition between the Low Countries (especially the regions that now comprise Belgium) and northern France, two areas that...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://su-sews-so-so.blogspot.com/2013/12/trend-spotting-dropped-waist.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FZA32WNAKAPCHEXMXYVORFY25AV762J4", "length": 2408, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "su-sews-so-so.blogspot.com", "title": "Su Sews So-So: Trend Spotting : The Dropped Waist", "raw_content": "I think we would all agree that at some point along the journey of sewing your own clothes you start to experience a sense of freedom and power against the RTW world \u2013 you realise that you don\u2019t have to be tied down by current trends and fashion. You can choose whatever style, fabric and colour you like (if you can find it in the fabric shop that is, that\u2019s another story!)! Although that is true, I still see current trends and fashions creeping into the sewing world. To be honest it would be hard for it not to, fashion tends to recycle itself. I can remember countless outfits when I was growing up that my Mum would pass comment on to say she wore it when it was first in fashion!\nAnyway, all this is to say that over the last few years I have seen the twinkle of a trend and thought to myself, \u201coh I recon that\u2019s going to be big\u201d (either in the RTW world or the sewing blog world) \u2013 but I\u2019ve never bothered to blog about it. Some examples of this are scalloped edges, peplums, coloured lace dresses, peter-pan collars\u2026the list goes on. So instead of just letting them pass by, I thought I would share my thoughts on the blog.\nTodays trend may not necessarily be my favourite trend ever, but I\u2019ve been seeing it pop up a lot and I have a feeling we may be seeing a fair bit more of it next year, both in the shops and perhaps on sewing blogs: The Dropped Waist. My guess is this trend is probably being inspired by the recent Downton Abbey Flapper style (it certainly wouldn\u2019t be the first time Downton has influenced fashion), or maybe it\u2019s a development from the peplum, which evolved into the hem flounce and is now a dropped waist? Perhaps a little bit of both.\nIt can be a hard look to carry off but can be done beautifully. Simple and chic it can be dressed up or dressed down:\nOr horrendously:\nSorry VB, that\u2019s just wrong.\nBut asides from the Fashion World, I\u2019ve spotted the dropped waist on a number of commercial sewing patterns as well:\nAnd more excitingly (because we all know we love and want to support them), the independent designers have been giving their own spin on this trend too:\nSo what to you think? Do you like this style? Are you tempted to whip up a drop waisted dress?\nPersonally, although I think it would actually fit in quite well with my search for forgiving patterns, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m ready to jump on this wagon just yet\u2026\n*Click images for links\npattern|sewing chat|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://superyo.nuxit.net/nickdisk/viewtopic.php?p=20632", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GR2M4F54VA4FJPTQNGKFZO6VXZABBLFI", "length": 4515, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "superyo.nuxit.net", "title": "NickDisk Reloaded :: View topic - 'The Cheetah Girls: One World' Reviewed by LA Times HAAA", "raw_content": "'The Cheetah Girls: One World' Reviewed by LA Times HAAA\nPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: 'The Cheetah Girls: One World' Reviewed by LA Times HAAA\nFrom........This place RigHt HEEEEEEEERE!\nThe defection of actress Raven-Symon\u00e9 makes the Cheetahs' new world just a bit less fun to be in than the group's first two TV movies.\nBy Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer\nIn the beginning there were the Cheetah Girls.\nWay back in 2003, when Hannah Montana was but a gleam in the Disney Channel's eye, Galleria (Raven-Symon\u00e9), Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Aqua (Kiely Williams) and Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) became a bouncy, lovely pop band. Their message was simple: Nothing can keep you from being a star, but only if you remember that friends are more important than fame.\nDisney has since made billions embracing this creed: the \"High School Musicals,\" \"Hannah Montana\" and \"Camp Rock\" all celebrate the glories of stardom while admonishing their audience to always choose friendship over personal glory.\nWhich makes the third Cheetah movie, \"Cheetah Girls: One World,\" subtextually delicious. Debuting at 8 tonight on the Disney Channel, it seems, on paper, just another version of this same life-lesson: After successfully auditioning for a young Indian director, the Cheetahs giddily jet off to Bollywood only to learn that there is but a single female lead, for which they must compete. Which is, of course, so totally against the Cheetah ethos that it almost destroys the group.\nExcept, of course, it's already been destroyed -- the film is one very significant Cheetah short.\nDisney doesn't often attempt irony, but occasionally irony is thrust upon them. As fiercely as the girls may fight for and sing about the power of the group, there's nothing they can do about the gaping hole left by Galleria, the group's writer and leader. Raven-Symon\u00e9 passed on making this third film because she is focusing on her solo music and film careers.\nEven an 8-year-old can connect those dots.\nEarly on in \"One World,\" Galleria's absence is glibly explained -- she has been accepted at Cambridge and is in summer school -- and then her name is Never. Mentioned. Again. No texting, no cellphonage, no hard feelings. Galleria is simply on permanent radio silence. Meanwhile, the remaining girls act like they always do, swearing eternal devotion one minute, then turning on one another the next, as they struggle to maintain their Cheetah identity. Oh and hook up with various super-nice guys.\nWhich is fine as far as it goes. Bailon, Williams and Bryan are lovely to look at and have the pacing of professionals, though not the sassy spark of Raven-Symon\u00e9. The musical numbers are fun and bouncy if instantly forgettable, marred slightly by the unmistakable echo of a recording studio -- none seems to have a voice strong enough to go unsweetened -- but still they will pull their target audience out of their seats, and that is something. It's also hard not to love a group of gals who will drop anything and fly to India; just as Barcelona was to the second Cheetah film, location is one of the biggest selling points of \"One World.\" That and Roshan Seth (Nehru to Ben Kingsley's \"Gandhi\"), who plays the producer of the film within the film.\nThe general gorgeousness of \"One World\" -- the costumes, the swoony guys, the elephants -- almost but not quite distracts from what has become a tedious and increasingly disturbing narrative conflict. Yes, of course, one should be true to one's friends, but adulthood requires a certain amount of autonomy and occasionally -- gasp, faint -- competition.\nTelling kids over and over that to be good people they must continually bow to the power of the collective -- Troy, how could you choose a pick-up game with a college team over the employee baseball tourney?!? -- will not only send parents running for junior editions of \"Atlas Shrugged,\" it will make kids laugh, and not in the good way. They read the magazines, they know what's going on.\nHow much better this film would have been if it had dealt with its main issue head on -- what happens to a group when one of its members decides to strike out on her own? Going Bollywood is not a bad idea, but how terrible would it have been if one of the Cheetahs got a good role and the rest of the group just said \"congratulations\"?\nSince this deals more with Disney's live-action production than their animated side of things, I'm moving it.\nuhm but there's plenty of Live Action stuff in the Nickelodeon section!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sustainableclaremont.org/articles-dialogs/articles/293-botanical-volunteers-good-and-the-bad", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RXNSY6SDGVUVDCFOTKZGWZT5HBLF4EZA", "length": 4290, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sustainableclaremont.org", "title": "Botanical volunteers: the good and the bad", "raw_content": "Botanical volunteers: the good and the bad\nby Sue Schenk, Claremont Garden Club\nWithout being deliberately planted, \u201cvolunteers\u201d appear in our gardens from seed released by plants we did intentionally introduce, blown in by the wind, spread in compost, buried by squirrels, sneaked in by neighbor\u2019s vines that root along the ground, or dropped by one or the other ends of birds.\nOn the plus side, these are free plants and ones that are likely to do well in your garden conditions. They might not be ones you had considered planting but they can create interesting combinations of color and texture in your garden beds that you may not have thought of. They also provide you with gifts for friends!\nA crape myrtle seedling appeared in my garden 25 years ago and now provides lovely pink flowers, good autumn color and interesting bark so I\u2019m happy to have it. I also have several mature Japanese maples, the offspring of a neighbor\u2019s tree. I must admit to being a fan of serendipity in the garden, so I generally wait until I know what something is before I pull it up.\nWhat about the downsides? I\u2019m happy with the honesty, cosmos and evening primroses that pop up every spring, but am going to have to be brutal to the sweet alyssum seedlings I noticed threatening to create a carpet that will compete with other plants. If you grew hybrids and want more of the same, then don\u2019t let them seed.\nHybrids exhibit traits different from their true-breeding parents, but their offspring will exhibit a mix of traits, so if you want all the new ones to look like the originals you planted, you\u2019ll need to buy new hybrids. On the other hand, if you\u2019re okay with variety, let them go to seed and see what you get. Be aware, also, that unless all the plants of a particular open-pollinated species in your area are genetically identical, their seeds will produce offspring showing a range of qualities (just like human children do).\nI had a loquat that volunteered and the fruit was terrible. If you want more of a particular rose, shrub or fruit tree, you need a clone. You can get these by rooting some cuttings or buying them from a nursery that rooted or grafted the desired variety.\nSo, are \u201cvolunteers\u201d the same as those invasive plants that we are told to worry about? Well, some are and some aren\u2019t. All plants evolved in response to conditions in a particular area. If they have the ability to spread so aggressively in areas outside of where they originated that they cause damage to their new environment (or to us), they are considered to be invasive.\nKudzu was introduced from Japan in the 1800s as an ornamental vine and in the 1930s to help control erosion in the southeastern US, and it is a serious pest there where the conditions are right. The climate in Claremont isn\u2019t right for it so it wouldn\u2019t spread invasively here.\nYellow star thistle, on the other hand, which appeared here accidentally from Eurasia in the mid-1800s, thrives in our Mediterranean climate and can be found throughout the city, although not usually in cultivated gardens. Each spring, the Bernard Field Station volunteers pull out masses of the plants which love the native coastal sage scrub habitat (to find out about volunteer days, go to bfs.claremont.edu).\nSome plants that are not threats to local natural habitats can, however, be invasive in the garden. I foolishly planted some airplane plants, Chlorophytum comosum. Before I knew it, small plantlets on the ends of long stems rooted, leapfrogging and smothering whatever was next to them, and the thick, fleshy roots are hard to dig out.\nIf you want to discourage volunteers, be diligent about removing flowers before they go to seed, keep a thick layer of mulch around plants to make it more likely that seeds won\u2019t reach the soil, and remove any volunteers that do show up early on to prevent them from ever reaching the seeding or other reproductive stage. But consider the fun of surprises before you pull them all up!\nPlease visit the Claremont Garden Club website at claremontgardenclub.org, which provides lots of help for gardeners. Also, find information about the March 23 and 24 Claremont Flower Show the Garden Club is sponsoring with the Woman\u2019s Club of Claremont, and about purchasing tickets for the April 15 Claremont Garden Tour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://svkac.org/2018/04/17/lessons-learned-about-celebrations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KNGYZJFGT7EQQSWLAM33QELZEX4EJQM3", "length": 2826, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "svkac.org", "title": "Lessons Learned About Celebrations \u00ab Inspiration Wedding", "raw_content": "Lessons Learned About Celebrations\nFactors to Consider When Choosing Wedding Packages\nWhen selecting a wedding package for your wedding, it is important that you consider several needs. Many people tend to get venues that are pleasing to their eyes. There is however, much more to consider. The following article will enable you to select the right package.\nIt is important that you have chosen a Las Vegas wedding package for your wedding. Most people ignore the fact that they need to choose the right venue in advance. By assuming this, it ends up being a disappointment to the guests who will attend the wedding and also the bride and the groom. Booking the package immediately you get it is the best thing to do. It is important that you realize that most of the venues are booked a long time before the day of the event.\nBefore selecting the venue for your wedding, you should consider the number of people who will be available on that day. It would be disappointing to get a venue that will leave your guests feeling unsatisfied. The venue should accommodate all the activities to take place in that day.\nThe funds needed for Plaza Hotel Wedding chapel is key when selecting thepackage. It is normal that you select a venue that is pleasing to you but you lack enough funds for the venue. Lack of funds is so frustrating.\nNormally, most venues have their own accommodation while others do not have. You should consider whether the package has its own venue or not. If the venue does not have its own venue, you should seek knowledge about the nearby accommodation that is available. This is to ensure that the guests who will not make it to go back to their homes get a comfortable to spend their nights. The selected accommodation should enhance safety and comfortability of the guests.\nYou ought to consider the parking area available. You should thereby put into consideration the amount of vehicles that will be available on your wedding day. You should consider a safe area for the vehicles and the space should also be ample. It is very bad to find that the guests are enhancing safety themselves.\nSome of the property shown in pictures may not be available in the venue. Assuming the fact that not all materials provided in the venues is always disappointing and especially when you realize that some things are not provided. On the other hand, you may find out that some things are much more expensive than others. It is necessary that you visit the venue to know whether all the materials are provided at the amount of money that you have. In case not all the materials needed are provided, you should source them as early as possible.\nPutting these highlights into considerations will make sure that you get the best results ever.\n\u2190 Discovering The Truth About Experts Why People Think Tips Are A Good Idea \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://swisstimemachine.co.uk/index.php/watches/by-price.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:I65SJXY4PTEU2KIC56Y5FSWN7LO34ALE", "length": 95, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "swisstimemachine.co.uk", "title": "| The home of best Swiss Watch brands at favourable prices | The home of best Swiss Watch brands at favourable prices", "raw_content": "\u00a30 To \u00a31000 (4)\n\u00a31001 To \u00a35000 (60)\n\u00a35001 To \u00a310000 (39)\n\u00a310001 To \u00a315000 (20)\nOver \u00a315000 (41)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 5950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 187.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tartantoday.org/2013/05/16/grandparents-and-special-friends-spend-a-memorable-day-with-lower-school-students/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NPQUJXAPVXGFLG7VHSQCLVNLKDPH7K77", "length": 1498, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "tartantoday.org", "title": "TartanToday \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Grandparents and Special Friends Spend a Memorable Day with Lower School Students", "raw_content": "The day began in the Pasternack Field House where guests enjoyed a catered breakfast and slideshow of photos from throughout the school year. Father James Livingston gave a wonderful homily during this year\u2019s Chapel service followed by outstanding musical performances from students in Kindergarten through grade 5. Grade 2 students sang the adorable \u201cYou\u2019re a Grand Old Flag\u201d and the grade 5 band performed \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d St. Margaret\u2019s grades 4 and 5 choir presented an emotional performance dedicated to all our veterans, \u201cThank You, Soldiers,\u201d while grade 3 students sang, \u201cGod Bless the USA\u201d. The entire Lower School capped off the program with the classic \u201cGod Bless America\u201d while waving the American flag.\nGuests then moved into the classrooms to spend time with their grandchildren or special friends. Teachers planned a wide range of interactive activities for students to share with their guests such as making special crafts, playing games, reading stories or working with technology. Every year, the time our guests spend in the classrooms proves to be the highlight of their day. Seeing where our students shine, day in and day out, is a real treat for them.\nGrandparents & Special Friends Day was made possible by the hard work of more than 50 parent volunteers and 16 student volunteers. The entire St. Margaret\u2019s community \u2013 faculty, staff and volunteers \u2013 worked together to make Grandparents & Special Friends Day a memorable affair for all involved.\nTags: Lower School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://techtrail.in/tech-news/off-beat/x1-racing-league-to-hit-india-next-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ESICV5SQHQ3MCV3NCBFSJG4BN5XPS7WZ", "length": 8518, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "techtrail.in", "title": "X1 Racing League to hit India next year \u2013 Techtrail", "raw_content": "X1 Racing League to hit India next year\nINDIA\u2019S top international car racers Armaan Ebrahim (29) and Aditya Patel (29) have joined hands to bring a custom-made two-seater sports car racing league to India in the first quarter of next year. The Xtreme1 Racing League or X1 Racing League will be held in a mix of track and street circuits. The league will include eight (8) city-based franchise teams, each comprising of 2 cars and 4 drivers.\nFederation backed\nThe X1 Racing League is backed and sanctioned by the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), the governing body of motorsports in the country. The league has entered into a long-term partnership with the federation to promote motorsports in India and nurture Indian talent. This move also ensures the stability and commercial viability of the league.\nTop drivers in the fray\nTalks are on to rope in well-known race drivers including former Formula One, Formula E, Indy 500, Le Mans and NASCAR drivers to the X1 Racing League which also happens to be the world\u2019s first city-based franchise league in motorsports. Each team will comprise of one international male driver, one international female driver, one Indian international driver and one Indian domestic driver. The Indian international driver will have five or more years of driving experience in international series, while the domestic driver will be a young upcoming racer picked from the national championships in the country.\nVitantonio Liuzzi\u200f, the Italian racing driver who drove in the F1 for Torro Rosso, Red Bull and Force India said \u201cX1 Racing League is a very innovative league format and will surely be great for Indian motorsports. The league has several unique propositions and I am looking forward to it. It will be exciting to drive as a team, where not just speed, but strategy becomes supremely important.\u201d\nIn a strong move towards the inclusion of women in motorsports in India and pushing the theme of gender neutrality in sports, female drivers will race along with male drivers in this first-of-its-kind format.\nPippa Mann, the famous British women driver who drives in the IndyCar Series said \u201cI\u2019m always interested in opportunities that help promote equality in motorsport, so I was impressed with the idea and vision behind the X1 Racing League. In a moment in time where most people with funding seem to want to segregate female racers, it was refreshing to be approached by a championship that wants to help not only nurture up and coming Indian talent, but also be at the forefront of trying to create more opportunities for female racers in an equal environment.\u201d\nBoost for youngsters\nThe league aims to discover India\u2019s next racing superstar by providing equal opportunities to rookies and national champions through a platform where they compete with the best in the world.\nAnindith Reddy, the national racing champion said \u201cI am very excited about the X1 Racing League, not just because of the concept and format but also because I\u2019ve known Armaan and Aditya since the time I got into racing. The league provides a platform for upcoming drivers and many aspiring race drivers to compete with the best in the world and learn from them. Many of us who started racing as enthusiasts can now consider a professional career in motorsports that is not dependent on individual sponsorships.\u201d\nRaces will take place on Saturdays and Sundays on four consecutive weekends in Q1 2019. Each race will be of 45 minutes duration and there will be three races per day, with innovative race formats. Noida\u2019s Buddh International and the MMRT in Chennai are the obvious candidates for the track venues and the street races will be held in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, and Mumbai, like the layout of the Monaco and Singapore F1 races.\nThe League aims to bring racing to the people through city races and promote responsible driving and road safety. The league has already submitted the circuit layouts to the international federation for approvals, indicating its intent to ensure compliance with safety procedures and regulations.\nYear-long domestic season\nBesides the four weeks of the main league, the X1 Racing League will run a year-long domestic season of over 12 races with the Indian drivers and the \u201cpatron\u2019s seat\u201d, scoring points for the team throughout the year. Patron\u2019s seat equips team owners to race for their team or appoint someone to race on their behalf.\nWhile the made-in-India car aims to empower India\u2019s automotive engineering expertise, the league has a well-defined ethos and intends to break the myths around motorsports like:\n1) motorsports is for the rich by making participation and ownership extremely competitive\n2) motorsports is dangerous by having regulated races in highly secure and controlled environment, and 3) motorsports is for men by the inclusion of women across various aspects from the actual racing to the engineering.\nFranchise teams\nThe league will comprise eight city-based franchises and are in extensive discussions with many prospects. The league will announce the process of owning a team shortly.\nGautam Singhania, chairman of the FMSCI said \u201cThe X1 Racing League is a great product and the team of Aditya and Armaan are very well-equipped to execute a successful motorsports league. As a long-term believer in motorsports, the X1 Racing League has the right mix of traditional motorsports along with the modern mix for TV viewing audience and fan engagement that will make it successful from year 1.\nThe league\u2019s ethos of providing equal opportunities to upcoming race drivers and gender neutrality through the inclusion of women drivers is quite a headline and I fully support their vision. This will surely encourage young Indian motorsports enthusiasts and in particular, women to take this sport as a professional career choice.\nCommercially, this product has the potential to deliver high ROI to all stakeholders and is a great way to promote road safety through motorsports in India. We wish the X1 Racing League a very successful launch and extend my full support.\u201d\nAkbar Ebrahim, president of the FMSCI said \u201cThe launch of the X1 Racing League promoted by the Racing Promotions Group based in India is indeed good news for Indian Motorsport. The city/club-based franchise league for 4W is an exciting concept and is sure to attract a large following across the board. The league will surely generate a lot of interest not just for the National and International drivers, but also for the Franchisees, Brand Ambassadors, Media, and Spectators.\nThe league promises to give opportunities to young Indian drivers to rub shoulders with famous International drivers and compete with them on an even platform. And with a solid media plan in place, the talented young drivers from India will find that this like the IPL will become an ideal platform for the world to recognize their talents.\nAnother import aspect is the promotion of women in Motorsport. Each team will have one Woman driver of International experience, who will be paired with an Indian International driver. The performances of these drivers will surely give a huge boost to the interest levels of our Indian women drivers who can start to aspire to get selected in the future to represent one of the teams.\nAnd finally, the most exciting aspect of the league is that it proposes to run 2 of the 4 rounds in 2019 on street circuits. This will be a big breakthrough, as a street circuit takes the sport to the masses and thus automatically helps build the interest and following in the sport.\u201d\nArmaan says, \u201cTeam owners in X1 are guaranteed high-visibility and potentially high-ROI due to the sound commercial model of ownership of the teams, and also revenue distribution of the league. 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The report intends to provide cutting-edge market intelligence and help decision makers take sound investment evaluation. Besides, the report also identifies and analyses the emerging trends along with major drivers, challenges and opportunities in the global Industrial Wireless Sensor Network market. Additionally, the report also highlights market entry strategies for various companies across the globe.\nLeading Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Market Players:\n- Yokogawa Electric Corporation\n- Schneider Electric S.A.\n- VIAgents\n- Tridium\n- Apprion, Inc.\n- Digi International, Inc.\n- SynapSense Corporation\n- Dust Networks, Inc.\n- Millennial Net\n- Emerson Process Management\n- Lantronix, Inc.\n- ABB Ltd\n- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.\n- Honeywell International, Inc.\nWorldwide Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Market Analysis to 2025 is a specialized and in-depth study of the Industrial Wireless Sensor Network industry with a focus on the global market trend. 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His numerous recordings are recognized for expanding the repertoire while offering a performance model of technical precision and musical artistry.\nA graduate of the Eastman School of Music, his profession as a noted percussionist gradually yielded to his career as a conductor, which included studies at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan and the Tanglewood Music Center in the U.S., as well as in Europe and Russia. Active as well as a composer and author, his comprehensive text on the art of conducting, titled The Eloquent Conductor (pub. 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With a seating capacity of 550, this intimate venue was filled with an ephemeral upsurge of joyous energy as Jesse Cook and his band threw a rollicking rumba party.\nArriving in Canada from France and Barcelona as a youth, Cook was recognized as a guitar prodigy, and trained as a classical, flamenco and jazz guitarist. Cook has always sought to work with the world\u2019s finest jazz, flamenco and world-beat musicians. His newest album, \u201cOne World\u201d includes a worldwide mix of such talent and achieves a blend of world music, flamenco and gypsy sounds, weaving new and ancient rhythms from east and west into what has been hailed, in the Whole Note Magazine as \u201ca joyous celebration of alpha wave stimulation and artistic globalism.\u201d\nCook\u2019s band are equally some of the world\u2019s finest musicians in the genre, and many have played with him for over 15 years. Cook generously featured them throughout the performance and opened the show with each member layering note upon note until Cook took the stage. Violinist Chris Church opened the evening with rapid and crisp string fingering virtuosity. Church was soon accompanied by one of the other finest flamenco guitarists Nic Hernandez and shortly Dennis Mohammed took the stage on bass, until the band was completed with Alberto Suarez on percussion. When Cook took the stage, the audience erupted in adoration for one of the world\u2019s finest musicians that Canada has been quick to claim as their own.\nCook moved the audience with his melancholy Three Days and held them spellbound with Baghdad, following tales by Cook of the impact of 6th century persian music on all music in the world today. Cook lured the audience to their feet with an up-tempo rumba jam in the second set, and built to a joyous crescendo with such favourites as Shake. The highlight of the performance, however, came in the second encore when the band performed an acoustic version of their 15 year old and greatest hit, \u2013 a cover of the Crowded House ballad, Fall at Your Feet. Without urging, 550 voices softly sang the chorus back to the band members. It was a moment of Oneness as if the audience was expressing gratitude to the band for all the years of wonderful world music.\nA quick survey following the show confirmed that this was, for those interviewed, the best performance they could remember, from any band. Some claimed it to be the best concert of their lives. Smiles on all the faces were testament to the joyous celebration that only a Jesse Cook rumba party can bring.\nCook and his band now head south of the border for a USA west coast tour and return to the east coast of North America in late autumn/early winter.\nIn a world where joy is sometimes hard to find, \u201cOne World\u201d delivers. 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And for everybody out there that showed us so much love for this episode, thank you for embracing a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a queer black girl from the South Side of Chicago.\nIn \u201cThanksgiving,\u201d Waithe and Ansari are childhood friends Denise and Dev, who grow up sharing the holiday at Denise\u2019s home over the years. The story focuses on Denise coming out as a lesbian to her mother, based on Waithe\u2019s own coming out story. The characters also talk about race, including discussion of O.J. Simpson, Sandra Bland, and Sureshbhai Patel.\nMaster of None co-creators Ansari and Alan Wang won the 2016 Emmy in this same category of comedy writing for their work on the first season\u2019s \u201cParents,\u201d another episode highlighting family members. Ansari\u2019s work on Master of None received additional nominations this year, for Outstanding Comedy Series (a category that went to Veep) and for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. 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They've long been recognized for outstanding value, but the 2010s have seen Behringer become a formidable innovator, earning awards for a number of designs and category leading products.\nAuthorized Behringer Dealer\nManufacturer's Warranty To view Behringer warranty policy,\nPlease note, it's possible that not all Behringer products carried are displayed on our site. If you are interested in a product that is not listed here, please contact us. We'll do our best to fulfill your needs and beat any price on Behringer products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 4289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/04/enjoy-super-bowl-can-football-doomed/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YWE4Y47HELVS7EIABICTSORUGCRCXAXT", "length": 3027, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thefederalist.com", "title": "Enjoy The Super Bowl While You Can, Because Football Is Doomed", "raw_content": "Enjoy The Super Bowl While You Can, Because Football Is Doomed\nScience is telling us that football is a sport in which the audience entertains itself by watching men turn their brains into mush. That can't last.\nSuper Bowl Sunday seems the appropriate day to bring you the cheerful news that football is doomed. The sport is dying and cannot be saved, at least not in America, its traditional home. The cause of death is science. Simply put, football is a sport in which the audience entertains itself by watching men violently turn each other\u2019s brains to mush.\nChris Nowinski, who heads the Concussion Legacy Foundation, says, \u2018We see the hard hits all the time, where a guy pops up and smiles and [signals] a first down, and [we think], \u2018OK, that hit was fine.\u2019 But what this study says is: No, that hit probably wasn\u2019t fine, and that poor guy can\u2019t feel the damage that\u2019s happening in his brain right now.\u2019\nIn other words, brain trauma is inherent to the sport. I don\u2019t say this as someone who bears any particular animus toward American football. (I only bear ill will toward soccer.) Of course I wanted to be a pro football player when I was a kid. What boy didn\u2019t? Now I\u2019m glad I never pursued it, and you can bet I\u2019m not going to allow my own boys to play full-impact football.\nThat\u2019s what is already strangling the sport. Educated middle-class moms are doing their jobs and protecting their kids\u2019 health, so signups for youth football are already dropping, reducing the talent pool for the sport. The results is that football is going to increasingly become a sport for poor kids and minorities\u2014those whose parents haven\u2019t yet gotten the message about the risk of brain trauma, or those who feel they have so few opportunities that they might as well take the risk.\nYet that makes the sport even more uncomfortable for fans. What happens if football becomes a game where white middle-class people pay millions to watch poor and minority kids bang up each other\u2019s brains? I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to be tenable.\nAlready, you can see the NFL preparing what I think of as the Philip Morris Strategy. Long ago, the big cigarette makers realized that Americans were going to stop smoking, and there was nothing they could do about it. So they started orienting themselves to the overseas market, advertising to a billion non-health-conscious Chinese. There are still parts of the world where our fastidious concern for health and safety hasn\u2019t quite spread\u2014places where life is already short and there are a lot of things that can kill you, so the added risk from cigarettes doesn\u2019t weigh so heavily. The same thing is going to apply to the risk of injury from sports. So it\u2019s no surprise that the NFL has been eagerly spreading their quintessentially American sport to Europe and Mexico and trying to make inroads into China.\nPhoto By: Fort George G. 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Ex-LKY school dean\u2019s post suggest they were | The Independent", "raw_content": "Was Workers\u2019 Party right in asking to relook cap on spending from the returns of reserves? Ex-LKY school dean\u2019s post suggest they were\nFormer associate dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy said \u201cwhen the PM explained why HDB leases have to be 99 years (so that land can be recycled and sold again after 99 years), he confirmed what all of us should know but probably don\u2019t: that land in Singapore is a renewable fiscal resource.\u201d\nHe said that since land is a renewable resource, the Ministry of Finance was on \u201cvery weak grounds when it rejected suggestions during the Budget debate this year to use more of the Net Investment Returns (NIR) from reserves or use (part of) the revenue from land sales (which are currently wholly locked up as reserves).\u201d\nIn May, the Workers\u2019 Party called on the Government to relook the 50 per cent cap on spending from the returns of the reserves, last debated in 2016. In responding to the Workers\u2019 party, Minister Lawrence Wong chided them saying: \u201cWhat does it say about us and our mindsets\u2026 if the minute we need the money, the first thing we do is to relax the rules? Surely, that would be ill-disciplined, imprudent and unwise.\u201d\n\u201cIf land is a renewable fiscal resource \u2013 that is, land reverts to the state after 99 years, which it can then sell again \u2013 the major implication is that in the stable state (i.e. in equilibrium), all of the revenue received each year from selling 99-year leasehold land can be used in the current budget,\u201d he said.\nAdding: \u201cThere\u2019s no need to lock up any land revenues in reserves (except for revenue from sales of freehold and 999-year leasehold land). It\u2019s certainly not the case, as the Minister for Finance then said, that at most 1/99 of the revenue from land sales each year can be used. This is because in equilibrium, the state would be recycling and re-selling \u201conly\u201d 1/99 of its land holdings each year.\u201d\nHe said using all of the revenue from the sale of 99-year leasehold land is the very definition of sustainability, in that one can only use what is earned each year, in perpetuity.\nIn responding to a comment that his views does not seem correct from an accounting point of view; in that \u201cif a 99 year old leasehold asset is sold, it\u2019s like collecting all the rent upfront and that accountants will still want u to recognise the revenue year by year. As in over 99 years,\u201d Mr Low said:\n\u201cThought more about what you\u2019re saying and realised that what I propose amounts to the same thing \u2013 once we adjust for price volatility. Let me explain. So let\u2019s do what accountants say we must do: record only 1/99 of the revenue of the land sales each year in every one of the subsequent 99 years. In the long-run, the revenue booked for each year would be the summation of 1/99 of the value of EVERY piece of 99-year leasehold lands sold, this year and in all previous 98 years. Assuming that the state disposes land evenly (i.e. it sells approximately 1/99 of its stock of land holdings each year), this means that the actual revenue received each year in land sales would not differ too much from the method you propose.\nNow, I recognise of course that this is a simplifying assumption. The reality is that revenues from land sales are volatile so to use the actual revenues received year-to-year may create too much volatility. Furthermore, the amount of land sold may vary a lot from year-to-year. Again, this creates too much volatility if the state only recorded what is received each year. So doing what you propose is perfectly fine, that is the state recognises not just 1/99 of the revenue from land sales in that year, but also 1/99 of land sales revenues from EACH of the previous years.\u201d\nPrevious articleUncle blocks public bus and bangs door, challenging driver to come at him\nNext articleFacebook influencer NasDaily to meet fans in Singapore for video for video collaboration on 22 August", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theknockingshop.blogspot.com/2010/12/wrestling.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:R3WPXRQECRBJCYFTCWSSASM735ERTQY3", "length": 1400, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theknockingshop.blogspot.com", "title": "Wrestling | Vapour Trails.", "raw_content": "My first trip to an Arthouse screening was to see Rumblefish in the then Curzon cinema on Abbey Street. The cinema was later to be my workplace, both as The Curzon and in it's later incarnation as the Lighthouse but at the time I wasn't thinking about that (it hadn't happened) I was thinking that Mickey Rourke was surely the coolest man on the planet, at least in his incarnation as The Motorcycle Kid.\nFor years I wore grey v-necked jumpers, second hand jackets and only saw the world in black and white. He was the older brother I wished I had (or was?).\nRecently I picked up Mickey's trail and watched The Wrestler on DVD (It's too hard to get to the cinema these days, what with miles to travel, penury and the need for babysitters) Mickey's still pretty cool, even though he looks like a mixture between a clown and a heavy metal guitarist.\nThe film is worth a look.(but for the real deal search out Aronovsky's great debut film Pi) It is set in a genuinely seedy and run down world and the dead end world of small time wrestling is brought to vivid life. In other ways it is predictable but that's not always a bad thing. Sometimes it's just inevitability.\nMy counsellor keeps telling me I've got to stop wrestling with the big questions because you never win. Mickey ain't never gonna stop wrestling. 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They played, had fun, learned all the secrets of the sea and all the ways of pirate life..!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://themuseumofpsalms.com/agents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4N4TOUDSPZXRWGLGN4HGID3LPIKJFOEV", "length": 206, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "themuseumofpsalms.com", "title": "Agents \u2013 The Museum of Psalms", "raw_content": "The Museum of Psalms > Agents\nWe are available to work with art dealers and galleries worldwide to distribute the work of The Museum of Psalms. Please be in touch to discuss opportunities for collaboration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UNDA6FVJBT5SSXYJPQ4IW2V3R2KOU57R", "length": 209, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "theparrotforum.com", "title": "Parrot Forum \u2022 View topic - 2 year sentence!", "raw_content": "2 year sentence!\nFor breeding and selling an endangered species - but the most astonishing thing is that it happened in China which happens to be the biggest market for endangered species and their body parts!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://therockfather.com/news-and-reviews/grownups/itemlist/category/7-music-news?start=120", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LPDDTFLPEJTIKNSVA2NU6SKYTSHSFDQU", "length": 7610, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "therockfather.com", "title": "The Rock Father: For Grown-ups | Music News, Music Reviews, Heavy Metal, Punk Rock, Indie, Hard Rock, Pop, Comedy and more!", "raw_content": "Astralwerks signs CLAIRE, announces new record, serves up FREE DOWNLOAD...\nThe crew over at Astralwerks hit The Rock Father with the news that they've just signed German five-piece, CLAIRE. The band will release the BROKEN PROMISE LAND EP on September 24, but prior to that they'll release their first single, \"Games\" on August 13. The two-track digital single will also feature a new remix by I HEART SHARKS. Those that want an early taste can snag a FREE DOWNLOAD of their song \"Pioneers\" via Facebook, and check out the video for \"Games\" below.\nListen: SIR MIX-A-LOT Remixes PUSCIFER\nOn August 27, PUSCIFER, the electro-rock band fronted by TOOL mainman Maynard James Keenan, will release ALL RE-MIXED UP, a new collection of remixes by some interesting collaborators... including SIR MIX-A-LOT. Today, Vibe premiered the Sir Mix-A-Lot remix of \"Conditions of My Parole,\" the title track from PUSCIFER's 2011 album. Hear the F.U.B.A.R. mix below, or (if the player doesn't load) this location.\nFREE DOWNLOAD: ANTI RECORDS Summer Sampler feat NEKO CASE, TOM WAITS, more...\nThe crew over at ANTI Records have released a FREE, 10-song Summer Sampler via Noisetrade. The collection features tracks from NEKO CASE (new album out September 3), MAVIS STAPLES, TOM WAITS & KEITH RICHARDS, BETH ORTON, and more. Grab it as a FREE DOWNLOAD via the widget below.\nSTONE TEMPLE PILOTS with CHESTER BENNINGTON announce Tour and new EP...\nSTONE TEMPLE PILOTS are hitting the road with new frontman, CHESTER BENNINGTON (LINKIN PARK). Billed as \"Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington\" (reminds me of the whole \"Sublime with Rome\" thing), the band will head out with FILTER in support. Additionally, the band has announced a new EP for this fall, to be released by the band's own label, with distribution through ADA. Back in 1993, I interviewed drummer Eric Kretz and guitarist Dean DeLeo at the Palmer Auditorium in Davenport, Iowa. The band was touring in support of CORE, while opening for MEGADETH. I need to unearth that video of a 16-year-old me rockin' it with those guys. I also have a great story about Scott Weiland from that night, along with some photos I shot on 35mm (my first time in a photo pit). We'll save all of that for another day, but in the meantime, check out the STP tour dates...\nWatch: THE MORE I SEE releases video shot at famed STAR WARS set in Tunisia...\nAs a STAR WARS fan that is also a fan of metal, this might just be the best music video that I will see this year. Ahead of the October 1 North American release of their new album, THE DISAPPEARING HUMANS (Century Media/Earache Records), THE MORE I SEE has released the video for \"The Eye That Offends.\" The entire piece was shot on abandoned sets from the iconic first STAR WARS film, deep within the Tunisian Desert of North Africa. Watch it now...\nKORN announce new album, THE PARADIGM SHIFT for October 1...\nKORN is unleashing a new record this Fall, the first with guitarist Brian \"Head\" Welch since 2003's TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR. I was in the camp that always figured that Head would eventually return, but it's hard to believe it's already been a decade(!). THE PARADIGM SHIFT will be released on October 1 via Prospect Park, the result of recording sessions that took place in Bakersfield and Los Angeles, CA with producer Don Gilmore (LINKIN PARK, JAY-Z, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD).\nNIRVANA - IN UTERO 20th Anniversary Edition coming this September...\nThis September, NIRVANA will release the 20th Anniversary Edition of an album that I've already purchased twice. You see, back in the days prior to the internet and iTunes (and file sharing), record labels would often include bonus tracks on International releases of albums, all in hopes of snagging additional sales to hardcore American fans, many of whom (myself included - sucker) would buy the album again to have all of their favorite bands' music. In the case of IN UTERO (which was originally released on September 13, 1993), the Japanese version featured an additional track, \"Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip,\" which was actually denoted as a \"Devalued American Dollar Purchase Incentive Track.\" This Fall, I will buy the album again (unless I get sent one, of course).\nPRODUCT OF HATE unleashes FREE EP via Noisetrade, announces RIDE FOR DIME appearance and recent Studio Sessions...\nWritten by\tStaff Contributor\nSome news from PRODUCT OF HATE, a band managed by The Rock Father himself, James Zahn...\nWisconsin-based metal crew PRODUCT OF HATE have released a Special Edition summer EP via Noisetrade, available immediately as a FREE DOWNLOAD. \u201cRevolution of Destruction\u201d b/w \u201cA Well Deserved Death\u201d pairs together the band\u2019s recent digital singles for the very first time, while bringing their crushing sound to new listeners gratis. 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Check out the video below, along with some words from Creed about the new song...\nANDREW W.K. gears up for tour with BLACK SABBATH...\nANDREW W.K. is experiencing a \"renaissance\" of sorts. 2013 has been a very good year for the party expert, and today brings news that takes the year to even greater heights: ANDREW W.K. will be the exclusive opening act for BLACK SABBATH as they tour North America in support of their just-released album, 13. Andrew will open each show with a DJ set as he \"promises to spin a rabble-rousing selection of classic riffs, heavy jams, and crowd pleasing favorites spanning every era of hard rock and metal.\"\nFREE DOWNLOAD: RADIOHEAD - \"Live At Tramps NYC 1995\" (Full Concert!)\nNow this is the RADIOHEAD that I enjoy. I'm well-aware that my opinion of current RADIOHEAD is an unpopular one - that the band stopped rocking after THE BENDS and started going down a rabbit hole of blips and blorps that didn't interest me, all while convincing audiences that what they're doing is just \"amaaaaaaaazing\" (I HATE when people use that word in such an extended form). In fact, OK Computer was not just an album title, but an actual quote: what the band said to their P.C. upon recording all subsequent albums. But my opinion on the current state of RADIOHEAD is not important when it comes to this... LIVE AT TRAMPS JUNE 1, 1995. It's a full live album available as a FREE DOWNLOAD courtesy of Noisetrade and Paste Magazine. Get a taste below...\nListen: DEVILDRIVER debut \"Ruthless,\" the first single from WINTER KILLS...\nI was in my car last night when I caught my first listen to new music from DEVILDRIVER via SiriusXM Liquid Metal. I've long gotten a bit of grief for my love for Dez' work in COAL CHAMBER vs. what I always thought was average music from DEVILDRIVER. But... with this new album, WINTER KILLS about to be released on Napalm Records this August, my interest is piqued. The band has unleased \"Ruthless\" to internet listeners and you can find it streaming below. Crank it up, and then share your thoughts on the track in the comments section.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 12567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesalafifeminist.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-day-of-judgment-and-justice.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FWKUO5OHCRBOD7HBWPU66M5D5LGDULGR", "length": 1755, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thesalafifeminist.blogspot.com", "title": "The Salafi Feminist: A Day of Judgment and Justice", "raw_content": "The Day of Judgment exists because justice is not always meted out in this world, and even when it is, it is carried out by human standards and it is rarely ever resolved in a manner that gives each person their absolute due.\nOn the Day of Judgment, no human being can plead with the judge or jury for sympathy or justify their actions or silence their opponents; on the Day of Judgment, there will only be Divine Justice against which none can utter a word of opposition.\nHuman transgressions against the rights of others are so easy to commit, so easy to justify, so easy to defend. If we do not hold ourselves accountable for them right now, know that there will be a Day when we will be held accountable by the Most Just. Even the animals on that Day will have their rights in this world avenged - how much more so, then, will the rights of other people be upheld and exacted?\n\" \u201cAllaah will judge between His creation, jinn, men and animals. On that Day, Allaah will let the hornless animal settle its score with the horned until, when there is nothing left to be settled, Allaah will say to them, \u2018Be dust.\u2019\" (Silsilat asSaheeha)\nIt was narrated from Abu Dharr that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was sitting, and two sheep locked horns until one of them defeated and subdued the other. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) smiled and someone asked him, \u201cWhy are you smiling, O Messenger of Allaah?\u201d He said, \u201cIt is amazing. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, their score will be settled on the Day of Resurrection.\u201d\n\u201cO Abu Dharr, do you know what they are fighting over?\u201d He said, \u201cNo.\u201d He said, \u201cBut Allaah knows and He will judge between them.\u201d\nLabels: injustice, spirituality", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetowerlight.com/tag/paul-dolan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IENNLWUQJQNOD4LC5MJW4FEG7TOJ5ICN", "length": 169, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thetowerlight.com", "title": "Paul Dolan \u2013 The Towerlight", "raw_content": "Tribe to ditch Chief Wahoo logo\nBy: Jordan Cope, Senior Editor What do the Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Redskins have in common? If you said they are the only [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetrailerboy.com/texas/caprock-custom-trailers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:40Z", "digest": "sha1:55EI4DMARGDJZFLLH7VT5SG4EFQNSD34", "length": 1262, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetrailerboy.com", "title": "Caprock custom trailers \u2013 The Trailer Boy", "raw_content": "Custom Trailers For Sale in Caprock, Texas\nLooking for custom trailers in Caprock? The search is over when you choose The Trailer Boy. I can assist you in finding the perfect one. If you are in need of a car hauler, cargo, dump, enclosed, flatbed, gooseneck, horse, motorcycle, refrigerated, snowmobile or utility trailer in Texas, I can make sure you get exactly what you are looking for. I can promise this because my selection of trailers are fully customizable to your liking. Whether its the length, hitch style, height or something as simple as the color of the outer metal, I commit to providing you with what you need. The Trailer Boy is dedicated to providing our customers with an experience they\u2019ll never forget. I go over and above in everything that I do, including customer service. You can expect professional service from start to finish. Call now for a free consultation over the phone and find out for yourself why we are considered the leading trailer company in the Caprock area.\nHow\u2019s the traffic look in Caprock today?\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Caprock,+Texas/\nWhat\u2019s the weather like in Caprock, Texas\nhttps://www.wunderground.com/us/Texas/Caprock/\nLearn more about Caprock on Wikipedia\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprock,_Texas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetrailerboy.com/texas/marquez-custom-trailers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VOQAZVUHWGUIIWOEIUKLFESK7WOBFLMJ", "length": 1262, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetrailerboy.com", "title": "Marquez custom trailers \u2013 The Trailer Boy", "raw_content": "Custom Trailers For Sale in Marquez, Texas\nLooking for custom trailers in Marquez? The search is over when you choose The Trailer Boy. I can assist you in finding the perfect one. If you are in need of a car hauler, cargo, dump, enclosed, flatbed, gooseneck, horse, motorcycle, refrigerated, snowmobile or utility trailer in Texas, I can make sure you get exactly what you are looking for. I can promise this because my selection of trailers are fully customizable to your liking. Whether its the length, hitch style, height or something as simple as the color of the outer metal, I commit to providing you with what you need. The Trailer Boy is dedicated to providing our customers with an experience they\u2019ll never forget. I go over and above in everything that I do, including customer service. You can expect professional service from start to finish. Call now for a free consultation over the phone and find out for yourself why we are considered the leading trailer company in the Marquez area.\nHow\u2019s the traffic look in Marquez today?\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Marquez,+Texas/\nWhat\u2019s the weather like in Marquez, Texas\nhttps://www.wunderground.com/us/Texas/Marquez/\nLearn more about Marquez on Wikipedia\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquez,_Texas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thiswayupzine.blogspot.com/2013/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:23Z", "digest": "sha1:NGXRDEWIVEJUMPNFC4EARZO6DPLUXUKX", "length": 10321, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "thiswayupzine.blogspot.com", "title": "This Way Up : September 2013", "raw_content": "Atlantis: The Earth Bull\nThe first episode of the new series from the makers of Merlin.\nIn the new show from the team that produced Merlin, we find a smorgasboard of mythic heroes and villains all within the same walls of the legendary city. While the previous series confined itself largely to variations on a particular story, Atlantis seems set on raiding any number of different sources hence we find Jason, Hercules, Pythagoras and the Minotour all residing here in the opening episode `The Earth Bull`. Broadcast at the comparatively late 8.25pm there are scant pickings in Howard Overman\u2019s script to whet the appetite of adult viewers, yet amidst the roaring monsters and hectic chases not quite enough to engage the attention of the younger ones. It\u2019s going to be a hard sell.\nMark was jealous of his co-star's wigs\nLabels: Atlantis, BBC, TV\nOriginally broadcast on 07/09/78\nPeter Powell. \u201cHello! As ever you're very welcome to Top of the Pops and here's the chart run down with just a slap of grease!\u201d\nChart music: Frankie Valli: Grease [24]\nThis week there's chart fun when back-to-back pictures of Renaissance [20], and Exile [19] look like they could be photos of the same group.\nThe Jam: David Watts [26]. \u201cAll the energy exploding on Top of the Pops!\u201d gushes Peter Powell after The Jam finish. The Jam put in a good performance, and the audience bop along enthusiastically, but for me this song just doesn't do anything. Somehow this feels inappropriate. It's The Jam, an iconic band of the time, but I can't muster anything other than a shrug.\nThe Jam: It's a little known fact that David Watts recorded a single called `I Wish I Could Be In The Jam`\nEpisode 10: For an episode The Tripods forgets itself. Here we are imagining it to be a silly kid\u2019s series and then it comes over all reflective and lyrical. There\u2019s a lovely scene when Madame Vichot is trying to cheer up mopey Will by telling him about her past life. With a sparkle in her eyes she details travels and a zeal for discovery that she had before capping and, more importantly, how some of that has remained in her head afterwards. She becomes, in only a couple of episodes, a quite marvellous character especially portrayed by Anni Lee Taylor as if she is in a proper drama or something! In writing and acting terms she really is the first convincing three dimensional character we\u2019ve met. Naturally she forces everyone to raise their game and even John Shackley manages his best scene so far playing opposite her.\n\"Thank goodness Primark survived\"\nWatched in 2013 by Chris Arnsby\nTony Blackburn. \u201cHello. Welcome once again to Top of the Pops and right now here's the brand new top twenty.\u201d13/7/78: \u201cHello. Welcome to Top of the Pops and right now here's that brand new top twenty.\u201d25/5/78: \u201cHello. Welcome to Top of the Pops and right now here's a run down of the brand new top thirty. 13/4/78: \u201cHello and welcome once again to Top Of The Pops, and straight away here's the brand new top thirty.\u201d 9/3/78: \u201cHello and welcome to another edition of Top of the Pops, and right now here comes that brand new top thirty.\u201d\nTony Blackburn really isn't trying any more. And it's top THIRTY Tony Blackburn. THIRTY not twenty.\nChart music: Herbie Hancock: I thought It Was You [27]\nThe Dooleys: A Rose Has To Die [62]. The internet has rejected this song. I went searching for lyrics for A Rose Has To Die, but even Google can't reach anyone who cared enough to transcribe this song. \u201cAs a rose has to die/Every time you tell a lie,\u201d is almost certainly what the blow-dried lead singer is crooning. In this melodramatic song, we have sentient roses who self destruct each time they detect untruth, and mention of a lonely world of rain, plus autumn leaves which took away the love [the couple] found. It has to be said the lead singer of The Dooleys doesn't seem too upset about the whole affair. He's written the jauntiest pop song ever about dead love.\nWhat Remains (episodes 3 and 4)\nFour hours of tension ends in a frenzy as Tony Basgallop\u2019s taut BBC1 drama concludes.\nCompelling to the end, What Remains is an exercise in building tension and atmosphere before letting it all out in a frantic final sequence. Though spread across four episodes, the drama has the feel of a film about it. The measured camera work, creepy sound effects, insistent unsettling incidental music as well as characters that don\u2019t waste words all add to the filmic feel. Director Coky Giedroyc excels in finding those unusual corners of the building, her cameras crawling around as if we are in a horror film. The result is something that may perhaps lose its grasp of reality somewhere during the last half hour but remains riveting till the last frame.\nLabels: BBC, David Threlfall, Tony Basgallop, TV, What Remains\nWe have all experienced moments when you wish you could just go back in time and do or say something different and that\u2019s the prop supporting Richard Curtis\u2019s latest venture. The writer says it\u2019s the last film he\u2019ll direct though it\u2019s only the third he has. Perhaps the bruising experience of The Boat That Rocked has rocked him. Perhaps he wished he could travel back in time and completely re-edit a film whose best bits inexplicably ended up as dvd extras. Perhaps that\u2019s how he came up with this idea. There are swathes of people who will dislike About Time but there\u2019s nothing Richard Curtis can do about, ironically, the times we live in. Times where disparaging the rich or posh remains the last acceptable prejudice. Instead, he can use the admittedly wobbly premise to deliver a movie rich in resonance for viewers of a certain vintage, people whose joi de vivre has not been entirely sucked away and those who feel that a happy ending is surely everyone\u2019s ambition.\nLabels: About Time, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Film, Rachel McAdams, Richard Curtis\nThe enduring appeal of the album\nIt\u2019s getting on for fifteen years now, possibly longer, that people have been predicting the end of the album. By 2013 albums (or LPs or records as we used to call them) were not supposed to exist, instead we would just download individual songs and a whole generation of musicians and consumers would not even think about releasing or buying an album. Instead something odd has happened. While more people now download music than buy a physical product, the album as a concept has endured. People can re-arrange the tracks or scatter them about but they still buy albums. Highly touted young artists and bands still talk of releasing their first album as if there were no alternative. Even those no longer signed to big record companies who release their own music still bundle tracks together and call it an album.\nOnce upon a time buying music looked like this\nLabels: Albums, Misc, Music\nTop of the Pops 78: 24.8.78\nKid Jensen. \u201cDon't touch that dial 'cause the hits are on parade! This week to the tune of Andy Gibb and an Everlasting Love.\u201d\nChart music: Andy Gibb, Everlasting Love [25]\nBilbo: She's Gonna Win [53]. Initial thoughts on Bilbo. They've boldly gone for a very beige clothing colour scheme; the guitarist is wearing nasty shorts; one of the band plays the accordion an instrument you don't often see on Top of the Pops (not since The Wurzels were exiled to the land of smoke and ghosts); the lead singer really needs to take his hands out of his pockets. It's not the worst song to open Top of the Pops, but I'll bet it never troubled the upper reaches of the charts.\nBilbo: At no.53 times were so hard that only some of them could afford shirts\nThe Tripods Season 1 Episodes 8 and 9\nEpisode 8: Beanpole\u2019s got an answer for everything. The lanky Frenchman can analyse any situation and reach a definitive conclusion. Usually though he decides it\u2019s some kind of chemin de fer. This week it\u2019s a canal but it may as well be a tree, a tomato or a trestle table. He and Henry have been improbably reunited with Will presumably having deciding to stay in a tiny boat until he showed up. Had Will married Eloise and lived happily ever after in the Chateau that would be a lot of years in a tiny boat. You can imagine them aged 80 still in the tiny boat. \u201cPass the cheese\u201d \u201cPardon?\u201d \u201cThe cheese, Frenchie\u201d \u201cAh, the chemin de fer\u201d \u201cAaaaaarghh\u201d. Despite the tiny boat being a wreck they manage to conjure up a stew so after a century of Tripod rule there must still be a Tesco Direct open nearby.\nWhat Remains takes the concept of slow burn drama to a new level of stillness. Over the course of two hours very little has actually happened yet under the funereal veneer lots is going on. It takes a very good writer, director and cast to keep you watching and yet somehow they do. For all its glacial distance, What Remains is surprisingly compulsive as each tiny morsel is delivered making you hungry for more. It shares genes with Broadchurch of course, as you suspect every new drama this winter probably will, and also the Scandinavian television from which ITV\u2019s hit itself drew but this is something even more considered. The best thing about it is that it could turn out to have a disappointing or obscure resolution but you just know we\u2019ll watch it till the end anyway.\nSpoilers past this point.....\nLabels: BBC, Coky Giedroyc, David Threlfall, Tony Basgallop, TV, What Remains\nOriginally broadcast 17/08/78. Watched on BBC4 by Chris Arnsby.\nA ripple of excitement as the BBC4 continuity announcer warns, \u201csome strong language as we head back to 1978.\u201d Are the Brotherhood Of Man going to sing The Ball of Kerrymuir?\nNoel Edmonds. \u201cGood evening. How do you fancy taking a quick look at the charts and meeting a brown lady?\u201d\nChart music: Brown Girl In The Ring, Boney M [5].\nThe Stranglers: Walk On By [27]. A Burt Bacharach and Hal David song. This could be a contender for the most unlikely cover version ever. Still, it sounds fantastic. I've written before about the studied indifference with which The Stranglers treat the Top of the Pops audience, but it's always a fascinating thing to see. There's never a hint of interaction between the band and the audience. They genuinely give the impression they could be playing anywhere. From The Golden Lion in Fulham to studio TC8 at Television Centre; to The Stranglers it's all the same.\nJustin Hayward refused to sing until given some rice pudding.\nLabels: BBC TV, Top of the Pops 78, TV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 18108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/2868283/subterranean-ocean-reservoir-core-ringwoodite/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CEN5KF5GUKHZXOC6TANY2TEU6PAUN55F", "length": 1604, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Underground Ocean Could Explain Origin of Earth's Seas | Time", "raw_content": "There's a Huge Underground Ocean That Could Explain the Origin of Seas\nGeologists have long mused about the origin of earth\u2019s seas. Did water, for example, arrive from somewhere else \u2014 like on icy comets that struck the planet? Or did water come from somewhere within?\nThe recent discovery of a subterranean sea, deep inside earth, has scientists excited about the latter possibility.\nLike something out of early 19th century playwright Jules Verne\u2019s novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth \u2014 in which characters stumble across a massive underground basin \u2014 a team of geologists led by Steven Jacobsen from Northwestern University have found a vast body of water, three times the size of any ocean, located near earth\u2019s core. It\u2019s possible that water from this enormous reservoir oozed to the surface.\n\u201cIt\u2019s good evidence earth\u2019s water came from within,\u201d Jacobsen told NewScientist.\nJacobsen and his team used seismometers in their find, studying the speed of seismic waves to determine what lies beneath the surface. The waves slowed down upon reaching a layer of blue rock called ringwoodite, indicating that they were passing through water as well as rock. The depth of the phenomenon \u2014 700 km below the mantle, which is the layer of hot rock underneath the surface \u2014 is also the perfect temperature and pressure for water to ooze out of the ringwoodite \u201calmost as if it\u2019s sweating,\u201d Jacobsen says.\nThe discovery has only revealed ringwoodite beneath the continental U.S. however, so further experiments will need to be conducted to determine where else on the planet it can be found.\n[NewScientist]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timeskuwait.com/Times_Kuwaiti-official-touts-World-Bank-s-enriching-education-programs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CUENZILJ5G5SRKUAK4GQS4VF3NHOPNGC", "length": 1079, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "timeskuwait.com", "title": "The Times Kuwait", "raw_content": "Kuwaiti official touts World Bank's 'enriching' education programs\nKuwait Ministry of Education undersecretary Haitham Al-Athari with WBG representatives on the sidelines of a course.\nCourses offered by the World Bank Group (WBG) have proven effective in improving the quality of education, said an official on Sunday.\nSuch courses are akin to a roadmap to educational stability, the Kuwaiti ministry of education's undersecretary Haitham Al\u00adAthari told reporters after meeting with WBG representatives on the sidelines of a course over the intricacies of the education sector.\nOn the four\u00adday course, he said it represents a starting point for any plan designed to set in motion an education overhaul, expressing hope that the participants in the course are able to acquire new knowledge.\nMeanwhile, WBG's deputy manager Firas Raad underlined the international organization's mission of ensuring universal access to education, one of the pillars of sustainable development. He went on to say that the WBG will employ all resources at its disposal to bring that goal to fruition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tipro.org/meetingsevents/calendar/month.calendar/2018/04/16/-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JPGYBDK4ABZFHINSXVLMKJH22UXQ3JJC", "length": 466, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tipro.org", "title": "Calendar", "raw_content": "8 Sunday, 8 April 2018\t 9 Monday, 9 April 2018\t 10 Tuesday, 10 April 2018\t 11 Wednesday, 11 April 2018\t 12 Thursday, 12 April 2018\t 13 Friday, 13 April 2018\t 14 Saturday, 14 April 2018\n15 Sunday, 15 April 2018\t 16 Monday, 16 April 2018\t 17 Tuesday, 17 April 2018\t 18 Wednesday, 18 April 2018\t 19 Thursday, 19 April 2018\t 20 Friday, 20 April 2018\t 21 Saturday, 21 April 2018\n29 Sunday, 29 April 2018\t 30 Monday, 30 April 2018\t 1 2 3 4 5\nTIPRO Meeting\nTIPRO Conference", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://today.az/news/business/171733.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:19Z", "digest": "sha1:V4AQH5P73IF2EOXCU3AWYSJ4UBBYTWRB", "length": 1044, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "today.az", "title": "Today.Az - Azerbaijan grants work visas online to foreigners, stateless persons", "raw_content": "Azerbaijan grants work visas online to foreigners, stateless persons\nForeigners and stateless persons arriving in Azerbaijan can obtain a work visa through the ASAN Visa system starting from July 6, Azerbaijan\u2019s State Migration Service informed on July 9.\nForeigners and stateless persons wishing to engage in paid work in Azerbaijan are advised to enter the country with a work visa. The procedures for obtaining visa are carried out at www.evisa.gov.az\nNow, ASAN Visa system launched in June 2016, is available to citizens of 95 countries, who are able to benefit from obtaining an e-visa in a short time.\nAzerbaijan applied electronic visa in order to make the process of obtaining the entry documents cheaper and quicker. Today foreigners can get e-visas just in three days.\nAll they need to do is to visit ASAN Visa website to submit an application, fill in the necessary information and pay the state fee online. After that, the e-visa will be sent to the email of the applicant in three days, and in case of urgent need \u2013 in three hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tooeleonline.com/we-dont-often-talk-about-heaven-because-it-may-suggest-separation-from-loved-ones/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IPNCJVFDLMF5JHBXVIBZSVJB2J6CZ7RI", "length": 2917, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "tooeleonline.com", "title": "We don\u2019t often talk about heaven because it may suggest separation from loved ones \u00ab Tooele Transcript Bulletin \u2013 News in Tooele, Utah", "raw_content": "We don\u2019t often talk about heaven because it may suggest separation from loved ones\nYou may have noticed how seldom the word \u201cheaven\u201d comes up in casual conversation. In fact the much less desirable alternative is more frequently used.\nYou rarely hear anyone say \u201cWhat the heaven\u201d or \u201cGo to Heaven.\u201d Although I did have a pastor friend who often encouraged speakers to \u201cgive them heaven,\u201d but that was not exactly an original thought.\nHeaven is more often one of those words we use to describe things like a new mattress or maybe exceptionally good food. A person might use the term heavenly; but my guess is that women use the word as a descriptor more often than men.\nI would suggest perhaps one reason we don\u2019t often talk about heaven is because it suggests separation \u2014 and separation is hard. While someone said the only thing for sure is death and taxes, there is tax evasion but there is no last day evasion.\nPaul wrote to the Corinthians: \u201cThe last enemy to be destroyed is death.\u201d In spite of cryogenics, wonder drugs and scientific advancements, it is still the last enemy. The only thing then that brings us comfort is the hope that there is something beyond what we see, a place called heaven.\nIn fact, Paul, while writing to the church at Corinth, said: \u201cIf only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.\u201d I have often reminded people there is no \u201cdoor number three. It is either \u201cdepart from me I never knew you,\u201d or \u201cwell done good and faithful servant.\u201d There is in heaven the idea of home, but it is home not because it is a place you are returning to but a place of relationship.\nIn the fourth gospel, John captures a moment in time when the disciples wrestled with the idea of separation. Jesus had earlier described to them His death and resurrection, but they were not able to get their head around the idea.\nJesus said He was leaving and they would not be able to follow Him. The sadness rolled over them in waves not unlike the way the sadness of separation effects us, but He comforted them with these words. John 14:1-3 \u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father\u2019s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.\u201d NIV\nJesus did not say I am going back to remodel your old place. He said I am going to make a place for you so we can be together again. Often the closer to reality heaven becomes the more people consider those relationships of loved ones who have gone on before them.\nFor them what makes heaven is not all of the talk about streets of gold; it is the fact that Grandma or my child is going to be there. It is a place of relationship that is attained by relationship with the one who promised He would make a place for us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 10504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://top10sellingitems.com/tag/blown-away-carrie-underwood", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:13Z", "digest": "sha1:PVRCK7CAZ5DCMYNE673OFSV25MIZ3ABG", "length": 5066, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "top10sellingitems.com", "title": "blown away carrie underwood | Top 10 Best-selling Items", "raw_content": "Tag: blown away carrie underwood\nTop 10 Best Selling Music CDs Artists May 2012\n1. Adele 21 6. Blown Away Carrie Underwood\n2. Little Broken Heart Norah Jones 7. Boys & Girls Alabama Shakes\n3. Tuskegee Lionel Richie 8. Love Is a Four Letter Word\n4. Slipstream Bonnie Raitt 9. California 37 Train\n5. Blunderbuss Jack White 10. Wrecking Ball (Special Edition)\n2. Little Broken Hearts\n3. Tuskegee Lionel Richie\nSurpassing his creative and personal boundaries, Richie comes full circle with the innovative and personal Tuskegee, performing 13 of his most revered \u201canthems of our day\u201d with some of the biggest names in country music, including Sugarland\u2019s Jennifer Nettles, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Billy Currington, Little Big Town and Jason Aldean.\nOn this worldwide, multi-genre album, Richie is also joined by the likes of such superstars as Shania Twain, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett. Tuskegee is an exciting and transcendent arc in a career that has seen album sales of more than 100 million, 22 Top 10s, five Grammys, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe, and a host of other awards from virtually every major entertainment organization. While defying boundaries and breaking barriers throughout his storied career, Richie reveals once again that Tuskegee will join the ranks of his timeless body of work that touches people of all faiths, ages and demographics across the world\u2026 Read more >\nProduced by Jack White and recorded at his own Third Man Studio in Nashville, Blunderbuss has been described by White as \u201can album I couldn\u2019t have released until now. I\u2019ve put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas.\u201d\u2026 Read more >\n7. Boys & Girls\n2012 debut album from the Athens, Alabama-based outfit. The band was originally formed when lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard approached bassist Zac Cockrell during a high school psychology class and began meeting after school to write songs. Howard and Cockrell experimented with many different styles of music including roots rock, progressive rock, soul music, country music and classic rock. \u201cI just knew that he played bass and that he wore shirts with cool bands on them that nobody had heard of,\u201d says Howard\u2026 Read more >\n8. Love Is a Four Letter Word\nHailed as one of the modern era s most gifted pop troubadours, Jason Mraz has shared stages with percussionist Noel \u201cToca\u201d Rivera for more than a decade. The two musicians first met back in 2000, when Mraz was just making his mark on the San Diego coffee house scene. Enthralled by the young songwriter s free-flowing lyrical mastery, Rivera invited Mraz to join the eponymous trio he fronted alongside his brother Carlos. The group hit the road, travelling California s highways and byways together in a beat-up Winnebago, inspiring Mraz s classic song, \u201cDream Life of Rand McNally.\u201d When Carlos decided to take time off, Jason and Toca continued to collaborate as a duo, earning acclaim and passionate audience responses wherever they performed. Mraz s guitar and vocals match beautifully with Rivera s intuitive djembe playing and the two maintain a long friendship and collaborative relationship, recording and touring together to this day\u2026 Read more >\n2012 album from the Grammy-winning Pop/Rock band, the follow-up to the band\u2019s multi-platinum 2009 release Save Me, San Francisco. Train recorded the album in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Butch Walker and Espionage producing the record. Train made its mark on music history with their Grammy-winning song \u201cDrops of Jupiter (Tell Me)\u201d and chart-topping singles \u201cMeet Virginia\u201d and \u201cCalling All Angels.\u201d Train earned their third Grammy in 2011 for the worldwide smash \u201cHey Soul Sister\u201d\u2026 Read more >\n10. Wrecking Ball (Special Edition)\nMarking his 17th studio album, \u2018Wrecking Ball\u2019 features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau.\nSaid long-time manager Jon Landau, \u201cBruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can\u2019t hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on \u2018Wrecking Ball.'\u201d\nThis special edition of \u2018Wrecking Ball\u2019 includes two bonus tracks and exclusive artwork and photography\u2026 Read more >\nAuthor top10sellersPosted on May 11, 2012 May 12, 2012 Categories Albums, CDs, Hits, SongsTags adele 21, aucio, best selling, blown away carrie underwood, blunderbuss jack white, boys & girls alabama shakes, california 37 train, little broken heart norah jones, love is a four letter word, music artists, music cds, slipstream bonnie raitt, top 10, tuskegee lionel richie, wrecking ball special edition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 21341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://traciegrace.com/custom-portraits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:55Z", "digest": "sha1:D7ZE5XH6HNT5BNRPFOEBXRMSCBN3VCKS", "length": 374, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "traciegrace.com", "title": "Custom Portraits \u2013 Tracie Grace", "raw_content": "A PORTRAIT FOR EVERY OCCASION\nLooking for a gift to give to a loved one, or maybe you just bought a house or adopted a pet and want a fun way to share it with your family and friends? Commission a painting! It\u2019s fun, easy and personal.\n(8\" \u00d7 10\") $325*\n(11\" \u00d7 14\") $500*\n*Starting Price. Subject to change due to complexity of portrait.\nAsk about our custom framing options.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tumbleweed-2.info/BIBLE/Bible%20-%20FANTASIES%20-%20FREE%20WILL.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:C6C5PUJMCG2XQCAY6PWJ2OHQCLMANJKE", "length": 7441, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "tumbleweed-2.info", "title": "FANTASIES - FREE WILL__FIRST-TRUMP", "raw_content": "4What is man, that thou art mindful of him?. (Psalm 8:)\nBooks upon books have been written arguing and \"proving\" both sides of this issue. And Theologians and the denominations who follow their thinking have battled one another until they are red in the face while they bash each other over the heads with their Bibles until they are black and blue.\nThey are all full of baloney!!!!!\nEvery side, every view we take is going to be wrong. And the reason I know it will be wrong is because there is not a peanut shell of wisdom in all of us Sons of Adam put together!\nAs evidence of this; take five of the wisest men, our most brilliant minds - put them together in a room to discuss one single subject - and they will inevitably come up with at least ten conclusions.\nThe only way for us to understand we know anything at all is to recognize that we know nothing at all!\nIf we were to take a room full of kindergardeners and have them come up with the perfect solution for this world's problems, they would have no more influence on the running of this nation's government than an ant has trying to whittle down Mt. Everest. But in the minds of those kindergardeners, they will have changed the course of history.\nWe somehow feel we must understand everything. We will spend our life trying to come up with the answer to a problem, only to discover there is no answer. And with no answer in our hand, we will present to the world an answer we have settled on and call it \"fact.\"\nAnd the bottom line? What difference does it make?\nIf free will or predestination is important or understandable in our meager minds, please explain why one person dies at birth and another lives to be a hundred. Explain abortion, why one child is allowed to live, and another is killed. If you can come up with an answer that applies to that child's free will or predestination, maybe you will be just an inch closer to the truth.\nFor some reason when a person reaches maturity we are expected to receive certain \"rights.\" We have the right to vote - if we happen to live in the right country, at the right time of history, are the right color, are a property owner, etc, etc.\nWe have the right to life - if we are not a Jew in Germany, or a Chinese peon in the rice paddies, an African of the wrong tribe, an unborn in the USA.\nGod gave us a Book of history and His Will and His desires for us. We take that Book and twist it to suit ourselves and demand that God fulfill our bidding.\nWe are fools.\nIf we want to understand God's will for us, we can't ask one another - we must ask God.\nFor some inexplicable reason God chose us tiny fragments of a planet that is smaller than a grain of sand on the beach in relation to His creation to spend time on and to give special blessings.\nWe, who by accident happen to have survived birth start to feel special in God's eyes and make demands of Him.\nWe are nothing!\nThis is God's view of us.\nWhy is it that we can view others as nothing in our own eyes, yet believe God is above this and must think we are special in His?\nGod told us clearly that if we want to be seen favorably in His eyes, we must look upon ourselves as less than nothing, and everyone else, even the lowest of the low, as better than ourselves (Mark 10:44).\nIn other words, we must be just the opposite of what we are or what we can ever become (Mat 23:12).\nFree will? We have none. Again, show me how that unborn has free will, and maybe I might accept that a hundred year old has free will.\nPredestination? Explain to me how one person stood outside the ovens of Auschwitz and another stood inside. Did God predestine each for their positions? If so, explain to me how that reconciles with our concept of a \"Loving God.\"\nGod is going to do what God wants to do. With some He will predestine like He did Paul and the other Apostles, and some He will let them go from dust to dust, allowing those who want to exercise their \"free will\" to become one of the chosen. Man sees things \"either, or,\" God sees things as one big picture without the divisions man pushes on themselves and tries to force on Him.\nIs there Free Will? Certainly. And those particles of dust who wish to cling to Free Will have God's Word for it under the heading \"Whosoever will.\" (John 3:15-16; Rev 22:17)\nThose who want to believe in Predestination can examine their lives and see if God has been forcing them in a particular direction as He did Joseph, Jacob and Paul the Apostle. If you don't find such a pattern in your life, you had better pray that the Free Willers are right and you are wrong.\nExplain predestination to a mentally handicapped child who is so because his or her mother used free will and chose to use drugs during pregnancy. Did God, or that parent \"predestine\" that child?\nGod is going to do what God is going to do. How we interpret the Bible makes not a thimble full of difference. All our understandings do is feed our egos, which is exactly the opposite of what God desires of us.\nGod wants action, we give Him words.\nGod demands sacrifice, we give Him excuses.\nGod said we are but dust, we say we are glorious in His sight.\nThe Evolutionists are closer to the Truth than our brilliant Theologians. We did not come from bugs as say the Evolutionists. We came from much less. We came from dust.\nWhat is God's view of us, that is His creation? How long is Eternity?\nWe are a troublesome speck in God's eye.\nEternity ends when God decides to use this planet as a ping pong ball or crush it to smithereens.\nIt's God's creation.\nIt's God's to do as He wills with it.\nIs there Free Will or Predestination? In my opinion?\nI could really care less. That's an intellectual pursuit designed for those who would rather use their brain than their mind. While our brain keeps us busy keeping it busy, the mind tells me that I had better read the Bible and Pray for God to reveal what He wants for me so I don't turn back to dust as will the \"Brainy\" ones.\nIn my own life I can see where God has been batting me around the head with a club trying to get my attention. You can call this predestination or free will: It doesn't matter to me. He finally got my attention, and that is important to me. What would have happened if I hadn't finally responded to His \"urgings\" I don't know. Call it \"free will\" if you choose, but I am thankful that God didn't give me Free Will and let me go my own way without His hammering. I would hate to think what life might have been like, or my final destiny, had He not done so.\n34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 36At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. 37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Dan 4:)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 7911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://twp.mountholly.nj.us/content/686/2487/default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MKNONDTSEGVK2XNMNFZSCUJON7YNVHRG", "length": 1178, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "twp.mountholly.nj.us", "title": "Partners and Resources - Mount Holly, New Jersey", "raw_content": "Economic Development > Partners and Resources > Partners and Resources\nThere is strong support and advocacy for economic development in the Mount Holly area, including programs and organizations on the local, state, regional and national levels. The City's comprehensive efforts to address all aspects of Mount Holly's growth and development have resulted in a stronger foundation for our changing, growing city. Please visit the sites below to learn more about the partners we collaborate with.\nBurlington County Regional Chamber of Commerce - is a powerful force of local and regional business and economic growth. For more than 40 years, the Chamber has provided a wide array of committees, programs, and services to fit the needs of every business in \u2013 and around \u2013 the county.\nMain Street Mount Holly - is a volunteer driven, non-profit program certified by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Main Street New Jersey, also takes an active, visible role in promoting commerce, arts, and events in the town. Communities and businesses taking part in the Main Street New Jersey initiative have experienced proven growth with accompanying positive economic impact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://txmediaaccess.blogspot.com/2007/12/comments-by-fcc-commissioner-michael.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:41Z", "digest": "sha1:X25TWLFKMRZCKORJPRF5C6VK2A4YONY3", "length": 917, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "txmediaaccess.blogspot.com", "title": "TV4SA: Comments by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps", "raw_content": "From an FCC hearing with Congress last week.\nCommissioner Copps: \"The Commission's priorities are dangerously out-of-whack, and we\nurgently need this Committee's help to save us from ourselves. We have a proposal before us at\nthe Commission to open the door to newspaper-broadcast combinations in every market in the country and the drive is on to rush this to a vote next week. Meanwhile we have given short shrift to pressing problems like the sad state of minority ownership of U.S. media properties and the obvious decline of localism in our broadcast programming. We have also neglected the DTV transition, and have not done nearly enough to prepare consumers and broadcast stations for the rapidly approaching deadline. If we don't turn this around quickly, the DTV transition will result in widespread television outages and a consumer backlash the likes of which you and I haven't seen for a long, long time.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/2014/10/8/creative-corridor-project-in-little-rock-honored-by-american-society-of-landscape-architects", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NAT2JTIYK6P2SV3P35ZADABXO2V3HVIL", "length": 5283, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "uacdc.uark.edu", "title": "Creative Corridor Project in Little Rock Honored by American Society of Landscape Architects \u2014 University of Arkansas Community Design Center", "raw_content": "Creative Corridor Project in Little Rock Honored by American Society of Landscape Architects\nCommunity Design Center, Blackwell firm collaborate\nA plan to transform four neglected blocks of Main Street in downtown Little Rock into an arts district has won a 2014 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architecture. Faculty and staff members of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas designed this award-winning work.\nThe Little Rock Creative Corridor\nThe https://ua-cdc.squarespace.com/work/the-creative-corridor, designed by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and Marlon Balckwell Architect won an Honor Award for Analysis and Planning, one of five awarded. This is the design center\u2019s sixth ASLA award and the fifth that they have received in this category.\nThe Creative Corridor plan retrofits a four-block segment of Main Street, between third and seventh streets, by using economic development catalyzed by the cultural arts rather than a traditional retail base. The goal is to structure an identity for the Creative Corridor rooted in a mixed-use, work-live environment that is also sensitive to the historical context of Main Street in Little Rock, which has a metropolitan area population of about 700,000.\nThe ASLA award represents the highest recognition in landscape architecture design and planning open to North American organizations for work underway worldwide. Thirty-four award-winning projects were selected from more than 600 entries.\nThe work will be featured in the October issue of Landscape Architect Magazine, and celebrated and exhibited at the 2014 ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo in Denver in November.\nThe Creative Corridor\u2019s incremental approach employs three developmental phases to transform the corridor space into a downtown hub that supports a greater level of pedestrian activity, sociability, recreation and aesthetics. To ensure continuity between new and old, the project team devised a townscaping strategy that recombines special architectural frontages with urban landscapes, public art, and shared street geometries to serve this new aggregated arts economy. The Creative Corridor features elements such as marquees, stormwater management landscapes, new public rail transit, and an art installation made from street lamps of different eras from city neighborhoods.\nAn increasing number of public, private and non-profit groups have already invested in Main Street in recent years, including developers Scott Reed and Moses Tucker Real Estate, and that trend is continuing. Orbea, a Spanish bicycle manufacturer, relocated its North American headquarters to Main Street; the Arkansas Venture Center soon will open on the same block; and the Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board recently voted to build the park downtown along Main Street. Arts and culture mainstays like Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Arkansas and Arkansas Repertory Theatre will occupy rehearsal and creative space alongside Kent Walker Artisan Cheese and artist Matt McLeod. Residential installations and dining, along with several other projects, will round out the live/work/play concept that surrounds the Creative Corridor.\n\u201cThe list of investments rolling in from the private sector is impressive as construction commences on the Creative Corridor,\u201d said Steve Luoni, director of the Community Design Center. \u201cIt\u2019s instructive to see the power of public sector leadership in catalyzing urban revitalization simply by establishing a coherent vision. The project is attracting attention from multiple agencies in Washington, D.C., looking for public-private success stories.\u201d\nThe Community Design Center is an outreach program of the Fay Jones School. For this project, the center partnered with Blackwell\u2019s Fayetteville-based firm. Blackwell is also a Distinguished Professor and head of the Fay Jones School\u2019s Department of Architecture.\nPlanning and design for the Creative Corridor was funded by a 2011 Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Construction on the first phase began over summer and should be completed early next year.\nThe Creative Corridor also has received other honors, including a 2014 Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects and a 2013 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. It also won a Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District and Corridor category in the 2013 Charter Awards, sponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism, and it was short-listed for the 2013 World Architecture Festival Awards in the Future Projects \u2013 Masterplanning category.\nIn addition to revitalizing historic downtowns, the center addresses new challenges in affordable housing, urban sprawl, environmental planning, and management of regional growth or decline. The center\u2019s professional staff members are nationally recognized for their expertise in urban and public-interest design, and their work has received more than 100 design awards.\n\u25c0Urban Housing Plan Receives National ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education AwardCommunity Design Center, Office for Sustainability Involved in Design for South Dakota Center\u25b6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 6454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uclacademicals.co.uk/History/AGM/agmminutes2005.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BBX7O53KIPOP7GKGI4YQUHCKVFYXB3PH", "length": 21508, "nlines": 104, "source_domain": "uclacademicals.co.uk", "title": "UCL Academicals F.C.", "raw_content": "Held at 7pm on Wednesday 29th June at Fiduciary Trust International / Franklin Templeton, The Adelphi Building, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT\nPresent: Danny McConnell, Mark Dawson, Graham Whitworth, Phil Stewart, Mark Emmerson, Dave Swaby, Chris Carter, Derek Fowler, Rob James, Chris Coates.\nApologies for absence: Martin Woodrow, Adrian Haysome, Danny Fewkes, Mark McGuigan, Dan Willoughby, Jon Houghton, Spencer Gore, Phil Hardem, Sam Samra, Steve Woodrow, Bobby Butlin.\n2004-05 saw the club win two trophies, with a number of \u201cnear misses\u201d \u2013 the 2nd XI won the LOB Intermediate Cup, breaking a run of three successive cup final defeats, and the 3rd XI retained the LOB Junior Cup. The 1st XI finished second in the AFC Premier, whilst the 2nd XI, 3rd XI, 4th XI, 5th XI and 7th XI all finished third.\nThe most disappointing part of the season had to be the final stretch. Of the club\u2019s 47 defeats (compared to 106 wins and 21 draws) probably half came from the middle of March onwards. The 1sts, 4ths and 7ths all lost league titles during that stretch \u2013 and there was a distinct sense amongst other sides (and some of those) that if people couldn\u2019t win a league title, they weren\u2019t too bothered about playing at all.\nThe second club-wide pattern was a lack of defenders. We seem to have an abundance of attacking players (quality or otherwise) but a relative dearth of those willing/able to play at the back has meant some skippers having to be more persuasive with certain players and plugging square pegs into round holes.\nRecent administrative problems have continued. Too many club members needed to be chased for discipline paperwork, and the difficulty of collecting subs and keeping on top of them has meant for the third season the Treasurer has resigned at the end of the year.\n1st XI \u2013 Once again the 1st XI season finished in anti-climax, this one worse than past years. Quite simply, we\u2019ve got to beat Old Meadonians. There\u2019s still a tendency amongst some for \u201cfinger pointing\u201d, which may prey on the confidence of some players, but the simple fact is that we\u2019re good enough, we just haven\u2019t yet beaten Meads. Three times we played them, and three times we lost 3-2. One win in any of those would have meant a trophy, because there\u2019s little doubt we\u2019re one of the two strongest sides in the AFA. We just need that win.\nMark McGuigan taking over as manager was definitely a positive step, allowing the players to focus on playing, and giving scope for tactical adjustments which made differences in a number of games. Slightly worrying was the lack of focus and direction in his absence \u2013 the necessity for tactical changes being conveyed 3000 miles away from Miami midway through a cup final was \u201cinteresting\u201d.\n2nd XI \u2013 Another year, another bogey laid. Having finally won a title last year the 2nds broke their streak of Cup Final losses with a smash-and-grab job against Albanian in the LOB Intermediate Cup. If anything, the league record was even more impressive, 20 games, 45 points yet was only good enough for third place.\nThe team remains young (mostly) and should continue to hold its own at Senior Level as well as providing replacement players for the 1st XI if required.\n3rd XI \u2013 A Jeckell and Hyde season. Is the real 3rd XI the team who swept all before them up until Christmas, or the side that limped home after Christmas, albeit winning the LOB Junior Cup in the process. One suspects a mixture of the two \u2013 defensively it was a continual battle to find players to fill a back four, and it may be that the side has reached its level in the Intermediate Divisions. Nonetheless, until May they were pushing for promotion, and with a couple more players the side should continue to be strong next season.\n4th XI \u2013 Once again the 4ths over-achieved, clinching promotion via third place on the final day of the season. Once again they also lost in the semis of the AFA Minor Cup, albeit with a much better performance than last season.\nThe nucleus of the team is small, and definitely needs a number of additions, and it\u2019ll be a major challenge for a 4th XI to hold its own in 1 North \u2013 that Dan Willoughby is continuing as captain is a major positive for the side.\n5th XI \u2013 Overall a season of \u201cnot quite enough\u201d. The side never really threatened to challenge in the league, and got heartily thumped in both cups by opposition who shouldn\u2019t have. Too often the team were petulant and unpleasant towards opponents (a trend noted in reports to the league) and threw away games because we were too busy arguing and not playing football. Rob James steps down as skipper for next season to be replaced by Chris Coates.\n6th XI \u2013 By far the most difficult season of any league side. At Christmas one player, Jeff Mensah, was expelled from the club (having been sent off twice in his first ten games, and refused to pay his fines) and at the same time Chris Phillips, who seemed determined to try and form a mini-club of his own within the Accies, left \u201cby mutual consent\u201d. Bobby Butlin, who\u2019d hoped to step down as skipper during the season stepped back into the breach, but finally retires after ten years (at least) as skipper to be replaced by Chris Carter and Dave Swaby.\nAmidst the turmoil the sixths struggled, with a few legs getting rather old and a few younger ones needed. Hopefully next year should see the side turn the corner.\n7th XI \u2013 A season that promised much sadly fizzled out into disappointment, with a third place in the league and losses in cup semi and quarter finals. Overall, the season has to be considered a success, but there was still a reliance on one or two key players and the team needs to get away from such a dependency.\nAfter two years as skipper, Spencer Gore steps down to be replaced by Phil Harden.\nOptimists \u2013 A season that marked a step (or two) backwards. For the first year it was decided to play solely on Sunday mornings, and whilst this did tend to produce better availability from the \u201cnon-regulars\u201d, the availability of the regulars plummeted. This didn\u2019t seem to be related to the Sunday morning switch, simply that many of them stopped playing, and many of the older players amongst the league sides continued to play league football.\n\u201cTalking the talk\u201d and \u201cwalking the walk\u201d remains an issue for the Vets \u2013 too many people say they are going to play when fixtures are arranged, but when the time comes aren\u2019t about. It means a vicious circle \u2013 we keep cancelling games, so opposition are wary of arranging games with us, so quality of fixtures isn\u2019t high, etc. If Ian Christopherson is going to manage to keep the Vets going next season commitment needs to be better, and if it isn\u2019t, then I\u2019m afraid the Vets may fold.\nGolden Boot \u2013 The Golden Boot was won by Scott Atkinson (26 goals), who also bagged his 300th goal for the Accies during the season. Paul Bernard and Max Lovell ran him close, whilst Mark Dawson and Tom Lloyd tied for the Golden Gloves.\nIt was suggested that the comment on the 4th XI over-achieving may have been a little harsh.\nContinuity of selection and general selection policies was also discussed, and the general feeling was that for players to consider themselves as \u201cregulars\u201d they ought to now be available for 75% of games (90% for goalkeepers). A \u201cregular\u201d can expect a game when he is available, and if a player is not available for 75% of games then he shouldn\u2019t expect to be guaranteed a game, although of course we will fit in \u201coccasionals\u201d where possible.\nIt was agreed that players who were absent one week should generally expect to return the following week and occupy a substitute slot \u2013 this was common practice for many teams already and would further encourage regular availability (which is essential for the club to continue to be successful on the field). It was also agreed that players who dropped out of games late in the week without adequate reason shouldn\u2019t be tolerated.\nAt start of the season the clubs coffers contained around \u00a34600. At the end of the season our balance stood at about \u00a35300, although some monies were still outstanding from captains, and around \u00a3750 owed by players, with a number of people still being due to pay annual subs.\nIt was agreed that next season we should make a major effort to clear these backlogs, and to ensure that they did not continue to build in the future. The treasurer would be in regular contact with the captains to ensure both that they did not allow players to build backlogs of subs, and that they paid over subs collected regularly. We should also emphasise to captains the need to lay out team sheets clearly to ease the Treasurer\u2019s job.\nThe new Treasurer also needs to sort out the signatories of the account and obtain access to the account via Internet Banking.\nWe should impose the club rule that any person owing three or more match fees (i.e. \u00a324) should not be selected.\nOur target should still be to have \u00a36000+ in the bank at the end of the season, which would enable us to have enough funds to pay for affiliation fees (around \u00a31000), pre-Christmas pitches at Shenley (\u00a34500) and still have around \u00a31000 to cover kit, balls, etc. All of these bills are basically due before we kick a ball (and collect a penny).\nDes Fowler was thanked for his significant efforts in sorting out the club finances.\nPitch and teas costs for 2005-06 would be unchanged (Shenley had agreed the prices for two seasons when they increased in summer 2004) although referees fees would rise from \u00a322 to \u00a325 (likely to mean an overall increase in costs of \u00a3300). It was agreed that subscriptions should not change \u2013 our surplus last season was \u00a3700 (probably higher if we didn\u2019t allow so many people to build up backlogs).\n6. CLUB RULES\n6a. Discipline Code\nIn 2003-04 the Accies reached AFA Stage 1 for the first time, accumulating 42 disciplinary points (1 for a caution, etc). Despite the AFA increasing the thresholds for 2004-05 (Stage 1 increased from 39 to 44 points) we passed it again (with 45 points \u2013 generating a \u00a345 fine), though it ought to be noted that county-wide the number of cautions increased by around 20% because of a change in system which made it easier for officials to report cautions.\nAt the 2004 AGM the discipline code has been discussed and it was agreed that the whole discipline code needed to be considered and revised at the 2005 AGM.\nTraditionally, and hopefully this will continue, AFA football is, if not unique, notable for its sportsmanship. There should be a respect for the opposition, and the officials \u2013 without both we have no game, and whilst this doesn\u2019t mean games can\u2019t be competitive, and doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t aim to win, there should be an understanding that it\u2019s only a game of football, and we\u2019ve all got to work on Monday morning.\nOur discipline code is the most basic statement of what standards the club expects, both from ourselves and from our opponents. Whilst our opponents are not bound by it, it does lay down what we consider to be acceptable behaviour, and we cannot complain about poor standards from our opposition if we do not hold our own people to the same standards.\nThere is one further consideration \u2013 the AFC is looking at whether to impose points deductions on clubs who reach the higher AFA Stages (probably only stage 3, but possibly stage 2) \u2013 we don\u2019t want at some point down the line to see a side denied a league title because of indiscipline.\nIn 2004-05 our 45 points were accumulated as follows:-\nCautions for Dissent (1 point each) - 10\nOther Cautions (1 point each) - 27\nDismissals for Two Cautions (1 point) - 2\nDismissals for Serious Foul Play/Attempting to Strike and Opponent (3 points) - 2\nOf these points, 18 were accumulated by the 1st XI (nine cautions shared by two players, although one to his credit figured out it was a fools game, and having picked up four by the end of October, didn\u2019t pick up a single further caution \u2013 an object lesson for all!), 6 by the 2nd XI, 4 by the 3rd XI, 11 by the 4th XI, 2 by the 5th XI and 4 by the 6th XI.\nIn addition, three other sendings off were not reported to the AFA, and one incident of \u201ccontinuing action\u201d (players fighting after they\u2019d been sent off) was also not reported, which would have added a further 14 points to the total (59), and taken us close to stage 2 (64 points).\nMany of these cases can be put down to \u201cpart and parcel of football\u201d \u2013 the \u201cother cautions\u201d and dismissals arising for two cautions are generally an occupational hazard. Equally, the club has more chance than some of accumulating disciplinary points because we see more league referees. Nevertheless, the problems of the 1st, 4th and 6th (most of which wasn\u2019t reported to the AFA) stand out as do the ten cautions for dissent, and the two dismissals for more serious elements.\nDissent is an ongoing issue, and multi-faceted. It antagonises the opposition, and we\u2019ve had cases in the past where it\u2019s likely that Accies dissent has led to something more serious (often involving one of us suffering) \u2013 plenty of our opposition won\u2019t react to being shouted at by shouting back, they\u2019ll try and put us in hospital \u2013 Old Danes in the Premier this season was a likely example. In addition, it winds up referees. It is worth noting that almost 50% of football matches in England every weekend are played without a qualified referee.\nIt was agreed that our code should deal with offences as they happen, and not be dependent on whether they are reported to the AFA. We shouldn\u2019t be trying to hide behind procedures (which a few players seem to think we should \u2013 discipline is about dealing with what happens, not trying to cover it up afterwards) and club punishments should be applied regardless.\nThere is one major proviso \u2013 the club must believe the punishment was justified. If a caution/sending off was justified, then the club should ensure it is punished accordingly, even if the player concerned doesn\u2019t agree \u2013 however, if we think the caution/sending off was wrong, we should fight it all the way.\nThere was a good deal of discussion on the various category of offences, and it was agreed after a vote (4 to 3, with 2 abstentions), that no differentiation should be made between Senior and non-Senior football, as originally proposed. A vote was also taken (agreed 5 to 4) on levying an extra fine for dissent. The new discipline code follows.\nUCL Academicals - Proposed New Discipline Code Agreed at the 2005 AGM\nb) The Team Captain MUST report any booking or sending off recorded by the referee in any game to the Club Chairman immediately after the game.\nc) The Club Chairman shall decide within three days whether to impose a fine or suspension on the player in accordance with the scale of fines and suspensions as set down by the Club Committee (except for immediate fines, which should be collected after the match). If necessary the Club Chairman will consult with the Team Captain, or any other Officer of the Club, to assess the level of fine or suspension.\nSCALE OF FINES/SUSPENSION APPLICABLE UNDER THE ABOVE GUIDELINES\nUnder Paragraph (j) - (These do not include any fines imposed by the AFA unless otherwise stated). These penalties shall be imposed regardless of whether the case concerned is reported to the AFA.\na) First or second Caution in a season, Sendings Off carrying two disciplinary points (e.g. for two cautionable offences, for preventing an obvious goal-scoring opportunity):-\n\u00a310 fine paid immediately after the game (if a caution is processed by the AFA, the \u00a38 fee is paid out of the \u00a310). An extra \u00a35 shall be fined for dissent.\nb) Third or further cautions in a season:-\nNote that a fifth caution also receives an automatic 7-day ban from the AFA.\nc) Sendings Off carrying two disciplinary points (e.g. for two cautionable offences, for preventing an obvious goal-scoring opportunity):-\n\u00a310 fine to be paid immediately after the game in addition to any AFA ban/fine (typically 7 days/\u00a315).\nd) Offences carrying three disciplinary points (e.g. Attempting to Kick or Strike another Player, Serious Foul Play):-\n\u00a320 fine paid immediately after the game in addition to any AFA ban/fine (typically 21 days/\u00a315).\ne) Offences carrying four disciplinary points (e.g. Kicking or Striking another Player, Head to Head Contact, Use of Offensive Language or Gestures directed at a match official):-\n\u00a320 fine paid immediately after the game plus a two game Suspension.\nf) Offences carrying five or more disciplinary points (e.g. Violent Head to Head butting, Refusing to give name or giving a false name to the Referee when ordered to do so, Refusing to leave the Field of Play when ordered to do so, causing a match to be abandoned, Threatening Match Officials), or any second offence carrying four disciplinary points, or any person found guilty of serious misconduct:-\n\u00a325 fine plus an immediate Sine Die Suspension (at least until the end of the season, case to be reviewed at the AGM).\n6b. Changes to Rules\nThe following amended club rules were agreed. We now define who may become members of the Accies (final paragraph, rule 2). Essentially this is what we already do \u2013 the Accies are \u201csemi closed\u201d in that all players join via introduction, either from UCL or from existing Accies, as well as rule 12, which allows us to suspend and expel a member from the club if required. Sadly, this had to be done this year, for the first time ever, and whilst I hope we don\u2019t have to do it again, we should cover the bases.\nUCL Academicals - Club Rules \u2013 Proposed Changes to Rules to be considered at the 2005 AGM\nThe Club shall be called \u201cUCL Academicals FC\u201d and shall be affiliated to the Amateur Football Alliance.\nMembership of the club will be restricted to those who have paid annual fees and social fees, at the agreed rates, as well as Veterans who have played at least four games paying Veterans match fees.\nNew members shall only be accepted if they are current/past staff/students of University College London, or if proposed and seconded by an existing club member.\nThe club AGM shall be held at the end of the playing season. 21 days notice shall be given prior to the calling of the AGM by the Hon. Sec.\n(iii) To receive and adopt the Secretary\u2019s Annual Report.\n(vii)Any other business of which due notice shall have been given and accepted as being relevant to an Annual General Meeting.\nAny member of the club may call an emergency general meeting at any time by submitting a written request to the Secretary, seconded by four other members. 21 days notice must be given for an EGM.\nAt least eight members of the club must be present at an AGM or EGM to be quorate.\nAny amendment to a Club rule can only be made at an AGM, or EGM called for that purpose. Any such amendment must be notified, in writing, to the Secretary, at least 14 days prior to the meeting concerned.\n7. The club officers shall consist of: Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Fixture Secretary, Social Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Referees Secretary and Team Captains. All shall be elected at the AGM.\nRetiring Officers shall be eligible to become candidates for re-election without nomination. All other candidates for election as Officers shall be nominated to the Secretary in writing, at least fourteen days before the AGM, or by nomination by the Committee.\nDuring the season the club committee shall meet as and when required.\nNo member of the Committee shall, or shall be entitled to, receive any remuneration or honoraria for work done or services rendered for or on behalf of the Club.\nAll members of the club agree to abide by the club disciplinary code.\nAny member who is in debt to the club by an amount of three or more match fees shall be disbarred from playing.\nAny member who is guilty of serious misconduct may be suspended with immediate effect pending a disciplinary hearing set up under the club disciplinary code. Such a hearing shall be held as quickly as possible, and certainly within 14 days of the suspension.\nThe following were all duly elected:\nTreasurer \u2013 Mark Emmerson\nSecretary \u2013 Danny McConnell\nSocial Secretary \u2013 vacant\n3rd XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Phil Stewart\n5th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Chris Coates\n6th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Dave Swaby\n7th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Phil Harden\nIt was also noted that Steve Woodrow had been elected as a Club Representative on the AFC.\n8a. CONTACTS WITH UCL\nThe continuing influx of ex-UCL players is good, but needs to be continued and improved, and the onus inevitably falls on the youngest members. We do get our pitches at a significantly reduced rate because we\u2019re a UCL Alumni club, and we ought to do our best to maximise the number of UCL students coming through to join the club.\nIt was agreed to produce a flier to be handed out to students towards the end of the UCL football season.\n8b. TRAINING/PRE-SEASON\nDanny Fewkes is investigating whether Southwark Park is suitable for training. It was agreed that all training should be open to all members of the club, and to remove the 1sts-3rds, 4ths-7ths differentiation. Until we have a situation where we feel we have too many people we shouldn\u2019t worry about it, and getting all sides involved should enhance the club atmosphere.\nA training subscription of \u00a35 would still be charged.\nIt was agreed to ask Shenley whether Sky TV was a viable option. 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This may be particularly true of orbs seen with the naked eye, especially those that appear to have their own light source and unusual patterns of travel.\nFor example the light source of the colorful Orb over Gda\u0144sk is green and reddish.\nFrom a spiritual perspective red and orange colors are associated with safety and security, as well as a sense of belonging. Some paranormal investigators believe that a red or orange orb is a sign that an entity has assumed the role of a protector. This could be someone who was charged in life to keep watch or be a caretaker.\nA green color is associated with the heart. It is also associated with nature. 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As a result of the snow there were at least 4,000 power outages across the state. Also on the PA turnpike some tractor trailers jackknifed by the Allegheny Tunnel.\nAs a result of the weather getting warmer in the next few days people are worried about flooding. Flooding is a huge issue because it can cause thousands of dollars in damage. Fortunately there was no major flooding reported as a result of the snow melting. The temperatures did not get high enough to melt all the snow at one time luckily or there could\u2019ve been major damage done as a result of the snow melting.\nStorm Jonas has also created problems for students. Many students walk to school daily. Since there was such a large amount of snow build up on the sidewalks kids couldn\u2019t walk on them and had to walk in the streets. 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Her departure comes after news that CEO Piers Handling is stepping down with Artistic Director Cameron Bailey adding the duties of co-head. The festival is also set to appoint an Executive Director and co-head to work alongside Bailey.\nShe has been responsible for overseeing the business operations of the festival and was lauded for the launch of TIFFs Bell Lightbox.\n\u201cDuring my time with the TIFF Board, I have had the privilege to see Mich\u00e8les meticulous business acumen and people skills up close,\u201d said Chair Jennifer Tory. \u201cShe is the epitome of a generous mentor and strong leader and through her hard work has helped to build one of the finest arts organizations in the world. We are most fortunate she has agreed to stay on to assist in transitioning TIFFs new leadership team.\u201d\n\u201cMich\u00e8le has been my longtime advisor, confidante and friend,\u201d said Piers Handling, Director and CEO. \u201cShe is the engine that has kept TIFF running for decades, and her passion and dedication to film, the arts, and most importantly, the staff, is second to none. We have been in the trenches together for a lifetime and there are no words to express how grateful I am for all her years of support, laughter and impeccable work.\u201d\n\u201cIm excited for the future of TIFF and the new team at the top,\u201d added Maheux. \u201cThe organization is on a great path with a new five-year Strategic Plan and a team passionate about the mission and vision. 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The heritage property dates to the turn of the 20th century and has been in the Lee family since 1921, when grandfather Ron Bick Lee bought it and later opened an import-export business. In form and function, it\u2019s similar to many of the two- or four-storey buildings on this street\u2014the restaurants, greengrocers and general merchants who form the backbone of historic Chinatown.\n\u201cBack when I was growing up, this area was vibrant,\u201d says Lee, surveying the trickle of foot traffic on Pender Street late on a Friday afternoon. \u201cIt was a really exciting place; it was a neighbourhood place. I don\u2019t just mean for Chinese people\u2014everybody. If you grew up in Vancouver, you had some sort of recollection of coming here.\u201d In recent decades, however, Chinatown has declined\u2014partly due to changing economic conditions, which have driven many businesses (and shoppers) to other parts of the city, and partly due to the creeping social issues spreading from Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside.\nThis being Vancouver, where some see decline, others see an opportunity to develop abandoned lots and dilapidated buildings, and inject new blood into Chinatown. In the past few years, the surrounding streets\u2014Main, Union, East Georgia and Keefer\u2014have received an influx of non-traditional businesses and residents looking to capitalize on the area\u2019s central location and relatively cheap rents.\nFor some Chinatown stalwarts, the change is cause for concern. That is why Lee formed the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation in 2012, which counts as board trustees Bob Lee (Carol\u2019s developer father), Robert H.N. Ho (a renowned Chinese cultural philanthropist) and Brandt Louie (CEO of the H.Y. Louie Co. and London Drugs). Their mission: to purchase and rehabilitate many of Chinatown\u2019s historic properties, reinvigorate its business community, and preserve and enhance the neighbourhood\u2019s unique cultural heritage.\nLee is quite animated about the last two points. \u201cThat\u2019s how I ended up with the two restaurants,\u201d she says, chuckling, of the iconic Foo\u2019s Ho Ho and soon-to-open Chinatown Barbecue. The foundation also bought the nearby BMO building in 2016 and plans to open a storytelling centre dedicated to the history of Chinese-Canadian immigrants there later this year. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have any Chinese businesses here, any real culture, you have Gastown,\u201d Lee says.\nDreaming of the future, she sees a bustling streetscape full of restaurants and businesses, school kids on field trips at the storytelling centre, old people doing exercises in the park\u2014even an open market down the street, as there was decades ago. What the neighbourhood doesn\u2019t need more of, she says, snapping back to reality, are hipster restaurants or bars. It definitely doesn\u2019t need the 12-storey condo tower proposed for the now-empty parking lot at the corner of Keefer and Columbia.\nThe development by Beedie Development Group at 105 Keefer/544 Columbia has become a stand-in for the larger debate surrounding the future of Chinatown\u2014and Vancouver at large. At the heart of the matter: how should the city preserve neighbourhoods without letting them ossify?\nPlaced in just about any other downtown context, the Beedie development would appear to be just what the city needs: a mix of market housing (including 33 two-bedrooms and four three-bedrooms\u2014exceeding the city\u2019s requirement for 25 percent family housing), social housing, and small-scale \u201cshopfront\u201d spaces, three of which open onto the laneway north of Keefer\u2014a form of retail that\u2019s emblematic of Chinatown. And, indeed, the city\u2019s 2011 plan for this part of Chinatown just south of Pender specifically created the conditions for applications like this, with the aim to direct growth to areas with fewer heritage buildings.\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t have any Chinese businesses here, any real culture, you have Gastown.\u201d\nOf course, a lot has changed in six years, including a dramatic upswing in housing prices, growing concerns about affordability, and outrage over the loss of neighbourhood \u201ccharacter\u201d\u2014be it historic Chinatown buildings or modest pre-war homes. In that context, it\u2019s not surprising that public feedback on the Beedie development was intense. By mid-April of this year, the city says it had received more than 4,500 \u201cpieces of feedback.\u201d As city staff wrote in their report to council, the development has \u201cbecome a symbol of the struggle of the Chinatown community and the city as a whole to define the future for Vancouver\u2019s Chinatown.\u201d (While city staff initially supported the proposal, council decided to refer 105 Keefer to a final public hearing in late May, which drew hundreds of speakers. Council ultimately voted against the proposal on June 13, with Mayor Gregor Robertson citing the vehement opposition by various community groups and a growing sense of anxiety over the pace of change in the neighbourhood.)\nWhile Beedie Group was reluctant to comment in advance of the council vote, one person who wasn\u2019t shy to talk was Bob Rennie, the ubiquitous condo marketer. The offices for Rennie Marketing Systems, as well as his eponymous art gallery, are located just a two-minute walk west of Carol Lee on Pender Street in the Wing Sang building, which dates back to 1889. From his gallery\u2019s rooftop garden, Rennie too has a bird\u2019s-eye view of Chinatown\u2014but what he sees is quite different from Lee.\n\u201cYou know, I\u2019m one of the biggest stakeholders\u2014saving the oldest building in Chinatown,\u201d said Rennie, with evident pride, a few weeks before the council vote. \u201cWe try and stay below the radar, but I\u2019m going to come out and speak on behalf of Beedie. We can\u2019t have an iPhone in our hands and walk yesterday back. We have to admit where things are going and the cost of taxes, property taxes and the cost of running a business.\u201d Rennie argues that the city should provide incentives to developers to save heritage buildings by granting more density to build in the area. For Rennie, that\u2019s key: keep density in Chinatown.\n\u201cIt\u2019s super-controversial, because everybody wants all of Chinatown to stay \u2018yesterday,\u2019\u201d Rennie said. \u201cBut we need the people. So incentivize me to save something, but give density that can stay in the area. We can\u2019t just save it to save it: it has to have an economic use.\u201d Rennie has fought NIMBY battles all across the city\u2014most notably over the transformative Woodward\u2019s development in the Downtown Eastside\u2014and recognizes the unique challenges of Chinatown, with its history and cultural significance. Still, he worries that nobody is discussing the necessary balance. \u201cWhat can we save? What can we have? If certain blocks of Pender are the most significant, you save those,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t save every Rembrandt\u2014he did some shitty paintings.\u201d\nVancouver\u2019s chief planner, Gil Kelley, is navigating those battling visions. Born in San Francisco but raised in Portland, Kelley was a senior planner in both cities before being appointed to the post in Vancouver last year. He\u2019s seen firsthand the struggles faced by West Coast cities on questions of density and neighbourhood preservation. Vancouver, he says, has arrived at a \u201cmoment of inflection.\u201d\n\u201cThese are some critical years right now, to set the course for the future,\u201d says Kelley as we sit at his City Hall desk, looking at a planning map for Northeast False Creek. \u201cI don\u2019t say that tritely. The run-up in housing prices and housing costs has alarmed everybody\u2014that\u2019s a phenomenon I saw happening in San Francisco, even in Portland to some extent. It does bring a kind of existential moment to the city: Who are we? Who do we want the city to be for in five years, 10 years, 30 years?\u201d\n\u201cYou don\u2019t save every Rembrandt\u2014he did some shitty paintings.\u201d\nKelley, perhaps more so than his predecessors, is not reflexively of the \u201cdensity is the answer\u201d school. \u201cIn the last year, I think we produced 7,200 or 7,500 housing units,\u201d he notes. \u201cWe\u2019re keeping pace with the literal population growth. What we\u2019re not doing is producing enough housing for the missing middle strata.\u201d While Kelley does think it\u2019s part of the planning department\u2019s mandate to preserve both the heritage and character of city neighbourhoods, he doesn\u2019t think that this should exclude inserting new forms of housing, particularly ones that increase affordability for middle-income earners. \u201cI think character neighbourhoods will come to be recognized as not exclusively of one era, but of a sense of vitality and livability for a spectrum of incomes,\u201d he says.\nKelley points to a planning exercise he pioneered in Portland that he\u2019d like to try here: the 20-Minute Neighbourhood. The exercise aims to reframe the discussion around density by asking residents to visualize neighbourhoods where you don\u2019t need a car\u2014where you can walk from your house to a small commercial area, and back, to get most of your daily or weekly needs. Rather than debating abstract concepts like floor-to-space ratios, the approach gets more community buy-in for proposed changes, he says. \u201cThen it becomes a conversation of: Actually, I would like to walk to a grocery store\u2014so if it took 15 or 20 or 30 percent more density in the neighbourhood to provide the basis for that market, so be it.\u201d\nAccording to Kelley, Chinatown is the perfect 20-minute neighbourhood\u2014all that\u2019s missing is the people. Successful Chinatowns across North America have a combination of somewhat restrictive zoning and a \u201cfine-grained rhythm of storefront\u201d\u2014similar to what 105 Keefer was attempting to do, Kelley notes. \u201cBut complementing that is a real focus on the social aspects: retention of affordability of housing, and the infusion and preservation\u2014not always from government, but also from foundations and community groups\u2014of cultural attributes.\n\u201cI think we can rescue and preserve Chinatown and revitalize it so that it\u2019s not simply a museum,\u201d he says, \u201cbut actually a thriving place again. It may not be exclusively Chinese. And that\u2019s okay.\u201d\nOne of the businesses that speaks to that shift\u2014away from traditional Chinatown businesses and toward a younger, more eclectic clientele\u2014is Bestie. The 25-seat German sausage restaurant opened in June 2013 on East Pender, almost equidistant from Carol Lee\u2019s offices and Bob Rennie\u2019s art gallery. Similarly, 36-year-old co-owner Clinton McDougall finds himself stuck between the two titans\u2019 competing visions for the neighbourhood.\n\u201cI think we can rescue and preserve Chinatown and revitalize it so that it\u2019s not simply a museum but actually a thriving place again. It may not be exclusively Chinese. And that\u2019s okay.\u201d\n\u201cChange is something that\u2019s happening, and it\u2019s inevitable\u2014but the city and the people in Chinatown need to do their best to encourage development that\u2019s thoughtful,\u201d says McDougall, who served for two years on the Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee. \u201cI think it\u2019s my duty\u2014not just as a businessperson and somebody who lives here, but as a citizen of Vancouver\u2014to protect that heritage and ensure the culture that exists is allowed to thrive, while acknowledging that it can change, too.\u201d He notes that, from the beginning, surrounding merchants have been very supportive of his self-described \u201cquirky\u201d business (built around the concept of a Berlin street dish called currywurst): \u201cAll of our neighbours said, \u2018Anything is better than a boarded-up building. Ultimately, more reasons for people to come to Chinatown is better\u2014even if we don\u2019t understand what currywurst is.\u2019\u201d\nAndy Yan, director of SFU\u2019s City Program and a senior urban planner at Bing Thom Architects, is supportive of the sort of small-scale retail that Bestie represents. Still, he worries that this influx of \u201chip\u201d new businesses\u2014and the mix of people they attract\u2014overlooks and, in many ways, subjugates the commercial heritage of Chinatown.\nYan, who grew up in east Vancouver, remembers coming to Chinatown, where his great-grandfather ran a dry-cleaning business, as a child. He describes regular dim-sum outings at Ming\u2019s Restaurant, where the Fortune Sound Club is now, and going to the greengrocers on Keefer to shop with his parents and grandparents.\n\u201cChinatown, along with a few other neighbourhoods, is where any number of families\u2019 futures started,\u201d says Yan, a third-generation Canadian of Chinese descent. \u201cMy father\u2019s first job in re-establishing himself in Canada was in the restaurants. For me, it\u2019s really important to recognize the economic function [of Chinatown], beyond this idea of history, shopping and consumption.\u201d\nYan thinks that part of the answer is what he calls \u201cbespoken urbanism\u201d\u2014which echoes what Kelley calls \u201csmall-grain development,\u201d with limited heights that respect the existing streetscape. Does he think the Beedie proposal achieved that? Not quite.\n\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of the sense of entitlement\u2014that what happened on Main Street, the densities and heights that are happening there, that somehow every site is now entitled to that density,\u201d he says. He calls 105 Keefer \u201ca failure of imagination\u201d that speaks more to the bulk urbanism of Vancouver\u2019s past: \u201cThe way that 105 Keefer was proposed was just the removal of constraints\u2014the disregard of what\u2019s around it, the disregard of what made Chinatown such a place to be.\u201d\nCarol Lee, like Yan, remembers what made Chinatown that place. As we talk, she reminisces about going to Sunday school at the Chinese Presbyterian Church on Keefer (since demolished) and playing behind the counter of what would become the family grocery store downstairs. For many long-time Vancouver Chinese, the neighbourhood represents more than a collection of buildings\u2014it represents a community, their community, and its hard-fought struggle for acceptance.\n\u201cThere are not many neighbourhoods like Chinatown. Think about the Chinese-Canadian history\u2014what an important role those early immigrants played in basically building the country,\u201d she says, pointing to a blown-up photo from the 1920s, leaning against her office wall, of her grandfather with Brandt Louie\u2019s grandfather. \u201cChinatown is the physical legacy of that contribution. It\u2019s got a very different kind of background than most other neighbourhoods. We have to decide: is it worth keeping? I\u2019m not saying that we have to\u2014but I\u2019m saying we should think about it before it\u2019s too late.\u201d\nWhat do you think of the affordability vs. heritage debate? 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The Old Town of Vilnius is one of the biggest and oldest in Eastern Europe. The magic atmosphere and the magnificent architectural blend of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism styles make this a wonderful city to explore. In 1994 Vilnius Old Town was included into UNESCO World Heritage List. In the Old Town, on the Castle hill, there stands Gediminas Tower \u2013 a remaining part of the castle which, according to the legend, was built after Grand Duke Gediminas had a dream of an iron wolf howling on that hill. This is how in year 1323 the history of Vilnius started.\nProgram (in brief):\nCathedral square, Presidential Palace, Vilnius University, Dominikonu street, Vokieciu street, Town Hall and its square, Rudininku street, Pylimo street, Gediminas avenue (KGB museum), Parliament, Zverynas district, Neris riverside, The Green bridge, St. Peter\u2019s and Paul\u2019s church (stopping here for a little while), Uzupis, St. Ann\u2019s and Bernadine\u2019s church (stopping here for a little while), Amber Gallery (St. Mykolo St. 8), The Hill of Subacius (great panoramic view), The Gates of Dawn (stopping here for a little while), Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit, Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Town Hall square (stopping here for a little while).\nTour starts from: Cathedral Square info desk every day at:\n10:10 (English only)\n13:20 (Russian only)\nDuration: 2.15 h\nTransportation by comfortable, AC minibus with panoramic windows\nFree ticket to the museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://visithenan.org/city/Xinxiang/Temple%20of%20Bi%20Gan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JDLL5NL7IQZIT2PUMXQJ3ODT2T5WEV67", "length": 2428, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "visithenan.org", "title": "VisitHenan", "raw_content": "Temple of Bi Gan\nKnown as \"history's most faithful minister,\" Bi Gan's courage and honor have been the stuff of legend since his loyal service to his cruel and unstable emperor, King Zhou of Shang. While Zhou's other advisors fled, Bi Gan refused to abandon his post. This decision ultimately cost him his life. An act of unparalleled duty, Bi Gan earned the admiration of subsequent rulers, beginning with Zhou's successor, King Wu. Wu officially changed Bi Gan's family name to \"Lin.\" Ever since, all peoples with the Lin surname are considered descendants of Bi Gan, and the Temple of Bi Gan is regarded as their ancestral shrine. Since 1993, memorial activities have been held here in honor of Bi Gan. Hundreds of thousands of \"Lins\" from over 26 countries have come to the Temple to pay homage to their ancestor and appreciate the history of their eponym.\nThe Temple itself was built during the Southern Wei Dynasty. The Emperor Xiaowen commissioned its construction to honor Bi Gan's faithfulness. Nearly 1,000 years later, the complex was reconstructed in 1494 AD, during the Ming Dynasty. Called \"the First Temple Under Heaven\" because of its complex of graves and temples, this spacious mausoleum covers a structural area of 47,000 square meters. Its main features consist of: the Holy Path, the Curtain Wall, the Main Gate, the Secondary Gate, the Stele Lined Corridor, the Wooden Memorial Arch, the Subordinate Hall, the Grand Hall and the Grave of Bi Gan. Similarly to the Temple, the Grave of Bi Gan is known as \"the First Tomb Under Heaven\" because of its status as the first grave in the form of tomb on record.\nInside the Temple, a number of precious relics are preserved. Among them are 64 steles of invaluable historic and cultural value. These steles include the stele carved by Confucius during the Spring and Autumn Period. This inscription is the only known example of Confucius' actual handwriting. 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Leave at 5:15 pm Wednesday's all seasons\nOther events on Wednesday, November 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 124.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wangyujian.hku.hk/?p=5865&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WUH3DANZ4AZJWQ4ZZAXB53M7KTC4FSS4", "length": 4784, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "wangyujian.hku.hk", "title": "Yue Chim Richard Wong \u738b\u4e8e\u6f38 | Are standard working hours a good thing for Hong Kong?", "raw_content": "Public Corruption in Traditional and Modern China Are Working Hours Too Long in Hong Kong?\nAre standard working hours a good thing for Hong Kong?\nSince the adoption of minimum wage legislation in 2011, organized labor has been pushing for standard working hours legislation. If this becomes law, it will be a severe blow to Hong Kong\u2019s labor market flexibility.\nUnlike the minimum wage, which affects only the bottom end of the labor market, standard working hours affect the entire labor market, bringing serious employment distortion and reducing economic efficiency.\nThis problem is particularly acute in Hong Kong because working hours are widely distributed, making it nearly impossible to legislate uniform working hours without serious economic consequences.\nIn June 2012, the Labour Department published the highly informative Report on the Policy Study on Standard Working Hours. It confirmed that the dispersion of hours of work per week was very wide and found nearly 85 per cent of the labor force worked more than 40 hours a week.\nIt also showed that standard working hours legislation could have alarming impacts: employers could face an additional wage bill ranging from $8 billion to $55.2 billion, and 50.6 per cent to 91.1 percent of full-time employees could be impacted.\nWhile these findings are useful, they do not explain why working hours are long and widely distributed. Understanding this is critical and relevant to the question of whether there should be standard working hours legislation.\nIn 1960 people worked an average 52.4 hours per week, which declined to 47.7 hours in 1985, and 43.3 hours in 2014. Working hours in Hong Kong have displayed the well-known \u201cbackward bending\u201d labor supply curve found elsewhere in the world, in which labor supply tends to fall when wage rates rise. People will voluntarily choose to work fewer hours and spend more time at leisure (or unpaid voluntary work) when they become wealthier.\nA revealing example of the distribution of weekly working hours can be seen in the differences between hours worked by men and women over the period 1985-2014.\nIn 1985, 67.1% of men in the labor force worked 48 hours or more per week; by 2014 that had fallen to 44.1%. For women workers, the percentage fell from 48.3% in 1985 to 30.7% in 2014.\nAt the same time, the share of part-time workers working fewer than 25 hours per week increased from 4.4% of male workers and 9.6% of female workers in 1985 to 9.1% and 13.9%, respectively, in 2014.\nThe growth in part-time, low-pay jobs resulted from labor market tightness, which induced married mothers to enter the labor force. When minimum wage legislation was introduced, it boosted their wages artificially and attracted even more casual workers at the low-pay end.\nThe influx of part-time and casual workers helped to reduce average working hours to 43.3 hours per week by 2014, despite labor market tightness. The reduction was greatest for jobs requiring fewer skills and training, for the less educated and for older workers.\nThese changes in the pattern of working hours and their distribution over time suggest three conclusions.\nFirst, working hours are determined by supply and demand and they have declined as wage rates increased, with the exception of specific areas such as the finance and business sectors where there is an acute short supply.\nSecond, highly skilled workers in these areas are working longer hours due to labor supply shortages that reflect Hong Kong\u2019s inadequate manpower strategies regarding education and attracting skilled immigrants.\nThird, jobs requiring fewer skills are increasingly being filled by part-time and casual workers. Since 1996 the male labor force has remained stagnant in numbers. Total labor force has increased solely because of the entry of more women. The growing number of women workers has placed considerable stress on domestic life, especially with rapidly rising divorce rates and single-parent families.\nThese are the real dynamics of the labor market that were not discussed in the Labour Department\u2019s Report. Imposing standard working hours on such a labor market would have very severe consequences. Where will the extra work hours come from?\nHong Kong can only find more hours by making more women enter the labor force, making them work longer hours, and delaying retirement. This would impact on fertility patterns, mother\u2019s time spent with young children, the mobility prospects for younger workers, and intergenerational income inequality. It would amount to a disinvestment in our young people, and ultimately our future prosperity.\nStandard working hours legislation solves no problems and further distorts the adjustment process in a tight labor market. 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Devices of this size could be used together with a rainwater harvest system.\nThere actually are some homes that are equipped with a rainwater harvesting system. These kind of systems can in fact replenish continuously its water supply, but it needs a way in filtering the water in order to make this potable. The ones that comes with a larger capacity of filtering system can in fact turn easily the harvested rainwater to a potable water.\nYou also will find 2 gallon systems where you just need to pour water in the top tank and the water then runs through the filters and after a while, you will get fresh drinking water.\nWhen it comes to the question of what size of water filtering system you need, you need to be aware that you will need a minimum of 1 gallon per person each day. In reality however, you will need about 3 gallons per person in each day. This is why you need a system which is able to filter that much water you need for your family each day.\nIt is essential to be cautious on the water that you are drinking before you buy a water filtration system, which is why you should have an analysis done. It\u2019s very important to do checks with your local listing under water quality. A lot of firms usually comes to your house and is going to do an analysis and is going to tell you with what you are drinking. When you already have finished doing this, you then could choose the right kind of product which is suitable for you.\nIt is best that you do filter and store water for you to get ahead of the problems.\nSuggested Article: http://pepperrific.com/time-for-a-healthier-kitchen/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.maecenata.eu/maecenata-institute", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EHVAESGRDXWN5P637CYGEZTSKKFTXEAI", "length": 3194, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "web.maecenata.eu", "title": "MAECENATA INSTITUTE", "raw_content": "The Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society was founded in 1997. Initially it was organised as a non-commercial limited company. In 2010, it was integrated into the Maecenata Foundation. The Institute was affiliated with the Humboldt-University of Berlin from 2004 to 2013. Today it is a recognised independent research centre. The institute\u2019s aim is to promote knowledge about civil society (the so-called third sector), through academic research, teaching, and publications.\nFocal points of research include:\nCivil society and the state,\nCivil society and civic engagement,\nCivil society in other research contexts and in practice,\nCivil society in an international framework,\nPhilanthropy and foundations.\nThe institute values international cooperation and networking. It cultivates close relationships with colleagues at home and abroad. Cooperation with other institutions is a regular feature of the research process. The institute actively supports and contributes to international research projects.\nThe institute conceptualises it\u2019s own research proposals and applies for the necessary funds. It also does research on commission and develops studies, evaluational reports, and critical commentaries. Internal and external research results are discussed in open colloquia.\nOver 60 individual research projects, resulting in over 300 publications have taken place to date. These include:\nReligious communities and civil society in Europe,\nCivil society and refugees in German communes,\nInter-religious dialogue and civil society,\nUrban development, civic engagement, and civil society,\nReform of institutional and non-commercial law,\nThe German section of the Civicus Civil Society Index project,\nThe German section of Roles and Visions of Foundations in Europe project,\nCase studies for the Philanthropication through Privatization project,\nThe projects are run and supervised by full-time and voluntary researchers, associated scholars and colleagues as well as assistants.\nMembers of the institute teach in various courses of study at five Universities in Germany. Beyond their responsibilities within academic institutions, they offer academic advice, give papers and supervise theses in Germany and internationally.\nThe institute includes the Forschungscollegium (est. 2000), an interdisciplinary forum of research and exchange for young academics from German-speaking countries. Members include, but are not limited to doctoral candidates in the fields of sociology, political science, European anthropology, history, business management, and geography.\nPublications of the institute include:\nthe academic book series Maecenata Schriften\nDe Gruyter, Berlin http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/473309\nthe digital, fully quotable series Opuscula\n(occasional papers published by Maecenata) www.opuscula.maecenata.eu\nThe series are open to outsiders for their publications. Members of the institute are also regularly published in books and journals at home and abroad.\nThe institute is almost entirely funded by other foundations and both private and public sponsors like the \u201cF\u00f6rderverein Zivilgesellschaftsforschung e.V.\u201d (FVZF). It is also dependent upon donations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.rau.ro/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=169", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WI5BPYIYEM5QUNB6F4B5PKJ27HWVTMW7", "length": 12347, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "web.rau.ro", "title": "Universitatea Romano-Americana / Romanian-American University - Content", "raw_content": "The Romanian-American University is a higher education institution, a legal person of private law and public utility, part of the national system of education, founded in 1991, accredited by law in 2002, receiving the qualification \"High confidence rating\" from ARACIS in 2010, whose mission is to offer high quality education and research, in an intellectually stimulating environment both for students and for the teaching staff.\nThe Romanian-American University was founded in1991 whose mission is to promote the educational values of the American academic education given the rich traditions of the Romanian education. The initiative of the establishment of the Romanian-American University belonged to the late Prof. Ion Smedescu, Ph.D., founder of the Romanian-American University and president of the Romanian-American Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture.\nThe Romanian-American University is an independent institution without being affiliated or sponsored by American University.\nFor the accomplishment of this objective, the starting point was the in the United States of America, the academic education is supported by the general model of behavior of the American society, based on the efficient organization of activity, tenacious sense of duty, cultivation of labor, self-respect and respect for others, fair competition throughout one's entire life, competition with the others and, mostly, with oneself.\nBrief history of the development of the Romanian-American University:\nMarch 11, 1991 - The Assembly of the establishment of the Romanian-American University when its Statute was approved and which stipulated the establishment of 7 schools: School of Domestic and International Business, Banking and Finance, Management, Hotel and Tourism Economy, Computer Science, Medicine and Public Health, Law, Engineering in design and product aesthetics.\nMarch 28, 1991 - the Decision no. 364 of the Ministry of Education and Science approved the establishment of the Romanian-American University.\nApril 17, 1991 - the Ruling no. 295/17.04.1991 of the Court of Law of 1st Sector, Bucharest, \"as per art 32 of the Decree no. 31/1954 and art 84 and the following of the Law 21/1924\" granted legal personality to the Romanian-American University, headquartered in 35-37 Sos. Oltenitei, 4th sector.\nJune 10, 1991 - the assembly for the establishment of the Romanian-American University's Senate where the late Prof. Ion Smedescu, Ph.D., was elected, with a majority of votes, Rector and was appointed \"Founding Rector of the Romanian-American University\". Moreover, the first management positions were elected according to the law (vice-rectors, Senate scientific secretary, executive managers, deans) and the curricula, enrolment figures, tuition taxes as per education forms and the enrolment fees for the admission were also approved.\nJuly 1991 - the organization of the first admission exam following which 1772 students were admitted.\nDecember 11, 1991 - the end of 1991 witnessed the enactment and vote of the Constitution of Romania, by means of each private education was legally recognized as part of the national system of education. Under these new provisions, at the initiative of the late Prof. Ion Smedescu, Ph.D., on December 11, 1991, the \"Romanian-American Foundation for Promoting Education and Culture\" (FRAPEC) was established. The formal recognition of FRAPEC came by the Ruling no.34/22.01.1992 of the Court of Law of 1st Sector, Bucharest. The goal of FRAPEC was \"the promotion and dissemination of Romanian cultural and civic education values in America and of American values in Romania\". Among the 27 founding members of FRAPEC there were prestigious university professors, researchers, lawyers, economists, medical doctors etc. The foundation has taken under its auspices the Romanian-American University, in order to abide the law in place and has elected the late Prof. Ion Smedescu, the RAU Rector, as President.\n1992 - 1993 - Years of quality and quantity accumulation for the University. In February 1992, the University's Center of Scientific Research was established and in May 1992 the first session of student scientific research was organized, which has become a tradition in our University.\n1994 - 1995 - the process of temporary authorization, as per the provisions of the Law no. 88/1993 on the accreditation of high education institutions and the acknowledgement of diplomas and as per the Law no. 84/1995 - the law on education.\n1996 - 2002 - the process of the University's accreditation, according to the legal provisions in force, critical stage for the legal establishment.\n2000 - the School of European Economic Integration Studies was established, temporary authorized by the G.D. no. 1215/2000.\nMay 15, 2002 - Law no. 274 on the establishment of the Romanian-American University is published in the Official Gazette and, as well the accreditation of its schools as follows:\nManagement-Marketing Management and Marketing\nDomestic and International Business, Banking and Finance Domestic and International Business, Banking and Finance\nDomestic and International Tourism Economy Domestic and International Tourism Economy\nComputer Science for Business Management Computer Science for Business Management\nStudies of European Economic Integration Studies of European Economic Integration\n2002 - 2003 - The period of institutional surveillance, as per the provisions of OMEC no. 4548/2002.\nSeptember 2002 - the first exam at the completion of the bachelor studies in the Romanian-American University, according to the law.\nOctober 2002 - the Ministry of Education and Research approved the organization and development of master programs (post-academic studies with duration of 3 semesters according to the law).\nOctober 2003 - the inauguration of the Romanian-American University's Campus with the attendance of representatives of the country's leadership and of the partner American universities.\nJune 2003 - the commencement of the process for the authorization of the part time study programs at the School of Domestic and International Business, Banking and Finance, Management-Marketing, Domestic and International Tourism Economy and Law according to the law. As per G.D. 1069/October 2004, the University obtained the temporary functioning permit for part time studies.\nJune 2004 - A new legal provision (Law no. 288/2004 on the organization of academic studies) led to a major reform of the Romanian academic education's structure. The law was enforced starting with the academic year 2005-2006 and concerned the Bologna reform and the transfer to the organization of academic studies per 3 cycles: bachelor-master-doctorate.\nInstitutional re-accreditation 2007 - 2010 - the Bologna reform (2005-2008), required by the enforcement of the provisions of Law no. 288/2004 and other legal requirements, led to the reorganization of the education offer of the Romanian-American University compared to the existing study areas, related majors and the number of distributed credits. With the enactment of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 75/2005 on the assurance of the education quality, passed under Law no. 87/2006, the process of institutional re-accreditation was triggered (and, thus, of each study program), on the one hand and, on the other hand, the process for the design and implementation of the Quality Management System. Equally, new master programs were launched, designed in line with the bachelor programs and accredited by ARACIS, as per G.D. 404/2006. For the first bachelor graduates from the Bologna system (July 2008), the University offered 10 master programs (Bologna) accredited according to the law.\n2007 - 2008 - the 4 schools in the economic area became members of the Association of the Economic Schools from Romania (AFER), renowned professional-scientific body including the most valuable public economic institutions from Romania.\nJuly 2010 - the institutional evaluation and the award, on July 22, 2010, by the ARACIS Board, in unanimity of votes, of the grade \"High degree of trust\", the highest national qualification as regards the quality of educational services rendered by an academic education institution, according to the law.\n2010 - 2011 - Diversification of the educational offer and the accreditation of two new programs of bachelor studies, exclusively taught in English for the majors \"International Business\" (School of Domestic and International Business, Banking and Finance) and \"Computer science for economics\" (School of Computer Science for Business Management).\n2011 - The process of evaluation for the classification of the university and ranking of the study programs, as per the provisions of the G.D. 789/2011 on the approval of the Methodology of the evaluation for the classification of universities and ranking of the study programs and as per other legal documents (OMECTS 4072/2011, OMECTS 4174/2011 and OMECTS 5204/2011). According to the provisions of OMECTS 5262/2011 on the acknowledgement of the results on the classification of universities, the Romanian-American University is an education focused university.\nThe results of the ranking of the study programs valid for the academic year 2011-2012, according to the law, were:\n1.\tArea - International economic relations, Category A (program of excellence according to the law)\n2.\tArea - Finance, Category (program of excellence according to the law)\n3.\tArea - Management, Category B\n4.\tArea - Marketing, Category B\n5.\tArea - Business administration, Category B\n6.\tArea - Cybernetics, statistics and economic computer science, Category B\n7.\tArea - Law, Category D\n8.\tArea - Accounting, Category E\nThe Romanian-American University carries out its activity in a sole university campus, quartered in Bucharest, 1B Expozitiei Blvd., 1st sector. The bachelor programs organized by the Romanian-American University during the academic year 2012-2013, as per the provisions of the G.D. no. 707/2012 on the approval of the Classification of area and specialization/academic study programs, are as follows:\nBachelor degree programs - cycle I (Bologna)\nNo.crt. 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Computer network architects are considered on a level above network administrators and many of them work for large corporations or on government contracts.\nComputer network architects make a mean annual wage of $94,000 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a top pay rate of $141,590 for the very experienced. An architect may work on their own or they may have a team that implements their suggestions. Often, an architect will work on a contract basis with specific companies rather than being in permanent employment. Usually, once the network is set up properly the network architect is done.\nA computer network architect will first evaluate the needs of the project, company or government institution. Once these needs have been properly evaluated the network architect will need to create a system that is usable, can be maintained, will fall under the project\u2019s budget, will be able to be completed by the appropriate deadlines and will be as secure as possible. All of these factors together necessitate that the computer network architect be able to juggle and manage many things at once.\nOnce a plan has been approved and is in place the network architect will delegate many of the activities to IT professionals. These IT professionals will perform the physical acts of cabling and routing, as well as many of the basic operations of actually setting up the network. The architect will test the network to ensure that it is functioning correctly and will often train the existing IT staff on the network\u2019s usage.\nHow Do You Become a Computer Network Architect?\nComputer network architects are very experienced individuals who have been in the IT industry for a long time. The most basic path to becoming a computer network architect is to start out as a computer network administrator. Network administrator\u2019s usually have a minimum of an Associate\u2019s Degree, but will often have a Bachelor\u2019s Degree as well. Many network administrators are expected to maintain certifications such as their CCNA.\nAs a network administrator gains experience, they will often acquire more certifications. Higher-level certifications are usually required for someone to be considered a qualified network architect. The most common of these certifications are provided by Cisco, but other certifications are also provided by Microsoft. Higher-level certifications usually require a certain amount of time within the industry to qualify. They are sometimes expensive but the cost will often be subsidized by an employer.\nHow Do You Advance as a Computer Network Architect?\nA computer network architect is already in a very advanced position. They can move to being a systems administrator, and they can move between industries for higher pay. Non-profit organizations usually pay less than private enterprises, while government and military contracts usually have the highest rates of pay. Larger corporations may also be able to offer higher rates of pay than ordinary corporations, and companies that specialize in the development of network architecture often have very high rates of pay as well.\nComputer network architects can also consider starting their own consulting companies or moving into the consulting industry on their own. Many netw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 8517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://webdesignofboise.com/category/web-design-blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CXFVRZLNLZEII7TZVKCID47KF6LMYBBI", "length": 261, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "webdesignofboise.com", "title": "Web Design Blog Archives - Boise Web Design, ID Website Designs 208-412-1848", "raw_content": "Why do people leave your site? One of the quickest ways to lose a potential customer is because your web site takes too long to open in their web browser. People get impatient within seconds of clicking on a link if they don\u2019t see something happening. I must...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whatsoneastrenfrewshire.co.uk/listings/3rd-barrhead-scout-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HHWGCUF43RP7SBB3F6E4KVWVYW7IGDYC", "length": 3812, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "whatsoneastrenfrewshire.co.uk", "title": "3rd Barrhead Scout Group, Barrhead | What's On East Renfrewshire", "raw_content": "About 3rd Barrhead Scout Group\n3rd Barrhead Scout Group Website\nAt 3rd Barrhead we have been going since adam was a boy. We have a can do will do attitude. We like to go camping rather than talk about camping.\nWe run various camps every year and lots of activities. Scouting can be very rewarding if you put your time and effort into it. Many of our boys and girls have came through the ranks and have been with us for years.\nAt 3rd Barrhead we have all age group sections open to boys and girls and look forward to meeting all new members.\n3rd Barrhead Beavers\nBarrhead South and Levern Church | Fridays | 6.30 - 7.30pm\nBeaver Scouting is all about having fun, making friends and learning new skills. Youngsters start to gain some independence while trying out many different activities and experiencing new adventures. They follow a balanced programme, earning Challenge Awards and Activity Badges, but the most important parts are joining in and trying their best.\nThe fun includes going on visits, making things, playing games and exploring the world around them. They learn about other people and about themselves.\nBoys and girls aged 6 or 7 can become a Beaver Scout and around the time of their 8th birthday, move to Cubs to continue on their path through Scouting.\nBeavers meet in the South Church Halls on Friday nights from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.\n3rd Barrhead Cubs\nBarrhead South and Levern Church | Wednesdays | 7 - 8.30pm\nCubs are for young people usually aged between eight and ten and a half years old. They belong to the second section in the Scouting family. There are loads of fun things that you can do as a Cub Scout. You will get a chance to try lots of different activities like swimming, music, exploring, computing and collecting. If you do them properly you will get a badge which you can wear on your uniform.\nThe cub pack meets on Wednesday evenings in the South Church hall at 7.30pm Cubs are for boys and girls from age 8 to age 10.\n3rd Barrhead Scouts\nThe Scout Section is for all young people aged between 10\u00bd and 14, no matter what your gender, faith, or whether you have any disabilities. A young person can come in to the Troop at 10 and may stay until they are 14\u00bd years old.\nScouts are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities as part of their programme. \u201cParticipation\u201d rather than meeting set standards is the key approach and for the Scout who wants to be recognised for his or her achievements there are a number of badges and awards.\nScouts take part in a balanced programme that helps them to find out about the world in which they live, encourages them to know their own abilities and the importance of keeping fit and helps develop their creative talents. It also provides opportunities to explore their own values and personal attitudes\nBeing outdoors is important and taking part in both the traditional Scouting skills, such as camping, survival and cooking as well as the wide range of adventurous activities from from abseiling to yachting, form an important part of the activities.\nOur Scout section meets on a Friday night from 7.30pm till 9.30pm. We meet in the South Church Halls on Main St Barrhead.\n3rd Barrhead Explorers\nBarrhead South and Levern Church | Fridays | Friday 7.30 - 10pm\nExplorer Scouts are young people, usually aged between 14 and 18 years old. They make up the fourth Section of the Scouting family.\nOur Explorers meet on a Friday night in the Den.\nThe den is a custom built facility without any modern facilities. Meetings start at 7.30pm - approximately.\nUpcoming Events at 3rd Barrhead Scout Group\nSorry, but we have no upcoming events for 3rd Barrhead Scout Group. If you know of an event taking place at 3rd Barrhead Scout Group or anywhere else in East Renfrewshire tell us about it and we'll list it on the website, for free!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whattheythink.com/news/39609-fourth-quarter-2008-losses-us-commercial-printers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YCEAORUPJCVL4AHYU645JFFGEKLLHRAA", "length": 3688, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "whattheythink.com", "title": "Fourth Quarter 2008 Losses of U.S. Commercial Printers Nearly $2 Billion - WhatTheyThink", "raw_content": "Fourth Quarter 2008 Losses of U.S. Commercial Printers Nearly $2 Billion\nIndustry Musters $100 Million in Profits for Year\nLexington, KY - WhatTheyThink, the leading media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, today announced the availability of their most current report titled \u201cU.S. Commercial Printing Profits, 1995 to 2008.\u201d Authored by Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center, the report is available for immediate purchase at:\nhttp://wttstore.com/prpr.html\n\u201cThe fourth quarter was a profits disaster for the U.S. commercial printing industry. Declines in advertising, catalogs, newspaper inserts, and magazines were combined with cutbacks by the banking and finance industries to create a quarter the industry would love to forget,\u201d said Dr. Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center. \u201cThe three quarters leading up to it had not been encouraging. The fourth quarter pullbacks in budgets was very severe as print clients adopted austerity programs to deal with the recession. Slower economic conditions also causing media plans to intensify the shift to digital media.\u201d Dr. Webb had expressed continued concerns about fourth quarter profits in his prior report because inflation-adjusted shipments were down -6.6% in October, normally the biggest month of the commercial printing industry's year. \u201cOur fears were realized,\u201d he stated.\nRecessions are warning signs to print businesses to restructure and not necessarily consolidate with others, according to Dr. Webb. \u201cThese are prime times to re-evaluate printing businesses and start with a clean sheet of paper for planning. Print businesses must prepare to be in the right position for 2012 and 2015, even though such thinking might be difficult now,\u201d he stated.\nThe Printing Profits Report contains both current and inflation-adjusted analysis of commercial printing and print services shipments and profits from 1995 to 2008. This issue includes information about print shipments compared to GDP, and profit trends in the paper industry. The bonus audio file includes Dr. Webb's frank analysis, opinions, and strategic outlook. Containing Adobe PDF, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint files, the cost of the report is $50.00 and features the audio commentary in MP3 format. Those purchasing the report can easily repurpose the charts and data for internal, client presentations, and reports.\nThe Economics and Research Center is exclusively sponsored by MindFireInc, a provider of software technologies that leverage direct marketing and the Internet\nWhatTheyThink is the printing and publishing industry's leading media organization; offering a wide range of publications delivering unbiased, real-time market intelligence, industry news, economic and trend analysis, peer-to-peer communication, and special reports on emerging technology and critical events. Serving a membership base of more than 50,000, WhatTheyThink also hosts webinars and live events as well as providing content through a syndication program, which delivers content directly to related websites and through RSS. The organization also provides consulting and speakers bureau services to the industry.\nAbout MindFireInc\nSince 1999, MindFireInc has provided innovative applications and services that help marketers synchronize their direct mail campaigns with the Internet. MindFireInc's flagship product, LookWho'sClicking, is a web-based application suite that links the impact and power of direct mail with the interactive capabilities of the Internet. MindFireInc offers its product through a network of Value Added Resellers (VARs). 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A number of them are multi-lingual speakers to create an excellent companionship with their overseas customers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wildmagazine.org/facts/Kingcobra.asp?page=/facts/Kingcobra.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GZVVRNFKFAQFIQEF7RRZRR4RUFS45EPJ", "length": 3396, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "wildmagazine.org", "title": "King Cobra", "raw_content": "Weight: Up to 20 pounds (9 kg)\nDiet: Other snakes, frogs and lizards\nDistribution: India, southern China, southeast Asia\nAnimal Predators: Indian grey mongooses prey on young cobras\n\u00b7 On the annual holiday Nag Panchami, Hindus refrain from field work out of respect for cobras.\n\u00b7 The Latin name \u201cOphiophagus\u201d means snake-eater.\nKing cobras are the largest venomous snakes in the world. They are mostly green, brown or black with a creamy-yellow throat. They have yellowish-white cross-bars at intervals along their body. Their heads are huge, as big as a man\u2019s hand\u2014with fangs that are a half inch (1.25 cm) long. Their skin is smooth and dry.\nKing cobras range through India, Vietnam, southern China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, western Indonesia and the Philippines. They inhabit rain forests near streams or swamps and spend about a quarter of their time in trees.\nKing cobras mainly eat non-venomous snakes such as the rat snake, but also Indian cobras and even small king cobras. They capture prey by biting it with their fangs and delivering venom into the victim\u2019s bloodstream. Although the venom of a king cobra is less lethal than a common cobra\u2019s, the king has more venom per bite\u2014enough to kill 20 people. The venom attacks the victim\u2019s nervous system and shuts down his breathing.\nScientists believe king cobras to be monogamous. The female carries the eggs for two months before laying them in the bottom of a nest made of leaves and branches, then curls up over top of them. King cobras are the only snakes to make nests. The female remains on the nest for two months without eating, and then just before they hatch, she leaves. During this time, the male remains close to guard the nest. The hatchlings are 14 inches (36 cm) long and about as big around as a human finger. During the first year of their lives, they shed their skin once per month. After the first moult, when they are seven to 10 days old, they begin to hunt for food. After one year of age, king cobras shed four to six times per year.\nDespite their huge size and fearsome reputation, king cobras would rather avoid confrontation and will back away unless threatened. When threatened, these huge snakes make a hissing sound and lift the front of their bodies three to six feet (9 to 1.8 m) off the ground while travelling forward. At the same time, the snakes will expand and flatten out their neck ribs to form a hood. If king cobras are in an upright position without flattening their ribs, they are not threatening, but trying to see into the distance, usually because of tall grasses or bushes. King cobra snakes have excellent sense of smell. They flick their tongue to bring odours back to the nostrils located inside the mouth. King cobras are considered very intelligent.\nDeforestation has become a serious concern, as king cobras find their habitat shrinking and sometimes make their way into villages, where they are killed. King cobras are rare throughout their range.\nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/ophiophagus/o._hannah$narrative.html\nhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/kingcobra/index-n.html\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/reptiles/snakes/Kingcobra.shtml\nhttp://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/kingcobra.htm\nhttp://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/animalprojects/cobra.htm\nhttp://www.silveradojiujitsu.com/snake.htm\nKing Cobra Wildlife Fact File, IM Pub, US", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wind4africa.net/news/viewnews.php?ID=811", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JQNHFZILUNF3Y5YRN7TMJZV3UKWLFVEN", "length": 605, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wind4africa.net", "title": "wind4africa - Official inauguration of the Ashegoda wind farm in Ethiopia", "raw_content": "Official inauguration of the Ashegoda wind farm in Ethiopia\nOn 23 October, the Ethiopian government will officially open the Ashegoda power-generating complex, which is among the largest wind farms in sub-Saharan Africa with a capacity of 120 MW.\nWith planned annual production of 400 GWh, this new complex, located in Mekele, Ethiopia, will save 300,000 tonnes of CO2 per year and provide a source of renewable electricity for nearly one million people each year.\nThe 84 wind turbines were erected by Vergnet SA with cooperation from the French conglomerate Alstom and with financial backing from Coface.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/12/nearly-six-out-of-ten-russians.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:H2DTJZMWALMOSARFTD47I5NSLX5AR6W4", "length": 1493, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com", "title": "Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Nearly Six Out of Ten Russians, Including Putin, Now Regret the USSR Came Apart", "raw_content": "Nearly Six Out of Ten Russians, Including Putin, Now Regret the USSR Came Apart\nStaunton, December 25 \u2013 Twenty-six years after the USSR came apart, 58 percent of Russians say they regret that outcome, the highest share since 2009; and 52 percent say that it could have been avoided, views that mirror those of Vladimir Putin who has described the end of the USSR as \u201cthe greatest geopolitical catastrophe\u201d of the 20th century.\nThe new Levada Center poll found that only a quarter of the sample did not express regret about the events of 1991 and that 29 percent said that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was inevitable. Relatively large shares \u2013 16 percent and 19 percent respectively \u2013 either had no opinion or couldn\u2019t express one (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5A409F513A329).\nFifty-four percent expressed regret about the collapse of the USSR because it \u201cdestroyed a unified economic system.\u201d Thirty-six percent said that as a result, \u201cpeople had lost a sense of belonging to a great power.\u201d Thirty-four percent said the country\u2019s collapse had led to growing distrust. And 26 percent mentioned the loss of ties with relatives and friends.\nThis sense of imperial regret, Russian commentator Igor Yakovenko says, explains why all the candidates running for president support maintaining the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation or even its expansion, although some opposition figures are prepared to consider changing the status of Crimea (afterempire.info/2017/12/25/igla/).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 8957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://winghambaptistchurch.ca/2015/06/are-twins-taking-over/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZXL546BQRIZMVN34LU24NNTA3FDSEDG", "length": 3547, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "winghambaptistchurch.ca", "title": "Are Twins Taking Over? \u2013 Wingham Baptist Church", "raw_content": "Are Twins Taking Over?\nHome > Pastor's Page > Are Twins Taking Over?\nJohnny, a very bright five-year-old, told his daddy he\u2019d like to have a baby brother and offered to do whatever he could to help. His father, a very bright thirty-five-year-old, paused for a moment and then replied, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, Johnny, if you pray every day for two months for a baby brother, I guarantee that God will give you one!\u201d Johnny responded eagerly to his dad\u2019s challenge and went to his bedroom early that night to start praying for a baby brother. He did so every night for a whole month, but after that time, the boy began to get skeptical. He checked around the neighborhood and found out that what he thought was going to happen, had never occurred in the history of the town. You just don\u2019t pray for two months and then all of a sudden, whammo \u2013 a new baby brother. So, Johnny stopped praying. After another month, his mother went to the hospital. When she came back home, Johnny\u2019s parents called him into the bedroom. He cautiously walked in, not expecting to find anything, but there was a little bundle lying right next to his mother. His dad pulled back the blanket and what do you know \u2013 not one baby brother, but two. His mother had twins! Johnny\u2019s father looked down at him and said, \u201cNow, aren\u2019t you glad you prayed?\u201d The boy hesitated a little and then looked up at his dad and said, \u201cYes, but aren\u2019t you glad I quit when I did!\u201d\nToday, twins are in the news and in a big way. Let me explain. A single baby is conceived when a male sperm and a female egg are joined one to the other. Identical twins are formed when, after a male sperm and a female egg are joined together, the egg then splits into two. \u2026\nFraternal twins are formed when two male sperm and two female eggs are joined together at the same time. (According to researchers, identical twins make of 30% of all twins and have nothing to do with family history. It just happens. Fraternal twins make up 70% of all twins and have something to do with family history, especially on the mother\u2019s side.) Beginning in 1915, the government began to keep a statistical record of twin births. From 1915 \u2013 1980 the figures were generally the same (2% of all conceptions or 1 out of 50 pregnancies resulted in twins). Then from 1980 \u2013 2015 the stats took a noticeable leap (now with 3.3% of all conceptions or 1 out of 30 pregnancies resulting in twins). One statistician put it this way, \u201cGoing from 2.0% to 3.3% means there are 1,000,000 (one million) plus more twins in North America today than used to be the norm.\u201d All of which raises the question as to what is causing the increase. Researchers believe there are two answers:\nScience And Conception \u2013 In-vitro (in-glass) fertilization (a process in which the egg is fertilized by the sperm in petri dishes) and then placed in the womb. Because the success rate is so low, multiple eggs are used thus giving the more likelihood of two or more conceptions occurring.\nSociety And Conception \u2013 Today, many women are waiting much longer to have children than their mothers and grandmothers did. And as a woman ages she is more likely to ovulate two eggs at the same time instead of the normal one (prime time for this to occur is between the ages of thirty \u2013 thirty-five).\nThe bottom line? Some say twins go all the way back to Genesis 4:1-2 with Cain and Abel being the first set (depending on how long she again bear means \u2013 a minute, a year). But twins are here now, and if the trend continues, you\u2019re going to be seeing double a lot more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wpcinstitute.com/millennials/millennial-trends/how-millennials-look-at-diamonds-its-different-from-past-generations-jck/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6NSK2XLYODL2VBMAPECPJ5C2JWATKTMK", "length": 4703, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "wpcinstitute.com", "title": "How Millennials Look at Diamonds (It\u2019s Different From Past Generations) | JCK \u00bb Workforce Productivity and Compensation Institute", "raw_content": "\u00ab Millennials are in the driver\u2019s seat as companies ramp up hiring \u2013 MarketWatch\nGetting the most out of millennials at work\u2014commentary \u00bb\nHow Millennials Look at Diamonds (It\u2019s Different From Past Generations) | JCK\nThis June at the JCK Las Vegas show, the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) will unveil an industry milestone: the first category-driving campaign for diamonds not sponsored by De Beers.\nThe DPA\u2019s campaign grew out of its research on millennials, including extensive surveys and focus groups conducted by its marketing firm Mother New York. I will take a deeper look at this research in an upcoming issue of JCK.\nBut last week, Mother New York senior strategist Thomas Henry\u2014an echo boomer himself\u2014provided a sneak peek at the DPA\u2019s research at the agency\u2019s headquarters. Among the main points:\n\u2013 Millennials graduated into tough economic times.\n\u201cCompared to our parent\u2019s generation, we have more debt, less job prospects, and are less likely to own a home than the previous two generations,\u201d Henry said.\nThat means they are less able to achieve the same ideals of previous generations\u2014whether it\u2019s a house, car, \u201call the trappings of the 20th-century consumer ideal.\u201d\n\u2013 Yet, they are still optimistic and upbeat.\n\u201cThe overall theme that comes out is social freedom has a much bigger impact on their happiness,\u201d Henry said.\n\u2013 Diamond jewelry can seem \u201ctoo formal\u201d for this generation.\nAs one focus-group respondent said: \u201cIf I see a girl wearing diamond earrings, I would assume they were from Forever 21. I would never assume they were real. I would never expect anyone to wear something that expensive walking around on the street.\u201d\n\u2013 They value experiences.\n\u201cRather than material possessions being their currency, experiences increasingly are their currency,\u201d Henry explained. \u201cThey may not have as much as purchasing power as the previous generation, so they are finding their happiness in other places.\u201d\nExperiences also dovetail perfectly with this generation\u2019s ability to share things on social media. And when they do buy something, they want it to have personal meaning.\nAs Mother New York director of business development Chris Roan put it on a panel following the presentation: \u201cPeople want to buy things that make themselves smile, rather than what makes other people jealous.\u201d\n\u2013 Their relationships are more equal.\n\u201cGone are the days of codependent relationship, where you relied on the other person to define yourself,\u201d Henry said. \u201cIt\u2019s much more about one plus one equals three.\u201d\nRoan noted that it\u2019s now more socially acceptable to be single.\n\u201cThe relationships that [millennials] are choosing they are choosing from their own volition, they are choosing them because they feel a true sense of satisfaction, not an external pressure to be in a relationship because that is what one does,\u201d he said. \u201cThe people who do decide to be in relationships, it\u2019s for the right reasons, and it\u2019s because they are truly happy with the decision they have made.\u201d\n\u2013 Conventional diamonds can seem a little blingy.\n\u201cWhen Kim Kardashian wears something large and flashy, it isn\u2019t really appropriate,\u201d said Henry. \u201cThe idea that you would run the risk of ostentatiously showing off that type of wealth feels a little bit odd.\u201d\n\u2013 They are as burned out with the digital world as everyone else is.\n\u201cBecause we have had to learn technology, unlike the generation that is going to follow us, we see it as a double-edged sword, because we remember life before technology,\u201d he said.\nWhich means that, in spite of their embrace of the virtual, they also long for something \u201creal.\u201d\n\u201cReal moments of connection, real moments of experience proportionally grow fewer, because you are oversaturated with lots and lots of digital connections,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are starting to reject this idea that everything has to be fast, everything has to be instant, everything has to be gratifying right now. In some aspects of my life, I want this real thing.\u201d\n\u2013 All of which could, potentially, mean good news for diamonds.\n\u201cIf you think about the fact that they are living in an oversaturated world, they are desperately seeking these moments of meaning, which are few and far between, what they love about diamonds, and what we heard over and over again, is the authenticity. [Diamonds are] a product that they still believe carries authenticity, they are from the earth, they are very rare. That is an exciting opportunity.\n\u201cThe way that millennials live their life now opens up a lot of space for diamonds,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIt is just a very different space than diamonds used to occupy through most of the 20th century.\u201d\nSource: How Millennials Look at Diamonds (It\u2019s Different From Past Generations) | JCK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/library/advisories-and-updates/trimming-the-tunnel-with-lane-stripes-and-running-men", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6XRCCJGPWVO5C6MHNV2LDRNARIDJCRIJ", "length": 1361, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "wsdot.wa.gov", "title": "Alaskan Way Viaduct - Trimming the tunnel with lane stripes and stick figures", "raw_content": "Trimming the tunnel with lane stripes and stick figures\nPosted on Aug 21 2018 9:19 AM\nScientists are still trying to figure out how the zebra got its stripes. In the case of the SR 99 tunnel\u2019s stripes, there is no mystery. This past weekend, crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners finished striping the tunnel between the stadiums and the Space Needle.\nThe stripes separate each of the tunnel\u2019s roadway decks into two 11-foot lanes, an 8-foot shoulder on the left side and a two-foot buffer on the right.\nMeanwhile, work on another kind of paint job is underway inside the tunnel. Crews are using stencils to paint tall, running stick figures on walls in both directions of the tunnel.\nThe green icons are spaced about 50 feet apart on the west walls of the southbound (upper) and northbound (lower) roadways. As shown in the photo, arrows point the way to the nearest exits, along with the distances to them.\nIf the seven-foot-tall green stick figures don\u2019t get your attention, flashing lights at each of the tunnel\u2019s emergency exits and electronic signs will provide additional guidance.\nThe tunnel could open as soon as this fall, after an approximately three-week viaduct closure to realign SR 99 into the new tunnel. Keep following our website and Twitter account for more information as we move closer to opening the tunnel and taking down the viaduct.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wvw.arvestblog.com/entries/2014/8/29/economic_review_and.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4DVDMXVTMPZDMYID2YCO5XCBZ6CVL6TR", "length": 2374, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "wvw.arvestblog.com", "title": "Arvest Blog - Economic Review and Tactical Investing Seminar in Leawood, Kan.", "raw_content": "Economic Review and Tactical Investing Seminar in Leawood, Kan.\nYou are cordially invited to join us for hors d\u2019oeuvres, drinks and helpful investment information on Thursday, Sept. 18, 6-7:30 p.m. Meet us in business casual at the Bristol Seafood Grill located at 5400 W 119th St., Leawood, Kan. Please R.S.V.P. by Sept. 12 to Beau Crowder at (913) 279-3348 or rcrowder@arvest.com. R.S.V.P. required due to limited seating.\nThe presentation will include an economic review and information about tactical investing presented by Clay Nickel (CPM\u00ae, Investment Management Group, Portfolio Manager) and Jeff Wilson (Portfolio Advisor, Hays Advisory).\nClay serves as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager for private and institutional clients of Arvest Asset Management. Additionally, Clay is co-lead manager of the Investment Management Group\u2019s Strategic Model Portfolios and has served as the lead manager for the Investment Management Group Adaptive Portfolio Strategy. Prior to joining Arvest in 2010, Clay was a portfolio manager for a large community bank and managed a $300 million investment portfolio for high net worth individuals and institutions. Clay is a graduate of Wichita State University. Additionally, he has completed Columbia University\u2019s Academy of Certified Portfolio Management. Clay is also a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Kansas City Society of Chartered Financial Analysts. Kansas Insurance License # 6124188.\nJeff joined Hays Advisory in 2004, and has an extensive background in the financial industry. Prior to joining Hays Advisory he was employed by UBS Financial Services in Nashville, Tenn., where he worked as a financial advisor. During his time at UBS, he also facilitated stock transactions for corporate insiders as regulated under SEC rule 10b5-1. At Hays Advisory, Jeff works with financial advisors across the country educating them on the Hays investment process.\nInvestment products and services are provided by Arvest Investments, Inc., doing business as Arvest Asset Management, member FINRA/SIPC, an SEC registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of Arvest Bank.\nInvestments and Insurance Products: Not a Deposit | Not Guaranteed by the Bank or its Affiliates\nNot FDIC Insured | Not Insured by Any Federal Government Agency | May Go Down in Value\nTags: Financial Education, Investing, Kansas, Kansas City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.117-hudson.com/2008/09/newfangled.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TSVFEVTI3ZZSTPG3VLUJ5OLF6HGIAFJY", "length": 814, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.117-hudson.com", "title": "117 Hudson: Newfangled", "raw_content": "This year has been quite the lesson in the modernization of the funeral industry. Somebody needs to make a reunion movie of Six Feet Under. I like the online guestbook feature, though. If you're interested in an extremely broad sketch of Auntie Blanche's 98 years you can take a look at it here. There are a couple of typos, I did notice them, I'm sure they'll be taken care of soon. That's one of my favorite pictures of her in recent years. The one I'm using here is my very favorite, though, hands down.\nLabels: auntie blanche, links, the great beyond, tv\nWow, she received her college degree at age 51? It sounds like she touched many, many lives.\nI think all any of us can hope for is to leave a picture like that behind. Something that says I had a good time while I was here. Looks like she did. Love you.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 9515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1stmarkstey.org/Scouts", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QDRWP7CVQ2KV6XI5L7QSW66VG55D57YP", "length": 998, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.1stmarkstey.org", "title": "Scouts - 1st Marks Tey", "raw_content": "The Scout Section is for young people, usually aged between 10\u00bd and 14 years. The Scout Troop is the third and final Section in the Scout Group.\nScouts are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities as part of their programme. \"Participation\" rather than meeting set standards is the key approach and for the Scout who wants to be recognised for his or her achievements there are a number of Challenges Awards and Activity Badges. Scouts take part in a balanced programme that helps them to find out about the world in which they live, encourages them to know their own abilities and the importance of keeping fit and helps develop their creative talents. It also provides opportunities to explore their own values and personal attitudes\n1ST MARKS TEY AND COPFORD HAS A VERY STRONG AND ACTIVE SCOUT TROOP. IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING SCOUTS, PLEASE REFER TO MARK CORNELL - VIA THE CONTACTS PAGE.\nMARK CORNELL - SCOUT LEADER ANDREA CORNELL - ASSISTANT SCOUT LEADER", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 168.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.3generations.org/3-generations-2016-annual-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ODYZQXBUH6LNEWCLYUBEY32W3L4NJ6F7", "length": 92, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.3generations.org", "title": "3 Generations 2016 Annual Report | 3generations", "raw_content": "3 Generations 2016 Annual Report\nPosted on August 14, 2017 by 3 Generations in Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.3generations.org/story/nik/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:E5QTFOI3T73OXM3S7JI5OZZMLBDD6GAB", "length": 288, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.3generations.org", "title": "Nik | 3generations", "raw_content": "Nikolaos was a victim of sex trafficking in Chicago from the age of 17. Although he escaped, many wounds still remain. Its hard to leave the trauma behind. He contracted HIV while being trafficking and recently was diagnosed with AIDS. To support Nik with his medical expenses: Click Here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.400hitter.com/gamesummaries.asp?m=506&show_team=0&show_ump=0&TmID=&SeID=237&CtID=0&GsID=81718", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5O4CYGMD7IDY56WO5XX5E5TK3KFBXWWL", "length": 574, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.400hitter.com", "title": "Bay State Pirates 6, Boston Braves 1", "raw_content": "Fri, 1 May, 8:00PM, at Mt. Vernon Field - Lawrence\nBay State Pirates 6, Boston Braves 1\nBoston Braves 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7\nBay State Pirates 0 0 1 2 2 1 x 6 3 0\nQuincy Pirates starting pitcher Andy Burkett stole the show in a 6-1 Pirates win over the Malden Braves on Friday night in Lawrence. Burkett allowed just one run on two hits while striking out nine in his first start of the season. As for the Bucs offense, they didn't exactly shine against Braves starter Derek MacDowell, but they were able to take advantage of some miscues en route to their second-straight win.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aboutloftconversions.co.uk/loft-conversions-resources.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:04Z", "digest": "sha1:F372BVKOCGYVQSWIJXJSHFG7R7F7NW4X", "length": 1057, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.aboutloftconversions.co.uk", "title": "Loft Conversions Resources", "raw_content": "Resources and items of interest\nWe have collected together a large amount of loft conversion resources for you. We have glossarys, links and lists of all sorts to provide you with the information you need. Just take a look at the sections below to see details.\nThere are many terms related to loft conversions that you may not be familiar with. On this page we have provided a glossary of the common terms with an easy to understand explination. We want to help you understand and cut through the jargon so you will feel comfortable when speaking with a builder. Read more \u00bb\nWhile surfing the web we sometimes find some great sites that are informative, interesting, useful or even just funny. To save you searching the web and looking at hundreds of sites we have collected together all of our best sites for you. Read more \u00bb\nWe try hard to provide you with as much clear and conscise information as possible. However, there may be something we have overlooked. Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions you may have for improvements to the site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Marcus_Wesson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:55Z", "digest": "sha1:46PJV3P2FVHETVJCQ4R5WATLBG6676XQ", "length": 1511, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.adherents.com", "title": "The religion of Marcus Wesson, mass murderer", "raw_content": "Marcus Wesson is a Seventh-day Adventist who made national headlines in March 2004 when he was arrested for killing 9 people, apparently all family members. Investigators found that he had fathered at least 18 children with at least 7 different women. Many news stories tied his behavior to Wesson's bizarre personal beliefs and practices, which were clearly divergent from mainstream SDA belief and practice. The North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church posted the following information on a page titled \"Frequently Asked Questions about Marcus Wesson and the Seventh-day Adventist Church\" (http://www.nadadventist.org/article/articleview/410/1/13/):\n3. Is Marcus Wesson a Seventh-day Adventist?\nAs far as we can determine, Marcus Wesson has never been a member of any Seventh-day Adventist Church.\nMarcus Wesson has had sporadic contact with Adventist churches.\n- His parents were members of a Seventh-day Adventist Church.\n- As a child, he attended church services with his parents.\n- As an adult, he occasionally took some of his children to church services.\n- He has attended the Central California Adventist Camp Meeting in Soquel a few times, once as recently as five or six years ago.\n- Camp Meeting is a 10-day spiritual retreat held annually in late July.\n- He was employed as a janitor at the Soquel campgrounds during camp meeting in the late 1980s and early 1990s.\nAs Police Chief Jerry Dyer said on Monday, \"This is not about religion... Seventh-day Adventists are good people.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 150.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2009/november/20.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5OQOV3ZUAVGUGCJTAPISA7T7TDOR4AWM", "length": 15588, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.advocatekhoj.com", "title": "Dir.,Fisheries Terminal Division Vs. Bhikubhai Meghajibhai Chavda | Judgments | Supreme Court Judgments: January, 2018 | Law Library | AdvocateKhoj", "raw_content": "Dir.,Fisheries Terminal Division Vs. Bhikubhai Meghajibhai Chavda [2009] INSC 1709 (9 November 2009)\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.7463 OF 2009 (Arising out of SLP(C) No. 14117 of 2008) Director, Fisheries Terminal Division ..........Appellant Versus Bhikubhai Meghajibhai Chavda .......Respondent\nH.L. Dattu,J.\n2. This is an appeal against the judgment and order of the Gujarat High Court in S.C.A. No. 29355 of 2007 dated 30.11.2007. By the impugned judgment, the court has affirmed the award passed by the labour court, Junagadh, in Reference Case No. 192 of 1995 dated 14th May, 2007, wherein and whereunder the labour court has directed the employer to reinstate the workman into service with 20% back wages.\n3. The facts in brief are : The Fisheries Terminal Department;\n(`F.T.D.' for short), the appellant herein, had come into existence sometime in the year 1976. The activities of F.T.D. inter alia consisted of providing landing facilities for catching fish in a clean and hygienic condition and for that purpose, services of daily wage workmen were utilized as and when it was needed. While this practice was going on, the State Government by its order dated 17.10.1988, directed all the departments of the State Government to discontinue the practice of engaging the services of daily wage workmen and in lieu of it to hire labourers on contractual basis.\n4. The claim of the workman before the labour court was that he was employed by the appellant on 1.12.1985 as watchman and he was paid daily wages and his presence was also marked in the muster roll. It was further stated, that, his services were terminated without giving notice and without complying with the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act. The stand of the appellant before the labour court was that, the workman was employed on daily wage basis in the year 1986 and the workman had worked till 1988 and in all these years, the workman had worked for 93 days, 145 days and 31 days respectively, and thereby the workman had not 2 worked for more than 240 days in any preceding year. It was also there plea, that, the appellant is a seasonal industry and, therefore, provisions under Section 25F of Industrial Disputes Act is not attracted.\n5. The labour court on consideration of the oral and documentary evidence, has concluded that the appellant is an industry, since there is no evidence to show that the appropriate government had declared the appellant as a seasonal industry or the work is performed intermittently. It has also observed, that, the appellant has not produced any documentary evidence to show that the workman had not completed 240 days in the preceding year and was not in service till 1991 and, therefore, adverse inference requires to be drawn that the workman has completed continuous service of 240 days and, accordingly, has concluded that the appellant-employer could not have retrenched the services of the workman without complying with the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act. In view of the aforesaid finding and the conclusion reached, the labour court had directed the appellant to reinstate the respondent with 20% back wages for the period when the respondent was kept out of service.\n6. The award passed by the labour court was challenged by the appellant before the High Court. The High Court has endorsed the award passed by the labour court, on the ground that the labour court has rightly come to the conclusion that the appellant has not established by leading cogent evidence that the appellant is not a seasonal industry. It is also observed, that, once it has come in evidence that the workman has completed 240 days of service in the preceding year, then the initial burden is shifted on the employer to rebut the oral evidence of the workman by producing relevant oral and documentary evidence and since the appellant failed to produce the same before the labour court, it was justified in concluding that the workman had completed continuous service of 240 days during the preceding year and accordingly had dismissed the writ petition filed by the appellant.\n7. Being aggrieved by the judgment and order passed by the High Court, the appellant is before us in this appeal.\n8. The learned counsel for the appellant submitted, that, the appellant industry is seasonal in nature and, the respondent was employed on a purely temporary basis and, therefore, the onus lies on the respondent/workman to prove that he had in fact worked for 240 4 days in the preceding year. It is further submitted that the claim of the workman was time barred and, therefore, the labour court ought not to have entertained the claim made by the workman, since the workman had approached the labour court nearly after eight years from the date he was supposed to have been terminated from service by the employer.\n9. Per contra, the learned counsel for the respondent submitted that the workman immediately after his services were terminated by the employer, had approached the conciliation officer and on failure of the conciliation proceedings, had approached the State government to make reference of the dispute for adjudication before the labour court and, therefore, it cannot be said that the workman had approached the labour court after a long lapse of time. It is further submitted, that, the workman in his evidence, categorically had made statement before the labour court that he had worked for more than 240 days in a preceding year and, since that evidence is not rebutted by the employer by producing the relevant oral and documentary evidence which would be in their possession, the labour court was justified in drawing adverse inference against the employer. It was further submitted, that, since the appellant failed 5 to prove before the labour court by producing necessary evidence that the appellant industry is seasonal in nature, the labour court has not committed any error whatsoever, to accept the oral assertion made by the appellant before the labour court. It is further submitted, since the findings of the labour court cannot be said as perverse findings or based on no evidence, the High Court was justified in declining to interfere with the findings of fact by the labour court in a petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.\n10. From the facts as set out herein above and the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties, the question that requires to be decided whether the labour court and the High Court was justified in allowing the claim of the workman. It is not the case of the appellant that it is not an industry as defined under Section 2(J) of the Act, but it was its specific stand before the labour court and also the High Court that it is only a seasonal industry and employ workman like the respondent only during fishing season and are relieved at the end of the season and, therefore, the labour court and the High Court were not justified in not only directing the reinstatement of workman into service but also the payment of 6 back wages. This submission of the learned counsel in the appeal requires to be answered with reference to Section 25A of Industrial Disputes Act. The Section is as under:\n\"25A. Application of sections 25C to 25E.-(1) Sections 25C to 25E inclusive [shall not apply to industrial establishments to which Chapter VB applies, or--] (a) to industrial establishments in which less than fifty workmen on an average per working day have been employed in the preceding calendar month; or (b) to industrial establishments which are of a seasonal character or in which work is performed only intermittently.\n(2) If a question arises whether an industrial establishment is of a seasonal character or whether work is performed therein only intermittently, the decision of the appropriate Government thereon shall be final.\"\n11. It is now well settled by several judgments of this court, that, where a workman is employed for a seasonal work or temporary period, the workman cannot be said to be retrenched in view of Section 2(00)(bb). It is relevant to take note of what is stated by this court in the case of Morinda Co-operative Sugar Mills Ltd. vs. Ram Kishan (1995) 5 SCC 653, it was stated by this court :\n\"....that since the work done by the respondents is only a seasonal work, the respondents cannot be said to have been retrenched in view of what is stated in sub clause (bb) of Section 2(00) of the Act.\"\n12. In the normal course, it is the decision of the appropriate Government which is final in determination whether the said industry is seasonal in nature. As has been observed by the labour court and the High Court, there has been nothing brought on record by the appellants to support their contention that fisheries is a seasonal industry. There has been no order from the Government which has been produced by the appellants to state that the fisheries industry is seasonal. There has been no mention of any decision on the part of the appropriate Government with regard to declaring fisheries as a seasonal industry. Therefore, we concur with the finding of the labour court wherein they have concluded that the appellant cannot be classified as a seasonal industry.\n13. The next contention of the learned counsel for the appellant is that the respondent had not worked for 240 days during the preceding twelve months on daily wages and, therefore, the respondent cannot claim any protection under the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The case of the respondent before the labour court was that as he had completed working for more than 240 days in a year, the purported order of retrenchment is illegal, as 8 conditions precedent as contained in Section 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 were not complied with.\n14. Section 25B of the Act defines \"continuous service\". In terms of Sub section (2) of Section 25B that if a workman during a period of twelve calendar months preceding the date with reference to which calculation is to be made, has actually worked under the employer 240 days within a period of one year, he will be deemed to be in continuous service. The respondent claims he was employed in the year 1985 as a watchman and his services were retrenched in the year 1991 and during the period between 1985 to 1991, he had worked for a period of more than 240 days. The burden of proof is on the respondent to show that he had worked for 240 days in preceding twelve months prior to his alleged retrenchment. The law on this issue appears to be now well settled. This court in the case of R.M. Yellatty vs. Assistant Executive Engineer [(2006) 1 SCC 106], has observed :\n\"However, applying general principles and on reading the aforesaid judgments, we find that this Court, has repeatedly taken the view that the burden of proof is on the claimant to show that he had worked for 240 days in a given year. This burden is discharged only upon the workman stepping up in the witness box. This burden is discharged upon the workman adducing cogent 9 evidence, both oral and documentary. In cases of termination of services of daily-waged earners, there will be no letter of appointment of termination. There will also be no receipt of proof of payment. Thus in most cases, the workman (the claimant) can only call upon the employer to produce before the Court the nominal muster roll for the given period, the letter of appointment of termination, if any, the wage register, the attendance register, etc. Drawing of adverse inference ultimately would depend thereafter on the facts of each case.\"\n15. Applying the principles laid down in the above case by this court, the evidence produced by the appellants has not been consistent.\nThe appellants claim that the respondent did not work for 240 days. The respondent was a workman hired on a daily wage basis.\nSo it is obvious, as this court pointed out in the above case that he would have difficulty in having access to all the official documents, muster rolls etc. in connection with his service. He has come forward and deposed, so in our opinion the burden of proof shifts to the employer/appellants to prove that he did not complete 240 days of service in the requisite period to constitute continuous service. It is the contention of the appellant that the services of the respondent were terminated in 1988. The witness produced by the appellant stated that the respondent stopped coming to work from 10 February, 1988. The documentary evidence produced by the appellant is contradictory to this fact as it shows that the respondent was working during February, 1989 also. It has also been observed by the High Court that the muster roll for 1986-87 was not completely produced. The appellants have inexplicably failed to produce the complete records and muster rolls from 1985 to 1991, inspite of the direction issued by the labour court to produce the same. In fact there has been practically no challenge to the deposition of the respondent during cross-examination. In this regard, it would be pertinent to mention the observation of three judge bench of this court in the case of Municipal Corporation, observed:\n\"A Court of Law even in a case where provisions of the Indian Evidence Act apply, may presume or may not presume that if a party despite possession of the best evidence had not produced the same, it would have gone against this contentions. The matter, however, would be different where despite direction by a court the evidence is withheld.\"\n16. It is not in dispute that the respondent's service was terminated without complying with the provisions of Section 25F of Industrial 11 Disputes Act. Section 25G of the Act provides for the procedure for retrenchment. The section reads- \"25G. Procedure for retrenchment.- Where any workman in an industrial establishment, who is a citizen of India, is to be retrenched and he belongs to a particular category of workmen in that establishment, in the absence of any agreement between the employer and the workman in this behalf, the employer shall ordinarily retrench the workman who was the last person to be employed in that category, unless for reasons to be recorded the employer retrenches any other workman.\"\nThe labour court based on the pleadings and evidence on record has come to the conclusion that the services of some of the employees junior to the respondent was continued after the respondent was discharged from its duties. The dates of joining of some of the fellow employees of the respondent like Mohanbhai, Kalubhai and Nanjibhai were not produced by the appellants. The appellants have clearly failed to prove that the services of no junior employee was continued when the services of the respondent was terminated. Thus, the procedure laid down in Section 25G has also not been followed. The findings on facts by the labour cannot be termed as perverse and need no interference.\n17. It is also the case of the appellants that there is unexplained delay in approaching the labour court in adjudicating the imaginary 12 grievance by the respondent-workman. In our view, there is no merit in this contention. The workman had approached the Conciliation Officer for resolving the dispute between the employer and the employee and it is only when the conciliation proceedings failed that the matter was referred to the labour court for final adjudication.\n18. In view of the above discussion, we do not see any good ground to interfere with the impugned order. Accordingly, appeal requires to be dismissed and it is dismissed. 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The Promenade is just 100 metres away, and Bridlington Train Station is a 10-minute walk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.almalaurea.it/en/informa/news/2011/05/16/almalaurea-arrow-bow-europe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:V4QUU57QUSTGHXY5P2QIH6EBXLLOUGTB", "length": 8783, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.almalaurea.it", "title": "\ufeff \"AlmaLaurea: an arrow to the bow of Europe\" | AlmaLaurea", "raw_content": "\"AlmaLaurea: an arrow to the bow of Europe\"\nguigou.png\n\"Fascinated by the intelligence and the simplicity of the model. \" In these terms Jean-Louis Guigou, Delegate General of the 'Institut de Prospective Economique du Monde M\u00e9diterran\u00e9en - IPEMED explains his gaining knowledge of AlmaLaurea \", confident that the Consortium could play a central role in the Euro-Mediterranean basin\". The Professor, speaking at the International Conference \"Human Capital and Employment in the Euro- Mediterranean Area\", held on March 10-11 in Bologna, and jointly organized by AlmaLaurea and AlmaMater, as a strong supporter of the Euro-Mediterranean approach, provides an overview of the situation affecting the southern shore of the Mare Nostrum.\n\"The political crisis and the revolutions in place are the result of what we might call the European Contagion. Now, if we want these people not to be oriented towards the revolutionary perspective, we have to make an economic offer.\" \"An offer especially focused on youth employment. \" How? \"Through the involvement and the empowering of businesses, through funding and facilities and through a reviewing of the training systems within the country,\" says the Director General of IPEMED. \" In this case, we have many arrows in our bow: grants, collaborations between universities, links with the labour market and dissemination of analytical models such as those offered by AlmaLaurea\".\nWhat are, in your opinion, the effects of the \"Arab Spring\" on the labor market of the Mediterranean, in particular for the young graduates?\n\"In Egypt 70% of the population is under 30 years old, and this is the case of all the countries of the southern and the eastern Mediterranean. This means that in the coming years we will need to create so many jobs to absorb the increasing number of people entering the labour market . Instead of a rough analysis on current facts, I prefer to refer to some scientific work, as those that bring IPEMED in a discussion on the prospects of the Mediterranean by 2030. I was inspired by the table \"L'emploi dans les pays m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ens : Evolution r\u00e9cente et perspectives\" of Frederic Blank, Delegate General of FEMISE; as well as by his comments. In order to maintain the current levels of activity and unemployment, Mediterranean countries will need to create 34 million jobs in the next 20 years, about 1.5 million per year. A goal reached in the last decade, but that in 2030 could lead 150 million people of the southern shores of the Mediterranean out of work. However, today we are witnessing a higher growth rate that if sustained until 2030, will lead to the creation of 62 million jobs (about 2.7 million per year on average). If this is the case, we will have a 10 percentage points increase in the rate of activity, which means 30 million more in the economic active population relative to the inactive group. But this alone will not be enough to stop the growing number of inactive people. To achieve this goal the Mediterranean countries must create 95 million jobs, more than 4 million per year. Being able to achieve this goal means to keep the number of inactive population at around 64 million (for the 2007- 2030 period), which will turn in 20 years in the creation of 94 million jobs. But how to achieve the goal? It requires a massive reorganization of the production system from north to south, as Germany did with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and also the creation of jobs for the Mediterranean countries.\"\nDo you envisage a common future for the Mediterranean Region?\n\"It 's necessary to talk about common futures, in plural form. Studies of \"Mediterranean 2030\" lead to three types of scenarios, and I agree with such vision. The first, crisis and marginalization of the Mediterranean. The main reason lies in the recession that is affecting Southern Europe and countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy and France, which combines perfectly with the long-term instability of the Arab area of the Mediterranean. Another possible scenario might be a situation of divergence between the two sides, that is the rehabilitation of Europe and its carrying on an incomplete economic and political transition in the South. In this case, only trade and a selective immigration could establish relations between north and south. Finally, the third scenario could be a situation of convergence thanks to a strong regional cooperation and a transfer of knowledge and capital. With the \"Arab Spring, \" the latter scenario could also occur. It will depend on the European co-operation with the free Arab countries.\"\nWhat are the main projects to be undertaken and the main policies to be adopted for the construction of a Mediterranean region?\n\"The Arab countries on the path of democracy are facing a particularly critical stage, full of pitfalls. They can make a detour from Europe and look at China or at the U.S., countries interested in the areas of the southern Mediterranean for the quality of their raw materials. Otherwise, they can be absorbed by the \"octopus of ethno-religious bigotry\" as written by Edgar Morin, French philosopher and sociologist. Finally, they can turn to Europe as long as the policy direction will be clear, fast, ambitious and in stages. This will have consequences. In the short term, the EU will need to monitor closely and \"accompany \" the action and answer to questions, in contrast, the free countries of the Mediterranean will have to solve specific problems. Balance their budget, ensure external accounts stability, stabilize currency and exchange rates, offer guarantees to lending capacity, create a micro-credit fund. In the medium term, Europe should propose a plan to modernize and set up local regulation plans for every free country by mobilizing funds from the World Bank, the EIB European Investment Bank, KfW Bankengruppe and BAD, African Development Bank. In addition to bilateral aid it will be necessary to propose to countries of southern and eastern Mediterranean real policies of general interest. For instance: a financial institution for the development of the Mediterranean, as well as energy policy, food safety and then, three or four major common policies. In the long term, let\u2019s say 10 or 15 years, it will be necessary to propose a concrete vision of political and economic policy. We must turn on the lights of hope. How? On the political level it is necessary to redefine the Barcelona Process (1993), the Neighborhood (2002) and the Union for the Mediterranean. The redefinition of cooperation between North and South has to be done in cooperation: no one can impose its vision to the other. But the experience of the last 15 years leads me to think that it is possible to create an \"anchor\" between the two shores. This type of anchor may be called \" Mediterranean Community\" as it was the establishment of the European Community in 1956, in institutional terms, by giving countries the status of \"associate member\" of the European Union.\"\nWhat region is this?\n\"A huge region of the world with a strong role in multi-polar competition. On the economic front it will be necessary to suggest \"an ecological model of production\"(Hubert Vedrine). After the \"industrialization\" the \"financial activities\" and the \"informatization \" era the time of the \"greening\" of our production system has arrived. If all countries adopt the American way of life it would need four planets to meet the needs of raw materials. If Europe becomes a leader in ecological field it could share with the released Arab countries a new lasting model of human development. The countries of the southern Mediterranean will be favorable to this greening approach. And it is necessary to invent a new industrial, urban and ecological model across the northern and the southern Mediterranean.\"\nWhat will be the role of return migration for the development of the southern shore of the Mediterranean basin?\n\"The return migration will be crucial. We saw how in India and China diaspora has played a strategic role in the transfer of knowledge, capital and technology. So I believe that through the inevitable democratic transition, return migration will be more than favored in all countries of the South Eastern Mediterranean. \"\nDo you think that the AlmaLaurea model can be a unifying framework for the creation of a system of higher education in the euro-Mediterranean region?\n\"I got knowledge about the AlmaLaurea model one year ago thanks to Professor Pierre Dubois. I am fascinated by the intelligence and the simplicity of the model. Without any doubt I believe that this model, meeting supply and demand of quality graduates, can certainly help to enhance the unification of the euro-Mediterranean basin \".\nit: \"AlmaLaurea: una freccia all'arco dell'Europa\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 11755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.amagazinecuratedby.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UZQVEXX5B47KJ56X7KM5LVDXSJU7ADFE", "length": 64, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.amagazinecuratedby.com", "title": "About A MAGAZINE curated by", "raw_content": "Every A Magazine Curated By is a new story waiting to be told...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.amynka.estranky.cz/fotoalbum/vikendovka-2008/vikendovka/_hel9619.jpg.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IYUVHCZDWQBWF4BW2ITMKZCD4EBLXVZZ", "length": 8, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.amynka.estranky.cz", "title": "Zdrav\u00edme V\u00e1s na Amyn\u010din\u00fdch str\u00e1nk\u00e1ch - Fotoalbum - V\u00edkendovka 2008 - V\u00edkendovka 2008 - _HEL9619.jpg", "raw_content": "A hop...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 121.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anb.org/browse?btog=chap&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&t=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenownANB%3A946&t0=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenownANB%3A1112", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ATVEFDKUREA5YLWJC45BQP4BBQFFLUPK", "length": 6657, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.anb.org", "title": "orator | American National Biography", "raw_content": "Disciples of Christ clergyman (2)\norator x\nJasper, John (1812-1901), Baptist preacher and orator\nJasper, John (04 July 1812\u201330 March 1901), Baptist preacher and orator, was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, the son of slave parents, Philip Jasper, a slave preacher, and Nina, head servant of the Peachy family. (His father served as a preacher at slave funerals.) John worked as a cart boy accompanying the plantation ox cart and on errands around the Peachy \u201cgreat house.\u201d In 1825 his master hired him out to Peter McHenry, for whom he worked one year in Richmond before returning to the Peachy plantation. He later labored in the coal mines of Chesterfield County. Jasper\u2019s master sent him to Richmond a third time to work at Samuel Hargrove\u2019s tobacco warehouse. Jasper led a life he later confessed to have been irreligious and riotous. A fellow slave taught him to read and spell....\nMaffitt, John Newland (1794-1850), Methodist preacher\nRobert E. Cray\nMaffitt, John Newland (28 December 1794\u201328 May 1850), Methodist preacher, was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a middle-class family that belonged to the Church of Ireland, a branch of the Anglican church. Information about Maffitt\u2019s family background and early life is decidedly spotty: his parents\u2019 names are unknown, although we do know that his father died when Maffitt was twelve and that his mother shortly thereafter attempted to establish him in a mercantile establishment devoted to tailoring. One account claims he graduated from Trinity College. The teenage Maffitt indulged a love of reading novels and historical romances, however, until a conversion experience in a Methodist meeting at age eighteen or nineteen\u2014accounts conflict on this score\u2014convinced him to become a preacher. The Irish Methodist church did not recognize him as a licensed preacher, and his sporadic attempts at evangelical work both in and beyond Dublin were a mixed success at best. Even so, he displayed a highly melodramatic style, which would personify his later career in the United States. He married Ann Carnic at age twenty. They had seven children; the oldest son, ...\nNiebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), theologian and political journalist\nRichard Wightman Fox\nNiebuhr, Reinhold (21 June 1892\u201301 June 1971), theologian and political journalist, was born Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr in Wright City, Missouri, the son of Gustav Niebuhr, a German immigrant preacher, and Lydia Hosto, his parish assistant and organist. Reinhold grew up in Missouri and Illinois, where his father, a minister of the German Evangelical Synod of North America, had a series of parishes. From age ten he lived in Lincoln, Illinois, a heavily first- and second-generation German-American town, where his family lived, he later recalled, in \u201cgenteel poverty.\u201d One of four children (and three sons), he was the apple of his father\u2019s eye and decided as a boy to follow his father into the ministry. At age fifteen, having finished the ninth grade at Lincoln High School, he left for three years of boarding school at the Synod\u2019s proseminary, Elmhurst College, outside of Chicago. In later years he much regretted having missed a solid high school education. Neither did he ever attend an undergraduate college. His lack of a B.A. degree, and his poor schooling in English, modern history, and the sciences, led him to condemn his church for giving only lip service to education. At age eighteen he enrolled at the Synod\u2019s Eden Theological Seminary, outside of St. Louis, where he starred in debate and worked hard on his English writing skills. In 1913 he received the bachelor of divinity degree and was ordained a minister....\nSimpson, Matthew (1811-1884), Methodist bishop and orator\nSimpson, Matthew (21 June 1811\u201318 June 1884), Methodist bishop and orator, was born in Cadiz, Ohio, the son of James Simpson, a manufacturer and storekeeper, and Sarah Tingley. While growing up in western Pennsylvania, Simpson had little formal schooling, but he read widely and acquired knowledge of history, mathematics, literature, and religion under the tutelage of his uncle Matthew Simpson. As a boy, Simpson helped his family in the manufacturing of weaver\u2019s reeds. He learned about the law by attending the county court with another uncle who was clerk. A third uncle published a weekly newspaper; by assisting him, Simpson learned much about publishing and the world beyond Cadiz. At age fifteen, he helped his uncle Matthew teach at a private academy. Two years later he attended Madison College in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, for two months before returning to Cadiz. In 1830, desiring a more stable career, Simpson began the study of medicine under a local doctor; three years later he qualified to practice on his own....\nSmith, Gerald Lyman Kenneth (1898-1976), minister, publisher, and political crusader\nGlen Jeansonne\nSmith, Gerald Lyman Kenneth (27 February 1898\u201315 April 1976), minister, publisher, and political crusader, was born in Pardeeville, Wisconsin, the son of Lyman Z. Smith, a farmer and traveling salesman, and Sarah Henthorn, a schoolteacher. Raised in poverty in small towns in Wisconsin, Smith graduated from Viroqua High School, where he won prizes for track and oratory....\nTaylor, Edward Thompson (1793-1871), Methodist preacher\nTaylor, Edward Thompson (25 December 1793\u201305 April 1871), Methodist preacher, was born in Richmond, Virginia, to unknown parents. Raised in a foster home, he sought to engage playmates by giving funeral sermons for animals, whipping those children not already weeping from the force of his preaching. At the age of seven he went to sea. In the autumn of 1811, at seventeen, he found himself in the port of Boston and crawled through the window of the Methodist chapel, where the Reverend ...\nWillett, Herbert Lockwood (1864-1944), clergyman, orator, and biblical scholar\nSteven W. Holloway\nWillett, Herbert Lockwood (05 May 1864\u201328 March 1944), clergyman, orator, and biblical scholar, was born near Ionia, Michigan, the son of Gordon Arthur Willett, a farm machinery merchant, and Mary Elizabeth Yates, a schoolteacher serving as a nurse in the Union army. Formative in his choice of vocation were the memberships of both the Willett and Yates families in a Disciples of Christ congregation founded in the 1850s by evangelist Isaac Errett. Willett never attended public school. He studied under his mother\u2019s tutelage, memorizing large portions of the Bible and poetry, an accomplishment that later lent distinction to his public and academic addresses. In 1883 his Disciples heritage prompted him to attend Bethany College in West Virginia, the school founded by the denominational leader ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 13203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anchorcounselingcenter.com/category/blog/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:26Z", "digest": "sha1:HIVYGLYEWRPPSFJUAHTCRQ3AW3NMJRZV", "length": 37217, "nlines": 105, "source_domain": "www.anchorcounselingcenter.com", "title": "Blog | Anchor Counseling Center - Part 4", "raw_content": "Reality Therapy: Choosing Behaviors\nOct 13, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog // 1 Comment\nChoosing Behaviors to Impact Our External World: Reality Therapy\nAnchor Counseling Center clinicians use an array of psychological theories and techniques to help their clients achieve a better quality of life. A more modern approach to psychotherapy that is currently taking notice is that of Choice Theory, also known as Reality therapy.\nWilliam Glasser, MD, created reality therapy in the 1950s and 1960s while working in a correctional institution and a psychiatric hospital (Wubbolding, 2000). Glasser was trained in psychoanalysis, but soon found that the goals of the analytic approach were attainable, but client\u2019s ineffective behaviors persisted (Wubbolding, 2011). Glasser also observed that clients not only neglected to take responsibility for their behavior, but that they were also untrained in how to create more effective choices (Wubbolding, 2011). G.L. Harrington, Glasser\u2019s professor and mentor, encouraged Glasser to generate and put into practice the early ideology of his new treatment. In Mental Health or Mental Illness, Glasser initially discussed his idea that the satisfaction of internal needs regulate an individual\u2019s level of mental health (Wubbolding, 2011).\nThe defining moment of reality therapy came in 1965 with Glasser\u2019s Reality therapy: A New Approach to psychiatry (Wubbolding, 2011). In his newly identified therapy, Glasser highlighted that behavior is directly associated with one\u2019s choices and that in most circumstances, people have various options available to them. Glasser\u2019s reality therapy was not initially received well by medical professionals, but others involved in corrections and the education system seemed intrigued by this methodology because it emphasized personal responsibility. Currently, when referring to reality therapy the associated theory is also implied; however, reality therapy was only seen as a method in the beginning. Fascinatingly, the theory that applies to reality therapy was developed after the therapeutic methodology.\nThe early practice of reality therapy followed William James\u2019 idea that attitudes are changeable, and therefore people can change their lives by changing their attitudes (Wubbolding, 2011). Psychoanalyst, Helmut Kaiser contributed to Glasser\u2019s formulation of reality therapy by his admission that patients should feel responsible for their own words. Swiss physician, Paul Dubois, helped his patients substitute deconstructive thoughts with more constructive cognitions, which also contributed to the theory framing reality therapy. Glasser developed his basic premise when he consulted for the Ventura School, an institution for delinquent girls, in 1965. The girls at the school had often been told that their emotional disorders rendered them irresponsible for their behavior, which Glasser disagreed with. Interest in the therapy practice gradually increased, but the need for a theoretical grounding was becoming an issue among those in the professional arena. The William Glasser Institute, as it is currently named, was founded in 1967 and provides clinical training and certification in reality therapy for professionals.\nIn developing a fundamental theory, Glasser first formulated the sociological foundation in The Identity Society (Glasser, 1972). This sociological foundation suggested that the gradual and sudden changes in societal values that impacted western civilization in the 1950s and 1960s birthed the \u201cidentity society\u201d (Glasser, 1972). The identity society referred to a society in which people\u2019s central focus was on their identity development than on their basic needs (Glasser, 1972). Emphasis was placed on personal empowerment by means of self-evaluation and positive future planning (Glasser, 1972). This notion was unique in comparison to the common practices of psychotherapy in the 1960s because it held people responsible for their behaviors. During that time in history, people seeking higher levels of inner control were, for the most part, the ones who approved of reality therap. Due to the concentration on personal responsibility, reality therapy was viewed as an internal control psychology. Glasser found that the control theory, or control system theory, was applicable to the practice of reality therapy. The assumptions of inner control formed the basis of choice theory, the theory that currently supports reality therapy. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the underlying theory of reality therapy, the practice of reality therapy, and the therapy\u2019s applicability and its efficacy as a therapy as it stands currently in the psychological field.\nWhat is Choice Theory\nChoice theory, previously known as the control system theory, explicates how the human mind functions as a negative input control system (Wubbolding, 2011). The theory describes that when individuals perceive that they are not receiving what is desired, they display behavior, or trigger their behavioral system (Wubbolding, 2011). Activation of the behavioral system occurs when the individual makes choices to correct the discrepancy between what they want or need and what they are not getting. Mentally healthy humans are in a state of homeostasis when they perceive that their wants and needs are being satisfied by the world around them (Wubbolding, 2011). Glasser (1998) proposed that human behavior is both teleological and an individual\u2019s attempt to influence and communicate with the external world. Reality therapy is rooted in choice theory, but maintains its own set principles and procedures as it predates choice theory. In any event, the aim of reality therapy is to change behaviors so that clients will experience need satisfaction and overall happiness. Wubbolding (2000), states that when clients\u2019 needs are not being satisfied effectively, they will experience discomfort or a variety of emotions. Some people will develop psychosomatic symptoms or act out negatively when their needs repeatedly go unmet. Choice theory, is a system of brain functioning which Glasser (1998) adapted to his work with clinical patients and students. Control theory posits that the human brain works like a control system that seeks to regulate its own behavior which, in turn, alters the world external to the human being (Glasser, 1998; Wubbolding, 2011). Glasser\u2019s (1998) extension of control theory, which includes five internal forces (needs) that motivate human beings, is what generated choice theory. These five human needs, also known as \u201cgenetic instructions\u201d, are inherent, general, and universal to all humans (Glasser, 1998). Behavior is the individuals attempt to maintain or satisfy his or her needs for belonging or love, power or achievement, fun or enjoyment, freedom or independence, and survival (Wubbolding, 2011). Effective satisfaction of the five needs results in a sense of control, equivalent with self-actualization or fully-functioning in other theories (Wubbolding, 2000).\nBasic Needs and Feelings\nThe needs described by choice theory are similar to those presented by Maslow; however, needs in choice theory are not hierarchical, but function most effectively when all needs are equally balanced. Choice theory explains that all human beings strive to stay alive and reproduce. The inner functioning of an organism suggests that humans have a need for survival or self-preservation. For example, the autonomic nervous system\u2019s function is to maintain life and satisfy a person\u2019s need for survival (Wubbolding, 2000). The autonomic system keeps the body functioning, and many of the bodily functions require the help of the cerebral cortex. According to choice theory, \u201cthe cerebral cortex hoses the psychological needs and receives help-me messages from the autonomic system\u201d (Wubbolding, 2000, p.11). This need functions at a level of awareness, regulates the individual\u2019s voluntary behaviors, and attends to some less conscious, routine behaviors.\nThe need to belong is expressed by human beings tendency to congregate and form a sense of community. This need is also evidenced by the fact that people quickly learn to cooperate with others and function as a unit. The workplace, school, church, and family are just a few of the places people find the need to belong satisfied. Glasser (1998) classified that the need for love or belonging operates effectively on a reciprocal basis. Psychotherapy shows clients how to lean on other people appropriately and how to make him or herself available to get love from another. Glasser (1998) stated that an excess of or excessive lack of love creates a self-absorbed, needy person or an insecure, always do-good person. People differ from one another by the individual\u2019s efforts to establish and satisfy his or her identity needs (Glasser, 1972). In reality therapy counseling, the quality of human relationships is the central focus in examining the individual\u2019s need for belonging or love. Glasser (1998) pointed out that the need to belong is central to human motivation and how they relate with other people. As long as clients can develop healthy human relationships, they can acquire the necessary means to satisfy their belonging needs.\nHuman beings also have a need for power in that they seek to gain power, achievement, competence and accomplishments. Power, in choice theory, means \u201cto be able \u201c(Glasser, 1998, p.13). While competition can definitely fulfill the power need, it is not the only way to acquire power. Satisfying the power need should be viewed as an accomplishment or achievement (Glasser, 1998). In this sense, power is an internal feature; therefore, when one\u2019s sense of power increases, it does not infringe upon the efforts of another person attempting to gain power. According to Glasser (1998), attempting to achieve the need for power is a major cause of conflict in various societal settings such as schools, neighborhoods, and in families. Reality therapists assist clients in developing options that can fulfill their need for power without out impinging upon another\u2019s efforts to do the same. Also, clients may experience the need for power as a need to feel inner control of their lives. Reality therapists assist clients in finding a balance of inner control as lives that are excessively regulated from the external world will often times rebel which is displayed by antisocial behavior, apathy, or negative symptoms (Glasser, 1998).\nFreedom, or Independence, entails the notion that human beings have the chance to choose from varying possibilities and to act on one\u2019s own without being unfairly restrained (Glasser, 1998). Choice theory suggests that humans are born with the inclination to choose. Most people who go into psychotherapy do not initially realize that they have the ability to make choices regardless of the circumstance. As with other needs, natural and circumstantial events (or objects) limit the ways in which the need can be fulfilled. Despite even the direst situations, reality therapists deem that there is always a choice to be made by clients (Wubbolding, 2000, p.15).\nThe final need for fun and enjoyment is intrinsic to human nature. A person that chooses to be bored, lacks apathy or is \u201cdepress-ing\u201d is not effectively fulfilling his or her need for enjoyment. According to Wubbolding (2000), \u201cwe are land-based creatures who play all our lives\u201d (p.16). In choice theory learning is associated with play, or fun. Basically, humans are learning their entire life, but if humans were to discontinue playing they would also stop learning. Fun is also related to building relationships. An example would be two people falling in love. People falling in love are essentially learning about each other, and often times they are seen by others as always laughing or having a good time with each other. Wubbolding (2000) says that \u201cthe developmental task of differentiating oneself from others entails the need for fun\u201d (p.16). In couples counseling, reality therapists reveal options that help clients have fun and enjoy being together, as sharing fun with another increases intimacy. When a person participates in activities that are not at least tolerable, he or she may abandon the activities altogether or replace the activities with compensatory behaviors that are usually harmful.\nMcNamara (1997) expanded Glasser\u2019s need system by suggesting that conflicts between needs can occur (as cited in Wubbolding, 2000). This expansion suggests that one need may conflict with another, but also, tension can exist between aspects of the same need. For example, a person\u2019s need for survival may include the desire to be safe, but also the desire to grow and evolve. The need for freedom can be freedom from something or the freedom to explore something. While intra-need conflicts may exist, they are minute when compared to the true conflict expressed in the quality world of an individual.\nYour Quality World\nBy interacting with the environment, people find that some aspects of the external world satisfy their needs, while other aspects of the world remain unsuccessful in fulfilling the five aforesaid psychological needs. From the external world experiences, the individual gathers information on what needs are and aren\u2019t being met, and then he or she creates a file of wants (desires) in his or her mind. Each person generates particular images of people, events, beliefs, treasures, and activities that fulfill his or her needs (Glasser, 1998). The collection of these need-fulfilling wants is the world in which a person desires to live (Glasser, 1998). Choice theory describes the \u201cquality world\u201d as the conglomerate of wants as they relate to the five needs. Every quality image, or want, is specific. Choice theorists call the specific wants, \u201cpictures,\u201d and the collective file of wants, the \u201cmental picture album\u201d (Glasser, 1998, p.53). In general, people have ideas and beliefs about people who fulfill their needs for belonging, ideas about certain ways to gain power, and specific ideas about freedom. These specific ideas are exclusive to each individual.\nQuality worlds are diverse, personally unique, and dynamic. According to choice theory, quality worlds adjust and evolve as people age and complete developmental tasks (Glasser, 1998). Conflict may also exist among quality world wants. Quality world wants can be in conflict with each other, or these pictures can be in conflict with others wants. These conflicts often necessitate relationship, couples, or family therapy. The conflicts also imply that, in educational settings, teachers should attempt to become a part of their students\u2019 quality worlds (Glasser, 1998). Unfortunately, living completely in a quality world is impossible as humans actually fulfill needs in the real world (Glasser, 1998). While pictures that make up the quality world are diverse, unique, and dynamic, they are also removable. People even have the ability to remove others who are seen as important and lovable from their quality worlds. Glasser (1998) used the example of divorces. He posited that the majority of marriages end because at least one partner changes the quality world pictures of his or her spouse (Glasser, 1998).\nThe pictures, or wants, of the quality world also exist as a set of priorities (Wubbolding, 2000). Reality therapists spend a lot of time helping clients and students establish their priorities, or the level of importance associated with their wants. Wubbolding (2000) articulated that individuals brought up in chaotic, inconsistent, and dysfunctional families commonly express difficulties creating priorities and knowing the comparative importance of their wants. Unlike some choice theorists, Wubbolding (2000) held that some wants appear as blurred images in people\u2019s brains. Just as a photograph can sometimes be blurry, the image of a want may present in the same manner because the individual may not have a clear idea of what he or she wants. Pictures, or wants, can either be attainable, unachievable, or in between. Unrealistic pictures are very common in psychotherapy. The first goal of psychotherapy is for the reality therapist to become a part of the client\u2019s quality world so that clients will want to form a relationship with the therapist. Reality therapists have the job of helping people evaluate their current ability to achieve the particular want. Both Wubbolding (2000) and Glasser (1998) asserted that regardless of circumstances, an individual cannot be helped unless he or she chooses to be.\nRegardless of what you are struggling with or what your wants are, we are here to respond to your needs. Anchor Counseling Center has over 20 clinicians in Cranston, East Providence, and Lincoln, RI that are dedicated to assisting you create change in your life that is fitting to your quality world.\nGlasser, W. (1972). Identity society. New York: HarperCollins.\nGlasser, W. (1995). Control theory: A new explanation of how we control our life. New York:\nHarper & Row.\nGlasser, W. (1998). Choice theory: A new psychology of personal freedom. New York, NY:\nWubbolding, R.E. (1988). Using reality therapy. New York, New York: Harper & Row.\nWubbolding, R.E. (2011). Reality therapy. DC, Washington: American Psychological\nWubbolding, R.E. (2000). Reality therapy for the 21ST century. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor &\nAnger, Alone, Loneliness, and Sadness\nOct 12, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog, Uncategorized // No Comments\nGrowing up with a brother that has autism was (and sometimes still is) difficult, confusing, and definately frustrating. I was always taught that I shouldn\u2019t be angry for the things that my brother does because he \u201ccan\u2019t help it\u201d or the he \u201cdoesn\u2019t understand\u201d. I was taught to suppress my negative feelings towards my brother, and that nothing was ever his fault. Now that I\u2019m given the chance to express these feelings, to acceptably express these emotions that I have felt since i have been small child, a wave of emotion comes over me. And honestly, I dont where to start.\nIt\u2019s difficult to remember your childhood, to go all the way back to the beginning when no one really knew how to cope, how to deal with Jared. But I do have some memories that stick out that give me negative emotions. I remember being angry and confused as to why my brother got to go to these \u201cplay dates\u201d and I didn\u2019t ( I now know them as occupational therapy sessions). I remember having to go to many doctor\u2019s appointments with my mom and brother, ones at Bradley( absolutely HATED these appointments) and ones at hospitals and different clinic type settings ( speech and physical therapy). It made me angry that I had to go.\nBecause of my brother I had to talk to many people. Adults asking me to draw pictures, asking me how I was feeling, why I thought Jared was the way he was. I was angry and upset that I had to go to these people, angry that my mother wouldn\u2019t listen to me when I told her I disliked going. I was never really told what autism was a child but people asked me what my thoughts to it was. Everything in my childhood was autism-based. We had forty hours of ABA in my house a week. Something that I couldn\u2019t participate in, but tried to alot. I was alone and angry that I couldn\u2019t participate in fun activities as I saw it. I had to sit in my room or downstairs in the living room while he had lessons.\nI also remember feeling sad, but I don\u2019t remember why I was sad. I never slept well as a kid and remember lying in bed at night for hours staring at the ceiling until i finally fell asleep. Embarrassment was a negative feeling that took me a long time to get over also. I was told that I should never be embarrassed of my brother, but inside I was. I was embarrassed in the way he acted out, his behaviors, how he would take a tantrum when we sang happy birthday and everyone clapped(he hated loud noises). It made me sad and still does to this day how limited things are/were for him and how limited he is/was. I always think to myself, what if Jared was born without autism? What would my family be like? What would I be life? I contemplate this sometimes and I\u2019m sure the rest of my family does too. I know I have more feelings, but I feel like I was told so much as a child not to be angry at him, that I need to understand his disabillity and move on from it, that I can\u2019t be sad; that I think I have repressed alot of my negative feelings towards him all because I wasn\u2019t allowed to.\nAnchor Counseling joins Lincoln Pediatrics\nOct 12, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog, East Providence, Lincoln, Rhode Island, Mental Health, Uncategorized, cranston // No Comments\nWe have also partnered with Lincoln Pediatrics to provide more timely and on-site availability to counseling services. Richard Figueira, LICSW, is the clinical director of Anchor Counseling. He will be providing on-site services at the North Attleboro office starting in November. We are excited about this new partnership with Lincoln Pediatrics. We believe it will be a win-win situation for our patients and for Lincoln Pediatrics.\nSep 17, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog // No Comments\nBy Aryssa Washington\nThe swirl of ashes gently caress the air we breathe,\nthe ground on which we walk.\nIn a silent slow dance, we move with the cadence of time\nHands linked at birth, we dance\nI twirl, you hold on, you spin me around\nYou lead, I follow.\nHands twined by life, bound together, broken by death\nI lose your hand\nYou meld into the dancing ashes,\nAll that\u2019s left\u2013you tinkling my fingers,\nCovering my tears, my smile, my heart\nHands ripped from the grip of another\nThe connections severed, the love faded, the future ruined\nHiding movement from the ashes pulling at my heart to dance\nAnother hand captures mine, another dance slowly begins\nWhether I move or not the dance of death pushes me in motion\nPulls at me to dance among the ashes\nThe river of death flows through the hand linked to mine, linked to someone else\u2019s\nWe are connected by the eventuality of the fall\nTwinkling ashes slowly drawing us under, into the mist\nTurning us to dust\nA slow dance, A quick pace\nThe beauty of life in death\nA dance from living to ashes, leaving trails, pulling at my hands\nMy feet begin to move\nI twirl\nI slowly dance again\nYou hold my hand, I spin you around\nI lead, you follow\nSlowly swirling to scattered ashes.\nTaking culture into consideration during therapy!\nSep 17, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog, East Providence, Lincoln, Rhode Island, Mental Health, cranston // 2 Comments\nMulticultural Considerations in Therapy\nClinicians face an interesting task when diagnosing and treating a minority client especially when considering the clients cultural upbringing. The clinicians at Anchor Counseling Center express cultural acuity in their dedication to assisting all people despite race, gender, socioeconomic status, or sexual orientation. Culture may be defined as \u201cthe quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, education, religion, etc. (Webster\u2019s Heritage Dictionary). A more common definition of culture is \u201cthe behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.\u201d Generally, culture is not measured effectively. For the most part it is measured by broad inquiries such as \u201cwhat\u2019s your religion, what is your socioeconomic status, and what is your race/ethnicity?\u201d Questions of culture usually go no deeper than that, rendering the assessment inaccurate.\nThe only way to assess another\u2019s culture with semblance of accuracy is to dig a little deeper, or rather, ask more in-depth questions (done in person is even better). Questions may include: \u201c1) What were your parents like? 2) How were you raised 3) Did you grow up with a certain belief system/has it changed? 4) What would you consider your socioeconomic status? 5) What ethnicity do you most associate with/why? 6) What is traditional and/or important to you?\u201d These questions actually allow the clinician to get a snapshot of another\u2019s life and/or thought process. The more specific questions give a basis for understanding the individuals culture, as some aspects of their culture may not follow \u201cculture-specific or culture-general belief systems\u201d (Lopez, 2006 p. 16).\nThe cultural competence model proposed by Steve Lopez is a \u201cmodel of cultural competence derived from research and clinical practice to serve as a guide in providing culturally appropriate mental health services for culturally diverse clientele\u201d (23). His model recognizes that clients and clinicians have their own culture-specific perspectives. A culturally competent therapist is capable of moving (and deriving meaning) between the two different perspectives to form a beneficial treatment plan. Lopez suggests that the cultural perspective operates in four different clinical domains: engagement, assessment, theory, and method. Regarding engagement, \u201ca culturally competent therapist is able to understand what the client views as the problem and what the client wishes to gain from therapy.\u201d Basically, the therapist gains understanding as to how the client perceives his/her issue. The client perceives the therapist as understanding his/her circumstance and the therapist has the job of assessing potential theoretical issues, diagnostic formulations and historical factors ( Lopez, 1997, 576).\nThe assessment dimension is really just the idea that when conducting formal or informal assessment procedures, the culturally competent therapist will consider mainstream cultural-specific norms and the norms specific to the client\u2019s culture (577). And even though the DSM-IV offers clinicians the appendix of culture-bound syndromes, the appendix is limited in its applicability in relation to the numerous cultural differences that exist in America. This acknowledgement of existing differences between mainstream and individual cultural norms helps to eliminate over-pathologizing or minimizing causation/diagnoses. The third domain is theory, which generally explains the clients psychological functioning and how therapy works to change the behavior (579). Culturally competent clinicians recognize that clients may hold differing theoretical models which may be rooted in his/her culture. Assessing what the client believes to be the problem and ways the problem is maintained by his/her culture is beneficial. The idea is that the therapist integrates the client\u2019s explanations with the theoretical model in order to get some positive effect. The last domain is the Methods, or procedures by which the clinicians use to facilitate change in their client (582). This is basically means that clinicians fit the method of treatment to what the client believes is helpful, or believes can work. For example, if I am a patient with depression but my culture forbids drug therapy the therapist would direct me to alternative methods of treatment such as an exercise plan or maybe meditation etc., something I think is acceptable and will work. Also, it is important that clinicians learn about culturally syntonic treatment methods for their clients in order to influence, or persuade them to try a method different than what they \u201cknow\u201d (582).\nThere are several ways students and professionals can further their own degree of cultural competence. The main idea that I came up with is to embark on a mission of self-discovery. By this I mean an in-depth study of your life, perceptions and how others and how you think others may perceive you. Research your likes and dislikes about how you were raised and if you still hold similar beliefs or if they have changed. Only once we can somewhat understand our own cultures can we begin to try and see things form another perspective. It\u2019s hard to imagine that we can try and know someone else if we don\u2019t sort-of know ourselves. Also understanding our own privileges can help put into perspective others who don\u2019t have those privileges. Keep an open-mind and be aware of our own biases and stereotypes. Making the assumption that every client you meet is different from you helps eliminate biases and other assumptions you might make based on what you think you know. I am also a firm believer in just getting out there and experiencing a different culture, being uncomfortable for five minutes won\u2019t necessarily kill you. Another means to become competent is to ask questions, if you truly don\u2019t know, just ask. Most people would rather that you ask \u2018with foot in mouth,\u2019 as opposed to you operating on assumption. It seems humiliating, but I have been on the receiving end of some \u2018foot in mouth\u2019 comments and most of the time it is a humorous experience as you know that the other person knows that he/she just said something really off the wall. I would recommend that we just try and remain humble beings and learn from one another. So whatever your race, gender, belief, background, or sexual orientation, we are here to assist you and your needs. In helping individuals, children and families, the Anchor Counseling Center is always open to learning new things from the people we serve.\n* Lopez, S. R. (1991). Cultural sensitivity in clinical practice: A process model. California Psychologist, 24, pp. 14;23.\n* Lopez, S. R. (1997). Cultural competence in psychotherapy: A guide for clinicians and their supervisors. In C. E. Watkins, (Ed.), Handbook of psychotherapy supervision, (pp. 570\u2013588). New York: Wiley.\n* Lopez, S. R., & GUARNACCIA, P. J. (2000). Cultural psychopathology: Uncovering the social world\nof mental illness. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 571\u2013598.\nSpeech, Persuasion and Opinion: The Power of Language during therapy.\nSep 17, 2011 // by Shawna Figueira // Blog, East Providence, Lincoln, Rhode Island, Mental Health, Self Help, Stress, cranston // No Comments\nThe Power of Language and Therapy\nIn the famous speech, \u201cEncomium of Helen,\u201d Greek sophist, Gorgias, offers an undeniable level of understanding regarding speech, persuasion and opinion. Gorgias presents the idea that \u201cspeech is a powerful lord.\u201d I readily agree that with words comes power and with power comes a certain responsibility as the speaker or writer. Language is communication and on the most basic level of survival, communication in some way is necessary for all beings. The idea that I can elicit thoughts, actions, and change with words alone is powerful in itself. Humans are taught and learn through language, whether it be written, spoken, or a modeled behavior. We as human beings construct and utilize a communication system that allows us to categorize and make sense of things. Once an individual is able to understand what the communication system entails, they can then use this language device to their advantage. In many clinical settings, the aim of therapy is to have the client take control of his/her own actions and thoughts via language, speaking. In fact, most therapy sessions are carried out through conversational dialogue, or writing in journals, or even through the language of body positions. Gorgias\u2019 claim fits perfectly with the more common quote that \u201cwith knowledge, comes power.\u201d Once I know what a certain communicating group of people considers true (right), acceptable, and worthwhile, then I can use words or communicating devices that I know will elicit specific reactions. Power comes into play regarding speech in that I can totally construct an argument or proposition that can completely sway my audience in the direction of my choice via my language (word) selection and structure. In general, clinicians should have a great command of the therapeutic language, in that they can guide their clients to a place of understanding, change, and self-power. With this, however, comes a certain amount of integrity and responsibility on the part of the clinician, and trust, on the part of the clients.\nOne of the most striking lines in Gorgias\u2019 speech says, \u201c\u2026but since opinion is slippery and insecure it casts those employing it into slippery and insecure successes.\u201d I will here pose the question, \u201cwhat are our opinions, and what do they do?\u201d Even if we base our decisions on empirical evidence this predicates the notion that said data is right or true, rendering our decisions based in opinion. Our opinions in the realm of reality are nothing but a guide for our own individual souls. Our opinions are ever-changing and are rarely ever concrete which means the opinion is susceptible to the power of words. Clinicians, like any human being, do have their own opinions, but those opinions should only guide them. Great clinicians are able to use their own opinions to guide themselves in therapy, yet listen and utilize the opinions of the client to assist him/her in his/her situation. Because of the authority role clinicians hold, it is possible to impose one\u2019s own opinions on the client if untrained. With this understanding I would agree with Gorgias that the persuader has the power to constrain. As the persuader (clinician) I can set boundaries around my constructed argument (opinion) that gets the audience (clients) to react and feel the way I need them to in order to sway them into a state that facilitates change. In essence, the job of the clinician is to use language\u2013therapeutic techniques\u2013to get clients to see where a problem exists and then teach clients the language necessary to change the issue; thereby giving the client ultimate power.\nWin a Brand New iPhone 5!!!!!\nWin a brand new iPhone 5 by writing a quote, submitting a thought, sharing an article. The person\nwith the most likes by the end of November will win. This will be tracked by FB itself. Get your\nfriends to \u201clike\u201d the page not just the comment!!!!!\nAll you have to do is click \u201clike\u201d and start typing!!!!\nWe at Anchor Counseling Center are remembering 9/11!\nAt Anchor Counseling Center, ten years ago the numbers \u201c9\u2033 and \u201c11\u2033 did not mean anything but were simply two numbers that were separated by, ironically, the number \u201c10.\u201d Today, the numbers \u201c9 and 11\u2033 bring back memories of a tragic event and day that left many individuals, families, and ultimately a country scared and scarred for many years to come.\nIt was that day when this country lost 3,000 civilians due to 4 suicide bomb attacks. New York City, as well as Washington, D.C., was physically affected losing some this country\u2019s most visible and notable buildings, including the Pentagon. Coinciding, passenger\u2019s attempts to take control of the fourth hijacked jet crashed into a field in Pennsylvania \u2013 the jet\u2019s intended destination also being Washington, D.C.\nAt \u201cGround Zero\u201d thousands of police officers, fire fighters, EMS personnel, search and rescue dogs, construction workers, and civilian volunteers responded trying to find survivors and just lend a helping hand where needed.\nDuring that dark and horrific morning the country took precautions to protect the President. President Bush was continuously moved around the country until approximately 7pm. When he returned to the White House, he addressed our nation. His now famous speech echoed the country\u2019s sentiments, \u201cTerrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.\u201d In a reference to the eventual U.S. military\u2019s response he declared, \u201cWe will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.\u201d\nOperation Enduring Freedom had begun. The military captured and slowed down the Taliban within two months. But, it would take our country and its military almost 10 years to capture Bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, the US military captured and killed the mastermind behind the most devastating attack and day in this country\u2019s history.\nToday, many people are left with their own burning holes of empty feelings after losing loved ones. On that day, our freedom, as we knew it was taken. Some of us are still healing from the wounds of that day. There is not much anyone can do for the many who suffered during that time, on that day, and in the days following.\nAt Anchor Counseling Center, we provide therapy and counseling to many people. Although, many of our patients may have never felt a loss from this tragedy, they do, in their own way deal with loss, grief, anger, disappointment, sadness, and many other issues.\nWhatever the feelings or cause, we are here to respond to your needs. Anchor Counseling Center has over 20 clinicians in Cranston, East Providence, and Lincoln, RI. While the help may not reach the gravity that the 300 or so first responders, who lost their lives faced on that fateful day on September 11, 2001- we are here to help; one family at a time.\nMay God bless America! We and this entire nation are forever grateful to the brave men and women who protect and defend this wonderful country of ours every day. You are the reason that we can proudly say that we are the \u201cthe land of the free and the home of the brave.\u201dIf you or someone you know need someone to talk to please contact us.\nYou can \u201clike\u201d our page on facebook!\nOr you can follow us on Twitter!\nOr join our group on LinkedIn!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 50070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/2004/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DR6GJUTPFEHUVBRKOBGNEB3A5LRBNOJU", "length": 2496, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.apejet.org", "title": "a broken thought \u00bb 2004 \u00bb January", "raw_content": "January 27th, 2004 | Posted in recreation, travel\nJes and I are planning a trip to Hawaii for later this year. I noticed on Lessig\u2019s Blog a link to a new site called WikiTravel.org, a new wiki for fresh, free, travel information. I expect this site is going to grow over the next few months to be a great travel resource. You might want to stop by and contribute some knowledge. Of course, I can\u2019t mention travel websites without dropping a link to Lonely Planet, a site that we found very useful when planning other vacations. Aloha!\nI\u2019ve generated a nice pile of banner images from pictures that Jesse and I have taken with our camera. So far, I have over 100 pictures waiting for their turn to be viewed. The current schedule is for them to change every 500 sec. Hopefully this will keep people coming back to see what\u2019s new without giving them a reason to hit refresh over and over. (I may need to do the same with my random links.) That reminds me. If you have any cool links that you think I should add to my random link collection, let me know.\nWe\u2019ve been having some problems with the time zones on this server, so this is a test.\nThis message was posted on Jan 25, 4:04 PM PST.\nUpdate: It looks like it\u2019s recording correctly, but there\u2019s still something wrong\u2026 I just don\u2019t know what it is.\nLinux Command Prompt Fun\nIBM has this cool page showing how to enhance your system prompt. Mine now shows my login name and current directory in yellow! Exciting, ne?\nNew Site New Ideas\nJesse and I have *finally* bought a domain name, and are in the process of setting up a website. In case you didn\u2019t guess, the new domain name is apejet.org. Hope you like it. \ud83d\ude42 I\u2019ve just got to say, picking a domain name is not as easy as it sounds. We had a few \u201crequirements\u201d:\nshort \u2013 so that it\u2019s easy to type\n.com, .net, and .org all available \u2013 we don\u2019t want to get confused with somebody with the same name of a different TLD\neasy to say \u2013 it should roll off the tongue\neasy to spell \u2013 so that you don\u2019t have to spell it out when talking to someone. ie: 1foral4one.com would be really bad.\nWhat\u2019s really annoying is how many good domain names are taken, but not being used. People should at least be responsible for pointing their domain name to a server if they are going to keep it!\nAnyway\u2026 I\u2019ve got lots of new ideas for what to do with the site, so be sure to come back soon.\nOh, one last thing. If you\u2019re wondering why we\u2019re using .org instead of other TLD choices see: Wikipedia: Top-Level Domain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aperturepress.net/news/soaring-soren-nominated-for-dog-writers-association-of-america-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:16Z", "digest": "sha1:5VRD4GSBHRA275U2GIJJEFVJGJYNPEVY", "length": 612, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.aperturepress.net", "title": "Soaring Soren Nominated for Dog Writers Association of America Award | Aperture Press", "raw_content": "Soaring Soren Nominated for Dog Writers Association of America Award\nDeborah Stevenson\u2019s book Soaring Soren has been nominated for the 2016 Dog Writers Association of America Award for Best Series of Illustrations or Paintings. Featuring beautiful art by illustrator Morgan Spicer, Soren is one of three books in the category. Congrats to Deb!\nEstablished in 1935 at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the DWAA hosts an annual writing competition with awards in various categories.\nSoaring Soren is the inspiring true story of a French Bulldog who is determined to become an agility champion against all odds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arabnews.com/node/1121236/saudi-arabia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:02Z", "digest": "sha1:BSHFG4CDZICPPS4BNM3RQ53BUNNCLNPP", "length": 2597, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.arabnews.com", "title": "Wadi Hanifa: A desert oasis running through Riyadh | Arab News", "raw_content": "Wadi Hanifa: A desert oasis running through Riyadh\nWadi Hanifa: A desert oasis running through Riyadh /node/1121236/saudi-arabia\nWadi Hanifa: An oasis of relaxation and time out in Riyadh.\nWadi Hanifa was once a waste disposal site and has been transformed into the largest natural open resort in the Kingdom.\nRIYADH: Once a waste disposal site, Wadi Hanifa is now a beautiful valley running a length of nearly 120 km from the northwest to the southeast of the capital.\nKnown in the pre-Islamic era as Wadi Al-Irdh, it was renamed Wadi Hanifa after the Bani Hanifa tribe that populated the area.\nRiyadh grew substantially and expansion destroyed the environmental balance in the scenic valley, leading to erosion.\n\u201cThe once fertile and scenic Wadi Hanifa suffered as the capital city rapidly expanded,\u201d said a local, adding that the growing city used the river valley as a throughway for utility lines and a dumping ground for construction waste. Later, industrial activities were launched in the area, turning it into a dump for waste disposal.\nIn 1986, the Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA) launched a plan to turn the dump into a nature reserve, attracting local and foreign visitors, and encouraging investments. The redevelopment plan involved creating water channels, trails, and spots for visitors to observe the spectacular views the valley has to offer.\nRiyadh\u2019s first large sewage treatment facility channeled 400,000 to 650,000 cubic meters of runoff daily, creating an area of small lakes south of Riyadh. This area grew and a 100 km green corridor was created.\nAccording to the ADA, the decision taken in 1986 proved to be a significant milestone as it helped transform the valley into the largest natural reserve in the Kingdom. The wetlands became a stop for migratory birds and a popular area for recreation.\nThe valley, located on the outskirts of the capital, has water channels, green corridors, walkways and picnic spots for visitors to enjoy the scenic beauty that includes orchards and farms, making it a major attraction for both Riyadh residents and visitors.\nAbdullah Ahmad, who resides in the nearby Wadi Laban area, said: \u201cRiyadh residents were in need of such a site in the city, having the opportunity to enjoy nature and a clean environment away from built-up places.\u201d\nZakir Khan, a regular visitor to the natur reserve, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a great place for a picnic. I go there all the time with my family for a barbecue\u2026 Surrounded by mountains and a lake, it is a beautiful and quite popular place among picnickers. The best part is, it is not even far from the city.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 9108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.argugrid.eu/bi/co/biodiversity-conservation-and-sustainable-development-1st-edition.pdf", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TAKXZOEHGYUJUDPLBJFTJ3RBZ2X3BL4Q", "length": 65, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.argugrid.eu", "title": "Biodiversity Conservation And Sustainable Development 1st Edition", "raw_content": "Biodiversity Conservation And Sustainable Development 1st Edition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.armenia.com.au/news/International-News/English/59965/US-Minsk-group-co-chair-visits-Artsakh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:40Z", "digest": "sha1:T4A2SIL6TI5HW5TNNOLC5FMTJIBPKVOS", "length": 1961, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.armenia.com.au", "title": "US Minsk group co-chair visits Artsakh - International || Armenia.com.au: Armenian-Australian News", "raw_content": "US Minsk group co-chair visits Artsakh\nThe US Minsk Group Co-Chair, Andrew Schofer, during a meeting with Artsakh President Bako Sahakian (Photo: Office of the NKR President)\nSTEPANAKERT, Artsakh Republic (RFE/RL) \u2013 The new U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Andrew Schofer, visited Nagorno-Karabakh on October 4, to discuss with the region\u2019s leadership prospects for the resolution of the conflict with Azerbaijan.\nSchofer held separate talks with Bako Sahakian, the Karabakh president, and the commander of Karabakh\u2019s Armenian-backed army, Levon Mnatsakanian, in Stepanakert. Both men briefed him on the current situation along the Armenian-Azerbaijani \u201cline of contact\u201d around Karabakh.\nSahakian\u2019s press office said the meeting with Schofer also touched upon international efforts to broker a peaceful solution to the dispute and \u201cregional processes.\u201d The U.S. mediator reportedly described the meeting as \u201cproductive\u201d when he spoke to local journalists afterwards.\nSchofer is due to be joined in Yerevan later this week by the two other Minsk Group co-chairs representing Russia and France. The mediators will meet with President Serzh Sarkisian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian before proceeding to Baku for similar talks with Azerbaijan\u2019s leadership.\nAzerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on Wednesday that they will specifically discuss in Yerevan and Baku the \u201cagenda\u201d of the upcoming meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.\nThe co-chairs already met with Nalbandian and Mammadyarov in New York late last month. In an ensuing joint statement, they expressed hope that the upcoming Armenian-Azerbaijani summit will help the conflicting parties eventually \u201cfind compromise solutions to the remaining key settlement issues.\u201d\n\u201cThe Ministers expressed their commitment to work with the Co-Chairs to prepare for a successful summit in the near future,\u201d added the statement. It did not specify possible dates for the summit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artemis.bm/deal-directory/successor-x-ltd-series-2011-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YK5JHJGXMFU7B3EUJMIYUM45S2VQP232", "length": 2301, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.artemis.bm", "title": "Successor X Ltd. (Series 2011-3)", "raw_content": "Ratings: S&P: Class V-X4 - 'B-', Class V-F4 - NR\nSuccessor X Ltd. issued two Series 2011-3 tranches of cat bond notes. The first, a $50m tranche of Class V-X4 notes which are exposed to major U.S. hurricanes in selected states and European windstorms in certain countries. The notes have a term of four years from November 2011 until November 2015.\nThe second tranche of Class V-F4 notes started marketing at $50m but closed at $80m. It\u2019s believed that the V-F4 tranche cover solely U.S. hurricane risks. This tranche of notes have the same tenure as the V-X4 tranche.\nThe deal provides Swiss Re with protection on a per-occurrence basis over the risk period for specified North Atlantic U.S. hurricane and Europe windstorm risks, with a possible extension in three-month increments of up to 24 months for loss development and reporting purposes.\nEuropean windstorm coverage is for Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.\nAtlantic hurricane coverage is for certain Gulf, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast U.S. states and Florida and Puerto Rico.\nU.S. hurricane risks use a PCS industry loss index with predetermined payout factors and European windstorm risks use the PERILS AG industry loss index, again with predetermined payout factors.\nThe V-X4 notes will payout for an index value of higher than 612 to 830 for U.S. hurricanes and from 594 on a per-occurrence basis up to 759 for European windstorms.\nThe V-F4 notes payout for an index value higher than 226 and have an exhaustion point of an index value of 362.\nEach year Swiss Re can have the payout factors reset if they want. There will be one mandatory reset on the 15th June 2013 to reset the industry exposure data.\nProceeds of the sale of the notes will be invested in highly rated Treasury money market funds.\nThe Class V-F4 notes issued in this deal are at risk of principal losses due to hurricane Sandy, which struck the U.S. northeast in October 2012. Current industry loss estimates of $18.75 billion put the index value very near to the trigger point according to sources.\nMany sources appear to believe that this cat bond faced a $15 million loss of principal, but sponsor Swiss re confirmed to Artemis that this cat bond did not suffer a loss in the end.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.articlealley.com/tags-60231.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:O2CNVSM6GUPKV5SVRLCC3NX2ODOYGESN", "length": 1230, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.articlealley.com", "title": "Articles, tagged with \"commercial success\"", "raw_content": "Articles, tagged with \"commercial success\", page 1\nDedicated To Jose Carreras\nAn article about Jose Carreras, one of the loveliest voices to come out of the opera world and also a member of the now legendary \u201c3 Tenors\u201d. Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (AKA Jose Carreras) is a tenor, who in all frankness I had not heard of till the w... Read >\nThe Importance of EMI Shielding\nThe most common type of EMI occurs in the radio frequency (RF) range of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, from 104 to 1012 Hertz. This energy can be radiated by computer circuits, radio transmitters, fluorescent lamps, electric motors, overhead power lin... Read >\nAlthough Simplo Filler Pen Company began in 1906 with the partnership of three men by the names of August Elberstein, Claus-Johannes Voss and Alfred Nehemias, it wasn't until three years later in 1909 that their first pen was introduced to the market. It ... Read >\nAuthor: Chriss Tyrrell\nWhat Exactly Is A Rhinestone Cowboy?\nThe song, Rhinestone Cowboy has become a crossover classic hit for country singer, Glenn Campbell. However, many people have wondered - just what a Rhinestone Cowboy is. The idea that the song is about a cowboy who might have a great affection for a'bedaz... Read >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.articleinsider.com/finance/structured-settlements/cash-annuity-payments", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:O3RSYA7KPUNDH5S7CQQ5DO45YYGTA7C7", "length": 1639, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.articleinsider.com", "title": "Cash For Annuity Payments", "raw_content": "Many people are under the impression that it is illegal to receive cash for annuity payments. This misconception stems from the fact that insurance companies cannot alter those payments in any way. However, a person can go to a settlement broker, a buyer, or a banking or investment firm to receive cash for annuity payments.\nIf an annuity pays out over 10 years, it can serve as a steady source of extra income for many people. However, there are times when a person would benefit more from the payments if he could receive a larger portion of the total in one payment. If a person has a wedding to pay for, a car to buy, or he desperately needs to get out of debt, he will often see future payments as being too little, too late. It is not required that a person sell all his future payments. He can simply sell those that will allow him to take care of his immediate financial needs.\nGetting Court Approval for Annuity Payments\nSelling off annuity payments is not difficult, but it isn't a simple transaction, either. Federal law requires court approval for most structured settlement sales, and most states have passed statutes that have put this law into effect. However, if the sale is legitimate, the payments are guaranteed, and both parties agree to the terms, court approval can usually be obtained without too much trouble.\nA person can receive money for sold payments within a matter of weeks. If he only sells a few payments, he can get, in a way, the best of both worlds. The cash received will allow him to cover any large expenditure that needs to be taken care of, but he will still have money coming to him in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 168.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artonhorseback.com/meet-the-horse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:00Z", "digest": "sha1:77CTTT2AP7RWGQULBZD74ZFK5A5Y3CTC", "length": 1628, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.artonhorseback.com", "title": "The Horse \u2014 Sandra Beaulieu", "raw_content": "It takes a special horse to be able to paint from horseback. The horse must be confident, well balanced, light in the hand, smooth in his stride, and have the ability to collect from the seat and leg to allow the rider to paint simultaneously.\nRovandio is Sandra's painting partner. He is owned by her mother-in-law Bethanne Regaglia who has always been supportive of her creative endeavors.\nRovandio was born at Isaac Royal Farm in 2001. His sire was Conversano Julianna II, a Lipizzan stallion that sired many dressage horses. His dam was Andivar, an Andalusian/Thoroughbred cross. Even though Rovandio is only 1/4 Andalusian he has the stride, heart, and sensitivity of an Andalusian.\nRovandio has had classical dressage training his entire life. Sandra started him under saddle when he was young and rode him periodically for her mother-in-law. Bethanne rode him in the Isaac Royal Equestrian Theater in Maine for many years. It was during that time that he learned to love the audience.\nHe became Sandra's full time performance horse in 2013 and began to travel for exhibitions in the spring of 2014. Since then he has traveled south in the winter with Sandra and her other horse Douwe, a Friesian gelding.\nSandra uses dressage movements like piaffe, collected canter, rein-back, walk pirouettes, and shoulder-in to help her land the right brush strokes. All of these maneuvers must be ridden one-handed. Sandra prefers to ride him bitless and with a bareback pad. Less is more, particularly when it comes to the artwork. It is easier to feel the movements of the horse and have the flexibility to paint without the saddle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.assetco.com/Investor-Relations/Regulatory-News/AssetCo-plc-Departure-of-Director.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QLSUMXNJBHA4RF2725I4BKP74HLDNLML", "length": 774, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.assetco.com", "title": "AssetCo Fire and Rescue - AssetCo plc Departure of Director", "raw_content": "Departure of Director\nAssetCo plc (\"AssetCo\" or \"the Company\") announces the orderly transition in its finance area with the departure of Scott Brown, Finance Director of the Company, who resigned with effect from yesterday.\nMr Brown's immediate duties and the finance structure is being managed day-to-day by a senior interim manager, who is reporting directly to Interim Chairman, Tudor Davies. Responsibility for all financial aspects concerning AssetCo and its group companies at the Main Board level is being assumed by Tudor Davies, who qualified as an accountant and was formerly a partner with Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young).\nThe Company is continuing to discuss various solutions to its financing issues, and in the meantime is continuing to trade satisfactorily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ateneo.edu/high-school/admissions/scholarships-and-financial-aid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:RJZUXSTX4OCJKIWYMLXPPZWYMLW5FAL4", "length": 2758, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.ateneo.edu", "title": "Scholarships & Financial Aid | Ateneo de Manila University", "raw_content": "In view of the Ateneo\u2019s desire to provide quality education and leadership formation for those coming mainly from the public school system, 100 scholarship grants will be offered in the Senior High School to academically gifted but financially challenged public school students. Scholarships in the Ateneo Senior High School are given to deserving students primarily on the basis of financial need.\nApplicants from public schools may download the Financial Aid Application form from the link found on this page. In order for their application and testing fees to be waived, public school applicants must secure and present a letter from their Principal certifying that:\nthey belong to the Top 10, and\nthey are in financial need.\nImportant: Applicants accepted on probation are disqualified from receiving financial aid.\nApplication Requirements and Procedures for Financial Aid\n1. Scholarship and financial aid applicants must complete the Financial Aid Application form carefully, answering all questions with the aid of their parents or guardian. Please do not leave any item blank. Write NA if the question is Not Applicable.\n2. Submit the accomplished form and the following requirements along with the Application for Admission before 12:00 noon on Friday, September 14, 2018.\nLetter from parents or guardian clearly describing the family\u2019s financial situation and justifying the need for financial aid.\nClear photocopy of the Final Report Card of the last completed school year\nClear photocopy of the parents\u2019 Annual Income Tax Return or Certificate of Tax Withheld. For proprietors of businesses, submit a copy of the company\u2019s Income Statement and Balance Sheet. In the absence of these documents, submit a notarized Certificate of Non-Filing of Income Tax issued by the BIR\u2019s Revenue District Office in your area. (Bring original documents for verification.)\nClear photocopy of the parents\u2019 Pay Slips for the past two (2) months\nPhotocopy of the following Utility Bills for the past three (3) months (Bring original documents for verification):\nCredit Card/s (include all pages of the bill that show purchases made on credit)\nPhotographs of your family\u2019s residence (showing the full view of the whole house, kitchen and bedrooms). Attach the photos in the space provided.\nFor proprietors of micro-businesses (e.g. sari-sari stores, carinderia, print shops, etc.) also attach a photo of the front or operating area of the business.\n3. Only applications with complete requirements will be processed.\n4. Documents filed in support of this application become the property of the Ateneo Senior High School and will not be returned to the applicant.\nASHS Financial Aid Application Form_2019-2020.pdf\nASHS Curriculum\nApplication Requirements and Procedures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/your-museum/get-involved/volunteer/current-volunteer-opportunities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FLOIBXO7K22PFWSMIIPUE4QNJRUXP5UV", "length": 3769, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.aucklandmuseum.com", "title": "Current volunteer opportunities - Volunteer at Auckland Museum - Auckland War Memorial Museum", "raw_content": "Meet our Volunteer Services team\nTypes of volunteer roles\nThere are sometimes unexpected opportunities for volunteers with a strong background in a specialist area, and we are always interested in hearing from potential volunteers with relevant knowledge, interests and skills.\nWe are looking for people to fill these positions:\nTHIS IS A FRONT OF HOUSE ROLE\nEvery year we take on a small group of volunteers to train as Museum Guides. If you enjoy meeting people and bringing to life our treasures and stories, and sharing your passion and enthusiasm for the museum, you could become a member of our large volunteer guiding team. We need people with excellent communication skills and a genuine desire to engage visitors of all ages from different backgrounds. We are looking for an interest in New Zealand history, different cultures and natural science. A strong and sustained commitment to ongoing learning and dependability are key attributes for this role.\nPlease note that entry to the training course is by invitation only, and we ask for a commitment of at least two years should you be successful in being selected for training, and pass the assessment at the end of the course. In 2018, the course will run for two months, during August and September.\nVolunteer Mandarin Experience Hosts\nEvery year we take on a small group of volunteers to train as Museum Mandarin Experience Hosts. If you are a native speaker of Mandarin and have a high level of English, enjoy meeting people and bringing to life our treasures and stories this may be a role for you. Mandarin experience hosts welcome and care for small groups of Mandarin speakers and work as a cultural translator to share the intricacies of M\u0101ori culture and New Zealand History so that our Mandarin speaking visitors have a deeper more meaningful experience during their visit. We need people with excellent communication skills and a genuine desire to engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds. We are looking for an interest in New Zealand history, culture and heritage, and a strong and sustained commitment to ongoing learning.\nPlease note that entry to the training course is by invitation only, and we ask for a commitment of at least two years should you be successful in being selected for training, and pass the assessment at the end of the course. In 2018, the course will run for two months, during August and September. We are particularly interested in volunteers who would be available for at least one morning during the working week.\nInformation Desk Volunteers\nWe currently have a need for more volunteers to work on our Information Desks at both entrances to the Museum. If you enjoy meeting people and helping them make the most of their time in the Museum, you could become a member of our large volunteer team. We need people with excellent communication skills and a genuine desire to help others. A good knowledge of Auckland is also valuable.\nThe normal commitment is for one half day per week on duty, and lasting at least a year, but preferably longer. We prefer applicants who can be flexible with their availability as the museum is open every day except Christmas day, including school holiday periods and public holidays. Info Desk volunteers need to be available for occasional weekend training days.\nRecently filled volunteer roles\nGeology Collection rehousing volunteer x 2 (Back of House)\nPalaeontology Collection Project volunteers ( Back of house, short term)\nInformation Desk volunteers, March intake (Front of House)\nTo apply for the Education, Information Desk or Guide volunteer roles, you must complete an application form and send it to the Museum by post or email. 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Jochen Rindt in his Ford GT40", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aviewfromthebalcony.com/2013/09/i-aint-free-aint-never-been-free-zadie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:P4K4XW3WV35BV5JF4IPZXAG35NYJNAGG", "length": 4793, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aviewfromthebalcony.com", "title": "'I ain't free. Ain't never been free': Zadie Smith's NW | A View from the Balcony", "raw_content": "For those of you who aren\u2019t aware, Zadie Smith is a British novelist, born in London to an English father and Jamaican mother. Her three previous novels, which have been both shortlisted and winners of a multitude of literary awards, have a strong emphasis on racial tensions within a community, as well as delicately reflecting family life and the small, seemingly insignificant discrepancies and issues, which ultimately lead to the breakdowns of bonds and relationships. As I was about to find out, NW maintains this perfectly crafted exploration of human nature and the way the world truly spins around.\nNW follows the friendship and interweaving lives of Leah and Keisha (or Natalie as she later rebrands herself), with the backdrop of North West London continually heightening their racial, financial and class-related struggles as they, and their two peers Nathan and Felix, attempt to begin their adult lives in this increasingly challenging environment. Although Smith uses these four characters throughout the novel, it becomes clear that Leah and Keisha are the real protagonists, as we explore their relationship from children to young adults. In spite of their reasonably similar upbringings and share of mutual values as children, it is Leah and Keisha\u2019s contrasting outlooks on life which causes one of the central conflicts and tensions of the book.\nSmith certainly pushes the boat out a little further with her latest novel, disregarding most aspects of conventional structure and form. I have to admit, at first I was unsure; it took me a while to get used to the colloquial-stream-of-consciousness style of narrative, but after half a dozen chapters or so, I realised that this slightly risky approach had in fact earned Smith the perfectly crafted atmosphere of her novel.\n\u2018Four gardens along, in the estate, a grim girl on the third floor screams Anglo-Saxon at nobody. Juliet Balcony, projecting for miles. It ain\u2019t like that. Don\u2019t you start. Fag in hand. Fleshy, lobster-red.\nI am the sole\nI am the sole author\nPencil leaves no mark on mark on magazine pages.\u2019\nDon\u2019t you feel like you\u2019re walking through the estates of Willesden already? Exactly. The poetry-like stance of the writing reflects on the mind-sets of this community: they do not care for well-structured sentences and accurate grammar. Smith writes as they think. It may be chaotic and confused, but that\u2019s the reality of their lives. The removal of speech marks is just another example. It seems a more accurate depiction of conversation, and allows Smith complete freedom in the sense that there are no grammatical barriers or hindrances. Throughout the novel and its five separately titled sections, Smith switches her narrative structuring, from prose, to listing, to visual poetry and even includes a passage of instant messaging. Though some of these insertions are a little confusing (see the extract below), the majority are highly effective and added a real fourth dimension to the plot and characters.\nIn fact, it is the third section host, written as one long numbered list, in which the novel really begins to propel forwards. Up until this point, although I had found the book interesting, I hadn\u2019t yet been hooked in. Smith recounts the entirety of Leah and Keisha\u2019s friendship in a list of snippets, set out as a list from one to 185. These snippets, some pages long and some only a couple of lines, are grouped as thoughts, anecdotes which follow the human patterns of memory. The majority of the memories, as they come across, consist of the tiny details of life that so often seem insignificant, but in reality are the crucial moments of personal and relational developments, which shape the direction of our future.\nThe ending of the novel is fairly ambiguous; when I first finished I was left feeling rather empty and unable to tie the loose ends together in order to distinguish the final message and meaning of the novel (typical Literature student, eh?). But after re-reading the ending and taking particular note of \u2018Natalie dialled it. It was Keisha who did the talking\u2019, I decided that the details of what really happened were less important than Smith\u2019s exploration of character - and consequently human - development and growth in life, love and friendship.\nAlthough NW didn\u2019t quite have the power to knock On Beauty off the top spot for me, I did enjoy my adventure through Willesden, and can\u2019t wait to see what challenges Smith takes on next! So whether you\u2019re interested in experiencing Smith\u2019s innovative narrative style, or you\u2019re simply after a good read, I would definitely give NW a go!\nLabels: arts, book, book review, books, culture, literature, nw, on beauty, student, white teeth, zadie smith\nJohn Setrodipo 13 July 2014 at 21:47\nThank you! I've followed you back :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aviewfromthebalcony.com/2016/05/review-lingua-franca-william-thacker.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:AXPCSU4JQBCV7SV4BUAC3CYDSA6DWJBN", "length": 2892, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.aviewfromthebalcony.com", "title": "Review: Lingua Franca - William Thacker | A View from the Balcony", "raw_content": "At its core, Thacker's novel is about language, its importance and what it truly means, which is a big part of why I chose to read it. I love language, and even more the analysis and dissection of language, so this aspect immediately drew me into the moral complexities of the book.\n'Shortly is an excellent word. It can mean whatever you want it to mean. A member of our team will get back to you shortly. When exactly? Shortly. Imminent is too much. An imminent announcement. Imminent death. Maybe if your death were due shortly, you wouldn't mind so much.'\nThe protagonist, Miles Platting, is an interesting character, although I suppose he's an interesting character for the very reason that he's so uninteresting. Miles is indifferent to almost everything that happens; he seems to have become numb to his surroundings. It is as though he is living permanently in one of those days when everything feels a bit distant, as though you're having a mild out of body experience. This reflects on both Miles' detachment from real life due to the security measures that stem from his controversial line of work, as well as subtly mirroring the effects of the displacement of language.\nKendal, Miles' wife or ex-wife, is the very opposite of this; she is fiercely passionate about saving language and people from Lingua Franca's corruption. Her relationship with Miles is confusing. We don't really know where they stand for the majority of the book, and there is a lot that is alluded to about their past but never confirmed. Through Miles' detached vision of his life, it is often difficult to believe that Kendal would jump to doing the things she does, but in many ways this does fit into the vaguely dystopian world in which they live.\nTheir universe has an interesting paradox of being both completely believable and not all that realistic at the same time. Lingua Franca exists in the present day world that we are very familiar with, but it spins quickly into dystopian chaos with no questioning or surprise from the characters.\nThe lack of questioning by the characters seems to result in firm belief and trust from the reader. The seamless structure and strong development of the book also contribute to the credibility of events. The plot never once falls flat, and it doesn't spindle off towards the end or feel in any rush to conclude. The unfolding of events is beautifully handled, and the book reaches a very comfortable and tidy finish, bringing us right back to the point: 'All we need is a name.'\nLingua Franca is an interesting read that explores issues of language, commercialism and human behaviour, but it handles these issues with a nonchalant air that eases you into this strange version of our world without struggle or need for disbelief.\nLabels: book, book bloggers, book review, books, lbloggers, legend 100 club, legend press, lingua franca, review, william thacker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.babblebelt.com/bbb_classic/readarc.html?id=1091723888", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RHCT7CXLOBCY5HH6MTKOZ7ZA3KGFE3GV", "length": 364, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.babblebelt.com", "title": "The Burgundian Babble Belt -- All About Belgian Beer", "raw_content": "Thanks for the great report! nfm.\nA Longer Long Weekend in Gent - Sutty, 08/04/04 05:34:36 PM\nThanks for the great report! nfm. - John Sturm, 08/05/04 12:38:08 PM\nRe: A Longer Long Weekend in Gent - Cornelia, 08/05/04 09:22:05 AM\nRe: A Longer Long Weekend in Gent - Jeremy Gray, 08/05/04 03:07:20 AM\nRe: A Longer Long Weekend in Gent - Joelle, 08/04/04 06:12:53 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.babyshop.tips/baby-monitor-security/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DTOAGYKO2WVLCMZG4OLFQ52KXJEB6JKP", "length": 3077, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.babyshop.tips", "title": "Baby Monitor Security - Baby Shop", "raw_content": "Baby Monitor Security\nLet\u2019s talk about another kind of safety that\u2019s necessary when it comes to your baby monitor, especially if you have a monitor that connects over your local area network and Wi-Fi network.\nI\u2019ve mentioned before that that I\u2019m fairly techie, so there are things that would naturally come to my mind that others might not think of. We\u2019ve talked about interference from baby monitors, and the possibility of your neighbors being able to eavesdrop on you, but there\u2019s something more serious to think of. And that\u2019s people hacking into your system.\nIn the spring of 2014, there was a news article about a couple in Cincinnati, Ohio that monitored their 10 month old daughter via a wireless IP camera that was set up in the nursery. One night, the mother was asleep when she was startled awake in the middle of the night by the sound of a man\u2019s voice coming from her baby\u2019s room. She grabbed her mobile phone and accessed the camera to check on her daughter. The camera was moving, and she wasn\u2019t the one doing it. Then she heard a man\u2019s voice screaming, \u201cWake up baby, wake up baby!\u201d\nShe sent her husband into the baby\u2019s room, and as he entered the camera turned and pointed directly at him, and now the man\u2019s voice started yelling obscenities. At that point, the husband unplugged the camera, unfortunately not realizing that in doing so he erased the log of the IP address, and any chance of tracking the hacker.\nThe family was using the latest Foscam IP camera. And this wasn\u2019t the first time something like this had happened. The previous August, a couple in Houston, Texas had someone hack into their Foscam camera and swear at their two year old daughter.\nThere was research released in 2013, which revealed that Internet connected cameras are full of security flaws and are easily hijacked by hackers. A few months after that, Foscam did release security patches for their IP cameras, and people were urged to update their software. However, further scanning by security experts showed that out of the 46,000 Foscam cameras that came up in their scan, over 40,000 of them were still vulnerable. Foscam took it a step further and emailed anyone who had registered their cameras on the Foscam website, asking them to install the patches, but many people don\u2019t register.\nIt must be said that while this report addresses Foscam, they are not the only wireless camera company that has security vulnerabilities. And as if knowing a hacker can view your baby through your baby monitor isn\u2019t scary enough, they can also steal your Wi-Fi credentials and your email, they can even attack other devices in your home that are attached to your network.\nAll of this isn\u2019t meant to scare you away from using a wireless camera to monitor your baby. It\u2019s just meant to make you aware of the need for security. If possible, don\u2019t hook your camera up to the Internet. And make sure you register your monitor so that you can be kept up to date with any security updates that might come out. It\u2019s also always a good idea to occasionally change your Wi-Fi and camera passwords.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.barakstrickland.com/2010/06/when-i-hear-somebody-sigh-life-is-hard.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:33DYAG47GSYVGDHLSEQTSZWLTEJUJM3J", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.barakstrickland.com", "title": "BarakStrickland.com", "raw_content": "\"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'\" Sydney J. Harris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 3439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.barcelonafcblog.com/tag/denis-suarez/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:RL6WJ6W54O2MBFPMDMWTJR43Q2J55UHS", "length": 375, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.barcelonafcblog.com", "title": "Denis Suarez |", "raw_content": "FC Barcelona have snapped up young Manchester City starlet Denis Suarez for the fee of 1.5M euros. The 19-year-old attacking midfielder, who is a product of City\u2019s youth program, will now join up with the Barca B team where he will be allowed to sharpen his skills.\nSuarez has reportedly signed a four year deal with the Catalan club. More on Barca\u2019s new signing Denis Suarez", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beepbeep.nl/2012/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UQAZ7IV3SVMEGUIJAWKXG4STVKZ45NZS", "length": 3809, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.beepbeep.nl", "title": "2012 April | Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck", "raw_content": "Video: Conduits \u2013 Last Dirge\nOur shoegaze-drone heroes Conduits have released their new video for the single \u2018Last Dirge\u2019, taken from their self-titled debut. The eerie video focuses on lead singer Jenna Morrison who appears to flee in a dark forest, trying to prevent the inevitable. Enjoy the ride!\nPress Round-up: Conduits\nIt\u2019s been a few weeks since we\u2019ve released Conduit\u2019s self-titled debut album (which you can listen to here) and we thought it\u2019d be fun to take a look at what the press and the all-mighty bloggers have been saying about our latest and greatest. We\u2019ll be updating the list below as results keep coming in. Enjoy.\n\u201cThis shit ain\u2019t haunting, it\u2019s soaring. [..] Conduits aren\u2019t haunting, they aren\u2019t brooding, or depressing, or evil at all. It\u2019s soaring, spacious, like the wide open sky to a bird. It\u2019s a privilege to come across such good music, music that needs a wider audience, needs to be heard, needs to be supported, and bought.\u201d\nShut Your Fucking Face And Listen (US) gives a 9/10.\n\u201cThis is a terrific record, very well put together and sequenced. I\u2019m impressed with the talent, chops and especially the power of this band.\u201d\nWhen You Motor Away (US) on Conduits\u2019 debut.\n\u201cAs it progresses, Conduits\u2019 eponymous debut album gains steam in an unassuming manner. [...] Conduits seems to transcend the typical parameters of time; as in a dream, a single song lasts an eternity.\u201d\nJerk Magazine (US) is kinder than the name made us expect. 4,5/5\n\u201cThe airy atmosphere of Conduits recalls Lemolo and Beach House, while the distortion and reverb bring out the angst that helps set the band apart. The ethereal flow of Conduits makes for a perfect Summer roadtrip soundtrack complete with open windows, wind-blown hair, and nightly bonfires on a beach.\u201d\nSSG Music (US) shows they understand the band.\n\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve fallen victim to the love-at-first-listen curse a few too many time to think that they will all stand the test of time. However, with the depth and variation displayed here, I can say that this album still getting better and better with each listen, and I see no reason that will change.\u201d\nSearchDat (US) shares the love.\n\u201cThere really isn\u2019t a bad track on the album, and stand-out track, \u201cMisery Train,\u201d is sure to get a lot of deserved attention with it\u2019s bleak organ/synth loop, dreamy guitar textures, and devastating bass line that knows just when to come in and bounce with the drums.\u201d\nThe Majestic Show (US) telling us how it is.\n\u201cAt its best, Conduits stands with the best of its shoegazer/noise-pop antecedents. With its rippling bass lines, storming drums, dynamic-with-descending-progression chorus, and searing guitar motif, \u201cThe Wonder\u201d is what Cocteau Twins might\u2019ve sounded like had they injected notions of actually rocking out into their sonic \u00e9clair.\u201d\nEast Bay Express (US) reviewing it up.\n\u201cThe success is warranted \u2013 \u201cMisery Train,\u201d the album\u2019s second track, is another song perfect for secluding yourself in your room, lights off, and thinking. There is a vaguely religious feeling between Morrison\u2019s voice and the breathy, fuzzed out guitars and samples.\u201d\nSadie Magazine (US) review.\n\u201cConduits delivers a beautiful combination of Warpaint, Stereolab, Broadcast, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Land Of Talk, Fairport Convention, Cocteau Twins and Spiritualized. They succeed in blending this mix into their own style and sound. It\u2019s truly a pleasure to close your eyes and drift away, floating on the waves of their dream-like splendor.\u201d\nCaleidoscoop (NL)\n\u201cPerfecting the Puzzle \u2013 Conduits piece together new album\u201d\nInterview with Conduits\u2019 band members Jenna Morrison, J.J. Idt and Nate Mickish on the creation of the band\u2019s debut album.\n\u201cConduits Interview \u2013 21.2.12\u201d\nAbsolutely Punk interviews the band.\nConvinced? Pick up your copy in our shop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.belgrade.co.uk/news-and-blogs/blogs/i-wish-i-had-a-moustache-hair-today-gone-tomorrow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:JPWO27YVBCKEYVMYQSOB57RJ6FEPFPEX", "length": 5147, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.belgrade.co.uk", "title": "I Wish I Had A Moustache - Hair Today (Gone Tomorrow) at Belgrade Theatre", "raw_content": "Keisha Thompson is fighting a battle against the taboo of body hair in I Wish I Had a Moustache. We thought we\u2019d take a look at the history of hair removal, the extents to which people, especially women went to to remove body hair and why something which can be so time-consuming and expensive became the norm.\nHair removal has been going on for thousands of years. Copper razors from 3,000 BC were found in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The ancient Egyptians in particular were also known to have types of razors made of flint or bronze. Both men and women could also remove hair with pumice stones, tweezers (made from seashells) and depilatory cream.\nThey also invented a hair removal method now referred to as \u2018sugaring\u2019. A sticky paste, sometimes made of beeswax would be applied to the skin and then a strip of cloth was pressed onto the paste and yanked off, removing the hair \u2013 kind of like waxing!\nEgyptian women were well-versed in hair removal \u2013 richer women even removed the hair on their heads and wore elaborate wigs. Men often could have neat (possibly fake) beards.\nIn Ancient Rome, the lack of body hair was considered a symbol of class for both men and women. Wealthy women and men used razors made from flints, tweezers, creams, and stones to remove excess hair. Hair could also be removed by scraping a metal strigil over oiled skin.\nOvid\u2019s advice on grooming includes body hair removal. Suetonius, a Roman historian, noted that Julius Caesar was meticulous in his hair removal (his servants plucked his hair out with tweezers).\nHair removal creams from this period could contain anything from pitch to she-goat gall, donkey fat, bat\u2019s blood and powdered viper!\nSixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe\nIn Elizabethan times English women began the practice of hair removal \u2013 they removed their eyebrows and the hair from their foreheads to give themselves a longer brow, emulating Queen Elizabeth I.\nIt was so popular that it\u2019s said that mothers would rub walnut oil on their children\u2019s foreheads to prevent hair growth. Rather more unhygienically, they were also said to use bandages covered with vinegar and cat droppings.\nThere were a lot of books that detailed recipes for hair removal creams and facial beauty for women. The recipes tended to create a highly alkaline solution which melted hair from the skin\u2019s surface (much like depilatory creams today). There\u2019s evidence that this type of paste (often referred to as rhusma) was used in Ancient Turkey in around 3000 BC, and a recipe for this was also included in a 12th century recipe book called the Trotula.\nA 1532 book gives this version of the recipe:\nHow to Remove or Lose Hair from Anywhere on the Body\nBoil together a solution of one pint of arsenic and eighth of a pint of quicklime. Go to a baths or a hot room and smear medicine over the area to be depilated. When the skin feels hot, wash quickly with hot water so the flesh doesn\u2019t come off.\nThe book also recommends women wash the area where hair is to be removed in a mixture of cat dung and vinegar!\nThe Perret razor was invented in the 1760\u2019s by a French barber called Jean Jacques Perret. It is an L-shaped wooden guard that holds the razor and is supposed to reduce the cuts from shaving, and some women used this, although it was aimed primarily at men.\nBy 1844, Dr. Gouraud had created one of the first depilatory creams called Poudre Subtile.\nThe safety razor (which, as its name suggests, was much safer than the Perret razor) was invented in the 1880\u2019s. The best-selling version was invented by King Camp Gillette, an American businessman with an incredible name and an aptitude for men\u2019s grooming products (He founded the modern-day Gillette).\nIn 1915, Gillette created the first razor targeted at women, aptly named the Milady Decollet\u00e9e. The early 1900s also saw widespread ads for depilatory cream appear. In 1907, for example, an ad for X-Bazin Depilatory Powder went into circulation, promising to remove the \u201chumiliating growth of hair on the face, neck, and arms.\u201d A decade later, a Harper\u2019s Bazaar magazine ran an ad featuring a woman with her arms raised and her armpits bare, the first of its kind.\nRemington released the first electric women\u2019s razor in 1940 after the male version\u2019s success. There was a shortage of nylon during the war, which meant that more hair removal products began to be released, as women needed to go bare-legged more often.\nWax strips originated in the 1960\u2019s and gained popularity. This was also the period when the first laser-hair-removal tools hit the market, but, as they damaged skin, they fell out of use.\nWith the development of transistorized equipment, electrolysis became more common in the 1970\u2019s. The decade also saw a resurgence in the removal of bikini area hair due to the remaining prevalence of swimsuits and bikinis.\nAnd so we come to today, where we have a range of hair removal techniques and products and 90% of women in the UK remove their body hair. 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It is 20 km from Cape Town, 15km from Cape Town International Airport and 10 km from Century City.\u200b\nThe Waterfront, Cape Point, Table Mountain, Robben Island, Kirstenbosch, the Castle, Grand West Casino, the Cape beaches and the City of Cape Town are a few of the many attractions within a radius of 60 km from Bellvista Lodge.\u200b\nAs Bellvista Lodge lies on the edge of the metropole, Stellenbosch (35 km), Paarl (40 km) and other towns with their scenic beauty and wine routes are within easy reach.\u200b\nView Larger Map\u200b\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 217.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.berkshirehealthsystems.org/give-up-smoking-in-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HAM3HNKHHTZTIPEAWYHDNWIWIFSCVYUR", "length": 3774, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.berkshirehealthsystems.org", "title": "Give Up Smoking in 2018 Pittsfield, Massachusetts (MA) - Berkshire Health Systems", "raw_content": "You can overcome the physiological power of nicotine\nBy Doreen Donovan, RN\nIt\u2019s the number-one cause of preventable death in the U.S., and yet, 55 million people over the age of 11 in this country continue to smoke. Of those smokers, more than 35 million express a desire to quit each year, but only about 15 percent succeed. That struggle points to the highly addictive power of nicotine, which alters brain chemistry within 10 seconds of inhaling the first cigarette, creating an enhanced mood that wears off within a few hours, prompting even the first-time smoker to want another and another. For those who\u2019ve managed to quit and are feeling confident enough that they can have \u201cjust one,\u201d the brain\u2019s dormant nicotine receptors are awakened in full force, which for many leads to a relapse, and before they know it, they are back to the level of smoking prior to quitting.\nThe lessons in all of this, of course, are (a) don\u2019t start smoking in the first place; it\u2019s one of the most quickly addictive substances on the planet, and (b) if you\u2019re a former smoker, don\u2019t kid yourself into thinking that just one cigarette won\u2019t hurt; it could easily get you started all over again.\nBut here\u2019s another powerful truth: quitting smoking is absolutely doable, even for the most hard-core smoker, once you acknowledge your life depends on it. Whether you\u2019re ready to call it quits for the first time or you\u2019ve fallen back into the habit, there are many proven methods and resources that will help you quit once and for all.\nAs grim as the physiological realities of nicotine addiction are, the physical benefits of quitting are faster and more dramatic than many people may realize. This timeline tells a compelling story:\n20 minutes after quitting, your heart rate begins to drop.\n12 hours after quitting, the carbon monoxide level in your blood returns to normal.\n2 weeks to three months after quitting, your heart attack risk begins to drop and your lung function improves.\n1 to 9 months after quitting, coughing and shortness of breath decrease.\n1 year after quitting, your added risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker\u2019s.\n5 years after quitting, your stroke risk is the same level of a non-smoker.\n10 years after quitting, your lung cancer death risk is half that of a smoker\u2019s.\n15 years after quitting, your risk of heart disease is the same as if you never smoked\nEven if you look at it in purely economic terms, the benefits of quitting are huge. Stopping a one-pack-a-day habit (at an average cost of $10 a pack) can save you $300 a month and $3,650 a year. That would easily cover a fitness program, with plenty left over for a trip, some family fun or simply paying your bills on time.\nOnce you\u2019ve made the very personal decision to quit, here are few suggestions for how to successfully follow through:\nPlan a quit date and stick to it. Some people succeed on the impulse to stop cold turkey now, but many find it better to set a specific date.\nTalk to your primary care provider. Your doctor should be a key source of support, including prescribing nicotine replacement patches and other smoking cessation aids.\nClean your house and car of all signs of smoking. Lighters, matches, empty packs and ash trays are triggers that should be purged from sight.\nGet moral support from family and friends. Knowing what you\u2019re trying to do, they\u2019ll be there to encourage you.\nBe prepared for withdrawal symptoms. Knowing the physiological realities (irritability, cravings, depression, sleep troubles, heightened appetite, etc.,) will help you better cope with them.\nThe Massachusetts Smokers Helpline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW is an excellent coaching and confidential referral resource.\nDoreen Donovan, R.N., is a Clinical Wellness Nurse with Berkshire Health Systems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 11989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biasedtransmission.org/2012/07", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SVPHMXLQNNUWC7LVG3FRKNXVW22UZCUY", "length": 8338, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.biasedtransmission.org", "title": "July | 2012 | Biased Transmission", "raw_content": "Pinker Round-up\nSo I think the dust has finally settled on Steven Pinker\u2019s Edge article on group selection. It is followed by 20 commentaries from different perspectives (some of which I\u2019ve already linked to on this blog) and Pinker\u2019s reply. Plus another series of replies (some overlapping) on The Social Evolution Forum. There was even a post about Pinker\u2019s article on Andrew Gelman\u2019s statistics blog.\nI have noticed that in my blog\u2019s short history I have more posts of criticism than positive contribution. There are many responses I generally agreed with, and I linked to them in earlier posts. But in this one I thought I would highlight responses that I think put the debate in a larger framework.\nFirst, I think David Queller\u2019s response is excellent, short and pithy. He compares kin selection modeling to English and group selection modeling to Russian \u2013 with the point that you can often say the same thing in both languages \u2013 but sometimes it is easier to say it in one language than another. Queller\u2019s response is particularly interesting because he is a traditional theorhetical evolutionary biologist who does primarily inclusive fitness modeling\nD. S. Wilson expands on Queller\u2019s analogy in a post at the Social Evolution Forum called the Clash of Paradigms: Why Proponents of Multilevel Selection Theory and Inclusive Fitness Theory Sometimes (But Not Always) Misunderstand Each Other. What I like about this section is his distinction between \u201cunilinguals\u201d and \u201cbilinguals.\u201d Some quotes:\nIn short, the current clash between proponents of [Multilevel Selection Theory] and [Inclusive Fitness Theory] is primarily a clash between people who are fluent in one paradigm and confused by the other paradigm, which they falsely attribute to the other paradigm in some absolute sense. This is like saying \u201cRussian is confusing\u201d, rather than \u201cRussian is confusing for a non-Russian speaker such as myself.\u201d\nIt is possible to be bilingual\u2026 Many evolutionists are fluent in both MLST and IFT, a fact that is sometimes obscured by the chest-thumping rhetoric of unilinguals\u2026\nFor these and many other evolutionists, toggling back and forth between MLST and IFT has become normal science, with no need for chest-thumping rhetoric. The choice of theory is simply a matter of choosing the best tool for the job.\nJoe Henrich makes an analogy to an engineer deciding on a coordinate system to use for a problem in orbital mechanics. I like this analogy because it stresses the fact that even if it is possible to solve a problem in two different ways, it is often much more easily done in one This analogy has particular resonance for me because much of my four years of undergraduate engineering instruction seemed largely an exercise in banging my head against the wall for (doing something roughly equivalent to) trying to solve a problem in the wrong coordinate system. For this analogy, your own mileage may vary\u2026\nA useful analogy might be the problem that an aerospace engineer faces when trying to model the trajectory of a satellite. A critical first step in solving such a problem is to select a coordinate system and a place to anchor that coordinate system in space (the origin). Among others, one can pick a spherical coordinate system (two angles and a distance) and anchor it to, say, the center of the earth; or, one can pick a Cartesian coordinate system (x, y, z orthogonal dimensions) and anchor it to a passing meteor. It is completely possible to calculate the orbit of a satellite with any number of different coordinate systems including these two, but picking the first system will allow you to easily solve the problem (analytically, using some solid assumptions) while building your intuitions about the movements of earth\u2019s satellites. The second approach will be really hard, and provide you with no new intuitions. So, these are \u201cequivalent\u201d in some sense, but they are not equally useful for any particular problem. And, so it is with evolutionary accounting systems\u2026.\nRejecting group selection models is like banning spherical coordinates because you prefer to do your verbal reasoning in Cartesian coordinates.\nRichard McElreath (disclosure: one of my committee members) makes a similar analogy to Bayesian vs frequentist statistics in the comments on Andrew Gelman\u2019s blog.\nI should mention that both Richard McElreath and David Queller signed the many-authored Nature paper and, from what I have heard, David Queller helped organize it. This should cast doubt on Richard Dawkin\u2019s implication that the signers of the paper were all against group selection. Undoubtedly the co-signers had both bilinguals and unilinguals (and probably some nonlinguals) among them.\nSo, far these authors see inclusive fitness and multilevel selection as two modeling tools with varying degrees of usefulness. Pinker does not like this line of argument.\nIf the two theories really are equivalent, then any advantage of group selection\u2026 would have to come from the models\u2019 being more convenient, elegant, simple, transparent, explanatory, or mathematically tractable. Yet by stretching the meaning of \u201cgroup\u201d beyond its ordinary sense, that\u2019s just what they fail to be. According to the old song, \u201cWe belong to a mutual admiration society, my baby and me\u201d\u2014the whimsy hinging on the unnaturalness of referring to a pair of individuals as a \u201csociety.\u201d The same is true for \u201cgroup.\u201d While mathematically speaking one can identify a \u201cgroup\u201d with any arbitrary set, in practice using a single construct for a pair of siblings, a person holding a door open for a stranger, a waitress and a customer, a married couple, a street gang, a traditional band or tribe, a nation, and an empire conceals the significant psychological differences among them.\nThis line of reasoning is just odd to me. The theorist should define a group in a way that is useful and intuitive to the question under consideration and the model one is building. *shrugs* Just as you can apply inclusive fitness models to different types organisms, you can apply multilevel selection models to different types of groups.\nHe also does not like the fact that multilevel selection models make simplifying assumptions (comparing them to \u201cspherical cows\u201d). This gives the impression that he does not realize that inclusive fitness models also make simplifying assumptions. In fact, all models make simplifying assumptions \u2013 that is why they are models.\nTo be fair, I generally have a harder time following elaborate word-arguments than more precise math arguments. I do not know if Pinker has actually ever tried his hand at mathematical modeling or has even worked through any of the models he writes about, but he does not give that impression.* But the proof is in the pudding.\nPinker would more easy prove his point to more quantitative naysayers by, as Joe Henrich suggests, taking this MLS model by Sam Bowles and reformulating it as an inclusive fitness model. Joe Henrich:\nOf course, it may be possible! It\u2019s also possible to calculate the position of that earth orbiting satellite using the coordinate system attached to the passing meteor. Good luck.\nThis would be hard enough and if Pinker hasn\u2019t done a lot of modeling this would be a good way to learn. But then, after all the work that task would undoubtedly take, the trick would then be to explain the math both ways to, say, advanced undergrads in evolutionary biology and see which framework is more transparent and intuitive. Good luck!\n* Pinker seems, for example, unaware of the folk theorem\u2019s application to reciprocity models \u2013 which may be a subject of a future post on this blog.\nInternational relations and cultural group selection\nJuly 6, 2012 UncategorizedMatthew Zefferman\nThe Social Evolution Forum published a piece of mine on international relations theory and cultural group selection.\nThis is a new response Pinker\u2019s essay that makes different points than the ones I made in an earlier post on this blog, since those points were already covered by other commentators on the SEF.\nInstead, I focus on the role that cultural selection plays (or might play) in international relations theory and that it would be hard to talk about selection in IR without reference to groups \u2013 specifically sovereign territorial states.\nIf you check it out, please tell me, in the comments, where I go wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 9274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.billiardsprofessor.com/archives/658", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BGO5IGBPMDD2PQB75GCMV6VAU3HYXDFN", "length": 4971, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.billiardsprofessor.com", "title": "\ufeff\tPerspective \u2013 The Billiards Professor", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Article \u203a Perspective\nAnother View on the Mental Game\nI recently participated in the final stop of the Mezz West State Tour on January 24 at Break Time Billiards in Modesto, CA. I did not participate on January 25th, because I did not make it to day two. And\u2026 that\u2019s all I have to say about that. Ahem.\nCongratulations to Vilmos Foldes for an exciting win over Beau Runningen to take the top spot, and make it to #1 on the player rankings! Beau did very well, too, taking #2; and he\u2019s only a semi-pro!\nOkay, enough about the champs. Back to me.\nI would like to tell you about my first opponent. We\u2019ll call him \u201cBob O\u2019Connor,\u201d because that is his name. Bob is an older gentleman, although the term \u201cgentleman\u201d does not do him any justice. He is a kind, soft-spoken man who always seemed to have a relaxed smile on his face. He enjoyed talking about the game, but never intruded upon my shots.\nHe was very deferential to the other players around him, as well. In the corner where we were playing, three tables were just a little too close together, and at times players had to wait for each other to shoot. Every time, he capitulated with a smile on his face, saying \u201cI\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s your shot.\u201d\nI know you\u2019ve seen players like this. I certainly have. But Bob was just\u2026 happy.\nI am still working on my game. I know I\u2019m not quite there yet, but I love competing in these events against great players. It\u2019s good exposure to the scene, and is definitely helping me during my quest to improve my mental game. I am way down on the rankings for this tour.\nHowever, I still played better than Bob. He admitted to me that he doesn\u2019t get to practice much. In fact, he plays mainly on crappy bar boxes, and very rarely gets a chance to play on 9-footers, much less the Diamonds like the one we were playing on. He missed some fairly routine 10-ball shots that should have won him a couple of games.\nYet, somehow, Bob managed to keep up a very positive attitude, congratulating me on my 7-1 victory, and wishing me luck for the rest of the tournament. Not once during our match did he scowl, frown, complain, or even sigh. He was the very epitome of class, and a complete gentleman.\nI lost my next two matches. Both players simply outclassed me; they definitely played better than I that day. During my final match on the one-loss side, I caught myself getting annoyed after dogging a couple of routine shots. I mentally berated myself for missing such easy shots (\u201cWhat the hell, Michael? You\u2019re better than this!\u201d).\nWhen I was done, I wanted nothing more than to just leave, and be done with the place. However, I decided to stick around and watch my friends Jason Williams and Robbie Lyng play their matches. I sat and fumed for a few minutes, recounting to Robbie just how badly I played when he asked.\nAt one point, I saw Bob walk by. He had lost his match as well, and was out of the competition. He was smiling, and genuinely appeared to be enjoying himself. He was just happy to be there, amongst great pool players, soaking it all in.\nImmediately, I felt my brain shift; almost like in those Sci-Fi movies, where the hero shifts into a parallel universe and is momentarily confused. I was suddenly no longer upset that I was out of the competition. I was happy to be there, and completely thrilled that many of my friends and acquaintances were still in the running.\nFood tasted better. There was a smell of fresh-cut flowers, and birds were singing. I could suddenly see in color! Ok\u2026 maybe that\u2019s a bit much. But I can tell you, my perspective changed almost instantly.\nI love pool. I LOVE it. I play it, teach it, and write about it. Everything about the game excites me; it is my happy place. There is no reason for me to get down every time I don\u2019t make the perfect shot, or put the cue ball in the perfect position. Everyone makes mistakes \u2013 even the pros.\nGranted, they make fewer mistakes than I do, but that\u2019s mainly because their recovery time \u2013 from anger or disappointment to success \u2013 usually lasts a moment, before they are back in the zone. My goal is to get there, too.\nDuring my Zen Quest, I have received several book recommendations. One of them, a short read, is \u201cMastering the Inner Game of Pool,\u201d by David Krolick. I found this one on my own, and it can be downloaded to Kindle (I use the iOS app) for about five bucks. Jason Williams told me about Point the Way by The Monk (Tim Miller). I have not read it yet, but Jason swears by it. That\u2019s good enough for me, considering he was able to take 7/8th this weekend, he never practices (grr!), and has a terrific attitude about the game.\nSometimes, all it takes is a change of perspective to help you with your game. I always tell my students to walk around the table if they\u2019re not sure about a shot. Look at it from different angles, because you may find something you didn\u2019t see from behind the cue ball.\nMaybe I should follow my own advice.\n\u2039 How to Run a Tournament\nJump Shot in Slow Motion \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 8192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bovell_james_10E.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:55Z", "digest": "sha1:AXLEH4JHRYWS2TJPHW6XU3FPMGALKY6Q", "length": 11266, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.biographi.ca", "title": "Biography \u2013 BOVELL, JAMES \u2013 Volume X (1871-1880) \u2013 Dictionary of Canadian Biography", "raw_content": "Biography \u2013 BOVELL, JAMES \u2013 Volume X (1871-1880) \u2013 Dictionary of Canadian Biography\nBOVELL, JAMES, physician, Church of England clergyman, theologian, and educator; b. 28 Oct. 1817, in Barbados, West Indies, eldest son of John Bovell, a wealthy banker, and Sarah Applewaite; m. at age 18 Julia Howard App-Griffith of Barbados who survived him by 11 years; of their six children, two died in infancy; d. 15 Jan. 1880, at Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies.\nJames Bovell received private schooling in Barbados, before going to England at age 17 for further education. He decided to study medicine, and in November 1834 entered Guy\u2019s Hospital, London, where he was Sir Astley Cooper\u2019s dresser, and was taught by Richard Bright, Thomas Addison, and other distinguished physicians. He later studied pathology at Edinburgh and Glasgow while awaiting admittance into the Royal College of Physicians of London as an extra-licentiate in 1839. He then worked for a few years under Robert Graves and William Stokes in Dublin, until stricken with typhus fever. When he recovered, he returned to Barbados and took up practice in Bridgetown. Bovell has been credited with medical degrees from London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin universities, but official records do not confirm these additional qualifications.\nIn 1848 Bovell emigrated to Canada and began practising in Toronto, where he became one of the most prominent physicians. His broad training and questing spirit engaged him in such ventures as the treatment of cholera victims with milk transfusions, the practice of clinical microscopy, and the study of comparative pathology. In 1851 he was co-founder and editor of the Upper Canada Journal of Medical, Surgical and Physical Science (Toronto), and his personal contributions to medical journals totalled nearly 30 papers, on topics ranging from the anatomy of the leech to a uterine tumour as a complication of parturition. His writings often displayed both a reforming zeal and keen observation. He connected the unhealthiness of Barbados with \u201cinnumerable swarms of insects\u201d (1848); and advocated health committees for Toronto that should order \u201cthe removal of all nuisances and filth,\u201d since \u201ccholera delights in filth and moisture.\u201d Later, in A plea for inebriate asylums, he deplored the general indifference towards drunkenness, which led \u201cthe unfortunate victim to look on his state rather as a weak fault or excusable failing than a great sin, and so perpetuat[ed] a degrading vice to his utter destruction and eternal ruin.\u201d\nBovell was a dedicated educationist and was one of the original councillors of the Canadian Institute in 1852. He, along with Edward Mulberry Hodder and four other colleagues, helped to organize the medical faculty of the new Trinity College in November 1850. He was dean from 1851 until 1856, when the faculty resigned and the school was dissolved following disputes with the council, headed by John Strachan*, bishop of Toronto. Friction arose initially because the faculty, whose services were freely given, resented the council\u2019s restrictions on expenditures and its exercise of authority over such matters as the advertisements for medical courses inserted in the press by the dean. The final break came after the faculty opened direct negotiations with the government to forestall a threatened reinstitution of the former King\u2019s College medical school. When Bovell\u2019s conciliatory efforts failed, he joined the Toronto School of Medicine as lecturer in physiology and pathology. In 1864 he also became lecturer in physiology to the Upper Canada Veterinary School (later the Ontario Veterinary College), established in 1862 by Andrew Smith*.\nFrom 1857 until he left Canada in 1870, Bovell was at various times designated professor of physiology, of physiology and chemistry, and of natural theology in the faculty of arts at Trinity College. For several years he was also lay secretary to the diocesan and provincial synods. He was deeply religious and published about a dozen devotional or exegetical works presenting High Church beliefs. His physiology lectures to third year arts students were based on his Outlines of natural theology, which illustrated divine goodness and wisdom through natural objects and phenomena and sought to reconcile recent geological discoveries with the Book of Genesis. Rejecting the doctrines of Sir Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, he espoused the high sacramental teachings of John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey, leaders of the Tractarian movement at Oxford. In 1860, his views on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist were denounced as \u201cRomish\u201d by the bishop of Huron, Benjamin Cronyn, whose evangelical convictions had involved him in open conflict with Trinity College authorities. To Bovell\u2019s distress, a commentary on his privately circulated denial of this allegation appeared in the Globe newspaper on 15 Nov. 1860. When the corporation of Trinity College (of which he was a member) disavowed and repudiated his doctrinal statements in absentia, he resigned his cherished chair, but Bishop Strachan persuaded him to retain it.\nJames Bovell strongly influenced William Osler*. In 1866, when Osler, at 17, was head prefect at Trinity College School, the founder and warden of the school, William Arthur Johnson, was Bovell\u2019s close friend and fellow-microscopist, and Bovell was himself medical superintendent and a governor of the school. Osler accompanied the two men on specimen-hunting expeditions, from which stemmed his deep interest in microscopy. When Osler decided upon a medical career, he became Bovell\u2019s unofficial apprentice, and between 1868 and 1870 frequented his house, attended his lectures, browsed in his library, and shared his hobbies, from natural history to the classics. Many years later, when Sir William Osler was Regius professor of medicine at Oxford, he publicly acknowledged owing his start in the profession to James Bovell. On a previous occasion, paying a \u201ctribute of filial affection\u201d to his old teacher, Osler summed him up in these words: \u201cOnly men of a certain metal rise superior to their surroundings, and while Dr. Bovell had that all-important combination of boundless ambition with energy and industry, he had that fatal quality of diffuseness, in which even genius is strangled.\u201d\nWhen Bovell revisited the West Indies in 1870, he was persuaded to take holy orders by Bishop W. W. Jackson of Antigua, who ordained him in 1871, and he decided to remain in the West Indies. After serving as curate, then rector, at the united parishes of St George\u2019s and St John\u2019s, Nevis, he moved to Charlestown in 1873, where he took charge of the less demanding combined parishes of St Thomas\u2019 and St Paul\u2019s. In 1875 his health began to fail and he died five years later following a stroke.\nClaude E. Dolman\nSelected writings by James Bovell are: \u201cApparatus for the exhibition of vapour,\u201d Upper Canada Journal of Medical, Surgical and Physical Science (Toronto), I (1851\u201352), 59\u201360; \u201cClinical remarks on two cases of tumour of the uterus complicating parturition,\u201d British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science (Montreal), V (1849\u201350), 1\u20135, 29\u201332; Constitution and canons of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto, with explanatory notes and comments (Toronto, 1858); Defence of doctrinal statements, addressed to the right rev. the lord bishop of Toronto, the right rev. the lord bishop of Huron, and the Corporation of Trinity College, with the hope that the explanations now given may remove erroneous impressions, and satisfy the church at large that I am loyal and true to her (Toronto, 1860); Letters, addressed to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher and others, framers of a series of resolutions on \u201critual\u201d (Toronto, 1867); \u201cNote on the preservation of some infusoria with a view to the display of their cilia,\u201d Canadian Journal, new ser., VIII (1863), 341\u201342; \u201cNotes on some points in the anatomy of the leech,\u201d Canadian Journal, new ser., I (1856), 27\u201333; \u201cObservations on the climate of Barbadoes and its influence on disease: together with remarks on angioleucitis or Barbadoes leg,\u201d British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science (Montreal), IV (1848\u201349), 113\u201316, 141\u201345, 169\u201372, 197\u2013201, 225\u201328, 261\u201366; \u201cOn the transfusion of milk, as practised in cholera, at the cholera sheds, Toronto, July, 1854,\u201d Canadian Journal, III (1854\u201355), 188\u201392; \u201cOn the white globules of the blood in disease,\u201d Upper Canada Journal of Medical, Surgical and Physical Science (Toronto), II (1852\u201353), 48\u201350, 65\u201369, 128\u201337, 150\u201356, 182\u201389, 210\u201314; Outlines of natural theology for the Canadian student, selected and arranged from the most authentic sources (Toronto, 1859); Passing thoughts on man\u2019s relation to God and on God\u2019s relation to man (Toronto, 1862); A plea for inebriate asylums; commended to the consideration of the legislators of the province of Canada (Toronto, 1862); Preparation for the Christian sacrifice, or holy communion (Toronto, 1859); The world at the advent of Jesus Christ (Toronto, 1868).\nBishop of Antigua\u2019s Lodge, Bishop\u2019s diary, visitation of Nevis, 1872. PAO, Strachan letter books, 1854\u201362, John Strachan to James Bovell, 29 Nov. 1860. St. George\u2019s, St. John\u2019s, St Paul\u2019s, and St Thomas\u2019 Churches (Nevis, W.I.), Baptism, marriage, and burial registers. Globe (Toronto), 15, 17 Nov. 1860. [William Osler], \u201cJames Bovell, M.D.,\u201d Canadian Journal of Medical Science (Toronto), V (April 1880), 114\u201315. University of Trinity College (Toronto), Calendars, 1853\u201370. Standard dict. of Can. biog. (Roberts and Tunnell), II, 40\u201342. Canniff, Medical profession in Upper Canada, 257\u201358. Harvey Cushing, The life of Sir William Osler (2v. Oxford, 1925). A history of the University of Trinity College, Toronto, 1852\u20131952, ed. T. A. Reed (Toronto, 1952). C. E. Dolman, \u201cThe Reverend James Bovell, M.D., 1817\u20131880,\u201d in Pioneers of Canadian science, ed. G. F. G. Stanley (Royal Society of Canada \u201cStudia Varia\u201d series, IX, Toronto, 1966), 81\u2013100, 136\u201346. N. B. 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Dolman, \u201cBOVELL, JAMES,\u201d in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2003\u2013, accessed February 15, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bovell_james_10E.html.\nPermalink: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bovell_james_10E.html\nAuthor of Article: Claude E. Dolman\nTitle of Article: BOVELL, JAMES", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 13679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/squires_richard_anderson_16E.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RQIEBM6WWMD4ZVEA5AJLLHPIEOTN6NT7", "length": 33595, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.biographi.ca", "title": "Biography \u2013 SQUIRES, Sir RICHARD ANDERSON \u2013 Volume XVI (1931-1940) \u2013 Dictionary of Canadian Biography", "raw_content": "Biography \u2013 SQUIRES, Sir RICHARD ANDERSON \u2013 Volume XVI (1931-1940) \u2013 Dictionary of Canadian Biography\nSQUIRES, Sir RICHARD ANDERSON, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician; b. 18 Jan. 1880 in Harbour Grace, Nfld, only child of Alexander Squires and Sidney Jane Anderson; m. 17 June 1905 Helena Emiline Strong (d. 1959) at Little Bay Islands, Nfld, and they had seven children, of whom three sons and two daughters survived to adulthood; d. 26 March 1940 in St John\u2019s.\nPossibly Newfoundland\u2019s most controversial political leader, Richard Anderson Squires was the son of a reasonably prosperous (and politically active) farmer-turned-grocer. His mother died when he was very young, his father did not remarry, and Anderson, as he was known to his family, had a solitary childhood. He was educated in Harbour Grace and at the Methodist Academy in Carbonear before attending the Methodist College in St John\u2019s. He later described his time there as \u201cone of grind\u201d since he had to make up for the deficiencies of his elementary education, but he emerged in 1898 with the Jubilee Scholarship, then the colony\u2019s highest academic award. He termed it \u201cpre-eminently an outport boy\u2019s scholarship\u201d and he used it to attend Dalhousie law school in Halifax, graduating with an llb in 1902. A young man of intelligence, energy, and promise, Squires returned home, enrolled as a solicitor, and joined the law firm of the minister of justice, Edward Patrick Morris; he became a partner in 1904.\nIn 1908 he stood as a candidate in Trinity Bay for Morris\u2019s newly minted People\u2019s Party. He lost narrowly, but won a seat in the same constituency the next year, when the Liberals led by Sir Robert Bond* were defeated. A loyal but not a vocal backbencher during Morris\u2019s first administration, Squires established his own law firm in 1910, and was called to the bar the next year.\nIn 1913 the People\u2019s Party faced a serious challenge from William Ford Coaker\u2019s Fishermen\u2019s Protective Union of Newfoundland, which was in alliance with Bond\u2019s Liberals. Squires had a difficult task in trying to hold Trinity Bay since the FPU was influential there. He lost his seat, but his vigorous campaign had tied Coaker down, contained the spread of unionism, and allowed Morris to devote his attention to crucial seats in Conception Bay. The People\u2019s Party won the election and Squires had his reward. In March 1914 he was appointed to the Legislative Council and became minister of justice and attorney general. In the same year he was named a kc.\nFor all that he was marked as a coming politician, Squires did not play an especially prominent role during his first few years in cabinet, though as minister of justice he was responsible for imposing Prohibition in 1917. (He was not a teetotaller, unlike many of his fellow Methodists.) Nevertheless, he was intensely ambitious, as was indicated by his 1916 acquisition of a controlling interest in the Daily Star (St John\u2019s). When Morris formed a national coalition government in July 1917, Squires became colonial secretary and leader for the government in the Legislative Council. In this capacity he had to steer a controversial bill imposing a business-profits tax aimed at checking profiteering and ensuring that all sections of the population contributed to the effort demanded by World War I. His eloquence did not prevent its defeat in council, and the government had to appoint additional members to get the bill through.\nAt the beginning of 1918 Morris resigned. Squires refused to serve in a restructured national government headed by Liberal William Frederick Lloyd, arguing that the government was not truly national, but dominated by Coaker and the FPU. It was, he said, \u201ca political combination of expediency and self-interest.\u201d Squires was, of course, declaring political independence (as Morris had done in 1907), and he had not forgotten that Lloyd had defeated him in the 1913 election.\nThe common denominators linking those against the Lloyd government were opposition to the FPU and personal ambition. Both influenced two key pieces of legislation. Squires and others resisted a bill that further extended the term of the legislature (Morris had introduced the first such bill in 1917), though they eventually agreed to a compromise. The other bill imposed conscription, which was unwelcome to most FPU members. Squires sought to embarrass Coaker and the government in the legislature, and used his newspaper to force the administration to implement the measure in the spring rather than delay until after the fishing season. Attacks on the government in the Daily Star reached such a pitch that the administration invoked the War Measures Act in May 1918 and closed it down (it reopened on 10 June following the appointment of government censors).\nOn 20 May 1919 the government was defeated on a motion of no-confidence \u2013 seconded, remarkably, by Lloyd himself. A new administration was formed by Sir Michael Patrick Cashin*, and an election was scheduled for the fall. The manoeuvring that had created two national governments had eroded the pre-1917 party structure; political warlords with various degrees of influence and support now jostled for advantage and alliance. Squires made no attempt to reconcile with his former People\u2019s Party colleagues. Instead, once it was clear that neither Lloyd nor Bond would return to public life, he seized the opportunity to take over the remnants of the old Liberal Party and, following Morris\u2019s example once again, absorbed it into a new grouping. The Liberal Reform Party was launched on 21 August, and Squires anointed leader. At this stage it looked as if three parties, led by Squires, Cashin, and Coaker, would contest the election, but Squires wanted to head a majority government. The only way to dislodge Cashin, who seemed assured of victory, was to come to terms with Coaker, at whom Squires had levelled vituperative attacks in the Legislative Council and in his newspaper (they had been amply returned). Coaker, intent on regulating the fishing industry, had his own reasons for joining Squires, and the alliance was concluded in September. Rocky as it proved to be, the partnership defined the primary political fault line in 1920s Newfoundland. On one side were the Liberal and FPU factions, broadly populist, largely outport based, and predominantly Protestant; on the other were the conservative St John\u2019s mercantile factions, far more representative of the country\u2019s elites, and holding most of the Roman Catholic districts.\nNot surprisingly, the election campaign had a distinctly sectarian tinge. Squires had served as grand master of Newfoundland\u2019s Loyal Orange Lodge from 1913 to 1915 (and would do so again in 1925\u201326), and Coaker\u2019s following was almost exclusively Protestant. Cashin\u2019s strength was in St John\u2019s and the southeast, where the greater part of the Catholic population was concentrated. Squires and Coaker had 23 seats to Cashin\u2019s 13, most of them in Protestant districts. Squires was not above using sectarianism to political advantage, but he was no bigot. Indeed, he once caused controversy by taking a group of visiting Orangemen to the annual garden party at Mount Cashel, a Catholic orphanage. Wanting to demonstrate that his party support crossed religious lines, he ran successfully in St John\u2019s West, a district with a Catholic plurality, instead of Trinity Bay. Sectarianism alone, then, does not explain the election result. Coaker and Squires were an effective electoral combination; the party manifesto promised reduced taxes for fishermen, a reorganization of the fisheries department, and industrial development, and ferociously attacked the unpopular Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir William Duff Reid*], which owned the island\u2019s railways and coastal steamers and had once bankrolled Morris and the People\u2019s Party. Squires also brought a number of personal advantages to the contest: he was clever, charming, witty, and a superb speaker. Yet the election results tended to reinforce sectarian divisions since the government members were all Protestants while 11 of the 13 opposition members were Catholics.\nThe new administration, in which Squires was colonial secretary as well as prime minister, took office on 17 Nov. 1919. It inherited from the war a heavy public debt and an overextended fishing industry, and it faced a post-war recession. Over the next four years, the total value of Newfoundland\u2019s exports declined by almost 40 per cent, and the price of fish by 46 per cent. Government revenues fell and expenditures increased, pushed in part by the need to provide relief and employment. By 1923 the debt was $60.5 million. The government\u2019s ability to deal effectively with this dismal situation was compromised by friction between Squires, Coaker, the minister of marine and fisheries, and William Robertson Warren, the minister of justice. The political atmosphere was rancorous and highly personal. Governor Sir Charles Alexander Harris reported that as a result of Squires\u2019s vituperative and insulting language \u2013 and that of his newspaper \u2013 the opposition regarded him with \u201ca bitter feeling akin to hatred.\u201d The sentiment was heartily returned, and legislative sessions degenerated into lengthy slanging matches.\nA major issue demanding the government\u2019s immediate attention was a crisis caused by falling prices for fish and international market difficulties. Coaker imposed controls on exports and pushed through other legislation to improve quality and marketing, all measures long advocated by the FPU. But he wanted a greater degree of government intervention than Squires was prepared to tolerate. The prime minister insisted that the regulations had to be implemented by the industry, not the government. Faced with tight finances and heavy competition, exporters soon panicked. That Coaker\u2019s plan had failed by 1921 was due in part to Squires\u2019s strategy, but he could blame the exporters, who could in turn blame Coaker.\nThe recession also reduced demand for iron ore, creating difficulties for the mining companies working on Bell Island. Any closure or reduction in output had serious implications for the Conception Bay economy. The companies, merged as the British Empire Steel Corporation in 1922, wanted to cut production; Squires wanted as much employment as possible. There were protracted, unsavoury, and secretive negotiations, during which the companies were persuaded to keep working in return for financial concessions. There were generous donations to Liberal campaign funds (and to Squires) during discussions on a permanent contract to replace the one that had expired in 1919.\nThe government also had to address the future of the dilapidated, loss-making Newfoundland Railway. The Reid Newfoundland Company wished to shed its responsibility for operating the railway and coastal steamers and concentrate on developing its extensive landholdings. In particular, there were plans for a second pulp and paper mill in the Humber River valley. In June 1920 the Reids announced that they could no longer function without government help, thus breaching the 50-year contract signed in 1901 [see Sir Robert Gillespie Reid*]. Over the prime minister\u2019s objections, assistance was provided \u2013 thereby driving up the debt \u2013 and what Squires described as the \u201cmock railway with nobody to run it\u201d carried on while the government covered most of its operating deficits. A final settlement was forced by negotiations concerning the Humber development. Hostile to the Reids, Squires was initially unenthusiastic about the project; he was also reluctant to allow the government to become the sole guarantor of the bonds needed to raise capital. In 1922 he acquiesced in a deal whereby the bonds would be guaranteed by both the Newfoundland and British governments. His administration agreed to abandon litigation against the Reid company for breach of contract, since this would make uncertain the tenure of the forest-lands on which the future mill depended. In addition, the government bought out the Reid interest in the railway and, on 1 July 1923, would become responsible for its services. These actions were a sensible if expensive solution to a difficult problem, and Squires could trumpet his administration\u2019s role as midwife to the Humber project, which promised to create hundreds of jobs.\nThere were other positive accomplishments. One of the prime minister\u2019s first acts, in 1920, created the Department of Education under Arthur Barnes* \u2013 which rattled the Roman Catholic hierarchy, concerned about its schools \u2013 and he provided for a non-denominational normal school which began classes in the autumn of 1921 and would become Memorial University College (later Memorial University of Newfoundland). Impressive national war memorials were begun in St John\u2019s [see Gerald Joseph Whitty*] and in France, including the famous caribou monument at Beaumont-Hamel (Beaumont). Squires did his best for Newfoundland in fish-tariff negotiations with the United States and Spain, and in talks with fish buyers in Italy. On other issues he was evasive: he opposed women\u2019s suffrage in private but not in public (in 1930 his wife would become the first woman elected to the House of Assembly, where she replaced the late George Frederick Arthur Grimes*), and avoided decisive action on enforcing or easing Prohibition which, as elsewhere, encouraged hypocrisy, graft, and petty corruption. He was secretive and suspicious of most of his colleagues, and spent long periods abroad (he was absent for 16 of the 41 months of his first term of office). At home, the government was increasingly fractious.\nNevertheless, the Humber deal gave Squires a superb issue for an election, and he called one for 3 May 1923, promising he would put the \u201cHum on the Humber.\u201d There was a fierce fight in St John\u2019s West, where Cashin came within a few votes of knocking Squires out of his seat, but overall party standings were unchanged, and the necessary legislation was approved in June. Coaker had resigned from the cabinet before the election and, having decided to take the FPU out of politics, dissolved the 1919 alliance (though he himself was returned). Discontent within the administration had apparently ebbed, and Squires seemed to be riding high.\nWithin days the situation began to unravel as the opposition gathered evidence of government misdoings. First, Cashin alleged that public funds had paid a minister\u2019s electioneering expenses. Charges were brought against Alexander Campbell, minister of agriculture and mines, whose department had funded relief projects that were used for the prime minister\u2019s and Campbell\u2019s political advantage. Then it transpired that the Department of the Liquor Controller, which had turned into a lucrative bootlegging operation run by John Thomas Meaney, had been giving Squires substantial \u201cloans,\u201d most of which had not been repaid. Politics was an expensive business, Squires liked an expensive lifestyle (he sold insurance and lent money, when he had any to lend, to supplement his income), his newspaper relentlessly lost money, and subsidies had become essential. Warren led a cabinet revolt, and an unrepentant Squires, who refused to confirm or deny charges that he had received kickbacks from mining companies and made private use of public funds, resigned as prime minister on 23 July.\nWarren, the new prime minister, established an inquiry into the allegations against Squires and Campbell. He asked the British government to recommend a commissioner whose impartiality would be unquestioned. Thomas Hollis Walker, kc, was given the necessary authority and sent to Newfoundland; his report, submitted in March 1924, declared that the accusations were largely true. Warren laid criminal charges against Squires, Campbell, Meaney, and a civil servant, and ordered their arrest two days before the legislature was scheduled to open on 24 April. By the time the house met, however, Squires had been bailed, and with the support of four defectors and the opposition, he brought down the government on a no-confidence vote.\nAfter a complicated political hiatus, an election took place on 2 June. The Liberals were led by Albert Edgar Hickman*. Squires did not stand but he backed, personally and through his new newspaper, the Daily Mail (St John\u2019s), nine \u201ctrue Liberals,\u201d thus signalling that he was by no means a spent political force. He and his supporters brazenly argued that the Hollis Walker report was no more than a shabby political manoeuvre to remove him from office. There were also those who saw the attack on Squires in sectarian terms, as Rome against Orange. These criticisms, thin as they may have been, were reinforced by a grand jury\u2019s refusal to indict him on charges of larceny.\nThe new government, which included Liberals, former members of Morris\u2019s People\u2019s Party, Catholics, and conservatives with mercantile interests, was led by Walter Stanley Monroe*. Further charges were brought against Squires, this time for failing to pay income tax since 1918. Squires fought hard, and lost. He was fined \u2013 he allowed his car to be seized and auctioned \u2013 but eventually filed his returns. He remained a public figure, and when he let it be known that he intended to lead the Liberals in the next election, his supporters regrouped. Coaker, who loathed Monroe and the effects of his policies on the fishery, agreed to back Squires once again. Defections placed the government in a precarious position, and in May 1928 nine members formed a separate pro-Squires group, though Hickman remained leader of the opposition and headed a separate Liberal faction.\nBy the time that the election campaign began in earnest that fall, Hickman had been shunted aside and Squires had emerged as the sole Liberal leader. He had the support of Coaker and Peter John Cashin*, son of his old enemy, who possessed a surname to be conjured with and came with valuable Catholic credentials. The remaining government members attempted to create a new image by installing Frederick Charles Munro Alderdice as leader; his followers would eventually become the United Newfoundland Party. Not surprisingly, they assailed Squires as an untrustworthy crook, and Coaker as a menace. Squires in turn attacked the government\u2019s record, and promised freedom from \u201cTory mercantile control\u201d as well as lower taxes and industrial development. Most important, a newsprint mill would be built on the Gander River. Just as he had put the \u201cHum on the Humber,\u201d he would put the \u201cGang on the Gander.\u201d A clever touch was to produce and circulate a gramophone record of one of his campaign speeches.\nSquires decided to run in the relatively safe Humber district, thereby dashing the hopes of Joseph Roberts Smallwood*, who had been nursing the seat. For Squires, the personal and party victories were emphatic. He was elected by a landslide; the Liberals won a 16-seat majority and 55 per cent of the popular vote. It was an astonishing comeback, confirming his charisma, energy, and mastery of electioneering. His government took office on 17 Nov. 1928. Squires was minister of justice as well as prime minister; the cabinet included Barnes (colonial secretary), Cashin (finance), William Wesley Halfyard* (posts and telegraphs), and Frederick Gordon Bradley*, Campbell, Coaker, and Harris Munden Mosdell* (all without portfolios). It was known to some as \u201cthe Cabal of all the talents.\u201d Squires, who had received a kcmg in 1921, would be appointed to the Privy Council in 1930.\nA period of conservative rule under Monroe had done little to stabilize finances, and the economy remained fragile. Within a year of Squires\u2019s victory, moreover, Newfoundland was dealing with the impact of the Great Depression. By the end of the 1931\u201332 financial year, the value of exports had dropped by a third and the price of fish by half. Revenue fell by over 20 per cent, but the need for public relief plus the heavy expense of servicing the debt \u2013 which had increased by a quarter \u2013 made it difficult to reduce expenditure. Misery now engulfed the country. There seemed to be two possible ways to ease the situation. One was to implement the Gander project; the other was to sell Labrador, unequivocally part of Newfoundland since the 1927 ruling by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council [see Sir Patrick Thomas McGrath*]. Neither would come to pass.\nThe Gander project was a brainchild of the Reid Newfoundland Company, which controlled the required timber limits. A developer was needed, and by 1930 there was an agreement in principle with the Dominion Newsprint Company, part of the American Hearst publishing empire. Squires considered the deal overgenerous to the Hearsts, who wanted a substantial government guarantee and, it was suspected, were not negotiating in earnest. He also thought that if the Hearst deal failed, the faltering Reid company might sell off its Gander timber rights to the owners of the Humber mill, thereby wiping out any chance of another development. As a result, the government intervened to stop the Reids from alienating their limits while investigation of the mill\u2019s possibilities continued. The attempt to revoke the Reids\u2019 timber licences failed and the prospect of another newsprint plant disappeared. Squires was bitterly criticized for his handling of this issue, and with some justice. But the likelihood of a mill being built during the depression was remote, and the effort to take back the licences was well intentioned, even if mismanaged.\nAs for Labrador, informal talks about a sale to Canada had taken place during Squires\u2019s first administration. In 1931 serious negotiations were held between a Newfoundland delegation and the government of Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett*. The territory was offered for $110 million. Squires, who distanced himself from the idea, did not take part in the discussions. Canada, also trying to cope with the depression, rejected the deal.\nThe economic and financial noose tightened. Preoccupied with survival, the government maintained minimal public services. Squires refused to consider even partial default on interest payments, and concentrated on retrenchment, which increased public hardship, and on finding money where he could. Cashin\u2019s budget of April 1931 introduced deep cuts in expenditure; the opposition quickly pointed out that Liberal members were still lined up at the trough. The government\u2019s confidence that it could stay the course was rudely disturbed when, in May, an attempt to float another loan failed, and bankruptcy became an immediate possibility. Squires and Cashin went to Ottawa. Under pressure from Bennett, the four Canadian banks operating in Newfoundland agreed to make a loan. The stringent conditions included the appointment of a special financial commissioner, Sir Percy Thompson of the British Board of Inland Revenue. More severe cuts in government expenditures followed, and a Montreal businessman, Robert James Magor, was hired to look into the operation of the railway, the telegraph system, and other government services. But there was little anyone could do to alleviate the crisis, and the government-controlled Newfoundland Savings Bank almost collapsed in November. By the end of the year Squires and Cashin, as well as Thompson, were again desperately looking for financial assistance. The banks agreed to a final loan on 31 December, forcing draconian conditions that constituted a form of receivership.\nThere were calls for a national, or commission, government, and for a royal commission of inquiry. The unemployed in St John\u2019s demanded higher dole payments. The crisis, however, did not produce a united front. The conservatives of the United Newfoundland Party had little interest in a coalition and wanted the detested Squires and his cronies thrown out of office; the prime minister had little time for his \u201cTory\u201d foes. But his hold on power was less sure than he may have thought. Early in February 1932 Cashin resigned as finance minister, and detonated a political explosion. He accused Squires of falsifying Executive Council minutes to cover up fees paid to himself and his constituency account from public funds \u2013 including the sum of $5,000 a year from the War Reparations Commission (which Squires headed), a particularly sensitive issue since veterans\u2019 pensions were already threatened. Campbell was accused of income-tax evasion and other misdeeds, and another minister of forgery. It is little wonder that on 11 February Squires was roughly handled by an angry crowd of unemployed workers who pushed into his office at the courthouse.\nAlderdice demanded that the accusations be investigated by a committee of the House of Assembly. Characteristically, Squires evaded the issue by moving that they be examined by Governor Sir John Middleton \u2013 a clever tactic since, in effect, Middleton was being asked to verify that he had been deceived. Squires was also trying to buy time, but if he thought the scandal would fade away, he was badly mistaken. The governor\u2019s conclusion that there had been no falsifications convinced no one. Government members began to defect, and attacks from both Cashin and the opposition intensified. A large and noisy public meeting in St John\u2019s on 4 April, organized by politicians, clergymen, businessmen, and opponents of the government, passed a resolution demanding a full inquiry. The next day merchants closed their premises and a huge crowd made its way to the Colonial Building, where the house was in session, to present a petition that Cashin\u2019s charges be proved or disproved. Just as the house was debating a motion to refer the petition to a committee, the demonstration exploded into a riot. The Colonial Building was vandalized, windows were broken, fires set, and files destroyed. Squires, his wife, two other government members, and Smallwood were lucky to escape unharmed, and Squires went into hiding.\nCashin had declared that the prime minister would resign; Squires refused to do so, certain that the mob had been incited by political enemies. Instead, when the house resumed business on 19 April, he announced that there would be an early election. A committee was appointed to ascertain what might be done to carry out the citizens\u2019 petition, but it never reported. The most significant piece of legislation passed during the remainder of the session gave Imperial Oil a 15-year monopoly on the sale of petroleum products in return for a loan which staved off default for another six months.\nThe Liberals fielded a full slate of candidates on 11 June, but the country had clearly had enough of them: Alderdice took 24 of the 27 seats. Squires was defeated in Trinity South and Lady Squires in Twillingate. This general election was the last to be held in Newfoundland for 14 years.\nThe royal commission responsible for examining Newfoundland\u2019s future, which many of Squires\u2019s opponents had long advocated, was appointed in February 1933. The former prime minister gave no evidence but vigorously protested the recommendation that the country should be administered by a commission established by the British government. The recommendation was implemented in 1934. For some years he remained in the background, practising law in partnership with Louise Maude Saunders and working his farm (now part of Bowring Park) west of St John\u2019s. The family was, by all accounts, short of money. Squires would not accept that his political career was over. Indeed, he apparently thought that he could be the centre around which resistance to the commission of government \u2013 in his view, the Tory Party in disguise \u2013 could coalesce. In January 1936 he treated Governor Sir David Murray Anderson to a lengthy analysis of the government\u2019s failings and argued that if an election were held, he would win hands down. In May 1937 he visited the British secretary of state for dominion affairs, Malcolm MacDonald, to present himself as the potential leader of the opposition to the commission. His attitude, noted MacDonald, was reminiscent of John Pym addressing Charles I, and his frame of mind was \u201crebellious.\u201d That year Squires acted for the Newfoundland Lumbermen\u2019s Association, a loggers\u2019 union, in a major strike, and at least one outport asked for his help in lobbying the government for assistance.\nSquires\u2019s second comeback did not materialize. The commission was firmly entrenched if unpopular, war intervened, and his health began to fail. He was confined to his house for more than a year before his death in March 1940. The state funeral was attended \u201cby an immense gathering,\u201d the long procession being headed by veterans of World War I.\nCoaker described Squires as \u201ca politician rather than a statesman.\u2026 In my opinion the cleverest politician the country has produced. His energy was astounding.\u2026 Hard work and tongue ability made him what he became.\u201d Had he allowed \u201cconscience to be his guide he would have taken a foremost place amongst the great public men of Newfoundland.\u201d On this reading, Squires was a man of talent and ability who allowed ambition and power to blunt his moral sense. F. G. Bradley later called him \u201ca flashing tragedy.\u201d He can also be seen as the outport boy who never fitted in with the St John\u2019s elites: resenting their assumption of power and privilege, he tried to best them politically while imitating their expensive social mores by, for instance, sending his sons to school in England. In his single-minded drive to the top, Squires practised the often unscrupulous and highly partisan style of patronage politics then common in North America. He made many enemies and few firm allies, even in his own party; indeed, he reportedly said that \u201che never knew for sure when he went to bed in the evening if he would still be Prime Minister when he awoke in the morning.\u201d By overstepping the limit of what was acceptable by the standards that prevailed in Newfoundland public life, which were hardly strict, he became a scapegoat for his country\u2019s collapse in the early 1930s. To be fair, by the time Squires came to power Newfoundland\u2019s future was already precarious, and he cannot be blamed for the economic disasters of the interwar period. But he had the chance and the ability to steady the situation and to provide much-needed leadership; this he signally failed to do.\nMemorial Univ. of Nfld, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Arch. and Special Coll. (St John\u2019s), mf-137 (Sir Richard Squires papers). RPA, GN 8, Richard Anderson Squires sous fonds. Melvin Baker, \u201cNewfoundland in the 1920s\u201d: www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1919-28.htm (consulted 11 Feb. 2013); \u201cThe second Squires administration and the loss of responsible government, 1928\u20131934\u201d: www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1920s.htm (consulted 11 Feb. 2013). I. R. Carter, \u201cThe Newfoundland general election of 1928\u201d (ba thesis, Memorial Univ. of Nfld, 1991). W. F. Coaker, Past, present and future: being a series of articles contributed to the \u201cFishermen\u2019s Advocate,\u201d 1932; together with notes of a trip to Greece 1932 ([Port Union, Nfld, 1932]). L. R. Curtis, \u201cI have worked with two premiers,\u201d in The book of Newfoundland, ed. J. R. Smallwood et al. (6v., St John\u2019s, 1937\u201375), 3: 144\u201352. R. M. Elliott, \u201cNewfoundland politics in the 1920s: the genesis and significance of the Hollis Walker enquiry,\u201d in Newfoundland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: essays in interpretation, ed. J. [K.] Hiller and P. [F.] Neary (Toronto, 1980), 181\u2013204. J. K. Hiller, \u201cThe career of F. Gordon Bradley,\u201d Newfoundland Studies (St John\u2019s), 4 (1988): 163\u201380; \u201cThe politics of newsprint: the Newfoundland pulp and paper industry, 1915\u20131939,\u201d Acadiensis, 19 (1989\u201390), no.2: 3\u201339. LAC, \u201cLady Helena E. (Strong) Squires\u201d: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1330-e.html (consulted 11 Feb. 2013). I. D. H. McDonald, \u201cTo each his own\u201d: William Coaker and the Fishermen\u2019s Protective Union in Newfoundland politics, 1908\u20131925, ed. J. K. Hiller (St John\u2019s, 1987). P. [F.] Neary, Newfoundland in the North Atlantic world, 1929\u20131949 (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1988); \u201cThat thin red cord of sentiment and of blood: Newfoundland in the Great Depression, 1929\u20131934\u201d (typescript, [1988?]; 2 copies at Memorial Univ. of Nfld, Centre for Nfld Studies). S. J. R. Noel, Politics in Newfoundland (Toronto, 1971). Patrick O\u2019Flaherty, Lost country: the rise and fall of Newfoundland, 1843\u20131933 (St John\u2019s, 2005); \u201cA portrait of Richard Squires\u201d (paper presented to the Nfld Hist. Soc., 27 April 2006; copy at Memorial Univ. of Nfld).\nALDERDICE, FREDERICK CHARLES MUNRO (Vol. 16)BOND, Sir ROBERT (Vol. 15)CASHIN, Sir MICHAEL PATRICK (Vol. 15)COAKER, Sir WILLIAM FORD (Vol. 16)GRIMES, GEORGE FREDERICK ARTHUR (Vol. 15)McGRATH, Sir PATRICK THOMAS (Vol. 15)MORRIS, EDWARD PATRICK, 1st Baron MORRIS (Vol. 16)REID, Sir WILLIAM DUFF (Vol. 15)More\nBENNETT, RICHARD BEDFORD, 1st Viscount BENNETT (Vol. 17)REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE (Vol. 13)WHITTY, GERALD JOSEPH (Vol. 15)CROSBIE, SIR JOHN CHALKER (Vol. 16)HOWLETT, CHARLES JOSEPH (Vol. 16)KNOWLING, FANNIE (McNeil) (Vol. 15)McGRATH, JAMES (Vol. 16)\nCASHIN, Sir MICHAEL PATRICK\nWHITTY, GERALD JOSEPH\nHOWLETT, CHARLES JOSEPH\nJames K. Hiller, \u201cSQUIRES, Sir RICHARD ANDERSON,\u201d in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2003\u2013, accessed February 15, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/squires_richard_anderson_16E.html.\nPermalink: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/squires_richard_anderson_16E.html\nAuthor of Article: James K. 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Now I\u2019m focusing on Inter,\u201d the Croatian international readily admitted.\nCONFIRMED: Man Utd\u2019s New Signing To Make His League Debut vs Southampton\nFurther, in a recent exclusive interview with the latest edition of the Four Four Two magazine, the winger also shed light on the consistent reports of his supposed transfer to Manchester United in the past.\nWhen asked how close to came to actually becoming a Red Devil, Perisic honestly replied: \u201cIt\u2019s true that an offer from Manchester United was on the table and that I was close to leaving Inter.\n\u201cBut I decided to stay and, as I said, (manager Luciano) Spalletti\u2019s perseverance to keep me played a big role. In football, small details in these situations are key.\u201d\nHowever, the 29-year-old did admit that he still wishes to play in as many top leagues as possible, whilst also adding: \u201cI hope Inter fans can understand my point of view.\u201d\n\u2190 CONFIRMED: Man Utd\u2019s New Signing To Make His League Debut vs SouthamptonTop 5 Transfer Stories Of The Day \u2013 30th November, 2018 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blogtalkradio.com/adrenaline-living/2009/07/31/merry-miller-and-gary-levinson-if-music-be-the-food-of-love", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:04Z", "digest": "sha1:NVBSAPW6ALPBQFMT6QTBG4JGLJDSKNNP", "length": 1711, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.blogtalkradio.com", "title": "Merry Miller and Gary Levinson If Music Be the Food of Love 07/31 by Angelia Miller | Music Podcasts", "raw_content": "Merry Miller and Gary Levinson If Music Be the Food of Love\nAngelia Miller\nIf you liked this show, you should follow Angelia Miller.\nRolling Stone magazine hails her music as \u201cSome of the most beautiful CDs ever recorded and exemplifies the perfection I expect from Merry Miller.\u201d Her music empire includes her best selling children\u2019s CDs \u201cDream Baby\u201d \u201cClassical Baby\u201d \u201cAngel Baby\u201d and \u201cHoliday Baby\u201d which have received critical acclaim and are used by countless celebrities such as Brooke Burke, Allison Sweeny and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Her adult CDs relax thousands of people around the world and include \u201cSongs from the Harp\u201d \u201cLove from the Harp\u201d \u201cHeavenly Hymns on the Harp\u201d and \u201cClassics for Everyone\u201d with world renowned violinist Gary Levinson. All her albums are available at HarpMusicToGo.com, on iTunes and in retail stores. Gary Levinson joined the Dallas Symphony as the Senior Principal Associate Concertmaster in 2002. Chosen by Zubin Mehta to join the New York Philharmonic in 1987 at age 21, Mr. Levinson made his New York Philharmonic solo debut under the baton of Erich Leinsdorf in 1991, the same year he earned his Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School. He has also toured at Mr. Mehta\u2019s request with the Israel Philharmonic. His teachers included Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, Glenn Dicterow and Felix Galimir. A prolific recording artist, Mr. Levinson is currently involved in three major recording projects. Asked by the Classical Music Recording Foundation to complete their comprehensive catalog of the chamber music works of Beethoven, he has recorded the ten sonatas for piano and violin with renowned pianist Daredjan Kakouberi. www.harpmusictogo.com and www.glevinson.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 4487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookbutler.com/movie/search?ean=0814838015422", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:E7EMFAETH2QLL3VWXRD2KEMOQEQ7VXV3", "length": 603, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.bookbutler.com", "title": "0814838015422 - You Might Be The Killer [Blu-ray] - EAN Search - BookButler", "raw_content": "You Might Be The Killer [Blu-ray]\nActors: Alyson Hannigan, Fran Kranz, Keith David\nfrom Brett Simmons\nwith Alyson Hannigan , Fran Kranz , Keith David\nby Screen Media - Blu-ray - (05 February 2019)\nValentine Collector's Edition [Blu-ray]\nActors: David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, Katherine Heigl\nActors: Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro, Wyatt Russell\nThe Brain [Blu-ray]\nActors: Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale\nActors: Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott\nCastle Rock: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)\nActors: Scott Glenn, Andre Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, Jane Levy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookologymagazine.com/resources/authors-emeritus/tag/sid-fleischman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PYIINEBDLYWFTASJC636NMGZASAOU5ZB", "length": 343, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bookologymagazine.com", "title": "Sid Fleischman | Authors Emeritus", "raw_content": "Tag Archives | Sid Fleischman\nAlbert Sidney (Sid) Fleischman, born March 16, 1920 in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up in San Diego, CA. As a youth, he wanted to be a magician. After high school, he performed in vaudeville shows across the country, and had a book of original magic tricks published when he was 17. After graduating from college he [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 48.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookwormroom.com/tag/japan/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2637D742QSQLVDU66N4MNS2Z6VAUERCT", "length": 56880, "nlines": 148, "source_domain": "www.bookwormroom.com", "title": "Japan Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Bookworm Room", "raw_content": "It\u2019s not too late to honor the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki\nThe August 6 anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has come and gone, but it\u2019s not too late to watch Bill Whittle\u2019s beyond brilliant deconstruction of Leftist moral idiocy regarding that bombing \u2014 in this case, moral idiocy as displayed by Jon Stewart, the intellectual light for too many leftists.\nLongtime readers know that I routinely thank God for the Atom bomb. My mother, interned in a Japanese concentration camp, had reached the point of starvation that saw her lose interest in food. Death was days away. Instead, because of that bomb, this is a picture of my mother five months after Hiroshima:\nAs a P.S., it\u2019s worth recalling that Japanese concentration camps were no picnic, especially for the Western men caught up in Japan\u2019s Bushido madness.\nFiled Under: World War II Tagged With: Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, WWII\nPeople are violent even without guns\n(I find that I\u2019m too thrifty not to get the most mileage out of my writing. People who get my newsletter \u2014 and if you don\u2019t, you can fill out the subscription form to the right \u2014 will have seen this post already, but I couldn\u2019t resist a slightly wider audience for it.)\nI wrote the other day about the extraordinary violence in England, a level of violence that increased dramatically after the Labour Party outlawed almost all guns. After reading that post, a friend send me a link to an article by Tom Gresham, writing at the Tactical Wire. Gresham\u2019s article bounces off of Bob Costas\u2019 inane little homily asserting that Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, would be alive if guns were outlawed. After pointing out the most obvious fact, which is that Belcher could easily have killed Perkins with his bare hands, Gresham gets to the heart of the matter, which is the way the anti-gun Left abuses data.\nGresham first tackles Costa\u2019s claim that, even if guns aren\u2019t used to kill innocent bystanders, they drive suicide rates. Gresham has one word to demolish that argument: Japan. Japan\u2019s laws almost completely prohibit guns. Nevertheless, says Gresham, \u201cthe suicide rate in Japan approaches (sometimes exceeds) twice that of the U.S. No guns in Japan, but twice the rate of suicides of the U.S., which has perhaps 300 million guns.\u201d\nGresham also points to a stunning statistic about America, one I hadn\u2019t known. In the 20 years since most states passed laws mandating issuance of concealed carry permits to qualified applicants,\u201dthe murder rate in the United States has fallen dramatically.\u201d\nWe now have three interesting facts: (1) Mostly gun-less Japan has twice the suicide rate of America; (2) mostly gun-less Britain has almost five times as much violent crime as armed America, a rate that increased dramatically when Britain banned most weapons; and (3) when American states enabled law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons, gun crime decreased, rather than increased.\nWe\u2019ve talked before at the Bookworm Room about the fact that correlation is not the same as causation. Those three facts taken together, though, indicate that it\u2019s reasonable to assume a connection between guns and violent crime. The connection, though, isn\u2019t the one the Left wants us to draw, which is that guns increase the violent crime and suicide rate. Rather, the connection is that an armed society is one that sees fewer violent crimes and fewer suicides.\nFiled Under: Britain, Japan, Second Amendment Tagged With: Britain, England, Japan, Jovan Belcher, Kasandra Perkins, Second Amendment, Second Amendment, Violent Crimes\nLingering fall-out from our trip to Japan\nOur family has traveled a great deal, but I think few trips have affected us as much as the Japan trip we took this summer. Two things account for that: First, we took a comprehensive tour, so we saw more than we usually see on a trip. Second, Japan is so very different from America. Our European and even our Mexican trip have been to familiar cultures. Japan, however, even though it has a Western gloss, was a radically different culture from any we\u2019d previously experienced. It\u2019s therefore not surprising that the trip lingers on in our memories.\nOne of the downsides of the trip is that the kids are currently refusing to eat any Japanese food. They\u2019ve always been fairly adventurous eaters, and they liked a lot of the food we had in Japan, but it got to be too much for them. In the months since our return, every suggestion that we enjoy some Japanese food for dinner (sushi, for example, as I have a gift card to this nice place) has been met with a resounding \u201cNo.\u201d I got one of those loud \u201cNos\u201d just yesterday, when I was trying to avoid cooking dinner, so the subject is on my mind right now. I assume that one of these days the children\u2019s overloaded circuits will reset, but until then, it seems that Japanese restaurants are no longer part of our dining-out repertoire.\nAnother thing the has stuck with all of us is how immaculately clean Japan was. Just yesterday, my son kept asking me to explain again why the Japanese have no garbage cans in public places (answer: to limit the risk of hidden bombs or toxins) and why, if they have no garbage cans, Japanese streets, train stations and subway stations are entirely free of litter (answer: the Japanese responded to the absent litter bins by carrying their own trash away). Both kids came way with a heightened sense of social responsibility after having seen Japanese civic honesty and cleanliness in action.\nWe are also contemplating bringing a little bit of Japan home. Our Japanese trip offered us some of the worst and some of the best toilet experiences we\u2019ve ever had when traveling. The worst were the squat toilets in public places outside of Tokyo. We mastered them, but not happily. Moreover, I kept wondering how in the world arthritic people manage to deal with them. The best toilets, though, were the ones with the bidet seats (like these, at Bidetsplus.com). They\u2019re such a marvelous hybrid of cleanliness and efficiency. Instead of trying to squeeze a stand-alone bidet into a small bathroom (and Lord knows, all the bathrooms were small), the Japanese turned every toilet into a bidet. I won\u2019t gross you out with details of their wonder (but you can see product videos here, which are cool), but suffice to say that they are wonderful \u2014 and affordable, and easy to install. We\u2019re thinking of giving these bidets as a gift to ourselves this holiday season. They\u2019re affordable decadence.\nFiled Under: Japan Tagged With: Bidet Seats, Bidets, Japan, Japanese Food, Littering, Sushi\nLemmings and herded cats \u2014 musings on Japan and America\nSpending two weeks in a country does not make one an expert on that country. Indeed, I\u2019m sure the opposite is true, which is that one learns just enough to be dangerous. One sees the country without understanding it. Nevertheless, both from looking at the Japanese in action and from speaking to myriad people, both Japanese and Western, I\u2019m prepared to make the dangerous leap to conclusions.\nI can\u2019t speak for other people, but what struck me most strongly about Japan was the homogeneity \u2014 not just racially, although it is bizarre in today\u2019s world to be in a country where everyone, with the exception of tourists and the American military, is racially Japanese \u2014 but also behaviorally. No matter where we traveled in Honshu, the behaviors were identical. Everyone said \u201cArigatou gozaimasu\u201d (0r \u201cthank you very much\u201d) constantly. And I do mean constantly. Whether listening to shop keepers, desk clerks, train announcements, bus drivers, subway passengers, or anyone else in any other walk of life, that phrase must have popped up every third or fourth sentence. So much so that one began to doubt that it had any real meaning. It began to feel like a verbal twitch, akin to an American \u201cum\u201d or \u201clike.\u201d Nevertheless, the Japanese fully understand its polite import, and someone who deletes that phrase from his or her vocabulary is definitely rude.\nThe bowing is akin to the thank yous \u2014 all the Japanese do that, to the point at which it feels leached of meaning. However, had anyone failed to do it, it would have been quite obviously rude. I found myself bowing reflexively and then, being American, felt guilty for doing so. Americans shouldn\u2019t be bowing. I consoled myself, though, by telling myself it\u2019s a meaningless, mannered act, rather than a showing of fealty to a sovereign power. Given the reflexive bowing, I was almost inclined to forgive Obama for bowing to the Emperor \u2014 but not quite. He\u2019s the American president and it was just wrong to bow to the Emperor, no matter how nice a man the Emperor is and no matter the ritual nature of the bow.\nWherever we traveled, the bus drivers spoke in sibilant whispers. As best as we could tell, they were constantly muttering under their breath such things as \u201cEveryone sit down, thank you very much,\u201d \u201cwe\u2019re all on the bus, thank you very much,\u201d \u201cmove to the back, thank you very much,\u201d \u201cthe next stop is _______________, thank you very much,\u201d or various other mindless nothings, many of which had already been announced on the overhead recording (complete with multiple pre-recorded \u201cthank you very muches\u201d). Please note that it wasn\u2019t just the repetitive phrases that were homogenous \u2014 it was that identical whisper that the drivers all over Honshu murmured into the microphones. The first time it was funny, the second intriguing, the third, fourth and etc., it was kind of weird.\nMy overall sense was that the Japanese are obsessively attached to behaviors. I liked their obsessive cleanliness, since it meant that travel was less onerous to me. Since I was raised by a (Japanese) concentration camp survivor with a fetish for cleanliness (cleanliness in a tropical camp could mean the difference between life and death), I have a few obsessive behaviors myself. Traveling always squeezes me emotionally, as I deal with musty beds and less-than-clean bathrooms. In Japan, especially because we stayed in tour-group vetted hotels, I didn\u2019t see anything that was less-than-clean.\nNevertheless, even with my appreciation for all things clean, it was strange that, everywhere we went, barring public venues such as train stations or stadiums, the bathrooms were equipped with virtually identical bathroom slippers. They might be a plain tan color or, more commonly, a snazzy his-and-her toilet design (see below), but they were all styled the same.\nThe deal with these slippers is that, when you enter a bathroom barefoot or in socks (as is the case in all homes, hotels or nice restaurants), you immediately put on the toilet slippers. If you forget to take them off when you leave the bathroom, it\u2019s akin to walking out with toilet paper attached to your derriere. Being a fastidious type, I liked the fact that I didn\u2019t have to walk barefoot onto a potentially urine-spattered floor. Nevertheless, the ubiquity of identical slippers no matter where we traveled was peculiar.\nThe most fascinating example of the Japanese ability to function in unison was the baseball game we attended. Although I\u2019m no baseball fan, it was a very enjoyable experience. The stadium was, of course, immaculate (including the bathrooms). The fans were happy and friendly, making it a vastly different experience from attending, say, an Oakland Raiders game, which can be rather frightening. The fans never booed the opposing team or a bad player on their own team. Instead, they cheered for their own team. We Americans cheer too, but in a chaotic, unstructured fashion. The Japanese have cheerleaders in every section and the fans follow along with chants and rhythmic beats on their noisemakers (which look a bit like small bowling pins). I\u2019m not unique in observing this. Others, too, have drawn the same conclusions about Japanese group think as played out in the baseball stadium:\nThe difference is in the atmosphere of the stadium as the game is being played. Both teams had huge bleacher-seating fan sections all of whom cheered for every batter during every inning. This is not just random cheering, it\u2019s highly organized. Think college football games, except pull people from all ages and demographics. Everyone had noise makers and shirts. Businessmen in suits pulled a jersey over their shirt and tie. Old women screamed their hearts out.\nThe collective nature of the cheering reflects Japanese culture of groupthink, not standing out, etc. I\u2019ve never seen such a highly organized cheering machine in any other sports venue or game I\u2019ve attended. Such a collective fan spirit means many people show up by themselves but instantly join in. The fans cheer while their players are batting. Then they sit down and are quiet the other half of the inning, again reflecting the Japanese value of respect and dignity for opponents.\nThe whole baseball game experience was charming, but the groupthink bothered me. You see, as far as I\u2019m concerned, groupthink goes a long way to explaining how a polite, thoughtful, kind, decent group of people can suddenly morph into a monomaniacal killing machine. The Japanese did it. The Germans did it. The Chinese did it. If the lemming group moves in a nice direction, all is good. However, if the lemmings get steered towards the cliff, nothing will stop them. Since morality is defined by manners, when the manners dictate death, off they all go, engaging in mass suicide or homicide.\nAmericans, traditionally, have appeared more like surly herded cats than enthusiastic lemmings. For every stain on American history (slavery, the treatment of the Indians, the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans, Jim Crow), there have been countervailing forces, vigorously protesting these injustices. Yes, the injustices happened, but they were never the product of a unanimous society mindlessly going along. Instead, they were the result of societal tension and were destroyed by that same societal tension.\nMany years ago, I read Pierre Berton\u2019s Klondike : The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 . I enjoyed reading the book, but with time\u2019s passage, only two things remain in my memory. The first is Berton\u2019s description of the Klondike mosquitoes, which were so big and aggressive that they could quickly kill a horse. The second is his description of a town that was split evenly down the middle between Canada and the United States. On the Canadian side, the townspeople instantly formed a provisional government, and quickly had an orderly, top-down society. The American side, however, was a Wild West town, with a pure democracy, in which every townsman had a voice. The streets were muddy, crime was rife, and little got done.\nAt the time I read the book, I was actually embarrassed by the American Klondike town \u2014 \u201cWhat violent, disorganized losers Americans are!\u201d Since then, though, I\u2019ve come to appreciate the American unwillingness to bow down to leaders. We don\u2019t \u2014 and shouldn\u2019t \u2014 look to a strong leader for help. We look to ourselves. It may slow us down, but it also allows us to innovate and, most importantly, helps us put the brakes on bad ideas. We herd as badly as cats do, and we should be grateful for that fact.\nFiled Under: America, Japan Tagged With: Groupthink, Herding Cats, Japan, Japanese Baseball, Japanese Toilet Slippers, Lemmings\nMore random observations from Japan\nWe\u2019ve all said it at one time or another \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s not the heat, it\u2019s the humidity.\u201d In Kyoto, though, it\u2019s very much both the heat and the humidity. When temperatures are around 100 and humidity is around 85 or 90%, it feels as if one is moving through a giant, heated sponge. One perspires, but doesn\u2019t cool, because the humidity, combined with the fact that not a breath of wind stirs the air, means that one simply gets wet.\nKyoto is lovely, but the heat is off-putting. I know many consider it the most beautiful and interesting city in Japan, but I won\u2019t be sorry to leave it tomorrow for cooler, mountainous climes.\nWe\u2019ve been watching the Olympics on Japanese television. Or perhaps I should say, we\u2019ve been watching the Japanese Olympics on television. As far as we can tell, Japanese TV shows only those events in which the Japanese are competing \u2014 never mind that it\u2019s the fourth heat in a swimming race, without any possibity of a winning swimmer appearing on the television screen. Medal ceremonies, too, show only the Japanese competitor. If the Japanese competitor won only a bronze, you\u2019ll never find out who won gold or silver. It\u2019s a very narrow, parochial approach to a world-wide athletic event.\nJapanese trains and subways are lovely. Because we\u2019re not in Tokyo now, and because we\u2019re not traveling at peak commuter times, we\u2019ve seldom encountered oppressive crowds. Mostly, we\u2019ve experienced insanely punctual, obsessively clean trains.\nSpeaking of obsessive, when it comes to respecting possessions, the Japanese put everyone to shame. On a crowded train, someone discovered a wallet. A general outcry went up, as everyone sought to find the owner. Opening the wallet revealed that it held no identification, but only about 500 yen (less than ten dollars). In America, someone might have pocketed it, or maybe just left it on the seat. In Japan, several teenagers had a quick discussion, and then opened a window to summon an employee who spirited the treasure away to Lost and Found. I think those kids would have had some sort of emotional breakdown if they hadn\u2019t been able to turn it in.\nWe read about it before we left for Japan, of course, but nothing prepared us for the microscopically small hotel rooms. They\u2019re immaculately clean, of course, but so tiny one person feels quite crowded in the bathroom. Thankfully, all of our hotels have offered \u201cWestern\u201d toilets, rather than the \u201csquatting\u201d toilets popular outside of Tokyo:\nOne of the great pleasures we\u2019ve had in Japan is reading t-shirts. The Japanese love having English words and sentences on their shirts. They don\u2019t care that they make no sense; they just like having them. We\u2019ve tried stealthily taking photos of a few, but it\u2019s very hard to get the words to come out clearly when you\u2019re sneaking up on someone. Today\u2019s silly shirt boasted about the wonders of \u201cState of California, City of Sacrament [sic].\u201d\nDepartment stores here are HUGE. They\u2019re several stories tall and, as with every other place we\u2019ve seen in Japan, they have about twice as many employees as a similarly situated American business would. It\u2019s quite intimidating, really. What\u2019s also different is the floor plans. In America, department stores tend to have open floor plans, with one department flowing into another. In Japan, the stores are broken down into myriad cubby holes, each dedicated, not just to a single type of merchandise, but to a single brand of that specific merchandise. I don\u2019t like shopping at the best of times, and I was not enticed by the busy, claustrophic approach.\nBy the way, everything you\u2019ve heard about Japanese packaging, wrapping, and presentation is true. Every product is exquisitely displayed, with a symphony of colors and textures. Part of me is gratified by the beauty and part of me is shocked by the waste. This is a culture that places a high premium on appearances. It\u2019s not a shallow or superficial culture, although one could be forgiven for thinking that given the focus on the superficial, both in terms of how things look and how people behave.\nOn the subject of behavior, I commented on how polite the Japanese have been to us. I know some readers wrote back about the horrible behavior the Japanese have shown foreigners. I can see that we\u2019ve been lucky. Also, there\u2019s a difference between manners, on the one hand, which are formulaic and kindness, on the other hand, which comes from the heart. Not that long ago, someone told me that Americans are the most polite people of all, because they cut through meaningless gesture and go right to true kindness. (Having said that, we have been on the receiving end of genuine kindness while in Japan, as well as ritual politeness.)\nI\u2019m pooping out here, so I\u2019ll wrap this up. My Internet access is random, at best, so no promises as to when I\u2019ll next post. I can see, though that DQ is keeping things lively, so I can sign off with a clear conscience.\nFiled Under: Japan Tagged With: Japan, Kyoto\nSome very superficial impressions of Japan\nFor me, Japan was something of a tabula rasa, as I knew little about it and had very limited expectations when I boarded the plane. So far, I\u2019ve been charmed by what I\u2019ve seen.\nI won\u2019t make this post a travelogue, in part because it\u2019s very hard to approach Japan that way. I already discovered that fact when I was trying to plan this trip. Unlike many places that have target destinations (e.g., the Tower of London, Versailles, the Vatican), Japan has cities that are must-sees, such as Tokyo (of course), Kyoto, Kamakura, etc. Within each city there are beautiful gardens or temples, but they\u2019re a subset of the whole.\nThe real target site in Japan, or so it seems to me after a few days here, is the Japanese culture. Everything that we\u2019ve seen so far is, for want of a better word, \u201cprecious.\u201d I adore the obsession with cleanliness, which makes me feel very comfortable. There is no litter, which is a bit peculiar, because there are few garbage cans. Unless you\u2019re unlucky enough to find yourself on a \u201csquat toilet,\u201d every toilet in every airport, train station, hotel, or restaurant has sprays and seat warmers and all manner of wonderful stuff.\nThe people are lovely to look at: they are immaculately groomed and, if young, often eccentrically dressed. They are all, without exception so far, almost painfully polite. One of the things I like best about them is that they make my petite height seem normal. Everything is sized to me, and that\u2019s a rare and wonderful thing.\nI\u2019d love to write more, but bed is calling. We\u2019ve had long days of sight-seeing and travel, and I\u2019m still a little jet lagged. I\u2019ll leave you with this link, to Yunessun. We spent the afternoon here, and a more peculiar and delightful place it\u2019s hard to imagine.\nFiled Under: Japan Tagged With: Japan, Yunessun\nDoes a slight level of societal chaos drive creativity?\nI was discussing James Clavell\u2019s Shogun with a friend. I have to confess here that I\u2019ve never managed to read the book. I think the world of James Clavell, who was a Changi Prison survivor and a confirmed individualist who believed in Ayn Rand style independence. His books are wonderfully well-informed and have fascinating plots. And yet . . . . His writing style just doesn\u2019t work for me. Much as I want to enjoy his books, I don\u2019t. Every time I try, I end up abandoning the effort after a few chapters.\nNevertheless, since my friend was reading Shogun, I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned that it\u2019s based on the life of a real Englishman, William Adams, who found himself shipwrecked in Japan at the very beginning of the 17th century, at a tumultuous time in Japan\u2019s political history. One of the interesting things about William Adams is how completely he embraced Japan. He came to have the greatest respect for the culture, one based upon rigid social etiquette and one that was much cleaner than the Western world he\u2019d left behind.\nWhen I told my friend about this fact, my friend commented that Japan had a really great culture. I agreed, but I pointed out that, as a general rule, while rigid cultures ensure internal harmony, they tend to stultify creativity. The raucous, roiling, boiling, filthy, pushy Western world, while much less pleasant than the clean, organized Japanese world, was the one that drove exploration and innovation across the globe.\nAm I on to something, or am I just letting my cultural chauvinism affect my thinking? And is it even fair to compare one little country (Japan) to the whole of Judeo-Christian European/American civilization?\nFiled Under: Japan Tagged With: James Clavell, Japan, Shogun\nTwo very different shame/honor cultures\nMay 6, 2012 by Bookworm 6 Comments\nYears ago, I read in an Efraim Karsh book something to the effect that the Arab honor culture is actually a shame culture. That is, in America, honor is a personal standard, one by which we measure ourselves. Arab honor, however, is a public face one presents to the world. If something goes wrong, shame kicks in, and it is that shame that leads to so-called \u201chonor killings.\u201d\nJapan is also a shame/honor culture, one in which a loss of honor is manifested by public shame, rather than private embarrassment.\nWhat\u2019s interesting is the way in which the two different cultures react to what the Japanese so elegantly call a \u201closs of face.\u201d The Japanese person whose honor has been lost to a public shaming dispatches himself. He quits his job or, if he\u2019s a hidebound (or masochistic) traditionalist, he commits seppuku (aka hara kiri). In any event, he expunges the shameful loss of honor by expunging himself.\nIn the Arab culture, however, the Arab person whose honor has been lost to a public shaming dispatches the one who destroyed his honor. That is, he expunges the shameful loss of honor by expunging someone else, be it his wife, his daughter, his daughter\u2019s boyfriend, a corporation, or a country.\nI don\u2019t have any conclusions to draw from this. It\u2019s just something I was thinking about when I was discussing the two cultures with a friend.\nFiled Under: Arabs, Japan Tagged With: Arabs, Efraim Karsh, Hara Kiri, Honor Killing, Japan, Seppuku, Shame Cultures\nVoters are left helpless and bereft when the political experts form a circular firing squad\nI\u2019m planning a trip this summer to Japan, a country about which I know nothing. Actually that\u2019s an overstatement. I know some things: it\u2019s beautiful, historic, and clean (I love that part), and comes complete with great food and well-mannered people. But that\u2019s all I know.\nToji Pagoda\nI don\u2019t have this tabula rasa problem when I go to Europe. Whether England, Germany, France, Belgium, or Italy, I have in my head enough information about the country to be a little picky. It helps, too, that Rick Steves has published a series of European travel guides. He\u2019s not shy about being opinionated. Indeed, that\u2019s why people turn to him. They have faith that they can trust his judgment so that, if he says a city is good and requires at least three days time, they can immediately book a hotel (one he recommends, of course) for two nights. Likewise, if he says \u201cdon\u2019t bother with such and such,\u201d his readers know that Rick saved them time and money on a short, expensive trip.\nSo far, I haven\u2019t found a Rick Steves for Japan. All the travel books make everything sound wonderful, without any rankings or priorities. And I\u2019m sure that, if I had unlimited time and money, I would enjoy traveling to every town, shrine and museum Japan offers. But that\u2019s not the reality of vacation travel, and I\u2019m currently overwhelmed by the choices. Yikes!\nMy Japan conundrum isn\u2019t unique. In a world awash in information, there is no way one person can master all the data necessary to make important life decisions. Inevitably, in various areas such as education, travel, politics, finances, etc., we select experts whom we trust and assume that, when they state an ultimate conclusion about their subject, we can rely on that conclusion. This works both ways, of course. Since I\u2019ve long thought AlBore to be a rather foolish man with enough feral instincts to be a successful snake oil salesman, I have never believed in global warming. Likewise, a friend of mine refuses to accept the rising tide of evidence against global warming, because it\u2019s been published in \u201cRepublican\u201d and \u201cconservative\u201d outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail. The fact that AlBore\u2019s theories are based on computer models while the evidence against global warming is based upon actual data disturbs him not a whit. He\u2019s found his reliable sources, and he\u2019s sticking with them.\nRight now, my reliance upon political experts is creating a dilemma for me, because my \u201cexperts\u201d are turning on each other. Before the primaries, they were all united in their profound dislike for Barack Obama. Now, though, the circular firing squad isn\u2019t limited just to the Republican candidates themselves. The shoot-outs are taking place at every major conservative website, not to mention many of my favorite blogs. Just check out PJ Media\u2019s front page at any given minute to see astute political commentators, all of whom I respect, battering away at each other and the candidates.\nTo some commentators, Mitt is a RINO\u2019s RINO, who flops, then flips, while Newt is the fiery voice of conservative truth who can reclaim America. To others, Newt is an unprincipled loose cannon, while Mitt is a steady, conservative politician whose problem-solving skills make him the only one who can defeat Obama. Still others see both Mitt and Newt as RINOs (one of whom has a backbone of noodle, while the other has the ethics of an alley cat), while Rick Santorum is the only true conservative in the house \u2014 never mind the fact, say entirely different pundits, that Rick\u2019s conservative stances on social issues assure that he\u2019ll lose to Obama.\nI find all of the above viewpoints both interesting and credible. Newt is an exciting speaker who articulates core truths about America, the economy, and national security that too many Americans, intimated by the PC police, have been stifling for years. His fund of knowledge is impressive and enjoyable. And of course, he\u2019s the man whose insider skills in the 1990s forced the entire political system slightly to the right. On the other side of the scale, he\u2019s a man who has cheated on at least two wives (and I really don\u2019t want to find out if he\u2019s been cheating on a third), he\u2019s known to be a terrible manager, his relationship to truth can be distant at best, he\u2019s erratic, he too often sees Big Government as the vehicle for his own eclectic brilliance, and so on and so forth.\n(Image by Gage Skidmore)\nThen there\u2019s Mitt. We all know and appreciate the Good Mitt. This is the Mitt who understands the market; the Mitt who has impressive organizational abilities; the Mitt who has proven to be an adept, albeit unexciting candidate; the Mitt who makes the Republican establishment feel loved; and the Mitt who, we are told, can entice the independents whom Newt frightens. But all is not wonderful in Mitt land. There\u2019s also the Less Good Mitt, the unrepentant architect of RomneyCare; the man who, when he isn\u2019t flipping, is flopping; the man whose Mormonism worries those who believe he is committing a profound doctrinal error that reflects on his judgment and intelligence; and, which might be the worst thing of all in a hyper-media age, the man who has the charm and warmth of a first generation android.\nAnd what about Rick? My God, the man is a Boy Scout, and I mean that in a good way. He\u2019s honest, loyal, decent, moral, and truly conservative. He\u2019s definitely what we conservatives want. Except for that little problem he has of fading into the woodwork, not to mention the fact that, with the nation trending further and further left on social issues, there\u2019s the strong likelihood, say many, that he\u2019ll be the poison pill candidate for independent voters.\nDarn those independent voters! They\u2019re the real problem, because all three conservative candidate (and, yes, I am ignoring Ron Paul entirely) could easily win against Obama if we could automatically co-opt independents into conservativism. We can\u2019t, though, which paralyzes the Republican primary. While the independents seem to dislike Obama with ever greater intensity, the mainstream media has trained them, like tens of thousands of Pavlovian dogs, to be very hostile to certain stand-out traits in the last three Republicans standing: Newt is the evil architect of the Contract with America; Mitt is the evil Mormon; and Rick is the evil Christian who will imprison all your gay friends and relatives. Evil! Evil! Evil!\nThe worst thing of all, though, considering all the alleged evil the MSM keeps highlighting, is the fact that America\u2019s premier conservative commentators aren\u2019t doing anything to help. Rather than building up their candidate of choice, they too are just as busy as the MSM, and the candidates themselves, in the savagery of their attacks against the candidates they don\u2019t like.\nIt\u2019s worth remembering that Newt rose to prominence during the debates because, in the beginning, he kept a laser-like focus on Obama. He pointed out Obama\u2019s myriad, manifest flaws and failings, and articulated ideas that promised to help America recover from her experiment with a true Leftist in the White House. His numbers rose. When Romney went negative, though, so did Newt \u2014 and so did everyone else. In the last couple of months, the flesh-ripping on the debate stage is sickening, and the political commentators, rather than stepping in to help focus the voters on their chosen candidate\u2019s attributes, are standing at the base of the stage drinking up the flowing blood.\nTHIS IS NOT HELPFUL. If you\u2019re going to have an opinion, advance useful information that helps affirmative decision-making and that helps staunch the sanguinary stream we\u2019re currently giving as a gift to the MSM. Yes, it\u2019s good for the candidates to get groomed to fight the dirty fight, because it\u2019s going to be very dirty indeed when they stand on a stage opposite Barack Obama. I think, though, that we can comfortably conclude that the current batch has the grit to take the hits. It\u2019s time now to give the voters the help they need to choose the best candidate, rather than just to avoid the worst.\nFiled Under: Presidential elections Tagged With: Barack Obama, Commentary, Debates, Europe, Human Sacrifice, Japan, media, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Political Pundits, Rick Santorum, RINOs\nMy mother\u2019s war, courtesy of Pearl Harbor\nMy mother\u2019s heading to the hospital again today. She\u2019s not aging gracefully, in large part because of the damage done to her body and soul during WWII. I thought that this would be a good day for me to reprint what I once wrote about her war (originally part of this longer post about Japanese atrocities).\nIn 1941, my mother was a 17 year old Dutch girl living in Java. Life was good then. Although the war was raging in Europe, and Holland had long been under Nazi occupation, the colonies were still outside the theater of war. The colonial Dutch therefore were able to enjoy the traditional perks of the Empire, with lovely homes, tended by cheap Indonesian labor. All that changed with the attack on Pearl Harbor.\nMost Americans think of Pearl Harbor as a uniquely American event, not realizing that it was simply the opening salvo the Japanese fired in their generalized war to gain total ascendancy in the Pacific. While Pearl Harbor devastated the American navy, the Japanese did not conquer American soil. Residents in the Philippines (American territory), Indonesia (Dutch territory), Malaya (British territory), and Singapore (also British) were not so lucky. Each of those islands fell completely to the Japanese, and the civilians on those islands found themselves prisoners of war.\nIn the beginning, things didn\u2019t look so bad. The Japanese immediately set about concentrating the civilian population by moving people into group housing, but that was tolerable. The next step, however, was to remove all the men, and any boys who weren\u2019t actually small children. (Wait, I misspoke. The next step was the slaughter of household pets \u2014 dogs and cats \u2014 which was accomplished by picking them up by their hind legs and smashing their heads against walls and trees.)\nAfter this separation, the men and women remained completely segregated for the remainder of the war. The men were subjected to brutal slave labor, and had an attrition rate much higher than the women did. Also, with the typical Bushido disrespect for men who didn\u2019t have the decency to kill themselves, rather than to surrender, the men were tortured at a rather consistent rate.\nOne of my mother\u2019s friends discovered, at war\u2019s end, that her husband had been decapitated. This is what it looked like when the Japanese decapitated a prisoner (the prisoner in this case being an Australian airman):\nThe women were not decapitated, but they were subjected to terrible tortures. After the men were taken away, the women and children were loaded in trucks and taken to various camps. The truck rides were torturous. The women and children were packed into the trucks, with no food, no water, no toilet, facilities, and no shade, and traveled for hours in the steamy equatorial heat.\nOnce in camp, the women were given small shelves to sleep on (about 24 inches across), row after row, like sardines. They were periodically subjected to group punishments. The one that lives in my mother\u2019s memory more than sixty years after the fact was the requirement that they stand in the camp compound, in the sun, for 24 hours. No food, no water, no shade, no sitting down, no restroom breaks (and many of the women were liquid with dysentery and other intestinal diseases and parasitical problems). For 24 hours, they\u2019d just stand there, in the humid, 90+ degree temperature, under the blazing tropical sun. The older women, the children and the sick died where they stood.\nThere were other indignities. One of the camp commandants believed himself to have \u201cmoon madness.\u201d Whenever there was a full moon, he gave himself license to seek out the prisoners and torture those who took his fancy. He liked to use knives. He was the only Japanese camp commandant in Java who was executed after the war for war crimes.\nOf course, the main problem with camp was the deprivation and disease. Rations that started out slender were practically nonexistent by war\u2019s end. Eventually, the women in the camp were competing with the pigs for food. If the women couldn\u2019t supplement their rations with pig slop, all they got was a thin fish broth with a single bite sized piece of meat and some rice floating in it. The women were also given the equivalent of a spoonful of sugar per week. My mother always tried to ration hers but couldn\u2019t do it. Instead, she\u2019d gobble it instantly, and live with the guilt of her lack of self-control.\nBy war\u2019s end, my mother, who was then 5\u20192\u2033, weighed 65 pounds. What frightened her at the beginning of August 1945 wasn\u2019t the hunger, but the fact that she no longer felt hungry. She knew that when a women stopped wanting to eat, she had started to die. Had the atomic bomb not dropped when it did, my mother would have starved to death.\nStarvation wasn\u2019t the only problem. Due to malnourishment and lack of proper protection, my mother had beriberi, two different types of malaria (so as one fever ebbed, the other flowed), tuberculosis, and dysentery. At the beginning of the internment, the Japanese were providing some primitive medical care for some of these ailments. As the war ground on, of course, there was no medicine for any of these maladies. She survived because she was young and strong. Others didn\u2019t.\nSo yes, the Japanese were different. They approached war \u2014 and especially civilian populations \u2014 with a brutality equaled only by the Germans. War is brutal, and individual soldiers can do terrible things, but the fact remains that American troops and the American government, even when they made mistakes (and the Japanese internment in American was one of those mistakes) never engaged in the kind of systematic torture and murder that characterized Bushido Japanese interactions with those they deemed their enemies. It is a tribute to America\u2019s humane post-WWII influence and the Japanese willingness to abandon its past that the Bushido culture is dead and gone, and that the Japanese no longer feel compelled by culture to create enemies and then to engage in the systematic torture and murder of those enemies.\nFiled Under: World War II Tagged With: Beriberi, Bushido, Concentration Camps, Dysentery, Indonesia, Japan, Japanese, Malaria, Malaya, Pacific War, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Singapore, World War II, WWII\nThe nuclear plant problem in Japan \u2014 and the problem with ideologues in science *UPDATED*\nMr. Bookworm, New York Times reader, was telling the children that there was a total catastrophe in Japan, with the Japanese and the world exposed to the possibility of massive radiation poisoning. I calmed the children\u2019s fears by telling them that the paper could be right, but it could be wrong. First, newspapers sell well on disasters, so it\u2019s in their interest to play them up. Second, I said, it\u2019s doubtful that most of the reporters have any understanding of nuclear technology, so they\u2019re winging it. (What I didn\u2019t add is that, almost certainly, the Times\u2019 reporters have as their only \u201cexperts\u201d anti-nuclear activists. There\u2019s nothing wrong with getting the activists\u2019 point of view, but the reporting would be more honest if (a) the Times revealed their biases and (b) the Times talked to some people on the other, non-hysterical side.) The children, bless their hearts, said \u201cMom, we know that!\u201d\nAnyway, if you want a view from the other side, written in the clearest English I\u2019ve ever seen in a science-based article, read Charlie Martin on the nuclear meltdown and the media. Whether or not you agree with him, he writes so well, you will certainly understand him.\nBy the way, this is a great place to tell a story I\u2019ve had in my brain for several days. I have to digress a teeny bit to set the story up, so please bear with me.\nI own a Kindle. I love the convenience (no more suitcases full of paperbacks when I travel), but I find the book pricing off-putting. With the choice of free books at the library, or cheap books at Goodwill, I\u2019m not thrilled about spending $10.00 on a book. What makes it worse in my mind is that, while hardback books are marked down about 40-50% (hence the $10 or $12 Kindle pricing), paperback books are priced down only about 5%. I\u2019m too cheap to buy a full-priced paperback at the best of times (preferring to gamble that I\u2019ll find something I like at Goodwill or the library), so I\u2019m certainly not going to buy the same book for a mere 5% discount.\nSo I\u2019ve got a Kindle, but I\u2019m unwilling to buy the books. The answer is to get the free books that show up on Kindle. Sometimes, there are real finds there. For example, if a reputable author is publishing the most recent book in a long-running series, the publishers will put out the first book for free, as a loss leader, to entice people. That works for me and I have been enticed. There are also free classics (or low priced, 99 cent, classics). There are a lot of books that are pure garbage and are free because no one will or should pay any other price. And there are books that see a publisher just trying to get titles out there and gin up some interest.\nThat last e-publishing approach is how I ended up with a free copy of Sherry Seethaler\u2019s Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies. The publisher\u2019s blurb promises that the book will help savvy news consumers understand the science in the news:\nEvery day, there\u2019s a new scientific or health controversy. And every day, it seems as if there\u2019s a new study that contradicts what you heard yesterday. What\u2019s really going on? Who\u2019s telling the truth? Who\u2019s faking it? What do scientists actually know\u2014and what don\u2019t they know? This book will help you cut through the confusion and make sense of it all\u2014even if you\u2019ve never taken a science class! Leading science educator and journalist Dr. Sherry Seethaler reveals how science and health research really work\u2026how to put scientific claims in context and understand the real tradeoffs involved\u2026tell quality research from junk science\u2026discover when someone\u2019s deliberately trying to fool you\u2026and find more information you can trust! Nobody knows what new controversy will erupt tomorrow. But one thing\u2019s for certain: With this book, you\u2019ll know how to figure out the real deal\u2014and make smarter decisions for yourself and your family!\nWatch the news, and you\u2019ll be overwhelmed by snippets of badly presented science: information that\u2019s incomplete, confusing, contradictory, out-of-context, wrong, or flat-out dishonest. Defend yourself! Dr. Sherry Seethaler gives you a powerful arsenal of tools for making sense of science. You\u2019ll learn how to think more sensibly about everything from mad cow disease to global warming\u2013and how to make better science-related decisions in both your personal life and as a citizen.\nYou\u2019ll begin by understanding how science really works and progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree. Seethaler helps you assess the possible biases of those who make scientific claims in the media, and place scientific issues in appropriate context, so you can intelligently assess tradeoffs. You\u2019ll learn how to determine whether a new study is really meaningful; uncover the difference between cause and coincidence; figure out which statistics mean something, and which don\u2019t.\nSeethaler reveals the tricks self-interested players use to mislead and confuse you, and points you to sources of information you can actually rely upon. Her many examples range from genetic engineering of crops to drug treatments for depression\u2026but the techniques she teaches you will be invaluable in understanding any scientific controversy, in any area of science or health.\n^ Potions, plots, and personalities: How science progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree\n^ Is it \u201ccause\u201d or merely coincidence? How to tell compelling evidence from a \u201cgood story\u201d\n^ There are always tradeoffs: How to put science and health claims in context, and understand their real implications\n^ All the tricks experts use to fool you, exposed! How to recognize lies, \u201ctruthiness,\u201d or pseudo-expertise\nAt first, the book seemed to live up to its promises. Seethaler explained that it was entirely legitimate for scientists to disagree, because science is not as black-and-white as elementary, middle and high schools imply. Different techniques, different equipment, and different starting hypotheses can all result in differing outcomes that are open to legitimate dispute. Seethaler explains that, quite often, conventional wisdom has proven to be plain wrong. The nature of hypotheses is that they are tested, and then tested again, especially as new information and technology come along.\nSeethaler also talks about modeling. The way in which a scientist sets up a model \u2014 the parameters he chooses, the information he enters, and the calculations he applies \u2014 may dramatically affect the conclusions he reaches.\nIn light of all these variables, Seethaler acknowledges that, as she says, \u201cscientific revolutions really happen.\u201d Conventional wisdom frequently gets turned on its head. Few things are fixed in the world of true science. What\u2019s important, she says, is that \u201cdisputes are not a sign of science gone wrong.\u201d Instead, they represent scientists dealing with all of the problems, and variables, and information, and scientific development described above. This can mean, Seethaler writes, that one person, one outlier, can turn conventional wisdom on its head.\nAfter all this, you\u2019d think, wouldn\u2019t you, that Seethaler would carry these conclusions through to the subject of anthropogenic global warming, right? Oh, so wrong. Turning her back on everything she wrote in the preceding chapters, Seethaler has this to say on global warming, in the context of a warning the newspapers like to play up conflict, but don\u2019t really understand scientific methodology:\nAnother problem is what sociologist Christopher Tourmey referred to as pseudo-symmetry of scientific authority \u2014 the media sometimes presents controversy as if scientists are evenly divided bewteen two points of view, when one of the points of view is held by a large majority of the scientific community. For example, until recently, the media often gave equal time and space to the arguments for and against humans as the cause of global climate change. Surveys of individual climate scientists have indicated that there is discord among scientists on the issue, but that the majority of scientists agree that humans are altering global climate. One anlaysis of a decade of research papers on global climate change found no papers that disputed human impacts on global climate. Also, all but one of the major scientific organizations in the United States whose members have expertise relevant to global climate change, more than a dozen organizations in all, have issued statements acknowledging that human activities are altering the earth\u2019s climate. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists dissents. Therefore, there is a general consensus within the scientific community that humans are causing global climate change. While it is legitimate to explore the arguments agianst the consensus position on global climate change, it is misleading for the media to present the issue so as to give the impression that the scientific community is evenly divided on the matter.\nHave you read any media in the last ten years that \u201cgave equal time and space to the arguments for and against humans as the cause of global climate change?\u201d I haven\u2019t. With the exception of Fox, the media has monolithically climbed aboard the AGW bandwagon, and ignored or discredited any contrary voices.\nAlso, considering that Seethaler spent pages and pages and pages warning against assuming that science is fixed, explaining how different approaches to models and hypotheses can affect scientific conclusions, and applauding outliers who challenged (correctly) institutional consensus, do you find it as peculiar as I do to have her suddenly announce that AGW is definitely proven and that any voices to the contrary should be ignored? It also doesn\u2019t seem to have occurred to her that, in this monolithic intellectual climate, the absence of published papers challenging AGW may arise from the fact that the challengers are being barred at the gates.\nI deleted Seethaler\u2019s book from my Kindle at this point. The woman is a foolish ideologue, incapable of practicing what she preaches. She\u2019s also probably pretty typical of the science writers and \u201cexperts\u201d bloviating about the very real nuclear problems in Japan. That is, there are real problems, and real risks, but never trust an ideologue to be honest with you when it comes to the conclusions to be drawn from the facts.\nUPDATE: Another good example of the media\u2019s gross (and, I suspect, intentional) scientific ignorance.\nFiled Under: Japan Tagged With: Climate change, Japan, Nuclear Reactors, Science, Sherry Seethaler\nWhat is it with this guy and bowing?\nThe Emperor of Japan is not a totalitarian dictator, thank goodness. Indeed, he seems like a very sweet little man. But what in heaven\u2019s name is up with our president going around the world bowing?\nWe\u2019re Americans! We show respect, but we don\u2019t bow. And there\u2019s something really weird, too, about the most arrogant person on earth (that would be the guy on the left) turning into a gelatinous substance before male royal figures. As you recall, he didn\u2019t bow to Queen Elizabeth. I thought that this had to do with his anti-British animus, which I still believe, but I\u2019m ready to add his misogyny into the mix of reasons he didn\u2019t fold at the middle.\nFiled Under: Barack Obama Tagged With: Barack Obama, Emperor, Japan, Misogyny, Royalty\nMy mom is a Hiroshima bomb survivor too *UPDATED*\nTomorrow is the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and you can expect the usual breast-beating about how unutterably evil we were to target Japan\u2019s civilian population. Here in Marin, a \u201cHiroshima survivor\u201d is going to read poems and speak about her experiences.\nI freely acknowledge that this survivor went through a horrific experience that I hope is never again repeated. Still, I\u2019d like to acknowledge the other Hiroshima bomb survivors. My Mom is one of those survivors.\nMy Mom wasn\u2019t in Japan when the Americans dropped the bomb. She wasn\u2019t anywhere near Japan. She was in Java, a civilian in a Japanese concentration camp, on the verge of starving to death. But for the fact that the atom bombs immediately terminated the war in the Pacific, she would have died. She didn\u2019t have another month or even another week. She needed the war to end instantly. It was the bombing at Hiroshima that enabled her to survive the war.\nNor was my mother alone. Truman didn\u2019t drop the bomb only to impress the Soviets or to play with an exciting new toy. He dropped the bomb because he\u2019d been credibly advised that the Japanese were not going to surrender, but would fight the war on their own ground \u2014 and this was true despite the fact that the Japanese knew as well as the Americans did that the Japanese could not win. In July 1945, Truman was looking at the possibility of up to 50,000 more American deaths, plus all of the Japanese military and civilian deaths. (And that\u2019s not even counting the Marines already suffering unthinkable torture in Japanese camps and slave works, or American, Dutch and English civilians imprisoned all over the Pacific). Given that the Japanese had started the war and then refused to end it (even though they were losing), one big bomb that would kill the same number of Japanese with no American casualties seemed like a very good idea at the time.\nSo as the media predictably inundates us with stories of Japanese Hiroshima survivors (or I assume it will based on past history), feel free to sympathize with their very real suffering. Please, however, take a minute to remember the other Hiroshima survivors, those whose suffering at Japanese hands was ended because of that same bomb.\nUPDATE: Thomas Lifson, who was kind enough to link to this post, adds an important bit of information: D.M. Giangreco, a military historian who is one of the people most intimately familiar with the invasion of Japan, has written a book on the subject, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 , which comes out in a month or two. I\u2019ve corresponded with Mr. Giangreco and can assure you that he knows the subject intimately. If this subject is at all interesting to you, you should get the book.\nFiled Under: World War II Tagged With: Atom Bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, World War II, WWII\nSheep? *UPDATED*\nThere is a horrific story out of Japan today about a man who crashed a truck into a crowd of people, and then proceeded to complete the carnage by stabbing as many of them as possible. The story says that the man ended his spree only when surrounded by police:\nA witness told NHK the suspect dropped the knife after police threatened to shoot him. An amateur video filmed by a mobile phone showed policemen overpowering the bespectacled suspect.\nI\u2019ve never been in a violent situation (thank God), so I have absolutely no idea what the dynamics are. I don\u2019t know what it feels like to be paralyzed by gut-clenching fear. I don\u2019t know what I would do if a maniac headed towards me (or anyone else) with a knife. And I don\u2019t know how many people were already incapacitated because of the initial truck crash. But . . . . But . . . .\nIt\u2019s always seemed to me that the nature of a knife is that, in a crowd, it\u2019s a \u201cone person at a time\u201d weapon. When Brits used to boast about their lower death rate from crime, it was easy to point out that they had just as many violent attacks, only they did it less efficiently with knives in bars. In other words, back then, they were as willing to kill as Americans but, because they didn\u2019t have a gun culture (something that has changed, as they now have both a knife and a gun culture), the damage was more limited.\nHow is it, therefore, that this guy was able to inflict such spectacular damage with a knife? Was there no one there who could take on a guy wielding a knife? It\u2019s possible, of course, that everyone in proximity was already too damaged by the car crash to be of any defensive use, but I do wonder.\nI suspect that, as Ymarsakar (who blogs at Sake White) might say, modern Japanese society has bred itself down to sheep-like status, with its individual members incapable of defending themselves any more. All they do is wait for the guard dogs to come to their defense. (Jews, between 1938 and 1945, learned that the guard dogs often do not come. That\u2019s why Israel, up until recently, has done such a damn good job of defending herself.)\nDo you all have more information or different opinions? As you can see, I\u2019m just wildly hypothesizing here about a story that struck me as both horrible and peculiar.\nUPDATE: I wasn\u2019t the only one who noticed this. 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So off we went after a series of urging from dada for me to hurry because time was running. One thing with my husband, he is a stickler for being on time and sticking to his schedule even if it doesn't really requires for him to be on time. So we went. I put bubby on his stroller and we watched what dada was doing. When dada started using his impact tool though bubby got afraid. he literally clung to me. He wanted out of his stroller and me hold him. I didn't and I told him and explained to him what dada was doing and that it was okay. It took him a while to get used to the sound but he settled down eventually. He is not used to loud noise that whenever he hears one he runs to me and tries to climb up on me when he can. 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I'm just a photographer.\"\nBut after many sessions and through the laughter and the tears and deep conversations with so many women during and after their sessions I have realized this:\nThe truth is, by having a beautiful experience in front of my camera, women to feel amazing. They find a part of themselves that was missing. They begin to honor their true selves and see how beautiful they really are. They become more visible and show up in their personal and professional lives.\nSelfishly, I love that I have a space that women can embrace their own unique magnificence. Watching you find that - it's why I do what I do.\nToday, I invite you to open yourself up to the possibility of your own unique magnificence.\nI'd be honored to work with you and to watch you see yourself again for the first time.\nSelect Select Nobody. This is a special session just for me. My mom. I would treasure portraits of her and would love to treat her to a luxury session. My daughter(s). She needs to see how beautiful she is, the way that I do. Plus, I'd love to spend the day with her. My friend(s). It's time we had a fabulouse girls' day out. We each need our own photos and a group shot at the end. My sweetheart. I'd like him to arrive at the end to get some portraits together and a few of just him on his own as well.\nSelect Select GLAMOROUS. Bring on the floor-length gowns and the diamonds. CLASSIC. Simple, timeless and flawless. PROFESSIONAL. I'd like to be able to use my images for work. CASUAL. I want to look like me. The girl next door, friendly and approachable. SEXY. I'm thining about wearing a daring dress or maybe even lingerie. FINE ART. I want to wear a Period Dress complete with hair and jewelry. ARTISTIC. Let's get creative! LET'S DO IT ALL! (Can we?)\nSelect Select In brenPhotography's Studio in Bucks County PA. I want the full glamour experience without any distractions. Bucks County. 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Weather at this time of the year is supposed to include some cold fronts, the first freeze, and a biting wind.\nThat\u2019s what pushes the ducks down to Mid-America and sets the table for some outstanding hunting.\nBut it hasn\u2019t happened yet. The \u201creal\u201d fall has yet to arrive. When you have to include mosquito repellent and sunscreen in you hunting bag, something is wrong, the Missouri Department of Conservation points out.\n\u201cUnfortunately, the unseasonably warm forecasts look like the movement of southbound birds might be delayed a few more weeks, which will make for some tough hunting conditions,\u201d said Frank Nelson, a waterfowl biologist for the Department of Conservation.\nDuck counts at Missouri\u2019s managed wetlands revealed that 207,565 ducks have arrived in the state this week, far below the five-year average of 382,151.\nThe duck season in Missouri\u2019s North Zone opened Oct. 29, and surprisingly, there was some good hunting at some conservation areas. Hunters at Grand Pass and Bob Brown, for example, each averaged shooting more than 3 birds per person.\nBut by mid-week, success had dropped as waterfowl redistributed after the opening barrage of hunting, with few new birds to replace them.\nThe Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Missouri holds the most ducks in the region, more than 50,000. Four River and Grand Pass each have more than 14,000 ducks, while Bob Brown has 12,955 and Swan Lake 10,485.\nIn Kansas, Most duck-hunting zones are now open (the southeast zone opens Nov. 12), but again, duck numbers are low.\nCheyenne Bottom Wildlife Area in central Kansas, the state\u2019s premier wetland area, has attracted only 5,000 to 15,000 ducks despite having plenty of water and habitat to attract migrating birds. The nearby Quivira National Wildlife Refuge has 36,488 ducks and 23,982 geese.\nCloser to Kansas City, wetlands such as Perry, Hillsdale, Milford and Clinton have yet to attract big flocks of migrants.\nThe other ingredients for a successful duck season are in place, the fall flight is predicted to be a big one and conditions in Missouri and Kansas look good. There is plenty of water and wetland food.\nBut the ducks up north need to get their tail-feathers cold to send them south. 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One year I had mommy bloggers share their favorite Disney valentine\u2019s showtunes and another I chose a song I love to sing for my mom or that makes me think of her. I could always choose an anti-mother\u2019s day showtune and take something from Annie or another show with orphan kids, but this year I thought of another.\nThis year\u2019s showtunes for Mother\u2019s Day is all about us kids with divorced parents and mom\u2019s that are still single. I love my mom and love spending as much time together as possible, but at the same time I hate knowing she is home alone and not in love. Sometimes single mom\u2019s can get depressed and even though they don\u2019t need someone to marry, it doesn\u2019t help that you get worried about them. Other single mom\u2019s use their divorce as an excuse to drive you crazy, get over involved in their kids lives and that is how I decided to choose this from hundreds of options of Mother\u2019s Day showtunes. BTW, if a Guy can sing Let It Go, then guys can completely take on this showtune for Mother\u2019s Day.\nHere is our pick for this year\u2019s mother\u2019s day showtunes, If Mama Was Married from Gypsy!\nOk, when I was in college I went to college in the same city my Mom lives in. Unfortunately that meant she decided to stop by everyday making this song a bit to real for me. I love my mom more than anything else, but at the same time I liked spending time alone, with my boyfriend who moved in with me and with my friends. Unfortunately my mom co-signed on the apartment I was renting (I was a college student) so she also liked to randomly stop by completely unannounced. That is why this is my pick for showtunes for Mother\u2019s Day 2014. It\u2019s for the kids of Moms who get divorced and decide that it\u2019s time to get really and overly involved in their kids lives. 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It\u2019s frustrating for both the low-talker and the listener, and it\u2019s detrimental in interviews and in networking situations. Interviewers may wrongly believe that the job seeker has low self-esteem and lacks self-confidence. People at networking events may become impatient and lose interest in making a connection.\nFor some people, low-talking stems from physiological or psychological issues, while for others, it stems from growing up in soft-spoken cultures or families. Many people who low-talk are aware that they do it, but some are not.\nWhen you have a diagnosed voice disorder that prevents you from speaking audibly, choose to attend small, quiet networking events, or invite your contacts to meet you one-on-one in a quiet place. During an interview, if you suspect that the interviewer can\u2019t hear you, explain that you have a voice limitation so that your quietness isn\u2019t misinterpreted.\nIf you know that others have a hard time hearing you speak, yet you find it difficult to talk louder, consult with an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat doctor). You may have a condition that responds to medical treatment or speech therapy.\nIf you speak too softly because you\u2019re shy, have low self-esteem, or lack self-confidence, you can learn to speak louder through interview coaching. You can also join a public-speaking group such as Toastmasters, where you will practice projecting your voice in a supportive environment. If psychological issues are preventing you from speaking up, find a psychologist or therapist to help you overcome these issues.\nSome low-talkers come from quiet families or from cultures that value soft-spokenness. 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Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 9054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christcommunitycars.com/about-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MNPRX4NDDQPXZDEAXAZJPMV6PVRFESK7", "length": 2492, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.christcommunitycars.com", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "He has a huge passion for seeing people come to Christ and experiencing a life worth living. It brings him a lot of joy to watch what happens to a life completely sold-out to Jesus Christ. \"I am a 'gear head' at heart and like to work on anything with wheels and an engine!\"\nSERVING THE TUCSON COMMUNITY\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bChrist Community Cars Corporation exists to provide automotive solutions for those in need within our community.\nWe accomplish our mission by your vehicle donation and a team of skilled volunteers who contribute their time and resources to make repairs resulting in affordable and dependable transportation.\nFor qualified individuals, we will assist in the repair of their personal vehicle, or sell them a vehicle at a discounted rate if one is available. (The vetting process will require investigation of personal information.)\nWe operate completely on donations from our community. We rely on the donation of your car, truck, boat, motorcycle, camper, scooter, or RV, running or not. If needed, we will tow your vehicle from its location, free of charge. You will need to get a notary to witness your signature on the title, and then we will provide you with a receipt that you may use for tax purposes.\nChrist Community Cars will work hard to maximize the value of each donated vehicle by using professional mechanics, along with skilled volunteers, to make repairs and handle the sales process. We will utilize your donation in one of three ways:\n1. We will sell your vehicle, or anything of value that is donated to us, to generate revenue to pay for parts to work on cars.\n2. We will sell vehicles at a reduced rate to those in need who qualify.\n3. If the vehicle\u2019s condition is beyond repair, we will sell it to a local salvage yard.\nWe operate out of Garner Automotive, 2699 S. Pantano Road, Tucson, AZ 85730,\nYou may drop your vehicle off at Garner Automotive, Mon.\u2013Fri. 7:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m.\nMike works as a consultant in the insurance industry, and is a co-owner of Garner Automotive here in Tucson. He has been attending Christ Community Church for the last 15 years and is a member of the church.\nPastor Floyd Morgan\nFloyd is almost a native to Tucson and graduated from Arizona Christian University in Phoenix, Arizona with a B.S. in Church Ministries. Floyd met his amazing wife Catherine while getting his Masters at Biola University. They have three boys: Byron, Blake, and Braden. 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(Proverbs 18:21)\nWhat can this power of the tongue do?\nDeath and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love the tongue will eat its fruit. (Proverbs 18:21)\nWhat does this Proverb really mean?\nThis Proverb means that there is power in the tongue and those who love talking with the tongue will eat the fruit that is produced by the power of their tongues. That is, they will have to live with the consequences of their words or what their words give birth to because each word you say is a powerful seed that you plant in your life.\nTherefore, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing.\nAnd, if something bad has happened in your life, don\u2019t say anything bad and plant more bad seeds in your life.\nThe perfect example of this is Biblical principle from the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings 4.\nThis woman had given birth to a miracle child. We know it was a miracle child because she was described as she has no son, and her husband is old. (2 Kings 4:14) So her chances of getting a baby were very bleak because her husband was old.\nBut, the power of God is able to circumvent humanly impossible situations (even without Viagra) and Elisha the man of God prophesied that she would have a son with her old husband within a year (even modern day invitro fertilization specialist cannot give such guarantees).\nAnd she did conceive and deliver her miracle son within a year and then the unthinkable happened. He precious child complained of a headache while he was with his father in the field (2 Kings 4:19) and then he died in his mother\u2019s arms at home on the same day. We don\u2019t know if it was cerebral spinal meningitis or a ruptured aneurysm that killed him but the boy died.\nAfter his death, his mother laid him in a bed and asked her husband to provide her with a donkey and a young man (a car and a driver) so that she could go and consult Elisha, the prophet who had prophesied that she would get a child. (2 Kings 4:22)\nWhen her husband asked her why she was going to see the prophet (chances are he was not aware that the boy had died since his mother had laid him in the prophet\u2019s bed in their home), she replied IT IS WELL (2 Kings 4:23)\nThe lesson here is that even if something bad has happened, you do not have to open your mouth and confess it if you have not yet accepted in your heart that there is no other way around the situation.\nI'm reading: Seed Words of a Powerful Tongue ~", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ciboj.org/index/brief-historical-background-coffee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ML6AIE5NCK423SI3K4L5SSJBEP2LK26H", "length": 2251, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ciboj.org", "title": "The Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica", "raw_content": "Brief Historical Background of Coffee\nCoffee Arabica is thought to be indigenous to Abyssinia and was introduced into Arabia over one thousand years ago. It is also believed that in the early ages the Abyssinians went from Arabia to Abyssinia taking the seeds with them, in which case it would have originated in Arabia. Whether the origin be Arabia or Abyssinia, the Arabians must be given credit for discovering and promoting the use of the beverage and the propagation of the plant. It is believed that the first cultivation in Arabia dates back to A.D. 575.\nIndian tradition credits BaBa Budan, a Moslem pilgrim to Mecca, with the introduction of coffee into Southern India about 1600. The area in which he settled is currently known as the Baba Budan hills and is still an important coffee producing area of Southern India.\nIn 1699, coffee was introduced into Java from India. Plants were taken from Java to Amsterdam in 1706 and eight years later the Paris Botanical Gardens secured seedlings from Amsterdam. In 1723, plants, the progeny of those in the Paris Botanical Gardens, were taken to Martinique by the French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu. Of these, one plant survived, and from it Arabica coffee was established in Martinique. Its spread to the coffee producing areas of the Western Hemisphere followed rapidly.\nIn 1728, the Governor, Sir Nicholas Lawes, introduced coffee into Jamaica from Hispaniola, now Haiti, in the parish of St. Andrew. Natural conditions proved to be most favourable and the product was found to be of very high quality. Cultivation expanded rapidly and by 1800, 686 plantations were in operation. In 1814, exports totaled 15,199 tons. With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, followed by the emancipation in 1838, the industry declined rapidly, due primarily to the lack of labour. By 1850, only 186 plantations were in operation and exports had fallen to 1,486 tons. During the last hundred years. 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Therm-Omega-Tech\u2019s valves are all environmentally friendly, and no outside power source is needed to activate them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.civillitigationbrief.com/2018/05/01/denton-principles-applied-to-a-case-where-a-claimant-failed-to-get-permission-to-issue-proceedings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HKLX363RIL65XYIZUCJHUWB2U2IABVNQ", "length": 21705, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.civillitigationbrief.com", "title": "DENTON PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO A CASE WHERE A CLAIMANT FAILED TO GET PERMISSION TO ISSUE PROCEEDINGS \u2013 Civil Litigation Brief", "raw_content": "Browse: Home \u00bb 2018 \u00bb May \u00bb 01 \u00bb DENTON PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO A CASE WHERE A CLAIMANT FAILED TO GET PERMISSION TO ISSUE PROCEEDINGS\nDENTON PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO A CASE WHERE A CLAIMANT FAILED TO GET PERMISSION TO ISSUE PROCEEDINGS\nMay 1, 2018 \u00b7 by gexall \u00b7 in Applications, Relief from sanctions\nAlthough the Denton principles are much more settled it is prudent to keep a weather eye on cases where they are considered. His Honour Judge Davis-White QC (sitting as a judge of the Chancery Division in Leeds) applied the Denton principles in a case today Wilton UK Ltd & Anor v Shuttleworth & Ors [2018] EWHC 911 (Ch).\n\u201cI am acutely aware of the need not to encourage (a) the subversion of the statutory process by bringing about rolled up applications such as this as routine (though in some cases it may well be sensible to agree the same) and (b) the need to avoid encouraging claimants bringing these claims to think that they can sit back and if the merits are otherwise on their side, rely on the court giving retrospective permission. However, I do take into account the point that, in light of this judgment, the appropriate approach will have been reinforced and claimants will have less excuse for taking such a course as was taken by the claimant in this case.\u201d\nThe judge was considering whether permission to continue derivative company proceedings should be given pursuant to s.263 Companies Act 2006 and whether retrospective permission should be granted to begin the proceedings \u2013 thereby validating certain steps that should have been taken only with permission of the court. The Denton issues related to the grant of retrospective permission.\nThe Denton principles applied to this type of application, rather that the principles relating to late or non-service of the claim form.\nIt was appropriate to grant the applicant\u2019s application on the facts of this case.\nHowever the very existence of this judgment should serve to prevent parties from taking a similar line in the future. Permission of the court should be obtained before issue.\nThe judge reviewed the matters in detail. He then considered what principles should be applied to the claimant\u2019s application for retrospective permission to issue proceedings and whether that discretion should be exercised.\n\u201cRetrospective permission: the principles\nHaving decided that I would grant prospective permission to continue with the proceedings, and that I have jurisdiction to grant retrospective permission, the remaining issue is whether I should grant retrospective permission. If I should refuse such retrospective permission, then it would follow that prospective permission should also be refused.\nThe defendants\u2019 position was that the appropriate principles to be applied in this context were those which apply to the obtaining of relief from sanctions under CPR r 3.9. In the course of oral submission discussion also took place regarding a test analogous to that under CPR 16.5(2). In the light of the decision of the Supreme Court in Barton v Wright Hassall [2018] UKSC 12; [2018] 1 WLR 1119, the defendants\u2019 submitted further written submissions regarding the application of the principles to validate retrospectively non-compliant service of originating process under CPR r6.15(2) to the case before me. Further written submissions dated 23 February 2018 on this issue were received by me from Mr Ayliffe QC on that date. The claimant\u2019s position (at least at one point) was that permission was at large, taking into account all of the circumstances, and that the essential test was \u201cthe best interests of justice\u201d and that neither cases regarding the discretion to grant relief from sanctions nor that relating to the discretion to validate service under CPR r6.15(2) was an appropriate analogy. However, by his written submissions (on their face dated 5 February 2018 but actually dated 5 March 2018) I understood Mr Pipe to accept the applicability of the Denton principles (as subsequently developed).\nAlthough there is an initial attraction to the idea that CPR 6.15(2) is dealing with non-compliant service of a claim form and I am dealing with non-compliant service of a claim form (because prior court permission was not obtained), in my view this is an oversimplification.\nFirst, the question of whether retrospective permission should be given as regards particular steps in a derivative action taken without permission is not limited to cases where the step is service of the claim form. It could (as here) cover service of particulars of claim or it could relate to later steps in the litigation (for example where permission had been down to a certain stage but steps thereafter had been taken without permission). Thus, although in this case service of the claim form is one of the relevant steps for which permission is sought, the question would not necessarily arise in that context.\nFurther, the underlying issue is one as to authority to take the relevant step in the proceedings and that is primarily an issue between BMO and the claimant rather than between the claimant and the defendants. It is clear that where there is a question as to authority to bring proceedings the defendant is entitled to (and indeed should) challenge the absence of authority at an early stage rather than leaving it to its defence. Where the proceedings are commenced without authority, and in areas where the court cannot grant authority in the proceedings, the court may well permit an adjournment so as to enable the question of authority to be taken further and if appropriate resolved (see e.g. cases where proceedings are brought in the name of a dissolved company). In such cases, authority may be conferred retrospectively by the company itself being restored to the register and adopting the proceedings. If that is correct it is difficult to see why steps in derivative proceedings could not be subsequently validated, for example, by company resolution and the adoption of the proceedings by the company. Thus, although to some extent the rules regarding derivative proceedings confer some protection on the defendant and the defendant is usually (although this is a discretionary matter) permitted to participate in the issue of whether authority to continue proceedings should be granted by the court, the rules are not there to protect the defendant in the way that the rules regarding service of originating process are for the defendant\u2019s protection.\nAccordingly, the distinction drawn by Lord Sumption between cases involving relief from sanctions, itself encompassing weight being given to the factor of the disciplinary element of the CPR, and the provisions of CPR r6.15 is not one that, in my judgment, holds good for retrospective permission regarding the bringing of derivative proceedings and a factor which puts the exercise of the relevant discretion in that context on the CPR r6.15(2) side of the line.\nTrue it is that I have held that the ability to grant retrospective permission and the effects of permission not having been granted are regulated by statute rather than the CPR. Nevertheless, in my view the process and timing of permission being regulated by the CPR (just as the process and timing of permission to appeal is regulated by the CPR though the requirement for permission is (largely) statutory see e.g. s54 Access to Justice Act 1999), the failure to obtain permission should be viewed as carrying a sanction (see, by analogy, the position regarding appeals).\nAccordingly, I also reject the claimant\u2019s case (at least as I understood it at one point to be) that the matter is simply one at large to be considered against all the circumstances and that I should simply apply a \u201cbest interests of justice\u201d test.\nIn reality, each of the three tests, that under CPR r6.15(2), that under Denton for relief from sanctions and that advocated by the claimant of \u201cthe best interests of justice\u201d are directed at the court achieving a just result in all the circumstances. The circumstances in which the issue arises are capable of giving rise to a different structure of questions to determine what is just. In my judgment, each test involves application of a different structure to reach the \u201cjust\u201d result in that each involves particular questions being asked in a structured process so as to assist in identifying the key considerations. Further, each results in different emphasis or weight being given to particular factors. Thus, to take one example, the disciplinary factor of encouraging rule compliance and effect on third parties carries less if any weight in carrying out the CPR r6.15(2) test compared with the Denton test.\nRetrospective Permission: the facts\nBefore applying the relevant test, there are two major areas that I have to consider. First, the circumstances and reasons why permission was not sought in time and secondly whether the claims or any of them are now barred by limitation (subject to the exercise of my discretion).\nThe letter before claim in this case was sent on 6 June 2015.\nThe claim form and the application notice were originally sent to the court under cover of a letter dated 9 November 2016 asking that the claim form be issued for service by the claimant\u2019s solicitors, Clarion. The claim was described as \u201cbeing issued for limitation reasons\u201d. So far as the application for permission was concerned, the letter asked the court for time for the claimant to file particulars of claim and a supplemental witness statement which, the letter anticipated, would be filed \u201cwithin 4 to 6 weeks\u201d. A \u201cfair determination\u201d of the application was said to require consideration of the additional evidence and particulars of claim. The court was told that once the additional material was filed, the court\u2019s attention would be drawn to the letter \u201cso that the Court may progress the matter\u201d. In those circumstances the application was not issued and the application was not put before a Judge. The claim form however was duly issued at that date, thus stopping the running of the limitation period.\nBy letter to the court dated 21 December 2016, Clarion apologised for the delay. They explained that the delay had been caused by a recent family bereavement suffered by Counsel and anticipated that the particulars would be with the court in early January so that thereafter the court could consider the application for permission to proceed. The court replied to confirm that no Judge had yet seen the file and that the court would await the particulars in January 2017 before putting the application before a Judge.\nBy letter dated 2 February 2018, Clarion wrote to the court to say that it had taken counsel longer than anticipated to complete the drafting of particulars of claim and that he anticipated having them ready in the week commencing 6 February 2017.\nBy letter dated 20 February 2017, addressed to Ward Hadaway, solicitors acting for the Banks companies and others, Clarion asked Ward Hadaway if they had instructions to accept service on behalf the named persons who were the individuals in the Direct Claim.\nBy various letters dated 6 March 2017, Clarion served the derivative claim form and the application for permission and supporting evidence on the defendants to those proceedings. This was a matter of days before expiry of the four-month period of validity for service of the derivative claim form.\nThe particulars of claim were lodged with the court on 8 March 2017. Also, under cover of letters dated 8 March 2017 from Clarion, the particulars of claim in the derivative proceedings, plus response packs, were served on the defendants to the derivative proceedings. The letter went on to say that \u201cThe matter is with the Court and no further steps need to be taken pending the Court\u2019s determination on permission to proceed.\u201c\nBy letter dated 16 March 2017 Ward Hadaway asked for confirmation that the court\u2019s permission had been obtained in accordance with CPR r19.9(4) \u201cin advance of purporting to effect service\u201c.\nDespite a chasing letter from Ward Hadaway dated 17 March, it appears that Clarion did not reply substantively. By letter dated 21 March 2017, Ward Hadaway said that they assumed that court permission had not been obtained and they enclosed copies of acknowledgements of service filed with the court, indicating that it was intended to contest jurisdiction and that an application would follow within 14 days.\nUnder cover of a letter dated 30 March 2017, Clarion lodged with the court the second witness statement of Mr Wilkes (and exhibits) and asked that that witness statement be put before the Judge with the application dated 9 November 2016.\nClarion responded to Ward Hadaway, by letter dated 31 March 2017, that the question of whether the claim should be pursued was one between the claimant and BMO and that within the existing application for permission they were \u201cseeking approval of the course of action that we have taken\u201c.\nUnder cover of a letter dated 31 March 2017 the second witness statement of Mr Wilkes in support of the application for permission was served.\nOn 3 April 2017 the defendants issued their application for an order that the court has no jurisdiction to try the claim and setting aside service of both the claim form and the particulars of claim.\nUnder cover of letter dated 4 April 2017, Ward Hadaway served on Clarion the defendants\u2019 application dated 3 April 2017 and supporting evidence.\nThe matters were referred to District Judge Kelly who ordered that both matters should be listed before me for an oral hearing.\nBy letter dated 13 April 2017, Ward Hadaway raised the question of whether I should first deal on paper with the first stage of the permission application under the derivative procedure, then hear the defendants\u2019 application that there was no jurisdiction to hear the claim and then, only if that was not successful, should I have a separate hearing to consider the second stage of the permission application. I considered that this was potentially creative of wasted costs and delay taking up potentially 3 hearings or determinations by the court rather than having the matter dealt with at one hearing. I declined to hear the (then) two applications separately.\nAs a result of the refusal of Ward Hadaway, on behalf of the defendants, by letter dated 4 May 2017 to accept that the question of possible retrospective permission was sufficiently encompassed by the existing application of 9 November 2016, the further application dated 22 June 2017 was made by the Claimant.\nI turn now to the second area that I have to consider, which is that of limitation. The assumption has been that the earliest relevant damage suffered was on or about 16 November 2010 when Option 2 was entered into. The claim form was issued on 9 November 2016 within 6 years of the grant of Option 2. It is accepted that 6 years is, in general, the limitation period. The result would be that most if not all of the claims are well outside the 6 year period were a new claim form to be issued now.\nMr Pipe however submits that the claims against the directors are ones of dishonesty and that accordingly no period of limitation applies to them by reason of them being treated as trustees for the purposes of s21 Limitation Act 1980 and the causes of action against them falling within s21(1)(a) Limitation Act 1980. He submits that retrospectively to grant permission under CPR r19 does not remove any existing Limitation Act defence. I largely accept this submission.\nThis however leaves the (alternative) claim against Mr Banks based on dishonest knowing assistance in director\u2019s breaches of trust and the similar claim against BGL. It seems to me that both of these fall outside s21(1)(a): see Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria [2014] UKSC 10; [2014] AC 1189. Further, as Mr Pipe acknowledged, there are problems as regards the conspiracy and confidential information claims (at least as regards non-directors). Mr Pipe submits that, so far as the claims in knowing assistance are concerned, Mr Banks (assuming he is not a director) falls within the \u201cprivy\u201d head of s21(1)(a) Limitation Act 1980. As I understand it, he accepts that on any view BGL would not fall within s21(1)(a). He also submits that in light of Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding and Anr [2018] UKSC 14 some claims are not barred by virtue of s21(1)(b) Limitation Act 1980. However, at this stage it suffices to say that I am not satisfied that there are no claims that would be statute barred.\nThere are it seems to me at least three possible answers to the limitation problems:\ni) To refuse permission retrospectively (and therefore prospectively) and to leave the claimant to bring fresh proceedings so that the limitation point is then determined by the court and, if any claims are barred by limitation for the claimant to be bound accordingly;\nii) To give retrospective permission as regards those claims where it is clear that limitation does not bar the claim but to refuse permission where it is arguable that they are bound;\niii) To give retrospective permission.\nI return to consider this issue when applying the Denton/Mitchell principles.\nApplication of the Denton/Mitchell principles\nThe relevant principles were agreed. I need not cite them in detail. My summary should not be taken as any more than a shorthand indication of the applicable test rather than a full description of the same. I need to consider:\n(1) The seriousness and significance of the breach;\n(2) The reasons why the default occurred;\n(3) All the circumstances of the case (including those set out in CPR r3.9(1)(a) and (b)).\nIn my assessment the breach was serious and significant. The making of an application for permission was simply not pursued and instead the proceedings were continued with. One point of the procedure is to weed out unmeritorious claims and to ensure that defendants (and companies) are not troubled by them. Although this has not turned out to be such a case, the breach of the rules (and the statute) was serious and/or significant.\nThe reason given for not putting the matter before the court was essentially one that it would be better for the evidence to be in a better state than proceeding on inadequate evidence. In my view, this is not a satisfactory explanation. The matter should have been placed before the court well before expiry of the validity of the claim form so the court could judge whether the case should be got on with and make directions accordingly and/or whether there should be limited permission to serve documents or not. Instead of that the claimant took the matter out of the court\u2019s hands. Although I understand some of the reason for the delays in getting the case ready for the hearing that eventually took place I am not satisfied that they can be fully excused.\nTurning to, and in looking at, all the circumstances, I take into account that the breach in this case was not abusive in the sense of recklessness or a deliberate self-serving breach. The breach occurred in circumstances where the decision was an error as to what the overriding objective required rather than a deliberate abuse.\nI also take into account the fact that the defendants have not in reality been much harmed by the delay. At most an inter-parties application may have occurred a little earlier. The defendants were however properly served in terms of mode and time of service. Their complaint is one of lack of authority, which can now be rectified.\nI take into account the fact that all of the facts will have to be gone into on the Direct Claim and that the Derivative Claim of itself should not add too much to the overall costs (though I also bear in mind the difference in the identity of the parties in the two proceedings and particularly the defendants). It would be unjust if causes of action were made out in the Direct Claim but which were only vested in the company and which could not be pursued because I now refused relief.\nSo far as limitation is concerned, the purpose of the requirement of permission from the court is primarily to protect the relevant company. The defendants were served by proper mode and on time. However, service was without authority. If authority is now provided (or had been by the company) it is difficult to see how they could object. Further, had the correct procedure been followed permission would have been granted ex parte and would have permitted service if, as seems reasonable to assume, an inter parties hearing could not have been accommodated prior to expiry of the period of validity of the claim form for service. In the circumstances, I do not regard limitation as a factor which should prevent my now granting permission with retrospective effect.\nI also take into account the ironic fact that the court has only been troubled by one hearing regarding the question of whether permission should BE granted rather than a two-stage consideration of the issue. 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More German than most Germans would believe, a visit here is will take you back in a time warp with street names from the good old days and chocolate cake whose recipe went missing after the Second World War \u2026\nIf you\u2019re into trains, ask about the luxurious Desert Express that runs between Windhoek and Swakop. Welwitschia plants grow in the desert east of Swakopmund. They hang around for a 1000 years or longer, watching the sand blow across the plains\u2026\nThere are a bunch of adrenaline activities to indulge in and pilesa companies who\u2019ll book trips to the desert or around the rest of the country for you, although car hire companies offer competitive rental rates if you prefer to travel under your own steam. Activities include Sand-boarding, Quad biking, Skydiving, Hot Air Ballooning and Microlight flights.\nAnd if all this sound like too much work, you can just hang out at one of the many restaurants and enjoy the cool sea breeze while you wash down the desert dust with one of Swakopmund\u2019s locally brewed beers.\nThe seal colony of Cape Cross, the flamingos and the Skeleton Coast lie to the north.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coasttocoast.co.za/destinations/overberg/greyton-backpackers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UCEL4YGNRIGLCTKK3WJMTYVAN62C3ZH7", "length": 946, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.coasttocoast.co.za", "title": "Overberg | Coast to Coast | Backpackers Guide to SA", "raw_content": "> Greyton\nThe picturesque Cape country village of Greyton lies less than two hours from Cape Town, and thirty kilometres off the N2 on tar.\nPopular for its peace and quiet, clean mountain air, lazy village walks and cosy winter nights around a fire, it\u2019s small, safe and sleepy, and you can walk just about everywhere.\nMany of town\u2019s original buildings and features have survived, including the original leiwater (irrigation) system of street furrows, the town kraal and dipping tank, a blacksmith\u2019s house and forge, the school\u2019s boarding house and extensive public commonage which is crisscrossed by the many walking, hiking and cycling paths that surround the town.\nThere are also two old churches, some of the earliest cottages built between 1854 and 1860 in Vigne Lane and at the end of Vlei Street, as well as an old shepherd\u2019s cottage built before 1840, which is now incorporated into \u2018The Old Potter's Inn\u2019 building on Greyton\u2019s Main Road.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coldwar.hu/researcher_database/belarusian_researchers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BJHCZHC35HAQ7LFB6ECY5SCXS4VSSJ3I", "length": 273, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.coldwar.hu", "title": "EAST EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY RESEARCHERS: Bulgaria", "raw_content": "Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History at the Belarusian State University, Minsk\nThe Russian History Department, Faculty of History at the Belarusian State University, Minsk\nThe Institute of History, National Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colinhay.com/2013/02/11/colin-hay-man-at-work-bma-magazine/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NWKL4ZRKIC5PN237KK3LT2V5D3BMNZK2", "length": 5409, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.colinhay.com", "title": "Colin Hay - Man At Work (BMA Magazine) - Colin Hay", "raw_content": "Colin Hay \u2013 Man At Work (BMA Magazine)\nFrom bmamag.com | ORIGINAL ARTICLE\nI have great respect for bands that manage to stay together and make great music. That\u2019s just not what happened to us\nMen At Work were one of the most successful bands of the \u201880s. The Melbourne-based band, led by COLIN HAY, shared the stage with icons like Little Richard and Miles Davis, appeared onSaturday Night Live twice, won Grammy Awards and sold over 30 million albums. A string of unbelievably successful and catchy songs (Who Can It Be Now?, It\u2019s A Mistake, Overkill and of course the unofficial national anthem that isDown Under) hide the fact that they only ever made three albums and only barely managed to enjoy their success.\nSuch a rapid rise was followed by the seemingly inevitable steep descent. \u2018We did some amazing things and had an astonishing, phenomenally successful three years. But with that particular group of people that\u2019s all it could sustain. I couldn\u2019t have imagined going on any longer than that given the personnel. Men At Work was pretty much done at the end of 1983. You could almost say it was over before it started really.\u2019 For a little context, Down Under was released in late 1981.\nFor what it\u2019s worth, Hay did see potential in sticking it out and making the most of the accruements and largesse on offer. But there was a sense that the band\u2019s creativity had peaked. \u2018We could have stayed together and made great music. But I don\u2019t think that was what the cards held for us. There\u2019s always a part of you that wants to keep that going but it just didn\u2019t happen. I\u2019ve tried to capture what was great about the band and carry that through to what I have done ever since. I like bands. I have great respect for bands that manage to stay together and make great music. That\u2019s just not what happened to us.\u2019\nAfter Men At Work split, the Scottish-born Hay relocated to Los Angeles. Far from being the hell-hole of clogged highways and broken dreams, California has proven a friendly and successful relocation. \u2018People have this presumption that there\u2019s something distinctly uncomfortable about Los Angeles. But I\u2019ve always found it to be a creatively stimulating place to be. I think a lot of other people have too and there\u2019s been some astonishingly amazing music made there for a long time. Most of the music we grew up listening to was made there. It\u2019s not surprising people find themselves there.\u2019\nLike many relocations, scratch the surface and you\u2019re bound to find more pragmatic reasons than eternal sunshine and the iconic record stack-shaped Capitol Records building. \u2018I ran away in a sense. I had a record deal that was based out of LA. But I was getting divorced. I was drinking a lot and it was very difficult to stop the drink in Australia. It was difficult because people didn\u2019t really seem that interested in what I was doing and it was difficult to get songs on the radio. So I just kind of went away to a place where there seemed to be a lot of people like me there. I was just trying to do something new, wipe the slate clean and start again.\u2019\nStart again Colin Hay did, releasing 11 highly regarded solo albums that have moved naturally away from the big-sounding commercial sound of 1982 but retained the sly, quirky aspects of Hay\u2019s best songs. On albums like American Sunshine and Gathering Mercury there\u2019s no sense Hay is trying to recreate or replicate his earlier success. Somewhat interestingly then, Hay\u2019s thriving solo career in Europe and North America brought him to the attention of Bill Lawrence in 2002, just as the show he created, Scrubs, was going through the roof. Soon enough, Hay was performing an acoustic version of the old Men At Work song Overkill in the opening episode of the show\u2019s second season on NBC in primetime. It certainly didn\u2019t hurt Hay\u2019s career. \u2018That came out of nowhere. But what people usually don\u2019t consider \u2013 and nor should they consider because they don\u2019t walk around thinking about what happens to you \u2013 is that I had been touring for a decade, making records and playing to small audiences, big audiences \u2013 any sort of audiences. They only notice when it happens.\u2019\nDespite the huge success of Men At Work and being the singer of Down Under, Hay is at ease with his back catalogue. He doesn\u2019t perform on the heritage circuit because real effort has been made to stay creative and write new material, regardless of whether audiences would drunkenly request the old hits or not. \u2018Look, the reality is I love those songs. They\u2019re big songs. They have been very good to me; you can\u2019t walk away from them. Well, you can. But I don\u2019t see the point. There was a time in the late \u201880s when I didn\u2019t want to play them because it was just too close to home \u2013 all a bit emotional. But you reclaim your past. That band and these songs are part of who I am. If you give them the respect, they will continue to be good to you. I\u2019m lucky because the people who come to see me, whether I\u2019m here in Australia or in the US, or Glasgow or Boise, Idaho, they tend to follow me through the years so they always hit me up for new songs. If they were the only songs I had it would be a bit glum, traipsing around dragging out the old tunes again. That hasn\u2019t been the case for me.\u2019\nColin Hay will hit Canberra Theatre Centre with his musical comedy act, Finding My Dance, Saturday February 23, 8pm. Tickets are $42-$49 + bf through canberratheatrecentre.com.au.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.collablaw.com/pg3.cfm?id=29489", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LILBGE6DW2ORJ6DERJ2U3T62KGXHPBG7", "length": 5018, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.collablaw.com", "title": "About CollabLaw.com", "raw_content": "As a trial attorney with decades of experience, I can appreciate the logic and extreme advantages that the Collaborative Law process can bring. I enjoy bringing my talents to that process to resolve issues, no matter how small or how large.\nClark Jordan-Holmes has been a Certified Circuit Court Mediator since 2004. He is a qualified mediator in both the state and federal courts. He is experienced in Personal Injury, Family Law, Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and virtually all areas. He is an AV rated trial attorney. He served for over fifteen (15) years as General Counsel for the Hillsborough Transit Authority. He is now a full-time mediator at MediationForFlorida.Com The mediations he has conducted include personal injury disputes, contract disputes, foreclosures, Homeowner Association issues and collection matters. His decades of non-profit experience mediating relations in the housing, cultural and race-relations are now an asset to his mediation practice. He is approved as a residential foreclosure mediator by the Federal Bankruptcy Court, American Arbitration Association and others. Jordan-Holmes helped publish numerous articles by the Federal Transit Administration\u2019s, TCRP Legal Research Digest. He received his law and undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and did post-graduate studies in Government Administration at the University of Maryland. At the University of Florida he was honored to be the Editor-in-Chief of The Verdict; Student Senator; elected representative to the John Marshal Bar Association; and to be a Staff Member of the Center for Governmental Responsibility. He served as a District Advisor in Loc Ninh, Vietnam. He left the U.S. Army as a Captain and was awarded the Bronze Star with an oak leaf cluster and the Cross of Gallantry.\nMr. Jordan-Hoilmes has been certified in the Alternate Dispute Resolution area since 2004. He has mediated a great variety of matters. He is a member of Mediators Beyond Borders and was nominated to be Mediator of the Year by Strathmore's Who's Who\nUniversity of Florida undergraduate and Juris Doctorate degree.\nMy goal as a mediator is to identify and, if necessary, create common ground. Knowing the law and human nature facilitates that creating of common ground. Such common ground almost inevitably exists, but is only manifested with the improved communications and the creative doses of logic and reality that I believe I can bring to the process. Mediation has the capability of identifying & creating or delivering a common ground not easily found in any other manner. The mediation process requires a mediator to possess excellent litigation skills & knowledge, combined with talents like those exhibited throughout Clark Jordan-Holmes\u2019 career. As your mediator, Clark Jordan-Holmes can help increase your chances of capturing the advantages the mediation process can offer. His experience, qualifications & approach will help create a positive environment for resolving any type of dispute. Mediation is both an art and science. It utilizes time tested techniques but also relies on the talents and commitment of the mediator. Some of the key attributes exhibited by successful mediators and possessed by Clark include: \u2022\tGood listening skills \u2022\tIntegrity \u2022\tDiplomacy \u2022\tExperience \u2013 A knowledge resulting from decades of real-life litigation \u2022\tAnalytic Skills \u2013 The ability to walk each party through the strengths and weaknesses of each case and to thereby consider the possibilities of various consequences. \u2022\tA lifetime of Diversity Training that respects the different reference points individuals may bring to a situation.\nLitigation Cases [2 party]: $325.00/hr. Pre-suit Mediation [2 party]: $185/hr. Family Law: $100.00 pre-suit to $180/hr. per party, depending upon the combined income and court requirements. o\tThe hourly fees listed above are totals. Usually each party pays their proportionate share. o\tWe do not charge for travel time. o\tThere is a required fee of two (2) hours For every mediation lasting two (2) hours or more, there is no charge for preparation time. In that case the two (2) hour minimum applies only to actual mediation time. There is never a charge for all reasonable time required to schedule the mediation. In the event a mediation is cancelled less than three (3) days before the scheduled date, the party requesting the cancellation will incur a $125.00 cancellation fee. If all parties request the cancellation, each party will be billed a pro rata portion of the cancellation fee. Payment \u2022\tThe two (2) hour minimum fee should be paid and received at least seventy-two (72) hours before the scheduled start time of the mediation. \u2022\tWe recommend that clients bring a check with them so that payment can be made immediately following the mediation conference. \u2022\tAttorneys - Please note that it is expressly understood between MediationFla and counsel for the parties that the attorneys and their law firms are responsible for paying fees if their clients fail to do so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.collegeoflore.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QAY2BTYV6Q7XWYBOTZHBIZRIJXKRD6OM", "length": 1195, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.collegeoflore.com", "title": "About | College of Lore", "raw_content": "Or\u2026 the tale of Seamus the Bard\nSeamus was once a court bard in the service of a great magocracy on the coast. Until he wasn\u2019t. And so he set out to see what the rest of the world had to offer. After many adventures, and more than a few close scrapes, Seamus returned to his coastal home with many new tales and new friends from across the many realms. These are their stories\u2026\nThe College of Lore\u2026\n\u2026is a completely unofficial resource collecting all of the best house rules for the 5th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, published by Wizards of the Coast.\nMatthew has worked in the game industry for over a decade, including owning an independent retailer and many years as an employee of Wizards of the Coast, working first in community management as a WizO involved with publishing their online community magazine, Knowledge Arcana, and later in customer service as an ORC. He also ran saga-edition.com, the largest online resource library for the Star Wars Saga Edition roleplaying game. Matthew sees gaming as a community endeavor and feels that the best material is produced through collaboration, when people are able to pool all their best resources and playtest material as an open group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.columbusgospelfest.org/our-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:23Z", "digest": "sha1:JRLZLLSKDPL2T35HE2BDSM6QUNF4WTK4", "length": 993, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.columbusgospelfest.org", "title": "Our Story - Columbus GospelFest", "raw_content": "Our Mission: Operating in Excellence\nConcerned about & Committed to our Community\nWe started 34 years ago with just a vision of impacting the community and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. In June of 1984 we held the first GospelFest in Franklin Park. Over the years God has blessed us with larger crowds and dedicated partners who helped make GospelFest what it is today. We are the largest gospel event in the city of Columbus and we are very proud that God is still continuing to use us. We strive for excellence in everything that we do and we recognize that without God we would be nothing. We are concerned about our community and helping it grow closer and stronger. We are completely committed to helping our community and the surrounding areas. As a non-profit organization we appreciate all of the people who have supported us throughout the years. We look forward to impacting the community and building relationships with our many supporters and sponsors in the years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.comebackalive.com/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:14Z", "digest": "sha1:O6PD5VF5H4KO4NXKPSU7WOKJYOWN2FJT", "length": 445, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.comebackalive.com", "title": "Contact Us | Come Back Alive", "raw_content": "Need to get in contact with Robert directly?\nSimply fill out the form to the right with a brief comment or question, and someone will get back to you or just type in his initials and comebackalive.com\nWe are constantly looking for ways to improve our site to make your experience the best that it can be. We would love to hear your feedback.\nFor inquiries concerning special risk insurance coverage, please visit:\nhttp://www.inglegroups.com/cba/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.communicatescience.eu/2010/05/were-all-in-this-together.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:R33TOZEMABF52WFBUCFOELO7GXMJQQTD", "length": 2237, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.communicatescience.eu", "title": "Communicate Science: We're all in this together", "raw_content": "We're all in this together. That's the message from a new EU campaign to inform us about biodiversity and to get people actively engaged in preserving and restoring it.\nThe timing is critical as it coincides with the International Year of Biodiversity and according to the Stern Review on the Economic effects of climate change, 15-40% of species could disappear by the end of this century. Despite the pretty wide margin there, any loss of species is undoubtedly a bad thing and needs to be guarded against.\nThe campaign will target all EU countries but with particular focus on Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Romania. Quite why these specific countries have been chosen, I'm not sure.\nThe campaign entitled \"We are all in this together\" (certainly NOT We're... or to be confused with the UK Conservative Party slogan used in the recent elections) was launched at the start of the year with a snazzy new logo. As a means of getting their point across quickly, it looks pretty succesful.\nRecent research in the Netherlands show that only one third of Europeans feel they know what biodiversity means or how it benefits them, with many associating the term with \"distant wildlife\".\nA key part of the campaign is to emphasis the effect biodiversity has on every citizen and how a loss of biodiversity has negative impacts on human society - from water purification to food supply, and from energy to pharmaceuticals.\nA campaign spokesperson said, \"Expect to see provocative images and messages designed to catch people's attention, channelled through word-of-mouth 'viral' marketing, such as graphic outlines of a dead sparrow or flower chalked on city streets and pavements. The initiative will also feature a widspread print campaign, social networks such as Facebook and a dedicated website on biodiversity in Europe\".\nYou can biodiversify a photo of yourself here.\nLabels: Biodiversity, europe, International year of biodiversity\nSvenAERTS228 August 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM\nHello, we're http://www.projetcoal.org - a coalition of actors in the environmental and green art landscape. We are developing an art project around biodiversity. Anybody knows who's the owner of this human with all the little animals in it? Th You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.communionfire.com/blog/do-this-yet-how-many-do-do-you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YSVFAV65UIXJWVBLQ4LXCFWCRZG2DKWD", "length": 3004, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.communionfire.com", "title": "\"Do this\" Yet how Many Do? Do You? - CommunionFire", "raw_content": "\"Do this\" Yet how Many Do? Do You?\n\u201cDo this to remember me\u201d When Jesus said this He had not yet been crucified. He had not died. He had not risen from the dead or ascended. Yet of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Luke is the only one to record these words of Jesus, \u201cDo this in remembrance of me.\u201d and it was only in the context of the bread.\nIt is the Apostle Paul who shares what Jesus told him personally about Communion.\nPaul said, \u201cFor I received from the Lord what I pass on to you.\u201d 1 Corinthians 11:23.\nJesus came to Paul and told him the how this simple yet profound meal of grace should be shared. By \u2018doing this\u2019 (the blessing, sharing and declaration of the Body and Blood through the bread and the wine) Jesus designed a place and His way for us to have Communion with Him personally on this side of eternity.\nAs we eat the bread, His Body, we are each individually ushered by the Holy Spirit into the presence of the Lord. The veil of this world is pulled back as the Holy Spirit opens our spiritual eyes to see the Lord (as through a glass or as a reflection in a mirror). When we see Him we \u2018recognize\u2019 Him. He relates to us in just such a way that we know it is Him. He is always there. We sit down at His Table and He comes to us and we \u2018feast on His presence. When we do there is a miraculous download happening in our heart and mind. As we look upon Him, a work of transformation begins to take place. His nature resides in us and when we see Him we connect with Him and His nature is awakened within us. Each time we have communion with Jesus we become more the person He created and intended us to be. The deposits of His love, nature and character become part of our personal, first-hand Remembrance of Him.\nThe Lord quickens His presence by the Holy Spirit as we drink the wine, His blood, coursing through our body. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit as the agent of \u201cThe Remembrance\u201d Jesus spoke five times of the coming of the Holy Spirit in His final message before the Crucifixion, after introducing the Communion. He told them \u201cI must go away so that the Holy Spirit could be sent. He will lead you into the reality of my presence, bring all things that I am sharing with you to your remembrance and to show you things to come. When we encounter the Lord in Communion it is by the power of the Holy Spirit. We become first hand witnesses to His presence, what he shares with us and what He says.\nThis is what Communion intends. The Lord gave us a way and a place to meet with Him every day! He is waiting to share the reality of His life, grace, joy, love, peace and kindness first hand. His pure love alone is more than enough but He holds nothing back. In His presence we feed on eternal life. There is ongoing healing, ongoing deliverance, mercy and overflowing eternal goodness! In His presence we see and understand that we are a part of His Kingdom, His family and eternal life. We call this CommunionFire to draw attention to the reality of His presence by only \u2018doing\u2019 what He asked.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 7823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.contactmusic.net/news/2016/06-20", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:7KVASFCVAY47S6DFLZS4UPA5ZU4PBY6O", "length": 18292, "nlines": 175, "source_domain": "www.contactmusic.net", "title": "News Archive 20th June 2016 | Contactmusic.com", "raw_content": "<< 19th June 201621st June 2016 >>\nIggy Azalea Calls Off Engagement\nThe Fancy rapper took to Instagram on Sunday (16Jun16) to announce the breakup news to her followers. 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They...\nBlake Shelton Performs Birthday Duet With Gwen Stefani\nThe country star celebrated the milestone at the Country Jam festival in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he was joined by the No Doubt frontwoman...\nPrince's Manager Planning To Release Previously Unheard Music\nThe Purple Rain singer, who would have turned 58 earlier this month (7 Jun16), passed away from an opioid overdose on 21 April (16).Prince's longtime...\nDrake Scores Seventh Week Atop Billboard 200 Chart\nThe Started from the Bottom rapper has become the first male artist to spend seven consecutive weeks at the number one spot since Eminem's The...\nZoe Saldana Addresses Nina Simone Controversy\nThe 37-year-old actress was slammed by critics for wearing make-up to darken her skin and a prosthetic nose in the movie, which was released in...\nFinding Dory Blows Competition Out Of The Water At North American Box Office\nThe sequel featuring the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, and Albert Brooks has topped the box office, becoming the...\nPrince William Opens Up About Children's Mental Health In Father's Day Message\nThe British royal, who is dad to two-year-old son George and one-year-old daughter Charlotte, is working with organisers for the Heads Together...\nSteve Martin Grateful For Final Years With His Dad\nThe funnyman admits he had a \"complicated\" relationship with his father, because he was so critical of his success. \"There was a big premiere of...\nScott Disick Sells Mansion After Six Months\nThe Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has put his Hidden Hills home on the market after living there for a mere six months, E! 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Presley, 16, and Rafferty, 19, were both making only their second...\nDoug Stanhope Not Taking Amber Heard's Defamation Suit Seriously\nStanhope, who is being sued for by Amber Heard, insists her legal action is \"bulls**t\" because he was merely defending his friend in a post on his...\n**Spoiler Alert** Penny Dreadful Ends After Third Season\nThe anthology series starring Eva Green and Josh Hartnett came to a surprise conclusion following the death of Eva's character Vanessa Ives. \"I'm...\nBryan Cranston Fighting For Film Cash To Get Passion Project Made\nThe 60-year-old Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad star has found success on the big screen in films like Godzilla and Trumbo, for which he...\n\"Anton Yelchin was an original. One of the most curious, funny, sweet people I\u2019ve ever known. He was a searcher, an incredible talent and a loyal...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 464, "original_length": 23572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/10/bike-lanes-create-jobs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YQGSLXZ6ZJYGF7ASIU3LZKOAAWDOX2MG", "length": 993, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.copenhagenize.com", "title": "Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design: Bike Lanes Create Jobs", "raw_content": "Bike Lanes Create Jobs\nAccording to the Danish daily Politiken cyclists can look forward to more money for cycling projects across the nation.\nThe political parties behind the traffic plan earlier this year are ready to push 100 million kroner [$20 million] forward in order to start cycling projects earlier. Projects scheduled for much later can be completed this year.\nThe main reason is to give the building industry a boost and create jobs as well as to be able to purchase materials that are cheaper because of the financial crisis.\nBasically... bike lanes being built to help the economy in this time of financial instability.\nThe photo, above, is a part of the national cycle route formed in the early 90's. It is standard in the countryside that there are bike lanes between towns. This is is between a town of 7000 people and another of about 10,000. 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The bicycle is credited rightly with improving the human gene pool in the way that it increased the mobility radius for people not only in cities but also in rural areas. After the invention of the bicycle and the subsequent bicycle boom in the late 1880's, family names that were previously rooted to specific towns or regions started showing up in the registries of (relatively) far-flung parishes in the UK. The same is true for rural America and Australia. The inexpensive independent mobility that the bicycle provided allowed men and women to travel farther further in the search for work and... well... TLC.\nAnyway, this is a continuation of the Subversive Bicycle Photos series, showing the historical role that the bicycle played in cities and towns - in this case New South Wales, Australia. Important documentation on the journey to show that Bicycle Culture 2.0 is NOT dominated by sub-cultures but rather has the potential to be enjoyed by all citizens. As was the case in cities and towns around the world. In Cairns, Queensland, Canberra, Dublin, Vancouver, etc. etc.\nThese photographs are from the Flickr photostream of the State Library of New South Wales.\nStanmore, NSW, Australia. May, 1946.\nAlbury, NSW, Australia. December, 1938.\nNSW, Australia. June 1937. An explanation is probably needed:\n\"Tom Morris, who will attempt to skip from Sydney to Brisbane, via the Pacific Highway, will set out from the General Post Office at noon to-day. He has already skipped from Melbourne to Adelaide and back (1000 miles) and from Melbourne to Sydney in 28 days.\"\nHis friend on the left must be an early member of the Slow Bicycle Movement.\nBoys of Hoyts Clovelly Theatre Spider's Web Club ride their bikes while Spiderman looks on. Clovelly, NSW, Australia. n.d.\nJenolan Caves, NSW, Australia. April, 1903.\nMan on bicycle pillioning boy. Bunaloo, NSW, Australia. \"Pillioning\". There's a word you don't hear every day. I'm assuming that means the boy is standing up. As opposed to that other Australianism, \"dinking\".\nBrownie (Muriel Long) with bicycle decorated for street procession. Deniliquin, NSW. n.d.\nAnnie Dawson Wallace with her bicycle. NB: Annie is wearing trousers - Sydney, NSW, Australia. 1899\nMan on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister (Maggie & Bob Spiers) - West Wyalong, NSW, Australia. Ca. 1900\nWaratah Rovers Bicycle Club on tour. Picton, NSW, Australia. October 1900.\nAnd a couple of street scenes from Sydney. 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Here are some great ideas to get you started on your list of foods that you will serve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.creativecontrast.com/supply-chain-analytics-essential-factor-of-every-business.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3Y5ZMNEDRZQ5ZBRFO74R54PARTRTRSOR", "length": 2810, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.creativecontrast.com", "title": "Supply Chain Analytics-Essential Factor of Every Business | Creativecontrast-be creative and innovative", "raw_content": "Home Technology Supply Chain Analytics-Essential Factor of Every Business\nNowadays, every businessman wants to expand their business in a best possible way. They want to earn maximum profit by increasing their sales. If you are also a businessman and want to increase your sales and profit then there are several factors that help you to achieve your business goal in an efficient manner. Within any organization, supply chain analytics is the best tool that helps to get the reliable data about sales and profit.\nDue to the complex relationship between customers, partners or suppliers, the supply chain function is also become difficult. However, businesses are still needed to carry out decision-making as well as strategy development while executing close controls over operational and financial procedures.\nSupply Chain Management is the most important key activity in numerous manufacturing as well as service organizations and is a vital connection in an Industry. It generally refers to the procedures, exercises, individuals, associations, technology, resources as well as data engaged with the moving a product or service from a supplier to a customer. Here the customer refers to a business organisation who acts as a consumer.\nWhile analysing data will not in itself produce better results acting on that data will. Many businesses analyse their data but how many of these organizations suppress opportunity through:\nFailing to integrate stove pipes of data\nNot sharing the information generated with appropriate stakeholders\nAnalysing the wrong things\nFailing to act when the data indicates a problem\nHuge amounts of data are present in most ERP or MRP systems as well as most organizations use multiple systems. One of the greatest challenges understands where this data correlates and how it can be utilized to enhance organization procedures or decision making.\nKey factors which are essential in supply chain analytics are:\nVision: It is the most important strategic view of what to measure, how to measure as well as what will be done with the results.\nInputs: The appropriate information which is obtained at the right time and also presented in the accurate way.\nSupport: Proper support is also an essential factor that helps to analyse supply chain.\nResponsibility: Ownership of KPI\u2019s as well as analytics data joined with related improvement plans or actions.\nNowadays, all organizations can use the data in their business systems. The supply chain analytics is the important key is having a clear view of how it will be used as well as what steps will be taken to drive enhancements. These steps also help to achieve business goal and earn maximum profit.\nPrevious articleVirtual Private Network and the benefits it encompass\nNext articleCryptography At Its Finest When It Comes To Money", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crsmithmuseum.org/exhibition/history-and-artifacts/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4ULVPYOODWEXUMBFPFFUNIN2R6BTH5KA", "length": 605, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crsmithmuseum.org", "title": "History of American Airlines - CR Smith Museum", "raw_content": "CR Smith Museum > Exhibitions > History of American Airlines\nLearn about the history of the world\u2019s largest airline through artifacts and stories that illustrate the growth and development of American Airlines from the early days of regional airmail carriers to an era of connecting people with places all around the world. Four large artifact cases present carefully picked objects from the museum\u2019s archival collection. Enjoy the large panels and learn about the industry changing innovations that the team of American Airlines introduced and that transformed the air transportation industry as a whole.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crymore.net/2011/07/03/summer-2011-anime-opinions-blood-c-double-j-ro-kyu-bu/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3BD255APXESAOLWVPQBCFLO37MFHF4EE", "length": 3402, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.crymore.net", "title": "Summer 2011 Anime Opinions: Blood-C, Double-J, Ro-Kyu-Bu!", "raw_content": "Anime Opinions, Article \u2014 By Dark_Sage on July 3, 2011 12:56 am\nSorry. None of these are really worth watching as of yet.\nThis scene made me have hope for future episodes\nIt\u2019s Clamp. Clamp fans, don\u2019t kid yourselves. You\u2019re gonna watch this regardless of what I say. For people new to Clamp, I\u2019d watch something like xxxHOLiC first.\nSee, this show doesn\u2019t really have a flavor of its own. It starts off slow, then switches to a bit of interesting classroom talk, goes back to being slow, switches to an action scene that starts slow and then gets going into action mode, and then it goes back to slow mode.\nWhat I got from this was \u201cClamp tries to emulate Blood+ while trying to do its own thing at the same time.\u201d Honestly, I\u2019m not sure how this will work out for them. I\u2019m gonna need to see another episode or two before I have a clear grasp of where they\u2019re going with this.\nFor now though? Can\u2019t really recommend it yet.\nThe only good thing about this four-minute show was the ED. And here I have provided it in Youtube form (karaoke courtesy of Hiryuu), so you don\u2019t even need to bother with the show anymore. Lucky you.\n\u2026 What? You want an actual explanation? Fine. It\u2019s a short, slice-of-life comedy involving high school girls. That\u2019s literally all there is to it. Enjoy the ED.\nThis is the loli anime of this season. They try to play off the loli bits as comedy ala Astarotte or Kodomo no Omocha, but it never really gets to such \u201cabsurd\u201d levels of comedy. I\u2019d say it\u2019s closer to Ichigo Mashimaro in that regard, except there\u2019s a lot more naked loli fondling. It\u2019s supposed to be a story about basketball, but the author clearly just put a bunch of ideas in a hat and pulled out basketball, so that\u2019s the angle that\u2019s supposed to make it unique.\nBy now you probably already know if you\u2019re gonna watch it or not, so I\u2019ll shut up~\nTags: Anime Opinions, Article, Blood-C, Double-J, Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Summer 2011\nkliqIMB says:\nBlood C is written and directed by the guys from Blood + and Blood: The Last Vampire; it\u2019s supposed to emulate it because it\u2019s part of the same \u201cuniverse\u201d.\nI understand that. But I felt that the direction of the episode was unclear \u2013 almost as if it was unsure of what kind of show it was supposed to be.\nThey think they\u2019re being clever. \u201cOh, it\u2019s a mundane high school comedy. NANIIIII? NOW SHE\u2019S A SWORD-WIELDING DEMON KILLER? WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN IT?\u201d Answer to the last: every single fucking viewer of the OP, that\u2019s who.\nAh well, Sturgeon\u2019s Law.*\n* \u201c90% of everything is shit.\u201d\nThe fact that the heroine is named Saya was only my second or third clue.\n>CLAMP\n>xxxHolic\nI would recommend Cardcaptor Sakura, since it has yuri in it.\nBlood-C \u2013 Sounds like Blood+ with the lack of direction and switch between fast and slow. I\u2019ll still give it the benefit of the doubt and watch the first episode, although with low expectations.\nDouble-J \u2013 Toothpick is my favorite character so far. Anyway, I\u2019m working on it, so I\u2019m watching it. :P\nRKB \u2013 I haven\u2019t seen the first episode yet. I haven\u2019t seen the first script yet. I already don\u2019t feel like working on it anymore. Oh well, maybe there\u2019s a hidden upside to it that no one mentioned or the dialog is at least fun to write, will have to see.\nManyuu \u2013 Any TL willing and able to work on this please contact _Firebird_ in #[email protected]\nHey, advertising can\u2019t hurt, even though (nearly) no one reads the comments anyway. ;)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cucharachapel.org/event/weekly-sunday-service-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3HEVCNDH33CK3ANWXRVGDQUCKWWNFZZT", "length": 84, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cucharachapel.org", "title": "Weekly Sunday Service \u2013 Cuchara Chapel", "raw_content": "January 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am MST\n\u00ab [canceled] Burning Bowl New Year\u2019s Eve Service", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.customstoday.com.pk/iran-oil-buyer-and-rival-u-a-e-may-be-cracking-down-on-trade/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:USBY6HZIHJH24GWMPBJAFJHXFEMR7I66", "length": 3011, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.customstoday.com.pk", "title": "Iran Oil Buyer and Rival, U.A.E., May Be Cracking Down on Trade | Customs Today Newspaper", "raw_content": "Home / International Customs / Iran / Iran Oil Buyer and Rival, U.A.E., May Be Cracking Down on Trade\nIran Oil Buyer and Rival, U.A.E., May Be Cracking Down on Trade\nDubai : The United Arab Emirates, which has a history of talking tough on Iran while still buying its oil, appears to be taking steps to comply with looming U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic\u2019s energy industry.\nAlternative Supplies\nIran\u2019s exports have slumped since May as customers including South Korea and France halted imports. India will stop buying Iranian crude in November, people with knowledge of its imports said last week. Oil is at the highest level in almost four years amid concerns about possible supply shortages due to the sanctions on Iran and production disruptions in other Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members such as Venezuela.\nThe U.A.E. is committed to abiding by the sanctions and will look for condensate supplies from countries other than Iran, Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei said on Tuesday. \u201cThe alternatives are available in the market,\u201d he said, without specifying.\nThe U.A.E. is a U.S. ally and has welcomed a tougher stance against Iran. Together with Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. is waging a proxy war with the Islamic Republic in Yemen.\nWhen it comes to oil and gas imports from Iran, however, the U.A.E. has a track record of prioritizing domestic energy needs over regional rivalries. The last time the U.S. targeted Iran\u2019s oil industry, under former President Barack Obama, Dubai reduced but didn\u2019t eliminate its condensate purchases. More than a year after cutting ties with Qatar for its alleged cozy relations with Iran, the U.A.E. continues to buy Qatari gas to keep its lights on.\nENOC, the Dubai refiner, operates a 140,000 barrel-a-day plant that bought enough condensate from Iran to meet its needs during the first half of the year. That trade, while diminished, appears to be continuing, according to tanker tracking.\nThe oil tanker Falcon Pride departed Assaluyeh in Iran for the U.A.E. on Oct. 1, the data show. The vessel is loaded with a cargo and moored at Dubai\u2019s Jebel Ali port, according to the data. ENOC declined to comment on what it will do once U.S. sanctions take effect.\nIranian oil vessels aren\u2019t currently banned from Fujairah, and the reason why the customs department is demanding certificates of cargo origin isn\u2019t known. Even so, tighter controls could deter traders seeking to store Iranian oil before sanctions kick in.\nIf the U.A.E. does restrict access to Fujairah, Iran \u2014 one the region\u2019s biggest exporters of fuel oil \u2014 will lose a major market. Most large trading houses stopped dealing in fuel oil from Iran after Washington announced sanctions in May, due to difficulties in securing payments, according to people familiar with the trade, who asked not to be identified because the information is confidential.\nHow energetically the U.A.E. cracks down, Den said, \u201cdepends on the U.S. and whether it emphasizes strict adherence to sanctions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 10498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cveducation.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IJN6WQOEXWCM6ZI22YRKEHD5Y5MTK6Y5", "length": 635, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cveducation.com", "title": "About Us - CV Education", "raw_content": "About CV Education\nCV Education is a specialist education recruitment agency within the local area which was set up by Charlotte Vernon to provide schools with teaching staff on a temporary and permanent basis within the Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire area. We are truly passionate about education, recognising the importance of the role that we have in providing teachers to schools, and helping teachers to secure work. Whether you are a school ringing us to discuss a vacancy, or a teacher calling to talk about a possible change in role, we will listen to your requirements and work with you to find your perfect fit in education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cvent.com/events/invitation-2019-forbes-woman-africa-leading-women-summit-and-awards-8-march-durban/event-summary-0282df9e080844008d92cc3319de7b9f.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:APZIU3PTD3SK5ARKKU3TFD32DWKRTMWC", "length": 24717, "nlines": 104, "source_domain": "www.cvent.com", "title": "Invitation: 2019 Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit and Awards | 8 March, Durban - Event Summary | Online Registration by Cvent", "raw_content": "2019 Forbes Woman Africa\nFORBES WOMAN AFRICA\u2019s upcoming indigenous list is called the New Wealth Creators: the female entrepreneurs who are making profit from unconventional ideas and industries. They are those who have created significant impact in their chosen sector by transforming a market or company, or innovating a product or service and are pioneering their organization(s) in generating new untapped streams of income. The nominees will have achieved positive financial results, have adopted sustainable development initiatives, increased shareholder value, created jobs, and have sound management and corporate governance, together with intangible qualities such as integrity, vision and leadership. Women on the African continent have been making headway as drivers of change, and in many ways, they are the new wealth themselves. The idea of a new wealth creator includes, but is not limited to, the following emerging industries: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Medical Marijuana, FinTech, Biotechnology, Content Marketing, Green Energy, Drones, Mobility Technology, Gaming platforms, Security, Agritech, Mining, and Recycling Waste.\nMethil Renuka\nForbes Africa and Forbes Woman Africa\nGugulethu Mfuphi\nFifi Peters\nBasani Maluleke\nDr Portia Gumede\nFounder & Medical Doctor\nGrace\tHarding\nConservation Strategist\nNo\u00eblla Coursaris Masunka\nNozipho Sithole\nSaloni Wahi\nCMA Investment Holdings\nSihle Zikalala\nProvincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal\nMEC for Economic Develoment, Tourism & Environment\nSimidele\tAdeagbo\nWinter Olympic Athlete\nCllr Zandile\tGumede\nThe program and speaker line-up for the 2019 Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit has been finalised and no further speaking opportunities will be considered.\nHost Province\nInkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre | Durban\n45 Bram Fischer Rd, Durban, 4001\nVianca Chinsamy\nGugulethu Mfuphi is a well-versed orator, with experience in front of the camera, behind the microphone and addressing an audience. This skill, together with her sound grasp of financial markets, economic data and current affairs issues and the impact this has on the business community, makes her the perfect candidate to speak to industry analysts, political leaders and C-suite executives from across the African continent.\nThis forms the basis of her tasks and responsibilities as Presenter of Kaya FM\u2019s prime time business show, Kaya Bizz and her experience as a Senior Anchor on CNBC Africa.\nGugulethu also serves as a Conference Chair, Panel Discussion Moderator and Programme Director, at various industry gatherings that impact the business and investment landscape.\nHaving previously worked for institutions like Talk Radio 702, SAfm, Lotus FM and The City Press Newspaper, through their affiliation with Moneyweb \u2013 Gugulethu has gained a wealth of experience in financial journalism through radio, TV, print and online media.\nSome of her career highlights include attending and reporting from the Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and in Africa and moderating conferences for The MasterCard Foundation, The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, The International Labour Organisation, Investec Ltd, Standard Bank, The Durban Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Transnet Port Terminals and the South African Council of Shopping Centres, to name a few.\nContact Gugulethu Mfuphi\ninfo@gugulethumfuphi.co.za\nForbes Africa and Forbes Woman\nMethil Renuka is the Managing Editor of the award-winning FORBES AFRICA and FORBES WOMAN AFRICA titles, both pan-African magazines published by the Africa Business News Group. Prior to moving to Africa, she lived and worked in emerging economies in Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. A university topper for her master\u2019s degree in communication and journalism in India, her career took off with the subcontinent\u2019s biggest news dailies and magazines. She has traveled to over 45 cities around the world and lived in 15. Her last stint was in the Middle East as Deputy Editor of Business Traveller, charting the corporate space writing on business, aviation, lifestyle and culture in the Arab world. She has been in mainstream print journalism for more than 21 years, and regularly speaks at women\u2019s summits and business events, also meeting with African Presidents, First Ladies and global business tycoons. She is particularly excited about the future of female entrepreneurship on the African continent.\nBasani Maluleke is the Chief Executive Officer of African Bank. She qualified as an attorney at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, whereafter she joined the corporate finance team at FirstRand Bank, RMB, where she was a member of the teams that pioneered the structuring and implementation of BEE ownership transactions for JSE-listed companies. She subsequently joined the FNB Division as the Head of Private Clients. Basani has accumulated over 15 years of financial services experience in the areas of corporate finance, banking and private equity. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is an admitted attorney of the High Court. She is also a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Global Leadership Network.\n@Mholombo\nThe VIP launch of Dr. P Aesthetic Lifestyle Centre took place at The Park in Hyde Park, showcasing the leading array of treatments the lifestyle centre has to offer.\nComing from a medical background, Dr. Portia Gumede furthered her studies in Aesthetic Medicine through the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine (AAAM). She has become the first South African Black, Accredited Trainer for the Galderma brand and has recently also completed the Masters level accreditation from AAAM. This has put Dr. Gumede on the map to becoming a global leader in the Aesthetic Medicine industry. Her love and passion for dermatology and skincare is what led her to launch an elite aesthetic lifestyle centre, which will focus on world class skincare treatments and products tailor-made for you.\nThe Lifestyle Centre offers a select range of treatments which include; a skin analysis, chemical peels, hair restoration (across all racial divides), non-surgical face lifts using threads, as well as skin rejuvenation, which are tailored to all client skin types as well as conditions. Products include pHformula which prevents skin damage as well as Skinceuticals, an antioxidant which works well across all skin types.\nThe centre is dedicated to helping clients to become knowledgeable about how to treat their skin with care and expose the idea that skincare is just as important for men as it is for women. Dr. Gumede says it is high time we demystified the misconceptions consumers have about aesthetic treatments; \u201ctreatments are available to men and women of all races, they will not alter your appearance and are very affordable\u201d. She wants people to not only feel confident but comfortable in their own skin; \u201cWe are in the business of trading in confidence\u201d.\nThe Aesthetics Lifestyle Centre will be open to consumers at Hyde Park Corner from 24 March 2018.\nwww.drpaesthetics.com\nIssued by: Conversation Capital on behalf of Dr P Lifestyle Centre Hyde Park\nFor further information please contact Sarah Maeli:\n0812307618 / +27 21 4222342/\nsarah@conversationcapital.co.za\nGrace Harding\nGrace Harding has more than 30 years\u2019 experience across a number of business disciplines and today runs South African seafood franchise Ocean Basket.\nGrace started working when she was just twelve, selling paraffin, matches and blankets in Troye Street in the centre of Johannesburg. She loved it and immediately knew that she wanted to work and be with people.\nUniversity felt intimidating, so Grace opted instead to take her first post-school job as a receptionist for a legal firm and studied HR at night at Wits Technikon.\nA difficult childhood had ensured that Grace quickly developed the agility and ability to adapt to anyone and any environment and was able to offer empathy in abundance to others.\nThis has remained at the core of Grace's work experience: Be curious and courageous and empathetic in every role - from head of advertising at Edgars to running her own employee engagement consultancy for 15 years.\nHer experience also spans leadership development and change management; which has ensured that she\u2019s well-equipped for the challenges in her role as a company leader.\nIn 2012 Grace found the love of her life - Ocean Basket: \"I am a very proud CEO and wake up terrified every day. The responsibility of driving this brand that was built with guts, determination and a vision is huge. I could not do this work without the unwavering support of my leader and Ocean Basket founder Fats, or the skills and incredible brains of my colleagues.\"\nGrace believes in creating work environments that focus on the customer and people; environments with no fancy titles or cumbersome hierarchies.\n\"At 53 I\u2019ve worked for a long time and every day I feel anxious that I am closer to the end of my life and not the beginning because I am still learning and feel so excited about the future of the world. I admire Elon Musk, the truck drivers and cleaners who work with me at Ocean Basket and love courageous people.\"\nToday she sees Ocean Basket as the perfect environment for her to fulfil her own dreams: It\u2019s a down to earth, tenacious and very real brand \u2013 a true David in the world of Goliaths.\nGrace has two teenagers, one husband and four dogs.\nJudy is passionate about marine conservation and has focused her career on helping people to care for the oceans. She has worked for the South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR) in Durban since 1992 in various capacities including: research scientist in the Oceanographic Research Institute; Director of Education, uShaka Sea World Director and Chief Executive Officer. She is currently the Conservation Strategist of the Association. She holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Ichthyology, a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Business Administration and PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia. She has presented at many national and international conferences and has published widely. She was a member of the team that produced the award-winning Coastcare Interpretive Poster Series and Fact Sheets. Judy has run many training courses on marine topics for groups ranging from rural mussel collectors to marine protected area managers in various locations along the eastern seaboard of Africa. She has also run workshops locally and internationally on conservation learning, social science research, and conservation and science communication. She consults widely both in South Africa and abroad on issues pertaining to conservation communication and social aspects of marine science. She has served on many committees in South Africa and internationally. Amongst others she is President Elect of the International Zoo Educators Association, has been Chair of the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research, Chair of CoastWatch KZN and Chair of the Pan African Association of Zoos and Aquaria.\nNo\u00eblla Coursaris Musunka, a Congolese/Cyriot philanthropist and international model is the Founder of Malaika, a grassroots nonprofit that works to educate and empower girls and communities in her home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.\nAfter finishing her education No\u00eblla entered the world of modeling. As her career took off and she took her talents to the global stage, she discovered a platform from which to share her passion for human rights. Fiercely proud of her African heritage, her determination to help improve the lives of Africa\u2019s youth has made her an international advocate for their welfare.\nIn 2007, fueled by her personal commitment, No\u00eblla founded Malaika. Today, Malaika\u2019s education and health programs are impacting thousands of people\u2019s lives in the DRC and are all offered free of charge. Malaika\u2019s work has three components: an accredited school that provides a quality education to 314 girls; a community center that offers a range of programs to 7,000 youth and adults; and a clean water program that has built and refurbished 17 wells to supply fresh water to over 30,000 people each year.\nSince 2017, No\u00eblla has served as an Ambassador for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She also continues her work as a model, representing MAX FACTOR and American makeup brand BLACK OPAL. In January of this year, she collaborated with fashion designer ROKSANDA and THE OUTNET to launch an exclusive clothing collection with proceeds supporting Malaika.\nNo\u00eblla\u2019s work with Malaika and The Global Fund has made her one of the most sought-after speakers on the subjects of education and health in Sub-Saharan Africa. An advocate for peace, she has spoken at countless venues as far-ranging as the World Economic Forum in Davos to the halls of Cambridge University and the offices of UNICEF. Noella was named one of the BBC\u2019s 100 most Influential and Inspirational women of 2017 and most recently, received an award from the House of Mandela at the Nelson Mandela centenary celebration for her work educating and advocating for girls in the DRC.\nSince July 2017, Nozipho Sithole serves as the first female Chief Executive at Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), South Africa\u2019s leading terminal operator responsible for loading and offloading cargo aboard vessels calling the seven South African ports. Sithole holds B Com, LLB Laws and MBA degrees and has held varying executive positions at Transnet after practicing law as an attorney at Webber Wentzel specialising in labour law, litigation and later \u2013 conveyancing. The emphasis Sithole places on strong work ethics, teamwork, accountability, speed of delivery and quality describe her leadership style. This Durban-born mother of two boys, is responsible for repositioning the TPT business as a facilitator of trade and among the world\u2019s top five in the next five years.\n@GLN2011\nSaloni Wahi has been on the Board of CMA since its inception in 2002 overseeing all corporate affairs including investment structures and legal agreements. She has also been involved with transnational and corporate finance activities of the firm since 2002. Mrs Wahi has worked on several media advisory projects including but not limited to the setting up of televisions and radio stations, Internet and Broadband service companies, publishing companies and media sales organizations. In her current role, Mrs Wahi is responsible for the investment management of the family portfolio particularly the post investment follow-up as well as all personal investments of the Wahi family. She also looks after all CSR activities as giving back to Societies, is an important initiative for the Group. ABN Education Trust, set up in South Africa to look after orphaned children in Johannesburg and the Shobhana Wahi Education Scholarship Trust in Dehra Dun India are some of such initiatives, being spearheaded by her. Mrs Wahi serves on the Board of CMA, CMA Investment Holdings and SP Wahi Management and Technology Consultants Pvt Limited, overseeing co \u2013 ordination for the Group between Dubai, New Delhi and Johannesburg. Mrs Wahi earned her BCom degree from the Prestigious Lady Sri Ram College in New Delhi, India. In her spare time, she is an avid golfer.\nSimidele Adeagbo is a trail blazing Olympian, visionary business leader and advocate focused on empowering women and building a better world through sport. She blazed an unconventional path, making Olympics history at the 2018 Winter Games by becoming the first Nigerian Winter Olympian and the first African and Black woman to compete in the sport of Skeleton at the Winter Olympics. As a 15- year marketing executive with a strong track record as a business leader at one of the world's most recognizable brands (Nike Inc.), Simidele is a creative force driving global brand strategy and business growth. As an advocate, she is recognized for her involvement in community networks and nonprofit organizations that uplift women and youth. She created a signature leadership and sports master class designed to inspire girls, build their leadership skills and make a difference in their lives through the power of sport. She\u2019s rolled out the program in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Morocco in partnership with various organizations including YEDI (Youth Empowerment Development Initiative), Nike Made to Play and Grassroot Soccer. Simidele is also an ambassador for Malala Fund, the organization founded by girls' education activist and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai. She was also selected for the inaugural class of the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa Program, which connects and equips young emerging leaders driving positive change across Africa.\nSimidele speaks on stages around the world on topics centered around leadership, innovation, high performance, diversity, the power of sport and women\u2019s empowerment. She\u2019s presented on numerous stages and at international conferences and events including at Nike Inc., TEDx and the NBA innovation Summit to name a few. She has also been featured on CNN, NBC and ESPN and in various print publications and magazines including USA Today, Essence, Forbes, Women\u2019s Health, Self and Sports Illustrated. She was recognized as one of the most influential young Africans in 2018 and honoured on the OkayAfrica 100 Women List, Bustle\u2019s List of Black Women History Makers and GaurdianWoman 100 Most Inspiring Leading Ladies in Africa.\nABOUT THE IDC\nThe Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national Development Finance Institution (DFI). It was established in 1940 to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa.\nOur mandate includes the rest of the African continent and we are active throughout the entire region. We operate in a broad spectrum of industries and with our specialized knowledge and experience, are able to offer valid and appropriate financial assistance to a wide variety of individuals and companies. We are committed to maintaining our financial independence and apply sound business principles to everything we do.\nprovides financing to entrepreneurs engaged in competitive industries;\nfollows normal company policies and procedures in its operations;\npays income tax at corporate rates and dividends to its shareholder; and\nreports on a consolidated basis, with its Annual Report freely available to the public.\ncallcentre@idc.co.za\nABOUT KZN\nKwaZulu-Natal, popularly known as the Zulu Kingdom, is a region blessed with astonishing natural beauty and diversity, cultural riches, adventure and mystery. A sunny sub-tropical climate, great holiday activities and excellent travel and accommodation infrastructure, together with warm and welcoming hospitality, combine to make this one of Southern Africa\u2019s destinations of choice. This is the Zulu Kingdom experience.\nLocated on the east coast of the country, KwaZulu-Natal has endless golden beaches lapped by the Indian Ocean. Here you can venture into the warm waters of the ocean, swimming, surfing, snorkeling, fishing and scuba diving on magnificent reefs, or enjoy the sight of whales idling by as dolphins frolic in the waves.\nGateway to the Zulu Kingdom is Durban, a bustling, sophisticated cosmopolitan port city and top holiday destination famed for its beaches and eclectic mix of cultures which form a unique melting pot of eastern, western and African influences.\nClose by is the historic city of Pietermaritzburg and the Midlands Meander, a fascinating arts and craft route. This area also offers wonderful outdoor adventure, thundering rivers and cool indigenous forests.\nZululand, the heartland of the Zulu nation, is a melting pot of vibrant, colorful Zulu culture, expressed through traditional rituals, ceremonies, energetic tribal dancing and exquisite hand-made crafts.\nHead further north to the Elephant Coast, and you\u2019ll find the country\u2019s first World Heritage Site, the eco-rich iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This is a vast wilderness area that incorporates a pristine marine reserve, lakes and coastal dune forest. The name iSimangaliso means miracle and wonder, which aptly describes this exceptional place.\nThe province\u2019s second World Heritage site, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, is found inland, amongst the rolling hills and rugged peaks of the majestic Drakensberg mountain range. Soaring to more than 3,000 meters in altitude, the mountains contain numerous sandstone caves adorned with the San people\u2019s rock paintings, depicting times past. Visitors can also enjoy hiking trails and climbing, including ice-climbing in winter, abseiling and white-water rafting.\nKwaZulu-Natal also entices you to tour the untamed wilds, home to the Big-5, at one of the many game parks found throughout the province. Amongst the most popular remains Hluhluwe-iMfolozi, which is the oldest game reserve in Africa and provides an opportunity for visitors to see animals at close range, whether on a game-viewing drive or self-guided auto trail.\nExploring the battlefields and war memories of yester-year provides insight into the region\u2019s rich history as organized tours, led by local guides who bring alive the events of the day, take visitors to the region\u2019s famous battle sites. These include Isandlwana, Rorke\u2019s Drift, Spioenkop, Blood River and the Battle of Talana.\nKwaZulu-Natal is also a sports paradise and is ideal for the enthusiast. The province is home to a range of world-renowned annual sporting events, such as the Comrades Marathon, the world\u2019s largest open water swimming event, the Midmar Mile, the Dusi Canoe Ma`rathon and a number of cycle races. Further, a number of world-class golf courses challenge golfers of every level, and a variety of top golfing tournaments are hosted in the region.\nKwaZulu-Natal\u2019s diversity\u2026 modern and traditional lifestyles, business and leisure, the tranquility of natural beauty and adrenalin-pumping adventure, warm waters of the Indian Ocean and snow-capped mountains of the Drakensberg, a marine paradise and Africa\u2019s Big-5\u2026 makes this destination unique, providing the ultimate Zulu Kingdom Experience.\n10 THINGS TO DO IN KZN\nMoses Mabhida is one of the stadiums that hosted the 2010 FIFA world Cup. Tourists enjoy the ecstatic view in a two-minute SkyCar ride up the stadium arch, before step onto the platform and take in the unparalleled 360\u00ba views of Durban and beyond as they experience the world Big Swing of 80m fall onto stadium bowl.\nis the world class, most loved marine theme park offering the world of water rides, oceanarium, dolphin, seal and penguin shows, shopping, beach activities and lots more fun for the kids and whole family.\nThis tree lined road displaying restored Victorian and Edwardian buildings boasts over 2km of restaurants, pubs, clubs, art galleries and eclectic little shops is the Durban\u2019s hub for entertainment.\nAlbert Luthuli Museum\nThe Luthuli Museum is a national cultural institution charged with conserving, upholding, promoting and propagating the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli, the struggle stalwart.\nWild 5 Adventures (Oribi Gorge)\nOribi Gorge Hotel offers a range of ADRENALIN-inducing activities that guarantee to get your blood pumping. These exciting activities are The Wild Swing, The Wild Slide or Zip-line, Abseiling, White Water Rafting, Ballistic Paintball and Hiking.\nExperience a three-hour daytime adventure named in honour of Shaka\u2019s mother, Nandi. The surroundings of Shakaland Zulu village are idyllic with hills offering a splendid view over the Mhlatuze Valley, where Shaka's military stronghold, KwaBulawayo, once stood.\nISimangaliso Wetland Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site)\nThe iSimangaliso Wetland Park is one of the outstanding natural wetland and coastal sites of Africa with five interlinked ecosystems that provide habitat for a significant diversity of African biota.\nThe Park lies in the heart of the Zulu Kingdom, where ancient trails lead through the thornveld and along the mighty rivers of Africa's oldest established wilderness area. It offers one of the best South African Safari Holidays with many choices for Safari Holiday Packages.\nIs the National Monument Marking the Capture Site of Nelson Mandela, where he was apprehended in 5 August 1962, taken into captivity and incarcerated on Robben Island for 27 years. It is a cultural and historical exhibition.\nThe Sani Pass is the only vehicle route over the Drakensberg escarpment and into the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho and mother of all South African mountain passes. It out distances, out climbs, and out performs all its competitors with consummate ease to have become the most iconic gravel pass in the country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 26558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dancersofny.com/blog/2017/3/20/evan-ruggiero", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:15Z", "digest": "sha1:D2OQNGUWKLTX7KB35L7LKG2UZO7GL2GI", "length": 1413, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dancersofny.com", "title": "Evan Ruggiero, 34 Street / Herald Square Station \u2014 Dancers of New York", "raw_content": "Evan Ruggiero, 34 Street / Herald Square Station\n\"There was a point right around my 20th birthday where I questioned myself, \u201cWhat am I doing with my life? Why is this going on? How could this be happening? What am I going to do for the rest of my life? Am I always going to look like this? Am I always going to live a life of pain? Am I going to have a fulfilling career? What am I going to do?\u201d\nI was a performer who was missing a leg.\nI just remember talking to the hospital psychiatrist about it, and he said, \u201cIt\u2019s good to be angry and upset because of what you\u2019re going through. You\u2019re allowed to think and feel that way. But you have to turn it around. This is going to end. You\u2019re going to beat this and you\u2019re going to get through it.\u201d\nWhile I was hooked up to all these things, it was only difficult to sit there and say, \u201cI am going to see the light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d But it was at that point where I said I am going to do something about it. I went back to school. Instead of thinking about all of the crap at the hospital, I just started doing what every other college kid would do: go out with friends, stay out late, pulling all nighters, not coming home until 3 in the morning\u2014making some bad decisions. I just tried to be normal and tried to have fun. It was that year in college that really kept me going.\"\n\u2190 Carlos Morales, Dyckman Street Station, 1Lucia Daisog, Myrtle Avenue, J-M-Z \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 10253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.danielfuneralhome.net/index.php/obituaries/14-recent-obituaries/1067-maxine-may-earp", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:4TVZF6MFCJ2DKRTFSMHZENQL7DEICPLG", "length": 1192, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.danielfuneralhome.net", "title": "Maxine May Earp", "raw_content": "Maxine Grube Earp, age 83, of Buncombe, NC, died Thursday, February 7, 2019 in Asheville, NC. She was a resident of Camden, Arkansas for 30 years. She was a retired school teacher and helped manage the Ruby Snyder Food Bank. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Camden, a member of the VFW, and the American Legion.\nShe is preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Earp. She is survived by her daughter, Teresa Calvert and husband, David of Barnardsville, NC; sons, Thomas Tadlock and wife, Patty of Southport, NC and Ronald Tadlock of Hot Springs, AR; granddaughter, Stephanie Shaver and husband, Jack of Greensboro, NC, grandsons, Travis Shaver and wife, Candice of Asheville, NC and Bryson Tadlock of Southport, NC; great-granddaughters, Justice Sundstrom of Greensboro, NC, Liberty Sundstrom of Barnardsville, NC and Jade Shaver of Jacksonville, FL; great-grandson, Travis B. Shaver of Jacksonville, FL and four step grandchildren, Nathan, Natalie, Brandon and Kurstin all of Asheville, NC.\nFuneral services will be 1:00 PM Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at Proctor Funeral Home, Camden, AR.\nBurial will be 2:00 pm Thursday, February 14, 2019 in Lake Cemetery in Lamar, MO.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.denver5.org/tag/denver/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4DPJ24JAHNLHMJIDDZFOPY3EMTFWTIPY", "length": 992, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.denver5.org", "title": "Denver \u2013 Denver Lodge #5 A.F. & A.M.", "raw_content": "Pablo Colomban\t March 13, 2017 Meet Denver 5\tTagged Tags: brotherhood, Denver, Fraternity, meetD5, Scott Charles\nScott was born and raised in New Jersey and now resides in Erie, Colorado. He is married to the love of his life, Holly, and is a father of two, Brooklyn (4) and Bronx (3).\nProfessionally, Scott provides computing and technology education consultation services. He is also a Trustee for the Town of Erie and serves as a liaison to Erie\u2019s Historic Preservation Board.\nScott enjoys music, vinyl records, playing guitar/drums/etc., history, technology, and computing. He is also a big fan of sushi.\nScott was initiated into Freemasonry at Denver Lodge #5 on October 11, 2014. He currently serves as Denver 5\u2019s Marshal and sits on the Finance and Community Outreach committees.\nScott is a dedicated Brother\u2026 always happy to lend a hand and tell a joke. We look forward to seeing him at every event.\nPosted in Meet Denver 5Tagged brotherhood, Denver, Fraternity, meetD5, Scott Charles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 23535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diannejacob.com/content/d2/home/news/news-releases/20030610-putting-the-brakes-on-illegal-street-racing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JA57D4IPCXDH6S2BTKYUEHLABHENVND2", "length": 1694, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.diannejacob.com", "title": "Jacob Puts Brakes on Illegal Street Racing", "raw_content": "JACOB PUTS BRAKES ON ILLEGAL STREET RACING\nSAN DIEGO - Spectators who cheer on high speed street races must be held accountable for perpetuating the deadly activity, Vice Chairwoman Dianne Jacob said Tuesday as the County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved two measures designed to crack down on dangerous street races.\nAt the request of Vice Chairwoman Jacob and Sheriff Bill Kolender, the Board approved an ordinance making it illegal to knowingly watch an illegal street race. Individuals caught in the act can be charged with a misdemeanor, fined $1000 and serve up to six months in jail.\n\"By encouraging racing, spectators are proliferating racing,\" Vice Chairwoman Jacob said. \"Too many people have been senselessly hurt or killed by the actions of irresponsible street racers.\"\n\"Our hope is that this law will save lives by discouraging both the illegal racers and the spectators from congregating and staging these very dangerous races,\" said Sheriff Kolender.\nIn addition, the Board agreed to seek a change in state law that would grant law enforcement officials the ability to take permanent possession of cars used in illegal street races. The County also would like to strengthen penalties for illegal street racing.\nVice Chairwoman Jacob praised area cities for similar efforts to crack down on street racing and urged the County to act immediately to put an end to racing in the County's unincorporated areas.\n\"I don't want the roads in the unincorporated areas to become death alleys,\" she said.\nOver the past 18 months, at least 17 people have been killed as a result of street racing in San Diego County.\nThe spectator ordinance is expected to take effect after June 17.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diocs.org/Herald/Article-Opinion/ArticleID/865/BISHOP-ROBERT-BARRON-Social-Justice-and-Evangelization", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:244MKJUIAJMNVEWRG5XS3F7U7JVQLFNZ", "length": 4405, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.diocs.org", "title": "BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: Social Justice and Evangelization", "raw_content": "They were very interested in my ministry of evangelizing through the social media, and so we spent a good amount of time talking about the \u201cnones,\u201d about the cultural challenges to proclaiming the faith today, about the new atheism, and about the pros and cons of the digital world. We also spoke a lot about prayer and the play between one\u2019s interior life and one\u2019s ministerial commitments. I especially enjoyed telling these young men about the Jesuits who have had an impact on my work: Bernard Lonergan, Henri de Lubac, Michael Buckley, Avery Dulles, the at least erstwhile Jesuit Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Michel Corbin, who was my doctoral director at the Institut Catholique in Paris.\nToward the end of our time together, one of the men posed a question that, he warned, would \u201cput me on the spot.\u201d He said, \u201cWe Jesuits have been criticized a good deal in recent years. Do you think any of these critiques are justified?\u201d Now, I think it\u2019s rather bad form to come into someone\u2019s house and offer criticisms, but since I felt so comfortable with them, and since the question had been so directly asked, I responded, \u201cWell, I think perhaps since the Council, many Jesuits have embraced the social justice agenda a bit too one-sidedly.\u201d No one got up and left, which was a good sign! In fact, the discussion became especially lively and illuminating. I\u2019d like to share some of what I said to these young Jesuits in order to address a general issue that I consider to be of great importance in the life of the Church today.\nAt its 32nd General Congregation in 1975, under the leadership of the charismatic Father Pedro Arrupe, the Jesuit order committed itself to propagate the works of justice as an essential part of its mission. And since that time, Jesuits have become renowned for their dedication to this indispensable task. My concern, I told my interlocutors, is that an exaggerated stress on the fostering of justice in the political and economic arena can compromise the properly evangelizing mission of Christ\u2019s Church. Mind you, a commitment to doing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, to righting social wrongs, to serving the poor and needy necessarily follows from evangelization. One of the permanent achievements of Vatican II is to show that conversion to Christ entails not a flight from the world, but precisely a deeper love for the world and a desire to alleviate its suffering. There is simply no question about it: an evangelized person works for justice.\nBut when we squint at the issue from the other end, things get a bit more complicated. On the one hand, striving for justice can indeed be a door to evangelization. What attracted so many people in the first and second centuries to take a look at Christianity was none other than the Church\u2019s obvious care for the sick, the homeless, and the poor: \u201cHow these Christians love one another!\u201d\nBut on the other hand, the commitment to social justice, in itself and by itself alone, cannot be sufficient for evangelization, which is the sharing of the good news that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is risen from the dead. The reason for this is obvious: a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a secular humanist, even an atheist of good will can be an advocate of social justice. One can fully and enthusiastically embrace a program of caring for the poor and the hungry without, in any sense, espousing faith in Jesus Christ. Many statistical studies reveal that young people today understand (and applaud) that the Church advocates for justice, even as they profess little or no belief in God, Jesus, the Resurrection, the Bible as an inspired text, or life after death. I would argue that this disconnect is, at least in part, a result of the hyper-stress that we have placed on social justice in the years following the Council.\nI told my young Jesuit conversation partners that they ought to follow the prompt of our Jesuit Pope and go not just to the economic margins but to the \u201cexistential margins\u201d\u2014 that is to say, to those who have lost the faith, lost any contact with God, who have not heard the Good News. Go, I told them, into your high schools, colleges, and universities and advocate for the faith, speak of God, tell the young people about Jesus and his resurrection from the dead. Don\u2019t for a minute, I continued, abandon your passion for justice, but let people see that it is grounded in Christ and his Gospel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 425, "original_length": 14249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.directoryworm.com/know-baseball-league-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DY3RUTLDZ4I6RMMJMN65IA6KBEN2SUWJ", "length": 2119, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.directoryworm.com", "title": "Know more about the baseball league information | Infinite Passion", "raw_content": "Know more about the baseball league information\nStarting your own baseball league has become more simpler these days. Passion over a particular sport helps you to get into the right elongation. Other than that, you can involve in piercing down the limited edition of their passion. For example, when you are into the particular sport, just learn to do things that makes you busy with it. In order to make it happen, make sure that you have been indulging in the right site for information. Many baseball leagues prevailing in the society helps you to get down of the things which promotes you a good hope. On the other end, when you do not have enough thing to treat well, you can enjoy literally the tips of the particular game.\nMany sports niche sites helps you to bring upon the recent updates regarding the particular sport. On the other hand, when you are new to know the energizing facts about the baseball leagues, make sure that you have been involving in the right site for more information. On the other hand, make your side perfect by picking up the right site for information. The information and the tips to handle difficult games helps you to succeed even in tough competition. If you wish to be a baseball expert, participating in league games is important. After your participation, you can involve in moving towards the right end. There are many people who wish to tackle down the enormous flaws in their game.\nBaseball and cricket lovers more or less have same intuition in their games. Some may have best bowling skills and some may have batting skills. In that case, you need to switch to the opportunity of the talent you have naturally. Boosting up such natural talent is not a big deal. On the other hand, you can literally bring in many additional benefits to your game using the knowledge gained by the online sites. Make sure that you have been indulging in the best site to grasp information around the better things.\nLog in to the site https://www.nohalftime.com/fantasy-leagues/baseball/ mentioned in the article for further details about the baseball league organizations available online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/eye-of-the-illuminati", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DSE4H5TRFIA7DNJMZ4TYIDOK4OELMUY7", "length": 730, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.documentarytube.com", "title": "Eye of the Illuminati | DocumentaryTube", "raw_content": "Created by Mark Howitt, the Eye of the Illuminati is a long documentary that looks into conspiracies involving governments and power-hungry leaders to keep control over the population of earth. Going in-depth into ideas like how the elite control us, why people are starving in Africa even though the rest of the world has the power to help them, and even why James Bond was used in the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic games.\nSecret practices, occults, secret societies and more are diagnosed and expanded upon, showing how we are slaves to a small group of people, and not reaching our fullest potential. The history of the Illuminati, originating from Bavaria, is also explained.\nConspiracySecretIlluminatiMediaGovernment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dragoncon.org/?q=guest_details_page/1011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:GBJUW6IQYKGXT7QPHNRX55XPJ7THFWKL", "length": 1489, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dragoncon.org", "title": "Dragoncon", "raw_content": "Bob Pendarvis\nBob Pendarvis taught the very first comics and animation illustration classes at the Savannah College of Art and Design, going on to create the school's Sequential Art BFA and MFA programs (the first in the country). Many of Bob's students went on to become artists for companies like Marvel, Dc, Tokyopop, Vertigo, EA Games, Hasbro, Squaresoft, Capcom, Cartoon Network, Dreamworks, and Disney. While at SCAD, Bob co-wrote and edited Nbm's The Bristol Board Jungle, a graphic novel about teaching comics classes\nAfter leaving SCAD, Bob edited and published Sugar Ninjas, a four-volume set of eight graphic novels featuring comics and art created exclusively by girls. The Howl Gallery in Fort Myers, Florida hosted two exhibitions of artwork created by dozens of Sugar Ninjas contributors. Another gallery exhibition, showcasing work from Bob and a baker's dozen of his former students-turned-pros was recently hosted at the Glynn Visual Arts Center on St. Simons Island, GA.\nBob also teaches online classes at his own storydrawingschool.com and his Storydrawing textbook is available on Amazon. Hia most ambitious project yet is a series of graphic novels about a young girl teaching art classes in the spooky woods near a witch. Bob premiered two illustration prints from the second book at last year's Dragon Con and now a number of galleries are featuring his work. This year he's looking forward to finally unveiling the completed book, along with many brand new prints.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dragoncon.org/?q=guest_details_page/3398", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:AGXQW2DLHHF3XXMOQ7G7CUUUF3IQEI4Y", "length": 860, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dragoncon.org", "title": "Dragoncon", "raw_content": "Joanne Kelly studied at Acadia University. Her first movie role was the 2002 drama film The Bay of Love and Sorrows. She played alongside actors such as Paul Gross in Slings and Arrows and Gordon Pinsent in Heyday. From 2003 to 2004 she played Libby on the J. Michael Straczynski series Jeremiah on Showtime. She also played the role of Sara Collins in Fox's Vanished and the vampire Bianca in SciFi's The Dresden Files. She also appeared in the film Going the Distance. Since 2009 she had played the role of Secret Service agent Myka Bering on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series finale was aired on May 19, 2014. She also stars in the independent film, Cantuckee.\nKelly was nominated in 2006 for a Gemini at the Gemini Awards/2006 Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for Playing House.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 87.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dragoncon.org/?q=guest_details_page/4685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:DAPVLOYA32F3OELRCIDBBLFM4TYOPFTX", "length": 1105, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dragoncon.org", "title": "Dragoncon", "raw_content": "Cas Anvar is a multi-talented, award-winning actor who has over 100 credits to his name in both film and television.\nAnvar is now one of the leads on Amazon Prime's sci-fi epic The Expanse. In a myriad of diverse characters he's the Martian fighter pilot with Texan drawl and witticism up his sleeve. Deemed the \"Game of Thrones of space,\" The Expanse has been likened to modern day Star Trek cult status.\nAnvar can also do incredible things as a voice actor. Fans love to interact with his Assassins Creed alter ego: ALTAIR. It's one of his most popular roles with his fans. Fans can sometimes see him donning the Altair garb but they will always catch him with his hidden blade strapped to his arm.\nAnvar has just wrapped filming with Martin Freeman and Diane Kruger on The Operative, a thriller soon to hit theatres. Earlier this year he co-starred with Peter Saarsgaard, Joey King and Mireille Enos in a Veena Sud drama currently titled Between Earth & Sky. You can also find Cas in Lost as Naveen Andrews\u2019 brother. He was also our favourite villain on Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain as Sanjay Desai.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drinkdrank1.com/2014/02/supowl-commercial.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LJ67L7VLV5X6CZY62RVYL7GXZEOGMGXW", "length": 1173, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.drinkdrank1.com", "title": "drinkdrank: Sup****owl Commercial", "raw_content": "Tomorrow evening the Seattle Seahawks go head to head against the Denver Broncos in Superbowl XLVIII (that's 48 to all those non-Romans). As most of us know the game has become almost as famous for it's commercials as the gridiron war on the floor. A good number of those ads are beer commercials, mostly from the usual suspects\u2014ABInbev, MolsonCoors, SABMiller, with maybe a spot for Guinness and Corona thrown in for good measure.\nWho you might not have guessed would get in on the action is Newcastle. But, with Hieneken's purchase of Scottish & Newcastle back in 2008, the \"Dog\" has been coming on strong stateside. It's made appearances on the hit CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory and on House of Lies, the Don Cheadle led comedy/drama on the cable network Showtime. It's also being advertised in print, radio and on television far more than it had previously been in the U.S. I suppose an infusion of cash from the world's third largest brewery will help to do that.\nIn the spirit of full disclosure, I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of Newcastle. I find it a bit thin, truthfully. I am however, a fan of their new commercial starring Oscar-nominee Anna Kendrick.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 12363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 153.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drmirkin.com/weekly-ezine-page/simon-ramo-did-everything-right.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IP7L4VTIJSL4CRCPX3DZ3DSCNQVHBLMU", "length": 8070, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.drmirkin.com", "title": "Dr. Gabe Mirkin on Health, Fitness and Nutrition. | Simon Ramo Did Everything Right", "raw_content": "Simon Ramo Did Everything Right\nOn June, 27, 2016, aerospace pioneer Simon Ramo died at 103 years of age. His quality of life never deteriorated with old age. He played tennis regularly on his seven-acre estate in Beverly Hills. At age 92, he was appointed presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. The patent he received at age 100 made him the oldest person ever to receive a U.S. patent. At age 103, he was still intellectually brilliant and had no obvious physical disabilities. At the time of his death, he was still active because he did everything right in his career, marriage, lifestyle, intellectual achievements and patriotism.\nHe is considered to be the founder of modern systems engineering and was personally responsible for design of the \"Cold War\" ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) that could deliver a nuclear warhead to a target 6,000 miles away in 30 minutes. He founded two Fortune 500 companies, TRW (which grew from two employees to more than 100,000) and Bunker-Ramo (now part of Honeywell). He was also a competent tennis player and a concert-quality violinist who was so good that he played duets with Jascha Heifetz.\nRamo was born in 1913 in Salt Lake City, the son of storekeeper Benjamin Ramo, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Clara Ramo, a Polish Jewish immigrant. The family name, Ramo, came from the 15th-century Spain Inquisition when Jews could choose between death or conversion to Catholicism. At that time, no Spanish surnames ended in \"o,\" so the Spanish king added \"o\" to names of Jews who converted which made it easy to keep track of the \"conversos\" and make sure they were practicing their new faith.\nHis father had him start violin lessons at age six. When he was eight, his mother took him to the Mormon Tabernacle to hear John Philip Sousa conduct his concert band. Three years later, he was a being labeled a child prodigy on the violin, so his mother took him to concerts by Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler. However, hearing these violinists steered him toward engineering instead of a concert career. In 1995 he told an interviewer, \"There\u2019s room for three or four concert violinists in the world -- not even thirty. But engineering, for goodness sakes, there\u2019s all kinds of engineering, it takes a lot of engineers to work out all the things that a society needs.\u201d\nAs a child he was always smarter than everyone else. He skipped several grades and was the best math student and speller in the school. During his early school years, he worked in his father's store and was able to save money. In 1929, as a high school senior, he paid the very large amount of $325 (equal to $4500 today) for an expensive violin that he used to win a regional music competition that won him a full scholarship to the University of Utah that was worth many times his original investment. He later said that if he had left the money in the bank, he would have lost it because the bank failed when the stock market crashed.\nIn 1936 he received two Ph.Ds magna cum laude in engineering and physics from Cal Tech, but it was his talent as a violinist that got him a job. At the height of the Great Depression there were almost no available jobs, but recruiters from General Electric were on campus and Ramo entertained them at dinner. Most of the members of Schenectady's symphony orchestra were GE employees, including one of the recruiters. He hired Ramo as a lab researcher because the orchestra needed a good violinist. At GE, Ramo helped to develop the electron microscope and worked on war-related research during World War II. He also became the orchestra's concertmaster.\nAerospace Pioneer\nIn 1946, Ramo wanted to return to California so he took a job with Hughes Aircraft Company, which became the leading electronics supplier for the U.S. armed services, but he soon found out that Howard Hughes was a \"nut\". Ramos worked with the newly created Air Force while at Hughes and in 1953, after mounting frustration with Hughes' management, Ramo and his Caltech classmate Dean Everett Wooldridge left Hughes and formed a company that was forerunner of TRW (R for Ramo, W for Wooldridge) in a former barbershop in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Air Force, under President Eisenhower, was looking for a team to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles but did not want to work with Hughes, so they went to Ramo's new company, bypassing other giants such as AT&T and IBM. Eisenhower said that it was \"a research program of the highest national priority, second to no other,\" as Ramo remembered the president's words.\nRamo and Wooldridge's research led the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. General Bernard Schriever, head of the ICBM program, later described Ramo as \"the architect of the Thor, Atlas, and Titan\" rockets. It soon became obvious that both countries had enough atomic weapons to destroy each other ten times over, along with the rest of the planet, so it would be irrational to start a war that nobody could win. In 2002, when Ramo was 90, he directed one of the biggest mergers ever in the defense industry as Northrop Grumman acquired TRW for $7.8 billion.\nHis Mate for Life\nHe met Virginia Smith when he was a graduate student at Cal Tech and she was working her way through the University of Southern California (USC) by playing the saxophone in a women's band. A wise person chooses a mate who has the same interests and goals. They married in 1937, soon after she received her degree. While Ramo worked at GE, she taught high school and during World War II, she also taught business courses to military officers. As Ramo's business in southern California grew and they became weathy, she proved to be a highly effective community and cultural leader and philanthropist who supported the Los Angeles Opera, the United Way and her alma mater, USC as well as Caltech and several other universities. They remained married for 72 years until she died in 2009.\nYou Can Influence Your Quality of Life\nYou better believe that your lifestyle plays a large part in the quality and length of your life. Most of my histories of famous people tell about self-destructive behaviors that cause them miserable suffering from diseases and disabilities for many years before death.\n\u2022 Would you want to spend several years of your short life as Elvis Presley did, suffering from obesity, drug addiction, depression, chronic insomnia, glaucoma, liver damage and chronic constipation?\n\u2022 Would you choose to smother to death from smoking the way Leonard Nimoy did?\n\u2022 Would you choose to die of heart failure because you spent all of your time lying in bed, as Marian Anderson did in her later years?\n\u2022 Would you choose to spend the last years of your life suffering from heart attacks, dementia, shortness of breath, coughing, emphysema, pneumonia and bladder cancer as Frank Sinatra did, from smoking, drinking and carousing?\n\u2022 Would you prefer to die at age 48 as Al Capone did, so completely demented that he couldn't recognize or talk to anyone because his brain was destroyed by infections from his many promiscuous sexual contacts?\nRamo Did Everything Right\nSimon Ramo is a man who followed all of the rules for a healthful lifestyle and retained his high quality of life for 103 years.\n\u2022 He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan when he was 70.\n\u2022 He wrote more than 60 books, including an engineering textbook that has sold more than a million copies and a guide on how to win at tennis at all costs. His book on drones, Let the Robots Do the Dying, appeared in 2012 when he was 99.\n\u2022 He held numerous patents and became the oldest person ever to receive a U.S. patent, at age 100.\nHe did not smoke, rarely drank alcohol, never took drugs, was never overweight, tried to exercise every day, married the right women and was never promiscuous, worked harder than everyone else, and was brilliant and productive to the end. 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Addressing a crowd of students, staff and engineers at the University of Johannesburg\u2019s public lecture series hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Prof. Michel highlighted the role of the IEEE in his own work and life, and encouraged others to utilise the institute for their career growth and development.\nProf. Howard gave a historic background to the institute\u2019s formation, which a trace its roots to the merger of the American Institute for Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1963. Today the institute\u2019s reach spans 183 countries, with some 1400 members in South Africa alone.\nProf. Saurabh Sinha (Executive Dean \u2013 FEBE, UJ), Andr\u00e9 Hoffmann (SAIEEE President), Prof. Howard Michel and Johan Meyer (Head of School \u2013 Electrical Engineering, UJ).\nHoward also stressed the institute\u2019s motto, which he helped come with, namely \u201cTechnologies for a better world\u201d. He urged engineers present to strive for the institute\u2019s mission and vision, for engineering to be essential and relevant to people and the planet. No one can any longer deny the impact of humans on our planet \u2013 and the quest to protect the planet will require new thinking and new solutions. He also said that technology is usually the easy part of a solution, but that human elements are more difficult to \u201csolve\u201d.\nIn his own life, an engineering mind set has underpinned Prof. Michel\u2019s career, even at times when he was not a practicing engineer. He started his career as a US Air Force pilot, and later joined the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory. His first patent was for a computing sensing system, which was used to detect low-flying aircraft. He described the influence of IEEE publications, which he read throughout his career, and how it kept his knowledge in the field current, as well as became useful in his own research.\nProf. Michel later became a satellite launch manager, and today works as an associated professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He lectures students in a design course, and also holds two patents, as well as having contributed to textbooks, written 15 journal article papers and 43 conference papers.\nThe future of engineering is an exciting one in Prof. Michel\u2019s opinion, a future he describes as interplay between humans and software systems. Despite political influence and budget cuts, he still sees room for innovation, but said that this innovation might not necessarily be driven by humans but by machines, and that innovation is very likely to come from innovations in data and access to data. At the same time, autonomous systems raise questions of ethics, and Prof. Michel said that autonomy would need to be humanised more.\nEngineers create the world we live in, he concluded, and said this quest should always be accompanied by humans and responsibility at the centre. His career advice to students? Respect all, and know that you can learn from everyone.\nceo engineering spirit Faculty of Engineering and the Built environment IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers President Prof. Howard Michel public lecture University of Johannesburg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 12902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eedialog.org/en/2018/11/26/irina-prokhorova-before-we-can-seriously-discuss-the-future-of-russia-we-need-to-stop-thinking-about-it-as-a-country-that-is-meant-to-have-its-own-special-path-and-put-russia-in-the-context-of-global/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QU6Y6FYL3WTRSWB6ZJ5UDANNFUW5WP57", "length": 308, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eedialog.org", "title": "Irina Prokhorova: \u201cBefore we can seriously discuss the future of Russia, we need to stop thinking about it as a country that is meant to have its own special path and put Russia in the context of global processes\u201d | European Dialogue", "raw_content": "Irina Prokhorova: \u201cBefore we can seriously discuss the future of Russia, we need to stop thinking about it as a country that is meant to have its own special path and put Russia in the context of global processes\u201d\nAn open interview with the editor-in-chief of Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye publishing house", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 166.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elainemagalis.com/the-insignificance-of-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VTFSTJMRFOLZT2RYUCPVJ4UHUEYIRQIQ", "length": 4031, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.elainemagalis.com", "title": "The insignificance of us | Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com The insignificance of us \u2013 Sleuths of a Certain Age | elainemagalis.com", "raw_content": "Home \u203a uncategorized \u203a The insignificance of us\nThe insignificance of us\nHow utterly strange, tentative and untethered our lives are. There are other words to describe our situation\u2014many, many of them\u2014but I won\u2019t try to come up with them here.\nPhysicist and novelist Alan Lightman looks at \u201cOur Place in the Universe\u201d in a recent article in Harper\u2019s magazine and tries to describe how small we are in a universe whose size is unimaginable\u2014and growing. \u201cSimply put, the cosmos has gotten larger and larger. At each new level of distance and scale, we have had to contend with a different conception of the world that we live in.\u201d\nHow large? The most distant galaxy we know about, says the author, is approximately 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles from Earth. The average distance between galaxies is about 2 million light years. (Some of us may remember learning that a light year is the distance light travels in 6 trillion miles.) Oh, sure!\nFarthest ever view of the universe from the Hubble telescope, containing thousands of galaxies. 13.2 billion years ago. NASA.\nAll of these are unimaginable numbers. They keep growing as astronomers are able to peer deeper and deeper into space. \u201cA question naturally arises,\u201d writes Lightman. \u201cCould the physical universe be unending in size? That is, as we build bigger and bigger telescopes sensitive to fainter and fainter light, will we continue to see objects farther and farther away\u2014like the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Yongle, who surveyed his new palace in the Forbidden City and walked from room to room to room, never reaching the end?\u201d\nEven more breath-taking, keep in mind that that distant galaxy is not only \u201cfarther and farther away\u201d in space, it\u2019s farther away in time. We\u2019re looking into the past. We\u2019re seeing the edge of the known universe as it was almost 14 billion years ago.\nAs Lightman points out, we can\u2019t really understand any of this. Oh, there are people who understand it intellectually, \u201cbut our emotional reality is still limited by what we can touch with our bodies in the time span of our lives.\u201d\nThe author calls attention to another bunch of figures that derive from the estimates scientists have made about the possible presence of life in other parts of the universe. They show that the fraction of stuff in the visible universe that is alive is something like one millionth of one billionth of one percent. \u201cIf some cosmic intelligence created the universe, life would seem to have been only an afterthought.\u201d\nSo much for the significant human!\nIn the course of his article, Lightman mentions the philosopher, George Berkeley who argued that the whole cosmos is a creation of our minds and that there is no reality outside our thoughts. As a physicist, says Lightman, he \u201ccan\u2019t accept that belief.\u201d Largely because of science, most of us would agree with him.\nBut science has also concluded that the typical table is not really solid, no matter how it feels when you thump it with your fist. It\u2019s made up of whirling electrons and other molecular whatsits. Reality is not what it seems. Something is there but it\u2019s not exactly what we experience. It\u2019s at least partly a construction of our minds which, by the way, would seem to apply to our incredible intellectual construct of the cosmos too.\nLightman\u2019s conclusions are awesome, disorienting, frightening \u2014 all of that and more. But they\u2019re far from the last word. Our relationship to reality is, I think, much more complicated than we know. We may not be George Berkeley idealists, but I\u2019m not sure that it\u2019s any more accurate to adhere to the materialism of science.\n\u2039 The extraordinary old\nI\u2019m back and blogging again! \u203a\nTagged with: awe, life, space, time, universe\nOne comment on \u201cThe insignificance of us\u201d\nAnd we wonder why the mind becomes so boggled between the definite and infinity, between reality and impossible? Just remember. we are here for the \u201cride\u201d, no matter how unrealistic the journey, or should it be classified as surreal? 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The Lee siblings seek to not only pay homage to the rich tradition of Celtic and American folk music that they grew up in, but also to treat it as a living, breathing entity. The result is a constantly growing collection of original songs and tunes that are all at once both fresh and familiar.\nWhile the instrumentation of the band remains centered on the Celtic harp and hammered dulcimer, over the years the band has added violin, mandolin, guitar, bodhran, penny whistle and piano.\nSeasons has recorded multiple albums; \u201cEventide Lullabye\u201d (2006), \u201cWhich Way to Dublin Town\u201d (2009), and collaborated with Mary-Kate on her solo album \u201cMirabilis\u201d (2010). In March of 2012, Seasons released \u201cAmhrain,\u201d a collection of traditional and original Irish airs followed by their return to Christmas music with \u201cJoy on High\u201d released in December of that same year.\n2014 saw the release of their self-titled album \u201cSeasons\u201d comprised completely of original songs and tunes. \u201cLighthouse Keeper\u2019s Daughter,\u201d a song from the CD, was featured on the compilation album Celtic Pink Ribbon Volume III alongside tracks by artists such as Scythian and Carbon Leaf.\nSeasons albums have received recognition in publications such as Musicmaker\u2019s Magazine, Catholic Digest, Christianity Today, and Grapevine Online, and also have been played on regional and national radio. Their song \u201cThe Helmsman,\u201d based on a poem by St. Faustina, was selected as one of the songs on the highly anticipated audio recording of St. Faustina\u2019s Diary (published by Marian Press).\nThe Lee siblings have toured in multiple states and countries and have opened for artists as varied as Grammy award-winner Ashley Cleveland, the Celtic-rock band Scythian, Irish Tenor Mark Forrest, and Celtic Fiddle Festival. The Lee siblings have been featured performers at many national music festivals including The Celtic Fling & Highland Games in of Manheim, PA, as well as the LAUNCH Music Conference and Festival, and the Millennium Music Conference and Festival. Seasons has performed on both regional and national television, including EWTN programs \u201cLife on the Rock\u201d and \u201cDana and Friends\u201d as well as on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d on Fox News.\nFrom Musical Festivals to Renaissance Fairs, from busking the streets of Ireland to performing for school assemblies, Seasons strive to share their music where ever and whenever they can. With their influences ranging from O\u2019Carolan to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the group creates an exciting and surprising fusion of various Celtic and American folk styles in their original music, resulting in a sound that is truly worth a listen.\nTickets are available by purchase through the Rialto Theatre or the BCRAC Office at 570.268.2787. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for Seniors and Students, plus a $2.50 processing fee.\nBCRAC wishes to thank sponsor Schoonover Plumbing and Heating and the Rialto Advisory Council for their hard work and dedication to continue finding and providing quality art programming at the historic Rialto Theatre.\nThe Rialto Theatre is part of the BCRAC Team of Theaters. Built as the Crawford Theater in 1912 and renamed the Rialto in the early 1930\u2019s, Canton\u2019s Rialto Theatre underwent a wonderful rebirth in 1994-1995. The BCRAC reopened the Rialto in December of 1994. For more information, visit BCRAC online at www.bcrac.org or www.facebook.com/BCRAC.\nAbout the Bradford County Regional Arts Council: Established in 1976, the BCRAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and supporting a thriving regional arts community by advocating for the Arts, cultivating quality arts programming and preserving Bradford County\u2019s historic theaters as venues for performances, community events and movies. For more information, visit BCRAC online at www.bcrac.org or www.facebook.com/BCRAC.\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please copy this code and paste it along with your comment: cf6ed71ca9e44598cad63e568274570f", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 13619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23377472/russ-brandon-resigns-president-buffalo-bills-buffalo-sabres", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NIEYDN3BWF32RMMNKCEDHL7FLFHK4MMC", "length": 2055, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "Russ Brandon resigns as president of Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres", "raw_content": "Russ Brandon, president of Bills and Sabres, resigns\nRuss Brandon, president of both the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, resigned on Tuesday.\nTerry and Kim Pegula -- the owners of Pegula Sports and Entertainment, which operates both teams -- accepted the resignation. The Buffalo News reported that the move came after the company conducted an internal investigation into Brandon's workplace behavior and allegations of personal misconduct.\nIn a statement to media outlets, Brandon said he had been pondering a change for a while.\n\"I have been contemplating transitioning out of my role for some time,\" Brandon wrote. \"My goal when the Pegula's purchased the franchise was to reach 20 years with the Bills in which I achieved this past November. Given where we are from a timing standpoint, particularly with the conclusion of the NFL Draft, now seems like the time to make that transition.\n\"As grateful as I am for the amazing experience and the incredible people I've had the privilege to work with the past two decades, I am just as anxious for the professional opportunities that lie ahead.\"\nBrandon has been with the Bills in various roles since 1997. He became president in 2013.\nHe has been president of the Sabres since 2015, after the Pegulas bought the team.\nKim Pegula will take over Brandon's roles, with her husband continuing to oversee both teams' operations.\n\"We have a tremendous amount of confidence in the strong leadership teams we have built within each of those entities over the last several years,\" the Pegulas said in a statement. \"We are excited about the direction of our teams, especially after this past weekend's NFL draft and NHL lottery results. Our focus remains on building championship teams on and off the field for our fans and community.\"\nThe Bills selected Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen with the seventh pick in last week's draft, hoping they have found their franchise leader.\nThe Sabres won the NHL draft lottery this past weekend, earning the right to draft the consensus best player, defenseman Rasmus Dahlin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurasc.org/docs/old/steklov.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4EYQHB2BOINFBOHTPJT7ZTMF6AKOIDJG", "length": 1605, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.eurasc.org", "title": "EAS - Kudryavtsev Lev", "raw_content": "Kudryavtsev Lev\nKudryavtsev Lev, Russia\nLev Kudryavtsev is a Doctor of Science in mathematics and physics and a Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences. For many years he works at Steklov Mathematical Institute (now he is an advisor to Russian Academy of Sciences) and in Moscow Physico-Technical Institute (where he was one of the founders of the Mathematics Department). Lev Kudryavtsev has fundamental achievements in the embedding theory of function spaces and its applications to variational problems, arising in mathematical physics. More recently he worked on a new direction - the initial value problems for the ordinary differential equations with asymptotic data at singular points - and developed the basics of this new theory.\nProf. L.D.Kudryavtsev is an author of more than 200 scientific works, including monographs, manuals and papers in mathematical journals. Among them there are also popular philosophical tracts, such as \"Thoughts on Contemporary Mathematics\", \"Education and Morality\", \"Modern Society and Morality\", \"Secondary Education. Problems. Meditations\". His books were translated in Bulgaria, Tchechoslovakia, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, USA.\nProf. Kudryavtsev has devoted to the pedagogical and organizational sceintific work. For 57 years he has worked in Moscow Physico-Technical Institute, 35 of them he was the head of the Department of Mathematics. The principles of mathematical education, elaborated by him in MPTI, had a considerable impact on the whole system of teaching mathematics in our universities.\nArmen Sergeev\nSteklov Mathematical Institute", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 140.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eyeforbeautyblog.com/2014/08/if-i-were-judge-miss-universe-ghana-2014.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2UDJHXMGE74SNNW52FLOFYW3YG2WZHY", "length": 426, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.eyeforbeautyblog.com", "title": "Eye For Beauty: If I were a judge: Miss Universe Ghana 2014", "raw_content": "If I were a judge: Miss Universe Ghana 2014\n10 ladies are vying for the 2014 Miss Universe Ghana title. The winner will be crowned on August 29. She will represent Ghana at this year's Miss Universe Pageant. Who will be the next Miss Universe Ghana? If I were a judge:\nMiss Universe Ghana 2014: Sandra\n1st runner-up: Gertrude\n2nd runner-up: Abena\nOh dear..... not much hope there!!!\nTheVoiceOfReason August 29, 2014 at 5:56 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fareastvacation.com/en/destinations/myanmar/bagan/shwegugyi-temple.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:05Z", "digest": "sha1:TMBK6KK32R643ZZZUBVDQ5K3SDGRIXXV", "length": 353, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fareastvacation.com", "title": "Shwegugyi Temple - Bagan attraction", "raw_content": "homedestinationsMyanmarBaganShwegugyi Temple\nShwegugyi Temple a suitable place for those who love to know more about the transition of ancient architectural styles, which resulted in airy, lighter buildings. The temple, which was built in 1311 by King Alaungsithu, is also notable for its fine stucco carvings and for the stone slabs in the inner walls.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 6882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fdalawblog.net/2017/12/two-new-draft-guidances-helping-to-implement-the-cures-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:O43XEDXEHII2BKUFWLD4CQE7FSLEVZFM", "length": 9469, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.fdalawblog.net", "title": "Two New Draft Guidances Helping to Implement The Cures Act", "raw_content": "Two New Draft Guidances Helping to Implement The Cures Act\nDecember 11, 2017By Jeffrey K. Shapiro \u2014\nThe field of digital health is relatively new and is growing fast. Because many uses of software for health\u2011related purposes are within the statutory definition of a medical device, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a major player in determining how digital health will be regulated. Fortunately, FDA some years ago decided it would regulate with a \u201clight touch.\u201d This approach was ratified and further delineated by Congress in the Cures Act (Section 3060). We described that provision in detail in a previous post. We explained why a \u201clight touch\u201d is the right approach for FDA\u2019s regulation of digital health here and in this piece appearing in a recent issue of Digital Legal Health.\nLast week, a couple more pieces of the puzzle fell in to place. On December 8, FDA issued two new draft guidances indicating how it will implement the Cures Act as it relates to software.\nThe first draft guidance is entitled, \u201cClinical and Patient Decision Support Software\u201d (December 8, 2017). This guidance was greatly anticipated back in the 2013-14 time frame, but it was post\u00adponed after Congress began considering legislation. It has finally been issued in draft. The guidance has a very good summary of the key statutory provision excluding certain categories of software from the definition of a medical device in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). It is worth reproducing in full:\nSpecifically, section 520(o)(1)(E) of the FD&C Act excludes, from the definition of device, software functions that meet all of the following four criteria: (1) not intended to acquire, process, or analyze a medical image or a signal from an vitro diagnostic device or a pattern or signal from a signal acquisition system (section 520(o)(1)(E) of the FD&C Act); (2) intended for the purpose of displaying, analyzing, or printing medical information about a patient or other medical information (such as peer-reviewed clinical studies and clinical practice guidelines) (section 520(o)(1)(E)(i) of the FD&C Act); (3) intended for the purpose of supporting or providing recommendations to a health care professional about prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease or condition (section 520(o)(1)(E)(ii) of the FD&C Act); and (4) intended for the purpose of enabling such health care professional to independently review the basis for such recommendations that such software presents so that it is not the intent that such health care professional rely primarily on any of such recommendations to make a clinical diagnosis or treatment decision regarding an individual patient (section 520(o)(1)(E)(iii) of the FD&C Act). [Emphasis in the original.]\nThe guidance then proceeds to provide information about how FDA\u2019s interprets these four prongs.\nPerhaps most interesting is FDA\u2019s commentary on the first prong. It is obvious from the statutory provision that FDA will continue to regulate medical images acquisition/processing/analysis and in vitro diagnostic devices. It has been somewhat mysterious, however, what technologies would qualify as a \u201csignal acquisition system.\u201d The statute lacks a definition. FDA now clarifies that a signal acquisition system \u201creceives, as inputs, signals from sensors that are within, attached to (e.g., EEG, ECG), or external to (e.g., CT, MRI) the human body or sample from the human body (e.g., digital pathology). Id. at 6 n.1. Technologies that \u201canalyze physiological signs and provide diagnostic, prognostic and predictive functionalities are devices.\u201d Id. at 6.\nThe other major interpretive issue relates to the fourth prong, which specifies that clinical decision support (CDS) software will be regulated by FDA unless it allows health professionals to \u201cindependently\u201d review the basis for clinical recommendations and is not intended to be \u201cprimarily\u201d relied upon in a diagnosis or treatment decision. There are a number of ways in which these phrases could potentially be interpreted. FDA specifies its position this prong is met if the software function explains:\n1) The purpose or intended use of the software function;\n2) The intended user (e.g., ultrasound technicians, vascular surgeons);\n3) The inputs used to generate the recommendation (e.g., patient age and gender); and\n4) The rationale or support for the recommendation. [Id. at 8.]\nThis approach generally makes sense. It does not require any disclosure of the technical programming and algorithmic complexity underneath the software functionality, but rather, focuses on making transparent the clinical basis for a recommendation. It would probably be helpful if item 4) inserted the word \u201cclinical\u201d prior to rationale.\u201d The clinical rationale appears to be what FDA is describing.\nFDA also adds that sources supporting a recommendation or underlying rationale must be identified, made easily accessible, understandable by the intended user, and publicly available. Id at 8. On this last point, FDA gives the examples of clinical practice guidelines and published literature as \u201cpublicly available\u201d sources. Apparently, a recommendation based upon non\u2011public information, in FDA\u2019s eyes, does not allow independent evaluation. It is not clear why that problem cannot be cured by full disclosure of the non\u2011public information to the intended user. Or perhaps FDA would agree that it does? FDA needs to expand this discussion in its final guidance.\nThe Cures Act did not address the status of patient decision support software. That is unfortunate, because a great deal of useful software is being developed in this realm. Fortunately, FDA has addressed it in this draft guidance (Section V), and has taken the position that, as a matter of enforcement discretion, it will treat patient decision support software the same as clinical decision support software. Thus, all of the four prongs in the Cures Act must be met, with due allowances made for the difference between a patient and healthcare professional as the intended user. The idea is that if these four prongs are met, the software is likely to be low risk. This approach is very smart and will enable the development of many potentially useful software products for patients.\nWe have hit the highlights of this draft guidance. It is worth reading all of it, especially because FDA provides many examples to illustrate their position. Industry often complains about the lack of examples in guidance; that should not be the case for this particular draft guidance.\nThe other draft guidance issued on December 8 does not require extended discussion. It is entitled, \u201cChanges to Existing Medical Software Policies Resulting from Section 3060 of the 21st Century Cures Act.\u201d It primarily indicates how FDA will update existing software guidance to square it with the requirements of the Cures Act. The most important examples of earlier guidance that requires updating include the General Wellness: Policies for Low Risk Devices guidance and the Mobile Medical Applications guidance.\nPerhaps the biggest news from this guidance relates to electronic patient health records. In Section 520(o)(1)(C)(ii) of the FD&C Act, Congress specified that such records would not be exempt from device regulation unless, among other things, \u201ccertified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Health IT Certification Program.\u201d In this draft guidance, FDA proposes that it will not enforce this requirement. Id. at 10. On the merits, FDA\u2019s decision probably makes sense, but it is inappropriate for FDA to declare that it will, on a blanket basis, decline to enforce a recently enacted statutory requirement. The statute set forth three specific prongs to define electronic health records that will be exempt from regulation, and FDA has proposed to broaden the exemption by disregarding one of the prongs.\nAs a constitutional matter, the President must \u201c\u201dtake Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.\u201d Const., Art. II, sec. 3. This requirement applies to agencies within the Executive Branch, including FDA. Therefore, FDA must enforce all three prongs relating to electronic health records until Congress revises the statute to say otherwise. It is true that FDA has broad enforcement discretion, Heckler v. Chaney, 470 U.S. 821 (1985), but that authority does not go so far as to allow FDA to significantly modify a duly enacted congressional command.\nThis case can be distinguished from FDA\u2019s ordinary exercise of enforcement discretion to narrow the scope of a very broad statute, based upon lack of resources, among other things. For instance, FDA\u2019s adaptation of the exclusion of clinical decision support (CDS) software to patient decision support (PDS) software is much more defensible. The statute is so broad that it could sweep up a great deal of PDS software, or not, depending upon how it is applied. FDA undoubtedly lacks the resources to regulate all PDS software within the scope of the statute. As set forth in the draft guidance discussed above, FDA is exercising enforcement discretion by borrowing from the provisions Congress enacted as to CDS software to define the type of PDS software FDA views as low risk, and which it will therefore not regulate. That is qualitatively different than expanding the exemption Congress created for electronic health records by knocking out one of the three conditions Congress set forth as a prerequisite for the exemption.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 515, "original_length": 17596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fedcap.org/about-us/board-of-directors/peter-panken", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PRU53DW3JFSVBTXXANFG3ILJQCFVCDK6", "length": 1577, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fedcap.org", "title": "Peter Panken | Jobs for People... Services for Business", "raw_content": "About Us : Board of Directors : Peter Panken\nPeter Panken\nPeter Panken is a member of the law firm Epstein, Becker and Green, representing management in a wide range of industries on all aspects of employment and union-related matters. Mr. Panken publishes and speaks extensively on a wide variety of labor and employment topics, including State Employment laws and regulations, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, alternative dispute resolution, other federal and state anti-discrimination and employment regulation laws, drafting employee manuals, drafting work rules, drafting executive employment contracts, creating employment applications, and avoiding liabilities in employee terminations and reductions in forces.\nMr. Panken is the Editor-in-Chief of the Resource Materials on Employment and Labor Law and A Fifty State Survey of the Law of Religion in the Workplace, and author of the Americans with Disabilities Act chapter of the Employment Law Deskbook for Human Resources Professionals, and myriad other articles. He regularly chairs ALI-ABA and Bar Association programs on labor and employment law.\nMr. Panken earned a JD from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, and a BA from Haverford College, cum laude. He joined the Fedcap Board in 1975 and served as Chair from 1979-1993.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 118.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.feelnumb.com/2012/03/17/vote-who-is-the-fifth-beatle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3LWLSCXMUBVDRZVTKIAVQD3SOQJEJN7P", "length": 2401, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.feelnumb.com", "title": "VOTE: Who Is The Fifth Beatle??? | FeelNumb.com", "raw_content": "By raul on March 17, 2012 in George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Poll, Ringo Starr, The Beatles\nWe have a question and we need your vote!!!\nOut of the small group of people that are sometimes referred to as \u201cThe Fifth Beatle\u201d these four nominees Pete Best, George Martin, Billy Preston and Stuart Sutcliffe have the most Beatles credentials. Here\u2019s the rundown\u2026\nBest was The Beatles original drummer before Ringo Starr. He was first invited to join the band in 1959 but officially joined on August 12, 1960 for their 1960-1961 residency in Hamburg, Germany. He stayed until he was fired by The Beatles shortly after their first audition for EMI in 1962.\nMartin, of course was The Beatles producer, arranger and sometimes musician for most of their studio albums. Almost all of The Beatles orchestral arrangements and instrumentation were written or performed by Martin with direction from the band. Martin played the keyboard parts on many of their early record and most notably played the piano solo on the song \u201cIn My Life\u201c.\nPreston is the only other person ever to be credited on a Beatles single. The Beatles number one hit \u201cGet Back\u201d was credited to The Beatles with Billy Preston. He played electric piano during the \u201cGet Back/Let It Be\u201d sessions after George Harrison invited him to play with them. His presence alone during these sessions temporarily calmed the horrible tension between The Beatles. He also played the organ on \u201cI Want You (She\u2019s So Heavy)\u201d and \u201cSomething\u201d from The Beatles Abbey Road album.\nSutcliffe was actually a fifth Beatle. He played bass in the early version of the five-piece Beatles. He and John Lennon are credited with coming up with the name The Beatles. Sutcliffe was not a great bass player and eventually left the band in July of 1961 to focus on his art. He died tragically of a brain hemorrhage on April 10, 1962. Sutcliffe is also featured on the cover of The Beatles Sgt. 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He has contributed more to the Beatles than the other 3 combined.\nsatanclaus says:\nmal evans!!!!\nSteve Perry Lip Syncing Journey's \"Don't Stop Believing\" At The 2010 World Series\nNirvana \"Nevermind The Devonshire Mixes\" Location", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 125.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filcam.com/chat.php?context=free&model_id=183164&model=CreamyPussy4uX", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:36UQO3BTIJQC7CUTBYRXKY53WXFYY3HR", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.filcam.com", "title": "Welcome to FILCAM.COM - Live Asian Dating Online Cam Chat", "raw_content": "\"CreamyPussy4uX\" is no longer online!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fine-art-auctions.com/felix-vallotton-1865.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:57Z", "digest": "sha1:34G7DWRT236ZX34FLZDLSEMEL6DS5L4T", "length": 923, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fine-art-auctions.com", "title": "F\u00e9lix Vallotton - Fine Art Auctions", "raw_content": "F\u00e9lix Vallotton counts among the most important representatives of the art of Symbolism. Born in Lausanne, F\u00e9lix Vallotton went to Paris as an adolescent. There he studied at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian and soon came in contact with local artist circles before he joined the group \"Nabis\". In term of style, the paintings and graphic works by F\u00e9lix Vallotton are close to both Symbolism as well as the artistic concept of \"Nabis\", as they strive not to be mere effigies but to track down and depict spiritual depths. F\u00e9lix Vallotton possessed mastery in uniting a delicate coloring, a soft line management and an atmospheric arrangement of light in his paintings. The comprehensive oeuvre of paintings is completed by a subtle oeuvre of graphic works with a focus on woodcuts. 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Not the recent sequel, but the iconic original series that aired in the 1980s and \u201990s. Well, the show used to come to Dallas every summer to film some of the episodes, and one summer they put out a casting call looking for extras. On a lark, I sent my picture to the casting agent. A few days later, he called me and said, \u201cWe want you to play a bit part in Dallas.\u201d I was thrilled! It would be my big moment.\nThe casting agent gave me instructions of where to show up the next day. My part was to be a businessman seated at a table talking to another businessman in the background, while two of the main characters, Bobby Ewing and Cliff Barnes, were in the forefront carrying on a dialogue.\nSo the next morning, I excitedly put on my best suit and went to the filming location. When I walked on the set, I immediately learned the difference between a major star and a bit player. The stars had huge dressing rooms and luxury trailers, while those of us who were extras were told to go into the bathroom to change into our outfits. Well, that was okay. I wasn\u2019t going to let that diminish my excitement that morning. Then we went into the restaurant where we were filming the scene, and the assistant director instructed my dining companion and me to be seated. He told me, \u201cWhen the director says, \u2018Action!\u2019 you\u2019re to talk to your fellow businessman here.\u201d Now I was about to learn another difference between a major star and a bit player. The assistant director said, \u201cWhen you start talking, don\u2019t actually talk. We don\u2019t want to hear anything you have to say. Just mouth the words so you don\u2019t interfere with the filming.\u201d I said, \u201cThat\u2019s fine.\u201d\nSoon the director yelled, \u201cAction!\u201d About twenty seconds of dialogue went on between Bobby and Cliff, and then director yelled, \u201cCut! Print! Moving on.\u201d The assistant director came up to me and said, \u201cThank you very much. We\u2019ll mail you a check. You\u2019re dismissed.\u201d And that was it. I came on, did a little bit of action, and then I was told, \u201cYour part is finished, and there\u2019s a reward coming later on.\u201d\nAfter that day on the set, it occurred to me: that\u2019s a great metaphor for life itself. The fact is, we are all playing a role in this great drama of life that began many years before and will continue many years after we die. We may each play a different role, but you and I have a unique, necessary, and positive purpose in the grand drama God has designed.\nPeople today are searching everywhere to find some kind of positive purpose to their lives. 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Detectives are looking for 18-year-old Trevon Green.\nInvestigators said as a 26-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man were walking in the block, they saw two males sitting on the steps of a house. As they walked past the two suspects, one suspect struck the female in the head with a handgun and the other suspect pushed the man to the ground. The suspects went through the victims' pockets and stole a wallet, backpack and iPhone.\nAfter the armed robbery, the suspects fled in a U-Haul truck. The truck was located and processed by crime scene technicians.\nThrough the course of the investigation, detectives identified Green as one of the suspects. He faces two counts of armed robbery. The second suspect is known only as \"Joe\" and is described as a black male.\nAnyone with information on Green's whereabouts is asked to call Criiestoppers at (504) 822-1111. 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Salinger\u2019s The Catcher in the Rye.\neNotes - The Catcher in the Rye\nShmoop - The Catcher in the Rye\nQuotes (178 min)\nSparkNotes - The Catcher in the Rye\nCliffsNotes - The Catcher in the Rye\nAbout The Catcher in the Rye (5 min)\nBarron's - The Catcher in the Rye\nMonkeyNotes - The Catcher in the Rye\nClassicNotes - The Catcher in the Rye\nNovelGuide - The Catcher in the Rye\nBookWolf - The Catcher in the Rye\nThe Author (1 min)\nSites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.\nShvoong - The Catcher in the Rye\nWikipedia - The Catcher in the Rye\nOther resources such as literary criticism and essay ideas for The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.\nPaperStarter - The Catcher in the Rye\nSites with a book review or quick commentary on The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.\nAllReaders - The Catcher in the Rye\nBrothersJudd - The Catcher in the Rye\nKirkusReviews - The Catcher in the Rye\nGoodReads - The Catcher in the Rye\nOur Summary of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger\nA coming-of-age story featuring Holden Caulfield, whose confused, contradictory responses to the problems in his life echo a strong sense of confusion. Relying heavily on themes of innocence and experience, this novel reflects the desire to live an authentic life and to save others from the taint of the world.\nMore Books by J. D. Salinger\nFreeBookNotes has 9 more books by J. D. 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Is it part of the Kabo calendrical reforms?\nThe books I\u2019m reading don\u2019t refer to Tonghak and to early Progressives (or conservatives) as \u201cnationalist\u201d: They call them \u201cincipient\u201d and \u201cproto\u201d but won\u2019t actually admit to modern nationalism until 1905 or 1910. Do they think \u2018nationalism\u2019 only exists in a modern context, and Korea\u2019s context isn\u2019t modern until some kind of political transition? This seems arbitrary: though Korea may not be modernizing effectively in the 19c, I find it hard to see how Korea\u2019s not pretty well enmeshed in a modern context by, say, 1880. I suppose you could have the ever-popular \u201cis anti-imperialism really nationalism\u201d debate all over again (it\u2019s kind of fun to do with the Boxers, once), but it seems unnecessarily fussy to me, at least on first reading. I don\u2019t see what distinction they\u2019re making and they\u2019re not explaining it, either. We shouldn\u2019t use jargon unless we\u2019re willing to explain it.\nThings I don\u2019t know about Korea, part 1 of many\nNow that I\u2019m teaching my Korean History course I am, of course, running into questions I cannot answer. I\u2019m going to post them here periodically:\nThough the Choson-era Korean Army (in its various commanderies and provincial forms) was conscripted from peasantry (and officered, it appears, by military Yangban), where did the Navy get its personnel? You can\u2019t just conscript a peasant and put him on a ship and expect him to be useful: did they recruit from fishing communities, or was there a training process?\nWhat\u2019s the numerical breakdown of Choson society? 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As our name says, we are here for you, and we hope that through us God makes a difference in your life!\nPlease use the links bellow to find what you need as quickly as possible!\nIf you are in a dire need for food, please visit our warehouse at the address below, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 12:00pm, and on Wednesdays 8:00am - 11:00am. We are happy to help you with a box of food once every 30 days. Please bring a photo ID and a piece of mail that matches the address on your ID.\nOr, use our Contact page to get in touch with us!\nIf you need food, but you are not close to our Greenville Main Warehouse, please use the Distribution Centers page to find a location near you.\nIf you are in need of prayer, please click here to visit our prayer request page. Or please come by our office! We would love to pray with you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fultonstreet.us/starburst/4576969988", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7L6367P322A4XHLM4X4UJTRB22K6MVBY", "length": 3896, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.fultonstreet.us", "title": "KEVIN MOORE", "raw_content": "The first historical survey of what critics dubbed \u201cThe New Color Photography,\u201d in the decade when photography moved towards a central role in contemporary art. Featuring the work of:\nStarburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980\nSault Ste.-Marie, Ontario, August 13, 1974, 1974.\nChromogenic print, 20 x 24 in.\n\u00a9 Stephen Shore, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York\nIMAGES > INSTALLATION VIEWS > REVIEWS > PURCHASE >\nFull color catalogue by Kevin Moore with essays by James Crump and Leo Rubinfien. Published by Hatje Cantz and distributed by DAP/Distributed Art Publishers\nStarburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 is the first historical survey of what critics of the 1970s dubbed \u201cThe New Color Photography.\u201d Focusing on eighteen artists, the exhibition explores the medium's shift from the social documentary issues associated with black-and-white to subtler concerns addressed by the naturalism, banality, and ambiguity of color. Through the work of diverse figures, including William Eggleston, Robert Heinecken, Helen Levitt, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and Jan Groover, Starburst revisits the search for meaning in a decade marked by political instability, inflation, plane hijackings, oil embargoes, and general cultural malaise.\nUntil the 1970s, color photography was associated with \u201clow\u201d commercial and vernacular uses, including advertising, fashion photography, snapshots, and pop photojournalism. As color films grew more affordable and fade-resistant, a generation of young photographers began a serious exploration of color's potential as an artistic medium. 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We would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 3028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gagnondental.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6PXTPKD4GZC2CRIVPPNRBSY6MEDEHSC3", "length": 578, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gagnondental.com", "title": "Gagnon Dental \u2013 Friendly, Personalized Dental Care", "raw_content": "Welcome to Gagnon Dental, providing dental services to children and adults in Farmingdale, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, the rest of Kennebec Valley and beyond.\nSince 1978, our dental family has been serving the Augusta / Gardiner area with friendly, personalized dental care. We provide a unique combination of the highest quality dentistry and a down to earth approach \u2013 we treat patients the way we\u2019d want to be treated. Whether you\u2019re a first time visitor to us or a 35 year frequent flyer, we\u2019ll greet you with the same honesty and attention our patients have come to love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.galileebc.org/sermons/page/6/?preacher=David%20Christensen&series=1%20Samuel", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:UXLWOI6IGONHTXK5IG6SX7HTYSMSUTXH", "length": 275, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.galileebc.org", "title": "Sermons Archive - Page 6 of 55 - Galilee - Gorham, ME", "raw_content": "Exalted To Exalt Him 1 Samuel 2:1-11\nSep 28, 2008Exalted To Exalt Him 1 Samuel 2:1-11\nSep 21, 2008Dedicated For Success 1 Samuel 1:19-28\nDedicated For Success 1 Samuel 1:19-28\nSep 14, 2008Success Conceived In Prayer 1 Samuel 1:1-18\nSuccess Conceived In Prayer 1 Samuel 1:1-18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.genywealth.com/pursuit-money-whats-purpose", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CBTZVLQGC7PLC7SWJ3XQMAD4ZUXMPMRP", "length": 2649, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.genywealth.com", "title": "The Pursuit of Money, What\u2019s the Purpose?", "raw_content": "The Pursuit of Money, What\u2019s the Purpose?\nA man I know just completed an Ultramarathon. That\u2019s 100 miles for those counting at home.\nWhen I heard about his training, I was curious as to why someone would want to go through this. Isn\u2019t running 26.5 miles crazy enough? More importantly, how can running that far be good for your body?\nI overheard him say that, \u201cRunning 100 miles is by no means good for your body. I didn\u2019t do this to get in shape. I did it because I\u2019m a different person now that I was at the beginning of training.\u201d\nEven though I still wonder why anyone would want to run 100 miles to become a better person, I thought what he said had a lot in common about the pursuit of wealth. Specially, the goal isn\u2019t to acquire wealth so you can check a goal off of your bucket list. Instead, one should pursue wealth for the person it allows them become.\nWhat kind of person becomes a millionaire? A person who is\u2026\nMoney is Easy to Measure\nI\u2019m always looking for ways to track my life. When I start tracking something meaningful, 100% of the time I improve in that area.\nI look at net worth and wealth, as not only a way to track my finances but also my personal development. If my net worth went down, where did I go wrong? Did I not provide enough value? Was I not disciplined? Was I not productive in my work?\nIf my net worth went up, I want to know what I did right. Did I provide a lot of value? Was I innovative? Did I go about my life with a purpose?\nOn the first day of some month in the future, I\u2019m going to be calculating my net worth in a spreadsheet and the total is going to read $1,000,000. When that day comes, I\u2019m not going to be thinking about what I can now do with $1,000,000 that I couldn\u2019t do yesterday. I\u2019m going to think about what it took to get there. As Zig Ziglar says, \u201cDon\u2019t pay the price. Enjoy the price.\u201d\nPhoto by: Radar Communication\nTagged as: purpose, rich\nPursuing financial security really is about the journey, not the destination. Wealth is not a number, but the ability to maintain a current style of living without additional work. It is about not being a slave to your creditors, and being able to pursue your passions and dreams. An arbitrary number doesn\u2019t always provide this kind of security. Someone may have a million dollars in saving, and a million dollars per year in expenses. In that case, I wouldn\u2019t define that person as wealthy, but someone with 500K in savings and 25K a year in expenses could live for 20 years on their savings!\nPrevious post: Mailbag: What\u2019s the Best way to Allocate your Income if You\u2019re in Debt?\nNext post: Should I Invest in a Roth 401(k) or Traditional 401(k)?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.getupngo.co/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:21Z", "digest": "sha1:WPTINCG57F6BSAMAPPZWJB44WSNOSYTM", "length": 1831, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.getupngo.co", "title": "Charter Bus | Ridgeville, SC - Get Up 'N' Go, LLC", "raw_content": "Customizable Bus Transportation\nTraveling is a great way to see new sights, meet new people, and grow as an individual. Whether you have it all planned or prefer it done for you, Get Up 'N' Go, LLC, provides excellent bus transportation for travel groups of every kind. We happily accommodate seniors, schools, churches, and other groups with tour packages and exceptional charter service. Our buses are clean, comfortable, and the perfect option for those who like to relax on their journey.\nGet Up 'N' Go, LLC, is a tour and charter bus company offering comprehensive transportation services. We strive to provide customers with a fun, friendly atmosphere, and focus on passenger safety. Our main driver is also the owner of the company, so you can rest assured your service is always top-notch.\nFounder Sherry spent 13 years in the bus business as a professional driver. Her dream was to buy a bus and open her own business, which she was fortunate enough to accomplish. She has dedicated the past year to Get Up 'N' Go, LLC, making a name for herself within the Ridgeville, South Carolina community.\nWhen you travel with us, you're certain to have an unforgettable experience. Our drivers are easygoing with great personalities, but they are also highly professional and follow safe practices on the road. We go above and beyond, taking care of you and making sure every traveler on board has their every need met. For more information, give us a call or send an email today.\n\"Wonderful! Best driver, great bus, Sherry takes good care of her people.\"\u2014Linda M.\nThank you for your interest. For questions or comments, please use the information listed here. We look forward to hearing from you.\nProudly Serving Charleston & Surrounding Areas in South Carolina\nHome | Charters & Tours | Upcoming Tours | Contact\nGet Up 'N' Go, LLC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gileadfriendschurch.org/gpk-isaiah-preached-about-the-messiah.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:G6OJTDYD3GORO5G4GSZP2NVUBNPABICM", "length": 3023, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.gileadfriendschurch.org", "title": "GPK Isaiah Preached About the Messiah - GILEAD FRIENDS CHURCH", "raw_content": "Isaiah Preached About the Messiah\nThe prophet Isaiah preached God\u2019s message to the people of Judah.\nHe had a big announcement to make. Isaiah told the people what was going to happen. Many, many years had passed since God made promises to Abraham. Some of the people didn\u2019t trust God\u2019s promises anymore.\nSo Isaiah came to tell the people God\u2019s plan. A Messiah was coming, someone who would be Israel\u2019s Savior. Isaiah said the Messiah would be a servant who would suffer and be a sacri ce to remove their guilt from sin.\nIsaiah said, \u201cWho can believe what we have heard? God said He would save us, but we never expected His plan to look like this.\u201d Isaiah said that God\u2019s Servant grew up in God\u2019s presence. There was nothing special about Him; He wasn\u2019t handsome, and no one noticed Him. People didn\u2019t like Him. They ignored Him and stayed away. God\u2019s servant suffered. He knew what it was like to be sick and to hurt.\n\u201cWe saw Him and turned away,\u201d Isaiah said. \u201cWe looked down on Him and didn\u2019t care about Him.\u201d\nBut the way people treated the Servant didn\u2019t stop Him from doing what God sent Him to do. \u201cHe carried our sicknesses and pains. We thought God was punishing Him because He had sinned. But no\u2014He took the punishment for our sins! It was our failures that hurt Him. He took the punishment we deserved, and He has healed us. We are the ones who disobeyed God and wandered away from God like lost sheep. But instead of punishing us, God punished Him!\u201d\nIsaiah talked about what was going to happen to the Messiah. He said the Messiah\u2014God\u2019s Servant\u2014would be beaten and treated badly, but the Messiah would not open His mouth or say anything. He would have an unfair trial and then be led away to be killed.\nSome people would think He was getting what He deserved, but no one who watched would realize His death was for them, to save them. He was taking the punishment they deserved. He hadn\u2019t done anything wrong. He had never hurt anyone or said anything that wasn\u2019t true, but He \u200bwas punished like a criminal.\n\u201cBut this was God\u2019s plan all along!\u201d Isaiah said. \u201cBy giving up\nHis life as an offering for sin, the Suffering Servant gave life to many, many people. He will take their guilt and they can be righteous by His righteousness.\u201d\nAnd this is how God would prove that what the Messiah did had worked\u2014He won\u2019t stay dead. God will bring Him back to life. When He--the one righteous Servant of God\u2014sees all the good that has come from His suffering, He will be glad He suffered.\n\u201cThen God will reward Him with great honor because He willingly died for people who rebelled against God,\u201d Isaiah said. \u201cHe was counted guilty like a sinner. He took the punishment sinners deserve, and He asked God to welcome those who turned away from Him.\u201d\nChrist Connection: God planned a very long time ago that Jesus would die on the cross for our sins. Seven hundred years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote that this would happen! Jesus was the Servant who suffered so that those who trust in Him could be forgiven.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 248.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globaltrademag.com/global-trade-daily/negotiating-cyber-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UUDN7A72FCPRJYXQR3QEBUGLXZHWQXQ7", "length": 3959, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.globaltrademag.com", "title": "Negotiating Cyber Insurance | Global Trade Magazine", "raw_content": "Negotiating Cyber Insurance\nFocus on Worldwide Best Practices\nA MAJOR ATTACK FROM THE INTERNET OF THINGS IN OCTOBER 2016 TOOK DOWN HUNDREDS OF WEBSITES: Even Twitter and Netflix were left unreachable.\nCompanies suffer an average of 17 malicious attacks and 12 sustained probes on a monthly basis.\nThere are now roughly 50 insurance carriers that offer cyber coverage.\nCyber insurance coverage remains scant among small businesses and outside the U.S.\nAs if the risk of cyber attack on many different industries, ranging from financial, retail, hospitals and even law firms was not significant enough, many victims have found that they have been hit by a double whammy: inadequate insurance coverage.\nAs one general counsel said, we thought we had insurance, but property, professional liability and business disruption insurance turned out not to cover the full range of liability for a cyber hack, particularly on a worldwide basis.\nThe Emerging & Frontier Markets Association, Cyber Insurance Institute, will conduct a very special webinar: Negotiating Cyber Insurance, with a focus on worldwide best practices.The program will take place on March 1 at 11:00 AM EST and will last for 2 hours.\n\u201cCompanies suffer an average of 17 malicious attacks and 12 sustained probes on a monthly basis,\u201d said Gary Brown, the conference organizer. \u201cIn fact there was a major attack from the Internet of Things during October 2016. In October, this distributed denial-of-service attack left hundreds of websites unreachable, including Twitter and Netflix. \u201d\nBrown also notes that coverage often does not extend to a worldwide territory or to violations of the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\nAccording to Steve Raptis, a panelist at the webinar and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, \u201cAlthough cyber coverage is a relatively new product in the insurance marketplace, there are now roughly 50 insurance carriers that offer it, although the amounts of coverage available often are limited.\u201d\nThese policies are sold under a number of different names, including \u201ccyber risk,\u201d \u201cinformation security,\u201d \u201cprivacy,\u201d and \u201cmedia liability\u201d coverage. Unlike other types of insurance, there is no standard form on which the insurance industry as a whole underwrites cyber coverage.\n\u201cWhile this provides some challenges to buying coverage, especially for the uninitiated,\u201d Raptis added, \u201cit often provides more room for negotiation of the terms of cyber policies than many other types of coverage.\u201d\nMost cyber policies currently in the marketplace offer some combination of traditional liability coverage protecting against claims by third parties, and first-party coverage protecting against losses suffered by the insured.\nThere also are important terms and conditions of cyber policies that can have a significant impact on available coverage. While no company can reasonably expect to secure every available component of coverage, awareness of differences among the policies being offered is critical to maximizing premium dollars spent.\nMost companies with cyber insurance policies have payout limits of $10 million to $25 million, according to a survey by Aon. Large companies can buy policies with limits above $100 million, to as high as about $500 million. While most big U.S. companies have purchased cyber insurance, coverage remains scant among small businesses and outside the U.S.\n\u201c As data breach incidents and related cyber risks increase and gain publicity,\u201d said Brown, \u201cand as government agencies become more actively involved in policing the corporate response, companies need to take a close look at the protections provided by cyber risk insurance policies.\u201d\nThe webinar will focus on the important terms and conditions of cyber policies that can have a significant impact on available coverage.\nThe program will take place on March 1 at 11:00 AM EST and will last for two hours. 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The North West CVU will work at all times of the day and will be able to target vehicles which are driven at night and avoid the usual checks.\nInspector Harrison White from GMP\u2019s Road Policing Unit said: \u201cHeavy goods vehicles can pose a number of risks on our roads, especially when operators and drivers do not comply with regulations around safe loads, vehicle defects and driving in excess of recommended hours.\n\u201cOur ultimate aim is to make the networks across the North West a safer place for all road users. This collaborative approach ensures there is an intelligence led approach to control our region, targeting those who do not comply with safety regulations and removing illegal vehicles from our roads.\u201d\nDVSA enforcement delivery manager, Steve Brougham, said: \u201cDVSA is committed to protecting you from unsafe drivers and vehicles. There\u2019s no excuse for driving tired, with mechanical defects or with an overweight or unstable load. Those on the roads in the North West who break the rules are putting themselves and others at risk. Working alongside our colleagues in the police we\u2019ll crack down on rogue drivers and operators, making our roads safer for all.\u201d\nThe team will be made up of four specialist officers in the area \u2013 two from Cheshire \u2013 and a dedicated DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency) vehicle examiner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 8218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goddessmasks.com/page97.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NXS5UN7Y7NK5GWSOA2RMTJOHDWS4KBWS", "length": 1007, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.goddessmasks.com", "title": "\ufeff Art by Chiara", "raw_content": "ART BY CHIARA WALTON\nChiara is my long-suffering teena\u2026 erm, apprentice, long used to her mother running off to the craft store, for One More Thing. Eventually, she became curious about what the heck I was doing with all of those feathers and sequins.\nAs she grew older and found her own joy in art, she started drawing and crafting her own work to use as gifts and commissions. Eventually, she started wanting to help me with my work.\nChiara is working on finding her own style of artwork and mask making. She\u2019s learning how to build masks so they are both light and strong and so the wearer isn\u2019t confronted with the evidence of how the piece is made. She\u2019s well used to hearing, \u201cNope, look, if you do it like this\u2026\u201d and soon I won\u2019t have a darned thing to teach her. Chiara is, in fact, teaching me a lot of new techniques made possible in the last few years, such as 3D printing and laser cutting!\nScroll through Chiara\u2019s designs. Feel free to contact us to commission her for work on anything you see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.godgeleerdheid.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/graduate-school/supervision/index.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVSFBRESNYOYIQDUDRGF3I7YJ3DIINX3", "length": 3106, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.godgeleerdheid.vu.nl", "title": "Supervision - Graduate School - Faculteit Religie en Theologie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam", "raw_content": "Home | Onderzoek | Graduate School | Supervision and research |\nA. SUPERVISION TEAMS\nIn accordance with article 3.10.2 of the university\u2019s Doctorate Regulations, every PhD candidate has at least one supervisor plus a second (co-)supervisor. The supervisor(s) is (are) from the Faculty of Religion and Theology. The College of Deans can appoint a professor from another Dutch university or a foreign institution as the supervisor. In this case, the College appoints a professor of the Faculty as the second supervisor.\nThe main supervisor must have ius promovendi, i.e. he or she has the rank of full professor (hoogleraar) or associate professor (universitair hoofddocent). A team of supervisors can consist of up to four members. Except for the main supervisor(s), the members of the team can consist of assistant/associate professors, full professors and/or experts with a doctorate degree. The function of the (team of) supervisor(s) is to supervise the process of writing, and to monitor your process regarding the requirements determined in your Training and Supervision Plan.\nIn order to monitor your progress, the supervisor(s) fill(s) in a Supervision Record. The Supervision Record plays an important role in the supervision process. The results of your Supervision Record will be checked by the supervisor(s) as well as by the Graduate School on a regular basis. The results of the Supervision Records determine the \"go/no go\" decisions which are common for evaluating PhD trajectories. In order to get a \"go,\" the results of your Supervision Records must be adequate. An adequate result implies that you have minimally twice scored \"satisfactory\" within the first two years of your trajectory (a different time-frame may apply to internal candidates). Candidates who score lower than this within two years, will receive a \"no go\": their PhD trajectory and their membership in the Graduate School will be terminated (please note the regulations under Fees).\nB. RESEARCH GROUPS\nSupervision takes place in close connection with our departments' six research groups. The research groups provide the ideal context for intervision and presentations of work-in-progress. Each research proposal must be presented in a research group before it can be submitted to the promotion committee.\nTexts & Traditions (Head of Department: Prof. Matthias Smalbrugge)\n- Hebrew Bible and Computer Assisted Analysis (Prof. Wido van Peursen)\n- New Testament and Early Christianity (Prof. Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte)\n- Church History (Prof. Mirjam van Veen)\nBeliefs & Practices (Head of Department: Prof. Gijsbert van den Brink)\n- Lived Religion & Practical Theology (Prof. Stefan Paas)\n- Religious and Cultural Diversity (Prof. Marianne Moyaert)\n- Christian Beliefs and Communities (Prof. Gijsbert van den Brink)\nC. INTERVISION GROUPS\nAs part of your training programme, the Graduate School also encourages the formation of (interdisciplinary) intervision groups. For an example of how such a group (ad hoc or regular) can be structured and assessed, see the list of electives under Training and Supervision Programme.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 6565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goodmans.ca/Doc/Honesty_in_contracts_and_other_oxymorons", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SAU2KCCZWACBOVIFFJLYX2SRPVGG3ISE", "length": 565, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.goodmans.ca", "title": "Goodmans LLP : Honesty in contracts and other oxymorons", "raw_content": "Honesty in contracts and other oxymorons\nExcerpt from \"Honesty in contracts and other oxymorons\":\nWhen the subjects of law and good faith intersect, a common result is lawyer jokes. Over the winter months, for example, there\u2019s the old saw that you know it\u2019s cold outside when lawyers have their hands in their own pockets. To me, though, the law is all about trustworthiness. In fact, all of my siblings (and I) are trained as lawyers, except one, who is a trained artist. And the lawyer siblings have never trusted the artist because art seems a bit shifty, right?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 12843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gopusa.com/democrat-jared-polis-who-led-charge-for-trumps-tax-returns-refuses-to-release-his-own/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:06Z", "digest": "sha1:G5K5MB6PUZO47FHJPWAI4YU6ATJF3ZJH", "length": 5174, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.gopusa.com", "title": "Democrat Jared Polis, who led charge for Trump\u2019s tax returns, refuses to release his own \u2013 GOPUSA", "raw_content": "Democrat Jared Polis, who led charge for Trump\u2019s tax returns, refuses to release his own\nDENVER \u2014 Multimillionaire Democratic Rep. Jared Polis led the charge for President Trump to turn over his tax returns, but now the Colorado gubernatorial candidate is coming under fire for refusing to release his own.\nMr. Polis, the richest Democrat in Congress with a net worth estimated at $313 million, has so far declined to make his tax returns available to media outlets after the Republican Governors Association aired an ad criticizing him for paying no income taxes for five years.\n\u201cJared Polis didn\u2019t pay income taxes, but he wants to raise yours,\u201d said the RGA ad released Sept. 6. \u201cHigher income taxes, higher energy taxes, higher taxes on everyone. Except maybe Jared Polis.\u201d\nMr. Polis has explained that he didn\u2019t pay taxes in the years when he reported net losses from his internet businesses, telling reporters this week, \u201cNo one has ever accused me of not paying taxes. I\u2019ve paid every penny I\u2019ve owed in taxes.\u201d\nThe Polis campaign fired back with its own spot blasting \u201cfalse TV ads\u201d and calling on local television stations to pull the RGA ad, but so far the commercial is still airing.\nMr. Polis pointed out that his Republican opponent, state treasurer Walker Stapleton, has also refused to release his income tax returns. Then again, Mr. Stapleton didn\u2019t make the president\u2019s tax filings an issue after the 2016 presidential election, as Mr. Polis did.\nShortly after Mr. Trump assumed office, Mr. Polis sponsored a resolution directing the House to request the president\u2019s 2006-15 tax returns for review by the House Ways and Means Committee, but the move was blocked by Republicans.\n\u201c[T]he American people have the right to know whether or not their president is operating under conflicts of interest related to international affairs, tax reform, government contracts or otherwise,\u201d said Mr. Polis in a floor speech March 20, 2017.\nAs a member of Congress, Mr. Polis was required to file annual income disclosure forms, which are considerably less detailed than federal tax returns.\nThe pressure on the 2018 candidates comes in part because Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Bob Beauprez set an example in 2014. Both millionaires, the Colorado gubernatorial hopefuls released several years of returns in that race, which Mr. Hickenlooper won.\nThe RGA ad also criticized Mr. Polis for using onshore and offshore tax havens in the Cayman Islands. His 2008 returns released in his first bid for Congress showed he was director of a limited partnership that managed investments in a Cayman corporation.\nBoth the corporation and partnership were dissolved less than a year after he took office, and Mr. Polis said that he did not invest his own money in the offshore account, according to CBS4\u2019s Shaun Boyd.\n\u201cReleasing tax documents is an important, albeit uncomfortable, step for transparency,\u201d said the Denver Post in a Tuesday editorial. \u201cIt\u2019s a tradition we hope Polis and his opponent Walker Stapleton will continue by releasing at least five years of tax returns before the November election.\u201d\nMr. Polis, one of the \u201cgang of four\u201d liberal megadonors who sunk millions into flipping the state legislature blue, has so far spent $18 million of his fortune into his gubernatorial bid. Mr. Stapleton has paid out about $1 million of own money.\nMr. Polis was the wealthiest Democrat and second-richest member of Congress, behind Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, according to a 2015 report by the Center for Responsive Politics.\nDemocrat Jared Polis, who led charge for Trump's tax returns, refuses to release his own, 9.8 out of 10 based on 4 ratings\nFrom the article above: \u201cMr. Polis has explained that he didn\u2019t pay taxes in the years when he reported net losses from his internet businesses, telling reporters this week, \u201cNo one has ever accused me of not paying taxes. I\u2019ve paid every penny I\u2019ve owed in taxes.\u201d Hey Mr. Polis, according to you liberals, the rich do not pay their \u201cfair share\u201d. The \u201crich do not pay their fair share\u201d certainly applies to you doesn\u2019t it, Mr. Polis? You could certainly write a check to the Department of Treasury, so you can pay your \u201cfair share\u201d, can\u2019t you, Mr. Polis hypocrite? What is that old adage you liberals live by? \u201cDo as I say not as I do\u201d.\nTypical libtard. I don\u2019t have to do it, but YOU DO.\nDid you expect anything else? 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I'm Leigh Hatcher. I want you to meet Elena Joli, an Italian science teacher, physics textbook writer, and editor who also has a Ph.D on the black hole. She's about to launch out on a quite remarkable journey as part of the Homeward Bound project. Eighty women from around the world are heading to Antarctica for three weeks. They all have a background in STEM. The trip is a leadership program for women influencing climate change. Annette Gray, one of our directors at Growth Coaching International, is one of eighty coaches volunteering their time to each of the women on the voyage. She's been guiding Elena in her preparation and I'm so glad to say, they both join us now. Annette here at GCI, and Elena from Bologna, Italy by Skype. This is a story about women in leadership, resilience, and well-being and having a coach to prepare for the journey of a lifetime. So what is Homeward Bound and how did Elena get involved?\nElena Joli\nHomeward Bound is a ground-breaking leadership strategic science initiative for women in science. It's the world's largest all-women expedition to Antarctica. We will succeed with eighty scientists travelling to the globe's southernmost continent. Participants are including astronomers, physicists, Antarctic specialists, marine ecologists, all committed to influence and have an impact on policy and decision-making around the good and the sustainability of our planet. I fell in love with the idea of Antarctica as a child, when I had a world map in my room, and I dreamt of becoming the queen of a region, the Dronning Maud Land. And I applied for this initiative by chance, as often happens in life, because a French friend mentioned to me this leadership and scientific program.\nWhat a dream come true, now we can call you the queen of Antarctica from now on. What got you interested in the sciences in the first place, Elena?\nMy passion for sciences started younger when my father would challenge me and my sister with logic puzzles and told us beautiful stories about the universe. And then I started studying physics, in particular black holes at university, and now I'm teaching physics at a high school as well as working with a publishing house. It's a magazine to produce educational materials.\nAnd you, together with the eighty women have a real passion about climate change?\nYes. I'm passionate with- about climate change, and I have to say that my students, as long as my passion for Antarctica were a big part of my motivation to take the voyage, because I'd like to learn much more about climate change, about the physics of climate change and the greenhouse effect to my students. Every day I work with young people who ask questions about environmental change and the state of our planet, which is in their hands. And they need to be educated to work towards a sustainable future. And I believe that I can only really teach what I have experienced, so this is the reason why I'm going to Antarctica.\nFantastic. Annette, can you tell me a little more about what your role, your volunteer coaching plays in this. Pretty incredible story. Exactly how you're helping Elena prepare for the trip.\nWell, we've been brief. There's eighty coaches involved in this and we've volunteered to support the participants on the trip, to get them ready for going into this environment which is a very different environment to what we've experienced. So the other aspect of it is there could be twenty-three hours of daylight, and people can be very eager to take in as much as they can. So a big part of the coaching is about helping with self-care on the boat, and the other aspect is getting along with people, because there's nowhere to hide, there\u2019s- no private time. It's being with eighty people for three weeks, twenty-four seven.\nSo what sort of things are you coaching Elena on about how to deal with that, then? In the three sixty model that you use.\nSo the feedback tool is a tool that looks at your- a self-assessment tool that looks at what's the thinking going on behind your behaviour. And then other people respond to that in terms of how they experience your behaviour. So it's a self-awareness tool to know how am I coming across, and what views have I developed of myself that might not be accurate these days, that we've formed when we're very young. So it's creating awareness around what are you doing that's constructive and landing well for others, and also what are you doing that might be a passive way of interacting, or an aggressive way of interacting? And I must say, with Elena's results, very constructive profile. So I have no doubt Elena's going to do extremely well there in navigating those tensions around being around people for such a long time.\nElena, could I ask you- have you learned much about yourself through this coaching process with Annette?\nYes. I have to say that my coaching sessions with Annette were a foundational part for my leadership training through Homeward Bound, because we explore every discomfort zone and we look for a solution. The objective was to have a very good understanding of my area of personal development and of where my energies are going to be focused in terms of leadership when I will be in Antarctica. I became much more aware of my weaknesses, of my old patterns, that when we are under pressure emerge more easily. And this coaching experience made me aware that when something happens, for example during interactions with other people, I have always an empty space, even short, before acting. And I have a chance to put it to action, a new pattern, and at the end to transform myself. Thank you, Annette!\nCan I ask you what exactly you'll be doing on the boat for the three weeks, twenty three hours a day, in daylight? And how do you believe you'll be developed as a leader during this process, Elena?\nWhen I applied for this program Homeward Bound, I didn't know exactly why I was doing this. Little by little, starting to work with smaller groups of these amazing women and with the help and support of the entire faculty of Homeward Bound, I began to understand better the meaning of this trip and of this training. Working in Project group or meeting learning groups during the year, reflecting upon the physics of climate change, receiving the training leadership with Annette, all of this taught me the value of peer support for my personal development and the possibility to be in the community sharing ideas and also fierce desires. Yes, and the most important lesson for me is that every positive impact I may produce and have on the world must start from myself. Because to go through a behavioural change may allow me to unfold a part of myself that hasn't yet emerged that [inaudible] impact on people around me in a positive way.\nI expect for you and for the rest of the seventy nine women on board- you're going to be taken out of your comfort zones in numbers of ways.\nYes. I may answer to you with a quotation by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. He said that \"courage is grace under pressure\". I know that I will be in a situation of extreme stress, twenty-three hours a day of daylight in a confined space. Very uncertain world, very different from home, without my family, without my friends. But for me all is about the courage to change and to transform ourselves. And I may say to you that as a physicist I experience that the world around us is constantly changing, and the only constant in life is change.\nYou are listening to the Growth Coaching International podcast series I\u2019m with Elena Joli and GCI\u2019s Annette Gray. Now everyone involved in the Homeward bound project is volunteering their time and expertise, including Human Synergistics which administers the lifestyles inventory 360 feedback tool. So, how does this tool help in practical terms with those who are being coached?\nI think it gives people a framework and a language to understand what's happening for them and what are the triggers, when someone will say something or someone will do something. And being able to have a language and a framework to be able to go, okay I can actually respond in a different way. Because a lot of us aren't very self-aware around what our triggers are, or how we come across to others. The lifestyles inventory can be for some a confronting tool, but it's the one that, actually I've seen produce long-lasting change.\nAnd what's it like for you as these women navigate that change, as Elena says, change is constant. What's it like, what's it feel like for you when you see women making such progress?\nWell this is so exciting, this trip, for two reasons. One is seeing eighty women get this opportunity. The other is, I've always wanted to go to Antarctica, so I've said to Elena a few times, \"I'm living through you on this trip\", so I can't wait to see the photos.\nElena, can I ask you- do you have personal goals for this program, and how might that impact both on you and your students back at home, when you return?\nMy students are excited for this project. They are sad because of my absence, but they are very happy about this ability. And for all these reasons I'd like to share my competencies and my experiences when I come back, to create some projects of education about my field study, the physics of climate change and the greenhouse effect. And to students, yes, but also to general public at different levels, making the most out of these gifts I acquired with my Masters degree in science communications and of my experience as author of Physics text books.\nSo you might be approaching this with some kind of fear and trepidation in one way, but I'm sure you're excited about the opportunity and probably can't wait to get going.\nYes. I feel afraid and scared because the countdown is on. We'll spend three weeks on the ship. I suffer from sea-sickness\u2026\nBut I will manage it. I will manage it, because I'm sure that there will be a lot of take-home messages, all of them strong, unforgettable, strong bonds with people, emotional intelligence, social experience. And this experience will be challenging and wonderful. 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C Kyle Rau had an assist in his Wild debut.\nIt was just the latest injury in the game. \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.health.am/ab/more/new-york-takes-new-aim-at-sugary-drinks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:WZYR76P4RI5XLTQWGJVSPHWOSUIXQCGI", "length": 2713, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.health.am", "title": "New York takes new aim at sugary drinks | health.am", "raw_content": "Dieting | Food & Nutrition | Public Health |\nNew York takes new aim at sugary drinks\nNew York expanded its anti-obesity campaign on Thursday with a proposal to ban the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks, drawing beverage industry complaints that it is another government attempt to tell people how to behave.\nNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson asked the U.S. government to ban the purchase of soda pop and sweetened fruit drinks with food stamps - the federal vouchers used by 42 million low-income Americans to buy food.\nThey called sugar-sweetened beverages the largest single contributor to the obesity epidemic.\n\u201cThis is so simple. It\u2019s not like a disease like cancer (that) we don\u2019t know how to cure. This we know how to cure. Stop eating extra calories,\u201d Bloomberg told a news conference.\n\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with an occasional one. But the kids are drinking an enormous amount of full-sugar beverages and they would switch to diet beverages. So next time one of the companies calls, I\u2019m sorry. Our children\u2019s lives are more important than anything else,\u201d Bloomberg said.\nBloomberg has used the power of the city government to promote other health measures, including a campaign to cut down on salt and a ban on trans fats in restaurant food, and a requirement that chain restaurants display calorie counts.\nIn 2003 the city banned smoking in bars and restaurants, generating howls of protest at the time from smokers and non-smokers who saw it as a case of government creeping into private lives, but the law has since become widely accepted.\nPaterson has also sought to combat obesity and raise money with a proposed tax on sugary drinks, but it was opposed in the state legislature under lobbying pressure from the beverage industry.\nThe American Beverage Association, a trade association, criticized the proposal as \u201cjust another attempt by government to tell New Yorkers what they should eat and drink, and will only have an unfair impact on those who can least afford it.\u201d\nNearly 40 percent of New York City public school children are obese, while overall obesity rates are 30 percent in the poorest households compared to 17 percent in the wealthiest households, the city and state said in a joint statement.\nObesity-related illnesses cost the state nearly $8 billion in medical costs per year, the statement said.\nSome 1.7 million New York City residents, and 2.9 million statewide, receive food stamp benefits.\nFood stamps cannot be used to buy other products deemed harmful such as alcohol and tobacco.\nU.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamps program, said in a statement it would \u201creview and consider\u201d New York\u2019s proposal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 283, "original_length": 9851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.heberts.net/facility-issues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XE5I64LWP7VNJM3J3GBNRCM2NUY6MHNM", "length": 4216, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.heberts.net", "title": "Facility Issues / Scott Hebert", "raw_content": "\u00ab Three Data Collection Methods\nProblems in the Supply Chain \u00bb\nCompany X\u2019s Denver facility has suffered through on-going customer service issues. The facility was built in the 1930s and has grown incrementally since then. As a result this facility has grown quite large and has not be restructured to fit Company X\u2019s changing nature. With over 250 trucks transiting through the facility per week, the situation in Denver has reached critical mass. The time has come for Company X to re-evaluate the Denver facility and implement changes to reinvigorate the facility and make it a viable part of the Company X operation.\nThe Denver facility is currently faced with three primary problems. The facility is only responsible for scheduling roughly half of the pickups. This results in trucks arriving to make pickups without notice and with no guarantee of product availability. Additionally, these unscheduled trucks upset the traffic flow through the facility and result in increased wait time for all drivers. This is compounded by the second problem regarding the layout of the facility. Drivers that need to pick up multiple items are forced to make several stops through the facility in order to complete their order. This increases the amount of movement through the facility and results in an overall increase in traffic. Finally the layout of the facility requires each truck to transit through the entire facility. Although a truck may have completed its pickup, it must then negotiate its way through the rest of the facility.\nRecommendation #1\nCompany X must first work to get all customers using the Denver facilities scheduling system. At the moment, over 260 trucks transit the facility each week. Due to the high number of unscheduled pickups, more than half of all trucks arrive on two days: Tuesday and Friday. Requiring customers to use the facilities scheduling software can guarantee a balanced mix of trucks on each day of the week. This has the benefit of decreasing the amount of traffic in the facility on Tuesdays and Fridays, and ensures that product is available for each truck as it arrives. Decreasing traffic will also reduce the safety concerns of the union\u2019s safety committee. Finally, decreased traffic will lower wait time giving Company X a competitive advantage and making drivers happier.\nTrucks entering the Denver facility will make multiple stops based on the variety of items they must pick up. This increases the gate-to-gate time as trucks make multiple moves within the facility. If all customer pickups are scheduled, the facility can have each customer order waiting at a single dock for pickup. This will decrease the time taken per truck and increase the number of trucks able to transit the facility in a single day. Additionally, the decreased traffic through the facility and increased accuracy of each order will result in higher customer satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) software vastly increase the accuracy and speed of order completion (Wood, 2008).\nFinally, the traffic flow through the facility must be redesigned to allow trucks to quickly exit the facility once their order has been completed. Although the implementation of a plant-wide scheduling system and improved order handling will have a positive impact on traffic flow, the basic transit system within the facility must be examined to remove any remaining bottlenecks. Company X can use techniques pioneered by transportation engineers to assist in their own traffic problems. One process, Link Capacity Estimation, assigns a capacity rating to each link in the traffic chain and design the facilities transit pattern accordingly (Dheenadayalu, Wolshon, & Wilmot, 2004). The result of this analysis should be less traffic on more easily congested links. This might require additional exits to be added to the facility.\nDheenadayalu, Y., Wolshon, B., & Wilmot, C. (2004). Analysis of Link Capacity Estimation Methods for Urban Planning Models. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130(5), 568-575. Retrieved April 14, 2009, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2004)130:5(568)\nWood, L. C. (2008). Face-Off: Supply Chain Management Software. Faulkner Information Services. Retrieved April 14, 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hershey.k12.pa.us/domain/27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KM75G7TIUDQDUAHE5J4PJFFPTVBDE2OG", "length": 3515, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.hershey.k12.pa.us", "title": "Hershey Online Academy / Hershey Online Academy Overview", "raw_content": "Flexible Learning @ Hershey High School\nHershey High School offers several options to give students the most flexibility in their learning, ranging from a fully online option to blended courses, to real-world learning through the Trojan Academy, to a dual-enrollment option so that students can earn college credit in high school. Frequently Asked Questions\nHershey Online Academy\nFully Online Option\nPassion-Driven Research\nCourses at HHS with flexible\nEnroll in College Courses\nOnline learning is growing rapidly, and is in high demand throughout the country - and for good reason. Derry Township School District recognizes that online learning can be a great option for many students, offering advantages like personalized learning, individual pacing, and 21st century technology experience. Students now have the choice of attending our traditional brick and mortar school or a new online school program offered through the Capital Area Online Learning Association (CAOLA).\nAdvantages of Flexible Learning Environments:\nStay enrolled in your local school district\nThis allows you to earn a diploma from Derry Township School District and to participate in your school\u2019s extracurricular activities.\nYour learning program and curriculum is adapted to fit your needs. Learn at the right pace for you, at the time and place that you choose.\nWe use state-of-the-art curriculum designed to be engaging, fun, and to target multiple learning styles.\nPursue your interests\nChoose from a wide variety of courses and electives designed to allow students to pursue their academic interests, and develop a path for success after high school.\nProven methods combined with innovative techniques\nCAOLA is backed by EdisonLearning, one of the most experienced teams in online learning, with over 17 years of proven results and leading innovation in education.\nWe believe that rigorous, well-rounded curriculum with a strong base in Math, Science and Technology is the key to success in the 21st century global economy. We make science fun and interesting! Students can select from a broad range of courses you won\u2019t find at other schools like Forensics, Sports Medicine, and HTML.\nThrough CAOLA, we are excited to be able to offer courses in a truly state-of-the-art online program - Hershey Online Academy. The high quality curriculum and an innovative software platform, powered by EdisonLearning, allow for customized learning. Each student in the Hershey Online Academy has the opportunity to learn at their own pace to truly gain understanding.\nAdditionally, each student will be supported online by a Pennsylvania certified teacher to provide the help needed to succeed. Students participating in the online cyber school program will receive a free computer, printer and all necessary peripherals.\nEducational Planning Guide\nHOLA Information and Overview\nCapital Area Online Learning Association\nParent involvement and support is critical to student success. The Hershey Online Academy therefore, gives parents the tools they need to support, motivate and monitor their student\u2019s progress through a special homepage called the Parent Portal.\nParents can quickly and easily see an up-to-the-minute detailed report of their student\u2019s progress, grades, performance alerts, teacher communication, daily curriculum, and much more.\nHershey Online Academy HS Handbook\nHershey Online Academy MS Handbook\nWelcome Letter for Currently Enrolled Students\nMs. Laurie Wade\nAssistant Principal for Online Learning\nlwade@hershey.k12.pa.us", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hillcountrynews.com/stories/recreation-supervisor-joins-leanders-parks-and-rec,75962", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:OQTTJI6W23M5A5NOJ76B3OSLA2HCHGOR", "length": 3566, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.hillcountrynews.com", "title": "Recreation supervisor joins Leander's Parks and Rec | Hill Country News", "raw_content": "Recreation supervisor joins Leander's Parks and Rec\nHeather Taylor, center, was introduced the the Leander City Council Thursday as the new recreation supervisor for the city's parks and recreation department. At right is Parks and Recreation Director Mark Tummons and at left is Leander Mayor Pro-tem Jeff Seiler.\nPhoto by MIKE NEU\nThe City of Leander has a new recreation supervisor who will be dedicated to managing and creating community events.\nHeather Taylor, who has helped develop programs for young people at 10 military bases from California to Virginia, was introduced to the Leander City Council Thursday. She comes to Leander from Arlington, where she was the city\u2019s recreation facility manager for the past three years.\n\u201cWith Heather's background and experience, not only with local community recreation and special events, but her military recreation background, she will definitely take us to the next level and beyond,\" said Mark Tummons, Leander Parks and Recreation director.\nTaylor, a single mother of two daughters, spent eight years developing programs to hold the interest of first-time soldiers and sailors prior to accepting the recreation supervisor role.\n\u201cShe is incredibly creative and innovative, and I believe she will develop the types of recreation programs and events that will continue to expand to capture the interest of most every Leander resident,\" Tummons said.\nTaylor will be in charge of managing Leander\u2019s events, including the 12th annual Leander Bluegrass Festival, which is scheduled for Sept. 22 and 23 at the Mason Homestead on Bagdad Rd.\nTaylor said she accepted the Leander position because it offered her the opportunity to help people. Along with raising her daughters, she said that has been her life's calling.\n\"Leander's growth is exploding,\" Taylor said. \"There are going to be a lot of people coming here and they are going to be looking for things to do that are welcoming. We will provide those opportunities.\"\nA native of Pottsboro, Texas near Lake Texhoma, Taylo, played basketball, softball and volleyball in high school. She attended the University of Texas at Arlington and then graduated from Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. with a degree in recreation.\nIt was in Springfield, where her husband was stationed at the Army's Ft. Leonard Wood, that she first developed her skills welcoming people and developing activities for young members of the military who were away from home for the first time.\n\"Basically, we developed programs for kids who were away from their families that created activities and a little community on the base,\" Taylor said. \"It was just like the recreation department for a city. We just offered the young soldiers opportunity to get involved in activities and also to get to know us and the community and to develop friendships, and it worked.\"\nTaylor later worked to develop similar programs for young servicemen and servicewomen at military bases across the country, including the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi.\nLeander officials are enthusiastic about what she can accomplish in their city.\n\"She and I have already been visioning on the types of programs that we can accomplish in the next few years to include enhanced summer camps, Christmas activities in Old Town, health and fitness fairs and classes, a kids triathlon, a sports fest, and specialized pet programs to name just a few,\" Tummons said.\n\u201cWe are extremely fortunate to have Heather on our team,\" the parks and recreation director said.\nLeander,\tLeander Parks and Rec,\tParks and Recreation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homesbyharis.com/blog/skokie-real-estate-market-trends-2008-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZETOVDIYXTHTSV5OQ6KAGSNYKDISKRBD", "length": 710, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.homesbyharis.com", "title": "Skokie Real Estate Market Trends 2008 - 2012 | Homes by Haris", "raw_content": "In 2008 there were 361 homes sold in Skokie, IL\nIn 2012,688 homes were sold in Skokie.\nThe current average listing price in Skokie, IL is $253,634 . Much higher compared to the average sold price at the end of 2011. As I type, the average market time is 258 days and there are more than 100 homes available from $200,000 - $400,000 price range. If you are thinking of buying a home in Skokie, don't wait, as you can see there were 548 homes sold in 2011 compared to 688 in 2012.\nThe highest single family home in Skokie was sold for $748,000 while the most affordable was $33,00. Currently there are 174 properties under contract with and averghae market time is 222 days.\nSkokie real estate on Homes By Haris.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 155.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homeschoolinginutah.com/support/resources/zoo.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BQZSXSRDXW3EA5DOTLOP4LFAJ6Q3M5U6", "length": 471, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.homeschoolinginutah.com", "title": "Zoos & Wildlife", "raw_content": "Utah Zoos & Wildlife Back to Top\nThe Tracy Aviary is located on 7.5 acres of land in the heart of Salt Lake City. Open to the public since 1938, the Tracy Aviary maintains a collection of approximately 400 birds representing about 135 species. Many of these birds are considered rare or endangered.\nHogle Zoo in Salt Lake City provides an oasis for 1,100 animals, representing over 250 species from around the world. Also offers special exhibits and educational programs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 108.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hotelinbriston-uk.com/travel-guides/Transportation/Getting_in_Bristol_by_Bus_and_Car.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5G4AMZYTMIQ2ENH2S7SVW4BTXV6TYDIH", "length": 2078, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hotelinbriston-uk.com", "title": "Getting in Bristol by Bus and Car, Transportation in Bristol, Bristol Transportation, Bristol Vehicle, Travelling around Bristol, Getting In BristolBristol Hotels, Hotels in Bristol, Places to stay when travelling Bristol, Hotel Bristol United Kingdom, Bristol Accommodation, Accommodation for Visitors in Bristol", "raw_content": "Home\t Travel Guides\t Transportation\t Getting in Bristol by Bus and Car\nThe bus station is situated on Marlborough Street and is served by National Express coach services from all over the United Kingdom. 'First' operates buses in and around Bristol and there are many bus routes that travel into the city centre. Useful bus routes in Bristol travel to Temple Meads, Clifton Village, Clifton Triangle, Broadmead and Spike Island. Bus passes are available for set periods and these can be particularly convenient when travelling in Bristol. There are also bus stops throughout Bristol, with bus timetables and route information.\nNational Express operate services to Marlborough St Coach station, located in the city centre, from cities throughout the UK including London. The journey from London to Bristol takes about 2h30min. Tickets are much cheaper if booked in advance online.\nMegaBus also operate budget coach services from London Victoria coach station to a stop outside the Colston Hall in Colston Street (Behind Flavourz restuartant formerly Yates Winelodge City Centre) or UWE. Tickets must be booked online and fares are demand responsive but can be very cheap (\u00a31.50 if you book far enough in advance). The journey to London takes about 30 min longer than by National Express.\nTaxis in Bristol are one of the most convenient ways to travel around and are usually reasonably priced. They can be easily caught from the taxi rank outside of the Temple Meads train station, and during the day on St. Augustine's Parade. Also in quieter areas, taxis can be ordered by telephone and there are a number of reputable taxi firms that your hotel can recommend. Additional taxi charges are often made for luggage, travel late at night, extra passengers and travel on public holidays.\nThe M5 and M4 motorways intersect near Bristol and the M32, a motorway 'spur', brings traffic directly into the city centre. The M4 links London with Bristol with a driving time of less than two hours.\nThe city also has 3 Park and Ride facilities, A4 Portway, Long Ashton and A4 Bath Road sites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hotelshotspot.co.uk/business/britannia-hotel-edinburgh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EOD3XKRLYKPWPGNQ5SRRUTT77V5VME2U", "length": 1098, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hotelshotspot.co.uk", "title": "Britannia Hotel Edinburgh - Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland", "raw_content": "Britannia Hotels have 47 hotels across the UK offering over 9,000 bedrooms. Location is the key to our success, our hotels can be found in prime cities throughout the UK, as well as near major airports, in seaside resorts or surrounded by stunning countryside. Our aim is to provide extremely good value for money at a time when it has become an increasingly important factor to companies and individuals when making buying decisions. Britannia not only offers extremely competitive rates but also combines this with richness in d\u00e9cor and facilities such as a choice of restaurants, health clubs, nightclubs, bars and FREE Wireless Internet Access.\nBritannia Hotels Ltd was founded in 1976 when the owner bought a 100-bedroom hotel in South Manchester, The Country House Hotel. This is now a 255 bedroom hotel, with a choice of restaurants, hotel bar, Spindles leisure club and extensive onsite parking.\nThe second purchase in 1981 was a council owned derelict listed building in central Manchester.\n69 Belford Terrace\nWe do not have any reviews about Britannia Hotel Edinburgh available right now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=36", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DKOPAHMB4CIQ2JMATKLVYAAPYCS6SY2I", "length": 2568, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.hrresource.com", "title": "Pre-Employment Personality Testing May Violate the ADA : HR Article by Grace Horoupian", "raw_content": "HOME \u00bb NEWS \u00bb ARTICLES \u00bb Pre-Employment Personality Testing May Violate the ADA\nPre-Employment Personality Testing May Violate the ADA\nGrace Horoupian\nThe Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently ruled that an employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it used a personality test on prospective managers. In Karraker v. Rent-A-Center, Inc. (2005 WL 1389443), the employer required prospective managers to take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), a test that the employer said was used to measure personality traits. However, the MMPI is often used to help diagnose mental disorders such as depression, hypochondriasis, hysteria, paranoia and mania.\nThe ADA limits the ability of employers to use \u201cmedical examinations and inquiries\u201d as a condition of employment as follows:\nProhibits the use of pre-employment medical tests;\nProhibits the use of medical tests that are not job-related or have no business necessity;\nProhibits tests that are used to screen out people with disabilities.\nThe Seventh Circuit stated that the issue in the case was whether the MMPI fits the ADA\u2019s definition of a \u201cmedical examination.\u201d The EEOC defines \u201cmedical examination\u201d as a \u201cprocedure or test that seeks information about an individual\u2019s physical or mental impairments or health.\u201d The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) provides the following factors to consider in determining whether a particular test is a \u201cmedical examination\u201d:\nWhether the test is administered by a health care professional;\nWhether the test is interpreted by a health care professional;\nWhether the test is designed to reveal an impairment of physical or mental health;\nWhether the test is invasive;\nWhether the test measures an employee\u2019s performance of a task or measures his/her physiological responses to performing the task;\nWhether the test normally is given in a medical setting; and\nWhether medical equipment is used.\nThe court indicated that even one factor may be enough to determine that a procedure or test is medical. After considering the EEOC factors, the court concluded that because the MMPI is designed, at least in part, to reveal mental illness and has the effect of hurting the employment prospects of one with a mental disability, the MMPI is best categorized as a medical examination. The court further stated that the fact that a psychologist did not interpret the MMPI is not dispositive.\nThis ruling should make employers cautious of personality tests. Employers who use such tests should consult with employment counsel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hydrahomes.com/Litsas_House_A_well_built_house_in_high_Kamini,_with_gardens,_in_need_of_renovation(ref15).ashx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HB2VV2QZ6A5SGVLKGWOQLVXVTYWKBRJR", "length": 3433, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.hydrahomes.com", "title": "Property for sale in Upper Kamini, Hydra, Greece. A well built house in high Kamini, with gardens, in need of renovation", "raw_content": "- Price reduced from \u20ac300,000 - A substantial, well built traditional village house in need of some TLC! The courtyard is accessed through large double doors from the street. The ground floor is a L-shape that has an entrance door from outside courtyard into a large kitchen area and there are 2 other smaller rooms, one of which also has a door out onto the courtyard. From the kitchen there is a door leading out into the front garden which has an old outside toilet. This could be reconstructed and used as a store-room. The front garden is private and protected by high walls. The first floor and terrace are reached by external steps from the courtyard. The veranda offers spectacular views of Kamini and the sea. The first floor is one large long open room, (it was probably the living room) with windows giving the same excellent views to the sea and Kamini. This room can be left as one area, or divided with internal walls to make more bedrooms, for example. There is a basement underneath the house but there is NO access, and this would need to be discussed with a civil engineer. It is likely that the basement was closed at some point after the war, as it was used as a shelter. There is a second garden to the back of the house, also surrounded by high walls for privacy. The total plot size is 326,33 m2. The house is well built, of square cut stone, and the structure appears sound, but as can be seen from the pictures considerable work will be needed to make this into a home. For the right person though, with lots of energy and enthusiasm, this could become a really wonderful home and a welcome escape from the modern world! Many of the original features are preserved intact.\nFor Sale - Litsas House, Upper Kamini\n- Price reduced from \u20ac300,000 -\nA substantial, well built traditional village house in need of some TLC!\nThe courtyard is accessed through large double doors from the street.\nThe ground floor is a L-shape that has an entrance door from outside courtyard into a large kitchen area and there are 2 other smaller rooms, one of which also has a door out onto the courtyard.\nFrom the kitchen there is a door leading out into the front garden which has an old outside toilet. This could be reconstructed and used as a store-room.\nThe front garden is private and protected by high walls.\nThe first floor and terrace are reached by external steps from the courtyard.\nThe veranda offers spectacular views of Kamini and the sea.\nThe first floor is one large long open room, (it was probably the living room) with windows giving the same excellent views to the sea and Kamini.\nThis room can be left as one area, or divided with internal walls to make more bedrooms, for example.\nThere is a basement underneath the house but there is NO access, and this would need to be discussed with a civil engineer.\nIt is likely that the basement was closed at some point after the war, as it was used as a shelter.\nThere is a second garden to the back of the house, also surrounded by high walls for privacy.\nThe total plot size is 326,33 m2.\nThe house is well built, of square cut stone, and the structure appears sound, but as can be seen from the pictures considerable work will be needed to make this into a home.\nFor the right person though, with lots of energy and enthusiasm, this could become a really wonderful home and a welcome escape from the modern world!\nMany of the original features are preserved intact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hydrahomes.com/Walled_Plot_A_good_sized_building_plot_in_Kamini,_with_solid_stone_walls_around_and_enough_stone_on_the_site_to_build_a_house(ref20).ashx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LM57MARLCDA5FJFYBHEB6G2NJDG4JKGD", "length": 1209, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hydrahomes.com", "title": "Property for sale in Upper Kamini, Hydra, Greece. A good sized building plot in Kamini, with solid stone walls around and enough stone on the site to build a house.", "raw_content": "A good sized building plot in Kamini, with solid stone walls around and enough stone on the site to build a house. Includes 4 sternas (fresh water reservoirs) and the foundations of original building. A new house can be built on the existing foundations. There are uninterrupted views of Kamini, and of the sea, and across to the Peloponnese. The land is close to local shops. The supply of stone already on the land and the presence of the original foundations represent a big cost saving - digging foundations and transporting building materials are both costly jobs on the island! Planning permission can be obtained to build around 185 m2.\nFor Sale - Walled Plot, Upper Kamini\nIncludes 4 sternas (fresh water reservoirs) and the foundations of original building.\nA new house can be built on the existing foundations.\nThere are uninterrupted views of Kamini, and of the sea, and across to the Peloponnese.\nThe land is close to local shops.\nThe supply of stone already on the land and the presence of the original foundations represent a big cost saving - digging foundations and transporting building materials are both costly jobs on the island!\nPlanning permission can be obtained to build around 185 m2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ianduckles.com/Home/students/phil-100-8-week-spring-2012/phil-100-s12-quizzes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:37Z", "digest": "sha1:4JYBZIL5QAWIHWVCGZYMT5RFDZ62TAOM", "length": 1918, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.ianduckles.com", "title": "Phil 100 S12: Quizzes - Home Page", "raw_content": "Phil 100 S12: Quizzes\nPlease write your name and \"Quiz 10\" at the top of your paper.\nWhat is the Mainstream Media (2 points)? Give two examples of Mainstream Media (1 point each).\nDescribe two of the filters that make up the Propaganda Model of the Media (3 points each).\nExplain the Alternative Model of Democracy discussed in class. (2 points)\nWhat is a Video News Release? (2 points)\nWhat is a Front Group? (2 points)\nExplain two issues with the media raised in the Bill Moyers interview with Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman. (2 points each).\nExplain three of the five components of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (2 points each)\nWhat is Intelligent Design? (4 points)\nDescribe two different fallacies committed in the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Be sure to explain what the fallacy is, and how the film commits it. Be as specific as possible in your answer. (5 points for each fallacy)\nExplain one of the methods of scientific research we discussed in class (4 points).\nDescribe 3 of the criteria for distinguishing science from pseudoscience (2 points each).\nDescribe one of Elizabeth Loftus's memory experiments (4 points). What is one implication we can draw from this research (2 points)?\nEach of the following passages commits at least one fallacy. Identify and explain that fallacy.\nPlease write your name and \"Quiz 2\" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:\nExplain and give an example of one of the functions of definition we discussed in class (2 points for the explanation; 2 points for the example).\nExplain and give an example of one of the ways to define we discussed in class (2 points for the explanation; 2 points for the example).\nWhat is a deductive argument? (2 points)\nDescribe and give an example of two of the functions of language we discussed in class. (2 points each)\nWhat is a euphemism (2 points)? Give an example (2 points)\nWhat is eduction? (2 points)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.icmrs.org/staff/arthur-john-nowak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:04Z", "digest": "sha1:TQGVXKYFKP4TWTASLAFY2JPTKODGNNJC", "length": 826, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.icmrs.org", "title": "Prof. Arthur John Nowak, DMD | ICMRS", "raw_content": "ICMRS > Team & Partners > Prof. Arthur John Nowak, DMD\nDr. Arthur Nowak is Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Dentistry and Pediatrics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Medicine and affiliate professor at the School of Dentistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.\nFrom 2002 to 2012 he was executive director of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. He has served as Director, President and Trustee of numerous organizations dedicated to dentistry for children.\nHe has published many articles and edited a number of texts, mostly on healthcare for infants, young children and children with special healthcare needs.\nAmong his many awards and honours, Dr. Nowak was named Legacy Laureate by the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 and was honoured as Mentor of the year 2012 by the College of Diplomats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 81.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.idnworld.com/creators/PostTypography", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:FUHGZEWRXWMFT2JFHGIRXULGYAJNR4TB", "length": 362, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.idnworld.com", "title": "Post Typography \u2014 Baltimore, USA", "raw_content": "Post Typography \u2014 Baltimore, USA\n\u201cLike human faces, there are countless beautiful and fascinating ways to interpret alphabet letters.\u201d\nPost Typography started out as an avant-garde anti-design movement dreamed up by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen. Through it, they planned to rebuke the self-regard and boringness of graphic design.\nhttp://www.posttypography.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/evening-classes/autumn-spring-courses/courses-available/arabic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CLNN5RMPRZZYPHMDEMT2TO4R6XDW4PVJ", "length": 3601, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.imperial.ac.uk", "title": "Arabic | Administration and support services | Imperial College London", "raw_content": "Arabic course descriptions\nStudents are advised NOT to buy the course books before the start of the course.\nThis Beginners course provides an introduction to the Arabic script, everyday vocabulary, the basic grammar structures of the language and the Arab culture. By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate in Arabic on simple everyday topics.\nDuring the first few weeks of the course the Arabic script is introduced. The emphasis of the course is on developing the students\u2019 communicative ability in a range of situations. Some reading and writing skills are then practised and extended throughout the course. The basic elements of Arabic grammar are introduced to enable students to understand the structure of the language.\nRight from the beginning and throughout the course, the Educated Spoken Arabic is used when practising oral skills. The emphasis this year will be on enhancing the oral as well as the reading skills of the students.\nBy the end of the course, students should be able to read the Arabic script, have some writing skills and be able to:\nread numbers and be able to count in Arabic, know the days of the week and the months of the year;\norder a meal in a restaurant and read a basic menu;\nknow the basic geography of the Middle East, the names of Arab countries, their main cities and locations;\ngain some cultural knowledge of the Middle East;\ndescribe things and people.\nThe course book used is Mastering Arabic by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, in the Macmillan Master series, Second edition 2007 (published by Palgrave Macmillan). The book is accompanied by a set of two audio CDs which students are encouraged to listen to outside of lesson time. Students will also be encouraged to consult Read and Speak Arabic by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, GW Chinnor (2004) for conversation work.\nQuestions regarding the content and teaching of this course should be addressed to the Arabic Coordinator, Dr Mashail Ali, mashail.ali@imperial.ac.uk.\nPlease carefully review the Programme Timetable, Term Dates and Fees & Enrolment information. BOTH BEGINNERS COURSES ARE NOW FULL\nThis Lower Intermediate course is for students who have some basic knowledge of Arabic that is equivalent to level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference, have completed our Beginners course, or equivalent learning experience.\nThe course aims to further develop the students\u2019 skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in a range of predictable situations and familiarize them with some simple grammar structures. The course materials will also broaden the students\u2019 understanding of the culture and daily life in the countries where the language is spoken. The focus of the class activities is on improving the communicative skills through role-plays, discussions and practical tasks.\nBy the end of the course, students will be able to communicate on a variety of topics in a range of situations, such as:\nfamily, relations and friends;\ntalking about the self and others;\nthe weather and seasons;\nexpressing likes and dislikes;\ntravel and entertainment;\nwork and daily routine;\npast and present activities;\nhobbies and interests;\neducation, study and work;\ncareer choices;\ncity life and the environment.\nThe course textbook is Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya (with DVDs). A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part One, 3rd edition, by Kristen Brustad et al (Georgetown University Press), chapters 2-7.\nPlease carefully review the Programme Timetable, Term Dates and Fees & Enrolment information. THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT INTEREST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 363, "original_length": 11626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.independentsportsnews.com/2014/12/08/alex-harvey-rebounds-into-10th-in-world-cup-distance-race/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:58Z", "digest": "sha1:J74U47M4KWISPXXBABSGOFMQB5JLNDNP", "length": 3267, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.independentsportsnews.com", "title": "Alex Harvey Rebounds into 10th in World Cup Distance Race - ISN", "raw_content": "Home Europe Norway\nAlex Harvey Rebounds into 10th in World Cup Distance Race\n(ISN) \u2013 LILLEHAMMER, Nor.\u2014Alex Harvey rebounded after a difficult Saturday to finish as the top Canadian in 10th spot overall in the three-day mini-tour after posting the seventh fastest time in Sunday\u2019s 15-kilometre classic-ski World Cup race.\nStarting in 11th spot based on results from the opening two days, the 26-year-old Harvey climbed one spot in the standings in a tight pack of the top skiers on the planet, clocking a time of 40 minutes, 40.7 seconds.\n\u201cOverall I had two out of three good races this weekend so I have to be happy,\u201d said Harvey, who now sits in seventh spot in the Overall World Cup standings. \u201cDuring these stage races, at some point your body dictates how you are going to feel. You have to focus on recovery so last night I just did all the proper things to allow my body to recover overnight and I felt really good and strong today. I guess I\u2019ll have to work a bit on my skate-skiing but overall I am pleased.\u201d\nIvan Babikov, of Canmore, Alta., bolted up the standings with the 10th-fastest time of the day for one of his best classic ski results of his career. The feisty Babikov moved up 28 spots on the field to finish in 28th position with a 15-kilometre classic time of 41:40.1.\n\u201cFor me to finish top-10 in a classic ski race is very special,\u201d said Babikov while hopping onto the bus en route to Davos, Switzerland for the next stop on the World Cup. \u201cI worked really hard this summer on double poling and I think that helped today. This course was extremely tough with lots of hills, which is right up my alley. I had a good group of guys around me to work with, the skis were fast and my body felt great all day.\u201d\nDevon Kershaw, of Sudbury, Ont., also dashed out of the gate, wasting no time making up ground on the field. Starting in 66th place, Kershaw started fast to pick off 25 spots on the field and finish with a time of 42:14.2 with the 28th fastest time of the day.\nWith the race breaking off into three groups, it was the Norwegians leading the charge to the podium once again. Pulling away from the pack in the final two kilometres, Martin Johnsrud Sundby grabbed the gold with a time of 39:48.2. Finn Haagen Krogh skied to the silver medal at 40:04.8, while Sjur Roeth completed the Norwegian sweep with a time of 40:24.7.\nOther Canadian men\u2019s finishes included Jesse Cockney, of Canmore, Alta., in 67th (43:59.5); Toronto\u2019s Len Valjas in 71st (44:08.5); and Graeme Killick, of Fort McMurray, Alta., placing 73rd at 44:27.1.\nCanada\u2019s Emily Nishikawa also had a strong finish to the women\u2019s mini-tour, picking up 22 spots on the field. Nishikawa, of Whitehorse, clocked-in at 32:38.6 to finish 42nd in the 10-kilometre classic ski pursuit race.\nThe Norwegian women, who dominated all weekend, continued their impressive start to the season stealing all three medals once again on Sunday. Marit Bjoergen was first to cross the line with a time of 28:19.7. Therese Johaug was second at 28:20.3, while Heidi Weng grabbed the bronze medal at 32:38.6.\nThe World Cup now travels to Davos, Switzerland.\nPrevious articleTriple gold for Brianna Nelson at Can-Am Para-swimming Championships\nNext articleCougars extended their winning streak to six games", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indianchild.com/insect_facts.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BTRRSDIATSEHP3WZKEPNQ4Z6BDNEHH4D", "length": 3771, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.indianchild.com", "title": "Insect facts | Indian Child", "raw_content": "Insects can be distinguished from other small animals by their six legs, three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), antennae, compound eye, and wings (usually, but not always). Furthermore, they have some absolutely amazing abilities. Grasshoppers can jump 40 times the length of their body; ants can carry objects that weight 100 times the weight of their own body. Insects live everywhere: forests, jungles, grasslands, deserts, swamps, ponds, and streams \u2013 even inside the bodies of other animals! By current estimates there may be as many as 10 million different kinds. The most common groups of insects are the beetles, butterflies and moths, ants, bees and wasps, flies, grasshoppers and crickets, and true bugs.\nDid You Know these facts about insects & bugs ?\nLiving scorpions reflect ultraviolet light and can glow with an eerie greenish colour when exposed to UV light, no matter what colour they appear under normal lighting conditions.\nThe atlas moth, one of the largest silk moths, can be mistaken for a medium-sized bat when flying.\nThe female yellow jacket wasp lays both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. Female workers develop from the fertilized egg and male drones develop from the unfertilized egg.\nButterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica.\nThere are between 10 million and 30 million species of insects in the world, of which only one million are known to science.\nPraying mantids are among the few insects which can rotate their heads so they can literally look over their shoulders, making them extremely effective predators.\nThe metallic-coloured wing covers of some beetles are used for jewelry.\nTarantual wasps paralyze tarantulas and lay a single egg on the still living spider; when the egg hatches, the wasp larva has fresh food.\nFemale Queen Alexandra butterflies, from Papua and New Guinea, are the largest in the world, some with wingspans larger than 26 cm.\nThere are more than 300,000 species of beetles, making them the largest order of insects in the world.\nThere are about 20,000 different insect species in Alberta, most of them less than 3 mm long.\nThe Jungle Nymph Stick is one of the heaviest insects. In Malaysia they are often kept by people who feed them guava leaves and use the droppings to make tea.\nThe eggs of walking stick insects are among the largest in the insect world. Some eggs are more than eight millimetres long.\n\u2026\u2026 flies can \u201ctaste\u201d with their feet?\n\u2026\u2026entomologists are estimating that there are between 5 million and 150 million species of insects on earth?\n\u2026\u2026the fastest known insect is a dragon fly that has been clocked at 58 kilometres an hour?\n\u2026\u2026the longest insect is a walking stick that can reach a length of 33 centimetres?\n\u2026\u2026the heaviest insect in the world is the Goliath beetle from Africa? A big male can weigh up to 100 grams.\n\u2026\u2026cockroach can live up to nine days without its head?\n\u2026\u2026a leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once \u2013 just before establishing a new colony? She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.\n\u2026\u2026of the 35,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities?\na flea can jump 130 times its own height?\n\u2026\u2026some mosquitoes can beat their wings 600 times a second? A midge fly holds the record, with a wing beat of 1046 times a second.\n\u2026\u2026the bite from a black widow spider is not automatically fatal? In fact, less than 1% of all people bitten by this spider run the risk of dying, and most of them are saved with the use of antivenin?\n\u2026\u2026butterflies get their name from the yellow brimstone butterfly of Europe that is first seen in the early spring or \u201cbutter\u201d season?\nBugs, ladybug, bed bugs\nbutterfly, Difference between Butterflies and moths. Life Cycle of a Butterfly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indianembassy.nl/news_detail.php?id=204", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FAY3WT2ZLSYGHOIDUCMVUOXZJS2NVSI2", "length": 216, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.indianembassy.nl", "title": "Embassy of India, The Hague, The Netherlands : News - Join us on September 30 for the March for Non-Violence Follow The Mahatma", "raw_content": "1. o be launched on October 2 in the Netherlands with six events in four cities of The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Zoetermeer\n2. The Netherlands marks the International Day of Non-Violence with a large Gandhi March", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 6917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 185.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.industryandbusiness.ie/economic-growth-revised-upward-in-2018-and-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KQ7EWB26TECM2JAOVAKVFYJWXTG5H6YJ", "length": 2174, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.industryandbusiness.ie", "title": "Economic Growth Revised Upward in 2018 and 2019 | Industry & Business", "raw_content": "Economic Growth Revised Upward in 2018 and 2019\nStrong growth is likely to persist in the Irish economy through 2018 and 2019. This is indicated by rising private consumption, increases in taxation receipts and continued declines in unemployment rates. The ESRI\u2019s latest Quarterly Economic Commentary states that GDP is expected to grow by 8.9 per cent in 2018, followed by 4.5 per cent growth in 2019. Unemployment is expected to decline to 5.7 per cent in 2018 and 5.1 per cent in 2019. ESRI forecasts for 2019 are subject to the technical assumption that an agreement along the lines of the European Economic Area will exist between the UK and the EU after March 2019.\nThe revision to the growth outlook is due to two factors: the faster than expected rate of growth in domestic activity and multi-national related activity which has had significant implications for the Irish trade balance.\nOn the domestic economy, the underlying rate of activity as captured by consumption and modified investment, appears to be growing at a faster pace in 2018 than previously expected. Consumer spending has strengthened throughout 2018 and construction investment has also accelerated. Housing completions of 18,655 units and 24,500 units are forecast for 2018 and 2019, respectively.\nFinally, the Commentary notes that, at present, there are two reasons why a neutral fiscal policy (one that neither contracts nor stimulates the economy) may be preferable. Firstly, the presence of key infrastructural deficits in Ireland such as in the public housing area requires significant investment by the State. Undertaking such investment can add to the productive capacity of the economy, and reduce the increase in housing costs which presently pose a significant challenge to domestic competitiveness.\nSecondly, introducing an explicitly contractionary budget, when the risks of a no-deal Brexit scenario are quite high, may amplify the potential fallout from an economic downturn and hence reinforce the shock on the economy rather than insulate it.\nCSO Estimates 3.7 Billion Euro Trade Surplus for September\n42% of Project Managers Believe Remote Working Reduces Control Over Projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ingekuipers.nl/projects-overview/products/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IGGSMRCMJTEZFAELKVK7CPS6UYGTU54W", "length": 798, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ingekuipers.nl", "title": "Products | Inge Kuipers", "raw_content": "Waiting fot the right temperature of the water? But what about the water you don\u2019t need at that time? Do you throw that away? Or do you save it for another purpose? With this concept you collect the water in a jug that you normally throw away..\nMy book covers the evolution of the use of wood towards vinyl. This research and all the information I have gathered has been performed with a focus on the interior/living industry. Wood was one of the first materials used by man to craft product from. During the course of the.\nBuddy is a drinking cup. You can easlily replace the spout for hygienic reasons allowing the cup to be shared. The cup is double layered, ensuring you don\u2019t burn your fingers when te drink is hot. Form and colours are selected to make it more attractive for older people to.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inmemoriam.ca/voir-annonce-2329262-paul-joseph-currie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IM7YXIADLDOAKJNKMDU5IEPFQ7B44YHU", "length": 2275, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.inmemoriam.ca", "title": "Paul Joseph Currie : avis de d\u00e9c\u00e8s et n\u00e9crologie sur InMemoriam", "raw_content": "Paul Joseph Currie\nDate de d\u00e9c\u00e8s : 10 mars 2018\nIt is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Paul Joseph Currie of Dominion, at the age of 74. Paul passed away on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at the Glace Bay Hospital with loved ones at his side. Born in Glace Bay Paul is the son of Bernadette (Corbett) and the late Melvin Currie.\nIn Paul's earlier years he lived in Toronto and had his own business for many years. He was a proud member of the Militia. Returning to Cape Breton Paul was employed in the construction and cement industry. He loved to play darts, bingo and cards. Paul was an ordinary member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 78 in Dominion.\nPaul was a son, husband, father, uncle, brother, grand and great grandfather. He had unending love for his grandchildren and great grandchildren and they will miss their poppy.\nPaul will be sadly missed by his loving wife of 53 years, Linda (Vokey) Currie; his children, daughter, Danette Currie Hynes (Wayne), Glace Bay; sons, Vernon, Glace Bay and Troy (Christine), Toronto; 12 cherished grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. Paul was born into a large family and is survived by his four brothers, Melvin, Angus, John and Sheldon, and six sisters, Arlene, Mary Anne, Stephanie, Beverly, Anita and Doreen.\nAs well as his father, Melvin Currie, Paul was predeceased by sisters, Lillian, Estelle, and daughter-in-law, Suzanne Currie.\nIn keeping with Paul's wishes, cremation has taken place. Visitation for Paul will be held 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13 in J.M. Curry Funeral Home, 775 Main St., Glace Bay (849-7617). A funeral Mass will be celebrated 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at Immaculate Conception Church, Bridgeport with Fr. Daniel Boudreau officiating. Interment will be held in Calvary Cemetery followed by a reception at Branch 78 Legion, Neville Street, Dominion.\nDonations in Paul's memory may be made to the Lung Association.\nWe would like to thank the members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 78 for their generosity. Also to the doctors, VON, nurses, home care and Palliative Care for their care of Paul over the years.\nCondolences to the Currie family may be sent to www.currysfuneralhome.com.\nPaul will always be remembered for his hardy laugh and gentle spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.instituteforlivingvoice.be/events.php?sess=15&cat=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AVA5AHPRVQLA7LDGTHVDXWGAHDK2XUB7", "length": 1964, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.instituteforlivingvoice.be", "title": "institute for living voice - Session #15 - Workshop David Moss", "raw_content": "David Moss is considered one of the most innovative singers and percussionists in contemporary music. He has performed his solo and theater work from New York (Lincoln Center) to Venice (Theatro La Fenice) to Brisbane (Festival). In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1992, a DAAD Fellowship (Berlin).\nMoss has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, and made his Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra. He was twice a featured soloist at the Salzburg Festival. He sings in Heiner Goebbels\ufffd orchestra work Surrogate Cities and Helmut Oehring\ufffds monodrama for orchestra, POEndulum.\nHe was a 2008/09 fellow of the \ufffdInterweaving Performance Cultures\ufffd research center at the Freie Universit\ufffdt, Berlin.\nMoss is co-founder/artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice , which conducts master classes, workshops and seminars internationally.\nHe is artistic director of the MADE Festival in Sweden, and artistic director of the all-volunteer choir, New Babel Sounds, a project of the Neuk\ufffdllner Oper, Berlin. He performs with the electronic groove trio, Denseland, and the audio performance group, Technologies.\nHe will create a sound-art installation for TONSPUR in Vienna in September 2011.\nwww.davidmossmusic.com\n\"One Foot in the Air: an hour of singing together\nWhat do you sing when you sing what you love? Are you interested in that \"moment of transcendence\" when personal style blossoms into a new field of choices?\nEach day for 5 days, we will sing together, intensely, timelessly \ufffd with body, vocal chords, mind and fantasy engaged and entwined.\nThrough work on the \"moment of solo\", delicate duos, the pleasures of surprise, and the joys of a split-personality, this workshop brings our voices into play, for one hour, without words, each day.\nOpen to singers-performers in all areas.\nPerformance experience is necessary (not for beginners)!\n1 hour each day for 5 days\n14.12.11 13:15 14:15 Workshop David Moss", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.intelligenceconnect.ca/category/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:W3X6DHIF57KMXALVEI5EW2CUVBFNMVYU", "length": 962, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.intelligenceconnect.ca", "title": "blog | Intelligence Connect", "raw_content": "If you never had thought of such a \u201cjust to be on the safe side\u201d stash of cash, then you may be caught off-guard if the economy brings a new surprise, if you end up unemployed or with fewer shifts than usual.\nWhether you were born in Canada or immigrated here, you may notice behaviours at your workplace that you will not be able to explain. 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Yet there are three mistakes that, if left ignored, will cost newcomers wasted time, energy, and the asset they need to be careful to spend \u2013 money!\nIgnoring Cultural Differences.\nBlindly Accepting Career Advice From Friends.\nTrusting Consultants Who Push You to Enroll in a College Program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 10319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.intiger.com/open_directory_project_odp.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:57Z", "digest": "sha1:PK4ALKA3SZVVCAA3PJK3Y47F5EB3P4TV", "length": 379, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.intiger.com", "title": "Glossary - ODP (Open Directory Project): Intiger Web Design Company", "raw_content": "ODP is the largest human edited web directory available. You can submit your website to ODP at dmoz.org. The Volunteer Editors review the website and add it to the proper category. You can also volunteer to become an editor. Getting a listing in ODP is very important because it is used by many search engines and other website. 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Another subset of this Personal Pension Plan is the Stakeholder Pension Plan.These are tax \u201cwrappers\u201d, permitting tax rebates on contributions in exchange for limits on accessibility. There are set rules for contributions, benefit withdrawal etc. As an alternative of exchanging your pension pot for the locked lifetime income of an annuity, income drawdown allows you to draw a flexible income straight from your pension pot. You decide where to invest and your earnings will rise and fall depending on your investment\u2019s performance.\nThere are online calculators designed to help you calculate the maximum yearly taxable income you could withdraw from your pension fund. In case of any uncertainties you are strongly recommended to seek advice from professionals. Pensions are often considered as complicated and hard work and hence, are normally neglected. This is increasingly noticeable amongst those who have left the UK to live out of the country as this money is habitually forgotten until retirement draws closer. SIPP income drawdown plays an imperative role to ensure that you enjoy a financially independent life after your retirement. Say, you don\u2019t know anything about pensions and are not at present residing in the UK, if you have a UK job-related or personal pension, the pension transfer into a UK SIPP or QROPS is not that problematical.\nIt can as well proffer some significant benefits depending on what your personal circumstances are. If you have more than one UK pension, there are chances that you are paying more than one set of fees. Nevertheless, by consolidating your pensions into one place, it\u2019s much more convenient to view your holdings and formulate an investment scheme in line with your retirement plans and objectives. If you pass away after enjoying the benefits, your spouse or dependent can take over this scheme without penalty. A methodical online research would help you to understand the process well. It is highly recommended to get all uncertainties clarified before investing. You should always be sure about what you are investing, where you are investing and most importantly how will you benefit. There are experts to guide you at every step. You may discuss with your friends or relatives to get in touch with a dependable advisor.\nGerard Associates Ltd will assist you to know more about SIPP income drawdown, pension drawdown and income drawdown or related to other income drawdown pension services in UK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2016/04/09/6000-daesh-terrorist-ready-in-libya-to-conduct-terror-attack-in-europe-us-general/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:L4PNEU6MIYEWM7AEPTFMOAKMATSDBOLZ", "length": 2622, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.islamicinvitationturkey.com", "title": "6,000 Daesh Terrorist Ready in Libya to Conduct Terror Attack in Europe: US General | Islamic Invitation Turkey", "raw_content": "6,000 Daesh Terrorist Ready in Libya to Conduct Terror Attack in Europe: US General\nAfrica, Middle East, North America, World News\n6,000 Daesh Terrorist Ready in Libya to Conduct Terror Attack in Europe\n6,000 ISIS terrorist which doubles in size in Libya as new stronghold cause concern for intelligence services that terror group increase terror attacks in Europe and America.\nArmy Gen David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said that local Libya militias are battling to destroy an ISIS network in Sabratha.\nThe latest numbers for ISIS which doubles to last year in Libya make it the largest branch of eight that the terror group operates outside Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. defense officials.\nThe U.S. has conducted two airstrikes in Libya in recent months targeting so-called \u201cIslamic State\u201d (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, IS) terrorist and leaders.\nISIS in Libya have previously beheaded and executed Egyptian Christians in a vile propaganda video\nRodriguez said that airstrikes are limited to militants that pose an \u2018imminent\u2019 threat to U.S. interests. He said it\u2019s possible the U.S. could do more as the government there takes shape.\nThe U.S. and its allies are hoping that a U.N.-brokered unity government will be able to bring the warring factions together and end the chaos there, which has helped fuel the growth of the ISIS.\nThe U.S. and European allies would like the new government to eventually work with them against ISIS.\nThe U.S., France and other European nations have sent special operations forces to work with Libyan officials and help them to fight terrorists. In February, American airstrikes hit an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border, killing more than 40 militants.\nISIS in Libya in 2015 beheaded 30 Ethiopian\nISIS doubles in size in Libya to 6,000 fighters as intelligence services fear jihadi group will use new stronghold to carry out terror attacks in Europe and America\nLast November, a U.S. airstrike killed top Islamic State leader Abu Nabil in Libya. 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We try to be calm. There will be surprises and it will be tough for teams to win every game.\n\u201cNon contenders have the ability to create problems. What I\u2019m more concerned about is never forget who we are as a team and doing what we have to do. That\u2019s what I want to watch. After, we see about the results, the table.\n\u201cI would say it\u2019s typical in England. What\u2019s not common is what happened last season \u2013 18 games in a row, 100 points. Normal is what happens now. You can win or lose every single game. Every team involved in the title, or Europe, or staying in the Premier League.\n\u201cI never said Tottenham is not there. Chelsea, I never said. United making this run every single week and they will be there.\n\u201cNow we see the table and see the first two or three and we don\u2019t look further than that. Chelsea can win games in a row and be a contender. There are 39 points to play, and nine or 10 behind it\u2019s not too much. 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SOLOMON NAPHTALI \u2013 Russian rabbi, and founder of the \"Mizra\u1e25i,\" or Orthodox, branch of the Zionist organization; a descendant of Saul Wahl; born in Karlin, government of Minsk, Oct. 27, 1839. His father, a native of Wilna, who lived several years...\nREINES, MOSES \u2013 Russian scholar and author; born at Lida (where his father, R. Isaac Jacob Reines, was rabbi) in 1870; died there March 7, 1891. Moses Reines was the author of: \"Rua\u1e25 ha-Zeman,\" material for the history of Jewish culture in...\nREINOWITZ, JACOB (REB YANKELE) \u2013 Member of the London bet din; born at Wilkowisk, Poland, in 1818; died in London May 17, 1893. At twenty-eight years of age he was appointed rabbi in his native town, and held the office for thirty years. 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Professor in the Jewish Theological Seminary, Budapest, Hungary.\nGOTTHARD DEUTSCH, Ph.D. (Department of History from 1492 to 1906.) Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Editor of \"Deborah.\"\nRICHARD GOTTHEIL, Ph.D. (Departments of History from Ezra to 1492 and History of Post-Talmudic Literature.) Professor of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, New York; Chief of the Oriental Department, New York Public Library.\nEMIL G. HIRSCH, Ph.D., LL.D. (Department of the Bible.) Rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation, Chicago, Ill.; Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy, University of Chicago; Editor of \"The Reform Advocate.\"\nJOSEPH JACOBS, B.A. (Departments of the Jews of England and Anthropology; Revising Editor.) Formerly President of the Jewish Historical Society of England; Author of \"Jews of Angevin England,\" etc.\nKAUFMANN KOHLER, Ph.D. (Departments of Theology and Philosophy.) President of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth-El, New York.\nHERMAN ROSENTHAL. (Department of the Jews of Russia and Poland.) Chief of the Slavonic Department, New York Public Library.\nISIDORE SINGER, Ph.D. Managing Editor. (Department of Modern Biography from 1750 to 1906.)\nCRAWFORD HOWELL TOY, D.D., LL.D. (Departments of Hebrew Philology and Hellenistic Literature.) Professor of Hebrew in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Author of \"The Religion of Israel,\" etc.\nI. K. FUNK, D.D., LL.D. (Chairman of the Board.) Editor-in-Chief of the Standard Dictionary of the English Language, etc.\nFRANK H. VIZETELLY, F.S.A. (Secretary of the Board.) Associate Editor of the Standard Dictionary; Author of \"The Preparation of Manuscripts for the Printer,\" etc.\nWILLIAM POPPER, M.A., Ph.D. (Associate Revising Editor; Chief of the Bureau of Translation.) Instructor in Semitic Languages, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.; Author of \"The Censorship of Hebrew Books.\"\nAMERICAN BOARD OF CONSULTING EDITORS\nBERNARD DRACHMAN, Ph.D. Rabbi of the Congregation Zichron Ephraim; Instructor in the Bible and in Hebrew Grammar, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York.\nB. FELSENTHAL, Ph.D. Rabbi Emeritus of Zion Congregation, Chicago, Ill.; Author of \"A Practical Grammar of the Hebrew Language.\"\nGUSTAV GOTTHEIL, Ph.D. (Deceased) Late Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El, New York.\nHENRY HYVERNAT, D.D. Head of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Literatures, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.\nMARCUS JASTROW, Ph.D. (Deceased) Late Rabbi Emeritus of the Congregation Rodef Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa.; Author of \"Dictionary of the Talmud.\"\nMORRIS JASTROW, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Semitic Languages and Librarian in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Author of \"Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians,\" etc.\nJ. FREDERIC McCURDY, Ph.D., LL.D. Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Toronto, Canada; Author of \"History, Prophecy, and the Monuments.\"\nH. PEREIRA MENDES, M.D. Rabbi of the Shearith Israel Congregation (Spanish and Portuguese), New York; President of the Board of Jewish Ministers, New York.\nMOSES MIELZINER, Ph.D., D.D. (Deceased) Late President of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Author of \"Introduction to the Talmud.\"\nGEORGE F. MOORE, M.A., D.D. Professor of Biblical Literature and the History of Religions in Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.; Author of \"A Commentary on the Book of Judges,\" etc.\nDAVID PHILIPSON, D.D. Rabbi of the Congregation B'ne Israel; Professor of Homiletics, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; President of Hebrew Sabbath School Union of America.\nIRA MAURICE PRICE, B.D., Ph.D. Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, Ill., Author of \"The Monuments and the Old Testament,\" etc.\nSOLOMON SCHECHTER, M.A., Litt.D. President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York; Author of \"Studies in Judaism.\"\nJOSEPH SILVERMAN, D.D. President of Central Conference of American Rabbis; Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, New York.\nJACOB VOORSANGER, D.D. Rabbi of the Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco, Cal.; Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.\nFOREIGN BOARD OF CONSULTING EDITORS\nISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A. Coeditor of \"The Jewish Quarterly Review\"; Author of \"Jewish Life in the Middle Ages,\" etc.; Reader in Talmudic, Cambridge University, England.\nM. BRANN, Ph.D. Professor in the Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslau, Germany; Editor of \"Monatsschrift f\u00fcCr Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.\"\nH. BRODY, Ph.D. Rabbi, Nachod, Bohemia, Austria; Coeditor of \"Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Hebr\u00e4ische Bibliographie.\"\nABRAHAM DANON Principal of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Constantinople, Turkey.\nHARTWIG DERENBOURG, Ph.D. Professor of Literal Arabic at the Special School of Oriental Languages, Paris; Member of the Institut de France.\nS. M. DUBNOW Author of \"Istoriya Yevreyev,\" Wilna, Russia.\nMICHAEL FRIEDL\u00c4NDER, Ph.D. Principal of Jews' College, London, England; Author of \"The Jewish Religion,\" etc.\nIGNAZ GOLDZIHER, Ph.D. Professor of Semitic Philology, University of Budapest, Hungary.\nM. G\u00dcDEMANN, Ph.D. Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Austria.\nBARON DAVID G\u00dcNZBURG St. Petersburg, Russia.\nA. DE HARKAVY, Ph.D. Chief of the Hebrew Department of the Imperial Public Library, St. Petersburg, Russia.\nZADOC KAHN Chief Rabbi of France, Honorary President of the Alliance Isra\u00e9lite Universelle; Officer of the Legion of Honor, Paris, France.\nM. KAYSERLING, Ph.D. (Deceased) Late Rabbi, Budapest, Hungary; Late Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of History, Madrid, Spain.\nMORITZ LAZARUS, Ph.D. (Deceased) Late Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Berlin; Meran, Austria.\nANATOLE LEROY-BEAULIEU Member of the Institut de France; Professor at the Free School of Political Science, Paris, France; Author of \"Isra\u00ebl chez les Nations.\"\nISRAEL L\u00c9VI Professor in the Jewish Theological Seminary, Editor of \"Revue des Etudes Juives,\" Paris, France.\nEUDE LOLLI, D.D. (Deceased) Late Chief Rabbi of Padua; Late Professor of Hebrew at the University, Padua, Italy.\nIMMANUEL L\u00d6W, Ph.D. Chief Rabbi of Szegedin, Hungary; Author of \"Die Aram\u00e4ischen Pflanzennamen.\"\nS. H. MARGULIES, Ph.D. Principal of the Jewish Theological Seminary; Chief Rabbi of Florence, Italy.\nH. OORT, D.D. Professor of Hebrew Language and Archeology at the State University, Leyden, Holland.\nABB\u00c9 PIETRO PERREAU Formerly Librarian of the Reale Biblioteca Palatina, Parma, Italy.\nMARTIN PHILIPPSON, Ph.D. Formerly Professor of History at the Universities of Bonn and Brussels; President of the Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund, Berlin, Germany.\nSAMUEL POZNANSKI, Ph.D. Rabbi in Warsaw, Russia.\nE. SCHWARZFELD, LL.D. Secretary-General of the Jewish Colonization Association, Paris, France.\nLUDWIG STEIN, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland; Editor of \"Archiv f\u00fcr Geschichte der Philosophie,\" etc.\nHERMANN L. STRACK, Ph.D. Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Semitic Languages, University of Berlin, Germany.\nCHARLES TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D. Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, England; Editor of \"Sayings of the Jewish Fathers,\" etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 11047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 111.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jjjaspersen.com/clearance-rack/unititled-1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OR56X7VXIPEKUWTDNKSBU3U2JUWT6T7E", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jjjaspersen.com", "title": "Oil Study: Waterfall, Northern MN \u2014 JJJaspersen Studios", "raw_content": "Oil painting of one of the many waterfalls that reside in the lovely state of Minnesota", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnmonastero.com/words/2017/11/12/chasing-mark-fisher", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HQZTAMABAG4RRQQUJJKQ2KAK6FDH5VGG", "length": 3664, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.johnmonastero.com", "title": "Chasing Mark Fisher \u2014 John Monastero", "raw_content": "Chasing Mark Fisher\nJohn Monastero November 12, 2017\nNew York blurs between an ordinary reality and an environment that is far from ordinary once you allow yourself to enter its hidden worlds.\nOn my way to capturing moments that represent peoples emotion and creativity in New York, my reality quickly interacted with someone else's world. A simple question from an odd looking man on a bicycle turned into a 45-minute escape in the city I know better than any place in the world.\n\"What kind of camera is that?\" the man asked. \"What was that?\" I said back to him.\n\"What kind of camera is that?!\" he yelled.\nThe man was sitting on a used bicycle wearing a Mets hat, brown leather vest with all types of necklaces, countless rings, teeth missing, half a finger, and black clothes down to his military-style leather boots. I answered his question, and he immediately started asking very technical questions about my camera. I was only able to answer half of his inquiries and started quickly wondering who he was. Once he realized I didn't have the same level of mechanical knowledge of cameras, he looked at me and said proudly, \"Do you know who I am?\" I quickly said no, not having a clue as to who he was and asked who he was.\n\"I'm Mark Fisher\"\nThere was a pause longer than maybe both of us expected to let pass and I said, \"I think I know who you are.\" He smiled and said, \"Yeah, I'm Mark Fisher.\"\nThe more I summed up Mark, I knew there was little possibility of me knowing him. I hoped he was one of the famous street photographers from the 70s/80s maybe he was friends with Joel Meyerowitz or Martha Cooper.\nHe continued to rattle things off from his life. From helping create software that all photographers use these days, to how he needed to get to Citi Stadium for the Mets game and how much he loved his used bicycle which he kept calling a beater. I continued to listen to him mostly just nodding and asking a question whenever he would give me a chance to speak.\nHe then bottled off his bike and told me I had to take a photo of this bicycle up against the wall on Lafayette and Prince. He started instructing me to lay down on the floor and get my camera at an angle that would allow me to capture the front wheel with the sun hitting it and to include the details of a whittled down flower.\nHere I am, 6:30 pm in the middle of Soho, on a perfect summer night laying down on the street with Mark instructing me to take the photo he saw to be perfect. He asked if he could try taking the picture with my camera since I wasn't capturing it correctly. This person who I've been questioning for the past 30 minutes started coming alive, and I started believing he was who he kept saying he was. Mark Fisher. We both agreed the photo he took was better than the pictures I was trying to capture.\nHe looked up at the sun and said \"Quick! The sun is perfect, follow me!\" He jumped on his bicycle and took off across Prince St. and made a quick turn onto Crosby heading south against the incoming traffic. I started running after him, and as he cruised through the street smiling with a hand-rolled cigarette in his mouth, I began to realize I wasn't in my world anymore. I had entered his lens of New York and was going along for the ride.\nHe stopped on Broome St. and he asked for my camera again to grab a couple of more photos of the sky, a fire escape, and the street looking east down Broome St.\nHe then told me he had to go and how nice it was to hang as he put it. He put out his hand for a fist bump, and we said see you later. He took off on his bicycle as I thought to myself New York is alive and well.\n\u2190 Grant Merci Surfcasting in Montauk, N.Y. \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jokingree.com/bollywood-actresses-in-politics/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OWHOIBRBBGAIVC2LX4CXAY25N73C7EK5", "length": 2500, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.jokingree.com", "title": "Bollywood actresses in politics", "raw_content": "Home Celebrities These Bollywood actresses in politics have left successful marks in their career....\nThese Bollywood actresses in politics have left successful marks in their career. Take a Look..!\nThey are multitaskers. They are multitalented! They have proved themselves on big screens as well as in politics. Check out what these Bollywood actresses in politics achieved apart from their career in the film industry. This you surely convince you that they are more than what they have portrayed onscreen. Have a Look\u2026\nPopular as the member of the Population Fund (UNFPA), Shabana Azmi has been an active figure of the Parliament of Rajya Sabha since 1997. She had worked skilfully as a social activist thus fighting for child survival as well as elimination of AIDS. She was made the member of the National Integration Council.\nHaving joined as general secretary of BJP in 2004, the epitome of beauty in Bollywood, Hema Malini and Rajya Sabha MP from 2005 to 2009, she played an active part in politics during her tenure. She also had her contributions even after the expiry of the term. During her stay, she took measures to clean the Juhu Beach of Mumbai.\nThough Rekha is not affiliated to any political party at present she was seen as an active MP of Rajya Sabha after her selection for the post in 2012 by the President of India. Having worked on matters like child development, environment and culture, she said, \u201cI am looking forward to serving the people. I promise to do the work from the bottom of my heart. I will continue to serve and entertain you. I will make you proud of me.\u201d\nHaving worked as MP of Rajya Sabha in 2010, Jaya Bachchan was re-elected as the member of Samajwadi party in 2012. She worked exclusively in politics besides being known to have given natural touch in the industry through her amazing talent shown in acting.\nThe BJP Loksabha member Kirron Kher has given her contributions for many non-profit organisations besides removing social evils. In 2011, she took part in the anti-corruption movement with Anna Hazare. The actress is a strong member of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).\nWomen in the entertainment business are not limiting themselves to the screen. They are exploring various avenues and we salute this endeavour.\nRekha Ganesan\nSabana Azmi\nPrevious articleAll you need to know about Chatt Puja apart from the delicious Thekuas!\nNext articleHappy Birthday Sushmita Sen! Let\u2019s see how the Sensational Bong who took the world by storm!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jonstallings.com/category/vision/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X6BTSGP35SDZX2OX4AVZM63A6OVVLXV6", "length": 2212, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.jonstallings.com", "title": "Vision | Jon Stallings", "raw_content": "The Walt Disney Compass\nOver the past several years I have had a great interest in Walt Disney the man and how the company he built has grown to become an international entertainment giant. Several years ago when I attended Disney World with my family I was captivated by how well they operated and how all the employees, despite [\u2026]\nBe More than a Dreamer\nI may be 51 but I am a really big kid. For the past two years we have gone to Disney World for our family vacation (our third time since 2012). And who knows, we may go again this year. I love every single magical moment. Also, I am intrigued by how they make it [\u2026]\nSomeday is not a Day and neither is Tomorrow\nI have to admit I used to be the king of someday. I would love to wile away my time dreaming about someday or tomorrow. When I was very young my Aunt Tootie (Everyone needs an Aunt Tootie) would ask me to spend the night. Being rather attached to my parents I would always respond [\u2026]\nThe Dreamer\u2019s Pain\nThere must be a thousand blogs written to help one discover and live out their dreams. I guess my blog is one of those. We serve a God who gives us dreams which are often glimpses into a future he has ordained for us. Sometimes the dream for the future is given through a promise [\u2026]\nHow to Live a No Excuse Life\n\u201cWhen you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something you accept no excuses.\u201d \u2013 Ken Blanchard Our daily lives are so full of noise and distractions. A lot of that noise is just the stuff of life. We need to work, pay bills, [\u2026]\nWear Your Dream\n\u201cDare to Dream: Have the desire to do something bigger than yourself. Prepare the dream: Do your homework; be ready when the opportunity comes. Wear the dream: Do it. Share the dream: Make others a part of the dream, and it will become even greater than you had hoped.\u201d \u2013 Florence Littauer Life is filled [\u2026]\nThe hospital room may be spotless and sterile, but birth itself will always take place amid chaos, pain, and blood. \u2014Steven Pressfield I will never forget the birth of my three children. They were wonderful events but to the natural eye they were a messy event. Chris was my first born. Janice and I were [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kalvos.org/schrader.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:A6HIQ72VZHFARRV3FBDKG4ILPCACVWFA", "length": 2298, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kalvos.org", "title": "Barry Schrader, Nonpop New Music Composer", "raw_content": "Barry Schrader has been acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as a composer born to the electronic medium, and described by Gramaphone as a composer of approachable electronic music with a distinctive individual voice to reward the adventurous. His compositions for tape, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. He has received recognition in the form of grants, awards, and commissions, from such organizations as the Groupe Musique Exp\u00e9rimentale de Bourges, Apple Computer, ASCAP, Yamaha, Meet the Composer, Los Angeles Film Forum, URBAN-15, The CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, Res Musica, Yellow Springs Institute and the Centre Internationale de Recherche Musicale. His works have been featured in numerous festivals including the Australian International Electronic Music Festival, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Tokyo Gakugei University Exhibition of Electronic Music, New Music Los Angeles, Musiques Actuelles Nice C\u00f4te d'Azur, the Darmstadt Festival, Synth\u00e8se, the Almeida Festival, and the Biennale de Paris. In 1988, Schrader was invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to present concerts and lectures in electro-acoustic and computer music in Beijing and Shanghai. Active in the promotion of electro-acoustic music, Schrader is the founder and the first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States), and has been involved with the inauguration and operation of several organizations such as SCREAM (Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music), the Currents concert series at Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles, and the CalArts Electro-Acoustic Marathon. He has written for several publications including Grove's, Grolier's Encyclopedia, Contemporary Music Review, and Journal SEAMUS. He is also the author of the book Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music . He has been a member of the Composition Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts School of Music since 1971, and has also taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the California State University at Los Angeles. His music is recorded on the Opus One, Laurel, CIRM, SEAMUS, Centaur, and Innova labels.\nBarry Schrader on his way into the studio...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 103.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.katebrannen.com/work", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DVAWK2BRNE5TLEXZRMQ6KKKYN7TJREXR", "length": 657, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.katebrannen.com", "title": "Work with me! \u2014 Kate Brannen Smith", "raw_content": "Freelance editing and writing\nI\u2019ve got a thing for good grammar and good design. I\u2019m a sucker for planning and strategy. And I get way too excited when I talk about marketing research.\nI can help you spread messages strategically, creatively, and effectively\u2014and measure the results along the way. I work my tail off, and I love working with other people.\nI'm currently employed and based in Louisville, Kentucky, but I\u2019m taking freelance work, including freelance editing. Please contact me below.\nIf you need an editor for a piece that\u2019s already hosted online (in Google Docs, Dropbox, etc.), feel free to paste the link in the URL field for a free quote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kennethinthe212.com/2013/08/the-long-and-short-of-it.html?showComment=1375833339719", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OMIPCBATKAG5MIKTN65ZY6XUTPEA63PH", "length": 180, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kennethinthe212.com", "title": "kenneth in the (212): The Long and the Short of It", "raw_content": "This is why I need to start following Howie Long's sexy football-playing son Chris on Twitter.\nLabels: chris long, mustache\nI don't know about twitter - but I'd love to follow him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 7151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kerr-fatou.com/we-wont-hesitate-to-apply-law-on-false-news-justice-minister/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:58Z", "digest": "sha1:HE2PISYTUVDO77PDN2IYE6KCCJ2XWV7G", "length": 2545, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.kerr-fatou.com", "title": "\u2018We won\u2019t hesitate to apply law on false news\u2019\u2014Justice Minister \u2013 Kerr Fatou", "raw_content": "\u2018We won\u2019t hesitate to apply law on false news\u2019\u2014Justice Minister\nHome/Human rights, News, politics/\u2018We won\u2019t hesitate to apply law on false news\u2019\u2014Justice Minister\nThe justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou has told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday that Government will not hesitate to apply the law on false publication on people who may have been found in contravention with the law.\nTambadou expressed concern at what he calls \u201ca worrisome trend in the country\u201d, referring to \u2018misinformation\u2019 either on the media or social media.\n\u201cWhile we want to encourage a culture of tolerance and the freedom of expression like in any democracy, this must not be equated with chaos or be used as an opportunity to tarnish the reputation of or smear innocent people,\u201d Tambadou said.\n\u201cThe tendency is that once an allegation is made against someone, many people rush to judgment and condemn them even when there is no evidence to support the allegation. We cannot accuse, try, and condemn people all in one scoop. It amounts to mob justice. Everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence until they are found otherwise by law.\n\u201cLet me also take this opportunity to remind everyone that the publication of false news is still a criminal offence in this country as upheld recently by the Supreme Court and we will not hesitate to apply the law. I therefore encourage everyone to exercise and enjoy their right to freedom of expression without committing a crime because if they do, they will be held accountable.\u201d\nTambadou has been a subject of intense criticism by some Gambians who held him responsible for \u201cill-advising\u201d government to award country\u2019s national identification card to a Belgian company that is currently being investigated for corruption.\nThe justice minister has always maintained his position that Semlex has a valid contract with Gambia government and cannot therefore be denied the contract.\nMeanwhile, the Justice Minister has also informed journalists that the Janneh Commission is currently working on its draft report, bringing the investigation to an end.\nHe said his ministry, as part of their major work plan for 2019, will be working prison reform in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior, electoral reform in collaboration with the Independent Electoral Commission and criminal justice legislative reform.\nThe justice ministry has also informed journalists on the formation of national human rights commission, Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation and Commission and anti-corruption commission, among others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kfvs12.com/story/876533/what-is-the-retina/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:YROYMYNYGTS6LCHI2KZT7LSCROOZ6BWZ", "length": 647, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kfvs12.com", "title": "What Is The Retina?", "raw_content": "The retina is a thin layer of delicate nerve tissue which lines the back portion of the eye. Light enters the eye and is focused by the lens through the transparent gel-like fluid (vitreous) onto the retina. The retina then changes the image into electric impulses which are carried to the brain by the optic nerve. The retina has two main parts the macula and the peripheral retina. The macula is located in the middle portion of the retina close to the optic nerve. The macula is responsible for central vision and\ncolor vision. The peripheral retina is the outer region of the retina and is responsible for side vision, as well as night vision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kingswaycars.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Z223MLOEKAVFLRCGQRWND5KP5SEOE725", "length": 1443, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kingswaycars.com", "title": "Used Cars Belfast, Used Car Dealer in Belfast | Kingsway Cars - Dunmurry", "raw_content": "Kingsway Cars - Dunmurry, great deals on used cars in Dunmurry\nWelcome to Kingsway Cars - Dunmurry, we are a leading used car dealer in Dunmurry. We offer a wide range of used vehicles and all at competitive prices. If you are looking for a second hand car in the Belfast area then look no further than Kingsway Cars - Dunmurry.\nCustomer service is very important to us and we pride ourselves on keeping our customers happy by offering a helpful friendly service and answering all of your questions with a smile. If you have any questions relating to our cars and services, call us today to find out how we can help you find your next second hand car. We always aim to exceed customer expectations, offering a wide choice of used cars available around the Dunmurry area, all at competitive prices.\nAt Kingsway Cars - Dunmurry we are renowned for providing premium used cars at outstanding prices. Many of the customers who have bought cars from us in the past return to buy their next used vehicle as our dealership service is second to none. Our team are experienced, trustworthy and professional - our aim is to offer you the very best value for money on used cars in Dunmurry.\nOur stock changes on a daily basis, so if you can't see what you are looking for on our website then please contact us. We don't want you to avoid missing out on our great deals. You can contact us by phone, email or by simply dropping into our Dunmurry showroom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kirkwoodstudentmedia.com/web/view.php/73068/Parks-Can-Help-Your-Quality-Of-Life-Grow", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ESDHUFHOREUAQGZWAAN6TVNDK37ZYBDN", "length": 2500, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.kirkwoodstudentmedia.com", "title": "Parks Can Help Your Quality Of Life Grow Greater | Kirkwood Community College News '); //})();", "raw_content": "The more green space in your neighborhood, studies show, the better off you can be. (NAPS)\n(NAPSI)\u2014When it comes to improving your health and happiness, research suggests that living near a park may be more important than you think.\nWhat The Scientists Say\n\u201cIndividuals who move to greener areas have significant and long-lasting improvements in mental health,\u201d explained Dr. Ian Alcock of the University of Exeter Medical School.\nResearchers from Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital found that women living in the greenest areas had a 12 percent lower death rate than women living in the least green areas.\nWhy Parks Are So Important\nResearch shows that high-quality parks make cities healthier in nearly every way.\n\u2022 Proximity to parks makes it easier for you and your family to enjoy an active lifestyle, reducing risk for obesity, diabetes and other serious chronic health conditions.\n\u2022 A park\u2019s pleasant, relaxed environment is proven to reduce stress and improve mental health.\n\u2022 Parks make it easy to meet your neighbors and create lasting friendships.\n\u2022 Trees and other plants in parks help clean the air and teach kids about nature.\n\u2022 Quality park systems can attract new employers and contribute to economic growth.\nTechnology For Creating Green Space\nConsidering all the ways parks boost well-being, you may be glad to learn there\u2019s something you can do to get more parks built in your community.\nStart by visiting ParkServe.tpl.org, a free online data platform created by the nonprofit The Trust for Public Land. The site gives people living in 14,000 cities across America the ability to measure local access to parks and to identify which neighborhoods need new parks most. You can even draw a potential park on the map and immediately see how the added green space would change park access and park equity measures for your city.\nThe organization believes that everyone deserves to have a quality park within a 10-minute walk (or a half mile) of home, and hundreds of leading U.S. mayors have endorsed that goal.\nWith data and custom reports that are easy to download, print and share, ParkServe can help you make the case for park investment to your elected officials.\nVisit www.ParkServe.tpl.org today and put the \u201cscience of parks\u201d to work for you!\n\u201c\u201cIndividuals who move to greener areas have significant and long-lasting improvements in mental health,\u201d said Dr. Ian Alcock of the University of Exeter Medical School. http://bit.ly/2w4sW36\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 8329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kmplawcenter.com/personal-injury-overview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QFGC4EQRRPPRUJQF63KHZH6K4R6WOTNG", "length": 4294, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.kmplawcenter.com", "title": "Personal Injury Overview - KMP Law Center", "raw_content": "Los Angeles Personal Injury Lawyer with a long history of success and recovered Millions of dollars from insurance companies for our clients.\nPersonal injury law is an area of law that covers accidents caused by an individual that result in injuries to a victim. Personal injury lawsuits are civil lawsuits that are usually premised on negligence. If someone acts negligently, recklessly or intentionally, they are responsible for their actions and any harm they might cause. California state law recognizes your rights as a victim to compensation for any injuries you suffer due to the fault of another.\nIf you have sustained injuries from an accident, you want to be made whole again. The accident may have caused a permanent disability or astronomical medical bills. A personal injury lawyer like Kourosh Pourmorady can assist you with seeking your just compensation. Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C. has 17 years of experience with representing clients in the Greater Los Angeles area. Kourosh M. Pourmorady has a reputation for success with a long history of satisfied clients. Kourosh Pourmorady can assist you with obtaining the result you desire. Contact Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C. today for a free case evaluation on your personal injury claim \u2013 (866) 666-6(LAW).\nPersonal injury is simply an injury suffered by a person. This injury can either be directly caused by another or can be proximately caused by another. One example of direct fault occurs when a person is texting while driving and crashes into another person\u2019s car. The at-fault driver\u2019s negligence is the direct source of the victim\u2019s car accident injuries. An example of proximate cause occurs when the at-fault person\u2019s negligence has created an unsafe condition that then leads to the accident. For instance, a storeowner fails to clean up a puddle on the stairs. A patron, while climbing the stairs, slips on the puddle and falls. While the storeowner may not have caused the puddle, the storeowner is negligent for failing to dry the puddle. This negligence is the proximate cause of the accident.\nAn accident can lead to a variety of different injuries, and these injuries can be compensated under California negligence law. These injuries can include:\nFuture medical expenses such as physical therapy, medication or treatment\nLost past and future wages\nNegligence is comprised of five elements:\nThe defendant had a duty to the plaintiff, such as a duty to maintain safe premises.\nThe defendant violated this duty.\nThe defendant\u2019s breach of duty then caused the plaintiff\u2019s accident.\nThe accident resulted in injuries suffered by the plaintiff.\nThe accident was foreseeable to the defendant.\nIn California, plaintiffs are permitted by law to sue for damages even if they are partially responsible for the accident. This is known as the doctrine of comparative negligence. If the jury finds the defendant partially at fault, the jury will then award the plaintiff the percentage of damages that are attributed to the defendant\u2019s negligence.\nWhile car accidents are the most common form of personal injury case, there is a vast number of different types of accidents. With each type of case comes a unique duty, such as the duty to provide adequate safety equipment at construction worksites, and unique requirements for proving the case, such as medical expert testimony required in medical malpractice cases. Below is a list of some potential personal injury claims litigated by Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C.\nCar, motorcycle, truck, bus, train, and bicycle accidents\nBirth injuries to mother and child\nSchool, daycare, playground, and park injuries\nPassionate Los Angeles Litigator Ready to Aggressively Fight for Your Compensation\nIf you or a loved one has suffered an injury due to another\u2019s negligence, you want answers and you want compensation. Entrust your case in the hands of a skilled and dedicated litigator like Kourosh M. Pourmorady. Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C. has a proven track record with successful settlements and verdicts in personal injury cases. Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C. serves clients in the Greater Los Angeles area. Call Kourosh Pourmorady, Attorney At Law P.C. today for a free personal injury case evaluation at (866) 666-6529.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 9238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.krion.com/zh/news/new-version-of-the-krion-application-for-ipad-ios-and-tablet-android", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MLN4OHPQJ2DSHWQEGSLQADD7IJYOWM2G", "length": 1142, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.krion.com", "title": "New APP KRION application for IOS and Android Solid Surface", "raw_content": "New version of the KRION application for iPad (IOS) and Tablet (Android)\nAt KRION we consider immediacy not as a way of life, but as a way to generate free time. For this reason we have created the new application for tablet and iPad, on which all new products and information from the world of KRION are just a click away.\nWith intuitive, simple navigation, the new application shows us the colours by series, allowing filtering by scratch resistance, UV resistance, translucency, recycling, and even by recommended use (bathroom, kitchen and facade). We can also see the new accessories, washbasins, sinks, etc.\nThe projects section offers a look at some of the latest projects created with the solid surface from PORCELANOSA Group, also allowing filtering by sector. Multimedia offers us the possibility of downloading the catalogues and videos, allowing the language to be selected without needing to fill our device without unnecessary information. The application is available in Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Chinese and Polish.\nWe hope that you like it, and that it helps, informs and entertains you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kristenziman.com/2010/01/our-new-police-headquarters.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WD2PJOTHIYE7SNMLWYGLMC4UOLUORXXM", "length": 4309, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.kristenziman.com", "title": "Chief Kristen Ziman: Our New Police Headquarters", "raw_content": "In the sergeant\u2019s office of the current police department, there is a mysterious powder falling from the ceiling. It has become common to walk into the office with a cup of coffee and instinctively place a piece of paper over the cup as we set it down at a desk so the unexplained substance doesn\u2019t find its way into our java.\nThe drinking fountain just outside the roll call room has duct tape affixed to it--- not because it needs to be held together--- but it serves as a reminder not to drink from it. It seems the water that flows from the fountain also contains chemicals it shouldn\u2019t.\nThe dispatch center is synonymous to a dark, dank cavern--- only it has exposed wires throughout. I\u2019m no technological guru but even a layman like myself understands that wires hanging from the ceiling are not ideal.\nI share a computer with another lieutenant in an office that was once a closet--- literally. Ordinarily this would not be a big deal but it gets interesting at the end of the shift when I have to literally pick up my desktop computer and move it over to his desk. The wires are usually entangled and I have to maneuver the mouse and the keyboard over while keeping the unit in tact.\nSeveral times a month, both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s locker rooms have sewer back up problems that result in unpleasant aromas filling the hallway. These backups really come as no surprise considering the sewer system supporting the current facility was installed during the same timeframe as the building itself--- 1966. Back then, Aurora\u2019s police force consisted of around 85 officers and 15 civilian employees. Today, we have over 300 officers and 100 civilians.\nSince my office is in the basement, I can only speak of the challenges I face every shift. However, I\u2019m sure the 2nd and 3rd floor occupants can contribute even more workplace hardships.\nThere is no argument that we have needed a new police station for many years. I have yet to hear people say that we should maintain our current building--- especially after they have set foot into it. However, I have fielded some politely inquisitive and carefully worded questions about the new headquarters. Frequently, these are to the tune of, \u201cDo you guys really need something so massive?\u201d (Judging from my experience in the basement alone, I\u2019m probably the wrong person to ask because I want to sing a litany of \u201cYessssses!\u201d whenever I am asked.)\nTo be honest, I look at these questions as an opportunity to educate whoever is asking. I am a citizen of Aurora. I pay taxes here and I send my children to the public schools here. Because I wear two hats, I understand the citizens who wonder if too much money was spent on our new headquarters especially in light of the current economic climate. (The new building began taking shape years ago and well before the economic downturn.) As taxpayers, it certainly is appropriate to ask the difficult questions to keep our city government accountable.\nSpeaking as a citizen, I also know that public safety is crucial to a successful city. I want our firefighters and police officers outfitted with state of the art tools to do their jobs.\nAs an Aurora police officer, I can tell you that our new police facility will change the way we do business. For you, it means if you are ever the unfortunate victim of a crime, we will have resources and equipment that we have never before had. And yes, it is housed in a beautiful, energy-efficient building that as police officers, we will be proud to call our own. It is a building that we will grow into as our force expands to meet the needs of an abundant city for years to come.\nThis police department is yours as much as it is ours.\nWell argued Lt. I hope some consideration will be given to you all even in the current difficult economic situation.\nYou;re a Lieutenant and your office is in the BASEMENT???\nAnd that powder needs to be looked into for signs of asbestos ASAP.\nSewer backups?\n(what's that smell you've discovered?)\nI can't believe this is happening in AURORA...sounds more like the PDHQ here in Fort Wayne!\nThere has to be something better...and for cheap.\nGetting the city motivated into placing the department's NEEDS in \"their\" agenda\" is usually the \"sticking point\".\nIt casn be done even with the budgetary restraints...\nGood luck...and stay safe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 7805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kxxv.com/story/34462101/alexis-jones-named-to-naismith-top-30-list", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GSAIKJ62CKMWMEXN7HMVI4YDUSVGL3RF", "length": 2095, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kxxv.com", "title": "Alexis Jones Named to Naismith Top 30 List - KXXV Central Texas News Now", "raw_content": "Alexis Jones Named to Naismith Top 30 List - KXXV Central Texas News Now\nAlexis Jones Named to Naismith Top 30 List\nRedshirt senior Alexis Jones represents Baylor women\u2019s basketball on the 2017 Naismith Top 30 list and remains in consideration for the 2017 Naismith Women\u2019s College Player of the Year award. She is the only Big 12 Conference player included on the list.\nThe list of 30 will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists on March 2, 2017. Brittney Griner is the only Lady Bear to win the prestigious honor, receiving the Naismith Trophy in 2012 and 2013.\nJones is the offensive leader for Baylor, averaging 14.9 points per game and shooting a team-high 42.9 percent from three-point field goal range. She has played her way to three double-doubles, including her first career triple-double against No. 20/20 Oklahoma with 24 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. The Irving, Texas, native is the only player to record a triple-double in the Big 12 this season and only the second player at Baylor to accomplish the feat all-time (Brittney Griner, 5 in points-rebounds-blocks categories).\nJones averages 5.1 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, while shooting an efficient 43.8 percent from the floor and 73.7 percent from the free throw line. The 2016 WBCA and Associated Press honorable mention All-American has reached double figures in scoring 18 times, in rebounding three times and twice in assists so far this season.\nIn less than two complete seasons at Baylor, Jones is second all-time in career three-point field goal percentage (41.4), fourth in assist average (4.6) and eighth in three-point field goals made (124). She has set career-highs in six different categories this year, including points (30), rebounds (12), field goals made (11), field goal attempts (25), three-point field goals made (6) and three-point field goal attempts (13).\nJones was also named one of 10 finalists for the 2017 Nancy Lieberman Award and one of 19 players on the midseason watch list for the 2017 Dawn Staley Award this week. She is also in consideration for the 2017 Wooden Award and 2017 Wade Trophy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 118.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laurafortune.com/blog/2016/11/14/that-was-a-craft-show", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4G4F6LL7KFWOY6YLJGTERVN6ISQOTLXV", "length": 2358, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.laurafortune.com", "title": "That was a Craft Show! \u2014 Laura Fortune", "raw_content": "That was a Craft Show!\nNovember 14, 2016 JewelryLaura FortuneComment\nThis past weekend I participated in my first Renegade Craft Show. The Renegade has been having shows for over a decade and they travel all over the country and now internationally. It provides an event and space for artists to present and sell their handmade goods directly to the customer. It was the NYC Holiday Market, which is the best show of the year to participate in, from what I heard.\nSo many others vendors and attendees ask, \"how is the show going for you?\" I generally said, \"I think it's good, I don't know, I don't have any reference because it's my first time participating.\" What I did know was that I worked my ass off leading up to the show and I was just glad to have pulled it all together to make it to the show and present my work in an orderly fashion.\nI love what I do. I love working with my hands and I love designing and problem solving and I love color and humor and I get to throw all of those things into a bunch of stuff I make on my own. I understand it is hard to understand the process that enameling entails and what it means when I say, I make everything, when there is so much to look at. One man stood out in my mind and he was an older gentleman with a Plenty of Fish t-shirt on, clearly a fan of Broadway. He understood the processes of metal fabrication and enameling and he stood over my table asking a few questions and after he received the answers he needed he looked up at me with wide eyes and said, \"well I can see this is ALL you do. I actually like to do things, like go see Hamilton.\" I laughed heartily because he was totally right. I didn't have much of a life or spare time while working on this show. Even if the process of my work isn't understood, I saw people's faces light up when they saw my table and that was a great feeling. After the events of this week, my heart was deflated and I considered that people might not be up for attending a craft show or in the mood for seeing a bunch of silly colorful work, but they were still there and I think it was a great event for people to come together. The smiles that came from the discovery of an enameled Cheeseburger Box were pretty fabulous, too.\nSo \"how was the show for you?\"\n\"I think I'm on the right track and it was pretty awesome. Thanks for asking.\"\nLaura FortuneJewelry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.learningfromlynn.com/2009/10/live-what-you-believe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ECXMGDSXDTUKTNDWU4TL5Z6MYLRHU52V", "length": 2792, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.learningfromlynn.com", "title": "Learning from Life: Live what you believe!", "raw_content": "I love this story, see if after reading this it reminds you of someone you know. They are the best living proof of the scriptures that you know! We all need to be more like this and we definitely need more friends like this, if we did then think what a better place this world would be.\nThanks for the examples of kindness you have been to me. Good night dear friends.\n\"PREACH THE GOSPEL AT ALL TIMES AND WHEN NECESSARY USE WORDS.\" ~St. Francis of Assisi\nHis name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college. He is brilliant. Kind of profound and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college.\nAcross the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it.\nOne day Bill decides to go there. He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has already started and so Bill starts down the aisle looking for a seat. The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat. By now, people are really looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything. Bill gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit, and when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet.\nBy now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick. About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Bill. Now the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit. A godly man, very elegant, very dignified, very courtly. He walks with a cane and, as he starts walking toward this boy, everyone is saying to themselves that you can't blame him for what he's going to do. How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?\nIt takes a long time for the man to reach the boy. The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man's cane. All eyes are focused on him. You can't even hear anyone breathing. The minister can't even preach the sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.\nAnd now they see this elderly man drop his cane on the floor. With great difficulty, he lowers himself and sits down next to Bill and worships with him so he won't be alone.\nEveryone chokes up with emotion. When the minister gains control, he says, \"What I'm about to preach, you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will never forget.\" \"Be careful how you live. 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They should \u201cBuild houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.\u201d\nAs Christians we are in a similar situation as the exiled Israelites, living in a fallen world and pagan culture and knowing this is not our ultimate destination. 1 Pet describes us as \u201caliens and strangers in the world.\u201d One of the ongoing struggles of the Christian faith is how to live in this place which we know is not our home, but continue to build houses, marry, work, and do all the things that would indicate that we intend to live here for the long haul. How do we love our city, seek its welfare and pray to the Lord on its behalf, yet not place our hope in it?\nMatt and I have been trying to flesh this out together for almost ten years. I\u2019m not sure we have any more clarity on it now than we ever have. In fact, we feel more and more like this is the never ending work of the Christian life, and there are no clear paths. One specific decision recently has been how we want to proceed with our children\u2019s education. We desire to continue to be the primary influence in their lives and be their primary educators, so we consider homeschooling. However, we also strongly desire for our family to continue to be involved in our neighborhood and community through the local public school.\nChoices like this make me crave the rules and laws the Israelites had; laws that could tell me how to live among my neighbors. But the gospel provides no rules or regulations. There are no shortcuts or sure-fire ways to raise children who love God and the community while not giving them over to the pagan culture. These kinds of choices humble me and remind me that I have no idea what I\u2019m doing!\nFor now we muddle along. We will keep making our home here and seeking the welfare of our city. We will also continue to impress upon our children that this is not our true home and that our hope lies in Christ alone. As far as education, we will see where we end up. 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In September 2016 a new Digital Framework will be brought out by the Welsh Assembly Government that will sit alongside the current Literacy and Numeracy Framework.\nWe at Llwyncrwn are embracing the advances in technology and endeavour to offer your children every opportunity. Therefore we are introducing \u201cCloud Technology\u201d into the school; every child will have a Google Apps for Education account created for them, with an individual username and password. Here they will be able to access Google Documents, Slides, Sheets, Sites and much more. The main benefit for the children is that they will be able to access work they do in school at home and vice versa without the need to store anything on a memory pen; they will be able to share documents with other children and their teachers and also work collaboratively on a task. 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In fact, the human body is composed of 70% water. However, that same water can do harm to your body if not purified. Unfiltered water contains chlorine, fluoride, dioxins, parasites, etc. that could be hazardous to your health.\nQuality water treatment systems are designed to deliver better-tasting, purer drinking water while protecting your family from the various undesirable elements which can be found water. A quality water system offers more than just cleaner drinking water, it also improves your way of life.\nHealthier Water\nIf you are like some people out there, you say \u201cI have been drinking unfiltered water for years and I never get sick\u201d. Some diseases take time to present visible signs, but it doesn\u2019t mean they are not in your body. 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Some simply do not like the smell or taste of chlorine, with our systems we can get that out of your water.\nThere are different options for home treatment systems.\nPoint-of-Use (POU) systems treat water at a single tap. POU systems can be installed in various places in the home, including the counter top, the faucet itself, or under the sink.\nPoint-of-Entry (POE) systems treat water used throughout the house. POE systems are installed where the water line enters the house.\nLowes Plumbing Inc. Installs All Types of Water Treatment Systems\nPoint of Entry (POE) devices are intended to treat all the water supply of a house or building. These are typically called \u201cwhole house treatment units.\u201d Because the water is treated as it comes into you home, your family will benefit from clean water in the bathroom, the kitchen\u2026even the laundryroom! You may be thinking \u201cWe don\u2019t drink water from the laundryroom.\u201d No, but your washer, and household appliances that use water, will benefit from longer-life and your clothes will be cleaner and softer.\nSave on Cleaning\nTired of constantly cleaning and buying cleaning products to remove lime and scale from water fixtures and from the walls of your shower?\nExtend the Life of Your Appliances\nA whole house water treatment system from Lowes Plumbing, Inc. will remove undesirable elements from hard water including iron, lead, dirt and rust \u2013 while extending the life of your pipes, washer, hot water heater and dishwasher.\nPrevents Scale Build-up\nInside your pipes and hot water appliances, the damage is not readily seen but the scale build-up is concentrated in smaller areas \u2013 it coats the heating elements and it clings to the inner surfaces of pipes and tanks. In time, the carrying capacity of the pipes gradually reduces so that they become blocked and have to be replaced. Lime scale has been known to increase energy bills by up to 25%.\nWhat a whole house water treatment system from Lowes Plumbing, Inc. can do for you\nProvide better tasting, clearer water\nAlleviate skin irritation caused by showers and baths in hard water\nReduce the \u2018scum\u2019 buildup around baths, sinks and toilets.\nReverses the damage caused by limescale build-up\nIncrease water flow\nPoint-of-use (POU) water treatment devices are designed to treat small amounts of drinking water for use in the home. These devices can sit on the counter, attach to the faucet, or be installed under the sink. They differ from point-of-entry (POE) devices, which are installed on the water line as it enters the home and treat all the water in the building.\nTap water, while safe to drink, can sometimes have taste and odor issues that some people might find objectionable. Taste and odor of tap water usually come from disinfectants such as chlorine.\nReverse Osmosis Water Treatment Systems\nReverse osmosis (RO) systems remove just about everything from water, leaving little more than plain H 2 0. Home RO systems use a carbon filter to remove chlorine, and then force the water at high pressure through a semi-permeable membrane and possibly onto even more filtration stages. They are more expensive than other filters, but offer the most advanced water filtration.\nUltraviolet Light Water Disinfection Systems are an effective way to provide yourself with bacteria free water, without the taste and odors from the use of chlorine or other chemicals. Ultraviolet light, at the germicidal wavelength of 253.7 nanometers, alters the genetic (DNA) material in cells so that bacteria, viruses, molds, algae and other microorganisms can no longer reproduce. 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ANB has a 120 year heritage in West Texas. We are 100% family owned with no outside stockholders, so our focus is on our customers.\u2026 read more\nOne step inside and you'll see the whole new approach to banking. ANB has a 120 year heritage in West Texas. We are 100% family owned with no outside stockholders, so our focus is on our customers. The bank was founded in 1892 shortly after the city of Amarillo was established. B.T. Ware, a well-known cattleman, merchant banker, and one of the earliest settlers in the Amarillo area purchased the bank in 1909. His descendants have been the driving force behind the bank ever since, helping it become the largest, 100% family-owned bank in the nation. Texas Monthly named the Ware family \u201cBankers of the Century\u201d in 1999. Today, the bank is run by the 3rd, 4th and 5th generation of Wares.\nHaving no outside shareholders allows ANB to focus on the long term, not next quarter. Decisions are made for the customers, not the family. 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Close to 3,000 people attended the event last year! Come out this year on Saturday, February 2, at the Lynn University Mary Ann and Harold Perper Intramural Field from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.\nFamily Fun Day will once again feature sport-specific clinics, interactive games, inflatables and much more! Lynn\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer teams will host an all-ages soccer clinic from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.\nLynn student-athletes will continue to actively participate with attendees through sport-specific clinics and drills, plus inflatables, interactive games, prizes, exhibitor booths and food vendors. There will also be a Lynn basketball doubleheader versus Eckerd. All of the events and activities are completely FREE!\nAll guests must complete a waiver prior to entering the event. Please stop by the registration tent on event day to complete a waiver for each person in your group.\nFor more information, contact Lynn University's Director of Athletics Marketing, Alex Perez at 561.237.7918 or email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 3664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lynnfightingknights.com/sports/bsb/2017-18/releases/20180425z354xc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4NTD5KND4DAUKLSCPRUJX2LHI25A7EYC", "length": 2345, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.lynnfightingknights.com", "title": "Baseball Falters Late in Loss to Keiser - Lynn University", "raw_content": "Keiser (35-15) 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 8 11 2\nLynn (20-24) 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 5 10 4\n2B: Carlos Pena 2\nHR: Karsten Sherman\n2B: Alec Ojeda 2\nWest Palm Beach, Fla. \u2013 The Lynn University baseball team led into the late innings on Wednesday night at the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, but a four-run ninth inning by Keiser proved too much to overcome as the Seahawks claimed an 8-5 victory in non-conference action. Alec Ojeda had a team-high three hits, while both starting pitchers earned no-decisions for their efforts.\nScores: Keiser 8, Lynn 5\nRecords: Lynn 20-24, Keiser 35-15\nLocation: FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches | West Palm Beach, Fla.\nAll-time Series: Lynn leads, 20-6 (Lynn won head-to-head last year)\nOjeda's three-hit effort was his 10th multi-hit game of the season and second game with three or more hits. He had a pair of doubles off the wall in left field and drove in one run with a run scored.\nGabe Martinez tallied a two-hit game, giving him 18 multi-hit games this season. The senior outfielder scored a run and finished the evening 2-for-5.\nShayne Fontana had a two-hit night, reaching on a bunt single in the fourth inning and a base hit to right field in the sixth inning. He also drew a walk and scored a run in the loss.\nPatrick Dorrian drew three walks on the night, tying his career-high for a single game.\nJonathon Wake logged a career-high six innings as he got the nod on the mound for the Blue and White, turning in a quality start with just three earned runs allowed. He walked two and struck out five while allowing seven hits.\nRyan Orender and Zack Miednik each worked a scoreless inning out of the bullpen in relief of Wake.\nBilly Facteau shouldered the loss as he was charged with three earned runs in the ninth inning.\nDorrian's first-inning walk extended his current streak of reaching base via hit, walk or hit-by-pitch to 50 games dating back to last season. He has reached base safely in all 43 games he has played this season.\nMartinez and Dorrian are tied for the most multi-hit games on the team with 18 apiece.\nWith Ojeda notching a three-hit game, Lynn has 11 players this season who have recorded three or more hits in a single game.\nThe Fighting Knights hit the road to Georgia this weekend as they take on Augusta State in a three-game series. 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But he was referred to the RG\u2019s office in Chinhoyi to verify why he appeared on the exclusion list.\n\u201cIt was devastating to be told that I\u2019m a dead man walking. I was told to go and rectify the mistake with the registrar-general, which is taking most of my time when I should be fending for my family,\u201d he told The Standard.\nZEC\u2019s Mashonaland West boss Austin Ndlovu confirmed Chateka\u2019s case, but said the RG\u2019s office was the only department that was competent enough to deal with the issue.\n\u201cYes, we received such a case and we have since advised the concerned person to go and rectify the issue at the Registrar-General\u2019s office before coming back to register again,\u201d he said.\nInvestigations revealed that Chateka\u2019s case was not an isolated one.\nSome registered voters in Mashonaland West have reportedly been told that they were dead when they tried to check their details on the provisional voters\u2019 roll prepared by ZEC.\nThey have been told to go to the RG\u2019s office to confirm their existence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.magazinesworld.org/2017/09/use-of-local-search-result-to-improve-your-business.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ERD2BEOFRFUKOU36BO5O7KMNNDLCGS3D", "length": 3549, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.magazinesworld.org", "title": "Use of local search result to improve your business", "raw_content": "Use of local search result to improve your business\nUse of the Internet to promote one\u2019s business has gained a huge traction in India. Nowadays, we see a lot of companies both small and big spending huge amount of money on advertisement campaign on the digital media. However, before you jump on this bandwagon, it would be prudent on your part to ask yourself whether the product or services you are selling has a global appeal or is its importance limited to the local market only. If the answer is a local market, then it would make sense to focus more on the local search results rather than the global ones.\nIf you are in Indian company trying to market products to the local market, you should take the help of an SEO company in India to get better results. The local SEO companies have a greater understanding of the tastes and preferences of the local people. To improve local search engine result, SEO companies use a gamut of strategies that include listing your website in the directories of search engines like Google, Bing, Four square, Super pages and others. This allows them to include your website in any search result.\nIf you are targeting the India audience, then hiring an SEO India company makes a lot of sense. They can easily advertise your company\u2019s website on those pages, where most of your potential client go. This will help you to target your focused group more intensely. Now, SEO strategies involve a lot of steps that are taken sequentially to get the best result for a client\u2019s website. Some of these steps include; Analysis of a website, understand the client\u2019s requirements, keyword research, content writing, website optimization, SEO submission, link building and reporting among a host of others.\nThe importance of the usage of local search content can be gauged from the fact that 46 percent of all Google search is local. Therefore, employing an SEO India company will give a boost to your advertisement campaign as they know the market and the people of an area more closely. It has been observed that a person who does a local search try to find some particular brand, however, a large number of the local searches are not directed towards a particular brand. If you have a presence on the Internet platform, then you can target these people through similar kind of product or services they are looking on the Internet. Being near them will allow you to serve their needs in a better way as compared to some business selling a similar product that is situated in a different city.\nResearch has shown that focusing on local search results have increased the conversion rate tremendously compared to another form of traditional advertisement. When somebody looks for some product in a particular city, then online directories like Foursquare, Cityscape direct the search towards those business websites that have a presence in that city or place. As more and more people are using mobile phones to search for different things on the Internet, the use of local search has also risen dramatically. In addition, local search gives you a greater return on Investment than say traditional advertisement methods as the search is totally based on the needs of the customers.\nYou can increase your business by getting listed in the Google My Business. This absolutely free service from Google increases the chance of your website being discovered in any local search. All these features make the local search a vital element in any SEO strategy and therefore should be employed effectively to get the desired results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mangaloretoday.com/main/Puttur-Temple-priest-says-executive-officer-has-no-right-to-slap-notice-on-him.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ANYGLQB6TWU6SWKBMGO5CF7I3V2FC3K2", "length": 1148, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mangaloretoday.com", "title": "Puttur: Temple priest says executive officer has no right to slap notice on him", "raw_content": "Puttur: Temple priest says executive officer has no right to slap notice on him\nPuttur, May 27, 2016 : The issue regarding the show cause noticed served to a priest of the Puttur Mahalingeshwara Temple over the issue of him contesting the assembly election in Kerala, has taken a new twist with the priest Kuntaru Ravish Tantri in his reply to the notice stating that the temple executive officer holds no right to slap notice on him.\nThe submission made by Tantri in response to the notice states that as he was appointed by the Religious and Endowment Department as per the instructions of the Deputy Commissioner, the Executive Officer of the Temple had no right to serve notice on him.\nHe even pointed out that the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act does not bar a priest from being identified with any political outfit nor from contesting elections.\nThe submission by the priest also stated that he should be allowed to carry on his duties in the temple as earlier and that he has been discharging his duties with dedication and devotion. 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In the 90\u2019s, the poet became an icon in Madison, WI writing rhymes and prose, drawing fantastical illustrations, and composing folk lyrics that achieved great commercial success. Sugar Hill Records released the album on June 8th, 2010 after three years in the making. The tracks on \u201cTwistable Turnable Man\u201d were recorded at multiple studios around the United States and produced by both Bobby Bare Sr. and Jr.The album has a lineup of musicians so talented that if you don\u2019t already have their solo albums, you\u2019ll want to purchase them along with the Silverstein tribute. On Twistable Turnable man, John Prine sings a song called \u2018This Guitar is for Sale\u2019 in the classic silly song voice that made tunes such as \u201cIllegal Smile\u201d such big hits. There are songs from successful artists as diverse as Kris Kristofferson, My Morning Jacket, Dr Dog, and The Boxmasters.\nAlthough Sugar Hill Records has no plan of releasing the tribute on vinyl, it\u2019s a good CD to put on your personal music player. It\u2019s an album that you can laugh out loud with or think soft deep thoughts to behind your headphones while passersby marvel about what you\u2019re listening to. With silly Silverstein lyrics in songs like \u2018A Boy Named Sue\u2019 covered by Todd Snider and more serious songs like \u201c\u2018The Ballad of Lucy Jordan\u2019 by Lucinda Williams you can choose a song for any mood of the day. The only song on the album not penned by Silverstein is Andrew Bird\u2019s \u201cThe Twistable, Turnable Man Returns\u201d but his affection for Shel\u2019s style is obvious and his voice is eerily similar to Jack Johnson\u2019s.\nThe biggest thing Twistable Turnable Man will inspire you to do, though, is to seek out more of Silverstein\u2019s poetic and artistic work. You can find Silberstein\u2019s work in many different forms all over media stores in the country. Though Silverstein spent a lot of time working in Madison, WI his work was known all over the world. Silverstein passed away in May of 1999 and a music album turned out to be a wonderful way to pay homage to this influential artist. You can find the official press release at www.sugarhillrecords.com/publicity.\nMusical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein Online:\nCD: Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein Record Label: Eagles Records\n\u2022 Purchase Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein on Amazon\n\u2022 Download Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein on Amazon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medbury.co.nz/about-us/award-winning-teaching-staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VS3CHQ6IQECRRYKXHPI5YL2ITHALXQVW", "length": 1299, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.medbury.co.nz", "title": "Award Winning Teaching Staff \u00bb Medbury Independent School for Boys", "raw_content": "About Us Award Winning Teaching Staff\nAt Medbury, we are very proud of the calibre of our staff whose common goal is to 'Unlock Every Boy's Potential', and they are all committed to creating an environmnet which encourages, motivates and challenges the boys. Medbury employs more than 70 full and part-time staff, including teachers, administration, grounds and maintenance, catering and boarding staff. Our continuing professional development programme ensures that all our teachers and managers are up to date with the best practises in teaching and learning and further developing and enhancing their skills.\nNZ's Most Inspiring Teacher 2013\nMicah Hocquard was announced as the winner of the Primary School division for the 2013 Warehouse Stationery NZ's Most Inspiring Teacher at the end of October.\nMr Hocquard has been at Medbury since 2009 and is currently a Year 8 teacher and a specialist Science and Maori teacher. He was nominated by one of his current students, Sam Howard, who secretly completed the nomination form online and then campaigned amongst his fellow students to ensure Mr Hocquard won the title.\nPlease click here to read Sam's entry on the official NZ's Most Inspiring Teacher website and please click here to read some of the press coverage of Micah's well deserved award.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medicalskincentre.com.au/opening-hours-extended-11pm-weekdays-5pm-saturdays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:23Z", "digest": "sha1:7OMONPI7AIOTQ2DWZ3GHXPHIADNAHFZJ", "length": 309, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.medicalskincentre.com.au", "title": "Opening Hours Extended - to 11pm Weekdays, 5pm on Saturdays, and 3pm on Sundays | Main Street Medical and Skin Centre", "raw_content": "Opening Hours Extended \u2013 to 11pm Weekdays, 5pm on Saturdays, and 3pm on Sundays\nCommencing the 16th July, our opening hours will be extended to 11pm Weekdays, and to 5pm on Saturdays and to 3pm on Sundays. 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At least they taped some episodes before the Writer's Strike, which, by the way, really needs to come to some sort of agreement because I don't think I can hold out for too much longer.\nWell for any of you Lost fans, here are some good sites:\nhttp://lost-media.com/\nhttp://www.lost.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 6185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 172.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.memorialumccc.org/guests/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MCM756B5VTSDFPXGL5SUYJ3G2CKRMBGO", "length": 524, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.memorialumccc.org", "title": "Guests \u2014 Memorial United Methodist Church", "raw_content": "Welcome to Memorial!\nWe\u2019re so glad that you\u2019re interested in finding out more about Memorial United Methodist Church in Charles City. From this website, you can get information on driving directions, worship times, and what to expect on Sunday mornings. We genuinely believe that something significant is going on at Memorial UMC and we are always eager to share it with others. Please make plans to come and worship with us this Sunday, and find out for yourself what God is doing in and through the fellowship at Memorial!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.metalcertima.pt/en/quality.10/standards_of_quality_management.16/quality_management_system.a16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XYKFB6UOMK56FQHI5QIG6AV4KF7AJVFS", "length": 1427, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.metalcertima.pt", "title": "Quality Management system", "raw_content": "Our Quality Management System aims to satisfy both our customers and employees.\nThe Quality Management of Metalc\u00e9rtima covers all procedures in every department. The NP EN ISO 9001 Certification, which is has been achieved since 2000, was the natural outcome of the efforts invested in standardizing every production process. Furthermore, this Certification has been renewed every year thus assuring that the Quality standards are respected. Quality Management engages each and every worker, from the Administration to the Production area.\nIn order to achieve its goal, Metalc\u00e9rtima has technical and human resources fully capable to develop and manufacture equipments according to the clients\u2019 needs. This is accomplished by fulfilling all international requirements and standards regarding the project, manufacture, installation, assistance and safety of the equipments. The NP EN ISO 9001 Certification clearly states the quality of our products and services.\nBy making use of the suitable technical and human resources, METALC\u00c9RTIMA constantly monitors and controls all development methods, production processes, equipment installation and after-sale services. All actions are evaluated according to pre-established procedures so that we can continuously improve our products.\nIn order to gain our clients trust, Metalc\u00e9rtima\u2019s Quality Management System was certificated by the Portuguese Certification Association (APCER).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mgmtrialservices.com/testimonials/philip-c-federico-esquire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DQQ25NJPGMIUEAE3KZ2KOT7PBM6IMEXJ", "length": 3681, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mgmtrialservices.com", "title": "Philip C. Federico, Esquire - MGM Trial Services", "raw_content": "Philip C. Federico, Esquire\nSchochor, Federico & Staton\nHello! My name is Philip Federico and I\u2019m with the law firm of \u201cSchochor, Federico and Staton\u201d in Baltimore, Maryland. I am a trial lawyer, have been for almost 30 years, and do trial work not only in Maryland but virtually every state in the country.\nMost recently tried a case in Florida, Palm Beach Florida with the assistance of Mike Miller and MGM Trial Services. I\u2019ve been working with Mike for 10-15 years now. Frankly I couldn\u2019t imagine at this point ever trying a case without him. I am sure there are other companies out there that do this kind of work, audio-visual work and trial preparation work. It has been my experience that working with Mike and MGM is different than working with other companies. The reason I know that is, on the other side of most of my cases is not all of my cases. There are people who do the same type of work, but not as well.\nThe interesting thing about Mike and his company is it\u2019s just not an audio-visual tech person who\u2019s there to help you, but Mike is involved in the preparation for trial. In the trial itself from the standpoint that he understands the medicine that\u2019s involved or the issue that\u2019s involved, whether it\u2019s a medical malpractice case or any other kind of civil case, so that he can offer advice and suggestion based on his experience and his expertise in using audio-visual aids that greatly enhance your presentation. He\u2019s been invaluable to me in that regard.\nFor example, when it comes time for preparing for trial, Mike is actually part of the process of actual trial preparation for each witness and the opening statement. Consequently the way that I prepare for trial, and I think you\u2019ll find a way that you prepare for trial with the assistance of Mike and MGM, is you will better understand what\u2019s important in your case. What records are most important, how anatomical drawings or other audio-visual aids can be of assistance, so that when it\u2019s time for you to prepare your opening statement you\u2019ll have the benefit of really you will have created a mini-film, if you will, to present to the jury.\nAs we all know as trial lawyers, you know you get a first chance to make a first impression and which is very, very important from the standpoint that you want to grab the jury\u2019s attention immediately. What better way to do it in this day and age is with an audio-visual presentation? If you look at some of Mike\u2019s work, you\u2019ll see that the opening statements that he puts together are much like watching a TV show, a news report or a documentary or a movie. That gives your case a new added credibility number one. Number two, what it really does is it maintains the jury\u2019s attention.\nWe live in an age where people\u2019s attention spans are less and less. Really utilizing Mike and his services and the benefit of the audio-visual presentation does make a tremendous difference. Once you get into the trial portion of the case, there\u2019s nothing more effective on cross-examination than having to your side an audio-visual presentation, the deposition of a defendant, exactly what he said highlighted, ready to go. A good example is that Mike knows ahead of time what questions you\u2019re going to ask, what the answer should be and exactly what page to pull up like that on queue when it\u2019s time to do so.\nI\u2019ve been in cases where you watch text from the side other side, fumble around for minutes to the point where jury start giggling or the lawyer loses their attention. The lawyer loses their attention. 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Alstad painted \"I love you too\" on the left bank of the river in response to the German words on the right bank \"ich liebe dich\" (i love you).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michaelburtch.org/city-flooded-with-calls-favouring-nudes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FWKJJ4DP7WKXVNZHDCMEHPUDNO52VNID", "length": 5490, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.michaelburtch.org", "title": "CITY FLOODED WITH CALLS FAVOURING NUDES | MICHAEL BURTCH: ARTIST", "raw_content": "City Hall has been inundated with telephone calls, mostly from residents who want to see the three bronze nude statues reinstalled as they are at the the John Rhodes Community Centre.\nMayor John Rowswell said he's received between 80 and 100 telephone calls and e-mails, with only three or four suggesting the Corpus Mobilis figurines by artist Michael Burch should be reinstalled.\n\"There's now question that the mayor's office has received a lot of calls,\" he said Wednesday.\nRowswell said he didn't see the trio of statues after they were installed at the Rhodes Centre and he hasn't seen them since they were taken down on the orders of city staff.\nOn Monday, city council will deal with a resolution to reinstall the controversial statues.\nSaultites flood city phone calls\nThe resolution, moved by Ward 3 Coun. Pat Mick and seconded by Ward 1 Coun. James Caicco, calls for the reinstallation of the sculptures in the present form, subject to correction of any structural deficiency.\nThere were concerns about the safety of the brackets attaching the artwork to the building wall, but only one of the fasteners needed some reinforcement.\nThe motion also requests that Burtch be paid the outstanding $5,000 of the $15,ooo price of the commissioned work.\nBurtch, who is director of the Art Gallery of Algoma, sad he will be present at the council meeting and will be available.\n\"I think its good to clear the air,\" Burtch said. \"I've been overwhelmed by the response of the citizens of this city.\"\nBurtch said he believes the majority of Sault Ste. Marie residents are tolerant and open-minded and what has happened is no reflection of the city, \"but of a small minority.\"\nMick said she was asked to replace another council agenda-setting meeting Tuesday and decided it was an opportunity to put forth the resolution.\nMayor says 'controversy has been 'delightful'\nMayor John Rowswell says he couldn't be more delighted with the recent surge of energy that's resulted from the controversy surrounding the nude statues at the John Rhodes Community Centre.\nThe issue comes at a perfect time, when Sault Ste. Marie residents have been disheartened with the continued unknowns of Algoma Steel's financial situation and the fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Rowswell said.\nThe reaction created by the controversy surrounding Michael Burtch's Corpus Mobilis statues has jump started the Sault and wants to use it as a tool to have the community start working together to understand local problems and work with them.\n\"It's created a new positive, community energy,\" he said.\n\"This is the wrong kind of attention we want to convey. It's been on CBC and in the National Post,\" she said.\nMick said she's still not sure who is objecting to the artwork and attempts to find names, numbers and addresses of complainants to City Hall have been unsuccessful.\n\"All I've been told is that it's been people with young families,\" she said.\nNick Apostle, commissioner of community services, said earlier that public feedback to staff had been about 90-10 in opposition to the statues.\nMick suggests the situation may have gotten out of control after one or two suggestions or moments were made about the statues.\n\"Sometimes things get blown out of proportion and when you get down to brass tacks, there's not dozens of phone calls, there's only one or two,\" she says.\nResponses she's received since a story was published Saturday in the Sault Star indicating city hall was removing the statues and demanding modifications suggest that most people are pleased with the statues.\nCaico said, \"I've had representation from a wide cross-section of the community.I think I've had someone from every neighborhood in Ward 3 and it's been a good representation of the population,\"\nMick said, said reinstalling the statues is \"the right thing to do. I can't speak for all of council but I don't believe I was tricked or that I received something that I didn't approve.\"\nCaicco said that the overwhelming support of the community through phone calls and e-mails makes it clear what council should do Monday.\n\"Staff made a judgment call to take (the statues) down I'm not going to look back and question that. On Monday, council will decide where we go from here,\" he said.\nBoth Rowswell and CAO Joe Fratesi have indicated that Burtch's finished product differed from the concept approved by city council. Fratesi said the artist took \"some liberties\" and Rowswell said councillors didn't realize the sculptures would be nudes.\nRowswell said the statues came down after city staff conveyed messages that the bronzed figurines were too graphic and one female form detailed pubic hair.\n\"I agreed because that's not what was commissioned,\" Rowswell said.\nMeanwhile, support is mounting for the figures to be returned to the Rhodes Centre in their original form.\nThe Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution Wednesday supporting the council motion that the Rhodes Centre statues be replaced and not modified.\nChamber president Gary Dumanski said the chamber board and its members feels the statues are suitable for the community centre and has asked Caicco to pass on that message at Monday's council meeting.\nBurtch said he'd like the city to consider an arms-length funding agency for projects such as these, as it would help the city protect itself and the investment as well as those of the artists.\n\"It's something that I believe needs to be looked at seriously,\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.militarypress.com/the-devils-violinist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YKCFO6GDA2XPAOSA5AH2DONATELQZZFH", "length": 5696, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.militarypress.com", "title": "THE DEVIL'S VIOLINIST | Military Press", "raw_content": "In theatres from director/writer Bernard Rose and Freestyle Releasing come the intensity of emotion with THE DEVIL\u2019S VIOLINIST.\nThis film tells the story of Niccolo Paganini (David Garrett), a young man who is a violin genius in 1830 Europe. It was said that his talent had to be the devil\u2019s work and he had a reputation of being scandalous. Sleeping and drinking his money away, a man named Urbani (Jared Harris) offered his managerial services in an attempt to expand Paganini\u2019s audience.\nPledging his undying loyalty, Urbani\u2019s first plan was to bring Paganini to London by invitation of John Watson (Christian McKay) and Elisabeth Wells (Veronica). Watson finds the money as a last resort to his own good name to bring the violinist. Paganini wants nothing to do with the plan but a fast thinking Urbani makes it happen.\nArriving in London, they are greeted by journalist Ethel Langham (Joely Richardson) who makes it clear that she can make or break Paganini with her articles. Urbani takes Paganini to the Watson home where daughter Charlotte (Andrea Deck) sees nothing special about the musician.\nSoon Paganini and Charlotte would find each other through music, his violin and her voice that would bring London to its feet. But the forces of fate that Paganini had created on his own would come to take all he wanted away.\nFINAL WORD: Garrett as Paganini is one of the most perfect choices to play this role. Garrett, German born, received his first violin at the age of four. By age ten he was on stage with the Hamburg Philharmonic followed by recordings. Julliard School in New York would be his next stop by age 18 and studied with Itzhak Perlman.\nHis goal has been to introduce young people to classical music and THE DEVIL\u2019S VIOLINIST has the ability to do just that. From the moment Garrett is seen on the screen, this violinist exudes someone who not only loves music but sweats it out from his very being. Each scene Garrett plays in reinforces the story of a man driven by his music.\nHarris as Urbani is amazing in this role playing the babysitter of a tantrum-ridden musical genius! However, there is something untrustworthy and totally creepy about this character that never says straight out that he could, himself, be the Devil if anybody was. So well done, well done!\nSon of actor Richard Harris, Jared has put his own mark on film in SHERLOCK HOMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS and THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. For television fans, Harris has also made his mark as Lane Price in the series Mad Men on AMC.\nRichardson as Langham portrayed a woman journalist in a completely male dominated business. Finding herself after Paganini, Richardson\u2019s character quickly becomes a woman who knows how to handle herself when scorned!\nDeck as Charlotte has such an incredibly beautiful voice. Her screen debut came in the film LES MISERABLES. McKay as Watson is a twitchy man who has put everything he owns to the success of Paganini, I truly felt bad for him.\nTUBS OF POPCORN: I give THE DEVIL\u2019S VIOLINIST four tubs of popcorn out of five. This story is one that shares beauty along with such films as The Red Violin and Immortal Beloved. Taking the genius of Paganini and not hiding his flaws is what draws the viewer in.\nAdd in the beautiful costumes of the era and stunning sets designs bring a stunning film almost full circle. What completes it all is the heart wrenching, intense and glorious music that comes out of Garrett\u2019s violin. He gives the story of Paganini what it needed to portray the 18th century as a rock star who lives a rock star life.\nDirector Rose says of the star, \u201cDavid Garrett is not only a virtuoso violinist and a huge star in Germany and at once I was convinced that he could do this. He could certainly play the violin like Paganini \u2013 not a small feat \u2013 and without that there could be no movie in my opinion.\u201d\nAnd what fascinated violinist Garrett to play Paganini? \u201cPaganini was a brilliant violinist, but not just that. He\u2019s a legend. A completely new era began with him in regards to how we perceive an artist. Paganini marks the beginning of references to a \u2018virtuoso\u2019 in a mystifying way. His exceptional talent was attributed to miraculous powers and to every possible supernatural ability, even to a pact with the devil. The fact that virtuosity is mainly the result of hard work and rigorous discipline is completely pushed aside. I do see certain parallels to the situation today \u2013 and also to myself.\u201d\nGarret also says of the role of music in the film, \u201cThe music is supposed to support the story and vice versa. That\u2019s the best possible symbiosis. Paganini\u2019s virtuosity on the violin is irresistible. You can show that wonderfully with his music and when you make a film about a musician you have to see him in action. It\u2019s a tightrope walk, telling a story without allowing the music to dominate it\u201d.\nThe film gives a continual flow of storyline and music but, that being said, watching Garrett\u2019s performance and hearing the music can practically take the air out of the room! It is so beautiful not just in the listening but in viewing his performance playing the violin. It became so intense at times that it took me a moment to realize I was holding my breath!\nThe accompanying CD for the film is a must have. Garrett Vs Paganini has 14 stunning pieces played by Garrett who says, \u201cThe recording for the Paganini film was the most intense project I have ever undertaken. It has always been a special dream of mine to write and arrange music for a film\u201d. Along with duets with Andrea Bocelli, Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Morse, this is one CD that won\u2019t be leaving your player anytime soon.\nIn the end \u2013 fame is desire and love is a curse!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 9270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mindofwinner.com/problem-solving-skills/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HJIC4HIABYL7TNTYT46HV3IUCQDUFWYY", "length": 13076, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.mindofwinner.com", "title": "Problem-Solving Skills | Mind of a Winner", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \\ Business \\ Problem-Solving Skills\nThe measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. \u2013 John Foster Dulles\nEffective problem-solving and decision-making skills are vital to success in life.\nIn today\u2019s competitive and constantly changing world, more than ever before we need to develop skills like critical thinking, problem solving and the ability to cope with unfamiliar situations.\nYour career success will depend on your ability to solve problems quickly. Don\u2019t let this scare you, because like all other skills, problem-solving skills can be improved and practiced.\nIf you want to be an excellent problem solver, you need to have the right mindset, skills and strategies.\nThat\u2019s is exactly what this articles will teach you.\nProblem-Solving Mindset\nThe first step to successful problem solving is to develop a problem-solving mindset.\nHere are some tips that can help you to get the right mindset:\n1. Accept the Fact That Problems Will Never End\nHave you noticed that after you solve one problem, sometimes another problem appears? Life is a series of problems. They will never end. If you want to be successful you can\u2019t ignore or avoid problems, you must deal with them (immediately if at all possible). It\u2019s not easy to accept the fact that problems will never end, but if you don\u2019t accept it, you will always be surprised when a new problem appears.\nI have always secretly hoped that one day all my problems would end and there would be no new things to worry about. \ud83d\ude42 But there is no such thing like forever sunny days. We need to accept the fact that there will always be some challenges in our lives (and that\u2019s a good thing).\nAt work, people are paid to solve problems and problems are a main part of an employee\u2019s daily routine.\nIn fact, \u201cproblem\u201d is just another word for a situation that we don\u2019t know how to deal with. That means that when we solve problems, we actually learn something new. Without problems, there is no learning and growing.\nInside of every problem lies an opportunity. \u2013 Robert Kiyosaki\nSuccess in life is a result of constantly solving bigger and bigger problems. The bigger problems you solve, the more successful you will be.\nPrograms like Subliminal Messages can help you to change your mindset when it comes to problems.\n2. Develop A Solution-Oriented Mindset\nYour reaction after a new problem appears will greatly determine your success in life. If you constantly complain, obsess about the problem, and feel frustrated, you are probably too much problem oriented, instead of solution oriented.\nSolution oriented people think in advance about how to avoid potential problems, but at the same time, they are aware that there will be problems that they couldn\u2019t possibly predict. The difference in their mindset is that they don\u2019t complain, they act. They take responsibility immediately and try to find the best and the quickest solution for the problem.\nMany people spend their whole lives complaining about their bosses, government, spouses, etc. instead of focusing on how they can change their situation.\nIf you switch your mindset from, \u201cWhy is this happening to me?\u201d to \u201cWhat is the best way to deal with this situation?\u201d you are on the right path to developing a solution-oriented mindset :).\n3. Be a Problem Solver Today\nTomorrow \u2013 a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.\nThe best possible mindset to embrace is the mindset of solving problems quickly.\nWe tend to postpone things for tomorrow because our mind always idealizes future events. \u201cTomorrow I will make that call,\u201d \u201cTomorrow I will finish that report,\u201d \u201cTomorrow I will decide what to do.\u201d\nWill you be smarter, more motivated, more informed tomorrow? Probably not. If we just do a little bit more thinking today, we can solve 80% of problems as they appear.\nIf you receive a new email today but don\u2019t know how to respond to it, you might leave that email for tomorrow. If you do this, there is a great chance that tomorrow you will receive another similar email, and then you will have not one, but two problematic emails to answer.\nBe a problem solver today (and every other day)!\nOne you have the right mindset, there are certain (learnable) skills that you need to develop and practice in order to become an effective problem solver.\nThis interesting Tale of Two Pebbles illustrate the example of thinking outside the box and creative problem solving:\n\u201cMany years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer\u2019s young, beautiful daughter. So the moneylender proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer\u2019s debt if he could marry his daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal.\nSo the cunning money-lender suggested that they let providence decide the matter. He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag. 1. If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father\u2019s debt would be forgiven. 2. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father\u2019s debt would still be forgiven. 3. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer\u2019s field.\nAs they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed damsel/girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag.\nThe girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles. \u201cOh, how clumsy of me,\u201d she said. \u201cBut never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.\u201d Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed to be an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.\u201d\nWith a little bit of creativity and imagination we can find solutions to problems that we had thought were impossible to solve. The next time you have some problem you don\u2019t know how to deal with, try to use your imagination and try to find some other way that the problem can be solved.\nLateral thinking (thinking outside of the box) can make a huge difference in your life, especially in your career, as it will give you a huge advantage over your competition.\nVery often a problem persists, not because we can\u2019t tell which available solution is best, but because the best solution has not yet been made available \u2014 no one has thought of it yet. \u2013 Richard Paul\nInstead of following the crowd and doing the same as all the other people, why not take a look at the problem with our own eyes and come up with your own ideas?\nUsually there is more than one way to solve different problems in our life (including financial problems, relationship problems, health problems, etc.)\nIf you can just trust a little bit more in yourself, you would be surprised at how creative and innovative you can be.\nCritical thinking includes four steps: analyzing, evaluation, benchmarking and judgment.\nTo get your brain involved in the critical thinking process, ask open-ended question such as:\n\u201cWhere can I find more information about this problem?\u201d\n\u201cWhat else can I do to solve this problem?\u201d\nBy asking questions that stimulate your mind, you create a solution-thinking mindset.\n3. Curiosity and Persistence\nWhen we were kids, we were curious about everything. We asked questions and we wanted to understand the world around us.\nWhile we learned how to walk, we failed many times, but we didn\u2019t give up trying until we succeeded. Imagine what you could do today if you have the same persistence.\nAs adults, we often feel embarrassed when we don\u2019t succeed on the first or second try. We would rather quit then try again. Also, our creativity seems to vanish in our everyday routine.\nWhen it comes to problem-solving skills, without creative thinking, it is almost impossible to generate ideas; without critical thinking, it is impossible to evaluate ideas; and without persistence, it is impossible to implement ideas and get results.\nThere are many challenges throughout each day. Because of this, you should treat each day as an opportunity to train your brain to be more creative and curious. You can practice curiosity and creativity with simple things, like finding a new combination of clothes to wear, trying to cook a new delicious meal, choosing a different way to get to the work, arranging your house furniture differently, etc. If you constantly practice creativity, it will be easier for you to come up with creative solutions in more challenging situations, like how to deal with a difficult customer, how to earn more money, how to come up with business idea, and so on.\nThere are many other ways you can practice creative thinking every day, like brain training games. For example, I love Lumosity as there are so many different skills you can practice in this game.\nProblem-Solving Strategy\nIt\u2019s very hard to solve problems if you don\u2019t know where to start. That\u2019s why another important problem-solving skill to develop is a good strategy.\nThis is the part where you need to be able to set priorities, put things in the right order and think logically.\nAlthough this seems a bit complex, it actually isn\u2019t. There are certain rules you can apply to any problem-solving process to help make it easier to develop a strategy.\nThe first part of the problem-solving process includes discovering the problem, possible decisions and understanding the problem.\nThe second part includes researching all of the available options and taking necessary actions to solve the problem.\nI created a Problem-Solving Template that will help you structure any problem and create a solution plan.\nThese are the steps you will need to follow when filling out this problem-solving template:\nIdentify the problem and write a clear description\nA problem well put is half solved. \u2013 John Dewey\nWhen describing the problem, try to be as specific as possible. The clearer you are about what the problem really is, the more likely is that you will find an appropriate solution for it. After you have described the problem, you need to firmly decide that you will tackle it.\nMake a list of possible solutions and choose one of them\nList all the possible solutions, evaluate them and select the best option. If needed, take time to think, do the research, gather information, analyze and consult with people who might help.\nDefine a deadline\nIf you already know the deadline, write down the date. If not, estimate how much time you will need to solve this problem and come up with a deadline. It\u2019s very important to do this. You always need to be aware of how much time you have available to solve the problem.\nDefine all steps needed to solve the problem\nThis step requires brainstorming, thinking and planning. If you make an effort to plan in advance, you will be more clear on what you need to do next. Many people will not make an effort to plan in advance and that\u2019s why they can end up stuck with many unsolved problems.\nIt is very important that you monitor your progress as this will give you the motivation you need to keep going. Keep tracking and writing down things which you managed to achieve.\nWrite down the execution date\nThis is the easiest step. You already solved the problem; all you need to do now is write down the date that you took action. In this step you can review the whole process. Did you manage to finish everything before the deadline? What are the good things you did and what can be improved for the next problem?\nMany people are stuck in the belief that they are not good problem solvers. This mindset causes them to never do anything about it, allowing others to solve their problems for them.\nOn the other hand, a small percentage of people challenge themselves to solve bigger and bigger problems each day. Those people become leaders, inventors and the people who run the world.\nEfficient problem solvers get better salaries, better job positions, have more money and go through life more easily. There is no doubt that problem-solving skills are the ones you need to practice constantly. With the right mindset, strategy and a little bit of practice, you can become a good problem solver, too.\nWith good problem-solving skills, you will go through life with less struggle. It will be much easier to achieve your goals, and then you will become more valuable to society (everyone likes people who are problem solvers).\nProblems are only opportunities in work clothes. \u2013 Henry Kaiser (American industrialist)\nProblem-Solving Template.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 16696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mizahar.com/forums/topic26702-10.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HGEI24LCOLKLB3RYZ2MAEQSLI64QODDD", "length": 7955, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.mizahar.com", "title": "[Crypt's Scrapbook] A cup of tea, good sir? : Player Scrapbooks - Page 2", "raw_content": "My Scraps.\nby Crypt on November 11th, 2012, 12:30 am\nWe're one-third of the way, and I'm feeling burnt out. I'll be taking it easy today, and for the next few days, so I'll give Ronan and Clyde the chance to catch up to me.\nName of statistic Number\nWords so far 32988\nWords to go 17012\nMean number of words/day 3298.8\nPersonal rank on Tarot's list 3\nPeople meeting daily target (i.e. >=16667 words) 20\nMore or less the same result as yesterday. Good to see people trying! Still, there's 20 days left, so there's still time!\nLast edited by Crypt on November 12th, 2012, 12:00 am, edited 1 time in total.\nby Crypt on November 11th, 2012, 11:59 pm\nClyde's surpassed me! No surprise there, I've been taking a break, just writing at a slow speed. I'm going to do this until this weekend, then it's back to being the person that writes more than 4k words a day. I know, not the best title, but that's all I have.\nMean number of words/day 3175\nPersonal ranking in Tarot's list 4\nNumber of people meeting daily targets (>=18333 words) 19\nHave a dog, with stiff upper lip and all that.\nby Crypt on November 16th, 2012, 2:36 pm\nAnnnnnnnd..... An update! Well, I'm not doing the statistics thing any more, I'm simply too lazy right now. Exams have all ended and I'm trying to enjoy life now.\nWell, according to Tarot's list, I'm at 40091 words as of this morning, so that's pretty good. For me, that is. I've never written so much over the course of about 15 days, and that's a huge improvement. Sure, I've written some fanfiction - about 1000 words a day, but that's all . Congratulations to Clyde and Sliver for reaching the targets!\nIt has come to my attention that all my posts in my scrapbook are rather boring, depressing or downright offending, so here's another picture to brighten up your day/afternoon/night!\nAnd yes, even though I'm a male, I enjoy such things.\nCurses! A pox on holidays! I'm still on holiday and I've forgotten about NaNoWriMo. Well, that's it. I really hate to say this (Although it is true), but RL takes precedence over RP-ing, so it's over for me. Pity too. I'm short of about 5000 words, but I can't really write that much. Well, it's been a good run. Maybe next year I'll get it - if my schoolwork doesn't pile up. Isn't there an Excuses medal? I think Eri mentioned it in chat, but then again he's probably joking. Well, here's my clearly-fabricated excuse, just for kicks:\nHas anyone ever undergone an enema? Well, I have. And it was painful and embarrassing - excruciatingly so. You see, I didn't eat any vegetables or fruits for about three weeks, and in addition to my scurvy, which made most of my teeth fall out, I encountered the wonders of constipation, spending long hours in the toilet when I could have been writing for NaNoWriMo on Mizahar. When I finally sought medical care, to my utmost horror, they were out of laxatives, and the only option was via enema. Normally, I would never do such a thing, but my posterior was hurting rather badly. And so I did it.\nHalfway through the procedure, the enema device (or what was sticking into my anus) got stuck. The doctor and a nurse tried to simply pull it out, but it caused me too much pain for them to continue. As such, they had to operate on my rear end, widening the opening to ease the device out. A rather... unorthodox method, but they had only a short amount of time before the next patient went in.\nIt succeeded partially, the enema device being successfully removed, but a power outage occurred just as they were 'cleaning up'. The backup generators were up and running a few seconds later, but unfortunately, the doctor moved onto a particularly slippery spot on the floor and fell, bringing me down with him. Naturally, the scapel just had to fall at the right time to cut a very deep gash on the backs of both of my hands.\nThe bowel stimulant worked (I was defecating like crazy the next hour on the hospital bed - it was the best cathartic experience of my life), but I spent a week or two with both hands bandaged and unable to type much.\nThere. Done. It is rather poorly done - sub-standard, I feel - but it's an excuse.\nImage of the day:\nby Tarot on November 29th, 2012, 2:22 pm\nThe medal is real and will be named something along the lines of \"the dog ate my post\". Your story exemplifies the medal's concept to new heights of perfection...\nhowever, 5000 is perfectly manageable in two nights if you engage in a long-winded solo. It ain't over till it's over.\nTarot's thread tickets: sold out. Not accepting any more threads for the time being unless I promised you one. Sorry for the inconvenience!\nLocation: Moderation abilities game-wide\nThanks for your compliment and encouragement, Tarot\nNever realised that my contrived excuse was that good - I assume it's good enough to win that medal? If so, I'm really, really tempted to stop one word short (if I can accomplish such a feat - I don't really know how many words I have left since I made a post or two today) of the 50k goal.\nWell, I guess we'll see tomorrow. I'm reading 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shirer, and it's been a fascinating read so far, so if I get too distracted, I'm not going to make it. Books also take precedence over Mizahar for me, especially books about the Nazis.\nby Crypt on December 1st, 2012, 3:54 pm\nCongratulations to Sybel for being the Featured Character! I really should post in the interview thread, but I'm just too lazy to do so. I've role-played with her only once but it was rather enjoyable doing so - pity Crypt and Sybel didn't get into a fight; Crypt has a slight advantage in terms of combat, but Sybel has quite a large amount of tenacity, so the outcome won't be as clear. Still, she's done very well here in Mizahar. A toast (with a cup of tea) to Sybel!\nThis has got me all fired up about role-playing. I now have an irrational desire to sit at my desk and start writing like crazy. This desire is currently at war with my tendency to be very lazy (extremely, rather). Still, I'm going to try to develop Crypt's character and personality even more in this new, wintry season, even though he seems to be coming alive - who knows? One day he might be a Featured Character, despite the fact that he is partially unstable (The rather clich\u00e9 'madman', the insane fool, etc., etc., to the point of ad nauseam; honestly, I didn't know about all that until Kavala told me so). Quite a few experienced role-players display what appears to be some sort of disdain for this type of character. I hope to be able to overcome that, and make sure Crypt isn't just another of the abovementioned characters.\nImage of the night!\nGod bless you, Monty Python!\n[Crypt's Scrapbook] My Scraps.\nby Crypt on December 9th, 2012, 2:34 pm\nI've finally gotten a new avatar! Admittedly, it looks quite similar to a few avatars I've seen, but hopefully the difference is enough to allow me to keep this one. I edited the original picture (see his peculiar left eye?) with Paint, and you can see the discrepancies if you enlarge the picture. But Crypt's fine looking like this; rather dashing, if I do say so myself.\nAnyway, I'm trying to catch up with my solo threads that I've been neglecting for the past month - hopefully it all goes well, since Valkyrie promised to mod Morwen more than a month ago when I reach a certain stage in one of my threads. I'd hate to trouble her.\nHere's the picture of the day! It demonstrates the sheer immaturity of yours truly, so be warned! Might be too mature for children.\nby Crypt on December 15th, 2012, 9:50 am\nThis is Crypt's girlfriend. He has been hospitalized quite recently for a case of food poisoning, and as such is in no state to write. He asks that he be given some time to recuperate, and apologises for being unable to reply to any posts.\nby Crypt on December 22nd, 2012, 7:58 am\nI'm back! Hello there, everyone! I will be posting replies to everything I've missed over the past week or so, so don't worry!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 13423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mmatycoon.com/forums/index.php?s=901f58bf56d79aaca6f2db64ebd49212&showtopic=47049&page=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:34Z", "digest": "sha1:64CGDGAZGUU7DY5KOA6U22P2AEUGI2NN", "length": 12817, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.mmatycoon.com", "title": "Mike Tyson vs Muhammad Ali - Page 7 - General Discussion - MMA Tycoon - MMA Forum", "raw_content": "Started by bjornmma1, Nov 24 2014 11:30 PM\nboxing tyson mike muhammad ali fight\n#121 fbwellman\nfbwellman\nI said \"in his prime\" actually, not \"the best\". He was about 25 years old.\nBefore the Douglas/Tyson fight I didn't hear anyone saying Tyson was beyond his prime.\nThey were still talking about him being invincible that very night. The bookies (who know what they are talking about) were offering incredible odds to anyone they could find to back Douglas.\nAfter the fight, and ever since, it has been excuses from Tyson fans, and cherry-picking of history.\nTyson's career and record is there in black and white. One Tyson, one career.\nHe didn't prepare for Douglas and he lost. People who don't prepare for fights don't become \"The Greatest\".\nHe was great, one of the greatest, but not THE greatest. I watched his fights from amateur to the end. I thought I could be living in the era of the best heavyweight of all time (Ali was fighting Norton//BerbickSpinks/Holmes by the time I started watching fights as a kid so I knew I could never claim to have seen \"The Greatest\" at work unless someone emerged to outshine Ali).\nHonestly, I would have loved it if it had turned out that way, that Tyson - the fighter of MY generation, a man the same age as me more or less - would be The Greatest, and I would witness it all, but it didn't. Did it? Be honest.\nThose GOAT rankings that have Tyson somewhere between 8th and 14th have it right.\nGuess what????\n#122 clydebankblitz\nPeople who don't prepare for fighters can't be \"the greatest\".\nWell depending on your stance on steroids, the greatest MMA fighter of all time didn't fully prepare for anyone. In fact he got knocked out because he was bored of fighting and had just been messing around with everyone for a while.\n#123 Tycooner\n\"doesn't explain why he lost to Douglas when he was 25.\"\nok i thought i did explain\nher it is some of it in mike's own words\nTyson talks about his part in what many sport writers consider the biggest upset in sports history.\nOn January 8, 1990, I got aboard a plane to fly to Tokyo. Kicking and screaming. I didn\u2019t want to fight; all I was interested in then was partying and women. By the time we left, I had put on 30 pounds. Don King was so worried about my weight that he offered me a bonus if I would make my usual weight when we fought in a month.\nI didn\u2019t consider Buster Douglas much of a challenge. I didn\u2019t even bother watching any of his fights on video. I had easily beaten everybody who had knocked him out. I felt like my heroes Mickey Walker and Harry Greb. I read that Greb was so arrogant he\u2019d tell his opponents that he hadn\u2019t trained because \u201cyou are not worth me sweating for.\u201d So I followed his lead. I didn\u2019t train at all for the fight. My trainer, Anthony Pitts, would get up early in the morning and run with my sparring partner, Greg Page. But I didn\u2019t feel like it. Anthony would tell me that he\u2019d see Buster out there, digging in with his army boots on, snotsicles hanging off his nose, getting in his run.\nI couldn\u2019t eat since I was overweight and I wanted to lose the weight and win the bonus from Don, so I drank soup that was supposed to burn off fat. And then I had the cleaning ladies for the main course. It was ironic because you go to Japan and the women seem so shy and introverted but as soon as they\u2019re behind closed doors, ba-boom, it was on. People would ask me if I learned any sexual tips from the Japanese women, but I didn\u2019t have time to learn. This was no sex education course; this was a guy trying to get his rocks off.\nI didn\u2019t even have to pay the maids. But I did tip them heavily because I had a lot of that Monopoly-looking money they had over there. They must have been appreciative because they\u2019d come back and sometimes bring friends.\n\u201cMy friend would like to meet you, Mr. Tyson, sir. She would like to accompany us, sir.\u201d\nBesides having sex with the maids, I was seeing this young Japanese girl who I had had sex with the last time I was in Japan. My wife would go out shopping and I would go downstairs to the back of the hotel where this young girl had a room. She was only seventeen then and her father was very wealthy.\nI had her do the same thing this time. There were too many people on my floor and I didn\u2019t want Don or Rory or John or Anthony to know my business. They might have scared her; she was very shy around people. In the two years since I had seen her, she had matured a great deal.\nSo that was my training for Douglas. Every once in a while, I did show up to work out and spar. I was sparring with Greg Page ten days before the fight and I walked right into a right hook and went down.\nA few days later, Don opened up one of my sparring sessions to the public for $60 a head. I never saw any of that money, of course. We were supposed to spar for two rounds but I looked so bad that we stopped it after one and closed the session. Don was pissed off. He wanted to make a buck. He had no idea I was so out of shape. Don knew nothing about fighting. He couldn\u2019t tell the difference between a guy in shape or out of shape. He didn\u2019t even know how to tie a boxing glove.\nThe day before the fight I weighed in at 220\u00bd pounds, so I got my bonus. The day before the fight I also had two maids at the same time. And then two more girls, one at a time, the night before the fight.\nI wasn\u2019t following the story but apparently Douglas had a lot of motivation to do well in this fight. In July of 1989, he had been born-again. And then his wife left him, his baby momma got a terminal disease and early in January, while he was in camp his mother died. I didn\u2019t know any of that and I didn\u2019t care. HBO was making a big deal about Douglas fighting for his mother but my arrogance at the time was such that I would have said that he was going to join her that night.\nWe fought at nine a.m. because of the time difference back in the United States. Half of the arena\u2019s 63,000 seats were empty. Don was a lousy promoter. As soon as I got with him, everything just sunk. He was a dark cloud.\nIt wasn\u2019t the usual Tyson going into the ring. It was obvious to anyone who was watching that I really didn\u2019t want to be there. The fight started and I fought horribly. I was punching as hard as shit because I knew if I caught him right he wasn\u2019t going to get up, I didn\u2019t care how big he was. But I was hardly throwing. It was the least amount of punches I\u2019d ever thrown in a fight. He used his jab and his reach to throw me off my game and then when I tried to throw body shots, he just held me. He fought very well that night. But I was an easy target for him. I wasn\u2019t moving my head at all.\nHe wasn\u2019t intimidated by me. In fact, he was the one punching after the bell and on breaks. He was fighting dirty but that\u2019s just part of boxing, everyone did that. After the third round, I went back to my corner and it was obvious that my cornermen, Aaron and Jay, were in over their heads.\n\u201cYou\u2019re not closing the gap,\u201d Aaron said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to get inside, you\u2019re flat-footed in there.\u201d\nNo fucking shit. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you try to get inside?\u201d The guy had a twelve-inch reach advantage on me.\n\u201cGet back to what you know,\u201d Jay said. \u201cDo it. Let it go.\u201d\nEasy to say when you\u2019re not getting punched. I kept staring at the floor.\nDouglas rocked me in the fourth and the fifth. During the fifth round, my eye began to swell, but when I went back to the corner, they didn\u2019t even have the End-Swell to keep my eye open. I couldn\u2019t believe it when they filled what looked like an extra-large condom with ice water and held it to my eye.\nI was exhausted by the sixth round. My left eye was totally shut. But Buster looked tired too, especially when the seventh round began. But I couldn\u2019t get to him. In the eighth he wobbled me and had me against the ropes in the last 20 seconds. I was looking for one punch by then. I was still rocked by his punches, I couldn\u2019t focus, but I saw an opening. For the whole fight he had eluded me whenever I saw openings and I couldn\u2019t bridge the gap, but by then he was tired too and he couldn\u2019t move. So I threw my trademark right uppercut and down he went.\nThen I got screwed. The timekeeper was Japanese and the referee was Mexican and they spoke different languages and couldn\u2019t coordinate the count. When the ref was saying \u201cfive,\u201d Douglas had actually been on the canvas for eight seconds. So he got a long count. That\u2019s just part of boxing but I think I was really screwed. Usually, I knew I was going to win because the guys I fought were fighting me and the officials too, basically. Don always paid off the officials. That\u2019s what he told me. Maybe he forgot to pay off the ref that night.\nBut I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Buster. He had so much courage and guts that night. I had hit him with an awesome shot. Anybody else\u2019s head would have been sent to the space shuttle. I was so spent that I couldn\u2019t follow up on the knockdown the next round. He came back strong. When the tenth began, I hit him with a straight right to the jaw but then he unleashed a barrage of punches at my head, starting with a right uppercut. I was so numb that I didn\u2019t even feel the punches, but I could hear them. My equilibrium was shot. Then I went down.\nWhen I hit the canvas, my mouthpiece came out and as the ref was counting, I was trying to stumble to my feet and grab the mouthpiece at the same time. I was operating on pure instinct. I was totally out of it. The ref hugged me after he counted to ten. I walked back to my corner totally dazed. I was chewing on my mouthpiece but I didn\u2019t even know what it was.\n\u201cWhat happened?\u201d I asked my corner.\n\u201cThe ref counted you out, champ,\u201d Aaron said.\nI didn\u2019t do the post-fight interview with HBO, my head was still ringing. I must have had at least one concussion.\nWithin minutes Don had organized a meeting with the WBC and WBA officials. Then he called his own press conference.\n\u201cThe first knockout obliterated the second knockout,\u201d he ranted. Jose Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, suspended recognition of anyone as champion because the ref had failed to take the count from the timekeeper. The referee admitted that he had made a mistake. Sulaiman immediately called for a rematch. By then, I was conscious enough to join the press conference. I was wearing sunglasses to hide my mangled eye and holding a white compress to my swollen face.\n\u201cYou guys know me for years, I never gripe or bitch. I knocked him out before he had me knocked out. I want to be champ of the world. That\u2019s what all young boys want,\u201d I said.\nI went back to my hotel room. There was no maid there. It was weird not being the heavyweight champion of the world any longer. But in my mind it was a fluke. I knew that God didn\u2019t pick on any small animals, that lightning only struck the biggest animals, that those are the only ones that vex God. Minor animals don\u2019t get God upset. God has to keep the big animals in check so they won\u2019t get lofty on their thrones. I just lay on my bed and thought that I had become so big that God was jealous of me.\n#124 cmattos\ntyson was a punching machine but if the fight go for distance, his power and speed decreases\nali was well know for grow up during later rounds, so i pick ali\nJust look at how easily people could get in Tyson's head. You think Ali wouldn't destroy him mentally in pre-fight talk and with his confidence and swagger in the ring? And then on top of it his reflexes/speed in his prime like no other h.w? Tyson would try to just punch him out so early and Ali would just dodge until Tyson got tired then he'd be picked apart.\n#126 Philosopher\nTyson would try to just punch him out so early and Ali would just dodge until Tyson got tired then he'd be picked apart.\nIf he were that great dodger he wouldent be so shaky these days.\nHe should be selling drinkmixers the \"Ali 2000\" shaken not stirred\nAli couldn't have dodged everything Tyson through. Ali actually got hit a decent amount, even when he started doing the Rope A Dope.\nRope A Dope against Tyson = broken ribs\ntyson was never right mentally everyone knows that but when he had the right team around him he did not have to think thats been my point the whole time tyson down fall was not age or anything to do with his \"prime\" it was more his state of mind\nif not for Bobby Stewart \"Cus\" D'Amato and Kevin Rooney, a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of D'Amato, who emphasized elusiveness of movement and Bill Cayton Jimmy Jacobs\nit was this team that knew tyson since he was 12 years old and him him to become the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them and mike was only 21 years old\nhe left his team 18 months before the buster fight and he was never the same\nAlso tagged with one or more of these keywords: boxing, tyson, mike, muhammad, ali, fight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 17035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.momentswiththemays.com/2009/07/1-year-woohoo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:63GYBYVGNLURDTTMKYC46ZXBNYRLWQJL", "length": 494, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.momentswiththemays.com", "title": "Moments with the Mays: 1 year--woohoo", "raw_content": "We celebrated our actual anniversary the day before we left for Jamaica. It was a celebration of Ben's 25th birthday & our anniversary. We went out to eat at J. Alexander's...(yum!!!)...and then just had cake and champagne at our house:)\nSo here is the top layer of my cake and a chocolate chunk of Ben's cake. Looks appetizing...\nFeeling apprehensive about the whole situation.\nStill not sure about this...\nmmmmm....not.\nThe cake was not the best, but our first year was!\nHere's to 80+ more!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 5581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moneyclassicresearch.in/trade-safe-by-using-bollinger-band-indicators-while-analyzing-the-market/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:45Z", "digest": "sha1:I7VSC4BMCB4ILSZJKXIJUT7OLDVQO3JF", "length": 2449, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.moneyclassicresearch.in", "title": "Trade Safe by Using Bollinger Band Indicators While Analyzing the Market", "raw_content": "August 13, 2018 adminLeave a Comment on Trade Safe by Using Bollinger Band Indicators While Analyzing the Market\nThere is difficulty in identifying specific factors that influence the market as a whole. 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Whether the entity will be valued more highly in the future stocks or be able to repay its debts.\nIt would be not wrong to say that the confidence in the stability of future investments plays a large role in whether markets go up or down. All the investors are more likely to purchase stocks if they are convinced their shares will increase in value in the future. They can predict the future with the help of some technical indicators like Bollinger band indicators. The indicator implies a formula of subtracting the lower Bollinger band value from the higher Bollinger band value. In other words it calculates the percentage difference between the upper band and the lower band.\nBandwidth is directly proportional to Bollinger bands. As the Bollinger bands gets narrow the bandwidth decreases and as the Bollinger bands widen up the bandwidth increases. Volatility is the up and down situations of the market, which can be measured by the standard deviation of the stocks. 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On 11th September 2018, he released two hour-long Netflix specials: Daniel Sloss: Live Shows ( DARK and Jigsaw ) in 190 countries and in 26 languages. His UK television appearances include: Sunday Night at the Palladium , the BBC\u2019s Stand Up For Sport Relief (with Tyson Fury), Michael McIntyre\u2019s Comedy Roadshow , Set List , The Paul O\u2019Grady Show (Daniel\u2019s TV debut aged 18), Russell Howard\u2019s Good News , and his own BBC show, The Adventures Of Daniel (aged 19). He wote, produced, and starred in a six-part Internet sitcom, M.U.F.F. and gave a prestigious TEDx talk when he was 21. He has also appeared on the USA\u2019s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and performed a record-breaking eight sets on Conan .\nIn August 2008, aged 17, Daniel became one of the youngest-ever finalists in the UK\u2019s premiere comedy competition So You Think You\u2019re Funny? . In 2009, his first solo show, Teenage Kicks , premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, sold out the entire run, and transferred to London, where he made his debut at the prestigious Soho Theatre, becoming the youngest stand-up to perform solo both at the theatre and in the West End. That September, still just 18, he also made his national television debut as the first stand-up to perform on Channel 4\u2019s Paul O\u2019Grady Show .\nIn 2010, his new solo Fringe show My Generation was a smash-hit, selling out every performance. His 2011 follow-on, The Joker , sold an astonishing 10,000 tickets, subsequently touring for 50 dates across the UK in a tour produced by Live Nation, after they took him on as their youngest solo comedy client. In 2011, he was also hailed as the Best New Comedian at the Scottish Variety Awards .\nIn March 2012, he recorded his debut live stand-up DVD, Daniel Sloss\u2014Live! , (at Glasgow\u2019s Kings Theatre) which was released on BBC Worldwide\u2019s 2Entertain in the autumn. His 2012 Fringe show The Show saw him relocate to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) where the season was a sold-out smash-hit, remarkably playing to over 10,000 people.\nSimilarly, 2013\u2019s Stand-Up repeated the success, and both the 2012 and 2013 shows each toured the UK with over 50 dates a piece.\nIn December 2013, after being spotted at the Edinburgh Fringe, Daniel made the first of many appearances on US late-night TV show Conan , as well as guesting on cult TV favourite The Pete Holmes Show .\nHis 2014 show Really\u2026?! had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, with another extended run at the EICC due to demand. Daniel subsequently embarked on a major European autumn tour, performing 20 shows across 15 countries, as well as UK theatre dates including two shows at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, Elgar Room. He ended the year filming the Internet sitcom M.U.F.F which he co-created, co-produced and also starred in.\n2014 also saw Daniel offered a talent deal with Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s production company, Conaco and Warner Brothers Studios. Returning to LA in September, Daniel appeared on Comedy Central\u2019s @Midnight , CBS network\u2019s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and back in the UK on ITV\u2019s Sunday Night at the Palladium .\n2015 began with Daniel\u2019s return to the Austrian Comedy and Snowboarding Altitude Festival, and working in LA for pilot season. In August, his new solo hour DARK was hailed by audiences and press alike for its masterful handling of more challenging subject matter and again sold over 10,000 tickets at his eighth season at the Edinburgh fringe\u2014the fifth consecutive year Daniel achieved this. He then embarked on his biggest tour to date, performing DARK for 80+ dates across the UK, throughout 16 countries in Europe.\nIn January 2016, Daniel extended DARK to a 90-minute version for its season in London at the Soho Theatre before taking it to the USA. He appeared on Conan for a fifth time, performed a run of DARK in LA at the Westside Comedy Theater, and made his solo debut in New York with an off-Broadway season of DARK in the Soho Playhouse, to great acclaim, being featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts section.\nDARK transferred to Australia and New Zealand for sold-out festival seasons (winning the 2016 Sydney Comedy Festival Best of the Fest Award [International]), Perth, Auckland, and, for Daniel\u2019s long-awaited debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The four-week MICF season of DARK sold out and had extra shows added. He featured on a number of TV galas, including the MICF Oxfam Gala, NZ Comedy Fest\u2019s Best Bits gala and on Sydney Comedy Festival\u2019s Cracker Night .\nAfter a brief trip to the US for seasons in San Francisco and Madison, and making a record-breaking sixth appearance on Conan , Daniel returned to the UK in order to appear at the Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals, before returning to Montreal\u2019s Just For Laughs Festival for TV galas and to perform a season of DARK prior to the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, where he unveiled his next new show Daniel Sloss\u2014So? .\nThe August 2016 premiere of Daniel Sloss\u2014So? at the EICC was another huge hit, exceeding previous audience figures and receiving universal press acclaim. Daniel toured So? extensively (over 120 dates) throughout the UK and Europe in the autumn of 2016, finishing up with a week-long pre-Christmas season at London\u2019s Soho Theatre.\nJanuary 2017 saw Daniel make his seventh appearance on Conan in January 2017, followed by a second off-Broadway season at the Soho Playhouse with Daniel Sloss\u2014So? , as well as a week of late-night sets at the Comedy Cellar and Gotham comedy clubs. This was followed by a three-month tour of Australia and New Zealand, where his sold-out festival seasons and TV appearances received arve reviews and culminated in Daniel Sloss\u2014So? being filmed before a packed house at Sydney\u2019s Enmore Theatre.\nReturning to the UK, he featured on Comedy Central\u2019s Drunk History re-telling the story of William Wallace (hilariously portrayed by Keith Allen), and on Dave Channel\u2019s competitive gaming show, Dara O\u2019Briain\u2019s Go 8 Bit . He performed at Glastonbury and premiered his new show, Daniel Sloss\u2014Now , at 2017\u2019s Edinburgh Fringe (again at the EICC), making his tenth appearance at the world\u2019s biggest arts festival.\nHis hilariously no-holds-barred performance on Comedy Central\u2019s Roast Battle , pitted against comedian Desiree Birch, became the most watched episode of the show\u2019s inaugural season. This was followed by the 2017 autumn tour of Daniel Sloss\u2014NOW \u2014his biggest to date, with over 150 shows spanning the UK and stretching across 25 European countries, followed by three months touring America, as well as all around Australia. He also made his solo debut at the New York Comedy Festival, a guest of Conaco, and performed NOW .\nIn February 2018, Daniel taped DARK in Los Angeles at the Belasco Theater. Part of a two-specials deal with Netflix; it was announced in May that DARK , along with sequel show So? (now retitled Jigsaw ) was to stream worldwide on the platform in the summer of 2018.\n2018 also saw Daniel performing his eighth set on Conan and opening for Dave Chappelle\u2019s two shows in San Francisco, as well as performing at that city\u2019s Sketchfest Comedy Festival, touring NOW to Cleveland, Madison, Denver and more. He returned to New York for a second season of DARK , again at the Soho Playhouse, prior to its being filmed.\nHe then toured NOW across Australia for three months, until June, and, in August 2018, Daniel premiered his tenth solo full-length show, Daniel Sloss: X . This was his his 11th season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this time in an expanded venue capacity, playing to his biggest houses yet, to great press and audience acclaim and tackling his most challenging material to date.\nOn 18th August, Netflix announced the date of release, and on 11th September 2018 Netflix released both two-hour-long specials, Daniel Sloss: Live Shows ( DARK and Jigsaw ) in 190 countries and in 26 languages, on his 28th birthday.\nThe specials each received critical acclaim but the \u201cJigsaw-effect\u201d (no spoilers here\u2014please watch the special) has sparked debate across the globe, becoming something of a cultural phenomenon, with a rising tally of breakups, referenced on the Daniel Sloss Twitter page.\nThe live tour of Daniel Sloss: X sold out every show across 25 European countries as well as throughout the UK, with extra shows (in increasingly large venues) selling out as fast as they were added and with the tour being extended to run through 2019.\nAt 27, Scotland\u2019s Daniel Sloss has, incredibly, now racked up his tenth Fringe outing. Tackling taboos (death, grooming) has become his forte and this latest continues the trend. \u201cX\u201d is a stunner of a show.\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736 Mail On Sunday\nDirty, sweet and clever\nSimply world class\u2026 hilarious\u2026 An endearingly unabashed blend of arrogance, awkwardness and self-effacing anecdotes delivered with precision timing, perfectly-placed silence and (the) unfettered confidence\u2026 Nothing is off limits\u2026 Sloss skilfully weaves sensitive subject matter into a hilarious tapestry of politically incorrect and sexually inappropriate zingers\u2026 his humour intelligently and ironically calling out the hypocrisy of human nature.\nHilarious\u2026There is something effortlessly charming about Daniel Sloss\u2026 Devastatingly intelligent\u2026 he makes you think about yourself and your relationships, and then side-swipes you with a brilliant gag. While you will come away thinking about your life choices, you will also come away with sore ribs from laughing\u2026 Sloss is a festival highlight. See him.\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736 The Age , Australia\nCharming, self-deprecating and genuinely funny\nBrilliant\u2026 a master craftsman\u2026 Sloss works best by creating moments of near unbearable tension and then puncturing them with a welcome but unexpectedly sharp barb. To be this good at 27 is a rare thing, and if Sloss can continue to evolve his material in intriguing and novel ways, he could become one of the greats.\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736 Time Out , Australia\nBrilliantly dark\n\u2013 Sunday Times , UK\nNothing short of hysterical\u2026 Stunning\n\u2013 Sunday Express , UK\nDazzling wit\n\u2013 Telegraph , UK\nIrreverent wit and devastating\u2026 an intelligent, razor sharp performer who looks like Macaulay Culkin on speed and readily goes where other comedians fear to tread\n\u2013 Adelaide Advertiser , Australia\nStunningly poignant\u2026 finely honed skill\u2026 deeply dark comedic style\u2026 more than a little bit evil\u2026 Sloss proves you don\u2019t need a university education to know how to do your research and construct an intelligent argument. In fact, he is brilliantly skilled at doing just that and making it achingly funny at the same time.\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736\u00bd Theatre People\nDaniel Sloss is a born comedian\u2026 he\u2019s a master at rewinding to the original thread without missing a beat\u2026 remarkable\u2026 rapid-fire delivery\u2026 It\u2019s incredible to watch\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736\u00bd The West Australian\nDark AF stand-up; snowflakes beware, this is no safe space\u2026comedy provocateur\u2026 Sloss is clever, studious and even philosophical\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736 TheMusic.com.au\nI\u2019ve never seen a comedian I\u2019ve wanted to kiss and punch in equal measures. The handsome young Scotsman revels in the nihilistic and politically incorrect\u2014here\u2019s one who eats outrage for breakfast\u2026 Sloss was hailed as one of the highlights of last year\u2019s Melbourne Comedy Festival, and it\u2019s easy to see why. Provocative, punchy and smirking with black humour, Sloss rails against a slew of hefty topics: religion, disability, death, politics, and reserves a particularly fervent hatred for vegans. He is astute in so many ways: his cynical self-awareness of his middle class white man status, his description of the dogged tunnel vision of the easily offended, and his bemusement at his fellow left-wingers for their apathy and in-fighting\u2026 Brilliant\n\u2013 Australian Stage , UK\nIt\u2019s a testament to Sloss\u2019 skill that the audience follow him through each set up, across the expertly wound tension and into the cutting punchlines\u2026 He has tight, near-perfect control of his pacing and delivery, knowing how to read reactions and pop the pressure at the last possible second. The observational aspects of the show provide an excellent foil to the narrative beats Sloss hits\u2026 Now is 70 minutes of traditional stand up brought near the peak of its form. Intelligent and incisive, Sloss\u2019 stand up leaves the audience wondering about their own relationship to logic and emotion. His talent comes in being able to combine the two into genuinely hilarious comedy.\n\u2013 Popculture-y.com\nSloss is on red-hot form this year\u2026 not only do the jokes pour out, he slyly and unexpectedly introduces serious ideas into the debate\u2026 A stand-up veteran at 24, his handling of provocative topics is maturing fast so that, even as circumstances pile up in his sex stories and the laughter rises to hysteria, he\u2019s totally in control of the shifts in tone\n\u2013 Sunday Herald , UK\nMeteoric\u2026 Has them rolling in the aisles\u2026 Sloss is blessed with a sharp mind and a potent stage persona.\nA genuine twinkle in his eye and a sharp line in observational humour\u2026 Sloss demonstrated a genuine affection for the crowd\u2026 The humour is funny, intelligent and charming. As is Sloss.\n\u2736\u2736\u2736\u2736 Edinburgh Evening News\nUnstoppable\u2026 The road to playing a venue like a conference centre for a full month should take comedians at least half a career to achieve. The Fifer Viking [Daniel Sloss] has got there in about half an hour. And he\u2019s even stuck on some extra shows for his drooling masses.\nMakes Inglorious Bastards seem like Best Exotic Marigold Hotel\n\u2013 Bruce Dessau on Daniel\u2019s six-part Internet sitcom M.U.F.F.\nHe has a confidence and talent that\u2019s shocking for a 19-year-old\n\u2013 Michael Mcintyre, Radio Times , September 2010\n\u2736 Winner 2016 Sydney Comedy Festival Best of the Fest Award [International]\n\u2736 Winner 2011 Scottish Variety Awards Best New Scottish Comedian\nGETSLOSSED channel\n@Daniel_Sloss on\nDaniel Sloss on\nDaniel Sloss on Spotlight\n\u2018DANIEL SLOSS: X\u2019 2018 UK + European tour\nEXTRA SHOWS ADDED!\nTOUR EXTENDED INTO 2019 DUE TO HUGE DEMAND!\nDaniel Sloss\u2014NOW 2019 New York season (2\u201326 Feb)\nEXTRA DATES ADDED!\nSOHO PLAYHOUSE 2019\u2014DANIEL SLOSS\u2014TICKETS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 16136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.najarian.com/news-events/dr-najarian-awarded-nicolas-marcalus-award-sustainability/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6TIYA57KN5U2XSDL4CE6F4UDPIDNBBGM", "length": 446, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.najarian.com", "title": "Dr. Najarian Awarded Nicolas Marcalus Award for Sustainability - Najarian Associates", "raw_content": "The NJ Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards honor current first-generation immigrant business leaders helping local New Jersey communities thrive. The Awards were created to highlight the history and academic influence of New Jersey\u2019s immigrant contribution to New Jersey communities throughout the state. The intention of NJIEA is to bring together business groups from across the state to celebrate the important role of immigrants in today\u2019s economy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nancyscounselingcorner.com/emotional-abuse-red-flags/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DMFTFO32BCOUE4FWKMDVPFDHOMAKOAOK", "length": 3253, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nancyscounselingcorner.com", "title": "Emotional Abuse Counseling - Emotional Abuse Help", "raw_content": "Emotional Abuse Red Flags\nThree Red Flags of Emotional Abuse\nEmotional abuse does not announce itself loudly, but rather creeps into your life bit by bit over time. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so insidious. You don\u2019t realize you are under an emotional abuser\u2019s control until you have truly suffered. And you may have suffered as a child, too, and feel the abuse you\u2019re getting now is normal. Perhaps even comfortable. But you can break this pattern if you are alert to ways in which you may become the target of an emotional abuser. Here are signs to watch for:\n1) Total Lack of Respect. Oh, sure, at first he will adore you, flatter you, charm you. That\u2019s how he lures you in the first place. But, in fact, he sees you as an extension of himself\u2014someone who exists to serve his purposes. Your thoughts and desires don\u2019t matter to him. This is hard to identify because you respect him, and can\u2019t imagine that he wouldn\u2019t feel the same about you. But when he listens to you or he does what you want, it\u2019s because it\u2019s in his best interest. Either he wants to appease you or he happens to want the same thing you do. This time. Beware when he ignores your requests, especially when it puts you in peril in some way. That\u2019s a red flag.\n2) Asks for Big Things Too Fast. You may be flattered that he wants to move in with you. Or share finances. Or take an important vacation together. But does he want these things a bit too early in your relationship? Are you a little uncomfortable by the speed with which your relationship is advancing? And yet, you\u2019re feeling it\u2019s nice that he wants to be with you. It\u2019s nice that he feels intimate enough to share these things with you. And far be it from you to put a damper on it by saying no. You might even feel a little guilty if you refuse. But what if he really wants to get close so he can keep tabs on you? What if he wants is to control you and your activities? That\u2019s a red flag.\n3) Nothing\u2019s His Fault. In fact, whatever went wrong is probably your fault. Which will catch you by complete surprise because you probably had nothing to do with it. But your abuser needs to keep you off balance. He needs to have control and power, and he does it by verbally manipulating you. He makes you feel small by putting you down and invalidating your feelings. When you protest, he tells you you\u2019re too sensitive. Or he gives you the silent treatment, denying you affection. Then you spend your important time and energy trying to get the relationship back to where it was. Which he will eventually disrupt again so he can keep you off balance and under control. The rockiness of this relationship is never his fault. He never sees himself as the abuser. In fact, he is the victim here. He can never catch a break. And that\u2019s a red flag.\nThe trouble is, no matter how much you put up with, no matter how you try to make things right, your abuser does not want to change. Why should he? He\u2019s got you under his thumb. And self-help requires work. It\u2019s much easier for him to start the cycle of abuse over again than working to change. But you can change because your life will be better ever after if you can make the effort now. Or better yet, avoid toxic people to begin with. And refuse to get involved with an emotional abuser.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nanhaidisplay.com/store/p46/OEM_License.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7GJJ74AKRY2FKUOJLK5GGE47AE6KGFFZ", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nanhaidisplay.com", "title": "OEM License", "raw_content": "12000 24000 $8,000.00 - $18,000.00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 128.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nasdaqdubai.com/press/nasdaq-dubai-announces-planned-switch-to-dfm-trading-platform-starting-june-27-2010", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5BNNHVY24QQUABOBSDPSPQ5GMPDT4U5", "length": 2874, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nasdaqdubai.com", "title": "NASDAQ Dubai announces planned switch to DFM trading platform starting june 27, 2010", "raw_content": "NASDAQ Dubai announces planned switch to DFM trading platform starting june 27, 2010\nNew link with DFM will- stimulate- trading, strengthen Dubai's role as capital markets hub\nNASDAQ Dubai today announced that all trading of its listed equities will take place through the X-Stream trading platform of Dubai Financial Market (DFM),- starting on Sunday June 27, 2010 subject to final regulatory approval. The move is part of an outsourcing strategy to increase trading volumes on NASDAQ Dubai and strengthen Dubai's role as a centre for international capital markets activity.\nAt the same time, clearing, settlement and custody functions for NASDAQ Dubai equities will also migrate to DFM's systems. NASDAQ Dubai's regulator, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), stated- today that it has no objection in principle to the outsourcing, which was announced in December 2009.\nDFM last week became the majority owner of NASDAQ Dubai through an acquisition of shares from Borse Dubai and NASDAQ OMX, the international exchange group.\nJeff Singer, Chief Executive- of NASDAQ Dubai, said: -This new structure will create the same look and feel for trading on both of Dubai's exchanges, which will stimulate trading of NASDAQ Dubai equities by DFM's 552,000 retail and other investors. Combined with NASDAQ Dubai's international regulatory standards and links with international investors, this will create a powerful listing and trading hub that in is unique in the GCC.- Issuers can choose which exchange to list on according to their commercial and regulatory needs.\n-We are grateful for the strong support we are receiving from our Members and other market participants in working towards a successful migration.-\nEssa Kazim, Managing Director and CEO of DFM, said: -Since the inception of DFM in 2000, we have remained committed to playing a vital role in developing regional financial markets through various initiatives and today's announcement is a major step for us and the region.- Through its growing links with NASDAQ Dubai, DFM gains a wider array of product offerings and international expertise.\n-Collaboration between the two exchanges will increase, promoting higher liquidity and more listings on both of them from across the region and beyond. Dubai will expand as a centre of capital markets dynamism and innovation.\"\nFinal DFSA approval for the outsourcing is conditional on several milestones being met.\nNASDAQ Dubai remains a separate company regulated by the DFSA, the financial services regulator inside the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). It will retain its own legal framework, listing rules and Members, and trading of equity derivatives will continue to take place on NASDAQ Dubai's own trading platform and systems.- NASDAQ Dubai's equities will remain listed on NASDAQ Dubai, and will not be listed on DFM under the outsourcing plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nasdaqdubai.com/press/yinchuan-tonglian-capital-investment-operation-company-of-china-celebrates-listing-a-usd-300-million", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RSO3T3S2MJXT3QSNOZPOMX7G56GIGLP3", "length": 3643, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nasdaqdubai.com", "title": "Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment Operation Company of China celebrates listing a USD 300 million bond on Nasdaq Dubai", "raw_content": "Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment Operation Company of China celebrates listing a USD 300 million bond on Nasdaq Dubai\nListing on Middle East\u2019s international financial exchange underlines growing economic ties between China and Arab countries\nTonglian will use capital raised to fund industrial park and other projects\nZhang Honglin, Chairman of Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment Operation Company (Tonglian) of China rang the market opening bell to celebrate the listing today of a 300 million US dollar bond on Nasdaq Dubai, the international exchange serving the Middle East.\nThe listing by Tonglian underlines the expanding economic and capital markets ties between China and the UAE and wider Arab world. The proceeds of the bond issuance will be used for general corporate purposes including construction of Binhe New District Industrial Park in Yinchuan, which last month hosted the annual China-Arab States Expo trade exhibition.\nTonglian is preparing to increase its activities in sectors including municipal infrastructure projects, transport, affordable housing, water supply and cultural assets in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia province, which has a substantial Muslim population.\nThe bell-ringing ceremony was attended by His Excellency Essa Kazim, Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Chairman of Dubai Financial Market (DFM), as well as Abdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of Nasdaq Dubai, and Hamed Ali, the exchange's Chief Executive.\nZhang Honglin, Chairman of Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment Operation Company, said: \"Our bond listing on Nasdaq Dubai strengthens the close relationship that China enjoys with the UAE and other Arab countries in a range of activities, which includes capital-raising, investment and trade. As the region's international exchange, Nasdaq Dubai provides us with excellent links to regional as well as global investors who wish to support our business and development activities in the Yinchuan area.\"\nHis Excellency Essa Kazim, Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Chairman of Dubai Financial Market (DFM), said: \"Through its longstanding strategy of developing world class capital markets, Dubai is positioned to provide Chinese issuers\nwith the well regulated and efficient listing infrastructure that they need to expand their capital-raising links with our region. Tonglian's listing reflects the success of the UAE's partnership with China for the mutual benefit of both nations and their peoples.\"\nBilateral trade between China and the UAE reached a total of AED 170.2 billion in 2016, making China the UAE\u2019s biggest trading partner, according to the UAE Ministry of Economy.\nAbdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of Nasdaq Dubai, said: \u201cSince our first bond listing from China in 2014, we have worked successfully to establish Nasdaq Dubai as the region\u2019s leading listing venue for Chinese institutions. We are delighted to provide an effective platform to raise the visibility of Chinese entities as they raise their profile and extend their business relationships across the Middle East and beyond.\u201d\nHamed Ali, Chief Executive of Nasdaq Dubai, said: \u201cAs the first Chinese issuer from outside the banking sector to list on Nasdaq Dubai, Tonglian is blazing a trail that we believe will be followed by many other government and private entities based in China. We will continue to streamline our listing architecture and services for issuers and their investors to meet the evolving requirements of Chinese entities.\u201d\nEight bonds from Chinese institutions with a total value of 4.26 billion US dollars are currently listed on Nasdaq Dubai.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.naturalproductsinfo.org/index.php?src=blog&srctype=detail&blogid=141", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZW7MZKB3BYBSEQLHEKNPVFXNXZETVESS", "length": 4019, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.naturalproductsinfo.org", "title": "Natural Products Foundation \u2013 A Round of Vitamin D", "raw_content": "Of late there has been an avalanche of new research about vitamin D. Today we'll have a little roundup of the most recent studies about the break-out vitamin of the year.\nThe following new findings, all of which have surfaced in journals and news reports in the last week or thereabouts, give a fairly representative idea of how wide-ranging and positive the expanding knowledge of vitamin D has become. The items that are highlighted today are just a cross-section, and only the most recent, but it is very apparent from this small sample how important vitamin D supplementation is to our future well-being and health.\nVitamin D, Body Fat and Height\nCanadian researchers have unexpectedly uncovered links between vitamin D insufficiency and populations that have increased body fat and decreased height. \"Our study indicates that vitamin D insufficiency is extremely common in young women living in a sun-rich area of the United States,\" wrote the authors of the study, which was first reported in the most recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. \"[The study] also supports the hypotheses that either vitamin D insufficiency is a risk factor for increased body fat or increased body fat is a risk factor for vitamin D insufficiency.\" The study's subjects were all young women, so researchers were not able to generalize their findings across more diverse population, but still: \"The positive association between height and vitamin D status is unexplained and intriguing, and warrants further investigation.\"\nMedscape: Vitamin D Insufficiency Linked to Increased Body Fat\nVitamin D and Fertility\nAustralian scientists have found that vitamin D plays a key part in male infertility. In a study which was released late last month, researchers found that nearly a third of infertile men were vitamin D deficient. \"Vitamin D and folate deficiency are known to be associated with infertility in women, but the outcomes of the screening among men in our study group came as a complete surprise,\" said Dr. Anne Clark, medical director of the Fertility First clinic in Sydney. The study has a recent corollary for females -- a European study earlier this year found that healthy vitamin D levels strongly related to women's ability to conceive.\nNews.com.au: Lack of sunlight linked to male infertility\nVitamin D and Radiology\nRadiology experts from the NYC Department of Health believe vitamin D is one of the body's main protections against low levels of radiation. Thus far, no drug has been found fight the long-term effects of radiation, where cancer is a huge concern. Such a drug would be invaluable in the event of a nuclear episode, such as the fallout which was seen in Chernobyl in northern Ukraine. It seems that certain dietary supplements, principally vitamin D, may have the answer. Studies are forthcoming, and you can check out more of the preliminaries here at Science Daily:\nVitamin D and Thyroid Problems\nA study from the University of Califonia, Los Angeles, shows that low vitamin D levels are link to increasing complications and problems for the thyroid. The lack of vitamin D causes the thyroid to be more susceptible to injuries that produce hyperthyroidism, a complication unforeseen by researchers.\nWellness Resources: Vitamin D and Hyperthyroid\nVitamin D and Colorectal Adenomas\nIt has been found that high vitamin D intake is related to a decrease in colorectal adenomas and recurrent adenomas according to a meta-analysis published in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Individuals with the highest levels of vitamin D levels were found to have a 30% decreased risk for colorectal adenomas, and several studies have gone on to suggest that vitamin D along with calicum supplements can decrease the actually incidence of colorectal cancer. More research is intended for this topic, including randomized trials that will help to confirm vitamin D's role with this form of cancer.\nCancer Consultants: Vitamin D Prevents Colorectal Adenomas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.naturalproductsinfo.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=lewin_2_opening&category=Lewin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JALXJITDNLN75ZLWECNL4Y6WEW2PPY2A", "length": 3664, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.naturalproductsinfo.org", "title": "Dietary Supplement Information Bureau \u2013", "raw_content": "An Evidence-Based Study of the Role of Dietary Supplements in\nHelping Seniors Maintain their Independence\nBy the year 2030, there will be over 70 million people aged 65+, with half over age 75. Health care for Americans over age 65 could increase to nearly $16 trillion per year. A number of age-related diseases contribute significantly to whether an older person can maintain his or her independence, including coronary heart disease (CHD), osteoporosis, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).\nAMD affects activities central to independent living, which include reading, driving, and writing, which are considerably impaired through the loss of central vision, for example. AMD is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in persons over age 65. Research studies have shown that preventive measures, such as smoking avoidance and good nutrition, that are practiced throughout one\u2019s life can help reduce the risk of these conditions, thereby avoiding or delaying a loss of independence or the onset of functional disability. Visual impairment is one of the top four reasons for loss of independence.\nFurthermore,eighteen percent of all hip fractures among seniors have been attributed to age-related vision loss. The transition to greater dependency, whether by getting more help at home or through moving to a nursing facility, places considerable financial burden on the older person, his or her family, and the health care system.\nStudies have shown that there are additional medical and other costs associated with the year when an older person makes the transition to dependency at home or moves to a nursing facility. The prevention (or even delay) in the loss of independence has implications both economically and also for the individual\u2019s quality of life.\nThe purpose of this evidence-based study is twofold: (1) to critically review the research literature for two dietary supplements for which an association has been shown between intake of the supplement and reduced risk of a disease that can and does lead to a loss of independence, and (2) to develop estimates of potential health care savings that could result from daily use of the supplement. Supplement/disease combinations examined in this study are (1)omega\u00ad3 fatty acids and CHD and(2) lutein/zeaxanthin and AMD. Additionally, the literature was reviewed for Vitamin D as it relates to prevention of osteoporosis, but because there currently are no studies yet of Vitamin D alone (without calcium), we were not able to develop a cost model for Vitamin D without calcium.\nThe Lewin Group, Inc. was commissioned by the Dietary Supplement Education Alliance (DSEA) to review the existing research literature concerning the above supplements for validity (scientific validity), impact (size of the effect), and applicability (usefulness in actual practice). Lewin was asked to develop estimates of the potential health care expenditure savings that could result from daily use of these supplements. Estimates of potential savings were developed for each supplement for specific relevant outcomes. For omega\u00ad3 fatty acids, estimates of potential savings associated with a reduced risk of CHD and the potentially avoided hospitalizations and physician services were developed. For lutein/zeaxanthin, estimates of potential savings associated with a reduced risk of AMD were developed through the delay or avoidance of transitioning to dependence as a result of central vision blindness. This report contains a summary of the key findings of the study, a discussion of the conceptual framework and the methodology, and a discussion of the implications of the results.\nNext \u2014 Study Findings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=C-11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:41Z", "digest": "sha1:Q25ZDGVQU6JRSDY4HU3NV4PQHDADFOBP", "length": 2516, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ncmarkers.com", "title": "Marker: C-11", "raw_content": "The victory of Union General Ambrose Burnside here on March 14, 1862, caused the fall of New Bern.\nThe Battle of New Bern on March 14, 1862, was the second of three major engagements on the North Carolina coast in the second year of the Civil War. On February 7-8, Union troops under General Ambrose Burnside captured Roanoke Island, thereby securing control of the sound region. In March, those same forces captured New Bern, a strategic port town and the state\u2019s second largest city. On April 8, Burnside\u2019s expedition laid siege to Fort Macon and two weeks later took the stronghold. With it they gained another deepwater port at Beaufort and control of the entire northern and central portion of the state\u2019s coast. Only the Cape Fear, the \u201clifeline of the Confederacy,\u201d remained open to use by blockade runner through January 1865.\nThe advance on New Bern was a strategic success and provided a boost to Burnside\u2019s reputation. He threw all available force into the effort. Leaving a single brigade to guard Roanoke Island, Burnside\u2019s fleet sailed on March 11, stopping at Hatteras where they were joined by an additional thirteen gunboats, making a combined force of 11,000 men. The expedition was made up primarily of soldiers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. On March 12, sailing in two parallel lines, the fleet entered the Neuse River. The scene, one soldier, reminded him of \"our summer steamer with excursionists.\u201d\nThey anchored at the mouth of Slocum\u2019s Creek and, early on the morning on March 13, shelled the shoreline and disembarked. No Confederates were posted there but signals upriver set bonfires to announce the Federals\u2019 approach. The troops marched overland about two miles to reach the Beaufort-New Bern road. One soldier wrote of the \u201cmuddiest mud ever invented, being knee-deep and of a black, unctuous, slippery character.\u201d Burnside\u2019s army pressed on, a total of thirteen miles, to New Bern. The next day, March 14, the town fell to the Union soldiers and remained occupied for the rest of the war.\nRichard A. Sauers, The Battle of New Bern and Related Sites in Craven County, N.C., 1861-1865 (1994)\nRichard W. Iobst, \u201cThe Battle of New Bern\u201d (Confederate Centennial Commission, 1962)\nJohn B. Green III, A New Bern Album: Old Photographs of New Bern, North Carolina and the Surrounding Countryside (1985)\nAlan D. Watson, A History of New Bern and Craven County (1987)\nWilliam Marvel, Burnside (1991)\nUS 70 Business at Taverna Way southeast of New Bern\nGen. Ambrose Burnside", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncwishesh.com/436-nri-top-stories.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DUQMGP6B5QOIRFT2DVLLRNPQQ5Y7LSQO", "length": 25963, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ncwishesh.com", "title": "NRI Top Stories | NRI Top Stories | NRI News | NRI Events", "raw_content": "NRI Top Stories ( Page 1 of 23 )\n\u2018Allow NRIs to Carry More Gold to India\u2019: Senior Official of DGJG February 11, 2019 13:13\nA senior official of Dubai Gold and Jewellery Group (DGJG) on Saturday urged India to allow Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to carry more gold in personal baggage capacity when traveling back which is a win-win situation for the country and its nationals. Siroya Chandra Prakash, vice-chairman of DGJG, said it would be a practical step to permit NRIs to carry more gold since it will bring down margins for the parallel trade and the yellow metal will also turn more inexpensive for the residents of India. New Delhi, as part of personal baggage, reduced carrying 10kg to 1kg for people flying to India, which is the world's largest consumer of gold. In 2018, India, the second largest bar and coin market in the world, saw annual demand falling four percent to 106.2 tonnes. The weakness of the Indian rupee pushed the gold price to Rs 31,900 per 10 grams during October, its highest level since June 2012. While gold jewelry demand also fell one percent to 598 tonnes. \"For personal baggage, an NRI who lived outside India for more than 180 days continuously, could import 10 kilos of gold on the payment of duty. That has been brought down to 1 kilo,\" said Prakash, who is also the owner of Siroya Jewelers in Dubai. \"It is very practical step for India. By increasing the allowance, the margins will go down for the parallel trade and the gold will become more affordable; today everything is streamlined and transparent. Plus, more and more people want to follow the rule of law. So, I think it is high time that the Government of India should reconsider and start charging 4-6 percent duty rather than 10 percent on carrying gold to India,\" Prakash said on the sidelines of a conference here on Saturday. The conference was hosted by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) - Dubai Chapter, to discuss the Indian budget. Vipul, India's Consul General in Dubai; B.R. Shetty, chairman, UAE Exchange; Mahmood Bangara, chairman, ICAI's Dubai Chapter; and Raju Menon, chairman, Kreston Menon; among others, also addressed the conference. Mahmood Bangara said considering the huge NRI remittance of about $80 billion annually, any differential taxes on NRI's may ideally be withdrawn. \"Furthermore, incentives for NRI investments would facilitate higher foreign exchange inflow which will be more beneficial than the foreign direct investment,\" he suggested. Bangara noted that the Indian story is turning out to be an integral part of the world's story. \"Indian service sector is growing rapidly with a share of about 54 percent, a positive sign of engagement of huge young population and, as many more to be employed,\" he added. India's consul general Vipul said India economy is good to invest in and it should remain so in the foreseeable future for NRIs and government of UAE and private businesses. \"This is one country where one get best of returns.\" He added that the Indian economy continued its high growth path of more than 7 percent and remains the fastest growing economy among large countries globally. \"We are on our way to become $5 trillion economy in the next 5 years or so.\" -Sowmya Sangam\nGuide to Vote in 2019 Indian General Elections If You Are Serviceman/NRI January 31, 2019 11:26\nAhead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in India this year, the government is making an effort to encourage voters to exercise their franchise, not only for its citizens but also for servicemen and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). As a huge chunk of votes gets wasted every election as people away from constituency could not exercise their franchise, the government is easing out the electoral registration process. The option of service vote was already available for servicemen posted abroad. But now, overseas voters can also shortly cast their votes through proxy voting if a bill which is currently still pending in Rajya Sabha is cleared this budget session. Here is a look at the process of servicemen and NRI voting in India: How to Enroll as an Overseas or NRI Voter After an NRI or person of Indian origin traces the polling station and gets the contact information of Election officers in the region, they can fill up Form 6A online on http://www.nsvp.in or from the Election Commission of India website and then upload the needed documents showing proof which can either be submitted through post or in person. Documents Required One recent passport size photograph, self-attested photocopies of the applicable pages of the passport and valid visa endorsement. As soon as the documents are submitted, for the verification process, a Booth Level Officer visits the home address mentioned in the passport and just in case of declaration for proof, it is sent to the concerned Indian Mission. The decision is and so communicated by post and through SMS, apart from which electoral rolls are also available on the ECI website under the \u201cOverseas Electors\u201d section. How to Vote? An NRI voter will not be issued an EPIC card and will be allowed to vote in person at the polling station on the production of original passport. The bill for proxy voting which allows NRI voters to exercise their right through e-postal ballots is yet awaiting in Rajya Sabha. Who Can Enroll as Service Voter? A person who is in the Armed Forces of India, or belongs to the Assam Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBPF); General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) in Border Road Organization; Central Industrial Security Force or is employed under the Indian government in a post outside the country or is a member of the Armed Police Force of a state and serving outside the state can enroll as a service voter. How to Enroll? Once the voter finds out the name of the constituency that he/she belongs to, they can fill the enrollment form, Declaration form and then submit it to the Record or Nodal officer. This will guarantee that the service voter\u2019s spouse will be enrolled on their behalf as mentioned in the declaration. As an alternative, the serviceman can also choose to enroll as a general elector at the place of posting, if it is a peace posting. How to Vote? The Returning officer of the constituency sends the service voter the postal ballot in which the service voter can register their vote and seal the cover. The voter has to sign the declaration in Form 13A after which the Commanding officer of the unit will certify the voter\u2019s signature which is required to be given to the Returning Officer by messenger or post. -Sowmya Sangam\nNRIs Can Now Cast Their Vote in 2019 Indian General Elections January 12, 2019 13:24\nIn a piece of good news for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), you can now be able to vote in the 2019 Indian general elections. Through the official website of the Election Commission of India, an NRI can register as a voter . In the website, if you click on the button titled 'Enroll as NRI voter', it takes you to a form that needs to be filled and submitted to register as a voter in the 2019 general elections. About 31 million NRIs around the world will be benefited, who are unable to cast their vote since they are no longer a resident of India. In the form, there is a list of guidelines that need to be adhered to. The form clearly states that Indians who have acquired citizenships of other countries will not be eligible. This provision has come about after a bill to amend the electoral law to allow NRIs to vote came up before the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament earlier this year. Related Content: Bill Granting Voting Rights to NRIs Blocked in Rajya Sabha Overseas Indians are currently free to cast their votes if they are physically present in the constituencies where they are registered. An official announcement on this has not been made by the authorities yet. The tenure of Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance will end on May 26, 2019, and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be held sometime around April and May. -Sowmya Sangam\nOver 5,000 Register for Indian Diaspora Conclave January 12, 2019 12:44\nMore than 5,000 people have been registered to take part in this year's Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) or Indian diaspora conclave to be held in Varanasi from January 21 to 23, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said on Friday. Briefing the media, Singh said while in the last PBD held in Bengaluru in 2016 only 500 people had registered till the time of a media briefing like the one on Friday, this time over 5,000 people have already registered for the event. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will kick off the conclave with Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth as the chief guest. Related Content: PM Modi Invites Indians Living Abroad to Attend Kumbh Mela, R-Day Indian origin Members of Parliament Kanwaljit Bakshi of New Zealand and Himanshu Gulati of Norway a will be the guests of honor. The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman will be conferred on 30 individuals for their achievements and accomplishments in different fields, according to Singh. After the end of the event on January 23, the participants will be taken to Prayagraj on January 24 where they will take part in the Kumbh Mela. From there, they will be brought in special trains to New Delhi where they will witness the Republic Day on January 26, he added. -Sowmya Sangam\nMEA Address 4,189 Complaints of Abandoned Wives in Last Three Years January 04, 2019 13:26\nIn the past three years, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has addressed 4,189 complaints of distressed Indian women abandoned by their non-resident Indian husbands, the Rajya Sabha was told Thursday. In 2016, a total of 1,510 such complaints were addressed, while in 2017 as many as 1,498 complaints were addressed and earlier this year, till November 30, 1,181 complaints were addressed, Minister of State for the External Affairs Ministry V K Singh said in reply to a question. Singh said the government has adopted a \"multi-pronged approach to give respite to the wives deserted by their NRI husbands\". \"The Ministry of External Affairs provides counseling, guidance, and information about legal procedures, mechanisms for serving a judicial summons on the overseas Indian husband; filing a judicial case in India, issuing Look out circulars; impounding and revocation of Indian passport of the husband to such aggrieved women,\" he said. The Indian Community Welfare Fund (ICWF) Guidelines were revised in September 2017 with an intent to provide financial and legal assistance to distressed women married to NRI spouses by all Indian Missions and Posts abroad, he added. The amount of legal and financial assistance to distressed Indian women has also been increased to USD 4,000 per case, he said in a written response. \"The assistance is released to the impanelled legal counsel of the applicant or Indian Community Association or Women's Organization or an NGO concerned to enable them to take necessary and appropriate steps to assist the woman in documentation and preparatory work for filing the case,\" he said. -Sowmya Sangam\nIndian Govt. to Bring Stringent Law on NRIs Abandoning Wives January 02, 2019 11:24\nThe Indian government is geared up to bring omnibus legislation that will prescribe stiff measures like the cancellation of a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) holder's Indian passport if he found to have deserted his wife. About 4,300 lawsuits of NRI men deserting their wives in India have been registered in the last three years. Under the proposed law, if an NRI husband deserts his wife and flee, a court summon published in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs website will be deemed to have been searched. And, as soon as the summon is entered as 'served' if the person fails to appear in court on the given date, his passport can be canceled and his property in India seized. The law will also make the registration of marriage mandatory within 15 working days. The Indian government has up to now canceled the passport of 33 non-resident Indians for deserting their wives. The Passport Act comprises provisions for cancellation of passport of a holder who has received a summons for a court appearance or has a warrant for his/her arrest under any law that prohibits departure from India. Thus, the new law will just formalize this for desertion of spouses by NRIs. The larger point, however, is that, while there needs to be stringent action against such abandonment, canceling passports encourages further law-breaking. To be certain, before 2011, passports were not impounded and there was little that the deserted wives could do. Nonetheless, revoking passports means the person is liable to remain underground/illegally in a foreign nation in a bid to escape the law. -Sowmya Sangam\nBill Granting Voting Rights to NRIs Blocked in Rajya Sabha December 28, 2018 11:29\nThe united opposition in Rajya Sabha on Thursday blocked the much sought after a bill by the Central Government that proposes to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to allow the overseas voters to appoint proxies to cast their votes in the state assemblies and Lok Sabha elections. To their amazement, most of the opposition parties found that a bill Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was listed in the business list. In the Business Advisory committee meeting took place in the chamber of Rajya Sabha chairman, most of the leaders, including Venkaiah Naidu, opposed the ways saying treasury benches listed the proposed legislation without their consultation. The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha asked the Government to discuss with the opposition on the bill and find a consensus. The opposition parties as well decided to oppose the Triple Talaq Bill as passed by the Lok Sabha if it comes to Rajya Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his most of the visit to foreign countries assured the non-Resident Indian community that they will be given voting rights for the Lok Sabha and assembly polls of the country. The Government was very keen to bring the bill before the coming Lok Sabha poll. The bill was passed in Lok Sabha in the last monsoon session of the Parliament. Central Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave an argument that it would be a \"momentous event\" and a big opportunity was being given to NRIs. He said the constitution makers had given the right to vote to all Indians and as such the NRIs also had the right. \"Let us not deride the contribution of NRIs. They have made a place for themselves by their hard work. Their commitment to India is truly remarkable,\" he said. Responding to the apprehension of some members that the proxy provision can be used fraudulently, he said rules will be made in such a way that if the law is flouted, it will lead to cancellation of the mandate. -Sowmya sangam\nNRIs Urge Sushma Swaraj to Alleviate Norms for Aadhaar Enrollment December 17, 2018 15:53\nThe Non-Resident Indian (NRI) groups expressed concern over difficulties in Aadhaar enrolment and demanded a change of law to enable every NRI, regardless of residential status, get enrolled for Aadhaar. Many NRI activists alleged that though a circular was issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), several departments still demanded Aadhaar card from NRIs to issue Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards, register property and for other essential services. The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, states that only a person who has resided in India for a period or periods amounting in all to 182 days or more in the 12 months before the date of application is eligible for enrolment. KV Shamsudheen, chairman of Pravasi Bandhu Welfare Trust, said, \"We have written to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj about issues related to Aadhaar enrolment. Two years ago, it was announced that the government would issue Aadhaar card to all NRIs. But that was not done. \"The CEO of the UIDAI published a circular in which he advised all the Indian authorities not to demand Aadhaar cards from Non-Resident Indians because they were not eligible to take Aadhaar cards as per the current law.\" He said that despite the circular, authorities still demanded Aadhaar card from NRIs to issue PAN cards, for property registration etc. \"As a result, many NRIs facing difficulties to obtain an Aadhaar card, at times, take the illegal route by bribing officials. \"Other countries that have biometric identity cards, issue it to its citizens. India is the only country in the world that is issuing the identification card only to its resident citizens,\" added Shamsudheen. -Sowmya\nIndia Revokes Passports of 33 NRIs for Abandoning Wives December 13, 2018 14:52\nThe Indian government has revoked passports of 33 Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) for deserting their wives, the Women and Child Development Ministry said Wednesday. The Integrated Nodal Agency (INA) up to now issued 8 Look-out-Circulars (LoCs) to absconding husbands in cases of NRI marriages. The agency, chaired by the secretary in the Women and Child Development Ministry Rakesh Srivastava, is constituted by the Ministry to deliberate on the Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) to streamline the process of dealing with the cases of NRI matrimonial disputes. The 33 passports have been impounded by the External Affairs Ministry, a senior official said. The WCD Ministry has also said that a detailed proposal, including points like mandatory registration of NRI marriages within one week with penal outcomes for non-registration, would be placed before the Cabinet for its approval. Another clause includes amendments in passport rules to facilitate its cancellation for absconders, the official said. Related content: NCW Appeals MEA to Foil Ex Parte NRI Divorces \"The WCD Ministry and NCW (National Commission for Women) are taking every possible step to protect women in NRI marriages. We serve as a nodal point of contact for grievances received from women on the dedicated email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // and coordinate the redressal system,\" the WCD said in a tweet. The @MinistryWCD and @NCWIndia are taking every possible step to protect women in #NRImarriages. We serve as a nodal point of contact for grievances received from women on the dedicated email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // and coordinate the redressal system.@sharmarekha \u2014 Ministry of WCD (@MinistryWCD) December 11, 2018 \"The problem of women being abandoned in NRI marriages is a serious issue. For the first time, WCD Ministry, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs are providing coordinated support to women facing problems in their marriage to NRIs,\" the WCD said in another tweet. The problem of women being abandoned in #NRImarriages is a serious issue. For the first time, @MinistryWCD, Ministry of External Affairs @MEAIndia, and Ministry of Home Affairs are providing coordinated support to women facing problems in their marriage to NRIs. \u2014 Ministry of WCD (@MinistryWCD) December 11, 2018 -Sowmya Sangam\nGovt. to Table Bill in Winter Session to Allow NRIs to Vote December 08, 2018 11:32\nA Bill to amend the electoral law to allow voting rights to the Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) will be tabled in Rajya Sabha in the upcoming winter session, the Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court. The Lok Sabha had earlier passed the bill on August 9. Once the Bill is passed and enacted, more than 25 million overseas Indians/NRIs will be able to vote through postal or e-ballots. A division bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta slated the hearing for January 2019 after hearing the submission of Additional Solicitor General ANS Nadkarni. The court was hearing the petitions filed by two NRIs, Shamsheer VP from Kerala and Nagender Chindam, chairman of the United Kingdom-based Pravasi Bharat. The petitions said 114 countries, including 20 in Asia, have adopted external voting, which could be held by setting up polling booths at diplomatic missions or through postal, proxy or electronic voting. Currently, only defense personnel are permitted to vote through a proxy. However, the facility for the NRIs will not be the same as that enjoyed by the services personnel. According to the proposal, the NRI voters will have to appoint a nominee afresh for each election and one person can act as a proxy for only one overseas voter. Due to the high travel cost and time involved, only a few NRIs come to India to cast their votes. In July earlier this year, Attorney General K K Venugopal had told the court that NRIs could not be allowed to vote by merely changing the rules made under the Representation of People Act and a Bill was needed to be introduced. The court had asked the Centre to make a decision whether it would amend the electoral law or rules to permit NRIs to vote by postal or e-ballots in the polls in the country. The court took note of the fact that the Centre and the Election Commission were complying to the report of a panel that NRIs might be allowed to vote. By Sowmya Sangam\nTelangana Assembly Elections: NRIs in Drive to Ensure Their Party Wins December 05, 2018 12:12\nThe Telangana Assembly Elections is scheduled to take place on December 07, 2018, and Telangana people across the world are absolutely making an effort to ensure that their political party is successful. Related content: Telangana Polls: Reasons Why It Won't Be a Cakewalk Win for TRS During the T20 finals in Sydney between India and Australia on Tuesday, a placard painted in green read: \"Vote for AIMIM. Vote For Kite. Best wishes from Kangaroo Developers and Builders. Branches in Hyderabad, India, and Sydney.\" Telangana diaspora's growing interest in the politics of the state is plainly evident from the message. NRI (Non-Resident Indian) supporters of all major parties, including the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) and the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), are doing their bit for imminent Telangana assembly elections. Related content: KCR Scared of PM Modi Because of His Corruption: Rahul Gandhi Placards supporting TRS, too, were spotted during some matches in Australia. The TRS recently launched its NRI campaign with a core people from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware attending its first meeting. Its coordinator, Mahesh Bigala, spoke about the State government's development activities. A few days back, the TRS campaign \"war room\" in Denmark was launched through Skype. Many BJP supporters from the United States of America also voiced their support for the party. \"We will work for the development of Telangana the way PM Modi developed the BJP without corruption, nepotism and without discrimination,\" Krishna, a resident of New Jersey said. Related content: PM Modi Pours Scorn on TRS Government at His First Rally in Telangana A Telugu from Texas Express got in touch with urged Telanganites to vote for the BJP and to help it win by a big margin. The diaspora's most creative campaign, up to now, was done by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabian leg of the AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) party. They organized 'Asaduddin Owaisi Football Cup' in Jeddah. A supporter said: \"The event was prepared with the intention of supporting our community and strengthening the party in the elections.\" -Sowmya Sangam\nIndian Woman Sets World Record in Arctic Expedition December 04, 2018 13:07\nAn Indian-origin woman has made the country proud by setting a record for or completing a winter expedition in the Arctic Circle, along with her two children. The 45-year-old Bharulata Patel Kamble accomplished this feat while undergoing treatment for cancer. The United Kingdom-based Bharulata's children - 13-year-old Priyam and 10-year-old Aarush - also set the record for being the first Indian-origin children to have hoisted the Indian tricolor in the Arctic Circle. ImageSource: Mumbai Mirror Bharulata began her expedition two months after she underwent a life-changing cancer surgery. The courageous woman drove with her kids without any backup crew or vehicle. The journey was not easygoing as the trio faced galore challenges on their way to the Arctic Circle. Driving more than 10,000 kilometers in temperatures as low as -15 degrees Celcius in a region that only receives few hours of daylight, Bharulata proved nothing is impossible. The trio traveled through, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland before heading to Nordkapp in Norway. They started for the Arctic Circle from the iconic Santa Claus village Rovaniemi in Finland. Bharulata proved to be a very skilled driver as she moved through difficult hilly roads with extreme weather conditions. On their way to the Arctic Circle, the snow and wind storm made their journey more difficult. This was not the first time Bharulata visited Nordkapp. Earlier, she successfully drove solo through the Arctic Circle in 2016. She then traveled through 32 countries and covered a distance of 35,383 kilometers. She was also the first Indian woman to have hoisted the Indian flag in the Arctic Circle in 2016. Love for India Bharulata's journey was also about spreading awareness about cancer to promoting the Indian government's Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign. This expedition was also likely the among the first such plastic-free expeditions. ImageSource: www.bharulata.com And all this for their love for India! Their aim was to hoist the Indian national flag at Nordkapp. Bharulata, along with her children reached Nordkapp, but faced the Arctic windstorm, with the winds as fast as the speed of 20 meters per second. After waiting with patience for two days for the weather to settle, the trio hoisted the Indian flag and sang the national anthem. -Sowmya Sangam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 30712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newberlinlibrary.org/calendar/?view=EVENT&ID=14191", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KYJF25PNIHX2EFYMUXOFUY4RZXMV7DEK", "length": 395, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.newberlinlibrary.org", "title": "New Berlin Public Library : Calendar : Lego Club : Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 10:00 am", "raw_content": "Saturday, December 16, 2017 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am\nNew this fall\u2014Lego Club is open to all ages! Children under the age of 5 MUST have an adult in the room. The library will provide Legos and Duplos. No pre-registration is required, however, participants should check in at the Youth Services Reference Desk. When room is filled to capacity (25 people), we will no longer be able to let others in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 6337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 200.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newsandsentinelhalfmarathon.com/page/blogs.detail/display/93/We-got-mail!-Sign-up-today-so-we-get-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:22Z", "digest": "sha1:NFXNWXTAXMM42QWXW6GXYZRBSOUMII5L", "length": 2022, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.newsandsentinelhalfmarathon.com", "title": "We got mail! Sign up today so we get more - Runners take your mark by Art Smith - News and Sentinel Half Marathon | Two-Mile Race | Junior Race | Tiny Tot Trot", "raw_content": "We got mail! Sign up today so we get more\nJuly 20, 2016 - Art Smith\nWhen you are a little kid you are always excited when you get something in the mail.\nWhen you are a big kid, you still get excited, and lately we have been thrilled when a big stack of mail arrives for the half marathon.\nWe have put around 10,000 entries forms out in the community and they are starting to find their way home. So far around 500 people have registered to run in one of the races that makes up the News and Sentinel Races. Early registrations always favor the News and Sentinel Half Marathon, with close to 400 people already registered for the run or the walk.\nTo run a half marathon, most people have to train. Many like to register early to motivate themselves to do the extra miles to get ready for the race.\nWe give people multiple ways to register. You can register online - REGISTRATION OPTIONS - or you can print your own entry form and bring or mail it to us. You can also pick up an entry form at locations all over the area.\nThe registrations we like best are the ones that walk into our office and proudly state, \u201cI\u2019d like to register for the half marathon.\u201d It\u2019s great to talk to the individuals that are making the commitment to do something that a few short months ago they may have felt they were incapable of doing. The corner of my desk is as good of a place as any to fill out the form. We might even offer some course tips while you work on the application.\nIt\u2019s around this time that people start wondering if their friends are registered yet, or even if they have registered themselves. For that reason we start posting a list around this point in the summer so people can check. VIEW LIST.\nThe races are great community events that are enjoyable regardless of your ability. Most people cannot run a five-minute mile. That\u2019s OK, neither can we, and neither can most of the people that sign up for the two-mile race or half marathon. Sign up today and come on down on August 20 and see what everyone is talking about.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000059459/article/vilma-hargrove-smith-fujita-suspensions-overturned-on-appeal?module=HP11_breaking_news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:M5RXHEF6RPJQGHDGJ3LUDLEWLJYPW3MJ", "length": 4170, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.nfl.com", "title": "Saints player bounty suspensions overturned on appeal - NFL.com", "raw_content": "Saints player bounty suspensions overturned on appeal\nA collective bargaining agreement appeals panel overturned the NFL's suspensions of four players for their involvement in the New Orleans Saints' \"bounty\" program, NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said Friday.\nWhile the suspensions are vacated immediately, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can go back and suspend the four players if he proves there was an intent to injure. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said all players are eligible to play, starting this weekend, until Goodell does so.\nRosenthal: A setback for the NFL\nNo matter how you slice it Gregg Rosenthal says, Friday's decision to overturn the players' \"bounty\" suspensions isn't good news for the NFL. More ...\nSaints DE Smith plans to play Sunday\nVideo: A short-lived celebration?\nVideo: Saints' Harper reacts to news\nAccording to Larry Holder of The Times-Picayune, Aiello said Goodell will not re-rule on the player suspensions before Sunday's games.\n\"Consistent with the panel's decision, Commissioner Goodell will, as directed, make an expedited determination of the discipline imposed for violating the league's pay-for-performance/bounty rule,\" Aiello said in a statement. \"Until that determination is made, the four players are reinstated and eligible to play starting this weekend.\"\nSaints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was suspended for the entire 2012 season, free agent Anthony Hargrove for eight games, Saints defensive end Will Smith for four games and Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita three games.\nFujita and Hargrove played for the Saints during the program's duration, from 2009 to 2011, under former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who was suspended indefinitely by the NFL. The suspensions of Williams, coach Sean Payton (season-long), general manager Mickey Loomis (eight games) and assistant head coach Joe Vitt (six games) weren't involved in this appeals process.\nThe NFL Players Association noted its support of the overturned player suspensions in a statement: \"We are pleased that the appeals panel ruled unanimously to lift the players' suspensions immediately. We will continue to vigorously protect the rights of all players.\"\nVilma took to Twitter to express his satisfaction about the ruling, writing: \"Victory is mine!!!!.\"\nHargrove's agent, Phil Williams, wouldn't comment on his client's status. Williams also wouldn't say whether or not teams had begun calling him now that Hargrove is eligible to be on the field for the opening week of the 2012 NFL season.\n\"It's all too new,\" Williams told NFL.com and NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport.\nWhen asked if his client is physically able to play after being released by the Green Bay Packers in August, Williams said: \"Of course. He's ready to play if he falls out of bed after a month.\"\nAccording to a source close to Smith, the defensive end plans to play Sunday in the Saints' regular-season opener against the Washington Redskins and has been led to believe by the team that he will play.\n\"Thank you to everyone involved in the process of this solution,\" Smith tweeted. \"And everyone who supported us through this whole ordeal\"\nFujita also shared his gratitude on Twitter: \"I'm overwhelmed with all the support. Thank you so much everyone. Can't tell you how much it means to me.\"\nThe Saints received a roster exemption for Vilma so they will not have to make a corresponding roster cut to accommodate the linebacker. But Smith now counts against the team's active roster.\nMary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer first reported the Browns had been granted a roster exemption for Fujita.\nSaints safety Roman Harper said he'd welcome the return of his defensive teammates, Vilma and Smith.\n\"Well, if coach (Aaron) Kromer would let him come out, I'd definitely like to play with these guys,\" Harper told reporters.\n\"I'm excited,\" Saints quarterback Drew Brees told NFL.com and NFL Network reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala. \"I've been focused on the game, but I hoped that that would be the case. No, I'm not surprised. I wouldn't call me surprised. Obviously, they saw the information that we've seen for a long time.\"\nFollow Albert Breer on Twitter @AlbertBreer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ninofilm.net/blog/2011/06/04/interviewed-b-ron-dawson-on-crossing-the-180/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7VZ3CF526SQ633BL4GKLCVCQPGVCJNAU", "length": 2579, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ninofilm.net", "title": "Interviewed by Ron Dawson on \u201cCrossing the 180\u201d | Nino Film Blog", "raw_content": "I recently did an interview with filmmaker Ron Dawson for his show \u201cCrossing the 180\u201d. We talked about all sorts of stuff related to our profession in general and I was thoroughly enjoying it. Also feeling honored that he has me on his show as the first foreign filmmaker (that is, outside the United States).\nCheck out the entire 70-minute interview on his blog by clicking here.\nAlternatively, get the MP3 here or subscribe to his \u201cCrossing the 180\u201d podcast on iTunes via this link.\nHere\u2019s Ron\u2019s introduction text from the blog post:\nToday I start a mini-series on foreign filmmakers (i.e. filmmakers working outside the U.S.) When it comes to the world of filmmaking, the beautiful country of Austria has given us a wonderful artist. No, I\u2019m not talking about the ex-Govenator of California. Of couse, I\u2019m talking about none other than Mr. Nino Leitner. The son of creative artists (his parents owned an ad agency), he grew up with a love and appreciation for the arts. He realized early that filmmaking was the direction he wanted, and after graduating from high school in 2001 (ugh, I feel old) he pursued the craft in college. Right out of college he started freelancing and since then he\u2019s been a filmmaker for hire. Then about a year or so ago he got the opportunity to do the first online review of Canon\u2019s T2i/550D.The video he made was picked up by Engadget, and his blog became an instant hit. Since then his blog has become a wonderful resource for gear reviews and filmmaking inspiration. And Nino\u2019s star has risen tremendously (he has about 20,000 Twitter followers.)\nIn this engaging interview, we cover everything from how he works with his clients (you\u2019ll love my Brady Bunch flashback), how we quotes a job, how he picks his equipment (he\u2019s shot with everything from a T2i to the RED One), his views on sponsorship, gear-lust, what inspires him as a filmmaker, how he got where he is today, and of course he chimes in on my \u201cInception\u201d question. (Hear why that movie was so annoying to him. Here\u2019s a link to the College Humor video he referenced). I could\u2019ve talked with Nino forever. The time will fly as you listen to this great interview.\nBumper music for this show is \u201cTater City\u201d by Glenn Shambroom, part of the TRUE ROMANCE collection, courtesy of Triple Scoop Music.\nBy the way, check out Ron\u2019s video \u201cMy thoughts on success\u201d further down on his \u201cAbout\u201d page. I think he absolutely nails it. We are all so lucky and should never forget that.\nBlog Crossing the 180 engadget filmmaker interview iTunes MP3 podcast RED ONE Ron Dawson subscribe T2i Xing 180", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nixfrixshun.com/blog/remembering-dario-pegoretti-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:09Z", "digest": "sha1:XAPRH4VT3HYD4QSLE2KF5VCGFYGTAGI3", "length": 47, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nixfrixshun.com", "title": "Remembering Dario Pegoretti - NixFrixShun\u00ae", "raw_content": "Posted by J.Simonds 2/7/19 on February 07, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 99.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.noagentbusiness.com.au/private-real-estate/search/sell/nsw/for_sale/commercial/5522/food%20hospitality/north_coast-hastings-port_macquarie", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YIDQUNW5VN63UOSAYXUU7T4AVDXRD3SR", "length": 4030, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.noagentbusiness.com.au", "title": "For Sale Business And Commercial Property New South Wales - No Agent Property", "raw_content": "Commercial, For Sale, Business, Food Hospitality, Port Macquarie, New South Wales\n$380,000 - INCLUDES 2 DELIVERY VANS + EQUIPMENT\nRyan's Hot Bread Kitchen\nRyans has been an established business in Port Macquarie for more than 25 years and owned by the current owners for the last 4 years. Since then it has been taken to new levels! We have a large Bakehouse in the industrial area of Port Macquarie, giving us the capacity to produce, pack and deliver many large orders. We supply most of our customers on a daily basis including cafes, restaurants, clubs, and sporting clubs. As well as this we retail bread, rolls and cakes from major supermarkets, and local stores daily. All deliveries are done via our 2 delivery vans each morning. Trading this way means that we can produce and sell a large amount of product from many outlets while only having the cost of running one bakery. It is the ideal position to be in! We have just renewed the lease ( it is a 3x3 ). The rent is very reason\nRyans has been an established business in Port Macquarie for more than 25 years and owned by the current owners for the last 4 years. Since then it has been taken to new levels!\nWe have a large Bakehouse in the industrial area of Port Macquarie, giving us the capacity to produce, pack and deliver many large orders. We supply most of our customers on a daily basis including cafes, restaurants, clubs, and sporting clubs. As well as this we retail bread, rolls and cakes from major supermarkets, and local stores daily.\nAll deliveries are done via our 2 delivery vans each morning. Trading this way means that we can produce and sell a large amount of product from many outlets while only having the cost of running one bakery. It is the ideal position to be in!\nWe have just renewed the lease ( it is a 3x3 ). The rent is very reasonable at $500.00 per week including GST with standard CPI increases in place.\nWe employ a staff of 7, so the business runs smoothly even if we are away on holidays. We have 2 fulltime Bakers, 2 fulltime Pastry cooks, 2 permanent casual Delivery People (Also help with packing orders) and 1 permanent casual Office Girl. Plus husband and wife team work on the packing of orders and administration.\nAll the staff members are very hard working and reliable and great team members. Some have been with us since we purchased the bakery and we are sure they would all be keen to stay on with new owners if possible.\nOperating hours - The bakehouse operates through the night with bakers starting around 6pm, this allows for all the bread to be through the ovens to free them up for the cake side. All production and packing is done for the vans to leave around 5.30am and they are normally back around 9am to 9.30am. The office is then manned until 4pm Monday to Friday to take orders and provide customers with personal service. After this we have an answering machine where late orders are left.\nAll accounts are computerised and the office is set up with all necessary equipment to make ordering, production amounts and account keeping easy. We use an average 100 bags of flour each week with an average turnover of around $14,000 to $15,000 per week.\nThis is a genuine sale and a profitable business with a very reasonable asking price, which includes all equipment, both Delivery Vans and any stock at hand.\nIt is worthy to note, that the owners do not have to be qualified, as this business (with our great staff) runs itself.\nJust a quick word on Port Macquarie itself ? it is a beautiful place to live, very moderate temperature with the beaches only a couple of minutes from town. Great place to raise children or just live with nature as your backyard. Koalas are a common sight as is the resident family of kangaroos that have their breakfast at the back of the bakehouse.\nHousing prices are reasonable, and rental if required- seems to be readily available. Hope this helps to give you an idea of what we do and how and wish the new owners, as much luck as we have had. So call now to find out more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?pageid=193", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TU2YV2BRFZNUFQMRBDHCED2VTHUMYMHX", "length": 5652, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nonnativespecies.org", "title": "Aquatic and riparian weeds - GB non-native species secretariat", "raw_content": "These pages are under development.\nWhat is the issue with aquatic plants?\nSome plants which are not native to Britain can become invasive when they are introduced to the wild. They can grow very quickly, even from tiny fragments \u2013 for example Floating Pennywort can grow up to 20cm a day. Once in the wild, they overgrow habitats and other native plants and can form dense mats in the water which reduce light and oxygen levels in the water which harms fish and other natural life. They can be very difficult and expensive to control. These plants often don\u2019t make a very good choice for garden ponds as they overgrow them quickly and need a lot of management.\nWhat are the economic implications of the problem\nOnce established, invasive plants can be very difficult and very expensive to control. It is estimated that the Environment Agency spends approximately \u00a31.5 million a year on invasive aquatic plants due to the flood risk they pose. British Waterways spend about \u00a31 million a year on invasive non-native species (including riparian \u2013 riverbank \u2013 species). Floating Pennywort is currently thought to be the most expensive aquatic weed, it is estimated that it costs over \u00a32.5 million each year in control, and its impacts on leisure, recreation and flooding. Water Primrose could be just as bad but we have acted quickly to try to stop it from establishing in Britain.\nAre we saying all gardeners shouldn\u2019t have these plants in their ponds?\nNo \u2013 providing they don\u2019t escape into the wild it is fine to have INNS in your pond, though they may not be suitable due to their fast growing nature. The important thing is to make sure that unwanted plants are disposed of properly so that they can\u2019t get into the wild where they cause problems.\nHow should people dispose of them properly and what guidance exists on this?\nIf you have an invasive species in your pond and you manage it correctly there\u2019s no problem. If you decide you don\u2019t want it any longer then you should make sure you dispose of it safely so that it can\u2019t get into the wild. They can either be composted in the garden or by using your local green waste disposal scheme. Before composting, plants should be left to dry out beside the pond so that any pond animals in the plants can return to the pond. Make sure you get every last fragment as new plants can grow from the tiniest piece. Plants can be pulled out on a regular basis, but any big clear out should be saved for autumn when it will cause the least disturbance to the pond. It may be best to take advice if your pond flows into a stream or other body of water to make sure you don't accidentally spread the plant into the wild.\nIf I spot a harmful plant in a public waterway, what should I do?\nMany of these plants are fairly widespread in the countryside. You can find out more information on these species on the Be Plant Wise pages (or www.scotland.gov.uk/beplantwise in Scotland) including handy identification sheets for several key aquatic species and their current known range. You can submit records of non-native species through the online recording scheme iRecord. Find out more about recording non-native species on the recording pages. Some species \u2013 such as Water Primrose \u2013 are not so widespread and it would be useful to know if they are present in other areas. There are a number of volunteer groups that clear non-native species from waterways that you could also notify of the problem. Visit the local action group and project pages to see whether there is a suitable initiative in your area.\nWhy are you majoring on these five aquatic plants? What alternative plants do you recommend?\nThese top five plants are all causing major problems in the wild. They have a number of impacts including:\noutgrowing native plants,\ninterfering with activities such as angling and boating,\nclogging waterways and exacerbating flooding,\nreducing light and oxygen levels in the water which can harm fish and other creatures,\nforming thick mats which can look like dry land and can be a danger to people and livestock.\nThere are many other aquatic plants available to buy that will still oxygenate your pond, provide shelter for pond creatures or produce lovely flowers. Plantlife and the Royal Horticultural Society have produced three guides to plants that you could use in place of harmful invasives, find them here. You could also ask your retailer for advice about choosing plants which are suitable for your pond and not likely to cause a problem for the environment.\nCan I join a volunteering group to help clear public waterways?\nThere are many projects around the country that are tackling invasive species in their local areas. Visit the local action group and project pages to see whether there is a suitable initiative in your area. Otherwise try contacting your local authority, the nearest offices of the Environment Agency or Natural England, your local Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, British Waterways and so forth.\nWhat can the public do to help and where can I find out more information The public can help in many ways. For example heed advice on buying, using and disposing of invasive aquatic plants; make your friends and relative aware of the issue; check the website for information and handy identification sheets for several key invasive species and report them if you find them; join any local projects as volunteers to help manage the problem locally.\nWhat are the penalties if people introduce these into the wild? Are you looking to introduce legislation later this year to control these plants? Why haven\u2019t they been banned earlier?\nFind information on legislation here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/4817/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QQA43T5ZZPBR25VXERP2GO6DPQ47YSJU", "length": 3005, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.nordstjernan.com", "title": "Sweden - Nordstjernan", "raw_content": "NamnsdagarOktober2012\nName\u2019s Day October 2\nLove (or sometimes Lowe) is a Swedish version of the French man\u2019s name Louis, which in turn is a nickname for the name Ludovic. It may also be a paraphrase of the female name Lovisa. The name is used for both men and women, although it is more common among men.\nWhat happens in Sweden in October\nEver since 1999, October 4 is the \u201ckanelbullens dag\u201d (the day of the cinnamon bun) in Sweden.\nRecipe for Swedish \u201ckanelbullar\u201d (cinnamon buns)\n4 cups plain bread flour\n1/3 cup ground sugar (or confectioner's sugar)\n1 tsp ground cardamom (optional)\n\u00bd cup butter (nice and soft)\n1/3 cup sugar (we like to use brown sugar)\n1/3 cup pearl sugar\nMelt the butter and add the milk\u2014bring to 98.6\u00b0 to 114.8\u00b0 F for optimal yeast. Add the yeast and stir.\nWhen the yeast has dissolved, add the egg, sugar, salt, cardamom and most of the flour (hold a bit back for kneading). Work the dough until it stops sticking and has a shiny surface\u2014around 10 minutes by hand. Keep kneading, it makes for a better bun.\nPut the dough in a warm place for 30 minutes or until doubled in size. Place the dough on a floured surface and work through the rest of the flour.\nCut the dough in half and roll out each piece in a rectangular shape. Butter the whole piece liberally and dust over with the cinnamon and sugar. Roll each piece lengthways so you end up with a long sausage roll. Cut 1\u00bd-inch bites and place them carefully on baking trays (they will rise, so take care to keep them separated). For ease, you can put them in large muffin tins if you wish, but this is not essential. Let the buns rest another 30 minutes until doubled in size. Brush gently with egg and add a little pearl sugar on each bun, then bake in the oven on 400\u00b0 F for 8 to 10 minutes (turn the heat down a bit half way if you feel they are getting too brown). Let them cool under a clean tea towel\u2014this will stop them from drying out. You should get 34 to 40 buns out of this batch.\nName\u2019s Day October 19\nTore or Thore is a man\u2019s name with Nordic origins. An older variant was Thorir, which may be a composition of the god Tor\u2019s name and an old word \u201cverr\u201d that means man or fighter. Another interpretation is that the latter part of the name might come from \u201cwihar\u201d which is an old word for priest. The name Tor is also a short form of a variety of names that begin with Tor-, such as Torbj\u00f6rn. Tore is relatively common among men over the age of 50, but not as common among the younger generations.\nIn October in Sweden during the years 1983-1991, were demonstrations against \u201cl\u00f6ntagarfonder\u201d (employee funds). These funds, into which a proportion of company profits were put and used to buy shares in companies, were controlled by representatives of the Swedish trade unions. They were abolished following their loss in the Swedish general election in 1991.\nSince 1999, Swedish \u201ckanelbullar\u201d (cinnamon buns) have their own day in Sweden on October 4.\nThore Skogman (1931-2007) was a popular singer and entertainer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.normanlear.com/act-iii/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:G2U4JMJWS4AEAZZDOSUJ33XKB3UKBOBS", "length": 1274, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.normanlear.com", "title": "act iii | Norman Lear | television, film, political and social activist, philanthropist", "raw_content": "Act III is a multimedia holding company with interests in the television, motion picture, and licensing industries, including Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and ACT III Productions.\nThrough a group led by Act III Communications, in January of 2006, Norman Lear and his partner Hal Gaba purchased 50% of Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), the film production division of Village Roadshow Limited, one of Australia\u2019s leading entertainment and media companies. In addition to film productions, VRL also operates divisions in film exhibition; film; television and home video distribution; radio; and theme parks. VRP co-produces and co-finances about 6-8 movies per year with its principal co-productions partner Warner Bros., as well as other major studios and production companies. VRP has already amassed a library of more than thirty titles, including The Matrix trilogy; Miss Congeniality; Training Day; Ocean\u2019s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen; Mystic River; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory;Happy Feet; Where The Wild Things Are; Sherlock Holmes, and The Lego Movie.\nNorman Lear is also chairman emeritus of the Concord Music Group, one of the world\u2019s largest independent record and music publishing companies, committed to offering inspired, high quality popular music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 167.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.northamericanfamilylaw.com/expert-directory/edward-l-kainen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YMAEYQFTI4MH5O5JW6P7THOMJWKWE4FT", "length": 4396, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.northamericanfamilylaw.com", "title": "Edward L. 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Mr. Kainen was the first Chair of the Nevada Board of Certified Family Law Specialists, and held that position for five years. He is currently the President of the Nevada Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is admitted to the practice of law in the state and federal courts of Nevada, Florida and Kansas.\nMr. Kainen has taught Continuing Legal Education programs throughout the U.S. and abroad, on various aspects of Family Law, Motion Practice, Evidence, Law Practice Management, Professionalism and Ethics, as well as diverse topics in Criminal Law, Jury Trials, and Voir Dire. He has been published in the Nevada Family Law Report, Nevada Lawyer, Clark County Bar Journal, and authored the Manual for Family Court Law Clerks, still in use in the Family Court. He co-authored Nuts & Bolts of Family Law, and for twenty years coordinated and co-presented the annual statewide Continuing Legal Education program by the same name. Mr. Kainen completed two terms as the Chair of the Family Law Section (2003-2005), and was an elected member of the Family Law Section\u2019s Executive Council (1997-2006). He has served on the Family Court Bench Bar Committee (1997-2005), was its Chair (1999-2003), and served on the Advisory Board for the Clark County Self Help Center (2000-2010). He was appointed by the Nevada Supreme Court to the Supreme Court Bench Bar Committee (2005-2008 and 2011 to present). He was a member of the Council of the American Bar Association\u2019s Family Law Section, which is the governing body of the organization founded in 1958 and which currently has over 10,000 members. He also served as the Co-Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, past Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee and has Co-Chaired the Membership and Marketing Committee. He has received special recognition for his pro bono service, including being named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. He is also a Nevada Certified Attorney Arbitrator, a Master in the Nevada American Inns of Court and named to the peer review journal Best Lawyers in America for over 10 continuous years, being named as the Best Family Law Attorney in Las Vegas for 2013 and 2017. Since 2007, Mr. Kainen has annually been named a \u201cNevada Super Lawyer\u201d and he was named one of the \u201cTop 25\u2033 lawyers in the State of Nevada by Las Vegas Life Magazine and repeatedly designated as one of the Top 75 lawyers in the Mountain State Region which includes Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Mr. Kainen also serves on several non-profit Boards, including the Board of the Children and Family Law Center at Washburn School of Law.\nKainen Law Group, PLLC\nGetting a divorce or ending a relationship can have a domino-type effect on your life. 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Increasing them may be helpful in maintaining or even restoring a normal gut environment, and hopefully, improving health.\u201d\nThe study findings are reported in the Aug. 23 online edition of Scientific Reports, a Nature publication.\nOver the past decade, research has shown that specific probiotic strains can effectively prevent or treat certain diseases in both animal models and humans. These reports have led to an extensive demand for probiotic supplements over the last decade, thereby prompting a massive increase in the development of new probiotic products for the consumer market.\nHowever, these studies have primarily been conducted in animal models or human subjects with underlying diseases or conditions, Yadav said. 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The rector is Rev. Sergiy Voronin who has celebrated Divine Liturgy on Sundays on a regular basis. On the west side of the church building, the upper floor houses the parish library and the adjacent History Museum of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China. The lower floor provides rooms for visiting priests and conference room. It is located at the Russian Embassy.\nBuilt in 1901 on the former Mission's ground, this temple was intended to be a temporary one after the temples of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission were destroyed in the Yihetuan uprising. After the premise was turned over to the Soviet Embassy since 1957 it was long used as the Embassy garage.\n4 Dongzhimen Beizhongjie, Beijing 100600 PRC\nTel. for information: + (86) 135 526 403 94 or + (86) 135 526 430 74\nWebsite: www.orthodoxbj.com/en\ne-mail: uspenie_pekin@yahoo.com\nNov 2009 photos of Museum\n& Library by A. 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Wray, Associate Professor of Spanish, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1999 and joined the faculty of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics in 2000. Specializing in women writers of colonial Spanish America, Professor Wray's major investigatory focus concerns the religious writings of Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz. His book, The Devotional Exercises/Los Ejercicios devotos of Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz, Mexico\u2019s Prodigious Nun (1648/50-1695), is the first critical study and bilingual annotated edition on Sor Juana's devotional work.\nProfessor Wray has won numerous teaching awards including the Longmire Prize, the Cecil W. Woods Memorial Award, and the Regent's Award for Superior Teaching. He is also a Who's Who Among America's Teachers Award Recipient. Typically he teaches graduate courses in colonial Latin-American literature as well as undergraduate courses in Spanish conversation and Latin-American literature. He has led the OU in Buenos Aires program several times and will be faculty in residence at the OU Center in Puebla, Mexico in the spring of 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oyetimes.com/tabloid/relationships/727-ten-things-women-love-to-hear", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:05Z", "digest": "sha1:SUKSH2JBM5V36RJJFKWSG2N37MMCGGII", "length": 11637, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.oyetimes.com", "title": "Ten things women love to hear", "raw_content": "HomeTabloidRelationshipsTen things women love to hear\nIf there\u2019s one thing that has always kept men wondering about women, it has to be figuring out what they love to hear? Most men would agree that when it comes to compliments and sweet nothings, women can never have enough of it. The more they get, the more they want!\nSo, all that you need to do to impress her is \u2013 simply tell her all that she already knows. Yes! Strange but true \u2013 whether you are in a committed relationship or worried about her losing interest in you or are an amateur wanting to take your relationship to the next level, here\u2019s a complete guide to help you learn exactly what she wants to hear\u2026\n\u2018You look gorgeous!\u2019\nIf one could list down three things that women can\u2019t live without \u2013 they would probably be \u2013 good food, a wardrobe to die for and hearty compliments. So, don\u2019t be stingy when it comes to wooing her with a shower of compliments. The more you give, the more you are likely to get in return. Say all that she has been dying to hear \u2013 whether it is about her looks, her attire, her figure, professionalism at work or her culinary skills. Anudita Mishra, 34, a homemaker says, \u201cI love to be showered with compliments as I think most women do. It gives my ego a boost when my hubby says, \u2018This dress suits you\u2019, or something like \u2013 \u2018You look prettier than any of those ladies I know\u2019 or saying, \u2018I wonder how you look so sexy even in your 30s!\u2019 It just makes me feel good about myself.\u2019\nHear say: Dr. Sushma Dayal, a clinical psychologist says, \u201cEach of us like to receive compliments as it improves our self-image. It helps us to get rid of our inhibitions, acts as a motivation and helps us enhance our personality.\u201d\n\u2018You are the first woman in my life\u2019\nSaying this would certainly assure your girl that you are a \u2018one woman man\u2019 and that you don\u2019t keep hopping from one girlfriend to another. This is bound to put her on a pedestal and it will prove to be effective particularly in a long-term relationship. Be careful not to flatter her. Say this only when you mean it so that she never questions your loyalty.\nAbhay Bajaj, 26, a marketing professional says, \u201cWhen I told my girlfriend that she is the first woman in my life, she was utterly surprised. It\u2019s funny, but I believe most women have a myth that guys are rarely committed to a single woman. Once she was convinced, she was able to free herself from all insecurities and was head over heels for me.\u201d\nHear say: Archana Nanda, a psychologist opines, \u201cTelling a woman that she is the first person you have been so close to is sure to elevate her self-esteem and assure her of your faithfulness. But one shouldn\u2019t do this just to just to flatter a woman, say it only when you mean it from the bottom of your heart. It will rip your relationship apart if she finds out that you kept her in the dark about your real emotions.\u201d\n\u2018You are great in bed\u2019\nThis is sure to make her feel like a sex goddess and sweep away all the inhibitions she had about her performance between the sheets. Praising her performance in bed and telling her that she is simply irresistible, is sure to set the momentum for a sizzling act later. The more you elevate and understand her sexuality, the more willing she will be to explore her wildest fantasies.\nDon\u2019t just be grateful for every little effort that she puts to turn you on \u2013 say it aloud!\nAnant Joshi, 29, (name changed on request) says, \u201cA few months ago I complimented my wife for her performance in bed and I think that was the greatest turn on for her since then. She\u2019s now more experimental and also more open to my sexual advances. I think it\u2019s not just men but women too who like to be appreciated for the efforts they make in the bedroom.\u201d\nHear say: Sunil Garg, an expert on sex-related issues states, \u201cYou are sure to boost to a woman\u2019s sexuality when you tell her that she was super in the act. It will want her to explore more of herself and not just you. She will be able to connect with you in a sexual context.\u201d\n\u2018You\u2019ll make a great mother\u2019\nMost women look forward to having kids, but also tend to doubt themselves when it comes to being a good mother. Saying this is bound to put her on cloud nine \u2013 particularly when her man thinks she has all that it takes to be a nurturing mother. In a way, you\u2019ll also be assuring her of your commitment and that you would like to bring up your kids with her. Ritu Jaiswal, 27, who got married a year ago, confesses, \u201cIt was my husband who made me comfortable with the idea of parenthood. I was always scared of having kids, but he made me feel at ease by assuring me that I\u2019ll be a good mother and will do an excellent job as a parent. I am now expecting my first child.\u201d\nHear say: \u201cIt\u2019s important to assure a woman that she will be a good mother and that she has qualities like compassion and endurance being a good parent. This will make her believe in herself and also prepare her for the new role,\u201d adds Dr. Sushma.\n\u2018Will you spend your life with me?\u2019\nMost women tend to be ultra sensitive and by saying this you are bound to play music on the chords of her heart. You will also affirm to her that you are not just playing around with her, but are actually looking forward to spending your entire life with her. Tell her how incomplete your life would be without her and that she has now become an indispensable part of your existence. Don\u2019t be surprised if you find her smiling for days!\nRicha Nanda, 25, who works with an advertising agency in Delhi confesses, \u201cI had been dating a guy for the last six months. We work in the same office. Although I like him very much, I was a bit reluctant to commit to him prematurely. He recently asked me whether I would like to get married to him and it was then that I made up my mind. I was convinced that he is genuinely interested in me and would like to take the relationship further.\u201d\nHear say: \u201cI think this is the most difficult thing to ask a woman. It is a very important question and it means asking her for a long-term commitment. So, it is important to be sure before you speak your mind,\u201d adds Archana.\n\u2018What do you think about \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.?\u2019\nAsk for her opinion \u2013 whether it is about buying a new car or simply about what you should wear to office. By doing this, you are not just asserting that her opinion is important to you, but also that you respect her views. And if you are still in doubt, just remember that women love to express their views on whatever it may be \u2013 so let her speak for longer than you may want to hear and let her be the diva who knows it all!\nKanika Shrivastava, 28, who works with a telecom company in Delhi agrees, \u201cI feel really special when my boyfriend asks for my opinion. It boosts my ego. He consults me before taking any major decisions \u2013 whether it is regarding his career or investments. I appreciate the fact that he values me not just for my looks but also my brains.\u201d\nHear say: \u201cIt\u2019s important for a woman to believe that she is an important part of the decision making process. Asking her for advice \u2013 no matter how big or small the decision \u2013 makes her feel special and respected,\u201d adds Dr. Sushma.\n\u2018You are my dearest pal\u2019\nWant to assure her that you are the kind of man who\u2019s not just with her for her glam looks and her hourglass figure? Well, then all you need to do is to tell her that she is not just the love of your life, but also your dearest friend. Try to establish a connection beyond your sexual interest in her. This is sure to give her ego the much required boost and score you brownie points.\nNamita Goswami, 21, a college student says, \u201cThe best thing that my boyfriend has ever told me is that he considers me his best friend. Although he has many gal pals, but when it comes to sharing anything special, I am the one he comes to. It is great to find your best friend in your partner.\u201d\nHear say: Manmeet Bhalla, a marriage and relationship counselor opines, \u201cBeing a woman\u2019s friend is the first step to winning her over. It is important for a woman to believe that she means much more to you than just being your wife or your girlfriend. What she needs to feel is that you count on her \u2013 when you are in a problem or a dilemma, when you need advice, when you need a shoulder to cry on.\u201d\n\u2018I am lucky to have you\u2019\nTell her that she is the only one for you. If not her, you would probably have still been single. Women love to be with men who are amiable and there is no better way to tell her that you are a true gentleman than to thank her for being the person that she is. Tell her that your life is beautiful only because she is a part of it. Don\u2019t be surprised if you find her blushing.\nAmit Malhotra, 24, a sales executive says, \u201cA year ago, I just told my girlfriend how special she is to me and how lucky I feel to have her in my life and she was thrilled to hear that. Since then I have realised how important it is to be expressive with women.\u201d\nHear say: \u201cTelling a woman that she is your lucky charm is a sure shot way to pamper her. It makes her feel that you have not just accepted her in your life, but you are also grateful to her for her presence. It is the most gratifying thought for a woman,\u201d adds Manmeet.\n\u2018You know what\u2019s on my mind\u2019\nWant to make her feel like a supreme goddess? Well, then all you need to do is tell her that she knows what\u2019s on your mind before even having to tell her. Whether it is preparing your favourite dish for dinner, buying a gift that you had wanted to buy for yourself or the intensity with which she turns you on in bed. Once she is convinced she knows you better than you do, she won\u2019t mind giving you more than you have asked for.\nMadhuri Bhargava, 35, senior manager in a private bank in Noida shares, \u201cI have been married for nine years and my husband always tells me that I know him better than he knows himself, or perhaps even his mom does. It makes me feel exceptionally good when he says that. It attaches with itself a sense of belonging to someone and that is what matters the most to me.\u201d\nHear say: \u201cWomen generally like to be pampered by saying that they know it all. It\u2019s important to convince her that she knows everything about you. It will help keep the spark in your relationship alive,\u201d says Dr. Sushma.\n\u2018I love you\u2019\nEven though you have said it in every possible way \u2013 women place much more importance to these three magical words. So, make sure you say it at the right place and the right time, but when she is least expecting it. Wondering why? Who doesn\u2019t love surprises? Especially if you are in a committed relationship, make sure you say it even more often.\n\u201cI was thrilled when my boyfriend recently proposed to me. Although I knew that he loves me right from the beginning, but I was just waiting for him to pop the question and say those three special words. I had been dying to hear it from him since a year. It was the most memorable moment of my life,\u201d says Shruti, 23, a management student.\nHear say: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better that a woman would want to hear from her man. No matter how much you say it through your actions but most women like men who are expressive. It is very important to say what you feel to keep the romance alive. The more often you say, the better it is,\u201d says Manmeet.\nBadam Phirni\nBalenciaga Sent Crocs Down The Runway In Paris\nYou Won\u2019t Believe What The Key Ingredient In This Dessert Is\nLady Leshurr: \u201cI Couldn\u2019t Care Less What Anyone Thinks Of Me\u201d\nFive Minutes with Paul Collins author of Mack Dunstan\u2019s Inferno by Joey Pinkney\nDemi Lovato And Henry Levy: A Match Made In Rehab\nWhat I Wore: The Happiest Place on Earth\nHow Does Matt Lauer Feel About Giada De Laurentiis\u2019s Divorce?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 16492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pakistanherald.com/article/11723/27-november-2016/pakistan-obtained-$3b-in-loans-in-last-four-months", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YS74FLBQVV3DDXRLMHFAVV7GQSEDA3NT", "length": 4412, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.pakistanherald.com", "title": "Pakistan obtained $3b in loans in last four months @ Pakistan Herald", "raw_content": "Pakistan obtained $3b in loans in last four months\nSource: Tribune Published in Current Affairs on Sunday, November 27, 2016\nISLAMABAD: Pakistan has obtained $3 billion in new foreign loans in the past four months, and alarmingly three-fourths of the borrowing is for meeting budget financing requirements and building foreign currency reserves.\nThe foreign economic assistance from July through October this year stood at $2.95 billion, according to official statistics. However, the government obtained $2.2 billion or 75% of the total loans for non-productive purposes.\nThe $2.2 billion borrowings include $1 billion in Sukuk Bonds, which were floated by pledging the Lahore-Islamabad motorway in collateral, and $900 million from foreign commercial banks. Both these loans were aimed at meeting the needs of budget financing and forex reserves.\nProject loans amounted to only $750 million during this period, showed official statistics.\nThe $3 billion in loans were about 38% of the annual economic assistance of $8 billion that the government has projected to receive during the current fiscal year 2016-17.\nForeign loans are only productive when these are utilised for asset building as this provides a source of earnings to return the loans, said Dr Kasier Bengali, a renowned economist of the country.\nHis work suggested that with a shift in focus from project to programme loans, the country\u2019s infrastructure is completely ignored and it has started collapsing.\nBengali has argued in the past that as long as the rate of return is at least 1% higher than the cost of borrowing, foreign debt does not create trouble in debt management. However, most of the fresh borrowings are going for meeting budget financing needs, which adds burden on the government.\nState Bank of Pakistan\u2019s former governor Shahid Kardar has also recently highlighted the issue of high cost of borrowings compared with the returns that the central bank gets by placing these deposits.\nAfter reaching a peak of $19.5 billion, the SBP\u2019s official foreign currency reserves have slipped below $19 billion again \u2013 a result of reduction in exports and remittances receipts and increase in foreign debt repayments.\nDuring the past three-and-a-half years, the government has been subjected to severe criticism for acquiring expensive foreign debt and increasing the overall debt mountain. A recent report of the finance ministry also indicates that Pakistan\u2019s debt sustainability indicators have worsened in the past one year.\nAnother notable pattern was that Pakistan\u2019s traditional bilateral sources of borrowings and grants were drying up. Out of 12 traditional bilateral partners, nine did not disburse any sum during the July-October period.\nThese include France, South Korea, Norway, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and European Union. China disbursed $411.5 million loans from July to October. Most of Chinese financial assistance has been shifted to off the budget.\nBeijing gave $216 million loan for construction of Sukkur-Multan motorway under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Another sum of $97 million has been released for Thaikot-Havelian section of the CPEC route.\nThe disbursements from the traditional multilateral partners also remained slow during the first four months of this fiscal year. The World Bank released $85.5 million, which was just 5.6% of the annual estimates.\nThe Asian Development Bank disbursed $142.8 million or 13.6% of the annual estimates. The Islamic Development Bank has given $242 million including $212.4 million short-term expensive loan.\nThe United Kingdom gave $76.2 million in grant for Benazir Income Support Programme and education projects of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The project grant from the United States stood at only $27 million in the first four months.\nDue to drying up of non-debt creating sources and increasing infrastructure development requirements, Pakistan\u2019s debt has been gradually increasing in absolute terms.\nTwo renowned economists, former finance minister Dr Hafiz Pasha and former director general debt Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khan, have projected that Pakistan\u2019s external debt to grow to $110-billion by 2019-20.\nHowever, the Finance Ministry said it was na\u00efve to assume that the external debt would grow to $110 billion by 2019-20 with a possible assumption that there would be no repayments during this period.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paranormalx.yolasite.com/northamptonshire.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QCSJ3YQIORO7RQHX7UODHHPUC6B2PM56", "length": 95, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.paranormalx.yolasite.com", "title": "Haunted Pubs & Hotels", "raw_content": "18 West Street, Oundle, Northamptonshire. PE8 4EF\nNew Street, Oundle, Northamptonshire. PE8 4EA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parkermccay.com/blog/author/sarah-tornetta", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZX532RMOB647HPEJAX2BDTDZIOYM3KH", "length": 668, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.parkermccay.com", "title": "Parker McCay Blog", "raw_content": "Posts by Sarah E. Tornetta\nBy Andrew W. Li, Sarah E. Tornetta on October 10, 2017\nOne of the biggest controversies dominating the sports world right now is the \u201ctake a knee\u201d protests during the national anthem. The movement that started with the NFL has expanded to other professional sports - and is now starting to appear in public schools.\nBy Andrew W. Li, Sarah E. Tornetta on September 18, 2017\nThe Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a decision that could potentially expand the liability of school districts for the misconduct of even ostensibly \u201clow level\u201d employees, if those employees are deemed to have supervisory authority over other employees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parkermccay.com/blog/new-form-i-9-is-now-in", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CN5DWYKY2G6L2F7FWYE3Y7UBJYDND6QQ", "length": 1725, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.parkermccay.com", "title": "New Form I-9 is Now in Effect- What HR and Employers Need to Know: Parker McCay Blog", "raw_content": "New Form I-9 is Now in Effect- What HR and Employers Need to Know\nEffective January 22, 2017, employers must use the updated version of Form I-9, dated 11/14/2016 N, Employment Eligibility Verification published by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).\nThe revised Form I-9 is mandatory, and employers who continue to use the version dated 3/8/2013 N, are subject to all applicable penalties under section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324a, as enforced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Form I-9 must be completed and maintained by all employers for all employees hired in the United States after November 6, 1986.\nThe new version of the Form I-9 contains a number of new features, including:\nAddition of prompts, and electronic drop down lists and calendars, to ensure information is entered correctly;\nRevised instructions;\nClarification of \u201cother last names used\u201d rather than \u201cother names used, and the numbering of immigration status categories for Section 1\u201d;\nDetails and ability to select multiple prepares and translators;\nInclusion of a dedicated area for additional information rather entering notes in the margins, including the auto-extension of and individual\u2019s work status, if necessary.\nWe caution employers who utilize electronic I-9 vendors to confirm with the vendor that their I-9 form is appropriately updated. We also suggested that employers review and update their employee handbooks/manuals to comply with the change. Of course, all employers should review and updated their handbooks/manuals on a yearly basis to comply with legal and business related changes.\nThe new Form I-9 can be accessed on the USCIS website: http://www.uscis.gov/I-9.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 180.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paschal69.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=3385092", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMYWAVVIRR5W5HJ6RIUZBCMYYAN3TOW5", "length": 113, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.paschal69.org", "title": "Susan Seeton (Rohlfing) (Deceased), Fort Worth, TX Texas", "raw_content": "Susan Elaine Seeton Rolhfing\n(Born in Tarrant County on September 13, 1951 - Died in California on June 10, 2009)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20110256390", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SXVTQGWAJQFYMY3F7GL5XMICFFMBT5DB", "length": 35520, "nlines": 137, "source_domain": "www.patentsencyclopedia.com", "title": "FIRE-RESISTANT GLASSES HAVING UV-CURABLE INTERMEDIATE LAYER - Patent application", "raw_content": "Patent application title: FIRE-RESISTANT GLASSES HAVING UV-CURABLE INTERMEDIATE LAYER\nInventors: Jens Klossek (Weimer, DE) Ruediger Freitag (Etterwinden, DE) Klaus-Dieter Schwabe (Apolda, DE) Stefan Meinhardt (Neustadt An Der Orla, DE)\nClass name: Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component physical dimension specified of base or substrate\nThe invention relates to transparent fire-resistant glass elements made from at least two panes, wherein a layer made from a UV-curable material is arranged between each of said panes, to a method for the production thereof and to the use thereof as multiple glass elements in mobile units such as doors and windows or fixed as elements of walls or facades.\n1. Transparent fire-resistant glazing, comprising at least two panes each independently selected from the group consisting of glass panes and glass ceramic panes, and at least one layer (a) of a UV-curable material, each of said layers (a) being arranged between two of these panes, characterized in that said layer (a) comprises at least one bromine-containing flame retardant.\n2. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the glass pane and the glass ceramic pane each consist of a material selected from the group consisting of borosilicate glass and soda-lime glass.\n3. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the glass pane has been tempered.\n4. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the glass pane or glass ceramic pane is in the range between 2 and 10 mm, preferably in the range between 3 and 7 mm, more preferably in the range between 3 and 5 mm.\n5. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the UV-curable material comprises at least one oligomer selected from the group consisting of monoacrylate oligomers and multiacrylate oligomers, and at least one monomer with an acrylate functionality.\n6. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the layer (a) is in the range between 0.5 and 5 mm, preferably in the range between 0.75 mm and 2 mm, more preferably in the range between 0.8 and 1.2 mm.\n7. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the bromine-containing flame retardant is a bromine-containing organic flame retardant.\n8. Transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the bromine-containing flame retardant is selected from the group consisting of polybrominated diphenyl ethers such as decabromodiphenyl ether, brominated alcohols such as dibromoneopentyl alcohol, tribromoneopentyl alcohol, tetrabromobisphenol A and dibromobutenediol, polybrominated cycloalkanes such as hexabromocyclododecane, tetrabromophthalicanhydride and esters of tetrabromophthalicanhydride, and the derivatives and/or mixtures of each.\n9. Process for producing transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1, comprising the steps of (a) cleaning the panes, (b) masking the panes such that there is a gap between the panes, (c) filling the gap with a UV-curable material and (d) curing the material with UV radiation.\n10. The process as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the curing is effected for a duration of 15 to 25 min, preferably of 19 to 21 min, with radiation of a wavelength in the range from 300 to 400 nm.\n11. The use of transparent fire-resistant glazing as claimed in claim 1 as multiple glazing, in mobile units, for example in doors and windows, or fixed as an element of walls or facades.\n[0001] The present invention relates to transparent, fire-resistant glazing composed of at least two panes, a layer of a UV-curable material being arranged in each case between these panes, the processes for production thereof and to the use thereof as multiple glazing, in mobile units, for example doors and windows, or fixed as an element of walls or facades.\n[0002] Fire-resistant glazing serves, for example, as a fire-resistant barrier in an opening in a wall or else in an otherwise non-transparent filling of a door leaf. Fire-resistant glazing must be configured such that it can withstand the action of fire and heat, according to the standard, for a predetermined period, for example 30, 60, 90 or 120 or even 180 min. More particularly, it must not allow flames to strike through and must, under some circumstances, as an additional requirement, provide a room with a reliable barrier against smoke. In addition, in particular applications, it must offer good insulation against heat and restrict the radiant heat of a fire source. Requirement criteria on fire-resistant glazing are regulated especially in European standards EN 1363-1 \"Fire Resistance Tests, General Standards\" and DIN EN 1634 part 1 \"Fire Resistance Tests for Doors and Shutter Assemblies, Part 1 Fire Doors\".\n[0003] In addition, fire-resistant glazing should also meet further requirements, for example, security requirements, especially requirements on impact resistance. In addition, fire-resistant glazing should also be suitable for sound insulation.\n[0004] Commercially available laminated safety glass consists of at least two glass panes between which PVB (polyvinyl butyrate) films are generally arranged. The fragment-binding effect of the film is needed to ensure the safety glass properties. However, when such glasses are heated, the PVB film decomposes and forms inflammable gases which lead to flame formation on the side facing away from the fire and hence enable the spread of a fire.\n[0005] A further commercially available fire-resistant safety glass consists of at least one heat-resistant, low-expansion glass ceramic pane or a thermally tempered borosilicate glass between which a fluorine-containing layer has been arranged.\n[0006] In this case, sufficient adhesion between the glass or glass ceramic pane and the fluorine-containing intermediate layer is promoted using an adhesion promoter consisting of a fluorohydrocarbon and a solvent.\n[0007] In addition, the bonding of glass ceramic or glass pane to films requires a complex and costly lamination operation, and a preliminary composite using elevated pressure and elevated temperatures, and also a subsequent autoclave operation.\n[0008] When the glass ceramic pane is produced by means of a rolling process, a consequence is relatively high corrugation of the glass ceramic pane. A fluorine-containing film with a thickness of 0.5 \u03bcm is not very suitable in this case for production of a faultless end product which does not exhibit any bubbles in the laminated glass, since this film can only inadequately compensate for the unevenness in the glass ceramic pane. In order, however, to ensure such compensation, a costly and time-consuming grinding and polishing process of the glass ceramic pane is needed in addition.\n[0009] Due to the only low layer thickness of the films used and the low elasticity thereof, the sound-insulating properties of laminated safety glasses with such films are also inadequate.\n[0010] It is likewise not directly possible in the case of use of films to produce laminates from individual glass panes with a thickness of <4 \u03bcm, which meet the safety glass properties required according to the highest category of DIN EN 12600.\n[0011] It was therefore an aim of the present invention to provide transparent fire-resistant glazing which overcomes the disadvantages of the fire-resistant glazing known from the prior art.\n[0012] It was a further aim of the present invention to provide transparent fire-resistant glazing which ensures protection from smoke and flames in the event of fire, exhibits safety glass properties, especially high fragment-binding action and high impact resistance, and has very good sound-insulating properties.\n[0013] It was a further aim of the present invention to be able to bond glass panes or glass ceramic panes with relatively high unevenness of up to 0.7 mm/m, especially of 0.5 mm/m, such that they have a layer thickness sufficient for impact resistance and soundproofing, without needing to increase the layer thickness significantly.\n[0014] It was a further aim of the present invention to provide transparent fire-resistant glazing which meets the highest standard in the pendulum impact test to DIN EN 12600.\n[0015] It was likewise an aim of the present invention to provide transparent fire-resistant glazing which ensures integrity to EN 1363 after 90 min, preferably after 120 min.\n[0016] The aforementioned aims are achieved by transparent fire-resistant glazing which comprises at least two panes each independently selected from the group consisting of glass panes and glass ceramic panes, and at least one layer (a) of a UV-curable material, each of said layers (a) being arranged between two of these panes, characterized in that said layer (a) comprises at least one bromine-containing flame retardant. The glass or glass ceramic is preferably transparent, especially highly transparent, and has a light transmittance of >80%, based on the pane or glazing. The transmittance is preferably at least 85%, especially at least 88%.\n[0017] The inventive transparent fire-resistant glazing can also be used as safety glazing.\n[0018] The term \"comprising\" in the context of the present invention is understood such that the list which follows is not conclusive and may or may not likewise comprise other additional items, for example one or more further features, components, constituents and/or substituents, if suitable.\n[0019] The thickness of the glass pane or glass ceramic pane is preferably in the region of at least 2 mm, or 2.5 mm, particular preference being given to at least 3 mm or 3.2 mm. Preferred maximum thicknesses are 15 mm or 12 mm, a maximum of 10 mm being even more preferred. Particular preference is given to maximum thicknesses of 7 mm or 6 mm.\n[0020] The thickness of layer (a) is preferably at least 0.5 or 0.6 mm, and at least thicknesses of 0.7 mm or 0.75 mm are even more preferred. Particular preference is given to minimum thicknesses of 0.8 mm. Preferred maximum thicknesses of layer (a) are at most 5 mm or 3 mm, and at most 2 mm or 1.5 mm is even more preferred. Particular preference is given to thicknesses of not more than 1.3 mm or 1.2 mm. In the case of uneven glasses, thicknesses of 1.5\u00b10.3 mm have been found to be particularly appropriate.\n[0021] The glass panes or glass ceramic panes and the layer (a) does give rise to laminates with layers of different thickness.\n[0022] For example, it is possible to combine a glass pane of thickness 4 mm with a further glass pane of thickness 5 mm and a layer (a) of thickness 1 mm.\n[0023] Preferably, the minimum thickness of the laminates composed of glass panes or glass ceramic panes and the layer (a) is at least 5 mm to 5.5 mm, particular preference being given to thicknesses of at least 6 or 7 mm. Preferred maximum thicknesses are 15 mm or 13 mm, and maximum thicknesses of 12 mm or 11 mm are even more preferred. Very particular preference is given to thicknesses of not more than 10 mm or 8 mm.\n[0024] The present invention thus enables provision of fire-resistant glazing with a low layer thickness, for example in the range between 6 and 8 mm. This fire-resistant glazing exhibits further advantages with regard to the reduced weight and increased transparency thereof. It can thus likewise be used in place of wired glass in standard frames.\n[0025] The pane used in accordance with the invention typically consists of a glass or a glass ceramic. The glass pane or glass ceramic pane preferably consists in each case of a material selected from the group consisting of borosilicate glass and soda-lime glass, which may optionally also be tempered.\n[0026] The glass used in accordance with the invention can be floated or drawn. More particularly, planar glass with parallel and fire-polished surfaces of high surface quality is used. In a preferred embodiment, the glass used is tempered, preferably by means of thermal or chemical processes.\n[0027] The floating of soda-lime glasses and borosilicate glasses is known.\n[0028] In the context of the present invention, soda-lime glasses are understood to mean those which are produced essentially from the starting materials silicon dioxide (SiO2), lime (CaCO3) and soda (Na2CO3). Floated soda-lime glass can also be thermally tempered and thus meets the requirements for a safety glass. A known method for achieving this thermal tempering involves heating float glass panes which have been cut to size to approx. 600 to 700\u00b0 C. and then cooling them very rapidly by means of a cold air stream. This heating and rapid cooling operation gives rise to significant compressive stresses in the surface of the glass and tensile stresses in the interior. This results in a considerable rise in the flexural strength of the glass, development of insensitivity to rapid temperature variations and a high resilience. In the event of ultra-high stress, such tempered glass breaks into a multitude of crystals with edges which are not very sharp.\n[0029] In chemical tempering, compressive stress is attained in the surface of the glass by ion exchange. In the course of this, ions of greater radius which penetrate into the glass from outside replace smaller ions. As a result of the greater space requirement of the penetrating ions, a high compressive stress in the surface is attained, with which a 5- to 8-fold increase in strength can be achieved. Usually, the ion exchange is carried out with alkali metal atoms, either in salt melts or with the aid of applied pastes. A customary treatment is that with potassium atoms, which are exchanged for sodium atoms in the glass. It is important that the treatment is effected below the transformation temperature of the glass because the compressive stress is otherwise dissipated thermally.\n[0030] As further constituents, a soda-lime glass may likewise comprise Na2O, K2O, MgO, ZrO2, CaO, SrO, BaO, ZnO, P2O5, TiO2 and SnO2.\n[0031] A typical soda-lime glass, as defined as standard glass by the DGG [German Glass Society], consists of the following constituents:\nTABLE-US-00001 Constituent SiO2 Al2O3 Fe2O3 TiO2 SO3 CaO MgO Na2O K2O Proportion in % by wt. 71.72 1.23 0.191 0.137 0.436 6.73 4.18 14.95 0.338\n[0032] The viscosity is typically:\nTABLE-US-00002 Temperature in \u00b0 C. 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 Viscosity in 1.02 \u00d7 1015 5.66 \u00d7 1010 9.88 \u00d7 107 1.76 \u00d7 106 1.12 \u00d7 105 1.49 \u00d7 104 3.19 \u00d7 103 9.32 \u00d7 102 3.41 \u00d7 102 1.48 \u00d7 102 d Pa s\n[0033] Borosilicate glass refers to a silicate glass which contains generally between 7% and 15% boron oxide. Due to its composition, it has a comparatively high thermal cycling stability, and a very high hydrolytic and acid resistance. Just like soda-lime glass, it is floatable and is, for example, refined with sodium chloride in the course of production. Borosilicate float glasses are employed where relatively high chemical resistance and high thermal durability are important. Borosilicate glasses may likewise be present in thermally tempered form. Borosilicate glasses preferably have a transformation temperature between 535\u00b0 C. and 850\u00b0 C., a softening point below 830\u00b0 C. and a processing temperature below 1300\u00b0 C.\n[0034] As further constituents a borosilicate glass may likewise comprise Na2O, K2O, MgO, ZrO2, CaO, SrO, BaO, ZnO, P2O5, TiO2 and SnO2.\n[0035] A typical borosilicate glass consists of 70-78% by weight of SiO2, 7-15% by weight of B2O3, 0-8% by weight of Na2O, 0-8% by weight of K2O, 0-8% by weight of HO2O3 and optionally up to 8% by weight of further constituents.\n[0036] The inventive fire-resistant glazing preferably has high light transmittance.\n[0037] The light transmittance for inventive glazing comprising glass ceramic is preferably at least 85%, especially at least 88%, for inventive borosilicate glazing at least 90% and for inventive soda-lime glass, likewise at least 90%.\n[0038] The glass panes used in accordance with the invention are typically characterized by a coefficient of thermal expansion \u03b120/300 between 2.8, especially between 3, and 10.0\u00d710-6/K.\n[0039] Typical values are, for example, 3.3\u00d710-6/K for Boro 33 (Pyran White), approximately 9.0\u00d710-6/K for a soda-lime glass and 4.0\u00d710-6/K for Boro 40 (PyranS).\n[0040] Suitable glasses and glass ceramics are also described in German patent specification DE 100 17 701 C2.\n[0041] In an alternative embodiment, the transparent fire-resistant glazing may comprise glass ceramic panes.\n[0042] Glass ceramic consisting of one crystalline and one residual glass phase. The starting glass phase is at first obtained by way of standard glass manufacturing processes. After fusion and refining, the glass typically undergoes hot shaping by rolling, casting or pressing. Thereafter, the glass is subjected to a heat treatment, as a result of which the glass is partly converted in a controlled manner to a finely divided, crystalline phase. The glass ceramic panes used in accordance with the invention have, within a temperature range from room temperature to about 700\u00b0 C., an exceptionally low coefficient of thermal expansion \u03b120/700<1.5\u00d710-6/K. Therefore, glass ceramic panes in transparent form are particularly suitable for use in fire-resistant glazing.\n[0043] The glass ceramic pane used in accordance with the invention has preferably been produced in a float operation, and then ceramized in a gas film levitation process or by means of contact ceramization.\n[0044] Layer (a) comprises at least one bromine-containing flame retardant. Advantageously, layer (a) comprises exclusively bromine-containing flame retardants.\n[0045] Suitable flame retardants are, for example, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) such as decabromodiphenyl ether, brominated alcohols such as dibromoneopentyl alcohol, tribromoneopentyl alcohol, tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBA) and dibromobutenediol, polybrominated cycloalkanes, such as hexabromo-cyclododecane (HBCD), and the derivatives and/or mixtures of each.\n[0046] Likewise suitable are mixed esters of tetrabromophthalic anhydride with diethylene glycol and propylene glycol, for example, SAYTEX\u00ae RB-79 from Albemarle Corporation, mixed esters of tetrabromo-phthalic anhydride with aromatic diols, for example SAYTEX\u00ae RB-8000 from Albemarle Corporation, or SAYTEX\u00ae RB-9130 and SAYTEX\u00ae RB-9170.\n[0047] Preferably, layer (a) does not contain any phosphorus-containing flame retardants. Under the action of heat, phosphorus compounds lead to degradation products which attack glass panes or glass ceramic panes, the result being that they shatter when hit by water jets.\n[0048] Layer (a) preferably likewise does not contain any fluorine-containing flame retardants, since the degradation products thereof can also attack glass or glass ceramic.\n[0049] The bromine-containing flame retardant is compatible with the other components of the UV-curable material, in that a transparent product is obtained after curing in each case.\n[0050] The bromine-containing flame retardants preferably do not polymerize with the other components of the UV-curable material.\n[0051] The UV-curable material preferably comprises at least one oligomer selected from the group comprising monoacrylate oligomer and multiacrylate oligomer and at least one monomer with an acrylate functionality.\n[0052] In principle, however, other resins of sufficient thermal stability are usable.\n[0053] In general, the oligomer is prepared first, optionally in the presence of a reactive diluent. Then the oligomer formulation is formulated further by mixing it with other constituents, such as reactive diluents, i.e. monomers, one or more photoinitiators and additives. When different oligomers are desired, in multiple cases, individual oligomers can be synthesized and then mixed, or they can be synthesized together in a single one-pot synthesis.\n[0054] The amount of oligomers in the UV-curable material is preferably 10% by weight to about 90% by weight, more preferably 15% by weight to 80% by weight and most preferably 20% by weight to 70% by weight.\n[0055] The molecular weight of the oligomers is not particularly restricted. The number-average molecular weight of the oligomers may generally be less than about 25 000 g/mol and preferably less than about 10 000 g/mol and more preferably less than about 5000 g/mol. The molecular weight is generally preferably greater than about 500 g/mol.\n[0056] A monoacrylate oligomer is an oligomer which has only one functional acrylate group. The monoacrylate may form the main chain for the polymer which forms on mixing with an acrylate copolymer and a multiacrylate oligomer. A multiacrylate oligomer is an oligomer which has at least two functional acrylate groups. The acrylate functionalities may be end groups, or they may be grafted on at a site within the oligomer chain. On mixing with the other components of the composition, the multiacrylate oligomer provides the crosslinks or branches which are needed for formation of a network with the monoacrylate monomer main chain.\n[0057] The monoacrylate monomers and multiacrylate monomers are selected and provided in amounts such that the UV-curable material has the desired cohesive and adhesive strength. The oligomers are also present in such amounts that the transparency and thermal or moisture stability are also ensured.\n[0058] The monoacrylate oligomers or multiacrylate oligomers may, for example, be urethane acrylate oligomers. These oligomers can be obtained by reaction of polyester polyols and polyisocyanates.\n[0059] A polyester polyol can be formed by reacting a polybasic acid, for example terephthalic acid or maleic acid, with a polyhydric alcohol, for example ethylene glycol or 1,6-hexanediol. A polyether polyol which is used for preparation of the urethane acrylate oligomers may be selected, for example, from polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, poly(tetrahydrofuran), poly(2-methyltetrahydrofuran), poly(3-methyltetrahydrofuran) and the like.\n[0060] Urethane acrylate oligomers can then be synthesized, for example by reacting a polyisocyanate or another polyfunctional isocyanate compound with a polyhydric polyol, to give an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer. Subsequently, acrylates or methacrylates having a hydroxyl group can be reacted with the terminal isocyanate groups of the prepolymer. Both aromatic and aliphatic isocyanates can be used for reaction with the urethane to obtain the oligomer. Examples of diisocyanates which can be used for preparation of the acrylated oligomers are toluene 2,4-diisocyanate, toluene 2,6-diisocyanate, xylene 1,3-diisocyanate, xylene 1,4-diisocyanate, hexane 1,6-diisocyanate, isophorone diisocyanate and the like. Examples of hydroxyl-terminated acrylates which can be used for the preparation of the acrylated oligomers comprise, but are not restricted to, 2-hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl (meth)acrylate, 4-hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate, polyethylene glycol (meth)acrylate and the like. A urethane-acrylic oligomer comprises an acrylate group and at least one urethane group.\n[0061] Alternatively, the monoacrylate oligomers or multiacrylate oligomers may be polyester acrylate oligomers, acrylated acrylic oligomers or polyether acrylate oligomers.\n[0062] The UV-curable material comprises, as a further component, a monomer with an acrylate functionality. The acrylate functionality allows polymerization of the monomers using UV radiation.\n[0063] The UV-curable material preferably contains 10% by weight to 90% by weight, more preferably 20% by weight to 80% by weight and most preferably 30% to 70% by weight of monomers. The monomers preferably have a molecular weight of not more than 550 or a viscosity at room temperature of not more than 300 mPa.s (measured in 100% monomer).\n[0064] The monomer with an acrylate functionality is capable of copolymerization with a monoacrylate oligomer or multiacrylate oligomer.\n[0065] The monomer with an acrylate functionality is preferably selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, \u03b2-carboxyethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, butyl methacrylate, methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate, octyl acrylate, decyl acrylate, octyl methacrylate, decyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, phenoxyethyl acrylate, phenoxyethyl methacrylate, nonylphenol ethoxylate monoacrylate, nonylphenol ethoxylate monomethacrylate, \u03b2-carbonylethyl acrylate, 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)ethyl acrylate, 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate (HDDA), pentaerythrityl triacrylate (PETIA), trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) and trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA).\n[0066] The UV-curable material likewise comprises a photoinitiator. A suitable photoinitiator is selected depending on the absorption characteristics of the glass with respect to UV radiation, such that a sufficient amount of UV radiation can penetrate through the glass pane or glass ceramic pane and initiates the polymerization by activation of the photoinitiator.\n[0067] Apart from the aforementioned condition, selection of the photoinitiators is unlimited. It is possible to use conventional photoinitiators. Examples include benzophenone and/or acetophenone derivatives, such as \u03b1-hydroxyalkyl phenyl ketone, benzoin alkyl ethers and benzyl ketals, monoacylphosphine oxides and bisacylphosphine oxides. Preferred photoinitiators are 1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone (Irgacure\u00ae 184, Ciba Geigy), 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-propane-1-one (Darocure\u00ae 1173) and (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) diphenylphosphine oxide (Lucirin\u00ae TPO).\n[0068] The amount of the photoinitiator is not particularly restricted. With regard to rapid curing rate, appropriate costs, good surface and through-curing, an optimal amount of photoinitiator is selected, which likewise prevents yellowing in the course of aging. In the UV-curable composition lie within the range between 0.3% by weight and 10% by weight and preferably in the range between 1% by weight and 5% by weight.\n[0069] In addition, the UV-curable material comprises further conventional additives in effective amounts. For example, it is possible to use additives, such as stabilizers for prevention of gelation, UV screening compounds, leveling aids, polymerization inhibitors, adhesion accelerators, light stabilizers, chain transferers, colorants, including pigments and dyes, plasticizers, fillers, wetting improvers and separation additives, and also preservatives.\n[0070] In an alternative embodiment, the UV-curable material may likewise comprise inorganic hydroxides such as aluminum trihydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, brucite, hydromagnesite, aluminum phosphinates, mixed metal hydroxides and/or mixed metal hydroxycarbonates, inorganic oxides such as magnesium oxide, and/or antimony trioxide, silicone, silicon dioxide and/or silicate derivatives, and/or other organic materials, such as magnesium calcium carbonate, barium metaborate, zinc borate, zinc hydroxystannate, zinc stannate, zinc metaborate, expandable graphite and/or mixtures of glassy materials which function as a flame-retardant barrier.\n[0071] The UV-curable material is selected in each case such that the fire-resistant glazing is transparent.\n[0072] At a thickness of 9 nm, the transparent fire-resistant glazing preferably exhibits a transmittance of at least 80%, more preferably of at least 85% and most preferably of at least 88%.\n[0073] The layer (a) of a UV-curable material preferably has a viscosity at 25\u00b0 C. in the region of approx. 140 mPa.s.\n[0074] The result of the low viscosity and the associated elastic properties is that the layer (a) enables the production of transparent fire-resistant glazing with good sound-deadening properties.\n[0075] The present invention further provides a process for producing transparent fire-resistant glazing, comprising the steps of\n[0076] (a) cleaning the glass panes or glass ceramic panes,\n[0077] (b) masking the panes such that there is a gap between the panes,\n[0078] (c) filling the gap with a UV-curable material, and\n[0079] (d) curing the material with UV radiation.\n[0080] The panes are cleaned by means of acetone or isopropanol.\n[0081] The glass panes or glass ceramic panes are masked with the aid of double-sided adhesive tape, which also functions as a spacer. This gives rise to a gap between the glass panes or glass ceramic panes, which is filled with the UV-curable material. The UV-curable material is subsequently cured by UV radiation. The cure with UV radiation is effected for a period of 15 to 25 min, more preferably for a period of 19 to 21 min, with radiation of a wavelength in the range from 300 to 400 nm.\n[0082] The process according to the invention allows the gap to be filled such that no gas bubbles form. In contrast to the use of a PVB film as an intermediate layer in fire-resistant glazing, the unevenness of the glass pane or glass ceramic pane is of no importance in the case of use of UV-curable material in an intermediate layer. Therefore, it is also possible to bond glass panes or glass ceramic panes with relatively high unevenness in transparent fire-resistant glazing in a simple manner.\n[0083] The invention further provides for the use of transparent fire-resistant glazing as multiple glazing, in mobile units, for example doors and windows, or fixed as an element of walls or facades.\nExample 1 (Non-Inventive)\n[0084] Fire-resistant glazing consisting of a pane of Pyran Patinum glass ceramic with a thickness of 5 mm and dimensions 1000 mm\u00d72000 mm combined with a pane of the same glass ceramic with a thickness of 5 mm and an intermediate layer of a transparent PVB film with a thickness of 0.76 mm (Trosifol BG R 20, Kuraray Europe GmbH, Trosifol Division).\n[0085] The bonding between the glass ceramic panes and the PVB film was effected at first by means of preliminary bonding with application of 5-7 bar (pressure) and 60-70\u00b0 C. on the glass surface (temperature), and a subsequent autoclave process, likewise under a pressure of 12 bar and at a temperature of 140\u00b0 C.\n[0086] The laminate thus produced was framed in a steel frame from Forster Rohr-und Profiltechnik AG (product name: Presto) with a surrounding glass insert of 15 mm and then tested in a fire furnace in accordance with EN 1363.\n[0087] After 5 min the film exhibits bubbles; after 8 min the film begins-to run out between the panes. In addition, there is significant evolution of smoke on the air side. After 12 min the gases which have escaped on the air side ignite. After 90 min the test was ended. The space was still enclosed at this time.\n[0088] Fire-resistant glazing consisting of a glass ceramic pane with a thickness of 5 mm and dimensions of 1000 mm\u00d72000 mm, combined with a pane likewise of glass ceramic with the same dimensions and an intermediate layer of 1 mm thick UV-cured casting resin (Uvekols, from Cytec, Wiesbaden, Germany) without flame retardant. The bond between the panes and the casting resin was established by means of a UV curing process (25 min under UV light of 300-400 nm, Pyran Platinum L).\n[0089] The laminate thus produced was framed in a steel frame with a surrounding glass insert of 15 mm, and then tested in accordance with EN 1363 in a fire furnace.\n[0090] After 4 min a reaction of the resin was observed. From the 6th minute the intermediate layer began to run out and discolor. Gases which escaped on the air side ignited after 10 min. After 90 min the test was ended. The space was still enclosed at this time.\nExample 3 (Inventive)\n[0091] Fire-resistant glazing consisting of a pane of a glass ceramic with a thickness of 5 mm and the dimensions of 1000 m\u00d72000 mm combined with a pane likewise of glass ceramic and a 1 mm low-flammability UV-cured intermediate layer comprising flame retardants (UVE-KOL FR-C). The bond between the layers and the intermediate layer was established by means of a UV curing process (25 min under UV light of 300-400 nm).\n[0092] The laminate thus produced was framed in a steel frame with a surrounding glass insert of 15 mm and then tested in a fire furnace to EN 1363.\n[0093] After 3 min, bubble formation was observed in the intermediate layer. After 4 min the discoloration of the intermediate layer commenced. Flame formation on the air side was not observed. After 90 min the test was ended. The space was still enclosed at this time.\n[0094] Fire-resistant glazing consisting of a pane of glass ceramic with a thickness of 3 mm and dimensions of 876 mm\u00d71.938 mm combined with a pane likewise of 3 mm glass ceramic with a fluorine-containing intermediate layer having a thickness of 0.5 mm (Pyran Platinum L and THV film copolymer formed from tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene, vinylidene fluoride) was produced in a process comprising preliminary bonding and an autoclave process.\n[0095] Subsequently, the fire-resistant glazing was tested to DIN EN 12600 (pendulum test) with a 50 kg impact body from a fall height of 1200 mm. The impact resulted in a hole in the fire-resistant glazing with a dimension well above 76 mm. The test as required by the highest category of this standard was thus failed. (analogous to example 1: 80-130\u00b0 C. (glass temperature), 142 g/cm2 in preliminary bonding; 145\u00b0 C., 142 g/cm2 in the autoclave).\n[0096] Fire-resistant glazing consisting of a pane of glass ceramic (Pyran Platinum L) with a thickness of 3 mm and the dimensions of 876 mm\u00d71.938 mm combined with a pane likewise of the same glass ceramic with a thickness of 3 mm and an intermediate layer of a low-flammability UV-curable material comprising a flame retardant (layer thickness 1 mm) was tested to DIN EN 12600 with a 50 kg impact body from a fall height of 1200 mm.\n[0097] The hole formed in the laminate after the impact was smaller than 76 mm. 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The site is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places to see. If you're not familiar with the area, you'll want to plug N. 2nd Street in Coplay into your GPS unit and the driving directions should pop right up.\nCoplay Cement Company Kilns were built in 1892-1893 and were used to make Portland Cement. In 1904 the company shut down all 9 kilns in favor of newer technology that made cement quicker and more efficiently. The company donated the kilns and the surrounding land to Lehigh County in 1975, so that the site could be preserved and turned into an open-air museum.\nCement was one of the main industrial and commercial building material at the time. 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My Grandma Hughs was an avid wrestling and boxing fan. She'd always have one of them on on her little TV and us kids would get such a kick out of watching her get all worked up. She'd be hollering at the TV and before you knew it, she was up on her feet yelling \"Give him the ole one-two.\" She was pint-sized and full of life and oh how I miss her.\nTruth be told, I've felt like I've been dealt a few blows here lately. Satan never really plays fair. He's all about the kidney punches, low blows, and even after the eight count and you're begging to tap out .....he just doesn't stop. He's low like that. And as strong as you think you are, I can assure you, you'll never be pound-for-pound in this match. It seems he'll always have the upper hand.\nBut just because he may have the upper hand, doesn't mean that we can't beat him at his own game. Because when we have God in our corner, we can begin to see the lies and the deception, and come out swinging, fighting our way back into the game.\nYou see, the past several months have been hard. Adoption isn't easy. It's beautiful in so many ways. Goodness, how it's beautiful. Our love for him. His love for us. How he's thriving and growing and happy. He's absolutely precious. Yet that doesn't all of a sudden take away the struggles. There are real battles people who foster and adopt face. And sometimes, I think the outside world doesn't always see these struggles. They assume that everything should be perfect. That everything is perfect. He's perfect. We're perfect. And let's be honest here, no one is perfect. It's almost as if the standard for adoptive parents is higher than for biological parents and it makes no sense at all to me. If anything, we should be given more leeway, more understanding and kindness because this is a journey.... a process if you will and sometimes we just need your understanding.\n9 months ago as we pulled into the driveway, it was as if Satan himself was sitting on my doorstep waiting for me. I have been thrown so many low blows, I can't even tell you. We've been dealing with normal things you deal with when taking in a foster child; things like establishing trust after being the 5th home he's been in, difficulties with eating habits since he'd basically lived on orange Crush, mac and cheese, and ice cream, attention seeking behaviors, adjusting to having another baby in the home, etc. We've also been having to deal with individuals who have been less than helpful....less than understanding in helping us through these struggles and I'm telling you, it's just been hard.\nBonding doesn't happen immediately in these situations. It's a process. I carried our other three kiddos for 9 months, feeling them kick and roll, suck their thumbs, have the hiccups. Creating hopes and dreams for them. And then I spent every day, 'round the clock, caring for them. Feeding them, rocking them, singing to them, loving and kissing them and doing all the things us mommas do. And all of it created a deeper bond between us. But I missed that with Chi. I missed all of it. I missed carrying him. I missed giving birth to him. I missed all the nights of getting up to feed him and rock him (and yes, I'm weird, I loved those nights with our other kiddos). I missed his first word. His first time rolling over, sitting up, crawling... even his first steps. I missed all the formative months of when babies learn to trust and bond. And that's been hard. So when I say that bonding is a process, it's just that. It takes time. It takes daily working, daily doing the things that seem out of place to do for a 2 year old but that he needs - like rocking him while maintaining eye contact. That's hard for him. Truthfully, it's hard for him to be held for any length of time because he was never used to being held. Most of you saw a picture on Facebook the day the adoption was final of him sleeping in my arms..... it was the first time since we brought him home that that had ever happened. It's so many things that are worth it but that are also difficult while in the midst of it all.\nA few months ago, I found myself in a deep depression, struggling from day to day to do the basic things that need to be done as a mom of 4. I would go from one extreme of being angry and impatient to the other of crying and feeling hopeless. I began to question God and His calling us to this. I began to question my ability to be the mom Chi needed me to be. And ultimately I began thinking that my family would be better off without me. That my kids deserved a better mom. That Mark deserved someone who could handle all of these battles without falling apart. They simply would be better with me gone. And that thought led to thoughts of how I could take my own life and make it appear as an accident so they could still get my life insurance. I spent a lot of time wondering how to do it, all the while Mark telling me he thought I was depressed and needed to go to the doctor. Then my best friend began saying the same thing and I had to pause and take a close look at what was going on.\nSweet friends, hear me when I say this, Christians and even counselors are not exempt from these struggles. I wish I could say I was. I wish I could tell you that these thoughts haven't at one time been in my head. It's so very hard to be in that spot knowing that you're being irrational, that being gone would cause them more harm than good, yet still simultaneously thinking they're better off without you. It's such a devastating place to be and my heart goes out to any and every person who's ever been down that road.\nYet through all of this, my Father revealed something to me.\nSatan wouldn't be attacking me so hard if there wasn't something glorious on the other side of these struggles. He called us to this for a purpose.\nSo, I began calling the doctor's office trying to get an appointment. They weren't accepting new patients. Our doctor had moved to a different clinic. Weeks went by and they never would return our calls. So then I scheduled an appointment with our doctor at his new clinic. And then had to cancel it. But through all of that time, God kept reminding me that we face battles every day. The problem I was facing was in how I was addressing the battles. God calls us to suit up and fight. To put on our armor.\nAnd that's what I started doing.\nI began swinging and throwing my own combinations.\nI dug deeper into His word. I prayed harder. I spent more time with Chi reading and playing and singing to him. I started focusing on Christ's promises and less on my problems and the depression began to slowly lift.\nWe were making incredible progress. We were growing and bonding and loving more and more deeply.\nI had fought my way out.\nAnd yes, I realize this isn't possible for everyone. There are those who need to see their doctor. Who need medication. And honestly, I believe I was one of them. Yet God, in His kindness, helped me work my way out of it all.\nBut hear me when I say this. Satan is relentless. And it's how I know that God has something incredible in store for our family and our sweet Chi.\nBecause through all the battles and struggles I had faced, just as I was standing back up I was side-swiped, knocked to the ground flat on my face. And having endured all that I already had, this was an all out low blow, cutting me to the core. Someone had sent DHS a message saying I didn't love Chi. The message was full of lies and hatred and I was absolutely heartbroken. I had the wind knocked out of me. And I don't even know that that fully explains how hurt I've been. Particularly given where I had been and all the fighting I had done for him. The fighting to love him beyond measure, not just as someone loving a child, but as me loving MY child. Yet learning that it was someone within our circle (yet not a close friend) was all the more heartbreaking. Our worker visited with us and let us know that she had no concerns whatsoever, that the message had no foundation for several reasons. We then had to jump through some more hoops as protocol and had another meeting with more people who all said the same thing. The message had no credibility, complete with them not even getting our last name correct. Our workers have been in our home for months. They've seen us interact, love each other, give hugs and kisses. They've gotten the pictures I sent them of him being the sweetest little cow in the Christmas play, and pictures of the zoo and playground and trips we've taken. They knew these were lies and it felt good to have that validated.\nBut you know what? Having them believe and see my love for my son didn't take away the hurt. It didn't take away that someone lied about me. Because, that's what this was. It was a personal attack on me. And as a result, a lot of things changed in our lives.\nYet one thing remained. God was faithful. In the weeks leading up to this, I'd been learning about putting on my armor. I had been fighting my way out of depression. I was fighting. But this ... this made me a fighter.\nThere's a difference in fighting - just haphazardly swinging and throwing punches. But a fighter.... she's not just armed, she knows how to use her armor and use it wisely. It's not just about swinging here and there, it's about trusting The Teacher, following His instructions, and making each punch count for His glory and honor.\nAnd I was able to do that. I was able to fight well and honorably.\nI wish I could say that takes away the hurt. It doesn't. But it does give me peace in how I handled myself.\nI've cried a lot of tears over the past 9 months. Battling myself. Struggling to be the best mommy I can be to all of our kiddos. Fighting depression and trying to figure out how to work my way out of it. Dealing with hurtful comments from people. Knowing people are talking behind my back about our struggles instead of just taking them to the foot of the Father on our behalf.. Dealing with thoughts I wouldn't wish on anyone. That's why this came as such a shock to me. But you know, it didn't catch God off guard one bit. He knew. Sweet friends, He knew. And He'd already gone ahead of us preparing the way. What this person meant for harm, God used for good. He used it to validate us as parents. To remind us that Satan attacks when the Father has something great in store. And you know, as a result of all of this, Chi's lawyer pushed even harder to get us a court date, which led to us officially being his parents last Monday!\nChrist has done so much for us here lately that when I step back and look at it all, I'm in awe. Just having everything finalized has done so much in the way of letting go and being able to fully embrace and love without fear of losing him. We're so much closer today than a week ago and leaps and bounds from where we were 9 months ago. And I can only look up and thank the Father for that. It's His working in and through me and gracious, it's been hard, but oh how different I am than just 9 short (long) months ago and it's been worth every battle I've had to fight.\nGod works through the storms. And oh that I could always remember that.\nThat I would remember to put on the full armor of God. Remember that attacks often are a reflection of just how great His promises are on the other side. And remember that in order to fight well, it means suiting up.\nI'm fighting my way out. Following the Master. And most importantly, loving my family. Soaking up our time together. Praising Him for all His provision. Giving Him all honor and glory for pulling me up out of the pit. For showing me how to fight well and honorably. For His peace. For our sweet son.\nAnd praying that whatever battles you may be facing, that He'll show you just how to suit up and fight well too.\nStay strong friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 14291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pictureyourselftraveling.com/contact.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KV4UUOT33P3OQBVJHATTZUJUKH4R6H3M", "length": 161, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pictureyourselftraveling.com", "title": "Contact", "raw_content": "Picture Yourself Traveling is excited to plan your next great trip. In fact, we can\u2019t wait! Let\u2019s hear what you have in mind, and we\u2019ll get the best deal booked!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/a-j-s-rayl/stories_schurmeier.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:20Z", "digest": "sha1:OWP3KOEUA5BP5ZW3QFI43Z762LIOSR7D", "length": 11971, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.planetary.org", "title": "The Stories Behind the Voyager Mission: Bud Schurmeier | The Planetary Society", "raw_content": "The Stories Behind the Voyager Mission: Bud Schurmeier\nHarris 'Bud' Schurmeier served as the first Project Manager for the Voyager mission. In 1976, just before the twin spacecraft launched, he became Assistant Lab Director at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\nIn November 1985, Schurmeier retired from JPL, but not from his passion for planetary exploration. He then went on to serve as Project Manager for Mars Balloon in the 1980s and Mars Rover in the 1990s, two major projects of The Planetary Society (TPS). Currently, he serves as the head of the review committee for TPS' Cosmos 1 project, the first attempt ever to fly a solar sail.\n\"The Voyager mission came into being when NASA cancelled another mission called the Grand Tour, a very large mission that was to have sent spacecraft to all of the outer planets, including Pluto. The plan for the Grand Tour had been to take advantage of a once in every 175 years planetary alignment and launch four specially designed, identical, Thermoelectric Outer Planets Spacecraft known as TOPS -- two in 1977 and two in 1979. It truly was a grand plan. But there were several complicating factors with the Grand Tour.\nFirst, the cost was significant, because the idea had been to install a lot of new technology, including, for example, a Self-Test And Repair computer STAR -- that was being developed at JPL. The rationale for the STAR system was that once the spacecraft got out to Jupiter and Saturn, and then Uranus and Neptune, the communication lag-would be so great that we wouldn't be able to do anything in real time, but with this new state-of-the-art computer system the spacecraft could take care of themselves for at least 10 years. Much of the technologies and techniques started in STAR have been are being used in present and planned missions.\nAlso the scientists had some concerns that the plan to have each of these spacecraft be identical could limit their mission objectives; they would not be able to incorporate the results gleaned from one mission into the next. We also planned to radiation-harden all the components, and add a number of other technologies that were not cheap but were the next big steps forward in the effort to explore the outer planets.\nCoupled with the cost was the political problem one always has with long-duration exploratory missions -- anything with more than a four-year horizon is very, very difficult to get approved because any given Administration is in office for only four (guaranteed) years and one President doesn't want to pay for something for which the next Administration will get the credit. That has forever been a problem in the space program.\nRemember too that we were in the era when all of NASA's money was being sucked into the shuttle program. The shuttle, in fact, proved to be our biggest competitor for available dollars. In the end, cost and politics led to the cancellation of the Grand Tour. But it wasn't that the agency didn't want to explore the outer planets, it just wanted something less costly and ambitious.\nAt that point, NASA Administrator James Fletcher said to us: 'If you can design something that you can get the Space Science Board to approve, then we will propose it.' So we came up with a scaled-down version of the Grand Tour based on Mariner technology. We had had Mariner Venus, and Mariner Mars and this one we called Mariner Jupiter Saturn or MJS77 - with the number representing the launch year. We then made a presentation to the board.\nWe had confidence that MJS77 was going to get approved, but you never know until it is approved. The board deliberated and there was some relief when the word came down. We had put a lot of effort in to making it happen and that was the first big memorable moment in the project's life. The name MJS77 name was changed to Voyager after the project team voted on it from a list of names a few months before launch.\nAs project manager, the primary responsibility in the beginning was to select and put together the team of key personnel. I had known all the guys from previous missions and knew their strengths and weaknesses. I got to choose whoever I thought would make the best person for a particular job and then, if I could talk them into it, we had a go.\nGetting Ed Stone on board was an interesting effort. Robby Vogt {Rochus E. Vogt} - a professor now at Caltech -- headed up the Science Working Group for the Grand Tour and had continued on in that capacity with MJS77, determining what the detailed science objectives should be and what kind of basic experiments ought to be performed. I got to know Robby very well in that Grand Tour phase. We commiserated a lot. Once we really got going with the scaled-down mission, we had to have a project scientist. He said, 'Look I think we ought to get Ed Stone for that position.' I trusted his instincts.\nEd was a well-known and respected scientist - and being at Caltech he would be locally available, as opposed to someone from the other side of the country. We wanted somebody local, and he had the stature we felt was needed to work with the outside scientists who were going to be involved. But Ed didn't accept the offer right away. He was somewhat reluctant because he is a scientist and researcher and he was concerned he would get bogged down with too much administrative work -- and there is a certain amount of that to be done.\nWe came up with a scheme wherein we would have a science manager - Jim Long -- who would work for the project scientist. This science manager would spend fulltime on the project and serve as the interface between all the project activities and Ed Stone so that Ed would not have to devote fulltime to the project scientist role. The science manager could keep Ed informed, attend all the many meetings, and handle the administrative paper work. That would allow Ed to continue his work and research at Caltech and at the same time serve as project scientist. We prevailed and pushed on Ed to accept and he finally did accept it and the rest as they say is history. That scheme really worked out great.\nAs the Project Manager, I was also the one with the ultimate decision-making authority on most key things - whether we should we spend a little more money here or put it there. It wasn't that I had all of the smarts to know everything that went into every aspect of the mission. But somebody has to listen to all the pros and cons and then make the judgment that this is the way we should go. The buck stopped with me. Through it all, I tried to listen to all the smart technical guys and try to separate the b.s. from what was real and then decide to put the money.\nThe radiation factor\nWhen we simplified the mission to use Mariner technology, one of the key decisions was that we would not radiation-harden the spacecraft. That would save a lot of money and was a key factor in getting the project approved. We designed the mission on the Jupiter-radiation environment model developed by scientists from Earth-based measurements. Based on this model, we set the Jupiter fly-by distance to provide a safe environment for an unhardened spacecraft.\nThere was a project underway to launch the Pioneer spacecraft in 1972 and 1973 those would serve as precursors and do two things - 1) find out if we could actually get a spacecraft through the asteroid belt and 2) determine what the real radiation environment is like. If the Pioneer data showed that the radiation environment was stronger than scientists had predicted, we could still have a mission by moving the flyby distance away from Jupiter where the radiation would fall off. We would be still okay then with the unhardened spacecraft - at least that's what we thought.\nBy the time the Pioneer data was returned, however, the design work had been done for the electronics on the Voyager spacecraft - and -- lo and behold -- not only was the radiation environment 1000 times stronger, but it did not fall off as rapidly as had been predicted. If we went far enough away where we felt an unhardened spacecraft could survive and get out to Saturn, we just wouldn't have a worthy mission. That discovery forced us to radiation-harden the spacecraft.\nThis was a big transient to the project development and we had to do a number of things to insure Voyager's success. A certain amount of work had been going on in the country for radiation-hardening electronics mostly for the nuclear program and the early-warning satellites. We first tried to find components, such as transistors, that would be radiation-hard but have the same performance characteristics. That was the easiest solution. Although it was more costly, but it also meant we wouldn't have to redesign everything. If we couldn't do that, then we planned on redesigning the circuits to accept some degradation of the components due to the radiation. And, if we couldn't do that, then last option was to put on some shielding. As it turned out, we did some of all three of those things. As I say, it was a big transient, but it worked out fine. The testament to that is the fact that Voyager is still going out there.\nA sense of pride and accomplishment\nBy the time the Voyagers were ready to launch, I had moved on, and was in the role of observer for the encounters. Even so, each of the encounters was extremely memorable, because each planet and moon was so different and so many new findings were revealed. We were seeing some of these bodies for the first time. While we had reasonable pictures of Jupiter from Earth and knew what that planet looked like, the great details and the pictures of the satellites were just astounding.\nWe all knew, too, that Saturn had rings, but their detailed and very strange character -- these intertwining rings - was completely unexpected. Of course we had never had anything except for fuzzy spot pictures of Uranus and Neptune, so seeing those two and their satellites for the first time was just outstanding. Even though I was not then directly involved in the execution of the mission, having been involved, I felt a great deal of pride in the whole accomplishment.\nAlthough we started the mission on the basis of an upgraded Mariner, we did end up putting in a number of new technologies that gave Voyager remarkable versatility. Part of the reason for that was because at the time this mission was approved, we still had hopes of proposing what we called JUN - Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune -- in 1979. We didn't want to have to redesign the whole spacecraft, but incorporate technology that would be useful for that mission later on.\nAs it turned out, we never did get the 1979 mission and Voyager ended up going to all four of the outer planets. The reason those other encounters at Uranus and Neptune and their satellites were possible, despite the fact Voyager is based on 1970s technology, is because of those early decisions and the enhanced, new technologies. We added flexibility into the attitude control system and the communications system, put new coding into the telemetry system that wasn't used until Uranus, and installed redundant equipment for almost all of the electronics. Beyond all that, the engineers had figured out ways to use these systems in parallel to increase the capability to get data rates and to provide the great pictures they got out at that distance.\nI should also point out that a great deal of the communications performance at Uranus and Neptune was due to the phenomenal improvements in the capability of Earth-based communications systems of the Deep Space Network (DSN) and supporting facilities. Without that, we would have received only a small fraction of the data that ultimately was returned.\nIn the end, Voyager was a scaled down mission, but it was still archetypical big science, the likes of which we probably won't see for a long, long time to come. Voyager's versatility took us well beyond mission success. The fact that they are both still going makes all of us feel great.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 14031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pmtdiesel.com/Autometer_Ultra_Lite_Differential_Temp_Gauge_4349.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PLEYUB6BIOTOQ6RVUZORTB3NDBNGSROJ", "length": 15, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pmtdiesel.com", "title": "pmtdiesel.com - Autometer A4349 Ultra Lite Differential Temperature Gauge", "raw_content": "1/8\" NPT Sender", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 180.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pocketburgers.com/2011/07/12-most-expensive-cities-in-america.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VEI3ATMICLTVNRSHIWOSHX6OKARUYKTG", "length": 1040, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.pocketburgers.com", "title": "Pocketburgers.com: The 12 Most Expensive Cities In America", "raw_content": "Everyone know that New York City is incredibly expensive.\nBut did you know that it also has America's priciest movie tickets, costing an average of $12.75?\nHuman resource consulting firm Mercer has just released the results of its annual cost-of-living survey, which is generally used by big companies and governments to set wages for employees abroad.\nBut it also provides a fascinating insight into what people pay to live in various cities around the world.\nAccording to Mercer, the most expensive city for expatriates is Luanda, Angola. New York, the costliest city in the U.S., ranked number 32 on the global list.\nClick here to see the priciest cities in America >\nImage: corsairstw via Flickr\nRent of luxury two-bedroom apartment, unfurnished: $1,800\nCup of coffee, including service: $3.75\nFast food hamburger meal: $4.99\nGallon of mid-grade gas: $2.87\nClick her for the rest of the Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-cities-in-america-2011-7#11-dallas-2\nLabels: Best Cities in the US, Cities, real estate prices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1263, "original_length": 21304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.podcastingresource.com/2010/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:32ENSWIXGU7T3AWVCMIA5DN7V5JWSJLK", "length": 202, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.podcastingresource.com", "title": "Podcasting Resource: March 2010", "raw_content": "How I Tunes U And Podcasting Are Transforming The Academic Experience\n\"Today\u2019s student population has been referred to as digital natives who \u2018think and process information fundamentally differently...\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 2945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.portfcsandpit.com/2018/11/20/toms-transfer-talk-silly-season-returns/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KJMCA4NYNK2N7MZ6H5QIO2LMC6U77Z75", "length": 7460, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.portfcsandpit.com", "title": "Tom's Transfer Talk: Silly Season Returns! | The Sandpit", "raw_content": "Look! A picture! Of footballers! At PAT Stadium!\nI don\u2019t know about you, but the mere sight of over-nourished footballers jogging breathlessly around the hallowed turf of PAT Stadium is enough to get my football juices flowing, and so after a lengthy hiatus I can now declare silly season officially\u2026 OPEN!\nLet the pictures of mysterious unnamed footballers be shown to all, let baseless rumours of transfers that will never happen cover The Sandpit gossip pages, let us speculate about everything and nothing for no reason other than to quell our boredom. And let\u2019s do it right now!\nWe start with pictures of a couple of myserious newbies. They look young, and our sources tell us that they\u2019re Fox Hunt graduates, so we could have a couple of future stars if we\u2019re lucky.\nThe fella on the right looks very much like 20 year old midfielder Jirattikan Vapilai, nicknamed Trunk, who played for OH Leuven and Leicester alongside last season\u2019s success story Anon. His Instagram is here. I think the other is Nutchanon Sojit, who trained at Leicester and has recently been playing for Police Tero. His Instagram is here. We don\u2019t know whether they are on trial with Port or have been signed already, so await further developments. In fact, I\u2019m not 100% these are even the right guys!\nUnfortunately, no non-Thai ASEAN players have been spotted yet. With the new quota allowing for up to 3 ASEAN players being used on the pitch alongside all other foreigners (as opposed to last season when your one ASEAN player had to be used instead of one of the other foreigners) Port certainly should be shopping around countries like Myanmar and Indonesia, while scouting for half-ASEAN players all across Europe. Think of last season\u2019s breakout star Aung Thu, our very own Terens Puhiri, or half Danish half Filipino goalkeeping star Michael Falkesgaard. There are all sorts of options out there.\nNow to pictures of people we know, but are not quite sure why they\u2019re there. Former Port winger Pinyo Inpinit pops up in this category every year, as I\u2019m never quite sure if he\u2019s fit, who he belongs to or if he\u2019s even capable of playing 90 minutes without shattering in to smithereens. If I had to guess I would say he\u2019s about 62% fit, he\u2019s a free agent and there\u2019s absolutely no way he could last a full game without fracturing at least one vertebrae.\nMoving swiftly along, we have some photos of Port players who were sent on loan last season. We\u2019re delighted to see Yossawat Montha back with us. He didn\u2019t have a particularly successful time on loan at Ubon and Prachuap last season, but then you don\u2019t have to be particularly great to still be a whole lot better than Port\u2019s backup left back Panpanpong (19). As a player who has played for Buriram and represented Thailand at youth level, you\u2019ve got to think that a young Yossawat is a more sensible option to keep on than perennial backup Panpanpong. We\u2019ve been wrong before, though. There is no indication whatsoever than Jadet even acknowledges Yossawat\u2019s existence, so odds are that he won\u2019t be with Port when the season starts. Apparently Port\u2019s finest proponent of lulz and banter, at least he\u2019ll be able to entertain the rest of squad until Nurul gets back from international duty. Judging by the picture, he\u2019s got Suarez going already!\nThen there\u2019s one who did pretty well on loan last season, although he ended up suffering relegation anyway. Athibordee Athirat (l) slotted straight in to Navy\u2019s midfield and his arrival coincided with a stirring revival of fortunes in Sattahip, although it was never likely to be enough to keep them above water. This solid, versatile fella is a decent squad option, although we can\u2019t help but feel like we\u2019re pretty well covered in central defence and midfield already. Could go either way, this one.\nHere\u2019s a surprise. Worawut Namvech (24) was on loan at Port from Chiang Rai last season, and despite appearing regularly for and even captaining the Thai under 23 side, he played just a handful of minutes last season, with Rochela, Dolah, Todsapol and even Athibordee being preferred. We expected him to be straight off back up North, but he\u2019s still training with Port, so the possibility of securing a deal for the promising youngster must still be there. More news if and when I hear it.\nPummared Kladkleep (41) and Jetjinn Sriprach (15) weren\u2019t loaned out per se last season, but both turned out several times for Port B in T4 while failing to make a single appearance in T1. They were both at training, but I expect to neither to still be on the books once the season starts. Jetjinn ought to be able to get a decent gig in T2, although Pummared may have to look to T3 if he wants to play regularly.\nAnd how about the ones who weren\u2019t pictured? Bajram Nebihi has unsurprisingly made his way quietly out of the back door, having had underwhelming loan spells with Chiang Rai and then Chonburi. The battle for a place in Port\u2019s 2018 squad was tight between him and Suarez, but the Spaniard well and truly secured his spot for 2019 with some superb performances in the first half of last season. Tatchanon Nakarawong is another who was not pictured in training. He made a daft sideways loan move to Chonburi, before seeing sense and dropping down a division with former club Army, for whom he apparently did rather well. He\u2019s not on Jadet\u2019s favourites list though, and the arrival of Anon (20) has probably put paid to any chance of us seeing this promising youngster get a run in Port\u2019s first team. A shame, but with Port\u2019s sights being trained towards the top of T1, it\u2019s no surprise. Finally, Thanakorn Saipanya was also not pictured at training. And no, I\u2019m not just making names up to test you. After spending part of the season with Port B and then being shipped out to a lower league on loan, there\u2019s absolutely no chance whatsoever of us seeing him in our T1 squad in 2019.\nThe only piece of real gossip we\u2019ve had so far this off-season is the potential arrival of Bangkok United midfielder Sansern Limwattana. Wikipedia says the deal is done but we\u2019re not so sure, although the rumours do seem to be pretty consistent. Sansern is a young central midfielder who played on loan at Sukhothai last season, and his brother plays for Muangthong. Sansern has been around the block quite a bit for a 21 year old. He started his career in New Zealand, and has been on the books at Buriram and Bangkok United, who have both loaned him out multiple times. he\u2019s also represented Thailand at youth level. His arrival and retaining Anon could potentially pave the way for the departure of one of Port\u2019s more established midfielders, but let\u2019s wait for the deal to be confirmed before we go down that route. He\u2019s also a right-footed free-kick specialist, so Pakorn had better watch his back!\nCoach Swap\nPort have also hired a new fitness coach, with Rod Pellegrino making way for an as yet unnamed compatriot. Apparently he speaks fluent Thai, and he was with Police Tero last season. Sounds alright. Our thanks of course go to Rod, who did a sterling job over the last 2 seasons with Port. It can\u2019t be easy trying to whip some of our players in to shape, it must be said!\nTags: jirattikan, nutchanon\nhttps://i0.wp.com/www.portfcsandpit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/training.jpg?fit=960%2C639639960Tom Earlshttp://www.portfcsandpit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sandpit-logo-nov-2018-Copy.pngTom Earls2018-11-20 13:51:062018-11-20 14:13:37Tom's Transfer Talk: Silly Season Returns!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 11683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.postfun.com/history/extraordinary-weird-fetishes-of-the-most-influential-historical-figures/?view-all", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WGIUAFAATJXBK6GDOXTGVT7VFJ3HY2BD", "length": 9799, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.postfun.com", "title": "Extraordinary Sexual Habits And Fetishes Of The Most Influential Historical Figures", "raw_content": "Extraordinary Weird Fetishes Of The Most Influential Historical Figures\nEveryone has their thing. Their fetish. Most people\u2019s fetishes fall into the same categories of \u201cnormal\u201d, but there are the fringes of fetishes that are just plain weird and sometimes disgusting.\nWe took a look at some of the kinkiest and downright weird fetishes from major historical figures and celebrities. What we found was, well, eye-opening, to say the least.\nI think that it\u2019s safe to say that Roman Emperors were into some pretty awful stuff as a whole. Legend has it that he trained a bunch of little boys to swim between his thighs.\nHe would even get little babies to perform acts on him. Acts of which I don\u2019t need to get deeper into.\nHerod is a notorious figure in the ancient world, but his problems run deeper than many realize. He couldn\u2019t let his wife go after she died.\nHe kept her dead body and made love to it for seven years afterward. Her body was apparently preserved in honey. No thank you.\nThe saying \u201ckeep it in the family\u201d can refer to a lot of things. One of the situations that it doesn\u2019t refer to is marriage. The Roman Emperor Domitian ended up leaving his wife for his niece.\nHe eventually got back with his real wife, but maintained a relationship with his niece throughout it all.\nTwitter / @JaneHoodless\nThere were rumors surrounding Catherine The Great, and how she died. Many believe that she was killed when she was getting a little too friendly with her horse.\nShe had a healthy appetite with some animal infatuation. She had many lovers that were humans. I mean, if you love your horse you love your horse. She actually died of a stroke on the toilet.\nTwitter / @hooky99\nIt\u2019s safe to say that Emperor Nero was a momma\u2019s boy. He loved her more than anything in the world.\nHe would try to have adult moments, if you will, with both men and women while ALWAYS wearing animal skin. The weird thing? These men and women were bound to stakes and couldn\u2019t move.\nTwitter / @zebras54\nHe is probably best known as the first Holy Roman Emperor, but Charlemagne is one of history\u2019s most prolific necrophiles.\nHe was accused of sleeping with dead people, including one of his dead wives. He also had a son with his sister. So I mean, at this point, pick your poison.\nIf you\u2019re an author, you\u2019re probably not going to be overly thrilled about the bad reviews written. But, legendary sci-fi author H.G. Wells would do the dirty on the bad reviews.\nLiterally. He would bring over a mistress and do the deed on top of the review and then set it on fire after it was done.\nUsually, you like your own brand, but James Joyce is different. The Irish author loved farts. Not just his own, but especially his wife\u2019s.\nHe publicly wrote about how he would know her farts anywhere. He could pick them out of a room full of farting women. That\u2019s just a bit weird.\nPrince Chien Of Han China\nPrince Chien had a fetish for keeping the love in the family. Not the warm and fuzzy love either, because we can all use a little bit more of that.\nHe slept with many of his biological sisters. The sadistic prince would drown boys and girls in his palace lake. He would put girls in a tree naked to starve.\nTwitter / @linkauer\nIt\u2019s always good to have love for your family. I mean, they\u2019re your family after all. But, I think Caligula went a little bit too far. Actually, I know he did.\nHe was known for getting intimate with family members on a regular basis. He was caught sleeping with his sister and even broke up their marriage because he was in love with her.\nGet ready for this one, because it\u2019s kind of weird. He would draw a cross-like shape in his journal that would mark the days he pleasured himself.\nSometimes he would even indicate in the journal that his, uh, thing, was sore because of the \u201cfun\u201d he would have. He was unnerved by anything having to do with sex or the sexuality of women.\nThe Zhengde Emperor\nThe Ming Dynasty ruler loved three things: animals, drinking, and women. He collected exotic animals from all over the world.\nHe was also big into the drinking. He was drunk much of his adult life. He would get his guards to seize women to bring home with him. All of them had to be unmarried.\nJuana \u201cThe Mad\u201d Of Castile\nTwitter / @paganpages\nI mean, when you get married you say an oath \u201ctill death do us part\u201d. But, for Juana Of Castile, that wasn\u2019t enough.\nAfter her husband died, she was still madly in love with him. He died young, but Juana dug up her husband\u2019s body and carried his casket with her wherever she went for three years. She was always showing off the body.\nLloyd Arnold/Hulton Archive/Getty Images\nHemingway once wrote a letter to his girlfriend Marlene Dietrich telling her how she can improve her Las Vegas stage show.\nIt was kinky, to say the least. It would start with her being shot, naked, and drunk in a tank. The tank would roll over the customers, and Hemingway would strip off his clothing. He would be holding a giant rubber whale while reversed vacuum cleaners blew his clothes off of her.\nOttoman Emperor Ibrahim\nRumor had it that he ordered his gardeners to execute all 280 women by tying them into sacks and dropping them into the ocean.\nHe did this simply because he wanted to have a new batch of women. He would host love parties that would last all night at his palace.\nTwitter / @SRCHicks\nThis French philosopher loved to be dominated. He published an autobiography that mentioned his love for being \u201cat the knees of an imperious mistress, to obey orders, to have to beg for pardon.\u201d\nHe was a masochist ahead of his time and loved the thrill of being reproved without physical contact.\nThis emperor was uber-creepy. He was basically a rapist and only would try to hook up with virgin girls.\nHe was also known to ask his agents to find the most well-endowed men to come pleasure him. He would always strip naked in front of guests for no reason. Yikes.\nIt might surprise you to know that Gandhi was always naked. Well, at least when he slept. He was always sleeping next to a lot of naked women.\nHe would request various women, one of them being his grandniece. He would even sleep naked next to his grandnephew\u2019s wife, or his doctor.\nAfter having his first orgasm at the age of 12, Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima was hooked on a very bizarre fetish. He thought that seppuku, which is the act of self-disemboweling with a samurai sword, was the ultimate form of pleasuring yourself.\nHe ended up killing himself by literally performing seppuku with a 17th-century samurai sword.\nTwitter / @BelfPhil\nI guess it\u2019s always good to be a king. King Edward VIII had a large sexual appetite. He had super-fancy sex furniture made and commissioned a love seat with golden stirrups and knee pads.\nHe was also known to bathe in champagne with a prostitute or two. Thank God TMZ wasn\u2019t around back then.\nHe\u2019s a Nobel Prize-winning writer and an intensely sexual person who had sexual partners of many different ages and races. He had two very quirky sexual fetishes.\nHe was aroused by a \u201cprofusion of colors or unusually shrill sweet sounds\u201d and general destruction.\nGuy de Maupassant was a French novelist and had many sexual kinks and quirks. He loved women who would sport \u201cclose-cropped hair and men\u2019s clothes\u201d.\nAt one point, Guy preferred a woman who looked like a man with broad shoulders and broad hips. He also claims that he can make his \u201cinstrument\u201d erect within seconds on cue.\nPhotoQuest/Getty Images and Bettmann/Getty Images\nPresident Johnson had a fitting name for what he liked to do. Yes, he liked to show his, uh, Johnson very proudly.\nA biographer wrote that if a colleague would walk into the Capitol bathroom while he was at the urinal, he would swing around holding his, uh, member and ask if he\u2019s ever seen something so big.\nFounding father Benjamin Franklin\u2019s \u201cAdvice to a Young Man on the Choice of A Mistress\u201d was a secretly circulated message to a young man.\nHe tells the man that he should prefer old women to young women because they make better lovers and \u201cthe sin is less\u201d. I guess Benji had a bit of a cougar fetish.\nI don\u2019t really know what to say here. Richard Gere is a charming man with a strong moral belief.\nBut, he has some bedroom activities that are suspect, to say the least. Apparently, he\u2019s part of the \u201cgerbilling\u201d community. Yes, that\u2019s the community that inserts a small animal into their, you know what.\nI have to admit, this one isn\u2019t that weird, but I thought I would add it because of my obsession with Scarlett. Basically, she is a big car girl.\nNo, I don\u2019t mean that she loves cars or the smell of cars, or NASCAR. I feel like I don\u2019t have to go any further than that.\nThe next time you go to a Justin Timerblake concert, just know that he\u2019s probably going to be getting a quick one-two punch from his wife Jessica Biel backstage.\nYes, you read that correctly. It also doesn\u2019t stay exclusive to his concerts \u2014 it\u2019s other people\u2019s concerts too in which he\u2019ll pull a quick one with his wife.\nI think that it\u2019s safe to say that Nick Lachey has one of the more emasculating fetishes out of all the people on this list.\nIt\u2019s now public knowledge that he likes to wear women\u2019s shoes before getting busy. I mean, I guess I just don\u2019t even know how he would fit, but to each their own.\nRobert Pattinson has Olfactophilia, which as much as it sounds like a rash \u2014 it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a fetish where you are turned on by smells.\nHe admits that it the smells don\u2019t even have to be perfume. He just likes the smells of other humans. That\u2019s not weird at all.\nWho doesn\u2019t like a little bit of creativity in the bedroom? One of the biggest celebrity players likes to mix it up. According to one of Jennifer Aniston\u2019s friends, he likes to bring whipped cream into the bedroom.\nShe also says that he likes to tease with feathers and ice cubes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 11026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pragueaccommodation.cz/en/prague-by-night-terminating-in-the-city-center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:7D2SZVRX6IBY6JI6JWL54UPKIZ3WSD7Y", "length": 1627, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pragueaccommodation.cz", "title": "Prague by night terminating in the city center - Prague Accommodation", "raw_content": "Home : Tours : Prague by night terminating in the city center\nDeparture time: 09,00 p.m.\nArrival time: 12,00 a.m.\nDiscover the magic of ancient Prague, the mystery and romance of the Heart of Europe during the night stroll. Take a guided tour through the beautiful streets and alleys of Prague and you will hear local legends and ghost stories about the places you're visiting.\nThe tour starts at Wenceslas Square \u2013 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Meeting Point. The bus will take you to the Prague Castle. During the walk round the reception grounds, grandly lit up - the residence of the presidency, Saint-Vitus Cathedral, and the Parliament rooms you will be acquainted with its history and you be fascinated by the night atmosphere of the city. After visiting the grounds of Prague Castle, you will descend to the labyrinthine medieval streets of the Lesser Town, the oldest part of the city and the Kampa Island. To admire the most remarkable sights you will continue taking a walk over the famous Charles Bridge - the architectural gem of Central Europe lined by Baroque statues. You cannot miss the Old Town Square with the famous Astronomical Clock and The Jewish Quarter interwoven with the history and the legend of the Golem. There the tour ends at Wenceslas Square \u2013 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Meeting Point.\n9,00 p.m. Departure by bus from Wenceslas Square \u2013 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Meeting Point\n09,30 p.m. Arrival to Prague Castle, start of the stroll through the night Prague\n12,00 a.m. End of Tour at Wenceslas Square \u2013 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Meeting Point", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prideandjoy.de/shop/de/home/122-the-radio-sun-beautiful-strange.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VNYVWPSPPXRBKYPLYVZZILD6MSA2J7SH", "length": 1750, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.prideandjoy.de", "title": "The Radio Sun - Beautiful Strange - Pride And Joy Music", "raw_content": "> The Radio Sun - Beautiful Strange\nThe Radio Sun - Beautiful Strange\nrelease date = first day of shipping: August 24th, 2018\njewel case CD - new & sealed\nAustralian melodic rockers The Radio Sun have done it again with their new album 'Beautiful Strange'! With the band's debut album released in 2014, this will be the fifth album in five years!\nThe Radio Sun have worked very hard to build up their following by touring all over the world in support of each and every release. Performances in Japan, Europe, United States, United Kingdom and their home country Australia has showed the band's ability to rise. The Radio Sun are the first band to ever play Hard Rock Hell AOR Fest U.K four times in a row, whilst also having played at Melodic Rock Fest on four different occasions.\nThe four piece group is fronted by the charismatic Jason Old on lead vocals, guitar slinger Stevie Janevski, bassist Anthony Wong & drummer Gilbert Annese. With all four members singing backing vocals, the boys delve into layered vocal harmonies reminiscent of the classics - Queen, The Sweet & Def Leppard. This is not to say that they don't have their own sound. The Radio Sun have great unique hooks in their songs. 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Libby, Ph.D., Stetson University, said today that she is thrilled to partner with the Ginsburg Family Foundation to support the expansion of Jewish culture on campus.\n[T]he house will become the hub for Jewish life on campus and will serve as a home away from home for students\u2026We are thrilled to have this opportunity to partner with the Ginsburg Family Foundation to support the expansion of Jewish culture on campus.President Wendy B. Libby, Ph.D.\nDELAND, Fla. (PRWEB) November 08, 2018\nStetson University and the Ginsburg Family Foundation announced today the establishment of the Jeffrey and Diane Ginsburg Hillel House and a $2 million gift to renovate, update and furnish an existing university property. In 2017, Stetson University made a commitment to become a school of choice for Jewish families and the announcement today of the Jeffrey and Diane Ginsburg Hillel House is a significant step forward.\nWhen open, \u201cthe house will become the hub for Jewish life on campus and will serve as a home away from home for students by providing a place to connect, unplug and create their best Jewish lives and memories,\u201d said President Wendy B. Libby, Ph.D. \u201cWe are thrilled to have this opportunity to partner with the Ginsburg Family Foundation to support the expansion of Jewish culture on campus.\u201d\n\u201cFor a historic institution such as Stetson University that prides itself on engagement, the launch of the Jeffrey and Diane Ginsburg Hillel House is our opportunity to provide a heart and home to Jewish students,\u201d said Alan Ginsburg, founder of the Ginsburg Family Foundation. \u201cIt connects them to each other and the greater Stetson community.\u201d\nHillel started at Stetson in the 1980s, but its cultural presence really started to take off in May when it hired its first full-time Hillel director, Sam Friedman. This semester, Hillel has held weekly Shabbat dinners and Jewish educational programs, holiday celebrations and community service events, and Friedman has been visible with Jewish and non-Jewish students since his arrival.\n\u201cAt Stetson there is an enormous opportunity to build a welcoming community of Jewish Hatters connected to Stetson, to Israel and to each other,\u201d said Friedman. \u201cI can\u2019t think of another university as committed to growing a thriving and sustainable Jewish community on campus as Stetson. We are very lucky,\u201d said Friedman.\nThe Jeffrey and Diane Ginsburg Hillel House will be established in a Tudor-style home that has been a fixture of the DeLand campus since 1999 when it was purchased from the Booker family, but in one way or another, the house has been part of Stetson since it was built.\n\u201cMy great-grandfather built the house in 1930 for my grandparents as a wedding gift,\u201d said Sarah Booker Altier, who lived in the house in the early 1960s and again in the late 1970s. She still lives in DeLand with her husband, Jeff, athletic director at Stetson University. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled and my siblings are as well. It is a beautiful way to ensure that the home will be cared for.\u201d\nWhile renovations are still in the planning stages, it is expected that the home will be ready at the start of classes in the fall of 2019.\nAbout Stetson University\nFounded in 1883, Stetson University is the oldest private university in Central Florida. Stetson focuses on intense learning experiences in a supportive community that allows students to develop their voice in a connected, inclusive environment. Stetson University ranks No. 5 on U.S. News & World Report\u2019s 2019 list of Best Regional Universities (South), and has been recognized as one of The Princeton Review\u2019s Best Colleges, 2019 edition. Stay connected with Stetson on social media.\nAbout Ginsburg Family Foundation\nThe Ginsburg Family Foundation was established in 2002 to extend the philanthropic legacy of its founder Alan Ginsburg. The foundation's mission is to build a legacy for the benefit and well-being of community. This is accomplished through the areas of healthcare, education, arts, and Jewish/Interfaith initiatives. The Ginsburg family is committed to the Central Florida community for the betterment of the individual as well as the whole. 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It gets milder.\nParis ain't much of a town.\nAll I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.\nIf it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.\nDon't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.\nI didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.\nGee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.\nHow about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?\nBabe Ruth Motivational Quotes\nI had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.\nI won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.\nAs soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. 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They were so poor that they could not afford to send him to high school, so my Dad only went to 8th grade. And, at 15, he left home and began to provide for himself.\nHowever, that did not deter my Dad. He learned carpentry by finishing correspondence courses in architecture and simply through hard work.. He was such a good worker that he became a foreman for many homes by the time he was 19. By his early 20s, he worked for EF Hauserman as a foreman and traveled throughout the country to support his wife and 3 children.\nMy Mom was a hard worker, too. So, when my parents bought a store in northern Wisconsin, they used their own money to finance it. They worked 16 hour days and did everything to keep themselves solvent, including building additions to the store, learning how to stock and order, and how to keep their financial house in order.\nNo government subsidies helped them nor did they expect anyone to give them a leg up.\nThroughout their entire married life, over 60 years, they scrimped and saved and invested in the stock market. There were no fancy cars nor fancy houses for them. They neither asked for, nor received, help from any government agencies.\nMy Mom passed away 9 years ago and my Dad died last November.\nTheir estate is significant in size, not because of any government help; but, because they were willing to learn new skills, to work themselves to the bone, and to take chances in the stock market.\nSo, President Obama, don\u2019t tell me that the government built their estate. In fact, the government is going to take a significant portion of the estate my parents left us. This is money that has been taxed over and over again. However, for some strange reason, people like you, Mr. President, feel that you have the right to take even more and call it an estate tax when everyone knows it is a death tax.\nNo, Mr. President, you did NOT help my Mom and Dad. You and your minions have done everything in your power to tax my parents into oblivion. The fact that there are some monies left in their estate is NO THANKS TO THE GOVERNMENT; BUT, because my DAD \u2014 AND MOM \u2013worked harder, learned more, and, yes, took chances when others did not. My Dad and Mom, not the government, were the ones who succeeded.\nDeath taxes Leave a Comment more...\nObama \u2014 the Chicago Holligan\u2026\u2026\u2026\nChicago politics is almost universally considered to be the nastiest, roughest arena for any politician. President Obama is showing his Chicago roots in this campaign season.\nObama\u2019s lies: Witness Obama\u2019s continual accusations against Governor Romney and Romney\u2019s time at Bain.\nThe fact is that the SEC, the Washington Post, and Fortune magazine have all said the charges are false. Romney actually was working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, on the Olympics, and, through hard work, saved the Olympics.\nObama\u2019s lie: Romney outsourced jobs while at Bain Capital.\nFact: Romney attempted to save businesses that were in dire straits. These jobs would have been lost entirely if not for the intervention of venture capitalists, such as Governor Romney. While Obama used OUR tax dollars to bail out Solyndra, and other companies, which failed, Romney used private money, much of it his own, to save American businesses and jobs. Obama used OUR tax dollars AND, several of the environmental companies which received our tax dollars were run by Obama\u2019s donors and friends. To date, Obama has outsourced many, many jobs with stimulus dollars which just happen to be OUR tax dollars!\nObama\u2019s lie: Romney is unqualified to be President.\nFact: Romney is far more experienced than Obama was when Obama ran for his first term. Romney has been a hugely successful businessman. Obama has not. Romney was a governor. Obama was not. Romney saved the Olympics from financial ruin. Obama\u2026.well, he ran some community organizations.\nObama\u2019s lie: I will be the most transparent president ever and my administration will be the most honest.\nFact: Ha ha.\nHas he forgotten his imposition of executive privilege for Fast and Furious?\nHas he forgotten his promise that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8%?\nHas he forgotten that his Justice department has challenged numerous states on voter documentation in order to provide more votes for Obama?\nLie: Romney is not a good person, and maybe is even a felon.\nFact: Governor Romney donated his inheritance to private charities and then went on to earn his own fortune. Governor Romney donated his time to save the Olympics. Governor Romney has tithed to his church throughout his life.\nObama? Well, he says he is FOR the people. Ummm hmmmmm. His \u201clove\u201d of us surely explains his lavish vacations, his frequent golf outings, his wife and children\u2019s trips to exotic places, his expensive \u201cdate\u201d night in New York. Our tax dollars have kept Obama and his family, and many of his friends/donors, living the good life while Americans struggle to find jobs and make ends meet.\nMany have attempted to deny these charges and claim that Obama\u2019s opposition are being racist. However, the lies told by Obama are not based on his skin color. The lies are part of his character and, as such, should be a warning to anyone who will listen.\nThe truth is that President Obama is the epitome of everything that is wrong with Chicago politics. He might not be a Capone, but he IS a Blagoavich\u2026.and, maybe worse. No matter how the Democrats try to deflect the horrible job done by Obama, they are just spinning and lying about the facts. And, President Obama is leading the pack\u2026\u2026..he is definitely a Chicago Holligan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 7773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.retireinfocus.com/blog/whats-new-social-security-update", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CDZXKNOXCNFVWECQRMOCPA3T62V5JPCG", "length": 3503, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.retireinfocus.com", "title": "Whats New With Social Security? An Update. | InFocus Financial Advisors, Inc.", "raw_content": "In June, the Trustees of Social Security\u2019s trust funds released their annual report (viewable at https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2018/tr2018.pdf). What many already know remains the same, the outlook for the future of the Social Security program as we know presents a challenge on the horizon. While the outlook has been raised questions for sometime now, an important threshold was breached this year. Social Security\u2019s cost will \u201cexceed its income for the first time since 1982 and remain higher throughout the projection period.\u201d (SSA) What this mean\u2019s is that asset reserves (trust fund) will have to be utilized this year.\nWhat\u2019s important to note is that benefits paid out have exceeded taxes coming in since roughly 2010. However, interest on monies in the trust fund covered the shortfall. This year, despite rising interest rates that will no longer be the case. As noted in the report, this trend will continue through their projection period as a result of not only significant amounts of baby boomers retiring, but lower birthrates in the working age population. Moody\u2019s economic research noted that from 1974 to 2008, there were 3.2 to 3.4 workers per Social Security beneficiary. In 2017, there were 2.8 covered workers per beneficiary, and that number is projected to continue to decline to 2.2 by 2033.\nIn-line with projections in previous reports, the two trust funds are projected to be depleted in the year 2034. At that point, income received would only be enough to pay 79% of benefits. This would certainly be a problem for the 63 million current beneficiaries of benefits and the 175 million covered workers. The good news is, 2034 is still a ways away and policy makers do have tools at their disposal. As commented by Moody\u2019s, administrative costs currently represent less than 1% of Social Security spending. As such, the two options to shore up solvency for the program are to either increase taxes or pay fewer benefits to future retirees. For instance, increasing the payroll tax from 12.4% to 15.4% would sustain Social Security across the Trustee\u2019s report 75-year projection period. Removing the cap on earnings taxed (currently $118,500) would also provide solvency for an additional 73 years. (Moody\u2019s)\nAsking people to pay higher taxes is never politically expedient and has stood in the way of major reform since the 1983 changes. Interestingly enough, Moody\u2019s economics analyzed all major pieces of reform legislation over the last decade and found the median proposal would have increased solvency for an additional 43 years. Unfortunately, what has been politically expedient has not coincided with shoring up solvency for the program and we have another annual report with bad news. Most all proposals previously brought have been bi-partisan in nature but have all failed to move forward and provide meaningful reform.\nHopefully this year\u2019s report will add an additional sense of urgency to policy makers as we have crossed yet another threshold on the path to eventual benefit cuts. As every American will be impacted by any decisions or changes made to Social Security in one way or another. It is with that, we recommend you write your Senator and let your voice be heard. Until we see largescale changes, the annual report will likely be more of the same.\nThe views are those of Robert Jeter CFP \u00ae, CRPC\u00ae and should not be construed as specific investment advise. Investors cannot directly invest in indices. 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Being a member of the Board is an important role to help guide the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies as well as making sure the nonprofit has adequate resources to advance its mission in accordance with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. In being stewards of the organization, board members are also involved in fundraising activities. We encourage you to read the information on this page to better educate yourself on the roles and responsibilities of the Board of Directors. You may apply online to be show you interest in board membership by completing the application at the bottom of this page.\nAccording to California nonprofit corporate law, a board member must meet certain standards of conduct and attention to his or her responsibilities to the organization. These are referred to as the Duty of Obedience, the Duty of Care, and the Duty of Loyalty.\nDuty of Care means exercising your best judgment. It doesn\u2019t mean you have to be perfect or that you cannot make a mistake, just that you have exercised reasonable caution in making decisions.\nDuty of Loyalty means putting your personal and professional interests aside for the good of the organization. Board members are required to read and acknowledge the Riverside County Parks Foundation\u2019s Conflict of Interest policy.\nDuty of Obedience means being true to the mission of the organization. Donors have the right to expect that funds given will be used for the stated purpose. It is also important that the board ensure that the organization is following all laws and regulations that may apply to nonprofits, such as payment of any taxes and public disclosure of information.\u200b\nPlease briefly outline the specific skills you bring, or contributions you hope to make, to the RivCoParks Board. *\nwith RivCoParks District\nWhy do you seek a position on the RivCoParks Foundation Board? *\nThe board of directors is the governing body of a nonprofit. Individuals who sit on the board are responsible for overseeing the organization's activities. Board members meet periodically to discuss and vote on the affairs of the organization.\nDo you have any comments, questions, or any other information that you would like to share?\nPlease upload your Resume or CV.\nPlease list boards and committees that you serve on, or have served on.\nPlease briefly describe your academic and professional background, and other relevant experience. *\nThank you for your interest in joining the RivCoParks Foundation Board of Directors. By completing the following application, it demonstrates your interest in joining the Board while helping us understand your views on current operations and how your potential contributions might fit with the Foundation's vision. Please answer the following questions. Limit your response to this page/the space provided.\nBoard Member \"Standards of Conduct\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roaccutaneaction.com/Press/070314_Adam_Long_BoltonNews.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:17Z", "digest": "sha1:RVB6XV6WLQJC56VTXA77ZYXTDJMWQWUD", "length": 3687, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.roaccutaneaction.com", "title": "Roaccutane / Accutane", "raw_content": "Acne drug linked to tragic suicide\nBy Amanda Smith , 13th March 2007\nLink to original article: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/boltonnews/display.var.1254057.0.acne_drug_linked_to_tragic_suicide.php\nAn acne sufferer killed himself by lying in front of a train after being given a controversial drug to treat his condition.\nAdam Long, aged 22, had taken a course of Roaccutane and later developed depression.\nCampaigners say the drug has been linked to a string of deaths, including at least 15 in Britain, and have called for it to be banned.\nThey say it has caused depression and suicide in patients since its introduction in 1982.\nRoaccutane is usually only prescribed to teenagers with particularly severe acne, but it is highly effective and has been used by approximately 13 million patients world-wide.\nYet the drug's maker, Roche, includes a warning about depression in packets.\nMr Long committed suicide in January last year, leaving a message to parents, Sonia and Stephen on his mobile phone which read: \"I love my mum and dad.\"\nThe link between schizophrenia and the drug is so strong that coroner Jennifer Leeming said at an inquest into Mr Long's death yesterday that she was reporting the adverse reaction to the local authorities.\nMr Long, of Car Bank Street, Atherton, had a severe reaction to the drug, which he had been taking a few years before his death.\nIt caused him to suffer serious mental health problems, the inquest heard.\nOn January 18, 2006, Mr Long lay on the tracks near a bridge at Engine Lane, Atherton, and was hit by a train.\nMr Long's white Fiat Punto car was parked nearby.\nTrain driver Tony Sulca said: \"I thought some debris had been thrown on to the line. I put the brakes on straight away and as we got closer I could see it was a person.\n\"I sounded the horn several times and there was sufficient time for him to move out of the way. The train came to a halt 200 yards past where the person had been.\"\nThe family broke down in tears when Sgt Leslie Peters, of British Transport Police, told the inquest that Mr Long's mobile phone was found on the tracks with \"I love my mum and dad\" written on the screen.\nMr Long had been treated by consultant psychiatrist Dr Ali Malik, who told Bolton Coroner's Court that Mr Long had become disillusioned and depressed.\nHe said: \"In March, 2004, it was noted that Mr Long drove around for four hours to avoid his birthday celebrations, he refused to drink water from the tap in case it was poisoned and he believed there were hidden cameras in the house and one eyeball was not real and didn't belong to him.\"\nHe was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was prescribed an anti-psychotic drug.\nDr Malik said: \"He had not indicated any intention to self-harm, so why he suddenly did that I do not know.\"\nThe medical cause of death was head injuries and the jury returned a verdict that he took his own life, while the balance of his mind was disturbed.\nCoroner Jennifer Leeming said: \"I do not believe as a society that we take mental illness seriously. We do not understand that you can die from mental illness just as you can die from cancer. It is a lesson to us all.\"\nA spokesman for Roche said: \"Unfortunately, severe acne can cause some sufferers to become depressed and can also affect their mood and self esteem.\n\"This is why the information provided with Roaccutane carries a warning that some patient may experience mood changes, including an increase in depression.\n\"While none of this alters the terrible impact that Adam's suicide has had, it is worth remembering that over the past 20 years, more than 13 million people worldwide have been successfully treated for severe acne using Roaccutane.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-12-bode-miller-changed-his-mind-and-your-rights-along-w", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TBVK4O6ZBYDZ243XKTQRGLKAABEQ2GWF", "length": 11627, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.rolereboot.org", "title": "Bode Miller Changed His Mind And Hurt Pregnant Women's Rights Along With It - Role Reboot", "raw_content": "Bode Miller Changed His Mind And Hurt Pregnant Women\u2019s Rights Along With It\nMainstream media has painted Bode Miller as a dedicated father in a brutal custody battle. But where\u2019s the focus on his attempt to control the life and restrict the rights of a pregnant woman? Nowhere, says Soraya Chemaly.\nToday, a New York family court will decide where the nine-month old baby of \u201cAmerica\u2019s most decorated Alpine skier,\u201d Bode Miller, and ex-Marine, Sara McKenna, will live. In anticipation, and clearly part of the public rehabilitation of Miller, Us Weekly told its millions of readers the \u201cexclusive\u201d story of his \u201clegal struggles\u201d to gain custody of his son. Here are the details the profile and interview provided:\nMiller, a \u201creformed bad boy,\u201d talks about \u201clove, loss, and fatherhood.\u201d\nMiller is involved in a fraught custody battle for a child born after Miller and McKenna, 27, \u201chad a fling.\u201d\nMiller, 36, has \u201cgrown up\u201d and is \u201cready to be a committed father.\u201d\nMiller just wants to give the child \u201cthe opportunity to live a great life.\u201d\nHe believes that Nate, of whom he\u2019s \u201ctemporarily lost custody,\u201d \u201cdeserves every ounce of fight we have.\u201d Nate is the name used by Miller and Us Weekly, even though his legal name is Samuel, and his mother calls him Sam.\nCustody and relocation battles are sad, difficult, complicated, frequently acrimonious, and almost inevitably end up damaging parents and children alike. However, this case goes one step further because when Miller sued for \u201ccustody,\u201d his paternity was not established, he had no relationship with McKenna and she was still pregnant. The magazine, and many others, didn\u2019t explain or even touch on what the fact of her being pregnant means to all women who are pregnant or might one day be pregnant. Here is what Jennifer Peros, the interviewer, and Bode Miller did not touch on:\nAfter their \u201cfling,\u201d during which they had unprotected sex twice and Miller told McKenna she \u201chad to have four of my babies,\u201d Miller and McKenna broke up. Almost immediately after, he met professional volleyball player Morgan Beck (now Morgan Miller) and they got married.\nWhen McKenna found out she was pregnant and asked Miller to accompany her to an ultrasound appointment, he declined. He was clear about his lack of interest, texted her, \u201cU made this choice against my wish,\u201d and went golfing.\nMcKenna, then a firefighter, decided she needed to find another career, one better suited to being a single mother. She applied for and was accepted into a special program at Columbia University.\nWhen she decided to move from California to New York because, among other things, Columbia offered financial aid, benefits for veterans, and great options for parents attending school, she let Miller know.\nIn the meantime, Miller\u2019s new wife also had an unplanned pregnancy and suffered a miscarriage.\nMiller then changed his mind about McKenna\u2019s pregnancy, initiated court proceedings to establish paternity, and sued for custody of a \u201cchild not yet born\u201d in California. (He is also involved in a custody case involving a 5-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.)\nMcKenna gave birth in New York and immediately filed for custody. Legally, New York has jurisdiction when the state is the \u201chome state\u201d of the child in question. However, the New York judge, in a highly unusual decision, returned the case to California. The judge called McKenna\u2019s decision to move to New York \u201creprehensible,\u201d and her decision to attend Columbia mercenary. She went further to describe her move as an \u201cappropriation of the child while in utero.\u201d As Slate\u2019s Emily Bazelon explained at the time, the judge, \u201cseemed to have it in for McKenna when she sent the case back to the California courts\u2026The judge/referee also overlooked the fact that \u2018child\u2019 in state custody law does not mean unborn child, as in fetus, which is what the \u2018child\u2019 was when McKenna moved east.\u201d\nAccording to this court ruling, in violation of multiple rights, any travel by McKenna would have been prohibited and defined by Miller\u2019s claims. In effect, the precedent meant that a pregnant woman could be legally compelled to stay in her baby daddy\u2019s state against her will.\nThe family court in California granted primary custody to Miller, who, with his new wife, came to New York, drove to McKenna\u2019s apartment, \u201ctook the baby out of my arms, dropped it in a car seat and drove away.\u201d\nAfter the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the NYU School of Reproductive Justice Clinic, and other women\u2019s rights organizations filed a brief in support of McKenna, a five-judge appeals court in New York reversed the initial New York ruling, declaring, shocking though it may seem to some: \u201cPutative fathers have neither the right nor the ability to restrict a pregnant woman from her constitutionally protected liberty.\u201d McKenna now has custody until the next court date, which is today (December 9). The court went on to explain that a woman should not be subjected to what are essentially the whims of a person \u201cwith whom she had only a brief romantic relationship.\u201d Imagine that.\nMedia coverage during the past few months has repeatedly included the fact that in the midst of these proceedings, Morgan Miller made the argument, in a now-deleted blog post, that the boy belonged with the Millers because they are able to provide \u201ca loving and balanced family,\u201d in contrast to McKenna, who would have to rely on childcare. Recent stories report that Miller agrees, \u201cFor an infant who\u2019s in childcare a lot of the time to sit in New York, when his alternative is to be out here\u2026\u201d\nThose Bad Pregnant Women and Mothers. Selfish. Poor. Single. Independent. Trying to get an education. Making decisions for their own and their children\u2019s long-term security. Exercising Those Pesky Rights to liberty and equal protection under the law. It would be so much easier if they would just go away.\nBut we\u2019re not quite there yet and so until men or machines can gestate, the biological reality of women\u2019s bodies being important is the b\u00eate noire of patriarchy. As the brief filed in McKenna\u2019s support explained, \u201ceggs, embryos, and fetuses are necessarily inside the women that carry and nurture them in their bodies. The distinction is everything\u2026A pregnant woman cannot help but dictate the geographic itinerary of the egg, embryo, or fetus that by biological necessity goes where she goes.\u201d Our bodies, we keep having to remind people, are not public resources or mobile baby production facilities.\nThe threat that this proceeding poses to women was written off with this cavalier statement: \u201cThe case features as many twists as the Olympic slalom course.\u201d It\u2019s important to call bullshit on media, like Us Weekly, for failing to explain even the most basic facts about the McKenna/Miller case and so casually throwing legitimate concerns of women\u2019s rights under the male-athletic-hero-adulation bus.\nBut it\u2019s not just this entertainment magazine\u2014a place I realize people don\u2019t go to for complex news analysis. With a handful of exceptions, this narrative was repeated in most of the stories I read in mainstream press, from USA Today, FOX, and the The Telegraph to Boston Globe and more.\nVirtually nowhere is there mention of the seeming fickleness of Miller\u2019s decisions to be a father (multiple times). If he changes his mind again, are the women and children around him supposed to accommodate this and subsume their lives (and rights, if pregnant) to his ambitions and his needs?\nThere hasn\u2019t been, in any of the coverage I\u2019ve seen, a single mention of the economics and gender issues related to why female parents like McKenna need childcare and male parents like Miller might not. No analysis of the implicit biases in the law or courts or media that McKenna is confronting by trying to keep her baby, get an education, pursue a career, and be a mother at the same time. No consideration of the benefits to Miller that accrue from the gender-skewed monetization of his athletic ability, the free labor of his spouse in creating a \u201cbalanced family life,\u201d and a media all too happy to tacitly convey support for traditional, patriarchal family values.\nWe mainly hear that Miller is an amazing athlete, that he now wants his son nearby, can afford to have him play in a lovely spot on the planet, and is now \u201c100% committed to fatherhood.\u201d There are no concerns about Miller\u2019s rights to actually, physically attend the Olympics.\nIt is possible that today\u2019s hearing will take place in front of the same judge that sent McKenna and Miller back to California. Lynn Paltrow of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, voices a serious concern: \u201cOnce a referee [the Judge] has [wrongly] decided that a pregnant woman did something \u2018irresponsible\u2019 and \u2018reprehensible\u2019 by exercising her fundamental constitutional rights, is it possible to then fairly decide the custody issues at stake?\u201d\nNo one is asking this: If Miller wants to see his son more often, and is committed to what is best for him, which he agrees is to spend equal time with both parents, then why doesn\u2019t he move to New York? Because it would hurt his career, threaten his financial security, and probably just bum him out too much? I realize that sounds snide, but that is what he has been trying to force McKenna to do. The idea that she should sacrifice her own education and ambitions were just fine with him, yet the thought that he would do the same strikes many people as laughable. The first New York court ruling smacked, as Roxanne Gay explained so succinctly earlier this year, of \u201cMen wanting what they want\u2026\u201d\nFor all I know, Bode Miller is a lovely person and a doting father who has struggled with and overcome substance abuse. That\u2019s what we keep hearing, but it\u2019s actually irrelevant in terms of jurisprudence. His actions and the willingness of the courts to entertain his claims over McKenna\u2019s pregnant body far exceed the parameters of his personality or his complicated personal life. Articles that frame the \u201cbrutal custody fight\u201d as possibly hurting his Olympic chances, that focus on \u201cthis San Diego-based dad\u2019s fight for his son,\u201d and remind people of the value of \u201ca balanced home\u201d are all complicit in a system in which pregnant women are expected to sacrifice themselves, serve the needs of others, and lose their constitutional rights\u2014to freedom, movement, privacy, and autonomy.\nWhat happened to McKenna can happen to any girl or woman who is pregnant. In our society, one in which women\u2019s rights are constantly at risk of being degraded, the significance of even one legal precedent can\u2019t be underestimated. I realize entirely that Us Weekly is not anyone\u2019s reputable, go-to news source. But it is still a source of information. And its readers, like so many millions of others reading similar media, just got a cloying mainstream dose of patriarchal values and \u201cboys will be boys\u201d hero worship, at the expense of girls and women everywhere.\nSoraya L. Chemaly writes about gender, feminism and culture for several online media including Role/Reboot, The Huffington Post, Fem2.0, RHReality Check, BitchFlicks, and Alternet among others. She is particularly interested in how systems of bias and oppression are transmitted to children through entertainment, media and religious cultures. She holds a History degree from Georgetown University, where she founded that schools first feminist undergraduate journal, studied post-grad at Radcliffe College.\nI Tried Cosmo\u2019s Weirdest Sex Tips So You Don\u2019t Have To\nWhy I Hate Victoria\u2019s Secret\nPosted in Culture + Politics and Current Events, Fathers, Mothers, Parents, Pop Culture", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 12878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rolereboot.org/tag/happily-childfree/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MMMY2PCV4VX77M6DSWM4NKZUMFTQL4HW", "length": 1488, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rolereboot.org", "title": "happily childfree Archives - Role Reboot", "raw_content": "Topic: happily childfree\nComing Out And Having A Hysterectomy Opened Me Up To Raising A Family\nBy A.R. LaPlant\nNow that I\u2019ve had my hysterectomy, I\u2019m not fighting my body every day. Now that I\u2019ve come out, I\u2019m not fighting my heart. When I was in middle school I told my friends that I never wanted to have kids. In high school I told my parents that all they\u2019d ever get from me would [\u2026]\nI Don\u2019t Want Kids, Please Don\u2019t Feel Sorry For Me\nBy Dani Fleischer\nMy reasons might be selfish and vain and drenched in fear, but they\u2019re my reasons, and I\u2019ve spent a great deal of time trying to understand them. I\u2019m the first one to admit it\u2014my maternal instinct was installed with faulty wiring. I was never one of those girls who imagined the day she\u2019d become a [\u2026]\nI Don\u2019t Want To Be A Mom, And I\u2019m Not Going To Change My Mind\nBy Janine James\nSure, I have met some cool children over the course of my life, but deep down, I just know it\u2019s not for me. What I am about to say may stun and horrify readers\u2026 I do not want children. Ever. I know some of you are probably wondering why I would deny myself the joys [\u2026]\nMy Child-Free Life Requires No Explanation Or Defense\nBy Drew Bowling\nIt\u2019s a choice everyone should be able to make for themselves, and to do so with no risk of being seen as irresponsible, immature, or unfulfilled. I do not have children nor do I ever want them. That is an unremarkable statement, and yet I continue to get confused and skeptical responses from many people to [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roystonwildlife.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WKFHFGXRWFYOZ6XXLDW7AO2JTYVQASAE", "length": 1652, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.roystonwildlife.com", "title": "Royston Wildlife - Home Page", "raw_content": "Welcome to the Royston Wildlife website. I hope that your visit is enjoyable and productive.\nWelcome to Royston Wildlife, a web site set up to provide a personal view of the natural history associated with the town of Royston (North Herts) and its environs. On the face of it, Royston would seem unlikely to have a diverse and interesting natural history. For a start it is not situated either by or near a river or lake. Secondly, the land surrounding Royston is intensively farmed. Nevertheless, there is plenty of interest here for the naturalist.\nThe jewel in Royston's crown is Therfield Heath, an extensive area of chalk grassland to the south and west of the town centre. The Heath contains a number of rare plant species, being best known for the Pasque Flower (which attracts botanists from all over the country when it flowers in April), as well as diverse animal life.\nI first moved to Royston 31 years ago, but used it essentially as a dormitory town until I took early retirement in 2006. However, in the last ten years I have got to know a great deal more about the natural history of the area. My two main interests are birdwatching and photography. The area to the south and west of the town (including The Heath) has become my \"local patch\": I hope that my observations (\"What's About\"), all of which were taken within 2 miles of my home, will be of interest. I am leader of the RSPB Hitchin and Letchworth Local Group and have devoted a page (\"RSPB Local Group\") to Local Group news and events. If you want to see more of my photographs, including some of wildlife from around the world, visit my \"Avocet Images\" photographic website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 146.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rumbadesign.co.uk/about-rumba-graphic-design/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GIJFIAMW7XH7ZGGAKEEXAM44CI76DX6A", "length": 514, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.rumbadesign.co.uk", "title": "About Us - Rumba Graphic Design, Bristol", "raw_content": "About Rumba Design\nThis is where we work. A small but welcoming studio right in the heart of Bristol and a stone\u2019s throw from the hustle and bustle of Park Street.\nWe provide the following design services:\nDrop in to discuss an ongoing project or to talk about something new \u2013 either way it\u2019s always good to meet face-to-face.\nWe hope you like the look of our work. Get in touch if you\u2019d like to know more. Contact studio@rumbadesign.co.uk or call +44 (0)117 907 5323.\nRob Sanders, TUC Senior Publications Officer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.s4c.cymru/en/sport/cycling/page/26889/cycling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3PCMXVBAMK6NZV3TJRF6QZDJCDM73TH2", "length": 433, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.s4c.cymru", "title": "Cycling | S4C", "raw_content": "Chwaraeon Home\nCould a Welshman win this year's Tour de France?\nGeraint Thomas ought to be on the podium at the end of this year's Tour de France, but it will be Team Sky who decide on which step he will be standing.\nThat is the view of Welsh professional cyclist Gruff Lewis, who will be part of the Seiclo commentary team bringing live coverage and highlights from every day of this year's Tour on S4C, starting on Saturday 7 July.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 210.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.safetyalerts.com/recall/p/02/p0013020.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CLWU3TLANE2VV4YDEA5EUZIPPZZFUKE3", "length": 1308, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.safetyalerts.com", "title": "Young's J.K. Has Recalled Novelty Lighters", "raw_content": "Young's J.K. Has Recalled Novelty Lighters\nPortland, OR (SafetyAlerts) - Young's J.K. Inc. has recalled about 500 novelty cigarette lighters. These lighters do not have child-resistant mechanisms, as required by federal law. Young children can ignite the lighters, presenting fire and burn hazards.\nCPSC has received one report of a 2-year-old using one of these lighters to ignite an upholstered chair. The fire resulted in the death of his 6-year-old brother and permanent brain damage to the 2-year old.\nThe refillable, dolphin-shaped cigarette lighters are butane gas- fueled and made of metal. There are three models involved in this recall. One of the lighters features a dolphin with a large ball and is labeled \"1988.8 Young's Wholes 14.9.\" Another lighter features a single dolphin and is labeled \"00005011 $14.00 EA.\" The last model features two dolphins and a ball, and has no label.\nGas stations, smoke shops, grocery, gift and liquor stores sold the lighters in Oregon and Southwest Washington from 1996 through October 2001 for between $8 and $20.\nConsumers should stop using the lighters immediately and return them to the store where purchased for a refund. For more information, consumers can contact Young's J.K. collect at (503) 998-9801 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.samanthamclark.com/2008/12/04/day-27/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:36Z", "digest": "sha1:O2DCWML5QFHHFO7HEFO2EAXTNKGTZMY6", "length": 1756, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.samanthamclark.com", "title": "Day 27 \u2013 Samantha M Clark", "raw_content": "And I\u2019m back on track! As promised, for the much belated day 27 of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month, I got up early and finished my outline/timeline.\nThat exercise has proved priceless. I now have a plan for the plot points that I was stumbling over. And I found solutions to a lot of things that kept niggling at me (such as action from a prologue that I had cut, I\u2019ve finally figured out how to get it back in). Cutting all the plot points in the story down to one sentence really helped me see the flow of the whole story, something I was having a lot of trouble with in my edit of each individual chapter.\nAfter I finished the outline/timeline, I started my revisions. Now it\u2019s back to the hard part: reworking the flow I\u2019ve already got in individual chapters to include new plot points. But it\u2019ll be worth it in the end.\nAlso, I\u2019ve posted a few times about how important it is to buy books, especially now because of the state of the publishing industry. On her blog, children\u2019s book author Jill Corcoran has given a bunch of links to other articles to let us know that not all is doom and gloom. I also read recently (sorry, can\u2019t remember where) that the thing us writers need to remember is that, publishers are in the business of selling books, and despite the down economy, books are still selling and publishers still need more good books to sell. That\u2019s the good news. Of course, because of the state of the industry, publishers might be more picky about the books they pick up, but that just means we have to make our books that much more perfect. No problem! \ud83d\ude42\nHow\u2019s your writing coming? Got any good state of the industry links to share?\nPrevious: Previous post: Two days off\nNext: Next post: Day 28 and discipline", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sancohis.org/OLDER%20FILES/presentations/tracking_the_barrets_a_tough_task.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2IRQZR3OU54BGEE4YDOV4WJ7FS2UBOHC", "length": 9546, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.sancohis.org", "title": "Tracking the Barrets A Tough Task", "raw_content": "Tracking the Barrets A Tough Task, Says Mann\nIn Talk On Family That Faded From Memory\nYou never know where research will...or won\u2019t take you.\nEven with years of experience under his belt, historian Curtis Mann, manager of the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library in Springfield at first found little to whet his interest in researching James A. Barret and his family. By the mid 1800s, the Barrets were among the cream of Springfield\u2019s society but by the late 1800s wound up in relative historical obscurity.\nMann, speaking to a packed audience at the Society\u2019s November 19 meeting at the Elijah Iles House, came across Barret while doing research on Springfield breweries and also spotted the name on an 1858 map of Sangamon County.\n\u201cAt the beginning, I must admit that I myself could not muster enough details to make the subject exciting to me,\u201d but he more he probed, the more interesting Barret became\u2026and the more difficult it was to track what became of the once wealthy landowner whose lawsuit against the Alton and Sangamon Railroad helped propel attorney Abraham Lincoln to prominence.\nTracking Barret\u2019s post-Springfield years hasn\u2019t been easy, the result of families like the Barrets making wide use of first names over and over. \u201cOne of the pitfalls in doing research on James A. Barret is that he had a cousin by the name of James A. Barret. This particular cousin got himself into trouble for being the leader of the Missouri chapter of the Order of American Knights and was accused of conspiring against the government during the Civil War. It took some time for me to figure who he was.\u201d\nThe Springfield James A. Barret, explained Mann, was the son of James Winston Barret, who moved to this area from Green County, Kentucky, possibly at the urging of his brother, Richard F. Barret or his wife Maria\u2019s family, the Allens, who had already moved to Springfield..\n\u201cMany families living in Green County were settling in the area around New Salem,\u201d Mann said. The senior Barret purchased farmland in Island Grove in an area west of Berlin. Within a few years, Barret became active in Sangamon County politics, running unsuccessfully for state representative in 1840. After his defeat, he went to work as the agent for the State\u2019s fund commissioner, his brother Richard, and, said Mann, \u201cwas involved in various internal improvement projects going on in the state including the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Northern Cross Railroad. In 1844, he was defeated in a bid for state senator but a few months later was appointed by President John Tyler as the new register of the Springfield Land Office,\u201d recording purchases of federal land.\nThe Barrets had nine sons and three daughters, some whom died young, Mann said. In 1840, William, the oldest son, married Elizabeth E. Butler, a niece of William Butler who was an early friend of Abraham Lincoln when he first arrived in Springfield from New Salem.\nThe eldest Barret daughter, Elizabeth, married Philip C. Johnson in 1840, a wealthy Easterner. Caroline Owsley Brown, a contemporary who chronicled the period, noted in her journal that \u201cthe wedding was a notable society event for its time.\u201d The couple was married by a Presbyterian minister in the Barret\u2019s home about three miles from Berlin, followed by an elaborate wedding breakfast. Johnson died in 1852 and in 1853, she married Pascal P. Enos. She died six years later.\nDaughter Mary married a merchant, William Fondy in 1851. \u201cFondy served in the same company and regiment as the Barret brothers during the Mexican War in 1846, so they must have been well acquainted.\u201d The three Barret brothers\u2014William, James, and Richard\u2014enlisted together in the Fourth Illinois Regiment commanded by Edward Baker. \u201cRichard was appointed the quartermaster, while his brother William received an appointment as the first lieutenant. James began his military career as a lowly private,\u201d said Mann.\nAfter capturing the city of Vera Cruz, members of the Fourth Regiment battled Santa Anna, capturing the Mexican general\u2019s artificial leg during his retreat. James was wounded in combat and was later promoted to lieutenant and assistant quartermaster. With just a month left of their year-long enlistment, the Fourth returned to New Orleans and where the Barrets were discharged.\nIn 1850, Richard married 26-year-old Sarah Rickard, the daughter of early settlers of Gardner Township. Sarah Rickard\u2019s sister was married to William Butler and, said Mann, according to a letter to William Herndon when he was gathering material for a book on Lincoln, the man who would become president had earlier proposed to Sarah. In the letter, she explains that the reason she refused Lincoln\u2019s proposal was that she was just 16 years old \u201cand had not thought much about marriage.\u201d But in a later letter, she said that \u201cI always liked him as a friend but you know, his peculiar manner and general deportment would not be likely to fascinate a young girl just entering the society world.\u201d\nUnlike his brothers, James A. Barret lived Springfield, his home\u2014on the southwest corner of Third and Monroe Streets\u2014serving as the site for his sister Mary\u2019s June wedding in 1851. \u201cThe yard was described as being filled with great forest trees and on the night of the wedding was illuminated by a headlight lent by the Wabash Railroad.\u201d The president of Illinois College, Julian Sturtevant, married the couple.\nJane Maria, the youngest of the Barret daughters, married Charles Ridgely in 1857 in a rainy evening wedding at the Fondy home.\nJames, who married Mary Eliza B. Anderson of Green County in 1848, began his career as a land speculator a year earlier, purchasing about 640 acres from the federal government. By 1849 he owned thousands of acres here, capitalizing on warrants that granted veterans of the Mexican War free land in return for their military service. Many veterans opted to sell the warrants for 50 cents an acre rather than fulfill a requirement that they travel to areas with available land and pick the site themselves. Brokers who bought the warrants resold them to speculators like Barret for 75 cents an acre. \u201cJames Barret could buy land cheap, but so could many others,\u201d observed Mann.\nBarret, he said, had a different agenda.\n\u201cIn the spring of 1849, Barret signed up to buy 30 shares of Alton and Sangamon Railroad stock on an installment plan while at the same time working as an agent for the railroad, selling stock subscription certificates in Springfield and across Sangamon County. Barret had a special interest in the railroad since he owned 4,000 acres of land near New Berlin, where the railroad track was intended to be built before heading to Springfield.\u201d\nBut in 1851, the Illinois General Assembly passed an amendment that allowed the railroad to change the route, bypassing New Berlin. The amendment allowed subscribers living west of the original line to rescind their installment agreements and get refunds. Though Barret owned land west of the line, he was not eligible for the deal because he resided in Springfield.\nWhen Barret and three other investors refused to make installment payments, the Alton and Sangamon Railroad sued, retaining Abraham Lincoln as its representative. Barret hired Lincoln\u2019s old law partner Stephen Trigg Logan as his attorney and offered a compromise in which he would pay for 15 shares if the railroad would release his obligation for the other 15. The railroad refused and the case went to trial in 1851. In a landmark decision credited to the legal prowess of Lincoln, Barret lost and was ordered to pay the remainder of the money. He appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, but lost there too.\nBarret continued to buy land and by 1853, owned 16,800 acres, developing some of it into working farms, building houses and fences, planting orchards and crops. \u201cHe would give the farms elaborate names such as Castle Point or Copenhagen when he advertised them for sale from his office on the south side of the public square above his brother-in-law William Fondy\u2019s store.\nBut with his purchase of the distillery, Barret ran afoul of Lincoln anew, the object of a lawsuits brought by the owner of a Springfield lumberyard and from a business partner from whom he had borrowed several thousand dollars. Lincoln successfully represented the lumberyard owner and his law partner, the other complainant.\nWhen the Civil War broke out \u201cBarret became the colonel of the 10th Illinois Cavalry and requested that it be ordered to New Mexico. President Lincoln passed along the request to general in chief of U.S. armies, General Henry Hallack in April, 1862, but Halleck turned it down. Barret resigned his commission the following month and within a year or so, moved back to Kentucky where, said Mann, \u201che apparently was involved in some coal mining and salt making operation.\nWithin the decade, the elder Barrets had passed away and in the ensuing years, most other family members moved away, William Barret to Petersburg where he died in 1902. His wife Ellen had died in 1881. Richard Barret moved to Kansas City in 1870 and lived there the remainder of his life, working as a real estate agent until his death in 1908. His sister-in-law, Sarah Rickard Barret died in 1911, also in Kansas City. Mary Barret Fondy was widowed in 1882 but remarried several years later to James Merriman, a fellow veteran of the Barret brothers in the Mexican War. She died in 1894. Jane Barret Ridgely was the sole survivor of the family. She lived to be 85 years old, dying in 1922 while visiting Florida.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 9673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sblaw.vn/legal-updates-352013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:V4WKCBDS4GLS2Q7CYXBUSKQDFIYBQQQV", "length": 8711, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.sblaw.vn", "title": "Salary regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed force personnel", "raw_content": "Legal Updates 3\\5\\2013\nSALARY INCREMENT EARLIER MUST NOT EXCEED 10% OF TOTAL STAFF\nThis is the content under the Decision No. 17/2013/ND-CP dated February 19, 2013 of the Government on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government\u2019s Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP, of December 14, 2004 on salary regime for cadres, civil servants, public employees, and armed force personnel.\nAccordingly, cadres, civil servants, public employees with excellent professional performances but yet enjoying the final salary grade within their salary schedule for their category or position shall be considered for one-step salary increment for a maximum of 12 months earlier than described. For each year, the proportion of cadres, civil servants, public employees to be entitled to such accelerated salary increment must not exceed 10% of the total number of the staff members on their permanent salary payment list (under the previous regulation, the maximum level of 5%). Besides, the new Decree also supplements subjects of application in Table 2 \u201cProfession salary schedule applicable to cadres and civil servants in the State agencies\u201d promulgated together with the Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP. At the same time, it amends the name \u201cCategories of public employees\u201d into \u201cProfessional titles of public employees\u201d and supplement subjects of application in Table 3 \u201cProfession salary schedules applicable to cadres and public employees in the State non-business units\u201d. Of which, it amends 05 subjects into the civil servants of type A3; 06 subjects into the civil servants of type A2.1; 08 subjects into the civil servants of type A1; 07 subjects in to the civil servants of type B and amends \u201cGuardian of stockpile\u201d into the civil servants of type C\u2026. For the salary increment table \u201cSalary increment schedule applicable to officers in the people\u2019s army, and officers and non-commissioned officers in the people\u2019s public security forces\u201d, the Government decides to increase the salary increment coefficient of four army ranks (General, Senior lieutenant general, Lieutenant general, Brigadier) to 11.00; 10.40; 9.80; 9.20 respectively (under the previous regulation, they are 10.40; 9.80; 9.20; 8.60 respectively). Time limit of salary increment for Brigadier, Lieutenant general, Senior lieutenant-general and general shall be 4 years. This Decree takes effect on April 10, 2013.\nHEALTH WARNINGS MUST BE COVERED AT LEAST 50% EACH MAIN FACE\u2019S AREA\nThis is regulated under the Joint Circular No. 05/2013/TTLT-BYT-BCT dated February 08, 2013 of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Trade on guiding labeling, printing of health warnings on tobacco packages.\nAccordingly, from May 01, 2013, tobacco produced, imported for consumption in Vietnam must be printed health warnings on packages in accordance with provisions as regulated. Health warnings must be printed on main face in front of and behind of tobacco packages and must assured not to be hidden or obscured by any materials, picture or other information and are printed with 4 basic colors or more, definition upon printing not allowed being lower than 300DPI. At the same time, area for printing Health warnings must be covered at least 50% area of each main face in front of and behind of tobacco package (under the previous regulation, it must be covered at least 30%). Under this Circular, the Ministries issued 06 forms for health warnings promulgated together with this Joint Circular and requested that kinds of tobacco product of a tobacco trademark of various tobacco trademarks of a producer must be printed with various forms for health warnings. If a tobacco trademark has more than 06 kinds of products, a producer had more than 06 tobacco trademarks, it is required to simultaneously print sufficient 06 forms for health warnings. This Joint Circular takes effect on May 01, 2013 and annuls regulations on labeling, printing health warnings on tobacco packages at the Decision No. 02/2007/QD-BYT, of January 15, 2007.\nMEDICAL SERVICE\u2019S PRICES TO SPECIAL-RANK HOSPITALS APPROVED\nOn January 21, 2013, the Ministry of Health issued the Circular No. 04/2013/TT-BYT guiding the approval and application of the prices of medical examination and treatment service to medical examination and treatment establishments managed by other ministries, branches.\nAccordingly, the Minister of Health shall approve the prices of medical examination and treatment services to each facility for special-rank, rank- I hospitals directly managed by Ministries, branches. Ward Health station in local shall apply the prices of medical examination and treatment services as stipulated by People\u2019s Committee\u2026. For medical examination and treatment establishments of Ministries, branches not yet performed ranking, prices of medical examination and treatment service are applied as stipulated by relevant agencies until there is new price table for replacement This Circular takes effect on March 15, 2013 and does not apply to state medical examination and treatment establishments managed by the Ministry of Health and state medical examination and treatment establishments managed by localities.\nTOURIST\u2019S TOTAL REVENUE REACHES 18 \u2013 19 BILLION VND BY 2020\nThis is the objective stated under the Decision No. 321/QDTTg dated February 18, 2013 of the Government on approving the National Action Program for tourism 2013 \u2013 2020.\nAccordingly, it is targeted that to develop tourism into a major, professional industry by 2020, with relatively comprehensive and modern facilities; The Prime Minister set the targets by 2015, it will attract 7 \u2013 7.5 million of arrivals of international tourists; serve 36 \u2013 37 million of domestic tourists, the total revenue from tourists reaches 10 \u2013 11 billion USD by 2015; attract 10 \u2013 10.5 arrivals of international tourists, serve 47 \u2013 48 domestic tourists, the total revenue from tourists reaches 18 \u2013 19 billion VND by 2020. The Prime Minister also requests that by 2015, it must build and transfer the management and use of 20 high-quality, typical and distinctive tourism products to localities and by 2020, to build and transfer the management and use of 50 high-quality, typical and distinctive tourism products to localities.\nUnder the Program, the Government supports the development of tourism products; of which, supporting the development of tourism products that suit the target market of Vietnam\u2019s tourism based on the advantages of tourism resources and the distinction of 7 tourism areas of Vietnam. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall preside over the activities of the Program based on the cooperation with relevant Ministries, agencies, and local governments in the inter-sectorial activities, in order to improve the tourism service quality through some activities of supporting the formulation of the scheme on the reasonable use of tourism resources; of supporting the enhancement of the quality of tourism human resources. This Decision takes effect on the signing date.\nREGULATING THE COMPETENCE TO DETERMINE AGENCY LIABLE FOR COMPENSATION\nOn January 31, 2013, the Ministry of Justice issued the Circular No. 03/2013/TT-BTP guiding the implementation of state management of compensation in administrative management operation.\nUnder this Circular, provincial-level People\u2019s Committee shall identify the agency liable for compensation I case the damage sufferer requests or there is no agreement on compensation liability under its management in thefollowing cases: between communal-level People\u2019s Committee; between communal-level People\u2019s Committee not in the same district; between professional agencies under provincial-level People\u2019s Committee; between professional agencies under provincial-level People\u2019s Committee and district \u2013 People\u2019s Committee in the same province. At the same time, the district-level People\u2019s Committees shall have to pay compensation in case of damage required or there is no agreement on liability between the communelevel People\u2019s Committees under their management. Besides, the Ministry of Justice shall help the Government to determine the agencies that have to pay compensation in\ncase of damage required or there is no agreement on liability between Ministries; between provincial-level People\u2019s Committee; between Ministries and provincial level People\u2019s Committee\u2026\nThe Circular also regulated that Ministry of Justice shall solve problems related to the legal implementation on the State compensation liability in administrative management activities. This Circular takes effect on March 15, 2013.\nLegal Updates 3\\12\\2013\nTo change the duration of continuous training in health sector\narmed force personnel salary regime for cadres SB Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 13852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scandinaviangifts.com/items/nordic-table/fjord-design-flatware~gifts/list.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6KXYU5Y6MAAB5A3ODGYLEUR3FGBLP23B", "length": 1838, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.scandinaviangifts.com", "title": "Fjord Design Flatware & Gifts", "raw_content": "Handmade from the Hardanger Fjord in Norway\nFjord Design Flatware was started by Odd Leikvoll, who grew up outside of Bergen, Norway. He was one of seven children in the family, which was of limited means. However, this did not stop him from pursuing his dreams and setting ambitious goals for himself. He started his own flatware production at age 25, in an old barn, by the fjords of Hardanger. Today his son Rune runs Hardanger Bestikk, which is the largest producer of quality flatware in Scandinavia. Fjord Design flatware is inspired by the Scandinavian way of life - honesty, simplicity and functionality. Many of the designs are named after Odd's daughters and granddaughters.Our evidence of true product quality is the fact that we have been in business continuously since 1958. The families and people who work with us have lived and worked in Hardanger for a long time. Scandinavian metal craft traditions coupled with decades of production experience, product development, and manufacturing technology, have created products that are truly unique - and cannot be found elsewhere. The quality of our products, our traditions, and the quality of life are all necessities for us, since our mission is to be in the forefront of the flatware business. Fjord Design takes true pride in guaranteeing the product quality of any Fjord Design products - for a lifetime of unique satisfaction. Fjord Design Flatware is made in Norway of the highest quality Swedish stainless steel, labeled 18/8. This means that the steel alloy contains 18% chrome and 8% nickel. Chrome provides the optimum corrosion resistance, while nickel gives the flatware its bright luster. Using the very best raw materials we can get, we are pleased to offer a lifetime warranty on all our flatware. All Fjord Design stainless steel products are dishwasher safe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 5549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Andrew_G._Barto", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UA3LW352CPZTTFTIKS5O6MGQCOSPMLC6", "length": 2517, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.scholarpedia.org", "title": "User:Andrew G. Barto - Scholarpedia", "raw_content": "Dr. Andrew G. Barto\nDept. of Computer Science, University of Massachuestts - Amherst\nUser:Eugene M. Izhikevich/Proposed/Actor-critic method\nAndrew G. Barto\n(2007) Andrew G. Barto\nFeatured Author: Andrew Barto\nAndrew Barto is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US. He graduated with distinction in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970 and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1975 at the same institution. He joined the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts in 1977 as a Postdoc, became an Associate Professor in 1982 and has been a Full Professor since 1991. He is Co-Director of the Autonomous Learning Laboratory and a core faculty member of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program of the University of Massachusetts.\nProfessor Barto is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow and senior member of the IEEE, a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Society for Neuroscience. He received the 2004 IEEE Neural Network Society Pioneer Award for his contributions to the field of reinforcement learning. He currently serves as an associate editor of Neural Computation, as a member of the editorial boards on numerous journals such as the Journal of Machine Learning Research and Adaptive Behavior. Together with Richard Sutton he is co-author of the book \"Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction,\" MIT Press. Additionally he is co-editor of the \"Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming,\" Wiley-IEEE Press.\nProf. Barto's research interests center on learning in animals and machines. He has been working on developing learning algorithms that are useful for engineering applications but that also make contact with learning as studied by psychologists and neuroscientists. He has contributed substantially to the field of reinforcement learning. He has studied machine learning algorithms since 1977, contributing to the development of the computational theory and practice of reinforcement learning. His recent work focuses on extending reinforcement learning methods so that they can work in real-time with real experience.\nScholarpedia articles:\nTemporal difference learning , Scholarpedia, 2(11):1604. (2007)\nFor more information, visit http://www-all.cs.umass.edu/~barto/.\n(Author profile by Nikos Green)\nList of previous featured authors\nRetrieved from \"http://www.scholarpedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Andrew_G._Barto&oldid=92407\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 95.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scoreit.online/2019/02/07/nasa-has-deployed-a-small-dome-on-mars-to-protect-its-marsquake-detector/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YLVOWJUREPXJQK6QXPZCI6VI2ICRF5PN", "length": 3836, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.scoreit.online", "title": "NASA has deployed a small dome on Mars to protect its \u201cmarsquake\u201d detector \u2013 scoreit.online", "raw_content": "By Dacia J. Ferris\nBefore NASA\u2019s InSight lander gathers data on Martian surface vibrations, aka \u201cmarsquakes\u201d, it needs to protect its seismographic instrument from the winds and temperature changes during its stay on the red planet. Since wild temperature swings on Mars can mean fluctuations of about 170 degrees Farenheit over the course of a Martian day (sol), contractions and expansions of the seismometer were a problem needing to be addressed. To do that, an instrument shield was designed which has now been deployed as a first line of defense: It\u2019s a white dome with a chain mail and thermal blanket skirt on the bottom called the \u201cWind and Thermal Shield\u201d. After a successful dome deployment on Saturday, another milestone for the craft has been reached, bringing InSight\u2019s team one step closer to understanding the secrets of the planet\u2019s early formative years by studying its core.\nInSight (short for \u201cInterior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport\u201d) was launched aboard an Atlas rocket in California on May 5, 2018, arriving at its destination on November 26, 2018. After a perfect live-streamed Martian surface landing shortly thereafter, Earthlings were treated to a (slightly dusty) photo taken by one of InSight\u2019s on-board cameras, providing visual confirmation of the arrival. In the following days and weeks, \u2018selfies\u2019 along with other goodies were sent, such as the sound of Martian wind, as the craft meticulously placed its seismometer on the ground and continued its preparation for its full science mission of studying the heart of Mars as well as its atmosphere and weather patterns.\nIn addition to a protective dome, InSight\u2019s seismometer itself adjusts for the changing Martian surface. As some parts expand and contract, other parts do the reverse to balance out the effect. Inside the dome, the seismometer is also contained in a titanium, vacuum-sealed container, the combination of which helps insulate the instrument even further from environmental hazards. The high-carbon dioxide content of Mars\u2019s atmosphere is slow to conduct heat under the planet\u2019s low pressure environment, further protecting InSight\u2019s mission from local damaging effects.\nAn artist\u2019s depiction of NASA\u2019s InSight lander on Mars. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech\nTwo tiny history-making satellites, collectively named MarCo, joined InSight on its journey to Mars. These briefcase-sized CubeSats\u2019 initial job of demonstrating their relay capabilities during the craft\u2019s landing event successfully sent data back to scientists on Earth much quicker than they would have received without them (near real-time, actually). Due to transmission delays and the locations of other satellites already orbiting the planet, InSight\u2019s short journey to the surface may have taken hours for scientists on Earth to confirm otherwise. One of the MarCo satellites even sent back a photo of Mars as it flew by the planet, the low-cost mission itself representing a hopeful outlook on the future of deep space exploration. NASA has not made contact with the two tiny travellers since January 4, 2019, however, and both craft are now located over a million miles past Mars in Sun-centric orbits.\nNow that InSight\u2019s seismometer is on the surface and protected, it will proceed to deploy its heat flow probe next week. Essentially, this means the craft will drill almost 16 feet into the Martian surface and measure the heat of the planet\u2019s interior. The goal of this research is to determine whether Mars is made of the same stuff as the Earth and the Moon, potentially answering questions about all of the planetary bodies\u2019 evolution. Stay tuned!\nPrevious Article Amazon enters self-driving car arena, invests in Aurora run by former Tesla execs\nNext Article Why Isn\u2019t Justin Bieber\u2019s Infamous Face Tattoo On The Cover Of Vogue?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 54437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scribbledatom.com/2014/11/app-game-monument-valley-gets-new.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EYQOOXN6QV6FTLI4E2ATCNSNL3JBPBPV", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.scribbledatom.com", "title": "Scribbled Atom", "raw_content": "App: the game Monument Valley gets new levels as an in-app purchase - http://goo.gl/35X303\n(previously: 1, 2, 3)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sdnews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Donia+Bijan-s+-The+Last+Days+of+Caf%C3%A9+Leila-+captures+your+heart%20&id=27403757", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:18Z", "digest": "sha1:N3I3VYATOQAEZXOAZRMPHKNEIBCCPVWX", "length": 3826, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sdnews.com", "title": "San Diego Community News Group - Donia Bijan s The Last Days of Caf\u00e9 Leila captures your heart", "raw_content": "Donia Bijan\u2019s \u2018The Last Days of Caf\u00e9 Leila\u2019 captures your heart\n\u201cThe Last Days of Caf\u00e9 Leila\u201d by Donia Bijan is a powerful, out-of-the-ball-park, fall-in-love with every main character novel. Author Donia Bijan will present the page-turning, debut read at Warwick\u2019s on Monday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.\nInspired by a visit to Tehran 32 years after her forced exile during the Islamic Revolution, Bijan weaves religion and politics with allegiance and tradition.\nSeeping with the pervasive, religious brutality of its once-upon-a-time modern culture, \u201cThe Last Days of Caf\u00e9 Leila\u201d offers the beauty of Tehran prior to the rebel overthrow. Bijan underscores the complexities of Tehran\u2019s history and its present day \u2013 and at times violent \u2013 domesticity, while giving readers a framework of family and political liberation.\nBijan\u2019s persona is deeply embedded within the pages of Caf\u00e9 Leila because \u201cstrange things happened when I returned to Tehran in 2010,\u201d she said. \u201cThis was a homecoming, but we had no place to go, no family to go back to. But my return to Tehran was not a futile journey. \u2018Daughter, what took you so long?\u2019 I imagined hearing from the very soil.\u201d\nAs an \u201cAmerican\u201d outsider, Bijan \u201creconstructed the beautiful ruins of my city as a beloved caf\u00e9.\u201d Caf\u00e9 Leila became a refuge for outsiders where a seat was always saved. Bijan asked, \u201cWho turns a blind eye to the atrocities that erupt on the street and who shows courage?\u201d\nBijan wrote her characters to remain \u201copen to a whole world of possibility,\u201d by showing compassion and loyalty in a culture ravaged by a savage authoritarian leadership.\n\u201cTo write about such a place was to enter troubled waters,\u201d she continued. \u201cFor I did not want to mitigate the grim and gruesome side of the world beyond the caf\u00e9 but to bear witness to loss and explore how people behave in the shadow of fear and mayhem.\u201d\nTapping into the backdrop of her own family script, Bijan narrates what once was through the doors of Caf\u00e9 Leila. Donia Bijan was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, the daughter of medical professionals. Bijan\u2019s parents had owned and operated a hospital on an avenue once named after her father. Built by her father \u201cbrick-by-brick\u201d in the 1950s on then undeveloped land, the building served as a hospital and home to the Bijan family. \u201cDoktor\u201d Bijan and his wife Atefeh Bijan \u2013 a nurse \u2013 delivered thousands of babies \u201cto husbands pounding on the gate beside their pregnant wife in labor.\u201d In 1978, while vacationing in Spain, the family received word that they would be executed if they returned to Tehran. Leaving everything behind, they fled to America. Today she describes the building as nothing more than a \u201crelic\u201d of the former Tehran.\n\u201cThe Last Days of Caf\u00e9 Leila\u201d also juxtaposes a deliciously rich narrative of Persian food with a family searching for answers, understanding and redemption. The former chef highlights the beauty of each character, replete with faults, flaws, talents and purpose along with succulent fresh foods and pastries. Readers whet their appetites while hoping that every character remains forever healthy and happy. Bijan\u2019s greatest hope is that readers feel a \u201csense of place\u201d and \u201cexperience a belonging in a new and unexpected light.\u201d\nBijan discovered a love for cooking while attending UC Berkeley as a pre-med student. The Cordon Bleu Parisian cooking school followed suit. Bijan returned to San Francisco and worked in a multitude of famous restaurants. Garnering accolades for her for French-inspired cuisine, Bijan opened her own Bistro, L\u2019Amie Donia in Palo Alto. At the height of its popularity 10 years later, Bijan sold the Caf\u00e9 to focus on writing and teaching. Today, Bijan lives in Northern California with her husband and son. \u201cThe Last Days of Caf\u00e9\u201d Leila follows her well-received memoir, \u201cMaman\u2019s Homesick Pie.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.seewaytrust.org/zimbabwe.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QH3BELWF7O4LMK25BQM23U54KNYVPG3E", "length": 1955, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.seewaytrust.org", "title": "Zimbabwe", "raw_content": "rehoboth...\nIn 2007 Mark Nicholson, originally from England, arrived in Bulawayo to to volunteer on a project established by the local church which involved working with destitute people. This is where he met Dorcas who was heading up the project at the time. They subsequently married in 2009 and set up home together with a view to remaining permanently in Zimbabwe.\nFrom the outset Mark and Dorcas were deeply moved by the plight of children who had been orphaned, rejected or abandoned by their biological families. They currently have 11 children in their care whose ages range from 4 to nearly 16. Some have been abused and some have serious health issues such as HIV or cerebral palsy. Mark and Dorcas are committed to supporting these children physically and emotionally; being fully involved in their lives by encouraging them to discuss, interact, think and process life together; setting an example and teaching and training the children in the ways of the Lord. They apply consistent, loving discipline so the children understand the reason for boundaries. They nurture the children by providing an environment of constant verbal support, freedom to fail, acceptance, affection, and unconditional love.\nSeeway Trust has recently been involved in sending funds to enable Mark & Dorcas sink their own borehole which has resulted in them now having access to 7,500 litres of fresh, clean water each day for the first time.\nMark & Dorcas are very involved in pastoral ministry and their preaching calendar fills up quickly. They speak at a soup kitchen twice a week and are part of the youth leadership team at Bulawayo Baptist church youth.\nWe have two short Youtube videos that you can watch below. The first one, called \"Freedom\" will make you smile; the second, called \"Mark, Dorcas and Tribe Family Video\" will move you.\nTo find out how you can help click here.\nFrom the top: Waiting for lunch; The family; Excited children with their new car", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/sports/ci_31717397/reynolds-its-time-fix-nbas-draft-rules", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:49Z", "digest": "sha1:NUU5ZZSLZL2AM3Z6MPWZ2ALGAJI2ZMYX", "length": 5523, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.sentinelandenterprise.com", "title": "Reynolds: It's time to fix the NBA's draft rules - Sentinel & Enterprise", "raw_content": "Reynolds: It's time to fix the NBA's draft rules\nCleveland's LeBron James complains to an official after getting called for a foul during Saturday's game against the Denver Nuggets. James is among the most famous examples of players starring in the NBA straight out of high school. AP PHOTO\nThe NBA says it is seeking an answer to the one-and-done issue, and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.\nIt already has an answer.\nNBA Commissioner Adam Silver has acknowledged for years that the current plan -- where players have to be 19 years old and a year out of high school before reaching the league -- doesn't work. The NBA has talked about raising the minimum age to 20. The players have talked about lowering the minimum age to 18.\nSo the solution is obvious. Do both.\nIf a player is ready at 18, let him join the NBA.\nIf he wants to go to college first, make him stay there at least two years.\n\"Some kids think they're ready when they're really not, but still have aspirations to play professional basketball your whole life,\" said Phoenix star guard Devin Booker, a one-and-done collegian at Kentucky who doesn't seem too far away from joining the ranks of the NBA elite. \"And I don't think you should be forced to go to college.\"\nThing is, that's exactly what is happening.\nMost likely there are Division I underclassmen right now, with the NCAA Tournament looming, who aren't going to class anymore because by the time the spring semester grades come out they'll have left school and declared themselves eligible for the draft. They're just biding their time before they can enter the workforce of their choosing.\n\"Kids should be going to college because they want a college education,\" Detroit coach -- and former Division I and Division III coach -- Stan Van Gundy said. \"There really shouldn't be another reason that kids should be going to college and we're forcing them into this system. For one-and-dones, that means they're going to go to school for one semester and they've got to get a C in two classes to be eligible. They're not there for that.\"\nThe rule was changed 13 years ago, in part to protect the owners from themselves.\nIt isn't Kwame Brown's fault that he was drafted No. 1 overall immediately out of high school in 2001 and never became an All-Star. He didn't pick himself. Washington picked him. It didn't work. That's not the system's fault. That system worked just fine for LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Tyson Chandler, Tracy McGrady and plenty of others.\nJonathan Bender, Darius Miles, Andrew Bynum, not so much.\nThe answer to this conundrum, for both the NBA and the NCAA: The G League.\nWho knows how things would have worked out for those three guys -- and many others, Brown included -- if the G League was then what it is now. The G League, as currently constructed, is up to 26 teams. Washington will join next season, New Orleans will then likely be next, and at that point Silver should simply order Portland and Denver to be like everyone else and add a franchise.\nAnd then the NBA will have a true development league. It won't reach its full potential until there are 30 franchises, one for each NBA club. Until then, the salaries -- $25,000 or so for the majority of players, except for those on two-way deals making as much as $250,000 or so -- won't be able to get where near they need to be, either.\n\"I think the question for the league is, in terms of their ultimate success, are we better off intersecting with them a little bit younger?\" Silver said last month at the All-Star Game. \"Are we better off bringing them into the league when they're 18 using our G League as it was designed to be as a Development League and getting them minutes on the court there?\"\nPut simply, that answer is yes.\nIt would have to be addressed in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, but the NBA Players Association would be on board so that won't be an issue.\nThe addition of two-way contracts this season has worked; more than 100 rookies have gotten a taste of NBA life this season, the highest total since the league's earliest days seven decades ago. If a team wants to draft an 18-year-old and he proves not to be ready for the rigors of the NBA, they can send him down to their farm team in Sioux Falls or Rio Grande or Lakeland and let him keep developing within their system.\nPlus, they can pay him.\nWhich the NCAA can't -- or won't -- do. That has made the NBA's age limit an easy target for the NCAA's woes.\nA federal investigation into college basketball revealed what many suspected and others knew: Plenty of recruits and players are getting paid, and the scandal the game is facing right now will likely be felt for years to come. If an 18-year-old can go to the NBA and start getting paid for his labor, that should be allowed to happen. It's not the NBA's job to clean up college basketball, and eliminating the age limit won't eliminate that problem, but it'll help at least with the optics.\nIt'll be good business for the NBA. The first 10 collegians taken in last year's draft were freshmen. The first 10 in this year's draft might be the same. Some of these kids are NBA-ready. Some aren't.\nThe NBA has used the NCAA to determine who is worth the risk. Now they don't have to totally rely on college hoops.\n\"The quickest way to learn how to play in this game is to play in this game, against adults,\" Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. \"It is a different game than college.\"\nAnd that's why it's time to change the rules. 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The show is the 18th episode in the series, which provides useful information about audio technology for professionals and consumers.\n\u201cOur podcasts have been very well-received,\u201d said Mark Brunner, Shure's Senior Director of Public and Industry Relations. \u201cSeveral thousand people are downloading each new episode and their popularity has continued to grow.\u201d\nPrevious episodes include the history of the SM57 and SM58, Microphone Basics, Wireless Basics, Using Audio Effects, Sound Isolation vs. Noise Cancellation, and updates on the \u201cWhite Spaces\u201d and wireless spectrum availability.\nEach episode begins with a simple, straightforward explanation of a particular aspect of audio technology, such as earphone design or microphone placement techniques. 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Current codes do not prescribe escalation of the reliability of design depending on the consequences of the collapse of a structure. The aim of the project is to develop a risk-targeted seismic design procedure which would involve the use of different types of analysis in order to satisfy a risk-based performance objective, e.g. target collapse probability, with a reasonable utilization rate and sufficient reliability. Differentiation of the reliability of design can be achieved by defining different design algorithms depending on the importance of a structure. In general, the proposed design is iterative, where the adjustment of a structure during iterations is the most challenging task. Rather than use automated design algorithms, simple guidelines for adjusting the structure will be proposed. These guidelines will provide simple rules aiming at increasing the strength and deformation capacity of the investigated structure.\nFlowchart of one possible realization of the risk-targeted seismic design procedure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 222.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smpdd.com/southeast-mississippi-access-to-care-mac/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:26Z", "digest": "sha1:E6XP7UE252MX4TVIIQD546HDWFQUG6FR", "length": 561, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.smpdd.com", "title": "MAC \u2013 SMPDD Web", "raw_content": "The Mississippi Access to Care (MAC) program will enable individuals to navigate through Mississippi\u2019s resource barriers in obtaining Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). MAC will assist those individuals through a No Wrong Door System for guidance in making good choices for health care decisions.\nSoutheast Mississippi Care Center\u2019s mission is to help elderly, people with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities and people with mental illness secure needed services or benefits; affording these individuals independence and quality of life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 4309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/bookreviews/reviewemancipation.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PYMJQZL5GTGP4232I7J3OXQ7BFNVHMY2", "length": 2065, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.socialstudiesforkids.com", "title": "Book Review: The Emancipation Proclamation", "raw_content": "Book Review: The Emancipation Proclamation\n\u2022 The Bill of Rights\n\u2022 The Constitution \u2022 The Declaration of Independence\n\u2022 The Making of the Constitution\n\u2022 More on the Constitution\nThe Emancipation Proclamation was one of the most important yet least understood documents in American history. Signed and announced by President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the American Civil War, the Proclamation didn't exactly do what is common thought to have done. It didn't end slavery. It didn't even free slaves in the American North.\nThe author of this book, Marianne McComb, does an excellent job of explaining the historical context that Lincoln's announcement enters into. She also expertly discusses the political ramifications of decisions that Lincoln's advisors had urged him to make: If he freed all the slaves, he risked losing huge support; yet even in freeing the slaves in Southern states, he came under fire from abolitionists for not doing enough.\nIt is a little-known fact (at least to many Americans) that the Emancipation Proclamation freed only those slaves who were living in states that were at war with the U.S. Government. In other words, only Southern slaves were freed. And since these Southern states no longer recognized the authority of the United States, Lincoln's grand idea didn't amount to much in the real world.\nBut it was as a symbolic gesture that the Emancipation Proclamation had its broadest appeal, and it is this symbolism that McComb explores in fullest detail. Interweaving discussions of the Fugitive Slave Law and the pre- and post-Civil War climate, the author presents a compelling picture of just how much\u0097and how little\u0097Lincoln's Proclamation did.\nThe illustrations, from the vast stable of National Geographic's archives, are stellar as always, including the only known picture showing Lincoln at Gettysburg. This book is part of a new American Documents series. If the subsequent books are anything like this one, the series will be yet another strong entry in the long-running line of great National Geographic publications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.somersetrivers.co.uk/index.php?module=Content&func=view&pid=10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:6XYCFZHUDZA3WWWT4M2R5PZDWT46GN2A", "length": 1071, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.somersetrivers.co.uk", "title": "Congresbury Yeo, Somerset", "raw_content": "The river rises in the centre of Compton Martin village, in the district of Bath and North East Somerset, as a spring which feeds the village duckpond. From there it flows past the village of Ubley and enters Blagdon Lake, which was created in the 1890s by damming the river, just north of the village of Blagdon. From the lake the river flows south of Wrington and Iwood, where there was once one of several watermills along the river. It then flows around the northern outskirts of Congresbury, and crosses Congresbury Moor roughly parallel to the A370 road, past the site of a Roman villa. It then crosses under the M5 motorway and empties into the Severn Estuary in Clevedon Bay, west of the village of Kingston Seymour.\nSource of the Congresbury Yeo\nIwood Bridge\nClose to the mouth on the Severn Estuary on land owned by Environment Agency and leased by the Avon Wildlife Trust are Blake's Pools which were dug between 1983 and 1987 to attract wildlife. It forms part of the Severn Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Protection Area and RAMSAR site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 110.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.song-list.net/tupacshakur/tossitup/tracks", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YU3JAIIH3PPQUGYUJSCFCS26XDTO6WF4", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.song-list.net", "title": "Toss It Up by Tupac Shakur", "raw_content": "\"Toss It Up\" is on the following albums:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 65.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.soniacolon.com/2010/02/not-organic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:N4TNWBG2RP7VCZVGCMJ3WWKHFKTULRBP", "length": 612, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.soniacolon.com", "title": "Sonia Colon - Official Page Sonia Colon: 18 Foods You Don\u2019t Need to Buy Organic", "raw_content": "18 Foods You Don\u2019t Need to Buy Organic\nWe don\u2019t need to buy everything organic, but pesticides can be absorbed into fruits and vegetables, leaving trace residues, and I\u2019d prefer to not eat pesticides. Long-term exposure to them has been associated with cancer, infertility and neurologic conditions, such as Parkinson\u2019s.\nFortunately, the Environmental Working Group (EWG, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization) has identified 15 fruits and vegetables that are least likely to be contaminated with pesticide residues. We can save money by buying those conventional:\n15. Sweet corn (frozen)\n16. 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Enhanced protection is a mechanism established by the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (\u201cthe 1954 Hague Convention\u201d) aimed at ensuring full and effective protection of specifically designated cultural property during international or non-international armed conflicts. Angkor joins twelve other properties in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania and Mali that benefit from high-level immunity and rigorous legal protection ensuring that they cannot be targeted, attacked or used for military purposes.\nSource: Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict Grants Enhanced Protection to Angkor\nRunning facial recognition scans on the apsaras of...\nAngkor Wat and Borobudur to be sister sites\nTags:\tAngkor Wat Enhanced Protection\nPrevious Post: Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?\nNext Post: Angkor jewellery returned", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.soyfoods.org/featured/family-farmers-are-the-future-for-feeding-a-hungry-world", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LR5NRIQRSPWPIOW6YZ5VDCAH4AJMXZKL", "length": 3426, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.soyfoods.org", "title": "Family Farmers Are the Future for Feeding a Hungry World | Soyfoods Association | Health Benefits of Making Soy the Preferred Plant Based Protein", "raw_content": "Soy Offers Sustainable Solution to Providing Protein\nBy Amanda Prince\nOctober 16th will mark the 33rd annual observance of World Food Day. The date signifies the conception of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and promotes a mission to bring individuals and organizations together to commit to end hunger and malnutrition globally. The 2014 theme is ?Family Farming: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth.? Family farming is a key component to ending hunger, as there are more than 500 million family farms in the world, and 87% of farms in the U.S. are owned and operated by families or individuals.\nThe FAO estimates that there are 803 million hungry people globally and 46.5 million hungry people in America. The number of those who are suffering from malnutrition, including not getting the recommended amount of protein, is even higher. With a population that is only expected to keep growing, maintaining current levels of protein production would cause strain on many natural resources.\nFor many reasons, soy and soy products can help end the hunger issues being faced by the world.\nFarmers are able to grow more soy crops with fewer natural resources, because soy requires less water, less energy to cultivate and a smaller demand for land as more crops are grown with fewer acres than ever before. These factors make soy a cost-effective and sustainable source of protein.\nThere are approximately 280,000 soybean producers in the United States.\nDid you know: In Illinois, there are more than 9 million acres of soybeans harvested every year, making it the state with the highest production. (In 2014 they are expected to produce over 560 million bushels of soybeans!)\nMike Harrison, Maryland\nMike Harrison, a farmer in Woodbine, Maryland, was born into agricultural life more than 50 years ago on his father?s farm. In looking back through the seven generations of farmers that came before him and his father, Mike describes farming as his ?heritage and it?s in my blood.? Him and his wife of almost 40 years, Ann, believe the farm is a great way for their family to come together to provide valuable hard work and also have fun. ?My personal philosophy on farming,? he said, is ?With world population exploding and grain reserves shrinking, farmers will have to become more efficient and rise to the task.?\nChad Bartek, Nebraska\nAs a fourth generation farmer from Ithaca, Nebraska, Chad Bartek?s family has been harvesting food from their land since 1918. Having been raised in a culture that focuses on family farming practices and early mornings in the fields, Chad enjoys working directly on the land and knowing that the grain and soybeans he harvests directly goes to feed people or to the livestock that will in turn provide sustenance for those people. Chad believes, ?Taking care of the land allows us to produce as much grain as possible, giving the next generation the chance to farm, as I have. It?s also important for us to be involved in the community in which we live.\u201d\nThe Soyfoods Association of North America and many of its members are working to help bring quality protein to feed those who suffer from hunger, to improve diets and health, and to empower and support family farmers in the U.S. and all over the world.\nLet?s celebrate our national (and international) family farmers and all join in the movement to end hunger! 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Credit: Lockheed Martin.\nWASHINGTON \u2014 The Air Force announced May 26 it is adding $45.99 million to an existing Lockheed Martin contract for construction of two missile warning satellites.\nThe announcement adds to the $1.86 billion Lockheed won in 2014 to build the fifth and sixth geostationary satellites for the Air Force\u2019s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the service\u2019s primary missile warning, launch detection, and tracking constellation.\nThe additional money will \u201cprovide integration of an additional subsystem and propulsion modifications,\u201d the Defense Department said in a press release. Work will be performed at the company\u2019s Sunnyvale, California, location and is expected to finish by July 31, 2022.\nThe contract covers construction for SBIRS GEO Flight 5 and 6. The previous satellite, SBIRS GEO 4, is scheduled for launch in November.\nThe Air Force is obligating $12.19 million in Fiscal Year 2017 space procurement funds at the time of the award, the service said.\nThe SBIRS missile warning constellation is one of the top programs the Air Force is hoping to bolster in its budget request for fiscal year 2018 that was published May 23. 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Though Guild members alone are privy to the document, the Guild\u2019s lawyers recently held a conference call to discuss highlights. The big topic, of course, was digital rights. The Guild still believes authors should receive 50 percent of [...]\nNine months to publication\nSo you\u2019ve heard that it takes nine months for a publisher to release a book. Yes, it\u2019s true. Although technology continues to change publishing, if you deliver your final manuscript of a \u201cmidlist\u201d book on January 1, your publisher won\u2019t release it until October 1. If you\u2019re a bestselling author, of course, you may get [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startribune.com/road-tripped-browns-look-to-end-25-game-road-skid-in-cincy/501147472/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T7I2UQVZPZ5ZIE2SXLYYVEGPJUK2IRJD", "length": 3925, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.startribune.com", "title": "Road Tripped: Browns look to end 25-game road skid in Cincy - StarTribune.com", "raw_content": "CLEVELAND \u2014 For more than three years, the Browns have only tripped on the road.\nCleveland hasn't won an away game since Oct. 11, 2015, a losing streak that has reached 25 straight \u2014 just one shy of the NFL record for road futility held by the Detroit Lions (2007-10).\nAs the Browns prepared for Sunday's game in Cincinnati against the Bengals (5-5), and a clumsy reunion with fired former coach Hue Jackson, interim coach Gregg Williams delivered a specific message to his players about the losing streak.\n\"Don't hide from it,\" Williams said. \"Be aware of it.\"\nIt's impossible to miss.\nThe Browns (3-6-1) have dropped all four road games so far this season, but two came in overtime and another could have gone to OT.\nIn Week 2, the Browns lost 21-18 at New Orleans, a defeat that still stings but looks more impressive now given how well the Saints are playing. Despite perfect indoor conditions, Cleveland's Zane Gonzalez missed four kicks that day, including a 52-yard field goal at the end of regulation that would have forced OT. The Browns cut him the following day.\nTwo weeks later, the Browns fell 45-42 in OT at Oakland, which benefited from two questionable calls going the Raiders' way in the second half. And on Oct. 21, Cleveland got beat 26-23 at Tampa Bay, losing on a 59-yard field goal late in overtime.\nThose close calls have the Browns convinced their road woes will soon hit a dead end.\nSafety Damarious Randall believes it will happen Sunday. Randall spiced up this week's matchup by essentially guaranteeing a Cleveland win Friday when he was asked about facing Bengals star wide receiver A.J. Green, who is questionable with a toe injury.\n\"If they don't have A.J., they're getting their (rear ends) beat,\" Randall said. \"I hope he plays, to make the game a little bit more interesting.\"\nThe battle of Ohio is almost always interesting, and the Browns go into it with some momentum following their best all-around performance in a win over Atlanta on Nov. 11 and a bye week.\nThe Browns are healthy and hungry. They're certainly starved for a road win.\nJosh McCown was Cleveland's quarterback for that long-ago road win in 2015, a 33-30 OT shootout in Baltimore. And if the Browns have designs on becoming a legitimate playoff contender, they need to win anywhere, at any time.\n\"It'd be big,\" left guard Joel Bitonio said. \"You've got to win on the road at some point to be a good team in this league, and we're trying to improve, every week, at that. But if we can go out there and win a road battle, it's been stressed we haven't won a road game in a long time, it'd be great for us. It'd be another step in the right direction.\"\nRookie quarterback Baker Mayfield has the Browns and their fans feeling the worst is over. Mayfield, who threw three TD passes against the Falcons, hasn't experienced a road win in the NFL yet, but he orchestrated plenty at Oklahoma.\nBut Mayfield, who snapped Cleveland's 19-game winless streak in his pro debut earlier this season, said going into New Orleans or Pittsburgh or Cincinnati to play is very different than visiting a campus in Stillwater or Waco.\n\"It is not the same as college rivalries, so I think it is very easy in college to kind of come together,\" he said. \"You have every reason to do that. Now, it is much more professional, so you have to find ways to bring everybody together to have that mentality that your back is against the wall and that it is just you on the road, and you have to find a way to win.\"\nNOTES: The fiery Williams joked that coaching wasn't always his goal. \"I thought about being a doctor, but everybody was worried about my bedside manner, so I became a coach.\" ... TE David Njoku (knee) and C JC Tretter (ankle) are questionable for Sunday. ... Williams wouldn't disclose his starting left tackle, but it appears Greg Robinson will make his third straight start. Rookie Desmond Harrison started Cleveland's first eight games.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 343, "original_length": 11605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stellarindustries.com/2018/09/18/stellar-industries-hires-creative-marketing-specialist-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6IPIXKVUGXESVRP77AMDMHCMDEYK27LF", "length": 881, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.stellarindustries.com", "title": "Stellar Industries Hires Creative Marketing Specialist \u2013 Stellar Industries", "raw_content": "Stellar Industries Hires Creative Marketing Specialist\nSeptember 18, 2018 corpadmin\nStellar Industries, Inc. announces Ashley Christopherson as the newest addition to the team. Christopherson will be responsible for creating marketing content for sales materials, websites, videos, social media, and email campaigns to promote the Stellar Brand and product lines.\nChristopherson comes to Stellar Industries, Inc. from Iowa State University where she earned her BA in Biological/Pre-Medical Illustration. Christopherson currently resides in Garner, IA. She is a huge sci-fi fan and spends most of her free-time playing video games, reading, or painting.\n\u201cI\u2019m most looking forward to the variety of projects I will be working on and the diverse group of people I will meet along the way,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m also excited to learn more about the broad range of products Stellar produces.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 3687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.streathamhillcatholic.org.uk/schools.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XUMEK5YQ77LOTLNPI66GLNJIYIL6OLN5", "length": 620, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.streathamhillcatholic.org.uk", "title": "Schools - St. Simon and St. Jude", "raw_content": "Appointment with the parish priest:\nParents who are considering applying for a school or nursery should make an appointment to discuss the matter with our parish priest as early as possible, as admissions criteria and procedures can be difficult to understand and he can help families with this important task.\nDetails of all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Southwark can be found on the diocesan website for the Commission for Schools and Colleges at this link.\nFor more information on local schools, please follow the links on the left to \"primary schools\" and \"secondary schools\". Or click on the clinks below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.studentlivingwageningen.nl/subletting/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:11Z", "digest": "sha1:W6BWVNXFEWVVSSFH2CXTX7T5D45HLVSO", "length": 1439, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.studentlivingwageningen.nl", "title": "Subletting | StudentlivingWageningen", "raw_content": "When you are going to live outside Wageningen for a short period of time, for example because of a work placement, it is possible to sublet your room for a maximum of 6 months. You remain responsible for your room, for paying the rent and for any shortcomings of the subtenant.\nYou have to find a suitable subtenant yourself and inform TROTS about the subletting by filling in the form Request for subletting. After being approved by TROTS, this form will serve as the subletting agreement. Before submitting the form, consult the conditions for sub tenancy on the back of the permission form.\nFinding a subtenant\nTROTS does not mediate in the search for subtenants or in rooms to sublet. With the University of Wageningen, we support use of the search site housinganywhere.com This is an independent website used by nearly all universities in the Netherlands to help match the supply and demand for rooms. You can place an ad at the website with all the information about the room you want to sublet. Once you have found someone who wants to rent your room during your absence, the procedure described above will apply.\nIllegal subletting\nIn cases of illegal subletting, we shall petition the district court to dissolve the rental agreement with the tenant responsible and the subtenant. The court judgment will result in the tenant and illegal subtenant being evicted. The tenant will also have to pay the costs of the legal proceedings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.studentspool.com/admissions/university-of-management-technology-lahore", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:UPVXW7AAOZYSCSRHNKBXL56U435RXQZC", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.studentspool.com", "title": "University of Management & Technology - Lahore - STUDENTS POOL", "raw_content": "University of Management & Technology - Lahore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 204.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.surgeoncolorectal.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HBPDU3HNS7CCI6STA4FHIJ3ABUAECBVE", "length": 3491, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.surgeoncolorectal.co.uk", "title": "Colorectal & Pelvic Floor Surgeon | Shahab Siddiqi, Colorectal Surgeon", "raw_content": "I am a colorectal surgeon with a holistic approach to the treatment of colonic and anorectal disorders, and offer a unique blend of cutting edge robotic and laparoscopic surgery and an ability to manage functional bowel conditions and pelvic pain.\nMy interest in colorectal surgery stems from the first time I saw surgery being performed by an eminent colorectal surgeon when I was a 21-year-old Year 3 medical student at St George\u2019s Hospital in London. I was hooked from the minute I walked into the theatre. Of course I have worked in other surgical specialties throughout my training, but I just \u201cget\u201d colorectal surgery, from the patients I treat, to the surgical procedures I perform, to the science behind them.\nWhatever culture we come from, we get the message very early in life that certain parts of the body and their functions should not be discussed at the dinner table or on short acquaintance. This is a particular problem when it comes to diseases of the colon, rectum and anus, such that many people are far more reluctant to seek professional help for their symptoms than they would be for, say, a skin condition or muscle problem.\nVery few colorectal problems go away of their own accord. Indeed, many conditions affecting this part of the body worsen over time and become harder to treat the longer they are left, so the sooner people seek professional help for a colorectal problem the better. Unfortunately, UK cancer survival still lags behind other European nations, with late diagnosis being a major factor. For non-cancerous conditions, early diagnosis may change the course of the illness and how severe its symptoms become. At the very least, a specialist consultation can exclude the more serious conditions and give patients peace of mind that their symptoms are not life-threatening.\nMy job satisfaction comes just as much from seeing patients leave their appointment with me happier than when they walked in as it does from performing a successful surgical procedure. I believe my most important role as a surgeon is knowing when and when not to operate and communicating the reasons for this to my patients. Only when patients fully understand all aspects of their condition and the pros and cons of surgery can they make an informed decision about treatment.\nl have been a practising doctor for 25 years and in clinical practice as a consultant for 10 years. I was born and bred in London, and have lived there all my life (apart from 2 years working in Yorkshire and a year training in New Zealand).\nMy wife and I have 2 young children \u2013 my family are the centre of my world and I try to devote as much time as I can to them.\nI love walking and running in my spare time, have been a volunteer doctor on charity treks, including in the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, and the Karakorum, and have enjoyed trekking on Mt Kilimanjaro and in Borneo. I have completed two marathons, but I\u2019m afraid my competitive long distance running days are behind me.\nI have developed this website in the hope that it will be of use to patients who might like to know more about a particular colorectal condition and how it can be treated and to GPs who need to keep up with the cutting edge technology becoming available in colorectal surgery and the current thinking about some of the more common conditions we colorectal surgeons treat. The site will be updated as new information becomes available. If you have any questions, do feel free to email me at info@shahabsiddiqi.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/10/11/2003656917", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:AUAUSFPCQOGLGVCLYUWEDNWKYAC6Z4RD", "length": 3910, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.taipeitimes.com", "title": "\ufeff Tsai calls for renewed dialogue - Taipei Times", "raw_content": "Tsai calls for renewed dialogue\nDOUBLING DOWN:The president promised to maintain cross-strait peace and goodwill, but said that there would be no bowing down to Beijing\u2019s pressure\nFormer president Ma Ying-jeou, front row left, Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan, second right, and President Tsai Ing-wen, right, yesterday hold up banners during the Double Ten National Day celebration in front of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei.\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen (\u8521\u82f1\u6587), in her first Double Ten National Day speech, yesterday urged Beijing to face up to the existence of the Republic of China (ROC) and sit down with Taipei for dialogue, while reiterating what some have termed her \u201cnew four noes\u201d for cross-strait relations.\n\u201cI call upon the authorities of mainland China to face up to the reality that the ROC exists and that the people of Taiwan have an unshakable faith in the democratic system. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should sit down and talk as soon as possible,\u201d Tsai said from a podium in front of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei at a ceremony marking the ROC\u2019s 105th birthday.\nDespite ups and downs in cross-strait relations in the past months, Tsai said her administration\u2019s position remains the same: No changes in its pledges, no changes in its goodwill, no bowing to pressure and no reversion to the old path of confrontation.\nWhile some political analysts anticipated a certain degree of compromise on the so-called \u201c1992 consensus\u201d in the wake of Beijing\u2019s increased pressure since Tsai took office in May, she did not depart from her previous comments on the issue.\n\u201cWe respect the historical fact that in 1992, a meeting occurred between the two institutions representing each side across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan\u2019s Straits Exchange Foundation and China\u2019s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits,\u201d she said.\nThe two sides should cherish the achievements accumulated through decades of interactions and negotiations since 1992, while promoting stable and peaceful cross-strait relations based on existing political foundations, she said.\nTsai also reiterated the promises she made in her May 20 inaugural address to maintain the \u201cstatus quo\u201d and conduct cross-strait affairs in accordance with the ROC Constitution, the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (\u5169\u5cb8\u4eba\u6c11\u95dc\u4fc2\u689d\u4f8b), and other laws.\n\u201cI also call on the two governing parties across the Taiwan Strait to set aside the baggage of history and engage in positive dialogue for the welfare of people on both sides,\u201d the president said.\nAnything conducive to cross-strait peace and the public\u2019s welfare could be included, she said.\nThe \u201c1992 consensus\u201d refers to a tacit understanding between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Beijing that both sides of the Strait acknowledge there is \u201cone China,\u201d with each side having its own interpretation of what \u201cChina\u201d means. Former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (\u8607\u8d77) said in 2006 that he had made up the term in 2000.\nTurning to domestic issues, Tsai said that her belief that \u201cchanging the predicament facing young people is changing a nation\u2019s predicament\u201d has been in the center of each reform her administration has initiated.\nThe government is endeavoring to expand social housing by 80,000 units over the next four years, build a long-term care system, promote a daycare program, reform the pension systems, revitalize the economy and industry, and push for transitional justice to give young people a healthy and diverse democracy, she said.\n\u201cDear fellow citizens: A road of reform is certain to have its ups and downs. However, I call earnestly on all of you, do not let the ups and downs make you lose hope in Taiwan,\u201d she said.\nTsai said she intends to seek mutually beneficial cooperation with allies rather than one-way giving while proactively and steadfastly seeking a space on the world stage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.telemachusleaps.com/2017/07/celebrating-freedom-to-not-agree.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WJRRSFCFJOSNMPIAQ36LQL3AJXF7VZTB", "length": 7629, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.telemachusleaps.com", "title": "Telemachus: Celebrating The Freedom To Not Agree", "raw_content": "Celebrating The Freedom To Not Agree\nThis Fourth of July, do something a little different than celebrating our collective cherished freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, the news media press and right to petition for grievances.\nAnd eating hot dogs and watching baseball and fireworks displays.\nCelebrate the same freedom to NOT agree with anyone's freedom of speech, freedom of worship, right to assemble, freedom of the press or right to petition for grievances.\nThose are just as important, if not more important, as any of the enumerated rights in the First Amendment, which are a lot in just one amendment when you really think about it.\nRemember that the United States of America had its birth 241 years ago not because they were celebrating all of their agreements with the King and Great Britain.\nThis country was founded primarily on the basis of all of their disagreements with the King and Great Britain enumerated at the end of this post in the Declaration of Independence but prefaced by this memorable paragraphs now known the world over (except in places such as North Korea, Iran etc):\nPrudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.\nBut when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. \u2014 Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.\nThink about the American history of disagreement over our entire history. We had no sooner formed a government in 1789 than we began bickering and arguing and politicizing everything and using the press to lambaste opponents (Jefferson hated Hamilton; Adams hated Jefferson; everyone hated Hamilton and on and on and on. If you think current politics is 'nasty' and debased, go back and read some of the news clippings about the way our hallowed Founders treated each other in public. It makes current politics looks like Romper Room to be honest)\n'Disagreement' might as well have been etched into stone walls of Congress when it was erected. It has been that important to the creation and growth of the American Republic.\nDespite the fact that many millions of people did not agree with the agenda of President Barack Obama, they all had the freedom to speak out against his policies; write about them in the press (and, increasingly day-by-day, on social media which is supplanting mainstream media outlets), not participate in any rallies supporting his policies and not agree with the positions of people wanting to to petition the government for grievances, although certainly we all should support their right to do so even if we don't agree with them.\nToday, many millions of people do not agree with the agenda of President Donald Trump and/or the Republican Senate and Congress. They do not have to agree with any of those agendas and have the same rights to not agree with them or even listen to them just as what happened on the other side during President Obama's terms in office.\nIsn't that a remarkable concept our Founders gave us long ago? Thank God for all of that freedom!\nWhat would this country be like if we all had to agree on everything one person in the White House at the top or one Congressional session told us to do..'or else!'?\n'Or else!' what? It would be awful and it wouldn't be America.\nThe one thing both sides should agree on is the need to disagree in a not-so-disagreeable manner. Nor should either side condone, and not condemn, violence whenever it erupts on their side or the other.\nIf you don't like what one side is doing politically, all you have to do is one or all of the following:\n1. Turn off the TV set\n2. Stop listening to talk radio\n3. Get off of social media\n4. Volunteer to get someone elected you do agree with\n5. Run yourself\n6. Contribute money, time and effort to get people you agree with elected\n7. Go to the beach, mountains or some cave somewhere and get off the grid totally\nAll of these activities connote some degree and sense of 'disagreeing' with the opinions and policies other people want to pass on society which includes you whether you like it or not.\nYou can listen to someone speak if you want to. You don't have to listen at all. You certainly do not have to agree with them just because something comes out of their mouth or brain activity.\nYou don't have to agree with anything you read in the press. You can disagree with it all you want. You can consider it all 'fake news' or 'the gospel truth' but that doesn't mean I or any other person have to agree with you or the press that writes it. That is a very healthy thing in a democratic republic such as ours.\nYou don't have to agree with the religious beliefs of any person you know or don't know. You don't have to agree there is 'religion' at all, as John Lennon sang about in 'Imagine there's no heaven..' But you do have a responsibility to respect their views and honor their freedom to worship freely.\nYou don't have to agree with the list of 'repeated injuries and usurpations' any group might petition the government to overturn. But you should support their right to do so since if they are prevented from ever presenting their grievances, one day it might be your grievance that is being denied a fair hearing.\nMany times, it takes a pretty brave person to stand up against the tide of popular opinion and say these words: 'I respectfully disagree with all of you. And let me tell you why...'\nSometimes, it take a very brave person to do so. In a very few cases, it takes the most brave of all brave people to speak truth to power. Just as the Founders did in 1776, come to think about it; they knew they were not only risking their fortunes but their very lives if they lost the War against the vaunted British forces.\n'Y'all are really not gonna mess this all up,\nnow are you?'\nBenjamin Franklin put it pretty simply when he said this right before he signed the Declaration in\nWe pretty much are at a state in American history where disagreement in a not-so-disagreeable manner is most needed, yes?\nUnless we can all recover a sense of common purpose as Americans and 'hang together' as in 'stick together' as Franklin meant metaphorically and recover a common civil discourse with great elected leaders who know how to negotiate and compromise and get to 'proximate solutions to basically insoluble problems' as Reinhold Niebuhr said, surely 'we will all hang separately' when it comes to dealing with foreign threats, internal budget deficits and national indebtedness and social unrest and class warfare.\nLet this Fourth of July be different. For all of us. It is up to each of us to make the difference when it comes to civil discourse. Let's all start trying harder.\n*List of grievances for colonists in 1776:\nThe history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.\nLabels: #BenFranklin, #BillClinton, #disagreement, #FourthOfJuly\nProximate Solutions to Insoluble Problems\nCan We Solve Health Care In America?\nWhen A Rising 'Unemployment Rate' Would Be 'Great ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1457, "original_length": 37481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thaieuro.biz/press-center/government-relations/bot-europe-crisis-wont-hurt-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LC4TJRNPMKM7MX3WTLHZME5PGA4RKPOA", "length": 2621, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.thaieuro.biz", "title": "BoT: Europe crisis won\u2019t hurt economy - Thai European Business Association", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb BoT: Europe crisis won\u2019t hurt economy\nBank of Thailand\u2019s Office of Macroeconomics director Songtham Pinto said the BoT has been keeping a close watch on the situation. It would have only a minimal affect on the overall economy of Thailand.\nHe said the central bank\u2019s growth projection of 4.8 per cent for next year was based on the hypothesis that Europe\u2019s economy was not so good but there was no sign that the situation was deteriorating further.\nMr Songtham said the economic figures in November might be not good because of the impact of the devastating floods which severely affected the production sector.\n\u201cBut if we look at the figures for December, there is a sign of recovery.\n\u201cThis improvement will continue in the first quarter of next year and the substantial recovery will be clearly seen from the second quarter onward,\u201d he said.\nCapital Market Research Institute director Tientip Subhanij said she believes foreign investors will return to Thailand next year because the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is still attractive.\nThe price to earnings (P/E) ratio of Thai shares is lower than that of the US stock market, while dividend payment rates are higher. In addition, the stock market in Europe has yet to recover and therefore it is expected that more foreign funds will flow into the SET in 2012, said Mrs Tientip.\nForeign investors made total net sales of 17 billion baht over the first eleven months of the year, but they returned to make net purchase of 9.3 billion baht in December. This was a sign that more foreign funds will flow into the Thai stock market next year, she said.\nAny improvement of the SET depends mainly on the global economy, particularly the financial crisis in Europe. This is because investors in Europe accounted for 40 per cent of foreign investors holding shares in the Thai stock market, the largest percentage, followed by investors from Singapore and the United States, the director said.\nIf the debt crisis in Europe is not settled soon, it will encourage foreign investors to return to Thailand, she said.\nMrs Tientip said government\u2019s policy to stimulate economy in 2012 is a main factor in encouraging foreign investors to return to the SET. It depends on how the government can restore confidence of foreign investors.\nProfits of more than 100 listed companies in the fourth quarter of the year were affected by the great floods. Of the total, 30 firms, accounted for 1.28 per cent of total market capitalisation, were significantly affected. Meanwhile, 85 of them, with 34.5 per cent of total market capitalisation, were not significantly hurt, she added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thearkchurch.com/event/1241023-2018-12-08-grocery-giveaway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:53Z", "digest": "sha1:JORMLCRX2UV64M3TSZRGUZVBPKVEVDZF", "length": 256, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thearkchurch.com", "title": "The Ark Church | Conroe", "raw_content": "Join us Saturday, December 8th, for our Grocery Giveaway. We will be giving away FREE groceries to anyone in need here in Montgomery County. If you are in need of food come on out to The Ark. The Giveaway begins at 9AM and will last until the food is gone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theartofislamichealing.com/category/islam-in-art/fine-art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3OPRQZAT7EMXOXNI242OKFJKMYWYVQKK", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theartofislamichealing.com", "title": "Fine Art \u2013 The Art of Islamic Healing", "raw_content": "Fine Art in Islam, History and Contemporary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 9264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 166.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebirn.com/shows-of-the-week-4-16-jd-mcpherson-sure-sure-beans-on-toast-and-more/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:43Z", "digest": "sha1:OFSCRTMNGZ6OGPD3HJE73SQFEH3HMSKH", "length": 3527, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.thebirn.com", "title": "Shows of the Week 4/16: JD McPherson, Sure Sure, Beans on Toast, and more \u2013 The BIRN", "raw_content": "Shows of the Week 4/16: JD McPherson, Sure Sure, Beans on Toast, and more\nJD McPherson plays the Sinclair Tuesday, April 17th\nJD McPherson\u2019s music brings back the vintage rock and roll sound from the 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s. He\u2019s cowritten with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, featured members of Lucius on his new album, and worked with the Raconteurs guitarist, Jack Lawrence. JD McPherson is pure rock and roll. Tickets are available here. Check out his video for \u201cLucky Penny\u201d below.\nSure Sure plays the The Middle East Upstairs, Tuesday, April 17th\nAfter their show on Birn Alive, Sure Sure heads out to to the Middle East for another show. Sure Sure is an indie pop rock band based out of Los Angeles. They self produce all of their music in their house turned studio snaking cables from the first floor to the recording console on the second. This is their first national U.S. tour and their live set is a can\u2019t miss. Tickets available here. Check out their cover of \u201cThis Must Be The Place.\u201d\nBeans On Toast play the Great Scott Tuesday, April 17th\nAlt-folk punk rocker Jay McAllister offers his own take on the age-old alt punk genre. He first gained attention after opening up Glastonbury in 2005. His debut record, Standing On A Chair was released in 2009 and boasts a lengthy 50 songs. His songs feature acoustic guitar backing, some harmonica, and his raspy voice with highly relatable and often times comedic lyrics. Tickets available here. Watch his music video for \u201cThe Unlikely Gymnast.\u201d\nBaths play the Sinclair Wednesday, April 18th\nBaths is the intricate electronic pop project of LA producer Will Wiesenfeld. After discovering Bjork, he taught himself guitar, bass, and viola and carved his own niche in the electronic scene. His music mixes sounds such as clicking pens and running water with live instruments creating a very unique sound. Tickets available here. Check out his Tiny Desk concert below.\nWild Ones play the Great Scott Wednesday, April 18th\nWild Ones is an indie pop band based out of Portland, Oregon. Their music blends 21st century indie pop with dream pop of the \u201980s. Their unique mix of synths, driving drums, and Danielle Sullivan\u2019s soothing voice gives Wild Ones their mark on indie pop. Tickets available here. Check out their video for \u201cStanding in the Back at Your Show.\u201d\nNap Eyes play the Great Scott Friday, April 20th\nIn support of the their new album, I\u2019m Bad Now, Nova Scotia\u2019s indie rock quartet, Nap Eyes, hit the Great Scott this Friday. Their music has been compared to the likes of Yo La Tengo and The Velvet Underground. Tickets available here. Check out their video for \u201cEvery Time the Feeling.\u201d\nJeff Rosenstock plays the Paradise Rock Club Saturday, April 21st\nJeff Rosenstock has a long history in the music industry, fronting bands including, Bomb the Music Industry and Kudrow, starting his own indie label, Quote Unquote Records, and playing in various other ska and punk bands. He eventually decided to start his solo career, and in 2012 released his debut album, I Look Like Shit. His music is reminiscent of the Long Island DIY punk scene. His most recent release, Post-, was released on New Years Day 2018. Tickets available here. Check out the music video for \u201cNasusea.\u201d\nAuthor Justin CameronPosted on April 15, 2018 April 18, 2018 Categories Blog, Events, News\nPrevious Previous post: Coming up on birn1 \u2013 Rhythms and Frequencies: CWP Student Concert Preview\nNext Next post: Ruby\u2019s Prime Slices of the Week (4/9-4/15): Denzel Curry, Courtney Barnett, Potatohead People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecompellededucator.com/2014/01/what-about-outliers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HN5SADKROHZ7VTMHHPB2VL2KAGSAB2IU", "length": 956, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thecompellededucator.com", "title": "The Compelled Educator: What About the Outliers?", "raw_content": "I think I first heard the term \"outliers\" when I was taking a research class for my master's degree.\nAn outlier is an observation that lies outside the overall pattern of a distribution (Moore and McCabe 1999). source\nAt the time, I had had personal experience with it in my classroom as a teacher. When I would survey my students in order to get feedback about my teaching, there they would be... the outliers. A few comments that didn't align with the rest. They were \"outside the pattern of distribution.\"\nAs an administrator, I have experienced it as well. A boss who prefaced the comment with, \"Maybe I'm the only one who has said this to you before...\" or the very few responses from teachers/staff on an end-of-year feedback survey that are not even close to where the rest of the responses are.\nWhat should we do with these? Should they be discarded? Or written off as comments from disgruntled students/employees?\nWhat do you do with the outliers?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/dani-moreno-added-to-usas-long-distance-running-team", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DNWVOSHZKLU3EJA7AN7V63OM7T3I3LRL", "length": 8091, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.thedowneypatriot.com", "title": "Dani Moreno added to USA\u2019s long distance running team \u2014 The Downey Patriot", "raw_content": "Warren High grad Dani Moreno will represent the United States at the World Long Distance Mountain Championships Aug. 6 in Italy.\nPhoto by Nick Presniakov\nDani Moreno added to USA\u2019s long distance running team\nMark Fetter July 27, 2017\nDOWNEY \u2013 In last week\u2019s Patriot there was a piece written on former Warren standout cross country and track and field runner Daniella Moreno. This is the follow-up piece on Daniella Moreno and her journey to the Women\u2019s U.S.A. Long Distance Mountain Team.\nMoreno studied political science (comparative politics) at U.C. Santa Barbara and graduated with a 3.6 G.P.A. Moreno competed in both cross country and track and field during her five years as a Lady Gaucho.\nMoreno was injured her first year for cross country but had a great performance in her first Big West Conference Meet where she scored in the 10k for her team by placing sixth. In her second year, Moreno ran cross country and scored by placing sixth overall and was the second scorer for the Lady Gauchos. In track, Moreno placed fourth in the 10k and third in the 5k. In her third year, Moreno finished sixth in cross-country and for track she finished second in the 10k and second in the 5k.\nIn her fourth year, Moreno finished third in cross country and redshirted track. In her fifth and final year, Moreno finished fourth in cross -country and finished first in the 10k and second in the 5k. As her career came to an end at U.C. Santa Barbara, Moreno had ended with three all-time marks in the 3k, 5k and 10k runs.\nWhile at Warren, Moreno was given several words of wisdom. According to Moreno, the best advice she was given was \u201cto capitalize on your resources you do have and go out and seek those you don\u2019t have.\u201d Moreno mentioned that coming from a city with no hills, they would always drive as a team a few times a week to get practice for courses like Mt. SAC. By doing this Moreno maintained, \u201cit really taught me that when you really want to obtain a goal you can have no excuses.\u201d\nSince this time, Moreno believes that \u201cI always make sure that if I don\u2019t have something for my training I go out and find it or find a way to get it.\u201d Moreno continued by saying, \u201cespecially in a sport like trail-running where no course is the same, you constantly have to be reconfiguring training routes to simulate the amount of vert there may be in these bigger races.\u201d\nAfter dealing with numerous challenges, injuries, and setbacks, Moreno will be representing the United States on August 6th in the World Long Distance Mountain Championships in Premana, Italy. Best of luck to you, Dani.\n\u25a0 The 2017 fall sports competitions at Downey High School will begin next month. Teams have been busy practicing, scrimmaging and running their summer programs while working around the C.I.F. mandated \u201cdead period.\u201d\nThe \u201cdead period\u201d is three weeks of no scheduled or organized, face to face contact between coaches and players.\nEach respective sport must observe the \u201cdead period\u201d but may take the three weeks off at a time of their choosing. Many teams take the three weeks off as school gets out while others take the three weeks off before fall classes begin.\nFall sports include boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country, football, girls\u2019 golf, girls\u2019 tennis, girls\u2019 volleyball and boys\u2019 water polo. The seasons start in late August and end in November. Seasons can go longer if athletes or teams, in their respective sports, qualify for postseason competition(s).\nThe Downey boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country coach is Robert Gleason. The head football coach is Jack Williams and he has many assistant coaches on his staff. The girls\u2019 golf coach is Jason Bean and the girls\u2019 tennis coach is Denise Diego. The girls\u2019 volleyball coach is Bob McCarthy and the boys\u2019 water polo coach is Uriel Villa. The Athletic Director at Downey High School is Mark Rand.\nThe Warren boys\u2019 cross country coach is Ramon Miranda and the girls\u2019 cross country coach is Jay Waldron. The head football coach is Raul Lara and he has many assistant coaches on his staff. The girls\u2019 golf coach is Tina Schmid and the girls\u2019 tennis coach is Mary Starksen. The girls\u2019 volleyball coach is Scott Lane and the boys\u2019 water polo coach is Jarrett Powers. The Athletic Director at Warren High School is Russ Heicke.\n\u25a0 The St. Pius X- St. Matthias Academy football program has 12 games scheduled this fall. The Warriors compete in the Academy League against Crean Lutheran, Orange Vista and St. Margaret\u2019s.\nThere are a total of four teams and It is C.I.F. Division 13 competition.\nThe Warriors will open-up against the Webb Schools of Claremont at home on Aug. 25. The Warriors will then play Montclair at Montclair on Sept. 1, followed by Sherman Indian of Riverside at Sherman Indian on Sept. 8. The Warriors will then play Cantwell Sacred-Heart of Montebello at Cantwell Sacred-Heart on Sept. 15 and then Crean Lutheran of Irvine at home on Sept. 22.\nThe Warriors will then play Sotomayor of Los Angeles at home on September 28, followed by St. Margaret\u2019s of San Juan Capistrano at home on September 29. St. Pius X- St. Matthias Academy will travel to Firebaugh of Lynwood on Oct. 6 and will then face Silver Valley of Yermo at home on Oct. 13.\nSt. Pius X- St. Matthias Academy will then play Village Christian of Sun Valley at home on Oct. 27 followed by Orange Vista of Perris at home as well on Oct. 27. The Warriors will conclude their regular season schedule when they travel to Bosco Tech of Rosemead on Nov. 3.\n\u25a0 Former Downey High School standout wrestler Robert Chism has been busy working towards his college degree since graduating high school and currently has one year left of athletic eligibility.\nSince graduating from Downey High School, Robert has attended Cerritos College, Lindenwood University and King University. Chism is studying criminal justice and has a 2.8 G.P.A.\nChism originally chose Lindenwood University in Missouri because he thought it was a great school and that it would be a good place to study. Chism had to leave Lindenwood due to some medical issues which have since been resolved and will now be attending King University in Tennessee where he will wrestle for one season and finish college.\nChism maintains that the best advice that was given to him in high school was to \u201cnever quit and keep moving forward.\u201d Chism sees himself as a police officer in five years \u201chelping all the people he can by making the streets safer for everyone.\u201d\nChism also offered up some advice to young kids. Chism said, \u201cnever quit moving forward because there will always be something in your way and it may be hard to get through but it will always be possible. Best of luck to you this fall at King University, Robert.\n\u25a0 Former Warren High School standout cross country, basketball and track and field athlete Danielle Rodriguez, \u201cDRod,\u201d has been in Iceland playing professional basketball. Rodriguez was back at Warren last week visiting her former coaches and sharing her experiences.\nHead girls\u2019 basketball coach Rachel Palmer and head girls\u2019 cross country and track and field coach Jay Waldron are extremely proud of Danielle and all that she has accomplished in her young career. The Warren saying of \u201conce a Bear, always a Bear\u201d certainly is true here. It is nice to see Danielle come back to where it all started for her.\nAfter Warren, Rodriguez attended and graduated the University of Utah. She has also traveled around the world to play basketball and has served as a mentor and role model for girls of all ages and ability levels.\nRodriguez played in China a few years ago and most recently was playing professionally in Iceland. As of last week, Rodriguez planned on returning to Reykjavik to play again this year. Danielle said that she enjoyed last season and that Iceland was great. When asked about the weather there she said that \u201cUtah was cold too.\u201d Rodriguez concluded by saying that while she is having a great time playing there \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to live there full time.\u201d\nRodriguez still hopes to play basketball in Europe someday. Right now, she is happy doing what she is doing and hopes to continue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 9126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theenoughcampaign.com/breaking-news/march-for-our-lives-stamford", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:08Z", "digest": "sha1:UXBQJO5RCKM5KI4YAL5XCHHYTISV733L", "length": 7028, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.theenoughcampaign.com", "title": "March For Our Lives Stamford! - The ENOUGH Campaign", "raw_content": "March For Our Lives Stamford!\nLocal Students to Lead March for Our Lives, Address Gun Violence and Demand Change\nWHAT: March to call on lawmakers to prioritize students' lives & safety and pass common-sense gun safety legislation\nWHO: Mayor David Martin, Stamford Students, SUPER, Moms Demand Action Stamford, Women on Watch, The ENOUGH Campaign, CT Against Gun Violence, Everytown Survivor Network,\nWHEN: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM\nWHERE: Mill River Park, Downtown Stamford, Washington Blvd. & Broad Street entrance\n#MarchForOurLives Rally Planned for Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 12-2pm, Downtown Stamford In Response to the Parkland, Florida School Shooting\nMayor David Martin to join students and community leaders in expressing concern for community safety and the well-being of Stamford's youth\nSTAMFORD - Students and families plan to join people across the nation for a sibling march of the #MarchForOurLives event on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at Mill River Park in downtown Stamford from 12:00 Noon- 2:00 PM. The movement calls on lawmakers to make students' lives and safety a priority by passing common-sense gun safety legislation.\nJoining more than 800 marches across the country, the event will consist of local leaders and youth who will be speaking and performing to express their concerns, which range from gun violence to school safety to lockdown and active shooter fears. #MarchForOurLives grew out of the groundswell of young activists who were moved after 17 people were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018.\nThe Stamford #MarchForOurLives is being led by students who hail from Stamford and neighboring towns and attend schools including Westhill, AITE, Stamford High School, Rippowam Middle School, Greenwich High School and more. Joining them will be Mayor David Martin and other community leaders.\nThe Stamford #MarchForOurLives is the only official march of its kind in Fairfield County. While it is youth-led, it is not limited to students; this first-of-its-kind rally is for and by everyone who is concerned about the epidemic of gun violence in our communities, and all are welcome.\nStamford student and march organizer Alyssa Goldberg of SUPER (Student Union For Political Expression and Representation), a multi-school, student-led organization in Stamford, says, \"When a tragedy like Parkland strikes, it brings everyone's attention to the issue at hand. Usually the anger fades, but this time, we're not going to let it be pushed to the side. I hope that through both local and large scale activism, we can achieve the changes in gun violence and gun control we wish to see.\"\nKristin O'Neill, the lead for the new Moms Demand Action Stamford states, \"In the United States, seven children or teens are killed, everyday, as a result of gun violence. Each day 40 children or teens are injured by a gun. This is unacceptable. The young people of our community have the right to voice their thoughts and opinions on gun violence in a forum where they will be heard by the media and legislators. Young people will enact change. Moms Demand Action is helping to host the March for Our Lives to give them this much deserved opportunity.\"\nThe students will express themselves through speeches, poems, and music, with brief introductions by community leaders. The kids also plan to create a memorial for the event, hoping to make a lasting visual impact. They are encouraging attendees to create handmade signs and bring photos of loved ones lost to gun violence.\n\"WomenOnWatch [WOW] has been working with Connecticut Against Gun Violence for almost ten years hoping to see some Congressional progress on sane gun legislation,\" explains Joan Kranz of her progressive Stamford-based organization. \"On March 24th WOW will be marching proudly along side our young people. Hopefully, the federal government will finally stop jumping every time the NRA tells them what to do.\"\nPartnering with the student-driven SUPER network of youth leaders is Moms Demand Action Stamford, Everytown Survivor Network, Women On Watch, Connecticut Against Gun Violence, and The ENOUGH Campaign.\n\"Our kids are tired of being a part of the lockdown generation and are demanding to be heard,\" says Shira Tarantino, ENOUGH board member. \"More than one half million people have been killed or injured by guns since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Our youth has been deeply affected by this ongoing epidemic of gun violence, whether it's school shootings, domestic violence, suicide, or negligence. The kids who are leading us in this march are incredibly inspiring, and they are the key to a future free from gun violence.\"\nThe group has a Go Fund Me page to help offset the costs of the rally in support of preventing gun violence in our community.\nFor more information and to RSVP, please visit MarchForOurLives.com.\nSUPER (Student Union For Political Expression and Representation) is a student body which seeks to empower students to express their ideas so that they be represented politically in an attempt to change policy for the safety of the student betterment at large.\nMoms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is a grassroots movement of American mothers fighting for public safety measures that respect the Second Amendment and protect people from gun violence. Moms Demand Action campaigns for new and stronger solutions to lax gun laws and loopholes that jeopardize the safety of our children and families. Since its inception after the tragedy at Sandy Hook School, Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state of the country and, along with Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Everytown Survivor Network, it is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country with more than three million supporters and more than 125,000 donors. For more information or to get involved visit www.momsdemandaction.org.\nEverytown Survivor Network brings together Americans who have been personally affected by gun violence to work together to fight for solutions to prevent the gun violence that kills 91 Americans and injures hundreds more every day. The Survivor Network connects people who have been shot and loved ones of those who have been shot or killed to build community and empower survivors to become advocates and leaders in the gun violence prevention movement. To learn more about Everytown's work with survivors or to join the Survivor Network, please visit www.everytown.org/survivors.\nWomen On Watch (WOW) is a grassroots political initiative promoting awareness, advocacy and action relating to key local and national issues. www.facebook.com/wow4womenonwatch\nThe Connecticut Against Gun Violence (CAGV) mission is to identify, develop, and promote passage of legislation designed to enhance gun safety. CAGV will pursue this mission at the local, state of Connecticut, and national levels through the political process. www.cagv.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 8434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thegratefulrabbi.com/2011/09/grateful-for-americas-uniqueness-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:09Z", "digest": "sha1:RGZ7OSOZB7LQSKVNG35HCA4RACXN4YNF", "length": 2680, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thegratefulrabbi.com", "title": "The Grateful Rabbi: Grateful for America's Uniqueness-more reflections on 9/11", "raw_content": "Grateful for America's Uniqueness-more reflections on 9/11\nThree thousand names! The reading of the names of victims of 9/11 was the centerpiece of the commemoration on Sunday,9/11/11, ten years after that awful moment in our lives, a moment that changed the face of the entire world.\nThose who watched their TV screens were afforded the added visual dimension of a photograph and an age, which added a greater sense of reality to the public recitation.\nSo many of the names were mispronounced; as a matter of fact, if called upon to write out those names, most of us would not know how! The scope of ethnic variety and national diversity was staggering! The World Trade Center-a microcosm of NYC and the USA, housed a veritable united nations of peoples and ethnic groups.\nAs one name followed the other, it became clear to me,on an emotional level, how unique and extraordinary America is in this world. No country anywhere, perhaps with the exception of our neighbor to the north, Canada, can claim a population of such diversity and difference. Given our population numbers-300 million-the American reality is sui generis on this planet.\nHow daunting a task, I thought, to achieve some consensus and mutuality, a sense of unity and shared values, so necessary to govern successfully, from so many disparate groups.\nAnd yet, in face of this challenge, the greatness of America lies precisely in its extraordinary amalgam of people, all of whom are bound together by the dream of personal and political freedom.\nEthnic, cultural or religious background mattered little to those who committed this evil act-no distinctions were made by the terrorists-they were attacking Americans and it was the American who was their enemy.\nPerhaps one of the reasons for such murderous hatred is deeply embedded in the psyche of so many people who simply cannot abide by the notion of human freedom that allows each one of us the right to be ourselves. How impossible it seems for nations and groups, religions and ideologies to tolerate, with understanding and respect, the commitments and ways of life of others. If anything makes America singular and a model to be emulated it is not its military power, wealth or technological dominance. It is its internal cultural , intellectual, social and spiritual structures that embrace us in the canopy of freedom, tolerance and an abiding respect for difference and diversity. This is America's strength and uniqueness; for this we all can be profoundly grateful.\n9/11 is a powerful and painful reminder of the American dream and promise to this world. Let us hope that we can achieve our dream without repeated nightmares of terrorism and murder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 5905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/it%E2%80%99s-hats-off-for-the-class-of-2010/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SCRY3LLY4TGGIALANBCAJKWVWWLZCFCH", "length": 1425, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thehamtramckreview.com", "title": "It\u2019s hats off for the Class of 2010 | Hamtramck Review", "raw_content": "It\u2019s hats off for the Class of 2010\nIf only education was celebrated every day like it was last Friday (June 11) night.\nAfter 12 years of school \u2013 that\u2019s 2,160 school days \u2013 the Hamtramck High class of 2010 held its graduation ceremony at Keyworth Stadium before a packed crowd which filled the stands.\nThe warm and sunny weather couldn\u2019t have been a more complementary match for the 163 beaming seniors. And even if there were clouds in the sky, nothing could rain on the graduates\u2019 parade.\nBefore the presentation of diplomas, several speakers offered their own views on the magnitude of the day at hand.\nCo-valedictorians Jihan Aiyash and Tamal Sikder and salutatorian Zolok Datta gave their requisite addresses to the class, as did Superintendent Tom Niczay and HHS principal Dr. Kirk Goodlow.\nThe keynote address was given by Dr. Karen Young, a clinical psychologist and Hamtramck High graduate. As the salutatorian of the class of 1981, Young spoke about how it felt moving on to the big universities of higher education, reassuring the students that they would have no problems making the transition.\n\u201cThis small school and small city did a good job in preparing me for higher education,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have a solid foundation on which to stand, and it has prepared you to move on to the next chapter of your lives.\u201d\nOne Response to It\u2019s hats off for the Class of 2010\nCan we see some more pictures of the graduation?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themisnetwork.eu/news/128/17/Themis-Phase-2-Evaluation-Under-Way.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KGSO5MFPLFEGOP6UJM3634BOKOSPWUVW", "length": 948, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.themisnetwork.eu", "title": "Themis Network - Themis Phase 2 Evaluation Under Way", "raw_content": "An external evaluation of the Themis Network (Phase 2) project was launched last week.\nFollowing the selection of GEO Smart and Sustainable Solutions to carry out the external evaluation, its director joined the Themis Secretariat team for a kick-off meeting on July 27, 2017, in Szentendre, Hungary. The meeting provided an opportunity to introduce the project and the project team to the evaluator, and to agree on the templates and timetable for reporting. The final evaluation report, which will present, among other things, the results of the evaluation process in accordance with the evaluation criteria proposed by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economnic Co-operation and Development (OECD DAC) and the Austrian Development Cooperation's Guidelines for Project and Programme Evaluation, is expected to be finalised by August 31, 2017. The report will include lessons learned and recommendations for the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 114.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themoviebit.com/2017/03/new-trailer-for-despicable-me-3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4527GS5WM2VHBMGSUM6TXO435B543HNG", "length": 753, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.themoviebit.com", "title": "New Trailer For Despicable Me 3 | The Movie Bit", "raw_content": "New Trailer For Despicable Me 3\nThe new trailer for Despicable Me 3 has arrived, and it\u2019s two Steve Carrell\u2019s for the price of one with the funny man pulling double duty as Gru and his long lost twin brother Dru, who entices our hero back into a life of crime. The previous two Despicable Me movie\u2019s were absolutely delightful, and this trailer feels vey much like business as usual, which isn\u2019t as a bad thing as Illumination has found the sweet spot for appealing to both kids and adults with this series. And yes, the Minions are back.\nThe Movie Bit: New Trailer For Despicable Me 3\nhttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/euz-KBBfAAo/hqdefault.jpg\nhttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/euz-KBBfAAo/default.jpg\nhttp://www.themoviebit.com/2017/03/new-trailer-for-despicable-me-3.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2013/07/motte-and-bailey-st-mullins-co-carlow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7GT3SDE2XRZ4SHWU5NMQBYYIQEV3RYQ", "length": 992, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thestandingstone.ie", "title": "The Standing Stone: Motte and Bailey, St. Mullin's, Co. Carlow.", "raw_content": "Motte and Bailey, St. Mullin's, Co. Carlow.\nLocation \u2013 A little away from the main complex but clearly visible and next to the car-park.\nDescription and History \u2013 This 12th century motte and bailey is in very good condition. Most surviving motte and baileys are overgrown and hard to access. The motte is 40m in diameter and stands to a height of 9m. It is enclosed by a deep and wide fosse with an outer bank at portions still visible. The bailey measured 24m x 46m and portions of the defining banks are still visible near the motte. The base of a stone structure is still visible on the top of the motte which is unusual as mottes normally had wooden structures.\nDifficulty \u2013 East to find, a little tricky to climb.\nBack to the St. Mullin\u2019s main menu.\nSeen from a distance with the main ecclesiastical site in the background.\nThe defensive ditch.\nView of the defensive ditch from the top of the motte.\nWith people for scale.\nThe top of the mound. Note the stones from the former structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theyogabranch.com/live/teachers/alexandria/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:FMLEXROHDCYU6NQDTMGECRVCV3XDXRSV", "length": 338, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theyogabranch.com", "title": "Alexandria \u2013 The Yoga Branch", "raw_content": "Hi! My name is Alexandria Freel. I am a Prenatal Yoga teacher, Birth Doula, and Placenta Encapsulator. After the birth of my daughter, I knew I needed to help other women during their pregnancy. I look forward to helping you through your pregnancy as we work on breathing and building strength in your body to help you through childbirth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thieflewybodydementia.com/2010/03/march-lambs-one-can-only-hope.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:6MYQ4FSAYUYW2A3T22XEOOQNUX224GQO", "length": 2391, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thieflewybodydementia.com", "title": "Living with a Thief named Lewy Body Dementia: March Lambs? One can only hope", "raw_content": "After our horrible day yesterday the evening wore on like drudgery.\nUncertainty loomed everywhere. How was I going to fix this before the guardianship hearing? That was still a month away and bills would need to be paid, groceries bought etc etc. I had to contact the people that I had written checks to informing them that there was no account any longer. Checks would not be valid. How embarrassing.\nAfter making several calls and canceling automatic payments I retreated into game mode when we got home.Hubby made me cry last night though. He wanted to talk to me about his dementia. He said he just didn't understand it. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with him and everybody is acting like there is. He wanted to know what his Lewy bodies would do to him. We talked for a while and he retreated to his room. Later he came and asked me where the bank check was. I had no idea and told him so. He looked at me with suspicion. Later with bank check in hand he told me he wanted me to take it and to open an account in my name. He never signed the back of it and walked away with it so we will see if he remembers today.\nReturning he sat on the step and told me he just wished he could die. I burst into tears. I held him tightly for a long time. He said it wasn't fair for me the way things were. I tried hard to assure him that I was trying to do everything for his best interests safety and comfort. I wanted us to have a really good rest of our lives and do the things we talked about doing. He then informed me he was hungry so I cooked him something to eat.\nI truly believe that Lewy is the meanest form of dementia. My husband is still in there. He just can't get out. Lately, for the most part, he has had some fairly good physical days. He has even had some good cognitive ones. That doesn't mean the cognitive ones have been easy. They just add to Hubby's delusions of his health issues. Evenings are the most difficult. One minute he can be carrying on a perfectly fine conversation and the next he's talking to me like he isn't sure who I am.\nIt must feel like living a nightmare every day and it breaks my heart to know, that somewhere in his deepest part of his heart, he knows.\nLabels: banking issue, Financial distress, guardianship\nKathy, I'm sorry for your bad days and nights.\nOh Kathy, my heart breaks for you during these tough days/times. Hang in there, girl.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=38", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5YK6BFQJIAJQCWFN4EX7CLFWOUPLHFLM", "length": 2177, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thiel-a-vision.com", "title": "Thiel-a-Vision \u00bb Believe It Or Not\u2026I\u2019m On DVD", "raw_content": "Home > TV\t> Believe It Or Not\u2026I\u2019m On DVD\nBelieve It Or Not\u2026I\u2019m On DVD\nThis week saw the DVD release of the first season of The Greatest American Hero. Created by prolific producer Stephen J. Cannell, this early \u201980s TV series featured William Katt as gawky schoolteacher Ralph Hinkley (briefly renamed Hanley after President Reagan was shot by John Hinkley), who was abducted by aliens and given a suit which, when worn, granted him super powers. Teamed with FBI agent Bill Maxwell, played by Robert Culp, he defended America from various spies and no-good-niks for three short seasons.\nIncluded in this 3-disc set is the \u201cunaired\u201d pilot for a proposed sequel, The Greatest American Heroine. In it, Ralph\u2019s secret is revealed to the public, and he is obliged to pass on the suit to another. He chooses a hot blonde (well, who wouldn\u2019t?) with a \u201csave the Earth\u201d obsession.\nOriginally filmed in 1987 as a \u201cpresentation\u201d (rather than a full pilot) for NBC, it was later padded out to full length with flashback footage and linking sequences features Robert Culp, and incorporated into the series\u2019 syndication package.\nThe reason I bring this up is that I was an intern at Cannell Productions during its filming, and even performed as an extra in the crucial \u201cunmasking\u201d of Ralph Hinkley. As an intern at a union shop, I wasn\u2019t allowed to do much on set, except on those occasions when they needed extras beyond the union-demanded quota.\nHere\u2019s the scene in question. Ralph has just saved a woman who has fallen from a building, but the rescue is actually a government set-up meant to expose him. Suddenly, a crowd appears\u2026\nFollow the arrow; there I am!\nOddly enough, I had pretty much the same beard back then. The suit is one I got from Goodwill for five bucks, and it looks worth every penny. God, those glasses look dorky. But at least I had hair!\nAnd that\u2019s the extent of my appearance. With this, nearly all of my Hollywood oeuvre has been released on DVD. (The last one is an episode of another \u201980s Cannell series, Stingray. Hopefully they\u2019ll get to that one soon!)\nCategories: TV\tTags: David Thiel Superstar, DVDs, The Greatest American Hero\nShutterbug Dave What The %#$@?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thinkpilgrim.com/cu-denver/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GTH67WI3XHRJ2RWFKE5LKU37YCKLHBCB", "length": 1143, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thinkpilgrim.com", "title": "New Client: CU Denver | PILGRIM", "raw_content": "New Client: CU Denver\nThe University of Colorado Denver has hired CCT Advertising as agency of record for its 13 schools and colleges. CU Denver is one of the nation\u2019s top urban public research institutions, offering more than 130 programs to 17,000 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and professional health students at its downtown Denver and Anschutz Medical campuses.\nThe university selected CCT over several other area firms because of the agency\u2019s track record in developing online and guerrilla advertising campaigns as well as its traditional and online media buying capabilities.\n\u201cCU Denver holds a unique position in this marketplace, and a special place in the hearts and minds of CU graduates like myself,\u201d according to CCT president Chris Clemens. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to help raise awareness for an institution which has trained so many of the region\u2019s top leaders in medicine, business, politics, and the arts.\u201d\nThe agency has already begun placing media for the university, and is in the planning stages on several communications initiatives for 2012.\nDate: November 18, 2011 Author: Tom Leydon Comments: 0\tCategories: PILGRIM Clients", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thinkpilgrim.com/obama-friends-facebook/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:XXISEL6KCYYIZGZERAWOOMY6AXYC2IA3", "length": 1711, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thinkpilgrim.com", "title": "Obama Friends Facebook | PILGRIM", "raw_content": "Obama Friends Facebook.\nIn a 21st century turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke at a town-hall-style meeting hosted by Facebook on Wednesday. Asking for help in beating back Republican budget proposals, the country\u2019s commander-in-chief was flanked by none other than Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and whiz kid. Zuckerberg, or \u201cZuck\u201d as he\u2019s known to his friends, served as moderator and funneled questions to a president who has been trying to make more extensive use of social media in reaching out to voters.\nThe tally? More than 2,800 people wrote in comments. And while there was ample appreciation for Obama, detractors also found their way to the online forum. Case in point? ForAmerica, a group that sprung up online during the debate over Obama\u2019s health care reform law, urged its nearly 1 million Facebook fans to swarm the landing page Facebook was using to collect questions to pose to him at Wednesday afternoon\u2019s live forum. The deluge led to the page being listed at one point as \u201cunavailable.\u201d A spokesman said it was down for 40 minutes. Ah, yes, a cyber-filibuster if there ever was one. \u201cWe are only beginning to see the untapped power of this growing, formidable online army,\u201d Brent Bozell, chairman of ForAmerica, said in a statement.\nSo while this latest effort by the White House to get in touch with the online community may have been somewhat sabotaged, the President has mandated that his team start hiring young, techy candidates to help his Washington become more internet savvy. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make becoming a White House staffer cool again.\u201d We\u2019ll be watching, sir.\nDate: April 21, 2011 Author: Chris Clemens Comments: 0\tCategories: Social Media Tags: Obama - social media", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tnpp.org/2012/12/africa-to-host-global-conference-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:NKLOKSME5A622GCDNEWWSYWNMLQYRZY3", "length": 2931, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.tnpp.org", "title": "The NonProfit Press: Africa to host global conference on plant viral disease in 2013", "raw_content": "Africa to host global conference on plant viral disease in 2013\n\u2026meeting to draw strategy to tackle virus diseases\nScientists from across the world will gather in Arusha, Tanzania, for the 12th International Plant Virus Epidemiology (IPVE) symposium between January 28 and 1 February 2013. The meeting will provide researchers a platform to share the latest knowledge, brainstorm and draw a road map to contain the spread of plant virus diseases.\nThe conference, with the theme: \u201cEvolution, Ecology and Control of Plant Viruses,\u201d is coming at a time when the battle against plant virus diseases is becoming more complex and the need for food security is demanding more global attention. This is the first time the meeting is taking place in Africa\u2014a continent that is plagued by plant viruses of key staple crops, driven by a climate that is getting warmer.\nDr Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) notes that plant viruses are spreading rapidly to new places, frustrating efforts to boost the food security and livelihoods of millions of people.\n\u201cThese viruses include the deadly cassava brown streak, banana bunchy top disease, rice yellow mottle, and maize streak virus, among others.\n\u201cPoor small-holder farmers--who are majority of the population and of the food growers, with their limited resources are bearing the brunt of these virus diseases. They are least able to invest in inputs such as pesticides and herbicides and improved disease-resistant varieties,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cWe need science-based solutions to these challenges.\u201d\nThe symposium will provide a forum for exchange of latest knowledge and technologies to control virus diseases and pave the way for an African and global strategy to combat emerging and re-emerging plant virus diseases. Renowned virologists from over 40 countries are going to attend this event.\nThe symposium will take place at the Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge, which is located between Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru in Arusha, Tanzania; and is about 40 minutes\u2019 drive from Kilimanjaro International Airport.\nThe meeting will be co-organized by IITA, CGIAR, Bioversity, Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) in Tanzania, the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) of Uganda, AVRDC\u2014The World Vegetable Center, and West and Central African Council for Agriculture Research and Development (WECARD/CORAF) under the auspices of the International Committee on Plant Virus Epidemiology (ICPVE). In the past, the United Kingdom, Australia, United States, France, Italy, Israel, Spain, Peru, Germany, and India played host to IPVE meetings.\nThe IPVE is a specialist committee on plant virus epidemiology of the International Society of Plant Pathology (ISPP). The IPVE Committee has previously conducted 11 international symposia in different parts of the world.\nFor more information visit: www.iita.org/web/ipve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 7585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 215.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trinityeastpete.org/ministries/trinitys-missions/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZXJSGZNS6QZLPAU7S3PESCPVSK2UKK2", "length": 4948, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.trinityeastpete.org", "title": "Trinity's Missions - Trinity UCC East Petersburg PA", "raw_content": "A strong program of Christian Education is the best foundation which can be provided for a growing church. The Sunday School which forms the core of Trinity\u2019s Christian education has four adult classes and seven classes for children from nursery through high school age. Each spring and fall the classes participate in a Mission Project. UNICEF has benefitted for many years and others have included Harb-Adult, Heifer Project International, Crispus Attucks and the Lancaster County Coucil of Churches food bank. Adult classes also encouraged and sponsored youth to attend church camps at Mensch Hill, Hartman Center and Fernbrook. Each year there are special celebrations for fall Rally Day and Promotion Day. Although church school classes do not meet during the summer months, Vacation Bible School is held for five days in July for the community. A week-day Bible study is held all year. The Christian Education Committee also oversees the church time nursery and is responsible for maintaining the church library.\nCHRISTIAN SOCIAL MINISTRY\nFood, clothing, furniture and blood banks were begun at Trinity in June, 1972 and continue today.\nEach Tuesday the packers receive from the office of the Lancaster County Council of Churches the number and size of families needing food from the Food Bank. By 2pm, volunteers from area churches pick up the food from Trinity and transport it to the Council office in Lancaster, where it is picked up by the client. This is an emergency service. A three day supply of food is given at three meals a day per person. Each day of the week a different church is responsible for this service.\nFrom 1990 to 1997, this one food bank has served 11,910 people equalling 107,190 meals. The freezer and pantry at Trinity stocks the food from Trinity\u2019s own budget as well as food and money contributions from schools, scouts, churches and other organizations.\nWhen music became an integral part of the worship services at Trinity Church, the leadership came from within the congregation with choir directors. Children\u2019s choirs were also an integral part of worship services.\nA growing number of musicians, instrumetalists, the memorial gift fo Suzuki choir chimes, the installation of a digital organ in 1993, the memorial gift of a Baldwin Hamilton piano, and the addition of choir workshops, Trinity Concert Series, the Dinner Theatre, children\u2019s musical at the White Gift Service have made this one of Trinity\u2019s vital ministries.\nThrough the years, the youth of Trinity have been tireless in their efforts to combine fun and fellowship with their deep commitment to serving Christ in many ways. They raised funds to provide equipment for the church, as well as to contribute to causes they supported. Car washes and sales of dishcloths, hoagies, fruit cake, Christmas trees and othe items raised funds. Service projects have included offering Christmas shopping, baby sitting, painting rooms, clean-up, planning Halloween parties, Valentine\u2019s dance and Youth Sunday services. Minature golf, bowling, volleyball, hiking, Hershey Park, skiing and pool parties were just a few of the many fun activities they shared.\nSpiritual growth came in many experiences guided by tireless advisors. Retreats to cabins in the woods and church lock-ins were very popular. Participation in County Youth Association events broadened their knowledge of the UCC and offered the opportunity to make new friends.\nThe last few years have seen the youth participating in a week-end retreat to New York City and attending services in various churches.\nThe tradition of sharing a loaf of Trinity Bread began in the fall of 1978. The idea was introduced to Women\u2019s Guild by sharing a loaf of bread. The idea came from St. Peter\u2019s UCC, Houston, Texas. A program was delivered to the Guild on the significance of bread and the Bread of Life to Christians. Volunteers were to make loaves to have on hand for special occasions in the church, such as weddings, baptisms,deaths or illness, and to visitors. Loaves were also given to all families on Pentecost.\nToday the tradition of making and giving Trinity Bread is strong. Loaves are presented to all visitors and shared on special occasions. The essential ingredients of time, caring and personal interaction continue to form a recipe for fellowship.\nOur preschool was begun in 1968 as one of Trinity\u2019s outreach programs. It was one of three preschools in the area and was supported through the donations of church members. The first teachers were paid $5.00 per week.\nPresently, we offer two 3-day and one 2-day classes. Tuition and a fund raiser are the major source of income. Trinity contributes the use of the building, utilities, office supplies, postage and the services of the sexton, secretary and pastor.\nEnrollment has been as low as 15 students in 1968 and as large as more than 90 students in 1990. 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There is no way I love any of Kesha's songs. I do, however, love ONE song by Rihanna. Ok two but the second one is with Eminem so that doesn't count.\nThe song is 'Only Girl (In The World)' and I really do love it. Strange.\nEw Kesha. Im not a fan either. She ranks down there with Justin Bieber and the Crazy Frog for me.\nI like this Rihanna song too. That S&M song is horrendous, maybe more so to me because my three year old said she wanted to dance like her. 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This has culminated with the first sitting of Parliament and the start of Democracy, where my father the Fourth Druk Gyalpo and I, hereby, return to our people the powers that had been vested in our kings by our forefathers one hundred years ago. 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We embrace a culturally diverse community and provide the highest quality care.\nUCT seeks to establish Rehabilitation Education and Vocational Empowerment Training Centres (REVTEC) in Haiti aimed at enabling persons with Disabilities to reach and maintain an optimum physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric and/or social functional level, thus providing them with the tools to change their lives towards a higher level of independence.\nAn effective Rehabilitative Service to persons with Disabilities is critical in order to achieve and sustain their optimum level of independence and functioning. 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The inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in cultural activities such as music, dance, theatre, worship and painting thus allowing for their contribution to community enhancement.\nThe Child Health Care Centre aims to be a centre of excellence supporting and empowering communities to continually improve the health, wellbeing and quality of life of children and their families, now and for the future.\nThe centre will promote good health practices, preventive action, early detection and early intervention. It considers that:\n\u2022 The early years of children's lives have a significant impact on their physical, behavioural and social development later in life.\n\u2022 Many conditions and common problems faced by children are preventable or can be improved if they are recognised and managed early.\n\u2022 The best results are achieved where professionals work in close partnership with parents who are supported and empowered to make the best choices for their children.\n\u2022 Supporting and strengthening community-based professionals and organisations ensures the best chance of good outcomes for children and their families.\n\u2022 Academic institutions can play a major role in contributing to public policy, as well as facilitating integration and continuity between preventive and curative health care, and between hospitals and community-based services.\nUCT seeks to establish a Pre Natal Medical Care Centre it will be open to all expectant mothers in the Baby Sponsorship Program and those mothers who fall under the umbrella of the project.\nMothers involved in this program will be entitled to regular weekly prenatal medical care:\n\u2022 Every month from the 1st week through the 28th week\n\u2022 Every two weeks from the 29th week through the 36th week\n\u2022 Weekly from the 37th week until delivery\nA typical prenatal visit may include any/all of the following:\n\u2022 Weight measurement\n\u2022 Blood pressure measurement\n\u2022 Measurement of the uterus to check for proper growth of the fetus\n\u2022 Physical examination of the mother to identify problems or discomforts (i.e., swelling of the hands and feet)\n\u2022 Urine test to measure sugar and protein levels, which can indicate diabetes or preeclampsia (a condition characterized by pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, protein in the urine, and swelling due to fluid retention)\n\u2022 Fetal heart rate measurement\n\u2022 Distribution of vitamins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.upcsa.org/sol-calendar/2018/4/24/causes-and-implications-of-rohingya-genocide-with-sarwat-husain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4MJ47UP47Q22WXH2FASSIWXYXUYOAGTV", "length": 647, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.upcsa.org", "title": "POSTPONED--CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS--Causes and Implications of Rohingya Genocide with Sarwat Husain \u2014 University Presbyterian Church", "raw_content": "Sarwat Husain, a national public speaker for Islam and Muslims, is the co-founder and co-chair of the American Muslim Democratic Caucus. She is president of CAIR-SA, the Council on American Islamic Relations, San Antonio chapter. CAIR is the largest civil rights and advocacy organization for Muslims in the U.S. and Canada. She formerly served eight years as vice chair of the CAIR national board of directors. An award-winning advocate for human rights and cross-cultural understanding, she is extensively involved in interreligious dialogue and has served on the SoL Center board. 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This classic book is a lively collaborative project that covers a distinct era in Mississippi from the hills to the Delta to the Gulf Coast. Even today this guide is an engaging look at the Magnolia State and includes driving tours featuring many of the state's treasures.\nAlong these old roads, the heart of Mississippi comes to life. The guide explores Deep South folkways, frontier hamlets, vanishing homesteads, burgeoning communities, and the local points of pride. In a way that perhaps may never be duplicated, these authors capture state heritage, portray the trying economic systems and challenges Mississippi faced, and hint of a revolution in roadways and in mobility for its citizens. An introduction by Robert S. McElvaine places this historic volume in a modern context.\nRobert S. McElvaine is chair of the history department at Millsaps College. He is also the author or editor of a number of books on history and American culture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/32", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6T256KN3FT42J43TJ4WDJSJ5VKCU37R4", "length": 101, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.upress.state.ms.us", "title": "Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form", "raw_content": "Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip\nCentennial Reflections on an American Art Form\nBy M. Thomas Inge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/ppaca-aca-obamacare-mandate-shared-responsibility-payment-tax.391982/page-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JAIHU7HINH4KJFMWR5R55UR4KE5R4HSN", "length": 32453, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "www.usmessageboard.com", "title": "PPACA | ACA | Obamacare | Mandate | Shared Responsibility Payment | Tax | Page 2 | US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum", "raw_content": "Forums > US Discussion > US Constitution > Judicial Interpretation >\nPPACA | ACA | Obamacare | Mandate | Shared Responsibility Payment | Tax\nDiscussion in 'Judicial Interpretation' started by Dante, Dec 17, 2014.\nBefore turning to the merits, we need to be sure we have the authority to do so. The Anti-Injunction Act provides that \u201cno suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the per-son against whom such tax was assessed.\u201d 26 U. S. C. \u00a77421(a).\nThis statute protects the Government\u2019s ability to collect a consistent stream of revenue, by barring litigation to enjoin or otherwise obstruct the collection of taxes. Because of the Anti-Injunction Act, taxes can ordinarily be challenged only after they are paid, by suing for a refund.See Enochs v. Williams Packing & Nav. Co., 370 U. S. 1, 7\u20138 (1962).\nThe penalty for not complying with the Affordable Care Act\u2019s individual mandate first becomes enforceable in 2014. The present challenge to the mandate thus seeks to restrain the penalty\u2019s future collection. Amicus contends that the Internal Revenue Code treats the penalty as a tax, and that the Anti-Injunction Act therefore bars this suit.\nThe text of the pertinent statutes suggests otherwise.The Anti-Injunction Act applies to suits \u201cfor the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax.\u201d \u00a77421(a) (emphasis added).\nCongress, however, chose to describe the \u201cshared responsibility payment\u201d imposed on those who forgo health insurance not as a \u201ctax,\u201d but as a\u201cpenalty.\u201d \u00a7\u00a75000A(b), (g)(2).\nThere is no immediate reason to think that a statute applying to \u201cany tax\u201d would apply to a \u201cpenalty.\u201d\nCongress\u2019s decision to label this exaction a \u201cpenalty\u201drather than a \u201ctax\u201d is significant because the Affordable Care Act describes many other exactions it creates as\u201ctaxes.\u201d See Thomas More, 651 F. 3d, at 551.\nWhere Congress uses certain language in one part of a statute and different language in another, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally. See Russello v. United States, 464 U. S. 16, 23 (1983).\nAmicus argues that even though Congress did not label the shared responsibility payment a tax, we should treat it as such under the Anti-Injunction Act because it functions like a tax.\nIt is true that Congress cannot change whether an exaction is a tax or a penalty for constitutional purposes simply by describing it as one or the other. Congress may not, for example, expand its power under the Taxing Clause, or escape the Double Jeopardy Clause\u2019s constraint on criminal sanctions, by labeling a severe financial punishment a \u201ctax.\u201d See Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 259 U. S. 20, 36\u201337 (1922); Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch, 511 U. S. 767, 779 (1994).\nThe Anti-Injunction Act and the Affordable Care Act, however, are creatures of Congress\u2019s own creation. How they relate to each other is up to Congress, and the best evidence of Congress\u2019s intent is the statutory text. We have thus applied the Anti-Injunction Act to statutorily described \u201ctaxes\u201d even where that label was inaccurate. See Bailey v. George, 259 U. S. 16 (1922) (Anti-Injunction Act applies to \u201cChild Labor Tax\u201d struck down as exceeding Congress\u2019s taxing power in Drexel Furniture).\nCongress can, of course, describe something as a penalty but direct that it nonetheless be treated as a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act. For example, 26 U. S. C. \u00a76671(a) provides that \u201cany reference in this title to \u2018tax\u2019 imposed by this title shall be deemed also to refer to the penalties and liabilities provided by\u201d subchapter 68B of the Internal Revenue Code.\nPenalties in subchapter 68B are thus treated as taxes under Title 26, which includes the Anti-Injunction Act. The individual mandate, however, is not in subchapter 68B of the Code. Nor does any other provision state that references to taxes in Title 26 shall also be \u201cdeemed\u201d to apply to the individual mandate.\nAmicus attempts to show that Congress did render the Anti-Injunction Act applicable to the individual mandate, albeit by a more circuitous route. Section 5000A(g)(1) specifies that the penalty for not complying with the mandate \u201cshall be assessed and collected in the same manner as an assessable penalty under subchapter B of chapter 68.\u201d Assessable penalties in subchapter 68B, in turn, \u201cshall be assessed and collected in the same manner as taxes.\u201d \u00a76671(a).\nAccording to amicus, by directing that the penalty be \u201cassessed and collected in the same manner as taxes,\u201d \u00a75000A(g)(1) made the Anti-Injunction Act applicable to this penalty.\u200b\nThe Government disagrees. It argues that \u00a75000A(g)(1) does not direct courts to apply the Anti-Injunction Act,because \u00a75000A(g) is a directive only to the Secretary of the Treasury to use the same \u201c\u2018methodology and procedures\u2019\u201d to collect the penalty that he uses to collect taxes. Brief for United States 32\u201333 (quoting Seven-Sky, 661 F. 3d, at 11).\nWe think the Government has the better reading. As it observes, \u201cAssessment\u201d and \u201cCollection\u201d are chapters of the Internal Revenue Code providing the Secretary authority to assess and collect taxes, and generally specifying the means by which he shall do so. See \u00a76201 (assessment authority); \u00a76301 (collection authority).\nSection 5000A(g)(1)\u2019s command that the penalty be \u201cassessed and collected in the same manner\u201d as taxes is best read as referring to those chapters and giving the Secretary the same authority and guidance with respect to the penalty.\nThat interpretation is consistent with the remainder of\u00a75000A(g), which instructs the Secretary on the tools he may use to collect the penalty. See \u00a75000A(g)(2)(A) (barring criminal prosecutions); \u00a75000A(g)(2)(B) (prohibiting the Secretary from using notices of lien and levies).\nThe Anti-Injunction Act, by contrast, says nothing about the procedures to be used in assessing and collecting taxes.\nAmicus argues in the alternative that a different section of the Internal Revenue Code requires courts to treat the penalty as a tax under the Anti-Injunction Act. Section 6201(a) authorizes the Secretary to make \u201cassessments of all taxes (including interest, additional amounts, additions to the tax, and assessable penalties).\u201d (Emphasis added.)\nAmicus contends that the penalty must be a tax, because it is an assessable penalty and \u00a76201(a) says that taxes include assessable penalties.\nThat argument has force only if \u00a76201(a) is read inisolation. The Code contains many provisions treatingtaxes and assessable penalties as distinct terms. See, e.g., \u00a7\u00a7860(h)(1), 6324A(a), 6601(e)(1)\u2013(2), 6602, 7122(b).\nThere would, for example, be no need for \u00a76671(a) to deem \u201ctax\u201d to refer to certain assessable penalties if the Code already included all such penalties in the term \u201ctax.\u201d\nIndeed, amicus\u2019s earlier observation that the Code requires assessable penalties to be assessed and collected \u201cin the same manner as taxes\u201d makes little sense if assessable penalties are themselves taxes.\nIn light of the Code\u2019s consistent distinction between the terms \u201ctax\u201d and \u201cassessable penalty,\u201d we must accept the Government\u2019s interpretation: \u00a76201(a) instructs the Secretary that his authority to assess taxes includes the authority to assess penalties, but it does not equate assessable penalties to taxes for other purposes.\nThe Affordable Care Act does not require that the penalty for failing to comply with the individual mandate be treated as a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act.The Anti-Injunction Act therefore does not apply to this suit, and we may proceed to the merits.\u200b\nIII \u200b\nThe Government advances two theories for the proposition that Congress had constitutional authority to enact the individual mandate.\nFirst, the Government argues that Congress had the power to enact the mandate under the Commerce Clause. Under that theory, Congress may order individuals to buy health insurance because the failure to do so affects interstate commerce, and could undercut the Affordable Care Act\u2019s other reforms.\nSecond, the Government argues that if the commerce power does not support the mandate, we should nonetheless uphold it as an exercise of Congress\u2019s power to tax. According to the Government, even if Congress lacks the power to direct individuals to buy insurance, the only effect of the individual mandate is to raise taxes on those who do not do so, and thus the law may be upheld as a tax.\u200b\nThe Government\u2019s first argument is that the individual mandate is a valid exercise of Congress\u2019s power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. According to the Government, the health care market is characterized by a significant cost-shifting problem. Everyone will eventually need health care at a time and to an extent they cannot predict, but if they do not have insurance, they often will not be able to pay for it. Because state and federal laws nonetheless require hospitals to provide a certain degree of care to individuals without regard to their ability to pay, see, e.g., 42 U. S. C. \u00a71395dd; Fla. Stat. Ann. \u00a7395.1041, hospitals end up receiving compensation for only a portion of the services they provide.\nTo recoup the losses, hospitals pass on the cost to insurers through higher rates, and insurers, in turn, pass on the cost to policy holders in the form of higher premiums. Congress estimated that the cost of uncompensated care raises family health insurance premiums, on average, by over $1,000 per year. 42 U. S. C. \u00a718091(2)(F).\nIn the Affordable Care Act, Congress addressed the problem of those who cannot obtain insurance coverage because of preexisting conditions or other health issues. It did so through the Act\u2019s \u201cguaranteed-issue\u201d and \u201ccommunity- rating\u201d provisions. These provisions together prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to those with such conditions or charging unhealthy individuals higher premiums than healthy individuals. See \u00a7\u00a7300gg, 300gg\u20131, 300gg\u20133, 300gg\u20134.\nThe guaranteed-issue and community-rating reforms do not, however, address the issue of healthy individuals who choose not to purchase insurance to cover potential healthcare needs. In fact, the reforms sharply exacerbate that problem, by providing an incentive for individuals to delay purchasing health insurance until they become sick, relying on the promise of guaranteed and affordable coverage.\nThe reforms also threaten to impose massive new costs on insurers, who are required to accept unhealthy individuals but prohibited from charging them rates necessary to pay for their coverage. This will lead insurers to significantly increase premiums on everyone. See Brief for America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans et al. as Amici Curiae in No. 11\u2013 393 etc. 8\u20139.\nThe individual mandate was Congress\u2019s solution to these problems. By requiring that individuals purchase health insurance, the mandate prevents cost-shifting by those who would otherwise go without it. In addition, the mandate forces into the insurance risk pool more healthy individuals, whose premiums on average will be higher than their health care expenses. This allows insurers to subsidize the costs of covering the unhealthy individuals the reforms require them to accept.\nThe Government claims that Congress has power under the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses to enact this solution.\nHell of a lot of words to say:\nThe Government contends that the individual mandate is within Congress\u2019s power because the failure to purchase insurance \u201chas a substantial and deleterious effect on interstate commerce\u201d by creating the cost-shifting problem. Brief for United States 34. The path of our Commerce Clause decisions has not always run smooth, see United States v. Lopez, 514 U. S. 549, 552\u2013559 (1995), but it is now well established that Congress has broad authority under the Clause.\nWe have recognized, for example, that \u201c[t]he power of Congress over interstate commerce is not confined to the regulation of commerce among the states,\u201d but extends to activities that \u201chave a substantial effect on interstate commerce.\u201d United States v. Darby, 312 U. S. 100, 118\u2013119 (1941). Congress\u2019s power, moreover, is not limited to regulation of an activity that by itself substantially affects interstate commerce, but also extends activities of others. See Wickard, 317 U. S., at 127\u2013128.\nGiven its expansive scope, it is no surprise that Congress has employed the commerce power in a wide variety of ways to address the pressing needs of the time. But Congress has never attempted to rely on that power to compel individuals not engaged in commerce to purchase an unwanted product. [3]\nLegislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. But sometimes \u201cthe most telling indication of [a] severe constitutional problem . . . is the lack of historical precedent\u201d for Congress\u2019s action. Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Bd., 561 U. S. ___, ___ (2010) (slip op., at 25) (internal quotation marks omitted). At the very least, we should \u201cpause to consider the implications of the Government\u2019s arguments\u201d when confronted with such new conceptions of federal power. Lopez, supra, at 564.\nThe Constitution grants Congress the power to \u201cregulate Commerce.\u201d Art. I, \u00a78, cl. 3 (emphasis added). The power to regulate commerce presupposes the existence of commercial activity to be regulated. If the power to \u201cregulate\u201dsomething included the power to create it, many of the provisions in the Constitution would be superfluous.\nFor example, the Constitution gives Congress the power to\u201ccoin Money,\u201d in addition to the power to \u201cregulate the Value thereof.\u201d Id., cl. 5. And it gives Congress the power to \u201craise and support Armies\u201d and to \u201cprovide and maintain a Navy,\u201d in addition to the power to \u201cmake Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.\u201d Id., cls. 12\u201314. If the power to regulate the armed forces or the value of money included the power to bring the subject of the regulation into existence, the specific grant of such powers would have been unnecessary.\nThe language of the Constitution reflects the natural understanding that the power to regulate assumes there is already something to be regulated. See Gibbons, 9 Wheat., at 188 (\u201c[T]he enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said\u201d). [4]\n[3] The examples of other congressional mandates cited by JUSTICE GINSBURG, post, at 35, n. 10 (opinion concurring in part, concurring in judgment in part, and dissenting in part), are not to the contrary. Each of those mandates\u2014to report for jury duty, to register for the draft, to purchase firearms in anticipation of militia service, to exchange gold currency for paper currency, and to file a tax return\u2014are based on constitutional provisions other than the Commerce Clause. See Art. I, \u00a78, cl. 9 (to \u201cconstitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court\u201d); id., cl. 12 (to \u201craise and support Armies\u201d); id., cl. 16 (to \u201cprovide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia\u201d); id., cl. 5 (to \u201ccoin Money\u201d); id., cl. 1 (to \u201clay and collect Taxes\u201d).\n[4] JUSTICE GINSBURG suggests that \u201cat the time the Constitution was framed, to \u2018regulate\u2019 meant, among other things, to require action.\u201d Post, at 23 (citing Seven-Sky v. Holder, 661 F. 3d 1, 16 (CADC 2011); brackets and some internal quotation marks omitted). But to reach this conclusion, the case cited by JUSTICE GINSBURG relied on a dictionary in which \u201c[t]o order; to command\u201d was the fifth-alternative definition of \u201cto direct,\u201d which was itself the second-alternative definition of \u201cto regulate.\u201d See Seven-Sky, supra, at 16 (citing S. Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 1773) (reprinted 1978)). It is unlikely that the Framers had such an obscure meaning in mind when they used the word \u201cregulate.\u201d Far more commonly, \u201c[t]o regulate\u201dmeant \u201c[t]o adjust by rule or method,\u201d which presupposes something to adjust. 2 Johnson, supra, at 1619; see also Gibbons, 9 Wheat., at 196 (defining the commerce power as the power \u201cto prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed\u201d).\u200b\nOur precedent also reflects this understanding. As expansive as our cases construing the scope of the commerce power have been, they all have one thing in common: They uniformly describe the power as reaching \u201cactivity.\u201d It is nearly impossible to avoid the word when quoting them.\nSee, e.g., Lopez, supra, at 560 (\u201cWhere economic activity substantially affects interstate commerce, legislation regulating that activity will be sustained\u201d);\nPerez, 402 U. S., at 154 (\u201cWhere the class of activities is regulated and that class is within the reach of federal power, the courts have no power to excise, as trivial, individual instances of the class\u201d (emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted));\nWickard, supra, at 125 (\u201c[E]ven if appellee\u2019s activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce\u201d);\nNLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 301 U. S. 1, 37 (1937) (\u201cAlthough activities may be intrastate in character when separately considered, if they have such a close and substantial relation to interstate commerce that their control is essential or appropriate to protect that commerce from burdens and obstructions, Congress cannot be denied the power to exercise that control\u201d);\nsee also post, at 15, 25\u201326, 28, 32 (GINSBURG, J., concurring in part, concurring in judgment in part, and dissenting in part). [5]\n[5] JUSTICE GINSBURG cites two eminent domain cases from the 1890s to support the proposition that our case law does not \u201ctoe the activity versus inactivity line.\u201d Post, at 24\u201325 (citing Monongahela Nav. Co. v. United States, 148 U. S. 312, 335\u2013337 (1893), and Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kansas R. Co., 135 U. S. 641, 657\u2013659 (1890)). The fact that the Fifth Amendment requires the payment of just compensation when the Government exercises its power of eminent domain does not turn the taking into a commercial transaction between the landowner and the Government, let alone a government-compelled transaction between the landowner and a third party.\u200b\nThe individual mandate, however, does not regulate existing commercial activity. It instead compels individuals to become active in commerce by purchasing a product,on the ground that their failure to do so affects interstate commerce.\nConstruing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority.\nEvery day individuals do not do an infinite number of things. In some cases they\ndecide not to do something; in others they simply fail to do it. Allowing Congress to justify federal regulation by pointing to the effect of inaction on commerce would bring countless decisions an individual could potentially make within the scope of federal regulation, and\u2014under the Government\u2019s theory\u2014empower Congress to make those decisions for him.\nApplying the Government\u2019s logic to the familiar case of Wickard v. Filburn shows how far that logic would carry us from the notion of a government of limited powers. In Wickard, the Court famously upheld a federal penalty imposed on a farmer for growing wheat for consumption on his own farm. 317 U. S., at 114\u2013115, 128\u2013129. That amount of wheat caused the farmer to exceed his quota under a program designed to support the price of wheat by limiting supply. The Court rejected the farmer\u2019s argument that growing wheat for home consumption was beyond the reach of the commerce power. It did so on the ground that the farmer\u2019s decision to grow wheat for his own use allowed him to avoid purchasing wheat in the market. That decision, when considered in the aggregate along with similar decisions of others, would have had a substantial effect on the interstate market for wheat. Id., at 127\u2013129.\nWickard has long been regarded as \u201cperhaps the most far reaching example of Commerce Clause authority over intrastate activity,\u201d Lopez, 514 U. S., at 560, but the Government\u2019s theory in this case would go much further. Under Wickard it is within Congress\u2019s power to regulate the market for wheat by supporting its price. But price can be supported by increasing demand as well as by decreasing supply. The aggregated decisions of some consumers not to purchase wheat have a substantial effect on the price of wheat, just as decisions not to purchase health insurance have on the price of insurance. Congress can therefore command that those not buying wheat do so,just as it argues here that it may command that those not buying health insurance do so.\nThe farmer in Wickard was at least actively engaged in the production of wheat, and the Government could regulate that activity because of its effect on commerce. The Government\u2019s theory here would effectively override that limitation, by establishing that individuals may be regulated under the Commerce Clause whenever enough of them are not doing something the Government would have them do.\nIndeed, the Government\u2019s logic would justify a mandatory purchase to solve almost any problem. See Seven-Sky, 661 F. 3d, at 14\u201315 (noting the Government\u2019s inability to \u201cidentify any mandate to purchase a product or ser- vice in interstate commerce that would be unconstitutional\u201d under its theory of the commerce power).\nTo consider a different example in the health care market, many Americans do not eat a balanced diet. That group makes up a larger percentage of the total population than those without health insurance. See, e.g., Dept. of Agriculture and Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1 (2010). The failure of that group to have a healthy diet increases health care costs, to a greater extent than the failure of the uninsured to purchase insurance. See, e.g., Finkelstein, Trogdon, Cohen, & Dietz, Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates, 28 Health Affairsw822 (2009) (detailing the \u201cundeniable link between rising rates of obesity and rising medical spending,\u201d and estimating that \u201cthe annual medical burden of obesity has risen to almost 10 percent of all medical spending and could amount to $147 billion per year in 2008\u201d).\nThose increased costs are borne in part by other Americans who must pay more, just as the uninsured shift costs to the insured. See Center for Applied Ethics, Voluntary Health Risks: Who Should Pay?, 6 Issues in Ethics 6 (1993) (noting \u201coverwhelming evidence that individuals with unhealthy habits pay only a fraction of the costs associated with their behaviors; most of the expense is borne by the rest of society in the form of higher insurance premiums,government expenditures for health care, and disability benefits\u201d). Congress addressed the insurance problem by ordering everyone to buy insurance. Under the Government\u2019s theory, Congress could address the diet problem by ordering everyone to buy vegetables. See Dietary Guidelines, supra, at 19 (\u201cImproved nutrition, appropriate eating behaviors, and increased physical activity have tremendous potential to . . . reduce health care costs\u201d).\nPeople, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures\u2014joined with the similar failures of others\u2014can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Under the Government\u2019s logic, that authorizes Congress to use its commerce power to compel citizens to act as the Government would have them act.\nThat is not the country the Framers of our Constitution envisioned\nThat is not the country the Framers of our Constitution envisioned. James Madison explained that the Commerce Clause was \u201can addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.\u201d The Federalist No. 45, at 293. While Congress\u2019s authority under the Commerce Clause has of course expanded with the growth of the national economy, our cases have \u201calways recognized that the power to regulate commerce, though broad indeed, has limits.\u201d Maryland v. Wirtz, 392 U. S. 183, 196 (1968).\nThe Government\u2019s theory would erode those limits, permitting Congress to reach beyond the natural extent of its authority, \u201ceverywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.\u201d The Federalist No. 48, at 309 (J. Madison).\nCongress already enjoys vast power to regulate much of what we do. Accepting the Government\u2019s theory would give Congress the same license to regulate what we do not do, fundamentally changing the relation between the citizen and the Federal\nGovernment. [6]\nTo an economist, perhaps, there is no difference between activity and inactivity; both have measurable economic effects on commerce. But the distinction between doing something and doing nothing would not have been lost on the Framers, who were \u201cpractical statesmen,\u201d not metaphysical philosophers. Industrial Union Dept., AFL\u2013CIO v. American Petroleum Institute, 448 U. S. 607, 673 (1980) (Rehnquist, J., concurring in judgment).\nAs we have explained, \u201cthe framers of the Constitution were not mere visionaries, toying with speculations or theories, but practical men, dealing with the facts of political life as they understood them, putting into form the government they were creating, and prescribing in language clear and intelligible the powers that government was to take.\u201d South Carolina v. United States, 199 U. S. 437, 449 (1905).\nThe Framers gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it, and for over 200 years both our decisions and Congress\u2019s actions have reflected this understanding. There is no reason to depart from that understanding now.\nThe Government sees things differently. It argues that because sickness and injury are unpredictable but unavoidable, \u201cthe uninsured as a class are active in the market for health care, which they regularly seek and obtain.\u201d\nBrief for United States 50. The individual mandate \u201cmerely regulates how individuals finance and pay for that active participation\u2014requiring that they do so through insurance, rather than through attempted self-insurance with the back-stop of shifting costs to others.\u201d Ibid.\n[6] In an attempt to recast the individual mandate as a regulation of commercial activity, JUSTICE GINSBURG suggests that \u201c[a]n individual who opts not to purchase insurance from a private insurer can be seen as actively selecting another form of insurance: self-insurance.\u201d Post, at 26. But \u201cself-insurance\u201d is, in this context, nothing more than a description of the failure to purchase insurance. Individuals are no more \u201cactiv[e] in the self-insurance market\u201d when they fail to purchase insurance, ibid., than they are active in the \u201crest\u201d market when doing nothing.\u200b\nThe Government repeats the phrase \u201cactive in the market for health care\u201d throughout its brief, see id., at 7, 18, 34, 50, but that concept has no constitutional significance. An individual who bought a car two years ago and may buy another in the future is not \u201cactive in the car market\u201din any pertinent sense. The phrase \u201cactive in the market\u201d cannot obscure the fact that most of those regulated by the individual mandate are not currently engaged in any commercial activity involving health care, and that fact is fatal to the Government\u2019s effort to \u201cregulate the uninsured as a class.\u201d Id., at 42. Our precedents recognize Congress\u2019s power to regulate \u201cclass[es] of activities,\u201d Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U. S. 1, 17 (2005) (emphasis added), not classes of individuals, apart from any activity in whichthey are engaged, see, e.g., Perez, 402 U. S., at 153 (\u201cPetitioner is clearly a member of the class which engages in\u2018extortionate credit transactions\u2019 . . .\u201d (emphasis deleted)).\nThe individual mandate\u2019s regulation of the uninsured as a class is, in fact, particularly divorced from any link to existing commercial activity. The mandate primarily affects healthy, often young adults who are less likely to need significant health care and have other priorities for spending their money. It is precisely because these individuals, as an actuarial class, incur relatively low healthcare costs that the mandate helps counter the effect of forcing insurance companies to cover others who impose greater costs than their premiums are allowed to reflect.See 42 U. S. C. \u00a718091(2)(I) (recognizing that the mandate would \u201cbroaden the health insurance risk pool to include healthy individuals, which will lower health insurance premiums\u201d).\nIf the individual mandate is targeted at a class, it is a class whose commercial inactivity rather than activity is its defining feature.\nThe Government, however, claims that this does not matter. The Government regards it as sufficient to trigger Congress\u2019s authority that almost all those who are uninsured will, at some unknown point in the future, engage in a health care transaction. Asserting that \u201c[t]here is no temporal limitation in the Commerce Clause,\u201d the Government argues that because \u201c[e]veryone subject to this regulation is in or will be in the health care market,\u201d they can be \u201cregulated in advance.\u201d Tr. of Oral Arg. 109 (Mar. 27, 2012).\nThe proposition that Congress may dictate the conduct of an individual today because of prophesied future activity finds no support in our precedent. We have said that Congress can anticipate the effects on commerce of an economic activity. See, e.g., Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB, 305 U. S. 197 (1938) (regulating the labor practices of utility companies); Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U. S. 241 (1964) (prohibiting discrimination by hotel operators); Katzenbach v. McClung, 379 U. S. 294 (1964) (prohibiting discrimination by restaurant owners). But we have never permitted Congress to anticipate that activity itself in order to regulate individuals not currently engaged in commerce. Each one of our cases, including those cited by JUSTICE GINSBURG, post, at 20\u201321, involved preexisting economic activity. See, e.g., Wickard, 317 U. S., at 127\u2013129 (producing wheat); Raich, supra, at 25 (growing marijuana).\nEveryone will likely participate in the markets for food, clothing, transportation, shelter, or energy; that does not authorize Congress to direct them to purchase particular products in those or other markets today. The Commerce Clause is not a general license to regulate an individual from cradle to grave, simply because he will predictably engage in particular transactions. Any police power to regulate individuals as such, as opposed to their activities, remains vested in the States.\nThe Government argues that the individual mandate can be sustained as a sort of exception to this rule, because health insurance is a unique product. According to the Government, upholding the individual mandate would not justify mandatory purchases of items such as cars or broccoli because, as the Government puts it, \u201c[h]ealth insurance is not purchased for its own sake like a car or broccoli; it is a means of financing health-care consumption and covering universal risks.\u201d Reply Brief for United States 19. But cars and broccoli are no more purchased for their \u201cown sake\u201d than health insurance. They are purchased to cover the need for transportation and food.\nThe Government says that health insurance and healthcare financing are \u201cinherently integrated.\u201d Brief for United States 41. But that does not mean the compelled purchase of the first is properly regarded as a regulation of the second. No matter how \u201cinherently integrated\u201d health insurance and health care consumption may be, they are not the same thing: They involve different transactions,entered into at different times, with different providers.And for most of those targeted by the mandate, significant health care needs will be years, or even decades, away. The proximity and degree of connection between the mandate and the subsequent commercial activity is too lacking to justify an exception of the sort urged by the Government. The individual mandate forces individuals into commerce precisely because they elected to refrain from commercial activity. 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Then in my first years in the military, I bought a Commodore 64. A few years later, I got a Commodore 128. Finally, in 1989, I got my very first Amiga computer, an Amiga 500! And now, thanks to John and Aaron at the Amigos Podcast, who had interviewed me about my days while playing around with Amiga 3D graphics, a collection of personal memories about this great machine had resurfaced in my mind. I wanted to put those memories down while they were still fresh.\nI was simply AMAZED at the capabilities of the Amiga. Having gone from an 8-bit Commodore 128 system that I used to mostly play games with, I ended up with a 16-bit system with a 4096 color palette (huge at the time) which was even better at playing games. Little did I know at first the powerful software available for the Amiga at the time would open up a new genre of computing for me. Other than games I used to play on my 128, I had also used Koala Paint to create some basic bitmapped pictures in simple resolutions.\nMy Amiga came with a paint program from Accolade called, The Graphics Studio. The first time I saw this demo picture loading up on it,\nGraphics Studio demo picture\nI knew only better things were in store for me and my Amiga. I nearly stopped using my 128 at all from that point forward.\nNot long after, I acquired the quintessential Amiga paint program called DPaint II from Electronic Arts. It blew away The Graphics Studio. I was hooked. I was able to doodle with a larger variety of tools and features. I had bought a video digitizer called DigiView from NewTek to capture images from camcorders and videotapes. I was able to use those images and add my own touches to them in DPaint and its later revisions, DPaint III and DPaint IV. Then\u2026 I discovered 3D graphic design.\nA company called Impulse released a software product for the Amiga called, Turbo Silver. I came across it by chance late in 1989. Turbo Silver bewildered me at first. I saw an example of its output, which was an image depicting a lifelike rendering of a chrome ball on an infinite checkerboard floor, including realistic shadowing and reflections. I was amazed at what I saw, especially after I realized it was created on the same kind of Amiga I have.\n3D graphics on computers are taken for granted these days. Today\u2019s software is thousands of time more powerful than what was available in the late 1980s. My discovery of the technology running on a personal computing platform was during a period of time between the Tron movie and the first Pixar movie. Desktop 3D had been in this incubation period where it could grow and start to mature before others would even be aware of what\u2019s happening. I jumped in with both feet!\nIn a nutshell, Turbo Silver (and nearly all 3D programs in general) allow the user to open up a virtual universe with an X,Y,Z axes in which primitive shapes can be placed. These shapes can then be molded and shaped (virtually) as if they were some form of special clay. You would create a scene with these models, give each of them physical properties like color, texture, and shininess. Add a virtual light or two (to light up the scene) and tell the computer to \u201crender\u201d it.\nSample ray traced image (not my design)\nRendering is the process where the computer then draws an entire bitmapped image based on the layout you staged using a process called ray tracing. In its simplest explanation, ray tracing is the mathematically intensive act of visualizing how light would look as it hits each pixel in the image. It would trace the path of light between the given pixel and the light source. In between, should a shape you placed be in the light\u2019s path, it modifies the property and color of the pixel to represent the real life portion of the scene at that point of the image. It is VERY math intensive, and for even a tiny 320\u00d7200 pixel image, it could take a half hour or more to render completely. Add more lights, reflection, and refraction properties, the rendering time could be even longer.\nAs I continued with learning and using 3D programs, I discovered even more 3D software titles. Impulse updated Turbo Silver and created Imagine, which added a slew of features, including tools to animate the virtual objects in your scenes and provide a level of interactivity between them.\nTurbo Silver wasn\u2019t actually the first 3D program for the Amiga. It was the first one I discovered personally, but not the first. A program called Silver was first, along with a program by Byte-by-Byte software called Sculpt-3D. Sculpt 3D allowed for designing 3D environments similar to Turbo Silver. It, too, did not have animation capabilities. Sculpt Animate 4D came out later to do so in that same line of software.\nUltimately, I had settled on a ray tracing program called Real 3D by a company called RealSoft. Real 3D added very complex modeling tools which dwarfed those found in Imagine and Sculpt. It also supported a physics engine. In the other programs, you had to control the paths of objects in your scenes manually, accounting for real-life interaction as best as you could, kind of like stop-motion animation. Real 3D let you give objects the property of mass, rigidity, and velocity. If you put a floor in your scene and made it rigid, then put a ball in the scene somewhere over the floor and gave it an elastic property. All you needed to do was turn on gravity in the scene, configure it to render a hundred or so frames of animation, and it will move the objects one frame at a time under the properties of physics. It would render a realistic looking animation of a ball bouncing\u2026 all this from a personal computer in 1993!\nOnce I got more proficient with programs like Imagine and Real 3D, I found myself working with others in the local Amiga community and sharing ideas. Myself and one other were able to make a few bucks exploiting our knowledge and providing 3D rendered animations for local cable services and independent producers. We didn\u2019t make a fortune, but it did give us something to do while learning more and more of what can be done with the software tools available to us. Currently, I have many of those old 3D project files stored on aging floppy disks. I\u2019m in the process of recovering the data so I can re-render them again. I\u2019m anxious to see (and remember) what I did on my Amiga so long ago.\nOne of the projects was a series of animation bumpers for a show called Kid TV (KTV). It was a locally produced show and they needed some short animations to introduce each segment of the show.\nKeep in mind that these were created nearly 24 years ago. They are BY NO MEANS anywhere near the quality of 3D rendered images you can get from your own personal computer these days. I think that\u2019s what I like most about that fact. I was having fun in those days exercising my creativity\u2026 learning to stretch the boundaries of my imagination with a purpose. One other fact to consider, the most reasonable image pixel resolution I could generate at the time was 768\u00d7482, which in today\u2019s parlance equates to an image size of 370 KILOpixels, about 1/3 of 1 megapixel. Very tiny indeed, and somewhat blocky, but perfect for NTSC television broadcasts of the day.\nKTV Logo done in Real 3D\nHere is a still image from one of the rendered animations. I actually re-rendered this copy in an Amiga emulator while typing this post. I had at one time backed up some of my older 3D projects onto modern storage devices to be able to run my regular Amiga platform in emulation. This image wasn\u2019t the final output that was intended to be delivered. I generally rendered the scene with a blank background so they could superimpose it over existing video. However, when showing a concept of an image, I place it on a virtual stage under a spotlight to give it some depth.\nKTV Oops!\nIncluded in the series of KTV projects I was working on were short animations to introduce show segments about life, careers, family, and even any bloopers that need a quick cover-up. The title sequence of the show was to start out as a model of that TV design with a black screen, followed by an animation of TV static on its screen, then a zoom-in on the screen as a wipe action to lead directly into the show intro. I never got around to finishing that particular animation because the show was cancelled before I completed it. I may consider completing it someday.\nI also used my Amiga to created 3D previews of building architecture. I partnered with a friend from my local Amiga User\u2019s Group who was also interested in 3D design. He worked in the building industry and was able to line up some work in helping a contractor\u2019s client visualize what their custom house will look like before ground is even broken on the lot. Today, there are all sorts of programs that can do this nearly instantly, but a quarter century ago, it was impossible to do at low cost\u2026 unless you find a couple of \u2018cheap to hire\u2019 amateur 3D designers with low-cost home computers and are gluttons for punishment at the work involved in the process.\nUnfortunately, I could only find one set of project files from those days. I remember doing at least two of these types of 3D previews, one for a quarter million dollar home (at that time) and one for a multimillion dollar estate. The pictures below were re-rendered from the original project files for the cheaper house. I am missing some of the surface textures originally used. The house was to have a grey stone face on the front, so I substituted a plain stucco look in this instance. The first picture shows the design interface I worked with. Due to some of the fine details in the house model, and the low resolution of the rendered images, you\u2019ll see artifacts in the windows. I rendered additional images with a closer point of view to help bring out the details.\nReal3D Project Interface\nRendered House Image\nClose-up Rendering\nThis is what that house looks like today, using an image that was captured from Google Maps Street View (which is why there is a visible vertical seam in the middle)\u2026\nModern view of the same house\nWhen I wasn\u2019t trying to make a few bucks from my hobby, I was learning more about the 3D tools available to me. I would create some objects and put them in an environment to test out different materials, lighting, and shadow settings as depicted in this picture:\nSample object renderings\nBelow is part of an animation I was creating for the local cable public access channel. I used the Universal Studios opening sequence as inspiration. It\u2019s far from finished and more a proof of concept while I learned some additional animation techniques.\nYCAT Bumper Sequence (still)\nI even dabbled in company logos. I realize that today, the \u201c3D extruded\u201d look is blas\u00e9, but back then, it was a desired design concept.\nYorktowne Cabinets Logo\nI also worked on interior design. This particular model was colored with a large number of texture images which I don\u2019t have access to at the moment. They are probably still on a bunch of yet to be recovered floppies. So, I rendered it in \u201cdraft\u201d mode which shades the objects within the scene, making them look like they were created with Plaster of Paris, but you should get the idea from the image. You are \u201cstanding\u201d in a room, looking out to a hallway that has a few doors open.\nCreating 3D graphics did not end for me when I set my Amiga aside many years ago when jumping onboard the Windows bandwagon. It was still a hobby to me. Today, I take the techniques I learned on my Amiga and apply them to a fully featured open-source 3D package called Blender. The tools and features available in Blender are on par with Hollywood special effects and rendering software used today. Other than some much needed familiarization with the Blender interface, general 3D modeling concepts I had learned long ago helped me achieve that familiarization with less of a learning curve. Although I will most likely not be rendering 3D images on my Amiga with the dedication I put into it back then, I still appreciated the ability and affordability of doing so with my trusty and powerful Amiga 500!\n\u00ab Retrochallenge 2016/01\nCross Assembling on a Commodore 64 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 15080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.visitcleburne.com/p/play/historic-downtown-cleburne", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QABSL3QYIKPTGRCG5LYOGGFYZVZAHHGY", "length": 1476, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.visitcleburne.com", "title": "Historic Downtown Cleburne", "raw_content": "Home > Things to Do > Historic Downtown Cleburne\nHistoric Downtown Cleburne offers all the joys of Southern living: delicious food, warm hospitality, fun events and much more. From shopping for antiques and eating a local cuisine to seeing a play and touring historic homes, you can do it all and more here. Cleburne\u2019s charming character is undeniable from the moment you step foot in Downtown Cleburne.\nShop Historic Downtown Cleburne offers all sorts of shopping whether it's antiques, clothing stores, boutiques or specialty shops you can find them all. The wide variety of shops offer a great shopping experience for the entire family! Historic Downtown Cleburne offers all sorts of shopping whether it's antiques, clothing stores, boutiques or specialty shops you can find them all. The wide variety of shops offer a great shopping experience for the entire family!\nDining You'll find something for every taste in Downtown Cleburne with various dining options from bistros to burgers and much more! You'll find something for every taste in Downtown Cleburne with various dining options from bistros to burgers and much more!\nPlay Historic Downtown Cleburne is a quaint district with friendly locals as well as fun attractions and one-of-a-kind museums\u2014the kind of places you can\u2019t find anywhere else. 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He was 86.\nMr. Durante was hospitalized Jan. 7 for treatment of pneumonitis, a lung condition. He suffered a stroke in 1972 that left him partly paralyzed and his public appearances since then had been infrequent.\nFor more than 50 years, Mr. Durante was one of the top headliners of show business. He made it in nightclubs, in the movies, on radio and television, and on records -- a 5-foot-7 mountain of energy who took antic liberties with the English language, interrupted himself and his audiences, tore up his piano as he brought down the house, and left them rolling in the aisles with an exit line that became famous:\n\"Goodnight, Mrs. Calalbash, where ever you are!\"\nMr. Durante entertained through a genius for zaniness. He was a wonderful song-and-dance man who couldn't really sing or dance in the usual sense, a piano player who played by ear, and a comic whose chief props were his nose and the hat on the back of his head. He delivered his lines in an accent unchanged from his boyhood on New York's Lower East Side.\n\"M'nose was born foist,\" went a Durante line. \"I arrived on da scene two weeks later.\"\nHis performance in the first show of a successful television series he did for NBC starting in 1950 was typical.\n\"Ya gotta start off each day with a song,\" he sang. \"Ya gotta start off each day with a song . . . .\"\nSuddenly he started yelling.\n\"Stop da music! Stop da music!,\" he said. \"Which one of dose cameras is showin' da pitcha in Schenectady? I once knew a goil in Schenectady.\"\nThen back to the song. \"You gotta start off each day with a song . . . .\"\n\"Wait a minute,\" Mr. Durante cried. \"WAIT A MINUTE!\"\nHe picked up the phone. \"What's dat?\" he said into the receiver. \"I'm not comin' in cleah up deah? How's dis?\"\nHe moved a couple feet on the stage.\n\"No good, eh? How's dis?\"\nHe moved again.\n\"Still no good? What's dat?\"\nHe pitched the phone over his shoulder to Eddie Jackson, his longtime colleague and sidekick.\n\"Why, da bum ain't even got a television set!\" he yelled at the audience.\nAnd then back to the song. \"You gotta start off each day with a song . . . .\"\nFor all his feigned rages there was something about Mr. Durante that his audiences seemed to understand instinctively: He might be baffled by the world, but he was never really angry with it. He was, as one critic wrote, one of \"those comic spirits who make the world seem worth bothering about again.\"\nOf course, Mr. Durante knew who he was as well as his audience did. This awareness came through in the titles of some of the dozens of songs he wrote, including \"I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man,\" \"I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (Can Broadway Do Without Me?),\" \"Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Go, Still You Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Stay?\" One of his best known songs was \"Ink-A-Dink-A-Do.\"\nHis quips made their way into the American language: \"Everybody wants tuh get inta duh act!\" \"I've got a million of 'em,\" \"I'm mortified,\" and \"Dat's duh conditions dat prevail.\"\nThere was \"Umbriago!\" an exclamation of his own devising. It is said he partly made it up and partly took it from an Italian folk tale he learned from his parents. Originally it was said to have referred to a happy gent who always was the life of the party. It came to be used as a mild expression for cuss words.\nWith such gentle wit, Mr. Durante could rail at fellow-performers, musicians (\"Dat trumpet player's only usin' one lip!), waiter, bus-boys, and his audiences and never got out of his essentially modest, good-guy character. And he could break up his pianos and the rest of the furniture.\nA measure of his standing in his profession is to be found in the list of people who apeared as his \"guests\" on radio and television. They included Margaret Truman, Helen Traubel, Ernest Borgnine, John Wayne, Fred Allen, Carol Channing, George Jesserl, Donald O'Connor, Gloria Swanson, and Eartha Kitt.\nHe made fun with all of them.\nMr. Durante kept up a hectic pace of appearances -- Time Magazine once called him \"probably the hardest-working millionaire extant\" -- until he had the stroke that crippled him in 1972. Nothing could hurt the place he had made for himself with the public.\nJames Francis Durante was born in New York City on Feb. 10, 1893. His parents were Barthelmeo and Rosa Durante, both of whom emigrated from Italy.\nHis father ran a barbershop and there the boy worked while attending school (he never got through the seventh grade), lathering the faces of customers and cleaning up. He also delivered newspapers.\nBut as he recalled years later. \"I'm passin' the joints on Fourteenth Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. I peeps under the swingin' doors and thinkin' that duh swellest job in the woild is duh guy what bangs away on the piano. I wants to be him.\"\nHis father bought him a piano and so it came to pass that the young Jimmy began banging away on the piano. He worked hard at it while running errands, washing dishes and learning to be a photoengraver. His first break came when he was 17.\nHe got a job in what he described as one of \"the wildest joints\" on Coney Island -- Diamond Tony's Saloon.\n\"Twenty-five bucks a week,\" Mr. Durante said. \"Hours from eight in the evenin' until unconscious.\"\nHe had other jobs around New York and in one of them he played piano for a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor. His style was classic Ragtime -- lots of razzmatazz with heavy chords in the bass and light touch with the melody in the treble.\nThe Durante-Cantor combo earned a good part of their income in the form of tips from customers who asked for favorites. If they didn't know the song, Mr. Durante recalled, they would make one up. When the customer complained, Cantor would say, \"You mean there are TWO songs by that name?\"\nBy 1916, Mr. Durante had organized his own five-piece band. During World War I, he played at functions selling Liberty Bonds and one played in a parade down Broadway.\nIn early 1920, Mr. Durante was playing in the Club Alamo in Harlem. On day a singer named Jeanne Olson walked in by mistake -- she was really looking for the place around the corner -- and Mr. Durante hired her. In 1921, they were married.\nIt was while he was at the Alamo that Mr. Durante met two other lifetime associates, Eddie Jackson, a singer, and Lou Clayton, a dancer. In 1923, they opened the Club Durant, and their act was a smashing success. It was there that Mr. Durante learned that he really was a comemdian, not a musician. Clayton is credited with thinking up the nickname Schnozzle, or Schnozzola, for Mr. Durante.\nBy the time the club was closed by phohibition officers six months after it opened, the trio of Clayton, Jackson and Durante was making $3,000 a week.\nThe demand for Jimmy Durante never really stopped after that. He made his Broadway debut in 1927 in Ziegfield's \"Show Girl\" and made his first movie, \"Roadhouse Nights,\" in 1930. This was followed by another film, 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,\" script by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.\nMr. Durante made numerous movies throughout the 1930s, most of them forgettable. But is popularity on Broadway and in nightclubs remained as strong as ever.\nHe did two successful shows with Ethel Merman in this period and made a successful tour of the British Isles. In 1943, he played a sensational engagement at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.\nIn 1944, he was cast in the Hollywood production \"Two Girls and a Sailor.\" This was the beginning of a Durante \"comeback\" in films. He played an aging vaudevillian who made his way back to the top.\nBosley Crowther, the critic of The New York Times, said of Mr. Durante's performance: \"There . . . emerges . . . a sort of undertone of sadness which all great comedians usually have . . . Jimmy never was wanted for affection, but he should be overwhelmed with it after this film.\"\nMr. Durante was equally successful on radio and television. His radio program with Garry Moore was one of the fixtures of the 1940s and 1950s, and he was the star of several television shows in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1951, when he won the Peabody Award, the citation said:\n\"Durante's warmth, sincerity and wholehearted joy in what he is doing have done more to raise the spirits of television audiences than any single program in the memory of the Peabody Award Committee.\"\nMr. Durante's first wife died in 1943. In 1960, he mamrried is longtime girlfriend, Margie Little. They adopted a daughter, Cecelia (CeCe) Alicia. Both survive.\nAlso surviving is the mystery of Mrs. Calabash's true identity. There were stories that she was Mr. Durante's first wife, but he used to say, \"A fella's gotta have some secrets, ain't he?\"\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/01/30/entertainer-jimmy-schnozzola-durante-dies-at-86/51a56fac-6f03-4d54-91d0-f6c42a0676cd/?utm_term=.0f6a53d672b7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vpc.org.au/romans-11-17-the-power-of-the-gospel/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:19Z", "digest": "sha1:A4M72V45NOWXP7L67S7WYPXUIKJJHF4Y", "length": 230, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.vpc.org.au", "title": "Romans 1:1-17- The Power of the Gospel \u2013 Valley Presbyterian Church", "raw_content": "Romans 1:1-17- The Power of the Gospel\nRomans 1:1-17- The Power of the Gospel. Preached by Richard Wilson on 16 Sep 2012.\nhttp://www.vpc.org.au/podcast/podcastgen/media/2012-09-29_20120916_romans_1_1-17_the_power_of_the_gospel.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wearesentience.com/it-is-not-real.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:A3QACWGIK4YFLLMFKBAV42D5EJRANHNP", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wearesentience.com", "title": "It Is Not Real", "raw_content": "Please see the drop down menu under the heading 'It Is Not Real' for all information covered in this section.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wenatcheecentrallions.org/lions-history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QTIP62L4MZN36NPDBICM4V52UOJODQO4", "length": 5447, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wenatcheecentrallions.org", "title": "LIONS HISTORY", "raw_content": "\u200b\u200bWENATCHEE CENTRAL LIONS CLUB HISTORY.\nWenatchee Central Lions Club was first chartered March 22, 1922, but for reasons unknown the Club disbanded (The opinion of one of the later charter members was that the members of this club didn\u2019t understand what a Lion Club was all about). Wenatchee Central was reorganized and chartered again in March of 1930 sponsored by the Yakima Lions Club and has been and continues to be a very active Club that has drawn International attention.\nLions Club members were there when Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon landed in Wenatchee after completing their historic flight across the Pacific in October,1931. The Club made Pangborn and Herndon Honorary Life Lions. Lion Jack Schubert a member who joined the Club 1 month after it was chartered filmed the landing and it became part of a newsreel of the flight. In 1931 Jack Columbus of the State Patrol who was a member of the Club, was instrumental in starting the first School Boy Patrol west of the Mississippi. This has spread throughout the United States and is now called the School Patrol. Wenatchee Central as it did then has continued to support this very worthwhile safety project. For a number of years the club entered a float in the Apple Blossom Parade. The members also built a field house at the Apple Bowl that provided a concession stand and restrooms for those attending sporting events. Later the Club would be involved in renovating the seating for baseball at Recreation Park. In the earlier years the Club sponsored a magazine stand in the lobby of the Post Office that was staffed by a blind person. The Club also assisted in the renovation of the Y.M.C.A. Camp at Lake Wenatchee with both money and Lion power. Later they would assist in renovating a cabin at the Camp Fire Camp.\nWenatchee Central Lions Club has always been recognized as a leading Club in the Multiple District. During some of the earlier years it was best known for its Quartet that won the music contest so many times that it was able to retire the trophy. The Club has also had a number of members that served the Multiple District above the Club level going as far back as 1936-37 when Member Clark L. Nichols served as the Governor for the entire Multiple District. Member Fred C. Koch who also served as the Governor for the entire Multiple District followed him later in 1942-43. Since the Multiple District was divided into individual districts there have been 10 members of the Club that have served the Zone, District and Multiple District above the Club level. Three of those have served as Council Chairmen and one Vern France as an International Director.\nIn 1964 a Friendship Arch designed and built by the Club was accepted as an International project and several were built and placed on the borders of several countries, Canada/U.S border, the Belgium/German border being two.\nWenatchee Central Lions Club has a reputation for helping the Community and having a great deal of fun in the process. A few of the club\u2019s projects are: Assisting the community with the Apple Blossom Festival by hosting a party for the top 10 girls running for Queen and then planning, designing the sets, and putting on the Apple Blossom Queens Selection night. Assisting with the Ridge To River Relay Race in the spring. Along with the other Lions Clubs in the city assisting the Schools by helping provide glasses and eye exams, hearing exams and aids plus various equipment needed to assist youth with vision and hearing disabilities. Providing a Youth\u2018s Christmas party each year for students selected by the schools. Recognizing a number of youth from elementary through high school for excelling in various areas. Providing Lions power to police the sidelines at high school football games, holding an All-Star basketball game made up of local area boys and girls. Add to these other activities as: Salvation Army bell ringing prior to Christmas, White Cane Days, Leader Dogs for the blind, assisting the blind in the community. These are just a few of the projects that keep the members involved.\nThe Club has become involved in three recent fund raisers: The club members now man and sell all the tickets for the Carnival that visits Wenatchee for the Apple Blossom Festival, this lasts for a week. The club members sell and collect tickets for the local baseball team at their home games. The club members also sell and collect tickets for the Chelan County Fair in early September. These are three rather unique fundraisers.\nIt is also interesting to note that the Club has never had a president that served more than 1 term. It also is a Club where two fathers and sons have each served as the Club President.\nWhen women were allowed to join the Club in 1987, one of the club\u2019s members PZC Dick Woods sponsored a local businesswoman into the club; now women make up a large percentage of the membership.\nWenatchee Central has been able over the past 80 years to have a membership that is made up of a good mix of older and younger men and women. It is the largest club in District D and one of the largest in the Multiple District 19. The membership has ranged from approximately 130 to 185 members. Much of this membership is due to one member PZC Dick Woods who has sponsored over 75 members. The Club meeting held at noon on Friday every week is known to be interesting along with being a lot of fun. Wenatchee Central is a club that lives the motto: \u201cWE SERVE\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 5734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.westparley-pc.gov.uk/latest_report2014.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:AM75H4Z3LCGPIRWOPKBT6JDEV6K7SGYC", "length": 1839, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.westparley-pc.gov.uk", "title": "home", "raw_content": "Inspector's final Report on the Housing Plans\nThe Inspector has now published her report, following the Examination in Public last September and her subsequent order that \"Main Modifications\" should be made to the East Dorset District Council's housing plans.\nHer report can be read in full online at www.dorsetforyou.com/408258 or obtained from the Council offices. It makes no further changes to the housing sites and numbers, which are those that we knew in January - please navigate to the article dated 3 January on the latest news page.\nThe full report (29 pages) contains a great deal of legal detail on policies, infrastructure, green belts, roads, and the environment. On the main issues - the housing sites in the green belts at West Parley, Ferndown, Colehill, Wimborne, Corfe Mullen and Verwood - the only two changes across the district are the ones we saw in January this year. Those are the addition of a new green belt housing site at Verwood, and the reduction in size and numbers of houses on the Dudsbury Hill site (FWP7) at West Parley.\nThe District Council will now vote to \"adopt\" the Core Strategy at a meeting at Furzehill on 28 April. This is a procedural formality, as the final approval of the Core Strategy now rests with the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles, Dept of Communities and Local Government D.C.L.G.) and it is to be expected that he may make his decision in about 3 months or so.\nOur District Council has already received planning applications for building on some of the core strategy sites, but we are not expecting any planning applications for the West Parley sites for some time (that is, if the Secretary of State approves the Core Strategy).\nAny queries residents may have should go to our two District Councillors or our Parish Council Clerk, all of whose contact details are on this website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wetv.com/shows/mary-mary/season-03/the-last-chord", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SY6S63U5ZGJ5YXSEWAGDKLJ6AKRQBGPL", "length": 3145, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wetv.com", "title": "Mary Mary \u2013 The Last Chord \u2013 WE tv", "raw_content": "Erica\u2019s bleeding vocal chords demand R&R but she has a packed performance schedule. Teddy wants to move back home, Tina waffles and the couple heads to marital counseling. Show Full Recap\nTeddy and Tina are living under separate roofs, Erica is feeling the pressure by her manager Ken to get her solo album out, and the entire family is dealing with the cancer diagnosis of the sisters' father. Despite the turmoil, the ladies have hope things will turn around for the better sooner than later. Tina and Teddy The Teddy Campbell household is still broken and Tina has been managing the family without her husband. Despite his pleas to return, Tina isn't ready to let him back and believes the couple needs to work on their issues separately for the time being. She asks Teddy to go back to counseling and he gladly agrees stating he will do anything to keep his wife and family. Will Erica be Good or Great As Warren works with Erica in the studio, he explains the significance of having his wife/artist give 100 percent of herself to her solo brand and not share her time working on Mary Mary. This weighs heavily on Erica because she doesn't want to feel as if she's giving up on Tina and the group they've built. Warryn agrees to record another song with Erica but tells her after that, she must finish all Mary Mary obligations without taking any more performance dates. \"You have to decided if you're going to be good or if you're going to be great. To be great takes more effort and time than you're putting in,\" he tells her. While singing in the studio, Erica is having trouble hitting her notes. Knowing something is not right, she sees her doctor who verifies one of her vocal chords has a callus on it as well as a ruptured blood vessel. He says she must be cautious about how much she sings and definitely should not be singing outside. The Marys have a show in New Jersey outdoors in just a few days. The doctor tells her that she could scar her vocal chord and risk permanent damage. Against her doctor's advice, the Mary Mary concert occurs as scheduled but Erica's throat is on fire after the first verse of the first song. When she sings solo, she doesn't even know if she can finishs the song for the pain and lack of voice control. She finally realizes she must rest her body and her voice and is keeping her fingers crossed that she has not hurt her voice in the long run. After a month separation, Tina asks Teddy to move back home as they are both ready to work on their marriage and family. \"I'm going to show you I'm not going to lose you and you've made the right decision,\" he says. During a counseling session, the two begin airing their past mistakes which open up an understanding of some of their problems. They agree to work on committing to the relationship and the future of Teddy and Tina looks hopeful. Warren realizes something is going on with Erica's voice and he is floored that his wife has kept her diagnosis from him. He tells her she must cancel all Mary Mary performances because she is wrecking her voice. The thought of leaving the group that gave her everything causes Erica to break down in tears.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 385, "original_length": 15812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whalewatchwithcolinbarnes.com/tag/booking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OSU6RR6V5STTIBVNNQSB4M3L6BVTXVJE", "length": 341, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.whalewatchwithcolinbarnes.com", "title": "booking | Whale Watch with Colin Barnes", "raw_content": "An important attraction in our Bangkok Pattaya Tour, visitors are required to climb steep steps to reach the statue of Buddha from the place guests can have a panoramic view of the Jomtien Beach. Additionally, traveling can take a bodily and emotional toll on our bodies, so your spouse may have a while to REST and DECOMPRESS.\u2026 Read More...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 12738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whalewatchwithcolinbarnes.com/worldwide-travels-5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NAKERQ27LQRNLNCM3UR66LNPEMLBQTYS", "length": 427, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.whalewatchwithcolinbarnes.com", "title": "Worldwide Travels | Whale Watch with Colin Barnes", "raw_content": "A good (or unfair) comparison is likely to be made if when the LA Riots erupted after the Rodney King verdict in the US in 1991, if people from around the globe had the perception of, \u201cdon\u2019t go to the United States, there may be violence and looting within the streets and the place is burning down!\u201d I actually would not go to South Central Los Angeles that week, nevertheless it\u2019s not going to cancel my journey to San Diego.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 124.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wheel-life.org/the-artfully-gifted-foundation-serving-disabled-entrepreneurs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4IG2XX2O3CM2MI6DZOFRQLY7IDAJDADJ", "length": 6987, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.wheel-life.org", "title": "The Artfully Gifted Foundation - Serving Disabled EntrepreneursWheel:Life", "raw_content": "Editor\u2019s Note: The Artfully Gifted Foundation (a non-profit) was established in Chicago, Illinois, in 2013 as a storefront for entrepreneurs with disabilities to sell their products. Around that same time period, Chicago native Aaron Maass was working for a state-run business incubator program for people with disabilities. When funding was cut in 2016, Maass didn\u2019t feel right about leaving the entrepreneurs he\u2019d been working with hanging. By recuperating funds from various University of Illinois Chicago initiatives and leftover monies from the defunct state-subsidized program, Maass and others were able to take on the task of expanding Artfully Gifted to include business development services. Their website outlines their mission as follows:\n\u201cThe Artfully Gifted Foundation exists to support the entrepreneurial efforts of people with disabilities. We believe that entrepreneurship, small business ownership, micro-enterprises and other self-employment business models offer people with disabilities the means to better their income, network with other business owners and citizens, and in general, expand their connections, and share their unique talents with the world.\u201d\nHow We Help Entrepreneurs\nWe offer office space, internet access, software, equipment, an e-commerce site, education, and business plan consulting services. One of the main pieces of our program is aligning our services with the policies of the Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS). If you can document through a business plan that entrepreneurship makes more sense for you than traditional employment and that you can make at least $1000 per month, they will give you up to a $10,000 grant to use towards business expenses. Our curriculum is designed with the different pieces of the DRS qualification in mind.\nWhen someone finishes our program, not only do they have a business plan, but they also have the paperwork that fits in perfectly with that model, so they can apply for the grant.\nWe provide roughly $5,000 worth of services to our entrepreneurs.\nIllinois DRS wants to see that the applicant can match half of the amount they\u2019re requesting. So instead of us giving $5,000 in cash to each entrepreneur, we consolidated all of this in a thoughtful way so that they get that match in the form of services.\nAll of our entrepreneurs have different skills, and they can help each other. For example, one of our entrepreneurs, Julian Aparicio, is a photographer and will sometimes do product photography for someone else in the Artfully Gifted family.\nWe also have an urban garden on site that is fully accessible for wheelchair users. We\u2019d eventually like to have a weekly food stand, so entrepreneurs can work in the garden, get some fresh air, and get experience interacting with customers at the stand.\nEditor\u2019s Note: Keep reading through the bottom of the page to learn about Artfully Gifted entrepreneur Julian Aparicio\u2019s story.\nImproving People\u2019s Quality of Life\nOne person who came through our program really loved graphic design, but there are a lot of barriers to getting a job in that field. You typically need an associate\u2019s or bachelor\u2019s degree, but the traditional demand of college in general would have been too much for him, because he has very limited mobility. He always had a penchant for quirky drawings of different types of characters, and he wanted to find a way to get paid for that. From a business perspective, we needed to find a way to tailor this into something that met a demand in the market. We ended up turning his drawings into a coloring book that can be used to teach kids about diversity \u2014 some people wear glasses, some people use a wheelchair, etc.\nWe were able to provide him with printing services and produced about 30 copies for him to sell at Abilities Expo Chicago. It was the first real dollar he had ever earned doing something he was passionate about.\nArtfully Gifted is about improving people\u2019s quality of life.\nRight now, we\u2019re working on submitting grant applications, contacting rotary clubs, and doing fundraisers. Once we get some funding to come through, we would like to start providing full business development courses.\nWe would also love to get our curriculum online on an ADA accessible website that\u2019s viewable by anyone. The idea would be to allow access to those who live outside of Chicago in more rural areas of Illinois.\nLearn More About Artfully Gifted\nEditor\u2019s Note: Check out the Artfully Gifted entrepreneurs\u2019 profiles and shop for their products on their website and social media:\nWebsite: www.artfullygifted.org\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/ArtfullyGifted\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/artfully_gifted\nTwitter: twitter.com/Artfully_gifted\nArtfully Gifted Through the Lens of Photographer Julian Aparicio\nEditor\u2019s Note: Julian Aparicio experienced a traumatic brain injury just prior to his senior year at Lake View High School on Chicago\u2019s north side. Despite being bedridden for four months, he graduated on time and with honors and was able to walk across the stage to accept his diploma. He went on to get a degree in digital photography from Harrington College of Design. Though still able to walk slowly, he uses a wheelchair part-time to get around.\nAs a photographer, I enjoy meeting people and taking their portraits. One thing I focus on is trying to show a person\u2019s personality through my photographs.\nI want people to see a story or learn something about the person when they see my images.\nI don\u2019t like to have people pose but rather let everything come out naturally.\nHow Artfully Gifted Helped Me Get Started\nAt my school, I learned the fundamentals and the art of photography but not the business side. After graduating, I quickly learned that freelancing and trying to start your own business is tough. I was applying for jobs and not getting any call-backs, and it got really frustrating, so I started looking around for other options and found Artfully Gifted. They helped me start Kiwi Photography by assisting me in the creation of a business plan, establishing a marketing scheme to attract customers, and teaching me the values of great customer service. They provide me with an office space, and help me with marketing and promoting my work at various events.\nMy Advice to Others Who Want to Start a Business\nThere\u2019s a saying that I tend to follow \u201cWhen it\u2019s wanted, it\u2019s possible.\u201d Starting Kiwi Photography was a huge accomplishment, and it was made possible by the Artfully Gifted Foundation.\nEditor\u2019s Note: Based in Chicago, Aparicio can be booked for photo shoots by filling out the contact form on his profile page on the Artfully Gifted website. Prints of his existing work may be purchased there as well. View his portfolio on his website and support him by liking his Facebook page @KIWIPHOTO.CHICAGO.\nInvent Your Own Success as an Entrepreneur or Home Business Owner\nHalloween: The Accessible-Friendly Version\nFind Your Next Accessible Vehicle with BLVD\nArtfully Gifted\nJulian Aparicio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 860, "original_length": 39943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wilmingtonacademy.org/events/venues/north-carolina-state-university-raleigh-nc-27695-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:APSAOASMVTLMAGCAILTZZANZD5YQ6BLG", "length": 145, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wilmingtonacademy.org", "title": "0 - Wilmington Academy", "raw_content": "Events at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA\nSO State Tourney\nVenue: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 1629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 98.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wilmingtonacademy.org/info-for-8th-graders/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MZYIB2XACDRCPHUGBHKFCQ4GKDQ6Y53F", "length": 877, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wilmingtonacademy.org", "title": "Info for 8th Graders - Wilmington Academy", "raw_content": "8th graders \u2013 Just a reminder of our high school representatives visiting our students.\nParents are welcome to attend. These are private WAAS events for WAAS students and families only.\nDecember 5 12:50pm North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM)\nDecember 6 12:50pm NHHS Lyceum\nJanuary 3 9:00am Ashley High School/Marine Science Program\nThe application process for the high schools\u2019 signature programs begins Thursday, January 10, 2019, and closes January 31. Open Choice Application opens Monday, March 18. Open Choice is for those students who want to be a part of a signature program that is NOT within their assigned district. Even though students are accepted to a signature program, they still must apply for open enrollment.\nPlease note that signature programs include Isaac Bear, WECHS, Marine Science, Lyceum, IB, etc.\nhttp://www.nhcs.net/HighSchoolOptions.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.windcastlevc.com/2016/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HMFPMM4FOWLWWMAJT2VUMCI7ZA2GWYJV", "length": 1301, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.windcastlevc.com", "title": "August 2016 Archives - Windcastle Venture Consulting", "raw_content": "EP 025 Robert Pool on Peak Performance\nRobert Pool is a mathematician, science writer, and, together with Anders Ericsson, the author of Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. Today, we talk about the use of deliberate practice to improve physical and mental performance, why the 10,000 hour rule isn't what you think it is, the relationship between talent and success (it's less important than you think, what good mental representations will do for you, and why taste is essential to the development of expert skills.\nEP 024 Cory Doctorow on the Copyfight\nCory Doctorow is a bestselling author of both science fiction and techno-sociological nonfiction, one of four editors of longtime popular weblog boingboing, and an activist and advocate for intellectual property rights, working extensively with the Electronic Freedom Foundation and others to put control of content back in the hands of the users like you and me. Photo credit: Jonathan Worth 2013 Today, we talk about the EFF's plan to defeat Digital Rights Management (DRM) as a business model of rent-seeking corporations. 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At an announcement this week, he said he wants development in the capital city to be the cornerstone of his candidacy. That, he said, will involve improving the local housing stock and working with small businesses to get them the resources they need to grow.\n\u201cPotential and possibility lives in every resident here in the city of Hartford,\u201d McGee said. \u201cI am running for mayor because I want to create a city that embraces each and every resident and creates the conditions for them to succeed.\u201d\nDemocrats Aaron Lewis, J. Stan McCauley, and Craig Stallings have also filed the necessary paperwork to run.\nMeanwhile in New Haven, Justin Elicker will run against Democratic Mayor Toni Harp for a second time.\nHe said that urban blight and poverty are major obstacles facing the city\u2019s residents.\n\u201cNew Haven, as a city, has a lot of opportunity to crackdown on absentee landlords that are not up-keeping their properties properly, addressing issues like high levels of lead content in the paint in properties around New Haven,\u201d Elicker said.\nElicker got 45.3 percent of the vote when he lost to Harp six years ago. Wendy Hamilton, an independent, has also declared with the city.\nMarilyn Moore is calling for integrity and transparency in Bridgeport\u2019s city government. The Democratic state senator from the 22nd District will run against Joe Ganim.\n\u201cI have a vision for our city that is inclusive, transparent, and lifts up all the people of Bridgeport,\u201d said Moore. \u201cI believe that government should work for all people--not just the few at the top--and that the voices of our city\u2019s most vulnerable populations need to be heard and addressed.\nPrimaries for mayoral races will be held on September 10.\nGun Violence In A Hartford Neighborhood\nLast year, the number of homicides in Hartford was lower than in 2015. But murders in Connecticut\u2019s capital city were up from 2016, including a spike in one Hartford neighborhood.\nBridgeport Invests In ShotSpotter Technology To Help Police Respond To Gunfire\nBy Lori Mack \u2022 Dec 13, 2018\nLori Mack / CT Public Radio\nShotSpotter is a gunshot detection system, which uses a combination of sensors to determine the location of gunfire. Bridgeport has become the latest Connecticut city to roll out the technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womanknows.com/health-advice/news/500/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:646R5IF6VMVKYHQ4O3VR74MO7B6WLOTO", "length": 4915, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.womanknows.com", "title": "Woman Knows: Food Selection - Grapes", "raw_content": "You are here > Homepage> Health> Health Advice> Food Selection - Grapes\nUseful Grapes.\nNo other season can be compared to early autumn in terms of the abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables. Grapes should be paid particular attention to among this vitamin diversity. It\u2019s not in vain that doctors compare grape therapy to a trip to a mineral water resort. But why do we have to go anywhere when if we can have the same at home?\nThe curative properties of grapes have been known for a long time. According to the Bible, the first plant cultivated on the mountain Ararat was grapes. Greeks and Romans who lived in ancient times used the curative properties of grapes to recover strength and to improve metabolism. They also used grapes to recover from tonsillitis, mouth ulcers, and blood coughing. Grapes and grape juice were known as a wonderful diuretic (they have up to 70-80 percent water containing attenuated sugar, acids, vitamins and salts). The juice is also a laxative (due to glucose) and an expectoration remedy. The later property of grapes can be explained by the presence of acids that they contain. They irritate the respiratory track slightly, making it easy for phlegm secretion. The \u201cIsabella\u201d variety of grape is recommended as a remedy against catarrhs of respiratory tracks, while the \u201cMuscat\u201d variety is helpful against throat inflammation. Dried grapes (i.e. raisins) can be used as a sweet pill against lung, liver and kidney disease.\nThere are large amounts of microelements and easily-assimilated mineral salts (such as zinc, calcium, iron, copper, magnum and manganese) in grapes. Grapes are especially rich in potassium, and that\u2019s why grapes are beneficial for individuals with heart problems. They are also recommended for people suffering from leukemia since they increase the quantity of blood cells and increase the level of hemoglobin. They also bring the correlation between blood cells to a normal level and stimulate the hematosis performance of marrow.\nFor medical purposes, entire grapes are used -- including the peel and the leaves. Grape juice is also healthy. For example, one liter of juice has the same number of calories as 1.5 kilos of apples and peaches, or 650 grams of beef. The energy that a person gets out of one kilo of grapes is 700-850 calories. Considering these calculations, we can say that four kilos of fresh grapes (or one kilo of raisins) can provide you with enough energy for 24 hours.\nThe seeds of grapes have also become an object of close study. A lot of active substances (polyphenols) have been found in the seeds -- they have the ability to bind free-radicals within the body. Free-radicals are known to be the reason behind aging and the starting point of cancer.\nToday, they even add grape seeds to different food additives in order to strengthen vessel walls and diminish the risk of cardiovascular disease. In folk medicine, grape seeds were used against allergies.\nGrape seeds are also a wonderful raw material for cosmetologists. For example, shampoo with grape seed oil helps to strengthen and restore hair. Massaging the skin using the same oil will make the skin smooth and soft.\nGrape leaves are rich in ascorbic oil, and they are a valuable ingredient of any salad. Grape leaves are widely used in Caucasus cuisine and lead to longevity.\nBut the main useful secret of grapes is in the content of glucose and fructose. Grape sugar does not undergo significant transformation and goes directly to the blood. This favorably affects muscle tone, intensifies cardio muscle contractions, improves metabolism, and stretches blood vessels.\nThe grape-cure method itself.\nThe first dose should not be large \u2013- about 400 grams of grapes per day. Gradually increase the amount of grapes you consume, so that by the end of the fourth week you consume up to three kilos of grapes per 24 hours. Distribute the grapes into three doses: one in the morning, the second two hours before lunch, and the third three hours after. Some nutritionists advise stopping grape therapy gradually -- decrease amounts by one dose over time.\nThe food you consume while being on grape therapy should be special. First, do not overeat since grapes are high in calories. Second, it is not recommended to consume sweet sodas, smoked meat, pickled or high fat dishes, or some vegetables (cabbages, beetroots, and radish). Finally, you will have to say \u201cno\u201d to other berries and fruit greens.\nDairy is a bad combination with grapes. Grapes make dairy sour, contributing to a sour stomach. If there is some degree of stomach upset, take a two- to three-day break from grape therapy.\nThe only rule which you will have to take into consideration if you decide to try grape therapy is to have your teeth checked in advance -- the acids and sugars in grapes cause pain and speed up the decay of caries in teeth. Dentists recommend rinsing your mouth with water after you have", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/people/others/17/1863-1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FAL2DFDIY25BIMVEZP5DFVPX4I7C2XXW", "length": 3329, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.womenofchina.cn", "title": "China's First Woman on Top of the World Passes Away - All China Women's Federation", "raw_content": "China's First Woman on Top of the World Passes Away\nPan Duo, 75, the first woman in China to reach the summit of Qomolangma (Mount Everest), passed away due to complications related to diabetes in Wuxi, in east China's Jiangsu Province, on March 31. [Xinhua]\nPan Duo, 75, the first woman in China to reach the summit of Qomolangma (Mount Everest), passed away due to complications related to diabetes in Wuxi, in east China's Jiangsu Province, on March 31.\nMount Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest, lies on the border between China and Nepal. Rising 8844.43 meters above sea level, it is not only the highest peak in the Himalayan Range, but also the highest peak in the world. People have referred to it variously as \"the mountain of mountains,\" \"the top of the world,\" and \"the third pole of planet Earth.\"\nPan was born in 1939 in Gyamda County, in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. In 1959, Pan joined the China Female Mountaineering Expedition.\nPan's father died when she was 8 years old, and her mother raised the family alone. She said a poor and hard life had built her strong body and will.\nIn January 1959, Pan was chosen as a mountaineer to join the China Female Mountaineering Expedition due to her outstanding physical condition.\nIn January 1974, Pan was elected as Deputy Captain of the China Mountaineering Expedition.\nIn 1975, 36-year-old Pan planned to climb Qomolangma. She passed all her training evaluations with her extraordinary will, and was elected as the team's second-in-command.\nTheir expedition began on May 17, 1975. On May 27, 1975, Pan reached the top of Qomolangma with eight male members. Pan became known as the \"tallest woman in the world.\" \"Regardless of the results, my success proved that we females are as outstanding as males,\" she said.\nPan had been elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress five times since the mid-1970s. In 1981, she became vice director of the Wuxi Sports Administration.\nTo celebrate the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, Pan, who was almost 70 years old and was in poor health at the time, successfully climbed to the Everest Base Camp with 20 volunteers, at an altitude of 5,200 meters.\nWang Yongfeng, captain of the China Mountaineering Team, expressed his grief over Pan's death. \"She is a miracle of mountain climbing, and is an example of learning for young mountaineers in China.\"\n\"She was kind and friendly to us and often told stories about mountaineering to us,\" said Wang. \"All in her mind was how to help with the development of mountaineering in China.\"\n\"Pan contributed a lot to mountaineering and mutual communication between nations,\" said Nyima Tsering, principal of the Tibet Mountaineering School. \"She was active in promoting mountaineering after retirement, and her behavior and spirit inspire us to make more efforts for China's mountaineering.\"\n(Source: gb.cri.cn/Translated by Women of China)\nArchitect Designs Aseismatic, Eco-Friendly HousesWomen of China2019-01-29Xi Extends Spring Festival Greetings to Non-Communist Parties, Personagesxinhuanet.com2019-01-29Villagers Perform Yangge Dance to Celebrate Upcoming Spring Festivalxinhuanet.com2019-01-28Xi and His Wife Meet Senior DPRK Official, Watch Art Performancexinhuanet.com2019-01-28CPC Meeting Reviews Work Report, Party Regulationsxinhuanet.com2019-01-26", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 185.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wordfinders.com/words-with-the-letters-erupted/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UZ6HVWP3OLDIA7WPVJDFN4ZO7CKSJVWO", "length": 599, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.wordfinders.com", "title": "What words can you make with erupted?", "raw_content": "Words that can be made with erupted\nAn unofficial list of all the Scrabble words you can make from the letters in the word erupted. Anagrams and words you can make with an additional letter, just using the letters in erupted!\nWe also have lists of words starting with erupted, and words ending with erupted\n74 words can be made from the letters in the word erupted.\nAnagrams of erupted\nThis page is a list of all the words that can be made from the letters in erupted, or by rearranging the word erupted. These words should be suitable for use as Scrabble words, or in games like Words with friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 1570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wordtravels.com/Attractions/2958", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OAZUNRRD3UTWJBKJN6G3XP4GWBTXBSNX", "length": 1248, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wordtravels.com", "title": "Chimelong review, with opening times, telephone number, address and admission prices", "raw_content": "Chimelong Paradise Amusement Park \u00a9 Stdragon04\nThe Chimelong Group is the leading park operator in China, offering a variety of attractions including a circus, a waterpark, and a theme park. Chimelong Paradise Amusement Park is one of China's largest theme parks and it is recognised internationally as a quality establishment, with one of its rollercoasters even being featured in the Guinness Book of Records! The park has more than 100 rides and is guaranteed to delight thrill seekers and kids of all ages. The water world section boasts one of the largest water stunt shows in the world and is a famously enjoyable place to spend a sunny day.\nThe Chimelong International Circus is said to be the world's largest permanent circus and the theatre can hold nearly 7,000 people. This show is endlessly popular and it is recommended that visitors book their tickets in advance, especially if going over the weekend. This can be done online. The Chimelong International Circus includes award winning acts from all over the world and its set, lighting, and costume design is fantastic. 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It offers a selection of pools and mineral baths. They are indoor or outdoor, hot or cold, and recreational or health-related. It's a great place to visit with children, as they'll have their own special pool. There's an Olympic-sized swimming pool for those who want to exercise, while there is food and drink to keep visitors refreshed. There are also Turkish baths, comfy cabins, and simple sun loungers at an extra cost. Sun protection is required as well as swimsuits, as nudity is not welcomed. The only downside of this fun park is that its popularity can lead to it being too crowded for comfort. 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For the year 2016,NPYDA is stepping into a whole new level of competition by expanding its network to 15 countries and relaunching it as the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA). This year, AYDAwill be extended to three additional countries, namely Sri Lanka, India and Taiwan.\nAYDA is judged by renowned and well-established professionals in the industry and supported by professional societies and government bodies such as the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP), Council of Deans and Heads of Architecture Schools in the Philippines (CODHASP), Philippine Institute of Interior Designers (PIID), and Council of Interior Design Educators (CIDE).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 17282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 169.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yzemarketing.com/marketing-plan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IPGYQB2DDLX4XZOUINE6MOB7PQKJVP7K", "length": 1938, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.yzemarketing.com", "title": "Marketing Plan Dubai | YZemarketing", "raw_content": "The marketing plan is your business document, therefore every business forms its own marketing strategy.\nYour marketing plan is your business\u2019 blueprint or outline \u2013 it all starts here. So in order to execute all the appropriate and necessary actions, your marketing plan should be firm and permanent. Whatever you do, or we do together, will be based on your marketing plan.\nAt YZemarketing, we design your marketing plan with an outstanding marketing strategy followed by a specific effective tactic to reach the operations consisting of the program made out of the policies which are divided into many rules and regulations.\nWe can provide realistic inputs on what\u2019s achievable and meet your company\u2019s goals and CRM. There are many benefits of having a marketing plan and with our help, we can make your business flourish.\nPurpose of a Marketing Plan\nGives you clarity and efficiency in adverting your brand, service or product to the proper audience. Also, it\u2019s to logically show which actions should be taken in order to achieve your goals in your company. 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Tracking your company\u2019s actions enables you to know which part of your business needs improvement or which should stay as they are.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing5/curators.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BPIHSKBY6M6T5J3G65S44BBM26ERVZGT", "length": 908, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.zingmagazine.com", "title": "zingmagazine | zingmagazine5 | the curators", "raw_content": "LIZ DESHENES is a photographer living in NYC. 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The play relates one night in the life of a prostitute named Sherry whose usual corner is the intersection of Denny and Westlake. The actors wear wireless microphones patched through speakers inside the gallery, so you can eavesdrop on their conversations even when they take place far away across 4 lanes of traffic. Prerecorded sequences paint vivid audio images when the action moves out of sight. Add to that random passersby and the line between fake and real is blurred. John Cage scandalized the music world by composing a piece which was nothing more than silence. In the same way, sitting watching the street between scenes focuses your attention on what is always there but usually unobserved. The effect is fascinating and got me thinking, \"That there Greg Lundgren is a genius.\" Tonight was the final run-through before tomorrow's premiere. I have a bit part in the play, which is cool in its way but also a bit of a drag--it means I won't get to experience the mindfuck that is Manslaughter in all its twisted glory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://york-house.org.uk/events/stony-tracks-with-andy-powell/?ajaxCalendar=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:P4Z5CEQNBPTBVEOFZZVTLA776GN6ZJP6", "length": 926, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "york-house.org.uk", "title": "Stony Tracks with Andy Powell \u2013 York House Centre", "raw_content": "Stony Tracks with Andy Powell\nAndy Powell is the first Stony Tracks guest who isn\u2019t a resident of Stony, but he seems to spend most of his time here, and makes a major contribution to the town as the chairman of Stony Live!.\nHe\u2019s recently discovered the joys of acting, and when he\u2019s not playing in any number of bands, he can be seen treading the boards with the Stony Stratford Theatre Society.\nDerek Gibbons chats to Andy about his life, loves, and plays his favourite musical selections\nDoors open at 7.30 for an 8pm start. 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This usually happens at 2:00 a.m. and is followed by a sleepless night or two of pounding away at the keyboard in a flurry of coding and creativity that bring me utter joy. I try to post the results of whatever I've managed to create either as a section in this website or as a blog post on my blog.\nI'm always to happy to discuss these topics with interesting people, to learn from them, and hopefully to be able to help out in whatever way I can.\nIf you have any questions, comments or ideas, please contact me at:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yzap.com.tw/profile.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XQUIZ6BXCY6D6U4FFUWLQTO3TZXCG3WL", "length": 602, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "yzap.com.tw", "title": "YING ZHEN AUTO PARTS CO., LTD. - Company Profile", "raw_content": "We started our business in 1981 from processing, domestic sales and then exports. Over the past two decades, we have developed our own brand \u201cGN\u201d, with our quality products spreading to Europe, Central America, and Southeast Asian nations.\nAs of today, our products have included iron pipes, stainless steel pipe, and relevant processing for all kinds of motorcycle parts. Automobile and motorcycle parts are our major product lines for the moment.\nQuality is life. Through the management and quality upgrading, we are able to reach the target by reducing our production costs and sharing with clients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zebedeeandsonsfishingco.com/blog/page/9/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Q55Q5TV2LN6F5NPS6P4CH7O27VSQ4ROL", "length": 643, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "zebedeeandsonsfishingco.com", "title": "Blog - Zebedee And Sons Fishing Co.", "raw_content": "In my book, Zebedee and Sons Fishing Co., I wrote how Jesus, as He began His earthly ministry, recruited the senior management away from Zebedee and Sons Fishing Company and left Zebedee alone on the lakeshore with boats full of fish, nets waiting to be hung, and nobody to help. Yet, even with this setback,\u2026\nSome call it grouchy, irascible, slow burn, sour, grumpy, funk, or conniption. Most commonly it\u2019s just called a bad mood. Many people are susceptible to waking in the morning and finding themselves in this condition. And, for those encountering this person, it\u2019s not a pleasant experience. It\u2019s always best to stay away and wait for\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zebedeeandsonsfishingco.com/im-sorry/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EWKEOGKAHJJ6WOYIAL4M7OLJ664LV4KW", "length": 4516, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "zebedeeandsonsfishingco.com", "title": "I\u2019m Sorry - Zebedee And Sons Fishing Co.", "raw_content": "I recently heard a radio story about a high school principal who, years ago, made an obvious mistake and subsequently went on the high school intercom to sincerely apologize to all his students. Because of this action, his relationship and respect with his students was elevated to the point that upon his retirement, many students spoke of this single action despite that fact that many were not even born when he made the apology.\nWhen used rightly, apologies are probably one of the most powerful management tools of any businessperson.\nI don\u2019t know any more of the details to this story, but much can be surmised.\nFirst, he obviously, he took ownership of his mistake. He was talking to a large group of teenagers, and if any group is unforgiving of oversights and understatements, it is teenagers.\nSecond, the apology must quickly follow the mistake. High school life is quick and once the next teenage crisis surfaces, the principal\u2019s mistake would have been moved to the \u201cold news\u201d folder and the opportunity to make a lasting impact missed.\nThird, this man must have been sincere. Any announcement over a PA system is mostly just background noise. Just think of the last time you were in an airport\u2014were you listening to what was being said? The words and voice he used had to capture the attention of all the students despite what they were doing.\nFinally, for this single instance to have a legacy impact, this principal had to have made amends and changed his own behavior so that what he apologized for never happened again. The action had to be such that he never wanted to have to apologize for it again.\nIn our business world, we unfortunately have the opportunity to occasionally apologize. If we are not careful, however, how we apologize could potentially eliminate the meaning of the apology.\nI recently had my work truck serviced. When they were backing out of the service bay, they backed into a piece of equipment and scratched one door. Of course they immediately called telling me of the problem and how they were going to fix it. The offer of repair and of my inconvenience was as expected, but the conversation was a constant apology. Every sentence included \u201cwe\u2019re sorry\u201d to the point they were apologizing for apologizing.\nI have read several business resources that discuss the art of apologizing. Maybe it is an art, but it is a simple one for sure. When you or someone under your authority errs, own the mistake, apologize about the mistake, and make amends. Expounding on the three parts of this action are:\nYou or someone under your authority \u2013 it is fruitless to apologize for someone else or some other group\u2019s mistakes. Don\u2019t let anyone talk you into apologizing for their mistake. I cannot apologize for Ford Motor Company\u2019s mistakes in making the Ford Pinto; it would be insincere and insulting.\nApologize \u2013 you cannot be looking at the ground or mumbling, and it cannot be sent in a text or email. In person is the best, but can be accomplished in a phone call. The key is not what comes out of your mouth, there are lots of verbal ways to apologize, but what the person you are apologizing to hears. Regardless of the words you use, they must hear you are sincerely sorry. You must see that response in their eyes or hear it in their voice. You keep apologizing until you get that recognition, then you are done apologizing. Any apology after is worthless.\nAmends \u2013 this is what happens to make the apology right. The high school principal evidently lived his amends since this action became his lifelong reputation. This is where you attempt to make it right, fix your mistake, or take back the words you thoughtlessly said. I stress attempt because it is the fear of this action that keeps many from apologizing in the first place. They might want more money to fix the mistake that you can afford. You might be asked to take back more words or actions that you believe is necessary. The person you are apologizing to may attempt to extract more pain from you that you are willing to bear.\nApologizing is not cutting your soul open to bleed. You made a mistake and there is an economic value to that mistake. That is what you need to offer as an amends. It may be worth a little more to maintain a client, a friendship, and a reputation; but not much more.\nJust as the high school principal did, the Bible says to take ownership, act at once, be sincere, and make amends. In the workplace, these actions will make you the kind of leader most employees will want to work for.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://1033ampradio.radio.com/tag/stephen-colbert-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RQXC4WWGBB6D2AN5INK4PLMQVIDT43M4", "length": 390, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "1033ampradio.radio.com", "title": "Stephen Colbert | 103.3 AMP RADIO", "raw_content": "What Does Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino's \"Favorite Song\" + 'Lord Of The Rings' Have In Common? Stephen Colbert Expertly Explains\nRemember when Chance The Rapper and Childish Gambino's \"Favorite Song\" came out in 2013? Did a particular part ever get stuck in your head? Well...\nNicki Minaj Adds To \u201cBarbie Dreams\u201d With Stephen Colbert\nThe artist also released a video for \u201cGanja Burn\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 3197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://1500sound.academy/blogs/instructors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:D3UKN32EVQHNOV3IXABWVYXE7RKP7CP5", "length": 794, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "1500sound.academy", "title": "instructors \u2013 1500soundacademy", "raw_content": "Meet our instructors - the best in the business.\nCarla Carter\nCarla Carter is a Grammy award-winning songwriter and vocal producer. She has worked with dozens of high profile artists and is an experienced instructor in songwriting, music composition and music theory.\nWyann Vaughn\nWyann Vaughn comes from soul music royalty. Daughter of Grammy award-winning Wanda Vaughn of the sister group \"The Emotions\" and Earth, Wind & Fire's \"Let's Groove\" writer Wayne Vaughn, Wyann mixes timeless R&B vocals with a funky edge.\nWyann belongs to the supergroup The Pollyseeds under the direction of Terrace Martin. Vaughn was also hand selected by The Good Doc himself to co-host \"The Pharmacy with Dr. Dre\" on Apple Music's Beats1 radio alongside west coast hip hop giants like Xzibit, DJ Pooh and others", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2fatnerds.com/2011/10/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LY4VVABAIMCRMHO3VN5SN3YBREX7JAA4", "length": 296, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "2fatnerds.com", "title": "2 Fat Nerds - 2011 October 05", "raw_content": "I love my dog, Audrey. She has probably the most unique, loving personality of any dog I\u2019ve ever been around. When Ellie gets up early in the morning, Audrey will jump right where Ellie was sleeping and we will snooze until it\u2019s time for me to go to work.\nThere is one thing about Audrey that [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://360labs.net/video/eaa-airventure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:K23JVLPLO7BZFQS5SCVZHUERJJX24R4Y", "length": 372, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "360labs.net", "title": "EAA AirVenture 2016 | 360 Labs", "raw_content": "Hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association, AirVenture is one of the world's biggest air shows with over 600,000 attendees and 10,000 aircraft. We'll take you on a wild ride on board stunt planes with Michael Goulian, Vicky Benzing, on board para motors and give you VIP access with an incredible view from the airstrip that you just can't get even if you were there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://3d-car-shows.com/volvo-concept-coupe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:OFFKOTMDUPKPEXIQYZBXEMFQR5AK5UN3", "length": 5721, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "3d-car-shows.com", "title": "Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9", "raw_content": "Home Volvo Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9\nThe Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 \u2013 the next-generation P1800: Elegant confidence enabled by the new scalable architecture\nInspired by contemporary, progressive Scandinavian lifestyle and design as well as iconic elements from the past, the elegant new Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 is the first of a series of three concept cars that reveal the design possibilities created by the company\u2019s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA).\nAfter a more than a year of rising expectations, the first design by the new Senior Vice President of Design, Thomas Ingenlath, showcases how design builds emotion into the Volvo brand and points towards the next generation of Volvo models, starting with the forthcoming Volvo XC90 in 2014.\n\u201cThe Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 is no futuristic dream car. It is designed to demonstrate the capability of our new architecture: the confident stance, the proportions and the most prominent design signatures. Even though the all-new Volvo XC90 is an entirely different type of car, you will recognise the connection instantly when it is revealed next year,\u201d says Thomas Ingenlath.\nDeveloped in-house for Volvo Cars only, the Scalable Platform Architecture liberates Volvo\u2019s designers and engineers from the limitations of previous cross-brand platforms.\n\u201cThe new Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 reveals how we could shape our cars from now on. Free from the superficial surface excitement of other car brands, we add emotional value to the Volvo brand with the calm, confident beauty that is the hallmark of Scandinavian design,\u201d says Thomas Ingenlath.\nPowerful visual impact\nThe visual impact of the new proportions is most powerful when viewing the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 from the side. The distance between the dashboard and the front axle is extended and the greenhouse has been moved slightly rearwards.\nA low bonnet, roof, and the five-spoke, 21-inch wheels also contribute to the impression of an elegant Gran Tourer oozing effortless power. The confident stance is emphasized by a beltline that spans an elegant bow along the whole car.\n\u201cThink about the powerful calmness of a lion. He doesn\u2019t have to prowl to radiate respect. Even lying down he shows very clearly what he is capable of,\u201d smiles Thomas Ingenlath.\nNew T-shaped DRL lights\nThe face of the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 is characterised by a new topography on the bonnet and the \u2018floating\u2019 grille, flanked by headlights featuring new T-shaped DRL light guides. Just like the rear light signature, the DRL lights are distinctive elements in the new design direction of Volvo Cars.\n\u201cThe face is new, but it also carries more than 85 years of Volvo heritage with great pride. We are still working with the final interpretation of the grille and the iron mark and this will be revealed together with the new Volvo XC90 next year,\u201d says Thomas Ingenlath.\nEchoes the iconic P1800\nThe Concept Coup\u00e9 also features elements that echo the design of the Volvo P1800 from the 1960s.\n\u201cIt is a car designer\u2019s duty to reflect and incorporate design signatures that are vital parts of the company\u2019s heritage. The P1800 is an iconic Volvo, renowned for its beautiful forms and detailing. However, using elements from the P1800 exterior and interior has nothing to do with being retro. We are using these subtle links to a glorious past to create a future where sheer beauty becomes a recognised part of Volvo\u2019s identity. That journey starts with the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9,\u201d says Thomas Ingenlath.\nSparkling crystal gear-leaver\nThe blue-grey exterior is echoed on the inside of the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9. Refined, handcrafted elements such as the leather instrument panel, inlays made of naturally aged wood and the dark blue woven carpets are blended with beautifully machined metal details.\u201d\n\u201cTo me, handcrafted crystal is one of the finest examples of high-quality Scandinavian design and I love the idea of bringing it into the car. The prominent position of the gear-leaver is the perfect place for this sparkling sensation,\u201d says Robin Page, Design Director Interior at Volvo Car Group. He adds: \u201cThe experience inside the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 is an excellent example of how we will make Volvo customers feel truly special.\u201d\nLarge portrait touch-screen\nThe Volvo concept car also includes a totally new approach to Volvo Cars\u2019 human-centric user experience. A large portrait touch-screen in the centre console interacts with an adaptive digital display and head-up display in front of the driver.\n\u201cThis is a natural integration of user interfaces in our new car generation. Interaction with pleasure but without distraction is the key. We bring connectivity into our cars to make them both more enjoyable and safe,\u201d explains Thomas Ingenlath.\nThe Scalable Platform Architecture is also being prepared for completely autonomous driving. The first features with autonomous steering to avoid accidents and make driving more comfortable will be introduced in 2014 \u2013 and Volvo Cars\u2019 aim is to have cars with fully autonomous technology out on the roads before 2020.\nPetrol plug-in hybrid \u2013 powerful and efficient\nThe petrol plug-in hybrid driveline in the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 reflects Volvo Cars\u2019 strategy to use electrification to create the most powerful versions in the new four-cylinder Drive-E engine family. This will take power figures up into V8 territory.\nThe concept car features a two-litre high-performance Drive-E petrol engine with a supercharger and turbo. The petrol engine is teamed with an electric motor on the rear axle. This gives Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 a total output of around 298kW (400 hp) and over 600 Nm of torque.\nPrevious articleMercedes Benz A Class \u2013 Chassis, suspension and braking system\nNext articleThomas Ingenlath \u2013 Volvo Cars Design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 10665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1106041/hariri-relations-saudi-arabia-gulf-continuous-improvement", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7WZ3A6QAR3G5N4NMHMDDXMAE53IZT3HE", "length": 2101, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "aawsat.com", "title": "Hariri: Relations with Saudi Arabia, Gulf in Continuous Improvement | Asharq AL-awsat", "raw_content": "Hariri: Relations with Saudi Arabia, Gulf in Continuous Improvement\nhttps://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1106041/hariri-relations-saudi-arabia-gulf-continuous-improvement\nHariri meets a delegation of the economic bodies and businessmen from Tripoli and the North\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has expressed satisfaction with the government\u2019s latest decision, saying it stressed the commitment of all political parties represented in the cabinet to dissociate themselves from the internal affairs of Arab countries.\n\u201cNon-compliance will put Lebanon once again in the circle of danger,\u201d Hariri warned Wednesday as he addressed a large delegation of economic bodies and businessmen from Tripoli and the North who came to visit him at the Center House in Beirut.\nIn his address, Hariri also tackled relations with Riyadh and other Gulf countries.\n\u201cOur relations with Saudi Arabia and Gulf states are very good and will improve continuously. The disassociation policy is the only path that will save the country. I am very proud that we reached it and issued a government decision in this respect, not just a statement,\u201d the PM said.\n\u201cEveryone knows the difficult times we experienced in the last months, but the main objective was to focus on the stability of the country because without stability and security there won\u2019t be prosperity or economy. I suspended my resignation at the request of the president but after the commitment to dissociation, in deeds and not in words, I withdrew my resignation,\u201d he said.\nHariri stated that the cabinet is expected to hold a meeting in Tripoli to issue important decisions that concern northern Lebanon. \u201cMore importantly we worked on a $16 billion project to invest in the infrastructure. This project is being studied with all concerned parties before being presented to the cabinet and the parliament.\u201d\n\u201cWe and Hezbollah have differences on many issues. We had two choices: either to raise the level of tension in the country or admit that we are at odds with Hezbollah and start taking care of economic issues, the displaced, the services,\u201d he added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7chicago.com/news/police-man-attempted-to-lure-girl-9-with-bag-of-candy-in-maywood/2181891/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4NSIHJ6JKZBX7NZEGV4G7KDT3T3Y7VLS", "length": 634, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "abc7chicago.com", "title": "Police: Man attempted to lure girl, 9, with bag of candy in Maywood | abc7chicago.com", "raw_content": "Police: Man attempted to lure girl, 9, with bag of candy in Maywood\nMAYWOOD, Ill. (WLS) --\nPolice have issued a community alert after a man tried to lure a 9-year-old girl from a playground with a bag of candy on Sunday in Maywood.\nThe incident happened at about 1:43 p.m. at 15th Avenue and Washington Boulevard, police said.\nA man in a four-door sedan pulled up to the playground and pointed at the girl and then pointed to a bag of candy, police said. The girl then walked away and the man drove off.\nPolice describe the suspect as a black man, 40 to 50 years old with short hair that is gray around the temples.\nluringcrimeMaywood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://access-arabadvisors.com/report/view/id/4384", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MZKXWSKHYXLIJLJGBY32MXRFY2S3YFHC", "length": 179, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "access-arabadvisors.com", "title": "Arab Advisors Group", "raw_content": "E-Commerce Usage Patterns in Saudi Arabia 2016\nThis survey report provides the results of a CATI based survey in Saudi Arabia for the usage patterns of E-commerce in Saudi Arabia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 201.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://accidentallyinspired.com/tag/metaphor-monday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6LQLOGTDHVQO7N3A55GRBFAHIFUT3KIV", "length": 8550, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "accidentallyinspired.com", "title": "metaphor monday | Accidentally Inspired", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: metaphor monday\nMetaphor Monday: Breath of the Fall\nLooks like Metaphor Mondays just come on Tuesday now. I guess that\u2019s just the way it\u2019s gonna be.\nFall feels like it\u2019s arriving late this year. Seems like the summer, like a bad movie, has gone on and on and on \u2014 hot, sticky days without end. Days without a breeze. Weeks without rain. Doldrums. Ennui. The itch slowly settling in.\nAnd then, one night, like magic, it changes. The damp, drab air gets swept unceremoniously out the door and in rushes that cool, chilly sting. You leave the windows open at night and wake up shivering. You leave for work in the morning bundled up in a sweatshirt you\u2019re going to leave at work because it\u2019ll still be eighty degrees when you get out. The summer\u2019s not gone yet, but it\u2019s on its way out, and the morning tingles with possibility.\nEven the night skies get clearer as the haze dissipates. Stars hidden from view for months pop back into being: diamonds on a velvet backdrop. The air is cleaner, lighter, sweeter.\nYou step outside in the morning and you feel alive. You breathe it in and it lifts you up. You shiver, whether with cold or anticipation, and it really doesn\u2019t matter, does it?\nI like fall.\nBut there\u2019s no telling when that first breath of the fall is going to come, is there?\nI mean, sure, the seasons come more or less on schedule every year (but if you don\u2019t like the weather around here, just wait five minutes, AMIRITE?). But you don\u2019t get notice; you can\u2019t mark it on your calendar: actual fall weather starts here. Circled in the ombre of falling leaves and scented with pumpkin spice deodorant. It doesn\u2019t work like that; it\u2019s rather more like the crappy toy on the back of the cereal box that you saved up for as a kid. You dutifully tore off all those UPCs, stuffed them in an envelope with your greedy, gooey kid fingers (seriously why are kids\u2019 fingers always so gooey, brb buying stock in Purell). And you waited. You knew that, some day in the future, your prize would arrive, but there was no telling when \u2014 one day, when you\u2019d almost forgotten about it, your dad would walk in with a weird little brown package, toss it on the table, and say \u201cwho the hell is sending YOU mail?\u201d\nWhich is basically how inspiration works.\nInspiration, I find, is largely a load of horse puckey in the commonly understood sense. Writers (and artists of all ilks) don\u2019t wander around in fields holding radio aerials hoping their new ideas will strike from the heavens. The ones really getting inspired are the ones slavishly returning to the page day after day whether they feel inspired or not. You have to work for it. You have to sweat it out. Languish in the doldrums. Ripen and rot under the unforgiving summer sun\u2026. and after a long enough sojourn into the word mines (as CW would put it), the lightning strikes.\nAnd when it does: well. It\u2019s like the first frosty breath of fall on a mid-October morning under a sky full of sapphires.\nChilly out there this morning.\nMakes me hungry for the blank page.\nLeave a comment\t| tags: first day of fall, inspiration, metaphor, metaphor monday, motivation, ramble, Writing\t| posted in metaphor monday, Ramble\nMetaphor Monday (Kind of): Your Eyes Are Idiots\nOkay, so you\u2019ve probably seen that before, but pretend that you haven\u2019t. Or step into your time machine and visit the thoughts and feelings and emotional earthquakes that your younger self experienced upon seeing it for the first time.\nAre you there? Good.\nYou glance at that picture, and immediately you see something.\n(Physiologically, your brain is doing just another of the million miracles it will do in any given day, but this is one you can be a little more conscious of. It interprets the lines. The brightnesses. The shadows. It forms these things into shapes and patterns. Then it goes and categorizes those shapes and patterns and tells you you are seeing \u2013)\nBam. A young lady, in a mink coat and choker, her face turned demurely away from you.\nBam. An old, homely woman, with craggy nose and chin, swaddled in furs, looking forlornly down and to the front.\nEither way, the moment you looked at it, you saw either the one image or the other. The A, or the B. And your brain can\u2019t process them both at the same time. So when you see the young lady in (A), you\u2019re locked in to that, and when you see the old crone in (B), you\u2019re locked in to that. And, probably, upon first viewing this illusion (or, as Neil de Grasse Tyson calls it, a \u201cbrain failure\u201d), you couldn\u2019t even conceive of the other possibility. \u201cYou don\u2019t see the old woman?\u201d \u201cNo, are you kidding?\u201d\nBut then, if you look at it long enough \u2014 oh, the choker is a mouth, now, and the little dot of the young lady\u2019s ear is the old woman\u2019s eye \u2014 then all of a sudden, the picture snaps from one reality to the other and the crone is all you see.\nYou can go back and forth on whether the girl in the picture is young or old, but you can\u2019t see them both at the same time. It\u2019s one or the other. X perspective gives Y result. Schroedinger\u2019s cat could be dead or alive before you open the box, but once you open it, the cat is either very much alive or very much not.\nThat\u2019s the funny thing about our brains, though; the image is neither that of a young lady or an old crone. The image is just a collection of lines and different areas of black and white. It\u2019s merely the suggestion of one form or another (or perhaps, of many forms), and it is only in the eye of the viewer that the image takes on any meaning at all.\nWhich brings me to this week\u2019s metaphor. (Which, if current trends continue, should just become \u201cthe weekly metaphor\u201d and not the \u201cMonday metaphor\u201d, but that\u2019s a digression for another non-Monday.)\nFor the past year and a half or so (actually, I should probably go back and look to make sure, but going back and looking to clarify is a thing that, today, right now, I will decidedly not be doing, because the answer would almost certainly destroy me emotionally), I\u2019ve been working on this story.\nIt\u2019s a good story. Or at least, it felt at its inception and on a conceptual level like a good story. But in the editing process \u2014 which is dragging now into the 6 month period, and given my progress (or lack thereof), is likely to go on for quite a good while longer \u2014 the story is failing. Or flailing. Probably a little of both. I feel like I have all the right pieces, arranged in the right way, working toward the right goal \u2014 but the outcome is not what I wanted. Worse than not what I wanted, it\u2019s not even functioning the way I intended. I asked for a picture of an aristocratic lady, and I got a hag instead.\nTo clarify this a little, I set out to write a \u201cVoyage and Return\u201d variant of the seven core stories. Add in a little \u201cOvercoming the Monster\u201d and it\u2019s on its way. But the more I edit, the more I chip away at this block of wood in front of me, the more it seems like the \u201cVoyage and Return\u201d story is the part that\u2019s falling flat. The much more powerful (and more interesting \u2014 at least to me) story is the secondary one, the Monster.\nProblem is, since I thought I was writing a V&R, I bent most of my energies and spent most of my words on that channel. On that perspective. On the cat being alive when we open the box.\nBut I think the cat is dead. I think it is very, very dead.\n(Have I mixed my metaphors enough for a Monday? {Sorry, a Tuesday.})\nAll of a sudden, though, I realized that the picture I\u2019m looking at doesn\u2019t have to be the picture I thought I was drawing. I thought I was drawing the young lady, but it turns out I was drawing the hag all along \u2014 and as it turns out, I think I like the hag better.\nIn short, I think the story is much more about the Monster than it is about the Voyage, possibly so much so that the Voyage (and the 40% of the novel that\u2019s directly concerned with it, to say nothing of the 70% that is at least tangentially concerned with it) is superfluous. Which is troubling. And I\u2019m sitting here pondering all the words I\u2019ve written, and all the fargoes I\u2019ve sunk into the story, and I\u2019m asking myself:\nDo I scrap 50% of the novel and start over?\nDo I trunk the entire project and move on to something that won\u2019t vex me so much? (Although that\u2019s its own Schroedinger\u2019s Cat, innit?)\nDo I wait a few days for the feeling, like an unexpected kidney stone, to pass?\nOne way or another, this crappy rabbit sure isn\u2019t helping anything.\nLeave a comment\t| tags: metaphor, metaphor monday, metaphors be with you, old woman young woman illusion, optical illusions, writer problems, Writing\t| posted in Ramble", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 30731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://actionawnings.com.au/testimonials/leonard-christine-main/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DYIP73VVURCRTILD73M7Q6MQU6HTXIFP", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "actionawnings.com.au", "title": "Leonard & Christine Main | Action Awnings", "raw_content": "We were very impressed throughout the whole process. We are very happy with the result.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2278, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 58.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adage.com/article/hearts-minds/hearts-minds-gompertz/131024/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OLJ4AHBOSBYQQZGYJJJNW3QCP5Q2PZOI", "length": 893, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "adage.com", "title": "Hearts & Minds: Will Gompertz | Hearts & Minds - Ad Age", "raw_content": "Hearts & Minds: Will Gompertz\nWill Gompertz, director of media at the U.K.'s Tate was featured in our Creativity 50 last year for his innovative approach to museum marketing. Gompertz was patron of the multi-awarded campaigns for the Tate Britain and Modern, including the Fallon, London's Grand Prix-honored pamphlets and posters effort that encouraged visitors to think up their own exhibit themes as well as the Tate Tracks initiative, in which underground musicians composed tunes inspired by Modern-housed works of art. Most recently, Gompertz has been steering Tate broadcast programming with the BBC and hired a team of well-known street artists to transform the outside walls of the Modern to promote the museum's recent Street Art exhibition. Read more about Gompertz in our Creativity 50 profile.\nMore info on Hearts & Minds:\nRead the whole agenda, and speaker list.\nSubscribers: $65", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://addictionresource.com/drug-rehab/oklahoma/tulsa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DFMVC36TFRIISZUVPAX6IMELCHPSHDSV", "length": 6800, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "addictionresource.com", "title": "Rehabs in Tulsa, Oklahoma: List of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers", "raw_content": "List of Best Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma\nHow does alcohol and drug rehab in Tulsa OK support successful patient recovery from substance abuse?\nWhat services are available for substance abuse rehab in Tulsa OK?\nFactors to consider when considering alcohol and drug rehabs in Tulsa OK\nKey facts and figures about the substance abuse problem in Tulsa OK\nDrug and Alcoholism Recovery Centers In Tulsa\nCenter for Therapeutic Interventions, Tulsa, Oklahoma\nWings of Freedom, Tulsa, Oklahoma\n12&12, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma\n6333 E. Skelly Dr.\nHuman Skills and Resources Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma\nBrookhaven Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma\n201 S. Garnett Road\nHow Many Treatment Centers are in Tulsa, OK?\nThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) includes a total of 7 centers for substance abuse in its publicly accessible database. It also lists 8 facilities capable of providing mental health services in and around Tulsa OK. Drug rehab in Tulsa is also provided by 7 physicians who are certified to support safe and successful patient withdrawal from opioid abuse with the use of buprenorphine. Special patient groups, including victims of violence and abuse, adolescents, women, and senior citizens may be able to access targeted services from one of over 20 health centers located in the area.\nMental health and substance abuse programs are strongly linked in Tulsa, OK. The strong association of available services for both thrusts are reflected in the institution of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (ODMHSAS). Services offered under the ODMHSAS firmly uphold its mandate, that includes active case finding, prevention and awareness, behavioral health case management, children\u2019s recovery center, and tribal-state relations. Other than providing counseling for Tulsa residents and non-residents, the state has also initiated the creation of the Oklahoma Drug and Mental Health Courts, the primary objective of its creation is to decriminalize qualified cases with a strong emphasis given on court-supervised treatment and rehab.\nSeeking treatment for substance abuse can cost a significant amount of resources on the part of the patient as well as his family. Free rehabs in Oklahoma are helping bridge this impediment to the promotion of the health and well-being of patients. Information about centers offering free drug rehab in Tulsa OK, including contact numbers, are widely available online. The state also maintains an active database of hotline numbers maintained by institutions that extend help to people experiencing specific issues associated with substance abuse, mental health or, both.\nWhat Treatment Options are Possible in Tulsa, OK?\nAll rehab programs require a drug and alcohol assessment in Tulsa OK. It is best to seek the help of a medical professional before proceeding to seek an appropriate institution that can support a recovering addict from successfully staying clean.\nApart from the wide availability of free rehab for substance abuse, there are also several centers offering luxury services for drug abuse treatment in Tulsa. Based on several considerations, a patient may be recommended for either inpatient or outpatient treatment. Inpatient drug rehab in Tulsa is typically recommended for cases that require safe, medication-assisted withdrawal. Outpatient drug rehab in Tulsa will likely combine treatment that promotes both substance abuse recovery and mental health.\nStill the patient and his loved ones will decide as to which treatment facility they must approach to obtain the best help that they can get. Rehab programs are offered by hospitals, health centers, and other similar recovery facilities that are either operated by the government or, by private entities.\nHow to Find the Best Addiction Treatment Center in Tulsa, OK?\nIt is always best to seek help immediately as soon as a substance abuse issue is suspected. In which case, there are a number of considerations that must be seriously weighed when making the decision to seek recovery healthcare in Tulsa. The top three considerations to make are listed below:\nSeek the proper service. Once a proper diagnosis has been made, the recommendations of the attending physician or counselor must be closely used to find the best possible services to help a patient safely and successfully recover from addiction.\nMake the rounds. It is not unusual for a patient and his family to visit several rehab facilities before actually enrolling in a particular rehab program. Factors that need to be considered other than finding the proper treatment that matches a patient\u2019s case include personal preferences for treatment setting and establishing a trust relationship with a provider.\nPresence of a strong support system. The best place to recover is a place where a patient can obtain a strong support from family and friends. In many instances, however, patients also find better acceptance among peers who are or, who have gone through similar problems with addiction. Most facilities will be able to connect patients with peer organizations like the Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous or, similar Oklahoma alcohol rehab and drug rehab peer groups.\nIf you or a loved one may be affected by addiction, now is the best time to seek help. Call (888)-459-5511 to find out what substance abuse treatment and recovery options are available in your area. We guarantee that all calls made through this number stay private and confidential.\nSubstance Abuse is a Real Problem in Tulsa, OK\nThe reported drug overdose death rate in Oklahoma in 2016 is 21.5% for every 100,000 population, according to the CDC report, which is higher than the national average equal to 19.8%. In the same year, the National Institute on Drug Abuse recorded 444 overdose deaths caused by opioid use. This number translates to 11.6% deaths per 100,000 population which is lower than the national rate reported to be 13.3%. The same report also stresses how opioid overdose may be aggravated by the high opioid prescription rate, pegged to be as high as 3.97 million prescriptions written by providers in 2015 alone. This represents a 101.7% rate per 100 persons versus the national average reported at 70%.\nThe Office of Adolescent Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services, based on a study it commissioned in 2015, also showed that 13% of adolescents at Grades 9 to 12 smoked a cigarette within 30 days prior to the survey. One-fourth of the respondents reported having a drink of alcohol during the same period, 32% ever had marijuana, 3% ever had cocaine, while 5% said that they had used painkillers for non-medical reasons.\nDrug and alcohol rehabs in Oklahoma\nAddiction Resource \u00bb Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers \u00bb Oklahoma rehabs \u00bb Tulsa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 330, "original_length": 12277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afiahealth.com/5-steps-to-becoming-a-data-driven-organization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJS2OQGIMM4SSM6CXLUMXI2GXEP5U5MD", "length": 587, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "afiahealth.com", "title": "5 Steps to Becoming a Data-Driven Organization | Afia", "raw_content": "The decade of data\nValue-based initiatives. Meaningful Use. MACRA. Predictive Analytics. It\u2019s 2017, and data is at the forefront of healthcare. How much data do you have? How good is it? What are you using it for? Every healthcare organization across the country is aware of the need to use information about their costs, outcomes, and service delivery to improve and optimize their business model. But the reality is that only a small minority are doing this well, putting themselves in a position where they are able to leverage data as a competitive advantage for their organizations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alamosanews.com/article/native-writes-thinking-about-the-planet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:55Z", "digest": "sha1:EADTVEQIMINPWXVU3H2STFUSL4J4B7LB", "length": 3138, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "alamosanews.com", "title": "Alamosa News | Native Writes: Thinking about the planet", "raw_content": "The days after any major holiday define anticlimactic.\nSpending large amounts of time on planning, execution and, yes, cleanup are followed by waiting for the next shoe to drop. At least it\u2019s that way for me.\nNothing really changes. Even with the end of daylight savings time, the body continues its set rhythm. I awaken at six, the clock says five and going back to sleep doesn\u2019t happen. The system doesn\u2019t \u201cfall back.\u201d\nI have long opposed changing the clocks twice each year and I believe there are many folks in agreement, but the change continues.\nBirds awaken with sunrise and tuck their heads under their wings at nightfall. They don\u2019t have clocks, it just happens. It is true with the animals in the fields and the critters in the forests. Nature dictates the rhythms, which appear to remain the same.\nA great deal of discussion is taking place on global warming, but this is not new. When my oldest son was in high school, he arrived home to tell me all the aerosol cans in the household had to go.\nHis concern was about the ozone layer. He is still gauging our \u201cfootprint,\u201d though he does own a few aerosol cans. A book on the old bookshelf offers recipes for making one\u2019s own cleaning substances, which can be installed with spray bottles from the dollar store.\nSome work, some don\u2019t. The recipes are for large quantities and I, admittedly mathematically challenged, may have mixed wrong.\nOh. Well. The ones that work are part of the \u201chousehold ammunition box.\u201d\nI think of global warming when the days in November show temperatures above 50 degrees. It\u2019s not bad here in Alamosa, but what will happen when the ice melts in the Arctic? What about the mountain snowpack?\nIt\u2019s hard to hear global warming questioned at the higher levels of government and watch actions taken to do away with various environmental protections, but there are things an individual can do.\nIn 1980, my oldest son was concerned about \u201ccattle flatulence\u201d damaging the ozone layer and creating a \u201cgreenhouse effect\u201d or warmer climate.\nI told him we couldn\u2019t afford to feed anti gas pills to every bovine in the fields, so we would need to control our own systems.\nBurp. We can only control ourselves.\nAs my favorite pro-smoking propagandist says in protection of his habit, \u201cWhen you start a car, it\u2019s like lighting up thousands of cigarettes.\u201d\nThe nation seems to have a love affair going with the internal combustion engine. Anyone who has tried to break up someone else\u2019s love affair is destined to fail.\nRefueling an electric car lessens the \u201cfootprint\u201d at the home garage and a growing number of gas stations around the country but generating that \u201cfuel\u201d takes place somewhere and tickles the ozone layer.\nNot being a scientist, I rely on experts for information and hate it when the most vocal are the least trustworthy.\nI grew up listening to the song, \u201cQue Sera, Sera.\u201d\nThe future\u2019s not ours to see, but we can change it a lot as individuals.\nStill Waters: Scenes of quiet heroism\nLand, Water and People: Kudos to the Saguache-Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee\nStill Waters: Blessings from Bill's basket\nNative Writes: A little old lady", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alienhappyhour.com/movieclub/2017/10/16/hocus-pocus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:T5RYCXPW4KEBJ7EY2HYBRY37DBXDCDSQ", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "alienhappyhour.com", "title": "Hocus Pocus \u2014 Alien Happy Hour", "raw_content": "Movie Club is just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alison.com/course/strategic-management-decision-making-processes-and-tools-revised", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:01Z", "digest": "sha1:NH6XITNKKS2XJIUXER4WEEXLJRWU4YRB", "length": 2021, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "alison.com", "title": "Strategic Management - Decision Making | Online | Alison", "raw_content": "Strategic Management - Decision Making Processes and Tools - Revised\nStudy the decision-making process and learn about the tools used to successfully implement long-term goals and objectives.\nStrategic Management - Decision-Making Process and Tools is a course that will show you how top managers use the decision making process and associated tools to implement long-term goals and objectives.\nThe course opens with an introduction to the decision making process involved in strategic management. You will learn about important decision making steps, from determining the mission or purpose of an organization to specifying objectives and goals to formulating a strategic plan and through to monitoring, reviewing and evaluating the strategic plan.\nThe course will then introduce you to important subjects in strategic management, such as strategic competitiveness, strategic risk, strategic flexibility, and internal and external analysis and what role they play in the decision-making process.\nFinally, you will learn more about the 7-S Framework from McKinsey. This management model is used as an organizational analysis tool to assess and monitor changes in the internal situation of an organization. The components of the 7-S Framework are: Structure, Systems, Style, Staff, Skills, Strategy and Super Ordinate Goals. You will learn how a change in any one of these components of an organization can be analyzed to determine its effect on the other components.\nThis course will be of great interest to managers and professionals in the area of strategic management, who would like to learn more about effective decision making processes that can guide a business's future direction.\nDescribe the decision making process in Strategic Management:\nDescribe internal and external analysis;\nDescribe Mintzberg\u2019s Modes of Strategic Decision Making;\nDescribe aspects of corporate planning;\nDescribe a conceptual model of corporate planning;\nList the 7-S Framework;\nDescribe the role of each component of the 7-S Framework.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 7578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 196.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://almost-arlecchino.blogspot.com/2007/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:04Z", "digest": "sha1:3C6PXQ6TI6E775CEDKGQZTBLRKK32CMT", "length": 4057, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "almost-arlecchino.blogspot.com", "title": "Songs of the not-so innocent", "raw_content": "Running against the wind...\nDo you know what it feels like to sit with your face in your hands, completely depressed and wretched for 93 minutes ? I do.\nDo you know the feeling of an indescribable joy begin somewhere in your toes and burst into your brain after the aforementioned 93 minutes ? I know that too.\nI woke up this morning to find out that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has retired from football. To not see him on the pitch any more in the familiar Manchester United no. 20 shirt leaves me with a hollow feeling somewhere inside. How soon before the Welsh wizard and the Ginger ninja are gone as well ?\nAnd how in the name of all that is decent is the Indian team going to replace Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman and Kumble when they retire ? Granted, the Australians went through something similar, but they were the Australians.\nGenerations are defined by their sporting heroes. We spend countless hours reliving those incredible moments, remembering exactly where we were and what we were doing as they were being etch\u2026\nThe boy stood on the burning deck...\nI've often been told that I'm unique... and more in the spirit of a spat-cum-hissed epithet rather than a compliment. In one regard though, I'm fairly confident that I am of the majority - I loathe exams. Completely and absolutely.\n(So, why am I doing another Master's degree at present ? Because I am a glutton for punishment)\nWithin a few weeks, I had contrived to fit in with the rest of the public in my Anthro class, basically because they were the friendliest bunch I'd ever met. But, a sense of bonhomie was not going to help me in the mid-semester exams that were approaching with the clinical purpose one of those carnivores one sees so often on Animal Planet. I was approaching the mid-sems with a sense of trepidation and decided that there had to be some truth in the old adage about misery loving company and all that. So, I brought up the subject of the papers with Gaurav. You know how it is... people egging each other on with an absolutely transparent and blatantl\u2026\n'twas one of those times...\nA few sporting shockers have occurred over the last 2 days. For one, Manchester United, one of the many blights of my existence, managed to draw their first game at home against some not-so-scary opposition. So what do the fans get for having seen the spending of over $40 million over the summer ? A chap with a broken foot sidelined for 2 months. This would be fine if the chap in question was say... Wes Brown, no offence to him. Unfortunately, its Wayne Rooney. Enough said.\nNumber two on the list is the fact that Roger Federer has lost a final... to a guy who admittedly beat Nadal and Roddick on his way. But the reason Federer is Federer is precisely because he's not some clay court specialist or a 24 year old has-been... which makes the whole affair as surreal as Roger's regular game. All I can think of is that some poor sods have been cheated out of a sure bet.\nNumber three, and admittedly my favourite is the news that India has pulled off a test series win, not against the us\u2026\nApparently, suffering indescribable torments before being admitted to the dept. wasn't good enough. Either that or somebody conveniently assumed I was a masochist.\nStill reeling from the fact that I was to face 10 papers for the mid term exams in a month's time (I was already a month behind, remember ?) I shakily made my way for my first class which happened to be in the lab; Anth - 110: Biological Anthropology (Practical I). It may not sound like much, but in my condition that was probably the best place to begin. For one thing, I didn't really have to speak to any one (not that that stopped a few, mind you). For another, and I'm not being morbid, there were skulls all over the place. I quietly took my place in a suitable corner.\nA big chap with a tentatively curious yet friendly expression on his face stepped up and introduced himself as Gaurav. We chatted for a bit before in walked a lean, unshaven, dishevelled looking fellow in spectacles who from first appearances,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 6417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/02/emanuel-dean-snoop-dogg-producer-obituary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6XW3TU2GT7TQFWYPPFQ4FQ44CWWUEV2G", "length": 4805, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ambrosiaforheads.com", "title": "Snoop Dogg Producer Emanuel Dean Has Passed Away", "raw_content": "One Of G-Funk\u2019s Most Important Producers Has Passed Away\nMusic producer and keyboardist Emanuel Dean died on Monday (February 4). The man Dean called his best friend, Tha Dogg Pound\u2019s Daz Dillinger, confirmed the passing on social media. A native of Oklahoma, Dean significantly contributed to at least two hits on Snoop Dogg\u2019s 1993 debut, Doggystyle. Specifically, Dean and Daz have previously stated that the late musician played on Top 10 singles, \u201cGin & Juice\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s My Name?\u201d The latter was reportedly made on the second day that Dean joined Dr. Dre\u2019s Death Row Records production ensemble, which oversaw the album.\nWhile Emanuel Dean\u2019s cause of death is unknown at this time, Kenya Ware spoke with Ambrosia For Heads about the loss and the man. A close friend of the man she knew as \u201cE,\u201d Ware is the creator of DPG TV and mother of Daz\u2019s first son. She is also the creator and executive producer of the upcoming reality TV series, Ladies Of Death Row. Ware says that she was among the first to learn of Emanuel\u2019s passing, and notified other members of the Pound. \u201cI still talked to him [regularly]; I just spoke to him two weeks ago,\u201d Ware said by phone Wednesday afternoon (February 6). \u201cMonday night at eight o\u2019clock, I get the call.\u201d Dean\u2019s girlfriend notified Ware of his unexpected death.\nDaz Dillinger Says He Produced Some Of The Classics Credited To Dr. Dre & Names Them (Video)\nDean\u2019s history with Daz goes back to the 1980s. Back in Oklahoma, the two reportedly came from a musical background in the church, with Dean on keys and the DPG member on drums. The two also DJ\u2019d together and were part of a circle that also included Adrian Miller, a veteran music executive that manages Anderson .Paak. Miller and Dean remained quite close in recent years according to Ware. Despite his critical role on the quadruple-platinum Death Row Records release, Dean spent the next 25 years fighting for proper credit, recognition, and compensation.\nDean alleged that he did not receive publishing on the songs. He is not credited for his Snoop contributions, apart from a \u201cthank you\u201d in the liner notes. That acknowledgment, made to \u201cPorkchop,\u201d referenced a title that Dean strongly disliked. \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t it be \u2018Emanuel Dean\u2019 instead of \u2018Porkchop?\u2019 That\u2019s what I would have really loved,\u201d he said to interviewer Damian Zellous in 2003\u2019s DPG Eulogy. That conversation is available below. \u201cBut I know I did \u2018Gin & Juice,\u2019 and I know Dr. Dre cannot play any music. He definitely made the beat. But as far as music, he watched. And I definitely did what I had to do.\u201d\nIn the same interview, Dean recalled being paid between $5,000 and $6,000 for his Doggystyle contributions. \u201cI asked [Dr. Dre] for credit and money, and he said, \u2018For what?\u2019 I already had a publishing deal offered to me the day before [this conversation] by EMI.\u201d As Death Row\u2019s co-founder valued Dean\u2019s contributions differently, the musician gave a week\u2019s notice of his departure. \u201cI still want my credit,\u201d Dean told the DPG Uncut cameras less than three years ago.\nIn the same video, Daz credited Dean\u2019s contributions on \u201cGin & Juice\u201d as well. \u201cHe played all the keyboards and all the melodies. Dr. Dre, he came up with the drums, but he should\u2019ve given him some credit or something for that [work].\u201d Daz would involve Dean on the multi-platinum Dogg Food album two years later.\nSnoop Says Doggystyle Broke The Color Barrier For Gangsta Rap (Video)\nBeyond Doggystyle, Dean produced and oversaw Militia, including their video single \u201cBurn.\u201d Other credits include production and mixing on Tha Dogg Pound\u2019s 1996 cover of EPMD\u2019s \u201cKnick Knack Patty Wack,\u201d co-production on DPG\u2019s \u201cReality,\u201d and co-production on Jermaine Dupri\u2019s \u201cWhatever.\u201d He also worked with Jade and Christopher Williams.\n\u201cThis is the man here that gave me my start in the music business, and he put me in a good position to make something happen,\u201d Dean said of Daz in a 2018 video conversation.\nComedian & Actor Ricky Harris Has Passed Away At Age 54\nOther figures from Doggystyle have died. Singer Nate Dogg and comedian Ricky Harris have both died in the last decade. \u201cIt makes me [remember] Tupac. Tupac was my boy; I was there. When a person\u2019s dead, everybody is coming around. [Look at] Ricky Harris. Give the people their flowers while they\u2019re here,\u201d she says. \u201cI met [Emanuel Dean] through Daz, 25 or 26 years ago\u2026I gave him all of his interviews. He was hurt.\u201d Ware says that as Dean was bothered by his compensation and unwritten legacy, she wanted to be a sounding board. \u201cIf you can give somebody your time, time is the most valuable.\u201d Ware says that in recent years, Dean kept a studio that he offered to other musicians.\nAFH extends condolences to the family and friends and Emanuel Dean.\n#BonusBeat: DPG TV\u2019s 2018 conversation with Daz and Emanuel:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anopensuitcase.com/walt-disney-records-set-to-release-the-legacy-collection-box-set/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7L7Q32RMNVHPTSXL77JE4ACVHILF6RLT", "length": 4498, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "anopensuitcase.com", "title": "Walt Disney Records Set to Release the Legacy Collection Box Set", "raw_content": "Walt Disney Records Set to Release the Legacy Collection Box Set\nAWARD-WINNING DISNEY FILM SOUNDTRACKS COMBINE IN A\n12-ALBUM BOX SET\nTHE LEGACY COLLECTION BOX SET AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 13TH\nOne of this year\u2019s most acclaimed series of special edition albums, Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection, will be released November 13TH in a long-awaited, 12-album, 28-disc collectors\u2019 box gift set. The individual albums celebrate the anniversaries of Disney\u2019s most cherished and classic films that have been enchanting audiences for generations.\nThis CD series combines great songs, background scores and rare recordings from over a half-century of animation classics\u2013plus music from Disneyland\u00ae Park. In addition to remastered tracks, each album in Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection Box Set comes in its own hardcover book, filled with art treasures, exclusive essays, and new illustrations by Lorelay Bov\u00e9, a visual development artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios (\u201cTangled\u201d, \u201cWinnie the Pooh\u201d, \u201cWreck-It Ralph\u201d). Bove was recently named one of \u201810 Animators to Watch\u2019 by Variety (March 3, 2015) and her art can be seen in the hardcover book, Lovely: Ladies of Animation: The Art of Lorelay Bove, Brittney Lee, Claire Keane, Lisa Keene, Victoria Ying and Helen Chen.\nDesigned for display, all 12 albums are presented in a specially fitted collectors\u2019 slipcase. The 28-disc Walt Disney RecordsThe Legacy Collection Box Set contains over 130 songs; 270 instrumentals; 75 \u201cLost Chords\u201d deleted songs and demos; and much more\u2013totaling over 25 hours of matchless entertainment for all ages.\nThe 12 albums in the new box set are as follows:\nThe Oscar\u00ae and Grammy\u00ae-winning songs by Elton John and score by Hans Zimmer plus 30 minutes of expanded underscore and Lost Chords demos not used in the film.\nJulie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in an artistic triumph of Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers, including the world premiere recording of the lost song, \u201cThe Eyes of Love.\u201d Album includes the Sherman Brothers\u2019 demos of the film\u2019s songs and is the largest collection of Lost Chords original demos and new versions in the entire series.\nThe magnificent music of Tchaikovsky is transformed into one of Disney\u2019s most dramatic and memorable scores, plus special versions from vinyl record master tracks.\nHoward Ashman and Alan Menken\u2019s multi-award-winning music and songs with the original demo recordings and previously unreleased background score.\nLeopold Stokowski\u2019s complete FantaSound score from the innovative film, the complete digital score conducted by Irwin Kostal plus bonus tracks by Sterling Holloway.\nOne of the most brilliant scores in movie history\u2014it introduced \u201cWhen You Wish Upon a Star\u201d\u2014plus six new-to-CD Mickey Mouse Club songs sung by Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards).\nThe Oscar\u00ae-nominated score and all the songs from the animated classic, plus The Lost Chords, featuring 7 original demos and new versions.\nRandy Newman\u2019s hit songs and score from the Disney/Pixar\u2019s landmark animated feature, as well as bonus tracks and three never-before-released background tracks.\nMajestic music of Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (\u201cWicked\u201d) plus songs that were deleted from the finished score and original demos sung by Menken himself.\nAn eagerly requested soundtrack in the series showcasing the vocal and songwriting genius of Peggy Lee, plus bonus track and rare demos.\nFrom the Disney film favorite comes the famous score, including songs by the Sherman Brothers, the voices of Phil Harris and Maurice Chevallier. This is the first time the original soundtrack has been available in its entirety.\nBeginning with the recordings from the opening day of Disneyland in 1955, the collection guides the listener down Main Street U.S.A., through the greatest attractions, shows and lands that exist today and those that are a happy memory.\nThe release of Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection Box Set marks the first time such a massive body of musical and visual masterworks have been contained in a single package.\nWalt Disney Records The Legacy Collection Box Set 12-album, 28-disc set will be released on November 13, 2015 and is now available for pre-order at disneymusicemporium.com. For more information on the Disney Music Emporium, please visit DisneyMusicEmporium.com, become a fan at Facebook.com/disneymusicemporium or follow us at Twitter.com/DisneyMusicEmp or follow us at Twitter.com/DisneyMusicEmp.\nblog, Disney Music/Films Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 7673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apiworx.com/api-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2NX2S3OAT6ESX2ITT3EKYJ7PEJDD2K4", "length": 2511, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "apiworx.com", "title": "API History: What They Are And Where They\u2019re From", "raw_content": "Much of the changes that take place in the world of software hinges on APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). They have been a hot topic among developers, but only a few people are acquainted on what they are and where they\u2019re from. Although, we interact with APIs every day, many still underestimate its impact on web applications. Here\u2019s a brief API history to better understand their uses.\nFirst, let us define the word API. An API is software programming written to bridge the communication between web applications. It pulls or shares data within the firewall of a company or over the internet. 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In fact, it is the first to widely demonstrate the power of \u201cAPI mash-ups\u201d \u2013 using content from more than one source. Thanks to these mash-ups, you are able to see which bands are playing in what location, track your running routes and highlight hiking trails near your home.\nBut, the API history did not start with Google Maps. Its popularity is what made the wheel turn. Many developers hacked their code for use on other sites and forced the application to release an API that the former can use without the need to hack. That API and others are what changed the face of the Internet \u2013 forever. Click here for more blogs about APIs.\nTags: API, API mash-ups\nhttps://i2.wp.com/apiworx.com/wp-content/uploads/ipad-632394_640.jpg?fit=640%2C425&ssl=1 425 640 https://apiworx.com/logos/apiworx_logo_small.png 2018-08-15 13:32:262018-08-15 00:56:50API History: What Is It And Where It's From\nThe Future of Your Business Relies on Efficient API Integration\nAPIs: What to Consider when Pricing Them The World without APIs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 5334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apnews.com/e4d70f1a9a9041908250817d2ebd10c1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HBXC3H45SAQPDLEMG2NUGT62GA7SMYJC", "length": 4184, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "apnews.com", "title": "In Uganda, a Rwandan exile goes missing", "raw_content": "Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/e4d70f1a9a9041908250817d2ebd10c1\nIn Uganda, a Rwandan exile goes missing\nRODNEY MUHUMUZAAugust 22, 2013\nKAMPALA, Rwanda (AP) \u2014 One Rwandan refugee is missing and another was almost taken from Uganda\u2019s capital, officials said Thursday, in the latest case highlighting Rwanda\u2019s uneasy relationship with exiles who have fled the country.\nThe two refugees once served on Rwandan President Paul Kagame\u2019s security detail and are wanted by Rwanda.\nOne of the refugees, Innocent Kalisa, is missing and was likely abducted, said Douglas Asiimwe, a Ugandan government refugee protection official. A second refugee, Joel Mutabazi, was almost sent back to Rwanda this week before refugee officials intervened, he said.\nKaren Ringuette, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Uganda, said Mutabazi\u2019s case was one of some \u201cvery serious security incidents\u201d involving refugees in Uganda. She said the UNCHR would soon send a letter of protest to Uganda\u2019s government over Mutabazi\u2019s case.\nMutabazi, a former Rwandan army lieutenant who had been under the watch of refugee workers because of a previous attempt on his life, was almost taken Tuesday by Ugandan police acting on an Interpol notice from Rwanda, said Asiimwe, who works in the office of the prime minister. The other refugee, Kalisa, \u201cdisappeared and we don\u2019t know where he is,\u201d he said.\nMusa Ecweru, a Ugandan government minister who is in charge of refugees, said the matter was \u201cdelicate\u201d because it involved a foreign government. But Mutabazi \u201cis now safe,\u201d he said.\nThe two cases add to a growing list of Rwandan exiles who say they are afraid to return home because they could be jailed or killed by the government they once served, charges often denied by Rwandan officials who insist those who flee their own country tend to have a criminal record.\nRwandan police confirmed in a statement that they had asked Ugandan authorities to arrest Mutabazi. \u201cOur counterparts in the Uganda Police had legitimate grounds to arrest Mutabazi on the basis of a valid Interpol request and to initiate his extradition to Rwanda in keeping with their international obligations,\u201d the statement said.\nAlthough the Interpol notice said Mutabazi was a criminal wanted in Rwanda the Rwandan had lived in Uganda since 2011 and was known to refugee workers who believed he deserved special protection because of a previous attempt on his life.\n\u201cThis was not a criminal,\u201d Asiimwe said, referring to Mutabazi. \u201cWhy do they want to criminalize him at this stage? If we hadn\u2019t arrived in time they were going to take him.\u201d\nA Ugandan police spokesman, Patrick Onyango, said Rwanda on Aug. 14 sent a formal request for the arrest and extradition of Mutabazi, who is accused of robbing a bank in Kigali in September 2011. He called it a routine Interpol request.\nMaria Burnett, a senior Africa researcher with Human Rights Watch, said her group is \u201cvery concerned\u201d for the safety of Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees in Uganda. She said the Rwandans are \u201cfrequently threatened and there have been several other reports of abductions and attempted abductions.\u201d\nDespite a positive economic outlook that has made Rwanda a favorite of foreign investors since the country\u2019s 1994 genocide, Kagame\u2019s government retains a fearsome reputation in the eyes of exiles who once worked for it. Many accuse Kagame of restricting the political space available for the opposition and of harassing independent-minded critics.\nMany journalists and former civilian and military officials have fled Rwanda, alleging persecution. In the most prominent case, Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a Rwandan army chief who once was a close Kagame ally, defected to South Africa in 2010 and later accused Rwanda\u2019s government of ordering a failed attempt to assassinate him. Rwanda denied the allegations.\nMutabazi once was a member of Kagame\u2019s security team and is one of about eight Rwandan ex-servicemen who have defected to Uganda over safety concerns back home. 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The restorative material will be removed to enable access to the root canal. Dr. Patel will now clean your canals and carefully examine the inside of the problematic tooth using magnification and illumination for additional canals or unusual anatomy that needs to be addressed. Once the canals are cleaned, they are filled and sealed with root canal filling material and a temporary filling is placed in the access opening of the tooth. After the treatment is completed you will need to return to your dentist as soon as possible in order to have a new crown or restoration placed on the tooth to restore full functionality.\nIt is very important for come back for a follow-up visit in 6 months to monitor the healing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artbriefly.com/artist-at-work-details-made-all-the-difference-for-upholstery-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:29Z", "digest": "sha1:A6DROJ3JATYFC6MJB2BMND7OJQYASH4H", "length": 1200, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "artbriefly.com", "title": "Artist at work: Details made all the difference for upholstery business - Art Briefly", "raw_content": "Artist at work: Details made all the difference for upholstery business\nLori and Mark Madonna met on a blind date in high school. Mark was shy, so friends set them up. But unlike most teen romances, this one worked. Apparently luck was on Mark\u2019s side because about that same time, he landed a $3 an hour job in his neighbor\u2019s Riverside garage, where he began learning the basics of upholstery. He discovered he had a knack for it, and soon he was asked to reupholster a neighbor\u2019s chairs, then his high school teacher\u2019s bucket seats. But the ultimate test came when his brother hired him to do his cherished Mustang. He passed. This early experience led to a string of related jobs, including working in a vinyl repair shop and refurbishing street hot rod cars. But it wasn\u2019t until Mark\u2019s custom craftsmanship appeared in the centerfold of a hot rod magazine that people really began taking notice. He landed a job as manager of an upholstery shop, where he was finally able to make a living wage. 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Through the eyes of patients and their families we discover the inherent humanity that empowers the best of us to care for those beyond cure.\nThis is an intimate, hopeful and life-affirming story of living well and dying better, advocating for making the most of every moment in our life before death.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artxlagos.com/visitor-guidelines/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TF3JMPYJWJMVSWZS4AAOBQLCT2HDAGMD", "length": 1181, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "artxlagos.com", "title": "Visitor Guidelines \u2013 ART X Lagos \u2013 West Africa's 1st International Art Fair", "raw_content": "To ensure the safety and comfort of ART X Lagos visitors, please be aware of and make a note of the following:\nPlease ask exhibitors before taking photos at the booth.\nConsumption of food inside the show venue is prohibited during show times.\nDuring the fair, visitors can head to our designated waterfront caf\u00e9 where food and drinks can be purchased from a selection of vendors.\nBags brought into the show venue will be searched by security personnel at the entry and exit points. All visitors must comply with requests from our security staff.\nPhotography is allowed for personal use only. No professional cameras with long lenses, flashes, extendable camera devices (i.e. monopods, tripods etc.) are permitted without a Press Pass (email press@artxlagos.com to request for one).\nPress, promotional photography and filming will take place on the show premises during show times. Attendance at the fair implies permission for your image to be used in post-event reportage of the fair.\nDogs and other pets are not permitted within the show venue, with the exception of certified service animals for visitors with disabilities.\nSmoking is permitted only in designated smoking areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ask.metafilter.com/316298/Why-make-a-house-a-Home", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5PC75XDP7QKHX2WFMVKQBWS7V4FDTSTI", "length": 52716, "nlines": 202, "source_domain": "ask.metafilter.com", "title": "Why make a house a Home? - housebuying societaldemands resolved | Ask MetaFilter", "raw_content": "Why make a house a Home?\nLately, we've been thinking about buying a house in the next few years, but have come upon the existential questions of Why? Why do we *need* to buy a home? How will it better our lives? It doesn't seem to be worth the hassle, and almost feels like a societal push to buy. Bean-plating below the cut.\nSo we are:\n- Mid-30s Hetero-Appearing-Queer couple, both accustomed to questioning traditions and expectations\n- No kids happening\n- No dogs happening\n- Live in a medium size city\n- Currently Rent in the neighborhood we would like to buy in\n- Share a car and use public transport\n- Both work fulfilling jobs and have local hobbies\nAs we've been starting to browse listings and talk about what we would want in a house, the question also comes up of WHY do we want to buy a house? All of the seemingly standard reasons (\"It's Ours\", \"We don't want to deal with living with others\", \"You're just throwing away money by renting, plus a mortgage is cheaper\", etc.) tends to have a very valid counterpoint that makes it no longer a strong reason:\n- A mortgage in the area we are living will not be cheaper than our rent\n- While both of us *can* be handy at fixing things, neither of us want to be and would rather throw money at a professional to fix it correctly the first time.\n- Our landlord is really chill and open to discussing improvements to our apartment that we want to make\n- He is also super quick on maintenance (both small and big scale)\n- We don't need to invest in a yard or school neighborhoods for kids or dogs\n- We generally don't mind living surrounded by others (we like living in a city).\n- Real estate is not the 'sound investment' it was in our parents' day, and one of us has been burned before by having to sell for less than market value\n- Up-keeping a house is EXPENSIVE, especially when we like quirky, older homes that have 'character' (read: potential issues).\n- We're #DamnMillenials and need to ruin yet another market.\nSo other than this deep seated \"This Is A Thing You Are Supposed To Do As An Adult\", what's the point of buying a home?\nIf you own a house, why are you glad (or not) that you did?\nWhat drove you to buy, and what makes home ownership \"worth it\" for you?\nIf you decided not to buy (or did and wish you hadn't), what were your reasons?\nposted by RhysPenbras to Home & Garden (40 answers total) 21 users marked this as a favorite\nWhen you say a mortgage will not be cheaper, do you simply mean the cash amount you pay each month? If so, you're neglecting the value of accruing capital, and the value of the mortgage tax deduction. These two things make buying a good financial proposition for most people who can afford it.\nIt was also true for a long time that the value of most housing appreciated, so one made a profit when one sold. This is less true, but still often true, now. If you don't think this is true for your neighborhood, you might not want to take the risk, but even a small loss at sale might be worth the advantages I listed above, over time.\nAnecdata: I have bought seven and sold six domiciles in Texas, New Jersey, New York and Maryland. I made a profit (albeit tiny in one case) on all but one of these, and even on that one the loss was offset over time. I am also a lot older than you, so YMMV.\nposted by ubiquity at 10:06 AM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nIt is A-ok to keep renting! The big reason I enjoyed renting was that all of the maintenance was someone else's problem. But now that I own (again), I enjoy the ability to make things Exactly the way I want them, even if that involves relatively major things (and finding an excellent handyman who can Do those things helps). My big upside to owning was that it ended up being better financially - both because of the mortgage interest deduction reducing my taxes by more than I'd imagined and because I sold for much more than I bought for.\nBut really - if you like the location, like your landlord, and don't want the hassles that come with owning? Keep renting - it will make you no less of an adult. Heck, it will make you more of an adult because you're being thoughtful with your lives instead of doing the thing people Think they should do but don't always enjoy.\nposted by ldthomps at 10:06 AM on November 29, 2017 [9 favorites]\nWe are glad that we bought (in LA), but it was certainly a timing issue. It created equity in our house that is nice to have (assuming the market doesn't tank), and it allowed us to upgrade to a bigger house based on that equity. Our mortgage is lower than rent in this area, and it allows enough space for children that we couldn't get otherwise. The \"not throwing money away on rent\" has always been a compelling thing for me, but again, it's because our house value has gone up.\nIt is nice to have something you know is yours. However, I'm not handy either, and I'm finding it's very possible to be house-poor if you aren't careful when repairs are up to you.\nIn the end, I'm glad that we did it, because it turned out to be a good investment in a place that we don't share walls and have a fenced in yard. All things put together, it was a net gain all around in terms of money and quality of life. If any of the above did not attain, I'm not sure it would have been a good deal. For me, rent is worth it simply to know that I wouldn't have to worry about major repairs.\nposted by SpacemanStix at 10:11 AM on November 29, 2017\nI was you for a really long time, until I realized how bad it would suck to be subject to the whims of the rental market as a retiree in the East Coast market. I'm looking at houses right now, and it will be payed off by the time I hit 65. I'm a young X'er, so a few years ahead of you, but if you're in a place where you plan to be for the long haul, then that's a pretty good reason to buy.\nposted by backwards compatible at 10:13 AM on November 29, 2017 [11 favorites]\nHow long do you plan to stay in your city? I bought in 2008 in MPLS and could not buy now - housing prices have shot up everywhere, as have rents. If I did not own, I could very well be forced out of the city (which would hugely increase my costs since I'd have to buy a car) within five or ten years. Right now, my mortgage/insurance/taxes costs slightly less than a two bedroom apartment (which would be what we'd rent). This was not the case in 2008.\nposted by Frowner at 10:17 AM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nIf we hadn't bought we wouldn't be able to stay near my husband's job. Rents in our area have gone way up since we bought, and our fixed mortgage has us locked into an affordable cost of housing. The repairs are a pain, no doubt. But for us it was a fortunate decision. When we're too old to work we'll have a place to live, at the very least.\nFor us it was primarily driven by security; even if the mortgage was 'more expensive' we were buying stability with that (I realize that this value may not be as important to you). Your area appears to be different, but we live in a hood that sees double-digit percentage increase on rent on a pretty regular basis (with signs of slowing, but not stopping). Even though our mortgage was slightly more than our rent, we get a long-term stability that we did not get with renting.\nWe've had chill landlords and difficult ones, and even chill ones who become difficult. Not having to deal with that dynamic was nearly priceless for us. I'd rather call a plumber to come out on a weekend and pay out the nose (or christ, just fix it myself) instead of having to jump through hoops to have things half-assed on a weird time schedule by a sketchy landlord.\nThe sense of permanence for us was really important, having had several years of moving almost every 6 months.\nWe didn't plan on it as A Thing, but the equity that we've built in the house just from owning it in a certain timeframe has been a boon too. Our house has appreciated by 6 figures or so in just a couple years. We're looking at that money to possibly finance a small business, help with some school expenses down the road for the kid, stuff like that. It's just a flexibility and value that we wouldn't have access to had we just been renting.\nposted by furnace.heart at 10:22 AM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nI'd also caution you about making a decision based on how much you like your current landlord, as he could sell your place at any time.\nposted by fingersandtoes at 10:23 AM on November 29, 2017 [20 favorites]\nThe mortgage interest tax deduction is definitely not a sure thing at today's low interest rates. You need to do the math for your specific case. In my case it turned out to be less than the standard deduction so there was no point to itemizing.\nAlso, the maintenance costs (on the same sort of quirky older home you are talking about) were much more of an issue than any slight change in my taxes. Don't uproot a life you like for a tax deduction. I owned a house for a little more than a year. I was very lucky to have bought in a truly crazy market where even in that short time the price rose enough to offset the (ruinous) transaction costs of buying and selling, once I realized what a poor choice ownership was for me. In another market I could easily have been stuck there for years, slowly going broke trying to keep the place together (I've known many people in that situation). I am very happy to be renting again and will do so as long as I can afford it.\nI am pretty meh about the idea of owning something, and had a big freakout about owning property and being \"tied down\" right after I finalized my condo purchase. But I bought property, anyway.\nOne benefit of buying that I didn't anticipate at all, is that it now allows me to stay in my city with relative peace of mind. Similar to what Frowner said, my city has seen an insane increase in property prices, so much so that dual-income, no kids professional couples cannot seem to qualify for mortgages anymore. My friends have had to move to the suburbs, 30+ minutes away, because now the prices are out of reach in our city. Staying on as a renter is also a precarious situation to be in - lots of families getting reno-victed out of their reasonably priced rental units and find themselves unable to compete in a very tight rental market where rents are increasing faster than salaries can keep up, and the vacancy rate is something like 0.9%.\nposted by tinydancer at 10:26 AM on November 29, 2017 [12 favorites]\nI bought because I intend to own a home where I live for a long time and rent kept going up in the area at a rate that exceeded the cost of living/inflation rate by quite a bit. I've now got more or less the same \"rent\" indefinitely with only minor increases as taxes and insurance go up. I also can't be forced to move until I chose to - I've been in situations in the past where the property I lived in was sold to new landlords that either altered the lease when it came time to renew in ways that were unacceptable or decided to renovate to make the place more upscale such that I had to move out at the end of my lease to make way for the construction work.\nBut if your market isn't like mine or you just don't want to, there's nothing wrong with continuing to rent. Even if the investment pans out in the long run, locking a lot of your savings into a downpayment and the growing ownership of the house does make it harder for you to do other things.\nposted by Candleman at 10:31 AM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nI think it's excellent that you're thinking this through and not assuming renting is the One Right Thing To Do, it definitely gets pushed that way and isn't always. That said, I'm glad we did buy.\nAt the time, we bought largely because my partner wanted to build a recording studio, which required a level of \"being able to fuck around with the house's structure and interior\" that not even the most accommodating landlord is going to provide. So our reason was pretty specific and not applicable to you. But he no longer has the studio, and I still think that if we ever move (which we surely will eventually if only because we'll get too old for all these stairs one day), I think I would still want to buy again vs. rent.\nThe things I enjoy specifically about owning my home vs. renting are:\n- Freedom to do what I want in terms of decoration, landscaping, renovations, etc. and knowing that freedom doesn't depend on a specific landlord or property management company.\n- Freedom to make tons of noise that I couldn't politely make in an apartment building (but could make in a rental house, so this is a relative thing)\n- Not being priced out of my neighborhood, where house prices are slowly but steadily increasing\n- Finding a place to rent with three cats was a giant pain, I hope to never have to deal with that again.\n- No more fighting for street parking\n- Having a predictable housing price locked in for fifteen years has been lovely, not having to worry about whether rent will go up.\nStuff I don't love has included:\n- There will always be more repairs than you budgeted for. Always. I would buy newer construction despite my love for old houses, if I bought again.\n- Sure, I bought into my neighborhood when it was cheap and now I have equity, but also I'm stuck with a terrible neighbor who hates me and we're going to be in a twenty-year feud until she dies, which is annoying.\n- Being responsible for stuff like \"replacing the sidewalk because the city decided it was time to replace the sidewalk but for me to foot the bill\", which is not a thing that all cities do, but there's probably some annoying bullshit your city will make you responsible for as a homeowner.\n- Public transit funding has waxed and waned over the years so for a while, that \"great transit access\" that was part of the reason we bought this place, stopped being so great. It's better again now but I can't count on it staying that way.\nThere's good stuff. There's bad stuff. The individual balance is really up to you two and your specific wants and values. Renting a house instead of an apartment worked well for us for several years before we bought, and might be a good idea for you two to test out living in a house.\nposted by Stacey at 10:38 AM on November 29, 2017 [13 favorites]\nMy wife and I own our house, and we're millennials, but barely (early/mid 30s). My wife was gung-ho about owning, largely for emotional reasons (we're adults!) and I was somewhat on the fence about it. We found a neighborhood we liked and a house we liked, and the math worked out, so we bought it. We bought significantly less house than we could afford at the time. That turned out to be a very good idea, since it allowed her to take a chunk of time off of work when we had our kid and be a stay at home mom, which she had always wanted to do. And though rents and home prices continued to rise, particularly in our neighborhood, our cost of living stayed predictable and affordable, even on one income. We also timed things miraculously well, but of course you can't predict the future. We could sell our house today for 1.5x+ what we bought it for 6 years ago, but we just lucked out neighborhood wise. And that increase doesn't help us much if we want to stay in the same area, but it will be a boon if we decide to move elsewhere.\nWe have friends who bought new construction in a new development, and I get the sense from them that they feel like their house is a mill-stone around their necks. They bought as much as they can afford, and though they have twice the square footage we do, they are also doing yard work almost every weekend even now, two years after they bought the place. They have lots of fantasies about selling the place and joining #vanlife, but because new houses are still being built in the development, its hard to convince anyone to buy a home that has been lived in when they can pick out the countertops etc. for the same money.\nWe bought a place that had been redone lately (2000) and well, since we don't particularly like doing home improvement projects. All of the neighborhoods we looked at were largely full of hundred year-old homes, so everything had been redone, to varying degrees of skill. That's kept us away from most home renovation nightmares and time, though I did spend this morning before work patching up a hole a squirrel recently chewed in our eaves, so you can't escape some of that entirely.\nposted by craven_morhead at 10:43 AM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nI remember reading some investor advice person who pointed out that a house can be an investment, a home is an expense. I've been told by more than one person with a net worth orders of magnitude of mine that home ownership is a middle-class thing, you rent either because you can afford to make everything someone else's problem, or because you can't afford to buy.\nThere's a lot of subsidy for home ownership, take advantage of that if it makes sense for you (might be worth working out with a fee-based financial advisor), but: We moved in with the \"we're going to die in this house, so we may as well make it our own\" attitude, and a decade on have done a hell of a lot of customization, which is a lot of work that'll never be replaced by insurance if we're ever burned out, and really isn't as satisfying as we initially thought.\nMost of the advantage of home ownership (aside from getting lucky or skillful about house appreciation by buying in the right market) is that it's enforced saving. If you're doing a good job of saving for retirement while you're renting, renting might be the right thing for you.\nposted by straw at 10:48 AM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nThe main reason I own a house is because it admittedly IS nice to build equity via those monthly mortgage payments. I will never say rent is throwing money down the drain but it is true that you aren't building equity that you can tap into later like you are in a house you own. You can use that equity as a loan to make improvements to the house, as a downpayment for a big purchase, in the event of an emergency, etc. It is a nice cushion to have.\nThat said, keep renting if you enjoy it and if your landlord is responsive to emergency issues. Home ownership IS expensive and stressful. I just spent a hefty five-figure sum having my entire sewer line dug up and replaced, and am about to drop $6k on a new tankless water heater. I hate having to take time out of my weekend for stuff like cleaning the roof and gutters (or pay someone to do it).\nposted by joan_holloway at 10:54 AM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nTwenty years from now when I can't find a job because I'm an old woman and everything is automated, and I still don't have any money because I'm a woman and didn't invent nuclear fusion, I will not be homeless because I have a condo.\nposted by Melismata at 10:59 AM on November 29, 2017 [15 favorites]\nWe bought a property because we wanted a combined workshop+house of a kind that's really hard to find, and this building was roomy enough for both of those functions, and had enough facilities in place that we could just start living there while building it into our dream home.\nIf your wishes aren't as specific, or just different from ours, and they can be fulfilled by renting... then it's fine to keep renting. There is no reason why we all need to have the same goals in life and buying is not inherently more 'adult' than renting.\nposted by Too-Ticky at 11:02 AM on November 29, 2017\nIf you don't build equity in a house, it's a good idea to be building equity in retirement accounts. I built equity in a 2 family, sold it and now own a small house outright. I'm close to retirement and not having to pay a mortgage is pretty great. It's a big part of my retirement plan.\nIf you want to invest in property, a vacation home is an option, too.\nposted by theora55 at 11:03 AM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]\nThese might help in current or future decision-making:\n- NY Times interactive buy or rent calculator, with lots of factors and sliders\n- Realtor's rent or buy calculator is a single calculator focused on the break-even point for renting vs buying, as expenses build over years.\nAs for investing in a rental, that's another lot of questions and answers to hash out (manage on your own vs. hiring a management company). It can be worth-while, but it also can be a time- and money-sink, if you're not careful.\nposted by filthy light thief at 11:17 AM on November 29, 2017 [4 favorites]\nI rented until about 6 months ago when my husband and I bought a condo. I was always okay with renting until I got priced out of buying in a city that I would've been happy to stay in, so Priority #1 upon moving to a lower cost-of-living city was to Not Let That Happen Again. We have just the right amount of space (2 bed/2 bath) for 2 adults with no kids, no pets, and frequent family visits. We had substantial savings and were able to buy our place with our savings and a loan from my mom, which we've paid back 75% of, and it is WONDERFUL to just have a few-hundred-dollar HOA every month now. We're not planning on staying in our new city forever (we'd like to retire early, in about ten years or so when I'm late 40s and my husband is mid 50s) so can hopefully either rent out our place or sell it when we're ready to be done.\nAlso, it is AMAZING to not have upstairs neighbors stomping around at all hours of the night.\nposted by jabes at 11:19 AM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]\nDrat you, filthy light thief, for beating me to the NY Times calculator.\nAll I've got left, now that my showpiece link is taken, grr! is this YT video segment from the \"Adam Ruins Housing\" episode of \"Adam Ruins Everything.\" In a nutshell, buying makes you less flexible to changing your life or moving, and it's years before the benefits of accumulating equity really kick in. It'll also sock your savings from that down payment.\nposted by Sunburnt at 11:23 AM on November 29, 2017 [8 favorites]\nOh man, Sunburnt, that Adam Ruins Everything encapsulates so many of my feelings that I couldn't vocalize past \"This doesn't seem like all it's cracked up to be\". Thanks for that find!\nThank you for your feedback, everyone!\nposted by RhysPenbras at 11:28 AM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]\nPlease, OP, do not make a decision either way until you understand that the math is considerably more complicated than this. The NYT calculator includes the factors I'm about to mention, but, given the importance of such a purchase, I really think it's important to understand the financial implications in a more general way. When I see comments that suggest that owning is almost always a win because you \"accrue capital\" or suchlike, I want to sit down, bury my face in my hands, and weep. The number of people who got their fingers blown off in the mid-2000s because they didn't understand the math is heartbreaking to contemplate.\nWhen you purchase a house, you are forgoing the return you might earn on your down payment (and any differential between rent and total expenses of ownership, including mortgage, repairs, etc.) in any other asset. I will use my own example. Right now I have $x in a non-retirement investment account, invested in a couple of different funds that have returned y% in the past five years. If I were to buy an apartment, I would basically need to use $x (minus taxes on the gains) for that down payment. That account would be gone. I would no longer be earning y% (or whatever the funds will earn in the future). Instead, I am hoping for appreciation on the property. The historical record is difficult to analyze because of the bubble years and areas, but mostly you are not going to outperform a broad market index in a single residential real estate purchase. You are also trading liquidity and diversity for illiquidity and extreme concentration, which means more risk, which means you ought to be getting better returns, viewed through this lens only. You mostly aren't.\nFurther, assuming rent and mortgage are exactly the same, the amount of principal you're paying off, and thus equity you're accruing, is quite low in the early years. Most online mortgage calculators will give you an amortization schedule. Look how much of your payment goes to interest and how much to principal early on. That, plus the nontrivial transaction costs, means that you won't be seeing most of the benefits unless you hang on to the property for a while. (Only you know how likely that is.)\nThis is definitely not to say that no one can profit from residential real estate or that there aren't compelling reasons to buy residential real estate that outweigh financial optimization. And of course all of these calculations require a certain degree of fortune-telling, which no one is actually capable of, so everything should be considered with a healthy margin of uncertainty. That does often make the decision to buy one legitimately driven by personal preferences and plans. But please do not be misled into thinking that buying residential real estate can generally confidently be said to be the superior decision from an objective financial point of view. You're essentially choosing between concentrating your money in a single asset or putting that money elsewhere. By playing with the assumptions (which the NYT calculator lets you do), you can see in what scenarios you're likely to do better in the former than in the latter. Once you understand (as best you can given previously-mentioned inability to foretell the future) the financial implications, then you can weigh them properly against the many pluses and minuses people have mentioned here (and there are more, actually).\n(Me, I look, but right now I can't quite afford anything I like well enough to vaporize the thousands and thousands of dollars in fees and costs to move into and to give up the security I feel from having that $x where it is. I could go either way ultimately, but probably not in this overheated market. I definitely don't consider owning residential real estate some kind of sine qua non for adulthood. I feel plenty grown as it is.)\nposted by praemunire at 11:56 AM on November 29, 2017 [17 favorites]\nOwning a home can be a good deal if you're planning to live in the same place a long time (ideally until you pay it off) and the place is generally desirable (which means real estate values continue going up). This makes it an investment as well as a place to live. The longer you stay in the house, generally, the better an investment it works out to be. But, if you move too soon, you'll incur transaction costs that wipe out most of your profits. But, on the up side, your first $250,000 in profit from the sale of a home ($500,000 for a married couple) is not taxed, which helps.\nAnother advantage is that rents go up, but your mortgage payment (assuming a 30-year fixed rate) does not. On the other hand your property tax will go up with your home's value.\nIf you manage to retire with a paid-off house, you will only pay property taxes on it. Those may be substantial compared to what you're paying in property taxes now... but they will be a lot cheaper than the rent on a similar house in 30 years! Then, if you need additional retirement income, you can take out a reverse mortgage on the house. (The bank pays you monthly, then gets the house when you die.)\nThe downside is that you are responsible for all repairs on the house. If you buy relatively new construction, you may not have any major expenses for many years. If you buy an older home, all bets are off. We needed a new roof this past summer: $35,000 (and that was a deal). The minor upside to that is that improvement does go into the cost basis of your house: essentially my wife and I can now clear $535,000 on the sale of the house without paying taxes. On the other hand, if you never sell, you'll never realize that savings.\nposted by kindall at 12:07 PM on November 29, 2017\nFor me, it boils down to money. I am very grateful that we bought a house 9 years ago, in the currently crazy housing market that is Portland. There's no way I would be able to afford a house at the current rates. Our job situations have also changed drastically since we bought, and I'm glad that our current mortgage payment is way lower than a rent payment would be. At the time we bought, our mortgage was indeed higher than the rent we were paying, but as time goes on, rent prices go up, and your mortgage stays pretty much the same.\nEven better, after 30 years, you no longer need to pay your mortgage because you now own the house. If you're currently 35, that means by the time you're 65, and wanting to retire from your jobs, you'll have one less expense on your hands. For me, the chance to be debt-free on our house about 15 years from now is worth being tied to our current property. Yes, there are property taxes and upkeep, but I still feel more comfortable with those than with rent.\nI also hate moving. I love knowing that I won't be kicked out of my place at a landlord's whim.\nWe thought that we'd stay in our house 5 years and then find another, but honestly, we picked a good house to begin with, and plan to stay here a while (we're at about 9 years so far). In our city, at least, starter homes are harder to find anyway, so we just looked for a good long-term house. We ended up in a neighborhood we didn't really know, but it's worked out fine. It is what you make of it.\nI would do it again in a heartbeat. But I always knew I wanted to own. I bought my first place at age 27. If neither of you feels tied to buy a house, then maybe it isn't for you. Just know the pro's and cons of what you're choosing. Maybe invest in long-term care insurance too, because if you need to live in an assisted living facility later, those are expensive, and the best way to pay for that care is to sell your house when you move in.\nposted by hydra77 at 12:30 PM on November 29, 2017 [4 favorites]\nHydra77 - excellent points, thank you.\nI should clarify that we do have other retirement focused investments (even a pension!) and investment plans for long term care as we will not be having children and aren't interested in relying on burdening extended family with our elder care. A purchased house/home would only be a small part of a greater retirement plan.\nposted by RhysPenbras at 1:01 PM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]\nI think it's probably nearly always moronic to buy a house, unless you're rich. The only legit good thing about it is that my mortgage payment is going to stay the same, whereas rent was going to creep up and up and up--oh, and I'm not at the mercy of my psycho landlord, who cut down a big, always-laden grapefruit tree everyone loved that had probably been there since nineteenfiftysomething. Yes, it was right up against the building but below the roofline, no big limbs; a hurricane was not going to cause it to knock down the building and any reason he may have had to cut it was a garbage reason. Now I have a grapefruit tree, two fig trees, an orange tree, and countless pineapples. Fuck you, Stathi, you evil fruit-hating stormcowering vampire. The week I moved out I re-grouted the lovely old 1940s countertop in the apartment kitchen that I never asked Stathi to fix because I knew he would have sledged it and replaced with formica. (I knew this because of 1. the other units in the building, and 2. what he did to my formerly perfect 1940s bathroom.)\nEverything about owning other than fixing the monthly payment is terribly, stupidly expensive and precarious, but it feels safer. Which is really weird. Apartment dwelling is somewhat precarious and feels precarious. Home\"ownership\" is really precarious but feels safe.\nAll that gloating about how I'm growing tons of fruit notwithstanding, having a yard is a major pain in the ass. Eventually I'll get it together to plant no-fuss groundcover and ornamental grasses everywhere I haven't planted a tree or a pineapple, but I can't think about that, now: I have to deal with the roof. Then gutters and French drain so the driveway will stop flooding the garage. Then I have to paint. Then it's more fence maintenance. But before I get to the end of my current list and can finally tackle the yard, the washer or the stove will die or my neighbor will crash his car into the porch. Something will always happen. It's kind of exciting, in a sick way. It helps if you have masochistic tendencies or are a risk seeker or both.\nposted by Don Pepino at 1:24 PM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nThe main reason that I buy rather than rent is that I don't like people touching my stuff and telling me what to do. Of course, just owning a house doesn't fully accomplish that, but it does reduce that sort of thing. My mortgage company doesn't have a key to the house or tell me what cosmetic and (usually) structural changes I can make. I've got a breeding colony sized bat house, a composting system, a mishmash stone/concrete patio and a big lawn murdering xeriscape project that I'm slowly working on, and several other things that probably negatively affect the market value, and that most landlords wouldn't let me do. That kind of thing is really important to me, and makes it worthwhile for me to own.\nBoth of the houses I've bought had investment potential. My first house was nearly condemned before I bought it, and I did a whole lot of work on it. It did not end up gaining much equity, partly because I didn't really finish the project, but moreso because the neighborhood took a serious downturn. Counting the money I spent (never mind the time) on improvements, I'm sure I lost money on it overall. My current house, though, has been much more profitable, in part because property values in general have increased, and in part because I've made some improvements that positively affect the market value.\nBut every now and again, I really envy people who rent. I'm pretty good at DIYing most things, but some stuff, I can't or won't do, and those expenses can just pop up out of seemingly nowhere. Earlier this year, we had two unrelated but really expensive plumbing emergencies back to back, and there's another major, tear up the street job that's going to need to be done sometime before terribly long. I wish that were someone else's problem. (Hey, I'll let you 'test drive' home ownership by taking care of that issue if you want!)\nAlso, it would be nice to just be able to move without having to go through the whole thing of selling the house. I don't currently want to, but it kind of sucks not having the option.\nSo when it comes down to it, the potential (and remember it's only potential) financial benefits are balanced out by financial burdens and the loss of flexibility. The decision really comes down for me to the \"You're not the boss of me\" factor, but I am unusually prickly about that sort of thing.\nI absolutely endorse your decision to not buy a house.\nposted by ernielundquist at 1:55 PM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nWe just bought, and it was clearly the right financial decision for us (mortgage is cheaper than either of our rent was before), but there are still downsides.\nSince we started looking The House has been like an extra hobby that we can\u2019t give up. What shall we do tonight? Work on The House. This weekend? The House. We had budgeted for some repairs, including a water heater in about five years; turned out we were in the house less than five weeks before it died. And even before we moved in, the house got broken into\u2014 they took the washer, dryer and fridge. Which insurance paid for (minus deductible)\u2014 but it didn\u2019t pay for the time we had to spend getting a new one, letting various contractors in to fix the busted door, etc.\nWe also have been totally amazed at the giant industry surrounding home ownership \u2014 as sort of reluctant capitalists it\u2019s been a weird sector to interact with. (Buy a couch! Buy a whole couch set! Don\u2019t think about what good you might do elsewhere in society with that money!) And this is the above-board people\u2014 the number of stupid scams you will get (house purchase via mortgage is public record!) is kind of stunning, and for a while you can\u2019t not answer the phone/read your mail because plenty of legitimate people associated with the mortgage process may need to contact you.\nThat having been said, it was the right choice for us anyhow, and likely would have been emotionally (eg we built a custom desk in our office room that can\u2019t be removed unless we destroy it\u2014 couldn\u2019t have done that renting and it is exactly the desk we want) even if it wasn\u2019t so clear financially. Part of this though is that we bought less house than we could have, so water heater and other surprised haven\u2019t been too awful. If we were in a more expensive market, or had gotten a bigger house, the emotional benefit would have been smaller as well as the finances looking worse.\nposted by nat at 1:55 PM on November 29, 2017 [1 favorite]\nSince we started looking The House has been like an extra hobby that we can\u2019t give up. What shall we do tonight? Work on The House. This weekend? The House.\nYes. I can't emphasize this enough. Was a homeowner, now a renter, not tempted to ever go back.\nUnless you really like working on houses, like LIKE like. Because Fixing the House is your new hobby now, forever. And sometimes while you're fixing something you'll find something else you have to fix before you fix the first thing...\nI chafe at the control my landlords have over me, but at least I do whatever the fuck I want on weekends, and it's not fixing the goddamn house.\nposted by fiercecupcake at 2:28 PM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nI used to rent, then I bought a house, then I rented again. Now I own a vacation house (my late fathers house) and continue to rent for my primary residence. I am probably rich for my other demographic considerations. My landlady is 93. My rent hasn't gone up in ten years. I live in Vermont and my heat is included in my rent. I could definitely not own and live in a home for this amount of money. It is definitely a precarious situation. I love the hell out of it. That said, at a future point where I need to move on, I will probably buy something tiny. I live in a market that is the opposite of hot.\nApartment dwelling is somewhat precarious and feels precarious. Home\"ownership\" is really precarious but feels safe.\nThis is my feeling. I am a woman who lives alone (have a partner who does not live with me and is not planning to) no kids, no pets. I travel for work. I have anxiety. Having my house and its general infrastructure be someone else's problem while i am away is huge for me. I go away summers and fuss with a house I own which is way more trouble than I would want to deal with year round. It's definitely a JOB. I get a lot of mansplainy lectures from fixit people there, even well meaning fixit people who I generally like. My landlady just hollers at these dudes and that is mostly okay with me. Home ownership works for a lot of people but it definitely doesn't work for me, and even in my income/assets bracket, renting isn't really a dumb choice.\nposted by jessamyn at 2:30 PM on November 29, 2017 [5 favorites]\nIn general I love owning my house (for any/all of the reasons given above by other users) but the out-of-left-field expenses sometimes get me down.\nFor example, someone hit my house with a trolley and the quote to repair was under my deductible but I couldn't just leave it un-fixed, so my savings took a tiny hit.\nBut more importantly I had a surprising experience recently. My homeowner's insurance company sent me a letter saying, \"hey, you have the option to switch to so-and-so as a new underwriter and you'll save $X/year\" and I said, \"Sure, why not?\" Well, the \"why not?\" came a few weeks later when I got a letter from the new underwriters saying, \"We had someone check out your property and you need to have your house repainted within 30 days or we consider this a breach of blah blah blah\" which is NOT an expense I expected to have at any point in the near future. At least my house is now a color that my wife and I both love, but ... yeah. Things happen to your house that you never expect or weren't smart enough to anticipate, regardless of how smart you are, and if you don't have a good chunk of savings it can be a real source of stress.\nposted by komara at 2:30 PM on November 29, 2017\nI recently purchased a condo. I had a lot of complicated feelings about it (stuff like fundamental ethical opposition to the capitalist notion of houses as an investment or just the basic idea that land can be owned, personal issues around discomfort with my changing socio-economic status over my adult life, worry about being or feeling tied down, etc.). I purchased the condo because I live in an area where rents are increasing and quality of service by landlords has been decreasing (and also tenant protections are minimal, to say the least), so it made practical sense for me. And also I liked the idea of being able to do renovations to make the place more like how I wanted. I bought a condo rather than a detached house because, even though I like the idea of having a yard of my own, I know that I don't have the time for all of the house and yard maintenance stuffs. With the condo, the condo association is responsible for all of the exterior and grounds maintenance. My particular condo is also right in town, walkable to work and my coffee shop, yet on a dead end street in a nice little bowl that shelters it from noise and traffic, and that along with some of the specifics of the layout and view from my porch and such made it a nicer place to live than the available rental options (eg. I now at least have a front porch type space, providing that transition between private and public space that is useful for building local communities).\nI expected to continue to be quite ambivalent about owning. I initially did think I had perhaps made a mistake. Surprisingly, despite having a couple fairly major maintenance and other issues to deal with within the first half year, I am now unambivalently happy about my choice. In my case, my mortgage plus condo fees comes out to about the same monthly expense as rent, and I'm adding on to that by borrowing money for some renovations/repairs, so it is going to be more expensive for a couple years. But the renovations/repairs are going to make it a very nice home that I got to design a bit myself, which I'm excited about. And I don't have a landlord. I did not realize beforehand exactly how nice it is to not have a landlord, or how easy it would be to get used to not having a landlord. I've had several quite good landlords in the past, too. But let me tell you, it is so nice to not have a landlord.\nposted by eviemath at 4:41 PM on November 29, 2017 [2 favorites]\nFor me permanence was a big factor. I moved apartments every 6 months in my teens and twenties, sometimes because I wanted to and sometimes because I had to and each time was such a huge upheaval. My environment (like..inside, not the Earth) is SUPER important to my general happiness and something always felt not quite right about renting. I love decorating and always managed to make each rental feel homey but like, INSIDE I knew it wasn't really mine so it just all felt temporary. Also we do have dogs (no kids, ew) and my husband has a lot of hobbies and I smoke a lot of weed so ownership is more conducive to those things.\nYeah! We're on our second house. Our first one was outside of Atlanta and we got it for $90k and sold it 5 years later for $161k so we are VERY glad we did that, plus it was nice to have a big place we owned that was so cheap. Our mortgage was like $700 and we'd previously been renting a smaller, worse place for more money than that. Our current house is outside of Portland, OR and the rental market here is SUPER crazy so even though we're paying over twice what we used to, it's still less than we'd be paying for rent here. I really, really like knowing that we're the boss of our own house, even the part where we're responsible for repairs. Even my best landlords were pretty cheap and my husband is very handy, so this works much better for us. But for reals a lot of it for me is more emotional than factual--it just feels better to me to be in my own house.\nI guess I covered all of this but basically:\nHouse #1: Driven to buy because it was cheap but also definitely because it seemed like the next step in our relationship and a smart investment. I knew I wanted to move and figured we'd be able to make some money at some point.\nHouse #2: Wanted to settle down and not have to move again for a LONG time since it was such a pain in the ass to go 3000 miles. We already knew we were good homeowners and this house is a lot newer than the old one so figured it'd be easier to own.\nIt's worth it to me for a lot of reasons that don't apply to you! We save money, I love the house, I know I don't want to move for a while, I don't want anyone to boss me around or show up unannounced, and I like the control.\nposted by masquesoporfavor at 5:22 PM on November 29, 2017\nJust to address a couple of the objections I've seen a few times here...\nIf you don't max out what you can stretch to afford to buy a house (not something I recommend doing under any circumstances), fixing the house doesn't have to become your hobby, and the yard doesn't have to be a pain in the ass.\nWe bought our first house about 15 years ago, and I did my last yard work 14 years and 9 months ago. Literally. We hired a landscape maintenance company to take care of it for us. It's not very expensive, and it's one less thing to worry about. Some people enjoy yard work, I do not, so I outsource it.\nSimilarly, when repairs other than the most minor come up, I hire someone to deal with it. In 15 years of home ownership, I'd say I've averaged less than five days a year on actual home projects, and that's all stuff I did because I wanted to. Could I do more myself? Sure. But I don't like to, and someone who does it for a living will probably do a better job, so I outsource once again. Part of this is also not buying super old houses (\"with character\") that regularly need tons of maintenance.\nYes, it's cheaper to do this stuff yourself. But if you plan it into your budget, it's totally fine. You just have to consider it as part of your financial equasion, and make the decision for yourself whether it's worth it or not. But I think people are too quick to claim that home ownership is terrible for these reasons without adequately exploring the alternatives.\nposted by primethyme at 9:19 PM on November 29, 2017 [3 favorites]\nThank you, everyone, for your input!\nposted by RhysPenbras at 5:21 AM on November 30, 2017\nIt's going to come down to not only your finances but your preferences and values.\nHow stable are your jobs? How much do you like your city? How important is it to you to have control of your own space? How much do you hate having to deal with unexpected problems? Do you like to move or hate it with a fiery passion?\nIf you decide to buy, be extremely comprehensive in your financial calculations and budgeting. The mortgage company/realtors will try to upsell you. Do not let them tell you what you can afford: YOU tell THEM what you can afford, and stick to your guns. Be ready and willing to walk away from a house. Do not get emotionally attached until it's yours for real, deal done and papers signed.\nDon't be Young!Me, and get bait-and-switched at your closing because you've already given notice and have to be out of your current place next week and you spent every cent you could pull together just BUYING the house already, so when they give you a crappy ARM instead of the fixed rate you signed a contract for, you cave to the pressure and sign anyway and regret it for the next 10 years.\nRenting can be right for you. Buying can be right for you. But be wily and cagey and suspicious and don't let your emotions trap you.\nposted by oblique red at 12:44 PM on November 30, 2017 [2 favorites]\nA big part of the impulse to buy is that most people don't save. Yeah, in theory you're better off plowing every cent into a tax-advantaged retirement account and letting the stock market hoist you into wealth and privilege. And yet, even among the fortunate minority holding 401(k)s, half have balances under $25K. That's not even one year of income, despite an unprecedented 9-year economic expansion and exploding stock market valuations. So people don't save on their own.\nBut they do buy houses. You can't get out of the house payment by changing jobs and forgetting to set up your 401(k) contributions. The return, on average isn't great, but particularly in California there are plenty of people who would never save a million dollars in a retirement account but are sitting on houses that are yielding far, far more in free rent and tax subsides than they would ever be able to draw from their cash savings. The extreme illiquidity of real estate is actually an advantage, because if it were sitting in an account it would get spent. When you add in the restrictive zoning that's the rule in many desirable areas, it really becomes somewhat foolish for a certain type of person not to buy the biggest house they can afford to own. Because if you save like most people, rent will continue to increase at or above inflation and you will not have enough income to stay in the area. The house may be a risky, expensive asset with poor returns that's hard to tap, but it's also a forced savings plan, and a lot of the time that is better than the alternative.\nYour hard-won skepticism is well-founded, to be sure. Buying a house and then moving is an easy way to undo years of savings, as you found. The majority of foreclosures in the crash came from people with ordinary mortgages, not risky ones.\nposted by wnissen at 3:04 PM on November 30, 2017 [1 favorite]\nLots of good arguments above. It's particularly worth noting that buying is often much more irreversible than renting, and has a lot more initial costs - thus you need access to capital.\nEveryone talks about \"throwing money away\" with rent. This is not exactly true unless you are independently wealthy and can buy a house outright, you have two choices\nYou Rent the Money or You Rent the Space\nHowever, if you get fixed-term, long length mortgage and have good credit, the cost of renting of money is often cheaper than renting the space.\nAlso, because the mortgage rate is fixed, your MAJOR cost is fixed. If you live in a major metropolitan area, then rent increases can cripple you, or landlords can decide just to not renew....and then you're subject to the whims of an often hot or competitive rental market.\nOther costs are maintenance -which can be potentially crushing for a house, but if you buy a good,well-managed condo or co-op, those costs are mitigated by sharing the risk with other apartment dwellers. Maintenance costs (usually wrapped into \"co-op/hoa/tax\" or assessment fees) can increase but there are many more cases of capricious rent increase than capricious raises in these fees.\nSo, aside from \"ownership, making it 'mine' and equity\" - usually the most cited reasons for buying, the main reason why we bought a co-op was to avoid crazy rent increases or the whims of landlords while minimizing our exposure to crushing maintenance costs of ownership.\nposted by lalochezia at 3:12 AM on December 1, 2017 [1 favorite]\nFor obscure reasons I was recently looking at the Wikipedia page for the concept \"ontological security\", defined as \"a stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity in regard to the events in one's life\" and \"a sense of order and continuity in regard to an individual's experiences\".\nThe page refers to an article called \"Ontological Security and Psycho-Social Benefits from the Home: Qualitative Evidence on Issues of Tenure\" in the journal Housing, Theory and Society with the following quote:\nIt has been said that people need the confidence, continuity and trust in the world which comprise ontological security in order to lead happy and fulfilled lives, and furthermore that ontological security can be attained more through owner occupied than rented housing.\nThe abstract of the paper sounds a bit more nuanced, but the general idea resonates with me.\nposted by mbrock at 8:59 AM on December 2, 2017 [2 favorites]\n\u00ab Older What is up with my thumb nail? | Roof rack recs Newer \u00bb\nHelp us buy somewhere to live outside of London! 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Is it just a balance between having the shortest and fastest route or does it also take in factors like bicycle path vs. being on the road, avoiding roads with high speed or lots of traffic?\nfor the cycling profiles, the recommended route preference also takes into account how well a route is suited for biking. This is done by giving each street a priority. The priority is calculated from the tags, such as cycle path or if it has high speed limits. The process is quite complicated.\nThis priority is then used in combination with the \u201cfastest\u201d option to give you a recommended route.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astronewsus.wordpress.com/category/spaceflight/manned-spaceflight/commercial-spaceflight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:20Z", "digest": "sha1:BWSC3VJQZGTTWH2XZ4BKV4GOGBHB34JV", "length": 5569, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "astronewsus.wordpress.com", "title": "Commercial Spaceflight | AstroNews", "raw_content": "Archive for the \u2018Commercial Spaceflight\u2019 Category\nUpdated Coverage for NASA/SpaceX Mission to Station\nMay 24, 2012 senseijim\tLeave a comment\nThe SpaceX second demonstration mission for NASA\u2019s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program is under way, and NASA is updating its coverage of the Dragon spacecraft\u2019s flight to the International Space Station.\nSpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon lifted off at 3:44 a.m. EDT Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During the flight, the Dragon capsule will conduct a series of checkout procedures to test and prove its systems, including the capability to rendezvous and berth with the space station.\nOne of the primary objectives for the flight is a flyby of the space station at a distance of approximately 1.5 miles to validate the operation of sensors and flight systems necessary for a safe rendezvous and approach.\nThe spacecraft also will demonstrate the ability to abort the rendezvous. Once Dragon successfully proves these capabilities, it will be cleared to berth with the space station.\nFull Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/may/HQ_M12-094_Updated_SpaceX_Coverage.html\nCategories: Agencies & Organisations, Commercial Spaceflight, Manned Spaceflight, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Spaceflight, SpaceX Tags: NASA, news, science, space, spacex\nStatement Regarding Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Spacecraft\nFollowing Tuesday\u2019s launch of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, issued the following statement:\n\u201cCongratulations to the teams at SpaceX and NASA for this morning\u2019s successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Every launch into space is a thrilling event, but this one is especially exciting because it represents the potential of a new era in American spaceflight. Partnering with U.S. companies such as SpaceX to provide cargo and eventually crew service to the International Space Station is a cornerstone of the president\u2019s plan for maintaining America\u2019s leadership in space. This expanded role for the private sector will free up more of NASA\u2019s resources to do what NASA does best \u2014 tackle the most demanding technological challenges in space, including those of human space flight beyond low Earth orbit. I could not be more proud of our NASA and SpaceX scientists and engineers, and I look forward to following this and many more missions like it.\u201d\nFull Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/may/HQ_12-164_Holdren_SpaceX_Statement.html\nNASA Modifies Launch Service Contract To Add Falcon 9 Rocket\nNASA has announced a modification of its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to add an additional configuration of the Falcon 9 rocket to its fleet.\nFull Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/may/HQ_C12-019_NLS_Falcon_9.html\nCategories: Agencies & Organisations, Commercial Spaceflight, Manned Spaceflight, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Spaceflight Tags: NASA, news, science, space\nNASA Holds News Conference with Station Crew Members\nApril 6, 2012 astronewsus\tLeave a comment\nThree of the six crew members living aboard the International Space Station will take questions from reporters during a news conference on Wednesday, April 11, at 9:15 a.m. CDT. The conference will air live on NASA Television and will be streamed on the agency\u2019s website.\nThe news conference will link up reporters with NASA Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers.\nThe crew members will discuss research they are conducting, the myriad of cargo delivery vehicles visiting the station \u2014 including SpaceX Dragon, the first American commercial vehicle \u2014 and the return of Burbank and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin in their Soyuz spacecraft later this month.\nFull Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/apr/HQ_M12-058_Expedition_30_News_Conf.html\nCategories: Agencies & Organisations, Commercial Spaceflight, ISS (International Space Station), Manned Spaceflight, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Spaceflight Tags: international space station, ISS, NASA, news, science, soyuz spacecraft, space, SpaceX Dragon\nNASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals\nFebruary 8, 2012 astronewsus\tLeave a comment\nAs part of NASA\u2019s ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a call for industry to submit proposals for the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Initiative.\nIt\u2019s expected that proposals will lead to Space Act Agreements that will help NASA and the U.S. achieve safe, reliable, and cost effective human access to space. NASA expects to make multiple awards this summer, with values ranging from $300 \u2013 $500 million.\nTo provide industry a better understanding of this initiative so that they may provide more comprehensive proposals, NASA plans a pre-proposal conference on Feb. 14, at the Courtyard Marriott in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Proposals are due March 23.\nFull Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-045_CCiCap.html\nCategories: Agencies & Organisations, Commercial Crew Program, Commercial Spaceflight, Manned Spaceflight, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Spaceflight Tags: international space station, ISS, NASA, news, science, space", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 14496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atelier.bnpparibas/en/life-work/article/newly-digitized-healthcare-industry-vulnerable-hacking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:TES7BAKI7ZKKSRUYT7WWHAK7GENEKITM", "length": 2766, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "atelier.bnpparibas", "title": "The newly digitized healthcare industry is vulnerable to hacking - L'Atelier BNP Paribas", "raw_content": "The newly digitized healthcare industry is vulnerable to hacking\nConnected devices and digital records are revolutionizing healthcare and wellness. But the industry is still behind on addressing security concerns that could affect practitioners and patients.\nThe healthcare industry has come online in a significant way fairly recently, which has helped with efficiency and accuracy. But while that industry has scaled digitally, it has not brought strong security concerns along with that growth. A year long study conducted by the Washington Post has determined that many healthcare services and devices are vulnerable to hacking. From vulnerabilities could lead to data loss, or data access that could lead to identity theft, as well as other possibilities. These security weaknesses were typically found in approved electronic health records (EHR) computer systems, an electronic prescription medication machine, and cloud storage usages.\nConnected medical devices shown vulnerable to online risks\nThe Government Accountability Office looked at one of these concerns in particular. The source study found information security risks in a number of medical devices. The issue of security is a new one for manufacturers of these devices, especially from intentional threats, but can benefit from the infrastructure that has been built to address such risks in other industries. Researchers found that items such as defibrillators and insulin pumps were vulnerable to weaknesses that could be exploited with great risk to patients. The FDA is primarily responsible for evaluating the safety of these devices, and information security must become a significant concern to address when they evaluate them.\nBesides code vulnerability, staff practice also causes risks\nBut many risks come about due to attempts at time saving or in the hopes of improving communication. A number of risks covered in the security survey were brought about by individuals. In one case for instance, wireless iPads were being used by new medical residents at the University of Chicago medical center. All the residents accessed files from a DropBox account with a single username and password, both of which were published online in the initiative\u2019s manual. This type of practice is hazardous in this situation due to the risk of hackers planting PDFs or other files that include harmful code that would be downloaded to all these iPads, and invade the hospital networks. In other words, improving the security of the digitized healthcare industry also starts with educating staff to those risks.\nHealthcare social readers keep doctors informed with industry news\nHealthcare Organisations Proving Vulnerable to Data Breaches\nDigital Tools Leading to Entrepreneurial Transformation of the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://augustafreepress.com/staunton-theatre-company-celebrates-decade-mystery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4EXB4FDIOFL4PRHCCSHH6KVTOWSM6RF2", "length": 2346, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Staunton theatre company celebrates a decade of mystery : Augusta Free Press", "raw_content": "Staunton theatre company celebrates a decade of mystery\nPublished Wednesday, May. 21, 2014, 6:48 pm\nFront Page \u00bb Events \u00bb Staunton theatre company celebrates a decade of mystery\nThis month, Staunton\u2019s Clever by Half Productions (which produces 100% original and portable murder mystery dinner theatre) kicks off its 10th anniversary celebration with a brand-new show, HINT.\nWhen Mr. Brown invites six of his dearest friends to a dinner party, they expect to paint the town red. However, once it\u2019s clear that blackmail is the name of the game, murder is added to the menu. So, who finally showed their true colors? Was Mr. Pine green with envy? Is the widowed Mrs. Snow as innocent as she seems? Did Senator Wheaton have the guts or was he too yellow-bellied for such a crime? Follow the clues and catch the killer red-handed in Clever By Half\u2019s newest murder mystery, HINT.\nFounded in 2005, Clever By Half Productions (formerly Golden Duck Productions) performs murder mystery dinner theatre throughout Virginia at resorts, wineries, breweries, corporate events, and private parties. The company employs more than a dozen local actors, and is currently poised to expand the touring arm to include a larger radius with more venues.\nThe hallmarks of Clever by Half Productions\u2019 performance style are:\nEnvironmental Theatre: The entire room is the stage. The audience is right in the heart of the action as the world of the play unfolds around them.\nAudience Interaction: After the dinner break, each table takes an active role in solving the mystery by grilling the suspects for clues. Some characters might not be so anxious to talk, but they\u2019ll never lie.\nThe Thrill of Victory: The sleuths in the audience with the closest attention to detail will reap the reward. Crime might not pay, but good detective work does.\nClever by Half Productions, located in Staunton, VA, produces family-friendly, Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre that is 100% portable and original. Since 2005, Clever by Half Productions has performed at Massanutten Resort near Harrisonburg, Virginia, 52 weeks a year. In recent years, the shows have begun touring as entertainment for corporate functions, private parties and fundraising events throughout Virginia. More information and how to book Clever By Half Productions can be found online at www.cleverbyhalfproductions.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aurorawellness.uk/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:58Z", "digest": "sha1:S66BA7QDOGRG7S5Z7XR4Z3SY5YCWGX7D", "length": 6603, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "aurorawellness.uk", "title": "About Aurora | Aurora Wellness website", "raw_content": "About Aurora Wellness\nWhy we do, what we do.\nThe Do Better, Feel Better Philosophy\nStress and overwhelm are everywhere. More and more of us are struggling with the rigours of modern life. Juggling work, home, family, friends and trying to find time for yourself in all that, takes its toll. It is no wonder that more and more women each year are suffering with common mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.\nThe problem is that there\u2019s just Too. Much. Stuff. Especially for those of us fighting to run our own businesses. Sales, marketing, socials, accounting, legal, tax, banking\u2026 and that\u2019s before you even get to the work itself. Even on the days when you somehow get it all done, there\u2019s still a truckload more work waiting around the corner!\nSo, what to do? Well, if you want your business to thrive, you are going to have to learn to work smarter, not harder. You are going to have do more with less. That\u2019s where we come in! We will help you overcome the mental barriers that are blocking you from conquering your goals. Using our proven productivity techniques you will harness your natural skills and abilities to materialise the success you have already dreamed of.\nWhy do we do this? Because we know from personal experience, that when you do better, you feel better. Nothing beats the satisfaction of a job well done, except knowing that you have mastered the skills required to repeat that success time and time again. So, what are you waiting for?\nYou\u2019re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A. A. Milne\nThe Aurora Fundamentals.\nAt Aurora we believe that good mental health and wellbeing is as fundamental to life as good physical health. We believe that you should not have to fight your demons alone. And we believe that you have the right to a fulfilling career, personal life and purpose.\nPause. Think. Act.\nPause. Think. Act. We know that these are the three key steps to creating lasting change. We call these three steps \u201cthe pillars of wellbeing\u201d and every course that we run falls into at least one of these categories. Our programmes are designed to enable you to pause, think and act to resolve your key life challenges, taking you from reflection to action.\nFirst things first \u2013 Pause. The Pause step encourages awareness about what\u2019s really going on with you. It provides you with the space required to listen to your inner self. If you truly want to improve your life and create lasting change, then you need to give yourself the freedom to do so. Taking care of yourself isn\u2019t selfish; it\u2019s about saying \u201cme too\u201d not \u201cme first!\u201d. You cannot pour from an empty cup \u2013 you must look after yourself before you can give good care to the special others in your life.\nNext step \u2013 Think. This phase is about your \u2018personal audit\u2019 \u2013 an honest and objective examination of your past, present and future. To know where you\u2019re going, you need to know where you\u2019ve been. Acknowledge your limiting beliefs and recognise your inner bully. Together we will fashion effective weapons to silence them for good. Once you have come to terms with who you are, then you can dare to dream of who you might become. We encourage the most creative part of you to emerge with possibilities, solutions and ideas.\nAnd finally, Act. The Act phase is about taking action to ensure lasting change. It is all well and good to dream, but you want to see those dreams become reality! This requires audacity, boldness, courage\u2026 and a plan. At Aurora we know that failing to plan is planning to fail, and we are determined to see you succeed. We specialise in breaking your dreams down into SMART goals : targets that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-based. Now, let\u2019s get started!\nPeople Who Work With Us\nBecause you have a range of needs, we have a wonderful team of fully qualified professionals to help us deliver the quality services that you deserve.\nI am a qualified meditation teacher, with a Diploma from the British School of Meditation (BSoM); I am also registered with the BSoM as an approved and accredited teacher and holds a diploma in MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction). As well as obtaining a unique qualification in the subject, I have practised meditation myself for over 6 years and have developed my own personal practice in different types of meditation through various classes, courses and retreats, including silent meditation retreats in Thai Monasteries. In 2017, I founded my own holistic wellness business which predominantly focuses on meditation and mindfulness as a way to help individuals, businesses and families cope with stress, anxiety and the chaotic lifestyle which modern living brings. All meditation sessions that I run aim to help you calm your mind, create inner balance and uncover the importance of your own self care.\nI\u2019m a qualified Counsellor/Psychotherapist, certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, mentor, author and mum. I\u2019ve played very many different roles in my life and one thread is recurrent \u2013 empowering people, helping people gain new perspectives, see new opportunities, overcome barriers, gain new skills, find new opportunities\u2026 one way or another, I tend to support people at various stages of their life journeys\u2026 Today, I specialise in skillfully working with people to get unstuck. If you feel stuck \u2013 in any area of your life \u2013 I can work with you to get unstuck. If you feel lost and confused, I can walk with you to find your way. If you have lost your voice and want it back, I can work with you to find it, and use it, if that\u2019s your desire. This has been my personal journey\u2026 going from \u2018yuck and stuck\u2019 to growing in my fabulous freedom. I have not travelled it all by myself. I have invested in professional support along the way and will continue to do so as an important part of my personal self-care and growth package. In my work, I offer a non-judgmental relationship that is based on trust, respect and acceptance.\nDr Julie Scheiner\nI knew from a young age I wanted to be a therapist as I am curious and interested in what makes people the way we are. And thus began a long love affair with the human mind and the therapeutic process. Below you will find my training qualifications and rest assured that I adhere to a multitude of ethical and professional bodies.\nDoctorate in Counselling Psychology\nMasters in Applied Psychology\nEMDR level 1-3\nLifeSpan Integration Therapy Levels 1 + 2\nEquine facilitated Therapist\nDolphin assisted therapy\nI have also 10+years of experience working in the NHS, the private sector and the voluntary sector.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 10024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ave.com/users/login.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:TB5TH5WXS5MLMSWLMSDHGS7NIG3VUQF7", "length": 176, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ave.com", "title": "Avemco Claims & Payments", "raw_content": "If you would like to Pay or Renew your policy, you can use the Quick Pay feature. To make changes to your policy, call us at (888) 241 7891.\nIN AN EMERGENCY CALL (800) 874 9124", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aviation.travel/airlinecheckins-automatic-check-in-service-now-available-as-an-app-with-new-features/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GBWJ5OJKHWLR7JGKFKRV7CT5ZEXF3BOF", "length": 2316, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "aviation.travel", "title": "AirlineCheckins: Automatic check-in service now available as an app with new features | airport news | aviation.travel", "raw_content": "When does the check-in start? What is my booking code? How do I get my favorite seat on the plane? Users of the AirlineCheckins check-in service no longer have to ask these questions. As of now, the solution is also available as an iOS and Android app in the respective app stores. The app, which was developed by the Lufthansa Innovation Hub, makes the service more transparent and easier to use, and forms the basis for further travel services related to passengers\u2019 flights.\nSpecifically, this means that AirlineCheckins will continue to check users in automatically for their flights, taking into account their individual seating preferences. The service works for every airline that offers online check-in. Once you sign up for the service, you will never have to worry about checking in again. With the new app, airline passengers can now monitor the check-in status of their flights and manage their flights at all times.\nPersonal information such as seating preferences, frequent flyer programs or travel partners can all be updated in the app. The app also has an alert feature that automatically notifies you of the current flight status and gate changes. The functions of the app are now to be continuously expanded and extended by additional services. The launch of a subscription model that gives app users access to lounges at airports and free Wi-Fi access on board is currently in the planning stage.\nThe basis for the development of the AirlineCheckins app was the feedback given by 2,500 AirlineCheckins users whom the Lufthansa Innovation Hub surveyed about the service. The app is now to start the next evolutionary stage of the service. \u201cOur users are fans of automatic check-ins. With the app, we are now responding to the need for greater transparency and faster access to the service. Moreover, the survey has given us valuable insights into how we can further develop the service for our frequent flyers. On this basis, we are now continually expanding our app with additional travel services,\u201d says Kristian Weymar, AirlineCheckins Project Lead at the Lufthansa Innovation Hub.\nPrevious articleIMEX America powering up for a \u2018cascade of cool\u2019\nNewer PostHeathrow Airport urges UK Parliament to vote for expansion\nOlder PostLufthansa shareholders get around 2.4 million new shares as dividend", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awesomegang.com/one-life-many-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OUTCKK34GCDBAPMNFIXSTTSOOMJ5D3HR", "length": 803, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "awesomegang.com", "title": "One Life, Many Lives", "raw_content": "One Life, Many Lives\nAbout One Life, Many Lives\nIn this book of poems and prose reflections, Piero looks to the past while offering keen observations and insight into our current state of affairs. Wistful musings, triggered by a visit to his childhood home in Italy, about watershed occurrences like September 11 and observations of his natural surroundings, alternate with lyric poems that celebrate love, art, music and other momentary pleasures.\nPiero Rivolta is an award-winning poet and novelist devoted to exploring the depth and breadth of life. Possessed of an insatiable curiosity, a love of beauty, and a talent for creating, Piero has applied his sensibilities to not only being the author of eight books, but also to being a designer, developer, manufacturer, homebuilder and philanthropist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 176.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ayhansahinmusic.com/2011/12/29/karine-hannah-sings-new-years-eve-at-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RMDVNANZCDMORCRURD7LFFOWSZYR7FZ5", "length": 443, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ayhansahinmusic.com", "title": "Karine Hannah sings \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve At Home\u201d | AYHAN SAHIN", "raw_content": "Karine Hannah sings \u201cNew Years At Home,\u201d an uptempo frolic that lyrically concludes that despite all glamorous invitations, there\u2019s no better way to turn the annual page than snuggling with that special someone. Here\u2019s a song and an artist that will brighten the holidays from this year forward. From the collection \u201cBreaking For The Holidays\u201d released by Breaking Records in 2007.\nWritten by Bernadette O\u2019Reilly, Chuck Taylor and Ayhan Sahin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ba.voanews.com/a/october-19-2015-day-in-photos/3017365.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:R6JCVFCVPHYAEYAFKB2NADCBZKEXRSMR", "length": 1282, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ba.voanews.com", "title": "Fotografije dana: 19. 10. 2015.", "raw_content": "Fotografije dana: 19. 10. 2015.\n1 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took a series of 17 photographs from the International Space Station during a single flyover of Australia on Oct. 12-13, 2015. This first photo of the series was posted with the caption, \"#EarthArt in one pass the #Australian continent.\n2 Jammu and Kashmir lawmaker Abdul Rashid Sheikh, left, reacts after suspected activists of a right-wing organization threw ink on his face at a press conference in New Delhi, India. According to local reports, Rashid had been protesting against the death of a Muslim teenager attacked by a Hindu mob over rumors of cows being slaughtered.\n3 Residents cross a swelling dam due to rising waters brought about by Typhoon Koppu, in Las Pinas city, metro Manila. Typhoon Koppu swept across the northern Philippines, killing at least nine people as trees, power lines and walls were toppled and flood waters spread far from riverbeds, but tens of thousands of people were evacuated in time.\n4 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (3rd R) and wife Ri Sol Ju (4th L) enjoy an art performance given by the Chongbong Band to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://backbaybostondentist.com/the-link-between-posture-and-oral-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PMLK2XS4NSTY56ZG36AMKKA4KH6MCY7Y", "length": 2611, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "backbaybostondentist.com", "title": "The Link Between Posture and Oral Health - Warshauer and Santamaria", "raw_content": "\u00ab What Medication Can Do to Your Oral Health The Abuse of Teeth in Nursing Homes \u00bb\nEver catch yourself slouching at school or work? Not sitting up straight not only is bad for our back alignment, but it is also known to affect our oral health.\nGood Posture in general is \u201cseen when the head is supported by the vertebral column which in turn is supported by the pelvis, legs, and feet.\u201d In terms of bad posture, however, our heads are constantly being tilted forward, throwing off our \u201cnatural center of gravity\u201d leading to a constant stress on the muscles \u201cof the neck, shoulder, and lower back.\u201d\nBecause of this there is said to be a direct link between our head posture and bite, teeth contact, and, ultimately, jaw pain.\nIt is said that the \u201cmaintenance of head posture depends on the interaction between gravity and the balance of the muscles that stabilize the head.\u201d Our teeth are the ones that generally give us the stability of keeping our head posture on track, so if it is all thrown off, our bite will be affected the greatest. Most of the \u201ccompensations that occur are at the TMJ joints, the vertebrae, or surrounding tissues.\u201d TMJ (temporomandibular joint) dysfunctions most often occur when we \u201calter our head and neck posture.\u201d If altered, our muscle functions will decrease causing possible \u201ccervical spine disorders.\u201d If we do not learn to fix these problems, however, they will continue to occur, causing even more issues later on in life.\nHow does one go about changing a habit that they do not even realize they are doing most of the time? First off, if you are experiencing head, neck, or jaw pain, contact your dentist to see if it is linked to how you\u2019re holding your body up on a daily basis. After assessing your posture, you will be treated accordingly and shown correct ways to fix your posture. Also, a \u201cdental splint\u201d could be issued for \u201cpostural and muscle abnormalities\u201d that are causing your individual pain. This, hopefully, will reduce the amount of pain the individual is facing and, also, help to ensure that future issues do not arise.\nWhen one thinks of incorrect posture the first thing that comes to mind is not how it is going to affect their oral health \u2013 but, in fact, if someone\u2019s posture is unbalanced, it can create much pain and inflammation. It can even be known to \u201crearrange the position of teeth and facial muscles.\u201d No one wants to experience these damages to their mouth, teeth, and smile, so contact your dentist immediately if you are experiencing any symptoms such as these and he/she will put you on the right path to a pain free, perfect posture life!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 8780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://barkbarkwoofwoof.com/2018/12/a-little-night-music-2955/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:33Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ5SPX3E2563SWCO25BMMWCB3EF6T54L", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "barkbarkwoofwoof.com", "title": "A Little Night Music | Bark Bark Woof Woof", "raw_content": "A little touch of Oscar in the night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bathsheep.livejournal.com/profile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XWXNNL55CKEECFUIDTBMPYEXNXJRGLIK", "length": 1445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bathsheep.livejournal.com", "title": "bathsheep - Profile", "raw_content": "bathsheep\nThe Journal of StarsandButterflies\n~ for my little pieces of amateur graphics\nAccount Created on 19 July 2008 (#16129531) Last updated on 1 July 2010 Gift\nvictorian.\nprofile | layout | moodtheme\nan education, books, c19, carey mulligan, charlotte bronte, chocolate, classical music, classics, coldplay, colin firth, corridor hand-holding, cups and saucers, daniela denby-ashe, darcy/elizabeth, dario marianelli, david tennant, doctor who, einaudi, elbow, elizabeth gaskell, emilia fox, emma, empire waistlines, french, georgette heyer, georgian era, green wing, greg laswell, grey's anatomy, guy/marian, harry potter, harry/nikki, hayley westenra, historical fashion, historical novels, holby city, house, jane austen, jason mraz, jose gonzalez, josh groban, joshua radin, julian rhind-tutt, lee pace, mac/caroline, maddy/dan, matthew macfadyen, medical dramas, medicine, my taubf, nadine lewington, nikki alexander's clothes/sunglasses, north and south, northanger abbey, oliver valentine, one day, paulo nutini, penny valentine, period dramas, persuasion, phantom of the opera, pride and prejudice, pushing daisies, rambling, reading, regency, richard armitage, richard armitage's voice, robin hood, rosamund pike, ruth wilson, sense and sensibility, silent witness, spooks, taubf, tea, ten/rose, the kinks, the kooks, the pipettes, the verve, toast, tom chambers, tom ward, tom ward's floppy hair, victorian era, wives and daughters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beintheknow.co/category/professional-development/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:26Z", "digest": "sha1:JQWDK432WX7RQJGRTSZJ5RBHBH22G4JS", "length": 247, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "beintheknow.co", "title": "Professional Development Archives - In The Know", "raw_content": "In 1959, viewers of The Twilight Zone met Henry Bemis, a bank teller who loves to read but has trouble finding the time to indulge his passion between his responsibilities at work and his nagging wife at home. As fate and Rod Serling would have...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 219.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bentoforbusiness.com/articles-2/construction-fraud-case-study/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:52Z", "digest": "sha1:62GHPYGSO2AB3CR6SR4IGBFE76P52PTD", "length": 8108, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "bentoforbusiness.com", "title": "Construction Fraud Case Study | Detect Construction Fraud", "raw_content": "Owners of construction businesses have a lot to worry about. They must deal with many contract issues, attract customers and work to meet their contractual obligations and deadlines. One issue that some construction business owners may not immediately consider is their risk of falling victim to fraud. Construction businesses are often targeted by both internal and external thieves, however, as demonstrated by reading any construction fraud case study.\nThe Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) reports that the construction companies that were victims of fraud in 2016 to 2017 suffered median losses of $227,000 per fraud incident. Smaller companies are also not immune. The ACFE reports that small businesses that have fewer than 100 employees lost almost twice as much per fraud incident as did large companies. The ACFE states that 42 percent of the losses suffered by smaller companies were caused by a lack of internal controls.\nIt is important for your company to make certain that it has strong controls in place so that you can prevent it from becoming a victim of construction fraud as is demonstrated by reading a construction fraud case study below.\nWhat is construction fraud?\nAccording to construction fraud case studies, construction fraud occurs when people who are either inside or outside of a company steal money or assets by using different schemes. Types of fraud schemes that might be used include such things as writing fraudulent checks and making false entries in the companies\u2019 books to make it look like the checks were written to vendors. It may also include making withdrawals from the companies\u2019 accounts, making fraudulent charges on the companies\u2019 credit cards, submitting false reimbursement requests, stealing assets, and others.\nConstruction business fraud may also be perpetrated by people outside of the companies such as hackers that steal the information and then use it to access the companies\u2019 money.\nOne issue is that construction companies may trust longstanding employees and those who are in supervisory positions, largely making it hard to detect construction fraud. However, ACFE reports that 70 percent of the fraud cases that it investigated were perpetrated by people within the companies who held positions of authority.\nAccording to ACFE, 27 percent of the fraud incidents were perpetrated by employees, 38 percent were perpetrated by managers, 32 percent were perpetrated by executives, and just 3 percent were perpetrated by others.\nWho is the most at risk of theft based on construction fraud case studies?\nSmall companies that have fewer than 100 employees are the most susceptible to construction business fraud. ACFE reports that smaller companies are often more vulnerable to fraud because they are less likely to have good internal controls in place. Fraud at smaller construction businesses may be undetected for longer, leading to substantial losses. Construction fraud often thrives in environments in which there are few controls.\nFraudsters who are given broad authority over a single area without someone else checking their work are likelier to commit fraud as a crime of opportunity. To understand how devastating fraud can be for a construction business, reading a construction fraud case study may be informative.\nConstruction fraud case study: Family steals half a million\nThe first construction fraud case study involves an office manager of a construction business in Ohio. Taylored Construction is a company that is located in Solon, Ohio. The company employed Sharon Collier, a 53-year-old woman, as its office manager from 2013 to 2017. Collier had signatory authority over the company\u2019s checks and had access to its bank accounts and credit cards.\nTogether with her husband, her twin sister and her son, Collier engaged in a scheme through which the family defrauded the company out of more than $460,000. Authorities report that she forged checks to her husband, diverted money from loans and used the company\u2019s credit cards.\nOver the four-year period of her employment, prosecutors state that she and her family used the money to pay for luxury vacations, a wedding, student loans, college, and more. The family members were taken into custody on March 30, 2018, after being charged in Cuyahoga County on a 91-count indictment. Unfortunately, Taylored Construction did not have the proper tools in place to detect construction fraud.\nConstruction fraud case study: Bookkeeper steals $750,000 from company\nIn the second construction fraud case study, a bookkeeper was able to steal three-quarters of a million dollars from a company over a period of six years. Western Construction and Equipment, a construction company that is based in Anchorage, Alaska, employed 42-year-old Raenette Yangson as its bookkeeper from 2006 to 2012.\nYangson engaged in a fraud scheme during her tenure through which she stole $750,000 from the company. Yangson wrote false checks to herself and to her husband. She would then forge the owner\u2019s signature and make entries in the company\u2019s books to make it appear as if the checks were used to pay vendors.\nIn addition to being convicted for fraud, Yangson also was convicted for failing to report the money that she stole as income on her tax returns. Yangson was sentenced to serve three years in federal prison and to pay the IRS $207,000 in restitution. The amount of restitution that she will be ordered to pay to Western Construction has not yet been determined by the court.\nWays to prevent and detect construction fraud\nAfter reading a construction fraud case study, you may wonder what you can do at your company to prevent construction fraud. There are several best practices that your company should follow to help to detect and to prevent fraud. If your company uses credit cards to make purchases, the FBI recommends that you avoid giving out your credit card number to a company unless you have done your homework to make certain that the company is legitimate.\nSome companies also choose to use virtual debit cards to make purchases so that the numbers that they use cannot be used by others to make fraudulent purchases.\nStaying up to date on construction fraud case studies can help reduce fraud. For example, the National Check Fraud Prevention Center recommends that businesses do a number of things to prevent check fraud. There should never be one person who is responsible for all of the accounts payable functions. The accounts should be reconciled regularly.\nUsing good expense management software is also important for businesses because it can help to prevent errors and detect fraud early. You might also want to get rid of expense reimbursement processes entirely by using debit cards that provide your company with the ability to make needed purchases without your employees submitting reimbursement requests. Your business should have a strong expense policy in place, and you should have a regular training program so that your employees understand how to identify and report fraud.\nWhat tools can you use to prevent or detect construction fraud?\nYour company should consider switching away to requisitions and purchase orders, petty cash and reimbursement requests to a paperless system. Read construction fraud case studies to keep your knowledge relevant. By combining good accounting software with prepaid debit cards from Bento for Business, your company may be able to greatly limit the ability that employees might have to access and abuse your funds.\nThe cards allow you to set individual spending limits and purchase restrictions on each card. For instance, one employee may receive a card that he or she can use to pay for a particular supplier\u2019s invoices but not to purchase anything else. Your company\u2019s deposit is insured by the FDIC up to $250,000, and the cards can be used nearly anywhere.\nBento for Business offers a variety of solutions for construction businesses to help them to stop fraud. To learn more about how we might be able to help you, call us today at 866-289-1104 or start a free 60 day trial which takes less than 60 seconds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 9335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://berbs.us/2007/01/change-a-light-bulb-make-a-difference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Y35IL4JZR5BBMSEG6TWDI3X3SFOICRD4", "length": 1928, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "berbs.us", "title": "Change a Light Bulb, Make a Difference - berbs.us", "raw_content": "Change a Light Bulb, Make a Difference\nThe next time you need to replace a light bulb in your house, consider using one of the compact fluorescent variety. They use less than 2/3 energy than regular incandescent bulbs, last 10 times longer, and will save you over $30 in energy costs over its lifetime.\nThere have been a couple of eye-opening articles about these bulbs lately. From September\u2019s Fast Company there is How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You\u2019re Looking At It, and from today\u2019s New York Times there\u2019s Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart. Both talk about the dramatic energy savings our country would see if every American household replaced just one regular bulb with a compact fluorescent one. We\u2019re talking enough power saved to run a city of 1.5 million people.\nIf you know me, you know that I\u2019m far from an environmentalist. I may think the Kyoto Protocol is a complete waste of time and effort, but I do believe that small changes that benefit people in real dollars and cents and are good for the environment are our best hope to conserve energy as a nation.\nSure, there will always be a fringe group of people who take part in efforts like the Personal Kyoto project, but the majority of people either need small changes that don\u2019t require too much of them, or need tangible results before committing. So, changing to a light bulb that\u2019s both good for the environment and saves you money should be a pretty easy sell if it\u2019s framed as a \u201cno-duh\u201d decision that you\u2019d be silly to go against.\nTags: Business, Environment, Finance\nPrevious PostOn Writing Good Copy (Or, Why it\u2019s Important to be a Good Writer)\nNext PostSenator Dorgan Introduces Net Neutrality Bill to the Senate\nI do recommend watching Al Gore\u2019s \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d, as long as it\u2019s apart of an in-flight experience.\nI\u2019m a big backer of environmental concerns, but only those that make sense, of course.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://berryprofessionals.com/global-operational-excellence-challengers-meet-up-fatih-demir/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JEOMIM34RV6IQV337CJDZLW3ZQG4UK7U", "length": 971, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "berryprofessionals.com", "title": "Global Operational Excellence Challengers Meet-up Fatih Demir - Berry Professionals", "raw_content": "Senior Group Manager, Operational Excellence, Kibar Holding Turkey, 10 year experience working for Toyota\nFatih is Group Manager of Operational Excellence at Kibar Holding, a conglomerate operating in automotive, FMCG, metal, packaging, construction materials, logistics, real estate, and energy and service industries with 22 group companies. In this role he designed and launched operational excellence program across all the group companies inspired by Toyota Production System(TPS).\nHe worked for Toyota Europe and Japan about 10 years where he acquired wide experience in operational excellence/Lean, investment (CAPEX) planning and management, investment project execution, operations management, change management and TPS with a consistent track record in improvement of business processes and delivering projects, as well as implementing Lean Methodology for Operations Improvement and Cost Reduction programs.\nHe holds both a Msc. in Engineering and MBA degrees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestcomedytickets.com/comedian-profile/chuck-nice/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LL4UXIZ2P7J276TNXUNC3DXT5OOCH7ZL", "length": 776, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bestcomedytickets.com", "title": "Chuck Nice I Upcoming Comedy Shows in NYC", "raw_content": "Chuck Nice is a stand up comic and radio personality from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a show host on QVC\u2019s sister show Q2, Nice was heard on The Radio Chick, a comedic show formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York. The RadioChick was a featured show on now-defunct Shovio.com\u2019s TalkBackTV. Nice is a frequent contributor to VH1\u2019s Best Week Ever and truTV\u2019s The Smoking Gun Presents: World\u2019s Dumbest\u2026,[1] and performs regularly at the HA! Comedy Club and Comic Strip Live in NYC. He has been featured in a commercial for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Nice is an occasional guest co-host on Morning Joe on MSNBC when Joe Scarborough is on vacation. He often co-hosts the radio show Star Talk alongside astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.\nChuck Nice Upcoming Comedy Shows in NYC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 127.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bethbridges.com.au/journey-anxiety-continue-overcome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3IWMIIX6PL2KUJDY5KK7MPS7QLUZCMCN", "length": 10778, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "bethbridges.com.au", "title": "My journey with anxiety (and how I continue to overcome it) | Beth Bridges", "raw_content": "Me and anxiety have always been old friends.\nAbout 12 years ago, I was a 19-year old uni student, and I used to have to run out of the lecture theatre as an impending anxiety attack would approach, fearing the \u2018closed-in-ness\u2019 of those walls.\nI used to be driving on the freeway and be scared that I\u2019d crash my car because my I\u2019d be overcome by an overwhelming dizziness.\nI used to permanently feel like my chest was so constricted, that I could never breathe deeply enough.\nIt was awful! And, rather crippling.\nAt this point, I hadn\u2019t yet studied naturopathy \u2013 and while I was studying human sciences at university, I didn\u2019t yet have the knowledge or self-awareness to understand the link between my stress, my nervous system, and my adrenals \u2013 and the profound ways in which my imbalances in these areas, were affecting my ability to function normally.\nSo, as many would, I took my 19-year-old self off to a GP, and told her of my symptoms.\nWithin ten minutes, I was out the door with a round of SSRI\u2019s to try (this is a type of anti-depressant).\nI felt a bit weird about this (was I depressed?? I didn\u2019t feel like I was \u2026), but I started taking them anyway. Within one week, I was a wreck.\nOne of the side effects of anti-depressants is that they can initially exacerbate symptoms, and this is entirely what happened for me. 7 days in, I remember standing in line at a grocery store, feeling more anxious than I\u2019d ever felt in my life, barely able to move, on the verge of fainting. I stopped taking the SSRI\u2019s that day.\nFor the record: I do NOT have a problem with anti-depressants. At all. I know that they save lives, and improve the quality of life for many people. I don\u2019t even have a problem with the rather haphazard way in which I was prescribed them, because the experience I had lead to me to follow my intuitive knowing that there was a better way (for me, personally), to address my anxiety.\nThe 3-4 years following were much the same, in terms of my anxiety, except, that around age 22, I had finished my uni degree, and moved onto studying naturopathy. I started to be introduced to some amazing, holistic ways of restoring nervous system function. I finally understood the profound effect of living in a constant fight-or-flight response. I saw my own naturopath, and started to get treated for adrenal fatigue (a condition which I\u2019ve written about in depth, over here).\nAll of these things helped \u2026 but not enough.\nAt age 23, a long-term relationship that I\u2019d been struggling in for some time, came to an end. Soon after, my life kind of tumbled down around me, with many other factors falling to pieces at the same time.\nI was probably the most anxious I\u2019d ever been. I sat on the floor in my bedroom one night (actually, many nights) in tears, knowing I had to do something about it.\nThankfully, life was just about to turn in a better direction.\nI used tickets that were supposed to be for a lush trip to Bali with my ex-boyfriend, to fly to Bali solo, to do a yoga retreat.\nTHIS was the turnaround.\nI came out of that 5 days feeling so calm, so aligned, and so healed. I arrived home on a Friday, and by the following Monday, had booked myself into a one month yoga beginners intensive, where I had to be at class at 6am for four weeks straight. I knew that if I didn\u2019t just dive straight in, and make some sort of commitment to myself \u2013 and feeling better \u2013 then I\u2019d never move past my anxiety issues.\nI had never felt so amazing in my life.\nLife was busier and more full than ever \u2013 but I was floating out of class each morning, knowing that whatever the day would bring, I could handle it. I could breathe again. People started to comment on how much happier I seemed.\nI had found my anxiety medicine.\nFrom that point onward, anxiety has never overcome me again, in the way that it used to. I certainly have my moments \u2013 well and truly. We all do.\nAfter all my years of studying natural therapies, I know what to do to support my body, my nervous system, and my adrenals, to remain balanced.\nI also know what my triggers are \u2013 in terms of workload, foods, drinks, how much sleep I get (or don\u2019t get), and more.\nWhen I have anxious days (or weeks, or months!), I always know that it\u2019s a message from my body (and mind, and soul), asking me to come back to what I know is right for me.\nI don\u2019t believe anxiety is a normal state to live in, and I don\u2019t believe we have to suffer through it in silence.\nI also don\u2019t believe that we have to \u2018push through\u2019 feeling like that, in order to live up to the expectations of society, or the expectations of anyone.\nLife with anxiety is HARD, really hard. I know it, and I know that so many other people know it WAY more than I do.\nI\u2019m not here to act like I\u2019m an expert. I\u2019m not.\nBut, as always, I\u2019d like to use my personal experience in overcoming my own anxiety, to potentially help other people shed light on their own.\nTo this day, my anxiety only ever creeps up when I let go of my yoga practice. Yoga is my everything, in that sense. The profound effect that a yoga practice has upon our nervous system, cannot be underestimated.\nLinking breath with movement, shifts us straight out of the sympathetic nervous system fight-or-flight response, and back into the parasympathetic nervous system rest-and-digest response.\nThis is potently healing, for the entire endocrine system (meaning all other hormonal glands, including the adrenals, thyroid, and more).\nIt reduces the frequency of adrenaline and cortisol release from the adrenals, a response which dramatically imbalances our blood sugars, and drives insulin resistance, when left unchecked. It allows our digestion, our menstrual cycle, our sleep, and our daily healing capacities, to function optimally. It allows us to think clearly, sans the disruptive anxiety.\nIt has now been scientifically proven that diaphragmatic breathing is the most effective way to clear and regulate cortisol. I know that it is via the regulation of these stress hormones, that yoga was able to significantly improve my own anxiety symptoms.\nWhen I go on holiday, I often let go of my yoga practice, because I\u2019m out of routine. What I find, is that by the end of my most of my holidays, I\u2019m actually more anxious than I was before I left! Everything about my anxiety symptoms points to me needing yoga, as a daily part of my life.\nHave you ever tried yoga, and noticed how much clarity and stillness you gained from doing so?\nHow well you slept? Granted, I\u2019m not saying yoga is for everyone. But I do believe that the healing effects of diaphragmatic breath, with gentle movement, have the power to dramatically alter the way we feel, for the better.\nIf you\u2019re not sure about starting a yoga practice, or you feel like you don\u2019t have time, I encourage you to check out www.yogaglo.com, or even just google a short yoga class on YouTube. Dedicate 15 minutes a day to this practice, for two weeks or a month, and you WILL notice an effect.\nPersonally, there are a few other things that I\u2019m always careful with when it comes to anxiety, and keeping it at bay:\nWatch the caffeine intake. I do drink caffeine \u2013 but not too much. Caffeine will dramatically influence anxiety levels. I don\u2019t care how many studies come out listing the benefits of drinking \u2018X\u2019 coffees per day \u2013 if you have anxiety, regular and consistent caffeine intake isn\u2019t doing your symptoms any good. It\u2019s likely exacerbating them!\nIf you feel like this may be you, try cutting out coffee and switching to tea for while. Or better yet, having a short caffeine sabbatical! I promise you, you\u2019ll notice a difference in how you feel.\nWatch the alcohol intake. Alcohol may be a central nervous system depressant, but it acts as a stimulant on your adrenal glands, meaning that it puts you into that fight-or-flight response. If you feel nervy or have a bad sleep after drinking alcohol, it\u2019s likely exacerbating your nervous system a little too much. If you want a drink, try not to have more than 1-2 at once, and always eat BEFORE you have even a sip. Drinking while you\u2019re eating is one of the best ways to regulate the potent effect that alcohol has on the system.\nMake sleep a priority. Sleep is incredibly important when it comes to balancing our daily cortisol rhythm. If you experience anxiety, prioritise your sleep. Get to bed earlier, and let yourself wake up naturally, as often as you can. It\u2019s so very important.\nStop overcommitting yourself. If you feel constantly overwhelmed, like your life is just one big rush, getting from one commitment to another, consider how it became like this. What can you do to bring a little more stillness to your life, today? What can you let go of, in order to create some space for yourself to rest and recuperate?\nLiving a chronically overcommitted life is one of the quickest ways to put yourself into a state of constant fight-or-flight. I used to live like this \u2013 but not anymore. Living anxiety-free is far too important to me now. I understand that life is busy, but if you\u2019re suffering under the weight of anxiety (or other symptoms, like hormonal imbalances), then isn\u2019t it SO worth making some small changes?\nIf you need some help or inspiration to do so, you might like to check out my free eBook, The Slow Down Movement \u2013 which is all about hormonal imbalances, adrenal fatigue, anxiety, women, modern life, and slowing down in order to heal.\nDo what you love. When our lives are filled to the brim with things that we find tedious, boring, or unfulfilling, this is naturally anxiety-fuelling! Life is supposed to be vibrant, fun, and a journey to finding and fulfilling YOUR purpose, whatever in the world that may be. It will never be without challenges, but the challenges will be SO much easier to move through, when you love what you\u2019re doing.\nMy intention with this blog isn\u2019t to challenge anyone\u2019s personal opinions or treatment of anxiety.\nIt\u2019s simply to shed some light on my own experiences. I estimate that around 90% of my clients have reported some level of anxiety to me, and it\u2019s often quite debilitating, affecting their daily lives. I would LOVE to see this change, and I believe there are so many things we can do for ourselves to prevent this scenario.\nAbove all \u2013 if you suffer anxiety, take some space for yourself, to prioritise your healing, and what you initially need to make that happen.\nDo you need a day off work? Do you need longer? Do you need to admit to some of the people in your life, that you\u2019re not doing so great, that you need some help? Do you need to see someone? Do you need to sleep more, do less, get rid of some commitments from your schedule?\nWhatever you intuitively KNOW you need, do that.\nI implore you \u2013 because the world needs the version of you that feels her best, and you so deserve to feel great.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 13961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bgsfirm.com/paul-j-vitanza/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3POVHB776CA2APH6F4HPPLLBT7UYEEQ4", "length": 863, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bgsfirm.com", "title": "Paul J. Vitanza \u2013 Barlow Garsek & Simon, LLP", "raw_content": "E: pvitanza@bgsfirm.com\nPaul J. Vitanza is a litigator practicing in the areas of commercial litigation and bankruptcy with additional experience in professional malpractice and personal injury litigation.\nMr. Vitanza graduated from Baylor University School of Law where he was selected to serve as an associate editor of the Baylor Law Review and a member of the Baylor Order of Barristers. He has since developed a broad litigation practice involving the resolution of a wide array of federal and state matters. He was twice elected to serve as a member on the Board of Directors for the Fort Worth - Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association and has been named by his peers as a Top Attorney in Tarrant County in Fort Worth, Texas magazine.\nBaylor University School of Law, Juris Doctor (2000)\nSouthwestern University, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (1997)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 2953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 115.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bibliogirl.livejournal.com/234482.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:H4CEB7HWQILPDXCBTRV65TAQDRJOJCAU", "length": 1587, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bibliogirl.livejournal.com", "title": "Adventures with Vegetables, part 1: bibliogirl", "raw_content": "Adventures with Vegetables, part 1\nHm, well, that could have gone better.\nI was busy for much of the day dealing with Other People's F**kups (so, much as usual then) but noted about 4.45 that I was still not in possession of a shiny box of vegetables (or a box of shiny vegetables). Called Abel and Cole, who said they'd call the driver and find out where he was.\n\"The driver's already finished his round,\" they reported. Was it possible the veg had been left outside? (I did mention on the form when I signed up that the porch door sometimes sticks.) No, not really, since the door hasn't been shut today, I've been in all day, and at least one other driver had managed to deliver stuff successfully. They called the driver back.\nThe driver called me. \"But I delivered!\" \"Well, I don't have any vegetables here...\" \"You're off Hillcross Avenue, right?\"\nSince I grew up in this general -- very general -- area, I know where that is. It's about five or six miles away, in Morden.\n\"No. We're not.\"\nA quick look on Multimap reveals that there _is_ a street with the same name as ours up there, whose postcode is not even slightly similar to ours, nor is the post town, nor anything else.\nThe revised plan involved the driver going back to the other place to pick the veg up and then delivering it down to us, but that has been abandoned due to the traffic being crap. I've been promised that a fresh box will be delivered tomorrow morning.\nIn the meantime, I have sent rotwang to Sainsbury's, since tonight and tomorrow's dinner had been planned around the contents of the box I don't have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bigstorygroup.com/movies/roadies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ72EEVYOGCVFIERA2RGCEE7RLXEOIIU", "length": 1481, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bigstorygroup.com", "title": "Roadies Trailer - Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino, Imogen Poots StarBig Story Group", "raw_content": "On 27, May 2016 | No Comments | In Entertainment, Television Series | By Entertainment\nThe music featured in the trailer is \u201cHard Sun\u201d by Eddie Vedder. Roadies gives an insider\u2019s look at the reckless, romantic, funny and often poignant lives of a committed group of \u201croadies\u201d who live for music and the de facto family they\u2019ve formed along the way. The music-infused ensemble comedy series chronicles the rock world through the eyes of music\u2019s unsung heroes and puts the spotlight on the backstage workers who put the show on the road while touring the United States for a successful arena-level band. Starring Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino and Imogen Poots.\nRafe Spall, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor, Colson Baker a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly and Ron White star in the ensemble cast. Luis Guzman, Jacqueline Byers, Finesse Mitchell, Branscombe Richmond and Tanc Sade guest star. Created, written, executive produced and directed by Oscar\u00ae winner Cameron Crowe and executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Winnie Holzman.\nCreated, written, and directed by Cameron Crowe. Starring Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino, Imogen Poots, Rafe Spall, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor, Colson Baker, Rafe Spall, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor and Colson Baker. Premiere date June 26th, 2016 on Showtime. Return to Thumbnail View.\nRoadies Official Trailer 2\nRoadies \u2013 J.J. Abrams, Cameron Crowe, & Cast Talk About the Show\nRoadies Clip \u2013 Slow Clap\nRoadies Official Trailer\nGenre | Comedy, Drama, Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 7046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bigstorysmall.com/2013/08/07/introducing-flashing-the-square/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RWNX4YAFM3ZDG2U7RRUJW6ZFNUKRTALO", "length": 317, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bigstorysmall.com", "title": "Introducing Flashing the Square | big story small", "raw_content": "\u00ab The Wordsmith\u2019s Local\nUp and running \u00bb\nThis entry was posted on August 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM and is filed under FLASHING THE SQUARE, NEWS & INFORMATION with tags flash fiction, microfiction.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billstvreviews.blogspot.com/2016/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:B32UAXT6QPXGN43HLDXGVLHCCNAC4GBA", "length": 1794, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "billstvreviews.blogspot.com", "title": "Bill's TV series news and reviews: August 2016", "raw_content": "CNN continues \"Declassified\" with report on Ana Mo...\nCNN continues \"Declassified\" with report on Ana Montes that still causes a lingering national security threat today\nCNN played several episodes of \u201cDeclassified\u201d Sunday night, with the most significant episode probably the one concerning Defense Intelligence Agency employee Ana Montes, who gave secrets to Cuba starting in the Reagan years with the operations in Central America, story here.\nThe episode described the mechanics of drops around the Washington DC Metro then, almost recalling the film \u201cFive Lines\u201d. The FBI broke into her apartment while she was away Memorial Day weekend in May 2001, and then set up a sting in her office right after 9/11 to catch more evidence. She was called in and interrogated just before the US announced its operation in Afghanistan, which she could have compromised. Her skin developed a sudden rash (no, not Stevens Johnson Syndrome). She was then arrested. She plea bargained for \"only\" 25 years in prison (and she was 45 at the time).\nShe went to the dark side because of pro-Communist and pro-Castro ideological beliefs, which had lingered from the extreme Left from the 60s and 70s. I ran into some of this with the \u201cPeople\u2019s Party\u201d in 1972.\nThe episode is important because some of her secrets, in the hands of Cuba today, could be sold to Iran or North Korea.\nCNN also aired episodes on how Saddam Hussein was finally found by Operation \u201cRed Dawn\u201d (named after the 1984 movie) in December 2003.\nAnother episode depicted the chase and killing of \u201cinsurgency\u201d leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Zarqawi exploited the power vaccum in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was deposed; people had no law and order, no stability, a lot of times no utilities. People needed to feel that their lives mattered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 994, "original_length": 34881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2019/02/2-23-19.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NZH7JBE2AP3II2C5WRV4EXS6Q4NKVV7V", "length": 4211, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "billtammeus.typepad.com", "title": "Why this Bible translation stands out so clearly: 2-2/3-19 (Bill's 'Faith Matters' Blog)", "raw_content": "\u00ab To stop fearing Muslims, first meet a few: 2-1-19 | Main | What a new Christian sexual ethic might mean: 2-4-19 \u00bb\nWhy this Bible translation stands out so clearly: 2-2/3-19\nA perfectly reasonable question is why the world needs another English translation of the Bible. Over the last 100 years or so there have been simply dozens of them.\nMany have been the whole Bible used by Protestants. Those 66 books include 39 from the Hebrew scriptures and 27 from the New Testament. Some have been Bibles approved by the Catholic Church. Those include not just the 66 books found in Protestant Bibles but also books of the Apocrypha. And there have been just New Testament translations, such as the recent one by David Bentley Hart that seeks to follow the original Greek style closely. Beyond all that, there have been several versions of the Hebrew Bible, which Christians, in a supersessionary way, historically have called the Old Testament.\nEach has approached the task of translation -- or, sometimes, paraphrase -- in different ways, using different techniques to try to get at an English expression of the original Hebrew, Greek and some Aramaic. And each has its strong points and its failures. Translation is, in the end, always a matter of interpretation. It cannot be otherwise.\nThe latest Hebrew Bible translation is by the gifted Hebrew scholar and teacher Robert Alter of the University of California-Berkeley. It is not just a translation but also a commentary, meaning that each chapter not only has a detailed and helpful introduction but also tons of footnotes to help explain the translation choices Alter makes.\nThe three-volume set (which I recently received as a birthday gift from my daughters) is called, simply, The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary.\nThis story from The Tablet does a good job of explaining what Alter tries to do in his translation and why what he does is unique and valuable.\n\"Robert Alter\u2019s newly completed English translation of the Hebrew Bible,\" the story says, \"shows what it means to take the idea of the Bible as literature seriously. For Alter, the most important thing for a translator to know about the Bible is that its authors were great literary artists. This doesn\u2019t mean that they lacked a religious purpose, of course; but it does mean that they paid close attention to literary technique, without which their writing might never have become canonical in the first place. Getting the Bible right, for Alter, means offering the English reader a literary and aesthetic experience that comes as close as possible to the Hebrew reader\u2019s.\"\nIf, like me, you don't read or speak Hebrew, you, like me, have had no real chance of experiencing the rhythms, the cadences, the internal connections, the linguistic artistry of the Hebrew Bible. As Alter himself notes in his introduction to his new work, \"modern English versions -- especially in their treatment of Hebrew narrative prose -- have placed readers at a grotesque distance from the distinctive literary experience of the bible in its original language.\"\nSome people, including Alter, contend that despite its many limitation, the King James Version, first published in 1611, comes the closest to matching the original Hebrew version's style. But Alter wanted to do better. And, I think, has.\nI haven't yet had a chance to do more than sample Alter's work, though previously I've read his translation and commentary on the Psalms, which is included in this new work. But what I have read has turned up golden nugget after golden nugget -- some word, phrase or explanatory note that made me sit up and take notice because it was fresh information.\nI look forward to using Alter's translation for a long time. Though, no doubt, in a year or three or five someone else will publish another translation of the Bible that claims to be the end all and be all of translations. And maybe it will be just that. Though I have my doubts.\nBy the way, here is the National Public Radio story about Alter and his new Bible.\nA new study shows that people active in a religious tradition tend to be happier than those who aren't, but also more overweight. Should we start calling such people the caloric euphoric?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/in-memoriam/lupercalia/lupercalia-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NSEKVPOUGYGCCQN5YN4UULAF5FBYH4E2", "length": 604, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blackphoenixalchemylab.com", "title": "Lupercalia 2015 \u2013 Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab", "raw_content": "Box of Bonbons\nOde to Mars\nCelebrate the warmth of passion in the dead of winter with our Lupercalia fragrances, scents for the lovelorn and lustful, the depraved and the intemerate. Whether you\u2019re in the mood to scrutinize shadowy, aberrant passions or bask in the rose-tinted warmth of new love, we\u2019ve got something that will be right up your alley.\nAll of these perfume oil blends are $24 per 5ml bottle and are, as always, presented in an amber apothecary vial.\nThe Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Lupercalia series will be live until 6 April 2015.\nThe Trading Post Lupercalia series will be debuting soon!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 2971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blawgsearch.justia.com/search?query=American+Newspaper+Pub.+Assn.+v.+Labor+Board", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:U3N5NNVFPWRVCI7B3WW3C3DS7ZOFKPNG", "length": 84, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blawgsearch.justia.com", "title": "Justia Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine", "raw_content": "Your search American Newspaper Pub. Assn. v. Labor Board did not match any document.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2131788-arsenal-transfer-news-david-ospina-a-fantastic-value-target-for-gunners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WRKA56CTNVLNVQT5UVS7767XXJARDDMW", "length": 2384, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bleacherreport.com", "title": "Arsenal Transfer News: David Ospina a Fantastic Value Target for Gunners | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights", "raw_content": "Arsenal Transfer News: David Ospina a Fantastic Value Target for Gunners\nDominic Raynor@@dominicraynorTwitter LogoCorrespondent IIJuly 16, 2014\nArsenal are closing in on a cut-price deal to sign Colombia's World Cup goalkeeper David Ospina, who would be another valuable addition to the squad.\nThe \u00a33.2 million transfer, per Colin Harvey of the Daily Star, may not be in the same category as the \u00a335 million capture of Alexis Sanchez last week, but it is an equally excellent piece of business.\nGunners boss Arsene Wenger has been trawling the transfer market for a new 'keeper but was unwilling to pay the \u00a38 million asking price for Cardiff's David Marshall. He had also been tracking Reading's Alex McCarthy and Espanyol's Kiko Casilla, per John Cross of the Daily Mirror.\nWith Lukasz Fabianski joining Swansea and Emiliano Viviano headed for Palermo, the Gunners require a backup goalkeeper. Yet Ospina, as a tried and tested international goalkeeper, is more than that.\nThe 25-year-old can provide a realistic challenge to Wojciech Szczesny, who was first choice for the Premier League and Champions League last season, for the No. 1 spot.\nOspina played in all five of Colombia's matches at the World Cup\u2014until their elimination in the quarter-finals against Brazil\u2014conceding four goals and keeping two clean sheets, per WhoScored.com.\nHis agility and quick reflexes make him an excellent shot stopper, and his solid performances at the World Cup certainly caught the eye.\nMaybe thinking of the tournament in Brazil as a shop window, Ospina rejected a new contract from his French club Nice, and with just 12 months to run on his current deal, Arsenal are in a strong position to negotiate a fee.\nAnd they have done so very well, as the Daily Mirror's Ed Malyon points out:\nOspina made his senior international debut for Colombia in 2007 and a year later joined Nice from Colombian side Atletico Nacional.\nHe is now Colombia\u2019s first-choice 'keeper and ranked fifth at the 2014 World Cup in terms of saves made, per Squawka.\nThe goalkeeper is a key part of Colombia's sturdy defence, and Wenger will be hoping that Ospina can spread the same sort of confidence to the Arsenal back four.\nWith a player like Ospina pushing Szczesny to ensure the Polish stopper is at the top of his game, it could be just the signing the Gunners need to push on in their title challenge next season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blessedisshe.net/devotion/this-the-end/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HYPLUAEAXUSG3DJ3G5TFZSHOMU74S26Y", "length": 5630, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blessedisshe.net", "title": "This is the End - Blessed Is She", "raw_content": "Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.\nResponsorial Psalm: Psalms 96:1-2, 11-13\nO sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light. The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John bore witness to him, and cried, \u201cThis was he of whom I said, `He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'\u201d) And from his fulness have we all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.\nToday marks the end.\nOh, don\u2019t worry\u2014I\u2019m not a doomsday prophet warning you about the impending apocalypse! But just in case you\u2019ve been super busy recovering from the craziness of Christmastide, today happens to be the very last day in the calendar year of our Lord 2014.\nAnd you know what? I\u2019m personally simultaneously relieved that 2014 is ending and filled with trepidation about what 2015 may bring. This year, we quit a job in a place where I had just begun to feel at home, and accepted a position back in our home state. Even in light of a new beginning near family and old friends, it was heart-wrenching to leave a kindred spirit and vibrant parish community.\nEndings can be tough! There\u2019s something about \u201cthe end\u201d that seems so, well, final. People say, \u201cBetter the devil you know than the devil you don\u2019t,\u201d for a reason. It\u2019s not guaranteed that tomorrow will bring any more comfort, peace, and joy than yesterday or today. Fear of the unknown is a real thing!\nAnd yet, admittedly, sometimes completion brings a great sense of satisfaction: a job well done means I can take a break (for a quick minute); a test successfully navigated means I can move on to the next level; a mostly mastered health habit means that perhaps I can finally buy that new pair of jeans!\nMaybe you\u2019ve resolved that today marks the end of some things for you, too\u2014old routines that just don\u2019t work anymore, bad habits that steal your joy, or unhealthy boundaries that destroy your peace. It can be scary to contemplate the end . . . but consider that with every ending comes a new beginning. And, as Saint John reminds us in today\u2019s Gospel, HE is there\u2014in the beginning\u2014in each of our new beginnings\u2014 just as He has been since the Dawn of Creation.\nAs broken people in a broken world, however, we recognize that darkness constantly threatens to overcome us and our good intentions. What darkness threatens to overcome you? Is it depression over a broken relationship? Anxiety related to an unrealized goal? A habitual sin that seeks to drag you down? Today\u2019s Good News is that Jesus\u2014the Eternal Word\u2014shines brightly in the darkness, and that no darkness can overcome this Light.\nMy sisters, as daughters of the King, do not allow the darkness to overcome you! Seek the Light of Christ in the Eucharist, and seek it in His Word! We are well equipped to fight the darkness, as Saint Paul tells the Ephesians, when we wield the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Belonging to the Blessed is She community and finding nourishment in His Word in this space is a wonderful way to start!\nAs we contemplate the coming of the New Year, I consider the words Saint Francis of Assisi reportedly told his brothers each day: \u201cLet us begin again.\u201d So shall it be with us, dear sisters in Christ! Tomorrow is a fresh beginning, a clean slate, a new dawn\u2014an opportunity to seek the light of new life in His Word.\nMay we, too, begin again.\nHeather Anderson Renshaw is currently not drinking enough [coffee] to keep up with her five young kiddos in the beautiful Pacific NW. You can find out more about her here.\nPrevious Post Leave the Struggles Behind\nNext Post She Adopts Us All", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.23andme.com/tag/genetic-health-risk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GI5KXG5K3INT5WEENDE3HQOPPB4MDC7V", "length": 307, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.23andme.com", "title": "Genetic Health Risk Archives - 23andMe Blog", "raw_content": "Genetic Health Risk\n23andMe\u2019s Newest Genetic Health Risk Report\n23andMe's new G6PD Deficiency* report provides information on whether a customer has a variant called Val68Met, which can lead to defects in an enzyme called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, or G6PD, that is associated with a form of anemia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.23andme.com/tag/genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:40Z", "digest": "sha1:K6SZJ2UVH2T4BXPKEZBIS3FDTLVMB2VN", "length": 809, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.23andme.com", "title": "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Archives - 23andMe Blog", "raw_content": "California Governor Signs Law to Protect Against Genetic Discrimination\nCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed into law civil rights protections to prevent discrimination against people based on their genetic information. Authored by State Sen. Alex Padilla, the California law the...\nCalifornia Law Would Extend Genetic Non-Discrimination Protections\nUPDATE (9/7/2011) California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law civil rights protections in the state to prevent discrimination against people based on their genetic information. A new California law, awaiting...\nUnderstanding GINA\nThe Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, is U.S. federal legislation that protects Americans from discrimination (in health insurance and employment decisions) on the basis of genetic information. GINA was...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 156.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.eogn.com/2019/02/05/district-of-columbia-council-enacts-2011-model-vital-records-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2NZ5GH3HP22FXIIIKNMHW3C3DQBNQF4", "length": 1884, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.eogn.com", "title": "District of Columbia Council Enacts 2011 Model Vital Records Act | Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter", "raw_content": "This is one we missed when it was being debated by the District of Columbia Council in 2017. They enacted the 2011 Model Vital Records Act which became effective October 30, 2018. The new law number is: D.C. ACT 22-434, L22-0164\nThe signed copy is available at: http://lims.dccouncil.us/Download/37932/B22-0250-SignedAct.pdf. It was published in the DC Register on September 14, 2018 (Vol 65 and Page 13690 ) and transmitted to Congress on September 17, 2018\nTo access the history see: http://lims.dccouncil.us/Legislation/B22-0250?FromSearchResults=true\nOf concern to genealogists is Section 124 (starting on page 27) Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information from vital records or vital reports.\nSection 124 (a) vital records, vital reports, indices, related documents and data or information contained therein shall be confidential, and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act ( emphasis added).\nSection 124 (i) (page 29) open records are considered:\n(1) live birth record after 125 years of date of birth;\n(2) death record after 75 years from date of death or fetal death;\n(3) marriage record after 100 years has elapsed form date of marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage or annulment.\nAfter the prescribed times above the records will be made public and may be transferred to the District of Columbia Archives.\nOnly Registrar may issue a certified copy. There is no provision for either an informational or genealogical copy.\nSection 127 ) (10) on fees (page 34) permits by rule the setting of fees for providing genealogical search services\nThank you to Quinton Atkinson, Ancestry.com for sharing the information with us.\nStephen Snyder February 6, 2019 at 9:50 am\nSection 127 (a) 10 which discusses Fees, on page 34 says, \u201c(10) Providing genealogical search services;\u201d What does this mean? This is the only phrase where \u201cgenealogy\u201d is mentioned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 10370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.ible-it.com/why-its-a-good-time-to-launch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KLTJ6GSACOYEKPEUY5AVRN4QKUWVMD55", "length": 4021, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.ible-it.com", "title": "Why it's a good time to launch a new business | ibLE Blog", "raw_content": "A new study shows that small business optimism is at the highest it\u2019s ever been recorded. In other words, more people than ever are taking the plunge, a leap of faith and going it alone to start their own businesses.\nThere are many reasons why change is afoot, not limited to:\nThe internet \u2013 being able to download pretty much any app we need to help manage a new business, from accounting to HR, makes it much easier to run things while you\u2019re running to pick the kids up, or even to work while you travel.\nOutsourcing \u2013 the beauty of outsourcing is the power it gives to solo entrepreneurs who want to work on the important stuff. Online outsourcing services (like ibLE!) help make this happen.\nLess risk \u2013 could this be the era of uncertainty? Between the recession, Brexit and the Trump-takeover, there are many people who would rather take a chance on themselves, than on anything (or anyone) else.\nWhich poses the question: is it a good time to launch a new business?\nHere\u2019s a checklist of questions that will help you consider whether now is a great time to launch a business.\n1. FINDING THE ONE\nIf you have an idea that\u2019s been rolling around, the studies all reinforce the idea that this is an excellent time to start a new business. Which means you can ask yourself; if not now, then when? If you don\u2019t have a big idea already cemented in your mind, it\u2019s back to the drawing board to discover a problem that you can step in to solve.\nStarting your own business is super exciting (we should know, we\u2019ve done it twice, with first Bower then ibLE). But alongside the excitement you will get your fair share of naysayers telling you how difficult it is and spouting off stats about how many companies fail in their first year. If you\u2019ve done your homework you\u2019ll know that the Small Business Association (SBA) attributes only 30% of new businesses to fail during the first two years and 50% during the first five years. Saying that, this is a good time to question your motivation for going solo and what will help keep your energy levels topped up when times get hard.\n3. BUSINESS BESTIE\nYou have an idea, you know you can make it work but have you decided whether or not you want to do it alone? From experience, I can vouch firsthand that having someone to share the journey with you is a big plus point. A partner or friend might want to hear all about it, but they won\u2019t necessarily be there in the middle of the night, or for that two-hour board meeting that you just can\u2019t face alone. If you think two heads are better than one, search out your business bestie and co-founder it all the way.\nOne thing launching a new business helps you with is working out your strengths and weaknesses. When you work within a company they\u2019ll be plenty of people to fill in the bits you aren\u2019t good at. When you\u2019re flying solo, those bits that you can\u2019t do become a little trickier. First step; work out your kryptonite. The more you can look yourself in the eye and be honest about your skill sets, the faster you can find the right people to delegate to.\nThere are plenty of resources out there which help determine how much it might cost to start a business including aspects like taxes and VAT, office overheads and payroll. In the beginning when you\u2019re still finding your feet, the more back-up you have the better. This might be a savings account, some contract work to run alongside, or keeping your portfolio updated as something to fall back on. All of the best superheroes have a contingency plan in case things go wrong. Hopefully, you\u2019ll never have to use it.\nIf you\u2019ve tumbled your way through this list with ease, then congratulations. Now really is a great time to launch your new business! We love talking to other entrepreneurs who are just getting started so be sure to check in with ibLE HQ to see if and where we can assist.\nbenefitsbusinessentrepreneurfoundersideaslaunchproductivityquestionsstartup\nPrevious Post:10 Big Benefits of a Virtual Personal Assistant\nNext Post:Say yes to the female co-founder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.improving-english.com/2011/12/bunch-time.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IAKYKLBZR4UKQJMQBXN5YU6MR6WNVKJZ", "length": 341, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.improving-english.com", "title": "A Bunch of ...... | Improving English", "raw_content": "A Bunch of ......\nA bunch means many or a lot. We often use bunch for things that are grouped together, like a bunch of grapes.\nThere were a bunch of people waiting in line to buy concert tickets.\nI ate a bunch of bananas and now I have a stomachache.\nCristina gave away a bunch of old CD\u2019s.\nDo you know any good jokes? Sure, I know a bunch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 9904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/08/11/white-house-drone-workshop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WA5JITCZ2H2RX76GAN2RPBERB6UBGLH6", "length": 3724, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "blog.nationalgeographic.org", "title": "White House Drone Workshop \u2013 National Geographic Society Newsroom", "raw_content": "White House Drone Workshop\nThe latest in the Drones and Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Special Series, in which Kike profiles interesting information, research and thoughts on using drones, UAVs and remotely piloted vehicles for journalism and photography.\nA few days ago Intel\u2019s CEO Brian Krzanich spoke at a drone workshop hosted by The White House Office of Science and Technology Office. Brian explained some of these topics including responsible use of data from drone technology and policy, including NTIA\u2019s drone privacy guidance and the FCC\u2019s allocation of spectrum to 5G. \u201c At Intel, we believe that drones can be used to support cutting-edge research, create new jobs and industries, and most importantly, improve people\u2019s lives,\u201d said Intel\u2019s CEO Brian Krzanich. \u201cThat is why I spoke at a White House event on the future of drone technology. My visit to the White House is part of our efforts with stakeholders from industry, government and academia to make the promise of drone technology a reality.\u201d\nBrian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, speaks at an event sponsored by the The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the subject of drones and the future of aviation. Photo courtesy \u00a9 Intel.\nIntel\u2019s the White House is part of their efforts with stakeholders from industry, government and academia to make the promise of drone technology a reality. Krzanich was recently appointed by the Federal Aviation Administration to chair the Drone Advisory Council, an advisory committee aimed at addressing \u201cintegration strategies\u201d regarding drones.\nKrzanich shared the podium with U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta at the event, which was hosted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Both officials have made great strides in advancing the drone industry in the United States. Industry partners are working together to create a robust ecosystem made up of hardware, services and standards. This ecosystem will work together to bring safe, scalable, and viable solutions that are cost-effective, to drive solutions to real-world problems.\n\u201cWe discussed policy solutions for assuring consumers how drone technology and data will be used in responsible, safe, and privacy-friendly ways, which is key to creating trust across the marketplace and our ability to realize the promise of drone technology,\u201d said Krzanic. \u201cPolicy innovation, including NTIA\u2019s drone privacy guidance developed through a multi-stakeholder process and the FCC\u2019s recent allocation of spectrum to 5G, will further enable drones to become intelligent, connected devices that have the potential to positively transform countless industries in the future.\u201d The final piece of the puzzle to unleash the future possibility of drone technology is leadership in policy and regulation.\nThe FAA has already made great strides to help realize the enormous potential of drone operations. Future work on regulations enabling operations higher than 400 feet, operations over people, and multiple devices flown by a single operator are all examples of policies that could help to move this technology forward.\nOther popular drone articles:\n. Top 10 Drones for 2016: The Beginner\u2019s List\n. 10 Essential Accessories for the Drone Traveler\n. So You Want to Fly Drones?\n. So You Want to Shoot Aerial Photography Using Drones?\n. So You Want to Backup Your Aerial Footage Taken from Drones?\n. So You Lost Your Drone Again?\n. So You Want to Fly an FPV Racing Mini Quadcopter?\n. So You Want to Keep Track of All Your Drone Flights?\nBison Hunting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation\nCommitments to Accelerate the Safe Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/05/21/the-giro-ditalia-races-over-the-hills-near-padova/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ELXBX4L3UQF37EPQCU4UXRCMZD6AZ4TS", "length": 6114, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.therealitaly.com", "title": "The Giro d\u2019Italia races over the hills near Padova | The Real Italy", "raw_content": "One of the things I love about life in Italy is the cycling, and today the Giro d\u2019Italia goes over the nearby hills where I regularly ride my bike.\nThere are many famous climbs that have featured in the Giro\u2019s history, such as the Stelvio, the Gavia, Pordoi, Abetone, and many more. Today\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia stage is going to be run over the relatively more \u201cpedestrian\u201d climbs in the Colli Euganei, near Padova. But as we shall see, even these relatively minor roads have their history.\nThe Colli Euganei, or \u201cEuganean hills\u201d are a group of volcanic hills that form an island in the middle of the plains of the Veneto. As such, they also form an island of nice riding in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the heavily populated flatlands that surround them.\nOne of the climbs that nearly everyone who has ridden the Colli Euganei has climbed is the road that takes you to Castelnuovo, a small cluster of houses around a church at the top of the hills.\nThis is not a long nor difficult climb, with the summit at just 287 meters above sea level. The most popular route to the top leaves the town of Torreglia and starts climbing just a little bit as you roll out, and then slowly gets steeper as the real climb starts next to the creek, or \u201ctorrente\u201d in Italian. As you go around the first switchback, or \u201ctornante\u201d, you can take a one-way road up to the Monte Rua hermitage if you want to add that steeper and rougher road to your ride.\nContinuing on the main road, the climb gradually gets steeper, leading up to a 10% section, before flattening out and subsequently descending for a few hundred meters. At the top of the steep section, you can take a road off to the left leading up to the steep Passo del Roccolo.\nOnce the short respite is over, the rest of the Castelnuovo climb is fairly steady and ranges from 5-7% until the top, where there are some nice views of the plains below.\nFrom the top, you can ride down the west side of the hills, or turn north and descend to the small town of Teolo. This is what the Giro d\u2019Italia stage from Imola to Vicenza will do this year, as it then heads uphill again out of Teolo and around the side of the hills towards the town of Rovolon. If you\u2019re watching on TV and the weather\u2019s nice, expect some nice views of the plains from this section. From Rovolon, the road drops down to the plains again, and any escapees will need to contend with another 10 kilometers of flat terrain before heading up to the day\u2019s highest point in the Berici hills, topping out at Crosara, at 397 meters, and considered a 3rd category climb. Another descent, and then the race hits the uncategorized, but short and steep climb up to Perarolo, which is another 200 meters of vertical gain. No alpine climb, but at just 13 kilometers from the finish, a good place to attack. After descending a final time to Vicenza, the stage finishes at the Santuary of Monte Berico, which is only 100 meters of elevation gain, but at the end of the stage, it\u2019ll make for painful legs.\nIn 2013, the Giro raced in the colli Berici, where a similar stage was won by Giovanni Visconti.\nThe Castelnuovo climb is, for the purposes of this stage, only rated as a 4th category climb. Still, though, even a small climb has its footnote in history:\nAround the turn of the century, Francesco Casagrande was a Giro contender, having placed 2nd in 2000 thanks to his climbing skills. Indeed, in the year 2002, Casagrande was in the lead in the mountains classification when the race went over the Castelnuovo climb at the very beginning of an otherwise flat stage. With no strategical importance, the riders took the climb at a stately pace with none other than sprinter Mario Cipollini riding up the hill in the front ranks to receive the cheers of the crowd (including the author). Things heated up at the sprint for the points at the KOM, where Casagrande, denied his points, rode a Colombian rider off the road, and was subsequently ejected from the race, and his last real shot at the overall in the Giro ( http://velonews.competitor.com/2002/05/news/road/giro-gets-downright-weird-casagrande-sent-packing_2294 ).\nThe climb has also figured prominently in the Giro del Veneto, which has fallen on harder times as of late, but was once a more illustrious race, won by the likes of Costante Girardengo, Fausto Coppi, Francesco Moser, Fiorenzo Magni and Moreno Argentin.\nBeing an island of good riding means that the Colli Euganei are the only good places to ride for pros from the province of Padova. In the past, Castelnuovo and the other roads have been the training grounds for racers like Olympic gold medalist Silvio Martinello (now a commentator for road racing on Italian TV station RAI), Roberto Pagnin, Massimo Ghirotto (both winners of the Giro del Veneto), Alberto Ongarato, and many others.\nIslands, however, are often small, and the Colli Euganei are no exception: you can probably ride most of the roads in these hills in a couple of days. To the north, near Vicenza, the Colli Berici are probably good for another couple of days\u2019 riding, and are about an hour away from Padova by bike. There\u2019s a lot more riding up north around Bassano del Grappa, which is also a good jumping off point for some truly epic rides, like the Monte Grappa. Check out www.veloveneto.com if you\u2019re interested in organized riding and racing in that area.\nWhat to see in the area: Padova is a great town to stay in if Venice is too expensive for your budget. You can hop on a train and be in Venice in less than an hour. Also, being a university town and far less touristy than Venice, you can eat well at reasonable prices, and get a view of what life is like in an Italian town where people actually live and work. Padova has plenty of attractions of its own and is worth several days. See some of the other posts on this site for more places to explore in the Veneto:\nhttps://blog.therealitaly.com/2008/09/14/visiting-the-veneto-the-real-italy-padova-treviso-and-vicenza/\nhttps://blog.therealitaly.com/2008/10/10/visiting-the-veneto-cittadella-castelfranco-and-bassano-del-grappa/\n\u2190 Fixing Italy, a little bit at a time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogen.e-props.fr/archives/9479/e-props-sur-savannah-montagne-et-hydro/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:G74ZSQTY6O3YVYDYUAOWLJXSWWQHDBZB", "length": 107, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blogen.e-props.fr", "title": "E-PROPS on Savannah mountain and sea - E-PROPS : HI-TECH CARBON PROPELLERS - EVENTS AND NEWS", "raw_content": "Savannah in summer\u2026\nSavannah in winter\u2026\nSavannah seaplane version\u2026\n\u2026 and always with an E-PROPS propeller !", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.iwu.edu/globalfeatures/2018/03/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OZQSB6QVXX6CL2XD6SDHB6CX77UKPWZV", "length": 268, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blogs.iwu.edu", "title": "March 9, 2018 \u2013 IWU International Office", "raw_content": "You have been waiting for this week for so long! Spring is in the air! Its suppose to be a nice and warm week and you can fill it with so many adventures and activities. Of course, if you decide to turn your favorite TV show off;) We put together a list for you of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2013/03/wwii-detail-from-war-supply-contracts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:25Z", "digest": "sha1:M46BHKTILR5WG5U2HGVAAKDQY45DCLZX", "length": 7453, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "blogs.loc.gov", "title": "WWII: Detail from War Supply Contracts | Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business", "raw_content": "The Library of Congress > Blogs > Inside Adams > WWII: Detail from War Supply Contracts\nWWII: Detail from War Supply Contracts\nBusiness Reference gets a fair number of questions about contracting with the United States government and since that is my area I tend to keep an eye out for good sources. Most people are considering becoming contractors so they get directed to FedBizOpps. Sometimes researchers want to know who got what contract or want general statistics. Thankfully, there are sources for those questions as well \u2013 the Federal Procurement Data System (free but registration required), USASpending.gov, the Defense Department (for data prior to 1997-2015), and the Statistical Abstract.\nBecause this is Library of Congress things aren\u2019t always that simple and the above sources only go so far. Questions about old military contracts are quite popular and it was while answering a question on a World War II military contract that I found four titles that have become favorites.\nThe Alphabetical Listing of Major War Supply Contracts (1943) was published by the War Production Board and is just one volume. It includes contracts though 1943 for those contracts above $50,000 for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury, and purchasing missions of foreign governments. It is organized by company with the individual contracts for that company listed chronologically.\nThe Alphabetic Listing of Major War Supply Contracts (1946?) was published by the Civilian Production Administration. It is cumulative for contracts between June 1940 and September 1945 for major contracts above $50,000. This 4 volume title included contracts for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury (for lend-lease), and purchasing missions of foreign governments. It is also organized by company.\nAlphabetical Listing of Major War Supply Contracts, 1943. //lccn.loc.gov/52048657\nThe Alphabetical Listing of Completed War Supply Contracts was published by the War Production Board\u2019s Statistics Division. This title covers completed contracts priced above $50,000 through 1943 for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury, and purchasing missions of foreign governments.\nThe State Listing of Major War Supply Contracts was also published by the War Production Board. It was a monthly supplement published from 1942-1945, though there is also a retrospective volume that covers the years1940-1942. Obviously it lists contracts by state for each monthly publication.\nThe image from today\u2019s post comes from Alphabetical Listing of Major War Supply Contracts (1943). There are many contracts for machine tools and engine parts manufactured by General Machinery of Hamilton, OH but further down on that page is the beginning of the list of General Motors\u2019 contracts. That list went onto a second page and included guns, hardware, airplane parts, batteries, forgings, trucks, station wagons, etc.\nI just wish I had such a great starting point for other older contracts.\nThanks for the info about WW2 mfg. contracts !\nHow can I search the mentioned titles for a specific manufacturer ?\nJerry \u2013 If you want to submit a question into Ask a Librarian with the names of the company(s) that you want to check out I can do it for you. If you are in the DC area you are welcome to come to the Library and look at them yourself.\nHere is the link to the business Ask a Librarian form:\n//www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-business.html\nGreat information;\nHow can I find drawings, sizes and specifications for completed military contracts, i.e., tools, tents, foot lockers etc?\nKerry \u2013 it is likely that what you are looking on may depend on the time frame of those contracts. If you are looking more current (particularly after WWII) it may be that you won\u2019t find anything or much of anything as paper output (particularly if there are any security issues). Often time specs for an item \u2013 for example a locker size \u2013 may have been part of the contract itself. The first places is to look at the full details of the contract (what is in those volumes is just summary). It may be that some equipment may have had to produce more detailed output data to go along with what they were required to make.\nGenerally, the output of government agencies is sent to the Archives after a period of time. The Archives does have an ask a question form but if you submit a question there it may be helpful to include a time frame.\nhttp://www.archives.gov/contact/inquire-form.html#part-b\nSince that is just a quick answer you may want to submit a question directly to us at the Library with more specifics like a time frame and maybe I can provide more insight.\nfrank bushilla\nDoes the contract number indicate date? Year, etc.?\nFrank \u2013 the Award data and the completion date are included \u2013 they all pretty much look like the page that is included as an image in this post. If you have further questions I would suggest submitting a question to:\nI am studying the effects of war contracts\u2019 impact on industry/economy in my area, and have utilized war contracts (although they are hard to find and get loaned to). Is there a way I can get employment data on specific companies, such as how many workers were hired in a given year, month, etc., and even possibly their production output?\nHas anyone tabulated the total sums and percentage of the whole, that went to Iowa and Minnesota,\nor yet N. and D. Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, and OK/ Any information would be appreciated.\nI haven\u2019t run across a state-by-state total amounts list but I know people are interested in understanding their state\u2019s contribution to the war effort. After writing this post I have answered several questions where someone wanted the lists related to their state. I also know that people may have looked at in various ways for example \u201cTennessee in War and Peace:The Impact of World War II on State Economic Trends\u201d by Patricia Brake Howard in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Vol. 51, No. 1) and \u201cWorld War II Manufacturing and the Postwar Southern Economy\u201d by Robert Lewis in the The Journal of Southern History, (Vol. 73, No. 4).\nIm looking for specific WWII contracts with civilian company\u2019s for tools such as shovels, axes, and pick axes could you point me in the direction of such information please?\nJake \u2013 there is no easy way to do this type of research unless you have company(s). These particular titles are organized alphabetically or by state and they aren\u2019t electronic as a database to search. I know that the 1943 title has been digitized at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100833931 but searching is a different thing entirely.\nIf you want to submit a question that will allow us more time you can do so at:\nGeorgina McKee\nI\u2019m trying to find copies of military contracts for Dodge trucks btwn 1958-1968, do you know where I can find them?\nLester E McFarland\nHello and thanks in advance for any help on the following subject: As a member of the LST 325 Memorial Ship Inc. As a Seaman/Fireman first class part of my job is to help maintain the ship and its major systems.\nThe ship has a bow winch/capstan made by by Webster-Binkley in Seattle, WA it seems that in the fulfillment of the of their contract they were awarded an M award.\nI am looking any data on the company and any follow along company that may have bought them.\nWe need parts drawings for a unit belived to be \u201cg-8130\u201d this unit also has two brake units part #e-8019.\nAny data or links would be helpful.\nLester McFarland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 13686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/category/astronomy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TC6SIWCP7CD5HHONBLDN7QQ7JOUYQTDV", "length": 6119, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "blogs.loc.gov", "title": "Astronomy/Mathematics | Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business", "raw_content": "The Library of Congress > Blogs > Inside Adams > Astronomy/Mathematics\nArchive for the Astronomy/Mathematics Category (67 posts)\nThe Parker Solar Probe, Mission to \u201cTouch the Sun\u201d: December 6 NASA Lecture with Dr. Alex Young\nOne of NASA\u2019s most exciting missions, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) launched from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2018. The mission\u2019s findings will help researchers improve forecasts of space weather events, which have the potential to damage satellites, harm astronauts, disrupt radio communications and potentially overwhelm power grids. On October 31, PSP began the first of 24 solar encounters. On November 5, it was 15 million miles from the Sun\u2013closer than any man-made object has ever come. The previous record of 27 million miles was set by Helios B in 1976. The first encounter ended on November 11 and a report of all is well was received from the spacecraft on November 16. The next perihelion (closest point to the Sun) will be April 4, 2019.\nIn the mid-1950s, a young physicist named Eugene Parker proposed a number of concepts about how stars, including our Sun, give off energy. He called this cascade of energy the solar wind and described an entire complex system of plasmas, magnetic fields and energetic particles that make up this phenomenon. Parker also theorized an explanation for the superheated solar corona, which is, contrary to what was expected by then-known physics laws, hotter than the surface of the sun itself. His theory suggested that regular, but small, solar explosions he called nanoflares could, in enough abundance, cause this heating. Much of his pioneering work, which has been proven by subsequent spacecraft, defined a great deal of what we know about how the Sun\u2013Earth system interacts. The PSP is the first NASA mission named after a living person, and at 91 years old, Dr. Parker, a University of Chicago Professor Emeritus, was at the launch.\nTo perform these unprecedented investigations, the spacecraft and instruments will be protected from the Sun\u2019s heat by a 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield, which needs to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft that reach nearly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Throughout its seven-year journey, Parker Solar Probe will make six more Venus flybys for a boost, steadily moving closer to the Sun until it makes its closest approach at 3.8 million miles. At this point, the probe will be moving at roughly 430,000 miles per hour. It already set the record for the fastest-moving man-made object on October 30 at over 153,000 mph.\nDr. Young is making his third appearance at the Library. He spoke previously on space weather and on last year\u2019s total solar eclipse. He is the Associate Director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center.\nThe ICESat Man Cometh: Lecture November 8 with NASA\u2019s Tom Neumann\nNovember 1, 2018 by Angel Vu\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. On November 8 the Library will welcome cryospheric scientist Tom Neumann, who will speak on \u201cGRACE-FO and ICESat-2: NASA\u2019s Leadership in Monitoring the Polar Regions from Space.\u201d Dr. Neumann is deputy project scientist on ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and [\u2026]\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Before the twenty years of the Cassini-Huygens mission, little was known about Saturn\u2019s largest moon Titan, except that it was Mercury-sized and its surface was hidden beneath a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The Cassini mission mapped Titan\u2019s surface, studied [\u2026]\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The dance between the ionosphere and the thermosphere is complicated! At the boundary between Earth and space, charged particles and fields co-exist with Earth\u2019s neutral atmosphere and cause a continual tug of war between the neutral and ionized [\u2026]\nUsing Space-Based Observations for Improved Global Water Security and Sustainability: May 15 Lecture with NASA\u2019s Dr. John Bolten\nMay 8, 2018 by Angel Vu\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The combined stresses of overpopulation, water pollution, and poor water management practices require new approaches to better assess and manage global water security and sustainability. Dr. John Bolten will review the technological advances in satellite-based remote sensing and numerical [\u2026]\nNASA Astrophysicist Dr. Scott Guzewich to Discuss \u2018Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater\u2019 on April 25\nApril 18, 2018 by Angel Vu\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. NASA\u2019s Mars Science Laboratory mission landed the nuclear powered rover Curiosity on the floor of the 96-mile wide Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. In a complicated maneuver using a sky crane, it touched down near \u201cMount Sharp,\u201d [\u2026]\nFinding Our Origins with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: Lecture with NASA\u2019s Dr. Jonathan Gardner, March 22\nMarch 14, 2018 by Angel Vu\nThis post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The Hubble, the first space-based optical telescope, has been circling the Earth and making observations for nearly 28 years since its launch in April 1990. Just this week it has had its eye on a relic galaxy, NGC [\u2026]\nWhat\u2019s for Lunch: 2018 Earth and Space Science Talks at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the ST&B Division\nFebruary 28, 2018 by Angel Vu\nLecture series coordinators Sean Bryant and Stephanie Marcus, Science, Technology and Business Division, contributed to this blog post. With March just around the corner, we are preparing to kick off our annual Earth and Space Science lecture series, now in its twelfth year. The series is a partnership between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 12856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4XYSOXAERPLQTICTP7YKNKEV63QWID6J", "length": 4029, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "blogs.loc.gov", "title": "2010 December | In The Muse: Performing Arts Blog", "raw_content": "Archive for December 2010 (16 posts)\nThe Music Division wishes you a happy New Year\u2019s Eve. If you find your midnight kiss watched over by the winking satellite pictured in \u201cUnder the Midnight Moon,\u201d from the Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922 in the Performing Arts Encylcopedia \u2013 please, call a cab.\nCelebrate New Year\u2019s Day with the Bernsteins with this holiday greeting card from the Leonard Bernstein Collection.\nFinally, as you ring in the New Year, take a look back at the year that was. Pianist and critic Charles T. Downey, on the Washington area arts blog Ionarts, named the performance of the Arcanto Quartet at the Coolidge Auditorium one of the best live performances of the year. What were some of your memorable musical experiences of 2010?\nMay your New Year be filled with music!\nShepherding Students from Rice University\nEarlier this month, the Music Division welcomed five graduate students from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University for a week-long research experience as they scoured through our collections in hopes of developing a new concert program based on materials only available at the Library of Congress. Tracy Wu (violin), Clara Yang (cello), Makiko [\u2026]\nPosted in: Concerts, Interviews, Research\nThe first time I read Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s 1845 poem \u201cThe Bells,\u201d I thought it was unusually upbeat for a work by the master of the macabre. But upon further reading, those clamorous consonants, that constant clanging, the \u201ctime, time, time,\u201d and \u201ctinkle, tinkle, tinkle\u201d are entirely in line with the likes of \u201cThe Telltale [\u2026]\n\u2018Tis the season of Irving Berlin!\nThe following is a guest post by Contract Archivist Janet McKinney. At a time of year when the airwaves are saturated with holiday music, I continually hear the strains of one man\u2019s iconic songs stand out from the rest \u2013 those of Irving Berlin (1888-1989). It occurred to me that many may not associate these [\u2026]\nPosted in: Collections, Composers, Guest bloggers, Holidays\nThe following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz. As it\u2019s the holiday season, it seems appropriate to express thanks for a series of extraordinary opportunities that the Music Division has afforded me\u2026and to celebrate some of the other good things they lead to. It mostly started in 1996 with a grant [\u2026]\nMacDowell Reconsidered\nThe following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist Robin Rausch. The weekend of December 3-5, I participated in a MacDowell Festival & Symposium at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 150th birthday (on December 18th) of the distinguished American composer Edward MacDowell. MacDowell is generally acknowledged to be the first American [\u2026]\nOne year ago today, In the Muse launched with Meet the Music Division, a post that interviewed several staff members about their personal experience with Beatlemania. Since then, we\u2019ve brought you news of Music Division events, including our world-renowned concert programs. We\u2019ve highlighted a wide variety of treasures from the collection \u2013 from old maestros like Bach [\u2026]\nPosted in: Anniversaries, Collections, Composers, Sheet Music\nWant to hear Radiohead played on a Stradivarius?\nThe Sybarite5 will bring their eclectic repertoire, which features works by Dvo\ufffd\u00e1k, Mozart, Astor Piazolla and Radiohead, to the Coolidge Auditorium Saturday night, December 18th. The group will be performing on Stradivarius instruments from the Music Division\u2019s priceless collection. Advanced tickets are no longer available, but patrons are encouraged to try for stand-by tickets starting at [\u2026]\nPosted in: Concerts, Interviews, Musicians\nFrom Page to Stage with the Music Division\nThe following is a guest post by James Wintle, Reference Specialist, and Mark Horowitz, Senior Music Specialist. This winter, one of the hottest tickets in Washington DC is the Shakespeare Theatre Company\u2019s revival of Leonard Bernstein\u2019s operetta Candide, in a new production written and directed by Mary Zimmerman. Fans of the show, who want to [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 8463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/gender-quotas-do-not-pose-a-threat-to-merit-at-any-stage-of-the-political-process/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:AYA5PAAQ6NKBKVCAMXUO3Z2G5F2MAOSU", "length": 10102, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "blogs.lse.ac.uk", "title": "Gender quotas do not pose a threat to \"merit\" at any stage of the political process | British Politics and Policy at LSE", "raw_content": "Gender quotas do not pose a threat to \u201cmerit\u201d at any stage of the political process\nThe Labour Party has long utilised All-Women candidate shortlists in an aim to ensure that female representation in the House of Commons increases. This has always been controversial, however it has been responsible for a noted increase in the number of female MPs in general and female Labour MPs in particular. Here, Mary Nugent and Mona Lena Krook dispel some of the myths around All-Women Shortlists. They show that gender quotas do not pose a threat to \u2018merit\u2019, and that the diversity they have fostered has brought about a number of important democratic outcomes.\nDiversifying leadership and ensuring representatives look more like voters is a longstanding issue for political parties: Labour\u2019s shadow cabinet reshuffle earlier this year prompted complaints of women being sidelined in the party, and just this month Liberal democrats announced new provisions to for candidate selection for women and minorities.\nAll-women shortlists (AWS), Labour\u2019s gender quota policy for MP selection, is the most significant provision to ensure women\u2019s representation in the UK. Introduced in 1993 following the failure of \u2018softer\u2019 measures to tackle shockingly low numbers of women in the Labour Party, the AWS policy establishes that at least half of all \u2018winnable\u2019 Labour seats are open only to applications from women.\nNumerically, the AWS policy has been a great success. It contributed to a doubling of the number of women in the House of Commons when first used during preparations for the 1997 election. Nearly twenty years later, the share of women among Labour MPs is 43%, compared to 21% among the Conservatives and a depressing 0% among the Lib Dems.\nDespite these achievements, AWS \u2013 as a method of change \u2013 remain consistently controversial. Even Harriet Harman, a key architect of the policy and a consistent champion of women, admitted in a speech in 2014 that \u201cno one likes all-women shortlists.\u201d Yet many of the claims made about AWS have not been subject to systematic analysis, making it difficult to distinguish between \u201cmyth\u201d and \u201creality\u201d in debates over gender quotas in the UK. Seeking to gain some clarity, we identified and empirically tested nine of the most common claims about AWS in our paper \u201cAll-Women Shortlists: Myths and Realities,\u201d published recently in Parliamentary Affairs.\nWe find that not only is there no loss of \u2018quality\u2019 associated with the use of gender quotas, but AWS may in fact result in better candidates being selected. The real enemy of meritocracy in British politics is not gender quotas, but rather, unwarranted male dominance. Here we evaluate three of the most common myths associate with AWS.\nMyth 1: AWS select \u2018unqualified\u2019 women\nVocalizing a sentiment held by many AWS detractors, Edwina Curry has suggested that women elected via AWS are unqualified to be MPs, as \u201cwomen who\u2019ve come through this route have skipped several steps so their skills may be deficient.\u201d Criteria regarding the skills and experiences that make someone \u201cqualified\u201d to be an MP are very much debated, with the attributes demanded of elected representatives varying across parties and over time. At the heart of these criticisms, however, is a belief that AWS promote women who are inexperienced and not yet ready to be in politics.\nTo test this claim, therefore, we collected data on the number of years in other elected positions \u2013 in local, county, regional, or EU politics \u2013 prior to entering parliament, comparing women elected via AWS to their non-quota counterparts, male and female, across the three main parties for every parliament from 1992 to 2010.\nWe find that women elected by AWS were no less experienced than other MPs when they entered parliament. In fact, women elected via AWS tend to have spent more time in a prior elected position than their Labour colleagues, male and female, in every year except 2010. Interestingly, the data also show that AWS women had significantly more experience, on average, than Conservative MPs, male or female, in every parliament in this period. In 2010, for example, the mean years of prior experience of AWS women was 6.8 years, compared to 4.4 for Conservative men.\nResearch from other countries helps explain possible reasons for these gender differences. A survey conducted by Fox & Lawless in the United States found that women tend to underestimate their own qualifications, sensing a need to accumulate more experience before they feel qualified to enter politics.\nGender quotas can thus serve a \u201cmobilizing capacity\u201d, as suggested by Geissel & Hust, inspiring qualified women to come forward as candidates and enabling parties to recruit and elect untapped talent. A study on Jordan, for example, shows that introducing a quota drew women into the political arena who would otherwise not have run for office.\nMyth 2: AWS only elect white women\nAnother criticism of AWS questions the diversity of women elected through the policy. Diane Abbott, the UK\u2019s first black female MP, for example, noted at the Speakers Conference on Parliamentary Representation in 2010 that \u201call-women shortlists have, in effect, been all white women shortlists.\u201d\nWe test this claim with data obtained from the Labour Party, tracking the share of candidates identifying as black, Asian, or minority ethnic (BAME) at each stage of the selection process in the run-up to the 2015 general elections. Comparing the selection results in AWS and open seats, we find that the share of BAME applicants in both types of seats was similar, around 20 per cent. However, BAME candidates were much more likely to be selected in the final stage in AWS constituencies: 16 per cent of AWS seats ultimately chose BAME candidates, compared to just 3 per cent in open seat selections.\nWhile earlier elections did result in AWS candidates who were overwhelmingly white, data from 2015 thus indicate that this pattern is changing, with a positive impact on BAME representation overall. In this case, it appears that efforts by Abbott and others have increased awareness on the need for more diverse representation, enabling AWS \u2013 among other instruments \u2013 to be a vehicle for encouraging others types of diversity in parliament.\nMyth 3: AWS women \u2018underachieve\u2019 in the House of Commons\nA third common criticism regards the supposed performance of women elected via AWS. During his campaign for Conservative party leader, Iain Duncan-Smith stated, for instance, that \u201cAll-women shortlists have not been a success for Labour because instead of getting people who are of high quality, what we\u2019ve actually got in is people who haven\u2019t really performed as politicians for the Labour Party.\u201d\nAs there is no agreed-upon criterion for measuring the \u201cperformance\u201d of MPs, we employed a range of different measures. Drawing on data from TheyWorkForYou and The Public Whip between 2010 and 2014, we examined performance \u2013 comparing MPs by gender, AWS status, and party \u2013 in relation to five parliamentary activities: writing questions, speaking in debates, attending votes, rebelling against the party, and responding to constituents.\nThe findings are particularly striking in the area of parliamentary questions. Labour MPs ask more questions than other MPs, but the subgroup asking the most questions by far is women selected via AWS. The contrast is especially striking when compared with the activity levels of Conservative MPs: the mean number of questions asked per year was 78 for women elected via AWS, versus 37 and 33 for Conservative men and women, respectively. In each of the other four areas of parliamentary behavior, we find that differences between the activity levels of AWS women versus their non-quota colleagues are statistically insignificant.\nOur analysis thus reveals that there is no evidence to suggest that women elected via AWS fail to fulfill their duties as MPs \u2013 and, indeed, on some measures they are amongst the most actively engaged.\nFrom myths to realities\nThe most common criticisms of AWS, in short, do not find any empirical support \u2013 among these three claims, or the other claims that we examine, in our paper. Our research indicates that AWS do not facilitate the entry of unqualified women or lead to the election of sub-par MPs. Rather, Labour\u2019s AWS policy has reduced the barriers for well-prepared women to stand as candidates and produced diligent and active representatives.\nQuotas thus do not pose a threat to \u201cmerit\u201d at any stage of the political process. Instead, fostering diversity has contributed to a host of positive democratic outcomes. The Liberal Democrats should be enthusiastically embracing the move towards all-women shortlists, and the Labour Party should not be apologising for its transformative and effective policy solution.\nNote: this was originally published on Democratic Audit UK.\nMary Nugent is a Graduate Student at Rutgers University.\nMona Lena Krook is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University\nFebruary 23rd, 2016|Fairness and Equality|2 Comments\nWe Need To Talk About Men - Rife Magazine April 5, 2016 at 4:30 pm - Reply\n[\u2026] They happen to be \u2018better\u2019 at getting in, right? Not exactly. This idea of neutrality hides a gendered idea of merit because \u2018good politician\u2019 is defined in a way that favours men and disadvantages women. As in [\u2026]\nMike Killingworth February 23, 2016 at 8:58 am - Reply\nI wondered if the authors would be careless enough to quote Diane Abbott in a piece about AWS. Not only did Diane not benefit from AWS, she was adopted by her CLP\u2019s deselecting a white male sitting MP. I know. I was there.\nOn ethnicity, all the authors have done is to make the case for non-white men also to enjoy the benefit of a quota of reserved seats. They don\u2019t point this out, I suppose, because they know full well that once you go down that road you don\u2019t know where it ends.\nIn any case, the real issue is \u2013 are 50% of people who want to be MPs women? And if it is significantly more or less (it\u2019s a number that never gets quoted in articles like this) is that not the real problem?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 14238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2013/11/ex-muslims-are-living-the-british-dream-britain-should-support-them/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5DPIV5K5UM3UN6KI4AIZOVVEL3KXLRFW", "length": 4060, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.spectator.co.uk", "title": "Ex-Muslims are living the British dream \u2013 Britain should support them | Coffee House", "raw_content": "Ex-Muslims are living the British dream \u2013 Britain should support them\nBritain ought to give more support to those who leave minority faiths.\nThere was an excellent Radio 4 documentary on yesterday in which Sarfraz Manzoor interviewed a group of people you don\u2019t hear much about \u2013 ex-Muslims.\nLike all good radio documentaries, it left me wanting to know more about the individuals involved, feeling more confused about the world, and with mixed feelings too. On the one hand I can understand that Dover Beach sadness of people falling away from religion, and why the parents of those interviewed would feel devastated by that loss.\nOn the other hand, the ex-Muslims are right. They\u2019re right to question the beliefs they were brought up with, and they\u2019re right to see the inconsistencies and those aspects where Islam\u2019s morality clashes with theirs, and to follow what they think to be right.\nIt\u2019s also good for the society around them; the irony is that ex-Muslims have embraced the British dream like no others by adopting the mainstream British mode of belief, that is unbelief and scepticism, and yet society not only does not welcomes this, it almost discourages it, is embarrassed by it.\nOne of the assumptions about immigration was that people from other religions would eventually start to believe as much as Anglicans do, or just leave the faith; yet at the same time the British establishment and state has and continues to protect minority faiths from the sorts of criticism and ridicule that would aide this process. Partly this is out of politeness, or to prevent social disorder, or confusion about race, or part of a political strategy played out both by Labour and Conservatives, secularists and Christians.\nBoth secularists and Christians have promoted multiculturalism in order to build a society that suited them more, and at the moment I note that New Humanist magazine and the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales are at one on diversity and immigration, although for different reasons, and at least one of them is sure to be disappointed (maybe both). Labour has promoted the mosques for their own ends, but our current government is trying to make itself more \u2018pro-faith\u2019, whatever that means, both pro-church and pro-mosque, as if all religions were just a variation of colourful outfits, rather than belief systems that inherently clash surely as secular ideologies do.\nIn reality the ideal for British social cohesion would be for lots of Muslims (and Hindus and Sikhs) to become atheists, agnostics or very wishy-washy Anglicans. That we can\u2019t admit this is at the heart of the integration problem facing an unbelieving society.\nReligion used to be the way to join the tribe. In the 19th century a second or third generation immigrant could put away his ethnicity by one single act \u2013 joining the Church of England. One could still be a Catholic or Jewish Englishmen, just as one can be Muslim and British today, but taking that sacrament was an expression of total immersion, almost a baptism of identity, and one far more powerful than answering a set of questions about how many weeks benefit we\u2019re entitled to or what proportion of the UK population is addicted to smack. The issue of assimilation is more important today than it was in the 19th century because minority religions are far larger, and they\u2019re growing. PEW estimate that the percentage of the UK population that is Muslim will pass the 8 per cent mark in the 2020s. And yet the apostasy rate is incredibly small \u2013 just 0.5 per cent of Pakistani-Britons described themselves as having no religion in the last census.\nSo how does one become British now? Sitting in a pub talking about how there is no God seems pretty close to me. How typically perfidious and hypocritical that British society does not acknowledge or welcome this.\nChristianity is not a prop for politics\nThe Pineapple of Hate\nA storm of nonsense: gay marriage opponents lose their wits - Spectator Blogs\nIslam\u2019s savage war against atheists: listen to Holy Smoke, the Spectator\u2019s new religion podcast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 8079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boname.ru/lifestyle/health/becca-henderson-transplant-hope-for-rucksack-heart-woman.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ORZCGQELFFFPRHOTDQOSMLVILJTYCJWL", "length": 1749, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "boname.ru", "title": "Becca Henderson: Transplant hope for rucksack heart woman - boname", "raw_content": "Home Lifestyle Health Becca Henderson: Transplant hope for rucksack heart woman\nBecca Henderson: Transplant hope for rucksack heart woman\nMedia caption\u2018I carry my heart in a rucksack\u2019\nA woman who carries an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own organ was removed because of cancer has been added to the transplant list.\nBecca Henderson, 24, has been given the green light to receive a donor heart after scans showed she has been clear of cancer for a year.\nNow she is on the list, the Oxford University post-graduate student could get a new heart in weeks.\n\u201cAt no point did it ever occur to me to give up,\u201d she told the BBC.\n\u201cNo matter how hard it is for me, even if it is hard for me, it will then be easier for the next person.\n\u201cI had my sister\u2019s wedding and I had to get to that, I have other friends\u2019 weddings, I\u2019ve got my mum, my dad, and I\u2019m not going to be outlived by the dog.\u201d\nImage caption Becca Henderson relies on the artificial heart to pump blood around her body\nIn October she returned to study at Oxford \u2013 along with her parents, who are on standby in case the 7kg machine stops and the batteries need changing.\nMs Henderson said: \u201cIf anything goes wrong with the machine, they are the ones who can do the changeover in four minutes and save my life.\u201d\nMs Henderson is one of two people in the UK with an artificial heart.\nHeart surgeon Stephen Westaby said Ms Henderson \u201cmust be the most courageous young woman\u201d.\nHe congratulated her on the news there had been no sign the cancer had spread.\n\u201cMiniscule numbers of people\u201d ever had cancer in the heart, he said, and it was the \u201cmost fearful condition\u201d.\nPrevious articleAdd These Expert-Approved Multivitamins to Your Diet ASAP\nNext articleBreast cancer risk test \u2018game changer\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookdigitizers.com/the-book-cover-design-7-guiding-principles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JDRGMS24J5WX4QOENLI4XC62FSABMXKT", "length": 5666, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "bookdigitizers.com", "title": "The book cover design: 7 guiding principles | Bookdigitizers", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Bookdigitizers Blog / The book cover design: 7 guiding principles\nApril 27, 2017 /0 Comments/in Bookdigitizers Blog /by preety\nAn effective cover design grabs attention and prepares the reader for what one might find within the book. On this blog we give you some tips that will ease you to navigate the process, and better equip you to demand a design a superior cover.\nA good book cover doesn\u2019t equate to being crazy or loud. You don\u2019t have to yell at people to get their attention; there\u2019s enough of that happening already. It just needs the cover to be clear, well done, and compelling. You may want to grab people with the title of the book; entice them with the emotion and narrative the title alludes to, and then let them know who you are. Make your title the largest and clearest part of your cover design. If you\u2019re a new author, it\u2019s a safe bet that no one knows who you are (yet), so designing a cover that suggests otherwise is not going to engage an audience\nSimilarly if your name is as big, or bigger, than the title, you\u2019re doing it wrong. There are general guidelines that a good designer will understand when creating a design \u2013 and it\u2019s good for you to know them so you can articulate these from the outset.\n#1 Provide a Hierarchy of Information\nSome elements are more important than others. This should be reflected in the design through use of scale. Another way to say this is: if everything is the same size, nothing is important. Don\u2019t make the various elements of your design compete for eye-attention, use size and scale so the elements complement one another.\n#2 Avoid clutter\nToo much clutter includes:\nMultiple images or components within an image\nUse of more than 2 fonts (more on that in typography)\nHaving quotes competing with title or author\nUsing drop shadows\nHaving Outlines on multiple things\nUse of excessive gradients\n# 3 Typographic considerations\nAvoid decorative fonts, such as scripts, which are difficult to read (particularly in small sizes) and should be avoided- AND THEY DEFINITELY SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ALL CAPS. A general rule of thumb in typography is to only use two fonts in a single design \u2013 one serif and one sans serif \u2013 and they should have some kind of visual harmony or relationship. That being said, you can choose fonts that have a variety of weights and italic options to give you some spice while maintaining unity. Avoid anything below an 8 point font size will require a magnifying glass to read.\n# 4 Size matters\nA cover will not be able to convey everything about you and your book, but it should say one or two things in a striking way. It\u2019s important to remember that the cover will initially be viewed as a thumbnail. Make sure the cover is compelling and clear, even when reduced to the size of a postage stamp. This is a universal design rule that applies to book covers, event posters, corporate logos etc. You should know the size of the finished product before you start designing. That might sound like common sense, but plenty of amateurs make the mistake of designing first, only to discover that what they\u2019ve come up with won\u2019t work within the dimensions they later select for their printed book. Strip it to the basics. Make your book cover about the title and who you are.\n# 5 Print and Digital (e-Book) considerations\nEven if you\u2019re only planning an e-Book at first, you may want to print in the future, so always plan for printing. The final book cover design document for printing has to be created at a higher resolution than the version for your e-Book cover. You can always \u201csave down\u201d to a smaller file size, but it does not work the other way \u2013 you can\u2019t take a web-ready 72 ppi file and expand it for print. So as a rule of thumb, set files up at 300 ppi !\n#6 Pixels vs. vector\nDigital files are read in one of two ways: raster (pixel based images), or vector (based on points and lines). Vector is infinitely salable with no loss of quality; raster is not. If you\u2019re working in pixels (i.e. Photoshop), make sure NOT to take an image that\u2019s smaller than you need and attempt to blow it up. It will look like trash. Get a file that is 300 ppi at the size it will appear in print (at least).\n#7 Consistent visual branding\nCross-branding and reinforcement of your product is important. Here\u2019s a few things to think about in terms of branding: Is the book part of a series? If so, maintain visual consistency (use the same fonts, similar photographic imagery, illustrations, typography, etc.).Do you have an online presence? Integrate design elements from your website, press, social media marketing, advertising, etc. into your design \u2013 and vice versa. Now that the book cover design is established, use the same aesthetic and elements to promote your writing on various platforms, including your Facebook author page, your website, print and banner ads, posters, or the side of a bus. Keep the look consistent to build familiarity, excitement, and interest for your awesome book. Of course, all the above rules for design still apply!\nWe are constantly looking at existing cover designs for inspiration and motivation. Many of the books on our shelves are kept as much of their form as to their content. 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MSI shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.\nThe information contained in these Services is subject to change without notice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 24830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brainsnorts.com/2014/07/10/bad-words-film-review-b/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KU5L2QF5EDUS2QCD7ULGVKVVRTOZT4M7", "length": 5450, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "brainsnorts.com", "title": "\u201cBad Words\u201d \u2013 film review (B+) | brainsnorts inc.", "raw_content": "\u201cBad Words\u201d \u2013 film review (B+)\nJason Bateman has had an interesting acting career. He started in the early 80\u2019s as a regular character on Little House on the Prairie, a very successful tv show from when you youngsters weren\u2019t yet born. From there, Silver Spoons, and Valerie, a big hit with Valerie Harper. For a long time he was unfairly compared and considered runner-up to Michael J. Fox, partly because his sister Justine co-starred with Fox on Family Ties and partly because, together, you\u2019d swear they were brothers.\nIn the middle of 25 successful years in television came his one shot to star in a movie \u2013 and what do they offer? Teen Wolf Too, a stupid sequel to Fox\u2019s hit with Teen Wolf. It sucked, and he seemed doomed to television. Then came ten years of Arrested Development, in which he proved an excellent straight man in a great show eventually cancelled for being too intelligent for television. In Juno he unexpectedly played a really good bad guy, and he began to reclaim the film career from which he had been unfairly removed.\nNow comes Bad Words, in which he directs himself as a self-absorbed smart-ass who exploits a loophole to worm his way into a state spelling bee. At first, it seems his goal is to recapture a lost opportunity from his youth. Later, however, we realize it is exactly that. Yeah, I meant it that way. No, I will not explain. By the way, am I wrong, or does it seem like all the best films lately are coming from Focus Features?\nGuy Trilby (Bateman) probably uses more profanity than non-profanity throughout the film, and a good deal of it is aimed at kids. It works just as well as it did in Bad Santa, and that\u2019s a good thing. The profanity is not just his personality but also his way of intimidating the competition, using ruthlessly embarrassing tricks to remove the top contenders. He is constantly followed by Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn), a needy reporter who is waiting for a promised interview/explanation. Instead, it seems her main purpose is to bring out his exposition and occasionally use him for sex.\nVowing to stop his rise through the spelling bee or resign her post is Dr. Deagan (Allison Janney), the mother hen of the tournament who arranges that Guy\u2019s hotel room is actually a broom closet. Sure he could easily go to another hotel, but he adds that to his pyre that drives him towards the title. Also in Guy\u2019s path are Dr. Bowman (Philip Baker Hall), the grand poobah of the something educational, and Chaitanya Chopra (Rohan Chand), the best kid I have seen in a movie since the last best kid.\nChaitanya is small enough to lose a fight to Webster but big enough to stand up rude, lewd barrage Guy throws at him to knock him off his game. The kid is damn cute, but he\u2019s not as innocent as he looks.\nThe bulk of the film is balanced between Guy\u2019s focus and drive to win this damn spelling bee while keeping everyone, except Chaitanya, at arm\u2019s length and Widgeon at crotch length. Guy is obviously bitter about something unexplained, but the boy is small enough to crawl beneath his defenses and at least get close enough to join his world. To Chaitanya, Guy is just a big boy there to have fun, but that assumption is wrong.\nBateman (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief) barely cracks a smile except when unleashing a lobster in a restroom or doing shots with the pint-sized Chaitanya. Part of the fun is watching everyone else bounce off his force field that only Chaitanya seems to crack. His role is fairly predictable, but that doesn\u2019t mean he isn\u2019t the life of the film. Rohan (Jack and Jill, Lone Survivor) could be the next (insert cute kid actor everyone loves), and I\u2019m looking forward to finding out. He stands toe-to-toe with Guy and does not flinch, until Guy hits him below the belt.\nJanney (The Way, Way Back; Juno) and Hahn (We\u2019re the Millers, Parks and Recreation) have little more to do than give Guy reasons to explain, or not explain, why the hell he\u2019s bullying his way to a spelling bee title. Hall (Argo, The Truman Show) is one of those character actors you\u2019ve seen a thousand times but whose name you\u2019ll never remember.\nAs for Bateman\u2019s directorial debut, that only counts for film. However, back when he was only 19 years old, he directed several television episodes of Valerie. He takes no big chances other than what can be best called \u201cpotty humor.\u201d He goes far, a few cringes, but good cringes and nothing that would make me question anything except the ending. I wouldn\u2019t call it predictable, but I wouldn\u2019t say it really solves anything either and that\u2019s why I dropped the grade a little bit. It\u2019s a case of the journey being more important than the destination, but it\u2019s a Disney-length journey (93 minutes) I might even take again.\nI previously mentioned Bad Santa, one of my favorite comedies, and you\u2019ll see some obvious reasons to compare. Bad Words is not quite as funny, but it is well worth watching when you\u2019re looking for something on Netflix, Redbox, or a certain questionable download site that your anonymous friend showed you.\nTeacher gives it a B+.\nJuly 10, 2014 in film reviews, movies. Tags: allison janney, bad words, comedy, focus features, jason bateman, spelling bee\n\u2190 Back in the Day: \u201cBatman\u201d (June \u201989)\nSoccer and American Television \u2192\n4 thoughts on \u201c\u201cBad Words\u201d \u2013 film review (B+)\u201d\njenchap1202 says:\nWell, I\u2019m intrigued \u2013 will definitely need to see this one\u2026\nI might watch this. Oh, by the way, \u201cThe Fault in Our Stars\u201d was great!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 12277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brockport.edu/academics/english/graduate/creative_writing_certificate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:53Z", "digest": "sha1:KUYLM3QROKRAUAJNBADNTFCFIRQVUTW5", "length": 1292, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "brockport.edu", "title": "Creative Writing (Graduate Certificate): The College at Brockport", "raw_content": "Creative writing fosters community, creative risk-taking, and development of voice. Bring these skills to your work and other studies.\nThe 15-credit Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing allows writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction the opportunity to practice and hone their craft without committing to a full master's program.\nLike a \"minor\" on the graduate level, it may be taken by students who are pursuing graduate studies in other areas, or by students who wish to explore their interest and aptitude for further work or study in creative writing.\nThe 15-credit certificate in creative writing is open to both matriculated and non-matriculated students, but all students must be formally admitted.\nCourses taken in the certificate program would also apply towards the MA in English. For instance, a student who has completed the certificate would be welcome to apply to the MA program in creative writing, and if accepted could finish that degree in a year. In another case, a student might work towards an MA in English with the emphasis in literature, to be accompanied by the certificate in creative writing.\nCreative writing is a skill to have in a variety of careers, including:\nTeaching at all educational levels from elementary school to college\nAlissa Karl, PhD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 5279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 168.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2018/12/whats-open-and-closed-during-the-holidays-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WPKI3QELC6LIIHOPGAZURGZDKUUSWDBW", "length": 7875, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "brocku.ca", "title": "What\u2019s open and closed during the holidays \u2013 The Brock News", "raw_content": "What\u2019s open and closed during the holidays\nMonday, December 17, 2018 | by Douglas Hunt\nIndividuals with card access must enter the University through the doors at Scotiabank Hall near the Tim Hortons in Thistle Complex.\nMost University buildings throughout Brock\u2019s main campus, east campus and satellite locations will be locked and closed during the holidays beginning Monday, Dec. 24. All campus buildings will re-open for regular business hours on Wednesday, Jan. 2.\nThe Walker Sports Complex will operate on restricted holiday hours during this time. Please see below for details.\nCall Campus Security when entering and leaving a building\nDuring the holiday closure, individuals who have card access to a building\u2019s exterior doors may enter if authorized to do so. For safety reasons, those entering buildings are asked to contact Campus Security Services at x3200 when entering and exiting the building. Those entering buildings must have their Brock identification with them and be able to produce it if asked.\nEntering a building without card access\nEmployees who do not have card access must enter the University through the doors at Scotiabank Hall near the Thistle Tim Hortons (see attached map). Campus Security Services will be stationed inside the Scotiabank Hall doors from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Anyone entering the building will be asked for identification, the reason for their visit and length of their stay. Employees are asked to call Campus Security Services at x3200 when they leave. If the doors are locked, press emergency phone #67 or call 905-688-5550 x3200 to ask an officer to open the doors.\nPlease note that heating setbacks and ventilation reductions will be in effect during the holiday closure.\nEntering a building with card access\nAuto alarm systems are still in effect during the closure, and a code will be required to access select buildings. If employees have not been given an access code, their building/area may be armed.\nBuildings with card access include:\nBrock Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC)\nCairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex\nInniskillin Hall (proxy entrance)\nMackenzie Chown Block \u2018B\u2019, \u2018D\u2019, \u2018F\u2019, \u2018H\u2019 and \u2018J\u2019 entrances\nTheal House\nBuilding or grounds-related emergency\nIf a building or grounds-related emergency, such as broken glass, loss of power or flooding occurs from Monday Dec. 24 to Tuesday Jan. 1, call Campus Security Services at x3200.\nIf contract work is expected during the holiday closure, email Campus Security Services before Wednesday, Dec. 19 with specified times and dates. Brock University identification or contractor identification must be produced.\nFree parking will be available in Zone 1 at the main campus from Monday, Dec. 24 to Tuesday, Jan. 1. Parking regulations still apply:\nNo parking in a fire route or in bus stops.\nAccessible permits must be displayed while parking in accessible spaces.\nObstructing roads, laneways or loading/unloading areas is prohibited.\nParking on landscaped areas or walkways is prohibited.\nRegular parking operations will resume on Wednesday, Jan. 2. Should there be a snow event, Visitor Lot D will be cleared first and available for parking.\nNo food service will be available on campus between 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21 and Tuesday, Jan. 1 (other than vending machines). Several private food outlets will be open on the east side of Glenridge Ave. immediately opposite the main campus.\nGuernsey Market, Hungry Badger and the Tim Hortons in Schmon Tower will re-open on Wednesday, Jan. 2:\nGuernsey Market: Wednesday, Jan. 2 to Friday, Jan. 4 \u2014 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nHungry Badger: Wednesday, Jan. 2 to Friday, Jan. 4 \u2014 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nTim Hortons, Schmon Tower: Wednesday, Jan. 2 to Friday, Jan. 4 \u2014 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nRegular hours of operation return Sunday, Jan. 6, with Guernsey Market open from noon to 9:30 p.m.\nThe Brock Research and Innovation Centre\nSaturday, Dec. 22 \u2014 9 a.m. to noon\nSunday, Dec. 23 to Wednesday, Dec. 26 \u2014 CLOSED\nThursday, Dec. 27 to Friday, Dec. 28 \u2014 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nSunday, Dec. 30 \u2014 CLOSED\nMonday, Dec. 31 \u2014 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nTuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 \u2014 CLOSED\nWednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 \u2014 Open for regular hours \u2014 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.\nThe Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex\nAccess is available to those who have the authority and legitimate reason to enter during the holidays. Auto alarm systems are still in effect during this time, and a code will be required for access. For safety and security reasons, employees must contact Campus Security Services at x3200 to inform them that they are in the building. Personal safety is paramount \u2014 Lab activities cannot be conducted alone. Employees must make sure someone knows where they are.\nThe Cairns complex will require card access at all times. Temporary access cards will not be issued for the holidays.\nJames A. Gibson Library / Matheson Learning Commons\nMonday, Dec. 17 to Wednesday, Dec. 19 \u2014 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.\nThursday, Dec. 20 \u2014 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.\nFriday, Dec. 21 \u2014 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.\nSaturday, Dec. 22 to Tuesday, Jan. 1 \u2014 CLOSED\nWednesday, Jan. 2 to Friday, Jan. 4 \u2014 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.\nSaturday, Jan. 5 to Sunday, Jan. 6 \u2014 CLOSED\nRegular hours resume Monday, Jan. 7 \u2014 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.\nMap, Data and GIS Library\nFriday, Dec. 21 \u2014 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nWednesday, Jan. 2 to Friday, Jan. 4 \u2014 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nRegular hours will resume Monday, Jan. 7.\nAccess to the Marilyn I. Walker School (MIWSFPA) is available to those who are authorized to enter the building during the holidays. All doors to the MIWSFPA will be locked with access to the building via card. Employees are asked to sign in and out with Campus Security Services at the office located in the main lobby. If employees require access to a particular room/area in the building and do not have access, they are asked to call Campus Security Services at x6300 or x3200 for access. For safety and security reasons, employees may be asked to show their Brock ID. If employees require access to the building over the holidays, but do not yet have proxy access to the exterior doors, please contact Campus Security Services at x6300 or x3200.\nAll Residences (except Brock Suites) will be closed for the Winter Break from Friday, Dec. 21 at noon until Sunday, Jan. 6 at noon.\nFor further information and details regarding this closure please refer to the End of Term Notice on the Department of Residences website.\nWalker Sports Complex\nSaturday, Dec. 22 and Sunday, Dec. 23 \u2014 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nMonday, Dec. 24 to Wednesday, Dec. 26 \u2014 CLOSED\nThursday, Dec. 27 to Monday, Dec. 31 \u2014 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nWednesday, Jan. 2 \u2014 Opening at 6:30 a.m.\nFrom Thursday, Dec. 27 to Monday, Dec. 31. visitors are asked to enter the Walker Sports Complex through the west doors by the tennis courts. Please check pool hours at on the Brock website.\nCustodial Services will be provided at the Walker Sports Complex during hours of operation throughout the holiday season.\nThursday, Dec. 27 to Sunday, Dec. 30 \u2013 noon to 5 p.m.\nMonday, Dec. 31 to Tuesday, Jan. 1 \u2013 CLOSED\nBrock Safety app\nFaculty, staff and students are encouraged to download the Brock Safety app from their respective app store. Brock Safety gives all persons at Brock access to campus and local resources 24-7. In addition, the Brock Safety app allows users to:\nReport emergencies quickly and easily, and receive push notifications for their safety on campus.\nAccess local transit schedules and engage with the University on social media.\nContact Campus Security Services via phone or email, as well as report a location, report a problem, and if needed, schedule a Campus Security Services escort, 24-7.\nIf employees have further questions regarding this notice after Saturday, Dec. 22, contact Campus Security Services at x3200.\nTagged with: campus security, facilities management, holidays, library, MIWSFPA, open and closed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 12696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bruceabordersbooks.weebly.com/blog/the-broken-window", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TBE7UZRKQ4GBBY5VO2GNMRLNJ52CV3IH", "length": 3627, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bruceabordersbooks.weebly.com", "title": "Bruce A. Borders Blog - Bruce A. Borders - Author", "raw_content": "Has anyone besides me ever gotten into trouble for something you didn\u2019t do? Probably. But for me, it seemed to be a habit because it happened a lot - still does from time to time. Just recently, I was blamed for tearing a hose off the fuel pump at my job - until they actually looked at the surveillance camera footage and saw it wasn\u2019t me. (Would have been nice if they had checked that first). When I was a kid it wasn\u2019t always that easy to prove my innocence but usually, I did find a way to get out of things without suffering any ill consequences, as in the following story.\nI was nine or ten years old at the time. An apartment building was being built across the alley from my house. A neighbor friend of mine and I loved to ride our bikes in the piles of dirt. One day, when we\u2019d stopped for a rest, I picked up a dirt clod and threw it through one of the open windows. No glass had been installed yet and we didn\u2019t see any harm in tossing a few more dirt clods through the window hole. A little more dirt on the dirt floor inside couldn\u2019t hurt anything.\nWe soon grew tired of throwing dirt and went back to riding our bikes. That might have been the end of it except some other kids had seen us and decided throwing dirt clods looked like fun. For the next few days the other kids took it upon themselves to move as much dirt from outside the apartments to the inside, one dirt clod at a time. Then one day, when we all got home from school, the windows had been installed. Of course that fact didn\u2019t at all deter the neighboring kids from their fun and it wasn\u2019t long before one of the windowpanes was broken.\nBefore the shattered glass had settled to the ground all of the other kids were long gone. My friend and I had done nothing wrong and so we stayed. The next day after school, we again went to ride our bikes on the mounds of dirt. And then suddenly, there were four or five men who appeared out of nowhere - and they were mad! One of them, evidently the boss, was yelling and cussing at us, asking us why we\u2019d broken out the window. It did no good to tell him we weren\u2019t the ones responsible, he didn\u2019t care what we had to say. He\u2019d talked to someone across the street and they told him we rode our bikes there everyday. We were going to have to pay for the window, he said. Then he added, that he wouldn\u2019t call the police if we\u2019d tell him where we lived.\nI may have been only a kid but I was no fool. Remember I said getting in trouble for things I hadn\u2019t done was sort of a habit of mine? Well, that habit had taught me at least one thing and I knew better than to tell the guy where I lived. He wanted to talk to my parents, and that wasn\u2019t going to happen - not if I could help it! But neither did I want to lie to the man. So, my friend and I just took off riding as fast as we could - away from the construction site and in the opposite direction from our houses.\nReturning home an hour or so later, we half expected to be greeted by a cop car - but there were none. Neither of our parents mentioned it so apparently, the guy hadn\u2019t figured out where we lived. In a few weeks the apartments were finished and we never saw the man again. For once, I had won! I wasn\u2019t sure exactly what I had won since I hadn\u2019t been guilty in the first place, but it was nice to feel as if I\u2019d gotten away with something.\nThe whole reason I\u2019m telling this story is that I was reminded of it the other day while driving past those apartments. I was slightly amused to see that a window was broken. The same window. Great, I thought, as my smile faded and I quickly drove away. I wonder if I\u2019m going to be blamed for this?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brushedwithmystery.com/2011/02/14/heart-obsessed-today-anyway/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RYE3OJISC7RFOAB5EG72GY6AVNR7GGZ6", "length": 228, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "brushedwithmystery.com", "title": "Heart Obsessed\u2026.today anyway\u2026. | Brushed With Mystery", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Power of the People: The Transformation of Egypt\nValentine\u2019s Day: Not Always What You Expect\u2026 \u2192\nHeart Obsessed\u2026.today anyway\u2026.\nThis entry was posted in Art and tagged hearts, photo, valentine's day. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 2950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://btsadvancedcommunications.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/what-makes-a-lan-a-lan-and-a-wan-a-wan/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3MCZ7HXUO3YRZSG3VP4MYXWPIPFBTSG7", "length": 2020, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "btsadvancedcommunications.wordpress.com", "title": "What Makes a LAN a LAN and a WAN a WAN | BTS Advanced Communications", "raw_content": "\u2190 BTS Advanced Communications: LeadingTelecommunications Companies in Kansas\nBTS Advanced Communications: Information Transport Specialists of Kansas \u2192\nWhat Makes a LAN a LAN and a WAN a WAN\nLAN and WAN are two terms that can be used to describe a network of interconnected computers. There are six more classifications beyond the two; however, these are the most common setups when it comes to residential and business use. Even if your time on the computer is casual at best, you\u2019ve probably been on one of these networks at some point\u2013 but more than likely both.\nLAN stands for \u2018local area network\u2018 and WAN stand for \u2018wide area network\u2019. More than just having a different first letter, there are significant differences between the two.\nIn a LAN, computers are connected together all in the same location and it is typically owned by its users. A smaller or medium-sized business is likely to be connected to a local area network when it is run out of one location with no computers at distant branches. This definition also fits for people who have multiple computers in their home that are connected together. Keep in mind that some LAN\u2019s, on the other hand, connect thousands of computers at a time.\nA WAN is a network that is comprised of a group of different LANS spread out over a large geographic area. They are often connected through networks such as a telephone system, leased lines or satellite. LANS connect to a WAN by way of a router and are commonly used by business and government entities so they can carry out their daily functions no matter where they are in the world.\nWhen a LAN needs repair or maintenance, it is likely that a certified technician will be called in to assess the problem. Yet with a wide area network being so much larger, business or government enterprises with their own WAN tend to employ personnel solely for the purpose of its maintenance and repair.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged LAN, Local area network, WAN, Wide area network. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bulletins.psu.edu/undergraduate/colleges/liberal-arts/political-science-minor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:30Z", "digest": "sha1:P4XFT6AUAQWOJNARVVNAA2TD3BQP5JGG", "length": 3315, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bulletins.psu.edu", "title": "Political Science, Minor < Penn State University", "raw_content": "Program Code: PLSC_UMNR\nThe Political Science minor consists of 18 credits with at least one course in each of the following Political Science areas: American, theory/methodology, comparative, and international relations. Six (6) of these 18 credits must be at the 400 level.\nWhen electing this minor, the student should have junior (fifth-semester) standing. Special attention should be given to the fact that courses used to satisfy general education, degree requirements, electives, and major requirements may also be used to satisfy minor requirements.\nPolitical science is one of the social sciences. It is the study of systems of governance and governmental institutions, political activity, political thought, and political behavior. Political science draws from many other academic disciplines, including economics, law, sociology, history, philosophy, geography, psychology, and anthropology. There also are subfields of political science, such as comparative politics, political theory, international relations, international law, public administration, and public policy. Political science students study how American government works (and doesn't work) and what can be done to improve government at the federal, state, and local level. In comparative government and international relations course work, students study the politics and policies of other countries. Political theory courses examine the ideas of famous political philosophers, while courses on law and the legal process provide knowledge about the criminal justice and civil litigation systems.\nYou are in a major where your intended career is increasingly involved with governmental regulation or policy or if you want political or law background. It may lay the ground for better understanding your own field. It will also help you make sense of an increasingly complicated political world that confronts them in their own roles as citizens. A minor in political science is designed for students who want to improve their ability to deal intelligently and critically with issues and ideas about government and politics.\nSelect 18 credits in Political Science, include at least one course in each of the following areas: American, Comparative, International Relations, and Theory 1 18\nSelect at least 6 credits at the 400 level.\nA minor in political science can add depth to a variety of majors. For example, if students are interested in a career in medicine, public health or business, it can help them understand how the political system shapes regulations that will impact their professional lives. If students are studying philosophy or history, political science can add social science analytical tools to complement what students are learning in their study of the humanities. If a student is interested in becoming a lawyer, studying political science is invaluable in providing a basic grounding for studies in the law.\nThe political science minor is excellent supplemental preparation, in addition to a student's major, for a career in law, public service, Foreign Service, non-profit organizations, business and education.\nmap54@psu.edu\nhttp://harrisburg.psu.edu/public-affairs/political-science-and-public-policy/minor-political-science\nhttps://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/political-science-minor/overview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 11533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessesforsalesurrey.co.uk/shares-in-angry-birds-owner-soar-on-debut/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5BYQNZ3M2XJBQPTYKQ6P3ZEQ2ICUUGY7", "length": 5094, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "businessesforsalesurrey.co.uk", "title": "Shares in Angry Birds owner soar on debut | Surrey business directory - List of Surrey businesses - Free business listings", "raw_content": "Home news Shares in Angry Birds owner soar on debut\nShares in Angry Birds owner soar on debut\nThe Angry Birds are soaring once again. Shares of Rovio, the Finnish company behind the cult computer game, today made a solid debut on the Helsinki stock exchange.\nSold at \u20ac11.50 each, at the top of the \u20ac10.25-\u20ac11.50 price range published prior to the flotation, they quickly rose to as high as \u20ac12.34 in morning trade.\nThat values Rovio at \u20ac961m, not bad for a business that has been denigrated as a one-trick pony and which has had its fair share of ups and downs in recent years, but well short of the \u20ac7bn valuation that was being suggested in the Finnish press back in December 2011 when Angry Birds fever was at its peak.\nDemand for Rovio shares has been strong. It quickly became clear that institutional investors were keen to get on board, so much so that plans to sell shares to retail investors were swiftly pulled.\nPrior to the flotation, Rovio was 69% owned by Trema International, a company controlled by Kaj Hed, uncle of Niclas Hed, Rovio\u2019s co-founder.\nTrema, along with the venture capital firms Accel Partners and Atomico, has received some \u20ac458m from the flotation.\nTrema will continue to own 36.6% of the company.\nIn addition, Rovio raised some \u20ac30m in new money, which has been earmarked to finance future growth.\nThat is quite a small sum, relative to the size of the company, which highlights the main reason for floating \u2013 to allow existing shareholders to sell down some of their investment and broaden Rovio\u2019s ownership.\nThe company is also hoping that, by having a public listing, it will be able to use its shares as acquisition currency in future deals \u2013 as well as being able to offer current and future employees shares with a tangible value.\nIt has been an interesting journey. Angry Birds, which launched in 2009, is the most downloaded game in the history of mobile gaming. In all, by the end of June this year, Rovio\u2019s games had been downloaded some 3.7 billion times.\nYet, while Rovio\u2019s gaming revenues have increased every year since 2010, none of the follow-ups to the original game, including Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Space, had quite the impact of the original.\nImage: Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta and Nasdaq Helsinki President Henrik Husman\nThat left Rovio increasingly reliant on licensing deals on Angry Birds clothes, drinks, toys and books and it had to rein in ambitions to open scores of Angry Birds-related theme parks around the world, although a handful of sites have opened, including one in Nottingham.\nWhen non-gaming revenues started to fall, the company was tipped into the red, forcing it to cut costs. The most notorious round of belt-tightening came when, in December 2014, the company announced it was closing its development studio in Tampere, Finland, with the loss of 130 jobs.\nBut then salvation came with the unexpected success of the Angry Birds Movie, produced by Colombia Pictures and released in May last year, which has grossed just under $350m worldwide to date.\nRovio is now back in the black, recently announcing a half year pre-tax profit of \u20ac13m, with sales up 94% to a record \u20ac153m. Tweaks to the format, including live daily updates for fans, have also breathed life into older versions of the game, most notably Angry Birds 2, originally released in July 2015.\nThe big question being asked by investors is what Rovio\u2019s growth prospects look like from here.\nGaming will remain at the heart of the company and, it hopes, new franchises can be developed to reduce dependence on the Angry Birds franchise. Battle Bay, launched earlier this year, has for example won rave reviews among gamers.\nLaunching the flotation, Kati Levoranta, Rovio\u2019s chief executive, said: \u201cIn the core of our strategy there is a principle to only launch games that have potential to reach top-grossing lists and have a long lifetime. Our latest game releases prove that we have reached our goal.\n\u201cBut Rovio is more than just a gaming company. Angry Birds-branded consumer products are already sold in some 120 countries. The listing is an important step in developing Rovio into an even stronger games-first entertainment company.\u201d\nThere is a nagging feeling, though, that Rovio missed an opportunity to float on the stock market when Angry Birds fever was at its height.\nKing Digital, maker of the rival Candy Crush game, did not miss its chance to do just that in 2014 and was rewarded with a lavish valuation \u2013 even if the shares turned out to be a disastrous investment and the company collapsed into the arms of computer games maker Activision Blizzard 18 months later.\nAnother company that did not miss out on the chance to float when its core game was at peak popularity was Zynga, the maker of Farmville, although anyone who invested during its IPO in 2011 has also been burned.\nInvestors will hope that, with a less-outlandish valuation than King Digital or Zynga, Rovio can fare somewhat better than those two.\nPrevious articleTesco executives accused of 'cooking the books'\nNext articleRyanair vows to be clearer on passenger rights", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 11347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessfinder.oregonlive.com/OR-Deadwood/General-Disability-Services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3CFKPKVWXEIA3A2I6EQQ6MQS44CKXP5C", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "businessfinder.oregonlive.com", "title": "Oregon Business Directory | Local Listings & Businesses", "raw_content": "Sorry, there were no results for \"General Disability Services\" in \"Deadwood, OR\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 307, "original_length": 4808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buttonmuseum.org/buttons/against-silence", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:44Z", "digest": "sha1:S6CGO3XONZAOQMJZ65UVVMQQSTHTJCAQ", "length": 637, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "buttonmuseum.org", "title": "Against Silence | Busy Beaver Button Museum", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Against Silence\nAgainst Silence\nAGAINST SILENCE Amnesty International\nIllustration of a woman's head and shoulders on a greenish background color with white and black text\nAmnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. They campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. They investigate and expose facts about abuse on human rights. Against Silence concerns violence against women. Their goal is to change perceptions by bringing human rights scandals concerning domestic violence into the full light and make sure people speak out, stand up, and take action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCABRE89710J20121008", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LQAJBRZF5GT6DKWJTUP32Y5E376JBMX5", "length": 1760, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Girls creator Lena Dunham signs advice book deal | Reuters", "raw_content": "\"Girls\" creator Lena Dunham signs advice book deal\nLena Dunham, filmmaker, actress and director, speaks during a one-on-one session at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, California October 2, 2012. REUTERS/Alex Gallardo\n(Reuters) - Lena Dunham, creator of HBO comedy \u201cGirls\u201d, has signed a deal for a debut book giving advice to young women on sex and work, a publishing contract reported to be worth several million dollars.\nPublisher Random House said on Monday it was \u201cthrilled\u201d to sign Dunham\u2019s collection of essays entitled \u201cNot That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She\u2019s Learned\u201d, but declined to comment on financial details.\nThe New York Times, citing unnamed publishing sources, said Random House paid more than $3.5 million for the 26-year-old\u2019s first book after a fierce bidding war.\nRandom House Editor-in-Chief Susan Kamil described Dunham in a statement as \u201cfresh, wise, so assured. She is that rare literary talent that will only grow from strength, to strength and we look forward to helping her build a long career as an author.\u201d\nAccording to a description from the publishing company, Dunham\u2019s book will \u201coffer frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work,\u201d and is expected to follow in the footsteps of late filmmaker and author Nora Ephron and former Cosmopolitan magazine Editor-in-Chief Helen Gurley Brown.\nDunham, who broke out as a actor-writer-director with her debut film \u201cTiny Furniture\u201d in 2010, has become a rising star with her raunchy television series \u201cGirls\u201d, which got four Emmy Award nominations earlier this year.\nRandom House is a unit of European media group Bertlesmann. (Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy in Los Angeles, editing by Jill Serjeant and Richard Chang)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://camstl.org/exhibitions/joyce-pensato-i-killed-kenny/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SSYHKOQFK55PX3F3UHLGQP3UX3LYX7NL", "length": 2278, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "camstl.org", "title": "Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis", "raw_content": "Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 24-April 13, 2014. Photo: David Johnson.\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\nJoyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY, the artist\u2019s first museum survey, brings together new and recent work with seminal earlier pieces. The exhibition features a monumental site-specific mural of pop-culture icon Mickey Mouse as well as charcoal drawings, key paintings, and collages made between 1990 and the present. The title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of South Park, framing Pensato\u2019s visual vocabulary within the cartoon\u2019s sardonic wit and cultural critique.\nAppropriating well-known American cartoon characters, Pensato\u2019s gestural paintings and drawings combine menacing abstraction with comedic representation: Batman is depicted as a hollow, dissolving mask, Bart Simpson peers through abraded skin, and Felix the Cat is rendered as a decapitated head. Pensato\u2019s paintings reinvigorate the legacy of abstract expressionism, imbuing her characters with an uninhibited and arresting presence. Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato\u2019s compositions boldly extend the possibilities of action painting.\nJoyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has recently shown work at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Pensato has also been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Saint Louis Art Museum; and the Speed Art Museum, Louisville.\nJoyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY is organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art and CAM Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.\nMajor support for Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY has been provided by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, the Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation, and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. The catalog has been made possible by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, and Corbett vs. Dempsey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careertrend.com/how-6398273-become-travel-agent-alberta.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNTZTEB4TYZMYRUWMDH5OP76KHAL5UUH", "length": 4365, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "careertrend.com", "title": "How to Become a Travel Agent in Alberta | Career Trend", "raw_content": "AntonioGuillem/iStock/GettyImages\nKatrina Matterhorn\nA typical week for a travel agent in Alberta, Canada, will include such tasks as describing and selling travel destinations; accessing information for clients to include costs, schedules and routes; and making trip reservations. Agents also make clients aware of any schedule changes plus documentation needed for particular travel destinations. According to the Alberta Occupational Profiles website, the average salary for a travel agent in Alberta is $16.05 per hour.\nObtain your high school diploma or equivalent. This is the essential and first requisite to becoming a travel agent in Alberta, as you need to demonstrate that you are competent in the basics of math and communication.\nEnroll in classes on tourism and those geared toward becoming a travel agent. You will need to be proficient with software used in the travel industry, such as Apollo and SABRE. These are the two main reservation systems used by Canadian Travel Agencies. You can find many classes online via the Canadian Institute of Travel Counsellors for both new travel agents and those wanting to enhance their education and skills. CDI College and Grant McEwan College are two colleges in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta that offer courses and certifications in travel and tourism.\nFocus on a niche. With so many online travel sites, people have the opportunity to create their own travel plans any time of day. Figure out the gaps in this market, then fill in the details that people cannot find online. These specialties may include lowest cost travel tickets, group travel, honeymoon travel and cruise travel. Since people will expect you to be an expert on many travel destinations, being well-traveled yourself is highly beneficial. You need to be able to convey accurate schedules, travel documentation needed, and learn the best routes to help you stand out from those who prefer to book travel for themselves.\nStrive for excellence in online research. The majority of your job duties will include researching online for the most cost-effective travel rates, group rates, cruise rates and more. Make it your goal to be efficient and proficient at this skill to be a successful travel agent in Alberta.\nDecide whether you wish to become an independent travel agent or work for a travel agency. As an independent travel agent, you can work a more flexible schedule and find your own clients. Working for an agency provides you with more options in terms of marketing and less personal overhead costs, such as software and hardware, phone and Internet costs.\nAdvancement as a travel agent in Alberta, Canada depends on your sales abilities, initiative, the size of the company you work for, and the number of clients you manage.\nAccording to the 2006 Canadian Census, English is the native tongue in Alberta, used by 79.9 percent of the population. Chinese is spoken by 3.02 percent of the population. It is not necessary to be bilingual to become a travel agent in Alberta, but there are agencies who do find it can be beneficial depending on whether or not you focus on a market that speaks a different language.\nThe travel agent job market is stagnant due to the growth of online travel sites. The way to differentiate yourself is to specialize as well as to provide excellent customer service.\nCanadian Institute of Travel Counsellors: Homepage\nAlberta Occupational Profiles: Careers\nKatrina Matterhorn is experienced in technology consulting for two of the largest technology companies in the world. Since 2009 she has specialized in technology, business and home and garden articles. She has a double major in English and political science from Austin College in addition to Microsoft and IBM certifications.\nTravel Assistant Job Description\nA Job Description for a Ticketing Agent\nMatterhorn, Katrina. \"How to Become a Travel Agent in Alberta.\" , https://careertrend.com/how-6398273-become-travel-agent-alberta.html. 28 December 2018.\nMatterhorn, Katrina. (2018, December 28). How to Become a Travel Agent in Alberta. . Retrieved from https://careertrend.com/how-6398273-become-travel-agent-alberta.html\nMatterhorn, Katrina. \"How to Become a Travel Agent in Alberta\" last modified December 28, 2018. https://careertrend.com/how-6398273-become-travel-agent-alberta.html\nWhat Subjects Do You Need to Know to Be a Travel Agent?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cassieubank.com/7-day-beliefs-meditation-day-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:6XDEZEJQDZXMDH6VAERDYL3HFDXHLLAT", "length": 483, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cassieubank.com", "title": "7 Day Beliefs Meditation ~ Day 6", "raw_content": "Yeah baby, that\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about. Day 6 and you are still clicking on the good stuff. You are a rock star! The world needs more people who take care of themselves and stick with their commitments. The world needs leaders. Thank you for shining your light so bright. You are setting an example for others and illuminating the path. You are making a difference by following through.\nYou are more important than you know.\nTomorrow we will meditate on Creating Empowering Beliefs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://changethecycle.com/blog/2012/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QX4YKO2CPIKYLLQ5MC5P3SU4KIRA67EJ", "length": 298, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "changethecycle.com", "title": "March 2012 - Change The Cycle", "raw_content": "Each month we will spotlight a food that we consider a \u201cpower\u201d food for women, and each week we will post a new recipe that will involve this ingredient. We hope you enjoy! Kale I\u2019ve been noticing this mysterious vegetable, Kale, frequently in women\u2019s magazines and I have yet to try to cook it [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 4946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlesdegruchy.me/2008/06/22/whats-in-a-name-101293/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VEJAPQDCPWFMKYE2XGMOR2D2YNPSIOBH", "length": 4746, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "charlesdegruchy.me", "title": "What\u2019s in a name 10/12/93 \u2013 Charles de Gruchy \u2014 a Life's Narrative of Managing Customer Experience", "raw_content": "What\u2019s in a name 10/12/93\nI have often asked myself the question, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a name?\u201d when looking at what comes out of my mailbox and have concluded that most marketers don\u2019t seem to have a lot of interest in using a name either appropriately or effectively.\nStepping back from the question for a moment, let\u2019s look at where businesses seem to be headed. I have seen repeated, virtually, the same story again and again. The client says, \u201cI need a database\u201d\u2013the magic words. The internal MIS people then embark on the agonizing process of attempting to create the perfect relational database, the kind that will answer every conceivable marketing question with simple, single-page reports at your desk, on your PC, within 5 seconds of the request. Well, not quite.\nLets take another step back and ask why?\nThe efforts of so many corporations now recognizing the importance of their customer names are to be applauded. And also for seeing that there is value in those names. Where all of this falls short is in not seeing the what in the name.\nAnother story \u2014 a very large company in this country is trying hard to understand the value of their extensive customer base. That\u2019s the good news. By the time they have finished an extensive project (and investment), sliced, diced and dissected their customer base, found common characteristics between groups of customers, built predictive, regression and, maybe, airplane models, what will they have and what more will they really know about their customers? Well \u2014 they will see where their customers live, know their customer characteristics in various forms, know what they buy and what seems to make groups of them buy at single points in time, but will have failed to know the individual or know the name Think of the long term business risks for a Consumers Distributing, a Sears, or a Zellers should they fail to really know their customers and their customers needs!\nResources, budgets, people are constantly being thrown at the question \u201cWho is my customer\u201d without really ever coming up with an actionable answer. Why?\nThe answer is in understanding the importance of beginning with a strategy that will engage you in a dialogue with the individual and not the group. That\u2019s not realistic you might say. Another story\u2026\nA major pet food manufacturer starts a customer club that you join by responding to an ad. Great idea. Next come the coupons and related products and newsletters, but so far they have no information whatsoever (or seem to care less) about me, as an individual pet owner, or even my pets\u2026how many do I have, their preferred food brands, etc. How difficult can that be?\nWhether Kraft General Foods, Tupperware or Sony, direct marketing success tomorrow will be in direct proportion to how well the marketer understands each customer individually and how they want to buy. Remember, the customer has a choice \u2014 not simply about their price and product requirements. That choice might not be you just because they don\u2019t happen to shop through the only channel you happen to sell your products through \u2014 retail, direct sale or whatever\nSimply, understanding the individual, his or her needs, purchase history, lifestyle requirements, and then demographics. And, understanding that, within your database, their are groups who share the same characteristics. But what you are starting with is the individual behaviours, before moving to the group.\nWhether you are a retailer or a manufacturer the bottom line is the same. You save money once wasted on untargeted advertising while speaking efficiently and effectively with the people who want to buy your goods or services.\nFinal story.\nA large specialty department store continues to provide only lip service to the idea of understanding the individual, the name. The consequence is a failure to communicate. and the result is lost business, business they don\u2019t even know about. Why? Well this retailer does not really know its customers at all. They continue to send out unaddressed mail to neighbourhoods that the store managers think customers come from, with merchandise and service offers someone in the marketing group assumed might work, at a time when all other retailers are sending stuff out, too. In addition, the 27 customers who responded to one of these traffic builder programs with a phone order were told to come to the store and nobody knows whether they did \u2014 or did not! Not a very disciplined approach.\nWhether Brettons , Holt Renfrew, or Eaton\u2019s, the answer is the same. If you don\u2019t, at least, get into the game, you\u2019ll never learn what\u2019s in a name!\nAnd, can you really afford not to find out?\nPrevious What price loyalty? Strategy Magazine July 16, 1995\nNext The struggle for incremental growth 06/19/95", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlespitonltd.com/what-is-condensation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LKUWL6QHEIUODVPE5WOSQ2BFSCWEX6BV", "length": 1846, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "charlespitonltd.com", "title": "What is condensation | Charles Piton Limited", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Condensation\nIt is one of the most common causes of damp within homes and occurs when large quantities of water vapour from general everyday living become trapped within a property. When the warm moist damp air comes into contact with cooler air, or a surface which is at a lower temperature, the result is condensation. This can prove ideal for the germination of the commonly associated black mould.\nWhat can be done to prevent condensation?\nIncreasing the temperature of the object to be protected keeping it above dew point temperature. On the walls, that can be achieved by insulating the external walls. In the case of the windows, this can be achieved by replacing them with one with modern insulation properties and standards.\nReducing the moisture content of the air by ventilating the wet warm air from the inside of the property to outside and replacing it with cooler drier air from outside. Opening the window is one solution that would help but is not sustainable due to the cost of heating and security. You could install a dehumidifier which again would help but is not sustainable due to the cost of power and the fact that the size of the dehumidifier is not large enough to process the volume of air required. My advice is the installation of fixed ventilation throughout the property. This could be in the form of humidity sensitive extractor fans which come on when humidity goes over a certain level. This system will be more energy efficient and therefore more sustainable. It is also more likely the tenants will use them.\nInstall extractor systems in the bathroom and kitchen which are the sources of most of the moisture. This could be in the form of humidity sensitive extractor fans which come on when humidity goes over a certain level. This system will be more energy efficient and therefore more sustainable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charliekaufman.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Rockwell", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BQKV4MNWAB6JCVDSTSSZBTDOTXTXRGP4", "length": 7899, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "charliekaufman.fandom.com", "title": "Sam Rockwell | Charlie Kaufman Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Rockwell in 2009.\nBorn November 5, 1968 (age 44)\nCharacters portrayed Chuck Barris\nOther works Moon\nSam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor known for his leading roles in Lawn Dogs, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Choke and Moon, as well as for his supporting roles in The Green Mile, Iron Man 2, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Frost/Nixon, Galaxy Quest, Matchstick Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Conviction and Cowboys & Aliens.\nSam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California, the child of two actors. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents split up, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco, where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were spent with his mother in New York.\nHe made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother, and later attended J.E. McAteer High School in a program called SOTA. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse. The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. His next big break was supposed to have come when he was slated to star in a short-lived NBC TV-series called Dream Street, but he was soon fired.\nAfter graduating from high school, Sam returned to New York for good and for two years he had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials: Over the Limit and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis: Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and a guest-star turn in an Emmy-winning episode of Law & Order, while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.\nIn 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to quit his other jobs to concentrate on his acting career, which culminated in him having five movies out by 1996: Basquiat; The Search for One-eye Jimmy; Glory Daze; Mercy; and Box of Moon Light. It was the latter film that would prove to be his real break-out in the industry. In Tom DiCillo's film, he found himself playing an eccentric named the Kid, a man-child living in a half-built mobile home in the middle of nowhere with a penchant for dressing like Davy Crockett, who manages to bring some much-needed chaos into the life of an electrical engineer played by John Turturro. The movie was not a box-office success, but it managed to generate a lot of critical acclaim for itself and Sam.\nIn 1997 he found himself the star of another critically lauded film, Lawn Dogs. Once again he portrayed a societal outcast as Trent, a working-class man living in a trailer, earning a living mowing lawns inside a wealthy, gated Kentucky community. Soon Trent finds himself befriended by 10-year-old Devon (Mischa Barton), and the movie deals with the difficulties in their friendship and the outside world. He also gave strong performances in the quirky independent comedy Safe Men, in which he plays one half of a pretty awful singing duo (the other half being played by Steve Zahn) that gets mistaken for two safe-crackers by Jewish gangsters; and the offbeat hit-man trainee in Jerry and Tomagainst Joe Mantegna.\nAfter a few smaller appearances in films such as Woody Allen's Celebrity and the 1999 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which he played Francis Flute, he had larger parts in two of the bigger hit movies to emerge in 1999: The Green Mile and Galaxy Quest, wowing audiences and critics alike with his chameleon-like performances as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter.\nMore recently, he appeared in another string of mainstream films, most notably as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels and as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, while continuing to perform in smaller independent movies.[1]\n1989 Clownhouse Randy\n1989 Last Exit to Brooklyn Al\n1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Head Thug\n1991 Strictly Business Gary\n1992 Jack and His Friends Louie\n1992 In the Soup Pauli\n1992 Light Sleeper Jealous\n1992 Happy Hell Night Young Henry Collins\n1993 Law & Order Officer Weddeker Episode 3.21 \"Manhood\"\n1994 Somebody to Love Polish Guy\n1994 The Search for One-eye Jimmy One-eye Jimmy\n1995 Drunks Tony\n1995 Glory Daze Rob\n1995 Mercy Matty\n1996 Bad Liver and a Broken Heart Broken Heart\n1996 Basquiat Thug\n1996 Box of Moon Light The Kid, aka Bucky\n1997 Prince Street Donny Hanson Series regular\n1997 Arresting Gina Sonny\n1997 SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground Man Eating Television film\nSegment: Sax Cantor Riff\n1997 Lawn Dogs Trent Best Actor Award at the Sitges Film Festival\nBest Actor Award at the Montreal World Film Festival\n1998 The Call Back Alan/Christopher Walken\n1998 Jerry and Tom Jerry\n1998 Louis & Frank Sam\n1998 Safe Men Sam\n1998 Celebrity Darrow Entourage\n1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream Francis Flute\n1999 The Green Mile 'Wild Bill' Wharton Nominated \u2014 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture\n1999 Galaxy Quest Guy Fleegman\n2000 Charlie's Angels Eric Knox\n2001 D.C. Smalls Karaoke Singer\n2001 Pretzel Sam\n2001 BigLove Nate Short film\n2001 Made Hotel clerk Uncredited\n2001 Heist Jimmy Silk\n2002 13 Moons Rick\n2002 Running Time The Hunted Short film\n2002 Welcome to Collinwood Pero\n2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Chuck Barris Berlin International Film Festival \u2013 Silver Bear for Best Actor\nPhoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor\nNominated \u2014 Satellite Award for Best Actor \u2013 Motion Picture Musical or Comedy\n2002 Stella Shorts 1998\u20132002 Pizza Guy Direct-to-video\nShort: Bored\n2003 Matchstick Men Frank Mercer Nominated \u2014 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor \u2013 Motion Picture\n2004 Piccadilly Jim Piccdilly Jim/Jim Crocker\n2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox\n2005 The F Word Jeremy\n2005 Robin's Big Date The Bat-man Short film\n2007 Joshua Brad Cairn Best Actor Award at the Sitges Film Festival\n2007 Snow Angels Glenn Marchand\n2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Charley Ford\n2008 Woman in Burka Sam\n2008 Choke Victor Mancini Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast\n2008 Frost/Nixon James Reston Jr. Nominated \u2014 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture\n2009 The Winning Season Bill Also producer\n2009 Moon Sam BellGolden Space Needle Award for Best Actor\nNominated \u2014 British Independent Film Award for Best Actor\nNominated \u2014 Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor\nNominated \u2014 Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actor\nNominated \u2014 Scream Award for Best Sci-Fi Actor\n2009 G-Force (film) Darwin Voice only\n2009 G-Force (video game) Darwin Video game\n2009 Gentlemen Broncos Bronco/Brutus\n2009 Everybody's Fine Robert\n2010 Iron Man 2 Justin Hammer\n2010 F\u2014K Short film\n2010 Conviction Kenneth Waters Boston Film Festival Award for Best Actor\nHollywood Award for Best Supporting Actor\nNominated \u2014 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor\nNominated \u2014 Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor\nNominated \u2014 Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor\nNominated \u2014 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor\nNominated \u2014 Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor\n2011 Gettysburg Narrator\n2011 Cowboys & Aliens Doc\n2011 The Sitter Karl\n2012 Seven Psychopaths Billy\n\u2191 Biography for Sam Rockwell at IMDb.\nRetrieved from \"https://charliekaufman.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Rockwell?oldid=4161\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 10123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chastityforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=62543&start=160", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MIQP6M54XL5TITDJOWELXEASTAHNAP7Z", "length": 11894, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "chastityforums.com", "title": "[cuyahoga] Chapter Two - Page 17 - Chastity Forums", "raw_content": "Post by cuyahoga \u00bb Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:19 am\nThe big spoon, cock caged in steel and nestled between her cheeks, arms wrapped tightly around her, face resting in her curly, soft hair.\nThat\u2019s my happy place.\nOh, and this morning...\nI told her, \u201cI need to take the cage off for work today.\u201d\n\u201cMay I take the cage off for work today?\u201d she replied.\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry, my Goddess. May I take the cage off for work today?\u201d\n\u201cYes, but make sure it\u2019s back on as soon as you get home.\u201d\nThat kind of ownership has a major psychological impact, and it\u2019s something I wish she would do more. Really liked that feeling this morning.\nA few minutes later, she asked, \u201cWhat if I said, \u2018No, deal with it.\u2019?\u201d\nShe never would. She takes my discretion seriously, knowing I\u2019d never abuse it, but the thought was very hawt.\nPost by KittensBoyToy \u00bb Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:16 am\ncuyahoga wrote: \u2191\nDon't bet on it. Kitten keeps doing things that are so out of character for her that I would have thought \"never\"!\nLord Acton said it 2 ways....\n\u201cDespotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.\u201d\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:57 am\nA little \u2018impact\u2019 play last night. Flogger and crop. She\u2019s forgotten a bit of what she learned last time we were playing, but it was starting to come back to her as she was finishing up, so hopefully, if she keeps doing that kind of thing, those sessions will get better and better.\nShe was quick to roll over and go to sleep when she was done. It was a good thing that the session was short. More of that treatment, and my sub brain really needs attentive cuddling afterwards. A sort of emotional aftercare. Letting me spoon with her does not really fill that need. I need to be actively held if there\u2019s a lot of pain involved.\nWe\u2019ll see. She says she likes doing that, so if she does it more, without remembering the aftercare part, I\u2019ll have to talk to her about it.\nWe have a babysitter scheduled for tomorrow night, for a real date night, and intimations of action have been flying around since the plan was made. Probably puts tonight out of the mix, as she\u2019ll want to save her sexual energy, but I\u2019m looking forward to Saturday immensely.\nThe cage has been off and on so much this week, that it\u2019s barely had a chance to build in intensity. As a result, I\u2019m indifferent to whether it comes off or stays on if we play after our date. Normally, after only a week on, I\u2019d rather she leave me in it for a little while longer, to frustrate me. If it had been on constantly for two weeks, I\u2019d want out. At this point, it\u2019s kind of like six one half dozen the other.\nI\u2019m almost certain she\u2019ll ask how the cage is treating me, and I\u2019ll be honest when I say it just isn\u2019t the same frustration when it coming off so much. That will probably motivate her to leave it on me next week a lot, as I\u2019ll be able to actually leave it on 24/7. And then real frustration will build that I\u2019ll actually \u201cwant\u201d her to amplify.\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:28 pm\nLast night, we laid down together, and she started to play with me through the cage. Unfortunately, she said something as she was starting, critical of me, something outside of our sex life, and it stuck in my head. Just a minute later, I realized my brain was stuck on that, and I had to stop her. It wasn\u2019t a good thing. She felt really guilty, I was disappointed and melancholy, etc.\nThis morning, we\u2019re leaving it alone. It\u2019s been said, noted, doesn\u2019t need to be harped on or analyzed.\nShe ordered me out of the cage for some errands this morning. It\u2019s mid-afternoon now, we\u2019re back in the house until the babysitter arrives, and she hasn\u2019t mentioned the cage. Not sure what her intent is for tonight, or if she even has intentions.\nJust a weird last 18 hours. Hopefully, we\u2019ll get things back on track with our date tonight.\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:09 am\n\u201cYou should definitely be in the cage for our date. I want you on your best behavior...\u201d\nThat was issued as we were getting ready to get ready. So our date went very well. Dinner at one restaurant, dessert and a couple more cocktails at another. And then I convinced her to make an extra stop at the decent sex toy store that we have in our area. We needed a replacement for a good vibrating cock ring that recently stopped working. We had a flirty, fun time looking at all the offerings, and then picked a good replacement. I also learned a little bit about what she likes in her sex toys.\nOnce home, there was an encounter that was amazing. So many edges, so many positions, things done that used to be way outside of her comfort zone. I thought I was going to be slightly disappointed at the end, as I was trying to wear the new vibrating ring to make her cum, and it was working very well for her, but I was having trouble staying inside her without having an orgasm.\nEventually, and I don\u2019t know how, but I managed. She had a long and intense orgasm with me rocking inside her.\nA great evening completely.\n\u201cYou can sleep tonight out of the cage.\u201d\nThe next morning, I was instructed to put it back on. It\u2019s been feeling very tight; I am definitely in a good denial place right now, very horny, very sexed, and very caged.\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:53 pm\nThis morning, cuddling to wake her up, she rolled toward me and started to touch me through the bars of the cage. I mentioned that I was absolutely on fire; that it had been quite a while since I\u2019d had four straight days locked with zero time out.\n\u201cI know, we\u2019ll play tonight. I\u2019ll let you out and let you fuck me.\u201d I took a deep breath as I raged against the bars a little more, her fingers still softly stroking the exposed skin. \u201c... or, I\u2019ll leave you locked up and have you fuck me with the harness.\u201d\nThat elicited a groan from me, which may have sent the message that I would like that. We\u2019ll see what she does.\nEither way, the cage comes off tomorrow morning before I go to work. After work, I pick up the kids and drive straight into a social weekend where the cage is inappropriate. 8AM to 10PM, all weekend, we\u2019ll be occupied. She could have me lock up at night, but that\u2019s really nor her style. And whether I\u2019m locked back down on Sunday night, or even Monday morning, is unpredictable.\nI am on fire. It has been a long time since I\u2019ve done four days in the cage. And the next couple of weekends aren\u2019t good for cage time, so it may be a while before she can even leave me locked longer than that.\nOkay ... so ... that was hot.\nI was still caged as we crawled into bed with the intent of playing. \u201cHow\u2019s the cage?\u201d she asked.\n\u201cHard and steel,\u201d I replied.\n\u201cDo you want to take it off?\u201d\n\u201cCan I take it off?\u201d\n\u201cNo.\u201d She was laying on her back and I was laying beside her, one hand playing with her body while we were kissing. \u201cDo you want me to touch it?\u201d\n\u201cOh, please...\u201d\n\u201cWhat if I just don\u2019t touch it at all? All you get is whatever it brushes up against while you play with me and make me cum.\u201d\nShe was true to her word, for the most part. As we kissed, and I sucked her nipples, and my fingers played with her slowly warming her up, her hands were all over me, except for the cage. They even found their way to my balls without even brushing the cage, squeezing them gently. After a couple of minutes, she moved me to a missionary position, and I began to gently rub the cage against her. I couldn\u2019t press hard, so there was a gap between us, and her hands found their way down and around (damnit) the cage to not only squeeze my balls, but use them to move the cage up and down over her clit ... without touching the cage.\nShe moved me to my back, and I got the most attention my cage would receive. She rubbed herself against it, and then gently and slowly started enveloping it inside her. She\u2019s started doing that a lot lately. When she stopped, she ordered me to get the crop.\nI jumped off the bed, got the crop, and when I turned back to the bed, I was surprised to see her on all fours. I knelt beside her, and with one hand, I played with her pussy, while with the other, I very gently cropped her ass a bit. I don\u2019t really like that, she doesn\u2019t really like that, and I quickly switched to bare hand spanking and got a much better response.\nA few minutes of this, and she knelt up and grabbed the crop, telling me to get on all fours. She gave me some very solid whacks, but quickly stopped.\n\u201cThis was never the main event tonight. Put the harness on...\u201d\nI jumped up and grabbed the harness and she laid down. Still blows my mind.\nEvery cell of my being feels me fucking her. My eyes see it; my hips, chest, legs, arms feel it; my ears hear her reactions, her moans, sighs, and \u2018oh my god that feels so good\u2019. My cock even feels \u2018ghost\u2019 feelings of penetration. A little bit. Mostly just aching and throbbing and steel.\nShe revelled in that fucking for a long time, and enjoyed it thoroughly, but eventually we had to add our recently acquired vibrating cock ring to the mix. We\u2019d been in missionary, but we flipped over so she could control and grind, and just a couple of minutes later, she had a long and very satisfying orgasm.\nShe barely touched my cock at all through the whole thing and even after.\nAs we were getting up and dressed to relax on the couch for a little while before going to bed, she was headed into the bathroom, and I was standing beside the bed.\n\u201cYou can take the cage off now ... now that we\u2019re done.\u201d\nMy keyholder seems to have embraced \u2018more and meaner\u2019 more than I would have expected.\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:23 am\nLast night, when we laid down, she started paying some surprisingly concentrated attention to me. First, amazing work with her hands, and then, really incredible attention from her mouth. I think four or five edges, first from her just licking and sucking the magic spot under and behind my corona, and then actually taking me into her mouth. It felt incredible.\nI believe her intention was to provide me with some attention, but she almost always gets excited when she does that, and last night was the same. She slid up, and started riding me. More edges followed, and then she asked for the new toy. Really glad we got that.\nTwo orgasms in as many days is hard for her, but she really wanted it. She spent so long grinding on that cock ring, getting so close but just not there. I had so much fun watching her struggle to finish, on top of me, trying to find the right spot. It was just awesome, and made for a really long ride.\nPost by cuyahoga \u00bb Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:41 am\nLaying down together last night, I was expecting to spoon as we fell asleep, but she came right across the bed to lay beside me, me on my back, her wrapped in my arms, and she started playing with my cock. Light fingertip touches quickly led to a firm grip handjob. She never let me get to an edge; she\u2019s getting good at just keeping me hovering at very excited and moaning.\nIn the middle of this, she said, \u201cYou\u2019ve been free for a while...\u201d Four days actually, but I just whimpered a but, sort of knowing what was about to happen. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to put an end to that. Put on the cage tomorrow morning.\u201d\nShe kept up teasing me for quite a bit, maybe ten or fifteen minutes, and then she rolled over to let me spoon with her. Before she fell asleep, she kept squeezing her butt cheeks around my throbbing erection. It was just absolutely delicious torture.\nThis morning, I put the cage on. It feels awesome, controlled and tormented. I\u2019m really excited about this week ahead. She\u2019ll be due for her own orgasm in a day or two, and there\u2019s no reason for the cage to be off before then. So now I\u2019m left to wonder if I\u2019ll get out for her next one.\nThis coming weekend is a three day, with probably a lot of uncaged social activity, but the one after that, she\u2019s taking the kids away and leaving me alone for the weekend. 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That is why it takes 3-5 days to update a report after an order is received.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christianhomily.com/feast_videos.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:25Z", "digest": "sha1:K276KSHTLFY6CQR5G7TPLXIEQ4SPPYBB", "length": 2664, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "christianhomily.com", "title": "\ufeff Videos of Feast Homilies", "raw_content": "VIDEOS OF FEAST HOMILIES\nYouTube Videos of Feasts\n--- Holy Name of Jesus (Circumcision): Mathew 1:18-25 + Luke 2:21 He was named Jesus on December 31, 2016.\n--- Transfiguration of Jesus (Third Sunday of Kaitha): Mathew 17:1-9 Transfiguration of our Lord on August 6, 2017.\n--- Ascension of our Lord on May 28, 2017.\n--- Christ the King (Fourth Sunday of Dedication of the Church): Mathew 22:41-46 Christ sits at the right side of God. on November 22, 2015.\n--- Pentecost (First Sunday of Apostles): John 16:5-15 The work of the Holy Spirit on June 4, 2017.\n--- Pentecost (First Sunday of Apostles): John 16:5-15 The work of the Holy Spirit on May 20, 2018.\n--- Holy Trinity (Second Sunday of Apostles): John 16:12-15 Fulfillment in true spirit on May 27, 2018.\n--- Holy Eucharist: John 6:51-59 (6:51-64) This is the life-giving bread that came down from heaven on May 31, 2018.\n--- St. Thomas the Apostle and Divine Mercy Sunday (Second Sunday after Easter) John 20:19-29 on April 3, 2016.\n--- The Exaltation of the Cross Luke 24:13-27 on September 13, 2015.\n--- The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) on August 15, 2015.\n--- Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12) on December 13, 2015.\n--- Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11) Healing Service on February 11, 2016.\n--- Our Lady of Fatima (May 13) on May 14, 2017.\n--- Our Lady of Rosary (October 7) of October 9, 2016.\n--- St. Joseph the worker (May 1) on May 1, 2016.\n--- St. Michael the Archangel on May 8, 2016.\n--- St. Thomas the Apostle (July 3) on July 3, 2016.\n--- St. James the Grater (July 25) on July 24, 2016.\n--- St. Jude (October 28) on October 29, 2017.\n--- St. Stephen (December 26) on December 27, 2015.\n--- St. George and Third Sunday of Resurrection on April 15, 2018.\n--- St. Sebastian (January 20) in English on January 24, 2016.\n--- St. Sebastian John 1:29-34 on January 22, 2017.\n--- St. Sebastian on January 21, 2018.\n--- St. Anthony of Padua (June 13) on June 12, 2016.\n--- St. Vincent de Paul (September 27) on September 26, 2016.\n--- St. Alphonsa and Holiness (July 28) on July 31, 2016.\n--- All Saints (November 1) Mathew 5:1-12 (The Beatitudes) on November 1, 2015.\n--- All Souls Day (Friday before Great Lent) and end of life on February 6, 2016.\n--- Palm Sunday Seventh Sunday of Lent: Mathew 21:1-17 Jesus\u2019 triumphal entry into Jerusalem on March 20, 2016.\n--- Holy Saturday (Great Saturday) Mathew 28:1-20 Goodnews of Resurrection on April 15, 2017.\n--- Three Day Fast on January 29, 2018\n--- New Year Homily: Mathew 6: 25-34 Trust in God on December 31, 2017\n--- Year End Homily on December 31, 2015\n--- Year End Homily: Luke 13:6-9 Let us bear fruit on December 31, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 117.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christophernosnibor.com/2010/08/02/less-is-more-judging-a-book-by-its-cover/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QYOVLOHPADZ4FAYZO6DYAKODO7GBFGQJ", "length": 5408, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "christophernosnibor.com", "title": "Less is More: Judging a Book By Its Cover \u2013 Christopher's Headspace", "raw_content": "Less is More: Judging a Book By Its Cover\nPosted on August 2, 2010 November 13, 2010 by christophernosnibor\nFrom Destinations Set was a bitch to write. I set out to tackle the problem of presenting two separate yet interweaving simultaneous plots. It was something I had touched on before, in \u2018Heading South\u2019 and A Call for Submission. You could say that I was obsessed with simultaneity and pushing the limits of the dual narrative technique for a good year or more. I came up with the idea for From Destinations Set in the summer of 2007 as a submission to Bookworks\u2019 Semina series, and knocked out around twenty pages and roughly planned the rest.\nIt made the 2008 shortlist in the Spring of that year. Realising that to produce anything like a complete working manuscript would take a lot of time and effort, I pushed on with putting some meat on the bones of the remainder. In the end it wasn\u2019t commissioned (I can\u2019t really grumble: the books that did come out are brilliant), but I was committed to seeing the project to completion. It was seriously hard work. Not so much the contents \u2013 although some of that was also extremely challenging \u2013 but the formatting. Having previously only produced short bursts of simultaneous narrative, inserted within the main body of the text within text boxes, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to use the columns setting in Word (and I\u2019m still running 97).\nGiven that the two stories were to run continuously in left and right columns, it meant I had to write both stories at the same time, and any additions / deletions in one narrative meant I had to match them, almost character for character, in the other.\nI was explaining the arduous nature of the process to a friend over a few pints the other week, who asked why I\u2019d not just written the stories separately and then pasted them into two columns in Excel. Now why didn\u2019t I think of that?\nSo, having completed the manuscript, I touted it round a few publishers who looked like they might take such a brain-bendingly unconventional book, but without success. And so the manuscript languished: I had no desire \u2013 nor the technical know-how \u2013 to reformat it, and assumed that was that, until Stuart at Clinicality, who I\u2019d mailed a copy of the story to, said he\u2019d cracked it and wanted to publish.\nThe cover design looks unlike anything my earlier work has been wrapped in, but I do rather like it. While I\u2019m less than keen on minimalist art, as a cover design it\u2019s undeniably striking, and also appropriate, not only to the contradictions of the narratives inside (penned in places in a rather minimalist style, while in others more expansively, and not necessarily confining either style to only one of the two stories), but also the challenges the visual aspects of the text present to the reader. The bold rectangles are very literal representations of the twin columns of the text, and serve as a reminder that Destinations is a very visual text. The placement of the words invites alternative readings: from set destinations, for example. How should the reader approach the physical task of reading the text? One story at a time, a page at a time, cross-column to create a real-time cut-up in the mind? Any and all of these are quite viable options. There are more than simply two stories, and more than two readings here.\nTo further the sense of variability, the pages in the printed version are unnumbered. As such, the text is complex enough, without the need for a busy or complex cover. Moreover, \u2018modernism\u2019 and \u2018futurism\u2019 are now historical, and the cover lends it something of a \u2018vintage\u2019 feel (I\u2019m personally reminded of Breakthrough by Konstantin Raudive, published in 1971, a remarkable book in every way: http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/books/brere.htm). Given that Destinations is in many ways concerned with he \u2018future\u2019 of narrative and issues of (dis)location in time / space, a cover that drew inspiration from retro representation of futures now past, seemed particularly appropriate. The book is both retro and of the future, and therefore not of any one time, or of any time other than that of its own making.\nAnd in case you\u2019re wondering, the title is a line from the song \u2018Double Dare\u2019 by Bauhaus, which is fitting not only because of the \u2018double\u2019 narrative, but because a key element of the stories is the sense of the characters\u2019 actions being \u2018steered.\u2019 Ostensibly, someone else is writing \u2013 and rewriting \u2013 their scripts. As such, the writing process is a part of the story: but who is writing the writer? \u2018Don\u2019t back away just yet / From destinations set.\u2019 As if they had any choice in the matter.\nFrom Destinations Set is out on Clinicality Press on Monday 2nd August. Here are the opening pages by way of a taster:\nhttp://christophernosnibor.co.uk/Documents/From%20Destinations%20Set%20-%20Section%201.pdf\nPosted in Art, Books, Writing, and all that cal\nPrevious Post Straight Down the Middle / Diminished Responsibility\nNext Post At long last\u2026 THE PLAGIARIST: THE MOVIE sees the light of day\nOne thought on \u201cLess is More: Judging a Book By Its Cover\u201d\nGive It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now\u2026 \u00ab Christopher's Headspace\t December 20, 20107:22 pm\t Reply\n[\u2026] To find out more about From Destinations Set, here\u2019s a blog I wrote just ahead of its release in September: https://christophernosnibor.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/less-is-more-judging-a-book-by-its-cover/ [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cincinnati.broadway.com/shows/frozen/also-playing-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:29Z", "digest": "sha1:AAJSOLBNEMFDH73YSMCJWJXKP44OBP5S", "length": 159, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cincinnati.broadway.com", "title": "Frozen - Broadway | Engagements | Broadway in Cincinnati", "raw_content": "Frozen - Broadway\nDisney's hit film comes to life on Broadway in an all-new production created for the stage.\nFrozen \u2014 New York\n2018-02-22Started: Feb 22, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clarity.fm/ronevans", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IYGZZZYZUNGKYFKSPW4HYWFFJSBZRM4B", "length": 1396, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "clarity.fm", "title": "Ron Evans - Leadership Expert - Clarity", "raw_content": "Cross-functional healthcare CEO with expertise in leading medical professionals and staff in constantly changing and regulated healthcare environment.\nRecognized as a driver of change and strategic planner leading initiatives focused on reducing costs, improving quality of care, proactively managing ever-changing payer mix, and increasing patient satisfaction.\nAdvanced degrees in Healthcare Admin & Business Economics.\nCross-functional Healthcare Executive with expertise in leading medical professionals and clinical staff in constantly changing healthcare and regulated environments.\nRecognized as a driver of change and strategic planner leading initiatives focused on reducing costs, improving quality of care, proactively managing ever changing payer mix, and increasing patient satisfaction.\nThrough strategic analysis identify areas of strength and weakness and implement policies, standards, changes in operation and systems that significantly reduce turnover, increase market share, optimize bottom line performance, and ensure compliance.\nExcellent communicator committed in ensuring that teams are synchronized in their knowledge, energy, focus, expectations, projections, and ideas to accomplish company, patient, and personal goals.\nPassionate about growing organizations whose mission is improving the health, lives, and economic well-being of the communities in which it serves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clients.firstmarkservices.com/company.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RZO33M5KJQKCLQUMYGGAHZDPWZW25GZJ", "length": 528, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "clients.firstmarkservices.com", "title": "Firstmark Services -\tCompany Information", "raw_content": "Firstmark Services specializes in servicing private loans. We commit ourselves to providing unquestionable service to our customers. We create an environment in which employees can succeed and are treated with dignity and respect. Integrity and communication are fundamental to our success. Firstmark Services management has an average of 9 years of service in the student loan industry.\nWe have a dedicated staff of professionals, who pride themselves in delivering service that is of the highest mark, by \u2018doing, not talking\u2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/textonly/OMB/memoranda/m00-13.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:39Z", "digest": "sha1:OZVOYR7LGBWLDAVSEANOWROAGRK4ZMOP", "length": 3050, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov", "title": "Privacy Policies and Data Collection on Federal Web Sites", "raw_content": "Privacy Policies and Data Collection on Federal Web SitesOMB Home\nSUBJECT: Privacy Policies and Data Collection on Federal Web Sites\nThe purpose of this memorandum is to remind you that each agency is required by law and policy to establish clear privacy policies for its web activities and to comply with those policies. Agency contractors should also comply with those policies when operating web sites on behalf of agencies.\nAs described in my memorandum of June 2, 1999, on \"Privacy Policies on Federal Web Sites,\" agencies are to post clear privacy policies on agency principal web sites, as well as at any other known, major entry points to sites, and at any web page where substantial amounts of personal information are posted. Privacy policies must be clearly labeled and easily accessed when someone visits a web site.\nAgencies must take care to ensure full adherence with stated privacy policies. For example, if an agency web site states that the information provided will not be available to any other entities, it is the responsibility of the agency to assure that no such sharing takes place. To ensure such adherence, each agency should immediately review its compliance with its stated web privacy policies.\nParticular privacy concerns may be raised when uses of web technology can track the activities of users over time and across different web sites. These concerns are especially great where individuals who have come to government web sites do not have clear and conspicuous notice of any such tracking activities. \"Cookies\" -- small bits of software that are placed on a web user's hard drive -- are a principal example of current web technology that can be used in this way. The guidance issued on June 2, 1999, provided that agencies could only use \"cookies\" or other automatic means of collecting information if they gave clear notice of those activities.\nBecause of the unique laws and traditions about government access to citizens' personal information, the presumption should be that \"cookies\" will not be used at Federal web sites. Under this new Federal policy, \"cookies\" should not be used at Federal web sites, or by contractors when operating web sites on behalf of agencies, unless, in addition to clear and conspicuous notice, the following conditions are met: a compelling need to gather the data on the site; appropriate and publicly disclosed privacy safeguards for handling of information derived from \"cookies\"; and personal approval by the head of the agency. In addition, it is federal policy that all Federal web sites and contractors when operating on behalf of agencies shall comply with the standards set forth in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the collection of personal information online at web sites directed to children.\nA description of your privacy practices and the steps taken to ensure compliance with this memorandum should be included as part of the submission on information technology that is incorporated into the agency budget submission this fall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clrhealthcare.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KTN4BNEJ3NFLNW3PTXRTEMTWX457I2RV", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "clrhealthcare.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - Beauty and Health", "raw_content": "Our website address is: https://clrhealthcare.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 147.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cn.reuters.com/article/intel-tech-idCNL1N1UZ1HX", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NAX37CB724GXQH7SJD2NQDD2X4I2XDQR", "length": 2181, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cn.reuters.com", "title": "Intel sold $1 bln of artificial intelligence chips in 2017 | \u8def\u900f\u4e2d\u6587\u7f51", "raw_content": "Intel sold $1 bln of artificial intelligence chips in 2017\nSANTA CLARA, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Intel Corp on Wednesday said it sold $1 billion of artificial intelligence processor chips in 2017, the first time the world's second-largest chipmaker disclosed revenue from the fast-growing computing segment that has fueled sales expansions at rivals such as Nvidia Corp.\nAs PC sales have stagnated, Intel has increasingly been depending on its sales to data centers, which provide behind-the-scenes computing power for mobile and web-based apps. Those apps, in turn, rely on artificial intelligence for features like photo and speech recognition.\nAt an event for Wall Street analysts at Intel's Santa Clara, California headquarters to explain its strategy, Navin Shenoy, its data center chief, said the company has been able to modify its CPUs to become more than 200 times better at artificial intelligence training over the past several years. This resulted in $1 billion in sales of its Xeon processors for such work in 2017, when the company's overall revenue was $62.8 billion.\nNaveen Rao, head of Intel's artificial intelligence products group, said the $1 billion estimate was derived from customers that told Intel they were buying chips for artificial intelligence and from calculations of how much of a customer's data center is dedicated to such work.\nThe new number is important because Intel's stock dropped last month after it delivered earnings that fell short of Wall Street's expectations for its data center business. Intel also said then its newest generation chips would be delayed until 2020, leading analysts to worry it will lose data center share to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.\n\"Intel must be very confident in its (artificial intelligence) roadmap and future performance given it committed to a revenue number, as analysts will ask them every quarter about it,\" said analyst and former chip executive Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy. He said the $1 billion figure was conservative because it only included CPUs and not its other product lines, he said.\nIntel stock was up 22 cents at $49.92. (Reporting by Stephen Nellis; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coconuttreedivers.com/roatan-honduras-information/history-roatan-bay-islands-honduras/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:EC7BI27RJ5SEMA63GULEV2TTYWQEQ2IF", "length": 4567, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "coconuttreedivers.com", "title": "Caribbean Discovery, history of the Bay Islands \u2014 Coconut Tree Divers | PADI Scuba diving in Roatan, Honduras", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Roatan Honduras Information / Roatan History\nRoatan History\nHistory of Roatan\nFROM DISCOVERY TO NOW IN THE BAY ISLANDS\nTHE DISCOVERY OF ROATAN\nChristopher Columbus became the first European visitor to the islands when he visited the neighboring Bay Island of Guanaja on his fourth voyage (1502-1504). The Spanish soon after began using the islands for purposes of slave raiding; no original Native American communities survived. The first English colony was established near Port Royal in 1638, starting a two-hundred year struggle between Spanish conquistadores and British pirates for control of the island\u2019s plentiful resources. The natural mangrove tunnels on Roatan\u2019s east end became both battlefields and refuges during the ensuing conflict. The entire Bay of Honduras attracted a diverse array of individual settlers, pirates, traders and militarists during the 18th and 19th centuries, including famed pirate Henry Morgan who established his fort in present-day Old Port Royal.\nSir Henry Morgan, we\u2019ve all heard his name but did he actually ever come to Roatan? It turns out he did.\nIn 1665, shortly, after the sack of Campeche, Morgan returned to the waterways on the Mainland and found his 5 ships taken by the Spanish, he outfitted 2 barques, and 4 canoes and set off overloaded with his prize to the only place he new was safe. Roatan had been completely depopulated in 1650 and by this time the island was left to the jungles. The only visitors were the Dutch, French, and English pyrates.\nMorgan, Morris, and Jackman visited Rattan(Ruatan) in 1665(Esquemeling 1856) watered, provisioned and repaired their small fleet, desperately overloaded Morgan convinced some of his men to settle in Port Royal. A secret settlement, on a deserted island. Estimates put the population of Port Royal at 5,000 pyrates. Current population is at around 20 people. In all they spent 22 months at sea. There is a rumour of one more Morgan visit, after the sacking of Panama\u2026\u2026but this is where the island legends take over from the public record.\nThe British fleet defeated the French at the leeward Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1797, seizing control of the French-allied Black Caribs on the island. In the process of deporting these Caribs, the British became engaged in conflict in the Bay Islands. The Caribs were hastily marooned on the northern coast of Roatan, becoming the Bay Islands\u2019 first permanent settlers and seeding the initial population of the modern-day Garifuna culture. While the Garifunas have since spread along the northern coast of Central America, the Garifuna east-end village of Punta Gorda still marks the birthplace of their culture.\nSlavery was abolished in British territories during the 1830\u2019s, disrupting the slavery-dependent culture in the Cayman Islands. Caymanian slave-owners brought their slaves and seafaring culture to Roatan, forming a majority of the island\u2019s permanent population. The Bay Islands were briefly declared a colony by Britain in the 1850\u2019s, though the territory was ceded to Honduras in the following decade. The \u201cBanana Republic\u201d era of the fruit trade industry in the late 1800\u2019s bolstered American and European presence in the region. As such, various dialects of English remain the primary language of the Bay Islands.\nMODERN DAY ROATAN\nThe 20th century saw a significant influx of new cultures on Roatan. European and Commonwealth expatriates steadily populated the west end of the island, laying the foundations for our present tourist industry. Spanish-speaking mainlanders have tripled the original resident population, settling near the commercial hubs of Coxen Hole and French Harbor. The native islander population has gradually integrated with these other two cultures while still maintaining their own cultural identity in the fishing villages of Oak Ridge, Punta Gorda, Paya Bay, and Helene. Most residents of Roatan are now bilingual, though in some areas Spanish has entirely replaced English as the primary language.\nAt the turn of the 21st century Roatan faces the increasing challenge of maintaining its historical and natural beauty in the face of accelerating ecotourism and development. The Roatan Marine Park, a volunteer organization that oversees the protection of areas of the reef, is one of many efforts currently engaged in conservation work. Through your generous support of such organizations and by remembering that, at the end of the day, we all are tourists on this island, we can work to preserve this beautiful and historic island for future generations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.mis.temple.edu/blog/2013/12/02/speaker-of-the-week-122/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:UNPU2RVYFWQLAUNG37B7T46HYUISKJBH", "length": 332, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "community.mis.temple.edu", "title": "Speaker of the Week \u2013 12/2 \u2013 Temple MIS", "raw_content": "Speaker of the Week \u2013 12/2\nToday at noon, join us in Alter 33 as we would like to hear YOU our members about how we have been doing.\nFeedback can range from speakers, presentations, and events. AIS wants to know what YOU would like to see in the future. Please come out so that we can continue making improvements to FOX\u2019s best SPO!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.mis.temple.edu/blog/2014/08/16/three-new-faculty-join-fox-mis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:30Z", "digest": "sha1:H2CNRU2T4HL4ZPJBA4TGU3ODIZCH6A5A", "length": 2009, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "community.mis.temple.edu", "title": "Three new faculty join FOX MIS \u2013 Temple MIS", "raw_content": "Three new faculty join FOX MIS\nThe Fox School\u2019s MIS department is pleased to welcome three new full-time faculty in fall 2014. We took a moment to speak to them about their backgrounds, previous positions, and plans for Temple.\nBrad Greenwood, Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an avid cook who loves to spend time in the kitchen.\n\u201cFox MIS offers the unique opportunity to work with world class scholars whose discipline spanning research not only pushes the boundaries of the IS context, but focuses on resolving significant public welfare problems which are faced by both practitioners and everyday people.\u201d\nMin-Seok Pang, Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from University of Michigan, and most recently served as Assistant Professor, School of Management, at George Mason University. His interdisciplinary research reflects his own personal interests in news and politics, and spans IT, business, public administration, and political sciences.\n\u201cWhat is most exciting about joining one of the best MIS group in the world is that I will have a chance to work with excellent and bright MIS doctoral students. It would be both a responsibility and a privilege to help future scholars thrive in academia.\u201d\nJeremy J. Shafer, Assistant Professor, received his M.S. in Management Information Systems from Fox School of Business, Temple University, where he was most recently Director of Solutions Development. Shafer is deeply committed to service and volunteering; he and his wife are also advocates for and participants in special-needs adoption.\n\u201cI very much enjoyed teaching in the MIS department as an adjunct. When the opportunity arose for me to teach full time, I jumped at it! I believe in enabling people to create with technology, not just passively consume it. Putting those skills in the hands of entrepreneurial students is very rewarding to me.\u201d\nFiled Under: News Tagged With: faculty", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://consequenceofsound.net/tag/dawn-of-the-dead/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TZQBHBISFTTARRCBRF4ZPN6IXTCTXDLS", "length": 448, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "consequenceofsound.net", "title": "Dawn of the Dead | Consequence of Sound", "raw_content": "Goblin announce Fearless (37513 Zombie Ave), featuring reimagined version of Dawn of the Dead score\nIn honor of Dawn of the Dead\u2019s 40th anniversary.\nGoblin\u2019s complete score for Dawn of the Dead gets new vinyl reissue\nPlus, your chance to win a copy of the official soundtrack for George A. Romero\u2019s classic zombie film.\nGrowing Up in the Land of the Living Dead\nA horror buff and a coward recall their week in George A. Romero\u2019s iconic zombie town.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 3806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://conservation4you.org/fences-cant-live-with-em-or-without-em-part-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYVGWO7NNKH7HVWPXMALYBCNERA47RFK", "length": 2229, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "conservation4you.org", "title": "Fences: Can\u2019t Live with \u2018Em or Without \u2018Em \u2013 Part 1 | Double El Agate CD", "raw_content": "Fencing In vs. Fencing Out\nMany of the western states, where livestock have free range for grazing, require property owners to fence livestock out if they don\u2019t want animals on their property. In a \u201cfenced out\u201d situation, it\u2019s the property owner\u2019s responsibility to prove that an animal wandered onto his fenced out property and caused damage.\nIt\u2019s the property owner\u2019s responsibility to notify the animal\u2019s owner, or the appropriate authorities, that stray animals are on his property. While not all states specify the types of fences necessary to fence out animals, typically a three-strand barbed-wire fence is sufficient.\nIt seems logical the purpose of fencing laws is to keep a landowner\u2019s livestock fenced in on his property to protect them. In some states with open range, or fence-out, laws (as in Colorado), the opposite is the case.\nIf you don\u2019t want animals on your property, then it\u2019s your responsibility to build fences to keep them out.\nThat\u2019s not to say the animals can run anywhere.\nThe owner does have a responsibility to keep the animals off roads and to know where they are. The requirements for fence requirements are:\nAny landowner wishing to keep livestock from his property is required to construct a \u201clawful\u201d fence. According to the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the landowner has no legal options for recovering damages to crops or buildings from animals straying onto his land if there is no lawful fence in place. If the landowner has a lawful fence, and livestock breaks through the fence, it is the landowner\u2019s responsibility to prove the fence was adequate before the livestock damaged it.\nColorado law defines a lawful fence as at least three barbed wire strands attached to substantial posts set at approximately 20 feet apart. The fence allows other fencing materials to be substituted as efficient as the barbed wire fence and is sufficient to contain ordinary horses and cattle. Gates on the fence must be constructed of similar material and as strong as the rest of the fence.\nWhile we aren\u2019t legal fence experts, we can help with planning new fences and better utilizing existing fences.\nFor assistance, contact the NRCS in Simla at 504 Washington St or give us a call at 719-541-2358.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://conversationsonthefringe.com/2018/02/06/shannon-part-2-the-voices-project-ep-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OXSLRLB5R5SF74MR3R4KDENYXTZ6UPBY", "length": 2872, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "conversationsonthefringe.com", "title": "Shannon: Part 2 (The Voices Project ep. 3) \u2013 conversations on the fringe", "raw_content": "It was the Sunday of my installation at church. I was so nervous. I was being installed as a ministerial intern! Me? This broken girl, how in the world did I ever think God could use me? My palms were sweating and I wished as I had so many times for God to show me His plan. And then in she walked. The door opened and Shannon was there. She looked more nervous then I felt. I jumped up and I asked her if I could give her a hug? She didn\u2019t even answer, she just wrapped me up in a hug and I could feel her shaking. \u201cI came,\u201d she whispered into my hair. \u201cI am so glad\u201d I told her, we can sit and be scared together.\nNow she comes to church sometimes, and others she does not. When she does not come she always tells me when she sees me next, that she was just too scared that day to be around people. I always tell her that I understand and that so does God. At Christmas, she came and she brought me a gift. I will never forget the card. It read simply; thank you for loving me. I have not felt loved in a long time.\nWhat if I had not kept trying? What if I did not have these tattoos? What if I had allowed her silence to keep me away? I sat in church that day of my installation and asked God to show me His plan, and then He did, in that card from Shannon. I have not felt loved. How many people walk through life feeling unloved and unlovable? How small of a thing to allow someone to be seen. What a gift that I am being given to show people the dignity of being loved as they are.\nI love my time with her now. I love when she comes and sits in church with me. Or when I get the opportunity to carry my lunch tray over and sit with her. She shares her life with me; the stories come rolling out in her soft, gentle voice. She tells me about her hopes and dreams. She tells me about her family and her apartment that she loves. She tells me when she is struggling and when things are going well. And always now she meets my eye.\nShannon has three sisters. All three sisters have mental illness; Schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, and borderline personality. She loves her sisters and she worries about how they will continue to make it. She carries a lot on her shoulders. I have finally heard her laughter, and it is the sound of pure joy. She has confided in me that she loves to sing, and she dreams about feeling \u201cwell\u201d enough to sing in the praise band at church; A simple, beautiful goal.\nPeople are made up of so many pieces. Their stories are vast and wide and they are bigger than the label of \u201cmentally ill\u201d. That is not the beginning or the end of the story, it is merely a part. And every human has the innate desire to feel loved; and to be loved where they are, as they are. We are all so afraid of falling short; of not being enough. 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Flagstaff Regional Airport CEK6. 10 a.m. \u2013 1 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 4269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corporatejetinvestor.com/articles/jetsetgo-guarantees-jet-availability-to-customers-254/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TPYD2U2XXEQE35MICOZ5HTCINVI3TC7B", "length": 5733, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "corporatejetinvestor.com", "title": "JetSetGo guarantees jet availability to customers | Corporate Jet Investor", "raw_content": "JetSetGo guarantees jet availability to customers\nWhen Kanika Tekriwal originally set up JetSetGo as a way of utilising spare capacity in the Indian business aviation market, she quickly came across a problem.\nGetting clients was the easy part, there were plenty customers happy to fly on private jets at reduced prices. But ensuring that they could fly on the flights they wanted without the aircraft owner changing his plans and needing to utilise the aircraft was becoming problematic.\nAlthough owners were happy to release their aircraft originally for the flight, plans often changed and the owners required the aircraft after all. This meant that JetSetGo was not able to offer the service it wanted and found itself having to cancel flights for its clients.\nTaking customers and then having to cancel their flights later was not what Tekriwal envisaged herself doing when she founded the company in 2014.\nHer original idea was to create a marketplace where owners could list when their aircraft would not be used so that others could buy flights on the aircraft.\n\u201cBooking the aircraft was only 10% of the problem\u201d, says Tekriwal. \u201cThe real problems were cancellations, catering going wrong, airport inefficiencies, pilot not turning up or the aircraft being delayed. And a large number of times owners would decide to use the aircraft themselves and cancel the flight.\u201d\nTo solve this problem, Tekriwal first thought about buying her own fleet of aircraft. This was quickly dismissed, though, as the company wouldn\u2019t be able to operate flights at the same prices as other operators that would be using their excess capacity.\nThe solution was to become an operator, but without its own aircraft fleet.\nTekriwal likens the company more to that of a charter company than that of an aircraft manager, although it does both. What the company does is to take the aircraft whilst it is not being used and offer it to other people.\nAlthough the owner still needs to release the aircraft for additional flights, JetSetGo will ensure that if it has sold an additional flight on the aircraft when the owner needs to use it, the flight will still go ahead as the company will book the owner a charter flight.\n\u201cFor all our aircraft owners we have a simple criterion that they have to agree to.\u201d Says Tekriwal. \u201cIn case their aircraft is committed on charter to somebody else, then you must be happy to take another aircraft from us, which will be the same size or bigger. And they are more than happy doing that.\u201d\nThat way says Tekriwal everybody still gets to fly, although the owner may not get to fly on his own aircraft.\nUsing this approach, the company says that it has been able to save aircraft owners millions of dollars a year.\nTo demonstrate this Tekriwal gives the example of an aircraft owner whowas losing $2 \u2013 $3 million a year on the aircraft. After being part of JetSetGo for six months, he started being profitable again, and still got to use the plane as much as he wanted.\nWhen aircraft owners join JetSetGo, the company will guarantee them several things, including occupied hours and capped maintenance costs. Tekriwal says that in the beginning owners were cautious about signing up, but as word of mouth spread, more and more customers are signing up. They do this, she says, largely because they don\u2019t want the headache of looking after the aircraft themselves.\nCurrently, JetSetGo has a fleet of 24 aircraft, from a Citation CJ2 right the way up to big Falcons. This number is rapidly expanding, and the firm is targeting 45 aircraft by the end of its next fiscal year.\nTo grow quickly, Tekriwal believes that the mindset of the Indian flying public needs to change. The overwhelming majority of JetSetGo\u2019s users only utilise an aircraft for business reasons, preferring to avoid using it for leisure as they are worried about how they will be perceived, not only by the tax man, but also the general public.\nIn 2017 the company flew 4,600 hours, but Tekriwal says that, according to the company\u2019s analysis of those flights, only 290 hours were on leisure flights. In Europe and the US the split between business and leisure usage of private jets is around 60 / 40 I favour on business. In India it is more like 95 / 5 for business.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have a bunch of 29-year olds hopping on a plane to go party the night away and come back, even though they can afford it. We still have people going to five or six meetings and then coming back.\u201d Says Tekriwal, \u201cA lot of my aircraft-owning customers whose aircraft I manage, their children never use these planes for leisure. In fact, in some cases I have never even had their children on board or had their wives on board. It is just used as a pure business tool.\u201d\nThe perception that a private jet is a luxury item is common across the world, not just an issue facing India. But elsewhere in the world governments have some understanding, and in some cases actively promote the use of private jets.\n\u201cThe situation we are in today is the government and everybody else around it perceives a private jet as a luxury.\u201d Says Tekriwal, \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for people to understand that it is not a luxury, but more a tool for efficiency.\u201d\nThat\u2019s not to say that perceptions aren\u2019t changing. Often in meetings with clients, Tekriwal will find herself explaining that what she is really selling is time. That investment in their time is the best thing that they could buy, it is time that they could be spending with their family or more time in the office.\n\u201cI am going to buy you back so many hours of your life with your family or at your office by using a private jet. And that\u2019s when the customer thinks \u2018Wow, this makes a lot of sense\u2019\u201d.\nTAGS: IndiaJetSetGoKanika Tekriwal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crazydaydream.com/tag/family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:49Z", "digest": "sha1:H4VJZSUYTE7QLLSBYD5TBOGASVMJWFAQ", "length": 2858, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "crazydaydream.com", "title": "family", "raw_content": "It\u2019s facebook\u2019s fault. And maybe instagram\u2019s fault too.\niphone pic warning\u2026seems to be all that I have time to take anymore.\nI hate how I never blog anymore. I really do. It bugs me. I blame facebook. And instagram. I put everything there so I feel no need to put anything here. I\u2019ve really thought lately about ditching facebook and just getting back to blogging. Ditching facebook would probably seriously improve my quality of life. Maybe one day I will. If I do, don\u2019t be shocked.\nAnyway, things are going really pretty well around here. I\u2019ve got three in school all day Monday-Friday. That\u2019s awesome!! Katie is stuck here with me quite a bit and we\u2019re trying to learn how to deal with one another. It\u2019s slow going, but maybe we\u2019re making progress. Hard to tell most days. She can be so funny and clever, but the regularly seasonings of crying and whining and tantrums just wear on me. I know she\u2019s three and I know things will continue to get better. I know that, but that still doesn\u2019t make me any less tired and frustrated. Just keeping it real.\nAs of right now, Jack is making straight A\u2019s. I\u2019m hoping he can hold onto that for a few more days so that he can finally get straight A\u2019s on a report card. He\u2019s done very well in school since going back mid year last school year, but he hasn\u2019t pulled straight A\u2019s yet. He went to church camp last weekend and had a great time! He\u2019s just a good kid. I don\u2019t have many pictures of him\u2026poor guy.\nMikey is doing pretty well in school. I love his teacher and she\u2019s great at communicating with me. He\u2019s had a few bad days, but nothing too extreme. He\u2019s learning to read so that\u2019s been fun for all of us. He loves reading to his siblings. Even Jackson will sit through his early readers and cheer him on. He finally got a haircut that is totally different than the haircut he\u2019s had his entire life! That was his choice and he loves the new do.\nAnd Brittany has become the most mellow and easy going of the four kids. I can take her anywhere. She\u2019s pretty much always in a good mood. She has moments, but for the most part, she is seriously just a sweet, easy kid! I can\u2019t believe how far she has come! She\u2019s doing great in school and just seems to enjoy pretty much every situation she\u2019s put into.\nAfter almost getting rid of (or worse) our dog, Scott, I\u2019ve decided for now to let him live in the house and I have to bathe him far more often than I\u2019d like to. But he\u2019s a pretty good dog and we rarely even know he\u2019s around. Now that he lives inside again, he\u2019s totally stopped digging out of the yard and running away. I think he was on some kind of suicide mission there for a while. It\u2019s nice to not have to sweep up food as often.\nSo that\u2019s pretty much all I have for an update right now. Things are good. We are in a pretty simple season of life right now and I just seriously can\u2019t, or shouldn\u2019t, complain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 19767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creakyjoints.org/seth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PCIWNZ56ESDBISEQFAHSH5LTID265KGO", "length": 984, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "creakyjoints.org", "title": "Seth Ginsberg \u2013 CreakyJoints", "raw_content": "Seth Ginsberg, BS, ([email protected]) President, GHLF. Seth was diagnosed at age 13 with Spondyloarthropathy,a degenerative form of arthritis. He co-founded CreakyJoints with Louis Tharp at the age of 18 in 1999, in order to help fellow arthritis sufferers understand the benefits of exercise, diet, a positive mental outlook, and a productive relationship with their doctor.\nSeth and Lou merged CreakyJoints into the non-profit Global Healthy Living Foundation (GHLF) in 2007, which they also co-founded.\nSeth graduated from Babson College, Boston, with a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship in 2003.\nAs the primary company spokesperson, he is a frequent speaker at colleges, universities, health and medical conferences, and government agencies. Seth is a former board member of the Westchester Arthritis Foundation, and currently on the board of the Global Healthy Living Foundation.\nSeth lives in Manhattan with his wife Cara Zelas, their daughter Grace, and their dog \u201cLittle Dude\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creativebastards.nl/portfolio/campaign-atag/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:D66OOFAZVTZIMTQW23YDFKFYPQNZH7NV", "length": 183, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "creativebastards.nl", "title": "\u00bb Spring campaign ATAG", "raw_content": "Spring campaign ATAG\nhttps://creativebastards.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Atag-NL-fusion-volcano.mp3\nhttps://creativebastards.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Atag-BE-stomen-25-sec.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 144.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://culteducation.com/group/1284-scientology/30343-scientologists-from-across-the-world-to-flock-to-south-dublin-centre-to-finish-massive-project.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSDDJSBKA37Q5TCTHJHD3OP3PHNWVN5J", "length": 3183, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "culteducation.com", "title": "Scientologists 'from across the world' to flock to south Dublin centre to finish 'massive project'", "raw_content": "Scientologists 'from across the world' to flock to south Dublin centre to finish 'massive project'\nThe centre is to open in a matter of weeks.\nThe Journal, Ireland/September 9, 2017\nBy Garreth MacNamee\nThe new Scientology centre which is to open and train hundreds of converts is just weeks away from opening in south Dublin, TheJournal.ie has learned.\nThe centre is to be opened as an Ideal Organisation which the Church of Scientology (CoS) say is \u201cconfigured to provide the full services of the Scientology religion to its parishioners, while also serving the community with social betterment and outreach programmes\u201d.\nAccording to its official website, the organisers are in a \u201cmad fury to get everyone signed up, trained, and posted\u201d. It added that new members are being sent every week for training \u201cand people from all over the world are helping us to get this massive project done\u201d.\nThe site at Firhouse will become a \u2018Class V church\u2019 meaning that those at the facility will have the authority to train and ordain ministers.\nClass V churches are much larger than the religion\u2019s missions. According to the official Scientology website \u201cthey are hubs for their community of Scientologists\u201d.\nThere is also a promotional video which the church has released as it prepares to open the centre.\nIn July of this year, TheJournal.ie broke the news that the CoS was setting up a new 1,300 seater community centre in south Dublin. It has now emerged how the new site will be branded. Billing itself as \u2018Ideal Ireland\u2019, the church has claimed that it is close to opening the new centre in a matter of weeks.\nThe centre will be used to train hundreds of new converts. According to the official site: \u201cNew team members are sent for training every week and people from all over the world are helping us to get this massive project done.\nThe church\u2019s registered company in Ireland, which does not have religious or charitable status, recorded a profit of \u20ac48,803 last year. The land in Firhouse is zoned by the council to be used as a place of worship. This means the Church of Scientology would not have to register any other interest with the council before building commenced on the site last year.\nLast month, we observed building work continuing on the site. Asked if they could comment on the new owners of the site, the builders said they could not. Sources have told this publication that the centre has the ability to host over 1,200 people for seminars and other church business.\nCouncillor Brian Lawlor met with us outside the centre and said that he had made representations to the council over the site.\nHe told TheJournal.ie: \u201cI know for definite that the Scientologists are coming into Firhouse. It\u2019s very disappointing. Not because of who is moving in but it\u2019s a missed opportunity for the community. It\u2019s a remarkable site and it could have easily been transformed into a school. There is a large demand for a new school in this area. We made a number of representations to the Department of Education about this but were knocked back.\n\u201cNow the Church of Scientology has it. I have to say it\u2019s a bad move not to have taken advantage of the site. This is very short-sighted.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cultureforum.eu/person/philipp-blom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DLE7IRO33ABAQZDVD5R7FASDIQVNPPMS", "length": 704, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cultureforum.eu", "title": "Philipp Blom - Act for Democracy\tAct for Democracy", "raw_content": "Philipp Blom (1970, DE) is a German historian, novelist, journalist and translator. After he obtained his PhD Modern History in Oxford, he worked as a journalist, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes in Europe and the US. His historical books on European history such as The Vertigo Years (2008) and A Wicked Company (2010) have been awarded with many international prizes. For his current project \u201cAt Breaking Point\u201d he is working on a historical overview of culture and life during the inter-War period in Europe and the United States.\nPhilipp Blom contributes to Re:Thinking Europe \u2013 An Anthology \u2013 June 2 20:30 in De Balie, and to Fort Europa \u2013 June 3 14:00 in Theater Bellevue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 128.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/union-cabinet-approves-pharma-mission-develop-bio-pharmaceuticals-05201744803.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4JWEGMC37WHO3D6ICECAF3WO4J6KRFK3", "length": 1717, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "currentaffairs.gktoday.in", "title": "Union Cabinet Approves Pharma Mission to Develop Bio-Pharmaceuticals | Current Affairs Today", "raw_content": "Union Cabinet Approves Pharma Mission to Develop Bio-Pharmaceuticals\nThe Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a collaborative mission between industry and academia called \u2018Innovate in India empowering biotech entrepreneurs and accelerating inclusive innovation\u2018 that is aimed at accelerating research for early development of bio-pharmaceuticals.\nThe mission would attract an investment of Rs 1,500 crore from the central government over a period of five years. Half of the funding would be funded through a loan from World Bank.\nThe mission will be implemented by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a public sector undertaking working under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).\nThe mission will focus on key areas that would supplement country\u2019s technological and product development capabilities in the biopharmaceutical sector to enable the sector to become globally competitive over the next 10-15 years.\nThe significance of the mission lies in the fact that National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 announced by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) lays emphasis on making the country achieve USD 100 billion biotech industry by 2025.\nThe mission will concentrate on development of specific products such as vaccines, biotherapeutics, medical devices and diagnostics etc. Besides, the mission will also work on establishment of shared infrastructure and facilities.\nThe mission will help in building and strengthening domain specific knowledge and management skills at the same time creating and enhancing technology transfer capabilities in public and private sector.\nTags: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) \u2022 Cabinet Decisions \u2022 National", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14533", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:10Z", "digest": "sha1:DS5HFVXJXJM2IZSIF7HFJTFUPB5KOZO6", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cve.mitre.org", "title": "CVE - CVE-2018-14533", "raw_content": "MISC:https://neonsea.uk/blog/2018/07/21/tmp-to-rce.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 138.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/brutal-examples-of-violence-that-occurred-by-both-sides-in-charlottesville-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QCYTAXH6UWG3ROAPZYIPJTRVMHZT3ULU", "length": 3832, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "dailycaller.com", "title": "Brutal Examples Of Violence That Occurred By Both Sides In Charlottesville [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller", "raw_content": "Brutal Examples Of Violence That Occurred By Both Sides In Charlottesville [VIDEO]\nThere was no shortage of violence over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., from both white supremacist protesters and radical leftist anti-protesters as they used various tactics to incite extreme violence on each other, forcing Virginia into a state of emergency.\nThe Daily Caller News Foundation was in Charlottesville Saturday covering the protests and saw a horrific display of violence by both sides. The white supremacists, including neo-Nazis, KKK members, and a variety of white nationalist fringe groups, including Vanguard America and The League of the South, clashed with radical leftist groups, like Antifa and the Workers World Party. Both sides used a variety of different methods to inflict violence on each other, leaving several dozen injured and one dead.\nTheDCNF witnessed leftist groups mace white supremacists as a way to start infiltrating Emancipation Park, where the rally was held. The radical left also began throwing a variety of items at the white supremacists, such as balloons filled with urine, paint, or pieces of concrete, as well as soda cans filled with concrete, food, and full water bottles. When they were out of items to throw, the radical left would search the streets for anything they could find to throw.\nThe left also brought out a \u201cbattering ram\u201d made out of plywood and reinforced with a metal step ladder. Radical leftist protesters charged the white supremacists with their hand-made weapon. Enforcers managed to stop the device before it reached the actual shield line, but a new group of protesters tried to push the ram further.\nPresident Donald Trump brought up the alt-left\u2019s violence in a press conference Tuesday from Trump Tower in New York City, saying, \u201cWhat about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right?\u201d Trump asked the group of media. \u201cDo they have any semblance of guilt?\u201d\nTrump continued, \u201cWhat about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs. Do they have any problem?\u201d he continued. \u201cI think they do.\u201d\nWhite supremacist groups slowly became frustrated by the violence from the radical left and began clashing. TheDCNF witnessed men brutally assaulting a woman, white supremacist using their flags as spears, bashing people with wooden planks, while many of them were armed with their various types of assault rifles and handguns.\nDemocratic Gov. of Virginia Terry McAuliffe called for a state of emergency after these acts of violence.\nAfter the state of emergency was declared, state police slowly began pushing the white supremacists groups out of the park and directly into the crowd of radical leftist and anti-protesters, causing serious brawls to erupt. (RELATED: An Exclusive Look At How Virginia Police Emptied Emancipation Park)\nTheDCNF witnessed a young black man, Deandre Harris, get brutally assaulted by white supremacists in a parking garage, just feet away from the Charlottesville sheriff\u2019s office, while marching away from Emancipation Park. TheDCNF took graphic footage of the assault, where men use different types of clubs, batons, and even large pieces of wood to jump the young man in the garage.\nTheDCNF was one of the first outlets on scene when when a car plowed into a crowd in the early afternoon during clashes between white supremacists, Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other groups, resulting in one death and 19 injuries.\nTheDCNF obtained exclusive footage of the horrendous act, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions, called an act of terrorism Sunday:\nAuthorities arrested 20-year old James Fields Jr. shortly after the incident, and he is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville County Regional Jail.\nFollow Henry Rodgers On Twitter>/i>\nTags : antifa charlotesville donald trump white supremacism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dangarion.livejournal.com/257148.html?thread=555900", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:23HZBNFUCUJTIMUCRZN7SCREWW3UXXAK", "length": 313, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dangarion.livejournal.com", "title": "An Offer I Might Not Be Able To Refuse... - DanGarion =dot= com", "raw_content": "I say go for it. Debt is one of the reasons that I've been living at home. By the time I move out in July/August/September, I'll have all of my credit card debt paid off and will just have a monthly school loan payment, but that's not so bad. I think the mandatory payment for that is $105 or something like that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 128.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://darlingmagazine.org/author/leslie-tulip/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5PO3N6GW5OMGQDDJACCTBPFZAHOOIZFP", "length": 1090, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "darlingmagazine.org", "title": "Leslie Tulip, Author at Darling Magazine", "raw_content": "Leslie Tulip\nLeslie likes to consider herself a walking SNL encyclopedia. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, has crushes on used bookstores, drinks a lot of tea, and dreams of being a writer. She wants to laugh a lot and do what she can to help people in need.\nIt\u2019s a time when we\u2019re expected to open up, maybe more than we really want to.\nRelationships are a bunch of trial and error to begin with, so we shouldn\u2019t expect them to be any easier when they end.\nWhy You Could Be Better Off Alone\nThrowing yourself in the face of the \u201cgoing alone\u201d stigma is scary, sure, but there are also distinct positives to being your own company.\nPlease Stop \u201cHating That Photo\u201d of Yourself\nBecause that unflattering tagged photo isn\u2019t the real you.\nWhat I Didn\u2019t Expect From Watching \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019\nI tend to get swept up in the emotion of movies, but this was different.\nWhat It Means to Find Strength in Weakness\nThere are times in life when the fragility of your heart demands attention.\nSelf-Care: Why It Isn\u2019t Just a Trend\nDo we really understand what self-care is and why it can be needed?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davidshoebridge.org.au/2018/01/24/media-release-media-release-sorry-is-meant-to-mean-you-dont-do-it-again/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:07Z", "digest": "sha1:N7OK3765VMEBXAROMQDMERCP6HSCGXYM", "length": 2421, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "davidshoebridge.org.au", "title": "Media Release: Media Release: Sorry is meant to mean you don\u2019t do it again | David Shoebridge", "raw_content": "Jan 24, 2018 | Aboriginal Justice, Child Protection, justice, Media | 0 comments\nStatistics from the Productivity Commission show that as June 30 2017 there were a record number, 17,664, Indigenous children in \u201cout of home care\u201d.\nThis represents almost 37% of the 47,915 children in out of home care across the country. Indigenous children are 5.8% of all children in Australia.\nIn 2007, the year before the apology, there were 9,070 Indigenous children in out of home care.\nWhen Aboriginal children are taken they are also less likely now than at the time of the apology to be placed with relatives or kin. Kinship placement is meant to be a fundamental part of the Aboriginal Child Placement principle. If Aboriginal children are taken then priority must be given to placing them with family or kin.\nThe proportion of Aboriginal children taken and then placed in kinship care has fallen from 54.8% in 2008 to just 50.1%in 2017. Not only are more Aboriginal children being taken, but they are also more likely to be cared for by strangers once taken.\nThe number of Aboriginal children taken from their families and placed in out of home care has grown by 95% since Kevin Rudd made his apology to the Stolen Generations.\nGreens NSW MP and spokesperson for Justice and Child Protection David Shoebridge, said:\n\u201cSorry is supposed to mean you don\u2019t do it again. What these figures prove is that the stolen generations is not a thing of the past, it\u2019s happening right now.\n\u201cIn NSW, Aboriginal kids are 7 times more likely to be taken than non-Aboriginal kids.\n\u201cIndigenous kids are not 7 times more likely to suffer abuse or neglect.\n\u201cThe disparity is down to institutional racism and failure to deal with generation trauma and poverty, the result of colonial violence and dispossession.\n\u201cWe need to go far beyond changing the date of Australia Day to address these kinds of systemic injustices faced by Indigenous Australians.\n\u201cFixing this tragedy starts with respecting the longest continuous living culture on the planet and handing self-determination and control of their families back to this continent\u2019s First Peoples.\n\u201cAboriginal people with the collective wisdom of their grandmothers, elders and parents, know far better how to care for Aboriginal children than non-Aboriginal people do.\n\u201cWe must confront the ongoing impacts of invasion, challenging institutional racism and racist policy making, said Mr Shoebridge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davohynds.wordpress.com/tag/anderson-university/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:V5XEYKN6P7OJUNSX4ESZSINN3Q66KOWD", "length": 2042, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "davohynds.wordpress.com", "title": "anderson university | Amanti", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: anderson university\nAnderson University\u2019s alcohol coverage\nalcohol, anderson, anderson university, Chicago Tribune, Christianity, cnn, drinking, Fox 59, Herald Bulletin, ind, policy, Politics, Religion\nLook, mom. I\u2019m on TV! Well, not me per se. But my fiance, roommates and friends.\nI haven\u2019t been able to find a video yet, but we were on CNN Headline News this morning. We also made Chicago Tribune.\nCheck out the video on Fox 59 Nightly News.\nHere\u2019s an excerpt from the article in the Herald Bulletin:\nStudents flout AU alcohol policy\nA group of Anderson University students who protested the college\u2019s alcohol policy by drinking beer in a bar on Tuesday could face disciplinary action, a college spokesman said.\nAbout 25 students called on university administrators to ease prohibitions against alcohol use by students of legal drinking age, 21 and older.\nAnderson University students are barred from drinking alcohol on or off campus, including when they are away from campus during breaks or on weekend visits to their homes.\nTuesday, the protesting students left a morning chapel session at the religious-based institution and walked about a mile to a downtown Anderson bar, Kroakerheads, 1239 Meridian St.\nThe march had been widely promoted through campus flyers and e-mails by the newly-formed Students for a Democratic AU. 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Cavuto Live replaces his Saturday half-hour program, Cavuto on Business, as well as the three other half hours in the block of time: Bulls & Bears, Forbes on Fox, and Cashin\u2019 In.\nFox News Channel Names Michael Tammero As SVP Event Marketing\nCavuto\u2019s new program will feature a breakdown of the week\u2019s headlines impacting business and politics, and a rotating panel of industry experts.\n\u201cAs I have always said, it\u2019s not about the red or the blue, it\u2019s about the green, and I am excited to bring our audience a new, live, two-hour program that delivers the vital news and analysis our viewers need in this ever-changing political and economic landscape,\u201d Cavuto said in today\u2019s announcement.\nCavuto currently serves as senior vice president and managing editor of business news across both FNC and FBN. Prior to joining Fox, Cavuto was part of the team that launched CNBC in 1989. He also served as a contributor to NBC\u2019s Today and NBC News at Sunrise. Previously, Cavuto was the New York Bureau Chief for PBS Television\u2019s Nightly Business Report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://decaturbookfestival.com/presenters/view/5b30225ec0662e3276caa086", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:19Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6OUISNNMZ4EU7D4D3FVLGAXLWYZO2J7", "length": 233, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "decaturbookfestival.com", "title": "AJC Decatur Book Festival | Author Page", "raw_content": "Robert Pfeiffer is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently The Inexhaustible Before. He currently lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughter, and is associate professor of English at Clayton State University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 36.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://delhiledger.com/tag/internet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MVVEXAFXRDHILPYEG7YCITI5U734RV3V", "length": 370, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "delhiledger.com", "title": "Delhi Ledger | Internet Archive", "raw_content": "New experience after R2I: Censorship\nFlipping through the WSJ Magazine in Delhi, I see this:\nExcerpt from the Act:\nPOWERS & FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL\n13.(2) (b) to build up a code of conduct for newspapers, news agencies and journalists in accordance with high professional standards\nGoodbye First Amendment and pretty advertisements. Welcome high professional standards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deplorables-seeking-justice.com/2018/02/28/doj-says-atty-gen-used-alias-to-conduct-official-business-to-protect-security-privacy-judicialwatch-org/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2USUWMILGQON66CFCUBQL5YZKU3LDYRA", "length": 5200, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "deplorables-seeking-justice.com", "title": "DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy (judicialwatch.org) \u2013 Deplorables Seeking Justice-DSJ", "raw_content": "DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy (judicialwatch.org)\nIllustrating how government hides information from the American public, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the nation\u2019s chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama\u2019s second attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to \u201cprotect her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business efficiently via email.\u201d\nThis begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama\u2019s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.gov. She eventually resigned over the scandal, which brought to light the agency\u2019s violations of federal open-records laws.\nIn Lynch\u2019s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration\u2019s involvement in a United Nation\u2019s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.\u2019s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a \u201ctruly groundbreaking endeavor\u201d and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. \u201cThe government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,\u201d Lynch said.\nFollowing the Attorney General\u2019s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized \u201cMuslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.\u201d The anti-terror initiatives have also made \u201cthe relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,\u201d the letter states. SCN assures however, that \u201cviolent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.\u201d In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.\nIn its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn\u2019t produce a single file.\nThough the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch\u2019s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch\u2019s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.\nCategories: #DrainTheSwamp, #MAGA, #Obamagate, #SeekSomethingSpeakSomething, #SeeSomethingSaySomething, Activism, Activist, Deplorables, Deplorables Seeking Justice, DOJ, DOJ Inspector General, Elizabeth Carlisle, email, Emails, foia, judicial watch, justice, Loretta Lynch, lynch, Seeking, Uncategorized\nFBI Refuses to Release Docs About Secret Comey-Obama Meeting, Says America Doesn\u2019t Need to Know ~ Richard Pollock (westernjournal.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 10096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://desultoryheroics.com/2018/01/12/to-liberate-cambodia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CKJ7RWE3BEILQAPG4LIUNHC4SKP3XDSP", "length": 18545, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "desultoryheroics.com", "title": "To Liberate Cambodia | Desultory Heroics", "raw_content": "\u2190 Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism\nSaturday Matinee: The Brotherhood of the Bell \u2192\nTo Liberate Cambodia\nA long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including during the subsequent US war on Indochina. However, by the mid-1960s, parts of the eastern provinces of Cambodia were bases for North Vietnamese Army and National Liberation Front (NVA/NLF) forces operating against South Vietnam and this resulted in nearly a decade of bombing by the United States from 4 October 1965. See \u2018Bombs Over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War\u2019.\nIn 1970 Sihanouk was ousted in a US-supported coup led by General Lon Nol. See \u2018A Special Supplement: Cambodia\u2019. The following few years were characterized by an internal power struggle between Cambodian elites and war involving several foreign countries, but particularly including continuation of the recently commenced \u2018carpet bombing\u2019 of Cambodia by the US Air Force.\nOn 17 April 1975 the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia. Following four years of ruthless rule by the Chinese-supported Khmer Rouge, initially under Pol Pot, they were defeated by the Vietnamese army in 1979 and the Vietnamese occupation authorities established the People\u2019s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), installing Heng Samrin and other pro-Vietnamese Communist politicians as leaders of the new government. Heng was succeeded by Chan Sy as Prime Minister in 1981.\nFollowing the death of Chan Sy, Hun Sen became Prime Minister of Cambodia in 1985 and, despite a facade of democracy, he and the Cambodian People\u2019s Party (CPP) have been in power ever since. This period has notably included using the army to purge a feared rival in a bloody coup conducted in 1997. Hun Sen\u2019s co-Prime Minister, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, was ousted and fled to Paris while his supporters were arrested, tortured and some were summarily executed.\nThe current main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was founded in 2012 by merging the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party. Emblematic of Cambodia\u2019s \u2018democratic\u2019 status, more than two dozen opposition members and critics have been locked up in the past year alone and the CNRP leader, Kem Sokha, known for his nonviolent, politically tolerant views, is currently imprisoned at a detention centre in Tboung Khmum Province following his arrest on 3 September 2017 under allegations of treason, espionage and for orchestrating anti-government demonstrations in 2013-2014. These demonstrations were triggered by widespread allegations of electoral fraud during the Cambodian general election of 2013. See \u2018Sokha arrested for \u201ctreason\u201d, is accused of colluding with US to topple the government\u2019.\nOn 16 November 2017 the CNRP was dissolved by Cambodia\u2019s highest court and 118 of its members, including Sokha and exiled former leader Sam Rainsy, were banned from politics for five years.\nSocially, Cambodia is primarily Khmer with ethnic populations of Chinese, Vietnamese, Cham, Thai and Lao. It has a population of 16 million people. The pre-eminent religion is Buddhism. The adult literacy rate is 75%; few Cambodians speak a European language limiting access to western literature. Most students complete 12 years of (low quality public) school but tertiary enrollment is limited. As in all countries, education (reinforced by state propaganda through the media) serves to intimidate and indoctrinate students into obedience of elites. Discussion of national politics in a school class is taboo and such discussions are rare at tertiary level. This manifests in the narrow range of concerns that mobilize student action: personal outcomes such as employment opportunities. Issues such as those in relation to peace, the environment and refugees do not have a significant profile. In short, the student population generally is neither well informed nor politically engaged.\nHowever, many other issues engage at least some Cambodians, with demonstrations, strikes and street blockades being popular tactics, although the lack of strategy means that outcomes are usually limited and, despite commendable nonviolent discipline in many cases, violent repression is not effectively resisted. Issues of concern to workers, particularly low wages in a country with no minimum wage law, galvanize some response. See, for example, \u2018Protests, Strikes Continue in Cambodia: Though their occupations differ, Cambodian workers are united in their push for a living wage\u2019. Garment workers are a significant force because their sector is important to the national economy. Land grabbing and lack of housing mobilize many people but usually fail to attract support beyond those effected. See, for example, \u2018Housing Activists Clash With Police in Street Protest\u2019. Environmental issues, such as deforestation and natural resource depletion, fail to mobilize the support they need to be effective.\nHaving noted that, however, Cambodian activists require enormous courage to take nonviolent action as the possibility of violent state repression in response to popular mobilization is a real one, as illustrated above and documented in the Amnesty International report \u2018Taking to the streets: Freedom of peaceful assembly in Cambodia\u2019 from 2015.\nPerhaps understandably, given their circumstances, international issues, such as events in the Middle East, North Korea and the plight of the Rohingya in neighbouring Myanmar are beyond the concern of most Cambodians.\nEconomically, Cambodians produce traditional goods for small local households with industrial production remaining low in a country that is still industrializing. Building on agriculture (especially rice), tourism and particularly the garment industry, which provided the basis for the Cambodian export sector in recent decades, the dictatorship has been encouraging light manufacturing, such as of electronics and auto-parts, by establishing \u2018special economic zones\u2019 that allow cheap Cambodian labour to be exploited. Most of the manufacturers are Japanese and despite poor infrastructure (such as lack of roads and port facilities), poor production management, poor literacy and numeracy among the workers, corruption and unreliable energy supplies, Cambodian factory production is slowly rising to play a part in Japan\u2019s regional supply chain. In addition, Chinese investment in the construction sector has grown enormously in recent years and Cambodia is experiencing the common problem of development being geared to serve elite commercial interests and tourists rather than the needs (such as affordable housing) of ordinary people or the environment. See \u2018China\u2019s construction bubble may leave Cambodia\u2019s next generation without a home\u2019.\nEnvironmentally, Cambodia does little to conserve its natural resources. For example, between 1990 and 2010, Cambodia lost 22% of its forest cover, or nearly 3,000,000 hectares, largely to logging. There is no commitment to gauging environmental impact before construction projects begin and the $US800m Lower Sesan 2 Dam, in the northeast of the country, has been widely accused of being constructed with little thought given to local residents (who will be evicted or lose their livelihood when the dam reservoir fills) or the project\u2019s environmental impact.\nBeyond deforestation (through both legal and illegal logging) then, environmental destruction in Cambodia occurs as a result of large scale construction and agricultural projects which destroy important wildlife habitats, but also through massive (legal and illegal) sand mining \u2013 see \u2018Shifting Sand: How Singapore\u2019s demand for Cambodian sand threatens ecosystems and undermines good governance\u2019 \u2013 poaching of endangered and endemic species, with Cambodian businesses and political authorities, as well as foreign criminal syndicates and many transnational corporations from all over the world implicated in the various aspects of this corruptly-approved and executed destruction.\nIn the words of Cambodian researcher Tay Sovannarun: \u2018The government just keeps doing business as usual while the rich cliques keep extracting natural resources and externalizing the cost to the rest of society.\u2019 Moreover, three members of the NGO Mother Nature \u2013 Sun Mala, Try Sovikea and Sim Somnang \u2013 recently served nearly a year in prison for their efforts to defend the environment and the group was dissolved by the government in September 2017. See \u2018Environmental NGO Mother Nature dissolved\u2019.\nCambodian Politics\nPolitically, Cambodians are largely na\u00efve with most believing that they live in a \u2018democracy\u2019 despite the absence of its most obvious hallmarks such as civil and political rights, the separation of powers including an independent judiciary, free and fair elections, the right of assembly and freedom of the press (with the English-language newspaper The Cambodia Daily recently closed down along with some radio stations). And this is an accurate assessment of most members of the political leadership of the CNRP as well.\nDespite a 30-year record of political manipulation by Hun Sen and the CPP \u2013 during which \u2018Hun Sen has made it clear that he does not respect the concept of free and fair elections\u2019: see \u201830 Years of Hun Sen: Violence, Repression, and Corruption in Cambodia\u2019 \u2013 which has included obvious corruption of elections through vote-rigging but also an outright coup in 1997 and the imprisonment or exile of opposition leaders since then, most Cambodians and their opposition leaders still participate in the charade that they live in a \u2018democracy\u2019 which could result in the defeat of Hun Sen and the CPP at a \u2018free and fair\u2019 election. Of course, there are exceptions to this na\u00efvet\u00e9, as a 2014 article written by Mu Sochua, veteran Cambodian politician and former minister of women\u2019s affairs in a Hun Sen government, demonstrates. See \u2018Crackdown in Cambodia\u2019.\nMoreover, as Sovannarun has noted: most Cambodians \u2018still think international pressure is effective in keeping the CPP from disrespecting democratic principles which they have violated up until this day. Right now they wait for US and EU sanctions in the hope that the CPP will step back.\u2019 See, for example, \u2018The Birth of a Dictator\u2019. He asks: \u2018Even assuming it works, when will Cambodians learn to rely on themselves when the ruling party causes the same troubles again? Are they going to ask for external help like this every time and expect their country to be successfully democratized?\u2019\nThe problem, Sovannarun argues, is that \u2018Cambodians in general do not really understand what democracy is. Their views are very narrow. For them, democracy is just an election. Many news reports refer to people as \u201cvoters\u201d but in Khmer, this literally translates as \u201cvote owners\u201d as if people cannot express their rights or power beside voting.\u2019\nFortunately, recent actions by the CPP have led to opposition leaders and some NGOs finally declaring the Hun Sen dictatorship for what it is. See, for example, \u2018The Birth of a Dictator\u2019. But for Sovannarun, \u2018democratization ended in 1997. The country should be regarded as a dictatorship since then. The party that lost the election in 1993 still controlled the national military, the police and security force, and the public administration, eventually using military force to establish absolute control in 1997. How is Cambodia still a democracy?\u2019\nHowever, recent comprehensive research undertaken by Global Witness goes even further. Their report Hostile Takeover \u2018sheds light on a huge network of secret deal-making and corruption that has underpinned Hun Sen\u2019s 30-year dictatorial reign of murder, torture and the imprisonment of his political opponents\u2019. See \u2018Hostile Takeover: The corporate empire of Cambodia\u2019s ruling family\u2019 and \u2018Probe: Companies Worth $200M Linked to Cambodian PM\u2019s Family\u2019.\nSo what are the prospects of liberating Cambodia from its dictatorship?\nTo begin, there is little evidence to suggest that leadership for any movement to do so will come from within formal political ranks. Following the court-ordered dissolution of the CNRP on 16 November 2017 \u2013 see \u2018Cambodia top court dissolves main opposition CNRP party\u2019 \u2013 at the behest of Hun Sen, \u2018half of their 55 members of parliament fled the country\u2019. And this dissolution was preceded by actions that had effectively neutralized the opposition, with two dozen opposition members (including CNRP leader Kem Sokha) and critics imprisoned in the past year alone, as reported above, and the rapid flight of Opposition Deputy President Mu Sochua on 3 October after allegedly being notified by a senior official that her arrest was imminent. See \u2018Breaking: CNRP\u2019s Mu Sochua flees country following \u201cwarning\u201d of arrest\u2019. But while Mu Sochua called for a protest gathering after she had fled, understandably, nobody dared to protest: \u2018Who dares to protest if their leader runs for their life?\u2019 Sovannarun asks.\nOf course, civil society leadership is fraught with danger too. Prominent political commentator and activist Kem Ley, known for his trenchant criticism of the Hun Sen dictatorship, was assassinated on 10 July 2016 in Phnom Penh. See \u2018Shooting Death of Popular Activist Roils Cambodia\u2019 and \u2018Q&A With Kem Ley: Transparency on Hun Sen Family\u2019s Business Interests is Vital\u2019. Ley was the third notable activist to be killed following the union leader Chea Vichea in 2004 \u2013 see \u2018Who Killed Chea Vichea?\u2019 \u2013 and environmental activist Wutty Chut in 2012. See \u2018Cambodian Environmental Activist Is Slain\u2019. But they are not the only activists to suffer this fate.\nIn addition, plenty of politicians, journalists and activists have been viciously assaulted by the security forces and members of Hun Sen\u2019s bodyguard unit \u2013 see, for example, \u2018Dragged and Beaten: The Cambodian Government\u2019s Role in the October 2015 Attack on Opposition Politicians\u2019 \u2013 and/or imprisoned by the dictatorship. See \u2018Cambodia: Quash Case Against 11 Opposition Activists: No Legal Basis for Trumped-Up Charges, Convictions, and Long Sentences\u2019. In fact, Radio Free Asia keeps a record of \u2018Cambodian Opposition Politicians and Activists Behind Bars\u2019 for activities that the dictatorship does not like, including defending human rights, land rights and the natural environment.\nMoreover, in another recent measure of the blatant brutality of the dictatorship, Hun Sen publicly suggested that opposition politicians Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha \u2018would already be dead\u2019 had he known they were promising to \u2018organise a new government\u2019 in the aftermath of the highly disputed 2013 national election result. See \u2018Rainsy and Sokha \u201cwould already be dead\u201d: PM\u2019. He also used a government-produced video to link the CNRP with US groups in fomenting a \u2018colour revolution\u2019 in Cambodia. See \u2018Government ups plot accusations with new video linking CNRP and US groups to \u201ccolour revolutions\u201d\u2019.\nIn one response to Hun Sen\u2019s \u2018would already be dead\u2019 statement, British human rights lawyer Richard Rogers, who had filed a complaint asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Cambodian ruling elite for widespread human rights violations in 2014, commented that it was simply more evidence of the government\u2019s willingness to persecute political dissidents. \u2018It shows that he is willing to order the murder of his own people if they challenge his rule\u2019. Moreover: \u2018These are not the words of a modern leader who claims to lead a democracy.\u2019 See \u2018Rainsy and Sokha \u201cwould already be dead\u201d: PM\u2019. Whether Hun Sen is even sane is a question that no-one asks.\nSo what can Cambodians do? Fortunately, there is a long history of repressive regimes being overthrown by nonviolent grassroots movements. And nonviolent action has proven powerfully effective in Cambodia as the Buddhist monk Maha Gosananda, and his supporters demonstrated on their 19-day peace walk from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh through war ravaged Khmer Rouge territory in Cambodia in May 1993, defying the expectations of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) coordinators at the time that they would be killed by the Khmer Rouge. See \u2018Maha Gosananda, a true peace maker\u2019. However, for the Hun Sen dictatorship to be removed, Cambodians will be well served by a thoughtful and comprehensive strategy that takes particular account of their unique circumstances.\nA framework to plan and implement a strategy to remove the dictatorship is explained in Nonviolent Defense/Liberation Strategy with Sovannarun\u2019s Khmer translation of this strategy here.\nThis strategic framework explains what is necessary to remove the dictatorship and, among consideration of many vital issues, elaborates what is necessary to maintain strategic coordination when leaders are at high risk of assassination, minimize the risk of violent repression while also ensuring that the movement is not hijacked by government or foreign provocateurs whose purpose is to subvert the movement by destroying its nonviolent character \u2013 see, for example, \u2018Nonviolent Action: Minimizing the Risk of Violent Repression\u2019 \u2013 as well as deal with foreign governments (such as those of China, the European Union, Japan and the USA) who (categorically or by inaction) support the dictatorship, sometimes by supplying military weapons suitable for use against the domestic population.\nSovannarun is not optimistic about the short-term prospects for his country: Too many mistakes have been repeated too often. But he is committed to the nonviolent struggle to liberate Cambodia from its dictatorship and recognizes that the corrupt electoral process cannot restore democracy or enable Cambodians to meaningfully address the vast range of social, political, economic and environmental challenges they face.\nThis entry was posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, History, imperialism, Labor, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime and tagged activism, Cambodia, Dictatorship, Economics, Hun Sen, imperialism, Khmer, Labor, Nonviolence, politics, protest, war, Worker's Rights. Bookmark the permalink.\n1 Response to To Liberate Cambodia\nBill Ziegler says:\nI followed the familiar geopolitical machinations of the regime of the moment (1970) in Indochina, as it did indeed flow in the predictable insane ways of American Empire before and since 1970: new boss, same boss, same modus operandi, same exceptional agenda.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 475, "original_length": 30503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://developers.google.cn/experts/people/chris-demars", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:E7RM4I7GS7BOKZ7HWBG6YEMSUGM2URK6", "length": 661, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "developers.google.cn", "title": "Google Developers Experts | Experts | Google Developers", "raw_content": "Chris DeMars is a UI developer first, UX architect always, working out of Detroit, Michigan. Chris is also an instructor, teacher assistant, and volunteer for the Ann Arbor chapter of Girl Develop It and co-organizer for the Ann Arbor Accessibility Group. Chris loves coming up with solutions for enterprise applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, recording episodes of his podcast, Tales From The Script, watching horror movies, drinking the finest of beers, or in the woods of northern Michigan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://devotionaryblog.com/tag/rebellion/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:5U6FKONDMX2JDS4E6UZ4SUUGFNBCKC3N", "length": 39735, "nlines": 219, "source_domain": "devotionaryblog.com", "title": "rebellion | Devotionary", "raw_content": "Human Vs Holy Help\n1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help\n6 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel. 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.\nand whose furnace is in Jerusalem. \u2013 Isaiah 31:1-9 ESV\nWhere do you turn in times of trouble? When the going gets tough, what are your go-to options for finding relief? The answer probably depends upon the circumstances. There are a lot of times in life when things can take an unexpected turn for the worse. In no time at all, we can find our life circumstances surprisingly altered and our need for a solution suddenly become a top priority. And the list of potential battle zones is a long one. It includes our health, relationships, emotional state, and financial stability. Things can be rocking along quite well and then, suddenly, the bottom drops out. Our world gets rocked by an unexpected and unwanted bit of bad news. And, again, the question is, where do you turn in those times?\nFor the people of Judah, things were looking dramatically dire. They were facing the threat of joining a long list of regional powers who had fallen at the hands of the Assyrians. It was only a matter of time before the enemy was at the gates of Jerusalem and the collapse of their once-mighty nation became an all-too-real possibility. And, with that potential outcome looming on the horizon, the leaders of Judah had come up with a plan. They had determined to seek aid from the Egyptians. It was going to cost them, but it seemed like the only viable option left open to them. Or was it?\nThroughout this book, Isaiah has gone out of his way to communicate to the people of Judah that they had another option, and a much better one at that. They could repent. They could humble themselves before God and ask for His forgiveness. After all, everything they faced was coming through His sovereign hands and was intended to punish them for their rebellion against Him. But they could avoid the coming destruction if they would only turn back to God. In fact, He had told them:\nBut, so far, they had refused God\u2019s gracious offer. So now, Isaiah tells them what will happen to them because they chose door number two over door number one. In selecting Egypt as their savior of choice, they were making a huge mistake. It wasn\u2019t that Egypt was a bad choice, it was that it was the wrong choice.\nWhat sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help,\nthe Holy One of Israel. \u2013 Isaiah 31:1 NLT\nThe problem was that Egypt, rather than being a possible God-appointed option, had become an option other than God. Seeking aid from Egypt was not necessarily a sin. It was that they were seeking aid from Egypt without seeking input from God. The leaders of Judah were circumventing the Almighty because they seemed to know that His help was going to require that they obey His commands. His rescue was going to demand their repentance. And they would rather grovel before Egypt, than humble themselves before God.\nJust to stress the point that their choice of Egypt as a potential source of aid was not the root of their problem, consider the story of Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus, found in the gospel of Matthew. After the visit of the wise men, Joseph received a dream from God, instructing Him to take his wife and child to Egypt.\nAfter the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. \u201cGet up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,\u201d the angel said. \u201cStay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 2:13 NLT\nIn this case, Egypt was a good choice because it was the God-ordained choice. Joseph and his young family found refuge from their enemies because they relied upon the wisdom and will of God.\nBut Judah was guilty of making Egypt a substitute for God, not a possible solution from Him. They were relying on human solutions to what was a spiritual problem. Rather than trusting in God, they were putting all their hope in Egypt\u2019s vast military might. But even King David had known that human resources were insufficient replacements for God.\nSome nations boast of their chariots and horses,\nbut we boast in the name of the Lord our God.\nThose nations will fall down and collapse,\nbut we will rise up and stand firm. \u2013 Psalm 20:7-8 NLT\nAnd another psalmist echoes David\u2019s sentiments.\nYou command victories for Israel.\nOnly by your power can we push back our enemies;\nonly in your name can we trample our foes.\nI do not trust in my bow;\nI do not count on my sword to save me.\nYou are the one who gives us victory over our enemies;\nyou disgrace those who hate us. \u2013 Psalm 44:4-7 NLT\nAnd Isaiah lays out the root of the problem:\nFor these Egyptians are mere humans, not God!\nTheir horses are puny flesh, not mighty spirits! \u2013 Isaiah 31:3 NLT\nThey are not God. And they were not intended to act as stand-ins for God. That is the issue here. The leaders of Judah weren\u2019t seeking solutions from God, they were seeking options other than God. But our God-replacements always fall short. They can\u2019t deliver what we demand from them. They are incapable of living up to God\u2019s standard. And yet, despite their abysmal track record, we turn to them time and time again.\nAnd the amazing this is how patient God is with us as we continue to seek help from our pseudo-saviors. He was the same way with the people of Judah. He even told them that, in spite of their stubborn rebellion and refusal to repent, He would continue to protect them.\nThe Lord of Heaven\u2019s Armies will hover over Jerusalem\nhe will pass over it and rescue it. \u2013 Isaiah 31:5 NLT\nWe know from the book of 2 Kings, that King Sennacherib eventually besieged Jerusalem, but was miraculously defeated by the hand of God.\nThat night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere. Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there. \u2013 2 Kings 19:35-36 NLT\nGod did what the Egyptians could never have done. He defeated the enemy of Israel, without any aid from a single human being. In a night, 185,000 of the enemy were killed, without a sword being drawn, an arrow shot, or a spear thrown. It was all the work of God.\nBut at this point in his message to the people of Judah, Isaiah predicts another victory over the Assyrians that is markedly different from the one over Sennacherib. In this case, Isaiah is talking about something that will take place in the future, when God not only gives the people of Judah victory over their enemies but restores their hearts to Himself.\n\u201cI know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 31:7 NLT\nOn this future occasion, God will do for the people of Judah what they could never have done for themselves. He will accomplish for them things the Egyptians could never have done. First of all, He will dramatically alter their hearts, transforming them from a rebellious and idolatrous nations to a faithful remnant who worships Him alone. On top of that, He will destroy their enemies in a way that no other nation on earth could do.\n\u201cThe Assyrians will be destroyed,\nEven the strongest will quake with terror,\nwhose flame blazes from Jerusalem. \u2013 Isaiah 31:8-9 NLT\nIsaiah describes a victory like nothing the people of Judah had ever seen before. It will be a decisive victory that culminates the end of the age. And because God is going to accomplish this in time, Isaiah pleads with the people of Judah to repent and return to Him now.\nThough you are such wicked rebels, my people, come and return to the Lord. \u2013 Isaiah 31:6 NLT\nHe is a great God. He is a reliable God. There is no reason to trust in anything other than Him. No matter what we are facing, our God is sufficient to handle any and all circumstances. He wants us to trust Him. He desires that we turn to Him.\nCome and return to the Lord!\nDecember 19, 2018 / kdmiller55\t/ Leave a comment\n1 \u201cAh, stubborn children,\u201d declares the Lord,\nand who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit,\n\u201cRahab who sits still.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:1-7 ESV\nAs God\u2019s chosen people, the nation of Judah was to have one source of protection and provision: God. He had promised to meet all their needs and to protect them from all their enemies. Long before they ever arrived in the land of Canaan, God had told them:\n\u201cIf you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:\nYour towns and your fields\nYour children and your crops\nYour fruit baskets and breadboards\n\u201cThe Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!\n\u201cThe Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.\u201d \u2013 Deuteronomy 28:1-8 NLT\nBut this promise was conditional. It required that the people of God obey His commands and worship Him alone. And years later, when Solomon dedicated the temple in Jerusalem, God had reminded them what would happen if they failed to remain faithful to Him.\n\u201cBut if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.\u201d \u2013 1 Kings 9:6-7 NLT\nAnd God made it perfectly clear to Solomon and the people of Israel that the fall of Jerusalem would be their own fault \u2013 for having abandoned Yahweh as their God, and their sole source of provision and protection.\n\u201cAnd though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror. They will ask, \u2018Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?\u2019\n\u201cAnd the answer will be, \u2018Because his people abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the Lord has brought all these disasters on them.\u2019\u201d \u2013 1 Kings 9:8-9 NLT\nSo, at this point in the book of Isaiah, we are looking at a time, long after Solomon had dedicated the temple when the nation of Israel had been divided in two because of Solomon\u2019s failure to remain faithful to God. The southern kingdom of Judah was under intense pressure from foreign enemies and was turning its gaze to Egypt as a potential source of help and hope. They were making peace overtures to the very nation from which God had freed them from slavery generations earlier.\nBut God calls them exactly what they were: Stubborn children, and He used a word typically referring to dumb, untrainable oxen. It carries with it the idea of rebellion. Like an ox that refused to get into the yoke and plow, the people of Judah were refusing to do what God had called them to do. They consistently resisted His efforts to teach and train them. So, God warns them:\n\u201cWhat sorrow awaits my rebellious children,\u201d\n\u201cYou make plans that are contrary to mine.\nYou make alliances not directed by my Spirit,\nthus piling up your sins.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:1 NLT\nGod had not told them to turn to Egypt. He had not given them permission to make an alliance with Pharaoh. And their efforts to do so would prove to be more fuel on the fire of His judgment against them.\n\u201cFor without consulting me,\nyou have gone down to Egypt for help.\nYou have put your trust in Pharaoh\u2019s protection.\nYou have tried to hide in his shade.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:2 NLT\nThis is the crux of the matter. They were refusing to seek God\u2019s counsel, and they were rejecting God\u2019s promise of provision and protection. Rather than trust God, they were putting all their hope in Pharaoh. But they were going to find him to be a lousy replacement for God.\n\u201cBut by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated,\nand by depending on him, you will be disgraced.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:3 NLT\nTheir plans were not going to produce the results for which they were hoping. Rather than help, they would experience humiliation. In the place of deliverance, they would find disgrace. The nation of Egypt was powerful, and its borders stretched from Zoan in the north to Hanes in the south. But Pharaoh and his mighty army would prove no match for the Lord of Hosts. And God destroys any lingering hopes the people of Judah might have that their plans will succeed.\n\u201call who trust in him will be ashamed.\nHe will not help you.\nInstead, he will disgrace you.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:5 NLT\nWith their failure well established, Isaiah now provides the people of Judah with a visual description of the Judean emissaries\u2019 trip to Egypt to deliver payment for their assistance. The route described is remarkably similar to the one that the people of Israel took when they left Egypt under Moses\u2019 leadership centuries earlier. In order to escape detection by the Assyrians, the caravan would wind its way south, through the Negeb, \u201ca land of trouble and anguish\u201d (Isaiah 30:6 ESV).\nBut this time, they would not be accompanied by God or enjoy His protection. They would encounter an unforgiving desert, occupied by lions and venomous snakes. Their donkeys and camels would be weighed down with riches and treasures intended as payment for Pharaoh\u2019s help. They would be paying dearly for their stubborn refusal to obey God. Their rebellion against Him would end up costing them. And the worst part was the cost to benefit ratio was going to be minimal.\n\u201cAll this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.\nEgypt\u2019s promises are worthless!\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 30:6-7 NLT\nThe imagery here is powerful. The people of Judah were going backwards. They are pictured as returning to the very place from which God had delivered them. They were regressing rather than progressing. Their former deliverance from Egypt was not taking the form of a vain hope of deliverance by Egypt.\nAnd God sarcastically refers to Egypt, using a fairly cryptic monicker: \u201cRahab who sits still\u201d (Isaiah 30:7 ESV). There is much debate as to what this phrase actually means and how it should be translated. The name \u201cRahab\u201d is used elsewhere in Scripture to refer to Egypt (Psalm 87:4). But the Hebrew word rahav is also used in the Old Testament to refer to a mythical sea monster, the symbol of chaos. That\u2019s why the New Living Translation reads \u201cthe Harmless Dragon.\u201d Egypt is described as being shebeth, idle or inactive. Rather than stepping into the situation and providing Judah with assistance, the nation of Egypt is shown to be completely still, providing no help whatsoever. This entire transaction between Judah and Egypt will prove to be an expensive boondoggle that produces none of their hoped-for results.\nWhat a sad and sobering lesson. And yet, as 21st-Century Christians, we can fail to learn anything from this dark moment in the life of the nation of Judah. It is so easy to miss the similarities between our lives and theirs. While we may not face invasion from a foreign power, we are under spiritual attack each and every day of our lives. The apostle Paul would have us remember:\nWe are human, but we don\u2019t wage war as humans do. We use God\u2019s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. \u2013 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NLT\nNotice what Paul says. We are to use God\u2019s weapons, not worldly ones. And our battle is against human reasoning and false arguments. Because we are under the constant temptation to use human wisdom to solve spiritual problems. We too easily find ourselves listening to false arguments that prompt us to turn to something or someone other than God. But we are to take those thoughts captive and teach them to obey what Christ would have us do. Turning to Egypt rather than God will never produce the desired results. Placing our faith in something other than God will always prove empty and futile. But God is always faithful. He is there when we call. He responds when we cry out. He not only wants to rescue us, He has the power to do so.\nThe Potter and the Clay.\n9 Astonish yourselves and be astonished;\nBe drunk, but not with wine;\nstagger, but not with strong drink!\n10 For the Lord has poured out upon you\n11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, \u201cRead this,\u201d he says, \u201cI cannot, for it is sealed.\u201d 12 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, \u201cRead this,\u201d he says, \u201cI cannot read.\u201d\n14 therefore, behold, I will again\n15 Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,\n16 You turn things upside down!\n\u201cHe has no understanding\u201d? \u2013 Isaiah 29:9-16 ESV\nThe people of Judah were spiritually dull and complacent. Isaiah compares them to a man stumbling around under the influence of alcohol. But he makes it clear that their stupor and instability is spiritual in nature, and it has been brought on them by God.\nFor the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep.\nHe has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries. \u2013 Isaiah 29:10 NLT\nPart of the punishment He has brought against them is their inability to discern the right thing to do. In spite of all their pride and arrogance, they were incapable of understanding what it was that God was doing. The signs were obvious, but their eyes were blinded to the reality of what was going on around them and to them.\nAll the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, \u201cWe can\u2019t read it because it is sealed.\u201d When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, \u201cWe don\u2019t know how to read.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 29:11-12 NLT\nIsaiah, as the prophet of God, had been pleading with them to trust God. He had exposed their misplaced trust in Egypt and other pagan nations. He had warned them of God\u2019s pending judgment. And he had made it clear that repentance was the solution to their problem. But they had remained stubbornly unwilling to listen to a word he said. And he delivers a stinging indictment from God.\n\u201cThese people say they are loyal to me;\nthey say wonderful things about me,\nbut they are not really loyal to me.\nTheir worship consists of\nnothing but man-made ritual.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 29:13 NET\nThere were guilty of giving God lip-service. They claimed to be His loyal subjects, but they were simply going through the motions. Their words were not backed by appropriate actions. And what they alleged to be worship was nothing more than a set of man-made rules and rituals they performed by rote. Their hearts were not in it.\nNot only that, they suffered from the mistaken impression that God Almighty was unable to see what it was that they were doing. In their warped and twisted minds, they fully believed that they could hide what it was they were doing from the penetrating gaze of God. And Isaiah gave verbal expression to their thoughts.\n\u201cHe doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on!\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 29:15 NLT\nAnd why did they have this remarkably naive outlook? Because they somehow believed that they had done a good job of hiding their actions from Yahweh. But Isaiah delivered the sobering news that their impressions were wrong. Deadly wrong.\nWhat sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord,\nwho do their evil deeds in the dark! \u2013 Isaiah 29:15 NLT\nOf all people, the Jews should have known that their God was omniscient. Nothing was hidden from His sight. And their own Scriptures were filled with reminders of this very fact.\nFor the Lord sees clearly what a man does,\nexamining every path he takes. \u2013 Proverbs 5:21 NLT\n\u201cDoesn\u2019t he see everything I do\nand every step I take?\u201d \u2013 Job 31:4 NLT\nThe Lord is watching everywhere,\nkeeping his eye on both the evil and the good. \u2013 Proverbs 15:3 NLT\n\u201cI am watching them closely, and I see every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me.\u201d \u2013 Jeremiah 16:17 NLT\nAnd that same understanding of God\u2019s all-knowing, all-seeing capacity is carried over into the New Testament. The author of Hebrews states:\nNothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable. \u2013 Hebrews 4:13 NLT\nAnd yet, we seem to believe that we can hide our actions from God. Not only thought, we sometimes have the false impression that we can keep God from knowing what we are thinking. But David, the great king of Israel, throws a wet blanket on that perception.\neven before I say it, Lord. \u2013 Psalm 139:1-4 NLT\nThink closely about that last line. God knows what you are going to say even before you say it. A thought, unexpressed, is not hidden from God. He knows our inner thoughts. He even knows the motivations that flow from the condition of our hearts. He can tell the difference between an act of charity done out of selflessness and kindness and one done for the self-centered reward of recognition.\nBut Isaiah exposes the lunacy behind their false perception of God.\n\u201cYour thinking is perverse!\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 29:16 NET\nThe Hebrew word Isaiah used is hophek, and it literally means \u201cto turn things upside down.\u201d The people of God were guilty of twisting the truth and perverting the reality of God\u2019s omniscience. In a sense, they were guilty of wishful thinking. They could only hope that God was blind to what they were doing. But He wasn\u2019t. And to press home his point, Isaiah uses a metaphor that compares God to a potter and Judah to clay.\nHe is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay!\nShould the created thing say of the one who made it,\n\u201cHe didn\u2019t make me\u201d?\nDoes a jar ever say,\n\u201cThe potter who made me is stupid\u201d? \u2013 Isaiah 29:16 NLT\nGod wasn\u2019t like a lifeless lump of clay. They were. The Creator-God who made each and every one of the people of Judah was not the one who was ignorant, blind and clueless. They were. And they had no right to question what God was doing around them or to them. They were like clay in the hands of the Potter, and He would do with them as He wished. Their compliance was not needed. Their submission was not necessary. And their denial of God\u2019s omniscience or omnipotence did not diminish His knowledge or power one iota.\nGod had sent His prophet, Jeremiah, with a similar word of warning to the people of Israel. He too used the metaphor of the potter and the clay.\n\u201cO Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter\u2019s hand, so are you in my hand. If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.\n\u201cTherefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, \u2018This is what the Lord says: I am planning disaster for you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Jeremiah 18:6-11 NLT\nBut the people of Israel suffered from the same problem as the people of Judah. They were too stubborn and incapable of grasping the significance of the prophet\u2019s words. So, they responded:\n\u201cDon\u2019t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.\u201d \u2013 Jeremiah 18:12 NLT\nHow ridiculous their words sound. How arrogant and ignorant can they be? And yet, as the people of God, we far too often exhibit the same characteristics. We boldly reject the words of God, demanding that we be allowed to live our lives the way we want to. We stubbornly determine to do things our way, rather than obeying God\u2019s will for our lives. And we ignorantly assume we can hide our thoughts and actions from God. But He knows. He sees. And, as the Potter, He does what He has to do to mold His children into the vessels of glory.\nCenturies later, the apostle Paul picked up on Isaiah\u2019s metaphor of the potter and the clay and used it to address to believers in Rome.\nBut who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, \u201cWhy have you made me like this?\u201d Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? \u2013 Romans 9:20-21 Berean Bible\nGod will do what He has to do to bring about the transformation He has planned. His will is never thwarted. His design is never altered. In our arrogance and pride, we may believe that are the ones in control. But Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Paul would have us understand that God alone controls our destinies. And it is far better to submit to His will than to resist it.\nDrunk on Success.\n1 Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,\n2 Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;\n3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim\n4 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,\n5 In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,\n6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,\n7 These also reel with wine\n9 \u201cTo whom will he teach knowledge,\n11 For by people of strange lips\nand be broken, and snared, and taken. \u2013 Isaiah 28:1-13 ESV\nNow, God turns His attention to Ephraim, referring to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Ephraim was the second son born to Joseph in Egypt. In fact, Ephraim\u2019s mother, Asenath, was an Egyptian. Years later, when Joseph\u2019s father, Jacob, adopted his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, intending to treat them as his own.\n\u201cAnd now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.\u201d \u2013 Genesis 48:5 ESV\nIn giving his patriarchal blessing to Jacob\u2019s two sons, he intentionally awarded Ephraim the blessing intended for the firstborn. When Joseph tried to correct what he believed was a mistake, Joseph told him: \u201cManasseh will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And his descendants will become a multitude of nations\u201d (Genesis 48:19 NLT). The tribe of Ephraim was later awarded land in Canaan, just north of the Dead Sea and would become a leading tribe of the Northern Kingdom after God split the nation in two. The city of Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, was located within the territory of Ephraim.\nEphraim, representing to ten northern tribes, is called out by God for its pride and arrogance. It was located in a fertile valley at the southern tip of the Jordan River. It benefited from the frequent flooding of the river valley and enjoyed the fruits of its rich and fertile soil. God even refers to them as \u201cthe drunkards of Ephraim\u201d \u2013 probably a reference to literal drunkenness from the wine they produced and the spiritual drunkenness that resulted from their intoxication with idolatry. The prophet, Amos, had this to say about Ephraim.\nYou care nothing about the ruin of your nation. \u2013 Amos 6:6 NLT\nIn a sense, they were drunk on their own self-importance. Amos warned them, \u201cyou who feel secure in Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, and people go to you for help. But go over to Calneh and see what happened there\u201d (Amos 6:1-2 NLT). Calneh had been overrun by Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 854-846 B.C., and God was letting Israel know that the same thing was going to happen to them.\nFor the Lord will send a mighty army against it.\nand smash it to the ground. \u2013 Isaiah 28:2 NLT\nThe Assyrians were poised to bring the same devastation and destruction to the Northern Kingdom that had happened in Calneh. And God doesn\u2019t sugarcoat the news regarding Israel\u2019s fate.\nThe proud city of Samaria\u2014\nthe glorious crown of the drunks of Israel\u2014\nwill be trampled beneath its enemies\u2019 feet.\nas an early fig is quickly picked and eaten. \u2013 Isaiah 28:3-4 NLT\nBut God, always rich in mercy, declares that He will spare a remnant of the Northern Kingdom. Yes, He will bring judgment upon Israel in the form of the Assyrian army, but there will be a handful within rebellious Israel who recognize Him as their true source of hope and help.\nHe will give a longing for justice\nto their warriors who stand at the gates. \u2013 Isaiah 28:5-6 NLT\nBut what about Judah, the Southern Kingdom? They are Isaiah\u2019s primary target audience, and his message is intended for them. So, God reveals that He has issues with them as well. They stand guilty of the same sin of pride. They suffer from the same condition of spiritual intoxication.\nNow, however, Israel is led by drunks\nand stagger as they render decisions. \u2013 Isaiah 28:7 NLT\nGod\u2019s indictment against the governmental and religious leaders of Israel has less to do with physical inebriation than spiritual apostasy. They are described as staggering drunks, but their real problem was spiritual confusion resulting from their steady consumption of the lies of false gods. They were incapable of making wise decisions. Their words of advice were no better than vomit from the mouth of a drunk. And they despised everything that Isaiah had to say.\n\u201cWho does the Lord think we are?\u201d they ask.\n\u201cWhy does he speak to us like this?\nHe tells us everything over and over\u2014\nand a little there!\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 28:9-10 NLT\nIsaiah\u2019s words were simple and easy to understand, but the people of Israel rejected them. His incessant call to repentance was despised by them. His repeated warnings of God\u2019s judgment were obnoxious to them. They were tired of Isaiah\u2019s message. So, Isaiah let them know that the next words they would hear would be in a language they couldn\u2019t understand.\nSo now God will have to speak to his people\nthrough foreign oppressors who speak a strange language! \u2013 Isaiah 28:\nOver the centuries, God had constantly reminded His people that the land of Canaan had been intended to be a place of rest. Their relationship with Him as His chosen people was meant to be marked by peace, blessing and the joy of His presence. But their disobedience had marred their relationship with God, resulting in the split of the kingdom, constant civil unrest, rampant idolatry, and anything but peace and rest. And while God had graciously sent His messengers, the prophets, with a call to repent, the people had refused to listen. So, Isaiah lets them know that their stubborn refusal to hear and obey will result in their fall.\nSo the Lord will spell out his message for them again,\nThey will be injured, trapped, and captured. \u2013 Isaiah 28:13 NLT\nAnd all of this was in keeping with God\u2019s warning, delivered centuries earlier by Moses to the people of Israel. He had called them to live in obedience to God\u2019s commands or face the inevitable consequences.\n\u201cThe Lord will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand, a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death. They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land\u2014the walls you trusted to protect you\u2014are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the Lord your God has given you.\u201d \u2013 Deuteronomy 28:49-52 NLT\nAnd the fulfillment of God\u2019s warning had come. The people of Israel and Judah, drunk on their own success and self-significance, were about to experience the hangover of a lifetime as the wrath of God fell. Their intoxication with the things of this world and the false gods of the Canaanites were going to leave them staggering and stumbling under God\u2019s righteous wrath and just judgment.\nThe Discipline of God.\n1 An oracle concerning Egypt.\nand the branches of Egypt\u2019s Nile will diminish and dry up,\nthat head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do. \u2013 Isaiah 19:1-15 ESV\nNow, God turns His attention to the land of Egypt. Located in close proximity to the land of Cush, Egypt was another potential ally for Judah in their efforts to forestall God\u2019s judgment at the hands of the Assyrians. But, as before, God makes it quite clear that neither Cush or Egypt could prevent what God had planned for Judah. The only thing that could prevent their destruction was repentance, and they showed no interest in changing their ways.\nSo, God lets the people of Judah know just how helpful Egypt will prove to be as an ally. This powerful nation will find itself experiencing devastating destruction on all fronts. Their economy will suffer. Their ancient way of life will be radically altered. And their once-powerful political structure will collapse.\nAnd the first 15 verses of this oracle are bracketed by statements describing the source of their fall.\nand the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them. \u2013 Isaiah 19:1 ESV\nas a drunken man staggers in his vomit. \u2013 Isaiah 19:14 ESV\nAll that Isaiah describes in this oracle will be the direct result of God\u2019s actions. This is a not-so-subtle reminder to Judah that they need not fear the Assyrians. They needed to fear God. He was calling them to repentance. He was demanding that they return to Him and honor Him as the one and only God. What the people of Judah needed to realize was that the Assyrians were nothing more than instruments in God\u2019s hands. He was using them as His rod of discipline against His wayward children. But rather than accept the loving discipline of God, the people of Judah were looking for a way of escape. They were attempting to find a savior to rescue them from all that God had planned for them.\nGod knew their hearts, and He was well aware that they would seek a way of escape. They would turn to one of the surrounding nations to rescue them from the very discipline of God. But God wanted them to know that their efforts would prove futile and pointless. Judah\u2019s real adversary was the Lord. And there was nothing they could do to stop His coming judgment, short of repentance. There was no nation strong enough to stay His hand.\nWhat the people of Judah needed to know was that their seeking of salvation in someone or something other than God would prove pointless. Their only source of help and hope was God Himself. Their plans to turn to other nations for assistance was nothing less than turning away from God. They would be refusing His will as manifested in the form of His loving discipline. And yet, that is exactly what they were planning to do. And when the Assyrians eventually arrived at the gates of Jerusalem, even King Sennacherib knew their intentions.\nThen the Assyrian king\u2019s chief of staff told them to give this message to Hezekiah:\n\u201cThis is what the great king of Assyria says: What are you trusting in that makes you so confident? Do you think that mere words can substitute for military skill and strength? Who are you counting on, that you have rebelled against me? On Egypt? If you lean on Egypt, it will be like a reed that splinters beneath your weight and pierces your hand. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is completely unreliable!\u201d \u2013 2 Kings 18:19-21 NLT\nEven this pagan king knew that Egypt would be no match for the forces of Assyria. But what King Sennacherib didn\u2019t know was that he would prove no match for God. All of these prideful, powerful and self-inflated nations were nothing more than tools in the hands of God. He could and would do with them as He wished.\nAnd God describes the Egyptians as devolving into a nation marred by civil war and inner turmoil. Their circumstances will leave them confused and in search of answers. So, they will \u201cinquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers\u201d (Isaiah 19:3 ESV). They will seek help from their litany of false gods, but find themselves short on answers and void of solutions. Instead, they will fall to a stronger, more powerful nation. The economy of Egypt will suffer greatly.\nAnd in the midst of it all, the Pharaoh and his counselors will be at a loss as to why any of this is happening. God even mocks Pharaoh, telling him to ask his wise men as to the source of their misery.\nthat they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt. \u2013 Isaiah 19:12 ESV\nAll that is described in these verses is the handiwork of God. And He wants His people to understand that their propensity to turn to a nation like Egypt for help and hope will prove futile. God is going to do what He has planned to do, and there is nothing anyone can do about it, including Egypt. Judah can make all the alliances it wants, but there is no nation strong enough to thwart the will of God. And He makes that point painfully clear.\nthat head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do. \u2013 Isaiah 19:15 ESV\nWhenever the people of God reject Him and place their hope and trust in the things of this world, they will find themselves highly disappointed with the outcome of their strategy. In the case of Judah, they were considering Egypt as a source of rescue. But what they were failing to understand was that the very thing they were trying to escape was the sovereign will of God for them. God\u2019s coming judgment was not intended to be merely punitive, but restorative in nature. He was going to break them so that He might heal them. He was going to chastise them, but only because He loved them.\nLong before the author of Hebrews penned those words, Moses shared a similar sentiment with the people of Israel as they prepared to enter the promised land.\nThink about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the LORD your God disciplines you for your own good. \u2013 Deuteronomy 8:5 NLT\nNo one likes discipline, even when done in love. In fact, we do everything we can to avoid or escape it. But, as followers of God, we must understand that His discipline is always intended for our good and fully backed by His love. The people of Judah needed to open their eyes and see that their rejection of God was the source of all their problems. Their failure to honor God had brought upon them the loving discipline of God. And, while not enjoyable in the moment, God\u2019s discipline always proves profitable, resulting in our holiness. And the author of Hebrews puts the benefits of God\u2019s loving discipline in terms we can understand and must wholeheartedly believe.\n\u201cMy child, don\u2019t make light of the Lord\u2019s discipline and don\u2019t give up when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.\u201d\nAs you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? If God doesn\u2019t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn\u2019t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?\nFor our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God\u2019s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening\u2014it\u2019s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. \u2013 Hebrews 12:5-11 NLT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1010, "original_length": 102052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://diaryofgirlfriday.com/2006/08/23/i%E2%80%99d-like-to-do-more-than-survive-i%E2%80%99d-like-to-rub-it-in-your-face/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PRM5OXLK7H2ML6YD74LK7BUN7A7LQOTT", "length": 3059, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "diaryofgirlfriday.com", "title": "I\u2019d Like to Do More Than Survive, I\u2019d Like to Rub it in Your Face | The Diary of Girl Friday", "raw_content": "\u2190 I Never Met a More Impossible Girl\nJaded Bitter Joy Crusher! \u2192\nI\u2019d Like to Do More Than Survive, I\u2019d Like to Rub it in Your Face\nI went to lunch today with my hardest-working coworker, Sara. She\u2019s been around the longest, excluding the managers and directors. The amount of knowledge and pride she has in her work astounds me. I think it must be great to feel a sense of fulfillment from your 8-5 job. We\u2019re vastly different people when it comes to that. I\u2019m grateful to be employed, but I\u2019m a big dreamer. It doesn\u2019t help that I have a window in my cubicle. I think it\u2019s a metaphor for how my concentration is never 100% on the job at hand. My mind is on writing in some way at least 24.5 hours of the day. When I was first getting to know Sara I asked her what she like to do outside of work. I\u2019m slowly learning about her, but I\u2019m still waiting to hear the big story about her life\u2019s passion.\nWhether we crunch numbers or put out office fires, we all love something that makes coming home from work, or escaping from work, so desirable. Notorious MAG is the diva of TV. It\u2019s a huge responsibility keeping up on the latest news and she takes her job very seriously! She mapped out the fall schedule on a spreadsheet, and now she\u2019s anxiously awaiting the holy bible of TV\u2014Entertainment Weekly\u2019s annual fall preview.\nThough I lament my job sometimes, I think I must be doing something right. There are three (indirect) coworkers in my very large department (400+) that have recently given me a lot of positive feedback. They see my bright, shiny face at a lot of meetings. I leave most of the attitude in my desk drawer; I find I don\u2019t need it so much when I\u2019m around really great people. They\u2019ve given me a sense that my work is appreciated, and helped me set boundaries with my unscrupulous coworkers. Two have gone so far as to offer me a chance to work with them. I may entertain the idea sometime down the road, but at this point I\u2019ve just learned to tread water, I\u2019d like to see where my potential can take me.\nTomorrow I\u2019m going to a committee meeting for the professional women\u2019s organization. I may run into my old boss. I haven\u2019t decided what I\u2019ll say. Perhaps I\u2019ll take Lucky 10-Key\u2019s favorite bit of advice and tell the dreaded woman she can suck it. Let\u2019s face it though, I\u2019ll probably just stand up straight and be as inscrutable as ever. I need to find the right outfit for that though. It will require ironing sometime tonight. Gah! I\u2019ve just realized that Professional Women probably don\u2019t wear jeans and sandals to meetings. Blast!\nAs a treat for not backing out of the organization, and perhaps not committing homicide, I\u2019ll probably go to lunch with Weltsie at The Smarty Pants Club. Maybe we\u2019ll mingle with the snooty academic types I\u2019ve heard so much about, but have seen so little of since starting at the university\u2019s housing department. I\u2019ll order the entr\u00e9e of insecurity linguini, and for dessert I\u2019ll have a chocolate chip-on-the-shoulder cookie. Delish.\nThis entry was posted in Life, Office Stories, TV. 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V. Morthland", "raw_content": "Report of Resolutions Committee\nD. V. Morthland\nD. V. Morthland, State Bar Journal, Report of Resolutions Committee, 22 Wash. L. Rev. & St. B.J. 56 (1947).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 5542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 173.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalknowledge.babson.edu/fer/vol36/iss9/14/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LMHJOL7DZCPSDLGNNIYMGWBHEQYP4KKO", "length": 1570, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "digitalknowledge.babson.edu", "title": "\"THE ROLE OF THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY\" by Simon T. R\u00fcbling", "raw_content": "THE ROLE OF THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY IN MEDIATING THE EFFECTUATION-PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP (INTERACTIVE PAPER)\nIn recent research several constructs have emerged, which differ from more traditional model of entrepreneurship in how they explain entrepreneurial decision making (Fisher, 2012). The most prominent, the theory of effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001) describes a \u201cset of heuristics for decision making in uncertain environments\u201d (Read et al., 2009). Contrary to a prediction-based, causal planning approach, effectuators take into account the unpredictability of events due to uncertainty and thus follow a non-predictive, emergent strategy approach (Wiltbank et al., 2006). Even though still under debate, researchers have shown a positive effectuation-performance relationship especially under conditions of high uncertainty (Chandler et al., 2011). However, it remains unclear, how effectuation creates value from uncertainty-resolution activities and how this leads to a performance improvement (Arend et al., 2015). This study fills this gap by showing how effectual behavior of entrepreneurs manifests itself on the firm level in the increased use of the Lean Startup methodology (LSM) (Ries, 2011), thereby creating value from systematically applying a set of principles geared towards reducing business model uncertainty (Blank, 2013).\nR\u00fcbling, Simon T. (2016) \"THE ROLE OF THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY IN MEDIATING THE EFFECTUATION-PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP (INTERACTIVE PAPER),\" Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 36 : Iss. 9 , Article 14.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dir.ejfoundation.org/films/what-does-home-mean-to-you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:LJRYD7YDA3NXLAVKBLPCTC6EF6TP3H4K", "length": 150, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dir.ejfoundation.org", "title": "What does home mean to you? | Environmental Justice Foundation", "raw_content": "Join our call to action to the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt a new mandate for a special rapporteur on climate change and human rights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 80.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneycharacter.fandom.com/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SNEPC3VLGTM4A2TQGXW6KUUTAEKUTD2W", "length": 423, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "disneycharacter.fandom.com", "title": "Buzz Lightyear | Disney Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Pixar characters, Toy Story characters, Heroes,\nWoody's best friend\nMedium (by toy standards)\nBuzz Lightyear is one of the main protagonists of the Toy Story series. He is a Buzz Lightyear action figure and Woody's best friend. Initially, he believed he was the real Buzz Lightyear and was enemies with Woody, but they later became friends.\nRetrieved from \"https://disneycharacter.fandom.com/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear?oldid=4091\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 2290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/elliot-mills/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IMHUC4PWFIHWZJ46LISKDH6ODNH65ZV5", "length": 450, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "disneyparks.disney.go.com", "title": "Elliot Mills | Disney Parks Blog", "raw_content": "Vice President and General Manager, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa\nElliot Mills is the Vice President and General Manager of Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa\nFri, June 28, 2013 Aulani\nAulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, First Resort in Hawai\u2018i to Obtain LEED Silver Certification\nby Elliot Mills, Vice President and General Manager, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa\nShare Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, First Resort in Hawai\u2018i to Obtain LEED Silver Certification", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/dining-plan-im-staying-dolphin-132092/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OFCTCDVSB3CKXJIQBK26G2SHYSITQ2ED", "length": 252, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com", "title": "Can i get a dining plan if I'm staying at the... | Disney Parks Moms Panel", "raw_content": "Shelli from OH Asked \u201c\nCan i get a dining plan if I'm staying at the Dolphin?\u201d\nHi Shelli,\nUnfortunately the Disney Dining Plan is not currently an option for guests of the Swan and Dolphin Resorts. However, you can participate in the Extra Magic Hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dnrsovet.su/commentary-of-valery-skorokhodov-on-demographic-situation-in-ukraine-or-self-destruction-of-country-404-launched/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BHAIC72VAONCULOA4DVTU63IW7OWWW5F", "length": 3086, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dnrsovet.su", "title": "#Commentary of Valery Skorokhodov on demographic situation in Ukraine, or self-destruction of Country 404 launched | People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic Official website", "raw_content": "#Commentary of Valery Skorokhodov on demographic situation in Ukraine, or self-destruction of Country 404 launched\nAccording to the latest published data of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, the birth rate in the country has fallen drastically. The increase in prices for utilities, medical and pension reforms did their job \u2013 in just three quarters of 2017 the number of people in Ukraine decreased by 150 thousand people.\nIt should be noted that the ratio of mortality to births is also catastrophic: 64 people are born per 100 dead. Thus, the natural increase in the population is negative: minus 15.3%; the total increase is slightly better: minus 14.9%. This means that the population of Ukraine has decreased by approximately 15%.\nAccording to the statistics of the United Nations, Ukraine ranks 172nd in terms of birth rates, the Ukrainian media reported. The reason is simple: the inability to provide the child financially. But in terms of the rate of population decline Ukraine managed to enter the top ten countries in the world!\nFor example, IT specialists leave the country massively. Ukrainians basically leave the country with whole families, as the Ukrainian media openly write about it, explaining this by saying that \u201ca hole in the bottom of the Ukrainian liner is still not sealed.\u201d As some passengers leave the problem vessel, the captain forces the remaining passengers to scoop up the incoming water.\u201d And the Ukrainian government does not intend to patch the hole itself, it\u2019s not even logical to patch a hole in the hole.\nHowever, all this information is relative. In Ukraine, there has not been a census since 2001, which means that there is no exact data on how many Ukrainians will meet 2018. The Ukrainian government deliberately shies away from the new census, despite the fact that the UN recommends that it be held every 10 years. And such a stubborn refusal to follow this recommendation suggests that the demographic situation in Ukraine is even worse.\nBut not this fact is terrifying. The fact is that the population decline in Ukraine is part of the state policy. And how else can you assess the genocidal medical reform, the removal of maternity leave from the women\u2019s seniority, the increase in retirement age, etc.? The state makes it clear to its citizens that it is not interested in increasing their numbers.\nAnother situation is observed in the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic. Even despite military actions, the birth rate in the DPR, according to the Civil Registry Office of the Ministry of Justice, increased by 2.4%, and behind the contact line (on the territory of the Donetsk region temporarily controlled by Ukraine) \u2013 decreased by almost 10%.\nThe degradation of the Kiev government entails the degradation of all the institutions of the country. The system is dying and in agony begins to get rid of the \u2018extra\u2019 mouths \u2013 children and the elderly. If Ukraine does not dare to change the situation and continues to get rid of not oligarchs and bandits in power, but from children with the elderly, then it will be further degenerated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dobiemaxwell.wordpress.com/2014/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:39Z", "digest": "sha1:OUJWYWEB5Z5WZTUWWUO6E4OZRZQZVJL4", "length": 31550, "nlines": 124, "source_domain": "dobiemaxwell.wordpress.com", "title": "January | 2014 | Dobie Maxwell's 'Dented Can' Diary", "raw_content": "Wednesday January 29th, 2014 \u2013 Brookfield, WI\nToday I started what I hope will be a long and productive journey as a \u201cprofessional humorist\u201d and not a \u201ccomedian\u201d- even though comedian is how I ended up being billed. I had a booking in Brookfield, WI at the BMO Harris Training Center speaking for some Coldwell Banker realtors. They were having their yearly awards breakfast, and I was hired to close it out with some humor.\nRoy Scholtka is the owner, and I\u2019ve been friends with his son Corey for years. Many years ago Roy asked me to speak to his realtors at a similar event, and I must have done at least a half way decent job or I don\u2019t think he would have asked me back. I didn\u2019t embarrass myself either time.\nI don\u2019t know the first thing about the real estate business other than it\u2019s been in the crapper for several years like a lot of businesses have been, but I do know that ALL businesses boil down to the people business so that\u2019s the angle I took with my preparation. I wanted to be ready for this.\nThe biggest reason was I didn\u2019t want to let Roy down. He\u2019s a super nice person, and has people skills that could be picked up from a weather satellite. He\u2019s extremely likeable, and if I happened to looking for a home I would absolutely trust him or anyone he would recommend. He\u2019s a pro.\nHe has been in the game for forty years, and knows what he\u2019s doing. Corey has said often that he wasn\u2019t blessed with the people skills his father has, and that\u2019s why he doesn\u2019t want to work at the office when he obviously could. He\u2019s choosing to play to his own skill set, and that\u2019s smart.\nI told Corey I was making the transition from comedian to humorist, and he immediately talked to Roy about having me speak again. Roy called and offered me an opportunity to not only speak at his event but also have it recorded in a tremendous facility. That\u2019s exactly what I needed to do.\nAs a comedian, word of mouth bookings are very common. I\u2019ve been getting booked that way since the \u201880s. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve used a video to get work more than two or three times in all the years I\u2019ve been at it, and even then it was for an outside venue rather than a comedy club show.\nThat\u2019s just how that business works \u2013 at least from my experience. The speaking game is totally different, and I\u2019ve been paying attention to my speaking friends like Todd Hunt and Dale Irvin as they tell me I will absolutely need a video to get booked. New game, new rules. I\u2019m fine with it.\nI\u2019ll bet I was a comedian for at least ten years before I ever thought about making a video (back then they were TAPES \u2013 what a dinosaur I am) and I only did then because I got a package deal from a video guy that was there to record one of the other acts on the show. I said yes reluctantly.\nRecording my first time out today was the correct thing to do. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll wince at what I did this morning a year from now, but I got some nice laughs and everyone was happy. I don\u2019t have close to the polish of a Todd Hunt, and I doubt if I ever will. We\u2019re going for different results.\nTodd has a message in his presentation, and it\u2019s excellent. I have a long way to go, but both he and Eric Feinendegen will help me craft a product that will get work. Eric coached me on what I should look to present today, and I think it came off really well. It was a very positive first shot.\nA sincere thank you to Coldwell Banker Homesale Reality for having me as a humorous speaker for their annual awards breakfast today. http://www.cbhsr.com.\nI\u2019ve known Roy Scholtka for years through his son Corey, and he is one of the most naturally \u2018people skilled\u2019 people I know. He and his whole staff are wonderful people. If I need a home in Wisconsin, this is where I\u2019d go first.\nTags:BMO Harris Training Center, Coldwell Banker, comedian, professional humorist, Roy Scholtka\nPosted in Comedy, Entrepreneurship, Humorous speaking, Marketing, Show Business, Standup Comedy, Uncategorized | 1 Comment \u00bb\nTuesday January 28th, 2014 \u2013 Island Lake, IL\nAs the first month of 2014 draws to a close, I have to make sure I maintain a steady rotation of change in the hat department. Anyone self employed has to play a number of roles, and there is a hat for each one of them. Some fit better than others, depending on the person wearing each one.\nThere\u2019s one for sales and another for marketing. There\u2019s one for product development and also one for customer relations. There\u2019s one for taxes and accounting, and that\u2019s one few like to wear. I never have, but it\u2019s a part of the big picture so I want to make sure it stays in a prominent place.\nTaxes and record keeping aren\u2019t sexy, but too bad. Even the sexiest supermodels have to shave their pits. It\u2019s much easier to tend to it once a week rather than let it grow wild for an entire year and deal with it then. That\u2019s a pretty gross analogy, but I find it accurate. Taxes are gross to me.\nI don\u2019t enjoy doing any of it, and no matter how much I try to fool myself I know I never will. That doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not going to keep improving though. The more proficient I\u2019m able to get, hopefully the less effort I\u2019ll have to put in in the long run. It\u2019s a hat I only wear when I have to.\nIn contrast, there are others I don\u2019t like to take off. The creative hat that searches for ideas is an especially well fitting one, but I have to make sure I take it off once in a while so others can get a little top of head time. I spent all kinds of time wearing that hat the last few decades, and it was a big mistake. I let a lot of other duties lapse, and that\u2019s why I find myself in my current position.\nMy sales and marketing hats laid around collecting dust, and I can\u2019t afford to slip back into that old habit. I need to make sure they get some quality time, and plenty of it. It will be a major drain on the ideas and product maintenance hat time, but too bad. I need to produce different results. If I don\u2019t make time to sell what I\u2019ve already got, creating anything new is a futile waste of time.\nGetting a newsletter out this month was nice, but that\u2019s only the start. That\u2019s going to be a BIG eater of time and energy, but it\u2019s a must in my opinion. There are still some glitches that we need to work out, and almost half of our starting emails list either bounced back or were no good. That isn\u2019t good, but it is a start. We did manage to have several hundred people open it so that\u2019s a win.\nThere was quite a bit of positive feedback and that was encouraging, but it came from people I already know. The eventual purpose of the newsletter will be to develop relationships with those I haven\u2019t met. There are more than seven BILLION possible recipients on the planet, so we have our work more than cut out. I\u2019ve only got under 1000 in the fold so there\u2019s big growth potential.\nThere\u2019s also the hat of teacher. I really do enjoy the teaching and mentoring process, but that\u2019s a lot of time and effort as well. Lining up classes is something I enjoy about as much as keeping tax records, but it\u2019s also a necessary part of the process that needs to be done. I\u2019ll gladly turn that hat over to someone else, but last time I did that guy stole money. For now, I am still wearing it.\nAnd the biggest hat of all is the crown of the King of Uranus. I still believe there\u2019s a gold mine under it, and with proper time, effort and input from business people it will be a home run. I have too many other hats to wear to give it the time it needs, but that\u2019s how self employment works.\nEveryone who chooses to be self employed has to wear a lot of hats \u2013 like it or not.\nAnd then there\u2019s the royal crown worn by the King of Uranus.\nTags:creativity, customer relations, hats, King Of Uranus, marketing, newsletter, sales, sexy, supermodels, taxes\nBody Clock Backlash\nSunday January 26th, 2014 \u2013 Island Lake, IL\nMy body clock is way off, and I don\u2019t know if it can ever be fixed. After years of heavy travels and morning radio, it\u2019s impossible to establish a groove. Some days I\u2019ll get up at 4am, and others that\u2019s when I go to sleep. I used to be able to cover it up with youth, but these days I can\u2019t do it.\nAfter the show in Indiana last night, Jimmy McHugh decided he wanted to drive home to avoid impending snow. In the old days I\u2019d have had no problem with that, and in fact it was par for the course for me to drive home from most any show eight hours or less from wherever I was living.\nIt\u2019s a lot different now, and I am nowhere nearly as concerned about setting land speed records getting anywhere. Safety is much more important, as is comfort. We had beautiful hotel rooms in Fort Wayne, and I wanted to take full advantage of the king size bed, exercise room, hot tub and free breakfast. Jimmy did too, but he thought it was best to make it home to beat the snow storm.\nHe was driving and he booked the show, so I shut my mouth and got in the car. I didn\u2019t want to start an argument and I could see his logic, but that\u2019s not the choice I would have made. After the entire day of having my sphincter in a state of perpetual pucker, the last thing I wanted was to get right back in the same rental car and drive back home. Too bad. That\u2019s the life of a road warrior.\nQuite honestly, I am sick to death of being a road warrior. What drove me to become one is not what\u2019s driving me now, and I\u2019m finding it nothing short of annoying. Again, the actual shows are still fun but everything that goes into showing up for them is becoming less appealing by the day.\nJimmy is a great guy and I love hanging with him, and I can\u2019t blame him for choosing to do the exact thing he did. But as it ended up, we made it to the Chicago area at around 3:30am and there was snow coming down everywhere. I had my car at his house, so I had another hour drive ahead of me right when my body clock was screaming for sleep. Sitting in a cold car wasn\u2019t my choice.\nI white knuckled it home, and was dead tired walking through the door. I was out in seconds of my head hitting the pillow, and then woke up at 1pm to none of the snow that had been predicted by the weather geniuses of last night. We probably could have stayed and driven back refreshed.\nNone of that matters now, as it\u2019s over with \u2013 for today. But these kinds of choices always come up and after all these years I\u2019m all choiced out. I\u2019m looking to either travel less or find something else to do that gives me the creative outlet performing does without having to make these drives.\nFlying isn\u2019t any better, and in fact it\u2019s worse. Having a pack of TSA orangutans go through my luggage is a completely different annoyance, and I\u2019ve had my fill of it all. Right now, coming up with an effective way to make a comfortable living while establishing a home base is my number one goal for the immediate future. I don\u2019t care where that base is, but a warm one would be nice.\nEven if it isn\u2019t, steady money is more important to me now than hectic travel. The snowy roads of Indiana look exactly like the ones in Chicago. I would much rather be able to stay in one place and find a way to have money come to me than get in a rental car and physically have to drive all over the place picking up small payments randomly strewn about the country. I\u2019m way past that.\nI used to pride myself on being a relentless comedy road warrior \u2013 able to withstand any and all adverse conditions.\nThis pretty much sums it up these days. I\u2019ve learned to appreciate a good nap. I\u2019ve mellowed, but the road can still be tough. I\u2019d love to find something to do that doesn\u2019t involve as much travel \u2013 but what?\nTags:body clock, hotel, Jimmy McHugh, TSA\nSaturday January 25th, 2014 \u2013 Woodburn, IN\nComedy work has been flowing very nicely of late, and January has been an excellent month. I love to stay busy, but it always ends up being part of a cycle. Right now I\u2019m riding the wave on a hot streak, and life is peachy. Then it will be slow again, and then heat back up. That\u2019s how it is.\nI would absolutely work every night if I could \u2013 seven nights a week each and every week \u2013 but that\u2019s a tall order. The performing part is that much fun, but unfortunately that isn\u2019t everything to have to think about. Booking actual dates and dealing with travel become a full time occupation.\nTonight was the last of a manufactured three night run and I was booked with Jimmy McHugh and Patti Vasquez for a volunteer fire department fundraiser in a small town near Ft. Wayne, IN called Woodburn. That might not sound very exciting, but these kinds of shows can be electric.\nElectricity became an important theme all day, as there was a power outage in the town and we weren\u2019t sure if there would be a show or not. Jimmy and I were booked together in Frankfort, IL last night, so he chose me to be part of this fundraiser to make travel easier. We drove together.\nWeather can obviously be an issue this time of year, and we knew that. We expect that driving can cause grief, but we weren\u2019t expecting a power outage. Jimmy called around noon to check on the snow conditions, and was told they weren\u2019t sure if they could get power back in time to do a show. They were worried on their end because they\u2019d sold out and didn\u2019t want to give refunds.\nWe heard back by mid afternoon they could get an emergency generator, but we were keeping our eye on the weather as well and knew we had some rough conditions for driving. It\u2019s not that far from Frankfort, IL to Fort Wayne, IN with ideal conditions, but in the snow all bets are off.\nThe drive was unpleasantly tense most of the way as we went through everything from slush to sunshine to snowfall and everything in between. It was way more stress than Jimmy or I wanted, but that\u2019s part of the game. Nobody gets to choose when the stress arrives, it\u2019s always random.\nPatti was about an hour behind us, as she had a show in Marinette, WI last night and didn\u2019t get home until 4:30am. Jimmy was concerned she wouldn\u2019t make it, and we would have to cover her time. We could have easily done it, but he promised three acts and didn\u2019t want to fail to deliver.\nShe ended up making it about an hour before the show, and the three of us were frazzled as we drove to Woodburn from our hotel in the Ft. Wayne area. The shows themselves aren\u2019t stressful, but getting there often is. We\u2019d all had all we could stand all day, but we also had a show to do.\nThe generator was working fine, and there was a jam packed house ready to forget about power outages and bad weather and have some laughs. We gave them exactly that, and they couldn\u2019t be a better audience if they tried. As stressful as it was to get there, they made it worth the trouble.\nJimmy really works hard booking these shows with his \u201cChicago Comedy All Stars\u201d fundraiser concept. Last year he was here with Mike Preston and James Wesley Jackson, and they rocked as well by all accounts. He\u2019s always looking for new business \u2013 http://www.chicagocomedyallstars.com.\nThe Chicago Comedy All Stars specialize in doing fundraiser standup comedy shows anywhere and everywhere that needs to raise them. http://www.chicagocomedyallstars.com.\nTonight it was at a fire station in Woodburn, IN along with Jimmy McHugh and Patti Vasquez.\nThe show was really fun as usual, but getting there and back in a snowstorm was brutal. Welcome to real world show business.\nTags:Chicago Comedy All Stars, comedy, James Wesley Jackson, Jimmy McHugh, Mike Preston, Patti Vasquez, power outage\nFriday Fun With Friends\nFriday January 24th, 2014 \u2013 Frankfort, IL\nTonight was another fun night working with long time friends. If I accomplish nothing else in my life, I\u2019ve put together a stellar cast of characters that make me laugh and are fun to be around. There are a lot worse ways to make a living, and we all know it. Tonight was a true team effort.\nKen Sevara has booked the comedians at CD & ME in Frankfort, IL for seven years now. He\u2019s a comedian himself, so he understands the process. I\u2019ve become a regular there, and love to work in front of the audiences there. They come to be entertained, and they have always been friendly.\nThe staff there always treats us like royalty, and if nobody else appreciates it I surely do. It\u2019s an extra perk that doesn\u2019t happen everywhere, and that\u2019s a shame. It happens here, so I look forward to coming back. Dean the owner is into comedy, and the tone has been set from the top on down.\nTonight it was an extra special treat to work with my good friend Jimmy McHugh. The two of us together on one show is hard to beat, and to top it off hosting the show was Brian Hicks. He\u2019s another of Chicago\u2019s best, and doesn\u2019t live far away. The three of us together made it a big night.\nThe weather was nasty all day, so Jimmy and I rented a car and got a hotel room not far away. I live almost 100 miles one way from Frankfort, and I didn\u2019t want to be dealing with driving home in a snow storm. Jimmy and I are working tomorrow night in Indiana, so this was the right call.\nRight before the show started, Tim Slagle walked in. Tim, Ken and I were the original \u201cJerry\u2019s Kidders\u201d on WLS radio with our friend Jerry Agar. It was nice of Tim to pop in, and I knew we had to find a way to get us all on stage. This was too good of a group in one place not to do that.\nI cut my show a few minutes early, and brought up Ken, Tim, Jimmy and Brian for a close out round robin version of \u201cChicago Style\u201d standup comedy. We each took turns at the microphone, and the audience loved it. The energy in that kind of setting is electric, and we all plugged into it.\nThe audience got far more than they expected, and everyone had a fantastic experience. I enjoy being able to make things like this happen on the spur of the moment, and it was my call entirely. No matter what problems any of us may have, being on stage together for those few minutes was an escape. It was like we were our own version of the Rat Pack, and the audience came with us.\nAfter our show, we hung around a TV and watched Pat McGann\u2019s debut on David Letterman. I was delighted that there was a crowd there to support, and we were all rooting for him to knock it out of the park. He did exactly that, and spontaneous applause broke out when his set was done.\nI\u2019m telling you, that guy has got it. He looked completely at home, and was able to get several applause breaks throughout his set. David Letterman came over to him after he was done and had very complimentary things to say before they went to the commercials. I\u2019d say he hit a home run.\nThere wasn\u2019t any jealousy among the group of us watching, and I thought it was a great tribute to the character of the people in the room. Pat deserved the shot, and he nailed it. Good for him. I couldn\u2019t be happier for him, or more pleased to have gotten to perform with such a classy bunch.\nJimmy McHugh is always one of my favorite people to hang with on stage or off. He\u2019s a great pro and an even greater friend. http://www.comedianjimmymchugh.com.\nBrian Hicks hosted the show tonight, and is another example of a solid professional. http://www.funnybrian.com.\nTim Slagle dropped in, and of course we made him be part of the show. He nailed it as I knew he would. http://www.timslagle.com.\nKen Sevara books the comedians at CD & ME, and also hosts his radio show \u2018Fly By Night\u2019 on AM 560 WIND in Chicago. http://www.kensevara.com.\nAll of us took a back seat to Chicago comedian Pat McGann who made his network TV debut on the David Letterman Show tonight. Congrats Pat! You made us all proud. Way to go! http://www.patmcganncomedy.com.\nTags:Brian Hicks, CD & ME, David Letterman, Jimmy McHugh, Ken Sevara, Pat McGann, Tim Slagle\nOld Dogs And New Meat\nThursday January 23rd, 2014 \u2013 St. Charles, IL\nThere was a fall out tonight at Zanies Comedy Club in St. Charles, IL and once again I was the one called to fill in. I\u2019m always grateful to get those calls, and I gladly said yes. The temperature was way on the wrong side of zero and my car barely started, but it was a pleasant ride to work.\nI have always enjoyed working in St. Charles, and have been doing it with regularity since the club opened in 1989. I\u2019ve seen several managers come and go, and like a lifer in prison I\u2019m now part of the fabric of the walls. I\u2019m a fixture, and there are several others in that category as well.\nVince Maranto is another. I have known Vince from the days of the first place I ever worked in the Chicago area called \u201cThe Comedy Cottage\u201d in the mid \u201880s. That was a showcase club where an entire generation of extremely talented comedians cut their stage teeth, and I am honored that I was a part of that scene. What a blast. It was like being a musician in Liverpool in the late \u201850s.\nI always liked Vince and thought he was a funny comedian, and we\u2019ve worked together far too many times to count. He\u2019s a headliner in his own right, but frequently works as \u2018house emcee\u2019 at Zanies to stay off the road. He was married with a son, and chose to be around. I can\u2019t blame him for that, and in fact I commend him. Vince chose to make comedy work for him and that\u2019s smart.\nMike Preston wasn\u2019t a part of the Comedy Cottage scene, but he came around not all that much longer after. He\u2019s another act everyone likes personally, and is also an excellent comedian that is able to close shows when needed. He also opted for the \u2018house emcee\u2019 gig because he helps take care of his mother in Crystal Lake, IL where he grew up. Again, who can blame a guy for that?\nVince never chose to make the move to L.A., but Mike did. He lived there for several years but decided to move back like a lot of people do. There\u2019s no shame in doing it but it\u2019s never pleasant to make that long trip home. I\u2019ve done it myself, and so have countless others. It\u2019s a cruel game.\nVince and Mike are two of my favorites to hang out with offstage, and I love their acts too. We have all seen each other\u2019s acts so many times over so many years, we could probably recite them word for word by now. We\u2019re three prime examples of what a working road dog comedian does.\nI had no idea who I would be working with when I arrived at Zanies tonight, but was delighted to see Vince and Mike sitting around \u2013 and they were happy to see me too. We all knew we could relax and not have to worry about anything as far as the show went. That makes it a total breeze.\nI happened to be the headliner tonight, and Mike was the feature. Vince always does a great job as host, but Mike or I could have easily done that role too. Any of us could have effortlessly fit in at any position, and I can\u2019t remember the last time I was on a show like that. What a treat that is.\nThe audience tonight was mostly a group fundraiser event for a baseball team of some sort that is based in the western suburbs. There were a few others mixed in, but that group was the bulk of the audience. Vince, Mike and I knew exactly how to play it, and it came off without any hitches. The crowd saw a much better show than they realized, as there were decades of sweat equity put in by all three of us, and that just doesn\u2019t happen every day. I\u2019m proud to call those guys friends.\nRight before the show started, Vince asked me if I\u2019d heard about Pat McGann. I hadn\u2019t, and he told me that Pat was taping his first David Letterman appearance tonight. I hadn\u2019t heard that and was very happy for him. Pat is a wonderful guy and everyone likes him too \u2013 but he\u2019s different.\nPat is not going to be a road dog kicking around for decades like Vince, Mike and me. Pat has big star written all over him, and I predicted that years ago. He\u2019s got all the tools, and has put in his time the right way. There aren\u2019t many that come along that are like him, and he\u2019s on his way.\nI\u2019ve only seen it happen a few other times, but I was right each time I saw it. It doesn\u2019t take all that much to see it, as it becomes quite obvious in a hurry. There are some people that show up at the right time with the right equipment, and they shoot up the ranks with little difficulty. It\u2019s rare.\nFrank Caliendo was one. He opened for me the first time he ever stepped on stage at a bowling center in Waukesha, WI. He was totally raw, but I could clearly see how that audience loved his impressions. I told him that night if he worked hard and stayed with it he\u2019d take it to the big time.\nHannibal Burress was another. That kid has a load of natural ability, and combines it with one of the hardest work ethics I\u2019ve seen since Frank Caliendo. Frank busted his hump and then some to get his name out, and Hannibal is the same. People with both those traits are extremely rare.\nMichael Palascak is another. He\u2019s done all kinds of TV, and is well on his way to a long career making big money doing something in the entertainment business. He might get a sitcom or have a movie career, but standup comedy has launched him to a higher level than most of us ever see.\nPat McGann is on that path as well, and tonight was his official launch date. I was told it won\u2019t air until tomorrow, but unless there\u2019s another 9/11 type story I\u2019d say he\u2019s golden. It might not be a big deal with the public, but he\u2019s cementing his place of credibility within the business itself.\nLike with pro sports, there are only a few of thousands that are considered legitimate prospects. Once in a while someone slips through the cracks and overachieves, but for the most part it boils down to a precious few at the top of the crop that are talked about and given chances to succeed.\nIn Pat\u2019s case, he comes from a solid family that\u2019s well connected on the South Side of Chicago where he\u2019s from. I think his father is a judge, but I could be wrong. Whatever the case, he\u2019s been groomed to be socially adept, and he totally is. Everyone likes Pat, and I see why he\u2019ll be a star.\nHe\u2019s got a razor sharp wit and is very funny naturally. He took a comedy writing seminar that I taught with Bill Gorgo years ago, and we immediately liked him then. It was obvious he was one of those rare \u2018naturals\u2019, but he also put in his time and worked at it. This is no surprise to anyone.\nI\u2019m thrilled for Pat\u2019s success, but I also have to keep plugging on my road. I wasn\u2019t given all of the gifts Pat was, and neither were most of the rest of us. There are a lot more Mike Prestons and Vince Marantos than there are Frank Caliendos or Pat McGanns. Dobie Maxwells are even fewer than that. My story is so out there, it stands eerily all by itself like Devil\u2019s Tower in Wyoming. It now becomes up to me to play the hand I was dealt correctly and salvage as much happiness as is humanly possible. If I\u2019m lucky, Pat or Frank or Hannibal or Michael will hire me as a pool boy.\nVince Maranto is one of Chicago\u2019s very best standup comics \u2013 and has been a friend for many years. He\u2019s a rock solid pro and I\u2019m a lifelong fan. http://www.vincemaranto.com.\nDitto with Mike Preston. Mike is also the host of an original and funny TV show called \u2018Psycho Babble\u2019. I\u2019ve been a guest several times, and it\u2019s always a blast. http://www.psychobabbletv.com.\nPat McGann recorded his first network TV spot tonight. He\u2019s on his way to becoming a big star. You heard it here first. I\u2019m thrilled for Pat, he\u2019s got talent galore and is a genuinely nice guy. http://www.patmcganncomedy.com.\nFrank Caliendo opened for me his first time on stage at a bowling center in Waukesha, WI. I told him that night if he stayed with it and worked hard he could easily take it big time. He did, and it worked. Good for him. http://www.frankcaliendo.com.\nHannibal Burress is another rising star loaded with talent and a big time work ethic. I\u2019m a huge fan, and it\u2019s no surprise he\u2019s blowing doors off of everywhere he goes. He is absolutely the real deal. http://www.hannibalburress.com.\nMichael Palascak is another up and comer with star written all over him. He\u2019s also talented and has a super work ethic. Coincidence? Absolutely not. Success leaves clues. http://www.michaelpalascak.com.\nTags:Frank Caliendo, Hannibal Burress, Michael Palascak, Mike Preston, Pat McGann, The Comedy Cottage, Vince Maranto, Zanies Comedy Club\nMeals With A Mission\nWednesday January 22nd, 2014 \u2013 Niles, IL\nThe best and most fail safe investment I think anyone can make is establishing and maintaining contacts. Knowing the right people can be an incredible advantage in life, and I believe anybody can do it if they make up their mind to accomplish it. It does take effort, but so does everything.\nI have been around the block more than a few times, and have crossed paths with an extensive collection of nothing less than amazing people along the way. I\u2019ve met a few leakers as well, but so does everybody. There are all types of monkeys in this human zoo, and it\u2019s up to us to choose with which ones we will associate. Building mutually beneficial relationships is a lifetime effort.\nUnfortunately, time happens to be a rigidly limited commodity for us all and dilutes the entire process. As life goes on, the more connections we make lowers the odds of maintaining a regular personal contact schedule with everyone. There just aren\u2019t enough lunches to go around for all.\nI remember reading an article many years ago about how successful people use mainly lunches but also breakfasts and dinners for the purpose of maintaining contacts whenever possible. There is a plan going in, but it doesn\u2019t have to be greedy or one sided. It can and should be a win/win.\nI wouldn\u2019t be able to find that article if I tried, but I\u2019m going to work on applying that concept as much as possible. It makes a lot of sense, and it\u2019s excellent business. Everyone has their own schedules and different people are available at different times, but lunch is the best opportunity.\nEverybody eats lunch, and it\u2019s in the middle of the day and usually short. A lot of business can be done in a short amount of time, even if it\u2019s just catching up with what\u2019s been going on in each other\u2019s lives. The belly to belly personal contact is much more lasting than a phone call or email.\nI\u2019m consciously working on ramping up my lunch schedule, and today I met up with my friend Steve Olsher aka \u201cAmerica\u2019s Reinvention Expert\u201d. Steve is an entrepreneur, and has made some remarkable leaps in a very short time. I always enjoy hanging out with him, because he lives and breathes what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s definitely all in, and that\u2019s the kind of energy I want to be around.\nWhen I met Steve he was doing a \u201cReinvention Workshop\u201d in Chicago a couple of blocks from Zanies where I was teaching a comedy class. I sat in on his workshop and it was not only fun but interesting as well. We have stayed in contact, and in just a few years his presence has exploded.\nHe is now the successfully published author of three tremendous books \u201cJourney To You\u201d, \u201cInternet Prophets\u201d and \u201cWhat Is Your What?\u201d, and holds seminars around the country featuring the absolute top of the top names in the speaking field from Larry Winget to the late Jay Conrad Levinson to many more. Steve has put himself in a league with the best. http://www.steveolsher.com.\nI have nothing but respect for Steve, and I like him personally too. He\u2019s out there slugging just like me, and he doesn\u2019t claim to know everything. It\u2019s a journey and an adventure, and that\u2019s the kind of person I never get tired of being around. I\u2019m not 100% sure how we can help each other, but we have a similar mindset and that\u2019s good enough for me. He offered a lot of insight on what I\u2019m looking to do, and I appreciated it all. It was well worth the trip, and lunch was delicious too.\nSteve Olsher is an entrepreneur, published author and a friend I greatly respect. http://www.steveolsher.com.\nTags:business, Internet Prophets, Journey To You, lunch, Steve Olsher, What Is Your What?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 54453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://donnmcclean.com/2010/04/15/palavicini-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:57Z", "digest": "sha1:QQISD4EBJATYCNVSEFMX2FLGAFJUWNDC", "length": 1969, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "donnmcclean.com", "title": "Palavicini | Donn McClean Racing", "raw_content": "Horses To Follow \u00bb Palavicini\nPalavicini ran a strange sort of race in the Group 3 Earl of Sefton Stakes over nine furlongs at Newmarket on Thursday. Slowly enough away, Jimmy Fortune immediately allowed him go to his right to track the small group that was set to race down the middle of the track, headed by Yahrab, but after they had gone a furlong, the rider decided that he was in the wrong place, so tacked back over to join the group on the stands rail. The net result of this was that Palavicini found himself, unusually for him, in front on the rail after they had gone two furlongs. He travelled well from there, and actually looked the most likely winner of the race when Fortune asked him to pick up two and a half furlongs out. However, Tranquil Tiger followed him through as the pair of them came clear of their rivals on the near side, travelling better, and got the better of him at the furlong pole, but the pair of them were trumped by Sri Putra, who had raced on the far side. Actually, it looked as if Palavicini was about to start running on again as they met the rising ground, but Tranquil Tiger seemed to come across him again inside the final 100 yards, with the result that Fortune dropped his hands and allowed him coast up to the line to finish third, only a length behind Tranquil Tiger and just two lengths behind the winner.\nJohn Dunlop\u2019s horse is better than the bare form that he displayed here. He is a horse who can take a pull, so he is at his best when he is held up in behind horses and delivered with a sustained effort, as he was when he won a Group 3 race at York last August. He didn\u2019t really progress from there last year as it looked like he might, but he pulled too hard at Goodwood in September, and he was ridden too prominently at Newmarket in October. He remains interesting, and he would be particularly interesting if he ran at York\u2019s May meeting, given how well he ran the track on his only attempt there last season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drugsdetails.com/new-zealand-green-lipped-mussel-health-benefits-dosage-side-effects-and-reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2OHLR4BRXIIZBQ7Z7Z5F3PZWI5MJXXI5", "length": 14614, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "drugsdetails.com", "title": "New Zealand Green Lipped Mussel : health benefits, dosage, side effects and reviews | Drugs Details", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Common Health Questions \u00bb New Zealand Green Lipped Mussel : health benefits, dosage, side effects and reviews\nNew Zealand Green Lipped Mussel : health benefits, dosage, side effects and reviews\nWhat is New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel?\nThe New Zealand green-lipped mussel (lat. Perna canaliculus), which is also known as the New Zealand mussel or the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Mytilidae (the true mussels).\nIt has economic importance as a cultivated species in New Zealand.\nIt is native to the New Zealand coast and is an essential diet of the indigenous Maori culture typically in those who live in coastal regions.\nInterest in the health benefits of this mussel came from the observation that coastal Maoris people had a lower incidence of arthritis than their European or inland Maori cohorts.\nIn that manner, the anti-inflammatory effects of green-lipped mussel have been extensively studied.\nGreen-lipped mussel products have been suggested as adjunct therapies for a number of inflammatory conditions including asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.\nHowever, there is limited evidence for its clinical benefits for treating asthma, but the preliminary results are encouraging. Its most popular use is in relieving joint pain and inflammatory joint disorders.\nWhile there is some evidence supporting the use of green-lipped mussel in treating osteoarthritis, the overall evidence for rheumatoid arthritis suggests inefficacy.\nIs green lipped mussel safe?\nWhat are popular brand names for New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel products on the market?\nSome of the most popular brand names are:\nGreenshell\nSanhelios Mussel Lyprinol\nLipid Complex (green-lipped mussel extract and omega-3 fatty acids)\nNew Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel legal status\nAs a food or as a dietary supplement, New Zealand green-lipped mussel is not regulated by the FDA. It is also not listed in the FDA GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) list as a food additive.\nBut, the anti-inflammatory effects of green-lipped mussel have been studied extensively. Green-lipped mussel products have been proposed as adjunct therapies to a number of standard treatments for chronic inflammatory conditions.\nRigorous clinical trials that examine the purported 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) inhibitory activity of Lyprinol green-lipped mussel extract as well as its purported ability to inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX) enzyme activity are warranted.\nMost of the anti-inflammatory activity of green-lipped mussel is believed to be in the lipid fraction.\nAccording to industry, the original freeze-dried powder preparations are up to 125 times less potent than stabilized lipid extracts (such as Lyprinol R ), and many currently available powders have little or no anti-inflammatory activity.\nThe delipidated byproducts of the extraction process, which also have very little (if any) anti-inflammatory activity, have also been packaged and sold in low-cost green-lipped mussel products.\nNew Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel dosing\nRecommended doses are based on those most commonly used in available trials or on historical practice. But, with natural products it often is not clear what the optimal doses are to balance efficacy and safety.\nPreparation of products may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and from batch to batch within one manufacturer.\nBecause it often is not clear what the active component(s) of a product is, standardization may not be possible, and the clinical effects of different brands may not be comparable.\nThere is no well-known standardization for green-lipped mussel. New Zealand Green-lipped mussels provide omega-3 fatty acids, and each capsule of Lyprinol is standardized to contain 50 mg omega-3 fatty acids and 100 mg olive oil.\nIn general, according to Internet websites, oral New Zealand green-lipped mussel supplementation typically consists of about 200 mg daily of lipid extract, or 1,000 mg daily of the powdered form\nOral doses for adults in different indications:\nAsthma: Two capsules of Lyprinol (containing 50 mg of omega3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and 100 mg olive oil per capsule) has been used twice daily for eight weeks for steroid-naive atopic asthma.\nOsteoarthritis: Green-lipped mussel has been used in the following doses to treat osteoarthritis: 1,050 mg mussel extract (three capsules) daily for 3\u20136 months, six capsules Seatone daily (no details given) for six months, 210 mg Lyprinol (or 1,150 mg mussel powder) daily for 3\u20136 months or four capsules Lyprinol daily (dose not specified) for two months followed by four months of two capsules daily.\nLyprinol was used as a 5-LOX inhibitor for osteoarthritis at a dosage of two capsules twice daily for 4\u20138 weeks\nRheumatoid arthritis: Mussel extract capsules have been used daily for 90 days. A 210 mg Lyprinol has been used daily for three to six months.\nFor inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis, an unclear dose of Sanhelios Mussel Lyprinol Lipid Complex has been used for 12 weeks.\nThere is no data about New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel dosing in children.\nNew Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel active ingredients\nGreen-lipped mussel contains about 61% protein, 13% carbohydrates, 12% glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), 5% lipids (including eicosatetraenoic acids, or ETAs), 5% minerals, and 4% water.\nThe protein fraction of green-lipped mussel hemolymph consists mainly of pernin, a glycosylated protein with serine protease inhibitor activity.\nAccording to industry, green-lipped mussel contains betain, glycosaminoglycans (including chondroitin sulphate and heparin), and 18 amino acids; these nutritional elements are retained in Lyprinol lipid extracts after processing.\nLipid extracts of green-lipped mussel contain mostly sterol esters (cholesterol and desmosterol/brassicasterol), triglycerides, free fatty acids, sterols, and phospholipids.\nLike many other bivalves, green-lipped mussels contain toxins; the B4 analog of brevetoxin B (BTXB4), has been identified as the major toxin in green-lipped mussels, and has been associated with neurotoxic shellfish poisoning.\nGreen-lipped mussel may also contain yessotoxins (YTXs), pectenotoxins (PTXs), and low levels of okadaic acid (OA).\nNew Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel effects and mechanisms of action\nAnti-inflammatory effects: Natural antioxidants (such as carotenoids) of this mussel are suggested to have anti-inflammatory effects.\nAnalysis showed that Lyprinol is suggested to contain more bioactive lipids than other plane or marine oils.\nThe anti-inflammatory effects of New Zealand green-lipped mussel have previously been attributed to a proteinaceous macromolecule or a polysaccharide/protein (glycogen) component.\nHowever, the lipid fraction is currently believed to have the most therapeutic potential. The anti-inflammatory activity of green-lipped mussel extract is said to differ in potency depending on the preparation stability.\nHowever, Lyprinol is prepared using a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) process of the stabilized freeze-dried mussel powder; the resulting extract represents about 5% w/v of freeze-dried mussel powder and purportedly demonstrates superior stability and potency.\nExtracts of green-lipped mussel proved to moderately inhibit purified COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes in vitro, in vivo, and in clinical settings.\nLyprinol demonstrated strong inhibition of COX enzymes in vitro. Its polyunsaturated fatty acids act as competitive inhibitors of arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism.\nA bioactive compound of green-lipped mussel has shown inhibition of lipoxygenase products of the AA pathway.\nGreen-lipped mussel extract has been demonstrated to affect the 5-lipoxygenase pathway on several levels and has been suggested to modulate the 12\u20131ipoxygenase pathway.\nLyprinol metabolites have also been shown to inhibit leukotriene B4 (LTB4) biosynthesis by polymorphonuclear cells and human monocytes.\nIt also may inhibit cytokine production by activated macrophages. Lyprinol has also been suggested to act as a leukotriene receptor antagonist, which may contribute to uterotrophic effects.\nSome studies indicate that Lyprinol may mimic the anti-inflammatory effects of corticosteroids (e.g. as prednisone). It has been used in combination with pentoxifylline (to treat chronic inflammation in rodents.\nThe anti-inflammatory effects of Lyprinol have been shown to benefit experimentally induced inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and intestinal mucositis.\nAntihistamine effects: Green-lipped mussel is claimed to have antihistamine effects, however, one study on Lyprino showed little or no activity against histamine.\nAn active ingredient with antihistamine activity has been isolated from green-lipped mussel but has not been thoroughly characterized.\nEndocrine effects: Similar to NSAIDs (such as aspirin, indomethacin, and naproxen, which may interfere with ovulation and prolong the gestation period), green-lipped mussel extract may contain pharmacologically active material inhibiting prostaglandin biosynthesis.\nImmunomodulating effects: In vitro studies showed that green-lipped mussel extracts may reduce cytokine production and neutrophil superoxide burst, which may benefit inflammatory diseases with a proinflammatory cytokine component.\nExtracts prepared with detergent (Tween-20) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) also demonstrated anticytokine activity and inhibition of immunoglobulin G production.\nLyprinol has been demonstrated to suppress the hyperactivation of monocytes in allergic patients, which has been suggested to contribute to its antiallergy effects.\nOcular effects: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the main marine omega3 fatty acid, is prevalent in green-lipped mussel; DHA is localized in the retina and may play a role in retinal function.\nUterotrophic effects: Lyprinol has been suggested to act as a leukotriene receptor antagonist, which may contribute to uterotrophic effects.\nIs New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel toxic?\nGreen-lipped mussel seems to be generally well tolerated, and data suggest that heavy metal contamination is usually not a concern, unlike oysters.\nHowever, Green-lipped mussels ingredient \u2013 B4 analog of brevetoxin B (BTXB4), has been identified as the major toxin in green-lipped mussels and has been related to neurotoxic shellfish poisoning.\nComplete toxin profiles of green-lipped mussel may also include yessotoxins (YTXs), pectenotoxins (PTXs), and low levels of okadaic acid (OA) Possible toxic hepatitis has been associated with Seatone in several case reports.\nCan Green-lipped mussel products cause allergy?\nThere are described allergy or hypersensitivity reactions to green-lipped mussel or other shellfish such as mollusks and crustaceans.\nStudies showed that freeze-dried preparations of green-lipped mussel contain more proteinaceous allergens than lipid preparations. Allergic reactions to gelatin that are used in capsule preparations have also been noted.\nAllergic reactions to green-lipped mussel may include:\nrash (itching or hives)\nswelling of the face or hands\nswelling or tingling in the mouth or throat\nchest tightness, and difficulty breathing.\nAllergic or some predisposed and sensitive individuals may experience difficulty breathing after ingesting or inhaling green-lipped mussel products. Lung dysfunction and multiple respiratory symptoms have been reported in New Zealand mussel openers.\nGreen-lipped mussel side effects\nGreen-lipped mussel products have been generally well tolerated however possible side effects have been described. They may be following:\nCardiovascular: Fluid retention has been reported as an adverse effect of green-lipped mussel use. There is also a case report from a clinical study where one patient in the Lyprinol treatment group suffered heart failure. The relevance of this to the treatment is unclear.\nDermatologic: According to the The Australian Rheumatism Association, skin rash is listed as a possible adverse effect of using Seatone green-lipped mussel extract . Itching, hives and metal taste have also been reported.\nGastrointestinal: Stomach upset, flatulence and mild nausea are possible adverse effecst of using Seatone greenlipped mussel extract.\nLiver: The Australian Rheumatism Association reported hepatitis as a possible adverse effect of using Seatone green-lipped mussel extracts. Possible toxic hepatitis has been associated with Seatone in several case reports. In one clinical trial, two subjects taking Lyprinol dropped out from the study due to nausea and abnormal liver function, although causality is unclear\nMusculoskeletal: Gout may be a possible adverse effect of using Seatone green-lipped mussel extract. Of rheumatoid arthritis patients taking Seatone for 90 days, 10% reported a transient worsening of symptoms, although no other adverse events were experienced.\nNeurologic/CNS: Green-lipped mussel\u2019s B4 analog of brevetoxin B (BTXB4), has been identified as the major toxin in green-lipped mussel, and has been associated with neurotoxic shellfish poisoning.\nPulmonary/respiratory: Although green-lipped mussel extract has been proposed as an asthma treatment there is some data showing that some specific individuals may experience difficulty breathing after ingesting or inhaling green-lipped mussel products. Lung dysfunction and multiple respiratory symptoms have been reported in New Zealand mussel openers\nRenal: Fluid retention has been reported as a side effect of green-lipped mussel use\nOther side effects: Polioviruses have been found to survive in green-lipped mussels, both in fresh mussels and in those frozen for up to 28 days at 20 degrees Celsius which may constitute a significant public health risk.\nPrecautions and warnings during Green-lipped mussel\u2019s products use\nUse cautiously in patients taking anti-inflammatory medications. It has been suggested that green-lipped mussel may enhance not only the benefits of other anti-inflammatory drugs, but also their adverse effects (particularly gastrointestinal upset).\nUse cautiously in patients with asthma; although green-lipped mussel has been suggested to have anti-asthmatic effects, lung dysfunction and multiple respiratory symptoms have been reported in New Zealand mussel openers\nAvoid in patients with liver disease, due to potential toxic hepatitis associated with green-lipped mussel\nAvoid in patients with known allergy/hypersensitivity to green-lipped mussel or other shellfish (mollusks, crustaceans). Powdered greenlipped mussel is reported to be more allergenic than lipid extracts; allergic reactions to gelatin (used in capsule preparations) have also been noted.\n\u201cHow to remove skin warts with a bandage?\u201c", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 16090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dvdverdict.com/quiet-man-collectors-edition-dvd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VRUEHZXQNK644MKC56XONS63VUMFZMUI", "length": 8761, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "dvdverdict.com", "title": "The Quiet Man: Collector's Edition (DVD) > DVD Verdict: A Class Action Approach to Film Criticism", "raw_content": "\u201cThat\u2019s me there, walking \u2014 that tall, saintly-looking man.\u201d\nThe Quiet Man was based on a short story by Maurice Walsh that first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post early in 1933. Director John Ford was drawn to the story and purchased the film rights, but it would be many years before he could actually make the film. Even though he had formed his own production company, Argosy Pictures, with Merian C. Cooper after the Second World War, there was still the question of raising enough up-front money to finance actual shooting. And the major Hollywood studios he approached weren\u2019t interested. It was only when Herbert Yates, the head of Republic Pictures (the major B movie studio in Hollywood at that time), expressed interest in an arrangement with Argosy, that there was an actual possibility that The Quiet Man might get made. The deal was that Argosy would make three pictures for release by Republic. The first of these was to be a western that turned out to be 1950\u2019s Rio Grande. The second would be The Quiet Man.\nExteriors were shot in Ireland over a six-week period in the summer of 1951, with much of the company billeted at Ashford Castle in County Mayo and the village of Cong used as the primary shooting location. Most of the interiors were later shot on the Republic lot in Hollywood. After extensive post-production, including arguments with Republic over the title and the film\u2019s length, Ford finally had the film the way he wanted it and it was released in September 1952. The Quiet Man proved to be an enormous hit, even generating an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. It lost out to The Greatest Show on Earth, but awards did go to Ford as Best Director and to Winton Hoch and Archie Stout for Best Cinematography.\nArtisan has previously released the film on DVD, but has now made available a new Collector\u2019s Edition.\nSean Thornton is an American boxer who returns to the village of Innisfree in Ireland to settle down after accidentally killing another boxer in the ring. He manages to purchase \u201cWhite O\u2019Morning,\u201d the house where he was born, but in doing so makes an enemy of Red Will Danaher, who had been trying to buy the property for years. Sean falls in love with Danaher\u2019s beautiful sister, Mary Kate, and proceeds to court her under the tutelage of local matchmaker Michaeleen Flynn. Danaher reluctantly allows the courtship to go ahead and Sean and Mary Kate eventually are married, but Danaher refuses to pay over Mary Kate\u2019s rightful dowry. Sean\u2019s view is that it is not important, but for Mary Kate, it is a matter of what is right. When Sean at first seems indifferent to actually doing anything about the dowry, Mary Kate reacts by trying to run away to Dublin. This provokes Sean into action that results in a climactic fistfight between him and Danaher.\nEven if Argosy Pictures was not proving to be as satisfactory an experience as he would have liked (the company always seemed to end up in litigation with its partners \u2014 RKO previously, and later Republic), John Ford was still riding high artistically at this stage of his career. He would have over a dozen films ahead of him, including The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Along with the former and a handful of others such as The Grapes of Wrath, it is The Quiet Man for which Ford will be best remembered.\nThe affection that John Ford harboured for this story over the many years before he was able to film it is the main thing that comes across on the screen. It\u2019s evident in the beauty of the countryside that has been captured so faithfully by Hoch and Stout\u2019s lush Technicolor cinematography. It\u2019s evident in the story that has been thoughtfully expanded and deepened in context and background from the slim tale that is the basis for it. It\u2019s evident in the tapestry of music that Victor Young has fashioned from well-known Irish songs. And it\u2019s especially evident in a uniformly excellent cast whose members seem to be enjoying themselves immensely throughout the film.\nIn many ways, it\u2019s a celebration of Ireland and Irish life. The film is at pains to emphasize a spirit of community \u2014 one that is an important theme of the story as well as evident through the character interaction on the screen, and that is quickly embraced by the audience as a result. That\u2019s probably why the film has become so beloved over the half century since it first appeared. There\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s all a rather quaint view of Ireland as seen through Hollywood glasses, but one can forgive that in view of the commitment of the cast, the vast majority of whom are either actors of Irish descent working in Hollywood or local Irish people employed as extras.\nJohn Wayne and Maureen O\u2019Hara as Sean and Mary Kate continue to show how well they worked together, building further on the chemistry that was first apparent in Rio Grande. The feistiness of their characters adds an interesting and entertaining dimension to their relationship. The greatest pleasure in the casting comes from the many members of the Ford stock company, people like Victor McLaglen as Will Danafer, Barry Fitzgerald as Michaeleen, Ward Bond as the Catholic priest Father Lonergan, Arthur Shields as the Protestant minister Mr. Playfair, Mildred Natwick as the widow Tillane, and Francis Ford as Dan Tobin. The film was also a grand opportunity for cast and crew to have members of their families involved, from John Wayne\u2019s children to Maureen O\u2019Hara\u2019s brother, John Ford\u2019s older brother, and Victor McLaglen\u2019s son Andrew. Ford adds a nice touch in introducing many of the cast on screen at the film\u2019s end.\nArtisan new Collector\u2019s Edition (which fails to recognize that it\u2019s the film\u2019s 50th anniversary \u2014 wake up, Artisan) advertises itself as offering a digitally remastered transfer. The first Artisan release was disappointing in this regard, and I\u2019m sorry to report that I see no improvement in this new version, if in fact, it is new. The image frequently looks blurry with red blooming, uneven brightness, and some moir\u00e9 effects. For a film that relies upon an accurate presentation of its Technicolor glories to do it full justice, this transfer does not deliver. A better transfer seems unlikely, however, until Artisan undertakes appropriate restoration of the original three-strip source material.\nWith regard to the audio, as with Artisan\u2019s other new Collector\u2019s editions of Rio Grande and High Noon, the original mono is offered along with an enhanced 3.1 version. The original mono is quite acceptable in terms of clarity and minimal age-related hiss. The enhanced audio is pleasing also as it offers a somewhat louder but also richer sound. No subtitles are provided, but the disc does offer closed captioning.\nThe supplement package is quite comprehensive. It retains the \u201cMaking of The Quiet Man\u201d documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin that was part of Artisan\u2019s first DVD release. This is still an effective piece, certainly superior to many of the puff pieces masquerading as making-of documentaries that adorn current DVDs. The production information provided on it is now nicely complemented by a new documentary \u201cThe Joy of Ireland\u201d featuring Maureen O\u2019Hara, Andrew McLaglen, and Michael Wayne. Even better is an audio commentary by Maureen O\u2019Hara, who successfully communicates her love for the film. She uses the film\u2019s events as prompts to reminisce about the people and places in an energetic and entertaining fashion. We also learn further interesting production details. For example, when Sean and Mary Kate meet outside the church for the first time, it turns out that the local Protestant church was used as a stand-in for the Catholic one, but with the actual Catholic holy water font placed outside it. A montage of scenes from the film under the title \u201cRemembering The Quiet Man\u201d is appealing but redundant given the other extras. The supplements conclude with some cast and crew information and DVD trailers for three Artisan collector\u2019s editions, including one for The Quiet Man, but there is no original theatrical trailer.\nThe Quiet Man is one of those films that has aged well. It is a sentimental favourite for many and certainly one of John Ford\u2019s best-remembered efforts. Unfortunately, it has never been seen in its full glory on any home video medium, including this latest DVD release. Those who love this film will want to have this latest edition, however, for its fine collection of extras and the fact that it is the best current video incarnation extant. But be prepared to leave room on your shelf in hopes of an improved version some day. Recommended.\nAn argumentative acquittal for The Quiet Man, with the court suggesting that next time Artisan spend its money on a proper film restoration rather than extra supplements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 9271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dylan.tweney.com/2016/10/26/money-2020-recap-jack-dorsey-blockchain-and-the-future-of-financial-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FRK7JTSKDGWRDSULS2IEQG4O3Q3DIDJJ", "length": 10450, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "dylan.tweney.com", "title": "Money 20/20 recap: Jack Dorsey, blockchain, and the future of financial services \u2013 dylan tweney", "raw_content": "10/26/2016 / By Dylan / In: Published Work, VentureBeat / 1 Comment\nIn the financial services industry, blockchain looms as a large but distant and somewhat mysterious presence. A few forward-thinking bankers take it seriously and are trying to figure out how to turn it to their own advantage. Everyone else has heard about it, knows little about it, and is taking a wait-and-see approach.\nThe one thing everyone seems to agree on: They don\u2019t want to make the same mistake with blockchain that they did a decade ago with PayPal, which was ignore it completely, wait for it to go away, and then get surprised when it grows up and becomes a threat.\nInstead of a single company, blockchain is a whole category of technologies \u2013 a movement embraced by thousands of people and hundreds of companies. The threat is actually much larger than that posed by PayPal (which, after all, is just another kind of bank now). It\u2019s just that few in the financial services industry quite know what to do about it yet.\nThat\u2019s the message I took from Money 20/20, a conference focused on financial technology taking place this week in Las Vegas. It was my first time at the event, which has grown to enormous proportions in the four years since it was founded: 11,000 attendees and more than 400 exhibitors filled up the Venetian and Sands conference facilities. At $3,000 per ticket, roughly, that\u2019s a lot of revenue\u2014even before sponsorships. No wonder that the founders were able to sell the event to i2i a year agofor a reported $100 million price tag.\nMost of the event was not focused on blockchain. The transition to EMT (chip cards) and mobile apps are far more top of mind for most bankers. But there were plenty of sessions featuring blockchain companies and discussions of the technology and its future.\nBlockchain, the technological concept behind Bitcoin, is real. In many ways, its approach to storing data in a transactional database that is distributed across many machines is reminiscent of the cloud approach to computing, as Square CEO Jack Dorsey noted in his keynote at Money 20/20: Both are \u201cdistributed, redundant, failsafe, and ubiquitous.\u201d\nPeople talk about \u201cthe blockchain\u201d but unless they\u2019re referring to Bitcoin\u2019s blockchain, there is not one single blockchain. Instead, each cryptocurrency or smart contracts platform uses its own blockchain. A blockchain, simply put, is a public, distributed ledger of transactions. Because it\u2019s public, transactions can\u2019t be repudiated and people can\u2019t spend the same value more than once: The public ledger records it and anyone can check it. Because it\u2019s distributed (copies are maintained all over the internet), there\u2019s no single point of control or failure.\nAnd it\u2019s quite secure\u2014in principle. It\u2019s worth pointing out, as several speakers at Money 20/20 did, that Bitcoin\u2019s own blockchain has never been compromised in the eight or so years it has existed. Applications or exchanges that use Bitcoin have been compromised (and millions of dollars have been lost in the process), but the underlying blockchain has remained online, and intact, continuously. That might sound like a technicality to outsiders but it is significant.\nIn fact, Bitcoin itself appears to have matured somewhat. It is still a fairly volatile currency, so buy and hold it at your own risk. But as a medium for exchange it seems to be working quite well. Sonny Singh of BitPay, which powers a huge proportion of Bitcoin payments around the world, told me that Bitcoin accounts for roughly 99 percent of the blockchain transactions market, despite the rise of alternative currencies. And many of BitPay\u2019s customers don\u2019t even touch Bitcoin at all: they just use BitPay as a payment processor, like Visa: People pay in Bitcoin, BitPay clears the transaction and deposits dollars into the client\u2019s account. Singh says BitPay\u2019s volume of merchant transactions has tripled in the last year, to one transaction every 15 seconds.\nBitcoin- and blockchain-based stock exchanges. For regulatory reasons, you can\u2019t technically call them \u201cexchanges,\u201d but I don\u2019t know what other word you would use for a place where you can buy and sell equities, like you can on T0. Overstock.com, an early Bitcoin adopter and the creator of T0, announced this week that it would start trading some of its stock on the T0 platform. (I wrote about Overstock\u2019s plansyesterday.) The advantage: Trades can settle in 10 minutes, instead of 3 days, like on traditional equities markets.\nIs that a threat to traditional stock exchanges? Absolutely. \u201cWe\u2019re taking a burn it down and start over approach,\u201d said Judd Bagley of Overstock.com\nBig banks using blockchain for international payments. Visa announced a new product, called Visa B2B Connect, at the show. It\u2019s powered by Chain, a maker of blockchain technologies. Details are fuzzy on how it works, but it is a custom blockchain network, operated by Visa, for corporate clients to conduct B2B transactions across borders.\nIt\u2019s not just Visa: At least 2/3 of major financial institutions are working on blockchain-based products for deployment sometime in the next three years.\nThe potential here, of course, is cost savings. Most international bank transfers cost several percentage points of the total transaction value; if you use Western Union, be prepared to pay up to 8%. PayPal itself is about 3.5%. A blockchain-based transaction system could be much, much cheaper. (BitPay, for instance, charges just 1% for any transaction anywhere in the world.)\nCompanies are working on tying together different blockchains. Bitcoin isn\u2019t the only blockchain out there. Ethereum has sprouted up as a significant alternative, although most people are looking at it as a tool for enabling smart contracts, not just currency transactions. And many other cryptocurrencies exist. How do you facilitate transfers of value between different blockchains? Right now you need to use an exchange, which is a clearinghouse using some intermediary currency or store of value. A better approach would be some kind of protocol that allows blockchains to talk directly to one another. Ripple has created one such protocol, the now-open-sourceInterledger Protocol. But others are certainly in the works. Whoever can decisively solve this ledger interconnection problem will have accomplished something comparable to the invention of TCP/IP\u2013the foundation of the internet.\nEthereum is still a work in progress. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is clearly a genius. He\u2019s also very young and sort of awkward. But despite the scope of his ambitions he\u2019s fairly modest about how far Ethereum has come so far. In an onstage chat with author Don Tapscott, Buterin was sanguine about the controversial patch he made to Ethereum in order to reverse the weakness that allowed someone to hijack $50M of a decentralized $160M investment fund called the DAO. Critics viewed that as an assault on the immutability of the blockchain, thus compromising the trustworthiness of the Ethereum system. But for Buterin, \u201cimmutability is not absolute,\u201d and needs to serve a social purpose. At present, the need to evolve Ethereum is a greater good than the need to preserve its blockchain unchanged, he said. Ethereum will eventually mature, he said, but \u201cuntil then it should be viewed as an evolving ecosystem, not a fixed work of art.\u201d\nGovernance is a grey area. Buterin seems to be coming around to the idea that some kind of governance\u2014by groups of people working together\u2014is necessary in any system. You can\u2019t just create the perfect protocol and assume that it will take care of everything from that point on. Politics is necessary and unavoidable, he acknowledged. Like others in the blockchain space, he is coming up against the real world: One in which regulators may eventually catch up to what\u2019s going on and impose real restrictions.\nWhat\u2019s more, it\u2019s important to note that anonymity is not one of the essential properties of blockchain transactions. In fact, the immutability of transactions in blockchains works against anonymity, as the operator of the Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, discovered to his regret a few years ago. The blockchain is a paper trail. That cuts in multiple directions, as Jamie Smith of The BitFury Group pointed out in one panel: \u201cIf you have an immutable record, authoritarian governments might find that very interesting, too.\u201d\nStill, while regulators around the world are generally far more enthusiastic about blockchain than they were about earlier cybercurrencies (like E-Gold), there will come a time when the world\u2019s financial regulations start to impinge on the blockchain world. Operators of cross-border transaction platforms, for instance, will need to provide the same assurances as banks do that they\u2019re not being used for drug deals, money laundering, etc. At least, they will have to do this if they want to remain operating within the law.\nThe opportunity is huge. \u201cEvery 20 years, something really cool comes along, and this is it,\u201d said BitFury\u2019s Smith. In the next few years, everyone on the planet will have some kind of mobile device. And there will be some kind of ubiquitous, planet-wide internet access. Combine those two things, she said, and why wouldn\u2019t the world gravitate towards fast, convenient, low-transaction-cost payments?\nAs for Bitcoin itself, who knows? One panelist, Eric Martindale of Blockstream, predicted that Bitcoin would increase 10x in value, to more than $6,000, in the next 12 months. (The current value of Bitcoin is about USD $653.) I don\u2019t know if he was joking, trying to hype up the value of his own holdings, or if he really believe that. It seems unlikely to grow that much. Bitcoin itself could in fact wind up getting bypassed by more flexible, more scalable blockchains. But the underlying technology seems sound, according to many who have looked deeply into it, and there seems little doubt that there will be more many more blockchain-based companies in the future, with or without Bitcoin in their business plans.\nThe biggest obstacle is usability. Bitcoin and blockchain have a long way to go before they\u2019re easy enough to understand and use for the majority of bankers, let alone consumers. But with lots of people working on tying them into existing financial systems, that\u2019s the direction that they seem to be headed.\nPhoto: Bobby Lee of BTCC wears a hat that says \u201cMake Bitcoin Great Again.\u201d\nA hundred bad songs\nLeigh Anne Varney Leigh Anne Varney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 12171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eahn.org/2015/05/journal-il-giornale-dellarchitettura/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:57Z", "digest": "sha1:UR7ANK4JNOGRW3FSOT4RVLEMDHPSLXMH", "length": 1732, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "eahn.org", "title": "Journal \u201cIl Giornale dell\u2019architettura\u201d \u2013 EAHN", "raw_content": "Journal \u201cIl Giornale dell\u2019architettura\u201d\nHome 2015 May Journal \u201cIl Giornale dell\u2019architettura\u201d\nOffice, 29 May 2015 29 May 2015 , All Listings, 0\nMore information about this journal: http://www.ilgiornaledellarchitettura.com\nOver the past 55 years, the Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore (NUS) has seen steady...\nMellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at IFA NYU, 2015- 2016\nAnne Hultzsch, 9 September 2014 9 September 2014 , All Listings, Jobs, IFA, Mellon, NYU, postdoc, 0\nAndrew W. 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And not in an ego-centric way, since the majority of our conversation related to the people who'd been inspired by his music and the joy he felt when they reached out to him directly. When he did talk about himself it was in the spiritual sense, as if he'd knew where he'd been going all along with 3.1 million streams on Spotify and counting on his debut single with a full length album to be released this year.\nEven though I was holed up in my NYC apartment, with the door dead-bolted and the 24 hour train screeching overhead I felt less alone from the moment that the conversation began, I was allowed to respond and never felt as though I were interrupting. And it ended with a simple, \"Thank you for choosing me, I am honored,\" which I think sums Charles Perry up as an artist in his entirety.\nEARMILK: I have to say that I loved your single \u201cStranger To Love,\u201d listening to it was kind of the high point of my day.\nCharles Perry: Well that\u2019s such a blessing, that my song did that for you. It\u2019s been such a journey with that song and it\u2019s really been remarkable. That process of reaching people, changing lives can really only be described as \u201cWow.\u201d\nEM: Is that what inspired you to write it?\nCP: I\u2019m not sure if I meant to write it, the song is more my own personal testament to heartbreak. I would say that it\u2019s about being a \u201cstranger to love,\u201d for so many years and as I told my friends just the other day, it feels as though I\u2019ve just been loved wrong, that I don\u2019t know what it feels like to be loved right. For me it came from a place of loneliness and when I wrote it I discovered that there were 3.1 million people on Spotify who felt the same and said by listening to my song \u201cMr. Perry you\u2019re not the only one.\u201d It wasn\u2019t just me, there are others out there.\nEM: Yeah, I would be one of them. There really were a lot of relatable elements on the track, because there are a lot of people, more than you would think and sometimes it does feel like you\u2019re the only one. But you\u2019re not alone and that was my immediate reaction.\nCP: Definitely, that\u2019s what it is. And like I said there are so many people that feel alone and I know that I\u2019ve felt that through the years, like my heart was being crushed. I felt that I was alone and I learned when I started hearing the testimonies and confessions of the people. There was a gentleman who\u2019s been married 64 years and he said \u201cMr. Perry, she pays me no mind and has not loved me unconditionally like I\u2019ve loved her.\u201d It meant a lot to me the \u201cStranger To Love\u201d has had such a cross-appeal.\nEM: Because you can be with someone and still feel alone. You can be in a relationship and feel more alone than if you weren\u2019t. I really liked the lyric \u201cWait until you find yourself an angel, until then just be alone.\u201d What was behind that?\nCP: I grew up in the church background and my mother always told me \u201cWait your turn,\u201d and that quote is actually from her. She said that it is important to understand that there are benefits in the wait, and that a lot of times we hurry and rush the process of life. She wanted me to understand the benefits of waiting and just to be patient for your angel. And that was important to me and everything that I learn in my life always goes back to that.\nEM: Yeah it\u2019s true, you don\u2019t want to just take the first person that comes along.\nCP: Yes definitely, because we choose mates prematurely and become involved with situations that cause us tears. In the long run, it\u2019s important to wait it out and make the best decision for yourself.\nEM: And it is OK to be alone.\nCP: Yeah, it\u2019s important to love YOU first. It\u2019s important to celebrate YOU first. That is important.\nEM: I heard this saying once, it came from someone that I really liked but didn\u2019t end up being with, but a friend of his had said to him, \u201cYou can\u2019t love anyone until you love yourself.\u201d That is probably the truest statement.\nCP: That\u2019s very right. The last relationship that I was in, I expected somebody half to love me whole and it\u2019s impossible. You can\u2019t expect someone broken to love you completely. It\u2019ll never happen. What I\u2019ve found is that we set ourselves up for the wrong type of love and I\u2019m in a place where I need easy love, light love. There\u2019s a way where we are loved wrong and I need to be loved right. That\u2019s important.\nEM: It\u2019s not two halves make a whole, it\u2019s two wholes make two different people.\nCP: So, so true. And times have really changed. It\u2019s not about tradition and people are not as loyal anymore.\nEM: How would you describe your version of using old-school aesthetics in a modern way?\nCP: I believe that we\u2019re taking the soul and the power, the foundations of the past and bringing nuances to make it compatible for the times.\nEM: That makes sense, especially in the genres you\u2019re working in. I saw that you got your start in musical theatre? I can hear some of that in your music.\nCP: It was amazing. I grew up as a kid in it and at that time I was the baby in the cast of \u201cMama, I Want To Sing Part 3\u201d and toured with toured with a few Grammy award winners as well as Oscar and Grammy award winner Lisa Fisher and Cissy Houston. That musical really changed my life, it taught me how to flow, it taught me how to connect with the people and it taught me how to be in the moment. It taught me connection with the soul and with the spirit and how people are moved by both of them. These women, they were my mothers even though the world knew them as megastars, you can\u2019t be around those icons and legends and not pick up something and they really passed on and helped mold the gift. I learned so much by being around legendary people and doing those shows day in and day out every day and having to be consistent.\nEM: Musical theatre is also so interactive. It\u2019s really telling a story.\nCP: It is. When you\u2019re doing theatre it\u2019s a whole different beast. You\u2019re telling a story nightly, it has to be consistent and you have to really be truthful with it. It\u2019s an amazing thing theatre.\nEM: I read that you worked for awhile as a vocal coach before you were signed?\nCP: I did do some vocal coaching and found a lot of passion in it, understanding the anatomy of the voice, knowing how to command the stage and sing in character. I really enjoyed impacting and changing lives through teaching music, children from inner city schools and just watching them come to life. There\u2019s nothing like teaching somebody and watching them be empowered right before your eyes. I really got a kick out of that, seeing that fire burn.\nEM: I saw that you were chosen to sing back-up for Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson?\nCP: Man, singing at the Michael Jackson Anniversary Special really changed my life. I had the chance to sing with Michael and Liza Minnelli and that was just an experience. I\u2019ll never forget that when I was sixteen and was returning my microphone, Lisa Fisher came to me and said that Luther Vandross wanted to have five minutes of my time. She said, \u201cWould you want to speak to him?\u201d And I said, \u201cAre you serious? I\u2019ll give him a hundred hours.\u201d\nEM: You seem to have a very intense sense of humor and personality in your performances. Are there influences for that or is it just you?\nCP: It\u2019s just me. I would say that my personality is very big and bright. My Dad is one of the greatest comedians and so are my grandparents. So a lot of my humor and personality really stems from my family.\nCharles Perry on Twitter\nCharles Perry on Soundcloud\nCharles Perry on Facebook\nthanks so much for the love and I enjoyed doing the interview.\nCharles Perry April 9, 2015 12:55 PM Reply\nWe bet Charles Perry is no longer a \"Stranger to Love\" with this RAC remix [Premiere]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 11872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earpcohn.com/practice-areas/workers-compensation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HPG4POU7SUKUWRWRDENNGMREVSI4RDLK", "length": 924, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "earpcohn.com", "title": "Workers' Compensation - Earp Cohn P.C.", "raw_content": "Earp Cohn P.C. represents employees who are injured in the course of their employment. 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Ohanian points to U.S. subsidies and import quotas for the sugar industry that date to the 1790s. American sugar prices range between 100 and 180 percent of world levels, he said, and consequently, candy makers have relocated to Canada where sugar costs less.\n\u201cFor every sugar job we saved, we lost three confectionery jobs,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are the types of indirect effects economic policies often have.\u201d\nOn immigration, Ohanian said while Trump\u2019s focus has been on keeping out unskilled, undocumented workers, it is the high-skilled workers the U.S. should be going after. He noted that half the Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.\nHe also noted that many high-skilled immigrant workers are educated at UC San Diego, UCLA and other universities and then managed to stay legally in the U.S. to work.\nMany others wish they could remain here permanently after graduation but unless they can exchange their student visas for work visas, they have to return to their home countries \u2014 and the U.S. economy loses out.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t make it very easy for them to do that,\u201d he said.\nOhanian said Trump would like to create 25 million jobs over the next 10 years and double the GDP growth rate to 4 percent. But with the accelerating retirement rate of aging baby boomers and the declining educational attainment levels in American schools, he said a looming talent gap could make those goals unattainable.\n\u201cThe only way we can replace those (productive workers) is by bringing in more people,\u201d he said.\nFifty years ago, he said American education and California\u2019s in particular were at or near the top of the world. High educational achievement translated into high productivity. But now in the U.S. 15-year-olds repeatedly rate below their peers in many other countries \u2014 a situation that bodes ill for future economic success.\n\u201cSince 2009 that\u2019s really been the main challenge our country faces,\u201d he said. \u201cIn particular this is going to confront our younger people, and the main challenge that faces President-elect Trump and Congress, as well as state and local government, is to improve productivity growth.\u201d\nOhanian, who was an adviser to previous Republican presidential candidates, called NAFTA a \u201cgreat piece of legislation\u201d that reduced trade barriers with Canada and Mexico. But if NAFTA is renegotiated as Trump hopes, he said one benefit that Mexico might push for is an expansion of free-trade zones along the U.S. border.\n\u201cThat would get more U.S. capital going to Mexico \u2014 and Mexico has a very bright economic future,\u201d Ohanian said.\nTrump speaks of bringing back manufacturing jobs from abroad. But Ohanian said the new reality in today\u2019s world is that certain things can be manufactured at a lower cost outside the U.S. American workers can compete by demonstrating a higher productivity rate on other things here.\nHowever, he did agree with Trump\u2019s call for lowering corporate income taxes.\n\u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons why we\u2019re losing a lot of jobs,\u201d he said, since companies find it more economical to expand where rates are lower.\nAs Trump settles into the White House, Ohanian said he hopes the new president will listen to his advisers and change course if necessary.\n\u201cI hope Trump is a guy that can pivot and change if something isn\u2019t working the way he wants,\u201d he said.\nUCLA ranks #1 in Economic Mobility Jerry Hausman gives Inaugural MAE Lecture", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 8521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eddataexpress.ed.gov/data-element-explorer.cfm/tab/map/deid/2145/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FSJ3ZUIUA3B3LH4UGVXNLNC46HGPTE6A", "length": 1663, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "eddataexpress.ed.gov", "title": "Number of Students in Other State Agency Programs - Long-Term Students: 2009-10 - ED Data Express", "raw_content": "You are here: Data Elements \u00bb Neglected or Delinquent Program (Title I, Part D) \u00bb Neglected or Delinquent State Agency Programs: 2009-10 \u00bb Neglected or Delinquent Demographics - Other State Agency Program: 2009-10 \u00bb\nNumber of Students in Other State Agency Programs - Long-Term Students: 2009-10 1\nThe total statewide number of students who have been enrolled in other state agency programs for 90 or more consecutive calendar days. 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This video also appears as \u201ccontextual help\u201d under the question mark symbol on the BrainPOP Make-a-Map interface.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 3952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eewc.com/hebrews-wisdom-commentary-series-volume-54/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SUBUHXQRZUOPFN3JW6PPHMUWKB45DHT3", "length": 10925, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "eewc.com", "title": "Hebrews (Wisdom Commentary Series) | Christian Feminism Today", "raw_content": "Home Book Reviews Hebrews (Wisdom Commentary Series; Volume 54)\nby Mary Ann Beavis and HyeRan Kim-Cragg\nMichael Glazier (Liturgical Press), 2015\nFeminist theological commentary has long shed much-needed corrective light on venerable Christian tradition from the margins, but it\u2019s currently evolving to a whole new level in the robust Wisdom Commentary series edited by Barbara E. Reid, OP.\nComing on the heels of magisterial single-volume feminist commentaries like the three editions of The Women\u2019s Bible Commentary and the Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books of the Bible and Related Literature, this new multi-volume series digs even deeper into the biblical tradition with both outstanding critical scholarship and impressive verve.\nAs passionate and pastorally sensitive as it is erudite, one of the Wisdom Commentary\u2019s first published volumes is this one on Hebrews by Mary Ann Beavis and HyeRan Kim-Cragg. The choice to tackle Hebrews early on may seem puzzling, since its subject matter is not widely regarded as providing fertile material for feminist theological reflection, especially in light of its extensive passages about blood sacrifices and apparent colonial triumphalism and denigration of Judaism. But in successfully engaging a more difficult text, this commentary demonstrates a powerful and persuasive methodology that will undoubtedly excite readers about the delightful insights that future volumes are certain to provide.\nHow do they do it? One key, articulated in the \u201cAuthors\u2019 Introduction,\u201d is to demonstrate the pervasive affinities of Hebrews with other Scriptures in the Wisdom tradition, including most prominently the Wisdom of Solomon (pp. xl\u2013xlii). The authors acknowledge the irony that Hebrews never uses the word sophia (wisdom), pointing out that Hebrews \u201cis not intrinsically amenable to the promotion of feminist, or even proto-feminist, interests\u201d (p. xliii). Yet they also highlight the \u201caudible, if muted, voice of Sophia in Hebrews\u201d (ibid.) to lay the groundwork for mining Hebrews for feminist theological insights. They go on to write that \u201cthe homilist of Hebrews may be called \u2018proto-feminist\u2019 by virtue of the inclusion of women in the list of heroes of the faith in Heb 11\u201d (p. lxxxviii), and discuss several proto-feminist interpreters of Hebrews, including English commentator Gracilla Boddington, 1801\u201387, and Englishwoman Elizabeth Rundle Charles, 1828\u201396 (pp. xc\u2013xci).\nBut that\u2019s only the beginning. An even more important key is the authors\u2019 methodology, demonstrating feminist values not only in their arguments but also in their very approach. Most (male-dominated) commentaries celebrate the erudition of individual voices, but this \u201cfeminist, multi-vocal commentary\u201d (p. 203) intentionally includes diverse voices from a variety of perspectives, not simply acknowledging, but even celebrating differing conclusions without attempting to play some against others or argue for the superiority of one particular viewpoint. An excellent example is the candid comparison of diverse viewpoints regarding Hebrews 2:6ff on page 21. The unconventional afterword (pp. 203, 204) provides an excellent summary of the authors\u2019 overall approach.\nWhose are the diverse voices that are included in the commentary?\nPoetic versions of Aboriginal Scriptures in thirteen poems by Marie Annharte Baker, one for each chapter of Hebrews, provide valuable First Nations perspectives throughout. In addition, the commentary features many valuable Jewish perspectives by Justin Jaron Lewis (cf. pp. 25\u201327; 46\u201347; 99; 144; 168; 181), as well as insights from Medieval Jewish Kabbalah (p. 89). A cameo essay by Mary Ann Beavis called \u201cJewish Lists of Heroic Women\u201d quotes the Talmud (Meg. 14a) and another rabbinic text, the Midrash Eshet Chayil (pp. 136, 137).\nParticularly thoughtful essays are included from the perspective of an Asian and a Filipina doctrinal researcher of Scriptures in a European university, Ma. Maricel Ibita (p. liv), titled \u201cInterpretive Essay: \u2018Christ\u2019s Sacrifice Once for All\u2019: Understanding, Critique, and Reappropriation of the Biblical Social Value \u2018Group Orientation\u2019 from a Feminist Perspective\u201d (pp. 108\u2013122), as well as her twin sister, Ma. Marilou S. Ibita, who wrote the insightful \u201cInterpretive Essay: Hospitality: A Two-Edged Sword?\u201d (pp. 189\u2013201), highlighting the plight of Filipina Christian migrant workers.\nThe authors themselves include insightful essays throughout. In her cameo essay \u201cThe Veil in Postcolonial Perspective,\u201d co-author HyeRan Kim-Cragg reflects on the rhetoric of the veil in Hebrews 10:19 by discussing the way in which the Muslim tradition of the veil, traditionally perceived by Westerners as oppressive, has been reappropriated by women as a statement of solidarity against Islamaphobia (p. 126). Equally compelling is her interpretative essay, \u201cWomen and Suffering in Korean Feminist Theology\u201d (pp. 131\u2013134), as well as her positive cameo essay about sacrifice and eucharist (pp. 67, 68).\nOne of the more interesting conventions of the Hebrews commentary is the authors\u2019 reluctance to use the word \u201cChristian\u201d with a capital \u201cC.\u201d As they explain it, since \u201cthe term \u2018Christian\u2019 was not commonly used in the first century (in the NT it is found only in Acts 11:26: 26:28; and 1 Pet 4:16, referring to followers of Christ, not to devotees of a religion), and \u2018Christianity\u2019 did not exist as a religion, the term \u2018christian\u2019 will be used henceforth with reference to the earliest members of the kingdom of God movement, including the author and audience of Hebrews\u201d (p. lix, n. 71). This is part of an overall strategy of articulating early Christian identity with respect to Judaism, a welcome concern in light of the historic problem of supersessionism\u2014the teaching that the Church has displaced Israel in the divine program. Addressing this problem head on, the authors write that:\nThe homilist\u2019s intent was not to argue for the superiority of \u201cChristianity\u201d over \u201cJudaism\u201d but to interpret the community\u2019s experience of salvation history in light of the Jewish Scriptures as mediated through the Septuagint (LXX). Unfortunately, these kinds of arguments have subsequently figured in Christian anti-Judaism, and consequently must be read with caution (p. lxiv).\n. . . to call Hebrews \u2018supersessionist\u2019 may be an anachronistic imposition of later Christian doctrines onto the text.\nNonetheless, although there was no such thing as \u201cChristianity\u201d as a religion separate from \u201cJudaism\u201d in Hebrews\u2019 time, the charge of supersessionism is warranted to the extent that Hebrews sees the new covenant as superseding and replacing the cultic institutions of the Mosaic order. . . . to the extent that Hebrews as Christian Scripture has figured in the history of Christian anti-Judaism it must be interpreted with care, and anti-Jewish interpretations of Hebrews must be vigorously repudiated\u201d (pp. lxxxiv, lxxxv; cf. pp. 18,19; 85-87; 165,166).\nWith respect to Christology, this reviewer was particularly impressed by the following insight:\nIn fact, the consensus that Hebrews expresses a \u201chigh Christology\u201d in which the \u201cdivinity of Christ\u201d \u201cis emphasized may result from the over-literalization of the highly allusive and metaphorical language of the discourse. From the homilist\u2019s perspective, what Christ does \u201cfor us\u201d (the audience) through his life and death is more important than ontological formulations regarding Jesus\u2019 relationship to the divine nature; doctrine is always subordinate to paraenesis (p. lxxvii).\nSignificantly, with respect to the issue of sacrificial language, this commentary helpfully reiterates the arguments of Christian Eberhart that \u201cThe ancient Israelite/Jewish understanding of sacrifice\u201d was not, in fact, focused on divine appeasement and suffering animals, but rather on cultic purification (expiation, pp. lxxviii\u2013lxxix), yet nevertheless concludes that \u201cIn feminist terms, rather than attempting to rehabilitate atonement theology, it is preferable to focus on Jesus\u2019 living proclamation of the reign of God instead of fixating on his suffering and death\u201d (p. lxxx). Similarly, in the concluding comments of the Afterword, Mary Ann Beavis writes that:\nAs argued in the body of the commentary . . . traditional theological associations of sacrifice with suffering, self-denial, death, and abjection are foreign to ancient understandings of sacrificial rituals. For the biblical tradition, including Hebrews, the basic meaning of the Latin term sacrificio, \u201cmake sacred,\u201d captures the significance of the ritual better than the English term with its many negative connotations. This means not that sacrifice should be embraced as feminist theological category but that it needs to be understood on its own terms as celebratory and relational (p. 203, emphasis mine).\nTwo final reflections are worth particular mention. The first is this commentary\u2019s bold willingness to nuance its approach to the text, for example in recognizing that \u201cthe alternation of accusations, threats, and expressions of approval in 5:11\u20136:12 is in keeping with ancient rhetorical technique,\u201d while adding that, from a feminist standpoint, such \u201ccoercive and manipulative techniques should have no place in contemporary homiletics\u201d (pp. 63, 64; cf. pp. 129, 130, 182). Similarly, it doesn\u2019t hesitate to articulate poignant criticism of Abraham as \u201ca deeply flawed figure who seems unworthy of his prominence in Jewish and Christian tradition\u201d (cf. pp. 66, 67; 143; 146; but cf. Justin Jaron Lewis\u2019 cameo essay on p. 144). It goes on to problematize Hebrews\u2019 historical narrative from a postcolonial perspective (pp. 152, 153), together with the anticlimactic list of flawed \u201cheroes\u201d in 11:32 (p. 153). Equally compelling is its critical reading of Hebrews 12:5\u201311 (pp. 160\u2013163).\nNuanced and deeply sensitive in its interaction with the scriptural text, this commentary is outstanding in every respect. The only constructive criticism this reviewer can offer involves nothing more than a simple omission. On page xx, Barbara E. Reid, OP, the General Editor, writes very briefly of the inclusion of men \u201crightly regarded as feminists\u201d and therefore as \u201clead authors and as contributing voices\u201d to the Wisdom Commentary series; this in a single paragraph which doesn\u2019t even mention (not even in a footnote) the debate about whether it\u2019s appropriate to regard men as \u201cfeminists\u201d proper or rather as \u201caspiring feminist allies,\u201d \u201cpro-feminist men,\u201d or in other, similar terms (cp. p. lv). This observation is not intended to discount her conclusion outright, simply to suggest that it would have been appropriate to at least acknowledge disagreement on the question.\n[Note: The text of this review was changed after initial publication to correct an error in which Ma. Marilou S. 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Booths has done just that by employing innovative brand and design thinking.\nA holistic identity project that has affected almost all areas of the business grew out of the original plan to refresh the identity for only one store in 2011. Four specific strategic business objectives have been applied: the development of own- label, the introduction of a loyalty card, development of new and old stores and focussing communications on the huge Christmas trading spike.\nBooths has demonstrated the power of design to change business. Own- label sales like-for-like from 2011 to 2014 have increased 9.9% with a total increase in sales of 3% from 2011. Awareness has also benefited, with sales growth at refurbished stores up 16.5% and in just eight months 40% of customers adopted the loyalty card. 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She previously served as associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Houston. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Education.\nPhD, Education and Psychology, University of Michigan\nMA, Psychology (Developmental), University of Michigan\nBA, Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles\nUnderrepresented populations\nMartin, J. P., Simmons, D. R., & Yu, S. L. (Forthcoming). Family roles in engineering students\u2019 academic and career choices: Does parental education attainment matter? International Journal of Engineering Education.\nTaylor, D., Wolters, C., Yu, S. L., & Fan, W. (Forthcoming). Examining the roles of achievement goals, self-efficacy, and test anxiety in the relationship between stereotype threat and test performance. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal.\nMartin, J. P., Simmons, D. R., & Yu, S. L. (2013). The role of social capital in the experiences of Hispanic women engineering majors. Journal of Engineering Education, 102, 227-243.\nYu, S. L., & Rodriguez-Hejazi, I. (2013). Single-sex schools and academic achievement. In J. Hattie & E. M. Anderman (Eds.), International Guide to Student Achievement (pp. 161-163). New York: Routledge.\nCorkin, D. M., Yu, S. L., & Lindt S. F. (2011). Comparing active delay and procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective. Learning and Individual Differences, 21, 602-606.\nTrenor, J. M., & Yu, S. L. (2009). Diversity within diversity: One-size-fits-all won\u2019t help recruit minorities and women. Reprintedin the American Society for Engineering Education Connections Newsletter, January, from the American Society for Engineering Education Prism, December 2008.\nTrenor, J. M., Yu, S. L., Waight, C., Zerda, K, & Sha, T.-L. (2008). The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students\u2019 educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment. 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Journal of Staff, Program, and Organization Development, 16(2), 93-101.\nHofer, B. K., Yu, S. L., & Pintrich, P. R. (1998). Teaching college students to be self-regulated learners. In D. Schunk & B. Zimmerman (Eds.), Self-regulated learning: From teaching to self-reflective practice (pp. 57- 85). New York: The Guilford Press.\nWolters, C. A., Yu, S. L., Hagen, J. W., & Kail, R. (1996). Short-term memory and strategy use in children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(6), 1397-1405.\nWolters, C. A., Yu, S. L., & Pintrich, P. R. (1996). The relation between goal orientation and students' motivational beliefs and self-regulated learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 8(3), 211-238.\nPerry, M., VanderStoep, S. W., & Yu, S. L. (1993). Asking questions in first- grade mathematics classes: Potential influences on mathematical thought. 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It was created by three famous Saint Petersburg enterprises, long-time friends of the Alexandrinsky Theatre: JSC Zvezda, Peterburgskaya Nedvizhimost and FIRMA CCM-2.\nThe fund was created to help and support the development of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, which takes a unique place in our country\u2019s culture. The fund was created to unite all those who had given the theatre financial support with its new projects, and to invite new friends to take part in new projects, contributing to the restoration of Russian theatre traditions and the theatre culture as a whole.\nPresident \u2013 I.S. Parshin, Honoured Artist of Russia, Russian Federation state Prize Awardee.\nExecutive director \u2013 M.A. Musienko\nThe Trustees Council is led by the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre V. Fokin. The council includes the representatives of\nSaint Petersburg Government\nNorth western bank of Sberbank of Russia\nPride LLC\nPiter Group LLC\nAt the trustees\u2019 general meeting on May 17, 2015, it was decided to add to the number of the trustee\u2019s council.\nTHE FUND\u2019S PROJECTS\nThe Alexandrinsky Charity Fund took part in nearly every recent project of the theatre.\nIn 2006, the Alexandrinsky Culture Centre was organised, which included the Russian Drama Museum and the Alexandrinsky Art Salon. The Russian drama museum is the first and the largest Russian exposition opened in an active theatre. There are eight exhibition halls with the total area of more than 400 square metres, with theme-related expositions displaying the unique collections of theatre costumes, furniture, props, actors\u2019 and actress\u2019s portraits, sketches of stage decorations, posters, playbills, and theatre-related paraphernalia of the 18th-20th centuries. 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In most mammalian species, sex hormones control the ability to engage in sexual behaviors. However, sex hormones do not directly regulate the ability to copulate in primates (including humans). Rather, sex hormones in primates are only one influence on the motivation to engage in sexual behaviours.\nMeasuring sexual motivationEdit\nSexual motivation can be measured using a variety of different techniques. Self-report measures, such as the Sexual Desire Inventory, are commonly used to detect levels of sexual motivation in humans. Self-report techniques such as the bogus pipeline can be used to ensure individuals do not falsify their answers to represent socially desirable results. Sexual motivation can also be implicitly examined through frequency of sexual behaviour, including masturbation.\nTestosteroneEdit\nAccording to data from the Journal of Zhejiang University\u2013Science, male testosterone levels exhibit a rhythm that corresponds to recent sexual activity.\nTestosterone appears to be a major contributing factor to sexual motivation in male primates, including humans. The elimination of testosterone in adulthood has been shown to reduce sexual motivation in both male humans and male primates.[1] Male humans who had their testicular function suppressed with a GnRH anatagonist displayed decreases in sexual desire and masturbation two weeks following the procedure.[2] Research from male rhesus monkeys suggests testosterone functions to increase sexual motivation, thereby motivating males to compete for access to sexual partners. It is postulated that the motivating effects of testosterone in male rhesus monkeys promotes successful sexual competition and may be particularly important motivating tools for low ranking males.[2] It is important to note that elimination of testosterone in primates does not reduce the ability to copulate; rather, it reduces the motivation to copulate.\nTestosterone levels in males have been shown to vary according to the ovulating state of females. Males who were exposed to scents of ovulating women recorded a higher testosterone level than males who were exposed to scents of nonovulating women.[3] Being exposed to female ovulating cues may increase testosterone, which in turn may increase males' motivation to engage in, and initiate, sexual behaviour. Ultimately, these higher levels of testosterone may increase the reproductive success of males exposed to female ovulation cues.\nThe relationship between testosterone and female sexual motivation is somewhat ambiguous. Research suggests androgens, such as testosterone, are not sufficient by themselves to prompt sexual motivation in females. In particular, studies with rhesus macaques have observed testosterone was not significantly associated with variations in level of sexual motivation in females.[2] However, some research with nonhuman primates suggests a role for androgens in female sexual reproduction behaviour. Adrenalectomized female rhesus monkeys displayed diminished female sexual receptivity.[4] Later studies revealed this diminished sexual receptivity was specific to the elimination of androgens that can be converted to estrogen.[5]\nIt is also suggested that levels of testosterone are related to the type of relationship in which one is involved. Men involved in polyamorous relationships display higher levels of testosterone than men involved in either a single partner relationship or single men.[6] Polyamorous women have both higher levels of testosterone and score higher on measures of sexual desire than women who are single or women who are in single-partner relationships.[6]\nEstrogens and progesteroneEdit\nEstrogens and progesterone typically regulate motivation to engage in sexual reproduction behaviour for females in mammalian species, though the relationship between hormones and female sexual motivation is not as well understood. In particular, estrogens have been shown to correlate positively with increases in female sexual motivation, and progesterone has been associated with decreases in female sexual motivation.[7] The periovulatory period of the female menstrual cycle is often associated with increased female receptivity and sexual motivation.[7] During this stage in the cycle, estrogens are elevated in the female and progesterone levels are low. At this time, mating can result in female pregnancy.\nFemales at different stages of their menstrual cycle have been shown to display differences in sexual attraction. Heterosexual females not using birth control pills who are ovulating (high levels of estrogens) have a preference for the scent of males with low levels of fluctuating asymmetry.[8] Ovulating heterosexual females also display preferences toward masculine faces and report greater sexual attraction to males other than their current partner.[9] From an evolutionary perspective, increases in estrogens during fertile periods in females may direct sexual motivation toward males with preferential genes (the good genes hypothesis).\nFollowing natural or surgically induced menopause, many women experience declines in sexual motivation.[10] Menopause is associated with a rapid decline of estrogen, as well as a steady rate of decline of androgens.[11] The decline of estrogen and androgen levels is believed to account for the lowered levels of sexual reproduction desire and motivation in postmenopausal women, although the direct relationship is not well understood.\nIn her memoir She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, transgender woman Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote that taking estrogens and antiandrogens profoundly diminished her libido,[12] and in transgender woman Julia Serano's memoir Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Serano wrote, in a section of her book she described as limited to hormonal changes that she said are experienced by many trans women she has spoken with, that a sharp decrease in her sex drive was the first thing she noticed when she started taking estrogens and antiandrogens.[13]\nOxytocin and vasopressinEdit\nThe hormones oxytocin and vasopressin are implicated in regulating both male and female sexual motivation. Oxytocin is released at orgasm and is associated with both sexual pleasure and the formation of emotional bonds.[14] Based on the pleasure model of sexual motivation, the increased sexual reproduction pleasure that occurs following oxytocin release may encourage motivation to engage in future sexual reproduction activities. Emotional closeness can be an especially strong predictor of sexual motivation in females and insufficient oxytocin release may subsequently diminish sexual reproduction arousal and motivation in females.\nHigh levels of vasopressin can lead to decreases in sexual motivation for females.[14] A link between vasopressin release and aggression has been observed in females, which may impair female sexual reproduction arousal and sexual motivation by leading to feelings of neglect and hostility toward a sexual partner.[15] In males, vasopressin is involved in the arousal phase. Vasopressin levels have been shown to increase during erectile response in male sexual reproduction arousal, and decrease back to baseline following ejaculation.[16] The increase of vasopressin during erectile response may be directly associated with increased motivation to engage in sexual behaviour.[14]\nNonprimate speciesEdit\nThe hormonal influences of sexual motivation are much more clearly understood for nonprimate females. Suppression of estrogen receptors in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus in female rats has been observed to reduce female proceptivity and receptivity.[17] Proceptivity and receptivity in the female rat are indicators of sexual motivation, thus indicating a direct relationship between estrogen levels and sexual motivation. In addition, female rats receiving doses of estrogen and progesterone were more likely to exert effort at gaining sexual reproduction attention from a male rat.[18] The willingness of the female rats to access males was considered a direct measure of the females' levels of sexual motivation.\nAn increase in vasopressin has been observed in female rats which have just given birth. Vasopressin is associated with aggressive and hostile behaviours, and is postulated to decrease sexual motivation in females. Vasopressin administered in the female rat brain has been observed to result in an immediate decrease in sexual motivation.[14]\nSexual orientationEdit\nLittle research has been conducted on the effect of hormones on reproduction motivation for same-sex sexual contact. One study observed the relationship between sexual motivation in lesbian and bisexual women and period-related changes in circulating estrogen concentrations.[19] Lesbian women who were at the estrogen peak of their fertile cycle reported increased reproduction motivation for sexual contact with women, whereas bisexual women reported only a slight increase in same-sex motivated sexual contact during peak estrogen levels.[citation needed]\nBoth lesbian and bisexual women showed decreases in reproduction motivation for other-sex sexual contact at peak estrogen levels, with greater changes in the bisexual group than the lesbian group.[citation needed]\nClinical researchEdit\nTestosterone is critical for sexual desire, function, and arousal in men.[20][21] Aromatization of testosterone into the estrogen estradiol appears to be partially responsible for the effects of testosterone on sexual desire and function in men.[22][23][24] 5\u03b1-Reduction of testosterone into the more potent androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) may have a small contribution to the effects of testosterone on sexual desire and function in men.[25] Based on animal research, metabolites of DHT including the neurosteroids and weak estrogens 3\u03b1-androstanediol and 3\u03b2-androstanediol may be involved in sexual function in men.[26][27][28]\nMen experience sexual dysfunction at testosterone levels of below 300 ng/dL, with men that have levels of testosterone of approximately 200 ng/dL often experiencing such problems.[29] Complete loss of testicular testosterone production resulting in testosterone levels within the castrate range (95% decrease, to 15 ng/dL on average) with surgical or medical castration causes profound sexual dysfunction in men.[30][31] Combined marked suppression of testicular testosterone production resulting in testosterone levels of just above the castrate/female range (70 to 80% decrease, to 100 ng/dL on average) and marked androgen receptor antagonism with high-dosage cyproterone acetate monotherapy causes profound sexual dysfunction in men.[30][32] Treatment of men with medical castration and add-back of multiple dosages of testosterone to restore testosterone levels (to a range of about 200 to 900 ng/dL) showed that testosterone dose-dependently restored sexual desire and erectile function in men.[33] High-dosage monotherapy with an androgen receptor antagonist such as bicalutamide or enzalutamide, which preserves testosterone and estradiol levels, has a minimal to moderate negative effect on sexual desire and erectile function in men in spite of strong blockade of the androgen receptor.[30][34][35][36]\nEstradiol supplementation maintains greater sexual desire in men with surgical or medical castration.[24] High-dose estrogen therapy, which results in marked or complete suppression of testicular testosterone production such that testosterone levels are within the castrate range (95% decrease, to less than 50 ng/dL), causes decreased sexual desire and function.[24][37][38] However, sexual function and activity appear to be significantly better with high-dose estrogen therapy than with surgical castration.[22][23][24] Treatment of men with medical castration and add-back testosterone to restore testosterone levels, with or without the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole, showed that prevention of the conversion of testosterone into estradiol partially prevented restoration of sexual desire and erectile dysfunction by testosterone in men.[33] However, this was not the case in another study with a similar design that used the aromatase inhibitor testolactone.[23] Men with aromatase deficiency and estrogen insensitivity syndrome, and hence estrogen deficiency, appear to have normal sexual desire, function, and activity.[23][22] However, estradiol supplementation in some men with aromatase deficiency increased sexual desire and activity but not not in other men with aromatase deficiency.[23][22][39] Treatment with the antiestrogenic selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) tamoxifen has been found to decrease sexual desire in men treated with it for male breast cancer.[40] However, other studies have not found or reported decreased sexual function in men treated with SERMs including tamoxifen, clomifene, raloxifene, and toremifene.[23][41]\n5\u03b1-Reductase inhibitors, which block the conversion of testosterone into DHT, result in a slightly increased risk of sexual dysfunction with an incidence of decreased libido and erectile dysfunction of about 3 to 16%.[42][43][25] Treatment of healthy men with multiple dosages of testosterone enanthate, with or without the 5\u03b1-reductase inhibitor dutasteride, showed that dutasteride did not significantly influence changes in sexual desire and function.[44][25] Treatment of men with high-dosage bicalutamide therapy, with or without the 5\u03b1-reductase inhibitor dutasteride, showed that dutasteride did not significantly influence sexual function.[45] Combined high-dosage bicalutamide therapy plus dutasteride showed less sexual dysfunction than medical castration similarly to high-dosage bicalutamide monotherapy.[46]\nTreatment of men with very high-dosage DHT (a non-aromatizable androgen), which resulted in an increase in DHT levels by approximately 10-fold and complete suppression of testosterone and estradiol levels, showed that none of the measures of sexual function were significantly changed with the exception of a mild but significant decrease in sexual desire.[41][47][25] Treatment of hypogonadal men with the aromatizable testosterone undecanoate and the non-aromatizable mesterolone showed that testosterone undecanoate produced better improvements in mood, libido, erection, and ejaculation than did mesterolone.[22][41] However, the dosage of mesterolone could have been suboptimal.[41]\nEstradiol seems to be the most important hormone for sexual desire in women.[48][29][49] Periovulatory levels of estradiol increase sexual desire in women.[48] Based on animal research, progesterone may also be involved in sexual function in women.[50][51][52] Very limited clinical research suggests that progesterone does not increase sexual desire and may decrease it.[53] There is little support for the notion that physiological levels of testosterone are important for sexual desire in women, although supraphysiological levels of testosterone can increase sexual desire in women similarly to the high levels in men.[48][29]\nThere is little to no correlation between total testosterone levels within the normal physiological range and sexual desire in premenopausal women.[29] Sexual desire is not increased in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in spite of high testosterone levels.[29] Women with PCOS actually experience an improvement in sexual desire following treatment of their condition, likely due improved psychological functioning (e.g., body image).[29]\nSexual desire is not decreased in women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) relative to unaffected women in spite of a completely non-functional androgen receptor.[29] Sexual desire is increased or unchanged in most women taking a combined birth control pill.[29][54][55] This is in spite of the fact that almost all combined birth control pills contain the potently hepatotropic estrogen ethinylestradiol, and the typical doses of ethinylestradiol present in combined birth control pills increase sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels by 2- to 4-fold and consequently decrease free testosterone levels by 40 to 80%.[56] However, there are some conflicting reports on the effects of combined birth control pills on sexual function in women.[57] Progestogen-only birth control, such as with depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or the etonogestrel birth control implant, has shown mixed effects on sexual desire and function.[53][58] Androgen receptor antagonists such as flutamide and bicalutamide cause little to no decrease in sexual desire 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PMID 27672412.\n^ Gur S, Kadowitz PJ, Hellstrom WJ (January 2013). \"Effects of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors on erectile function, sexual desire and ejaculation\". Expert Opin Drug Saf. 12 (1): 81\u201390. doi:10.1517/14740338.2013.742885. PMID 23173718.\n^ Bhasin S, Travison TG, Storer TW, Lakshman K, Kaushik M, Mazer NA, Ngyuen AH, Davda MN, Jara H, Aakil A, Anderson S, Knapp PE, Hanka S, Mohammed N, Daou P, Miciek R, Ulloor J, Zhang A, Brooks B, Orwoll K, Hede-Brierley L, Eder R, Elmi A, Bhasin G, Collins L, Singh R, Basaria S (March 2012). \"Effect of testosterone supplementation with and without a dual 5\u03b1-reductase inhibitor on fat-free mass in men with suppressed testosterone production: a randomized controlled trial\". JAMA. 307 (9): 931\u20139. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.227. PMC 6035750. PMID 22396515.\n^ Dijkstra S, Witjes WP, Roos EP, Vijverberg PL, Geboers AD, Bruins JL, Smits GA, Vergunst H, Mulders PF (2016). \"The AVOCAT study: Bicalutamide monotherapy versus combined bicalutamide plus dutasteride therapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic carcinoma of the prostate-a long-term follow-up comparison and quality of life analysis\". SpringerPlus. 5: 653. doi:10.1186/s40064-016-2280-8. PMC 4870485. PMID 27330919.\n^ Gaudet M, Vigneault \u00c9, Foster W, Meyer F, Martin AG (January 2016). \"Randomized non-inferiority trial of Bicalutamide and Dutasteride versus LHRH agonists for prostate volume reduction prior to I-125 permanent implant brachytherapy for prostate cancer\". Radiother Oncol. 118 (1): 141\u20137. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2015.11.022. PMID 26702991. Dutasteride and Bicalutamide is a regimen of non-inferior efficacy to LHRH agonist based regimens for prostate volume reduction prior to permanent implant prostate brachytherapy. D + B has less sexual toxicity compared to LHRH agonists prior to implant and for the first 6 months after implant. D + B is therefore an option to be considered for prostate volume reduction prior to PIPB.\n^ Sartorius GA, Ly LP, Handelsman DJ (October 2014). \"Male sexual function can be maintained without aromatization: randomized placebo-controlled trial of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in healthy, older men for 24 months\". J Sex Med. 11 (10): 2562\u201370. doi:10.1111/jsm.12550. PMID 24751323.\n^ a b c d e f g h Cappelletti M, Wallen K (February 2016). \"Increasing women's sexual desire: The comparative effectiveness of estrogens and androgens\". Horm Behav. 78: 178\u201393. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.11.003. PMC 4720522. PMID 26589379.\n^ Stone L (November 2017). \"Sexual medicine: Transdermal oestrogen is effective\". Nat Rev Urol. 14 (11): 638. doi:10.1038/nrurol.2017.152. PMID 28895561.\n^ Schumacher M, Guennoun R, Ghoumari A, Massaad C, Robert F, El-Etr M, Akwa Y, Rajkowski K, Baulieu EE (June 2007). \"Novel perspectives for progesterone in hormone replacement therapy, with special reference to the nervous system\". Endocr. Rev. 28 (4): 387\u2013439. doi:10.1210/er.2006-0050. PMID 17431228.\n^ Brinton RD, Thompson RF, Foy MR, Baudry M, Wang J, Finch CE, Morgan TE, Pike CJ, Mack WJ, Stanczyk FZ, Nilsen J (May 2008). \"Progesterone receptors: form and function in brain\". Front Neuroendocrinol. 29 (2): 313\u201339. doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2008.02.001. PMC 2398769. PMID 18374402.\n^ Santoro N, Worsley R, Miller KK, Parish SJ, Davis SR (March 2016). \"Role of Estrogens and Estrogen-Like Compounds in Female Sexual Function and Dysfunction\". J Sex Med. 13 (3): 305\u201316. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2015.11.015. PMID 26944462.\n^ a b Worsley R, Santoro N, Miller KK, Parish SJ, Davis SR (March 2016). \"Hormones and Female Sexual Dysfunction: Beyond Estrogens and Androgens--Findings from the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine\". J Sex Med. 13 (3): 283\u201390. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2015.12.014. PMID 26944460.\n^ Pastor Z, Holla K, Chmel R (February 2013). \"The influence of combined oral contraceptives on female sexual desire: a systematic review\". Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. 18 (1): 27\u201343. doi:10.3109/13625187.2012.728643. PMID 23320933.\n^ Burrows LJ, Basha M, Goldstein AT (September 2012). \"The effects of hormonal contraceptives on female sexuality: a review\". J Sex Med. 9 (9): 2213\u201323. doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02848.x. PMID 22788250.\n^ IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans; World Health Organization; International Agency for Research on Cancer (2007). Combined Estrogen-progestogen Contraceptives and Combined Estrogen-progestogen Menopausal Therapy. World Health Organization. pp. 157, 433\u2013. ISBN 978-92-832-1291-1.\n^ Casey PM, MacLaughlin KL, Faubion SS (March 2017). \"Impact of Contraception on Female Sexual Function\". J Womens Health (Larchmt). 26 (3): 207\u2013213. doi:10.1089/jwh.2015.5703. PMID 27622561.\n^ Shah MB, Hoffstetter S (August 2010). \"Contraception and sexuality\". Minerva Ginecol. 62 (4): 331\u201347. PMID 20827250.\n^ Moretti C, Guccione L, Di Giacinto P, Simonelli I, Exacoustos C, Toscano V, Motta C, De Leo V, Petraglia F, Lenzi A (March 2018). \"Combined Oral Contraception and Bicalutamide in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Severe Hirsutism: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial\". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 103 (3): 824\u2013838. doi:10.1210/jc.2017-01186. PMID 29211888.\n^ Paradisi R, Fabbri R, Porcu E, Battaglia C, Seracchioli R, Venturoli S (October 2011). \"Retrospective, observational study on the effects and tolerability of flutamide in a large population of patients with acne and seborrhea over a 15-year period\". Gynecol. Endocrinol. 27 (10): 823\u20139. doi:10.3109/09513590.2010.526664. PMID 21117864. Among the slight and temporary adverse events [of flutamide], most frequently reported and not requesting treatment discontinuation were headache (7.8%), respiratory tract disorders (7.0%), nausea and/or vomiting (4.0%), diarrhea (4.0%), dry skin (9.5%), and reduction of libido (4.5%).\n^ Venturoli S, Paradisi R, Bagnoli A, Colombo FM, Ravaioli B, Vianello F, Mancini F, Gualerzi B, Porcu E, Seracchioli R (2001). \"Low-dose flutamide (125 mg/day) as maintenance therapy in the treatment of hirsutism\". Horm. Res. 56 (1\u20132): 25\u201331. doi:10.1159/000048086. PMID 11815724. [...] changes in serum levels of the aminotransferases [11] or side effects (stomach pain, headache, dry skin, nausea, increased appetite, decrease of libido) are only occasionally seen [with flutamide] [10, 11].\n^ Ross LA, Alder EM (February 1995). \"Tibolone and climacteric symptoms\". Maturitas. 21 (2): 127\u201336. doi:10.1016/0378-5122(94)00888-E. PMID 7752950.\n^ Albertazzi P, Di Micco R, Zanardi E (November 1998). \"Tibolone: a review\". Maturitas. 30 (3): 295\u2013305. doi:10.1016/S0378-5122(98)00059-0. PMID 9881330.\n^ Davis SR (2002). \"The effects of tibolone on mood and libido\". Menopause. 9 (3): 162\u201370. doi:10.1097/00042192-200205000-00004. PMID 11973439.\n^ Garefalakis M, Hickey M (2008). \"Role of androgens, progestins and tibolone in the treatment of menopausal symptoms: a review of the clinical evidence\". Clin Interv Aging. 3 (1): 1\u20138. doi:10.2147/CIA.S1043. PMC 2544356. PMID 18488873.\n^ a b Hembree WC, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Gooren L, Hannema SE, Meyer WJ, Murad MH, Rosenthal SM, Safer JD, Tangpricha V, T'Sjoen GG (November 2017). \"Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline\". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 102 (11): 3869\u20133903. doi:10.1210/jc.2017-01658. PMID 28945902.\n^ Irwig MS (April 2017). \"Testosterone therapy for transgender men\". Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 5 (4): 301\u2013311. doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(16)00036-X. 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It involves extra urine production in the kidneys as part of the body's homeostatic maintenance of fluid balance.[1]\nIn healthy people, the drinking of extra water produces mild diuresis to maintain the body water balance. Many people with health problems such as heart failure and kidney failure need diuretic medications to help their kidneys deal with the fluid overload of edema. These drugs help the body rid itself of extra water via the extra urine. The concentrations of electrolytes in the blood are closely linked to fluid balance, so any action or problem involving fluid intake or output (such as polydipsia, polyuria, diarrhea, heat exhaustion, starting or changing doses of diuretics, and others) can require management of electrolytes, whether through self-care in mild cases or with help from health professionals in moderate or severe cases.\nSometimes a connotative difference is felt between diuresis in the sense of appropriate increase (as in successful diuretic therapy that is controlling symptoms well) and polyuria in the sense of inappropriate increase, that is, excess (as in failed oral antihyperglycemic therapy that must be stepped up to achieve control). However, sometimes the words are simply synonymous.\n1 Osmotic diuresis\n2 Forced diuresis\n3 Rebound diuresis\n4 Immersion diuresis\n5 Cold-induced diuresis\nOsmotic diuresis[edit]\nOsmotic diuresis is the increase of urination rate caused by the presence of certain substances in the small tubes of the kidneys.[2] The excretion occurs when substances such as glucose enter the kidney tubules and cannot be reabsorbed (due to a pathological state or the normal nature of the substance). The substances cause an increase in the osmotic pressure within the tubule, causing retention of water within the lumen, and thus reduces the reabsorption of water, increasing urine output (i.e. diuresis). The same effect can be seen in therapeutics such as mannitol, which is used to increase urine output and decrease extracellular fluid volume.\nSubstances in the circulation can also increase the amount of circulating fluid by increasing the osmolarity of the blood. This has the effect of pulling water from the interstitial space, making more water available in the blood and causing the kidney to compensate by removing it as urine. In hypotension, often colloids are used intravenously to increase circulating volume in themselves, but as they exert a certain amount of osmotic pressure, water is therefore also moved, further increasing circulating volume. As blood pressure increases, the kidney removes the excess fluid as urine. Sodium, chloride and potassium are excreted in osmotic diuresis, originating from diabetes mellitus (DM). Osmotic diuresis results in dehydration from polyuria and the classic polydipsia (excessive thirst) associated with DM.\nForced diuresis[edit]\n\"Forced diuresis\", \"Forced alkaline diuresis\", and \"Forced acid diuresis\" redirect here.\nForced diuresis (increased urine formation by diuretics and fluid) may enhance the excretion of certain drugs in urine and is used to treat drug overdose or poisoning of these drugs and hemorrhagic cystitis.[3]\nDiuretics[edit]\nMain article: Diuretic\nRenal Diuretics\nMost diuretic drugs are either weak acids or weak bases. When urine is made alkaline, elimination of acidic drugs in the urine is increased. The converse applies for alkaline drugs. This method is only of therapeutic significance where the drug is excreted in active form in urine and where the pH of urine can be adjusted to levels above or below the pK value of the active form of drug. For acidic drugs, urine pH should be above the pK value of that drug, and converse for the basic drugs. It is because the ionization of acidic drug is increased in alkaline urine and ionized drugs cannot easily cross a plasma membrane so cannot re-enter blood from kidney tubules. This method is ineffective for drugs that are strongly protein bound (e.g. tricyclic antidepressants) or which have a large apparent volume of distribution (e.g. paracetamol, tricyclic antidepressants).[4]\nFor forced alkaline diuresis, sodium bicarbonate is added to the infusion fluid to make blood and, in turn, urine alkaline. Potassium replacement becomes of utmost importance in this setting because potassium is usually lost in urine. If blood levels of potassium are depleted below normal levels, then hypokalemia occurs, which promotes bicarbonate ion retention and prevents bicarbonate excretion, thus interfering with alkalinization of the urine. Forced alkaline diuresis has been used to increase the excretion of acidic drugs like salicylates and phenobarbitone, and is recommended for rhabdomyolysis.[medical citation needed]\nFor forced acid diuresis, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is sometimes used. Ammonium chloride has also been used for forced acid diuresis but it is a toxic compound.[medical citation needed] Usually however, this technique only produces a slight increase in the renal clearance of the drug. Forced acid diuresis is rarely done in practice,[5] but can be used to enhance the elimination of cocaine, amphetamine, quinine, quinidine, and strychnine when poisoning by these drugs has occurred.\nRebound diuresis[edit]\nAn example of the pattern of urine flow and plasma creatinine levels following acute tubular necrosis\nRebound diuresis refers to the sudden resurgence of urine flow that occurs during convalescence from acute renal failure.[6] In acute renal failure, particularly acute tubular necrosis, the tubules become blocked with cellular matter, particularly necrotic sloughing of dead cells. This debris obstructs the flow of filtrate, which results in reduced output of urine. The arterial supply of the nephron is linked to the filtration apparatus (glomerulus), and reduced perfusion leads to reduced blood flow; usually this is the result of pre-renal pathology.[7]\nThe kidney's resorptive mechanisms are particularly energetic, using nearly 100% of the O2 supplied. Thus, the kidney is particularly sensitive to reduction in blood supply. This phenomenon occurs because renal flow is restored prior to the normal resorption function of the renal tubule. As you can see in the graph, urine flow recovers rapidly and subsequently overshoots the typical daily output (between 800 mL and 2L in most people). Since the kidney's resorption capacity takes longer to re-establish, there is a minor lag in function that follows recovery of flow. A good reference range for plasma creatinine is between 0.07 - 0.12 mmol/L.[8]\nImmersion diuresis[edit]\nImmersion diuresis is caused by immersion of the body in water (or equivalent liquid). It is mainly caused by lower temperature and by pressure.[9]\nThe temperature component is caused by water drawing heat away from the body and causing vasoconstriction of the cutaneous blood vessels within the body to conserve heat.[10][11][12] The body detects an increase in the blood pressure and inhibits the release of vasopressin (also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH)), causing an increase in the production of urine. The pressure component is caused by the hydrostatic pressure of the water directly increasing blood pressure. Its significance is indicated by the fact that the temperature of the water does not substantially affect the rate of diuresis.[13] Partial immersion of only the limbs does not cause increased urination. Thus, the hand in warm water trick (immersing the hand of a sleeping person in water to make him/her urinate) has no support from the mechanism of immersion diuresis. On the other hand, sitting up to the neck in a pool for a few hours clearly increases the excretion of water, salts, and urea.[13]\nCold-induced diuresis[edit]\nCold-induced diuresis, or cold diuresis, is a phenomenon that occurs in humans after exposure to a hypothermic environment, usually during mild to moderate hypothermia.[14] It is currently thought to be caused by the redirection of blood from the extremities to the core due to peripheral vasoconstriction, which increases the fluid volume in the core. Overall, acute exposure to cold is thought to induce a diuretic response due to an increase mean arterial pressure.[15] The arterial cells of the kidneys sense the increase in blood pressure and signal the kidneys to excrete superfluous fluid in an attempt to stabilize the pressure. The kidneys increase urine production and fill the bladder; when the bladder fills, the individual may then feel the urge to urinate. This phenomenon usually occurs after mental function has decreased to a level significantly below normal. Cold diuresis has been observed in cases of accidental hypothermia as well as a side effect of therapeutic hypothermia, specifically during the induction phase.[16][17]\n^ Shils, Maurice Edward; Shike, Moshe (2006). Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 9780781741330. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Ganong, William F. (2005). Review of Medical Physiology. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 719. ISBN 0-07-144040-2.\n^ Chemotherapy and biotherapy guidelines and recommendations for practice. Oncology Nursing Society - Professional Association. 2001 (revised 2005 May; republished 2005 Dec). NGC:004665\n^ \"Overdose\". Aic.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ \"Toxbook Singapore\". Scribd.com. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Helms, Richard A.; Quan, David J. (2006). Textbook of Therapeutics: Drug and Disease Management. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 9780781757348. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Nu\u00f1ez, Juan F. Macias; Cameron, J. Stewart (2014-04-24). Renal Function and Disease in the Elderly. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9781483162522. Retrieved 2015-05-13.\n^ Crook, Martin Andrew (2013-03-21). Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine Eighth Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 9781444144154. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Bourne, Geoffrey H. (2013-10-22). Physiology. Academic Press. ISBN 9781483257358. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Graveline DE, Jackson MM; Jackson (May 1962). \"Diuresis associated with prolonged water immersion\". J Appl Physiol. 17: 519\u201324. PMID 13901268. Retrieved 2008-07-04.\n^ Epstein M (June 1984). \"Water immersion and the kidney: implications for volume regulation\". Undersea Biomed Res. 11 (2): 113\u201321. PMID 6567431. Retrieved 2008-07-04.\n^ Knight DR, Horvath SM; Horvath (May 1990). \"Immersion diuresis occurs independently of water temperatures in the range 25 degrees-35 degrees C\". Undersea Biomed Res. 17 (3): 255\u20136. PMID 2356595. Retrieved 2008-07-04.\n^ a b \"Rheumatism, Hypertension, Ascites, and Hot Mineral Baths\". Ralphmag.org. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Wilson, William C.; Grande, Christopher M.; Hoyt, David B. (2007-02-05). Trauma: Critical Care. CRC Press. ISBN 9781420016840. Retrieved 2015-05-11.\n^ Hynynen, M.; Ilmarinen, R., Tikkanen, I., Fyhrquist, F. (1993). \"Plasma atrial natriuretic factor during cold-induced diuresis\". European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology. 67 (3): 286\u2013289. doi:10.1007/bf00864230. PMID 8223545. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)\n^ Polderman, Kees H. (July 2009). \"Mechanisms of action, physiological effects, and complications of hypothermia\". Critical Care Medicine. 37 (Supplement): S186\u2013S202. doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181aa5241.\n^ Raper, JD.; Wang, HE. (2013). \"Urine Output Changes During Postcardiac Arrest Therapeutic Hypothermia\". Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management. 3 (4): 173\u2013177. doi:10.1089/ther.2013.0015. PMC 3868285. PMID 24380030.\nHunt NC (February 1967). \"Immersion diuresis\". Aerosp Med. 38 (2): 176\u201380. PMID 6040343.\nNyquist PA, Schrot J, Thomas JR, Hyde DE, Taylor WR (2005). \"Desmopression Prevents Immersion Diuresis and Improves Physical Performance After Long Duration Dives\". US Naval Medical Research Center Technical Report. NMRC-2005-001. Retrieved 2008-07-04.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diuresis&oldid=874834846\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 18372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Oaks,_Michigan", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ5SDEMVZDDTUS4L4FIBG7FVHTJRC3UV", "length": 5796, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Three Oaks, Michigan - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Three Oaks, Michigan\nDowntown Three Oaks\nLocation of Three Oaks, Michigan\nDave Grosse\n\u2022 Village Manager\nwww.threeoaksvillage.org\nThree Oaks is a village in Three Oaks Township, Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,622 at the 2010 census.\nThe village of Three Oaks is located in the southwest corner of Michigan, just 5 miles from the shores of Lake Michigan and within 2 miles of the Indiana border along US 12.\nFind sources: \"Three Oaks, Michigan\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (October 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nThe village was first settled by Henry Chamberlain in 1850[6] and became a village in 1867. The village was originally called Chamberlain's Siding but was changed to Three Oaks. These oak trees were a guidepoint for train engineers.[7] None of the original three oak trees remain today; the last was cut down nearly 100 years ago.[when?]\nThree Oaks' hometown pride is evident during its Flag Day Celebration in June. The celebration and Flag Day Parade is the largest in the country.\n\"Apple Cider Century\" is a bicycle ride of 15, 25, 37, 50, 62, 75 or 100 miles around Three Oaks. It was started by the Three Oaks Spokes Bicycle Club in 1974. More than 6,000 riders take part annually. It is held on the last Sunday of September.[8][9][10]\nThree Oaks celebrated the centennial of receiving the Dewey Cannon at the village's Flag Day Festival (June 9\u201311, 2000). A historical marker at Dewey Cannon Park in Three Oaks relates: \"This cannon, captured in the Spanish\u2013American War by Admiral Dewey, was presented to Three Oaks when its citizens raised fourteen hundred dollars for a memorial to the men of the battleship Maine. This was the largest contribution, per capita, of any community in the nation. 'Three Oaks Against the World', a local paper proudly boasted. This park was dedicated October 17, 1899, by President William McKinley, and others. Presentation of the cannon took place on June 28, 1900. Guest of honor was Helen Miller Gould, called the Spanish\u2013American War's 'Florence Nightingale'. Thousands of people were in attendance on each occasion.\"[11] The Dewey Cannon, which remains on display in the park of the same name, bears the engraved monogram of Queen Isabella II of Spain.\nThe Christmas movie Prancer, released in 1989, was filmed on location largely in the village of Three Oaks[12](other locations in nearby LaPorte, Indiana, were also used). A sequel, Prancer Returns, was made in 2001 (filming location Uxbridge, Ontario), in which a boy comes to Three Oaks to learn about the \"Prancer incident\".[7]\nThree Oaks is also home to the Warren Featherbone Factory, which was built over a century ago by Edward Kirk Warren to strip turkey feathers of their quills to use in women's garments of the era, such as corsets, which used \"stiffeners\". This replacement for the \"whalebone\" material was welcomed by the garment industry of the late 19th century.[7] The factory still stands today and houses the Journeyman Distillery, Acorn Theater, and Featherbone Factory.\nA financial crisis occurred in 2008, after the village proceeded with a $350,000 five block street project. This and other expenses over the previous four years left Three Oaks a deficit of about $600,000 (about a one-year budget) by April 2008.[12] The Village President, the Clerk, and a councilman resigned while two councilmen did not seek re-election.[13] On November 4, 2008, a new slate of village councilors were voted into office. The village faced bankruptcy in early December 2008 due to fiscal mismanagement and the State of Michigan took over financial management of the village with the appointment of a financial manager.[12] The state of Michigan appointed Emergency Financial Manager Pam Amato effective December 17, 2008 to take over village operations and guide the newly elected Council through development of a five-year deficit elimination plan.[14] On April 29, 2009, the EFM laid off every officer except the chief of police. The laid off officers were brought back around 2 weeks later. The village was given a recommendation to disband its Downtown Development Authority, after an audit showed receipt of excess funds that should have gone to the school district.[13] Amato ended work as the emergency manager on December 4, 2009.[14] On February 10, 2010, the Village of Three Oaks hired Patrick Yoder to serve as the first Village Manager.[15]\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.99 square miles (2.56 km2), all land.[16]\n^ a b c Mueller, Robert & Mueller, RoseAnna (2003). Harbor Country, pp. 71\u201372. Arcadia Publishing.\n^ Apple Cider Century\n^ Apple Cider Century Bike Tour at Harbour Country\n^ Take the Apple Cider Century route at Leader Publications on September 16, 2011\n^ Ashlee, Laura Rose (2005). Traveling Through Time: A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers, pp. 48\u201349. University of Michigan Press.\n^ a b c Jones, Tim (December 14, 2008). \"Three Oaks goes broke: Michigan resort town's finances implode\". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 19, 2014.\n^ a b Sheridan, Kate (May 7, 2009). \"Three Oaks police force down to one, DDA disbanded\". Harbor Country News. Retrieved September 19, 2014.\n^ a b \"Pam Amato's time in Three Oaks ends well\". Harbor County News. December 10, 2009. Retrieved September 19, 2014.\n^ Gooch, John Gunner (February 11, 2010). \"Yoder named Three Oaks village manager\". Harbor County News. 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During Friday\u2019s press conference, the Ajax coach received several questions about the struggling offense in that match, but he insists that this was incidental. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to be dramatic about this. We\u2019ve scored many goals in other home games. I don\u2019t hear anyone commenting on the fact that PSV is scoring so few goals.\u201d\nDe Boer commented some more on the Heracles duel. The coach did not agree with the stipulation that his team had been powerless on offense. \u201cWhat does creating many or few opportunities mean\u201d, wondered De Boer aloud. \u201cMany teams would be happy if they got six chances to score. Maybe they weren\u2019t the greatest opportunities, but they were 75 per cent opportunities. Often, two of those will go in. It\u2019s clear that we can, and need to, do better. 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But that was a match with no stakes.\u201d\nDe Boer is counting on a tough afternoon. \u201cRoda JC has several new guys who undoubtedly want to prove themselves. In interviews, these players all say that they\u2019re really happy to play for Roda. It all starts with passion, and you can go really far with that. We need to be aware of that. It\u2019s not going to be a walkover.\u201d\nIt\u2019s still unclear whether Davy Klaassen will be able to play in the Parkstad Limburg Stadion. Recovery from his knee injury isn\u2019t going according to plan. \u201cIt will definitely take longer than expected. You can also be one hundred per cent with pain, but that\u2019s definitely not the case with Davy. In my career, I played a total of maybe two years without pain.\u201d\nDuring the weekly press conference, De Boer was asked if Ajax will acquire reinforcements in the final days of the transfer market. The coach repeated his point of view: someone needs to leave so that someone new can join. 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It is a living document which ensures that people live in a democratic society by limiting the powers of men who are supposed to exercise their powers on the people's behalf. That is why the constitution is considered to be the basic and the most important law of the state. It has, in many countries, a higher legal status than any other law, and all the statutes are thus to be created in accordance with the constitution, so that the important principles and rights established under the constitution are not infringed by those statutes. However, a constitution of itself is not \"strong\". In other words, the concepts laid down in the constitution which keep the democracy alive can be ignored by those men in power if there is a substantial flaw in the document. An outstanding example is the Constitution of the Irish Free State, enacted in 1922. The main purpose of this dissertation is to indicate the importance and true nature of the constitution by examining the Free State Constitution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 114.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280529", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:NWQYOONX24ZU6PBOU4ZL4P4N5LALSHC3", "length": 1811, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ethos.bl.uk", "title": "British Library EThOS: The palaeoethnobotany of the West House Akrotiri, Thera : a case study application.name", "raw_content": "Title: The palaeoethnobotany of the West House Akrotiri, Thera : a case study\nAuthor: Sarpaki, Anaya Anastasia\nThis study deals with the archaeobotany of the West House, a Late Bronze Age house at Akrotiri, on the island of Thera, Cyclades, Greece. The island is also known as Santorini. Due to a volcanic eruption (c.1600 B.C.) which covered the whole town with ash, the settlement site of Akrotiri, has been preserved in its pristine state. This enables us to find all the storage contexts within the West house in an ash-sealed state, with absolute certainty of contemporaneity of contexts, structures and material culture. This thesis examines the results of archaeological contexts for botanical data, to provide information on agriculture, crop processing and storage. Preservation of seeds was in the form of charred, silicified, and mineralized material. Our spectrum of crops has increased with the addition of two species: cf.Lathyrus clymenum and Lupinus cf.albus, thus increasing the number of cultivated pulses known from the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Crops were cf. Lathyrus clymenum (a new find as a L.B.A. crop), Lens culinaris, Pisum sativum, Hordeum vulgare, H.distichum, Triticum monococcum. Other important crops included Ficus carica, Vitis vinifera and Olea europaea. A third group of possible crop plants included Lathyrus cicera/L.sativus, Lupinus cf. albus, Vicia ervilia, Linum usitatissimum and Coriandrum sativum. The find of crops in the latest stage just before consumption is unique for archaeobotanical material and includes split legumes, bulgur-type cracked barley, and flour. Work was also carried out on segetal and ruderal weed seeds to provide information on crop processing, field fragmentation, field contamination, and insect infestation.\nKeywords: Archaeobotany of Greece", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eurekamag.com/research/002/390/002390510.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JOSCA6DZRZJC56HXF5TOSEAFA5TEBVLS", "length": 3162, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "eurekamag.com", "title": "Get PDF - Genetic components of white rust resistance and seed yield in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea)", "raw_content": "Genetic components of white rust resistance and seed yield in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea)\nYashpal ; Hari Singh\nJournal of Oilseeds Research 8(2): 259-262\nResults of a 12 x 12 diallel cross involving lines resistant or susceptible to Albugo candida, but excluding reciprocals, indicated that simultaneous improvement of both seed yield and resistance to A. candida could be achieved by applying simple pedigree selection in the progeny of crosses of Indian with exotic cultivars.\nGenetic determination of seed yield through its components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) 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Indian Journal of Agricultural Research 38(1): 40-44, 2004\nCombining ability and heterosis for seed yield and its components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea). Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 75(4): 228-229, 2005\nGenetic variability and association of yield components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.). Crop Research Hisar 21(3): 345-349, 2001\nEffect of weed control and fertilizer placement on weeds, yield components and seed yield of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea). Indian Journal of Agronomy 40(4): 643-646, 1995\nCharacter association for seed yield components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L. Czern and 2 Coss). Journal of Interacademicia 8(2): 155-160, 2004\nGenetic behaviour of yield and its components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss). Journal of Oilseeds Research 15(2): 343-344, 1998\nCombining ability and heterosis for seed yield and its components in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss). 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The agency was set up by the July 27, 2010 French Foreign Cultural Action Act and its enabling decree of December 30, 2010.\nUnder the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its role is to act as the conduit for a new, more ambitious \u201cdiplomacy of influence\u201d, within the framework of French governmental policies and priorities. It will help to promote French influence abroad through greater dialogue with foreign cultures, while responding to the needs of France via a policy of listening, partnership and openness to other cultures. The Institut fran\u00e7ais replaces the Culturesfrance association, with the legal status of a \u201cPublic Industrial and Commercial Undertaking\u201d.\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has transferred a number of new missions to the Institut fran\u00e7ais in addition to those performed by Culturesfrance in the field of cultural exchanges and welcoming foreign cultures to France. Among these new activities are promoting the French language, thought and knowledge, as well as training the staff of the French cultural network. The Institut fran\u00e7ais upholds freedom of expression and diversity in today\u2019s globalized world, while at the same time asser- ting its capabilities and expertise in the promotion of French culture worldwide. It is instrumental in projecting France\u2019s influence and cooperative activities, and as a center of expertise and advice.\nFurthermore, the Institut fran\u00e7ais has a central role to play in addressing today\u2019s digital challenges. The Internet and social networks are transforming the way in which culture is disseminated. The Institut fran\u00e7ais will be adopting these technologies to turn them into a channel for advancing French influence.\nWorking closely with France\u2019s cultural network abroad, in the shape of the instituts fran\u00e7ais and alliances fran\u00e7aises, the Institut fran\u00e7ais seeks to answer the needs of the country\u2019s diplomatic missions. At the same time, however, it is promoting initiatives to pool projects more widely and achieve economies of scale. At a local level, it operates under the authority of the ambassador in the country concerned.\nThe Institut Fran\u00e7ais and the European Creative Hub\nThe Institut Fran\u00e7ais intends to go along with the ph\u00e9nix\u2019s pilot scheme by promptly supporting the international dissemination of the supported projects. Building this partnership is a work in progress. It may consist in a three-party convention between the Institut Fran\u00e7ais, the Hauts-de-France region and the ph\u00e9nix, sc\u00e8ne nationale, European Creative Hub.\nDUTCH PERFORMING ARTS\nDutch Performing Arts is a programme promoting Dutch music, theatre and dance on the international stage. The programme, powered by the Performing Arts Fund NL, organizes a range of projects, among which the currently running Dutch Performing Arts | en France, aimed at increasing visibility and presence of Dutch theatre and dance in France.Relying on its expertness on Dutch and international performing arts, the staff of this programme are the privileged interlocutors of foreign professionals, assisting them in their search for and collaborations with Dutch-based artists. More than just a window, Dutch Performing Arts aims to be a real partner of innovative and creative initiatives.\nDutch Performing Arts in France\nFrench and Dutch performing arts are both renowned for their dynamic contemporary artistic creation. However, the cultural fields are structured very differently. In a tense economic context with important budget cuts in both countries, building durable cultural bridges between the two countries is not self-evident: they need to be carefully built, supported and strengthened. This evident necessity to engage more strongly in the creation of new bridges gave birth to the Dutch Performing Arts | en France project\nwith the support of the Netherlands Embassy in France\nDPA and the European Creative Hub\nDPA / FPK is a Dutch support mechanism for international dissemination. It will work as a ph\u00e9nix\u2019s partner within the framework of the 2017 Cabaret of Curiosities. Three Dutch artists will be welcomed and a study day on current Dutch artistic life will take place.\nMaking this partnership durable is a work in progress to have the ECH support Dutch artists.\nFRENCH OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS CIRCULATION\nA non-profit organisation, the Onda \u2013 Office national de diffusion artistique (French office for contemporary performing arts circulation), was established in 1975. An association funded by the Ministry of Culture and Communication (General Direction of Artistic Creation / Subdirection of European and International Affairs), the missions and goals of Onda are specified in the triennial agreements signed with the Ministry.\nOnda promotes the dissemination within France of performing arts works that are consistent with a process of contemporary artistic creation concerned with the renewal of forms, and stimulates exchanges in the field of live performance in Europe and internationally.\nIts scope of intervention covers all disciplines, whether stemming from theatre, dance, music, circus, puppetry, public space, whether these works are created in France or abroad, and whether they are aimed at adults or children.\nOnda\u2019s activities are focused on 4 main areas:\n\u2013 Expertise and advice\n\u2013 Europe and international\nThe ONDA and the ph\u00e9nix are talking about how the ONDA could support international dissemination. Involving the ECH in the network of national support mechanisms and dissemination programmes, to which the ONDA belongs, may be a good option.\nA pilot partnership with Pro Helvetia is also in progress. Pro Helvetia is a support mechanism of Swiss contemporary art creation. A couple of Swiss artists may be annually supported by the ECH.\nIETM r\u00e9seau international\ndes arts du spectacle contemporains\nIETM is a network of over 500 performing arts organisations and individual members working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide: theatre, dance, circus, interdisciplinary live art forms, new media. Members include festivals, companies, producers, theatres, research and resource centers, universities and institutional bodies.\nIETM holds two plenary meetings a year in different European cities, and smaller meetings all over the world. Besides, IETM commissions publications and research projects, facilitates communication and distribution of information, and advocates for the value of performing arts. IETM advocates for the value of the arts and culture in a changing world and empowers performing arts professionals through access to international connections, knowledge and a dynamic forum for exchange.\nIETM and the European Creative Hub\nThe ph\u00e9nix is an active member of the network. Most international partnerships it built were born and secured during IETM meetings.\nPro Helvetia promotes Swiss arts and culture with a focus on diversity and high quality. As the Swiss Confederation\u2019s cultural promotion institution, Pro Helvetia supports projects that are of national interest.\nPro Helvetia foster new artistic creation in Switzerland by means of work grants. Support is provided for compositions, literary publications, visual artwork, productions by theatre, music and dance ensembles, as well as projects with an artistic take on new media and digital technologies.\nOne of the Confederation\u2019s core tasks is the dissemination of Swiss culture abroad. Pro Helvetia supports exhibitions abroad and international tours by artists from various disciplines, foster literary translation, back promotional measures abroad and contribute to the funding of Switzerland\u2019s presence at major international cultural events. Their offices abroad and residency programmes play an important role in maintaining international cultural relations and promoting dialogue with other cultures.\nPro Helvetia et le P\u00f4le Europ\u00e9en de Cr\u00e9ation\nUn partenariat pilote est en cours de conception avec Pro Helvetia qui soutient la cr\u00e9ation et la diffusion de la cr\u00e9ation contemporaine en Suisse. Un ou deux artistes Suisses seraient accompagn\u00e9s annuellement dans le cadre du P\u00f4le europ\u00e9en de cr\u00e9ation du ph\u00e9nix.\nThe AFDAS is a training organization dedicated to people working in culture, communication, media and leisure. The AFDAS manages all the professional training programmes in the performing arts, cinema, audiovisual media, advertising, leisure, press and publishing on a national scale.\nThe AFDAS contributes to finance trainings dedicated to temporary show business workers, employees enjoying a training plan or unemployed people enjoying an educational leave. It is also involved in collecting business contributions and complementary resources from institutional partners.\nThe AFDAS and the European Creative Hub\nThe AFDAS goes along with the ECH\u2019s support mechanism. The AFDAS will be a partner of the ECH training programme. In December 2017, Julien Fournet, Diederik Peeters, Antoine Defoort, Hans Brysinck will present La mise en sc\u00e8ne de la connaissance / Staging knowledge, a training course and a reflection on how a project starts from an idea to then become a show.\nANR provides funding for project-based research in all fields of science \u2013 for both basic and applied research \u2013 to public research organisations and universities, as well as to private companies (including SMEs). Employing a method based on competitive peer reviews compliant with international standards, ANR provides the scientific community with instruments and programmes promoting creativity and openness, and stimulate new ideas and partnerships, particularly between academia and industry. Its activity also contributes to enhancing the competitiveness and the influence of French research in Europe and across the world.\nSince 2010, ANR has also been the lead manager of the Investments for the Future programme in the field of higher education and research, in charge of project selection, funding and monitoring.\nANR\u2019s activities aim at:\nRallying teams around societal and S&T challenges\nSpeeding up knowledge creation and transfer, and fostering academic-industry partnerships\nPromoting collaborative work and interdisciplinary dialogue\nPreparing a new generation of talents\nFacilitating European and international collaborations\nThe main challenges the ANR works on are part of the European Strategic Agenda. ANR has designed and deployed a range of funding instruments to satisfy both the project-based funding needs of the research communities and the public policy for research and innovation in France.\nThe ANR and the European Creative Hub\nThe ANR puts artists in contact with research workers who may answer their questions or help them improve the intellectual and conceptual basis of their works in progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 12069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://events.vanderbilt.edu/index.php?eID=105784", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LF2QX7IDW2W7MZMVWFVFEF2DLFVX5IQE", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "events.vanderbilt.edu", "title": "Polar Bears & Beluga Whales - VU Calendar", "raw_content": "Monday, July 23, 2018, All Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 70.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ew.com/article/2011/07/12/george-martin-talks-a-dance-with-dragons/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:06Z", "digest": "sha1:X5LRXBP3S4ECKSREBV3YFVCYNQFYP7UJ", "length": 18659, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "ew.com", "title": "A Dance With Dragons Interview | EW.com", "raw_content": "A Dance With Dragons Interview\nAfter six years, George R.R. Martin\u2019s eagerly anticipated A Dance With Dragons has arrived to glowing reviews. EW met with the author at his Santa Fe office for an in-depth conversation about his wildly popular Song of Ice and Fire series. Below he discusses why Book 5 took so long, his feelings about HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones and his thoughts on killing beloved characters, among other topics. For more, see next week\u2019s EW print edition featuring a profile of Martin that answers some burning fan questions. [Note: There are no Dance spoilers below, but there are spoilers from the previous four books].\nENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You\u2019ve said before that the first book, Game of Thrones, was partly a reaction to the sort of storytelling you couldn\u2019t do as a TV writer in the 1980s. What was the actual moment that inspired Thrones?\nMartin: I just wanted to make it big. For so long [in TV], I heard, \u201cIt\u2019s too big, it\u2019s too expensive, lose characters and lose the settings.\u201d Going back to prose, I could make it as big as I wanted, as big as my imagination. It really came out of nowhere. I knew in a general sense I wanted to write an epic fantasy since I loved [J.R.R.] Tolkien since I was a kid. But I didn\u2019t have any specific ideas for it. In the summer of 1991 I was in Hollywood but I had no TV deal. Suddenly I just got the first chapter where they found the direwolf pups \u2014 it was just there. I knew I had to write it.\nThis may be a silly question, but: When you think of the world you\u2019ve created, where seasons last for years, where is it? It is another planet?\nIt\u2019s what Tolkien wrote was \u201cthe secondary world.\u201d It\u2019s not another planet. It\u2019s Earth. But it\u2019s not our Earth. If you wanted to do a science fiction approach, you could call it an alternate world, but that sounds too science fictional. Tolkien really pioneered that with Middle Earth. He put in some vague things about tying it to our past, but that doesn\u2019t really hold up. I have people constantly writing me with science fiction theories about the seasons \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s a double star system with a black dwarf and that would explain\u2013\u201d It\u2019s fantasy, man, it\u2019s magic.\nDo you find it fun to write?\nI do. Yeah. To the extent that anything is fun to write. I\u2019m one of those writers who say \u201cI\u2019ve enjoy having written.\u201d There are days I really enjoy writing and there are days I f\u2013king hate it. I can see it in my head and the words won\u2019t come. I try to put it on the page and it feels stiff and wooden and it\u2019s stupid. Writing is hard work.\nOn your blog you say you throw a lot away.\nI do. Maybe more than I should, especially with these books, especially as we go deeper. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because I\u2019m getting older, or the series is getting more complicated. I think I\u2019ve been influenced by my own good reviews. I\u2019ve had so many people say this is the greatest fantasy since Tolkien or even greater. It\u2019s awoken in me a desire not to blow it.\nIs there anything you regret in the series?\nThe biggest thing I\u2019m wresting with is the chronology. When I set out with the young characters it was my intention that the kids grow up during the series. And I thought I\u2019d have a chapter. And the the next chapter would be a month later. Then the next would be two months after that. And by the end of the book a year will have passed. But it doesn\u2019t make sense that a character will take two months to respond to something that happens. So you wind up writing the whole book and very little time has passed. After the third book I thought I would jump forward five years, then the kids would be older. That was part of the delay. I tried to write it with a gap but it just didn\u2019t work, so I wound up scrapping all that.\nDo you know the ending?\nI know the ending in broad strokes. I don\u2019t know every little twist and turn that will get me there, and I don\u2019t know the ending of every secondary character. But the ending and the main characters, yeah. And [Game of Thrones producers] David Benioff and Dan Weiss know some of that too, which the fans are very worried about in case I get hit by a truck.\nThere\u2019s a point in the series where you feel like you\u2019re reading a bunch of separate stories. Toward the end of Dance, you feel the threads starting to come back together. Is that accurate?\nThat\u2019s certainly the intent, and always was the intent. Tolkien was my great model for much of this. Although I differ from Tolkien in important ways, I\u2019m second to no one in my respect for him. If you look at Lord of the Rings, it begins with a tight focus and all the characters are together. Then by end of the first book the Fellowship splits up and they have different adventures. I did the same thing. Everybody is at Winterfell in the beginning except for Dany, then they split up into groups, and ultimately those split up too. The intent was to fan out, then curve and come back together. Finding the point where that turn begins has been one of the issues I\u2019ve wrestled with.\nIf you wrote Rings, Gandalf would have stayed dead after Mines of Moria.\nYes, he would have. I get a lot of credit for killing my characters, but Tolkien really did it first and in some ways that was the inspiration for me. And then Tolkien did it again at end of the second book where he seemingly kills Frodo, though that turns out to be feint.\nThere\u2019s a line in book 5 where character says, \u201cThe gods are good.\u201d Jaime thinks, \u201cYou go on believing that.\u201d You talk about religion a lot in the stories, but what are your views?\nI suppose I\u2019m a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn\u2019t the end and there\u2019s something more, but I can\u2019t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever. That\u2019s what Tolkien left out \u2014 there\u2019s no priesthood, there\u2019s no temples; nobody is worshiping anything in Rings.\nThere\u2019s few acts of kindness in your novels. If somebody is on their own, or weakened, they can pretty much expect everybody to take advantage of them or treat them terribly. Obviously Aslan is not going to save the day, but are your books cynical about human nature?\nI think the books are realistic. I\u2019ve always liked gray characters. And as for the gods, I\u2019ve never been satisfied by any of the answers that are given. If there really is a benevolent loving god, why is the world full of rape and torture? Why do we even have pain? I was taught pain is to let us know when our body is breaking down. Well, why couldn\u2019t we have a light? Like a dashboard light? If Chevrolet could come up with that, why couldn\u2019t God? Why is agony a good way to handle things?\nWhen fans complain about a character killed off, what do you say to them?\nIn some cases I sympathize. It\u2019s hard to kill characters, they\u2019re my children. Obviously some were marked for death in the beginning like Ned. There are plenty of books out there for fans who want comfort reading, who want to enjoy an exciting story with nothing to upset or disturb them. It\u2019s fun to go to an Indiana Jones movie and watch him kill 40 Nazis, but there\u2019s a place for Schindler\u2019s List too. Schindler\u2019s heroism resonates more with me than Indy\u2019s \u2014 one is fun, but the other is profound and says something about human nature. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m achieving it, but that\u2019s what I\u2019m striving for. I think fantasy after Tolkien had become Indiana Jones. They were imitating a lot of Tolkien\u2019s tropes without capturing the spirit of Tolkien. His books are not all happy fun books.\nDo you feel like you owe your fans anything? At end of the day, is there a responsibility?\nI think owe is the wrong word. I try to give them a good story. And I like my fans \u2014 the vast majority are great. I probably have more interaction with fans than any author I know. By and large, I\u2019m very nice to my fans. But I don\u2019t owe it to them to be nice. And if I wanted to withdraw, that would be my right. I certainly believe it\u2019s my right to take off Sundays and watch NFL football and go to conventions and work on other projects \u2014 the more hardcore trolls, that\u2019s what they object to. You met [his assistant] Ty, he think it\u2019s generational. That people who are angry [about Book 5 taking six years] are younger people from what he calls The Entitlement Generation. They want instant gratification \u2014 something that they\u2019re used to from the Internet. I\u2019m from the Baby Boomer generation, and we had to wait for s\u2013t, man. If I heard about a book, it might never come to the spinner rack at the local drugstore. If I wanted to see a movie, we\u2019d have to hope they\u2019d show it on television at some time. It\u2019s Ty\u2019s theory, not mine, but maybe it\u2019s true.\nYou intended the story in Book 5 to go further, I hear?\nIt\u2019s always difficult to know where to break each book. You\u2019re walking a fine line. Like Lord of the Rings, you\u2019re writing one story. At the same time, I want each book to represent a phase of the journey. I try to end each character with a cliffhanger or some kind of resolution. And I try to make the cliffhangers the smaller portion \u2014 I don\u2019t want eight cliffhangers. [Dance] had more cliffhangers than I ideally would have liked.\nSo with the next book, have you now gotten to the point where you no longer need to have the characters in separate books?\nThat is certainly my hope, yes. Three years from now when I\u2019m sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows.\nWhich episode of Game of Thrones are you writing next season?\nThe Battle of the Blackwater, God help me. David and Dan must hate me.\nThat\u2019s the one where you have to be most conscious of budgetary decisions.\nIt\u2019s very tough because we don\u2019t have the budget to do the battle in the book. We just don\u2019t.\nWell, they have to be able to show the ships and what happens to them, right?\nI hope so. We\u2019ll see. I\u2019m writing it. I\u2019m cutting certain things. We\u2019ll see once I turn it in if we can do it. When you look HBO\u2019s Rome\u2014\nLoved Rome.\nI loved it too, but what about the battles?\nWe see Caesar leave the tent to go to war, then he comes back and falls asleep.\nCaesar leaves the tent. Pompey leaves the tent. Then we see Pompey\u2019s banner in the mud. And Caesar comes back to the tent. The next episode, Pompey describes the battle to Pullo and Vorenus drawing it in the dirt with a stick to explain what happened. For the Battle of Actium, they open with Mark Anthony floating on a piece of wood \u2014 and Rome had a bigger budget than we do. I\u2019ve been trying to tell the fans that. On some level they\u2019re expecting the Battle of Pelennor Fields [from Peter Jackson\u2019s The Return of the King].\nFans don\u2019t distinguish as much between mediums now.\nThey don\u2019t. And television has set that up by being increasingly good. Back in the 1960s or \u201970s, you could tell TV show from a movie in three frames just way it was shot and lit. But you can\u2019t these days.\nThere\u2019s a lot of debates about whether Thrones is feminist or anti-feminist. Were you surprised by those reactions?\nNot really. I think it\u2019s good people were debating those points. Obviously I don\u2019t think I\u2019m misogynistic or racist as some of those critics say, I think they\u2019re reading it too simplistic. Certainly, I\u2019m a 62 year old white male and none of us entirely escape the values that we\u2019re inoculated with at an early age, even if we reject them \u2014 like me leaving Catholicism. I don\u2019t hold myself up as a paragon of feminism. But I\u2019m very gratified \u2014 that idiot critic at the New York Times notwithstanding \u2014 on the fact I have so many female fans who love my women characters and I tried to provide a variety of female characters. With all my characters, I try to show that we\u2019re all human.\nThere was a fair amount of explicit sex in the series and some fans of the books were taken aback.\nOne of the reasons I wanted to do this with HBO is that I wanted to keep the sex. We had some real problems because Dany is only 13 in the books, and that\u2019s based on medieval history. They didn\u2019t have this concept of adolescence or the teenage years. You were a child or you were an adult. And the onset of sexual maturity meant you were an adult. So I reflected that in the books. But then when you go to film it you run into people going crazy about child pornography and there\u2019s actual laws about how you can\u2019t depict a 13 year old having sex even if you have an 18 year old acting the part \u2014 it\u2019s illegal in the United Kingdom. So we ended up with a 22 year old portraying an 18 year old, instead of an 18 year old portraying a 13 year old. If we decided to lose the sex we could have kept the original ages. And once you change the age of one character you have to change the ages of all the characters, and change the date of the war [that dethroned the Mad King]. The fact we made all these changes indicates how important we thought sex was.\nWas the viewer reaction to killing off Ned Stark bigger than you anticipated?\nIt was. It was fascinating to see the intensity of the reaction. You have to remember I wrote that scene in 1994 and it came out in 1996. So people were reacting with extreme shock in 2011 to something that\u2019s been a hallmark of the books. On one level it was good, you don\u2019t want to kill an important character and nobody gives a damn. You should grieve when a character dies. I will say your column after the death of Ned, and then a week later about the ratings, was news I was pleased to see. Because there were people saying they were giving up on the show.\nThe big question is what\u2019s going to happen in the ratings between seasons. But I suspect, if anything, it\u2019s going to come back bigger.\nWell, Natalie Dormer [cast as Margaery Tyrell] is a great choice to start with. She was best thing about The Tudors and the best Anne Boleyn I\u2019ve ever seen.\nAre there any changes the TV show made that you particularly liked?\nI loved some of the new scenes they added. As a novelist, I have certain tools like internal monologue and the device of the unreliable narrator. I can have flashbacks and dreams, which are pretty hokey in a TV series. So they had to insert some new scenes. I loved the interplay between Varys and Littlefinger, which never occurred in the books since neither is a viewpoint character. I loved the scene of Drogo ripping out Mago\u2019s throat, which was entirely new. But that\u2019s going to have ramifications if we go the full length down the pike. I\u2019ve talked to Dan and Dave about the butterfly effect \u2014 you\u2019re familiar with the classic Ray Bradbury short story?\nA Sound of Thunder. One of my favorites.\nStep on a butterfly in the Pleistocene Era and it changes everything in year 2000. [MILD BOOK 6 SPOILER WARNING] So Mago is not dead in the books. And, in fact, he\u2019s going to be a recurring character in Winds of Winter. He\u2019s a particularly nasty bloodrider to one of the other Khals that\u2019s broken away after Drogo dies. This is the challenge the shows face as we go forward. There will be divergences, they\u2019re trying to be faithful and Dan and David are doing a wonderful job. But the books are plotted so intricately that you do step on a butterfly in season one and in season four you\u2019re going to have to deal with that. There\u2019s also another character, [the singer] Marillion, who also got his tongue ripped out in season one, and that doesn\u2019t happen with the books. Joffrey makes that decision, but it\u2019s an unnamed bard. Marillion [has more to do]. We ought to call it The Tongue Effect instead of The Butterfly Effect.\nWas there anything you missed from the book?\nI wish the tournament was much bigger. They originally scripted in the first draft a parade of knights and a dozen jousts that they had to cut for budgetary reasons. And I would have liked the crowd to have been much bigger. This is like the Super Bowl in the books and draws people from all over the Seven Kingdoms.\nSansa no longer telling Cersei about her father\u2019s plans to leave \u2014 were you OK with that change?\nIt didn\u2019t bother me.\nTV viewers might have never forgiven her.\nA lot of book readers haven\u2019t forgiven her. The other thing was lost was Catelyn to Jon Snow saying, \u201cIt should have been you\u201d [after Bran was crippled].\nFor me, seeing her in the show, the way she acted toward him, the visual added a lot of harshness without that line.\nYes, just her face, which you can\u2019t do in the books. It got the same thing across.\nIs there any performance in the TV show that\u2019s caused you to think differently about a character?\nThe performances have been great, but they\u2019ve been great at capturing the characters as I saw them. The one exception is Natalia Tena as Osha. Cause she\u2019s very different than in the book, but I think she\u2019s more interesting. When I bring Osha back in Winds of Winter, I\u2019ll have Natalia in mind and perhaps give the character more interesting things to do.\nOne big concern has been what if the TV series surpasses where you are in the books. For awhile, that seemed premature. Now that season one has done well, it\u2019s worth asking.\nThere\u2019s two questions here. The first is: How long will it take me to write the next book. Will Winds of Winter go smoothly or is it going to be Feast and Dance all over again? I certainly hope it\u2019s not the latter. The other issue is: What is what is HBO going to do if we get a third season and beyond? Storm of Swords is a gigantic book. I was hoping they\u2019d give us 12 episodes for Clash. So I don\u2019t know how they\u2019ll get everything in. But there\u2019s no way they can get Storm into 10 or even 12. My hope is they\u2019ll split that into two seasons. There\u2019s nothing in the law that says each season must cover one book. The only danger of catching up is if we have to do all of Storm, and then Feast and Dance have to be re-combined. Then there\u2019s a danger they would catch up with me. I think I\u2019ll have Winds out by then, but they could catch up with me before [Book 7] A Dream of Spring.\nI\u2019d like to see more fantasy on TV. There\u2019s been resistance to it, the powers that be often don\u2019t think it can succeed. Most of it\u2019s action-adventure for kids. I enjoyed Xena Warrior Princess, but fantasy can be much more than that. I\u2019d love to see somebody do Roger Zelazny\u2019s Nine Princes in Amber. What a fantastic HBO series that would be.\nI don\u2019t read much fantasy, but the the Chronicles of Amber is the one I would pick too. It\u2019s been kicked around in development forever; Syfy had the rights to it for awhile. So how firm are you that Ice and Fire will be seven books?\nAnd that\u2019s it. We saved some of the best bits for next week\u2019s print edition of EW which features a profile of Martin. Check that out on newsstands.\nUPDATE: George R.R. Martin on \u2018Dance With Dragons\u2019 shocking twist (Spoilers)\nREAD MORE: A Dance With Dragons burning questions answered", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 20303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fashionhandbook.co.za/quay-australia-collaborates-kylie-jenner/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HSRE3NQHB3KCG7UYY7VJOBX5JQZPJ5HR", "length": 1679, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "fashionhandbook.co.za", "title": "Quay Australia Collaborates With Kylie Jenner - Fashion Handbook", "raw_content": "Melbourne-born brand Quay Australia, a leading eyewear company, has announced a high-profile sunglass collaboration with pop culture phenomenon and entrepreneur, Kylie Jenner.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve found the perfect collaborator in Kylie. Her social influence is unparalleled and she is known for her dynamic style and edge that her followers want to emulate,\u201d says Quay Australia founder, Linda Hammond.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been wearing Quay Australia sunglasses for a long time. I\u2019m so excited to create my very own collection.\u201d\nKylie\u2019s passion for style and design enabled her to have a hands-on approach with the capsule collection. The fashion and beauty entrepreneur personally designed the limited-edition sunglasses, alongside the world-renowned Quay Australia team. The collection reflects both Kylie\u2019s own trendsetting style and the unique, bold designs Quay Australia is known for.\nKylie said, \u201cI\u2019ve been wearing Quay Australia sunglasses for a long time and I\u2019m so excited to create my very own collection and share my love for the brand with my fans.\u201d\nAs one of the world\u2019s most-followed people on social media, Kylie has amassed a combined following of over 175 million users and has an influence on everything from beauty to fashion. A dedicated campaign using #QUAYXKYLIE will be used to promote the collaboration on social media and in digital marketing efforts.\nSeen on countless celebrities and known for their influencer collaborations, the brand has a legacy of success, and can now be found in over 35 countries and 2,000 retailers worldwide. Quay Australia sees the collaboration as a way to propel the business forward and target Kylie\u2019s millennial fanbase.\nKylie JennerQuay Australia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fathersonholygore.com/2017/10/16/ossorios-templar-zombies-return-in-the-ghost-galleon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:05Z", "digest": "sha1:4YT372S4JKZGHR26EIXGX4ET2D2KZYNX", "length": 6160, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "fathersonholygore.com", "title": "Ossorio\u2019s Templar Zombies Return in THE GHOST GALLEON \u2013 Father Son Holy Gore", "raw_content": "Lore \u2013 Season 1, Episode 5: \u201cThe Beast Within\u201d\nFear the Walking Dead \u2013 Season 3, Episode 16: \u201cSleigh Ride\u201d\nOssorio\u2019s Templar Zombies Return in THE GHOST GALLEON\nThe Ghost Galleon. 1974. Directed & Written by Amando de Ossorio.\nStarring Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor, B\u00e1rbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Manuel de Blas, & Blanca Estrada.\nAncia Century Films/Bel\u00e9n Films\nAmando de Ossorio\u2018s Blind Dead series is one of the more unique of the horror genre, specifically in the zombies/undead category. We\u2019ve seen lots of variations on people risen from the dead, whether it\u2019s George A. Romero and his own Dead series, Haitian voodoo from Wes Craven\u2019s The Serpent and the Rainbow, or the Umberto Lenzi classic which brought the fast moving zombie to the mainstream, Nightmare City.\nWhat\u2019s so enjoyable about de Ossorio is that he took zombies and mixed them with pseudohistory, using the very real Templar Knights and transforming them into Satan worshipping mad men (in real life they did dissolve after charges of heresy) who crawl from their tombs at night to stalk the Spanish countryside, searching for victims to quell their blood lust.\nAlthough The Ghost Galleon isn\u2019t one of the best films out of the series, it\u2019s still a weird, eerie trip through a fog-laden landscape, going from land to the desperate darkness of the sea. The Knights themselves are always great, but in this instalment of de Ossorio\u2019s series there isn\u2019t a whole lot else to enjoy. With a couple lofty themes floating around, the film could\u2019ve been better. But it\u2019s still probably good enough for a Halloween Horrorthon.\nDe Ossorio works up plenty of eerie atmosphere, as usual. The mood\u2019s established early on, as we\u2019re drawn into the Old World feel of Spain, an unsettling fogginess surrounding everything, particularly the titular galleon. Part of the fog is also more than just atmosphere, it helps get across the otherworldly feel of the Templar Knights, like their world beyond the grave is literally a whole other world, an entire dimension unto itself.\nMoreover, the score does a fantastic job at elevating the atmosphere. Once on the ship, things get impressively spooky with a hypnotic swirl of synthesizers taking us through to that other realm, guiding us, with buoying timpani notes discombobulating us; the feeling of heading into a dream is palpable, the fog like that barrier between sleep and rest. The score, from start to finish, is one of the biggest reasons the atmosphere ultimately works.\nApart from the technical side of the production, there are lost themes that could\u2019ve been used to de Ossorio\u2019s advantage. For instance, there\u2019s a setup of the Old World v. the New World, starting with the capitalist businessmen exploiting women and their bodies \u2013 i.e. New World \u2013 only concerned with their money than with human safety. They walk themselves right into the hands of the Knights Templar \u2013 i.e. Old World \u2013 and this is their undoing. That\u2019s what you get, capitalist scum! The concern of the businessmen solely for economics and image (view in the media, et cetera) leads them towards a dangerous resolution. This is all present underneath, it just isn\u2019t used any further than surface level optics. Too bad, because a zombie film of any sort can always become more than the sum of its parts when there\u2019s an additional plot/story/thematic level.\nMy favourite part of the film is when the cross is used against the Knights Templar. A clever subversion of Christian iconography for which the knights originally stood. In their turn to Satan, they expelled Christ from themselves, which is then used against them as a repellent. Neat little moment.\nA major aspect of why The Ghost Galleon doesn\u2019t hold up to the other, better entries in the series is the acting. Not everyone is awful; most are, sadly. This doesn\u2019t need a Laurence Olivier, nor does it need a Vincent Price. But it could\u2019ve used much better performances. Think of Dawn of the Dead with Ken Foree, beloved to the genre, Gaylen Ross, and even the rest of the cast who were fantastic. A couple decent performances could\u2019ve turned this into a good zombie film.\nThe pacing is slow, and that\u2019s fine; if it weren\u2019t for the fact the plot feels boring. All these Blind Dead films are similar, there\u2019s no reinventing of the wheel here as far as writing goes, not in any of them. However, de Ossorio\u2019s other undead Templar films \u2013 particularly the first, Tombs of the Blind Dead \u2013 have a great pace, keeping you engaged, waiting for the next scare or the next kill or whatever weird follows.\nIt\u2019s the pacing, above all, which makes this a hard film to sit through without wanting to fast forward. I watched it all, and until the finale, there\u2019s really nothing special to talk about outside the general atmosphere, plus the zombie Templars themselves. Sure, there\u2019s a couple gnarly deaths, a decapitation, it just never amounts to anything better than that.\nIt\u2019d be hard to argue de Ossorio had no influence on the zombie sub-genre of horror. Certainly not as deep as Romero, probably not even close to Lucio Fulci, either. But there\u2019s no doubt certain elements in the Blind Dead lingered on, inspiring other filmmakers along the line in subtle ways.\nSuch as the iconic scene later in this film where the zombie Templars emerge from the ocean waters, relentlessly chasing their intended prey from the galleon to land. This watery rise precedes Shock Waves, Land of the Dead, and others (in fairness Luci\u2019s Zombi had some good water zombie action; this one has a horde of them instead of just one). Just great to see this kind of thing, knowing de Ossorio\u2019s films aren\u2019t lost to time or relegated to the realm of admiration only amongst the most ardent genre fans. They\u2019ve certainly influenced a few horror filmmakers out there.\nThis isn\u2019t one of the best Blind Dead films, not even close. It\u2019s barely a mediocre bit of cinema, honestly. A two out of five star affair. Yet, as previously mentioned, it has some enjoyable moments in between the languid pacing and a lot of bad acting, some good practical effects and weird images. And for a near Halloween, this is a nice addition to any zombie movie night.\nBlind Dead Series", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 14906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fhas-aps-nm.schoolloop.com/parents", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OQI3N3X43SOIKYTHBBSKNQGIM5OHBBO2", "length": 4103, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "fhas-aps-nm.schoolloop.com", "title": "//", "raw_content": "School Crisis Plan (PDF)\nRSS feed for Parents\nFirst Annual Health Fair Posted 2/11/19\nParents and students interested in learning more about Freedom should visit Our Program page for a detailed description of our academic programs and offerings.\nWe encourage you to enroll as soon as possible; when we are full, we will start a waiting list. Please call us at 884-6012 to begin the enrollment process.\nIf you would like more detailed information, please visit our Registration page.\nAPS: Families Connected\nParent/Guardian participation accelerates student success:\nWelcome to Freedom High School! We are delighted that you have elected to research our program. At Freedom High, the student is assigned an advisor who will oversee his/her educational journey. Administration, advisors, counselors, teachers, and parents all become important parts of a team that works together to ensure student success.\nThere are two areas in which it is vitally important for parents to participate: Student Progress Evaluations (Student Led Parent Conferences) and Student Staffing. Evaluations are held every six weeks and Student Staffing are held as needed. Student achievement can be directly linked to parent involvement in these activities.\nFreedom\u2019s Philosophy Statement asks that we all take an active part in helping students achieve academic success. Being such a small environment, there is a great deal of communication that takes place to recognize students\u2019 successes, but also to recognize additional support that each student may need. Should the student begin to falter, there are a number of supports that the school offers through differentiated instruction and our team of counseling and health professionals. If a student is taking responsibility for their education, he /she may be placed on a contract (excessive tardiness, absences, not attending classes, become disruptive, not working to meet the course content standards, etc.). The consequence of breaking a contract is often a Student Staffing where we can seek solutions and evaluate student commitment to graduation or attending Freedom High.\nStaffing are a student support intervention designed to redirect students to becoming more successful in their educational journey. Staffing will most often take place on Friday afternoons between 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. The administration, counselors, teachers, and advisors set aside this time to meet with your student and you, should the need arise. The staffing is very important; it brings the student\u2019s full support team together to address the needs of a particular student and create a plan to support the student\u2019s achievement. There is no one that is more effective in supporting students than their parents and guardians. Parents are an integral part of the staffing, both as resources in creating the plan for the student and so they can have a clear idea what is happening at school.\nParents and students are asked to sign a commitment letter upon enrollment that reads very similarly to this document. The student advisor will contact parents as early as possible to schedule evaluation meetings and staffing (should the need arise) so that arrangements can be made in an accommodating fashion. As part of the team, parents may also call the advisor to arrange a staffing if they believe there is something we need to address. Parents may also contact the Principal whenever they would like to do so.\nOur staff thanks parents for their willingness to take this journey with us to see their students makes it to graduation. There is no greater gift that a person can give their child than education.\nWe invite you to Instructional Council:\nFreedom High School staff, students and parents meet monthly to discuss needs of the school. These needs may include: budget, schedules, planning events for the community, curriculum, and program planning.\nWe encourage all parents to participate in these discussions. If you are interested in playing a huge role in the school decision-making process that drives the success of our school, please contact the principal or inform a staff member.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 17280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fheurope.org/advice/treatments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:46Z", "digest": "sha1:37QA4WMYUDTBWIBGMEYOOPTY37BDZC2Y", "length": 11726, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "fheurope.org", "title": "Treatments | Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) Europe", "raw_content": "Progress in developing drugs to treat FH\nProducing new drugs is a time-consuming and costly business. A 2014 report from the Tufts Centre for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) reported in Scientific American calculated that the cost of developing a prescription drug that gains market approval was USD 2.6 billion, a 145% increase, correcting for inflation, over the estimate the centre made in 2003. The report noted the 10 plus years a drug spends in development. CSSD observed that despite intense efforts to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and development, higher costs result from the increased complexity of clinical trials, a greater focus on chronic and degenerative diseases and tests for insurers seeking comparative drug effectiveness data \u2013 as well as the high cost of unsuccessful drug development projects.\nKey double-blind randomised clinical trials that illustrate the time required to develop suitable treatments for patients with FH and related conditions are:\n4 S study (the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study) \u2013 conceived in 1987 \u2013 of 4,444 patients after five years \u2013 evaluated the effect of adding statin to high risk patients. As reported in medical journals, the patients involved were Patients with angina pectoris or previous myocardial infarction and serum cholesterol 5.5 \u2013 8.0 mmol/L on a lipid-lowering diet were randomised to double-blind treatment with simvastatin or placebo. \u2013 Study Results. Until that time drug therapy for hypercholesterolaemia was controversial because there was insufficient clinical trial evidence for improved survival of patients with coronary heart disease. The Study compared effects of simvastatin with placebo.\nOutcome: there was a reduction of 35% in LDL cholesterol and a reduced rate of dying. It is considered that this key study changed the medical approach and the approach to cholesterol. Since that time researchers have sought to improve outcomes.\nFollowing the 4S study, people then tried to use more and less powerful statins to see if there was a link\nA 2-year comparative study called \u201cProve It\u201d presented in 2004 looked at intensive treatment with atorvastatin (80mg) compared with pravastatin (40mg) for patients who had been hospitalised within previous 10 days with an ACS (acute coronary syndrome) or high-risk unstable angina who had been stabilised following an event.This study suggested that lowering LDL cholesterol levels substantially below the existing target levels was beneficial.\nThe Copenhagen general population study published in 2012 investigated the prevalence of FH and the associations between FH and coronary artery disease and cholesterol-lowering medication. An unselected community-based population of 69,016 participants was studied and the prevalence of FH appeared to be higher than commonly perceived in a general population of white Danish individuals (i.e. 1 in 137), with at least half of subjects not receiving cholesterol-lowering medication. It was concluded that the very high risk of coronary artery disease irrespective of use of medication reflects the extent of under-diagnosis and under-treatment of FH in the community and primary care.\nStudy called \u201cImprove It\u201d, for which results were published in 2015, compared the effect on high-risk post ACS patients of using a tablet combining ezetimibe and simvastatin with simvastatin (40mg). Originally, 18,144 high-risk subjects were enrolled. The study showed that ezetimibe has a different way of working. It stops you absorbing intestinal cholesterol.Oxford: Cholesterol trial collaboration \u2013 in excess of 70,000 patients\u2019 data in one place. Clear linear benefit in reducing LDL cholesterol.\nOver the last ten years there has not been much progress. Pharmaceutical researchers have tried to use other methods. It has been noted that three clinical trials were undertaken to look at HDL, but either failed or stopped.\nA category of medicines, called statins, are the primary drugs to lower LDL. Statins are usually well tolerated and considered very safe. A few people have difficulty in taking statins \u2013 according to information on the HEART UK website, research has shown that 10-15% of patients treated with a statin show some degree of intolerance, with many people stopping their statin within a year of its prescription.\nStatins are not, however, suitable for women who are trying to conceive, who are pregnant or breastfeeding (as with all the drugs as there is no safety data available. The possible exception is bile acids which do not get absorbed). Statins are not routinely prescribed for young children, but are licensed for use in children under care of a paediatric specialist.\nFor a very small number of patients with high cholesterol, statins are not effective. According to research, in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), high intensity statins can reduce LDL cholesterol by only 50% at maximum and in general monotherapy with statins is not usually sufficient to get a FH patient to goal.\nThe HEART UK website offers a helpful list of questions on statins treatments: \u2013 https://heartuk.org.uk/statins-and-treatments/statin-side-effects/the-statin-conundrum\nThis is another medicine used to lower LDL cholesterol. It is a medication that blocks the absorption of cholesterol from food and bile juices in your intestines into your blood. Ezetimibe monotherapy is recommended as an option for treating primary (heterozygous-familial or non-familial) hypercholesterolaemia in adults who cannot tolerate statin therapy. Ezetimibe taken on its own rarely causes side effects. In certain cases ezetimibe is co-administered with initial statin therapy when serum total or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentration is not appropriately controlled. The side effects of the combined statin and ezetimibe treatment are generally the same as those of the statin on its own (muscle pain and stomach problems).\nThese medicines are used to lower LDL cholesterol\nThis type of medication can be used to treat homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia. It is termed a \u2018microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) inhibitor\u2019. In other words, it limits the amount of cholesterol that your liver makes, so that your body has less cholesterol to remove from the blood stream. The commercial name for lomitapide is Juxtapid in the US and Lojuxta in the EU. At present this medication is very expensive and requires strict adherence to a low fat diet as it may cause fat build-up in liver, leading to fatty liver.\nMipomersen sodium is a cholesterol-lowering drug for use as an adjunct to diet and drug therapy in patients with homozygous hypercholesterolaemia. Clinical studies with the drug found that it raised liver enzymes and led to an accumulation of fat in the liver. This drug is available in the United States, but in 2012 the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency recommended refusal of marketing authorisation, based on side effects of this drug.\nLipoprotein apheresis\nLipoprotein apheresis is a medical therapy which may be used for patients who are not able to meet their LDL cholesterol goal with medicines and lifestyle changes. Apo B-containing lipoproteins (LDL, vLDL and Lp(a)) are physically removed from the blood. Following a filtration process, the newly filtered blood, with a much lower LDL level, is returned. Medical professionals monitor patients during the procedure, which takes two to three hours. The treatment is generally performed every second week. Lipoprotein apheresis is most commonly used to treat patients with FH, but is also often used for other hyperlipidaemia patients, including those with elevated Lp(a), to limit and/or reverse the atherosclerotic complications of high cholesterol.\nPCSK9i\nThe development of this treatment reflects the role of medical genetics, the branch of medicine which involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. The PCSK9 (full name \u201cproproptein convertase substilisin/kexin type 9) gene provides instructions for making a protein that helps regulate the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream. The PCSK9 protein appears to control the number of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors, which are proteins on the surface of cells. The LDL receptor (LDLR) is found on the surface of the liver and plays a critical role in regulating LDL cholesterol levels in the circulation. The receptors bind to particles called (LDLs) which are the primary carriers of cholesterol in the blood and they help remove them. The fewer receptors there are, the less able the liver is to keep blood cholesterol low.\nStudies have shown that some people have a great deal of PCSK9 protein and that when it is more abundant and active, it leads to life-long high cholesterol and early heart disease.\nA new class of medications called PCSK9 inhibitors (referred to as PCSK9i) target the PCSK9 protein making it less effective at breaking down the LDL receptors. This means that there are then more working receptors on the surface of liver cells and more cholesterol can be removed from the blood. The PCSK9 inhibitors that have now been developed are called \u2018monoclonal antibodies\u2019 and they are produced in medical laboratories under strict controls. Each monoclonal antibody can recognise just one particular protein. The monoclonal antibodies recognise and attach to specific proteins produced by the cells in one\u2019s body. The abbreviation for monoclonal antibody is \u2018mab\u2019 and so PCSK9i drugs all end in the three letters \u2018mab\u2019. Evolocumab and Alirocumab are licensed in the United Kingdom for example, but are not yet available in all European countries.\nThis type of drug cannot be taken orally \u2013 PCSK9 Inhibitors are given as injections under the skin every 2 to 4 weeks.\nVolanesorsen\u2019 using \u2018antisense technology\u2019\nIn August 2017, American pharmaceutical company \u2018Akcea Therapeutics\u2019 an affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., submitted a New Drug Application to the American Federal Drug Association (FDA) for a drug it has developed called \u2018volanesorsen\u2019. Various clinical trials have taken place with the aim of developing treatment of Familial Chylomicronaemia Syndrome (FCS) and Familial Partial Lipodystrophy (FPL).\nFCS is an inherited metabolic disorder that causes a build-up of triglycerides (fats) in the blood: this can increase the risk of severe abdominal pain and potentially fatal attacks of pancreatitis. Due to a deficiency in lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that helps to break down triglycerides, people who have FCS are unable to effectively metabolise large, triglyceride-rich lipid particles called chylomicrons. This genetic condition is also sometimes known as lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD), Fredrickson Type 1 hyperlipoproteinemia and familial hypertriglyceridemia.\nFamilial partial lipodystrophy (FPL) is a severe, rare genetic metabolic disorder which results in high levels of triglycerides in the bloodstream, abnormal fat distribution around and within organs, such as the liver and heart and a range of metabolic anbnormalities, including severe insulin resistance. In addition to an increased risk of pancreatitis, other long-term, progressive manifestations such as premature cardiomyopathy, atherosclerosis and liver disease may occur.\nVolanesorsen uses Ionis\u2019 \u2018antisense technology\u2019, a technique described by academic researchers a decade ago as \u201ca potentially powerful therapeutic tool for gene targeting and/or expression regulation\u201d. Volanesorson is designed to reduce the production of ApoC-III, a protein produced in the liver that plays a central role in the regulation of plasma triglycerides and may also affect other metabolic parameters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 15933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://film.avclub.com/sickbed-successes-20-great-works-created-by-the-gravel-1798277636", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:M2RIFOSO4DFJDF6LYIACDOTLOT6S3SWV", "length": 19660, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "film.avclub.com", "title": "Sickbed successes: 20 great works created by the gravely ill", "raw_content": "Sickbed successes: 20 great works created by the gravely ill\nGwen Ihnat, Josh Modell, Joshua Alston, Drew Toal, Zack Handlen, Sean O'Neal, Alex McLevy, Noel Murray, Marah Eakin, Dennis Perkins, and Gregg LaGambina\n1. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby\nA note to idlers and procrastinators everywhere: The next time you think you don\u2019t have the energy to \u201cdeal,\u201d think of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French writer who wrote his memoir by using only his left eyelid. After suffering a massive stroke at the age of 44, the editor-in-chief of the French edition of Elle awoke to find that his glamorous life as a Parisian man of letters had been erased by \u201clocked-in\u201d syndrome. With his wits still intact but his body useless, Bauby enlisted the help of an assistant and a technique whereby the writer would select each letter of his tome by blinking the lid of his working eye when the assistant had verbally landed on the correct one. A good book, perhaps overshadowed and overwhelmed by the nature of its creation, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly was eventually adapted into a remarkable film in 2007 by director Julian Schnabel, starring Mathieu Amalric as the afflicted yet determined Bauby. (Oh, and Bauby, on top of everything else, died of pneumonia two days after his book was published.) [Gregg LaGambina]\n2. \u201cThrough The Wire,\u201d Kanye West\nThe song that arguably put Kanye West on the path to superstardom was originally recorded\u2014his own raps and all\u2014with his jaw wired shut. West had been in a serious car accident a few weeks earlier that would have killed him if it hadn\u2019t been for his seat belt. (\u201cThank God I ain\u2019t too cool for the safe belt!\u201d) At points in the original version, it\u2019s tough to make out some of the lyrics, so West re-recorded it once he could open his mouth all the way, for The College Dropout. It permanently changed the way West looks, as well as his outlook. [Josh Modell]\n3. Mortality, Christopher Hitchens\n\u201cI have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death,\u201d Christopher Hitchens writes in the opening lines of Mortality, a collection of essays he had periodically submitted to Vanity Fair before succumbing to esophageal cancer in 2011. Hitchens is referring to his oft-boasted and oft-reported lifestyle of booze and cigarettes (and the subsequent history of hangovers) while simultaneously revealing that his wit was unaffected by his diagnosis. In the book, the polemicist and enthusiastic atheist describes the wasting away his body endures during chemotherapy, but his words remain as sharp and carefully chosen as ever. It\u2019s not a stretch to deduce that the composition of this book sustained him, maybe even more than the treatments he so eloquently describes throughout. Or, in his own words: \u201cI often grandly say that writing is not just my living and my livelihood but my very life, and it\u2019s true.\u201d [Gregg LaGambina]\n4. In Search Of Lost Time, Marcel Proust\nThe unofficial granddaddy of all bed-bound art, Marcel Proust\u2019s epic seven-volume In Search Of Lost Time continues to haunt the literary set long after the final book was published in 1927. This \u201chaunting\u201d has mostly to do with the fact that even the most ardent bibliophiles struggles to get past The Guermantes Way (volume three), widely considered to be the driest, slowest, and most political entry in the series. This is a shame, because Proust perished trying to complete the work, dying at age 51. Confined to his bedroom in his final years, and eventually succumbing to pneumonia (in addition to a variety of respiratory ailments that had plagued him from childhood), Proust was on a mad dash to get his life down on paper, to make art from his brief time on earth. The least you could do is read it, or you might find yourself struggling to whisper, \u201cBut I never read Proust!\u201d on your own deathbed. [Gregg LaGambina]\n5. \u2026Like Clockwork, Queens Of The Stone Age\n\u201cI speak, I breathe, I\u2019m incomplete, I\u2019m alive, hooray!\u201d sings Josh Homme on the \u2026Like Clockwork piano ballad \u201cThe Vampyre Of Time And Memory.\u201d You read that correctly: piano ballad. It\u2019s not the usual fare from a songwriter who took notes early in his career from Black Sabbath\u2014spooky music fueled by dropped tunings and emptied beer cans. But for the sixth Queens Of The Stone Age album, Josh Homme and his rotating crew of musicians encamped in Burbank at the singer\u2019s own Pink Duck Studios to record songs deeply affected by Homme\u2019s brush with death. In 2010, after a knee surgery gone wrong found him waking up to the news that he had almost been \u201clost,\u201d Homme was bedbound for months and sunk deeply into depression. The fruits of this struggle surfaced, like its rehabilitated creator, to become the band\u2019s most consistently appealing album in its 16-year career, proving that heaviness comes in many forms and is especially dark when it\u2019s true. [Gregg LaGambina]\n6. Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant\nHistory hasn\u2019t always been kind to Ulysses S. Grant. The man who in short order went from leather-shop clerk to supreme commander of Lincoln\u2019s armies\u2014and onward to his own presidency\u2014should rank among our greatest American humans ever. Instead, Grant is also remembered for rampant corruption within his administration, as well as a probably undeserved reputation for inopportune binge drinking. Despite his many victories on and off the battlefield, Grant was not a particularly wealthy man. What money he did have after leaving the White House he spent on a costly world tour. After he was diagnosed with throat cancer, Grant decided to write his memoirs so his family could live off of the proceeds. As he slowly wasted away, the unfortunate result of a three cigars-per-day regimen, Grant raced to finish his account of the War Between The States. Fortunately, he had a well regarded publisher and advisor\u2014Mark Twain. Their friendship and collaboration inevitably led to accusations that Twain himself had written Grant\u2019s account, but the book lacks any Twain-ian adornment. (There\u2019s nary a young scallywag or time-traveling New Englander to be found.) While Twain may have helped shape and promote the memoir, the work\u2014widely considered one of the world\u2019s great military accounts\u2014is all Grant. [Drew Toal]\n7. \u201cI\u2019m Not Gonna Miss You,\u201d Glen Campbell\nRhinestone Cowboy and country legend Glen Campbell is still alive, but he\u2019s deep into a battle with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, an affliction that has taken away not only his words and melodies but also a good deal of his general acuity. In 2014, Campbell went on a victory tour of sorts, playing shows while he still could and releasing both a documentary, Glen Campbell: I\u2019ll Be Me, and a farewell single, \u201cI\u2019m Not Gonna Miss You.\u201d Recorded in 2013, \u201cI\u2019m Not Gonna Miss You\u201d is wrenching from note one, especially alongside footage of Campbell\u2019s life and loves in the music video. With lyrics about how Campbell has all-encompassing love for his family and knows that, due to the ravages of his disease, he won\u2019t actually remember them when he dies, it\u2019s a heartbreaking take on Campbell\u2019s life and his battle with his own brain. [Marah Eakin]\n8. \u201cThe Saddest Day Of My Life,\u201d Craig Wedren\nWith a title like \u201cThe Saddest Day Of My Life,\u201d you could be forgiven for thinking you\u2019re about to hear just another song dealing with romantic heartbreak. But Shudder To Think\u2019s Craig Wedren was actually going through chemotherapy when he composed this song\u2014he\u2019d received a diagnosis of Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. As he\u2019d tell The A.V. Club a few years later, he was receiving brutal doses of radiation to his head and chest, which is enough to make anyone start pondering whether they have a future. As a result, lines like \u201cIt\u2019s sad when you leave me alone\u201d gain a deeper, bleaker meaning, and the context transforms the implications of his plaintive \u201cDon\u2019t fantasize on me / your heart will bleed, your eyes will burn.\u201d Thankfully, Wedren\u2019s treatment put the lymphoma in remission, and the tune endures as both a lovely torch song lament and arguably the best use of castanets in a \u201990s art-pop nugget. [Alex McCown]\n9. Guess Who\u2019s Coming To Dinner, Spencer Tracy\nSpencer Tracy died only 17 days after shooting his last scene for 1967\u2019s Guess Who\u2019s Coming To Dinner. The actor was seriously ill throughout filming, but he reportedly was kept on schedule and in form thanks to Herculean efforts by costar Katharine Hepburn. The illness isn\u2019t noticeable in the final product, as Tracy bring his usual poise to bear as a father wrestling with his prejudices. The actor received a posthumous Oscar nomination and praise for the role, and although there are no overt nods to his grave condition in the film, Hepburn\u2019s attentiveness to her onscreen partner acquires an added layer of feeling by our knowledge\u2014and both actors\u2019 awareness\u2014that Tracy was not long for this world. [Alex McCown]\n10. Angel, Alexis Denisof\nBetween seasons four and five of Angel, Alexis Denisof\u2014who played former Watcher-turned \u201crogue demon hunter\u201d Wesley Wyndam-Pryce\u2014was stricken with Bell\u2019s palsy, a nerve disorder that essentially paralyzed the left side of his face. Angel creator Joss Whedon, who directed the season premiere \u201cConviction,\u201d says in the DVD commentary that the palsy-afflicted side of Denisof\u2019s face was \u201cnot really photographable.\u201d The diagnosis would be bad news for any actor (Denisof improved soon after), but it presented a particular challenge for Whedon, who had designed a show-opening tracking shot where, as usual, Wesley was set to deliver copious exposition about the Angel gang\u2019s takeover of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart. Any long opener is difficult, but watching the shot with Denisof\u2019s condition in mind, Whedon\u2019s achievement is even more impressive, as it deftly weaves around his star\u2019s temporary \u201cbad side.\u201d Thankfully, Wesley\u2019s evolution had made him more taciturn over the years\u2014in this case, terseness was a virtue. [Dennis Perkins]\n11. Il Postino, Massimo Troisi\nAt a time when countryman Roberto Benigni was being hailed as \u201cChaplinesque,\u201d Italian television star Massimo Troisi was turning in a quieter approximation in the sweetly affecting comedy Il Postino, which casts Troisi as the fumbling postman on an island full of burly fishermen. As he befriends exiled poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) and bashfully romances town beauty Maria Grazia Cucinotta, the gangly Troisi is a picture of apologetic fragility. It\u2019s a performance all the more touching considering Troisi essentially died to secure it\u2014a degenerative heart ailment weakened him to the point that he eventually could only work an hour a day, and then only with one or two takes for each scene. (Most of his extended bike-riding scenes were performed by his stunt double.) Perhaps sensing that the film, which he co-wrote, would vault him into international stardom, Troisi postponed heart surgery to complete the film\u2014and died of a heart attack the day after filming his last scene, at the age of 41. He received a posthumous Oscar nomination for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. [Dennis Perkins]\n12. A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman\nAt the 2006 Oscar ceremony, Robert Altman gratefully accepted a lifetime achievement award but joked that he\u2019d just finished a picture and probably had a couple more decades of work left in him. By the end of the year, Altman was dead. It later came out that during the making of the movie he\u2019d mentioned at the Oscars\u2014an adaptation of Garrison Keillor\u2019s radio show A Prairie Home Companion\u2014the insurance company insisted that director Paul Thomas Anderson be on the set to take over if the visibly frail Altman couldn\u2019t finish the shoot. The film\u2019s working title, The Last Show, suggests that Altman knew he was saying his goodbyes. A Prairie Home Companion is a meditation on endings, with several characters openly discussing the proper legacy for people who spend their lives in show business. Ultimately the movie is one final, modest example of what Pauline Kael once called \u201ca Robert Altman party,\u201d and as such it comes across more as a celebration than a lament. [Noel Murray]\n13. Songs In A&E, Spiritualized\nThe title of Spiritualized\u2019s sixth album doesn\u2019t have the same double meaning outside the U.K.: In British parlance, \u201cA&E\u201d refers to \u201cAccident And Emergency,\u201d which Americans know as the emergency room. Jason Pierce finished the record while recovering from a bout of pneumonia so serious that it almost killed him, and songs like \u201cDeath Take Your Fiddle\u201d are deepened by that context. (\u201cDeath take your fiddle / and play a song for me / Play a song we used to sing / the one that brought you close to me.\u201d) This wouldn\u2019t be the last time that serious illness played a part in the band\u2019s music: The recording of its next album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, was undertaken while Pierce struggled with the side effects of medicine he was taking for liver disease. [Josh Modell]\n14. Prairie Wind, Neil Young\nBecause he\u2019s a proponent of \u201caudio verit\u00e9,\u201d Neil Young has never shied away from writing and recording when he\u2019s not feeling up to par. Young penned \u201cCinnamon Girl,\u201d \u201cDown By The River,\u201d and \u201cCowgirl In The Sand\u201d while he was feverish with the flu, and he blazed through Tonight\u2019s The Night while heavily intoxicated and angrily grieving two dead friends. The gentle 2005 folk/country album Prairie Wind was mostly written in response to the death of Young\u2019s father, and then mostly recorded after Young was diagnosed with an aneurysm. Young recovered quickly from the surgery\u2014after he\u2019d finished the album. That may explain the eerie calm and unusual feeling of control to Prairie Wind, which replaces Young\u2019s usual wildness with a wistful resignation. [Noel Murray]\n15. The Wind, Warren Zevon\nWhen Warren Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable abdominal cancer in 2002, he declined any life-extending treatments and instead went into the studio to record his best album in 15 years. Working with some of his closest friends in the music business\u2014including Bruce Springsteen, Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, and Tom Petty\u2014Zevon knocked out a set of simple rock and folk songs, as clean and uncomplicated as the music he made during his mid-1970s heyday. And while The Wind has less of the dark humor that was a staple of his repertoire throughout his career, it\u2019s bookended perfectly, starting with the rowdy \u201cDirty Life And Times\u201d and ending with the unassuming, elegiac \u201cKeep Me In Your Heart\u201d\u2014the kind of song and sentiment that just about any dying person would want to leave behind. [Noel Murray]\n16. On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King\nA little less than two years into the process of putting together what would ultimately become the autobiography-cum-composition advice manual On Writing, Stephen King was struck by a van while walking the back roads of Maine. The accident broke King\u2019s hip and caused other injuries, leading to months of painful physical therapy. The prolific author struggled to recover the voluminous energy that had helped to make him one of the most popular novelists in the world. The work that emerged amid these trials wasn\u2019t always stellar (Dreamcatcher, his first post-accident novel, is also one of his worst), but the drive to keep working also resulted in some of the most direct and powerful writing of King\u2019s career. The last section of On Writing consists largely of a step-by-step account of the author\u2019s accident and the debilitating aftermath, and the resultant book remains a high-water mark in King\u2019s bibliography: clear, personable, engaged, and, at its best, richly humane. [Zack Handlen]\n17. Discreet Music, Brian Eno\nWere it not for an automobile accident that left Brian Eno confined to a body cast, he might never have developed the style of ambient music that dominated his career and influenced countless imitators. Sure, the concept of sprawling, soothing instrumentals that prioritize tone and texture certainly didn\u2019t originate with Eno, and he\u2019d already been experimenting with slower mood music on his solo recordings and collaborations with Robert Fripp. But Eno developed and codified those ideas while laid up, listening to an album of 18th-century harp music that was playing too faintly in the background of his hospital room, all because he couldn\u2019t get up and reach the volume knob. That experience inspired Eno to compose 1975\u2019s Discreet Music, an album intended to blend into the background and create a state of reflective bliss\u2014all borne out of the violence of a car crash. [Sean O\u2019Neal]\n18. Donuts, J Dilla\nDonuts, the last and best beat tape by iconic hip-hop producer James \u201cJ Dilla\u201d Yancey, began as a way to distract Dilla from the incurable blood disease that was shutting down his organs. His close friends, including Common and Madlib, set up a makeshift studio in his hospital room and brought vinyl for Dilla to sample and chop. The project consumed Dilla to the point that the hospital bed became constraining. He reportedly woke his mother at all times of the night to help him into a nearby recliner so he could better focus, and he would burn the midnight oil crafting the best beats of his career. He named the project after his favorite food and recorded 31 beats, one for every year of his life. Donuts was released on Dilla\u2019s 32nd birthday, and he died three days later. The finished project makes clear Dilla knew he didn\u2019t have much time left, and though the highlight of Donuts urges his survivors not to cry, it\u2019s a hard request to comply with. [Joshua Alston]\n19. New World Order, Curtis Mayfield\nAfter he wrote \u201cPeople Get Ready\u201d for The Impressions and created a funky back catalog featuring such classic solo albums as Roots, Super Fly, and There\u2019s No Place Like America Today, Curtis Mayfield\u2019s career seemed to reach an abrupt end in 1990: During a concert at Brooklyn\u2019s Wingate Field, he was struck by falling equipment and paralyzed from the neck down. In 1997, however, Mayfield rose above the challenges and released New World Order, the making of which reveals just how badly the man wanted to make more music. To record the album\u2019s 13 tracks, Mayfield had to be on his back, as it was the only way he could get enough air into his lungs to sing, and even at that, he could only sing one line at a time. The editing involved to make New World Order was considerable, but it was worth the effort: The set, which would be Mayfield\u2019s last (he died in 1999), went on to earn a 1997 Grammy nod for Best R&B Album. [Will Harris]\n20. Various Works, Frida Kahlo\nIt\u2019s hard to say what influenced Mexican painter Frida Kahlo most: revolution, heartache, illness, injury, or her determination to make the most of a life that she sensed would be cut short. Born in 1907, a few years before the Mexican revolution, Kahlo contracted polio as a child, which permanently impaired her left leg. As a teenager, she was impaled by a piece of wreckage in a horrific bus accident; her screams were said to be louder than the ambulance sirens. She was in bed recovering from this accident when she first started to paint. Her resulting spinal injuries resulted in dozens of operations, years in bed and in plaster torso casts (which she decorated), and excruciating pain off and on for the rest of her life. But the prolific artist found inspiration in the pain, and in various political movements. Kahlo was fond of self-portraits, so her sickbed had a mirror to make it easier to paint herself, and a carpenter set up a special easel so that she could paint lying down. Her emotionally resonant art inspired her native country to embrace her as the heart of Mexico, and she left behind an astonishing volume of work before she died at 47. [Gwen Ihnat]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 21507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finchannel.com/tourism-and-travel/36535-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:23Z", "digest": "sha1:JD5IJYSTA27QY3FP2JFC4ZH6VZJ7BIX3", "length": 2121, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "finchannel.com", "title": "InterContinental Hotels & Resorts named World\u2019s Leading Hotel Brand at World Travel Awards", "raw_content": "InterContinental Hotels & Resorts named World\u2019s Leading Hotel Brand at World Travel Awards\nThe FINANCIAL -- InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, part of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has been recognised by the 2013 World Travel Awards in Doha, Qatar as the World's Leading Hotel Brand 2013 for the seventh time and fifth consecutive year. The InterContinental Samui Baan Taling Ngam Resort in Koh Samui, Thailand was also recognised as the World's Leading Luxury Resort 2013, according to InterContinental Hotels Group.\nIn addition, the brand was voted Europe's Leading Hotel Brand 2013 and Asia's Leading Business Hotel Brand, among 41 other awards that also recognised individual InterContinental Hotels & Resorts properties around the globe this year.\n\u201cWe are honoured to be the recipients of such prestigious awards that recognise the dedication of all our colleagues working in 174 properties around the world, and demonstrate their pride in IHG\u2019s iconic international luxury brand,\" said Simon Scoot, Vice President, Global Brands, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts remarked.\n\"InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is dedicated to providing genuine insider experiences that inspire our guests to feel more like a local rather than a tourist when they stay with us,\u201d he added.\nThe scale and diversity of the IHG family of brands means that its hotels can meet its guests\u2019 needs whatever the occasion. InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is IHG\u2019s luxury hotel brand, with local insight that comes from over 65 years\u2019 experience on the international scene. The brand has a presence in more than 60 countries worldwide in most of the world\u2019s key cities and many resort locations.\nHailed as \u201cThe Oscars of the Travel Industry\u201d by the Wall Street Journal, the World Travel Awards celebrate their 20th Anniversary this year and are widely acknowledged across the globe as the ultimate travel accolade. The awards aim to celebrate brands that are pushing the boundaries of industry excellence and are decided based on votes by the public and travel professionals worldwide.\nPrevious Article Air Travel Maintains Strong Growth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 5284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flatheadbeacon.com/2007/09/22/montanas-congressional-delegation-first-to-post-schedules-online/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FH32QOECR3DHL64VB4JZAS4YAEG2B72Z", "length": 7105, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "flatheadbeacon.com", "title": "Montana's congressional delegation first to post schedules online - Flathead Beacon", "raw_content": "Montana\u2019s congressional delegation first to post schedules online\nPraise Earned from Government Watchdog Groups\nBy Matt Gouras, Associated Press // Sep 22, 2007\nHELENA (AP) \u2013 Montana\u2019s congressional delegation has become the first in the nation to post their schedules on the Internet, earning praise from advocates of open government.\nThis week, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus started posting an online schedule detailing his meetings the prior day, following similar postings by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. Tester was one of the first members of Congress to post his schedule on the Internet when he took office in January. Rehberg has been doing the same since June.\nA government watchdog group that has been pushing all members of Congress to post their schedules says Montana is now leading the way on the issue.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a tribute to Senator Tester. He is a populist, and he seized on this idea early,\u201d said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation.\nThe Washington, D.C.-based group has said the issue is about accountability, knowing who congressional representatives met with on a given day as opposed to obtaining schedules in advance.\nBaucus, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, started posting his schedule Tuesday. His spokesman said it took longer to work out a plan due to the senator\u2019s many obligations as committee chair.\n\u201cMax thinks that providing this schedule is an important way for Montana to keep up with it and for Montanans to know what Max is doing for them,\u201d said spokesman Barrett Kaiser. \u201cIt is great that Montana is setting an example across the nation.\u201d\nThe issue has also trickled down to statewide officeholders.\nRepublican Secretary of State Brad Johnson announced Friday that he will start posting his schedule on the Internet next week. He also said he will make archives of the schedule available going back to the start of the year.\nMiller with the Sunlight Foundation said Johnson was the first state-level official she knows of to follow the congressional mold.\n\u201cWe had not seen this pop up at the state level before,\u201d she said.\nJohnson said all his fellow statewide officeholders, including Gov. Brian Schweitzer, should follow the example set by the state\u2019s congressional delegation.\n\u201cI\u2019m glad we are kind of on the cutting edge,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe ought to be leading by example.\u201d\nSchweitzer\u2019s office said reporters are sent advance copies of the governor\u2019s schedule, which is available to those who ask.\n\u201cWe\u2019re happy to let folks know what he is doing if they would like to stop by,\u201d said spokeswoman Sarah Elliott, adding the governor has advocated openness in his office by allowing anyone to attend his meetings.\nAttorney General Mike McGrath said his past schedules are available for anyone who requests them.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s all public record, all public documents. To my knowledge nobody has asked for it,\u201d McGrath said.\nThe Sunlight Foundation says that only eight members of Congress, including Tester, Baucus and Rehberg, are posting the online schedules.\nTester made schedules an issue in his 2006 campaign against Republican Sen. Conrad Burns as part of an ethics pledge.\n\u201cHe never did this to force others into doing the same thing,\u201d said spokesman Matt McKenna. \u201cHe did this because he believes government should be transparent and the folks that elected him should be able to know what he is up to everyday.\u201d\nhttp://tester.senate.gov/\nhttp://baucus.senate.gov\nhttp://www.house.gov/rehberg/\nhttp://www.sos.state.mt.us/\nSlug:\tBC-MT\u2013Officeholders-Schedules\nHeadline:\tMontana\u2019s congressional delegation first to post schedules online\nByline:\tBy MATT GOURAS\nByline Title:\tAssociated Press Writer\nCopyright Holder:\tAP\nPriority:\tr (4)\nWith Photo:\nDateline:\tHELENA, Mont.\nFile Name (Transref):\tM0093\nEditorial Type:\nAP Category:\tn\nFormat:\tbx\nEdit Mode : Cancel\nHELENA, Mont. (AP) _ Montana\u2019s congressional delegation has become the first in the nation to post their schedules on the Internet, earning praise from advocates of open government. This week, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus started posting an online schedule detailing his meetings the prior day, following similar postings by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. Tester was one of the first members of Congress to post his schedule on the Internet when he took office in January. Rehberg has been doing the same since June. A government watchdog group that has been pushing all members of Congress to post their schedules says Montana is now leading the way on the issue. \u201cIt\u2019s a tribute to Senator Tester. He is a populist, and he seized on this idea early,\u201d said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation. The Washington, D.C.-based group has said the issue is about accountability, knowing who congressional representatives met with on a given day as opposed to obtaining schedules in advance. Baucus, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, started posting his schedule Tuesday. His spokesman said it took longer to work out a plan due to the senator\u2019s many obligations as committee chair. \u201cMax thinks that providing this schedule is an important way for Montana to keep up with it and for Montanans to know what Max is doing for them,\u201d said spokesman Barrett Kaiser. \u201cIt is great that Montana is setting an example across the nation.\u201d The issue has also trickled down to statewide officeholders. Republican Secretary of State Brad Johnson announced Friday that he will start posting his schedule on the Internet next week. He also said he will make archives of the schedule available going back to the start of the year. Miller with the Sunlight Foundation said Johnson was the first state-level official she knows of to follow the congressional mold. \u201cWe had not seen this pop up at the state level before,\u201d she said. Johnson said all his fellow statewide officeholders, including Gov. Brian Schweitzer, should follow the example set by the state\u2019s congressional delegation. \u201cI\u2019m glad we are kind of on the cutting edge,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe ought to be leading by example.\u201d Schweitzer\u2019s office said reporters are sent advance copies of the governor\u2019s schedule, which is available to those who ask. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to let folks know what he is doing if they would like to stop by,\u201d said spokeswoman Sarah Elliott, adding the governor has advocated openness in his office by allowing anyone to attend his meetings. Attorney General Mike McGrath said his past schedules are available for anyone who requests them. \u201cI think it\u2019s all public record, all public documents. To my knowledge nobody has asked for it,\u201d McGrath said. The Sunlight Foundation says that only eight members of Congress, including Tester, Baucus and Rehberg, are posting the online schedules. Tester made schedules an issue in his 2006 campaign against Republican Sen. Conrad Burns as part of an ethics pledge. \u201cHe never did this to force others into doing the same thing,\u201d said spokesman Matt McKenna. \u201cHe did this because he believes government should be transparent and the folks that elected him should be able to know what he is up to everyday.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flickdirect.com/movieshowcase.aspx?search_movie=Claire-Hope+Ashitey&GenreID=-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IQUZO3EJ3NZIT2V3SWNDZEXWRDLU5P6U", "length": 297, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "flickdirect.com", "title": "Claire-Hope Ashitey, Movie Database, Movie Reviews, Movie Clips, Movie Photos | FlickDirect", "raw_content": "Home / Movie Database / Claire-Hope Ashitey\nNo children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pre...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flyanddine.boardingarea.com/live-like-gatsby-fairmont-grand-del-mar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WL5JIFK4SSGCOEXNSXXPU2OQSNFJDJLJ", "length": 5711, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "flyanddine.boardingarea.com", "title": "7 Reasons to Visit: Live Like Gatsby at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar - Fly&Dine", "raw_content": "In the first ever Fly&Dine \u201c7 Reasons to Visit,\u201d we head down to San Diego for a trip to the opulent Fairmont Grand Del Mar.\nThere are luxury hotels that feel like a nice place to stay and there are luxury hotels that feel like you get to step into a fantasy life. The Fairmont Grand Del Mar is the latter type of property. It\u2019s a luxury hotel that feels like a sprawling Mediterranean estate that you get to call home for the length of your stay. Your first steps into the Fairmont Grand Del Mar will feel like you\u2019ve gone back in time to 1920s Palm Beach. You\u2019ll be greeted by the always-friendly staff, but your best greeting comes courtesy of a stunning floral arrangement like this:\nThe palatial estate that doubles as the Fairmont Grand Del Mar sits just north of San Diego and only five miles from the beach. Immediately upon arrival, it\u2019s clear that this place is something of an anomaly when it comes to San Diego hotels. There\u2019s no aura of surfer chic here and despite being built just over ten years ago, the word modern doesn\u2019t really apply. The Fairmont brand has a reputation for maintaining incredibly unique properties that exude high-class luxury and the Grand Del Mar is one of the jewels in their North American crown.\n7 Reasons to Visit the Fairmont Grand Del Mar\n1. 15 Stars\nMost luxury hotels are thrilled to tell you that they\u2019ve won the Five-Star award from the Forbes Travel Guide. The Fairmont Grand Del Mar has the rare honor of claiming THREE Five-Star awards for a total of fifteen stars in celebration of their lodging, spa, and on-site fine dining restaurant Addison. That\u2019s nearly enough for its own constellation. There are only eight hotels in the United States to claim triple Five-Star status and the Fairmont Grand Del Mar is the first property in San Diego to ever garner such an impressive accomplishment.\n2. The Gatsby Effect\nAlthough the resort was built in 2007, it was designed to look like the creations of famed architect Addison Mizner, who set the standard for opulence with his Palm Beach and Boca Raton properties back in the 1920s. \u201cThe property was built to be a luxurious 5-star resort, no expense spared,\u201d says Amy Tew, PR Manager of the resort. \u201c[Builder Doug Manchester] wanted it to be an over-the-top gorgeous Mediterranean estate five miles from the beach in Carmel Valley, CA.\u201d The result is a Mediterranean-influenced gem with an exotic mix of Spanish, Portuguese, Moroccan, and Venetian design features from architect Robert Altevers and interior designer Warren Sheets. With 1920s glam and global charm, you can\u2019t help but feel like you\u2019re in the middle of The Great Gatsby as you walk the grounds of the Grand Del Mar.\n3. Naturally Gorgeous\nSpeaking of the grounds, this property is paradise for nature lovers. Nestled in Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve, the hotel sits in the middle of 4,100+ acres of verdant wonderland. With 37 miles of biking, hiking, walking, and horseback riding trails, there\u2019s something for every type of outdoorsperson. If you\u2019re a tree lover, you\u2019ll enjoy the more than 10,000 mature trees on the property.\n4. Relaxation with a View\nThere are 249 guest rooms on site and 31 of those are suites that start at 1,000 square feet. While the rooms themselves are extremely large (the standard rooms average 600 sq.ft.), it\u2019s the views that make them so ideal. Every single room, suite or otherwise, has a \u201cview of something green,\u201d as Tew says. From gardens to canyons to the championship-caliber golf course, you may find yourself parked on your terrace just wondering how you got so lucky to be spending your day at the GDM.\n5. Incomparable Dining\nIt seems like every major city has that one fine dining restaurant that serves as the go-to place for the biggest moments in people\u2019s lives. In San Diego, that restaurant is Addison. Birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, and promotions are just a few of the reasons why it\u2019s worth it to splurge at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar\u2019s signature restaurant. Chef William Bradley is a giant in the San Diego dining scene and the French-inspired tasting menus and never-ending wine list are testaments to the magic that Bradley can work in the kitchen.\n6. 18 Holes of Heaven\nWhile your everyday Joe may not know Tom Fazio, any golf fan worth his spikes knows that Fazio creates some of the most legendary courses in the world. At the GDM, Fazio\u2019s 18-hole masterpiece is only open to members of the club and guests of the hotel, which adds an element of sincere exclusivity to a day on the fairways.\n7. Floral Fantasia\nBrothers of the Bud, unite! Flower fans everywhere will cherish the gorgeous arrangements that can be found all over the Fairmont Grand Del Mar. The resort has a resident orchid caretaker on staff whose job it is to oversee the well-being of all of GDM\u2019s orchids. To add to the bloomphoria, San Diego event planner and florist Kathy Wright brings in 1,000 fresh stems every Thursday to create the stunning lobby arrangement that greets every visitor (see photo above). If the smell of fresh flowers entices you, the Fairmont Grand Del Mar will satisfy you with their floral finesse.\nThere are, of course, many more reasons to visit the Fairmont Grand Del Mar, but these seven should be enough to get you thinking about your next vacation. For more information and to book a reservation, head over to the Fairmont Grand Del Mar website.\nMain image courtesy of Fairmont Grand Del Mar\nAll other images \u00a9 2018 Fly&Dine\nDoug Manchester has supported anti-gay marriage efforts in California and his hotels (including this one and the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego) have been boycotted as a result.\nI\u2019m very sorry to hear that. Fly&Dine supports inclusion of all kinds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flybase.io/2017/05/23/how-to-start/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JR5OPLZEUJV6QFYZBHAPN4BIAT3ICZCY", "length": 710, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "flybase.io", "title": "How to start", "raw_content": "Nathan Konthy:\nQuite a few years ago I found myself in a situation where I wanted to start my own business. I was sick of working at the places I was working at, and I wanted to get out on my own. Problem was\u2026 I had no idea what that was. I didn\u2019t have any obvious breakout ideas. The experimental ideas I did have seemed impossible to market, as in, I had no idea how to sell anything. The thought occurred to me to try to raise money to build something, but I didn\u2019t even know where to begin.\nIt was an awful unmotivating place to be.\nIf you\u2019re looking for inspiration on getting started with building a startup, then Nathan\u2019s post is a nice read.\nSource: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-to-start-43bb921a36b6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fmlink.com/articles/aceee-2018-international-energy-efficiency-scorecard/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YQ3QU65BE6UNQT7G3D77E57YOMIXNJXN", "length": 2539, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "fmlink.com", "title": "ACEEE launches 2018 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard", "raw_content": "Find out how the world\u2019s top 25 energy-using countries rank on efficiency, and what they could do to improve\nby Brianna Crandall \u2014 July 16, 2018 \u2014 Some countries do strikingly better than others in saving energy, but all can better use efficiency to meet their Paris Agreement climate goals, according to The 2018 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published recently by the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).\nNo country came close to a perfect score, and the average remained the same as in 2016 \u2014 51 out of a possible 100 points. Overall, Germany and Italy tie for first place this year with 75.5 points, closely followed by France (73.5), the United Kingdom (73), and Japan (67).\n\u201cThis trend is likely to persist if the current administration continues to dismantle key regulations,\u201d said Shruti Vaidyanathan, ACEEE\u2019s senior advisor for research. \u201cAt imminent risk are joint fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for light-duty vehicles for model years 2021 onwards, a program that put the United States at the forefront of vehicle efficiency efforts.\u201d\nUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions are also threatening heavy-duty vehicle standards, and future improvements to existing appliance standards have ground to a halt. In addition, the United States\u2019 withdrawal from the Paris Agreement suggests more rollbacks to come. The administration\u2019s focus on energy production rather than efficiency has meant that progress on federal energy efficiency policies has largely stalled.\nAt the bottom of this year\u2019s rankings are Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with scores of 16.5 and 18 points, respectively. However, scores for these countries in part reflect poor data availability. South Africa fills out the bottom three with a score of 23.5, nearly 10 points lower than in 2016.\nEnergy efficiency will need to account for almost half of all the greenhouse gas emission reductions necessary through 2040 to limit the global increase in temperature to 2 degrees Celsius, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). To meet their climate targets and reap the multiple benefits of energy efficiency, countries should build efficiency into their economic and energy-related plans and learn from one another by emulating the best policies and practices of leading countries, says ACEEE.\nThe 2018 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard is available to download from ACEEE, which acts as a catalyst to advance energy efficiency policies, programs, technologies, investments, and behaviors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 7141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/category/topics/development/democracypromotion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2X2KFTNS6QG3PJ6I35QS53ENB3COMVT7", "length": 4703, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "foreignpolicyblogs.com", "title": "Democracy Promotion Archives - Foreign Policy Blogs", "raw_content": "The U.S. Should Get Rid of Its President(ial System)\nby Tim Pfefferle | on March 5th, 2017\nDonald Trump is off to a rocky start in the White House. But the real problem is not the Trump presidency, but the American presidential system itself.\nby Simon Shen | on March 15th, 2016\nIn the past, scholars tended to believe that the internet was an effective tool to challenge authoritarian regimes and facilitate the development of civil society. However, as an expert that has been investigating the issue for a number of years, I disagree with this widely held belief.\nThe Mykonos Case: U.S. Federal Bar to Present Historic Awards to German Colleagues\nIn 1997, after trial proceedings lasting over three years, Berlin\u2019s High Criminal Court convicted four individuals of murdering Iranian dissidents in a Berlin restaurant\u2014and more significantly\u2014explicitly found the murders were ordered at the highest levels of government in Tehran. The historic judgment culminated in an unprecedented diplomatic shift between Iran and Europe: Every EU member [\u2026]\nTaking stock of democracy\nby Scott Bleiweis | on January 22nd, 2014\nThe struggle to establish and maintain stable democracies continues the world over. As I have said many times before, no one ever said democracy is easy or simple, but it provides the best opportunities for freedom and prosperity (also see Churchill\u2019s view of democracy in my \u201cabout the author\u201d script). But as of now, how [\u2026]\nDemocracy\u2019s potential on display in Chile\nby Scott Bleiweis | on December 20th, 2013\n2013 has been a year fraught with many challenges for democracy. One could circle the globe and find democratic struggles in every corner of it- from Maldives to Thailand, in Egypt and Iran, Venezuela to Burma, and of course the United States (I still shudder when thinking about the October government shutdown). Many of these [\u2026]\nThe struggle of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria\nby Scott Bleiweis | on December 6th, 2013\nFor a large number of refugees fleeing Syria, life in the place they end up is no less a struggle. Many Syrians looking to escape the ravages of war in their home country have made their way to Bulgaria (via Turkey) \u2014 the country I now call home. The problem is that the influx has [\u2026]\nThailand and Maldives: the results are in\nIn my update on Thailand and Maldives a few weeks ago, both countries were on the precipice of making decisions that would determine the direction of their democracies, or lack thereof. Let\u2019s see how things turned out. Thailand On Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, Thailand\u2019s senate made a strong statement against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who [\u2026]\nRegress in Thailand and Maldives\nSadly, the adage \u201cthe more things change the more they stay the same\u201d is perfectly to describe struggles in keeping strong democracy in Asia. Upon returning from hiatus, I started looking for story ideas and ran across some \u201cupdates\u201d to items I had covered earlier this year. But in reality not much is different in [\u2026]\nThe Bus Driver\u2019s Bolivarian Revolution\nby Zach Scott | on September 9th, 2013\nElected President of Venezuela following Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s death from cancer in March, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, a former bus driver who was Mr. Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s foreign minister, has had a rocky start leading the country. Allegations of ballot-tampering, appointing corrupt officials to high-level government positions, and foreign policy missteps have created the impression that Mr. Maduro is little more [\u2026]\nDeposed leader poised to return to Thailand\nby Scott Bleiweis | on August 8th, 2013\nThe wave of protests sweeping all corners of the world has reached Thailand. What\u2019s more: Thailand appears as the latest disturbing example of leaders imposing their will on countries even when not officially in power. Thaksin Shinawatra served as prime minister of the Asian nation from 2001-06, when he was ousted in a military coup. [\u2026]\nHow U.S. fits in to Egypt events (if at all)\nby Scott Bleiweis | on July 18th, 2013\nTwo weeks after Mohamed Morsi was ousted as the leader of Egypt, chaos still reigns. According to state-run media, seven people died on Monday, July 15, in violent skirmishes between Morsi supporters and opponents. An interim government is trying to instill some sense of ruling stability, but the widely supported Muslim Brotherhood (Morsi\u2019s party) and [\u2026]\nDid Obama\u2019s Africa tour make the right stops?\nApparently President Obama has received some criticism over taking the \u201ceasy road\u201d in his visit to Africa earlier this week. 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Like all car guys, Aston Martin holds a special place for me. Part of it is the sheer cool factor brought on by Bond films, Top Gear reviews and Gran Turismo cruising sessions. But, for me, most of it is the fact that the cars are so beautifully designed. Even cars like the Lagonda you'll see in a bit.\nWe'll start out with the 2007 V8 Vantage. I was amazed at how modern and new this car looks, given the fact it's now 10 years old...\nThe owner of the car opened the hood to show another show-goer something. I couldn't help but jump in and snap a picture of the Jaguar-designed 4.3L V-8.\nThe interior just screams class. It might have something to do with the driving gloves sitting there....\nThe nicely appointed interior is done in a nice two-tone leather and some wood trim. It looks like a nice place to be for a road trip or Grand Tour of Europe.\nThis DB9 Volante was pretty much showroom fresh. Slightly outclassed by the other Astons, but still very cool.\nThe Interior on the DB9 was every bit as nice, if not a bit more plush, than the 07 Vantage.\nThis V12 Vantage was very cool. The 4 vents in the hood give away the V12 stuffed under the bonnet of this car.\nThe color was amazing. I'd love to do the Forester up in this color. And Aston nailed it with these wheels.\nThis V8 Vantage Volante (I've forgotten the year, sadly), was a bit different. It seems vastly different from the newer Vantages that were present.\nThe hood opens in reverse, like many British sports cars from this era.\nThis 1982 Aston Martin Lagonda Sedan is one of the strangest looking Astons I'd ever seen. At first glance, it could almost be an oddly shaped Town Car. Look closer, though, and things change...\nPowered by a 280bhp 5.3L \"Lagonda\" Twin-Cam V8, this nearly 4,500lb car had a top speed of nearly 145mph.\nThe interior is my favorite part of the car, though the downward-facing gauges would take some getting used to.\nThe grille is much shorter than most cars of this type, and the whole front end is far more wedge-shaped than it's Luxury Saloon competitors of its time. I can't find any record of it's cost when new, but Wikipedia states that it was one of the most expensive cars you could buy at the time.\nWrapping up the Astons is this gorgeous early 70's DBS V8 coupe.\nLike the red Vantage, the hood on the DBS opens to the front. When I stepped up to the engine bay...\nwhere I saw the imense 5.3L Lagonda V8 twin cam engine. The owner took the intake cover off of it to show off the carburetors.\nThe rear of the car has square tail lamps, typical of most cars from the era. The DBS definitely draws attention that a Corvette of the same year would not.\nThe logo hasn't changed much over the years, which is more than can be said of other marques.\nThanks for reading. Feel free to comment below. Remember to like and share this post, and follow me here on Blogger.\nBe sure to stay tuned for more content from Mad Dogs and Englishmen.\nLabels: 2017 Aston Aston Martin Aston Martin Lagonda British car enthusiast classic cars gilmore car museum Lagonda Mad dogs and englishmen twin cam V8 Vantage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1765, "original_length": 22952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.opera.com/topic/2793/no-stash-icon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:5OMESILIJ3CZSQ4PWLIUVUBJZHDLY5PX", "length": 834, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "forums.opera.com", "title": "No stash icon | Opera forums", "raw_content": "No stash icon\nrovf last edited by\nI'm running Opera 21 on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard).\nI would like to use the Stash, but I don't see a Stash icon anywhere.\nHere is a screenshot of how by browser window looks like:\nhttp://i57.tinypic.com/3089w5y.jpg\nOpen a new tab and look at the top of the Speed Dial. You should see a button to access Stash.\nIn Windows Stash is also accessible via the main menu. I don't know where/if it's located in the Mac OS X menu...\nYou add pages there by pressing the heart icon in the address field when you're browsing the desired page.\nThe stash icon is visible in your screenshot. It's in the address bar displayed as grey heart.\nThis will soon be getting a redesign.\nhttp://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2014/05/opera-developer-update-faster-turbo/\nI think the user doesn't know how to access the Stash page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.technicpack.net/topic/322156-materials-and-you-doesnt-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XIFQC4EPX4EIXGMWOT4X7C46TWFL5PFP", "length": 450, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "forums.technicpack.net", "title": "Materials and You doesn't work - Attack of the B-Team - Technic Forums", "raw_content": "Materials and You doesn't work\nBy Doctor_Pike, August 7, 2018 in Attack of the B-Team\nSo recently I have, for the first time in a while, started a AotBT SSP. One of the first things I discovered is that you cannot see the other pages in Materials and You. The arrow to switch to the next page just doesn't do anything when i click on it. The Openblocks book works fine though. If anyone has a solution to this problem it would be greatly appreciated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fossilfreeuw.ca/uw-investments/riwg-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:E4WTIUKNSO3I2SKDOO27WO267B2OTMCS", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fossilfreeuw.ca", "title": "RIWG Report \u2013 Fossil Free \u2013 University of Waterloo", "raw_content": "Read the Responsible Investment Working Group\u2019s report to the Board of Governors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 134.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3A%22Adams%2C%20John%22%20Period%3A%22Jefferson%20Presidency%22&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FQ6VIUJX3RND5YTDKGRFVIQRYJE4GUQA", "length": 46, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "founders.archives.gov", "title": "Founders Online: Search", "raw_content": "Cunningham, William (13)\nSmith, John Adams (4)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Author%3A%22Pulaski%2C%20Casimir%22&s=1411311111&r=10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:I4BIUZRXHAYN5R56F3ERA3ZUT4J7K6A2", "length": 754, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "founders.archives.gov", "title": "To George Washington from Casimir Pulaski, 22 November 1778", "raw_content": "Documents filtered by: Author=\"Pulaski, Casimir\"\nTo George Washington from Casimir Pulaski, 22 November 1778\nFrom Casimir Pulaski\nLetter not found: from Casimir Pulaski, 22 November. On 26 Nov., GW wrote to Pulaski acknowledging receipt of \u201cyours of the 22d.\u201d\n\u201cTo George Washington from Casimir Pulaski, 22 November 1778,\u201d Founders Online, National Archives, version of January 18, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-18-02-0268. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 18, 1 November 1778\u200a\u2013\u200a14 January 1779, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 257.]\nFrom Pulaski to Washington [15 November 1778]\nAll correspondence between Pulaski and Washington", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article1972", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:28Z", "digest": "sha1:APG5W7XU3KTPSHY4XPHPXMBZW77CJE7R", "length": 790, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "franceintheus.org", "title": "\ufeff U.S. visit by French Environment Minister S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "U.S. visit by French Environment Minister S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal\nThe President of COP21 and Minister of the Environment, Energy, and Marine Affairs, was in Washington, D.C. for the \u201cOur Ocean\u201d conference on September 15-16, 2016.\nOn September 15-16, Environment Minister and COP21 President S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal attended the 2016 Our Ocean Conference hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Political and business leaders, scientists, civil society representatives and others met at the State Department for two days to develop cooperative efforts to protect the ocean.\nOn September 16, Ms. Royal attended FACT-O, an event at the French Embassy featuring ocean conservationist and documentary filmmaker Fabien Cousteau, first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.\nThe commitment of France to the ocean", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 153.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://friendsover55.org/special-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NAPF6MLAQCS6KXPAXZK6HNURHCTN2LCE", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "friendsover55.org", "title": "Special Events | Friends Over 55 Recreation Centre", "raw_content": "Deadline to purchase tickets: Monday, February 11 by 3:30 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://futures.io/66892-post22.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:42Z", "digest": "sha1:B4ISH6XYGE4RJ3E4WZDWCDYBG4P33GZY", "length": 414, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "futures.io", "title": "Fair price for ATS | Trading Reviews and Vendors", "raw_content": "but........................................... as i have never seen a strat work good over a period of time and i know several programmers that have spent years working on strats including our on mike then i would have to agree with him on this one...sharky\nhow long is over a period of time? if it's lets say 5 month. by your examples using 20 cars = 90,000.\nof course that's just me not using a calculator again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 93.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gamblercentral.com/greyhound-racing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:DCHTUBQQOYFEAMLBTRBKAG2MNH43S6VH", "length": 2110, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "gamblercentral.com", "title": "Greyhound Racing Game - Online Betting | USA Players Welcome", "raw_content": "Can You Bet on a Greyhound Racing Game Online?\nAlthough greyhound racing and the associated gambling industry are not as heavily exposed and popular as many other sports betting opportunities, people are still enjoying the thrill and profits of this activity in many countries all over the world. Did you know that you can now bet on a favorite greyhound racing game online, rather than try to seek out one of the dwindling numbers of local racetracks? There are many websites offering this service to meet the needs of enthusiasts everywhere. Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your experience and increase your chances of winning.\nSelecting a great place to play is the most important part of getting involved with Internet sports betting. Check out reviews before handing over any cash - this is the best way to ascertain a website's legitimacy. Once you have a few good prospects in mind, find out if the service is available where you live. Some sites are unavailable to those who reside in the USA. Next, consider what banking options are available. You want to be able to quickly and safely deposit money in order to bet on your favorite dogs, and withdraw your winnings easily from your account. Pay attention to the promotions offered to new members as well as extras like schedules and coverage that helps you get the best odds possible.\nFinally, the mechanics of the site should be taken into consideration. Is it streamlined, attractive and simple to use? You need to be able to find all the pertinent information and bet on the races without too much of a hassle. Also, look for an efficient and friendly customer service system that allows you to get assistance via your favorite method of communication. If you need any help placing a wager or retrieving funds, the staff should be knowledgeable and eager to help solve your problem. Now that you know what to watch out for, you will be able to have a much smoother experience when you start wagering on the greyhound racing game online. In fact, you can even take advantage of bonuses that will provide you with an extra boost!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 2181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gamblingmoments.com/author/nigel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TOZKNWPOGQWHGBIYTKFJL6DSNWPME3LR", "length": 2358, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "gamblingmoments.com", "title": "Nigel \u2013 GamblingMoments", "raw_content": "Author: Nigel\nI have never been to Spain but that is definitely one country that I would like to visit one of these days. Known all over the world for its good food, culture, and beaches (some areas at least), Spain is a wonderful\u2026\nTo Gamble or Not To Gamble?\nFar away in the land of Kentucky, two politicians are battling it out for supremacy \u2013 and one of their weapons is the casino. Well it may not be that far from some of you \u2013 I was just trying to be\u2026\nUnfriendly Competition to Ruin Indian Casinos?\nWe have all heard and read about how Native American tribes have been very active in the casino industry in the recent years. This is indeed a good thing as the tribes, who used to have to fight poverty, have found a\u2026\nNBA\u2019s Current Scandal\nIt seems that this month has been a bad month for sports. Left and right, there have been scandals in almost all of the major sports in the US today. The NBA, though it has never been free of charges, is facing\u2026\nYou have heard it before \u2013 this age is the age of information. That means a wealth of facts and knowledge to be had at your fingertips. This applies to almost every aspect of life \u2013 from business to leisure. Gambling is\u2026\nNETeller to Pay $136M\nRemember that post about the NETeller executive pleading guilty to the charges against him? Recent developments in this issue inform us that the whole company admits to wrongdoing for violating U.S. laws regarding Internet gambling. Here are excerpts of AP\u2019s report on\u2026\nIndian Gambling Set For Expansion\nIn the state of California, four of the richest Indian tribes have been given the go ahead to expand their casino operations. This was the result of an agreement between the tribes and the governor which stipulated that the tribes have to\u2026\nOn : June 30, 2007 May 7, 2018 - by Nigel- No Comment\nStephen Lawrence, a founder of NETeller has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy regarding the handling of billions of dollars from gambling proceeds. Though the online gambling world was rocked by the US government\u2019s decision to ban Internet Gambling last year,\u2026\nGambling has always had a negative connotation to it. Traditionalists and conservatives have always associated gambling with addiction and ultimate ruin. However, this generalization does not always apply to everyone. 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King 4 Comments\nPatrick Fore/Unsplash\nI recently read an article that explored the question, \u201cIs God male?\u201d It seems some think the nouns and pronouns used to describe God in the Scriptures are masculine and may give readers a skewered or limited perspective of the nature of God.\nThe reasoning goes something like this; all the authors of the Bible were men who penned their various books in cultures that were decidedly patriarchal. Their use of masculine terms in describing God were colored by their gender and culture, therefore, we should consider redacting the Scriptures to bring them into conformity with our current cultural perspective.\nThe concern with redacting the Scriptures\u2026\nMy chief concern here is what this sort of thinking suggests regarding the inspiration of Scripture. It infers that the Word of God was influence more by the human authors to the detriment and discredit of the divine Author. Is the Bible the Word of God, or the word of man?\nWhen it comes to the definition of inspiration of Scripture, I agree with the one formulated by the late Dr. Charles C. Ryrie. He wrote \u201cbiblical inspiration\u2026is God\u2019s superintendence of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities, they composed and recorded without error His revelation to man.\u201d\nThis definition accounts for the idiosyncrasies and varying styles of the human authors without detracting from the Divine inspiration of the Scriptures; making them avowedly the Word of God and not the word of man.\nGod is aware of what he inspired\u2026\nWhat this means is that God was fully aware of the gender and culture of the human authors He inspired to write His Word, and that they would describe Him in masculine terms, and He had no problem with it.\nTheologian Kelly Brown Douglas subscribes to these gender-neutral changes. She says making them \u201cfrees God from these very limited, finite images of God in which we are creating God in our own image instead of trying to live and reach into the image that is God.\u201d\nShe is saying that the image of God portrayed by Moses, Paul and the rest of the biblical authors is not as good as the image she and others like her are proposing. My question is, who is trying to create God in an image they are more comfortable with, and why?\nI do not trust anyone today to update the Scriptures\u2026\nWe currently live in a culture and generation that has already produced gender-neutral Bibles, and the Queen James Version that edited out those passages that the LGBTQ people believe are homophobic. I do not trust this generation or culture to give me an unbiased and honest reimaging of God apart from what has already been revealed in the Bible.\n\u201cForever, O Lord, your word is settled in heaven,\u201d Psalm 119:89, and that settles it for me here on earth.\nWhen Jesus\u2019 disciples asked Him how to pray, He said, \u201cPray then in this way: Our Father who is in heaven,\u201d Matthew 6:9. Jesus said we are to pray to \u201cour Father.\u201d I am going with Jesus on this one.\n\u201d. . . making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.\u201d Mark 7:13 I am not changing a jot or a tittle. The world is the world (fallen) and the Word is the Word (infallible).\nChristian Concepts says\nDeuteronomy 4:2, Revelation 22:18-19\nChristian Concepts it is clear to me. 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If you would like to attend a webinar information session, please sign up at http://signup.com/go/iQDE9N. Signup is first come, first served. 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The website gives the information on how the distance education is important in bringing about the change in overall literacy levels. In this regard, the website provides the background for the Bhoj Virtual University. The website also provides information on the university\u2019s links with other organizations for the academic matters.\nThe website shows the organizational structure which serves to manage the university\u2019s affairs. The website discusses academic matters such as the courses offered and the departments in which they are offered. Regional centers which carry immense importance are also discussed in an effort to provide as much information as possible. The website gives the names of officers and faculty members that are assigned different posts in the university\u2019s management. Self-learning material, syllabus, assignments and online results are some of the facilities available to students here.\nTo Know more visit https://bhojvirtualuniversity.com\nPrevious Gateway to Exam Results in India\nNext Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Ajmer\nIndian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi\nPolice Department, Haryana\nAdilabad District, Telangana\nMilitary Engineering Service (MES)\n\u201cUS Shouldn\u2019t Even Give Pak A Dollar Till They Act On Terror\u201d\nPunjab Telecom Circle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://graphicsheat.com/hope/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HQQAILG5GUZZOS5J3OVQ36BECW5HY4IY", "length": 382, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "graphicsheat.com", "title": "Hope | Graphicsheat", "raw_content": "20 Quotes & Sayings about Hope\nHope, Quotes\n20 Quotes & Sayings about Hope : Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one\u2019s life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: \u201cexpect with confidence\u201d and \u201cto cherish a desire with anticipation.\u201d Allow yourself to believe and to trust [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2009/05/foundation-of-lies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UWBT4N37G5Q2MUHLJ6R3U4W5WM2C5RND", "length": 4212, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "grayfalcon.blogspot.com", "title": "Gray Falcon: A Foundation of Lies", "raw_content": "For years, the \"Srebrenica Genocide Blog\" has been dedicated to the shrill repetition of the official line about what happened in July of 1995: a \"genocide\" of innocent Muslim civilians, brutally slaughtered by evil Serbs, to hear them tell it.\nJust below the main title, in bold block letters, the SGB proclaims:\nSREBRENICA GENOCIDE IS NOT A MATTER OF ANYBODY'S OPINION; IT'S A JUDICIAL FACT RECOGNIZED FIRST BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND SUBSEQUENTLY BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE.\nOh, is it now?\nThe Bosnian Muslims have claimed \"genocide\" since 1993, when the Izetbegovic regime filed a suit before the International Court of Justice (urged by judicial activist Francis Boyle) against Serbia (FR Yugoslavia). None of the \"evidence\" they offered stood up to ICJ's scrutiny, except for Srebrenica - and even that was never examined by the ICJ, merely assumed as true based on ICTY's ruling.\nJohn Laughland asked the obvious question, just the other day:\nBut what is the evidence for the finding that genocide was committed at Srebrenica? I am not asking this question in the useful sense in which it has been asked (and answered) by investigators such as Jonathan Rooper. I am asking what evidence was submitted in court at the ICTY in support of this uniquely successful claim.\nTurns out that Germinal Civikov, a Bulgarian who lives in The Hague and Cologne, has written a book about the whole case. Laughland describes the findings of \u201cSrebrenica: Der Kronzeuge\u201d (Wien: Promedia, 2009, in German) as \"devastating\":\nCivikov explains that the ICTY ruling that genocide was committed at Srebrenica on the orders of the Bosnian Serb leadership is based on the testimony of a single witness, a self-confessed perpetrator of one of the massacres called Drazen Erdemovic.\nErdemovic claimed he was part of a unit that executed some 1200 Muslim civilians in the course of one night. They were taken off the buses in groups of ten, and shot in a nearby field. Civikov did the math, and came to the obvious conclusion: even if it took 10 minutes to kill each group, the executions would have taken twenty hours, not five. They would have had to shoot a group every 2.5 minutes to maintain the pace, and that left no time for \"arguments... between the executioners and the victims\" or for the executioners to \"drink and quarrel,\" as Erdemovic described. Yet he kept telling this story over and over to the ICTY, despite the fact that it was physically impossible.\nNot letting facts get in the way of a good story has been a feature of the Bosnian War from the very beginning. Remember the story of Borislav Herak, who claimed (coached by his Muslim captors) that he saw the Canadian General Lewis McKenzie at an alleged \"rape camp\" near Sarajevo? McKenzie was not even in Bosnia at that time, and the claim has been demonstrated over and over to be complete and utter rubbish - but every so often the Muslims dig it up and serve it anew, and the press just gobbles it up.\nThen there is the story of Momir Nikolic, a Serb officer who collaborated with the ICTY and - caught in perjury - admitted making things up in his testimonies. A reporter for a pro-Tribunal propaganda outfit (which, incidentally, is linked prominently on the SGB) dared challenge the ICTY's plea-bargaining system over the incident, and got fired. Nikolic's false testimony was not only not overturned on account of perjury, but used to convict several other Serb officials!\nErdemovic, described by Civikov as a \"pathological liar,\" served ICTY's purpose perfectly. He spun a story, pointed fingers, got a symbolic conviction and was given a new life in the West. Meanwhile, based on his testimony, a bloody episode of the Bosnian War was branded \"genocide,\" an entire nation was demonized because of it, and even the ICJ was duped into believing the ICTY verdict was legitimate.\nTurns out the \"judicial fact\" is very much a \"matter of opinion,\" after all.\nLabels: Bosnia, genocide, guilt, history, propaganda, Srebrenica, war crimes\nAny finding by the ICTY could not be considered \"judicial fact\". In fact the ICTY makes Stalin's show trials look downright legitimate by comparsion on a regular basis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 9960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greatbeginnings1.com/programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:03Z", "digest": "sha1:U2IQBD5OH2I5E26OBYTDI4UVAOSGB6DD", "length": 4222, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "greatbeginnings1.com", "title": "Programs \u2013 Great Beginnings | Daycare In Hamburg NJ", "raw_content": "Classroom Descriptions\nLittle Lambs \u2013 Infants\nOur Little Lambs classroom provides a safe and healthy learning environment while basing our day around your child\u2019s needs. We provide primary care and each infant is always held during feeding time. New moms are always welcome to come in for breastfeeding and quality bonding time with their child. Your child\u2019s day is filled with interaction and personal attention with words, songs and play to ensure they thrive.\nDucklings \u2013 Toddler I\nAll children are taught in a way that lets them know they are valuable human beings. The Creative Curriculum allows each child to learn through play as well as helping them reach their developmental potential. Your child's day consists of many indoor and outdoor play experiences to practice their gross motor skills and individual and group art which enhances their fine motor skills. The Ducklings maintain a flexible schedule based on the developmental abilities and needs of each child.\n\u200bCrickets & Little Sprouts\u2013 Toddler II\nOur days in the Cricket Room are filled with fun activities such as outdoor play, nature walks, crafts and circle time. Your child\u2019s love of reading is developed through our daily reading time. Potty training will start with child-sized toilets and low sinks for hand washing. The teachers are actively engaged and take part in verbal play while taking turns with conversation to help children use language. In this class, your children are learning to use communication to solve problems. Children learn through play and play is their work, it encourages the development of the imagination, develops motor skills while teaching self expression.\n\u200bStepping Up\u2013 Preschool I\nThis age is an exciting stage of growth for children. Teachers plan daily activities to begin to prepare the children for academics that are age appropriate to stimulate cognitive, social, and personal growth as they explore their world through their senses. Children are learning from the time they enter our school until they leave. Throughout the day, children interact with their peers and teachers in small and large groups. They have the opportunity to learn and to discover in our developmentally appropriate learning centers, as well as outside on our age-appropriate playgrounds.\n\u200bFab Fours \u2013 Pre Kindergarten\nOur Pre-Kindergarten curriculum is designed with hands-on activities. Children learn math, science, vocabulary and social skills. Everything your child learns each day is reinforced and extended throughout the year to prepare him for school. Our child-centered approach ensures that children are exposed to a diverse array of learning activities and that they thrive in all areas of child development and creative thinking. Our Pre-Kindergarten program prepares and builds the confidence of the children preparing to enter kindergarten.\n\u200bRise & Shine \u2013 Preschool I & Pre-Kindergarten\nRise & Shine offers two different learning times. Our half day Pre-K runs from 8:30 \u2013 11:30 is a condensed curriculum. The full day program runs from 9-3. Both classes are combined and the teachers plan daily activities that are age appropriate to stimulate cognitive, social, and personal growth as they explore their word through their senses. Children learn from the time they enter our school until they leave. Throughout the day, children interact with their peers and teachers in small and large groups. They have the opportunity to learn and to discover in our developmentally appropriate learning centers, as well as outside on our age-appropriate playgrounds. Our Pre-Kindergarten program prepares and builds the confidence of the children preparing to enter Kindergarten.\nOur Summer Program is always exciting at Great Beginnings. Two months of fun filled themes. Our program offers indoor and outdoor activities, plus opportunities for fun, friendships, and exploration. Our teachers work collaboratively to develop a fun curriculum that takes advantage of all that the summer offers. Our playgrounds are used for water play; we have special visitors to reflect our themes, nature experiences, arts and crafts and more. Summer also includes our signature favorite...our annual fire truck hose down. Come and join the fun!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greatneckrecord.com/great-neck-discusses-homelessness/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VBKPCW3SINSGQN7VZ2ZTRFALNO3QT5MN", "length": 2533, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "greatneckrecord.com", "title": "Great Neck Discusses Homelessness | Great Neck Record", "raw_content": "Home General Great Neck Discusses Homelessness\nAlthough dealing with a homeless student is a rare issue in Great Neck, the school district has long had guidelines in place and now the district has adopted a new policy. The Policy on Homeless Students was introduced by the board of education this past fall, read for a second time in November and approved at the last public action meeting on Dec. 15. This new policy follows the new guidelines set by both federal and state law.\nFollowing a review by the New York State Department of Education, as per laws set forth by the state\u2019s commissioner of education, an audit found ways in which the school district could better comply with the federal law in addressing the educational needs of homeless students.\n\u201cThe new policy strengthens our old policy,\u201d Superintendent of Schools Thomas Dolan told the Great Neck Record. He explained that the new policy \u201ccodifies and supports the district\u2019s existing practices and procedures.\u201d\nWhile acknowledging the existence of homeless students is an unusual situation for the Great Neck community, Dolan said that it can, and does happen. However, he added that these cases are \u201crelatively rare\u201d and usually deal with emergency situations such as when a house catches fire and burns. In such a case, the school-age child may be housed in a hotel, or some such temporary residence, and will still need to attend school. This student is then considered a \u201chomeless student.\u201d That is when the policy comes into play.\nThe new Policy on Homeless Students recognizes the school district\u2019s responsibility and in accordance with state and federal law insures the appropriate education for any such students. The policy includes definitions of both a homeless child and an unaccompanied child and includes the ways to determine and identify homeless students. In addition, the policy outlines the duties of the mandated local liaison for homeless children (or a homeless youth) and defines what the liaison must insure is provided for such student (all of their rights, such as identification, eligible services available, available education, transportation, legal assistance). As for transportation, the list of social services and/or school district transportation is addressed and specified.\nCompiling this policy was not an easy task and Dolan attributed much of the work to his \u201cpoint person,\u201d Kelly Newman, assistant superintendent of schools, elementary.\nPrevious articlePlaza Critic Addresses Parking\nNext articlePark Commissioners\u2019 Inauguration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greece.terrabook.com/chania/page/nochia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5AJQPLSMTRN4KSKT7Z6ZV35FJ5254DDD", "length": 920, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "greece.terrabook.com", "title": "Nochia - Chania | Terrabook", "raw_content": "The village Nochia is located southwest of Chania, 30 km away, and is situated at an altitude of 160 meters. In the past, this place used to be a center of pottery and this is why the settlement \u2013 which now has approximately 150 residents \u2013 had a large number of forges, where jars were made.\nThe pitcher of the Nochians is widely known and its shape is the distinctive characteristic of the potters who made it. The pitchers, despite following the traditional shape that prevails in Cretan pottery, they stand out because of their large size.\nEven today there are pottery workshops at Nochia, where \u200b\u200butilitarian and decorative pottery objects are made both for locals and visitors.\nThe village has many underground waters and this is why every field or house has its own well. There are more than 60 wells measured and some of the most famous are the \u201cdeep well\u201d, the \u201ctwo wells\u201d, \u201cthe magatzes\u201d and \u201cthe unique well\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 150.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greengeekco.com/blogs/news/first-post", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RPMLAG2RO322BZ34PM5TTVX5TUDMMCUW", "length": 1230, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "greengeekco.com", "title": "Stop right now! Thank you very much!! \u2013 The Green Geek", "raw_content": "Stop right now! Thank you very much!!\nYou found us! PHEW!! That's half the battle...while we know you've probably never met us or tried our products we need you trust us. Trust over the 1,000 people that have already been following us and adding to the story we will tell one day about how 2 crazy people decided to build a business selling awesome juices and smoothies.\nOur drinks are more than just kale drinks and freshly squeezed orange juice, we want to empower people to accomplish their goals whether it's just getting through the day or losing weight or making it the local farmers market, now as crazy as this may seem we've met people who have lived in Brampton for over 30 years and have met us on their first visit to the market, we've only been in business for 4 years.....this is a real thing we cannot make this up! Seriously, we ask that you trust us with your taste buds, trust that what we deliver is safe, healthy, wholesome, great quality and good for you. Forget about what you've had in the past, try to not include us in that bracket....believe your body will thank you.\nSo check out our full collection here! 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The purpose it to keep you updated on the progress of the film, to introduce you to the farmers, and to allow the filmmakers to share rants and raves on various happenings in the worlds of food + farm + films.\nThe irresistible fleet of bicycles is a metaphor. It\u2019s an image to help you visualize the joining. It\u2019s the right scale for the future we\u2019re building with The Greenhorns. It\u2019s not a bandwagon or a steam train. There are no stations. There is no engine or caboose. It\u2019s a critical mass of articulated cyclists. It\u2019s a cavalcade of compassionate swerving and verving. It\u2019s a people-powered, pedaling pop vox movement\u2013and it is surging, swelling, rising up hills, taking over bridges, feeling the wind on your legs and your face and your hands. 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How do you know when something has \u201cinformation\u201d? And how can you prove that radio shows like Sean Hannity\u2019s and Rush Limbaugh\u2019s have none?\nTextbooks will tell you that information is \u201cpattern\u201d or \u201credundancy,\u201d but it is a particular kind of redundancy.\nInformation is always about something. Information happens when looking at one thing (let\u2019s call it a \u201cmessage\u201d) allows you to come to a conclusion about another thing (let\u2019s call it the \u201ctopic\u201d).\nWhen someone utters the words \u201cI am happy\u201d, those words contain information. The reason the words contain information is that hearing the words allow you to conclude something about a person\u2019s internal emotional state. You can\u2019t directly experience someone else\u2019s emotions, but you can conclude something about the person\u2019s emotions based on the person\u2019s words. The person\u2019s words therefore contain information about the person\u2019s emotional state: the words are the message, the emotional state is the topic.\nInformation doesn\u2019t have to be man-made, or even intentional. You know the expression \u201cwhere there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire.\u201d The fact that you can guess the likely presence of fire when you see smoke means that the smoke contains information about the presence of fire. The smoke is the message; the topic is the fire.\nFor information to exist, there has to be variability in both the message and the topic, and they have to vary together. It is this \u201cco-variation\u201d between the message and the topic that allows information to exist.\nThink about it this way: the only reason the words \u201cI am happy\u201d contain information at all is that sometimes you are happy and sometimes you are not, and on those occasions when you are happy you say \u201cI am happy\u201d and on those occasions when you are not happy you do not say it. If you said \u201cI am happy\u201d all the time, regardless of how you felt, people would quickly learn that they could not be sure of what your feelings were based on your words: your words would contain no information.\nIf your dog only barks when there is someone trying to break into your apartment, then the dog bark contains information about whether there is an intruder around. If your dog barks all the time, then that bark contains no information.\nObviously, there can be varying degrees of information and varying strengths of certainty and the whole matter can become quite complex. There are in fact entire sub-fields of mathematics and science dedicated to studying information. But this basic principle of variation and co-variation applies no matter what kind of information you are talking about:\nMP3 files contain information about music because you can figure out the sounds of the song based on the electronic bits in the MP3 file. (Of course, when I say \u201cyou can figure out\u201d what I mean is \u201cyour MP3 player can figure out\u201d\u2026 that\u2019s how it converts the file from bits to music in order to play the song for you.)\nA guy\u2019s gaze at the bar contains information about who he is attracted to because you can get an idea of who he is attracted to by looking at who his eyes linger on. (This is a good example of \u201cimperfect information\u201d, though, since he also might look at people who are dressed strangely.)\nA stop sign on a street corner contains information about the legal proscriptions about what you do when you come to that corner in your vehicle, which in turn contains information about how a policeman might act if you don\u2019t follow that rule.\nIn all of these cases, the information only exists because there is variation. If stop signs existed on all street corners, even on those corners where you didn\u2019t have to stop, then they would contain no information. If you really want to make sure that nobody knows who you are attracted to at a bar, then you look at everyone for exactly the same amount of time: that way, your gaze will contain no information about who you are attracted to.\nWhat does this have to do with talk radio?\nI listen to Sean Hannity\u2019s and Rush Limbaugh\u2019s radio shows regularly, and every time they criticize something that the President has done I ask myself: \u201cIf the President had done the opposite thing, would this talk radio host have complimented the President\u2019s actions?\u201d\nNow of course this gets into the realm of hypotheticals. You can never prove an argument based on a belief about \u201cwhat would have happened if\u2026.\u201d However, it takes very little imagination to consider these scenarios:\nSean Hannity says President Obama hesitated too long before speaking up about Lybia. If President Obama had spoken out immediately, would Mr. Hannity have said \u201cGood job!\u201d or would he have criticized the President for jumping in without thinking?\nDuring the first year of President Obama\u2019s presidency, Sean Hannity said that President Obama was trying to do \u201ctoo much\u201d. If President Obama had picked just one or two things to do, would Sean Hannity have complimented him for his focus? Or would he have critcized him for neglecting things?\nRush Limbaugh criticized President Obama for not going to Wisconsin to support the protesters. If the President had gone, would Rush have complimented him for his consistent ideology and for standing up for his beliefs? Or would he have criticized the President for getting involved in a state issue?\nRush Limbaugh said that the health care bill was unreasonably long and detailed. If the bill had been shorter than the average bill, would Rush have complimented the President on his pith and precision? Or would he have criticized the bill for being too general, too under-specified, or too vague?\nOf course, hypotheticals can\u2019t be proven. But what do you think?\nI think that Sean Hannity\u2019s and Rush Limbaugh\u2019s criticisms contain no information. For any scenario we have seen so far, they have criticized the president when he did A and they would have criticized him had he done not A. When he talks about defense they criticize him for not talking about jobs, and when he talks about jobs they criticize him for not supporting our allies overseas. Their radio shows fail the test of information: If I told you, \u201cSean Hannity thinks the president gave the wrong response to the crisis in Japan,\u201d would you be able to tell\u2014based on that\u2014what the president did?\nOf course not. Sean would have said that any response was wrong, as long as the President did it. He is like the dog that barks all the time. The sounds are there: but there is no information.\n< nuclear power and rational choice\nlong-term vs. short-term >\nRepublicans and toilet paper says:\n[\u2026] NOW READ: The nature of information [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/tmo-should-come-clean-about-windows/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:5PZ2IE2OM5WHZ53ELDT36OU7V44ILLGU", "length": 5013, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com", "title": "TMO Should Come Clean About Windows | Grenfell Action Group", "raw_content": "\u2190 Speaking Out\nWeird Scenes Inside The Goldmine \u2192\nMembers of the Grenfell Action Group will be meeting our MP, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, at Westminster on 3rd September to discuss the continuing ill treatment of our community by Kensington and Chelsea Council and the TMO.\nSir Malcolm is well aware of the negligence shown by the Council and the TMO towards residents of Lancaster West Estate and the issues they face with the prospect of their homes being turned into a giant building site without any protection against dust or noise pollution. Sir Malcolm has come to our aid by demanding that;\n\u201c\u2026residents who can show that the building works will have a qualitatively detrimental effect on their lives will be given adequate support from the Council, including the instillation of double glazing if necessary\u201d.\nSir Malcolm has also promised to inquire into the state of residents windows that we have claimed are no longer fit for purpose. We thought we might be able to help by providing him with evidence of the dilapidated condition of the windows in properties on the frontline of the KALC project, so we wrote to the TMO and requested to see a report by Tudor Glass Ltd on the state of the windows in Verity Close. This survey was requested by Councillor Coleridge after he visited one of the properties in question and was reportedly shocked by what he saw.\nBelow is the TMO\u2019s response to our request:\nIt looks like Sir Malcolm will be denied access to the contents of this report, unless he is able to use his own power and influence to force a U-turn. This is a great pity. Anyone familiar with the Freedom Of Information Act will know that the TMO don\u2019t really have a leg to stand on in witholding this report, and they certainly have no right to release it to selected residents of their choice, but not to others.\nThe Freedom Of Information Act applies equally to all citizens of the United Kingdom, and there are very limited circumstances in which a refusal is allowed. Even if they think they have reason to withold, public bodies are required to apply a public interest test as the final arbiter, and in most cases the public interest in disclosure will trump any perceived public interest in non-disclosure. Indeed the presumption of the FOI Act always favours disclosure unless there are specific and compelling reasons to the contrary.\nWhen responding to a request under the FOI Act public bodies are required to respond within 20 working days. On this occasion the TMO made the applicant wait 30 working days before they issued the refusal notice. This was a breach of the Act. When issuing a refusal notice public bodies are required by law to state their reasons for refusal. This the TMO clearly have not done, so they are in breach of the Act on this point also. Finally, as if the first two breaches weren\u2019t enough, they are also required to inform the applicant of his right of appeal against the refusal. They have also breached the Act by failing to do this. Perhaps the TMO\u2019s governance officers are simply ignorant of their responsibilities under the FOI Act, in which case we would suggest the TMO reconsider the fat salaries these officers are paid. We would also strongly suggest that they urgently need re-training.\nHowever, anyone who has previously made FOI requests will be familiar with this routine, which is invariably designed to frustrate and discourage citizens from exercising their rights under the Act.\nAnother interesting detail of the TMO refusal notice is that it makes no mention of the EMB, the locally elected resident organisation who are supposedly the Council\u2019s managing agents for Lancaster West Estate. They also should have sight of the report. EMB members will not be surprised by this omission, as the TMO often ignores the Lancaster West Management Agreement, and excludes the EMB, when making plans that affect Lancaster West. This is just another indicator of the basically authoritarian mindset of TMO managers, which is already evidenced by their refusal of Mr Daffarn\u2019s perfectly legitimate request, on behalf of Lancaster West residents, to see the Tudor Glass report.\nHow can the Grenfell Action Group, or the EMB for that matter, negotiate appropriate improvements to the windows of properties on the frontline of the KALC development, if they are denied access to the recommendations of the consultants who conducted the most relevant survey?\nLast week Cllr Coleridge, the Cabinet Member for Housing and Property, chastised us for criticising the TMO. He seems to have forgotten that it is the TMO, and not us, which has the POWER to abuse, obstruct, and deny the rights of local residents, including ourselves, and who do so with apparent impunity. We can, of course, complain to the Information Commissioners Office, and in possibly eight or nine months time the TMO will have their wrists (gently) slapped and be advised to release the report \u2013 with an implied threat that if they don\u2019t they will be ordered to do so.\nWE NEED THE REPORT NOW!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 565, "original_length": 22743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gretchenfleming.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:F5BLKYABVQO44AFDKDA53532ZPMTL72H", "length": 747, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gretchenfleming.com", "title": "Gretchen Fleming - Gretchen Fleming", "raw_content": "As a wife (29 years) and mother (25 years), life has taught me so many lessons and I try to make the most of them. I am a Bible study teacher, writer, and speaker who loves to encourage other women in their faith. Having been involved in women\u2019s ministry for 25 years, much of that at Four Oaks Community Church in Tallahassee, I have had plenty of opportunities to share my passion for God and His Word. It is my desire and calling to travel near and far, building the body of Christ through the teaching and encouragement of the Scriptures. I would love to share my passion for God and His Word with you in person! Check out my \u201cSpeaking\u201d page for my professional bio, letter of reference, and recommendations from past attendees of my retreats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grist.org/article/crimes1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:56M23YJZOUXZB6F2TX4TZWHUXQ2DFWKM", "length": 1022, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "grist.org", "title": "Haiti Crimes | Grist", "raw_content": "Haiti Crimes\nBy Grist staff on Nov 17, 2003\nLogging Leads to Devastating Floods and Erosion in Haiti\nFlooding and erosion have become such massive problems in the area around Haiti\u2019s capital of Port-au-Prince that they can wipe out shanties, cars, even whole neighborhoods. A number of human-caused factors contribute to the devastation, including poor irrigation and drainage practices, unregulated construction on hillsides, and, perhaps most of all, heavy logging. An estimated 98.5 percent of Haiti\u2019s forest cover has been lost since European settlers landed on the island some 500 years ago, and many Haitians continue to chop down the few remaining trees and sell the wood to be made into charcoal. In a destitute nation with 70 percent unemployment, it\u2019s hard to convince people to forgo the income they can derive from a felled tree. The Haitian Environmental Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development are working in the country to facilitate tree planting and help people switch to other fuels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guardian.ng/news/buhari-inaugurates-locally-made-drone-restates-commitment-to-secure-nigeria/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7NSG62NJFBN47CZ3GWEMEYYQQLVLTLE4", "length": 5762, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "guardian.ng", "title": "Buhari inaugurates locally made drone, restates commitment to secure Nigeria | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsNigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News", "raw_content": "Buhari inaugurates locally made drone, restates commitment to secure Nigeria\nMuhammadu Buhari. PHOTO: BAYO OMOBORIOWO\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Kaduna inaugurated a new drone developed by the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) for intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance.\nThe Unmarked Areal Vehicle, named Tsaigumi, was to boost the capacity of the military.\u201cFrom the military perspective, the added capacity for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance provided by the TSAIGUMI will boost ongoing and future security operations.\n\u201cAs this project moves into the next stage, which is mass production, it would create employment and possibly generate revenue as Nigeria\u2019s first military export product,\u2019\u2019 the President said.\nAccording to him, the technological feat is an indication that there is potential to apply the same innovative mindset to addressing other areas of indigenous technological needs.\n\u201cWhile I commend the Nigerian Air Force for this accomplishment, I enjoin you not to rest on this achievement but to strive harder in your research and development efforts for greater innovation.\n\u201cBe assured of this administration\u2019s support towards the attainment of greater technological milestones for our nation.\u2019\u2019\nBuhari reiterated the commitment and firm resolve of his administration to take Nigeria to the next level of growth and development.\n\u201cWe remain determined to overcome all challenges to our security and development as a nation. I enjoin all well-meaning Nigerians to join hands with us to make our collective dreams of greatness a reality.\u2019\u2019\nHe added: \u201cGovernment remains determined, despite numerous challenges to bring about the much-needed CHANGE that will lift our beloved nation to its rightful place as a major economic and political force on the world stage.\n\u201cPart of our drive to achieve this goal is to enable enterprise and the improvement of the quality of life through massive improvement of national infrastructure.\n\u201cAccordingly, as I outlined in my New Year Day broadcast to the nation, this Administration has designed series of key projects to dramatically overhaul national infrastructure and overcome the deficit in that vital area.\n\u201cThe role of the military as an enabler of national development cannot be overemphasized, as efforts would be futile if national security is not first guaranteed.\n\u201cIn this regard, let me once more commend the gallant men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces and other security agencies, for their tireless efforts towards defeating Boko Haram and all other threats to our nation\u2019s security, thus ensuring that the government can proceed with its developmental activity without hindrance.\n\u201cLet me again commend the Nigerian Air Force leadership for the unprecedented feat it has attained on Research and Development.\n\u201cI am aware that the Air Force was the overall best in the recently concluded 2017 National Technology and Innovation Exposition under Research Institute category.\n\u201cAccordingly, its drive, determination and unwavering support brought about numerous significant innovations, not least of which is the TSAIGUMI which I am inducting today.\n\u201cIt is indeed most gratifying that the Nigerian Air Force has gone a step further than simply acquiring them, to developing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle capabilities with indigenous technology.\n\u201cThis outstanding accomplishment, which we are gathered today, holds promise of both military and economic benefit to the nation.\u2019\u2019\nEarlier, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, said the unmanned vehicle has a \u201cmission range of 100 km, a service ceiling at 15,000 feet and operational endurance of about 10 hours.\u2019\u2019\nHe pledged NAF support \u201cto harness, promote, commercialise and diffuse locally developed technologies for the production of globally competitive goods and services that intensively utilise Nigeria\u2019s raw materials for national development.\n\u201c This is necessary because it is through R&D that nations technologically advance and enhance their productivity, spur economic growth and address societal concerns such as health, energy, environment, defence and security.\n\u201cBesides, to be effective and efficient in dealing with contemporary security challenges posed by non-state actors, there is the need to build capacity to develop smarter and highly sophisticated indigenous platforms as well as compact and mobile forces that use information technology to get real time intelligence necessary for military operations.\u201d\nSadiq added that the NAF Research and Development Centre established in 2015, \u201chas so far successfully repaired the CH-3A Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) that had been grounded for over four months due to the lack of spares.\n\u201cSince its reactivation on 2nd January 2018, the UCAV has conducted several missions which have positively impacted on our Operations in the North East.` As I speak, the UCAV is engaged in combat missions in the North East.\n\u201cOnly last week it acquired and destroyed Boko Haram Terrorists and their equipment in the Sambisa general area.\u201cWe have also tasked the centre to address gaps in specific areas of operational needs of the Service.\n\u201cOne such area of need has been that of enhancing NAF\u2019s Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to meet national security imperatives. \u201cIn this regard, AFRDC has been charged to build capacity to maintain all ISR platforms that are currently in the Service.\n\u201cSimilarly, the AFRDC was tasked to operationalise the Gulma UAV prototype taking into cognisance the peculiar challenges associated with our operating environment.\n\u201cIt is gratifying to state that the efforts in this direction have, yielded positive results which include among others, the production of the TSEGUMI UAV.\u2019\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 11475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guardian.ng/opinion/thinking-strategic-with-the-oil-windfall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BQSJLDTIZQEANZXU3TS6QGULQDWAF3E4", "length": 7091, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "guardian.ng", "title": "Thinking strategic with the oil windfall | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsOpinion \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News", "raw_content": "Thinking strategic with the oil windfall\nWith the world crude oil prices rising above $70 per barrel, Nigeria, once again, is reaping wealth from oil sales. Coming after low oil prices persisted since 2014; the current oil price index is a welcome development to the oil producer nations, especially those battling economic downturn. Nigeria has been battling recession since 2016, a development compounded by the low oil prices. The situation appeared to improve at the end of 2017 as evidenced in the Q1 2018 GDP growth of 1.95 per cent being taunted by the authorities from 0.85 in 2017. The truth is that Nigeria is reaping huge petro dollar akin to the boom in 2012 when oil price peaked at over $110.\nWhile the oil consumer nations may be paying billions daily to sustain their oil-dependent economic systems, the oil-producing nations and the oil companies are in turn reaping huge profit from the fallout. The non-oil producing countries are clearly bearing the brunt of the skyrocketing prices. Increased spending and reduced savings amid uncertainty in the world oil market has become the lot of the people in those countries. In the United States, for example, rising bills are blowing consumer savings and adding to inflation, among other issues.\nRight now, the windfall calls for strategic thinking and economic repositioning on the part of Nigeria. Some of the benefiting oil-producing countries would take advantage of the windfall to boost their economies and enhance the quality of life of their citizenry. In the oil-rich state of Alaska, for instance, the authorities often raised the annual oil dividend paid to every man, woman and child living there for a year. In 2011, following the windfall, the dividend was raised to $1,654 from $547. Lucky citizens, one would say; they are paid cash allowances in relation to the prevailing price of oil produced in their state. The largesse given to the Alaskan residents is somewhat exceptional; responsible governments in other oil-producing countries duly recognize their citizens in the oil equation and adequately provide for them whenever there is oil windfall.\nCountries like Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s biggest oil exporter, usually takes full advantage of any sustained rising oil prices to build new cities, as she did in the 2011 regime. The projects are often designed to burnish the country\u2019s image, develop non-oil economy and generate enough employment to maintain social stability. Saudi Arabia reportedly built an \u201cEconomic City\u201d named after King Abdullah from past oil boom. It is a mega project that cost about $27 billion. The integrated city was designed to include a power plant, a desalinization plant and a port, industrial district, a university and residential area for two million people, among other facilities.\nIt is definitely an ultra-modern project, strategically taking advantage of oil windfall to boost that country\u2019s economy. The catalogue of countries taking advantage of increased oil revenue to boost their economic potentials is noteworthy. Even the newly oil-exporting countries like Chad and Sudan are not left out. Reports say the Sudanese capital Khartoum is blooming with new skyscrapers and five-star hotels despite the crisis that plagued the country.\nBut in Nigeria, the story is different. Nothing is happening to show that the country has ever reaped or is reaping huge oil windfall. Nigeria is a major oil producer, the sixth in the world and obviously, getting her fair share of the skyrocketing oil prices. What strategic advantage is the country taking from the oil windfall? Is there a way the citizenry could be made to benefit from the oil wealth? The general economic landscape in Nigeria is still appalling despite all the unsubstantiated economic indices being churned out by some government agencies to prove the contrary. The general welfare of the masses remains pathetic and depressing. Nigerians are looking forward to the day when they would witness a turnaround in their fortunes arising from the deliberate action of their leaders at all levels.\nThe National Assembly recently passed N9.12 trillion projected pattern of government expenditures in the 2018 national budget. While the budget, in absolute terms appears huge, a large chunk of it totaling N2.2 trillion is billed for debt serving alone. The sum of N3.515 trillion and N2.869 trillion are for recurrent and capital expenditures respectively. The daily crude oil production was pegged at 2.3 billion barrels per day. The projected revenue is expected to come from this quantum of daily oil output and would vary depending on the prevailing oil price. The higher the price the bigger the expected revenue. As usual, oil revenue would provide 80 per cent of the projected revenue while non-oil revenue will make up the remaining 20 per cent.\nThe so-called oil benchmark price pegged at $51 is of no significance to the people and the economy. The excess above the benchmark, which is put in the so-called Excess Crude Account (ECA), is frittered into private pockets. The essence of the Excess Crude Account, which has been there since 1999, has not been defined. There is nothing to show for it in terms of strategic development. In other oil-producing nations, funds in this sort of account are invested directly into capital projects to lift their economy and benefit the people. Can this boom be used to boost the Sovereign Wealth Fund, for instance?\nClearly, the budget is not predicated on any critical economic or social development need \u2013 infrastructure, mass unemployment, healthcare, etc. The worsening poverty and social deprivation facing the people are not factored into the budget. Reports that the Federal Government and other oil firms plan to invest N1.7 trillion in the Niger Delta makes sense if there is commitment to that effect given that what we have is an election year budget. Winning the election is a more important issue to the ruling party that is supposed to implement the budget. The party won\u2019t tolerate any distraction not even when it borders on critical social and economic needs. The Niger Delta is a critical problem facing the country. The budget did not specifically identify that. One problem of the Nigerian economy is over concentration on macro-economic issues while the micro-economic issues that directly affect the people are ignored.\nIt needs to be pointed out that the current oil windfall is not the first of its kind. To the best of my knowledge, Nigeria reaped huge oil windfall in the mid-70s shortly after the civil war. Thereafter, the country reaped another windfall in 1991 during the Gulf War. The most recent was the 2011-14 windfall and now the current one. The question is what did the country do with all the trillions she earned from the recurrent oil booms? That is why I am not excited with the price rise. Since experience shows that after a boom comes a decline, Nigeria should be more strategic in the way she manages the current windfall, which, certainly, may not last long before another decline sets in.\nLuke Onyekakeyahoil windfall", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 11166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guardianlv.com/2014/03/animal-house-fraternity-bans-pledging/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NXT3H2PYMLN5IRWOVPQ2OBSHECI33GUC", "length": 3782, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "guardianlv.com", "title": "Animal House Fraternity Bans Pledging \u00b7 Guardian Liberty Voice", "raw_content": "Animal House Fraternity Bans Pledging\nBy John Poltonowicz on March 13, 2014 No Comment\nAnimal house fraternity bans pledging after 1o deaths. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the nation\u2019s oldest fraternities, has announced Friday that it will ban pledging. This historical announcement comes after years of notoriety and the deaths of 10 pledges in just the last seven years. The deaths have been directly attributed to practice of hazing and the abuse of drugs and alcohol.\nCritics and college officials have praised Sigma Alpha Epsilon\u2019s efforts to end the practice of hazing and hopes that it will influence other fraternities to examine their pledging process. Others claim that the practice of hazing pledges will never end. It will just go underground and possibly become more dangerous. Fraternity brothers across the nation, questioned the decision to ban pledging, saying it honors long-established traditions that secure lifelong bonds within the fraternity.\nSigma Alpha Epsilon was founded in 1856 and currently has over 14,000 fraternity brothers in 240 chapters nationwide. There are also over 190,000 living alumni. Famous alumni include William Faulkner, T. Boone Pickens and President William McKinley. Times have been better for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, who has had over 100 chapters suspended for animal house like antics, that have resulted in the deaths of 10 undergrads since 2006. Many other chapters have been placed on probation. According to the North American Inter-Fraternity Conference, there has been more than 60 fraternity deaths nationwide since 2005.\nIn 2012, a freshman Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge at Arizona State University was found dead in a nearby lake. Later that year the university banned the fraternity from campus. In another hazing incident in 2012, a University of Idaho freshmen pledge was found dead under a bridge.\nFaced with being described as an animal house fraternity, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has banned pledging and has now adopted new measures to recruit potential fraternity brothers. Like an exclusive Country Club, the fraternity will now extend bids or invitations to join the fraternity. Upon acceptance of the invitation to join, the new member will be offered immediate acceptance into the fraternity. The new member must complete a safety training program within 96 hours of acceptance. This safety training program is named after Carson Starkey, a freshman who died of alcohol poisoning at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon event at California Polytechnic State University. Starkey\u2019s parents praised these moves saying that lives will be saved. \u201cWe are almost speechless,\u201d his mother, Julia, said recently. \u201cIt\u2019s a much safer environment. The students won\u2019t have to go through harmful traditions.\u201d\nThe bigger problem at fraternity houses is alcohol, according to attorney Douglas Fierberg. Mr. Fierberg represents the family of George Desdunes. George Desdunes was a Cornell undergrad, who died when he was tied up and blind-folded and forced to drink alcohol in another Sigma Alpha Epsilon hazing incident. Mr. Fierberg recognized that recent changes in pledging were a start, but not an end to the problems with fraternities. He said it\u2019s a move in the right direction.\nNow that the animal house fraternity bans pledging, will it now honor its commitment to changing a time-honored tradition of fraternity hazing, or will it succumb to the critics charge that it will it will only drive the long-established practice into a more covert, and more dangerous form of indoctrination. Will the term animal house fraternity be a thing of the past.\nBy John J. Poltonowicz\nanimal house fraternity, top\nAnimal House Fraternity Bans Pledging added by John Poltonowicz on March 13, 2014\nView all posts by John Poltonowicz \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guest.encompassafrica.com.au/destinations/botswana-safari/chobe-national-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EZWJU4UWJ2ACDK5JOYHNZ6BGCRA5XRKE", "length": 1141, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "guest.encompassafrica.com.au", "title": "\ufeff Chobe National Park & Savute Safari Holidays", "raw_content": "The Chobe National Park, which is the second largest national park in Botswana and covers 10,566 square kilometres, has one of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent. Its uniqueness in the abundance of wildlife and the true African nature of the region, offers a fantastic safari experience.\nBest explored in 4\u00d74 and boat, expect to spot Chobe\u2019s great pachyderm (elephant) herds, lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, impalas, waterbucks, kudus, zebras, wildebeests (gnus), giraffes and warthogs. The Chobe River is perhaps the best place to experience a sunset cruise. Whilst sipping on a refreshing drink enjoying the myriad of colours in the sky, you are likely to see elephants frolicking in the water or coming down to drink and crocodiles retreating to the waters.\nThe western corner of the Chobe is known as the Savute (also spelt Savuti) and covers some 5,000 square kilometres. It boasts huge migratory herds of elephants, buffalo, zebra, impala and wildebeest and other antelope with predators not far behind including lion, wild dog and hyena. There is in excess of 350 bird species recorded in the area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guitarplayers.org/g/mi/wyandotte/slide-guitar-lessons", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:47Z", "digest": "sha1:X4RZIHG6HS4VVS7ZAARD4LQWE6JJXSGP", "length": 1084, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "guitarplayers.org", "title": "Slide Guitar Lessons in Wyandotte, Michigan", "raw_content": "Slide Guitar Lessons in Wyandotte, Michigan\nSlide Guitar Lessons - Wyandotte\nSlide Guitar Lessons - Wyandotte, Michigan\nGuitar Players is your one stop shop for seeking out slide guitar lessons, teachers, and classes near you. We have slide guitar lessons for all ages and expertise, so if you're a beginner, intermediate or expert slide guitar player you'll find what you need here. We come backed with years of experience, a flawless track record for professionalism and reliability, and great reviews. We realize that when it comes to playing your instrument, everything needs to be properly calculated from an individual standpoint to really make a break through. We always make the extra effort and pay extreme attention to detail when it comes to slide guitar lessons. If you're looking for Slide Guitar Lessons, you've come to the right place. We provide the best Slide Guitar Lessons for the Wyandotte, Michigan area. Let our guitar teachers open all kinds of talent. Simply fill out the contact form and we will get back to you right away with lessons that are right for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hailvarsity.com/players/7514/corey-thomas", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HFZSL75TJYI2APJVBJSGMMRI5FYLE6GN", "length": 59, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hailvarsity.com", "title": "Corey Thomas, Safety, Central Catholic | Hail Varsity", "raw_content": "Our staff hasn't made any predictions for Corey Thomas yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Installation/4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:50Z", "digest": "sha1:C7YECPQKLYVKESAL6ZHKYK7YV7J7V6JR", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hankwillisthomas.com", "title": "Hank Willis Thomas | Installation | 4", "raw_content": "Blind Memory (Indigo), 2017 installed at Savannah College of Art and Design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 126.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5599250109", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NMY6JGJ4H2ZUAVZS62MR5R3EDS5JBB2V", "length": 797, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "hclib.bibliocommons.com", "title": "Mothership (Book) | Hennepin County Library | BiblioCommons", "raw_content": "Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond\nMothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology that showcases the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction across the globe--including Junot Diaz, Victor LaValle, Lauren Beukes, N. K. Jemisin, Rabih Alameddine, S. P. Somtow, and more. These authors have earned such literary honors as the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker, among others.\nPublisher: College Park, MD : Rosarium Publishing, [2013]\nCharacteristics: ii, 359 pages ; 24 cm\nAdditional Contributors: Campbell, Bill 1970-\nHall, Edward Austin\nAlternative Title: Mother ship\nRead more reviews of Mothership at iDreamBooks.com\nSpeculative Fiction \u2014 Black Authors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 6252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://healevate.com/treasure-filled-sealed-temple-door-no-one-open/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:XIPM4J2RM73LAW6IJSXTCEI3TUAB7AM6", "length": 9242, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "healevate.com", "title": "The Treasure Filled, Sealed Temple Door \u201cNo One\u201d Could Open - Healevate", "raw_content": "The Treasure Filled, Sealed Temple Door \u201cNo One\u201d Could Open\nlifeluxuryandyou.com\nThe temple known as Sri Padmanabhaswamy located in India is a temple that is said to hold many riches from times passed. As of recent the temple has just been getting audited revealing just how much money is within the temple walls. There have been several mysteries surrounding the temple and the riches inside and it has only recently been revealed as to what those secrets actually are!\n25. Treasure Hunting\npennystockjournal.blogspot.com\nPeople have been treasure hunting ever since gold was suspected to be hidden in different places around the world. There have been legends of great kings who buried their gold that people have spent their whole lives trying to find. As for this temple, the gold inside is mostly known to everyone and it is just sitting there. Here\u2019s why\u2026\n24. The Richest Temple In The World\nThe Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple is known as the richest temple in the world and for good reason. The temple is large in size and contains many chambers, each with tons and tons of gold in them. The temple has a lot of history behind it that dates back to ancient rulers who stored their riches inside this temple. But that\u2019s not all!\n23. What Lies Inside\npolkacafe.com\nThe inside of the temple is a mystery to most people. There are chambers inside the temple that haven\u2019t been unlocked for centuries! But recent findings show that the ancient temple is truly filled with riches \u2013 check out the experts\u2019 estimated value at #17.\nResearchers have uncovered a sacred mystery\u2026\n22. Massive Doors Guard the Treasures\ntaravind.blogspot.com\nThe Padmanabhaswamy Temple has secret vaults filled with treasures, each one lying behind such a massive door. Each room was named Chamber A through F, and they have been pried open with great difficulty by a committee of seven experts. But one of the rooms was left unopened!\n21. Plated In Gold\ndharamgyan.com\nIf a temple is crowned the \u201crichest temple in the world\u201d it has to look the part right? Well, in this case the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple does indeed dress the part. The outside of the temple is gold plated and stands out in the skyline when visiting the small town just at the base of the large temple.\n20. Behind the Doors\nWhat could be in those chambers? Thankfully, the committee could open five of the vaults and were stunned to see incredible treasures in the form of diamonds, silver, gold, precious stones, idols, cons, vesels and many more riches, such as hundreds of historical documents written on palm leaves that date back to the 1300s!\n19. The Final Mysterious Vault\nDue to recent findings it is estimated that the temple in total holds around $1 trillion dollars worth of gold and items within its chambers. But nobody has yet seen what the Chamber B has hidden inside. Here is what experts think that they could find inside and why nobody wants to try to open it anymore\u2026\n18. The Protectors\nMany legends surround the Vault B within the temple. It is said that the temple holds immense riches and that no one has ever been inside due to the consequences of opening the doors. Legends say that the door that holds the riches is guarded by two Cobras which represent the immense suffering that will plague anyone who attempts to open the door.\n17. None Shall Open The Door\nVault B remained the only vault to be closed while all the other vaults were opened and discovered. This is due to the curse that surrounds the vault. Anyone who believed in the curse wouldn\u2019t even approach the door. The door itself is difficult to open as there is no doorknobs or latches on the door.\nHere\u2019s what happened to the committee who opened the other doors\u2026 This is unbelievable!\n16. A Cursed Vault\nPeople think that the chambers have been cursed because of the members of the committee began feeling ill after trying to open Chamber B. Sunder Rajan, the man that wanted to make a summary of the riches inside the temple died a few years after that. But the mystery will soon be revealed at #13!\n15. Flooding an Entire City!\nyoutube.com/indiavideodotorg\nThink of it: two giant cobras staring back at you waiting for you to find a way in. There are legends of spells cast by religious officials and the vault can only be opened by a priest that knows the Garuda Mantra, or that the temple\u2019s vault B is connected to the ocean and once opened, it will flood the entire city.\nIs there a way to open the Chamber B? Auditor General Vinod Rai solved this mystery!\n14. The Other Vaults\nIt seems that even the High Court of India has warned the public against opening the door. Some believe that if they try to open Vault B, they would suffer the wrath of Naga Bandham, the snake-binding spell.\nWant to learn the truth about it? Here it is in the next photos.\n13. The Truth Behind Vault B\nhake news & foaxes\nWhile many people do believe that Vault B is cursed and anyone who opens it will be cursed with doom for the rest of their lives, it is just a hoax. According to Auditor General Vinod Rai Vault B had been opened around a half dozen times in the early 90\u2019s and no such curse befell him or the people who helped him.\nSo why did they keep it a secret until recently? For a good reason\u2026\n12. Disappearance Of The Gold\nIn 2016 an audit was conducted and revealed that a large amount of gold had been taken from one of the chambers and they confirmed that it \u201cmysteriously disappeared\u201d. The total damage came out to be around 769 Gold Pots and Silver bars missing from the temple itself.\n11. The Secret Tunnel\nHow would someone make off with that much gold without someone noticing you may be asking yourself? Well, many skeptics believe that there was a hidden tunnel built underneath the temple which allowed the people who stored the gold there so many years ago to seal the door and still have an exit. Many believe this is what the thief used to take the gold.\n10. The Chamber Within Vault B\nThe mystery continues as there is said to be another vault within vault B. It is said to be more of a chamber and it has walls made thick with gold. It is said that the real treasure lies within that room. However, no such chamber was mentioned in any of the audits that were performed in Vault B.\n9. The Travancore Royal Family\nThe original owner of all of this gold was owned by a man named Lord Padmanabhaswamy. The temple was looked after by the trust group known as the Travancore Royal Family. Since then the Supreme Court has removed the Travancore Royal Family from ownership of the temple.\nGold isn\u2019t the only thing the temple is significant for. The temple is one of 108 centers of worship in Vaishnavism. The temple wasn\u2019t originally coated in gold and there have been additions made to the temple ever since the 16th century.\n7. Endless Supplies Of Gold\nOne of the most controversial things that surrounds the temple and the surrounding area is the fact that the small town at the base of the temple lives in poverty. Meanwhile, there is literally millions of dollars worth of gold just sitting in the temple.\n6. The Curse Of Chamber B\nAs mentioned before, the curse of the Chamber B once frightened locals who would go towards the temple and they wouldn\u2019t dare try and open the temple door. The door was made even more strange by having no way of opening it even if someone did want to try and risk the curse. The door was made with no handles leading many to believe there is a hidden tunnel underneath.\n5. Upgrade In Security\nSure Site\nWith the break in that happened the temple decided it was time to enhance their security. They did this by installing security cameras and metal detectors around the premises. Obviously, this still won\u2019t stop many from attempting to take the riches inside but it is a step in the right direction of protecting the temple\u2019s history.\n4. The People Who Have Visited The Temple\nMany people have visited the temple and entered. These people have impressive stories to tell of their visit. Jake Halpern with The New Yorker Magazine interviewed several people who claimed they opened the vaults during audits. One of the auditors told Halpern just how hard it was to get into the chamber as there was a set of three doorways all needing separate keys to get in.\n3. Gold Just Sitting Around\nThe people living around the temple constantly complain that while they are living in poverty there is several million in gold just sitting in the temple that looks down on them. This may be one of the reasons someone broke into the temple and made off with several thousands worth of gold.\n2. The Legends of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple\nanonews\nThe legends of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple will live on forever and the tale of the gold inside will likely be told over and over through generations. Along with the curse of the snake that guards Vault B inside the temple. Whether or not the curse is actually real or not we will never actually know.\n1. Visit The Temple\nYou can now plan a trip to see the temple in person and it is worth it just to see the gold lining on the outside of the temple. While you can\u2019t go into any of the vaults for obvious reasons it is cool to see the temple itself and stare up at it in wonder of just how much money is on the inside.\nJacob Stevens", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/vitamin-supplements/supplements-lead-to-heat-sensitivity1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:FFYWDIK3UIGRXYYQWZEFUDXXASMKNTZ3", "length": 3467, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "health.howstuffworks.com", "title": "Heat Stroke, Flushes and Allergic Reactions - Can taking certain supplements lead to heat sensitivity? | HowStuffWorks", "raw_content": "Can taking certain supplements lead to heat sensitivity?\nHeat Stroke, Flushes and Allergic Reactions\nA source of debate in the athletic community is whether the supplement creatine can leave you dehydrated and more prone to heat stroke during exercise. Creatine provides the power to make muscles contract [source: Skeptic Dictionary]. Despite anecdotal claims, researchers say there's no evidence to support the contention that creatine results in heat intolerance. The research was done with athletes who used the recommended amounts of the readily available product [source: Lopez].\nIt's a challenging task -- if not an impossible one -- to put a precise figure on the number of supplements that have the potential to result in heat sensitivity. However, physician-approved databases such as drugdigest.org, medlineplus.gov and medicinenet.com are helpful in pin-pointing the cause of your symptoms and the supplement that may be responsible [source: Sunaware].\nUnderstand that just because a supplement may be good for you does not indicate it's OK to take high doses of the product. A feeling of flushness can be the result of your body truly trying to flush the excess substance from your system. In addition, approximately 25 percent of people have a food allergy. Allergies can lead to fever, hives or redness of the skin. Since supplements are foods, it's quite possible that your symptoms are the result of an allergic reaction [source: Morris].\nSupplementation can be tricky business, but with the guidance of a physician and/or nutritionist, you can find your optimum healthy lifestyle and avoid heat sensitivity.\nIf a friend swears by a particular supplement, but it didn't do anything for you, there's no need to discount your friend. Since the way supplements are produced isn't subject to a uniform standard, the quality from company to company can vary [source: WebMD].\n10 Foods for Summer Nutrition\nSupplements: Fact or Fiction\nLopez, Rebecca M. \"Does Creatine Supplementation Hinder Exercise Heat Tolerance or Hydration Status?\" Journal of Athletic Training. March 2009. 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(May 8, 2012) http://www.medicinenet.com/sun-sensitive_drugs_photosensitivity_to_drugs/page6.htm\nPainter, Sally. \"Side Effects of Too Much Niacin.\" (May 8, 2012) http://vitamins.lovetoknow.com/Side_Effects_of_Too_Much_Niacin\nShimpi, Gaurav. \"Iron Supplement Side Effects.\" (May 8, 2012) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/iron-supplement-side-effects.html\nThe Skeptics Dictionary. \"Supplements: vitamins, minerals, herbs and 'natural' products.\" (May 8, 2012) http://www.skepdic.com/vitacon.html\nSunAware. \"Sun Sensitivity.\" Feb 5, 2011. 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Although he finished his journey on the show as a runner-up, his popularity has been on a rise ever since.\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson as seen in New York in August 2018 (Caleb Lee Hutchinson / Instagram)\nCaleb graduated from South Paulding High School in Paulding County, Georgia in 2017.\nSinger, Songwriter, TV Personality\nFather \u2013 William Hutchinson (He works in construction.)\nMother \u2013 Piper Hutchinson\nSiblings \u2013 Tyler (Older Brother)\nHe is managed by Bryan Frasher from Red Light Management.\nGuitar, Vocals, Bass, Ukulele, Banjo, Mandolin, Drums, Keyboard\nIn 2018, Caleb released his single, Johnny Cash Heart, via Hollywood Records.\nCaleb has dated \u2013\nMaddie Poppe (2018-Present) \u2013 Caleb Lee Hutchinson began dating singer Maddie Poppe in April 2018. It was during the final round of the show American Idol that the budding singer declared that he and Maddie were in a relationship.\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson (Right) with Maddie Poppe and Kevin Jonas (Center) in May 2018 (Caleb Lee Hutchinson / Instagram)\nHutchinson has not endorsed any brand yet.\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson as seen while performing in May 2018 (Caleb Lee Hutchinson / Instagram)\nAppearing as a contestant in the 16th season of the singing competition series, American Idol, in 2018\nCaleb released an EP named Country Music in 2016. Later, in 2018, he released a single, Johnny Cash Heart, which was released through Hollywood Records.\nCaleb made his first TV show appearance in the singing competition series, The Voice, in 2015.\nIn 2017, after his selection in American Idol season 16, Caleb started taking care of his diet. He eliminated soda and sweet tea from his diet and lost around 70 to 80 pounds.\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson Favorite Things\nCountry Artists \u2013 Jamie Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Luke Combs, Jason Isbell\nArtist To Cover \u2013 Post Malone\nSource \u2013 AJC\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson as seen in May 2018 (Caleb Lee Hutchinson / Instagram)\nCaleb Lee Hutchinson Facts\nCaleb gained popularity after participating in the 16th season of the television series, American Idol, in 2018.\nIn 2015, he appeared in the 9th installment of the singing competition, The Voice, but was disqualified as none of the judges chose him.\nCaleb was only 5 when his grandmother brought him a karaoke machine. 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But, he later dropped the idea.\nCaleb likes to extemporize and customize his songs.\nAged 14, the time when he was singing around in Atlanta, he also sang in Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen and was unaware that he had actually opened for the American Idol season 4 runner-up, Bo Bice, in 2012 while performing there for the first time.\nHutchinson sang The Steeldrivers\u2018 \u201cIf It Hadn\u2019t Been For Love\u201d during his audition for American Idol and the judges, Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan, praised him for his voice quality and texture.\nIn 2018, for the finals of American Idol, he sang Johnny Cash Heart, which was later released as his debut single and the song peaked at number 16 in the Country Digital Song Sales chart.\nLee wrapped-up as a runner-up in the series, American Idol, in 2018.\nFollow Caleb Lee Hutchinson on Facebook, Instagram, iTunes, and Twitter.\nFeatured Image by Caleb Lee Hutchinson / Instagram", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 6947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heavy.com/news/2016/03/when-what-time-do-clocks-get-set-for-daylight-savings-time-3-am-2-am-march-13-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PTP2PACEFQ4UH5FZQGVEA5CQMTGG3YLC", "length": 1293, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "heavy.com", "title": "What Time do Clocks Move Forward for Daylight Saving Time 2016? | Heavy.com", "raw_content": "What Time do Clocks Move Forward for Daylight Saving Time 2016?\nThis Sunday, March 13, 2016 is when clocks \u201cspring forward\u201d to make way for an \u201cextra hour\u201d of daylight for Daylight Saving Time in the United States.\nDaylight saving time is a set calendar date. It is always the second Sunday in March, and begins on Sunday March 13 at 2 a.m. When the clock strikes 2 a.m., it \u201csprings\u201d forward to to 3 a.m. for a majority of the United States.\nThis easy to remember because when Daylight Saving Time ends on November 6 this year, clocks \u201cfall\u201d backward for autumn.\nStates and regions that don\u2019t participate in daylight saving time include Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation, which does it), Hawaii, and the overseas territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. This is done for a multitude of reasons and has as much to do with local politics as it does with physical location.\nWhile the date is officially known as \u201cdaylight saving time,\u201d it is colloquially known as \u201cdaylight savings time\u201d with an added \u201cS.\u201d\nDaylight Saving Time 2016: All the Memes You Need to See\nThis Sunday, March 13, 2016 is when clocks \"spring forward\" to make way for an \"extra hour\" of daylight for Daylight Saving Time in the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 155.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://help.headspace.com/hc/en-us/articles/215035608-What-device-requirements-are-there-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SL2QLH5GTQD4QGKWE7PAHAAGEP2RRQBB", "length": 310, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "help.headspace.com", "title": "What device requirements are there? \u2013 Help Center", "raw_content": "The Headspace app is currently optimized for:\nApple Devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) with an operating system of iOS 10 or above.\nAndroid Devices (phones and tablets) with an operating system of 4.4.4 or above.\nIf you're accessing Headspace on a desktop computer, go here to see a list of optimized browsers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hideout.fm/Muse-View", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:26Z", "digest": "sha1:65CDFU54QYHLYUOTXFDHCBU4BQCIBSJC", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hideout.fm", "title": "Galerie Hideout", "raw_content": "Apr 11 \u2014 22nd, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 198.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hisperfecttiming.blog/2017/04/29/say-a-prayer-and-trust-god/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CPEKYAJHFB5T24RF22FD4CF7HYWZO5KV", "length": 3284, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "hisperfecttiming.blog", "title": "Say a Prayer and Trust God \u2013 His Perfect Timing", "raw_content": "Say a Prayer and Trust God\nHappy Saturday! Have you ever had a struggle that seemed too difficult to overcome? Have you ever felt like you were at the end of your rope? I\u2019m talking about when you feel like you have no options available to you, like there is no way to win. I have. There are so many times that it is difficult to count.\nOne time stands out in my mind, and it is probably not as significant as what you are going through, but I will always remember it. My children were about six and eight at the time, and my husband was working two jobs. I was traveling to Florida State University for classes trying to earn a degree and improve our financial standing I would leave home at 4 am, drive a little over an hour into another time zone to search for parking. It was important for me to get the earliest classes so I could make it home in time to pick up my children from school. I was working towards a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science and International Affairs with a concentration in Chinese Studies. After I picked up my children, I would take a short nap, cook dinner, help with homework and baths, put the children to bed and study until midnight and sometimes all night.\nWhen I was registering for classes for my last semester, I was unable to register for the next level of Chinese, which was required for my degree. So, I had gone to the Dean and begged to be placed in the next higher level, because it was important for me to get through school as quickly as possible and find a job. He agreed and I skipped Chinese II and went directly into Intermediate Chinese. That same semester I had to register for 21 hours of classes. I was really struggling. At least twice I woke up in the parking lot at FSU not remembering driving he entire route. I knew that I needed a break soon or I was going to have a wreck and hurt an innocent party. Finally, finals arrived. My Intermediate Chinese exam required me to write three five-page essays in Chinese characters on topics provided in an hour and a half exam period. Not passing the exam would mean not graduating and retaking the class. I remember bowing my head at my desk and with tears in my eyes praying for help. Well, the end of the story is I passed the class with an A and graduated with honors.\nThis was not the first time, nor the last time I trusted God. I put all my trust in him. Our God is the supreme counselor. He is the only one who will be there and never let you down. All you have to do is turn to him and trust. He will make the impossible possible. He loves you and wants you to succeed.\nJoin me in asking God for help and trusting him to follow through! Then, share your experiences me with others. God bless you!\nPrevious Post Forgiveness Thursday \u2013 Exciting New Opportunities\nNext Post Praise the Lord Sunday \u2013 How Great is Our God!\nGod hears and answers. Love your testimony of God\u2019s faithfulness!\nThank you! He is good all the time!\nThanks for sharing your testimony of how God helped you. I\u2019m so happy for you that you got in the class and received an A. How wonderful. I know God helps us in all our comings and goings through life and I love that about him.\nI love that too! I can\u2019t count the number of times he had helped me. I\u2019m truly blessed that he is always by my side.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 8039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://historicalconversations.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/constitution-day-2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:08Z", "digest": "sha1:D7H2KPYHQKUAA7P2NVP4LP3X5M3NV6XT", "length": 3575, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "historicalconversations.wordpress.com", "title": "Constitution Day 2013 | Historical Conversations", "raw_content": "\u2190 A New Semester I\nWhat Happened After Jonathan Edwards? \u2192\nSeptember 17 is Constitution Day in the United States. On September 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention approved the draft of the Constitution that would be sent to the states for ratification. The Convention thereby kicked off, not only the debates over ratification (which resulted in the Constitution\u2019s establishment as the supreme law of the land), but the continuing debates over the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution.\nBy law (thanks, Sen. Byrd!), institutions of higher learning are expected to observe Constitution Day in some way.\nThis year, at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul, we hosted Dr. Ryan MacPherson, Associate Professor of History at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota.\nDr. Ryan MacPherson\nDr. MacPherson delivered an outstanding address built around the theme \u201c7 Things Every College (or University) Student Ought to Know.\u201d I suspect Dr. MacPherson would assert that all citizens\u2013with degrees or without\u2013should know these points, too.\nIn the interest of some public education, then, here are Dr. MacPherson\u2019s 7 points:\n1. The U.S. Constitution is a written document. Not a lived tradition, like the British constitutional system.\n2. The U.S. Constitution was designed for a republic, not for a democracy. MacPherson distinguished between representatives governing for the common good, rather than having sheer numbers determining all questions.\n3. The framers of the U.S. Constitution shared a common tradition of natural law, supportive of natural rights. I thought this was a good formulation that sought to connect \u201cnatural law\u201d discourse with Lockean \u201cnatural rights\u201d talk.\n4. The U.S. Constitution was unique in separating the three powers of government. The framers were great fans of Montesquieu, the French theorist, who advocated separating legislative, executive, and judicial power. The U.S. Constitution divided these powers even more than did Great Britain, which Montesquieu had praised in his Spirit of the Laws.\n5. The framers of the U.S. Constitution purposefully designed the electoral college. MacPherson offered a spirited defense of the electoral college, which I appreciated. A parallel that MacPherson used that seemed appropriate: \u201cIf you believe the World Series is fair for baseball, then you should believe the electoral college is fair for presidential elections.\u201d There, the emphasis is on games won, not cumulative score. So, with the presidency, the goal is to win states. MacPherson did allow that the electoral system could be tweaked to proportion electors according to congressional district, rather than winner-take-all.\n6. Over time, the U.S. Constitution has become less federal and more national. Here, MacPherson spent a lot of time explaining the effects of the Incorporation Doctrine of the 14th Amendment.\n7. The U.S. Constitution remains a monument to humanity\u2019s quest for ordered liberty. MacPherson asserted his belief that the Constitution provided for a fruitful balance of order and liberty. He concluded by challenging the audience to take up the responsibility of being custodians of American liberty.\nDr. MacPherson has posted his excellent hand-out and an earlier version of the talk on his personal website, here. It\u2019s well worth your time to listen to it.\nAlso, I\u2019m sure Dr. MacPherson would be happy to come speak in other venues. He offers a great presentation.\nFor commentators, what do you make of those 7 points?\nTagged as Constitution, Constitution Day, History Department, University of Northwestern", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hnmunpress.org/2016/02/13/member-states-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-the-who/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MXVV2AFI2ZV56BW2PBLD7BM7X6ZOXDDE", "length": 2869, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hnmunpress.org", "title": "Member States Evaluate the Effectiveness of the WHO | HNMUN Press Corps", "raw_content": "Member States Evaluate the Effectiveness of the WHO\nIn recent times, there has been an outbreak of epidemics. This brings the effectiveness of the WHO in managing the outbreak of epidemics, one of its principal aims, to the fore. This evaluation involves the assessment of the efficacy of the WHO by many yardsticks. The Member States of WHO in a session this afternoon proffered various parameters that could be used in evaluating the organization and stated various recommendations for improving the performance of the organization. This is particularly important as the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus in West Africa, Liberia especially was an epidemic and was not properly managed by the State parties involved and the NGOs as well.\nIn ensuring the improved performance of the Organization, various recommendations such as increasing the number of regional offices of the organization for the purpose of bringing it closer to the local communities were made. Other recommendations include the creation of higher funding of the organization and the increased partnership with various NGOs for the purpose of managing epidemics. Italy, Nigeria and Cote D\u2019ivoire also moved for the revision of the WHO\u2019s budget in order to make regional offices more effective. This is to ensure proper funding, thereby improving the capacity of the organization. Other countries such as Jordan also recommended better funding of the organization as a formidable medium of managing the outbreak of epidemics and increasing the performance of the WHO.\nThe bulk of the recommendations that were made by some Member States bordered on the improvement of the organization\u2019s performance by making it carry out extensive research. Congo proposed that that internal research into the countries that have the highest amount of outbreaks be carried out by the organization. They stated that Africa, by sending of cases, especially during the Ebola Virus outbreak, for better evaluation wasted useful time that could have been used to contain the outbreak. China also proposed the use of Sociologists and Anthropologists to study the cause of epidemics and pandemics by the organization in order to better manage the outbreak of the disease.\nOther important recommendations includes that of Qatar which stated that IHR reforms be imposed and that various NGOs fund the WHO. Luxembourg also proposed that the local framework and cultural sensitivity be taken into consideration. They also suggested that there be local hubs to distribute the various vaccines for managing epidemics.\nIt is pertinent to note that the most effective way of ensuring improved performance of the WHO is to have state parties prepare for the outbreak of an epidemic through knowing the diseases early and mapping out strategies for containing it.\nWritten by dangodsonspeaks Posted in General Assembly\tTagged with GA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hoflaw.com/dvteam/virginia-moms-lose-custody/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WAGMNJXC3CBONZVP5OUSTVJ624EIPDBP", "length": 1219, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hoflaw.com", "title": "How Virginia Moms LOSE Custody - Hofheimer Family Law Firm", "raw_content": "How Virginia Moms LOSE Custody\nIt\u2019s every mom\u2019s worst fear, and the reason that all moms dread custody cases so much. What if the worst possible thing in the world happens? What if you don\u2019t have the opportunity to spend every Christmas morning with your children? What happens if the court tells you that you can\u2019t be the kind of mother that you want to be? What happens if they\u2019re taken away from you, kicking and screaming? It\u2019s a terrifying thought.\nThe good news is that this is pretty rare, and that there are things you can do to put yourself in the best possible position before your case even begins. No matter what, you should be thinking now about the actions you should be taking to make your case as strong as possible.\nIf you\u2019re worried about losing custody, this report is for you! It\u2019ll help teach you about the most common mistakes Virginia moms make, and how to avoid making them yourself. Find out here about the best interests of the child factors, the mom\u2019s downfall, what happens when your child\u2019s father alleges that you are making disparaging comments against him, and what to do if he\u2019s making disparaging comments about you. It\u2019s a can\u2019t-miss report for any Virginia mom facing a custody case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://houseofilona.com/blog/important-message-just-wanted-know", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QAIWME77UXO3MYXXJTJH5QOC7PDFRQ5G", "length": 1920, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "houseofilona.com", "title": "Important message. Just wanted you to know. - House of ilona - Designer Clergy Dresses", "raw_content": "Important message. Just wanted you to know.\nPosted on September 26, 2017 October 14, 2017 by camelle daley\nFrom my desk to your ears\u2026\nThis week we had a really intense business meeting (the presence of God was with us, it was beautiful). In that meeting I had to be honest about some real issues that have been facing the world and impacting our business for a while now.\nHave you heard about Brexit? The value of our pound dropped dramatically over the last year. This has affected all of our international buying and selling.\nAfter the news of Brexit lots of businesses here in the U.K. closed immediately, most business reacted by increasing prices. I, on the other hand, believed it would pass and tried to ride out the storm by absorbing these additional costs. This worked for a while\u2026 the pound is gaining some strength but is nothing like it was before June last year.\nMost companies wouldn\u2019t send a warning but I choose to be transparent and give you the heads up that on Monday 2nd October 2017 we will be increasing our prices.\nTo serve ministries I\u2019ve always tried to keep our prices down, (although I\u2019ve been told time and time again my prices should be at least double for the quality, design and service we offer).\nSo this week\u2019s business meeting was crunch time!\n1. Increase prices and be around for a long time to continue serving the Men and Women of God\n2. Keep going as we are and ignore the hemorrhaging.\nSo we\u2019ve gone with option 1 but not until Monday 2nd October.\nIf there\u2019s something you\u2019ve been meaning to get for a while this would be a great time to do it.\n(Unfortunately we won\u2019t be able to take back orders at current prices).\nYou can purchase what\u2019s available in store now in our:\n\u2013 Women\u2019s Store\n\u2013 Men\u2019s Store &\nThis entry was posted in Blog and tagged @houseofilona, Important message. Just wanted you to know..\nClean & Care for House of ilona Clergy Garments\nSeptember Best Sellers 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://howlydoggraphics.com/2013/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3VD2TJKR2ZAZFPK6SN3RJUBZFSVTRRRT", "length": 739, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "howlydoggraphics.com", "title": "November | 2013 | Howly Time!", "raw_content": "This is part of a commission I\u2019m doing for a poolhall called Triple Nines here in the area. They\u2019ve been super nice to me and after they saw a piece I did for one of their customers, they wanted a few posters. No problem!\nIt\u2019s funny though because the ladies got VERY competitive over who should be in it. The owner decided to go with the two who had been around the longest. Still, it was funny to be approached on the side for a paid commission by one of them. Game ON, I guess\u2026\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged art, billiards, boobs, brunette, color, commissions, digital art, digital media, illustration, illustrations, jeans, lady, mature, people, photoshop, racy, sexy, women, work on November 27, 2013 by thumper71.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 11248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hozkomurcu.com/en/how-win-elections/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:OFMJPXVUQPGUEKBMSGQXUFUOGO4ZOCOI", "length": 7767, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "hozkomurcu.com", "title": "\ufeff How can the CHP win elections with an advertising language? - Haydar \u00d6zk\u00f6m\u00fcrc\u00fc", "raw_content": "How can the CHP win elections with an advertising language?\nI thought it would be more appropriate to write this article separately for all the parties but I thought that it would be more accurate to do a study for the CHP only because I feel like the AK Party does not need this direction at all.\nWhen determining the language of the advertisement, it is the first step to determine a language that will respond in society. However, there is another point that is as important as the choice of language, which is the right choice of target. There is certainly a massive election of a political party and a mass of voters who can vote for it. And there are those who think you will never vote. When political parties prepare their advertising campaigns, they only keep their own odds when they are working on their ossified segments, which is what happened to the CHP's choice. The ads did not have the desired effect because they misidentified the target mass. As the first target in the advertising campaigns to be realized, the AK Party and the MHP must target the electorate and focus on voting. But how to do it?\nMirror Neurons empathy centers of mind. In the advertising campaign to be realized, it is necessary to establish a kind of campaign that will definitely activate mirror neurons. If the AK Party is calling to the base a \"Cumhuriyet Teyses\"If you use it does not work. The first thing to do is to identify the issues that the AK Party's base is uncomfortable with and take steps to increase the inconvenience. Because when the discomfort increases, CHP is the only alternative in the party ecosystem that has almost turned into a bipolar center.\nFor many years the opponent's fear of pumping his opponent is counter-attacking in many areas. As a result of dictator communication, there are large masses called \"it is our dictator\". The messages that the CHP should focus on are not the marriage of the AKP or the dictatorship, most goals scored There must be fields. The first of these is the violence against FETO, corruption, and women. In the language of the advertisements, a clearer fear should be given with more empathy, but as I said empathy, the AK Party must be awakened on the base. For example;\n1- Muhajir Foundation\nA woman with a headscarf (a part of her hair that is not visible, if possible) is standing in front of a foundation with a light bearded gentleman. Muhacir Foundation writes on the floor of the foundation. They have a 9 year old boy.\n- Hey, should we send your girlfriend to this foundation? How about you learn both religions?\n+ It is good, in fact, both Allah learns theology.\n- You are right, our elders are immigrants with this foundation, why should we not trust that they are safe?\nThey go in, a gentleman with a slight beard inside gently welcomes them and says I can meet you with our bellet. The dignitary comes, grinning grimly at the child's face.\nPackshot: CHP for our children.\nAnyone watching the ad knows what the ad is talking about, the child's face is never shown, so the voter can put his or her child in his place more comfortably. Why do not we trust when our grandfathers are safe? Fear is placed on the heart of the electorate, allowing them to empathize. The players who play in the ad completely have to dress up and move like the AK Party. Especially in the face of female actors, there should not be any excess makeup, which is the advertisement of the CHP.\n2- Nargile Cafe\nOur brother, a light bearded suit, but a good belly, is a hookah caf\u00e9. There is a phone, zippo and car key set on top. We start to hear when we talk on the phone.\nI heard your brother is coming up with a new test system, right?\nOhh super, super (grinning)\nYour brother knows our new residences, the one that's in Belgrad Forests. I say to your sister we should give her one gift, what do you say?\nElhamdulililah dear, I am waiting for the details of the new test system.\nPackshot: CHP for Justice\nAt the same time the tributaries of the nargile halls are tired of each section, a reference is made to them and the enlightenment of the AK Party should be kept on the floor.\n3- Forest\nIt is a sunny spring day, a squirrel climbing up on a tree, a few butterflies flying in front of the camera in the tree, and the places are filled with flowers and flowers. It accompanies a relaxing music scene. At that moment a high and disturbing sound comes from the motorized saw and the right turn of the tree where the butterflies are, the voices of the birds suddenly rise, the squirrels and the butterflies begin to escape. The camera turns in the direction of the tree, accompanied by depressing air and sad music. A huge building site appears, packshot appears with the voice of businessmen walking towards the forest.\nPackshot: Breathable CHP\n4- European Union\nA table with EU and Turkish flag is visible with a slow shutter, and a fat and bald man is sitting on a long seat, the camera is seen from behind. In front of the big table, a young man in front of him,\nMy minion, I admire the interactions you get from social media! Do not you use any help?\nWhat is needed is the help, (by hitting the Qur'an on the table), I do not need anything else, I do not need anything else, we go to the Bakara Roller!\nOh, sir, if you hear a sight, will you be in trouble?\nWhat about Yahu? Most have not been the chief counselor, heheheh.\nPackshot: CHP for sincerity\nThis is a dialogue that I'm sure the viewers will become nervous cube.\nSo the essence of the essence, the main target audience for the CHP is the AK Party base. The MHP has no other party to vote for. The ones that are already there are only an ossified mass that does not think of any other party that voted for the MHP. For this reason, it is necessary to move towards the base of the AK Party, which is not ossified and has high-level play. On the other hand, HDP is the case. The biggest mistake the CHP will make is to play towards the HDP votes. This play will result in a total loss of two other partisans.\nO\u011fuz Veli Yava\u015f says:\nIt's an excellent post. I read it in one breath. Thanks for your effort. I hope it does not attract the wrong sides.\nI do not expect it, I scared to death\nSerhat Tunca says:\nHealth to your health Haydar Bey\nSuch messaging and communication strategies open up a kind of window we all need. You have done a work for the counselors to get paid.\nThe question is only in the communication strategy, but the CHP is far more than that. In this respect, I think that if the elections are \"partly\" taken even the desired results, the wall will fall short. I think it is only as beneficial to CHP as it is to attract visitors to a non-customer focused e-commerce site with great digital ads. In short, the problem is much deeper and much bigger!\nFurkan Din\u00e7 says:\nDoes one day CHP \"communication\" people bother reading this article? If you really think about it, you have actually written the most basic, the simplest and the most necessary. There is no doubt that you will have a much deeper plan to do this, but it seems very difficult to get rid of the glasses while our advertising and human hearts, strategies to touch your mind are always on \"overthrow\".\nFurkan G\u00fcl says:\nI like the article, you mentioned the important points, but I am sure that ads 1 and 4 will be scored in the wrong places and some people will be subjected to disinformation and scored against. Apart from these, I do not think that if you think that anti-propaganda will be made in the TV programs watched by the kitten, and that the opposition can not have the desired effect because there is no such propaganda option (TV program).\nBut your ads are brutal and effective.\nPingback: How to Change the Communication Strategy for a Successful Opposition - Haydar \u00d6zk\u00f6m\u00fcrc\u00fc", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 10617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_path_facpubs/67/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ESBLLHNTEE3IPZ6VG4UFTMN6YKSIX7LB", "length": 813, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu", "title": "\"Histologic grade remains a prognostic factor for breast cancer regardl\" by Arnold M. Schwartz, Donald E. Henson et al.", "raw_content": "Histologic grade remains a prognostic factor for breast cancer regardless of the number of positive lymph nodes and tumor size: A study of 161,708 cases of breast cancer from the SEER program\nArnold M. Schwartz, George Washington UniversityFollow\nDonald E. Henson, George Washington University\nDechang Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences\nSivasankari Rajamarthandan\nBreast Neoplasms--diagnosis; Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast--pathology; Mammary Glands, Human--pathology\nSchwartz, A.M., Henson, D.E., Chen, D., Rajamarthandan, S. (2014). Histologic grade remains a prognostic factor for breast cancer regardless of the number of positive lymph nodes and tumor size: A study of 161,708 cases of breast cancer from the SEER program. 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He was known as Senhor Cardoso during his highly successful spell at Sporting.\nHow would \u00c1lvaro Cardoso be described?\n\u00c1lvaro Cardoso would be described as Portuguese footballer.\nWhat is \u00c1lvaro Cardoso subject of?\n\u00c1lvaro Cardoso is subject of Portuguese footballers, Portugal international footballers, 1914 births, 2004 deaths, Primeira Liga players, Sporting Clube de Portugal managers, Vit\u00f3ria F.C. players and Sporting Clube de Portugal footballers.\nWhat is the gender of \u00c1lvaro Cardoso?\n\u00c1lvaro Cardoso is male.\nWhat was or is the position of \u00c1lvaro Cardoso?\nThe position of \u00c1lvaro Cardoso is or was Defender (association football).\nIn which teams was \u00c1lvaro Cardoso active?\n\u00c1lvaro Cardoso was active in Sporting Clube de Portugal, Portugal and Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hunter.io/companies/bcm.com.au", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IULPHEHGDNRPYSXDHSA6RVWPVTSPYWS6", "length": 1929, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "hunter.io", "title": "Bcm - email addresses & email format \u2022 Hunter", "raw_content": "All the email addresses found for bcm.com.au\n2 email addresses found for bcm.com.au\nMost common pattern: {first}.{l}@bcm.com.au\nhttp://bandt.com.au/advertising/bcm-resigns-indooroopilly-shopping-centre-account January 1, 2019\nhttp://bandt.com.au/advertising/queensland-agency-bcm-wins-beko-account January 1, 2019\nhttp://bandt.com.au/author/kate_holloway January 1, 2019\nhttp://bandt.com.au/media/client-overthinking-impacting-creativity January 1, 2019\nhttp://bandt.com.au/media/whats-glass-box January 1, 2019\nhttp://iabaustralia.com.au/creative-awards/case-studies/item/19-case-studies/2083-global-goggles-vr-experience August 8, 2017\nhttp://iabaustralia.com.au/mobile-centre/case-studies/item/39-mobile-creative/2083-global-goggles-vr-experience July 7, 2017\nhttp://katebarryartist.com/paintings/2017-for-sale October 10, 2018\nhttp://bcm.com.au/ October 10, 2015\nhttp://bcm.com.au/twocents/can-a-pitch-save-a-soldiers-life/ October 10, 2015\nhttp://bcm.com.au/twocents/instagrams-biggest-change-yet/ October 10, 2015\nhttp://bcm.com.au/work/join-the-drive/ October 10, 2015\nhttp://bcm.st.bcmpreview.com February 2, 2019\nhttp://digitalagencynetwork.com/agencies/brisbane August 8, 2017\nhttp://exporttoolbox.org/index.php/showcase-india/243-design-services June 6, 2018\nhttp://exporttoolbox.org/index.php/showcase-india/243-design-services/7156-bcm October 10, 2018\nhttp://flock.bcm.com.au February 2, 2016\nhttp://flock.bcm.com.au/category/advertising February 2, 2016\nhttp://flock.bcm.com.au/category/branding February 2, 2016\nhttp://flock.bcm.com.au/login February 2, 2016\nhttp://flock.bcm.com.au/top-users February 2, 2016\nhttp://sunnyqueen.com.au/cards March 3, 2016\nhttp://sunnyqueen.com.au/cards/ October 10, 2015\nhttp://sunnyqueen.com.au/eggify November 11, 2016\nMore information about bcm.com.au\nmytrendyphone.dk \u2022 7 email addresses\nPlanet Marketing\nplanetmarketing.com \u2022 2 email addresses\nbravoure.nl \u2022 3 email addresses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ibuyutahhomes.com/utah-county/springville-home-buyers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HUFE5C56TKYQMOPRUMCUT7TOKKOKHAQP", "length": 1014, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ibuyutahhomes.com", "title": "Springville | I Buy Utah Homes LLC", "raw_content": "Home > Utah County\t> Springville\nRegardless of your situation, we can and will buy your house fast and in cash. How is this possible? It\u2019s really easy when we work together to create a win-win sale that will work for everyone. You\u2019ll get your home sold fast and can move on with your life, ridding yourself of your headache of a home! Just fill out the form over to the right and you will receive a quote at a fair price.\nSpringville is a thriving community that has experienced steady growth over the past several years. This city is located in one of the most beautiful regions of the country, nestled along the Wasatch Range \u2013 Springville gives easy access to I-15, making it an attractive place for new business to make a start there. With a strong connection to the arts, this family-oriented community has festivals throughout the year. Their mission as a city is to promote a safe and healthy environment for its citizens by providing services, facilities and opportunities in a fiscally responsible manner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 181.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iclg.com/firms/drinker-biddle/marie-bussey-garza", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6MDKVD7RA6VZOJYZKGG4EP3NAEOEG7S3", "length": 1311, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "iclg.com", "title": "Marie Bussey-Garza | Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | ICLG", "raw_content": "Home Firms Drinker Biddle Marie Bussey-Garza\nMarie Bussey-Garza\nAn associate in Drinker Biddle\u2019s Litigation Group, Marie Bussey-Garza assists with various stages of legal proceedings and trial preparation, including conducting legal research and writing motions and other legal memoranda for both civil and criminal matters.\nWhile in law school, Marie worked on legal policy issues pertaining to sex trafficking and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. Some highlights of her experience include participating in Safe Harbour Advocacy efforts, writing a policy memorandum to UN Women, and playing an instrumental role in drafting the 2017 Report on Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Pennsylvania.\nPrior to law school, Marie acquired more than 14 years of business experience in wide-ranging industries including information technology, food and beverage, health care, research, and higher education. Most recently, she served as president for a custom web systems development and information technology consulting company and as vice president and IT director for a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation.\nContact: Marie.Bussey-Garza@dbr.com |\nOne Logan Square, Ste. 2000\nPhiladelphia 19103-6996\nPublications with contributions by Marie Bussey-Garza\nLitigation & Dispute Resolution 2019 - USA - Pennsylvania", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilio.com/products/vienna-instruments/winds/historicwinds1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OMYGRFIDMEGRM2V77635SRIFYHVWY2ON", "length": 4472, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ilio.com", "title": "Vienna Instruments Collections : Winds : Historic Winds I", "raw_content": "The transverse flute (Baroque flute, flauto traverso, side-blown flute) is a reedless woodwind instrument. Although the instrument had already appeared in the 12th century in Central Europe it experienced its golden era in the Baroque period as a predecessor of the modern concert flute. Unlike the modern flute the Baroque flute has just one valve and a limited key range of about 2\u00bd octaves. The body is made of ebony, granadilla wood, boxwood, or olive wood, thus its warm and soft sound is more similar to the recorder than to the sound of a modern (transverse) flute. Today Baroque flutes are played as part of the historically informed (authentic) performance practice.\nThe Baroque oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument that appeared in the mid-17th century. It is also called \u201chautbois\u201d which is derived from the compound French word haut (\u201chigh\u201d, \u201cloud\u201d) and bois (\u201cwood\u201d, \u201cwoodwind\u201d), covering the soprano range from c1 to d3. As opposed to the modern oboe the Baroque oboe has only three keys. In order to produce higher pitches, the player has to \u201coverblow\u201d, meaning to increase the force of air to reach the next harmonic.\nThe oboe da caccia covers the alto register of the Baroque oboe and looks like a hunting horn with its curved tube and brass bell. It is a transposed instrument in F, so it sounds a 5th lower than the oboe. Bach wrote parts for the oboe da caccia in his cantatas, passions, and especially in his Christmas Oratorio. The successor to the oboe da caccia is the French horn.\nThe ophicleide is a conical-bore brass instrument belonging to the bugle family that is similar to the tuba. It was invented in 1817 by French instrument maker Jean Hilaire Ast\u00e9 and replaced the serpent that was considered outdated in the Romantic orchestra. Ophicleide is derived from the Greek word ophis (\u201cserpent\u201d) and kleis (\u201ckeys\u201d), since it was conceived of as a \u201cserpent with keys\u201d. Its cupped mouthpiece is similar to modern trombone and euphonium mouthpieces. The ophicleide is most famously used in Berlioz\u2019s \u201cSymphonie Fantastique\u201d, but also Wagner and Verdi wrote parts for it. Brazilian choro bands used the ophicleide well into the 20th century until it was superseded by the saxophone and the tuba. There have been claims that the ophicleide is a direct ancestor of the saxophone when supposedly Adolphe Sax put a woodwind mouthpiece on an instrument he was repairing, allegedly leading him to design and create a purpose-built instrument.\nThe serpent (latin: serpens \u201csnake\u201d) is easily recognized by its exceptional visual appearance. The instrument was developed in France in the 16th century, covering the bass register of the zink (cornett/cornetto) family of instruments (for more details on the zink please have a look at Historic Winds II). Serpents are usually made out of wood covered by leather. The round, brass-type mouthpiece is similar to that of a trombone or tuba so the instrument can be considered as an ancestor of the tuba. However, the wooden construction and the fact that the instrument has six finger holes rather than valves makes it difficult to classify it clearly as either a woodwind or brass instrument. In the middle of the 18th century the serpent began to appear in military bands and orchestras, where it stayed until the middle of the 19th century, as it was the only wind instrument that could perform at louder volumes in larger ensembles and venues. Various composers of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods wrote parts for serpent, e.g., Handel (Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music), Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn (in \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d), Berlioz (in his \u201cSymphonie fantastique\u201d), and Wagner (in his opera \u201cRienzi\u201d). The serpent was rediscovered in the 20th century by legendary film music composers such as Bernard Hermann (1959: Journey to the Center of the Earth) and Jerry Goldsmith, who used it to create \u201calien\u201d sounds for Ridley Scott\u2019s legendary sci-fi horror movie \u201cAlien\u201d (1979). The instrument is extremely hard to play and requires not only great skills, but also a lot of practice and effort from the player. Even under perfect conditions it is very difficult to produce a stable, centered tone. Parts originally written for the Serpent were therefore replaced by the Ophicleide and later by the contra bassoon, French horn, trombone, tuba or euphonium.\nCrescendo and diminuendo 2/3/4 sec.\nCrescendo-diminuendo 2/4/6 sec.\nFast repetitions 140\u2013180, and 200 BPM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 14213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 143.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://images.chicagohistory.org/detail/en/4994/1/EN4994-elevated-railroad-platform-at-63rd.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4MM53YJYV3SRFCI66RELAQVOGFRUIHDH", "length": 196, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "images.chicagohistory.org", "title": "Chicago History Museum | Elevated railroad platform at 63rd street and cottage grove, EN4994", "raw_content": "Elevated railroad platform at 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue\nMVF: Streets - Cottage Grove\nElevated railroad platform at 63rd street and Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, May 29, 1952.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/Freedom-Fighters-2018/comics-series/125516?ref=cGFnZS92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9saXN0Mjc5NTc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:BC53OADRXRTD7G5SSKCQMYCWAN5LKDCI", "length": 535, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "impactcomics.comicretailer.com", "title": "Freedom Fighters (2018-) Digital Comics - Impact Comics Digital Store", "raw_content": "Line up for this all-new maxiseries set on Earth X, where the Nazis won World War II! Twenty years after invading and occupying America, Germany wiped out all metahuman resistance, including the original Freedom Fighters. Fast-forward to the present day, and a new team of Freedom Fighters emerges to challenge the Nazi occupation once again. But if they\u2019re to have any chance of victory, they\u2019re going to need Uncle Sam\u2014who disappeared after his original team was killed. 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Bobbi Rebell reports.\nAfter tweets back and forth about paying for the wall, and a canceled meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump got on the phone with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The two leaders recognize they have seen things very differently, the White House said, but agreed to try to work with each other. The big one - trade. Trump wants to impose a twenty percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for the construction of the wall. That would affect variety of products, from food, through computers, to cars, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, economist at the Manhattan Institute. (SOUNDBITE) DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, ECONOMIST, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE, (English), SAYING: \"President Trump is saying a lot of things about to trade, about putting tariffs on particular goods, but the people who voted for him in the Midwest, blue collar workers, they need access to these inexpensive goods that are produced in Mexico. They don't want to see the price of their goods going up. 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Help us translate! Submit this form and we\u2019ll add your language to one of the following releases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insearchofanideal.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/fostering-trust-in-a-pluralistic-society/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CICZV3ZM4BZA4CKRRHHYNSRK7EVK52Q6", "length": 12717, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "insearchofanideal.wordpress.com", "title": "Fostering Trust in a Pluralistic Society | In Search of an Ideal", "raw_content": "Now, no one has that kind of power. Now there are dozens of options of where and how to get the news. We all know this. It is a buyers market.\nThis is called now the post-Truth world. But that is a misnomer, a Nietzschean exaggeration.\nTruth hasn\u2019t disappeared. Either Putin has something on Trump and told him about it, or he didn\u2019t. There is a fact about that.\nNor has people\u2019s desire to know that truth disappeared. Trump supporters aren\u2019t saying the truth isn\u2019t important. They just don\u2019t trust some of the main media reporting on it.\nWhat has become hard to decipher now is who to trust, and even more importantly, what media structures Trump supporters and critics together trust?\nThis question is pressing because, after all, CNN and the New York Times are themselves private companies. God or George Washington didnt ordain them as bastions of journalism. So if Trump wants to use, and trusts, the private companies of Fox and Breitbart, and will only trust those companies, on what neutral ground can he be blamed?\nBut, one might say, New York Times and CNN have earned their reputation, but Breitbart hasnt. Sure. The flip side though is that sounds like saying that the status quo should be trusted. And in American culture, and in the age of pluralism and overthrowing the oppressions of the past, that is the greatest sin. Breitbart and Twitter gave Trump the distance needed to stand apart from the news status quo and wrap himself in the halo of the outsider and the unprivileged.\nFor the last 50 years we have tried to divest the status quo of any any moral authority, and so now when Trump aims to do the same to CNN and the New York Times, we are left flat footed, unsure of how to defend the status quo as morally upright and trustworthy.\nThere are here vast questions about what shared public trust means in a pluralistic society. Fact is the models we have like Cronkite and Jennings are remnants of a less pluralistic society, where there was shared public trust because most of the public wasn\u2019t really participating actively; they were merely letting those \u201cin the know\u201d who they had no option but to trust lead the way. But what happens when society becomes more pluralistic? What fosters the sense of shared public trust then?\nIt is amazing to think that the progressive thinkers of the last century hardly worried about this problem. I at least in my education or as a citizen have not heard it discussed. So the problem lies on the ground, like a gauntlet waiting to be picked up.\nCNN, Huffington Post and others are ignoring that gauntlet, assuming instead that they as new organizations already speak from are space of a shared pluralistic public trust. They assume they already have IT, that special something which can hold a pluralistic society together.\nAnd what is evident to many people, and has been evident to many people, including John Stewart and Noam Chomsky, is that no, CNN doesn\u2019t have it. It has merely substituted quarreling pundits who smile at each other at times for the deep trust beyond political disagreements needed for a healthy democracy. This was in fact John Stewart\u2019s main criticism of CNN all through when he was on the daily show: the tv pundits\u2019 caterwauling is eroding trust, not increasing it, in a deeply divided country. Now when CNN poses as neutral, Trump merely has to laugh and act tough, because he knows liberals themselves laid the foundation for his critique of CNN.\nAnd it\u2019s even easier for Trump to dismiss Huffingtonpost and the like because it is not in the business of creating trust between people of diverse social and political views.\nThe surest way to minimize Trump\u2019s power is to highlight the reality that there is no pluralistic, shared public space in America \u2013 no moral arbiter of public discourse. Then Trump would have nothing to fight, no grandstanding to do. He would then simply be judged on what he can achieve as president, and the people, even his supporters, would have nothing else to judge him by. And we can face head on the task of what public shared trust in a pluralistic society can mean, and how to foster it.\nBut, the self congratulatory press, like the self congratulatory Hollywood and the self congratulatory academia, will first make this harder, and make Trump\u2019s life easier. For their confidence that they already occupy such a space of pluralistic trust will make them speak not to the real question of how to construct such trust but to the hackneyed issue that Trump is failing their purportedly inclusive and universal standards.\nBut they fail to see the practical contradiction of their speech act. If someone says, \u201cI don\u2019t trust you capture the public trust in a pluralistic society\u201d, it is no help to simply reply, \u201cYes, we do! You are simply wrong.\u201d Trump and the alt right would love to keep having this conversation for the next four years, and simply use it for leverage to do whatever they want.\nAnd yet, the question remains, unaddressed by the media and by Trump: what can foster public trust across social and political differences in a pluralistic society? Those who are open to that question can lay the foundations for a future beyond all the headlines and news.\n\u2190 Being Stillness The Political Question of Our Time \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201cFostering Trust in a Pluralistic Society\u201d\nScott Aiken and Robert Talisse had some interesting thoughts with regard to tectonic shifts on the right; they share your observations about a lack of unity underlying pluralism. The post is here: http://dailynous.com/2016/03/14/philosophers-on-the-2016-u-s-presidential-race/\n\u201cThe trouble with political conservatism in America is that for the past fifty years, its central ideals have been growing increasingly unpopular with the American citizenry. \u2026 The fact is that the core conservative values of personal responsibility, self-reliance, restrained government, shared community, and the moral authority of tradition have given way to tendencies that conservatives must regard as base and uncivilized: insatiable appetites for luxury, excess, spectacle, and power, all of which are social forces that dissolve tradition and foster divisions. \u2026\nThis cultural shift naturally presented a challenge to the Republican Party, which was faced with a social reality in which winning elections on the basis of their core values was bound to become increasingly unlikely. Again, conservative intellectuals understood that their ideas were bound to be seen as badly out of step. And so they needed to find other ways to win elections beyond explaining their core ideas to what they saw as a fractured populace. What was needed was a way to build a political coalition among people who ultimately have little in common. And this required a strategy by which deep-seated divisions could be overshadowed by some unifying purpose. With the citizenry divided, this unifying purpose needed to be manufactured.\nAlas, the formation of political unity is not as difficult as it may seem, for it is easy to construct nemeses: social and cultural forces that threaten to thwart, disfigure, nullify, or dilute whatever makes America great. Note that in manufacturing such an antagonist, one mustn\u2019t get specific about the nature or target of the threatening body. It is enough to simply characterize it as alien and hostile, or debauched and decadent, thereby allowing each citizen to fill in the details however he or she sees fit. The rest is left unsaid, and this was presented as a matter of etiquette. But it was strategic. A silent majority, insofar as it is silent, doesn\u2019t speak. And insofar as it doesn\u2019t speak, it doesn\u2019t speak to itself, and so it cannot discover how deep its internal divisions may run.\nIt is crucial to remember that the Republican strategy initially was to merely manufacture an enemy around which to unify an otherwise divided citizenry for the purpose of winning elections. Once in office, Republicans could govern according to the traditional conservative values that they had downplayed or omitted from the narrative while campaigning. To be sure, this kind of bait-and-switch may seem cynical and disingenuous, but it is the stuff out of which democratic politics is made.\nThe most recent national election cycles have shown the hazard of this strategy. One might say that the bait-and-switch has come full circle: The artificial foe has become the concrete enemy, the instrument has become the end, and the rhetoric has become the substantive message. At least since Reagan\u2019s presidency, the Republican Party has undergone a fateful transformation, most evident in the progression from Newt Gingrich\u2019s Contract with America to the Tea Party and Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. The resentment, anxiety, and fear that was once deployed as a device to motivate voting behavior is now the official party platform.\u201d\nCharles Taylor has written interesting things on the ideal of authenticity in modernity, and what gets sacrificed in the pursuit of this ideal. In his short book, The Ethics of Authenticity, he writes:\n\u201cThe agent seeking significance in life, trying to define him- or herself meaningfully, has to exist in a horizon of important questions. That is what is self-defeating in modes of contemporary culture that concentrate on self-fulfillment in opposition to the demands of society, or nature, which shut out history and the bonds of solidarity. \u2026.\nOtherwise put, I can define my identity only against the background of things that matter. But to bracket out history, nature, society, the demands of solidarity, everything but what I find in myself would be to eliminate all candidates for what matters. Only if I exist in a world in which history, or the demands of nature, or the needs of my fellow human beings, or the duties of citizenship, or the call of God, or something else of this order matters crucially, can I define an identity for myself that is not trivial. Authenticity is not the enemy of demands that emanate from beyond the self; it supposes such demands.\u201d (pp. 40-41)\nI think Taylor is really on to something here. The desire to live authentically combined with the desire to be part of something bigger than oneself can manifest itself in ways that can erode certain bonds of solidarity, e.g. involvement in identity politics as both self-expression and participation in a larger project. Of course, one could argue that the bonds of solidarity, or, as Taylor would put it, the common \u201chorizon of significance\u201d that Taylor believes existed did not in fact exist for everyone, and that it is these very identity groups that supposedly undermine solidarity that were excluded from the background horizon of significance.\nStill, Taylor gives us a place to start. What would count as a horizon of significance today across all voting blocs, demographics, social classes, and groups? Citizenship/geography? Not in this age of global ethics and the ideal of universal citizenship that is held by many liberals. Religion? No, though maybe this is Taylor\u2019s solution (I\u2019m not sure).\nIt seems to me that when it comes to contributing to the development of a horizon of significance, there are two questions that need addressing:\n1. For there to be a decent chance of getting people to get past their differences to talk to each other, their material needs have to be met, i.e., enough food on the table, a stable paycheck, etc.\n2. People tend to unite for two reasons: fear, or a common ideal (not necessarily mutually exclusive).\nIn the case of 1., we need to encourage people (especially congress) to become more focused on coming up with practical solutions to local, concrete problems, rather than trying to solve problems through policies that are refracted through an ideological lens. In other words, pursue non-ideal-theoretic, case-by-case solutions rather than channeling Ayn Rand or Marx. (Yeah, I know, easier said than done.) Perhaps, if things get bad enough, people will have to work in this way.\nWith respect to 2., using the politics of fear is repugnant. I wonder if that\u2019s the direction we might be headed, given the threat of terrorism. Coming up with a common positive ideal, well, where do we begin? I guess this is part of what you\u2019re trying to do with this blog, esp. as it pertains to academic philosophy.\nI\u2019ve heard of philosophers (Richard Kearney comes to mind) who\u2019ve done interesting reconciliation work, where they get together young people who have been on opposite sides of some very deep divide, and ask each side to tell their story, then form small mixed groups where each group has the assignment of coming up with a new shared narrative that incorporates the stories of both sides. Perhaps something like this might be a place to start.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 16407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00004836-199912000-00003", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OCEJB5GXK5L45W2PU7TTFWUJIBJL4ZQ5", "length": 1241, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "insights.ovid.com", "title": "The Spectrum of Spontaneous and Iatrogenic Esophageal Injury: Perforations, Mallory-Weiss Tears, and Hematomas", "raw_content": "Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 29(4):306-317, DEC 1999\nThe Spectrum of Spontaneous and Iatrogenic Esophageal Injury: Perforations, Mallory-Weiss Tears, and Hematomas\nZiad Younes;David Johnson;\nFrom the Department of Internal Medicine (Z.Y.), Gastroenterology Division, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; and Eastern Virginia Medical School (D.A.J.), Norfolk, VA.\nEsophageal perforations, Mallory-Weiss tears, and esophageal hematoma involve traumatic injury to the esophagus. These can be iatrogenic, in particular due to esophageal instrumentation, but can also occur spontaneously. The remarkable increase in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy as well as esophageal surgery has made instrumentation the most common cause of esophageal perforation. In many instances, spontaneous perforations are associated with retching and vomiting, which causes a sudden increase in intraesophageal pressure. A high index of suspicion leading to rapid diagnosis and appropriate therapy are needed to optimize clinical outcomes. This article focuses on esophageal perforations, Mallory-Weiss tears, and esophageal hematomas, with emphasis on etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and prevention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inspectioneering.com/tag/visual+inspection", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6KGCP3FL7SABJEWWN6RZMXPBIBRR55EK", "length": 2248, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "inspectioneering.com", "title": "Visual Inspection | Inspectioneering", "raw_content": "Overview of Visual Inspection\nVisual Inspection, or Visual Testing (VT), is the oldest and most basic method of inspection. It is the process of looking over a piece of equipment using the naked eye to look for flaws. It requires no equipment except the naked eye of a trained inspector.\nVisual inspection can be used for internal and external surface inspection of a variety of equipment types, including storage tanks, pressure vessels, piping, and other equipment.\nVisual inspection is simple and less technologically advanced compared to other methods. Despite this, it still has several advantages over more high-tech methods. Compared to other methods, it is far more cost effective. This is because there is no equipment that is required to perform it. For similar reasons it also one of the easiest inspection techniques to perform. It is also one of the most reliable techniques. A well-trained inspector can detect most signs of damage.\nHydrostatic Testing In-line Inspection (ILI) Nondestructive Testing (NDT)\nArticles about Visual Inspection\nDrone Inspection and NDT in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry\nBy Chris Leightell at Industrial SkyWorks\nThe adoption of drones for use in industry is a trend that has grown rapidly over the past few years. As the technology increases in popularity, its capabilities continue to evolve beyond basic visual imaging, boosting the list of ever-growing applications.\nPost-weld Inspection Using Laser Vision\nBy Constance Reichert at Edison Welding Institute\nVisual inspection is the most common nondestructive testing method. For critical applications, machine vision technology provides advantages over visual inspection.\nVideos related to Visual Inspection\nWhite Papers related to Visual Inspection\nDownloads & Resources related to Visual Inspection\nEvents related to Visual Inspection\nNews related to Visual Inspection\nQuest Integrity Group Announces Expansion of Remote Digital Video Inspection - RDVI™ to North America\nQuest Integrity Group, a global leader in the development and delivery of advanced inspection and engineering assessment services and software products, announces the expansion of its RDVI service offering to North America.\nRecommend Revisions to Visual Inspection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 8532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://interpolnoticeremoval.com/2012/04/23/interpol-sets-the-record-straight-concerning-cooperation-with-us-law-enforcement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JPQYAJAFH25ILOD6A33Y7VDKRGTDVFH2", "length": 3105, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "interpolnoticeremoval.com", "title": "INTERPOL sets the record straight concerning cooperation with US law enforcement | INTERPOL Red Notice Removal Lawyers", "raw_content": "INTERPOL sets the record straight concerning cooperation with US law enforcement\n\u201cLYON, France \u2013 \u201cWhether it\u2019s organized crime, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, or any other area of criminal activity, the increasing sophistication and power of criminal syndicates calls for a response from those who are pledged to uphold the law and protect society from the hardened criminal. And this is the work of INTERPOL,\u201d President Ronald Reagan (1985).\nThe following corrects false rumo[]rs published by infowars.com on 19 April 2012 and attributed to US Senator Rand Paul.\nDuring 2011, US law enforcement was able to identify 10,000 people trying to enter the country on invalid or fraudulent passports after screening INTERPOL\u2019s databases 180 million times. The screening of these passports occurred in compliance with US law.\nINTERPOL\u2019s US National Central Bureau located in Washington, D.C. is staffed 100 per cent by American law enforcement officers. All are subject to and obliged to comply with US law, which prevents them from arresting US citizens or seizing their property based on any INTERPOL-issued documents.\nIn 2009, President Barack Obama reinforced immunities granted to INTERPOL by President Reagan and endorsed by President George W. Bush. Currently five staff members from the INTERPOL General Secretariat Headquarters work in the US. All are assigned to represent INTERPOL at the United Nations offices in New York on terrorism and transnational crime matters.\nNone of these INTERPOL staff members, however, exercise any law enforcement powers in the US. None are armed and none are protected by diplomatic immunity under the 2009 Executive Order.\nMalaysia\u2019s Home Minister has confirmed that INTERPOL had no involvement in the arrest of a journalist for a speech-related offense at the request of Saudi Arabia. INTERPOL\u2019s constitution prohibits its involvement in any matter of a political or religious nature such as criminal charges brought for criticizing a Head of State or for blasphemy.\nINTERPOL does not have arrest powers in any of its member countries and has never issued arrest warrants.\nINTERPOL has not authorized the circulation of either Egyptian national arrest warrants or INTERPOL international Red (wanted persons) Notices for Americans recently engaged in political activity in Egypt as falsely reported on inforwars.com and attributed to Senator Rand Paul.\nAs for the old rumours misrepresented as news in this disturbing article, the National Rifle Association (NRA) discredited them in an official statement back in 2010 when it reminded its members that \u2018rumors abound, so don\u2019t believe everything you read.\u2019\nINTERPOL would encourage anyone interested in learning the truth about INTERPOL\u2019s powers in the US to read the NRA\u2019s statement on the issue.\u201d\nThis entry was posted on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 11:05 am and is filed under Interpol Red Notice, Interpol Red Notice Removal Attorneys - McNabb Associates, Red Notice.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 6280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1230829", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BXNIHPDHEXAUDJ2VIQ2CUMZMC6FJ7HCU", "length": 93, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "iowagravestones.org", "title": "O'BYRNE, MICHAEL J. - Chickasaw County, Iowa | MICHAEL J. O'BYRNE - Iowa Gravestone Photos", "raw_content": "MICHAEL J. O'BYRNE\nO'BYRNE, Teresa\nSearching for MICHAEL J. O'BYRNE in Chickasaw County Iowa?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 210.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iprlicense.com/Books/Details/the-difference-of-man-and-the-difference-it-makes-2835047", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XDY4QCG4VBEEFRAFCRV47QY7JESHROQP", "length": 1292, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "iprlicense.com", "title": "The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes", "raw_content": "John K. Stutterheim, Foreword by Mark Parillo\nIn this work, Adler explores how human beings differ from all other things in the universe. He brings to bear both philosophical insight and informed scientific hypotheses concerning the biological and behavioural characteristics of humankind. Rapid advances in science and technology, and the abstract concepts of that influence on man and human value systems, are outlined by Adler, as he touches on the effect of industrialization and the clash of cultures and value systems brought about by increased communication between previously isolated groups of people.;Among the other issues this study addresses are the scientific achievements in biology and physics which have raised fundamental questions about humanity's essential nature, especially the discoveries in the biological relatedness of all living things. Thrown into high relief is humanity's struggle to determine its unique status in the natural world and its value in the world it has created.;Ultimately, Adler's work develops an approach to the separation between scientific and philosophical questions which stands as a model of thought on philosophical consideration of new scientific discoveries and its consequences for the human person.\nResponsibilityedited by James Tatum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://isis.lk/world?start=132", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CKHJNUI6LZHRZTGKK44YB5ZAS5TW2CC7", "length": 19084, "nlines": 124, "source_domain": "isis.lk", "title": "World - Results from #132", "raw_content": "Trump welcomes US detainees freed by North Korea\nUS President Donald Trump has welcomed home three American detainees released by North Korea.\nTrump said it was a \"special night for these really great people\" as they arrived at the Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.\nThe White House said the trio had been freed as a gesture of goodwill ahead of the planned meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\nTrump says the venue for the summit will be announced: \"within three days\".\nThe president said he appreciated that Kim had allowed the men to leave as \"frankly we didn't think that was going to happen before the meeting\". The three men, Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim and Kim Dong-chul, were smiling and waving and appeared in good health.\nThey said little in an impromptu chat before the media with Trump but released an earlier statement saying: \"We would like to express our deep appreciation to the United States government, President Trump, Secretary [of State Mike] Pompeo and the people of the United States for bringing us home.\nFirst female Afghan pilot granted asylum in US\nAfghanistan\u2019s first-ever female airline pilot, who was lauded as a mark of progress in the battle for progress on women\u2019s rights there, has been accepted for asylum in the United States.\nNiloofar Rahmani travelled to the US in 2015 to receive training. She said she and her family were facing threats from the Taliban, the militant group that has waged a decades-long war against the Afghan government.\nThe US paid for her travel and her training. Now, Washington says it remains too dangerous for her to return to her home country.\nShe applied for asylum in 2016, but only received the news on Monday. Her family remain in Afghanistan.\nSource : The National\nMalaysia's ruling coalition chairman Najib accepts general election result\nNajib Razak, chairman of Malaysia's ruling coalition Barisan Nasional and the prime minister since 2009, said Thursday that he accepted the result of the general election, which saw his coalition lose to the opposition led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.\n\"I accept the verdict of the people,\" said Najib, without conceding defeat outright.\nThe opposition Pakatan Harapan and its allies won a simple majority in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday's election, potentially putting an end to BN's rule for more than 60 years.\nHowever, Pakatan Harapan and its allies were not contending under one united banner like BN, so Najib said that since no party won a simple majority, it will be up to the ceremonial Supreme Head of State to make the decision to appoint the new prime minister.\nSource : Xhinua\nPakistan Army aided Nawaz Sharif in rigging the 2013 elections, claims Imran Khan\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has alleged that the military had helped the deposed prime minister rig the 2013 general elections.\nIn an interview with Pakistan\u2019s Geo TV on Thursday, the cricketer-turned-politician alleged that in Punjab, the returning officers (ROs) were not allowed entry into the polling stations during the consolidation of votes, saying that military men had made it possible.\n\u201cBe it the elections of 1990, 1996 or 2013, Nawaz Sharif had always played with his umpires. The military, the judiciary and the masses all had helped him,\u201d Khan claimed.\nCriticising Sharif\u2019s ongoing rants against the security establishment, the PTI chief said: \u201cSharif is not complaining about the military\u2019s dissent, rather he is complaining about the military\u2019s lack of support for him.\u201d\n\u201cNawaz Sharif\u2019s problem lies in the recent neutral stance adopted by the military and the judiciary.\u201d\nResponding to the former prime minister\u2019s recent remarks on freedom of press, the PTI chief claimed that Sharif had vowed to conclude the mission of dictator Gen Ziaul Haq. \u201cNawaz Sharif never believed in freedom of press, not until recently.\u201d\nThe PTI chief parried a question regarding the possibility of Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan joining the PTI. \u201cGiven the current circumstances, timely elections appears to be a distant dream,\u201d he added.\nEarlier this week, Sharif said at a public rally that neither the PTI nor the PPP was his main political opponent, rather his fight is against the \u201cunseen forces\u201d.\nThough Sharif did not mention who these \u201cunseen forces\u201d were, he was believed to be referring to the security establishment.\nSource : The Tribune\nMalaysia heads to polls on election day\nMillions of voters in Malaysia are heading to the polls in an election that will see the country's leader take on his 92-year-old former mentor.\nOpposition leader Mahathir Mohamad will face off against PM Najib Razak's ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.\nSuch an opposition victory would be unprecedented in Malaysia, where BN has ruled for 61 years.\nBut critics have raised concerns the election will not be free and fair.\nIn the last election, in 2013, the opposition made unprecedented gains - winning the popular vote - but failed to win enough seats to form a government.\nThe government has insisted the election will be free and fair, with Mr Najib saying that the EC acted \"for the good of all\".\nVoters will elect 222 members of parliament as well as state assembly members in 12 of the 13 states.\nMalaysia uses a first-past-the-post electoral system, where the party that gets the most seats in parliament wins even if it does not win the popular vote.\nFacebook harvested 3.5 billion Instagram images without warning their owners until today\nSocial media network Facebook has betrayed its users once again, this time by harvesting 3.5 billion Instagram photos for its research.\nFacebook has admitted to stealing billions of Instagram images (Source:AAP)\nEven your selfies and brunch photos aren\u2019t safe from the long arm of Facebook, it was revealed overnight, as the tech giant admitted it had taken billions of photos from Instagram accounts around the world to boost its own research.\nMore than 3.5 billion photographs were harvested from the photo-sharing platform without users\u2019 knowledge, chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer told the audience at the company's annual developers' conference F8, revealing they had been used to enhance the company\u2019s artificial intelligence technology.\nSchroepfer said Facebook had become overwhelmed with so much dangerous material \u201clike offensive content, spam, hate speech, fake accounts, fake news, clickbait and more\u201d, it had become too much for human moderators to regulate.\nInstead, the company was creating an artificially intelligent moderation system, he said, to detect inappropriate images on its website.\nTo speed up its development \u2014 by \u201c100 times\u201d, he said \u2014 Facebook harvested any images shared on Instagram with hashtags, and fed the photographs into its own system over 22 days.\n\u201cWe built some breakthrough technology that takes publicly available, hashtagged images at an unprecedented scale,\u201d Schroepfer told the crowd.\n\u201cWe require new breakthroughs, and we require new technologies to solve problems all of us want to solve.\u201d\nThe images taken from Instagram, which Facebook bought for $US1 billion in 2012, not only included photographs of food, as it showed to the crowd, but more personal images such as family portraits.\nNeither Instagram nor Facebook users were warned of the practice before the company mined their photos.\nFacebook artificial intelligence and machine-learning director Srinivas Narayanan called its new approach \u201cincredibly cool\u201d, and revealed using people\u2019s personal images delivered Facebook an advantage over fierce rival Google, with a 13.6 per cent improvement in recognising images.\nFacebook yesterday revealed plans for a dating service at its F8 conference in San Jose. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP\nNarayanan said Facebook technology could now recognise the content of images with 85.4 per cent accuracy, compared to Google\u2019s 79.2 per cent.\nBut he said it was still not good enough to recognise all \u201cclickbait, engagement-bait, pornography, violence, and other inappropriate content\u201d that flooded the social network.\n\u201cSome content is still more difficult for AI to understand,\u201d Narayanan said.\n\u201cFor example, it\u2019s helping to detect hate speech but humans need to review it to understand the intent, the subtleties of language, and context.\u201d\nFacebook\u2019s unexpected Instagram photo raid comes just weeks after the company\u2019s biggest data scandal in its history, when it was revealed the social network shared the private details of 87 million users with a researcher, who sold them to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.\nThe firm, which allegedly used the personal information to influence the 2016 US election, revealed it was shutting down today after it \u201cdetermined that is no longer viable to continue operating as a business\u201d in the wake of the scandal.\nIn a statement, the company said it had \u201cbeen vilified for activities that are not only legal but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising\u201d, but would continue to co-operate with investigators looking into its operations.\nBusiness Tycoon Vijay Mallya Loses Case, Banks Can Sell His UK Assets To Recover Dues\nTycoon Vijay Mallya lost a U.K. lawsuit filed by Indian banks seeking to collect more than 1.15 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) amid allegations that he committed massive fraud.\nJudge Andrew Henshaw in London on Tuesday said the lenders, including IDBI Bank Ltd., can enforce an Indian court ruling that relates to allegations that Mallya willfully defaulted on about $1.4 billion in debt for his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. Henshaw also refused to overturn a worldwide order freezing Mallya's assets.\nThe 62-year-old is fighting numerous lawsuits in the U.K. and his native country over fraud and money-laundering allegations. He was arrested in London more than a year ago and is waging another fight to block extradition in a different court about three miles across town.\nLawyers for Mallya declined to comment after the hearing. Henshaw refused permission to appeal Tuesday's ruling, meaning his attorneys will have to directly petition the Court of Appeal.\nAttorneys at law firm TLT in London, who are representing the lenders said the ruling will allow them to enforce the underlying judgment by the Indian debt recovery tribunal immediately.\nThe asset freeze order had forced Mallya to live on 5,000 pounds a week, but his allowance was increased to roughly 20,000 pounds a week earlier this year, lawyers for the lenders said after the hearing.\nMallya was arrested in London April 18 on a warrant issued by Indian authorities accusing him of conspiring to defraud India's IDBI Bank through a 91 billion-rupee ($1.4 billion) loan to Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. -- a premium airline he founded in 2005 and shut down seven years later.\nMallya left India in 2016, saying he was moving to England to be closer to his children. He has refused to return to India and said he fears an unfair trial amid the \"media frenzy and hysteria\" over unpaid dues. Mallya has also said government agencies are pursuing a \"heavily biased investigation\" and holding him guilty without trial.\nCambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down.\nThe firm was accused of improperly obtaining personal information on behalf of political clients.\nAccording to Facebook, data about up to 87 million of its members was harvested by a quiz app and then passed on to the political consultancy.\nThe social network said its own probe into the matter would continue.\n\"This doesn't change our commitment and determination to understand exactly what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again,\" said a spokesman.\n\"We are continuing with our investigation in cooperation with the relevant authorities.\"\n1,000 Boko Haram Hostages Rescued by Nigerian Military\nNigeria\u2019s military says it has rescued more than 1,000 people held captive in northeastern Nigeria by the jihadist group Boko Haram.\nBrig Gen Texas Chukwu said Monday the hostages were rescued from four villages in the Bama area of Borno State.\nHe did not say when the rescues took place but said the military and the Multinational Joint Task Force helped with the release of mostly women and children. He said some men who had been forced to become Boko Haram fighters were among those rescued.\nBoko Haram is responsible for thousands of abductions, especially of young girls and women, during its nine-year insurgency in Nigeria and surrounding countries.\nNigeria\u2019s army has staged rescues before, but many victims, including some girls abducted from Chibok in 2014, remain missing.\nSingapore airport may use facial recognition systems to find late passengers\nEver been delayed on a flight because of straggling fellow passengers?\nA passenger passes through an automated immigration control gate at Changi airport's Terminal 4 in Singapore April 30, 2018. Picture taken April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White.\nThat might be an annoyance of the past at Singapore\u2019s Changi airport which is testing facial recognition systems that could, in future, help locate lost travelers or those spending a little too much time in the duty-free shops.\nChangi Airport, ranked the world\u2019s best for six years straight in a survey by air travel consultancy Skytrax, is looking at how it can use the latest technologies to solve many problems - from cutting taxiing times on the runway to quicker predictions of flight arrivals.\nIt comes as the island state embarks on a \u2018smart nation\u2019 initiative to utilize technology to improve lives, create economic opportunity and build community ties. However the proposed use of cameras mounted on lampposts that are linked to facial recognition software has raised privacy concerns.\nSteve Lee, Changi Airport Group\u2019s chief information officer, told Reuters that the airport\u2019s experiments are not from a \u201cbig brother\u201d perspective but solve real problems.\n\u201cWe have lots of reports of lost passengers...so one possible use case we can think of is, we need to detect and find people who are on the flight. Of course, with permission from the airlines,\u201d said Lee.\nA passenger has his photograph taken by an automated luggage drop station at Changi airport's Terminal 4 in Singapore April 30, 2018. Picture taken April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White.\nFacial recognition technology typically allows users to match the faces of people picked up on cameras with those in databases.\nLee said they have tested technology that could allow for this, and are working with various businesses, adding that they should have some capability to do this in a year\u2019s time.\nWhile he declined to provide names of the firms involved, France\u2019s Idemia, previously known as OT-Morpho, has previously provided some facial recognition technology to Changi.\nChinese firm Yitu, which recently opened its first international office in Singapore, told Reuters it was in discussions with Changi Airport Group. Yitu says its facial recognition platform is capable of identifying more than 1.8 billion faces in less than 3 seconds.\nPASSPORT FREEChangi\u2019s newest terminal, T4, already uses facial recognition technology to offer self-service options at check-in, bag drop, immigration and boarding.\nThe technology means there are fewer queues and fewer visible airport or security staff.\nLuggage is dropped at unmanned booths that take your photo and match it against your passport. You are snapped again at an automated security gate at immigration - a picture that is used to verify your identity at the boarding gate.\nChangi is exploring how facial recognition can be implemented in its three older terminals for automated bag drop and immigration.\nThe airport sees T4 as a test bed for its fifth terminal, which will be up and running in about a decade.\n\u201cToday you take passport, you show your face and you show your boarding pass,\u201d said Lee, adding it may, however, be possible to use biometrics instead.\n\u201cThen actually in future, you just take your face. You don\u2019t need your passport,\u201d he said.\nOther technology trials underway at the airport use sensors to measure when an aircraft pushes back from the gate and when it takes off, data that has improved decision-making and shaved about 90 seconds off of aircraft taxiing time per flight during peak hours, said Lee.\nAnother program uses artificial intelligence that gathers wind, weather and landing direction to learn to better predict flight arrival times.\nWith such technology, the airport is now able to estimate a flight\u2019s landing time when it\u2019s two hours away having previously only been able to make an accurate estimate 30 minutes to an hour ahead.\nLee said this helps create efficiencies in everything from gate planning to arrival queues.\nHe said a smart nation strategy begins at a country\u2019s airport. \u201cYou can\u2019t say you are a smart nation when you come to the airport and it\u2019s not so smart.\u201d\nPutin set to be inaugurated for fourth term as president of Russia\nVladimir Putin is due to be sworn in for a fourth term as president of Russia on Monday after winning the election in March.\nHe has been in power for 18 years, whether as president or prime minister, and opponents have likened his tenure to the reign of a tsar, or emperor.\nRiot police confronted protesters against his rule in Moscow and other Russian cities on Saturday. There have been fears of new unrest on Monday as he takes office.\nThe inauguration at the Kremlin in Moscow is likely to be lower-key than in 2012, AFP news agency reports.\nBBC reporter killed in Afghanistan attack\nA BBC reporter has been killed in an attack in the eastern Afghan province of Khost. Ahmad Shah, 29, had been working for the BBC Afghan service for more than a year.\nIn a statement, BBC World Service Director Jamie Angus said Shah was a \"respected and popular\" journalist.\n\"This is a devastating loss and I send my sincere condolences to Ahmad Shah's friends and family and the whole BBC News Afghan team,\" he said.\n\"We are doing all we can to support his family at this very difficult time.\"\nKhost police chief Abdul Hanan told BBC Afghan that Shah had been shot by unidentified armed men. He said police were investigating the motive.\nLocals told the BBC that Shah had been on his bicycle when the attack happened. He was taken by locals to hospital, where he died of his injuries.\nMonday saw at least two other deadly attacks in Afghanistan.\nAt least 25 people were killed in two bombings in the capital, Kabul, including eight journalists and four police officers, interior minister spokesperson Najib Danish told the BBC. Some 45 people were reported injured in the attacks.\nA suicide bomb attack in the Kandahar region killed 11 schoolchildren and injured many more.\nLast year, Afghanistan was ranked the third most dangerous country in the world for journalists by Reporters without Borders. It said nine journalists had been killed in three separate attacks.\nIn June, BBC driver Mohammed Nazir was killed in a bomb attack in Kabul's central secure zone.\nSome 400 people were injured by the blast and more than 150 people were killed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 23381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ism.yale.edu/academic-life/study-tours/2010-germany/benjamin-straley-mm-organ", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:FYZYOBSUYCOVJ3OW2CBFU3ICHMPXLWLR", "length": 8826, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ism.yale.edu", "title": "Benjamin Straley (M.M. organ) | Institute of Sacred Music", "raw_content": "Home > Academics > Study Tours > 2010: Germany > Benjamin Straley\nBenjamin Straley (M.M. organ)\n\u201cIn the Beauty of Holiness\u201d: Earthly Terror and Heavenly Music\nAfter the hectic final home-stretch of the spring semester, every last hour spent studying for finals and writing term papers, the ISM study trip to Germany was a much-needed change of pace and scenery (although, looking back, I am not sure the pace was a slow one). Over the course of two weeks, we managed to traverse from Hamburg down to Munich, stopping in Weimar, Leipzig and other points of interest as we made our way to our final destination of Berlin. We saw spectacular art, architecture, and natural beauty, while at times we were confronted with the uncomfortable realities of a not-so-distant past. It was this that I wrestled with the most as the trip went on. But first, I would like to highlight the first part of my trip: an excursion to Hamburg with the organists, prior to the main study tour itinerary.\nThe organists, led by Martin Jean, spent three days in Hamburg and the surrounding area playing historical instruments of the North German school. Our first destination after checking into the hotel was St. Jacobi, where we had the privilege of playing the renowned pipe organ built by Arp Schnitger in 1693 (with some pipework dating back even further). The organ is one of the largest examples of Northern European organ building in the Baroque period, consisting of sixty stops and roughly 4,000 pipes. I simply could not believe the incredible beauty of the sound produced. Though the grandeur of the full organ was impressive and awe-inspiring, with its 32-foot reed in the pedal division, the most arresting and charming sounds came from drawing one or two stops. Following this, we were guided through a collection of valuable and rare musical instruments in the Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Gewerbe by the collection\u2019s owner, Dr. Andreas Beurmann. The collection consists of harpsichords, spinets, virginals and clavichords from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as well as hammerklaviere, square pianos and other forms of piano from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Though nearly falling over from sheer exhaustion and jet-lag, we were filled with childlike delight as we went around playing the collection\u2019s instruments, almost all of which are in perfect working order.\nOur stay in the Hamburg region gave us the opportunity to play several historic instruments, including the Hu\u00df-Schnitger organ (1675) at St. Cosmae and the Erasmus Bielfeldt organ (1731), both in Stade; a Stellwagen at St. Jacobi in L\u00fcbeck with pipework dating to 1467; and a Romantic-era Furtw\u00e4ngler (1859) at St. Petri in Buxtehude. At St. Petri, the six organ students present gave a 30-minute recital to a crowd of about 35 people who received us with warm and hearty applause at the conclusion of the concert. I could go on and on about the beauty of each of these instruments, but one moment that stands out in my mind was at the Jacobikirche in L\u00fcbeck. When we first heard the sound of the sixteen- and eight-foot principals of the organ\u2019s main division, Martin Jean remarked that they had the quality and timbre of sackbuts (the predecessor of the modern trombone). At that moment I wondered how people had gotten it so wrong in the 1950s and 60s: at that time, beautiful pipe organs from the turn of the century were ripped out and replaced with ones which were supposedly modeled on principles of North German organ building, but often characterized by weaker foundation tone and bright, often-times shrill mixtures. The tone quality of the aforementioned principal stops was incredibly full and vocal, and the warmth of their sound was enough to make me forget about the chill of the unheated church building.\nAs an organist, I feel so lucky to have been able to play such instruments. No secondhand knowledge can ever take the place of firsthand experience with such instruments, and the insight that experience gives us as performers of music from this era. The organs we have at Yale in Dwight Chapel and Marquand Chapel give us a good idea of the instruments they are modeled on, but they do not replace experiencing the real thing.\nAfter several days in Munich, where we met the rest of our group, we headed towards Weimar, stopping at Vierzehnheiligen along the way to attend mass for Ascension Day. The Rococo basilica was built between 1743 and 1772 to honor the Fourteen Holy Helpers, a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism. This tradition began in the Rhineland in the fourteenth century, when their intercession was frequently invoked as protection against the Black Death. From its beginnings in 1448, Vierzehnheiligen was a pilgrimage site, and remains so to the present day. The organist who accompanied the service was a skilled improviser, and the music added a thrilling dimension to the drama of the liturgy, with many musical allusions to the image of God going up \u201cwith a triumphant shout\u201d (Psalm 47:5). To be able to attend Mass in such a beautiful space, charged with the emotional fingerprints of countless generations of pilgrims, created a memory I will cherish for years to come.\nIt was the experience of encountering this exceeding beauty, whether it was the craftsmanship of exquisite pipe organs, the lavish church architecture, or the incredible museums and former palaces of the Bavarian nobility, that made the experience of extreme ugliness at one of our stops so difficult to understand.\nOn our last day in Weimar, we went to the site of the former concentration camp of Buchenwald, now a memorial to the victims who perished there. As we went through the remnants of cells, barracks, execution chambers, and the crematorium, the horror of the Holocaust became overwhelmingly real in a way that I hadn\u2019t been prepared for. One of the things I noticed as we went through the gates of the camp was the incredible view of the valley below, with its endless fields of yellow rapeseed flower. It seemed surreal \u2013 almost a cruel mockery \u2013 that as prisoners entered the gates, they would have seen a similar glimpse of beauty, all the while trapped in a hellish existence from which there was no escape.\nIn the days leading up to the trip, my time had been consumed by writing term papers, the final one of which had been on Julian of Norwich and her Revelations on Divine Love. I had discussed and analyzed her theology of a loving God and all its implications \u2013 a God whom we should not wonder at for allowing sin since he does not wonder at us for sinning \u2013 a God who turns every person\u2019s sin into a greater glory. What did I know about God? How could I imagine a loving God standing in this very place? How did Paul Schneider, the martyred Lutheran pastor, continue to preach the Good News from his confinement cell after months of torture? All of a sudden, my paper seemed like twenty pages of nothing.\nThere can be no why to all the questions we may have about such things \u2013 no answer would ever suffice. The impact of walking through Buchenwald has made a lasting impression and troubled me deeply for days afterward, as I kept wrestling with this paradoxical idea that the beauty of Weimar and the surrounding countryside could have co-existed with the ugliness of the concentration camp. Yet paradox is at the heart of the Christian faith, and a few weeks after the trip, thinking back on the beauty of Vierzehnheiligen, the Abbey at F\u00fcrstenfeld, and other sites we visited, I realized the enormous role that an artist, especially a church musician, plays in this world, creating moments of beauty through music in the liturgy. \u201cWorship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,\u201d the psalmist implores us (Ps. 96:9). In doing our part in Eucharistic worship, where a space between heaven and earth is created, we enable people to worship God in the holiness of beauty. And it is through the encounter of such beauty that we are healed and able to face the ugliness that the world sometimes creates. Surely this must have been one of the aims of the architects and artisans who built and decorated the Baroque and Rococo churches we visited \u2013 to create a space which blurred the lines between heaven and earth, and suspended earthly realities, giving a foretaste of the heavenly glory which awaits. My experience at Vierzehnheiligen gave me that, and if I can do the same thing for even one person in every service of worship, then I\u2019ve done my job.\nAs people interested in where our particular craft or skill intersects the sacred, we at the ISM all play this role \u2013 creating the spaces where people can experience that intersection of the divine with the earthly, and in so doing, nourishing and strengthening their hearts and minds to better face the challenges the world inevitably presents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 9846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jamspace.com/wiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:33Z", "digest": "sha1:P6R3WYEJQ5BRVBDSESJVVGIEQ7AIARUZ", "length": 73, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jamspace.com", "title": "Special pages - JamSpace Wiki", "raw_content": "Retrieved from \"https://jamspace.com/wiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 1873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jcarey.cbwm.com/real-estate/area/lenox-twp-(50004)", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7NIBDHRIMIZCSZFY3HC374PKKNGMJDPO", "length": 382, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jcarey.cbwm.com", "title": "Jan Carey - Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel Real Estate Listings By Area", "raw_content": "Lenox Twp (50004) Real Estate Listings\nThe Lenox Twp (50004) Real Estate market currently has 45 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $0K - $100K. With the median list price for the Lenox Twp (50004) area being $173,950 and the median price per square foot of $70 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\nfor Lenox Twp (50004) Real Estate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2012/11/15/the-myth-of-the-fake-geek-girl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NWIQZP7VPOUUKNOG7W474DITGBDHGMAB", "length": 1090, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "jerz.setonhill.edu", "title": "The Myth of the Fake Geek Girl | Jerz's Literacy Weblog", "raw_content": "The Myth of the Fake Geek Girl\nIt\u2019s not surprising, then, that being a woman in geek culture was for a long time a profoundly gender-deviant act. \u201cGirl\u201d and \u201cgeek\u201d were a zero-sum dichotomy: to claim space in one, you had to relinquish equivalent claim to the other. Recently, though, there\u2019s been a dramatic change: a sudden surge not only in the visibility of women in geek culture, but of the visibility and popularity of more traditionally feminine avenues of engagement with that culture\u2014stuff like cosplay and crafting, both overwhelmingly female-dominated areas. At the same time, women are finding ways to reconcile geekery with femininity, which means that geek identity is no longer unimpeachably male. For the first time, there are visible swathes of geek culture that aren\u2019t only female-majority, but unabashedly girly\u2014in a culture where feminization is very directly equated to deprecation of value. \u2014i09.\n15 Nov 2012 in Culture, Cyberculture, Media, Rhetoric, Sociology, Technology.\n\u2190 What Do People Do on Mobile Devices? (Infographic)\nAt Age 11, I Named the Curiosity Rover \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jmilleryoung.com/cv/presentations-and-workshops/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OLCK3D34RS7YSU27NHAWIUHHCPWOYFRE", "length": 19020, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "jmilleryoung.com", "title": "Presentations and Workshops \u2013 Janice Miller-Young", "raw_content": "My current research interests focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), specifically, the development of SoTL as a practice, and helping students increase their learning by making certain concepts and thinking processes more explicit and narrowing the gap between novice and expert thinking (also see my Publications page).\nI have given presentations and workshops on topics listed below, always tailoring them to audience interests and needs. Contact me to arrange a visit.\nDecoding the Gaps in Teaching and Research. (2017, November). Keynote address at forum hosted by Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen.\nMiller-Young, J. (2018, October). Keeping Moving in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited (follow up) workshop at Zentrum f\u00fcr Hochschuldidaktik, Ingolstadt, Germany.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited workshop at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Crossing Borders \u2013 How multidisciplinary communities of practice can expand creativity and engagement in teaching and research. Invited workshop at Hochschule f\u00fcr Angewandte Wissenschaften (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences).\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Introduction to Decoding. Invited workshops at Technische Universit\u00e4t Hamburg-Harburg.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited workshop at Zentrum f\u00fcr Hochschuldidaktik, Ingolstadt, Germany.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Introduction to Decoding Disciplines. Invited workshop at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Freising, Germany.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, November). Decoding Higher Education Didactics. Invited workshop at Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, September). Moving from Data to Evidence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited talk at MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, May). Decoding bottlenecks on the way to information literacy. Invited half-day workshop at Workshop for Instruction in Library Use, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, February). Interdisciplinarity in Teaching and Learning: the bridges, the barriers, and the benefits. Invited presentation at Interdisciplinary Conference, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, January). Lenses on Learning: Asking Questions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited workshop at MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, January). Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Invited talk at MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2016, July). New Frontiers in STEM Higher Education \u2013 What you should know and how to make a difference. Invited talk at the Women in Physics Canada Conference, Saskatoon, SK.\nMiller-Young, J. (2016, July). Active Learning in STEM Higher Education: research vs. experience. Invited talk at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.\nMiller-Young, J. (2015, May). Inciting and Igniting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Half-day workshop presented at Medicine Hat College, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. (2015, April). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Minding the Gap.Presented at the BBA Summit, Mount Royal University.\nSimmons, N., Poole, G., & Miller-Young, J. (2014, June). SoTL in Canada: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kingston, ON (CJSoTL panel presentation).\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2014, May). The SoTL Spectrum \u2013 Examples, experiences and insights from Mount Royal University. SAIT Polytechnic Showcase (podium presentation).\nMcGinn, M., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., Pritchard, I. (2013, April). Ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards National Conference. Calgary, Alberta (panel presentation).\nYeo, M., Miller-\u00adYoung, J. (2011, 2013, November). Ethical Considerations for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. MRU Centennial Symposium, Banff, AB.\nRefereed Conference Workshops\nMiller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Kenny, N. (2018, Oct). Towards Interdisciplinarity in SoTL: Don\u2019t Check your Discipline at the Door! Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bergen, Norway.\nSinclair, M., Miller-Young, J., & Forgie, S. (2018, Oct). Teaching Awards Across Canada \u2013 what\u2019s happening? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bergen, Norway.\nNewton, G., Ostrowski, C., Sanago, M., & Miller-Young, J. (2018, October). Understanding and Fostering SoTL Cultures across a Nation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bergen, Norway.\nPace, D. & Miller-Young, J. (2017, June). Generating SoTL Communities through Decoding the Disciplines. Half-day pre-conference workshop presented at EuroSoTL, Lund, Sweden.\nKiceniuk, D., Miller-Young, J., Anderson, C., Mooney, J., Riddell, J., Schmidt Hanbridge, A. (2017, Feb). Leading up in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Educational Developer\u2019s Caucus, Guelph, ON.\nChen, V., Kiceniuk, D., Miller-Young, J., & Newton, G. (2016, June). Effecting change through SoTL mentorship: a collaborative opportunity. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London, ON.\nMeadows, K., Miller-Young, J., & Roderick, C. (2016, June). Supporting your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Writing. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London, ON.\nClayton, P., Miller-Young, J., & Felten, P. (2016, May). Revisioning SoTL for Service-Learning and Community Engagement. Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning Conference, Calgary, AB.\nMiller-Young, J. & Yeo, M. (2014, November). Getting Started in SoTL. Half-day workshop presented at the annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, AB.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J., Manarin, K., & Bennett, D. (2014, June). Transforming our Learning Experiences through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Full-day pre-conference workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kingston, ON.\nRefereed Conference Papers and Presentations\nCappello, A. & Miller-Young, J. (2018, June). Exploring Practices and Perspectives about Teaching and SoTL at a Research Intensive Institution. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Sherbrooke, QC.\nSinclair, M., Miller-Young, J., & Forgie, S. (2018, October). Teaching Awards across Canada: What\u2019s Happening? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bergen, Norway.\nSimmons, S., Gill, A., Groen, J., Miller-Young, J., & Verwoord, R. (2017, June). Building Capacity through Collaboration: SoTL Canada\u2019s Collaborative Writing Groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Halifax, NS.\nMiller-Young, J. (2017, March). Using a \u2018Decoding\u2019 Looking Glass to Generate Reflection, Community, and Scholarship about Teaching and Learning. Paper presented at the annual Olive Yonge Teaching and Learning Scholarship Day, Edmonton, AB.\nMiller-Young, J., & Boman, J. (2016, Nov). Learning from decoding across disciplines and within communities of practice. Paper presented at the 7th annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, AB.\nDean, Y., Gleeson, J., Lexier, R., Miller-Young, J., Rathburn, M., Underwood, M., Pettit, J., Calvert, V., & Clayton, P. (2015, Nov). Moving towards GSL Reciprocity through Faculty Self-Study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, New Orleans, LA.\nUnderwood, M., Pettit, J., Rathburn, M., Miller-Young, J., Lexier, R., Gleeson, J., Dean, Y., Calvert, V., & Clayton, P. (2015, Nov). Learning from faculty self-study: A case study from global service-learning. Paper presented at the 6th annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, AB.\nBoman, J., Currie, G., Miller-Young, J., MacDonald, R., Yeo, M., & Zettel, S. (2015, October). Communities of Decoding: Using the Decoding the Disciplines paradigm to create faculty learning communities on three continents. Panel presentation chaired by David Pace at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, AU.\nMiller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Manarin, K. (2015, October). Boundary Crossing and Troublesomeness: Experiences of Scholars in a SoTL Development Program. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, AU.\nYeo, M., Manarin, K., & Miller-Young, J. (2015, October). Phenomenology of surprise in a SoTL scholars program. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, AU.\nAmundsen, C., Kenny, N., Marquis, B., Miller-Young, J., Poole, G., Simmons, N., Timmermans, J., Verwoord, R., Watson, G., Cindy Xin, & Yeo, M. (2015, June). Creating SoTL Concertos for Institutional Impact. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vancouver, BC.\nBoman, J., Currie, G., MacDonald, R., Miller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Zettel, S. (2015, June). Tuning in on tacit knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vancouver, BC.\nMiller-Young, J., Marquis, B., Murray, S. & Belisle, M. (2015, June). Writing and publishing your scholarship of teaching and learning. CJSoTL session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vancouver, BC.\nWuetherick, B., Ellis, D., Miller-Young, J., & Wolf, P. (2015, June). Change in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Ottawa, ON.\nMiller-Young, J., Yeo, M., Manarin, K., & Carey, M. (2015, January). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Impact on Faculty at a Canadian University. Paper presented at the annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.\nMiller-Young, J., & Yeo, M. (2015, November). Conceptualizing SoTL: A Framework for the Field. Paper presented at the annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, Alberta.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J., Carey, M., Manarin, K, & Yeo, M. (2014, November). Levels of Impact: Inquiring into the Impact of SoTL Inquiry. Paper presented at the annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, AB.\nBoman, J., Currie, G., MacDonald, R., Miller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Zettel, S. (2014, October). Decoding the Disciplines Across the Globe: Adapting a SoTL Paradigm to Different Institutional Cultures, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Laval University (panel presentation with Gallaudet University and Bielefeld University, chaired by David Pace).\nLinkon, S., MacMillan, M., Miller-Young, J., Moore, J. (2014, October). Crossing thresholds across the curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Quebec, QU.\nCalvert, V., McKenzie-Robblee, S., Miller-Young, J., & Rosse, S. (2014, October). Alberta CSL panel: Where do you see CSL going in your institution given opportunities and constraints posed by changes in higher education and society? Community Service-Learning and Change, a preconference workshop for the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, AB.\nDean, Y., Calvert, V., Gleeson, J., Lexier, R., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., Rathburn, M., Underwood, M., & Clayton, P. (2014, September). Decoding ourselves: Faculty thinking about reciprocity in global service learning courses. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, New Orleans, LA.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J., Carey, M., Manarin, K, & Yeo, M. (2014, June). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Canada: Institutional Impact. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, St. Catharines, ON.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J., Carey, M., Manarin, K., & Yeo, M. (2014, June). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Transforming Institutions Coast to Coast. Panel presentation (with UBC, McMaster, and UNB) at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kingston, ON.\nCalvert, V., & Miller-\u00adYoung, J. (2014, May). The MRU Approach to CSL. Paper presented at the Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning Conference, Ottawa, ON.\nKelly, N., Harris, R., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., Higgs, B., & Poole, G. (2013, October). Transitioning into SoTL: Decoding SoTL and Identifying Threshold Concepts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Raleigh, NC.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2013, June). Using Peer Instruction pedagogy for teaching Dynamics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, Montreal, QU.\nMaw, S., Miller-Young, J., & Morris, A. (2012, June). First year engineering computing courses in Canadian engineering programs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, Montr\u00e9al, QU.\nKelly, N., Nesbit, S., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., & Higgs, B. (2012, October). STEM Scholars Transitioning to SoTL: Bumps, Barriers and Bridges along the Road. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Hamilton, ON.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E. (2012, June). Cultivating Deep Learning Strategies in a Peer Instruction Engineering Physics Class. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference, Montreal, QU.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2011, June). CSI (Crash Scene Investigation) Project: Integrating Writing and Disciplinary Thinking in an Engineering Dynamics Class. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, St John\u2019s, NL.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2010, November). Calculations and expectations: Using the think-\u00adaloud protocol to reveal student understanding in a first-\u00adyear engineering course. Paper presented at the Centennial Symposium on SoTL, Banff, AB.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2010, June). How engineering students describe three-\u00addimensional forces. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, Kingston, ON.\nBennett, D., Boggs, K., Carey, M., Gale, R., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., & Smistad, R. (2009, October). Building a Teaching and Learning Scholars Program for Individual Inquiry and Institutional Impact. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, Indiana (abstract and panel presentation).\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J., & Maw, S. (2007, June). Engineering Design and Communications: Successes and failures of an evolving first-\u00adyear course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J. (2005, May). CSI (Crash Scene Investigation): An inquiry-\u00adbased learning project for engineers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Alberta Colleges Institutes Faculties Association, Canmore, Alberta.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E., Warrington, R., Patterson, D., & Jefferies, C. (20015, June). LEGO Builds Bridge for Communication and Teamwork. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Eugene, OR.\nWaters, M., Spears, I.R., Miller-\u00adYoung, J., & Rome, K. (2004, December). Development and validation of a 3-\u00adDimensional model of the human heel-\u00adpad. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems and Design, Manchester, UK.\nWaters, M. Spears, I.R. Rome, K., & Miller-\u00adYoung, J. (2004, April). The effect of heel-\u00adground angle at impact on stresses within the heel-\u00adpad: Can plantar heel pain be attributed to running technique?Paper presented at the Staffordshire Conference on Clinical Biomechanics, Stoke on Trent, UK.\nWaters, M. Spears, I.R. Rome, K., & Miller-\u00adYoung, J. (2004, July). The effect of heel-\u00adground angle at impact on stresses within the heel-\u00adpad: Can plantar heel pain be attributed to running technique? Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Madrid, Spain.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E., Duncan, N.A., & Nigg, B.M. (2002, August). Material properties of the human calcaneal fat pad: validation experiments. Paper presented at the World Congress on Biomechanics, Calgary, CA.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E., & Duncan, N.A. (2001, July). A nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive model of the human calcaneal fat pad. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Milan, IT (resulted in Young Investigator Award).\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E., & Duncan, N.A. (2001, July). Viscoelastic material behaviour of the human calcaneal fat pad. Paper presented at the International Society of Biomechanics Congress, Zurich, CH.\nMiller-\u00adYoung, J.E. (2000, October). Viscoelastic material properties of the human calcaneal fat pad: experiment and theory. Paper presented at the Alberta Conference for Biomedical Engineering, Banff, AB.\nBaroud, G., Goerke, U.-\u00adJ., Guenther, J., Stefanyshyn, D., Miller, J.E., & Nigg, B.M. (1999, August). A non-linear hyperelastic finite element model of energy return enhancement in sport surfaces and shoes. Paper presented at the 4th ISB Symposium on Footwear Biomechanics, Canmore, AB.\nMiller, J.E., Cole, G.K., Wright, I.C., & Nigg, B.M. (1999, August). Effect of scaling a movement simulation model to subject-\u00ad\u2010specific measurements. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Calgary, AB.\nMiller, J.E., Nigg, B.M., & Stefanyshyn, D.J. (1999, August). Arch stiffness and torsion of the foot in barefoot locomotion. Paper presented at the International Society of Biomechanics Congress, Calgary, AB.\nMiller, J.E., Nigg, B.M., & Stefanyshyn, D.J. (1998, August). In/eversion measurement differences using different markers on the shoe and foot. Paper presented at the North American Congress on Biomechanics, Waterloo, ON.\nNurse, M.A., Nigg, B.M., Stefanyshyn, D.J., Liu, W., & Miller, J.E. (1998, August). Differences in the sensation of the plantar surface of the human foot. 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Robert Jay erz\u00e4hlt im Gespr\u00e4ch, was gerade dort passiert und welche Ziele der Protest hat. Das Interview ist in englischer Sprache verfasst.\nAs a reaction to the brutal new immigration policies of the Trump administration, more than a dozen protesters have set up camp outside of the field office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Detroit, in the US state of Michigan.\nJay, when did \u201cOccupy ICE\u201d start in Detroit?\nICE has been something that many people have been railing against in activist circles. Even before Trump, during the Bush and Obama administrations. There has always been a level of resentment against an organization that seems to do all it can to persecute people seeking asylum or just looking for a better life in America. But it really came to a head, when we learned about the full extent of Trump's family separation policy. We were involved in the national Families Belong Together Movement, which kicked of June 14 and which will be continuing again June 30 in local communities as well as an action in Washington D.C. on the June 28. The Occupy ICE movement was inspired specifically by what happened in Portland that forced ICE to temporarily shut down its office there. As of Saturday, Occupy protests were also being held in New York, L.A., and Washington state. As organizers, we feel this is the exact moment for direct action, where we attempt to blockade and prevent any kind of genocidal actions from occurring in ICE field offices \u2013 and hopefully soon against detention centers, too. The place that we are trying to block off and prevent access to is the Detroit ICE Field Office, which is actually one of the places where the fate of immigrants is decided. Many people will come in for an appointment check in and they won't check out. They will be taken away. It will be the last time that they will put foot on American soil.\nWhat difference do you see between US immigration under Trump and under Obama?\nWhen comparing the activities of ICE and Border Patrol under Obama and under Trump, there is a certain revelry they take in cruelty. Now there was cruelty perpetrated under Obama, but under the Trump regime, instead of just holding unaccompanied children in detention centers, you would have a zero tolerance policy of families coming together being forcefully separated at the border. When there is detention facility for babies then there is something wrong with your country.\n\u00bbwe want some sort of reparations paid to them for suffering a human rights atrocity. Something like full citizenship, something that shows that this country recognizes what a horrific misdeed was done to these people.\u00ab\nJust what is the role of the field office in Detroit and how does it act towards local communities in the city?\nDetroit is classified as a sanctuary city, which makes it Mayor Mike Duggan\u2019s constitutional duty to refuse to cooperate and to refuse to take direction from ICE. We are supposed to be a city that is friendly trying to come to this country. Currently our mayor, and also representatives in the state of Michigan are going right along with this very blatant racial policy being carried out by branches of our government.\nIs the Detroit field office for all of the state of Michigan?\nThat is the nerve center for all ICE operations in Michigan. The ICE regional director works there along with a number of special agents and support staff.\nDoes ICE particularly target Detroit for being a sanctuary city?\nTrump, his cronies, ICE, and Border Patrol have nothing but contempt for sanctuary city status. They are a federal entity, which gives them the ability to trump local entities like the Detroit police department. However with the status as sanctuary city, which is one of those checks against federal power, it allows local municipalities to refuse to have these kinds of actions where you are separating children from their families. Your locking them in dog kennels, you are feeding them substandard food. There may be physical or psychological torture. It is not something you would consider any moral, ethical or reasonable society to tolerate. For some reason Mike Duggan doesn\u2019t seem to think that's important.\nSo what kind of direct action have you been doing?\nThe location that we are protesting is on Jefferson Avenue and Mt. Elliot Street on the East Side of Detroit. We made our first attempt at a blockade Monday morning. Intelligence has given us reports that ICE officers are on sort of a flexible schedule where they can come in and leave at their leisure. We found that the earliest time people would come in was roughly 5 a.m. We knew we had an early start ahead of us.\nWe blockaded each of the gates that ICE personnel and vehicles could go to. There are three gates, two on Mt. Elliot, one on Jefferson. We had people there, worked in teams, and had a communications strategy to make sure that we were always on top of their movement. From 5 a.m. to 11 a.m., we successfully blockaded any ICE agent from entering the building. We also noticed that we were shutting down immigration check-ins where people can be deported immediately. Because of our actions they had to cancel all those appointments. We were speaking with a family, and the mother was in danger of being deported.\nHad she gone into that appointment, it might have been the last time she would have been in the United States with her family. We also found that there was a sheriff's office in a town roughly an hour's drive from Detroit, and this office decided to drive someone all the way down to Detroit to get processed by ICE. Thanks to our efforts at blockading they had to turn around and go back.\nIs your blockade still ongoing?\nUnfortunately after 11 a.m. a Detroit police department captain had ordered the protesters to get rid of their camp and then he brought in dump trucks along side Jefferson so that all of our possessions would be taken and thrown into those dump trucks unless we strike camp and leave, because we were on private property.\nAre you planning on renewing your blockade?\nAbsolutely. There's lots of tactical experience that we've taken out of our first attempt of a blockade. We are going to modify our plan, but this is absolutely not the last day of the movement.\nWhat are your political demands?\nThe short-term goal is to cut of the head of ICE operations in Michigan and remove the agents\u2019 ability to conduct their affairs outside of that building. We want to effectively shut that building down. For six hours today we were very successful, and we hope to continue that throughout the week. But we have more long term goals: The most important one is that we want to make sure that all families that were separated as a result of Trump's policy \u2013 and Trump's executive order still very much separates families \u2013 we want them to be reunited. But more than that we want some sort of reparations paid to them for suffering a human rights atrocity. Something like full citizenship, something that shows that this country recognizes what a horrific misdeed was done to these people. We also want to make sure that there are consequences for horrific actions. Ultimately, ICE must be abolished.\nWhat feedback have you received so far?\nLets just look at the community level, the East Side of Detroit. I cannot say that I have ever felt more welcomed by a community than during our protest. Jefferson is a major road in Detroit with six and sometimes even seven lanes. 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In January and in July was a lunar eclipse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3545, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 136.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keap.com/infusionsoft/business-success-blog/business-management/small-business-owner-profiles-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:48Z", "digest": "sha1:Z55KBUGQK7UDHR7EGL5BCKL4UFR3OQ5C", "length": 11458, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "keap.com", "title": "Small Business Survey Reveals 4 Profiles of Small Business", "raw_content": "Too often, research defines its respondents based on what they look like on paper\u2014age, income, education level, gender\u2014and uses those statistics to imply meaning to their behaviors. But in fact, people can look very similar with regard to demographics, and make their decisions based on dramatically different motivations.\nWhen it comes to small business owners, knowing age, gender and company size can provide some insight, but it doesn\u2019t reveal who they are\u2014why they started their business in the first place, and how they feel about the experience of being an entrepreneur. There\u2019s no insight into what makes them tick. There\u2019s no revelation regarding the pain points they face. Demographic stats are about the who. We wanted to understand the why.\nA Different Approach to Small Business Analysis\nWe believe small business owners are much more than snippets of demographic data, so for the 2015 Infusionsoft by Keap Small Business Market Survey, we challenged that notion. We studied the attitudes of small business owners to gain a deeper understanding of the behaviors, challenges and mindset of the small business market. We surveyed nearly 800 American small businesses, half of which are Infusionsoft by Keap customers and half of which have never used Infusionsoft by Keap.\nThe participants were comprised only of true small businesses: those with 25 or fewer employees. For the project, we partnered with Audience Audit Inc.\u2122, a research firm dedicated to understanding respondent attitudes, to craft a series of questions that would give us a deeper perspective on the modern small business owner and their experience. The results of the analysis were exhilarating; four distinct, robust profiles of small business owners that we defined as:\nPassionate Creators (25 percent)\nFreedom Seekers (23 percent)\nLegacy Builders (28 percent)\nStruggling Survivors (24 percent)\nThe characteristics of the profiles weren\u2019t determined ahead of time; instead, they evolved as a direct result of what our respondents shared with us. Each profile, regardless of their affiliation with Infusionsoft by Keap, was recognizably different from one another. Everyone surveyed was a small business owner, but how they felt about being a business owner was polarized based on their profile.\nPassionate Creators\nThe Passionate Creators started their business out of love for what they do, and believes whole-heartedly that passion is a crucial quality of successful small business owners.\nRunning their business gives them a sense of accomplishment and pride. When asked about their goals as a small business owner, \u201ddoing the work I love\u201d was a top achievement for this group. Forty-eight percent of Passionate Creators stated they had always known they would run their own business. Seventy-three percent of the business owners within this profile identified themselves as \u201centrepreneurs\u201d\u2014 more than any other profile.\nWhen compared to the other profiles, Passionate Creators operate at an arguably more successful level.\nThey own more businesses: 41 percent own two or more businesses\nThey create more jobs: 32 percent employ five or more employees\nThey take their work outside of their home: 43 percent work in an office as opposed to home\nThey stay in business longer: 43 percent have been in business for more than ten years\nThey make more money: 14 percent reported 2013 revenues over $1 million\nThey are also the most optimistic profile, with 30 percent expecting \u201cmuch higher\u201d revenue in 2014.\nPassionate Creators are also the most marketing and tech savvy of the bunch.\nThey aren\u2019t afraid to spend on marketing: 48 percent spend $500 or more per month on marketing activities.\nThey diversify their marketing strategy: 65 percent use social media, 70 percent email to a list, 48 percent use content marketing and 39 percent leverage search engine marketing.\nPassionate Creators are intent on sharing their success and know-how with the world around them.\nThey give of their money: 47 percent donate funds to charitable organizations in their community\nThey give of their time: 27 percent mentor other entrepreneurs and 22 percent speak to audiences about small business\nFreedom Seekers started their small business because they value the ability to control their work experience. They want to be in charge of their schedule, career path and work environment.\nWhen asked about their goals, this group was up for anything and everything that liberated them from the shackles of a confining corporate experience. The survey found that 68 percent of these freedom-loving small business owners rated, \u201dliving the life I want\u201d as their top success metric. And they held strong to their free-seeking roots when it came to any other reasons for owning a small business:\n57 percent do it to find flexibility in their schedule to spend time with their family\n52 percent want to be in control\n42 percent want the flexibility in their schedule to travel\nThe small business owners in this profile made it clear over and over that they had no desire to be chained to 9-to-5 schedules or trapped beneath a glass ceiling.\nThis troop wants things simple and manageable. Forty-five percent of them are the only employees in their business, and they are the least likely of the four profiles to have more than one other employee. Not surprisingly, they cite, \u201ctime to get everything done\u201d as their biggest challenge. In tackling the challenge of chasing daylight, they have adopted automation.\nThey are using software to automate: 57 percent utilize automated software, second only to Passionate Creators. Their usage spans across many elements of their business:\n57 percent automate bookkeeping\n61 percent automate email marketing\n47 percent automate payment processing\n46 percent use CRM software\n38 percent automate contact management\nThey get organized: 23 percent use project management and 22 percent use membership site management software tools. Owning a small business allows Freedom Seekers the opportunity to live the lifestyle they\u2019ve always wanted. It allows them to work where and when they want, and do what they want.\nOf all the profiles, Freedom Seekers are the least likely to believe they may work for someone else in a corporate environment setting in the future. Being in control of their business offers them the flexibility that many were unable to achieve working in a corporate atmosphere.\nThey avoid the office: 81 percent work from home.\nThey take what they learned in corporate and turn it into a business: 29 percent provide business coaching or consulting.\nEscaping the confines of a traditional job can be a powerful motivator for small business owners and it can give them what they want if they can find tools to help them make the most of their time.\nBusiness owners within this profile believe small businesses are more ethical and vital to the economy compared to larger corporations. This group started their business to bring something new to the marketplace\u2014something no one else offers. They are practical in their approach to business ownership in that they saw an opportunity and went for it. Business ownership provides them with a sense of stability for their future and the future of their family and they have created a business to help secure their retirement or hand down to their children. For these reasons, many of them take tremendous pride in the businesses they have created and are in it for the long haul.\nLegacy Builders are committed to making their business successful and ensuring it provides the stability and financial support they expect.\nThey are laser focused on their business: 80 percent run only one business.\nThey are here to stay: Only 26 percent have considered closing and only 24 percent have considered selling their business.\nWhen confronted with business issues, Legacy Builders are more likely to turn to family, friends and coworkers for guidance. They trust their intuition and time-tested processes above all else.\nThey are less dependent on technology: 45 percent don\u2019t have a website and 21 percent do not use any bookkeeping, email marketing or payment processing tools.\nThey don\u2019t make the most of marketing: Even among those with a website, many don\u2019t use email, content marketing, SEO, pay-per-click advertising or marketing automation to generate leads. With 40 percent of Legacy Builders citing \u201cfiguring out which software can improve my business\u201d as a key area of difficulty, this group is reaping the rewards of hard earned dedication while also suffering at the hands of progress.\nStruggling Survivor\nThe Struggling Survivor profile represents the cold, hard truth of business ownership: sometimes running a small business is scarier than it is rewarding.\nThey feel the urge to flee:\nA whopping 53 percent have considered closing their business.\nRegardless of business model, tenure or experience, most small businesses are familiar with the fear of failure, but that fear is deeply rooted in this group and they face the very real challenges of ownership every day. Struggling Survivors said they have significant concerns, misgivings and doubt about the value of owning a small business. They acknowledge that corporate jobs are more secure, and even go a step further to admit that you have to be a little crazy to start a business. Time is the top challenge for every profile, but more than any other profile, the Struggling Survivor struggles with managing the day-to-day operations of their business.\nOverworked Not seeing the benefits: Struggling Survivors are the least likely group to report reaping the benefits often associated with entrepreneurship\u2014financial security, more time with family and friends and an improvement in their attitude and outlook. They are the least optimistic about the prospects for their business in 2014, with only 20 percent saying they will do much better than in the previous year.\nThey are jack of all trades, masters of none: 51 percent run their business alone. They are spread too thin wearing most of the hats within their business with a to-do list that includes:\n80 percent handle administrative duties\n89 percent manage sales\n85 percent tackle marketing and advertising activities\n84 percent take on customer service\n68 percent are in charge of financial tasks\n72 percent are responsible for managing vendors\n61 percent provide their own website content\n62 percent are performing IT and technical duties\nThey are in the deepest throws of the small business struggle and feel disrespected by peers, and even unsupported by family members. Yet, even with a perceived lack of support, their never-ending to-do lists and the uncertainty they feel about owning a small business, they are the most likely of the four groups to volunteer in their community (34 percent). And, despite many of them having seriously considered throwing in the towel, they continue to work towards their dream of independence and security.\nAs you read our findings, our hope is that you felt a strong connection to one of the profiles. Good or bad, it\u2019s important to understand who you are as a business owner. Recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as those within your fellow community of small business owners, is what will help propel everyone towards innovation and improvement. To read the whole survey analysis and find out more about who small business owners are click here. Which profile do you identify with the most and why? Comment below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 16133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://khrichardson.com/tag/wednesday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IDGFWAAMMWJZRD3M7R4Y2JORWDC35CQ7", "length": 517, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "khrichardson.com", "title": "Wednesday | karen h richardson, author", "raw_content": "Writing Prompt Wednesday \u2013 Arranged marriages\nAaheli and Ajit were destined to be together. They just didn\u2019t know it. They had met but didn\u2019t remember. Eighteen years ago, when they were two years old, their parents had met. From that day forward each was raised with the other in mind. Aaheli would be raised to be the perfect wife, quiet, submissive. Ajit would be trained to work and be the head of his family. Neither took the news well when their parents explained the time had come for the marriage celebration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4388, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kixi.com/john-fogerty-returning-to-las-vegas-for-new-residency-dates-in-may-and-october/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2CHJLV5YQMGZGVJH6XYYXBJBYGAHPCXK", "length": 595, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kixi.com", "title": "John Fogerty returning to Las Vegas for new residency dates in May and October \u2013 AM 880 KIXI", "raw_content": "John Fogerty returning to Las Vegas for new residency dates in May and October\nCredit: Lee CherryJohn Fogerty recently told ABC Radio that he\u2019s really enjoying his Las Vegas residency shows, declaring that \u201cas long as they\u2019ll have me, I guess I\u2019ll be coming.\u201d Well, true to his word, the ex-Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman has confirmed two new six-show engagements at the Wynn Las Vegas resort\u2019s Encore Theater \u2014 in the spring and the fall of this year.\nThe concerts are scheduled for May 2, 4, 5, 9, 11 and 12, and October 10, 12, 13, 17, 19 and 20. Tickets will go on sale to \u2026read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 132.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kollelkotel.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VYOYXJD6ORZ73WXRLM2NVIZQDJUEV5PZ", "length": 580, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kollelkotel.com", "title": "About \u2013 Kollel Kotel", "raw_content": "Kollel Kotel is called \u201cKlal Yisrael\u2019s Beis Medrash\u201d \u2014 the study hall for the entire Jewish people. All streams and stripes of Torah Judaism find their natural place here including chassidim, litvish, sefardim, mizrachim, chardal etc. Anyone and everyone is accepted to learn here as long as they adhere to the Kollel\u2019s rules.\nEvery style of learning can be found within its walls. Rav Nebenzahl believes with all his heart that every single person has the duty and the privilege of taking part in its spiritual construction and invites you to be part of this amazing institution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kristinspeed.com/blog/2009/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HJKKR5MFC72KUHUXQHCX4FXZHQLEIGHF", "length": 908, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kristinspeed.com", "title": "2009 May \u00bb Kristin Speed", "raw_content": "Once again I have been slacking with the blog\u2026I\u2019ve just been SO busy the past few weeks. My sister just got in from the US on Thursday and I feel like we\u2019ve been on the go since. She\u2019ll be here all summer, so I\u2019m sure things won\u2019t be so hectic once she gets settled.\nAnyway\u2026what I really wanted to write about is that we are taking a trip to Croatia! We leave tonight and get back next Tuesday and we are just so excited. Neither of has been and its the first time we\u2019ve traveled together without my parents or my husband, so I\u2019m sure it will be F.U.N! We\u2019re staying in Dubrovnik, we\u2019re planning on taking a few day trips from there, going to the beach (we\u2019re die hards, so I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be in the water no matter how cold it is) and just wandering around the city.\nThe most important things are already packed -camera, cards, batteries and passport :) I\u2019ll be sure to post a bunch of pics when we get back!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 2843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kroonandmitchell.com/grand-rapids-business-journal-tax-reform-generates-uncertainty/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:21Z", "digest": "sha1:V6WWVQXIC3MFQ7MITXGMEGRTG6FTS2VR", "length": 1239, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kroonandmitchell.com", "title": "Grand Rapids Business Journal: Tax Reform Generates Uncertainty", "raw_content": "Thanks to the Grand Rapids Business Journal for discussing the impact of the newly passed Federal Tax Reform and for featuring the comments of our own Phil Mitchell.\nTax reform generates uncertainty\nAdvisers say short- and long-term effects are hard to know; nonprofits fear decline in charitable giving.\nMany analysts are saying the 495-page tax bill signed into law Dec. 22, the first significant tax reform passed since 1986, is so complex it\u2019s hard to predict what will happen next.\nBut a local tax planning professional, wealth investment manager and nonprofit director is saying some impacts of the law are clear enough \u2014 whether one views them as positive or negative.\nPhil Mitchell, president, principal and CPA at Grand Rapids-based tax and investment strategy firm Kroon & Mitchell, said many of his small business clients are likely to see short- and medium-term gains with their newfound ability to deduct 20 percent from pass-through income.\n\u201cRight now, if you look at the typically (West Michigan) type of business, and they\u2019re making under $300,000, they may be one of the winners,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot are S corps or sole proprietorships or partnerships, and they will be able to deduct 20 percent in qualified business income.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/26/transform-cap-and-trade-auction-proceeds-workshop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DZHYSDE5P3HSYYH3LONWYXEKRKJPDUVL", "length": 3364, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "la.streetsblog.org", "title": "Transform: Cap and Trade Auction Proceeds Workshop \u2013 Streetsblog Los Angeles", "raw_content": "Transform: Cap and Trade Auction Proceeds Workshop\nhttp://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auctionproceeds/auction\u2026\nRonald Reagan Building 300 South Spring Street, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA\nThe State of California is holding the first of its hearings on how to invest revenues from the state\u2019s landmark greenhouse gas cap-and-trade auction. Join TransForm and our allies in calling for these revenues to be invested in real transportation choices including expanded public transit, increasing biking and walking, and ensuring affordable and accessible housing.\nYou can let our leaders know that you want this new revenue source invested in these priorities and making our communities healthier and prosperous.\nFor more information, contact our Cap-and-Trade Campaign Manager Ryan Wiggins\nMetro Takes a Stand on Cap and Trade Funds: Spend Them on Sustainable Transportation\nAs part of today\u2019s Metro Board meeting, the Board of Directors passed a motion calling on the state\u2019s Air Resources Board to spend funds collected through the state\u2019s cap and trade program on sustainable transportation funding. California\u2019s cap-and-trade program is the state\u2019s primary strategy for reducing the State\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions to meet emissions reduction [\u2026]\nGolden State Could Be Sitting on Livable Streets Gold Mine\nBy Niall Huffman\t| Jan 7, 2014\n(The debate over how to spend the state\u2019s cap-and-trade funding source was already hot last year. This year, it could become one of the largest transportation stories in the state, competing even with High Speed Rail. As such, Streetsblog L.A. welcomes op/ed pieces on how to best use those funds. Email ideas to damien@streetsblog.org \u2013 [\u2026]\nTransit Passes a Smart Choice for Youth, Economy, Climate\nBy Ryan Wiggins\t| Nov 20, 2013\n(The following op/ed appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune earlier this month in support of a new program that will provide free transit passes for students using Cap and Trade funds. While the piece has a lot of San Diego particular information, the overall message is a good one for any city. We are [\u2026]\nSen. Steinberg Proposes Carbon Tax on Gas Instead of Cap-and-Trade\nCA Senator Darrell Steinberg proposed a change yesterday to California\u2019s nascent cap-and-trade program that would replace next year\u2019s cap on fuel emissions with a per-gallon carbon tax. Steinberg called it a \u201cbroader, more stable, and more flexible\u201d way to reduce emissions from fuels than cap-and-trade. His proposal would apply the revenue raised from the tax [\u2026]\nReport: CA Cap-and-Trade Program Is Up to Snuff\nBy Melanie Curry\t| Jan 14, 2015\nNote: The original post has been edited slightly to clear up a misconception. Companies subject to the emissions cap cannot pay for the right to exceed the cap. The Environmental Defense Fund released a report this morning that says the second year of California\u2019s cap-and-trade program is a success on several fronts. The report, \u201cCarbon [\u2026]\nBrown\u2019s Budget Sends Cap and Trade Funds to Black Hole of General Fund\nWhen California passed it\u2019s land-mark Greenhouse Gas reduction laws in 2006, residents and businesses were assured that funds raised through the controversial \u201ccap and trade\u201d program would be invested in programs and projects that would further reduce emissions. That promise is turning out to be a lot of hot air. Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lakelleythenaughtylist.blogspot.com/2014/08/mark-watney-is-having-really-bad-day.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5O4FCTYJB6RK6QFGEJTO6MC3RLF6ZPPE", "length": 3502, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "lakelleythenaughtylist.blogspot.com", "title": "L. A. Kelley: Book Review: The Martian by Andy Weir", "raw_content": "Mark Watney is having a really bad day. Due to a chain of accidents the astronaut has been marooned on Mars. Believing he\u2019s dead, his crew left for Earth. He has no way to communicate with either the spaceship or NASA. Not that it matters, because in less than sixty days, he\u2019ll be out of food, water, and air. Yup, a really bad day. Unless he finds a way to survive on a barren planet for four years until the next Mars landing, he will be completely and totally screwed.\nWhat is Right With This Book?\nWhen you think back on your list of top ten books, more than likely most, if not all, will have been read before you turned thirty. The books you loved in your formative years stick to you like hot fudge to hips and stay a happy memory for the rest of your life. You revisit them now and then like old friends and leave with a warm and happy feeling. (After thirty, you are no longer formative. Mostly you are sludge that can only think with a regular infusion of caffeine and/or sugar\u2014at least for me.) I accepted I would like a lot of books, even love some, but none would ever again make my list of favorites.\nThe Martian is not just an example of an excellent science fiction book, but one of the best science fiction books I\u2019ve ever read. There\u2026I\u2019ve gone on record and said it. Why is it great? Several reasons. Not only did Weir create a totally engaging hero, the book has a gripping, story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Will Mark find a food source? Water? A way to communicate with NASA? Can a rescue be mounted or is he doomed to a lonely death millions of miles from home?\nThe Martian is also surprisingly funny. Science fiction that is heavy on technical data rarely brings a chuckle. Often it is pretentious and stuffy, but Mark Watney faces impossible odds with a hysterical, self-deprecating sense of humor that made me laugh-out-loud.\nFinally, science fiction books often suffer from poor characterization, particularly of females. Let\u2019s face it, most are written by men. Women come across as little more than cardboard cutouts stuffed in a space suit. Not so, The Martian. Although Watney is alone on Mars the book\u2019s point of view bounces from him to the mixed-gender crews of the spaceship and NASA. Female characters are fully formed and completely believable.\nNothing. Seriously, not one single word. I can\u2019t remember the last time I\u2019ve loved a book so much from start to finish. The Martian outshines anything I ever read by Niven, Herbert, Clarke or any of the other supposed grand masters. Okay, if you put a gun to my head, I\u2019ll admit I hate the cover. It\u2019s ugly.\nWhy YOU Might Not Like It\nSome books, even well-written ones, should come with a warning. The Martian is one of them. You will hate this book, not even make it through the first chapter, if you don\u2019t like hard science fiction. What is hard science fiction? It is a story that is heavy on the science and technical details. I\u2019m a dweeb, I admit it. I love the sciency stuff. If you can\u2019t stand techno-talk, please don\u2019t start this book. You\u2019ll hate every single page, think I\u2019m crazy for writing a glowing review, and make me cry very salty tears. Don\u2019t bother picking it up.\nI received a copy of The Martian for free from Blogging for Books in exchange for this review.\nL. A. Kelley is a co-blogger at The Book Cove. She writes stories with adventures, romance, humor, and a touch of sass. You can find her at http://lakelleythenaughtylist.blogspot.com\nLabels: Andy Weir, Science Fiction, The Martian", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lambdacreations.com/written-work/articles/dont-fear-the-rabbit-hole/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5UPC2CLX6L4LOWQ6BZ7VLUFSPTG7PPDU", "length": 4787, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "lambdacreations.com", "title": "Don\u2019t Fear the Rabbit Hole | Lambda Creations", "raw_content": "One I\u2019m focusing on for this post is a concept I call the Rabbit Hole of Computer Science, but it really applies to any field, any endeavor, including creation.\nWhat\u2019s Wonderland? And why do you want to go there?\nWonderland is a new perspective on the material that comes from depth of understanding. You see that things are different from what you thought they were from surface understanding. Things transform, and there is a beauty that you see from the depth that is awesome to behold. If you go deep enough, things become mystical, and then magical. It doesn\u2019t matter what skill, field, or ideal you\u2019re pursuing.\nWhat\u2019s Wonderland like?\nI humbly admit that I have only seen glimpses of it, all too short, but when you\u2019ve been there, you can achieve Flow, a concept I hold dear.\nFlow is also the core of my art process. Transfixation is what I value in both the creation and the experience of my artwork, and flow allows me to become transfixed in the creation of it. This is the only way for me to create artwork that is genuine. It is also the tool through which I may create artwork that may transfix the viewer.\nGames are a common way to achieve flow. I was playing a fighting video game that involved some pretty complex powers and interactions.* Among these were the power to teleport to dodge attacks, unleashing chained teleportation counter-strikes, and other massive, game-changing attacks.\nWhen you first play the game, you end up doing a lot of basic punching and kicking, awkward dodging, and attempts to teleport with random success.\nAs I continued to fight my way through progressively harder modes of difficulty, I acquired more and more skill, and complex fights occurred When I beat the game, it turned out there were three progressively harder difficulty settings.\nAscending through these, I noticed the game transform more than once. After a while, teleport-counters and such became second nature. For a while I could dominate the computer because I could avoid everything they did, teleporting behind them and beating them badly with no fear of reprisal. But as I got into the two hardest ranks of difficulty, this wasn\u2019t true anymore. The computer had the same reflexes and capacity I had.\nI kept facing stronger and stronger opponents who beat my bad. I would take my lickings for a while, and then as I got better, eventually everything else fell away from my focus. Suddenly, I would excel, unleashing combinations, dodging attacks, and controlling the match in a way that dwarfed what I could do before. I started developing instincts that told me \u201cattack now\u201d without knowing why, and they worked. The low-level details disappeared, and most of what I was doing I wasn\u2019t thinking about, and the conscious component became a matter of exerting my will and high-level strategy, and when I wanted to do something hard that required alertness and complex timing, it was merely a matter of deciding to do so and I was lost in it. That\u2019s flow. When I came out of it, I couldn\u2019t remember how I did everything, yet I was awake and exhilarated the whole time.\nEarly on, the game was about trying to avoid being on the losing side of combos, and jockeying to unleash massive energy attacks. I would reach opponents that were just better at this and beat me hard. As I got better at that I would win, only to see the computer get stronger, and realize the next level of play was about controlling the field with teleportation. Even this transformed as the computer started excelling at this. Eventually it became about managing your energy levels, trying to have enough to be able to do more teleport-counters than your opponent, and trying to find the right time to gamble on an expensive but powerful energy attacks.\nThat\u2019s about as far as I got before college pressures intervened. But I caught a glimpse of something more. When I got completely lost in flow against the strongest opponents, the computer had more energy than I did. My energy-management tactics, were only enough to give me a chance, and soon that wasn\u2019t true anymore. The weird things was though, that I was developing instincts as I mentioned above. Without knowing why, just recognizing some vague patterns, I knew there were times I could launch an attack which should\u2019ve been obviously stupid, at the opponent. I was being able to sense openings that shouldn\u2019t be there, with no idea how I was sensing them or why. I still think about it today, and it\u2019s tantalizing. That\u2019s the magic of Wonderland, where you start feeling things you don\u2019t understand, but can use. Those strokes of genius that are indescribable. The sudden bursts of competence with Flow.\nIt\u2019s waiting for you beyond the Rabbit Hole.\nOne comment on \u201cDon\u2019t Fear the Rabbit Hole\u201d\nPingback: Focus Amulet Relic \u00ab Lambda Creations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 9211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://langstrup.com/2013/02/18/taking-a-chance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:31Z", "digest": "sha1:YKH6C4YOR37IXDGZP4F4TTKE5JXTLCMR", "length": 2901, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "langstrup.com", "title": "Taking a chance | Steen Langstrup", "raw_content": "\u2190 Interview with Steen Langstrup\nNEW BOOK OUT NOW! \u2192\nIn the Shadow of Sadd was long in the making. The idea of combining related short stories to construct a novella had been in my mind for years. For old-school publishers, it was, of course, a hard sell. I didn\u2019t have to ask around to arrive at that conclusion \u2013 if you choose to work in genres, you have to play by the genre rules. Publishers and booksellers, as well, were not likely to bite, for fear that such a title couldn\u2019t be marketed effectively.\nSo there I was, a man with a crazy dream: I wanted not only to break the rules of the crime novel by constructing a narrative in four short stories, I also wanted these stories to be written by different writers.\nI was a mad man, wanting to do a book like that.\nIt was an impossible book to get published. End of story.\nUntil I went indie. In 2002 I left Gyldendal, the most prestigious publishing house in the country, and founded my own publishing house, 2 Feet Entertainment, and in celebration of my newly-found artistic liberty I simply had to give this crazy project a chance.\nI told myself that if we indie writers weren\u2019t willing to risk the thin ice of the unconventional, where the established publishing world didn\u2019t dare to tread, we did not deserve to call ourselves independent writers at all. If you believe in it, you have to take a chance and give it a try.\nI knew it wouldn\u2019t be easy. I had to find three talented writers who were willing to work on this book, and, in addition, I had to find writers who had the right voices for the characters in each short story; and they had to be writers who would accept the conditions of this project, which were basically that I was the boss.\nThe writers would have to stick to my plot, as there was little room for them to move their quarter of the story in any other direction. The connection between the four short stories had to fit like a jigsaw puzzle.\nI was lucky to gather a team of three of the most talented Danish crime writers around, and I\u2019m so grateful that they were willing to use their skills, their time and their patience to help me tell this story.\nIf you haven\u2019t read them yet, you should check them out. They are, of course: Sara Blaedel (author of the international bestselling series featuring Detective Louise Rick and journalist Camilla Lind), Gretelise Holm (author of the bestselling series featuring Journalist Karin Sommer) and Lars Kjaedegaard (author of the bestselling Hvid & Belling-series).\nAnd myself?\nI\u2019m just the mad man with the impossible idea.\nI hope you\u2019ll enjoy it.\n(And by the way, this book ended up being one of my bestselling novels ever.)\nGET YOUR COPY OF IN THE SHADOW OF SADD on AMAZON.COM\nThis entry was posted in In the shadow of Sadd and tagged Crime noir, crime novel, Gretelise Holm, In the Shadow of Sadd, Lars Kjaedegaard, Sara Blaedel, Steen Langstrup. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.afu.ac.ae/en/news/2016/al-falah-university-organizes-a-seminar-at-the-headquarters-of-dubai-health-authority", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6HAU24GXOBSUQTV6FJXKAR3T3HFGLRZG", "length": 1486, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "law.afu.ac.ae", "title": "Al Falah University | Best University In UAE | Dubai - Al Falah University Organizes a Seminar at the Headquarters of Dubai Health Authority - Al Falah University -", "raw_content": "Al Falah University Organizes a Seminar at the Headquarters of Dubai Health Authority\nThe College of Business Administration in collaboration with Students Recruitment Unit of Al Falah University organized a seminar at the headquarters of the Dubai Health Authority. The aim of the seminar was to promote the academic programs offered by Al Falah University particularly the Health Management programs. The event was assisted by the Dean of College of Business Administration, Dr. Bernadette Warner, Dr. Sandra Fahmy, Assistant Professor in the College of Business Administration, and Mr. Nabil Abu Ela, Manager of Student Recruitment Unit.\nThe audiences were briefed about the university faculties and diverse facilities, libraries, laboratories, facilities for teaching. In addition to that they were also provided detailed overview of the scholarships awarded by the university for students who excel academically.\nThe Dean of College of Business Administration explained the diverse academic programs in the College and various disciplines covered. Dr. Sandra Fahmy, explained dynamics and professional application of the undergraduate program in Health Administration also providing the information that Al Falah University is striving to integrate Master's program in Health Administration in the near future.\nIn the end, the floor was opened for questions and queries from attendees who showed a interest in this introductory seminar.\nBrainstorming Session at Al Falah University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/1977/2-58280-0.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DJ4HY5JCVTGVTJ5RI27J2WJRGEQDDHMZ", "length": 13216, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "law.justia.com", "title": "Iowa Fair Plan v. US Internal Revenue Dept. :: 1977 :: Iowa Supreme Court Decisions :: Iowa Case Law :: Iowa Law :: US Law :: Justia", "raw_content": "Justia \u203a US Law \u203a Case Law \u203a Iowa Case Law \u203a Iowa Supreme Court Decisions \u203a 1977 \u203a Iowa Fair Plan v. US Internal Revenue Dept.\nIowa Fair Plan v. US Internal Revenue Dept.\nIOWA FAIR PLAN, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, INTERNAL REVENUE DEPARTMENT, Appellant, State of Iowa, Department of Revenue, Penelope Gerhart and Charles Gerhart, Appellees.\nNo. 2-58280.\n*628 Scott E. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gilbert E. Andrews, Crombie J. D. Garrett and Wynette J. Hewitt, Attys., Tax Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Allen L. Donielson, U. S. Atty. and James R. Rosenbaum, Asst. U. S. Atty., Des Moines, for appellant.\nRichard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., George W. Murray, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Gerald A. Kuehn, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee State of Iowa.\nMcCORMICK, Justice.\nThis appeal presents a question of tax lien priority. The Gerharts owned a commercial building in Mingo, mortgaged to Mingo Trust & Savings Bank and insured under two policies by Iowa Fair Plan. As a result of three assessments for taxes owed by Charles Gerhart, the last on July 5, 1973, the State of Iowa held a $3,975.26 lien against the building. Based on an assessment of August 15, 1973, the United States held a $8804.97 lien against it. The building was destroyed by fire on August 21, 1973. Each government claimed priority over the other in the fire insurance proceeds. Iowa Fair Plan brought an interpleader action against all claimants to the fund. Each government moved for summary judgment on the issue of lien priority. The trial court sustained the priority of the lien of the State of Iowa in the interpleaded fund and entered summary judgment accordingly. The United States appealed. We reverse.\nThe liens arose under similar statutes. The federal lien is based on 26 U.S.C. \u00a7 6321 which provides:\nIf any person liable to pay any tax neglects or refuses to pay the same after demand, the amount * * * shall be a lien in favor of the United States upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to such person.\nThe state lien is based on \u00a7 422.26, The Code, 1973, which provides in part:\nWhenever any taxpayer liable to pay a tax and/or penalty imposed refuses or neglects to pay the same, the amount * * * shall be a lien in favor of the state upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to said taxpayer.\nThus the federal and state tax lien statutes each provide for liens \"upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to * * * [the taxpayer].\"\nState law determines whether and to what extent the taxpayer has \"property\" or \"rights to property\" to which these liens attach. However, once a federal tax lien has attached to a taxpayer's state-created property interests, the question of priority of competing liens is determined by federal law. The effect of 26 U.S.C. \u00a7 6321 is to attach federally defined consequences to rights which exist under state law. United States v. Durham Lumber Company, 363 U.S. 522, 80 S. Ct. 1282, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1371 *629 (1960); Aquilino v. United States, 363 U.S. 509, 80 S. Ct. 1277, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1365 (1960); United States v. Bess, 357 U.S. 51, 78 S. Ct. 1054, 2 L. Ed. 2d 1135 (1958).\nOne federally defined consequence is that a state lien is subordinate to a federal tax lien on specific property unless it became choate before the federal tax lien. Choateness is determined under federal law. United States v. Pioneer American Ins. Co., 374 U.S. 84, 83 S. Ct. 1651, 10 L. Ed. 2d 770 (1963); Fore v. United States, 339 F.2d 70 (5 Cir. 1964), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 912, 85 S. Ct. 1532, 14 L. Ed. 2d 433 (1965). To be choate a lien must be certain as to amount, identity of the lienor, and the property subject to the lien. United States v. City of New Britain, 347 U.S. 81, 74 S. Ct. 367, 98 L. Ed. 520 (1954). Although a taxpayer's property may be born with a tax lien on it, it is necessary that the property right exist before the lien attaches to it. Wolverine Ins. Co. v. Phillips, 165 F. Supp. 335, 353 (N.D.Iowa 1958), appeal dismissed, 283 F.2d 518 (8 Cir. 1960). Because of this, a lien may be choate as to property of the taxpayer which is in existence, but it is inchoate as to property rights which have not yet arisen. United States v. L. R. Foy Construction Co., 300 F.2d 207 (10 Cir. 1962).\nIn the present case the state tax lien attached to property interests of Charles Gerhart prior to and on July 5, 1973. The federal tax lien attached to his property on August 15, 1973. The Gerhart building was standing on those dates. Thus, as to it, the state's lien was prior in time and therefore first in right. United States v. Vermont, 377 U.S. 351, 84 S. Ct. 1267, 12 L. Ed. 2d 370 (1964). The Gerharts also had their fire coverage with Iowa Fair Plan on the dates the liens were filed. However, the liens did not attach to the fire insurance policies because a fire insurance policy is not \"property\" or a \"right to property\" within the meaning of either lien statute. Under Iowa law it is simply a contract for indemnity. McWilliams v. Farm and City Mutual Ins. Assn., 248 Iowa 233, 80 N.W.2d 320 (1957). It does not have a cash surrender value. Cf. United States v. Bess, 357 U.S. 51, 78 S. Ct. 1054, 2 L. Ed. 2d 1135 (1958). No value can be realized from it until the contingency making its proceeds available occurs.\nIf the contingency does occur, the insured immediately acquires a property interest in the insurance proceeds which is separate and distinct from the insured premises and the policy. Pre-existing tax liens attach immediately to the new property. This principle was explained and applied in Home Insurance Company v. B. B. Rider Corporation, 212 F. Supp. 457, 462 (D.N.J.1963):\n* * * Where it is entirely uncertain whether the conditional promise to pay will ever become unqualified and enforceable, the interest of a party to the contract is purely contingent, and therefore not \"property and rights to property\" to which a tax lien under \u00a7 6321 could attach. [citations] Until the fire occurred no lien could arise in favor either of the government or of any other claimant upon the interest, whatever it was, of the taxpayer in either of the fire insurance policies. * * * The moment the fire occurred, the agreement to indemnify embodied in the policies ripened into a chose in action in favor of the insured, which constituted \"property or right to property\" to which the previously inchoate tax lien immediately attached.\nSee also Randall v. Colby, 190 F. Supp. 319, 326-327 (N.D.Iowa 1961); Continental Finance, Inc. v. Cambridge Lee Metal Co., 100 N.J.Super. 327, 241 A.2d 853 (1968), affirmed 105 N.J.Super. 406, 252 A.2d 417 (1969), affirmed 56 N.J. 148, 265 A.2d 536 (1970).\nBoth liens had attached to Charles Gerhart's property before the Gerhart building was destroyed by fire on August 21, 1973. The Gerharts' interest in the insurance proceeds came into being at that time. Therefore the liens attached simultaneously to those proceeds. The liens became choate in the new property interest at *630 the same time. Because the state lien did not become choate before the federal lien, the federal lien has priority in the interpleaded fund. The trial court erred in holding otherwise.\nMASON, RAWLINGS, LeGRAND and REYNOLDSON, JJ., concur.\nREES, J., MOORE, C. J., and UHLENHOPP and HARRIS, JJ., dissent.\nREES, Justice (dissenting).\nI cannot agree with the conclusions reached by the majority and respectfully dissent.\nI. The issue on which this appeal rests is the nature and character of the insurance proceeds as property. If the proceeds are property acquired after the attachment of the liens (that is, on the date of the fire which destroyed the building) the federal law primes the simultaneously attached state lien. United States v. New Britain, 347 U.S. 81, 74 S. Ct. 367, 98 L. Ed. 520 (1954). If the liens survive the conversion of form of the property, the date of the attachment of the liens to the original property would be determinative, and the State's lien, being first in time, would also be first in right. United States v. Vermont, 377 U.S. 351, 84 S. Ct. 1267, 12 L. Ed. 2d 370 (1964).\nII. The statutes involved here are, as the majority asserts, 26 U.S.C. \u00a7 6321 and \u00a7 422.26, The Code (Iowa) 1973.\nThe United States Department of Revenue concedes that the extent and nature of the taxpayer's interest in property is determined by reference to state law. Aquilino v. United States, 363 U.S. 509, 514, 80 S. Ct. 1277, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1365 (1960); United States v. Durham Lumber Co., 363 U.S. 522, 80 S. Ct. 1282, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1371 (1960); United States v. Hunt, 513 F.2d 129 (10th Cir. 1975).\nThe law respecting insurance clearly addresses the issue of the right of a mortgagee to proceeds of a policy obtained by and for the benefit of the mortgagor, who has no obligation to insure. The proceeds are not subject to the mortgage, and the mortgagee must secure his debt through judicial proceedings. See 46 C.J.S. Insurance \u00a7 1140 at 19, and see cases collected in the Annotation at 9 A.L.R.2d 299. This doctrine has developed from situations in which the creditor has a mortgage or lien on a certain item of property. In the instant case, the situation may not be analogous in that the tax liens attached to all property of the taxpayer, including property acquired subsequent to the filing of the lien. Tax liens are super-priority liens which prime the liens of all unperfected creditors.\nIII. I am persuaded the tax liens are more analogous to perfected security interests under the Uniform Commercial Code than to the interests of mortgagees or lien creditors on specific property. The provisions of \u00a7 554.9306, The Code (Iowa) allows a secured party to continue a security interest in insurance proceeds. The date of perfection of the interest in the proceeds is the date of perfection of the interest in the collateral. The proceeds are collateral under the Uniform Commercial Code, not after-acquired property. See U.C.C. 9-306(1); 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Secured Transactions \u00a7 186 at 1044.\nEven prior to the adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code, a conversion of property might permit the lien to attach to proceeds. \"Unless there is an agreement to the contrary, it [a lien] sometimes attaches to money or other property into which such property has been changed or converted, provided it is ascertainable.\" 53 C.J.S. Liens \u00a7 7 at 852. See Application of Diaz, 192 Misc. 212, 80 N.Y.S.2d 504, 506 (1948), where the court said:\n\"(A)n award made in a condemnation proceeding is deemed personal property into which real property taken has been converted by operation of law (citations), and is subject to attachment.\n\"`The general rule is that a lien upon property attaches to whatever the property is converted into, and is not destroyed by changing the nature of the subject * * * it follows its subject, *631 and cannot be shaken off by a change of form or substance. It clings to any property or money into which the subject can be traced * * * .' (citation).\"\nThere is still another context wherein, under the law of this jurisdiction, I find insurance proceeds take the place of insured property. The exemption from execution survives the destruction of exempt property, and continues for a reasonable time in the proceeds of an insurance policy. Reynolds, et al. v. Haines, 83 Iowa 342, 49 N.W. 851 (1891).\nI also note that in United States v. Bess, 357 U.S. 51, 78 S. Ct. 1054, 2 L. Ed. 2d 1135 (1958), the federal government advanced a surviving lien theory in argument, and the United States Supreme Court accepted the government's position that a tax lien continued through the conversion of a life insurance policy with cash surrender value to proceeds after taxpayer's death. The court held that taxpayer had the right to enjoy the cash surrender value of the policy during his life, thus subjecting it to the federal tax lien. After the death of the taxpayer the beneficiary argued that the property right was extinguished. The Supreme Court found that the portion of the proceeds equal to the cash surrender value at the taxpayer's death remained subject to the federal tax lien, even though it was converted from a contractual interest to the policy proceeds.\nIV. In this case the insured (Gerhart) had a right to enjoy the property, to sell it, or to borrow against it. He had no duty to insure it, just as the taxpayer in Bess, supra, had no duty to insure his life. The insured protected his property by purchasing insurance with loss payable to the mortgagee in the event of its destruction in keeping with a standard mortgage clause appended to the policy.\nI would hold that the tax liens survived the involuntary conversion of Gerhart's property from a building and contents and attached to the identifiable insurance proceeds. In my judgment the trial court properly found the tax lien of the Department of Revenue of the State of Iowa was prior to the lien of the Internal Revenue Department of the United States in the proceeds of the insurance from the fire loss of the building insured.\nI would affirm the trial court.\nMOORE, C. J., and UHLENHOPP and HARRIS, JJ., join this dissent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 15187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 155.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.mit.edu/contributing-our-open-source-projects", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5JROQX5ZJBCPMUAL6ZEHZXGLIVKVQO5F", "length": 3256, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "law.mit.edu", "title": "Contributing to law.MIT.edu Open Source Projects and Activities | law.MIT.edu", "raw_content": "Contributing to law.MIT.edu Open Source Projects and Activities\nContributions to law.MIT.edu open source projects and activities are welcome and encouraged! MIT Media Lab software default is FLOSS (free/libre/open-source software) and therefore that is our starting point. 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Whether with us or elsewhere, we wish you happy hacking!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawaspect.com/strategic-management-walmart/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JDW5RLMQIMLFPJFYZ5DLPDUMS4BJVVOU", "length": 15950, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "lawaspect.com", "title": "Strategic management and Walmart", "raw_content": "Strategic management and Walmart\nFounded by Sam Walton in 1962, Walmart has grown tremendously, enabling it to become one of the largest companies in the world. With more than 8,416 stores in 15 countries, close to $401 billion in sales and over 2.1 million employees; it is clear that has been extremely successful at expanding its operations and expansion plans for over 300 new stores in the U.S and approximately 150 international stores in pre-existing markets (Walmart, 2010). Despite this success, Walmart must take into consideration increasing competition.\nAs the domestic market reaches saturation, the main issue facing Walmart is how to sustain its extraordinary growth. To ensure that it maintain its growth at a rate equal to or better that its sales, it will have to implement a strategic plan that address internal and external opportunities and threats. Lastly, I will perform a SWOT analysis of the company\u2019s strengths and weaknesses opportunities and threats. History:\nWalmart is a general merchandise discount retailer, which was incorporated in 1962. Walmart\u2019s history is based on Sam Walton, who changed the way retail business is conducted. Sam Walton first entered retailing when he was a management trainee at J.C. Penny Co. in 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa (Walmart, 2010). After serving in the Army in World War II, Walton acquired a Ben Franklin variety store franchise with his brother James Walton in Newport Arkansas, until they lost the lease to the store in 1950.\nBy 1962, the first Walmart Discount City was opened in Rogers Arkansas. Limited pricing, low gross margins, and high inventory turnover characterized these stores (Walmart, 2010). Walton\u2019s focus in 1976 changed on to the emerging Walmart stores and he came to the realization that successful discount retailing did not just involve getting the best price from suppliers, but also meant passing those savings onto customers. In 1978, the first distribution center was built, followed by the first Wal-Mart Supercenter in 1983 and a Sam\u2019s Club in 1988 (Walmart, 2010).\nStrategic Planning: A vision statement presents the firm\u2019s strategic intent that focuses their energy and resources of the company on achieving a desirable future. However, in practice, the mission and vision statements are frequently combined into a single statement. When they are separated, the vision statement is often a single sentence, designed to be memorable (Pearce, & Robinson, 2009). Walmart does not have an official mission statement on their web page, but they do have a section that is titled about us.\nSaving people money to help them live better was the goal that Sam Walton envisioned when he opened the doors to the first Walmart more than 40 years ago. Today, this mission is more important than ever to our customers and members around the world. We work hard every day in all our markets to deliver on this promise. We operate with the same level of integrity and respect that Mr. Sam put in place. It is because of these values and culture that Walmart continues to make a difference in the lives of our customers, members and associates.\nSaving people money to help them live better was the goal that Sam Walton envisioned when he opened the doors to the first Walmart more than 40 years ago. Today, this mission is more important than ever to our customers and members around the world. We work hard every day in all our markets to deliver on this promise. We operate with the same level of integrity and respect that Mr. Sam put in place. It is because of these values and culture that Walmart continues to make a difference in the lives of our customers, members and associates (Walmart, 2010).\nWalmart has always been about low prices and saving the customer money every since Sam Walton started Walmart. Most companies have mission statements and like Pearce and Robinson (2009) state: \u201cThe company\u2019s mission describes the company\u2019s product, market, and technological areas of emphasis in a way that reflects the values and priorities of strategic decision makers\u201d. Everything you read on their web page is all about low prices and customer satisfaction. A key element in Walmart\u2019s long term objectives instilled by Sam Walton back when he started Walmart and still true to this date with Michael Duke CEO and President of Walmart Inc. Internal Analysis:\nA scan of the internal and external environment is an important part of the strategic planning process. Environment factors internal to Walmart are classified as strengths (S) or weaknesses (W), and the factors external are classified as opportunities (O) or threats (T), otherwise known as a SWOT analysis (Pearce, & Robinson, 2009). The SWOT analysis provides information that is helpful in matching the company\u2019s resources and capabilities to the competitive environment in which it operates. Walmart\u2019s SWOT analysis is below. Strengths:\n1.Buying power 2.Reputation for keeping prices low. 3.Wide geographic distribution coverage and effectively use of logistic management techniques. 4.Walmart production skills result in reliable yet affordable Walmart brand products. 5.Combining retail shopping with groceries and a pharmacy and a optometry all in the same store. 6.Wal-Mart has grown substantially over recent years, and has experienced global expansion.\n7.A focused strategy is in place for human resource management and development. \u201cPeople are key to Wal-Mart's business and it invests time and money in training people, and retaining a developing them\u201d. (Stewart & Brown, 2009) 8.Customer service. Under the \"ten-foot rule\", any member of staff within ten feet of a customer must offer them assistance (Walmart, 2010). 9.Its labor relations are exceptional. Workers are not plain employees but \"associates\", eligible for a share of the profits and stock options in the company (Walmart, 2010).\nWeakness: 1.No formal mission statement 2.Anti-union 3.Weak reputation due to various unethical problems such as unfair benefit retirement, health care, insurance policy, underage labor, illegal immigrants, discrimination, glass ceiling, etc. (Kummer, 2005) 4.Unsatisfied employees due to lower salary (Kummer, 2005). 5.Decline in sales growth, higher turnover rate. (Pearce & Robinson, 2010) 6.Reputation for being a \u201cbully\u201d. For example: putting smaller business out of business and treating supplier with dropping their product if they don\u2019t get what they want. 7.The company is also in frequent legal trouble with regulators and union groups in the courts (Quinn 89-115).\n1.Globalization and open market share 2.Falling trade barriers in foreign countries ease market penetration. 3.International expansion to various countries, new geographic areas. 4. Exploiting new technologies to increase efficiency in supply chain. 5. Joint venture with local distributors and suppliers.\n6.Similar shopping pattern worldwide 7. Internet shopping growing such as e-commerce and the online sales 8.Building a better relationship with its customers and employees.\n1.Slow market growth. 2.Restrictive trade policies. E.g. most under development countries and small towns boycott Wal-Mart expansion. (Kummer, 2005) 3.Assortment of competition nationally, regionally, and locally. 4.Supplier gaining bargaining power.\n5.Customers gaining bargaining power. 6.Entrance of new competitors in the online sales. 7.New regulatory requirement by the government. 8.Economic crisis.\nThe Downfall with the SWOT analysis is that it can tend to overstate weaknesses and downplay threats. It can ignore changing situations and the identified strengths could not be strength for a competitive advantage. Another form of analysis used is the \u201cvalue chain analysis.\u201d This type of analysis attempts to understand how the business creates customer value by evaluating the contributions of different activities within the business (Pierce & Robinson 2009). This process divides the business into activities that transform inputs into outputs that customer\u2019s value (Pearce & Robinson, 2009).\nThe resource-based view is another method of analyzing a firm\u2019s strategic advantage. In this method strategic advantages are based on examining its distinct combination of assets, skills, capabilities and intangibles as an organization (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). A company\u2019s resource-based view (RVB) is very important to the strategic formulation of a company. Walmart capitalizes on opportunities by using their strengths such as size, financial power and immense resources to dominate. External Analysis:\nWalmart\u2019s tangible assets are their buying power and size that provide value to their customers. Their intangible assets are their reputation for beating out the competition and being one of the wealthiest companies in the world. Organizational capabilities are skills that a company uses to transform inputs into outputs (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). Walmart organizational capabilities are their purchasing and inbound process. Walmart has four valuable resources, store locations, brand recognition, employee loyalty and sophisticated inbound logistics that allowed Walmart to fulfill customers needs much better and more cost effective than other retailers.\nWith everything that Walmart has to offer with all of their valuable resources is their ability to turn such a profit. One might argue that by selling such low price products it\u2019s impossible to turn high profits. In 2002, four out of the top twenty richest people in the world were all from Walmart (Sampson, 2002). So what does this tell us? To me it says that their strategy of turning low item per sale profit and concentrating on volume of sales at a lower profit margin is a formula that has worked.\nOne of the major goals that Walmart wants to try and achieve is the key strategy of Walmart wanting to dominate retail markets everywhere (Nachiappan & Ramanathan, 2010). By using its size and volume buying power, the company effectively implements this strategy. According to ex CEO H. Lee Scott; \u201cThe Company plans to sustain growth at the same pace of 7.2% for at least for the next five years\u201d (Pearce & Robinson, 2009).\nThis strategy impacts functional areas of the company, primarily the marketing and financing department. Management will also have a large role in this strategy because of the increase in customers and stores to manage. Production and operations will be involved because of the increased amount of goods that will be needed as the volume of customer's increases. On the other side of the pillow, Walmart has hit a \u201cwall\u201d or like our textbook says \u201ca mid life crisis.\u201d\nWalmart was that race horse that took off out of the starting gate and did not look back on its competition. On the other hand, Walmart\u2019s strengths might be the same reason why that once insurmountable lead on the competition is narrowing down. With so many stores in the U.S sometimes a Supercenter store have to compete with one another Walmart and end us competing against one another. Walmart senior management in need for a change decided to send out their 27 regional managers out to live in the areas that they manage instead of being living in Bentonville (Pearce & Robinson, 2009).\n\u201cby caping wages for mostly hourly based workers, and converting full time jobs to part time and adjusting staffing levels to fluctuations in customer traffic Walmart has been able to get more productivity from its employees for eight straight quarters (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). General environmental analysis covers the aspects of economic, demographic, socio-culture, global, and technological that might have impact on Walmart performance and its growth expansion and vice versa (Kummer, 2005).\nMeanwhile industry analysis and senior management basically are stuck in a conundrum over its strategy to win over customers. Walmart utilizes their strengths of size and financial power to create widespread name recognition and customer satisfaction as well as offering the best prices. Aiming to create a positive impression of customer satisfaction with the Walmart brand, their goal is to have the customer associate the retailer with the reputation of offering the best prices.\nBy using its size and volume buying power, the company effectively implements their strategy that Sam Walton envisioned. This strategy impacts functional areas of the company, primarily the financing department. Management will also have a large role in this strategy because of the decrease of growth within the company. Walmart has to improve its products to match the competitions such as Target and continue to offer its products at a low price. Additionally, as Walmart continues to grow and expand, they should continue looking into new product markets. In addition to new product markets Walmart should carefully plan further expansion.\nWalmart should expand further into international markets. Once again using caution since not many countries operate like the U.S, and Walmart has a lot to learn from the international markets. While most of the U.S. market is already flooded with regular and super Walmart, there is still room to expand. However, they need to be careful not to overstretch themselves. Partnerships with other companies are a way to go if Walmart wants to grow further, Instead of bankrupting out the competition. Conclusion:\nThe ever-changing market presents continuing challenges to retailers. First and foremost, retailers must recognize the strong implications of a 'buyers' market' (Thomson & Stricland 1995). Customers are being offered a wide choice of shopping experiences, but no one operation can capture them all. Not even \u201cSuper-Walmart\u201d.\nTherefore, it is now upon management to define their target market and direct their strategy and energy toward solving that specific market's problems. How to continue growth in a market that continues to change every day? \u201cTechnology, demographics, consumer attitudes, and the advent of a global economy are all conspiring to rewrite the rules for success\u201d (Lewiston, 1995). Success in the next decade will depend upon the level of understanding Walmart and other retailers have about the new values, expectations, and needs of the customer.\nIt\u2019s not about your assets and how powerful you are in the industry. It\u2019s about the customer and what they need and want. It is going to change from day to day, and when it does you must change your strategies and your management of implementing controls also. The Ideas of Sam Walton will always be true, \u201cIf we work together, we\u2019ll lower the cost of living for everyone\u2026we\u2019ll give the world an opportunity to see what it\u2019s like to save and have a better life\u201d(Walmart, 2010.) If Walmart continues its customer-driven culture, it should remain a retail industry leader well into the next century.\nBaird, L., Briscoe, J., Tuden, L. & Rosansky, LMH., (1994). World class development. HR. Human Resource Planning. 17, 1-15. Kummer, C.. (2010, March). The Great Grocery Smackdown. The Atlantic Monthly, 305(2), 38,40-41. Retrieved March 1, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1972141071). Hank, Sampson, (2002) How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and the World. Retrieved on Feb, 27, 2010.\nAvaialble from www.metroactive.com/papers/ Nath, P., Nachiappan, S., & Ramanathan, R.. (2010). The impact of marketing capability, operations capability and diversification strategy on performance: A resource-based view. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(2), 317. Retrieved February 28, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1961153431). Stewart, L. G. and Brown, G. K. (2009): Human Resource Management: Linking Strategy to Practice, second edition, New York: John Wiley and Sons.\nThreat, H. (1999). Measurement is free. Strategy & Leadership. Berkley Ca. 72 (3), 16-19. Walmart. (2010). Walmart about us [About us]. Retrieved on Feb, 27, 2010. Available from http://walmartstores.com/AboutUs/\nTarget vs Walmart\nWalmart Global Strategy\nSwot Analysis for Walmart\nWalmart in China", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 17948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ldswedding.com/category/lds-ring-ceremonies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NTYA6FGMU62QAMXKVYKZHBRUBCFWT36H", "length": 180, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ldswedding.com", "title": "LDS Ring Ceremonies Archives | LDS Wedding", "raw_content": "In recent years, hosting an LDS ring ceremony has increasingly popular for Latter-day Saint couples and their families. A ring ceremony is a public event where the bride and groom\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 2831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leaninalaska.com/2016/01/14/lean-government-social-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:C2RI67DG6AASDWS6HSM66AJXQLFJT2IY", "length": 4073, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "leaninalaska.com", "title": "Lean Government Social Services | Lean in Alaska Blog", "raw_content": "Lean Government Social Services\nLean Management Principles can be effective implemented in a social service organization, and there are many examples finding their way into stories on the Internet. Data driven improvements using Lean can have a huge impact on the health and welfare of our client base in Alaska. The principles are the same as the principles applied in business: let customers pull the service, understand your Takt Time, Cycle time and created flow through the elimination of waste, and develop standard work in support of your professional employees application of their knowledge and skills. Isn\u2019t that a mouthful? Well, nobody said it was easy. That\u2019s why we no longer have a successful Lean Management organization in Alaska. We have some that are struggling to find the path, but I am still waiting to see the right kind of results.\nLet\u2019s look at some examples of successful stories. The Wisconsin Bureau of Childhood Support has improved its intergovernmental case processing, working with other states to collect child support, by 60% according to an article in an ACF newsletter [LINK HERE]. By mapping the existing value stream, considering the complexity added by governmental regulations and extra jurisdictional laws and procedures, they established a plan to achieve the 60% improvement. So for the same cost as before, they can achieve much more with the elimination of waste. Success story and they want to do more, like tackle the instate child support process.\nVentura County, CA [LINK HERE] has been improving social services for over 5 years and accumulated reported savings annually of more than $535,000. For the past 5 years they have not spent over $2.5 million on the services they provided and suffered no reduction in the quality of those services. Sometimes we fail to understand that once the savings are achieved with Lean, they are recurring and the new base isn\u2019t used to recognize how much additional benefit accrues to the residents in the Local Government Service Area. Registration for benefits, appeals process and health/dental exams for foster children benefitted from the application of Lean Management principles. Remember, this improves Value for customers, but saves costs as well.\nHere is an interesting one from Results Washington. [LINK HERE] We have to remember that employees are also customers for Lean purposes. The Department of Health and Social Services improved processes for employee related processes and freed up 25,200 hours of employee time annually. That equates to 12 FTE\u2019s and although the department only calculated $10,000 in savings, the number is actually equivalent to the salary and benefits of 12 employees. The savings are more in the range of $750,000 if each employee considered has a base salary of $50,000 and benefits of 30%. Think of it this way: you can either free up 12 employees to perform other necessary work, or if there is no other necessary work to do, you can move 12 employees to an area where there is work to do, without adding more funding.\nSolihull is a local government in the UK. One of its projects involved patient discharge delays caused by a local government. Through the application of Lean, they achieved a quicker discharge of patients and avoided the penalty imposed by the British Government. Avoiding penalties is another benefit that Lean can give to a Local Government.\nNow a final example for now. The state of Maine targeted a number of Long Term Home and Community Benefits for elders. [LINK HERE] While the summary of benefits is not at this Link, there are substantial benefits accruing. That\u2019s what Lean does. Process are improved, quality is increased, services are delivered more quickly at a lower cost and customers needs are met more efficiently.\nSo lets encourage our social service providers to learn about how Lean can benefit their organization. We all benefit as a result because of the societal impacts being reduced, along with the cost.\n\u00ab Are our Priorities Misplaced When the Focus is on Cost Savings\nThe Con Men and Who to Trust \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 6244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://learn.adafruit.com/an-introduction-to-collaborating-with-version-control", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BOJHWEM6W63VDCVEQY3CIONNNTV3H6OR", "length": 5573, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "learn.adafruit.com", "title": "Overview | An Introduction to Collaborating with Version Control | Adafruit Learning System", "raw_content": "An Introduction to Collaborating with Version Control\nLearn the basics of sharing work with collaborators (like Adafruit!) using Git and GitHub.\nInstalling TortoiseGit on Windows\nInstalling Git on OS X\nInitializing a Repository and Making Commits\nPublishing Your Repository to GitHub\nHTTPS Credential Caching and SSH Keys\nWorking With Existing Repositories\nSubmitting a Pull Request on GitHub\nThis guide is a work in progress!\nWe get questions about Git, using Adafruit code published on GitHub, and making pull requests. Version control is a big subject, and this guide is far from comprehensive - it's meant to be a starting place and a pointer to other, deeper resources. We'll update it as things come up.\nWith that out of the way, let's get started with some basics.\nVersion Control? What?\nIf you've ever worked on a long-term project on a computer, especially one that you have to share with other people, there's a pretty good chance you've found yourself looking at something like this:\nThis has been a problem forever: You've got a project made out of files - something like the source code for an Arduino sketch or a Raspberry Pi project in Python, for example - and as you work on it, you need to know things like:\nWhat the last stable, known-good version looked like.\nWhat version is deployed to hardware in the field.\nWhen, roughly, it was last changed.\nVersion control systems, also variously known as revision control, source control, and so on, have been around since not long after programmers first started to grapple with this problem. A lot of their core ideas can be found in classic Unix utilities like diff and patch, designed to examine the differences between individual files or apply changes to them from elsewhere. Nowadays, a respectable VCS can usually:\nStore a project's entire history in a single directory.\nTrack exactly how individual files changed, and when.\nTrack who they were changed by.\nLog human-readable descriptions of changes.\nMerge sets of changes from different people.\nDisplay the differences between any two points in a project's history.\nStore multiple concurrent branches of a project, with different changes on each.\nGit is the most widely used VCS in the open source community, and GitHub, a web-based platform for hosting Git projects, has become the go-to place for collaborating on source code, supplanting sites like SourceForge and Google Code.\nEven though it's not a perfect fit for hardware and design-oriented projects, companies like Adafruit and SparkFun who focus on open source hardware routinely use Git and GitHub to track product changes, publish code and design files, and manage input from the community.\nWhat's So Special About Git?\nThis section is an alphabet soup of acronyms and things with confusingly similar names. Don't worry about it too much.\nProfessionals have used tools like SCCS, RCS, and CVS for decades, along with various and sundry commercial offerings. For a lot of users, though, especially small shops and hobbyists, version control didn't really begin to seem easy or straightforward until Subversion, frequently abbreviated \"svn\", showed up on the scene. Subversion was free, relatively easy to configure, and much less painful to use than earlier systems. It retains one strongly limiting flaw, however: It requires a central server to store changes and share them with others. It operates sort of like a hub and spokes:\nEven as svn gained traction with users and gave many their first taste of robust version control, a new wave of open source VCSes came on the scene with a very different approach: Instead of relying on the hub-and-spokes client-server model, these tools would store a project's complete history locally, in a single repository. For example, with Git, all you have to do to create a new project is this:\nAnd since every copy of the project is a first-class citizen, with all of the project's history, it's not even strictly necessary to have one central copy of the project (though it's usually convenient). Changes can be moved around from copy to copy, and a \"server\" can be as simple as having a copy on a computer everyone can access with SSH.\nGit, originally written by Linus Torvalds for use in developing the Linux kernel, has more or less taken over the world since its introduction in 2005. That's not to say there aren't other interesting options - tools like Mercurial, Darcs, and Bazaar offer similar features and friendlier interfaces, and are still actively used and maintained - but Git had some advantages in speed and tooling, plus some prominent early users. Once GitHub really started to take off, Git began to seem like the obvious choice to a lot of developers.\nAs a working programmer, I currently have somewhere around a hundred source code repositories on my laptop. Most of these are tracked with Git:\nAmong these are applications I routinely use, websites I maintain, variations on the Linux kernel, projects for Adafruit guides, and even the text of books I've written. If it's made out of text files, it's probably useful to keep it in Git. 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For five decades, Hanna has been recording books for Learning Ally, a group which provides such books for print-disabled students such as the visually impaired or those with reading disabilities. Hanna started with the group in 1963, when she and her late husband Mark Hanna had just moved to Athens. Gasoline cost 29 cents per gallon, Beatlemania was getting underway with the release of \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand,\u201d and people flocked to movie theaters to see \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d and \u201cLawrence of Arabia.\u201d Hanna\u2019s husband was a new faculty hire in the University of Georgia\u2019s business school, and she went to a kind of fair to look over what volunteer opportunities in which she might take part. \u201cIt just seemed interesting,\u201d said Hanna. Five decades and thousands of recording hours later, Hanna, now 84, can hardly imagine life without being a volunteer for Learning Ally. \u201cI enjoy it and I just feel like it\u2019s part of my life,\u201d said Hanna, who served twice as chair of the local group\u2019s board of directors. She doesn\u2019t know how many hours of recording she\u2019s done for the group. \u201cI don\u2019t keep up with it,\u201d she said. Hanna did more than just volunteer with Learning Ally in those five decades. She raised five sons, got a master\u2019s degree in education, taught math and science, and reared five sons, for starters. She bowls and plays golf, though she recently gave up tennis, she said. Learning Ally was called \u201cRecording for the Blind\u201d when she began helping in 1963. Back then, the group\u2019s recording studio was a disused University of Georgia laboratory. But since 1967, they\u2019ve been in a building on Florida Avenue near the new UGA Russell Library Building. Built with a donation from the Callaway Foundation of LaGrange, it\u2019s one of 11 recording studios nationwide for Learning Ally. The group\u2019s mission has expanded over the years beyond those with impaired vision to include people with learning disabilities. Volunteers like Hanna don\u2019t record popular fiction, but just about everything else, explained production director Eleanor Cotton. Some titles volunteers are working on this week include \u201cA History of Western Music,\u201d Mieroop\u2019s \u201cHistory of Ancient Egypt\u201d and \u201cUnited States History and Geography.\u201d Volunteers also record law school textbooks, first-grade readers, and right now even a Catholic Youth Bible, said Learning Ally production administrator Stacie Court. Hanna\u2019s specialty is science and math books. Hanna didn\u2019t begin with Learning Ally because she had a sight-impaired family member or anything like that. 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As cheesy as it sounds there are a lot of memories attached to the show--mostly reminiscing about all those years I watched it. And right now, it's making me sad. Ridiculous I know. But so much has changed in those 8 years. A lot for the good, but I also feel like I lost a lot too. I miss my guy friends from high school. That quirky group (dave, alex, andy, jake, charlie, the lot of them) are irreplaceable and it saddens me to think that I don't talk to them anymore... Even though I've tried to contact Dave many times. I miss football games and the post-party at my parent's house.... I miss the \"rabbit-hole\" and apple juice cans and bruegger's bagels and mannequin legs and Aldrige and kiwi chapstick (ok, I realize that's a lot of inside jokes--that I probably won't remember 10 years from now, but they make me smile). I think what it comes down to is I miss the carefree days. 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The Gallery\u2019s version is still in its complete original form and in good condition.\nLondon The National Portrait Gallery is to display for the first time the largest portrait in its Collection, a print showing the entire funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, it was announced today, Wednesday 11 March 2015. At 67 feet long and the length of two London buses (or 67 Wellington boots laid end to end) the epic panorama will be displayed for the first time in the Gallery\u2019s exhibition Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions, opening 12 March, having been stored in its Archive since 1911. Eight panels will be fully visible in the exhibition in a specially made display case housing the entire work. The Gallery will display the print throughout the length of the Victorian Galleries in a free one-hour event on Thursday 18 June, to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. This will be the first time the panorama will have been seen at full length at the Gallery. Highlights of the work include depictions of the grand and ornate funeral cortege, the Lord Mayor\u2019s carriage, members of the royal family, platoons of soldiers, and, by contrast, the simple but moving image of Wellington\u2019s horse being led in the procession with his master\u2019s empty boots reversed in the stirrups.\nVisitors to the exhibition will be able to see, alongside the work, a screen displaying the whole length of the work as a moving image. A Portrait Explorer version, viewable in the Gallery\u2019s Digital Space, will allow visitors to see in more detail those in the procession while an iPad app will enable visitors to take the work home with them.\nAfter Wellington died in September 1852, his body was laid in state at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea before a grand state funeral. The procession to St Paul\u2019s Cathedral was watched by a crowd estimated at one and a half million people. Other than for monarchs, with the possible exception of that given for Sir Winston Churchill, there has not since been a state funeral on a comparable scale.\nGeorge Augustus Sala\u2019s panorama was one of many souvenirs produced to commemorate the event. By this time, the controversies of Wellington\u2019s political career were twenty years in the past and feelings had softened. Furthermore, his death felt like the passing of an age. Wellington died as the quintessential Victorian, but his funeral was a reminder of the time forty years before when he gained his heroic reputation.\nPaul Cox, Associate Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London, says: \u2018This extraordinary panoramic print has remained hidden in the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s Archive Collection for many years. Few, if any, original purchasers of this souvenir can have had the space to see it at its full length. It is a rare and exciting opportunity to see it displayed in this way on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.\u2019\nTaking place to mark the bicentenary year of the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions (12 Mar-7 Jun 2015) will explore not only the political and military career of the victor of this great battle \u2013 but also his personal life through portraits of his family and friends.\nDrawn from museums and private collections including that of the present Duke of Wellington, the exhibition of 59 portraits and other art works includes rarely-seen loans from the family including a portrait by John Hoppner of the Duke as a youthful soldier and a daguerreotype portrait by Antoine Claudet, in the new medium of photography, taken on Wellington\u2019s 75th birthday in 1844. The family has also loaned Thomas Lawrence\u2019s beautiful drawing of Wellington\u2019s wife, Kitty.\nAs well as tracing his professional and private life, the exhibition considers the attempts of the art world to celebrate the Duke of Wellington\u2019s military successes. Commemorative objects on display will range from royal commissions by Europe\u2019s foremost artists and manufacturers to more modest souvenirs aimed at the domestic market. Wellington\u2019s eventful and often difficult political career will be illustrated by examples of the many satirical prints published in the 1820s and 1830s and the exhibition will also examine the reappraisal of Wellington\u2019s life that took place at his death and on the occasion of his lavish state funeral. In addition to looking at Wellington\u2019s career, the exhibition explores the lives of the soldiers who served with him during the Peninsula War and at Waterloo. 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Egerton\nThis semester I am taking a course called Literature and Media; in this course, we read books, view their adaptation(s), and discuss. Our first novel was Austen\u2019s Pride and Prejudice. Of course, I had extreme prejudice against this novel. I have lived my whole life without reading Jane Austen and was somewhat content with that. However, it\u2019s a classic, and me being me, I was probably going to read it eventually. And now I have! And I was pleasantly surprised. Huzzah.\nI\u2019m sure most of you know the premise of the novel because A) it\u2019s a classic and you\u2019ve heard summaries; B) it\u2019s a classic and you\u2019ve read it; or C) you\u2019ve seen an adaptation, whether that be the popular 2005 Hollywood film or the BBC miniseries. For those of you who don\u2019t know anything about the novel, it\u2019s about a family called the Bennet\u2019s. We have (in order of eldest to youngest) Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. This novel is set in the early 19th century England, so it\u2019s pretty much centered around social class, money, and marriage. The Bennet\u2019s aren\u2019t the most wealthy family in England and, having no son, will lose the estate once Mr. Bennet dies. Mrs. Bennet\u2019s sole concern in life is to get all five of her daughters married so that they can live a life that\u2019s not in poverty. So basically, the entire novel is spent on the Bennet sisters and their endeavors to get married. Mainly, it focuses on the eldest sisters (Jane and Elizabeth) and the new neighbors in the area (Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy).\nI started this novel with full intentions of hating it. By chapter 5, I still hated it. I thought it was a bunch of catty women whose sole purpose was to get married and have babies. The end. That\u2019s it. However, after my first lecture on the first dozen chapters of the novel, I began to change my mind. This professor can literally get me to understand and appreciate anything, even if I don\u2019t necessarily like it. She is wildly intelligent and pretty much my idol. I learned about 19th century England, entailments, social class structures, and the huge importance of being married during this time. I put myself in that time period and began to understand why certain characters acted a specific way and why things happened the way they did. After that, it was much more enjoyable to read.\nThe language can be a little hard to read at first, but if you keep pushing through it, eventually it will become second nature to you. I thought Austen was a little too wordy\u2026however, she was wordy without over-explaining things. I\u2019m not a fan of extreme detail, so I actually liked that aspect. However, I think Austen used a lot of words to explain some things that could easily be explained quicker. I do, though, understand that this was written in the 19th century and this is how people wrote and spoke.\nThere are a lot of characters introduced in this novel and it takes a long time to keep track of them all. However, they each have their own unique personalities and are easily distinguished from one another. I loved how different the characters were. I thought Mrs. Bennet was a basketcase most of the time, and her husband was my absolute favorite character; his snarky, sarcastic remarks made me laugh out loud:\nI liked how snarky Elizabeth was as well, and how she was intelligent and spoke her mind. A lot of people in my class hated Darcy, but I adored him. Sure, sometimes he seemed like an incentive jerk, but I like to think of him more as shy yet brutally honest.\nThe scene in which Elizabeth receives Darcy\u2019s letter is the turning point in this novel. The first half doesn\u2019t see much action or drama, but after the letter, it\u2019s a lot more exciting to read. The rest of the novel goes by quickly and interestingly. If you can make it to the letter, you\u2019re in for a pretty great novel (surprisingly). I think one of the greatest things about being an English major is kind of forcing yourself to read things you wouldn\u2019t normally pick up. And I definitely would not have picked up Pride and Prejudice on my own\u2026 If you\u2019re like me in that regard, give it a shot anyway. I\u2019m not really a romance-novel type of girl, but I actually liked this novel, so hey, you might too.\nFavorite Quote(s): \u201cA lady\u2019s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.\u201d\n\u201c\u2026angry people are not always wise\u201d\n\u201cI cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. it is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.\u201d\nSir Gawain and the Green Knight | book review\n14 thoughts on \u201cPride and Prejudice | book review\u201d\nlove this book! the 2005 adaptation with Keira Knightley is great!\nI\u2019ll be watching it this weekend and discussing it in class on Monday(: I can\u2019t wait!\nI\u2019m not gonna read it and you can\u2019t make me! /stubborn Well, wait, I read Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. Does that count? \u2026\u2026. Good review, btw =)\nPride, Prejudice and Zombies was great!! I read that many years ago. It definitely counts lol it\u2019s a lot more exciting than the original anyway \ud83d\ude1b\nI only read Pride and Prejudice (I didn\u2019t think I would like it!) AFTER reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to see how closely that book followed the original story line. I was surprised by actually enjoying the book!\nI did the same thing. I preferred the zombie spinoff, but the original was nice as well. I\u2019m currently having to read Longbourn by Jo Baker, which is another spinoff of the original \u2014 it\u2019s told from the servants perspectives. I wish I were reading about zombies instead.\nYou can\u2019t really go wrong with zombies. \ud83d\ude00\nI am ashamed that I have read nothing by Austen! But I am so intrigued by Pride and Prejudice ah!\nYou should read it! You may end up liking it\nI love Pride and Prejudice! Thanks for the thoughtful review. Have you seen the 6 hour BBC movie with Colin Firth? I know it sounds long, and it is. But it is also just lovely \ud83d\ude42 I highly recommend it!\nThank you for reading! My professor showed bits and pieces of it in class \u2014 one day I may watch it all. I did watch the 2005 Hollywood version and really enjoyed it.\nPingback: Monthly Recap \u2013 September 2015 | The Ultimate Book Geek\nThis is such a great, honest review of a classic. 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Last year, it supported 68 homelessness projects, leveraging \u00a3188,974 of pro-bono professional expertise, \u00a3190,391 of donated and discounted materials and cash grants totalling \u00a3155,586 to help improve buildings and services.\nHeld in the state rooms at 10 Downing Street, the recent celebration allowed Ms Roberts and Ms Brophy to explain firsthand to David Cameron how CRASH is able to build and refurbish emergency night shelters, hostels and day centres, through bespoke partnerships across the construction and property industry.\nPrime Minister David Cameron said: \u201cThe innovative approach CRASH takes harnesses the world-class skills and products of our construction industry to tackle the issue of homelessness. This Big Society Award recognises the remarkable achievements of everyone involved.\u201d\nMs Roberts, chief executive of CRASH, added: \u201cWe are thrilled and proud that the work of CRASH has been recognised by the Prime Minister. CRASH is the big society in action; the charity lies at the heart of the construction and property industry and is the conduit by which the companies and their employees can practically put something back to help communities across the UK.\n\u201cThis award honours the people and the companies who do so much to share their expertise, time and skill to help homeless people. CRASH is all about sharing what you are naturally good at, and sharing of ourselves is what charity is all about.\u201d\nPrime Minister visits BSW Timber\nEntries now open for 2016 Windsor Half Marathon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/lo-fi-garage-punk-pioneers-moto-visit-gooskis-saturday/Content?oid=1343816", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FFNZFWUKFNA3PPEIR5BFQBX3KUYLGFLS", "length": 4459, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "m.pghcitypaper.com", "title": "Lo-fi garage-punk pioneers MOTO visit Gooski's Saturday | Music | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper", "raw_content": "Lo-fi garage-punk pioneers MOTO visit Gooski's Saturday\nIt's been nearly 30 years since Paul Caporino founded Masters of the Obvious in New Orleans with Jeff and Mike Tomeny. He churned out a series of cassette tapes over the next two decades, beginning with 1985's Turn Your Head and Cough.\n\"I was about 20 or 21. We really just wanted to play, and we were influenced by various records in our collections,\" Caporino recalls. \"I'd bought a four-track cassette recorder, which was a good way to put your ideas down. I'd heard about [punk zine] Maximum Rocknroll and sent them a tape, and we got a good response from that.\"\nNow, MOTO (whose name riffs on Hawkwind's Masters of the Universe) is the godfather of a garage-punk scene that once again emphasizes lo-fi recordings. And at the age of 49, after long stints in Chicago and Boston and a litany of band rosters, Caporino is back in the Big Easy, reunited with the Tomeny brothers. \"They're officially back in the band like they were never out of the picture. Somehow I have a rapport with them that I never had with other musicians.\"\nIn 1991, I was the drummer for Pittsburgh's legendary indie goof-rocker, Weird Paul Petroskey, and we met MOTO's Chicago-based lineup on a bill at the now-defunct venue Lounge Ax. Much like Petroskey, Caporino was a prolific cassette artist with a quirky sense of humor. \"I thought that [humor] would be a good way to grab people's ears,\" say Caporino. \"It carries the music along and I think it works well.\"\nMany of his releases have self-referential titles, including QUASIMOTO, MOTOERECTUS, Kill MOTO! and M.O.T.O. Machine Music. Caporino eventually drifted to the 7-inch format, and then LPs and CDs. \"I've always loved vinyl,\" he says, \"so if I could find a label that was willing to put out vinyl I'd go for it. I wanted someone who could do what I couldn't on my own, like pressing and distribution.\"\nA trans-Atlantic presence led to airplay from the BBC's John Peel, but during the '90s that didn't translate into much touring except around the Midwest and New England. However, with the advent of the Internet, Caporino saw a renewed interest in the genre MOTO pioneered. By 2003, he was associated with the Chicago-based Criminal IQ Records, which has done much to popularize the latest wave of underground garage/punk acts such as The Functional Blackouts, The Pedestrians and Bear Proof Suit. Criminal IQ did three MOTO albums, including 2005's Raw Power, an obvious Stooges nod.\n\"I remember driving down the highway to Wisconsin with my bass player, mentioning that I was trying to think of an album title. We flipped through some CDs and found Raw Power. He laughed loudly and said, 'Wouldn't that be cheeky?' People got the joke, but one guy said, 'You have no business calling it that -- who do you think you are?' But the Replacements called one of their albums Let It Be!\"\nIn recent years, MOTO has toured Australia with a Down Under version of the band and gone to Europe with the Tomeny brothers (\"they used up all their vacation time\"). Caporino's current jaunts across Japan and the U.S., including a West Coast leg with Providence's spooky garage-punks Midnight Creeps, are backed by members of Pittsburgh band The Test Patterns. Caporino says he's honored so many people have been willing to learn his songs (\"I like them to be simple so that they can be digested properly\") and share his road adventures.\nBut he's not as prolific as he used to be. \"I've overlooked many good songs that I'd written, because I've been so productive for so long. I've got a big back catalog of unreleased songs to choose from [for new releases], so I'm not writing as voraciously as I had been.\"\nNonetheless, he's happy to be back in New Orleans. \"In the '80s, the city was so jazz- and R&B-oriented that we couldn't crack it. But New Orleans is more open to us now, and we can get shows easier.\"\nAs for his status as an elder statesman of lo-fi, Caporino adds, \"I'm not sure where I fit in, but I've been around a while and I have gray hair. I guess that's what happens when you stick around and you don't die or break up. I just try to stay active -- as long as we can get some attention here and there, that's all I really want.\"\nMOTO with Condominium, Kim Phuc and Slices. 9:30 p.m. Sat., June 5. Gooski's, 3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill. $6. 412-681-1658\nCourtesy Gary LoVerde\nQuasimoto: Paul Caporino (carrying friend Skwirl), live at New Orleans' Circle Bar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/feb/26/inventor-tackles-salton-sea-disaster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LRRDZW3INTS3LDW33ZZULFZUZ36MYGJF", "length": 9812, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "m.sandiegoreader.com", "title": "Inventor Tackles Salton Sea Disaster | San Diego Reader", "raw_content": "Inventor Tackles Salton Sea Disaster\nBy Joe Deegan, Feb. 26, 2004\nSan Diego \u0097 How it works is an industrial secret, say the founders of Aqua Genesis LLC, a San Diego company that intends to clean up the Salton Sea and in the process make thousands of acre-feet (one acre-foot equals 325,851 gallons) of potable water available for use in Southern California. The secret they are speaking of is the device on which the hopes of their company will rise or fall. \"But we can describe the process,\" says the company's chief executive officer Ronald Newcomb. \"It is an atmospheric pressure, closed air loop condensation system.\"\nNewcomb's partner Douglas Firestone invented the apparatus, which is housed by a box 20 feet long, 12 feet high, and 6 feet wide. It has no moving parts, but since salt water flows through its interior structures, the entire unit is made of stainless steel. Entering salt water is heated to temperatures near -- though still under -- boiling. Cold water also runs through the system, cooling the hot water. The process causes condensation of the salt water, removes its salt, and sends the resulting distilled water away as its product. This water, according to Newcomb, is purer than the bottled water you buy in a supermarket.\nAqua Genesis's founders both grew up in Mission Hills in the 1950s and '60s. They are entrepreneurs and inventors with several patents each. In order to start the new firm, Newcomb has dissolved his company Autek LLC, which designed aviation applications for the military. He has operated a number of other businesses, including an FM radio station. Firestone is the great- grandson of tire magnate Harvey Firestone. He has acquired several patents in solar technology and, in the early 1980s ran the first company selling electricity online to SDG&E.\nIn the first phase of the Aqua Genesis plan to remedy the Salton Sea, a complex of Firestone's units would be assembled at the Sea's Bombay Beach near Niland, California. (Eventually the company plans to produce over 5000 of the units at a factory in Nevada.) The plant would siphon Salton Sea water, which has a percentage point higher salinity level than ocean water's 3.5 percent. The water would then be heated with geothermal energy drawn from 4700 feet below ground. Geologists, according to Firestone, know water in the area at that depth to be 656 degrees F. Once its heat has been taken and its pressure used to move Salton Sea water through the plant, the operation would return the groundwater to its source.\nBut desalinating the Salton Sea would also lower the lake's water level; it is already losing much of the runoff it received from Imperial Valley farms, established prior to agreements that send Colorado River water to parts of California. So new water must be brought to the Salton Sea to protect its geographical size, water level, and environmental integrity. The second phase of the Aqua Genesis plan addresses this problem.\nNewcomb and Firestone think the best solution is to bring in ocean water from the Gulf of California. They know of only one other plan that intends to replace lost Salton Sea water with ocean water. That plan proposes pumping the ocean water from and to either the Gulf of California or the Pacific Ocean near Oceanside. Pumping over such a distance would require great expenditures of energy.\nAqua Genesis proposes instead to build a canal from the Gulf of California to Mexicali and then a 13-mile complex of pipes and a tunnel to bring the water over the California border and into the All American canal near Calexico. From there it would flush out the New River, which eventually flows into the Salton Sea. The New River, according to Newcomb, is now the most polluted river in America.\nOn the border, Aqua Genesis would use its condensation technology in another desalination plant for treating the ocean water flowing into the U.S. It would send some of the resulting distilled water to American farmers near Calexico and enough back to Mexico to fill up the now dry Laguna Salada and make it the beautiful, fish-rich lake it once was. The operation there would produce enough salt, according to Newcomb, to send nine million tons a year to Mexico to establish a thriving salt industry south of the border.\nIn that way, argues Newcomb, Aqua Genesis is not merely taking a valuable resource from Mexico. He couldn't believe one plan, he says, that called for dumping the brine by-product back into Mexico.\nNewcomb and Firestone have submitted their plan as an \"unsolicited proposal\" to the Salton Sea Authority headquartered in the small Imperial County town of La Quinta. The authority is a joint-powers organization of Riverside and Imperial Counties, the Imperial Irrigation District, and the Coachella Valley Water District.\nThe current \"built-out cost estimate\" for the project, according to the Aqua Genesis analysis, is $4.5 billion. The company is proposing that government funding, private funding, or various combinations of the two pay these expenses. Government funding would require bonds to be issued, while private plans would result in backers taking profits. But all costs of the project, say Newcomb and Firestone, can be mitigated through the sale of the water and salt it will produce for decades to come.\nFour and a half billion dollars is a daunting figure, but California is desperate for water, and now the Salton Sea, says Newcomb, \"is the greatest looming environmental disaster in American history.\" The Salton Sea Authority's own webpage names one of its sections \"Countdown to Disaster.\" On a recent check, the number of days posted was 5073, or close to 15 years. After that time, like the Dead Sea in Israel, the Salton Sea will no longer support a biotic community. The reason is that, although it is California's largest lake with 367 square miles of water, the Salton Sea's salinity level is rising at an alarming rate. Newcomb estimates that when its salinity level rises from its current 4.5 percent level to about 10 percent, it will no longer be viable.\nDeath of the Salton Sea would destroy a major north-south migratory bird flyway and what was once among the most productive sport fisheries in California. It would also wreak havoc on the tourist industry and property values in the area. The lake already gives off the pungent stench of dinoflagellate algae that blooms uncontrollably due to phosphates and fertilizers entering the lake from surrounding farms. In recent years, algae have killed tons of tilapia, a fish that normally adapts to high salinity and temperatures. But the excess algae in the lake clings to the fish's gills, depriving them of oxygen. According to the September/October 2000 issue of the Endangered Species Bulletin, when brown pelicans ate the dead fish, hundreds of them died from type C botulism.\nThe major current problem for the Salton Sea is that it is losing more water through evaporation than it receives from incoming sources. Until now the Salton Sea Authority's proposed solution has been to build a dike across the middle of the lake. Then all inflows would be pumped to its northern half, and the southern half would eventually dry up. That would reduce the lake's surface area by 50 percent. A smaller lake would keep a better balance between evaporation and inflow, thereby maintaining high enough water levels.\nBut recent studies have shown that a 50-foot layer of mushy sediment lies at the Salton Sea's bottom. That makes construction of a dike on the lake impossible. Besides, says Newcomb, the Salton Sea is situated at the southernmost end of the San Andreas Fault. And the Sand Hill Fault and several other fault lines fan out from that point south.\nIn the event of a substantial earthquake in the area, the dike, says Doug Firestone, \"would bend like a Hershey bar in the hot sun.\"\nNewcomb claims that the Salton Sea Authority has \"tentatively approved\" his company's plan after rejecting a hundred others. But Dan Cain, a senior administrative analyst with the authority and the project manager assigned to the proposal, says he knows little about the plan because, so far, the company has yet to demonstrate that its technology will work. \"If they demonstrate in San Diego that it works,\" he says, \"or come down to the Salton Sea, set up, and show us that it works here, then we can look more seriously at it.\"\nAqua Genesis would like to test its plan in San Diego if the company can find a producer of waste heat, like a power plant. \"That would be better than sending hot water into the ocean,\" says Newcomb. But if the company can't find anyone to work with in San Diego, they will do a test run at the Salton Sea, though they plan to save money by not digging yet for geothermal energy.\n\"Doug tested the system a year ago in Nevada,\" says Newcomb, \"but tore it down without third-party verification. If we were further along at the time with our business plan, we would have had someone come in, verify the data, and 'kick the tires,' if you will. So now we have to redo that.\"\nSan Diego State University geology professor Eric Frost, who has worked at the Salton Sea and already uses it as \"a teaching laboratory,\" is upbeat about the Aqua Genesis plan. \"[Newcomb and Firestone] are doing out-of-the-box thinking,\" he says. \"At the Salton Sea, I've seen people in the box who would rather argue forever about old solutions.\"\nFrost goes on to say that if Aqua Genesis is successful, the implications for other water-starved regions in the Middle East, Pakistan, China, and elsewhere \"would be extraordinary, and the Salton Sea people could end up becoming worldwide leaders.\"\nMore stories by Joe Deegan\nYou Could Hear a Pin Drop At Night! \u2014 May 18, 2006\nBury my bait at Bombay Beach \u2014 May 1, 1986\nThe catastrophe that is the Salton Sea \u2014 April 12, 1979", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 11049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/sep/19/best-paddleboarding/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DKSSIVM63CZEMV6ZTGUZVZS5QGKZS4NT", "length": 4201, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "m.sandiegoreader.com", "title": "Paddleboarding | San Diego Reader", "raw_content": "By Eve Kelly, Sept. 19, 2012\nOur niece, fresh from a vacation in Hawaii, chattered nonstop about paddleboarding.\n\u201cIt made me think of the E.E. Cummings line, \u2018For whatever we lose...It\u2019s always our self we find in the sea,\u2019\u201d she exclaimed.\nI glanced at my man Patrick, expecting to see a cynical grimace. Instead he looked enthralled. I think I might have a paddleboarder in the house. A few calls revealed that it might not be too expensive.\n\u201cWe offer walk-in paddleboard rentals open to the public for $25 in segments of two and a half hours,\u201d explained Kate from Mission Bay Aquatic Center (mbaquaticcenter.com; 858-488-1000). \u201cIf you\u2019re a current SDSU or UCSD student, there\u2019s a discount, $20 for two and a half hours. We offer private stand-up paddleboard lessons \u2014 one-on-one with an instructor, two-hour minimum, $45 per hour. And we also offer a basic skills one-time class for $49. There\u2019s a maximum of eight people in the two-hour class.\u201d\nIf yoga is your thing, they also offer yoga on the paddleboard. \u201cWe offer SUPCore Yoga, where they bring out a little anchor and you\u2019re out on the bay doing balancing exercises on the paddleboard [$35 for the hour-and-a-half class].\u201d Two other paddleboard exercise options: SUPCore Fit and SUPCore Train \u2014 each $35 for an hour-and-a-half class. All three classes are offered on weekend mornings.\n\u201cPaddleboarding is becoming very popular,\u201d Kate added, \u201cespecially in the bay. It\u2019s a lot easier than surfing \u2014 it\u2019s easier to balance. We also have kid-sized boards and a camp in the summer for kids.\u201d\nHike Bike Kayak Sports, with locations in La Jolla and Mission Bay (hikebikekayak.com; 858-551-9510), will bring paddleboarders out on tours of La Jolla Shores or Mission Bay. \u201cThere are a few minutes of instruction at the beginning,\u201d said the saleslady, \u201cbut then it\u2019s a guided tour.\u201d The guide is \u201cpointing out things to see in the area, so you can enjoy the scenery. Mission Bay is a little bit easier \u2014 it\u2019s nice and calm. In La Jolla it\u2019s a bit more challenging because you have to get out through a couple of waves. The group tours last about one and a half to two hours. It\u2019s a great vantage point, standing up on your paddleboard looking down into the ocean. In La Jolla, you can look down and see leopard sharks and all the marine life. It\u2019s a protected area, which is why there\u2019s so much wildlife there. We take out four people at a time, plus a guide, and the tours are $75 per person.\u201d\nBut how much of a workout are you getting standing on a surfboard and paddling? \u201c[You] definitely feel it after [you] paddleboard,\u201d she said, \u201cin your core and in your arms. Your core strength keeps you up and on balance.\u201d\n\u201cIf you are going straight into surfing on the paddleboard, then it\u2019s going to be a hard sport to just walk into,\u201d explained the salesman at Aqua Adventures (aqua-adventures.com; 619-523-9577). \u201cIt\u2019s easy for a beginner in the bay if you are an active person. The board is 10\u00bd feet to about 12\u00bd long and wider than a surfboard. We offer bay rentals where people go out on flat water and either do cardio or just get some water time. Our plastic boards go for $16.50 an hour, and our composite boards go for $22 an hour. We also offer lessons starting at $55 a person; with a group of six people, it\u2019s $25 a person. The lesson is a one-hour class. We also offer once every two weeks a class called Stand Up Start Up for $49 a person for an hour and a half.\u201d\n\u201cDress appropriately,\u201d he added. \u201cIf it\u2019s 50 degrees outside, you don\u2019t want to go out in swim trunks and no T-shirt.\u201d\nOEX Dive & Kayak offers Paddle into Fitness classes on Mission Bay. The weekend classes are beginner or SUP Yoga. Drop-in rate is $45 for an hour and a half class. Grab four friends, as the two-hour class is $50 for five to ten attendees (oexcalifornia.com; 619-866-6129).\nMission Bay Sportcenter (missionbaysportcenter.com; 858-488-1004) offers paddleboard rentals for $15 an hour on the bay and private lessons can also be arranged.\nI wasn\u2019t the only one falling \u2014 Sept. 11, 2018\nSUP with your pup \u2014 March 9, 2016\nPaddleboard safari \u2014 July 24, 2013\nMission Bay Aquatic Center, San Diego and Southwestern yacht clubs, the Navy Sailing Club \u2014 March 13, 1975", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.thingsyoudontknow.com/Facts/Entertainment/Vin-Diesel-Facts-_13/1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KRWREU3MZFTTEOWJFZU6DFI2O4MEL4LU", "length": 2316, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "m.thingsyoudontknow.com", "title": "12 Things You Probably Don't Know About Vin Diesel", "raw_content": "12 Things You Probably Don't Know About Vin Diesel\nSunday, Dec 11, 2016, 8:40 am\nThe \"Fast and the Furious\" star, Vin Diesel, is unquestionably one of the best Hollywood actors of all time. In his 27-year acting career, the \"Riddick\" star has acted in 30 plus movies. He has starred in highly successful Hollywood movie franchises such as \"The Fast and the Furious,\" \"The Chronicles of Riddick,\" and \"xXx.\" Vin Diesel is a self-made man; he worked very hard to be what he is today. Hey, allow us to shed some light on Vin Diesel's life. Read these 12 fascinating and little-known Vin Diesel facts you probably don't know!\n1.His Birth Name Is Mark Sinclair Vincent\nUnless you are a big fan of Vin Diesel, you are less likely to be aware of his birth name. He was born Mark Sinclair Vincent, but he changed his name to Vin Diesel when he was 17 working as a bouncer at a nightclub in New York City. The 49-year-old action star once told Conan O'Brien on his show that the first name Vin came from his original last name Vincent and the last name Diesel was given to him by his friends, who thought he was very energetic. Vin Diesel continued using his new moniker in the entertainment industry as well.\n2.Vin Diesel Has A Twin Brother\nVin Diesel has a fraternal twin brother, and the \"Riddick\" star himself shared a photo of his sibling on his Facebook page in 2014. He did that to stop the internet media spreading a fake photo claiming to be his twin. Vin Diesel's brother, Paul Vincent, is seen standing next to Paul Walker in this picture. \"The Two Pauls - Pablo and my mother would have deep conversations... she claimed, that it was no accident that this on-screen duo has come to define brotherhood in Our millennium.\" Vin Diesel wrote on Facebook. Vin Diesel treated Paul Walker like his own brother and used to affectionately call him Pablo.\n3.Vin Diesel Never Met His Biological Father\nThe \"Pitch Black\" star neither met his biological dad nor knew any details about him. All Vin Diesel know about his dad is that he was a colored person. The action star was raised by his white mother, Delora Vincent, and black stepfather, Irving Vincent in Manhattan, New York City. When Vin Diesel was a kid, his mom worked as a professional astrologer and his dad was a theater teacher. He has a sister and two brothers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maabraham.com/2016/10/07/beyond-the-myth-preorders/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IRQIYK63OP6CIPR52EBRQRQKAIRRCOVD", "length": 1092, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "maabraham.com", "title": "Beyond the Myth preorders \u2013 M. A. Abraham", "raw_content": "Beyond the Myth preorders\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Myth-M-Abraham-ebook/dp/B01M7M6FGQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475863337&sr=1-2&keywords=Beyond+the+myth&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011%2Cp_n_publication_date%3A1250228011\nhttps://www.amazon.com.au/Beyond-Myth-M-Abraham-ebook/dp/B01M7M6FGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475863578&sr=8-1&keywords=Beyond+the+Myth\nhttps://www.amazon.ca/Beyond-Myth-M-Abraham-ebook/dp/B01M7M6FGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475863633&sr=8-1&keywords=Beyond+the+Myth\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Myth-M-Abraham-ebook/dp/B01M7M6FGQ/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475863680&sr=1-5&keywords=Beyond+the+Myth\nhttp://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beyond-the-myth-ma-abraham/1124779569?ean=2940153766300\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/br/book/beyond-the-myth/id1162244069?l=en&mt=11\nhttps://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/beyond-the-myth-5\n3 thoughts on \u201cBeyond the Myth preorders\u201d\nWill share and tweet. Good to have them all in one place.\nI love this story and the cover is beautiful!\nPingback: Chapter I of Beyond the Myth \u2013 M. A. Abraham\nMy Chat with Eileen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madeinpgh.com/2017/01/04/what-youre-missing-inside-the-warhol-museum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IGVW2CXLVZA6CKADRCUXSVDOWIMD3WZ2", "length": 576, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "madeinpgh.com", "title": "What You're Missing: Inside the Warhol Museum - Made In PGH", "raw_content": "What You\u2019re Missing: Inside the Warhol Museum\nAndy Warhol\u2019s legacy lives on in Pittsburgh.\nWarhol, who gained fame and notoriety as the godfather of Pop Art, was a Pittsburgh native. Now, the Warhol Museum serves as the global keeper of his legacy. Experience Warhol\u2019s life, career, and creative spirit for yourself over seven floors of gallery and exhibition space on the North Shore.\nBlock of an entire day to explore the paintings, sculptures, photographs, and sketchbooks of this hyper-creative artist, author, filmmaker, sculptor, and socialite.\nPhotos by Courtney Powell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madmuslims.com/2019/02/11/the-middle-easts-tectonic-shifts/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DZ4BGSHAJ7N3B5J5I2DA6CI3JSNE2YSS", "length": 155, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "madmuslims.com", "title": "The Middle East\u2019s Tectonic Shifts | Mad Muslims", "raw_content": "The Middle East\u2019s Tectonic Shifts\nThe region is now at a crossroads no less important than during the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 108.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makemoneyteamwork.com/testimonial/731/this-is-it-this-is-what-i-need.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FYADZQS6ZLSMBNRXPULTIVKPKYTQBDUG", "length": 1093, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "makemoneyteamwork.com", "title": "Work From Home in Campbellton, Canada: This is it! This is what I need. True Residual Income", "raw_content": "Work From Home in Campbellton, Canada:\nThis is it! This is what I need. True Residual Income\nThis is it! This is what I need.\nI was looking for an online business opportunity that could meet my needs. I have been involved in network marketing since 1999 but I was really disappointed with many companies until I found Global Domains International. What caught my attention was a 3-minute presentation available on the MY.WS website, then I decided to go forward and watch the 7-minute Flash presentation. I was totally amazed by this and also with its marketing concept. While I was watching the presentation I told myself, \"This is it! This is what I need.\" I was looking for a real online business where I could work from home by helping others to succeed and then get rewarded for it. All I can say is that it works for me.\nThe minute I joined Global Domains International I decided to promote the opportunity immediately by word-of-mouth and online advertising with pay-per-click advertisement and by emailing leads everyday. I got signups in one week, and many of them are already active.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makemyvcard.com/privacy-policy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2FPQTP2YEYVDCICZVR2GNCCDS3BEUQGY", "length": 14957, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "makemyvcard.com", "title": "Vcard Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Business Growth. The use of the Internet pages of the Business Growth is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.\nThe processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the Business Growth. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.\nAs the controller, the Business Growth has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.\nThe data protection declaration of the Business Growth is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.\n111 Sunrise Point, Raopura Main Road\nEmail: support@makemyvcard.com\nWebsite: https://makemyvcard.com\nData Protection Officer Viral Jadhav\nThe Internet pages of the Business Growth use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.\nThrough the use of cookies, the Business Growth can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.\nThe website of the Business Growth collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.\nWhen using these general data and information, the Business Growth does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. 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The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted, as well as when the newsletter is ordered from the controller.\nThe Business Growth informs its customers and business partners regularly by means of a newsletter about enterprise offers. The enterprise's newsletter may only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the data subject registers for the newsletter shipping. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address registered by a data subject for the first time for newsletter shipping, for legal reasons, in the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to prove whether the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is authorized to receive the newsletter.\nThe newsletter of the Business Growth contains so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the Business Growth may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.\nSuch personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analyzed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The Business Growth automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.\nThe website of the Business Growth contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.\nThe Business Growth offers users the possibility to leave individual comments on individual blog contributions on a blog, which is on the website of the controller. A blog is a web-based, publicly-accessible portal, through which one or more people called bloggers or web-bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. Blogposts may usually be commented by third parties.\nThe comments made in the blog of the Business Growth may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, there is the possibility that a commenter subscribes to the comments following his comments on a particular blog post.\nIf one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Business Growth, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Business Growth shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.\nWhere the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Business Growth will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.\nIf one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Business Growth, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Business Growth will arrange the restriction of the processing.\nIn order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Business Growth.\nThe Business Growth shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.\nIf the Business Growth processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Business Growth to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Business Growth will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.\nIn addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Business Growth for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.\nIn order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Business Growth. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.\nIf the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the Business Growth shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.\nIf the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Business Growth.\nIf the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Business Growth.\nIn addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to the collection of data relating to a use of this site that are generated by WiredMinds and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must click the \u2018don\u2019t-track-my-visits' button under the link https://wm.wiredminds.de/track/cookie_mgr.php?mode=dont_track_ask&websitesel. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted or reinstalled, then the data subject must again set an opt-out cookie.\nOn this website, the controller has integrated components of Oracle Eloqua/Oracle Marketing Cloud (hereinafter referred to as the \"Eloqua\"). Eloqua compares relevant Internet content to data from prospective customers and their profiles, to enable Internet site operators to speak more effectively and specifically to prospects and customers. The purpose of Eloqua is to increase the conversion rate of prospective customers and thus increase the turnover of an Internet site operator.\nWe may keep certain login credentials of users (like email, website, phone, username, passwords, etc) for our SaaS products and other websites, platforms, apps and software tools. These are necessary to provide auto login, security measures, to abide fair usage policy by our users and other platform usability and feature related uses. However we do not share or sell such information to third parties or outsiders.\nmakemyvcard.com Privacy Policy\nWhen ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, business information, whatsapp number, business details, about, social urls and profile pages, and other related information that people want to put on their digital business card or other details to help you with your experience.\nThere are many resellers on our platform and it is not possible for everyone to disable tracking.\nsupport@makemyvcard.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.\nOther Important Disclaimers\nAll our customers whose vCard or Profile (web page or post) is created on our website (or platform), can share their vcard in their network. They need to mention that we are using remarketing tracking scripts like Facebook Ads or Google Adwords, etc. And even third party or anyone who visits your vCard will be tracked and we may show them Remarketing Ads.We also have white label resellers, who may also provide same vCard or Profile services to their customers. Resellers also need to communicate with their customers about remarketing tracking scripts used for showing third party ads.All contact and business information present on vcard or profile are actually public information and anyone (including other customers, outsiders and general public) can browse or search your business or contact details. So do not put any sensitive data or information on vcard. Consider this is a public open business listing directory where your contact and business information are make available to the public. So we suggest resellers and customers and end users to put only those details that you actually want to make publicly available to all on the internet. We do not have control on how website or vcard visitors will use your contact and business information.Also, you cannot put any products, information or other contents that are prohibited by any laws or dont abide any laws. You should put contents like images, text, contact details and business information for which you are authorized to share. You should not put any contents for which you dont have permission to use or is prohibited by any copyright law.You yourself will be liable for putting such illegal contents or for unlawful practices.We may update our terms, privacy and other disclaimers on this page without any further notice. Keep visiting this page to get updated information.\nmakemyvcard.com\n111 Sunrise Point, Raopura Road\nVadodara, Gujarat 390001", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 638, "original_length": 183264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://manicddaily.com/2018/05/13/happy-mothers-day-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JKMSEBBWXI4YYRN4OT3B4MF3U3D7XDQH", "length": 324, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "manicddaily.com", "title": "Happy Mother\u2019s Day | ManicDDaily", "raw_content": "\u00ab D is for\u2013\nExplore posts in the same categories: children's illustration, drawings\nThis entry was posted on May 13, 2018 at 11:56 am and is filed under children's illustration, drawings. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.\nOne Comment on \u201cHappy Mother\u2019s Day\u201d\nI hope you had a wonderful Mother\u2019s Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maraltours.com/en/iran/religion/christianity.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YGIFGKE2XLBS46BDZQF7DDXOQBNUU5VY", "length": 1785, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "maraltours.com", "title": "Christianity", "raw_content": "To get a glimpse of Christian in Iran, you may consider visiting St.Stepanos Cathedral near Jolfa city in East Azarbaijan province. The cathedral was built in 9th century and reconstructed during the Safavid era.\nThe set of Armenian Monastic Ensembles in Iran was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.Situated in the north west of the country, these consist of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St. Thaddeus and St. Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor. These edifices \u2013 the oldest of which, St Thaddeus dates back to the 7th century-are examples of outstanding universal value of the Armenian architectural and decorative traditions.\nThey bear testimony to very important interchanges with the other regional cultures,in particula the Byzantine,Orthodox and Persian.Situated on the south \u2013eastern fringe of the main zone of the Armenian cultural space,the monasteries constituted a major centre for the dissemination of that culture in the region.\nThey are the last regional remains of this culture that are still in a satisfactory state of integrity and authenticity.Furthermore,as places of pilgrimage ,the monastic ensembles are living witnesses of Armenian religious traditions through the centuries.\nVanak Cathedral of Esfehan ,also known as the Church of the Saintly Sisters,is another important religious places for the Armenian community.Construction is believed to have begun in 1606, and completed with major alterations to design between 1655 and 1664.Iran\u2019s Christian community consists of Armenians and Assyrians.They have a long historical background as iranian people.They have churches in various parts of Iran and they observe their religious feats and ceremonies .They have several representatives in Iran\u2019s parliament(or Mjlis).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marieshepherdsculpture.co.uk/2015/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:T2JFVMLSZUKZFAKD3DCM6BE2N4BCYWWL", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "marieshepherdsculpture.co.uk", "title": "Marie Shepherd Sculpture \u2013 2015 \u2013 January", "raw_content": "Sculpture in [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 75.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://markmanart.com/artwork/4062012-Figure-Drawing-No-143.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ETVIIEJFYDP2S4VYOO7WAVZIC5P3FZKZ", "length": 185, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "markmanart.com", "title": "Artist Lori Markman Fine Art", "raw_content": "This model was actually a male model, but Halfway through, I felt the figure was beautiful as a female figure, so I made it more feminine. I do like the grace and beauty of this figure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marymaletzke.com/2018/06/01/personal-branding-photography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OKHPK4LYXOPQUOMYWDPVKT57IXAJDWEB", "length": 2013, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "marymaletzke.com", "title": "Personal Branding Photography: Kristin Jeffries, Ellensburg Mortgage Advisor - marymaletzke.com", "raw_content": "When Kristin Jeffries contacted me for updated personal branding photography she knew that she wanted her photos to be different from your standard headshot. If you\u2019ve ever obtained a mortgage you know that it requires an immense amount of paperwork and numbers are everything. It can also be a stressful experience for the average home buyer. Working with a mortgage advisor that is committed to making your experience as stress-free as possible is everything. But as a Mortgage Advisor in Ellensburg, Kristin Jeffries knows that we can sometimes forget how important the human side of this experience can be.\nKristin Jeffries, Mortgage Advisor, NMLS 1542061, Fairway Independent Mortgage, Ellensburg, WA. https://www.kjhomeloans.com\nWhich is why I really wanted to place Kristin inside her office for some of her personal branding photography. The visual imagery we created reminds potential clients that there are people on the other side of the paperwork and finding someone who can relate to you and your experience is so important.\nWhy Did You Choose Personal Branding?\n\u201cI see personal branding it as a new way to market myself beyond the classic real estate headshot. It allows my clients to get a better sense of who I am and how I work.\u201d\nWhat do you want potential clients to know about you?\n\u201cI want clients to know that I am just like them, I understand the balance of family and work. I make what could be a stressful large purchase as stress-free as possible. Securing home loans for my clients is incredibly rewarding.\u201d\nWhy Mary Maletzke Photography for your Personal Branding Photography?\n\u201cMary and I met in a networking group, and at the time I was updating my marketing for the year. I liked her energy and work, and realized it was a great fit for my brand.\u201d\nYou can find out more about Kristin Jeffries on her website at https://www.kjhomeloans.com or https://www.facebook.com/kjhomeloans/\nA Special Mothers Day Photography Session \u00bb\n\u00ab What You Need to Know About Personal Branding and Headshots", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/news/australia-nominated-five-afc-2015-awards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:NGOCNUWYFWKE2I5WWEL35GLLKXWHEW2I", "length": 3554, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "matildas.footballaustralia.com.au", "title": "Australia nominated for five AFC 2015 Awards | Matildas", "raw_content": "Australia nominated for five AFC 2015 Awards\nAustralian football\u2019s stellar year has been recognised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) with nominations in five categories of the AFC Annual Awards 2015 Ceremony to be held on Sunday 29 November 2015 in New Delhi, India.\nHighlighted by the Socceroos\u2019 successful and history making AFC Asian Cup 2015\u2122 triumph on home soil, Australia features in the shortlist for five awards \u2013 AFC Member Association of the Year, AFC National Team of the Year (Socceroos), AFC Coach of the Year (Ange Postecoglou), AFC Women\u2019s Player of the Year (Elise Kellond-Knight) and AFC Asian International Player of the Year (Massimo Luongo).\nFootball Federation Australia (FFA) CEO David Gallop, who will attend the awards in India along with newly elected FFA Chairman Steven Lowy AM, says the recognition demonstrates the progression and enormous strides football in Australia has made in 2015.\n\u201cTo have nominees for five awards is fantastic and something we as a country and a sport should be extremely proud of,\u201d said Gallop.\n\u201cFootball in this country is in a strong and healthy position, highlighted by these nominations. 2015 has been a momentous one for Australian football, which all started with the successful hosting of the AFC Asian Cup which demonstrated the game\u2019s potential and the quality of our footballers across Asia.\n\u201cRegardless of who wins the respective awards on the night, it shows that Australian football is continuing to move forward in leaps and bounds.\u201d\nThe Socceroos are in the running to be named AFC National Team of the Year after becoming the first host nation to win the AFC Asian Cup, coupled with the team\u2019s impressive results this year in the first stage of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 which sees them currently top of their group.\nThe Socceroos\u2019 success and performances in 2015 has also seen Head Coach Ange Postecoglou selected as one of the nominees for the AFC Coach of the Year.\nSince the start of the Socceroos\u2019 AFC Asian Cup 2015 campaign, Postecoglou has overseen nine wins from 11 matches and seen Australia\u2019s FIFA ranking climb in the process.\nSocceroo Massimo Luongo has been nominated for the AFC\u2019s Asian International Player of the Year after he was named Player of the Tournament at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.\nWestfield Matildas midfielder Elise Kellond-Knight has also been recognised for her strong form during the team\u2019s run to the Quarter Finals of the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2015, the 25-year-old shortlisted as one of three in line for the AFC Women\u2019s Player of the Year.\nIf Kellond-Knight takes out the award, it will be the second consecutive year it has been won by an Australian after fellow Queenslander Katrina Gorry claimed the award in 2014.\nFootball Federation Australia (FFA) has also been nominated for the AFC Member Association of the Year following Australia\u2019s hosting of the AFC Asian Cup 2015. The tournament saw an aggregate attendance of 650,000 (more than 20,000 per match) and a worldwide TV audience in excess of one billion.\nThe AFC Annual Awards 2015 Ceremony commences at 7pm local time (12.30am AEDT, Monday 30 November).\nAFC Annual Awards 2015 \u2013 Australian nominees\nFootball Federation Australia shortlisted for AFC Member Association of the Year 2015\nSocceroos shortlisted for AFC National Team of the Year 2015\nAnge Postecoglou shortlisted for AFC Coach of the Year 2015\nElise Kellond-Knight shortlisted for AFC Women\u2019s Player of the Year 2015\nMassimo Luongo shortlisted for AFC Asian International Player of the Year 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mattharmelin.com/creative-college-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:57Z", "digest": "sha1:O6JOAXT4K2NO6RDGQK6ICHLLOS5OHSRA", "length": 689, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mattharmelin.com", "title": "Creative College Work | Matthew L. Harmelin", "raw_content": "This is some of the college work and projects that I did while studying as an undergrad at American University. They do a good job of showing my creative side but since these are some of the first video\u2019s I ever worked on, the quality is kind of rough.\n\u201cMask and Robe Society\u201d\nThis first video was a final/end of semester project that I did for a video production class. The goal was to make a movie trailer.\n\u201cThe Assassin\u2019s Mark\u201d\nThe goal of this video exercise was to have no dialogue but still tell a whole story. It tells the tale of a guy who\u2019s friends with a girl but want to be more than that. The problem is that this girl has a boy friend who needs to be taken out of the picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mcpebox.com/gangster/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5VAXJMJRVD662CFDLZXMFUGMGZBCV4V", "length": 863, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mcpebox.com", "title": "Gangster skin for Minecraft PE 1.2.0.7 | MCPE Box", "raw_content": "Home / Skins for Minecraft PE / Gangster skin for Minecraft PE\nGangster skin for Minecraft PE\nA stereotypical gangster character with baggy jeans, a gold chain and a cap.\nA gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster. Gangs provide a level of organization and resources that support much larger and more complex criminal transactions than an individual criminal could achieve. Gangsters have been active for many years in countries around the world. Some gangsters, such as Al Capone, have become infamous. Gangsters are the subject of many movies, particularly from the period between 1930 and 1990. Contemporary criminals often refer to themselves as \u201cgangsta\u201d in reference to non-rhotic Black American pronunciation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mcquinnnaturopathic.com/natural-immunity-booster-shots-in-snohomish-for-better-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:XCYXYM4VK6YCTKZVUWKG37QLJPKX5OZS", "length": 1821, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mcquinnnaturopathic.com", "title": "Snohomish Natural Immunity Booster Shots | Natural Immunity Booster Shots in Snohomish, WA | Mcquinn Naturopathic", "raw_content": "With the staggering number of toxins in the air we breathe, the liquids we drink and the food we eat, it is no wonder that our body\u2019s immune system has broken down. Many people have become more susceptible to illness because of these issues and often experience difficulty in bouncing back to normal after being sick. There is an easy answer for this problem. Let\u2019s look at how natural immunity booster shots in Snohomish can help.\nWhile few people \u201cenjoy\u201d getting an injection, booster shots that aid in strengthening the body\u2019s reaction to harmful viruses can only be beneficial! As a preventative measure, these shots are non-medicinal, all-natural, contain no preservatives, serve to eliminate dangerous toxins and defend against disease and illness.\nImmunity booster shots are an excellent choice for anyone but individuals who are frequently exposed to people who are sick like health care workers, teachers, caregivers and others can really benefit. Those traveling overseas will also see the advantages of a series of these injections.\nThe naturopathic injections are carefully and deliberately comprised of sterile homeopathic and botanical elements that have proven effectiveness against the onslaught of illness and disease. In addition, there are NO uncomfortable and unpleasant side effects to be concerned about.\nTo inquire about an affordable series of natural immunity booster shots in Snohomish for you and your family, call McQuinn Naturopathic today at (425)905-2487 and speak to one of our experienced health care providers. It\u2019s time to schedule your personal appointment now to be prepared for the future.\nNatural Immunity Booster Shots in Snohomish for Better Health was last modified: April 27th, 2016 by Cindy\n\u2190 Naturopathic Medicine in Lake Stevens\tIV Therapy in Marysville for Natural Healing \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mechanical-hub.com/as-tariffs-creates-volatility-for-steel-pipe-pp-r-offers-stable-pricing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:29Z", "digest": "sha1:V2WLTGHYBEATLSBWXGF6QTPHEOGKYGGB", "length": 3621, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mechanical-hub.com", "title": "As tariffs creates volatility for steel pipe, PP-R offers stable pricing - Mechanical Hub | News, Product Reviews, Videos, and Resources for today's contractors.", "raw_content": "As tariffs creates volatility for steel pipe, PP-R offers stable pricing\nLindon, Utah\u2014The tariffs on imported steel and aluminum recently imposed by President Donald Trump immediately raised concerns of an adverse effect on steel and aluminum prices. The American Institute of Architects issued a statement saying, \u201cThe administration\u2019s announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports threatens to drastically increase the prices of many building materials specified by architects.\u201d The Associated General Contractors of America warned that the tariffs \u201ccould wreck the budgets for numerous infrastructure projects and private nonresidential investments.\u201d\nThe Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) warned that the tariff \u201ccould wreck the budgets for numerous infrastructure projects and private nonresidential investments.\u201d\nAccording to AGC, even before they took effect May 31, the tariffs had triggered a surge of orders that mills say exceeds their current capacity, a situation that threatens to produce construction delays, budget problems, and possibly cancellations for future construction projects.\n\u201cConsidering the impact the mere threat of the tariffs have had on materials prices and demand, prices are likely to increase further as the new trade restrictions come online,\u201d said Stephen E. Sandherr, AGC\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cForcing contractors to pay more for materials and wait longer to receive them will make construction more costly and slower.\u201d\nThe American Supply Association\u2019s (ASA\u2019s) Industrial Piping Division noted that carbon steel pipe experienced \u201cunprecedented\u201d increases during the weeks following the president\u2019s initial announcement of a tariff on imported steel in March. \u201c[The announcement] caused an immediate increase of at least 25% on all imported steel pipe,\u201d the ASA reports. \u201cDomestic product has seen increases ranging from 22% to 60% depending on size.\u201d\nGiven the ongoing turmoil the tariffs are likely to cause in the steel market, polypropylene-random (PP-R) pipe such as Aquatherm stands as a better option than ever for large-diameter mechanical piping systems.\nPP-R pipe is not subject to the tariffs, and its price has remained stable and predictable over the years. Engineers planning mechanical systems, and contractors bidding on them, can rely on PP-R to remain a consistently priced piping system. By contrast, the metal piping market has fluctuated dramatically over that same time span, and in all likelihood is going to remain volatile because of the tariffs.\nThe predictable total installed cost of PP-R is a primary benefit versus steel. Heat fusion can be much quicker than welding or soldering and requires no hot work permit or fire watch, making considerable labor and total installed cost savings achievable.\nOther benefits include much lighter weight (up to 70% less weight than carbon steel depending on size), a much longer life span of 60+ years, and virtually leak-free heat-fused connections that do not require any open flame or welding or release any volatile organic compounds (VOCs). PP-R pipe does not scale or corrode and is fully recyclable.\nPP-R pipe is versatile and suitable for a wide variety of PHVAC and industrial applications, and possesses widespread code approvals. In addition, thanks to its light weight, PP-R pipe spools can be prefabricated and shipped directly to the jobsite, ready to hang.\nIn an ever-changing business climate where metal piping system prices are subject to uncertainty and volatility, price stability is just one more reason to consider PP-R for the piping system in your next project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Sierra_College/Chapters/7%3A_Energy_Balance_and_Healthy_Weight/9.2%3A_Indicators_of_Health%3A_Body_Mass_Index%2C_Body_Fat_Content%2C_and_Fat_Distribution", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MK5NLRVXUWZYKVDD5JX7ABZWQVGPQBTH", "length": 10912, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "med.libretexts.org", "title": "9.2: Indicators of Health: Body Mass Index, Body Fat Content, and Fat Distribution - Medicine LibreTexts", "raw_content": "The Body Mass Index (BMI)\nLimitations of the BMI\nMeasuring Body Fat Content\nMeasuring Fat Distribution\nBe able to calculate body mass index (BMI) given a particular weight and height.\nName the factors that affect body composition and distribution.\nAlthough the terms \"overweight\" and \"obese\" are often used interchangeably and considered as gradations of the same thing, they can denote different things. You weigh what you weigh because of your: water weight, lean muscle weight, bone weight, and weight from body fat (adipose). \"Overweight\" refers to having more weight than is typical for a particular height. That weight may be the result of water weight, muscle weight, or fat mass. \"Obese\" refers specifically to having excess body fat. In most cases people who are overweight also have excessive body fat and therefore body weight is an indicator of obesity in much of the population.\nThe \u201cideal\u201d healthy body weight for a particular person is dependent on many things, such as frame size, sex (hormone profile), muscle mass, bone density, age, and height. The perception of the \u201cideal\u201d body weight can be additionally dependent on cultural factors and the mainstream societal advertisement of beauty.\nIn this author's opinion, the concept of \"ideal body weight\" is concerning. I feel that each of us should be eating healthfully (not just saying it but doing it), exercising healthfully and then allowing our body weight to go where it wants to go. However, medical doctors, public health officials and others needed to find a simple tool to look at patterns of weight gain in the U.S.A. and elsewhere. The easy tool that was developed is called the Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is a tool meant to tell an individual if they weight too much, too little or just right. BMI uses the information that we already have readily available from every doctor's visit: weight and height. The general idea is, if you are very tall and have a low weight you are probably underweight. If you are very short and you weigh a lot you are probably overweight. It is a crude tool but one that can quickly, inexpensively give estimates of overweight and/or underweight.\nBody mass index (BMI) is calculated using height and weight measurements and is more predictive of health risk than using weight alone. BMI measurements are used to indicate whether an individual may be underweight (with a BMI less than 18.5), overweight (with a BMI over 25), or obese (with a BMI over 30). The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is universally expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.\n\\[\\text{BMI} = \\dfrac{\\text{weight } (kg)}{\\text{height } (m^2)}\\]\nThe BMI attempts to quantify the amount of tissue mass (muscle, fat, and bone) in an individual, and then categorize that person as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese based on that value. However, there is some debate about where on the BMI scale the dividing lines between categories should be placed. Commonly accepted BMI ranges are underweight: under 18.5 kg/m2, normal weight: 18.5 to 25, overweight: 25 to 30, obese: over 30 (Figure \\(\\PageIndex{1}\\):).\nFigure \\(\\PageIndex{1}\\): Obesity and BMI. Image used with permission (CC BY-SA 4.0; BruceBlaus).\nAutomatic BMI Calculators\nThe National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the CDC have automatic BMI calculators on their websites:\nTo see how your BMI indicates the weight category you are in, see Table \\(\\PageIndex{1}\\) or use a chart of weight and height to figure out your BMI.\nTable \\(\\PageIndex{1}\\): BMI Categories\nObese > 30.0\nSource: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Accessed November 4, 2012. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov.\nVery high AND very low BMI's appear to increase a person's risk of dying. If you look at a graph of BMI as it relates to your risk of dying, it has a \"J shaped Curve\" or a \"U shaped Curve\" because being too low and/or too high both raise your risk of mortality (Figure \\(\\PageIndex{2}\\)). Instead, you'd like to be in the middle range of the BMI which is what they use for \"Normal weight\". You will notice that, even though you will be categorized as \"overweight\" at a BMI of 25 and \"obese\" at a BMI of 30, the risk of dying goes up gradually. Like a teacher assigning a letter grade, the decision of exactly where to draw the lines for underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese are somewhat arbitrary.\nFigure \\(\\PageIndex{2}\\): Mortality risk vs. BMI.\nA BMI is a fairly simple measurement and does not take into account fat mass or fat distribution in the body, both of which are additional predictors of disease risk. Body fat weighs less than muscle mass. Therefore, BMI can sometimes underestimate the amount of body fat in overweight or obese people and overestimate it in more muscular people. For instance, a muscular athlete will have more muscle mass (which is heavier than fat mass) than a couch potato of the same height. Based on their BMIs the muscular athlete would be less \u201cideal\u201d and may be categorized as more overweight or obese than the couch potato; however this is an infrequent problem with BMI calculation. Additionally, an older person with osteoporosis (decreased bone mass) will have a lower BMI than an older person of the same height without osteoporosis, even though the person with osteoporosis may have more fat mass. A BMI is a useful inexpensive tool to categorize people and is highly correlative with disease risk, but other measurements are needed to diagnose obesity and more accurately assess disease risk..\nWater, organs, bone tissue, fat, and muscle tissue make up a person\u2019s weight. Having more fat mass may be indicative of disease risk, but fat mass also varies with sex, age, and physical activity level. Females have more fat mass, which is needed for reproduction and, in part, is a consequence of different levels of hormones. The optimal fat content of a female is between 20 and 30 percent of her total weight and for a male is between 12 and 20 percent. Fat mass can be measured in a variety of ways. The simplest and lowest-cost way is the skin-fold test. A health professional uses a caliper to measure the thickness of skin on the back, arm, and other parts of the body and compares it to standards to assess body fatness. It is a noninvasive and fairly accurate method of measuring fat mass, but similar to BMI, is compared to standards of mostly young to middle-aged adults. Other methods of measuring fat mass are more expensive and more technically challenging. They include:\nUnderwater weighing. This technique requires a chamber full of water big enough for the whole body can fit in. First, a person is weighed outside the chamber and then weighed again while immersed in water. Bone and muscle weigh more than water, but fat does not\u2014therefore a person with a higher muscle and bone mass will weigh more when in water than a person with less bone and muscle mass.\nBioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA). This device is based on the fact that fat slows down the passage of electricity through the body. When a small amount of electricity is passed through the body, the rate at which it travels is used to determine body composition. These devices are also sold for home use and commonly called body composition scales.\nDual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. This technique can be used to measure bone density. It also can determine fat content via the same method, which directs two low-dose x-ray beams through the body and determines the amount of the energy absorbed from the beams. The amount of energy absorbed is dependent on the body\u2019s content of bone, lean tissue mass, and fat mass. Using standard mathematical formulas, fat content can be accurately estimated.\nTotal body-fat mass is one predictor of health; another is how the fat is distributed in the body. You may have heard that fat on the hips is better than fat in the belly\u2014this is true. Fat can be found in different areas in the body and it does not all act the same, meaning it differs physiologically based on location. Fat deposited in the abdominal cavity is called visceral fat and it is a better predictor of disease risk than total fat mass. Visceral fat releases hormones and inflammatory factors that contribute to disease risk. The only tool required for measuring visceral fat is a measuring tape. The measurement (of waist circumference) is taken just above the belly button. Men with a waist circumference greater than 40 inches and women with a waist circumference greater than 35 inches are predicted to face greater health risks.\nThe waist-to-hip ratio is often considered a better measurement than waist circumference alone in predicting disease risk. To calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, use a measuring tape to measure your waist circumference and then measure your hip circumference at its widest part. Next, divide the waist circumference by the hip circumference to arrive at the waist-to-hip ratio. Observational studies have demonstrated that people with \u201capple-shaped\u201d bodies, (who carry more weight around the waist) have greater risks for chronic disease than those with \u201cpear-shaped\u201d bodies, (who carry more weight around the hips). A study published in the November 2005 issue of Lancet with more than twenty-seven thousand participants from fifty-two countries concluded that the waist-to-hip ratio is highly correlated with heart attack risk worldwide and is a better predictor of heart attacks than BMI.Yusuf, S. et al. \u201cObesity and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction in 27,000 Participants from 52 Countries: A Case-Control Study.\u201d Lancet 366, no. 9497 (2005): 1640\u20139. Accessed October 5, 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16271645 ?dopt=AbstractPlus. Abdominal obesity is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a waist-to-hip ratio above 0.90 for males and above 0.85 for females.\nMost people who are overweight also have excessive body fat and therefore body weight is an indicator of obesity in much of the population. To standardize the \u201cideal\u201d body weight and relate it to health, scientists have devised some computational measurements to better define a healthy ideal weight. Body weight in relation to height is called BMI and is correlated with disease risk. Total body fat mass is another predictor of disease risk; another is where the fat is distributed. Fat deposits in different areas in the body and do not all act the same, meaning it differs physiologically based on location. Visceral fat contributes more to disease risk, for example.\nRead the article, \u201cExercise Keeps Dangerous Visceral Fat Away a Year after Weight Loss, Study Finds,\u201d at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029102740.htm. Then discuss the importance of exercise in eradicating excessive fat.\nBased on what you learned, why would an individual with a high BMI have a decreased risk of osteoporosis?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 13188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mediaaid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200184242-What-does-Screen-Out-mean-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PJ2XDHVFPC2BI2GUQ3ZRR4YFFKLGWX5Q", "length": 599, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mediaaid.zendesk.com", "title": "What does \"Screen Out\" mean? \u2013 Shoppanel FAQ", "raw_content": "For surveys where you receive a \u201cscreened out\u201d message they do not count as fully completed surveys and accrue no rewards as the information is not used.\nIf you are \u201cscreened out\u201d this means that you were determined to be outside the target group for the given survey. Rather than consuming your time on answers that cannot be used, the survey finishes early (normally within the first few questions).\nThis can happen from time to time even if you were originally selected to take part in a survey. However, the survey requires more specific information than what your profile can initially provide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mediaaid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200184262-I-have-received-an-error-while-taking-a-survey-what-do-I-do-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PGQUNSHR6IKJ7MCNPEFVXPPYPOCDXMFI", "length": 594, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mediaaid.zendesk.com", "title": "I have received an error while taking a survey, what do I do? \u2013 Shoppanel FAQ", "raw_content": "We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.\nUnfortunately, if you receive an error while taking a survey, the error cannot be corrected after you have already entered the survey. 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The survey link cannot be resent and the survey cannot be reset.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mediamonarchy.com/deepfocus-suddenly/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AMHDUAD2C6RWGW4REEZ2MJ7P3OEBKUVL", "length": 3239, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "mediamonarchy.com", "title": "#DeepFocus: \"Suddenly,\" Sinatra's Original Assassination Film - Media Monarchy", "raw_content": "Home > @MediaMonarchy, #DeepFocus, #MediaMemes\nWith the inauguration coming up next week and threats of riots in the news (plus massive marijuana giveaways and also the question of who the \"designated successor\" will be, but those are both different topics for a different show), we want to take a look at a 1954 film that fell into public domain so it's available everywhere: \"Suddenly\". It stars Frank Sinatra in his first Presidential assassination movie - as \"The Manchurian Candidate\" wouldn't come out for another eight years until in 1962. According to author Tom Santopietro's 2008 book, \"Sinatra In Hollywood,\" \"Sinatra had asked United Artists to withdraw the film from circulation because he discovered that Lee Harvey Oswald had seen it...\".\nIt is worth reading the entire section on \"Suddenly\" in \"Sinatra In Hollywood\" for an in-depth look at the film and its impact on Sinatra - and the culture. It's also worth noting that an entertainment television show called \"Backstage\" did a piece in 2008 on the similarities between \"Suddenly\" and \"Manchurian Candidate\". But beyond that, not much else has been said about \"Suddenly\" even though it just sits out there in the public domain, hiding in plain sight. There are a number of other interesting syncs and signs with \"Suddenly\".\nThe film also stars Sterling Hayden, who would later warn us about fluoride and our \"precious, bodily fluids\". And if you want to continue down the assassination sync hole, there's an episode of the old TV show \"Route 66\" called \"I'm Here To Kill A King\" that was scheduled to air on November 22, 1963. That then takes us to James Shelby Downard's \"KING-KILL/33\u00b0: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy,\" which will bring us back to Kanye's \"King Kill\" imagery and then, of course, America's Next Top President, Donald Trump.\nMonarchy Marketplace: Buy \"Suddenly\" on Amazon and Support Our Work \ud83d\udcda\nhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00960EHUE/ref=as_li_tl\nWikipedia: \"Suddenly\" (1954 Film)\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_(1954_film)\n\"Suddenly\" (Full-Length Film)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w8dhjwwJc\n\"Suddenly\" (Trailer)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9JYx4dWfIk\nMassive Marijuana Giveaway Coming to Inauguration\n\"Designated Successor\"\nhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/DesignatedSuccessor\n\"Sinatra In Hollywood\"\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=-IrKI-foWcAC&lpg=PA470&vq=Lewis%20Allen&pg=PA146#v=twopage&q&f=false\n\"Backstage\": Frank Sinatra's Forgotten Assassination Film, \"Suddenly\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0qzhVUyE8\nHow Close to the Truth Was \"Manchurian Candidate\"?\nhttps://mediamonarchy.com/2015/03/how-close-to-truth-was-manchurian/\n\"Dr. Strangelove\" and your \"Precious Bodily Fluids\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY\n\"Route 66\", Weld, JFK, and To Kill a King\nhttp://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/08/weld.html\n\"Route 66\" Episode \"I'm Here to Kill a King\"\nVyzygoth and Adam Gorightly on \"King Kill 33\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKZ9cgxxlE\n\"KING-KILL/33\u00b0: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. 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Rawleigh Company - Memphis magazine", "raw_content": "Home Ask Vance Lost Memphis: The W.T. Rawleigh Company\nLost Memphis: The W.T. Rawleigh Company\nPhoto by Vance Lauderdale\nEvery day, people drive past this impressive ruin overlooking Crump Blvd., close to Riverside Drive, without realizing it was once home to one of the largest mail-order companies in America.\nThese buildings once housed the W.T. Rawleigh Company. The firm was started by a fellow named \u2014 no surprise here \u2014 W.T. Rawleigh, who was born in Wisconsin in 1889 and started a business selling liniment and medicine to farmers. By 1895, he was so successful that he started manufacturing his own products. In the early 1900s, the W.T. Rawleigh Company, with its national headquarters in Freeport, Illinois, was producing and selling more than 100 household products \u2014 medicines, salves, balms, spices, flavorings, seasoning, ointments, cleaning products, you name it.\nAccording to a company history that I scrounged up somewhere, Rawleigh was a forerunner of what they called the \"direct-to-customer\" method, meaning that you bought their products by mail or from door-to-door salesmen. Then as now, you won't find Rawleigh products in any store. Their method certainly worked; by 1920 Rawleigh had more than 22 million customers.\nThe company built sprawling manufacturing plants in several cities across America. The 110,000-square-foot facility at 139 Illinois (that's the one shown here) opened here in 1912 and was the largest Rawleigh plant in the country, making patent medicines, cosmetics, insecticides, and spices. I certainly hope they came up with a foolproof way to keep all those products separate from each other!\nIn 1958, the big manufacturing operation here shut down. I have no idea why; they didn't consult the Lauderdales about such matters. The buildings were converted into warehouses for the company.\nRawleigh finally closed its Memphis division completely in the late 1970s, and the complex \u2014 which is actually three adjoining buildings \u2014 was sold. In recent years it has been used as a production and distribution facility for John Simmons' gift and art company, Carnevale, among other things. For a while, my pal Niel Hora, one of the best potters I've ever seen, had a studio and kiln tucked away on the very top floor.\nThe W.T. Rawleigh Company is still around, and has adapted to the changing times by setting up a handy website where customers can purchase their products online. A bottle of Camphor Balm is just $12.95, and a jar of something called Propolis Salve is a bargain at $13.95. It's safe to say that some Rawleigh products are ... unusual. You can take your pick of an 8-ounce bottle of Internal Anti-Pain Oil or External Anti-Pain Oil (each only $12.95).\nIf all it took was a bottle of something to eliminate the pain in my life \u2014 external and internal \u2014 then I'd order a whole case of the stuff.\nAsk Vance June 2012 Ask-Vance June-2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://menafocus.qa/uae-and-india-to-boost-cooperation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MJ2MS2U7H7E3K7HJF72ZE3MG42KB3QPQ", "length": 636, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "menafocus.qa", "title": "UAE and India to boost cooperation. \u2013 MENA Focus", "raw_content": "UAE and India to boost cooperation.\nDr. Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Banna, UAE Ambassador to India, on Monday met with T. S. Tirumurti, Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, and Dr. T.V. Nagendra Prasad, Assistant Under-Secretary for Gulf Affairs at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, to discuss cooperation relations.\nThe meeting also touched on issues of mutual interest and tackled ways to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.\nAlso, during the meeting, the parties exchanged views and political stances towards the latest regional and international issues of mutual interest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 149.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://merriweatherforda.com/meet-spencer/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IYK7LBY6TDMSAQLUG2PGEPP5IFXOMV6V", "length": 4251, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "merriweatherforda.com", "title": "Meet Spencer \u2014 Merriweather Mecklenburg DA", "raw_content": "Spencer Merriweather learned from his parents\nabout the importance of showing his values through service.\nSpencer\u2019s parents came of age in the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama, overcoming obstacles to become public school educators and serve their community in ways that made a substantial impact. Because of their sacrifice and example, he knew he could grow up to be anything he wanted to be, but they encouraged him to seek a career rooted in honesty and service. With that guidance, Spencer has spent his career working on behalf of those who needed a prosecutor they could trust. He has served as Mecklenburg County District Attorney since November.\nSpencer has:\nHe served as a Felony Trial Attorney in Mecklenburg County for more than a decade. He previously led the District Attorney\u2019s Office's Habitual Felon Prosecution Team and has prosecuted a variety of crimes ranging from homicide, robbery and sexual assault.\nSpencer has looked into the eyes of a mother who lost her child to gun violence and delivered on his promise to bring the assailant to justice. He stood alongside countless women as they transitioned from being victims of sexual assault to being empowered survivors, who faced their attackers at trial. He stood up for domestic violence victims and their children when it was not safe for them to stand up for themselves.\nSpencer has been a voice for frustrated neighbors, who have seen community safety repeatedly disrupted by the same offenders, who break into their cars, homes and businesses. He has worked in drug treatment courts with counselors and defense attorneys to propose treatment solutions for those who live with addiction. He is committed to finding innovative solutions to reduce drug addiction in our communities. To that end, he coordinated with local and federal law enforcement to bring to justice the drug traffickers who prey on those struggling on their road to recovery.\nHe trained and led prosecutors in drawing distinctions between hardened offenders, who need to be sent to prison, and those in our community who have simply lost their way and need a hand up\u2014and a way out.\nAdditionally, Spencer has worked to engage the community in ways that instill faith and confidence in the criminal justice system. Spencer helped implement a community liaison program, which sends prosecutors into the community to educate citizens about the work of the DA's Office. He has helped direct the office's hiring committee and been a champion for increasing recruitment of attorneys from underrepresented communities.\nSpencer earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he served as undergraduate Student Body President and on the University Board of Trustees for four years following graduation in 2000. Between college and law school, Spencer worked on Capitol Hill as a congressional staffer for Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). He served as the first director of her Commission on Black Men and Boys.\nA Sense of Community and Family\nSpencer has long been an active member of the Mecklenburg County Bar and is a former Chair of its Criminal Justice Section. He is the Incoming President of the Mecklenburg Bar Foundation Board. He also serves as a Board Member for Safe Alliance, a local non-profit agency dedicated to serving survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. For the past five years, Spencer has been actively engaged in Charlotte's Community Building Initiative, which promotes equity and inclusion among public and private community stakeholders. He is an active member of the National Association of Black Prosecutors.\nHe worships at St. Peter's Catholic Church in uptown Charlotte, where he is an active member and teaches Confirmation classes to 8th and 9th graders.\nSpencer is married to Lila, whom he met while he was a law student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Lila, who currently works with the Mayor\u2019s Youth Employment Program, also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Mecklenburg County for more than 6 years. Spencer and she share a commitment to equal justice and applying prosecutorial discretion in a balanced and equitable manner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 132.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2006/12/25/jones-expecting-to-be-dropped-3433725/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SQWW76YR56ZIGUWG6NZTA52TAFUSMFWZ", "length": 1419, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "metro.co.uk", "title": "Jones expecting to be dropped | Metro News", "raw_content": "Jones expecting to be dropped\nGeraint Jones.\nEngland wicketkeeper Geraint Jones expects that he will be dropped from the fourth Ashes Test starting on Boxing Day in Melbourne.\nThe 30-year-old was included in the England side for the first three matches ahead of the other touring keeper, Chris Read, because of his supposedly superior batting. However, Jones made 63 runs in the opening two matches before having an absolute shocker in the Perth match \u2013 when Australia officially claimed the urn back.\nJones made a duck in each innings, dropped a catch from Mike Hussey when he was on 48 in the first innings (he went on to make 103) and missed a stumping. He told the Herald Sun: \u201cI don\u2019t feel that great at the moment, coming off a pair in Perth \u2013 my first ducks in Test cricket.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cObviously I\u2019ll be disappointed (if I\u2019m dropped). You never like being left out of the side. But I\u2019ll give him (Read) my support because that\u2019s something he\u2019s given me when I\u2019ve been playing.\u201d\nJones also admitted that he has not coped with the high pressures of Test cricket at times when out at the crease.\n\u201cYou have to learn to deal with pressure in Test cricket \u2013 that\u2019s what sorts people out,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWhen I\u2019m relaxed and enjoying it, I play my best cricket, but as soon as I do get that bit tense and uptight, then things don\u2019t go well. You can get into a siege mentality so you have to find real ways of relaxing.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://miorinilaw.com/index.aspx?TypeContent=SEMINARS&seminar_id=6682", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:43Z", "digest": "sha1:PV2Z77QUC4HML7FURNXLFRH7LLSAMMBP", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "miorinilaw.com", "title": "McLean Tysons Corner VA Attorney Lawyer Law Firm", "raw_content": "Nov 09, 2019 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 26.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mkweddingstationery.co.uk/bespoke-wedding/rsvp-cards.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PETBZFXTGGCJYZ6UK5CV3NBB63X6VL2I", "length": 377, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mkweddingstationery.co.uk", "title": "RSVP Cards", "raw_content": "RSVP Cards are one of the most important pieces of Wedding Stationery, along with the Invitations. They let the bride and groom-to-be know how many of their closest friends and relatives will be with them to share the biggest day of their lives, so it\u2019s important to get it right. Get creative with 18 different paper stocks and finishes like Foiling and Perforation available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 157.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mobility21.cmu.edu/bmw-nissan-team-up-to-implement-fast-charge-stations/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6RADLZEFLB7C6JKVYTSEZ5S2GK4TFVHF", "length": 437, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mobility21.cmu.edu", "title": "BMW, Nissan team up to implement fast-charge stations | M21 BMW, Nissan team up to implement fast-charge stations \u2013 M21", "raw_content": "BMW, Nissan team up to implement fast-charge stations\nHome > Uncategorized > BMW, Nissan team up to implement fast-charge stations\nElectric vehicle drivers will be able to charge their vehicles at one of 120 charging stations as part of a new initiative between Nissan and BMW to promote their electric vehicles. The stations will be located in 19 states across the country and offer an almost complete charge in as little as 30 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/08/13/bumble-bee-death-settlement.cnnmoney/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:38Z", "digest": "sha1:757MFPBNTA5QUR4GMXXTLHLMZVBUGPDA", "length": 198, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "money.cnn.com", "title": "Bumble Bee to pay $6 million for worker death - Video - Business News", "raw_content": "Bumble Bee to pay $6 million for worker death\nA settlement was reached in the case of Jose Melena, a California man who died after getting trapped inside a Bumble Bee Food's industrial oven in 2012.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moreheadcity.insiderinfo.us/health-wellness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6YSR4S6OCIJDUGEJR32GNS356WKUPI32", "length": 3448, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "moreheadcity.insiderinfo.us", "title": "Health and Wellness in Morehead City, NC", "raw_content": "Health and Wellness in Morehead City, NC\nIf you are looking for ways to stay fit and healthy, Morehead City has many options for gyms as well as the healthy sunshine of a city on the water. There are three gym options in the city and many more in nearby Beaufort. The Crystal Coast is known for its annual road races and outdoor activities.\nArt Galleries Bed & Breakfast Inns Family Reunions\nGolf Courses Alternative Healthcare Restaurants\nFeatured Shops Women's Health and Wellness Photography\nCypress Bay Plaza, 5160 U.S. Hwy. 70 W\nGNC is filled with products designed to promote good health. At GNC you will find vitamins and supplements of every type, a wide variety of herbs, items especially for kids, topical books, healthy snack foods and a fully stocked weight-reduction section. The store also has shampoos, scrubs and skin-care products. It...more about General Nutrition Center\nmomentumfitnessnc.com \u2022 map \u2022\nMomentum Yoga and Wellness is dedicated to the well-being of body, mind, and spirit. With a qualified staff to assist you and guide you in your wellness journey, you will find a welcoming community. They offer alternative and holistic health services and personal trainers, as well as yoga. Their hours are...more about Momentum Yoga & Wellness\nThis fitness club offers a full line of Nautilus workout equipment, a freestyle weight room with quick-change collars, treadmills, EB Power Ride bikes and much more. The gym offers a variety of classes, including water and floor aerobics, spin classes, yoga, body pump and more. It also includes a 25-foot, heated...more about Eastern Athletic Club\nGold's Gym is part of a nationwide franchise and has been flexing its muscles in the fitness community for many years. The gym offers unlimited mutual use of its facilities for those with annual or bi-annual memberships and a travel exchange program for other Gold's Gyms across the country. Memberships vary...more about Gold's Gym\nThe Gym: Cape Carteret Aquatics and Wellness Center\n300 Taylor Notion Rd.\nOpen seven days a week, with 24 hour access for full club members, this full-service wellness center takes its summer visitors into account. The club offers an indoor, 25-yard competition heated pool, hot tub and steam room, an indoor full-size basketball court and a fully equipped weight room. Classes of all...more about The Gym: Cape Carteret Aquatics and Wellness Center\nMorehead City Community Center\nThis is a popular place with many city residents and guests. Members have use of the fully equipped weight room, loaded with free weights and machines, a gym with a full-size basketball court, and a game room with pool and Ping-Pong tables. The center also offers floor aerobics classes and yoga...more about Morehead City Community Center\nAre you always ready to exercise just when the gyms are closing? Snap Fitness has the answer for you. Here you have access 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year with a simple card key access. There are no contracts, and rates are $34.95 a month for an...more about Snap Fitness\nThis large fitness center offers a holistic approach to fitness with an Olympic-sized outdoor pool, an indoor pool, stair climbers, treadmills, spinning cycles, basketball/volleyball courts, and a tanning salon. The center has a knowledgeable staff ready to assist members and guests. It offers a fully equipped weight room, Nautilus and fitness equipment, racquetball...more about Sports Center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 8456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mormonbible.org/old-testament/old-testament-2/strife-and-idolatry", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OWMYEGYPQZVIN4LQ4XUNMZM5NEC3ZVWC", "length": 20854, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "mormonbible.org", "title": "Strife and Idolatry - Mormon Bible", "raw_content": "Each time a new king was anointed to rule the Kingdom of Israel (Saul, David, and Solomon), the tribes made a show of support. Not always were they of one accord. Saul was a Benjaminite, and David ruled from Judah while Saul was still king. The tribe of Judah was always David\u2019s strongest support, and that continued with Solomon. Judah was the largest tribe, and Benjamin, the smallest tribe, was often counted with it. When Rehoboam, Solomon\u2019s son, reigned after Solomon\u2019s death, all the tribes were suffering under the taxation imposed by Solomon. Rehoboam sought counsel from seasoned advisers as well as his young peers, because he had been approached with the idea of decreasing the burdens on the people. It was actually Jeroboam, called from exile in Egypt, who had made the petition for the people: \u201cThy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee\u201d (1 Kings 12:4).\nThe counsel of the seasoned advisers was to ease the burden on the people, but Rehoboam hearkened to his peers: \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions\u201d (1 Kings 12:14). When the other tribes heard this decision (called \u201cIsrael\u201d in this scripture), they refused to uphold the right of Judah to rule: \u201cWhat portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents\u201d (1 Kings 12:16).\nThus, the ten tribes, now called Israel, separated from Judah and the smathering of other tribes that lived among the tribe of the Judah. When Rehoboam sent his messenger, Adoram, to them, they stoned him to death. Israel made Jeroboam their king and separated into a northern kingdom. Rehoboam garnered the support of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, meaning to make war upon the new northern kingdom, but the Lord intervened and forbade them: \u201cThus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord\u201d (1 Kings 12:24).\nJeroboam, king of Israel, was concerned about the three pilgrimage festivals wherein the children of Israel were commanded to go to the temple to offer sacrifice. He worried that if his subjects were to go to Jerusalem, they might throw their support over to Rehoboam and even relocate in the south.\n\u201cIf this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, evenunto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves ofgold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan\u201d (1 Kings 12:27-29).\nThus began the government-supported idolatry of the northern kingdom. Jeroboam ignored the Mosaic dictate that the tribe of Levi would bear the priesthood. \u201cAnd he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi\u201d (1 Kings 14:31). Jeroboam then established new feast days that were at different times of the year than those ordained by the Lord through Moses. He did all this to keep the people from sojourning in Judah. Certainly, the most religious of the Israelites departed from Israel at that time, and migrated to Judah to be near the temple, and to observe the holy feast days.\n\u201cAdam Clarke said that Jeroboam \u201cinvented a political religion, instituted feasts in his own times different from those appointed by the Lord, gave the people certain objects of devotion, and pretended to think it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to have to go up to Jerusalem to worship. This was not the last time that religion was made a state engine to serve political purposes.\u201d ( Commentary, 2:437.)\n\u201cEven though he made golden calves, \u201cthat Jeroboam had in his mind not merely the Egyptian Apis- worship generally, but more especially the image-worship which Aaron introduced for the people at Sinai, is evident from the words borrowed from [ Exodus 32:4 ], with which he studiously endeavoured to recommend his new form of worship to the people: \u2018Behold, this is thy God, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.\u2019 . . . What Jeroboam meant to say . . . was, \u2018this is no new religion, but this was the form of worship which our fathers used in the desert, with Aaron himself leading the way.\u2019 . . . And whilst the verbal allusion to that event at Sinai plainly shows that . . . Jehovah was worshipped under the image of the calves or young oxen; the choice of the places in which the golden calves were set up also shows that Jeroboam desired to adhere as closely as possible to ancient traditions. He did not select his own place of residence, but Bethel and Dan. Bethel, on the southern border of his kingdom, which properly belonged to the tribe of Benjamin [see Joshua 18:13, 22 ], the present Beitin, had already been consecrated as a divine seat by the vision of Jehovah which the patriarch Jacob received there in a dream [see Genesis 28:11, 19 ], and Jacob gave it the name of Bethel, house of God, and afterwards built an altar there to the Lord [see Genesis 35:7 ]. . . . Dan, in the northern part of the kingdom, . . . was also consecrated as a place of worship by the image-worship established there by the Danites, at which even a grandson of Moses had officiated; and regard may also have been had to the convenience of the people, namely, that the tribes living in the north would not have to go a long distance to perform their worship.\u201d (Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary, 3:1:198\u201399.)\n\u201cIn ordaining a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, Jeroboam subverted the great feast of Tabernacles (which was held on the fifteenth day of the seventh month). He held a similar feast but at the same time undermined the ordinance. (See Clarke, Commentary, 2:437\u201338.)\n\u201cJeroboam cast off the Levite priests (see 2 Chronicles 11:14 ; 13:19 ) and ordained \u201cpriests of the lowest of the people\u201d ( 1 Kings 12:31 ), allowing any to be appointed if they would just consecrate themselves by offering \u201ca young bullock and seven rams\u201d ( 2 Chronicles 13:9 ). He also assumed priestly functions himself (see 1 Kings 12:33 ). His rejection of the Levites resulted in their evacuation from his kingdom and uniting themselves with the kingdom of Rehoboam in Jerusalem\u201d (see 2 Chronicles 11:13\u201316 ).\nIn 1 Kings 13, there is an odd story about a prophet who prophesied against Jeroboam as the king offerred incense at one of his heathen altars. The prophet said that a king named Josiah would be raised up in Judah who would over-mount Jeroboam. The prophet also gave Jeroboam a sign, that the altar would break and the ashes upon it would pour out. Insulted, Jeroboam commanded his men to seize the prophet. He pointed at the prophet with his finger and that hand dried up, so he could not retract it again. Also, the altar rent and the ashes poured forth. Jeroboam pleaded with the prophet to restore his hand. When the prophet did so, Jeroboam invited him to take food with him, but the prophet had been commanded not to (Jeroboam was probably not keeping the Mosaic dietary laws, so his food was therefore unclean). The prophet took his journey back the way he came, as the Lord had commanded.\nHowever, an old prophet to the northern kingdom waylaid him, and lying, told him he had also received the word of God that the prophet of Judah should stop and eat with him. The Judean prophet did so, and the old prophet railed against him in prophetic words, saying he would never rest in the tombs of his fathers. Indeed, when the Judean prophet went his way, he was attacked by a lion. The lion stood by his carcass, and next to the prophet\u2019s donkey, but didn\u2019t eat the prophet or attack the donkey. The old prophet buried him and requested to be buried with him upon his own death. Then he proclaimed that all the Judean prophet\u2019s prophecies against Jeroboam would come true.\n\u201cThere are some problems in this story of the man of God who came from Judah to warn the king of northern Israel and lost his life in the mission. Some help is available in the [Joseph Smith Translation] of verse 18 , which indicates that the old prophet said, \u2018Bring him back . . . that I may prove him; and he lied not unto him.\u2019 Also there is a change in verse 26 , in which the last part reads: \u2018. . . therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto me.\u2019 These make the account more understandable and more acceptable. The young prophet should have obeyed God.\u201d ( Rasmussen, An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings, 2:4; emphasis added.)\nJeroboam\u2019s son fell ill, and then he realized he needed help that no dumb idol could provide. He sent his wife in disguise to Shiloh to seek Ahijah the prophet, who had prophesied to Jeroboam of his future kingship. Ahijah was stricken with the effects of old age and could not see. The Lord warned him, \u201cBehold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he issick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman\u201d (1 Kings 14:5).\n\u201cThis fallen world is rampant with deception and dishonesty. Though men often deceive one another, the Lord\u2019s anointed can draw upon the gift of revelation and thereby see into the hearts of others or have things made known to them which cannot be obtained through the natural senses\u201d (see Jacob 2:5 ; Job 42:1 ; 1 Kings 8:39 ; Hebrews 4:12\u201313 ; D&C 6:16 ; 33:1 ).\nWhen Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, he called her the wife of Jeroboam and gave her sad tidings \u2014 because of their idolatry all of Jeroboam\u2019s relations would be killed and never receive a proper burial. His son would die the second the mother entered the city and would be the only one of their family who would ever receive a proper burial. The Lord would raise up a king that would cut off Jeroboam\u2019s house.\nJeroboam reigned for twenty-two years, and then his son Nadab took over the rule of the northern kingdom of Israel. Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in the southern kingdom of Judah for seventeen years. The people of Judah were also wicked and idolatrous: \u201cFor they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel\u201d (1 Kings 14:23, 24).\n\u201cSettled in Canaan, Israel became a more sedentary, agricultural people, whereas before they had been more nomadic. Their dependence upon the productivity of the soil enticed them to turn to the worship of Baal. In such worship, with its emphasis on fertility, such practices as ritual prostitution of both sexes became rampant. Those who engaged in such practices were referred to by the Lord as sodomites. Other terms, such as high places, images (idols), groves, high hills, green trees, were all associated with the false and reprehensible forms of worship that often led Israel far from the Lord and that Judah, too, practiced under Rehoboam and at other times: \u201cAmong early nations it was the custom to erect altars on hilltops ( Gen. 12:7\u20138 ; 22:2\u20134 ; 31:54 ). After the settlement in Canaan heathen altars were found set up on various hills and were ordered to be destroyed ( Num. 33:52 ; Deut. 12:2\u20133 ). Altars to Jehovah were built at several high places ( Judg. 6:25\u201326 ; 1 Sam. 9:12\u201325 ; 10:5, 13 ; 1 Chr. 21:26 ; 1 Kgs. 3:2\u20134 ; 18:30 ). Such altars became local centers of the worship of Jehovah. When idolatry came in, many of these altars were desecrated and used for heathen worship.\u201d ( Bible Dictionary, s.v. \u201chigh places.\u201d )\n\u201cConcerning the sanctuaries wherein worship of Baal took place, one author explained: \u201cEach place has its own Baal, who is worshipped at the local sanctuary. The sanctuary is at an elevated spot outside the town or village, either on a natural eminence or on a mound artificially made for the purpose; these are the \u2018high places\u2019 of the Old Testament; originally Canaanite places of worship, they drew to themselves also the worship of Israel. The apparatus of worship at these shrines is of a very simple nature. An upright stone represents the god. . . . He was supposed to come to the stone when meeting with his worshippers; and in the earliest times of Semitic religion this stone served the purpose of an altar: the gifts, which were not originally burned, were laid upon it, or the blood of the victim was applied to it. But besides the altar and the upright stone of massebah the Canaanite shrine had another piece of furniture. A massive tree-trunk, fixed in the ground and with some of its branches perhaps still remaining, represented the female deity who is the invariable companion of the Baal. This is the Ashera of Canaan, a word which in the Authorized Version is translated \u2018grove,\u2019 after an error of the Vulgate, but which in the Revised Version is rightly left untranslated. [ Judges 3:7 ; 6:25 , 2 Kings 23:6 .] The word Ashera is in such passages the designation of the tree which stood to represent the goddess.\u201d (Allan Menzies, History of Religion, 172; see also Old Testament Student Manual: Genesis\u20132 Samuel [religion 301, 2003], pp. 245\u201348 , 255 .)\nThe Lord did not come to Rehoboam\u2019s aid when \u201cShishak\u201d of Egypt invaded and looted the temple and the king\u2019s treasure. The northern and southern kingdoms vexed each other constantly, so there was always war between them.\n\u201cThe king of Egypt referred to here as Shishak was most probably the \u201cLibyan prince who founded Egypt\u2019s XXIInd Dynasty as the Pharaoh Sheshong I. He reigned for 21 years c. 945\u2013924 B.C. He harboured Jeroboam as a fugitive from Solomon, after Ahijah\u2019s prophecy of Jeroboam\u2019s future kingship [see 1 Kings 11:29\u201340 ]. Late in his reign, Shishak invaded Palestine in the fifth year of Rehoboam, 925 B.C. He subdued Judah, taking the treasures of Jerusalem as tribute [see 1 Kings 14:25\u201326 ; 2 Chronicles 12:2\u201312 ], and also asserted his dominion over Israel, as is evidenced by a broken stele of his from Megiddo. At the temple of Amun in Thebes, Shishak left a triumphal relief-scene, naming many Palestinian towns.\u201d (J. D. Douglas, ed., The New Bible Dictionary, s.v. \u201cShishak\u201d; see also 2 Chronicles 12:5\u201312 for a detailed account of Shishak\u2019s invasion.)\nWhen Rehoboam died, his son Abijam took over the kingdom. Abijam walked in all the sins of his father.\n\u201cAbijam was unrighteous, as his father had been. \u201cBut for David\u2019s sake,\u201d for the sake of the promises made about the house of David and to preserve the royal lineage through which the Messiah would come (see Isaiah 9:6\u20137 ; Luke 1:32 ; Acts 13:22\u201323 ), the Lord did not reject Abijam, who was David\u2019s great-grandson, but allowed the throne to pass to him and then to his son (see Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary, 3:1:217). The word lamp refers to the idea of a light or a candle that continues to burn rather than being put out. Symbolically, then, Abijam\u2019s line, or light, was allowed to continue rather than being extinguished. (Concerning Christas the Son of David, see Bruce R. McConkie, The Promised Messiah, pp. 188\u201395).\n\u201cFor an account of Abijam\u2019s reign, see 2 Chronicles 13 (where he is called Abijah). Although he was not a righteous man, neither was he completely unrighteous, for he called Jeroboam and his army to repentance (see 2 Chronicles 13:4\u201312 ), and his army prevailed over Jeroboam\u2019s \u2018because they relied upon the Lord\u2019\u201d ( v. 18 ).\nWhen Abijam died, his son Asa ruled Judah in his stead. This was twenty years into Jeroboam\u2019s rule in the north.\nAsa ruled forty-one years in righteousness: \u201cAnd he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt itby the brook Kidron. But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa\u2019s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days\u201d (1 Kings 15:12-14). (For a detailed account of Asa\u2019s reign, see 2 Chronicles 14\u201316 .)\nAsa \u201chad idolatrous altars and images torn down. He also began to eliminate the male and female prostitutes who attended the pagan temples, groves, altars, and shrines. The reforms soon brought peace among the people, which made them more happy and content. He realized that the pagan peoples might again try to impose their false religious practices on his people, so he also used this interval of peace to build up his territorial defenses\u201d (see 2 Chronicles 14:7 ).\nBaasha took over in the northern kingdom and continued to war against Judah. He set up a city in Ramah, to prevent his subjects from travelling south to Jerusalem. Asa made a treaty with the king of Syria, Ben HaDad, and caused him to attack the northern kingdom. The people of Judah were able to carry away all the building materials used at Ramah. Asa died and Jehoshaphat took over Judah.\nNadab had taken over the northern kingdom of Jeroboam, but he was killed by Baasha of the house of Issachar. \u201cAnd it came to pass, when he reigned, thathe smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite\u201d (1 Kings 15:29). Baasha was a wicked king who caused all of Israel to sin.\nThe prophet Jehu said to Baasha: \u201cBehold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat\u201d (1 Kings 16:3, 4). Following the rule of Baasha in the north came the rule of his son Elah. Elah was slain by Zimri, the captain of his chariots, who then reigned. Zimri killed all the family of Baasha, as prophesied. Asa was still ruling in the south when Zimri became king of the north. The armies of Judah attacked, and when he saw the war was lost, Zimri burned himself to death in his house. There was then a competition for the throne, won by Omri, who was extremely wicked. When Omri died, Ahab his son reigned in his stead. Asa had ruled eight years in the south at that time. \u201cAnd Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him\u201d (1 Kings 16:33).\n\u201cAhab, son of Omri, was even more evil than his father, who had \u201c[done] worse than all that were before him\u201d ( 1 Kings 16:25 ). The scripture states that Ahab \u201cdid evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him\u201d ( 1 Kings 16:30 ). Ahab married Jezebel, daughter of King Ethbaal of Phoenicia, who practiced idolatry of a most depraved kind. Ahab built a house of Baal in the capital city of Samaria and placed an altar to the Phoenician sun god inside it (see 1 Kings 16:32 ). He then made a grove in which the people could indulge themselves in immoral practices around a symbol dedicated to the fertility goddess Ashtaroth. Four hundred priests, who ate at Jezebel\u2019s table at state expense, assisted her in the extravagant and unholy religion she had brought into Israel.\nClarke summed up this marriage, as well as Jezebel\u2019s life, in these words:\n\u201cThis was the head and chief of his offending; he took to wife, not only a heathen, but one whose hostility to the true religion was well known, and carried to the utmost extent. 1. She was the idolatrous daughter of an idolatrous king; 2. She practised it openly; 3. She not only countenanced it in others, but protected it, and gave its partisans honours and rewards; 4. She used every means to persecute the true religion; 5. She was hideously cruel, and put to death the prophets and priests of God; 6. And all this she did with the most zealous perseverance and relentless cruelty.\n\u201cNotwithstanding Ahab had built a temple, and made an altar for Baal, and set up the worship of Asherah, the Sidonian Venus, . . . yet so well known was the hostility of Jezebel to all good, that his marrying her was esteemed the highest pitch of vice, and an act the most provoking to God, and destructive to the prosperity of the kingdom.\u201d ( Commentary, 2:450\u201351.)\nNext: Elijah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 28873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motispire.blog/2016/02/15/no-heat-no-water-happy-presidents-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2W7ZIBRIM46ASAKRNBQQUEJ66HZ42XOB", "length": 1359, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "motispire.blog", "title": "No heat no water / Happy Presidents day \u2013 Moti-Spire", "raw_content": "February 15, 2016 Kay\nNo heat no water / Happy Presidents day\nToday is an interesting day. First of all, it\u2019s presidents day \u2013 a federal holiday established in 1855 in honor of President George Washington. If you would like more information on the history of presidents day, click here.\nOn an unrelated note, my pipes have frozen and therefore there is not a sip of water in the house. In addition to that my heater died and so I also have no heat. Doesn\u2019t help that I live in a basement which is naturally colder than the rest of the house on the account that it is underground.\nHowever I\u2019ve things to do and regardless of circumstances beyond my control they must get done somehow. A friend suggested that I get a gallon of water and a small heater and a bucket to satisfy my needs for a while until the water comes back.\nIt\u2019s interesting though \ud83d\ude0a it reminds me of back home in Jamaica when the hurricanes would hit and we would be without water & electricity for two weeks, that was fun and interesting.\nThis isn\u2019t an extremely motivational post but my motivation for today is that life could be a whole lot worse than it is. I\u2019m grateful for the small things life being able to walk and talk. And things like being able to afford gallon of water and a small heater.\nHave a happy presidents day!\nPrevious Guest Blogger: Loving You\nNext Where to go? My bed!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mountiespectrum.com/3287/perspectives/opinion/unoriginally-original/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JBR4H5B4TDYINNTCZZNHCRLUCSEYBZB3", "length": 1992, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mountiespectrum.com", "title": "Unoriginally original \u2013 Mountie Spectrum", "raw_content": "Unoriginally original\nKinsey Langley, Editor\nSo far this year, 29 movies have been remade or rebooted and 14 more are on the way. Some features are: \u201cIt\u201d, \u201cRing\u201d, \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d \u201cFlatliners\u201d and \u201cJumanji.\u201d All of these movies were originally made sometime in the past 30 years, but have been made this year with \u201cnew\u201d spins. Each movie is played with new characters and sometimes new plot lines, but it really isn\u2019t all that revolutionary.\nSequels like \u201cCars 3,\u201d \u201cIncredibles 2\u201d and \u201cFinding Dory\u201d are movies that have been long anticipated. Even though they are sequels, they show enough creative content to be original on their own. A sequel is a continuation or part two and a remake is to make (something) again or differently. Each movie has new actors/characters, and even though most would agree \u201cthe original was better,\u201d but the ratings are higher and the part two\u2019s are more raved about. \u201cToy Story\u201d and \u201cToy Story 2\u201d were both directed by John Lasseter, so the overall feeling was the same, but the plotline and story was completely different.\n\u201cIt\u201d is another story. The original movie came out in 1990 and the book in 1986. In the movie, the clown shows up every 27 years, so 2017 couldn\u2019t have been a better year to produce this. The thing is, it was not a sequel. The movie is strikingly resembling to the 1990 film and not many things set it apart except the modern touch. \u201cBeauty and The Beast\u201d is another remake, but cartoon to real is what sets it apart. The special effects and determined actors make the original cartoon literally come alive. Many fans were upset about this movie, because nothing can replace the original Disney princesses.\nAttention to these movies have been leaning more towards the bad side, and some have already started boycotting. New movies can have the same characters and story-type, but the plot line should follow a different path. Directors are realizing the mistakes they make as they go, and more people\u2019s voices are getting heard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 4730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mountiespectrum.com/4282/sports/wrestling-pins-state/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:57Z", "digest": "sha1:UEY7OATNLL6POXJI2ESFNZO6YQJFTPQT", "length": 2314, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mountiespectrum.com", "title": "Wrestling Pins State \u2013 Mountie Spectrum", "raw_content": "As the season begins, the Rogers High wrestling team gains high hopes for their upcoming meets. So far, the team has had about one week of competition this year. They toppled Berryville with 51-24 and 66-12 against Gentry in their most recent match.\n\u201cThe team overall is pretty well because we\u2019re mostly seniors that have been wrestling since freshman year. I believe that by the end of this year, we\u2019ll be a top three team at state [tournament],\u201d Alex Perea, 12, said.\nPerea comments on the preparation within the team, detailing on the drills and training it takes for everyone to be on their maximum potential. Wrestling not only helps the athletes physically but also teaches them lifelong skills such as self-discipline and self-motivation.\n\u201cMental toughness is essential. Not wanting to give up during a match is hard, because it\u2019s so easy to let yourself go,\u201d says Perea. Wrestling requires not only physical preparation but mental preparation.\nMarshall Hahn, wrestling coach, is excited about future meets and competitions. He feels encouraged as new wrestlers are beginning their first matches and returning wrestlers are easily picking up from where they left off last year.\n\u201cWe were fairly young last year. At the state tournament, we had about five people place and only one [person] was a senior. So, we have several returning state placers back and I think this season shows a lot of promise,\u201d Hahn said.\nThis year, the wrestling team has a change of opponents at the state tournament. Schools that once faced each other at state tournaments were in same classifications based on their location and number of students. Several schools like Searcy, Greenwood and Russellville were reclassified as 5A schools or below, whereas Rogers remains a 6A school. As a 6A school, Rogers can only face 6A and 7A schools, which Hahn says is an interesting change since the reclassified schools were good teams.\nRegardless of changes, the wrestling team continues to prepare and pin their way to state.\n\u201cOverall, I\u2019m hopeful. Wrestling is unique in that individuals can experience a lot of success and maybe your team not experience that same success. Also, vice versa, where a team can be really good but without any individuals that are state champions, so there\u2019s a lot of opportunities for success,\u201d Hahn said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 4878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://movieweb.com/movies/2013/june/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DGIK5VHHSTVSDU4Z4QSE324SSH6SSUX5", "length": 6735, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "movieweb.com", "title": "2013 June Movies", "raw_content": "2013 June Movies\nThe story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry\u2019s wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.\nFollows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.\nMike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn\u2019t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. \u201cMonsters University\u201d unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.\nA Secret Service agent is tasked with saving the life of the U.S. President after the White House is overtaken by a paramilitary group.\nUniversal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment\u2019s worldwide blockbuster Despicable Me entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In summer 2013, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2.\nChris Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy adventure featuring the return of (former?) super-villain Gru (Steve Carell), his adorable girls, the...\nThe funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan\u2019s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin).\nHaving a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up to and begins to finally find his place in...\nUptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner -- or a friend for that matter.\nIn the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills. Based on true events, the group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Rachel Bilson, and the gang became known in the media as \u201cThe Bling Ring.\u201d\nIn The Bling Ring, Oscar Winning filmmaker Sofia...\nSearching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection ofmysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student\u2019s disappearance.\nFollows a contemporary mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa's icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan ocean. After a...\nTwenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Co-produced by Drafthouse Films, and finally ready to be unleashed-see what happens when you give more than two dozen of the most brilliant filmmakers from around the world free reign to indulge their creative impulses and black humor. 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The Young Leaders will come together as a community to support efforts to engage young people in the realization of the SDGs both through strategic opportunities with the UN and through their existing initiatives, platforms and networks.\nApplications must be submitted online via the given website.\nFor more information, please visit Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goal.\nPrevious Paperless banking\nNext DHHS/NIH: Characterization of the Adolescent Reproductive Transition\nUK bolsters support to peacekeeping in South Sudan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 8550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 229.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://murrayralston.com/services/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:C6JOS4RFEUHE2F3PSYSN55PE6LED6RBD", "length": 1154, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "murrayralston.com", "title": "Services - Murray Ralston Lawyers", "raw_content": "The Law Firm of Murray Ralston has over 22 years experience helping victims who have been injured in car or motor vehicle accidents as a result of someone else's negligence. Let us get you the help you deserve.\nThere is an expectation that a health care provider will deliver an acceptable standard of care to their patients. If a doctor, hospital, or other health care provider or facility fails to meet the accepted standard of care, then you need experienced lawyers to help you.\nBirth and Neonatal Trauma\nThe birth of your child should be a heart-warming and joyous occasion. However, medical errors during labour and delivery can occur. This section will discuss types of errors and what options are available for infants and families.\nWe are experienced in all types of legal actions including:\nNursing Home and Health Care Provider Negligence and Abuse\nFire Loss and Insurance Claims\nWe are also experienced with the following types of injuries:\nBirth Trauma Injuries\nLacerations & Scars\nLimitation periods apply in every type of legal case. If you fail to sue within the limitation period you may lose your right to sue.\nGet the Help you deserve!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mushroomscience.com/health-benefits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:M2DLSI4IJ7KBXG6DBPXBWQYBEJJV3ZBK", "length": 7660, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "mushroomscience.com", "title": "Mushroom Science", "raw_content": "Medicinal Mushroom Benefits\nAnti-Oxidant*\nChaga is unique among medicinal mushrooms. In addition to its potent immune stimulating properties Chaga is also a powerful antioxidant. The Mushroom Science Chaga extract was tested for its anti-oxidant properties by Brunswick Labs. They performed a test that assigns supplements an \u201cORAC\u201d score, allowing the comparison of anti-oxidant properties between different types of supplements.\nThe ORAC value of the Mushroom Science Chaga extract was higher than green or black tea extracts and was similar to that of blueberry extracts.\nThese anti-oxidant properties are attributed to an active compound unique to Chaga mushrooms, a triterpene called \u201cbetulinic acid\u201d. The Wikipedia entry for betulinic acid contains interesting information on this active compound.\nChaga Tremella\nThe ability of Tremella to improve the health and complexion of the skin is attributed to the fact that some of the polysaccharides in Tremella can help the body maintain the production of hyaluronic acid, the production of which normally declines as the body ages. The function of hyaluronic acid in the body is, amongst other things, to bind water and to lubricate moveable parts in the body such as joints and muscles, and to help keep the skin pliable, firm and moist from within.\nHyaluronic acid is a carbohydrate, more specifically a mucopolysaccharide occurring naturally throughout the body. Through extensive research over the years, hyaluronic acid has yielded amazing results in various applications and locations throughout the body. Joint cushioning and support, connective tissues, scalp tissue, hair follicles, eyes, gum tissues and skin have all been known to benefit by hyaluronic acid supplementation.\nHowever, Tremella is thought to support the body\u2019s ability to maintain the production of hyaluronic acid from within, without the drop off in production that normally comes with aging. This is a much better option than trying to add hyaluronic acid later, through supplementation, as the body\u2019s production of hyaluronic declines with age.\nMushrooms defined as \u201cmedicinal\u201d are those mushrooms that contain immune activating beta glucans and other polysaccharides within their indigestible cell walls. When properly extracted with hot water these polysaccharides are used in supplemental form to maintain, protect and support immune health. Any of the mushroom extracts can be used for immune support, and the best choice for any individual may rest on some of the additional, non-immune health benefits, the various mushroom extracts may provide.\nAgaricus blazei Chaga Cordyceps Cs-4 Coriolus PSP Coriolus Super Strength Immune Builder\u00ae Lion's Mane Maitake Maitake Gold 404\u00ae Reishi Shiitake\nCordyceps extracts provide immuno-modulating beta glucans that support immune health. Cordyceps extracts also contain adenosine, cordycepic acid, cordycepin and other related compounds. It is the adenosine and these other related compounds that help with adrenal fatigue and adrenal depletion, and by doing so, can increase energy levels and stamina and endurance. Continued stress on the body can lead the adrenal glands to produce too much cortisol, and too much cortisol in the system over time causes adrenal fatigue or exhaustion.\nBy stress we mean a high stress life style or excessive physical activity. This also applies to athletes that are constantly stressing the body through repeated and intensive physical training and activity.\nCortisol is an important hormone in the body and is involved in many important bodily functions. However, continued excessive levels of cortisol in the system can cause adrenal fatigue or depletion, causing low energy levels, adrenal exhaustion and poor sleep. Cordyceps can break this cycle by replenishing the adrenals and balancing cortisol levels, leading to increased energy, stamina and endurance.\nReishi - In addition to the immuno-modulating beta glucans Reishi also contains active compounds called triterpenes. The triterpenes specific to Reishi are called ganoderic acids.\nTriterpenes can improve liver function by helping the liver to clear out accumulated toxins. This is especially important for those people that may have impaired liver function.\nShiitake - In addition to the beta glucans Shiitake contains various enzymes that may improve liver function.\nBoth Reishi and Shiitake are considered to be \u201ctonics\u201d for the liver in Traditional East Asian Medicine.\nReishi Shiitake\nMemory and Concentration*\nAlong with supporting immune health, the other unique health benefits attributed to Lion\u2019s Mane extracts are what some researchers are calling \u201cNeural Nourishment\u201d. Extracts of the Lion\u2019s Mane mushrooms, and the mycelium grown in liquid (not rice), may enhance cognitive functions such as memory and concentration, promote or accelerate the growth of the myelin sheath (also called myelination), and enhance and promote the production of Nerve Growth Factor.\nThe myelin sheath surrounds and promotes the normal function of nerve cells. This is essential to the health and normal functioning of the nervous system.\nNerve Growth Factor (NGF) is a small secreted protein that is important for the growth, maintenance and survival of certain neurons (nerve cells), and also functions as a signaling molecule. NGF is part of a family or group of similar proteins, also referred to as a neurotrophins, that serve to promote the health and normal function of the brain and nervous system.\nStress Relief*\nBalancing the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (HPA Axis) - Cordyceps Cs-4\nCordyceps extracts provide immuno-modulating beta glucans that support immune health. Cordyceps extracts also contain other actives including adenosine, cordycepic acid, cordycepin and other related compounds.\nIt is the adenosine and the other related compounds that may help to balance the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), acting primarily through the adrenal glands, and by doing so, can be helpful to people suffering from prolonged exposure to stress.\nThe HPA axis (or HTPA axis), is a complex set of direct influences and feedback interactions among the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal glands. The interactions among these organs constitute the HPA axis, a major part of the neuroendocrine system that controls reactions to stress, and regulates many of the body\u2019s processes including digestion, the immune system, mood and emotions, sexuality and energy storage and expenditure.\nThe ability to respond to stress is essential and a normal part of human physiology. Stress can be psychological stress, or physiological stressors such as such as hypoglycemia, illness, fever, trauma, surgery, fear, pain, physical exertion, or temperature extremes.\nHowever, whether from a charging lion, or a pending deadline, the body's response to stress can be both helpful and harmful. The stress response gives us the strength and speed to ward off or flee from an impending threat. But when it persists, stress can put us at risk for a number of health problems. Prolonged exposure to stress can also lead to a persistent feeling of fatigue, and can affect everything from mood to sleep, the immune function and the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients from the diet.\nThis prolonged exposure to stress can also create an imbalance in the HPA axis that becomes self-reinforcing, causing the negative symptoms to persist and get worse. Regular use of Cordyceps, by replenishing the adrenals, may help to break this self-reinforcing imbalance, leading to a balanced HPA axis and better health by reducing the negative effects of prolonged exposure to stress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 9682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://music.princeton.edu/people/connor-elias-way", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:49Z", "digest": "sha1:2GKSDFWOTLY3KK2AQAWUIQ53USW4CSRV", "length": 1254, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "music.princeton.edu", "title": "Connor Elias Way| Princeton Department of Music", "raw_content": "cway@princeton.edu\nMore about Connor Elias Way\nConnor Elias Way (b. 1991) is a composer from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2014, he graduated summa cum laude with a B.Mus. in Composition from Georgia State University where he studied with Brent Milam and Nickitas Demos. In 2017, He completed a master\u2019s degree at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University where he studied with Kevin Puts. Connor\u2019s piece Harlequin was selected as a finalist in the League of Composers/ISCM 2014 Composition Competition and in 2017 he was awarded the Gustav Klemm Award in Composition from the Peabody Institute as well as a fellowship from Yale\u2019s Norfolk New Music Workshop. His music has been performed by the NeoPhonia New Music Ensemble, Chamber Cartel, Terminus Ensemble, Trio Phoenix, Omnibus Ensemble, The Occasional Symphony, Now Hear This, and at the Charleston Symphony\u2019s Magnetic South series. In January 2019, Connor\u2019s piece Over Collapsing Cities of Steel will receive it\u2019s world premiere by the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4 as a part of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute\u2019s \u201cFuture Classics\u201d concert. He is currently a Roger Sessions Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University where he is working towards a PhD in music composition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 3897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 160.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musicofmymind14.com/2014/07/29/elle-varner-bet-experience-music-matters-62914-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QGX3PGICGAHXPMNOGAVD7KCQRX6AFLPW", "length": 1097, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "musicofmymind14.com", "title": "Elle Varner | BET Experience: Music Matters | 6/29/14 [PHOTOS] \u2013 MUSICOFMYMIND14", "raw_content": "The fifth act I was able to catch was Elle Varner; an R&B artist who emerged during the early 2010s, whose single \u201cRefill\u201d charted in March 2012. Her debut album, \u201cPerfectly Imperfect\u201d, was one of the only female R&B albums that I purchased that year.\nCurrently working on her sophomore album, she recently released a single titled \u201cDon\u2019t Wanna Dance\u201d featuring A$AP Ferg. If her follow up is anything like her debut, I\u2019ll be sure to pick up a copy of it to add it to my collection.\nCheck out Elle\u2019s Facebook page to keep up with her music. CLICK HERE to get redirected to Facebook.\nCLICK HERE to check out a collection of Instagram videos of most, if not all, of the songs Elle Varner performed at this concert.\nPosted in ConcertsTagged BET, BET Experience, BET Experience at L.A. 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All seven candidates have been invited to participate in a moderated forum of one hour and forty\u2013five minutes, which is free to the public. There will be additional time to meet with the candidates after the forum.\nPlease see attached PDF for full release.\nLos Angeles County Sheriff (2014) 123.96 KB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 136.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mycauseuk.com/charity/aps-support-uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TIO5W3KUTAEWTXJ6HQWKX2PV2VSEHNNH", "length": 771, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mycauseuk.com", "title": "APS Support UK | My Cause UK", "raw_content": "APS Support UK\nAntiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an incurable life-threatening autoimmune condition that causes the blood to clot too quickly. The condition can cause low grade symptoms such as migraines, memory problems and fatigue, but also is responsible for potentially fatal events such as strokes, heart attacks, blood clots in the lung and DVTs. In pregnancy, APS is a leading cause of recurrent miscarriage and stillbirth, and is also associated with other complications such as pre-eclampsia, low weight babies and premature births.\nAPS Support UK, aims to achieve earlier diagnosis and offer support to anyone affected by APS through awareness, education and research.\nFind out more at www.aps-support.org.uk\nWhy not support APS Support UK at festivals in 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mydecorative.com/2016/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VI3OWXE33E3QFVLS6VZ7KUCYQ67VSMV5", "length": 10247, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "mydecorative.com", "title": "%the_archive_title% | My Decorative", "raw_content": "Acquiring The Best Zero Turn Mowers As Well As Power Machinery For Your Company\nThe majority of companies depend upon systems which raise performance and quality of work. 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But then, stepping back and looking at the kitchen that you are replacing, you [\u2026]\nAmazing Design Strategies that will Help You Fake Extra Space in Your Small Room\nIt can be difficult to create an open and inviting feel when you\u2019re working with a small space. Living and working in cramped spaces can give you a sense of claustrophobia, increasing anxiety and irritability. If you\u2019re stuck with a small space, here are some fantastic strategies to make it feel like you\u2019ve got more [\u2026]\n6 Easy DIY Home Decor Ideas To Welcome Winter\nWinter is just around the corner, and you\u2019re probably already thinking of ways to decorate your home. No matter if you do or don\u2019t celebrate Christmas, you are probably over those greens and the reds of Christmas d\u00e9cor and want to try out something more, well, tasteful. Using whites, silver, and gold are appropriate options [\u2026]\nTips on Picking Ace Kitchen Designers\nA kitchen designer is not just someone who lays out the interior plans for your kitchen but is also able to understand your needs. Anyone who\u2019s a homemaker would understand the clash of ideas between a designer and a homemaker. It is about functionality interfering with the aesthetic appeal that is usually the cause of [\u2026]\n9 Potted Plants Inspiration to Decorate Your Windowsill\nOutdoor gardens add unimaginable beauty to any home. While it is a great deal to have one, there are a couple of reasons why having an outdoor garden may not be possible. This doesn\u2019t mean you still cannot plant your favorite plants in your home. A great alternative for you is having your windowsill garden. [\u2026]\nThe One Must Have Piece Of Home D\u00e9cor A Full Length Mirror\nFull length mirrors are a quite different from other choices because they are the one type that everyone needs. Of course they can be used as an accent piece in your home, add some stylish looks, and be used for things like putting on makeup but their main function is to help you look fantastic. [\u2026]\nTop 5 Reasons To Have Weapon Storage\nSo, you\u2019ve just come home from your local firearm dealer with a brand-new rifle, shotgun handgun. Congratulations on the new purchase first of all but, what do you do with it now? If you have secure storage already you\u2018ll probably go put it away. If you don\u2019t you might put it in a drawer, maybe [\u2026]\nReasons for Opting Double Glazing Existing Aluminium Windows\nDouble glazing the existing aluminium windows works out an affordable option as compared to the replacement of windows. Double glazing is insulated glazing which is done by using two panes of glass to ensure there is a reduction in the noise pollution. This also works out well for heat control. Using the two glass panes [\u2026]\nBest Tips to Bring Your Old Home into the 21st Century\nOne of the joys of being a homeowner involves the ability to customize and update your living space. It\u2019s safe to say that construction styles have changed and they don\u2019t make homes like they used to. If you live in a home that\u2019s 30 to over 50 years old, chances are you could use some [\u2026]\nHow to Prepare For Winter Plumbing Woes\nIt is easy to forget about plumbing and common winter worries when there are so many other things to think about as winter is approaching. Unfortunately, when homeowners do not take the time to prepare properly for winter, a plumbing problem can make their holiday season and the months following much more difficult. There are [\u2026]\nHow to Safely Remove the Small Structures Filled With Asbestos from Your Property\nHave you demolished the small building that is in an unsafe condition and would like to remove asbestos made building materials safely? Then, you need to hire asbestos removal services to carry out this job. These people will come with the right equipment and tools to remove the asbestos safely and properly without making the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 14511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nateeul.smugmug.com/Photography/2013-Summer-The-Cities-Summer/i-4FFKsXw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YBK7DGVVWSUXO3SLQNHKAWY46WIXJSPS", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nateeul.smugmug.com", "title": "2013 Summer: The Cities Summer - Nate Eul", "raw_content": "Pre-Swimming Happiness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 148.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nbcds.org/events/2018-07-15/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MHRKZRYHIZVQACULEBTZ6X34OYLIMVM5", "length": 78, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nbcds.org", "title": "Events for July 15, 2018", "raw_content": "Band: David Mostardi (accordion), Jon Berger (violin), Judy Linsenberg (winds)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ndsmcobserver.com/2017/10/mens-bball-brey-leadership-ncaa-scandal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SM4GVXXXLH5KU5GIPIKGC5LAWPC4MIFL", "length": 6148, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "ndsmcobserver.com", "title": "Brey discusses team's leadership, NCAA scandal at first practice of season // The Observer", "raw_content": "Marek Mazurek | Tuesday, October 3, 2017\nMonday marked the first official practice of Notre Dame\u2019s season, with head coach Mike Brey\u2019s squad looking to improve on an appearance in the ACC title game and a third-straight trip to the NCAA tournament.\nAnd with senior forward Bonzie Colson getting recognition as the Blue Ribbon preseason player of the year, and Brey sitting on the No. 2 recruiting class in the country according to 247sports, the confidence level in South Bend is high.\nIrish junior guard Rex Pflueger chases Tigers junior guard Devin Cannady during Notre Dame\u2019s 60-58 win in the first round of the NCAA tournament over Princeton at KeyBank Center on March 16.\n\u201c[The confidence level is] higher, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be picked that way in the ACC poll as opposed to other years,\u201d Brey said Monday. \u201cWe only have one freshman \u2026 we really are a pretty focused, driven group. The leadership of Bonzie, [graduate student forward Austin] Torres, even [guard] Rex Pflueger is emerging as a great voice for us as a junior, how they\u2019ve handled their business with their strength training, I\u2019ve been really impressed with that.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had a great rotation of old teams and some are really, really good. I feel this group\u2019s as good as any of them as far as just getting it, understanding it, working and wanting to do it together.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re all getting a lot more comfortable, the confidence is there,\u201d Pflueger said. \u201cNow is the point in time for us to go in together and start practicing and I think going in every single day is going to be good for us, because we know we have the talent level to do great things this year and go deep in any tournament that we\u2019re in.\u201d\nNotre Dame only lost two players from last year\u2019s team: former wings Steve Vasturia and V.J. Beachem. Though both were solid producers on the court, their absence will be felt the most off of it.\nFilling their shoes as leaders for the 2017\u201318 season will be Colson, senior guard Matt Farrell, Torres and Pflueger.\nBrey said the biggest challenge for the new group of leaders will be keeping the team calm, since Colson, Farrell and Pflueger are naturally more intense players than Beachem or Vasturia who Brey jokingly described as \u201clistening to jazz\u201d during team huddles.\n\u201cI\u2019m going to have to keep them steady,\u201d Brey said. \u201cYou look at the personalities of Farrell, Colson, Pflueger and Gibbs, they are edgy guys and emotional guys. Ninety-eight percent of that is good and I wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. I\u2019d rather have that and downshift it than have to inject it. But when we don\u2019t have success, in the midst of a game and in the midst of a tough stretch in the ACC, can we be poised and understand the big picture? I think that\u2019s going to be a big part of my job.\u201d\nPflueger agreed that this year\u2019s team will be more emotionally-charged than last year\u2019s, but noted that is a good thing.\n\u201cI think our team this year is definitely more emotional, not in a bad way,\u201d Pflueger said. \u201cBut in a sense that we\u2019re hungry and excited to prove ourselves once again this year. We have a lot of intensity that\u2019s going to be shown on both sides of the ball.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Farrell said that Brey has talked to him about being the quarterback of the team and with that, comes new responsibility handling adversity.\n\u201cSomething\u2019s definitely going to have to change this year,\u201d Farrell said. \u201cLosing [Vasturia and Beachem] who are always calm no matter what\u2019s going on is tough. I think Bonzie does a great job in huddles too and calming down. That\u2019s something we take a lot of pride in \u2014 our huddles. Coach Brey rarely says a lot in there, we\u2019re usually always talking to each other trying to figure things out. That\u2019s something that we have to figure out, finding guys that will keep us mid-level throughout the whole game.\n\u201cObviously I play with a lot of emotions, but when it comes down to important situations and stuff like that, it\u2019s something that I\u2019ll be able to do.\u201d\nNCAA scandal\nBeyond Notre Dame, the college basketball world is being rocked by an FBI investigation into corruption and money laundering involving athletic-wear companies paying prospects to attend schools which have deals with those companies.\nBrey said the scandal is \u201cdisappointing\u201d and said the FBI\u2019s involvement sets a new precedent.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know if we can get any lower than the situation we\u2019re in now,\u201d Brey said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had kind of this underworld that\u2019s been part of the fabric for a long, long time. But now that it\u2019s a criminal investigation, it\u2019s all new territory.\u201d\nBrey said the challenge for him, specifically is to not let it become a distraction to the upcoming season.\n\u201cWhat I\u2019ve tried to do starting yesterday, I even told my staff today, is to try not to be distracted by this and coach my team,\u201d Brey said. \u201cBecause everyday people want to talk about that and I don\u2019t really have much more to comment on besides what I\u2019ve just said.\u201d\nBrey said that he feels very involved with all aspects of his program and that Notre Dame recruits players aren\u2019t be attracted by payouts, but when asked if Notre Dame\u2019s program was clear of any wrongdoing related to the recent scandal, Brey admitted it\u2019s hard to know for sure every single thing that goes on in a program.\n\u201cI\u2019m pretty darn confident of how we do business, but you never know completely,\u201d Brey said. \u201cThere\u2019s no question about it, I really pride myself on really being plugged in to everything that\u2019s going on, but I\u2019ve always been very confident, our philosophy, how we run it, the kids that are attracted to us.\u201d\nBrey announced Monday that Austin Torres is dealing with a stress fracture and will sit out between one month and six weeks. Notre Dame\u2019s first exhibition game of the season falls on Nov. 3 against Bethel and the Irish start their regular season on Nov. 11 versus DePaul. Brey said that Torres being ready to play on Nov. 11 would be \u201ctight\u201d in reference to his recovery timeline.\nTags: Austin Torres, Bonzie Colson, Matt Farrell, Mike Brey, Notre Dame Men's Basketball, Rex Pflueger\nNotre Dame looks to remain perfect against Loyola Maryland\nAfter winning its first two contests of the season by more than 20 points,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 10275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neiltomkins.com/2011/09/25/still-life-no-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KAXIRQKP6H7WK2OGXNFDRH2D24SGZGW3", "length": 64, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "neiltomkins.com", "title": "Still Life No. 3 \u2013 neiltomkins", "raw_content": "Posted on September 25, 2011 May 29, 2012 by Neil Ernest Tomkins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nesn.com/2019/02/did-rob-gronkowski-hint-at-return-while-talking-about-dodging-beers-at-parade/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:23Z", "digest": "sha1:W5GYYVFXG4ANDMTRB7GA63T4HCV3TYJN", "length": 2020, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "nesn.com", "title": "Did Rob Gronkowski Hint At Return While Talking About Dodging Beers At Parade? | New England Patriots | NESN.com", "raw_content": "Did Rob Gronkowski Hint At Return While Talking About Dodging Beers At Parade?\nby Mike Cole on Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:58AM\nNow we don\u2019t want to read too much into Rob Gronkowski\u2019s comments from a late-night talk show, especially when he\u2019s recounting drunken parade stories, but \u2026\nThe Patriots tight end appeared Wednesday night on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d to talk about New England\u2019s Super Bowl LIII win.\nEarly in the conversation, Gronkowski recounted a story from the Patriots\u2019 celebration parade Tuesday where he apparently got rocked in the head by a full can of beer. But while telling the story, Gronkowski said something that likely stood out for Patriots fans hoping he doesn\u2019t retire this offseason.\n\u201cAt one time we had five of those (nips), and then there were like five of those beers coming at one time, and everyone on the duck boat is juking them, and we\u2019re getting good practice in for next season,\u201d Gronkowski recalled.\nAgain, maybe we\u2019re reading too much into it, but he did say \u201cnext season\u201d when telling the story, which maybe indicates he\u2019s planning on returning for a 10th NFL season? That or he just wasn\u2019t really thinking about the words he was choosing.\nLater in the interview, Fallon asked Gronkowski about his future plans.\n\u201cFirst off, I\u2019ve gotta see where I\u2019m at,\u201d Gronkowski said. \u201cRight after the season, you can\u2019t make a decision, it\u2019s so emotional, a big win like that. You gotta settle down, you gotta see how your body responds.\u201d\nGronkowski actually revealed he was supposed to be on the show Monday night, but he was too hobbled from Sunday\u2019s game and needed a little more time to recover. The tight end was dinged up midway through the game, eventually revealing he took a shot to the quad.\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re bruised up a little, sometimes your mindset isn\u2019t there all the way,\u201d Gronkowski said. \u201cBut it\u2019s all good. I know how to bounce back, I know how to always do the recovery, the treatments and always come back stronger, man.\u201d\nAlways come back stronger, you say? 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It is situated in the Galactic Core in the Commenor Run . Its exact hyperspatial coordinates change annually, however, it is roughly located 1.5 Parsecs out from the Graveyard of Alderaan. Although New Alderaan is strong in its financial role in the galaxy, it is not located in the Corporate Sector in the Outer Rim; this is primarily for the benefit of maintaining hyperspatial trade routes that were previously mapped for Alderaan. During its early years, New Alderaan was only 120 kilometers wide. Following its establishment as a planetary-state, it was expanded and some of its components (i.e. thermal exhaust port) were altered. It is now 79.3 million kilometers in surface area, roughly the size of a moon to a massive planet and has a population of 20 billion.\nNew Alderaan was originally built as the battleship Death Star by the empire. It was taken over by the rebel fleet under Princess Leia . The rebel's mission operations to infiltrate the Death Star was successful. The operations ended in the death of the leader of the Galactic Empire , Darth Vadar . From the transmitting station of the Death Star, the galaxy was declared by the followers of the Princess to no longer be under the Empire's rule. Following the collapse of the empire, the former Death Star was renamed New Alderaan in memorialization of the old Alderaan. It was established as a peaceful and autonomous planetary-state under the Second Galactic Republic. New Alderaan is home to the largest economy in the galaxy . It is the financial hub and mediator of trade and business, largely due to its full support of business entities and free enterprise\nNew Alderaan is a presidential republic . Its political ideology is communitarian , and its economy is a strongly right-wing capitalist economy. New Alderaan is the center of the largest trade network in the galaxy. Citizens of New Alderaan engage in private business ownership and each fuels the economy. Families of striving entrepreneurs, business people and service sector employees are the main inhabitants of New Alderaan. Poverty is nil on New Alderaan and very rare, despite its capitalist ideals. However, the income disparity is fairly high.\nDue to the historic sentiment of Old Alderaan 's destruction by the death star, the space station was taken over by the Princess Leia's rebel associates and named after her homeworld, which was destroyed. The death star's new purpose was obsolete in a new and peaceful galactic order and is now named New Alderaan as a memorial to the peace which was maintained by the former.\nNational Flag of New Alderaan\nThe Flag of New Alderaan.\nThe New Alderaan nation\u2019s flag is very simple and was designed by Master Jedi Obi Wan Kenobi . In the center of the flag is an outline of the once-battleship nation , with a large yellow star in its middle. This star signifies the new hope to be found in this tightly knit communitarian society , New Alderaan. The white of the background of the flag signifies the purity to be found in starting this new society of peace. Finally, the logos to be found in the top left and bottom right corners of the flag are those or the old Rebel Alliance . This signifies the cornerstones laid by the Rebel Alliance in the foundation of the new society of New Alderaan, and their involvement in taking over the old Death Star and turning into the great nation it is today.\nPre-Galactic Empire\nA blueprint of the Death Star.\nNew Alderaan was originally built as a weapon for the use of the empire , based on the primary concept of the Death Star. The concept an orbital battle ship was first conceived by Raith Sienar in 29 BBY for the Second Battle of Zonama Sekot . His design integrated the idea of laser power destruction with the use of an internal plasma core. However, it was mainly intended for space battle and its capacity for laser power wasn't nearly as strong as its future counterpart.\nOrigin of Death Star Plans\nThe Geonosian Industries , using the preliminary concept of Raith Seinar, drafted the first technical design for this 'Ultimate Weapon'. It was meant to destroy the forces of the Republic and implemented a superlaser in order to destroy a planetary mass.\nThe plans for the Ultimate Weapon drafted by Seperatist alliances, came under the possession of the Galactic Empire. The construction began under the Imperial reign, but took over nineteen years to complete. The project delays ranged from construction and design flaws to labor union disputes. Among other troubles, the project overseer Lemelisk was hospitalized following a force choking from Darth Vader.\nBen Kenobi and Luke receive the hologram.\nAt this time, an anti-imperialist Rebel Alliance had formed with the goal to restore the Galactic Republic. Princess Leia of Alderaan attempted to board the Death Star, obtain the three sets of schematics to deliver to the Alliance. The Princess is captured, however the Droid and Human-Cyborgs relations companion boarded the escape pod. Princess Leia was eventually rescued by Luke Skywalker , pilot Han Solo , the two droids, and Jedi master Obi Wan Kenobi . They managed to escape the enemy station on the Millennium Falcon , however Obi Wan was left behind. A future account from Luke Sywalker indicated that Luke had seen Obi Wan and Darth Vader in a fight, but the doors had sealed before he saw either survive.\nThe Rebel Infiltration\nThe plans for the battlestation were successfully found in the hands of the Rebel Alliance. The original mission objective was to combine all separate schematics and analyse the data for design weaknesses. The analysts found the self-destructive nature of an unshielded Thermal Exhaust Port which could be used to destroy the Death Star. Luke Skywalker, believed Obi Wan was still aboard the Death Star and made a proposition to take over the station and execute the Empire's force commanders.\nFollowing the victory of the Rebel Alliance, the galaxy was declared to be at peace and no longer held within the clutches of the empire. The Death Star was changed to be restructured like a rebel base. It was the Death Star and many more of the main rebel bases which began their change to the New Republic at first, leading the other planets in the galaxy. Princess Leia was appointed by the Rebel commanders to be the first new ruler of the Death Star base. It was her first act to develop the battle-station as a nation, found its constitution and name it New Alderaan after her home world. Luke Skywalker was originally to\nPresident Leia and Han Solo\nbe appointed the army general of New Alderaan, but the rebel base favoured in New Alderaan's capitalist nature and didn't vote to have an army. Instead, it was decided the closest order to an organization for defence and the old rebels (aside from the Jedi Council and Elected House of Representatives) would be a small and highly-trained government taskforce. Luke Skywalker became the head of this task force, not at the highest rank, but as a Lieutenant. New Alderaan continues to thrive as a nation of financial freedom and strength through religious unity.\nThe city-state New Aldeeran has a very unique form of government. It is comprised of an elected house of representatives, from which a president is chosen based on their credibility by the Order of the Jedi, and the Order of the Jedi sit at the top of the political chain, above the elective hierarchy. The elected house of representatives holds legislative powers, the chosen President holds executive powers and some judicial powers (such as deciding if laws are in accordance to the New Aldeeran way of life), and the Order of the Jedi hold executive, judicial and some legislative powers (e.g. making laws when the extreme need presents itself and the elected house does not operate quickly or efficiently enough).\nThe government of the city-state hold mostly social powers, based on moral enforcement. The morals which are enforced are those of the Jedi Council, and this enforcement strongly encourages the Force and how it is to be used for good. They encourage unity of the nation through community strength and common goals of the people. They also encourage free enterprise through free trade which, in result, has cause New Aldeeran to be known as \u201cthe economic hub\u201d of the galaxy. Each member of political affairs, no matter the level, is a member of the system until he/she dies or goes rogue. When a member goes rogue, they are immediately placed under investigation, and if found guilty, are exiled infinitely. When a death occurs, the proper funeral celebrations take place, and new elections are held within the next year.\nThe Order of the Jedi\nThe Order of the Jedi is a highly prestigious religious group that holds many powers. They have jurisdiction both at the national level in New Aldeeran (where it is housed) and on the intergalactic level. The selection is based on scientific selection. Jedi\u2019s must begin their training at approximately 7 years of age, therefore all children in the galaxy between the ages 3 and 6 go through basic screening tests. If a child is found to possess increased levels of metachlorids, they are sent to New Aldeeran, where the largest Padawan Training Center in the galaxy is housed, for further testing by the Order of the Jedi. These metachlorids are the basis of life, and when in higher than average levels, they are what drives the Force on an essential level. Once the child is deemed worthy of complete Jedi training, they are given a choice; to join the Order of the Jedi for the rest of their lives, or continue living as they were prior to the training. The Jedi council values the decision of the Padawan more than that of their parental guardian. Thus, the collective decisions of the Padawan determine the future fate of the Jedi Council, and whether or not they will partake as a member.\nLaws in New Aldeeran are based upon their mission statement of \u201cLearn, Enlighten, Endeavour\u201d. This notion is founded on the original constitution created soon after the birth of the New Republic (on a basis of the Old Republic). Laws are formed using a very specific system based on population need and population reaction. Any law, once approved, is put into the planet\u2019s legal code and put into action immediately. There are many debriefs on laws and regulations with the Community Watch Service, so that they remain up to date on the planetary legislation.\nEvaluating a Law\nOnce a law is put into place, The National Statistics Organization begins to evaluate many aspects of life in New Aldeeran. They focus especially on any possible elevations in the national crime rate that may be occurring due to the given law having been put into place. If there is a noticeably negative effect seen in these statistics, which are collected over a time period of 6 months to a year, then the law is withdrawn and revaluated by the Elected House of Representatives, the President, and the Order of the Jedi.\nWhen a breach in the safety of the city-state or a threat to the traditional methods of the Jedi Order arises, a proposal is made by the Elected House of Representatives, passed for approval, and then seen to the Order of the Jedi that it does not destroy the ideologies of New Aldeeran, consisting of communitarianism and capitalism. Whoever deals with the final sentencing is up to the severity of the crime. For the most serious offenses, such as rape or 1st and 2nd degree murder, the Order of the Jedi steps in and handles everything. The more minor crimes, such as grand theft auto and drug possession, are dealt with by the Elected House of Representatives. Everything in between, such as tax evasion, is dealt with by a pre-decided set of conditions recreated or modified by the President each new term in office. Punishments vary from extra time on the Community Service Watch to exile/desertion to barren back-water planets.\nNew Alderaan is a strongly Capitalist state with an economy that operates entirely in the Secondary and Tertiary sector. The planet\u2019s imports are valued at over 3 trillion Galactic Credits. Of this, 600 billion credits is used in the import of natural fusion chemicals from various Industrial planets. 20% of the remainder is used in Metal and Oil refinery, and Machinery. The remaining 80% is distributed among maintenance for the station and miscellaneous corporate import (food, water, shelter, electricity, communications).\nEnergy District\nNew Alderaan utilizes the natural fusion chemicals to generate plasma conduction with its superlaser technology. The power generated by the superlaser is then stored in fuel cells, whi\nThe Energy District creating Fuel Cells.\nch are created in mass quantity. The manufacturing of fuel cells, or New Alderaan\u2019s energy industry, is the largest private industry on the planet. New Alderaan generates more revenue out of energy export than most core worlds combined, and is home to the largest energy manufacturing district and export in the galaxy. There are currently several corporations that constitute New Alderaan\u2019s energy district; Arbor Industries, Bunkurd Corporation, Organa Corporation, and many smaller companies that are linked to production through their larger corporate counterparts.\nScience and Technology District\nThe second largest economic operative in New Alderaan, is that of science and technological development. This industry district is dedicated to the manufacturing and design processing of hyperdrives. In the production of spatial drive technology, New Alderaan ranks the tenth planetary state in its trade.\nMany other industrial districts contribute to New Alderaan\u2019s economy. The more common ones would include, in descending order of production; the industries of Medicine, Construction, Local Transportation, Mechanic services, Food and Food Wholesale, Printing and Publishing, Money Center Banks, Finance, Mortgage Investment, Education, and Advertising. Following this, there are smaller services and districts.\nThe majority of citizens have a very high income, with little to no tax deduction. Following necessary expenses, most individuals had large sums of money to be used for entertainment and investment. Less than 1% of the population of New Alderaan is on the brink of poverty. Despite this, due to New Alderaan\u2019s strong Capitalist ideals, there is a high income disparity. CEO\u2019s of each district\u2019s largest corporations own that physical district and are responsible for that portion of the planet\u2019s maintenance.\nAddressing Issues of Sustainability\nExcess Garbage\nAs of late, the garbage and assorted waste produced in the nation of New Alderaan has been piling up. As it started to produce a serious threat to the agricultural sector of New Alderaan, it was decided that solutions must be arranged. In the past, New Alderaan simply used the garbage compactors to be found on this giant battleship-turned-space-nation, and the compacted garbage was stored on great sheets until it was deported/transported to other planets for proper disposal. However, the garbage rate has greatly increased in proportion to the increased number of private businesses being created and run in New Alderaan.\nA member of the Elected House of Representatives named Phillipe Nash, who once worked in the Agricultural sector of New Alderaan and had experienced the toxic effects of surplus garbage, created an easy solution. He decided that, instead of the garbage being compacted and left on the ship, it should be disintegrated and launched into space instead of being left any place where it can harm the biological products manufactured in the Agricultural section. This will therefore get rid of the excess garbage and create a completely new work sector for the unemployed citizen of New Alderaan, where the employees shall be paid by the private owners of the Agricultural businesses in order to protect their products from the toxic effects of the garbage.\nDemands for Free Education\nCitizens of New Alderaan, young and old alike, have been taking to the streets, demanding government subsidized education due to their own financial insufficiencies. Their financial difficulties result in them not being able to afford an education at the high costs of the private education sector. Also, there has been a decline in citizens choosing to work in the private education sector due to there not being much money, and these citizens are moving on to work for other privately owned companies and/or creating their own businesses. These protests are disrupting traffic, vandalizing private property, and scaring away traders that come to New Alderaan for business. The government refuses to pay any of the educators because of the radically capitalist ideals of the nation, and they do not wish to tax the people so that others may receive a cheaper or even free education (hence the economic policy of user pays healthcare and education). The government prefers to use what little tax money they receive to train a small, specialized task force, which can be used to better protect the people if and when things may get out of hand on the crime scale in New Alderaan.\nIn response to this mounting crisis, the government has decided to allot minor tax cuts to those who decide to work in the private education sector. This response to the protest crisis is similar to the New Alderaan Energy Plan, where energy efficient companies, corporations, and workers are rewarded with tax cuts. However, the tax cuts accorded to these educators are smaller than those allotted to these energy efficient peoples, but are still present. The hope for this new tax cut is that more workers will remain in the private education sector, and that the pay required by the educators will be lesser due to their tax cuts. This will result in cheaper education and will hopefully stop the protesters violent and frustrated actions.\nGarbage Dust Meteorite Problem\nRecently, it has been decided that excess compacted garbage created and produced by the nation of New Alderaan is to be disintegrated and launched into space. However, a problem has quickly arisen out of this seemingly easy solution. It has been discovered that this disintegrated garbage has been compacting back onto itself to form \u201cgarbage dust\u201d meteorites. This is due to the lack of research in the project by the Agricultural sector, when they began to pay for these new companies that would disintegrate and get rid of the garbage that was harming their biological business. Due to the vacuum environment found in space and the dust not having been distributed far enough from itself, it has been compacting into these harmful meteors. Unfortunately, these toxic meteors have been crashing into nearby planets, which has been harming their natural environment and eliciting major complaints and criticism towards New Alderaan\u2019s garbage sector. This brand new sector quickly blossomed into one of the most used services in New Alderaan, because other companies have started to invest in getting rid of their own garbage on this manner so that their company images remain good. Getting rid of it would put millions of citizens of the working class out of work, which would result in a quick elevation of the level of citizens living below the poverty line.\nThe Order of the Jedi quickly saw that having unrest between New Alderaan and other nations was taking a toll on the capitalist economy, because space travellers were no longer coming to New Alderaan for business in order to boycott their unhealthy garbage disposal ways. They also saw that disbanding the entire garbage sector was a terrible idea due to the unemployment that would result, and the threats to the Agricultural section would return very quickly. It was then suggested by the Elected House of Representatives that, instead of launching this garbage dust into space, it should be transported to neighbouring systems and planets, where it can be disposed of properly. This therefore opens another completely new subsection of the garbage sector, elevating employment. Some of this garbage dust is also being stored and used by the Science and Technology sector, where it is being tested and developed into a potential new energy source.\nRetrieved from \"https://new-alderaan.fandom.com/wiki/New_Alderaan?oldid=4120\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 22228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/cs/bible/basic-english/genesis/1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TCO2JHPS7VD35KBJGGEZRSQ4MXZEG45R", "length": 4053, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "newchristianbiblestudy.org", "title": "\ufeff Genesis 1 (English: Basic English Bible)\u010cesk\u00e9 u\u017eivatelsk\u00e9 rozhran\u00ed", "raw_content": "Genesis 2 \u2192\n1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.\n2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.\n4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,\n5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.\n6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.\n7 And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.\n8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.\n9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.\n10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.\n11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.\n12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.\n13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.\n14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:\n15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.\n16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.\n17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;\n18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.\n19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.\n20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.\n21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.\n22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.\n23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.\n24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.\n25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.\n26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.\n27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.\n28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.\n29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:\n30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.\n31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 11631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newconversations.net/paul-j-donoghue-and-mary-e-siegel-are-you-really-listening-1893732886-9781893732889/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2BCBRVTN3AGNG5KFINQQU7JA5BRMG3JQ", "length": 2438, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "newconversations.net", "title": "Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel: Are You Really Listening? \u2013 Communication Skills Resources", "raw_content": "Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel: Are You Really Listening?\nKeys to Successful Communication\nPaul J. Donoghue, PhD, and Mary E. Siegel, PhD.\n[Description from Publisher] Listening is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master. Listening takes us out of our tendency toward self-absorption and self-protection. It opens us to the world around us and to the persons who matter most to us. When we listen, we learn, we grow, and we are nourished.\nWhy do we often feel cut off when speaking to the people closest to us? What is it that keeps so many of us from really listening? Practicing psychotherapists, Donoghue and Siegel answer these questions and more in this thoughtful, witty, and helpful look at the reasons why people don\u2019t listen. Filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate easy-to-learn listening techniques, Are You Really Listening? is a guide to the secrets and joys of listening and being listened to.\n[Review from Amazon.com] Enjoyably readable, both practical and profound, this book hits all the right notes. As a clinical psychologist I found it so helpful, both in anchoring my approach to clients and in my being able to recommend it to them to help improve, often to rescue, their most important relationships.\nIn a compact presentation, with a wide array of engaging stories, the authors engender the necessary self-awareness of nonlistening behaviors, practiced with automatic ease even by those who see themselves as good listeners. This discussion lays the groundwork for the presentation of clear steps to skillful listening. In perhaps the greatest service, the authors suffuse this book with the essential spirit and meaning of listening\u2013a vital human act of connecting with another person\u2013for the sake of effectiveness, and for the sake of love.\nPaul J. Donoghue, PhD, and Mary E. Siegel, PhD, are psychologists in private practice in Stamford, Connecticut. They are also consultants to corporations and organizations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Their work has been featured on the Today Show, CNBC, Good Day New York, and in the New York Times. They are the best-selling authors of Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired and have coauthored more than fifty magazine and journal articles on issues related to chronic illness, communication skills, and family dynamics.\nBook Purchase Links by Country for Are You Really Listening?: Keys to Successful Communication", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neworleansretreats.org/events/rejoice-and-be-glad-pope-francis-call-to-holiness", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AXRV75MIMVTTUKUOVHZT3VYM7S2WJ2QI", "length": 694, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "neworleansretreats.org", "title": "Rejoice and Be Glad - Pope Francis' Call to Holiness - Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center - Metairie, LA", "raw_content": "Msgr. Doug Doussan is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He is currently serving as Resident Chaplain of the Archdiocesan Retreat Center. He was formerly the pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in New Orleans and St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Marrero.\nMatt Rousso has been engaged in pastoral ministry in four parishes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Since 1991, he has worked with Maryknoll Ministries, conducting mission spirituality programs in and around New Orleans and Louisiana. Actions on behalf of justice and promoting solidarity with the poor of developing countries have been key aspects of his ministry.\nMay Day of Prayer - May 14 2019 - Doussan/Rousso", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 108.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.cathaypacific.com/cathay-pacific-and-brussels-airlines-bring-more-destinations-and-rewards-to-customers-181740", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UAKY4PWWGQBVJWXTCAISIW2IPX2WKZWM", "length": 218, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "news.cathaypacific.com", "title": "Cathay Pacific and Brussels Airlines bring more destinations and rewards to customers - Cathay Pacific", "raw_content": "Thursday, July 12, 2018 \u2014 Cathay Pacific today announced a new codeshare agreement which will provide its customers travelling via Brussels with extensive connections to and from destinations across continental Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 13106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.csudh.edu/flesh-and-stone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SU24HPOGO76GN373MP2ZFAMRFWUN5WTS", "length": 3613, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "news.csudh.edu", "title": "Photographic Exhibit \u2018Flesh and Stone, A Conversation\u2019 to Open at CSU Dominguez Hills \u2014 CSUDH News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archive / Press Releases / Photographic Exhibit \u2018Flesh and Stone, A Conversation\u2019 to Open at CSU Dominguez Hills\nPhotographic Exhibit \u2018Flesh and Stone, A Conversation\u2019 to Open at CSU Dominguez Hills\nPhoto copyright Scot Sothern\n(Carson, Calif.) \u201cFlesh and Stone, A Conversation,\u201d a photographic exhibition opening at California State University, Dominguez Hills\u2019 Library Cultural Art Center on Sept. 7, features the powerful images of renowned Los Angeles artists Scot Sothern and Andy Romanoff. The exhibition provokes strong connections in viewers through its pairing of images showing harsh life on the streets next to sacred cultural images.\nWHAT: \u201cFlesh and Stone, A Conversation,\u201d paired works by Scot Sothern and Andy Romanoff.\nWHEN: Opening Reception: Sept. 7, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Run dates: Sept. 7, 2017 \u2013 Jan. 10, 2018. The reception will include a discussion with the artists.\nWHERE: Library Cultural Arts Center, Room LIB-1940, at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The university is located at 1000 East Victoria St, Carson, Ca. 90747. For a campus map and directions visit http://www4.csudh.edu/campus-map-directions/.\nCONTACT: Yvette Mack, (310) 243-2127\nAbout the Artists and \u201cFlesh and Stone, A Conversation\u201d\nAndy Romanoff, known for his portraits, architecture, and fine art photography has also been a sought after cameraman, designer, and inventor working in Hollywood for over five decades. Recognized for his expertise in motion picture and television equipment development, he co-founded First Light Video Publishing, an early instructional video company specializing in programs on media production, and opened Louma L.A., a company devoted to the development and rental of remote control equipment for moving cameras. In 1997, Panavision purchased Louma L.A. and Romanoff became president of Panavision Remote Systems, and in 2006, the company\u2019s Executive Vice President of Technical Marketing and Strategy.\nSpeaking about putting the exhibition together Romanoff said, \u201cMany of our images record the struggles of humanity whether on the faces of the thousand year old gods or tonight\u2019s homeless. Over and over we were struck by the expressions, and the universality of the emotions. As we paired the pictures it seemed they spoke with one another across cultures and time. They told us the poor, the hurt, the abused and the confused have always been with us and that artists have always looked at them. Here\u2019s how we see it.\u201d\nScot Sothern, a photographer and writer renowned for his controversial black and white images of prostitutes in Southern California he photographed from 1986 to 1990, contributes to the exhibition an honest and desperate expos\u00e9 of those living on the streets of Los Angeles. His first solo book \u201cLowlife\u201d (2011, Stanley Barker; 2013, powerhouse Books) was published in the United Kingdom, and branded \u201cThe year\u2019s most controversial photobook\u201d by the British Journal of Photography. Sothern has also published \u201cCurb Service: A Memoir\u201d (2013, Soft Skull Press) and \u201cStreetwalkers\u201d (2016, powerHouse Books).\n\u201cI began shooting these \u2018Drive-By Photographs\u2019 in 2010 from the shotgun seat of my car. Looking at the pictures now, it seems a bright yellow halo should be floating atop their heads,\u201d said Sothern. \u201cPairing these photographs with Andy\u2019s wonderful religious icons somehow render my subjects saintly, while his icons [sacred images of many cultures photographed in churches, temples and museums] come alive to share the laughter and, more often, the pain.\u201d\nFiled Under: Press Releases Tagged With: Art and Design, Art Gallery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.pattypeckhonda.com/article/fun-snow-day-ideas-for-the-entire-family?utm_source=3birds&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=news.pattypeckhonda.com_%5Bclient%5D%27s+Monthly+Newsletter+Honda&id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&u3b=870a8ce9b2c147829d5e2fc2a3c6eb77", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BOMLYS7ONE3TRMZWUW4CW6WHDCD52LXD", "length": 616, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "news.pattypeckhonda.com", "title": "Patty Peck Honda - Fun Snow Day Ideas For The Entire Family", "raw_content": "It's a good idea to stock up on games and ideas for fun indoor or outdoor activities to keep the kids busy and occupied. Having an array of activities for the daytime or for when the sun goes down will give everyone time to enjoy the snow but also to spend time together as a family. And if you do feel the need to get out on the roads during a snowy shutdown, you can drive with confidence with cutting-edge safety features from Honda. Check out our latest inventory or contact our sales staff online. Visit the Patty Peck Honda showroom at 555 Sunnybrook Rd, Ridgeland, MS 39157 when you're ready for a test drive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.search.yahoo.com/search?p=Railroad+Company+v.+Koontz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OB7Z7SVISCGFBRKM256VVIFZ7YRSTRNW", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "news.search.yahoo.com", "title": "Railroad Company v. Koontz - Yahoo Search Results", "raw_content": "We did not find results for: Railroad Company v. Koontz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.sky.com/story/mothercare-axes-hundreds-of-jobs-in-head-office-shake-up-11540813", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3N7OM364WQPD7FHSN33K5Y35SB6KGHPD", "length": 3190, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "news.sky.com", "title": "Mothercare axes hundreds of jobs in head office shake-up | Business News | Sky News", "raw_content": "Mothercare axes hundreds of jobs in head office shake-up\nThe retailer is cutting a net total of 150 jobs at its Watford head office as it seeks to exert control on costs, Sky News learns.\nImage: Mothercare is cutting costs as it seeks to turn around its fortunes\nMothercare is axing hundreds of head office jobs as it seeks to meet a \u00a319m cost-savings target outlined in a rescue plan struck with creditors earlier this year.\nSky News has learnt that the struggling retailer informed about 200 staff on Wednesday morning that their jobs would disappear as part of a restructuring.\nThe net job losses are expected to total roughly 150, with 50 new roles being created in the reorganisation.\nThe redundancies, which form part of a restructuring approved by financial stakeholders in July, provide the latest grim confirmation of the troubles confronting bricks-and-mortar retailers.\nMothercare, which has been struggling for years, said during the summer that it would close 60 stores, leaving it with an estate of just 77 outlets - 19 of which will be on reduced rental terms.\nIt also raised \u00a332.5m from investors to support its turnaround efforts.\nThe company took the extraordinary step of rehiring the chief executive it had sacked just five weeks earlier, and secured the backing of its pension trustees for revised funding arrangements.\nIn addition to the head office redundancies communicated to staff on Wednesday, roughly 800 jobs will disappear as a result of the shop closures.\nMothercare's move to slash its physical footprint followed that of New Look and Carpetright, and has been joined in recent days by Debenhams, which said it would seek to close 50 department stores within five years.\nSign our petition to make party leaders take part in televised debates before elections\nPhilip Hammond, the Chancellor, announced a limited package of support for independent retailers in his Budget on Monday, as well as a creating a 'Future High Streets Fund', but did little to address the concerns of nationwide chains.\nDespite its status as one of Britain's most prominent retailers, Mothercare is now a stock market minnow, with a market capitalisation of just \u00a366m.\nIn a statement issued to Sky News on Wednesday, a spokesman for the company said: \"We have today been communicating with our staff regarding the next stage of Mothercare's transformation to ensure we have a sustainable, global brand which can be the leading global specialist for parents and young children.\n\"This follows the comprehensive measures taken in recent months to provide a renewed and stable financial structure for the group.\"\nThe spokesman added that the company was now creating a separate corporate entity called Mothercare Global Brand responsible for \"developing the Mothercare strategy, maximising the value of our global brand, designing own-brand products and acting as the custodians of the brand\".\n\"Under these proposals the UK business will operate with the discipline of one of our international franchisees with the autonomy to focus its offer on an in-depth specialist knowledge of its domestic market.\"\nIt said it would be \"supporting our colleagues throughout the consultation process\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ngm.com.au/fines-and-disqualification-of-licence-severity-appeal-mid-range-drink-driving-charges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:7RDZZKZG3TUVXRCR7XY76XHYSYYZGFPW", "length": 1499, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ngm.com.au", "title": "Mid Range PCA Case Study: Fines / Licence Disqualification / Severity Appeal | NGM Lawyers", "raw_content": "Fines / Disqualification of Licence Severity Appeal: Mid Range Drink Driving Charges\nFines / Disqualification of Licence\u2026\nNever Say Never: Mid Range PCA Conviction Appealed\nOur client had previously been convicted of low range drink driving in 2001. On that occasion, the court had been persuaded to grant him leniency under section 10. Just before he relocated from Sydney to Victoria with his wife and children, he was charged with another offence \u2013 Mid Range PCA.\nAs a result of this charge, our client appeared in the Waverley Local Court in Sydney where he was convicted, fined $500 and disqualified from driving for six months.\nHowever, our client\u2019s employment was contingent on him holding a valid driver\u2019s licence, and without his work, it was likely that he and his family would need to move from Victoria back to Sydney.\nOur client contacted a firm of solicitors. He was advised that it would be impossibleto obtain leniency under a further section 10 application, and was refused any assistance with an appeal to the district court.\nOur client then contacted Nyman Gibson Miralis. We advised him that, although it would be difficult to have his conviction overturned, it would not be impossible.\nPleasingly, the Sydney District Court allowed our client\u2019s appeal. He was released without conviction, subject only to a two-year good behaviour bond. This meant that our client was able to keep his driver\u2019s licence, avoided a fine and had no conviction recorded against him. Never say never!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://niccimcshane.com/2016/12/18/my-greenwich-market-obsession/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QLGU5NVRD3JODVKJQWQNL3B53ZGYP35R", "length": 3499, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "niccimcshane.com", "title": "My Greenwich Market Obsession \u2013 NICCI MCSHANE", "raw_content": "God I love a good market.\nWhat that means is I actually love buying things which are totally unique, have an opportunity to support the local community and spoil my loved ones, especially at Christmas.\nGreenwich Market has been around since the 1800\u2019s. It has moved from its original location at the Royal Hospital, (now the Royal Navy College) to Greenwich village. It\u2019s a covered market so protected from the elements (thank god as it is freezing in London right now), in a courtyard with cobbled stones and surrounded by eclectic stores and alehouses. They have everything from beauty products, candles, clothing, antiques, art, crafts and food stalls catering for practically every cuisine. It has a really nice feel to it, I enjoy going there.\nMeandering around listening to Shakin\u2019 Stevens\u2019 Merry Christmas Everyone through my earphones (the best festive song ever!), I was in one fine Christmas spirit. I found myself smiling the entire time, not only did I probably look like a complete weirdo but I clearly looked like a target for spending money. I actually thought that earphones meant \u2018don\u2019t bother me I am not listening\u2019 but it would seem that is an incorrect assumption.\nThe mood in the market was jovial, Christmas music is a requirement in December in my opinion and it was like everyone has been taken over by Santa aliens as they were dancing (oh yes you heard that correctly, actually dancing, bum wiggles galore) and happily paying whilst singing along to the tunes\u2026including me.\nIt\u2019s easy to love a good market, especially when the products are so diverse.\nThe best things about a Market:\nIt\u2019s both a social interaction and a personal experience \u2013 you learn about the business, the products, the people. There is always a story and I find it fascinating.\nIt\u2019s a great vibe \u2013 everyone is chatting and the food stalls make it a great area to take a break.\nYou can find things which aren\u2019t on the average high street, items which suit your personality and make special gifts.\nYou can get a range of awesome home cooked food \u2013 today I saw a collection of reasonably priced Ethopian, Italian, Indian, Thai and British food (one was a carvery with massive slabs of meat!).\nAt this time of year it\u2019s the best place to get mulled wine\u2026my fave.\nAnd then if my purse isn\u2019t crying enough, just a few doors down from Greenwich Market is the Vintage Market, this is my idea of heaven. Imagine the stories behind a lot of these items, I really need to go back and spend more time to have a good look around. Like I need an excuse?!\nWhat I noticed at both markets is that this is not just an opportunity to sell, it\u2019s also a community. It is full of energetic and passionate individuals discussing their products and chatting away to people. Imagine how many new and interesting people they meet every day, how awesome!\nWell I have spent up and my final present scout is now complete, everything is wrapped and sitting proudly under the tree. I haven\u2019t been to a market in years and I realised today I kinda missed it. If you are like me and haven\u2019t been to one for a while, at least go and grab your mulled wine whilst you can!\nThankyou heaps for reading my blog, please feel free to leave a comment or to share with your friends. Merry Christmas. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected by the Berlin Christmas Market Tragedy x\nChristmas, community, Greenwich Market, local, London, presents, shopping, vintage\nPrevious Post Date Night\nNext Post My Week In Pictures 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nickthrolson.com/tag/simple-commercial-communications-for-smes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:U4LKBAHCRM2XJHAFZILL4PBX7YQODPME", "length": 2981, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "nickthrolson.com", "title": "Simple Commercial Communications For SME\u2019s Archives - Nick Throlson Professional Word Press Web Designer", "raw_content": "Simple Commercial Communications For SME\u2019s\nTag - Simple Commercial Communications For SME\u2019s\nCommercial communication, or marketing as its more widely know plays a huge rise in the success of SMEs. This is because it raises the awareness of your brand and product. Without which it would be impossible to sell in quantity necessary to stay in profit. While it can seem like a complicated area to master, it's possible to get some fantastic results by doing some very simple actions. Read on to find out more.\nNewsletters and mail shots\nOn the more traditional side of things, we have the marketing tool that is the newsletter. This is a valuable way of keeping your SME\u2019s customers and potential future customers up to date with your brand and products.\nIt is something that can be circulated via paper post but is now or likely to be done via email as this is a lot more time and cost efficient, and you can reach a larger audience a lot quicker.\nHowever the downside of emailing newsletters is they have to be hugely engaging and tempting to read, else they run the risk of quickly being deleted and ignored. To help you with this you can check out posts like the top 6 tools for targeted email marketing. As there you can find info on how to make your copy much more reader-friendly and engaging in format.\nOnce you have the format side of things sorted you need to ensure that your content is eye-catching as well. One way of doing this is to use special offers. These may take the form of money off codes, buy one get one free deals, free gifts, or the like.\nThese are a great way of getting a potential customer to actually read and engage with your email and online marketing. They also encourage a quick purchase helping you to boost your sales figures in a short space of time.\nHowever, there is an even more tempting way of getting your customers to engage with the marketing tool that you are distributing, and that is viral marketing. But what is viral marketing? Well, it's a way of getting your brand out there that is a bit more avant-garde.\nIt usually includes an image, or more typically a video, that has very watchable content. Such as something funny or something with an element of danger. The company name or product usually isn't the star of the show as is revealed at the end. It's more about the feeling that the video creates in its viewers which then becomes psychologically linked to your brand by the completion of the production.\nBy entertaining folks first and promoting second, you give your potential customers something before you have asked for anything from them. Creating a positive association with your brand.\nYou also give them something that they can share, spreading your message even further.\nCheck out some of the best examples here on the web for some inspiration. But be careful, as some companies have had trouble with negative viral marketing as well.\nBy Nick Throlson Marketing Simple Commercial Communications For SME\u2019s Comments Off", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 8908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nypost.com/2012/02/19/nets-could-sign-knicks-castoff-balkman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CYCDFXUVATRULZZNICA7BP45KW7JD3PF", "length": 4672, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "nypost.com", "title": "Nets could sign Knicks castoff Balkman", "raw_content": "Nets could sign Knicks castoff Balkman\nCHICAGO \u2014 Nets coach Avery Johnson has not tried lately to hide his desire for an upgrade at small forward. He already has started five different players at the position this season, and the search could lead to Renaldo Balkman, waived when the Knicks signed J.R. Smith.\nNBA sources confirmed the Nets have some interest and are researching Balkman and the possibility of adding the 6-foot-8, sixth-season veteran out of South Carolina out of South Carolina.\nThe Nets\u2019 need has been glaring. Consider the Nets ended their 97-85 upset of the Bulls yesterday having been outscored on the season at the starting small forward position, 500-188, or 15.6-5.9 per game. And that included a whopping 57-0 in two games before yesterday when DeShawn Stevenson was scoreless against the Grizzlies\u2019 Rudy Gay (25 points) and the Pacers\u2019 Danny Granger (32 points).\n\u201cIt\u2019s not easy. You look at the small forward position in our league, they just don\u2019t get enough attention,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWhile everybody glorifies over the center position and having these dynamic point guards, you look at it whether it\u2019s Miami with [LeBron] James or [the Bulls\u2019 Luol] Deng here or [the Mavericks\u2019] Shawn Marion,\u201cAll of the teams that really doing well and making deep playoff runs, you really have to have length and size and athleticism at that position,\u201d Johnson said.\nBut the coach could not have cared less yesterday about Stevenson\u2019s offense \u2014 he made a pair of 3-pointers, one a Bulls rally-killer midway through the fourth. Johnson had nothing but praise for Stevenson holding Deng to 14 points.\n\u201cStevenson\u2019s defense on Deng tonight was outstanding, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve been missing Stevenson so much,\u201d Johnson said.\nThough Brook Lopez was declared ready to play tonight, not all the news about Nets centers was favorable. Johnson said Mehmet Okur, who missed his 13th straight game \u2014 he last played in Philadelphia on Jan. 25 \u2014 suffered a setback and will be \u201cout until after the All-Star break.\u201d The Nets hope Okur can resume non-contact practice Feb. 28 in Dallas.\n\u201cObviously, he\u2019s been getting a lot of different injections in his back, different procedures, had a little bit of a setback, so we\u2019re going to just kind of take it easy with him between now and the break with the hopes of that practice that we have in Dallas, right before we play the Mavericks after the All-Star break, that he can come back and participate, the non-contact part of that practice,\u201d Johnson said.\nThe plan is to build Okur\u2019s strength with a possible return against the Celtics on March 2.\nThe Nets scored more points in yesterday\u2019s first quarter (34) than they had in two previous first quarters against Bulls this season combined (32). Chicago outscored the Nets, 28-18, on Jan. 23 here and 35-14 on Feb. 6 in Newark.\nThe game began a grueling back-to-back-to-back set for the Nets and came in the middle of a five-games-in-six-nights stretch. Johnson wanted to keep his starters\u2019 minutes down, but three went at least 42 minutes, one went 36, another 33.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t have a choice,\u201d he said. \u201cOur bench was struggling.\u201d At the beginning of the second quarter, I was trying to give [Kris] Humphries and Deron [Williams] a blow, but we had to get them back in,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cBecause the look in their eyes, they really looked like they wanted to win this game, and I didn\u2019t want to deprive them. So I had to call a [20-second timeout] and get them back in the game. But they were tough-minded all game. The Bulls made a little run there, and we held them off, fortunately.\u201d\nJordan Williams was part of Lopez\u2019s tough workout on Friday. He was deliberately physical with Lopez, who had the scratches to prove it.\n\u201cHe\u2019s getting his swagger back,\u201d Williams said. \u201cHe looks really good, really confident. His post moves are good. He\u2019s a real smart player. You\u2019ve got to rough him up a little bit. Just get a little physicality with him, move him around a little bit and try to get him used to the bumps and stuff like that, like he hasn\u2019t been used to in a while. Just help him out any way I can, try to be a good teammate, that\u2019s all.\u201d\nLopez is up 10 pounds, to 275.\n\u201cHe\u2019s so big. He really is a big guy,\u201d Williams said. \u201cHe was hard to stop. He really is.\u201d\nLopez said he has no worries about playing on the surgically repaired broken right foot.\n\u201cI\u2019m very confident in how everything went and I\u2019m confident in the moves I\u2019m making with it now. I\u2019m just excited to be back out there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic. I\u2019m excited actually to be on the bench, hang out with the guys and everything and then be on the floor with them as well.\u201d\nNets stomp Bulls, stop 8-game slide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 7996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nysmusic.com/tag/8-track-mind/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RGLFIZ5FSEWRDIZILILZKZORZXNLYTGA", "length": 309, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nysmusic.com", "title": "8-track mind \u2013 NYS Music", "raw_content": "Hearing Aide: Left Hand Shake \u20188-Track Mind\u2019\nRob Creenan\t Jan 29, 2017\nOne day, I was given the task of reviewing this album, a debut, no less, from a band I had no idea what to expect from. All I got was a set of audio files from the album 8-Track Mind, and a brief description of Left Hand Shake\u2019s members,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nyunews.com/category/news/?filter_by=popular7", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PYHA6CJDHSLHXBC53FKCZVHJREQM5SAZ", "length": 287, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nyunews.com", "title": "News | Washington Square News", "raw_content": "NYU Hosts Discussion on the Trauma of Having an Incarcerated Parent\nMore than 2.7 million children have incarcerated parents in the United States; On Tuesday, a group of NYU social workers raised awareness of this alarming statistic by holding a day-long event featuring academics and...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 7209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://offgrid.news/tag/natural-disaster/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:OPMP73MZ6FTVC35YJZPVEVYSYHCIGUJI", "length": 2879, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "offgrid.news", "title": "Offgrid News | Offgrid News \u2013 Offgrid Information", "raw_content": "The 5 guns you will need when SHTF\nFor a moment, imagine an EMP attack or a natural disaster is tearing through your city, shutting down computers and jobs, destroying buildings, and taking down the power grid. Imagine what would happen if store shelves went bare, and people fought over the remaining food. In trying times, you will need lethal force to protect [\u2026]\nBe smart, stay safe: Your primer to shutting off utilities in case of an emergency\nCalamities and natural disasters come and go as they please \u2013 they don\u2019t announce themselves at the door. This is why it pays to prepare for their coming; emergency planning can help you address the challenges that you may encounter when the time comes that you have to endure a crisis situation. One of the ways you can [\u2026]\nMassive stockpile of food and medical supplies donated to Puerto Rico hurricane victims found ROTTING in a parking lot\u2026 government at work\nAt least 10 trailers loaded with water, baby supplies, and food that was donated to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico was found rotting outside of the state elections office there. In a video posted to local radio station Radio Isla\u2019s website, cases of canned goods, Tylenol and water can be seen covered in lizard and [\u2026]\nWhen SHTF, most means of communications will go down. You will need an alternate way to stay in touch with your loved ones over long distances. An article in The Apartment Prepper considers the pros and cons of long-range two-way radios as an alternative means of directly contacting other people. Two-way radios are more popularly [\u2026]\nPrepping for disaster? 8 basic tips to save your homestead\nIn times of natural disasters, avoid struggling and panicking on how to save your animals by being prepared. Here are eight basic tips to save your homestead, according to MorningChores.com. Know your area \u2013 Know the natural disasters that usually occur in your area. Check whether it is prone to flooding, frequent tornadoes or hurricanes, fires, or [\u2026]\nMan who helped repair homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey dies from flesh-eating bacterial infection\nAs tens of thousands of people begin to resurrect their lives in Texas following Hurricane Harvey earlier this fall, one man who was helping many people do just that has died after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacteria. The Houston Chronicle reports that Josue Zurita, 31, a man who was helping residents rebuild their damaged homes, [\u2026]\nObservers worried that \u201cnuclear chain reaction\u201d could still occur at Fukushima\u2026 cleanup could take 100 years or more\nOn March 11, 2011, terror struck northeastern Japan in the form of a massive magnitude-9 earthquake, which in turn unleashed a devastating tsunami that wiped out virtually everything in the city of Sukuiso. The effects of the earthquake were felt around the entire world, and even years later, the people of Japan were still finding [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://offices.net/tx/san-antonio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:04Z", "digest": "sha1:J22MWRAHAEPLCGXEHNYB4NQH6XYMBC56", "length": 18288, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "offices.net", "title": "Office Space for Rent San Antonio TX | Coworking | Shared Workspace", "raw_content": "Home > Texas Office Space > San Antonio Offices for Rent\nExecutive & Shared Office Space San Antonio\n14 Office Buildings in San Antonio, Texas\nIn the heart of downtown San Antonio, this 28-story business center soars over the central business district. As the district's largest office building, it makes a lasting impression and has earned an Energy Star for its efficiency. Inside, all the public areas boast Class A finishes. Read More >>\nIn the heart of downtown San Antonio, this 28-story business center soars over the central business district. As the district's largest office building, it makes a lasting impression and has earned an Energy Star for its efficiency... Read More >>\nBank of America Plaza, 300 Convent Street\nThis is a fully serviced executive suite located in downtown San Antonio on the 14th floor of a \"Class A\" office tower. This brand new center offers fully furnished offices and virtual office solutions inlcuding a prestigious downtown address, state of the art conference facilities with flat-panel televisions for presentations, copy services, receptionist,... Read More >>\nThis is a fully serviced executive suite located in downtown San Antonio on the 14th floor of a \"Class A\" office tower. 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Offering a number of high-quality facilities including spacious meeting rooms, high speed internet connections and dedicated corporate telecoms services along with on-site support services to make sure your business runs smoothly... Read More >>\nOne Castle Hills, 1100 Northwest Loop 410\nThis center offers you a prestigious address for your business. Other amenities include free parking, building security and on-site management. Read More >>\nThis center offers you a prestigious address for your business. Other amenities include free parking, building security and on-site management... Read More >>\nThis center offers attractively appointed, fully serviced individual offices from 100 to 230 sq ft. Suites of two offices are also available. The total impression is professional, corporate and efficient. This prime business centre benefits from a number of high-quality services and facilities such as state-of-the-art Internet and network access,... 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Read More >>\nFlexible and Alternative Tech Friendly Office Space to Conduct your business everywhere. With two locations in San Antonio this workplace is your alternative office space to noisy coffee shops. With more than 10 years in the business of Flexible Office space for the modern Entrepreneur, established businesses, startups, small businesses and corporations who need a professional and welcoming office space in San Antonio, is situated in the Medical Center Area close to great local transport links and amenities... Read More >>\nNorthgate Plaza, 5460 Babcock Rd\nThis three story,60,000 sq ft class-A center is only ten minutes from San Antonio International airport and provides easy access to a number of freeways, making it easy to get anywhere in the city in a short amount of time. Restaurants nearby include Kirby's Prime Steakhouse , Sushi Zushi of Stone Oak, Romeo\u2019s Italian Grill and Da Vinci Gelato & Caf\u00e9.... Read More >>\nThis three story,60,000 sq ft class-A center is only ten minutes from San Antonio International airport and provides easy access to a number of freeways, making it easy to get anywhere in the city in a short amount of time. Restaurants nearby include Kirby's Prime Steakhouse , Sushi Zushi of Stone Oak, Romeo\u2019s Italian Grill and Da Vinci Gelato & Caf\u00e9... Read More >>\n18756 Stone Oak Parkway, Stone Oak\nSituated in a prominent corner location, this business center in San Antonio occupies a low-rise building in a growing business area. The building enjoys plentiful light from its executive suites and other workspaces, and is neatly landscaped with ample parking. Read More >>\nSituated in a prominent corner location, this business center in San Antonio occupies a low-rise building in a growing business area. The building enjoys plentiful light from its executive suites and other workspaces, and is neatly landscaped with ample parking... Read More >>\nTwo Twin Oaks, 227 North Loop 1604 East\nThis fully furnished and contemporary office space setting has a relaxed yet professional environment, with plenty of natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows giving panoramic views of the surrounding area. With many high-quality facilities within the center on offer it is a great place to work. Including a business lounge, offering a place for... Read More >>\nThis fully furnished and contemporary office space setting has a relaxed yet professional environment, with plenty of natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows giving panoramic views of the surrounding area. With many high-quality facilities within the center on offer it is a great place to work... Read More >>\nConcord Park, 401 E Sonterra Blvd\nThis space is a shared workspace and community for entrepreneurs, established businesses, creatives, startups, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies who need a professional and welcoming office space. Located in the ever-growing Stone Oak community, convenient to shopping, dining, and entertainment. Read More >>\nThis space is a shared workspace and community for entrepreneurs, established businesses, creatives, startups, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies who need a professional and welcoming office space. Located in the ever-growing Stone Oak community, convenient to shopping, dining, and entertainment... Read More >>\nFrom its terracotta tile roofs to floors of marble and walls of natural shell, this business center exudes style. The Class A+ building is located on a prominent part of a 120-acre mixed development nestled among trees and offers floor-to-ceiling heights of 9 ft to 13 ft. Read More >>\nFrom its terracotta tile roofs to floors of marble and walls of natural shell, this business center exudes style. The Class A+ building is located on a prominent part of a 120-acre mixed development nestled among trees and offers floor-to-ceiling heights of 9 ft to 13 ft... Read More >>\nFlexible and Alternative Tech Friendly Office Space to Conduct your business everywhere. With two locations in San Antonio this workplace is your alternative office space to noisy coffee shops. A range of fully furnished and serviced offices are available, including 2 conference rooms accommodating groups of up to 10 people for client meetings, conferences... Read More >>\nFlexible and Alternative Tech Friendly Office Space to Conduct your business everywhere. With two locations in San Antonio this workplace is your alternative office space to noisy coffee shops. A range of fully furnished and serviced offices are available, including 2 conference rooms accommodating groups of up to 10 people for client meetings, conferences and presentations, and equipped with media displays and state-of-the-art conferencing facilities... Read More >>\nExpand search to view more listings in and around San Antonio.\nSee more offices in and around San Antonio.\nOffice Space for Rent San Antonio TX | Coworking | Shared Workspace\nWe have fully furnished, serviced office spaces for lease in San Antonio, TX in whatever size range you need. This prime office space is available right away and offers flexible rental terms to suit your business and make the transition to a new workspace solution as easy as possible. The Offices.net service is designed to get you into the office space your business needs as quickly and simply as possible, and we will be happy to assist in any way.\nWith a population of nearly 1.5 million, San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas and the seventh most populous in the United States. The city was named after Saint Anthony of Padua and is home to Spanish colonial missions, the Alamo Heights, the River Walk, SeaWorld, and other top attractions. San Antonio has been ranked by Forbes as one of the best places for business and careers and one of the best job growth markets in the country. Local financial incentives, affordable land and utilities, world-class infrastructure, and a skilled workforce also make the city an attractive place to do business.\nOffices.net is here to provide a wide range of competitively priced, professional, fully-equipped office space in San Antonio, TX on terms to suit your specific business requirements. Whether you're looking for shared office space for rent, offices for lease, office warehouse spaces, San Antonio industrial space, retail space for lease or other workspace solutions, you will be spoilt for choice when it comes to impressive business facilities and professional support services in San Antonio. No matter what property type you want to rent - private offices or coworking spaces - we work hard to ensure that the process is as simple as possible for the companies we assist.\nSan Antonio Commercial Real Estate: Office Market\nSan Antonio's commercial real estate market features more than 400 office buildings and a total office inventory of 30 million square feet.\nPopular Locations in San Antonio: The city's professional office market is divided into 8 areas: CBD, Midtown, North Central, Far North Central, Northwest, Northeast, Far West, and South. The three largest areas by inventory are North Central, CBD, and Northwest.\nCost of San Antonio Office Space for Rent: Demand is strong across all sub-markets due to the growth of office-based employment and to the expansion of the creative sector, which is usually willing to pay higher rates for suitable office space. Rental values are increasing at moderate rates. In 2017 the San Antonio office rental price range averaged $20 / sq ft/year. Class A offices for lease command rates in a price range above $30 sq / ft/year in the CBD and Far North Central, where the priciest office property is located. Moderately priced properties for lease tend to be located in the southern suburbs. Vacancy rates are below San Antonio's historical average, even with new supply hitting the market on a quarterly basis.\nSan Antonio Office Developments: There are a few state-of-the-art office developments totaling more than 1 million square feet under construction in the CBD, Far North West, and River North. Other areas likely to undergo significant expansion are Shavano Park, Heritage, and Live Oak.\nSan Antonio Shared Office Space & Executive Office Suites\nMany of the professional office properties have spaces for lease or rent that includes a manned reception, state-of-the-art print and scanning facilities, internet and network wiring, telecommunications set up, and furnishings. Some of the business centers also provide onsite IT support, call answering, meeting rooms, a business lounge, air conditioning, 24-hour access, and other professional services and amenities.\nAll you need to do is to select one of the San Antonio TX office space featured on this page. Every one of the offices for lease boasts excellent locations in San Antonio, many near a shopping center, San Antonio medical center and other San Antonio retail spaces for rent as well as offering easy access to major road networks and some public transit options.\nGrow Your Business in San Antonio TX\nWith a population of 1.5 million people, the city of San Antonio is the second largest urban center in the state of Texas and one of the three fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city's industrial base is widely diversified, although government, healthcare, defense, education, energy, oil and gas, retail trade, and finance are the most important sectors.\nWhy Choose San Antonio Office Space For Lease\nSan Antonio is also known as one of most important tech, bio-tech and life sciences hubs in the south-west of the United States, in particular where specialisms like clinical manufacturing, stem cell research, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence are concerned. Moreover, the city is home to over 1,000 companies involved in IT, which generate nearly $10bn a year and provide more than 30,000 jobs. Another high-revenue sector is tourism since San Antonio has a rich historical heritage and is home to UNESCO sites, several amusement parks, and convention centers.\nKey Companies with Offices in San Antonio: Several Fortune 500 corporations and multinationals are headquartered in San Antonio, including Toyota Motors, iHeartMedia, CST Brands, USAA, Valero Energy, NuStar Energy, HEB Supermarkets, Cullen Frost Bankers, CPS Energy, Rackspace, Tesoro, and Security Service Federal Credit Union. Many of these companies are also the city's largest employers.\nLabor Market & Employment: San Antonio's labor market is boosted by the city's predominantly young population and by the presence of 15 universities and higher education colleges. The local educational institutions stand out in fields like business, the arts, science, and technology, and overall, the city ranks high in indexes like Best Climate for Skilled Professionals and Best Cities for Jobs. In 2017, job creation levels reached a historical low of 3.6 percent, and employment gains are expected to be ongoing as the 10-year forecast predicts a 40 percent increase in job creation rates, with the fastest-growing occupational groups being construction, education and health services, professional and business services.\nBusiness & Startup Support: The city has a markedly pro-business environment and an active start-up ecosystem. The revenues generated by the city's small businesses are growing at 6 percent per year, a trend that runs parallel to the increase in support allocated to small business via loans, microloans, and skill development programs. Information about the support programs available is offered by the City of San Antonio, Texas Startup Investors, San Antonio Technology Center, Startup Grind San Antonio, Texas Technology Development Center, and the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation.\nSearch for Office Space in San Antonio TX\nIn addition to the coworking, shared office space, executive office suites, virtual offices, and San Antonio industrial space for lease, we also offer office space for lease, short-term and flexible office space for rent in other cities throughout Texas.\nOffice Space for Rent in San Antonio, Texas\nThere are 14 office buildings and commercial real estate spaces available for rent in San Antonio including:\nBank of America Plaza, 300 Convent Street Serviced Offices\nOne Riverwalk Place, 700 N St Mary's St Serviced Offices\nOne Riverwalk Place, 700 N St Mary's St Coworking spaces, Serviced Offices, Virtual Office\nOne Castle Hills, 1100 Northwest Loop 410 Coworking spaces, Serviced Offices, Virtual Office\nOne Castle Hills, 1100 Northwest Loop 410 Serviced Offices\nTetco Tower, 1777 NE Interstate 410 Loop Serviced Offices\n9901 I-10, Vance Jackson Serviced Offices\nNorthgate Plaza, 5460 Babcock Rd Coworking spaces, Serviced Offices, Virtual Office\n18756 Stone Oak Parkway, Stone Oak Serviced Offices\nFeatured San Antonio Business Locations\nIn the heart of downtown San Antonio, this 28-story business center soars over the central business district. As the district's largest office building, it makes a lasting impression and has earned... Read More >>\nThis is a fully serviced executive suite located in downtown San Antonio on the 14th floor of a \"Class A\" office tower. This brand new center offers fully furnished offices and virtual office... Read More >>\nThe flexible terms on offer at this fantastic corporate location allow companies large or small to start up and establish your business locally, quickly and affordably. This center offers superb... 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And on Monday, the Oklahoma House moved to reduce funding for state agencies for the current fiscal year.\nThe state Education Department stands to lose $16.2 million. Combined with higher education and other education agencies, the losses would be nearly $22 million.\nAttempts to raise revenue have so far failed, including a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax and a proposal by a coalition of business and civic leaders called Step Up Oklahoma. Many Oklahoma teachers say they are fed up, and there is talk of a strike.\nBut could it happen?\nIn 1990, more than half of Oklahoma\u2019s teachers walked out of the classroom, shuttering a quarter of the state\u2019s school districts. The walk-out was resolved when lawmakers pushed through school financing legislation to provide a teacher pay raise and education reforms.\nOklahoma was ranked 48th in average teacher salaries then, and it\u2019s 49th today. So it should come as no surprise that an effort to strike or walk out is mobilizing.\nA petition circulating online seeks support of a teacher walkout. The petition was started by Teresa Danks, the Tulsa-area teacher who famously panhandled for money to fund classroom supplies.\nThe petition says teachers in Oklahoma need a raise of $10,000 to be regionally competitive. \u201cIf you support a walkout by teachers to get the point across to our Legislature, sign this petition,\u201d it reads. \u201cLet\u2019s try to send them a warning before it happens!\u201d More than 6,800 people had signed the petition as of 11 a.m. Friday, and the number was growing.\nAlso, Bartlesville Schools Superintendent Chuck McCauley and the district\u2019s school board are talking about closing schools temporarily to place pressure on the Legislature. McCauley is surveying schools across the state to gauge interest in coordinating.\n\u201cOur board is serious. We don\u2019t have a plan right now \u2026 but we\u2019ll see what our community says,\u201d he said.\nOn Monday night, the Bartlesville school board planned to talk about the failure of the Step Up Oklahoma during its meeting tonight, and there is significant public interest in the discussion, McCauley said. No action will be taken, he said.\nAn Oklahoma law prohibits a teacher\u2019s union from striking or threatening to strike \u201cas a means of resolving differences with the board of education.\u201d But if teachers walk out to protest the state Legislature, that would be different, said Doug Folks, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Education Association, the state\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 union.\nFolks said the OEA is not at this time organizing a statewide effort to strike or walk out, even though the union led the charge in 1990.\nOklahoma\u2019s 1990 strike was preceded by one the same year in West Virginia, one of two states with starting salaries lower than Oklahoma\u2019s at the time, according to a report in the New York Times.\nTensions over teacher pay have again been rising in West Virginia, and union leaders on Saturday announced a statewide walkout will start this Thursday, reports the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Teachers there earn an average of $45,622, which is 48th in the nation and slightly higher than Oklahoma\u2019s average of $45,276, according to the National Education Association.\nOne risk is the potential backlash. The 1990 reforms were funded by income and sales tax increases, which then spurred anti-tax activities that led to placement of State Question 640 on the 1992 ballot. The measure, which passed with 56 percent of the vote, requires a three-fourths majority vote of both legislative chambers, or a vote of the people with majority approval, to approve any tax increase. It\u2019s a near-impossible hurdle and has garnered blame from many circles for the current stalemate at the Legislature.\nThe Step Up Oklahoma plan calls for rolling back the threshold to 60 percent of votes in the Legislature, but it\u2019s unclear when a vote on the bill will happen and if it will pass. 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The stochastic %K of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) for the period of 9-Day stands at 12.28% while the stochastic %D for the same period stands at 14.95%.\nThe 7-Day Average Directional Index ADX (also known as Trend Strength Indicator) of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) signals \u201cSell\u201d while other important signals like the 20-Day Moving Average Vs. Price signals \u201cSell\u201d.\nAnother important signal of trend and momentum of a security is 20-50 Day MACD Oscillator or Moving Average Convergence Divergence signals \u201cBuy\u201d for Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) while 20-100 Day MACD Oscillator indicates \u201cBuy\u201d.\nBollinger band is a volatility indicator of a certain security, currently Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM)\u2019s 20-Day Bollinger Band indicates \u201cHold\u201d.\nConstellium N.V. is involved in the development of aluminium products and solutions for aerospace, automotive, packaging and industry. The company offers plates, sheet and coil, precision casting, cockpit carriers for vehicles, vehicle safety components, profiles as well as tubes and bars. Constellium N.V. is headquartered in rue Washington, France.\nOn the last trading day, Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) opened the session at $10.2 and after going down -1.95% closed at $10.05. The stock lost -0.15 points in the last trade.\nConstellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM)\u2019s stock fluctuated in the range of $10.05 and $10.35 during the previous active session. Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) traded with the volume of 1.13 Million with average volume of 1.37 Million. The stock has HIGH volatility on the last trading session.\nCurrently the Insider Ownership of the shares of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) is at 0.54% and the shares outstanding are 130.28 Million.\nSome important ratios to consider here for Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) are discussed below:\nThe Quick Ratio of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) stands at 0.7 while the Current Ratio depicts the value of 1.2.\nReturn on Assets ROA of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) is at 0.8% whereas, Return on Equity ROE and Return of Investment ROI of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) stand at -5.4% and 9.4% respectively.\nThe stock performance of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) on the basis of 5 day trade show the dip of -12.61% whereas, the monthly performance of the stock shows decrease of -9.05%.\nThe quarterly performance of the stock remained in green zone with the value of 2.55% while six month performance of the shares of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) remained bullish with the count of 55.81%.\nThe yearly and YTD performance of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM) remained up at 64.75% and 70.34% respectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://orangatamariki.govt.nz/news/making-sure-young-people-are-heard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:09Z", "digest": "sha1:M6U3465EYHY3AQMAGVJ5AB7HQP5LTCWV", "length": 3149, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "orangatamariki.govt.nz", "title": "Making sure young people are heard | Oranga Tamariki\u2014Ministry for Children", "raw_content": "Mana's story\nMana Williams-Eade went into care when he was a baby. He says he\u2019s been lucky to have great caregivers who adopted him when he was 12 years old.\nHe\u2019s now studying architecture and commerce at Victoria University, and works as a Supported Employment Coordinator at Oranga Tamariki.\nThe 20-year-old is also a dedicated advocate for children and young people in care.\nBeing on a youth advisory panel\nMana served on a youth advisory panel set up to help inform the establishment of Oranga Tamariki\u2014Ministry for Children and VOYCE \u2013 Whakarongo Mai, an independent advocacy service for children and young people in care.\nHe says it was an awesome experience, and one he\u2019d recommend to others.\n\u201cIt was a bit overwhelming in some ways. You\u2019re in a position of quite a lot of influence, where your voice as a young person has a lot of weight.\n\u201cThat was a big responsibility, but also incredibly rewarding.\u201d\nMana says he got a lot out of being on the youth advisory panel.\n\u201cIt gave me greater confidence that what I was saying could make a difference. I learnt about prioritising and having good time management skills. When you\u2019re getting the chance to meet with people like government ministers, judges and chief executives, you need to make that time count.\n\u201cThe advisory panel was small, and it really became like a family. Everyone has their own unique story, and their own \u2018super power\u2019, and we got to know each other\u2019s vulnerabilities, and how to support each other.\n\u201cBeing on the youth advisory panel has opened up some great opportunities for me. I\u2019m now blessed with a very strong network to be able to call on in different situations \u2013 not just professionally, but from a life perspective. To have these intelligent and amazing people in my life is pretty special.\u201d\nFind out about the youth advocacy work being done by VOYCE, and learn about their National Youth Council.\nVisit the VOYCE website\n\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to know that our voices are being heard, and that we\u2019re part of improving the lives of children in care.\u201d\nMana Williams-Eade\nMana says, \u201cWhat it all comes back to is that as a member of a youth advisory panel, I\u2019ve helped create a new system that puts children at the centre; that\u2019s something that\u2019s never happened before.\nLearn more about the Oranga Tamariki Youth Advisory Group.\nYouth Advisory Group - information sheet (PDF 458 KB)\nPut your name forward to be a member of the Oranga Tamariki Youth Advisory Group.\nNominate a young person to be a member of the Oranga Tamariki Youth Advisory Group.\nNomination form (PDF 393 KB)\nOranga Tamariki is setting up a new Youth Advisory Group, made up of young people who've been in our care.\nThe Group will guide us to improve the experiences of tamariki and rangatahi who come into contact with our care and protection and youth justice services.\nIt will have 10 members, aged 18 to 24 years, from throughout New Zealand.\nWe're seeking applications from young people, and also nominations from their support people.\nFurther details are provided in the information sheet, application form, and nomination form, on this page.\nIf you have any questions, please email yag@ot.govt.nz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://orlandogroceryexpress.com/products/kelloggs-rice-krispies-treats-8ct", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:00Z", "digest": "sha1:THGOCTO2Q4BN2UYDMNRGUDHJTDPEBAL4", "length": 76, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "orlandogroceryexpress.com", "title": "Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats 8ct \u2013 Orlando Grocery Express", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats 8ct\nKellogg's Rice Krispies Treats 8ct", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 174.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ornamentswithlove.com/super-bowl-sunday-where-will-you-be/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VUBU5LV6WY2M2FLE4IMCZ32KHSCAA3BJ", "length": 4027, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ornamentswithlove.com", "title": "Super Bowl Sunday - where will YOU be? | Ornaments With Love", "raw_content": "Super Bowl Sunday \u2013 where will YOU be?\nIn my experience, there are several aspects to how people feel about watching professional football. There are those who could care less, even if one of the teams playing represents their hometown. There are those who live and breathe for their favorite team, and will arrange their social lives around their games. And then there are those who are so passionate about football, they will watch as many games during the season as they can, regardless of which teams are playing.\nAnd then\u2026there is the Super Bowl. Watching this annual championship game has become a tradition in America. Of course there are still those who have no desire to watch even this biggest football game of the year. But there will be almost 100 million Americans who WILL watch the game and/or take part in some sort of Super Bowl celebration. Included in this record-breaking number are the die-hard fans of the two teams playing, those who just enjoy watching any football game, and those who don\u2019t watch many games during the season but love to watch this one spectacular sporting event. I kind of fall into yet another category of those who are not really into football or the championship game itself, but wouldn\u2019t want to miss it just to check out and critique the expensive (about 5 million dollars for a 30 second spot) commercials and the epic half-time show (Maroon 5 will be starring in this year\u2019s performance).\nOver the years I have watched the Super Bowl (i.e. the commercials and half-time show) at home with just my family. Other times I have watched it with a small gathering of family and friends. And there have been several years when I have attended what I would consider a fun but relatively low-key Super Bowl party. From what I have learned however, there are lots of people who really go all out and put a ton of thought and effort into throwing full-blown parties. Super Bowl parties have become such a big deal that I have seen on-line articles to help inspire people to come up with ideas on how to throw the best Super Bowl party possible. There is advice on how to decorate your home, what type of games to play, and what team apparel to wear. There are suggestions including why it is best to have a keg of beer so you don\u2019t run out of bottles and cans, and why you should also be able to offer your non beer-loving guests wine and mixed drinks. And since more food is eaten on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day besides Thanksgiving, there is no wonder why there are many recipe ideas provided so all of your guests stay full and happy. The biggest surprise is finding recommendations on where to go to purchase the best TV for the event! So much planning goes into these parties and apparently the celebrating continues on even after the game ends. Who cares if everyone has to wake up early for work on Monday morning? It seems like nothing will stop the fun!\nThis year the Super Bowl match-up will be the New England Patriots vs. the Los Angeles Rams. So when the clock strikes 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, where will YOU be? Even if you have no spectacular party to go to and will just be sitting home alone cuddling with your pet, it sounds like watching all or some of the game, enjoying and rating the costly commercials, and/or experiencing a (hopefully) very entertaining half-time show is the \u201cin\u201d thing to do! Unfortunately I don\u2019t have a big \u201cbash\u201d to go to this year, but I will have a few friends over and will do what I can to make it an enjoyable evening. Good luck to both teams!\nFebruary 1, 2019 /by Ornaments With Love Staff\nhttps://ornamentswithlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0087.jpg 1019 643 Ornaments With Love Staff https://ornamentswithlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/personalized-ornaments.png Ornaments With Love Staff2019-02-01 21:12:292019-02-01 21:12:29Super Bowl Sunday - where will YOU be?\nSuper Bowl Sunday \u2013 where will YOU be? 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This experience awakened Evan to the opportunity to change the way the oil and gas industry leveraged data and computer science.\nA man of many interests, Evan spent his formative years in dive bars catching live musicians, brushing back batters with his two seamer (unintentionally, of course), and studying genetics, law, and policy at Duke University. Outside of work, you may find the southpaw mountain biking, trail running, fly fishing, felling trees, rolling hills, making some of the best grilled cheese sandwiches in the whole Midwest (the secret's in the cheese) or teaching one of his three \u201cgrasshoppers\u201d how to make a fast ball rise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://outspokens.com/submit-content/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RG5OYWZO7ZFWHC6QA6FDNUS3G2QH3YJS", "length": 125, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "outspokens.com", "title": "Submit Content \u2013 Outspokens", "raw_content": "Do you have a strong opinion on things that matter? 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The usual means of showing the Parole Board that your risk has been reduced is by the completion of \u2018accredited\u2019 offending behaviour programmes (OBPs), run by the Prison Service on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). One of the most familiar OBPs is the sex offender treatment programme (SOTP)\nI first encountered the SOTP whilst a pupil barrister. I was instructed to attend at a high security prison for a parole hearing. My lay client, serving a life term, was told that he needed to do the SOTP, but that he could not do it because he\u2026\n\u2190 In forgetting our fundamental principles of justice, The Trial\u2019s fascinating run fell down at the last\nDiscredited Offending Behaviour Programmes \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://panama.doreljuvenile.com/panama/our-brands/cosco", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SJUJZ5C4K7WWLOV7IOGM6GZ3ZZWT5YAL", "length": 933, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "panama.doreljuvenile.com", "title": "Cosco - Our brands - titel website", "raw_content": "Simply smarter stuff\u2122\nTo keep your family moving forward, it\u2019s not about having more stuff, it\u2019s about having more smarts. COSCO baby gear is designed to help you work smarter instead of harder. Our products help busy families accomplish what they need to get done, which gives them more time to have fun doing the things they want to do.\nOld company - young at heart\n70 years ago, COSCO started as the Columbus Specialty Company in Columbus, Indiana. It's where we got our name and it\u2019s a place we're happy to be. Many of our products are still made right down the street, and families have loved our high chairs, car seats, play yards and other items for generations. Over the years, we\u2019ve never lost sight of the importance of having fun with our families and making life a bit easier for everyone. 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It showcases the differences between a stereotypical asian family and an asian family with an adopted child. As an asian american, this short film perfectly portrays some of the typical asian stereotypes. I also love how the both families reacts to the adopted child\u2019s actions and how the child\u2019s actions affect the two families\u2019 dinner. So, overall I loved the content of the film. Although this film was short and cute, I felt that the cinematography was poor. Some shots and transitions could have been executed better,it is especially noticeable when the camera is shaking. However, I did enjoy some of the edits like the zoom in to exaggerate each character\u2019s emotion. This film is definitely another one that should not be missed out on!\nFilm Reviews by Aviva Nachman-\u201cN\u01b0\u1edbc\u201d and \u201cMy Immigrant Story\u201d\nOctober 11, 2018 ipaaff\tLeave a comment\nN\u01b0\u1edbc: Within the first few seconds of N\u01b0\u1edbc, director and writer Quy\u00ean Nguyen-Le manages to envelop the audience in a warm and protective, bordering defensive, embrace. The main character is an unnamed queer Vietnamese-American teen who is struggling to reconcile the perspective of her mother, who is a refugee of the Vietnam War, and the perspective of a character who seems to be the teen\u2019s lover. Through a series of scenes which take place in a darkroom, the main character develops photographs depicting images such as a protest, a desert and the inside of a womb. The teen and her lover exchange few words, letting the tension mount as they discuss the Vietnam War. The teen\u2019s relationship with her mother is one of respect and acceptance. After the argument in the darkroom, the mother invites the teen\u2019s lover over for a traditional Vietnamese meal and that provokes the teen to ask more questions of her mom and to become more open with her. N\u01b0\u1edbc\u2019s message is one of acceptance, warmth and understanding and will leave viewers feeling transported and protected.\nMy Immigrant Story: My Immigrant Story is narrated by director Yuriko Gamo Romer and exclusively uses home video footage shot by her father. Romer\u2019s father was a research scientist who, one year after the Russians launched Sputnik, was recruited to move to America with his family to help the country gain momentum in the Space Race. This job took Romer\u2019s family all across the country where they visited observatories, universities, monuments and national landmarks. She grew up surrounded by travel, science and a loving family and through the home video footage, the audience feels the same sense of wonder, fascination and inspiration that the director felt in the videos. Romer explains that the \u201cscience gene skipped a generation\u201d as shots of her drawing and taking photographs as a child cross the screen. She goes on to state that her son is now studying science and is \u201caiming for the stars\u201d just like her father had. After watching this, I was blown away that in a mere three minutes I was able to feel inspired to travel, create and learn and felt as though I had just spent summers with Romer\u2019s family traveling the country along with them.\nN\u01b0\u1edbc and My Immigrant Story will be played at Cinemapolis from our 4:30-6 pm on Saturday, October 13th.\nFilm Review by Jake Catalanotto: \u201cGolden Boat\u201d\nGolden Boat is an experimental short narrative film directed by Kristin Li & Clayton Beugeling in which a group of diverse travelers are stuck in an isolated shack surrounded by a harsh desert, waiting to continue their nondescript travels. Some characters, such as the protagonist, view this purgatorial state as suffocating and unbearable, while others are content with the quiet.\nThe film creators do a fantastic job of creating a liminal space with the set and disjunctive sound design. We as the audience are easily able to buy into the somewhat fantastical scenario because of the attention to detail present in the sets and the effective world building ingrained in the aesthetics. The warehouse is filled with items wrought with use, stained, aged. There is a sense of stagnation as nothing present in the frame looks as if it was made after the 1980\u2019s. Combine that with the muted color pallet and the ever-present layer of sand plaguing every surface, and what we are left with is a heavy and oppressive atmosphere. Kristin Li & Clayton Beugeling have created a setting that feels like a character in and of itself.\nOne of the strongest aspects of this film is the outstanding cinematography. The frustration of the main character is felt by the audience with the lethargic pacing and static camera. Shots are expertly composed with depth and texture that lets the eye wander throughout the long shots. The film stock used produces a soft image that compliments the deep colors present in the frame.\nIn the end, the film asks more questions than it answers, providing a surreal and thought-provoking experience. It\u2019s non-traditional narrative structure acts as an amazing mechanic for exploring the themes of faith, uncertainty, and liminality. In my opinion, it is a must see for audiences at the Ithaca Pan Asian American Film.\nGolden Boat will be shown at around 5:30 at Cinemapolis on Friday October 12th.\nFilm Review by Katelyn Monaco: \u201cBlue \u2013 Tales from Suburbia\u201d\nBlue \u2013 Tales from Suburbia documents the disappearance of a local teen and how it affects an Asian American family from the suburbs. Vivian Lau, the filmmaker, is studying Cinematography and Film Production at Emerson College and has won numerous awards for her work internationally. She states: \u201cIt is my goal to bring stories to life that impact the community. My reward system comes from seeing a story and a collective vision into fruition.\u201d Although this film is short, it poignantly displays the emotional toll that the disappearance has on Blue, the young protagonist. There is a beautiful and haunting symmetry in the way it starts and ends. In the beginning Lau showcases the domestic life of the family and by the end as the family is still going through the motions there is an undeniable change. Blue\u2019s innocence and optimism is never going to return, yet the viewer is left with a deep hope that she will survive and recover from this trauma. The cinematography is crisp and moving, the soundtrack fitting, and I assure you that this film will leave you with goosebumps.\nBlue \u2013 Tales from Suburbia will be showing at around 4:30 on Saturday October 13th at Cinemapolis.\nWhat is Asian American film?\nOctober 3, 2018 ipaaff\tLeave a comment\nHere are some responses from our staff:\nAuthor: Tommy Gonzalez, Film Selection & Technical Operations Committee\nI would define Asian American film as a category of cinema that can deal with Asian American themes, specifically with diasporic groups, relations between America and Asian countries or other issues related to the Asian American experience. Asian American film is also cinema created by filmmakers that have lived the Asian American experience. It is an unexpected vantage point to analyze film because it deals not with aesthetics or necessarily the time period in which the film was created, but rather with the heritage and culture the work is entered into. Asian American cinema, while a category, is as diverse as cinema itself in all other aspects. It is a category of cinema defined by its giving a voice to group in society that is not often given the attention of mainstream American culture. However, its value and contributions to cinema as a whole have been substantial nonetheless.\nAuthor: Desmond Lee, Outreach & Special Programs Committee\nI would define Asian American film as a film genre that expresses common themes seen in Asian American culture or Asian culture. For example, a common theme is the concept of parents sacrificing a lot for their children to succeed in life, such as migrating from one country to another. From this theme, an Asian American film can also showcase the conflict they go through as a minority.\nLastly, I feel an Asian American film does have to be made by Asian American to be considered an Asian American film. In films made by Asian Americans, the Asian American themes will resonate more strongly. But, the whole cast and crew does not in fact have to be Asian American. One could try to make an Asian American film without an Asian American cast and crew but I feel the Asian American themes will not be present.\nAuthor: Katelyn Monaco, Marketing & Publicity Committee\nAsian American films are created by, written by, directed by, or star Asian Americans with the aim to tell authentic stories. The same principles about what constitutes Black theater applies to what constitutes Asian American films. They need to be \u201cabout us\u2026 by us\u2026 for us\u2026 and near us\u201d (Xing 33). I also agree with the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) criteria that any movie created by an Asian American constitutes as an Asian American film regardless of its \u201clength, genre, or subject matter\u201d (Xing 33). You cannot separate a creator from their background or the historical context in which they create their work.\nXing, Jun. Asian America Through the Lens. Altamira Press, 1998.\nAuthor: Suzanne Tang, Film Selection & Technical Operations Committee\nAsian American film is film that tells the Asian American story and/or gives Asian Americans a voice whether it\u2019s on-screen or off-screen. It doesn\u2019t necessarily have to star an all Asian or Asian-American cast and/or crew, but it needs to contribute to the Asian-American community in a progressive way. Having Asian-Americans on and off screen means their voices and talents are being acknowledged and can, therefore, help move away from the stereotypes Asians have typically been boxed in. The issue is that Asians haven\u2019t gotten the privileges and representation in film necessary to explore film beyond just telling the Asian-American story. There are a lot of documentaries by filmmakers and it is the genre most Asian-Americans go towards because it\u2019s typically used to tell the stories not told or represented accurately. And though that is great, it is also important to reach the point in which Asian-American filmmakers can tell creative stories that don\u2019t necessarily play off of stereotypes or the dissection of. A common misconception of Asian-American film is that it needs to be about Asian-Americans or by Asian-Americans. But it is really about representation. Because of the lack thereof, we need the categorization and outlets to gain such representation. The point in film that we should reach is to have Asians play roles that are specifically made for just Asian \u2013 they should be considered for the roles regardless of race and to have filmmakers make any film even if it doesn\u2019t necessarily have to do with Asian-American culture.\nIPAAFF Part 2 Schedule Update!\nHere is the schedule for IPAAFF 2018 Part 2. We hope to see you at Cinemapolis next Friday!\nIntroducing one of our featured filmmakers!\nSeptember 27, 2018 ipaaff\tLeave a comment\nMeet our featured filmmaker!\nVicky Du is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in New York. Her short film GAYSIANS (2016) screened at 30+ film festivals including Outfest, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and Asian American International Film Festival. The film was distributed by Frameline, had a public TV broadcast on KQED, and was distributed to 1000+ middle and high school LGBTQ student groups. Vicky has directed and edited films for Art21, TEDx, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The North Face and more. She is a worker-owner of Meerkat Media, a film production cooperative, and a member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. Vicky is currently in production on her first feature documentary on Chinese diaspora and intergenerational trauma.\nSeptember 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 ipaaff\tLeave a comment\nFilm Review by Kris DiNardi: \u201cAbeoji: A Father\u2019s Love\u201d\nHere is an inside look into this year\u2019s Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival official selection.\nPremiering on Saturday, April 22nd at Cinemapolis is Abeoji: A Father\u2019s Love.\nWinner of Best Documentary at the Ithaca Student Film Festival, Abeoji follows a South Korean orphanage director and documents his role in the lives of the children he cares for. It\u2019s a touching documentary that explores how love can affect young children for a lifetime.\nThe entire documentary was filmed and edited in Seoul, South Korea by award-winning filmmaker Gabriella LoBue. LoBue is currently a junior at Ithaca College majoring in Cinema and Photography and minoring in Business Administration.\nIn the summer of 2016, LoBue studied at Hanyang University, where the documentary was shot and edited in less than a month.\nFor LoBue, she said that she has a special personal connection to the documentary since she is a Chinese adoptee. LoBue said that this was the inspiration for the documentary, as it covers an issue that is so near and dear to her heart.\nAbeoji: A Father\u2019s Love will be showing at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 22nd at Cinemapolis.\nFilm Review by Anna Gardner: \u201cSpa Night\u201d and \u201cGolden Golden\u201d\nThe IPAAFF 2017 program is finalized and I am very excited to be sharing some of my favorite films with you. I was very interested in engaging with the identities that overlap with being Asian American. The identity that this screening engages with is being LBGT. What does it mean to have a sexuality or gender outside the normative culture in addition to being Asian American? These two films both explore this in beautiful ways.\nGolden Golden was written and directed by Erica Cho, a visual artist and filmmaker. This short film looks into the lives of two 20-somethings from San Bernardino when they visit a Los Angeles fortuneteller. Conjoined crystal balls and queer, pop song visions open up new spaces for desiring and becoming \u2013 across Asian, Black, and Latinx imaginaries. This short was very entrancing for me and exuded love. This is a love story. Love can be both romantic and platonic, and Golden Golden explores these possibilities of love in the sweetest way. It purely shows the beauty of non-heteronormative relationships.\nYoun Ho Cho (Jin), Haerry Kim (Soyoung) and Joe Seo (David) in Spa Night\nSpa Night is the debut feature film of Andrew Ahn. Like many first-generation immigrants, David Cho serves as the intermediary between his parents\u2019 insular Koreatown life in Los Angeles and the frenetic landscape of the wider city. When the family restaurant is forced to close, the balance of the household is threatened and tension mounts at home. In an unfamiliar twist on more familiar immigrant stories, David does not accept his parents\u2019 dreams for him to pursue an education but instead decides to help his family make ends meet by secretly taking a job at a Korean spa. There, David finds himself suddenly exposed to the clash between traditional Korean culture and the underground world of gay hook-ups. Ahn\u2019s visual imagery paired with heated passions makes for a captivating film. This is an unfiltered look into gay hook-up culture. Ahn aims to tell a personal story, a family story, by having the audience get right in the thick of it. This film is steamy, heartbreaking, and relatable. What desires do you harbor in fear of losing your normal life?\nHaerry Kim (Soyoung) and Joe Seo (David) in Spa Night.\nIPAAFF is thrilled to be hosting Andrew Ahn for a Q&A after the screening on Friday, April 21.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 18592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/01/18/on-being-a-monster-frankenstein-and-creative-ambition-part-iv-monster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUSJBX5O3CNUCGPAQNIJ7J4K5PMH2E5O", "length": 8206, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "partiallyexaminedlife.com", "title": "On Being a Monster: \u201cFrankenstein\u201d and Creative Ambition, Part IV\u2014Monster", "raw_content": "On Being a Monster: \u201cFrankenstein\u201d and Creative Ambition, Part IV\u2014Monster\nJanuary 18, 2018 by Wes Alwan 1 Comment\nThis essay is the fourth in a five-part series, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Part three can be found here, part five can be found here.\nPart IV: Monster\nWhat of the creature himself? Thus far we have treated him primarily as if he were a part of Frankenstein\u2014as the product of overweening ambition, self-creation gone wrong, and incestuous family ties. But in touching on the broader predicament of being something that is created, we also touch on the role of creature as child. On first blush, the childhood of Frankenstein\u2019s monster seems to have been very different than the perfect childhood of Frankenstein. Abandoned by his creator, the creature must raise, educate, and socialize himself. An astonishingly, implausibly agile learner, he receives this education through the crack in a boarded up window, spying on a family whose troubles and affections seem straight out of a fairy tale, complete with a visitor who approximates an Arabian princess. The point of the fairy tale is that the family be easy to idealize from afar. Via this idealization, the creature can treat them as surrogate, long-distance parents, despite the fact that they are unaware of his existence. From them, the creature learns language, morals, history, and culture. He caps this education by finding and reading three books, including one that will turn out to have many parallels to his own story, Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost.\nAs I have pointed out, before Walton\u2019s encounter with the creature one might have made the case that he is Frankenstein\u2019s fictional rather than scientific creation. Exhibit A would have been the uncanny similarities between the childhood stories of Frankenstein and the creature. Both come up under the influence of a fairy tale family, a family of perfect givers and perfect sufferers. Both, in a way, are autodidacts who have been left to their own devices, Frankenstein because of the liberality of his family and the creature because of the partition that separates him from his. Both talk of having a special relationship to the beauty of nature, which has the advantage over human relationships of not involving rejection or loss. Both come to think of themselves as the most miserable creatures on the face of the planet, one for having his loved ones annihilated and the other for never really having them in the first place. Finally, both lament the fact of having sensibilities more developed than that of animals, of needing not just food and shelter but human contact. They differ in that the creature\u2019s wretchedness is more visible than Frankenstein\u2019s\u2014etched as it is into his outer form\u2014and much more explicable. One of them had the perfect childhood, and one of them was abandoned. Nevertheless, these similarities give us reason to believe that in the creature\u2019s story there is a more accurate retelling of a sinister dynamic concealed in Frankenstein\u2019s. The most critical commonality is the charged presence of an ideal family, with one creature too close to the electricity, and the other too far away.\nThe creature\u2019s education creates new problems: \u201cSorrow only increased with knowledge.\u201d Knowledge is a problem in part because socialization creates new needs. The creature has fallen in love with his quasi-family, and he wants to be loved back, something he believes to be unlikely given his hideousness and \u201cstature gigantic,\u201d to which human beings have generally responded with attacks. The result is a being who, while not completely feral and unsocialized, as the creature might have been, is damaged in one tragic and crucial respect: the degree of his desire for social contact is not matched by the quality of his social desirability. His solution to being \u201csolitary and detested\u201d\u2014one that sounds like a sort of dementedly honest online dating ad\u2014is to have Frankenstein create for him a \u201ccreature of another sex, but as hideous as myself,\u201d with \u201cthe same defects,\u201d \u201cwith whom I can live in interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.\u201d The monster needs a girlfriend.\nAnd so where Frankenstein spends the entire novel trying to evade the domestic scene, including his pending marriage to Elizabeth, the monstrous distraction he created for the purpose of this evasion insists on being restored to this very scene. For Frankenstein, it is a confining scene: Domestic affections make us \u201cmore necessary beings,\u201d which is to say less free and more subject to the pain of loss. But for the creature, the domestic scene provides constitutive relations without which he cannot be whole.\nBeing a creature\u2014being created\u2014is just a beginning. Some creatures need fellow creatures, and in extraordinary cases, finding one requires an application to the creator. Despite the abuse heaped upon him by Frankenstein, the creature makes this request in the vernacular of Milton\u2019s Satan, a sort of soothing eloquence that belies the agony it tries to communicate. Responding to Frankenstein\u2019s \u201crelieve me from the sight of your detested form,\u201d the creature holds his hands over his creator\u2019s eyes and responds with a touching \u201cthus I relieve thee my creator.\u201d He is willing not to be seen if he can be heard, to be scorned if he is given the chance to justify the ways of monsters to men by explaining his wickedness in terms of the circumstances of his unhappiness, which ultimately have to do with the deficiencies in his construction and the limitations of his creator. And so the creature makes the case for being made happy, for being treated not as Satan but as Adam.\nRevenge is the inverse of reproductivity: instead of borrowing the creator\u2019s generative power, it arrogates his destructive power.\nGod compensates Adam\u2019s creature-hood by giving him a mate. Beyond the companionship this affords, the compensation for being created is to be conferred something of the power of the creator, which turns out to be the ability to reproduce. This is a story that can be retold in a Promethean context, as the character of Aristophanes does in Plato\u2019s Symposium: Sexuality is the result of the gods punishing human beings for attempting to usurp the (presumably creative) power of the gods. Human beings, originally hermaphroditic and whole, are divided into two sexes, which leads them to long to be made whole again. The ability to produce children was given to them by Zeus as a benevolent afterthought, a way of sparing these divided beings too much misery by making their yearned-for unity more complete than mere coitus would allow. Socrates amends this account, making reproduction of all sorts\u2014including thinking and artistic reproduction\u2014not merely a consolation prize, but the central goal of Eros.\nOnce Frankenstein refuses the creature this consolation prize, the creature promises revenge. Or in his phrasing, \u201crevenge remains\u201d: revenge is what remains when love is taken away. Revenge is the inverse of reproductivity: instead of borrowing the creator\u2019s generative power, it arrogates his destructive power. The point is at least to produce an effect: if not love and gratitude, then fear and remorse. When he tells Frankenstein, \u201cI shall be with you on your wedding night,\u201d this is the creature\u2019s way of obtaining his wish by being involved in a debased form of the procreative act. Similarly, the glory that Frankenstein might have achieved is an extreme and lopsided form of the mutual recognition that is constitutive of self-conscious creatures. When recognition is expansive and asymmetrical\u2014as it is when we achieve glory or infamy\u2014it seems to transcend the cloying, determining, and trapping possibilities of more ordinary exchanges, leaving us with the illusion that we can live both with other human beings, and without them.\nFiled Under: Misc. Philosophical Musings Tagged With: creativity, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, philosophy blog\nFrankenstein doesn\u2019t need a girlfriend. He needs a therapist with which he can form a secure bond and move from insecurely attached to an earned secure attachment. Then he can find a nice girlfriend. Otherwise it\u2019s Frankenstein vs Frankenstein!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 11241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pathwayschurch.us/pkbaptism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:KWF2EEM2HLWOWSSBSLNAOBIFK4TPTTGN", "length": 3866, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "pathwayschurch.us", "title": "PK Baptism \u2014 Pathways Church", "raw_content": "Kid\u2019s Baptism\nTheir Next Step After Salvation\nEveryone who personally asks Jesus into their heart, regardless of their age, should take the important step of being baptized - making a public declaration of their faith in Christ. The following two easy steps will help prepare your child for this meaningful event in their spiritual journey.\nHere\u2019s a quick guide to help you start the conversation with your child and better help them understand this important step.\nBaptism is the outward expression of an inward decision. Baptism is when we go under the water, symbolizing:\nWashing away all the dirty stuff - sins.\nJesus\u2019 death and resurrection - Jesus died and came back to life again on the third day.\n\u201cDoes this mean you\u2019ll never sin again?\u201d\n\"No. You do not need to live a life that chooses sin, but you will continue to make mistakes (sin). Only Jesus lived a sinless life.\"\n\"When you sin again, what do you do?\"\nMost kids are more concerned with getting in trouble with Mom or Dad than asking God for forgiveness, so it's hard for them to not connect \"getting in trouble\" when we talk about God and sin. Make sure they understand that it's by the grace and love of Jesus that our sins are forgiven.\n\"Confess or \"say\" your sins to God in prayer and sometimes to the person we have done wrong to.\"\nWater Baptism FAQs\nWater baptism is a public declaration that we have turned away from our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord (Acts 2:38). It is important to recognize that baptism does not save us; instead, we are saved by God\u2019s grace as we trust in His Son who died for us on the cross and was raised from the dead (Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-10). However, baptism identifies us publicly with Jesus Christ as His disciples, His followers. This is vital because Jesus Himself said, \u201cIf anyone acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will openly acknowledge that person before my Father in heaven\u201d (Matthew 10:32).\nObeying God in this way is an important step toward spiritual fruitfulness and the fullness of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38; Colossians 2:11-12). As we go down into the waters and come back up we demonstrate that our old life of sin has been buried with Christ and we have been raised with Him (Romans 6:1-4). Baptism is a celebration of God\u2019s grace and an expression of our desire and intention to follow Him!\nYou should be baptized if you have turned away from your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord (Acts 2:38). Water baptism is a public declaration that you have been saved by God\u2019s grace through your trust in His Son (Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-10). Baptism is an important point of identification with Jesus as your Lord and an expression of your desire and intention to follow Him. Please note that you do not need to be a member of Pathways Church to be baptized here.\nClothes that will not retain much water work best (jeans are not good). We will give you a baptism t-shirt to wear. You may wear dark-colored pants or modest length shorts (no short shorts please). Also, make sure to bring a change of clothes, two towels and a plastic bag for wet clothing.\nCan I be baptized with a member of my family? What about inviting family?\nIf you would like to be baptized with your children, or if you would like your children to be baptized together, please let us know that when you register and we will do our best to plan for this. Of course, it is important that each family member has come to a point of personal faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life before they are ready for baptism.\nBefore registering your child\u2026\nWe\u2019re excited to guide your child in this next step! Before completing their registration, be sure to watch together the teaching on Baptism at the top of this page. If you have any other questions, please email us.\nregister my child for baptism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2014/07/06/genomics-proteomics-and-standards/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WDQLWMIQKT4L3R2HEN5KDIPMS2XVI7JR", "length": 13928, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "pharmaceuticalintelligence.com", "title": "Genomics, Proteomics and standards | Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group", "raw_content": "\u00ab Loss of Normal Growth Regulation\nBig Data and Statisticians, Revisited (Video) \u00bb\nGenomics, Proteomics and standards\nJuly 6, 2014 by larryhbern\nhttp://pharmaceuticalintelligence/7/6/2014/Genomics, Proteomics and standards\nThis article is a look at where the biomedical research sciences are in developing standards for development in the near term.\nLet\u2019s Not Wait for the FDA: Raising the Standards of Biomarker Development \u2013 A New Series\npublished by Theral Timpson on Tue, 07/01/2014 \u2013 15:03\nWe talk a lot on this show about the potential of personalized medicine. Never before have we learned at such breakneck speed just how our bodies function. The pace of biological research staggers the mind and hints at a time when we will \u201ccrack the code\u201d of the system that is homo sapiens, going from picking the low hanging fruit to a more rational approach. The high tech world has put at the fingertips of biologists just the tools to do it. There is plenty of compute, plenty of storage available to untangle, or decipher the human body. Yet still, we talk of potential.\nChat with anyone heavily involved in the life science industry\u2013be it diagnostics or pharma\u2013 and you\u2019ll quickly hear that we must have better biomarkers.\nNext week we launch a series, Let\u2019s Not Wait for the FDA: Raising the Standards of Biomarker Development, where we will pursue the \u201chotspots\u201d that are haunting those in the field.\nThe National Biomarker Development Alliance (NBDA) is a non profit organization based at Arizona State University and led by the formidable Anna Barker, former deputy director of the NCI. The aim of the NBDA is to identify problem areas in biomarker development\u2013from the biospecimen and sampling issues to experiment design to bioinformatics challenges\u2013and raise the standards in each area. This series of interviews is based on their approach. We will purse each of these topics with a special guest.\nThe place to start is with samples. The majority of researchers who are working on biomarker assays don\u2019t give much thought to the \u201cstory\u201d of their samples. Yet the quality of their research will never exceed the quality of the samples with which they start\u2013a very scary thought according toCarolyn Compton, a former pathologist, now professor of pathology at ASU and Johns Hopkins. Carolyn worked originally as a clinical pathologist and knows first hand the the issues around sample degradation. She left the clinic when she was recruited to the NCI with the mission of bringing more awareness to the issue of bio specimens. She joins us as our first guest in the series.\nThat Carolyn has straddled the world of the clinic and the world of research is key to her message. And it\u2019s key to this series. As we see an increased push to \u201ctranslate\u201d research into clinical applications, we find that these two worlds do not work enough together.\nResearchers spend a lot of time analyzing data and developing causal relationships from certain biological molecules to a disease. But how often do these researchers consider how the history of a sample might be altering their data?\n\u201cGarbage in, garbage out,\u201d says Carolyn, who links low quality samples with the abysmal non-reproducable rate of most published research.\nTwo of our guests in the series have worked on the adaptive iSpy breast cancer trials. These are innovative clinical trials that have been designed to \u201cadapt\u201d to the specific biology of those in the trial. Using the latest advances in genetics, the iSPY trials aim to match experimental drugs with the molecular makeup of tumors most likely to respond to them. And the trials are testing multiple drugs at once.\nDon Berry is known for bringing statistics to clinical trials. He designed the iSpy trials and joins us to explain how these new trials work and of the promise of the adaptive design.\nLaura Esserman is the director of the breast cancer center at UCSC and has been heavily involved in the implementation of the iSpy trials. Esserman is concerned that \u201cif we keep doing conventional clinical trials, people are going to give up on doing them.\u201d An MBA as well as an MD, Esserman brings what she learned about innovation in the high-tech industry to treatment for breast cancer.\nFrom there we turn to the topic of \u201csystems biology\u201d where we will chat with George Poste, a tour de force when it comes to considering all of the various aspects of biology. Anyone who has ever been present for one of George\u2019s presentations has no doubt come away scratching your head wondering if we\u2019ll ever really glimpse the whole system that is a human being. If there is one brain that has seen all the rooms and hallways of our complex system, it\u2019s George Poste.\nWe\u2019ll finish the series by interviewing David Haussler from UCSC of Genome Browser fame. Recently Haussler has worked extensively on an NCI project, The Cancer Genome Atlas, to bring together data sets and connect cancer researchers around the world. What is the promise and pitfalls David sees with the latest bioinformatics tools?\nGeorge Poste says that in the literature we have identified 150,000 biomarkers that have causal linkage to disease. Yet only 100 of these have been commercialized and are used in the clinic. Why is the number so low? We hope to come up with some answers in this series.\nWhy Hasn\u2019t Clinical Genetics Taken Off? (part 2)\npublished by Sultan Meghji on Fri, 06/20/2014 \u2013 14:49\nIn my previous post, I made the broad comment that education of the patient and front line doctors was the single largest barrier to entry for clinical genetics. Here I look at the steps in the scientific process and where the biggest opportunities lie:\nThe Sequencing (still)\nPCR is a perfectly reasonable technology for sequencing in the research lab today, but the current configuration of technologies need to change. We need to move away from an expert level skill set and a complicated chemistry process in the lab to a disposable, consumer friendly set of technologies. I\u2019m not convinced PCR is the right technology for that and would love to see nanopore be a serious contender, but lack of funding for a broad spectrum of both physics-only as well as physical-electrical startups have slowed the progress of these technologies. And waiting in the wings, other technologies are spinning up in research labs around the world. Price is no longer a serious problem in the space \u2013 reliable, repeatable, easy to use sequencing technologies are. The complexity of the current technology (both in terms of sample preparation and machine operation) is a big hurdle.\nThe Analysis (compute)\nOver the last few years, quite a bit of commentary and effort has been put into making the case that the compute is a significant challenge (including more than a few comments by yours truly in that vein!). Today, it can be said with total confidence that compute is NOT a problem. Compute has been commoditized. Through excellent new software to advanced platforms and new hardware, it is a trivial exercise to do the analysis and costs tiny amounts of money ($<25 per sample on a cloud provider appears to be the going rate for a clinical exome in terms of platform & infrastructure cost). Integration with the sequencer and downstream medical middleware is the biggest opportunity.\nThe Analysis (value)\nThe bigger challenge on the analysis is the specific things being analyzed as mapped to the needs of the patient. We are still in a world where the vast majority of the sequencing work is being done in support of a specific patient with a specific disease. There isn\u2019t even broad consensus yet in the scientific community about the basics of the pipeline (see my blog posthere for an attempt at capturing what I\u2019m seeing in the market). A movement away from the recent trend in studying specific indications (esp. cancer) is called for. Broadening the sample population will allow us to pick simpler, clearer and easier pipelines which will then make them more adoptable. It would be a massive benefit to the world if the scientific, medical and regulatory communities would get together and start creating, in a crowdsourced manner, a small number of databases that are specifically useful to healthy people. Targeting things like nutrition, athletics, metabolism, and other normal aspects of daily life. A dataset that could, when any one person\u2019s DNA is references, would find something useful. Including the regulators is key so that we can begin to move away from the old fashioned model of clearances that still permeate the industry.\nBeyond the broader issues around education I referenced in my previous post, there is a massive upgrade in the regulation infrastructure that is needed. We still live in a world of fax machines, overnight shipping of paper documents and personal relationships all being more important than the quality of the science you as an innovator are bringing to bear.\nConsider the recent massive growth in wearables, fitness trackers and other instrumentation local to the human body. Why must we treat clinical genetics simply as a diagnostic and not, as it should be, as a fundamental set of quantitative data about your body that you can leverage in a myriad of ways. Direct to consumer (DTC) genetics companies, most notably 23andme, have approached this problem poorly \u2013 instead of making it valuable to the average consumer, what they\u2019ve done is attempted to straddle the line between medical and not. The Fitbit model has shown very clearly that lifestyle activities can be directly harnessed to build commercial value in scaling health related activities without becoming a regulatory issue. It\u2019s time for genetics to do the same thing.\nDevelopment and Role of the Human Reference Sequence in Personal Genomics\nPosted by @finchtalk on July 3, 2014\nA few weeks back, we published a review about the development and role of the human reference genome. A key point of the reference genome is that it is not a single sequence. Instead it is an assembly of consensus sequences that are designed to deal with variation in the human population and uncertainty in the data. The reference is a map and like a geographical maps evolves though increased understanding over time.\nFrom the Wiley On Line site:\nGenome maps, like geographical maps, need to be interpreted carefully. Although maps are essential to exploration and navigation they cannot be completely accurate. Humans have been mapping the world for several millennia, but genomes have been mapped and explored for just a single century with the greatest advancements in making a sequence reference map of the human genome possible in the past 30 years. After the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence of the human genome was completed in 2003, the reference sequence underwent several improvements and today provides the underlying comparative resource for a multitude genetic assays and biochemical measurements. However, the ability to simplify genetic analysis through a single comprehensive map remains an elusive goal.\nMaps are incomplete and contain errors.\nDNA sequence data are interpreted through biochemical experiments or comparisons to other DNA sequences.\nA reference genome sequence is a map that provides the essential coordinate system for annotating the functional regions of the genome and comparing differences between individuals\u2019 genomes.\nThe reference genome sequence is always product of understanding at a set point in time and continues to evolve.\nDNA sequences evolve through duplication and mutation and, as a result, contain many repeated sequences of different sizes, which complicates data analysis.\nDNA sequence variation happens on large and small scales with respect to the lengths of the DNA differences to include single base changes, insertions, deletions, duplications and rearrangements.\nDNA sequences within the human population undergo continual change and vary highly between individuals.\nThe current reference genome sequence is a collection of sequences, an assembly, that include sequences assembled into chromosomes, sequences that are part of structurally complex regions that cannot be assembled, patches (fixes) that cannot be included in the primary sequence, and high variability sequences that are organised into alternate loci.\nGenetic analysis is error prone and the data require validation because the methods for collecting DNA sequences create artifacts and the reference sequence used for comparative analyses is incomplete.\nKeywords:DNA sequencing\nPosted in BioBanking, Biomarkers & Medical Diagnostics, Biomedical Measurement Science, CANCER BIOLOGY & Innovations in Cancer Therapy, Cancer Screening, Cell Biology, Signaling & Cell Circuits, Computational Biology/Systems and Bioinformatics, Curation, Disease Biology, Small Molecules in Development of Therapeutic Drugs, Epigenetics and Cardiovascular Risks, FDA Regulatory Affairs, Genome Biology, Genomic Testing: Methodology for Diagnosis, Hematology, Human Immune System in Health and in Disease, Imaging-based Cancer Patient Management, Immunodiagnostics, Infectious Disease & New Antibiotic Targets, Innovation in Immunology Diagnostics, Intellectual Property, Innovations, Commercialization, Investment in technological breakthrough, Medical and Population Genetics, Molecular Genetics & Pharmaceutical, Nephrology & Regenerative medicine, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Origins of Cardiovascular Disease, Personalized and Precision Medicine & Genomic Research, Pharmaceutical Analytics, Pharmaceutical Discovery, Pharmacogenomics, Population Health Management, Genetics & Pharmaceutical, Regulated Clinical Trials: Design, Methods, Components and IRB related issues, Reproductive Andrology, Embryology, Genomic Endocrinology, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Reproductive Genomics, RNA Biology, Cancer and Therapeutics | Tagged biomarkers, Computational Biology/Systems and Bioinformatics, genomics, Personalized medicine | Leave a Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 41374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://phoenixlawyerfamilylaw.com/divorce/relocation", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:RLORSTXIUZEIM2R2GXGDK6TYBC3WCQR2", "length": 2488, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "phoenixlawyerfamilylaw.com", "title": "Relocation after a Divorce in Arizona", "raw_content": "You are here:Home \u00bb Family Law Firm for Divorce in Phoenix, AZ \u00bb Relocation after a Divorce in Arizona\nOne of the major consequences of a divorce is that one of the parents will no longer live in the marital home. Many non-custodial parents choose to live nearby to maintain strong bonds with their children, but relocation further away can take place, particularly if the parent remarries or has to move as part of their job. The procedure for relocation following a divorce is governed by state law in Arizona.\nCan I relocate or move after a Divorce in Arizona?\nA parent who wishes to relocate or move more than 100 miles away from the marital home after a divorce must inform the other at least 60 days in advance of the move. If the other parent objects to the move, they can petition the court to stop it taking place. If there is no objection, the existing terms of agreement of the divorce will need to be modified to take into account any changes regarding custody and visitation rights. These plans will need to be submitted to the court for final approval.\nAny divorced parent intending to move or relocate after a divorce should seek help from a lawyer who will be able to offer advice as well as court representation. A properly qualified family law attorney can help ensure you fully understand and comply with all the state laws concerning relocation, and protect yourself against future legal problems. There are many reasonable grounds for relocation, including promotion, a new job or fresh business opportunities, and the Cantor Law Group can assist in making the move as smooth as possible by mediating with your former partner on new terms of agreement.\nCan the relocation request be denied?\nYea, a relocation request can be denied. Any objections to the relocation of a former partner must be made to the court within 30 days of being notified of the move. The judge may decide to deny the relocation for a variety of reasons. They may decide it is not in the best interests of the child, or see it as an attempt by one parent to stop the other maintaining a strong relationship with their child. If the relocation is disputed in court, a lawyer from the Cantor Law Group can provide expert representation and vigorously defend your rights and interests.\nIf you are a divorced parent seeking advice on a move or relocation after your divorce, please call (602) 254-8880 or email us to arrange a free consultation, and discuss how a Phoenix family lawyer can help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://photos.daily-chronicle.com/111617-Kiwanis-Park-MA/i-vSBRBXR", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DMON2QQEQV4HC6F6WHJRE3O5HBTQK5D2", "length": 83, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "photos.daily-chronicle.com", "title": "111617 Kiwanis Park (MA) - DeKalb Daily Chronicle Photos", "raw_content": "A sign at DeKalb Kiwanis Park is photographed on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 in DeKalb.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 137.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pinscollective.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:74QVDFXGF6MDXZ5GNNGNWMEG2GONL7IR", "length": 2046, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pinscollective.com", "title": "About us \u2013 Pins Collective", "raw_content": "OUR SOLE PURPOSE IS TO MAKE YOU SHINE\nPins Collective are working on a entirely new type of wearables \u2013 expressionables. We create products that let people wear digital content as a part of their outfit. The main goal is to erase the barrier between the digital and real world. Bringing online creativity into real life.\n\u201cNO EXPRESSIONS SHOULD BE WASTED\u201d\nHow can we change the way we express ourselves? In 2014, as he studied at the Academy of Cutting and Tailoring, Olof Sj\u00f6stedt asked himself that very question. The answer he realised was not to be found in fabrics or stitches, but in something more mutable, formable and live. Later, in 2015, he started the business that was going to become Pins Collective, a brand and community for creatives all over the world who both want to express themselves and find new ways to do so. The product at the head was Pin One, a wearable button with adjustable content, that gave the users the power to make their favourite online gifs part of real life.\nThe concept was launched during the autumn of 2015 with varying online presence and social media, and that acted as a pre-launch to the crowd funding campaign which was later launched on Kickstarter. The goal of the campaign was mainly to prove that the concept of extrovert screens worked in attracting the interest of paying consumers. Almost 1,100 people bought the digital pins during the campaign, and the campaign amassed over 100,000 USD in backing from people from all over the world, from Tokyo in the east to San Francisco in the west.\nThe coverage from the international press was massive, with over 100 articles written about Pins Collective and Pin One. After a year of development Pin One was released to the market in 2017.\nThe mission of Pins Collective is to erase the barriers between the digital and physical world that are preventing the works of web artists from reaching its full potential. No expressions should be wasted. No tongues should be tied. Pins Collective is here to help the people of the world express themselves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 14753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18655-i-am-the-center-private-issue-new-age-music-in-america-1950-1990/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TM3577PIW5GQ6TGEUELSWRGF4B5VZOFT", "length": 6124, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "pitchfork.com", "title": "Various Artists: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 Album Review | Pitchfork", "raw_content": "I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990\nLight in the Attic\u2019s new age compilation I Am the Center doesn\u2019t try and pretend new age music was something it\u2019s not. Focusing on private presses, it starts in 1950, about 25 years before the term \u201cnew age\u201d existed in any kind of widespread way, and leads up to 1990, when the genre had devolved into factory-like repetitions of itself.\nOne of the best things about Seattle label Light in the Attic\u2019s new new age compilation I Am the Center is that it doesn\u2019t try and pretend that new age music was something that it\u2019s not. Look at the album\u2019s cover illustration and you\u2019ll see an angel-like creature carrying an orb of yellow light through the clouds; open the gatefold and you\u2019ll see what appears to be a bird made of stars launching itself out of the ocean. Press play and be delivered into over two hours of mind-numbingly mellow music with titles like \u201cUnicorns in Paradise\u201d and \u201cTien Fu: Heaven\u2019s Gate\u201d. The structures are simple and the textures are light. Focusing too hard on it is like trying to remember a dream you just had: It will do nothing but piss you off. But like the right color paint on the walls or a thoughtful arrangement of lamps, good new age music feels both peripheral and essential: Something made not to be focused on as much as to remind people listening to it that focusing is only one way to experience the world.\nCenter starts in 1950, about 25 years before the term \u201cnew age\u201d existed in any kind of widespread way, and leads up to 1990, when the genre had devolved into factory-like repetitions of itself. (Steve Vining, who took over the pioneering label Windham Hill from its founder Will Ackerman, once said that running it was more like running Proctor & Gamble than running a record label.) The picks here focus on private presses: Essentially, DIY labels operating outside conventional channels of marketing and distribution. If there\u2019s any argument being made by Light in the Attic here, it\u2019s that new age wasn\u2019t just a multimillion-dollar industry engineered to relax middle-aged Americans rich enough to afford CD players in 1982 (when they cost the equivalent of about $1,600), but an underground scene as self-reliant and countercultural as the ones surrounding newer labels like Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s Software or Los Angeles\u2019 Not Not Fun\u2014labels whose artists have recast aspects of new age as a form of punk, or what Lopatin once called \u201cquiet noise.\u201d\nLike any genre, the sound of new age varies. Some of the tracks here are acoustic; some are all electronic. Some\u2014like the keyboardist Stephen Halpern or Brian Eno collaborator Laraaji\u2014suggests a quiet, person-to-person connection that way a folksinger with a guitar might. Others\u2014a like Iasos and Constance Demby\u2014make cavernous music seemingly designed to remind us that we are but specks of dust in a cosmos too awesomely infinite for our mortal brains to ever possibly comprehend. (Iasos insisted that his first album was not made by him but through him; Demby once invented an instrument called the \u201cspace bass\u201d that she has described as \u201ca transdimensional communication device\u201d\u2014gestures that both assert new age ideas about spirituality but also reassert very old-fashioned ones about how the self can dissolve when it comes into contact with the sublime.)\nPersonally I prefer the less grandiose stuff, but the variety of I Am the Center is one of its best attributes: Instead of pigeonholing the genre by turning it into something overly specific, Center shows how artists with totally different approaches to sound and style can still be grouped together. Crucially, it does this without trying to stretch the Venn diagram of new age to include artists or styles with more cultural cache, like 70s classical composition or drone\u2014music that shares new age\u2019s interest in spirituality and repetition but that tends toward an intensity that, in the context of new age, seems damningly unchill. What you end up with is a compilation that stays true to its genre while also doing everything it can to demonstrate how varied that genre can be.\nWhen I was a kid, I suffered intense anxiety problems, which my mother tried to help me combat with a variety of cures: Exercise, homeopathic medicine, counseling, religion, and eventually, new age music. While other kids were being subjected to the Beatles on car trips, I lay on the carpeted floor of my room listening to cassettes with titles like Celestial Journeys and Inner Sanctum II: Reclaiming the Inner Sanctum. A few years later, when I started to get into punk and hardcore, I realized the best new age music wasn\u2019t all that different: There was a similar purity of purpose, a similar rejection of societal values, and a similar unwillingness to bend, either toward more concrete rhythms\u2014which can sometimes turn new age into chintzy, synth-heavy instrumental pop (e.g. the ubiquitous Kitaro)\u2014or toward more complex compositions that might have leant their makers credibility but compromised the essentially relaxing quality that good new age promised never to disturb.\nStill, I write this knowing that new age is among the most easily ridiculed genres of music that exists. Its practitioners can be somehow pretentious and weak-minded, ludicrously abstract and yet as sure of their discoveries as a scientist. \u201cMusic helps to concentrate oneself,\u201d the liner notes to I Am the Center start. \u201cTo bring oneself to an inner state when we can assume the greatest possible emancipations. That is why music is just the thing which helps you too see higher.\u201d The words\u2014a quote from Thomas de Hartmann\u2014say it all, which is to say that they don\u2019t really say anything. Then comes the voice of Yoga Records founder and Center\u2019s compiler, Douglas Mcgowan: \u201cSo many declarative statements to make on the subject of new age, and so little time. And yet,\u201d he goes on, \u201cwe do have the time, and the best new age music shows us this.\u201d It\u2019s the kind of subtle, canny move new age acolytes aren\u2019t exactly known for making: Accepting the occasional goofiness of what they do while reasserting its value at the same time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plasticboards.com/about-us/green-construction/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QXXLLWJELEGOGN25P3GN24G3NIU2X4DX", "length": 5982, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "plasticboards.com", "title": "Green Construction Materials | Green Construction Products", "raw_content": "Green Construction Materials\nRecycled Plastic Lumber by Bedford Technology\nGreen building is a \u201cholistic concept\u201d that is an effort to promote positive effects on the environment throughout the entire building life cycle, from building design to construction and even the manufacturing process of the building materials. Another term that is widely used is sustainable building. No matter what you call it, the aim is to make efficient uses of land, materials, energy and water, generate minimal waste and provide healthy environments by restoring, improving or enhancing the natural environment. Our green construction materials are designed with these principles in mind.\nThis is not a new concept. The benefits that are associated with green building and sustainability practices are abundant, and more companies are adopting green practices and green construction products into their overall business strategy. Not only does green building provide environmental benefits, it also provides the company implementing these practices numerous benefits:\nGreen Construction Benefits:\nGreen design and building practices reduce the usage of water and help conserve natural resources like wood and energy. Air and water quality is improved because less chemicals are emitted that pollute the environment. By utilizing green building principles, companies are also able to protect our ecosystems by conserving the natural habitat.\nSpecific materials that are qualified for \u201cgreen building\u201d are less harmful on the environment starting with the manufacturing process. Environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes emit minimal greenhouse gases and use very little natural resources to help preserve our wildlife and environment. Also, using certain green products as a building material, like plastic lumber, requires little to no maintenance after installation, so you can save time, money and resources by not having to replace and repair as often as other building materials.\nFor companies who have implemented these green design and building practices into their products and projects, many have seen reduced operation costs by saving on repairs and improved productivity. Companies are also helping to increase awareness of the \u201cgreen\u201d community by participating in green building practices.\nThe United States Green Building Council (USGBC) was established in 1993 with the main mission to promote sustainability-focused practices in the building industry. It started as a single meeting in a boardroom of representatives from over 60 firms and many nonprofit organizations to discuss ideas and develop a green building rating system, which later became known as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).\nThis certification program is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. With over 2.2 million square feet of buildings as LEED certified, 92,000 projects constructed in over 165 countries and territories, this system is globally accepted as a symbol of sustainability achievement.\nThe LEED rating system evaluates building projects in areas that are considered to have direct impact on human and environmental health. This system awards points to the projects that meet certain requirements in many different building and design areas. Last year, LEED v4 was introduced, which included updates to many of the requirements. One of these areas is building materials.\nBuilding Material Requirements\nProjects can be awarded points for many requirements in this section: using recycled content, an efficient manufacturing process, finding local or regional projects to save transportation energy and cost, using salvaged, refurbished or re-manufactured material, durability in product life and being able to reuse or recycle the material after it has been dismantled.\nRecycled Content: This includes products with recycled content, either post-industrial or post-consumer.\nResource-Efficient Manufacturing Process: The manufacturing process includes reducing energy consumption, minimizing waste and reducing greenhouse gases.\nLocally Available: Materials found locally to save energy and resources in transportation to the project site. LEED awards points for 500 miles or less.\nSalvaged, Refurbished or Remanufactured: Material is saved from disposal and renovation, repairs and restoration and improves the appearance, performance, quality or functionality of a product.\nReusable or Recyclable: These materials can be easily disassembled and reused or recycled at the end of their life-cycle.\nDurability: This means that the material is longer lasting comparable to conventional product with long life expectancies.\nChoosing an environmentally-friendly building material isn\u2019t as difficult as it may seem. Recycled plastic lumber by Bedford Technology comes in 4 product lines to suit your specific project and green building requirements.\nOur products meet criteria for the USGBC LEED requirements: Most of our material comes from post-consumer waste and far exceeds the recycled content percentage criteria of 50%. We also use an environmentally-friendly process that produces minimal greenhouse gases. Most of our green construction material comes from post-consumer HDPE, but we also use scrap/salvage from post-industrial bottle manufacturing and from our existing customers to reuse in our manufacturing process. Our green construction products are 100% recyclable and in most situations, can be dismantled as easily as wood and can earn you additional points for your LEED project.\n\u201cDurable\u201d doesn\u2019t even begin to describe our product lines. Our structural recycled plastic lumber is resistant to termites, marine borers, salt, oil, rot and fungus and won\u2019t splinter, crack or degrade when installed correctly. It can hold up in harsh environments and withstand high moisture levels.\nLEED Continuing Education Credits:\nClick here to learn how to get CE LEED credits\nWant to Take Your Sustainability and Green Building to the Next Level?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://podcast.lifterlms.com/run-live-online-courses-pro-podcaster-community-builder-adam-silver/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:57Z", "digest": "sha1:2RR2UOUV7RHMCX6DVREVBKG5YNYCK3NU", "length": 53705, "nlines": 242, "source_domain": "podcast.lifterlms.com", "title": "How to Run Live Online Courses with Pro Podcaster and Community Builder Adam Silver - LMS CAST", "raw_content": "How to Run Live Online Courses with Pro Podcaster and Community Builder Adam Silver\nThis episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS is about how to run live online courses with pro podcaster and community builder Adam Silver. Adam is a WordPress educator and trainer, and he runs a small boutique agency in southern California. He is also from the Kitchen Sink WP podcast and Concierge WP. In this episode we learn about Adam\u2019s journey, and he and Chris discuss the community building aspect of course creation. They get into the pros and cons of providing limited versus lifetime access to your users as well.\nAdam is a strong member of the WordPress community. He is great at building and nurturing a community online. The community aspect of course building is often overlooked. Chris and Adam discuss the importance in building a community around your product or around an existing community online. He shares tips on producing consistent content, and he shares his experience with building a community of WordPress users in his local area.\nAdam shares his story of how he got involved with WordPress in 2009. He was a photographer, and he was doing professional work for a company for nine months when he got laid off. He needed to build a new website for his photography portfolio, and he ended up using WordPress. He started to build up some basic WordPress sites for some people, and then he learned more about WordPress through a podcast. Then Adam attended a WordCamp, which is a WordPress conference where everyone involved in the WordPress community can get together and discuss ideas and get to know each other. Adam built up relationships through these conferences and other events like it, and now he has his own podcast and website concierge company.\nAdam hosts Meetups with the local WordPress community he has built up. People come to his Meetups to share ideas, hire people, and network. Sometimes businesses will sponsor Adam\u2019s Meetups in order to gain access to his audience. Keeping the authenticity of his original intentions with the group is what is most important to Adam with his local Meetups. Remaining true to your original reasons for starting a project can help ensure that your development is genuine, and that is exactly what Adam has strived to do with his local Meetups.\nWhen creating a podcast, producing consistent content is key to success. So doing one podcast every week or every two weeks is what you may need to do. And when scheduling out your podcasts, you should write a list of 52 or 26 topics in whatever field your podcast is on, depending on your planned podcast schedule. Adam also believes that having a passion behind your podcast will help drive its success.\nTo learn more about Adam Silver you can check out his podcasts. You can find them at kitchensinkwp.com/itunes and getoptionspodcast/itunes. Adam\u2019s course is called WordPress Essentials. He is on Twitter at @KitchenSinkWP and @heyadamsilver, and he\u2019s also on Facebook. ConciergeWP is Adam\u2019s website concierge company, so feel free to check that out as well.\nChris Badgett: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of LMScast. My name is Chris Badgett, and I\u2019ve got a special guest today, Adam Silver. He\u2019s from Kitchen Sink WP and Concierge WP. He\u2019s a WordPress guy. He\u2019s a course builder guy. He\u2019s a community guy. He\u2019s a podcaster. We\u2019re going to get into all of that and kind of learn from Adam about his journey, what\u2019s working, what\u2019s not working.\nAnd really, I wanted to bring Adam on the show because he is such a strong member of the WordPress community, and he\u2019s great at building community, nurturing community, which is such a sometimes overlooked part of creating an online course or membership site or some kind of tribe or getting involved in a tribe that already exists. It\u2019s not just about creating a product and launching it and not even thinking about the community piece at all or just focusing on building the email list. There\u2019s so much more to it than that, and that\u2019s one of the key things I wanted to discuss with Adam.\nBut first, Adam, thank you for coming on the show.\nAdam Silver: My pleasure. Hey, Chris, that\u2019s \u2026 Wow. Well, I\u2019m \u2026 I feel like with all description, I have split personalities. That\u2019s awesome. Yeah.\nChris Badgett: Well, we\u2019ll get into that.\nAdam Silver: Yeah, I\u2019m happy to be here. Happy to talk.\nChris Badgett: Thanks. Well, thanks for coming. For people who haven\u2019t heard about you yet, if somebody comes up to you at a part and they say, \u201cWho are you, and what\u2019d you do,\u201d what\u2019s your elevator pitch? Or what\u2019s your story, the stories?\nAdam Silver: So I say, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Adam Silver, but I\u2019m not the Adam Silver from the NBA,\u201d because that\u2019s the most famous Adam Silver. \u201cBut I am a WordPress educator and trainer, and I run a small boutique agency here in Southern California.\u201d That\u2019s how I word it.\nAdam Silver: It took me a while to figure that out, by the way. It took me about nine month to figure those words, \u201cA WordPress educator and trainer, and I run a small boutique web agency.\u201d\nChris Badgett: Yeah, that\u2019s awesome. I totally \u2026 I get that and appreciate that. When you do a lot of things and have a lot of interests and help people in a lot of different ways, it\u2019s really hard to come up with an elevator pitch or whatever.\nAdam Silver: Yeah. And otherwise, you know, I explain what I do. I do all these ten things within that, and people lose interest. And it\u2019s not personal. It\u2019s just like it\u2019s too much to take in, so if you keep it short and concise, then people want to know exactly what that means, in the education, training, or the agency. Then, they can ask that question and peel back the layer. Yeah.\nWell, let\u2019s get into your story a little bit in terms of community. How did you get involved with WordPress? And tell us about that journey into doing what you do today, which is you help \u2026 You put on a WordCamp. You have meetups. You go to conferences, WordPress conferences, events. I just saw you at PressNomics in Arizona.\nAdam Silver: Yep.\nChris Badgett: What was your story? Like, how\u2019d you first find that community, and how did you become so involved with it?\nAdam Silver: So I got involved with WordPress 2009, late 2009, early 2010. It\u2019s hard for me to remember exactly, but that\u2019s pretty much \u2026 I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s right. I came into WordPress as a photographer. I was shooting corporate trade show, bellies \u2026 babies and bellies \u2026 You know, I started babies and bellies as a photographer, went to head shots and weddings, and then more corporate. And this was all based in Southern California, and then I moved to Colorado.\nThen, I came back for a different job, so I kind of shut all that down to do some professional work for a company. And then, I got laid off nine months later. Based on that, I needed to build a new website, and I built it in WordPress. I messed around with Dreamweaver for about a week back in Colorado for a company I was doing some tech work for. And then, when I came back to California, I got laid off.\nI found WordPress, didn\u2019t know anything about the community. I had no idea. And I built the site, launched a new photography website because the old photography website was in Flash. It\u2019s embarrassing to say, but it\u2019s the truth. It had the swooshes, those color lines going through the header. I bought it, I think, at Template Monster, and that was dead. That was old.\nSo I found WordPress and built it in nothing. No business. The website\u2019s not the end-all. It\u2019s just a piece of the puzzle for anything, right? And then, as I was looking for more photography work, and I got some, I met some of the parents through my kids. And they asked me for help, so I started to help people basic one, two, three page websites in WordPress. And this was 2010 \u2026 No, probably 2011. Things were still clunky. I still didn\u2019t really know. I\u2019m not a pure developer, not a pure designer. I can implement things.\nAnd then, I reached out. I guess I heard more about WordPress and the community based on a podcast. My buddy Dustin has one, Dustin Hartzler. He\u2019s a good friend. Yeah, because I went to iTunes and I typed in WordPress podcast, and I found a couple. Some were already already gone and dead, and his was popular. I reached out. We became friends. I spent the night at his house. He lives in Ohio, works for Automatic now.\nAnd then, slowly but surely, I attended a WordCamp, and I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, I want to be a part of this group.\u201d And it\u2019s just a matter of just slow baby steps and building up. Building friendships is really what it came down to, and helping to me. And it was amazing to me. It really was amazing, Chris, that I attended WordCamp Orange County 2011 or \u201912, and everybody was just really nice. And it was shocking to me in a sense, and I just didn\u2019t really see it coming. I\u2019m like, \u201cThis is awesome. These are my people.\u201d\nSo that\u2019s kind of the short version, and then the rest is history. I just put in the time and built friendships. I mean, and the way you and I met \u2026 I mean, who would\u2019ve thunk it? We met two years ago at Cobble Press, right? And then, here we are two years later. I\u2019m on your show.\nChris Badgett: Yeah, right.\nAdam Silver: And I\u2019ve had one of your \u2026 You know, one of your old business partners was on my show. It just takes \u2026 It\u2019s an amazing community, so I\u2019ve been a great proponent of it. And I started a meetup in Southern Cal, one of the meetups here. I led WordCamp LA last year, and I\u2019m the lead organizer this year, as well.\nSo that\u2019s the short version.\nChris Badgett: Well, let\u2019s look at that a little bit in terms of the meetup.\nAdam Silver: Yeah.\nChris Badgett: For those of you that don\u2019t know, Meetup. Com is a website that just facilitates creating in-person gatherings around a particular topic.\nAdam Silver: Right.\nChris Badgett: In the WordPress community, meetups are \u2026 They\u2019re a pretty popular way for people to get together on, like, a monthly basis or something like that. But what \u2026 did you start the meetup?\nAdam Silver: So there are, in Southern California, about ten in a general area. The one I used to go to was like downtown or in the West Side, and I lived down by the beach. It was kind of hard to get to. I got to it. It wasn\u2019t a big deal. I had three young children \u2026 not that young anymore. So my wife was home, so I could go at night and do these things.\nBut it got problematic as far as scheduling. So there wasn\u2019t one in my area, so I reached out to the other organizer, Natalie. And I said, \u201cHey, do you mind if I start one, like, in my area?\u201d She didn\u2019t care. I just didn\u2019t want to step on toes, so I started one. And that was three and a half years ago. I worked about 350 people in the whole meetup. 30 to 40 are active.\nSo it\u2019s just a matter of bringing people together, doing a presentation once a month, being consistent. You know, I remember trying to schedule it and asking the group, like, \u201cWhen do you want to have it? Where do you want to have it,\u201d you know? And then someone told me, \u201cAdam, it\u2019s your meetup. You pick what works for you, and people will show up or they won\u2019t.\u201d So my meetup is the third Thursday of each month. I have it a nonprofit building where my wife used to work, and people show up. And I feed people, so that\u2019s the key, you know? We have a pretty good spread every meeting.\nWell, my meetup, ironically, is \u2026 the day we\u2019re recording this, it\u2019s tomorrow. But obviously, this\u2019ll be out way after the fact, but the third Thursday of the month. And we\u2019re doing a burrito bar tomorrow night.\nChris Badgett: So what do people get out \u2026 Just in general, if somebody has a course topic or learning platform topic and they\u2019re thinking about starting a local meetup, which is a great idea to get out from behind the computer and engage with real people around a common interest, what \u2026 That\u2019s, like, philosophically how it works, and you\u2019re talking about what you do to make it successful and all that. But what do the people get \u2026 What do you get out of it as a leader, and what does the people get out of it?\nAdam Silver: Okay.\nChris Badgett: Like, what are the main benefits?\nAdam Silver: So I think some people come to it for different reasons, and Meetup is \u2026 So Meetup\u2019s basic rules are to get \u2026 You have to meet in person. That\u2019s kind of like their mantra. If you want to go birdwatching or do photographer or go surfing, it\u2019s do something outside of your home or behind your computer. WordPress \u2026 And you can charge for meetups. A lot of groups do. They charge for events, because sometimes, there\u2019s an extra cost, and actually, the cost to even run the meetup. You know, it\u2019s 160 bucks a year. No big deal, technically.\nI think people come in the meetup, in the WordPress, either needing help or wanting to give help or looking to hire somebody. So there\u2019s a couple different purposes, and some people are unaware \u2026 You can be surprised. I\u2019ve had people come to my meetup who have asked \u2026 been very forward that they want to sponsor the meetup, or they want to be on my podcast. They\u2019re looking for a stage. They\u2019re looking for access to my audience, and my audience is the meetup that I run or my podcast listeners, right? And I\u2019m very protective of them, and I want to \u2026 I\u2019m not going to shill and take your money, your sponsorship money, just because. That\u2019s not how I play this game. It\u2019s not a game. That\u2019s not how I run my life. I want to be authentic, and I want to offer value in everything that I do.\nSo I\u2019ve told people no many times. I won\u2019t take your sponsorship money. Invest in keep showing up, unless you help us. Offer value, you know? Contribute in some capacity. So I think people\u2019s intentions are varied.\nNow, my intention, my purpose, is I like to share and teach and speak. Simple.\nAdam Silver: And nobody else down here was going to do it, so I \u2026 So it was me, you know?\nAdam Silver: I hope that answers your question.\nChris Badgett: Yeah, it definitely does. Yeah, I\u2019d encourage people, if they haven\u2019t attended a meetup or they\u2019re thinking about starting one, that it is a good idea. I\u2019m actually in the process right now of starting a meetup in my area where I live, on the coast of Maine. It\u2019s called MidCoast Maine. It\u2019s a WordPress meetup, but it\u2019s also for people specifically \u2026 I\u2019m not just trying to do a WordPress meetup. It\u2019s also for educators and people who are trying to use technology and education and entrepreneurship and that kind of thing. So I\u2019m trying to create a meetup that surrounds the issues that I\u2019m really passionate about.\nAdam Silver: So you could actually \u2026 People don\u2019t realize this. You could actually have three groups within the same payment, by the way. You could have MidCoast Maine, and then have one for WordPress, one for educators, one for podcasting, if you want. You can break them up into three within the one payment. So people don\u2019t realize that. So I could do another one under my one payment.\nChris Badgett: Oh, that\u2019s good to know.\nAdam Silver: It\u2019s just a little \u2026 Yeah. So people don\u2019t know this, so I keep thinking about doing one for podcasting in the area under my main meetup, under that brand, so \u2026\nChris Badgett: Oh, that\u2019s a great idea. Yeah. I didn\u2019t know that you could do that.\nAdam Silver: Just an FYI.\nChris Badgett: Thank you. Well, let\u2019s talk a little bit about-\nAdam Silver: See, I\u2019m bringing value.\nChris Badgett: Yeah. Well, let\u2019s talk a little bit about conferences. And you know, you\u2019re a pro at getting out of the building, which a lot of people struggle with. How do you decide \u2026 Like, I\u2019ve met you at a WordPress mastermind event, a WordPress business event \u2026 My business partner Thomas works with you on a WordPress WordCamp event.\nAdam Silver: Oh, right. Yeah.\nChris Badgett: Like, how do you decide what to attend and lead? Like, how do you choose? Because sometimes, it can be \u2026 there\u2019s a lot of choices. So how do you decide?\nAdam Silver: So for me, I\u2019m in a unique position that a couple years ago, my wife and I made the conscious decision that I would attend \u2026 I\u2019ll keep this show clean, a handful of WordCamps. A bucketload. We\u2019ll say it that way, and purpose \u2026 and with the primary purpose of me to get out to meet more people, to network.\nI had a day job, and I\u2019ve been sharing this journey also on my other podcast, so you know, on Kitchen Sink. And I had a day job for three and a half years, and it provided for us. It wasn\u2019t a great situation. I did social media marketing for a company. It was fine. But while I did that, I taught a class in person. We\u2019ll talk about that a little bit later. I spoke at camps and et cetera, and I did stuff, and I ran the meetups. And I really wanted to do more of that.\nI love \u2026 Like, I don\u2019t mind the social media, the job, but it was just a job. It wasn\u2019t really \u2026 And it wasn\u2019t just the job. It was the company I worked for I wasn\u2019t really enthused with at the end of the day.\nSo we picked camps that made sense to go to where, if I could travel inexpensively enough \u2026 you know, out of pocket. And I\u2019ve talked to Chris Lum about this, because he was on my show way back. And there\u2019s \u2026 sometimes, there\u2019s people discussing, like, \u201cOh, there\u2019s that WordPress circuit. There\u2019s a speaker circuit.\u201d\nAdam Silver: Well, yeah. There is a speaker circuit in any industry, for one.\nAdam Silver: But particularly in the WordPress space, we\u2019re all out of pocket. No one\u2019s getting paid to speak.\nAdam Silver: So now, and I remember looking at Chris that way, way back. I mean, I didn\u2019t really give that much over \u2026 well, thought. I just overheard someone talking about it in line at a conference, and \u201cOh, Chris is here, and he\u2019s in the circuit with other people.\u201d And I\u2019m, like, thinking so myself, so I asked him about it. He\u2019s like, \u201cYeah, yeah. I\u2019m \u2026 Sure, I speak. I go around, but we\u2019re all out of pocket. We all pay our own way.\u201d\nAnd so I picked things I could \u2026 You know, I would apply to speak. If I got accepted based on the camp, I would fly out and put myself up, or I\u2019d stay with community members. That\u2019s also the greatest thing about WordPress community. You meet friends. I\u2019ve traveled with people that I\u2019ve met in person at a WordCamp.\nI went to Cabo, to [inaudible 00:13:25]. I went to Costa Rica last year with my friend, Kyle Maurer, and met him at WordCamp Dayton, because he listens to my podcast. And so him and his \u2026 I talk to him every day. We have a podcast together now. We traveled together last year to Costa Rica with his wife and my wife and my family.\nSo I pick the camps, just, that I want to go to anyways and I want to speak at. There was a conscious decision to kind of brand me a little bit more as a subject matter expert. I guess that was my purpose, but with the long play. I\u2019m not looking to make a quick buck. I\u2019m looking to help community. And at the end of the day, if someone wants to hire me, great.\nAdam Silver: You know?\nChris Badgett: Well, let\u2019s talk about the power-\nAdam Silver: And I would say \u2026 yeah, I was going to say this. But I was fortunate that I had a day job. A lot of people \u2026 it\u2019s hard to balance. I had a day job, and I had support of my wife, so \u2026\nChris Badgett: Yeah, those \u2026 that\u2019s huge. That\u2019s huge.\nWell, let\u2019s talk about \u2026\nAdam Silver: Or huge.\nChris Badgett: Let\u2019s talk a little bit about the power of podcasting.\nChris Badgett: I know you from Kitchen Sink WP, and then your new one with Kyle.\nAdam Silver: The new one\u2019s called Get Options Podcast.\nChris Badgett: Get Options? So you\u2019re a prolific podcast creator.\nI was also aware, because I\u2019ve been around the WordPress for a while. And as somebody who lives in the country or more remote, not in urban areas, I rely a lot on podcasts to increase my knowledge in certain areas, WordPress being one of them. So Dustin\u2019s podcast, a long time ago, I used to listen to about WordPress, which was great. Matt Report, all the good \u2026 There\u2019s a lot of great WordPress podcasts out there.\nBut what are your \u2026 What\u2019s your podcast portfolio now?\nAdam Silver: So the two shows I have are Kitchen Sink WP.\nAdam Silver: Which I\u2019m up to episode 169. Every Monday, it comes out. I have not missed a Monday yet, and Get Options podcast \u2026 we\u2019re on episode 15. It also comes out on Mondays, but we\u2019ve missed a two week stint because Kyle took a job, and he had to go do some traveling. And so you know, Kyle works for Pippin Williamson now, so \u2026 But so we do a weekly show there, too.\nAnd I have on my board behind me \u2026 nobody can see it, but in our call here, I have ideas for three other shows. None of them are WordPress related. One\u2019s business focused and one is just more kind of a motivational focus that\u2019s just some other interests, so \u2026\nAdam Silver: So I guess \u2026 yeah.\nChris Badgett: Well, why \u2026 we\u2019re going to get into your course that you\u2019re building right now, and your training project. But what do you get out of podcasting? I\u2019m sure it has some similar community building benefits, and it allows you to connect and make new friends, and \u2026 But why do you do it?\nAdam Silver: I find it easier to speak than I do to write 800 words weekly.\nAdam Silver: Like, so, I tell people all the time, \u201cDo what makes the most sense for you.\u201d If you want to blog, then blog. If you want to make a video, do a video. If you want to podcast, do a podcast. And I have spoken about this at length at other conferences recently, this past six-eight months. The secret to success \u2026 consistency. Whatever you\u2019re going to do, do it, and be consistent.\nI\u2019ve miscategorized the category in WordPress for the podcast to be picked up by the feed in iTunes, the RSS. I\u2019ve missed it twice in 169 episodes, and I\u2019ve heard about it. You know, people become accustomed to getting your show at a certain date and time, right? Whether they listen to it later \u2026 but some people run to my show. Some people do dishes, drive in traffic, who knows. But I\u2019ve missed the checkbox, the podcast category, and I get a tweet or a text. \u201cHey, where\u2019s the show?\u201d So the consistency\u2019s key.\nSo I really enjoy doing it. And right when I think no one\u2019s listening, I get an email from somebody, which is really flattering. I have some people listening in Sri Lanka, Dubai \u2026 and what\u2019s the other one? I just got another one not too long ago. Was it \u2026 I think it was Norway. So it\u2019s out of the blue, like, \u201cHey, we like your show. We\u2019re in Norway.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cSweet,\u201d you know?\nAdam Silver: We do \u2026\nChris Badgett: That\u2019s really cool.\nAdam Silver: It\u2019s very cool.\nChris Badgett: And if people want to \u2026 Can you say the names of them again, and where people can find them?\nAdam Silver: Yeah, so if you go to kitchensinkwp.com/itunes, you\u2019ll get to it. And if you go to Get Options Podcast /itunes, you can also get there. You can also listen to it on the main website, as well.\nAnd the Get Options show, just so people can know, it\u2019s a little bit irreverent. It\u2019s a lighter side. It\u2019s a Q&A show. People send in questions or voicemails, and we answer them. We give options \u2026 some good, some not so good, and we try to have fun with the show. We don\u2019t take it too seriously, but we give \u2026 Actually, that\u2019s not true. We do take it seriously, but the first round of options may not be the best to choose from.\nAnd we based it off of an old radio show called \u2026 Click and Clack, the car guys, Car Talk, where people would call up and say, \u201cHey, my 1979 Toyota Tercel makes a weird noise when I turn left. What do I do?\u201d And one of the brothers would say, \u201cDon\u2019t turn left,\u201d you know? So that kind of \u2026 We have fun that way.\nAnd Get Options is a query in the database, that option. So that\u2019s \u2026 so yeah.\nChris Badgett: That\u2019s awesome. Well, I just want to say that I think podcasting \u2026 that in general, the ship has not sailed.\nAdam Silver: Oh, not at all.\nChris Badgett: We may be technologists here and early adopters of podcasting as a medium. When we\u2019re driving around in our car or exercising or doing the dishes or whatever, we may have our earbuds plugged in, listening. But I\u2019m envisioning a time in the future where podcasts are going to be even more accessible inside cars. Maybe they already are in certain ways, but people are going to start adopting it more.\nChris Badgett: And when you go around, you want to listen to exactly what you want to listen to.\nChris Badgett: Not, like, the pop charts of information.\nAdam Silver: Yeah, like, okay. I literally listen to about 30 hours a week of podcasts, ranging from one other \u2026 one or two other \u2026 I listen to Dustin\u2019s show still. He\u2019s a good friend. And we all \u2026 and Dustin actually is the one who challenged me to do one. \u201cI want to do my own podcast.\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cDo it,\u201d for about four months. He\u2019s like, \u201cIs it done? Is it done?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cNo.\u201d\nAnd we have the same topics. In essence, we\u2019re going to overlap to some extent. We have the same \u2026 a similar style. Different format of the show, but just because I \u2026 You know, it\u2019s something that \u2026 Not everybody\u2019s going to like his voice or his take on things or mine. It\u2019s also hard to podcast about a technical topic, so my show is short. His used to be a lot longer. He\u2019s shortened it up, also. I think he realized I was right, you know? My show is about 15 minutes or less, unless I interview somebody.\nBut I share tip and tool of the week \u2026 I have a format to my show, so it\u2019s pretty basic. But I think podcasting is still here to stay, and growing by far.\nAdam Silver: It\u2019s still a great medium. You can be very niche, you know? And the fact is, I have a pretty good following now in my niche, in the niche of WordPress. You know, I average decent numbers of downloads, but you know \u2026\nDo you know how many \u2026 Yeah, how many downloads do you have? Do you know, on your show, on this show?\nChris Badgett: I honestly have a-\nAdam Silver: Do you look at analytics?\nChris Badgett: I have a complete fail on analytics. I\u2019ve never even looked at them.\nAdam Silver: So I look. I keep on track.\nChris Badgett: And again, I hear people all the time who say like, \u201cHey, I\u2019ve been listening to your podcast, or I saw you on YouTube.\u201d Like, I know it works as a way to reach people and connect. I just don\u2019t \u2026\nChris Badgett: I haven\u2019t gotten into the analytics of it. I should.\nAdam Silver: Yeah, and I\u2019ve got [inaudible 00:20:38] sponsors, so I do know my average downloads per week. And it\u2019s on steady growth, and that\u2019s the thing. Nothing has zoomed me straight up, and that\u2019s fine. It\u2019s been slow and steady.\nAnd I always tell people \u2026 Here\u2019s how I express a podcast to people. They say, \u201cHey, should I do a podcast?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cDo you want to speak every week? Do you like to talk to people, in a sense, that are out there?\u201d \u201cYes.\u201d And I say, \u201cWhat you need to do is you need to pick a topic that you could have \u2026 If your subject \u2026 you come up with 26 ideas, then it may not be the right \u2026\u201d And they go, \u201cWhy 26?\u201d I go, \u201cThat\u2019s every other week for a year.\u201d\nAdam Silver: Okay? Instead of saying, \u201cDo 52,\u201d 26, you know? Or even 25, and take two weeks off, if you really want. Like, okay. But right out \u2026 Like, so if your topic is gems, if you can come up with 26 things within gemstones to talk about \u2026 If they can\u2019t, then it may not \u2026 You need to have passion behind it.\nI am surprised, on a weekly basis, that I\u2019ve done 169 episodes. You know, every week, I\u2019m like, \u201cWell, I\u2019m talking about something.\u201d I have ideas all the time, but I want to speak intelligently about them and not just be too surface-y. And still, not all my shows \u2026 I\u2019m honest \u2026 I\u2019ve been happy with. I\u2019ve only scrubbed, started over probably four times in the three years that I\u2019ve been at it where I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, that sucked. Let me rewrite that. Let me just figure something out and reword all of that.\u201d But other than that, I just let it go, because it\u2019s not the end-all. A, it\u2019s a podcast. B, it\u2019s part of the bigger picture of helping the community and driving traffic and getting people interested in what I do, so \u2026\nBut yeah, my long play is I still do it because I love doing it, so \u2026\nChris Badgett: Well, let\u2019s transition into talking a little bit about your course, your big launch.\nAdam Silver: Yes.\nChris Badgett: What is it, and what\u2019s it called?\nAdam Silver: So my current course is called WordPress Essentials. It used to be called something else, but I had to stop because of a cease and desist.\nAnd I used to teach in person. For about four years, I taught it in a five week session at the adult school locally, and I loved it. I really did. But when I went solo on my own, I was paid hourly as a district employee, technically, as a teacher. You know, as an adult school teacher, and it was great. I really liked it. It was extra money, in the sense of \u2026 because I had that day job, so it really didn\u2019t matter. And I gave a lot. All the students got a subdomain to work in, like, a sandbox. And then, they would take the class. You couldn\u2019t hire me in those five weeks.\nBut then, they would eventually come around and join my meetup and then come around, maybe. Out of, let\u2019s say, 15 students, I might get a client or two for some hourly work or for a small project. It was great, and it put me in the community. Again, another way to be in front of people, and I really like teaching the basics of WordPress, WordPress Essentials.\nWhen I left the day job, I decided to not teach at the adult school and do it on my own, and to do it in person, still. Charge more, so \u2026 because I had to rent a space, you know? And I had to do all that, all my own marketing, and it didn\u2019t go so well. I tried to do two or three sessions.\nOriginally, the class was like 84 bucks for the adult school. I was going to charge 249, which is still a pretty good deal, in my opinion. And then, when I had three people sign up, it\u2019s not enough to pay for the rent of the space. I waited a few months, did it again at 199. Still not enough, and I did it one more time. I had two or three people, so I had to refund people. I lost money on all three tries, because I had to \u2026 the refund, PayPal kept \u2026 They kind of messed it up, so I lost probably 50 bucks on all that.\nAnd then, I decided to transition it and make it online as a webinar, live webinar class, and it\u2019s doing better.\nChris Badgett: So let\u2019s talk about that. Why-\nChris Badgett: Why not create a WordPress Essentials video course? Why do the webinar? Like, the live option?\nAdam Silver: Okay. So I\u2019ll tell you why, because my friend Cory over at A2 Hosting \u2026 he and I, we talk all the time. And he\u2019s really smart, and he\u2019s in marketing. And sometimes, you just don\u2019t \u2026 It\u2019s almost like a married couple. I wasn\u2019t here when he was saying, \u201cI was thinking what you were thinking, as far as put together a video, make it dripped out over a four week start and stop.\u201d You know, just, \u201cWhat\u2019s the way? Well, what\u2019s the best way to go? How much do I charge?\u201d\nThe indecision was killing me, as well. So Cory kept saying, \u201cJust do it online. Do it online.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay. And I have to go make the videos, record them, edit them, install it \u2026\u201d And I\u2019ve used Lifter, and I mean, I\u2019ve tested a few times. I\u2019ve done a review on my show a couple times, as well as some other competitors. And then, well, I go, \u201cWhich platform do I use?\u201d Because I\u2019m friends with everybody who makes these platforms, and I\u2019m still torn, to tell you the truth. It\u2019s kind of funny.\nSo Cory was saying it, and I just wasn\u2019t hearing it. He\u2019s like, \u201cNo, no. Take what you have. Don\u2019t go with the videos right now. You have people who want your class. Take it, make it shorter. Make it three weeks. Drop the price to $99, and do it as a live webinar.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, like, do it live?\u201d And I didn\u2019t even think about that. I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay.\u201d\nSo I created a quick splash page, did \u2026 And I had five signups within the first day, so there was something there.\nAdam Silver: And because I bought into Webinar Ninja like a year ago through a special. I got it for 50 bucks lifetime. So now, it\u2019s like 45 a month, so I was like, \u201cOkay,\u201d figured it out, got students. I did a first run three weeks ago, four weeks ago, coming up. So I had ten students. It was great.\nThere are problems, in my opinion, with it, doing it this way. It\u2019s great because it\u2019s live. People pay for it. You get the recordings, versus in my class, you didn\u2019t get a recording. If you missed a class, you missed a class. Here, if you miss it or you have to leave early, you still get a recording.\nThe problem is the feedback loop. I really like this. You and I, right now, can see each other and hear each other.\nAdam Silver: And in person, you have that dynamic in a classroom setting. People ask questions.\nIn the Webinar Ninja way, there\u2019s a chatroom. I can see the chat window, but I can\u2019t hear you. So I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s a different \u2026 I can\u2019t assess certain things. So there\u2019s that aspect on the feedback loop, which I don\u2019t like. But it is what it is.\nAnd then, down the line, I\u2019m still launching \u2026 and I still have to acquire new students every \u2026 so every time I want to do this. And if you can\u2019t take a class online when I offer it, I lose a sale, right?\nSo I will probably transition this bit to doing a standardized course video set, you know, using an LMS. So it might be cheaper. You take it. You get the videos. You\u2019re on your own. If you want access to me and/or the subdomain and somewhere one on one or a group call every week, it\u2019s going to cost more. I\u2019ll do different tiers and that kind of thing. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking at.\nChris Badgett: Well, let me ask you, how many \u2026\nAdam Silver: Yeah?\nChris Badgett: For the $99 three week course, how many webinars is it, and how long are they?\nAdam Silver: Oh, so it\u2019s three webinars.\nAdam Silver: So it\u2019s three lives on Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. Pacific to noon, two hours, up to two hours. And the two hours is twofold. One, that\u2019s really all people can really take, you know?\nAdam Silver: In my opinion. And two, it\u2019s also the limitation of Webinar Ninja, so it worked out really well. Yeah, so yeah. Yeah.\nChris Badgett: So what\u2019s the learning objective? Like, in your three week WordPress Essentials course, what are they trying \u2026 What\u2019s the benchmark of success?\nAdam Silver: I think having a really comfortable \u2026 a comfort level with the back end of WordPress, the dashboard, all the settings. How to add a post, a page, a theme, a plugin, make some customizations. Nothing with code. No CSS. No PHP, none of that. A once-over. It\u2019s really essentials. It\u2019s basics.\nAnd I also do a ton of best practices, liking of things, video concepts \u2026 you know, like, not installing \u2026 not uploading videos your actual shared hosting, but using a service as I do that. So I go over that breadth of \u2026 you know, here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned in the \u2026 I\u2019ve been doing this. Even though hosts say it\u2019s unlimited bandwidth, it\u2019s really not. You know, you put up a video that gets a lot of plays, they\u2019re going to shut you down, because that\u2019s not what they want on shared hosting.\nSo I go over a lot of best practices, a lot of \u2026 I don\u2019t know how else I want to word it. Just information things and resources, as well. Where to find themes, the difference between the premium/freemium model as well, so \u2026\nAnd then, as questions \u2026 and the e-commerce comes up all the time. Like, people say, \u201cHey, are you going to teach a second version of this or an advanced course?\u201d But once you say advanced, it means ten things to ten different people \u2026 ten different things, you know what I mean, to ten different people. Because what\u2019s advanced to you might be theme development or plug-in development or e-commerce or a gallery. It just depends, right? Or social media or analytics.\nSo the most popular is really e-commerce, and I\u2019m planning on doing an e-commerce course. But again, I\u2019m thinking about doing a low cost of entry, in-person, three hours, WooCommerce course, and then maybe convert that to an online, as well. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s tough. I\u2019m torn. I\u2019m not sure.\nYou tell me. What\u2019s better to go? How should I go about this, Chris?\nChris Badgett: Well, I\u2019m still in the information-gathering phase.\nChris Badgett: But I want to say that I really commend you on what you\u2019re doing, because what I would call that in the world we operate in, with the launching an online course business \u2026 one of the things we recommend is to pilot a course. And you\u2019re doing textbook piloting.\nChris Badgett: You\u2019re doing it in person. You\u2019re trying to validate. You\u2019re doing it live with this robust \u2026 Well, and you don\u2019t have a great feedback loop, which we\u2019ll talk about in a second, because of the limitations with Webinar Ninja and just the format there. But you\u2019re doing that, and really, when you do that, then you figure out and you get all those questions back and forth, like what people actually want. What\u2019s really working well?\nChris Badgett: What\u2019s not working well? What\u2019s missing? And then, when it \u2026 Then, you really earn the right, in some ways, to make a \u2026 Not earn the right, but confidently launch a more passive course.\nChris Badgett: With the confidence that you know it has what it needs to give people that learning outcome. And you can still \u2026 Like, even before you go fully passive \u2026 and maybe you never will, and that\u2019s great. You can still have a passive course with, like, a weekly ask me anything office hour group thing.\nChris Badgett: And then, you still have that feedback loop. And you can charge more for your course, because you have that personalized medium available.\nAdam Silver: Well, yeah.\nChris Badgett: And just-\nAdam Silver: And the other side-\nAdam Silver: I mean, I could always \u2026 I could take it away form Webinar Ninja. I could put it here on Zoom, and then there\u2019s that feedback loop. I could share me screen. There\u2019s other services. It\u2019s just that what I\u2019m using works because of the registration format, because that ninja has the automatic reminders of, \u201cHey, this is coming up.\u201d Those little things are there. They\u2019re in place.\nYou know, like anything else, there\u2019s no perfect solution. They\u2019re just what works for you right now. And I know of a guy who charges a lot of money for a class. Like, $2000. It\u2019s for podcasting. It does really well, but his is a four week class, and it starts and stops. And a lot of people \u2026 they start the class, and they stop it on purpose, because they take \u2026 They open enroll, they close enrollment, and it starts. And you can ask any questions you want in that four weeks. That way, everyone\u2019s along on the same ride.\nNow, whether or not they get their show on the air, whether or not you get your site launched, you can only do so much. But that way, if you need to make changes for the next round, you can, because WordPress changes. You know, we\u2019re at 4.75 that came out yesterday. By the time \u2026 who knows? Maybe something changes in 4.8 that we need to update the videos for.\nAnd to have a passive video \u2026 to me, the issue is, you know, what if something\u2019s totally different or wrong and I have to go fix it? I don\u2019t know. Just, it\u2019s a personal thing that I probably need to get over to some extent.\nAnd then, also, the questions. You don\u2019t want \u2026 I mean, you\u2019re right. If it\u2019s lower cost and passive, and here\u2019s all the content. You\u2019re on your own, great. If you want more help and guided help or a subdomain and a sandbox to test it, that costs more, because I have to set that up.\nSo there\u2019s pros and cons to all of it, right? So \u2026\nChris Badgett: And I think that shows a lot of just keen thought into what\u2019s going on, like, and how WordPress changes. Like, for example, about four years ago \u2026 maybe longer. I created my first WordPress course. I put it on Udemy. I never updated it, and recently, Udemy actually took it down. I\u2019m not sure why. It might\u2019ve been because it was outdated or something. There\u2019s a lot of issues going on with Udemy, but like, I didn\u2019t keep it updated. I moved on to other things, and a lot of people got a lot of value. I got up to, like, 10 thousand people in that course.\nAdam Silver: Wow.\nChris Badgett: But I didn\u2019t make that commitment to stay with it.\nAdam Silver: Well, right.\nChris Badgett: And a software like WordPress \u2026 I mean, the interface looks different. It\u2019s changed so much. It\u2019s not \u2026 I mean, it was a good piece of content at the time, but it\u2019s kind of run its shelf life.\nChris Badgett: And I think that the \u2026 I\u2019d like to invert or take the opposite approach sometimes on the passive income, make something that\u2019s evergreen, make money while you sleep concept that doing \u2026 I\u2019m actually not a big fan of lifetime access.\nChris Badgett: Because I like the cohort approach, and to travel with a group of students and build a learning community that\u2019s like, everybody\u2019s at the same place. That\u2019s a really cool way to approach it, and really valuable.\nAdam Silver: But here\u2019s the question, though.\nAdam Silver: For yourself and for people listening, how do you balance the fact that \u2026 Look, I have to launch every \u2026 I\u2019m launching every three weeks a new session, versus \u2026 And that\u2019s a hard way to show consistent income. It\u2019s going to vary, because you \u2026 I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not at a point yet where yes, I have a following, and yes, it\u2019s growing.\nLike, this next set of classes, the students I have \u2026 I don\u2019t know anybody in this next set. The first set, I knew almost everybody. It was weird. Some people took the class again. They wanted a refresher. Some people were referrals based on the meetups and the community. They were supporting me, which is great. This next set of 15 students \u2026 Right now, I don\u2019t know any of them, which is pretty cool.\nAdam Silver: Some are far. Someone\u2019s \u2026 I think one\u2019s back in \u2026 I think Rhode Island. I think they signed up this morning. I think it was Rhode Island.\nBut I\u2019m almost tempted on having an offering of a membership site, because a membership site is value, as well, as long as you\u2019re adding content and adding extra questions and making a forum. Then, people are paying 10, 15, 20 bucks a month, right? And you know what that value is. Every month, you can see it, and you can some turnover and some attrition, right? But I \u2026 that concept idea from a business perspective better, but from a perspective of \u2026 I guess it goes back now with \u2026 We didn\u2019t even touch on that whole impostor syndrome. Like, \u201cWell, people are going to pay to be in my membership course?\u201d I don\u2019t know. So I don\u2019t know.\nChris Badgett: I think they will. I mean, they already are.\nChris Badgett: And I mean, to me, $99 with direct access live calls actually sounds a little on the cheaper side.\nChris Badgett: But like, pricing is a big thing. So if you want to get into recurring monthly revenue, which you definitely want as an entrepreneur and a person who has bills to pay, you can do that. But you have to provide recurring value, so \u2026\nAdam Silver: Right. Right.\nChris Badgett: But having a \u2026 Like, I love positioning things where, \u201cOkay. Here\u2019s the lower end offer. Here\u2019s the higher end offer, and here\u2019s \u2026\u201d You know, so that you can meet the market wherever they are.\nChris Badgett: So for like, somebody who just wants to dip their toes in the water, maybe the membership is a good idea. But they don\u2019t get any live access, or maybe that\u2019s a place where past people who went through the webinar series could just keep as long as it was useful to stay up to speed and stay current and reference, like \u2026 Well, let me go back to that lesson about this. Or maybe Adam\u2019s updated the video on this, because the users screen looks different, or something like that.\nAdam Silver: Yeah. Yeah, and I was just like-\nChris Badgett: And you do it all. I mean, you have a podcast. You have a community. You have Concierge WP, where you provide service. And then, you have education. So as long as you\u2019re surrounding your \u2026 the same customer, just at different stages or kind of the same community \u2026\nChris Badgett: There\u2019s no reason not to have all these different offers and figure out what works.\nAdam Silver: Right. You know, and I\u2019m pretty \u2026 I made the decision \u2026 I think it was nine months ago. No, not quite, but seven months ago, about a month or two after I left the day job, on the branding of how \u2026 what I was doing. Because if I was talking to somebody at a conference, I had a business card with me for Kitchen Sink. But they were asking me about maintenance and updates and/or development. I\u2019d give them my Kitchen Sink card. I\u2019d go, \u201cBut email me here.\u201d And so, it\u2019s confusing.\nAdam Silver: And my parent company name was Silver Lining Productions. That\u2019s my d/b/a, my LLC. It was very confusing, you know? So I made the conscious decision to say, \u201cOkay. These are the two brands. This is how I divvy it out.\u201d Some of my billing, like, comes from an SLP account because of my taxes and stuff, and clients don\u2019t care about that. That\u2019s fine. You know, I use FreshBooks. It\u2019s not a big deal.\nBut now, I\u2019m very clear that Concierge WP is development, maintenance, that type of work for money. Nothing \u2026 technically, nothing is there given away at the moment. You know, no blog, even. Actually, that site\u2019s going to get updated as well. It\u2019s missing some information. Kitchen Sink is all about community education, and I do it \u2026 And I teach a class under that brand. So classes will be under that brand for money. So yeah, you know?\nBut you\u2019re right. It\u2019s a matter of having \u2026 I like to be involved in all three of those things and the podcast, and then the podcast helps spread the word as well. I could see the podcast in \u2026 that it could go under the brand of Concierge. It could become \u2026 I could change it, but at this point, why? You know \u2026\nChris Badgett: That\u2019s awesome. Well, you can also \u2026 like, in terms of monthly revenue you can systematize your marketing.\nChris Badgett: So then, if you knew \u2026\nChris Badgett: Even though it\u2019s cohort-based and like, it\u2019s not feast or famine, \u201cOh, got to go round up, like, 9, 10, 15 new students,\u201d maybe you can figure out some kind of advertising model, whether that\u2019s content-based or paid or whatever that works for you that\u2019s really dependable.\nChris Badgett: So that you can kind of confidently know, \u201cNext month, I\u2019m going to \u2026 there\u2019s going to be another crew, and it\u2019s going to be okay.\u201d Or maybe you work on the issue of like, \u201cWell, how do I scale it up so that I can still provide the same level of service to like 50 students at a time?\u201d\nChris Badgett: You know, focus on it different ways.\nAdam Silver: That\u2019s an issue on the \u2026 like, on the Webinar Ninja stuff, I can have up to 100 in the class. But I wouldn\u2019t be able to handle 100 students with Q&A. There\u2019s no way. I think 20-25 would be the cap. I mean, right now, it\u2019s open. I mean, if I had that many, I would probably just have a second session. Like, I would just do \u2026 I don\u2019t know. I\u2019d figure it out.\nChris Badgett: Or you could hire-\nAdam Silver: I think that\u2019s a good problem to have.\nChris Badgett: Yeah, or you could hire, like-\nAdam Silver: Yeah, I\u2019ve seen those monitor the room, the chat, and obviously say, \u201cLook, I can\u2019t answer everyone\u2019s question. We\u2019ll get back to you,\u201d and I put it \u2026 Because every class gets its own class website.\nAdam Silver: And every student gets their own sites. On the class website would go \u2026 All the Q&A would go there. I would just take the next day and do that, and it\u2019d be great. I have no problem doing that.\nSo I\u2019ve not limited how many students I take at the moment, because I\u2019m not a \u2026 I don\u2019t have that bridge to cross just yet, so \u2026 I wish.\nChris Badgett: Well, one of the other things I\u2019d-\nAdam Silver: Yeah, I was going to say \u2026 I\u2019ll wait.\nChris Badgett: One of the other things I just want to acknowledge about your platform is the extreme focus on the beginning. You know, a lot of us get into this technobabble \u2026 Like, we get too far away from the beginner, and you\u2019re talking about \u2026 You\u2019re not talking about becoming a programmer or developer or a high end graphic designer. You\u2019re talking about a WordPress implementer, which is, to this day, all that I am. I have \u2026\nChris Badgett: I make a WordPress software product. I have developers on my team. I have designers on my team, but at the end of the day, my relationship with WordPress is as an implementer, so I\u2019m a lot more like the users of my product than people who build the product or whatever.\nChris Badgett: Which allows us to kind of \u2026 It helps stay in touch with the needs of the regular WordPress implementer, which you can still do an incredible amount with.\nAdam Silver: These days, a lot more can be done with just that knowledge. I have a friend of mine, Serena. She is a fan. I don\u2019t know. I met her through WordCamp LA or the meetup, and she tries to pitch me all over town to the General Assembly, to different places to teach and speak.\nAnd I told her one day \u2026 I said, \u201cYou know, Serena, I\u2019m not the best developer or designer.\u201d She goes, \u201cOh, no, I know.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat?\u201d And then, she\u2019s \u2026 I go \u2026 You know, she says, \u201cOh, no, they\u2019re designers and they\u2019re developers, but you\u2019re a really good teacher. You can break down both those concepts to what people understand, and you\u2019re funny.\u201d So I\u2019m like, \u201cThanks.\u201d And I have that shtick. You know that.\nAnd but I do a pretty good job with that. That\u2019s my thing. I like helping the people that are starting out, and I get it. Because I think if you\u2019re a pure developer, you might be just too smart for the room. If you\u2019re a pure designer, you might be too ethereal, too much based on white space versus dark space versus font and layout. And again, people need a solution. They need to know the basics of WordPress.\nAnd yes, there\u2019s tons of videos out there on YouTube, on Udemy, and for free. But people keep coming to me because I\u2019ve done most of that research already, I guess. And I keep doing it. I like doing it. So they want to \u2026 Some people still want that shortcut, and that shortcut is finding a resource, right? And if they\u2019re paying $99 \u2026 you know, when I do early registration, it\u2019s 79. But it\u2019s 100 bucks to get three weeks\u2019 worth of content. It\u2019s six hours of content. It\u2019s still a pretty good deal.\nSo that\u2019s the thing. People don\u2019t want to \u2026 They don\u2019t know who to trust. They don\u2019t know who to go to.\nChris Badgett: Yeah. And I just want to highlight that point, and it\u2019s not just in the technology space. You could be in the health and fitness space. You could be doing cooking.\nChris Badgett: You could be doing cooking courses or weightlifting or train for your first marathon, or you could do language learning, all kinds of courses. Nothing frustrates a beginner like not having somebody who\u2019s funny, who\u2019s not too ethereal and not too advanced that they can\u2019t relate, trying to teach them the material.\nChris Badgett: So I just want to highlight that point and just acknowledge that, like, how powerful that is. And oftentimes, from an economic standpoint, the beginner\u2019s market in a lot of niches is quite massive.\nChris Badgett: So once you figure it out-\nAdam Silver: And there\u2019s plenty of space for other people to do the same thing. I mean, that\u2019s why you have \u2026 The old joke is, you have gas stations on four corners.\nAdam Silver: Because people are going different directions. People are at different places in learning. So just because I have a show about podcasts \u2026 Dustin has a joke. So my show has been around for three years. Dustin\u2019s like six on the podcasting aspect and the education and whatnot. There used to be three to four more. Those are gone. Seven more have replaced those now, so now, there\u2019s a whole bunch of WordPress shows.\nOkay. That\u2019s great, because we all have different voices and different takes on things, right? Everything goes with learning, and something goes with styles and location of the content. Like, how are you implementing it? And just the experience of doing it. So my experience is this, and now I do this. And I\u2019ve changed my opinion on X or Y. You know, I used to be a firm believer of a certain theme. I am no longer using that theme. I actually changed. I never saw the change coming and did not see it happening, but that company went under, kind of. So I changed with the times, and I\u2019m honest about it.\nThat\u2019s the thing, also. I am not out to say, \u201cTake my class and learn how to make a million dollars using WordPress.\u201d Nope, not in my [inaudible 00:43:31]. I\u2019m here. Take my class, or join my meetup. Learn what you need when you need to know it, so it\u2019s at time learning, and ask questions. And if I can help, great. I\u2019m probably the least \u2026 I\u2019m \u2026 How do I word it? I\u2019m not the best at selling my own self, I guess. I don\u2019t know. Does that make sense?\nChris Badgett: Well, the best selling is just a great experience.\nChris Badgett: A great product.\nChris Badgett: People who get results after taking your product.\nAdam Silver: Right. Yeah.\nChris Badgett: That\u2019s the best sort of form of selling, so \u2026\nAdam Silver: Think of it that way, yeah.\nChris Badgett: Well, Adam, I want to thank you for coming on the show and honor you for all that you\u2019ve done for the WordPress community.\nAdam Silver: Sure.\nChris Badgett: And all the \u2026 and just all that you\u2019re up to. And thank you for sharing your personal with us. If people-\nAdam Silver: My pleasure.\nChris Badgett: If people want to find you, what are the best places to go again?\nAdam Silver: Kitchensinkwp.com is one place, and that\u2019s where I share the weekly podcast. And the other place, really, would be Twitter. I have a Kitchen Sink account there, as well, Kitchen Sink WP on Twitter, or Hey Adam Silver. I\u2019m a big fan of Twitter. I\u2019m on Facebook, but Twitter is easier to get a hold of me there, so \u2026\nAdam Silver: There you go.\nChris Badgett: Well, thank you for coming on the show.\nAdam Silver: Thanks for having me.\nChris Badgett: And we\u2019ll have to do one in another year or some and see how the teaching has evolved and do it again. So thank you.\nAdam Silver: Sounds good. Thanks, Chris.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 363, "original_length": 57863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://popcult.blog/category/david-fincher/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HWY7YV5AD5EYK3KWVDXUN4E5LWLGHPIA", "length": 4143, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "popcult.blog", "title": "david fincher", "raw_content": "Category: david fincher\nFilm Review \u2013 The Social Network\nThe Social Network (2010, dir. David Fincher)\nStarring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Brenda Song\nIn the middle of David Fincher\u2019s latest film a character sums up the current technology driven economy by saying this current generation creates jobs for themselves. In the past supply-demand was the dominating force; the people wanted something, then someone provided it. Now, we have products that are given to us and we are conditioned to need and want them. Facebook as one example. No one ever needed Facebook, but by preying on some very primitive psychological compulsions, it has become an addictive force. The Social Network rewinds back before there was Farmville or Poking or Mafia Wars, and focuses on the collegiate roots of Facebook. Here we see at its core the entire idea came from the exclusivity of Harvard\u2019s Final Clubs.\nThe more intimate moments of the film are fictionalized and used to reveal aspects of Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s personality, but the litigations that frame the film are very real. Its 2003, and Mark is a sophomore at Harvard, a kid from a middle class family who is studying computer science. Mark and his best friend, Eduardo are a clever pair, with Eduardo able to get money together whenever needed. After being spurned by a female student due to his emotionally stilted personality, Mark strikes back via Livejournal and quickly cobbled together webpage that has students rate Harvard girls against each other. The site gets him placed on academic probation and the attention of the Winklevoss twins, monied legacies who want to make a Harvard dating site. Mark listens to their idea, turns it down, then rebuilds it in his own images. As the site spreads beyond the walls of Harvard and even across the pond, Mark becomes more obsessed with becoming the very elite he resented in school.\nThis film succeeds on a number of factors: Aaron Sorkin\u2019s amazing script, David Fincher\u2019s perfect direction and editing, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross\u2019 score. In a movie that is mostly people sitting around talking, you think it would drag, but the craft around everything creates tension and drama in every moment. I find myself liking every *other* Fincher film. Meh on The Game, loved Se7en, Fight Club doesn\u2019t hold up, Zodiac is underrated, Benjamin Button is a yawn, and now The Social Network. I think Fincher works best with a script that isn\u2019t trying to be anything huge. These small stories are given scope through the way he makes films. The score is also one of the strongest elements of the film, in particular a rowing competition scene that involves tilt-shift camera work and tight editing that is a short film unto itself.\nThe Social Network reminded me a lot of films like All the President\u2019s Men. That film was made only a couple years after the events of Watergate, and it is a much stronger film about the Nixon administration than it would have been if they made it in 1990. The Social Network is very much about this moment and mindset in time. The young men behind Facebook were following the capitalist fundamentalism they were born into in the 1980s. They were never too concerned about the money behind the site, it merely worked to fund the venture, but they desired the power that came with it. There\u2019s a moment in the film, Mark and Eduardo have just had sex with a couple girls in a club bathroom, they stand outside grinning and revealing their adolescent nature. Eduardo turns to Mark, smiling, and says \u201cWe have groupies\u201d. Counter this with an image at the end with Mark obsessively refreshing a Facebook page and its clear this mindset is a destructive one.\nAuthor PopCultPosted on October 2, 2010 January 1, 2011 Categories 2010, adaptation, david fincher, drama, technologyLeave a comment on Film Review \u2013 The Social Network\nAuthor PopCultPosted on February 11, 2010 January 1, 2011 Categories alien, david fincher, horror, jean pierre-jeunet, science fiction, sigourney weaverLeave a comment on The Alien Quadrilogy \u2013 The Evolution of Ellen Ripley Part Two", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 11326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/108822", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OGSIQ2T2V32P4SGNXSPTFGSM4XMSKEL3", "length": 3128, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "prism.ucalgary.ca", "title": "Historic Reinforced Concrete in Alberta: Analysis and Conservation of Two Structures", "raw_content": "Historic Reinforced Concrete in Alberta: Analysis and Conservation of Two Structures\nucalgary_2018_rouhi_alireza.pdf (23.00Mb)\nShrive, Nigel\nRouhi, Alireza\nVera, Jacqueline\nIngham, Jason Maxwell\nDuncan, Neil A.\nThe Brooks Aqueduct and the Greenhill mine tipple structure were built in the turn of the twentieth century in southern Alberta. They were among the first reinforced concrete structures to be built in that region and are considered great engineering and construction achievements for their time. They were both built at a time when there was no standard for the design of reinforced concrete structures in North America and lots of issues about the concrete design and construction, especially from the durability point of view, were still unknown. Both structures had a great impact on the economy of their local regions and now are designated as national and provincial historic sites respectively. Frequent repair and maintenance became necessary from the early stages of operation of Brooks Aqueduct due to design and construction deficiencies. Both structures show significant signs of damage and deterioration and need to be evaluated and properly repaired and maintained. This research involves evaluation of the two structures through site inspections and laboratory tests on the samples taken from them. The work also involves numerical modelling of the structures to identify areas of possible over stress and find the main causes of damage and deterioration. Several similarities and differences are found between the concrete used in these structures and their deterioration mechanism. The main goal in evaluation and repair of Brooks Aqueduct is to maintain it as a monument and an engineering and construction achievement. In the case of the Greenhill mine tipple structure, two scenarios were studied: adaptive reuse as a restaurant and maintaining the structure as a monument. Results of the analyses show that although there was clear lack of understanding about the behaviour of concrete in the design of these structures, most of the damage and deterioration are non-structural and has happened due to durability issues mainly from exposure to freeze-thaw cycles and corrosion of the reinforcement. Service life analysis of the two structure is also performed based on theoretical models and test results. Recommendations for extending the remaining service life and conservation and retrofitting of the two structures and similar cases are provided based on the results of the tests and analyses. The research identifies common types of problems in historic reinforced concrete structures constructed in Alberta in the early twentieth century and ways to recognise and overcome these problems. The results also emphasize that in evaluation of concrete from the early twentieth century, one has to look for certain problems such as lack of resistance against durability issues (mainly freeze-thaw and carbonation), lack of precision in placement of the reinforcing steel (rebar), lack of rebar splice lengths, lack of proper cover of concrete and lack of proper grading and selection of aggregates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://professionallawyer.me/legal-articles/arbitration/arbitration-article-series-i-rise-of-arbitration", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KBY7EGT7WYWG5LEVDUHGYKOLZIYXFZ3R", "length": 4132, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "professionallawyer.me", "title": "Arbitration Article Series I Rise of Arbitration", "raw_content": "The UAE has rapidly emerged as a leading financial centre, attracting large global investors and businesses. As international developers and contractors continue to invest in construction projects, there has been an increasing trend in the use of arbitration in Dubai. The arbitration process is the preferred method to resolve disputes by commercial companies. As the certified language of arbitration proceedings is in English, a specialist tribunal can be appointed as opposed to the more broad UAE courts, and arbitration is generally more cost-effective and less time-consuming. This has led businesses and investors in the UAE to ensure that arbitration clauses or agreements are inserted into their contracts. Furthermore, the downturn in economic conditions in the real estate market over the past few years has led to an increase in disputes in general, and parties are more likely to issue court proceedings than to try to recover their losses through other ventures.\nArbitration proceedings in the UAE are governed by Articles 203 to 218 of Federal Law No. 11 of 1992 as amended (the Law of Civil Procedure or the Civil Procedure Code (\u2018CPC\u2019).\nFederal Law No. 11 of 1992, the UAE Civil Procedure Code is the main statute governing arbitration in the UAE, Article 203 provides that:\n1. The parties to a contract may state in the contract or by a supplementary agreement that any dispute arising between them in respect of the performance of a particular contract shall be referred to one or more arbitrators and may also agree to refer certain disputes to arbitration under special conditions.\n2. No agreement for arbitration shall be valid unless evidenced in writing.\n3. The subject of the dispute shall be specified in the Terms of Reference, or during the hearing of the case, even if the arbitrators were authorised to act as amiable compositors; otherwise the arbitration shall be void.\n4. Arbitration is not allowed in matters which are not capable of being reconciled. An arbitration agreement can only be made by the parties who are legally entitled to dispose of the disputed right.\n5. If the parties to a dispute agree to refer the dispute to arbitration, no court case may be filed before the courts. However, if one of the parties files a case, irrespective of the arbitration provision, and the other party does not object to such filing at the first hearing, the case may be considered, and in such instance the arbitration provision shall be deemed cancelled.\nThe Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958 New York\nThe United Arab Emirates joined the New York Convention in 2006, this provided great support to arbitration within the UAE, because it makes the implementation of the International Arbitration Awards easier in the UAE. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958 New York Convention states that:\nEach Contracting State shall recognize an agreement in writing under which the parties undertake to submit to arbitration all or any differences which have arisen or which may arise between them in respect of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not.\nArticle 11.3: the court of a Contracting State, when seized of an action in a matter in respect of which the parties have made an agreement within the meaning of this Article, shall at the request of one party, refer the parties to arbitration.\nArbitration Law DIFC Law No. 1 of 2008\nThe DIFC is a separate jurisdiction under the UAE Constitution and has its own independent, common law jurisdiction over all civil and commercial disputes within the DIFC financial district. DIFC Law No. 1 of 2008 states that:\nArticle 12(1) \u2013 Definition and Form of Arbitration Agreement\n\u2026.an agreement by the parties to submit to Arbitration all or certain disputes which have arisen or which may arise between them in respect of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not.\nIf an action is brought before the DIFC Court in a matter which is the subject of an Arbitration Agreement, the DIFC Court shall, if a party so requests\u2026dismiss or stay such action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 6794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://professornana.livejournal.com/1089023.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NMHM25GPAENM3GEFNCKAIAF7Y5EZHMFQ", "length": 2762, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "professornana.livejournal.com", "title": "Setting the Agenda - The Goddess of YA Literature", "raw_content": "Setting the Agenda - The Goddess of YA Literature\nA group of fellow faculty members and I had a fascinating discussion today about persuasion and coercion. We were talking about issues surrounding diversity and equity. One person raised an interesting concept: when we persuade, we are attempting to change the person's viewpoint to our own and is that not in some form coercion? Food for thought. Hours after the meeting, I am still mulling this over.\nYou see, I do set an agenda in my literature classes. The books I assign (about half of the books required for the course) are there to provide students with a diverse reading list. They are books about race and ethnicity but also about SES, gender, LBGTQIA, ability and disability, and more. I tend to define diversity (and multicultural literature) from a wider lens than I did in the past. In part, I use the definition from www.weneeddiversebooks.org.\n\"How we define diversity:\n*We subscribe to a broad definition of disability, which includes but is not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental illnesses (this may also include addiction). Furthermore, we subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due to lack of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of marginalization.\"\nI do not look at this as coercion, though I can see how someone might talk about my agenda. I want students to read widely and to read outside of their comfort zone. After all, the students in their schools and, ultimately, in their libraries, are diverse in many ways. If, as I believe, there are good books out there just waiting for each and every reader, it is incumbent upon me to know them, to add them to the collection, to offer them to readers.\nOver the years I have been teaching, I, too, have had to learn to read beyond my comfort zone. If you have seen my Padlet reading autobiography (https://padlet.com/lis_tsl/7f5y9so124dh), you will see I read romances (especially those with Fabio on the cover) and scary books. Not a very wide reader at all. As I began working with middle school kids, I pushed myself to read Sweet Valley High, Piers Anthony, nonfiction books about snakes, and more. Now that I teach YA literature courses, my reading is as wide and varied as it can be. Yes, I still gravitate toward some books (humor, yes please) and might put something in the TBR pile close to the bottom. But I do believe in challenging myself as a reader.\nSo, maybe there is an agenda. Maybe I am coercing and not persuading. Maybe I need to give more thought to this discussion. In the meantime, I will continue to challenge myself and my students.\nTags: coercion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 28485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/metropolitan-police-face-legal-action-for-kettling-children-during-tuition-fees-protest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UD7XNWX2QIHH4FXKV6ZSGF42CCLBKMBY", "length": 4830, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "projectsheffield.wordpress.com", "title": "Metropolitan Police face legal action for kettling children during tuition fees protest | take now or stay the same", "raw_content": "\u2190 Gaza: Two Years after The Horror!\nWhat next for the student movement? \u2192\nMetropolitan Police face legal action for kettling children during tuition fees protest\nScotland Yard is facing legal action over claims that officers \u201cfalsely imprisoned\u201d and assaulted schoolchildren during a tuition fees protest in London.\nIn what is believed to be the first lawsuit taken against police in connection with the violence, lawyers from human rights group Liberty have notified the Metropolitan Police of legal action involving minors who suffered \u201cinhuman and degrading treatment\u201d during a protest on 24 November.\nThe organisation claims the treatment of children amounted to a breach of their human rights after they were \u201ckettled\u201d by officers during the demonstrations for up to nine hours in cold conditions, without food, and were denied medical help despite some of them suffering injuries, including at least two fractures.\nThe claim is on behalf of three young protesters, one of whom is a 15-year-old whose foot was broken after allegedly being struck by an officer when trying to leave a police kettle and who claims she was subsequently refused medical help. Another is a 17-year-old London student who became so distressed inside the \u201ckettle\u201d that her father said she came away suffering from shock. The third is Rory Evans, 19, whose ankle was broken during a crowd surge among protesters contained between police lines.\nLawyers believe the Met breached the European convention on human rights on at least four counts. The case is believed to be the first of what many observers believe could be a number against police over the protests.\nThe 15-year-old claimant, a GCSE pupil who was wearing her school uniform, describes how she became anxious while \u201ckettled\u201d and decided to go home. The teenager was climbing a gate to leave when an officer pulled her down and struck her.\nA letter to Scotland Yard\u2019s legal team states: \u201cThe police officer continued to pull her down, causing her to fall on to the floor. She picked herself back up and the police officer then hit her hard on her foot with a baton. She was then alone in the \u2018kettled\u2019 area and barely able to walk unassisted.\u201d \u201cShe was extremely cold and frightened and in a great deal of pain,\u201d the letter adds.\nThe 17-year-old, an A-level student, joined the protest and was kettled within 15 minutes of arriving in Whitehall. For six hours she unsuccessfully asked officers to allow her to leave because she was desperate to go to the toilet. At 6pm, portable toilets were delivered outside the \u201ckettle\u201d, but after the teenager was allowed to use them she was escorted back inside the crowd. She has described seeing a woman pleading to be released because she felt nauseous. Later she was escorted from the kettle, vomited by the side of the road and was taken back into the kettle without receiving any medical attention.\nAfter seven hours police said she could leave when her father turned up.\nThe girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Observer: \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that young people had their opportunity to express themselves taken away. There are not many positive things for young people who are categorised as yobs and will be forced to pay ridiculous amounts for university. The police tactics made a mockery of pluralism in democracy.\u201d\nThe final case involves Evans, a recent school leaver who described how people \u201ckettled\u201d in Whitehall resembled a \u201clarge tide\u201d against lines of police with officers pushing back. He said people started to fall and he became trapped, with other demonstrators falling on his ankle and causing it to break. Evans noticed young people in school uniform who had also fallen. In serious pain, the teenager was eventually released from the kettle but, although he asked police, they did not seek medical attention for him nor know where to find assistance.\nEmma Norton, legal officer at Liberty, said: \u201cPolicing demonstrations is no easy task but the police must distinguish between the law-abiding majority and the handful intent on violence. Our three young clients came away from November\u2019s march distressed, and, in two cases, with broken bones.\n\u201cThe tactic of \u2018kettling\u2019 large groups so that peaceful protesters and passers-by are trapped for hours alongside more troublesome elements exacerbates tensions and creates a risk to public safety.\u201d\nScotland Yard has justified \u201ckettling\u201d, saying it was crucial to contain people and the threat of disorder while minimising the use of force. Last week the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, said officers had to deal with \u201cunrestrained violence\u201d at the protests. Discussing his officers\u2019 actions, he said \u201cthings happen in violent disorders\u201d and he regretted any injuries caused. He said any complaints about police conduct would be investigated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prostatecancernewstoday.com/2015/12/29/new-prostate-cancer-study-surgery-is-a-better-option-than-radiation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HQSY4C2FQJQWYQFC3XJ4WIW4AAEBKADB", "length": 2811, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "prostatecancernewstoday.com", "title": "Prostate Cancer Surgery More Effective Than Radiotherapy, Study Finds | Prostate Cancer News Today", "raw_content": "Prostate Cancer Surgery More Effective Than Radiotherapy, Study Finds\nSurgery is more effective than radiation therapy at treating localized prostate cancer and more likely to prolong the life of patients undergoing the procedure, according to results of a new study by Canadian researchers. The study, titled \u201cSurgery Versus Radiotherapy for Clinically-localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,\u201d was published in the journal European Urology.\nMore than 90% of prostate cancer patients are diagnosed with localized cancer restricted to the prostate tissue. In such cases, the treatment is usually either surgery or radiotherapy, therapeutic choices that can vary among patients and clinicians. The main mode of detection is serum prostate-specific antigen testing.\nIn the present study, carried out at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Research Institute (University of Toronto), researchers performed a meta-analysis of 19 studies with low-to-moderate bias risk, involving up to 118,830 patients, to evaluate overall and prostate cancer-specific mortality among patients treated either with radiation (mostly external beam radiotherapy) or radical prostatectomy. This surgical procedure consists of the complete removal of the prostate. Robotic prostatectomy also, according to a press release on the study by prostate cancer surgeon Dr. David Samadi, allows for better staging and grading of the prostate tumor and is associated with a better quality of life post-treatment.\nThe studies came primarily from a search of Medline, EMBASE (a biomedical literature database), and the Cochrane Library through June 2015.\nFrom the analyses, researchers found that, when looking at cancer-specific mortality, patients who were treated with radiotherapy were twice as likely to die as patients who underwent surgery. Analyses of studies evaluating overall mortality further indicated that patients treated with radiotherapy were about 1.5 times more likely to die earlier than those treated with surgery.\nThe results, the researchers say, show that surgery for the treatment of localized prostate cancer is more effective and offers a better long-term prognosis than radiation therapy.\n\u201cIn the past, studies that have compared the success rates of surgery or radiation have been confusing because of their methods. We have evaluated all the good-quality data comparing surgery and radiotherapy, and the results are pretty conclusive; in general, surgery results in better mortality rates than radiotherapy,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author, Dr. Robert Nam.\nTagged localized prostate cancer, radiotherapy, robotic prostatectomy.\nPrevious: Prostate Cancer Researchers Aim to Make Therapy Effective Again in Resistant Patients\nNext:Prostate Cancer\u2019s Advance May Be Aided by Class of Immune Cells", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://proudfoot.net/blog-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:477O6QTA6MMIHZYWNVUYYSP636VCABU4", "length": 1513, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "proudfoot.net", "title": "Journal - Proudfoot Communications Limited", "raw_content": "So this happened! Proudfoot Communications is now an official \u201cWiPay Preferred Partner\u201d! Need to have your website E-Commerce ready? We can integrate Wipay\u2019s credit card processing into your website to accept...\nadmin_proud\nIn light of International Women\u2019s Day, we\u2019d like to pay a special tribute to the women of Proudfoot Communications Ltd! From left to right is Denise (Social Media Strategist), Nicolle...\nFor 4 years, Proudfoot Communications Ltd participated in the Career Day event at St. Francois Girls\u2019 College, Belmont, Port-of-Spain. Proudfoot\u2019s full-time graphic designer, Nyasha Cohen, is an alumna of the...\nProudfoot Communications Ltd partnered with GRAPES For A Good Life Limited for their Good Remedies A Parents Should Exercise Socially (GRAPES) programme to create online tools to aid high performing...\nHosted by the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI), Proudfoot Communications Ltd ran a social media management (SSM) workshop in Tobago, teaching small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) how to improve their...\nIn 2009, Proudfoot Communications Ltd became heavily involved with International Soca Monarch (ISM), taking on various roles, including building and hosting their website, managing their social media, handling photography and...\niT news, Social Media\nProudfoot Communications Ltd, along with the Tourism Development Company (TDC) led a social media workshop hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communications, highlighting the benefits of effective use...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pse2018.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:AHKEB3EEN5KGI3UTCNKIVMME2YQLZMWR", "length": 1091, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pse2018.org", "title": "PSE-2018", "raw_content": "PSE 2018 is a part of a series of conferences on Process Systems Engineering held every three years rotating between Asia, Europe, North and South America.\nThis premier triennial research and educational forum aims at worldwide participation by attracting academic, government, and industry researchers to present and discuss state-of-the art research, technologies, applications, and emerging growth topics in Process Systems Engineering. The high quality scientific program will cover advances in core PSE topics and cross-cutting themes. The role, contributions, and future directions of PSE research towards addressing grand challenges in energy, water, manufacturing, sustainable environment, and health will be highlighted.\nPSE 2018 will provide a competitive platform to present high quality scientific contributions, interesting applications, and new significant developments.\nThe conference venue will the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego hotel located in the harbor and 5 minutes from San Diego's international airport. Special rates have been attained for conference participants.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2011/10/02/i-need-help-or-i-might-end-up-killing-myself/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VUYQB54R53HWADOJAKNKYUSPHEZRWFHU", "length": 1856, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "psychcentral.com", "title": "I Need Help Or I Might End Up Killing Myself - Ask the Therapist", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb I Need Help Or I Might End Up Killing Myself\nI Need Help Or I Might End Up Killing Myself\nI think I might kill myself. I can\u2019t handle this, I am so heart broken I literally go into self destructive binges and I don\u2019t want to die like that. I need help and I need to get away from where I live cause I know that if I am near her and I will keep doing what I am doing and I can\u2019t let this happen. Please help me and tell me what to do, I need it.\nMany people feel the same way after losing someone they care about. It feels like a devastating loss but ending your life is not the proper way to handle this situation. Try to think logically. Let logic dictate your behavior, not your emotions.\nLogic shows us reality. The reality in this situation is that you feel immense emotional pain but that pain will eventually subside for you as it does for everyone. You can recover from this but it may take time.\nThere are many problems that one will face throughout life. That is true for everyone. It is important to learn effective problem-solving and coping skills to deal with the difficult life challenges. Those skills can be learned through counseling.\nAt this point in time, it is important that you seek help as soon as possible. Talk to a mental health professional. Go to the hospital if you feel that you cannot protect yourself. Be in the presence of others whenever possible. Don\u2019t allow yourself to isolate. Force yourself to be interactive even if you do not have the desire. The more support that you have during this difficult time, the better you will feel.\nI\u2019m sorry for your loss. I wish you the best. Please take care.\nRandle, K. (2018). I Need Help Or I Might End Up Killing Myself. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 15, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2011/10/02/i-need-help-or-i-might-end-up-killing-myself/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2012/04/21/is-a-divorce-on-the-way/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XHAVLTE45T7X4JUIAG5EQNOC7X6P7SXP", "length": 4065, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "psychcentral.com", "title": "Is a Divorce on the Way? - Ask the Therapist", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Parenting \u00bb Is a Divorce on the Way?\nIs a Divorce on the Way?\nWhen already in the \u2018possible divorce\u2019 zone does a husband forgetting your anniversary mean he might not love you? Me and my husband have had a rocky relationship but lately it has escalated to the point of talking about separating or divorce. 7 months after the wedding I found out he was having an affair with an ex. When confronted he blamed me and treated me very harshly. We ended up staying together but he would never speak of his infedelity really which has caused 8 years of questions, fears, and continuous pain for me. About a month ago I reached a point where I no longer cared about his reaction, I just needed answers! He admitted to a few things, one of which was having an affair with the same woman a year before we got married when we were having problems. I had accused him of this for 9 years but he denied it vehemently and made me feel horrible for even thinking it. Lying for 9 years using the same face, tone of voice, and sincerity that he uses when he says he loves me has left me with a lot of confusion and fear. On top of that our sex life has never recovered and not for lack of trying on my part.\nI am trying to salvage what\u2019s left of the relationship but I appear to be doing it on my own. After several attempts in the past month to tell him I don\u2019t believe he is IN love with me anymore and that he needs to go out of his way to tell me and show me, I received nothing for valentines day but a dozen roses he picked up WHILE he was at the store the Saturday AFTER. He received many thoughtful gifts from me. That Sunday I told him how much it hurt and reinforced him going out of his way to show his love for me. And he does keep saying that he loves me, hes not going anywhere, he\u2019ll do anything for me. But it seems like a lot of words with no action.\nSunday is our 11 year anniversary and I\u2019m terrified he won\u2019t remember or do anything special. I NEED him to remember. The first 2 years we were together he was head over heals for me and always remembered without prompting and did special things for me. Now i know that will fade with time which is why the past few years I\u2019ve usually reminded him and told him what to get me for all occasions as I\u2019ve never measured his love for me in remembering dates. But I feel like with all that we\u2019ve been going through, fighting or talking about our problems and my pain and trust issues every couple days for a month now that he should be thinking of those things if he truly is in love with me\nI understand you can\u2019t tell me if my husband is still in love with me but the way I feel right now, we are going to separate if he doesn\u2019t remember and I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s crazy or reasonable. So my question is, am I being too harsh? Does it mean anything at all if he forgets?\nOn a side note the reason I\u2019m so worried he will forget is he hasn\u2019t mentioned its coming and he ALWAYS has (when he remembers) when march comes around.\nIt sounds to me like you aren\u2019t really sure what you want. You say that you\u2019re already in the divorce zone. This man has lied to you, cheated on you, and isn\u2019t interested in being intimate with you. He has only honored the usual occasions for showing love and caring when you have prompted and begged. And yet you say you NEED him to remember an anniversary of a marriage that has never been particularly good and that doesn\u2019t look promising for the future. Is it possible that you are so scared to finally cut the cord that you are grasping at straws? Will it really be enough for you to stay married if he comes up with gifts and flowers now and then but you can\u2019t trust him?\nI suggest you stop asking yourself if he loves you and instead ask yourself if his kind of love is the kind of love you want to accept for the rest of your life. I hope you love yourself enough to believe you deserve better.\nHartwell-Walker, D. (2018). Is a Divorce on the Way?. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 15, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2012/04/21/is-a-divorce-on-the-way/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 8104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychiatricresearchacademy.org/2015/03/26/new-funding-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GUDVARWYBG32SKZCZIYPTROXAESWOOHG", "length": 469, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "psychiatricresearchacademy.org", "title": "NEW FUNDING | Psychiatric Research Academy", "raw_content": "The Lundbeck Foundation donated 46.410 kr (~6890 USD), \u2018to support the participation of the members of the Psychiatric Research Academy in the 23rd European Psychiatric Association Congress in Vienna, 2015\u2019\nPosted in News on March 26, 2015 by jespernkjaer. Leave a comment\n\u2190 WE WILL JOIN THE 23RD EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA, MARCH 28-31\nWE WILL HOST A SYMPOSIUM AT THE 31ST NORDIC CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, SEPTEMBER 20-23 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychologisthuntington.com/adult-children-of-alcoholics-breaking-the-cycle-psychologist-in-huntington/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UDE73USFOBUTZNN3X3EIOCBZ4E45UKVC", "length": 2190, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "psychologisthuntington.com", "title": "Adult Children of Alcoholics: Breaking the Cycle - Joel Kuppersmith Psychologist in Huntington", "raw_content": "It is incredibly difficult to grow up in a household with an alcoholic parent. As a child, seeing your parent struggle is both heartbreaking and frightening. Unfortunately, these feelings may carry into your adult life and have long-term effects on your well-being. If you are the child of a parent who is or was an alcoholic and are experiencing any sort of psychological distress in your adult life, please seek help from our psychologist in Huntington today.\nChaos and Inconsistency\nAs a child, having stability and structure is so important for healthy development. Children of alcoholics are often the most vulnerable to their parent\u2019s poor habits. Instead of having a parent they can look up to for guidance, children of alcoholics must get used to their parent being unpredictable, unreliable, or selfish. An unstable home environment due to a parent\u2019s poor behavior inevitably sets up a child for traumatic distress later in life.\nThere are plenty of effects that being a child of an alcoholic may have, but some common ones are:\nIsolation and fear of authority figures\nA constant seeking for approval\nBeing an alcoholic yourself/marrying one\nLiving from the perspective of a victim\nAn overdeveloped sense of responsibility\nIf you are suffering from the effects of growing up with a parent with substance abuse issues, we can help. Symptoms usually include depression, guilt, anxiety, insecurity, and conflicted relationships. Dr. Joel Kuppersmith, our psychologist in Huntington, offers a comprehensive range of psychotherapy services for his patients. His services specifically include treatment of adult children of alcoholics, therefore, he is well experienced in this field.\nWith psychoanalytic therapy, you are given the opportunity to be a part of a helpful intervention. Depending on your situation, Dr. Kuppersmith will be able to provide you with psychoanalysis, a psychological consultation, or psychotherapy. The goal of each of these treatment options is to teach you how to regulate your emotions as well as help you understand why you may behaving and feeling the way you do. Stop letting your past affect your future and contact our psychologist in Huntington today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-daddy-long-legs-of-brighton/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DXRD6G2XKKRVUVO34YMUZN4XJKSLCPUW", "length": 1578, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "publicdomainreview.org", "title": "The Daddy Long Legs of Brighton \u2013 The Public Domain Review", "raw_content": "The Daddy Long Legs of Brighton\nThe Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was a unique coastline railway in Brighton, England that ran through the shallow waters of the English Channel between 1896 and 1901. Magnus Volk, its owner, designer and engineer, had already been successful with the more conventional Volk\u2019s Electric Railway, which had then not been extended east of Paston Place. Facing unfavourable geography, Volk decided to construct a line through the surf from a pier at Paston Place to one at Rottingdean. The tracks were laid on concrete sleepers mortised into the bedrock, and the single car used on the railway, a huge pier-like building which stood on four 23 ft (7.0 m)-long legs, was propelled by electric motor. It was officially named Pioneer, but many called it Daddy Long-Legs. Construction took two years from 1894 to 1896. The railway officially opened 28 November 1896, but was nearly destroyed by a storm the night of 4 December. Volk immediately set to rebuilding the railway including the Pioneer, which had been knocked on its side, and it reopened in July 1897. In 1900 the council decided to build a beach protection barrier, which unfortunately required Volk to divert his line around the barrier. Without funds to do so, Volk closed the railway. A model of the railway car is on display (along with a poster for the railway) in the foyer of the Brighton Toy and Model Museum. 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They couldn't just agree to be led by a total stranger. Gradually these towns developed chiefs. Instead of [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raajje.mv/en/news/40197", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UZBQXGAKLJZARIMZHLTJNBT6STOUAZTQ", "length": 3715, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "raajje.mv", "title": "U.S warns of possible sanctions to be adopted on Maldives Raajje.mv | Connecting the dots....", "raw_content": "U.S warns of possible sanctions to be adopted on Maldives\nThis is the second such case of sanctions on Maldives, the first being from the European Union\nU.S called on the Maldives to implement the initial 01 February Supreme Court ruling\n'U.S is concerned about continued democratic backsliding in the Maldives'\nK. Male' | Zunana Zalif | 07-September-2018 | Friday 03:15 | zunana | Local | 1,174\nFlags of U.S of America and the Republic of Maldives -- Photo by: Google\nThe United States of America has on Thursday announced its decision to adopt sanctions on the Maldives if the political situation in the country does not improve and if the country does not return to democratic principles.\nHeather Nauert, Spokesperson at the U.S Department of State publicized the statement by the U.S Department of State on Thursday afternoon in a post on her official twitter account.\nThe statement reveals concerns on \u201ccontinued democratic backsliding\u201d in the country, specifically at a time the country is headed towards a Presidential Election which is over a fortnight away. The statement reads that the U.S joins the international community\u2019s call for the release of unfairly detained polticial prisoners and for the immediate implementation of the initial Supreme Court ruling on the 01st of February that ordered the release of political prisoners and reinstatement of opposition lawmakers. It further called to bring an end to the \u201cexecutive interference in the Parliament and Judiciary\u201d, to bring back respect for human rights as well as fundamental freedoms and also to ensure the progression of a free, fair and transparent Presidential Election on the 23rd of September.\n\u201cThe restoration of democratic institutions and practices, to include a free, fair and inclusive election held on its scheduled date of September 23, is of critical importance to Maldives future. Absent Maldives return to a democratic path, the United States will consider appropriate measures against those individuals who undermine democracy, the rule of law and a free and fair electoral process\u201d reads the statements by the U.S Department of State.\nThe United States is concerned about continued democratic backsliding in #Maldives. The restoration of democratic institutions and practices, to include a free, fair, and inclusive election held on its scheduled date of September 23, is of critical importance to Maldives\u2019 future. pic.twitter.com/usqn4Hi1ps\n\u2014 Heather Nauert (@statedeptspox) September 6, 2018\nWhile the U.S had made this declaration, in early August, the European Union revealed the decision to impose sanctions on certain entities and bodies of the Maldives that go against human rights practices and violates the rule of law with a hint that sanctions could be stepped up if there are no visible improvements to the country\u2019s political situation. Since, the EU\u2019s council adopted the framework for \u201ctargeted restrictive measures against persons and entities responsible for undermining the rule of law or obstructing an inclusive political situation in the Maldives as well as persons and entities responsible for human rights violations\u201d adding that \u201cthis decision makes it possible, if the situation does not improve, to impose travel ban and asset freeze on relevant individuals and entities\u201d.\nU.S announcement comes not long after the state media of the Maldives, Public Service Media (PSM) began circulating reports that the Embassy of the US accredited to both Sri Lanka and Maldives held a secret cable with the US Department of State to diminish the Maldives National Defense Force, with the support of the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party.\u2019\nThe Embassy has since dismissed these claims as misinformation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/submission-series-announcement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CSVOEUOZKHFPXRE6J7NNWOMB3QOL47QL", "length": 4339, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "rachelheldevans.com", "title": "Let\u2019s talk about submission! (Series & Synchroblog Announcement)", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s talk about submission! (Series & Synchroblog Announcement)\nNext week, I\u2019ll be hosting a blog series entitled \u201cSubmit One To Another: Christ and the Household Codes.\u201d The series will be similar to our Mutuality Week from 2012, but will focus specifically on those frequently-cited passages of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, slaves to submit to their masters, children to submit to their parents, and Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21-6:9, Colossians 3:12-4:6; 1 Peter 2:11-3:22).\nThese are some of the most misunderstood and debated parts of the New Testament. (They are also some of the most interesting!) So we\u2019ll be drawing primarily from the perspectives of a variety of biblical scholars and theologians, but also from regular families seeking to apply these texts to their own lives.\nI\u2019ve been planning this series for ages, so it\u2019s been fun to finally bring it together and invite you to participate. Obviously, I\u2019ll be coming at this from a perspective that emphasizes mutuality in Christ over hierarchal gender relationships (you can get an overview of my own position in this post: \u201cSubmission in Context: Christ and the Greco-Roman Household Codes\u201d), but if you see things differently, feel free to weigh in as well. The primary purpose is not to simply deconstruct the hierarchal view but rather to explain and discuss perspectives that emphasizes mutual submission with Christ as the example.\nThe series will run from Monday, August 26-Friday, August 30. If you want to participate by contributing to the conversation on your own blog, write a post and share it in the comment section or via social media throughout the week.\nOn twitter, we\u2019ll use #onetoanother.\nIf you need inspiration, here are some prompts:\nHow have these passages made an impression on you personally? What is your history with them? How has your understanding of submission changed through the years?\nWrite about the context of the Household Codes. What might we be missing by skipping the verses preceding them and following them? Who were Peter and Paul\u2019s primary audience? What do we need to understand about their world?\nCompare the Household Codes of Peter and Paul to those of Aristotle and Philo. How are they different and how are they the same?\nWhat does \u201csubmission\u201d mean in your marriage, family, church, or community? (Might be fun to incorporate some photos or stories into a \u201cThis is What Submission Looks Like\u201d post, not unlike the \u201cThis Is What A Feminist Looks Like\u201d meme.)\nImagine you are a member of one of the house churches in Colossae or Ephesus (perhaps a woman or a slave) and write from the perspective of the first hearers of these texts.\nIf you are single, how do you interpret and apply these passages?\nHow do you respond to the Household Codes given their historic connection to the defense of slavery in U.S. history? Does that change how you see them?\nCan the word \u201csubmission\u201d be redeemed? How?\nWhat is most misunderstood about the complementarian understanding of these passages? What is most misunderstood about the egalitarian understanding of these passages?\nOr take it in a totally different direction. I love it when folks take a topic like this and run with it \u2013 with photos, cartoons, poems, videos, etc. Be creative!\nWhether you plan to participate in the series by simply reading and commenting or by writing a post of your own, I\u2019d encourage you to prayerfully look over the passages mentioned above, in their full context, in preparation for the discussion. Maybe even try reading them in the spirit of Lectio Divina.\nFinally, the books I\u2019ll be citing the most include Discovering Biblical Equality, edited by Ronald Pierce and Rebecca Grootuis, and Gordon Fee; Colossians Remixed by Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmat; and Man and Woman, One in Christ by Philip Barton Payne. So check those out if you want to get a head start.\nThe Household Codes used to be a source of serious doubt and frustration for me as a Christian woman, but now, understood in their context, they have become some of my favorite parts of Scripture! Looking forward to discussing them with you.\nAny questions? Ideas?\nhttps://rachelheldevans.com/blog/submission-series-announcement\nWhat Would Jesus Do (With His Enemy)?\nURL: https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/submission-series-announcement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raineykizer.com/attorney/patrick-rogers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CWCRZWJQIAFPRIQL3L4DEOGWGSSCREQV", "length": 447, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "raineykizer.com", "title": "Patrick Rogers - Rainey \u2022 Kizer \u2022 Reviere & Bell PLC", "raw_content": "progers@raineykizer.com\nUniversity of Tennessee, J.D., 1994 cum laude, honors\nSupreme Court of Appeals\nMr. Rogers has experience representing hospitals, clinics, physicians, and nurses in medical malpractice actions and representing healthcare professionals and hospitals in a variety of healthcare related litigation. In addition, Mr. Rogers has experience litigating personal injury and property damage cases and defending governmental entities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ramahnavajo.org/ramahnavajohistory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:51Z", "digest": "sha1:OTAMRCJBVDEEINW6X7G5MRU3XVTX57DM", "length": 11871, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "ramahnavajo.org", "title": "History of Ramah Navajo \u2013 Ramah Navajo Chapter P.L. 93-638", "raw_content": "Video Credit: Michael P. Gross and thank you to Lyman Paul for providing this video to our organization.\n\u201cTo Make a Life of Our Own\u201d\nThe Historical Case for the\nRamah Band of Navajos\nThe People comprising the Ramah Band of Navajos \u2014 Tl\u2019 ohchini Dine\u2019e the People of the Place of Wild Onions \u2013 have arrived in the 21 st century intact, proud and independent. Having overcome a century of traumatic history that began with their ancestors perched on the precipice of extinction, followed by expropriation by foreign settlers of their ancestral lands and then decades of neglect by the institutions of federal and tribal government, the Ramah Navajos made their mark in the last three decades of the 20th century by taking control of their own destiny \u2013 beginning with the establishment of the first Indian community school governed by an all-Indian, locally-controlled school board.\nFrom the 1970s to the present, the Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc., has capitalized on its status as a self-governing 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation by procuring millions of dollars in direct federal and other funding for educational and social programs for its people. This began with the reconstruction and re-opening of the day school in the adjacent Ramah Village in 1970, continued with construction of the multi-million-dollar Pine Hill campus in the heart of the Ramah Navajo community under direct appropriations from the US Congress, and evolved into an advanced system of educational, social and health care programs uniquely tailored to the culture and needs of the Ramah Navajo People. The first of these developments were established well in advance of the groundbreaking federal legislation in 1975 that would lead to increased local governance by Indian communities across America, Public Law 93-638, The Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act- thus establishing Ramah Navajo at the cutting edge of the Indian self-determination movement.\nIn the 1980s and 90s, the Ramah Navajo Chapter \u2013 first recognized in 1955 as a political sub-unit of the Navajo Nation \u2013 followed suit, first in 1986 by invoking the provisions of Public Law 93-638 to directly contract for and administer several services previously operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and then in 1997 by forming its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation as an instrument for obtaining additional funding and implementing new initiatives in the community. Along with the history-making School Board, these social institutions have made Ramah Navajo the most successful of all 110 political sub-units (Chapters) of the Navajo Nation in proactively planning for and obtaining the resources needed to serve the needs of its people.\nThese feisty, determined and independent accomplishments will come as no surprise to any serious student of the historical and political circumstances confronted by the Ramah Navajo People. Dating from the time of the return to their ancestral homelands by the survivors of Hweeldi, the Long Walk of the 1860s that had removed hundreds of Navajo families from their homes and incarcerated them in the inhospitable plains of Bosque Redondo near Ft. Sumner in eastern New Mexico, the customary lands of the Ramah Navajos \u2013 Tl\u2019 ohchini \u2013 were never included in the lands established for the Navajo Reservation in the Treaty of 1868 between the United States and the Navajo Tribe. Navajo occupancy of the lands to the north and in the vicinity of the current Village of Ramah was not legally recognized for many decades, and these lands were thus made available as \u201copen range\u201d for homesteading by non-Indian settlers. Mormon settlers began moving into the valley in 1876, and a series of land acquisitions by the settlers -legally recognized under American law \u2013 effectively pushed the Navajos onto the less fertile lands to the southeast.\nIn subsequent years, local federal agents authorized Ramah Navajos to procure quarter section allotments in the area, thus removing these allotments from open range status and protecting them from homesteading. In the 1940s, the Pojoaque and Picuris Pueblos purchased over 55,000 acres of land in the Ramah area and placed them in trust on behalf of the Ramah Navajos. The Navajo Tribe later compensated the Pueblos for these lands, thus securing these lands for Navajo occupancy and use for posterity. In 1980, Public Laws 96-333 and 97-434 declared a total of 18,192 acres of Federal lands to be held in trust by the United States for the Ramah Band of the Navajo Tribe, thus bringing the total Ramah Navajo land area to over 170,000 acres.\nThe Ramah Band of Navajo Indians was never sanctioned under the Eastern Navajo Agency headquartered at Crownpoint, New Mexico, although the newly formed Navajo tribal government sometimes placed the Ramah Band under that Agency in the late 19205. However, Agency officials visited the Ramah area only infrequently, and the distance and traveling difficulties made trips by Ramah Navajos to Crownpoint very rare events.\nIn 1934, the 6 separate Navajo Agencies were merged into a single \u201dNavajo Service,\u201d with headquarters in Window Rock, Arizona. This centralization was even more unfavorable to the Ramah Navajos, leading to their petition to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to place the Ramah Navajo community under the jurisdiction of the United Pueblo Agency \u2013 a transfer that was successfully accomplished in March 1942 on the recommendation of Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier. In subsequent years, Agency jurisdiction over the Ramah Navajos was transferred variously to the Fort Defiance, Northern, Southern and Zuni Agencies.\nIn the various speeches, consultations and negotiations of his historic life, it was often the core theme and message of Ramah Navajo leader Chavez Coho, longtime member of the Navajo Tribal Council and co-founder and later President of the Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc., that it did not matter which federal or tribal agency had \u201djurisdiction\u201d over the Ramah Navajos \u2013 the result was always the same: near-total neglect and utter failure to deliver needed services to the Ramah Navajo community. It was this recognition by Mr. Coho and his fellow leaders that led to their bold moves in the late 1960s and early 1970s to take matters into their own hands, to establish local services and resources for their people, and to assert their effective independence \u2013 to the highest feasible extent \u2013 from the \u201cjurisdiction\u201d and control of the Navajo Tribe and of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\nIn 1972, the Ramah Navajo community became the only Navajo Chapter to receive its own BIA Agency, which in turn was organized under the BIA\u2019s Albuquerque Area Office (now \u201cSouthwest Regional Office\u201d) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, along with 19 Pueblo tribes and the Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache Tribes. As the only Navajo Chapter served by the BIA Southwest Regional Office, the Ramah Navajo community is totally unique in having a well established and mature government-to-government relationship with that office. The Ramah Navajo Community is also considered its own Service Unit under the Albuquerque Area Office of the Indian Health Service (IHS). Within these historic relationships, the Ramah Navajo Chapter has been treated by the BIA and the IHS as a \u201ctribal governing body\u201d for purposes of administering grant and contract programs.\nThe Ramah Navajo Chapter currently provides a variety of local government services under PL 93-638 contracts with the BIA, including real estate, natural resources and agriculture, law enforcement, community resources, facilities management, property and procurement, and administration. These services and programs are entirely separate from programs offered by the Navajo Nation to its other Chapters on the Navajo Reservation. All contracts currently operated by the Ramah Navajo Chapter are considered \u201cmature\u201d pursuant to the 1988 Amendments to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.\nThe long-standing relationship between the Ramah Navajo Chapter and the BIA has been endorsed by the Navajo Nation Council, most recently pursuant to Resolution CJY-61-94. Ramah Navajo\u2019s level of contracting authority is also consistent with the Navajo Nation\u2019s Local Governance Act. 26 NNC, which was enacted in 1998 and which delegates new levels of governmental authority to individual Chapters of the Navajo Nation.\nThe federal government recognizes the Ramah Navajo Community as a separate group, the Ramah Band of Navajo Indians, which has allowed the Community\u2019s institutions to apply directly for funding from various federal sources, such as Workforce Services and Title IV programs.\nWhile the Ramah Navajos \u2013 now some 3,000-strong \u2013 value the heritage, culture, language and bonds of kinship they share in common with their fellow Navajos in other communities, they have evolved politically and institutionally beyond the need for direct jurisdiction, tight control and service by the central Navajo Nation government. This is particularly true in the field of educational services. Indeed, the Ramah Navajos have created the means for obtaining and focusing resources and services within their own community, whereas the Navajo Nation government has 109 other communities for whom the Nation is the primary provider of resources and services. It is only logical to observe that nothing can be gained, for either the central Navajo Nation institutions or for the Ramah Navajo community, by subsuming Ramah Navajo\u2019s self-governance activities under the close supervision or control of the Navajo Nation.\nCultivated literally from scratch, the programs, facilities, funding and human resources of the Pine Hill Schools have evolved as a function of the Ramah Navajo Community\u2019s longstanding relationship with the Albuquerque Area Office \u2013 now Southwest Regional Office \u2013 of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Most recently, this relationship has come to include the newly created Albuquerque Educational Line Office (ELO) under the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Accompanying this relationship have been a number of formal connections with the State of New Mexico with respect to accreditation of the Schools and licensure of the teachers. Placing Ramah Navajo educational services under the Navajo Regional Office would require a whole new set of accreditation and licensure processes and relationships.\nOver the course of the past four decades, the Navajo Nation has always supported the Ramah Navajo School Board in its efforts to run its own programs, and therefore RNSB and its programs are not, and have never been, directly controlled under the Navajo Nation\u2019s Education Plan. RNSB has maintained high standards of accountability and compliance with the accreditation requirements of the State of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation, and the Nation has provided periodic monitoring for the purpose of reauthorizing RNSB\u2019s activities, without intervention. The forced transfer of Ramah Navajo from Albuquerque to the Gallup ELO would imply the transfer of numerous historical and existing contracts, well beyond ISEP, involving tremendous loss in efficiency, violation of long-standing institutional relationships, and reduction in services to the Ramah Navajo People. With 40 years of institutional history, the Ramah Navajo School Board has developed a unique capacity to administer its own programs and \u2013 true to its founding vision \u2013 to educate its own people.\nThe Ramah Navajo People have come a long way on the road to self-determination and to establishing the capacity to govern and educate its own people. There is still a way to go on that road, and the best way to stay the course and to continue to make progress is to maintain the current institutional relationships that the community has forged with its tribal, federal and state partners.\nJeff Kiely\n(RNSB Staff 1976-1984)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 14294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rambodoc.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/another-kind-of-evil/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RH7RZBTVMIKMPN2GPQC2QLTUQDNTM76Z", "length": 12874, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "rambodoc.wordpress.com", "title": "ANOTHER KIND OF EVIL | A Twist of Word and Mind", "raw_content": "\u2190 SAVING THE TERRORIST\nThis entry was posted in India, life, Mumbai, news, religion, society, terrorism, USA, world. Bookmark the permalink.\n28 responses to \u201cANOTHER KIND OF EVIL\u201d\nlallopallo | December 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm | Reply\nHmm.. I read the article and am wondering like you. I think all this compassion and Gandhigiri has to be interpreted in a particular context..\nCertainly in this case, if anybody wants to forgive those terrorists, it\u2019s not a done thing..As you yourself noted, if we do so, it will be a crime against other peace loving people\nThis woman, even though she is very sad and all, her religious zeal is still overriding everything else\u2026.and that could be a dangerous thing if taken seriously by many more people.\nperplexed | December 4, 2008 at 11:30 pm | Reply\nI think the world made a \u2018GOD\u2019 coz it needed a punch bag\u2026 to blame everything not in our control on, as the answer to all the unanswered questions and basically something to point the finger at. God/religion is just an escape route to those who want to avoid reality!\nNomad | December 5, 2008 at 12:21 am | Reply\nNo. No forgiveness for killers. And criminals in general. To tolerate crime is to abet it.\nIt can be ok for me to forgive a person who hurt me \u2019emotionally\u2019, or the personal emotional aspect of a crime, provided that they have not broken any law, I am not an abuse victim (using forgiveness as an excuse) and I want to forgive and move on and all that.\nBut the moment any law is broken (and the legal aspect of any wrong doing), the perpetrator should be punished, and then afterwards, I can forgive them in my heart too, if I wish. My forgiveness does not count if we (society and me) are not strong enough to punish them.\nAnd no one has a right to endanger other people\u2019s lives because of their religious beliefs.\nI am sorry, I seem to be rambling, but I guess I make myself understood.\nAmit | December 5, 2008 at 12:42 am | Reply\nAt a personal level, if someone is able to genuinely feel compassion for an evil-doer and forgive her, then that\u2019s admirable, in my opinion. This kind of forgiveness usually works at a one-on-one level.\nBut I would be against such an approach as a matter of state policy because protecting the lives of citizens comes first. I may forgive a terrorist, but that doesn\u2019t mean she should go scot-free and not be punished for her crimes. Extremists and terrorists need to be dealt with a strong hand.\nWhether at a one-on-one level, forgiveness can transform someone for the better, for what it\u2019s worth, here\u2019s a story:\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/01/in_video_a_message_to_victim/\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/14/i_still_forgive_him/\nWhether to forgive someone or not is a personal choice, and I\u2019m not sure that forgiving someone necessarily abets evil. Laissez faire doc? \ud83d\ude42\nNomad | December 5, 2008 at 1:53 am | Reply\nAnother thought came to my mind. Perhaps when the crime is so heinous, no amount of rationalization can help one overcome the pain. Even if the judiciary punishes the criminal, the wronged cannot heal. Perhaps this \u2018forgiving\u2019 thing in such a case is a self-hypnotic attempt to block the pain and one\u2019s own helplessness. It is a survival tactic for her sanity.\nmountainguy | December 5, 2008 at 4:55 am | Reply\nSo it is dangerous for \u201ccivilization\u201d to forgive the attackers? But, if civilization itself has shown to be extremely dangerous\u2026 (don\u2019t know how to finish).\nAnyway, there\u2019s something I could agree with you: attackers don\u2019t have the right to claim peace and forgiveness after having ignited violence. And this works for terrorists, guerrillas, armies from \u201cdemocratic countries\u201d, USA supporters, etc.\nNita | December 5, 2008 at 8:52 am | Reply\nI am against such a approach as it will propagate evil, even if the idiot saying it is not evil.\nnaren | December 5, 2008 at 10:00 am | Reply\nI agree strongly with Amit. If the feeling is genuine, this is really a noble thing. But it is so often used as a publicity stunt that one\u2019s first response is cynical. But to say that it abets evil might be a bit extreme.\nThat said, compassion is extremely misplaced in law and order situations. Strong rule of law and a fair punishment system are big deterrents. When people feel they can get away with crime for whatever reason, crime proliferates, as in Bihar and many parts of UP.\nI don\u2019t think we\u2019re mature enough, as a society, for compassion to form a basis for sound governance.\nVivek S. Khadpekar | December 5, 2008 at 10:31 am | Reply\n@ Doc:\n//Another reason I hate religion.//\nWith some rather important qualifiers added, I would tend to agree: I have nothing against religion as a private matter at the level of an individual or even a group, as long as it is not manifested in a public or social forum. I am very averse to organised religion which seeks to impose its beliefs and worldviews on others, with or without violence.\nvishesh | December 5, 2008 at 11:41 am | Reply\nwell forgiving murderers isn\u2019t exactly,what i will call is good\u2026I want to know the face of terror,to react..I think the idea of \u201cevil\u201d /whatever is to spread by not letting people see its face..you know its something like when you are in junior classes you fear the principal ,as he is someone you don\u2019t know and people use to blackmail..but once you see him and know he too is human,you no more are afraid,you get up and question him.\nGopinath Mavinkurve | December 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm | Reply\nWell, this forgiveness is fine for the \u2018sins\u2019 that religions forbid the laity to commit. Crimes committed would need a law to take course. For example, Sonia Gandhi may forgive her husband\u2019s killer, but law will need to punish her, for Rajiv Gandhi was a public figure and the state is accountable for his protection and to punish perpetrators of law.\npr3rna | December 5, 2008 at 12:48 pm | Reply\nNever. These killers should be killed not once but if possible many times. Easy death should not be the punishment for them. The woman who wants to forgive the criminals is not the only victim and these remorseless killers would kill as many innocents as possible, as long as they live. I would like to see the reactions of the families of these murderers. I am sure even their mothers would not like to see these guys alive.\nTrailblazer | December 5, 2008 at 1:16 pm | Reply\nNonsense. Forgiving evil only encourages it to grow.\nShefaly | December 5, 2008 at 1:26 pm | Reply\nI presume none here has lost a member of the family in the Mumbai attacks (or for that matter in any attacks). This is \u2018evil on TV\u2019 for most \u2013 when we see real evil, it is harder to be so harsh. In the face of real evil, we recognise that life is made for living positively and for preventing such things from recurring. We can truly move on, without the burden of hatred.\nThe response of this woman is not determined by a person\u2019s religiosity but probably by her understanding of how evil is perpetrated. If she wishes to forgive people who killed her family, who are the rest of us sitting in judgement anyway? Please!\nI think it is shameful that you call this woman \u2018evil\u2019 for having a better sense of humanity. Come on, Doc, I thought you are better than that.\nBesides, to forgive is not the same as to forget. If you so wish, the killer should not be killed (which is my favoured stance too because it sets him free) but kept alive, made to work hard to pay for himself, and made to atone every day. If it makes you happy\u2026\nTry forgiveness, next time someone hurts you. You will find how light it makes your heart.\nTyler | December 5, 2008 at 1:44 pm | Reply\nHow can forgiveness possibly be evil? How does revenge bring peace?\nMore dangerous than forgiving the terrorists who committed the act, would be to seek revenge or to hold a grudge. Where does the peace come in? Where does the violence end?\nThere are some people with some criminally insane ideas out there who commit atrocious acts of violence. This has always been this way. But history has shown that retaliation is not the correct way to combat such behavior.\nBy publicly forgiving the terrorists this family has single handedly undermined the entire goal of the terrorists\u2026 they want to frighten and bring harm to us. By retaliating we bring about the exact reaction they want. We cave in to the fear they are trying to impose.\nBut if we forgive them, or even try to do GOOD to them, we uproot their operation.\nI have a friend who told me she forgave her rapist \u2014 not for his sake, but for her own; not so he could have peace, but so she could have peace. I can understand her and recognize that worked for her, but I\u2019m not sure it works in every situation. There seem to be times when it\u2019s wise to forgive, and other times when it\u2019s wise to avenge.\nAnshul | December 5, 2008 at 6:19 pm | Reply\nForgiving, loving etc. are just feelings, people forgive,love,hate many people in their entire life, terrorists would also become one of them. What if we do not forgive them, I don\u2019t think they care. Infact most of the \u2018they\u2019 who executed the plan are already dead. In the next round of attacks, their would be new people, new strategies, new brains and they will die too considering that most of the attacks now are suicide missions. People at tactical level will continue to change. One can send them love and forgive them every time they come and go. Did they say \u201cSorry\u201d? Did they ask for forgiveness ? I don\u2019t think so.\nAnd, Forgiveness and hatred doesn\u2019t change the legality of the issue. Assuming that an individual like me/us will never be able to lay our hands on the terrorist, it really doesn\u2019t matter whether I/we hate him or love him.\nUsha | December 5, 2008 at 6:31 pm | Reply\nWithout getting into the nature of good, evil etc all I can feel at this moment is that these killers do not deserve any mercy or forgiveness. Oh they knew very well what they were doing and planned it in meticulous detail.It is the duty of each one of us to counter this kind of evil where we find it.\nMarc | December 5, 2008 at 8:25 pm | Reply\nForgiveness goes hand in hand with repentance and that must be what the women in the article meant. One cannot exist without the other.\nanaconda | December 5, 2008 at 10:46 pm | Reply\nHow long will this saga of revenge go on? It only consumes us and draws us into a vortex of never ending complex spiral of pettiness. I know its hard to forgive when its my kin but isnt that the supreme sacrifice. The only way we can go forward on this is to put it behind us and get on with our lives. If this is tough, whats the better way out? I think history shows that love and forgiveness has won many times over the vengeance seeking formula\u2026.my 2 cents.\nPandu | December 6, 2008 at 1:33 am | Reply\nThe Vedas say that mercy on a murderer is that he should be executed. Otherwise his fate will be much worse. Forgiveness is Divine, but so is justice.\nDinesh Babu | December 6, 2008 at 1:50 am | Reply\nI agree with Paul. Forgiving has to be taken on a Case by Case basis. There is no point in forgiving a killer who is not in the right mind to think and the only thing he wants to do is kill people. Now, if someone was forced to kill on a single situation, and that someone is not really a killer but rather a nice person cornered into such an act, then forgiving makes sense. Even that has to be looked at. It is not the murder but the intentions of the murder.\n//Forgiveness is Divine, but so is justice.//\n\u2026Assuming, of course, that the justice you allude to is administered by a divine authority.\nahumanbean | December 6, 2008 at 11:55 am | Reply\n\u201cForgiveness is giving up the belief that the past can be any different\u201d \u2013 thanks, Oprah!\nI say bollocks to religion. 5000 years ago, there was no religion among humans.\nSpirituality, yes. Religion, no. Big difference.\nAlso \u2013 the word forgiveness \u2013 I hardly heard that word in India until mass media / the missionaries here started (mis)using and using it. Just a thought!\nPingback: RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A CEMENTED MIND \u00ab A Twist of Word and Mind\nThe person who is evil should not be killed but must be kept alive. Unless and until he understands the gravity of what he has done, there is no point.\nCompletely forgiving these criminals would be similar to telling Pakistan \u2013 Please start a nuclear attack on us. We will not retaliate and you can kill as many of us and take up the country. Its ok with us. We forgive you.\nAuzziegob | January 9, 2009 at 3:33 pm | Reply\nSHE\u2019S ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MAD.\ngodgobber apologists are just plain loopy.\nWorldbringer | February 28, 2009 at 4:46 am | Reply\nI do not think that forgiving necessarily constitutes excusing. From what I understand, we must forgive our enemies even as we destroy them. We forgive them for what they have done even as we seek their absolute destruction for doing it. 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Ba\u017eant\n50 years of Materials and Structures\nA physically based model for auotgenous shrinkage and swelling of portland cement paste is necessary for computation of long-time hydgrothermal effects in concrete structures. The goal is to propose such a model. As known since 1887, the volume of cement hydration products is slightly smaller than the original volume of cement and water (chemical shrinkage). Nevertheless, this does not imply that the hydration reaction results in contraction of the concrete and cement paste. According to the authors\u2019 recently proposed paradigm, the opposite is true for the entire lifetime of porous cement paste as a whole. The hydration process causes permanent volume expansion of the porous cement paste as a whole, due to the growth of C\u2013S\u2013H shells around anhydrous cement grains which pushes the neighbors apart, while the volume reduction of hydration products contributes to porosity. Additional expansion can happen due to the growth of ettringite and portlandite crystals. On the material scale, the expansion always dominates over the contraction, i.e., the hydration per se is, in the bulk, always and permanently expansive, while the source of all of the observed shrinkage, both autogenous and drying, is the compressive elastic or viscoelastic strain in the solid skeleton caused by a decrease of chemical potential of pore water, along with the associated decrease in pore relative humidity. As a result, the selfdesiccation, shrinkage and swelling can all be predicted from one and the same unified model, in which, furthermore, the low-density and high-density C\u2013S\u2013H are distinguished. A new thermodynamic formulation of unsaturated poromechanics with capillarity and adsorption is presented. The recently formulated local continuum model for calculating the evolution of hydration degree and a new formulation of nonlinear desorption isotherm are important for realistic and efficient finite element analysis of shrinkage and swelling. Comparisons with the existing relevant experimental evidence validate the proposed model.\nAutogenous shrinkage Swelling Hydration Swelling Drying Biot coefficient Pore water Thermodynamics Unsaturated poromechanics Capillarity and adsorption\nPartial financial support of poromechanics studies from DoE through Los Alamos National Lab grant to Northwestern University is gratefully acknowledged. Preliminary research was supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation through Grant 20778 from the Infrastructure Technology Institute of Northwestern University, and from the NSF under Grant CMMI-1129449.\nAppendix 1: Algorithm to calculate the degree of hydration\nA realistic model for calculating the degree of hydration is essential for predicting selfdesiccation, shrinkage, swelling and creep. Therefore, the algorithm of such a model, developed recently [8], is now presented. It is simpler and computationally faster than the widely accepted classical model of Bentz [51], which uses random particle simulations of hydrating cement grains and would be too time consuming for use at integration points in finite elements computations.\nFor the cement paste or concrete with a known water-cement ratio, w/c, and aggregate-cement ratio, a/c, ratios, calculate the initial volume fraction of cement \\(V_{0}^{c}\\)and water \\(V_{0}^{w}\\):\n$$V_{0}^{c}=\\frac{\\rho _{a}\\rho _{w}}{\\rho _{a}\\rho _{w} +\\rho _{c}\\rho _{w}a/c+\\rho _{c}\\rho _{a}w/c}$$\n$$V_{0}^{w}=\\frac{\\rho _{a}\\rho _{c}w/c}{\\rho _{a}\\rho _{w} +\\rho _{c}\\rho _{w}a/c+\\rho _{c}\\rho _{a}w/c}$$\nwhere \\(\\rho _{\\mathrm{l}}\\), \\(\\rho _c\\) and \\(\\rho _a\\) are, respectively, the specific mass of water (in 1000 kg/m\\(^3\\)), of cement (here considered as 3150 kg/m\\(^3\\)), and of aggregates (here 1600 kg/m\\(^3\\)) (for gravel and sand combined).\nCalculate the average cement particle size (i.e., particle radius) \\(a_{0}\\), based on the cement type. Here the Blaine fineness of cement, \\(f_{bl}\\), equal to 350m\\(^{2}\\)/kg, is considered to correspond to particle radius 6.5\\(\\upmu\\)m. Further calculate the number of cement particles, \\(n_{g}\\), per unit volume of cement:\n$$a_{0}=6.5(\\mu \\hbox {m})\\ \\frac{350}{f_{bl}}$$\n$$n=\\frac{V_{0}^{c}}{\\frac{4}{3}\\pi a_{0}^{3}}$$\nChoose a reasonable hydration degree for setting the time at set, \\(\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}\\), and time \\(\\alpha _{c}\\) at which a continuous C\u2013S\u2013H barrier shells gets completed, i.e., the critical hydration degree at which a complete C\u2013S\u2013H barrier will form around the anhydrous cement grains (about 1 day). For a normal cement with \\(a_{0}^{n}=6.5\\upmu\\)m, \\(w/c=0.3\\) at \\(T=20C\\) \\(^{\\circ }\\)C, the values \\(\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}^{0}=0.05\\) and \\(\\alpha _{c}=0.36\\) are good approximations. For the given cement type and the given values of T and w/c, realistic estimates may be calculated as follows:\n$$\\alpha _{c}=\\alpha _{c}^{0}f_{1}(a)f_{2}(w/c)f_{3}(T)<0.65$$\n$$f_{1}(a)=\\dfrac{a_{0}^{n}}{a}$$\n$$f_{2}(w/c)=1+2.5(w/c-0.3)$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&f_{3}(T)=\\hbox {exp}\\left[ \\frac{E_{\\alpha }}{R}\\left( \\frac{1}{273+T_{0}}-\\frac{1}{273+T}\\right) \\right] \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\frac{\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}}{\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}^{0}} =\\frac{\\alpha _{c}}{\\alpha _{c}^{0}}$$\nThen calculate the volume fraction of cement, \\(V_{\\mathrm{set}}^c\\), portlandite, \\(V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{CH}\\), gel (C\u2013S\u2013H plus ettringite) and \\(V_{\\mathrm{set}}^g\\). Using these fractions, calculate the radius of the anhydrous cement remnants, \\(a_{\\mathrm{set}}\\), and the outer radius of C\u2013S\u2013H barrier, \\(z_{\\mathrm{set}}\\). To describe the chemical reaction of hydration, use the volume ratios \\(\\zeta _{gc} = 1.52\\) and \\(\\zeta _{CHc} = 0.59\\) in the following equations:\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\begin{aligned} V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{c}=(1-\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}})V_{0}^{c}\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{CH} =\\zeta _{CHc}\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}V_{0}^{c}\\,\\,\\,\\, V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{g}=\\zeta _{gc}\\alpha _{\\mathrm{set}}V_{0}^{c} \\end{aligned} \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&a_{\\mathrm{set}}=\\left( \\frac{V_{{{\\mathrm{set}}}}^{c}}{\\frac{4}{3}\\pi n_{g}}\\right) ^{\\frac{1}{3}},\\quad z_{\\mathrm{set}}=\\left( \\frac{V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{c} +V_{\\mathrm{set}}^{g}}{\\frac{4}{3}\\pi n_{\\mathrm{g}}}\\right) ^{\\frac{1}{3}} \\end{aligned}$$\nIn each time step, use the hydration degree \\(\\alpha\\) and humidity h from previous step to calculate the water diffusivity \\(B_{\\mathrm{ef}}\\):\n$$\\begin{aligned} B_{\\mathrm{ef}}=B_{0}f_{0}(h_{\\mathrm{p}})f_{4}(\\alpha ) \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} f_{0}=c_{\\mathrm{f}}+\\frac{1-c_{\\mathrm{f}}}{1+\\left( \\frac{1-h_{\\mathrm{t}}^{p}}{1-h^{*}} \\right) ^{n_{\\mathrm{h}}}} \\end{aligned}$$\n$$f_4(\\alpha )\\ =\\ \\gamma \\, e^{-\\gamma }\\quad \\hbox {for}\\quad \\alpha \\le \\alpha ^{*}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&f_4(\\alpha )\\ =\\ (\\beta /\\alpha _{\\mathrm{s}})^m e^{(\\beta /\\alpha _{\\mathrm{s}})^m} \\quad \\hbox {for}\\quad \\alpha > \\alpha ^{*} \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\gamma = \\left( \\frac{\\alpha }{\\alpha _{\\max }} \\right) ^m, \\,\\, \\beta = \\alpha -\\alpha ^*+\\alpha ^{*}\\alpha _{s}/\\alpha _{\\max } \\end{aligned}$$\nUse \\(\\alpha _{\\mathrm{s}}=0.3\\), \\(\\alpha _{\\max }=\\alpha _c/2\\), \\(\\alpha ^{*}=0.75\\alpha _c\\) and \\(m=1.8\\). Furthermore, the empirical parameters c, \\(h^{*}\\), \\(n_h\\), \\(c_f\\) need to be set. In this study, we set \\(n_h = 8\\), \\(h^{*} = 0.88\\) and \\(c_f = 0\\).\nIn each step, calculate the radius of the equivalent contact-free C\u2013S\u2013H shells, \\(\\hat{z}\\), that give the same free surface area as the actual shell radius z would if the shell surfaces were free, with no contacts;\n$$\\hat{z}_{t}\\ =\\ \\frac{z_{t}}{1+\\left( \\frac{z_{t}-a_{0}}{u}\\right) ^{5}}$$\nwhere \\(u = a_{0} / 6.4\\). This relation has been modified compared to that in Rahimi-Aghdam et al. [8], so as to represent the multi-decade continuation of hydration better (this change has no effect on model performance up to 10 years).\nIn each time step, using pore humidity h, the size of the anhydrous cement remnant, a, and the outer radius z of C\u2013S\u2013H barrier from the previous time step, as well as the latest diffusivity value, calculate the water discharge \\(Q_t^1\\):\n$$Q_{t}^{1} = 4\\pi a_{t}z_{t}B_{ef}(\\alpha ,h_{p})\\frac{h_{p}-h_{c}}{z_{t}-a_{t}} \\left( \\frac{\\hat{z}^{2}}{z_{t}^{2}}\\right)$$\nThe last factor on the right-hand side, \\(\\frac{\\hat{z}^2}{ z_{t}^2 }\\), serves to consider the reduction of C\u2013S\u2013H shell surfaces due to mutual contacts.\nIn each step, using the calculated water discharge \\(Q_t^1\\), calculate the increment of cement volume, \\(\\text{d}V_t^c\\), of portlandite, \\(\\text{d}V_t^{CH}\\), and cement gel \\(\\text{d}V_t^{g}\\):\n$$V_{t+\\text{d}t}^c=V_t^c+\\hbox {d}V_t^c=V_t^c-n_gQ_t^1\\zeta _{cw}\\hbox {d}t$$\n$$V_{t+\\text{d}t}^g=V_t^g+\\hbox {d}V_t^g=V_t^g+n_gQ_t^1\\zeta _{gw}\\hbox {d}t$$\n$$V_{t+\\text{d}t}^{CH} = V_t^{CH}+\\hbox {d}V_t^{CH} = V_t^{CH}+n_gQ_t^1\\zeta _{CHw}\\hbox {d}t$$\nwhere \\(V_{t} = V(t)\\), etc.; \\(\\zeta _{cw}\\), \\(\\zeta _{gw}\\) and \\(\\zeta _{CHw}\\) are, respectively, the volumes of the cement consumed, of the C\u2013S\u2013H gel produced, and of the portlandite produced per unit volume of discharged water. These volume fractions are calculated as: \\(\\zeta _{cw}=\\frac{1}{\\zeta _{wc},}\\), \\(\\zeta _{gw}=\\zeta _{gc}\\zeta _{cw}\\) and \\(\\zeta _{CHw}=\\zeta _{CHc}\\zeta _{cw}\\).\nIn each time step, use the calculated \\(\\text{d}V_t^c\\) to evaluate the increment of hydration degree \\(\\text{d}\\alpha _t\\), and the cement particle radius \\(\\text{d}a_t\\):\n$$a_{t+\\text{d}t} = a_t+\\hbox {d}a_t = a_t +\\dfrac{1}{4\\pi a_0^2n_g}\\hbox {d}V_t^c$$\n$$\\alpha _{t+\\text{d}t} = \\alpha _t+\\hbox {d}\\alpha _t=\\alpha _t-\\dfrac{3}{4\\pi a_0^3n_g}\\hbox {d}V_t^c$$\nAt each time step calculate the increment of gel barrier \\(\\text{d}z_t\\)\n$$\\hbox {d}z_{t} = \\frac{\\hbox {d}V_{t}^{g} + \\hbox {d}V_{t}^{c}}{4\\pi \\hat{z}^{2}}\\quad \\hbox {for}\\quad \\alpha _{t}>\\alpha _{c}$$\nFinally, calculate the selfdesiccation increment of relative humidity, \\(\\text{d}h_t^s\\), of saturation degree, \\(\\text{d}S_t^{cap}\\), and of inter-particle porosity, \\(\\text{d}\\varphi _t^{cap}\\);\n$$\\text{d}h_{t}^{s} = K_{h}\\left( \\frac{\\hbox {d}V_{t}^{c}(\\zeta _{bw} + \\varphi _{np}\\zeta _{gc}) - \\hbox {d}\\varphi _{t}^{cap}S_{t}^{cap}}{\\varphi _{t}^{cap}}\\right)$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\begin{aligned} \\hbox {d}\\varphi _{t}^{cap} = -\\, (\\hbox {d}V_{t}^{g} + \\hbox {d}V_{t}^{CH} + \\hbox {d}V_{t}^{c}) + (\\varphi _{gp}-\\varphi _{np}) \\zeta _{gc} \\end{aligned} \\end{aligned}$$\nHere \\(\\varphi _{np}\\) is the nano-pore part of gel porosity in which the pores are assumed to be always saturated during hydration process. In this study, 2/3 of gel pores are assumed to be nano-pores.\nAppendix 2: Algorithm to determine the permeability and diffusivity\nBased on Ba\u017eant-Najjar [52] model, which has been embodied in the fib Model Code 2010 (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale de b\u00e9ton 2013), the equation for moisture diffusion in concrete reads:\n$$\\frac{\\partial h}{\\partial t} = k(\\alpha ,h)\\nabla \\cdot \\left( c_{p} \\nabla h\\right) + \\frac{\\partial h_{s}}{\\partial t}$$\nwhere \\(k(\\alpha ,h)\\) (dimension m\\(^{3}\\)/kg) is the reciprocal moisture capacity (i.e, the inverse slope of the isotherm), and \\(\\alpha\\) is the hydration degree, \\(c_p\\) is the permeability and the last term on the right-hand side is a distributed sink representing the selfdesiccation. Same as in Ba\u017eant-Najjar model, the dependence of moisture permeability \\(c_{p}\\) on h may again be expressed as follows:\n$$c_{p}(h,\\alpha ) = c_{1} \\left( \\beta + \\frac{1 - \\beta }{1 + \\left( \\frac{1-h}{1-h_{c}} \\right) ^{r}} \\right)$$\nwhere \\(c_{1}\\), \\(\\beta\\), \\(h_{c}\\) and r were four unknown parameters which should be determined based on experiments of relative humidity evolution. Usually, though, the creep and shrinkage testers do not report the relative humidity values, and so these values and the parameters needs to be guessed. This can cause significant error.\nTo address this issue, some methods have been suggested [9, 53, 54]. Among these methods, the new model by Rahimi-Aghdam et al. [9] proposed simple empirical relations to determine these parameters based on concrete admixtures. They set \\(r=2\\) and proposed calculating the other three parameters as follows.\n$$c_{1} = 60 [1+12(w/c-0.17)^2]\\, \\alpha /\\alpha _{u}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&h_{c} = 0.77 + 0.22\\left( w/c - 0.17\\right) ^{1/2} + 0.15 \\left( \\frac{\\alpha _{u}}{\\alpha }-1 \\right) \\quad \\hbox {but}\\quad h_c < 0.99 \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\beta = c_{f} /c_{1}$$\n$$c_{f}^{0} = 60[1 + 12(w/c-0.17)^2]\\, \\alpha /\\alpha _{u}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}c_{f}& = {\\left\\{ \\begin{array}{ll} c_{f}^{0}\\quad &{} (h>h_{s}) \\\\ 0.1c_{f}^{0} + 0.9 c_{f}^{0} (h / h_{\\mathrm{s}})^4\\quad &{} (h < h_{s}) \\end{array}\\right. } \\end{aligned}$$\nHere \\(\\alpha _{u}\\) is the ultimate hydration degree in sealed concrete, which is a function of w/c; it is estimated as\n$$\\alpha _{u} = 0.46 + .95(w/c-0.17)^{0.6} \\quad \\hbox {but}\\quad \\alpha _{u} < 1$$\nBa\u017eant ZP, Yu Q, Li G-H (2012) Excessive long-time deflections of prestressed box girders. II: numerical analysis and lessons learned. 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The chapter explores the ways in which current post-disaster policies reduce individual agency, leading to exacerbated trauma and poor post-disaster outcomes, including negative impacts on social capital. These policies perpetuate structural violence on individuals, families, and communities. Furthermore, the loss of individual agency, coupled with the disparate outcomes that arise from complex processes and from the factors described in the previous chapters, further leads to the creation of a corrosive community in which families are pitted against each other and unable to work together for systemic change or to rely upon the social capital that might otherwise offer mutual assistance and aid.\nSocial capital Individual agency Collective efficacy Corrosive community\nAldrich, D. P. (2017). The Importance of Social Capital in Building Community Resilience. In W. Yan & W. Galloway (Eds.), Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change. 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The sad thing is that the parts of our day that don\u2019t feed into these wants are often considered boring or second rate or something to be endured, to be gotten through.\nAny wonder, then, that TV ads tell stories or make people laugh? The motto seems to be, whatever it takes to keep people entertained. Horrors if a product is described in boring terms. Why, even the dire warnings about possible side effects to prescription drugs are communicated in soothing tones while pictures of active, healthy seniors playing golf or basketball or swimming speed past our eyes.\nSo it\u2019s not a surprise that TV news has joined the entertainment business. That happened some time ago. The sensational gets a hearing, especially if it comes with pictures.\nWhat seems to be a new twist to this scenario, however, is the interpretation of facts to make them entertaining, one way or the other!\nThis tendency seems particularly noticeable here in SoCal concerning our weather. Maybe the meteorologists are simply tired of having nothing much to talk about, but I think it has more to do with creating a sensation. That, it seems, is now the role of TV news.\nAs most people have heard, all of California has been experiencing a drought. But at long last, news poured in this week that we had rain in the forecast. But not just any rain. We were looking at the BIGGEST STORM in YEARS! In fact, the \u201cin years\u201d turns out to be the biggest to hit the southland in three years.\nWell, yes, since we\u2019ve been having a drought during that time, there haven\u2019t been any big storms. So this storm that has triggered mandatory evacuations and sandbagging and the construction of berms and barricades\u2013to keep runoff out of homes and high surf out of neighborhoods\u2013isn\u2019t actually a particularly large one if you were comparing it to the storms in a non-drought year.\nBut the news media can\u2019t pass up an opportunity to sensationalize even the weather. We can\u2019t simply celebrate the fact that we\u2019re getting rain, that farmers who have dealt with the lack of water, and ranchers who have had to truck in feed for their cattle, and small towns that have seen their wells dry up, are getting a little help.\nRain can\u2019t be good. It can\u2019t be an answer to prayer, most assuredly. Instead it has to be sensational. The irony of it all is that the one mention I heard of the rain and its affect on the drought was that it would help very little.\nSure, I get that this one storm isn\u2019t going to replenish the lakes and rivers that have steadily shrunk over the last several years. But no help?\nMust the story always be woe and beware? Well, yes, apparently the extreme and the dire fit the entertainment model, so that\u2019s the kind of news we get. 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This is a very big deal for the emerging market countries that have borrowed trillions of US dollars and will now have to pay off those loans in ever-more-expensive currency. 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In December 2013, RenCredit MFB Limited was re-banded to Renmoney MFB Limited \u2013 the name by which we are known today. It then upgraded to a state license to operate multiple locations in Lagos State. This led to the opening of five additional branches \u2013 Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos Island, Apapa and Ikota.\nRenmoney operates under a microfinance bank (MFB) licence, the closest to a consumer finance banking licence available in Nigeria. The company is committed to provision of simple money solutions and currently has a staff base of over 400 employees and a customer base of over 25,000 customers and counting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rentitornot.com/apartment/20788/646-St-Mary's-Rd-Winnipeg-Manitoba", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:22Z", "digest": "sha1:T277AV3ZCDW6BAFHU2MYYUQE6KBGWFRX", "length": 680, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rentitornot.com", "title": "Reviews and Bed Bug Reports for 646 St Mary's Rd, Winnipeg", "raw_content": "642 St. Mary's Rd\n5 St. Mark's Pl\n9 Victory Pl\nI would not recommend living here. In the 6 months I have lived here there have been several issues. New management took over and have kicked people out to turn their apartments into \"offices\". I don't believe they are experienced in apartment rentals. The walls are very thin and you can hear people in other apartments easily and when they are walking in the hallways. The washing machine broke and they put tape over the crack to fix it and the dryer takes hours to dry your clothes. The area with the garbage outside is messy and they do not clean it. The only pro is the area, the area is lovely but still not worth living here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 3926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations_sp2/99/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:58Z", "digest": "sha1:I3PGQCYTHHVC2AYS75DDYIANVRVF36ZO", "length": 2604, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "repository.upenn.edu", "title": "\"A Two-Article Examination of the Integration of Trauma-informed Care w\" by Sharon Czabafy", "raw_content": "A Two-Article Examination of the Integration of Trauma-informed Care with Adult Medical Care\nSharon Czabafy, University of PennsylvaniaFollow\nJo Anne Schneider PhD\nAuthor: Sharon Czabafy\nDissertation Chair: Ram Cnaan, PhD\nThe intersection of attachment theory and trauma theory provides information on how a person understands and communicates health symptoms and explains interactions in a relationship such as with a medical care provider. Extensive research exists regarding health effects and health behaviors related to the experience of trauma and attachment styles for adults, people 21-years-old and older and demonstrates the intersection of trauma, attachment styles, and health outcomes for adults. Additionally, numerous studies portray the spiraling costs of healthcare and identify the super-utilizers of health care.\nSuper-utilizers are adults who have preventable and frequent visits to emergency rooms and or hospitalizations. Super utilizing patients have complex medical issues often exacerbated by mental illness and or substance use. The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study demonstrates that people who had adverse childhood experiences have multiple medical problems as adults as well as mental health disorders and addictions, factors for super-utilizers.\nWeaving the cords of attachment and trauma theories with health outcomes suggest a trauma-informed approach to adult health care improve health care outcomes. Trauma-informed care acknowledges the impact of trauma and provides care with an awareness of those effects. Understanding the impact that trauma has on patients may assist care providers in offering a more efficient effective approach to service delivery. Recent research suggests integrating effective trauma-informed care programs, into mental health and addiction treatment is best practice. However, little research is available regarding trauma-informed adult physical health care.\nThis two-article theoretical-conceptual dissertation seeks to address the gap in the literature by further investigating the benefits of providing adult, trauma-informed medical care. The first paper, in this dissertation, explores the intersection of attachment and trauma theories with health outcomes. The second article builds on the need for trauma-informed care and defines the tenets of a trauma-informed care framework with examples of a trauma-informed approach through composite case vignette.\nCzabafy, Sharon, \"A Two-Article Examination of the Integration of Trauma-informed Care with Adult Medical Care\" (2017). 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TDF glidepaths vary due to the different assumptions investment managers make regarding life expectancy, accumulated retirement assets, contribution rates, and rates of return.\nOne size does not fit all, meaning that there is neither a \u201cbest\u201d nor a \u201cright\u201d glidepath. Since we all have our own unique retirement objectives and glidepaths, it is a challenge to select one glidepath (product) for a retirement plan. Plan sponsors need to understand the assumptions made for the glidepath (product) in their plan to determine if those assumptions are appropriate for their plan participants as a collective whole. The decision requires a good understanding of the plan\u2019s demographics. For example, some glidepaths glide to a lower equity exposure at retirement (typically age 65) while others glide to a lower equity exposure through retirement (typically age 85-90). 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Understanding the assumptions behind the investment strategy may ultimately help a participant decide whether to go with a \u201c2030\u201d fund or the \u201c2040\u201d fund. While participants may not have much input into the particular glidepath for the fund options within the plan, with the proper education, they do have the opportunity to fine tune where on the glidepath they want to be. 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If you are contemplating the purchase of an existing unit, consider the following:\nGet to Know the Franchisor\nAlthough you will own the unit, you will have to continuously work with the franchisor. It\u2019s important that you take time to understand the company\u2019s approach to business, what type of resources they will provide to you and understand any requirements that might be set forth for the businesses that bear its name. Take time to speak with other franchisees to learn about their experiences as owners and carefully review the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC).\nIn some cases, the franchisor may have a right of first refusal meaning that they ultimately have a say in whether you can join the franchise group as an owner. A business law attorney can help you sort through these issues and position you for success.\nIdentify the Real Reason the Existing Owner is Trying to Sell\nThere may be many reasons why a current franchisee is looking to sell his or her unit. 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If not, you may have the burden of hiring and training a new team very early on. Another thing you will want to examine is the state of the building and equipment \u2013 has everything been serviced regularly? A repair to a machine may seem minor but it could cost you a great deal.\nThe sale of an existing franchise unit can be complex. Not only do you have to understand the motives and terms of the seller, but you must also understand the role and requirements of the franchisor. 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Not finding ways to prove you can do everything they do better! I\u2019m sad when I see this played out.\nI don\u2019t think we should be trying to OUTDO one another \u2013 No bueno. How about trying to be one another\u2019s BIGGEST cheerleaders?!\nWe should be encouraging each other to do better than the person they see in the mirror.\nOne thought on \u201cI\u2019m Rooting for You!\u201d\nAmen! 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Historically, metals have always been seen as an investment regardless of how technology changes and demand for these highly conductive products grow. Used to portray wealth and power through the ages, metals drive markets and define cultures.\nMetals are usually classified as either precious or non-precious, depending on their rarity, worth and usage. Precious metals are rare and can be used in currencies or for industrial needs. The most common metals markets are gold, silver, platinum, palladium, aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc which can be traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and the London Metal Exchange (LME). These are not the only exchanges that trade metals, gold is especially popular, but they are the most commonly used for futures and options.\nPopular Metals Futures Contracts\nGold - Arguably the most revered metal and volatile of all the metals contracts, gold has a long history of affecting cultures even before the written word. 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At our current state of technology, copper has consistent demand.\nMetal Futures Resources\nFree Fundamentals of Trading Metals\nRecent Metals Futurescast\nAll Metals Futurescast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 6261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roadsafetywales.org.uk/news/posts/2015/september/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NQHFQZSHE76AI4N3P547IZR5I5WJXQVP", "length": 4631, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "roadsafetywales.org.uk", "title": "September", "raw_content": "Police Launch Campaign Targeting Motorists Who Use Phones Whilst Driving\nThe four police forces in Wales, led by Dyfed-Powys Police and in partnership with Road Safety Wales, are launching a major crackdown on motorists who use mobile phones whilst driving. The All Wales enforcement campaign will run from Thursday September 24 to Wednesday October 7, and is urging all road users to \u2018keep their eyes on the road\u2019 and not be distracted by answering their mobile phone, reading a text or going online.\nPolice patrols will increase across Wales for the duration of the enforcement campaign, to draw drivers attention to not only the risks posed by being distracted by mobile phones while in control of a vehicle, but the serious penalties which they will face if they are caught.\nNationally, the numbers of motorists using mobile phones to make calls, texts or social media updates whilst driving has risen and distracted driving is expected to be the biggest single cause of death and injuries on roads as a result in 2015. In Wales more than 900 motorists were caught using their mobile phones whilst behind the wheel during the 2014 campaign.\nMultimedia Anti Drink/Drug Driving Competition 2015\no promote the anti drink/drug and driving message, youth organisations, schools and colleges are invited to devise, perform and record a live action multimedia presentation that will warn people of the dangers and/or consequences of driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs. With the introduction of a new law relating to drug driving, Road Safety Wales would welcome entries with an anti drug driving theme.\nFor more information visit https://www.gov.uk/drug-driving-law\nSince November 2014, when a SCP in Fishguard was struck by a car, council Stop means Stop officers have been monitoring near misses and have logged numerous incidents of vehicles failing to stop for the patrols, with a number of these incidents reported to the police.\n65 checks were carried out by officers from the council\u2019s Road Safety Unit during a week of Car Seat Clinics around the county at the beginning of September. The checks were carried out in Newtown, Brecon, Welshpool and Llandrindod Wells.\nRoad Safety Officers checked the fit and suitability of the child car seats and found that only 9 of the seats did not need any adjustment. In addition to the 48 seats that needed a minor or major adjustment, officers recommended that 8 seats were not used as they did not meet current regulations or safety checks.\nA common fault included the headrest interfering with the child car seat, where there should be no contact. When fitting a rearward facing baby seat, check the position of the carry handle \u2013 there should be a picture on the side of the seat. The handle will normally, but not always, need to be in the upright position or towards the baby\u2019s feet.\nPart-time 20mph Speed Limits for Welsh Schools\nTransport Minister, Edwina Hart, has announced a \u00a34.5m three-year programme to improve safety at more than 40 schools on trunk roads throughout Wales, mostly through the use of part-time 20mph speed limits.\nFollowing a Welsh Government review of safety on walking and cycling routes to schools on Wales\u2019 trunk road network, 56 schools were identified as having potential for road safety improvements. Earlier this year part-time advisory 20mph speed limits were introduced at eight schools, and they are now in the process of being made permanent.\nThe Minister announced 41 more schools would receive part time 20mph limits, three will get engineering measures to improve safety and four had no measures identified but will now be part of discussions with the local authority about what else can be done to improve safety. The work will be completed over the next three years.\nMotorcyclists in Wales are being encouraged to carry free CRASH Cards which contain potentially life-saving information in the event of an incident.\nLaunched by Road Safety Wales, the CRASH Cards are being made available from motorcycle dealers and road safety teams throughout Wales. The cards contain space to record information which could be vital to paramedics \u2013 including medical history and details of any medication currently being taken. There is also space to list the name and contact number of a next of kin.\nThe cards were created by the Ambulance Motorcycle Club (AMC), and are already used in a number of areas in England, Northern Ireland and parts of Wales.\nRoad safety teams have been working in partnership with other road safety professionals who make up Road Safety Wales, and the scheme has the backing of the Wales NHS Ambulance Trust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rochester.readsh101.com/ask-trainer-september-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4VCAPCUXDQXGGNWVQJ4WMQ3QBTOJBVZI", "length": 2041, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "rochester.readsh101.com", "title": "\ufeff Ask the trainer: \"What are some exercises I could do while studying or sitting in class?\u201d - University of Rochester", "raw_content": "Home BetterU Ask the experts Ask the trainer: \u201cWhat are some exercises I could do while studying...\n\u2014Kelly L., Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada\nFor many people, especially students, sitting is a major part of the day. While sitting isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing, prolonged sitting, which is inevitable in the life of a student, can have adverse effects on the body.\nThe spine is naturally curved in a way that\u2019s designed to help disperse pressure and alleviate stress on the joints and supporting muscles. With prolonged sitting, the first thing to go is good posture, which then changes the curvature of the spine. A 2007 study in the Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association found that there\u2019s significant loss of proper spinal posture within 10 minutes of starting a computer task.\nThink about how long each of your assignments takes you to do or how long you spend on social media each time you sit down to the computer. Chances are, it\u2019s longer than 10 minutes.\nMost commonly, with prolonged sitting, our heads will start to fall forward and our upper and lower backs become rounded. Taking just two minutes per hour to perform these moves can help you combat the negative effects of sitting:\n1. Chin tuck\nBecome aware of your posture. Sit upright. Tuck your chin back into your neck (pretend you\u2019re making yourself have multiple chins). A common mistake is to bring your chin down to your chest. That requires too much flexion of the neck and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to avoid. Perform a set of 10 repetitions of these chin tucks per hour of sitting.\n2. Shoulder blade squeeze\nSit up straight. Imagine that you\u2019re trying to bring the inner portions of your shoulder blades as close together as possible, like you\u2019re squeezing a pencil between them. Once you have this muscle contraction, hold it for five seconds, then release. Perform a set of 10 repetitions with five-second holds per hour of sitting.\nAsk the health educator: \u201cHow do I deal with the pressure to be sexually active?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 6870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/10/19/tramways-de-laude-les-palais-to-ripaud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EFST677ARNTI2R3KW4PRHOU32LQXHLXK", "length": 7024, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "rogerfarnworth.com", "title": "Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Les Palais to Ripaud | Roger Farnworth", "raw_content": "Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Les Palais to Ripaud\nFor this next post, we have travelled back on the line from Mouthoumet to Les Palais and are ready to explore more of the Tramways de l\u2019Aude closer to the Mediterranean coast.\nLes Palais station is in the middle of a triangle of tracks which allows trains to be directed between Fabrezan, the terminus at Mouthoumet and Thezan, This is not in an urban area, it is isolated and only a short distance from Saint-Laurent-de-la Cabrerisse, hence the legend of the postcard below. [1] The station building at Les Palais in the very early 21st Century! A schematic plan of the station. [2] This is not the best quality of image but it shows the station at Les Palais. [5]\nContinuing eastward towards Thezan and La Nouvelle, the train passes in front of the Pech Maurel farm, through the junction with the minor road to Coustouge, Aude, not to be confused with Coustouges, Pyrenees Orientales, which runs via Parazols along the GC106 (D106) [1]\nThe tramway remains on the GC3 (D611), traversing wide open vineyards to a halt close to Villerouge-la-Cremade. I have not been able to find any information about this halt other than the fact that it existed and was close to the road to Villerouge-la-Cremade. The probable location of the tramway halt for Villerouge-la-Cremade.\nBeyond Villerouge-la-Cremade, the trams would pootle along at a steady pace on the North side of the straight GC3 (D611) to the junction with the GC12 (D613) where the tramway and the main road turned to the Southeast. The present D611 bears the name Avenue de la Gare as it enters Thezan-des-Corbieres. The station location was just to the Northwest of the town, roughly where the picture below is taken. The location is clearly marked by the red circle on the map above. As will be noted later in this post, the location can be fixed exactly by the remaining station buildings. [3] The four pictures above all show the main station building at Thezan. [4][5] Thezan was a junction station receiving trains from a number of different routes. It was one of the busier stations on the network. The two images immediately above show that the main station buildings are still in evidence in the early 21st century, in use as a road maintenance depot. [3]\nThe junction was to the South east of the town. Trains to Narbonne would bear off to the left. Here a train approaches from Narbonne. The picture shows the telephone booth for the pointman. Given the heavy traffic of passengers and goods, the role of the pointman in Th\u00e9zan was a position of high responsibility. With the arrival of a train from Narbonne, he had to make sure that no train was due on the common stretch Durban \u2013 Port La Nouvelle, then telephone to the train station of Th\u00e9zan to obtain the authorization to switch the points. [5] There is an excellent page written in fench on the site www.thezandescorbieres.com which tells the story of the station. Auto translate in Chrome is a real boon! [5]\nThere was a small halt in the centre of Thezan at the beginning of Avenue de la Mer. The pictures below show the location early in the 20th and 21st centuries. [4]\nThe tramway junction was to the Southeast of the town. This is the location in 2017. The large buildings on the right of the picture are the Wine Co-operative buildings. When the tramway was in use the D423 did not exist. The 1930s Michelin map show the tramway heading off across the fields towards Montseret and Saint-Andre as below. We will return to the route towards Narbonne in a future post. For now, we continue Southeast towards Donos and Mont plaisir. As can be seen on the map above, the tramway follows the Northeastern shoulder of the GC3 (D611) all the way to Donos which is the location of a vinyard an little else in the 21st Century.\nThe tramway continues along the left-hand shoulder of the GC3 to Monplaisir. Over much of this length the tramway ran in a straight line and at a level grade. Monplaisir was another small hamlet and slipped quickly by as trams trundled on to the next junction/station at Ripaud.\nThe route to Ripaud was not initially demanding on trams, the terrain was flat and grades were shallow. The GC3 (D611) and the tramway followed the line of the Ruisseau du Ripaud towards the hills. As the hills began to close in around the river, road and tramway gradients still remained reasonable, as can be seen in the Google Streetview images below. At one location the road curvature was a little tight for the tramway and the bend was eased. The location in the Google image above is shown at the time of the tramway in this image. The tramway tunnel has been removed and a cutting provided for the modern D611. [7]\nhe image below shows the location of Ripaud Station in 2017. Our route from Thezan comes in along the D611 from the left. The route from Durban and the South comes in from behind the camera and the route to Portel heads of into the distance on the right side of the picture The station itself was a little way up the route to Portel as can be seen in the sketch plan below. [8] A series of postcard images of the station follow below. The first two show the inn in the picture above. [8] The two tramway lines are evident in the image immediately above. [8] This image shows the station building on the North side of the road with the tramway tracks to the South side of the road. [7]\nWe are finishing this section of our journey at Ripaud because it is a junction station. We will return to it in the next post as we travel to it along the line from Durban. It is worthy of note that Ripaud is the subject of an excellent model of the Tramways de l \u2018Aude made and operated by a team that take it around exhibitions in France, (Marie, Pascal and Christophe). [6]\nTheir website is really worth a visit \u2013 https://tramways-aude-miniature.webnode.fr. [6] They say: \u201cThe model of the Ripaud station is composed of two modules, 2 metres long and 60 cm deep. In order to respect the original layout, HOm scale was required. The left side, made by Christophe, represents the inn at Ripaud located in front of the River Berre, the way going left towards Tuchan and crossing a bridge and the one to the right to L\u00e9zignan. Pascal made the other module, the passenger building and the Ripaud depot overlook a large vineyard. Further on, towards Portel, a small house served as a dormitory for the staff. Marie created the backdrop of the two modules.\u201d\nhttps://tramways-aude-miniature.webnode.fr/ripaud, accessed on 20th October 2018.\nhttps://cascastelchateau.fr/les-tramways-de-laude, accessed on 20th October 2018.\nThis entry was posted in Comment, Railways and Tramways of South-Western France on October 19, 2018 by rogerfarnworth.\n\u2190 Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Fabrezan to Mouthoumet Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Tuchan to Ripaud via Durban \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201cTramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Les Palais to Ripaud\u201d\nPingback: Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Ripaud to Port La Nouvelle via Portel | Roger Farnworth\nPingback: Tramways de l\u2019Aude \u2013 Thezan to Narbonne | Roger Farnworth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 10553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roqoodepot.com/2016/08/17/comic-review-i-hate-fairyland-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U3XH4GIOJK7CBYSP52G5AQ2Q4HPMGQBS", "length": 263, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "roqoodepot.com", "title": "Comic Review: \u2018I Hate Fairyland #8\u2019 | Roqoo Depot", "raw_content": "August 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | Posted in Comic Books, Image, Reviews | Leave a comment\nI Hate Fairyland #8 is out today from Image Comics. This one changes things up a bit as the middle part of the issue features a guest artist. Click here to read our full review.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rsgs.org/discoveringrsgs/about-us/who-we-are/honorary-officers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:N4RZ5TOFFDHODZRAT6EX5EATXZBLPHES", "length": 809, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "rsgs.org", "title": "Honorary Officers | RSGS", "raw_content": "As a Professor of Science Communication, I am thrilled to be the President of the RSGS, a well-respected and dynamic educational charity that works with a wide range of partners and audiences, from youth and community groups to academics and politicians, to inform and inspire people about a wealth of fascinating geographical stories, and to encourage a broader engagement with the geographical sciences.\nPatron Her Majesty the Queen\nPresident Professor Iain Stewart\nVice Presidents HRH The Princess Royal\nProfessor John Briggs FRSGS\nThe Duke of Buccleuch\nProfessor Dame Anne Glover FRSGS\nSir David Hempleman-Adams FRSGS\nThe Rt Hon The Earl of Lindsay\nLord Nickson\nProfessor Bruce Proudfoot\nProfessor William Ritchie\nProfessor David Sugden\nLord Wilson of Tillyorn\nIf geography is prose, maps are iconography.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 3940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rsgs.org/inspiring-people/stories/younghusband/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:UQZMIMKDW5IMAV2M56SESWQQ5BCJDK6N", "length": 2686, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rsgs.org", "title": "Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942) | RSGS", "raw_content": "Sir Francis Younghusband, the son of a British army major in India, and a friend of Lord Curzon, was a major player in the \u2018Great Game\u2019, the strategic manoeuvrings of Britain and Russia for control of large areas of the Himalayas and parts of Asia. He acted as a diplomat and spy on the frontiers of this conflicted area, and in 1889 was politely, almost charmingly, arrested by his Russian counterpart, who informed him that the area they were in was now Russian.\nYounghusband was wined and dined, and had a delightful conversation with the Russian military man, but was told in no uncertain terms to leave the area and return to British-controlled India the following day. His Russian host was very explicit in his instructions, telling Younghusband that he could not travel via any of the 20 or so mountain passes, which were each treacherous but were the only known routes back to India. The intention was to force Younghusband east to China or west through Afghanistan and Persia, either of which routes could easily have led to his arrest or death. Being an honourable man, Younghusband agreed, and he left the following morning with a small party.\nSuch was the tension over political control in this area that Younghusband\u2019s subsequent \u2018disappearance\u2019 was assumed to be evidence of his murder, almost bringing the Great Game to a head, and Britain and Russia to the verge of war. Younghusband, meanwhile, had realised that one mountain pass that the Russian had failed to consider was the Mustagh Pass. Therefore, despite no-one having previously navigated it successfully, he led his small band on the perilous journey back to safety in India.\nIn 1903, Younghusband led a military expedition into Tibet, hoping to win favour with the Dalai Lama at the expense of the Russians. However, his well-armed military unit was attacked by a Tibetan general, and the resultant battle ended in a complete massacre. Younghusband\u2019s arrival in Lhasa seemed more of an armed takeover than a diplomatic mission. On his last evening in Lhasa, however, he rode up into the mountains and had a spiritual epiphany which changed him markedly. On his return to the UK, he spoke to RSGS audiences on The Geographical Results of the Tibet Mission, and was awarded the Society\u2019s Gold Medal. He spent much of the remainder of his life devoted to spiritual matters, and in 1936 founded the World Congress of Faiths which aimed to bring together most of the world\u2019s religions to try to find common ground.\nSuch was the tension over political control in the area that Younghusband\u2019s subsequent disappearance was assumed to be evidence of his murder, almost bringing..Britain and Russia to the verge of war.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 165.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ruinedchapel.com/2011/02/12/objectivists-will-object-to-this/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UCZHA4V2BKFOC5MPBHD3IRPJNVZQWFKX", "length": 1997, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ruinedchapel.com", "title": "\"Objectivists\" will object to this\u2026", "raw_content": "\"Objectivists\" will object to this\u2026\nThe trailer for part 1 of the upcoming movie Atlas Shrugged is out, and if I hadn\u2019t known better, I\u2019d have thought I was watching the trailer for a James Bond flick.\nThe look of everything in that trailer is altogether too nice for the Dystopian feel of Ayn Rand\u2019s novel. Particularly, the lighting on everything is too warm and appealing; it ought to look colder and bleaker.\nLeaving aside all my disagreements with the book\u2019s philosophy itself, it seems to me that if you\u2019re going to adapt it for screen, you may as well do it properly.\nOh, well, it should at least be funny, at all events. And it did sound like they\u2019ve improved on Rand\u2019s rather poor dialogue.\nAll that said, I predict that what\u2019s going to kill this movie is: failure to trim enough of the text. The cult of Ayn Rand (as brilliantly mocked by Murray Rothbard in his play Mozart was a Red) is still going on and might very well have already convinced the filmmakers that they are adapting a sacred text, and must change as little as possible.\nTo be fair, most adaptations of books to movies make that mistake. (And most of the rest ignore the text completely and become a disaster) A story that first appeared as a book is optimized for book form. If you make it a film, it will likely suffer, unless (and this often just isn\u2019t possible) you are able to tell a similar story and optimize it for film.\nBut most movies don\u2019t do that. They just try to stuff in as much of the popular stuff from the book as they can.\n(Hat Tip for the trailer to the Conservative film site Big Hollywood)\nPrev Post: A trip down memory lane.\nNext Post: Budget fuss.\nQuestion, how do make a doctoral dissertation on economics into a movie?Hellen Mirren was in the movie about Ayn Rand's life and it didn't go over that big, this one will most likely be a real bust.\nAs Rand and her followers believed that the moral worth of everything was determined by its profits (in dollars) alone, that would be really awesome.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 8841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://runslikeabeigegirl.com/portfolio/where-did-the-magic-go/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:VGWSUDROW6ZB4UTM6IIPX75C45TRUSAW", "length": 3527, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "runslikeabeigegirl.com", "title": "WHERE DID THE MAGIC GO? | runslikeabeigegirl", "raw_content": "WHERE DID THE MAGIC GO?\nDo you believe in elves? Probably not. But there was a time when their existence was a possibility. A world where Santa co-existed with fairies, unicorns, magic and mystery and anything was possible. The idea of fantastical creatures and magic sparks the imagination and inspires creativity. But this sense of wonder is ending early with modern kids.\nNew research commissioned to mark the release of Smurfs: The Lost Village on Blu-ray and DVD shows that modern kids stop believing in magic as young as six years old. Modern children don\u2019t seem to be fooled for as long as we used to be. Children as young as 6 are no longer buying into the make belief and magic. They know unicorns and dragons aren\u2019t real. And that\u2019s a little sad.\nThere was always one child who made a magician\u2019s life harder; calling out his tricks and trying to pick holes in the magic. The same kid rolled their eyes when you spoke about Santa and his elves. They were insulted that an adult would try so hard to pull the wool over their eyes.\nBut back then it was just the odd kid. And even then, said skeptical child was around 8 or 10 and feeling suitably foolish for having believed in so much fantasy and make belief. These days the age of innocence is ending sooner and for some parents this loss of wonder and fantasy is happening too young.\nAccess to the internet and social media could be one reason for the change, with four in ten of the parents surveyed blaming modern technology for the decline. These days children have more access to information which can dispel the very myths and stories that make childhood fun. Outdoor games which allowed children to use their imaginations and engage in make belief have been replaced with indoor gaming.\nWork also has a knock on effect, with a third of parents worrying that too much time working has led to less quality time with their children as a family. The knock-on effect being children spending more time online and less time playing at make belief.\nA third of parents also admitted to relying on technology for that dose of magic and wonder, handing their child a tablet to play a game when they were pressed for time.\nA third of parents surveyed rely on technology as a mode of play\nThe results of the research have concerned some parents who are worried that their children are losing their innocence too soon. A fifth of mums and dads claimed to believe in magic up until the age of 10, compared to 2% of kids today.\nOne argument for this loss of wonderment is the world being more depressing. Children used to be sheltered from the information which is now so easy for children to access from their, phones, tablets and the TV. Children are aware that these problems are not being solved with spells and magic. And that depressing reality may also be feeding into this rejection of the fantastical.\nEncourage Make Belief\nChantelle Hazelden, parenting expert and founder of Mama Mummy Mum urges parents to make time to play with their children. Getting outside and engaging in imaginative make belief games will keep the kids creative and allowing them to enjoy being kids.\nEven if parents aren\u2019t sure where to begin and don\u2019t know how to start a game they shouldn\u2019t be afraid to give it a ago. Children are creative and take the lead in fantasy games. The kids aren\u2019t the only ones to benefit from engaging in make-belief. A third of parents admitted playing with their kids helped them to shake off stress and and even restored their own sense of magic and wonder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saintaloysius.org/fifth-grade", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FBNAFUJ4R24KTPKD5YDWO5VRCMB7X5HV", "length": 703, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "saintaloysius.org", "title": "Fifth Grade - St. Aloysius - Springfield, IL", "raw_content": "Email: molly.murphy@saintaloysius.org\nThis will be my 10th year as a 5th-grade teacher. I have spent the past 9 years at Cathedral school. I\u2019m thrilled to be continuing my love for 5th grade and Catholic Education this year at St. Aloysius.\nMy husband, Courtney and I have been married 17 years and we have two daughters, Isabella a sophomore at SHG, and Sophie a 6th grader St. Aloysius. I graduated from Millikin University and I enjoy spending time with my family. Most of our summer is spent traveling to fairs to show our mules. Draft horse mules have been part of our family for four generations. My motto in life, \u201cthe greatest pleasure in life is right in front of you, make every day the best.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 3048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saintannesdamascus.net/sermons/2015/6/22/get-in-the-boat-sunday-june-21-2015-the-rev-r-lee-davis", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YIONQHSNC65PLE7JBM724JCHGKHQ7Q2V", "length": 100, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "saintannesdamascus.net", "title": "Get in the Boat, Sunday, June 21, 2015 The Rev. R. Lee Davis \u2014 St. Anne's Episcopal Church", "raw_content": "Get in the Boat, Sunday, June 21, 2015 The Rev. R. Lee Davis\nHow are you today?, Sunday, July 5, ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 126.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saintfrancisxavierchurch.com/annual-feast-1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:BLIGR4F75Z5D7VDFEQ7HLHNWJ4HLXX6P", "length": 801, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "saintfrancisxavierchurch.com", "title": "Annual Feast \u2014 St. Francis Xavier", "raw_content": "St. Francis Xavier Annual Feast\nTo honor our patron, St. Francis Xavier, our parish community offers one of the largest Portuguese feasts in Rhode Island, including\nthe Triduum of 3 Masses before the feast\nMass at 5:45 on Saturday evening of the feast, followed by procession\nSolemn Mass at 11:30 on Sunday morning followed by a large procession\nIn our church parking lot, we invite you to taste our delicious Portuguese food and malassadas, enjoy live music, dancing, and a variety of games and activities for people of all ages.\nThe Feast is always held every year in June, typically around Father\u2019s Day Weekend.\nFor more information and specific dates for 2019, see the parish bulletin and the \u201cUpcoming Events\u201d page on our parish website.\nFor pictures of previous years\u2019 feasts, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sandhillshouse.com/location.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:59Z", "digest": "sha1:T7E6ZAVWYELIPKGFRYPZN5JNEORU2JPZ", "length": 1258, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "sandhillshouse.com", "title": "West Clare Co Clare Ireland", "raw_content": "Location of Sandhills House Doonbeg Ireland\nShannon Airport ~1 hr\nCork Airport ~2 hrs 15 mins\nDublin Airport 3 hrs - 3 hrs 30 min\nShops, Restaurants in Quilty, Doonbeg 10 mins\nKilkee 15 mins\nCliffs of Moher 30 mins\nNear beach and golf course\nSandhills House is located in quiet countryside a short distance from Doughmore beach and Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg on the West Coast of County Clare, Ireland.\nIt is just an hours drive from Shannon Airport, a three to four hours drive from Dublin Airport and two and a half hours from Cork Airport.\nWest Clare is renowned for the hospitality of the people living there, the upkeeping of Irish traditions and the scenic rugged coastline and beautiful sandy beaches. The house is central to all the sights the county has to offer - the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren in the North; Loop Head Peninsula in the South and the attractions of Mid Clare, the town of Ennis and Bunratty Castle. West of Clare website will tell you more about the area and West Coast of Clare in general..\nThe West Clare area is also well known for the many activities which are possible here - from angling and golfing to surfing, swimming and walking. The next page will give you more information on the activities in the area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://santa-elena.org/stewart-h-rodman/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4FQWDVOUTYKE6BDEOK2ZFNEJFP2C3XDP", "length": 869, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "santa-elena.org", "title": "Stewart H. Rodman | Santa Elena", "raw_content": "Stewart H. Rodman\nVice Chairman of the Beaufort County Council. Councilman Rodman was a founding partner in a private investment firm. Earlier he held manufacturing, finance and general management positions with several major corporations. Currently, Stu holds leadership positions on the boards of several national Christian ministries. In 2003, Stu served as Commissioner on the Governor\u2019s Commission on Management, Accountability and Performance. In 2008, Stu served on the State Superintendent of Education\u2019s Task Force on School Funding. He has served on the Beaufort County Board of Education. Stu has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Cornell and an MBA from Harvard. He served as a Lieutenant in the US Army and is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. Stu and Nina, his wife of 44 years, have two married children and reside in Sea Pines on Hilton Head.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 99.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://santinoprinzi.com/2015/07/06/ive-won-the-2014-15-bath-spa-university-flash-fiction-prize/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BTLVSQYUJFNGHOGTGH2Z4LFPBVHYFTQ5", "length": 1146, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "santinoprinzi.com", "title": "I\u2019ve won the 2014-15 Bath Spa University Flash Fiction Prize! | Santino Prinzi", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve won the 2014-15 Bath Spa University Flash Fiction Prize!\nThis morning I woke up to some incredible, jaw-dropping news: I\u2019d won the 2014/15 Bath Spa University Flash Fiction Prize! I\u2019m thrilled beyond measure to have been recognised in this way and to have won a prize!\nEach year the Creative Writing and Publishing departments award prizes for overall work and contribution to different forms as a way of recognising students and writers for their work.To have been chosen for the Flash Fiction Prize was not what I was expecting to wake up to this morning.\nYou can see the details as well as the winners of the other prizes by following this link: Bath Spa University Creative Writing Facebook Page.\nCongratulations to all the other winners! I\u2019m going to go out and celebrate!\nPosted in news, prizes and competitions and tagged bath spa university, competition, creative writing, fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, prize, winner on July 6, 2015 by santinoprinzi. 2 Comments\n\u2190 \u2018Lens\u2019 Published in Fewer Than 500 and an Upcoming Publication in the Jan/Feb Issue of Unbroken Journal!\n\u2018Like Old Times\u2019 Published in Flash Fiction Magazine! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saucelabs.com/blog/page/2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HZCPQQFR5GLX6TN52AC2AY3CKV73Z564", "length": 4203, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "saucelabs.com", "title": "\ufeff Automation Testing Blog \u2022 Page 2 | Sauce Labs", "raw_content": "Frequently Asked Questions About Selenium 4\nPosted January 22, 2019 in SeleniumSelenium Resources\nThis past October at the Selenium Conference in Chicago, Simon Stewart announced that Selenium 4 will be released by Chinese New Year. With this new version of Selenium comes support for the W3C protocol. Many testing teams are wondering how this will affect their current Selenium scripts. To help with the transition, we have put together a list of frequently asked questions. Why is this [...]\nFuture Advances in Mobile Hardware \u2014 and What They Mean for Mobile Testing\nPosted January 15, 2019 by Twain Taylor in Mobile Development & Testing\nMobile hardware constantly changes as OEMs find ways to push the limits of what's possible with a mobile device. Such mobile hardware changes have implications for the entire application development and delivery cycle, including mobile software testing. QA teams therefore need to stay on top of new trends and ensure the apps they help manage work on outdated devices for as long as possible, while [...]\nLooking Back at Our Look Ahead: Revisiting 2018 Software Testing Predictions\nPosted January 10, 2019 by Chris Riley in AIContinuous TestingQuality AssuranceSoftware Development & Testing\nA year ago, at the outset of 2018, we (specifically, Vince Power, an experienced IT professional who also happens to be a very nice guy) took a look on the Sauce Labs blog at some of the trends that might define the world of software testing in the new year. As all good software testers know, testing involves not just vetting something before you release it into the world, but also revisiting [...]\nSauceCon 2019 Keynote Speakers and New \u201cSaucy\u201d Awards\nPosted January 9, 2019 by Rebecca Cramer\nWe\u2019ve got some big SauceCon news today, folks! Earlier today, we announced the keynote speakers for SauceCon 2019, as well as a new awards program that we\u2019re introducing for 2019. First up, let\u2019s talk about the conference agenda. We\u2019re especially proud of our speaker lineup, which represents diverse perspectives from across the testing and high tech communities. We have [...]\nPredictions for a Digitally Excellent 2019\nPosted January 3, 2019 in Continuous TestingSoftware Development & Testing\nOne of my favorite things about the start of any new year is the flurry of predictions from thought leaders across the technology industry. Some will prove out, others won\u2019t. In either case, it\u2019s always exciting and invigorating to see what the best and brightest expect in the year to come. That\u2019s especially true as we flip the calendar to 2019 and kick off the last year (can [...]\nSimulators vs. Emulators: What\u2019s the Difference, Anyway?\nPosted December 18, 2018 by Chris Riley in MobileMobile Development & TestingSoftware Development & Testing\nIn the world of software testing, it\u2019s common to hear folks talk about simulators and emulators as if the terms are synonymous. To a certain extent, that makes sense. Simulators and emulators are similar in many ways, and the differences between them don\u2019t always matter from the perspective of a test engineer. But the fact remains that simulators and emulators are different beasts. If [...]\nWhat Developers Should Know About Software Testing\nPosted December 13, 2018 by Chris Riley in Software Development & Testing\nIf you\u2019re a developer, you may not think that software testing has much to do with you, or that you have much to do with software testing. But thinking this way is selling yourself short. It\u2019s true that traditionally, software testing has been the focus of QA engineers who are dedicated to the role of ensuring that software behaves and performs as required to meet user expectations. [...]\nEffectively Utilizing Production Testing Data\nPosted December 11, 2018 by Scott Fitzpatrick in Guest Blog PostsSoftware Development & Testing\nThe term \u201ctesting in production\u201d refers to a process that is critical to thoroughly testing an application. It\u2019s the process of continuing to test and monitor code post-release for both disaster recovery preparation and user experience analysis. The process of setting up production testing is easy enough\u2014you simply extend your testing tools and workflows to cover [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/260/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZGM7VMT5T4VLG6PSQSR5FVJZWRRQZWD", "length": 2118, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "scholarworks.umass.edu", "title": "\"A System Dynamics Approach for the Development of a Patient-Specific P\" by Steven J. Merrill", "raw_content": "A System Dynamics Approach for the Development of a Patient-Specific Protocol for Radioiodine Treatment of Graves' Disease\nSteven J. Merrill, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow\nGraves' Disease, Hyperthyroidism, Radioiodine, System Dynamics, Uncertainty Analysis\nThe thyroid gland secretes hormones that help to govern metabolism and energy expenditure within the body [1]; these hormones also affect growth and development. As a result, the regulation of thyroid hormones is vital for maintaining an individual's well being. Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder and is a major cause of hyperthyroidism or an overproduction of thyroid hormones. Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy has become the preferred treatment with typical RAI protocols being based on the Marinelli-Quimby equation to compute the dose; however, up to 90 % of subjects become hypothyroid within the first year after therapy. In this thesis we focus on the development of a new computational protocol for the calculation of RAI in the treatment of Graves' hyperthyroidism. The new protocol implements a two-compartment model to describe RAI kinetics in the body, which accounts for the conversion between different RAI isotopes used in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Thus, by using the measured response of the subject's thyroid to a test dose of 123I, the model predicts what amount of RAI (131I) will be needed to reduce, through ablation, the functional, thyroid volume/mass to an amount that would result in a normal metabolic balance. A detailed uncertainty analysis was performed using both a standard propagation of error method as well as a simulation method. The simulation method consisted of both parametric and nonparametric bootstrapping techniques. Using clinical data consisting of activity kinetics and mass dynamics of 17 subjects and measured final mass values of 7 of the 17 subjects, we were able to validate the protocol as well as quantify the uncertainty analysis. This protocol is the basis of an ongoing pilot study in conjunction with Cooley Dickinson hospital, Northampton, MA.\nYossi Christopher Stuart", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=jbs.2008.693.701&org=11", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:09Z", "digest": "sha1:IB3PZHNTYZ7M63JA6BFNMDW225IPEKDQ", "length": 44146, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "scialert.net", "title": "Biofuel Production: A Promising Alternative Energy for Environmental Cleanup and Fuelling Through Renewable Resources", "raw_content": "Biofuel Production: A Promising Alternative Energy for Environmental Cleanup and Fuelling Through Renewable Resources\nSimeon O. Kotchoni and Emma W. Gachomo\nThe increasing demand of energy and concern of green house gas emission has resulted in searching for a renewable form of energy that is less pollutant and economically efficient. To achieve this goal, biofuel technology is now globally embraced as the promising technology to replace petroleum fuels with alternative fuels produced from renewable sources such as cellulosic biomass. In this review, we highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the petroleum fuels, been in use this far. In addition, we focus on the processes of alternative fuel production and their impacts, both positive and negative, at environmental, economical and ecological levels. The review also addresses how the available cellulosic biomass resources at our disposal can be used to positively affect the future generations.\nSimeon O. Kotchoni and Emma W. Gachomo, 2008. Biofuel Production: A Promising Alternative Energy for Environmental Cleanup and Fuelling Through Renewable Resources. Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 693-701.\nAcceptance of a new technology generally depends on the way it is presented to the public. This was well demonstrated in the context of genetically modified crops when they were commercially introduced in the market (Somerville, 2000). There was a worldwide uproar concerning the release of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), which still persist up to date especially in Europe, despite series of sustainable informative programs. Learning from such observations, it is imperative to follow-up introduction of any new technology with non-biased sustainable informative programs showing the advantages and disadvantages of the technology over what has been in use so far.\nAccess to an adequate energy supply at reasonable cost is crucial for economic growth. Currently the world is heavily dependent on petroleum fuels for most of its energy needs. Biofuels technology aims at replacing petroleum fuels with an alternative energy source from renewable resources, thereby improving the global economic growth and environmental conditions (Sheehan et al., 2003; Greene et al., 2004). It is important to bring to the attention of the public and decision makers all aspects of this technology. It is of long-term benefit to determine the different biological materials needed for the production of biofuels and whether biofuels are viable alternatives. Without a doubt, the development of energy from biological materials seems to be a promising alternative, especially with the possibility of recycling processes. The intriguing question is why up to date this alternative energy source has not been implemented worldwide. The next question is whether biofuel production is sustainable and what advantages biofuel production has over petroleum fuels.\nThis review discusses the pros and cons of biofuel production from a neutral stand point by highlighting the importance of energy production from renewable resources and the environmental and ecological factors of large-scale production of cellulosic biomass in years to come.\nPRODUCTION OF CELLULOSIC BIOMASS FOR BIOFUELS\nBiotechnology offers the promise of dramatically increasing ethanol production using celluloses and hemicelluloses, the most abundant biological materials on earth (Himmel et al., 1999; Farrell et al., 2006). Plant residues including postharvest corn plants (stover) and timber residues are the primary resources for biofuel production (Sheehan et al., 2003; Council For Agricultural Science and Technology, 2007). Other specialized high-biomass energy crops such as domesticated poplar trees, switchgrass, crop residues and forestry biomass are also considered as readily available cellulosic materials for bioconversion (Council For Agricultural Science and Technology, 2007; Schmer et al., 2008). The biochemical conversion of cellulosic biomass to ethanol involves three basic steps; (i) pretreatments to increase the accessibility of cellulose to enzymes and the solubilization of hemicellulose sugars, (ii) hydrolysis with special enzyme preparations to break down cellulose to sugars, (iii) the fermentation to ethanol (Lynd et al., 2005). To make ethanol production from cellulosic biomass conversion more economical and practical will require a science-based molecular redesigning of numerous enzymes, biochemical pathways and entire cellular systems.\nTo access the cellulosic material of the plants or plant residues, the outer protective material, the lignin, must first be degraded. Unfortunately, lignocellulose is an extremely complex and well-designed nanoscale composite that is resistant to enzymatic attack (Durot et al., 2003). Although considerable research has focused on converting biomass cellulose to fermentable glucose, less has been done on bioconversion of hemicellulose and lignocellulose into ethanol. A better understanding of the complex structures and composition of these polysaccharide groups will help identify and optimize the mechanistic models being developed for hemicellulose bioconversion (Kotchoni et al., 2006). Lignin degradation is the key to making polysaccharide components of cell walls available for breakdown. Lignin, a major component of plant cell walls, gives strength to wood. It is the second most abundant natural polymer on earth. This amorphous and insoluble aromatic material lacks stereoregularity and unlike hemicellulose and cellulose it is not susceptible to hydrolytic attack. In the cell wall structure, lignin protects cellulose, making it inaccessible for cellulosic enzymes. Therefore, pretreatment of the biomass with heat, specific enzymes and acids is required to first remove the lignin from the cellulose core before hydrolysis. This pretreatment is one of the most expensive processing steps of biofuel production. Therefore, improving the production of enzymes such as ligninases and hemicellulases will significantly help in lowering the cost of biomass pretreatment and in speeding the production of biofuels/ethanol through biological degrading processes.\nKEY ENZYMES FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION\nLigninases and hemicellulases are the key enzymes in biofuel production. They are inadequately understood and few examples are known. Optimizing these enzymes will help the ultimate goal of consolidating pretreatment and saccharification. Consequently, research needs to identify, characterize, improve and economically produce the most effective enzyme systems for biomass preconditioning. These enzymes would be applied before or after traditional pretreatment to minimize and, eventually, replace thermochemical processes, thus simplifying processing and reducing the effects of overall pretreatment severity at the macromolecular level. Attention must therefore be focused on identifying more enzymes in this class and characterizing their principal actions. The ultimate goal is to produce a recombinant ligninase-hemicellulase microbial system with enhanced stability and catalytic activity.\nDespite its vital importance, the enzymatic basis for in vivo lignin depolymerization has remained elusive. Research on putative ligninases, which can both degrade and polymerize lignin preparations, has not yielded reliable insights into the mechanisms of lignin cleavage. In plants, lignins are biopolymers characterized by a (C6-C3)n skeleton (Foerster et al., 2000; Vogt and Jones, 2000; Lim et al., 2001). Lignin is the polymeric product derived from the dehydrogenative polymerization of three monolignol precursors: coniferyl alcohol, sinapyl alcohol and p-coumaryl alcohol (Lim et al., 2001, 2005). Lignin is ranked second after cellulose as the most abundant organic material on earth and provides strength and protection against pathogenic attacks to plants. The way forward for biofuel production from plant residues requires a good understanding of regulatory expression network of genes involved in lignin biosynthesis in order to design efficient genetic strategies for its degradation. In this contest, Rice and Arabidopsis thaliana are among the most promising models to successfully study lignin degradation in plants. The Arabidopsis and rice genomes are completely sequenced plant genomes (Meinke et al., 1998) and this allows us to examine the phylogenetic-molecular relationship and regulatory expression of all genes involved in lignin biosynthesis. Based on the whole gene expression analysis, regulatory pathway(s) and functional features of the corresponding gene products of lignin biosynthesis, we can easily propose more efficient molecular approaches to digest the lignocellulosic plant residues during biofuel production. The genus Arabidopsis belongs to the Brassicaceae (mustard or crucifer) family in the tribe Sisymbriae that contains several species including the most well known Arabidopsis thaliana. Although A. thaliana is not a promising cellulosic plant for biofuel production, this particular species has emerged as model plant for studies in classical and molecular genetics, developmental biology, physiology, biochemistry and functional genomics for several reasons. A summary of reasons to adopt Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system is well documented (Meyerowitz and Pruitt, 1985; Meinke et al., 1998; Meyerowitz, 2001). Many biological functions are shared between Arabidopsis thaliana and other plants with more complex genomes and prolonged life cycles (Meyerowitz, 2001). Therefore, biological properties found in Arabidopsis thaliana are likely to be found in all other flowering plants (Meyerowitz, 2001). Analyses of the structure and functions of genes in Arabidopsis thaliana can lay the groundwork for studying the molecular basis of lignin degradation necessary for biofuel production from plant residues. Databases, web-browser data mining interface for Affymetrix GeneChips and analysis toolbox have been made available for various genomic, metabolic and proteomic analyses in Arabidopsis thaliana that have not been developed for many other plant species (Zimmermann et al., 2004).\nPotential candidates that can efficiently degrade lignin polymers were recently identified in white rot fungi (Martinez et al., 2004), but the genes encoding a range of ligninases need to be identified. The genomic sequence of a white rot fungus, Phanerochoaete chrysosporium, is up to date the most promising candidate for bioconversion of lignin. Since heterologous ligninase expression and manipulation have had limited success, a suitable host organism will still be needed to produce heterologous ligninases in sufficient quantities after the most promising lignocellulose degrading candidates have been identified. In this regard, possible hosts to consider include Echerichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia pastoris and Aspergillus oryzae to mention but few.\nWHITE ROT FUNGI, THE LIGNIN- AND HEMICELLULOSE-HYDROLYZING ORGANISMS: LEARNING FROM THE MASTER\nAlthough lignin is one of the most abundant polymers known, it is unfortunately not susceptible to hydrolytic attack (Adler, 1977). Only a small group of fungi are able to completely degrade lignin to carbon dioxide and to thereby gain access to the carbohydrate polymers of plant cell walls, which they use as carbon and energy sources (Blanchette, 1991; Martinez et al., 2004). Selective degradation of lignin by these fungi leaves behind crystalline cellulose with a bleached appearance that is often referred to as white rot (Eriksson et al., 1990; Blanchette, 1991) hence the name white rot fungi. These filamentous wood decay fungi are common inhabitants of forest litter and fallen trees and have potential in a wide range of biotechnological applications including hazardous waste remediation and the industrial processing of paper and textiles (Blanchette, 1991). White rot fungi are the primary degraders of lignin (Martinez et al., 2004). These organisms also degrade the cellulose and hemicellulose components of plant cell walls. The most intensively studied white rot basidiomycete, P. chrysosporium (Burdsall and Eslyn, 1974), is phylogenetically distant from other sequenced fungi, all of which are members of the Ascomycotina, e.g., Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Goffeau et al., 2002), Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Wood et al., 2002) and Neurospora crassa (Schulte et al., 2002). White rot fungi catalyze the initial depolymerization of lignin by secreting an array of oxidases and peroxidases generating highly reactive and nonspecific free radicals, which in turn undergo a complex series of spontaneous cleavage reactions (Kirk and Farrell, 1987; Martinez et al., 2004). Major components of the P. chrysosporium lignin depolymerization system include multiple isozymes of lignin peroxidase (LiP) and manganese-dependent peroxidase (MnP). LiP and MnP require extracellular H2O2 for their in vivo catalytic activity and one likely source is the copper radical oxidase, glyoxal oxidase (GLOX) (Martinez et al., 2004). To understand how white rot fungi degrade lignin cellulose and hemicellulose components, the genome of a white rot fungus, Phanerochoaete chrysosporium, was sequenced (Martinez et al., 2004). This is a great contribution toward understanding the biologically degrading process of lignin.\nThis fungus degrades brown lignin, the protective matrix surrounding cellulose microfibrils of plant cell walls, leaving behind crystalline white cellulose (Martinez et al., 2004). Elucidating the regulation of genes, proteins and metabolites from this organism and other lignocellulosic organisms will enhance our understanding of how the individual and collective mechanisms of hydrolyzing enzymes work to promote lignin and hemicellulose degradation as well as their interactions with other organisms in ecosystems. Such advances are necessary for generating the framework to engineer large-scale processes for biomass utilization.\nIMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY TO CELLULOSIC BIOMASS THROUGH GENETIC AND MUTAGENIC APPROACHES: CURRENT PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES\nAs mentioned earlier, understanding the physical, chemical and molecular properties of cell wall, especially how lignin is synthesized, will be a stepping stone toward generating transgenic plants with modified lignin content. Such transgenic plants will provide a unique advantage of bypassing the need for acid pretreatment and facilitating enzymatic digestion destined for fermentation to ethanol/biofuel. Several genetic resources are available to modify and thereby improve accessibility of crop based lignocellulosic biomass. These include; the use of existing mutants, forward and reverse genetics to obtain novel mutants and transgenic approaches in which the expression of genes of interest is modified. The gene of interest can be up regulated via introduction of a transgene under control of a strong promoter. Alternatively, the gene can be down regulated or knocked out through the use of co-suppression mediated by the introduction of an antisense construct, or an RNA interference construct. In the latter case, two short fragments of the target gene are cloned in opposite orientation from each other separated by a spacer sequence. Transcription of such a transgene results in the formation of a dsRNA molecule that is targeted for destruction. As a consequence of this, the native mRNA from the target gene is also degraded reviewed by Baulcombe (2004).\nProgress has been made in mining genetic resources to improve lignocellulosic biomass accessibility to enzymatic degradation. Draude et al. (2001) demonstrated that a removal of 67% of the lignin from soft wood pulp resulted in a nearly threefold increase in the yield of reducing sugars, an 88% increase in the ultimate yield of glucose and a twofold increase in the initial hydrolysis rate (over the first hour of hydrolysis). Similar results were reproduced in soft wood pulps (Charles et al., 2003) as well as in corn stover (Yang and Wyman, 2004). Recently, antisense-mediated gene down regulation approach has been used to demonstrate that reducing the level of lignin content in plant can increase ethanol yields and decreasing thereby processing inputs (Chapple et al., 2007; Chen and Dixon, 2007). In stems of transgenic alfalfa lines, independently down regulated six different lignin biosynthetic enzymes, recalcitrance to both acid pretreatment and enzymatic degradation is directly proportional to lignin content. These transgenic lines yielded nearly twice as much sugar from cell walls as wild-type plants (Chen and Dixon, 2007). Their work proves that Lignin modification could bypass the need for acid pretreatment and thereby facilitate bioprocess consolidation. In addition, plant breeding can be implemented to improve biomass yield, biomass quality and biomass conversion efficiency, either through selection among progeny obtained by crossing parents with desirable traits, or as a way to enhance the agronomic performance of promising mutants and transgenic plants (Vermerris et al., 2007). Considerable effort and progress has been made in generating promising mutant lines that can be explored to improve biofuel production. The most promising classes of mutants are the brown midrib maize and sorghum mutants in which cell wall composition is altered (Vermerris et al., 2007). These mutants are easily recognized by the reddish-brown coloration of the vascular tissue in the leaf blade and sheath. The genetic mutations are designated as bm in maize (Chabbert et al., 1994a, b; Marita et al., 2003; Barri\u00e8re et al., 2004) and bmr in sorghum (Bout and Vermerris, 2003).\nIn summary, the application of genetic and genomic strategies is very likely to pay great dividends in biofuel production technology. If for example the approach used by Chen and Dixon (2007) can be translated from the lab to the field and pretreatment can be eliminated, the savings on acid alone would be about 5.5 pounds of acid per 20 cents per gallon of ethanol, with elimination of other costs associated with pretreatment doubling or tripling these savings (Chapple et al., 2007). This proves what can be done by genetic manipulation to improve the quality of crops for biofuel production.\nBIOFUEL: A RENEWABLE ENERGY TO EMPOWER THE WORLD\nThe development of biorefinery is here shown as a very promising technology to produce renewable energy from plants and plant residues. The main objective of the technology is to convert waste into energy. A biorefinery could be loaded with various kinds of wastes, which can be converted into biofuel/ethanol via parallel refinery processes (Lynd et al. 2002). This project has been implemented by Purdue University, USA (Purdue Agricultures, 2007). The trends toward adopting the use of alternative fuels by using readily available crop residues to supply electricity, steam and chilled water are of great value to the environment. Surely, the technology will promote less waste production into the environment. Universities are generally known for their high-energy demands and such projects can easily be set up in universities as a backup energy system in case of electric failure. In this case, switchgrass is being used, but any other plant residue can be used to generate biofuels. Purdue researchers are already heading toward the next step, which is developing a new delivery system to improve the energy productivity of the bioenergy.\nLate in 2007 the USA signed an energy bill that will have a great and long-term impact on US. agriculture (Purdue Agriculture, 2007; www.epa.gov/otaq/renewablefuels/). By increasing the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to 36 billion gallons by the year 2022, the bill provides a road map for the production of renewable fuels (biofuels) from farms and forests (www.epa.gov/otaq/renewablefuels/). This new energy bill will have huge impacts on agriculture and forestry in the very near future. Of the 36 billion gallons of RFS to be produced, (i) cornstarch ethanol will contribute 15 billion gallons per year; (ii) about 13.5 billion gallons per year will be in place by the end of 2008; (iii) cellulosic ethanol will be the dominant portion of the industry to grow after 2010. Total cellulosic ethanol is expected to grow from zero to 21 billion gallons by 2022; (iv) the existing cornstarch based ethanol plants will focus on adding cellulosic ethanol production to their capacity at existing sites. The cellulosic portion of the plant will use cornstalks or other crop residues. More than likely corn producers will not meet the demands of the rapidly expanding corn ethanol plants in the near future. Under such conditions, grazing lands will be targeted to shift to fuel crops such as prairie grasses and may develop into fuel-crop production areas (Purdue Agriculture, 2007; www.epa.gov/otaq/renewablefuels/). Other lignocellulosic feedstocks that have been proposed include switchgrass, woody plants and mixtures of prairie grasses and forbs (Schmer et al., 2008).\nConservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres may largely shift toward cellulosic energy crops in various areas. Forests and woodlands may be shifted to energy crops as well. A large search for new energy crops will be the next step in optimizing biofuel production. Some of these may be nontraditional crops such as sweet sorghums, tropical maize, or sugar cane. A large amount of research, development and experimentation will be conducted to discover the most economic ways to produce, store and transport these new cellulosic energy crops. Most of the crops will be land and natural resource based which means agriculture will be called to meet these enormous challenges and to also reap the potential rewards. In summary various reserved forest areas might very soon be lost to cellulosic energy crop production.\nAnother subsequent effect of this new technology is the hidden problem of deforestation linked to biofuel production due to higher demand for land to grow biofuel-producing crops (Fargione et al., 2008). In addition, increased diversion of cropland to biofuels has resulted in greatly increased prices of food crops because of high demand and low supply (Fargione et al., 2008). The high demand for biofuels has lead to the replacement of natural wilderness with plants for biofuels to the extent that they are now considered among the world`s top carbon emitters as well as source of deforestation (Fargione et al., 2008). However, with caution and adequate ecosystem management programs, this disadvantage can be appropriately tackled to avoid a negative impact on the ecosystem.\nTHE ENERGY SYSTEM USED SO FAR: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES\nThe vast majority of energy sources used so far is powered by petroleum products, i.e., gasoline or diesel fuel. However, looking into the future, there are increasing concerns about the hidden costs of petroleum dependency. There is therefore an increasing need to find alternative energy sources to reduce our petroleum (gasoline or diesel fuel) dependency. So far petroleum fuel deserves the merit of empowering the world in many if not all aspects of life. But it is associated with several disadvantages that lead to the search for alternative energy sources.\nBeside the increasing price of petroleum products, the complete combustion of petroleum products (hydrocarbon fuels) leads to the production of carbon dioxide (CO2), which contributes to the global warming (Farrell et al., 2006). In case of an incomplete combustion of the hydrocarbon fuels, there is formation of carbon monoxide (CO), a highly poisonous gas, released in the atmosphere. Even in case of complete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels into water and carbon dioxide, there is now growing concern about carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. In addition, some of the unburned carbon atoms can react with nitrogen oxides (another pollutant from combustion) in the presence of sunlight to form ozone, which is a lung irritant (although ozone layer in the stratosphere is a shield against the sun`s ultraviolet light, but at ground level ozone is the main component of photochemical smog) (Farrell et al., 2006). These unburned carbon atoms can also remain stuck to one another with few or without hydrogen atoms, especially during incomplete combustion of diesel fuel, producing soot. In contrast, alternative fuels produced from biological materials are less polluting than gasoline and diesel. Biofuels, are simpler molecules, therefore easier to burn more completely and producing less carbon monoxide, soot and unburned hydrocarbons. For example, an alternative fuel such as methane is almost incapable of forming smog.\nSome alternative fuels are not hydrocarbons; in this group belong the alcohols and biodiesel, which contain oxygen atoms as well as carbon and hydrogen. The subgroup of alcohol fuels includes methanol (CH3OH), ethanol (C2H5OH) and the biodiesel (monoalkyl esters). The presence of oxygen in these alternative fuels promotes more complete combustion, so that less carbon monoxide, soot and unburned hydrocarbons are produced. The alternative fuels inherently produce less carbon dioxide than gasoline or diesel fuel when burned completely as shown by the following example: 100 oxygen atoms are needed for four molecules of isooctane (gasoline) to produce 32 carbon dioxide molecules and 36 water molecules, while the same number of oxygen atoms will combine with 25 methane(natural gas) molecules to produce 25 carbon dioxide molecules and 50 water molecules. That is, a given amount of air oxygen will produce about 25% less carbon dioxide if used to burn natural gas (CH4, methane) than if used to burn gasoline.\nAVOIDING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT\nIf the carbon atoms of the fuel came from the carbon dioxide in the air (atmosphere), for instance an alcohol fuel produced by fermentation of biomass, then returning it to the air later would add nothing to the net flow of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Alcohol fuels or biodiesel produced from plants, when burned, just return to the air the carbon dioxide that the plants had taken out from the air while growing. The alternative fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG, commonly known as propane), Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Methanol (M85), Ethanol (E85) and biodiesel (B20) are potential bioenergic entities that have to various degrees some advantages over the petroleum fuels because they emit less pollutants than petroleum fuels. They are however associated to various disadvantages, or else the world system would not still be almost 100% dependent on petroleum products. The disadvantages of alternative fuels will be discussed in detail in sections below. Because of the restricted number of pages, only a few alternative fuels such as Methanol (M85), Ethanol (E85) and biodiesel (B20) will be emphasized in this review.\nMETHANOL (M85)\nMethanol is often produced from natural gas. It can be produced by fermention of biomass and that is why it is also called wood alcohol. Methanol is often blended at 85% methanol with 15% unleaded gasoline, hence the name M85. Methanol is not carcinogenic. It is less toxic, but more corrosive than gasoline (NESCAUM, 2001). Therefore special chemical additives are necessary before it can be used. A given volume of M85 will produce approximately 70% less energy compared to the same volume of gasoline. Methanol is most commonly mixed with 15% gasoline to correct two disadvantages of pure methanol: (i) a pure methanol flame is colorless, therefore invisible. Gasoline (15% V/V) is added to give the flame some color in order to allow rescuers to know whether a fire is present when a M85-engine is involved in an accident; (ii) pure methanol has a single boiling point. This often causes cold-start problems in cold weather, or vapor lock in hot weather. Gasoline, being a mixture of compounds with different boiling points, overcomes this problem.\nEthanol is produced by fermention of biomass, generally corn, though other, lower-value feedstocks like brewery waste and cheese-factory effluent can be used in an effort to reduce costs. Ethanol is a renewable resource that contributes nothing to greenhouse-gas loading of the atmosphere and therefore causes no concerns of global warming. It is usually blended in a mixture of 85% ethanol, 15% unleaded gasoline, hence the name E85 (NESCAUM, 2001). Like methanol, it can be blended with any amount of gasoline. The main disadvantage of E85 is the high price, even with the available subsidies. However, research is under way to ferment lower-grade feedstocks such as corn cob to make alcohol more cost efficient. In addition, Ethanol is also corrosive, though less than methanol and there are concerns about flame visibility in case of accidental burning of ethanol.\nBiodiesel is a substitute of petroleum diesel made from biomass. It is inherently renewable and therefore contributes nothing to carbon-dioxide loading of the atmosphere. Biodiesel is commonly produced from soybean or canola oil as material source, but animal fat or recycled cooking oil can also be used. To reduce its cost over petroleum diesel, biodiesel is a blend of 20% biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel fuel, hence the name B20. Biodiesel can cut greenhouse-gas emissions as well as ordinary pollutants (particularly soot) by displacing petroleum diesel. The main disadvantage of B20, like that of E85, is its high cost.\nBIOFUEL PRODUCTION: THE HIDDEN THREAT ON DEFORESTATION AND GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSION\nAlthough biofuels are been viewed as the promising alternative fuels to solve problems associated with increasing energy demand, climate change and environmental pollution, their production is still accompanied with far extended list of hidden threats that need to be dealt with to avoid what otherwise might be more devastating and far out weigh the advantages of biofuels over the fossil fuels. Studies that have proposed that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse gases because biofuels sequester carbon through the growth of the feedstock, have however failed to count the carbon emissions that occur as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices and convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain (or cropland) diverted to biofuels (Searchinger et al., 2008).\nConverting native habitats to cropland releases CO2 as a result of burning or microbial decomposition of organic carbon stored in plant biomass and soils (Fargione et al., 2008).\nConverting the world`s lowland tropical rainforests into cellulosic crop lands will not only promote desertification, but also increase directly or indirectly the green house gas emission. According to recent study conducted by Fargione et al. (2008), converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop-based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia and the United States creates a \u201cbiofuel carbon debt\u0094? by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels. Their analyses suggested that biofuels, if produced on converted land, could, for long periods of time, be much greater net emitters of Green-House Gases (GHG) than the fossil fuels that they typically displace (Righelato and Spracklen, 2007; Fargione et al., 2008). Greater biofuel production might decrease overall energy prices, which could increase energy consumption and GHG release (Perlack et al., 2005; Tilman et al., 2006). In the same study, Fargione et al. (2008) shows that biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands planted with perennials incur little or no carbon debt and can offer immediate and sustained GHG advantages. Using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land-use change, Searchinger et al. (2008) have found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Their work showed that biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%. These studies raise concern about large biofuel mandates and highlight the value of using waste products for biofuel production.\nIn an effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, expand domestic energy production and maintain economic growth, scientists aim at producing biofuel from feedstock using current biotechnology (Chappel et al., 2008; Chen and Dixon, 2007; Searchinger et al., 2008). For reasons mention above, decreasing GHG emission by switching from fossil fuels to biofuel production will greatly depend on direct and indirect effect of land clearing for biofuel production (Fargione et al., 2008; Searchinger et al., 2008). Unlike food crops grown for grain-based ethanol (e.g., corn), which require high inputs of fertilizers and pesticides, proposed lignocellulose-based energy crops (e.g., switchgrass) typically require relatively few economic or environmental inputs and can be cultivated on marginal, lower-productivity land (Hill et al., 2006). Thus, in a rapidly growing industry related to cellulosic plant species selection, cultivar improvement and conversion technologies it is imperative to promote cost effectiveness. A variety of plant species, including grasses, herbs and trees, are being considered for use as biofuel crops (McLaughlin et al., 2002). The leading candidates for lignocellulose-based energy, however, are primarily rhizomatous (i.e. having below ground vegetative reproductive structures) perennial grasses. Generally, most of these grasses are not native to many of the regions where production is proposed (Lewandowski et al., 2003). From an agronomic point of view, their life history characteristics, rapid growth rates and tonnage of biomass produced by these non-native grasses make them ideal feedstock crops, but they may easily become invasive species and pose a trait to the ecosystem. Though the technology is promising, care must be taken through adequate planning and management to avoid transforming farmlands into cellulosic-biomass areas for biofuels.\nThe hurried trends with which biofuel crops currently are being sought to replace petroleum fuels will likely end in a new dimension of biologically based industrial energy. To sustain the industrial need, non-native perennial species will soon be globally selected mainly for their rapid growth rates, annual production and low economic and environmental inputs. This may pose a serious threat to the ecosystem. To preserve the ecosystem, biofuel feedstocks should be propagated easily in highly managed agricultural systems and should not be able to survive outside of such cultivation (Paine et al., 1996). 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Plant Physiol., 136: 2621-2632.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 45487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciencing.com/when-solving-quadratic-equations-what-questions-should-i-ask-myself-12753465.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HYZUS6R2XFGKKBW5WHTFMUKLY7JJZ5OQ", "length": 5238, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "sciencing.com", "title": "When Solving Quadratic Equations, What Questions Should I Ask Myself? | Sciencing", "raw_content": "How to Find the Roots of a Quadratic\nHow to Find the Missing Number in an Equation\nPros & Cons in Methods of Solving Systems of Equations\nHow to Find X and Y Intercepts of Quadratic Equations\nWhen Solving Quadratic Equations, What Questions Should I Ask Myself?\nFor many learners, factoring quadratic equations tends to be among the more challenging aspects of a high school or college algebra course. The process entails an extensive amount of prerequisite knowledge, such as familiarity with algebraic terminology and the ability to solve multi-step linear equations. There are multiple methods for solving quadratic equations -- the most common of which are factoring, graphing and the quadratic formula -- and the questions you should ask yourself vary depending upon which method you use.\nRegardless of which method you\u2019re using, you first need to ask yourself whether the quadratic equation is set equal to zero. Mathematically speaking, the equation must be in the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0, where \u201ca,\u201d \u201cb\u201d and \u201cc\u201d are integers, and \u201ca\u201d is not equal to zero. (See Reference 1 or Reference 2) Sometimes the equations may already be presented in that form, for instance, 3x^2 \u2013 x \u2013 10 = 0. However, if both sides of the equals sign include nonzero terms, you need to add or subtract terms from one side to move them to the other side. For instance, in 3x^2 \u2013 x \u2013 4 = 6, before solving you need subtract six from both sides of the equation, to obtain 3x^2 \u2013 x \u2013 10 = 0.\nIf you are considering this method, first ask yourself whether the coefficient of the squared term, \u201ca\u201d, is anything other than one. If it is, as is the case in 3x^2 \u2013 x \u2013 10 = 0, where \u201ca\u201d is three, consider using another method, as it will likely be much quicker than factoring. Otherwise, factoring can be a fast and effective method. When factoring, ask yourself if the numbers you\u2019ve placed inside the parentheses multiply to produce \u201cc\u201d and add to produce \u201cb\u201d. For example, if in solving x^2 \u2013 5x \u2013 36 = 0, you\u2019ve written (x \u2013 9)(x + 4) = 0, you are on the right track because -9 * 4 = -36 and -9 + 4 = -5.\nBefore beginning this method, first ensure that you have a graphing calculator. If not, select another method, because graphing by hand will be cumbersome. After you have input the equation and obtained the graph, ask yourself whether the viewing window size enables you to find the solution. Graphically, the solutions for a quadratic equation consist of the x-values of the points where the parabola crosses the x-axis. Depending on the particular equation, if your viewing window is too small, you may not be able to see these points. For instance, in x^2 \u2013 11x \u2013 26 = 0, it is immediately apparent that one of the solutions is x = -2, but the second solution is probably not visible because it is a larger number than the standard window settings on most graphing calculators. To find the second solution, increase the x-values in the window settings until it is visible; in this example, increase the maximum value until you can see that the parabola crosses the x-axis at x = 13.\nThe quadratic formula method can be an effective method because it works for solving any quadratic equation, including those with irrational or imaginary roots. The quadratic formula is: x = [-b plus or minus the square root of (b^2 \u2013 4ac)] / (2a)]. When inserting values into the quadratic formula, ask yourself whether you\u2019ve correctly identified \u201ca\u201d, \u201cb\u201d and \u201cc.\u201d For instance, in 8x^2 \u2013 22x \u2013 6 = 0, a = 8, b = -22, and c = -6. Also ask yourself whether \u201cb\u201d is negative -- if so, it will be positive in the first portion of the quadratic formula. Neglecting to reverse the sign of \u201cb\u201d in this case is a common mistake that many students make. For instance, the example yields [22 plus or minus the square root of (-22^2 \u2013 4_8_-6) / (2*8)]. Carefully simplify terms, asking yourself if you\u2019re properly handling negative numbers and applying the order of operations. If following the example, you should obtain x = 3 and x = -0.25.\nMath Warehouse: Solve a Quadratic Equation\nPurple Math: Solving Quadratic Equations: Solving by Factoring\nRegents Exam Prep Center: A Summary of the Methods of Solving Quadratic Equations\nUniversity of Wisconsin -- Rock County: Methods for Solving Quadratic Equations\nHow to Use the Quadratic Formula\nTips For Solving Quadratic Equations\nHow to Find the Line of Symmetry in a Quadratic Equation\nHow to Convert Quadratic Equations From Standard to Vertex Form\nHarris, Amy. \"When Solving Quadratic Equations, What Questions Should I Ask Myself?\" Sciencing, https://sciencing.com/when-solving-quadratic-equations-what-questions-should-i-ask-myself-12753465.html. Accessed 15 February 2019.\nHarris, Amy. (n.d.). When Solving Quadratic Equations, What Questions Should I Ask Myself? Sciencing. 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The PC version will release on January 28, as the game is set to launch this holiday on PlayStation 4.\nReports of low sales were rebuffed by Xbox One product manager and marketing lead Aaron Greenberg, who confirmed on Twitter that the title sold \u201cwell over\u201d a million units in its first two months. Developer Crystal Dynamics has been hard at work on the games first story DLC titled \u2018Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch\u2019 and a release date has finally been announced.\nSet to launch next week on January 26, Microsoft recently detailed what story players will go through as Lara Croft.\nThis is the second piece of major content included in the game\u2019s season pass, alongside the previously released Endurance Mode \u2013 where players will be able to \u201cchallenge friends to your longest survival run and battle to the top of the leaderboards for the title of Ultimate Survivor,\u201d \u2013 and the yet to be released Cold Darkness Awakened \u2013 which focuses on Lara overcoming \u201cincreasingly dangerous waves of these infected predators while scrounging their equipment and crafting additional gear on the fly, in kill or be killed survival-combat.\u201d\nSquare Enix has not confirmed whether players will be able to buy Baba Yaga separately from the $30 season pass, as the DLC launches close to the PC version of the game two days later. Square Enix will hope for positive sales for the PC version and a huge return when the game launches on PlayStation 4 later this year. It will be interesting to see if Sony markets the game as a brand new title or choose not to reward Square Enix for their Xbox One exclusivity agreement. The game was initially going to go up against PlayStation's Uncharted 4, with both titles being third person action games, last year before the title was pushed to March and then April of 2016.\nRise of the Tomb Raider will release for PC on January 28 and the Baba Yaga DLC will available on January 26.\nTags: rise of the tomb raider", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seasons-of-smiles.com/tag/new-england-patriots", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UCETCA5ZCXRG5PPO35ZPGKQXKRIFJJ37", "length": 598, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "seasons-of-smiles.com", "title": "New England Patriots Archives \u2022 Seasons of Smiles Dental - Arthur Norman Medina DDS", "raw_content": "Ahh, autumn in New England. The crisp air, the colorful leaves, the football games that allow us to forget the outside world and come together to cheer on our team\u2026what could be better? Yes, yes, the NFL has become a hot topic. There\u2019s some real discord...\nby Norman Medina DDS | Oct 30, 2016 | Dental Blog, Meet Our Staff | 0 comments\nAbout 6 weeks ago I was visiting with my son on the phone and he mentioned that he would LOVE to see Tom Brady play before he retires. Living in New England these last few years has been a gift with the the Patriots as the home team. We started looking on the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 347, "original_length": 22703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://semipartisansam.com/tag/sandra-day-oconnor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:IVRFN26F5W6NLHC4QC3BOYZTJAHCMPOK", "length": 5559, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "semipartisansam.com", "title": "Sandra Day O\u2019Connor \u2013 Semi-Partisan Politics", "raw_content": "In The Presence Of RBG\nSeptember 13, 2018 Samuel HooperLeave a comment\nJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg deserves to be celebrated for her trailblazing career and for her jurisprudence, not simply reduced to a pop culture meme and uncritically worshipped for supporting the progressive political agenda\nToday, the famed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court \u2013 now better known as the Notorious RBG \u2013 came to speak at my law school. As well she should, perhaps, since she only lives about six blocks away\u2026\nIt was good to hear the justice and see her firsthand, though if you have watched any of her other recent appearances or speeches (as I have) you would not have learned anything new today, besides a few interesting factoids about the various films and documentaries being made about her life and career.\nI have become rather wary of the \u201ccult of personality\u201d which builds up around some jurists, most notably in recent years Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg \u2013 not because either are at all undeserving of the praise and respect they receive(d), but because treating a justice of the Supreme Court first and foremost as a warrior fighting for one\u2019s own pet political issues contributes significantly to the politicization of the court. Especially now, when many American institutions \u2013 from the presidency to Congress to the media \u2013 face a corrosive crisis of legitimacy, doing anything which makes the Supreme Court even more of the extended political battlefield that it already is seems reckless.\nAlready we have a president who has vowed to only nominate candidates with preset positions on hot-button issues like abortion, and leftists who call for adding seats to the court to dilute the \u201cconservative\u201d voting bloc \u2013 we don\u2019t need to go any further in those unseemly directions.\n\"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have the Notorious RBG in the house.\" #RBGatGW pic.twitter.com/9PiDA3koV5\n\u2014 GW Law (@gwlaw) September 12, 2018\nAlso from a political perspective, it does not go unnoticed that the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court conspicuously fails to enjoy the same acclaim and cult of personality reserved for Justice Ginsburg, the second. Sandra Day O\u2019Connor, nominated by Ronald Reagan and who served on the court from 1981 to 2006, was every bit the trailblazer as Ginsburg. O\u2019Connor, too, had to contend with endemic sexism in her career and achieved a level of success which sets a shining example for aspiring male and female lawyers everywhere. But of course O\u2019Connor, nominated by a Republican president and with a voting record to the court\u2019s ideological right, does not make such compelling Hollywood fodder in a culture which often only celebrates women to the extent they espouse mandatory progressive values. This is a real shame, because O\u2019Connor\u2019s story is very inspiring in its own right. Overlooking O\u2019Connor in order to bestow all of our adulation upon \u201cThe Notorious RBG\u201d is akin to ignoring Neil Armstrong and venerating Buzz Aldrin as the only hero of Apollo 11.\nAs it happens, both Scalia and Ginsburg have written opinions and dissents which I admire (with my still largely-unformed legal brain). I am generally of the opinion that it should be for the state and federal legislatures to explicitly expand enumerated rights by statute or Constitutional amendment rather than continue the charade of having the Supreme Court \u201cdiscover\u201d new rights which were apparently lurking all along undetected in the words of the founding document. The latter seems like a disingenuous approach, albeit one pursued by both Left and Right on different occasions.\nAnd as Ginsburg pointed out in her remarks this evening, explaining her own equivocation on Roe v. Wade, it can actually be counterproductive for an overly activist court to overstep its bounds and create sweeping new rights at the vanguard of social change. Why? Because this can lead to a political backlash and give opponents a single case law target on which to focus their fire, rather than having to \u201cfight in the trenches\u201d to oppose change in the fifty individual states. How much more secure would Roe supporters now feel in the Age of Trump if the rights they seek to preserve rested upon something more than one solitary Supreme Court decision?\nRegardless, there is nothing like looking at Justice Ginsburg\u2019s biography and accomplishments to make one feel inadequate. Here is someone who attended both Harvard and Columbia law schools, served on law review, came up through the ranks of the legal profession when there was real overt hostility to women lawyers, and served a quarter century and counting on the United States Supreme Court. Meanwhile, I plod through my Civil Procedure casebook and try in vain for the third time to understand what the blazes I am supposed to take away from Pennoyer v. Neff.\nBut I certainly return to my casebooks this evening with an injection of fresh motivation and inspiration. I do not agree with every last one of Justice Ginsburg\u2019s opinions or share her overall judicial philosophy, but I still come away full of admiration, having briefly been in the presence of a real giant of the law. If, at the end of my own legal career I can look back and claim to have made one hundredth of the contribution to law and American life accomplished by Justice Ginsburg then I shall consider my decision to pursue this new calling vindicated one hundred times over.\nLaw, US Current AffairsAntonin Scalia, Law, Law School, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Supreme Court", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 11739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://serenademagazine.com/news/from-strength-to-strength/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EFESZHHAFB5YCF4QMBSESH2XHROAONZ5", "length": 6950, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "serenademagazine.com", "title": "From Strength to Strength \u2013 Serenade", "raw_content": "\u00a9 D.Matvejevas\nON Stage October 8, 2017\nThe Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra has been active in the music festival circuit in Europe and beyond for over seven decades. Ahead of its performances at the NCPA, we take a look at how the orchestra has carried forward its rich heritage. By Beverly Pereira\nSince 1940, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) has played a vital role in the development of Lithuania\u2019s art and culture. The orchestra\u2019s roots can be traced back to the Vilnius City Symphony Orchestra, founded by eminent Lithuanian composer, conductor and pianist Balys Dvarionas in 1940 during the Soviet annexation of Lithuania. As it fostered the artistic endeavours of Lithuanian composers and performers, the orchestra steadily gained a reputation for its incredible brilliance. Today, the 96-piece LNSO occupies a prestigious position at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society in Lithuania\u2019s capital city of Vilnius. Not only is it widely recognised as the country\u2019s prime orchestra, but it is also ranked high as one of Europe\u2019s most notable professional orchestras.\nLithuanian conductor Juozas Domarkas, who enjoys a longstanding history with the LNSO, was appointed as the orchestra\u2019s honorary conductor in 2015. His association with the LNSO goes back all the way to 1964, when he was invited to conduct and direct the orchestra during the last year of his studies at St. Petersburg Conservatory. Having taken to the podium, replacing Dvarionas, he tirelessly led the orchestra through intense periods of cultural and political unrest. Under the baton of a young Domarkas, the orchestra exposed the audiences to a number of large-scale classical works that were previously not heard of in Lithuania. These included Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony and Missa solemnis, Mahler symphonies and important works by Stravinsky.\nIt can be said that the adeptness of the LNSO musicians was directly influenced by Domarkas and his artistic abilities. He took the orchestra to new heights, which led to a remarkable first international tour in Poland in 1969. The orchestra gained international recognition for its ability to perform some of the most complex symphonic scores during the 1970s. It was also during this period that scores of invitations to perform at distinguished concert halls in Moscow, St. Petersburg and beyond began to pour in.\nThe LNSO embraces works under the oratorio genre and symphonic opuses of the past, as well as modern contemporary music particularly by Lithuanian composers.\nIt was only after the restoration of Lithuania\u2019s independence in 1990 that the orchestra was officially named the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. The newly regained sense of independence also paved the way for the LNSO to make headway in most of Europe and Japan. Domarkas continues to be lauded as one of the country\u2019s most experienced conducting teachers and performers. He remains highly respected for his perseverance and vitality in nurturing a symphony orchestra with a high artistic standard. He can also be credited for the widespread presence of Lithuanian music, thanks to the many recordings by record companies like Melodiya, among others, which were released in Lithuania and abroad.\nIt is no wonder then that the storied orchestra has ceaselessly attracted a roster of celebrated conductors, including Mstislav Rostropovich, Kurt Masur and Christoph Eschenbach. Over the last few years, LNSO has worked with some of the world\u2019s leading performers like pianist Freddy Kempf, opera singer Jessye Norman, and conductor, violinist and violist Yuri Bashmet. The LNSO has also presented concerts at prominent European music festivals. It has graced prestigious stages such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, Barbican Centre in London, Cologne Philharmonic, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, K\u00f6lner Philharmonie in Germany and Tokyo\u2019s Suntory Hall. In 2013, the orchestra toured South America for the first time, besides performing in the ceremonial opening and closing of the Lithuanian Presidency of the European Council at the Klara Festival in Brussels and the Bialystok Philharmonic in Poland.\nIt has been a busy few months for the LNSO. But that\u2019s far from unusual, given that the LNSO plays approximately 50 concerts a year. It embraces works under the oratorio genre and symphonic opuses of the past, as well as modern contemporary music particularly by Lithuanian composers. The orchestra prepares and performs symphonic music programmes in the National Philharmonic in Vilnius and in other Lithuanian cities. It regularly participates in Gaida, the annual contemporary music festival that premieres the works of Lithuanian composers.\nThe LNSO is currently led by Modestas Pitrenas, a highly accomplished Lithuanian conductor, who has held the position of principal guest conductor and artistic director since 2014. Pitrenas is the principal guest conductor of the Latvian National Opera (LNO) and \u2014 having extensively worked in opera \u2014 is the conductor of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (LNOBT). He has presented symphonic opuses by Tchaikovsky, Lutos\u0142awski and Mahler with the LNSO, Latvian National Orchestra, Krasnoyarsk State Orchestra and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra over the years and has toured with these orchestras across Europe and in China and the US. The LNSO also works under the highly accomplished baton of conductor Robertas \u0160ervenikas, who was appointed as its second conductor in 1993 and has since led the orchestra at some of Europe\u2019s biggest music festivals.\nCome October, the LNSO, led by Pitrenas, will perform familiar favourites such as Brahms\u2019s Symphony No. 4 and Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt. The celebrated orchestra will also perform In the Forest, the earliest Lithuanian example of a symphonic poem, composed by the popular Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis. Spread across two evenings, these performances will astonish and delight lovers of classical music in equal measure.\nThe Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra will take the stage on 10th and 11th October at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre.\nThis piece was originally published by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, in the October 2017 issue of ON Stage \u2013 their monthly arts magazine.\nAmsterdamBalys DvarionasBarbican CentreBeethoven\u2019s Ninth SymphonyBrahms\u2019s Symphony No. 4Christoph EschenbachCologne PhilharmonicConcertgebouwDomarkasDvarionasFreddy KempfGermanyHungarian Rhapsody by LisztJessye NormanJuozas DomarkasK\u00f6lner PhilharmonieKrasnoyarsk State OrchestraKurt MasurLatvian National OrchestraLithuanian Chamber OrchestraLNSOLondonLutos\u0142awskiMahlerMelodiyaMikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionisMissa solemnisModestas PitrenasMoscow Conservatory Great HallMstislav RostropovichMusikvereinSuntory HallTchaikovskyTokyoViennaVilnius City Symphony OrchestraYuri Bashmet\nPrevious ArticleArvo P\u00e4rt\nNext ArticleClocks, Clouds and Textures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 10591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://simplyaudiobooks.com/audio-books/Past+Tense%3A+A+Jack+Reacher+Novel/351679/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KW226GWDGCTSDUV5QCZOASG3IW3ACEGS", "length": 3060, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "simplyaudiobooks.com", "title": "Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child audio book | Simply Audiobooks", "raw_content": "Suspense, Detective Stories, Action & Adventure\nLee Child was born in the exact geographic center of England, in the heart of the industrial badlands. Never saw a tree until he was twelve. It was the sort of place where if you fell in the river, you had to go to the hospital for a mandatory stomach pump. The sort of place where minor disputes were settled with box cutters and bicycle chains. He's got the scars to prove it.\nBut he survived, got an education, and went to law school, but only because he didn't want to be a lawyer. Without the pressure of aiming for a job in the field, he figured it would be a relaxing subject to study. He spent most of the time in the university theater - to the extent that he had to repeat several courses, because he failed the exams - and then went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, England. Back then, Granada was a world-famous production company, known for shows like Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect and Cracker. Lee worked on the broadcast side of the company, so his involvement with the good stuff was limited. But he remembers waiting in the canteen line with people like Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Natalie Wood and Michael Apted. And he says that being involved with more than 40,000 hours of the company's program output over an eighteen-year stay taught him a thing or two about telling a story. He also wrote thousands of links, trailers, commercials and news stories, most of them on deadlines that ranged from fifteen minutes to fifteen seconds. So the thought of a novel-a-year didn't worry him too much, in his next career.\nBut why a next career? He was fired, back in 1995, that's why. It was the usual Nineties downsizing thing. After eighteen years, he was an expensive veteran, and he was also the union organizer, and neither thing fit the company's plan for the future. And because of the union involvement, he wasn't on too many alternative employers' wish lists, either. So he became a writer, because he couldn't think of anything else to do. He had an idea for a character who had suffered the same downsizing experience but who was taking it completely in his stride. And he figured if he brought the same total commitment to his audience that he'd seen his television peers develop, he could get something going. He named the character Jack Reacher and wrote Killing Floor as fast as he could. He needed to sell it before his severance check ran out. He made it with seven weeks to spare, and luckily the book was an instant hit, selling strongly all around the world, and winning both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. It led to contracts for at least nine more Reacher books.\nLee moved from the UK to the US in the summer of 1998. He lives in New York and France with his American wife, Jane. They have a grown-up daughter, Ruth. Lee likes to travel, for vacations, but especially on promotion tours so he can meet his readers, to whom he is eternally grateful. His latest thriller, Nothing to Lose was published in 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 156.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://skift.com/2012/09/04/more-people-are-coming-to-abu-dhabi-but-its-larger-room-inventory-make-the-market-look-down/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:RLVEIO4QDHSUMOQTOE6L5LLR57JCSFJA", "length": 2922, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "skift.com", "title": "More people are coming to Abu Dhabi, but its larger room inventory makes the market look down \u2013 Skift", "raw_content": "More people are coming to Abu Dhabi, but its larger room inventory makes the market look down\nHaseeb Haider, Khaleej Times\nAbu Dhabi is looking at 2.3 million hotel guests this year, driven largely by an enthusiastic crowd from Russia an more visitors from Asia.\nAbu Dhabi received 1.37 million hotel guests in the January-to-July period \u2014 an 11 percent increase over the corresponding seven-month period last year \u2014 bringing it closer to its target of 2.3 million for 2012.\nHowever, with a 16 per cent jump in total hotel room inventory over the last six months, July hotel occupancy in the capital dropped 16 per cent to 55 per cent.\nElsewhere, revenue per available room, or RevPAR, was 22 per cent down on July 2011. In the first seven months of the year, overall RevPAR has shown a 16 per cent year-on-year fall. Abu Dhabi now boasts 128 hotels and hotel apartments accounting for 22,800 rooms. The figure is expected to exceed 24,000 by the end of the year.\nWhile traditionally lower travel rates during the holy month of Ramadan saw Abu Dhabi\u2019s hotels and hotel apartments return a six per cent drop in year-on-year hotel guests for the month of July, the average length of stay \u2014 a key growth focus \u2014 rose to 2.84 days last month, an increase of six per cent on the corresponding month last year. In total, some 178,099 guests stayed at Abu Dhabi\u2019s hotels and hotel apartments in July, returning 504,982 guest nights, one per cent down on the comparative month last year. The number of room nights dipped four per cent falling to 359,465 from the 373,254 tallied last July. Seven-month figures for guest nights and room nights show year-on-year increases of seven per cent and six per cent, respectively.\nFood and beverage revenues \u2014 a key source of accommodation sector income \u2014 remained constant at Dh98.1 million to ensure seven-month takings are 10 per cent up on last year, totalling Dh1 billion.\n\u201cWe remain on track as we enter our traditional busy season. With a packed schedule of world-class events and a host of new leisure attractions due to open across the emirate, including the UAE\u2019s largest water park, Yas Waterworld, we are confident momentum will rise and we\u2019ll reach our 2.3 million hotel guest target,\u201d said Mubarak Al Muhairi, director-general of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, or TCA Abu Dhabi.\nAsia displayed the strongest year-on-year hotel guest increase last month at 17 per cent, followed closely by Europe at 12 per cent and North America at 10 per cent. Asia\u2019s contribution was primarily driven by growth from Russia, which rocketed 128 per cent. China was up 70 per cent and India climbed 24 per cent. July\u2019s best-performing source markets were the UAE with 73,104 hotel guests, followed by India (10,753), the UK (8,195) and Saudi Arabia (7,235).\n(c)2012 the Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Distributed by MCT Information Services.\nTags: abu dhabi, tourism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/42933/days-of-our-lives-saturday-teaser-poll-the-past-re/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVAAMQNHU66YP5437B23BGVPHVDERS7Z", "length": 608, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "soaps.sheknows.com", "title": "Days of our Lives Saturday Teaser Poll: The Past Returns News | Soaps.com", "raw_content": "Days of our Lives Saturday Teaser Poll: The Past Returns\nBen\u2019s stay in Salem gets a little more rocky when something from his past comes back to haunt him. It\u2019s so bad and potentially problematic that he has to turn to Clyde for help. What is it?\nVote in Soaps.com\u2019s \u201cDays of our Lives\u201d poll to let us know what happened in Ben\u2019s past. If you already know, please keep it quiet but go ahead and speculate in the comments section.\nRead Soaps.com's Days of our Lives Spoilers to find out who is stunned to learn a secret. And then don't miss your opportunity to vote in Soaps.com's ninth annual Sudzies awards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soar.libraries.rutgers.edu/search-results?q1=%22Bonet,%20Sally%20W.%22&q1field=facet:author&key=soar", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XTS5H4KE4EUQRQDN4QVWIWLWWFMQXPKO", "length": 713, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "soar.libraries.rutgers.edu", "title": "Search Results | SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers)", "raw_content": "Abu El-Haj, Thea R. & Bonet, Sally W. (2011). Education, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging: Muslim Youth from Transnational Communities and the \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d. Review of Research in Education, 35(1), 29-59. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3KW5DDK\nEducation, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging: Muslim Youth from Transnational Communities and the \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d (2011)\nThea R. Abu El-Haj, Sally W. Bonet\nReview of Research in Education 35(1): 29-59.\nPersistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3KW5DDK\nSubjectsArab American youth, Education, Citizenship, Transnational communities, Immigrants, Islamic culture, Muslims, Ethnicity, North America, September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 217.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socialism.com/category/reviews/book-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7BUU3TR6LSWIATLLSAE6CTJVPQGVJDTW", "length": 2408, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "socialism.com", "title": "Book Review Archives - Freedom Socialist Party", "raw_content": "Posts in: Book Review\nCo-authored by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, this unique history book exposes the story of the United States that we were never taught in school.\nStanding tall and fighting back\nPalestinians tell their own story in The Last Earth. Author Ramsey Baroud teaches Palestinian history \u201cas told by its tenacious victims, not barefaced aggressors.\u201d\nBy Dr. Steven StraussApril 2018\nIs Trump mentally ill? And does it matter?\nAnalyzing the Trump danger: Marxist social science versus psychology\nBy Steven StraussJanuary 10, 2018\nNeurologist and FSP National Committee member Steven Strauss diagnoses the real problem.\nBook review: How England\u2019s \u201cwaste people\u201d became \u201cwhite trash\u201d in the US\nBy Sukey WolfOctober 2017\nWhite trash, redneck, clay eater, cracker. This is only a partial list of all the sneering names developed over hundreds of years to stigmatize poor white people in the United States. In her new book White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg traces the evolution of language, perception and public policy\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nHistory provides invaluable lessons in how to stop fascism in its tracks\nThe Fight Against Fascism in the U.S.A., by James P Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Joseph Hansen, Leon Trotsky and Murry Weiss, Resistance Books (2004), ISBN 1876646179, 237 pages, $19.95. In January 1997, a fascist outfit, National Action (NA), opened a bookshop in the multicultural Melbourne suburb of Fawkner. This development led to the reactivation of Campaign\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nArundhati Roy\u2019s eloquent answer to the neoliberal spin doctors\nBy Brigitte ElleryWinter/Spring 2005\nArundhati Roy came to prominence when her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1996 Booker Prize for literature. She has gone on to write several works of fiction and non-fiction. Roy is an outspoken, internationally popular anti-globalisationist and Indian feminist. Her latest book, The Ordinary Person\u2019s Guide to Empire, is a collection\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nUncharted Waters: Social Responsibility in Australian Trade Unions\nA significant theoretical contribution by Marx is the idea that workers are alienated from the product of their labour. Workers produce things, but at the end of the day it is the capitalist who owns what they produce. Uncharted Waters is an important new book which features periods in Australia\u2019s history when workers have collectively\u2026 Read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sofiaglobe.com/2015/10/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FLFGEPIOTM2AMTVFT3N7UMY7WEVBC7PG", "length": 2371, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "sofiaglobe.com", "title": "09 | October | 2015 | The Sofia Globe", "raw_content": "Bulgaria\u2019s 2015 municipal elections: 75 complaints about breaches of electoral rules so far\nThere have been 75 complaints so far alleging breaking of the rules of the election process, including 15 about vote-buying, Bulgaria\u2019s Interior Minister said on October 9, with just more [\u2026]\nPhotographs among new health warnings on cigarette packets in EU from May 2016\nNew combined health warnings on packages of tobacco products, in particular cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco, that will be in use across the Europ ...\n7000 migrants arriving a day in the Greek islands \u2013 IOM\nIn the past week, International Organization for Migration (IOM) staff in the Greek islands have recorded a sharp increase in the number of newly arri ...\nTusk: Bulgaria manages borders well, is ready for Schengen\nBulgaria has so far managed its borders well and this is clear evidence that the country is ready to be part of the Schengen area, European Council Pr ...\nBulgaria reports 10.1% annual increase in exports to EU\nBulgaria\u2019s exports to other European Union countries in January to July 2015 were 10.1 per cent higher than in January to July 2014, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on [\u2026]\nSovereign Order of Malta awards Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mitov Grand Cross of the Order\nAt a ceremony in Sofia on October 6, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov was awarded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta\u2019s Grand Cross of the Order Pro Merito Melitensi. 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Churches are changing as new people take on leadership, and we might not agree with these new leaders, but we must always tolerate them.\u201d This idea was presented by one of the attendees at February\u2019s Coffee Talk on intergenerational worship. As we were nearly out of time, my co-panelist the Rev. Scott Kinder-Pyle was just able to pose the question, \u201cHow do we tolerate those who are intolerant?\u201d in response. Such complex and ever-relevant ideas and questions deserve a response, so rather than allowing the end of the Coffee Talk to be the end of the conversation, I will address them here.\nAs my dear church friend and I met for brunch one weekend, we vented our frustrations about older members of our church. It seemed as if they simply couldn\u2019t understand us. They were so stuck in the past, we said, so unwilling to change or see things our way.\nThen, as I dug into my hash browns with self-righteous indignation, my friend said something quite profound.\n\u201cIt gives me hope to think that someday that will be us,\u201d she said. \u201cSomeday, my kids will tell me that I don\u2019t understand. I won\u2019t be the progressive one anymore. I will be stuck in my ways, but the world will keep on progressing.\u201d\nIt is easy for me as a Christian millennial to think that I can see the world in ways that my older mentors cannot. I see myself as the broadminded hero fighting for justice and relevant biblical inquiry. But that won\u2019t always be the case. The very people my friend and I were frustrated with were once the young people in their church communities, and someday we\u2019ll be seen as the stubborn curmudgeons stuck in our own ways.\nAge is different from identities like gender or race in that as we age we experience different stages in our identity. To be a \u201cmillennial\u201d won\u2019t always mean to be 20-something. Someday, millennials will be the new baby boomers.\nRemembering this can help us be more empathetic to members of other generations. It is a bit easier to tolerate new and seemingly crazy ideas when you remember that you once had new ideas, and it is easier to tolerate hesitancy when you imagine people in the future fighting to change the very things you are currently fighting for.\nOf course, while this sort of tolerance would be ideal, it\u2019s not very realistic. So, what do we do when we encounter intolerance?\nIn his book \u201cBefriend,\u201d pastor Scott Sauls gives a fresh perspective on the classic parable of the prodigal son. People who grew up in Christian churches like myself are familiar with this tale: There are two brothers, and the younger takes his inheritance and squanders it in wild living. When he comes home to beg his father to take him in as a servant, his father welcomes him home with an embrace and a party. The older brother is upset that he has never been rewarded for his obedience with any kind of celebration, so he sulks outside. When his father comes out and asks him to come into the party, the brother refuses.\nA moral often presented for this parable is that we should accept and love others, even when they\u2019ve done something wrong. We look at the older brother as a villain, as a person who is unwilling to accept his own brother. The story is somewhat of a trap in this way. Sauls notes that, in regarding the older brother as the bad guy, we are behaving exactly as he did toward his younger brother. This is often the case when talking about tolerance \u2013 we argue that we should tolerate everything but intolerance. But when we look upon our proverbial older brothers with complacent resentment, as I did some of the members of my church, we are practicing the very intolerance we claim to be against.\nChurches are constantly changing, whether they are dying out or actively bringing in new members. Regardless of whether we resist or campaign for change, we are all susceptible to standing in the way of truly loving other people. We can become so defensive of our own ideas that we end up arguing with and passing judgment on each other, rather than working together to build a stronger, more inclusive, more tolerant, more loving church.\nYou can help support SpokaneF\u0101VS Coffee Talks by making a tax-deductible donation!\nAbout Janine Warrington\nSpokane native Janine Warrington received her Bachelor of Arts in religious studies from Gonzaga University in 2017. Currently, she is pursuing a Master's in theological studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Areas of interest include the history of evangelical America, sexual ethics, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and Scripture studies. In addition to writing for F\u0101VS, Janine also manages a blog about overlooked passages from the Bible called Neglected Word. Outside of academia, Janine enjoys cooking, yoga, Broadway musicals, and bothering her younger sister. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers.\nDon\u2019t force the word \u201cChristmas\u201d - December 11, 2018\nThere is Evangelical Diversity - November 27, 2018\nTransgender Friends: You are Created in the Image of God - October 27, 2018\n#WhyIDidntReport \u2014 The Justice System Doesn\u2019t Protect Victims - September 28, 2018\nChurches need to be a safe space to talk about sex - September 23, 2018\nCalifornia takes encouraging steps to protect intersex children - September 13, 2018\nWe need to understand the history of our faith traditions - September 8, 2018\nWe shouldn\u2019t fear those who are intersex - August 28, 2018\nBiblically informed votes - August 13, 2018\nAbortion, Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court - July 15, 2018\nTags coffee talk millennials and church\nPrevious Faith on the Field\nNext Mardi Bras party aims to help homeless women in Spokane", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 9315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sprocketpaducah.com/event/tech-on-tap-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QKDNBSD3LLUVNG53SLAIJIRDPGPQ3XDT", "length": 182, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sprocketpaducah.com", "title": "Tech on Tap - Sprocket", "raw_content": "\u00ab Introduction to Laser Cutting and Engraving\nIntroduction to Arduino \u00bb\nA monthly gathering of makers, breakers, and techies to talk all things tech.\nPizza at 5:30, talk at 6:00 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spwise.com/2012/11/12/4849/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FVXR6SEPPAMWQLVXEOWWIJG46QFOTZ3Z", "length": 2053, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "spwise.com", "title": "Mary Appears in Subang Jaya | Home Thoughts From Abroad", "raw_content": "Mary Appears in Subang Jaya\nWe live at the end of a dead end street and there are times when the half kilometre stretch of the road before you enter our housing subdivision can get very busy. There is a large hospital, two major hotels and a strip mall in that short strip.\nHowever when we headed out Sunday evening we faced near gridlock and it took almost twenty minutes to make our way through. This week is a major Hindu holiday so we assumed that there was a huge celebration at one of the hotels. We only learned the real explanation from this newspaper article this morning.\n\u2018Virgin Mary\u2019 Continues to Draw Devotees, Rubberneckers\nHundreds of devout Catholics and a smaller number of curious onlookers are continuing to gather at the Sime Darby Medical Centre here to see for themselves an image said to resemble the Virgin Mary. The mysterious image of the figure revered by Catholics was reported to have been spotted a few days ago on a window pane at the hospital. In Catholicism the Virgin Mary is identified as the mother of Jesus Christ.\nMany came today to see the image for themselves as news continued to spread by word of mouth or on the social networking sites A few of the hospitals staff were seen directing traffic as cars streamed in and out of the mildly congested road outside the hospital in an orderly fashion The crowd prayed fervently and sang before the image as they stood together in a narrow uncovered space outside the hospital\u2019s outpatient block. Some were seen snapping pictures of the image said to be of Virgin Mary which appears on the third pane of a vertical stretch of windows on one of the upper floors of the hospital after they recited prayers.\nMost of the crowd who spoke to The Malaysian Insider appeared convinced that the image is an apparition of the Virgin Mary with some looking visibly moved. A second image has also been sighted just one pane below that bearing the likeness of Virgin Mary with some saying that the new silhouette looks like Jesus Christ on a cross. Others however were less certain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://squidmag.ink/tag/cameroon/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:39Z", "digest": "sha1:MBLCIDT3Y44HTGZEIYOHTM4K7FTGRXHW", "length": 268, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "squidmag.ink", "title": "Cameroon Archives | Squid Mag", "raw_content": "Besides Aya of Yop City (Ivory Coast) and Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan (Cameroon), we have done very little on French-speaking African\u2026\nAurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan Enzo Kori-Odan, prince of Zama city suffers a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat conspired by his brother-in-law Ngarba\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 3863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ssworkswa.org/2011/03/11/social-security-helped-mary-thompson-raise-her-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:09Z", "digest": "sha1:7BES5WFZ6RQLXHWNGPCQVE7CPJVQMTRJ", "length": 2480, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "ssworkswa.org", "title": "Social Security helped Mary Thompson raise her family \u2013 Social Security Works \u2013 Washington", "raw_content": "Social Security helped Mary Thompson raise her family\nAlthough she has never married or had children of her own, Mary Thompson knew that she wanted to care for her two young nieces after her sister died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm in 2004. \u201cI knew I wanted to raise Brianna and Brandy. But I really did have a fear of how I was going to do it financially as a single person,\u201d she said.\nInitially, providing care for two children unexpectedly strained Mary\u2019s budget. Her salary as a human resources assistant at a bank only allowed her to comfortably meet the needs of a single person. Suddenly, she needed to make it work for three.\n\u201cWhat I was making was not enough to handle food and clothes for the girls let alone if they would want to go to a movie or out to eat with their friends,\u201d she said. \u201cI was concerned. I didn\u2019t know how I could make ends meet. My paycheck took care of house bills and whatever I needed personally, and that was about it.\u201d\nBut about a year after her sister\u2019s death, Thompson got some relief when she learned that her young nieces qualified for survivor benefits from Social Security.\n\u201cSomeone told me about survivor benefits for the girls,\u201d Mary said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know they were available, and once I started receiving the support, it really made a huge difference.\u201d Currently, Brandi is 15 and a freshman in high school. Her older sister Brianna is 19, and a student at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, studying secondary education.\nMary still counts on Social Security to meet her bills. \u201cIf I lost that, I\u2019d have to find another way. It could come down to having to move,\u201d she added, \u201cwhich would mean disrupting Brandi\u2019s life even more, putting her into a new school and taking her away from her friends.\u201d\nRegardless of her struggles, Mary always knew stepping in to raise her sister\u2019s kids was the right thing to do for her and the children.\n\u201cI knew right away I didn\u2019t want the girls split apart,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s great being a parent. I ask the girls all the time, \u2018do you know how much I love you? Do you know how important you are to me?\u2019 And the smile and say, \u2019yes, auntie, you tell us all the time!\u2019 It never fails to make me smile.\u201d\nMary is very thankful for how Social Security helped her family to smile again and hopes the security it currently provides will remain available for families in the future.\neconomic securitymiddle classsocial securitysurvivorswomen\nWatch: Protect and Defend Social Security NOW!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://st-william.net/events/lenten-lunch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:35Z", "digest": "sha1:R6RZDIBOM4HIV7SWQGWAZWBF62YXUE7Y", "length": 151, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "st-william.net", "title": "Lenten Lunch - St. William Catholic Church - Murphy, NC", "raw_content": "We need a team for each week to sign up and prepare soup and sandwiches for the lunches. There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board in the Commons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://staff.onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/christian-yelich-mvp-brewers-cycle.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Z373YLHBAZ646AYBSYWEW44ZTCVYDCGU", "length": 5484, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "staff.onmilwaukee.com", "title": "Brewers' Christian Yelich soaring to new heights in Milwaukee - OnMilwaukee", "raw_content": "The signing of Christian Yelich has been nothing short of great for the Brewers. (PHOTO: Milwaukee Brewers Facebook)\nBrewers' Christian Yelich soaring to new heights in Milwaukee\nPhotography: Milwaukee Brewers Facebook\nWhen it became clear the Miami Marlins were arranging a full organizational teardown last winter under new ownership, Milwaukee Brewers' general manager David Stearns dove headfirst into the Christian Yelich trade market. Stearns shipped top prospect Lewis Brinson to Miami, as well as minor leaguers Monte Harrison, Isan Diaz and Jordan Yamamoto, in return for the Marlins' young outfielder.\nAt the time, Yelich was yet to make an All-Star team through his first five campaigns, but his age, consistency, durability and contract status (he is signed through 2021 with a club option for 2022) made him an increasingly attractive trade chip.\nFrom 2014 to '17, only five players in baseball played over 500 games and posted an OPS+ north of 120 before turning 26 years old: Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Mookie Betts and Yelich. Those first four names are absolutely a \"who's who\" among the game's greatest, and Yelich is sandwiched right among them. Players like that aren't available very often, especially for the small-market Brewers; it only made sense for Stearns to grab the undervalued superstar.\nSelling off elite prospects (as well as signing Lorenzo Cain) signaled the Brewers were all in on this 2018 core, which was both an exciting and risky proposition for a group that still had plenty of holes. But Yelich's emergence has papered over any question marks, while the struggles of the prospects the Brewers sent away have made the trade even easier to swallow.\nThe 26-year-old Yelich has already posted career highs across the board, with a remarkable .318/.385/.570 slash line, 67 extra-base hits and 19 stolen bases. He has been a sturdy defender over all three outfield positions, and he has teamed up with Cain to keep the lineup afloat amidst the streakiness of the rest of Milwaukee's offense.\nMeanwhile in Miami, Brinson, the gem of the trade, has been the worst hitter among NL players with at least 350 plate appearances this season, Diaz has hit .204 in 36 Triple-A games and Harrison's performance has slipped in Double-A. Yamamoto does have a 1.83 ERA in 13 games across three levels this season and the other three position players are still young, but this deal already looks like a heist for the Brewers.\nYelich's 2018 success isn't really the byproduct of a new approach either. While many players have seen their home run totals spike as they join the launch angle revolution, the Brewers' lefty has bashed 31 homers by simply hitting the ball harder and eschewing any launch angle adjustments. He isn't lifting the ball in the air more often \u2013 in fact, his fly ball rate is down a few percentage points from last season and his launch angle ranks 300th out of 311 qualified players \u2013 but his hard contact rate has jumped significantly to 47.4 percent (fourth in NL) and his 24.8 percent line drive rate marks a career-high. Combine his ability to regularly barrel up opposing pitchers with the switch from the cavernous Marlins Park to the cozy Miller Park, as well as bit of fortune on balls in play, and you'll find the best hitter in the National League.\nTo top if off, Yelich has come on strong when the Brewers have needed it most. He has blasted eight home runs, scratched off 26 RBI and notched two cycles en route to a Babe Ruthian 1.270 OPS over the last 19 games, elevating Milwaukee to a 13-6 record in the process. The Brewers now sit just two-and-a-half games behind the Chicago Cubs for both the division lead and the best record in the NL. If Yelich can stay hot against baseball's sixth-easiest remaining schedule, the Brewers could track down Chicago even without any head-to-contests left on the slate.\nLast week, I wrote that Cain should be one of the frontrunners in the NL's messy MVP race. And while Cain's performance has not dipped over the past few contests, Yelich has taken his game to the next level \u2013 so much so that he may now be the favorite for the award. The NL MVP crown could very well come down to Chicago's Javy Baez versus \"insert Milwaukee player here.\" If that's the case, Yelich's overwhelming offensive firepower will likely outweigh Cain's incredible all-around game, especially considering Yelich's torrid finish and flashier narrative.\nStill, both members of Milwaukee's elite outfield duo will undoubtedly be two of the top vote-getters by season's end, and they could actually join a rare club in NL history. Since 1960, only six pairs of National League teammates have ever finished first and second in MVP votes in the same season, and none since San Francisco's Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds last accomplished the feat in 2000. Yelich (6.0) and Cain (5.4) rank first and second in wins above replacement in the NL right now, according to Fangraphs, and could earn extra points in the mind of voters if the Brewers win the division.\nYelich, Cain and the Brewers have much bigger things on their mind than counting MVP votes, but for a franchise that is light on notoriety despite its lengthy history, putting a stamp on the NL record books during one of the organization's best campaigns would still be a delight.\nIn the meantime, Yelich will just have to keep proving the Marlins' mistake, one line drive at a time.\nTags: brewers, christian yelich, sports, baseball, miller park", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 412, "original_length": 20682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stanton.mugshot.press/arrest/475738/allen-myers", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:O3KOIAO2X4O5HADBEKVE7PEPGNL4K3UG", "length": 527, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "stanton.mugshot.press", "title": "Mugshot of ALLEN MYERS arrested on 12/12/2017 in Stanton, Kentucky | Stanton Powell County Kentucky Mugshot Site", "raw_content": "Last Name: MYERS\nArresting Agency: Clark County\nALLEN MYERS was booked on 12/13/2017 7:37:00 AM. MYERS was arrested by Clark County in Stanton, Kentucky. MYERS was 38 years old at the time of the arrest.\nALLEN MYERS may not have been convicted of the charges or crimes listed and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Please contact the Clark County for more information regarding arrest records.\nWe are not affiliated with the Clark County and we cannot make any claims as to the validity of the records provided by them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stbartsnorbury.co.uk/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DILRH2RT2TTWHNF3KOC72OSIQGWKSHSO", "length": 989, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "stbartsnorbury.co.uk", "title": "St. Bart's - Home", "raw_content": "St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church\n159 Ellison Road SW16 5DE \u200b- 020 8679 3545\u200b\u200b\n09:30 to 15:30 Monday to Friday - not Bank Holidays\nSaturday 18:15 (Mass of Anticipation)\n\u200b 08:30, 10:00, \u200b11:30 and 17:00\nBenediction and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament\nWith Rosary and Devotions to Our Lady during May and\nOctober and \u200bStations of the Cross throughout Lent\n\u200b\u200bWeekday Masses and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament\n07:30 (not Saturday)\n09:15 Lauds followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament\n20:00 (Friday only)\nWeekday Holy Days of Obligation Mass Times\n\u200b Saturday 10:30 to 11:00 and 17:00 to 18:00,\n\u200b\u200b\u200b and at call provided a priest is available\nFebruary is the month of The Holy Family\nThe Holy Family is an earthly reflection of the Holy Trinity. By meditating on the Holy Family, we can learn the meaning of love, obedience, and true fatherhood and motherhood. We are also reminded that the family is the foundational unit of both society and the Church. 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Here you\u2019ll discover the deepest spiritual, emotional, and practical realities of what your marriage can and should be. You\u2019ll see firsthand the wonder, mystery,\u2026\nSo you\u2019ve shared an anniversary or two\u2026or twenty\u2026and you\u2019ve learned a lot about yourselves and each other through your marriage so far. But what if marriage is more than you think it is? What if God has woven into the very fabric of your humanity a purposeful need and desire that can only be fulfilled in your marriage? What if your marriage is designed to be a mysterious, powerful, and vital part of God\u2019s work in the world?\nIn 12 sessions, Beloved explores the true meaning of marriage. Here you\u2019ll discover the deepest spiritual, emotional, and practical realities of what your marriage can and should be. Through an exploration of Scripture, Tradition, and Church teaching, God\u2019s plan for your marriage will come alive. You\u2019ll see firsthand the wonder, mystery, and joy behind that first \u201cI do\u201d-whether you said it last year or many years ago.\nTogether with the accompanying videos, this Guide will help you rediscover:\nThe Meaning of Your Marriage\nInformative and inspirational, Beloved will help you live out the Sacrament of Marriage more profoundly, so that your love story is drawn ever more into the greatest love story of all\u2026 God\u2019s own love for us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storiesonline.net/d/s5/t896/math-related-stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2XBZXGJKZMNKPWS5PZELFBF4ITWBFMNM", "length": 2617, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "storiesonline.net", "title": "Math related stories by richardshagrin | Storiesonline Forum", "raw_content": "Math related stories\nNot Aftermath, stories that have mathematics as one of the key elements. Likely Science fiction, although it might be possible to link magic and the ability to do higher mathematics.\nThe real reason for the topic is Algebra. If you study algebra on April first, you will learn how to make a bra out of seaweed (algae). Yes, an algae bra.\nReplies: Dominions Son awnlee jawking Gauthier\nThe Incomplete Enchanter.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Incomplete-Enchanter-Sprague-deCamp-ebook/dp/B005HRT9XU\nMagic done via symbolic logic,a branch of mathematics.\n'The Algebraist' by Ian M Banks (dead tree).\nMaths also makes a peripheral and, IMHO unconvincing, appearance in 'A Fresh Start' by rlfj (SOL).\nPerhaps other forumoholics can recall stories where characters come up with maths-related lottery, roulette or poker systems. I'd be interested in reading them.\nstories that have mathematics as one of the key elements.\nAnything by hamminbyrd7 (https://storiesonline.net/a/hammingbyrd7) is heavy on math, but geometry is a central key element for:\nhttps://storiesonline.net/series/212/undiscovered-countries\n1.something or someone that one vehemently dislikes\nsynonyms: an abomination \u00b7 an outrage \u00b7 an abhorrence\nticks: blood sucking insects (see politics) That come in series, like election campaigns every two or four years. The current series is Series M.\nM anathema ticks. The source for the word, Mathematics.\nMathematics is extremely difficult to carry off in fiction, as few readers will take the time to do the math required to understand the processes involved. \"The Martian\" was an exception, in that it was a wonderfully involving book, and the math never felt overwhelming. More importantly, you could follow the story without following the math--though it added greatly to appreciating the story.\nFocusing a story on math is similar to including maps of website references in a story. The problem is, few readers will remove themselves from the story long enough to do their research. Readers like to lose themselves in a book, and don't want to be pulled away. The easy solution, is to make the story stand on its own (without relying on external knowledge). That's why such stories are rare, and successful ones are even rarer.\nScience fiction is a good example. Science fiction is incredibly popular, but most of that is actually science fantasy, imaginary worlds not based on science. Hard science fiction is harder to write, as it requires an in-depth knowledge of the science principals involved, and you've got to convey the information to readers largely uninterested in such trivia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://strictlydiscs.com/Artist/277601/Lets-Go-Jivin-To-Rock--R", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EFQ6T24V4EWHZA5224AN2WYXJFC3OQKI", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "strictlydiscs.com", "title": "Let's Go Jivin To Rock & R | Strictly Discs", "raw_content": "Let's Go Jivin To Rock & R", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 9119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 228.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2017/12/79532/danielle-marie-meraz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:42Z", "digest": "sha1:47UG22L22JU6PV2ETIHXFZMADXZIHSGE", "length": 1135, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "suffolktimes.timesreview.com", "title": "Danielle Marie Meraz - Suffolk Times", "raw_content": "Danielle Marie Meraz of Mattituck and Greenport died Dec. 15 in Mattituck. She was 55.\nThe daughter of Jack T. and Doris M. Biggs Harrision, she was born Aug. 23, 1962, in Miami, Fla.\nFamily members said she enjoyed spending time with friends and family, taking photos and going to country music concerts.\nPredeceased by her father in 2002, Ms. Meraz is survived by her daughters, Naomi (Chris) Swarrow and Kimi (Josh) Finne, both of Southold; her son, Joseph (Carly) Meraz of Lees Summit, Miss.; her fianc\u00e9 Melvin Hubbard; her mother; her brothers, Jack Harrison of Kodiak, Alaska, James Harrison of Ridge and Robert Bierer of Huntsville, Ala. and seven grandchildren.\nThe family will receive visitors Wednesday, Dec. 20, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, at First Baptist Church of Greenport, officiated by Pastor Thomas LaMothe. Interment will follow at Sterling Cemetery in Greenport.\nMemorial donations may be made to Helping Hands 4 Morgan \u2013 St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Research Hospital or East End Hospice.\nDr. Glenn William Heinze", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 6528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://superbessay.com/samples/curvilinear-aesthetic-in-chinese-art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HICRQWSUCL7ZVWXJCAG43KQJILLM2WC5", "length": 7666, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "superbessay.com", "title": "Buy Custom Curvilinear Aesthetic in Chinese Art Essay | https://superbessay.com", "raw_content": "Curvilinear Aesthetic in Chinese Art\nhome Curvilinear Aesthetic in Chinese Art\nChina is a country that is rich in culture as vividly displayed in the various ways. Among these ways, Chinese artwork remains to be by far the most outstanding over time. These artworks can be traced back to several centuries ago during a time that was marked with different dynasties that lasted hundreds of years. Some of the then famous forms of art included painting, porcelain, Chinese ivory, sculpture and architecture, just to mention but a few. The artists behind these forms of art had various ways of creating and appreciating beauty that was displayed in their work. Among the ways through which beauty was expressed was by use of curvilinear aesthetics.\nCurvilinear aesthetic refers to the use of and depiction of curves in arts. This can be expressed through the various types of arts for a variety of reasons. Some of the arts through which the use of carves has been largely include painting, architecture, porcelain, and ivory. The following is an outline of how this has been achieved in the above mentioned expressions of art.\nChinese painting, as a form or art dates back to the Neolithic Age (more than 6000 years ago) according to Linz 2006 (5). Painting has had tremendous growth over the years with the most of it taking place during the sixth century and more so during the Tang Dynasty.\nCalligraphy as one of the oldest basic forms of Chinese art\nIt is basically refers to the painting of characters with a brush. This form of painting has a characteristic feature of efficient brush strokes. Remizov is a re-known writer who turned out to be one of the greatest calligraphers of all times. According to Macleod, Plesch and Schoell-Glass (300) He (Remizov) was ever conscious of his writing gift. He had always pictured himself progress from just calligraphy to drawing. He once stated the correlation between calligraphy and his drawings. He said that the curvilinear nature of letters is what inspires calligraphers.\nThis his mastered after having been into writing and drawing so much to the point of failing to fulfill his early dream of becoming a draughtsman. His teachers really complained about his drawings stating that he was going over-board. Their complaining did not yield much since his level of engagement somehow had a negative effect on him. This is according to some people. He still believed that this form of art drew him to the most genuine art despite the argument that it had a negative impact on him. It was the root of his drawing passion! It therefore goes without mentioning that indeed letter curvilinear is part and parcel of calligraphy as an art.\nAncient Chinese people decorated their property with decorations that had both aesthetic and cultural meanings. For example, creatures like the dragon, phoenix, the tiger and the tortoise were highly regarded by Chinese people of those earlier years. Today, the dragon is the animal that is most readily associated with the Chinese. It is usually long with a scaled body, having popping eyes, long tail, short legs and so on and so forth. This is proved by the fact that almost half of the imperial carpets traced from the 16th century depict dragons. These dragons are given (when painted) are given a more naturalistic appearance through curvilinear.\nArchitecture can be traced back to Tang Dynasty of the Chinese history. Chinese architecture has dominated East Asia over time in countries such as Vietnam, Japan, Turkistan and Korea. In these countries, this form of art is used for different purposes. Curved roofs, for example, reflect a Buddhist belief that ghosts have a tendency of moving in straight lines. According to Baumeister and Lee (40), these conspicuous curves that mark these houses are a hybridized pretention of Chineseness. But according to the Chinese, these curved roofs make it hard for them (ghosts) to move hence they bounce off. This is more so the case in the doctrines of the Feng Shui. Temple roofs as well had curved roofs mad of glazed ceramic tiles. They were characterized by a graceful upward slope and this was believed to help ward off evil spirits that could only move in straight lines. Some houses also have a \u2018ghost wall\u2019 inside their entrances. It was believed that such would hamper ghosts\u2019 movements. Such walls force every visitor to change their direction. Ghosts are not able to change directions since it is believed they move in straight lines\nMany traditional Chinese buildings have curved eaves. This is symbolic of the rich Chinese culture. The builds in themselves are plain and straightforward in their construction but the ridge of the eaves twist to form upwardly-curving eaves. Some argue that this is a hydraulic device to throw water away from the building. Western architects do not employ this design of building on ordinary buildings this is because they require more material and are also labor intensive.\nCarving is a unique and indeed important art to the Chinese people and this has been the case for thousands of years. It is classified into three broad categories based on the material that is used for making the carvings: bamboo carvings, wood carvings and ivory carving. Ivory carving is the most known type of the three. It entails carving of ivory. This is the milk-white material that is gotten from the tusks of the elephant, walruses and also from narwhals.\nIvory carvings have their origin in the early Neolithic Age of China\u2019s history (Sullivan 35). The then artists kicked of their artwork by using bones, fangs, animal horns as well as stoneware and wooden artifacts. This form of art grew gradually and experienced rapid growth during the Song Dynasty. The natural curve of the elephant\u2019s tusk gave them a unique feature. This meant that they could be turned different things. It is important to note that thought this form of art has its roots in the Chinese history, the ivory that was used then came from Africa. The ivory was carved into figures of female court attendants, the goddess of mercy, images of Buddha, plates and so on. Of special concern was turning them into goddesses and holy figures as well. Working on ivory required precision and curvilinear had to be employed to achieve the desired ends. In the present day China (Beijing), there are carvings of figures of ladies, flowers and birds among others. This without a doubt shows that curvilinear aesthetic has a major role in production of quality and attractive carvings.\nPorcelain was birthed in China way before the Tang Dynasty. Its earliest forms had characteristic smooth, impervious and hard enamel. Porcelain were used frequently by ordinary people and the items used included bowls, cups, tea sets, vases, jewel cases and incense burners among others. As time went by, kilns that were used to bake porcelain for royalty were set up thereby changing the complexion of the porcelain industry.\nOne of the distinguishing factors about the Chinese Porcelain is the shape. Since its first production (Song Dynasty) the forms of porcelain were limited in shapes. Different dynasties were characterized by some variations though those variations were limited. The shapes were more or less the same especially in table and kitchen ware. This is because of the utilitarian purpose as well as the association with our eating habits. The most decorative types, i.e. the vases, jars and ceramic containers were the ones whose shapes changed more frequently. Some shapes or curves are rare or non-existent in Chinese ceramics of the past. Today, curves are utilized in the making of vases, wooden stands, plates and so on and so forth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 12257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://superduperpr.com/how-safe-is-breast-enhancement-surgery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PN2KCC5F73U2X67K4ILBLXZ2UX4T5CCU", "length": 3549, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "superduperpr.com", "title": "How Safe Is Breast Enhancement Surgery? - Super health", "raw_content": "Breast enhancement surgery is undoubtedly the most sought after cosmetic surgery in the last two decades. Every year, there are thousands of women who have this cosmetic surgery. However, although it is true that technological advancement has made today\u2019s cosmetic surgery safer than surgery years ago, the majority of women who have this surgery are not aware that there are many risks involved with this procedure.\nIf you are a woman who is considering cosmetic surgery, this article is not intended to scare you away from the breast enhancement procedure. This article is intended to educate you about the potential dangers that you may experience if you have the procedure. By knowing all the potential dangers, it is expected that you can make a wiser decision.\nReduced Sensation:\nAlmost half of women who have breast enhancement surgery experience reduced nipple and breast sensation. Although some women said that the sensation loss is temporary, the majority of women stated that the sensation loss is permanent. Experiencing sensation loss will highly affect your satisfaction during loving making.\nDifficulty in Breast Feeding:\nSome women who have breast augmentation surgery can breast feed and some cannot. Even if they can breast feed, the breast feeding process is usually harder. Women who had mastectomies or reconstruction surgeries may not be able to breast feed because the loss of breast tissue and important glands that produce milk.\nInaccurate Mammography Result:\nThe risk of breast cancer is actually the same between women with implants and women without implants. Having breast cancer screenings is highly recommended to detect early signs of breast cancer. Unfortunately, women with breast implants usually cannot get accurate result of mammography because the implants interfere the screening process. So if you have implants, chances are you will not know whether or not there are signs of breast cancer in your breasts due to the inaccurate mammography report.\nWaste a Lot of Money:\nA good breast enhancement surgery requires you to invest at least $10,000. Unfortunately, it is not the only expense that you have to deal with. If you are not satisfied with the result, you need to spend additional thousands of dollars for re-operation. Since breast implants do not last a lifetime, removal surgery is inevitable and it is not cheap.\nIf you choose silicone gel-filled breast implants, then you need to spend some money to take periodic MRI checkups to detect ruptures. Moreover, health insurance providers usually charge higher premiums for women who have breast implants due to the increased health risks. Unless you have a very good income, having this cosmetic procedure may disturb the health of your personal finance.\nIncreased Health Risks:\nRupture and leakage are very common and they are very dangerous. In a few cases, rupture and leakage can cause death due to the toxic characteristic of the implants. Several studies have also revealed that there are links between breast implants and the increased risks of suicide, lung cancer, brain tumors, breast cancer and some other serious diseases.\nBreast implants do not last a lifetime, and the longer you have breast implants, the more likely it is that you will experience complications. Please keep in mind that this procedure is irreversible so if things go wrong, you cannot go back to the start. So, unless you are ready to experience the dangers of breast enhancement surgery as mentioned above, it is better to love your natural body rather than be sorry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://support.engrade.com/hc/en-us/articles/204894790-Add-Question-by-Standard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:Q723E7J4OSLD2ZDUIQLZRJQC6YAQLWBR", "length": 856, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "support.engrade.com", "title": "Add: Question by Standard \u2013 Engrade Pro", "raw_content": "This topic covers how to search for and add specific standards-aligned questions to a test.\nStandards tracking would need to be enabled for your school or district to select questions by standards. Additionally, test questions would need to be tagged to standards in order to use this feature.\nHover over the Add New button, and select Select Questions by Standards from the drop-down menu.\nIn the standards pop-up window, search through the sub-folders, or use the search bar in the bottom right to locate the standard for which you would like to find questions.\nSelect the number of questions from each standard that you would like to add to your test.\nScroll to the bottom of the pop-up window and select the green Submit button to add these questions to your test.\nThe selected questions will appear at the bottom of the list of questions in your test.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://support.mlpa.com/kb/articles/installation-manual", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PU7GZORJRVSKW6YNIYLZDSH67V4Y36NZ", "length": 212, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "support.mlpa.com", "title": "Installation Manual - Knowledgebase / Coffalyser.Net / Installation & Configuration - MRC-Holland Technical Support", "raw_content": "The Coffalyser.Net Installation Manual contains detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to install Coffalyser.Net.\nYou may also be interested in the other articles in the Installation & Configuration category.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://synerise.com/blog/--questions-to-dispel-your-doubts-about-beacons1746", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5EDUB7WJC4TZMUYMWLNX6JZZTFOKADZG", "length": 5807, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "synerise.com", "title": "6 questions to dispel your doubts about beacons | Synerise", "raw_content": "Beacons are not complicated devices. They can send a limited number of parameters such as a user ID and the distance from your mobile device.\nThe added value comes from the fact that we can determine the exact position of a customer and send dedicated messages in a real-time.\n46% of retailers have launched beacon programs in 2015, up from 15% in 2014.\nRecently, beacons have become a part of many discussions about new technologies. We hear a lot about the applications of these little transmitters in various industries. They help to sell, they navigate where GPS loses its capabilities, they support the tourism industry, hotel industry and others. Because they send a signal to a Bluetooth mobile devicesthat almost everyone has, they can be used as a kind of trigger that sends targeted, contextual messages.\nBeacons are a new and, for many, unfamiliar technology. There are often questions about the security of data and surveillance. Most consumers don\u2019t know much about how beacons actually work and what they really do.\nEntrepreneurs or investors should also consider the issue of data collection and storage. Is it worth investing in new, untested solutions? Are potential clients sufficiently educated to use this kind of technology and will they be comfortable with it?\nHere are some answers to common questions about beacons.\n1. How is data secured in a beacon infrastructure?\nFirstly, you should know that beacons themselves do not collect or store data. Beacons are not \u201cintelligent\u201d machines, so they can neither store nor send our data. Beacons only send out a signal that is detected by smart devices in its range that have an app installed.\nThe application then sends a signal to the management system of the advertising campaign: \u201cuser ID number entered into the shop X\u201d. Nothing more. Beacon communications use encrypted ID numbers, and data is not exposed. The system uses the relevant databases, decodes the information sent by the beacon, later identifies the specific client and adapts to their profile message, for example: \u201cGood morning, Ann, use today\u2019s 20% discount on any item\u201d.\nWe must remember that in order to receive such information, while installing the application, we need to agree to receive commercial messages. In doing so, users make information about themselves available.\n2. Do beacons \u201ctrack\u201d people? Are app users under surveillance?\nInformation about your clients\u2019 buying behavior is accessible only by the owner of the brand, the company to which their client made the data available. We should be aware that at a time when almost everyone has a smartphone, we are constantly broadcasting our location. Much more threatening to our privacy are things like video surveillance systems in commercial buildings or settlements.\n3. Will beacons spam users with notifications?\nNo. Messages from companies or institutions can only reach clients who have installed a particular app on their smartphones and agreed to receive commerical messages and have Bluetooth enabled. This constitutes consent for a brand to communicate with customers. No brand wants to put off customers by sending too many messages in a given time period.\n4. Is the public ready for beacon solutions and does the technology allow for real, measurable benefits?\nThese days, consumer are sophisticated shoppers. They are familiar with using technology to help them find the best prices and product choices. Anything that makes shopping more convenient is easily adopted. Of course consumer education from businesses, institutions and innovative companies is essential. Accepting beacons as part of the retail landscape is also supported by the development of technology. Soon BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) will be enabled by default in new smartphones due to its low energy consumption. The number of devices with systems that support BLE will also increase. The goal is to establish a relationship with customers that allows for the regular use of the application.\n5. Is it too early to think about the implementation of beacons in your company?\nMarketing based on beacons to many entrepreneurs seems to be a question mark for the future. But the sooner you become familiar with the technology, the better. We\u2019re not past the early adopter stage and beacons are going mainstream. In addition, the number of messages sent through beacons (push messages) is still relatively small and still growing. Beacons should be on the list of any business looking to enhance communication channels with consumers. Given the well-known fact that acquiring new customers is much more expensive than retaining existing ones, beacons are the ideal solution for anyone who understands that customer service is the new marketing.\n6. How likely is it that existing and new customers will install the application?\nLet\u2019s see what the data says. According to research by Sarah Johnson (Credit Donkey) in March 2015: 52% of Americans have confirmed that for a voucher of $1 they are willing to give you their email address, 26% could give an address, 54% \u2013 date of birth, 71% \u2013 postal code. So you do not need much to encourage clients to download the application to engage with beacons. Ensuring the application stays installed and active is a different matter and depends on the quality of the content you deliver.\nTo sum up, the use of beacons is sure to increase going forward and consumers will become more familiar and confortable with them. Deloitte Research shows that by the end of 2015, one-third of stores in the US and about 20% in the UK will implement solutions that will use beacons. In the end, a similar trend will occur in Poland as well. 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Board - Europe Board - Asia Board Privately Held Companies Diversity on Board Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) adds Claudine Gallagher and Joseph Molluso to its Board of Directors\nDepository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) adds Claudine Gallagher and Joseph Molluso to its Board of Directors\nJune 4, 2018 By Talent4Boards Team Comments are Off Board - Asia, Board - Europe, Board - USA / Can., Board Privately Held Companies, Diversity on Board\n\u2013 USA, NY \u2013 The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the election of two new members to its Board of Directors during the firm\u2019s Annual Shareholders Meeting.\nThe new directors are Claudine Gallagher, Americas Regional Head for the Securities Services business of BNP Paribas, and Joseph Molluso, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Virtu Financial.\nClaudine Gallagher is Head of the Americas for the Securities Services business of BNP Paribas, where she is responsible for the strategic development of the region, spearheading its client and product development. Ms. Gallagher serves on senior committees throughout the Bank, including the Executive Committees of the BNP Paribas Americas Territory and of BNP Paribas Securities Services.\nJoseph Molluso is an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Virtu Financial, where he helped lead the process that enabled Virtu to become a public company and executed a major acquisition in 2017 when Virtu acquired KCG Holdings. Mr. Molluso\u2019s overall responsibilities include strategic planning, operational responsibilities and day-to-day management. Prior to joining Virtu, Mr. Molluso spent nearly twenty years in the financial services industry.\nThe DTCC Board of Directors is currently comprised of 20 Directors. Of these, 13 are participant Directors who represent clearing agency members, including international broker/dealers, custodian and clearing banks, and investment institutions; three are non-participant Directors; two Directors are designated by DTCC\u2019s preferred shareholders, ICE and FINRA; and the remaining two Board members are DTCC\u2019s Non-Executive Chairman and its President and Chief Executive Officer.\nThe Board plays an integral role in the oversight of the firm, ensuring DTCC services continue to meet the evolving needs of its participants while promoting safety and security across the global financial markets.\nRobert Druskin, Non-Executive Chairman of DTCC\u2019s Board, said: \u201cWe are pleased to welcome Claudine and Joseph to the DTCC Board of Directors. They bring decades of valuable experience and leadership to the Board as well as unique perspectives on the challenges facing the industry today and how DTCC can continue to broaden its capabilities to support our clients. We look forward to working with them in the coming years.\u201d\nWith 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities, data centers and offices in 16 countries, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. In 2017, DTCC\u2019s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $1.61 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from 131 countries and territories valued at U.S. $57.4 trillion. DTCC\u2019s Global Trade Repository maintains approximately 40 million open OTC positions per week and processes over one billion messages per month.\nFor more information, visit www.dtcc.com\nVirtu Financial appoints Joe Grano to its Board of Directors\nVirtu Financial appoints David Urban to its Board of Directors\nVirtu Financial appoints John Nixon to the Board of Directors\nVale International Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tammiefowles.com/2008/12/30/letter-to-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5BF6BWTSGKEIMQX2LIONFOF2BTXLN7E3", "length": 1434, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "tammiefowles.com", "title": "Letter to America | Spirituality, Therapy, and the Good Life", "raw_content": "\u00ab Break Down or Break Through? Part Two\nThe 50 Best Websites of 2008 \u00bb\nWhat I most love about the internet is the window to the world\u2019s wisdom it provides. From my office in Lewiston or from my little cottage in Wayne I can attend lectures, listen to interviews, and watch thoughtful and informative webcasts.\nToday I listend to an interview with Duncan Campbell and David Boren who talked about his new book, \u201cA Letter to America\u201d on Living Dialogues. Boren\u2019s message regarding the crisis\u2019s that we in the United States face is both alarming and inspiring at the same time. I encourage you to listen to the interview as well as to a number of other valuable and thought provoking interviews that are available on the Living Dialogues website.\nEach and every day I listen to individuals who are appropriately worried about their futures, good people who share that they all too often feel powerless and frustrated. It\u2019s in my nature to want to reassure and comfort, and I find myself in most cases automatically leaning forward, unconsciously assuming the posture of compassionate witness. And then I am pulled back by the awareness that now is not the time for empathy nearly as much as it is the time for accountability and action \u2013a time for us to collectively face the challenges that confront us while creating a vision for a healthier and more sustainable future.\nPosted in crisis, hope, transformation, wisdom | Leave a Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tattoosales.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/temporary-tattoo-pinterest-contest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IHCRCKZYWP7A4JJFCNAT5UJ7WSWM3PDL", "length": 3731, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "tattoosales.wordpress.com", "title": "Help Us Celebrate Our FIRST Pinterest Contest! | Tattoo Manufacturing Blog", "raw_content": "\u00ab Introducing: Baby Shower Tattoos!\nCheer on Your Team\u2019s Stars with Sports Number Tattoos! \u00bb\nHelp Us Celebrate Our FIRST Pinterest Contest!\nWe\u2019re celebrating the big 23 years this month, and to mark the occasion, we\u2019re hosting a birthday-themed contest on Pinterest!\nThe prizes at stake? Three $50 temporary tattoo gift cards from tattoosales.com\nHere\u2019s the deal: the contest starts TODAY, May 14, and runs through May 25 (our official birthday).\nFollow all of our boards (pinterest.com/tattoosales)\nCreate a new Pinterest board called \u201cTattoosales.com Loves Birthdays!\u201d\nStart pinning!\nFill your board with at least 10 pins of your favorite birthday party ideas, including at least 3 pins from tattoosales.com\nInclude #temporarytattoo in the caption of every pin.\nWhen you\u2019re finished, email us at pinterest@tattoosales.com with your board\u2019s URL.\nKeep reading to find out all the nitty-gritty details\u2026.or, head over to Pinterest and start pinning your favorite b-day bash ideas!\nNO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THE CONTEST. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW OR REGULATIONS.\n-You will need to have a Pinterest account in order to enter the contest. Pinterest accounts are free, though you must first receive and accept an invitation to join. Invitations may be obtained by clicking the \u201cRequest an Invite\u201d link at http://www.pinterest.com. Within a few days of making your request, your account will be created and then you will be able to start pinning all of your favorites.\n-You must follow Tattoo Manufacturing on Pinterest in order to enter: www.pinterest.com/tattoosales.\n-You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age as of May 14, 2012 to be eligible to win.\n-This contest is open to all legal U.S. residents.\n-Each Pinterest board is considered an entry. Eligible Pinterest boards will be titled \u201cTattoosales.com Loves Birthdays!\u201d and contain at least ten (10) total pins, including at least three (3) pins from http://www.tattoosales.com. All pins must include the hashtag #temporarytattoo in the caption.\n-One entry per Pinterest account.\n-Winners will be selected at random.\n-This giveaway begins on May 14,2012 and ends on May 25, 2012 at 3:00 PM EDT .\n-Winner will be announced during the week of May 28th. All entries that meet eligibility standards must be received within this time period to be considered for the prize, which is $50 credit to be used on products available at http://www.tattoosales.com. Three entrants will be randomly selected from all eligible entrants. The winners will receive a $50 credit to be used on products available at http://www.tattoosales.com.\n-All federal, state and local taxes, fees and surcharges on the prize, if any, are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. Prizes are non-transferable and not redeemable for cash. By participating, individuals accept these rules and agree to be bound by the results of the prize drawing. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. The winners of the custom tattoos will be notified via email. TM International (TMI) employees, and their respective household members, are not eligible to win.\nView the TM International Privacy Policy: http://www.tattoosales.com/privacypolicy.aspx\nTags: birthday, birthday party, contest, event planning, giveaway, pinterest\nThis entry was posted on May 14, 2012 at 8:38 am and is filed under Contests.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.\nOne Response to \u201cHelp Us Celebrate Our FIRST Pinterest Contest!\u201d\n[\u2026] week, we announced our first-ever, birthday party-themed Pinterest contest! Get the scoop on how to [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teampossabilities.org/artworkshop/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YC3KMZZ3AONUU4SECIIPT5BVBZTTK2EE", "length": 208, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "teampossabilities.org", "title": "Arts & Crafts Workshop - PossAbilities", "raw_content": "Arts & Crafts WorkshopPedro Payne2019-01-23T18:51:49+00:00\nAll the materials needed to complete an art project will be provided. Artists under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.\nSorry, this workshop is full.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 158.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teauneetaylor3.com/2016/05/26/on-precognition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3W7DPGC4PQVH3HFKWTUKAW7UOPDV66LM", "length": 2278, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "teauneetaylor3.com", "title": "\u201d ON PRECOGNITION \u201c | Metaphysics and the Movies according to Dartanion2", "raw_content": "2 thoughts on \u201c\u201d ON PRECOGNITION \u201c\u201d\nHI T\u2026.I have had dreams over the years that have given me deja vu\u2026and driven me nuts! I still cannot figure them out\u2026Lol I like this entry on your blog..because it gives readers a chance to really think about times in their own lives where they may have discounted a precognition moment that has been prolific in their lives\u2026You are so right that many people discount such notions of metaphysical encounters because science wants us to think that there is no proof\u2026.But if dreams come true that play out in real life\u2026.That is pretty convincing evidence that there are abilities we can tap into in our subconscious and should be able to be refined in our conscious minds as well. People with real gifts of the spirit do not brag or boast of their experiences because of what you say\u2026.they would become harrassed and tormented by those who seek to use the powers for self indulgent evil purposes. God knows who can handle His gifts, and if He wants to use someone for His will, He can give them visions, dreams, and gifts that help His cause\u2026.But always for His purposes\u2026.not man\u2019s. The answer must lie in getting closer to God\u2026.To have a complete trust and faith that transcends into godly gifts. I believe this, truly. Open minds and hearts are humble hearts to receive truth (James 4:10)\u2026.and God\u2019s own words in the Bible tell us that there are some who are blessed and it is \u201cthe meek will inherit the earth\u201d\u2026..(Matthew 5:5) Those whom He trusts. Doubters are no where near using the gifts of the Spirit\u2026We are told in the Bible that someday we shall be like Christ (1st John 3:2\u2026.1st Corinthians 15:49)\u2026A wonderful gift of immortality\u2019s endless abilities,. Great article Tony\u2026.I am so proud of your inquisitive mind to learn and to want to draw close to God\u2026He loves you for it\u2026.me too. xox Cherie\nHey Cherie!!\u2026\u2026. you are so awesome at interpretation. And I so appreciate the biblical references that back up some of my thoughts and ideas\u2026\u2026 and of course most of my ideas are not unique or original ~ it\u2019s just that I continue to pursue rather than waiting around and taking NO action whatsoever\u2026\u2026.. We are all connected\u2026\u2026\u2026.I LOVE this comment C!!\u2026\u2026Talk to you Later\u2026\u2026 I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll have a LOT to discuss\u2026.. as usual!!\u2026\u2026\u2026 smiles\u2026\u2026.tony xo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 10175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/twitter-closing-new-venture-round-with-1-billion-valuation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQS7GCJIHP6N6737ZD6CDBPH7EWD36K3", "length": 899, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation\nFast growing startup Twitter will soon be joining a select group of startups with private venture round valuations of $1 billion, we\u2019ve heard from multiple sources. CEO Evan Williams disclosed the round to employees at a recent all hands meeting.\nThe company will raise around $50 million, we\u2019ve heard, although the final amount of the raise is apparently not yet locked down.\nTwitter raised $35+ million earlier this year in a round led by Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. That round valued the company at $250 million.\nThe company has raised a total of around $55 million to date, and sources tell us they have approximately $30 million left in the bank.\nUpdate: A source tells us that New York based Insight Venture Partners is the primary investor in this round, and that the company may raise more than $50 million.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 168.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://terminalsalvation.com/2014/05/27/gods-sovereignty-and-human-responsibility/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YSSQKXK6S7RJ6APDSSRVAOSEYTK2PISQ", "length": 8822, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "terminalsalvation.com", "title": "God\u2019s sovereignty and human responsibility | Terminal Salvation", "raw_content": "The passages below are but one example where God actively doing something (causative sense) and God withholding something (allowing / permitting sense) are often times used in our translations of Old Covenant (or passages referring to OC ideas) grammatically interchangeably to indicate the same thing. There are some (somewhat hard-to-find online) preface notes to Young\u2019s Literal and Rotherham translations that do go into detail on what Hebrew tenses should be translated as allowing vs. causative, but the religious establishment wasn\u2019t too excited about those insights, so as far as I know you can find them only in the prefaces to the early editions (not in the translations themselves), and on the Internet, if you look hard enough. If you have access to Hebrew texts with parsings (anyone knows of an online resource with those? Please let me know if you do), studying out that angle could be a potential goldmine.\n\u2018Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people\u2019s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.\u2019\n3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.\n7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 Just as it is written:\n\u201cGod has given them a spirit of stupor,\nSo it\u2019s difficult to establish the truth on a purely grammatical analysis of those passages given the existing translations we have to work with. So, lets\u2019s resort to rhetorical analysis here.\nHere a cross-reference map of Rom 11:8 :\nhttp://www.openbible.info/labs/cross-references/search?q=Romans+11%3A8-10\nRegarding the eyes/ears/hearts closing/getting dull, you see that in some passages it would appear that God is doing the action, some other passages indicate that God is allowing this to happen, and in yet other passages it seems like people chose to do it. The later passages, like the Gospels and especially the Epistles passages place the responsibility on people (with the exception of when they quote from the OT). OT quotations, the way they are phrased, seem to indicate that God is somehow doing it. We\u2019ve already established that in their way of thinking and phrasing things, they didn\u2019t seem to draw a clear grammatical line between God actively doing it and permitting something to happen, as we would today.\nAdd to that 2 Cor 4:4, and now we also have satan thrown into the overall mix.\nFirst thing to note is that Rom 11:8 is not an exact quotation from OT, but it appears to be a conflation of the Greek Septuagint translation of the following 2 verses:\n10 For the Lord has poured out on you\nThe spirit of deep sleep,\nAnd has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets;\nAnd He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.\n4 Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.\n8 Just as it is written:\nAlso, see how Paul conflates the negative (\u201cthe Lord has not given you a heart to perceive \u201d in Deut. 29:4) with the positive in his paraphrase \u201cGod has given them a spirit of stupor\u201d (which now applies to the 2nd part of what he says, as well). Apparently, in his way of thinking (that was a product of the era he lived in), the two ways of expressing the underlying idea meant more or less the same thing. However, to our 21st century linearly logical minds that are very sensitive to establishing cause-and-effect relationships, the two seem very different. For instance, one would be \u201cI didn\u2019t give Billy the antidote for poison\u201d, and the other is \u201cI poisoned Billy\u201d. In both cases Billy got poisoned, but my role now is perceived as being very different between the two cases, don\u2019t you think?\nI don\u2019t think that means that God has changed (the covenants have changed, but we are discussing an issue that more or less transcends covenants). I do believe, however, that they way people processed and verbalized information of this sort has changed, for the following reasons.\nIn the OT, God-card is played a lot more than in the NT, in general. In the OT, satan is almost never mentioned (except the book of Job, 1 Chronicles 21:1, and prophetic passages in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28). God is the only variable that people were certain about concerning the spiritual dimension world, and they processed the information by building equations that predominantly used that one variable.\nNow, fast-forward to the time of Jesus. Starting with the Gospels, Jesus just couldn\u2019t stop talking about the satan and his modus operandi. The very first clause of the so-called \u201cLord\u2019s prayer\u201d is \u201choly be your name\u201d, or \u201clet your name be separate\u201d. Heavenly Father\u2019s name is to be separate from what? From everything non-heavenly and non-Father. So instead of just the God variable in the universal equation, it\u2019s now a human (or, collectively, humankind) with more personal responsibility that ever before thought possible, and then there\u2019s this satan guy who is \u2013 hold your breath \u2013 \u201cthe god of this age\u201d. Wow. That must have been a pretty big pill to swallow for religious Hebrews of the day. Now instead of 1, we have 3 actors on the scene. Now with this new information becoming available, you can build much better equations that reflect the reality much more accurately.\nSo, here\u2019s the problem. Reading those accounts from where we are now theologically, one would mistakenly think that God was somehow behind it all, good or bad. Why? Because if you read the OT passages understanding that the OT theological mindset featured a revelation of God (positive force) and very little revelation of counter-force, or negative force (satan), you would realize the necessity of filtering the conceptual payload of those passages through the NC revelation. Now, NC revelation introduces satan into the mix, and it lays a much more pointed emphasis on a personal responsibility of a human being, individually, and humankind, collectively. When you apply the NC filter to those OT passages, you would of necessity phrase things quite differently \u2013 instead of using God variable almost exclusively to explain agency and causation, you would use 3 variables (God, satan, and humans) to build much more accurate models of reality.\nWithout that filter in place, you will make God responsible for everything, satan responsible for nothing, and you will be playing God card instead of acknowledging human responsibility, which will makes you inert and passive in just about all of the areas of your Christian walk. After all, it\u2019s all on God. Another consequence of holding that viewpoint is that the Bible will be seen as full of contradictions that cannot be reconciled, which will then force you to pick the passages out of their context, while simply ignoring the rest.\nSo, to sum things up: Old Covenant era believers, lacking meaningful information on satan that they could work with in framing their mental models, they constructed their worldview based on 2 variables they knew \u2013 themselves and God. Since God was a super-variable, they expressed their thoughts using that variable more than we now would. In other words, they played the God-card more than we should be used to. And being where they were, it was not incorrect, theologically. Even with that, just about all the OC prophetic passages point the finger straight back at Israel, and lecture them about the personal and corporate responsibility.\nNow, if today we frame our worldview in the OC terms, knowing what we do (or should) know, we would be amiss to do so \u2013 since we would fail to incorporate:\nwhat Jesus clearly taught about \u2013 namely, personal responsibility of humans, and also satan and his role, and\nwhat Jesus has accomplished on the cross, including nailing the handwriting that stood against us to the cross and thus triumphing over the accuser / adversary, etc.\nWhen Paul was quoting OT passages, I believe he did that with the implied understanding of what I\u2019ve explained in this post above. In a few places in his writings, he elaborates and explains the difference between OC and NC, but it\u2019s not always the case.\nThis concept of Bible study stating that the portions of the Bible that were written in later dispensations contain a fuller revelation of God compared to the earlier ones is usually referred to as \u201cprogressive revelation\u201d. It takes a little time to get used to, but it really gives shape and texture to what we study, as it helps us get locked onto the proper context.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 372, "original_length": 14736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://terminalsalvation.com/2017/04/07/my-encounter-with-jesus/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XTXI5Q4ZSOI33U7E6OYLSQJEKZTS6OPV", "length": 18326, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "terminalsalvation.com", "title": "My encounter with Jesus (short story) | Terminal Salvation", "raw_content": "This might be fiction, or this might be what really happened. And I ain\u2019t telling which one that is \u2026\nMY ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS\nI heard a gentle whisper in my ear: \u201cCome, follow me\u201d. I turned around, but there was no one in the room. But I knew what I heard was real.\n\u201cWho are you?\u201d, I asked, in childlike awe and wonder.\n\u201cI am Jesus, who you have been reading and hearing about.\u201d\nWhen Jesus was speaking, his lips weren\u2019t moving at all, for whatever reason. I heard and understood everything he was saying, though.\n\u201cFollow you? Follow you where?\u201d\n\u201cWherever I call you to\u201d.\nThis didn\u2019t seem scary at all. Rather, an intoxicating sense of excitement and fascination welled up in me, sending shivers through my entire body. Finally, I was starting to get a sense that all my searches have led me to the One.\nPlus, there\u2019s only so low you can fall. And for a while, I have really felt like I hit rock bottom.\n\u201cSure, I want to follow you Jesus!!\u201d\n\u201cGood choice. But first things first. I am THE way. But the way is narrow, and there are few who find it. You have finally found it. But before you can follow me, you need to go through baggage checkpoint\u201d.\nFinally, it was time for me to turn all smug.\n\u201cOh, that part is easy. Let\u2019s do it!\u201d. Sure thing, a mere formality. No problemo, senor!\nBaggage Checkpoint\nI went into the weigh-in area with him, and stepped up on the scale. The red arrow wildly swung to the right and loudly clanked against the metal peg.\n\u201cWhat?! The scale must be broken, or rigged, or something. I mean, look at it \u2013 it must be mistaking me for a pregnant T-rex or something\u201d.\n\u201cWell, that would be a T-regina, not a T-rex.\u201d\nI turned around and give Jesus an incredulous glance. I can\u2019t believe he would joke around about serious spiritual matters like this. This kind of behavior could be expected of me, but definitely not of Jesus. \u201cConduct unbecoming of a king\u201d, I thought to myself.\nAt that point, I heard a loud snapping noise, and the scales platform immediately sunk lower before it settled with a halt. I looked at the scales again, and the red arrow was snapped clean off.\n\u201cOk. That was really weiiiird\u201d, I thought to myself. I started getting a little scared now. I looked at Jesus, he was no longer smiling. \u201cYou can get off the scales now. Let me show you something\u201d.\nHe pointed at the screen that was to the side of the scales, which was now lit up. There was a ridiculously high number on the screen. I didn\u2019t really understand the measurement units, but they didn\u2019t matter. What drew my attention was what looked like some sort of an infographic, with one huge line item. It was in blinking red color. It read \u201cself\u201d. And directly within it, there was a smaller one, that was pulsating just as ominously. It read \u201creligion\u201d.\nShocked, I kept looking at the screen I didn\u2019t get it. I mean \u2013 I was a good person. I didn\u2019t get drunk, or get high, or cavort with girls in seedy motel rooms. At least, that must have explained why I wasn\u2019t weighted with sin. But religion?! Come on! Wait a minute \u2026 Didn\u2019t he himself say \u2026\nI turned toward Jesus. I was more than mildly irritated. That was getting serious. I didn\u2019t watch my TV for years. All the good movies I\u2019ve missed! All the playoff games for my home team (well, OK, those were a joke, but still). I just about opened my mouth to tell him about me faithfully coming in to church Sunday after Sunday, giving him my 10% of take-home pay (OK, maybe not all the time) and of and even getting the sick healed in his name (yep, I figured out how to do that one!). Religion? Seriously?!\nBefore I could open my mouth, the screen glowed brighter, and the infographic swept off the screen. Instead, this Bible passage lit up on it:\nMany will say to Me in that day, \u2018Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?\u2019 And then I will declare to them, \u2018I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!\u2019\n\u201cOh, ok\u201d. I thought a little more, and was about to ask another question. Before I could open my mouth, the screen flashed off and on, and this was on it:\nThat stayed on for a few seconds, before it all faded away, except for the word \u201cnever\u201d. I finally started catching on. I heard about Jesus, prayed to him, sang songs to him, and did things in his name, but never knew him. I became a Jesus biographer, as opposed to his friend.\nAhh, but wait! I knew the word of God! I won a Scripture contest in a New Year church party once. I taught myself Greek grammar, and I could semi-decently pick apart just about any New Testament passage in a few minutes. I would sometimes meditate on Scriptures for hours at a time.\nI looked at the screen again, seeing what it would have to say about this. On it, there was this:\nYou search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.\nAfter a few seconds, the passage faded off the screen, except for this: \u201cyou are not willing to come to Me\u201d.\nI was really struggling with this now. I turned toward Jesus. Now he had his hands folded across his chest. It was harder for me to see him, for whatever reason. It\u2019s as if he was beginning to slowly fade away.\n\u201cWhy am I struggling with this, Jesus? I don\u2019t get it. So, you you are saying that knowing the word isn\u2019t important?\u201d.\nHe didn\u2019t say anything, but simply nodded toward the screen. I turned to it:\n\u2013 John 1: 1, 14\nI waited for a few seconds. I knew there\u2019s a second part to this strange Powerpoint presentation. Sure, enough, in a few seconds this came on:\nHe came unto his own, and his own received him not\nThis was confusing. If not the Bible, how am I supposed to be guided through life?\nI was trying to frantically think of other things. The pastor of the church I was going to was an amazing man of God, always willing to help, no matter what. He was like a father to me, in a lot of ways. I know I sometimes argued with him. Yeah, that was probably it. I think Jesus was trying to straighten that out. I just needed to take that relationship a lot more seriously, it looks like.\nRight? I turned to the screen once again. It was a double whammy this time.\nWe ought to obey God rather than men\nThis was seriously messing with all of my theology. Aren\u2019t I supposed to be affiliated with some sort of religion?\nI turned to Jesus again: \u201cOk, what\u2019s the religion that I am supposed to follow then?\u201d\nHe kept silent, and wasn\u2019t looking me directly in the eyes anymore, as he did before. He looked to the side, at a blank spot on a wall. He unfolded one of his hands and pointed toward the screen once again.\nI really didn\u2019t understand this whole Scripture volleyball with Jesus. I would much prefer to talk to him live. I felt like I was trying to relate to Bumblebee the transformer. I was now talking to the Bible, as it were, rather than Jesus. This was beginning to seriously frustrate me, and to fill me with tangible desperation.\nMy meeting with Jesus was turning out into a disaster. He wasn\u2019t looking at me or talking to me anymore, and I could barely see his outline. He was now dim and translucent, like a ghost. Everything around me grew dim, and the screen was flickering on and off. I knew that my personal audience with him is coming to a close.\nMy eyes got clouded with tears, and my eyes filled with desperation. I dared not look up. All of my arguments have vanished, and all I could think of was: \u201cHow could I have blown this opportunity of a lifetime? Where did I go wrong?\u201d.\nI didn\u2019t feel the love of Jesus anymore. A sense of stern majesty filled the room. It felt cold and dark. I was really scared. The foreboding silence seemed unbearable. I finally lifted my eyes. The friendly Jesus was no longer there. The walls and the ceiling had disappeared. and I was on a black mountain in the middle of the desert. Around me were rumblings of thunder, dark clouds. A flash of lightning struck the ground near me, leaving a scorched, smoldering crater in the ground. Gusts of howling wind were blowing right by me, lacerating my body with clouds of small specks of sand and little sharp rocks.\nI looked up, and what I saw terrified me. I saw a massive figure with the head going all the way into the clouds. He didn\u2019t have any eyeballs. Instead, rays of extremely bright light came out of his eyesockets and incinerated everything he looked at. Somehow, I knew in my gut that it was Jesus. And then he started turning his head toward me. I knew I was finished.\nI collapsed on my knees, and cried out at the top of my lungs: \u201cI cannot go like this! Not like this, Jesus, not like this!\u201d. The howls of wind grew stronger. A sharp rock carried by wind blew right past my nose, taking off a chink of flesh right from the middle of it. I didn\u2019t care.\nI knew I was finished. If I was going to go, I was going to go. All my past life flashed before my eyes. My family, my friends, and all that religion that couldn\u2019t save me when it mattered most. Suddenly, my heart was filled with anger. How could have I been so deceived?!\nI knew I was done for. But for just once in my life, I decided that I don\u2019t want to be a slave. I looked directly at the face of Jesus. All of a sudden, everything around me turned pitch-black. I sensed my eyeballs began to melt away in my sockets, and warm gelatin was now running down my cheeks. My face was in excruciating pain, my flesh began to sizzle, as if on fire.\nI could still feel my tongue and my lips. I breathed in a chest full of scaldingly hot air. I felt it scorch my throat and my lungs as I did. With what was probably my last breath, I yelled out as loud as I could: \u201cJesus! I wanted to see you all my life! I read about you, but now my eyes have seen you. I don\u2019t care about what happens to be now. You don\u2019t like religion \u2013 fine! F*** religion. I have seen you, and all I ever wanted is you anyway.\u201d\nSuddenly all the rumblings stopped. There was a pindrop silence around me. I tried to regain my breath, and suddenly a coolness of fresh mountain air filled my lungs. I lifted up my hands to my face. I didn\u2019t feel any pain. My eyes were back where they should have been. I tried opening my eyes. What I saw around astounded me.\nI was standing on a snowy mountaintop. Giant soft bluish-white clouds were slowly floating past me. The sky was unbelievably blue and bright. There were flowers under my feet growing right throught the snow. I have never seen colors so bright, and have never breathed air so fresh. I could not see any sun, yet everything around me was so very bright.\nThe were many trees adorning the mountainside. The blossoms and the fruit on those trees were very different from what I have ever seen. Several crystal clear waterfalls carved their way through the mountain slopes. I was beginning to hear their sounds.\nIt\u2019s as if my senses were opening up to seeing and hearing more and more things, with each passing minute.\nSoon I started to hear the songs of many beautiful birds that were flying around the trees. Winged insects were busy flying from one flower to another. The mountain was bustling with life and beauty.\nSuddenly I noticed a melodious hum that was gently coming across from all sides. I looked around, and I saw countless multitudes all over and around the mountain. They were all dressed differently: togas, tunics, sandals, shoes, boots, jeans, T-shirts, turbans, baseball caps, simple dresses, shorts. I didn\u2019t see anyone wearing suits, ties, or formal dresses. They were singing a song which I have never heard before. There are no words that can describe it. Enchanted, I listened to its joyful sounds. Unexpectedly, I felt like warm honey was flowing on the inside of me, and my mouth was started to get filled with a sweet creamy flavor, like caramel or butterscotch candy. I realized that I could actually taste the music.\nThis was pure bliss. I wanted to stay here forever. Suddenly, my heart sank. There was one person who was missing from here \u2013 Jesus. My eyes welled up with tears, and I realized that in a heartbeat I would give all of that away, just for the privilege of seeing him one more time. I didn\u2019t care about the pristine beauty around me anymore. That other mountain had removed all the fear from me.\nAll of a sudden a sense of the old me came rushing back into my psyche. \u201cNice special effects!. You can film the \u201cAvatar\u201d sequel on location here.\u201d, I thought to myself, in an attempt to shake myself free of that enchantment. As soon as I thought that, the entire mountain exploded with joyful laughter. Apparently, my thoughts were loud enough, and those folks had a sense of humor. And they must have seen the \u201cAvatar\u201d.\nI took in a giant breath of mountain air, cupped my hands around my mouth, and yelled at the top my my lungs:\n\u201cIf I can\u2019t see you again Jesus, I don\u2019t need any of this!! I just want to see you and talk to you one more time.\u201d\nThat lead to another explosion of laughter and happy shouts. I began to turn my head around, trying to get a 360 degree view of the happy mountain. Suddenly, I caught view of Jesus standing a couple of feet away. He was looking at me with a mischievous look on his face, his hands folded, right leg forward and slightly bent at the knee, head cocked to the side.\nI looked straight into his eyes. I was not afraid anymore. An amazing feeling of love streamed into my heart and into my entire being. I have never felt so loved into my entire life. I felt so vulnerable, so known, so naked before his sight, and yet I was completely unafraid. This moment seemed like it lasted for all eternity.\nFinally, Jesus broke the silence.\n\u201cWhat are you waiting for, Christmas? Come here!\u201d, he said with a broad smile, opening his arms wide. I ran right into his hug. Being in his arms seemed like the safest place in the whole world. It felt like the love that I have been looking for my entire life.\nHe let me stay in his embrace for a good long while. Finally, I let go. I had so many questions to ask.\n\u201cWhy don\u2019t we take a walk\u201d, Jesus motioned to me toward a serpentine path that weaved between tall fruit trees down the left side of the mountain.\nWe walked silently for a while. Jesus kept on stopping often. He would pick a fruit off a tree and take a bite off of it, or bend over and pick a flat stone to skip it over a small pond to the left on the path. He was like a little kid. I could tell that he loved this place.\nI finally broke the silence. \u201cJesus, sorry about the F-bomb\u201d.\nHe looked at me in amusement. \u201cOh yeah, thanks for reminding me\u201d, he replied semi-sarcastically. \u201cWell, that\u2019s one of the better things I\u2019ve heard on that mountain. Usually, I get to hear much worse.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m talking about people gnashing my teeth at me, cursing to me my face. I heard not so very nice things said about my mother. But mostly, about my Dad. You wouldn\u2019t believe how much some people hate both me and him.\u201d\n\u201cThe same people who crucified me. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me\u201d.\n\u201cBut that was almost 2,000 years ago\u201d.\n\u201cTheir followers are alive and well today. I am still as much a stumbling block for them as I was then. If they saw me again in the flesh, they would crucify me all over again, without much hesitation\u201d.\nThat seemed pretty harsh. I suspected that not everything was right about my worldview, but to hear him put it like that was quite sobering.\n\u201cWell, what was that dark mountain, anyway?\u201d, I asked.\n\u201cMount Sinai. The mountain of the law, of the ten commandments.\u201d\nI hesitated for a second, but I knew I had to ask this.\n\u201cJesus, I don\u2019t want to sound disrespectful or anything \u2013 \u201d He looked at me askew, with irony in his face, and stopped. He turned around, and looked me straight in the face.\n\u201cLook, I don\u2019t like apple-polishers. Admit it, you were never a yes-man. That\u2019s what I have always liked in you. I am not a big fan of those who shout \u201cAmen\u201d the loudest to everything that they hear. Those same people rarely want to get to know me for themselves, and never learn how to think for themselves. Plus, if you can\u2019t talk to me about what bothers you, what kind of a relationship is that? You don\u2019t need to fear offending me. I can handle your questions. Really.\u201d\nHe sounded pretty serious about this. I was relieved. He was very different from what I had pictured him before.\nHe turned toward the path again and resumed walking.\n\u201cOk, well, thanks, I guess. Anyway, about the mountain. Uhmmm \u2026 Why were you trying to kill me?\u201d\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to kill you at all\u201d.\n\u201cWhat was that scary stuff back there then?\u201d, I asked.\n\u201cThat was you killing yourself. With your religion. Admit it, that\u2019s what you thought of me: you make a serious enough misstep, and you would end up in a place like that. I simply showed you a full picture of your own theology. You want to know why you turned blind?\u201d\n\u201cBecause when you live by the law of judgment and condemnation, you cannot see me. It blinds you from the truth, and from my love and grace. Even when you look at me, all you can see is destruction and death. And the very sight of me causes you pain instead of freedom. And instead of running toward me, you run and hide from me.\u201d\n\u201cWow, I\u2019ve never seen it quite that way\u201d.\n\u201cMost people don\u2019t. And that\u2019s why I came to you. I knew you were chafing under the yoke or religion. You knew there was something else. You just didn\u2019t know what it was. You were like Neo, waiting for Trinity to come and save you from the matrix of religion. Well, I have come for you. And now, here you are\u201d.\nI was a bit confused by the fact that Jesus was up to snuff on the pop culture. He didn\u2019t seem that churchy at all. Before I could say anything, Jesus abruptly stopped, jumped up about 4 feet off the ground, and hung in the air for about point five seconds while executing a semi slow-mo quadruple-kick aimed at an imaginary enemy. When he landed back on his feet, he looked at me. I must have had a very dumfounded expression on my face, complete with a mouth hanging wide open. Jesus looked at me for two seconds, then he pointed his finger at me, his body doubled over at the waist, shaking all over from a chortling laughter.\nHe was nothing like I pictured him to be before. \u201cI could really be friends with him\u201d, I thought to myself.\nAnd that\u2019s how my relationship with Jesus began \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 443, "original_length": 24827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tessenshow.co.uk/london/news/explaining-inattentive-adhd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:Z26W4ZBXJU3KMGSYLBNUSWG7YV5MIPFO", "length": 7924, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "tessenshow.co.uk", "title": "Tes Sen Show Portal", "raw_content": "Explaining inattentive ADHD\nThe hyperactive version of ADHD is well-known and often spotted, but students with inattentive ADHD frequently go undiagnosed, as Daniel Sobel knows from his own experience.\nWhen I mention to leaders in the field of education that I was probably undiagnosed ADHD and that I struggled at school, I get an uncanny amount of responses along the lines of: \u201cOh, me too.\u201d\nI remember well that I simply couldn\u2019t concentrate. My GP asked me how I cope now with writing books, articles and running an ever-growing business supporting around 1,000 schools. I tell him that \u201cwell, I have two PAs\u201d, which may sound overly indulgent to most but without that support, I doubt I could operate as others might.\nThis is my way of saying that the topic of this article is very personal and I genuinely hope it reaches out to colleagues and has some impact on your school. The hyperactive version of ADHD is well-known and talked about \u2013 and thankfully so. This article is about the inattentive ADHD and how it so often, cruelly, goes unnoticed.\nGeorge is 10 and is in his SATs year. He appears to mess around in the classroom and can\u2019t seem to focus on his phonics, reading and writing, which are two years below his expected level \u2013 and his teacher is frustrated with him.\nOne day a teaching assistant takes George aside and tries to find out what\u2019s going on for him. He says: \u201cI get fed up with grown-ups telling me to pay attention. I try, but they want me to do too many things. Even in school, the teacher expects me to remember everything. I can\u2019t do the same work as the others, so why should I bother? I\u2019m just stupid.\u201d\nSuch an example is not uncommon, yet a diagnosis of inattentive ADHD (formerly known as ADD) will frequently get missed and instead mistaken for laziness \u2013 unlike hyperactive attention deficit with its distinct degrees of hyperactivity, impulsivity and adverse behaviour.\nAs a result, students like George, being reluctant to ask for help and not wanting to draw attention to themselves, can sadly go under the radar for years.\nADHD is a common disorder. Recent UK surveys of children aged five to 15 found that 3.6 per cent of boys and 0.85 per cent of girls have ADHD. Importantly, a recent review of follow-up studies of individuals who had ADHD as children found that 65 per cent of people at the age of 25 still retain some symptoms of ADHD, indicating that this disorder can be disruptive on a long-term basis and that addressing it at school is vital (for more, see https://aadduk.org/symptoms-diagnosis-treatment/).\nArguably, the most significant impact of not addressing ADHD appropriately is the sense of guilt, blame and low self-esteem which can develop.\nA typical undiagnosed student would express it thus: \u201cI\u2019m always told to concentrate, focus, and try harder, but I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing wrong. I just know I\u2019m not like the other kids, I\u2019m not \u2018normal\u2019, and I feel like the worst student in the class.\u201d\nFirst, consider the child\u2019s presentation:\nWould you describe him as a \u201cday-dreamer\u201d?\nDoes he struggle to maintain concentration?\nDoes he work slowly but \u201cget there in the end\u201d?\nDoes he become emotional or frustrated when trying to concentrate?\nIs he often forgetful and disorganised?\nDoes he have difficulty completing a task?\nDoes he adopt tactics to try and avoid doing certain subjects?\nOf course, a diagnosis of ADHD and other SEN should be carried out by a specialist, such as a qualified community paediatrician or a psychiatrist, both of whom could refer to other professionals if appropriate in order to get the correct diagnosis. But the above questions about a student (whom, in this article, I refer to as male) may help you to decide whether a referral to your SENCO is advisable. A GP can refer to an appropriate professional.\nFollowing a diagnosis\nThe impact of personalised differentiation can be revolutionary. An ADHD student, when effectively taught and supported, can in time achieve in many areas.\nI remember visiting a school where the ADHD students with their improved sense of self-worth felt more empowered, which as such had an impact on their motivation levels.\nI\u2019m grateful to Ann Freeman, author of Help Me Understand ADHD, for her assistance in working with me to compile this article and the following 10 suggestions for supporting your ADHD students in the classroom (while still being able to provide fully for your other 29 students):\nFocus on building his sense of self-worth, motivation, and belonging \u2013 this will be your gateway to enthusiastic, effective participation. Though this applies to all students, it applies beyond measure for students who have suffered under the weight of \u201cnot being good enough\u201d.\nAvoid saying to him anything that could come across as a criticism, like \u201cpay attention\u201d. It will reduce his motivation, and will be too vague to elicit improved behaviour. Your aim is to motivate him to engage with you, his teacher, and to make him feel that you are on his side.\nBe consistent. Adopt a strategy and stick with it.\nRegularly chat with him \u2013 encourage him to feedback to you how the strategies are helping him (or not), and work together to continually improve his situation.\nUse buddies \u2013 who can sit with, support and \u201chang out\u201d in the playground with your target student/s. This will address the issues of loneliness and poor self-esteem, and provides someone with whom to check task instructions.\nGive him some areas of responsibility in the classroom, but no more than three. The student should tick them off as they go. This gives a model for task-completion as well as esteem for participating in their own way in the classroom \u2013 and, of course, provides another opportunity for you and others to bestow praise. The trick with the praise you are hopefully bestowing on your students is to be as specific with it as possible.\nAllow him to fiddle with something, like some Blu Tack, to help focus his concentration.\nAgree together with him on a sign that indicates when they need to pay attention. This could be anything from a gentle tap on the shoulder to a covert sign from the front of the classroom such as a hand gesture or a certain word.\nWith the support of home, the SENCO and, of course, the student himself, focus on how he can apply his own self-management strategies in your class. This means, that if they are struggling in your class then they are probably challenged everywhere and with developing their new coping strategies and skills it can also help them with situations in the future. They should be guided to develop strategies. The issue you as their teacher should focus on is not to reinvent the wheel but to make sure they are consistently applying their strategies in your class.\nWhen something goes wrong, like (commonly) forgetting homework, work with home and the student to come up with solutions, such as the student putting each subject in a different coloured file. The more creative and bespoke the solution, the more likely it will work.\nIf you can keep these tips in mind, you will have a significant impact on the student both during his school days and as he adapts to an often-unsympathetic world once he leaves education. Students like George have much to offer if given the chance and the more that we can differentiate and make his time at school easier and more enjoyable, the more he will flourish.\nI wish that myself and quite a few people I know who are now leaders of education had encountered teachers with more understanding and compassion. Inattentive ADHD can lead to a lifetime of struggle for people who don\u2019t get help with it at school.\nI hope this article has gone some way to supporting some children in your classrooms.\nDaniel Sobel is founder of Inclusion Expert which provides SEND, Pupil Premium and looked-after children reviews, training and support. You can find all his articles for SecEd on their website via http://bit.ly/2jwoKP8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 9017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theasphaltpro.com/texas-cordia-brings-the-plant-and-the-parts-together/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:F7WUXL7QOK7ZJPRU755WOSQJX4TH3F6O", "length": 2833, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "theasphaltpro.com", "title": "Texas Cordia Puts Together a Plant | AsphaltPro Magazine | Texas Cordia Brings the Plant and the Parts Together", "raw_content": "Texas Cordia Brings the Plant and the Parts Together\nThroughout the summer, Texas Cordia has been bringing the plant and all parts to its new plant location in Texas.\nOver the past few months, you learned about Texas Cordia\u2019s plans to establish their first asphalt plant, including how they found a plant and a property, how they financed the project, and how they handled permitting hurdles. In this month\u2019s blog post, we talk about the logistics of bringing the plant and all of its parts from all over the country to its new home in Texas.\nAccording to Texas Cordia CEO Yara Corbitt, one of the most significant challenges during the process of opening their first asphalt plant has been finding and moving all the parts needed to upgrade the used plant they purchased from an asphalt producer in Corpus Christi, Texas.\nTo check out parts and pieces across the country, Corbitt\u2019s business partner Isaac Heredia asked his contacts located nearby a particular piece to go check it out. David Cline, a retired plant operator who had helped them find their asphalt plant, was also instrumental in finding the right parts for the plant, based on their production needs.\n\u201cThe key for us was not jumping the gun,\u201d Corbitt said. \u201cWe just had to be patient about what we were purchasing. Not just, \u2018I found a baghouse! Let\u2019s buy it!\u201d\nLogistics, logistics, logistics\n\u201cGetting the parts down to Donna has been difficult,\u201d Corbitt said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking oversize, overweight, wide load, alternate routes, in addition to finding reliable drivers.\u201d\nAnother risk is incidents on the road. \u201cThat\u2019s out of your control, but we have to ensure that the drivers and logistics companies we use are safe and certified and moving those large pieces of equipment safely on the road,\u201d Corbitt said.\nThus far, they haven\u2019t locked any drivers, but will be finalizing quotes and proposals in the near future.\nOnly a few short months after making the decision to open their first asphalt plant, Corbitt and Heredia have already secured financing, closed on the land and begun clearing it, and purchased the plant and a number of accessories.\n\u201cIt all sort of happened the way we planned it to,\u201d Corbitt said. They\u2019ve hit nearly every target they set for themselves. \u201cI think that comes back to us leading by example. We tell our crews they have to hit their deadlines and goals, so we had to make sure we were doing the same.\u201d\nAlthough it\u2019s been a long time coming, Heredia estimates that all the pieces of the puzzle will be in place at their plant location by the end of May.\nNow that everything is on its way to Texas Cordia\u2019s asphalt plant property in South Texas, we\u2019re taking a break from this series so they can set up their new plant, stockpile materials and start testing mix designs. We\u2019ll continue to follow their progress in a few months! Stay tuned\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 8574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebaldorgroup.com/new-home-sales-surge-10-year-high/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FL5QS6J2VTX4GNJAQTYVGYC7EJPPPJCY", "length": 1159, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebaldorgroup.com", "title": "New Home Sales Surge To 10-Year High - TheBaldorGroup.com", "raw_content": "New Home Sales Surge To 10-Year High\nSales of newly built single-family homes surged unexpectedly last month, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In fact, sales were up nearly 19 percent from the month before and 17 percent over the same time last year. The increase was a surprise and far surpassed economists\u2019 expectations, which called for a slight decline from August\u2019s pace. All in all, any improvement in new home sales is encouraging news for the housing market. That\u2019s because, demand for new homes spurs new residential construction, which helps alleviate upward pressure on prices by adding to the number of homes available for sale. In a competitive market, where there are more buyers than homes to buy, new home construction is among the quickest remedies for inventory shortages. However, though the gains are encouraging, new home sales data tends to be volatile from month-to-month and isn\u2019t always reflective of the overall trend. Also in the report, the median sales price of new houses sold in September was $319,700. The average sales price was $385,200. More here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theblueshield.org/denmark-ratifies-the-1999-second-protocol-to-the-1954-hague-convention/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ3YKESABUREUORRCLAGN4X2R4RLDWNJ", "length": 1543, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "theblueshield.org", "title": "Denmark ratifies the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention - The Blue Shield", "raw_content": "On 5 December 2018 Denmark\u2019s ratification of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict came into force (i.e is now legally binding). The instruments for ratification were deposited by Denmark with the UNESCO General-Director on 5 September 2018. In the official UNESCO statement, Greenland and the F\u00e6r \u00d8er islands are not currently included in the ratification.\nThe 1999 Second Protocol adds to the existing protection under 1954 Hague Convention in regard to the safeguarding of cultural properties and conduct during hostilities. It also defines a new category of protection, named enhanced protection, for cultural properties and establishes sanctions in case of violations and crimes against people\u2019s cultural heritage.\nDenmark is now the 82 country adopting the 1999 Second Protocol and strengthening its commitment to heritage protection in armed conflict. Blue Shield International offers its sincere congratulations to Denmark and the Danish National Committee of the Blue Shield.\nTo learn more about the Danish Committee of the Blue Shield visit Denmark National Committee of the Blue Shield website\nSee the official statement on Denmark\u2019s ratification on the UNESCO webpage\nTagged: 1954 Hague Convention, 1999 Second Protocol, CPP, Denmark National Committee of the Blue Shield, UNESCO\nPreviousBSI at the 13th meeting of UNESCO Committee for CPP in armed conflict\tNextCall for Contributions: Refuges and in situ Protection in the 1954 Hague Convention", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/03/26/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0-organ-of-architectural-modernism-in-the-soviet-union-1926-1930/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VMVYFCDWVBONFXDC5Z32OSZT54Y4VR53", "length": 14927, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "thecharnelhouse.org", "title": "\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430: Organ of architectural modernism in the Soviet Union, 1926-1930 | The Charnel-House", "raw_content": "\u2190 Tatlin\u2019s tower\nAdorno\u2019s Leninism \u2192\n\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430: Organ of architectural modernism in the Soviet Union, 1926-1930\nSovremennaia arkhitektura [Modern Architecture, or SA] was published every other month by the Society of Modern Architects [OSA] from 1926 to 1930. In all, the magazine ran for thirty issues, counting double-issues as two. A few years ago I uploaded some crude photographs of individual pages from originals stored in Columbia\u2019s Avery Library. Tatlin has since republished the iconic journal, however, so anyone with the money and means to scan them could upload much higher-quality versions. For now, here are some that have been digitized for the Russian website Techne, which I\u2019ve taken the liberty of running through ABBYY FineReader:\n\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430, \u2116 5-6 (1926)\n\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430, \u2116 1 (1927)\nMoisei Ginzburg served as SA\u2019s chief editor from its inaugural issue through to the end of 1928. Victor, Aleksandr, and Leonid Vesnin also helped organize it and solicit articles. The journal was intended to function primarily as a theoretical organ for constructivist architecture, providing a forum for debate and a platform for the promotion of avant-garde ideas about building methods and design. It was formatted by Aleksei Gan, author of the 1922 treatise Konstruktivizm, who sought to systematize the constructive principles of Tatlin and Rodchenko. Nevertheless, this continuity in terms of personnel should not blind us to the fact that architectural constructivism was distinct from constructivism in art. By 1926, SA\u2019s various editors and contributors had absorbed the influence of Le Corbusier in France, JJP Oud in Holland, as well as Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus school in Germany. Ginzburg and the Vesnins regarded Tatlin\u2019s old proposal for a monument to the Third International as a bit of impracticable symbolism. El Lissitzky explained in 1928 that \u201c[t]he present \u2018constructivist\u2019 generation of professional architects looks upon this work [by Tatlin] as formalistic or even \u2018symbolic\u2019.\u201d\nIn addition to its own articles, SA also translated texts from prominent European and American modernists such as Bruno Taut, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. Journalistic coverage of international events, like the Stuttgart-Wei\u00dfenhof exhibition in 1927, also appeared in its pages. Occasionally polemics were written, usually against the older, academic forms of architecture, but also against rival avant-garde tendencies such as VOPRA and ASNOVA. Toward the end of its run, under Roman Khiger\u2019s editorship, there was an editorial dispute over the question of cities, as many wondered whether urban agglomerations would endure the abolition of the town and country divide. Some \u2014 like Ginzburg, Barsch, and Pasternak \u2014 sided with the sociologist Mikhail Okhitovich, embracing his \u201cdisurbanist\u201d vision of ribbon cities and decentralized dwelling spaces. Others \u2014 the Vesnins, Krasil\u2019nikov, and Burov \u2014 sided with the economist Leonid Sabsovich, advocating his \u201curbanist\u201d proposals for mid-sized concentric cities of about 50,000 a pop. In 1931, however, the magazine was dissolved into Sovetskaia arkhitektura [Soviet Architecture], and included representatives of other schools of architectural thought besides constructivism.\nBelow are some of the page scans, which you can enlarge by clicking on them. You can also read an uncharacteristically favorable review by the Dutch modernist and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg, where he discusses SA in the context of Russia and the international style.\nThe capital vs. the countryside:\nOSA\u2019s propaganda for a modern communist architecture\nTranslated by Charlotte I. Loeb and Arthur L. Loeb.\nOn European Architecture: Complete Essays from\nHet Bouwbedrijf. (B\u00efrkhauser, Berlin: 1990)\nWithout any doubt a small country will succeed faster in the realization of its cultural potential than will such an immensely vast country as Russia. Did they not recently discover a city of around 60,000 inhabitants there, in which the population was still living completely according to the notions of the 18th century? These people are totally ignorant, lived in the most primitive way, lacked the simplest modern lighting fixtures, etc., and were completely unaware of the events in Europe, the war, and the Russian Revolution.\nHow will the Russian authorities, no matter of which persuasion, ever be able to \u201celectrify,\u201d as Lenin called it, not only the cities, but the countryside as well? Such a country, the size of half a continent, should be measured by a different standard, and doubtlessly it is beyond the Russian mentality to initiate a well-balanced cultural development, comparable to that in other European counties. In the latter, even the most remote province has a cultural nucleus from where the countryside can be culturally controlled. Formerly, religion used to constitute this cultural nucleus, and construction served religion. In Russia, however, culture is concentrated between Moscow and Leningrad. In this zone new architecture has potential for realization. Russia totally lacks the neutralization of the cultural factors across the whole country, which is beneficial to the development of construction. Holland and Germany are in this favorable position, and this is the cause of the prominence which these countries have achieved in the field of architecture.\nIn Russia, everything is grandiose\u2026in conception, architecture, and the freely creative arts as well, but in the long run everything gets lost in detail, in vapidities, before being finally crushed by the country\u2019s enormous size. Although architecture is primarily the functional control of space, for the new generation in Russia as well, it is secondly the organization of required materials, and finally, in its completion, a life structure. These are the three fundamental tasks to be fulfilled by the new Russian architecture\u2026but they will, alas, never be fulfilled, in the first place because of the immeasurable space, secondly because of the lack of materials, and finally because of the total lack of every notion of method and the chaotic character of the form of life.\nIf we proceed very objectively and take the time to study the essential causes of the beneficial factors for construction as a primary cultural activity in a small country, more or less reliant on its own forces (such as Holland, for example), we shall see that the factors which I touched upon above not only exist there, but that they are correlated. Holland controls its extent and therefore it experiences a healthy architectural development, in contrast to Russia, which will never control its extent and therefore will never achieve an extensive solution to its architectural problems. Germany controls its extent as well, although on a different scale from that in Holland or France, but because of that it is in a more favorable position to push architecture as a primary cultural activity to a very high level: for it has all the factors at its disposal which are necessary for the realization of the architectural tasks dictated by modern life.\nIt is extremely important for architecture to understand the significance of all this, for in the last instance it is not sufficient that occasionally a few well-proportioned modern houses are created here and there. In those, only very individual interests (of the architect) play a role, or, at most, group interests (those of the contractors and the inhabitants).\nFor the Russian architects the problem is much more complicated. Construction touches upon the life interests of the total population and, although it is necessary to electrify the country or to fertilize it, it is equally necessary to industrialize construction. But the management of Public Works will respond with a \u201cNo money.\u201d Is there no money? When millions and millions of rubles are squandered, for instance on Soviet propaganda in Japan, why then would there be no money to procure dwellings for thousands of homeless wretches?\nWould this not be the best and most effective propaganda for the idea of the Soviet regime? But instead of carrying out a decentralized industrial building method in the cities and in the countryside, the architects cluster around their favorite Moscow and squander their energy in making all kinds of utopian designs for Lenin institutes and a hundred other projects which will never be realized, and in case they would be, would gobble up senseless amounts of money, without being of any use to the community.\nThe architects of OSA [the Association of Modern Architects], who publish the very well-edited periodical Sovremennaia arkhitektura [Modern Architecture], set themselves the task to achieve a communist architecture based on a functional, elementary construction. After having informed themselves thoroughly about modern Western European architecture, the architects [Mikhail] Barshch, [Andrei] Burov, [Moisei] Ginzburg, [Ivan] Leonidov, [Aleksandr] Nikolskii, [Pavel] Novitskii, [Georgii] Orlov, [Aleksandr] Pasternak, [Nikolai] Sobolev, [Georgii] Vegman, A[leksandr] and V[iktor] Vesnin, [Vladimir] Vladimirov and others united in Moscow in a standing committee for the defense of modern architecture. In the bi-monthly periodical SA, appearing from 1926 on in 8,000 copies, organized propaganda is being made for the new European architecture, in particular for that in Germany, Holland, and France. In principle the elementary (so-called \u201ccubist\u201d) architecture is featured here, while the more decorative or classically oriented architecture is completely excluded. With respect to this constructive architecture, however, a selection process would be very desirable. Simultaneous propaganda in a principled periodical for really good constructions, based on function and materials, and for the very weak imitations thereof (such as, for instance, those by V[ictor] Bourgeois, [Andr\u00e9] Lur\u00e7at, etc., the former directly copying modern architecture in the Netherlands, the latter imitating Le Corbusier) may lead not only to misunderstanding, but also to the encouragement of unoriginal and poor architecture.\nThe architects do not appear to recognize the importance of a strict separation between purely organic and technically ingenious work on the one hand, and trivial copies on the other.\nEverything which is straight or plastered white is not to be equated with the new architecture solely because of those characteristics. Neither should everything that happens to be built in our time, be classified as modern architecture. The latter is still insufficiently understood, in Russia as well. The modern international architecture movement is, for purely functional reasons, based on a conscious application of new construction methods, which are for technical reasons incompatible with earlier building methods. Accordingly, a compromise between the two is impossible and undesirable. Therefore, the mention of more than a single modern direction in architecture contradicts the international aspiration toward a radical innovation of building methods and the correct application of available materials (steel, concrete, plate glass, nickel, caoutchouc, rubber, etc.).\nClearly archaism and decorativism are beyond the scope of the presently popular direction in which architecture is developing internationally. However, a great deal which, because of incompetence and lack of technical insight, is considered to lie within the scope of modern architecture has very little to do with architectural development (in the direction of a new building style corresponding to contemporary living).\nLooking somewhat more attentively at the Central State Insurance Building [Gosstrakh, by Moisei Ginzburg], we cannot say that it opens new technical perspectives or architectural forms. Yet this building, created in 1927, is among the most modern ones that were realized. It belongs to the so-called popular modern architecture, inspired by Western nations. The accessible roof terraces are derived from Le Corbusier. The latter, in his veneration of nature, even went to the point of building complete gardens into a project for an immeuble, as if every inhabitant would be inclined to spend his time in a damp, covered kind of garden, enclosed between two walls, and then in the end contract a bronchial ailment. One should also consider the consequences which these modern picturesque inclinations would inflict upon the materials in the long run. Well, in Russia the climate appears to allow people to spend their time on unprotected, open roof terraces, just as in France!\nNeither are the attempts at creating a new type of workers\u2019 dwelling to be called exactly successful. Consider, for instance, the standard type designed by A. Ol, in Leningrad, with its impossible tailpiece. Moisei Ginzburg\u2019s design reminds us very strongly of the Hotel Relais Automobile by the Persian architect [Gabriel] Gu\u00e9vr\u00e9kian. Although Nikolskii\u2019s model has been most researched technically, it is also based on the old housing system of standardized single-family dwellings. Nevertheless, we can discern a gratifying progress towards constructive functionalism in the course of five years\u2019 development of Soviet modern architecture. Although the first designs were extremely fantastic, and in this respect no less dangerous than, for instance, the artistic affectations of decorative architecture, the later designs created after 1926 are already more in touch with reality, and are therefore more capable of realization.\nOSA has formulated the building commissions in the broadest sense of the word clearly and intelligibly. In the long run, communist architecture can only be viable in this way. At first, architecture was viewed too much as an autonomous expression of art in Russia as well, but this viewpoint was quickly abandoned when the functionality of the commission had to be taken into account. Although the association of architects OSA does not constitute the extreme left wing of modern Russian architecture, nevertheless it is because of the thorough explanation in its publication SA that practical realization has begun.\nIn evaluating designs, models, and realized projects as shown in reproductions in modern periodicals such as SA, etc., one should keep in mind that the photographs may be tricked, and one should be aware of technical and architectural flaws which can easily be disguised by this technique. In France this kind of modern photography is called photog\u00e9nique. It has already caused a great deal of confusion in modern architectural production.\nTagged Aleksandr Vesnin, \u041c\u0430\u0440\u043a\u0441\u0438\u0437\u043c, \u041e\u0421\u0410, \u0421\u0410, \u0421\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0430\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0434, Le Corbusier, modern architecture, Moisei Ginzburg, OSA, Theo van Doesburg, urbanism\n2 thoughts on \u201c\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430: Organ of architectural modernism in the Soviet Union, 1926-1930\u201d\nPingback: Typology and ideology: Moisei Ginzburg revisited | The Charnel-House", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 542, "original_length": 26425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theconversation.com/profiles/christina-ewig-443377", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GFKJEZDYPF3KIBCKGRCM3LKG35YUYDLU", "length": 1187, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Christina Ewig \u2013 The Conversation", "raw_content": "Christina Ewig\nProfessor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota\nChristina Ewig is Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Professor Ewig\u2019s research centers on the politics of gender and race in Latin America. She has published widely on gender, race and social policy reforms in Latin America. Her current research investigates whether the rise of women and indigenous peoples into political office in Latin America has made a difference for the kinds of policy that is produced. Her book, Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race and Health Sector Reform in Peru (Penn State University Press, 2010) won the Flora Trist\u00e1n award for best book on Peru from the Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Feminist Studies, Social Science & Medicine, World Development, and Social Politics among other journals.\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D./Political Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 89.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecrimson-flower.com/2012/01/03/january-2012-at-omaris-sister/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6NU6JUUKSNFA452WSZGXN7J63I6VOUSV", "length": 1409, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thecrimson-flower.com", "title": "January 2012 at Omari\u2019s Sister \u2013 The Crimson Flower Blog", "raw_content": "January 2012 at Omari\u2019s Sister\nRecruitment: WE NEED REDRAW ARTISTS!!!!\nHappy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are now ready to attack a new year.\nI\u2019m happy to have 2011 over with. It\u2019s not that it was a bad year, it\u2019s more like I hope 2012 is a better year. Mostly, I would like the economy to come back so it will be easier to find a job. I\u2019ve pretty much accepted that I\u2019m not going to get an engineering job like the one I used to have, but I\u2019m still hopeful. I would really like to get back into doing R&D for consumer electronics.\nThat said, let\u2019s get on to the business of January. For the past 3 months we\u2019ve been blowing out one-shots, so now it\u2019s time to catch up on our series. We still have a few one-shots that are closed to being done, so we will release those as they are ready. Here\u2019s what we have planned:\n\u201cOre to Atashi no Kareshi-sama\u201d Chp 1\n\u201cYukarism\u201d Chp 10\n\u201cKomugi and the Cuisine of the World Boys\u201d\nBakeneko\u2019s Lair:\n\u201cRex Fabula\u201d Chp 4\n\u201cKemono Kingdom\u201d Chp 8\nWe have another one-shot that we may try to pull off. We\u2019ll see, though. I\u2019m trying to stay focused.\nPlease check the release schedule track our progress on various releases and follow our release feed on Twitter (@OmarissisterRel) to be alerted as we do chapter or a one-shot releases.\nPrevious Previous post: December 2011 Stats\nNext Next post: One-Shot: \"Saigo no Negai\" (\"The Last Prayer\")", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 351, "original_length": 8127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefarmersinthedell.com/2017/07/01/nobody-wants-a-bee-hind-full-of-nettles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FOC2QFKJIZZYCPHOJYCASSTECODF5JIW", "length": 2382, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thefarmersinthedell.com", "title": "Nobody wants a bee-hind full of nettles | The Farmers in the Dell", "raw_content": "Over the years, the old-timer-up-the-road has given me a lots of advice\u2026 albeit, mostly ridiculous advice, but advice nonetheless.\n\u201cNever get involved with the mafia,\u201d he whispered to me one day in the barn, peeking over the back of a cow. \u201cWhaaaaat?\u201d I replied incredulously, as my eyes rolled around a little. \u201cHush, girly,\u201d was the only answer I got as he hobbled off toward the milkhouse.\nOne of the oddest pieces of advice he bestowed upon me was when he said, \u201cMake sure you take your dentures out of your pocket before you put your pants in the washing machine.\u201d Granted, he had a snoot full of moonshine when he came up with that beauty, but I believe he was talking from experience.\nThen there was this gem regarding pasturing the cows\u2026 \u201cYa know, too much green grass in the spring makes their gums hurt.\u201d\nAnd this sage advice\u2026 \u201cMilk a bull and you\u2019ll have a friend for life.\u201d\nOr the time he cautioned me, \u201cNever p*ss on an electric fence.\u201d\nThere have been times when I have heeded his advice, however.\n\u201cNever turn your back on a bull,\u201d he grumbled the first time we brought in a 2,000 lb bovine for breeding. \u201cThey\u2019ll rip you a new a**hole and then kill you dead.\u201d\n\u201cAlways look before you squat, you don\u2019t want a bee-hind full of nettles,\u201d he hollered after me as I ran off into the woods one afternoon during haying season.\n\u201cNever get in a pissin\u2019 match with a skunk,\u201d was his way of warning me that I would not win the argument about how far apart tomatoes should be planted in the garden.\n\u201cSometimes your closest friend will end up being your worst enemy and you just have to walk away cause a**holes like that ain\u2019t worth the sh*t on the bottom of your boots ,\u201d he spouted the day we were all betrayed by a close relative.\nEven though the old-timer has come up with a plethera of oddball, useless and completely moronic bits of advice throughout the years, there was one thing he told me that I\u2019ve held dear to my heart. On a bright, sunny day under a cloudless sky in the middle of a freshly mowed hayfield, he whacked me on the back of the head with his gnarled, calloused hand and said, \u201cGirly, don\u2019t let nobody tell you that you need a church to find God. Look around\u2026 He\u2019s right here.\u201d\nAmen, old-timer, amen.\nJuly 1, 2017 in Bits and Pieces. Tags: farm life, humor, memories, small town life, the old timer up the road\nI know you hear me, but are you LISTENING? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefishsite.com/articles/stickleback-fish-dads-influence-offspring-behaviour-and-gene-expression", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ITS3NTTVKHJVYMC4KC7UACPBIDSCWMNG", "length": 4403, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "thefishsite.com", "title": "Stickleback Fish Dads Influence Offspring Behaviour and Gene Expression | The Fish Site", "raw_content": "Stickleback Fish Dads Influence Offspring Behaviour and Gene Expression\nEducation & academia Genetics & breeding Sustainability Environment\nResearchers report that some stickleback fish fathers can have long-term effects on the behavior of their offspring. The most attentive fish dads cause their offspring to behave in a way that makes them less susceptible to predators. These behavioral changes are accompanied by changes in gene expression, the researchers report.\n\"There is lots of evidence that mums are very important for their offspring,\" said University of Illinois animal biology professor Alison Bell, who led the study with researcher Katie McGhee. \"But we know much less about fathers.\"\nStudies in mice, monkeys and voles, for example, show that maternal care and attentiveness to newborns can influence the future behavior of the young \u2013 even when these mums care for young that are not genetically related to them, Ms Bell said. The behavioral changes are often linked to changes in gene expression via \"methylation,\" a chemical process that reduces the rate at which specific genes are translated into proteins, she said.\nThe three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a small fish species \u2013 it is up to the father, alone, to care for its offspring, making sticklebacks ideal organisms for the study of fatherly influence, Ms Bell said.\nThe stickleback dad's job is a challenge, she said.\n\"Everybody loves to eat fish eggs; caviar is totally delicious, so you can imagine how in the wild everybody and their mother is trying to eat the stickleback's clutch of eggs,\" she said. \"So males are very aggressive towards intruders, and they spend a lot of time just hanging out at their nest and defending it.\"\nFathers differ, however, in the kinds of care they provide to the young, Bell said. Some dads more aggressively chase away intruders and barely interact with their offspring, while others hover above the nest, fanning it with their fins to boost oxygen and retrieving youngsters (called fry) that wander off. (See movie.)\n\"The dad is actually handling the fry in his mouth,\" she said. \"He'll chase them down, suck them up into his mouth and then spit them back into his nest. Early studies in sticklebacks suggested that fry are learning about predators by having their dad chase after them.\"\nIn the new study, Ms Bell and Ms McGhee evaluated fatherly influence on fry behavior by separating half of the fry from their dads before they hatched.\n\"This allowed us to compare these offspring that were orphans with their siblings, who were raised by their father,\" Ms Bell said.\nMs McGhee tracked the sticklebacks' behavior in and around the nest and in the presence of a predator. She found that the orphaned offspring of very attentive fathers had a tendency to be much more active, particularly in the presence of a predator. When a predator fish (in this case a pike) was near, the young sticklebacks swam around, pecking at the sides of the tank as if trying to escape, a behavior that makes them more susceptible to being spotted and eaten by a hungry pike.\nHaving been reared by attentive fathers, however, reduced this frantic fry behavior. The father-reared offspring were much less active than their siblings that had been orphaned, the team reports.\nThe less-attentive fathers had no discernible influence on their offspring, however. The orphaned fry and the father-reared fry of these dads behaved similarly in the presence of a predator, Ms Bell said.\nThese findings suggest that fish families differ in their responses to stress, and that fathers can help to compensate for inherent vulnerabilities by changing their behavior in ways that affect offspring behavior, Ms Bell said.\nThe team also looked at gene expression in their study fish, and found that the variation in parental care was associated with changes in an enzyme that promotes DNA methylation in the young.\n\"Our study is important because, one, we show that dads can be like moms in that their care can influence their offspring; two, we show that dads can be like moms in that it looks like it could be mediated by gene expression changes due to differences in methylation; and three, we find this funky thing where the amount of methylation and the amount of care seems to vary among families,\" Ms Bell said.\nThe findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 7133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thegreatthinkers.org/augustine/major-works/the-letters-386-430/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UP4WDBHZQOBKWAY7HICPLUBGZJXSLHVX", "length": 1772, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thegreatthinkers.org", "title": "The Letters (386-430) - Augustine", "raw_content": "The Letters (386-430)\nEpistulae in the Fathers of the Church, Vols. 12,18, 20, 30, & 32. Trans., W. Parsons. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.\nExcerpt (from Letter 1):\n\u201cI Would not presume, even in playful discussion, to attack the philosophers of the Academy; for when could the authority of such eminent men fail to move me, did I not believe their views to be widely different from those commonly ascribed to them? Instead of confuting them, which is beyond my power, I have rather imitated them to the best of my ability. For it seems to me to have been suitable enough to the times in which they flourished, that whatever issued pure from the fountainhead of Platonic philosophy should be rather conducted into dark and thorny thickets for the refreshment of a very few men, than left to flow in open meadow-land, where it would be impossible to keep it clear and pure from the inroads of the vulgar herd. I use the word herd advisedly; for what is more brutish than the opinion that the soul is material? For defence against the men who held this, it appears to me that such an art and method of concealing the truth was wisely contrived by the new Academy. But in this age of ours, when we see none who are philosophers\u2014for I do not consider those who merely wear the cloak of a philosopher to be worthy of that venerable name\u2014it seems to me that men (those, at least, whom the teaching of the Academicians has, through the subtlety of the terms in which it was expressed, deterred from attempting to understand its actual meaning) should be brought back to the hope of discovering the truth, lest that which was then for the time useful in eradicating obstinate error, should begin now to hinder the casting in of the seeds of true knowledge.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehappybody.com/blog/pick-your-mountain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:T7T5F4T2YNZOUDVVUUHLIVIEGHABAGRJ", "length": 7327, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "thehappybody.com", "title": "Pick Your Mountain - The Happy Body", "raw_content": "\u201cLet\u2019s climb it!\u201d I said enthusiastically to Jerzy, looking at the mountain in front of us. We were in Sedona enjoying a couple of days, just the two of us. No alarm clocks, no plans, no schedules. Yeah! No responsibilities for two days and three nights.\nWe left our home and the rainy weather behind, waking up the next morning to red and orange mountain ridges against a clear blue sky, and the smell of fresh air mixed with wood smoke from the night before. It was delicious.\nAfter a nice cup of coffee and a short conversation with one of the concierges, she recommended a thirty-minute hike right outside our hotel. It was easy to persuade Jerzy since the hike was hardly going to be long or tiring. We learned that we were going to a special place where three Indian tribes once lived peacefully, side by side. Positioned in between two mountains\u2014\u201cmale and female\u201d\u2014the area was believed to be a vortex with a special energy and intensity. We wanted to experience that power for ourselves.\nThe desert in spring is quite a delight if you like the outdoors, with shifting shadows, tiny blossoms and hidden surprises like the bonsai spruce growing in a rock ledge. The sun gently warmed our backs on the way to the top. From time to time our eyes were caught by brilliant color from blooming cacti as we passed other hikers like us. One of them, we learned, was named Robert. He was a regular to the Vortex, coming every day to play the flute and charge his energy. He gave Jerzy and me two red rock heart carvings\u2014mine was soft and rounded and Jerzy\u2019s was sharp and spiky. I noticed dust on his pants and realized his pockets were full of these small rock hearts.\nWe gazed at the male mountain before us. Well, I didn\u2019t have to tell Jerzy twice \u2013 he was already carefully placing his feet in between the rocks, finding sturdy surfaces to pull himself up. I stood there looking up at him as he attacked the mountain and suddenly I called to him, \u201cJerzy, stop! You don\u2019t have to do that.\u201d I realized that our original idea to climb the mountain was really to claim it, and something was wrong with that approach. It wasn\u2019t dangerous, but we were looking at the mountain as a source of entertainment, something to conquer and then take pictures of our achievement. He looked like Spiderman with his arms and legs spread across the rock face as I shouted for him to come down. Finally he heard me, looked back, and stepped down. I could tell from his face that he\u2019d had the same insight.\nThen we saw Robert again, and we watched together as he climbed the mountain with ease and efficiency. Although he seemed older than Jerzy, it took him only a few minutes to reach the top. There was no wasted effort; his feet knew the exact best route. It was obvious it was his mountain as he began to play the flute, weaving his body back and forth as the tunes echoed across the mountains, reaching our ears. It was pure joy.\nOn the way back down the trail, Jerzy and I talked about the idea of mastery, the concept of claiming one area as your own and making it a part of your life, with depth. We had already picked our mountain, and we were respectful visitors to this desert landscape and the Vortex. We had received a strong message not to mistake climbing for claiming in any area of our life. The knowledge that there would always be another mountain, a distraction from what we really need to do, revealed the real challenge. Our hike was in harmony with our surroundings, like \u201cforest bathing,\u201d and we didn\u2019t need to conquer something that wasn\u2019t ours, just because it was there.\nWe realized that creating The Happy Body for people, over many decades, was the same as what Robert had done in discovering the exact right route up the mountain, one with no wasted effort through deliberate practice. He said he climbed the mountain every day, and his ritual radiated joy. In the same way, we both practice our exercise routine\u2014if we miss it, we\u2019ll lose our chance for that day. We can do the practice the next day but we can\u2019t turn back time or reclaim the vitality and contentment we could have had.\nHave you ever caught yourself in \u201cconquer mode\u201d? Can you clearly define what your mountain is, the area you want to master, where you can go deeper?\nEnerg\u00eda, Energ\u00eda! \u00bb\nI really enjoyed this. Thank you Aniela.\nIt\u2019s very well written.\nIt underlines the importance of being active to find satisfaction through feelings + physicality.\nThat they are linked.\nAlso, that we are part of nature.\nThank you Patrick, well said. What is your \u201cmountain\u201d that you trying to master in life?\nThanks so much for your thoughts. I appreciate your\nWat of approaching life.\nThe Happy Body is my daily gift to my body\nWhat a wonderful, daily gift, Judith, making your body happy.\nWhat ever it is that I attempt, my method is always baby steps, especially if new and unfamiliar. Right now it is learning to lacto-ferment vegetables. So far, so good. Learning as I go. Eventually it will become 2nd-nature, like driving, but you still have to be alert and aware. I am more of a merge-er than a conquer-er. When I am doing THB, I am focusing on each exercise, each part of each exercise, doing it well. I never want to crash through it, but savor it, get the most out of each movement, each release. I value my daily ritual, and also the Thais. In the way that I value each meal, each shower, each dog walk. Small attentions accumulate to larger accomplishments. I very much like your insights, but I also think you could have climbed the mountain, but not to conquer. To gain a new perspective maybe. There is always an awkward first time.\nElissa, interesting pursue with fermenting vegetables, makes you closer to controlling how and what goes into your body. In Poland we used to do pickle vegetables and fruits for winter time when fresh produce was narrowed down to root vegetables mainly. It was a special time when all family was involved and I loved it.\nAbout the climbing the mountain I was making, we were capable and could climb it, but we chose not to. Don\u2019t pick all the mountains you see because there will be too many of them.\nSome months ago I started reading your book, The Happy Body. However, I eventually put the book aside because weightlifting was far from my mind. I\u2019m 70, by the way, and am a 5th Dan karate black belt in active training.\nAs part of my research for my book about youthful aging, I decided to try a self-experiment. My plan is to see what biomarkers have changed after a steep 4-months uptick in exercise. I chose CrossFit and have now trained for one month. It\u2019s hard, hard training, but it suits my body.\nLittle did I know when I started that CrossFit that it includes olympic weightlifting, in addition to gymnastics and cardio. Ha! Now your book is suddenly VERY relevant.\nAs to \u2018conquer mode\u2019: I\u2019ve signed up for an Australian/New Zealand CrossFit competition, the Masters League, and have completed one week of four with surprisingly good results, regardless of age. The mountain I want to climb is to become a competitive CrossFit athlete! I mean, I might as well tackle a really BIG mountain instead of a little hill\u2026\nThere is a lot to learn and practice. I\u2019m now going to work through your book and do the exercises regularly.\nYour book seemed to work like a delayed fuse. Thank you for your inspiration!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 17006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thelandinghotelny.com/visit/proctors-theater/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GBLH5XKYHUUOPQPJA4HNE2LFNYRCLURC", "length": 551, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thelandinghotelny.com", "title": "Proctors Theater \u2013 The Landing Hotel", "raw_content": "What began as a vaudeville theater in the early 1900\u2019s is now the Capital Region\u2019s destination for major Broadway shows, cutting-edge film festivals, exciting special events and everything in between. Over the past decade, Proctors Theater has accommodated large Broadway productions like Wicked and the Lion King, giant screen films and local performers such as the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. Proctors is also home to an expansive arts education program, which helps tens of thousands of people of all ages find new ways to engage with the arts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 128.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themonroetimes.com/views/leon-burzynski-reflections-on-medicares-44-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:N72TRVIJSSJBAWXVGFJ5LM2CCMALV7ZD", "length": 382, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "themonroetimes.com", "title": "Leon Burzynski: Reflections on Medicare's 44 years - Monroe Times", "raw_content": "Leon Burzynski: Reflections on Medicare's 44 years\nBy Leon Burzynski\nThe 44th anniversary of Medicare is July 30. Not only is this a time to reflect on Medicare's success - it has reduced senior poverty by two-thirds - but it also is an opportunity for Wisconsin retirees to become more aware of what is at stake for them and future retirees in the health care debate in Washington.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/ukraine-starts-building-wall-to-keep-russia-out-39286", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:N7QCRSGTOEPZJMM2BGADZWPGC3I3VYXW", "length": 2710, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "themoscowtimes.com", "title": "Ukraine Starts Building Wall to Keep Russia Out", "raw_content": "Ukraine Starts Building Wall to Keep Russia Out\nA car approaches the border between Russia and the pro-Russian separatist controlled area of Ukraine, which is marked by posts, near the village of Verkhnyaya Orekhovka, in the Rostov region, Aug. 7, 2014.\nUkraine has started building a wall along its border with Russia to block an influx of fighters and weapons across its frontiers and guard itself from the former Soviet neighbor that has become an \"aggressor,\" the government said.\n\"On the orders of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, priority work on installing fortifications and assembling engineering barriers along certain border stretches has begun,\" the command of Ukraine's anti-terrorist forces said Wednesday on its Facebook page.\n\"Two defense lines have been planned, and their main goal is to prevent the infiltration by the adversary into the territory of Ukraine,\" the statement said.\nDefense lines will include a 60-kilometer stretch of a \"non-explosive barrier,\" thousands of kilometers worth of trenches for personnel, armored vehicles and communication lines, and 4,000 army dugouts, the statement said.\nUkrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced the start of \"Project 'Wall'\" earlier this month, saying that Ukraine should be clear about who its enemy is.\nSpeaking last Wednesday, Yatsenyuk said his country needed a new military doctrine, \"clearly defining who the aggressor is, and who is a threat,\" according to a statement published on the government website.\n\"In the new military doctrine, the Russian Federation should be acknowledged as the only threat and as the aggressor that threatens Ukraine's territorial integrity,\" he added.\nRussia has repeatedly dismissed Ukrainian and Western appeals to seal its border to prevent Russian fighters and weapons from crossing into Ukraine, with Moscow insisting that it was not meddling in the Ukrainian conflict and had no troops there. It later conceded that a few of Russian paratroopers who were detained in Ukraine had \"accidentally\" wandered across the border.\nBut a Kremlin adviser said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Poroshenko had both expressed \"satisfaction\" during a telephone conversation this week on how a ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and separatists was holding, Reuters reported.\nFollowing a major military offensive by Ukraine's pro-Moscow rebels in late August \u2014 an operation that Ukraine said was aided by Russian forces \u2013\u2014 Poroshenko said Wednesday that \"70 percent of Russian troops have moved back across the border,\" according to a remarks published by his administration.\n\"I have no doubt: There will be peace in Ukraine,\" he told a government meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thescarlet.org/14300/sports/sports-recap-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OXDGGG2X7CLATUNTB7CZZLT5CHTBXPAL", "length": 3818, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thescarlet.org", "title": "Sports Recap \u2013 The Scarlet", "raw_content": "Clark Baseball is 4-2 since the team returned from its spring break trip in Florida. The team notched these four wins against Anna Maria College, Elms College, and Brandeis University twice. James Conway (\u201816) recorded nine hits and two home runs in these four wins, vaulting him into earning last week\u2019s NEWMAC Baseball Player of the Week award. Kyle Bonicki (\u201817) has also been on a tear for the team: he is currently second in the NEWMAC in on-base percentage at .562, and his .651 slugging percentage ranks fifth in the conference. The Cougars are currently 9-9 and will begin conference play on Saturday at Emerson College. They will return home on Saturday, April 2 to face off against MIT at 12 p.m.\nClark Men\u2019s Tennis revitalized their focus for the season over spring break in Florida. The team went 2-5 in Orlando against some of the top Division III tennis teams in the country. They returned to New England with a 9-0 victory at Rhode Island College on Wednesday, March 16. Spencer Pinkney (\u201817) said he thinks that the spring break trip is crucial for setting the tone for the year. \u201cThe trip always provides a great experience for the team because we get to play a ton of matches in a short amount of time and get to spend a lot of time together,\u201d Pinkney said. \u201cEveryone gains a little extra excitement and motivation for tennis over spring break and it\u2019s a great way to kick off the spring season in general.\u201d The team also continued their tradition of having a mini golf tournament, which Ian Levy (\u201819) won. The Cougars will play their next home match against Johnson & Wales on Tuesday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m.\nClark Softball suffered a five-game skid this past week before righting the ship against Becker College with a 4-1 victory. However, the team has posted several strong games offensively. \u201cAgainst Brandeis we had a huge hitting game,\u201d said catcher Kayleigh McHugh (\u201819). \u201cIt came down to the last innings, and they had the home field advantage, and they pulled it out.\u201d McHugh said the team has improved confidence in late situations after playing several tough games, and it showed in their win against Becker. \u201cWe rallied around each other that game, and we made a few mistakes but it didn\u2019t rattle us as much as it had in the past,\u201d said McHugh.\nTaylor Erickson (\u201819) boosted the offense with a home run in extra innings against Becker to put the Cougars up three. McHugh said that she will not forget the moment anytime soon. \u201cJust seeing her face as she ran around the bases was almost as exciting as the home run itself,\u201d said McHugh. Erickson has an on-base percentage of .400, good for third best on what has been a potent offense all season. The Cougars will play their next home game on Saturday, March 26 at 12 p.m. against MIT.\nClark Lacrosse came across their largest speed bump of the season when they lost 16-6 to NESCAC powerhouse Wesleyan. The offense did not flow as seamlessly as it has in the Cougars\u2019 other few games so far, and Clark found itself in less control of the game than the team was used to. They recorded only 24 shots to Wesleyan\u2019s 51, and only two of the six Clark goals came off of assists. \u201cWesleyan is a very skilled, athletic team at every position. When you have a team of that caliber, everyone has to play smarter and faster,\u201d wrote attackman Nick Johnson (\u201817) in an email to The Scarlet. He added that he thought the game was good for the team, \u201cWe definitely gained some experience. They\u2019re the toughest team on our schedule so it was a great test for us as we enter league play.\u201d The team will make its NEWMAC debut against Wheaton College on Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in the Renny Classic, which seeks to raise awareness for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease.\nTags: Baseball, Kayleigh McHugh, Lacrosse, Men's Tennis, Nick Johnson, Softball, Spencer Pinkney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theslanted.com/2018/02/29073/annihilation-premiere-natalie-portman-gina-rodrigueze/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MBJMKCCBCUU5BD2AZ66K2US6VN5YIIGY", "length": 2243, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "theslanted.com", "title": "Annihilation Premiere: Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez bring a Thriller to L.A.", "raw_content": "Annihilation Premiere: Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez bring a Thriller to L.A.\nAnnihilation hits theaters next week\nby : John Stewart\t February 14, 2018 February 14, 2018\nSlanted > Film > Annihilation Premiere: Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez bring a Thriller to L.A.\nSony Pictures hosted the L.A. premiere of \u201cAnnihilation\u201d this week, and the cast and crew of the film met with fans and spoke about the upcoming thriller. The film has quite a cast behind it, including Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Tuva Novotny. The almost all-female cast was one of the reason so many high-profile stars decided to join the project, but of course working with such a popular thriller-director wasn\u2019t a tough sell to begin with.\nIf you haven\u2019t seen the trailers yet, the film follows Lena, a biologist and former soldier. Lena joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X, which is a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.\nThe film comes from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) and based on the acclaimed best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. \u201cEx Machina\u201d was the film that propelled Alicia Vikander\u2019s career, and the film made over $25M domestically and almost $37M worldwide. Tessa Thompson is coming off her recent work in \u201cThor: Ragnarok,\u201d a Marvel franchise that Natalie Portman also starred in. Thompson is also expected to appear in \u201cAvengers: Infinite War,\u201d and is set to star in the film \u201cCreed II\u201d with Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan. The follow-up will be directed by Steven Caple Jr.\nAs for \u201cAnnihilation,\u201d the thriller will hit theaters on February 23, 2018, which is already a crowded box-office. The big contender for that weekend will be \u201cMarvel\u2019s Black Panther,\u201d which releases nationwide one-week earlier. The animated-comedy \u201cEarly Man\u201d will also be in its second-weekend when \u201cAnnihilation\u201d hits theaters, and the film is releasing against \u201cEvery Day\u201d and the adult comedy \u201cGame Night\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesmartset.com/tag/brewers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YEUWC34C5WTIALU3Q33PM4MTPLQJTSDR", "length": 1032, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thesmartset.com", "title": "brewers | The Smart Set", "raw_content": "A Short Flight\nThe Seattle Pilots were short-lived, but their story is one of baseball's, and America's, westward expansion.\nOn April 11, 1969, Major League Baseball made its debut in the city of Seattle to a raucous crowd of 17,000 fans. On a pleasant, sunny, breezy sixty-degree day in the hastily renovated Sick\u2019s Stadium, the expansion Seattle Pilots defeated the Chicago White Sox seven to nothing. Gary Bell, the ace of the pitching staff, threw a complete game. Heck, he even helped his own cause by smacking a two-run double in the sixth inning. Don Mincher, the cleanup hitter and proverbial slugger of the lineup, belted a long home run in the third. All was right in the Pacific Northwest, at least for the day. As the Seattle Times put it in the next morning\u2019s headline, \u201cTwas a Perfect Day, for Weather and Score.\u201d\nIt was not to last. The Pilots arrived in a city that wanted \u2014 some would say needed \u2014 a professional sports franchise to solidify\u2026 More\u2026\nTagged baseball, brewers, history, pilots, seattle, sick's stadium", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesmartset.com/tag/chekhov/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NO2W5SW2N42FQBMV7UHSIS63XUTYXYXC", "length": 1405, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thesmartset.com", "title": "chekhov | The Smart Set", "raw_content": "Desire is Complicated\nPart II of \"Everybody Wants More Than Just One Thing\"\nThe truth is, almost all of us want more than just one thing. The child who wants water also wants to share it with his mother. The mother wants her child to have water and also food.\nTake a look at Chekhov\u2019s stories. Maybe you already have and are already acquainted with his distinctively realistic stories. Anton Chekhov was a doctor and a writer. His writing included four plays and many short stories, almost all of which are justifiably described as great. He had a particular ability to capture the Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century: Its mixed mood of melancholy and ennui, of longing and not being willing to do anything about it. Sometimes his work approaches satire \u2014 there is a long tradition of satire in Russian fiction \u2014 and indeed he wrote satirical pieces to earn money for his college tuition, but far more often, as he begins to write longer stories, his work is leavened by the delicacy of his descriptions and the efficiency of his narratives. His characters are so real that one remembers them as one remembers people in one\u2019s own life. Most of us in this country have to read his work in translation, and we are fortunate that excellent translations are available.\nMore\u2026 \u201cDesire is Complicated\u201d\nTagged chekhov, conflict, desire, hamlet, russian literature, short stories, style, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thestaysanemom.com/subcategories/10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UOCBL6WOOGJI6ULKOTZPVOUI5FCWUE5Z", "length": 134, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thestaysanemom.com", "title": "Small Humans | SSM | Stay Sane Mom", "raw_content": "Here's your lifeline for dealing with that period of time after they finish being toddlers, but before they turn into nasty teenagers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetshirtacademy.com/about-the-t-shirt-academy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EPYYBXQOJCATSAD3EBH3ULW3PV6CFELA", "length": 2352, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetshirtacademy.com", "title": "About \u2014 The T-Shirt Academy", "raw_content": "SO WHAT\u2019S THIS DUDE ALL ABOUT?\nHi, my name is Christian Heidorn and I\u2019m the founder of\nThe T-Shirt Academy. I am absolutely passionate about design in all respects and I consider myself successful t-shirt entrepreneur.\nOver the years I\u2019ve built a t-shirt business that has lead to sales of more than 75,000 t-shirts and designs. I have cracked the annual threshold of $100,000 several times and I have managed to do this on the side without sacrificing the security of my full-time job. To put it in Tim Ferris\u2019 own words, I\u2019ve created a muse which continues to generate passive income on an ongoing basis without any additional work required on my part. I literally create my own annual bonus.\nI hold a Master\u2019s degree in Management from a leading French Business School and work for a multinational corporation in the Top 10 of the Fortune Global 500. I specialize in Marketing & Sales and have always had a knack for information technology and design. Given my background, you might be asking yourself why on earth I run a t-shirt business on the side. The answer is quite simple.\nPeople choose to work for a company because they need to earn a living and employment provides them with financial security. However, there are also millions of employees who have the tremendous urge to create something they can call their own. In their personal capacity, they pursue their true passions and very often they look for a way to turn that passion into profit. I know that feeling. I know it all too well. I know how difficult it is to simply let go, particularly when you\u2019ve been brought up in a risk-averse household. I know what it feels like to want to build your own business and become your own boss one day. But I also know that there is a middle ground, which doesn\u2019t require us to take big risks and yet still allows us be entrepreneurs.\nThat is why I founded The T-Shirt Academy. My goal is to share with you what I\u2019ve learnt and help you avoid making the same mistakes I made when I was just starting out. I will teach you the tools of the trade, special tricks I\u2019ve developed and share insights you could only gain if you\u2019ve been in the business for a while. And remember, I also continue to experiment and learn. Some of the things I try fail and I share those learnings on my blog as well.\nIF YOU\u2019D LIKE TO KNOW MORE, GET UPDATES. IT\u2019S FREE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com/2005030/mc-lyte-monie-love-lady-of-rage-more-give-the-real-on-female-legends-of-hip-hop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAC2HMIRJ4S5U2ZFQ6DBXAQG7H3MX2R2", "length": 996, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com", "title": "MC Lyte, Monie Love & More Give Real On \u201cFemale Legends Of Hip Hop\u201d | The Urban Daily", "raw_content": "MC Lyte, Monie Love, Lady of Rage & More Give The Real On \u201cFemale Legends Of Hip Hop\u201d\nBy Jamiyl Samuels\nOn Friday (12/21), rap icon MC Lyte hosted the Female Legends of Hip Hop Interactive Panel Discussion at The LA Film School in Hollywood, CA. The panel was a part of MC Lyte\u2019s \u201cHip Hop Sisters Legend Series: Who Are They, Where Are They, What Happened & Why?\u201d taking place this weekend. Some of rap\u2019s legendary femcees like Lady of Rage, MC Smooth and Monie Love joined MC Lyte in LA for a panel discussion on female rappers in the music industry.\nThe weekend includes a series of events like the search for the \u201cNext Top Female MC\u201d and a \u201cLegends\u201d concert starring all of the ladies from the panel as well as Yo-Yo. Good to see these ladies still looking fly and cold rocking the mic.\nlady of rage\t, mc lyte\t, MC Smooth\t, Monie Love\nMore By Jamiyl Samuels\nJay-Z\u2019s Best Lyrics From \u201cVol. 2\u2026 Hard Knock Life\u201d\nWill Smith and Doug E. Fresh Freestyle [VIDEO]\nCeltics\u2019 Rondo Out For Rest Of Season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thevoicebw.com/passop-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KVSAVJHNXIJR2NNFHJBESFX3BUNP2HYY", "length": 2883, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "thevoicebw.com", "title": "Passop!", "raw_content": "Home Other News Passop!\nPassop!\nDREAMER: Phiri\nGod allegedly warns Masisi of imminent danger\nWhen president, Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi implored the nation to seek guidance from the Lord in his inaugural state of the nation address last month, one particular citizen heeded the president\u2019s call.\nTauna Phiri, 33, from Shashe village claims, \u201cthe Lord\u201d has been talking to him through dreams and wants him to deliver a special message to the president regarding the safety of his nation, Botswana.\nPhiri who has already approached the office of the president several times in an effort to convey the \u201cmessage from God,\u201d says he has been sent to warn the president about lurking danger.\n\u201cWhen I sleep a voice tells me to go to the president and tell him that the safety of the nation has been compromised and we are on the brink of great danger. I have heard this voice many times before but the problem is that the office of the president seems not to take the advice serious,\u201d Phiri explained in a walk- in interview this week after he failed to deliver the message directly to the president.\n\u201cThe president\u2019s secretaries told me they will pass on the message to him, but I doubt they did because the voice has been persistent telling me I have to go to the president and tell him that a calamity will befall the nation unless he acts,\u201d Phiri stated further.\nNonetheless, he would not divulge the whole message, which he said, is meant exclusively for the president\u2019s ears.\n\u201cMaybe they do not want to listen to me because I don\u2019t smell of perfume and I am not putting on a suit, but God uses me and he speaks to me,\u201d Phiri further claimed.\nSenior private secretary to the president, G. Mompati-Ntapu has confirmed having met Phiri and that he wrote a letter to him to explain reasons Phiri could not be allowed to meet the president at the moment.\n\u201cIt is true, he has visited OP, but we did explain to him the reason he cannot meet the president and indeed we have written him a letter in that regard,\u201d Ntapu explained.\nIndeed the letter Ntapu wrote to Phiri on November, 18th, 2018, reads, \u201cYou are kindly informed that as much as His Excellency would have liked to meet with you and receive the message, he is unable to do so, owing to prior scheduled commitments.\u201d\nDuring the November 5th, 2018 state of the state of nation address, Masisi revealed that the transition from the previous administration has not been as smooth as expected and that attempts to smoothen the process by engaging senior citizens had not been successful.\nMasisi then promised to apply the law to the letter and to search for a lasting settlement.\nIn the same breath Masisi did call for the nation to \u201cseek guidance from the Lord in our effort and commitments to contribute to the development of the great country.\u201d\nPrevious articleBDP sends strong warning to New Jerusalem\nNext articleTears, fears and beers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theweek.com/articles/821601/best-super-bowl-years", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6DLOBUPQNJ5ASMHV2HSB5RDX46UKDGYW", "length": 4909, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "theweek.com", "title": "This was the best Super Bowl in years", "raw_content": "This was the best Super Bowl in years\nIllustrated | Jamie Squire/Getty Images, krishh/iStock\nWhen people talk about \"the Super Bowl,\" they mean any number of related but emphatically not identical things. There is, first of all, the massive logistical undertaking of the event: the technocratic marvel of allowing hundreds of thousands of drunk people to come to a city to get even drunker and making sure they do not kill themselves or other people. Then there is the first-class feast of the capitalist religion \u2014 the consumerist equivalent of Candlemas \u2014 that closes out the \"holidays.\" Did you know it costs 50 bazillion dollars to show this commercial? Look, Random Celebrity made a funny. Yawn.\nSunday in Atlanta seems to have been largely free of violence. I for one was saddened when the Bud Knight, that chivalrous persecutor of craft beer nerds, turned out to be a corn syrup-averse health nut after all. Maybe it was good that he got killed by a Game of Thrones dragon. Never mind Jim Nantz's weirdly insistent compliments: Hearing Tony Romo explain that Jared Goff will likely throw the football on third and eight or say, \"This is what is known as the jet sweep,\" as if he were a marine biologist lecturing on the anatomy of the ccean sunfish, is not what I call broadcasting genius.\nBut as a football game? I thought Sunday was not only a thoroughly enjoyable game but one of the best Super Bowls in many years.\nThe main reason is that it featured two teams doing both of the things that teams try to do in football \u2014 i.e., score and prevent the other team from scoring. In recent years, however, the latter has receded in importance thanks to a series of rule changes that make quarterbacks all but unassailable in the pocket and receivers sometimes literally \"defenseless players.\" The supposed \"no-call\" from the NFC championship game between the Rams and the Saints that people are still whining about involved a hit that would barely have a raised an eyebrow, much less drawn a flag, even 10 years ago.\nA quiet story of the 2018 regular season was the league's attempt to dial down the unpopular (at least among fans) targeting rule and keep the number of replays to a minimum. It turns out that a large portion of the actual football-viewing public misses hard hits and hates endless metaphysical speculation about the ontology of the catch that have become hallmarks of the modern professional game. It wasn't perfect this year, but the ratings don't lie \u2014 when football is played like football, people watch it.\nApart from a phantom defensive penalty that \u2014 imagine that \u2014 benefited the Patriots near the end of the first quarter, there was almost none of this stuff on Sunday night. For years now, people have been calling the NFL the \"Big 12 on Sundays,\" a reference to the pass-happy, defense-free, high-scoring atmosphere of the college football conference out of which some of the league's best young quarterbacks have been drafted. Super Bowl LIII looked more like the Big 10 or, until fairly recently, the SEC: power running, fullbacks, tight ends, brutal pash rushers, defensive wizardry, tactical punts, field goals, low scores \u2014 what Les Miles used to call \"big-boy football.\" What does it say that the most significant offensive play of the evening \u2014 the only one to end in a touchdown \u2014 was a two-yard run up the gut from a fullback? To me it says that it was great football.\nSunday showed us how easy it is to take the air out of a modern high-flying offense if you're actually allowed to come after them. Jared Goff was a frustrated and at times even terrible quarterback not because he is lacking in talent but because he was being asked to play without the protection younger players have come to expect from the referees even when their teammates fail them. By the end of the night he was so sloppy and inaccurate that you could hear the screams of \"BENCH GOFF\" from all six of the Rams' actual fans at home in Los Angeles all the way across the country. Everyone has heard of the butt fumble. Good luck to Goff trying to live down the abject humiliation of what I hope I am the first to call the \"Ass Pass\" to C.J. Anderson's exposed hind quarters.\nPeople calling Sunday night's game \"boring\" sound like baseball-watching 10-year-olds circa 1999 who can't sit still through all the lame fundamental stuff like fielding and tactical walks because they want to watch Mark McGwire crank another homer. If you want to see random objects zip through the air, go play frisbee with your dog. If you want to watch numbers go up on a screen as part of a \"fantasy\" game, join a Dungeons and Dragons party.\nIf, on the other hand, you actually enjoy the slow-moving chess grandmaster showdown-cum-trench warfare of the sport known as American football, well \u2014 why you are reading this piece? You already agree with me and Jonathan Chait that Super Bowl LIII was an instant classic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thewolfprint.com/sports/2016/12/21/football-is-it-beneficial/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YO5BQA3EDGWLVKY2LH3KGBTCTMEM7EKW", "length": 2892, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thewolfprint.com", "title": "Football: Is it Beneficial? \u2013 The SRVHS Wolfprint", "raw_content": "Joel Connors\nConcussions. Football. These two words are synonymous in some minds, but now that\u2019s not true. Because it is a safer game now and it teaches discipline, football is a good sport for youth to play.\nIn light of all the controversy on concussions, football has changed the way that youth are taught to tackle, keeping their head out of the equation. According to the Seattle Seahawks main website, \u201cThe philosophy takes the head out of the play and increases safety, all while maintaining the toughness and physicality that makes the game great.\u201d By not leading with their head, players reduce the risk of concussion or brain injury, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they have to sacrifice how hard they hit.\nI\u2019m not saying that players will never get another concussion again. Not all injuries can be 100% prevented. A few seasons ago I made a tackle, and in the resulting pile, was hit in the head. I felt dizzy and had some headaches. But by using correct technique risk of injury is reduced.\nAnyone that\u2019s heard of the NFL knows about CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Over 95% of retired NFL players have CTE, but compared to the fact that only 1.6% of high school players make the NFL, and the average career of an NFL player is only 3 years, according to thepostgame.com, then the damage is relatively minor.\nStill some parents won\u2019t let their kids play. They\u2019d rather that their little ones play safer sports, but hockey, rugby, and even basketball have high concussion rates as well. The fact of the matter is that sports and injuries go hand in hand, no matter what the sport.\nSome would then argue to end football all together, but then you would lose the other benefits of football. For example, football teaches great teamwork and the skill of working together. \u201cBuild for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity,\u201d as Vince Lombardi states. This means that football players have to work together, trust each other and be strong by working together.\nAnother thing that football teaches well is respect for your superiors. In football, if you do something wrong, such as talk while the coach is talking or, heaven forbid, talk back to the coach, you get to run, do push-ups, or up-downs. None of these are fun when you are in full pads, so most kids learn a bit of respect.\nThe final reason why football is good for you is through the sport, you get to meet people and make friends with people that you otherwise wouldn\u2019t have known. Where I used to live, there weren\u2019t too many little kids. When my mom signed me up for football, not only did I have friends at school, I now had friends on my team.\nFootball is a great sport that teaches tons of lessons that are used later in life. Plus, moms love it when their kids come home to tired to do anything but eat whatever is on their plate and shower before bed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thoughts.boult.com/u/102exhs/nicholas-widdowson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:GQRHD7Z5IVHORRJA2D2LGIFNN5NUXG5J", "length": 2353, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thoughts.boult.com", "title": "Nicholas Widdowson - Boult Wade Tennant", "raw_content": "nwiddowson@boult.com\nhttps://www.boult.com/staff-profile/nicholas-widdowson/\nNicholas, Partner, is a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and European Design Attorney in the Engineering and Designs Group and the High Tech and Electrical Group.\nWith a varied background spanning both electronic and mechanical technologies, Nicholas is well placed to advise in technology areas that sit at the interface between the two. His practice involves drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a wide variety of fields including: display technologies, mobile devices, automotive engineering, aeronautical engineering, heavy machinery, control systems, medical devices and consumer packaging. Nick also regularly represents clients at Oral Proceedings before the Examining and Opposition divisions of the European Patent Office. In addition to filing and prosecution work, he also gives advice on infringement and validity issues and provides freedom-to-operate opinions.\nBeyond Europe, Nick is experienced in co-ordinating the prosecution of patent applications in a range of jurisdictions. Nick also regularly files registered design applications in Europe and co-ordinates design filing programmes in multiple jurisdictions.\nNick has an MEng (Hons) Engineering from Durham University where he studied the full range of Engineering disciplines and specialised in Electronic Engineering. During Nick\u2019s PhD at Durham University he researched organic electroluminescent devices. He subsequently worked as a research associate in the field of micro electro-mechanical systems. In addition to academic research, Nick also has experience of commercial research having worked for a multi-national company researching quality metrics for compression algorithms.\nNicholas Widdowson's Passles\nPublished patents reveal corporate secrets\nRunning a startup, where do I begin in protecting my innovation?\nHow to release value from your unused patents\nCambridge is the UK's most innovative city, measured by number of patents published per resident. At 315.7 patents per 100,000...\nI recently posted about the twentieth anniversary of the patent search database called Espacenet. It really is a great resource for...\nMuch of what I do day to day involves sitting at the interface between the legal and technical worlds. Communicating in a meaningful way...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 13084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://threeshowsaturday.com/2017/12/13/book-review-the-wolf-the-duck-the-mouse/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAP35FI6KUWB6LCUISQLFFGNN2GH4QSX", "length": 1164, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "threeshowsaturday.com", "title": "Book Review: The Wolf, The Duck, & The Mouse \u2013 Three Show Saturday", "raw_content": "I am a huge fan of Jon Klassen, so when I saw this book from Candlewick Press I was super excited. This quirky and clever read will not disappoint!\nThe Wolf, The Duck, & The Mouse (2017, Candlewick Press, Picture Book)\n\u201cI may have been swallowed,\u201d said the duck, \u201cbut I have no intention of being eaten.\u201d\nThe Wolf, The Duck, & The Mouse, written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, is an unexpected and hilarious tale. The book starts out ominously with Mouse being gobbled up by Wolf, but that is just the start of Mouse\u2019s adventures when he discovers Duck living quite comfortably within Wolf. Hilarity ensues as Duck and Mouse throw a party and have a feast to the detriment of poor Wolf who is then pursued by a hunter.\nFans of Jon Klassen will recognize his illustration style and author Mac Barnett lives up to Klassen\u2019s reputation for quirky, funny children\u2019s stories. As with many of Klassen\u2019s books, the humor can be enjoyed by adults just as much as children.\nHighly recommended for children of all ages and adults too! This one is sure to be read again and again with laughs all around.\n5 bright stars for Duck and Mouse in Wolf\u2019s dark belly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tierfive.com/imaging/campain/document-scanning-in-los-angeles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6UKAEKZGUQUEPM3BI2YUQNMPBSXAA2J", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tierfive.com", "title": "Document Scanning in Los Angeles | TierFive Imaging", "raw_content": "Los Angeles's Leaders in Document Imaging Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://top-real-estate-sales.site123.me/blog/tips-for-selling-a-house-faster-in-any-season", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FSQDFFH5SLEJ24J2UDCA6PEKKADMZIO3", "length": 2404, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "top-real-estate-sales.site123.me", "title": "Tips For Selling A House Faster In Any Season - Top Real Estate Sales", "raw_content": "Most people planning to sell their houses have hopes to sell them as faster as possible. Many houses are now on market since this is the season that most people want to sell their houses. Hence, selling a house faster in this season can be hard. It needs a person to work extra hard in order to achieve this. This article explain about the advantages of selling a house to a we buy houses company. The tips are explained below.\nBoosting the outside look of the house can work wonders. This can be done by planting flowers and aesthetic plants, keeping the walkways clean and painting the walls. Also one can decide to hang house numbers on the door so as to ease the identification of rooms. The windows should be kept clean. This helps in encouraging buyers to go inside and have a look.\nAnother idea is getting the house sparkling clean. This starts from floors. Also, the counters, windows and every surface of the house should be very clean. One can make this easier by hiring cleaners who are experienced in this. This can be cheap and easier if the house is too big for the person to do the work alone.\nA styled house is likely to get sold faster than the non-styled house. Hence, this is another special tip. The dining room table, living room, and other rooms should be styled in a unique way to attract the buyers. This tends to increase the appeal of the house. Also, the furniture can be rearranged in a symmetrical way. All furniture should be off the wall and should be in pairs.\nNeutral colors of the furniture and the house in general work so well in making a house look great. At this time, one has no time of deciding a good color to match with another. All that is desired is the quick selling of the house. Neutral colors don't mean pure white, no. There are many other colors such as the mocha.\nAfter making that house look great, the next thing one has to do is to entice the buyers to explore all the rooms of the house. This can be done by placing things that attract them in places like the stairs, hallways, and corners. These things can be flowers, a window seat, colorful rug and many others. By use of these tips, one can be assured of selling his or her house faster than expected. Check out this website https://www.baystatehousebuyers.com/\nMore ideas here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-you-really-afford-to-_b_10009458.html\nhome buying real estate house selling", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://topmgc.com/news/2018/universal-championship-poker-mpn.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DYDZ6H4ZB5D7WAGIHAGN6YLGX7CKUQJY", "length": 1541, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "topmgc.com", "title": "Universal Championship of Poker From MPN Comes Back On Sunday", "raw_content": "Universal Championship of Poker From MPN Comes Back On Sunday\nUCOP, which is the short name for MPN\u2019s Universal Championship of Poker, is making a return on Sunday, and it will have \u20ac1,000,000 in guaranteed prizes. This the biggest tournament series that MPN has ever organized, and it will have a total of 360+ satellites and 88 events. It starts on September 9th and runs until September 23rd, 2018.\nAmong the bigger satellites of UCOP, there will be the \u20ac22 Mega Feeder with its 100 seats destined for the Main Event, but also the Monster Rebuy of \u20ac0.11, another direct feeder for the same Main Event. The winners will go to the \u20ac110 Main Event.\nYou can enter a minimum of 10 UCOP satellites as a player, using a buy-in set to \u20ac11. You will get a chance to win yourself a ticket for the Main Event Freeroll.\nThe UCOP Main Event of 2018 comes with a \u20ac100,000 guarantee, which is the biggest prize pool they ever used.\nAs a winner which reaches the first spot of the leader-board, you will get the title of Greatest Poker Player in the Universe. The trophy, two packages for the MPN Poker Tour and \u20ac3,000 cash will be yours. From each package, you get guaranteed entry to the main event and to a side event, plus paid-for expenses for travel and already paid accommodations for two people. Access to luxury VIP activities and player parties is included.\nAlex Scott, which is responsible for Poker at Microgaming, has declared that UCOP keeps growing and now it has \u20ac1,000,000 guaranteed, so it\u2019s the biggest series they\u2019ve organized so far.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torahaura.com/what-is-talmud", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DUF4W5NVLSU5EVHBPHHIEG7Y647BQPZ4", "length": 291, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "torahaura.com", "title": "What Is: Talmud?", "raw_content": "What is Talmud is a hands-on exploration of the process and text of the Talmud. It begins with an ethical problem\u2014a question of responsibility for hazardous waste disposal. The body of the lesson involves reading, analyzing, and then bringing to life the transcript of a Talmudic discussion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torontosun.com/news/world/taliban-name-negotiating-team-ahead-of-new-peace-talks-with-u-s/wcm/3302a6b7-25ab-4ca9-ac22-2de9511b9e52", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJPH6BINS64E7UQYIHBUEA627UXBKY2L", "length": 2849, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "torontosun.com", "title": "Taliban name negotiating team ahead of new peace talks with U.S. | Toronto Sun", "raw_content": "Taliban name negotiating team ahead of new peace talks with U.S.\nIn this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 file photo, Taliban Mullah Abbas Stanikzai, centre, attends \"intra-Afghan\" talks in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)\nKABUL \u2014 The Taliban on Tuesday announced a 14-member negotiating team ahead of talks this month with U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been meeting with the insurgents to try to end America\u2019s longest war.\nSher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai will head the Taliban team, which includes five former inmates of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay who were released in 2014 in exchange for U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in 2009 after wandering off his base. The team also includes Anas Haqqani, the jailed younger brother of the leader of the Haqqani network, a powerful Taliban faction.\nTaliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Haqqani, currently held in Kabul, \u201cshould be released to start work on the negotiating team.\u201d Mujahid said Tuesday that Haqqani \u201cwas a student at the time of his arrest and was not involved in any activity for which he should be arrested.\u201d\nThe Taliban have demanded Haqqani\u2019s release since talks began last year. By naming him to the negotiating team, the Haqqani network might be indicating that his release is a precondition for their participation.\nThe network has not been openly involved in talks with the U.S. envoy, except to send three representatives to a meeting in the United Arab Emirates in December. That meeting reportedly touched on the issue of prisoners, including Anas Haqqani and two professors from the American University in Kabul \u2014- Kevin King, an American, and Timothy Weeks, an Australian \u2014- who are believed to be held by the Haqqani network.\nThe two professors were abducted in 2016 from Kabul. A video released more than a year ago indicated King was in poor health.\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani has complained bitterly about being sidelined, and it\u2019s not clear that his government would be willing to release Haqqani without being granted a larger role in the process.\nThe U.S. envoy met Monday with NATO and European Union officials in Brussels, and tweeted that he was \u201cencouraged by their strong endorsement on the progress we\u2019ve made on a peace process.\u201d He said the sides are aiming to reach a peace deal \u201cworthy of the sacrifices made over decades of war,\u201d and not a withdrawal agreement.\nThis was Khalilzad\u2019s first stop on a three-week mission that will also take him to Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Afghanistan and Pakistan.\nThe U.S. and NATO troops are mostly advising and training, although when requested they assist Afghan forces in battles with the Taliban, who carry out near-daily assaults on Afghan soldiers and police.\nMore than 17 years after their ouster, the Taliban control, influence or hold sway over nearly half the country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 7173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tos.info/en/tos-ministries/social-ministries/drug-rehab/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:34Z", "digest": "sha1:6WWSEXYAKA3PBGPXKD4BYWWWRI72NZRA", "length": 330, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tos.info", "title": "Drug Rehab", "raw_content": "In Belarus, Siberia, and Greece, TOS Ministries International have been working successfully among drug addicts for many years. The rehabilitation centre in Svetlagorsk, Belarus is among the best with a 76% success rate. Meanwhile, this centre and all additional support projects for drug addicts are managed by former drug users.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 1980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touroscholar.touro.edu/cehs_pubs/29/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3CGJIL6OAIBDADVYSTEPKA7FQYA5R7Q", "length": 322, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "touroscholar.touro.edu", "title": "\"Evaluation and Approval Constructs For K-12 Online and Blended Courses\" by Michael K. Barbour, Tom Clark et al.", "raw_content": "Evaluation and Approval Constructs For K-12 Online and Blended Courses and Providers\nKristen DeBruler\nJustin Bruno\nBarbour, M. K., Clark, T., DeBruler, K., & Bruno, J. (2016). Evaluation and approval constructs for K-12 online and blended courses and providers. Journal of Applied Educational Policy Research, 2(1), 32-45.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touroscholar.touro.edu/tuncom_pubs/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RPRIAVN5SKXLPRJC4RHM7EP5WIJWLH52", "length": 461, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "touroscholar.touro.edu", "title": "\"The Clinical Relevance of Antibiotic Resistance: Thirteen Principles T\" by James Q. Del Rosso and Joshua A. Zeichner", "raw_content": "The Clinical Relevance of Antibiotic Resistance: Thirteen Principles That Every Dermatologist Needs to Consider When Prescribing Antibiotic Therapy\nDel Rosso, J. Q., & Zeichner, J. A. (2016). The clinical relevance of antibiotic resistance: Thirteen principles that every dermatologist needs to consider when prescribing antibiotic therapy. Dermatologic Clinics, 34(2), 167-173.\nThe original material can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.det.2015.12.003", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tourpoland.blog/2010/09/19/the-visit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:11Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZYD2YUUEPNKEP6A4X2XPDLBQJ2SLW4P", "length": 1735, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "tourpoland.blog", "title": "The Visit | Tutivillus and others", "raw_content": "I\u2019ll start with a clich\u00e9\u2026\nIn the life of a tour guide, there are many different groups\u2026\nDuring over 8 years of my guiding experience, I have guided many different persons and Persons. Since I do not have the habit of asking, whom I am guiding, I often learn who was my guest (or who were my guests) either from the press or from the Internet. I do realize whom I am guiding when I see the bodyguards around, or when I am asked for my ID card, or when the White House calls, or the President\u2019s Offices, etc. or when I am asked to keep a tip-top secret\u2026\nAmong all, there are guests who definitely do not need to be presented, nor asked of their identity\u2026\nAnd I had such a Guest not long ago at the Castle \u2026\nThe Guest was His Royal Highness The Prince Consort of Denmark. He came to visit Malbork Castle. And I was appointed His Royal Highness\u2019 guide to the history of the place. HRH was accompanied by Mr. Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark in Poland, the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the group of Nobles. As if the stress was not enough \u2013 the Director of the Castle Museum was present with his watchful eyes and ears.\nIt was a great honor, and a true pleasure to be the guide of such a Guest. I was glad I could answer many interesting questions. And truly, if not for the announcement, I would have never known that the smiling and king gentleman touring the castle with me \u2013 was His Royal Highness.\nBetween us guides, we have the classification of our guests. Either we call them \u201cstones\u201d or \u201cbutterflies\u201d. His Royal Highness and accompanying persons were definitely Butterflies.\nMr. Consul, thank you for the photographs.\nThe URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://tourpoland.blog/2010/09/19/the-visit/trackback/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 8280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://traditores.org/2013/11/god-gives-us-what-we-want/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KZDCMWOFIAYQI3SD5L7DWOYEBV56SJ3P", "length": 538, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "traditores.org", "title": "God Gives Us What We Want", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Quotes / God Gives Us What We Want\nI\u2019ve heard this C.S. Lewis quote before\u2026but was glad to run into it in page 72 of my The Great Divorce:\nThere are two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, \u2018Thy will be done,\u2019 and those to whom God says, in the end, \u2018Thy will be done.\u2019 All that are in Hell, choose it.\nIt should be noted that these are the words of a fictional inhabitant of heaven, not theological apologetics by One of my favorite writers.\nFiled Under: Quotes, Random, Theology Tagged With: C.S. Lewis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 8004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://traditores.org/2015/01/cast-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JVUU7GP5U77SA2H6CZ5NJPS7HQCEM524", "length": 2945, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "traditores.org", "title": "Cast Out", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Personal / Cast Out\nThis is a post I really don\u2019t want to write, but also think must be written.\nGenerally averse to controversy, I recently stepped foot into what might be considered unfriendly territory. Inhospitable\u2026not because I disagree with those who hold that land (in many ways I\u2019m entirely in sync)\u2026but because many who inhabit its hills and valleys do not take kindly to suggestions that method/tone/whatever-you-want-to-call-it matters when it comes to biblically-mandated church discernment and discipline.\nAnd in fairness to them, often those who call them on it seem to just be trying to change the subject (using it as a method of deflection) and never answer the core questions at hand. Not to mention, too frequently those who challenge individuals on tone exhibit extremely bad behavior themselves.\nNow, I am not claiming perfection, but I think it would be fair to say I did not exhibit bad behavior (extreme or otherwise). Worst I did is commit a couple misdemeanors; definitely no felonies while strolling up and down the highways and byways of that foreign land.\nHowever, a couple days ago I went to reenter the territory, looking forward to interacting with its residents. Oddly enough, I actually thought I may have become one of its citizens. Maybe a black sheep of sorts, but they felt like fellow countrymen. Sure, some of the conversations within that land were uncomfortable, but I was also shown great kindness and fellowship.\nBut, I was barred entry.\nNow, the way entry into that territory is controlled\u2026I was not told I could not go in. I just couldn\u2019t. In its context its like it was removed from my GPS or any map I owned.\nNo warning. No \u201cstop doing this or you can\u2019t enter.\u201d Nothing.\nI checked with a couple of its inhabitants, including one of its leaders. Sure enough\u2026I\u2019d been blocked.\nNow, since the land is a secretive one (closed group), I will not share proof that my travels within its borders were kind and considerate. Additionally, because my conversations with some of its citizens afterward were private, I won\u2019t share what little I know about what may have initially led to my banishment or what keeps me out.\nEverything has gone silent now. Perhaps I\u2019ll still be allowed back in\u2026but it doesn\u2019t look good from outside its boundaries.\nFor those within its borders, I would get you to consider what it means if a nation cannot stand even the lightest of criticism\u2026what it means if citizenship requires strict conformance to the main narratives.\nFor the leader(s) who cast me out, I would encourage you to follow your own admonitions: don\u2019t be anonymous; if you care about my soul, share with me what I did deserving the punishment; tell me the truth in love.\nI enjoyed my visits. I may have entered your land as a stranger (and a very strange one at that), but I did not as an enemy\u2026and still am not.\nLove to, and prayers for, you all\u2026\nFiled Under: Personal, Random, Tone Police", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 10403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trends.jewelry/en/types-of-gems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JY77PPSY6PXMTY6Z43PWZSRK5E5GSSC7", "length": 15990, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "trends.jewelry", "title": "Types of Gems: An Entire World to Discover - Jewelry Trends", "raw_content": "Creativity and design of a piece of jewelry begin in most of the cases by the acquisition and manipulation of the gem. Depending on many factors choosing the gem can lead to the design of a sophisticated and breathtaking jewel.\nThere is an outstanding number of people that acquire gems for scientific purposes, mainly to perform specific research about their characteristics and properties. Another significant group of people acquires gemstones to make them the foundation of a jewel.\nIn this article, we will do a study through the most remarkable and desired gemstones for jewelers. We will consider the various essential characteristics to evaluate when buying and managing gemstones: physical properties, color tones, and availability.\n1 Gemstones Origin\n2 Precious Stones\n3 Semi-precious stones\n3.1 Aquamarine\n3.5 Rutilated Quartz\n3.6 Citrine\n3.7 Pink quartz\n3.8 Aventurine\n3.9 Tiger\u2019s Eye\n3.10 Cornelian\n3.11 Topaz\n3.12 Tourmaline\n3.13 Garnet\n3.14 Opal\n3.16 Agate\n4 Organic Gems\nGemstones Origin\nNature process and phenomena determine the creation of the gems and their characteristics, like color, form, purity, strength among others. In the interior of the earth, the rock passes through several cyclic natural processes all the way from its formation to his wear. The process is known as the rock cycle. This cycle exposes the rocks to several climate conditions like extreme temperatures and pressures, and also the mixing of different minerals, which ends finally in the gems formation.\nTo facilitate rock research and classification, Geologist divides the rock formations into three big groups: Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.\nThe earth\u2019s crust is the source of most of the gems types. This precious or semi-precious gems, depending on their classification, have their roots on the three rock types earlier mentioned.\nIt is also possible to find gems in sediments or deposits created by nature through atmospheric processes like erosion.\nClassification of gem falls into two categories, precious gemstones, and semi-precious gemstones according to the jewelry industry, however, before-mentioned classification does not have an association with their purity, beauty, and pricing.\nGems\u2019 rusticity, color, and brightness makes them very attractive for buyers, which in the present time are more knowledgeable and inquiring about them.\nOne of the most known and valued gemstones in the market is the diamond, which has its origins in the igneous rock.\nThe term igneous means fire, as its name states, this rock comes from the burning lava, and once frozen Diamonds originate.\nDiamonds originate in the depths of the earth, and we access them at the earth\u2019s surface due to volcanic explosions, or other times they are dragged to fluvial deposits by the rivers and streams, other times it is also possible to find them in the sea sands or seabed.\nThe diamond is chemically composed of crystallized carbon. The Diamond is the most remarkable rock for jewelers: it is highly attractive due to his strength, purity, and brightness, the most highly priced in the market is the white variation of it. Other Diamond colors comprehend yellow, orange, cognac, pink and blue.\nDiamonds certification involve the evaluation of different quality characteristics and attributes which are then specified by an expert laboratory in an issued document. The final value of the rock is proportional to the property qualification.\nAngola, South Africa, Namibia, and Australia are the regions where this rock commonly originates.\nOther varieties of rocks are grouped and classified into families based on their similarities in chemical composition.\nThe corundum, for example, is one of the most prominent and attractive gemstone families. Of this group, Ruby and Sapphire are two of the four most valued precious gems by the high-end jewelry market.\nThis red-intense color gem can contain small pieces of violet and orange tones on it. The rubies with the red-violet like darkest color with the least impurities are considered the most valuable.\nWe can find The ruby with better attributes and the purest color at Myanmar (Burma). Other places where we can find Ruby as well are Sry Lanka, Vietnam, Tanzania, Afganistan, Australia among others. In these former places, the red color is less intense, more opaque and with some unusual changes.\nThis gem is more abundant than the Ruby. Of this kind of gemstone, the most popular and valued is the one with the deeper blue color: however, it is possible to find a great variety of colors in different regions of the planet, like pink, green, violet, and even translucent.\nIn the region of Myanmar, we can find sapphire with the deepest blue color with small violet tones, and thus it is considered one of the best based on quality. Additional places where we can find blue sapphires are Africa, Australia, and Brasil.\nThese precious gemstones can be modified through common legal processes and practices to improve and enhance them in some way. We can also find unique Gemstones in a natural condition with no human intervention. The last have higher values in the market than the formers, a consequence of its natural no-modified status.\nAcquisition value of Sapphires and Rubies depend on their color, size, and dimensions, even the origin place is another factor that influences their final price. When purchasing these precious gemstones, it is recommended to request a lab certificate of the rock properties.\nThe emerald gemstone, member of The Beryl family it is also considered a precious gem. The Beryl Family also includes other gemstones like the aquamarine gemstone.\nEmeralds along with diamonds, sapphire, and ruby are gemstones cataloged as precious due to his purity, exclusivity, and quality.\nThe best quality emerald worldwide can be found in Colombia: its pure green color is steady despite the temperature and light variations.\nOther countries where quality Emeralds originate are Brasil and Zambia. Additional relevant countries with Emerald origination are Australia, India, and Sudafrica.\nColor Depth and the pure state of this rock is the base of its pricing.\nThe Emerald is a sensitive rock due to its essential characteristics and smalls interior cracks that may be present: mounting and sculpting this rock is a process of extreme care.\nThis gemstone varies in color, all of them associated with the sea tones: sky blue, dark blue, light green. Sky blue Aquamarine gemstone is the most desired by the buyers.\nAquamarine gems are brighter more translucent than Emerald. The Aquamarine gems originate in Brasil, Mozambique, and Afganistan.\nThis gemstone has a high value in the market. A gem from a metamorphic rock of a deep and intense blue color in some occasions showing violet hues.\nThe name of this rock means stone of heaven: its value has been considered high since ancient times. The Egyptian civilization steadily included this rock in many art expressions, more notably in the jewels of Tutankhamon\u2019s treasure.\nRead more about this civilization\nThe Lapis Lazuli exhibits sparkles of white and gold colors which distinguished this rock. also This Gem quality is rated higher when its color blue is the most intense along with few impurities or few pyrite and calcite. Despite the before mention quality guidelines, the gem looks more attractive when it presents these pyrite inclusions, so it gives the final jewel a remarkable touch.\nCommonly this rock appears naturally in a matt tone: then it achieves its brightness and brilliance through polishing processes.\nAfghanistan is the region where we find the best Lapis Lazuli gems: Here in the middle east this rock appears with the most intense color and purity which make it highly desirable. It is feasible to find this gem also in Russia, Canada, Argentina, and Chile.\nIf you want more advice about the care of The Lapis Lazuli gem, try our following article. Lapis Lazuli Care & Cleaning\nIt is the most numerous family of gems. This family is the most regularly used gems in jewelry. Due to its abundance, there are in this group of gems a great variety of colors, hardnesses, and prices.\nThe amethyst, rutilated quartz, citrine, rose quartz, aventurine, among others are the most common of this group.\nThe transparent quartz or crystal is very abundant, as a consequence is surprisingly affordable to get.\nAmethyst is one of the most well-known gems in the jewelry industry. Its distinctive color is a pretty intense and crystalline purple, you also find it in a brighter tone in the market.\nThe most intense purple Amethyst is most expensive than other lavender tones. Superior quality Amethyst gems come from Russian territory.\nA gem that is characterized by its transparency and contains additions of gold or deep yellow colors that distinguish parts of the gemstone.\nThis gem is also known as yellow quartz: its characteristic color is a crystalline yellow with green hues. Find Citrines with tones golden and opaques is also feasible but less common.\nA gem considerably common and desired by both jewelers and consumers. Its color has different intensities of pink. It goes from the lightest pink to a slightly stronger tone that contains dyes towards the peach tone. Rose quartz is usually translucent and due to its inclusions, tends to have a cloudy appearance.\nAventurine is known for its uniform green color, of light intensity. A gem that is not very translucent and that is usually inexpensive.\nThis gemstone is known for its characteristic brown-yellow color with golden streaks. The market appreciates this gem due to its impact and color effect. We can also find it in a reddish or even greenish tone. Its price is quite friendly.\nAlso called carnelian, it is a red-orange shade that looks translucent and slightly bright. This gem has been remarkable since ancient times. Even today, jewelry designs use this gem widely.\nThis gemstone is found mainly in India, and there are also gems of excellent quality in the territories of Brazil and Uruguay.\nThe Topaz is a brilliant gem that comes in different colors. The best-known tone is yellow-brown. We can also find topaz in other colors as orange, pink, blue and colorless.\nThrough processes, it is possible to enhance or accomplish new colors, also make the gem look free of impurities.\nIt is possible to find Topaz in territories as Brasil, Pakistan, Russia, Afganistan, and Australia.\nThe Tourmaline is a versatile gem that has a wide range of tones that often are part of the same stone. It is possible also to find this gemstone in various tones like blue, deep pink, yellow, green.\nIt can likewise contain two or three colors within the same gem: this is the case of the watermelon tourmaline, which is the best-known combination of colors.\nThe value of the tourmaline will depend on the quality of its color. The most expensive on the market is called rubellite, which is pink or fuchsia pretty strong and intense, followed by the tourmaline blue tone called indicolite.\nThe most popular garnet is the type called pyrope that is strong red with few inclusions. In the same way, it is possible to find different colors such as violet red, orange-red, bright orange, green, among others.\nThis gemstone comes from the territories of Argentina, Brasil, Germany, India.\nThe opal has the distinctiveness of changing its colors depending on the angle from which you look. Carving this stone in the shape of a cabochon is a common practice, the reason is due to take advantage of the size of the gem and therefore the set of colors that it can present.\nThere are different types of opal from which different shades of them derive. The most famous opal gem is the one with a white and clear base which has a variety of colors when moving it.\nThere are other types of this gem, such as black opal: its color is dark base, fire opal: it is yellow or red tone, Opal matrix: the one with mother rock inside the gem or vice versa.\nA well-known gem highly appreciated. Its traditional color and more recognized is the azure blue; however, we also find this gem in a more intense blue, blue with greenish or yellowish tints.\nIt is very usual to see in the turquoise veins of black or brown color: this is the consequence of the mother stone often penetrating in the turquoise formation.\nThe Turquoise comes from the territories of the United States, Afghanistan, Australia, and Brazil.\nIn reality, this gem is the set of microcrystalline quartz that together gives the appearance solid mass.\nIn the case of agates, the color may appear as stripes of various colors and widths. Also, it can display forms that resemble tree shapes, without being organic inclusions. It is feasible to find this gem in Brazil, Uruguay, United States.\nThere is another classification of gems: the ones originated from biological processes, whether animal or vegetable. They are considered gemstones because they have properties, behaviors, and characteristics that credit them as such.\nIn this classification, we can find pearls, coral, amber and nacre.\nPearls originate from the process of a living being of animal origin. The formation begins when a foreign body enters the interior of a mollusk and it reacts by covering it with a substance regularly called nacre, which is what ultimately forms the pearl. This process lasts several years until finally obtaining the gem.\nPearls can vary in color and shape. There are significant differences in their origin: freshwater or saltwater, or its growth: natural or cultured.\nFreshwater pearls originate from mollusks of rivers, lakes, and ponds. Saltwater pearls originate in ocean mollusks, gulfs, and bays.\nThe natural pearls, as the name says, are those that are present naturally in their habitat: seabeds. Cultured pearls arise from human intervention.\nWe can find natural pearls in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. And the cultured pearls are in Japan, a pioneer region in developing this technique and we can also find them in China and Australia.\nAmber is of vegetable origin and is fossilized resin. This resin comes from trees that have at least thirty-five million years of existence.\nThis gem is also called Solar Stone, or \u201cNorthern Gold\u201d is a soft and silky stone, light, warm and with a high visual impact. 100% natural amber can vary in its hue and its main characteristic it is its shiny surface representative of the appearance of the resin.\nThe crystalline yellow tone is the most popular and most wanted, however; amber has other hues that also make it charming. These tones depend on the compositions, like the typology of the tree and everything that happens through the time it takes to harden it. There are various tones, however, the most known range from a yellow-brown tone to reddish or orange colors reaching the color cognac.\nAmber can contain many fascinating inclusions inside, which make it more attractive and collectors object. Among the additions, we can find stems of plants, insects, air bubbles, among others. Even in 2016, a dinosaur tail was found fully preserved in amber.\nHealing properties have been attributed to the amber because it is said to contain succinic acid that the skin can absorb and distribute to the body through the bloodstream to cure some illnesses or diseases. It is even of regular use by many moms with their children in teething processes.\nOne of the most famous regions where amber comes from is from the Baltic. However, it is also possible to find it in other territories such as Norway, Denmark, and Mexico.\nThe Nacre is a coating that occurs inside the shells of some mollusks. It is a substance that the mollusk secretes once it detects that a foreign body entered the interior of its body, this is the same substance that covers the pearls.\nWe can find this material in Northern Australia, the United States, and South Africa.\nWhat type of gemstone do you like the most? Tell us in the comments which one is your favorite.\nDo not forget to subscribe to our blog, so you do not miss any of our entries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 17046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/13653144-74/blind-spot-how-allegheny-county-jail-missed-chances-to-prevent-sex-assault", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IT2XDQOYTG5P7HXDWGGB4YUD6CZTOCAJ", "length": 12633, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "triblive.com", "title": "Blind spot: How Allegheny County Jail fails to prevent sex assault | TribLIVE", "raw_content": "Blind spot: How Allegheny County Jail fails to prevent sex assault\nTheresa Clift | Sunday, June 10, 2018, 11:37 p.m.\nA woman who wishes to remain anonymous poses for a portrait outside the Allegheny County Jail on May 30, 2017. She filed a lawsuit against the jail last year after she says she was sexually assaulted by a guard there.\nThe Allegheny County Jail is violating a federal law intended to prevent the types of sexual assaults that four former inmates \u2014 all women who sued the jail last year \u2014 say left them feeling frightened and vulnerable.\nThe Prison Rape Elimination Act, which went into effect in 2013, imposes more than 40 standards on jails to try to cut down on institutional assaults.\nThe jail is in violation of at least three of the act's standards, a Trib investigation found. They include:\n\u2022 Allowing blind spots that block the jail's camera system from viewing entrances to cells where three of the four women said in lawsuits filed last year they were sexually assaulted by a former guard;\n\u2022 Failing to post public reports each year on findings of sexual misconduct and any corrective actions;\n\u2022 Allowing nearly two years to elapse since a deadline to prove the jail meets the rest of the act's standards.\nThe violations have contributed to a culture of fear among women who are housed in the jail, often for non-violent crimes like probation violations, shoplifting and drug possession. Many women are placed in housing units overseen by men, because of a clause in the guard union's contract that allows guards, based on seniority, to choose where they work. Four women sued the jail last year saying they were sexually assaulted there, and two others told the Trib they were sexually harassed there in December.\n\"They have keys; they can do anything to you at night time as a female,\" said Mersiha Tuzlic, 30, who said she was sexually harassed by a guard while in jail for a probation violation for a 2014 DUI. \"It's scary.\"\nAllegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald referred questions about the jail's failure to comply with the federal law to Orlando Harper, the jail warden. Fitzgerald hired Harper, a former deputy warden for operations in the Washington Department of Corrections, in 2012.\nHarper told the Trib he does not plan to have a federally required audit done until next year or 2020. If it's after Aug. 19, 2020, the jail will have missed the deadline for a second time.\n\"I feel that we don't have that many sexual abuse cases and misconducts at our jail,\" Harper said. \"I feel we have a tight lid on that, so I didn't feel that was important right now.\"\nHarper asked the U.S. Department of Justice to help him prepare for a review of the jail's compliance with the federal law in the days after the Trib contacted him for this story.\nState prisons that do not comply with PREA face a financial penalty, but for county jails, the only consequence is the potential to lose contracts to house state or federal inmates, according to a representative at Impact Justice, the organization that leads the National PREA Resource Center.\nThe Allegheny County Jail houses both, but is reimbursed only for federal inmates.\nOff-camera cells\nThe window of a cell in the Allegheny County Jail is shown on May 14, 2018. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review\nDuring the 10 months Joshua Reber worked as an Allegheny County Jail guard on female pod 4D in 2015, he sexually assaulted at least three inmates in second-floor, off-camera cells, according to the former inmates' lawsuits.\nOne day, when an inmate was cleaning a bathroom used by guards, Reber came in and grabbed her butt, said the woman, who did not wish to be identified and is not named in her lawsuit. He groped her several more times.\n\"I was shocked. I was kinda disgusted by it at first because I had heard stories about him and two other females,\" said the woman, who was in jail for a probation violation. \"I'd be walking past him, and he'd just grab me. I used to work as a waitress, and that would happen to me a lot at my job. It took me to a place where it would bother me.\"\nReber started giving her perks like coffee and lip balm. He then began coming in to start his shift early, unlock her cell door, lay down with her and kiss her.\nAccording to state law, inmates cannot give consent.\nThe physical encounters continued for more than two months.\nReber then moved another woman, Melissa Behanna, to off-camera cell 221, despite her objections, and sexually assaulted her three times, her lawsuit said.\nCell 221, in the corner of the second floor, is so isolated and cold, inmates staying in there can see their breath, one former inmate said.\nReber was fired from the jail in December 2015 and charged with two counts of institutional sexual assault, a felony. He pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of official oppression.\nThe jail has not added cameras to any cells since learning Reber was moving inmates to off-camera cells to sexually assault them, Harper said.\nMersiha Tuzlic, who says she was sexually harassed at the Allegheny County Jail in December, looks out the window of her Brentwood home on May 17, 2018. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review\nMersiha Tuzlic was changing her clothes in her Pod 4F cell one afternoon in December when a guard came to the doorway and stared at her, she said. Later that evening, as she brushed her teeth, he approached her and pushed his tongue against the inside of his cheek, mimicking oral sex, she said.\nHe came back 80 times in the next 20 hours \u2014 every 15 minutes \u2014 to stare in the cell and rattle the door, holding a flashlight, she said.\nThe next day Tuzlic reported the guard and never saw him again, she said.\nFor the following month, when she wasn't in her cell, guards went in several times to throw her commissary items on the floor and stomp on her food, she said.\nMany inmates fear retaliation for reporting guards, she said.\n\"There's women who will ask other women to put the complaint in the box for them because they don't want to be seen doing it,\" said Tuzlic, who was released in February.\nTuzlic still feels violated, she said, and chokes up when she talks about it.\n\"That really itty bitty space they give us, I understand it's property of Allegheny County, but at the same time, I should be able to feel somewhat safe in that itty bitty space,\" Tuzlic said.\n'Culture of rape-tolerance'\nBoth women said they would feel safer if they staffed the women pods with women guards.\n\"We're not looking at doing that,\" Harper said. \"Just because we put a female officer on a female pod, it doesn't stop allegations.\"\nThe guard union's collective bargaining agreement, which expires June 30, 2019, prohibits that change, because guards can place bids for what pod they work on based on seniority, Harper said.\nReber, who began working at the jail in 2007, started working on the female pod by placing a bid and winning, according to two of the lawsuits.\nAllegheny County Prison Employees Independent Union president Eric Paul declined comment through attorney Eric Stoltenberg.\nThe jail typically houses about 2,400 inmates, including 300-some women, Harper said. The jail has 446 full and part-time correctional officers, including 75 women, said Amie Downs, county spokeswoman.\nAnother former inmate who asked not to be identified said when she was in the jail in December, guard Robert Bender would linger around the shower area while the women inmates were showering.\n\"All the girls said something, like, 'males ain't allowed by the showers' and he would literally creep around the showers and act like he needed something from the closet,\" she said. The woman did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation if she goes back to jail.\nBender, who's been a jail employee since 2004, was named as a defendant in Behanna's case because he made a comment to her about his knowledge of their contact, the complaint said.\n\"The (officials) at the Allegheny County Jail created a culture of rape-tolerance, which allowed Mr. Reber's supervisors and fellow correctional officers to remain silent,\" said Robert Kramer, the attorney for two of the three women suing Reber.\nThe county, in response, said all such incidents are taken seriously and fully investigated but declined to comment on specific cases.\nJules Williams, a transgender woman, filed a lawsuit last year after she was sexually assaulted by her male cellmate in 2015, then put on display naked to be laughed at by guards in 2016, according to her lawsuit. Jail officials refused to house Williams with other women, her lawsuit says.\nThe jail has updated its transgender policies since that time, Harper said.\nDuring a November 2016 deposition about a case involving an inmate beating that happened in an off-camera cell in 2013, attorney Steven Barth asked Harper why cameras had not been added to the off-camera cells.\n\"I haven't had enough inmate violence to make that change at this time,\" Harper replied, according to the transcript.\nDuring testimony in June related to the same case, Barth again asked Harper if he'd decided to eliminate the blind spots or use those cells as \"overflow cells\" only when the jail was full. Harper answered no.\nDuring an interview with the Trib, Harper said he has secured county funding to add cameras to eliminate the blind spots, and will try to do so this year.\nThe cost of the cameras has not yet been determined, but will come out of a jail fund that contains $500,000, Downs said.\nIn the meantime, inmates are still housed in the cells, Harper said.\nHarper said he plans to look into posting the annual sexual misconduct report online in the future.\n\"That's an oversight on my part,\" he said.\nOther audits given priority\nHarper, who was hired to run the jail in 2012, pursued his first outside audit of the jail last year.\nThe American Correctional Association gave the jail a 99.3 percent compliance rate, which the county touted in a February news release.\nThe 49-page audit report, obtained by the Trib using Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law, contained only two pages that asked questions about sexual assault and harassment. Of the six alleged sexual misconduct incidents between inmates and staff in a 12-month period, zero were confirmed, the audit found. Based on the jail population, that number of complaints was not a cause for concern, the audit concluded.\nThe Pennsylvania Department of Corrections also inspects the jail every other year, Harper said. The jail passed its state inspection in October, but that inspection focuses on the facility's physical structure and does not check for sexual misconduct, said Amy Worden, a DOC spokeswoman.\nHarper plans to have the jail audited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care next year.\nHe will have the federally-required Prison Rape Elimination Act audit after that \u2014 next year or in 2020, he said.\nAll jail employees undergo PREA training by jail officials and Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, jail officials said. Inmates can report sexual misconduct to the jail's PREA officer or anonymously to PAAR, Harper said. An Allegheny County Police detective investigates all allegations. Victims are sent to the hospital to have a rape kit done, separated from their attackers and offered counseling.\nA woman who wishes to remain anonymous poses for a photo outside the Allegheny County Jail on May 30, 2017. She filed a lawsuit against the jail last year after she says she was sexually assaulted by a guard there. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review\nOut-of-court legal settlements paid to former inmates are often small, such as the $32,000 paid in December to Behanna .\nMany of the former inmates who sue, and the lawyers that represent them, say they don't do it for the money, but to force the jail to improve conditions for future inmates.\n\"It's to bring awareness,\" said one woman about the lawsuit she filed last year. \"They are aware of it inside the jail, but I think the public needs to be aware of it. With the 'me too' movement that's going on now, people need to understand it's happening right here, too.\"\nKramer said he plans to ask a judge to sign an order to force the jail to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, including submitting to an audit.\nTuzlic was one of the five women who sued the county in December 2016 for placing pregnant inmates in solitary confinement for weeks for minor offenses.\nWhen Tuzlic was back at the jail earlier this year, she saw the pregnant inmates walking around during lockdown and receiving bottled water \u2014 changes enacted after her lawsuit.\n\"It brought tears to my eyes,\" she said. \"It made me feel good because it made a positive change.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 17582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triblive.com/local/hamptonshaler/14222037-74/charter-school-planned-for-millvale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRQ22Q6LPJKOMUSYTCKSB2KZ7U36SEXA", "length": 4767, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "triblive.com", "title": "Charter school planned for Millvale | TribLIVE", "raw_content": "Charter school planned for Millvale\nErica Cebzanov | Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, 1:33 a.m.\nKenneth Nickel, former principal dancer and dance educator, has launched a Millvale foundation to provide high school students with scholarships for academic opportunities outside their classrooms.\nMeanwhile, he is developing the R.E.A.A.D.Y. (Redefining Education Achieving Associate Degrees for Youths) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) & Performing Arts Charter School in Millvale\u2019s former Holy Spirit School, which closed in 2010 due to declining enrollment.\nNickel anticipates the school opening for the 2020-21 school year.\nAfter the school opens, the R.E.A.A.D.Y. Foundation would provide financial support for teachers, classroom supplies, transportation to performances, and scholarships so students could participate in the program. Students would have the opportunity to earn Community College of Allegheny County associate\u2019s degrees upon their graduations.\nThe following concentrations would exist for ninth- through 12th-graders: dance, music, musical theater, theater, culinary arts, media arts and STEM.\nNickel, 60, said he is excited to participate in Millvale\u2019s revitalization.\n\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to bring a unique educational component to the heart of Millvale at the former Holy Spirit School. Millvale is a quaint, small town that offers a wonderful sense of community, and we are looking forward to being a part of that.\u201d\nMillvale Mayor Brian Spoales said the school will help strengthen the borough\u2019s arts and cultural scene.\n\u201cThe fact that a high school student can walk out of this program with an associate\u2019s degree is what intrigues me the most. Millvale has many young children that will be able to look at this school and the outreach it has on the local community providing opportunities that have never been present in this area and realize that they could one day attend and make a difference.\u201d\nTina Walker, Millvale Community Development Corp. board member, met with R.E.A.A.D.Y. officials and suggested the vacant Holy Spirit School as a possible charter school location.\n\u201cHaving such a deep commitment for supporting the arts, I\u2019m thrilled that a school dedicated to the performing arts will become an integral part of our community,\u201d said Walker, who holds a design and visual communications degree.\n\u201cThe school will provide numerous opportunities for staff and students to share their creative ideas and knowledge, collaborating together in all aspects of our community and significantly adding to its economic stability.\u201d\n\u201cI know when I would teach, we would like 18 students to one teacher; I think there should be a focus on individualized education,\u201d said Nickel, of Bradford Woods. Cheryl Aughton, the foundation\u2019s communications director, said the school aims to hire around 25.\nAughton said part of the curriculum would require students to \u201cuse their talents to help the community.\u201d For instance, culinary arts students would cook for people in need and dancers would give community recitals. Nickel mentioned staging \u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d or a Millvale Riverfront dance festival.\nCharter schools aim to provide opportunities for the community while operating outside of the existing school district structure, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education website. Charter schools are exempt from many educational mandates, but still must follow criteria regarding special education, civil rights, health and safety, general accounting and other practices.\nAccording to the website, charter school applications are due to the district school board in which the school will be located, in this case \u2014 the Shaler Area School Board \u2014 by Nov. 15 of the year preceding the school\u2019s anticipated opening.\nThe local school board should hold at least one public hearing within 45 days of receiving the application. The board must grant or deny charter school applications no later than 75 days after the first public hearing.\nBethany Baker, Shaler Area communications specialist, said the district is aware of Nickel and his interest in developing a charter school, but the district has not received an application.\nNickel is a former principal dancer with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Ballet West and the Dallas Ballet Co. As La Roche College\u2019s artistic director of performing arts, he established a bachelor\u2019s for performing arts in dance and a public school arts dance program. He created the Ambridge Area High School Cyber and Performing Arts Academy in which juniors and seniors can earn associate\u2019s in dance from the Community College of Beaver County.\nHe also designed the California University of Pennsylvania\u2019s bachelor\u2019s in dance.\nTo learn more about the foundation and school or to donate, visit reaady foundation.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 9559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trinitymarinette.com/2015/03/09/bible-reading-and-commentary-march-9-14-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:46Z", "digest": "sha1:VIU2G55JYSHHKDMAR6NEPA27Z4CWT5J2", "length": 2899, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "trinitymarinette.com", "title": "Bible Reading and Commentary March 9-14, 2015 | Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church & School", "raw_content": "Bible Reading and Commentary March 9-14, 2015\nI & II KINGS \u2014 The books of I & II Kings were written about 560 B.C. This is the history of God\u2019s people from Solomon until the Babylonian Captivity. They are sad books as we see Israel sinking deeper and deeper into sin. The joy that shines through the gloom is that there is a remnant of believers left. From that remnant who belonged to the tribe of Judah, some 500 years after their return from Babylonian Captivity, God fulfilled His promise and sent us the Savior of the world.\nMonday, March 9, I Kings 1\nVv. 28-35 \u2014 David\u2019s swift and precise handling of the matter in making Solomon king shows that he is not senile. It gave the people confidence that this was the Lord\u2019s will and that Adonijah was not the Lord\u2019s chosen. Solomon was God\u2019s choice to be the next king. Read vv. 29-30; II Sam. 12:24, 25 and I Chron. 22:6-10.\nTuesday, March 10, I Kings 2\nv. 10 \u2014 David, as great as he was, died. His mighty, eternal offspring (Rev. 22:16), Jesus, is the Morning Star, God\u2019s Son, whose kingdom has no end.\nv. 22 \u2014 Adonijah was Solomon\u2019s brother. In chapter one, verses 5-7, we see that he followed the same course as Absalom. Unfortunately, had David disciplined his sons Adonijah and Absalom, their rebellions may not have occurred. While discipline today is despised by the world, it develops character when done in love. In ancient times, the man who possessed the king\u2019s harem was looked upon as the successor to the throne. Adonijah\u2019s intent in marrying Abishag was probably to gain the throne. This led to the death of both Adonijah and Joab, who joined the conspiracy. (vv. 25, 34)\nWednesday, March 11, I Kings 3\nVv. 9-14 \u2014 For what Solomon was asking, God was well-pleased. However, there is a higher wisdom to seek than earthly wisdom. Read about it in II Timothy 3:15 and Rom. 1:16.\nThursday, March 12, I Kings 4\nv. 20 \u2014 Solomon began his reign giving God all glory and praise. (I Kings 3:15) God\u2019s response to Solomon was staggering blessings that all Israel enjoyed. Verses 20 and 25 give a sneak preview of life in heaven. In heaven, that kind of a blessed life on forever. For a beautiful description of heaven read Rev. 21:1-4.\nFriday, March 13, I Kings 5\nv. 6 \u2014 Nothing but the best went into the temple. Cedars of Lebanon were prized trees.\nv. 13 \u2014 Think what a massive project the building of God\u2019s temple was! The number of men drafted by Solomon was more than the population of Marinette and Menominee combined.\nSaturday, March 14, I Kings 6\nVv. 11-13 \u2014 Even before Solomon finished building the temple, which must have been extremely beautiful, God reminded Solomon that the temple itself guaranteed them no blessings and security from God. That guarantee was in vv. 12 and 13. We should also keep this in mind and God\u2019s sure promise in Rev. 2:10: \u201cBe faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trustiko.com/starting-a-web-hosting-reseller-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6NGTNNQQ6O6W4LVM5ZOQBDDUKKYOP5HJ", "length": 5860, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "trustiko.com", "title": "Starting a Web Hosting Reseller Business: Tips to Succeed", "raw_content": "Blog Starting a Web Hosting Reseller Business: Tips to Succeed\nStarting a Web Hosting Reseller Business: Tips to Succeed\nIn Web Hosting by Fathi Arfaoui1 CommentLast Updated: March 17th, 2018\nThere are thousands of web hosting providers. But, not all of them as good and reliable. Starting a web hosting reseller business is not easy as you imagine.\nWe all know that you can just sign up, and even, start a free reseller account. The problem is that many of them are using special technics, to get your hard-earned money, and cancel your account anytime they want. This is the last thing that you need as an entrepreneur. In this post, I\u2019ll show you simple tips on starting a web hosting reseller business.\nYou can also read: how to promote a web hosting company.\nFirst of all, web hosting reseller is a good business to make money. As an example, iPage and other providers started as a web hosting reseller service. And now, they\u2019re one of the biggest companies in the web hosting industry.\nIt\u2019s really a good opportunity to invest in, but as any other business type. Web hosting reseller has its own issues that you should know before starting.\nHow does a Web hosting Reseller program work?\nIt\u2019s like affiliate marketing, you don\u2019t have servers. But, you sell the web hosting services through third-party, that rent their infrastructure for some amount of money. They need to sell their server services, and you want to make money.\nThe best thing about this reselling business is that you don\u2019t need to think about technical problems at all. All you have to do is to sell the disk space, and bandwidth at your own brand web hosting company. Of course, your company use servers that are owned by your hosting provider.\nIn general, you get a limit disk space and bandwidth for each plan. Most of the plans give you 50 GB disk space and 500 GB bandwidth per month. This is for the starter plan, and you need to manage your resources and divide the usage by accounts.\nAlso, you need to help your customer is they ask questions. Not all the reseller hosting providers offer the support.\nIt\u2019s really important to know that some of the new web hosting companies are selling their servers without any control. As a result, many downtimes every day, and even, hourly. They think about money and forget their customers and website owners.\nKeep in mind that every server has its limitations. The word \u201cunlimited\u201d for the disk space, and bandwidth is just commercial only. There are no things called \u201cunlimited in physics, materials and electronics.\nThe big challenge is to offer your clients enough disk space, and monthly bandwidth that suits their needs. Here, you can create multiple plans and offer them free services like the blog installation. Not all the people know to install and use WordPress and how to do all the things, even, if it seems easy for you.\nHelp your clients and they will help you in return. A real positive review about your company can boost your business.\nBefore starting a web hosting reseller project, you need to make sure that your hosting provider is really good and reliable, with good customer support. They will answer your clients\u2019 tickets, at the same time, search for reviews about their plans, but don\u2019t limit yourself with one single review.\nNot all people will give real feedback, you can see different reviews in the same place. This is what really happens, someone who doesn\u2019t know how to install WordPress will give negative feedback, even, if there is an auto-installer in his control panel.\nThere are many places to get real value reviews. I suggest Web hosting talk as one of them, but you can also use your own list of sites about web hosting and reseller programs to get reviews.\nAnother important tip is to test your reseller account, if there is a demo option. You can see how your control panel looks like as a reseller, and ask yourself if you find all what you need or no, then decide.\nRecommended Web hosting resellers\nOf course, you shouldn\u2019t start with small companies that can risk your business, and destroy it with a simple mistake. Go big, and use the companies that are in business for years. They know how web hosting works exactly and you will learn from them.\nI recommend the following companies for their affordable reseller plans, and the reliable services that they have.\nForget all the so-called free reseller services, and focus on a premium provider. If something like web hosting that needs lots of investment is free, then, you should avoid. Nothing is free in hosting services, it needs lots of resources and money.\nYou need also to create an SSL certificate to protect your client on the sign up and login process. That green lock at the address bar in browsers is very important to be trusted by people, so don\u2019t forget it.\nI won\u2019t recommend any other hosting company, because of the limitations. They limit everything, and you will find yourself in the need to migrate all your client accounts later, to another provider and even, they have big downtimes. So, start and stay with the same company, that will save you everything, from money and work, to customers and trust.\nThe final advice is to put yourself in your client place. Ask yourself what you should change in your hosting service, or, what you need to add.\nYou can ask your customers about feedback or surveys to correct things, and be the best hosting company in the next years. It\u2019s not impossible, but, you have to work on it, and remember that the 1000 miles way, starts with a single step.\nHello, i\u2019ve been reading a lot about this possible business, but i wanna know something more personal, in this moment i got all that is needed to start with this business, it looks good, but i think\u2026 is not a saturated business??, what do you think about it from your point of view\u2026?. Is not the competition so much wild??. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tscommunityclinics.com/lisa-gish-rn-mha-keynote-speaker-spring-usi-graduation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3FGSVWRTL23SBTGHCRYCXBYGHXYVU6PO", "length": 449, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tscommunityclinics.com", "title": "Lisa Gish, RN, MHA Keynote Speaker at Spring USI Graduation | Tri State Community Clinics", "raw_content": "04 May Lisa Gish, RN, MHA Keynote Speaker at Spring USI Graduation\nCongratulations to our Director of Clinic Operations, Lisa Gish, RN, MHA, on receiving the David L. Rice Alumni Achievement Award for the University of Southern Indiana\u2019s College of Nursing and Health Professions. 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And Todd and Billy are bound by a secret...\nWatch Coronation Street - Season 57 - Episode 101 - Thu May 19 2016 Online\nCoronation Street - Season 57 - Episode 105 - Mon May 23 2016 (21:00)\nCoronation Street - Season 57 - Episode 102 - Fri May 20 2016 Part 1\nCoronation Street - Season 57 - Episode 100 - Wed May 18 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://twit.tv/shows/twit-live-specials/episodes/19", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:C3IKC4TKA3G6HPCCZLRQWEBFLFX7WQRY", "length": 135, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "twit.tv", "title": "TWiT Specials 19 Google I/O 2010", "raw_content": "Hosted by Tom Merritt, Leo Laporte\nTom and Leo analyze the latest developments as they are announced at the Google I/O 2010 Conference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://twrafrica.org/see/the-archives/310-twr-brings-good-news-to-burundi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PDBV4LD6OSP37I25WSXP2RZYRQ7K6YXE", "length": 2003, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "twrafrica.org", "title": "TWR Africa - TWR Brings Good News to Burundi", "raw_content": "SeeThe ArchivesTWR Brings Good News to Burundi\nTWR Brings Good News to Burundi\nTWR Burundi's \"Good News for All\" programme is making a significant impact despite limited staff and finances. The weekly 60-minute programme reaches hundreds of listeners, strengthening believers in their faith and boldly proclaiming the message of salvation.\nTWR has received many testimonies of salvation and healing. A listener from the south of Burundi recently wrote to share his appreciation:\n\"Dear presenter of the Good News for All, I write to let you know how I was helped by your radio programme. I was strengthened by the teachings from those stories because I was going through some discouragement.\nIn fact, I began having a strong faith in God, believing that He would heal my eye; and God did heal me! Thank you very much for your work and may God supply you with enough strength to carry on with this work.\"\n\"Good News for All\" has been on air since TWR launched its services in the East African nation in 1998. Reaching all corners of Burundi, even across the borders to neighbouring countries, its listeners include young and old, male and female.\nDuring the last couple of months the programme has focused on Bible characters and Bible stories. The themes have been presented in a way that helps listeners identify with and apply Biblical truths to their own lives. This included programme segments on Exodus, which focuses on God's faithfulness in keeping His promises, and on David - showing his character as a model of how humility before the Lord can lead to greatness.\nThe programme has also covered specific challenges of modern day life such as the good management of resources, independence from the bondage of sin - inspired by the celebration of 50 years of independence from colonial rule, conserving the environment and helping traumatised people to know how to find healing and help.\nTWR Burundi praises God for the fruit of its ministry and is requesting prayer in order to extend its reach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uldissprogis.com/2018/07/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:29Z", "digest": "sha1:23OH6EKBHJUHZQALUHLRJDASX6LBUIYY", "length": 209, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "uldissprogis.com", "title": "03 | July | 2018 | uldissprogis", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in common sense and tagged achievement, common sense, duration, goals, interesting, language, life, motivation, quotes, truth, wisdom, wise sayings, words on July 3, 2018 by uldissprogis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 6880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unitedwayguelph.com/jasonstory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VWLEFCWKXJIFLVBWYCQLAJAMK233K6MQ", "length": 2618, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "unitedwayguelph.com", "title": "Jason's Story - United Way Guelph Wellington Dufferin", "raw_content": "Home / Jason\u2019s Story\nTwo years ago, Jason was alone, afraid and defeated. He was also homeless. After years of family conflict and suffering from mental health issues, Jason found himself on the streets of Guelph, not sure where to go or how to get help.\nJason is not alone.\nOn a single night in 2015 service providers in Guelph Wellington reported 359 individuals were experiencing homelessness, including 77 youth under the age of 17. With a lack of affordable and social housing resulting in individuals spending more of their income on housing related costs, the risks of homelessness are greater than ever. You may believe that our community doesn\u2019t have a \u201chomeless problem\u201d. But, individuals and families experiencing homelessness locally are not typically found sleeping on the streets \u2013 they often stay in local shelters, couch surf with a family member or friend, or find an abandoned building to sleep in.\nLuckily, Jason was connected with Wyndham House, a youth-serving agency operating in Guelph for more than 30 years and a United Way funded agency. Wyndham House staff provide the supports and services needed to help young people aged 16-21 overcome challenging times and difficult problems. It was through these supports and services that Jason was able to seek shelter in their Long Term Care program, receive family counselling to re-connect with his grandparents and enroll at Give Yourself Credit so he could complete all the credits and volunteer hours needed to graduate high school. Jason is now living independently and continues to be supported through Wyndham House\u2019s Outreach Programs. He is an active member of a hobby-oriented community group, and is awaiting his acceptance into the Ways 2 Work program, which will allow him to gain work readiness while earning a wage. He hopes to one day be a skilled tradesperson.\nFinding solutions to the issue of homelessness is a priority for United Way Guelph Wellington Dufferin. We fund many local agencies that are working on the ground with youth, families and adults who are experiencing homelessness to help them break the cycle of poverty and get them in off the streets and out of emergency shelters. In fact, this year, United Way Guelph Wellington Dufferin will be providing $750,000 in funding to local agencies working with those in poverty, including food banks, literacy programs, shelters and support services.\nOur promise to you is to make sure that your donation goes to where our community needs it most and where it will have the greatest impact. Jason is an example of a changed life in our community. And you made that happen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/04-means-and-ends", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LTGQ3NGLRKKQVWVUSYKPARM4ACT6W4FI", "length": 4824, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "uppingtheanti.org", "title": "Means and Ends \u2013 Upping the Anti", "raw_content": "Reading \u201cMaking friends with Failure\u201d (UTA 3), I found that AK Thompson\u2019s account of the shortcomings that mark Richard Day\u2019s celebration of contemporary \u201caffinity\u201d politics cut right to the heart of the matter. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to his assessment and extend it to the current political situation in Western Europe.\nTo my mind, Thompson\u2019s fiercest argument concerns Day\u2019s celebration of subcultural strategies of prefiguration. If we cannot win, Day seems to suggest, then we must endeavor to build semi-permanent autonomous zones and little utopias where life can approximate the world that ought to be. If there is nothing to win for the future, then activists can do no better than to build a better world right here and now \u2013 even if only a few of us get to enjoy it.\nThompson is clear in pointing out the elitist implications of such a strategy. And he is vivid in his account of how we end up missing important aspects of the struggles in the Global South when we displace a \u201cpolitics of demands\u201d with Day\u2019s \u201cpolitics of the act.\u201d There is no need to re-state the arguments here.\nFrom a European perspective, however, the significance of autonomous spaces can be seen to extend well beyond the limits imposed upon them by Day\u2019s account. Rather than being conceived as ends in and of themselves, recent European history tells us that these spaces must instead be viewed strategically and, hence, instrumentally. Because strategy necessitates a decision concerning the means needed to reach some as of yet unrealized goal, strategy itself disappears if we collapse means into ends.\nAutonomous spaces \u2013 and in Europe one has to look no further than squatted social centres \u2013 have provided the social means by which we\u2019ve managed to create significant political conflict. Considered from the standpoint of scarce resources, social centers have been indispensable in instrumental terms. The components of the semi-permanent infrastructure developed by the autonomous movements of the \u201870s and \u201880s (mobile food, kitchens, prisoner support groups, safe meeting spaces) were crucial in enabling the anti-capitalist wing of the anti-globalization movement to develop and engage in confrontational tactics.\nArising from the dual strategy through which activists created autonomous spaces in order to facilitate political confrontations has been a correspondingly rapid circulation of struggles. This phenomenon has been in evidence since the end of the 1990s. In Europe, this circulation \u2013 enabled through new forms of computer-mediated communication \u2013 manifested itself as, and congealed, in the form of a dense network of social centres. Building on social center networks, anti-globalization activists were able between 1999 and 2001 to circulate new strategies of conflict more quickly than repressive forces were able to answer.\nThough they might not correspond with current prospects in the North American context, contemporary anti-capitalist networks must do all they can not to forget the experience of radical anti-summit protest. With respect to both instrumental action and the circulation of struggles, one of the most important lessons was that it was possible to engage in confrontational direct action methods within the context of mass actions. Mass action and direct action can coexist and complement one another. And, while it is true that decentralized direct actions are often both easier and more satisfying to organize than are mass mobilizations, we nevertheless have to acknowledge that they tend to be less contagious.\nWhatever setbacks have befallen our movements since the beginning of America\u2019s war of terror, there are now many compelling reasons to believe that we\u2019ve reached a critical moment. All over Europe, activists seem poised on the threshold of the next phase. In June, the G8 will hold its summit in the North of Germany. Activists will be there in large numbers. The mood is for disruption. Because of social centres and autonomous networks, activists have experienced a degree of real continuity in their efforts to organize against the G8 in recent years. On top of that, autonomous and anti-capitalist networks seem to be better coordinated than ever before.\nFor organizers in Europe, one of the principle tasks leading up to this action has been to develop our capacity to incorporate direct action methods into mass action contexts. In order to get a taste of what\u2019s in store for the G8, we need look no further than the massive resistance to the eviction of the Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen. 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Pat McCrory Has Not Yet Conceded In The State\u2019s Close Gubernatorial Race\nHaley Potiker 11.10.16 2 years ago\nThough the country is adjusting to a surprise Donald Trump win in Tuesday night\u2019s election, there are a handful of key races around the electoral map that have yet to be decided. One such race features one of the most controversial political figures from the past two years: North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who has not yet conceded despite his opponent declaring victory.\nAccording to Talking Points Memo, McCrory\u2019s challenger, a state Attorney General named Rory Cooper, has declared victory despite leading by fewer than 5,000 votes. Counties across the state are currently completing a canvass of their own votes, a process which is expected to be finished by or on November 18.\n\u201cThe votes have been cast in the gubernatorial election, but many have yet to be counted,\u201d McCrory said on Wednesday to a news station in Raleigh. He cited \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of absentee and military votes that have yet to be counted. He said his campaign also has \u201cgrave concerns over potential irregularities in Durham County, including the sudden emergence of over 90,000 ballots at the end of [election] night.\u201d\nConsidering how Trump and incumbent Republican Senator Richard Burr won easily in North Carolina, the fact that McCrory\u2019s re-election race is so tight serves as a minor referendum on his previous term. The governor has been roundly criticized for his support of a state law that requires individuals to, when in government buildings, use the bathroom corresponding to the gender assigned to them as birth. It\u2019s become a touchstone issue for trans activists. The law also barred local governments from passing certain kinds of anti-discriminatory legislation.\nMcCrory\u2019s grievances about the mechanics of the voting tally have also drawn the ire of voting rights activists, who note his efforts to reinstate voter ID laws that the courts have ruled discriminatory against minority voters.\n(Via Talking Points Memo & The New York Times)\nTOPICS#Election 2016\nTAGSelection 2016gopNORTH CAROLINApat mccrory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://upvotes.co/profile/studio-umbrella", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KGKL4VQF32L4SAWF27ZEJV3MQ63L3LAT", "length": 908, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "upvotes.co", "title": "Studio Umbrella - Reviews & Ratings 2019 - Upvotes.co", "raw_content": "Home Studio Umbrella\nStudio Umbrella\nhttp://www.studioumbrella.com/\nstudio@studioumbrella.com\nUmbrella, founded in 2005 by Ronen Hirsch and located in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel, is a web design and development studio engaging in a variety of projects primarily in the World Wide Web but also in the development of a wide range of customized applications for both online and offline use.\nAll of our projects are guided by a strong sense of meticulousness and precision both in the design and the programming aspects. We are passionate about creating a meaningful and unique digital experience for our clients'\u200b users while providing them with confidence and assurance that they are in good hands \u2013 both in the process and in the outcome.\nSpecialties: Web Design, Web Development, Front-end Development, Flash Development, UX, User Experience, CSS3, HTML, jQuery, and PHP\n@studioumbrella.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=f39622c09d&u=8f43c495314f095de3847797f&id=d2a9ed6261", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IP7K5C34R7FOQSIBFO6DEC5L3VSAWOQM", "length": 2269, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "us17.campaign-archive.com", "title": "October 2018 Newsletter", "raw_content": "The regularly monthly meeting will not be held at the South County regional Library. Monday, October 8th, 5:30 - 8:30 PM, the club will be at the South County Community Center (next to the library) for the Fall Contest registration and photo drop off. Registration will be at the South County Community Center (next to the library) in room 105. We hope all members have their photos ready for submission. We are looking forward to an outstanding show of photos at this year's contest.\nA sign-up genius has gone out to all members asking for food donations for our lunch spread at the contest. If you haven't responded to the sign-up please do so soon. A little something from everyone will go a long way!\nWe hope all members, their families, and friends, are planning to join us at the Fall Contest on October 13, at 12:00 PM. This is a great opportunity to see what our club members have been doing with their cameras this year. We have some very talented artists in our group and you won't want to miss seeing their work!\nThe Library is closed on the second Monday of November in observance of Veteran's Day. Therefore, we will meet outside the library, at 6:30 PM for a photo walk on the waterway. We will have some activities and pointers for shooting at night. Tripods, flashlights, and bottled water are recommended for the outing. More information will be posted as we get closer to the meeting date.\n2018 Leadership Team Position Opportunity\nThere is still one opening for the 2018 Advisory Board.\nAt this time, we are seeking volunteers for the following vacancy:\nThis co-coordinator will share in the responsibilities of the overseeing and organizing field trips of the club. This will include informing the membership of trip details, collecting fees (for field trips) if necessary, providing driving instructions, and any pertinent information the members may need to know. They will also keep record of field trip , date, time, fees if applicable, and attendance. The field trip coordinator will turn this info over to the secretary for permanent records.\nThe next TWPC Leadership Team meeting is on September 26, 2018 at 6:30 PM at Jason's Deli, 1340 Lake Woodlands Drive, The Woodlands. 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Just look at the reaction to Justin Timberlake's 2017 Super Bowl LI halftime show, which featured a projection of the late, great icon. He's someone that most can't touch.\nOn Saturday (February 9), \"Little Red Corvette,\" one of the Purple Wonder's first hits, turned 36-years-old and to commemorate the anniversary, as well as Black History Month, iHeartRadio rounded up six facts about the smash 1983 single that you might have forgotten about. Scroll on below to revisit one of Prince's catalog highlights!\n1. Prince's backing record for \"Little Red Corvette\" was recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood on August 7, 1982, the same day that \"1999\" was recorded.\n2. Speaking of \"1999,\" the song was the lead single off Prince's album of the same name and preceded the release of \"Little Red Corvette.\" Still, the latter did so much better than \"1999\" when it came to success, hitting the No. 6 position on the Billboard Hot 100. \"1999\" originally peaked at the No. 44 spot on the chart in December 1982, but rose to the No. 12 position in July 1983 after it was re-released.\n3. Prince got the idea for \"Little Red Corvette\" when he dozed off in band memberLisa Coleman's 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauderafter an exhausting all-night recording session. Yep, you read that correctly. The song was not inspired by a Corvette at all. As the story goes, the lyrics to the one-night stand anthem came to him in bits and pieces during this nap, among others. Prince helped Lisa buy the car at an auction in 1980 in Minneapolis and she reportedly still owns it to this day.\n4. Stevie Nicks got the idea for her 1983 song \"Stand Back\" from the Prince classic. Nicks heard \"Little Red Corvette\" in her own car and wrote \"Stand Back\" that night. She even went a step further with her inspiration for the song by calling Prince, who came to the studio and played keyboards for the track.\n5. The Purple Wonder's video for the track was one of the first clips by a black artist to get regular rotation on MTV after Michael Jackson's \"Billie Jean.\" The video was shot during a tour stop in Jacksonville.\n6. The album version of the track is five minutes and three seconds long, but the radio edit was cut down to 3:08, which eliminated the reprise where Prince breaks it down and screams, \"You must be a limousine!\"\n{\"position1\": {\"artist\": {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 3403, \"name\": \"Prince\"}, \"catalog_type\": \"artist\", \"description\": \"\", \"id\": 3403, \"name\": \"Prince\", \"related\": [{\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 6739, \"name\": \"Michael Jackson\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 39853, \"name\": \"Rick James\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 58812, \"name\": \"The Time\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 44680, \"name\": \"George Michael\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 29436, \"name\": \"Janet Jackson\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 59275, \"name\": \"Sheila E.\"}, {\"bio\": \"\", \"id\": 3404, \"name\": \"Stevie Wonder\"}], \"tagged\": true, \"type\": \"catalog\"}}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usahitman.com/sctoss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:48Z", "digest": "sha1:DMXYBQC6I3K2RSSDVRK34WPYR6M47KOC", "length": 2801, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "usahitman.com", "title": "Surveillance Cameras Turned Off During Sikh Temple Shooting - USAHM Conspiracy", "raw_content": "Homepage\u00bbInteresting News\u00bbSurveillance Cameras Turned Off During Sikh Temple Shooting\nSurveillance Cameras Turned Off During Sikh Temple Shooting\nQuestions as to whether there were multiple shooters involved in the Sikh temple massacre are likely to remain unanswered given the fact that surveillance cameras covering the property were turned off at the time of the incident.\nAccording to NPR\u2019s Dina Temple-Raston, who spoke with FBI Special Agent Teresa Carlson, \u201cThere was no video in the temple itself. Apparently, their surveillance camera wasn\u2019t on.\u201d\nWhy the camera was turned off during what one would expect to be the temple\u2019s busiest time, a religious service on a Sunday, has not been explained.\nThe absence of video footage of the event makes it impossible to corroborate multiple eyewitness accounts attesting to the fact that more than one individual carried out the shootings.\nSpeaking with the Associated Press, an eyewitness stated, \u201cBetween ten and ten-thirty, four white males who were dressed darkly, dressed in all black clothing, came in and opened fire on our congregation.\u201d\nTemple member Amardeep Kaleka, whose mother and father were injured victims in the shooting, also told WISN that his parents said there were \u201cmultiple shooters, multiple people\u201d and that the attack was \u201cvery well coordinated.\u201d\nKaleka added that his father saw \u201cmultiple shooters of caucasian descent.\u201d\nAn ITN News report also quoted the niece of one of the temple members who said, \u201cAn unknown number of gunmen had walked into the kitchen of the Sikh temple and opened fire.\u201d\nAnother man at the scene told Sky News, \u201cI think they had multiple shooters.\u201d\nIn addition, the Chairman of the temple stated that the day before the attack there were a \u201cfew suspicious men seen on Temple premises,\u201d again clearly suggesting the involvement of more than one person\nAlthough speculation has centered around alleged shooter Wade Michael Page\u2019s ties to white supremacists, a definitive motive for the massacre has yet to be established. After initially claiming Page was killed by a police officer, authorities now assert that he shot himself in the head.\nPage\u2019s racist views were likely developed during his stint in the Army at Fort Bragg between 1992 to 1998, during which time he was a member of the psychological operations unit.\nPost tagged: Cameras Conspiracy Gun Control Shooting Sikh Temple Surveillance Turned Off\nTens of thousands of Connecticut residents refuse to register guns under new law\nSecret Service monitored REDDIT co-founder Aaron Swartz before his suicide\nWhite House admits it can\u2019t kill Americans with drones in US\nJames Holmes keeps asking \u2018Why am I here\u2019 \u2013 A Mind Control Conspiracy?\nAmazon Granted Patent For Photographing Against White Backgrounds\n1936 Article: \"How Will The World End?\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 6040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uwaterloo.ca/water-under-the-bridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7K2BR2JWJVBXTZM4AVDHDHB7X4Q7E7SF", "length": 772, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "uwaterloo.ca", "title": "Home | Water Under the Bridge | University of Waterloo", "raw_content": "An unofficial history of the University of Waterloo\nBy Chris Redmond and Simon the Troll\nThe book takes the University of Waterloo's history from \"roots and tributaries\" \u2014 St. Jerome's College (1864), Waterloo College (1911) and the College of Optometry (1925) \u2014 through University of Waterloo's founding in 1957 and the developments of the decades that followed. Simon winds up his story-telling with 1993, the year James Downey became president. \"The essentials are clear,\" says Simon in an early chapter. \"Bulls gave way to bulldozers, and the next thing you know, the biggest product of the place is bull of a whole new kind.\" He's not a troll to mince words.\nWater Under the Bridge was published in book form by the University of Waterloo in 1998, ISBN 0-9682827-1-7.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 140.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://valueinvestorsclub.com/idea/CADUS_CORPORATION/6463707623", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6Y7QO7P73QDHOZFO4RJSHYPFMMXSFNVR", "length": 4475, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "valueinvestorsclub.com", "title": "Value Investors Club / CADUS CORPORATION (3KDUS)", "raw_content": "CADUS CORPORATION 3KDUS\nmacrae538\nTEV ($): -5 TEV/EBIT 0.0x 0.0x\nCadus is a tiny company that barely trades, so this is purely an idea for (small) PA's.\nCadus Corporation (OTC: KDUS) is a tiny shell company trading at a 21% discount to its cash, net of all liabilities. This highly illiquid stock is trading for $1.42 per share while it has $1.80 per share of net cash, in addition to patents and drug discovery technologies that I'm assuming are worthless, as well as $2.13 per share of net operating loss and research and development credit carryforwards that could potentially be valuable. The company has been looking to make an acquisition ever since it sold its primary drug discovery assets to OSI Pharmaceuticals (\"OSI\") in 1999.\nYes, Cadus has been a looking for an acquisition for over a decade. In 2009, a special committee of board members was formed to evaluate a potential acquisition that ultimately fell through. Carl Icahn is the largest shareholder, but it is clearly not a high priority for him, considering its small size. Carl's son, Brett Icahn, replaced Carl on the board last year.\nCadus was actually the subject of a Wall Street Journal article last year in which Carl Icahn was quoted.\n\"We've been looking assiduously for three years for opportunities,\" he told me this week. \"But I don't want to make a bad acquisition and lose the cash.\" He added, \"I strongly believe that in today's type of market we will find a company [to buy] fairly soon.\"\nFurthermore, Mr. Icahn says, if Cadus distributed its cash to shareholders, it would have no money for an acquisition, losing the opportunity to use its tax benefits directly. \"I don't want to waste $25 million,\" he says. Of course, Cadus could still be acquired by another firm that could make use of the tax break.\nSo, take that for what it is worth. If or when an acquisition is announced, I would expect the stock price to approach at least net cash, or perhaps a bit more if the tax assets can be utilized. Cadus could also be acquired or finally decide to liquidate. The cash burn rate is about $0.03 or $0.04 per share annually. The company has no employees and even the CEO is a consultant. His salary is $25,000 per year. Board members earn $3,000 per year. Clearly, milking the company for cushy board seats or lavish perks is not the reason why an acquisition has not occurred for so long.\nCarl Icahn owns about 5.3 million shares or 40% of the company. He bought about 298,000 shares in early 2009. Moab Partners and GlaxoSmithKline own 13% and 5%, respectively. A board member purchased 50,000 shares in December for $1.35 per share.\nThe most obvious risk is that the board never finds an acquisition and the modest cash burn continues for several years. The board could also make a terrible acquisition and squander the cash and/or tax assets. The IRR on this investment may not be great, but it also should not be negative. The stock is also entirely uncorrelated with the market.\nAn acquisition announcement by Cadus, or of Cadus, or a liquidation.\nSubject Posted in 2003 at $1.45\nMember john771\nDoesn't seem like the story has changed. Hope it works out better for you than aidan819. Here's what he wrote 8 years ago:\nCadus Corporation is a cash shell plus the remains of a drug discovery company. It is trading at a discount to cash and net current assets. Market value is 19M which is 73% of Net Current Assets (which include over 24M of cash), which would allow for about 35-40% upside if it were sold for around Net Current Asset value (26M). In addition, the company runs at a small profit and has other assets (licenses and patents) which may be worth something.\nAlthough this is clearly not the world\u2019s most exciting investment there would seem to be little downside.\nI see no immediate catalyst, but the company is controlled by Carl Icahn (who owns over 37% of the stock). So I don\u2019t think this is one of those cases where a company will continue to return a low ROE indefinitely because the owner has an emotional attachment to the company. I presume that Mr Icahn will make rational decisions here. As I see it, either the company will be sold, liquidated, or an acquisition will be made, so worst case (for me) would be investing alongside Carl Icahn, but at a useful discount.\nClosing CADUS CORPORATION\nAre you sure you want to close this position CADUS CORPORATION?\nFlag CADUS CORPORATION for Removal\nAre you sure you want to Flag this idea CADUS CORPORATION for removal?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 9775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vancouversutton.com/blog.html/foreign-buyers-still-investing-in-metro-vancouver-real-estate-despite-5038828", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LWKFF72YIQJUBR3LLKOCQOHPCUQN2LVX", "length": 3674, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "vancouversutton.com", "title": "Foreign buyers still investing in Metro Vancouver real estate despite B.C. tax", "raw_content": "Posted in: Foreign buyers still investing in Metro Vancouver real estate despite B.C. tax\nReal estate agents say foreign buyers have plunged back into the Metro Vancouver market despite a 15-per-cent foreign buyer tax introduced last year. JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS\nForeign buyers accounted for six per cent of the value of residential property purchased in B.C. over the past year, according to the latest data released Wednesday by B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Finance.\nThe figures show the government took in $102 million in revenue from the foreign buyer tax from Aug. 2, 2016 to March 31, 2017, figures released Wednesday show.\nThe government started collecting foreign buyer data in June 2016, and abruptly introduced a 15-per-cent tax on the purchase of residential real estate in Metro Vancouver in August 2016.\nDespite the tax, the majority of B.C. foreign buyer transactions from June 2016 through May 2017 \u2014 $3.27 billion worth \u2014 happened in Metro Vancouver.\nHowever, a detailed accounting of how much foreign money is actually invested in B.C. homes is not possible due to obscure ownership structures, critics and industry experts said.\nThe share of sales volume involving foreign buyers plunged from 16.5 per cent in Metro Vancouver in June 2016 to four per cent in January 2017.\nIn Richmond, 27.2 per cent of total sales involved foreign buyers in June 2016. The figure plunged to 1.3 per cent in August 2016 and bounced back to about 10 per cent per month through most of 2017. From June 2016 to May 2017, the cumulative value of all property purchases in Richmond involving offshore buyers was 12.6 per cent, about $610 million.\nBut that is only for the offshore buyers the government knows about, NDP MLA David Eby said.\nEby said a 2016 Transparency International study showed 50 per cent of the top 100 most expensive properties in the City of Vancouver are owned through obscure methods such as offshore trusts, shell companies, or students or housewives represented on land titles. The prevalence of these ownership methods in Vancouver suggests the government can\u2019t detect many offshore buyers in luxury markets across B.C., Eby said.\nA number of real estate industry experts said buyers have found creative ways around the foreign buyer tax.\nLast August, while sales crashed across Metro Vancouver, Langley realtor Danny Evans predicted to Postmedia a swift bounce back in \u201cunder the table\u201d sales from offshore buyers arranged through \u201cside deals for the people that are going on the title (as owners).\u201d\n\u201cThe Chinese market is still very strong and the prices have held,\u201d Evans said Wednesday. \u201cThe Chinese buyers are very adaptable, and I think people are using companies to buy homes now.\u201d\nDavid LePoidevin, the founder of a Vancouver portfolio management firm, said he believes recent sales and price increases in Metro Vancouver\u2019s housing market could be attributed to foreign buyers who returned to B.C. after Ontario introduced its own foreign buyer tax in April 2017.\n\u201cI talk to realtors in Richmond, and they are saying the foreign buyers are back. The clients are saying \u2018If I\u2019m going to pay a tax in Ontario, I\u2019d rather buy here.\u201d\nRichmond realtor Steve Saretsky said he believes the true amount of offshore purchases in that city is much higher than the latest government data shows.\n\u201cI think 25 per cent is on the low side, and there is no way that it is 12 per cent.\u201d\n\u201cThe way (the government) is tracking it, it has loopholes,\u201d Saretsky said. \u201cI think you have to track where the money actually comes from, and not the passport of the buyer. People have family members in B.C. go on the title, or they have a permanent residence card.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3097, "original_length": 121719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://viciouscycle.blog/2009/07/15/thinking-big/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MJIEMVGCBPD3WNTV2QFPAQ46OBTSZNQA", "length": 1849, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "viciouscycle.blog", "title": "Thinking Big \u2013 The Vicious Cycle", "raw_content": "Hey, did I ever tell you my dream? I want to cycle around the world before my time is up. I used to think I\u2019d do it in one go, but don\u2019t know if that\u2019s all that realistic now. Don\u2019t know if I even want to do it that way \u2013 I\u2019m more an \u2018inch by inch\u2019 guy, I think. Well, I went ahead and made a Google Map of what I\u2019ve done so far and, having thought I\u2019d been doing pretty good with this cycling thing the last 10 years or so, was slightly shocked to see how much more there is to do!\nI\u2019ve still got a few years left before I totally crap out my knees, and there\u2019s always those reclining bikes for old guys \ud83d\ude09 Next on the list? We are doing a 1000 km trip from here to Germany this summer. I\u2019ll have to finally cycle Montreal to Gaspe next time I go back home. Italy, Eastern Europe or Scandinavia next year to make those lines grow a little longer in Europe. In the meantime I\u2019ll keep dreaming and try to keep my left kneecap from coming detached and dropping down to my ankle\u2026\nThis entry was posted in Asia / Australia, Canada, Cycling, Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks and tagged cycling around the world. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 thoughts on \u201cThinking Big\u201d\nFunny you should mention this; I was walking up rue de la Loge the other day and there was a Chinese guy standing in front of his bicycle doing magic tricks or paper-folding tricks or something. I didn\u2019t get a real close look at what he was doing, but there were three newspaper articles hanging from his bike, one in Chinese, one in French, and one in English, and I saw the headline \u201cBicycling Around the World.\u201d\nIf you start now, you might catch up to him!\nI\u2019m sure it\u2019s pretty hard to get press these days. Round-the-world cyclists are a dime a dozen these days. I guess him being Chinese helps\u2026the ones I know of are usually of the \u2018Occidental\u2019 tilt, as they say in France.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 7078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://video.eaa.org/detail/video/1159869688001/reno:-one-lap-in-austin-priester-s-pitts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6PUUPHMSMESN34CR7KVI3XKBNBH2JIM4", "length": 245, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "video.eaa.org", "title": "Reno: One Lap in Austin Priester's Pitts - EAA Video", "raw_content": "Reno: One Lap in Austin Priester's Pitts\nAustin Priester is a Hollywood stuntman who does wingsuit flying and skydiving, but also wanted to learn how to race at Reno. This is one of his first laps around the pylons in the Pitts he built himself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 1600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://villagenet.co.uk/reference/trug.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:45Z", "digest": "sha1:6XUW4GMN2TTD6ZMWVS7PKGJVBPNFAFMU", "length": 972, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "villagenet.co.uk", "title": "History effecting Kent & Sussex - (Sussex Trug - Measuring Container) - VillageNet Reference", "raw_content": "A Sussex Trug is a type of basket, which is made from chestnut and willow. They were brought to public attention by Thomas Smith of Herstmonceux who displayed his trugs at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The name Trug comes from the Anglo Saxon \"trog\" a wooden boat shaped vessel.\nThe trugs are made by cutting the handle and rim from sweet chestnut using a cleaving axe. A drawknife is then used to remove any splinters and to smooth the wood. The wood is then bent round a former to create the shape. The next step is to cut wide strips of willow, which are soaked in water then nailed onto the handle and rim.\nSussex trugs were originally farming implements, being used for the measurement of grain or animal feed. They are now used exclusively as gardening or as gardening related containers. Their uses include collecting weeds, harvesting garden produce, or for displaying fruit , vegetables or flowers.\nOther Local Trug web sites\nThe Truggery\nThomas Smith's Trug Shop", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vinosensis.com/en/116-castilla-y-leon?p=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SPILB7RQVGAIGAUNLJWR66X2OE7DSZIY", "length": 1299, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "vinosensis.com", "title": "Buy wines from Castilla y Le\u00f3n (2) - Vinosensis", "raw_content": "Home > Denominations>Castilla y Le\u00f3n\nCastilla y Le\u00f3n is a Spanish autonomous community incorporated in 1983, whose territory is situated in the northern part of the plateau of the Iberian peninsula and corresponds mainly to the Spanish part of the basin of the river Duero. Wines from Castilla y Le\u00f3n are probably the most famous of Spain with the of la Rioja. That famous status shou...\nCastilla y Le\u00f3n is a Spanish autonomous community incorporated in 1983, whose territory is situated in the northern part of the plateau of the Iberian peninsula and corresponds mainly to the Spanish part of the basin of the river Duero. Wines from Castilla y Le\u00f3n are probably the most famous of Spain with the of la Rioja. That famous status should not be a brake when it comes to discovering new wines of the denominations of Toro, Ribera del Duero, Bierzo, Rueda and Cigales.\nCastilla y Le\u00f3n There are 97 products.\nThe BIERZO appellation wines\nThe designation of origin RIBERA del DUERO wines\nThe denominaci\u00f3n de origen of RUEDA wines\nThe TORO appellation wines\nTridente mencia 2015\nVerdejo Frizz 5.5 CodorNew\nAlm\u00edrez 2015\nBuy wines from Castilla y Le\u00f3n (2) - Vinosensis Wines from Castilla y Le\u00f3n are probably the most famous of Spain with the of la Rioja.\nhttps://vinosensis.comDenominationsCastilla y Le\u00f3n", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 18242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://viraldunia.com/details/lankan-parliament-to-take-up-motion-to-express-confidence-in-deposed-pm-ranil-wickremesinghe", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XUMPZJWMMIDMJGCQ6XDBTYSK4TMFQM54", "length": 2888, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "viraldunia.com", "title": "Lankan Parliament to take up motion to express confidence in deposed PM Ranil Wickremesinghe - Viraldunia.com", "raw_content": "Lankan Parliament to take up motion to express confidence in deposed PM Ranil Wickremesinghe\nOusted Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. (AP)\nCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan Parliament will take up a motion to express confidence in ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe next week, officials said on Thursday, as the political crisis following his controversial sacking by the president intensified.\nThe motion has been listed for which no dates have been fixed, parliamentary officials said.\nParliament meets next on December 12 and the day's business is to be determined on the same day. If there is no firm indication, it will be taken up on that day, they said.\nSri Lanka is going through a major political crisis since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena, in a controversial move, removed Wickremesinghe and installed ex-strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place.\nThe president on Wednesday said that the current political crisis will not drag on beyond a week even as a war of words between him and Wickremesinghe intensified.\nOn Monday, a lower court temporarily barred Rajapaksa from performing his duties after which he filed an appeal before the Supreme Court.\nThe interim ruling was a major blow to both President Sirisena and Rajapaksa.\nSirisena, after sacking Wickremesinghe on October 26, dissolved Parliament and called for a snap election on January 5. However, the Supreme Court overturned his decision and halted the preparations for snap polls.\nSirisena said that he has always taken decisions in the best interest of the country and the people.\nIn his strongest yet statement against the president, United National Party (UNP) leader Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said the United National Front (UNF) was prepared to face elections and they are \"not afraid of elections.\"\nThe ousted premier also urged the president not to \"be like Hitler and some of the other dictators who used the referendum.\"\nSirisena has said in the past that Wickremesinghe is a stubborn, headstrong person who was following far right wing neo-liberal policies.\nAs many as 122 parliamentarians of Wickeremesinghe's UNP, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and Tamil National Alliance last month filed a petition in the court of appeal challenging Rajapaksa's authority as the prime minister.\nWickremesinghe and Rajapaksa both claim to be the prime ministers with the former claiming that his dismissal is invalid because he still holds a majority in the 225-member Parliament.\nPrior to the crisis, Wickramasinghe's UNP had the backing of 106 parliamentarians while Rajapaksa and Sirisena combine had 95 seats.\nThe president has said that due to sharp personal differences with Wickremesinghe, he would not reappoint him as the prime minister.\nHowever, Wickremesinghe's UNP claims that Sirisena will be left with no choice as he would be the man who will command the confidence in the House.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 184.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://viraldunia.com/details/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-says-catholic-bishops-are-useless-kill-them", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5MNRLO7HLWIDBZLPIQF25QVZC6FGPRX", "length": 1490, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "viraldunia.com", "title": "Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte Says Catholic Bishops Are Useless, Kill Them - Viraldunia.com", "raw_content": "\"Kill Catholic Bishops, They Are Useless\", Says Philippines' Duterte\nPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte has launched yet another verbal attack against Catholic bishops, calling them useless and saying they should be killed, according to the transcription of one of his speeches released by the presidential office on Thursday.\nMore than 85 per cent of the country's population is Catholic.\n\"These bishops of yours, kill them. They are useless. All they do is criticize,\" Duterte said in a part tagalog, part English speech in Manila on Wednesday night.\nAt a later event, he called the Catholic Church \"the most hypocritical institution in the entire Philippines\" and claimed that \"90 per cent\" of priests were gay, Efe news reported.\nThe Catholic Bishops'' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) refused to comment.\nPresidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo later defended Duterte's remarks, saying they should not be taken literally as they had only been used for dramatic effect.\nTwo weeks ago, the President insulted Catholic bishops and priests, saying Filipinos should not go to church to pay for \"idiots\".\nDays earlier, Duterte accused Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David -- one of his most vocal critics -- of stealing church donations. The bishop responded by calling the leader a \"very sick man\".\nThe conflict between Duterte and the Catholic Church goes back to February 2017, when the CBCP criticized the President's violent anti-drugs campaign, calling it a \"reign of terror\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/73318", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:43Z", "digest": "sha1:X2AJ6LEBKYCILIR2CD6W4XGCBHC25GNN", "length": 2572, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "vtechworks.lib.vt.edu", "title": "Corticosteroid-Encapsulated Nanoparticles in Thermoreversible Gels for the Amelioration of Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration", "raw_content": "Corticosteroid-Encapsulated Nanoparticles in Thermoreversible Gels for the Amelioration of Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration\nHirani_AA_D_2015.pdf (1.945Mb)\nHirani, Anjali A.\nAge-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults over the age of 60. Currently, at least 11 million patients in the United States have some form of macular degeneration and this number is projected to grow as the population ages. The more severe form of the disease \u2013 neovascular (wet) AMD, is characterized by intraocular neovascularization, inflammation, and retinal damage; however, the disease progression can be deterred through intraocular injections of anti-angiogenic agents. The complications and burden that arise from repetitive injections as well as the difficulty posed by targeting the posterior segment of the eye make this an interesting territory for the development of novel drug delivery systems. New methods for drug delivery are being investigated exploring the use of nanoparticles and other polymeric materials. The goal of this project is to study the potential use of poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid)-polyethylene glycol (PLGA-PEG) nanoparticles in thermoreversible gels as localized sustained intraocular drug delivery. We prepared stable and reproducible corticosteroid-encapsulated nanoparticles in thermoreversible gels to inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) overexpression characteristic of neovascular AMD. We characterized the drug delivery system by obtaining size, shape, and drug encapsulation data. We also demonstrated that the polymer could be injected into the vitreous as a solution and transition to a gel phase based on the temperature difference between regular indoor environment and the vitreous body. The drug delivery system was tested on human retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19), for cytotoxicity, uptake and VEGF expression. We also examined the drug delivery system's ability to mitigate the disease progression in a mouse model of choroidal neovascularization (CNV). The effect on blood vessel area was shown and the changes in the mRNA expression of angiogenesis mediators were analyzed by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). These results indicate that the proposed drug delivery systems has the promise to be developed for retinal diseases, involving CNV, including neovascular AMD. Further studies are warranted in developing this promising intraocular drug delivery system for wet AMD and similar ophthalmic diseases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 165.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vucavu.com/en/artists/c/marie-helene-cousineau", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MJIX4KJJMVH5CUC2W2E67M3NVFDO262S", "length": 378, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vucavu.com", "title": "Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cousineau - VUCAVU", "raw_content": "Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cousineau is a director and writer. Long term involvment in independent video production at Igloolik, collaborator on numerous projects with Inuit women. Awards: Documentary prize for \"\" Women in Black\"\" in the Festival du Jeune Cin\u00e9ma (Montr\u00e9al 1991) and special mention for \"\" Du potlatch, l'odeur de l'huile\"\" at the Video Culture Canada Festival (Toronto 1987).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://warwick.ac.uk/about/community/volunteers/volunteering/clubsandsocs/oarsome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4WI36J7A7MPU6WF7DDWNSDZMMB4XC3MB", "length": 1759, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "warwick.ac.uk", "title": "Oarsome", "raw_content": "Lauren Rutter\nWarwick Rowing \u2013 Project Oarsome\nFor the whole of Term 2, once a week a team of six volunteers which included different members from the club, armed with six rowing machines in a van, attended local primary schools. Over the course of 10 weeks, the club managed to introduce 400 primary age children to rowing. They taught them a little bit about the history of Rowing and after a little demonstration and some one-on-one guidance we held a Rowing Relay Race in teams. The machines were connected to a laptop and a projector which displayed a moving image of how the race was progressing.\n\u201cWe really wanted to get out into the local community and with the upcoming Olympics and as Rowing is a sport where we have good prospects this year; we thought it would be a great time to introduce primary school children to Rowing. It is not something they get exposure to in the curriculum and it is not generally the ones which are good at the more conventional sports such as Football and Netball who shine at Rowing.\nVolunteering was beneficial for me in terms of coaching novice rowers coming to the university, and for novice rowers in cementing their knowledge of Rowing and the technique. It was also helpful for practising communication and organisational skills and how to learn from the mistakes of the previous week and improving upon them.\nI would definitely recommend clubs and societies getting involved in volunteering. It is a highly rewarding experience in terms of providing something for the community which they would not have otherwise had. Additionally, it is a really useful team building exercise for members of your club or society and allows everyone to come together with a common goal and learn useful skills for later life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/cfsa/epsrc_networkplus/pastmeetings/emergenceandnon-equilibriumphysics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:V2H6GUAN6TGZCIY3BPTLVCCDTFY7BWMC", "length": 4127, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "warwick.ac.uk", "title": "Focus Meeting: Manchester 8-9 April, 2014", "raw_content": "EPSRC NetworkPlus focused meeting 'Emergence and non-equilibrium physics'\n\"Non-equilibrium statistical physics of populations in biology, economics and the social sciences\"\nDate: April 8th and April 9th 2014\nVenue: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester\nThe School of Physics and Astronomy (Schuster Building) is number 54 on the campus map.\nOrganisers: Rosalind Allen (Edinburgh), Richard Blythe (Edinburgh), Tobias Galla (Manchester) and Alan McKane (Manchester).\nThe meeting is not a typical scientific meeting. Instead, in the spirit of the NetworkPlus project it is designed to encourage participants to identify future trends and important new directions of research. An outcome of the meeting will be a document which we hope will be used by EPSRC to inform their decisions about future research priorities.\nThe particular emphasis of the meeting will be on the application of non-equilibrium statistical physics of populations in biology, economics and the social sciences. There will be a half-day devoted to each area as follows:\nAfternoon of Tuesday, April 8th: Economics.\nSchedule: 12.30pm-2pm Lunch; 2pm-5.15pm Talks/Discussions (includes coffee break)\nMorning of Wednesday, April 9th: Social Science.\nSchedule: 9.30am \u2013 12.45pm (includes coffee break)\nAfternoon of Wednesday, April 9th: Biology.\nSchedule: 12.45pm - 1.45pm Lunch; 13.45pm- 5:00pm Talks/Discussions (includes coffee break)\nThis meeting is more suited to experienced researchers who are interested in the future direction of EPSRC funding in non-equilibrium systems, and we do not recommend that PhD students attend. In any event, EPSRC advise that PhD students cannot be supported from funds of the Network.\nFormat of each session\nFor each session we have invited two speakers, who will each give a short 15-minute overview talk, in which they outline their view on the future challenges and opportunities of the respective field. Following these talks there will be time for participants to give short (5 min) pitches/manifestos, and for general discussion.\nParticipants will then be asked to propose ideas for future topics, elements of a roadmap or manifesto in a sandpit-style session. Subsequently participants will carry out a clustering exercise, and group the ideas so collected into themes or clusters. Participants will then break into groups, each of which takes ownership of one of the clusters of ideas, and develops these further in group work. Each group prepares a short pitch/presentation, either via powerpoint or flipchart, these are then presented to all participants.\nThe outcome of the workshop will consist of these presentations, they will be the elements of a roadmap/manifesto, a forward-looking document outlining future research strategies in the area of out-of-equilibrium statistical physics of populations in biology, the social sciences and economics.\nInvited Speakers;\nhttp://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/407\nhttp://ineteconomics.org/people/robert-axtell\nAndreas Flache\nhttp://www.gmw.rug.nl/~flache/\nHilton Root\nhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/politicaleconomy/people/visitingfellows/root.aspx\nhttps://www.jic.ac.uk/staff/martin-howard/index.htm\nJoachim Krug\nhttp://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/krug/\nTo register for the event please fill in the registration form\nThere is budget for expenses to be claimed via the Univeristy of Warwick, Physics Department. Please fill in the expense form and attach reciepts and send it to;\nKayleigh Lampard\nIf you bank account is held outside the uk please fill in the foreign bank account form and attach it to your claim. If you hold an indian bank account please fill in the Indian bank account form.\nPlease see the maximum allowances for costs to be claimed below;\nUp to a maximum of \u00a375.00 for UK participants\nUp to a maximum of \u00a385.00 per person per night.\nAs usual train tickets have to be standard class, and the total expenses for travel, subsistence and accommodation must not exceed \u00a3160 per participant. Lunches for registered participants will be provided free of charge.\nFor any queries please contact;\nAlan McKane\nalan.mckane@manchester.ac.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wearemitu.com/things-that-matter/texas-border-deportation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CMZJPCIQAHQQSDBQUKCTCWAAQABDD32T", "length": 2165, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "wearemitu.com", "title": "Here's How Some Texas Police Are Teaming Up With Border Enforcement", "raw_content": "Texas Police Officers Are Prowling Highways For Undocumented People To Report To Immigration Officials\ncredit: The Intercept / YouTube\nTexas State Troopers have created a deportation pipeline along the border.\nAccording to The Intercept, Texas State Troopers are engaging in what they are calling a \u201cdeportation pipeline.\u201d The tactic used by law enforcement officials is simple: they stop drivers for minor to non-existent traffic violations, question everyone in the vehicle, and call immigration officials to detain anyone who is undocumented or suspected to be undocumented. Other times, troopers stop pedestrians and pressure them about their immigration status so they can be detained, according to video obtained by The Intercept.\nReporter Debbie Nathan teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas to figure out what is happening with the undocumented population in Texas. Nathan was able to obtain dash cam footage of several traffic stops and arrests that ended in people being handed over to immigration officials. Videos show police officers pulling over cars and questioning passengers about their immigration status, despite no crime having been committed that warrants interrogation or questioning. This didn\u2019t happen overnight. The Intercept reports that the system under which the current Texas law enforcement operates has been in the making for a few years.\nThe Intercept reports that this system of Texas state troopers acting with immigration enforcement has its roots in 9/11. The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 and by 2006 then-governor Rick Perry gave law enforcement on the border and the state\u2019s Department of Public Safety (DPS) large amounts of money. The report shows that the Texas legislature began to fund law officials strictly for border security to the tune of $110 million from 2008-2009. For 2018-2019, $800 million will pour into these departments to up their border security agenda.\nYou can read the full story from The Intercept here.\n(H/T: The Intercept)\nREAD: 800 Undocumented Workers Lost Their Jobs At A Chicago Bakery After Immigration Raid\nTags: DeportationsimmigrationTexas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weddings.allegraanderson.com/2014/02/australia-2014-day-12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EHM6GMV3PNQ2BNHCFVFKAI3GRIY5A5DB", "length": 1596, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "weddings.allegraanderson.com", "title": "Australia 2014 Day 1+2 | Allegra Anderson Photography", "raw_content": "Australia 2014 Day 1+2\nDay 1 and 2 of my trip to Sydney was spent in the best way possible: relaxing with my sister Ingrid and my niece Olivia at her gorgeous home in Bilgola, Australia.\nFor our first dinner, we made a recipe by Donna Hay, with prawns, balmain bugs (a crustacean native to Australia) and scallops. I wanted to eat as many of the local ingredients as possible while I was down here. As you may know, I love food and I love to cook. It\u2019s going to be hard to leave for many reasons, including all the wonderful items that aren\u2019t available in the US.\nOh how I wish I could wake up to this view every morning. With the time change, I was the first to wake up for the first couple of days and it was so nice to sit and have a cup of coffee and read my book on the porch. It\u2019s not often you can find quiet time to yourself with such a beautiful view!\nI was lucky enough to have a beautiful lorikeet land on the railing as I was reading my book. Thankfully I had my camera next to me, and I was able to snap a few photographs. As I was taking his or her pictures, another bird landed on the railing. They were chatting and flirting, trying to get closer to each other but nervous because I was in-between them. They were so cute!\nNo words necessary for her cuteness.\nOlivia is taking swim lessons now. It\u2019s a necessary education when you live so close to the water!\nWe love our coffee, and Olivia loves her babychino!\nAshleyFebruary 19, 2014 - 4:19 pm\nI love her \u2013 she\u2019s amazing and I can\u2019t wait to see them this summer!ReplyCancel\n\u00ab Gouveia Vineyards Engagement\nAustralia Day 3, 4 + 5 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weinsteinwin.com/sandy-springs/motorcycle-accident-lawyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CA2VE7FCKMJG32ETL2IYX2FGCAFNN4GF", "length": 12466, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "weinsteinwin.com", "title": "Sandy Springs Motorcycle Accident Lawyer | The Weinstein Firm", "raw_content": "Sandy Springs Motorcycle Accident Lawyer\nMotorcycle Accident Lawyer in Sandy Springs, GA\nFor the motorcycle owner, there are plenty of reasons to love this unique way to get around, and there are definitely benefits to being a motorcyclist. Riding a motorcycle places the rider in the open air, experiencing the excitement of travel in a way that simply cannot be experienced in a car. In addition, motorcycles use far less fuel than traditional automobiles. These are just two among many reasons to ride a motorcycle \u2013 but for the motorcyclist, it is also important to remember the many risks that come with the excitement and joy of motorcycling. Following all the appropriate safety procedures can help keep you safe, and in the event that you are in a crash, our motorcycle accident lawyers serving Sandy Springs, GA, are here to help.\nYour Sandy Springs, GA Motorcycle Accident Lawyers Understand the Risks\nCompared to the enclosed nature of traditional cars and trucks, it is clear that motorcycles offer less protection to their riders. Because of the exposed nature of the riders, motorcycle accident victims often have injuries that are very serious. That is why motorcycle accident lawyers in Sandy Springs are here. Motorcycles are smaller in size, lighter in weight, and leave their riders exposed to hazards, obstacles, and the road itself, increasing the risk of serious injury to a rider even in a slow speed accident. Motorcycle wrecks can be unexpected and chaotic, so your motorcycle wreck lawyers in Sandy Springs, GA, will need as much information as you can possibly provide about your accident.\nEvery year, the United States National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports statistics regarding a number of accident and safety facts, and among these are motorcycle accidents state by state. In the state of Georgia, these statistics are used as guidance to changes in state law, with the goal of reducing and minimizing the number of serious or fatal accidents involving motorcyclists in our state.\nStatistics from the NHTSA about Motorcycle Accidents in Georgia\nAs recently as 2012, the state of Georgia saw 130 fatal motorcycle accidents. This number is slightly lower than the average of the previous five years, 150, but it is still within the range of what seems to be normal. What\u2019s the takeaway here? For motorcycle wreck lawyers, it looks like unless the situation on the roads in Georgia changes drastically, the number of motorcycle accidents year over year doesn\u2019t seem likely to change much.\nOf these 130 fatal motorcycle wrecks, eight riders were not wearing a helmet. Motorcycle helmets, as you likely know, are required in the state of Georgia, and any motorcycle accident lawyer near Sandy Springs can tell you that this is one law that does make a difference. Even though each year there are fatal motorcycle accidents whose victims may have been saved by a helmet, around 80 lives each year on average are saved by riders wearing helmets according to Georgia\u2019s helmet laws. As motorcycle accident attorneys near Sandy Springs, we see enough of these cases to be able to tell you unequivocally this single safety step is probably the most important one you can take as a motorcyclist.\nCommon Causes of Motorcycle Crashes Near Sandy Springs, GA\nEvery auto accident is unique, and this is never truer than in accidents involving a motorcycle. The lightweight nature of motorcycles and the significant damage that can occur even at low speeds make it difficult to pin down the causes of motorcycle accidents in some cases. However, as motorcycle accident lawyers in Sandy Springs have noted and the NHTSA has reported, alcohol is a common factor in motorcycle wrecks in Sandy Springs Georgia. Driving under the influence is a common factor among many Georgia auto accidents, but the percentage of impaired drivers in motorcycle accident cases in Georgia is even greater.\nThe second common factor in Sandy Springs GA motorcycle accidents, lawyers have noted, is negligence on the part of car drivers. Negligence is a common theme in nearly every car accident, but in motorcycle accident cases, negligence on the part of a driver in a traditional car is almost always a factor. Nearly 40% of motorcycle accidents involve a car turning left, cutting off a motorcyclist, according to the NHTSA. The car\u2019s driver is at fault in nearly all of these cases, according to the Sandy Springs motorcycle accident lawyers who specialize in these cases.\nFinally, speed is a common factor in Sandy Springs motorcycle accidents. More than a third of motorcyclists in fatal accidents are found to have been speeding at the time, according to the NHTSA, compared to just under a fourth of drivers in traditional auto crashes. Motorcycle wreck lawyers in Sandy Springs, GA, understand that this indicates some riskier driving tendencies among motorcyclists \u2013 and we remind you that if you\u2019re a motorcyclist, please always observe the speed limit, because your life may just depend upon it.\nCommon Injuries Following a Sandy Springs, Georgia Motorcycle Crash\nAs the years go on, innovations have brought about new and more effective motorcycle safety gear, which is in a way both good and bad news. When this equipment is used appropriately, it certainly helps to keep motorcyclists safer on the roads. However, increasing numbers of fatal motorcycle accidents and injuries are the sad reality that makes these innovations necessary. Motorcycle accident attorneys near Sandy Springs, GA understand that even the best possible safety gear won\u2019t ensure that a rider is completely protected, and the risk of injury or death in a motorcycle crash is still very high. That is to say, while we always recommend wearing all the latest and appropriate safety gear, don\u2019t put all of your faith in your gear.\nIn a motorcycle accident in Sandy Springs GA, the initial impact of the crash is usually only the first in a series of impacts on the motorcycle\u2019s rider. Often after the initial crash, the driver is thrown free and is at risk of striking any number of other environmental elements including guardrails, trees, other vehicles, and of course, the road itself. There may be several such impacts, and each one can result in further serious injury. Any motorcycle accident lawyer in Sandy Springs can assure you that such injuries can be very serious, even in a low-speed crash.\nInjuries in motorcycle accidents can take many different forms, but motorcycle accident lawyers in Sandy Springs have recognized some common trends in these injuries. Some of the most common injuries in motorcycle accidents include lacerations, scrapes, burns, bruises, road rash, broken bones, spinal injuries, and head trauma.\nOften, these injuries will require extensive medical treatment as well as cause drivers to be unable to work during recovery. These factors coupled with the mental and emotional impact of such a traumatic event make motorcycle accidents in Sandy Springs some of the most devastating of all auto accidents. Of course, even the serious injuries and losses outlined above pale in comparison with the tragedy of losing a loved one in a fatal motorcycle crash.\nHelmet Laws in Sandy Springs, Georgia and Motorcycle Accident Lawyers\nAs we have mentioned, Georgia has a mandatory helmet law. These laws are met with varying opinions even among motorcyclists, but as motorcycle accident lawyers serving the state, we believe there is a good reason to believe that these laws do in fact save lives. According to data from Consumer Reports, there were more than 5,000 motorcycle accident deaths nationwide in 2015, an increase of 10% over earlier years. Fatal motorcycle accidents nationwide have been trending upward, while the statistics of fatal motorcycle accidents in Georgia have been more or less steady.\nAs motorcycle accident lawyers near Sandy Springs, GA, we believe that the way that helmet laws are imposed in the state of Georgia has a very real and very positive impact on the number of fatal motorcycle crashes our state sees year after year. We consider not only Georgia state law, but the laws in other states, and it seems clear to motorcycle wreck lawyers in Sandy Springs that states who have lax helmet laws (or no helmet laws whatsoever) experience far greater frequencies of these fatal accidents. Consider this: there are three states in the United States with no helmet laws at all. The majority of the other states have helmet laws which require a helmet of the driver, but not all riders. Only 19 states in the United States, Georgia included, have helmet laws which require every rider on a motorcycle to wear a helmet. These universal laws may seem restrictive, but the results cannot be denied.\nAccording to statistics from the NHTSA, nearly all \u2013 about 90% \u2013 of motorcycle riders say that they wear a helmet in these 19 states, including Georgia. Everywhere else, including states that have helmet laws (albeit less restrictive ones), helmet use is reported at less than 50%. This is a significant reduction in the frequency of helmet use in these states. Time and time again, helmet use has been proven to improve the likelihood of surviving a motorcycle accident in and around Sandy Springs, GA, and motorcycle accident lawyers take our helmet law very seriously. We see motorcycle accident cases of all levels of severity, including fatalities, so we understand the importance of helmet laws.\nAs motorcycle wreck lawyers serving Sandy Springs, GA, our goal is to help injured riders recover and get their lives back \u2013 but unfortunately, all too often our job is to help loved ones who have lost a family member, instead. Both of these cases are, to an extent, unavoidable, but helmet laws certainly reduce the number of cases like the latter situation that we see, so we urge you to please take helmet laws seriously, and take all the precautions that you can to protect yourself while riding your motorcycle.\nPractice Good Motorcycle Safety, and Contact a Sandy Springs, GA Motorcycle Accident Lawyer if You or Someone You Love Has Been Involved in a Crash\nAny auto accident is potentially devastating, but motorcycle accidents are frequently particularly catastrophic. As a result, it is very important that motorcycle drivers and riders observe all the safety measures they can, and obey traffic laws. The risk of an accident is always real, even for the most safety-conscious motorcyclist, but observing all the appropriate safety practices and following the laws on the road can minimize your likelihood of being involved in a motorcycle crash \u2013 and, should one occur, maximize your chances of survival.\nIn addition, as motorcycle accident lawyers in Sandy Springs, we can remind you that such practices make it difficult for another driver to claim that an accident was partially your fault. If you are found to have been speeding, running a stop sign, or otherwise in violation of traffic laws, this can be all of the justification an insurance company needs to deny a claim. Follow the law, and you will not only keep safe, you will ensure that should the unthinkable occur, you and your motorcycle accident attorney will have the best chance of recovering compensation.\nIf you or someone you love has been injured or killed in a motorcycle crash in Sandy Springs, you will likely realize very quickly that you need a huge amount of information in order to file a claim with the insurance companies. This is another area where a motorcycle accident lawyer in Sandy Springs, Georgia, can help you. We\u2019ll take care of all the voluminous paperwork so that you can focus on putting your life back together. We will handle filing all the appropriate paperwork, gather documents, and negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf. You have bigger things to worry about.\nIf you or a loved one has been involved in a motorcycle accident, don\u2019t wait until you are entirely overwhelmed to contact a motorcycle accident lawyer in Sandy Springs, GA. The motorcycle accident attorneys here at the The Weinstein Firm handle a large number of motorcycle accident cases every year. We will provide you with a free consultation and listen to the details of your case, advise you as to the potential routes forward, and let you know how much compensation you may recover from your case. Don\u2019t try to handle your motorcycle accident case on your own. Call a motorcycle accident attorney at the The Weinstein Firm today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 17891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wfpl.org/democrats-propose-medical-cannabis-for-some-medical-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IYODF5TNOP4MPDLMJDK7JVZMTOZPPW6Z", "length": 2221, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wfpl.org", "title": "Democrats Propose Bill To Legalize Medical Cannabis In Kentucky", "raw_content": "Democrats Propose Bill To Legalize Medical Cannabis In Kentucky\nKentuckians with certain medical conditions would be able to get a prescription for cannabis under a bill filed by two Democratic lawmakers and promoted by Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.\nThe 65-page bill would make it legal to smoke, ingest or grow cannabis \u2014 the scientific name for marijuana \u2014 with a prescription and would be regulated by the state agency that deals with alcohol production and sales.\nGrimes said the proposal would provide relief to Kentuckians who cope with pain but don\u2019t want to take addictive painkillers.\n\u201cKentuckians are begging for an alternative to opioids and prescriptions,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cThe natural remedy is what they are asking for to help with the illness and ailments.\u201d\nSo far, 29 states and Washington, D.C. have approved medical cannabis policies.\nHouse Bill 166 would allow people with medical conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, terminal illnesses or diabetes to get prescriptions for cannabis. It would set up a three-tiered system of cultivators, distributors and retailers regulated by the Kentucky department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.\nPatients would also be allowed to possess up to 12 cannabis plants and 12 seedlings under the proposal.\nKentucky House Disbands Committee Investigating Hoover Allegations\nDuring a press conference on Thursday, army veteran Eric Pollack said there\u2019s support among veterans who suffer from PTSD and want an alternative to mood-altering medications.\n\u201cIt\u2019s hurting them. They\u2019re committing suicide,\u201d Pollack said. \u201cThe mental pills, it makes you not who you are. It makes you have these issues.\u201d\nLawmakers have discussed cannabis legislation several times in recent years but proposals haven\u2019t gained momentum. Legislators from both political parties have proposed legalizing the drug in some form this year \u2014 including a scheme to generate tax revenue for the state\u2019s ailing pension systems.\nGov. Matt Bevin has said he would consider signing a medical cannabis bill if the legislature passed one, but he has thrown water on the idea of legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes.\n2018 session cannabis kentucky general assembly medical marijuana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whenangelsfly.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/your-online-presence-10-mistakes-for-authors-to-avoid-by-anne-r-allen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LFVZHLVSYES7WJO4VPMB7AUFOLD4PCBD", "length": 69, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "whenangelsfly.wordpress.com", "title": "Your Online Presence: 10 Mistakes for Authors to Avoid \u2013 by Anne R. Allen\u2026 | When Angels Fly", "raw_content": "\u2190 In Awe\u2026\nA Time to Write and a Time to Not Write \u2013 by C. S. Lakin\u2026 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 4875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whenwewearyoung.com/products/zebra-polepole-animal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6BSBSFKKBLOVU6PXNTBAGEOGTCUM5G7Y", "length": 285, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "whenwewearyoung.com", "title": "Zebra Polepole Animal \u2013 when we wear young", "raw_content": "Zebra Polepole Animal\nT-Lab wood toys from Japan are carefully crafted by hand. They are hand-carved and painstakingly polished by their team of artisans in Bali. They are made from the \"Albizia\" tree which is one of the quickest growing tropical trees which makes is more sustainable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 2255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whitearkitekter.com/news/white-shortlisted-for-new-moorfields-eye-hospital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4WZY2UPHZWMWPF4BPVQP5LHQGSC7PZFI", "length": 1656, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "whitearkitekter.com", "title": "White shortlisted for new Moorfields Eye Hostpital | White Arkitekter", "raw_content": "White, in collaboration with AECOM and Penoyre & Prasad, is one of five teams shortlisted for the second stage in the international RIBA-led competition for a new home for the globally renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital.\nThe competition is to create a \u2018flexible and modern\u2019 facility that brings together healthcare, research and educational activities within the St Pancras Hospital complex, scheduled to open in 2025-2026. The new facility is a joint project between UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.\nKieran McDaid, director of capital estates and major projects at Moorfields Eye Hospital said: \u201cThis marks an important and exciting stage of the project, as we can now start to visualise what this new, innovative and modern facility could look like. The joint partners were very pleased by the quality and innovation presented in the submissions of the shortlisted teams.\u201d\nWe believe that architecture should support a healing, creative and including environment. Designing for people with impaired vision calls for a design concept characterised by simplicity in which light and tactile materials play a crucial role. Together with our UK collaborators, we look forward to exploring a truly Scandinavian design approach for an inner-city London context.\nCharlotte Ruben, lead architect, White\nThe shortlisted teams\u2019 proposed designs will be on display in a public exhibition in November, the winning design will be announced in December. The other shortlisted teams \u2013 all British \u2013 are Bennetts Associates with Reiach & Hall; Ryder Architecture with Hawkins\\Brown Architects; Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), and Hopkins.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://woefulwrites.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/cracks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZORFLTEMO53AXFDRLUPO2HRM2COMPLCA", "length": 10229, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "woefulwrites.wordpress.com", "title": "Glass | Woeful Writes", "raw_content": "Tommy had been shouting at her all morning. She wasn\u2019t entirely sure why. Nothing she did or said was ever good enough for him. It was so intense being with him, the demands and the pressure. Lucy used to hate her job. Now it was the place she went for some solace. A few moments of quiet before the noise of home.\nThe silence had been broken on the way to work that morning when a stone hit her windscreen. She searched through the rain covered glass with her eyes to find the point of impact but there was no mark. A lucky break. \u201cThank the heavens,\u201d she whispered gratefully to herself. Not much was going right in her life, at least not for the last few years anyway.\nMark, her previous boyfriend, and the man Lucy would quite happily to this day still describe as the love of her life, had dumped her. That happens, she knew that. But it was quite the shock that he did it after she had been by his side through every second of his cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. He still loved her, of course, he just couldn\u2019t be tied down with a relationship. He was too young. He needed to be free.\nShe was devastated for months. And in the midst of the devastation, she met Tommy. For a time he was exactly what she needed. Until he started to insert himself into every corner of her life. He\u2019d given up his tenancy and turned up at her door with bags. They now lived together. He forged her signature on some documents and they now had a joint bank account. He was making decisions for her. Telling her what to wear. Expecting her to be home when he expected her to be home. She hated her life but she wasn\u2019t strong enough to tell him to get the hell out.\nIt was suffocating. She\u2019d never felt restricted like this in her life. And it was getting worse and worse. He was unhinged and she felt the egg shells underfoot every single time he was around. It was no way to live but this was the life she was living. Lucy had never experienced anything like this, had only seen similar relationships like it on TV shows and in leaflets in the GP surgery. But she wasn\u2019t like those women, not really.\nToday, she had more of a reprieve from Tommy than normal, instead of going straight home she was on her way to give blood for the first time. She was so excited and nervous and dreading it all at the same time. Lucy felt so hopeless at home. Her flat taken over by a hostile invader. Her heart was still broken by her lousy ex. And her self-esteem was through the floor. She wasn\u2019t sure if this was rock bottom, it felt like how she would expect rock bottom to feel, like sh*t.\nGiving blood was something that she had been putting off for almost a decade. Some of it was fear. But like most things in life, she put off to tomorrow things she could get away with not doing today. Life was so awful right now that the idea of someone sticking needles in her seemed like a good idea. If she couldn\u2019t help herself, the least she could do was try to help someone else. If she was honest, Lucy wasn\u2019t completely sure why now seemed like the right time but anything that got her out of the flat for that little bit longer was worth it. Especially if it didn\u2019t sound any alarm bells with Tommy.\nShe signed in, got her cup of water, filled in the questionnaire, read the literature and waited her turn. Any apprehension she had felt was quickly fading away. The moment was coming closer and finally something was going right in her life. Before the donation, they did some pre-checks to make sure she was fit enough to donate. It turned out she wasn\u2019t. Her iron levels were too low. It shouldn\u2019t have been that big of a deal but with the time she had been having recently, this was a blow she couldn\u2019t quite handle.\nLucy\u2019s eyes began to burn as she fought back the tears. She just had to get through the lobby of this building without breaking into tears. That walk was the longest she had been on for a while. The door seemed further and further away after every step, not closer. Eventually, she was through the door and sitting in her car, punching her steering wheel. How was this her life?\nAnd then it started to rain. She put the car in gear and went on her way. It wasn\u2019t a long drive home but she decided to make it longer. The tears had stopped but she could still feel herself shaking. A nervous energy was building in the pit of her stomach. She desperately wanted to start crying again as a form of release but the tears wouldn\u2019t come when she actually needed them. She pulled up to the junction and waited. Right was home and left was anywhere else. The car in front of her started to move forward and she looked to her right to see if she was clear to follow, so she did.\nThe whole car shook as it hit the car in front. \u201cFor f**k\u2019s sake!\u201d She didn\u2019t understand what had happened. He had been moving, how had this even happened? She looked up and there was PCSO standing right there in her uniform with judging eyes, watching the scene unfold. Turned-out just driving off into the sunset wasn\u2019t an option.\nThe car in front pulled around the corner and she followed. The guy seemed nice. In fact he seemed more concerned with her wellbeing than with his car, which had suffered only minor damage anyway. Unfortunately, even though the damage was small, it was quite an expensive sports car and the cost of fixing the damage was probably more than her fifteen year old vehicle was worth.\nHe introduced himself as James and unfortunately, he had been on his way to sell his car. She was astounded by how unbothered he appeared knowing that Tommy would have launched into the sky at this point in a dramatic plume of smoke leaving a patch of scorched earth where he had stood.\nJames kep smiling at her as they exchanged details on the PCSO\u2019s notepad. Lucy took a quick picture of his car and the paper notes so they didn\u2019t have to be written out a second time. James stepped away slightly while he took a phone call. He got very animated which was in contrast to the cool calm character that had emerged after his very pricey car had been bashed by an emotionally unstable female driver in her rust bucket.\nAs he walked back to Lucy and the officer, he ended his call with a hushed and hurried \u201cI love you.\u201d He seemed to look a little embarrassed as he said it when he looked up and saw her staring at him. There was a little more chit-chat, the PCSO checking that both parties were okay to go and then that was that. Road incident done.\nHe drove off a few cars in front of her in traffic, soon turning down a near side street, remembering the address he had given, she realised how close to home he was when she hit him. It felt like she was passing her bad luck onto someone else. Which was a good thing because it meant her sh**ty day was over but bad because she didn\u2019t like to think she was causing anyone else harm or pain.\nThe traffic was awful, so she was getting her way when it came to delaying her homecoming but not in as peaceful a way as she had hoped. But it wasn\u2019t over. Right before her eyes, for no reason, a crack appeared on her windscreen and started to grow. If she hadn\u2019t been driving she would have taken her phone out to capture it. Seems that innocent hit from the stone earlier wasn\u2019t so innocent. It was almost beautiful the way the crack crept slowly and uniformly across the screen, if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that she had just been in a car accident and more repair costs were the last thing she needed.\nThat was it, that was the last straw. She turned into a nearby street and started slamming her fists into the steering wheel, screaming into the safe space of her car on this quiet road. She placed her crossed arms onto the wheel and defeated, lay her head onto her arms. Maybe she could just stay here forever. She could quietly waste away and no one would probably notice. She was almost sure that Tommy would be happier without her, since she seemed to ruin his day just by breathing.\nKnock,knock. The last thing she needed was some nosey do-gooder checking if she was alright because she wasn\u2019t and that was not the answer people actually wanted to hear. To her surprise it was James. She rolled down the window as quickly as she could while also trying to compose herself and wipe away the few tears that had escaped from her eyes.\n\u201cHi, I was just walking to the shop and saw your car turn down here. Have you got some damage from the bump?\u201d\n\u201cOh no, no, I was just having a mini-breakdown.\u201d As soon as she said it, she regretted it. He might think she was unstable before the crash and think she was just crazy in general.\nHe smiled which calmed her a little bit. \u201cI just live round the corner, do you want to come over for a cup of tea?\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t you need to run that past your girlfriend first? I know my boyfriend wouldn\u2019t like me inviting strange men home.\u201d\nHe looked at her confused. \u201cI don\u2019t have a girlfriend, why do you think that?\u201d\nShe explained that it was because he had told someone he loved them on the phone and he explained that that person was his mother, who he was temporarily living with. This James person was a stranger but he made her feel at ease and seemed to be lifting the general uncertainty that she had felt everyday for the last few years. Her mother had told her, her teachers had told her and she knew you don\u2019t just wander off with a stranger but this stranger seemed worth trusting, if only a little.\nSo she said, \u201chop in. We can drive there.\u201d He said no. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong but I\u2019d rather not get in a car with you.\u201d It could have been insulting but instead she let out what felt like the biggest laugh she\u2019d ever had. He was taken aback by how enthusiastically she reacted, maybe it was down to the crash, a nervous laughter, a stress reliever. She got out of her car and walked to the house of the stranger named James whose very fancy car she had just possibly ruined. She took a last look at her car before it was out of sight. That crack on the windscreen seemed a little smaller.\nThis entry was posted in short story and tagged cracks, emotional abuse, fiction, finding your happy, lum3n.com, pexels, relationships, seeing the light, short tory, woeful writes, writer, writing practice, writing prompt. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 The Spark\nOpen Diaries \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 15033, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://womenongodsmission.org/2011/12/14/we-still-believe-in-jesus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FMDYRNQAKOTXIF7YR37N7EQN2S5MV4QS", "length": 5286, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "womenongodsmission.org", "title": "We Still Believe In Jesus | Women On God's Mission", "raw_content": "Looking at our under-the-tree nativity set and remembering why we celebrate Christmas\n\u201cThanks be to God for His indescribable gift!\u201d II Corinthians 9:15\nHere we are in the middle of December, and all around us are reminders of what we are supposed to be doing \u2026 \u201cOnly eleven shopping days until Christmas!\u201d I haven\u2019t seen one sign that proclaims, \u201cOnly eleven days until we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Savior! What are you giving Him this year?\u201d\nBesides the wonderful account of the historical Saint Nicholas, we\u2019ve heard bits and pieces of the lackluster history of Christmas. In many ways it remains a pagan holiday. At times I strain to hear above the roar around me \u2026\n\u201cThen the angel said to them, \u2018Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord\u2019 \u2026 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: \u2018Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!'\u201d\nI have some dear friends who choose not to acknowledge the holiday of Christmas one iota. Others go way overboard the other direction, spending tons of money and going into debt. How do we keep a balance, honoring God in how we live out Christmas?\nLast week, when my boys and I were in the check-out line at a store, a man dressed as Santa came over and started \u201cHo-ho-ho-ing\u201d and asking my boys, \u201cHave you been good this year? Do you know what\u2019s coming in two weeks?\u201d Normally I would\u2019ve just smiled and kept busy, but the jolly man bedecked in red and white kept going on and on \u2026 \u201cWhat do you want for Christmas?\u201d My boys looked confused, so I explained to \u201cSanta\u201d and the checker that, \u201cMy boys don\u2019t know about Santa.\u201d I tried to say it as sweetly as possible. \u201cSanta\u201d went on to other customers, while our checker looked at me like I was evil incarnate.\nThat was the first time we had been approached by a friendly man dressed as Santa Claus. I should have expected it, but it took me by surprise. Our boys are ages five and three, and this subject has not come up before this year. Making a mental note that it was time to have a talk about Santa, I smiled at the man and told him that we choose instead to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Praying that I was not bringing harm to Jesus\u2019 name, I was friendly and thanked him when we left. It was not exactly the way I had expected to live out the verse about being ready always to give an answer to every man who asks about the hope within me (I Peter 3:15). Next time I will be better prepared.\nToday Santa is rarely portrayed as the original St. Nicholas, a kind man who loved God and people, giving unconditionally. Thankfully, we live in a free country where we can celebrate as we choose. At our house we rejoice at the coming of God\u2019s perfect gift, Jesus. And part of the way we celebrate is by giving gifts to family and friends.\nIn talking with my friends, I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not the only one who has been made to feel small and evil directly due to a conversation including the words \u201cSanta\u201d and \u201cChristmas.\u201d One friend sweetly suggested that in my situation I had won a sort of a battle. She is thankful that I said something, because many people think that the account of Jesus is just a fairy tale that no one believes anymore. Many of us still believe in Jesus! He is alive and strong, and His message of hope is as true today as it was two thousand years ago.\nMy friend Dawn has given me some practical advice. Here is what works for her family, and I think it is wonderful:\n1. Always tell your children the truth. Stay true to God\u2019s Word and the meaning of Christmas. Emphasize Jesus everyday.\n2. However, you cannot ignore \u201cSanta\u201d \u2026 unless you keep your kids under a rock, they are going to see a guy dressed in a red suit, hear other kids talking about Santa, or get asked by a friendly adult \u201cwhat did Santa bring you for Christmas?\u201d Tell them the legend of St. Nick and how the idea of Santa got started. Talk about what a costume is. Talk about \u201ccartoon characters\u201d and playing pretend.\n3. Teach your kids how to respond to others regarding Santa. (I learned this lesson the hard way.) I nearly got tarred and feathered by other pre-school parents because my son had taken it upon himself to tell his classmates the truth (I was told that I had ruined their child\u2019s Christmas and stolen their innocence. Ouch!)\nSo, we talked about how other families are \u201cplaying the Santa game.\u201d I told my kids that other families play a game and talk about Santa like he is real. And that my kids should not ruin the game. Instead, when asked about Santa, they need to say \u201cSanta is fun, but I like to celebrate Jesus\u2019 birthday the most!\u201d This response has worked beautifully. It\u2019s a chance to speak up for Christ, but not damage our chance to testify for Him again later.\nIf you find yourself in a circumstance, planned or unplanned, where you can tell about why you celebrate Christmas, consider it a bonus. And remember, the One who truly knows whether you\u2019ve been naughty or nice loves you no matter what, and He would consider your love His best birthday gift.\nPosted in Holidays, Parenting\n< Previous Christmas Yummies\nNext > God\u2019s Love With Skin On", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 12203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://womenunplugged.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/new-year-new-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFJZQ4JF2P4GCV2ZFPYUGPQZR7EQYNKM", "length": 2438, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "womenunplugged.wordpress.com", "title": "New year, new book | Women Unplugged", "raw_content": "\u2190 Nothing Wrong with Being Lonely (Except for Being Lonely)\nShopping in January? \u2192\nWe writers talk a lot about process. Do we plot every scene beforehand, or do we think up our stories on the fly? Do we write for hours or for word count? Do we edit as we go or power through to a first, and often messy, draft? It seems every writer has a different way to get those words onto the page. But the one thing we almost always agree on, is the importance of maintaining a forward momentum.\nWell, I say screw forward momentum. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your story is take a break from it.\nFor all sorts of reasons, I put down the book I\u2019d been working on, book #3, in September. I\u2019d been working on it for most of 2014, and honestly, the story was going nowhere. My conflict was shaky at best, my main character was getting on my nerves, and I couldn\u2019t see the forest through all the words. Too many words. Enough words to fill two books, and I hated most of them. I was ready to toss my story off the cliff and start again with a clean, blank slate.\nAnd then I stepped away from the story, and guess what. When I picked it back up again, I found all those words weren\u2019t half bad, they\u2019re just in the wrong spots. One little twist to my plot and voila! Conflict. And my annoying main character? Inject her with a little humor and she\u2019s not so whiney after all.\nEvery story is different. I don\u2019t know why I keep expecting the process for writing it to be the same.\nPosted on January 2, 2015, in Blog Posts and tagged author women's fiction, books, first draft, manuscript, pantser, plotter, process, the last breath, the ones we trust, writing. Bookmark the permalink.\t4 Comments.\nPutting your wip aside can do wonders, I agree. Sometimes I don\u2019t even recognize what I\u2019ve written. It\u2019s as if I\u2019m reading someone else\u2019s book. I found that very helpful.\nTracy Solheim | January 2, 2015 at 5:09 PM\nI\u2019ve taken a month off and now I\u2019m itching to get back into Chapter One. I just hope I won\u2019t need a month off mid-way through! Good luck with the book. \ud83d\ude42\nTaking a break allows the subconscious mind to sort through the jumble of ideas and make sense out of them. Well, at least that\u2019s what I tell myself. It\u2019s better than crying in my soup bowl. \ud83d\ude42\nGood for you! You\u2019re right. We all approach the craft differently, and you had every right to make that call for yourself. 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It helps humanitarian agencies to respond with greater speed, efficiency and effectiveness, before and immediately after a disaster strikes.\nWe reviewed and re-worked existing training materials to produce a variety of resources for two training events:\nA four day course for organisations which do not already have well-established processes for emergency preparedness\nA three-day course for organisations which do already have well-established processes for emergency preparedness.\nWorking closely with the HelpAge team, we produced facilitator guides, participant packs, Powerpoint slides and a number of other resources for both these courses.\nAt the end of the project, which took three months to complete, we received this feedback from HelpAge International:\n\u201dThank you very much indeed for all the hard work on this. You've done a great job.\u201d\nIts been an absolute pleasure to work with you . Thank you for the extremely high quality output! We're all very proud of this work which will continue to have impact in the humanitarian sector.\u201d\nAgain, thanks a lot for all the effort put in the ALERT's training material. We believe that it will help the sustainability of the platform once the project is over and participate to its greater impact on the humanitarian sector and organisations' opportunities to save lives.\u201d\nWord Smiths worked on this project as a key associate of main contractor Walkgrove Ltd.\nWord Smiths has a long-standing relationship with Walkgrove and has worked with this leading UK training company on projects ranging from mental health tribunal training for the Scottish Executive to commercial driver training for Transport for London.\nThere are more case studies and information about custom training design on our Training Design page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wordscene.wordpress.com/category/france/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:U6UXN3GLKM54BOGU545H7I6M2U5Z5SPV", "length": 5981, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "wordscene.wordpress.com", "title": "France | wordscene", "raw_content": "Paris in the autumn \u2013 the Promenade Plant\u00e9e\nThe Promenade Plant\u00e9e is a 4.5km path that runs between the Bois de Vincennes and the Place de la Bastille following the track of an overground railway. For most of its course it runs on a viaduct giving an unusual perspective on the rooftops and buildings of the surrounding area.\nThe railway that used to run on this line stopped functioning in 1969, but it\u2019s only over the past 10 years or so that its old track has been restored and turned into a wonderful urban walkway. The path has been planted in a variety of styles that make for a delightful stroll. We did the walk on a Sunday morning when it was so thronged with joggers, that you had to keep your wits about you to avoid being crashed into by earplugged fitness fanatics.\nAt this height you really start to notice the elaborate ornamentation of the mainly nineteenth century buildings along the Avenue Daumesnil:\nThe oddest site on the walk is this building on the Rue Abel (I think) near the Gare de Lyon with its giant narcissistic statues.\nThe building that they grace is a police station, but it\u2019s hard to believe that these statues were commissioned by the police. I have not been able to find out anything about them online, but it would be interesting to know who they depict, why they were commissioned, how they came to be there and what the building was originally.\nAfter the peace and quiet of the Promenade Plant\u00e9e, the descent to the Avenue Daumesnil and then on to the busy Place de la Bastille is a bit of a shock.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Avenue Dausmenil, Bois de Vincennes, Place de la Bastille\t| 1 Reply\nParis in the autumn \u2013 street scenes\nHere are various shots from my visit to Paris:\nAn interactive art installation on the edge of the Place de la Concorde just outside the Jardin des Tuileries:\nThe classic sign for a Paris underground station.\nNow some shots from the market in Boulevard Richard Lenoir, one of Paris\u2019s biggest Sunday food markets:\nFinally a street singer in the same market. I am not sure what instrument he is playing, but he fed pianola paper through it while he turned a handle. You can see a pile of the sheet music behind him to bottom left.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Jardin des Tuileries, Metropolis, Place de la Concorde\t| Leave a reply\nParis in the autumn \u2013 Notre Dame\nHere\u2019s another iconic Parisian building \u2013 the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Work started on the building in 1163 and took 170 years to complete.\nJust opposite the Cathedral on the left bank is a little haven of calm around the old bookshop Shakespeare and Co. The original bookshop was opened by Sylvia Beach in 1919 and became a gathering point for expatriate American writers such as Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Pound and Gertrude Stein. Sylvia Beach also remembered as the first publisher of Joyce\u2019s Ulysses. However that bookshop was in a different location in the rue de l\u2019Odeon and it closed during the German occupation of Paris in World War II.\nThe current Shakespeare and Co was set up in 1951 by an American ex-serviceman in rue de la Bucherie and has recently opened a great little cafe next to it.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Gothic architecture, Shakespeare and Co\t| Leave a reply\nParis in the autumn \u2013 Place de la Bastille\nThe Place de la Bastille, the former site of the notorious prison of the Ancien Regime famously stormed by the Paris mob on 14 July 1792, is dominated by two monuments.\nOne is the glass-fronted monstrosity of the Opera National de Paris Bastille opened in 1989. The other is the Colonne de Juillet pictured above, a memorial to those who died in the street fighting that led to the overthrow of Charles X in July 1830.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Ancien Regime, Charles X, Colonne de Juillet\t| Leave a reply\nParis in the autumn ; Arc de Triomphe\nWork started on building the Arc de Triomphe in 1806 after Napoleon\u2019s victory at Austerlitz, but it wasn\u2019t completed until 1836. One of the most iconic monuments in Paris, it\u2019s difficult to get a good, clear shot of it because of the many lanes of traffic that circuit it. Fortunately, an underpass allows access to the arch so that when you are actually standing next to it you get a true sense of it size.\nI particularly liked the four huge statues on each side of the main columns.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Austerlitz, Napoleon\t| Leave a reply\nParis in the autumn \u2013 La Sainte Chappelle\nLa Sainte Chappelle on the Ile de la Cite is hemmed in by buildings on all sides which adds to the sense of a pinched structure that is being forced upwards. Its external appearance however gives no clue to the magnificence of its internal decoration.\nIt was built in 1248 by Louis IX (Saint Louis) to house two relics that he had bought from the Emperor of Byzantium, the Crown of Thorns and fragments of the True Cross.\nThe 15 recently restored, soaring Gothic stained glass windows depict over 1,000 religious scenes and the light filtering through the rich colours in the glass creates an atmosphere of enchantment.\nThe strong colours and detail of the individual images is very impressive, but there are so many images and most of them not easily seen, that it almost discourages looking at the detail. Again and again you are forced back to try and absorb the cumulative effect of this extravagant decoration:\nThe rose window over the main royal entrance, for example, is quite breathtaking, but it\u2019s impossible to see the detail:\nLa Sainte Chappelle is very beautiful but all a bit overwhelming to take in at one go. I liked focusing in on some of the detail:\nMy favourite detail is these two angels on the central column between the royal entrance doors. Why are they smiling?\nFinally, right next door to La Sainte Chappelle is a site familiar to fans of the French TV series Les Engrenages (Spiral), the Palais de Justice.\nPosted in France\t| Tagged Byzantium, Crown of Thorns, Ile de la Cite, Les Engrenages, Saint Louis, Spiral, True Cross\t| Leave a reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 10529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://worldmusicreport.com/news/inti-illimani-in-concert-at-flato-markham-theatre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WU4WGSNUN2HSNWTJYW3RUIIOB7EINTR4", "length": 2000, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "worldmusicreport.com", "title": "Inti-Illimani In Concert At Flato Markham Theatre - World Music Report", "raw_content": "Home News Inti-Illimani In Concert At Flato Markham Theatre\nFor over four decades, Inti-Illimani has intoxicated audiences around the world. In their homeland of Chile and greater Latin America, they are a veritable institution, a cultural icon famous for their unique poetic and socio-political history. Their music, wedded in traditional Latin American roots, captures at once the very personal colors of their experiences while simultaneously appealing to the universal in us all. They have performed in over a dozen countries worldwide, bringing with them timeless themes and an inclusive spirit which unites us in our common humanity. Playing on more than 30 wind, string and percussion instruments, Inti-Illimani\u2019s compositions are a treasure for the human spirit. Their mellifluous synthesis of instruments and vocals captures those secret places in our hearts, journeying us out of the mundane into a respite for the soul. Sacred areas, colorful carnivals, daily lives, love lost and found again, vistas, defeats and triumphs all play out in the extraordinary cultural mural that is an Inti-Illimani performance. Known for their open-minded musical approach, Inti-Illimani continues to allow for its own evolution while staying true to its musical roots. Between 2000 and 2005, Inti welcomed four new members and the changing of the guards only strengthened the Inti legacy\u2013 like at all Inti performances, one can expect the musicians to trade instruments with staggering fluidity, perform classic songs with fresh air breathed into them, and entertain with personal anecdotes and expressions. Manuel Meri\u00f1o, its musical director and member since 2000, sees Inti\u2019s 2002 release Lugares Comunes (Common Places) as the point at which the present ensemble came together.\nWHEN: Friday, November 7 at 1:00 pm (matinee) and 8:00 pm\nTICKETS: PRIME $59, REGULAR $54, DIAMOND 4-PAK $150, SENIORS $39 (Matinee only)\nDaniel Cantillana\nEfren Viera\nSteinar Aadnekvam: Freedoms Trio II\nPersonae: Beth Levin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wowjapan.asia/2018/11/after-accident-yuuki-ono-cancels-on-camera-appearances-but-continues-va-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:18Z", "digest": "sha1:K3F2KLAH2LK62JQMUALY2REEBZOEXRBG", "length": 988, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wowjapan.asia", "title": "After accident, Yuuki Ono cancels on-camera appearances but continues VA work - WOWJAPAN", "raw_content": "Accidents can happen to anyone, even seiyuu. And most recently, Jojo seiyuu Yuuki Ono had one while riding a bike down the slope. This led him to suffer a few injuries, including two broken fingers. And because of this incident, he had to cancel all of his on-camera appearances.\nOno himself wrote in his blog that he tried to ride his bicycle down a slope. However, as he tried putting on the brakes, he tire slipped which led him to crash. The incident also made him miss an appearance on the Seiyuu to Yoasobi streaming program last Tuesday. But the good news is that he\u2019s now recuperating, though he says he\u2019s still continuing with his voice acting work.\nFans might know Yuuki Ono as the voice behind JoJo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable\u2019s Jousuke Higashikata. He also voices Kuroko\u2019s Basketball\u2019s Taiga Kagami and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs\u2019 Kogarashi Fuyuzora. Most recently, he\u2019s currently voicing Boarding School Juliet\u2019s Romio Inuzuka.\nGet well soon Yuuki Ono!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wowplus.net/we-have-fewer-rights-franco-ontarian-youth-protest-by-living-proudly/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TJOL3KXPKLTJ5EU65EHF6JC6J5CONJLY", "length": 6465, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "wowplus.net", "title": "\u2018We have fewer rights\u2019: Franco-Ontarian youth protest by living proudly \u2013 Wowplus", "raw_content": "Home World News Canada news \u2018We have fewer rights\u2019: Franco-Ontarian youth protest by living proudly\n\u2018We have fewer rights\u2019: Franco-Ontarian youth protest by living proudly\nIn Prescott-Russell county, about 500 kilometres east of Queen\u2019s Park, signs of Franco-Ontarian pride colour the countryside. In most towns, the Ontario flag is flown next to its green-and-white Franco-Ontarian counterpart, decorated with both the fleur-de-lis and trillium.\nThis is the riding of Amanda Simard, who left her own party in protest of Premier Doug Ford\u2019s cuts to French services.\nAnd while the government has made attempts at concessions since then, it\u2019s done little to quell the fury among these French-speaking communities.\nThis week, teens from across the region travelled to compete against their peers at an improv tournament, hosted by a French high school in Plantagenet\u200b, Ont.\nIt\u2019s light-hearted fun \u2014 an opportunity for like-minded kids to enjoy jokes and quick wit in their first language.\nThe competition is friendly, but the event is also coloured by protest.\nFranco-Ontarian students have donned green-and-white felt cutouts, pinned to their shirts in protest over the provincial government\u2019s cuts to French-language services. (CBC)\n\u201cWhat they\u2019ve just cut \u2014 the commissioner\u2019s office, French-language services \u2014 it\u2019s really a huge cut that will make an enormous difference,\u201d said Daphnie Bazinet, a Grade 11 student from Cornwall, Ont.\nAmong Ontario\u2019s approximately 14 million people, there are nearly 500,000 whose first language is French. About 40,000 of them are unilingual francophones.\nI\u2019d like to go to a French university, because that\u2019s my identity. \u2014 Yanick Ranger, Grade 11 student\nMany of the students, including Bazinet, have pinned green-and-white felt cutouts to their shirts to represent the Franco-Ontarian flag.\nAlso read: Train hauling grain derails in fiery crash north of Saskatoon\nShe\u2019s seen some English speakers roll their eyes at all the outrage, but she said they don\u2019t understand her reality.\n\u201cThey\u2019re not informed. They don\u2019t know that because we\u2019re a minority, we have fewer rights than them,\u201d she said, speaking with CBC News in French after one of her improv matches.\n\u201cPersonally, when I go somewhere like a restaurant or a store I always for service in French. It\u2019s important, because if we don\u2019t ask for it, we won\u2019t have it.\u201d She said Ontario anglophones \u201cdon\u2019t need to ask, so they don\u2019t understand.\u201d\nAmong the province\u2019s controversial measures is axing plans for a French-language University in Toronto. It has a direct impact on the futures of many of the students attending the tournament.\nYanick Ranger, \u200ba Grade 11 student from Casselman, Ont., said he was thinking about applying there.\n\u201cI\u2019d like to go to a French university, because that\u2019s my identity. I understand better in French, a lot better than anything else,\u201d he said.\nReferee Olivier Nadon explains a call to Yanick Ranger, \u200ba Grade 11 student from Casselman, Ont. (Jessica Rubinger/CBC)\nWhile the University of Ottawa is bilingual, some students say they had hoped to finally have a university to call their own.\nAt the University of Ottawa, \u201cit\u2019s not the same,\u201d said Mathieu Bissonnette. \u201cThe environment itself, it\u2019s more English. Like if you went to the cafeteria it would be more English than French.\u201d\nAlso read: Scott Brison denies lobbying for shipbuilder as court fight over navy officer intensifies\nImprov referee Olivier Nadon said improv is one of thew few extracurricular activities that encourages Franco-Ontarian kids to embrace their culture and language.\n\u201cWe\u2019re surrounded by anglophones. English is cool. English is the language of Hollywood \u2026 Sometimes French can be viewed as slightly less cool, but that\u2019s not the case in the improv ring.\u201d\nNadon is also a founding member of Ottawa French improv troupe Improt\u00e9ine.\nHis group responded in their own way to the cuts, by participating in \u201cla r\u00e9sistance\u201d with a political video that\u2019s sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek remarks like: \u201cFrench university programs in Toronto are like the jokes in this video: There aren\u2019t a lot!\u201d\nWatch Improt\u00e9ine\u2019s video (in French):\n[embedded content] \u200b\nNadon said he finds the best way to send a message is often with a sense of humour, especially when you\u2019re trying to connect with youth.\nDeciding to exist in French, to live in French \u2026 to do all your things in French, is political in itself. \u2014 Olivier Nadon, founding member of Improt\u00e9ine\n\u201cWhen you feel threatened, you\u2019ve kind of got to laugh about it,\u201d he said. \u201cIf not, you\u2019re going to be crying.\u201d\nNadon said just existing as a Franco-Ontarian is a form of protest, these days.\n\u201cDeciding to exist in French, to live in French, to get up in the morning, to buy your coffee in French, to do all your things in French, is political in itself.\u201d\nAlso read: Cultural funding fight with Netflix reignites age-old debate \u2014 what is Cancon anyway?\nIt\u2019s how many of the students have chosen to respond to the government\u2019s measures. They all know the stories of how their parents and grandparents fought for the rights they enjoy today, in a majority English-speaking province.\nBazinet said her high school, \u00c9cole secondaire catholique La Citadelle, exists only because her grandfather and others fought for it in the 1970s.\n\u201cHe\u2019s the one who really showed me how to be a proud francophone,\u201d Bazinet said.\nMathieu Bissonnette is from Cornwall, Ont., a majority English-speaking town. He says it\u2019s important to speak French as much as possible, even when doing something simple like ordering a coffee. (Jessica Rubinger/CBC)\nF\u00e9lix Saint-Denis is a Franco-Ontarian activist and the man behind L\u2019\u00e9cho d\u2019un peuple, a huge outdoor show about French history and culture in North America.\nHe said if there\u2019s a silver lining in all of this, it\u2019s that it\u2019s taught the next generation to never take their rights for granted.\n\u201cThey understand more what their parents and grandparents fought for in the past, and now it is their turn. As we say in French \u2014 on passe le flambeau (we\u2019re passing the torch).\u201d\nSaint-Denis said it\u2019s time for Franco-Ontarian youth to raise their voices and make their presence known.\nFor Franco-Ontarian teens, improv is one of the few extracurricular activities that truly embraces their language and culture. (CBC)\nNews/Canada/Montreal\nPrevious articleTreasury yields muted ahead of nonfarm payrolls\nNext articleCalifornia Democrat TJ Cox wins tight race, flipping seat of GOP Rep. David Valadao: NBC News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 12938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wwd.com/runway/spring-2019/milan/laura-biagiotti/review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:49Z", "digest": "sha1:NRUBSG3EES7SPZUNXS5A5LWXXGCTESUV", "length": 1598, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wwd.com", "title": "Laura Biagiotti RTW Spring 2019 \u2013 WWD", "raw_content": "Laura Biagiotti RTW Spring 2019\nThe collection was a colorful ode to the Futuristic art movement.\nLavinia Biagiotti is mapping out the future for the company she inherited from her mother Laura, and she said she wants it to be \u201cjoyful and full of energy.\u201d To that end, her spring collection was a colorful ode to Futurism, her family\u2019s passion, as she defined it. The Biagiotti Foundation owns more than 250 Futuristic works and is among the most prestigious collections dedicated to Giacomo Balla. Lavinia Biagiotti reworked details from such masterpieces into patterns on miniskirts, light gauze dresses with ruffles and silk tops. She played with brightly colored stripes, combining them in graphic patterns and juxtaposed with more subtle checks. Balla designs were also reproduced on a simple T-shirt worn casually over masculine baggy pants or on Biagiotti\u2019s bucket bag \u2013 as well as on the stage of the Piccolo Teatro, where the brand has been showing for the past 25 years. To further support the storied venue, the designer set up a corner at the entrance where accessories and a pullover from the spring season could be purchased on the spot so that proceeds from the sale would benefit the theater.\nThe brand\u2019s iconic white knits and dresses were not missing from the lineup and also served to balance the range of vibrant prints, as did a group of pinstriped linen suits with shorts. \u201cThere is a need to shape the future with creativity and a confident attitude, not only through technology,\u201d said Biagiotti. To be sure, she expressed confidence with this upbeat and youthful collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 297, "original_length": 14117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.1inhomecare.com/blog/home-care-new-orleans/taking-care-of-yourself-when-a-loved-one-needs-in-home-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CC535LNWQDI2V6QXSAHRUTY7QU5PEJBG", "length": 2940, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.1inhomecare.com", "title": "Home Care New Orleans:", "raw_content": "Watching a relative age or deal with an injury that requires in-home care is a difficult experience. If you are responsible for taking care of a family member or friend, you\u2019re probably starting to notice how the experience is making you feel. At #1 in Home Care, let us help relieve some of the stress you\u2019re experiencing by providing transportation, cleaning, and meal prep services. Our in-home care providers will take care of the tasks that are taking up all of your time and preventing you from focusing on other tasks. If you live in Jefferson Parish, or the greater New Orleans area, call us today to see how we can help you and your family.\nSave Your Energy for Larger Problems\nWhen you are responsible for another person who needs long-term in-home care, it can be surprising to see just how much you have to get done every day. In addition to ensuring that the other person has all of their medical needs met (doctor appointments, medications, etc.), you also need to take care of everything from keeping their home clean, to cooking for them, and making sure they are clean. Trying to perform all of these tasks can almost be a full-time job itself.\nThat is where we can help. At #1 in Home Care, we are able to provide all of the non-medical care that your family member or friend needs. By letting us take over some or all of those duties, you will have the time you need to keep on top of the other responsibilities, including dealing with insurance companies and handling finances.\nAfter more than a few days of providing care to someone, even if it is someone you care deeply about, you might start to notice that your nerves are getting a little frayed, that you are losing your patience, or that you are feeling a bit frazzled. While there are some things you can do to stop these feelings from getting worse in the short term, eventually, the stress will catch up to you. If you aren\u2019t taking good enough care of yourself, you won\u2019t be able to take care of anyone else. If you get sick, then what will you do?\n#1 in Home Care understands how difficult it can be to take on that much extra responsibility, which is why we do what we do. We are dedicated to helping you help your family member or friend. We have the experience and training needed to accomplish everything from cleaning to meal prep in a timely manner so that you can instead focus on providing the care that you can your loved one needs.\nYou don\u2019t have to go this alone: call us at #1 in Home Care today to find out how we can provide you and your family with the in-home care that will make caring for an injured or older loved one easier. From personal hygiene to transportation and housekeeping, we are here and ready to help with any non-medical care. If you have questions about costs or any of the many benefits that working with us can bring to your household, please get in touch. We\u2019re proud to be the New Orleans area\u2019s source for at-home care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.1millioncups.com/users/44460", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:H3ZVTPPT52455E642NWFXVD2RS2S2DMU", "length": 242, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.1millioncups.com", "title": "Stefan Wills | 1MillionCups.com", "raw_content": "Stefan Wills\n3X founder and enterprise space sales leader. Outside of work he enjoys Crossfit, outdoor sports and loves spending as much as possible with his wife and children. He has a weakness for good coffee, dark chocolate, and fast cars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2018/11/dubai-police-start-training-on-flying.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LGCI7ZZTDLCPSCCBI4H2ZQMJC4YCCIO6", "length": 1310, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.247nigerianewsupdate.co", "title": "Dubai Police start training on flying motorbikes - 247 Nigeria News Update ' : ''; var month = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]; var month2 = [\"Jan\",\"Feb\",\"Mar\",\"Apr\",\"May\",\"Jun\",\"Jul\",\"Aug\",\"Sep\",\"Oct\",\"Nov\",\"Dec\"]; var day = postdate.split(\"-\")[2].substring(0,2); var m = postdate.split(\"-\")[1]; var y = postdate.split(\"-\")[0]; for(var u2=0;u2", "raw_content": "The flying motorbike is back in Dubai -- and you could see the police riding one in the not-too-distant future.\nBrigadier Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, general director of Dubai Police's artificial intelligence department, described the eVTOL vehicle as a first responder unit used to access hard to reach areas.\nHe said he aims to have hoverbikes in action by 2020.\n\"Currently we have two crews already training (to pilot the hoverbike) and we're increasing the number,\" he told CNN. Hoversurf chief operating officer Joseph Segura-Conn explained that ideal candidates will be able to ride a motorcycle and have drone operating experiences.\nVideo of one officer learning to pilot the hoverbike appeared online last month.\nSegura-Conn said Dubai Police have exclusive rights to order as many units as they want: \"They're going to let us know in the next month or two if they'd like any more ... If they would like 30 or 40, we'll make it happen for them.\"\nIf you're not a member of the force and have a spare $150,000, the hoverbike could still be yours.\nOrders are open to civilians, but Segura-Conn cautions that buyers are screened to ensure they can handle the new tech. In the US, the hoverbike has met Federal Aviation Administration guidelines which mean you do not need a pilot's license to fly the vehicle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 11128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.4029tv.com/article/benton-county-judge-issues-emergency-disaster-declaration/4957910", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3RZNWQYR2A7FX2KSVMVR3O5YD77Y2OQN", "length": 1548, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.4029tv.com", "title": "Benton County judge issues emergency disaster declaration", "raw_content": "Benton County judge issues emergency disaster declaration\nBenton County Judge Bob Clinard has issued an Emergency Disaster Declaration following severe weather and flooding.Clinard stated that much of the county experienced widespread flooding and over 50 roads have been closed.The Benton County Disaster Information Center will be open at 9 a.m. Monday. According to the release, this is for businesses and people who have experienced damage from flooding.Clinard said \"damage surveys are being conducted\" to determine the amount of damage throughout the county.Tap here to read the full release. In the release Clinard writes that the declaration will open up the possibility for support and reimbursement for expenses caused by the flooding.A list of road closures is included in the declaration.\nBenton County Judge Bob Clinard has issued an Emergency Disaster Declaration following severe weather and flooding.\nClinard stated that much of the county experienced widespread flooding and over 50 roads have been closed.\nThe Benton County Disaster Information Center will be open at 9 a.m. Monday. According to the release, this is for businesses and people who have experienced damage from flooding.\nClinard said \"damage surveys are being conducted\" to determine the amount of damage throughout the county.\nTap here to read the full release.\nIn the release Clinard writes that the declaration will open up the possibility for support and reimbursement for expenses caused by the flooding.\nA list of road closures is included in the declaration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.7company.com/blog/meet-jennifer-seven/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YYUFGDZZ7EX6W7RQXYTNAQXMNHKZFYW6", "length": 4603, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.7company.com", "title": "Jennifer Seven: Meet The Owner of 7Company! | 7Company Blog", "raw_content": "Meet Your Motivators: Owner Jennifer Seven\nJennifer Seven is the owner and CEO of 7Company Weight Loss & Wellness Center, the #1 ranked weight loss provider in Loudoun County, VA and a 100% woman-owned business. She chose to combine her passion for helping others with her knowledge of nutrition and health to create a company that focuses on helping others lose weight and regain their health and happiness. Utilizing her vision for helping other\u2019s make positive lifestyle changes, she has integrated FDA, medically derived weight loss and wellness programs such as Ideal Protein and Electro-Slim that provide personalized one on one coaching.\nJennifer has more than 15 years\u2019 experience in the health and wellness field along with giving back to the community through her participation with non-profit organizations. Ms. Seven received her bachelor\u2019s Degree from Goucher College and her Master\u2019s Degree from George Washington University. Jennifer was also featured recently in an interview with Remarkable Women, where you can find the full discussion here.\n\u201cWhy did you decide to start 7Company?\u201d\nI was working with corporations, providing health fairs and biometric screenings. Diabetes and obesity are epidemic and employees were looking for more education and help. In the corporate setting, I didn\u2019t feel that I had enough time to really make a difference. I decided that I wanted to work more with people on a more personal, one on one basis, where I could educate and empower people to transform their health through diet and nutrition.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite part about 7Company?\u201d\nI love helping clients. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone lose weight, get healthy and be able to do things that haven\u2019t been possible before. I hear wonderful stories such as a mom letting herself be in the family photo again, a grandma able to get down on the floor and play with grandchildren, and a man able to tie his shoes comfortably; these stories bring me joy.\n\u201cHow or why did the Ideal Protein diet stand out to you amongst the rest?\u201d\nWhen I decided that I wanted to offer a weight loss program, it was very important to me that it not be a fad. There are so many fad diets. I did a lot of research and found Ideal Protein-based in Canada. It was new to the United States at that time but the results were truly amazing. The program was developed by an MD and is scientifically based. It truly is a metabolic makeover, not just a diet.\n\u201cHow does ElectroSlim fit with the Ideal Protein diet?\u201d\nIdeal Protein is a ketogenic diet which restricts cardio exercise during the weight loss portion. ElectroSlim, FDA approved, is a passive exercise using neuromuscular stimulation which promotes circulation, detoxification, and muscle toning and tightening. As a person loses fat, toxins can be released from the fat cells and ElectroSlim aids in flushing the toxins into the lymphatic system for removal. This is a wonderful benefit to the Ideal Protein program. Also, many people are concerned about loose and saggy skin. ElectroSlim tones and tightens the skin and muscle under the fat. And it is deeply relaxing, aiding in stress reduction which assists in weight loss as well.\n\u201cWhat is your proudest moment with 7Company?\u201d\nI was very proud when 7Company Weight Loss & Wellness Center was voted best weight loss center in Loudoun County and has consistently been in the top rankings. I am so grateful because it is our dieters that voted for us as they realize the benefits of our program. And proud because I believe we have amazing coaches, who support, educate and cheer on each dieter. We are making a difference in people\u2019s lives.\nI\u2019m a huge fan of chocolate and our chocolate chip muffin recipe is my all-time favorite. I would top these with a little Walden Farms marshmallow cr\u00e8me!\nI enjoy yoga and meditation classes, as well as tennis and salsa dancing. Curling up with a good book with my dog and cat is also a favorite pastime. I have three wonderful children that I love to spend time with whenever I get the chance. My youngest son is a sophomore at UVA, my daughter is local and works with autistic children and my middle son is living in Chesterfield, VA.\nWe at 7Company all want you to succeed and reach your weight goal!\nAt 7Company, we are always putting our clients first, and we provide one-of-a-kind service with our Ideal Protein program and Electro-Slim specials to help you look and feel your best. Our blog also offers healthy and delicious recipes readily available to you. 7Company truly cares about you and will always offer you the tools necessary for success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 5531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aaha.org/professional/resources/pain_management_summary_of_guidelines.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FHQM6H3N5TTXWUOXL77EV43KXYBM2FLV", "length": 19092, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.aaha.org", "title": "Summary of Guidelines | AAHA", "raw_content": "Summary of 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats\nThe full version of the 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines can be accessed here.\nThe robust advances in pain management for companion animals underlie the decision of AAHA and AAFP to supplement and expand on the information provided in the 2007 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats. The 2015 guidelines summarize and offer a discriminating review of much of this new knowledge. Pain management is central to veterinary practice, alleviating pain, improving patient outcomes, and enhancing both quality of life and the veterinarian-client-patient relationship. The management of pain requires a continuum of care that includes anticipation, early intervention, and evaluation of response on an individual-patient basis. The guidelines include both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic modalities to manage pain; they are evidence-based insofar as possible and otherwise represent a consensus of expert opinion. Behavioral changes are currently the principal indicator of pain and its course of improvement or progression, and the basis for recently validated pain scores. A team-oriented approach, including the owner, is essential for maximizing the recognition, prevention, and treatment of pain in animals. Postsurgical pain is eminently predictable but a strong body of evidence exists supporting strategies to mitigate adaptive as well as maladaptive forms. Degenerative joint disease is one of the most significant and underdiagnosed diseases of cats and dogs. Degenerative joint disease is ubiquitous, found in pets of all ages, and inevitably progresses over time; evidence-based strategies for management are established in dogs, and emerging in cats. These guidelines support veterinarians in incorporating pain management into practice, improving patient care. (J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 2015; 51:65\u201382. DOI 10.5326/JAAHA-MS-7331)\nPain management is central to veterinary practice, not adjunctive. Alleviating pain is not only a professional obligation (recall the veterinarians pledge to \"the relief of animal pain and suffering\") but also a key contributor to successful case outcomes and enhancement of the veterinarian-client-patient relationship. A commitment to pain management identifies a practice as one that is committed to compassionate care; optimum recovery from illness, injury, or surgery; and enhanced quality of life. These guidelines continue the trend in all branches of medicine toward evidence-based consensus statements that address key issues in clinical practice. Although not a review article, this compilation is a force multiplier for the busy practitioner, consolidating in a single place current recommendations and insights from experts in pain management. These guidelines are the product of a collaborative effort by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP). The recommendations of the guidelines task force are evidence based insofar as possible and otherwise represent a consensus of expert opinion.\nThese guidelines are designed to expand on the information contained in the 2007 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats.1,2 The 2015 guidelines differ from the earlier version in several ways. The first sections are general concepts designed to \u2018\u2018set the stage\u2019\u2019 for the remaining, more specific content. The 2015 guidelines also discuss the importance of an integrated approach to managing pain that does not rely strictly on analgesic drugs. Because pain assessment in animals has become more scientifically grounded in recent years, various clinically validated instruments for scoring pain in both dogs and cats are described. The extensive list of published references includes numerous studies published within the past 3 yr, reflecting the rapid pace of advances in managing pain for companion animals. The 2015 guidelines summarize and offer a discriminating review of much of this new knowledge.\nAll types of tissue injury can be generators of pain. Occasionally, pain may occur in the absence of such causative factors. Understanding the mechanisms of pain is the key to its successful prevention and treatment. The pain response is unique to each individual and involves two components: (1) the sensory component is nociception, which is the neural processing of noxious stimuli, and (2) the affective component is pain perception, which is the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with either actual or potential tissue damage. Pain is the endpoint of nociceptive input and can only occur in a conscious animal; however, there is also involvement of autonomic pathways and deeper centers of the brain involved with emotion and memory. Hence pain is a multi-dimensional experience; it is not just what you feel but also how it makes you feel.3\nAcute pain has been defined as pain that exists during the expected time of inflammation and healing after injury (up to 3 mo), and chronic pain is defined as that which exists beyond the expected duration associated with acute pain. Therapy should be focused on the underlying cause of pain, (nociceptive, inflammatory, or pathological) rather than on arbitrary labels based on duration.4\nNociceptive pain occurs when peripheral neural receptors are activated by noxious stimuli (e.g., surgical incisions, trauma, heat, or cold). Inflammatory pain results gradually from activation of the immune system in response to injury or infection, and pathological pain, also called maladaptive pain, occurs when pain is amplified and sustained by molecular, cellular, and microanatomic changes, collectively termed peripheral and central hypersensitization. Pathological pain is characterized by hyperalgesia (exaggerated response to noxious stimulus), allodynia (painful response to nonnoxious stimuli, such as touch or pressure), expansion of the painful field beyond its original boundaries, and pain protracted beyond the expected time of inflammation and healing. Under some conditions, genomic, phenotypic changes occur that create the condition known as neuropathic pain, whereby pain can be considered a disease of the central nervous system. Those changes are not necessarily chronologic. Maladaptive pain, or the risk for it, can occur within a matter of minutes of certain acute pain conditions (e.g., nerve injury, severe tissue trauma, or presence of pre-existing inflammation).\nAppropriate pain management requires a continuum of care based on a well-thought-out plan that includes anticipation, early intervention, and evaluation of response on an individual-patient basis. It should be noted that response to therapy is a legitimate pain assessment tool. Continuous management is required for chronically painful conditions, and for acute conditions until pain is resolved. The acronym PLATTER has been devised to describe the continuum of care loop for managing pain (Figure 1). The components of the PLATTER algorithm for pain management are PLan, Anticipate, TreaT, Evaluate, and Return.\nIt's Not Just About Drugs\nClassic veterinary medical education places a strong emphasis on treatment of disease through pharmacology and surgery, the esoteric skills that are the domain of the trained clinician. Increasingly, evidence-based data and empirical experience justify a strong role for nonpharmacologic modalities for pain management. A number of those should be considered mainstream options and an integral part of a balanced, individualized treatment plan.\nExamples of nonpharmacologic treatments supported by strong evidence include, but are not limited to, cold compression, weight optimization, and therapeutic exercise. Other treatment options gaining increasing acceptance include acupuncture, physical rehabilitation, myofascial trigger point therapy, therapeutic laser, and other modalities, which are discussed in these guidelines. In addition, nonpharmacologic adjunctive treatment includes an appreciation of improved nursing care, gentle handling, caregiver involvement, improved home environment, and hospice care. Those methods have the critical advantages of increased caregiverclinician interaction and a strengthening of the human-pet bond. That shared responsibility promotes a team approach and leads to a more complete and rational basis for pain management decisions.5\nRecognition and Assessment of Pain\nThe Patient's Behavior is the Key\nBecause animals are nonverbal and cannot self-report the presence of pain, the burden of pain assumption, recognition, and assessment lies with veterinary professionals. It is now accepted that the most accurate method for evaluating pain in animals is not by physiological parameters but by observations of behavior. Pain assessment should be a routine component of every physical examination, and a pain score is considered the \u2018\u2018fourth vital sign,\u2019\u2019 after temperature, pulse, and respiration.1,2,6 Obtaining a thorough patient history from the owner can help determine abnormal behavior patterns that may be pain related. [See page 18 of this toolkit for forms pet owners can complete in the exam room or at home.] Pet owners should be educated in observing any problematic behavioral changes in their pet and to contact their veterinarian in such cases.\nAs shown in Figure 2, pet owners and practitioners should have an awareness of behavior types that are relevant to pain assessment. Those include the animal\u2019s ability to maintain normal behavior, loss of normal behavior, and development of new behaviors that emerge either as an adaption to pain or a response to pain relief. Because behavioral signs of pain are either often overlooked or mistaken for other problems, the healthcare team must be vigilant in recognizing those anomalies in the total patient assessment.\nPain Scoring Tools\nAlthough there is currently no gold standard for assessing pain in dogs and cats, the guidelines task force strongly recommends utilizing pain-scoring tools both for acute and chronic pain. It should be noted that those tools have varying degrees of validation, acute and chronic pain scales are not interchangeable, and canine and feline scales are not interchangeable. The use of pain scoring tools can decrease subjectivity and bias by observers, resulting in more effective pain management, which ultimately leads to better patient care.\nPharmacological Intervention of Pain\nEffective pain management generally involves a balanced or multimodal strategy using several classes of pain-modifying medications. The rationale behind this approach is that it addresses targeting multiple sites in pain pathways, potentially allowing lower doses of each drug and minimizing the potential for side effects associated with any single drug. The choice of medication should be based on anticipated pain levels and individual patient needs. Anticipatory analgesia provided prior to pain onset is more effective than analgesia provided once pain has occurred, contributing to both a dose- and anesthetic-sparing effect. Pharmacological interventions discussed in the guidelines include:\na-2 adrenergic agonists\nSelective serotonin (norepinephrine) reuptake inhibitors [ss(n)ris]\nPolysulfated glycosaminoglycans (psgags)\nNutraceuticals and other oral supplements\nNonpharmacologic Modalities\nWeight Optimization for Pain Management\nAdipose tissue secretes a mixture of cytokines that circulate throughout the body, contributing to the pathology of many diseases, including degenerative joint disease (DJD), and to the hypersensitization process in general. Either maintaining or regaining a lean body condition score is central to the treatment of chronic pain.\nAcupuncture for Pain Control\nThe guidelines task force holds that acupuncture offers a compelling and safe method for pain management in veterinary patients and should be strongly considered as a part of multimodal pain management plans.96 It is a minimally invasive treatment that, for most animals, is not uncomfortable, often pleasant, and can be used either alone or in addition to other pain treatment modalities. Acupuncture has been recognized by the National Institutes\nof Health since 1998 as having applications in human medicine, specially pain management. There is a solid and still-growing body of evidence for the use of acupuncture for the treatment of pain in veterinary medicine to the extent that it is now an accepted treatment modality for painful animals.97\u2013101 Other nonpharmacologic modalities discussed in the Guidelines include:\nPhysical rehabilitation nutrition management\nThermal modification (heat or cold)\nGentle handling techniques\nOther major topics covered in the guidelines include:\nManaging surgical pain associated with DJD for dogs and cats\nA Team Approach and Client Education: Creating an Environment for Success\nPrimary care practices should be committed to educating the healthcare team and its clients about prevention, recognition, assessment, and treatment of pain. A team approach and consistent pain-management messages directed at clients will help ensure patient comfort during all stages of treatment. The client is often considered the most important member of the healthcare team. Each healthcare team member should be able to recognize pain-associated behavior in animals as described earlier in this document and know how to respond appropriately.\nIdeally, every healthcare team member should have a defined role in managing animal pain. Staff and client education should address conditions associated with pain; its prevention and treatment; and appropriate interaction, handling, and nursing care involving the patient. Medical rounds and staff meetings are effective tools in making sure that all staff members are aware of the individualized pain management needs of every hospitalized patient. Having a patient advocate for each hospitalized animal will enable a highly accurate and individualized evaluation of the patient and ensure successful treatment.\nClient Education and Instructions\nWith each pain management plan, it is important that the client be given specific instructions, both verbally and in writing. Potential adverse drug effects and action to be taken should be emphasized. It is advisable to provide a hands-on demonstration on how to administer medications and handle the pet at home. To reinforce verbal information about pain assessment, provide handouts that discuss general information about animal pain and any side effects of medications. Compliance will improve if the pet owner understands the treatment schedule and a demonstration of how to administer oral medications is given. Clients should be encouraged to address their concerns about the pet\u2019s condition and treatment plan via e-mail, phone, or follow-up consultations.\nEffective pain management is an essential component of companion animal medicine. It reduces disease morbidity, facilitates recovery, enhances quality of life (QOL), and solidifies the relationship among the veterinarian, client, and pet. Behavioral changes are the principal indicator of pain and its resolution, for which there are now several validated, clinical scoring instruments. Pain is not an isolated event but instead exists either as a continuum of causation, progression, and resolution or as a chronic condition. Thus, treatment of pain should consist of a continuum of care in the form of anticipatory analgesia through the anticipated pain period followed by longer-term or even chronic treatment that relies on periodic reassessment of the patient\u2019s response.\nEffective pain management is integrative in two respects. First, it does not rely solely on pharmacologic methods but also uses a variety of nonpharmacologic modalities. Not least of those is gentle handling and nursing care of the patient in the context of a stress-free physical environment. When considering either nonpharmacologic methods or hospice care that may be outside the immediate skills or services provided by the primary practice, the veterinarian should have a list of experts for referral in place. A second aspect of integrative pain management is the multimodal use of medications that either block or modify multiple pain pathways. A multimodal approach also reduces reliance on any single agent, minimizing the potential for adverse drug events.\nPain management in clinical practice is a team effort, with the pet owner functioning as an integral part of the team. All healthcare team members should have a defined role in the practice\u2019s approach to providing compassionate care to its patients. That enables the practice to speak with one voice and in a consistent manner in the implementation of pain management protocols. Client education is a key component that enables the pet owner to manage pain in the home setting. Direct involvement of the client in pain management efforts is consistent with the continuum of care concept and a demonstration of the practice\u2019s commitment to the pet\u2019s QOL. A fully integrated approach to pain management, involving recognition and systematic assessment, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic methods, and one that includes both healthcare team members and the pet owner, ensures that everything possible has been done to relieve a patient\u2019s pain once it enters the practice\u2019s care.\nMark Epstein, DVM, DABVP, CVPP (co-chairperson), Ilona Rodan, DVM, DABVP (co-chairperson), Gregg Griffenhagen, DVM, MS, Jamie Kadrlik, CVT, Michael Petty, DVM, MAV, CCRT, CVPP, DAAPM, Sheilah Robertson, BVMS, PhD, DACVAA, MRCVS, DECVAA, Wendy Simpson, DVM\nFor references (footnotes) in this document, please refer to the 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats aaha.org/professional/resources/pain_management.aspx.\nFrom the Total Bond Veterinary Hospitals PC, Gastonia, NC (M.E.); Cat Care Clinic and Feline-Friendly Consultations, Madison, WI (I.R.); Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Colorado State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Fort Collins, CO (G.G.); Pet Crossing Animal Hospital & Dental Clinic, Bloomington, MN (J.K.); Arbor Pointe Veterinary Hospital/Animal Pain Center, Canton, M.I. (M.P.); Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (S.R.); and Morrisville Cat Hospital, Morrisville, NC (W.S.). Correspondence: mark. [email protected] (M.E.)\n*These guidelines were prepared by a task force of experts convened by the American Animal Hospital Association and the American Association of Feline Practitioners for the express purpose of producing this article. These guidelines are supported by a generous educational grant from Abbott Animal Health, Elanco Companion Animal Health, Merial, Novartis Animal Health, and Zoetis, and are endorsed by the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management. They were subjected to the same external review process as all JAAHA articles.\nThe Task Force acknowledges the contributions of Mark Dana of the Kanara Consulting Group, LLC, in the preparations of the 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 23886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/home-family/talking-with-kids-about-daddy-going-to-jail/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BCVPBS6T73YS2ZUB6LH6W3YCGXBBOX7F", "length": 3776, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.aces.edu", "title": "Talking with Kids About Daddy Going to Jail - Alabama Cooperative Extension System", "raw_content": "Posted by: Katrina A. R. Akande\nGoing to jail can cause confusion for many fathers and their children. Remember that although you will not be physically present in your child\u2019s day-to-day life, you are still a parent and can continue to play an important role in your child\u2019s life.\nHelpful Answers to Children\u2019s Questions\nI\u2019m going to a place called jail/prison. This is where grown-ups go when they break rules. This is not your fault, and I am not going there because of anything you did.\nI won\u2019t be home for a long time. As soon as I get more information about coming home, I\u2019ll let you know right away. Until then, know that I will be thinking of you every day, and we\u2019ll find ways to stay in touch.\nYour mom will take care of you. The rest of the family will help as well\u2014grandma and grandpa and your aunts and uncles. If there is anything you need, they will be there to help you.\nI really want you to visit me. I will do my best to arrange for you to visit me. But sometimes it will not be often. The jail/prison is far from our town. I\u2019ll talk with your mom (person taking care of your child) about you coming for a visit. Between visits, we can find fun ways to stay in touch, like writing letters and sending pictures.\nWhat it\u2019s like to visit you?\nFollowing are tips to help your child have a safe and enjoyable visit.\nDescribe the visiting room before your child or children come to visit.\nWhen you come to visit, we\u2019ll be in the visiting room with other fathers who are happy to see their children. You\u2019ll see an officer there. The officer is there to make sure that everyone is safe\u2014just like at school.\nHave positive conversation with your child during the visit.\nAsk them questions about their day-to-day activities and routines. Topics might include daily activities, school projects, report cards, and friendship activities. Ask questions such as How is school going? \u201cWhat do you like most about school? How are your friends? What fun things have you done this week?\u201d\nKeeping in contact.\nLet your child know that you want to keep in contact with him or her and that you want to be there for him or her. Together, think of ways you can stay connected. For example, send pictures, write letters to each other, and send copies of report cards.\nWhen you are involved, your child will have positive benefits:\nLess contact with the juvenile justice system\nRemember that you play an important role in your child\u2019s success.\nhttp://youth.gov/youth-topics/children-of-incarcerated-parents/federal-tools-resources/tip-sheet-parents-visits\nHow to Explain Jails and Prisons to Children: A Caregivers Guide\nhttp://www.ambassadorsforhope.com/aa_how_to_explain_ prisons_and_jails_to_children_lancaster_version.pdf\nDirectory of National Programs Serving Families and Children of the Incarcerated\nhttps://nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu/resources/directory/\nGuide for Incarcerated Parents with Children in Welfare System\nhttp://youth.gov/sites/default/files/COIP-Parent-Guide-508.pdf\nhttp://www.skipinc.org\nhttp://alabamaparentcenter.com/web/programs-services/dedicated-dads/\nThe Sesame Street Workshop\nhttp://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/incarceration\n10 Facts about Father Engagement, The Fatherhood Project\nhttp://www.thefatherhoodproject.org/10-facts-about-father-engagement/\nDownload a copy of FCS-2309 Talking with Kids About Daddy Going to Jail\nAuthors: Katrina A. 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Akande, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Specialist, Assistant Professor, Family and Child Development, Auburn University; Kenya Cistrunk, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Mississippi State University; and DaJuandra Eugene, Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University\nParenting with Self-Awareness\nAdvancing Bullying Awareness: Parenting Strategies for a Teen Being Bullied", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 8139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adammearse.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MB77KP2ZANH3JBQ7BXPYEZ4NORHQSMVM", "length": 1462, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.adammearse.com", "title": "About \u2014 Adam Mearse", "raw_content": "Hello, my name is Adam Mearse.\nI\u2019ve been in ministry for over 19 years \u2013 most of that with teens and families, but more recently focused on ministry to the entire church community. I am passionate about spiritual formation, relationships, and bringing the narrative of Scripture to life. I do a lot of preaching and teaching in all kinds of settings (churches, the academy, camps in the middle of nowhere, etc.). I\u2019m some combination of theologian/counselor/educator by training. I value difficult conversation carried out in honesty and integrity. So, if I happen to touch on something you find interesting, provocative, or wrong, jump in the conversation.\nI like school and learning (you don\u2019t have to go to school to learn, but I like both). My academic background reflects the areas that have always interested me most. I have a BA (Bible and psychology), a couple of MA\u2019s (ministry and counseling), and a PhD (education) from Trinity. While this is all well and good, it also creates a great angst within me as the last thing I ever want is to become someone who\u2019s learned so much that I can only converse within academic circles. It is a great advantage to me that I have frequent interaction with teens and emerging adults who keep me grounded in real life conversation and language.\nWhat you\u2019ll find here are thoughts about ministry, life as a follower of Jesus, culture, perhaps some poetry, and the occasional nonsensical rambling that I find humorous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aforeignaffair.com/information/IMBRA/IMBRA.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7SVCZR45XWWJQJMTKKQAMJEKQEPLR4VB", "length": 2723, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.aforeignaffair.com", "title": "IMBRA", "raw_content": "This is a very important message to all of our clients and potential clients, please read carefully as it may affect your ability to use our service in the future.\nThe International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, IMBRA, was passed as part of the 2005 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and signed into law by President Bush on January 5, 2006.\nIMBRA was intended to provide useful information to women who avail themselves of the services of International Matchmaking Agencies. IMBRA requires international matchmakers to do several things, including but not limited to, verifying the women who use the service are eighteen years old or older, and that the men's criminal/marital history is presented to the women, in their own language, prior to any personal contact information being exchanged.\nIt is important that you as a client of a company only use IMBRA compliant companies because IMBRA has been incorporated into the Fianc\ufffde visa application. If you met your fianc\ufffde via an International Introduction agency you will be asked to produce a copy of the singed and dated IMBRA form, failure to produce that document may result in a delay or denial of your fianc\ufffdes Fianc\ufffde (k-1, k-2) or Spousal (k-3) visa. A Foreign Affair has always complied with the existing Federal legislation concerning this industry and will of course comply with the existing IMBRA legislation as well. There are companies providing International Matchmaking service who do not fully comply or simply ignore IMBRA, be very careful of using these companies as it may interfere with your ability to successfully complete the fianc\ufffde visa process and bring your fianc\ufffde to the United States.\n(Please click here for a Q&A page regarding IMBRA, International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, and exactly what it means to you as a client).\nIf you have any questions regarding IMBRA please call us at (602) 553-8178\nA Foreign Affair has always complied with the existing Federal legislation concerning this industry and will of course comply with the new legislation as well. It is very important for you as a client that you only use sites that comply with this legislation if you plan on petitioning the government for a fiancee (K1) visa. If you use a service that does not comply with this legislation you and your fiancee may have difficulties when petitioning for the K1 visa. It is important that the women receive a copy of your personal background information prior to the two of you exchanging any personal contact information.\nAgain, please click here to read the question and answer page concerning the new legislation. If you still have any questions about this please call us at (602) 553-8178 or (602) 332-7805", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.africanamericanrhinoplasty.com/blog/rhinoplasty-overview--part-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CV2SBS54DKXNMVVL4DNCRRIOIQU6ATF5", "length": 5053, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.africanamericanrhinoplasty.com", "title": "Rhinoplasty Overview \u2013 Part 2 | African American Rhinoplasty Blog | The Aesthetic Institute", "raw_content": "In the previous part of this Rhinoplasty Overview we discussed and described the various procedures that are used to produce cosmetic rhinoplasty results. In this chapter we will touch on the main cases of when surgical intervention into the nose is dictated by functional considerations and is meant to restore the proper operation of the nasal mechanism.\nKeep in mind, that while insurance does not normally cover strictly cosmetic rhinoplasty, while some coverage may turn out to be available when it is dictated by a need to correct or improve one or more of the nasal functions, or a major injury or deformity. Some patients even take this as an opportunity to undergo a cosmetic rhinoplasty in the same session, saving considerable time and effort.\nWhile rhinoplasty is typically a cosmetic surgery and is performed to improve the appearance of the nose, some functional problems may be addressed in rhinoplasty as well. Among the most common functions that need to be restored is the airway passage function of the nose. It is done by removing various nasal obstructions. Among the common functional rhinoplasty techniques we will find septoplasty, turbinate reduction and nasal polyp removal.\nSeptoplasty is meant to address and straighten a deviated septum, this way opening the blocked air duct and improve breathing in one of the or both nostrils. Enlarged turbinates may also cause nasal obstruction, and are addressed in turbinate reduction. Nasal polyps are benign small growths that can obstruct the nasal passage and are removed in the nasal polyp removal procedure. Among the other problems that functional rhinoplasty can address as well is the nasal valve collapse.\nThe nasal septum is the thin wall of bone and cartilage that runs the length of the nasal bridge, separating the nostrils. Ideally, the septum is supposed to be straight and positioned in the center of the nose, leaving equally sized airway paths to either nostril. In some cases the septum can become deformed or displaced to one side. This is known as a deviated septum condition.\nIt can be a born condition or caused by injury, but either way a deviated septum results in air passage obstruction and breathing difficulty. It can be mild or severe, sometimes leading to nosebleeds, snoring and sleep apnea. If these symptoms become so bad as to detract from a person\u2019s quality of life and workplace functioning, surgical intervention will very likely be necessary.\nDepending on the specific patient, septoplasty can be performed with either local or general anesthesia. In some cases where extra visibility is necessary, an endoscope may need to be used. During the septoplasty surgery the septum will likely need to be trimmed and/or repositioned, and some of the bone or cartilage may also have to be replaced. Incisions for septoplasty are usually made on the inside of the nose and will normally be closed with absorbable sutures. The surgery time will usually be between an hour and two hours depending on access, difficulty and visibility.\nUpon completion of the septoplasty, silicone splints and nasal packing may be inserted into each nostril to provide support to the weakened septum and to minimize bleeding. The packing will usually be removed the next day, while the splints may need to remain in place for approximately one week. Very much like after other surgical procedures, you can expect some swelling, bruising and discomfort. It does, however, allow most patients to return to work within one to two weeks after the surgery.\nNasal polyps are benign growths that are commonly believed to be caused by allergy or asthma. They are not harmful in themselves, but they contribute to the collection of nasal mucosa in the region, causing an irritation and obstructed breathing. The removal of nasal polyps by surgical means can take between forty five minutes to one hour. The surgery can be performed under either general or local anaesthesia, and the polyps are removed using endoscopic surgery (Endoscopy typically refers to the means of looking inside a body for medical reasons using an endoscope). Recovery from this type of surgery can take between one and three weeks and normally causes very little discomfort\nThe turbinates are structures of soft tissue that are located on the side wall of the inside of the nose and protrude into the nasal passages. The turbinates\u2019 main function is to warm and moisturize air passing through the nose, but they can also block the flow of air when they are hypertrophied.\nThere are several ways that are commonly employed to shrink the size of the turbinates. The surgical method can be called turbinate reduction or turbinate resection. This surgery can be performed in either the office ot the operating room, sometimes combining it with septoplasty.\nNo matter what your need is, always consult with your surgeon to decide on the optimal course of action for your specific circumstances. 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Thus, the rationalization of poverty on paucity of fund has now been exposed as a product of misapplication of resources.\nThe State of Osun\u2019s recent attempts to encourage investment are prompting some foreign firms and Nigerian entrepreneurs to look more closely at the profitability of agribusiness. Perhaps more important in the long term, there also appears to have been a significant shift in the pattern of foreign involvement, back to direct investment in agriculture in Osun State.\nThe Agro-investment initiative of Governor Aregbesola is an emblem of hope that will make the youths in the state embrace agriculture again; this move will also create massive employment opportunities for Osun people. Sachsen-Anhalt involvement in Osun State agriculture is undoubtedly accelerating. The climate for foreign investment is becoming more amenable as the Nigerian economy is restructured under the watchful eye of the IMF, World Bank and international banks despite the lack of a formal agreement.\nWhen the Governor and his formidable team went to Germany in search of knowledge, and in furtherance of the development cooperation and in support of the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme (O-REAP), the trip was an opportunity for the delegation to:\n1. Attend the International Green Week programme with Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the Special Guest of Honour. Dr. Reiner Haseloff, the Minister President of Sachsen Anhalt; Prof. Claudia Dalbert, the State Minister of Agriculture and Dr. Hermann OnkoAeikens,\nState Secretary, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Federal Republic of Germany, all attended the programme, met and engaged relevant investors and partners with interests in agricultural investment and partnership opportunities in the State of Osun\n1. Review and expand on the scope of existing Development Cooperation between the State of Osun and Sachsen Anhalt\niii. Design the next phase of collaborative partnerships between the State of Osun and Sachsen Anhalt\n1. Meet and discuss agricultural potentials, investment and partnership opportunities in Osun with German farmers who had hosted 40 young farmers from Osun over a period of four years, starting in 2012 as they were exposed to knowledge, skills and technologies in practical modern agriculture.\nThe Osun delegation also met with the umbrella Farmers Association of the State of Sachsen Anhalt.\nAt the meeting, a number of farmers in Germany expressed their interest in the proposed farmer technology transfer programme that is being planned in collaboration with the State Government of Sachsen Anhalt.\n1. Discuss the planned cooperation between the State Governments of Osun and Sachsen-Anhalt in setting up of \u2018Best Practice Demonstration, Training and Production Farm\u2019 in the State of Osun.\nThe Farm is to target the youth and other farmers and will provide the platform for the acquisition of knowledge, skills and techniques in modern agriculture with a focus on land development and management, new technologies in crops, livestock, fisheries, post-harvest handling, processing and packaging.\nThe establishment of the Best Practice Demonstration, Training and Production Farm\u2019 in the State of Osun will build on these initial efforts and create an even more cost-effective and sustainable model of cooperation that will allow for broader scale impact.\nThis will allow the State of Osun to extend benefits to many hundreds of equally motivated and needy young farmers who would not have the opportunity of being attached to host farmers or institutions in Germany.\nThe Best Practice Demonstration, Training and Production Farm is to serve as a veritable platform to anchor a well-designed farmer exchange programme that will provide the opportunity for German agricultural experts and farmers to provide technological transfer and capacity building to farmers in Osun.\nThis new collaboration is building on the initial outcomes of the cooperation with the State of Sachsen-Anhalt under which 40 budding young farmers from Osun have been hosted in Germany for advanced practical training in different aspects of agriculture over the past four years with the resultant engaging opportunities for young farmers in our state as they launch promising careers in modern and productive agriculture inspired by their exposure in Sachsen-Anhalt.\nThe 40 young farmers who were involved in the development cooperation programme in Germany are back in Osun and are now involved in different aspects of agriculture including cattle and production of small ruminant, piggery, horticulture and greenhouse farming in different parts of the State.\nOther highlights of the trip included planning meetings between the Osun delegation with top officials of the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Sachsen Anhalt and members of the State of Sachsen-Anhalt Parliament. These meetings were aimed at consolidating as well as expanding the current cooperation between both parties.\nNotably and following on the heels of the impressive outcomes recorded from the cooperation with the State of Sachsen Anhalt in the last four years in the area of agriculture, the cooperation is now being expanded to the area of healthcare delivery.\nPresently, there\u2019s a team of seasoned German oncologists from the Institute for Operative Medicine of the Otto-yon Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany, in Osun. This is to perfect plans on collaborative efforts on control, treatment and management of various classes of cancer in the State.\nThe State of Osun\u2019s agricultural programme is gradually yielding desired results as the good people of the state are being empowered through land preparation and free distribution, credits for improved seedlings, fertilizer, etc. and commercial production of honey, fish, cattle and birds.\nThe O\u2019honey apiary project that the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola embarked upon became a reality when it was commissioned at Oyan in Odo-Otin local government, the first of its kind in Black Africa.\nIt was this vision that made the government of Ogbeni Aregbesola to partner with the German government that sent a seven-man team of experts drawn from the agric sector of the State of Saxson Anhalt to meet with farmers\u2019 cooperatives, soil scientists, animal husbandry experts and others on how to improve agricultural products in Osun.\nInwalomhe Donald, public affairs analyst writes from Benin City, Edo State.\nPrevious articleRice Importation Costs Nigeria $2 Billion Annually \u2013 Dangote\nNext articleNigeria: Govt To Launch U.S.$300 Million Loan Project For Young Farmers\nWhy Nigerian Youths Loose Interest In Studying Agriculture \u2013 FECA Provost\nWe will stop at nothing to reduce smuggling, says Lokpobiri\nNigerian farmers throw weight behind biotechnology\nCustoms Intercept Container Of Tilapia Fish From Turkey\nHaske and Williams Limited Seals Pact on Agri-business Development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 13906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airingmylaundry.com/2010/06/camping-experience.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:T5AJSZQMOSPC5KRUSGWIS7ZLXOK2HNF7", "length": 12286, "nlines": 118, "source_domain": "www.airingmylaundry.com", "title": "Airing My Laundry, One Post At A Time...: The Camping Experience", "raw_content": "It\u2019s the time where people can sit around a campfire as they make s\u2019mores.\nIt\u2019s the time when people can swim in the nearby lake....the time when fireflies are chased, the time when people bundle comfortably in sleeping bags.\nI didn\u2019t experience any of this.\nWell, the bundling in the sleeping bag thing, maybe. Since it was raining and all.\nThere was no open fire to make s\u2019mores. That\u2019s because open fires were not allowed where we were at. And even if they were, I\u2019m not sure my friend Amanda and I would have known how to start it. I know I can start a fire with a flint because that\u2019s how people start fires on Survivor.\nThere was no lake nearby to swim in. I mean, there were puddles all around thanks to the rain so if we had wanted to, we could have sat in the middle of one.\nFireflies don\u2019t live in Wyoming. Antelope do though. They roam around the base and I was a little worried that one would run into our tent. They\u2019re not the brightest animals in the world. They\u2019ll stroll out in the middle of the street and just stare at you while you sit in the car, cursing them.\nAmanda and I had decided to camp a few weeks ago. We assumed the weather would be nice because hello, it\u2019s June. But we forgot that we were in Wyoming, the land of 80 degree weather one day and 40 degree weather the next. Wyoming decided to give us 40 degree weather when we decided to camp. We debated postponing the camping trip but then realized that we were in the mood to camp dammit, so camp we would.\nOurs was the only tent set up on the camp ground. We were the only crazies who dared to camp in 40 degree weather while it rained.\nAnd yes, the area where we were camping was haunted. This is what it says online:\n\"Later research discovered that in the 1920s, a young Indian woman was brutally raped and murdered by cavalry men at White Crow Creek, Warren's present day FamCamp. \"\nAnd it\u2019s that poor Indian woman who can be heard screaming at times, and rightfully so.\nStill, I hoped she wouldn\u2019t scream while we were there.\nEverything was going smoothly until we both had to use the bathroom. And good news, there were actual bathrooms there. I had first asked, \u201cWe don\u2019t have to squat and pee, do we?\u201d I am awful at squatting and peeing.\nWhen we stepped out of the tent it was raining. And when I looked into the darkness I thought I saw a bright eye staring back out at us. Okay, that doesn\u2019t make sense because why would a bright eye be staring at us? But I don\u2019t know how ghosts work so I was all, \u201cIs that an eye?\u201d and I managed to freak out Amanda. It turned out it was just a light from the RV area but still. It COULD have been an eye.\nThen when we crawled into our sleeping bags the tent lit up as though there were a vehicle with their headlights on right in front of it.\n\u201cUm, what\u2019s that?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Amanda replied.\n\u201cI swear, if Tom is trying to scare us I\u2019m going to be pissed,\u201d I fumed. I wouldn\u2019t put it past Tom. He loves freaking me out. (\u201cYou just look so funny when you\u2019re scared,\u201d he once told me.)\n\u201cWe should peek out and see,\u201d Amanda said.\nBut none of us moved. What if it were an axe murderer? Or a ghost? Or an ALIEN? I\u2019ve seen some horror films, whoever is dumb enough to CHECK IT OUT is usually the one dead.\nIt turned out it was just a spotlight that came on. But we didn\u2019t know that. The worker at the campsite should have warned us. He could have said, \u201cDon\u2019t be alarmed when the spotlight comes on.\u201d But no, all he said was, \u201cGood luck with the ghost,\u201d when Amanda had checked in earlier.\nGood luck with the ghost?\nThere is NO LUCK to be had with a ghost.\nAmanda and I eventually drifted off to sleep. I woke up a few times thanks to the trains that go rumbling past. It was especially fun when they blared their horns. I wanted to shout, \u201cHello, people in tents sleeping here, thanks!\u201d\nWe didn\u2019t encounter a ghost.\nWe may have encountered wetness but that\u2019s okay. Because in the end we got something that we really needed: an adult conversation without any interruptions.\nI\u2019d go back in a heartbeat.\nMae Rae June 14, 2010 at 9:48 AM\nI am so glad that in the long run you had a good time. I wanted that for you so bad. But how did Tom fair?\nLindy Leigh June 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM\nI love camping... Haunted camping could be interesting!\nI gave you an award!\nhttp://lindyandree.blogspot.com/2010/06/m-at-betty-crapper-cooking-from-scratch.html\nI have decided that I hate tent camping. The last time I went, it was also raining, and I don't know what was going on, but I had to pee about 40 times that night. In the rain. Witht he bathroom 20 yards away. And I was cold and super uncomfortable.\nI will take the campfire with the Smores, and then go home.\nYou nailed the reason I love camping - adult conversation with no interruptions. Well, and smore's :-) Sounds like a great trip.\nCamping in the rain -- and with ghosts? Really, you are much braver than me...\nHeather B June 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM\nawww- camping can suck. as my first time did...lets just say that on the first night, i found out my air mattress had a slow leak so after a few hours i was on the cold hard ground...i was there for 3 nights :(\ni'm SUCH a fraidy cat that if i went camping i would INSIST on either my hubs, dad, or brother being there... lol\nSounds like fun!! Brings me back...I haven't camped in ages!\nI'm so bummed that you didn't encounter a ghost. *sigh*\nShayla June 14, 2010 at 10:52 AM\nthis post cracks me up!!!\nI went camping for the first (and only) time last summer...for the fourth of July, and of course it was the HOTTEST weekend in TEXAS that summer...just...my...luck!!!\nSara @ Domestically Challenged June 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM\nI broke out in hives just reading the title of this post. Hives. That is what camping does to me. I am glad you had a good time!\nSo wait a sec... You got to go camping without any kids?? And have adult conversation?? Definitely worth a little rain and I'd even risk a ghost encounter. lol\nOh that sounds like fun. (NOT.) I hate camping Amber. It's dirty and uncomfortable. And that's without rain, trains, or ghosts!\nI was sort of thinking that you were crazy to want to go camping...but adult time? No kids? Sign me up!\nI love camping - but even I would have opted for a hotel instead!\nBlissed-Out Grandma June 14, 2010 at 11:37 AM\nYou should be very proud of yourself for going camping in the first place, and in bad weather besides! I hope you get the opportunity to do it again soon!\nLove camping! So afraid to take my Little Man this year..he's 2..I fear he will escape the tent.....\nI could not camp without a campfire....\nYou are very brave for go where there was a ghost!!\nThis just proves at what length a woman will go to for some mommy-free time! Ghosts, rain and cold weather be damned!\nI've been dying to go camping, so I'm jealous! Despite rain. . .and, you know, ghosts.\nGlad you had fun and adult conversation time!\ncfoxes33 June 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM\nGlad the ghost didn't get you!\nI think I would've braved ghosts, antelopes and bright shiny lights from axe murderers for some adult conversation, too...\n\u6cb3\u6c34\u6c38\u9060\u662f\u76f8\u540c\u7684\uff0c\u53ef\u662f\u6bcf\u4e00\u524e\u90a3\u53c8\u90fd\u662f\u65b0\u7684\u3002...........................................................................\nI love camping... glad you went and enjoyed it!\nI'm so glad you made it and it was worth it.\nNot as bad a Freak Magnet as Norman June 14, 2010 at 12:49 PM\nMy childhood house I'm moving back into is haunted. Max was there, trying to get it ready for us and he kept hearing noises all day. Finally, he got fed up and said, \"You think you're so bad ass, thump again!!\" And then he heard *THUMP THUMP* louder than any other time of the day. He left the house.\nI hope the next time the weather is better - and maybe you venture to some other campground - without ghosts but with fireflies perhaps.\ncathyjoy June 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM\nthis would be why i don't camp...tents, bugs, wild animals, nowhere to plug in my blow dryer!\nIts amazing what we do for adult conversations! So glad that you had a good time after all.\nso glad you made it out alive...you've got bigger balls than me!\nSounds like you had yourself a great time! Lol. I love the idea of camping but it seems that everytime I go I have an awful experience ...like waking up with a big black spider in my cleavage or rain or a piece of wood in the fire pops and hits the side of my face and I hate having to use an outhouse...I'm always scared a chipmunk or something is going to climb up and scratch my bum.\nJayne Martin June 14, 2010 at 1:52 PM\nYou're a better gal than I am. I don't need to be out under the stars. I'm perfectly happy with 5-Stars -- and room service. ;)\nI've been wanting smores for weeks.\nSammie June 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM\nI'm glad you had fun despite the weather. But...no open fire allowed? That makes no sense to me. To me, fire=camping. Weird.\nThe Good Cook June 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM\nI love camping - rain or no rain, love it. And adult conversation with no interruptions? How sweet is that?\nI remember those days when an 'adult conversation without interruptions' was so precious! Those were the times when I would talk to a double-glazing salesman for AS LONG AS HE LIKED.\nIf you can camp in the cold and the rain, you can camp ANYwhere. Welcome to the camper club, my dear!\nSo glad you posted - been over here worrying that the ghostie got you! Glad you made it out alive & had some adult time all to yourself.\nI love to go camping...but not in rain or 40 degree weather!\nI went on two camping trips in the U.S. Never again!!\nOne was in the middle of December where we almost froze to death in the snow and a tree limb broke off and fell on our tent and it broke the tent. We ended up sleeping in a crummy, old hotel that night.\nThe other was when we went camping at the beach in the middle of summer in NC. I never knew you can be eaten alive by bugs until then! Hubby and I went home in the middle of the night.\nI am not really sure how I feel about camping but I need to get it figured out soon b/c we are going in less than a week.\nDaffy June 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM\nSuffering through a little wetness for some alone adult interaction makes it all worth it.\nThat totally sounded wrong....\nStumbled upon your lovely blog here and wanted to say hi. What a crazy camping trip! Would love if you could stop by my blog and say hi.\nI'd like to suggest luxo-camping, you do it at a minimum 4-star, un-haunted hotel, and order room service..I'm just sayin'!\nMarilyn (A Lot of Loves) June 14, 2010 at 9:18 PM\nAnd this is pretty much why I don't like camping in tents. Spooky things always happen when you camp in a tent. If you camp in a trailer life doesn't seem so spooky.\nCamping is great.\nI'm pitching a tent right now.\nToo bad I'm not camping.\nSounds utterly peaceful! And exactly like my first camping trip!\nNo s'mores? They are the only thing that make camping worth it... or maybe nothing can make camping worth it...\nHa! Doesn't sound like the best camping trip ever, but I'm glad you enjoyed yourself! I'm wondering. . . are the kids still alive? Well, I'm actually more worried about Tom this time!\nKatie's Dailies June 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM\nIt ALWAYS rains when I camp out. I stay in hotels now!\nGlad the ghost didn't get you! ; )\nBrave ladies. I can only imagine the conversation you might have had if you had encountered the ghost!\nI don't understand camping without s'mores.\nWell, okay I don't really understand camping.\nBut I'm glad the ghosts didn't get you.\n@ly June 15, 2010 at 6:12 PM\nCamping is fun and the point was really to just get away and you achieved the goal. Would have been cool if you had seen the ghost...that would have been a great story to blog about!\nGlad you went, even in the rain and cold and WITHOUT THE KIDS (or Tom)\nKK June 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM\nYeah, I don't camp....ever.\nLOL, that is great. I haven't been camping in ages... at least not since I started enjoying creature comforts over the \"adventure\"...though it makes me think I should give it another try!\nYou reminded me of a few reasons why I don't like camping. Cold, wet and sleeping on the ground! Still, so glad you had a good time!!!\n\u2665Cari\u2665 June 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM\nI loooove camping! I lived in Wyoming for a few short years, but I'm not familiar with the area you were in. And what is with a campground that doensn't allow an open flame?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 20825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/atl-to-lim/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TREFNV5VOPB6RDWOF4OJ3PZ3K5FMR4T6", "length": 979, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.airmilescalculator.com", "title": "Distance from Atlanta (ATL) to Lima (LIM)", "raw_content": "Distance from Atlanta (ATL) to Lima (LIM)\nDistance between Atlanta, GA (ATL) and Lima (LIM)\nDistance from Hartsfield\u2013Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport is 3176 miles / 5112 kilometers / 2760 nautical miles.\nAtlanta (ATL) - Lima (LIM)\nEstimated flight time from Hartsfield\u2013Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport (LIM) is 6 hours 30 minutes.\nThere is no time difference between Atlanta and Lima.\nIATA Code: LIM\nICAO Code: SPIM\nCoordinates: 12\u00b01\u203218\u2033S, 77\u00b06\u203251\u2033W\nFlight map from Atlanta to Lima.\nAtlanta (ATL) \u2192 Lima (LIM).\nAirlines that fly between Atlanta (ATL) and Lima (LIM)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Hu\u00e1nuco (HUU)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Ayacucho (AYP)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Chimbote (CHM)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Nazca (NZC)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Andahuaylas (ANS)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Trujillo (TRU)\nDistance from Atlanta (ATL) to Pucallpa (PCL)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alamoheightstx.gov/public-safety/animal-care-services/impounding-stray-pick-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SJ323YZR5DCGW3RHMESWQTESQOFCW6GI", "length": 1772, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.alamoheightstx.gov", "title": "Impounding/Stray Pick Up - City of Alamo Heights", "raw_content": "When a pet is picked up it will be transported to the contracted animal care facility for five (5) working days. Owners should call the Alamo Heights Police Department within the five (5) working day period. If the pet is not at the contract animal care facility, a lost report and/or picture can be posted at the police department.\nIf the animal is impounded the owner will have to provide the Alamo Heights Police Department with proof of ownership. This can be a rabies certificate (preferred), a current photo of the animaI, or vet records. In order to reclaim the impounded dog/cat the owner must secure a release form the Alamo Heights Police Department. Release forms are issued upon:\nPayment of a license fee (if the pet is unregistered)\nAn administrative fee ( if applicable, see below)\nPayment of all boarding fees due to the impound facility\nProof of a current rabies vaccination. If proof of a current rabies vaccination cannot be provided, the animal must be vaccinated, at the owners\u2019 expense, prior to release. Rabies tags and reminder notices will not be accepted as proof of a rabies vaccination.\nThe first time a dog and/or cat is reclaimed by its owner, no administrative fee is charged. The second time a dog and/or cat is reclaimed by its owner an administrative fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) will be charged. The third time a dog and/or cat is reclaimed by its owner an administrative fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) will be charged, the fourth and all subsequent times a dog and/or cat is reclaimed by its owner an administrative fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) will be charged.\nAll dogs and cats that have been impounded and are unclaimed after the five (5) working day period may be placed for adoption, sold or humanely destroyed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 5322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.algemeiner.com/author/fiamma-nirenstein-and-harold-rhode/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ADMRYQCKZ4M43R7FWLNMN5QPNXIG6QZJ", "length": 585, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.algemeiner.com", "title": "Fiamma Nirenstein and Harold Rhode | Algemeiner.com", "raw_content": "Fiamma Nirenstein and Harold Rhode\nFiamma Nirenstein, a former member of the Italian Parliament, is an expert on terrorism, antisemitism and the Middle East. She is a veteran journalist and author who made aliyah to Israel in 2013. Harold Rhode is a Washington, DC-based Mideast expert and former Pentagon analyst.\nARTICLES BY: Fiamma Nirenstein and Harold Rhode\nHappy 100th Birthday to Our Dear Friend, Bernard Lewis\nIt was a very entertaining 90th birthday, exactly 10 years ago, for which people from all over the world came to Philadelphia, to celebrate with Princeton Professor...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 131.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/11/20121111192710305682.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OR7HKPI4SMOFHJBMRWXXEWP67EHJYJXI", "length": 3548, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff ECOWAS agrees to Mali intervention force | News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "ECOWAS agrees to Mali intervention force\nWest African bloc reaches deal on sending 3,300 troops from across region to northern area of embattled Sahel country.\nWest African leaders at an emergency summit have agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali from\nIslamist fighters, as fears grow over risks they pose to the region and beyond.\n\"We foresee 3,300 soldiers for a timeframe of one year,\" Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, the current ECOWAS chairman, told journalists on Sunday after the summit.\nThe troops would come primarily from ECOWAS, but possibly from countries outside the bloc as well, he said.\nThe summit in the Nigerian capital Abuja was aimed at setting out a blueprint for military force in Mali's north that would be transferred to the UN Security Council via the African Union.\nDiscussions also involved the potential training of 5,000 Malian troops, according to Ouattara.\nOuattara said he hoped UN Security Council approval could come in late November or early December, which would allow the force to be put in place days afterward.\n\"We have countries that are offering battalions, others companies,\" he said.\nECOWAS countries he named were Nigeria, Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo.\nFrom outside of ECOWAS, \"Chad could also participate. We have had contacts with other countries - Mauritania, South Africa.\"\nThe summit's final communique stressed that dialogue remained \"the preferred option in the resolution of the political crisis in Mali.\"\n\"However, regarding the security situation, recourse to force may be indispensable in order to dismantle terrorist and transnational criminal networks that pose a threat to international peace and security,\" it said.\nAn ECOWAS source had said earlier that regional military chiefs were proposing a total of 5,500 troops, with some 3,200 from the West African bloc and the rest from elsewhere.\nIt was not clear whether heads of state had rejected the proposal or if the bloc would continue efforts to reach that level.\n'Concretise their commitments'\nAlgeria, seen as important to any military operation, has been hesitant to get involved, preferring a negotiated solution.\nWhile not a member of ECOWAS, Algeria is viewed as key due to its superior military capabilities, intelligence services and experience battling Islamist extremism, along with the long border it shares with Mali.\nRepresentatives from countries outside ECOWAS were invited to Sunday's summit, including from Mauritania and Algeria, as well as South Africa and Morocco, which currently hold seats on the UN Security Council. Libya and Chad were also represented.\nThe final communique urged \"member states to concretise their commitments to provide military and logistical contributions to the ECOWAS military efforts.\"\nECOWAS Commission President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo has said the bloc should pursue a dual approach of dialogue and military pressure.\nThe UN special envoy for the Sahel, Romano Prodi, a former prime minister of Italy and ex-president of the European Commission, has said every effort would be made to avoid military intervention.\nHowever, some analysts have questioned whether a negotiated solution is possible with Islamists intent on establishing a theocratic state.\nThe secular separatists were quickly sidelined by the Islamists, who had little interest in their aspirations for an independent homeland and set about implementing their version of strict sharia law, meting out punishments including stonings and destroying World Heritage shrines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 7580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alliancesud.ch/en/politics/climate-and-environment/climate-policy-and-financing/selective-solidarity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ELE6V2BIMO7FT7QJJUHDD3ZRPAF3XEYV", "length": 3501, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.alliancesud.ch", "title": "Selective solidarity | Alliance Sud", "raw_content": "Selective solidarity\n\u00a9 Daniel Rihs/Alliance Sud\nMark Herkenrath, direttore di Alliance Sud\nMark Herkenrath\nSwitzerland's development spending under the 2016 budget and the 2017-19 Stabilization Programme is undergoing a massive cut. Comments by Mark Herkenrath, Director Alliance Sud.\nOn the evening of 16 November 2015, the Swiss Parliament Building was lit up with the colours of the Tricolour. It was a beautiful and important sign of solidarity with the victims of the Paris terror attacks. But also a monument to selective perception. What if the Federal Council and Parliament also showed solidarity even once with victims beyond our neighbouring European countries? The Parliament Building illuminated with the colours of the flag of Mali or Lebanon? Or that of Tuvalu, where climate change is already having disastrous consequences.\nOne indicator of Switzerland's attitude towards the less fortunate of this world is the level of its official development assistance. For a couple of weeks now, information has been posted on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website to the effect that the 0.5% GNI target set by the Parliament was reached in 2014 \u2013 and that the figure was even 0.51%. Yet this is no cause for celebration. Even the DFA preferred to remain silent about this per se good performance, deciding not to issue a press release.\nThe fact is that a considerable portion of Swiss development spending is really phantom aid. In 2014, some 17% of the expenditure that Switzerland imputes to bilateral public development assistance went towards helping asylum seekers in the country. In other donor countries, the share of the development budget that is spent on asylum seekers in the country averages 4 to 5%. If asylum spending, which is as good as no help to developing countries, is left out of the calculation, Switzerland's official development assistance for 2014 would be just 0.44% of national income.\nThere is also a second reason for the DFA's silence: Switzerland's development spending under the 2016 budget and the 2017-19 Stabilization Programme is already undergoing yet another massive cut. Over the next few years it should amount to a mere 0.47% of GNI, including support for asylum seekers. Not only does this run counter to the decision taken by the Parliament in 2008 that Switzerland must reach a development aid quota of 0.5% of GNI, but also to Switzerland's long-term interest in a stable and peaceful world order. There is still the faint hope that the newly elected Parliament will stand by the 0.5% mandate and oppose the paternalism of the Federal Council.\nAdmittedly, it will not prove very helpful that Norway, Sweden and Finland now plan to allocate a growing portion of their development budget to in-country support for asylum seekers in the years ahead. In the future, Norway could devote as much as 21% of its development aid budget to caring for asylum seekers within its own borders. Unlike Switzerland, however, Norway does not allocate just 0.5% but over 1% of its national income to official development assistance. Norway, Sweden and Finland could allocate as much as half their aid to asylum spending and would still be devoting a much greater share of their national income to long-term development cooperation than Switzerland at the best of times.\nPolitical field\nAlliance Sud Director\nThe contentious migration pact\n2030 Agenda: Domestic policy is foreign policy!\nSustainability at the centre of power?\nBig show, little Switzerland...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allseasons-hvac.com/products/enjoy-the-endless-benefits-of-a-solar-hvac-system", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6Y3WYSKMQDLWW7UPHHB36YQJ27BZTHKU", "length": 1636, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.allseasons-hvac.com", "title": "Bloomington, Indiana Solar HVAC Systems | All Seasons Heating & A/C Co", "raw_content": "Solar energy doesn\u2019t have to be something you just think is trendy. It may be a lot more attainable than you think. With the range of solar-ready air conditioners and heat pumps from All Seasons Heating & A/C Co, we\u2019re pretty sure you can find the perfect way to start saving money with a SunSource\u00ae Home Energy solar HVAC system in Monroe County.\nCrafted to help you decrease your home\u2019s overall energy consumption as well as its effect on the environment, these systems use the energy of the sun and transform it to lower electricity usage for you. Something else to think about is that these solar HVAC systems are also capable of handling other devices in your home, such as your lights, appliances, and even your entertainment system.\nBecause the SunSource\u00ae Home Energy solar HVAC system has the capacity to provide you with energy outside of just what is essential to power your air conditioner or heat pump, there\u2019s a possibility that you could be absorbing more energy than you use. If that\u2019s the case, it gets sent to the energy company, likely entitling you to rebates or credits. The savings that solar can provide are countless, and with the all the systems available, utilizing solar energy has never been so easy.\nTake a look at how the SunSource\u00ae Home Energy System works to lower your utility costs and see the options available in Monroe County for using solar energy for your home\u2019s heating and cooling needs. If you have any questions regarding your transition to a solar HVAC system, give All Seasons Heating & A/C Co in Bloomington a call at 812-638-4045 or arrange a free consultation through our online scheduler.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allthingschristmas.com/the-christmas-traditions-of-guatemala/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXMS3SISFQVKMNGQS3HSQ2XJUJ4N762M", "length": 2022, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.allthingschristmas.com", "title": "The Christmas traditions of Guatemala", "raw_content": "The Christmas traditions of Guatemala\nChantelle Joy December 3, 2012 The Christmas traditions of Guatemala2017-07-11T08:09:42+00:00\nThe ancient Mayan culture mixed with Spanish Christian religious philosophy and rituals result to the unique Christmas traditions of Guatemala. Christian religious activity is performed by the community in the form of processions and novenas.\nThe Christmas traditions of Guatemala processions are performed for nine days with several religious statutes taken around the plaza or town accompanied by loud drum beats and firecrackers.\nCarols and hymns are sung at selected houses commemorating the Holy Family asking for lodging and shelter in ritual fashion. The Holy Family are welcomed and taken to the manger scene for the night and they move on to the next house the next day. Everybody enjoys food and drinks after each procession.\nThe figure of the Christ Child added to the manger at the ninth house and the community holds the biggest feast of the Christmas traditions of Guatemala. The processions end on Xmas Eve during the midnight mass, but the festivities continue until morning and begin again in noon after church services.\nGerman immigrants brought the Xmas tree to the Christmas traditions of Guatemala. Gifts for the children are left under the tree on the morning of Xmas Day following Christkindl. The adults exchange their gifts on New Year\u2019s Day instead of January 6th of the old tradition.\nThe Feast Day of Saint Thomas on December 21 is a Mayan adaptation of the flying pole dance into Christian religious practice of the Christmas traditions of Guatemala. The motifs of the nativity scene are local in design and materials. The traditional food of the period is tamales. Even Paiz, a local department store chain, has joined the Holiday season by holding a parade of marching bands and colorful floats to announce the advent of the season. The Xmas motifs and popular cartoon characters draw lots of spectators, especially the children along the route of the parade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alwihdainfo.com/Ireland-to-pledge-at-least-5m-in-UN-Conference-on-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo_a62915.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EPYISOYOIGNERY77HWIYFM3YXQQH5FZY", "length": 579, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.alwihdainfo.com", "title": "Ireland to pledge at least \u20ac5m in UN Conference on the Democratic Republic of Congo", "raw_content": "Ireland to pledge at least \u20ac5m in UN Conference on the Democratic Republic of Congo\nIreland will today pledge at least \u20ac5 million in humanitarian response to the deepening crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo represents today one of the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crises in terms of people in need. Ireland\u2019s pledge will be delivered at a UN Pledging Conference today in Geneva [\u2026]\nIreland will today pledge at least \u20ac5 million in humanitarian response to the deepening crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Democratic R...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 139.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alwihdainfo.com/South-African-Bureau-of-Standards-SABS-placed-under-administration_a65041.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:12Z", "digest": "sha1:J44TEJGWKVHRBT4UMNA6NDSX4AFXVOEJ", "length": 564, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.alwihdainfo.com", "title": "South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) placed under administration", "raw_content": "South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) placed under administration\nIn terms of the provisions of section 49(2) of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No.1 of 1999) (\u201cPFMA\u201d), the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies MP, has decided to designate three (3) Co-Administrators as the Accounting Authority of SABS for the period 2 July 2018 to 30 January 2019, with all [\u2026]\nIn terms of the provisions of section 49(2) of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No.1 of 1999) (\u201cPFMA\u201d), the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies MP, has...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 79.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanstationery.com/blog/understanding-the-business-of-business-writing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VEG7NPFZZHK46BVAR6JK6PQPSOSNUFOL", "length": 4573, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.americanstationery.com", "title": "Understanding the Business of Business Writing", "raw_content": "Business correspondence may take place through email, Twitter, and all sorts of other electronic means, but the art of the letter is far from extinct. In many ways, the hand-written letter is more important today than it was 100 years ago, because fewer people possess the skills it takes to pen a truly great business letter, or even a thank you card, by hand.\nThink about it. When was the last time you received a personal thank you note on beautiful card stock? When was the last time you received a hand-written note thanking you, reminding you, encouraging you? Chances are, if you have received one, you remember it. You may even have it on your refrigerator, desk, or bulletin board.\nIf you\u2019re a business executive, you have likely received more hand-written notes and official cards than most others. Business etiquette at higher levels demands this sort of personal service and flair. If you don\u2019t have it, you can bet your competitors do, and who can afford to give an inch in this day and age?\nFor those who are newer to the world of business etiquette and note writing, here is a quick primer:\n\u2022 Use short sentences and short paragraphs.\n\u2022 Use only one page, and leave lots of white space.\n\u2022 Language should be common, with simple words and phrases.\n\u2022 Never include terms that your recipient may not know or have to look up.\n\u2022 Start with a personal greeting, and end with a personal closing.\n\u2022 Be very specific about what you are writing about.\nWhen opening the note or card, it\u2019s okay to use the address you would if you were alone in the office with the recipient. For example, instead of Dear Dr. Williams, you might just say, Dr. Williams, or, if you are on a more collegial level, Bill. Remember, this is a personal note or card, and the intent is to impact the recipient as a person and not just somebody holding a position. That said, if you are addressing a superior, always err on the side of formality.\nWhen signing off on the card, there are a number of standard closings, including \u201cBest regards,\u201d \u201cYours truly,\u201d \u201cRespectfully,\u201d and the classic, \u201cSincerely.\u201d The important idea in the closing is that you choose something that represents you and the relationship you are trying to develop through the note. You would not want to sign off \u201cLove\u201d when \u201cRespectfully\u201d is more appropriate (or vice versa!).\nYou also don\u2019t want to be somebody you are not. Are you a \u201cCheers\u201d kind of person? A dentist might sign off with \u201cSmile.\u201d A pastor might use \u201cPrayerfully.\u201d If you\u2019re doing business with a musician, \u201cRock On\u201d might be just the thing. If your recipient smiles after reading the card, and has a good memory of you and your note, you win.\nPutting the Note in the Envelope\nCan you believe there is a right way to fold your note and put it in the envelope? In fact, the question should be, \u201cCan you believe there is a generation that does not know the right way to fold a letter or put it in the envelope?\u201d\nThe easiest way to fold a letter is to fold the BOTTOM of the letter up two-thirds of the way to the top. Crease the bottom. Then, fold the top of the letter down to meet the bottom crease; crease at the top.\nThe letter should be placed in the envelope with the top up and the letter opening to the rear of the envelope. If a card is being sent, the front of the card faces the back of the envelope. This way, when your recipient opens the flap, the first thing they see is the design on the card.\nPersonal notes should not be written on copier paper or letterhead. They should be written on stationery. Granted, many people would take a note written on a sticky note if it meant getting a letter of praise from their boss, but doesn\u2019t that go to show the extent to which people are missing and desiring the lost art of the personal card or letter?\nConsider two gentlemen sending flowers. One gentleman sends a bunch of week-olds he picked up at the store because sending flowers is standard protocol. The other personalizes a bouquet and adds a nice card. Both sent flowers, but which do you think will make the best impression?\nDon\u2019t just go through the motions; take the time to do it right. Those few moments spent picking out the right stationery, writing instrument, and stationery embellishments really can make all of the difference. If you are not sure what your options are, just ask. American Stationery has been in the personalization business for over 100 years and can set you up with exactly the right tools for your trade. All you\u2019ll need are the words.\n\u2190Better Business through Better Stationery\nThe Lost Art of Personalization\u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 7431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amgenscience.com/features/the-next-generation-of-biotech-manufacturing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BYGMKD6ELBHCDIC4M3FZZSB37ADHCYSU", "length": 10246, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.amgenscience.com", "title": "The Next Generation of Biotech Manufacturing - Amgen Science", "raw_content": "The Next Generation of Biotech Manufacturing\nAdvances in biotech manufacturing processes will allow Amgen to solve many of the challenges in making and supplying much-needed biologic medicines.\nBiologic medicines are complex and hard to make, which helps to explain why biotech manufacturing plants are huge and expensive to build. Amgen scientists have created a new biomanufacturing paradigm that is leaner, greener, more flexible and productive, and less costly to build and operate. The next-generation technology is advancing Amgen\u2019s goal of bringing the biotech revolution to more patients around the world.\nThe Next Generation of Biomanufacturing\nIt takes a lot to manufacture biologic medicines, and it\u2019s no small effort to make enough to serve all the patients who need them.\nThat\u2019s why biotech manufacturing plants are so big, with floor space that covers over a dozen football fields and medicine-making tanks that together hold nearly 50,000 gallons.\nBuilding only one of these plants can cost $1 billion or more. That price tag makes it hard to build new plants in regions where biotech drugs are scarce.\nThat\u2019s starting to change thanks to Amgen\u2019s commitment to next-generation biomanufacturing.\nThis vision is taking shape at Amgen\u2019s new Singapore facility. It\u2019s a biologic medicine manufacturing plant unlike any that\u2019s come before it. Less than one-sixth the size \u2026 built in half the time \u2026 for a fraction of the normal construction price ... projected to operate at one-third the cost \u2026 yet produce the same amount of medicine.\nHow? Amgen Science.\nThe redesign began with the cells and processes used to make biologic medicines. We\u2019ve engineered new cell lines that consistently make more medicine per cell. Then we give them an environment and nutrition that helps more cells to thrive and live longer. These improvements allowed us to shrink our equipment and plant while maintaining our output.\nNext-generation equipment isn\u2019t just smaller\u2014it\u2019s disposable and modular. Instead of using large stainless steel tanks, the medicines in Singapore can be made in disposable bioreactor bags. Instead of equipment that\u2019s welded together, the equipment in Singapore can be reconfigured. You can wheel in new equipment when you need it, so it\u2019s easy for one plant to change the mix of medicines in response to changing needs.\nA smaller plant also means a smaller impact on the environment. Compared to a big conventional facility, a next-generation biomanufacturing plant cuts carbon emissions and solid waste significantly, and it uses far less energy and water.\nA lot of the innovation in medicine comes from biotechnology, but billions of people live in regions with very limited access to these new therapies. By making manufacturing greener, more flexible, less expensive, and more productive, Amgen hopes to extend the reach of the biotech revolution to patients worldwide.\nThroughout the early decades of the biotechnology industry, one of the biggest hurdles involved in making a biotech drug was making enough of it. Unlike conventional pills and tablets made through chemical processes, biologics require the protein-producing machinery only found in living cells. But it\u2019s difficult to coax cells into making large amounts of a protein, and the yields from the early processes used to generate biologics were often meager.\nTo ensure that patients would not have to wait for a medicine due to insufficient supplies, biotech companies built huge manufacturing facilities. Today, a typical biotech manufacturing plant contains more floor space than a dozen football fields, with a footprint that often includes separate buildings for quality testing, utilities, and a warehouse. The medicine-making cells are grown in massive stainless steel bioreactor vessels, and the process of feeding the cells and extracting the protein is supported by miles of pipes.\nWhile the current generation of biomanufacturing plants has greatly increased the supply of biologic medicines, the cost of this investment mirrors the size of the plants themselves. A conventional facility can take four years and more than a billion dollars to construct. That cost represents a steep hurdle to overcome as the biotech industry seeks to expand its manufacturing base and reach more patients in regions around the world.\nFrom Visionary Concepts to Reality\nAbout 10 years ago, scientists at Amgen began to brainstorm more efficient and economical ways to manufacture biologic therapies. In laboratories and pilot plants, they started to test new technologies that could make the process leaner, greener, faster, more productive, and less expensive (see video above). Inside Amgen, this effort was first known as \u201cManufacturing of the Future,\u201d a term that was dropped when the vision for the future began to overlap with the present.\nThe new paradigm can be seen at Amgen Singapore Manufacturing (ASM), a biomanufacturing plant unlike any previous plant. ASM is the first commercial facility to incorporate next-generation technology and processes. The plant\u2019s formal opening took place on November 20, 2014\u2014just 17 months after ground was broken to mark the start of construction. The validation process needed to start commercial production is well underway.\n\u201cThe benefits of next-generation biomanufacturing are immense,\u201d said Amgen Chairman and CEO, Bob Bradway. \u201cWe are able to build one of these new facilities at a quarter of the cost and in half the time of a conventional facility, and we think we can operate it at one-third of the operating expense.\u201d\nIn addition to saving money, the Singapore plant solves a problem inherent in standard facilities. \u201cConventional plants are often built around a single product, and everything needed to make that product is welded into place,\u201d said Alison Moore, Amgen senior vice president, Process Development. \u201cTo ramp up production of another product, you need to retrofit the facility, so it is costly and complex to adjust to a changing product portfolio or changing demand. Most importantly, that impacts the speed at which a drug is available for sick patients.\u201d\nTo solve that problem, the Singapore plant has adopted a flexible, modular design. Conventional facilities use fixed bioreactor vessels that hold up to 20,000 liters of cells and growth media. By contrast, ASM will deploy 2,000-liter vessels that are portable and accommodate single-use bioreactor bags. Thanks to higher-yielding cell lines and more productive cell culture processes, these smaller, modular bioreactors can produce as much protein as the massive tanks currently used at conventional plants.\nFlexible Plants to Support Amgen\u2019s Research Strategy\nMost importantly, though, the modular design will enable plant operators to easily switch between different types of equipment to make different products. That\u2019s a critical capability for Amgen because the company now employs 13 different drug modalities, or structural formats.\n\u201cAmgen\u2019s research teams employ a \u2018Biology First\u2019 approach, where we strive to understand the biology of a disease before designing the right medicine to treat it,\u201d said Moore. \u201cThat\u2019s a core strategy, and we don\u2019t want our scientists to be constrained in the types of drug modalities they can use. Our manufacturing infrastructure needs to support this strategy, and a key way for us to do that is to have modular manufacturing.\u201d\nItem The Science Behind Next-Generation Biomanufacturing\nThe smaller bioreactors will also accelerate technology transfer between Amgen\u2019s pipeline and ASM. Commercial production in Singapore will be done at the same scale using the same processes and technology as Amgen\u2019s clinical supply facilities. \u201cThat will greatly reduce the time and expense of scaling up new processes and transferring them from smaller pilot plants to commercial manufacturing plants,\u201d said Moore. \u201cEventually, a facility like Singapore could be used to make both the clinical trial supplies and commercial supply for some of our medicines.\u201d\nThe modular, compact design will also lower the plant\u2019s environmental impact. With a footprint of just 120,000 square feet, ASM will provide major decreases in energy expenses as well as reduced carbon emissions and solid waste. Single-use bioreactors will also greatly reduce the amount of water needed to clean and sterilize equipment.\nSome of the new technologies being implemented in Singapore are also being adapted to make Amgen\u2019s other facilities more efficient, said Esteban Santos, executive vice president for Operations. \u201cWe are enhancing our manufacturing technology and processes across our network to help ensure that we can deliver for patients today and in the future.\u201d\nAs the biotechnology industry expands globally, millions of additional patients will be gaining access to biologic medicines. This growing demand for treatments, combined with cost constraints and increasingly complex global supply chains, have put pressure on the industry\u2019s ability to manufacture adequate supplies to meet patients\u2019 needs.\n\u201cPatients around the world depend on Amgen to reliably provide high-quality medicines,\u201d Santos observed. \u201cWe have an outstanding track record, and our teams around the globe are working very hard to ensure we continue to deliver for patients.\u201d\nNext-generation biomanufacturing represents a comprehensive solution to many of these challenges. A facility like ASM is sized to ensure supply for the global market, but smaller plants can also be built to meet the needs of specific regions or countries. \u201cOver time, our manufacturing network could evolve from one that is dependent on a couple of large anchor sites to a more dispersed network that includes small, fast-to-construct, easy-to-operate plants that ensure local supply of our medicines,\u201d said Madhu Balachandran, an executive vice president who oversaw the development of the new strategy at Amgen. \u201cThat would greatly facilitate our expansion into countries where biotechnology has yet to realize its potential. I don\u2019t think we have fully imagined all the benefits that could accrue from the next-generation biotech manufacturing as it matures.\u201d\nFor more information about the science of biotech manufacturing and Amgen\u2019s capabilities, visit www.amgenbiotech.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 11479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amnesty.org/fr/documents/ASA20/037/1993/fr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TRNYZMHCEJLZMWB47ITUL4PHGVYY2DIY", "length": 318, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.amnesty.org", "title": "Further information on UA 278/93 (ASA 20/35/93, 18 August) - India: fear of \"disappearance\": Jaspal Singh | Amnesty International", "raw_content": "Further information on UA 278/93 (ASA 20/35/93, 18 August) - India: fear of \"disappearance\": Jaspal Singh\nJaspal Singh was released on 9 September 1993. He had been held in police custody since his \"disappearance\" on 16 August, although officials refused to acknowledge his arrest and detention throughout this period.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 120.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anderson-funeral.com/obituaries/David-Baker-41/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2YAI3Z537ZC3ME32F6WQY4DGZUZJUWZ", "length": 468, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.anderson-funeral.com", "title": "David Lee Baker Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "David Lee Baker\nDavid Lee Baker, age 60, of Franklin, Ohio, died Wednesday August 16, 2017 at his residence. He was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 24, 1956 to the late Raymond and Marilyn (Wright) Baker. David was a graduate of Northmont High School class of... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of David Lee Baker created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nDavid Lee Baker, age 60, of Franklin, Ohio, died Wednesday August...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.andreachurchillbooks.com/blog/enter-if-you-dare", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:35Z", "digest": "sha1:T46RTGMBIU4AWZXKS3RZOZSH63NMI3NS", "length": 4475, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.andreachurchillbooks.com", "title": "Enter, If You Dare...", "raw_content": "Enter, If You Dare...\nImagine growing up in a town without any access to the outside world\u2014I\u2019m talking about complete isolation. No contact with anyone. No trading. No government. No laws. No school. Would you wonder about what\u2019s out there, beyond the borders of your town?\nImagine you, and the rest of town, live in such filth and poverty. Would you wish for a better life if you didn\u2019t know it existed?\nImagine that your town has no history. No one knows how the first settlers came to be there, or where they came from. Would you want to find out the answer to that mystery?\nImagine that you, and your town, are isolated and live like animals because your town is completely surrounded by a dark forest\u2026one that everyone says is haunted. Your whole life you\u2019ve been told that inside the forest lives a creature who will kill you if you enter\u2026and she is the sole reason why no one can leave town. You know that many have entered the forest, but none have returned. Would you question the myth of the creature? Would you wonder that maybe, those people who\u2019d gone into the forest had escaped your town and found a better life? Would you risk your death on the basis of that hope? Would you enter the Lerewood forest?\nA middle aged man did. And this is his story.\nAn excerpt from Chapter 4:\nAs he extended his arms to grope his way through the forest like a blind man\u2014which was fearful itself, for who knows what his hands might come across\u2014his hunger began to arise again. Holding his stomach, he took the meat from his breast and brought it to his lips, and it tasted heavenly. No matter how much he ate, he could not satisfy his hunger. His stomach was bottomless. But hunger was something that needed to be subdued at that point. Uallas had other things to worry about, like possibly getting lost and never finding his way back to town, or worse, being killed by the legendary creature.\nLerewood was nothing without its frightening curse. There wasn't a man or woman in town who didn't believe in Ilere. Uallas thought of his wife, and how she liked to use Ilere to frighten her children when they did wrong, how she threatened her husband: 'Go on! Go to the woods! Go to Ilere! You are worthless! You are not wanted here any longer!'\nShe is right, thought the man. He was worthless. He had no dignity for himself. He never stood up for himself. When he was screamed at and beaten, he didn't say a word. He didn't complain, or fight back. Uallas had no strength. Being mistreated for so long had certainly diminished his spirit. He had no peace in his life.\nTaking a walk through town did him no good; the citizens of Lerewood were cruel, vulgar people, and everywhere around him, Uallas saw immoral behavior and inhumanity. He worked all day in strenuous labor that he wasn't even skilled in, and when he wasn't working, he was being verbally tortured. Everything he did was scrutinized. Every word spoken to him was from a raised voice. He had no confidant, no friend, and no ally. But at that moment, he wished to accomplish one goal before his death, and answer at least one question of the never-ending curiosities that filled his mind. The forest had to have held some discovery, even if that meant finding Ilere. His death was unavoidable.\nCould any being, man or woman, walk through the Lerewood forest as he did? Though the man was frightened out of his wits, he continued walking. He had bravery, for he was ready to die. His life had never been worth the struggle. His desire to uncover the mysteries of Lerewood was not enough to continue suffering each and every day, for there was almost a guarantee those mysteries would never be solved.\nHere in the forest, his hope had just about come to an end. He had strayed away from the glowing trees and walked into the darkness. He was lost; there was no mistake about that. And when you get lost in Lerewood forest, you don't get found. No one comes looking for you, and you don't find your way back. The man scolded himself for hallucinating, thinking that the trees could think and plot against him, that they could glow a green light, in any direction they wished, like choreographing a dance. Because of his silly thoughts, he now found himself in complete blackness.\nAgain, Uallas thought of his wife and her words: 'Go on! Go to the woods! Go to Ilere!' He stopped walking altogether, stood in the forest for a few moments, then said aloud\u2014 surprising not only himself, but the trees and spirits around him,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/03/google-named-best-company-to-work-for-yet-again.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3RLHWECPUINOGE4KC4R2UKC3G7OEJRPT", "length": 2302, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.androidheadlines.com", "title": "Google Named \"Best Company to Work For\" Yet Again | Android Headlines", "raw_content": "Google Named \"Best Company to Work For\" Yet Again\nEvery year, Fortune does a list of the 100 best companies to work for. Google has taken the crown for the past four years and took it again this year to make it five consecutive years. It's no secret that Google is a great place to work. The search giant gives their employees all sorts of perks, including the ability to work on side projects while they are at work, which sometimes turn into a Google project. They also have a pretty relaxed work environment, making things easier for their employees.\nGreat Place to Work's co-founder, Robert Levering stated that on this list \"you'll find companies with other remarkable perks and practices\" noting that the eye-popping perks are only part of the story when it comes to the best places to work. Levering also mentions that he thinks you'll like how these companies are creating \"more equitable workplace cultures within an increasingly unequal society.\" We already know that Google/Alphabet was at the top of the list. Rounding out the top 10, we have Acuity Insurance in Sheboygan, WI; The Boston Consulting Group in Boston, MA; Wegmans Food Markets in Rochester, NY; Quicken Loans in Detroit, MI; Robert W. Baird in Milwaukee, WI; Kimley-Horn in Cary, NC; SAS in Cary, NC, Camden Property Trust in Houston, TX; and finally Edward Jones in St. Louis, MO.\nOther notable entries on the list include The Container Store at number 14. Salesforce at 23, USAA at 36, Riot Games at 39, Ikea at 63, Whole Foods Market at 75, and GoDaddy at number 95. Interestingly enough, Microsoft and Apple are not on the list. Google is the only large technology company (at least on that scale) to make the top 100 Best Companies to Work For list. That shows just how friendly Google's workplace really is for their employees.\nTo get these results, Fortune and Great Place to Work partner to put together one of the most comprehensive surveys available in corporate America and gets responses from everyone. This year, Fortune also spent a week at Publix to see why people are so happy there. Publix came in at #67 on this list, and Fortune states that during their week at Publix, the company had \"perhaps the happiest, most motivated workforce in America\". You can check out the entire list at the source link below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 9056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/book-of-colours-robyn-cadwallader/p/9781460752210?utm_medium=32028&utm_source=APD-Affiliate", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DKWV7C6I43C3FZJKI5PIOKI2U6WOFQ3N", "length": 2083, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.angusrobertson.com.au", "title": "Book of Colours | Angus & Robertson", "raw_content": "Book of Colours 1\nFrom Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours.\nLondon, 1321: In a small shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a book of hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. As each struggles to see the book come into being, it will change everything they have understood about their place in the world.\nIn many ways, this is a story about power - it is also a novel about the place of women in the roiling and turbulent world of the early fourteenth century; what power they have, how they wield it, and just how temporary and conditional it is.\nRich, deep, sensuous and full of life, Book of Colours is also, most movingly, a profoundly beautiful story about creativity and connection, and our instinctive need to understand our world and communicate with others through the pages of a book.\nRobyn Cadwallader has published numerous, prize-winning short stories and reviews, as well as a poetry and non-fiction. She lives among vineyards outside Canberra when not travelling to England for research, visiting ancient archaeological sites along the way.\nby Myrith on 28/05/2018\nBeautifully written and a ticket to medieval times......for anyone who is interested in Illuminated manuscripts and calligraphy it is a must read. Robyn Cadwallader's extensive research brings to life the era (early 1300's) in London......the riches, the squalor, the poverty...so well that the reader can almost smell and feel it. A book very difficult to put down once begun.\nThis review Book of Colours has been reported as abusive and will be removed from the website temporarily.\nContemporary fiction Fiction Historical fiction Classic fiction", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 594, "original_length": 14244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.annafreud.org/what-we-do/our-help-for-children-and-families/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:WPAPGWIYVBWGS5N54MILHXNZ37R33ZWY", "length": 755, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.annafreud.org", "title": "Our Help for Children and Families", "raw_content": "We provide a range of specialist types for support for children, young people and families, seeing them at the Centre, in schools and other settings. In addition to our direct work, we provide resources to other professionals to be more effective in their work. The overarching aim of our services is to build resilience and to help children, young people and families who are in distress. You can read about how we handle your data here: www.annafreud.org/privacy\nParents and carers: looking for help\nYoung people: looking for help\nOur Clinical Work and Projects\nWe offer a range of services, training, consultation and resources that support professionals.\nProfessionals: looking to make a referral\nUseful information for families accessing our services", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anthonylandscapesanddesign.com/walks-and-walls/project-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MGUGAHYGWTHT3QARG2WTJVM7YZZYAQTV", "length": 482, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.anthonylandscapesanddesign.com", "title": "Walk Project #1 - Anthony Landscapes | Anthony Landscapes | www.anthonylandscapes.com", "raw_content": "Problem: The homeowner needed a design that would seamlessly connect the front of the house to the back.\nSolution: Anthony Landscapes designed a walkway in keeping with the lines of the home and the owner\u2019s preference for a more formal style. The result utilizes a play of right angles as it moves from one outdoor space to the next. The square edges of the walkway and the pavers convey a sense of formality, while the plantings juxtapose softness for a pleasing play of contrasts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 2548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aol.com/article/2015/08/06/national-purple-heart-day-profile-kristin-beck/21218270/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XMS5SPQJPKKKNDAKAF37JXSY3UG4QLLU", "length": 4972, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.aol.com", "title": "National Purple Heart Day profile: Kristin Beck - AOL News", "raw_content": "National Purple Heart Day profile: Kristin Beck\nAs the nation celebrates military heroes on National Purple Heart Day, AOL takes a look at some of the most compelling, heart-wrenching and heartwarming stories behind those who have earned the prestigious award.\nFor two decades, Chris Beck was a senior chief with SEAL Team Six -- the elite team who took out Osama bin Laden.\nToday, after coming out as a trans woman in 2013, she goes by the name Kristin.\nShe is the first openly transgender former U.S. Navy SEAL, as well as the recipient of a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. She is now running for Congress.\nBefore she revealed her true identity, her life was a lie, she said.\n\"No one ever met the real me. No one knew anything,\" she told CNN.\nPurple Heart Recipient: Kristin Beck\nKristin Beck, \"the first openly transgender former Navy Seal\" speaks about pre-and post-Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal and experiences, the current status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the U.S. military at the the Library of Congress June 2, 2014 in Washington, DC.\nKristin Beck, \"the first openly transgender former Navy Seal\"and transgender former Army Spc. Joanna Eyles speak about pre-and post-Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal and experiences, the current status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the U.S. military at the the Library of Congress June 2, 2014 in Washington, DC.\nTransgender former US Navy Seal Senior Chief Kristin Beck speaks during a conference entitled 'Perspectives on Transgender Military Service from Around the Globe' organized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Palm Center in Washington on October 20, 2014. Transgender military personnel from 18 countries who allow them to serve openly, gathered to talk about their experiences and discuss whether the US military could join them. It is estimated that more than 15, 000 transgender personnel currently serve in the US military, but policy requires their separation if they are discovered, according to the ACLU. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)\nKristin Beck has been \"Barbie\" and \"Conan [the Barbarian].\" Now she's running for Congress: https://t.co/h9ARCvfxI9 http://t.co/MbBdLk42aN\nU.S. military may lift transgender ban http://t.co/rr8vLPgH70 #hlonare http://t.co/pnWoEzYyPV\nKristin Beck, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, speaks during a same-sex marriage rally to celebrate the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25, 2014. The U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday that conservative Utah may not ban gay couples from marrying, a decision that capped a day of victories for same-sex nuptials and nudges the issue closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY MILITARY)\nIn 2013, she published a book, Warrior Princess, in which she talked about growing up and wishing she could live as a girl. But her dad was a man's man and expected her to serve in the military so she chose the toughest branch of all: the Navy SEALs.\n\"If I could be at that top level, maybe this would go away. Maybe I could cure myself,\" said Kristin.\nShe got married and divorced twice and had two sons. In between foreign deployments she made covert missions of her own - to Victoria's Secret to buy lacy lingerie.\nDr. Anne Speckhard, the co-author of Warrior Princess, told INSIDE EDITION: \"Late at night [Kristin] would put on female clothes and sit and watch TV.\"\nIt horrified her wife, who said: \"Please don't ever do this in front of our kids.\"\nAt work, Kristin kept quiet about her real identity.\n\"If Kris had come out as transgender during her time in the SEALS, she would have been put out of the military,\" said Speckhard.\nPurple Heart Recipients By Major War | FindTheData\nWhen Kristin finally came out as transgender, her Navy SEAL friends had mixed reactions.\nStuart Smith, a former Navy SEAL, told INSIDE EDITION: \"I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I just don't understand the whole process of it.\n\"At the same time, he has a 20-year SEAL career and I have to support him for that.\"\nKristin says she decided to go public to encourage others to be who they are. She retired from the SEALs in 2011 with a Purple Heart and a Medal of Valor.\nShe is now mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a congressional seat in Maryland.\nKristin said: \"I fought for 20 years I fought for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want some happiness.\"\nRead more awe-inspiring stories about heroes who have earned a Purple Heart award:\nMeet Annie Fox: The first woman to ever be awarded a Purple Heart\nCharles Elder was shocked to receive the honor 65 years after he served in the Korean war\nHenry Johnson\u200b was a fiercely brave member of the famed WWII Harlem Hellfighters\nCalvin Winright's family had no idea he died a war hero -- until one woman found his award\nChris Melendez joined the military after the 9/11 attacks and now he's making history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 10243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/shropshire/ford/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:T36P7X2PGPL2I7VSLFJSMZJD3ZTOLMUY", "length": 3152, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.architectural-designers.co.uk", "title": "Architectural Design Services in Ford", "raw_content": "Architectural Design Services in Ford\nSpecialist Home Architects in Ford\nArchitectural Designers in Ford\nWe offer professional architectural design services in Ford SY5 9 for a range of projects in domestic homes and other buildings. With our expert knowledge we can create the right plans to extend or convert different parts of your house. This can include things like kitchen extensions and loft or cellar conversions to help you make the most of your space.\nPlease contact us today using the enquiry form on this page if you have any questions about what we offer as expert architects. We\u2019ll get back to you as soon as possible with more details on the costs and specifications. You can also look here - http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/garage/shropshire/ford/ to see how we can help transform and construct a garage.\nMany people now choose to have their loft or basement converted in Ford SY5 9 into a more usable space like a bedroom or office. This is one architecture design services that we also offer. This is commonly done for homeowners who want to create more space as an alternative to moving house. The area in a loft or attic is often wasted or used for storage, but it can be converted into a room for regular use.\nThe same applies to basements and cellars http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/basement/shropshire/ford/ which could also be redeveloped into a habitable space. In many cases there is no need for planning permission when you\u2019re looking to convert a loft or basement as the work is within the structure of your existing house. It\u2019s important to consider all the options and how you will use the converted area. You might choose to turn it into a bedroom, office, work studio, children\u2019s playroom or anything else you can think of. Deciding on this will help us to decide the right architectural specifications which will suit the function and what you need.\nHousing Redevelopment Specialists in Ford\nHome redevelopment http://www.architectural-designers.co.uk/redevelopment/shropshire/ford/ can consist of many changes to the property, and it really varies for each project. It could include things like adding an extension, loft conversion, or changing the layout of different rooms or parts in the house. Some people might even be looking to convert a house into flats or carry out more extensive construction work.\nPlease contact us for more architectural information about what we offer if you\u2019re looking to carry out home improvement works. Just complete the contact box on this page to let us know what you need and we\u2019ll get back to you as soon as we can with further details on costs. Our team can complete plans for things like loft conversions, house extensions and many other redevelopment options. These architectural design services in Ford SY5 9 can be tailored to suit you and your budget, so don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with us today.\nSpecialist Architectural Designers in FordAttic Conversion Company in FordSpecialist Basement Conversions in FordHome Extension Architects in FordSpecialist Garage Conversions in FordHouse Refurbishment Specialists in FordExpert Cellar Conversions in Ford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arlnow.com/2018/10/11/progressive-voice-strengthening-transition-into-the-community-after-incarceration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CNWQVHPNSS3X2HYB6U2RWMKGNWFRIQGV", "length": 5183, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.arlnow.com", "title": "Progressive Voice: Strengthening Transition into the Community after Incarceration | ARLnow.com Progressive Voice: Strengthening Transition into the Community after Incarceration \u2013 ARLnow.com \u2013 Arlington, Va. Local News", "raw_content": "Progressive Voice: Strengthening Transition into the Community after Incarceration\nby Progressive Voice October 11, 2018 at 3:15 pm 0\nBy Beth Arthur, Sheriff\nReentering the community after incarceration is daunting. Imagine being locked up for days, weeks, months or years knowing the stigma society attaches to it. Often, incarcerated individuals are unemployed with drug or mental health issues. They often have no family support and no housing, money or even photo identification when they get out. They may have no idea where to start to get back on their feet.\nAs part of our evolving and open philosophy to new strategies to ensure the success of inmates, we are concentrating fresh effort on this transition back into the community. This builds on our core responsibilities such as managing the Arlington County Detention Facility (ACDF) and overseeing Arlington\u2019s courthouse/courtroom security (Juvenile, Domestic Relations, County, Circuit and General District courts)/civil process service.\nThrough 18 years serving as Sheriff for Arlington County, my staff and I have continually looked for better ways to securely serve Arlington\u2019s 230,000 residents and to effectively manage and prepare the inmates for life after incarceration.\nOne example is the new Community Readiness Unit (CRU), established in May 2018. It focuses intensely on individualized reentry planning, work readiness and programming for substance abuse, mental health and life skills.\n\u201cThe CRU is producing a steady flow of purpose and promise,\u201d says Inmate Service Counselor Camille Watkin. \u201cMost of the inmates who participate in the re-entry and community readiness classes are also dedicated to participate in GED classes/tutoring, mental health, substance abuse awareness and work force programs in the community.\u201d Watkin added, \u201cThis group of inmates are seeking and learning coping skills.\u201d\nThe CRU builds on early work of the Arlington County Reentry Committee (ACRC), created in 2009 to ensure successful offender reentry, reduce recidivism and enhance public safety for Arlington residents. ACRC\u2019s goal is to assist those incarcerated with supportive services \u2014 such as job training or mental health services \u2014 so that they may more easily transition from jail to the community and sustain a life that will not lead to repeat offenses.\n\u201cAfter completing the ACT Program (Addictions, Corrections Treatment), I was placed in the CRU,\u201d says one inmate. \u201cIn the few weeks I\u2019ve been in this unit, I\u2019ve created a much needed network system and sharpened the tools I need to ensure success.\u201d He added that the CRU \u201chas allowed me to sustain my recovery by participating in NA/AA and the Cognitive Distortion Recognition program. I\u2019m staying positive and productive prior to my reentry to the community in a few days.\u201d\nOne distinctive of the CRU is that it brought many of the ACRC programs together in one male housing unit for individuals that are eligible. Individuals must be post-sentence 12 to 14 months or less, reside in the DMV area, participate in a formal interview and have no detainers from other jurisdictions. (Reentry services are also available to the one female inmate unit in the detention facility.)\nSome of the CRU\u2019s programs may seem surprising, such as Fatherhood, Wellness, Money Management, or Peer Group and Cognitive Distortion Recognition. Yet such topics can be just as vital to a person\u2019s successful transition as programs on Employability Readiness, Individual Re-Entry Planning or Addiction Awareness. All classes are conducted by Sheriff\u2019s Office case managers, Arlington Department of Human Services (DHS) staff, Offender Aide and Restoration (OAR) staff and volunteers.\nOur hope is that everyone that reenters the community from the CRU will, like the inmate mentioned above, have a network system and the tools they need for success. The key is helping them identify and eliminate barriers before they get out.\nACRC assists incarcerated individuals with a discharge plan focused on their needs, appropriate resources and referrals to enhance successful reentry to the community. Resources include ID cards, mental health and substance abuse services, shelter, and job placement. Our partners include DHS, OAR, the Public Defender\u2019s Office, and the Adult Probation and Residential Program Center-Shelter.\nInmates returning to the community face many challenges and those who have difficulty adjusting often re-offend. As the sheriff of Arlington County, I am committed to ensuring that individuals who are remanded into the custody of my office receive opportunities to \u201cright\u201d their wrongs and become successful citizens of our community.\nSheriff Beth Arthur was first elected in 2000 and is the first woman elected to a County Sheriff\u2019s position in Virginia. She has served more than 31 years with the Arlington Sheriff\u2019s Office. She is a member of the Virginia Sheriff\u2019s Association Board and served as its first female President from September 2012 through September 2013 and is a member of the Board of Regents for the Leadership Center of Excellence.\nPeter\u2019s Take: The Way Forward on the APS One-to-One Device Program\nThe Right Note: Metro Memo States the Obvious", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.army-technology.com/downloads/whitepapers/jamming/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:SWKPVZKDFLEEXWKJDCUK63M527LSAEU6", "length": 555, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.army-technology.com", "title": "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Army Technology", "raw_content": "Roke has a strong heritage of successful projects in the defence domain. 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Part of Zaatari's project for the Foundation is to create an archive of Lebanese photographic practice, especially through his research on the photographer Hashem El Madani. Madani claims to have photographed 90% of the population of Saida at his studio, Studio Shehrazade, which forms a record not only of social reality but social aspirations. Akram Zaatari has immersed himself in Madani\u0092s story, gathering an oral history through the stories the photographer has shared with him, recorded in Studio Practices. In Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem Zaatari builds on Studio practices, assembling elements from the \u0091archaeological site\u0092 of Studio Shehrazade. These works were presented by the Art Fund through Art Fund International.\n1) C-print photograph, wooden cabinet, Super 8 film and two video projections; 2) Photograph\n1 . 1) Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem; 2) Studio Scheherazade\n\u00a9 Akram Zaatari", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 351, "original_length": 9031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/how-nli-is-helping-turn-the-world-of-personal-assistants", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3LYKZWQQNX5E4USVTUXCC4YKYKJEF2NL", "length": 3366, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.artificial-solutions.com", "title": "How NLI is helping turn the world of personal assistants | Conversational AI Platform | Artificial Solutions", "raw_content": "Conversational AI Platform | Artificial Solutions > Blog > Conversational AI > How NLI is helping turn the world of personal assistants\nHow NLI is helping turn the world of personal assistants\nRemember the relief when the \u2018all in one remote\u2019 replaced the numerous controllers for the TV, the video and the stereo, and if you were really up with entertainment technology, an AV amp? Well we\u2019re reaching that impasse again now, but it\u2019s ten times worse.\nWe all have too many devices, providing disparate information, in our lives. So many in fact that we rarely manage to access all of their features and services and typically just stick to the ones we know. A bit like the washing machine \u2013 20 programs to choose from, but most of us just use the same two cycles and the occasional wool wash.\nMany device and appliance manufacturers have tried to make life easier for users by introducing apps that connect with one or two different devices or appliances to give users a certain amount of flexible control over how they receive information and when. But no one has quite reached that \u2018all in one remote\u2019 nirvana.\nBut what if you had just one app that you could converse with naturally, that would understand your needs and wishes and that eliminated the need for you to know intricacies of features and services, and just carried out that request.\nAt Artificial Solutions we believe that the personal assistant app has the potential to integrate all aspects of technology seamlessly into a user\u2019s everyday life. And unlike a real personal assistant, they would be available twenty four hours a day, wherever you are.\nNLI, our natural language app and the Teneo platform are our starting point to achieve this vision and whilst it is obvious that others such as Google and Apple see this overall vision too, it is also likely that we will take different paths to get there. But there are core areas that will be similar.\nAdvancements in speech recognition and contextual understanding will continue to be embraced by personal assistants. In addition, offering other forms of input such as text or gestures must also be included for moments when speech is not appropriate.\nThe personal assistant needs to work across all of a user\u2019s devices. The smartphone might be able to replace \u2018all in one remote\u2019, but users need to be able to access their personal assistant whatever they are doing for it to be a truly useful tool.\nWhether that\u2019s having the baseball game you\u2019ve been asking about on the way home ready for you to watch the moment you walk through the front door or simply asking the TV to update your Facebook status, the future of virtual assistants relies on their availability to interact with all digital aspects of our lives.\nWith NLI and our natural language app\u2019s persistence capabilities that already allow users to continue conversations across devices the reality of our vision is close. In the meantime you\u2019ll be pleased to know that we\u2019re doing what we can to make your digital overload a little easier.\nAmongst the new features in the next release of our natural language app will be the ability to pre-set the information you want our natural language app to wake you up with in the morning. Whether it\u2019s the latest share price, the weather forecast or who won the game last night or all three is up to you. It\u2019s your personal assistant after all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artoframachandran.com/learn-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ACYH7LEZ2XAZEXSK3OMTTSIAPXYCCKHB", "length": 134, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.artoframachandran.com", "title": "LEARN MORE - Art of Ramachandran", "raw_content": "We recommend these books to learn more about A. 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For the services brought to the country during the World War II, USS Parker received 4 battle stars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 4787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 59.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.askmen.com/money/career_300/311b_timeless-public-speaking-laws.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CJYGCY7UIX7U2PUQOPOAOMXRBTPRCXM3", "length": 2581, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.askmen.com", "title": "Public Speaking Tips - AskMen", "raw_content": "Know the room\nPublic speaking is stressful, so you should do anything you can to remove some of the unknowns. That's why you learn about the room your speech will be in. If you can, visit the room before the speech so that you can get a feel for it. If that's not possible, ask questions to learn a little more about it. How many people does the room hold and how many will be in attendance (this affects your performance \u2014 if you're speaking to 20 people in a room that holds 100, you'll need to really project for the room's energy to stay high.)? Temperature of the room is another detail that seems minor, but can make a difference; dress appropriately so you aren't freezing or worse, a sweaty mess. Finally, make sure you have any presentation and technology needs lined up ahead of time. If you need a microphone, projection screen or CD player, get them arranged in advance. We'll be the first to admit these are minor details, but there are so many variables and stresses in speaking that every little bit you can control in advance puts you at that extra bit of an advantage.\nDon't acknowledge mistakes\nNo matter how much you've practiced your speech, mistakes will happen. It's a nerve-racking situation, but you need to come across as poised and in control. You need to take yourself seriously if you want your audience to respect you, and that's why it's a rule of public speaking to not acknowledge your mistakes. Minor slips of the tongue will happen, but when they do, don't worry about them, and most of all don't call attention to them. Your audience will be working to follow the points of your presentation, so 9 times out of 10 they won't notice your slip-up, and the 10th time they won't care. Your audience isn't worried about your mistakes; their attention will follow where you lead them as the presenter, so unless you direct the audience's focus to your error, they won't focus on it.\nThere are as many types of speech as there are topics people care about. Speeches range from casual to formal, from an audience of one to an audience of thousands. Every speech is different, and that's why a little bit of planning ahead is going to pay big dividends in your level of preparedness. While nothing's true for every speech, these rules of thumb are timeless examples of how to give better ones. 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In addition a montuno feel is introduced in the piano part (B section), and the flute part is virtuosic and unrelenting.\nRecorded by Clare Southworth & Tim Carey on the CD The Bad Tempered Flute \u2013 The Flute Music of Andy Scott (Nimbus Alliance NI 6156), Salt of the Earth was premiered by Paul Edmund-Davies & Gabriel Sanchez at the National Flute Association Convention 2011, Charlotte, USA, in August 2011.\nThe clave rhythm that is indicated in the piano part (at the start of the piece, notes with crossheads) may be achieved by tapping on the piano, or by placing one hand inside the piano and muting a particular note, with the other hand playing the given note & rhythm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audleytravel.com/us/inspiration/off-the-beaten-track", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:42Z", "digest": "sha1:I7WJBG52JQC3SXGEDCZPOQDDEA3ACAVJ", "length": 2534, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.audleytravel.com", "title": "Off-the-beaten-track vacations | Audley Travel", "raw_content": "HomeInspirationOff-the-beaten-track vacations\nOff the beaten track vacations\nStart your tailor-made off-the-beaten track vacation with ideas and insight from our specialists\nLeave the flocks of tourists behind and journey into some of the world's remotest regions on a tailor-made trip that's off the beaten track. We're every bit as intrepid as you feel, and we spend time discovering the lesser known areas of our destinations, finding a richness of the culture that's matched by the lack of tourists. We bottle this firsthand knowledge into organizing trips that take you to untouched corners of the world, sometimes only accessible by boat or light aircraft. Trek in one of the largest mountainous rainforests remaining in Africa. Cross Siberia in Russia to 'the Land of Fire and Ice', so named for its active ring of volcanoes. Cruise through the icy landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula, passing penguin colonies. Places where the remoteness will live up to your sense of adventure.\nRecommended countries for an off-the-beaten-track vacation\nTailor-made Bhutan vacations\nTailor-made Laos vacations\nTailor-made Burma (Myanmar) vacations\nOur recommended off-the-beaten-track itineraries\nMachu Picchu and the Amazon Rainforest\nNorthern Chile & Easter Island explored\nOur expert guides to choosing your off-the-beaten-track vacation\n5 reasons to stay in an estancia on your trip to Argentina\nIf you enjoy horseback riding and are looking for an authentic Argentinian experience, staying at an estancia is a must. An integral part of the culture of Argentina, staying at a gaucho's home can either be a relaxing experience or you can get more involved.\nExperience an Argentinian estancia\nPeru\u2019s Inca wonders beyond Machu Picchu\nFormer Cuzco resident Fiona shares her choice of her adopted country\u2019s lesser-known Inca ruins, which share Machu Picchu\u2019s geography but not its fame. She explains how to delve even deeper into the best archeological sites of the Peruvian Incas.\nVisit Peru's Inca ruins\nThis guide features recommendations for things to do in Borneo. It focuses on the states of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, which offer a lot of variety in a smaller radius than Indonesian Borneo.\nBorneo's key attractions\nHaving first visited the country in the 80s, Nepal specialist Andy has re-visited multiple times. He shares his experiences of tackling a variety of Nepal\u2019s trekking routes and explains why it\u2019s the only way to access certain parts of the country.\nView the latest updates from our travelers on their tours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 384, "original_length": 10617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.augusta.edu/gradstudies/programs/ahs-ms-medical-illustration.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:5KX57LMCQLM4XKX3SCJYNQ5KPNK775RG", "length": 2959, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.augusta.edu", "title": "Master of Science in Medical Illustration", "raw_content": "Master of Science InMedical illusrtation\nThe Medical Illustration program\u2019s strengths are in storytelling, surgical and anatomical illustration, and animation techniques..\nStudents take graduate-level science courses, such as gross anatomy and cell biology, in addition to studying digital media and illustration techniques. An illustrator's work, unlike a photograph, must often show what cannot be directly observed in order to best communicate an idea or complex concept. Therefore, an understanding of basic medical subjects is essential.\nFaculty are actively involved in the profession and are leaders in their field. They come from wide variety of fields and specialties including: medical publishing, professional animation, editorial illustration, business management, and Anaplastology (facial and somatic prosthetics)\nAlumni are very engaged with the current students in the Medical Illustration program. Many of our alumni run their own companies. In 2015, 17 of our alumni (or their companies) won awards from the 70th Annual Conference Association of Medical Illustrators. The alumni that won were graduates between 1989 and 2014.\nEstablished in 1948, the Medical Illustration Graduate Program at Augusta University is the oldest and longest accredited graduate program in medical illustration. It is one of four programs in North America accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.\nOur 21-month program combines training in science, research and artistic techniques. To better prepare our students for a rapidly evolving world of communications, our award winning faculty guide the students through problem-based assignments that are designed to give them not only factual knowledge but practical experience as well. Our students also learn the fundamentals of storytelling for science in many mediums including: illustration, animation and interactive media.\nWe have a long track record of producing the top medical illustrators, medical animators and entrepreneurs in the field of medical illustration. As a student, in the Medical Illustration program at August University, you will be exposed to vast amounts of information in the classroom and through real-world experiences which will prepare you to excel in the field of medical illustration. This multifaceted educational approach allows our students to have 97.67% positive placement after\nWe are seeking bright and talented artists from a broad range of backgrounds. Many of our students come from art or science fields. There is no set path as long as our prerequisites are met. Our students have a desire to make an impact with their art and do not have to make a choice between a career in art and science. Applicants have included fine art majors, biologists, emergency medical technicians, surgeons and veterinarians.\nProgram Specific Admissions Requirements\nLaDonna Butler\nlbutler@augusta.edu\nAmanda Behr, MA, CMI,CCA, FAMI\nabehr@augusta.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autobarnclassiccars.com/vehicles/184/1977-harley-davidson-sportster", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NJEHDFGTISNKKKEJPXJBDSW5LLULDXZP", "length": 1143, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.autobarnclassiccars.com", "title": "1977 Harley Davidson Sportster | Auto Barn Classic Cars", "raw_content": "Stk. 2283 1977 Harley Davidson Sportster\nThis 1977 Harley Davidson Sportster XLH (3A code) has been nicely restored and may well be better than the original product. It is a great looking bike with a tank and instrumentation that appears to be from a '90s Dyna. In 2015, the bodywork has been refinished in Ebony Black and the seat was reupholstered in leather. There is plenty of chrome, medium rise bars, a headlight 'eyebrow' and alloy spokes. The XLH is powered by a rebuilt 61 cubic inch (1000cc) 'Ironhead' V-Twin. The 'Ironhead\" OHV design was the mainstay of these models from 1957 to 1985 when it was replaced by the Evolution design. It has two-valves per cylinder, 9.0:1 compression and produces 61bhp. The Sportster transmission is a 4-speed with left-hand foot shift and right-side final drive. Chain and sprockets are in good condition and a front disc brake had become standard equipment a few years earlier. Many of us have memories of Sportsters and this classic Harley will not be here long. Call 800-650-1055 or visit our website at www.autobarnclassiccars.com for additional information. ALL VEHICLES SOLD \"AS IS\"\n3A45578H7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoindustriya.com/racing-news/is-the-philippines-going-to-host-an-f1-race.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NXWQKJNMAF7FSUV5JGYZ6YSXHOMJU3IR", "length": 5057, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.autoindustriya.com", "title": "Is the Philippines going to host an F1 race? - Racing News", "raw_content": "Formula One Licensing company registers Formula One Philippines Grand Prix\nJet Rabe, Tilke January 27, 2019 11:54\nJudgement Day 2016: Philippines versus the world\nTen Minutes with Tanner Foust\nTeam Land Rover Philippines successful in the China - Sanya International Offroad 4x4 Challenge\nBangkok to host 2013 Race of Champions\n2013 Philippine Motorsport champions honored at 11th Golden Wheel Awards\nThe Philippines may be the next South East Asian country to host an F1 race based on recent trademark filings by Formula One Licensing BV made on January 7, 2019.\nThe licensing arm of Formula One (F1) recently filed trademark applications for the terms \u2018MANILA GRAND PRIX, \u2018PHILIPPINE GRAND PRIX, and \u2018FORMULA ONE PHILIPPINES GRAND PRIX\u2019 with the Intellectual Property Office in Manila on the first working Monday of the year. The filings were made by Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices in behalf of the company under the classifications of photo and video recording, printed material, leather goods, clothing, games and toys, broadcasting, entertainment, and sporting activities.\nWhile a patent filing does not automatically mean that an F1 race event is certain, it does signify interest. The Philippines does hold the distinction of being a host of the FIA Sport Conference in June of 2018.\nThe FIA is the Federetion Internationale de l'Automobile, the group that oversees worldwide motorsports events, including Formula One. Manila joined Goodwood, Munich, Mexico City, Turin, and Geneva as cities to have hosted the prestigious annual FIA event.\nThe filing could pave the way for a possible hosting of a Formula One Grand Prix event in the Philippines. The event will likely be held on a street circuit as opposed to a circuit which would take years and billions of Pesos to construct. It might not exactly be held in Manila, as logistics and traffic management would certainly be a nightmare.\nPampanga-based billionaire Rodolfo \"Bong\" Pineda who is described to be a \"sportsman-philanthropist\" recently began construction of a 5-kilometer Hermann Tilke-designed circuit in his Pradera Verde estate in Lubao, Pampanga. The 400-hectare mixed-use complex currently features a 36-hole golf course, swimming park, and wakeboard park. The upcoming circuit aims to be an FIA Grade 2 circuit that can host MotoGP, FIM World Superbike, and GT races. An upgrade to an FIA Grade 1 would entail additional costs for inspection and certification from the global motorsport supervisory body, as well.\nHowever, hosting the world's most prestigious motorsport event, an F1 race does come with the costs. According to an article on Forbes, the typical investment for an F1 circuit is about $270 million as it requires significantly more facilities than what a normal racing circuit would. Hosts would also need to pay F1 an 'annual race fee' which is normally contracted for 10 years, escalating that is nearly $400 million. The average running costs for a race was estimated at $57.5 million annually. On top of that, organizers would still need to spend on promotions which would entail millions of dollars more.\nSingapore spends nearly $100 million per year to host their F1 night race, \"lower\" than the usual $110 million they spent in the past years. This is shouldered by the government to help the promotion of tourism, which according to them has attracted over 450,000 visitors that contributed to about $1.1 billion in tourism-related income. They decided to extend their contract with F1 from 2018-2021.\nMalaysia, on the other hand, had decided to shelf their F1 hosting activities for 2018 after having hosted the event for 37 years. Costs and lower turnout have been cited as the causes of this decision. Over the past years, MotoGP has proven to be a better investment as it attracts a wider audience with a lower running cost.\nVietnam, however, is gearing up for its first-ever Grand Prix in 2020 on a street circuit in Hanoi. They are currently constructing 5.565-km a track, also designed by Tilke, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2020.\nThe Philippines currently has two international-grade circuits, one in Batangas and another in Clark. The Batangas Racing Circuit has hosted the Asian Formula 3 from 2003 to 2006. The Clark International Speedway hosted the Philippine leg of the FIA Formula 4, but it did not prosper as turnout was terribly low.\nFour-wheeled motorsport events in the Philippines is unfortunately not as popular as its two-wheeled counterpart. The lack of proper mass transit and access is also seen as the major stumbling block for motorsport events in the Philippines. Only a few and well-to-do individuals with cars could access racing circuits.\nThe feasibility of actually making money for an F1 hosting venture seems cloudy, this is a dream come true for the country if it were to be realized.\nLessons from driving in the 2014 Toyota Vios Cup\nStreet racing, the Toyota-way\nNismo Festival 2015 at Fuji Speedway\nHuracan Super Trofeo marks 10 years of Lamborghini's one-make race\nDriving with Kookie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 11378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/homeowners-insurance-hampshire/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QBFQWLOMC5DFU6FGXA2FH34S63PUCL24", "length": 8525, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.autoinsuranceez.com", "title": "Homeowners Insurance in New Hampshire | AutoinsuranceEZ.com", "raw_content": "Homeowners Insurance Premiums in New Hampshire\nDo you know what\u2019s not fun about buying your first home? Almost everything! Up until the moment they put the keys in your hand and say \u201ccongratulations\u201d, that is. But do you know what\u2019s not fun about buying homeowners insurance? Actually, the word \u201ceverything\u201d pretty much sums up the answer to that question. But at least you can rest easy knowing that you, your new home, and your property are protected against some of the worst things life can throw at you.\nHO-3 home insurance policies are very common in New Hampshire, as they are in many other states across the country. These policies cover everything and the kitchen sink. Both your structure and your personal property will have 100% financial coverage. Your liability and medical payments coverages will much higher than if you lived in any other state. And you get all of this for a low deductible of $500 per claim. Indeed, New Hampshire HO-3 forms are some of the most comprehensive in the nation:\nInterestingly, unlike in most other areas, New Hampshire insurers are willing to sell you coverage equal to 100% of the cost to replace your personal belongings. In most other areas, only a fraction of the total replacement cost is underwritten. While this might end up raising your premium slightly, take solace in the fact that not only are you completely covered, but it\u2019s a slight increase on a premium that is already well below the national average.\nAverage Homeowners Insurance Rates in New Hampshire Legend: Average Rate Manchester Nashua Concord Derry Rochester 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 $914 $861 $801 $917 $827\nBeing that New Hampshire is one of the smaller states in the union, there isn\u2019t a lot of geographical diversity within its borders. Not only that, but most of its cities are relatively close together. This explains why prices are pretty uniform from one city to another. But prices between companies, on the other hand, is a very different story. Choosing the wrong company could end up doubling or even tripling your rates, as you can see in the chart below.\nHigh & Low Property Insurance Rates in New Hampshire Legend: Lowest Estimated Rate Highest Estimated Rate Manchester Nashua Concord Derry Rochester 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 $804 $1206 $758 $1137 $705 $1057 $807 $1210 $728 $1092\nFor the most part, there\u2019s no technical requirement (at least, not legally) for any homeowner to purchase home insurance. But even if you own your home completely, it\u2019s still a good idea to have financial protection covering such a large, expensive investment. And for those who don\u2019t own their own home, but are still paying off a mortgage (or planning to take one out), your bank will make it a mandatory part of your loan agreement. So be prepared for that. If you don\u2019t follow their directions and get your home insured, you could end up losing your house.\nYou shouldn\u2019t start shopping around for homeowner\u2019s insurance until after you\u2019ve completed a thorough and accurate home inventory. Yes, yes, we know\u2026it can be an extremely tedious chore. But in the end, it\u2019s worth it. Taking a preliminary inventory now will make future annual updates a breeze. Plus, having an accurate account of the value of your property will make sure you only buy the coverage you need, saving you money on premiums!\nMost New Hampshire homeowners insurance policies will incorporate Dwelling and Personal Property Coverage, Liability Coverage, Medical Payments Coverage, and Additional Living Expenses Coverage into a standard policy. You may also need coverage for:\nFires \u2013 Main maybe a cold State located in a very Northern latitude, but that doesn\u2019t mean that fires and fire damage never happened. Thankfully, most standard homeowners insurance policies will cover fire and fire-related damage to a certain extent. But if you want to make sure that your home is covered in the event of a fire, be sure to ask your insurance agent to go over that type of coverage with you very carefully.\nFlood \u2013 as far as insurance companies are concerned, any of the following count as damage caused by floods: storm surges, wave wash, tidal waves, mud flows, or overflows from a body of water. To protect against flood damage, odds are you\u2019re going to have to purchase extra coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP. Most private insurance companies won\u2019t touch flood coverage with a 10\u2032 pole.\nWindstorm Damage \u2013 Windstorm damage is a completely different animal compared to flood insurance. If your structure is somehow compromised, any water that leaks in and damages your property falls under the category of windstorm damage. This peril is covered by most homeowners insurance policies; but you might still want to double-check just to make sure.\nCovering Your Property \u2013 The belongings you keep in your home are just as important as the structure that houses them. Remember the home inventory we discussed earlier? This is where that list comes in handy. Choosing the right amount of coverage for your property is tricky, but if you do it right, it can save you a ton of money.\nLiability Coverage \u2013 Just in case something unfortunate happens on your property, whether it happens to a person or someone\u2019s property (or both), liability coverage will protect you financially. But reconciling with the cousin who broke his foot on your broken step? Well, unfortunately, homeowners insurance can\u2019t help with that.\nUmbrella Coverage \u2013 What happens if you need more coverage than your insurer is willing to sell you? In this situation, you\u2019ll have to ask your insurance agent about umbrella insurance. This type of coverage extends your coverage limits by hundreds of thousands, or sometimes millions, of dollars. Just remember: The more coverage you buy, the more you\u2019ll need to spend in annual premiums.\nAre you worried about how much your insurance company will pay out on your claim, because you aren\u2019t sure what these two terms mean? Don\u2019t worry; unlike some other aspects of homeowners insurance, these two concepts are fairly simple to understand.\nLet\u2019s talk about \u201creplacement cost\u201d first. If you file a claim on something that your insurance policy promises to replace at cost, that means they will pay out 100% of whatever it costs to replace that item or that part of your structure. But not all of the items on your policy are listed as replacement cost eligible.\nThose claims that aren\u2019t eligible for replacement cost are paid out according to their actual cash value. Say your roof breaks, and some of your furniture below the hole in your roof gets damaged. But your policy lists these items as \u201cactual cash value\u201d items. Your insurance company would take their depreciation into account, and cut you a check for their replacement value minus their depreciation. It\u2019s important to know what does and does not fall under each of these categories; so be sure to clear that up with your agent when you begin to craft your policy.\nDifferent insurance companies will examine your credit in different ways in order to evaluate your risk. There are two phases of purchasing a policy where your credit score will be particularly important: the underwriting process, and the rating process. The underwriting process is when your prospective insurance company checks to see whether or not you are too risky to sell an insurance policy. If you pass their underwriting smell test, then it moves on to the rating phase. This is where your insurance company calculates what premium to charge you based in your perceived risk.\nDifferent companies will handle your credit evaluation in different ways. Some may not require your credit history at all during either of the two phases mentioned above. Other companies may only need it for the underwriting phase, while others will only request it when they finally rate you. Lastly, there are insurers out there who will request your credit history for both of these phases. Talk to your insurance agent to find out how their company handles a customer\u2019s credit history; if you play your cards right, you can get some serious savings for having good credit!\nNew Hampshire Homeowners Insurance Rates by Credit Score Legend: Median Credit Homeowner Excellent Credit Homeowner Manchester Nashua Concord Derry Rochester 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 $914 $649 $861 $611 $801 $569 $917 $651 $827 $587\nThe New Hampshire Insurance Department \u2013 Homeowners Insurance\nThe Official New Hampshire State Government Website\nrequests@ins.nh.gov", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 12355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/homeowners-insurance-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NSXROD3BV7BA5GYP5EZ2CAJEVEXYB24A", "length": 7244, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.autoinsuranceez.com", "title": "Homeowners Insurance in New York | AutoinsuranceEZ.com", "raw_content": "Homeowners Insurance Premiums in New Mexico\nAre you trying to get a good deal on your homeowner\u2019s insurance policy? Well, you\u2019re not alone. Whether you\u2019re a first time homeowner, whether you\u2019re active in the housing market, or whether you\u2019re just looking to see if you can get a better deal somewhere else, you\u2019ve come to the right place. Our handy guide will tell you everything you need to know about finding the best deal on home insurance in New Mexico.\nThere are a few states which rebel against the standardized homeowners insurance policies that many other states provide. New Mexico is one such state. The most popular type of insurance policy, also referred to as a \u201cform\u201d, is called the Special Form.\nThe Special Form offered to most New Mexico homeowners is a little more flexible than what\u2019s offered in other states. For starters, even though we filled in the form above with example amounts, you will get to choose exactly how much liability and medical payments coverage you want to purchase. Buying less will help lower your premiums, but may leave you financially vulnerable in the future. Adjusting your deductible has an opposite effect \u2013 the higher it is, the lower your premiums will be, and vice versa.\nAverage Homeowners Insurance Rates in New Mexico Legend: Average Rate Albuquerque Las Cruces Rio Rancho Santa Fe Roswell 150 300 450 600 750 900 1050 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 1950 $1249 $1052 $1180 $1318 $2048\nMost of New Mexico\u2019s estimated rates are based on the fact that severe storms and other natural disasters are fairly rare. However, keep in mind that the state does have an unusually high risk for home damage caused by wildfires. Other than that, averages across the state are fairly uniform, with some exceptions.\nIf those averages seem a little high (or, at least, higher than you would like to pay), you can help yourself a great deal by shopping around and getting multiple quotes from several companies. That way, you can find the best price with the best coverage for your specific needs.\nHigh & Low Property Insurance Rates in New Mexico Legend: Lowest Estimated Rate Highest Estimated Rate Albuquerque Las Cruces Rio Rancho Santa Fe Roswell 150 300 450 600 750 900 1050 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 1950 2100 2250 2400 2550 2700 $1099 $1649 $926 $1389 $1038 $1558 $1160 $1740 $1802 $2703\nMost people might not be aware of this, but purchasing homeowners insurance is only necessary if you have a mortgage out on your home. If you paid for it in cash, or you have completed all of your loan payments, then it\u2019s entirely up to you whether or not you want to purchase that financial protection for your property. It may be tempting to think it isn\u2019t necessary, what with the low frequency of natural disasters in New Mexico, but it might ease your mind to have some sort of insurance policy, just in case.\nWe\u2019re sure you know how much your structural home is actually worth; if you had to take out a mortgage, then you\u2019re very aware of this price tag. But what about your personal property? Personal property coverage is a significant portion of your overall policy. Yes, your coverage is limited to half of the cost of your structure, but what if the contents of your home are valued at significantly less than that? You could save a bunch of money by purchasing less coverage and lowering your premium.\nYour basic Special Form coverage that many New Mexico home insurance companies offer is fairly comprehensive, but it doesn\u2019t cover everything. On top of your basic policy, there are many other factors to consider. Such as:\nFires \u2013 As we mentioned earlier, the danger of a wildfire doing damage to your home and property is quite high in New Mexico. As a matter of fact, the state is #5 in the nation for frequency of wildfires. Bu with a Special Form policy, both your dwelling and your personal property are covered in the event of damages.\nFloods \u2013 Repairing damage from floods has become so expensive in the last 20 years that private insurance companies have almost universally excluded it from their available coverage benefits. But the government has stepped in to meet this need. Despite the dry, desert climate of New Mexico, if you fear your home might be vulnerable to flooding, contact the NFIP (National Flood Insurance Program) for information on possible coverage.\nNuclear Accidents \u2013 The atomic bomb testing days in the deserts of New Mexico are long gone\u2026or so they would have you believe. In all seriousness, though, this is one of the few (and also most unlikely) coverage options that is not protected against on a Special Form policy.\nDamage from Winter Storms \u2013 For obvious reasons, winter storms and damage related to them are extremely rare in New Mexico. But that didn\u2019t stop the winter storm of 2011 from causing over $55 million in damages. Thankfully, if something like that ever happens again in the near future, you can rest easy knowing that your home and property are both covered by your policy.\nCovering Your Property \u2013 While your outer structure is covered by an \u201call perils\u201d clause in your form, your property is covered only by \u201cnamed perils\u201d. This means that there is a specific list of perils that, if they happen to damage any of your property, your insurer will pay out claims on. Anything that isn\u2019t on that list is your financial responsibility. It might be a good idea to talk about the named perils on your policy with your insurance agent to see if you require any extra coverage that your policy doesn\u2019t provide.\nLiability Coverage \u2013 Yes, if an unfortunate incident happens on your property, you can be deemed at fault and sued for damages. But your liability coverage will take care of any financial responsibility up to the specified coverage limits on your policy.\nUmbrella Coverage \u2013 If you feel like your homeowners insurance company can\u2019t or won\u2019t sell you enough coverage, then you should look into umbrella insurance. It\u2019s an extra form of insurance that can protect your home and property up into the millions of dollars if it is valued as such.\nThese two terms are used to explain how much money you can expect to receive if your insurance company accepts a claim you file. Typically, receiving a replacement cost sum applies to the outer structure of your home. This means that accepted claims filed over damage to your dwelling will pay out all of the costs associated with repairing or replacing the damages. Actual cash value usually refers to your personal property. That\u2019s when your insurance company only pays out the value of the property minus depreciation. You will not receive 100% of that item\u2019s total value.\nNew Mexico homeowners and prospective homeowners are protected by the Personal Insurance Credit Information Act (PICIA) when it comes to having their credit examined for underwriting and rating. Thanks to the PICIA, your homeowner\u2019s insurance company can only examine a limited snapshot of your credit history. This is likely to give you a more favorable risk profile in their eyes, which could potentially save you money on premiums.\nNew Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance\nThe Official New Mexico State Government Website\nNew Mexico FAIR Plan\nOffice of Superintendent of Insurance\n1-855-4ASK-OSI (1-855-427-5674)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 11007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/texas/plano/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YJKA6ICEFV24JBKIVPFGFQDUUTM4ZRRC", "length": 11616, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.autoinsuranceez.com", "title": "Cheap Car Insurance in Plano, TX | AutoinsuranceEZ.com", "raw_content": "Would you like to start paying lower premiums for cheap auto insurance in Plano, TX? At AutoInsuranceEZ.com, Finding the lowest rates near you is quick and easy. All you need is your zip code and our expertise. Together, we can get you the monthly affordable premiums you deserve.\nIf you want to live in a safe city, if you want to rub elbows with the job creators of major corporations, or if you just want to live in a pleasant, quiet suburb within reasonable driving distance of downtown Dallas, then Plano, Texas is the place for you. Then again, if you\u2019re already living there, you probably don\u2019t need to be told all that!\nFun fact: Plano isn\u2019t considered one of the safest cities for some arbitrary reason \u2013 it was awarded this coveted distinction by Forbes Magazine. you can learn more about that and about Plano, Texas by clicking that link.\nDriving legally in Plano requires:\nDo you know the difference between all the different types of coverage which auto insurance offers? There\u2019s liability coverage, which is the bare minimum you need to drive legally. There\u2019s comprehensive coverage, which is what newer and more expensive vehicles need if you don\u2019t want to pay 100% of the cost associated with a crash that wasn\u2019t your fault. There\u2019s also collision coverage for the bumps and scrapes which tend to happen the longer you own your vehicle.\nThey say that everything is bigger in Texas, and auto insurance prices are no exception. The average driver could be paying $194 or more each month just to stay covered! But you don\u2019t have to be one of those people. In fact, shopping around for a new auto insurance policy in Plano may get you even better discounts than anywhere else in the state.\nAverage Monthly Auto Insurance Premiums Legend: Plano Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity GAINSCO The General 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 $48 $51 $69 $89 $243\nBecause Texas is such a big and highly populated state, you can imagine that there are many car insurance companies vying for your business. Some of them are major providers like Encompass, Mercury, and State Farm, just to name a few. There are other local companies such as the Texas Farm Bureau who want to offer specially tailored policies and rates which address the unique needs of Texans. Regardless of who you purchase a policy from, their customer service and their claims process can be just as important \u2013 if not more \u2013 than how much they charge you for your policy. So keep that in mind while you\u2019re shopping around.\nDo you know how Texas auto insurance companies determine how much each driver should pay for their policy? Well, it\u2019s a much more complicated process than you may think. There are a multitude of factors \u2013 such as your age, marital status, home ownership, and more \u2013 that may change how expensive or affordable your rate is. And the more you know about them, the easier it will be for you to \u201csteer\u201d things in your favor.\nMajor Car Insurance Factors in Plano\nFor better or worse, there are only so many things you can control when it comes to helping yourself lower your monthly car insurance premiums. The important thing is to become an informed consumer and figure out what the most important factors are. With that information, you can go on to figure out which ones you can change in order to get yourself the cheapest rate possible.\nThe most important thing your auto insurance agent will ask for is your zip code when it comes time to underwrite your policy. Why is this so important? Because they use that information to gather statistical data about how safe or unsafe it is to drive in your area. Living in Plano, the fact that there are 286,047 residents means that you are going to be sharing the road with a lot of people \u2013 increasing your likelihood of an accident. Furthermore, the fact that the median household income is $88,398 means your insurance provider may assume you can pay top tier prices \u2013 even if you can\u2019t.\nAuto Insurance by Zip Code Legend: Plano Dallas Fort Worth Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84 91 98 105 $48 $80 $49 $51 $97 $85 $69 $110 $90\nSurprisingly, compared to other cities in Texas of a similar size, there are very few fatal accidents experienced in Plano each year. You can use this information to your advantage when negotiating your insurance prices. After all, if your likelihood of a serious crash is so low, why not try asking for a better rate? As they say, it doesn\u2019t hurt to ask.\nFatal Accidents in Plano, TX Legend: Plano Fatal Accidents Vehicles Involved in Fatal Accidents Fatal Crashes Involving Drunk Persons Fatalities Persons Involved in Fatal Crashes Pedestrians Involved in Fatal Crashes 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 $8 $16 $3 $8 $21 $2\nAuto Thefts in Plano\nThe most recent data shows that there were only 395 auto thefts in Plano within the last year. Just like serious accidents, that is a remarkably low rate for such a large city. This may help get you a lower premium, or your insurance company may ignore it. But you can be proactive and try and lower your monthly costs even further by installing anti-theft devices on your vehicle for more security.\nBasic vs. Comprehensive Auto Policy Legend: Basic Coverage Comprehensive Coverage Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 $48 $320 $51 $218 $69 $188\nMany auto insurance companies believe that the higher your credit score, the lower premium you deserve to be charged for your policy. Many people in unfortunate financial situations may take issue with this; however, at the end of the day, there may be very little you can do about it other than work hard to improve your credit score. This isn\u2019t an impossible thing to change, but it will take time and effort on your part.\nAuto Insurance by Credit Score Legend: Good Credit Poor Credit Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 $48 $63 $51 $66 $69 $69\nDid you know that teenage drivers are charged some of the highest auto insurance rates out of any other demographic? There are many reasons for this. Lack of experience behind the wheel, poor decision-making, and a higher likelihood of distracted driving are among them. So if you\u2019re under the age of 25, it\u2019s important to do as much as you can to prove to your insurance provider that you are a responsible driver who will not get into an accident.\nAuto Policy Age Comparison Legend: 17 Year Old Driver 35 Year Old Driver Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 $172 $48 $189 $51 $368 $69\nYour insurance provider will look into your driving history and see how unsafe of a motorist do you have been within the last three to five years. If you don\u2019t have even so much as a speeding ticket, then you have nothing to worry about! It will be infinitely easier for you to find the lowest possible rate. However, multiple speeding tickets, multiple moving violations, or even something as serious as a DUI will send your monthly premiums shooting through the roof.\nDriving Record Legend: Perfect Record Minor Violation Major Violation Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 360 400 440 480 $48 $364 $496 $51 $143 $207 $69 $144 $188\nAll Things Considered, the odds are pretty high that living in Plano means you can afford to drive a very nice, shiny new vehicle. But guess what? Those types of vehicles tend to come with a pretty expensive auto insurance price tag. You\u2019re going to need a fair amount of comprehensive coverage to replace or repair damages if your luxury vehicle gets into an accident. Unless you are extremely risky or extremely confident, you can\u2019t exactly get away with purchasing the bare minimum coverage.\nCar Insurance by Make/Model Legend: 2015 Honda Accord 2015 Chevy Corvette Kemper Specialty State Farm Infinity 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 325 $48 Does Not Sell $51 $191 $69 $326\nMinor Car Insurance Factors in Plano\nGetting married, despite how expensive it may be, has its rewards. One of those rewards is getting a better deal on your monthly insurance premiums. And this isn\u2019t just for car insurance, either; you can get better homeowners insurance discounts and cheaper rates on other financial products. Just make sure you try and bundle as much as you can in order to maximize your savings.\nLots of different statistical models suggest that the fairer sex is the safer one behind the wheel. People attribute this to women typically being more cautious, level-headed, and less likely to engage in road rage. Well, some insurance companies are moving away from adjusting premiums based on gender, there are still providers out there who may alter your right by anywhere from 2% \u2013 3% based on whether you are male or female.\nPlano is a very big residential area which is equidistant from many commercial sectors. So based on where your job is located, you may have a relatively short or an annoyingly long daily commute. There is a wide range of workers in Plano who may spend as little as 15 minutes on average getting to the office or as much as 35 minutes trying to get where they need to go. Of course, this gridlock isn\u2019t going to look good when your insurance company is evaluating your risk and adjusting your monthly premiums.\nIf you\u2019re in the unlucky majority of people who have a longer commute time, then you\u2019re probably driving more miles each year, too. Some companies care a lot about your annual mileage, and they give you up to a 33% discount if you can prove your low mileage with a plug-in device. But if you drive many miles each year, it may behoove you to let your insurance company estimate your annual mileage and hope that they low-ball it in your favor.\nChanging your deductible can be a blessing or a curse depending on your luck. On the one hand, raising your deductible can save you a decent amount of money each month on your car insurance premiums. On the other, you may be in for a very rude awakening if you find yourself in a position where you have to pay that deductible. You have to balance out your desire to save money with your ability to pay a significant chunk of change in the event that you need to make a claim.\nEducation in Plano, TX\nMany of the residents in Plano have successfully pursued higher education degrees. The largest number, which makes up 37% of the city\u2019s population, has a bachelor\u2019s degree. Another 18% have a master\u2019s degree of some sort. As a matter of fact, finding an adult Plano resident who doesn\u2019t have at least one year of college or more under their belt is extremely rare.\nAs far as the city limits of Plano are concerned, aspiring estheticians can take courses at the Regency Beauty Institute-Plano. However, there are many prestigious institutions of higher learning a short commute away down in Dallas. The University of Texas has a Dallas campus in the city. There\u2019s also Richland College, Collin County Community College, Brookhaven, and Southern Methodist University just to name a few. With so many choices, it\u2019s easy to see why there are so many highly educated people living in Plano.\nSome people believe that they only have one of two choices: they can purchase a low-quality auto insurance policy on the cheap, or they can shell out the big bucks for comprehensive coverage and stellar customer service. But the truth is that you can have both. We want to help you find that perfect combination of the two \u2013 an affordable price with a reputable company \u2013 and we have exactly what you need to make that dream a reality. Just enter your zip code to start shopping around for free quotes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 15365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.back-to-iraq.com/2005/10/29/embedded-in-anbar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WNAKHJ2YE6WVNH4CQDENYYXOFAG6L5BD", "length": 5721, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.back-to-iraq.com", "title": "Embedded in Anbar \u2013 Back to Iraq", "raw_content": "CAMP DELTA, al-Karma, Iraq \u2014 Must make this one short and sweet, as I\u2019m running of of battery on my laptop, but since Thursday evening, I\u2019ve been embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines of the II Marine Expeditionary Force surrounding the garrisoned town of Fallujah. I\u2019ve not yet had a chance to get into the city proper yet, as the 2-2 doesn\u2019t operate there (that\u2019s the 2-6 and 2-7\u2019s area of operations) but al-Karmah is an interesting little town.\nIt\u2019s just to the north of Fallujah and Camp Delta, home of Fox Company, is nestled in between Fallujah and al-Karmah next to the old Oil-for-Food warehouse. (It\u2019s now an alleged staging area for the insurgents in the area who regularly poke their heads up and take potshots at the Fox Company.)\nI just want to share some notes and observations I\u2019ve made over the last two days.\n*Friday, October 28, 2005*\nFor the short drive to Camp Delta just across a half-hearted stream from the town of al-Karma, the Marines of Fox Company ride only at night. They do this to minimize the IED threat, says Capt. Mike Estes, the company commander, which is still ever-present almost a year after U.S. troops attacked the rebel stronghold of Fallujah and its surrounding towns, such as al-Karmah. Dust and grit pepper the googles of Fox Company, because they ride in high-backed, up-armored lorries instead of humvees.\nEarlier, Capt. Chad Walton, a spokesman for the 2nd Marines at Camp Fallujah to the south, said that Fallujah was closed to the outside world, with only residents allowed in after showing ID cards that proved their address. The Marines man five entry checkpoints to the city, turning away anyone who can\u2019t provide the proper credentials or whoever they deem suspicious.\n\u201cObviously, it\u2019s not foolproof,\u201d says Walton. \u201cBut it\u2019s way better than it was.\u201d\nThe Marines of Fox Company agree; they talk of driving through the old city without having a shot fired at them. But Fallujah is thoroughly occupied. Iraqi police and Army take second stage to the Americans, who aren\u2019t shy about showing their presence, in contrast to Baghdad where U.S. patrols are almost scarce these days until you get near major installations such as the airport or the Green Zone. The Iraqis aren\u2019t prepared to take over security operations yet, and it will likely be years before they can. Is a thorough occupation what it\u2019s going to take to pacify the restive cities of the Sunni heartland?\n*Saturday, October 29, 2005*\nIt\u2019s still dark when the Marines of 3rd platoon, Fox Company starts out. The idea is to get a jump on their quarry, the leader of a mortar team that has been peppering Fox Company\u2019s base, Camp Delta just south of al-Karmah. The air is cool on the skin and the sun brightens the sky from the direction of Baghdad. Ahead, date palms are black against the indigo sky, and lush greenery of reeds, cottontails, rice, dates and olive trees line the dirt roads.\n3rd Platoon takes it easy. The commander, Lt. Anthony Carter of Endicolt, N.Y., doesn\u2019t believe in the brute force method of cordon-and-knock. It\u2019s easier \u2014 and more \u2014 effective to take a more discreet and polite approach, he says. Whereas the U.S. Army excels are roaring up in humvees, soldiers piling out and putting on a show of force, Carter\u2019s Marines instead walk up to the house where they believe Ali Muhammad Saed, the mortar team leader, is living.\nThey\u2019re in luck. He\u2019s out front fiddling with his orange-and-white taxi. He doesn\u2019t seem surprised to see him and sits quietly while Carter orders all other military-age men in the immediate neighborhood to be rounded up and brought to Saed\u2019s house. Soon enough, three men and two boys are brought over and they all squat on the porch of the house. It\u2019s possibly the most peaceful and respectful raid in Iraq\u2019s history.\n\u201cThe days of just running in the house are over,\u201d Carter says. \u201cIf you flash-bang every house, you\u2019re not making many friends.\u201d\nSaed\u2019s capture is a lucky break, and maybe it will help. Because these days, Fox Company has been catching hell from insurgents who have been pushed out of the city of Fallujah and into the surrounding countryside since U.S. forces wrested the city from insurgent control last November. While direct engagements are rare \u2014 the Marines always win and the insurgents know it \u2014 IEDs and suicide car bombs are taking a toll on Fox Company. Since their deployment in July, the 2-2 has had 12 Marines killed. Fox company has nine guys out wounded and Carter\u2019s 3rd Platoon has had 6 purple hearts awarded \u2014 out of a force of 37 guys. Only one of 3rd Platoon\u2019s awards came from being shot. The rest have come from IEDs and car bombs. So numerous are incoming mortar attacks on Camp Delta that body armor and helmets are required anytime a Marine goes outside a building.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not more violent,\u201d says Lance Cpl. Thomas Cummings, 21, of Horicon, Wisc. \u201cBut what is violent is more intense.\u201d\nThis wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. As the political process moved forward, embassy officials said all year, the violence should decrease. There would be a coupling in increased Sunni participation and a decrease in violence. But most of the injuries that have befallen 3rd Platoon, says Lt. Carter, have occurred since the Oct. 15 referendum.\nJust two hours later, the nearby boom of an IED followed by the rattling of gunfire were a late coda his remarks. An ambush, somewhere. Someone else was catching it today.\nCategory: Dispatches, Iraq\nIn Huseybah for Steel Curtain\nAllbritton With II MEF\nI mentioned Christopher Allbritton, TIME stringer who went over by himself before he joined up with those guys. He\u2019s now embedded with the Marines in Karmah, a suburb of Falluja.\nFasinating work\u2013and looking at Allbritton\u2019s asides \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 7269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bafuture.org/member/barbara-lawton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2GYOAZYFARYYHK4XTRAQQ55WRHCMPJ6O", "length": 2171, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bafuture.org", "title": "Barbara Lawton | Building America's Future", "raw_content": "Barbara Lawton\u2019s work as a leader in the Doyle/Lawton Administration focused on economic development, and drove innovations in state government to better support success in a 21st century global economy.\nFormer Lt. Governor Lawton, as chair of the Wisconsin Arts Board, led that agency to take a central role in fostering a strong cultural and arts industry, both as a critical business cluster in the creative economy and to animate community and regional development across the state. With her leadership, the Wisconsin Arts Board guided the establishment of Film Wisconsin, a public/private partnership to build Wisconsin\u2019s film and media industry and the state\u2019s bill to create incentives for growth there.\nLawton built an unprecedented public/private/non-profit partnership to launch an economic development initiative to better harvest the talent of Wisconsin\u2019s women. She received national and global recognition for her work establishing Wisconsin Women = Prosperity.\nLawton led a multi-agency project to open new opportunities for growth for disadvantaged, minority and women-owned businesses. And she chaired Wisconsin United for Mental Health, building new partnerships to improve workforce productivity by increasing access to mental health care.\nLawton\u2019s Task Force on Women and Depression issued an acclaimed report used by a statewide coalition she led that worked for increased access to better quality mental health care.\nLawton served on a national leadership council for the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and led Wisconsin\u2019s pilot of the AAC&U campaign to align higher education outcomes with what students need to compete in this complex 21st century reality. Lawton served as Vice Chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association.\nFormer Lt. Governor Lawton was the first woman elected Wisconsin\u2019s lieutenant governor. Lawton graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University and earned a master\u2019s degree in Spanish at UW-Madison. She and her husband Cal have two children, Amanda and Joseph, both graduates of Green Bay East High School and Macalester College, and four grandchildren. Their permanent home is near Algoma.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bafuture.org/member/david-roefaro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YSY4BUKIRJS2WAMZD3Z5YRHVVRRB3EVG", "length": 1323, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bafuture.org", "title": "David Roefaro | Building America's Future", "raw_content": "David Roefaro\nFormer Mayor, Utica\nDavid Roefaro is a lifelong resident of the City of Utica. David has been married for 25 years to his wife, Cindy. Together they have a son Mario, 24 and a daughter Franca, 14. David has owned and operated Scala Roefaro Funeral Home, on Culver Ave since 1984. He attended Proctor High School, a graduate of the class of 1977. He then went on to Herkimer County Community College, and the Simmons College in Syracuse, NY, where he graduated in 1981.\nPublic Service has been close to David's heart for many years, and serving the people of the City of Utica has been something he has done throughout his life. In 1992 he became a member of the Utica City School District Board of Education, a position he held for five years. David was also a two term at large Common Council Representative for the City of Utica, a position he held for four years. Today, he serves as Utica's 75th Mayor, a seat he won in November of 2007.\nDavid has also served as the past president of the Tri-County Funeral Directors Association, and is a member of that board today. He is an active member in the Tau Phi Zeta Fraternity of Utica, NY, a member of the Sons of Italy, The Knights of St. John Commandary #385, and a long time member of St. Anthony's Church in Utica.\nDavid's official page can be found here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 87.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-xpm-2011-01-30-bs-gr-harbor-20110130-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:51Z", "digest": "sha1:A3EJG3GKBSBBQXIQJIDXRM7DXJ3NAFJJ", "length": 23708, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Healing Baltimore's harbor - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Healing Baltimore's harbor\nRay Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to clean up mini-landfills in back of abandoned houses.\nNow, the physician \u2014 who once helped launch a national movement to treat chest pain before it can lead to fatal attacks \u2014 has another sick patient, another crusade. He wants to help heal the watery heart of Baltimore \u2014 its harbor \u2014 and in the process perhaps bring a fractured city a little closer together.\n\"You clean up the harbor by cleaning up the city, block by block,\" he says simply.\nBahr is part of a growing band of concerned citizens, environmental activists, outdoors enthusiasts and business people pressing to reclaim the centerpiece of the city.\nIt's a daunting task. The Northwest and Middle branches of the Patapsco River, which form Baltimore's harbor, are littered with trash, unfit to swim in and plagued by algae blooms and fish kills. In places, the water is dirty enough to make you ill if it gets into a cut or you touch it and then touch your nose or mouth. The bottom is a toxic wasteland that makes many fish caught in the harbor unsafe to eat.\nAnd even though the harbor is not as polluted as it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when factories spewed untreated waste into the water, conditions are nothing to brag about. The Patapsco and Back rivers, which drain much of the metro area, received failing grades on last year's report card on the Chesapeake Bay's health. Baltimore's harbor is arguably the most polluted spot along the estuary \u2014 and, by some accounts, the most neglected.\nNow, though, pressure is building to do something about it. Drawn by the real estate renaissance along the waterfront during the past 30 years, stretching from Canton and Fells Point around the Inner Harbor to Locust Point, a new generation of residents and workers is agitating to clean up the harbor.\nResidents such as Bahr are organizing cleanup campaigns in neighborhoods where trash can be swept into the harbor. Activists have pushed state and federal governments to the verge of ordering the city to halt the torrent of trash that washes into the harbor \u2014 two to three tons in a single day after a heavy rain. They've documented how bad the water is \u2014 with \"shockingly high\" bacteria counts in places such as are more typically found in an unflushed toilet.\nThe Waterfront Partnership, a coalition of businesses, civic groups and city agencies, has called together scientists, government officials and community leaders across the metropolitan area to forge a plan for making the harbor swimmable and fishable by the end of the decade. The partnership is sponsoring a conference Saturday on the state of the harbor and what can be done to clean it up.\n\"We really believe \u2026 the time is now to do this,\" says Michael Hankin, the Waterfront Partnership's chairman and chief executive of Brown Advisory, a Baltimore investment group with offices in Fells Point.\nSuch a campaign might have seemed a pipe dream not long ago. And even supporters acknowledge that it may be unrealistic, given the challenges. But several forces \u2014 demographic, economic and legal \u2014 are converging to bring more attention to the harbor's ills than ever before.\n'300 years of damage'\nLike the rest of the Chesapeake, the harbor is choking on nutrients \u2014 nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage, lawn fertilizer and pet waste. That overdose of nutrients feeds algae blooms, triggering fish kills when oxygen levels in the water dip.\nBut the harbor's problems are deeper and broader than the bay's.\nFor centuries, Baltimore's harbor was a dumping ground for raw sewage from the city's residents as well as wastes from the factories, canneries and fishmongers that crowded the waterfront.\nToday, industries that once lined the shore are mostly gone, replaced by offices, restaurants, shops and expensive waterfront homes whose owners include author Tom Clancy. The factories that remain are required to treat their discharge, and the city has upgraded its sewage treatment plants.\nThe city has a small flotilla of vessels that skim trash from the Inner Harbor. And under a federal consent decree, the city expects to spend $1 billion to fix aged, failing sewer lines that routinely overflow, dumping raw waste into streams that flow into the harbor.\n\"We're undoing 300 years of damage,\" says Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works. The city's efforts are changing the role of the harbor, he says, \"from being a sewer, a dumping ground, an industrial pit, to being an asset for recreation and tourism and aesthetics.\"\nMany, though, say the reality is far less.\nMarc Daemen, a coach at the Baltimore Rowing Club, has rowed competitively around the world. Nowhere has he had to contend with as much floating trash, he says, as in the Patapsco.\n\"I've been in most countries in Europe, and it's dirty, but not with foam cups and debris,\" he says. \"Across the U.S., I haven't seen anything like here. Maybe Philly is close. Everywhere in Virginia, Florida and Boston is cleaner than here.\"\nThe city's trash skimmers pick up one-third of a ton of floating debris on clear days and 2 to 31/2 tons on a rainy day, according to city officials.\nMuch of it washes into the harbor from the Jones Falls and the Gwynns Falls, rivers that begin as brooks beyond the Beltway in Baltimore County before wending their way through the city.\nBut the skimmers are not enough. In an eight-month stretch in 2008, more than 300,000 pounds of debris were collected by a solar-powered trash interceptor placed at the mouth of the Jones Falls where it empties into the Inner Harbor. Among the detritus: some 189,000 plastic bottles, 177,000 chip bags, 160,000 foam cups, 58,000 grocery bags and more than a million cigarette butts.\nPetitioned by activists and citizens to do something about the debris, three years ago the state and federal governments declared Baltimore's harbor impaired by trash. The Maryland Department of the Environment is expected by next year to order the city and Baltimore County to come up with plans to eliminate floating litter.\nUnsightly trash is but the most visible of the harbor's water quality problems. In many places, it is not safe to swim because of what you cannot see.\nEliza Smith Steinmeier, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, part of a local water-quality watchdog group, spent most of 2009 helping the city's Department of Public Works collect water samples from about two dozen spots around the harbor, to have them tested for disease-causing bacteria, likely from human sewage. The lab looks for enterococci bacteria, an organism that indicates the presence of human or animal waste.\nParts of the harbor often were relatively clean \u2014 the Patapsco beyond Fort McHenry, and parts of the Middle Branch. Others, particularly the Inner Harbor and along Canton's waterfront, had bacteria counts hundreds or thousands of times the level deemed safe for even casual contact with the water, never mind swimming.\nAccidental swallowing or splashing of the contaminated water into the mouth or nose could lead to diarrhea, nausea and stomachache. Those with compromised immune systems or open cuts risk more serious illness or infection.\nUnder state water-quality standards, a public bathing beach cannot have bacteria counts higher than 35 organisms per 100 milliliters \u2014 less than a teacup's worth \u2014 of water. For open water to be deemed safe for regular swimming, bacterial counts should not exceed 104, while any reading above 500 is considered to pose a risk of becoming ill just by jumping or falling in.\nThe highest bacteria counts in the harbor often occurred after storms, indicating that rain was washing sewage or animal waste into the water through storm drains. Tests within a day of heavy rains found bacteria levels of more than 1.6 million organisms per 100 milliliters near the Power Plant, 900,000 in Canton, 80,000 off Broadway Pier in Fells Point and 50,000 off the waterfront residences at Harborview. Some places had high bacteria counts all of the time.\nSally G. Hornor, a microbiologist at Anne Arundel Community College who has been monitoring water quality at beaches and marinas in the Severn River for more than a decade, calls the bacteria levels in Baltimore harbor \"shockingly high.\"\n\"I'm really amazed that they're that high all the time,\" says Hornor, who reviewed harbor bacteria data sent to her by The Baltimore Sun. \"I just think about all those little paddleboats people go out in in the summer, and you know they're being splashed.\"\nPaddleboat and electric boat renters are not warned about bacteria in the water, says Christopher Rowsom, a manager with the Living Classrooms Foundation, which runs the Inner Harbor concession. He says he and other foundation staff members have worked on and around the boats for months at a time without becoming ill. But he acknowledged that contaminated water in the Inner Harbor could pose health risks for someone with a compromised immune system.\nOn its website the city Health Department carries a recommendation against swimming in the harbor and urges boaters to wash their hands before eating or after leaving a boat. But while the city has posted signs in streams feeding the harbor warning that the water could make people ill, no similar cautions are posted at the harbor's edge.\nThose who frequent the water say they are generally aware of its health risks.\n\"You just make sure you don't paddle with your mouth open,\" says Kerri Bliss, a member of the Baltimore Dragon Boat Club, which practices on the harbor from spring through fall and hosts a race here. \"If you have an open cut, you just don't go out on the water.\" Bliss says she also keeps hand sanitizer in the glove compartment of her vehicle to use once she gets off the water.\nMany of the dirtiest spots in the harbor are near storm drain outfalls. Those drains, and the maze of pipes connecting them beneath the city streets, provide conduits for carrying away rainfall running down city streets. They often also carry sewage when nearby sewer pipes break or overflow.\nIn 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the city to make extensive repairs in an attempt to cut down on sewage overflows and leaks. The city has completed repairs or replacement of 39 main sewer lines that routinely overflowed in hard rains. The cost so far: $348 million.\nCity officials say the efforts have paid off in a major reduction in the amount of sewage leaking into storm drains, streams and the harbor. While the number of sewage overflows the city reports to the state has increased in the past five years, from 122 in 2005 to 181 last year, the volume of sewage the city says got into the water has declined by two-thirds, from nearly 4.8 million gallons five years ago to 1.6 million gallons last year.\nStill, there's enough untreated waste leaking from other, smaller sewer lines to foul the streams feeding into the harbor. Sampling done by the city of its urban streams shows no real improvement in the high bacteria counts that render them unfit for water recreation, acknowledged Bill Stack, a watershed consultant who until last year oversaw water-quality efforts at the city's Department of Public Works.\nThe Maryland Department of the Environment has declared parts of the Inner Harbor and Middle Branch impaired by bacteria. State officials are weighing whether to require the city and Baltimore County to reduce sewage leaks still more and to prevent pet waste from getting into storm drains.\n\"Does this mean our streams are constantly in a state of impairment?\" Kocher asks. \"There's always going to be some of that to a small extent.\" But he said the city's waterways slowly are regaining vitality. \"You're seeing some wildlife return, some fish return, some amphibians return.\"\nIndeed, an underwater video shot last year by the National Aquarium revealed rockfish, white perch, spot, menhaden and a few small blue crabs lurking beneath a small floating wetland the aquarium had anchored off its pier. Tiny mussels coated its submerged bottom.\n\"There is actually plenty of life in the harbor,\" says David Nemerson, a conservation biologist with the aquarium.\nToxic hotspot\nSome of the fish, however, are not safe to eat because of lingering toxic pollution.\nThe state warns anglers against eating bottom-feeding catfish or eels from the harbor. And because even low levels of toxic chemicals can harm children's development, the state advises women and children not to eat white perch and to limit their consumption of crabs. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, once widely used as an insulator for electrical equipment, have shown up in tissue of fish caught in the harbor, as have traces of long-banned pesticides such as chlordane. PCBs have caused cancer in lab animals and are considered a probable human carcinogen.\nState environmental officials also warn anyone eating crabs caught in the Patapsco or Back rivers against consuming the \"mustard,\" the yellowish substance found beneath the shells of steamed crabs. It's where PCBs tend to concentrate.\nDespite the potential contamination of fish and crabs from the harbor, there are no signs posted at popular fishing spots on the Middle Branch to alert the public to what they should avoid eating.\nThe problem with fish and crabs in the harbor stems largely from past pollution, officials say. Contaminants from long-closed factories remain buried in the sediments on the harbor bottom, where they get into the food chain via fish that feed on worms and little clams that live in the muck.\nBut industrial pollution is still entering the harbor, activists point out.\nThe Inner Harbor is bracketed by factories that continue to discharge wastes, such as the Severstal steel mill at Sparrows Point and the Grace Davison chemical plant in Curtis Bay. The Severstal mill reported releasing nearly 10,000 pounds of manganese, copper and chromium in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, while the Grace plant reported discharging nearly a half-million pounds of nitrates and ammonia. All those discharges are legal, permitted under state regulation.\nPerhaps the harbor's biggest problem these days comes from the wastes and contaminants washing off city and suburban streets and parking lots into storm drains. And while the city dumped dirty snow from last year's blizzards into the harbor, the impact of that onetime move is inconsequential compared with what people leave in the streets and gutters on a daily basis.\n\"People are just washing dog poop down the storm drain,\" says Halle Van der Gaag, deputy director of Blue Water Baltimore, a new watershed group promoting efforts to restore the harbor and the streams that drain into it.\nThe city has taken steps to tackle the problem, spending $3.8 million a year on mechanical street sweeping, for instance. A handful of storm drains in the Franklin Square area of West Baltimore have been retrofitted to divert rain into small gardens, where oil and other contaminants can be trapped before they can reach streams that feed the Gwynns Falls.\nBut the city will soon face a new mandate, long delayed, to do much more to reduce pollution from its streets, alleys and parking lots. The state Department of the Environment has been drafting a new storm-water permit for Baltimore that is expected to require the city, among other things, to retrofit many of its storm drains and rip up acres of pavement so rain can soak into the ground again.\nCity officials have estimated that it could cost $20 million to $30 million a year to meet the new requirements. That's money the city doesn't have. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has endorsed the goal of making the harbor swimmable and fishable, and even joked with the Waterfront Partnership's Hankin about joining him in an inaugural triathlon, one leg of which would involve swimming across the harbor.\nBut last year, money that the city spends to clean trash from streets and storm drains was nearly cut from the budget. And the city, like most communities in Maryland, does not charge a fee for maintaining its storm drains and controlling runoff.\n\"Eventually, the city is going to have to invest more in our storm-water infrastructure over the long term,\" Ryan O'Doherty, the mayor's spokesman, said in an e-mail. Officials are studying how to pay for it, he said, but can't do much until the economy and the city's finances improve.\nMaryland environmental officials say they're addressing the harbor's woes through state-funded upgrades of the city's Patapsco and Back River sewage plants, among other things, and with orders they're working on to reduce storm-water pollution and trash in the harbor. But such regulatory actions take years to unfold.\nFederal officials say they're relying mainly on the state to see that the harbor gets the attention it needs. Last year, the EPA did fine the city $90,000 for a series of lapses in controlling polluted runoff from municipal facilities, more than a year after finding them in a spot inspection. The state also fined the city $60,750 for sewer overflows.\nThe Waterfront Partnership has gotten tired of waiting.\n\"A couple years ago, there was a big fish kill in the Inner Harbor,\" recalls Van Reiner, president of the Maryland Science Center and a leader of the partnership. \"There was a terrible, terrible odor. People wouldn't come down there. We decided to do something. We just couldn't stand to have that happen again.\"\nSo it launched a \"healthy harbor\" campaign last year. The group has created floating wetlands and commissioned a report card on the health of the harbor from the University of Maryland. It has also hired consultants to draw up a comprehensive harbor restoration plan that could serve as a road map for cleanup efforts. The plan isn't due until May, but the partnership plans to present a preview at its conference Saturday.\n\"We've been waiting for these permits [requiring the city and county] to clean up the harbor for years, and they're just not that specific,\" says Stack, who's helping to write the harbor restoration plan. He spent three decades with the city trying to clean Baltimore's waters. Now, as deputy director of the Center for Watershed Protection, a nonprofit consulting firm in Ellicott City, he says he's more hopeful than ever that real improvements can be made.\nEven so, he says, making the harbor swimmable by 2020 is \"a little ambitious, given the reality of what it's going to take for people to gear up.\" Raising the money will be tough. To win over the public, he says, the fight to restore the harbor must take place where people can see the benefits \u2014 on land.\nGrass-roots in Harris Creek\nRay Bahr has been working on that, at the grass-roots. For him, it's about reclaiming a community where he grew up. Bahr says he took up the cause of the harbor at the suggestion of his son, who works for the state Department of the Environment.\n\"When you retire, you don't lose energy,\" he says. \"What I like to do is give back, bring back something that's correctible.\"\nFor more than a year, he's worked with city officials, groups such as the Parks & People Foundation and with neighborhood leaders drawing up a plan for \"cleaning and greening\" a 2-square-mile swath of the city that drains into the harbor at Canton through one of 26 storm drain outfalls around the edge. The solar-powered trash interceptor once anchored at the mouth of the Jones Falls has been moved there, where until recently it has been capturing up to five tons of debris before it could wash into the harbor.\nThe outfall was once the mouth of Harris Creek, a tidal inlet that stretched all the way to Patterson Park. Today, the creek is buried beneath the streets, as are most of the streams in the city. But its old bed has become the spine of a 53-mile network of storm sewer pipes connecting 17 neighborhoods that stretches inland to Clifton Park. With 70 percent of the land paved over, officials say cleaner water will only come by replacing some of that pavement with green spaces \u2014 and by changing people's behavior.\nFor many Baltimoreans who don't live near the water, though, the harbor is a tourist attraction, not something they relate to. In some of the neighborhoods that drain into the harbor in Canton, incomes average $12,000 a year. Planners say there are 5,000 vacant homes and roughly as many empty lots in the whole storm-drain watershed, which is home to 44,000 people.\n\"The average citizen in our city could care less about the Inner Harbor,\" says Russell E. Stewart, 81, who lives near the watershed's northern boundary. \"The prices are so high we can't afford to go there.\" Stewart warned that \"if you do not win the community over, you can forget it. You'll be wasting your time and money.\"\nBahr acknowledges that he and other activists ran into skeptics, even suspicion, when they first ventured into poor inland neighborhoods. However, the residents told them they want better neighborhoods, but said they were often ignored by the city when they called to report trash dumped illegally in their alleys and vacant lots.\nLast summer, in a bid to overcome those gaps, Bahr helped organize a 10-week cleanup campaign in a 4,000-home area of the Harris Creek watershed. Bahr and other volunteers scouted streets and alleys for trash and reported it to the city, which sent out crews to clean it. They gave out 500 trash cans in neighborhoods where many residents persist in putting trash out in bags \u2014 which get torn apart by dogs, cats and rats.\nIn all, they cleaned up more than 100 sites littered with debris. The biggest hauls came from the backyards of vacant homes, Bahr says, which had become mini-landfills over time, and which the city had largely ignored because they were on private property.\nSince then, Bahr says, the outpouring of trash washing out of the storm outfall in Canton appears to have fallen by as much as half. To build on that, Bahr says, he's trying to persuade the city to provide 5,000 more trash cans to give to residents. With that gesture, which Bahr estimates would cost the city $70,000, he says neighborhood leaders have pledged that they'll police their blocks and call out residents who persist in putting bags of trash out for pickup.\nCity officials say they've no money and besides, they've given away inexpensive trash cans before, only to see them disappear. But Bahr contends the effort is worth trying again, that the potential gain is worth the relatively small cost.\nIf neighborhoods as different as Canton and Patterson Park and Darley Park can work together to clean up trash, Bahr hopes that will lead to other improvements mapped out in the Harris Creek plan, such as creating more parks and community gardens on vacant lots. And maybe it can serve as a model for the rest of the city.\nThere are those who doubt that Baltimoreans can come together like that, he acknowledges. The city has a lot of other pressing problems pulling people in different directions. But he says he believes that cleaning up and greening neighborhoods not only will restore the harbor, it can help make the city safer and a better place to live and work.\n\"It's a challenge,\" he says. \"But to me, it's what bringing Baltimore back is all about.\"\nBaltimore Sun reporter Meredith Cohn contributed to this article.\nBaltimore city sewage overflows\n2005: 122 overflows, 4,754,828 gallons\n2006: 75 overflows, 69,505,394 gallons\n2007: 74 overflows, 549,564 gallons\nSOURCE: Maryland Department of the Environment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 24452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bandbcuba.com/blog/to-see-and-do/10-things-you-can-do-in-varadero/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JLQHYCNWGHKCZXFUGSUQMJZABLZEMDBR", "length": 8315, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.bandbcuba.com", "title": "10 things you can do in Varadero | BandBCuba", "raw_content": "Mon 04 Jun 2018 - 0\nThe amount of tourist destinations in Cuba is large. As specialist in a trip to Cuba, we will show you the best things you can do in Varadero. So, you can enjoy all the goods that the island offers to you. Do you like outdoors activities? Keep reading and learn more about the places to visit.\nThe best things you can do in Varadero\nVaradero is one of the most visited places on the island. Its natural attractions make this city one of the best in terms of tourism. Being close to the capital becomes a must for most people, residents or foreigners.\nThese are some of the things you can do in this town. There are activities for the whole family that you will enjoy if you include Varadero on your next trip to Cuba.\nThe coast of Varadero is large and in it, we can find most of the renowned hotels in the country. The white sand and crystal-clear waters make this part of the coast a popular destination. It is ideal to practice water sports, it is one of the best places to dive in Cuba.\nIt is necessary to mention that the temperature of the water is warm during a great part of the year. It is around 22 degrees between July and September, in the rainy season and therefore the coldest. While in the dry season (September to November) the water temperature oscillates 28 degrees centigrade.\nVisit the Verahicacos Ecological Reserve\nThis protected area conserves most of the flora and fauna, unique on the north coast of the island. It is in the Hicacos Peninsula and receives many tourists a year. It attracts the attention of people because it offers direct contact with another type of ecosystem. And even more when you consider the proximity to the beach.\nIn this ecological reserve, we can find different unique species in the world. The zunzuncito hummingbird, for example, is the smallest bird in the world and can only be observed in Cuba. The vegetation is also quite particular as the Patriarch. A cactus that measures seven meters in height and its roots have the same length.\nCave of the Muslims\nIn Spanish Cueva de los musulmanes, it is a characteristic area located within the Verahicacos Ecological Reserve. It is a set of caves that provide views of the bay of Varadero. Because of these advantages offered, they became the hiding place of several Cuban smugglers in the mid-nineteenth century.\nAlthough this place is known for its criminal past, many people visit it every year because there are numerous traces of prehistory in that place. Being within an Ecological Reserve, its conservation is a priority.\nAttend the dolphinarium\nThe dolphinarium is in the Punta Hicacos Natural Park, a few kilometers from the city of Varadero. It is one of the most important attractions in the northern part of the island. It was founded in 1984 and since then receives a considerable number of tourists, both local and foreign.\nAbout 800 people visit this natural attraction daily. Turning it into one of the most important in Varadero. If you want to spend a different afternoon you should consider a visit to this natural park.\nCraft fair Los Caneyes\nIf you want to buy some souvenirs you cannot miss the artisan fair in the city. In it, you can find all kinds of things. From clothes and clothing to statuettes manufactured manually by residents. It is a place visited by many foreign tourists thanks to the wide variety of gift they offer.\nTo get there it is not so complicated, from any point of the city you can take a taxi or a tourist bus. These buses go through all the places of interest in Varadero.\nBellamar Caves\nIf we talk about the activities you can do in Varadero, we cannot leave out the Bellamar Caves. Is not only the oldest tourist center on the island, but it receives the largest number of tourists throughout the year. Its natural charms are the main attraction of these caves.\nAlthough the popular name is Cuevas de Bellamar, we must emphasize that it is a single cavity with several ramifications of 24 kilometers in length. Many experts and professionals give it the name of Paleocaverna Bellamar. In one way or another, the natural monument is the most important in the area.\nAccording to the studies carried out on this terrain, it can be assured that this cave was formed 300 thousand years ago. Matanzas Bay was the initial location. The telluric movements allowed, later, to dry the water in its interior and originating the cave that we know today.\nVisiting this tectonic cave should be a must stop if you go on vacation to Varadero.\nAl Capone\u00b4s house\nAl Capone, one of the most popular mobster in the 20th century, built a summer house in Varadero. A villa with the purest California style that today works as one of the best restaurants on the island. Due to its proximity and history it is one of the most visited places by local and foreign tourists.\nWhile it is true that Cuba has a myriad of natural landscapes that attracts the attention of tourists, this type of iconic buildings is a good place to visit.\nAt night the fun in Varadero does not stop. The city has a very characteristic bar called The Beatle. Set in a 60's d\u00e9cor, very like London style of that time. It has in its interior a replica of the Abbey Road pedestrian crossing.\nAlthough many residents prefer to visit other more autochthonous and Caribbean-themed bars, this venue is a good option. The place receives many foreign tourists a year and its popularity is growing among the youngest.\nThe history of the park is quite peculiar. The name is formed from the initials Jos\u00e9 and Onelia and goes back to the decade of the 30 '. At that time Jos\u00e9 Iturrioz, director of the Arrechavala rum factory, bought the first property of Varadero just around a lagoon that was there.\nThis park is a very important place in the city and one that cannot be ignored. It has an artificial lake and four restaurants that offer several types of food. This is the true family space where fun for the little ones in the house is guaranteed.\nIt is open for tourism for a long time, Josone gathers 500 thousand tourists a year approximately. It has a tunnel, which although it originally exited on the beach, nowadays it takes you directly to the International Diving Center of Varadero.\nExcursions in Varadero\nIn Varadero, there are available different tours that you can take to get to know the place a bit more. You can even take several tours in your trip to Vinales. These are some routes of tourist interest.\nVaradero City Tour\nThis tour is done throughout the week and it last all day. It starts with the collection of visitors by the hotels and then a panoramic tour of the city. After this end, they take you through the House of Al.\nIn the end, visit the Craft Fair, where they give you some time to make purchases souvenirs. Afterward, the group moves to the Casa del Tabaco and the Casa del Ron. Later, as the last place to meet, there is the Xanad\u00fa Mansion, where they enjoy a cocktail.\nIt is done daily and lasts for half a day. Start with the collection of the group by the hotels. From where you start towards the town of Matanzas. It should be noted that the car has air conditioning and a guide. So, it is very comfortable.\nOn the way you can see important places such as the university, Plaza de la Vig\u00eda, the bay, Parque de la Libertad and Plaza del Mercado. The first stop is the Pharmaceutical Museum of Matanzas. Then visit the Ermita de Monserrate and appreciate the view of Yurum\u00ed Valley. Later it goes towards the Cuevas de Bellamar, National Monument, where a guided excursion takes place. At the end, they will return to Varadero.\nMatanzas Tour\nIt takes place from Monday to Sunday and lasts all day long. Start by searching for the participants. Later visit the Bellamar Caves. At the end, an exploration of the locality is made. It attends places like the Plaza de la Vig\u00eda, Teatro Sauto, Casa Amigos del Danz\u00f3n, \"Pedro Esquerr\u00e9\" Gallery, and Vig\u00eda Ediciones.\nAfterward, he goes to the Provincial of the Cuban Association of Artisans and Artists, the Freedom Park and the Pharmaceutical Museum of Matanzas. As the last destination, it goes to the Monserrate Viewpoint.\nNow that you know the things you can do in Varadero, you can start organizing your trip. Remember that you can book your accommodation easily. Contact us and we will guide you with all your questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 11309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barclays.ie/ireland/about-us/careers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LWXHUH2QS2I2BGMMZVGM4VBQQKMWFMJH", "length": 623, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.barclays.ie", "title": "Careers | Barclays Bank Ireland", "raw_content": "We\u2019re always on the lookout for great new talent at Barclays Bank Ireland PLC.\nWhether you\u2019re a seasoned professional or a fresh-faced graduate, you will be challenged by the work and by the people on your team as well as by the clients we serve\nBe a part of an organisation that strives to create a supportive and productive environment in which our employees can work in a creative and effective manner to achieve their full potential\nNow is a great time to join Barclays as we continue on our journey to define the industry and become the \u2018Go-To\u2019 bank. Explore career opportunities with Barclays (opens in a new window).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnebys.co.uk/barnepedia/article/eugene-gaillard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:3274BOMNYMSEP6277RUJDTCWDQRAGJAP", "length": 743, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.barnebys.co.uk", "title": "Eug\u00e8ne Gaillard (1862-1933) France \u2013 Barnepedia \u2013 Barnebys.co.uk", "raw_content": "Eug\u00e8ne Gaillard (1862-1933) France\nEug\u00e8ne Gaillard was a French architect, industrial and interior designer, and craftsman. He was one of the most influential designers of the Art Nouveau style of his time. Gaillard drew inspiration from nature and flowers for his designs, and also designed textiles for his interiors.\nGaillard designs were exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition, which made his work very well known and was the start of a big career for him. Gaillard often collaborated with the German art dealer Samuel Bing who exhibited Gaillard\u2019s work in his own gallery Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris. Gaillard founded the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes D\u00e9corateurs in 1901 where he also had solo exhibitions.\nCurrent auctions \"Eugene Gaillard\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 2762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barrons.com/articles/SB113538498213331019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:PLDYHHN3AOSPKS2ELGSOUOL3AYJZK5IY", "length": 6283, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.barrons.com", "title": "Hold the Dioxins - Barron's", "raw_content": "Hold the Dioxins\nAND YOU THOUGHT THE SHOWER SCENE in Psycho was enough to send chills up and down your spine. The next time you wash off behind a vinyl curtain, think on this: polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, is everywhere (including the curtain), and if you're thinking of starting a fire in your bathroom, it won't be pretty.\nAlthough many experts say that people won't catch anything simply by being exposed to the inert stuff, it can be quite nasty when burned or manufactured, releasing harmful dioxin. That was enough to induce the New York City Council to pass legislation Wednesday that aims to reduce the city's purchase of PVC, along with lead, mercury and other hazardous materials, starting in January 2007. The effort is part of the city's \"green\" agenda of energy efficiency and environmental-purchasing bills, pushed by Council Speaker Gifford Miller.\nLast year, the city spent $7.7 billion on goods in construction including PVC -- often used in things like pipes -- while the overall green bill that will require buildings to use less water, less energy and create less fumes, will affect $12 billion in capital spending in the next 10 years, the council staff says.\n\"We've had our own green revolution,\" an aide to Miller says. \"We've enacted laws as progressive and forward-thinking as anywhere else in the country.\"\nNew York joins a growing movement by industry titans, such as Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart, that have pledged to reduce the use of PVC in consumer-product packaging, in response to efforts by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, run by Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs.\nBut critics, like the American Council on Science and Health, pooh-pooh the notion that banning polyvinyl chloride will benefit the public. \"The amount [of dioxins] in shower curtains would be extraordinarily small\" says Arnold Schecter, a physician/researcher at the University of Texas. Shower on!\nDow Industrials 10883.27 + 7.68\nDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced the first of what is seen to be a series of troop cuts from Iraq. The unspecified withdrawal, from 138,000 troops, comes after Iraq's elections.\nBye, Bye Buyout\n\"We're heading into a new year with an economy that is the envy of the world, and we have every reason to be optimistic about our future.\"\n-- President Bush, in a news conference.\nA $9.6 billion, or $26-a-share, buyout of Albertson's collapsed, after the board unanimously rejected it. CVS, one of the bidders, said it had terminated talks with the nation's second-largest grocery chain, which also owns Sav-On and Osco drug stores. Albertson's, which put itself up for sale in September, said it was still in talks to sell some underperforming assets. The stock plunged 12% on the news, and after several analyst downgrades.\nUnsweet Home Sales\nNew-home sales plunged 11.3% in November, the biggest monthly drop in nearly 12 years, amid rising mortgage rates. But Citigroup economist Steven Wieting noted that the drop was virtually equivalent to October's rise, and masks \"a fairly flat demand trend.\" He identified building inventories as a bigger concern. Other Friday reports: durable-goods orders rose 4.4% in November, to a record $223 billion.\nCongress headed home after leaving a passel of unfinished business. Lawmakers agreed on a $453 billion defense-spending bill, which included aid to the Gulf Coast and other spending. They also extended the Patriot Act, set to expire Dec. 31, by just five weeks, through Feb. 3. A bill to cut nearly $40 billion in spending edged by the Senate by one vote, but awaits a vote in the House.\nThe New York City transit strike, which paralyzed the city for three days and put a damper on holiday shopping, ended Thursday, after leaders agreed to continue talks without a contract.\nBarrick and Placer Dome agreed to a friendly merger, after the deal between the Canadian mining rivals, initially hostile, was sweetened. It will create the world's biggest gold miner.\nU.S. economic output grew 4.1% in the third quarter, the fastest since early 2004 but less than the 4.3% pace forecast by economists.\nInsider Trading Charged\nThe capital-spending outlook at U.S. companies is cheery, says a recent CFO survey by Financial Executives International and Baruch's business school.\n66%: the percentage of CFOs who plan to increase capital spending in the next 12 months.\n9%: the average expected increase.\n75%: those will plan to boost technology spending.\n48%: those who will add to research-and-development spending.\n69.69: the economic-optimism index, which jumped by 4.34 points, the first time since June 2004.\nA federal grand jury indicted former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio on charges he sold $101 million of its shares after learning it might not meet its financial targets. Nacchio pleaded not guilty, and has denied any wrongdoing.\nCentral Banker Resigns\nThe head of Italy's central bank, Antonio Fazio, resigned after disclosures he was being probed for suspected insider trading, and after months of allegations involving a bank-takeover scandal. Italy passed market reforms to try to restore investor confidence.\nBig Bank Fine\nThe Fed and Treasury fined ABN Amro $80 million for violating U.S. money-laundering laws and sanctions against Iran and Libya. The bank said it \"recognizes that mistakes were made.\" It accepted the sanctions and expressed regret.\nGeneral Motors shares fell to $19.05 Wednesday, their lowest level since 1982, after investor Kirk Kerkorian said he was selling 12 million of his 56 million shares for tax purposes.\nNBC Universal bought a controlling interest in its MSNBC venture with Microsoft, with the option to buy 100%.\nFPL is buying Constellation Energy for $11 billion of stock.\nTime Warner named Jeff Bewkes sole COO, and said Don Logan would resign at year's end.\nCablevision Systems withdrew plans for a $3 billion dividend.\nApax agreed to buy Tommy Hilfiger for $16.80 a share.\nThomas Lee plans a friendly parting from his private-equity firm to start a hedge fund.\nWal-Mart workers were awarded a $172 million judgment for being denied lunch breaks.\nCalpine filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-law protection.\nRussia's president signed a decree to remove all limits on foreign ownership of Gazprom.\nDon't Burn, Baby, Burn This -- PVC, That Is", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 7914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barwell-pc.org.uk/local-events.html?month=2019-11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2Y4UT7OX7INPYO5OJYCAVKLSAEIZEVC4", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.barwell-pc.org.uk", "title": "What's On | Barwell Parish Council", "raw_content": "Christmas Lights Switch On. 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Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has been notified of your request.\nCommunity Building & Organizing\nFor the past ten years, Ibrahim has been a passionate voice for transforming our pollution based way of life to one that prioritizes our planet and its people. He is author of Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet. Ibrahim's dedication to the environment is rooted in his Deen - his religion of Islam. Ibrahim is an environmental policy consultant and has worked with Green for All, Green City Force, Interfaith Leaders for Environmental Justice, the Prospect Park Alliance, and the New York City Mayor's Office of Long Term Planning & Sustainability. Ibrahim is also a youth organizer, the brains behind the blog Brooklyn Bedouin, and media personality on WNYC's nationally syndicated radio show, The Takeaway. 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Before having the opportunity to tour the world and take the stage with iconic artists like Jimmy Smith and Lee Oskar, S\u2019Aida endured her fair share of trials and tribulations. In this industry, rarely does one overcome these obstacles without an anchor of a team to hold them down.\n\u201cMy dad used to say \u2018so when are you going to quit that job and do what you\u2019re supposed to do,\u2019 and I\u2019d be like \u2018and what\u2019s that?\u2019 and he\u2019d say \u2018music,\u2019\u201d she said of the positive impact her parents have had on her career. \u201cThey never discouraged me from being an artist, they just waited patiently for me to accept that as my fate. They\u2019re always in the front row of the audience. They watch every aspect of it and have advised me along the way in ways that have allowed me to grow bigger and stronger as an artist.\u201d\nWhile a key aspect for success, having a strong team is only one piece of a winning formula in the music industry. 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We recommended a brand strategy that accentuates communication with a core constituency of regular donors. This resulted in improved relationships with these donors and increased fund raising totals. ARA\u2019s decline had been serious enough to consider renaming the organization as well. After careful study, Boardwalk recommended against such a drastic step. However, we recruited a second team of graphic designers and created a modern, more meaningful brand identity system. We finished by developing a new brand positioning slogan that puts the possibility of an imminent cure front and center.\nBoardwalk's branding services can put your brand in the spotlight and get it the attention it deserves.\n\"Our final product was damn near perfect\"\nThis was not our first time working with a team of experts that come in to help focus on or solve a particular problem or work on a project. I\u2019ve done this drill many times over many years, and I would say that this one was one of the best experiences I\u2019ve had. Our final product was damn near perfect. I give a high degree of credit to the team itself, especially Kevin\u2019s leadership. He really kept us focused at all times, and always in an extremely collegial and thoughtful way. He was always available and professional, and spent a great deal of one-on-one time with me. It was absolutely to his credit that this project was so successful.\nCarolyn Carlburg\nLEARN HOW BOARDWALK CAN SPOTLIGHT YOUR BRAND PROMISE. 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European pastoralists had arrived there during the 1860s and a village was in place by 1867. This was named Blackall and it later became the administrative centre for the local district.\nShamrock Street, Blackall, circa 1885. (John Oxley Library)\nBy the late 1870s the town had seven hotels, seven stores, a school, and a growing need for a local gaol. Carceral facilities were vital for regional areas, given the high cost of otherwise transporting prisoners over great distances to prisons in cities so they could face trial. A meeting of the Blackall Progress Association in 1879 noted this when it called for the erection of a local gaol. They cited the recent case of a Chinese prisoner who was committed to take his trial at the Blackall District Court, but had to be sent to Rockhampton and brought back again at a cost of \u00a360. An 1880 article in the Brisbane Week also crunched the numbers to argue the case for a gaol at Blackall.\nThe logic was clear, and a police gaol was established at Blackall circa 1881. This facility was described in an 1887 report as having two divisions, one with six cells to hold up to ten male prisoners, and the other with three cells for three female prisoners. Conditions there were described as 'deplorable'. Escapes were not uncommon, and in 1890 a reporter wrote that 'it really gets monotonous chronicling escapes from this gaol', and he blamed the 'dilapidated state of the building'.\nThe police gaol building was proclaimed to be HM Prison Blackall in November 1891. It remained a small timber prison used mainly for the incarceration of up to nine prisoners serving short sentences. A local police officer acted as superintendent, with the aid of a temporary warder if prisoner numbers exceeded ten. Inmates held there were employed cutting wood and carrying out repairs on government fences or police horse harnesses.\nThe prison remained open for a decade, during which time there was still the occasional escape, including this one.\nHM Prison Blackall closed on 15 August 1902 as the Queensland government sought to rein in spending, and it immediately reverted back to the status of a police gaol. All prisoners serving sentences longer than 30 days were transferred to Rockhampton. The police gaol was eventually closed in 1922.\nAfter being in existence for about a half century the Blackall gaol has been closed in pursuance of the \"deflating\" policy of the Government. In the old days the gaol was used for prisoners as far away as Birdsville, Betoota, Bedourie, and other places in the \"Never-Never,\" and even from Winton. Among the distinguished unpaid guests was \"The \"Wild Scotchman,\" whose correct name was Macpherson. 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Victory Drive Savannah, GA 31404 USA (map)\nLovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail,\" SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls and tap dancing knights, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Find your grail by attending one of our twelve performances, January 22nd - February 7th!\nSPAMALOT is PG-13.\nSource:: http://www.etix.com/ticket/v/2877/savannah-childrens-theatre\nPosted in Comedy, Music, Theatre\nPsychotronic Film Night: \"A Sunday in the Country\" (1974)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookculture.com/book/9781432849160", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:QPRVL6SVVCXJQJTA4XCAQJUT7QFW5ZJN", "length": 920, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bookculture.com", "title": "The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Large Print / Library Binding) | Book Culture", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Large Print / Library Binding)\nThe Stars Beneath Our Feet (Large Print / Library Binding)\nDAVID BARCLAY MOORE was born and raised in Missouri. After studying creative writing at Iowa State University, film at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and language studies at l'Universite de Montpellier in France, David moved to New York City, where he has served as communications coordinator for Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone and communications manager for Quality Services for the Autism Community. He has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Yaddo, and the Wellspring Foundation. He was also a semi-finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. David now lives, works, and explores in Brooklyn, N.Y. You can follow him online at DavidBarclayMoore.com, on Twitter at @dbarclaymoore, and on Instagram at dbarclaymoore.\nSocial Themes - Death & Dying", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 4861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780982282977", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:62Z7AEC43LKAFOA3GTQFZBMSXCC2KLRI", "length": 1353, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bookpassage.com", "title": "West Marin Review VIII (Paperback) | Book Passage", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb West Marin Review VIII (Paperback)\nThe West Marin Review is a nationally award-winning literary and arts journal founded in the rural town of Point Reyes Station, California. This fine literary journal is defined by the diversity of its contributors who come from around the world, and range in age from five to ninety-five. Some are many-times-published professional writers and artists, and an equal number are seeing their work in print for the first thrilling time. The publication is a grassroots collaborative effort by a dedicated team of volunteer editors and designers (Neighbors & Friends), with Point Reyes Books and Black Mountain Circle. Each volume is printed with the support of artists, writers, poets, and readers who share a passion for literature and learning.\nA New England transplant, Kay Bradner paints and plays with grandchildren on a hill above the ocean in San Francisco. Rich Clarke was first enthralled with Kehoe Beach in the 1960s. It became the \"Clarke family church\" from then on. His photo speaks to that place's forever-comforting beach grass welcome. Molly Giles is the author of four prize-winning story collections and a novel. She still misses the office she once had over the Old Western Saloon in Point Reyes Station, but makes do writing from her home in Woodacre, California.\nPublisher: Point Reyes Books", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.booksactuallyshop.com/collections/math-paper-press/products/and-the-walls-come-crumbling-down-2nd-edition", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WDKMLYQXL3XXU3ZXK355QZI2ALRU6Y4B", "length": 763, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.booksactuallyshop.com", "title": "And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (2nd Edition) \u2013 BooksActually", "raw_content": "Home / Math Paper Press / And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (2nd Edition)\nAnd The Walls Come Crumbling Down (2nd Edition)\nby Tania de Rozario\nIn 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six years moving from house to house and living hand-to- mouth; at first with her lover, and then alone.\nAnd The Walls Come Crumbling Down parallels three events in the author\u2019s life: the physical deterioration of the house in which she lives, the emotional disintegration of a couple once in love, and the unearthing of childhood ghosts that can\u2019t seem to be cast off. Part memoir and part poetic rumination, it is an ode to love, loss and the people and places we call home.\n- product dimension: 125 x 200 mm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 2998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boquetegardeninn.com/archives/date/2009/03", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2CTQXMOK4XBRU6L6LPVPUZUCJ4BNFSSF", "length": 381, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.boquetegardeninn.com", "title": "2009 March | Boquete Garden Inn", "raw_content": "Boquete Garden Inn\u2019s Newest Guest\nDannys found this little rabbit in our garden just outside Cabana 1. Happily, the bunny has been reunited with his family. So far, we haven\u2019t found any mini eggs\u2026but I\u2019m pretty sure I heard some clucking. Speaking of Easter\u2026we still have rooms available for part of the Easter weekend, April 11th and 12th. For more information, please contact us!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/09/mayor-walsh-denies-records-request-for-text-messages-exchanged-during-olympic-bid/z4pExclyaoqkFn1LOOp2QK/story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PPQ6EXWDQMTJG5GAH4ZEWDMJNKZXUKFH", "length": 6721, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.bostonglobe.com", "title": "Mayor Walsh denies records request for text messages exchanged during Olympic bid - The Boston Globe Mayor Walsh denies records request for text messages exchanged during Olympic bid - The Boston Globe", "raw_content": "Text messages off limits, Walsh says\nMayor Walsh denies records request for text messages exchanged during Olympic bid\nBoston Mayor Marty Walsh spoke at a news conference in Boston after the city was picked by the USOC to bid for the 2024 Games.\nBy Andrew Ryan Globe Staff August 09, 2015\nMayor Martin J. Walsh, who vowed to usher in a new era of transparency at City Hall, has rejected public records requests in recent weeks seeking access to his text messages at significant moments in Boston\u2019s failed bid to host the 2024 Olympics.\nThe city denied a request from the Globe that sought text messages between Walsh and his chief of staff, Daniel Koh, on key dates during the short-lived pursuit of the 2024 Summer Games. In a July 31 e-mail, a city lawyer delineated several reasons why the records would not be divulged and noted that the administration lacked the \u201ctechnical capacity\u201d to make copies of the text messages so they could be provided to the Boston Globe.\nThe Walsh administration made a similar assertion when rejecting a request for Walsh\u2019s text messages from Mike Beaudet, an investigative reporter at WFXT-TV (Ch. 25) who teaches journalism at Northeastern University.\nOpen-government advocates dismissed the argument that technological barriers prevented disclosure of the text messages, especially when those assertions came from Walsh, a mayor who has made data a centerpiece of his administration. One simple solution: Text messages can be photographed as screen shots and then e-mailed. There are also programs available to download text messages from a phone.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a ton of ways to get text messages and export them. I don\u2019t understand why they wouldn\u2019t be able to provide you with those text messages,\u201d said Adam Marshall, a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which tracks public records laws across the country. \u201cThat seems ridiculously inept. If they are promoting the use of technology for good governance, then this is the perfect opportunity for them to follow through.\u201d\nEditorial: Putting teeth into Mass. public records law\nIt is encouraging that Maura Healey has moved swiftly to start making good on her commitment.\nRead: It\u2019s time for public records law reform\nThe city of Boston\u2019s lawyer, Caroline Driscoll, also said the administration does not require employees to save texts, and the messages are not stored or archived by the city. The records are hosted by cellphone companies, which routinely purge text messages from phones, Driscoll said.\nShe did not say whether the text messages had been purged or still existed on phones used by Walsh and Koh. The mayor\u2019s communications director, Laura Oggeri, added in an e-mail that Walsh was \u201copen and transparent in every aspect of his work.\u201d\n\u201cMayor Walsh does not make official decisions or conduct substantive city business through text message. To request his personal text messages is a violation of his private life,\u201d Oggeri said about the Globe\u2019s request for text messages between the mayor and his chief of staff.\nUnder Massachusetts law, the electronic communication between the two men should be made public, according to Robert Ambrogi, an attorney who serves as executive director of the state Newspaper Publishers Association.\n\u201cThe presumption is that any record, whether electronic or hard copy, that is made or received by a public official is a public record unless there is a specific exemption,\u201d Ambrogi said. \u201cThere is no specific exemption for text messages.\u201d\nWith the evolution of technology, texting has become a primary means for frank discussions without the formality of e-mail. The messages have played key roles in court cases and other legal disputes. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, for example, has been accused of destroying his cellphone to eliminate text messages that would have proved he was part of a conspiracy to tamper with footballs before games.\nIn government, text messages sparked controversy in Omaha when the local newspaper reported that Mayor Jean Stothert lobbied city councilors during hearings via text. Under pressure from the Omaha World-Herald newspaper and the Nebraska attorney general\u2019s office, Stothert revised an executive order to make city-related text messages on private cellphones public record.\n\u201cThe public\u2019s business is the public\u2019s business,\u201d said Emily Shaw, deputy policy director for the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for using technology to make government more open and accountable. \u201cIt really shouldn\u2019t matter whether it is in printed or electronic format, whether it\u2019s recorded on paper, in an e-mail, or in a text message.\u201d\nBoston has never had a chief executive with a penchant for texting. Unlike his predecessor, Thomas M. Menino, Walsh is a voracious texter who has two iPhones. His administration has followed Walsh\u2019s lead, with text being a dominant method of communication in City Hall.\n\u2018If they are promoting the use of technology for good governance, then this is the perfect opportunity for them to follow through.\u2019\nAdam Marshall, legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\nWalsh told reporters he received 100 congratulatory text messages on the January night that Boston was named the US bid city for the Olympics. He has spoken publicly about exchanging text messages with Governor Charlie Baker, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, and other public figures. Several members of the Boston City Council said they frequently text with the mayor.\nSecretary of State William F. Galvin, whose office oversees Massachusetts public records law, declined an interview request to discuss text messages. In a public records guide published by Galvin, it noted that the law \u201capplies to all government records generated, received, or maintained electronically, including computer records, electronic mail, video, and audiotapes.\u201d\nThe city has contacted Galvin\u2019s office to ask for guidance about retention and disclosure of public employees\u2019 text messages, Oggeri said.\nBeaudet, the investigative reporter and professor, worked with his students to file a request in March for all of Walsh\u2019s e-mails and text messages that included the word \u201cOlympics\u201d over a two-month span. The city told Beaudet there were no text messages, which he said he found strange.\nBeaudet then filed a broader request seeking all of Walsh\u2019s text messages over a month. The administration again rejected the request because officials said the city did not have a practical way to retain text messages for public record purposes. Beaudet has appealed the case to the secretary of state.\nTodd Wallack of the Globe staff contributed. Andrew Ryan can be reached at andrew.ryan@globe.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 8870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/rotary-club-launches-shoe-box-appeal-1-8660834", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PEH5CD7F2NH7BTWU27JYIOQSGML5VBO7", "length": 1112, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bostonstandard.co.uk", "title": "Rotary club launches shoe box appeal - Boston Standard", "raw_content": "Rotary club launches shoe box appeal\nRotarian Ivan Spencer during last year's shoe box appeal at the Stump.\nThe annual festive shoe box appeal run by the Rotary Club of Boston St Botolph has returned.\nThe scheme gives people in the Boston area the chance to spread some festive joy to families in need in Eastern European countries.\nPeople are being encouraged to collect a shoe box from St Botolph\u2019s Church (The Stump) and fill it with gifts, before returning it to the church with \u00a32 attached to help pay for transport costs by Saturday, November 10.\nThe club has set itself a target of 350 boxes for 2018, having collected 314 last year.\nSupport will once again be given by Staniland and Fishtoft academies, the Methodist churches of Boston, and the Stump itself.\n\u201cBoston folk have always been magnificent in supporting the St Botolph Rotary Club\u2019s annual Shoebox Appeal,\u201d said, John Wright, organiser, adding: \u201cI found that donating a box of presents not only brings a little happiness to those receiving it but also does the same for the givers.\u201d\nPictured is Rotarian Ivan Spencer during last year\u2019s appeal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bramble.evolvetrust.org/parents-information/governance/list-of-governors/amanda-laity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ESKKIAHO5QXE2775PPPMVJWWXEYAHVCR", "length": 368, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bramble.evolvetrust.org", "title": "Amanda Laity", "raw_content": "| Amanda Laity\nAmanda Laity\nType: Staff\nAmanda joined the Academy in January 2017 as Deputy Headteacher. Amanda has been teaching for 12 years and believes that every child has the right to a stimulating and exciting curriculum and believes that children learn best when they are having fun and are supported by quality teaching and the development of the whole child.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.briantshirley.com/apps/blog/show/7484951-the-dating-service-debacle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2B4LWNDEQEEWEW5RZ3BQNPULYQL25ZOY", "length": 7262, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.briantshirley.com", "title": "The Dating Service Debacle - Brian T Shirley Comedian/Writer/Actor/TV Show Host", "raw_content": "I showed up at the dating service full of hope and very broke. It was at an upstairs office building in an area known as Mt. Pleasant, about 20 minutes from my home. The office was decent enough and there was a nice young woman who met me in the reception area, her name we'll say was \"Lisa\". Lisa led me to a very small office in the back, with one table, two chairs and one small window that looked out over a backyard area. It kind of had the feel of an interrogation room. Lisa had informed me over the phone that this would take 1- 2 hours. We,she had said, were not a regular dating service, they were COMMITTED to finding me the love of my life.\nThe first 45 minutes to an hour were alright. We discussed what I wanted in a woman, what my interests were, what I could offer a woman,etc,etc.., no problem. Then she asked me about my finances and when I say asked, I mean she wanted to know everything.She wanted my yearly income, my debts including credit cards, my rent, my car payment,etc. . Needless to say I starting getting a little nervous, but I was lonely. After this initial phase she asked if I was serious about joining the service and finding my soul mate. I said yes, and she said for me to wait there while she discussed my immense qualifications with her boss.\nAbout ten minutes later Lisa entered the room and once again asked if I was ready to meet my future wife. I replied in the positive and she got excited and said \" Great! My boss wants you in the Program!\"\n\" Program?\" I thought to myself, then I asked her \" How much is the program going to cost me?\"\n\"Well,\" she started \" we have selected the Platinum Plan for you and that's $3995.\"\n\" Do you have a Plastic plan, because there's no way I can do that. How much just to meet a woman who just wants to piss men off, that doesn't sound platinum to me? Or can I go in with a couple of other people and we share the plan? What if I convert to Mormonism, do I get a discount?\" I replied.\nShe looked shocked and saddened. \" Let me talk to my boss and see what I can do.\"\nTen minutes later she came back with an offer of $3500.\n\" Can't do it.\" I said.\nShe looked like I had just killed her puppy. \" I'll be right back.\" she moaned.\nShe came in a few minutes later with another woman that I'll call \" The Gremlin Lady\". She was short and squat, wore glasses and had real stubby fingers with blue ink all over them. She also had a real rough voice.She reminded me of David Johanson from The New York Dolls, the lead singer, who also played the Taxi Cab Ghost in \" Scrooged\" with Bill Murray. The shirt she wore was button up and few sizes too small, so that you could see her skin through the spaces in between the buttons. I guess there was no one in her house when she put the shirt on to say, \" No, throw that shirt away, you'll scare people!\" I was praying the buttons would hold, as they seemed to be ready to pop off at any second.\n\" Brian, I need you in the program. I've got 5,000 single women and only 3 men!\"\nI told her it just wasn't in my budget and we went at it for a good ten minutes. Lisa was blocking the door so I could not escape without running her over and I was starting to get claustrophobic. They finally left me there and I saw my chance for escape, but that was not to be as Lisa brought in another woman who I'll call \" The Warden\". She was a big, tall, robust woman who made the earth shake when she walked and was very animated. She waved her arms around when she talked and it added to her size.\n\" I thought he wanted to join the program, what's going on here?!\" yelled The Warden.\nI told her I couldn't afford \" The Program\" and she suggested some type of payment plan. A payment plan that they really weren't supposed to offer, but would make an \"exception\" in my case.\n\"If I'm that much of a catch, why the hell do I need these \" ladies\" to help me?\" I thought.\n\" Look,\" said The Warden \" how much do you have left over each month after paying you bills?\"\n\" I don't know, \" I said as my anxiety really starting kicking in. \" about $100.\"\n\" Well, there we go,\" she said,\" just put $1500, down and then pay $100 a month.\"\n\" Great, then when you find me a woman, I'll tell her we can go out as soon as my \" Program\" is paid off. \"\nShe ignored me and walked around preaching about true love and how money meant nothing and blah,blah,blah. I don't know what she was saying, I stared out the window at a tree in the backyard and wished so much that I was that tree. Finally, there was silence and I could feel her staring at me while I had a nervous breakdown.\nThen she sat down and I saw my chance. She started writing some numbers on a piece of paper, asking me what I thought about this figure or that figure. I stood up.\n\" Sit down Brian,\" she said,\" we're making progress here.\"\n\" No, that's ok .\" I said, shaking as my panic attack surged.\nI reached for the door and she called me name again.\n\" I'll talk to my dad,\" I said, trying to keep her busy. \" do you take American Express?\"\n\" Yes we do\" she grinned as she responded.\n\" Shit... I mean, ok, let me talk to him.\" I said.\n\" We can call him right now.\" The sly Warden suggested.\n\" We can't,\" I said as I opened the door, \" He's.. uh ..umm.. in a meeting!\" I yelled triumphantly\nas I ran out of the room.\nLisa came out of an office across the hall and saw me running for the door. ( I had to find the passage back to the place I was before, relax said the night man... never mind.) She waved and said \" Bye,Brian\" and that was all. I guess I looked like I was in a hurry. \" I'll call you later\" I shouted, just to keep her honest.\nWhen I got to my car, it was kind of like a scene in a horror movie.That scene where the victim gets to their car and they can't seem to get the keys to go into the door or the ignition. The car never starts right away either. I had some trouble getting in my vehicle, but it started fine. I felt that if I would have stayed there another minute I would have seen the three of them bounding down the steps. First there would have been Lisa saying \" Hi,Brian\" , then The Warden yelling \" How about $850 down and $75 a month?\", and the Gremlin Lady, in her David Johanson voice bellowing \" We need you in the program ! \".\nMy brother is married and has 2 kids, that should be enough for my Dad and my Mom. These were my thoughts as I drove away.If it's going to happen, I'm not sure I'm the one who will put the wheels in motion. There's no need to mess with fate, she gets pissed when you do that anyway.I'm still very happily single. This story is true and only one name was changed to protect no one. The Warden and the Gremlin Lady are real people, not actors.\nReply Nancy\nI have been to this very same palce olny in Columbia SC. Mine was going to be $2995 and there was no window in my room, just pictures and letters for \"satisfied\" customers! I continue my quest alone!\nYes, I remember the big 3 spiraled book they had with testimonials, wedding pictures, etc.All were covered in plastic, what a scam!\nReply R Champagne\ngood story. If they only had three men, they should have paid you . Your ad on the page with the muffin top adds to the tail.\nR Champagne says...\nThanks Richard, they should have at least given me a coupon or something, maybe a buy one get one free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 9368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2016/november/free-football-sessions-with-bristol-rovers-community-trust2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:F5O6XK45X2QOL6AR5XIVZW2D3ZMUIO4J", "length": 1329, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bristolrovers.co.uk", "title": "FREE FOOTBALL SESSIONS WITH BRISTOL ROVERS COMMUNITY TRUST - News - Bristol Rovers", "raw_content": "FREE FOOTBALL SESSIONS WITH BRISTOL ROVERS COMMUNITY TRUST\nBristol Rovers Community Trust have joined in partnership with the ASDA Foundation and Active Communities Network to offer free football sessions for 14-19 year olds across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.\nThis fantastic opportunity is completely free and aimed to give the young people of today a chance to play football at no cost.\nOur free football sessions will take place on Friday evenings at Fairfield School and Orchard High School between 6pm and 8pm, both are outdoor on astroturf. Our second evening will be on Thursdays at St Bede's Catholic High School between 7pm and 9pm, this is an indoor session and will require appropriate footwear.\nThe sessions are completely FREE, all you need to do is turn up in appropriate clothing and footwear and play. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and play football.\nAlong with being able to play football and meet new people, there is an opportunity to earn work based qualifications also at no cost. The individuals that show great attitude and commitment will be hand picked and given the opportunity to take part in gaining extra qualifications that could go on to help them gain employment.\nShould you require any further information about the sessions please contact marco@bristolroverscommunity.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/article/20150922-gb-cyclingteam-news-Smith--I-want-to-ride-on-to-Rio-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SQZ5K2UDJIVNWNLEXC4S5NP62ONAO5YF", "length": 1829, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.britishcycling.org.uk", "title": "Smith: I want to ride on to Rio", "raw_content": "Smith: I want to ride on to Rio\nGreat Britain Cycling Team\u2019s David Smith says he wants to postpone surgery in a bid to compete at Rio 2016 despite the return of a tumour on his back.\nThe 37-year-old, who won a Paralympic gold medal in rowing at London 2012 before switching sports to cycling, has had surgery to remove the genetic tumour from his spinal column twice before in the past.\nWriting on his blog, Smith confirmed that new test results showed that his tumour had returned.\n\u201cThis is the problem with a genetic tumour, no matter what I do, that cell is going to keep growing back.\n\u201cI have eight millimetres left inside my (spinal) cord for the tumour to grow before it would cut off my cord and I would face losing my lungs and stop breathing, along with full paralysis.\u201d\nSmith, who was part of the Great Britain Cycling Team that competed at the UCI Para-cycling World Cup in South Africa earlier this month, says the decision to delay surgery was an easy one.\n\u201cI have decided not to have surgery right now and live my life for the next 11 months chasing my dream of cycling in Rio.\n\u201cI am living life with eight millimetres of hope. The hope that it won\u2019t grow fast and allow me to train and enjoy my life for one more year before I go back into surgery.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s obviously devastating news for David that his tumour has returned. He\u2019s made fantastic progress in recent months and is a real example, not only to thousands of people across the country, but also to other riders on our programme, who really look up to him.\n\u201cDavid\u2019s goal is to make it to Rio and if anybody can do it he can. However, the most important priority is his long term health and we would never want that to be put at risk. We will work extremely closely with David over the next weeks and months to establish the best plan for him going forward.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.broaderview.org/iran", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YERFAIUBG4PGVUDYI2XWVKFQ6G6P7Z7S", "length": 26338, "nlines": 211, "source_domain": "www.broaderview.org", "title": "Broader View: Iran", "raw_content": "Iran Press Kit, The Israel Project\nReports on Iran, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs\nThe Iran Page, The Optimist Conservative Blog\nAhmadinejad in His Own Words, the International Federation of Christians and Jews\nThe Latest Proof That the Iran Nuclear Deal Has Failed to Work by David Gerstman, The Algemeiner, January 17, 2019\nThe JCPOA, Three Years On by Emily B. Landau and Ephraim Asculai, The Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 1128, January 13, 2019\nVideo: Israeli Ambassador to the United States at JINSA\u2019s Fall Leadership Conference (51\u201920\u201d), The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, October 11, 2018\nIsrael\u2019s War with Iran Is Inevitable by Efraim Inbar, The Jerusalem Post, October 4, 2018\nIn the absence of a clear American or Turkish determination to confront Iranian encroachment, only israel has the power to stop it.\nOutlaw Regime: A Chronicle of Iran\u2019s Destructive Activities, U.S. Department of State Iran Action Group, September 2018\nHow the U.S. Can Pressure Iran to Dismantle Its Nuclear Facilities by Dr. Yuval Steinitz, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 29, 2018\nDon\u2019t Believe the Hysterics on Canceling the Iran Nuclear Deal by Mitchell Bard, The Algemeiner, July 20, 2018\nRussia Constrains Iran by Amb. Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 3, 2018\nMaking the Iranians Mad by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, May 25, 2018\nMike Pompeo just gave the Iran speech Kerry should have given by Jonathan Schanzer, New York Post, May 21, 2018 (see also Outlining U.S. conditions for reengaging with Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, May 21, 2018)\nRequiem for the Nuclear Deal by David Gerstman, Legal Insurrection, May 14, 2018\nThe deal failed even by Obama\u2019s standards\nNetanyahu\u2019s Wake-Up Call to the World on the Iranian Nuclear Program by Amb. Dore Gold, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 18, No. 7, May 2, 2018\nIs War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable? by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, April 19, 2018\nIt\u2019s time for Trump to pull out of the Iran deal by Michael Makovsky, Reuters, April 10, 2018\nCan the Iran Deal Be Fixed? And should it be? by Omri Ceren, Commentary, March 15, 2018\nHow the Embassy Move Signals Big Changes to the Iran Deal by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, March 12, 2018\nGetting out of the Iranian check by Michael Oren, Israel Hayom, March 11, 2018\nHoping for regime change in Iran by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, March 9, 2018\nTrump\u2019s quick fix approach to Iran nuclear deal creates untenable policy dilemma by Eric Edelman and Charles Wald, The Hill, February 21, 2018\nDo Arabs Back Israel in a Clash with Iran? by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, February 21, 2018\nWaking up to the Iranian threat by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, February 16, 2018\nThe U.S. Must Show Iranians That They Can\u2019t Have It All by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 10, 2018\nOn Iran, Trump Should Be Like Reagan by Richard Goldberg and Dennis Ross, Politico, January 9, 2018\nThe president can sanction Iran while strengthening the nuclear deal. History shows it can be done.\nIran\u2019s Mullahs: Dictators Who Need A Perpetual Enemy by Shoshana Bryen, The Daily Caller, January 4, 2018\nOne way to counter Iran\u2019s aggression? Change the map of the Middle East by Michael Makovsky, December 26, 2017\nIt\u2019s Time to Prepare a Military Option on Iran by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, December 4, 2017\nSailing into Uncharted Waters: Israel\u2019s Iran Policy Dilemmas Post Decertification by Col. (Ret.) Dr. Eran Lerman, AJC, October 30, 2017\nIs The JCPOA Working? by Yigal Carmon and A. Savyon, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1354, October 30, 2017\n(Mis)Reading the IAEA Reports on Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program by Tzvi Kahn, The Hill, October 10, 2017\nRevisiting the Iran Deal by David Harris, AJC, The Times of Israel, October 10, 2017\nIran\u2019s secret sites linked to nuclear weapons development revealed by Hollie McKay, Fox News, October 10, 2017\nVideo: Inspections and Monitoring: The Weak Link in the Iran Nuclear Deal (4\u201954\u201d), Dore Gold, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 26, 2017\nThe Nuclear Deal Is Iran\u2019s Legal Path to the Bomb by Ray Takeyh, Politico, September 22, 2017\nA smarter way forward on Iran by Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, September 12, 2017 (see also: Strategy to Restore U.S. Leverage Against Iran, JINSA\u2019s Gemunder Center Iran Task Force, Co-Chairs: Ambassador Eric Edelman and General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), Jewish Institute for National Security of America, July 2017)\nVideo: Thwarting a New Iranian Empire (7\u201939\u201d), Dore Gold, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 24, 2017\nDo the Original Assumptions Underlying the Iran Nuclear Agreement Have Any Basis Today? By Amb. Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 17, No. 25, August 29, 2017\nHow to Get Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal by John R. Bolton, Gatestone Institute, August 28, 2017\nObama\u2019s Legacy, a Nuclear Iran? by Emily B. Landau, Middle East Quarterly Vol. 24 No. 2, Spring 2017\nWhy Iran is more dangerous than Islamic State by Moshe Ya\u2019alon, The Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2016\nThe Fight To Frame The Iran Deal by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, August 11, 2016\nWhat\u2019s the Deal with Iran? by Michael Makovsky, The Weekly Standard, July 18, 2016\nA bad year for a bad agreement.\nMitigating the Strategic Consequences of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran Strategy Council, Co-Chairs General James Conway, USMC (ret.) and General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), March 2016\nPrisoner\u2019s Dilemma: What just happened? by Adam Garfinkle, The American Interest, January 18, 2016\nIran\u2019s Power Projection Capability by Jonathan Schanzer, Testimony Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, November 5, 2015\nThe Iran Deal: Persisting Problems by Ilan Berman, Jack David, Matthew Kroenig, Samantha Ravich, Michael Rubin, Jonathan Schanzer and David Wurmser, National Review Online, October 27, 2015\nIs Israeli Intelligence for the Iran Deal? By Martin Kramer, Commentary, August 2, 2015\nThe Ayatollah\u2019s Plan for Israel and Palestine by Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute, July 31, 2015\nWhat Information Collected by Israeli Intelligence Reveals About the Iran Talks by Ronen Bergman, Tablet, July 29, 2015\nEx-Advisers Warn Obama That Iran Nuclear Deal \u2018May Fall Short\u2019 of Standards by David E. Sanger, The New York Times, June 24, 2015\nNecessary Safeguards for a Final Deal with Iran, Iran Task Force (Co-Chairs Ambassador Eric Edelman and Ambassador Dennis Ross, Co-Chairs), Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, June 18, 2015\nAs the deadline approaches for a comprehensive agreement on Iran\u2019s nuclear program, JINSA\u2019s Gemunder Center Iran Task Force issues a new brief describing the necessary elements of a verification and monitoring regime that would ensure a final deal would close off Iran\u2019s pathways to nuclear weapons capability.\nVerifying a Final Nuclear Deal with Iran by Olli Heinonen, Iran Task Force, June 2015\nUnfettered access to sites, facilities, material, equipment, people, and documents is imperative to the credible long-term verification of any nuclear agreement with Iran. This \u201canywhere, anytime\u201d access and short notice inspections must not be subject to a dispute resolution mechanism, which would delay the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s (IAEA) access. Procedures in a final deal, which provide Iran with the ability to define or control access, undermine the verifiability of the agreement and affect the IAEA\u2019s ability to reach timely conclusions. Additionally, the resolution of the IAEA\u2019s outstanding concerns regarding the possible military dimensions of Iran\u2019s program must be resolved prior to the provision of substantial sanctions relief.\nWhy didn\u2019t Netanyahu attack Iran [in 2010]? by Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor, June 8, 2015\nContextualizing Israeli Concerns about the Iran Nuclear Deal by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Notes 26, June 2015\nTransformational Diplomacy: Can a nuclear deal change Iran? by Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, June 8, 2015\nObama rolls the dice on Iran by Jackson Diehl, The Washington Post, April 12, 2015\nThe Iran Deal and How Not To Buy a Middle Eastern Carpet by Michael Oren, TIME, April 3, 2015\nWhat to Worry About in an Iran Nuclear Deal by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, March 29, 2015\nA good deal makes the Middle East a safer place. A bad one makes matters worse. Here are some issues to keep in mind if nuclear talks lead to a provisional agreement.\nUN: Rouhani\u2019s First Year as Iranian President Saw Most Executions in Over a Decade, TheTower.org, March 14, 2015\nThe Way Forward on Iran by Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest, March 12, 2015\nThe P5+1 left a few key players out of the equation. The President must act to add them in.\nShifting the tenor of America\u2019s debate on Iran by Evelyn C. Gordon, The Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2015\nA Bad Agreement with Iran Will Undermine Middle East Stability by Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael (Mickey) Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 15, No. 7, March 2, 2015\nSeven Problems with John Kerry\u2019s Iranian Nuclear Clock by Gary C. Gambill, Foreign Policy Research Institute, February 2015\nWhy the (toothless) Iran sanctions bill matters by Daniel Pipes, The Washington Times, February 13, 2015\nAnatomy of a Bad Iran Deal: A Preliminary Assessment by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 12, 2015\nThe Rise of the Iranian Empire by David Daoud, The Tower Issue 23, February 2015\nObama\u2019s Secret Iran Strategy by Michael Doran, Mosaic, February 2, 2015\nThe president has long been criticized for his lack of strategic vision. But what if a strategy, centered on Iran, has been in place from the start and consistently followed to this day?\nThe Strategic Implications of Iran\u2019s STD Epidemic by David P. Goldman, Asia Times, January 30, 2015\nIran\u2019s History Of Nuclear Deceit Is Why There Hasn\u2019t Been A Deal Yet by Emanuele Ottolenghi, Business Insider, January 29, 2015\nAs the Iranian Nuclear Talks Drag On, Congress Must Act by Sen. Tom Cotton , Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2015\nCheap Oil Won\u2019t Stop Iran by Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer, The National Interest, January 27, 2015\nIran Doesn\u2019t Need Nuclear Weapons by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, January 24, 2015\n5 Iranian Weapons of War America Should Fear by Zachary Keck, The National Interest, January 23, 2015\nIs Iran Behind the Murder of Alberto Nisman? by Lee Smith, Tablet, January 23, 2015\nEnabling Iran\u2019s Nukes by Omri Ceren, Commentary, January 1, 2015\nIran Is Getting Away With Murder by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, December 30, 2014: \u201cAchieving a nuclear deal with Tehran is hugely important. But stopping Iran from slaughtering innocent Syrians is a worthy goal.\u201d\nConference call with Amb. Dennis Ross (audio, 28\u201932\u201d), Jewish Council for Public Affairs, November 25, 2014\n12 Months Is Not Enough Time to Stop an Iranian Nuclear Breakout by Emily B. Landau, National Interest, December 17, 2014\nThe revolution is over by Oliver August, The Economist, November 1, 2014\nAfter decades of messianic fervour, Iran is becoming a more mature and modern country\nThe Silent Partnership by Michael Doran, Mosaic, October 15, 2014\nA year ago, Tehran was in crisis. Now it\u2019s on the verge of a diplomatic triumph.\nThe Iranian Nuclear Crisis: The International Determination Deficit by Emily B. Landau, The Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 599, August 27, 2014 [pdf]\nImproving the Prospects for an Acceptable Final Deal with Iran, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) Gemunder Center Iran Task Force (Amb. Eric Edelman and Amb. Dennis Ross, Co-Chairs), July 17, 2014\nIran: The Regional Power behind the Hamas War Effort byLt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 14, No. 23, July 15, 2014\nUncovering Iran\u2019s Nuclear Past: Where to Start? Where to Stop? by Jon Wolfsthal, National Interest, May 24, 2014\nWhen Proxies Fail, Force Must Prevail by Jonathan Ruhe, Fletcher Security Review, May 23, 2014\nA Sweet Deal for the Mullahs by Gary C. Gambill, National Post, May 13, 2014\nImpact of Interim Deal with Iran by Ambassador Eric Edelman & Ambassador Dennis Ross, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs (JINSA), May 12, 2014\nThe Danger of a Short Iranian Breakout Time, America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), May 2, 2014\nIranian Strategy Feeds Off Perceived Western Weakness by Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints, Vol. 14, No. 12, May 1, 2014\nIran\u2019s Two-faced Regime Exposed Again, but is Anyone Paying Attention? by Yaakov Lappin, Gatestone Institute, March 10, 2014\nHow Nuclear Talks Help Iran Dominate the Middle East by Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 14, No. 4, February 25, 2014\nDon\u2019t Let Up on Iran by Michael Kassen and Lee Rosenberg, New York Times, February 21, 2014\nClear-Eyed Diplomacy: Strategic Shifts Needed in the Iran Negotiations by Michael Singh, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch 2209, February 18, 2014\nThe Long Iran Stall Begins Again by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, February 18, 2014\nAIPAC and Iran\u2019s war against America by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post, February 10, 2014\nThe Obama Complex by Michael Makovsky and William Kristol, The Weekly Standard Vol. 19, No. 21, February 10, 2014\nArtificial Intelligence by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 30, 2014\nA Dangerous Deal by John R. Bolton, National Review, January 27, 2014\nAssessment of Interim Deal with Iran, Gemunder Center Iran Task Force (Co-Chairs: Ambassador Eric Edelman and Ambassador Dennis Ross), Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), January 2014\nSworn to Destruction: 20 Threats Iranian Leaders Made Against Israel in 2013 by Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall and Daniel Rubenstein, BuzzFeed, December 24, 2013\nAfter Geneva, \u201cThe Islamic Bomb\u201d by Guy Milli\u00e8re, Gatestone Institute, December 20, 2013\nConflicting Expectations from the Geneva Document between the P5+1 and Iran by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 13, No. 31, December 11, 2013\nTwo Reasons Why Iran Resumed Nuclear Negotiations by Abbas Milani, The New Republic, November 14, 2013\nThe Emerging Geneva Agreement with Iran by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 13, No. 30, November 12, 2013\nVideo: Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor at the UN Security Council (25\u203325\u2019), October 22, 2013\nIran stalls, centrifuges spin by Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, October 16, 2013\nWishful Thinking on Iran by Clifford D. May, National Review, October 10, 2013\n\u201cHoping that Iran has changed isn\u2019t enough. We need tougher sanctions and a credible threat of force. \u201c\nNetanyahu and AIPAC: The difference is the word \u2018suspend\u2019 by Ron Kampeas, Times of Israel, October 10, 2013\nExpect a nuclear deal with Iran\u2019s Rouhani \u2013 but not normal ties with US by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Christian Science Monitor, October 4, 2013\n\u201cIran\u2019s President Rouhani is sincere about a nuclear deal, because the costs of building a nuclear bomb are too high. But demonizing the US is still the linchpin of foreign policy for a certain faction in Tehran. For them, normalization of US relations would mean the regime\u2019s end.\u201d\nIsrael\u2019s Cassandra Moment by David Harris, Haaretz, September 27, 2013\nCharm Offensive? Hostile Iranian Messages on the Eve of Rouhani\u2019s UN Visit, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 13, No. 26, September 24, 2013\nIran is Really Good at Evading Sanctions by Emanuele Ottolenghi, The Tower Magazine, Issue 6, September 2013\nStrategy to Prevent a Nuclear Iran by JINSA\u2019s Gemunder Center Iran Task Force, September 4, 2013 [Report] [Video of release event]\nVideo: Behind the Rhetoric: The Real Iran (1:29\u2019), BBC documentary, June 2013\nIran\u2019s Man in the Middle by Haleh Esfandiari, The New York Review of Books, June 22, 2013\nThe Red Line: Why a nuclear-armed Iran would be a disaster for the world, and what we can do to prevent it\nWho Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? Election Propaganda of Rowhani and Jalili by Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 13, No. 17, June 12, 2013\nIranian Support for Terrorism and Violations of Human Rights by Matthew Levitt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, remarks delivered to the International Human Rights Subcommittee of the Canadian House of Commons on May 30, 2013 [pdf]\nIsraeli or U.S. Action Against Iran: Who Will Do It If It Must Be Done? by James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin, Atlantic, May 28, 2013\nAmerica\u2019s Grand Retreat by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, May 24, 2013\nWhy the Iranian Nuclear Standoff Won\u2019t End Anytime Soon by Benjamin Alter and Edward Fishman, The Atlantic, April 11, 2013\nVideo: Israel and Iran: A love story? (15\u201957\u201d), TED Talk by Ronny Edry, December 2012\nIsrael is on its own vis-\u00e0-vis Iran by Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2012\nVideo: Iran \u2013 The Greatest Threat to Western Civilization (6\u201915\u201d), Clarion Productions, August 28, 2012\nIsraeli Attack on Iran Won\u2019t Follow the American Script by Evelyn Gordon, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Analysis, May 4, 2012\nIsrael\u2019s limited capabilities and the need to avoid starting a war will necessitate a smaller-scale operation than the U.S. blueprint of multiple airstrikes over many days.\nRegime Change in Iran? by Brendan Daly, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2012\nVideo: Douglas Murray on Israel & Nuclear Iran (11\u203334), January 26, 2012\nWill Iran Really Start a War? by Victor Davis Hanson, Defining Ideas, January 11, 2012:\nHistory teaches that the saber rattling of lunatic regimes should be taken seriously.\nOnly the U.S. Can Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open by Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight, USN (ret.), Jewish National Institute of Security Affairs, January 17, 2012\n\u201cI certainly do not see Iran as a threat\u201d by David Harris, Huffington Post, January 8, 2012\nGood Arguments All, But Not Good Enough by Evelyn Gordon, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, December 2, 2011\nIsrael would prefer not to attack Iran: It would rather see Tehran\u2019s nuclear program halted by crippling sanctions, regime change or covert action, and if all these fail, it would prefer military action by an American-led coalition. Nevertheless, if Israel concluded that all other efforts had failed, and that international military action wasn\u2019t in the cards, none of the arguments opponents have raised against an Israeli strike are likely to deter it.\nIran\u2019s Race for Regional Supremacy: Strategic Implications for the Middle East, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 21, 2011 [pdf]\nMisreading the Mullahs: Curbing Tehran\u2019s Nuclear Ambitions by Aaron Menenberg, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2011 [PDF]\nIran\u2019s Global Terrorist Reach by Walid Phares, inFocus Quarterly, Summer 2010\nThe Point of No Return by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, September 2010\nThe Danger of a Nuclear, Genocidal and Rights-Violating Iran: The Responsibility to Prevent Petition by Irwin Cotler, December 9, 2009\nThe American-Israeli Disparity Over Iran by Matthew RJ Brodsky, Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2010\nThe Birth of a Bomb: A History of Iran\u2019s Nuclear Ambitions by Erich Follath and Holger Stark, Der Spiegel, June 17, 2010\nThe End of Nuclear Diplomacy by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2010\nThe Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior [pdf] by Dr. Harold Rhode, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 20, 2010 (see also video of interview with Dr. Rhode)\nIran: The Truth Hurts by David Harris, Huffington Post, December 21, 2009\nIran Policy: What Price Failure? by David Harris, Huffington Post, December 11, 2009\nEnd Iran\u2019s Nuclear Dance With Destruction by Donna Brazile, CantonRep.com, December 13, 2009\nThe Return of Israel\u2019s Existential Dread by Yossi Klein Halevi, Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2009\nBad Options on Iran: An Israeli strike won\u2019t suffice by Michael Rubin, National Review Online, October 5, 2009\nIt takes much more than talk to stop Iran\u2019s stonewalling by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News,September 30, 2009\nObama Is Pushing Israel Toward War by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2009\nSanctions Won\u2019t Work Against Iran by John Bolton, Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2009\nThere Is a Military Option on Iran by Chuck Wald, Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2009\nIt\u2019s Crunch Time for Israel on Iran by John Bolton, Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2009\nAssessing the Iranian Election by Daniel Pipes, June 14, 2009\nObama in 2012, after he fails to deal with Iran by Ari Shavit, Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2009\nTehran Is The Obstacle To U.S.-Iran Talks by Michael Rubin, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, November 25, 2008\nWishful Thinking and Iran by Steven Rosen, Middle East Forum, November 10, 2008 [includes audio recording]\nThe United States, Israel, and Iran: Defusing an \u201cExistential\u201d Threat by Chuck Freilich, Arms Control Association, November, 2008\nCan a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred? By Michael Rubin, Middle Eastern Outlook, November 5, 2008\nIran\u2019s Race for Regional Supremacy: Strategic Implications for the Middle East by Lt.-Gen (ret.) Moshe Yaalon et al., Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2008\nHold Iran Accountable by Irwin Cotler, YNetNews.com, July 22, 2008\nUsing Bombs to Stave off War by Benny Morris, New York Times, July 18, 2008\nWhat Iran really wants by Yoram Kaniuk, YNetNews.com, July 10, 2008\nTime for Iran to face more sanctions by Peter D. Zimmerman, Boston Globe, July 6, 2008\nAhmadinejad in his own words, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, June 2008\nWhat Iranian Leaders Really Say about Doing Away with Israel: A Refutation of the Campaign to Excuse Ahmadinejad\u2019s Incitement to Genocide by Joshua Teitelbaum, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 2008\nPrepare to attack [Iran] by Daniel Pipes, USA Today, June 11, 2008\nIran and the Problem of Evil by Michael Ledeen, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2008\nHillary Clinton\u2019s right to say \u2019obliterate\u2019 by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News, May 7, 2008\nIran\u2019s Global Ambition by Michael Rubin, AEI Middle Eastern Outlook, March 17, 2008\nThe Iranian-Israeli War by Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, March 11, 2008\nUnintelligence on Iranian Nukes: Appalling gamesmanship at the CIA by Michael Rubin, Weekly Standard, February 25, 2008\nDifferent Voices, Common Conclusion: Iran is a Threat, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], December 18, 2007\n\u201cTop foreign leaders, Democratic and Republican national security experts, and leading editorialists have responded to the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran with the conclusion that Iran remains a threat that must be thwarted. As Iran continues to advance its uranium enrichment capabilities in defiance of the U.N. Security Council resolutions, it is clear that sanctions must be stepped up to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.\u201d\nMisreading the Iran Report: Why Spying and Policymaking Don\u2019t Mix by Henry A. Kissinger, Washington Post, December 13, 2007\n\u201cThe NIE holds that Iran may be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon by the end of 2009 and, with increasing confidence, more warheads by the period 2010 to 2015. That is virtually the same timeline as was suggested in the 2005 National Intelligence Estimate. \u2026.It is therefore doubtful that the evidence supports the dramatic language of the summary and, even less so, the broad conclusions drawn in much of the public commentary.\u201d\nAmerican Intelligence by Claude Moniquet, The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2007:\n\u201cU.S. intelligence services have so far failed to predict the nuclearization of a single foreign nation. \u2026. [T]he NIE has little in common with intelligence as it is understood by professionals. Instead, Langley & Co. seem to have decided to carry out their own foreign policy.\u201d\nLosing Weight in the Gulf by Thomas L. Friedman New York Times, December 12, 2007:\n\u201cThe peculiar (obtuse?) way the N.I.E. on Iran was framed has deprived all who favor a negotiated settlement of leverage.\u201d\nStupid Intelligence by Alan M. Dershowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, December 7, 2007\nThe NIE \u2013 Capabilities vs. Intent, JINSA Report #728, December 7, 2007\nKeep Up the Pressure by Charles Krauthammer, Time, December 6, 2007\nThe Flaws In the Iran Report by John R. Bolton, The Washington Post, December 6, 2007\nAn Insult to Intelligence by Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, December 6, 2007\nIran\u2019s nuke news shows danger of trusting this regime by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News, December 5, 2007\nRussian Roulette on Iran by Michael Rubin, Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2007\nValue of free speech twisted at Columbia by Amotz Asa-El Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 2, 2007\nNormal Craziness: President Ahmadinejad\u2019s relationship with reality is beyond repair, The Times (UK), September 26, 2007:\n\u201cMr Ahmadinejad is no more truthful on his nuclear plans than on homosexuality, women\u2019s rights or the Holocaust, which he has called a myth. [\u2026.] Mr Ahmadinejad has shown why the world should be more concerned about his intentions for Iran. He has condemned himself in his own words.\u201d\nIran and the IAEA, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #701, September 7, 2007\nIran on anti-racism committee by Yaakov Lappin, YNetNews, August 23, 2007: Islamic Republic selected by UN for \u2019leading position\u2019 to plan anti-racism conference\nIran: Israel the standard bearer of Satan by the Associated Press, YNetNews.com, August 18, 2007: President Ahmadinejad again predicts Jewish state\u2019s demise; meanwhile, Revolutionary Guards threaten to \u2019punch\u2019 United States\nDeciphering Ahmadinejad\u2019s Holocaust Revisionism by George Michael, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2007\nStopping Iran\u2019s Nuclear Ambitions: The Case for Targeted Sanctions, American Jewish Committee, June 2007", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 29450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brookings.edu/events/freedom-from-oil-how-the-next-president-can-end-the-united-states-oil-addiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TK6262CMI3XSDASEJI6IHIV4BF5U5477", "length": 1365, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.brookings.edu", "title": "Freedom from Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States\u2019 Oil Addiction", "raw_content": "Freedom from Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States\u2019 Oil Addiction\nMonday, Oct 15, 2007 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT\n\u201cI plan to deliver an address from the Oval Office one month from today. The topic will be oil dependence.\u201d With these opening words, David Sandalow\u2019s Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2007) explores what could happen if the next president made ending oil dependence a top priority. Dueling memos from Cabinet members and top aides examine plug-in cars, biofuels, fuel efficiency, mass transit and other topics. Freedom from Oil offers insights into both energy policy and White House decision-making, culminating with a speech by the new president to the nation.\nSandalow, a Brookings senior fellow, discussed his new book at this event. Commentary from a panel of distinguished experts explored the perspectives of government, NGOs and industry.\nA complete audio MP3 is available here >>\nVice President, Booz Allen Hamilton\nDavid B. Sandalow\nInaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy - School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University\nIan Bowles\nSecretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts\nDirector, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, General Motors\nRayola Dougher\nSenior Economist, American Petroleum Institute\nExecutive Director, Plug-In America\nPresident - Resources for the Future", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brookwoodpottery.com/store/p160/Study_in_Blue_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:5IYQFZVP6M4DMXQWBDRAQA5RIV7BD6VP", "length": 268, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.brookwoodpottery.com", "title": "Brookwood Pottery, Large Botanical Artwork, Handmade, unique, Irish made", "raw_content": "\"Study in Blue\" is a large artwork featuring wild flowers and foliage from the field near the duck pond in St Anne's Park, beside the Coast Road and Dollymount Strand. I have used soft blues to create a restful image which would look beautiful in a bedroom or hallway.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bubruins.com/sports/wbkb/2018-19/photos/0006/index", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HSIXA3JPG25WIS3NQ63F3WWXLMWBVONV", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bubruins.com", "title": "Women's Basketball vs. Mayville State - Bellevue University Athletics", "raw_content": "Women's Basketball vs. Mayville State", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1027, "original_length": 15508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/70e9623f-8bb8-5cfb-835b-8122adff6380.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VW66MMNFEOXUCHI6XOQBYSHJZDISKBLQ", "length": 4392, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.buckscountycouriertimes.com", "title": "Out of touch+again - News - Bucks County Courier Times - Levittown, PA", "raw_content": "Out of touch+again\nWASHINGTON - What is it about the word \"jobs\" that our nation's leaders fail to understand? How has the most painful economic crisis in decades somehow escaped their notice? Why do they ignore the issues that Americans care most desperately about?\nListening to the debate in Washington, you'd think the nation was absorbed by the compelling saga of deficit reduction. You'd get the impression that in households across America, parents put their children to bed and then stay up half the night sifting through piles of think-tank reports on the kitchen table, trying to calculate whether there will be enough in the Social Security trust fund to pay benefits beyond 2037.\nAnd you'd be wrong. Those parents are looking at a pile of bills on the kitchen table, trying to decide which ones have to be paid now and which can slide. The question isn't how to manage health care or retirement costs two decades from now. It's how the family can make it to the end of the month.\nPresident Obama gives signs of beginning to perceive this disconnect. His Republican opponents, not so much.\nTwo new polls, both released last week, tell the story. A New York Times/CBS News survey found that four out of 10 respondents believe the economy is getting worse - up from three out of 10 last October. Economists insist that things are improving; obviously, not so that anyone would notice.\nA worrisome 70 percent of those surveyed said the country is heading in the wrong direction. Bad news for Obama is that the poll found his approval down to 46 percent; good news, as far as the president is concerned, is that his most visible GOP antagonist, House Speaker John Boehner, has an approval rating of just 32 percent. Clearly, Americans are not excessively pleased with their leaders.\nA Washington Post/ABC News poll found greater pessimism about the economy than at any time in the last two years - possibly because of the sharp hike in gasoline prices, which 71 percent of respondents said had caused financial hardship.\nYet if you followed the debate in Washington, you wouldn't hear much about the cost of keeping the minivan on the road. All that Americans care about, you'd have to assume, is the national debt and its long-term evolution. If you listened carefully, you'd conclude that the solution - cutting federal medical and retirement benefits - was basically settled, and that the only question is whether to do it with a scalpel or a chain saw.\nBut the Post poll found this argument untethered to reality. A definitive 78 percent of respondents said they oppose cuts in federal spending on Medicare. An almost equally impressive 69 percent oppose cutting spending on Medicaid. Social Security, the most sacred of bovines, isn't even on the table - but Republicans and the debt-obsessed commentariat are trying to goad Obama into taking the first whack.\nThe wise men and women of Washington complain that the American people are sending a contradictory message - that, essentially, they're acting like spoiled brats who want luxuries they can't afford. But I think the people are speaking quite clearly and sensibly, and I think politicians had better start listening.\nWe want an America that takes care of senior citizens in their retirement. We want an America that ensures medical care for the elderly and the poor. We may not yet know how to guarantee these benefits decades from now, but we know precisely where to start: In both surveys, 72 percent of respondents favored raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year. Both polls showed some doubt about deep cuts in military spending, but suggested that after the wealthy are asked to contribute their fair share, the defense budget would be the next place to look.\nObama is being slammed by the deficit hawks for not providing \"leadership\" on the debt. But it turns out that Obama's position is much closer to that of the American people. A president's job is not to lead us off a cliff.\nAnd perhaps Obama has learned a thing or two. He spent more than a year talking about health care reform when people wanted to hear about jobs - and his party paid the price last November. Now, debt-crazed Republicans are returning the favor.\nDepressed housing prices, an epidemic of foreclosures, 8 million lost jobs - that's the reality that Americans face every day. Politicians had better start facing it, too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 7983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bullmoose.com/p/1815134/leroux-gaston-phantom-of-the-opera-the", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DJWBJQF3J2DWBVRGEZ3PRZE2WPJY24PX", "length": 493, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bullmoose.com", "title": "Bull Moose. Gaston Leroux The Phantom Of The Opera", "raw_content": "\"The story of the monster man whose horrible deformities cause fear and terror, his search for love and acceptance, and his haunting of the opera house in Paris is told in very simple language. Beautifully adapted, the story flows along so easily that readers will be immediately caught up in the tangle of events and emotions. 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Will attract reluctant readers.\"--School Library Journal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 4036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/opinion/pages/relations-with-indonesia-will-survive-morrisons-jerusalem-thought-bubble.aspx/http", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OFMBAACEKFXPF63UX3OVWT6NIZL4WDSE", "length": 3425, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au", "title": "Relations with Indonesia will survive Morrison\u2019s Jerusalem thought bubble", "raw_content": "Relations with Indonesia will survive Morrison\u2019s Jerusalem thought bubble\nBy Tim Harcourt November 22, 2018\nAll hell broke loose during the Wentworth by-election when Prime Minister Scott Morrison suddenly announced he was thinking of moving Australia's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.\nThe main objections came, not on merits of the idea itself, but on whether it would upset Indonesia, the nation with whom Australia had just completed a landmark, but unsigned, free trade agreement and the nation with the world's largest Muslim population.\nThe agreement is now unlikely to be signed for quite some time. In a face to face meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo last week that was intended to clear the way, Morrison was instead pressed about the Middle East.\nWhat is now Indonesia is almost certainly the Australian continent\u2019s oldest trading partner.\nBut how important is the Indonesian trade relationship really? And would it be folly to sacrifice it on the altar of Middle East politics?\nAustralia and Indonesia have been entwined for a long time.\nWhat is now Indonesia is almost certainly the Australian continent's oldest trading partner.\nIndigenous Australians fished and traded sea cucumber and other goods with their Makassan counterparts from at least the early 1700s. Makassar is in the south-west corner of the Indonesian province of Sulawesi.\nAustralia provided critical support as what was then known as the Dutch East Indies fought for independence from the Dutch after the end of World War II.\nThe Australian government provided medical supplies. Australian waterside workers refused to load Dutch ships.\nThese close ties continued 50 years later during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s when the Reserve Bank of Australia clashed with the International Monetary Fund and the US Clinton administration, which wanted to impose tough conditions on Indonesia in return for bailing it out.\nAustralia's then treasurer, Peter Costello, took the advice of Reserve Bank deputy governor Stephen Grenville, who had been a diplomat in Jakarta, and stared down the IMF and the US.\nAs a result, the Indonesian economy fared much better, recovered more quickly and avoided much of the damage endured by other developing economies that had done as the IMF wanted.\nTwo decades on, Indonesia is one of Australia's top-15 trade partners, worth $16.5 billion in two-way trade, and one of the biggest markets for Australian education.\nIn many ways, Indonesia is underdone as a partner for Australia.\nIts population is around 268 million but only about 250 Australian companies of any size operate there, compared with more than 3000 in China.\nAmong the companies that do have a big presence are ANZ, Leightons, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Orica and Bluescope.\nIts attractions are a massive and growing urban middle class and its need for infrastructure given the logistical challenges of connecting a huge population living across more than 17,000 islands.\nA free trade agreement is important to both sides, whatever political rhetoric President Widodo may need to employ to hold off his fundamentalist opponents.\nMorrison told Widodo he would decide on the location of Australia's Israel embassy by Christmas. 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His blog contains tons of useful tutorials and guides on how to do things with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 like this great article about the drawbacks of SVG icons in retina displays; and then there\u2019s the Lab section, that describes in detail his experiments in using and implementing different effects with CSS3.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 38899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bzlibrary.com/articles/Koch-Pipeline-Donates-Land/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YGYHNEUF2NBHCRFP5P4FUW2JOX4EVPSU", "length": 737, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bzlibrary.com", "title": "Koch Pipeline Donates Land", "raw_content": "Koch Pipeline Donates Land\nKoch Pipeline Co. donates 1.7 acres near Hugo to the Speer Volunteer Fire Department, giving the fire department a location on which to build a new fire station.\n\u201cWe recognize the important role volunteer fire departments play in providing services to rural areas of Oklahoma and the rest of the country,\u201d said Kim Penner, president of Koch Pipeline Company. \u201cWe are happy this donation will help the Speer Volunteer Fire Department better serve this area and its citizens.\u201d\n\u201cKoch Pipeline\u2019s donation was unexpected and will certainly allow us to use the funds we had set aside to buy property to be used for other purposes,\u201d said Sharon Smith, fire chief. \u201cWe appreciate the company\u2019s generosity and support.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/person/?kimholmes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:43Z", "digest": "sha1:R7HCAWDXRAIA47ELBOI57NRWMIQHISDK", "length": 1997, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.c-span.org", "title": "Kim R. 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Smucker\n24Pramila Jayapal\n22Glenn Grothman\n21Jason M Lewis\nOn the 18th day of a government shutdown, the House approved a suspension bill reauthorizing public emergency health programs. Members observed a moment of silence for the victims of the\u2026\nThe House considered bills under suspension of the rules including a bill designating former President George W. Bush\u2019s childhood home in Midland, Texas as part of the National Park System.\u2026\nThe House debated the rules for upcoming bills.\nFiscal Year 2019 Budget Resolution Markup, Day 2, Part 1\nThe House Budget Committee met for the second of two days of scheduled meetings to consider legislation for the fiscal year 019 federal budget. The Republican leadership said the resolution\u2026\nThe House Budget Committee resumed its debate on amendments to the resolution for the fiscal year 2019 federal budget. They were offered by Democratic members involving issues such as\u2026\nHouse Republican Budget Committee Members on 2019 Budget Resolution\nHouse Republicans on the Budget Committee spoke to reporters about the fiscal year 2019 Budget Resolution.\nThe House considered a series of bills related to opioid addiction and treatment.\nHealth and Human Services Priorities\nHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee on the policies and priorities of his agency. Secretary Azar addressed the opioid\u2026\nSecretary DeVos on Education Department Priorities\nEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos testified before the House Education and the Workforce Committee on the agency\u2019s priorities. Secretary DeVos was asked about a wide range of topics,\u2026\nThe House passed the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. The vote was 351-66.\nCBO Oversight\nThe House Budget Committee held its fifth and final hearing in a series examining the role of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in the legislative process. In the first panel, former CBO directors\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 6908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c3jtherapeutics.com/company-overview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MVY7U3OW7EPD2FVVRUTVXQZO4DXBRSKT", "length": 1616, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.c3jtherapeutics.com", "title": "Management | C3J Therapeutics", "raw_content": "C3J Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of novel targeted antimicrobials \u2013 synthetic bacteriophage (phage) and antimicrobial peptides.\nC3J is the worldwide, exclusive licensee from UCLA of the STAMP (Specifically Targeted Antimicrobial Peptides) Platform which mines bacterial genomes for targeting domains that confer pathogen-specific killing activity. To date, C3J has raised $137 million to develop our lead molecule (C16G2) and to expand our technological approach to target pathogens, including use of phage or phage structures that confer selective killing.\nIn February 2018, we acquired an engineered phage platform to complement our antimicrobial peptide platform and combat the rapidly growing problem of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections (read the Press Release). Our asset purchase also included a partnered program with a U.S.-based global pharmaceutical company, as well as a lead synthetic phage product candidate for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.\nC3J\u2019s 35,000 square foot facility in Los Angeles, California, has state-of-the-art microbiology labs dedicated to the discovery of novel targeted antimicrobials. R&D capabilities are also in place for phage/peptide production and purification, as well as drug product formulation capabilities for oral, topical, luminal, and parenteral dosage forms for both phage and peptides. The facility is equipped with GMP drug manufacturing suites (licensed by California Department of Public Health) enabling production, purification, and release of clinical trial material.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ca.com/au/company/newsroom/press-releases/2015/majority-of-asia-pacific-and-japan-enterprises-with-a-devops-strategy-report-positive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LMDH6OWA6ECAGXNSP4JHKSBAXGE5WIUA", "length": 4919, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.ca.com", "title": "Majority of Asia Pacific & Japan Enterprises with a DevOps Strategy Report Positive, Quantifiable Business Results - CA Technologies", "raw_content": "Majority of Asia Pacific & Japan Enterprises with a DevOps Strategy Report Positive, Quantifiable Business Results\nMethodology drives tangible business benefits including more customers and increased revenue\nMumbai, India, 29 January 2015 \u2013 A new study released today by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) titled, \u201cDevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning in the Application Economy\u201d reveals that 82% of enterprises in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) already have or plan to adopt a DevOps strategy, a 12 point increase from last year\u2019s figure of 70%.\nDevOps is a methodology which helps foster collaboration between the teams that create and test applications (Dev) with those that maintain them in production environments (Ops). Vanson Bourne conducted the survey with 1,425 senior IT and business leaders worldwide, including 650 respondents from six APJ countries: Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.\nAccording to the study, 78% to 90% of respondents, who have already deployed or are planning to deploy DevOps, report that they have either seen or expect to see business benefits from their DevOps efforts.\nThese benefits include the ability to expand software availability across more platforms (cited by 90% of respondents), increased collaboration between departments (88%), a reduction in time spent fixing and maintaining applications (88%), an increase in the number of customers (87%) and revenue (78%).\n\u201cDevOps is as a critical methodology for organizations in today\u2019s application economy. It is encouraging to see the majority of APJ businesses taking heed and reaping tangible business benefits,\u201d said Ashok Vasan, vice president, application delivery, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies.\n\u201cIf you look at the results of the previous survey CA Technologies announced about the application economy, you will find another interesting fact: 43% of the \u201cleaders\u201d in the application economy in APJ have adopted DevOps, far ahead of the \u201claggards \u201d, among whom the corresponding rate is only 4%; While the majority of APJ business and IT leaders are no longer questioning the need for DevOps, some still report various obstacles to implementing DevOps, including organizational complexity (31%) and the difficulty in justifying its implementation from an ROI standpoint (28%).\nTo overcome these challenges, and as part of their implementation of a DevOps methodology, APJ enterprises are expected to make several savvy investments over the next year, including more training for development and operations personnel (64%) and redesigning processes to drive DevOps approach (59%).\nFurthermore, 59% of respondents revealed that they will be investing in a consulting firm with a DevOps practice to assist them with their implementation. This underscores the pressure businesses are feeling to deliver better software faster than ever before.\nOther key APJ findings include:\nTo measure the success of their DevOps implementation, 48% of APJ enterprises looks primarily at external business factors such as increased revenue, faster time-to-market, and improved competitive positioning. On the other hand, 42% measures success by looking primarily at internal factors such as lower costs, fewer application defects, improved application performance, and better collaboration across departments. But the leaders of the application economy are tending to use external factors, with a rate of 68%, compared to 28% among the laggards.\n1Leaders and laggards: Among the respondents to the previous application economy survey titled \u201cHow to Survive and Thrive in the Application Economy\u201d, CA Technologies defined the \u201cleaders\u201d and \u201claggards\u201d with below criteria:\n- Are highly/very effective at responding to the challenges of the Application Economy\n- Have delivered 4 or more customer-facing apps in the last year\n- Have already made at least one software acquisition or will in the next 12 months\nLaggards:\n- Are not at all/slightly/moderately effective at responding to the challenges of the Application Economy\n- Have developed 3 or fewer customer-facing apps in the last year\n- Have not made a software acquisition and have no plans in the next year\n39% of respondents cite the need to improve the quality and performance of their applications as a key driver in the adoption of DevOps. This is followed by:\nPressures to release applications more quickly to meet customer demand or enter new markets (32%);\nThe need to improve end user experience (32%); and\nA greater need for simultaneous deployment across different platforms (28%).\nIn APJ, 30% of enterprises in the Telecoms industry have already adopted DevOps, while 49% aim to do so within the next two years. This is the highest figure in the region and globally.\n45% of respondents indicate Performance Testing to be the most critical tool for enabling DevOps, followed by Application Performance Monitoring (39%) and Functional Testing (34%).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 9990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cair.com/ia_salvaging_hope_at_iowa_mosque", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JHHKTFWW3PFZZK2OLP5XLRAKF6USKLB6", "length": 1212, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cair.com", "title": "IA: Salvaging Hope at Iowa Mosque - CAIR", "raw_content": "IA: Salvaging Hope at Iowa Mosque\nThe tiny white mosque in a working-class neighborhood on this city's west side is a muddy shell with a sewage-stained stack of Korans and prayer beads piled nearly 5 feet high out back.\nFor more than seven decades, Muslim immigrants searching for solace and strength have gathered at the Mother Mosque of America, the oldest surviving mosque in North America.\nNow, the memories have been washed away. Picking through the debris, the faithful struggle to find something they can salvage -- even if it's only a little hope.\n\"We have lost our homes, our businesses and our places of worship,\" said the mosque's leader, Imam Taha Tawil. \"We have a lot to rebuild, but we can do it.\"\nNearly three weeks after the surging Cedar River crested well above historic levels and swamped 1,300 city blocks, the worship center and the 50 families it serves are among the tens of thousands of flood victims here in the state's second-largest city. . .\n\"It became the place where we could preserve the heritage and traditions of the Islamic community, here in Iowa and America,\" Tawil said. \"It's why this flood is so hard. We've lost a century's worth of art and oral history and work.\" (MORE)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 4702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cair.com/mi_for_arab_men_u_s_citizenship_can_be_elusive", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PJRDYY5D4WUKAOTJIHLGECMWSOQRJ7BB", "length": 1394, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cair.com", "title": "MI: For Arab Men, U.S. Citizenship Can Be Elusive - CAIR", "raw_content": "MI: For Arab Men, U.S. Citizenship Can Be Elusive\nAli Ali says he loves America -- for its freedom, its values and opportunities.\nBut the Iraqi immigrant says he has been unable to become a U.S. citizen, despite passing all the citizenship tests and requirements and waiting for almost a year. His problem is shared by other Arab and Muslim men in metro Detroit and across the United States, attorneys in Dearborn said Tuesday.\n\"I hate to be waiting all my life,\" said Ali, 37, of Dearborn. \"Just tell me.\"\nAli, along with attorneys and civil rights advocates, spoke Tuesday at a news conference held by the Michigan chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The committee also held conferences in Dallas, Anaheim, Calif., and Washington, D.C., to highlight problems.\nUnder federal law, immigrants who have taken citizenship interviews are supposed to be notified within 120 days on whether their U.S. citizenship request has been approved. Ali had his interview in May 2005, but he still hasn't heard from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.\nA spokesman for the service, Shawn Saucier, said Tuesday that the agency is \"working hard to refine the process.\"\nThe problem, he said, is that in some cases, it takes a while for the FBI to conduct background checks, known as name checks. In less than 1% of cases, the FBI takes more than six months to conduct the checks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 4901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 160.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.californiamentalhealthlawyer.com/Proudly-Serving/Santa-Barbara.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6MBSFPM3RYDU27UCMRGBVAWIWZ2NKOVC", "length": 2510, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.californiamentalhealthlawyer.com", "title": "Santa Barbara Mental Health Attorney | Lessem & Newstat", "raw_content": "Santa Barbara Mental Health Lawyer\nCriminal and Mental Health Defense\nNo matter where you are located, finding the right criminal defense attorney to take on your case can be a difficult, time consuming task. Add to mix that your case involves an issue of mental health and a possible plea of NGI and the chances of finding a reliable and aggressive lawyer in whom you can trust will likely become even more difficult. This is because sanity hearings and mental health court procedures are different from standard legal processes, and as such are not always familiar territory for practicing attorneys in the state of California.\nFortunately, for residents of Santa Barbara and its surrounding communities, firm legal assistance is available at the law offices of Lessem & Newstat, LLP. A professional from our firm can help protect your mental health disability rights well as offer legal representation for any appearance you may need to make in a sanity hearing or restoration of sanity hearing. We have been in the legal business for a combined total of 80 years, and as such we have acquired a wealth of knowledge about both the criminal and mental health systems of the legal field. By obtaining the defense of a Southern California mental health attorney from our firm you can help ensure that your rights and needs are met at all times.\nSanta Barbara Lawyer for Mental Health Cases\nThroughout Southern California, you can find the legal aid you need from an attorney at our firm. We have accompanied over 200 cases to trial and we have successfully been incremental in obtaining dismissals for more than 100 of these cases. Having spent a good deal of our professional careers directly inside the courtrooms, we know what it takes to achieve a successful case outcome for the clients we represent.\nWhen you choose to work with an attorney from our firm, you will be choosing to work with a professional who has strong knowledge of many matters related to the mental health field, including a thorough understanding of the history of the M'Naghten Rule, as well as crisis consultations and Murphy Conservatorships. We have been AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and we have a Better Business Bureau A+ rating. Whether you are in search of legal representation in the Ventura Mental Health Court or you want someone to explain your rights to you, we are here to help.\nSanta Barbara Resource Links\nInformation about Santa Barbara\nContact a Santa Barbara mental health lawyer form Lessem & Newstat, LLP today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/article.html/19516/fr.html/details_2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AEBDFZJNNXEAFS4RJZ3S6BCH74I4J2IB", "length": 683, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cameroon-tribune.cm", "title": "South Africa: BRICS Foreign Ministers Prepare Leaders\u2019 Summit", "raw_content": "South Africa: BRICS Foreign Ministers Prepare Leaders\u2019 Summit\nForeign Affairs and International Relations Ministers of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, BRICS economic bloc on June 4, 2018 met in Pretoria, South Africa to prepare a leaders\u2019 summit holding from July 25-27, 2018 in Johannesburg.\nThe meeting was chaired by Lindiwe Sisulu, South Africa\u2019s International Relations and Cooperation Minister. The theme for the 10th BRICS Summit is: \u201cBRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the 4th Industrial Revolution.\u201d South Africa assumed the chair of BRICS on January 1, 2018 and will remain in this position until December 31, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 110.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.catharnach.com/dog-bed-made-from-pallets-for-saving-money/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BTK5UPC5BDTVYYKSV3LQSXIV4MFBSI7I", "length": 1847, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.catharnach.com", "title": "Dog Bed Made from Pallets for Saving Money \u2014 Dog Beds", "raw_content": "Dog Bed Made from Pallets \u2013 Pets deserve our full attention and care. We already showed you on another occasion how to make a dog bed with pallets and today we come back on the subject to bring you three new ideas very simple to elaborate and that surely you will like very much. Do not think that a dog bed with pallets is a complicated project. On the contrary, it is one of the simplest to perform because of its small size, the few parts that need and the almost null assembly that requires. In fact, sometimes, depending on the state in which you find the pallet, you will not even need to make any modifications.\nRelated Dog Bed Cot Placement\nWhen it comes to making a dog bed made from pallets, consider the size of the dog. That is indispensable! But in addition, it also values options such as whether or not to wheel, depending on whether you are going to have to move the place bed (for example, if during the day the dog is in the living room and at night sleeps in your room). You can give it an original touch by putting a little sign (like the one in the photo) with your name or some pictures with dog motifs: a bone, some prints, and some ears. The poster can be put on a blackboard or painted directly on the pallet.\n12 Photos Gallery of: Dog Bed Made from Pallets for Saving Money\nRelated DIY Steps of Dog Beds for Great Danes\nFinally, if you want to make it even simpler, just create the base and add a very spongy cushion. Actually, they do not need much more and you will have a fantastic dog pallet bed. The idea of \u200b\u200bputting the pallet under is to isolate it from the cold of the winter floor and is that, although dogs withstand extreme temperatures quite well. It is always a good idea to take care of the best that we can. Of course, these dog bed made from pallets serve both the interior and the exterior of your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbchs.org/apps/news/article/503562", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:3V7CRXZKBXXLTHK63DZINPANDWY54LVO", "length": 346, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cbchs.org", "title": "Christian Brothers College High School", "raw_content": "Tom Murray Featured in the Post-Dispatch\nMr. Murray just completed his 120th show as CBC's Theater Director. Judith Newmark of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently visited campus to talk about Mr. Murray's career, and our recent production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.\nClick here to read more about Tom Murray's career at CBC!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 3590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates?f%5B0%5D=%3AHouse%20Committee%20on%20Armed%20Services&f%5B1%5D=committee%3AHouse%20Committee%20on%20Armed%20Services&f%5B2%5D=budget_function%3A1003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DPFSYNM77LNV4TQBAXSQE2YJPKQ63DOG", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cbo.gov", "title": "Cost Estimates Search | Congressional Budget Office", "raw_content": "Preliminary estimate of the direct spending effects of H.R. 1735, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Armed Services on April 30, 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 94.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/cost-estimates?f%5B0%5D=%3AHouse%20Committee%20on%20Oversight%20and%20Government%20Reform&f%5B1%5D=%3A1011&f%5B2%5D=budget_function%3A1000&f%5B3%5D=revenue_effects%3ALess%20than%20%24500%2C000&f%5B4%5D=budget_function%3A1013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GRG5GSRCEKVJ25U56N7QH3VGSGAN4VC2", "length": 323, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cbo.gov", "title": "Cost Estimates Search | Congressional Budget Office", "raw_content": "S. 1406, Prevent All Soring Tactics Act of 2014\nAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 10, 2014\nH.R. 3408, A bill to reauthorize the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 and to amend the swine reporting provisions of that act\nH.R. 4576, Food Promotion Act of 2004", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 144.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesponzi.com/charles-ponzi-autobiography/chapter-26", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RWQMGO2YY4AIY72ZDUC5JBCY66DAIZ7N", "length": 12255, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.charlesponzi.com", "title": "CHAPTER XXVI \u2014 Charles Ponzi", "raw_content": "I scouted for the creditor all over Boston. To settle his claim. Even if I had to give ten times what I owed him. But he could not be found. Neither could I reach his attorney. So, I told Sam Bailen, one of my several lawyers, to appear and oppose the petition.\nIn the meanwhile, I made arrangements to retain Dan Coakley. I needed a man of his caliber to cope with the State House crowd.\nStill, my hiring of Dan Coakley was a blunder. A political blunder. Some officials had no use for Dan. Dan, a firm believer in reciprocity, had no use for them. Which made it mutual. In so far as they were concerned. But it raised hell with my peaceful progress, so far as I was concerned. It placed me, so to speak, between the devil and the deep blue sea. And it was a toss up which one was the devil.\nThe moment Dan stepped into the picture, some officials made up their mind to take out on me what they couldn't take out on Dan. And I became the pliant pig-skin, the football, in the game between the two teams. For which I got more kicks in the slats than any man alive. It's a wonder that I can still sit down without wincing.\nWhat I should have done, instead of hiring Dan, was to stroll down to State Street and pick me out one of those lawyers with a Mayflower pedigree. One of those blue-ribbon Pomeranians. Or Spaniels. With an appetite like a Great Dane. Or a Saint Bernard. Then, I could have gotten away with murder. Or, with millions, rather. One of my contemporaries wasn't a sap like me. He went and hired for himself a real aristocratic counsel. It might have cost him part of his fortune. But not his liberty. Like it did me.\nAnyway, blunder or no blunder, I am not sorry I hired Dan Coakley. Even if I got in Dutch with the highbrows. It was worth all I went through, to meet Dan. To have his friendship. The benefit of his advice. The most competent advice in the State of Massachusetts. Bar none. To watch his brilliant mind at work. And to fight alongside of him. Against the same outfit. The same bunch of professional buccaneers whose only title to respectability rests in the fact that they are in power. That they sit pretty. Because they are subservient to the money interests.\nI put in the best part of that day straightening out that customer's business. I was still searching for him and had almost given up all hope to find him, when he walked right into my office. He was upset and indignant. He had seen his name on the bulletin board of a Boston newspaper and he didn't know what it was all about. I explained the situation to him and he claimed that he had been misled into signing that petition. I rushed up to my attorney's office and made the customer sign an affidavit. Less than an hour later, his attorney withdrew the petition.\nThe run was progressing satisfactorily for a run. The crowd was orderly. Checks were being issued at the rate of about 200 per hour. Brother Pride was busy listing my liabilities from the note stubs I had turned over to him. Out-of-town bank accounts were being gradually reduced and the money concentrated into the Hanover Trust. There was a reason for that. By paying my depositors with checks drawn on that Bank they would have to go there to cash them. Many might feel inclined to leave the money there and open an account, and that is just exactly what did happen. Most of the money I paid out of one pocket was re-deposited in the other. It was a case of \"heads I win\" and \"tails you lose.\"\nThe city editor of one of the Boston newspapers was still at it; that is, still dogging my footsteps, only a little more cautiously, but no less persistently. Never letting me out of his sight and nothing less than a shower of buckshot would have discouraged him, and I was just wishing that he was a \"deer\" instead of being a \"dear.\" Just then my attention was diverted by one of his confreres, the publisher of a local financial sheet.\nThat he, of all men, would come out and call me names was something I couldn't swallow.\nOut of a clear sky he gave me more display on his sheet than he ordinarily would have given to one of his friends; the stock-exchange paper hangers, even at one hundred bucks an inch. What he didn't say about me wasn't fit to be printed, no more than what I thought about him was. And he did not spare me, only he forgot to hire a lawyer as a proof-reader, with this result that he left himself wide open and I flew at him. I sued him for $5,000,000. He had a dairy farm near-by and I attached to everything he had. I tied him up so thoroughly, that the morning after the attachment even his cows couldn't give milk.\nAbout that time, a telegram from New York came to liven things up a bit. As if they weren't lively enough. The telegram informed me that a certain Joseph Hermann \"of London and Melbourne\" was on his way to Boston to confer with me on an important deal. A little later I got a phone call informing me of his arrival, and I arranged to meet him at the Parker House.\nThe interview was brief. He said he represented some New York and Paris capitalists. And had come to purchase, if possible, the Securities Exchange Company. His statement found me quite unreceptive. I did not believe he meant business. However, I talked things over with him. Just to see what his game was.\n\"Are you familiar with the conditions of the Securities Exchange Company?\" I asked him.\n\"Only to the extent described by the newspapers,\" he said.\n\"Well, then, let me inform you,\" I suggested. \"All of the company's assets consist of cash. Its liabilities are represented by notes. When I shall have redeemed my last note, all of the left over cash will be my own property. The company will have a fairly good supply of office furniture, fixtures, equipment and a wonderful mailing list. Are you prepared to buy that?\"\n\"Yes,\" he admitted, \"that's just exactly what we want.\"\n\"All right, then,\" I said. \"We will not bother to figure out the furniture, fixtures and equipment. I will throw all of that in, for good measure. But we must agree upon the price you shall pay me for the mailing list and the good will.\"\n\"We shall leave it to you to name your figure,\" he stated. \"We shall endeavor to meet your terms.\"\nHe acted too blamed optimistic to sound convincing. I had a feeling he was bluffing. So, I decided to name an exorbitant figure. Which would have forced him to show his hand.\n\"I want ten million dollars,\" I told him.\n\"It is a large sum,\" he commented, \"but we are prepared to produce it. Personally, I accept your figure. However, I must return to New York to consult with my associates. We will all be here the day after tomorrow to discuss the details. Will it be convenient for you to meet us on that day at the Copley Plaza between 9 and 10 A.M.?\n\"Yes, I'll be there,\" I agreed. \"But please remember that my price is for cash on delivery. Subject to increase, if you cause me to lose my time unnecessarily.\"\nAt the appointed date, we met again. We discussed the matter for almost two hours. By then I had learned that they were fully supplied for funds. There was even a rumor current that they were backed by one of the largest banking houses in America. A rumor which I was never able to verify. But I had grown suspicious of their purpose. So, I altered my terms.\n\"I do not know what you propose to do with my company,\" I told them. \"I assume that you want to use it to further some enterprise of your own. I could turn it over to you and give you a free hand. Without worrying what may happen afterwards. But I feel morally obligated toward my investors and the public to protect them against dangerous investment. So, I will sell out only to persons who will not use the company for illegitimate purposes. I don't know any of you gentlemen. Even if I did, I would not assume the responsibility of endorsing you. Therefore, I will sell to you on the condition that you will give me an executive position in your company. I don't want any salary. I ask for no share of the profits. All I want is the most ample opportunity of keeping a check on what you are doing. After I shall have satisfied myself in that respect, I will withdraw.\"\n\"We are willing to agree to that,\" Hermann said for himself and the others.\nRegardless of the obstacles I created, I simply couldn't discourage those men. However, they were not ready to close the deal that day. And suggested a new conference.\n\"I don't see any necessity for further conferences,\" I stated. \"You know my terms. Have a regular contract drawn up by your attorneys and bring it to me for my signature. We can close the deal in fifteen minutes. I cannot see you again until you are ready to close the deal When you are, you shall exhibit to me a certified check before I even consent to talk to you. I am too busy right now to spend any more time in this sort of conference.\"\nThe Hermann's visits could have been my salvation. If I had had sense enough to take advantage of them. Without developing a conscience. Which was never appreciated either then or since. But my mind was running along the wrong channels at that time. I had more life preservers thrown at me than a ship-wreck.\nYet, I was so wrapped up in those crazy notions of mine that I never so much as reached for one.\nI felt so sure of myself that I never looked ahead further than my nose. Big and little politicians were trailing me right along. And I didn't have to go looking for overtures. They were being made right to me.\nFor instance, one morning a couple of politicians called at my residence before breakfast. One of them was a representative of a New York newspaper. I received him in the sun-parlor in my pajamas.\n\"Mr. Ponzi, here are our credentials,\" said he, handing me some letters which showed his connection with the Republican National Committee. \"We are sent by one of its leaders and the National Committee of the Republican Party to solicit your contribution to the campaign. We have been told of your success and liberality and have taken the liberty to hope that you will contribute.\"\n\"You may have come to the right church,\" I replied to him, \"but I believe you have stepped into the wrong pew.\"\n\"Why?\" he asked. \"You certainly appreciate the fact that Senator Harding will be the next President of the United States?\"\n\"Perhaps,\" I remarked. \"Unless Cox beats him to it.\"\n\"Not a chance,\" he said. \"The Democrats are due for defeat.\"\n\"Well, how much do you expect from me?\" I inquired.\n\"Anything you care to give,\" he answered. \"In your position, you would hardly contribute less than a thousand dollars, I believe.\"\n\"Is that all you want?\" I asked. \"Why, a thousand dollars is no money at all. I thought you said I was liberal.\"\n\"Of course,\" he said. \"You can give as much as you like and we can assure you that the more you will give us the more we shall be pleased.\"\n\"If I were to follow my inclinations I would contribute considerably more than a thousand dollars,\" I told him.\n\"We are glad to hear it?\" he acknowledged, \"How much will you say?\"\n\"How much will I say?\" I repeated after him. \"I will say a cool million, in round figures.\"\n\"A million dollars?\" he asked with amazement.\n\"Yes,\" I confirmed. \"A whole million dollars, gentlemen,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to hang the whole Republican Party!\"\n\"Evidently your language indicates that you have some grievances against our party,\" said he.\n\"Grievances? That's no word for it!\" I told him. \"While you are here soliciting my contribution, look at what they are doing to ruin me. They are all Republicans. Wouldn't I be a sap to contribute to their political success while they are actually conspiring against me?\"\n\"We didn't know that,\" he apologized.\n\"Inform yourselves, then,\" I suggested, \"Go and tell your friends to lay off. And then come and talk to me about contributions. But not before.\"\n\"We will see what we can do,\" he said. \"Will you make an appointment to see us later?\"\n\"I will not make an appointment now,\" I told him, \"But you can have a talk with Judge Leveroni. If you reach a satisfactory arrangement, I will accept his recommendations.\"\nOnce more I had turned the cold shoulder on the team. The winning team. In some way or another, I always managed to place my bets on the wrong horse. For a gambler, I certainly was a corker!\nNewer PostCHAPTER XXV\nOlder PostCHAPTER XXVII", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 12931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-htc-vive-virtual-reality-headset-review-20160407-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3HO3VB6SGLTXFITC3QEGCRCVKGP4Z27B", "length": 6420, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "Virtual reality headset is bulky, complicated, expensive . . . and awesome - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "Virtual reality headset is bulky, complicated, expensive . . . and awesome\nKarl Mondon / TNS\nTroy Wolverton, technology reporter for the Bay Area News Group, tests HTC's new virtual reality headset, the Vive, at his home in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 4, 2016.\n(Karl Mondon / TNS)\nHayley TsukayamaThe Washington Post\nAfter a little less than a week with the HTC Vive, I have to say that the new virtual-reality headset from HTC and Valve can be disorienting. It's hard to set up. It can be a little wonky.\nBut it's also completely amazing.\nAlong with its rival virtual reality (VR) headset - the Oculus Rift, which began shipping to customers last week - the $800 Vive carries with it the promise of a new generation of gaming, as well as the promise of new frontiers in communication.\nThe Vive box comes packed with a good amount of gadgetry. In addition to the 1.2-pound headset, you also get two hand-held controllers, two light projectors, many power cords and a bridge to connect everything together. You'll also require a powerful PC with a top-end graphics card, as well as an HDMI port, a USB port and at least seven power outlets at your disposal.\nOnce you get everything setup - no mean feat, as I'll describe later - you can get to the real fun: playing.\nHTC provided me with a review code that gave me access to around 20 titles, covering a variety of genres. Some are more like experiences rather than games - simulations or cool environments to marvel at and explore - or very basic arcade games. One of my favorites was \"Space Pirate Trainer,\" which lets you wield your controllers like pistols and shoot at small, flying droids that are bent on your destruction.\nIt sounds simple, but it was enormous fun - proving that even uncomplicated ideas can be completely transformed by virtual reality. Even bending down to examine something on the ground becomes a novelty. So does ducking into cover and actually peering out from behind a column to shoot. On a normal screen, some of the most compelling titles that came with the Vive would be laughably bad, with cartoonish, slow-moving enemies. But when they're coming at you, are your size and have ghoulish groans that are ringing in your ears? It's not so funny.\nWhen cookie giant Oreo wanted to promote its latest flavors, its marketing heads decided to spice up its traditional TV ads with something not just new, but otherworldly: A virtual-reality-style fly-through of a whimsical, violet-skied fantasyland, where cream filling flows like a river and cookie...\nThe real strength of the Vive is its hand-held controllers, which are rendered in the headset in such detail that it can be difficult to remember they're not real. HTC and Valve have clearly put a lot of effort into getting the physical vibrations, or haptics, just right with these controllers. Somehow, your body can sense the tension of a bow string or the rattle of a sword through these subtle vibrations, which are also excellent at providing you cues for when you've picked something up in a game. It takes a while to get used to having two controllers, but the freedom and flexibility this gives you in a game is mind-blowing.\nSound is incredibly important to keeping you in the VR world, and the Vive's included earbuds leave much to be desired, if only because they have a tendency to fall out. That's another advantage for the Rift, which has a built-in headphone and microphone. Good headphones should make the Vive more useful as a smartphone extension - you'll be able to take calls from inside the headset, according to HTC and Valve, but those features weren't live during my testing period.\nIn coming days, people will leave our world for a new realm of gunslingers, cyberbots and other exotic sights. Their ticket out of here will be the Oculus Rift \u2014 a $600 virtual reality headset hitting the consumer market.\nHmm, even from here we can see, through regular prescription spectacles,...\nAnother main Vive perk is the inclusion of a front-facing camera. That lets you not only see a tiny square of the real world when you're navigating menus, but the camera can also overlay a picture of the room you're in over your game at any time. That has come in handy quite a few times, when in-game spinning has scrambled my internal compass.\nDespite my overall delight, there are some serious drawbacks. Many people worry about motion sickness, but I didn't have too much of an issue apart from when I tried to use the Vive over my glasses. The headset is heavy, however, which was essentially the limiting factor for my play time. If I spent more than 90 minutes or so with the headset on, I started to really feel the pressure on my head and on my cheekbones. And while I didn't have too many freezes or game-ending meltdowns, there were a few times when the tracking would lose my hand, or the computer would fail to recognize an input right away.\nThe biggest drawback for me though was the sheer amount of space that using a Vive requires. My husband and I had to rearrange our furniture to walk out a roughly six-foot square space in our living room. Ideally, you would have an entire, mostly empty room to play in - particularly for some of the larger experiences. That may not be easy for everyone to do, though.\nSetup is also fairly intense. The two light projectors have to be around 6.5 feet high to accurately capture your movement. The Vive comes with a wall-mounting kit to do this permanently. And then you have to find up to seven outlets to plug in all the components, a monitor and a PC. Mapping out the room and getting everything up and running took roughly 30 minutes.\nIs it worth it? I've wavered back and forth over the past week. For hard-core gamers, there's no doubt that the Vive offers something new. There's an unmistakable feeling of being inside of the action, having the freedom and flexibility of movement that you always dreamed of having. The Vive, more than any other VR headset I've tried, makes me fully redefine what it means to play in \"first-person.\"\nThe cost of the Vive, however, is a serious drawback, as is the commitment you have to make to its setup.\nBut if you're the kind of person who nerds out about these sort of things, let's just say that the temptation will be very, very strong to get one.\nOculus Rift virtual reality headset to sell for $599, ship in March\nVirtually here: First Oculus Rift headsets arrive in Chicago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 6997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.childesign.com/en/profile/mistry-ajay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:25Z", "digest": "sha1:BNEHROFWDNCBIEB7T5H34J7RO3WHQIPM", "length": 1704, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.childesign.com", "title": "Ajay Mistry - CHIL Interior Design", "raw_content": "B.E.S., B.Arch\nFor Ajay Mistry, successful design blends aesthetics and technical considerations to create memorable and inspiring experiences. Throughout his over 22 years in design, he\u2019s had the opportunity to work alongside people with a variety of personal and professional backgrounds from around the world, and he appreciates that he can learn something from everyone. Ajay\u2019s wide-ranging experience as an architect and designer also equips him with the ability to see every project through different lenses, particularly those of the end user. His penchant for design was apparent from childhood and the concept of being able to create spaces that evoke an emotional response from people is an experience that equals no other in his mind.\nLeading CHIL\u2019s Toronto studio, Ajay heads the region\u2019s business development, seeking out opportunities in luxury hospitality, residential, and food and beverage sectors in Eastern Canada and North America. Prior to joining CHIL, he was Director of Design & Construction at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts where he worked closely with the renowned hospitality brand\u2019s development partners to oversee the creation of new global luxury hotel and residential properties. The ability to check his ego at the door and listen carefully to what others have to say has served him well, and he recognizes how important it is to know what\u2019s most critical to his clients and to understand how he can collaborate to meet their priorities.\nI\u2019ve always loved being in the studio and I\u2019m excited to return to that environment to apply my unique hospitality experience \u2013 having worked as both a design consultant and brand ambassador.\nAjay is also a member of B+H Architects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 198.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chironexus.net/video-drugs-ineffective-sciatica/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FPFZTUXVMOW22SGYRWJZD47SPX2JEF3A", "length": 899, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.chironexus.net", "title": "VIDEO: Are Drugs Ineffective For Sciatica? - Chiropractic News by ChiroNexus", "raw_content": "VIDEO: Are Drugs Ineffective For Sciatica?\nPain medication is frequently prescribed for patients with sciatica, but an article in the British Medical Journal reveals that there may little efficacy in this practice. Within the article, researchers reviewed 23 studies that compared placebo pills to various medications for the treatment of sciatica. Study after study, the drugs were found to be no more effective than the placebo pills. Additionally, drugs did not significantly help relieve radiating leg pain, one of the primary symptoms of sciatica. Two drugs helped reduce overall pain, but it was unclear how effective they were in the long-term. These findings led researchers to conclude that there is no clear evidence for demonstrating the efficacy or tolerability of common pain medications prescribed for sciatica.\nWritten by: Michael Melton on March 2, 2017.Modified on January 10, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christiantelegraph.com/2018/10/10/manmin-central-church-celebrated-its-36th-anniversary-with-a-celebration-service-and-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XLQV6CT4UVAWI4NZFYECDAMIOPFCPL4D", "length": 2586, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.christiantelegraph.com", "title": "Manmin Central Church celebrated its 36th anniversary with a celebration service and event | Christian Telegraph", "raw_content": "On October 7, 2018, in celebration of the 36th anniversary Manmin Central Church whose senior pastor is Dr. Jaerock Lee had a celebration service and event. Many guests of honor from 22 countries including Pastor Mark Bazalev, Vice President of Spiritual Diplomacy Foundation and Ms. Rosalba Rodriguez De Rincon, President of Enlace Colombia attended the event.\nThe church got many congratulatory messages from 170 special figures including Dr. Andre Gasiorowski, President of Helping Hand Coalition, Mr. Sergey Velbovetsm, President of InVictory Media Group, Pastor Misael Arge\u00f1al, Senior Pastor of La Cosecha International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and President of Universidad Cristiana de Honduras, and Pastor Martin Alvarez, President of LUT Theological Seminary of Argentina.\nPastor Soojin Lee, President of Pastors\u2019 Association of Manmin Central Church delivered the message entitled with \u201cGlory\u201d taken from Isaiah 60:1-3, and in her message she explained about the 36-year ministry of the church and gave thanks and glory to God the Trinity who has confirmed the church with His powerful works.\nThe service was followed by celebration event with the theme of \u201cThe Flowery Road Ball Banquet.\u201d This event was performed by Nissi Orchestar and approximately 100 performers and also with the support of outsourcing staff in lighting, sound, visual, and special effects. The performance the joy, excitement and the thanksgiving of those who have entered the City of New Jerusalem, the most glorious place in heaven and attended the beautiful heavenly ballroom.\nMs Rosalba Rodriguez, President of Enlace Colombia, celebrating the 36th anniversary of Manmin Central Church, said she felt the beauty of heaven and the presence of the Lord from the performance. The 36th anniversary celebration service and event was broadcast live to the whole world via the Internet and GCN that covers 170 countries.\nManmin Central Church that belongs to The Union of Holiness Churches of Jesus Christ is following the doctrine of the fivefold gospel of holiness: regeneration, sanctification, divine healing resurrection and return. The church was founded in 1982 and its Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee\u2019s inspirational messages, the members\u2019 unceasing prayers, fervent evangelism and faithful devotion, and the experiential and practical power in their faith have caused the church to grow very rapidly to be a world\u2019s mega-sized church with 11,000 branch and associative churches all around the world. In the September of 2009, the church conducted a crusade in Jerusalem of Israel successfully.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christiantelegraph.com/2018/12/06/the-testimony-of-healing-from-esophageal-stricture-caused-by-scalding/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SLSJCEO3HEDOIU6DODYNBVU265CNEIR6", "length": 1749, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.christiantelegraph.com", "title": "The Testimony of Healing from Esophageal Stricture Caused by Scalding | Christian Telegraph", "raw_content": "The Testimony of Healing from Esophageal Stricture Caused by Scalding\nOn October 2, 2017, a Chinese boy Wi mistook very hot water for cold water and drank it up in a gulp. Afterwards, he suffered from serious pain. When he ate, he vomited all. He couldn\u2019t eat.\nThe endoscope identified that the lower part of his esophagus wall had decomposed and was ulcerated and infected. The affected part was congested with blood and swelled up, so it could also lead to bleeding. In December, he was examined again through esophagography. The lower 7.3cm-long part of the esophagus became narrow and the narrowest part was just 1mm.\nHe could not eat solid food for four months after the accident and lived only on thin rice gruel and milk. He lost a great deal of weight and couldn\u2019t go to kindergarten. His mother said, \u201cHe told me to give him food, whining. When he cried and asked why he couldn\u2019t eat, my heart was broken.\u201d\nShe couldn\u2019t leave him to live that way. She began to pray and asked herself why God hadn\u2019t been able to protect her son. She realized and repented that she had broken peace and harbored hatred though she had been taught through a sermon to make peace with everybody and that hatred is spiritual murder.\nShe prepared for the meeting with Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee and came to Korea in February 2018. She received his prayer in person. That night, something amazing happened. Her son was set free from the serious pain that he had suffered from for the previous four months. He could even eat bread. Hallelujah!\nHis parents are so happy when they see their son recovering more and more. Since then, he has eaten well and recovered his health. Now he is attending elementary school normally.\nLet\u2019s give all thanks and glory to God!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chronarealty.com/listings/seaport/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AZKPDHIRHRIA3ER523AP3QZPPZX5FHEV", "length": 381, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.chronarealty.com", "title": "Boston Seaport", "raw_content": "What was once an undeveloped section of Boston\u2019s waterfront area has emerged into the city\u2019s most exciting neighborhood. Today the vibrant Seaport District is filled with a collection of upscale restaurants, hip shops, and luxury condominiums. The Seaport is fast becoming the cutting edge of Boston real estate, with many more buildings on the horizon and parcels left to develop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 139.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/record-year-pwcs-newcastle-office-15163984", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:10Z", "digest": "sha1:66FASLX7CVJEBFLF7AZZRCLYLNAWELHH", "length": 3879, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.chroniclelive.co.uk", "title": "Record year for PwC's Newcastle office as investment in staff tops priority list - Chronicle Live", "raw_content": "Record year for PwC's Newcastle office as investment in staff tops priority list\nSenior partner Jonathan Greenaway has hailed a strong year at the professional services firm\nCentral Square South in Orchard Street, Newcastle (Image: tark archive)\nThe senior partner for PwC\u2019s Newcastle office has hailed a record year for the accountancy giant\u2019s regional team.\nThe professional services firm has unveiled its financial performance for the year ended June 2018 in which it saw growth across all four of its business divisions \u2013 a national picture which Newcastle senior partner Jonathan Greenaway said was mirrored at a local level.\nThe firm posted revenue of \u00a33.76bn for the year ended 30 June 2018, up 5% from \u00a33.60bn last year, as it continued to invest in people and technology across the UK to support its clients.\nJonathan Greenaway, PwC\u2019s Newcastle Office senior partner said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a very strong year \u2013 a record year for us in Newcastle. The assurance and audit division has done very well with a number of big wins including Utilitywise and from a corporate finance point of view we\u2019ve seen strong performance, advising, for example, on the sale of Wear Inns.\nJonathan Greenaway, PwC's Newcastle Office senior partner (Image: Mike Smith Photography)\n\u201cAnd we continue to recruit heavily. Our numbers are pretty consistent and when you think of the investment in technology its pleasing for me that we investment as heavily as we do in local talent. That is the biggest challenge for us really, to keep them at PwC and in the North East.\n\u201cThe headcount is just as big as it\u2019s ever been and at the same time we are developing some great initiatives. We\u2019ve got a very big cyber team who are running a proposition that\u2019s been taken nationally.\n\u201cInvesting in our regional footprint is a priority for the firm. At the beginning of September we had 13 graduates join our Newcastle office taking the total number of graduates joining the firm across the North this summer to 145.\n\u201cEnsuring that we have the right skills, increased levels of specialisms and technologies to assist with the challenges facing our clients in the future is essential. Whilst creating new and more flexible ways of working bringing together our people and technology to deliver a wider range of integrated services in a way that best suits our clients.\n\u201cLooking ahead, we\u2019re keeping one eye on where we\u2019re going to be in six months - who knows? Yet when we speak to businesses they are just carrying on as usual, and I like that that\u2019s the North East\u2019s way of doing things.\u201d\nDespite uncertainty over Brexit, Kevin Ellis, PwC UK chairman and senior partner, said all four business divisions grew over the year, with high demand for technology-related services, including cyber, data analytics and GDPR.\nAssurance revenues increased by a solid 3%, Consulting revenues were up by 1%, Deals grew strongly by 10%, and the tax practice, which includes specialists in areas such as immigration, legal services and pensions, experienced good growth of 7%.\nA total of 29% of the firm\u2019s revenues came from organisations headquartered outside the UK, which he said highlights the importance of the UK as a global business hub.\nMr Ellis added: \u201cMomentum in our business is good, driven by a strong deals market and demand for technology-driven business expertise, as we see organisations turn to us to help them transform their business models, many in response to digital disruption.\n\u201cWe are adopting new technologies to ensure our business is efficient and connected for the future.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve made a step change in our own digital transformation this year with significant investment in cloud-based technologies such as Google for Work , Salesforce, and Workday, as well as continuing to invest in emerging technologies expertise in AI, virtual reality and a drones\u2019 team to build and innovate client services.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 11895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cidori.co.uk/mindthegap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:23Z", "digest": "sha1:APDV7PLYSSEGJN4DTXP3PVHNIOV3PH3D", "length": 5290, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.cidori.co.uk", "title": "Mind the Gap: functional skills matter - Cidori", "raw_content": "We\u2019ve all seen and heard the reports.\nOfficial figures and various Government and other agency reports continue to reveal the struggle that thousands have with Maths and English in the UK.\nGovernment data (2012) showed only one in 15 (6.5%) pupils who start secondary school in England \u201cbehind\u201d for their age will then go on to get 5 \u2018good\u2019 GCSEs including English and Maths. Moreover, amongst children from disadvantaged backgrounds, only a third (34%) reach the government\u2019s benchmark of 5 GCSEs \u2013 or equivalent qualifications \u2013 graded A* to C, including English and Maths.\nIn 2014 the Telegraph covered the publication of an OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) report involving more than 500,000 pupils worldwide and looking at exam results in reading and maths for 15-year-olds in 65 developed nations. This revealed a significant gap in performance between British pupils and their Far Eastern peer group. It was found that the children of factory workers, labourers and cleaners in China were more than a year ahead of the offspring of British doctors and lawyers. Overall, the UK was ranked 26th for maths and 23rd for reading. China\u2019s Shanghai district was the top-rated jurisdiction in each subject. Of note is that the OECD study looked at how pupils would be able to put their knowledge and skills to use in real life, rather than simply being able to recite facts and figures.\nThis struggle with Maths and English is not of course limited to school leavers \u2013 recent research by Cambridge University and University College London (UCL) looked at the results from an international survey of nearly 9,000 adults from 31 countries designed to test financial literacy and found that one in three adults in England and Northern Ireland struggle with simple maths, and the OECD report Building Skills for All: A Review of England ranks England lowest in the developed world for literacy, and second lowest for numeracy.\nWhich brings us to the matter of Apprenticeships\u2026\nApprenticeships and Functional Skills\nWe\u2019re all clear that providing apprenticeships of a high standard enables learners to develop the increasingly complex skills required in today\u2019s workplace. This progression also prepares apprentices for long-term employment and career success in their chosen industry or sector.\nFundamental to this journey are functional skills \u2013 principally English & Maths \u2013 and perhaps it\u2019s good to remind ourselves why we call them \u2018functional\u2019 \u2013 they are practical skills that will provide an individual with the knowledge and understanding vital to operating confidently, effectively and independently in life and the workplace.\nApprentices who develop relevant skills in English and Maths in the vocational context of an apprenticeship can and do use and apply them successfully at work \u2013 clearly all apprentices should therefore attain a good level in these functional skills before they can complete their apprenticeship program.\nCidori in partnership with Gateshead College is therefore focused on ensuring high quality functional skills tuition as part of our national apprenticeship delivery program \u2013 whether to young apprentices who leave education without these requisite skills or existing employees who are being trained and up-skilled in the workplace.\nAs we engage with businesses from all sectors (and pre-screen potential apprentices for functional skills assessment purposes) it is evident that there is a massive need for improved Maths and English in many workplaces \u2013 it\u2019s not hard to appreciate that if for example literacy is poor, an employee will struggle to communicate well with colleagues, understand a company briefing, health and safety direction or other information presented to them.\nAdditionally, we find at times an understandable reluctance to open dialogue when functional skills deficiencies exist \u2013 yet if properly addressed as part of an apprenticeship delivery program, enhancing the functional skills of the workforce (including those for whom English is not their first language) can significantly improve the skills base and effectiveness of any organisation.\nFor these reasons Cidori is committed to driving up success rates for functional skills. As part of our apprenticeship programs we work with employers and their workforce, providing dedicated, qualified tutors who can help every apprentice reach required levels of numeracy and literacy \u2013 providing one-to-one engagement and coaching where needed.\nCidori is a managed learning and development consultancy/service provider with more than 15 years\u2019 experience in delivering apprenticeship programs across the UK. We are partnered with Gateshead College \u2013 one of the top UK colleges, an Ofsted Outstanding rated and RoTAP accredited learning and skills provider.\nIn collaboration with Gateshead college we are a one-stop shop for national, highly effective, coherent and value for money apprenticeships. We lead the way in identifying, developing and delivering bespoke apprenticeship programs that have a proven track record of improving business performance and helping businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive market.\nWe have significant traction and experience across various industry sectors \u2013 automotive, manufacturing, logistics and food & drink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.circle-of-fifths.co.uk/modes/aeolian/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3NUNWMOQRVOM3U2TXCLIC4Z4VEMSAJ4Y", "length": 886, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.circle-of-fifths.co.uk", "title": "aeolian mode, the interactive circle of fifths", "raw_content": "Aeolian is also known as the most common minor mode. If someone is talking about a minor scale, this is probably the one they\u2019re talking about.\nTo play Aeolian mode on the piano, just play all the white notes on a piano, starting on A.\nAeolian mode consists of notes with the following intervals: T-S-T-T-S-T-T\nAs an example, make sure that \u201cA\u201d is at the top of the circle. You can see that in order to play A aeolian mode, you simply need to play a C major scale, but concentrating on the A.\nTo play a song in A aeolian mode, you would generally play all the chords from C major, but concentrating on the Am.\nPlay any major scale but start on (concentrate on) the 6th note in order to achieve an aeolian scale\nA aeolian is relative to (contains all the same notes as) C major (or C ionian) , and so can be thought of as a starting point for the modal system (if there was such a thing)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citizenssf.com/calendar/2018/5/27/vision-and-prayer", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ3C4NDYYIDX5EZDRDENYS435Z2NI3LH", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.citizenssf.com", "title": "Vision & Prayer Night \u2014 Citizens Church", "raw_content": "Jerusalem Church of God in Christ 1660 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA, 94115 United States (map)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citychurchlongbeach.org/dailydevotional/the-human-one", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OVSYLID5CQQ7SUUNWXNKL7EKNHDNEKNU", "length": 1588, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.citychurchlongbeach.org", "title": "The Human One", "raw_content": "The Human One didn\u2019t come to be served but rather to serve and to give his life to liberate many people.\n- Mark 10:45, Common English Bible\nJesus referred to himself regularly in his teaching. Some have translated those references as \"the Son of Man\" and others have translated them as \"the Human One.\" Both are good interpretations of the original Greek.\n\"The Human One\" can be helpful in reminding us that Jesus was so much like us that he called himself \"the Human One\" after all! And if we want to become more like him, all we need to do is become more human. That's because Adam, as the original \"human one\" (that could be a translation of the Hebrew word 'Adam') was specifically made in God's image. The scriptures teach that every human being since was made in God's image as well. Finally, with Jesus being 'the Human One' we get to see the full force of what it means to be human. It means to be like Jesus.\nThe more like Jesus become, the more human we become (and vice versa). That's a good reminder about this journey we're on. It should lead us to be robotic, less like gears in a machine, less 'just a number,' and less like an oversimplified meme on social media. We're each a piece of art (Paul calls us each a poem at one point in Philippians) and this journey towards Jesus is an invitation to be formed by the Spirit into that masterpiece that God originally designed us to be and which he now is working towards creating through Christ.\nTake some time in quiet today and ask the Human One to teach you how to be truly human today, and to teach you how to be yourself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clandestinecritic.co.uk/2010/03/notes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6JI5R7YXUVF4EX4P6X3HVOFBEUR3MSHB", "length": 2797, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.clandestinecritic.co.uk", "title": "Notes On A Film: District 9 \u2013 Clandestine Critic", "raw_content": "If it takes the name of a famous director above the title to get films like this made, then I can\u2019t object to the transparent false advertising. Peter Jackson may produce this film, but Neill Blomkamp has created (he wrote and directed, adapting from his short film) a great piece of modern alien sci-fi, set in the slummy side of Johannesburg, South Africa. And, yes, the obvious reference to apartheid is there, but that\u2019s not what the film is about \u2013 it\u2019s about humanity, the treatment of immigrants, and the abuse of one class of people by another. But it\u2019s also a cracking thriller, with amazing special effects, very alien aliens and a mecha suit that blows shit up.\nThe film is more amazing for the fact that it only cost $30 million to make \u2013 it looks fantastic. The photoreal aliens are incredible, but the film doesn\u2019t focus on them \u2013 they are just there, part of the background, accepted as part of the reality. This is helped by the faux documentary style that is used for a major portion of the film (although it dispenses with it in most of the intense action scenes, which jars a little), and the attitude of the people in the movie. Of the people, the standout is Sharpito Copley as Wikus, a white collar drone charged with moving the aliens from District 9 to a new area well outside of Johannesburg, whose life changes when some alien liquid squirts on him. What is more amazing is that this was his first acting job (he was an FX guy before) and that he mostly improvised his dialogue; he gives a great performance of an ordinary man undergoing a mental as well as physical transformation, but who is still powered by selfishness and racism and disregard for others (in fact, he comes across as a bit of a prick, and deliberately so).\nThe film isn\u2019t completely perfect \u2013 some of the \u2018bad guy\u2019 characters are a little one note and wooden, the documentary parts can seem a little flat, and there are occasional lapses in logic that are ignored for the sake of the plot \u2013 but it\u2019s a very impressive debut from a 29-year-old South African with a strong voice, good storytelling skills and visual flair. And any film where a lot of the dialogue involves people exclaiming \u2018Fook!\u2019 in that South African accent has a lot to offer.\nDistrict 9 does owe something to Peter Jackson, in that there are traces of his Bad Taste in both the lead character and the gross nature of exploding flesh, but Blomkamp also references other science fiction films, but without emphasising the homages. The film itself is very much its own entity and unlike most of the \u2018blockbuster\u2019 cinema out there. Not only is it a film with an actual idea behind it but it is also an entertaining piece of action cinema that is thrilling and enjoyable.\nFilm Review: Sweet Home Alabama\nFilm Review: Doctor Strange DVD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 6119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clapham-collinge.co.uk/news/widespread-neglect-found-in-nursing-and-care-homes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MAVLKFSMVWFSWARNRPUEKDONFDJTEBAM", "length": 2841, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.clapham-collinge.co.uk", "title": "Widespread neglect found in nursing and care homes", "raw_content": "Widespread neglect found in nursing and care homes\nA recent article in the Telegraph highlights the endemic problems experienced by those entering the care home system, with abuse and neglect being present in 9 out of 10 care homes. The article reports on University College London's recent survey of care home staff in England, which indicates neglectful behaviours are widespread. Within this survey examples of neglect include delaying attending to their care needs and not giving them enough time to eat their food, as well as not taking elderly people outside or paying any attention to their individual interests. The report isn't saying that abuse is widespread, rather that there is a casual neglect of elderly people's needs, and not necessarily through the deliberate actions of the staff. The report suggests staff are stretched too thin, given too few resources and simply don't have time to do anything more than the deliver basic care.\nIt is sad and shocking that yet another report has come out which tells a tale of neglect of the older people in our society. Whether it is because this neglect and abuse is largely hidden from sight, or we are so busy in our hectic working lives that few of us stop to notice this scandal which is happening right now and in a care home near us, according to the statistics. The report from UCL research shows that abuse and neglect was identified in all but one of the care homes they investigated and by more than half of respondents.. It begs the question whether this has now become the new 'normal'.\nAs solicitors, we tend to come into contact with cases like this quite often, on an individual level, where a concerned friend or relative comes to ask our advice about what they can do to prevent what they see as neglect or abuse. The abuse can sometimes take subtle and less obvious forms, such as overcharging for services provided, like care or cutting the lawn, or sometimes money has been taken or 'loaned', or persuading an older person to change their Will or make a Power of Attorney in their favour.\nOur expertise in handling cases like this for elderly clients, their families, and those who have dementia or lost capacity make us perfectly placed to give advice to resolve these most complex of issues.\nArticle written by Tammy Parnell, Partner and Contentious Probate and Trusts Solicitor at Clapham & Collinge.\nOur specialist team of contentious probate solicitors can advise and support with cases involving elderly care and financial abuse of the elderly. Contact us today to discuss your individual circumstances in further detail, our specialist solicitors will talk you through your options and advise on the next steps. Contact us on 01603 693500 or email us using 'Make an enquiry' form. Appointments available at our Norwich, North Walsham and Sheringham offices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clauserfurniture.com/by-brand/cochrane/Cochrane.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XIQ6ZIBAJU64IN45SKS7WXIYYQ2NMU7V", "length": 723, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.clauserfurniture.com", "title": "Cochrane in Berne, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Indiana", "raw_content": "Clauser Furniture in Berne, IN is an authorized dealer of Cochrane Products. A brand of Chromecraft Revington Cochrane's business is focused on supplying furniture that improve home, public, and work environments. By operating their company in a highly ethical manner and by challenging themselves to improve efficiencies, they will be able to offer products that represent real values in the marketplace.\nSo if you are looking for Cochrane products in Berne, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Decatur, Bluffton, Muncie, Marion, Portland and Geneva, or if you have any questions about Cochrane products, please feel free to call us at (260) 589-2608 or simply stop by Clauser Furniture at any time and we would be glad to help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 7749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clevelandmoffettfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Leroy-Gorbutt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:05Z", "digest": "sha1:M632VB7I5FSORUHSEE7USIR6MPCOKS6E", "length": 498, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.clevelandmoffettfuneralhome.com", "title": "Leroy Gorbutt Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Leroy Gorbutt\nLeroy Gorbutt, Jr., 77, died on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at the Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. Born July 1, 1938 in Michigan, he was a son of Leroy, Sr. and Alvina Miller Gorbutt. Prior to his retirement, he worked as a paint contractor... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Leroy Gorbutt created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nLeroy Gorbutt, Jr., 77, died on Wednesday, November 11, 2015...\nShare and view memories of Leroy ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clf.org/how-you-can-help/why-we-give/jerry-greenfield/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UVNU2BDOC2JU3RULWOKBPLZCO5ATJJID", "length": 1552, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.clf.org", "title": "Jerry Greenfield | Conservation Law Foundation", "raw_content": "Co-founder, Ben & Jerry\u2019s, Donor Since 1993, CLF Member, Advocate\u2019s Society Williston, VT\nWhat prompted you to first give to CLF?\nI became aware of some of the projects CLF was engaged in and particularly liked the ability that CLF has to challenge issues from a legal perspective in a constructive way.\nWhy do you continue to give to CLF?\nI like that CLF is active in Vermont, my home state. In Vermont there\u2019s an unusual opportunity to really make progress because it\u2019s such a grassroots oriented state and such a community oriented state. The fact that CLF operates not only regionally but also locally means CLF makes the most of this opportunity.\nIn terms of its affect upon your life, do you have a favorite CLF program, lawsuit or even personal experience?\nI feel like clean energy is one of the most pressing issues that affects not only our state but our world. There are powerful interests that are trying to undermine the people\u2019s interest in clean energy and I\u2019m glad that we have CLF bringing its expertise and know-how to the arena to help in this critical fight.\nWhat do you think sets CLF apart from other environmental organizations in your area?\nIt\u2019s regional and local focus sets it apart in New England. CLF has the ability to connect with people locally in a place like Vermont at the same time that it acts on a larger regional scale.\n\u201cCLF\u2019s regional and local focus sets it apart in New England. CLF has the ability to connect with people locally in a place like Vermont at the same time that it acts on a larger regional scale.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/sasse-ending-arms-sales-to-saudis-should-be-on-the-table", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WBUNATA3D2J4U7EGK4GOFEA6GBDPKT3J", "length": 3473, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.clickondetroit.com", "title": "Sasse: Ending arms sales to Saudis 'should be on the table'", "raw_content": "Sasse: Ending arms sales to Saudis 'should be on the table'\nArms sales not about profit, GOP senator says\nBy CNN'S EUAN MCKIRDY, KEVIN LIPTAK, SARAH SIRGANY CLARISSA WARD, MICK KREVER AND ELI WATKINS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.\nGOP Sen. Ben Sasse says the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will not be \"swept under the rug,\" and that he believes there should be an \"international investigation\" into what happened.\n(CNN) - Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday that ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the country's involvement in the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi \"should be on the table.\"\n\"We don't do arms sales for the purposes of the profits from arms sales. We do arms sales because we want to be allied with different countries around the globe that believe in our values and have a long-term sense of what we're up to together and why we have that alliance,\" Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, told CNN's Jake Tapper on \"State of the Union.\"\nSaudis confirm death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi\nMohammed bin Salman's inner circle takes the blame for Khashoggi's death\nWashington Post publisher calls Saudi announcement on Khashoggi a 'coverup'\n\"(The) Saudis got a lot of explaining to do,\" he said.\nUS arms sales to the Saudis have become a topic of debate in recent days as the investigation into Khashoggi's death has called into question the US' relationship with the country.\nOn Friday, the Saudis admitted the death of Khashoggi, saying it happened after a fistfight involving more than a dozen Saudi officials at the country's consulate in Istanbul. President Donald Trump, responding to the news, said he would work with Congress to develop a response to Khashoggi's death, but said that he didn't want sanctions to affect US arms sales to the kingdom.\n\"I would prefer if there is going to be some form of sanctions -- this was a lot of people they're talking about ... I would prefer we don't use as retribution (canceling) $110 billion worth of work,\" the President told reporters in Arizona.\nOn Sunday, Sasse told Tapper that arms sales \"are always means to an end. They're not the end.\"\n\"The end is the American idea. And the end is stability in the world so that problems abroad don't come home to roost for us,\" he said.\nSasse also said that he doesn't believe Saudi Arabia's explanation of Khashoggi's death.\n\"I think the cover stories from the Saudis are a mess\" he said. \"You don't bring a bone saw to an accidental fist fight.\"\nSasse previously told CNN last week that the disappearance of Khashoggi will not be \"swept under the rug,\" and that he believes there should be an \"international investigation\" into what happened.\nKentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul also weighed in on the matter, telling Fox News on Sunday that he also doesn't believe the explanation from the Saudis and that he wants the US to end arms sales to the country.\n\"I think we really need to discontinue our arms sales to Saudi Arabia and have a long and serious discussion about whether or not they want to be an ally or they want to be an enemy,\" he said, adding that sanctions \"don't go far enough.\"\nSaudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview that aired Sunday morning on Fox News that Paul and others were announcing conclusions before all of the facts were in.\n\"I would respectfully urge members of Congress to wait until they have the facts and then judge the results of the facts and take positions then,\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 5049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clinicaldynamix.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ANRCE4MZYPWTYNFRGCYGAY2RLO4K676E", "length": 710, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.clinicaldynamix.com", "title": "Clinical Dynamix | Excellence in Executive Search", "raw_content": "Excellence in Executive Search: Full Cycle Recruiting for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Research and Development through Commercialization...and beyond!\nClinical Dynamix, Inc., established in 1999, specializes in all levels of Research and Development through Commercialization, both permanent and contract, for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and BioTech Industries. Clinical Dynamix works nationwide and our clients range from small \u201cstart-ups\u201d to mega corporations. Clinical Dynamix works with Sponsor Companies, Clinical Research Organizations and Site Management Organizations. We are very sensitive to the needs of our clients and our candidates and uphold complete confidentiality and professionalism.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clodiusco.com/rodger-phillips/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JOVHC6PPCWEZNUISJLDRC3FEYXC3Z3F7", "length": 965, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.clodiusco.com", "title": "Rodger Phillips | Clodius & Co. Jewelers", "raw_content": "I consider myself a lifelong Rockford resident even though I grew up in Cherry Valley. Originally from northern Indiana, I have lived in the Rockford area for most of my life. I served in the U.S. Army Infantry during Vietnam.\nI started in the jewelry industry over 35 years ago, working at a menagerie of stores, including my own store in Belvidere. I have worn many, if not all, of the jewelry hats during my career in the business.\nThese days, I enjoy reading, tinkering around the yard and the outdoors. I am blessed to spend my days with my loving wife, Jan.\nI believe I am one of the newest members of the Clodius family, my position being the liaison between the shop and the floor. It is a pleasure getting to know everyone here. Clodius & Co. is a refreshing change from all of the other places I\u2019ve worked through the years. I consider myself very fortunate to work here.\nI have worn many, if not all, of the jewelry hats during my career in the business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clomedia.com/2018/05/31/loreals-brandstorm-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AULFW4C6UY5WNXSBA5YM3MGQYGVNVGS3", "length": 8802, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.clomedia.com", "title": "L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s Brandstorm Challenge Encourage Young Entrepreneurs", "raw_content": "L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s Brandstorm Challenge\nby Sarah Fister GaleMay 31, 2018\nIn March 2018, more than 31,000 students from across the globe uploaded video pitches to Brandstorm, L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s annual competition to disrupt the beauty industry. This year\u2019s challenge: Invent the professional salon experience of the future.\nThe $32 billion global cosmetics giant has hosted Brandstorm for 26 years as a way to introduce students to L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s culture and way of working. But it\u2019s more than just an elaborate and expensive recruiting tool. Brandstorm has become a vital learning path for both students and employees, according to Carole Pasco-Domergue, chief marketing officer for global HR in Paris. \u201cOne of the key objectives of Brandstorm is to contribute to the development of young talent,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are multiple learning touchpoints throughout the entire experience.\u201d\nKicking Off the Competition\nEvery January L\u2019Or\u00e9al posts a new Brandstorm challenge and invites teams of three students to create a pitch for an idea, then upload it to the site in March. The company promotes the competition at campus events, in classroom talks, on its website and via social media. L\u2019Or\u00e9al leaders review the submissions and the top 10 to 12 teams in each country move on to the semi-finals.\nThe winners of that round spend April honing their ideas with support from a L\u2019Or\u00e9al employee mentor and through access to more than 70 online courses specifically designed for Brandstorm that cover everything from marketing and speaking techniques to relevant industry trends.\nThe online courses and coaching are essential to the students\u2019 experience. \u201cThey all come to Brandstorm with different skills and expertise,\u201d said Sumita Banjeree, head of talent acquisition for L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA in New York. Providing them with a variety of training options on the skills they need to deliver a winning presentation that is relevant to the company ensures every team has the same chances for success. \u201cIt levels the playing field.\u201d\nSumita Banerjee, head of talent acquisition, L\u2019Or\u00e9al USA\nIn 2016, Cookie Guck was one of those students. Guck first learned about Brandstorm as a junior at the University of Texas in Austin when a L\u2019Or\u00e9al representative and some of the company\u2019s recent hires spoke in one of her marketing classes. She put together a team to address the 2016 challenge \u2014 to create a marketing strategy targeting millennials.\nGuck\u2019s team came up with an idea for an artificial intelligence app named Claire that would introduce young consumers to L\u2019Or\u00e9al products through interactive AI bots representing three target customers: a high school student, a college student and a young adult. \u201cAI was still science fiction back them, so we had to figure out how to explain it in a way that was meaningful,\u201d Guck said. They put together a five-minute pitch, which they presented to a campus recruiting rep (the digital pitches began in 2017).\nTheir idea helped them make it to the semi-finals, where they had a month to expand it into a 15-minute pitch that they would present to L\u2019Or\u00e9al executives in New York. April is like a mini accelerator program, where students flesh out their ideas and get ready to pitch them to the executives, Banjeree said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see how the students come to life.\u201d\nMentors and Champions\nIn April, the mentoring moves into full swing, and Banjeree makes sure all of the mentors are well prepared to guide the students to success.\nEvery year, each country chooses six to 10 mentors from the department that is aligned with that year\u2019s theme. Banjeree\u2019s team works with managers to identify the best candidates based on their demonstrated willingness to help others and to be a brand ambassador. Those employees receive informal one-on-one training from her staff on how to be a good coach, what\u2019s expected of them and how to guide the students in delivering the best presentation they can. They also receive a brief on each teammate and what skills and education they bring to the table.\nBeing chosen as a mentor is considered an honor among employees. \u201cIt is an opportunity for them to share their own story and experiences with someone else,\u201d Banjeree said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of what makes Brandstorm interesting for participants.\u201d\nBanjeree also makes sure all of the judges in each country get training on how to judge the presentations based on very specific weighted criteria, including presentation skills, originality and relevance of the idea, and how it aligns with the goals of the theme. \u201cThis ensures all the best teams make it to Paris,\u201d Banjeree said.\nGuck\u2019s team was assigned a L\u2019Or\u00e9al mentor along with a coach from a partnering ad agency to help them refine the pitch. In the original presentation, they focused on the mechanics of the idea \u2014 how consumers would interact with the app via different touchpoints \u2014 but their mentor encouraged them to focus more on storytelling and demonstrating how the app would engage with consumers. \u201cShe also helped us think about the questions the judges would ask and how we could fine tune our presentation by going into more detail,\u201d Guck said.\nHer team also took advantage of the online courses to better understand L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s specific skin care market and to learn how to deliver better presentations. \u201cThe e-learning was really beneficial in helping us understand what the leaders would look for from us,\u201d she said.\nTheir pitch was selected as a finalist, and in May 2016, Guck\u2019s team, along with hundreds of other winners from 58 countries, were flown to Paris for the Brandstorm finals where three teams would be named the winners and awarded prizes for business innovation, digital innovation and CSR innovation. In Paris, students continue to receive support from their mentors and through workshops \u2014 also introduced in 2017 \u2014 that cover beauty trends, techniques for pitching ideas and how to create a digital strategy. \u201cThe workshops are designed to help them answer questions they will be asked in the pitching process,\u201d Pasco-Domergue said.\nThis final prep ensures the students can confidently present their ideas to the L\u2019Or\u00e9al executives who make the final decisions. It\u2019s also the ultimate culmination of the learning process, Pasco-Domergue said. \u201cBy the end of the program the students have essentially learned how to launch a new product.\u201d\nGuck agreed. She said that working with a mentor and immersing herself in the L\u2019Or\u00e9al culture and way of doing business helped her hone her marketing skills and prepared her for life in the workplace. \u201cParticipating in Brandstorm made me a better presenter and more confident speaking off the cuff,\u201d she said.\nWhile her team didn\u2019t win, in November she was invited for a job interview and ultimately landed a position at L\u2019Or\u00e9al as a marketing associate in the management development program. Even though she landed a role in fragrances rather than skin care, where she did most of her Brandstorm research, she said that her first months on the job felt like a repeat of the competition. She was put on a team and given six weeks to develop a marketing strategy for that division \u2014 and this time she knew exactly what to do.\n\u201cBrandstorm taught me how to find the information quickly, and to understand what I needed to know right away and what I could learn later on,\u201d she said. \u201cI really felt prepared.\u201d\nThe ROI of Brandstorm\nMany Brandstorm participants are eventually hired by L\u2019Or\u00e9al \u2014 though many more take the experience to other companies, which begs the question: Is it worth the time and money to host this annual event? L\u2019Or\u00e9al leadership think so.\n\u201cThese aren\u2019t just your average recruits,\u201d said Pasco-Domergue. The initial pitching process helps the company identify top talent from a diversity of schools and immerse them in the L\u2019Or\u00e9al experience, where they learn about the company and connect with employees. \u201cIt gives them great exposure to what it\u2019s like to work at L\u2019Or\u00e9al in an authentic way,\u201d Banjeree said.\nFor those who are hired, Brandstorm acts as a new hire boot camp, teaching them about the entrepreneurial approach to work at L\u2019Or\u00e9al and ensuring they have a baseline understanding of market trends. \u201cIt\u2019s like they have been working for us for years,\u201d Pasco-Domergue said. \u201cThey are already engaged and happy to be here.\u201d\nEven if students aren\u2019t hired, Brandstorm is an incredible learning experience and gives students the opportunity to learn about who the company is and how it works. \u201cThat turns them into advocates for the brand,\u201d Pasco-Domergue said. \u201cYou can\u2019t achieve that from a campus recruiting fair.\u201d\nSarah Fister Gale is a writer based in Chicago. She can be reached at editor@CLOmedia.com.\nFiled under: Learning DeliveryTagged with: Brandstorm, case study, L\u2019Or\u00e9al, L\u2019Or\u00e9al Brandstorm, recruitment\nStatus Quo? Not This CLO\nBeyond The MBA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 10928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cmadocs.org/Newsroom/CMAdocs/View/ArticleId/20919/CMA-Doc-Edward-Ellison-M-D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:00Z", "digest": "sha1:USN4T2IBWZ77OX3XZGLFRQUSNVMLOGFI", "length": 4903, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.cmadocs.org", "title": "CMA Doc: Edward Ellison, M.D.", "raw_content": "CMA Doc: Edward Ellison, M.D.\nArea(s) of Interest: Physician Leadership Physician Wellness\nName: Edward Ellison, M.D\n\u201cPhysicians are ailing,\u201d says Edward Ellison, M.D.\nHe wants the public to know about it and to thank their physicians, he wants governing bodies to understand the toll their reporting and oversight requirements are taking on physicians, and he wants the physicians who lead medical schools, residency programs and medical groups to change the nature of being a physician from one of suffering to one of health and well-being.\nDr. Ellison is in a position\u2014or more accurately, many positions\u2014to effect that change. Since 2012, he has been Executive Medical Director and board chair of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He is also board chair and CEO of the Southeast Permanente Medical Group, comprised of 500 physicians in the cities of Atlanta and Athens, GA, and surrounding areas. He is co-CEO of the nationwide Permanente Federation. And he is a member of the board of directors of the soon-to-be Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, under construction in Pasadena. He was also part of an AMA consortium of 10 physician leaders of major medical groups, including the Mayo and Cleveland clinics and several academic medical centers, drawn together in 2016 to propose solutions to the physician burnout crisis, which jeopardizes the quality of care and is pushing more and more physicians to leave the profession.\nDr. Ellison is so concerned about physicians\u2019 unhappiness in a profession they once loved that he presented the grim picture to a public, nonmedical forum, the 2017 TEDxNaperville conference in the Chicago area this November. Among the causes of burnout, Dr. Ellison, said are that physicians, who are by nature perfectionists, feel they have lost control over their work and are \u201cbeing measured on everything they do.\u201d The electronic health care records and reporting requirements have created inefficient workflows and less time for patients, which \u201cfeel like a gigantic pile-on.\u201d He noted that surveys of physicians conducted in 2011 and again in 2014 showed that numbers of physicians experiencing at least one symptom of burnout rose to 54.4 percent from 45.5 percent.\n\u201cBut it gets darker,\u201d Dr. Ellison said. \u201cIn the last two years data show that the rate of suicide among male physicians is 40 percent higher than that of the general public,\u201d with female physicians\u2019 suicide rate \u201c130 percent greater than the general public.\u201d In fact, he said, \u201cThe rate of suicide among physicians is similar to that of combat veterans.\u201d\nMuch of the problem, too, begins in medical school with many physicians entering practice after residency training already \u201cbroken and beaten,\u201d Dr. Ellison said. He noted that two of his medical school classmates killed themselves before beginning their internships. He described his early career within the traditional \u201clockstep\u201d regimen of American medical education: \u201cI did the training. I went without sleep. I ate junk. And I learned and I suffered. But I was also inspired by the gratitude of my patients and the satisfaction of knowing I was making a difference in people\u2019s lives. So I did more and I asked for more and took on more, as my colleagues do.\u201d\nNow, however, having been \u201ccalled to leadership,\u201d and being a \u201cco-leader of one of the largest groups of physicians in the world\u201421,000 doctors taking care of almost 12 million patients,\u201d he said, \u201cI have gained perspective. I have heard the cries.\u201d He said it is time that society \u201crecognize and care about the lives of those who save lives.\u201d\nWithin SCPMG, he spearheaded a physician wellness program focusing on physicians\u2019 health and on burnout prevention. For the physicians of the future he wants a total transformation of the American medical culture. \u201cWe need to change our thinking,\u201d Dr. Ellison says, \u201cand change our culture inside and outside of the medical profession across society\u2026We have to declare our physicians\u2019 humanity.\u201d\nPermanente, he says has a \u201cpath forward\u201d beginning with its new medical school. As well as teaching students to be exceptional physicians, which is \u201cnonnegotiable,\u201d he says, \u201cWe are going to teach them that their wellness matters. We are going to provide support for them and connect them with each other and resources. We are going to teach them how to set healthy boundaries for their own wellness and about how prevention and nutrition work not just for their patients but for themselves.\u201d\nFor whatever kind of medical system\u2014small practice, large practice, academic institutions\u2014that the students set their sights on, he says, \u201c\u201cWe\u2019re going to teach them how to work within theses systems to change these systems so they\u2019re not buffeted about [and] they can be advocates for change.\u201d\n\u201cI still love my profession,\u201d Dr. Ellison says, and he hopes young people, \u201cthose bright shining stars,\u201d will continue to seek it out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cmfcapital.co.uk/meet-the-team/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:02Z", "digest": "sha1:E2K33HCSLXYY3VHGSWSIC744UJ5XENUN", "length": 5760, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.cmfcapital.co.uk", "title": "Meet the team - CMF Capital", "raw_content": "Meet the CMF Team\nCombined with our in-depth knowledge of the sectors we specialise in, the team brings a wealth of experience having held senior positions with the UK\u2019s leading Lessors and Global Banks.\nWe also believe that our regional structure gives us both a greater understanding of the economics affecting your business and crucially, allows us to develop more intimate client relationships and provide the right solutions to help your business grow.\nJohn Mulheron\nJohn has worked in the UK leasing industry for over 25 years and over this time has built up a wealth of knowledge and experience as well as an excellent reputation with leading UK banks, clients, trade organisations and wider stakeholder groups. Prior to forming CMF Capital in 2005, he held senior positions with publicly quoted and high street finance houses, including Bank of Scotland and Hitachi Credit. Responsible for the developing and delivering the overall company strategy, maintaining funder and client relationships, which are key continued growth and success within an ever changing, competitive market.\nTel: 01252 302183 Tel: 07785 587 508\nIan brings over 15 years\u2019 experience within the leasing industry, joining the CMF Capital team back in 2009. His earlier financial career saw him hold senior positions with major UK Corporate banking organisations.\nClient relationships are central to Ian\u2019s day-to-day activity, but he likes nothing more than meticulously driving through large funding projects, having originated several multi million pound facilities covering a variety of assets and lending products.\nIan\u2019s also an innovator, having introduced a broader range of funding products to our clients. He is passionate about growing the CMF Capital brand and seeking out new opportunities.\nNick brings exceptional balance to the CMF team. He started life within the legal world as a practicing solicitor, before moving across to the banking industry in the late 90\u2019s.\nDuring his law career with Lloyds Banking Group, he developed not only the technical capabilities that corporate customers demand, but also the relationship and servicing skills required that are fundamental to CMF\u2019s beliefs. His eye for contractual detail is also second to none.\nHaving joined the CMF Capital team in 2011, he is responsible for clients in the north of England.\nIan brings over 15 years\u2019 leasing industry experience to the CMF Team,having begun his career in Banking he went on to hold senior positions including General Manager, GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services, Managing Director, Hitachi Capital Business Finance, Chief Sales Officer, CIT Vendor Finance UK and Chief Marketing Officer, CIT Vendor Finance Europe. Ian\u2019s ability to see the bigger picture has been vital to CMF\u2019s client growth.\nPaul is a vital part of our senior management team. The former ABN AMRO LEASE industry heavyweight he brings over forty years\u2019 experience and relationships to CMF Capital and will be working closely with John Mulheron to open new funding lines both in the UK, but also crucially across Europe and other overseas territories.\nPaul boasts an enviable record in the asset based lending industry and has a reputation for structuring high value funding agreements in sectors such as marine, aviation, renewable energy and intermodal transportation.\nTom brings over 30 years\u2019 expertise within the UK finance industry to the CMF team. He has vast experience dealing in the Fleet and Contract Hire market, along with the civil engineering and recycling sectors.\nTom will be responsible for leading CMF\u2019s growth in Scotland, but will also be working on projects across the UK in sectors where his industry knowledge and established relationships will be vital delivering for our clients lending solutions.\nColin Hayter\nColin has worked within the industry for over 30 years and is a hugely experienced asset financier, and business owner. Having worked for major banking institutions such as RBS, Barclays and Sanwa, he combines strategic vision with an entrepreneurial hands on approach. He has earned his reputation for being a corporate door opener of exceptional ability, demonstrating credibility and technical expertise.\nColin has a proven ability to operate in a variety of global markets. Crucially, within innovative vendor financing structures, he brings buyers and sellers together to generate profitable returns for all parties. Working across a broad range of sectors, including clean energy, aircraft ground support technologies, IT and power generation, Colin\u2019s client portfolio includes major corporates, manufacturers and suppliers, SME\u2019s and the public sector at stakeholder level.\nStephen Labrum\nStephen has worked in the UK banking and leasing industry for 30 years and joined CMF Capital in 2017 to establish a new financing arm able to fund technology assets. Prior to joining CMF Capital he was employed by several leading UK, European and US financial institutions providing funding solutions to; the direct UK market, US OEM\u2019s and UK/European Vendor programs.\nSpecialising in funding Technology assets (Hardware, Software, Storage and Services/Soft costs) funding profiles are tailored to maximise users\u2019 cash flows whilst recognising technology life cycles to minimise potential equipment obsolescence risk.\nRichard Nowell\nWith over 22 years experience delivering marketing campaigns for numerous multinational clients, Richard is tasked to continually develop, evolve and raise awareness of the CMF Capital brand across key media channels. Having worked on both a national and international scale for the likes of Vodafone, RBS, Qatar National Bank, Aviva and Diageo his expertise is crucial in helping us stand out in a crowded and often confusing market place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cn-jobs.co.uk/search-results.aspx?query=djAuMXxSVjpRdWlja2xpc3Rpbmd8U086UmVsZXZhbnN8UE46MXxQUzoxMHxOQTpKb2J0eXBlOl5QYXJ0LXRpbWUkX1BhcnQtdGltZXx2MC4x", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:40Z", "digest": "sha1:LPN6YYLAK2OPUCXYVYB5QLOUF3HOOYZR", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cn-jobs.co.uk", "title": "Part-time Jobs in - www.cn-jobs.co.uk", "raw_content": "Phlebotomist - Phlebotomy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 411, "original_length": 9641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cn-solargardenlights.com/prospects-of-solar-led-lights.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3YTZDLJKTHAMJEMD7D4ONWUCCVXDS3JJ", "length": 5465, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cn-solargardenlights.com", "title": "Prospects of solar LED lights", "raw_content": "LED (Light Emitting Diode), also known as light-emitting diodes, which use solid semiconductor chip as luminescent material, when ends with a positive voltage, the semiconductor carrier compound occurs, release excess energy caused by photon emission produce visible light.\nEnergy efficient one thousand hours only a few degrees electricity consumption (60W ordinary incandescent seventeen hours of electricity consumption, ordinary 10W energy-saving lamps one hundred hours of electricity consumption)\nLong life light-emitting semiconductor chip, no filament, no glass bulb, afraid of shock, not broken, the service life of up to fifty thousand hours (incandescent life of only one thousand hours, the general energy-saving lamp life of only eight thousand hours)\nHealthy light does not contain ultraviolet and infrared light, does not produce radiation (ordinary light contains ultraviolet and infrared)\nGreen does not contain mercury and xenon and other harmful elements, conducive to recovery and use, and will not produce electromagnetic interference (ordinary lamp contains mercury and lead, elements, energy-saving lamps, electronic ballasts will produce electromagnetic interference)\nProtect eyesight DC drive, no strobe (normal lights are AC drive, will inevitably produce strobe)\nLight, high efficiency, small heat: 90% of electrical energy into visible light (ordinary incandescent 80% of electric energy into heat, only 20% of electrical energy into light energy)\nHigh safety factor required voltage, current smaller, less heat, no security risk, it can be used in mines and other dangerous places\nMarket potential and low voltage DC power supply, battery, solar power can be used for outdoor lighting in remote mountainous areas and the lack of electricity, less electricity places.\nIn the past the use of silicon as a solar cell material, but also China\u2019s ability to produce silicon is too low, the majority of materials are imported, resulting in the high cost of solar cells. To make solar power a massive scale, scientists must reduce the cost of solar cell materials, or find cheaper solar cell material.\nChina Photovoltaic Solar Energy Society of Professional Committee director, said Zhao Yuwen, solar cells cost about $ 3.15 / watt, and net system price of $ 6 / watt, power generation cost of $ 0.25 / watt. Preliminary study completed in 8 MW grid-connected PV systems indicate that fully commercial operation of grid-connected PV power tariff of about 3.4 yuan per kilowatt, still unable to compete with thermal power, wind power and the like. But the world of large-scale development of the market and rapid technological advances are enabling PV system equipment and reduce the cost of power generation, photovoltaic systems is expected in 2010 will drop to about $ 3 / watt, power generation costs will fall to $ 0.1 per kilowatt \u2014 That is about RMB yuan. He said: \u201cThe current cost of thermal power growing up, developing solar electricity can right time.\u201d\nInstitute of Semiconductors, Min Jin, director revealed that the location of the solar cell research has made a major breakthrough, they use some \u2018chemical semiconductor\u2019 materials, greatly improving the photoelectric conversion efficiency; plus the whole system has been carefully integrated in simulated space Under the environment, it is possible to achieve 26% conversion efficiency, and in the ground environment, the conversion efficiency can exceed 30%. Thus, the cost is not an issue, conversion concept is a priority.\nSeveral aspects of solar energy experts recently drafted \u201con the development of the price ladder and promote the development of China\u2019s motion,\u201d draft proposal, one of the drafters, China Photovoltaic Solar Energy Society of Professional Committee executive director Wang Sicheng said: universal \u201cFrom the amount of resources, distribution , technical reliability, the photovoltaic power generation has more advantages than any other renewable energy sources, the current high cost barriers are as technology advances and mass production is reduced, photovoltaic power generation will become an important component of the future of electricity is It goes without question. \u201cExperts suggest that China should aim to make the 2020 PV cumulative installed capacity reached 30,000 megawatts, photovoltaic power generation capacity will reach 1% of national power generation capacity.\nAlthough this indicator compared with the target in Europe, America, Japan and countries of the gap is still quite large, but in order to achieve this goal, to exclude many obstacles. Experts point out that in many countries, PV has entered the commercial development track; in the desert areas of large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic integration and building a good long-term prospects, is an important part of the renewable energy applications. Global PV industry with more than 30% of the average rate of rapid growth, in 2002 the system output value reached more than 3.5 billion US dollars. States are expected to pull in mitigation actions and policies of industrial development will be further accelerated. China as long as the introduction of appropriate policy, foster standardized size of the market, increase investment, accelerate capacity building, fully qualified Chinese enterprises into the international market relying on the domestic market, to enter the international top ten.\nPrev: Study direction of the solar lights\nNext: Categories of Solar lights", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cn-solargardenlights.com/the-development-potential-of-solar-energy-lamps.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OOKBKKNQ7MOV6AKRBX6ZF7BNJ2VGIZEY", "length": 3186, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.cn-solargardenlights.com", "title": "The development potential of solar energy lamps", "raw_content": "Solar industry will be as big\nIn the solar system, the most complex part of the technology should belong to the solar cell. We can say that the solar cell is the heart of solar power generation system, the development, production and direct impact on the popularization and development of solar power.\nThe main principle of the solar cell by using a semiconductor material, the thinner the N-type semiconductor is placed on a thick P-type semiconductor, when the photon hits the surface of the device, P-type and N-type semiconductor electron diffusion bonding surface produced current, use upper and lower ends of the current leads to the use of metallic conductors.\nSolar cell according to the type of materials used differ, the solar cell can be divided into: 1, silicon solar cells; 2, with an inorganic salt \u2162-V compound such as gallium arsenide, cadmium sulfide, copper indium selenide, etc. as the material of the battery polyhydric compound; 3, functional polymer materials produced solar cells; 4, nano-crystalline solar cells.\nSilicon is the ideal solar cell material, which is silicon-based solar cells are the main reason. In the above battery monocrystalline silicon solar cell conversion efficiency of the highest, most mature technology, photoelectric conversion efficiency of up to 23.3%. In the production process, the general surface texturing, passivated emitter region, district doping techniques. However, due to the single crystal silicon material prices and the corresponding impact cumbersome process, silicon cost prices, significantly reducing the cost is very difficult, we can not achieve the massive popularity of solar power.\nWith the continuous development of new materials and related technology to other material-based solar cells are also increasingly showing attractive prospect. Photovoltaic cells, amorphous silicon and crystalline silicon thin film photovoltaic cell hybrid and other aspects.\nIf the single-crystal silicon is characterized by high efficiency, high cost, other materials battery problem is undoubtedly the low-cost, transforming weak. Compared with the single crystal silicon solar cells, in addition to polycrystalline silicon, cadmium telluride endures, battery photoelectric conversion efficiency of other materials generally does not exceed 15%.\nChinese solar cell development in China began to study solar cells in 1958, first used in 1971 on a satellite launched by China. 1973 for terrestrial solar cells. Because of price and output restrictions, market development is very slow, except as satellite power, solar cells on the ground only for small power systems, such as beacon lights, railway signaling systems.\nIn 2002, the relevant state ministries launched the \u201cwestern provinces without electricity electrify rural plan\u201d, through photovoltaics and small wind power to solve the electricity problem seven western rural provinces without electricity. Start this project greatly stimulated the solar power industry, China has built several solar cell packaging line, so that the annual production capacity of solar cells is increasing rapidly.\nPrev: Categories of Solar lights\nNext: Button LED flashlight Solar cartoon car", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.co.brown.wi.us/minutes_and_agendas/agendas/?committee=b4c87755f092&i=8447ece216bd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OGXGCJ64LBUVS7S4EROVC4JUAWDX4ZLV", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.co.brown.wi.us", "title": "Brown County \u00bb Minutes & Agendas \u00bb Community Options Program Appeals & Planning Committees \u00bb Agendas", "raw_content": "Mar. 25, 2013 @ 8:30 am: Planning Committee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 143.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coachjanet.com/make-today-count/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:13Z", "digest": "sha1:OKMKCKXLX7YPPBD4WX35IFSGHCCZBELF", "length": 2817, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.coachjanet.com", "title": "Christian Life Coaching and Training for Women", "raw_content": "\u201cWhat day is it? It\u2019s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.\u201d\nWhen you woke up this morning you were given a gift. You were handed 24 hours, 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds to use or spend as you please. You can choose to stay in bed all day. You can choose to be productive or not. You can even choose to be down, sad, mad, complain or have a pity party. Or, you can choose to have a good day, put a smile on your face and make the most of this day.\nEven when life throws you a curve ball, you still get to decide how you will handle it. Right now I am looking out my window at the pouring rain and wind that I have been experiencing for two days now with Hurricane Florence. Not fun! So I can\u2019t say the past two days have been my favorite! However, I still get to decide how I am going to make use of this day. So, while I have electricity, I decided to write an article.\nWhile all days might not be our favorite day, the fact remains that if we are drawing in breath, we have been given a gift. Now what we do with that gift is up to us. When you think about it, today is actually all we have. Yesterday is gone and we certainly don\u2019t have any guarantees about tomorrow. How sad it is that we waste so much time worrying about things we don\u2019t have control over. Or, we spend so much time lamenting over yesterday, our shortcomings or failures. Life is hard enough without carrying yesterday\u2019s burdens or baggage into today.\nSometimes the most important thing, and the most productive thing, you can do is to refocus your thoughts and your energy in a more positive direction. How can I make today meaningful, fun, or productive? What can I do today that will take my life in a more positive direction? How can I take care of myself today or be kind to myself today?\nOne thing is for sure. Living a great life is not about having a problem-free existence. Far from it! It is simply about making some choices and decisions. Even your happiness or lack of it ultimately comes down to a choice. I can allow myself to become angry or bitter about life or I can choose to become solution minded and grateful. I can choose to let go or hold on. I can even choose to forgive myself and become my own best friend. Or, I can be my worst critic. These choices I get to make every day. It is all a choice. I get to choose how I will handle the good, the bad and even painful in my life.\nLife is a journey and a process. I am definitely a work in progress and I don\u2019t always get it right! But I really believe life is beautiful and can become truly great when we learn to take the moments and hours that we have been given, treasure them and make them great!\nValerie Wise Burrell / September 27, 2018\nThis is just what I needed today. Plus, Winnie the Pooh is my favorite. It\u2019s today; my favorite day of the week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/tag/james-waugh/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Q35B3TISW53Z5SXH4OJSQSMHMHY6GNWE", "length": 1273, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.coffeewithkenobi.com", "title": "James Waugh Archives - Coffee With Kenobi", "raw_content": "Posts tagged with \"James Waugh\"\nFebruary 5th, 2019051 The Star Wars comics this week -- Doctor Aphra #28 and Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #4 -- are emotionally draining yet exhilarating, too, whipsawing readers through a range of despair, elation and betrayal. Why? Great writing enmeshed with superb illustrating to tell these stories. We're also discussing the latest news...\nComics With Kenobi #95 -- I See a Red Door and I Want to Paint It Black\nDecember 25th, 2018070 The last issue of Darth Vader Vol. 2 was cinematic in its scope, detailed in its delivery and yielded far more questions than answers through the course of its Star Wars homages from the first to final page. In short, it began as it started: Expansive mythology for not just the Sith lord, but Anakin Skywalker, too. As for Solo: A Star...\nComics With Kenobi #91 -- Heat of the Moment\nDecember 4th, 2018044 Just one issue this week, but it's left a searing impression on Jeff and Matt. Darth Vader #24 is setting up the series' conclusion with an unusual vista that may change the reality and perception of Darth Vader and, by extension, Anakin Skywalker, too, with consequences that could potentially resonate down the Star Wars timeline.A...\nhttps://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/tag/james-waugh\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 8650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.collectingcousins.com/courthouse-genealogy-research-101/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5IFYKQ33ISYWQ2AHNPESJXCSUW2TPP2I", "length": 9779, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.collectingcousins.com", "title": "Courthouse Genealogy Research 101 | Collecting Cousins", "raw_content": "Photo credit: Andrew Bain/Creative Commons\nThe first time I visited a courthouse for research, I had no idea what to expect and prior to arrival was quite intimidated. I quickly found that finding your way around is usually very straightforward and using the records is fairly consistent from locality to locality. Since some of the most valuable genealogical information available is sitting \u2013 in many cases undigitized \u2013 in courthouses, it is worth pushing through the fear factor.\nIn this post I will walk through the steps of what to expect when visiting a courthouse from getting there to finding your documents. In this case, I was specifically looking for wills, but they are only one type of record housed in courthouses. Birth records, death records, deeds, court cases, and more are also available in courthouses. If you are lucky enough to live where you are researching, you will find yourself going back again and again. For those of us that live far from the location of our ancestors, finding a way to visit the courthouse is balanced with availing ourselves of the digitized records that are increasingly found online.\nBefore Heading Out: Preparation\nBefore I head to a courthouse, I verify what is housed there. Sometimes the county has an excellent website that offers helpful information for genealogists, other times information is sparse. First I check is the county\u2019s page on FamilySearch.org. The wiki on Family Search can be an invaluable resource when it comes to local information, but like any wiki, the results are hit and miss. Since I was recently researching in Augusta County, Virginia, I am going to use that as my example. The Family Search wiki page gives me a brief history of the county along with notes and links about collections that are available online for the county. 1Wherever possible, I like to capture my own images of documents housed at a courthouse even if they are available online because I can use my images without restriction. Documents accessed through online repositories often have restrictions on use. While they are wonderfully accessible, if I want to share a document online I may not be able to if the repository\u2019s TOS prohibit it.\nJust under the table of contents, there is a chart showing the dates for which each type of record is available and a link to the county\u2019s website. Also listed are the courthouse address and the phone number. If you aren\u2019t familiar with the area, you can use this information to check out parking availability. Have small bills and change for meters and parking garages \u2014 just this trip I had to make an out of the way trip to an ATM due to lack of cash for parking.\nFirst Things First: Rules\nWhile courthouses are repositories of documents going back hundreds of years, they are also government buildings full of present day activity. Each locality has different restrictions, but you can expect some combination of metal detectors, searches, and restricted items. Unfortunately, cell phones and cameras are often on the restricted list. Call ahead so that you know exactly what to expect when you arrive. It\u2019s no fun to have to trudge back to a parking garage because you tried to get in with your cell phone and got stopped at the door. When I traveled to Georgia for research, the courthouse had a no cell phone rule but was amenable to allowing them into the records room. Some allow cameras but not cell phones, some allow some types of scanners, while some allow virtually nothing but pen and paper for note taking. Ask first so there are no surprises.\nWhere To Look: Indices\nMy first courthouse research trip. I love courthouse record rooms even more than libraries.\nMost records are stored in large record books like the ones on the wall behind me in the photo to the left. Each set of records will have an index, which is how you will find the specific records you are looking for. The index may be in the front of the book for small collections, while large collections might have several indices in large books divided by time period. The index will be sorted by letter of the alphabet, but the names will usually not be alphabetical within the letter, since they are added to the index as records are filed.\nIn some cases wills are in their original loose format in a vault, which is a walk-in room similar to a bank vault. It is usually open to the record room but the door can be sealed to protect the records. In this instance, the wills were transcribed contemporaneously by the clerk into will books, and there were 4 will index books covering the period from the early 18th century to the 20th century.\nThe ancestor I was researching, Christian Bosserman, Sr., died in the early 19th century, so I looked in Will Index 1, which covered the earliest years of the county. I looked under the B\u2019s and found the listing below. Notice how the old handwriting differentiates the double s by making the first one larger, making it look similar to an f. Spelling conventions were not uniform until the 20th century, so look for various spellings for the same person. I have seen Bosserman spelled Boserman and Bauserman, while another family name is spelled Bowers and Bauers.\nThe listing above gives the information I need to find the will: the date that the will was recorded (1828), last name (Bosserman), first name(Chris. Snr.), other parties involved (none), kind of listing (will), book number (Book 16), and page number (pg. 181).\nYou might wonder why a will index indicates what kind of listing it is, but will books contain more than just wills. Property listings for the deceased, appointment of executors, appointment of guardians for disbursing funds to minors, settlements, and more are found in the will books. This listing indicates that the will of Christian Bosserman, Sr. was filed in 1828, and I will find it on pg. 181 of Book 16. The correct book is easy to find because they are clearly marked and are filed numerically by category.\nPulling the Records: Record Books\nRecord books are clearly marked numerically\nLooking along the wall where the will books are filed numerically, it is easy to find Will Book 16. The pages, although not the original will in the ancestor\u2019s handwriting, were transcribed at the time the will was filed and the pages are old and fragile. Carefully turning to page 181 takes me to the will itself.\nAlthough it\u2019s tempting to sit and read at this point, usually time is limited so I capture the images and move on. I find it easiest to make a list from the indices of all of the documents I want to view, then use that list to pull and photograph each document before moving on to the next one. Working this way I can maximize my time spent in the records room and sort everything out when I leave. Later, I transfer the images to my computer and rename them according to what they are. The images above are named as follows:\nBOSSERMAN-christian-sr-will-1828-augusta-va-bk-16-pg-181.jpg\nThe folder for the images contains the name of the repository and the date of the visit, so I have all of the information I need to create an complete citation.\nLooking for birth, marriage, and death records is very similar to wills in that you usually look at the index first, then go to the book and page. As I mentioned, some small collections will have the index in the front of the book, so if you don\u2019t see a separate index book look there.\nCourthouse Genealogy Research: Things to Keep in Mind\nBoundary changes. County and city boundaries changed over time, and you need to look at the courthouse for the location that was in existence at the time of the record. Augusta County, Virginia was at one time the most western county in Virginia and extended for hundreds of miles to the west, including areas that are now in West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio. Property deeds for an ancestor that never physically changed location could potentially be in 2 or even 3 counties as boundaries changed over the years. Maps that show county boundary changes are available for every state on MapsofUS.org (scroll about halfway down the page and play the animation to see the changes; a list of states is in the left sidebar).\nCivil vs. Criminal. If you are looking for court cases, civil and criminal cases may be filed in different locations. A civil case such as a lawsuit might be filed in a different repository than a criminal case such as a murder trial. Check with the courthouse for more information.\nCity vs. County. Different states treat localities differently, so be sure you are searching in the right courthouse. In Virginia, cities are independent localities and are not part of a county. As such, they have their own courthouses and all records for the city are separate from the county. Understand the organization of the state\u2019s government before assuming that you are looking in the correct place.\nState Archives. In some cases certain records are held by the state as well as the county. Typically local records will pre-date state records because many counties kept BMD records before it was required by the state. It depends on the locality which records are available.\nHave a question? Let me know and I\u2019ll do my best to answer it below. I hope this takes some of the mystery out of how to obtain records from a courthouse. They are my favorite repository, and I hope you find them to be a rich resource for your research.\n1. \u21e7 Wherever possible, I like to capture my own images of documents housed at a courthouse even if they are available online because I can use my images without restriction. Documents accessed through online repositories often have restrictions on use. While they are wonderfully accessible, if I want to share a document online I may not be able to if the repository\u2019s TOS prohibit it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 10893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/tez_talks/interview/tez_ilyas/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:42:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ6TDJRL6GDUAN2TOANY3NV4K6HGS4FZ", "length": 3650, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.comedy.co.uk", "title": "Tez Ilyas interview - TEZ Talks - British Comedy Guide", "raw_content": "TEZ Talks\nBBC Radio 4 stand-up show hosted by Tez Ilyas. 16 episodes (3 series), 2016 - 2019. Stars Tez Ilyas.\nTEZ Talks Menu\nTez Ilyas interview\nStand-up Tez Ilyas is back with a third series of his Radio 4 show, TEZ Talks. To find out more, we sent Tez some questions via email...\nHi Tez. How has 2018 been for you so far?\nMate... manic... I went to Disneyland with my sister and her five kids where I fell out with my nephew, he's 8. Ooh, I also went on this Muslim illuminati retreat in Switzerland, it was bloody cool.\nOh, did you mean professionally? Yes, it's been very busy and full thank you.\nTEZ Talks is back for a third series...\nYeah, so BBC Radio 4 commissioned a stand-up series (four 15 minute episodes) on the back of my very fun debut solo show TEZ Talks, in which I led the audience on a mock conversion to Islam course. Lols.\nThat did well and so I got a second series, that was largely based on my second show Made In Britain and third show Teztify.\nAgain, that did well and so I got commissioned to do a third series - double in length (eight 15 minutes) - and now I have no solo shows to base them on, so I'm very much pulling material out of my arse at this point.\nIf I get a fourth series, it will, a) be a miracle and, b) won't be out for years.\nYou must have been very busy writing?\nYES! As mentioned above, so stop interrupting me.\nActually, whilst you're here, what are your thoughts on time travel?\nYou have some great interactions with the audience in the new series.\nOh man... this one lady insinuated that her mother was part of the Sicilian mafia and that she could have me off'd in one phone call, so I should be careful how I interact with her! That got hairy!\n[bThanks to the launch of BBC Sounds, all your episodes - including the first two series - will be available on demand any time...\nYay! I'm really pleased about that, mainly because they're coming out as a podcast and I'm the one comedian who hasn't started their own podcast and I was beginning to feel left out.\nYou mention your hometown on Blackburn in the show. Do you find the media, and the UK comedy scene, very London-centric?\nI think it's getting better. I mean the live circuit has never been all about London and some of the best gigs in the country are outside London, here's looking at you Bristol.\nThe media definitely still is... Most of my meetings are down there, but with the BBC having a big presence in Salford and Channel 4 moving to Leeds I think things are improving.\nSometimes it can go too far. I had to record an episode of The Dog Ate My Homework in Glasgow, so you can get too much of a good thing.\nThe topic of racism features in some of the episodes - e.g. you recount the 'Pink Pigeon joke', which you were told this summer, to your face. The country is probably doing better than the 1970s, but clearly still has a way to go? Do you think racism will ever be 'solved'?\nIs it? Racism is so fashionable now it's the new black.\nI don't know, you know... I think those attitudes have always been there below the surface, but now these people have become emboldened by social media and high-profile charismatic individuals.\nI don't think it'll ever be solved, but hopefully we can put it back in its tiny box and dump it in the ocean for a few years. Like Jumanji.\nAside from your radio show, you've got lots else going on at the moment Tez?\nAw man... yeah... Man Like Mobeen Series 2, Live At The Apollo, a mini Comedy Central special, a sitcom pilot, three separate entertainment pilots for TV and possibly even a book deal... maybe.\nI don't know how Romesh does it. Respect to that man.\nPublished: Monday 12th November 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 6154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.communitycarecooperative.org/kiame-mahaniah", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YIHSE26RM4UAZNP2K2LQ3TRCVU5COGTR", "length": 1119, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.communitycarecooperative.org", "title": "Kiame Mahaniah \u2014 Community Care Cooperative", "raw_content": "Kiame Mahaniah, MD\nCEO, Lynn Community Health Center\nDr. Mahaniah was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to the United States at age 19. He attended Haverford College and received his degree in Political Economy of the Third World, taking a special interest in the transformation of agrarian/traditional society into modern economies. He went to Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, PA and completed his residency at St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. Dr. Mahaniah served as a staff physician and residency faculty member at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center from 2003-2012. He has served as the Chief Medical Officer of the North Shore Community Health, Inc. in Salem, MA. He is now the Chief Medical Officer of Lynn Community Health Center in Lynn, MA. His overarching interest in medicine is the pursuit of social justice and the interaction, communication, and complexity of doctor/patient relationships. Dr. Mahaniah enjoys reading, particularly philosophy and science fiction, playing soccer, and spending time with his family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 133.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.compassionforcamden.org/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RXNNOHADAYXOMVJO342JJJ67LJMDOKQF", "length": 4387, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.compassionforcamden.org", "title": "About Us :: Compassion for Camden", "raw_content": "In this, our third decade, our focus continues to include YOU in hopes that we may be able to enlighten and inspire you to take action for animals.\n\u201cIt all began with Sarah, found in misery on a given day in the fall of 1992. A loving black dog with compelling eyes and a certain magic. Throughout, she has been my inspiration and the driving force to make a difference for those left behind. Sarah\u2019s magic continues to shine.\u201d\nFounder and President of Compassion for Camden\nI wrote this and the following following words in the mid 90\u2032s. A long time ago, it seems. Much of what was written down brought attention to help animals. And, yes, it inspired some people to take action as well. It also inspired a few existing groups, those dedicated to animals or humans, to do more or even shift focus.\nOur focus has not and will not change as it has always included all animals, not only our companion animals. As visit our site, you will see that it includes so-called farm animals, lab animals, circus and zoo animals, those who live in the wild on land and in the sea.\nIn November 1992, when we first began, I gathered a dozen friends for a meeting. With Sarah by my side and her dreadful \u201cbefore\u201d picture, I talked about the dogs and cats I had seen in the city suffering in all stages of deterioration. I told my horrified audience about dog fights that are so commonplace in Camden that people are under the impression they are legal. And, I told of the child who had seen a puppy set on fire and described such graphic details to me as the puppy \u201cslobbering\u201d while burning to death.\nCamden is a relatively small city with 82,000 residents, just across the river from Philadelphia. It is the county seat for a well-to-do Camden County where politicians have swept animal issues under the rug for decades. There was much said that day about Camden, which has the dubious distinction of more dogs and cats abandoned, impounded and euthanized than any other city in the state and is indeed the worst setting for animals in the state of New Jersey.\nI asked everyone present how we, the very people concerned about animals around the world, could allow this tragedy to happen less than ten miles from our homes.\nA five year goal to make an all-around difference and to push the county\u2019s politicians to provide a county animal shelter seemed reasonable. To achieve that goal, I vowed that I would volunteer full-time and for as long as possible.\nWe introduced humane education into the city\u2019s schools and during unique mobile summer sessions at the city\u2019s public housing projects. Veterinary care programs were started as an attempt to avoid abandonment by keeping dogs and cats healthy and good-looking \u2014 and spayed and neutered.\nEarly on, we stopped the horse-drawn carriage trade from setting up shop in Camden by petitioning the city council. This, in turn, prompted an ordinance to be written and passed, banning Philadelphia operators from bringing their cruel and corrupt trade to Camden\u2019s waterfront area.\nIn 1996, I wrote \u2014 and council passed \u2014 a precedent-setting spay/neuter ordinance and, in 1997, the long-awaited and debated county animal shelter opened its doors. In 2001, we passed yet another model ordinance which prohibits the continuous chaining of dogs in the city. Our mobile adoptions, offered to folks in the county, saved hundreds of lives and a mobile animal drop-off program in the city ended the suffering for yet hundreds more.\nFor more than ten years we have seen incomprehensible cruelty and neglect and witnessed first-hand the very real connection of animal abuse and child abuse. Father Doyle of Camden Churches Organized for People calls Camden \u201ca place like no other.\u201d\nOur quest for sanity is merely one of hundreds. No other city in the state ranks near Camden when it comes to urban woes happening here on a grand scale and now covering a period of more than 45 years. Thus, services benefiting animals are considered trivial and unimportant.\nBut, somehow we have managed to be heard. Unlike any humane society before us \u2014 or since \u2014 our ongoing presence at city hall and in the community has brought attention to Camden\u2019s tragedy. Indeed, some things have changed and much more needs to be done.\nIt\u2019s now a decade beyond the year 2000 and Camden\u2019s plight continues, it may have even grown in size. We need to strike at the roots. Is anybody listening?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/395554/datasquirt_halves_fy11_loss/?fp=4&fpid=535335", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5MMIBRD3BWBNQLCUBCJ5D73JGXKI5CSV", "length": 1359, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.computerworld.com.au", "title": "Datasquirt halves FY11 loss - Computerworld", "raw_content": "Datasquirt halves FY11 loss\nCommunications software developer Datasquirt (ASX:DSQ) halved its net loss for the year to March, and moved into the black in Q4\nEnterprise communications solutions provider Datasquirt (ASX:DSQ) narrowed its net loss 51 per cent to $NZ599,000 ($519,000).\nThe Auckland-based ASX listed company grew revenue 31 per cent, taking in $NZ3 million from sales of its call center messaging services platform CONTACT.\nIn a report to investors, the company said it had eliminated cash burn during the year, achieving a profit in the March quarter.\nAlso in Q4, the company signed a deal in North America to allow a call centre provider to market CONTACT under their own branding. Datasquirt said this contract is worth over $US1 million ($910,890).\nDatasquirt also made inroads into new verticals during the year, including utilities \u2013 through a deal with AGL (ASX:AGK), fast moving consumer goods and research.\nThe company expects sales to continue to increase in the current financial year, citing increasing demand for pay-as-you-go cloud based software support systems.\nDatasquirt chairman Mark Loveys said this demand, as well as increased smartphone adoption and social media use, left the company \u201cwell placed to continue our growth in FY12.\u201d\nDSQ shares closed flat on Friday at $0.390.\nTags businessdatasquirt\nMore about ACTAGL Energy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/139/all-info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:08Z", "digest": "sha1:7RTORPWVWCNWPUG2ATCKATHCPBQAV2DT", "length": 3962, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.congress.gov", "title": "All Info - S.139 - 108th Congress (2003-2004): Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress", "raw_content": "All Information (Except Text) for S.139 - Climate Stewardship Act of 2003108th Congress (2003-2004)\nSen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] (Introduced 01/09/2003)\nSenate - 10/30/2003 Rereferred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions)\nGlobal Warming bill (Identified by CRS)\nClimate Stewardship Act of 2003\nA bill to provide for a program of scientific research on abrupt climate change, to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances that could be used interchangably with passenger vehicle fuel economy standard credits, to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances.\n10/29/2003 Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.\n10/30/2003 Rereferred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works by Unanimous Consent.\n10/30/2003 S.Amdt.2028 Amendment SA 2028 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay. 43 - 55. Record Vote Number: 420.\n10/30/2003 S.Amdt.2028 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S13572, S13598)\n10/29/2003 S.Amdt.2028 Amendment SA 2028 proposed by Senator Lieberman. (consideration: CR S13485-13509) To provide for a program of scientific research on abrupt climate change, to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances.\n10/29/2003 Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S13484-13509)\n01/09/2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S167-173)\n01/09/2003 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S166-167, S173-174)\n10/30/2003 Re-Referred to\nNo related bill information was received for S.139.\nFederal aid to research\nMotor vehicle pollution control\nThere is one summary for S.139. View summaries\nClimate Stewardship Act of 2003 - Establishes Federal climate change research and related activities, including: (1) post-secondary scholarships; (2) a study of technology transfer barriers; (3) a report on the impact of the Kyoto Protocol on the United States; (4) research grants on priority areas; (5) research on potential abrupt climate change; and (6) enhancing measurements, standards, and technologies that enable the reduction of greenhouse gasses.\nDirects the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish and maintain the National Greenhouse Gas Database, including the development of measurement and verification methods and standards.\nRequires covered entities to submit to the Administrator one tradeable allowance for every metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalence, specifically: (1) the electric generation, industrial, and commercial sectors for greenhouse gases produced; (2) producers or importers for hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride produced or imported; and (3) petroleum refiners or importers for greenhouse gasses (when used for transportation).\nPermits: (1) the use of tradeable allowances to achieve compliance; (2) the conversion of fuel economy standard credits to tradeable allowances, as specified; (3) borrowing against future reductions; and (4) tradeable allowances to be sold, exchanged, purchased, retired, banked, or used.\nPermits the exemption of certain source categories if it is not feasible to measure or estimate emissions.\nDirects the Administrator to establish tradeable allowances in units of carbon dioxide equivalence. Provides for the allocation of such allowances according to economic impact factors.\nEstablishes the Climate Change Credit Corporation to manage tradeable allowances.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 397, "original_length": 58318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.connectprep.com/instructor-position/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:G6E7KWISKCYQ3FA7R7LH6LL54H7RCEQZ", "length": 2733, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.connectprep.com", "title": "Instructor Position - Connectprep", "raw_content": "Locations: Available Territories include: Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk Counties, NY, Manhattan, and\nOur goal is to redefine \u201ctutoring\u201d by using advanced performance metrics along with innovative teaching methods to find solutions for our students.\nConnectPrep is committed to change the way we look at education, by leading our students on a pursuit of academic excellence. Each of our student\u2019s embark on a journey of self-discovery with a curiosity to learn. Our instructors think outside of the box, inspire creativity, and are results obsessed. We connect concepts, simplify, and create opportunities for students of all ages to excel in the classroom. We have bold ideas and an eye towards the future.\nDo you want to inspire your students to love learning? Are you a driven teacher that recognizes each student\u2019s talents and pushes for academic excellence? At ConnectPrep, our instructors each have unique talents, backgrounds, and attributes that are integral to our success.\nWhether it\u2019s ascending to the top of the class, conquering standardized tests, or opening the door to prestigious colleges, our instructors have helped countless students reach their goals.\nIn order to bring aboard the brightest and most talented team members, we handpick an all-star team of instructors through a vetting process that will display your teaching talents and mastery with each subject of interest. In return, our instructors are rewarded for all of their efforts, with top-notch compensation, performance based bonuses and tremendous growth opportunities.\nSolid GPA and test scores\nAbility to conceptualize and teach concepts clearly with some great success stories\nGreat communication and writing skills\nCreative, driven, and endless energy to bring out the best in a student\nProficient with using technology\nPatient, passionate, versatile, and dedicated to helping kids excel\nAbility to develop a learning plan that will teach foundational elements and study skills\nA leader and mentor that can build life skills, self-esteem, and confidence through positive reinforcement\nSomeone who is creative, energetic, and has an infectious enthusiasm for teaching\nEnrolled in an education program\nAll applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer. ConnectPrep is an equal opportunity employer EEO/M/F/D/V.\nSalary: Earn Up To $100 + per hour, plus performance bonuses and hourly rate increases. Based on grade level, test-prep, and credentials.\nA compensation package that is one of the best in the industry, along with performance based bonuses and tremendous growth opportunities\nEmail us at careers@connectprep.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consensussupport.com/accommodation/west-end-opportunities-centre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:34Z", "digest": "sha1:H5BS3IQM7XNQVQGNKKVY5GFJMUGEGYQY", "length": 1780, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.consensussupport.com", "title": "Magor Supported Living Services for Learning Disabilities | Consensus", "raw_content": "Magor, Caldicot, Monmouthshire.\nLocated in a quiet residential area in Magor, Monmouthshire, West End Opportunities Centre provides a warm, positive and homely environment for adults with learning disabilities and complex needs within the local area.\nWe are committed to providing a quality service for individuals to enjoy a full range of lifestyle activities and learning opportunities in a day setting.\nSupporting up to 12 adults, support is tailored to individual needs and goals with a focus on personal development and greater independence. Our fully trained, committed team respect individual\u2019s choices and aspirations. Through creative and forward thinking they build a programme of person centred support which ensures their choices are put into practice so they can live a meaningful life within their local community.\nWe can support people in improving their daily living skills and there is a large kitchen on site. There is also an IT and computer suite, health and beauty room, arts and crafts and music room.\nIndividuals are encouraged to participate in activities at the Centre as well as accessing the local community and we have a mini bus to go to places of interest and enjoy social activities. This helps develop life and social skills and build new friendships. We also support individuals to find local job opportunities and achieve qualifications.\nSkills development room\nAccommodation near West End Opportunities Centre\nAshbury House, Magor, Monmouthshire - 0.1 Miles\nPool Cottage, Wilcrick, Newport - 1.1 Miles\nNew Horizons Day Centre, Wilcrick, Magor, Monmouthshire - 1.1 Miles\nRead the latest news from West End Opportunities Centre\nMagor based Support Worker Barbara is a Wales Care Award Finalist\nLeigh Miller, Manager - West End Opportunities Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/supreme-court-splits-hairs-over-the-definition-of-a-debt-collector-061217.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DZY5NKS4OQXI7XEAOCWUYWHZOZX6WWJP", "length": 2510, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.consumeraffairs.com", "title": "Supreme Court splits straws over the definition of a debt collector", "raw_content": "Santander was hounding consumers to pay old debts it bought from Citi\nWhen is a debt collector not a debt collector? Answer: When it's a bank that has purchased defaulted loans, hoping to collect a few pennies on each dollar. That's the gist of a Supreme Court ruling today.\nThe court found that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), which prohibits debt collectors from harrassing or publicly shaming debtors, doesn't apply to banks.\nThe case basically comes down to how the FDCPA defines a \u201cdebt collector.\u201d It says it's anyone \u201cwho regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.\u201d\nWriting his first opinion since being confirmed to the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that a debt collector is someone who is trying to collect a debt for a third party, whereas a bank is collecting on its own behalf.\n$3.5 billion in bad debts\nThe case before the court -- Henson v. Santander Consumer -- was filed on behalf of consumers who financed cars through a Citi subsidiary, then defaulted on the loans. The cars were repossessed and sold, but most borrowers still owed money to Citi since they had owed more on the cars than they fetched at auction.\nRather than hire a traditional collection agency, Citi sold the debts, $3.5 billion worth, to Santander, which immediately began hounding the one-time car owners.\nWhile it might sound silly, or even outrageous, to say that someone trying to collect a debt is not a debt collector, the Supreme Court is merely the latest to chime in on that side of the argument. A district court in Maryland and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals had previously come to the same conclusion.\nOr, as Gorsuch put it in the unanimous opinion, \"All that matters is whether the target of the lawsuit regularly seeks to collect debts for its own account or does so for \u2018another.'\"\nSince Santander had purchased the debts from Citi, it was collecting on its own behalf and therefore was not covered by the FDCPA, the justices agreed. In its opinion, the court noted that it might be perfectly reasonable to think that the FDCPA should apply to everyone who collects debts but said that is not how Congress wrote the law that established the act.\nSupreme Court hears case challenging public employee union fees\nConsumer confidence rebounds in June\nConsumer groups seek expansion of CFPB's authority\nActivists urge Mexican shrimp boycott to save a tiny porpoise\nCredit card debt closing in on $1 trillion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/multivitamin_review_comparisons/multivitamins/PREVIEW/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VGQKBA33KOLXRBAVBAOYLOWPVZ3XYYXE", "length": 10020, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.consumerlab.com", "title": "Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements Review | ConsumerLab.com", "raw_content": "Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements Review\nSee our Top Picks by category:\n46% of the multivitamins selected for testing failed testing for not meeting quality specifications. Most gummy formulations did not contain the listed amounts of nutrients \u2014 having far less or far more. Several tablets did not break apart quickly enough.\nWhen selecting a multi, be sure it...\nLists enough of each essential vitamin and mineral. Check your own requirements using our RDA table or the detailed information for each nutrient below.\nDoesn't contain too much of any nutrient (i.e., exceed tolerable upper limits), as this can negate the benefits and increase the risk of toxicity. This is not indicated on the label but is noted by ConsumerLab.com for each of the reviewed products in the 2nd and 4th columns of the table below.\nIs of high-quality, delivering its listed nutrients without unacceptable contamination. Check that it has been Approved by ConsumerLab.com in the results table below.\nIf you eat a well-balanced diet (including fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy) and have no special nutritional needs (such as when pregnant), you may not need a multivitamin/multimineral. If you're not sure about your diet, a multi can help provide required vitamins and minerals. Taking a modest daily multi is safe and may slightly reduce the risk of certain cancers. In women, it may also reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and, in men, it may reduce the risk of cataracts.\nMultivitamins/multiminerals (or \"multis\") are the most popular supplements among the general population in America. While they can help make up for shortcomings in your diet, the benefits for most people are uncertain. In 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reported that there is inadequate evidence regarding a benefit or risk of harm with multivitamins in healthy adults without nutritional deficiencies (excluding women who are or may become pregnant) (USPSTF 2013, based on studies reviewed in Fortmann, Ann Int Med 2013).\nThere is some evidence that taking multivitamins is associated with a reduced incidence of some types of cancers in certain populations. For example, a major study of male physicians 50 years of age or older found an 8% lower incidence of cancers among those taking a relatively modest-dose daily multivitamin compared to men taking placebo -- although there was no reduction in the mortality rate during the study period of approximately 11 years (Gaziano, JAMA 2012). The greatest reductions in cancer were among men with a prior diagnosis of cancer (27% fewer new cancers) and men with no family history of cancer (14% fewer cancers). There was no significant reduction in prostate cancer -- the most common type of cancer in the study, however, there was a 12% reduction in all other cancers combined. The supplement used in the study was Centrum Silver, which is similar to the Centrum Silver (and several similar store brands) reviewed below, although the formula in the study dated from 1997 and contained 400 IU of vitamin D3 (now 500 IU), 5,000 IU of vitamin A with 50% beta-carotene (now 2,500 IU with 40% beta-carotene), and did not include the small amounts of lutein and lycopene in the current formula. In the opinion of ConsumerLab.com staff, the recent changes to the formula would seem unlikely to have negatively affected outcomes and the new formula may be beneficial.\nThis same study of Centrum Silver found no significant effect on the risk of cardiovascular disease, including no significant reductions in heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular disease, among men taking the multivitamin versus placebo (Sesso, JAMA 2012). Researchers found that taking the multivitamin was not associated with any gastrointestinal side effects, fatigue, drowsiness, skin discoloration, or migraine, but there was a 7% increased risk of skin rashes. This study was among 18 multivitamin studies included in a broader analysis that concluded that multivitamin/multimineral supplementation \"... does not improve cardiovascular outcomes in the general population.\" However, most of the studies included in the analysis did not characterize the multivitamins used, making it impossible to generalize this conclusion to all formulas nor to populations with specific conditions or deficiencies (Kim, Circulation 2018). Additional analyses of this long-term study using Centrum Silver among male physicians found no benefits on cognition or verbal memory, although the researchers noted that the population studied may have been too well-nourished to benefit from a multivitamin (Grodstein, Ann Int Med 2013). A 9% decrease in the risk of cataract was found among those taking Centrum Silver in this study, compared to those taking placebo, although there was no decrease in the risk of developing visually significant age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (Christen, Am Acad Opthal 2013). However, among participants who were randomized to also take a separate, daily, high-dose vitamin C supplement (500 mg synthetic ascorbic acid -- about 6 times the RDA), there was no reduction in cataract risk, while the risk of cataract decreased by 18% among those taking Centrum Silver (which contains 60 mg of vitamin C) without the additional vitamin C supplement.\nA study in adults who previously suffered heart attacks found that giving them high-dose vitamins and minerals did not result in a statistically significant reduction in further cardiovascular events compared to those receiving placebo (Lamas, Ann Int Med 2013). The supplement consisted of 28 vitamins and minerals given as 6 large caplets daily and was designed by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. It included amounts of vitamins A, C, and E and most B vitamins at several times the Daily Value, and up to three times the Daily Value for folate, selenium, chromium, and molybdenum. Patients took the supplement regimen for one to five years (median was 31 months) and were followed for two to five years (median was 55 months). Many people dropped out of the study due to the complexity of the regimen, although there was no evidence of harm.\nThere is little evidence from clinical trials showing that a specific multi can reduce the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, cancer, or any other cause (Park, Am J Epidem 2011). However, a U.S. study found that people who had used multivitamin/multimineral supplements for at least 3 years were 35% less likely to have died of cardiovascular disease over the following 20 or so years, compared to those who had not taken a multi. This positive finding was largely driven by results for women in the study, who were 44% less likely to have had a cardiovascular-related death. None of the subjects had cardiovascular disease at the start of the study and the results were adjusted to avoid potentially confounding variables including race, education, aspirin use and blood pressure. Interestingly, the apparent benefit did not occur for people who had used multivitamins which lacked minerals, nor among people who had taken multis for less than 3 years at the beginning of the study (Bailey, J Nutr 2015). In addition, a study of women aged 50 to 79 years with invasive breast cancer found that those who used multivitamins were 30% less likely to have died from the disease, compared to non-users, over an average period of 7 years (Wassertheil-Smoller, Breast Canc Res Treat 2013). Adjusting for factors such as age, race, and the use of other supplements did not substantially change this estimate. Unfortunately, the study did not evaluate the specific multivitamin formulas used, so it is impossible to say which formula, if any, was associated with the lowest mortality.\nThere's no standard formula for multis, so the ingredients will vary dramatically from one brand to another. It would be impossible to make a one-size-fits-all multi anyway because nutritional needs depend on age, gender, health status, and several other factors.\nMultivitamins also differ greatly in terms of quality. The large number of ingredients in these products opens the possibility for more things to go wrong. One potential problem is that the ingredients and amounts of ingredients in the bottle may not match those listed on the label. And, as with many mineral and herbal products, there's also a risk that a multi could be contaminated with lead or other toxins.\nWhat CL Tested For:\nNo U.S. agency routinely tests multis or other dietary supplements for their contents or quality. That's where we come in. As part of our mission to independently evaluate products that affect health and nutrition, ConsumerLab.com recently purchased 35 of the leading multivitamin/multimineral products sold in the U.S. and Canada (including seven multis intended for pets) and put them to the test in the laboratory.\nWe couldn't test every ingredient in every product, so we chose to focus on several standard nutrients including folate (folic acid), calcium, and vitamin A (retinol and beta-carotene). We made some substitutions as needed. If a product didn't contain folate, for example, we tested for vitamin C instead. If it didn't contain significant calcium, we checked the levels of iron or zinc. The amount of iodine was also checked in every prenatal vitamin claiming to contain it. We also tested tablets for disintegration (how long it takes to break apart in liquid); if tablets can't break apart fast enough, less ingredient may be available for absorption by the body.\nIn any product claiming to contain whole herbs or more than 250 mg of minerals per daily serving, we also tested for potential contamination with arsenic, cadmium, and lead.\nAny product claiming to be gluten-free was tested to be sure it met this claim. Products had to pass testing for all of these criteria, as well as meet FDA labeling requirements, to earn our \"Approved\" rating in the table below (see Testing Methods and Passing Score).\nMultivitamin and Multimineral Supplements Review!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 16347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corriere.ca/news-flash/hospice-vaughan-giving-thanks-gala-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:R73HH3C5ORQPR4BJKIG76IHLQ4II6IIU", "length": 875, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.corriere.ca", "title": "Hospice Vaughan Giving Thanks Gala 2016 \u2013 Corriere Canadese", "raw_content": "By Luciano Lista on October 16, 2016\nThis year\u2019s gala was held Friday, October 14th. at the Terrace Banquet Hall in Vaughan and was once again a very successful event.\nA superb evening of fine dining and entertainment was enjoyed by over 1100 people and raised more than 400,000 dollars for Hospice Vaughan whose primary objective is to build a permanent 10-bed residence in Vaughan.\nEarlier this year Hospice Vaughan received the support of the Ontario Government for funding towards this goal (see press release) and the approval of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority to operate a residential hospice center on Islington Road, North of Rutherford Road (see announcement).\nWe congratulate the Directors of Hospice Vaughan and the Gala organizers for their tireless efforts towards this very essential cause.\nIn the photo: The Board of Directors of Hospice Vaughan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 11435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cosmetics27.com/en/page/3-terms-and-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:OTON2I6XSROYFYJ2TD4ZU2AG34SFY2AP", "length": 13880, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.cosmetics27.com", "title": "Terms and Conditions - Cosmetics 27", "raw_content": "These Terms and Conditions of Use and Sale are governed by the laws of France and will be interpreted in accordance with the French courts. You can get on this page, for your reading comfort and understanding, a full translation in English of the Terms and Conditions of the current website.\n'Site', 'service' or 'website' : the website cosmetics27.com and all its pages.\n'Products' : all goods (both physical and intangible) and services that it is possible to buy or to which it is possible to subscribe to on the site.\nMentions imposed by French trust law in the digital economy and site purpose\nThe website cosmetics27.com is published by ME UNLIMITED SARL.\nThe site is free to access by any Internet user. The acquisition of a product, creation of an account on the site, and in a broader sense navigation on the site implies acceptance by the user of the whole current Terms and Conditions, the user thus acknowledging to have taken full knowledge and accepted the latter. For instance the collection of this acceptance can be materialized as a checkbox next to the sentence: \"I have read and accepted the terms and conditions of this site.\". Ticking this box will be considered to have the same value as a handwritten signature from the user. The user recognizes the value of evidence from the site automatic recording systems and, unless able to provide evidence to the contrary, will not contest this evidence in the event of a complaint.\nThe acceptance of these Terms and Conditions implies on the part of the user that he or she does have the legal capacity necessary to do so. If the user is a minor or has not the legal capacity to enter into contracts, he or she declares having the consent of a parent or legal guardian.\nThe goods and services offered are those listed in the catalog published on the site. These products are offered subject to stock availability. 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ME UNLIMITED agrees to never disclose the content of these cookies to third parties, except except in the course of legal proceedings. The user can refuse the use of cookies or configure his or her browser to be notified prior to their use. To do this, the user can proceed as follows :\nIf the user wishes to confirm the order, he or she must tick the dedicated checkbox to show acceptance of these Terms and Conditions of Sale and hit the submit button. The user will then be redirected to a page where he or she will fill the order form fields by entering some personal data necessary to the placing of the order. Once the user has completed and submitted the form, he or she will be redirected to the online payment page where the user can make online payments by credit card or by bank transfers, or will access the required information to send a bank check. 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The guarantee of conformity may be exercised if a defect were to exist on product delivery, or if the defect appears within 24 months following the delivery date (6 months if the order was placed before March 18th, 2016 or the item sold is a used one). However, after this period of 24 months (6 months if the order was placed before March 18th, 2016 or the item sold is a used one), it will be up to the customer to prove that the defect existed at the time of delivery.\nIn addition to the above legal garantees, the products sold on this site are protected by another garantee, offered by the publisher, under the following conditions : ''.\nIn case of non-conformity of a product sold on the site, it can be returned to the publisher who will refund or exchange it. All claims of exchange or refund must be made by post to the following address : 144 Avenue Charles de Gaulle , 92200 Neuilly sur Seine or by e-mail at conso@cosmetics27.com within thirty days of the date of delivery. Return merchandise shipping costs are the responsibility of the buyer. If a product exchange is not possible (e.g. obsolete or out of stock product) the buyer will be reimbursed by bank check for the amount of the order minus the carrier costs related the sending of the initial order.\nIf any of these terms and conditions should be declared null and void by a court, such nullity shall not extend to any other clauses, which continue to be in effect. The present Terms and Conditions describe the entire agreement between the user and the website. They supersede all previous or contemporary written or oral agreements. The Terms and Conditions are not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by the user himself.\nA printed version of the Terms and any notice given in electronic form may be requested in judicial or administrative proceedings in connection with the terms and conditions. The parties agree that all correspondence relating to these Terms of Use, shall be in the French language.\nAny notice concerning the Terms and Conditions, Legal Notices or Privacy Policy must be made in writing and delivered by hand, by registered or certified mail, by post or any other well-known courier service at national level that allows regular review of its prices and conditions, or by e-mail, using the addresses mentioned in the Legal Notices of this website, stating your full name, contact details and subject of the notice .\nAny claim or cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this website, its pages, services or the social network pages of the publisher, or which is the subject of these Terms and Conditions must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. If it is not, such a claim or cause of action will never be applicable before a court.\nIt is possible that there are, on the whole website and the services offered, and to a limited extent, inaccuracies or errors, or information that is at odds with the Terms and Conditions, Legal Notices or Privacy Policy. In addition, it is possible that unauthorized modifications happen to be made by third parties on this site or related services (social networks ...). We make every effort to ensure that such discrepancies be corrected.\nIn case we miss one, please contact us using the addresses mentioned in the Legal Notices of this website, to give, if possible, a description of the error and location (URL), as well as sufficient information for us to be able to contact you. For requests involving copyright, please refer to the section of this document related to intellectual property.\n\u00a9 ME UNLIMITED SARL \u2013 Tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s \u2013 15 d\u00e9cembre 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 21596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.costtotravel.com/flight-number/b6321", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SZICLLGD2UVUDFQYT4YAFXDQ247DE2LS", "length": 329, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.costtotravel.com", "title": "JetBlue Airways 321 (B6321) Flight Status - Flight from Boston to West Palm Beach on B6321", "raw_content": "The JetBlue Airways flight number 321 is scheduled to depart Boston(BOS) at 19:45 and arrive West Palm Beach(PBI) at 22:49 local time.\nB6321Logan International Airport West Palm Beach International Airport\nThe flight B6321 time is 3h 4mins which departs Boston at 19:45 (GMT -5.0) and arrives West Palm Beach at 22:49 (GMT -5.0).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.countercurrents.org/jackoswski040213.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:45Z", "digest": "sha1:SB5PZDFXIX6ELIXWEPXVKH5TGVBN4NQ7", "length": 7406, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.countercurrents.org", "title": "Debating Suicide By Rosemarie Jackowski", "raw_content": "Debating Suicide\nThe \u201cAssisted Suicide Bill\u201d does exactly what it is designed NOT to do. It will eliminate choice for the most vulnerable. Unintended consequences are sure to follow if this becomes law. Prejudice cloaked in good intentions is still prejudice\nAssisted suicide is a big topic that might be coming to a legislature near you soon. In Vermont most citizens expected movement toward Single Payer Health Care during this legislative session. Instead, much of the discussion is about physician assisted suicide. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted 5 to 0 to approve the legislation.\nThose on both sides are passionate in their beliefs.\nSome oppose suicide on religious grounds. Some oppose on atheistic grounds. Most atheists do not believe in an after life and therefore place a greater value on life here and now.\nEveryone already has the right to reject medical care. Those who don't want to receive treatment for a serious illness, can simply make their wishes known. The problem is not too much health care. The problem is lack of access to care.\nThose who support suicide argue that it is their body and anything done to it should be up to them with no government interference. They argue that they will not accept any limitations on their choices.\nThose opposed make the argument that the government restricts what persons can do with their bodies all the time - every time someone is arrested for smoking pot. Currently, some are celebrating - some are mourning - the largest drug arrest in recent times. In small town Bennington, more than 60 have been targeted in a massive military type drug bust complete with humvees, helicopters, and 100 law enforcement officers in full military gear. We have not had total rights to our own body for a very long time.\nWe need more, not fewer rights. Including government approved suicide, as an end of life option, does not give more rights - in reality it takes them away.\nThe proposed Assisted Suicide Law will deprive many of choice. Recent history shows that more than 300 cases of reported abuse of the disabled/elderly have been ignored by the State. This is evidence that the State cannot protect the vulnerable. An Assisted Suicide Law will add another layer of risk. It will make things worse.\nFor those pressured to die, there will be no choice. Behind closed doors in private, who will be there to protect them? Elder abuse is a major hidden problem. Talk to anyone in a nursing home - give them anonymity, and they will tell all.\nSome legislators promise 'safeguards'. There are no safeguards that can insure that there will not be abuse. Some of the most vulnerable will be pressured to end it all for the convenience and sometimes for the financial benefit of others. Patients will be unduly influenced into giving in to family members. Many elderly/disabled have loving supportive families. It is those who do not, who are at the highest risk. There is no way that abuse can be prevented. Imagine being isolated with care givers - Stockholm Syndrome.\nReported - January 26, 2013 - Rutland Herald - \"...The House Human Services Committee heard testimony Thursday that APS failed to intervene in a Bennington County case of an 89-year-old woman whose daughter was threatening to kill her...\". It appears that the daughter wanted the Mother's room and was willing to kill to get it. Those in loving functional families need to know that there are others who are not so blessed.\nHow many times has the argument been made that the last six months of life consume too many health care dollars. Recently there was a conference at a local nursing home. The elderly residents had been promised a nice afternoon discussion complete with tea and cookies. Instead they were told, by the visiting 'experts', that maybe they were becoming a burden to their loved ones. Maybe they should consider forgoing all medical care. I watched tears well up in the eyes of many of the elderly residents. They left the conference room that day with a heavy burden of guilt - just because they were not yet ready to die.\nJared Diamond, author of, The World Until Tomorrow, compares the culture today with other cultures. Diamond discusses causes and effects of discrimination against elders in our culture. One example of discrimination is the widespread policy of 'age based allocation of hospital resources'.\nAgeism is ingrained in our culture. Could the 'duty to die' be imposed, or even just suggested, to any other group that faces discrimination? The devaluing of the elderly and disabled is now an accepted fact of life and death. That this bill is under consideration is proof. If it was a bill that did not show prejudice against the most vulnerable, it would be written to include everyone - young and old, healthy and sick. Sometimes the young and healthy would chose to end it all.\nYears ago, my best friend attempted suicide. She was healthy. She was young - in her 30s. A minor unpleasant family event caused her to become temporarily depressed. One night she attempted suicide. The police intervened. She was rushed to the hospital. There the police told her that Charges would be filed. Upon her release from the hospital she had to appear in Court and explain to the Judge why she had attempted suicide. Needless to say, this made everything worse. She soon accepted a job with a cruise ship line and sailed away. True story - happened in New Jersey. Is suicide still against the law there?\nMore recently, another friend was searching for a way out. He was not in physical pain. He was not terminally ill. His problem was that he was in a nursing home and the conditions there were not good. What he needed was a Health Care Advocate - someone to advocate for him. The need for Health Care Advocates is one of the biggest issues of our time. Families are dispersed and distant. Often the elderly are abandoned. Friends die. Suddenly a nursing home is the only option. There have been two reported murders in local nursing homes in recent years. No one can estimate how many murders go unreported. Isolation, neglect, and poor living conditions are other important issues.\nThe Assisted Suicide Bill is the wrong answer to the wrong question. The important question is: How can we improve life and death for all. There are three unmet needs that should be addressed by the legislature.\nFirst - health care must be made available to all. Universal, comprehensive Single Payer is the answer.\nSecond - the alleviation of pain must be considered. Ethics require that everything scientifically possible should be done to eliminate suffering. It is usually possible to do that without killing the patient.\nThird - and most important of all, those at high risk must be protected. There is only one way to do that. We must set up a system of Heath Care Advocates. This does not have to cost tax payers a lot of money. A system based on volunteers could work. The main qualification would be compassion and the pledge to honor privacy.\nAll we really wanted was Single Payer access to health care - well, we also wanted vision and dental care included. Maybe that's what got the big guys in Montpelier upset.\nWill we soon see Grandpa set adrift on an ice floe on the shore of Lake Champlain? There must be a better way.\nRosemarie Jackowski is an Advocacy Journalist, Peace and Justice Activist, and author of BANNED IN VERMONT. dissent@sover.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.counterview.net/2016/10/in-biggest-ever-crackdown-in-kashmir.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:D7Y3Q36FKIRR3BGVRVT65RJWOA4TKE2Z", "length": 3971, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.counterview.net", "title": "In biggest-ever \"crackdown\" in Kashmir, 8,000 civilians arrested, 450 for 6 months sans trial: Top US daily", "raw_content": "In biggest-ever \"crackdown\" in Kashmir, 8,000 civilians arrested, 450 for 6 months sans trial: Top US daily\nBattleground Pampore, off Srinanagar\nTop US daily \u201cWashington Post\u201d reports, against the backdrop of \u201csuspected militants\u201d taking refuge in government building off Pampore, the saffron rich town in the outskirts of Srinagar, that the latest round of the unrest in the Kashmir valley has prompted India go in for its \u201cbiggest crackdown\u201d in decades in the state.\nAijaz Hussain, an Associated Press correspondent, reports in the daily, \u201cAnxious to quell anti-India protests in Kashmir, Indian forces are carrying out their most severe crackdown in more than two decades against civilian protesters, arresting more than 8,000 this summer across the disputed Himalayan territory.\u201d\nPointing out that his \u201cincludes 450 or so civilians being held, possibly for up to six months without trial, under a harsh security law criticized as a human rights violation\u201d, the report says, this is happening because India believes that \u201cthe separatist rebels \u2014 and civilians who help them \u2014 are undermining the country\u2019s territorial integrity.\u201d\nInsisting that this is \u201cforcing\u201d the authorities to keep the Kashmir valley under \u201ctight control\u201d, the report quotes a senior police official, who says, \u201cThis is, so far, the biggest crackdown against miscreants.\u201d The police officer, the report adds, wanted to remain \u201canonymity because he was not authorized to share details of the crackdown.\u201d\nWorse, the daily says, \u201cFor weeks, Indian authorities have carried out nighttime raids, rolling curfews and stops at roadblocks, but have failed to stop the rebel attacks and angry public rallies\u201d, adding, at Pampore, despite \u201cgunshots and grenade blasts\u201d, one found \u201cscores of people gathered on nearby streets to chant anti-India slogans in a show of solidarity with the rebels.\u201d\nEarlier, the report says, in February, \u201cfive soldiers, three militants and a civilian were killed in a three-day standoff in the same government compound\u201d, underlining, \u201cIndia has faced a separatist challenge in Kashmir since 1947, when India and neighbouring Pakistan gained independence.\u201d\nRefusing to take sides, the report says, while \u201cIndia accuses Pakistan of arming and training rebels to cross the heavily militarized border that divides the region between the two countries\u201d, as for Pakistan, \u201cit denies the allegation and says it offers the rebels only moral support.\u201d However, it adds, \u201cmost people\u201d in the Kashmir Valley are in \u201cfavour independence or a merger with Pakistan.\nThe report says, more than \u201c68,000 people have been killed in the armed uprising and ensuing Indian military crackdown\u201d the report says, \u201cWhile anti-India protests are somewhat common during warmer summer months, this year\u2019s have been especially fraught amid widespread anger over the killing of a popular rebel commander by Indian forces in July.\u201d\n\u201cIndia has responded with a clampdown that has nearly paralyzed daily life\u201d, the report says, adding, \u201cMore than 80 civilians have been killed and thousands injured in clashes with police and paramilitary troops. Two policemen have also been killed and hundreds of government forces injured in the clashes.\u201d\n\u201cOfficers are still hunting for at least 1,500 more people suspected of participating in protests\u201d, the report says, adding, \u201cRights activists expressed alarm over the government\u2019s targeting of protesters.\u201d It quotes human rights lawyer Pervez Imron as saying, \u201cThis crackdown marks the Indian government\u2019s failure to reach a political solution of the issue.\u201d\nActivists have long campaigned against India\u2019s armed forces special powers act, which gives troops sweeping powers to interrogate or shoot suspects on sight. Also, under the draconian act, federal army and paramilitary soldiers cannot be prosecuted in civilian courts unless federal approval is granted.\nGovernance Human Rights Justice People Politics\nLabels: Governance Human Rights Justice People Politics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 347, "original_length": 15494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.covenofthegoddess.com/spells/exorcism/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LSD75TCETHW5UOW2XQ4GMBFXZ64FFBFS", "length": 1149, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.covenofthegoddess.com", "title": "Exorcism to Remove Evil Entities from your Life \u2013 Coven of the Goddess", "raw_content": "Think about how your life has felt in the last few days or months or years. If things have suddenly felt darker or more out of control, it might be time to consider the Exorcism spell. This spell is specifically designed to remove anything that does not belong in your soul, even if you didn\u2019t invite it into your psyche.\nYou may have heard from others in your life that you seem different or that you seem more negative than you have in the past. You may have noticed that you\u2019ve started to attract negative people or that you haven\u2019t had the good luck you had in the past. All of these signs can be signals that you have a spirit that is interfering with your life.\nImagine what it will be like to get rid of this spirit now and forever. Imagine what it will be like to finally be free of the dark thoughts, the negative ideas, and the despair in your mind. With the Exorcism spell, you can allow yourself to be free.\n(And those evil spirits can go back to where they came from.)\nYou deserve to live your life free from what is burdening you. If you\u2019re worried about what hangs onto your soul, you can use this spell to get rid of it \u2014 completely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 10569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/110519", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7O3DG6HA2KEBHNGYSOZRKMXSPTWKUJB7", "length": 1325, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "Pearl Harbor ceremony to commemorate Battle of Midway 76th anniversary | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "Pearl Harbor ceremony to commemorate Battle of Midway 76th anniversary\nFrom Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs\nIn this file photo, Sailors and the official party prepare to present the ceremonial wreath last year's ceremony commemorating the Battle of Midway. (U.S. Navy/MC2 Jason Abrams)\nPEARL HARBOR - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam will host a commemoration ceremony at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument, June 1 at 8 a.m., to mark the 76th anniversary of the Battle of Midway.\nThe public is invited to attend the ceremony at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center's education lanai and explore the center to learn more about the history of World War II.\nCeremony highlights include music from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet Band, remarks by Navy Region Hawaii Commander Rear Adm. Brian Fort, and a wreath laying presentation at the Lone Sailor statue.\nThe Battle of Midway, a pivotal engagement in the Pacific Theater of World War II, occurred six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. From June 3-7, 1942, the U.S. Navy decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.\nEssex ARG, 13th MEU begin exercise to certify deployment readiness\nU.S., partner nations conclude Pacific Partnership in Vietnam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130319", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OJOXQSPFZULZBH4RWL2ZMZUQ34PKKOZF", "length": 2164, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "USS Milius visits Pearl Harbor en route to Japan | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "USS Milius visits Pearl Harbor en route to Japan\nBy Lt.j.g. Michael Barkofski, USS Milius\nUSS Milius (DDG 69) approaches the pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 4. (U.S. Navy/MC2 Katarzyna Kobiljak)\nPEARL HARBOR - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) arrived in Pearl Harbor, May 4, for a port visit.\nThe crew manned the rails as Milius passed the USS Arizona Memorial, while friends and spectators were waiting for them on the pier, giving the ship a warm welcome to Hawaii.\n\"We are grateful and excited to have the opportunity to stop in Hawaii,\" Cmdr. Jennifer Pontius, Milius' commanding officer said. \"This not only provides the crew some much-earned liberty, but allows us to wrap up final deployment preparations prior to our arrival to Japan.\"\nMilius recently departed San Diego, officially beginning its transition to Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Japan (FDNF-J) in Yokosuka, Japan. The destroyer will join FDNF-J in U.S. 7th Fleet and brings with it some of the most technologically advanced warfighting capabilities to the Indo-Pacific region.\nIn the past year, the crew completed a challenging training cycle and combat systems testing after receiving major upgrades to the Aegis Combat System, undersea warfare, and electronic warfare suites. The testing included Combat System Ship's Qualification Trials as well as multiple live-fire events for operational testing of new weapons technology.\nWhile in port, the crew will take on supplies, complete any emergent repairs and conduct Ballistic Missile Defense training. The crew will also get the opportunity to enjoy some of the local Hawaiian culture and visit some historical sites.\nElectrician's Mate 2nd Class Christopher J. Pasimiofield expressed his excitement about the visit to Hawaii.\n\"I am looking forward to experiencing Hawaii as we travel to Japan,\" said Pasimiofield. \"I want to visit the USS Arizona Memorial to honor those fallen during the Pearl Harbor attack and bear witness to a piece of our military history.\"\nFollowing the port visit, Milius will continue its transit to Yokosuka, Japan.\nColumbia visits Yokosuka during Indo-Pacific patrol", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpr.org/classical/story/composer-bruce-adolphe-einstein-violin-and-new-film-score", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DRJYKFIWXQZZCKS2BUYDWESLQKIYFBRF", "length": 3614, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.cpr.org", "title": "Composer Bruce Adolphe on Einstein, the violin and a new film score | CPR", "raw_content": "Composer Bruce Adolphe on Einstein, the violin and a new film score\nBy Brad Turner | brad.turner@cpr.org Feb 13, 2015\nAudio: Bruce Adolphe talks with CPR's Chloe Veltman\nComposer Bruce Adolphe and Emily Ondracek-Peterson in the CPR Performance Studio.\n(Photo: CPR/Irvin Coffee)\nComposer Bruce Adolphe, who helps lead the Off the Hook Chamber Music Festival in Fort Collins, recently turned his attention to scoring a documentary about Albert Einstein and the imagination.\n\u201cEinstein\u2019s Light\u201d debuts this summer but Adolphe visits Denver and Boulder this weekend to offer sneak previews of the film, by director Nikolas Barris. Here's the trailer:\nTrailer for the film \"Einstein's Light.\"\nEinstein was also a dedicated violinist who adored classical music, which inspired Adolphe to feature violin in the film score. Joshua Bell plays the solos on the soundtrack, and violinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson joined him in the CPR Performance Studio on Thursday to perform highlights of the score.\nAdolphe spoke with CPR arts editor Chloe Veltman on Thursday about his work on the film, Einstein the musician and the points where science and music intersect. Click the audio above to listen, and check out these performances by Adolphe and Ondracek-Peterson:\nComposer/pianist Bruce Adolphe and violinist Emily Ondracek Peterson perform \"Einstein's Harmonic Mind\" from Adolphe's score for the film \"Einstein's Light\" in the CPR Performance Studio on Feb. 12, 2015.\nViolinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson in the CPR Performance Studio performing \"Einstein's Sarabande: The Loneliness of Genius\" from the film \"Einstein's Light\" by composer Bruce Adolphe.\nOn the importance of music and the violin to Einstein:\n\"Einstein said many times in different ways that if he were not a physicist he would be a violinist. He said that he thought in music. He dreamed in music.He felt that Mozart spoke about the universe in his music. It really was central to him. In fact I don't think there was a week in his life, according to some things I read, when he wasn't playing the violin and playing chamber music. It was extremely important in more ways that one can imagine. It even seems to have fed his cognitive process.\"\nOn Einstein's views on how music shapes the brain:\n\"I know there is one quote where he says, 'It's not like there's a direct correlation between music and physics.' He did say that. But it's the same way of thinking. And we know now from neuroscience, which I'm very involved in, that the brain is formed by music if you study early and for a long time. If you start before age 5, and practice and take lessons for at least 10 years, it actually forms and maintains the health of the brain in an amazing way.\"\nOn how playing music might have helped Einstein develop his abstract thinking skills:\n\"If you think about time and space, which was the essence of what he was dealing with, the rhythm is central to the concept. And of course that's not rhythm in a small scale, like keeping a beat. This is rhythm in a massive cosmic scale. But it is rhythm. The warping of space is rhythm and the relationship of time to space is rhythm. In fact,anything to do with time is rhythm, so I think it is part of it. I wouldn't say that because he played a Mozart sonata he was able to think of the warping or the bending of space. I don't think it's that simple. But it's more profound. It's the way one thinks in music and in numbers and in imagery, rather than about them, is a kind of training ground. So music might have been, like it is for many people, a training ground for the brain on how to deal with abstract thought.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cqnews.com.au/news/teenage-boy-dies-after-allegedly-assaulted-an-empl/3240550/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TBOLODHFB35BV3KZ2V7V4UCJV4MHJEJM", "length": 1669, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cqnews.com.au", "title": "Boy, 17, dies after pool \u2018fight\u2019 | CQ News", "raw_content": "The Lambton Swimming Centre in Newcastle\nby Sam McBeath\nA TEEN who allegedly assaulted an employee at a Hunter region public pool north of Sydney has died after police were called to the scene.\nThe boy, 17, had allegedly assaulted an employee at Lambton Pool, leading to police being called.\nWitnesses allegedly had to hold the teen down until they arrived, by which time they found him in a serious condition.\nThe boy was treated at the scene by paramedics, then taken to John Hunter Hospital where he later died.\nWitnesses said members of the public held the teen down while they waited for police. Picture: Daniel Irwin\nA spokeswoman for John Hunter Hospital said she was unable to give any information regarding the incident due to the boy being underage.\nLast night, the pool announced it would be closed until further notice.\n\"Due to unforeseen circumstances the Lambton Swimming Pool will be closed for an undetermined short period of time.\n\"We appreciate the patience and apologise for any inconvenience caused.\nWe will update everyone as soon as possible,\" read the post on the pool's Facebook page.\nOne passerby told The Daily Telegraph that something \"extremely dramatic\" had happened at the Lambton Pool.\nThe pool will be closed for some time. Picture: Daniel Irwin\n\"It's one of the biggest crime scenes I've ever seen,\" he said.\nIt's understood that more than one employee was injured in the assault, with ambulances being called to attend to staff as well as the teen.\nPolice confirmed a critical incident team will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident.\nThat investigation will be subject to independent review.\ndeath fight pool teen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 4467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cre8noh8.org/home/terms-of-use-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5POHGHRYJSRH3TXWMBTJBXMN6XPJKRG4", "length": 2165, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cre8noh8.org", "title": "Terms of Use | Cre8 No H8", "raw_content": "This website is not affiliated with the website www.createnohate.com and the film on Cyber Bullying called Create No Hate, Youtube.com/cre8noh8, nor cre8noh8.tumblr.com/.\n1. 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Deputy Assistant to Trump/Chief Strategist and on the Strategic Initiatives Group\nWhite House aide Sebastian Gorka ousted from post Politico By ANNIE KARNI and JOSH DAWSEY 08/25/2017\n\u201cSebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president who was closely aligned with former chief strategist Steve Bannon, was ousted from the White House, officials said Friday.\u201dPolitico\nResignation Letter on The Federalist, which broke the news.\nAmerican Oversight HATCH ACT: Nonpartisan ethics watchdog group American Oversight today asked the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to investigate whether White House adviser Sebastian Gorka violated the Hatch Act by posting political tweets from President Trump\u2019s recent campaign rally in Ohio. July 28, 2017\nAmerican Oversight Failure to Disclose Membership in a Nazi group on Security Clearance Forms \u201cOn March 16, the Forward reported that Mr. Gorka may be a member of Vit\u00e9zi Rend, citing interviews with current members of the group. If substantiated, this affiliation would raise a number of serious questions warranting congressional investigation \u2013 including whether Mr. Gorka may have violated federal law if he failed to disclose his membership in the group when he was being vetted for a security clearance.\u201d March 16, 2017\nDHS hires Gorka\u2019s wife for top advisory role The Hill\nBY JOHN BOWDEN \u2013 05/23/17 Katherine Gorka to serve as adviser to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s chief of staff\nThe Gorka That Matters Isn\u2019t Leaving The Trump Administration Sebastian Gorka is out at the White House, but his wife, Katharine, remains a force in government, wielding more power than her husband ever did. Buzzfeed\nSeb Gorka Getty Images\nTrump and Bannon \u2018Personally Intervened\u2019 to Save Seb Gorka The Daily Beast May 5, 2017 \u201cGorka and Bannon are close. They worked together at Breitbart News\u2014the far-right Trump-boosting outlet that Bannon once ran as a \u201cdictator,\u201d according to former employees\u2014where Gorka served as national security editor even as he was also a paid consultant for the Trump campaign.\u201d\nSebastian Gorka gets paid a lot of money to do not much of anything June 30, 2017 Death and Taxes\nSebastian Gorka accidentally included a Jezebel writer in a White House email April 6, 2017 Death And Taxes: The Jezebel writer stated: \u201cHe\u2019s clearly sensitive\u2026 about any indication that he\u2019s not honest about his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. But Gorka\u2019s refusal to provide comment on basic matters of public interest like what he was doing in the army only raises doubts. I had the same experience previously, when I asked about his describing himself as an expert witness in the Boston bombing case, despite not having testified, and when I contacted the White House to ask about his being detained for carrying ammunition through an airport in 2004. The first time, neither Gorka nor the White House ever responded to my inquiries; the second, Gorka accidentally included me in a reply-all email, instructing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer not to comment.\u201d\n\u201cThe Strategic Initiatives Group is run by assistant to the president Christopher Liddell, and includes deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka, who has worked closely with Bannon while writing for Breitbart, the website he used to run. Gorka is a controversial character himself, author of a book, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, that argues the enemy is not, as the Obama administration saw it, \u201cviolent extremism,\u201d but instead \u201cthe global jihadi movement, a modern totalitarian ideology rooted in the doctrines and martial history of Islam,\u201d according to promotional material for the book. Gorka also faced a criminal charge for trying to take a gun through airport security, according to The Wall Street Journal. The White House could not be immediately reached for comment on the status of the case.\nSebastian Gorka Likely to Be Out of White House Role, Officials Say NY Times APRIL 30, 2017 \u201cMr. Gorka, a former editor at Breitbart News, a right-wing website, is a friend of Stephen K. Bannon, the onetime Breitbart chairman who is now Mr. Trump\u2019s chief strategist. Mr. Gorka memorably declared that \u201cthe alpha males are back\u201d as an assertion of the distance between the Obama administration and the current one. He has been accused of having links to far-right groups in Europe, and critics of his hard-line views on Islam have accused him of Islamophobia. Mr. Gorka, a vocal defender of the administration\u2019s efforts to temporarily ban travel from some predominantly Muslim countries, has said violence is a fundamental part of Islam and emanates from the language of the Quran. He rejects scholars\u2019 assessment that Islamic militancy is an outgrowth of poverty, poor governance and war.\u201d\nWhite House Weighs Kicking Out Sebastian Gorka The president admires Sebastian Gorka for his fiery TV performances, but his ties to far-right organizations are making him more liability than asset, administration sources say. The Daily Beast April 28, 2017\nBannon, Gorka, and Flynn share a like-minded view on the perils of Islamic terrorism, with Gorka giving his first interview in his new role on Tuesday to The Counter-Jihad Report, a blog run by controversial activist Leslie Burt.\n\u201cWe are at war with global jihadism,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fact is, we know that ISIS has declared in English, in its publications, in its videos, \u2018We will use the refugee streams and mass migrations to insert our jihadis into your cultures,\u2019\u201d he said, explaining the weekend executive order as a necessary evil to protect Americans from ISIS infiltration. \u201d The Daily Beast January 31, 2017\n\u201cTwo senior administration officials said Trump and Bannon had shot down an attempt to eject Gorka from his government job, even after dozens of congress members called for his firing after video surfaced of Gorka endorsing radical nationalist group Jobbik\u2019s violent, anti-Semitic Hungarian Guard militia.\nThere was pressure on the administration to do something about Gorka, a dubiously qualified counterterrorism official, after he had worn a pin associated with World War II-era Nazi collaborators to inaugural festivities.\nGorka\u2019s views on Islam have also been widely characterized as extreme. He refused to admit it is a religion in several recent interviews, suggesting an affinity with the fringe, far-right belief Islam is not a religion at all but a totalitarian ideology.\u201d MIC.com\n\u201cThe U.K.\u2019s defense ministry is pushing back on claims made by White House adviser Sebastian Gorka regarding his military record with the Territorial Army, the country\u2019s reserves, as a language specialist. Gorka, who is Hungarian born, has claimed in the past that his reserve unit was charged to prevent terror attacks, and that he worked in Northern Ireland\u2014both of which were questioned by the U.K.\u2019s defense ministry, according to BuzzFeed News. The website also reported that these doubts about Gorka\u2019s military record contributed to his security clearance to work in the Hungarian Parliament being denied. The ministry concluded that it would be highly unlikely.\u201d The Daily Beast May 2, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 12222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.createssmiles.com/2014/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ5NNDEALLI5XLGC36J6BHQRLS4LKILZ", "length": 4755, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.createssmiles.com", "title": "November 2014 - Jim G. Williams, DMD", "raw_content": "Are You a Mouth Breather?\nWe all mouth breathe a little bit during a cold, while running, or when lifting something heavy; however, doing it all the time may have negative effects on your dental health. Most people who are chronic mouth breathers do not even realize it, which is especially distressing for all of us at my Douglasville dental office.\nPeople don\u2019t mouth breathe because they choose to, they typically do it because there\u2019s something wrong with the nasal passage. When you can\u2019t get enough oxygen by breathing through your nose, you do the only other thing you can \u2013 you breathe out of your mouth. Chronic mouth breathing may result in some serious dental and facial issues.\nWhen a child mouth breathes, it may actually impact the natural growing process of their face. When we use our mouths to breathe, our posture has to change to keep the airway open. In a kid, if mouth breathing and this change in posture is left untreated, it may lead to a long, narrow face, a narrow or flat nose, a short upper lip, and a pouty lower lip. Additionally, it could create some other concerning oral health problems in both children and adults.\nMany people don\u2019t know the multitude of issues that are linked to mouth breathing, which worries your dentist in Douglasville. However, the many problems associated with mouth breathing are so serious, they were highlighted in a study conducted by the Academy of General Dentistry. Chronic mouth breathing may lead to overcrowded teeth, a gummy smile, problems with facial development, even with the overall health of your mouth.\nUsing your mouth to breathe instead of your nose increases your risk for several oral health issues. Breathing out of your mouth dries it out and decreases saliva production. Without saliva, dangerous acids and bacteria are left to create problems like tooth decay and gingivitis. More so, mouth breathing can lead to chronic bad breath, poor sleep, headaches, and sore throats.\nSome Signs & Symptoms\nSnoring and open mouth while sleeping\nIncreased number of airway infections including sinus, ear, colds\nIf you\u2019re experiencing any of the symptoms of mouth breathing, or if you know you are a mouth breather, call my dental office in Douglasville. We have the ability to recognize mouth breathing and can work with you to fix the problem and get your mouth, and quality of life, back to health.\n\u201cDo I Need to Take Antibiotics Before my Dental Visit?\u201d\nTaking antibiotics prior to a visit to your Douglasville dentist used to be a common practice if you had a heart condition or received a joint replacement; however, this may no longer be the case. Recent research has shown that the use of too many antibiotics could actually outweigh the benefits, and using them as a precaution isn\u2019t doing much good.\nTaking a precautionary antibiotic before dental appointments, even cleanings, was initially prescribed to those with heart conditions or joint replacements in an attempt to lower the chance of infection. Many believed that bacteria in the mouth could enter the bloodstream during a dental procedure and cause an infection. However, after considerable research, it was concluded that precautionary antibiotic prescriptions were practiced solely on theory, and there is no scientific evidence that preemptive antibiotics help stop infections. In fact, it was determined that overuse of antibiotics could actually do more harm than good.\nUsing antibiotics as a preventive measure could lead to a worse result than if they weren\u2019t used at all. The overuse of antibiotics leads to an increase in the chance of bacteria becoming resistant. When this happens, the bacteria continue to cause or enhance infection since the same antibiotics no longer kill them. Thus, the bacteria can become stronger and lead to greater damage.\nHowever, while using antibiotics as a precaution against infection during dental treatment isn\u2019t common anymore, there are still some individuals who should take antibiotics before visiting their dentist in Douglasville. Those with artificial heart valves, a history of infective endocarditis, certain congentital heart conditions, or a cardiac transplant that has developed a heart valve problem are some of the patients the American Heart Association recommends the use of precautionary antibiotics.\nThe best way to make sure you\u2019re getting the protection you need is to ask your primary care physician or cardiologist if preventive antibiotics are appropriate for you.\nA healthy at-home oral hygiene routine and keeping up with regular visits to my dental office in Douglasville will go a long way to preventing infection. This duo of oral health care helps keep bacteria levels to a minimum and decreases the risk of more advanced dental treatments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.creativelive.com/class/introduction-to-cross-stitch-lisa-shaffer/lessons/herringbone-stitch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VQRND4SUZN6K7YO64OBMXFCMILPHL5FA", "length": 9036, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.creativelive.com", "title": "Herringbone Stitch from Introduction to Cross-Stitch with Lisa Shaffer", "raw_content": "Craft & Maker > Cross-stitching > Introduction To Cross-stitch > Herringbone Stitch\nSo next up is herringbone stitch this one super cute, too? I like all of them. So this is a nice little variation on what we've been doing, and there is also a couple things you can do to this one sort of like the star student, you can see you can go over part of the ex with the stitch similar to the starts to it, which is how I kind of made it a little fancy and that's just a variation on the hearing, one that's called attacked herringbone so the basic caring bone that we're going to be starting with us at the top there were the blue stitches are and then attacked is where I've taken another color and attacked the thread where the x is it's again, a five I like five against e feel like it's a natural point, so instead of making an ex, you're going to start with a diagonal line that's five across, so you're going to go in one and then count one, two, three, four, five and five down, one, two, three, four, five and put in your thread so you're going tohave ah, just a little old diagonal...\nstretch like that to start, and then you're going to go back in and you're gonna skip so you're going to skip one so you're going to go you're going to count three so I'll show you and then I'll talk about a little bit you know? One, two, three here it's still five but you're skipping so then you're going one then you're counting again you're counting three and then you're where you're threat comes up you're counting again you're starting over with the five counts you're going one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five and you look at this little designed like this and then you're going from the bottom so you're looking at what you have down here and you're going you're counting backwards you're in one, two, three so we're coming up keeping a hole, but the magical thing about cross stitch is because it's a grid you're also coming up even with that first stitch so it's in line e can't quite see yeah, let me finish this ditch and then I'll come over once you get a couple of stitches because you're actually going in the same vertical point, it will make more sense it's like the first three stitches on the herringbone are a little bit wacky you have to kind of really get it with a count and then you'll be able to see it but I'm gonna walk over with the sample and show you yeah, okay and then this stitch is you're starting the count again, but it's actually even with that one okay, and then from this one I'm counting five over you're counting, I always count from where the threat is and one, two, three, four, five and then up five ok, but everything after, like the first three stitches, you'll have a reference point for where the thread will through ok, afraid starting. So what are these called it's called a herringbone stitch? Yeah, and these air the tact herringbone, which is just a variation on it and just like the star stitch where we went over points of the acts that's all you're doing, you're just making a tiny stitch over where where there would be an exit the top so it's five down and then one, two, three over you're basically starting forget about the over, such when you start, you want to start with a diagonal stitch that's like a five just like the basic cross stitch where you're thinking five by five and that's going to get you a five count diagonal stitch and then you're going to be going back in skipping one left on and then you're starting that count again one, two, three, four, five to put the other stitch in cool don't you wonder how people did this under candlelight with then also having teo I don't think I know the time I don't under I don't get it I have all these beautiful linens that we're not only my grandmother's but my great grandmother's so going even back further toe like the gangs of new york days in the city where there was like no electricity and plumbing or anything and these women were working on, you know, napkins for early a family of sixteen on cooking and lank wrangling kids out of the street and I don't know it wasn't my job I don't know how much time I have to do it to freddy, you know it's amazing great so I'm going to do a few more stitches on the herringbone so you can get a sense of it here and I think from watching you'll see how you'll get a little bit of a pattern let's see, I made a mistake so I'm not immune you all okay? So I'm going to stop here and I'm just going to show the tact variation how are you guys feeling about the hearing? What are you finding that if you can get the first few you can sort of start to see it yeah yeah that's right? Oh yeah they told radio that's a good way to describe it they end up looking like little teepees to peace and are you also seeing over okay okay but you just go back and do that, huh? Waste a threat but if you if you have another way of of crossing it that you want to do that's totally fine I'm I'm kind of showing you a standard way of doing it I'm for whatever works for you in your life with your hands with your eyes ok totally fine you got excited wait square yeah sometimes that'll happen we're going to get into a knob long stitch so worse comes to worse if yours is looking a little taller than wide that's an accepted variation so you're doing something even fancier then we're talking about so good for you so what's my next move okay, so you're gonna come up now you're gonna be working on this line right? Huh? Serial here's one two, three so you're gonna skip the whole will be an empty hole over here you see? Ok there you know that gives me a back one and then when she get that throw it out you're going to start your count over so that's going to be one, two, three, four, five and then you're going to count five down okay? And then you're gonna count five down and that's where your stitches so it's gonna end up being one one two hey but then I want to go straight down I'm gonna show you here okay, so here's your steps and then are you want to start at the bottom I'm saying we're gonna start at the bottom then you're gonna come up one two three there's one skipped in the middle for five on account five e that I think I'm sorry okay yeah okay, so once you start counting, you'll see this will become your grid you're going up the state you know what I'm saying going up the same amount of time and you'll be crossing you'll be repeating the pattern for you just have to get the first the first two or three ok son is going to show the attacked variation real quick but it's the stain is the star stitch really similar to what we just did so all you're doing is creating a straight stitch over where the bars of the herringbone cross the herringbone stitch crossing that's all that makes it called attacked herringbone we're just coming up through the middle and going back down or horizontal or both you could double yeah, you could do both and sort of replicate that star stitch look if you want and then it's every you're counting three over yeah and that's what it looks like when you have the little attack at the top and when it's repeated you can do all sorts of fun stuff on this one you'll see I attacked in the top and the bottom which you can do. You can just tack it at the top. And then if you tack it at the top in the bottom and you repeat it, you get this whole different design in another pattern.\nThere are so many exciting projects you can make with basic cross stitching skills! Get your start with this timeless technique in Introduction to Cross-Stitch with Lisa Shaffer.\nLisa teaches needlework to artists across the country and in this class, she\u2019ll show you how to:\nStart a hoop sampler and finish the back\nSew a fun variety of stitches\nChoose the best materials for beginners\nYou'll learn the basic cross-stitch, zig zag, herringbone, tacked herringbone, oblong, and rice stitches. Lisa will also demonstrate some of the more complicated intricacies of cross-stitching so you feel confident you are doing it right.\nBy the end of the this class, you\u2019ll know how to complete a sampler displaying a whole variety of stitches and you\u2019ll be ready to spice things up with variations in color and size.\nGet an introduction the the supplies you need to start experimenting with cross-stitch.\nBasic Cross Stitch\nOblong Stitch\nAlternating Cross Stitch\nA nice class...cross stitching is very calming, and Lisa has a soothing voice. I wish the camera operator had done a better job of filming her hands while making the stitches, as it was difficult to see. I went on YouTube and found videos that did a better job for that purpose. I would recommend this class, with that one caveat.\nLene C Sundby\nInspiring instructor and inspiring samples design! Useful tips and tricks! Unfortunately it was difficult to se how the stitches were done because of no filming up close. I would suggest an editing job being done with lay over with illustration on how the stitches are done. At least there should be a downloadable pdf with detailed explanations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 479, "original_length": 23419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crenovated.com/whatsapp-sold-even-19-billion/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7376RX3FF25UNUKYCHFZ2IHNOKR6FMNS", "length": 1233, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.crenovated.com", "title": "WhatsApp could have sold for even more than $19 billion", "raw_content": "Facebook stunned the tech world this week when it announced that it was paying $16 billion up front along with $3 billion in vested payments to buy WhatsApp, the incredibly popular messaging app that has 450 million users. We\u2019d already read reports suggesting that Google was willing to pay up to $10 billion for WhatsApp but now The Information\u2019s Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin report that Google was actually willing to beat Facebook\u2019s offer for the company, meaning that WhatsApp could have potentially been worth even more than the $19 billion that Facebook is shelling out to buy it.\nAccording to Efrati and Lessin, Google CEO Larry Page tried to encourage WhatsApp to stay independent as way to keep the company out of Facebook\u2019s hands. One of their sources says that Google \u201cdid not seem excited\u201d about the prospect of paying billions of dollars for WhatsApp and was mostly interested in trying to stop Facebook from acquiring it.\nPrevious article Microsoft\u2019s Cortana: A personal assistant who doesn\u2019t stalk you\nNext article It\u2019s official: Xbox One Media Remote will launch in March for $24.99\nMicrosoft\u2019s Cortana: A personal assistant who doesn\u2019t stalk you\nIt\u2019s official: Xbox One Media Remote will launch in March for $24.99", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crisalix.com/en/directory/paul-harris", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7HMFYSCKBJP6D7MUDJIIMN2NEEAQVDC5", "length": 1833, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.crisalix.com", "title": "Mr Paul Harris | Plastic surgeon from London | Contact details", "raw_content": "Paul Harris is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Central London, where he undertakes both Cosmetic and Reconstructive surgery. Mr Harris\u2019 expertise lies in cosmetic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.\nMr Harris is currently the senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London where he has specialised in reconstructive surgery following cancer excision. Privately he operates in Central London at The London Clinic and in Southwest London at Wimbledon Parkside Hospital. He feels that despite differences in purpose, a thorough understanding of soft-tissue anatomy and the same surgical techniques underpin both disciplines. He is currently the Honorary Secretary on the Council of BAAPS and comments regularly in the media on topical plastic surgery issues. He has also been featured in several television documentaries. Mr Harris works within a team of surgeons, specialist plastic surgery nurses, and personal assistants in his private practice based at 5 Devonshire Place, London\n5 Devonshire Place W1G 9AL London, United Kingdom\nhttp://www.paulharrisplasticsurgeon.co.uk\nThursday 08:00 - 14:00 and 14:00 - 17:00 and 17:30 - 20:00\nJust upload three standard pictures today to see a 3D simulation during your next appointment with Mr Paul Harris. Before the consultation, you can visualize your current 3D body or face and, after the consultation, get access to see your new look from home so you can share with friends and make a better-informed decision.\nDuring your next appointment you will be able to discover your \"new you\" while getting all the advice from Mr Paul Harris\nAfter the consultation, Mr Paul Harris may let you access your \"new you\" from home with your own Crisalix account. This will allow you to share it with your family and friends or anyone you would like to get their advice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 9870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crownspeakers.com/jim-stovall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YQBPBHQZH2UYZEMGW7V2ZWPGYOVCLA2M", "length": 2050, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.crownspeakers.com", "title": "Jim Stovall Speaker, Inspirational Speaker, Booking Agent, Agency, Contact, Speeches | Crown Speakers", "raw_content": "<< Kent Stock\nJosh Sundquist >>\nAuthor of \"The Ultimate Gift\" A 20th Century Fox movie with James Garner, Abigail Breslin\nFaced with the challenge of total blindness, Jim Stovall has gone on to become:\nAn International Humanitarian of the Year\nA National Olympic weightlifting champion\nAn Emmy Award winner\nThe President and Co-Founder of Narrative Television \u00bb Read Full Bio\nThe President and Co-Founder of Narrative Television Network\nOne of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans awarded by the U.S. Jaycees\nA National Entrepreneur of the Year\nA recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Blue Chip Enterprise Award\nA world-renowned author and speaker\nThe author of the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift. Now a 20th Century Fox major motion picture\nJim Stovall has shared the stage as a keynote speaker with: General Colin Powell, Christopher Reeve, Tony Robbins, Dr. Denis Waitley, and Barbara Bush.\nJim Stovall will teach you and your organization how to:\nTake action starting today\nFind and fulfill your destiny regardless of your circumstances\nAuthor of: The Lamp, You Don't Have To Be Blind To See, Success Secrets of Super Achievers, The Ultimate Gift, Wisdom of the Ages, The Ultimate Life, Today's The Day, Ultimate Productivity, Keeper of the Flame, The Way I See the World.\nFeatured on: Good Morning America, CNN, Reader's Digest, TV Guide, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal\nMedia files by Jim Stovall\nJim Stovall Tells the Christopher Story\nJim Stovall Talks About \"Getting Started\"\nJim Stovall: Media File 3\nJim's Powerful Keynote and Inspirational Message of Positivity and Achievement\nUltimate Productivity (based on Jim's book of the same name)\nOrganizations and individuals that succeed, grow and profit, are those that understand the unique traits, talents and strengths of each of their people. Learn to leverage your unique talents for maximum performance.\nJim Stovall Speaker, Inspirational Speaker, Booking Agent, Agency, Contact, Speeches\nFor more information about Jim Stovall please call 1.877.8TALENT or email us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 13155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crsmith.co.uk/customer-homes/steel-conservatory-sunlounge-aberlady/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7IWSQGINAKAOLACT66ZKAJ7VKEG7VNI3", "length": 1527, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.crsmith.co.uk", "title": "Steel Conservatory Sunroom Aberlady | CR Smith", "raw_content": "64503801-edinburgh-sunlounge-conservatory\nMr & Mrs Steel - Edinburgh\nWhatever life throws at you, thick or thin, you should be able to rely on help from your family. This was never more true than the case of Mr and Mrs Steel. After their elderly uncle expressed a need for a conservatory, the couple were more than happy to help.\nSpeaking more to their uncle, the couple were pleased to learn that he already had his mind firmly set on building with CR Smith. Aware of our reputation for quality and reliability and didn\u2019t entertain using anyone else. And he was right not to \u2013 the end results are stunning.\nHelped vastly by Lorimer\u2019s slim frames, the room is flooded with light; and as the Steels\u2019 uncle has severe sight problems, the conservatory has made his days a lot easier. More than just a bright cosy space; the room also gives the Steels\u2019 uncle peace of mind. With multi point locks on the patio doors and on all opening windows, he can rest assured that his home is nice and secure.\nOur uncle insisted on CR Smith, and we\u2019re so glad he did.\n\u201cThe new conservatory has totally transformed my uncle\u2019s life. He is in it everyday and absolutely loves it \u2013 he never wants to leave,\u201d said Mr Steel.\nMore than a stunning conservatory, the Steels have given their uncle a new lease of life; and they couldn\u2019t be happier\nThe Steels\u2019 project was a joy, and we\u2019re proud that we were able to give so much to the family. If you would like to hear more about what our conservatories could offer your family then get in touch today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 6719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crsmith.co.uk/window-through-scotland/crieff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:56Z", "digest": "sha1:A4U6BDACERVEMEZFTXILWP7CDHTCAVJB", "length": 2384, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.crsmith.co.uk", "title": "Crieff - Conservatories and Conservatory", "raw_content": "wts-Easson-547758-crieff-edwardian-conservatory3-576x1024\nwts-Easson-547758-crieff-edwardian-conservatory2-1024x576\nCrieff \u2013 Conservatories and Double Glazing\nCrieff is the main town of Strathearn lying on the southern edge of the Scottish Highlands. It originally developed as an industrial hub and key trading centre, principally for cattle, at the crossing point of north-south routes.\nCrieff grew as a fashionable tourist resort during Victorian times when hotels, large villas and fine public parks were developed, catering for wealthy industrialists from the booming central belt. Modern Crieff remains a popular tourist destination with attractions such as Crieff Visitor Centre, Glenturret Distillery (Scotland\u2019s oldest) and hotels including the grand Victorian spa \u2013 Crieff Hydro.\nThis area is characterised by large, well-spaced villas set back from the street in often generous grounds with coped boundary walls, railings and gate-piers. While not the exclusive property type of the area, these traditional properties are certainly the main reason that Crieff centre is a designated conservation area.\nWhen considering home improvements it\u2019s important to make sure that the end result will actually add to the appearance, character and value of your home, be it traditional or modern.\nWhen our customers, the Eassons, decided upon a beautiful Lorimer conservatory we designed it to do just that. The Edwardian style mirrors the gable end of the house on which it is fitted and glass to floor windows across the front of their new living space means they can enjoy views into their garden, from the raised vista of the conservatory.\nEqually important to the Eassons was that the project was completed on time \u2013 ready for their daughter\u2019s wedding. They\u2019d already invited 24 guests to a garden party to celebrate, and the conservatory would form the hub for the bride and bridesmaids to prepare on the wedding day. \u201cWe can\u2019t sing CR Smith\u2019s praises enough!\u201d said the Eassons, who were blown away by the CR Smith service, with the conservatory being completed a whole ten days before the big day. This meant they could relax knowing there was plenty of space for everything to run smoothly.\nWhat\u2019s more, they were very impressed with the attention to detail, as the builders even re-slated an existing extension to bring it up to the same high standard as the new conservatory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 8297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=4167", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WDL6HPGRJ7CRTX3UKDUTESAY6F5DVF3Y", "length": 2016, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cruz.senate.gov", "title": "Cruz News: November 11, 2018 | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas", "raw_content": "Monday marked the first anniversary of the horrific attack on the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. One year ago, America mourned the 26 innocent lives taken by a madman that Sunday morning. But the light of providence shone through dark clouds. We celebrated the heroism of Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, who chased down and stopped the murderer. We prayed with the survivors, and their countrymen came together to offer aid and solace. We honored the strength and leadership of survivors like Pastor Frank Pomeroy, who lost his own daughter that terrible day, but summoned the grace and courage to comfort his congregation.\nThis Veterans Day, we pause to honor the selfless service and unyielding courage of the men and women of our Armed Forces. We say \u2018thank you\u2019 to every brave soldier, sailor, airman, marine, and coast guardsman who pledge themselves to the defense of our nation, our Constitution, and our way of life.\nThe Lone Star State is home to 1.6 million veterans, and our home has a rich tradition of military service. From Fort Bliss to Red River Army Depot, from Sheppard Air Force Base to Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas is proud to stand as a pillar in America\u2019s national security.\nToday, we especially honor the memory of millions of Americans, including 200,000 Texans, who served in World War I, a conflict of such devastation that its victorious end became a national holiday eventually dedicated to all Veterans: Armistice Day. On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month of 1918, the last guns of the Western Front went silent. One hundred years later, the sacrifice of those who sang \u2018we won't come back \u2018til it's over, over there\u2019 resounds across the ages, answered with gratitude and fond remembrance in every American heart.\nSen. Cruz issued a statement commemorating the first anniversary of the horrific attack on the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, and the resilience and courage shown by the community in the face of evil. Read more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4313", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MSICKSFAZJC4FGOPZSUK2CLYTB5ZNNRP", "length": 2064, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cruz.senate.gov", "title": "Sen. Cruz Reacts to the State of the Union Address on Fox News\u2019 \u2018Hannity\u2019 | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Following President Trump\u2019s State of the Union address, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on Fox News\u2019 \u2018Hannity\u2019 to discuss important issues to Texans mentioned in President Trump\u2019s speech including: border security, record-low unemployment, and national security interests. There, he also highlighted the Democratic Party\u2019s extreme leftist policies embracing socialism and late-term abortions.\n\u201cI thought it was a very strong speech,\u201d Sen. Cruz said to Sean Hannity. \u201cThe president started off with the incredible successes we\u2019ve seen in the past two years. The economic successes: the lowest unemployment in half a century, the lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment ever recorded, the lowest Asian American unemployment ever recorded, the lowest unemployment for people with disabilities. I mean it\u2019s a staggering record of results. He laid out the record of national security: rebuilding our military, defeating our enemies, defeating ISIS. And that is a testament to policies that work.\u201d\nSen. Cruz went on to call out Democratic hypocrisy over border wall funding.\n\u201cBack in 2013, Chuck Schumer and every single Democrat in the Senate voted in favor of 350 miles of border wall,\u201d Sen. Cruz said. \u201cJust a couple of weeks ago, Chuck Schumer and every Democrat in the Senate shut down the federal government to stop 234 miles of border wall. Explain to me how you vote for 350 miles and you force a government shutdown over 234 miles. And their position has been [to fund] not even one inch of border wall.\u201d\nWhen Hannity asked about the Democrats\u2019 reactions towards President Trump\u2019s praise of democracy, Sen. Cruz described their reactions.\n\u201cEvery Democrat who sat has just told their constituents they want America to be a socialist country,\u201d Sen. Cruz continued. \u201cMany of the other Democrats who stood, they want it also, but they will at least keep pretending for a little while longer. But they sorted the wheat from the chaff, as they say, and they did in front of the whole country.\u201d\nWatch Sen. Cruz\u2019s full interview here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crystalbeachlocalnews.com/john-david-kingfish-fischer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:34XQR6CF5RM4D4POSTOFCSLILZ45AJMR", "length": 8810, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.crystalbeachlocalnews.com", "title": "John David \u201cKingfish\u201d Fischer | Crystal Beach Local News, Get the latest Scoop on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, Resort community on the Gulf of Mexico", "raw_content": "John David \u201cKingfish\u201d Fischer\nFew men become legends in their lifetime\u2026 John David Fischer was just that. He was referred to by different nicknames over the years: the \u201cMaytown Rooster,\u201d \u201cWolfman Jack,\u201d and simply \u201cJacky\u201d to his family. But he will be remembered most as the \u201cKingfish\u201d because he was a king among men. He was known for many things, but he was unforgettable for his ability to fight and never give up, and his ability to love unconditionally.\nHe was born Sept. 25, 1935, in Sublette, Illinois, during the Great Depression. He was the son of John Howard and Pauline (Reniff) Fischer. He was the oldest of five siblings, Don Fischer, Susanne Considine, Linda Friel and Christine Vogel. The Kingfish learned to fight from his father, who had a temper and a fondness for drinking. He learned to love from his mother who was a nurse, and through her resilience and hard work, held the family together.\nThe Kingfish attended St. Anne, where he constantly was in trouble and often punished by the nuns. Later, he went to Amboy High School, but left school and earned his general equivalency diploma. Liking the water, he decided to join the Navy. That also didn\u2019t work out. Not wanting to be told what to do, the Kingfish would jump overboard and find himself in fights. Although it was said he never started a fight, he never backed down from one either. After he was asked to leave the Navy, he roamed across the U.S. and worked bluecollar jobs. He was restless and lost. He worked in the fields, on assembly lines, and in construction. He had more than 100 jobs. He didn\u2019t need to make much money, just enough to go honky tonkin\u2019. He was a handsome man, 6 feet tall, clear blue eyes, and long wavy hair. He was a pool shark, an amazing dancer, and did I mention he was a fighter? There are many stories that added to his legacy during this turbulent time, when he stole the Miller Lite truck\u037e when the police got him off the water tower\u037e when he was shot at, or when he got into a fight because the bartender wouldn\u2019t serve his black friend. He often fought and didn\u2019t always win, but never gave up. He would stay out all night and howl at the moon, but was never late for work.\nHe was a rebel without a cause until he met Shirley Ellen Russell. Shirley was a smalltown girl and single mom of four teenage kids \u2013 Michael McConnell, Kelly McConnellBrady, Christopher McConnell, and Patrick McConnell. When the Kingfish met Shirley, he fell madly in love. Shirley\u2019s friends asked her, \u201cWhat the hell do you see in that wild man?\u201d And she would reply, \u201cHe is not afraid to feel things. When he\u2019s happy, he laughs, and when he\u2019s sad, he cries.\u201d Shirley was in love too. They married Dec. 30, 1972, in Dixon Illinois. Now the Kingfish had something to fight for.\nSlowly, the Kingfish started to change. Suddenly he had four teenage \u201ccauses\u201d that went through 3 gallons of milk and 2 loaves of bread in a single weekend, and soon there was a baby, Jacquelyn FischerNoons, on the way. He cut his hippie hair, put down his pool cue, and bought a suit. He knew he couldn\u2019t take care of his new family with the jobs he had in the past, he also knew that he was not a corporate guy. Since he liked to have things done his way, he set about starting his own business.\nHis first taste of success was selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. Sales was a hard job, but a good job for a fighter. He started selling on his own, but soon he grew a small army of salesmen and became the factory distributor for the state. He loved being an entrepreneur and had a knack for sales because he knew how to talk to people. Unfortunately, the Kirby business was one of many businesses that he started that didn\u2019t work. Nevertheless, he didn\u2019t give up. In 1982, in search of opportunities, he moved to Houston, which was booming at the time. He found an apartment, and 6 months later, sent for Shirley and the only child still living at home, Jacky. With unwavering dedication, Shirley sold all the furnishings, packed up their personal things, and left her family, small town, and everything familiar behind to follow the man she loved.\nHouston was a long ways away from the idyllic small town by the river. Shortly after they arrived, Houston went through a recession. The new city did not deliver all of the hopes and dreams they had wished for, but he was broke and returning to their home wasn\u2019t an option. Being a fighter, the Kingfish dug his heels in to make it work. While Shirley supported the family on minimum wage, the Kingfish tried everything, from selling cigarette vending machines, to selling shrimp and fruit on the side of the road. After his attempt to build and sell wooden furniture had failed, he was left with a junky delivery truck and a stack of bills. Rich people go bankrupt, poor people go broke \u2026 the Kingfish was broke. At the age of 50, he was at the end of his line\u037e however, Shirley never stopped believing in him, so he never gave up. He decided to put an ad in the paper for moving services. He had hoped it would get the family by financially until he could think of something better. If he could just make a little money to pay the rent.\nHis moving company, 3 Men Movers, would grow into a multimillion dollar corporation. Even though he became wealthy and successful, he never forgot his struggles, and always was willing to help others \u2013 he was the coach in everyone\u2019s corner. He would lecture, motivate, and push them back into the ring of life to fight another round. He gave away millions of dollars to help his family, friends, and employees. Sometimes it was just to make ends meet, other times he would finance the down payment for a new home or help someone start their own business. Having been poor all their life, Shirley would worry that his big heart would cost him because at times people would take advantage of him. The Kingfish would say, \u201cI would rather be known for people taking advantage of me, than ever known for taking advantage of anyone,\u201d and that is the way he lived his life.\nIn 2003, he sold 3 Men Movers to his daughter and retired in Crystal Beach, Texas. Due to the core values he instilled in the business and his daughter, 3 Men Movers continues to thrive, and is now operating in the four largest cities in Texas, performing 30,000 moves a year.\nAfter retirement, the Kingfish began to transform again and became an old hippie. He grew out his hair and settled into life, enjoying books, music and most of all his grandchildren\u037e William McConnell, Shea Brady, Alexander Noons, Ruby McConnell, Katherine Noons, Joseph McConnell and Jessie McConnell. He was full of love and acceptance and still had the courage to speak out for his beliefs. Once, he was in a bar enjoying a drink, and a guy called him, \u201cA ni**er lover and a fa**ot lover!\u201d Being too old to punch the guy, which he would have done in his youth, the Kingfish shouted back, \u201cYou\u2019re goddamn right I am!\u201d Because even though the Kingfish didn\u2019t believe in God, he believed in good. He also preached, \u201cLove thy neighbor\u201d and clarified that these words didn\u2019t mean, \u201cOnly if your neighbor looks just like you.\u201d In 2015, he bought a home along the Rock River in the town he called home, Dixon Illinois, and his life slowed down. He and Shirley would have lunch at his favorite bar, the Alley Loop, and he would listen to music with his two dogs and look out at the river. He enjoyed visits from his family, who he loved dearly. Finally, the Kingfish didn\u2019t need to fight anymore, so now he just loved.\nToward the end, he developed Parkinson\u2019s disease. People thought it was from all the fighting he did early in his life. The disease made it hard for him to walk and on Aug. 21, 2016, he fell. The doctors in the intensive care unit tried to save him by hooking him up to machines and tying his arms down to keep him from pulling things out. But as you know, the Kingfish was a fighter \u2013 and nobody ties down the Kingfish. He fought for days against the restraints until the doctors finally said there was no hope and untied him. By then, tired from fighting his whole life, he settled into a deep sleep. They took him home and put him in bed facing the Rock River. In the wee hours of the 28th of August, his son, Patrick, whispered in his ear, \u201cYou are the Kingfish, the king of all the river fish,\u201d and the Kingfish smiled. Later that day, surrounded by love, he slipped away. Most people have never heard of the Kingfish, but those who met him will never forget him.\nA casual memorial service will be held on September 10th at 6pm the Brandywine, 441 IL Rt2 Dixon, Illinois 61021. There will also be a Houston service in November followed by a truck procession. Please don\u2019t wear black. In lieu of flowers and donations, get out and vote.\n\u00ab Catamarans set sail around the rig\nForever in my Heart \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 14148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 194.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.css.ch/en/home/ueber_uns/engagement/finanzielle_unterstuetzung/sponsoring.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2TMZJD7PGAUDLFT34YFDWTKPVABT67UW", "length": 387, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.css.ch", "title": "Sponsorship & partnership by CSS Insurance", "raw_content": "CSS Insurance takes an active interest in the health of its insured persons. That's why it is committed to sport \u2013 and grassroots sport above all \u2013 at both national and regional level. CSS has a presence at all of the events it supports, and is a major factor boosting their appeal.\nAt present, CSS is concentrating on its existing commitments and not entering into any new partnerships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 535, "original_length": 10318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 187.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/canada-s-loss-is-mexico-s-gain-when-it-comes-to-building-cars-1.2337692", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KXY654MGWWTIUSDCCVBULU63QV4G6HHA", "length": 5315, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.ctvnews.ca", "title": "Canada's loss is Mexico's gain, when it comes to building cars | CTV News | Autos", "raw_content": "Canada's loss is Mexico's gain, when it comes to building cars\nWorkers on the line at the GM Canada assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese)\nTom Krisher and Christopher Sherman, The Associated Press\nPublished Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:48PM EDT\nDETROIT -- Mexico has become the most attractive place in North America to build new automobile factories, a shift that has siphoned jobs from the U.S. and Canada, yet helped keep car and truck prices in check for consumers.\nLow labour costs and fewer tariffs are the swing factors. A worker in Mexico costs car companies an average of $8 an hour, including wages and benefits. That compares with $58 in the U.S. for General Motors and $38 at Volkswagen's factory in Tennessee, the lowest hourly cost in the U.S., according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think-tank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. German auto workers cost about $52 an hour.\nMexico also trumps the U.S. on free trade. It has agreements with 45 countries, meaning low tariffs for exporting globally. That, along with low labour costs, convinced Audi to build an SUV factory in the state of Puebla. The German automaker will save $6,000 per vehicle in tariffs when it ships a Q5 to Europe, compared with building the same vehicle in the U.S., says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at CAR.\nAudi also sells the Q5 in the U.S., where tariffs on cars built in Mexico were dropped under the North American Free Trade Agreement.\nThe cost savings also should allow automakers to add expensive fuel-saving features to meet stricter U.S. government gas mileage requirements without raising car prices. Two-thirds of cars made in Mexico are shipped to the U.S.\nWhile Mexico's auto industry booms and workers welcome the above-average wages, they are speaking out more loudly about working conditions.\nMexican auto production more than doubled in the past 10 years. The consulting firm IHS Automotive expects it to rise another 50 per cent to just under 5 million by 2022. U.S. production is expected to increase only 3 per cent, to 12.2 million vehicles, in the next 7 years.\nAutomakers now have 18 factories in Mexico, many built in the past 10 years. In four years, five more will be built, moving the country from the world's seventh-biggest auto producer to fifth.\nThe shift means jobs that could have gone to the U.S. or Canada went south. The number of auto-making jobs in Mexico has risen almost 40 per cent since 2008, from 490,000 to 675,000 last year, according to government and industry statistics. During the same period, U.S. auto manufacturing employment grew 15 per cent to nearly 903,000.\nToyota's new plant will create 2,000 new jobs, while Ford's $2.5 billion investment will add 3,800 jobs.\nFor Mexican workers, the plants \"originally appear like marvelous places because you can earn a salary in exchange for good work,\" says Huberto Juarez, a professor at the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Development at the Autonomous University of Puebla.\nSome Japanese automaker plants start workers at 90 to 150 pesos per day, or $6 to $10, Juarez says. Others, such as Volkswagen, have paid more than double that. Juarez says Mexico's auto-making wages are now below China, but better than Mexico's minimum wage of $4.50 per day.\nEven so, Juarez says workers probably will stay put. \"The big threat is always going to be unemployment. That's why they stay. Because you leave there and where are you going to go?\"\nInitially, automakers with Mexican factories faced quality problems due to an unskilled work force. But companies with longtime factories in Mexico, such as Ford and Nissan, have resolved those issues, according to McAlinden.\nDespite shipping costs, it's still cheaper to build cars for the U.S. in Mexico, McAlinden says.\nA U.S.-built Chevrolet Sonic subcompact costs about $700 more to make than a comparable Mexican-built Ford Fiesta, McAlinden says. That's even with a labour agreement at the Sonic factory in Michigan that allows 40 per cent of the workers to be paid lower wages than longtime union employees.\nThe United Auto Workers complain that companies building in Mexico are taking advantage of \"slave-like\" wages. \"American manufacturing workers could have had good paying jobs that respect basic human dignity,\" says UAW President Dennis Williams.\nStill, the auto industry's investments aren't limited to Mexico. Automakers poured $46 billion into improving U.S. factories from 2010 to 2014. U.S. auto-making employment grew 37 per cent during that time.\nFord pointed out that 80 per cent of its annual North American investments are in the U.S., where spending \"will continue at about the same sizeable level going forward.\"\nCar buyers should see benefits from lower costs in Mexico. U.S. government fuel-economy requirements call for raising mileage of the new car fleet to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The technologies needed, including turbocharged engines and multi-speed transmissions, are costly. And with gasoline just over $2 per gallon, buyers don't want to pay extra. So McAlinden says moving engine and transmission production to Mexico makes sense.\n\"There's no room for labour costs,\" he says.\nSherman reported from Mexico City. 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These elements combine to create the VF aesthetic: Timeless luxury with a modern, feminine twist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 2835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 143.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cwclaw.com/alert/subscription-auto-renewal-statute-in-california/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:N6FCP4NNHIQSWKHUD5YTPXVOUQX2MN6O", "length": 1736, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cwclaw.com", "title": "Subscription Auto-Renewal Statute in California | Cooper, White & Cooper LLP | Bay Area Legal Representation", "raw_content": "Subscription Auto-Renewal Statute in California\nThis alert provides an update on California\u2019s consumer subscription auto-renewal statute which has now been in effect for over a year. Auto-renewal subscription arrangements, which renew or continue until cancelled by the consumer, are permissible if they satisfy specific communications requirements under California\u2019s SB 340 (Business and Professions Code Section 17600), which is consistent with but more concrete and specific than Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requirements. The consumer\u2019s initial order or commitment to an auto-renewal purchase of goods or services must be preceded by required disclosures: that the subscription will continue until the consumer cancels; a description of the cancellation policy; the initial amount of the recurring subscription charge, and that it is subject to future change; the length of the auto-renewal term (e.g. one year); and any minimum purchase obligation (e.g. a one-year subscription). Such information must be \u201cclearly and conspicuously\u201d presented, and in \u201cvisual proximity\u201d (close by) any onscreen subscription offer or order button. The consumer must receive a written order acknowledgment \u201cthat is capable of being retained\u201d, such as a printable email, including an email address or toll-free telephone number for the seller offering an \u201ceasy-to-use mechanism for cancellation\u201d. The consumer must also be given a chance to cancel a free-trial service before being charged.\nThis auto-renewal law does not apply to a business operating under a local, state, CPUC or FCC certificate or franchise, or its affiliates, nor to insurance companies, banks, alarm company operators, and other regulated businesses. (Bus. & Prof. Code \u00a717605)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyprus-weather.com/article/first-casualty-from-the-continuous-heatwave.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UCWOWWOJY4XI5W3Y3HKKKVHYGVRHJJL4", "length": 1581, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cyprus-weather.com", "title": "First casualty from the continuous heatwave", "raw_content": "Cyprus | Posted: Friday, 20 July 2012 09:04 AM\nA 65-year-old woman died on Wednesday night in Nicosia from heat stroke, according to health ministry officials.\nShe is the first woman to have died as the result of the heatwave that has been ongoing for the last week.\n\u201cShe was taken to Nicosia General Hospital by ambulance where efforts were made to revive her but unfortunately she died,\u201d said Ioanna Grigoriou, from the health services.\nAccording to Grigoriou, the woman, who suffered from chronic health problems, was found at home alone by a relative who also tried to revive her.\n\u201cThe post-mortem, that took place this morning (yesterday), confirmed the diagnosis of heat stroke,\u201d added Grigoriou.\nYesterday there were two new cases of heat stroke \u2013 men aged 54 and 49 - bringing the total number hospitalised to nine in Limassol, Nicosia and Famagusta. However, Grigoriou reassured that they are all doing well. From the previous cases, two have already been discharged.\nMeanwhile, the Met Office said that temperatures will drop to 40C inland by today, 32-36C on the coast and 32C in the mountains. Meteorological officer Marios Theofilou said that these temperatures are still higher than the norm for the month which is 37C inland, 32C on the coast and 28 in the mountains.\nTemperatures will begin to drop by the weekend, he said.\nThe Labour Ministry issued an announcement yesterday saying that employees should not be exposed to the sun until after 4 pm. \u201cLight work can be done in a shady area wearing light clothes while also drinking plenty of cool water,\u201d they said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2018-19/contrib/20190206lzx7e8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LPB6F5CX5DFAK7IUQ7M4JOWSUN246QC4", "length": 3755, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.d3hoops.com", "title": "Fifth-ranked Tommies rally late to edge St. Olaf - D3hoops", "raw_content": "Fifth-ranked Tommies rally late to edge St. Olaf\nMore news about: St. Olaf\nNORTHFIELD, Minn. \u2013 The fifth-ranked University of St. Thomas closed the game on a 13-0 run to edge the St. Olaf College men's basketball team by an 85-78 margin to remain unbeaten in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play on Wednesday night at Skoglund Center.\nAfter trailing by as many as 23 points in the first half, St. Olaf (11-11, 10-7 MIAC) fought back to claim a 78-72 lead with 4:22 remaining in the game. However, St. Thomas (21-1, 17-0 MIAC) scored the game's final 13 points, including 11 from Anders Nelson, to escape with the victory and record its 21-straight win after a season-opening loss.\nDespite the loss, the Oles clinched their fifth berth in the MIAC Playoffs in the last six seasons with results elsewhere on the night. St. Olaf currently sits fifth in the MIAC standings, two games behind Augsburg and Bethel with three games remaining.\nJunior Troy Diggins Jr. shot 11-for-18 from the field on his way to a career-high 27 points and nine rebounds. Diggins Jr. was one of five Oles in double figures on the night. Senior Sam Stensgard scored a career-high 15 points off the bench and junior Noah Beck had 12 points and a career-high seven assists. Sophomore Dominic Bledsoe added 10 points, seven rebounds and six assists and senior Frank Delaney posted 10 points, five rebounds and three assists.\nThe Tommies scored the game's first 10 points over the opening two minutes and made their first eight shots from the field on their way to a 19-9 lead at the 15:32 mark of the first half. The Oles trimmed their deficit to six, 19-13, before a 21-4 run for St. Thomas gave the visitors a 40-17 lead with 8:41 to go before the break.\nThe Oles countered with a 12-0 run that included a pair of three-pointers from Stensgard to get within 11, 40-29, with 5:09 left in the half. After the Tommies pushed their lead back to 14, St. Olaf scored the final six points of the half, including a Stensgard jumper at the buzzer, to get within eight, 53-45, at the break.\nEarly in the second half, the Oles closed to within two, 55-53, with 15:44 on the clock after back-to-back three-pointers from Delaney and Diggins Jr. St. Thomas extended its lead back to seven a minute and a half later before Stengard eventually evened the game at 70-70 with 9:02 left with a layup.\nOn St. Olaf's next possession, Stensgard drained a three-pointer to give the Oles their first lead of the night, 73-70. St. Olaf took its biggest lead of the evening at 78-72 with 4:22 to go after consecutive layups from Bledsoe and Diggins Jr.\nWith the Tommies down by six, back-to-back layups by Nelson made it a two-point game before Riley Miller hit a three with 1:59 to go to put St. Thomas back ahead by one, 79-78. Another Nelson layup with 1:10 left made it an 81-78 lead for the Tommies and Nelson hit four-straight free throws to seal the victory. St. Olaf missed its final eight shots of the game after Diggins Jr.'s layup with 4:22 remaining.\nSt. Thomas shot 60.6 percent (20-for-33) from the field, including 60.0 percent (9-for-15) from behind the arc, in the opening half, but cooled off to 38.7 percent (12-for-31) overall and 16.7 percent (2-for-12) from long range in the second half.\nNelson led St. Thomas with 25 points, eight rebounds and five assists. The Tommies enjoyed a 38-18 advantage in bench points in the game, as Burt Hedstrom (13), Elijah Hannah (12) and Miller (11) each contributed double-digit points off the Tommie bench. Connor Bair chipped in with 10 points and five rebounds.\nSt. Olaf hosts No. 17 Saint John's University on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 3 p.m. The Oles will celebrate their five-man senior class prior to tipoff against the Johnnies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 5939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailybulletin.com/2018/11/14/inmate-dead-after-found-unresponsive-in-riverside-county-cell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:25Z", "digest": "sha1:L6YUZDYV3I7IZ72ZMTYAGJN5PKWX6B56", "length": 939, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.dailybulletin.com", "title": "Inmate dead after being found unresponsive in Riverside County cell \u2013 Daily Bulletin", "raw_content": "Inmate dead after being found unresponsive in\u2026\nInmate dead after being found unresponsive in Riverside County cell\nBy Robert Gundran | rgundran@scng.com |\nA man died Saturday after deputies found him unresponsive in his cell.\nThe Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department said a man was found unresponsive in his cell at around 10:30 p.m. at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside.\n\u201cDeputies and medical personnel in the jail initiated life-saving measures, and the inmate was transported to a local hospital, where he later died,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a Tuesday statement. Officials said the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department is investigating, and the identity of the man won\u2019t be released until after the family is notified.\nAnyone with additional information can contact the Jurupa Valley station of the sheriff\u2019s department at 951-955-2600.\nChino Valley Fire donates lifesaving equipment, training to local church", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 5949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6613221/Girl-14-cry-help-social-media-ending-life.html?fbclid=IwAR21u4exD_8OyqOphZ_yqUBhZFvKRKYn9EY7Ee_LDD_9YryRcP6mlgXVRxM", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:59Z", "digest": "sha1:YAOKGQETEP3IAVQZ6J3ODCYZKCUU2P4W", "length": 4522, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.dailymail.co.uk", "title": "Girl, 14, made cry for help on social media before ending her life | Daily Mail Online", "raw_content": "'Once I'm gone the bullying will stop': Young girl's heartbreaking cry for help on Facebook just hours before the 14-year-old took her own life\nRochelle Pryor, from Perth made cry for help on social media before death\nThe 14-year-old wrote: 'Once I'm gone, the bullying and the \u00adracism will stop'\nOnly one friend replied and later her father found her unconscious in bedroom\nThe youngster was the fifth Aboriginal girl to end her life in just nine days\nRochelle Pryor, from Perth, took her own life after a cry for help on social media\nA 14-year-old Aboriginal girl posted a cry for help on social media before she took her own life just hours later.\nRochelle Pryor, from Perth, wrote: 'Once I'm gone, the bullying and the \u00adracism will stop.'\nOnly one friend replied and later that night her father Geoffrey found her unconscious in her bedroom.\nThe schoolgirl died in hospital nine days later on January 10, making her the fifth Aboriginal girl to take her own life in the past two weeks.\nHer sister Kyanne described her as 'sweet, happy and funny' but said she was worried that her friends had 'turned against her' and said she was being bullied.\n'She was really upset by it,' Kyanne, 17, told The Australian. 'There was racism involved - a lot of the time it was just random people who don't \u00adrealise what they're saying.'\nIn August, Rochelle was involved in an altercation outside the school gates and came home with cuts on her legs.\nHer mother said after that she didn't want to go in to school anymore and her mental health went downhill.\nFriends paid tribute to the youngster, who loved animals and one day dreamed of going to university.\nThe schoolgirl died in hospital nine days after her cry for help on January 10, making her the fifth Aboriginal girl to commit suicide in the past two weeks (file image)\nOne fellow student wrote on Instagram: 'My vision is so blurry from my tears \u2026 come back please.\n'The last day we were talking about what colour you should dye your hair and you were thinking about\u2026 blue or purple.\n'If I knew that was your last day, I would do anything to stop you. I remember telling you whenever you weren't in the right mindset I would repeat telling you 'I'm always here for you'.'\nAboriginal suicide crisis: A timeline\nJANUARY 3: Girl, 15, from Western Australia self-harms in Queensland and dies two days later.\nJANUARY 4: Girl, 12, kills herself in Western Australia.\nJANUARY 6: Girl, 14, takes her own life in the Northern Territory.\nJANUARY 10: Girl, 15, dies from suicide in Perth.\nJanuary 11: Girl, 12, kills herself in a community near Adelaide.\nThe recent wave of suicides affecting the Aboriginal community include three cases in Western Australia, one in Queensland and one in South Australia.\nIn addition, a 12-year-old boy was treated in hospital in Brisbane after a suicide attempt.\nThe five most recent cases began on January 3 when a 15-year-old from Western Australia who was visiting relatives in Queensland was admitted to hospital after self harming. She died two days later as a result of her injuries.\nOn January 4, in South Hedland in Western Australia, a 12-year-old girl took her own life, while two days later on January 6, a 14-year-old girl in the Kimberley region of the Northern Territory also died from suicide.\nHead of the Federal Government's indigenous critical response team Gerry Georgatos said that poverty was a major factor in the deaths but that sexual assaults were behind one-third of cases.\nMan, 21, is charged with murder after sister visited her... 'I\u2019m NOT sorry': Driver leaves behind a disgusting, racist...\nIndigenous lawyer Hannah McGlade, who has advised the UN High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, said there is a clear link between child sexual assault, family violence, and the high levels of indigenous girls and women who were taking their own lives.\n'Last year the UN highlighted the level of violence against indigenous women and girls in Australia and called for a specific national action plan,' Dr McGlade told The Australian.\n'The people funded to provide suicide prevention plans are not properly addressing the level of sexual violence suffered by our women and girls.'\nIf you need help call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or www.lifeline.org.au. Kids Helpline - 1800 55 1800.\nAn alarming number of young Indigenous girls have taken their own lives during the past few months, with five committing suicide in just nine days (file image)\nwww.theaustralia...\nGirl, 14, made cry for help on social media before ending her life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 620, "original_length": 70805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datlenluthiery.com/contact-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LRGQ34RGRDD2GCZZML43EP5TI7QJZOMG", "length": 65, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.datlenluthiery.com", "title": "Contact \u2014 Datlen Luthiery", "raw_content": "Thank you for contacting me. I will return your message promptly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dauntseys.org/life-at-dauntseys/performing-arts/music/concerts-and-recitals", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6D4BMALQ75G5QMPZPTFF7NX5DZYRUSW", "length": 1398, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dauntseys.org", "title": "Concerts and recitals - Dauntsey's School Wiltshire", "raw_content": "With 19 school ensembles, ranging from jazz and folk to choirs, a dance band and orchestras, plus 18 bands who perform at our annual RockFest and our big musical productions, around 60 per cent of pupils are actively involved in music.\nNumerous concerts and recitals are presented, at varying levels of formality, throughout the year, enabling individuals and ensembles to have appropriate targets to work towards. Participating in a concert helps pupils to get to know people from different parts of the School. It is common to see a Lower School student performing alongside one of our Sixth Formers, working together as equals. What matters is ability and experience.\nMusic has a role to play beyond the classroom. It crosses all borders, languages and cultures, develops teamwork and builds a sense of community.\ndirector of music, gareth harris\nBoth listening to music and playing an instrument stimulate the brain, improve concentration and help to develop listening and social skills. Singing, in particular, improves breathing and mood, which is invaluable when faced with the stresses of academic work.\nEnhanced mathematical skills have also been observed in many advanced musicians and those children with a good musical ear can often pick up languages more quickly as they recognise and learn the different tones in a foreign language more quickly than children without musical training.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 6300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidboulton.co.uk/_photo_7497979.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:KE66LTPLNWZ3LRQRJMB2PHH3HRASTLWH", "length": 532, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.davidboulton.co.uk", "title": "David Boulton Photography: Wildlife in our Gardens", "raw_content": "Wildlife in our Gardens\n...illustrates the amazing variety of wildlife that you can have in your garden. The talk includes, butterflies, moths, bees, hoverflies, spiders, birds, and animals, plus a variety of plants that are good for wildlife. A garden pond will also attract much more wildlife into your garden including frogs...and other wildlife that is attracted to water...like the dragonflies.\nA sample of photographs from this talk can be seen by visiting various Galleries on \"Amphibians, Butterflies, Flowers, Dragonflies\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidgagne.net/tags/icons/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4QLXRZJHK2PCZLJR6MTWQ754N2VCRURA", "length": 740, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.davidgagne.net", "title": "icons | davidgagne.net", "raw_content": "Posts tagged \u201cicons\u201d\nHow to change icons in Mac OS X November 22nd, 2008 @ 7:34 pm PST\nWant to change your Dock icons in Mac OS X? It\u2019s pretty simple, if not obvious. Here\u2019s how: Find the icon you want to use and copy it (Cmd+C). Find the application for which you want to use this new icon in Finder\u2019s \u201cApplication\u201d folder. Right-click the application and choose \u201cGet Info\u201d. Select the existing [\u2026]\nBlogData May 6th, 2002 @ 11:59 am PST\nAre you using MovableType to manage your blog? If so, you might be interested in the tutorial I just added to my Works in Progress blog \u2013 How to Add a \u201cBlogData\u201d Footer to Each Post. 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The College community has a close relationship with the De La Salle communities in Pakistan, often fundraising to support the missionary work they do in their schools.\nKhushpur, is situated in one of the largest Christian villages in Pakistan, home to approximately 600 families with 80% of them reliant on farming and agriculture for their livelihood.There is a very high level of poverty in the area and poor access to basic infrastructures and utilities, such as roads are unsealed and access to power and running water is very intermittent. Many of the religious priests, nuns, and brothers serving the Church in Pakistan have come from Khushpur.\nBr Moon was taken on a tour of the College and was suitably impressed with Casimir's facilities and the friendships of the students. 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It was then that Brian met Ian Restall, who was a broker in the City at the time and subsequently the founder, editor and publisher of the USM magazine.\nBrian continued to champion smaller companies and helped the LSE establish the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in 1995. Ian founded the AIM Awards, mirroring the success of the PLC Awards, created ten years prior, and their relationship grew.\nIn unstable trading conditions, Brian started a firm of his own and Winterflood Securities (WINS) was born. Brian had always fought against the \u201csnobbery in the City\u201d and was a pillar of strength, willing to speak his mind and stand his ground against the elite corporate financier departments. WINS was sold to Close Brothers for \u00a319m in 1993.\nBrian\u2019s tenure as Life President of the Securities Industry Management Association (SIMA) and President of the Quoted Companies Alliance creates an impressive legacy.\nHe was rewarded in 2012 for his service to the securities industry when he was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE).\nAs we enter into another period of global financial, economic and political uncertainty it does concern most that the Stock Exchange could be repositioned in Frankfurt and accounted for in Euros. Somewhat reassuringly, Brian stated:\n\u201cBrexit has made \u2013 and continues to make \u2013 for interesting times, but I believe we can always stand alone and still be great.\u201d\nIt was an emotional day for our own Chairman, Ian Restall, who has known Brian for the best part of 45 years:\n\u201cBrian is both a wonderful person and a tough nut and I\u2019m privileged to have known him, and his wife Doreen, for such a large part of my working life. The City will not see his like again, and I wish him and Doreen many more years of happiness together.\u201d\nThis year Brian celebrates his 80th year and often describes himself as \u201cthe luckiest man in the world\u201d. 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The movie starring Anisur Rahman Milon, Kazi Maruf and Bobby created a buzz through its trailer being aired in TV and social networking sites.\nThe manager of Balaka Cinema Hall informed the Dhaka Tribune: \u201cThe film \u2018Dehorakkhi\u2019 is doing good business. Every day in every show there is more than an ample crowd is gathering to watch the film.\u201d Similar report has been received from Ziaul Islam, owner of Monihar cinema hall in Jessore. Bogra\u2019s Noor Nabi, manager of Sonia cinema hall, said: \u201cDehorokkhi was quite successful until the interruption caused by the strikes.\u201d\nDirector of the film Iftekhar Chowdhury, came to the limelight with his very first film \u201cKhoj- the Search,\u201d unveiled some attention-grabbing facts of the movie in an interview with Dhaka Tribune.\nWhat were you expecting from this film? Was the film able to meet your expectations?\n\u201cWell, this is my second film and it is also a big budget film\u2014both the factors are crucial for me. We released \u2018Dehorokkhi\u2019 in 70 movie theatres at the same time.The film has been running successfully for 2 weeks now, and the sales report suggests that business is getting better, something that is unheard of at this time in the film industry. I want to thank everyone for the support and love they showed for my film \"Dehorokkhi\u201d. Special thanks to the fans who are always the key factor in fulfilling my expectations. The film is coming to Cineplex very soon and to the world market as well.\u201d\nWhat is the story of this film?\n\u201cIt is a romantic action film. An underworld don (Anisur Rahman Milon) hires a bodyguard (Kazi Maruf) to protect the love of his life Sohana (Bobby). But the bodyguard is unaware of the fact that the blissfully feminine Sohana is held as a captive against her will. It\u2019s a complete motion package of love, hate and action.\u201d\nThe film has a flavor of the trend set by M A Jalil Ananta. Are you really influenced by him?\n\u201cNo, not at all, Ananta and I both started our career with the same film but this is a completely different movie. I think our film industry should move forward to compete in the international market. So, I made a movie which can be of interest to the foreign viewers as well.\u201d\nWhy choosing such an uncommon cast?\n\u201cI wanted my film to catch everyone\u2019s attention; therefore I chose stars from different platforms for the three leading characters. Anisur Rahman Milon is one of the popular faces on television while Kazi Maruf is popular among the regular cinema goers. 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Previously, I was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nTravel: Upcoming Travel & Past Adventures.\nResearch: My research is about combinatorial structures that arise in the study of algebraic varieties and the leveraging of these structure to establish new results in algebraic geometry.\nOut in the World: My work was the subject of this popular science article in Quanta Magazine, and this follow up. You can play a fun game based on things in that article here and Holly explained the game in this video. If you feel like getting into it a bit more, check out Katz's nice Notices article.\nTeaching: During the Easter term at Cambridge I'll be teaching metric and topological spaces.\nStudent Research: You can read about the work of undergraduates who have worked with me here.\nI firmly believe these axioms laid out by Federico Ardila.\nI am proud to support the music and work of Anna Magdalena Kokits. 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It is intended as a means of establishing a minimum acceptable level of durability. The test is applicable to any geotextile and geotextile-related product susceptible to hydrolysis, in particular polyester and polyamide based materials, and in addition to the yarns from which these geotextiles are made. Reinforcing materials shall be tested without the coating and manufacturers shall ensure that the degradation of the coating will not attack or have any negative influence on the degradation of the yarns. This method is not intended for determining the resistance of geotextiles to hydrolysis under highly acid or alkaline conditions. NOTE Performance tests to predict long-term lifetime or to compare products of different polymers or of similar polymers with differing structures can be based on the same method but with a wider range of temperatures and durations.\n59.080.70 (Geotextiles Including geosynthetics)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.douglascollege.ca/shift", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WMQ23CQI33VK53VZCJTUQ7ARWBBR5MQU", "length": 8156, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.douglascollege.ca", "title": "SHIFT: Let's talk gender violence - Douglas College", "raw_content": "Douglas College > SHIFT: Let's talk gender violence\nSHIFT: Let's talk gender violence\nSept. 24-28 New Westminster Campus\n> About SHIFT\nSHIFT is a weeklong event that puts a spotlight on the issue of gender violence, including such topics as masculinity, intimate partner violence, legacies of colonialism and rape culture. Through film and dialogue, students and community members will have the opportunity to engage in a positive discussion on these issues. At the end of the week, a panel discussion will explore the role of the community, including colleges and universities, in acknowledging and addressing gender violence on campus and within our community.\nFunding is provided in part by the Douglas College Faculty-Wide Professional Development Fund.\n> Sept. 24 Virtual Reality Documentary: Highway of Tears\nHighway of Tears (2015) is a virtual reality documentary about the notorious murders and disappearances of mainly Indigenous women between 1969 and 2011 on Highway 16 in British Columbia.\nThe film is four minutes long and viewed through a virtual reality headset. In addition to the film viewing, there will be informative materials and resources on hand, as well as a reading nook with related literature for those who wish to learn more about the Highway 16 cases.\nMonday, Sept. 24, 2018 | 12:30 \u2013 4:30pm (drop-in anytime)\nNew Westminster Campus, Concourse (fishbowl)\n> Sept. 25 Film Screening: Maple: A Documentary\nMaple: A Documentary is a documentary about Maple Batalia, a 19-year-old Simon Fraser University student who was brutally murdered by an ex-boyfriend near the SFU Surrey campus in September 2011.\nThe documentary is 47 minutes and will be followed by a moderated discussion and question-and-answer session with Jasleen Kaur, the film\u2019s director.\nTuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 | 7:00 \u2013 9:00pm\nNew Westminster Campus, Aboriginal Gathering Place\nRegister: https://shift-gender-violence.eventbrite.ca\n> Sept. 26 Film Screening: The Mask You Live In\nThe Mask You Live In is a documentary that follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while navigating America\u2019s narrow definition of masculinity. Research shows that, compared to girls, boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behavior disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail school, binge drink, commit a violent crime or take their own lives.\nThis documentary is 97 minutes long and will be followed by a moderated discussion.\nWednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 | 7:00 \u2013 9:30pm\n> Sept. 27 Film Screening: Luk\u2019Luk\u2019I\nLuk\u2019Luk\u2019I presents a complex portrait of five Vancouverites living on the fringes of society during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The film delves into uncharted territory, blending compelling fiction with lamentable reality.\nThis film is 90 minutes long and will be followed by a moderated discussion and question-and-answer session with Angel, one of the participants in the film.\nThursday, Sept. 27, 2018 | 7:00 \u2013 9:00pm\nLuk'Luk'I (Official Trailer) from Wayne Wapeemukwa on Vimeo.\n> Sept. 28 Panel Discussion\nViolence against Women: Divisiveness, Power and Control, the Legal Landscape and the Role of Men\nWhen we think of issues such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, domestic and dating violence, stalking and human trafficking, there is a tendency to think of them as \u201cwomen\u2019s issues,\u201d crime that happens to women, impacts primarily women and that women talk about. But gender violence is not just a woman\u2019s issue; it is a public health issue and a human rights issue that impacts everyone. Keynote speaker Adrienne Murray will dispel common myths about sexual harassment and non-stranger sexual assault and explain the existing divisiveness within our culture that puts men against women in framing the conversation around gender violence. She will discuss the role of men and the importance of their involvement in changing the narrative, the current legal landscape for victims in North America and what we can all do within our communities to change the story. After the keynote address, Murray will moderate a conversation with the panel speakers on what the community, including colleges and universities, can do to facilitate a positive shift in acknowledging and tackling the issue of gender violence.\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER & MODERATOR\nAdrienne Murray is a veteran law enforcement officer specializing in support, advocacy and investigation services for victims of sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence. Murray began her 17-year career in law enforcement with the City of Richmond in Virginia, before transitioning to the University of Richmond Police Department and serving as Chief of Police at both Davidson College in North Carolina and Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. Murray is a member of the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP) and the Executive Director of Training and Compliance Activities at D. Stafford & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in campus safety and security \u2013 including sexual misconduct response and investigation \u2013 for North American post-secondary institutions.\nKasari Govender is the Executive Director of West Coast LEAF (Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund), and has represented the organization on equality rights cases at all levels of court. She taught law at the University of British Columbia, is the founding President of Rise Women\u2019s Legal Centre and a member of the University of Victoria\u2019s Board of Governors. She speaks regularly on access to justice, women\u2019s equality and legal responses to gender-based violence. Govender earned her Master\u2019s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.\nHarlan Pruden is a board member for Qmunity, the home for Vancouver's LGBTQ2S+ community, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Vancouver Public Library, and a representative to the International Indigenous Peoples Working Group on HIV/AIDS. Harlan is an educator with the BC Center for Disease Control\u2019s Chee Mamuk (Indigenous public health program) and the Managing Editor of Two-SpiritJournal.com. Harlan co-founded New York City's NorthEast Two Spirit Society and served as the principal Two-Spirit consultant for Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center and Trans Care BC. Harlan served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) as advisor to the Secretary of Health & Human Services and the White House. Harlan is a proud member of the Cree Nation of northeastern Alberta.\nLisa Smith is an instructor in the Department of Sociology at Douglas College. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Carleton University. Her research centers on gender, youth and sexuality, gender-based violence and community activism and engagement. Smith\u2019s work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed publications and edited collections, including Studies in the Maternal, Social Compass and Girlhood Studies. She has worked as a research consultant for many years in the not-for-profit and community sectors, particularly within the areas of youth, gender and health. Smith is co-investigator with McGill University\u2019s IMPACTS project, which addresses sexual violence on campus, and a member of the college-wide committee at Douglas that developed the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Prevention and Response policy. She has played a supportive role in developing training and programming for students around consent and active-bystander training.\nChloe Garcia is a student at McGill University, a senior research assistant and the lead PhD mentor for the IMPACTS team, a project that aims to understand and dismantle rape culture in universities. Garcia is a member of the Committee for the Implementation of the Policy Against Sexual Violence at McGill University, which reviews and seeks to improve the current reporting processes and support services. Her PhD research investigates how online media teaches about sexual violence and sexual consent, and youth perceptions of YouTube videos as tools for sexuality education in the 21st century.\nFriday, Sept. 28, 2018 | 7:00 \u2013 9:00pm\nNew Westminster Campus, Laura C. Muir Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 16290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 154.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dovesharprudicel.com/notices/Charles-Briner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ET4TBE672TJ3Z4NEEPRYR6HEO5OK3S6E", "length": 1587, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dovesharprudicel.com", "title": "Obituary for Charles Armand \"Sonny\" Briner | Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Charles Armand \"Sonny\" Briner\nCharles Armand \u201cSonny\u201d Briner, 75, of Indianapolis, passed away at 9:00 p.m. on Monday, September 24, 2018, at his residence.\nBorn August 24, 1943, in Indianapolis, Mr. Briner was the son of the late Charles Kurtz and Helen Charlotte (Mastenik) Briner. He married his first wife, Pamela Sue Green, on December 16, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana; she preceded him in death on May 12, 2009. He married his second wife, Jilayne L. Geyer Royce, on May 3, 2012 in Indianapolis; she survives.\nMr. Briner was a 1961 graduate of Southport High School and attend University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. He worked in shipping and receiving for Horner Electric in Indianapolis for 20 plus years, retiring in 2016. He enjoyed fishing and the Indianapolis Colts Football.\nSurviving with his wife, Jilayne Royce, of Indianapolis is a son, Dustin Fitzpatrick of Greenwood; daughter, Jessica (James) Bauer of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; brother, Robert (Sherry) Briner of Indianapolis; grandchildren, Seth Bauer, Jesse Bauer, and DaNica Bauer, all of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Brylan Fitzpatrick, Millie Fitzpatrick, Jaxxon Fitzpatrick, and Jamisyn Fitzpatrick, all of Greenwood, Indiana.\nHe was preceded in death by his parents and first wife, Pamela.\nThe funeral service will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 28, 2018, at Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home and Cremation Services. Family and Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday, September 28, 2018, from 11:00 a.m. until time of service. Burial will be in the Baldwin Cemetery in Vernon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 163.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drcarney.com/science/body-systems/digestive", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUI4OL53R2SVFVWOADH5ARO35HFJ3BTB", "length": 3106, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.drcarney.com", "title": "Digestive", "raw_content": "A Prospective Study of Cigarette Smoking and the Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Women.\nInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Digestive\n\u200bWomen who are cigarette smokers are more likely to develop inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, than those who have never smoked a stick of cigarette.\nDietary intake and risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review of the literature.\nInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Digestive Fruits High Fat Vegetables High Fiber\nAdequate intake of fruits, fiber, and vegetables may help protect individuals from inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease.\nConsumption of vegetables and fruit and the risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis.\nInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Digestive Fruits Vegetables\nHigh consumers of fruits and vegetables are less likely to develop inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease.\nMeat intake and risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis.\nInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Digestive Flesh\nGenerous intake of meat may increase inflammatory bowel disease risk.\nThe role of tomato products and lycopene in the prevention of gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.\nStomach Cancer Oncology Digestive Lycopene Tomatoes\nIndividuals with high dietary intake of foods rich in lycopene, such as tomatoes, may have lower risk of stomach cancer.\nStomach Cancer Oncology Digestive Stomach Soy Foods Fermented Soy Natural Soy\nFrequent consumption of fermented soy foods may increase an individual\u2019s chances of developing stomach cancer.\nThe role of tomato products and lycopene in the prevention of gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies.\nStomach Cancer Oncology Digestive Stomach\nHigh intake of tomatoes and lycopene-rich foods may reduce the likelihood of developing stomach cancer.\nAssociation between habitual dietary salt intake and risk of gastric cancer: a systematic review of observational studies.\nHigh dietary intake of salt may increase stomach cancer development risk. This study assessed the correlation between habitual consumption of salty foods and gastric (stomach) cancer risk. Researchers systematically reviewed 10-year old data on salt intake and gastric cancer odds ratio of 2,076498 subjects extracted from 4 cohort and 7 case-control studies. They found a...\nCruciferous vegetable intake and gastric cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.\nStomach Cancer Oncology Digestive Stomach Cruciferous Vegetables\nGenerous consumption of cruciferous vegetables may reduce stomach cancer risk.\nStomach cancer is more likely to occur in individuals who regularly consumed salt processed foods, such as salted meat and pickled vegetables, than in rare and non-consumers of these foods.\nDairy product consumption and gastric cancer risk: a meta-analysis.\nStomach Cancer Oncology Digestive Stomach Dairy Milk\nIndividuals who regularly consumed dairy products, such as milk, butter, and margarine, may have a high tendency to develop stomach cancer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 606, "original_length": 13234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/screwups-by-jamie-fessenden-3676-b", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XCHEK6MVUHR2EOTEIKSQVL5V5AILTJLY", "length": 1020, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.dreamspinnerpress.com", "title": "Screwups by Jamie Fessenden | Dreamspinner Press", "raw_content": "In 1996, Jake Stewart is starting his third year at the University of New Hampshire. Even as a successful business major, he is absolutely miserable. Not only is Jake pursuing a field he hates when he\u2019d rather study art, he is utterly terrified of what will happen if his father finds out he\u2019s gay. When he finally gets up the courage to move into the creative arts dorm on campus, his new roommate, Danny, is openly gay\u2014and there\u2019s no denying the attraction between them.\nDanny Sullivan has been out since high school, and he appears comfortable with his sexuality. But something happened in Danny\u2019s past\u2014something that gives him nightmares he refuses to talk about. Unknown to Jake, the way he mistreated his friend, Tom Langois, when Tom came out to him in high school, is mild compared to the way someone very much like Jake treated Danny.\nIt may be too late to fix the mess Jake made with Tom, but if Jake wants to be with Danny, he\u2019s going to have to fix the mess made by another closeted jock he\u2019s never even met.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 2811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drikpanchang.com/muhurat/choghadiya.html?date=14/01/2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TTLXOEYATLBINCLONPJ5KXYSR4MSMVTB", "length": 135, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.drikpanchang.com", "title": "January 14, 2019 Choghadiya, Chogadia, Chaughadia, Choghadiya Table for New Delhi, NCT, India", "raw_content": "08:37 AM to 09:55 AMKaal Vela\n03:06 PM to 04:23 PMVaar Vela\n10:48 PM to 12:30 AM, Jan 15Kaal Ratri\n12:30 AM, Jan 15 to 02:12 AM, Jan 15", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 9877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 124.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.durhamworldheritagesite.com/architecture/cathedral/intro/neville-screen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:46Z", "digest": "sha1:S73RFI2M7EEFHSPEJLOWKXOX6C6HKUYW", "length": 1940, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.durhamworldheritagesite.com", "title": "Neville Screen - Durham World Heritage Site", "raw_content": "The Neville Screen\nThe Neville Screen is so visually appealing as a piece of gothic architecture that it is easy to overlook the fact that its 107 sculptures, hidden during the Reformation, would probably have been its pieces de resistance. Empty pedestals like the one shown here are a reminder of its original design.\nThe gift of Lord John Neville who is buried in the Cathedral among with other members of his family, the Neville Screen was commissioned for Durham Cathedral from Henry Yevele \u2013 the most renowned master mason in England at the time. It is reported to have cost 500 marks.\nThe screen was manufactured in London using stone that probably came from Caen in France. It was then packed in crates and sent by sea to Newcastle. From there, it was taken to Durham by wagon and erected in 1380 \u2013 a process which took seven masons almost a year of work.\nHow the Screen Looked in 1380\nImpressive as a fine piece of gothic sculpture, the screen is today bereft of the 107 statues that would have once been its most striking features.\nDuring the Reformation, these were removed by the monks of Durham to prevent their destruction. They were probably hidden somewhere for safekeeping, but have never been found.\nHistoric accounts mention that a statue of the Virgin was to be found on the central pedestal, flanked by St Cuthbert and St Oswald (under the two other spires).\nOriginally, the screen would have brightly painted and gilded.\nThe Nevilles were a notable local family whose name is indelibly etched in Durham's history due to their role in the English victory of 1346 against the Scots, tellingly known as the battle of Neville's Cross. The screen earned the then Lord Neville, John, the privilege of being buried inside the Cathedral nave, a rare honour.\nView of the Neville Screen, a masterpiece both in terms of design and execution.\nYou are in: Home \u00bb Architecture \u00bb Durham Cathedral \u00bb Areas of Interest \u00bb Neville Screen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/cba_resolution", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LEUY63SPS362ZBY7AO657IDGRF2KNEC3", "length": 2073, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.dyingwithdignity.ca", "title": "Lawyers' group urges 'harmonized' system for assisted dying - Dying With Dignity Canada", "raw_content": "Lawyers' group urges 'harmonized' system for assisted dying\nThe largest organization representing Canadian lawyers has come out with a strong statement urging the federal and provincial governments to create rules for assisted dying that would be consistent across the country.\nAt its annual national conference last weekend, members of the Canadian Bar Association, which represents more than 37,000 legal professionals, voted in favour of a resolution urging Ottawa and the provinces to pass new legislation in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s February ruling in Carter v. Canada. The decision, which will come into effect on Feb. 6, 2016, struck down this country\u2019s Criminal Code ban on assisted dying and set out guidelines for who will be legally eligible to die with the help of a doctor.\nThe CBA resolution calls for both levels of government to enact \u201charmonized legislation\u201d that establishes \u201cclear pathways for timely access to physician-assisted dying\u201d and \u201cprocedural safeguards that protect individuals who seek physician-assisted dying but do not impose unreasonable restrictions that would prevent those meeting the [Supreme Court of Canada] criteria from accessing physician-assisted dying.\u201d\nAlso in the resolution is a call for \u201ca system of oversight that ensures meaningful retrospective review of cases and the collection and public reporting of data on physician assisted dying in Canada.\u201d\nRelated: DWD Canada welcomes new Ontario-led panel on assisted dying\nThe CBA vote came less than a week after 11 of Canada\u2019s provinces and territories announced they had struck their own expert panel to research possible legislative responses to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.\n\u201cWe are delighted to see the provinces take comprehensive and compassionate leadership on this critical human rights issue,\u201d said Wanda Morris, CEO of Dying With Dignity Canada, on Friday. \u201cIt is very refreshing to see movement from government leaders that puts the needs and concerns of patients first.\u201d\nThe resolution is available for download on the Canadian Bar Association's website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/richard-carrick/works/in-flow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:YP7VANECBFXH645KZBHTALITXZ6ZP6QK", "length": 456, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eamdc.com", "title": "PSNY: Richard Carrick - \"in flow\"", "raw_content": "\"in flow\"\nApril 6, 2006; Either/Or Spring Festival; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY; Andrea Schultz, violin\n\u201cin flow\u201d, the opening work of my hour long Flow Cycle for Strings, explores gradual shifts in color and expressivity in a constantly moving and evolving musical thread. The music contains an equal emphasis on both long, evolving gestures and the local push-pull of motifs. This piece was written for Andrea Schultz, to whom it is dedicated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/05/27/walnut-creek-is-quite-the-spot-for-sports-agents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:D2RNE3RGM6U27WYYDQ5VI4HWBWRPE2QA", "length": 4269, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.eastbaytimes.com", "title": "Walnut Creek is quite the spot for sports agents \u2013 East Bay Times", "raw_content": "Walnut Creek is quite the spot for sports agents\nA shiny black limousine slows to a stop on Broadway in Walnut Creek, a few steps from a curbside ATM. The black-suited driver gets out, walks around the front of the car and opens the rear passenger-side door.\nFirst, a size-18 Reebok emerges, followed by spiky black hair that ascends seemingly to the heavens. It\u2019s Houston Rockets\u2019 7-foot-6 center Yao Ming. He needs some cash.\n\u201cPeople were going crazy,\u201d said Bill Duffy, Yao\u2019s agent. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t believe he was there.\u201d\nOne might be surprised how many sports stars he or she might come across in Walnut Creek. Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Marcus Trufant. Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Freddy Sanchez and Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony. New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck and Texas Rangers center fielder Josh Hamilton.\nThey highlight a list of professional athletes who\u2019ve made their way to Walnut Creek. The city is home to three major sports agencies, making it an unusual destination for many professional football, basketball and baseball players.\nDuffy\u2019s agency, BDA Sports, which represents professional basketball players, is located on Ygnacio Valley Road.\nThe football division of sports representation giant Octagon makes its home on North California Boulevard.\nSosnick Cobbe Sports, the baseball agency popularized by the book \u201cLicense to Deal,\u201d operates on Bancroft Road.\n\u201cIt is very weird to have all these agencies here,\u201d Octagon agent Doug Hendrickson said. \u201cVery bizarre.\u201d\nAll three find the comforts of Walnut Creek appealing. Its mellow disposition and upscale aura form the perfect backdrop for where the sports and corporate worlds meet.\nThe location is far enough from Oakland and San Francisco to escape the congestion and pollution, yet close enough to take advantage of their treats.\nOr, the agents can stay in Walnut Creek. They can indulge their clients \u2014 many of whom are used to the finer things in life \u2014 in restaurants such as Crosby\u2019s, nightlife stops such as Crogan\u2019s and shopping venues such as Broadway Plaza.\nBut perhaps the best benefit is the proximity to local universities. The Creek is a quick jaunt away from Cal and not too far from Stanford, giving agents easy access to an area known for producing professional athletes. The three firms\u2019 list of clients reflects how they have taken advantage of the local goods.\nThe most notable athlete on Sosnick Cobbe Sports\u2019 list of clients is Alameda native and Detroit Tigers pitcher Dontrelle Willis.\nBDA Sports has Nash (Santa Clara), Chicago Bulls forward Drew Gooden (El Cerrito High School), Houston Rockets forward Chuck Hayes (Oakland native) and Seattle SuperSonics forward Francisco Elson (Cal).\nOctagon Football represents several players with Bay Area ties, including Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch (Oakland native and Cal), Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers (Cal), St. Louis Rams safety O.J. Atogwe (Stanford), Arizona Cardinals defensive end Travis LaBoy (San Rafael native) and New England Patriots safety Tank Williams (Stanford).\n\u201cIt\u2019s a good fit,\u201d Hendrickson said. \u201cIt\u2019s convenient. It\u2019s a good location. We have 80 clients altogether, and everybody is represented by someone in this office. We\u2019re tucked away here in Walnut Creek and doing well, obviously, 23 first- and second-round draft picks. Nobody in the country has done that.\u201d\nDuffy, a Los Angeles native, has more interest in Walnut Creek than business. The husband and father of five said he appreciates the familial aspects of the city in addition to the business perks.\n\u201cTo me it was more just the quality of life here, and not wanting to travel too far from where I live,\u201d said Duffy, who ran his agency out of his home for nearly a decade before moving into an office suite last year. \u201cI love the Bay Area because it\u2019s more diverse. There are a lot of successful people here, but they\u2019re more grounded, whereas in L.A., you\u2019ve got so much superficiality. But Walnut Creek in particular, it has everything that\u2019s appealing to me and my wife. It has unbelievable schools. It has restaurants. It has shopping. Every place I need to go \u2014 Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Marin, Oakland, Berkeley \u2014 everything is \u2026 right here.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 10563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easternsierrafishreports.com/fish_reports/87547/shaver-lake-fish-report.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KNDSMHFKXQZC357QLCVHUI24MZDLWZUD", "length": 1118, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.easternsierrafishreports.com", "title": "Shaver Lake Fish Report - Shaver Lake, CA (Fresno County)", "raw_content": "Shaver Lake Fish Report for 9-24-2014\nShaver Lake has to be one of the hottest trout fisheries at the moment. It is a normal practice to pick up limits within a very short time. Dick Nichols, of Dick's Fishing Charters said that his clients have caught as much as 4 limits a day in a very short time. You can thank the heavy plants by DF&W for the large amount of fish. Nichols says that many of the fish are yearlings and some from the fingerling plant 4 years ago. Many of his fish are 13 to 15 inches. \"It's hard to keep crawlers on the hook as these fish hit so hard and often. It is a lot of fun for everyone on the boat\", Nichols said. Nichols got good news this week as he will be able to keep his boat in the lake and continue his charters through September 27th thanks to Sierra Marina. The marina also plans to be open for boat rental and supplies through the 27th. The trout are holding at about 20 feet deep and hit crawler/blade combinations best.\nThe kokanee bite is little if any. Bank fishermen are doing good if they are in the right spot. Crawlers or Power Bait is doing the job around roads 1 and 2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 9176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastwestcenter.org/alumni/ewca-conferences-and-events", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NHM7I3C33JI43XIAPFXZCYBAHLJJJ6WS", "length": 569, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eastwestcenter.org", "title": "\ufeff", "raw_content": "EWCA Conferences and Events | East-West Center | www.eastwestcenter.org\nThe East-West Center Association and its 48 chapters organize a variety of substantive programs and services including international and regional conferences, workshops, seminars, and lecture series as well as student and community services. These programs and services are designed to expand the outreach of the Center throughout the region, to facilitate professional networking among members, and to update members on issues of relevance to the region.\nView Past EWC/EWCA Conferences and Events", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 464, "original_length": 19044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ecentralcu.org/personal/insurance/accidental-death-insurance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:M6V5WUADBOCL7MAO5JU7AJJLGKK6BHVJ", "length": 1117, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ecentralcu.org", "title": "Accidental Death Insurance | Pasadena AD&D Insurance | E-Central", "raw_content": "This AD&D insurance may help provide peace of mind for you and your family.\nE-Central Credit Union wants to help protect your family with $2,000.00 insurance coverage paid for you by E-Central Credit Union.\nAs an E-Central Credit Union member age 18 or older you can help protect your family\u2019s financial future with Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance underwritten by Minnesota Life Insurance Company. In addition to the $2,000.00 Credit Union Paid coverage, you can purchase Additional Coverage at group rates.\nYou are pre-authorized for Additional Coverage up to $300,000\nYour acceptance is guaranteed - No Medical Exams or Health Questions\nBenefits are paid to your beneficiary if you die from a covered accident\nYou cannot be turned down for the Credit Union Paid Coverage \u2014or any additional coverage you may select. All coverage reduces by 50% at age 70 and older, regardless of age at enrollment.\nTo speak with \u200bthe Plan Administrator, call 877.309.6576, Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST.\nRobert Dudacek, Licensed Insurance Agent #972576-TN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 6049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eco-business.com/research/how-cities-should-invest-for-future-economic-environmental-vitality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:APCXTFZ2YUU2ZLZ6D3V54OSXNQLTJVAA", "length": 852, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eco-business.com", "title": "How cities should invest for future economic and environmental vitality | Research | Asia | Sustainable Business", "raw_content": "Home Research Cities\nHow cities should invest for future economic and environmental vitality\nCities are the driving force behind the global economy \u2013 according to McKinsey, just 600 cities are responsible for 60 per cent of the global GDP \u2013 and the number of people living in cities is expected to increase from 3.6 billion in 2010 to 6.3 billion in 2050.\nWhat strategies can cities adopt to plan, build and maintain themselves as centers of innovation and economic growth?\nThis paper is written by Gianluca Lange, Head of AEC/ENI, Autodesk ASEAN. 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More info is available here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 4515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edgecumbehealth.co.uk/news/28092015100658-feeling-safer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:G7JX6YHZYBLTZMSJYADM7I3MDUHKKGKK", "length": 1087, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.edgecumbehealth.co.uk", "title": "Feeling safer | Blog", "raw_content": "Having heard GPs concerns about the disruption to continuity of care following the introduction of pooled patients and letters to central referrals rather to a named consultant, last week\u2019s news about the (re)introduction of a named GP for elderly patients is welcome from many perspectives. From a psychological perspective specifically, having a sense of ownership and responsibility about a patient together with the legitimate authority to arrange care, is very important to an individual doctor\u2019s sense of effectiveness. It puts the doctor back in control rather than leaving the patient\u2019s fate to the system. Anxiety and concern the doctor may have felt at having so little control is at least contained by a feeling they can make a difference. While not wanting to ignore the pressure of a busy clinical work load and demanding paper work this (not revolutionary) idea puts the patient first and by doing so supports the doctor\u2019s own sense of sense of wellbeing and effectiveness. Now all that needs to happen is for the system to work too so the support services can be accessed!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.educanada.ca/explore-explorer/index.aspx?lang=eng", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZN5E5P373WSVRW7AA4F53UL67TCBY26I", "length": 515, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.educanada.ca", "title": "Explore Canada", "raw_content": "Canadian academic institutions consistently rank among the best in the world, while Canada is continually rated one of the best countries in the world in which to live. Students studying in Canada invariably return home academically strong, with fond memories of their student years.\nWant to learn more about Canada? Here are some fast facts.\nWant to study abroad in Canada and have a particular region in mind? Find out what makes each province or territory unique and the many schools available for you to choose.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edwards.usask.ca/news/2017/edwards-students-makes-canada-home.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OX7L23AAIKP4S3FI6UXQB73XYEFXRL2K", "length": 3518, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.edwards.usask.ca", "title": "Edwards student makes Canada home", "raw_content": "Edwards student makes Canada home\nHenrytye Glazebrook\nWhen Anna Tavares first came to the U of S from Brazil, it was only expected to be for one term as part of an exchange program.\nBut in coming to Canada, she discovered a sense of personal safety and well-being that opened her eyes to a new realm of possibility.\n\"Being in Canada, you\u2019re safe and you don\u2019t need to worry about small things\u2014like if you forget to lock your door when you leave, it will probably be fine,\" she said. \"Back home, it\u2019s not that way. That gave me space in my mind to think about other things, like what I wanted to do, what my aspirations are, what my hobbies are. I had been so busy at home worrying about being safe and being OK that I didn\u2019t really have the brainspace to think about those things before.\"\nRelocating to Canada full-time was a lengthy process for Tavares, travelling back and forth between her new home and her country of birth several times before finally settling permanently in Canada in 2014. In the interim, she obtained an industrial engineering degree from Brazil\u2019s Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, switched into the Edwards School of Business and will now attend U of S Fall Convocation after completing her commerce degree with top marks in her class.\nThe changeover was challenging, Tavares said, but she commended the university for helping during every step of the process\u2014everything from having a recruiter on standby to answer her questions, to sending someone from the International Student and Study Abroad Centre to pick her up at the airport.\n\"When you\u2019re an international student going to a different country, there are already so many challenges that no one will be able to go through for you, like the language barrier or missing your family and friends,\" she said. \"But everything the U of S could take care of for me, they did, so I could face those other challenges and take care of them by myself.\"\nTavares proved an exceptional student of commerce, finishing with an average of more than 85 per cent and turning her co-op placement with the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority into part-time work throughout her degree. But she holds her work with Young Women in Business (YWiB) among her biggest achievements.\nYWiB is focused on bringing together emerging female leaders and young professionals, giving them a safe space where they can build skills, network and foster community. Tavares, inspired by their success, founded a Saskatoon chapter in 2016. \"I\u2019m a big advocate for gender equality,\" she said, adding that bringing YWiB to Saskatoon secured her a nomination and finalist spot in the under-29 category of the YWCA\u2019s 2017 Women of Distinction Awards.\n\"I still don\u2019t think we have a level playing field, and if we want equal representation in the higher levels of companies or boards or anywhere, really, we need to start way before,\" she said.\nTavares is now a vendor operations manager with Vendasta Technologies, happily stepping into the working world full-time after years of juggling classes, volunteering, a part-time job and squeezing in time for a social life. 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The assessment looks at damp, mould, insulation, heating, ventilation and other key areas and, if a home passes, it will be awarded a HomeFit stamp, showing that it is warm, dry, safe and efficient.\nRead the media release - NZ Green Building Council website\nLaunch HomeFit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 4566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.efl.com/news/2015/january/--huddersfield-town-defender-tommy-smith-airlifted-to-hospital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:30Z", "digest": "sha1:VXJ5IVNEF5UW5SBRFFCXPJIDNL6M5TEK", "length": 1356, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.efl.com", "title": "Huddersfield Town defender Tommy Smith airlifted to hospital - News - EFL Official Website", "raw_content": "Huddersfield Town defender Tommy Smith airlifted to hospital\nHuddersfield Town defender Tommy Smith has been airlifted to hospital following an apparent heavy collision with his own team-mate Joe Murphy.\nThe incident occurred in the 90th minute of Town's 2-1 defeat against Leeds at the John Smith's Stadium.\nSmith was beaten to a cross by Leeds striker Billy Sharp, who headed a last-gasp winner for the visitors, before the centre-back seemed to collide with goalkeeper Murphy.\nThat prompted a near 10-minute delay in the game as Smith was treated on the pitch before being carried off on a stretcher and airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary.\nA Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust spokeswoman said: \"We received a call at 14.28 to reports of a medical emergency at Huddersfield.\n\"Two ambulances were sent and the air ambulance was in attendance.\n\"The air ambulance took one patient to Leeds General Infirmary.\"\nHuddersfield manager Chris Powell said in his post-match press conference: \"I am shocked after seeing that. I made sure I saw him and his family and hopefully everything will be okay.\"\nHuddersfield said in a short statement on Twitter that the 22-year-old suffered a head injury.\n\"#htafc confirms Tommy Smith has been airlifted by @YorkshireAirAmb to Leeds General Infirmary for tests after suffering a head injury,\" said the club in a post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elberton.com/what-was-most-traumatic-event-last-100-years", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EZUADHMKZKGUO3P7KJBTBYQ7YV5WXXJ5", "length": 101, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elberton.com", "title": "What was the most traumatic event of the last 100 years? | The Elberton Star, Elberton, Georgia", "raw_content": "What was the most traumatic event of the last 100 years?\nFDR's death\nSept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eldoradocoldcase.com/victim/index.html?NewsID=46580", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HNFZLMVYJUIRFE2EN2J67NHP7753RXQK", "length": 941, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eldoradocoldcase.com", "title": "Jennie Sperinde | 1983 | Cold Case | El Dorado DA", "raw_content": "Jennie Sperinde | 1983\nJennie Sperinde was a long time resident of Cool, California. She lived in Cool for 68 years where she worked on her family ranch with her husband Joseph. Joseph passed away in 1979 and Jennie continued to live in Cool, staying involved with her church and the community.\nJennie was last seen on January 18, 1983, as she left her church in Auburn to return home. Jennie's body was found at her home a few days later; she was the victim of a homicide.\nHomicide Investigators from the El Dorado County Cold Case Task Force are seeking the public's help in providing any information that may help solve this murder.\nTo learn more about this important case, please visit our new website dedicated to solving cold cases, www.ElDoradoColdCase.com and help us solve this cold case homicide.\nIf you have any information about the murder of Jennie Sperinde, please contact the El Dorado County Cold Case Homicide Task Force at:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eliaskallalandschaaf.com/obituaries/William-Bob-Patton/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5YGHL5WHW3G2WZGDZ733KE2FHIJKSKWM", "length": 508, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eliaskallalandschaaf.com", "title": "William \"Bob\" R. Patton Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "William \"Bob\" R. Patton\nWilliam \"Bob\"\nDateline: Bethalto William “Bob” R. Patton, 86, passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at Alton Memorial Hospital. He was born on August 15, 1931, in Pearl, IL, the son of William Merle “Mutt” and Freda B. (Guthrie)... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of William \"Bob\" R. Patton created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nWilliam \u201cBob\u201d R. Patton, 86, passed away...\nSend flowers to the Patton's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emailondeck.com/b/Three-Benefits-of-Making-Disposable-Emails", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JNDOD2JFZHJDSWGUG2C2IVOT2G5VOHQ6", "length": 2957, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.emailondeck.com", "title": "Three Benefits of Making Disposable Emails", "raw_content": "Three Benefits of Making Disposable Emails\nGuest Author: Omernadeem\nIn the world of today, everyone needs more than a single email address. It doesn't matter whether you're going to make more than a few Twitter accounts or just separate your work and personal emails. You need to have at least two emails. If you're frequently using emails communicate with colleagues, friends, and family. Then, using just one can become slightly overwhelming. But, we're not here to talk about a second email address. We're here to talk about a fifth or a sixth. Sounds skeptical, doesn't it?\nTrust us on this one. Making temporary emails is a great way to reduce the irrelevant stuff from your main one. So, without further ado, let's explain the title and get into three reasons why making a few disposal emails can really help you out.\n1. Sign Up to Any Site Without Fear of Being Spammed\nWe've all had to visit some weird site to get information on something for an article or an essay. But, then they only show you the first 100 words and ask you to sign up to view the rest. There are just some sites that you have to feel reluctant to put \"your\" email address in because you can guess from all the ads that you're going to be mercilessly spammed. In such cases, it is much better to use temporary emails that you will never even check. You'll get your content and at the same time, stay far away from junk emails.\n2. You Can Participate in Giveaways\nYou might know that most big Twitch streamers, Youtubers, Vloggers, etc like to hold giveaway. And, usually, their giveaways include putting in your email addresses and subscribing to their channels or signing up to their newsletters. But, we don't really care about the newsletter or their channels, do we? We care about the rewards. And, participating with numerous emails significantly improves your chances of winning that giveaway. Most of the time, they even give you further benefit if you use one of your emails to invite a second one of yours. A pretty profitable investment if we dear say.\nYour personal email address contains quite a lot of your information - Your name, location, phone number, contacts, etc. Long story short, there are quite a few things that you don't want falling into the wrong hands. If you create disposal emails, they don't even have to necessarily contain your own name. You aren't obliged to put in any information and the weird websites you sign up to, can't access any of that information. This means your personal information is safe and no one can gain access to it.\nThere certainly aren't any cons we can think of. Disposable emails only have advantages. The only thing close to a drawback would be that you're going to have to remember all those different emails and passwords. Personally, we just like to create an Excel file and put in all emails in there with the places we made accounts with them. This is very convenient and will definitely help you in the long run.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.en.sailtours.pt/who-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QANQCVADFTRHY6IS75TR7YJMINXTTUCC", "length": 534, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.en.sailtours.pt", "title": "Who we are - Sailtours", "raw_content": "The company Sailtours, Ltd. was established in January 2014 and born from the passion for the sea of its founders / partners. The taste for the sea, nautical activities and the willingness to invest in the land that saw the birth and growth of it\u2019s members, led them to the creation of this company that has its principal activity the rental of Sailboats and Motor boats.\nThe willingness to share the magic of the Azores is a pleasure for us, navigate in the vastness of the Atlantic is a way of life.\nSAILTOURS | Yacht Charter Azores", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encompassdorset.co.uk/Bruce_Springsteen_Sheds_Light_on_his_Mental_Health_Experiences.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GY53ACW3NNRPCHQ56EXKQGKUKL7FR6AZ", "length": 2532, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.encompassdorset.co.uk", "title": "Bruce Springsteen Sheds Light on his Mental Health Experiences", "raw_content": "Bruce Springsteen Sheds Light on his Mental Health Experiences\nWhen you see the name Bruce \u201cThe Boss\u201d Springsteen, most people will begin conjure ideas of his extensive music career, rock star lifestyle and lengthy live shows.\nHowever, few people will associate the 66 year old musician with another important aspect of his life, namely, his personal struggle with depression.\nSpringsteen has recently opened up about the mental health issue he has faced throughout the years and states he remains worried about suffering from depression again after the condition left him feeling at an all-time low just a few years ago.\nIn an interview with pop culture magazine Vanity Fair, the singer-songwriter stated he felt \u201ccrushed between 60 and 62, good for a year and out again from 63 to 64\u201d.\nThis brutally honest declaration is a testament to the impact mental health illnesses can have on a person\u2019s life and how anyone can be affected regardless of, occupation, background or celebrity status.\nHe also mentions how his exciting career in music may have actually influenced part of mental health troubles by comparing the \u201ceuphoria\u201d of playing live shows to the inevitably come down of leaving the stage and facing the concept of mortality once again.\nPrior to playing a show, he describes how an intense feeling of empowerment confidence overcomes him: \u201cevery night, where you think \u201cHey, man, I\u2019m gonna live forever.\u201d You\u2019re feeling all your power\u201d.\nSpringsteen then explains how this feeling is then juxtaposed by the sudden realisation of life\u2019s finite nature and of the eventual inability to continue living life in the same way as he currently does.\nThe singer\u2019s family also has a history of various mental health illnesses including agoraphobia (the fear of situations where escape is difficult) and trichotillomania (a hair pulling disorder).\nMany of these conditions were not diagnosed properly and some even ignored entirely which, of course, contributed towards their symptoms intensifying.\nAnother of Springsteen\u2019s fears is developing a personality similar to that of his late father Douglas Frederick Springsteen, whose characteristics he deemed to be akin to Charles Bukowski.\nSpringsteen\u2019s vocality on the subject of his depression and personal life in general is a stark reminder to the importance of achieving positive balance in all areas of life as well as enjoying each moment to the fullest.\nLearn how Encompass helps people living with learning disabilities and mental health illnesses every day by clicking here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/other-religious-beliefs-and-general-terms/miscellaneous-religion/fairies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HX7ODZCDKH7PLCNQPJ6H6TIADO27E3HF", "length": 37614, "nlines": 115, "source_domain": "www.encyclopedia.com", "title": "Fairies | Encyclopedia.com", "raw_content": "Home Philosophy and Religion Other Religious Beliefs and General Terms Miscellaneous Religion Fairies\nA species of supernatural beings or nature spirits, one of the most beautiful and important of mythological concepts. Belief in fairies is ancient and widespread, and similar ideas concerning them are found in primitive as well as civilized societies. Fairies have been celebrated in folklore, stories, songs, and poems. The term fairy comes from the Latin fata and fatum (fate), and in Middle English implied enchantment, or an enchanted land and its inhabitants. Fairies were known as \"fays\" or \"f\u00e9es\" in the British Isles and Europe.\nFairies were often said to be invisible, usually of smaller stature than humans. It was believed they could be helpful to humans, but might be dangerous and evil if offended. They were often considered just mischievous and whimsical in a childlike manner, but were believed to have magical powers.\nThe strongest traditions of fairies are those of the British Isles and Europe, but belief in fairies has also been found in Asia, America, and Africa. There are scores of characteristic fairies in the European tradition, but the main types include the trooping fairies, who are the aristocrats of the fairy world, living in palaces or dancing and feasting underground; the hobgoblin fairies of a rougher, workman type; nature spirits of rivers, gardens, and woods; and deformed monsters, like hags and giants. For a comprehensive listing of pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, bogies, banshees, and other fairies, see the excellent work A Dictionary of Fairies (1976), by Katharine Briggs, a modern authority on the subject.\nTypical activities of fairies in relation to human beings include abducting babies and putting changelings in their place; helping plants and flowers to grow; sweeping floors; bestowing miraculous gifts for friendship (such as removing deformities or breaking the spells of witches); performing mischievous pranks like milking cows in the fields, soiling clothes put out to dry, curdling milk, and spoiling crops.\nFairyland was usually underground or in some magical other dimension. Here time became mystically changed\u2014one night in fairyland might equal a lifetime in the human world. Some of the most romantic and poignant folktales concern mortals who fall in love with a fairy queen and are transported to the magical world of fairyland where all wishes come true, but through breaking some taboo or indulging in homesickness for earthly existence, the mortal is suddenly returned to his world, in which scores of years have passed.\nIn the seventeenth century, Rev. Robert Kirk investigated the fairies of Aberfoyle in Scotland, much as a visiting anthropologist might study a native tribe. In his book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (1691), Kirk confidently describes the life, occupations, and activities of the fairies in their subterranean world. Kirk's tomb is in Aberfoyle, but legend has it that he swooned away while crossing a fairy hill and after apparent death and burial appeared in a dream to a relative, stating that he was a prisoner in fairyland. He gave instructions for his release, but his cousin was too frightened to complete them, and Kirk was lost forever.\nThere are many folklore stories of fairies assisting humans, mainly in a bucolic setting. Household fairies were said to assist in everyday tasks like washing dishes, laying the fire, sweeping the floor, making bread bake properly, and so on but asked to be treated respectfully and given a cup of milk for their trouble.\nOther fairies played mischievous pranks of a poltergeist nature, pelting mortals with stones, preventing bread from rising, blowing out candles, knocking pans off shelves, sending gusts of smoke, or annoying horses and cattle. Often this was deemed a punishment for lack of respectful treatment. In rural areas, fairies were often referred to in flattering terms as \"the good people\" to avoid offending them.\nAccording to superstition, the fairies would sometimes steal a human baby and put a changeling fairy child in its place, often ugly and bad-tempered. The changeling might be tricked into a sudden admission of its fairy origin, but there was also a folk superstition that it should be set on fire for this purpose. Undoubtedly some temperamental babies were fatally burned because of this belief, which persisted until some two centuries ago in isolated peasant districts.\nFairy traditions have been strongest in Celtic countries. In Scotland and Ireland, fairies were called daoine sithe (men of peace) and it was believed that every year the devil carried off a tenth part of them. In Scotland and Ireland, Neolithic flint arrowheads were believed to be fairy weapons, and water in which they were dipped was said to be a cure for many ills. The Celts believed fairy music could be heard in certain spots, and it was usually described as sublime. Some folk music airs are said to have originated in fairy music.\n\"Fairy rings\" are small dark green circles in the grass of meadows, fields, or lawns caused by a certain fungus. These rings were once said to be the dancing places of the fairies. In Ireland, mound burials were believed to be the haunts of fairies.\nTheories of Fairies\nThere were many different beliefs concerning fairies. Peasant traditions said they were fallen angels who were neither good enough to be saved nor bad enough to be lost. Folklorists hypothesize that fairies are a folk recollection of an ancient pygmy race, are mythological personifications of natural phenomena, or are remnant figures from ancient religious beliefs. Household tales of folk heroes like Jack the Giant-Killer are probably transplanted from ancient Indo-European folklore, and folk traditions have been made sophisticated in the tales of the Countess d'Aulnoy and Hans Christian Andersen.\nDifferent beliefs and folk memories have no doubt merged, but when all this is sifted and evaluated there remains a body of tradition and testimony, even today, of an elusive ghostly order of life on the borderland of mind and matter, usually depicted in the natural setting of wild and lonely places rather than in the skeptical materialistic bustle of towns and cities.\nW. Y. Evans-Wentz, in his The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) presents a living testimony of fairies, the recorded traditions of Celtic literature and mythology, an examination of various theories for fairies, and a case for the reality of fairy life. In the final section, Evans-Wentz correlates fairy life with the ghosts and spirits of psychical phenomena, quoting the French researcher Camille Flammarion, who suggests in his book Mysterious Psychic Forces (1907):\n\"Either it is we who produce these phenomena, or it is spirits. But mark this well: these spirits are not necessarily the souls of the dead; for other kinds of spiritual beings may exist, and space may be full of them without our ever knowing anything about it, except under unusual circumstances. Do we not find in the different ancient literature, demons, angels, gnomes, goblins, sprites, spectres, elementals, etc.? Perhaps these legends are not without some foundation in fact.\"\nEvans-Wentz concludes that \"we can postulate scientifically, on the showing of the data of psychical research, the existence of such invisible intelligences as gods, genii, daemons, all kinds of true fairies, and disembodied men.\" In his assertions, Evans-Wentz goes far beyond the territory usually covered by his colleagues, who usually limit themselves to the study of folklore traditions.\nIn his foreword to the 1966 reissue of Evans-Wentz's book, Leslie Shepard cites the protean aspect of fairies (i.e., their ability to change form in accordance with the convention of the viewer) and says, \"I have a strong suspicion that in the newer mythology of flying saucers some of those 'shining visitors' in spacecraft from other worlds might turn out to be just another form of fairies.\" Since then, similar views have been advanced by UFO commentators like Jacques Vallee and Brad Steiger. Other ufologists have suggested that fairies and flying saucer phenomena can be correlated with such miraculous religious apparitions as those of Fatima or Lourdes.\nClaims of contact with fairies are numerous. In 1907 Lady Archibald Campbell interviewed an old blind man and his wife living in an Irish glen who claimed to have caught a fairy and kept it captive for two weeks before it escaped (see Occult Re-view, 6, no. 5, November 1907). A friend of the couple claimed he had seen fairies on the Hill of Howth at early morning, \"little men about three feet high, riding on donkeys to scale.\" Around the same time a reporter on Irish radio interviewed a woman in the west of Ireland who had been \"infested with fairies\" for several weeks after cutting down a fairy thornbush. The thornbushes believed to be jealously cherished by fairies are still sometimes left undisturbed in Irish fields.\nThe most famous case of alleged fairy contact came in 1917, when Elsie Wright, age 16, and Frances Griffiths, 10, who lived in the small Yorkshire village of Cottingley, England, claimed they saw and played with fairies near a brook in the local countryside. No one believed them, so they borrowed a camera and produced photographs of their fairies. These pictures later came to the attention of the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and became the basis of his book The Coming of the Fairies (1922). Doyle accepted the girls' story. The evidence for the genuineness of these photographs was quite strong, and a number of attempts were made to disprove them. Skeptics suggested a number of explanations (all of which proved wrong) and it was not until a thorough study of the photographs was made in the 1980s that the source and means of the hoax became known. Shortly before their deaths, the women admitted the hoax.\nDoyle's book continues to be reprinted and circulated, primarily in theosophical circles. Many Theosophists became convinced of the truth of the girls' story after independent claims regarding the reality of the Cottingley fairies came from Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson, who visited the Cottingley glen with the two girls in 1921 and affirmed that he saw wood elves, gnomes, goblins, and other nature spirits.\nIn her book The Real World of Fairies (1977), theosophical leader Dora van Gelder, who grew up in Java, states that she played with fairies and later even saw them in New York's Central Park.\nOther British psychics, including Vincent Turvey and Horace Leaf, also claimed to see fairies, and in 1927 the Fairy Investigation Society was formed in Britain to collate information on fairy sightings. The society eventually became inactive, largely as a result of unwelcome newspaper reports ridiculing the subject. Other organizations that take an interest in fairies include the Gnome Club of Great Britain and Gnome International.\nArrowsmith, Nancy, and G. Moorse. A Field Guide to the Little People. New York: Macmillan, 1977.\nBaring-Gould, S. A Book of Folk-Lore. London, [1913].\nBriggs, Katharine M. The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs Among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959.\n\u2014\u2014. A Dictionary of Fairies. London: Allen Lane, 1976. Reprint, London: Penguin, 1977.\n\u2014\u2014. The Personnel of Fairyland. Oxford, England: Alden Press, 1953. Reprint, Singing Tree Press, 1971.\n\u2014\u2014. The Vanishing People: A Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefs. London: B. T. Batsford, 1978.\nCooper, Joe. The Case of the Cottingley Fairies. London: Robert Hale, 1990.\nDoyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. London: Psychic Press, 1928. Reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972.\nEdwards, Gillian. Hobgoblin and Sweet Puck: Fairy Names and Natures. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1974.\nEvans-Wentz, W. Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Ox-ford: Oxford University Press, 1911. Reprint, New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1966.\nFroud, Brian, and Alan Lee. Faeries. London: Souvenir Press, 1978. Reprint, New York: Bantam Books, 1979. Reprint, London: Pan Books, 1979.\nGardner, Edward L. Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel. London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945.\nHaining, Peter. The Leprechaun's Kingdom. London: Souvenir Press, 1979.\nHalliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, 1853.\nHartland, Edwin, W. The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology. London, 1891. Reprint, Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968.\nKirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. 1691. Reprint, London: D. Nutt, 1893.\nLatham, M. W. The Elizabethan Fairies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.\nMac Manus, D. A. The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland. London: Max Parrish, 1959.\nO'Donnell, Elliot. The Banshee. London: Sands, 1919.\nRitson, Joseph. Fairy Tales, Now First Collected: To Which Are Prefixed Two Dissertations: 1. On Pygmies; 2. On Fairies. London, 1831.\nSikes, Wirt. British Goblins. London, 1880. Reprint, Wakefield, England: EP Publishing, 1973.\nSpence, Lewis. British Fairy Origins. London: Watts, 1946.\n\u2014\u2014. The Fairy Tradition in Britain. London: Rider, 1948.\nVan Gelder, Dora. The Real World of Fairies. London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1977.\nWhite, Carolyn. A History of Irish Fairies. Ireland: Mercier Press, 1976.\nYearsley, Macleod. The Folklore of Fairy-Tale. London: Watts, 1924. Reprint, Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968.\nYeats, W. B., ed. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London & New York, 1888.\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. . Encyclopedia.com. 3 Feb. 2019 .\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 3, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. . Retrieved February 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies\nfairies were thought of as supernatural beings, capable of being helpful and benevolent to humans, or hostile and dangerous, or simply mischievous. Fairy beliefs are of long standing, and over 170 types of fairy have been listed from British sources. Although evidence about fairy beliefs thickens from the 16th cent., most of them were already fixed in the Middle Ages. Fairies were diminutive and could make themselves invisible at will, while fairyland was seen as a timeless realm where the normal problems of human existence were absent. Changelings and fairy lovers were recurrent themes.\nThe fairies' intermediate position between the human and spirit world had always placed them close to devils. After the Reformation this connection was more readily made and the fairies figured in a number of witchcraft investigations. Belief in the fairies continued among the populace at large, as 19th-cent. folklorists discovered, but belief in them among the educated was long gone by then. Indeed, in that century the supernatural beings of an earlier era were regimented for the purposes of children's story-books.\nJ. A. Sharpe\n\"fairies.\" The Oxford Companion to British History. . Encyclopedia.com. 3 Feb. 2019 .\n\"fairies.\" The Oxford Companion to British History. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 3, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies\n\"fairies.\" The Oxford Companion to British History. . Retrieved February 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies\nSidhe the fairy people of Irish folklore, said to live beneath the hills and often identified as the remnant of the ancient Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann. The name is Irish, and comes from aos sidhe \u2018people of the fairy mound\u2019.\n\"Sidhe.\" The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. . Encyclopedia.com. 3 Feb. 2019 .\n\"Sidhe.\" The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 3, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/sidhe\n\"Sidhe.\" The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. . Retrieved February 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/sidhe\nFAIRIES . Fay, the old word for \"fairy,\" is thought to come from the Latin fata, which signifies the Fates, supernatural women who appear beside the cradle of a newborn infant to decide its future. The fairies invited to Sleeping Beauty's christening are an echo of this belief. During the Middle Ages fairy meant the state of enchantment and the land of enchanted beings as well as those who live in it.\nFairies are found under various names in many countries, but they are more typical of Europe and Asia than of the Americas and Africa. To some extent their social organization reflects the world of humans. In Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (1893) the poet William Butler Yeats distinguished between trooping fairies and solitary fairies. The trooping fairies appear in medieval Arthurian legend and romance and are most popular in the literature of Elizabethan England; since that time stories about them have ceased to be written. They are handsome, aristocratic, and beautifully dressed, and they take part in the Fairy Ride. Like their human counterparts, they hunt and hawk, trotting in procession behind their king and queen, who ride white horses decorated with silver bells. Their fairy realm, which is centered on their royal court, is noted for the excellence of its music, dancing, and feasting as well as for the beauty of its women. The Irish Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann (\"people of the goddess Danu\") are trooping fairies; they are immortal and live in T\u00edr na n\u02beOg, the Land of Youth.\nThe nonaristocratic, solitary fairies are described as ugly and often ominous and ill-natured. Some are engaged in trade, like the Irish leprechaun shoemaker, who is quite harmless. A third category of fairy comprises those who live in family groups. They work the land, hold their own markets, and visit human fairs.\nNature fairies are spirits of streams, lakes, and trees. The Russian rusalki are water nymphs, who take the form of young maidens. Dryads are tree spirits. So are oak men; hence there is a saying, \"Fairy folks are in old oaks.\" In England, hawthorn is haunted by the fairies, especially if it grows near fairy hills, and the Gooseberry Wife, in the form of a great hairy caterpillar, stands guard over the fruit bushes.\nTutelary fairies, the family guardians and domestic spirits, look after the fortunes of a particular household. The Scottish MacLeods on the island of Skye were given a fairy flag by their supernatural guardian. Germans call their house spirit der Kobold (\"gnome\"), an unreliable creature whose name survives in the modern cobalt. (German miners called this slightly magnetic element after the famous sprite because they found it tiresome and difficult to use.) Danes have their nis ; the French their esprit follet ; the Spaniards their duende ; and the Faeroese Islanders, in the North Atlantic, their niagruisar.\nRussians call their domestic spirits domovois, after dom (\"house\"). Legend says that these creatures were rebellious spirits who opposed God and so were thrown down from heaven, falling on people's roofs and into their yards. They are amiable and live in the warmth near the hearth. Because it is considered important to please the domovoi, peasants leave egg pancakes for him on the threshing floor. When a peasant family moves, they put a piece of bread beside the stove in hopes that the domovoi will come with them. In his autobiography Childhood (1913), the Russian writer Maxim Gorky describes how his family moved from their house: His grandmother took an old shoe, held it under the stove, and called to the household spirit, asking him to ride in the shoe and bring the family good luck in their new home.\nEnglish brownies are also associated with the hearth. They are active at night and do work that the servants have neglected: cleaning and drawing water for the house, tending farm animals, reaping, mowing, threshing, and churning butter. Families can leave food, such as a bowl of cream or little cakes spread with honey for the brownies, but direct gifts, such as money or clothes, will drive the spirit away.\nDomestic spirits can be very tiresome. A folktale well known all over Europe tells of a farmer so bothered by the pranks of a boggart (or mischievous brownie) that he decides to move. The family packs their household belongings and loads the cart. As they are leaving, a voice from inside the milk churn says, \"Yes, we're moving!\" It is the boggart. The family gives up and decides to stay, for what would be the point of moving if the creature was coming too? In other versions of the story the boggart immigrates with the family to the United States.\nThe most tragic tutelary fairy is the banshee, an Irish and Highland Scottish spirit of death. The word means a woman (ban ) of the fairy folk (s\u00eddh, pronounced \"shee\"). This apparition materializes when someone is about to die. In Scotland the banshee is seen washing the doomed person's graveclothes or bloodstained garmets and can be heard wailing and lamenting, her eyes red with tears. M\u00e9lusine, daughter of the fairy Pressina, became the banshee of the house of Lusignan in France. When the family was wiped out and its castle fell to the crown, she appeared, foretelling the deaths of the kings of France.\nSome supernatural creatures are closely associated with a particular historical era or geographic area. The gnomes of Europe, for example, were a product of the ancient Hermetic and Neoplatonic doctrine from which medieval medicine and science derived. According to medieval thought, all mortal creatures are a blend of earth, air, fire, and water, and the four elemental beings are gnomes (who inhabit the earth), sylphs (who inhabit the air), salamanders (who inhabit fire), and nereids (who inhabit water). The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word gnome is an elision of the Latin genomus (\"earth dweller\"). Paracelsus (1493\u20131541), the Swiss physician and alchemist, provides in his De nymphus the first description of gnomes as elemental beings of the earth. According to tradition, gnomes live underground and are treasure guardians. Also known as dwarfs, they are skilled metalworkers, supplying medieval knights with armor and weapons that they themselves forge. They are also often associated with mines.\nThe knockers are said to live in the tin mines of England's Cornwall. They are friendly creatures and will knock on the mine walls to indicate veins of ore. An anti-Semitic legend claims that they were the ghosts of Jews who had been sent to work the mines as a punishment for taking part in the Crucifixion. Richard, earl of Cornwall (1200\u20131272), is said to have put the Jews to work in the Cornish tin mines, and Robert Hunt, in his Popular Romances of the West of England (1865), claims that the tin mines were farmed out to the Jews in the thirteenth century. But Jewish merchants had very little connection with the tin trade, and no evidence supports these improbable suggestions.\nPixies are another group of fairies belonging to English west-country tradition. They are found in Somerset, Devonshire, and Cornwall. Anna Eliza Bray first brought them to the attention of the public in a series of letters to the poet Robert Southey that were published under the title The Borders of the Tavy and the Tamar (1836). The chief characteristic of pixies is that they mislead travelers; as recently as 1961, a woman claimed to have been misled by pixies in a wood near Budleigh Salterton. Local tradition says that pixies are the souls of those who died before Christ was born or of unbaptized children.\nClosely related to the pixie and its habit of leading travelers astray is the will-o'-the-wisp (Fr., le feu follet ; Ger., das Irrlicht ), also called jack-o'-lantern or ignis fatuus (\"foolish fire\"). This sprite appears in the folklore of many countries and is often an omen of death. In England the will-o'-the-wisp is also identified with the mischievous sprite Puck, or Robin Goodfellow. Traditional legends about this spirit who lures folks to their death in the bog may be an attempt to account for marsh gas, which emanates from rotting organic matter and is ghostly in appearance.\nOther malevolent spirits are also linked with the environment. The malicious yarthkins of Lincolnshire, England, another damp area, disappeared when the fens were drained.\nThe English goblin, or hobgoblin, is a generic term for evil spirits. It is difficult to distinguish between goblins and imps, however. Originally imp referred to an offshoot or a cutting, but in its sense as a supernatural creature it means a small demon, an offshoot of Satan. In England the Puritans thought all fairy creatures were devils, and thus the preacher John Bunyan, in his famous book Pilgrim's Progress (1678), numbers the hobgoblin and the \"foul fiend\" among the forces of evil to be resisted.\nElves reached England from Norse mythology, where they were known as huldre folk, closely resembling fairies. The girl elves are very beautiful but they are hollow behind and have long cow's tails. Trolls are another Norse group of supernatural beings. Originally they were thought of as giant ogres, but in later Swedish and Danish tradition they become dwarfs who live in hills and caverns. Like the German dwarfs, they are fine craftsmen and treasure guardians, noted for their stupidity. In the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, where Scandinavian influence is strong, these beings are called trows.\nNot all mischievous, supernatural creatures are of ancient origin. The gremlin, a supernatural being who causes trouble for pilots and aircrews, dates from World War I. An explanation for human error, flight fatigue, and high-altitude pressures, the gremlin may originate from the Old English word gremian (\"to vex\").\nThe relationships that fairies enjoy with human beings has varied considerably. Some can be very helpful; such helpfulness is said to be how the MacCrimmons, the most distinguished Scottish pipers, learned their skill. As mentioned, guardian spirits look after the families in their care, and brownies do household chores. But they become malevolent if badly treated\u2014or simply disappear. Anybody who spies on them is severely punished.\nIn folk tradition human beings are sometimes abducted by the fairies. Thomas the Rhymer (Thomas of Erceldoune), the poet and prophet, lived in thirteenth-century England. His tale is told in The Ballad of True Thomas and by Sir Walter Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). Legend says that Thomas received the gift of prophecy from the Queen of Elfland, who loved him and took him away to live with her for seven years.\nStories of fairy brides are common and usually end in tragedy. The lovely creature marries a mortal and imposes some taboo on him. When it is broken, the fairy bride returns to fairyland, deserting her husband and children. Seal-maidens and swan-maidens are usually captured against their will by the theft of their skin or feathers. As soon as they can retrieve the stolen item, they escape.\nWhen a mortal visits fairyland, the result is often equally tragic. The visitor cannot escape and becomes the victim of the supernatural passage of time, whereby one day represents hundreds of years. King Herla was able to return home with his knights, but when they dismounted they crumbled into dust because they had been away for three hundred years.\nAlthough fairies lead independent lives, there are many examples of their dependence on mortals. Narratives tell of midwives summoned to help a fairy in labor and of fairies anxious to possess human children. Stories of the theft of babies continue from the Middle Ages to the present time. Typically the fairies steal an unbaptized child and leave an ugly fairy baby in its place. If the changeling is surprised, it will speak, revealing its true identity; then it can be driven away. Various methods may be used to trick the spirit, such as serving him beer brewed in eggshells. In German tradition the creature would exclaim, \"I am as old as the forests of Bohemia, and I've never seen beer brewed in an eggshell before.\"\nThese legends conceal much human suffering and cruelty to children. Malformed babies were put over a fire in order to pressure the fairies into returning the supposedly stolen child. Such cases have been recorded as late as the early twentieth century in Ireland. Until recently it was thought that a defect in a child resulted from a defect in the parents. Basically, changelings were sickly, backward, or deformed children. Simple people, unwilling to accept that such a child could be theirs, maintained that the fairies had stolen the real baby and left this wretched thing in its place.\nBelief in fairies thus has an aetiologic function: It provides an explanation for mysterious objects and events that are otherwise not understood. The remains of earlier civilizations, which puzzled the uneducated in days gone by, are another obvious example. The ancient Pictish areas of Scotland contain the remains of brochs, round, hill-shaped farmhouses with stone walls and a turf covering. These structures are often referred to as fairy knowes. Burial mounds have also been linked with fairyland. Sudden, disabling illness, such as that caused by a stroke, was traditionally considered to be the result of an elf shot, a wound from one of the flint arrows that are found in low-lying areas, and many Anglo-Saxon charms meant to protect against such attacks have been preserved. Various other illnesses whose origin seemed puzzling centuries ago, such as a slipped disk, rheumatism, and anything that deforms the body, were attributed to invisible blows from the little creatures. Paralysis, skin disease, wasting illnesses such as tuberculosis, and animal disorders such as swine fever and brucellosis have all been blamed on the fairies.\nUnusual topographical features are also sometimes attributed to fairies. Those curious, dark green circles that appear on grassy lawns and meadows, often surrounded by a circle of mushrooms, are known as fairy rings, and it is considered very unlucky to damage them in any way. They are in fact caused by Marasmius oreades, a type of fungus, but people believe that they are spots where the fairies dance.\nSometimes supernatural origins are attributed to exceptionally large or beautiful objects. There are various stories of a cup stolen from the fairies. The \"Luck of Eden Hall\" in Cumberland, England, is a lovely green glass goblet, a talisman that was supposed to preserve the Eden family's fortunes. Legend says that the goblet was snatched from the fairies by a servant; if it broke, the family would be destroyed. Eden Hall was pulled down in 1934, but the \"Luck\" is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.\nIn the thirteenth-century Church of Saint Mary at Frensham in Surrey, England, stands a huge caldron, measuring one yard across. Local tradition says that it was borrowed from the fairies who lived on nearby Borough Hill and was never returned. Probably it was employed in parish feasts and celebrations and then this early usage was forgotten.\nSightings and eyewitness accounts of fairies are common. A striking example was provided by Robert Kirk (1644\u20131692), a folklorist who became the subject of a fairy tale. Kirk was a Gaelic scholar and a minister of the Scottish church. Evidently his parishioners disapproved of his researches in the supernatural, for when he died and his body was found lying beside a fairy knowe, rumor said that he was living with the fairies inside it. This legend is recorded by Scott in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830). Kirk's own account of fairy beliefs in the Scottish Highlands, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies, was not published until 1815, long after his death. The brilliant and eccentric English painter and poet William Blake (1757\u20131827) claimed to have seen a fairy funeral. The body, he said, was laid out on a rose leaf and carried in procession by creatures the size and color of grasshoppers.\nIn Ireland, places once associated with fairies are pointed out and treated with great respect. To interfere with them is thought to bring bad luck. More than once new roads have been rerouted for such a reason. Recently a fairy bush was cut down in front of a Dutch-owned factory in Limerick. Dutch workmen performed the task because local workers refused. When the works closed not long after and well over a thousand jobs were lost, the disaster was blamed on the removal of the fairy bush.\nTraditionally, the fairies dress in green. Green is their color, and even today, many people regard it as unlucky and will not wear it, although they no longer remember the reason.\nVarious theories have been put forward to explain the origins of the fairies. A British tradition suggests that fairies represent memories of an ancient Stone Age race. When the Celts arrived in England from central Europe in about 500 bce, the earlier inhabitants were driven back into the hills and hid in caves. They lived underground and were so adept at hiding in the woods that they seemed to be invisible. The popular belief that iron provides protection from the fairies is in line with this view, for the Celts possessed iron weapons, whereas the earlier inhabitants used objects of bronze or stone. The many stories of fairies' borrowings and thefts also lend weight to this theory, for it was thought that these earlier inhabitants borrowed grain and implements, and one can easily imagine a conquered people in hiding, creeping anxiously about to see what they could steal or borrow from their conquerors.\nAnother view suggests that fairies originated as memories of ancient pagan gods and heroes. They are small in stature because their significance has been reduced. Still another theory sees fairies as personified spirits of nature. Modern supporters of this argument believe that spirits fertilize plants and care for flowers. But this explanation excludes other types of fairy, such as the family guardians and the fairy communities with their elaborate social organization. A fourth suggestion is that the fairies are ghosts. Certainly there are many connections between fairies and the realm of the dead: They live in burial mounds, and many are obviously ghosts and are described as such. None of these theories is entirely adequate, and the answer may well lie in a blend of them all, coupled with the natural desire to find an explanation for puzzling phenomena throughout the world.\nCeltic Religion; Demons; Germanic Religion.\nBriggs, K. M. The Anatomy of Puck. London, 1959. An examination of fairy beliefs among Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors.\nBriggs, K. M. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London, 1967. Provides an account of fairy traditions, traffic between humans and fairies, and the literary use of these beliefs.\nCroker, Thomas Crofton. Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. 3 vols. London, 1825\u20131828. This work was enthusiastically received by the public of its day. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm translated it into German, and Sir Walter Scott corresponded with the author. It remains a valuable contribution to the development of folklore studies.\nGardner, Edward L. Fairies. London, 1945. A book that claims to present photographs of real fairies.\nHunt, Robert. Popular Romances of the West of England. 2 vols. London, 1865. The fruits of a ten-month walking tour in Cornwall during 1829, when the author collected, as he put it, \"every existing tale of its ancient people.\"\nKeightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology (1828). 2 vols. in 1. New York, 1968. An early study of comparative folklore by an Irish writer with an interest in oral tradition.\nSikes, Wirt. British Goblins. London, 1880. A collection of Welsh material assembled by the U.S. consul for Wales.\nBrasey, Edouard. F\u00e9es et elfs: l'universe f\u00e9erique. Paris, 1999.\nDoulet, Jean-Michel. Quand les d\u00e9mons enlaivent les enfants: les changelins: \u00e9tude d'une figure mythique. Paris, 2002.\nLetcher, Andy. \"The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture.\" Folklore 112 (October 2001): 147\u2013161.\nMack, Carol K., and Dinah Mack. A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits. New York, 1998.\nPurkiss, Diane. Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories. London, 2000.\nSilver, Carole G. Strange and Secret Peoples: Faeries and Victorian Consciousness. New York, 1999.\nWilby, Emma. \"The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland.\" Folklore 111 (October 2000): 283\u2013305.\nVenetia Newall (1987)\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Religion. . Encyclopedia.com. 3 Feb. 2019 .\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Religion. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 3, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies\n\"Fairies.\" Encyclopedia of Religion. . Retrieved February 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fairies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 46015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enelgreenpower.com/media/news/d/2016/12/forecasting-renewable-energy-a-study-by-egp-and-the-italian-air-force", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GEHMEW633HALZN3J5SBLTNIMCXVSN6ZJ", "length": 2150, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.enelgreenpower.com", "title": "Forecasting Renewable Energy: A Study by EGP and the Italian Air Force - enelgreenpower.com", "raw_content": "Forecasting Renewable Energy: A Study by EGP and the Italian Air Force\nNew analysis allowing better accuracy in the forecast of wind energy in the medium-term comes from a collaboration between Enel Green Power and the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force\nFrom 15 to 17 November 2016, the \u201c15th International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems\u201d was held in Vienna. This international meeting gathers experts of the sector of renewable energy from around the world.\nFor the occasion, Federico Fioretti from the Innovation and Sustainability, Global Renewable Energies division of Enel, presented the results of a study carried out in 2014-15 in collaboration with the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force, regarding the use of atmospheric models of numerical weather prediction (NWP) on a regional scale to improve accuracy in the medium-term (48-72 hours) forecast of wind energy.\nIn the study presented in Vienna, the fields of meteorological forecast provided by the operational model (COSMO-ME) of the Air Force\u2019s meteorological service were used as inputs for a statistical model to predict wind energy, developed by Enel Green Power.\nThe collaboration with the Air Force\u2019s Meteorological Service, which boasts decades of experience in the field of so-called \u201cdata assimilation\u201d and is an international point of reference for meteorological forecast, allowed the creation of an extremely complete and detailed analysis, in order to take a further step forward in the medium-term forecast of renewables.\nThe activity carried out by EGP Innovation and Sustainability, Renewables Energy Management Italy and by Enel Engineering and Research falls into the line of Energy Yield Forecasting, in which Enel Green Power has been active for many years.\nThe correct forecast of energy that renewable plants, intrinsically unpredictable, can add to the grid in subsequent days is, together with energy storage technologies, one of the keys to making renewable energy ever more compatible with the electrical grid, dispatchable and active in the management and balance of the entire electrical system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enewzhub.com/hinkley-nuclear-project-priceless-or-worthless/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WVELX4BF2VGXKWR46J3VY2M5EC55BRX7", "length": 3716, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.enewzhub.com", "title": "HINKLEY NUCLEAR PROJECT: Priceless or Worthless?", "raw_content": "Home Business HINKLEY NUCLEAR PROJECT: Priceless or Worthless?\nHINKLEY NUCLEAR PROJECT: Priceless or Worthless?\nHinkley Nuclear Project is going forward even when it is not going to provide enough energy as expected.\nOnce again the Hinkley point nuclear project is in the limelight as the date of its launching is getting closer. Along with it the discussions about the project have also started.\nIt is not long ago when everyone was thinking that nuclear power is the best source of generating renewable energy. But now the scene has changed by some of the more common sources of such energy. New inventions have been made and projects are getting launched that are economically more cost efficient and hygienic for the environment. Let\u2019s take an example of a cheap lithium air batteries. These provide a better durability with lesser price and lesser pollution than the lithium ion batteries. Li-ion batteries are the most common type of batteries we are using nowadays. These batteries are normally used with our phones and other gadgets. These batteries would have the capacity to store five times more energy than the present one.\nHinkley Nuclear Project is going forward even when it is not going to provide enough energy as expected. Some say that it is taking progress just because of the capital of 8.5 million Euro that company has invested in this project. However, a procedure of producing energy from the renewables like wind and solar power is far cheaper and safer. Thus, this has a strong reason to invest the money in this type of sources. Unfortunately, it has not been concerned so far. Mr. Jeremy Leggett, a founder of Solarcentury, says that had it been promoted, UK would have reached the goal of 100% independence in the field of renewable energy.\nThere are more than 1000 big cities and 60 corporations around the world that have understood the importance of renewable sources. That\u2019s why they have committed to being dependent on the renewable energy totally. Looks a little strange, but the Portugal proved that it looks strange but not impossible. As it was running totally over the energy of air, solar and hydropower for four days in the month of May. In the same month, Britain published the news that they have produced more electricity through solar power than the coal-fired stations. Brussels is producing wind energy of approx. 430 gigawatts, whereas it was 382 gigawatts from the nuclear resources.\nAn earthquake of 6.7 Richter scale in Myanmar leaves east India.\nMr. Pauldorfman, a senior researcher at the Energy Institute of University College, London, says that Hinkley will not be helpful to fill up the gap of the issue of electricity in the UK. As well as it will not be able to complete its commitment regarding the pollution and carbon emissions. It has used a lot of time and money.\nEconomists along with researchers believe that the efforts of Hinkley are useless, in regard of UK electricity needs. A certain tagline has become famous which is \u201cHinkley Pointless\u201d. It points out the worthless efforts of Hinkley as they have set aside the renewable resources to solve this electricity issue. But there are some different views too. These views state that issues can\u2019t be resolved just by renewable or just by nuclear. Tom Great, Chief Executive of Nuclear Industry Association, says the same. He says that to fill up with the needs we should try to use both renewables and nuclear energy together. Hinkley has committed to supply the seven percent of the total needs of UK and is on the way to make it double till mid-2020\u2019s.\nPrevious articleWays to overcome overweight\nNext articleThrow your weighing scale because this mother did something that will make you do that", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.englandrugby.com/news/steve-brown-step-down-rfu-ceo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:RU437ARLDGZ3P4I4YHQJMXU5AJCSJNZJ", "length": 2235, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.englandrugby.com", "title": "Steve Brown to step down as RFU CEO", "raw_content": "Steve Brown to step down as RFU CEO\nRFU CEO Steve Brown to stand down at the end of the year\nSteve Brown joined the RFU in 2011\nThe RFU Chief Executive Steve Brown has today announced that he is standing down and will be leaving the RFU at the end of the year.\nSteve Brown joined the RFU in 2011, and has held a number of roles including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Officer Business Operations, and Managing Director of England Rugby 2015, before being appointed Chief Executive in September 2017.\nRFU Chairman Andy Cosslett commented: \u201cThis is a sad day for the Union. Steve has made a huge contribution to the RFU during his time here. He has been a pivotal figure during a long period of sustained growth for the Union and, as Managing Director of the Organising Committee, played a key role in delivering Rugby World Cup 2015.\n\"Described by World Rugby as \u201cthe best World Cup ever\u201d the success of the tournament returned a wonderful dividend for the RFU and left a lasting legacy. Steve\u2019s tireless work ethic and selfless attitude has won him the respect of all who know him and the game will be extremely sad to see him go. Steve is a good man and a good friend to many of us. He leaves with our very best wishes and our sincere thanks.\u201d\nSteve Brown commented: \u201cThis has been a very difficult decision for me to make, and I informed the RFU Board earlier this week that the time is right for me to step down and take some time out. I\u2019ve loved my time in rugby, and am deeply proud to have made a contribution to a sport I love.\n\"It has been a fascinating 7 \u00bd years, and a great honour to lead the RFU over the last 14 months. I am proud of the people who make the Union \u2013 including our hard working and committed staff and the brilliant volunteers who make the game. I\u2019m sad to leave, but the Union is in good shape, with an excellent leadership team in place.\n\"I have always been a rugby fan, and always will be, and I wish all our England teams, coaches, and everyone involved with the game at all levels the very best for the future, which looks bright for the English game.\u201d\nNigel Melville, Director of Professional Rugby will be the Interim Chief Executive of the RFU until a new Chief Executive is appointed and in place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 6819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enjoyyourbicycle.de/bilder12/album01/3809salzachbruecke_laufen_oberndorf2_1200_001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OB6ITFVOI6PU7OAQYDEBXINW3BVDJ2JN", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.enjoyyourbicycle.de", "title": "Velo 2012 / 2013 :: Schwaben / Bayern :: 3809salzachbruecke_laufen_oberndorf2_1200_001", "raw_content": "bridge over River Salzach from Germany to Austria (1903)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/meena-srinivasan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:E36Y2BJI6HNOD62N57CWU4UJ3WS6TWME", "length": 731, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eomega.org", "title": "Meena Srinivasan | Omega", "raw_content": "meenasrinivasan.com\nMeena Srinivasan is an educator, writer, and innovator who has been teaching and leading with an equity focus in the fields of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindful Awareness Practices (MAP) for more than 15 years. Author of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom, Meena is in her fifth year of working in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to implement SEL system-wide in the Oakland Unified School District.\nShe served on the board of directors of the Mindfulness in Education Network, was core faculty of the Mindful Education Institute, and is a recipient of the 2014 Hemera Foundation Contemplative Education Fellowship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 134.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.epichearing.com/blog/diagnostic-procedures/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CXKLPUYKFDVRTI5SDIJRRRNKESTE2YYS", "length": 7831, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.epichearing.com", "title": "Diagnostic Procedures", "raw_content": "Pure-Tone Hearing Test\nThis test determines the ability to hear sound. The pure-tone test determines the faintest sound that an ear can perceive. Tones of low through high frequencies will be presented at various levels of loudness. Some of these tones will be heard through the ear canal, and others through the bone area behind the ear. The test is performed in a sound proofed room. In many cases, it is necessary to introduce a loud noise into the ear that is not being tested. This distraction, called masking, is necessary to assure that the test tones are heard only in the ear under evaluation.\nSpeech Intelligibility Test\nThese tests determine the ability to hear and understand speech. Different samples of speech are presented through earphones or through a loud speaker in a sound proofed room. One series of words is heard at various degrees of loudness, and the second group is heard at a comfortable listening level.\nThe hearing aid evaluation service is designed to help the patient determine the hearing instruments of choice for his or her particular hearing loss. The hearing aid evaluation requires 1 to 1 1/2 hours of testing. The purpose of the evaluation is to determine the patient\u2019s potential to benefit from a hearing aid and determine which hearing aid style will best suit the patient\u2019s needs.\nAt the hearing aid evaluation, an audiologist uses comparative tests with and without hearing aids. The process also includes counseling to help the patient understand hearing aids and the necessary steps for optimal results. The patient then receives an appropriate recommendation (prescription) for hearing aids.\nHearing Aid Check\nThe purpose of this visit is to evaluate the patient\u2019s adjustment to the aid and to provide guidance and counseling regarding the use of the instrument.\nHearing Aid Measurement\nThis test measures the function of a hearing aid on a test instrument. It can help the audiologist determine whether the hearing aid is functioning properly.\nThese tests are designed to electronically determine the response of the balance center in each inner ear by observing eye movements. It is similar in concept to electronic studies of other organs, such as electrocardiogram of the heart action and electroencephalogram of the brain function.\nENG Test (Electronystagmography)\nThis test is administered with the patient in a reclining position. Cool and warm water are alternately irrigated into each ear canal. The resulting responses of the balance mechanism, as expressed through the eye movements, are automatically recorded by electrodes, which are taped on the skin of the face.\nIR (Infrared) Video ENG\nThis test is administered with the patient in a sitting position, wearing special goggles to allow the video recording of eye movements. Cold water is alternately placed into each ear canal to stimulate the balance mechanism. Eye movements are observed on the TV monitor.\nComputerized Cranial Tomography\nThis technique (called CCT or CAT scan) utilizes a computer to analyze the absorption of small quantities of x-ray by the brain. X-rays are best used to view bone. The result is a photograph of the contents of the skull showing any major abnormalities. The first part of the test involves stabilizing the head while the x-ray beam scans the skull. There is no pain or other sensation during the scanning. A second picture is then made while an iodine-containing dye is run into an arm vein. Abnormalities within the skull will appear different than the normal brain tissue.\nSmall abnormalities, particularly within the inner ear, may not be detected on these scans. In that case, a small quantity of air is inserted into the lower part of the back (spinal tap) and the patient is positioned so that the air rises to the area of the inner ear. If the inner ear is normal, the air will enter the inner ear canal. Even a small tumor will prevent filling of the inner ear canal and be seen by this technique. In rare cases, the air will not fill the canal, but yet the diagnosis of a tumor is in doubt. In this case, a small quantity of iodine-containing dye is inserted into the back and x-rays are taken at a later time to exclude the possibility of a small tumor.\nThis technique (MRI) utilizes a computer to analyze the magnetic field in the skull created when one lies within a magnet. The result is a photograph of the contents of the skull showing any abnormalities. During the test, the patient lies quietly within a large tube containing a magnet. There is no pain or other sensation during the procedure. There is no exposure to x-rays during the test. At times, a material is injected into an arm vein to enhance the MRI image. MRI is used best to view soft tissue (brain). It cannot be used in patients who are using a cochlear implant.\nCranial Nerve Tests\nThe hearing and balance nerve are closely associated with other nerves within the brain. Disorders of one may affect the other. In order to establish a diagnosis, it is sometimes necessary to have a complete neurological examination. It may be necessary to determine the response of the tearing mechanism of the eye. This test may give additional information regarding the site of nerve disorders within the temporal bone.\nNerve Excitability Test\nThis test is designed to compare the response of the facial muscles to electrical stimulation. Each facial nerve is stimulated with small electrical currents. The degree of muscle movement on the right and left is compared.\nThis is a computerized test of facial muscle movement in response to electrical stimulation of the facial nerve. Recording electrodes are applied to the face to detect the muscle contractions which are then recorded by the computer.\nVisual Brain Responses\nThis computerized test (VBR) records brain responses to light flashes. These flashes stimulate the eye while electrodes taped to the scalp detect the responses, which are analyzed by computer. This test is useful in the diagnosis of certain neurotologic disorders.\nMetabolic and Allergy Tests\nThis blood test is performed to determine the functions of the thyroid gland. Decreased function may result in inner ear problems.\nThis test evaluates the body\u2019s ability to utilize blood sugar. The inability to metabolize sugar in a normal manner may result in hearing or balance problems. After fasting for 12 hours, the initial blood specimen is taken to determine the sugar content. Sugar solution is then ingested, and further specimens are drawn over a period of five hours.\nImmune Profile Test\nThis blood test determines if the protective mechanism of the body (the immune system) is functioning properly. There are several ear problems which appear to be related to immune abnormalities (autoimmune diseases).\nSkin tests are performed to determine sensitivities to inhalants (pollen, dust, mold) and foods. Diagnosis is based on the degree of response following injection into the outer skin layers. When positive reactions occur to allergy tests, treatment such as allergy shots or medications may be prescribed to control any allergy symptoms.\nRAST Test (Radioallergosorbent Test)\nThe RAST blood test measures antibodies (blood proteins) to specific allergens. It may be used to determine sensitivities to inhalants and some foods.\nFood Challenge Test\nThis test is designed to determine whether certain foods cause symptoms. Foods to be tested are eaten, or may be ingested in purified form. The patient is observed to see if allergic symptoms develop.\nHistamine Titration Test\nHistamine is a substance that is used to test certain types of hearing and balance disorders. This test determines the strength of solution to be used in treating an individual. Several injections are placed in the outer layer of the skin. The degree of reaction indicates the strength of solution to be used.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eprmarketing.com/blog/2005/02/banner-advertising-alive-and-clicking", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2WWTNUN6OVVSW2W45NE33GYXMH6YH3LF", "length": 3975, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eprmarketing.com", "title": "EPR \u00bb Banner advertising: alive and clicking | Blog", "raw_content": "By Paul Entin, as Posted On I-Advertising, 9/16/99 (Edited to make sense for non-list members)\nAs a media buyer and as a representative of a Web site that sells banner advertising, content sponsorships and e-newsletter advertising, I've discussed and written about the role of banner advertising frequently. And given this issue comes up every few weeks on the list in some form, I thought I'd offer a few big picture thoughts:\nLet's compare banners to billboards for a minute. When you're driving 70 mph on the Interstate (65 where I live), you're probably trying to get somewhere and your goal certainly is not to look at all the billboards. But if you're hungry, you're pretty happy to see a billboard for a diner or even a McDonald's directing you to the next exit. With an empty stomach, the information is suddenly relevant.\nOnline, people are also trying to either get somewhere or find some piece of information and their goal is certainly not to look for banner ads. But if the banner ad offers a link directly to that piece of information for which the viewer is searching, then suddenly that banner becomes relevant. We should all remember the old saying, \"People read what interests them and sometimes it's an ad.\"\nTherefore, a benefit-oriented banner ad that speaks instantly to the target audience and is placed in front of the proper target audience can and will attract attention and help achieve your goals and objectives. For one example, Rodale Press (Men's Health, Prevention) runs banners on my client's site FitnessLink (http://www.fitnesslink.com) and their click-throughs have been as high as 12 percent.\nI feel that banners have been unfairly discarded as a viable part of many marketing programs. For a long time, people with ample technical experience but little or no marketing experience were responsible for banner design and placement. When their banners failed to deliver the high returns they expected, they blamed banner advertising, rather than the banner or the site. In addition, many people signed up for free banner link exchanges and when response was below expectations, they blamed banner advertising.\nMany did not consider the fact that their banners were not targeted at their audience but to a mass of surfers on every kind of site imaginable. And it's possible their banners could also be improved.\nRegarding CPMs, buy based on who you are trying to reach and consider the value to you as a marketer. What's it worth to be able to pinpoint CEO's in the U.S. with HHI of $150K? If one alternative is advertising in Fortune, then you'll probably get a better deal almost anywhere online and a better tracking mechanism regardless of what the \"going rate\" is in CPM. Using FitnessLink again as an example, they had to raise their rates and current CPMs range from run of site at 18 to 22 as the only banner on the page.\nThe trend however, is as Adam stated, towards content sponsorships, which offer an added measure of credibility. FitnessLink created 4 new features to help advertisers more finely tune their buy and each feature is being sold as a content sponsorship, only one company per feature. To target women only or men only, for example, the rate translates to a CPM of 25, a very attractive rate if you're trying to reach active women or men who care about their health.\nWe should also remember that marketing is most effective when our messages are delivered with frequency, via multiple channels and over time. Banners may be significantly more effective when used in conjunction with sponsorships, newsletters and traditional offline advertising and PR.\nTargeted email marketing via newsletters, lists and other methods will soon become an essential part of every online marketer's ad program, rather than just a hot trend. And while some marketers may be shifting dollars from banners to email marketing, they may get more impact from a coordinated program that includes both banners and email, among other vehicles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equalexperts.com/blog/author/jdickinson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KXZ2LM7AL7EOFC22PQWR2QZMSH7UJWSE", "length": 350, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.equalexperts.com", "title": "Homeward bound? | Equal Experts", "raw_content": "After starting his career as a programmer, over the last 15 years Jon has consciously increased the breadth of his experience to include the full lifecycle. He fervently believes in the concept of generalising specialists and is keen to see more technology leaders adopt this mindset. He is currently focussed on building our operations in the north.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 3356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitynet.com/news.aspx?nid=81", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ISFCY6UXBVMPFI7FZLPG4BLJAAHK6M3R", "length": 1972, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.equitynet.com", "title": "EquityNet Featured in Upstart Business Journal", "raw_content": "Below is an article by Upstart Business Journal entitled \"Crowdfunding takes the rug out from under VCs, angels\".\nCrowdfunding takes the rug out from under VCs, angels\nBy: Kent Bernhard Jr., Upstart Business Journal Money & Finance Editor\nSome have said equity crowdfunding could put pressure on the venture capital industry. But data compiled by crowdfunder EquityNet suggests it will open whole different categories of upstarts for funding instead.\n\"Crowdfunding is serving the area of capitalism that was previously underserved,\" Judd Hollas, chief executive of the platform launched in 2005 told me. EquityNet, based in Arkansas, connects companies with accredited investors but will expand to offer equity crowdfunding open to all once the SEC issues rules allowing the practice.\nCompanies have raised more than $200 million on the platform since its inception.\nA broader range of companies have raised money on EquityNet than the strictly tech focus of many venture capitalists and angel investors. And investments in those companies have come from a more geographically diverse group than is the case for venture capital.\n\"It's not focused on California or New York or Boston as venture capital has been,\" Hollas said.\nAccording to the company, a completely different type of startup raises money through equity crowdfunding than is in vogue among venture capitalists.\nAbout half of the companies using equity crowdfunding are consumer and business product or service companies, a category that attracts less than 10 percent of VC activity. About 75 percent of the companies raising money on crowdfunding sites are startups, with no revenue, and 75 percent aren't tech startups.\n\"There's a whole business domain out there that was not attractive to venture capital and angel capital,\" said Hollas.\nFurther, the companies that have raised money on EquityNet don't need that much money. At least, they don't need as much money as venture capitalists typically invest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esl-languages.com/en/business-english/course/belgium/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:55Z", "digest": "sha1:O5EJG5GWMWWLO4POAPQWZT76KW4RZCCL", "length": 1633, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.esl-languages.com", "title": "Business English courses - language training for professionals - Belgium - ESL Language studies abroad", "raw_content": "Business English course in Belgium\nIt comes as no surprise that this country located in the heart of Europe, which shares its borders with France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxemburg, should host most European institutions in its capital city, Brussels. A constitutional monarchy since 1830, Belgium has been influenced by many diverse cultures over the course of its history, mostly by the French and Dutch, but also by the Austrian and Spanish ones. It is not surprising either that the country should have three official languages: Dutch, French and German. And that its language communities, especially the French-speaking Walloons and Dutch-speaking Flemish should have occasional disagreements.\nYet, it is a pleasant place to live in. Its geographical features are as beautiful as they are varied, including the magnificent Sambre and Meuse valleys, a 67km long waterfront along the North Sea, a large central plateau and the lush hills and forests of the Ardennes.\nMore than 1000 different beers are brewed here, Belgian chocolate competes with Switzerland\u2019s finest and the local specialty, \u201dmussels & fries\u201d, is a real delight! Belgium is a welcoming country which has established fruitful cultural and commercial ties with its neighbours. It is also the birthplace of artists who marked their time: the Flemish painting of the Renaissance is still widely admired around the world, and so is surrealism, which is said to be the \u201cBelgian soul\u201d. Let\u2019s not forget cartoonist Herg\u00e9, whose \u201cAdventures of Tintin\u201d have enchanted children for generations. Like Tintin, explore the English language and its mysteries \u2026 in Belgium!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 4644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.euroboxpackaging.com/company/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ESBXXONNFGUYDEP2W4GIM2LBM4BCGBPT", "length": 2350, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.euroboxpackaging.com", "title": "EUROBOX - Eurobox", "raw_content": "Since we started as metal manufacturers, we have accumulated significant experience in the management of promotional activities since the 70s. In 1997, Eurobox originated from a company named Turisol Promociones which specializes in the creation of promotional marketing campaigns, and works with different materials such as metal, plastic, wood, textile, ceramic and crystal. After detecting an opportunity in the sector of a medium-high level of metal packaging, Eurobox was launched to conquer the market with the objective of offering a high quality customized product.\nOur service is based on the proactiveness of offering tailor-made solutions to exceed client expectations. As manufacturers, we provide all possible solutions with the aim of working in line with the marketing objectives of our clients.\nEach brand\u2019s identity allows us to create different products for each one, and the collaborative position of the Eurobox team with the client\u2019s product development team allows putting all creativity and objectives into the service with the possibilities offered by the latest technology.\nProduction in Spain and China\nAs regards production, we offer two lines of business: one based on the \u201cmade in Spain\u201d production for those hyper demanding clients who want a technical product with special finishes which are unique in the market and created exclusively by Eurobox, or those clients with campaigns that demand a quick response to be sent to any European country. With automated production, we can manufacture large quantities and this is our speciality. The second line of business is \u201cmade in China\u201d for options which are more flexible and in standard formats which the client can plan in terms of time. This business option is particularly suitable for reduced production runs.\nThroughout the years we have been in the market, our proposition is clear: to provide our clients with safety, from the purchase of raw materials to the varnishes used, all processes are subject to a strict control in compliance with the directives in the food industry.\nFrom large multinationals with a presence in all markets that want to launch a special container on the market each year to distinguish themselves from their competitors, to SMEs that want to give added value to their product by means of metal packaging and in more reduced quantities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/12/flower-imports-to-the-uk-could-become-slower-and-more-expensive-in-the-wake-of-a-hard-brex", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:20Z", "digest": "sha1:U5QOTTI57LODPFKMBUO623T27UEMN42U", "length": 2539, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.euronews.com", "title": "Flower imports to the UK could become slower and more expensive in the wake of a hard Brexit | Euronews", "raw_content": "Flower imports to the UK could become slower and more expensive in the wake of a hard Brexit\nKeeping romance alive in the UK at the time of Brexit requires a degree of effort... in the Netherlands, many of the flowers on sale in Britain start their life here. 12 percent of Dutch roses are directly exported to the UK\n\u201cThe growers bring the flowers to the auctions, I auction them in the morning with the auction at the clock, the buyers buy them and I try to make the highest price out of the market\".\nRoses exported to the UK represent a turnover of 400 millions of euro for the Dutch market\nErik works at the Royal Flora Holland near Amsterdam, the largest trading centre for plants and flowers in the world. He fears that in the case of a hard Brexit, people will pay more for flowers, as new tariffs could apply.\n\u201cMaybe for the consumers, the price will be higher because if the price at my clock is 50 cents it will be 50 cents. That\u2019s the price, but then it still has to be transported to the UK\u201d.\nThe distribution centre of Royal Floral Holland is a hectic crossroads of trolleys that dispatch auctioned flowers to companies that deliver also to the UK.\n\u201cWe still want to export to the UK but it really depends on the kind of Brexit scenario. If it is a hard Brexit, then we fall back to WTO regulations and the UK as a third country, that\u2019s what they mentioned. So you need more people for customs the sanitary and quality checks and that\u2019s going to be the main difference,\" Yme Pasma, chief operations officer at Royal Floral Holland said.\nThe distribution centre at Royal Flora Holland\nEvery two seconds a truck leaves this place to deliver flowers around the world.\n\u201cThere is one lucky thing: the UK mother\u2019s day is just one day after the Brexit, so all the flowers are already there, so mothers don\u2019t have to worry about that\u201d.\n\u201cWe deliver happiness. Everybody is happy if the delivery is on time of course\u201d\nMarius\u2019 company delivers 85% of the flowers to the UK. He is worried about possible delays caused by controls at the borders.\n\u201cIn case of a no deal Brexit it is going to be a lot of paperwork, a lot of waiting time at the border. I don\u2019t know if we can go by train anymore, so I think there will be another day, other 24 hours added. We don\u2019t have much information of what is going to happen. Nobody has\u201d.\nThese roses are now ready to reach the UK to make someone's day more special. 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He gladly accepted the invitation and the church kindly paid his air fare. If you had been with us, you probably you would have been struck by two things, the difference between each church and the churches\u2019 isolation, due to the immense distances we had to cover \u2014 2300 miles. We drove from our home...\nHeartcry in Argentina\nHeartcry in Argentina There are various reasons for expecting that a meeting in Argentina dealing with the doctrines of grace would turn out a complete failure. Firstly, there is much ignorance on this subject, among churches and church leaders; and even a lack of interest in historic Christianity. Secondly, the speaker chosen for this meeting was an unknown pastor from Peru. Thirdly, the place it was held in was a rather run-down mission hall on the outskirts of a Buenos Aires suburb, a considerable distance from the nearest main railway station (a last-minute change forced on the organisers by the original hosts). ...\nBy Don Donell\nOn 31 October 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Church \u2013 and Sola Scripturabecame the battle cry of Protestant Europe and the dread of every Roman Catholic scholar. Once again this battle cry has been sounded, but now in the southernmost part of Latin America \u2013 Argentina. ARBCA missionary Don Donell organised the first distinctly reformed pastors\u2019 conference in the Cordoba province, and the first for many years in the city of Buenos Aires. The conference focussed on the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. In Argentina millions live under the spiritual tyranny of Catholic traditions and pagan superstitions. The Bible...\nGod has been faithful to our small mission work in Argentine. We have come to realise more clearly than ever that God saves people \u2018where they are\u2019. Their sins and ignorance, and the consequences of previous bad teaching, must be handled with a gospel spirit. If you think it should be easy to maintain \u2018the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace\u2019 with only two new converts in a nine-month-old mission \u2013 well think again! Our enemy does not sleep! Jealousy In December there arose such envy and jealousy between the two converts that I was sure it would put a...\nIam a Reformed missionary living in Villa Carlos Paz. This is a city in Cordoba province, a nine-hour drive into the interior of Argentina. I am now seeing a different kind of Argentina \u2013 a nation whose landscape is as varied as its people and culture \u2013 from the one I studied (or envisioned) before arriving on 11 September 2001. It is also different from the one I experienced when living for 10 months in the grand city of Buenos Aires. Questions The fact that we arrived from a country \u2018under terrorist attack\u2019 to join a people who had been under siege from economic and...\nArea: 1 million square miles. Neighbouring countries : Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay. Environment : Argentina\u2019s climate, although mainly temperate, varies from subtropical in the north to subantarctic in the south-west. Its terrain ranges from fertile Pampas in the north to Patagonian steppes in the south. The Andes lie to the west (Aconcagua 6,960 metres). Population : 38 million. Infant mortality : 18 deaths/1,000 live births. Life expectancy : 75 years. Capital : Buenos Aires conurbation (17.9 million). Other cities : Cordoba (1.4 million); San Justo (1.2 million); Rosario (1.2 million). Urbanisation : 88%. Ethnic...\nMissionary Spotlight \u2013 Argentina in crisis\nAs the news headlines over the last 18 months testify, Argentina\u2019s major economic crisis, unresolved for five years, has come to a head. Tensions climaxed in December 2001, when Argentina had five different presidents in 10 days, and 26 people died in street riots. But this is not the Republic\u2019s real crisis. Hopelessness The Falklands War of 1981 ended a horrendous chapter in the lives of many Argentinians. Up to then the military government had carried on a \u2018dirty war\u2019 against its own people, with the systematic disappearance, imprisonment, torture and death of nearly 80,000 people over seven years. However, almost from the...\nMissionary Spotlight \u2013 Argentina today\nArgentina is a marvellously rich and varied country, populated by 38 million people, one third of whom are concentrated in and around the capital city Buenos Aires. Another third are in the richest province (Buenos Aires). The rest live in a million cities, towns and villages scattered throughout the Republic. The literacy rate is among the highest in South America, even though the average schoolchild reads fewer books per year than in other South American countries. Roots Where did the Argentine people come from? Sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors descended from Peru and Bolivia, while others explored inland along the River Paran\u00e1. The native population...\nBy Charles Creech\nMissionary Spotlight \u2013 The challenge of Argentina\nIam a missionary from the US-based Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and am privileged to be working with members of the St Andrew\u2019s Presbytery in north-eastern Argentina. My colleagues and I assist this presbytery in church-planting in a town called Gualeguaych\u00fa. We are seeking to establish a Reformed Evangelical church, as well as a Bible seminary. Gualeguaych\u00fa has population of about 100,000. Around it are other towns of a similar size, both Argentinian and (across the international bridge) Uruguayan. 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Check out this story on eveningsun.com: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/crime/police-logs/2015/04/01/police-log-april-1/32462013/\nThe Evening Sun Published 11:37 a.m. ET April 1, 2015\nHANOVER MARCH 31\n8:11 a.m. A burglary was reported in the 100 block of East Chestnut Street where a shed was forcibly entered and scrap metal was removed from inside.\n1:26 p.m. Lamar Noble, 37, of Hanover was arrested on outstanding warrants in the area of Stock and Eichelberger streets. He was turned over to a constable for further disposition.\n5:04 p.m. Christopher R. Myers, 32, of Hanover was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Maryland following a traffic stop in the first block of Maple Avenue. He was turned over to the York County Sheriff's Department for further disposition.\n6:09 p.m. Theft of computer equipment which occurred overnight was reported from outside a business in the 100 block of Frederick Street.\n6:17 p.m. Dustin Winstead-Marks, 24, of Hanover was cited for harassment following a domestic altercation with a female in the first block of Trudy Court.\n7:22 p.m. A harassment charge is pending against a 21-year-old Hanover man following a domestic altercation with a female in the 100 block of Broadway.\nPENN TWP. MARCH 31\n9:34 a.m. Investigated issues involving children in the 500 block of South Franklin Street and contacted York County Children and Youth Services.\n1:21 p.m. Investigated possible child abuse in the 1300 block of Brad Drive and contacted York County Children and Youth Services.\n2:38 p.m. Money and identification were reported stolen from a wallet in the 800 block of Baltimore Street.\n4:31 p.m. A neighbor dispute involving children playing near cars was reported on Beck Mill Road.\n4:39 p.m. A hit-and-run accident was reported in the 700 block of Frederick Street where a vehicle struck a utility pole. 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He also said he was going to use a shovel on law enforcement, assaulted two other people and was taken into custody.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/crime/police-logs/2015/04/01/police-log-april-1/32462013/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventsinusa.net/event-colorado-user-group-2019-fort-morgan-15705591", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YUKNZMAHDAJALLZER5IPP56GV7D5CFG4", "length": 1553, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eventsinusa.net", "title": "Colorado User Group 2019 Fort Morgan From 19 to 20 March", "raw_content": "User Group Definition: A user group meeting is an opportunity for you to meet with Caselle software experts and other local Caselle users to improve the overall user experience with the software. Caselle software users are encouraged to attend and be ready to discuss their experience with Caselle Product Owners and Business Analysts whose primary function is to improve software effectiveness. While software training will be a part of this meeting, it is not the primary purpose of a User Group. Goals of a User Group: Help you learn how to get more out of your software investment by discussing how you currently use the software. Increase your understanding of how the software is used \u201cin the field.\" Learn ways to be more effective in your role in the community. Participate in interactive discussions on best practices and share ideas with Caselle Staff for future software enhancements.\nTentative Agenda: Tuesday March 19, 2019 9:00 \u2013 9:15 am \u2013 Introduction 9:15 \u2013 9:45 am \u2013 System Management/User Setup/Online Setup 9:45 \u2013 10:15 am \u2013 Cash Receipting 10:15 \u2013 10:30 am \u2013 Break 10:30 am \u2013 11:45 pm \u2013 Utility Management / Service Orders 12:00 \u2013 1:30 pm \u2013 Lunch Break1:45 \u2013 3:00 pm \u2013 General Ledger/Excel Add In /Budgeting 3:00 \u2013 3:10 pm \u2013 Break 3:10 - 4:25 pm \u2013 Accounts Payable/ Purchase Orders 4:25 \u2013 4:35 pm \u2013 Break 4:35 \u2013 5:30 pm \u2013 User Group Choice Wednesday March 20, 20199:00 \u2013 10:15 am \u2013 Payroll/Timekeeping 10:15 \u2013 10:30 am \u2013 Break 10:30 \u2013 11:30 am \u2013 User Group Choice 11:30 \u2013 12:00 pm \u2013 Open Forum/ Q & A.\n2019 SFST Instructor Update-...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eximargentina.com.ar/english/licenses/izak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MZ7X5K4VAJO5CVC3GTDBH5OQVCI7NI6U", "length": 1695, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.eximargentina.com.ar", "title": "IZAK - EXIM | Licensing | Argentina . Paraguay . Uruguay", "raw_content": "Izak Zenou was born on the outskirts of Paris, where he moved as a teenager to study literature. It was in one of his classrooms, coincidentally, where he met Vareille, a teacher who shocked by his innate talent, encouraged him to pursue his art. Two decades later, he continues to appreciate it.\nThat\u2019s how a17 year old brand minded, with a sharp and enthusiastic overwhelming direction to the furute Izak was born. In 1998, Izak moved to New York. The Fifth Avenue store Henri Bendel hired him as an illustrator, just after leaving Paris for Manhattan and he never stopped nor turned back...\nIZAK has a special gift for capturing the pure essence that makes beauty, thanks to a sixth sense that simply cannot be learned.\nFor years the whimsical and witty Izak\u2019s creations had led fashion to novel places. Their women are attractive, optimistic, self-confident, charming, feminine and modern-exactly how women themselves- idealize.\nIn the United States, Izak products are distributed by Target, Sephora, Apple stores, AT & T and Verizon, Macy's, Dillards, and specialty gift shops throughout the country.\nThe Primary Target brand is women oriented towards fashion between 14 and 35 years old. His works in watercolor convey a sense of freedom, autonomy, beauty, tenderness, companionship, friendship and education. Finally, it conveys everything a woman wants to be a part of.\nAs a lifestyle and accessories brand, Izak focuses on product categories that appeal to a young and fashion-oriented female demographic. The products stand for themselves while working in harmony with already existing market more neutral designs, giving a touch of color and fun to life. Embody good taste and design.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1085746/Aaron-Ramsey-Arsenal-Juventus-announce-transfer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XDLP7YUPZA7LPG3GDK2PIR5PGMRWDOIS", "length": 1172, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.express.co.uk", "title": "Aaron Ramsey: Arsenal star issues emotional statement after Juventus announce transfer | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk", "raw_content": "Aaron Ramsey: Arsenal star issues emotional statement after Juventus announce transfer\nIn a statement at around 7pm, Juventus confirmed the signing of free signing of Ramsey on a four-year-deal, starting on July 1.\nJuventus will also incur additional costs of 3.7million euros, to be paid before 10th July 2019.\nRamsey will earn around \u00a3400,000 per week, which will make him the highest-paid British player of all time.\nThe 28-year-old had been heavily linked with a move to Juventus after Arsenal withdrew a contract offer in September.\nManager Unai Emery is understood to have not viewed Ramsey as central to his plans going forward.\nAnd Ramsey has opted to take his talents to Turin, following in the footsteps of Wales legend Ian Rush.\nIn a statement posted on his social media accounts, Ramsey thanked Arsenal fans and vowed to give 100 per cent for the club until he leaves.\nAaron Ramsey's statement on Instagram (Image: INSTAGRAM)\nIn his 11 years at Arsenal, Ramsey has made over 350 appearances in all competitions.\nHe has scored 61 goals and provided 57 assists.\nRamsey is also the only Arsenal player in the club's history to score multiple FA Cup-winning goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 6892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.f3nws.com/news/epa-broke-the-law-with-pruitt-s-43k-phone-booth-50e5611", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:G4MTXHVMEYQ4XBRFSUUZIFJGLFT55VS2", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.f3nws.com", "title": "EPA broke the law with Pruitt's $43K phone booth - F3News", "raw_content": "EPA broke the law with Pruitt's $43K phone booth\nmsnbc.com 4/17/2018 12:59:03 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 198.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.facilitiesnet.com/firesafety/article/Planning-Your-Next-Fire-Alarm-System-Upgrade--12409", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OPKUYL7OUXTU7IARYONFPJNLHU5X7YBF", "length": 7555, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.facilitiesnet.com", "title": "Planning Your Next Fire Alarm System Upgrade - Facilities Management Insights", "raw_content": "Planning Your Next Fire Alarm System Upgrade\nBy Wayne D. Moore Fire Safety/Protection\nOTHER PARTS OF THIS ARTICLEPt. 1: This PagePt. 2: Fire Code Questions to Ask Before UpgradingPt. 3: Fire Safety Products\nImagine this fairly common scenario: The fire alarm system for your facility has reached the end of its operational life, and it's time to upgrade the system. You will want to ensure the system upgrade meets the budget, the requirements of the state and local codes that govern your facility, and your organization's fire protection goals.\nA first question is whether you actually know what those organizational fire protections goals are. If you don't, now would be a good time to find out. Your organizational fire protection goals will most likely form around a site-specific analysis of the following categories: life safety, property protection, mission continuity, heritage preservation and environmental protection.\nLife Safety: Having a life safety goal is one step towards being able to provide occupants adequate warning, so they will have time to escape when a fire occurs. This goal typically involves the use of total detection coverage, primarily using smoke detectors. NFPA 72-2010, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, defines \"total coverage\" as providing detection in all rooms, halls, storage areas, basements, attics, lofts, above suspended ceilings, closets, enclosed stairways, dumbwaiter shafts, elevator shafts and chutes. Obviously, the ambient environmental conditions in some of these areas may make it inappropriate to use smoke detection \u2014 attics, for example.\nBut, the intent of this life safety goal is to provide early detection and early warning for both the occupants of the facility and for the responding public fire department or private corporate emergency responders.\nProperty Protection: With a property protection goal, the owner will strive to limit the damage to the facility and meet special requirements of the insurance company. To meet this goal, the owner may choose to detect a certain size fire or simply rely on an automatic sprinkler system. If the goal is to detect the fire sooner than sprinkler system actuations, then the fire alarm system design will certainly require more detection than the minimum detection required by the building code. Again, depending on the choice of detection and the limits placed on the size of fire detected, limiting the extent of damage can provide similar results for the environment as the life safety design.\nMission Continuity: The goal of mission continuity is to preserve the ability of the organization to stay in business after a fire. A typical building code fire alarm system design will usually not meet this goal. The extent of the detection needed to meet this goal could, in some cases, greatly exceed that used for a detection design to meet a life safety goal.\nHeritage Preservation: In a few instances you may be dealing with a historic building. In this case, the fire protection goal for heritage preservation requires a detailed analysis of the elements within a facility that need to remain intact following a fire. You will also need to ensure that the installation of the fire alarm system does not disturb or destroy the historical elements of the facility. Even if your facility has no historical significance, you may have business records or other business elements that provide continuity to your operations that you will need to preserve during a fire. You must carefully consider how to best protect such elements.\nEnvironmental Protection: In the situation where the goal of environmental protection is primary, the impact on the environment that a fire in a particular facility might have trumps other goals. A fire in a paint warehouse built near the aquifer for a large city could cause an environmental disaster if the water runoff from the firefighting efforts contaminates the water supply. A facility may include building materials that were allowed in the era when the building was built, but over time research has determined that those materials represent contaminants or emit toxic gases when burned in a fire. You will need much more information regarding the environmental impact of a fire in an older property. In such cases, every element of the fire protection design should consider how to rapidly contain a fire to the smallest possible area within the facility, and promptly automatically extinguish the fire.\nSome environmental benefits can accrue from total smoke detection coverage. Getting the fire department to the building while the fire remains small will keep the amount of water applied to the fire to a minimum. This will, in turn, limit the damage to the building. Less damage means that the restoration will dispose of less material in the landfill. Less water application means less contaminants and water run-off into the aquifer. These results help to reduce the fire's impact on the environment.\nCode and Other Questions\nOnce you have clearly defined the fire protection goals for your facility, you should also become aware of any local jurisdictional requirements that may have been developed since the first system was installed. What building code and fire code has your jurisdiction adopted? Does the jurisdiction have any special requirements that exceed those in the building code or fire code?\nAs an example, in February 2003, the fire in the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., resulted in legislation affecting every business in the state. The legislation eliminated the grandfather clause from the codes and provided greater enforcement power to the state and local fire marshals. The new laws affected every type of business and required mandatory fire alarm system upgrades, mandatory sprinkler system installations and upgrades, and adoption and enforcement of the existing building provisions of Life Safety Code.\nAs with any upgrade you want to avoid \"crisis\" installations as they will increase costs. If you are told you need to upgrade your fire alarm system immediately then you should hire a professional fire protection engineer to negotiate in your stead.\nYou also need to know how the fire alarm system must perform. You will need to determine the system's matrix of operation. Said another way, what do you expect the systems to do? For instance, in addition to sounding an alarm to notify the occupants of your facility, will the system need to interface with other fire protection systems in the building? Do you have new emergency communications needs given various severe weather events or possible terrorist activities? Who will monitor the system? Will you use an in-house security force or a contracted monitoring company? Have numerous false alarms plagued your existing system? Has your existing system produced high maintenance costs? Does your company have a preferred fire alarm system vendor that essentially locks you into their product offerings? In addition to notifying the building occupants and the fire department, does your facility have other fire protection systems that the fire alarm system must control or monitor? How do you plan to notify the fire department or your own emergency responders?\nAll of these answers will impact the upgrades you will make to your fire alarm system and how sophisticated those upgrades will need to be. Knowing all of the goals and codes will help you better understand what your fire alarm system upgrade will entail.\nContinue Reading: Showcase: Fire Safety\nFire Code Questions to Ask Before Upgrading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 14235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairborndailyherald.com/sports/31441/family-teammates-a-blessing-for-wilkerson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JBRSUHSHSNIPAGUSBIVOT7KGEJL4HWHJ", "length": 4914, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.fairborndailyherald.com", "title": "Family, teammates a blessing for Wilkerson - Fairborn Daily Herald", "raw_content": "Family, teammates a blessing for Wilkerson\nSubmitted photo Cedadrville University women\u2019s volleyball senior Taylor Wilkerson (center) is joined by her parents, Mike and Christy Wilkerson, prior to a home match.\nCEDARVILLE \u2014 Senior volleyball player Taylor Wilkerson may not have had a choice but to choose Cedarville University for her athletic career.\nBut that doesn\u2019t mean she regrets it.\nWilkerson\u2019s grandparents and parents attended Cedarville, and she can count over 40 extended family members who have been students at the institution over the years.\nWhile attending Cedarville may as well be a family tradition, Wilkerson said she didn\u2019t know much about the university prior to attending. Her parents were far from forcing classic Cedarville buzzwords like \u2018community\u2019 or \u2018intentionality\u2019 into Wilkerson\u2019s mind.\n\u201cMy parents never pushed it on me. I just knew my parents went to college there,\u201d Wilkerson said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what Cedarville entailed. Then I came on my visit for my first time and it was awesome. I knew at that time that\u2019s where the Lord wants me.\u201d\nWilkerson stayed with her cousin, who was a freshman when Wilkerson visited campus for the first time. Coincidentally, her cousin lived in Printy Hall with a few volleyball players. The visit shattered Wilkerson\u2019s assumption that volleyball players were disconnected from the rest of campus.\n\u201cI got to interact with people who were in the volleyball world and people who were not,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThe two combined surprised me since the volleyball team wasn\u2019t in their own world as athletes. It was a community and everyone was on the same page.\u201d\nNot only has Wilkerson enjoyed a culture infused with a love for God and a love for her teammates, but she\u2019s also been able to witness to others on the court after every match.\nWhile she recognizes sets can get tight and matches can end in heartbreaking fashion for either side, more often than not, she\u2019s still been able to pray for opposing players after nearly every single one of her matches in her four-year career at Cedarville.\nWilkerson\u2019s first head coach at the University, Doug Walters, instilled an attitude of unselfishness and took the opportunity to pray for every team they play, and new head coach Greg Smith has continued to reinforce this trend.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really special,\u201d Wilkerson said. \u201cYes, we\u2019re competing against teams, but we\u2019re competing for their hearts afterwards. If you can compete well and gain respect from those girls, you have a better platform to speak with them.\u201d\nEven when competition runs high, Wilkerson said teams are usually accepting to taking a letter from the girls and are accepting of prayer. While beating a team in a tight match may cause girls to be less receptive, it\u2019s not been much of a roadblock, says Wilkerson.\n\u201cYou definitely run into that,\u201d she stated. \u201cYou try to have humility and that\u2019s where we really try to use the power of prayer going into the week before playing them.\u201d\nWilkerson\u2019s family isn\u2019t only connected to Cedarville. Multiple branches of her family have affiliations to South America, with specific missionary work in Brazil and Portugal.\nWilkerson visited Brazil in early elementary school where her grandparents were missionaries, but doesn\u2019t remember much from the trip. She said she intends to return one day.\nThat step should be a little easier, as her fianc\u00e9, former Cedarville soccer player Paulo Pinto, hails from Brazil. Upon graduation, Wilkerson plans to live in Chicago as an elementary teacher. However, the two have expressed mutual interest to return to Brazil long-term.\nNow closing in on the final part of her career, Wilkerson reflected on her time on campus. While her family was rooted in the corn fields of Cedarville, Wilkerson\u2019s experience has been unique with the Yellow Jackets.\n\u201cI love that we\u2019re very open with each other. We\u2019re closer, because of the bond that we share as sisters in Christ. We spend so much time together and that helps us walk with the Lord,\u201d she said.\nShe said she wished she would have soaked up her time with the Yellow Jackets more and that the four years at Cedarville went by faster than she thought they would.\n\u201cI\u2019m gonna miss it,\u201d Wilkerson said. \u201cMy journey here, even with the coaching change, it\u2019s still been a blessing. It\u2019s been awesome and I\u2019ve learned so much.\u201d\nFor more information on Cedarville University athletics visit www. yellowjackets.cedarville.edu.\nhttps://www.fairborndailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/10/web1_taylor02.jpgSubmitted photo Cedadrville University women\u2019s volleyball senior Taylor Wilkerson (center) is joined by her parents, Mike and Christy Wilkerson, prior to a home match.\nHi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Family, teammates a blessing for Wilkerson. Here is a link to that story: https://www.fairborndailyherald.com/sports/31441/family-teammates-a-blessing-for-wilkerson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 7527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fashiondesignweeks.com/fashion-trends/victorias-secret-special-flight-to-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ID66WS45EC5HHR32OKMEG3XJ3I34OHWL", "length": 1247, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.fashiondesignweeks.com", "title": "Victoria\u2019s Secret Special Flight to London | Fashion Design Weeks", "raw_content": "Victoria\u2019s Secret Special Flight to London\nIt is the highlight of the Victoria\u2019s Secret calendar \u2013 a lingerie runway show demanding months of preparation.\nAnd with the 2014 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show taking place in London on Tuesday, the models \u2013 all 40 of them \u2013 descended on JFK airport in New York on Sunday to catch their transatlantic flight.\nThe ladies looked very much ready to grace the catwalk in London, with glossy locks, flawless complexions and looking as svelte as ever.\nEach modelsported a branded hooded sweatshirt in either white or charcoal grey and a pair of skintight black jeans or leather-look trousers.\nThe catwalk show is being hosted by the UK capital for the first time and will take place at Earl\u2019s Court Arena, airing in the US on December 9.\nAccording to The Sun newspaper, the models have been placed on strict calorie controlled diets to ensure they look their very best.\nThey are being provided with special menus at the London Edition hotel where they are staying with no dishes over 500 calories.\nTags: 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Adriana Lima in London, Alessandra Ambrosio in London, Victoria's Secret, Victoria's Secret Angels, Victoria's Secret Models, Victoria's Secret Special Flight to London", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/philadelphia/news/press-releases/philadelphia-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-deadly-firebombing-of-federal-witness-family", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:30Z", "digest": "sha1:5RRD2I6QVXTPSBHA72TDD24J2MHCQPEO", "length": 2294, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fbi.gov", "title": "Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Deadly Firebombing of Federal Witness\u2019 Family \u2014 FBI", "raw_content": "Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Deadly Firebombing of Federal Witness\u2019 Family\nWASHINGTON\u2014A Philadelphia man was sentenced today to life in prison for his role in the October 9, 2004 retaliatory firebombing that killed six members of a federal witness\u2019s family, including four children.\nAssistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge Edward J. Hanko of the FBI\u2019s Philadelphia Division made the announcement. U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick imposed the sentence.\nRobert Merritt, 34, was convicted following a jury trial on May 13, 2013, of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and the murders of the family members of a federal witness, Eugene Coleman.\nAt the direction of convicted drug kingpin Kaboni Savage, Merritt and his cousin, Lamont Lewis, participated in the firebombing of the Coleman family home in retaliation for Coleman\u2019s testimony against Savage. Evidence introduced at trial showed that Merritt threw a gas can with a lit cloth fuse, and then a second gas can, into the occupied Philadelphia row house in the predawn hours of Oct. 9, 2004. Six people, including four children ranging in age from 15 months to 15 years, were killed in the ensuing fire.\nCo-defendants Kaboni Savage and Kadida Savage were also convicted at the May 2013 trial of the firebombing. Kaboni Savage was sentenced to death for 12 counts of murder in aid of racketeering. Kidada Savage was sentenced to life in prison. Lamont Lewis, who pleaded guilty before trial, is awaiting sentencing.\nThe case was investigated by the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service\u2014Criminal Investigations, the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office, and the Maple Shade, New Jersey, Police Department. The United States Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshals Service, and the Philadelphia / Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force also assisted in the investigation.\nThe case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Steve Mellin of the Criminal Division\u2019s Capital Case Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys David E. Troyer and John M. Gallagher of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fentonchessclub.com/2017/01/rearranged-match.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BRSV4JMZTUA762MJODIT4JDXL46P3KBU", "length": 106, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fentonchessclub.com", "title": "Fenton Chess Club: Rearranged Match", "raw_content": "Rearranged Match\nThe 'A' team match at Cheddleton 'C' this Friday has been postponed until the 17th March.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2018/10/22/movie-review-sorry-to-bother-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZWKW3AZMRSK37SSXECK7JKUKT3Q7ZAE", "length": 8877, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.fernbyfilms.com", "title": "Movie Review \u2013 Sorry To Bother You \u2013 Fernby Films", "raw_content": "Movie Review \u2013 Sorry To Bother You\nOctober 22, 2018 October 18, 2018 Rodney Twelftree\nPrincipal Cast : Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Armie Hammer, Danny Glover, Steven Yuen, Kate Berlant, Michael X Sommers, Robert Longstreet, Forest Whitaker. Voices of David Cross, Lily James, Patton Oswalt, Rosario Dawson.\nSynopsis: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.\nMy wife and I have entirely opposing views on exactly what constitutes a \u201cgood\u201d film. For her, romance, straightforward narrative, and a more respectable aesthetic are her preference, which is fine because the Hallmark Channel has to get its demographic from somewhere. I\u2019m more open to experimental or \u201carty\u201d fare by comparison, films that come at their story from a different angle, and if there\u2019s a truth to Boots Riley\u2019s debut feature film, Sorry To Bother You, it\u2019s one of astonishing virtuosity and absolute madness. Almost impossibly dark, with a satirical streak three miles wide running through it, Sorry To Bother You is a film that will appeal to those open to different cinematic experiences, and will appal those whose typical viewing experience is more\u2026 shall we say, traditional. This is a most un-traditional film, and one worth much discussion.\nIn an alternative present-day Oakland, Cassius \u201cCash\u201d Green (Lakeith Stanfield \u2013 Get Out) lives with his free spirited girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson \u2013 Thor: Ragnarok) in his Uncles basement (Terry Crews \u2013 The Expendables) and barely survives. He manages to obtain a job working at a call center for RegalView, where he is exhorted to \u201cstick to the script\u201d and use his \u201cwhite voice\u201d to sell products to customers, something he becomes exceptionally good at. Soon, Cash is promoted to the position of \u201cpower caller\u201d, where he is given money and influence and leaves the cube farm existence of the more traditional call center environment. His boss, Mr _____ (Omari Hardwick \u2013 Kick Ass) eventually invites him to a party thrown by Steve Lift (Armie Hammer \u2013 The Lone Ranger), an incredibly wealthy entrepreneur and founder of WorryFree, a company promising a life of no bills and free lodging and food, only with the stipulation of a lifetime contract to work for the company. With his call-center friends going on strike and trying to unionise, Cash is torn between the promise of extreme wealth and security and losing all his friends, who see him as nothing more than a sellout for crossing the picket lines.\nMy relatively brief synopsis above barely scratches the surface of the magic to be found in this daring, incredibly brave movie. The film\u2019s approach is one of jet-black sarcasm, a blistering statement on everything from conformity, social expectations, wealth and power, racism, unionism, populism and even extreme socialism, with Armie Hammer\u2019s Steve Lift the precursor to what appears to be human genocide in one of the most off-the-wall plot twists I\u2019ve ever seen in a movie. I mean seriously, Sorry To Bother You goes to some amazingly crazy places, places that aren\u2019t to everyone\u2019s tastes. Heck, they even almost offended even I, and I\u2019m quite liberal with this sort of thing. The film certainly offended my wife, who proclaimed it one of the worst films she\u2019s ever seen, so for what it\u2019s worth take my recommendation with a fair helping of salt. If you want a short comparative review, this film blends the hopelessness of Office Space and the off-the-wall humour of Be Kind Rewind (which is funny considering an in-film promotional short was directed by \u201cMichel Dongry\u201d, an alternative of sorts to director Michel Gondry himself), with the visual dialectic akin to Kubrick\u2019s Eyes Wide Shut or Scorcese\u2019s Wolf Of Wall Street. It\u2019s a film of unique style.\nIt\u2019s worth noting that this is not a film you can watch casually with the kids in the next room \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of language and visual elements that make the film a definite adults-only watch \u2013 but it\u2019s one that commands your full attention to dig every nuance from it. Boots Riley\u2019s script opens with a largely benign, kooky kind of way, before transforming into a Kubrickian-nightmare of gargantuan scope that will have you utterly gobsmacked by the end, wondering what it was you just watched. The film\u2019s look at corporatization and the commodification of people within society is starkly brutal, and Riley\u2019s script hones in not so much on building a world as it does injecting a sense of the ridiculous within our own. Unwatchable game shows and constant advertising for WorryFree thrust the story\u2019s creepy, insidiously malignant sense of dehumanisation towards us throughout the movie, and as the characters \u2013 almost none of whom are really developed past stereotypes (which fits the film\u2019s theme of the same thing, to be honest) \u2013 move through Cash\u2019s life there\u2019s a sense of impending tragedy about what\u2019s coming.\nIt\u2019s a unique, thoroughly captivating visual experience, to say the least, and the film features some delightful supporting roles from the likes of Danny Glover, Omari Hardwick, Steven Yuen and Hammer himself, all of whom commit to the material with relish. The theme of subverting appearances, personified by the use of the telemarketers\u2019 using \u201cwhite voices\u201d to trick the customers into believing they are somebody else \u2013 selling them an experience, so to speak \u2013 is absolutely hilarious and darkly telling that people of different races feel the need to conform to a \u201cwhite normal\u201d within Trump\u2019s America of today: the film is precipitously true in this respect, which should horrify most viewers, as it did me. The white voices of the black characters are performed by actors we never see, David Cross, Lily James and Patton Oswalt\u2019s tones can be heard throughout the film\u2019s latter acts, while Rosario Dawson\u2019s offbeat Golden Elevator Lady voice has to be heard to be believed. Kooky isn\u2019t a strong enough word to describe the aesthetic of Sorry To Bother You, but it\u2019ll suffice for this review.\nShouldering the film\u2019s scathing diatribe on race and conformity is Lakeith Stanfield, whose role in this is substantially different from his breakout performance in Get Out, and yet in some ways this film could almost be a second cousin to Jordan Peele\u2019s magnum opus. Both tackle similar themes, although Sorry To Bother You\u2019s climactic mutated finale goes far further than Get Out\u2019s regenerative racist undertones. Stanfield is excellent as Cash, his aimlessness in life and sudden success manifesting as both euphoric and terrifying and out-of-body confusing all at once. The film parodies internet fame, skewers the telemarketer mandate and pushes the boundaries of good taste in every respect \u2013 Tessa Thompson\u2019s character, Detroit, engages in an art project in which she allows people to throw capitalist ephemera at her while dressed in a hugely revealing bikini garment, all focused on the fact that we pull obscene mineral wealth out of Africa whilst paying literally nothing for it \u2013 and if you\u2019ve ever wanted to see a half-man, half-horse mutant with an enormous penis, you\u2019ll finally get your wish.\nAt times too bizarre for words, at other times an astonishingly laser-like disembowelling of the dark themes and concepts we struggle with as a society today, Sorry To Bother You is a work of absurdist genius and a confrontational masterpiece. Again, I reiterate that a lot of people who pick this up thinking it\u2019s a traditional comedy or lighthearted romp will be either appalled or disgusted by what they witness, and Boots Riley\u2019s film is not one for the faint-hearted, but those open to the obscure and bizarre will find much to savour and pick apart with this impressive debut feature. Sorry To Bother You will bother you if you let it in and pick up the call, as you really, really should.\nMovie Review \u2013 Dracula (1958)\nMovie Review \u2013 Apostle\n2 Thoughts to \u201cMovie Review \u2013 Sorry To Bother You\u201d\nYour wife sounds like mine. The only thing I\u2019d add is that my wife pretty much requires a happy ending, seen to as complete a conclusion as possible. I even wrote it about a few years back\u2026\nhttps://dellonmovies.blogspot.com/2014/04/on-my-mind-not-happy-enough-ending.html\nAs for the movie at hand, I agree this is such an absorbing journey it demands your full attention and your dissection of what you saw. There is just so much to dive into. In my own review, I note that once we get into the third act you\u2019re either all in or out on this movie. And yeah, that completely depends on your tolerance level for experimental cinema because it definitely forges its own path.\nOh boy, I feel ya. WIves are great and all but when they don\u2019t like the same kinds of films as you, it can be tough! LOL\nFeatured Horror\tMovie Review \u2013 Apostle\nHammer Horror\tMovie Review \u2013 Dracula (1958)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 9788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/yogi-adityanath-is-a-dabang-dynamic-leader-uttarakhand-cm-t-s-rawat/594913/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZD6AEPMJQHY2LPB6LZGFEVEFTPMUZDDS", "length": 3083, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.financialexpress.com", "title": "Yogi Adityanath is a 'Dabang', dynamic leader: Uttarakhand CM T S Rawat - The Financial Express", "raw_content": "Yogi Adityanath is a \u2018Dabang\u2019, dynamic leader: Uttarakhand CM T S Rawat\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat did not expect to win 57 seats in the state assembly elections 2017.\nTS Rawat said that Adityanath was a dynamic and frank leader and he would be best for Uttar Pradesh where law and order problems are on the rise. (PTI)\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat did not expect to win 57 seats in the state assembly elections 2017. Speaking to IE, the newly appointed Chief Minister said that the Bhartiya Janata Party had expected about 44 seats in the state but people gave them more than they had asked for. He said that the reason for such an overwhelming victory was the people\u2019s faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On being asked about the reason for his name being chosen as the CM, he admitted that he had never demanded anything, not even the assembly poll ticket. He, in fact, says that when he first received the ticket, he had denied it. His only interest lied in the organisational work for the party. And for the last 36 years, he had been tirelessly working, first for the RSS and then the BJP. Receiving the party ticket was getting pearls without asking for them, he says. He adds that the party had given him responsibilities and he would meet them. 5 of the 9 ministers who took their oaths with Rawat were former Congress leaders. Speaking if they and the need to induct the Rawat says that they were not rebels and had left their ministries to come to this side, which was a sacrifice on their part.\nSpeaking about the migration from hills, he says that the best way to tackle the problem would be to provide health, education and employment in hilly villages. The state government would focus on creating employment opportunities such as horticulture, animal husbandry among others. He added that the government would bring major policy changes to bring medicare to remote villages. He also spoke about stopping tax evasion. When asked about the government\u2019s agenda to ease the debt, he said that the forest sources in the state had become a liability and the income from them is not even enough to meet the salary demands of forest employees. He further said that that the state had minerals, but was unable to use them. He even spoke about illegal, that mining and leakage in the hydro sector. He assured that they could fix all the problems of the states when they can solve the problem of illegal mining.\nRawat also spoke about the controversies following the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Rawat said that Mahant Adityanath was a sanyasi and had left his home and lived in a mutt. Speaking about Adityanath\u2019s provocative speeches, he that if anybody speaks the truth and others gets offended, then it was unfair to the person. He added that he knew several such leaders who made aggressive and offensive statements but never face such questions. He said that Adityanath was a dynamic and frank leader and he would be best for Uttar Pradesh where law and order problems are on the rise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 207.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.financialpoise.com/financialpoisewebinars/faculty/leanne-prendergast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PDEAHLBIEBSNHPJNHTAG6VXF6TITWT43", "length": 1244, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.financialpoise.com", "title": "Leanne Prendergast | Financial Poise Webinars", "raw_content": "Leanne has more than 20 years of experience in a broad range of litigation and appeals, including general, commercial and insolvency litigation, E-discovery, mediation, receiverships, foreclosures, assignments for the benefit of creditors and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act litigation.\nShe has significant bankruptcy experience, representing creditors and debtors in business and individual Chapter 11 cases, creditors and trustees in Chapter 7 and creditors in Chapter 12, as well as prosecuting and defending fraudulent transfer actions, preference actions, dischargeability issues, the enforcement of the permanent injunction and other bankruptcy litigation.\nLeanne represents large and small businesses, banks, creditors, debtors, trustees, receivers and assignees at the trial and appellate levels in state courts throughout Florida and in federal courts throughout the country.\nPrior to joining FisherBroyles, Leanne practiced with a venerated Florida firm with an established reputation as a go-to firm for bet-the-company litigation, serving national, international and Fortune 500 clients. She collaborates with clients to develop effective strategies to successfully and efficiently manage litigation and resolve legal challenges.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstaid4you.co.uk/browse/c-Wipes-61/c-First-Aid-Wipes-100/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7UXSJN4EIXJURG6PYLKTTJH5OLDBVVFB", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.firstaid4you.co.uk", "title": "First Aid Wipes | Wipes | First Aid 4 You", "raw_content": "Cetrimide 0.5% and Chlorhexidine Gluconate 0.02% Wipes - Box of 100", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 424, "original_length": 6006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstshowing.net/2012/alec-baldwin-james-toback-are-shooting-a-secret-film-in-cannes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FL5J3T7UH2F5L7DMOLWH7RZLZW3HDQAU", "length": 2048, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.firstshowing.net", "title": "Alec Baldwin & James Toback are Shooting a Secret Film in Cannes? | FirstShowing.net", "raw_content": "Alec Baldwin & James Toback are Shooting a Secret Film in Cannes?\nWait - what?! They're filming a secret film in Cannes, about Cannes, right now? Apparently it is indeed true. I was sent a link last week to an article on Forbes talking about how Alec Baldwin, who appears in Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (not premiering here), will be in town filming a movie the entire time he's here. Filmmaker James Toback (of Fingers, Love & Money, The Big Bang, Black and White, Tyson) is directing it, he \"has an idea\", and it's supposedly \"a feature or a mocumentary about\u2026 the Cannes Film Festival.\" Very, very interesting. Baldwin has already been spotted in town with Toback, so it's all real. It's happening.\nThe article on Forbes doesn't seem to have many extra details, as they go on to say that it's a \"secret\" film being shot in Cannes. \"The film crew will be hitting all the big parties and events, and the plot will reveal itself as the whole thing proceeds.\" I love this festival, and wrote another editorial about my love for it on the way here, so I can understand the desire to capture the craziness while it happens. They start shooting tomorrow, when the fest launches, and the cast will apparently include Neve Campbell, though she isn't in Cannes because she's currently too pregnant to come. They suspect she may play Baldwin's wife in the film.\nThe paparazzi in Europe are insane, and even though Baldwin just arrived in town this week, they've already snapped shots aplenty. While researching more on this, I found an article on Nice-Matin showing Baldwin with his real fianc\u00e9e Hilaria Thomas getting a ride from the airport yesterday, May 14th. Who else is in tow? James Toback himself. It's obvious this is really happening, but details are still sparse. Many films have been shot on the French Riviera and in Cannes, but not many (especially with a high profile actor like this) have been made about the fest and the experience. Intrigued to see how it turns out. We'll keep you updated.\nFind more posts: Indies, Movie News, Rumors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstshowing.net/2012/timberlake-to-score-devil-in-the-deep-blue-sea-starring-jessica-biel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BV3DII523KIPJQ5PHLBIZ3IMOUZTRZBV", "length": 1847, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firstshowing.net", "title": "Timberlake to Score 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' Starring Jessica Biel | FirstShowing.net", "raw_content": "Timberlake to Score 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' Starring Jessica Biel\nIn the real world, singer turned actor Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel are engaged, but now in Hollywood, the two will also have a professional relationship as well. THR has confirmed that Biel and Chloe Moretz will star in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, a new drama from Bill Purple, an assistant director on films like Green Lantern and Bad Teacher, making his feature film debut. In addition, Timberlake is venturing into a new job in film as he will compose the soundtrack for the film and act as the music supervisor as well. Could we be looking at a whole new career for Timberlake yet again? More below!\nJeffrey Dean Morgan has also been revealed to star in the film as Henry, a grieving widower who recently lost his wife (Biel) in a car accident, as he finds refuge by helping a wisecracking young girl (Moretz) fulfill her dream of building a raft and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. At one time, Zach Braff said he was going to star in this film (something I would really have liked to see), but it appears he's been replaced with Morgan unless there's some smaller supporting role we don't know about. Either way, it sounds like an interesting drama, and I'm eager to hear what Timberlake can do with the soundtrack. After all, he was a musician first, and fans have been hoping for another album, so maybe this will hold them over for awhile.\nJesica biel is \"Dead Canary\" to me. She don't choose upfit project, she deserve much better, she is astonishing & very attractive but she turn her talents to the tomb Chloe moretz my favorite young actress must choose her role very precisely either , Don't fall in trap Chloe My main problem with this movie is director , I give him 5/10 at best. Script look some messy either I hop the best for this team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fmh.com/about/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QVLBOOA5CZOD24AFMLWHOEIL2J6763P2", "length": 2928, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.fmh.com", "title": "Farmers Mutual Hail - About Us", "raw_content": "We take great pride in being a U.S.-based company, headquartered in America's heartland. As a mutual company, we are owned by our policyholders, American farmers, and that's to whom we remain dedicated.\nOverview | Our Mission | Core Values | Financial Strength | Where We Do Business\nFMH has served America's farmers since 1893 with a combination of financial strength, personal service, and Midwestern values. Our company has been run by the same family for 125 years, which reflects in our company's strong, family-oriented way of doing business.\nFMH provides Complete Farm Insurance Solutions\u2122 and secures the financial future of farmers and mutuals with Federal and Private crop insurance, Farm & Ranch insurance, and Reinsurance products.\nOur company has been run by the same family for over 125 years, which reflects in our company's strong, family-oriented way of doing business.\nIndependent insurance agents choose our products for their policyholders because of our outstanding service and financial stability.\nAs a mutual company, we aren't responsible to any shareholders. Instead, our only responsibility is to our policyholders. Our insureds are members of the company and entitled to vote in person or by proxy.\nThe 125th Annual Meeting of Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa will be held on Monday, March 5, at 10:00AM at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel located at 1800 50th Street in West Des Moines, Iowa 50266.\nTo provide peace of mind to America\u2019s farmers by protecting their livelihoods and legacies through complete farm insurance solutions; enabling them to clothe, feed, and fuel the world.\nTo be a leading provider of financial security for\nAmerica's farmers through innovative insurance solutions.\nA company can't last as long as we have without building trust. We are fair and honest with our agents, policyholders and employees alike.\nOur large staff of dedicated adjusters in the field are prepared to help policyholders settle claims accurately and promptly so that, in the wake of a devastating loss, they can get back to what matters most: their livelihood.\nWe connect with our customers and leverage their feedback toward continuous improvement. We are committed to providing solutions and desired results for our customers.\nWe couldn't do business without a strong network of insurance agents throughout our national writing area. They could choose to write with anyone, but they write with us, and we take that responsibility seriously.\nSince 1893, we have ensured the success of America's farmers with a combination of premier protection, financial strength, and long-term stability.\nView Our A.M. Best Rating Profile\nOur ongoing commitment and investment in crop insurance has allowed us to expand our superior service and expertise to a national market. Our home office is located in West Des Moines, IA.\nFMH Home Office West Des Moines, IA\nFMH P&C Headquarters Story City, Iowa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 6624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foodnextlive.com/speaker/jane-bisset/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XW4GTMNAIG6AYWQRU6GWA44I4E4DZR6P", "length": 753, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.foodnextlive.com", "title": "Jane Bisset - Food Next.Africa", "raw_content": "After completing her Bachelor of Science Degree in Property Studies at UCT Jane decided on a major shift in direction, enrolling for a year-long Culinary Arts programme in Durban. During the course of the diploma she gained industry experience at The Oyster Box Hotel as well as within Unilever\u2019s Staff Canteen, working with Royal Mnandi, where she learned the basics of large scale catering, quality standards in the food industry and supplier engagement. It was at this time that the idea for We are Food was launched, small scale from her home kitchen in 2013. With passion and perseverance she now heads up a 500m2 central kitchen, where she manages product development, meal production, food controls and staff training.\n\u00ab Amy Weare \u00bb Menno Brouwer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foodprocessing.com/manufacturer/tradewinds-margaritaville", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:7K6DQWB4H4YQVPRNTZZ7G7Z6KZ46ZV6D", "length": 84, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.foodprocessing.com", "title": "Tradewinds & Margaritaville: Food Processing", "raw_content": "Tradewinds & Margaritaville\nJimmy Buffett\u2019s Island Tea Offers a Taste of the Islands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.sg/2017/01/11/these-are-the-top-5-winners-from-the-singapore-stocks-in-the-ftse-all-world-high-dividend-yield-index/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:11Z", "digest": "sha1:WN2ERBKU7NEA7DUSBF74MVJA4ER7QOGV", "length": 3155, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.fool.sg", "title": "These are the Top 5 Winners From The Singapore Stocks In the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index | The Motley Fool Singapore", "raw_content": "The Motley Fool Singapore \u00bb Dividend Stocks \u00bb These are the Top 5 Winners From The Singapore Stocks In the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index\nThese are the Top 5 Winners From The Singapore Stocks In the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index\nChin Hui Leong | January 11, 2017 | More on: E5H F34 S58 S63 V03\nAccording to a recent report from Singapore\u2019s bourse operator Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX: S68), the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index is a collection of over 1,190 dividend-paying stocks that are listed around the world. The index utilises a dividend yield ranking process and excludes real estate investment trusts (REITs) as well as stocks that are forecast to have a dividend of zero over the next 12 months. Singapore\u2019s stock market has 25 companies which are in the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index. I thought it could be interesting to look at the best-performing Singapore stocks in the index in 2016 (figures as of 3 January 2017 unless\u2026\nAccording to a recent report from Singapore\u2019s bourse operator Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX: S68), the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index is a collection of over 1,190 dividend-paying stocks that are listed around the world.\nThe index utilises a dividend yield ranking process and excludes real estate investment trusts (REITs) as well as stocks that are forecast to have a dividend of zero over the next 12 months.\nSingapore\u2019s stock market has 25 companies which are in the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index. I thought it could be interesting to look at the best-performing Singapore stocks in the index in 2016 (figures as of 3 January 2017 unless otherwise stated):\nAirline catering firm SATS Ltd (SGX: S58) is the top performer with a total return of almost 31%. SATS has a market cap of $5.4 billion and also offers a 3.2% dividend yield.\nThe $5.5 billion Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (SGX: E5H) clinched second place with a total return of 28%. The palm oil producer also has a dividend yield of 1.2%.\nTied for second place is Venture Corporation Limited (SGX: V01). The $2.8 billion electronics contract manufacturer also has a 28% total return in 2016. It has a dividend yield of 5.0%.\nAgri-business conglomerate Wilmar International Limited (SGX: F34) picks up the fourth spot with a total return of 25%. The firm also has the largest market cap of the lot at $22.7 billion. Wilmar International has a 2.2% dividend yield.\nIn fifth place is Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited (SGX: S63) with a total return of 12.3%. The conglomerate has a market cap of around $10 billion. ST Engineering also offers a dividend yield of 3.9%.\nFor more investing insights and to keep up to date on the latest financial and stock market news, you can sign up for a FREE subscription to The Motley Fool's weekly investing newsletter, Take Stock Singapore.\nThe information provided is for general information purposes only and is not intended to be personalised investment or financial advice. The Motley Fool Singapore has recommended shares of Singapore Exchange and SATS. Motley Fool Singapore contributor Chin Hui Leong does not own any of the shares mentioned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 171.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/imax-and-disney-renew-multi-picture-deal-that-includes-release-of-the-latest-star-wars-film", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GE6AWG6AS6ILALBMZXVGDEFI6BWGEIGT", "length": 628, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.foxbusiness.com", "title": "IMAX and Disney renew multi-picture deal that includes release of the latest Star Wars film | Fox Business", "raw_content": "IMAX and Disney renew multi-picture deal that includes release of the latest Star Wars film\nIMAX Corp. and The Walt Disney Co. renewed their multi-picture deal that includes live-action and animated releases from Disney, Pixar and Lucasfilm.\nThe renewal begins this year and extends through 2017. Canada-based IMAX will be involved in the release of multiple live-action releases, along with animated films from Burbank, California-based Disney. The latest in the Star Wars series is a key film in the deal.\nOther releases include Marvel's Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ipos-sidestep-market-volatility", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2HCT3R6KCZAEA2NQTVA4U43DGVWQHY7P", "length": 2058, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.foxbusiness.com", "title": "IPOs Sidestep Market Volatility | Fox Business", "raw_content": "IPOs Sidestep Market Volatility\nBy Katie Roof Published November 06, 2014 IPOsFOXBusiness\nOnce on fire, the U.S. IPO market took a big hit in October when 15 planned initial public offerings were withdrawn -- the most seen since the market crashed in 2008.\nVolatile market conditions have ushered in investor uncertainty, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average swung hundreds of points in both directions last month. Meanwhile, a gloomy outlook for Europe\u2019s economy, threats by terrorist group ISIS and a deadly Ebola crisis have all been blamed for the dips.\nDespite the global tumult and uncertainty, according to Dealogic, 30 companies still weathered the storm, opting to go public in October, raising $6.6 billion. That number is down from the previous year\u2019s monthly average of $8.6 billion in IPO volume.\nOverall, 2014 has been a blockbuster year for IPOs, raising the most capital since 2000 during the dot com boom. In total, 255 deals so far brought about $85.6 billion in volume this year. Perhaps most noteworthy, September saw the biggest IPO ever when Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) raised $25 billion, choosing to list in the United States during a year that has seen favorable performance for Chinese IPOs.\n\u201cThis had been the best year for IPOs in a long time, the peak of it was Alibaba but it has cooled tremendously,\u201d Matt Turlip, analyst at private company research firm, Privco said. \u201cThe market is going to have to level out the volatility before we see many more IPOs.\u201d\nTurlip also pointed out the increased availability of venture capital may lead some companies to stay private for a while.\n\u201cThe Ubers, the Airbnbs, a market like this is going to keep them on the private side, much much longer. They can finance their own operations and growth without having to tap the public markets,\" he said.\nOf the companies that did go public this year, the healthcare sector has seen the most activity with 96 IPOs, largely due to a biotech boom. 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Over 80% of Hamilton Island has been carefully preserved in its natural state so visitors can continue to enjoy the pristine beauty of the island\u2019s fabulous beaches, unspoiled nature trails and secluded hideaways. Over the past 3 years, Hamilton Island Limited has invested almost $56M in refurbishing and upgrading existing features as well creating new facilities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 4514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 138.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.franktownrocks.com/store/policies.php?ptID=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DAJMWXRKP4UIDWANLMNWUBSCIJMAEUS2", "length": 1794, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.franktownrocks.com", "title": "Franktown Rocks! | Store", "raw_content": "The cost to ship internationally varies and depends on the size and destination of the shipment. Your total shipping charges (US dollars) will appear during the Checkout process, before payment is entered.\nWe are unable to ship to any international PO Box addresses.\nPlease be advised that we are unable to ship to the following countries:\nAfghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Antarctica, Ascension Island (UK), Belarus, Bosnia , Bouvet Island (Norway), British Indies Chagos, Bulgaria, Caroline Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Falkland Islands, French Southern Territories, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Heard & McDonald Islands (Australia), Herzegovina, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jan Meyen Island (Norway), Johnston Island (US), Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (previously Laos), Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mayotte, Mexico, Midway Islands (US), Myanmar, Nauru, Nigeria, Niue, North Korea, Pakistan, Pitcairn Island (UK), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena (UK), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia & Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Sudan Syria, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tokeiau (New Zealand), Tristan Da Cunna (UK), Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wake Island (US), Western Sahara, Yugoslavia.\nWHO PAYS FOR DUTIES & TAXES?\nOur prices do not include duties, value-added taxes or miscellaneous fees. If assessed, these charges are the responsibility of the package recipient, who will be billed for them by the local Customs office. Please keep this in mind when shipping a gift item to a destination outside the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 161.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2008/04/how-should-needy-people-be-helped.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GBA6LCRH7TLSJFEHHVI6M7P53FEBYF34", "length": 3259, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.freedomandflourishing.com", "title": "Freedom and Flourishing: How should needy people be helped?", "raw_content": "During their lifetimes the amounts that many people contribute in taxes and receive in benefits from the government are of broadly equal magnitude. In my view this churning is not benign, but in this piece I want to focus on poverty alleviation. How should help be given to those needy people who have not paid much tax in the past and who may never be in a position to make sufficient tax contributions to fully repay the cost of the welfare assistance they receive?\nFirst we need to consider why taxpayers should be providing assistance to needy people. It can be argued that private charity would not be sufficient because of a free-rider problem. I am distressed by the existence of poverty and I gain a benefit if I see it alleviated \u2013 even if I make no voluntary contribution myself to the alleviation of poverty. This means that a case can be made for the government to compel me to make an appropriate contribution through taxation. Milton Friedman advanced this argument in the early 1960s (Capitalism and Freedom, 1962, p 190). The argument has recently been endorsed by Mark Harrison (The outcomes of income transfers\u2019, New Zealand Business Roundtable, 2007).\nOne of the problems with this argument is the absence of any mechanism to identify free-riders. Welfare payments are funded from taxes that are imposed in accordance with more or less objective criteria that take no account of the fact that some taxpayers have conscientious objections to helping people they consider to be undeserving. That leaves us with a dilemma since we can hardly assume that the coercion involved in redistributive taxation has only trivial effects on the well-being of these conscientious objectors.\nAs I see it, the best way to begin to escape from this dilemma is to ensure that welfare assistance is consistent with human flourishing, so that the numbers dependent on it diminish over time. It is, perhaps, conceivable that if welfare assistance is sufficiently effective in alleviating poverty then at some time in the future the remaining problem could be small enough to be dealt with adequately through voluntary contributions.\nA great deal has been written about the adverse effects of unconditional welfare assistance. (For recent discussions, see Mark Harrison\u2019s paper cited above, pages 49-57 and Helen Hughes, Lands of Shame, The Centre for Independent Studies, May 2007, Chapter 7). The psychologist, Nathaniel Branden, has summed up the issues as follows:\n\u201cThere are social philosophies and policies that encourage independence, and there are others that encourage dependence. The average person is not so autonomous that he or she will generate the appropriate attitudes in a culture that is rewarding the opposite\u201d (A culture of accountability).\nAlthough it is paternalistic to attach conditions to welfare assistance, in my view such conditions can be consistent with both freedom and human flourishing. They are consistent with freedom because people are free to reject offers of assistance if they don\u2019t like the conditions attached to it. 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Fiber optics bring the internet to your home via ultra-fast pulses of light. It\u2019s a totally different technology than other types of home internet service in Kimball, West Virginia. FiOS\u00ae can deliver unbelievable speeds that open up a whole new way of experiencing the web. Whether you like to game, stream videos, upload photos or work from home, everything is more amazing on the 100% fiber-optic network.\nIf FiOS\u00ae isn\u2019t in Kimball, West Virginia, you may be able to get broadband internet with Frontier High Speed Internet (HSI). HSI has a dedicated connection that comes directly to your home from the Frontier central office. HSI is delivered over existing phone lines, which means it\u2019s available in some cities where FiOS\u00ae isn\u2019t. It\u2019s faster and more reliable than dial-up, and it\u2019s ideal for checking email, browsing the web, social media, and online shopping.\nCall 1-800-961-0470 to check FiOS\u00ae availability in Kimball, West Virginia.\nUpload photos, download music and never worry about your internet connection. Frontier High Speed Internet service in Kimball, West Virginia allows you to connect at lightning speeds. Simply choose one of our service plans, High Speed Internet or satellite (eligibility for the product depending on the address of the service). Enabling Wi-Fi service, which we include with your plan, from a central location in your home allows you to browse, send, upload or download virtually anything you or your family need.\nOur High Speed Internet service plans in Kimball, West Virginia offer internet connectivity at an affordable price. Our service packages offer different download speeds at different prices, allowing our customers to choose the plan that best suits their needs, as well as their economy. Call us and we will help you choose; Just let us know how many videos on the Internet at the same time, and / or how many video games are connected to the network at the same time.\nFor customers in remote areas of Kimball, Frontier's satellite Internet means staying connected to the digital world, even when access to other high-speed technologies is not always possible. Frontier Satellite Internet is designed specifically for customers residing in locations with fewer services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fulcrumgallery.com/Color-Me-Happy/Bon-Appetit-Herbs-and-Spices_903807.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UWS54PJJOGTHRSTQOJGWJJHZXSLYZYSK", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fulcrumgallery.com", "title": "Bon Appetit Herbs and Spices Fine Art Print by Color Me Happy at FulcrumGallery.com", "raw_content": "Color Me Happy Bon Appetit Herbs and Spices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 305, "original_length": 5453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.galatta.com/tamil/news/actor-jai-shares-details-about-his-next-film-with-director-gopi-nainar-titled-karuppar-nagaram/101584/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HGM37WK6PECOFDFPUDESBOHQMIWQ3AXW", "length": 2055, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.galatta.com", "title": "Actor Jai shares details about his next film with director Gopi Nainar titled Karuppar Nagaram", "raw_content": "Huge: This controversial story is a film now! - Check out\nDirector Gopi Nainar made a very impressive debut with Nayanthara's Aramm which hit the screens in 2017. Before Gopi made his directorial debut, he was in the limelight for quite some time as he was being ridiculed for claiming that the story of Kaththi, Vijay's blockbuster film with AR Murugadoss, actually belonged to him. Breaking all that, Gopi turned out as a competent storyteller with his debut film and the film showered all praises. He is now currently working on his next project with actor Jai playing the main lead and the film is titled Karuppar Nagaram. It is to be noted that there have been allegations that Ranjith\u2019s Madras was lifted from Gopi\u2019s Karuppar Nagaram, but neither of them had come out, talking about this.\nPutting all that aside, retaining the same title, it was said that the film went floors in the latter half of 2018 and yesterday, 12th February actor Jai in a press meet with the media confirmed the news and shared some exclusive details about this interesting project. There have been various theories about what the crux of the film will be. Read along to know more on this!\n\"The film is titled Karuppar Nagaram and it will carry a storyline based on football played in the slum regions of Chennai also known as North Madras. The film will neatly differentiate between the game football played in slum regions to that compared to World football. Jai is reportedly playing an IT professional, who plays football for passion and the actor has been practicing the football for the last 3 months. Actress Aishwarya Rajesh is touted to be playing an important role in this movie, which will see Mahima Nambiar playing Jai's pair. Adding to that Danny of Bigg Boss fame is playing Jai's friend in the movie. Karuppar Nagaram is said to be set in 3 different platforms - a football ground, a political setup, and a jail portion. Jai also confirmed that there will be a wall sequence driving the film along similar to that of PA Ranjith's Madras.\nTAGS : Jai Jai wiki", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.galveston.com/blog/252/giant-screen-6p-laser-projection-system-rocks-moody-gardens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XOMJISKUOCXQHQIJMPPKVYSRREBQZRIP", "length": 2670, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.galveston.com", "title": "GALVESTON.COM: Giant Screen 6P Laser Projection System Rocks Moody Gardens", "raw_content": "Galveston.com Giant Screen 6P Laser Projection System Rocks Moody Gardens\npage title: Giant Screen 6P Laser Projection System Rocks Moody Gardens\nGiant Screen 6P Laser Projection System Rocks Moody Gardens\nIt\u2019s true: Things are really bigger in Texas. Just how big?\nWell, drive down the Richmond strip in Houston and you\u2019ll see Smokesax, the 70-foot-tall blue saxophone at 6025 Richmond Ave. that was built by legendary Texas artist Bob Wade as a special installation for Billy Blues Bar & Grill.\nHead up to Fort Worth and you\u2019ll find Billy Bob\u2019s Texas \u2013 the World\u2019s Largest Honky Tonk \u2013 which boasts 100,000 square feet of interior space and 20 acres for parking to accommodate 6000 hoopin\u2019 and hollerin\u2019 country fans.\nAnd then there\u2019s Big Tex, the 55-foot- tall statue that has served as a cultural ambassador to visitors at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas since 1952.\nBut you don\u2019t even have to leave the island to see Texas Big. All you have to do is to step into the MG 3D Theater at Moody Gardens Galveston Island.\nFor starters, the theater has the world\u2019s first 4K 3D giant screen 6-Primary laser projection system on the largest screen in Texas \u2013 a 60-by-80-foot white screen almost three and half times brighter than normal theaters.\nThe new laser projection system captures mind-boggling vibrant colors with new 3D glasses technology, and boasts a top-of-the-line 11.1 surround sound with Auro 3D. The Dolby 3D glasses are specifically engineered to match the 6 primary laser light wavelengths to yield about 90 percent light efficiency, Moody Gardens officials said.\nThe new laser system, which replaces the IMAX projection system at Moody Gardens, is a collaborative with Christie Digital Systems and D3D Cinema.\nDon Kempf, president and founder of D3D Cinema, is big on the new 3D technology. Here\u2019s what he said:\n\u201cThis is the game-changing milestone the museum giant screen industry has longed to achieve for many years. Moody Gardens\u2019 audiences are the first in the world to have a 6P giant screen laser experience, unarguably the future of cinema presentation. The DCI and DIGSS-compliant Christie laser solution, coupled with 6P glasses technology, will be unparalleled in terms of image quality.\u201d\nI got a chance to check out \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d at Moody Gardens\u2019 MG 3D Theater. I put on the new 6P glasses and found myself ducking rocket ships that shot by, while marveling at laser sounds that shot from one end of the theater to the other.\nNow you can take the 3D plunge, too. Moody Gardens\u2019 MG 3D \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel opened to the public on March 12. For more information, visit www.moodygardens.com.\nc7533a84-4460-4139-9572-90c92090ae2e", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 9592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.garagedoorsrepairsantaclarita.com/things-consider-purchasing-new-garage-door/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:PH2DTP5RKNVRIVG4GWYCMXSFTIXVCMRS", "length": 2175, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.garagedoorsrepairsantaclarita.com", "title": "Things to Consider When Purchasing a New Garage Door - Garage Door Repair Santa Clarita", "raw_content": "Is your garage door starting to look like something from the Flinstones? It might be time to consider upgrading to a new garage door. Although, there is a huge selection to choose from. How do you get started? This is a simple guide that will assist you when deciding what garage door is the best for you.\nThis is probably the most obvious suggestion. Don\u2019t spend more than you have is simple. But the reason we mention this is because there is a broad range of options. They can go from several hundred dollars to several thousand. So you see there\u2019s wiggle room there. Furthermore, if you understand your budget you can check the kind of opener and door for you.\nChoosing the right garage door entails having to choose one that flows with the design of your home. It\u2019s a good practice to visit the retailer\u2019s websites directly to make sure you get exactly what you want. If one brand doesn\u2019t satisfy your need there\u2019s much more to choose from.\nIt is not a necessity to have your garage door insulated. For example, if there is no temperature control for your garage. Then insulation for your garage might be a bit of a waste. Although, if your garage is climate controlled, having insulation is a good idea. It can lower your electric bill simply by allowing your garage to stay at a much more stable temperature. This means your heater or air conditioner won\u2019t work as hard saving you money.\nThere is a sorted collection of garage door materials you can choose from. Including glass, wood, steel, aluminum, as well as steel and composite. Each with its own benefits. For instance, wood has almost endless options. from the species of wood used to the stain that will give it the final look. As a matter of fact, wood is the most flexible option thanks to different carving you can have on your wooden door. Steel, on the other hand, is the much more secure door option. It\u2019s lighter than wood and has many different styles to choose from, from each manufacturer.\nThese are all factors to consider when choosing your garage door. All in all, you can\u2019t go wrong with most any decision. All garage doors are backed by manufacturers warranties that can give you piece of mind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gasolfoundation.org/en/marc-gasol-to-launch-health-challenge-for-kids-in-memphis-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:APSNFAWFYMR7ZZ3WSH4LG6HGTJEJPOP7", "length": 1265, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gasolfoundation.org", "title": "Marc Gasol to launch health challenge for kids in Memphis - Gasol Foundation", "raw_content": "Summer-long competition between Marc\u2019s team of kids and team of kids in Los Angeles led by Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers to see who can live a healthier summer. Coach of Losing team will be forced to shave beard.\nIn conjunction with the upcoming launch of the Gasol Foundation, dedicated to empowering young people to live healthier lives, Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol hosted a pep rally with local middle schoolers at the Porter Goodwill Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis.\nAt the kickoff event, Marc encouraged the kids to spend their summer engaging in healthy activities and lead his team\u2019s first event of the summer.\nThe competition, called \u201cThe Healthy Competition 2013,\u201d running from June 10-Aug. 2, will pit Marc\u2019s team against his brother Pau\u2019s team in Los Angeles to see which team can live a healthier summer.\n\u201cThe Healthy Competition\u201d program will encourage students to eat healthy and engage in increased physical activity throughout the summer.\nEach team will be gifted Nike FuelBands (retail $149) to track their daily activity and monitor their team\u2019s overall progress. The winning team, announced on Aug. 2, will receive a special prize and the losing coach will have to shave his beard.\nRead More\u2026 (NBA.com/Grizzlies)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gavinsblog.com/2004/05/20/eminem-hosts-hip-hop-summit-the-real-slim-shady-will-host-for-detroit/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ4GVBGJNDKOUA4DNGZ7FSYNK3U3FTXE", "length": 2058, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gavinsblog.com", "title": "EMINEM HOSTS HIP-HOP SUMMIT: The real Slim Shady will host for Detroit \u2013 Gavinsblog.com", "raw_content": "EMINEM HOSTS HIP-HOP SUMMIT: The real Slim Shady will host for Detroit\nEminem will be in charge of moderating something? What is the world coming to? He needs to go and hug his mama.\nBut all jokes aside, Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin Chavis and The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network announced Wednesday that the Detroit native and multi-platinum hip-hop artist will host the Detroit Hip-Hop Summit, Saturday, May 22nd from Noon to 4pm at the Fox Theater.\nCo-chairs of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network \u2013 Damon Dash, Sean \u201cP Diddy\u201d Combs and Kevin Liles \u2013 have all worked with Simmons and Chavis in their initiative to reach out to youth across America around HSAN\u2019s Youth Voter Registration and GOTV initiative, called Hip-Hop Team Vote, which launched at the Detroit Hip-Hop Summit \u201903.\nThis coming weekend has been declared \u201cHip-Hop Weekend\u201d in Detroit by Clear Channel Radio\u2019s FM98 WJLB and a capacity audience is expected at Detroit\u2019s historic Fox Theater.\nHeadlining the Detroit Summit with Eminem will be 50 Cent, The G Unit, D12, Obie Trice, the Ying Yang Twins, Reverend Run of Run-DMC, Doug E. Fresh and Layzie Bone of Bone, Thugs \u2018n\u2019 Harmony, among others.\n\u201cI know people been down on Eminem, but all I ever see is him giving back,\u201d emphasized HSAN Chairman, Russell Simmons. \u201cThey can talk about me, but Eminem is a giver and I\u2019m proud to work with him.\u201d\nDr. Benjamin Chavis stated, \u201cWe\u2019re excited about returning to the city of Detroit and working again with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who serves as a shining light of hope and leadership, not only for youth in Detroit, but for young people throughout America. We intend to celebrate the evolution of hip-hop throughout the state of Michigan, and to encourage the largest youth voter registration in the state\u2019s history.\u201d\nThe Detroit Hip-Hop Summit is sponsored by national sponsors Anheuser-Busch, Inc, Playstation2 and Pirelli. The radio sponsor is Detroit\u2019s FM98 WJLB.\nPrevious Previous post: It's a shame: those people have been tortured on Eminem's music\nNext Next post: Sarin, Hewitt and Yglesias", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geekcastradio.com/movies/kevins-lists-top-10-movies-of-2010/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CXQ4CR6EWPVO62KVKHH2TGTVLQPQAVHY", "length": 5028, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.geekcastradio.com", "title": "Kevin's Lists: Top 10 Movies of 2010 | The GeekCast Radio Network", "raw_content": "Home>Articles>Kevin\u2019s Lists: Top 10 Movies of 2010\nKevin\u2019s Lists: Top 10 Movies of 2010\nI have given you my lists of Top 50 movies for each of the past 3 decades. I would have gone back further but it would probably be an impossible task for me to come up with 50 good movies from the 70s or any decade previous to that. However, 2010 begins a new decade and as each year passes I will come up with a Top Ten list from that particular year. That way when the decade is over it will be easier for me to come up with my Top 50 \ud83d\ude42\nI obviously have not seen EVERY movie that came out this year so as time passes the list may have some minor adjustments. So far I have seen 21 movies that came out in 2010. They are ranked as follows\u2026\nBlack Swan, The Tourist, Tron Legacy, True Grit, Tangled, Toy Story 3, Love and Other Drugs, Red, Life As We Know It, Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps, Takers, Jonah Hex, The American, Burlesque, The Company Men, Eat Pray Love, The Expendables, Grown Ups, How to Train Your Dragon, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Kids are All Right, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Shutter Island\n#2: The following movies I DID see but did not have what it takes to make my top ten.\nKick-Ass, Valentine\u2019s Day, Alice In Wonderland, Hot Tub Time Machine, Clash of the Titans, Iron Man 2, Twilight:Eclipse, Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 1, and Unstoppable\n#10: Edge of Darkness/A-Team/Robin Hood\nFor the first time ever I am calling a tie in one of my lists. I will have to re-watch some of these to make a determination as to which one deserves this spot over the others. Edge of Darkness was Mel Gibson doing what he does best, being a badass, Robin Hood is just a story I have a soft spot for and A-Team may have been one of the most fun/entertaining movies of the year.\n#9: Date Night\nSteve Carell and Tina Fey are hilarious in this movie which, no pun intended, was probably the best \u2018date movie\u2019 of the year.\n#8: Despicable Me\nI know I didn\u2019t see Toy Story 3 so take this with a grain of salt, but Despicable Me is the best animated Movie I have seen since probably, Ratatouille. The minions are hilarious and the character of Gru and the way his voice was done had me quoting lines from the movie all summer. This movie does not get old, I enjoyed it the third and fourth time just as much as I did the first time!\n#7: The Other Guys\nWill Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were a great team in this movie. This was the best comedy I saw this past year that also included some jaw dropping moments thanks to Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock. Will Ferrell delivered yet again in this one.\n#6: The Fighter\nI am not usually a big fan of boxing movies or sports movies in general (unless its baseball) but this movie was more than a boxing movie. Easily Christian Bale\u2019s best non-batman role in the last decade. This movie does a good job of just giving a realistic look at the lives of these people and the struggles they faced.\n#5: Social Network\nI know a lot of people \u2018refused\u2019 to see this for whatever reason but this movie was much better than I expected it to be. Andrew Garfield stole the movie for sure and it was just a great look at the inner-workings of the most popular website in the world. Very interesting film.\n#4: Salt\nI did not see this one in the theatre but man I wish I had. Angelina Jolie is amazing in this film and it definitely has some unpredictable twists and turns. Great plot, great action, great movie.\n#3: The Town\nThe 2010 version of Heat. Ben Affleck actually did something great with this film for a change. This movie was just epic in so many ways, unbelievable maybe for a few moments here and there but this may be one of the best \u2018heist\u2019 movies of all-time.\n#2: Book of Eli\nI know a lot of people wouldn\u2019t include this in their best of list since it came out in January but that logic has never made sense to me in the least bit. It is a best of 2010 so all movies that came out in 2010 should be eligible but thats another story. Book of Eli was probably my personal favorite movie of the year. Absolutely classic Denzel Washington performance along with a very unique plot. This movie had all the action you could want along with actually making you think a little bit.\nAnd the Best Movie of 2010 goes to\u2026\n#1: Inception\nLet me start this by saying this movie was NOT as good as I was actually hoping it would be. I was hoping for a movie that would have a possibility of being one of the best movies of the last ten years and instead I got a movie that was only good enough to be the best movie of this past year. That being said this movie was definitely one of the most unique movies of the year. It does require you to have multiple working brain cells to follow it so some of you may be out of luck but it is definitely intense and will keep your interest from beginning to end. As much as this pains me to say this, even Leonardo DiCaprio does a pretty good job in this movie. If you haven\u2019t seen it yet you need to watch it immediately.\nMWIRE \u2013 Episode 80 \u2013 Grosse Pointe Blank", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 9347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geekwrapped.com/guides/best-looper-pedals", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:FPSGBZHSNPQKACJ6XZY5UPBNS3CDW4WL", "length": 11026, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.geekwrapped.com", "title": "The Best Looper Pedals for 2019 | Top 10 Review \u2705", "raw_content": "Best Looper Pedals\nHow to Choose the Best Looper Pedal\nLooper pedals can change the way that you play your guitar, whether you\u2019re playing live shows every night or practicing at home. They allow you to store sections of audio to replay over what you\u2019re currently jamming, allowing you to create more complex beats and tracks. We\u2019ve got you covered so that you can choose one of the top looper pedals. Before we get started, here are some things you should keep in mind while shopping.\nRecording Time: This refers to the amount of audio that you can have stored in the pedal\u2019s memory. Sometimes it\u2019s as large as a few hours, while other times you get 30-second loops and that\u2019s all that will save at one time.\nPower: Your looper pedal can run on either a battery setup or with an AC adaptor. We\u2019ll let you know here. Sometimes you can use both to power your looper pedal as well, so check that here.\nEffects: How many effects come pre-programmed into the device? This includes different beats, riffs, and other sound effects that you may use while creating your loop. More basic pedals won\u2019t include as many effects as larger machines.\nTrue Bypass: In short, this affects how you hear your playback. A buffer bypass system will alter the way you sound, where true bypass will give you a more accurate sound but may be distorted by the length of your cord.\nDimensions: How big is the pedal? Larger pedals are better when they have multiple features, but with a simple looper pedal, you\u2019re going to want something smaller to allow you the room on your stage for other devices.\nUSB Port: A USB port will allow you to connect the looper pedal to your computer and lift the loops that you create off of the device so they aren\u2019t lost, or so you can use them on other tracks.\nNow we can get to our looper pedal reviews! We\u2019ve done all of our research so that we could present you with the best pedals for your set. Our top pick and budget pick are our personal favorites, so you should check them out before going through the rest of our list. You\u2019re sure to find a looper pedal that will fit both your level of expertise and your play style here. Let\u2019s get started on that new track!\nOur choice for the best looper pedal is the Boss RC-3 loop station. While this station doesn\u2019t contain very many effects, it does boast the longest recording time of any other looper pedal on our list. There are ten different drum rhythm guides that you can use while recording, and there is storage for up to 99 different loops. The USB port makes it perfect for transferring those loops right into your computer for use in creating your favorite tracks. You can also import WAV audio files for backing tracks. We really like that it can run on a 9-volt battery as well as an AC power supply, making it versatile for home and at your next show. This compact stompbox is small enough to leave room on your stage for your other devices, too! We love the expansive storage, and that\u2019s what\u2019s put this in our top spot. Don\u2019t ever lose your hard-made loops!\nThe Zoom G1on Pedal has 14 different amp models and 75 effects to really boost your tracks, whether you\u2019re recording, jamming, or playing a show. These are multi-effects, allowing you to distort, mod, and delay all of the sound pumping through the pedal. There are 100 memory locations and each can hold a 30-second loop of sound to keep your beats going. Some of the amp models are so realistic it\u2019ll sound like you\u2019re listening to a guitar being played live right in front of you. It also comes with 68 different rhythm patterns including percussion and bass, as well as an auxiliary input for personal music players. You can use the output with either an amplifier or headphones, depending on how you want to hear your music. You\u2019re also able to run 5 different effects at the same time and chain them together however you\u2019d like. You can run this pedal on batteries for with an AC adaptor!\nElectro-Harmonix Looper Pedal\nElectro-Harmonix makes one of the best pedal board loopers on our list because of everything that it offers in a complex package. It\u2019s great for practicing or for putting on your pedal board for a live performance that will leave your audience breathless. You can store 12 minutes of recording time on the device, including 10 independent loops that you don\u2019t have to save over. It includes a bunch of speed effects, reverse and half-speed among them. Where this pedal really shines is its usability, followed quickly by the different effects that allow you to create certain sounds without additional pedals. You can create a stuck voice-box sound with the Talking Wah mode, or use the Cock Fight mode to get a washed sound without the need for a wash pedal to achieve it. This pedal really is amazingly versatile and easy to control with your feet. Plus, you can record two instruments at once with the input options.\nDigitech JamMan Looper Pedal\nNext up we have a midi looper pedal that syncs up really nicely with your CD-quality audio. The Digitech JamMan has 35 minutes of stereo storage, as well as 200 internal memory slots for CD-quality loops. If that isn\u2019t enough for you, you can add a micro SDHC card for up to 16 additional hours of audio and 200 memory locations. It\u2019s also one of the easiest looper pedals to use because it is simple and effective. It\u2019s also affordable, which is great if you\u2019re just starting out in the guitar world. You can record rhythm loops and store them to play over or change the speed of a loop without affecting the pitch. It even has an auxiliary input that allows you to get music off of a CD or MP3 player to work with as well. It is a sturdy pedal with a rugged metal casing, and it comes with the AC adaptor.\nTC Electronics Ditto Looper Pedal\nThis Ditto Looper Pedal comes with a minimalist attitude, but still includes all of the essential functions that allow you to create high-quality audio. You\u2019ll get 5 minutes of looping time to jam with, which is useful for practice sessions. Where this pedal really makes an impact is the size. It\u2019s a tiny looper pedal by most accounts, meaning that it isn\u2019t going to take up too much room on your board during a show. That\u2019s an invaluable thing because you will have so much more room for effects pedals and other items that you can work with your feet. It has a simple, one-knob system to control all of the available functions. All of the audio that your product is saved in a 24-bit uncompressed format so that you get the best sound. That\u2019s helped by the fact that it\u2019s a true bypass looper pedal, so it\u2019s always true to the sound of your instrument.\nThe Boss RC-1 is a simpler version of the first looper foot pedal on our list. It includes 12 minutes of stereo recording, with stereo on the input and output as well. You can use it without the foot switch, or control it completely with your feet. The option is yours! You can also choose to run it on a 9-volt battery or a separately-sold AC Adaptor for flexibility. When you need a straightforward pedal, or you\u2019re just starting out learning how to use one, go for the Boss RC-1 Loop Station. It\u2019s one of the easiest looper pedals to learn to use because it doesn\u2019t have any of the complicated bells and whistles! You can build your tracks easily with the use of this loop station, without any hassle or complication. Add an effects pedal to the loop for a great, fun way to play around with your sound! We know you\u2019re going to love it!\nNux Loop Core Looper\nNux Loop\u2019s Core Looper pedal has everything that you need to get started with some sweet recordings or rocking live shows. You can add an infinite number of layers to your sound, including any of the 40 built-in drum patterns that come pre-packaged with it. There are 99 different memory locations that you can use to save your loops on mono or stereo levels. If you want to tweak the sound a little more, you can change the playback tempo without changing key, which is a great feature. You can switch between phrases immediately, getting rid of the latency that sometimes occurs. When you\u2019re done, you can input your recording right into your PC via the USB port. Take it on the go with a 9-volt battery or plug it in at home with the AC adaptor. The more you play with this durable looper pedal, the more you are going to love it!\nCNZ Audio Re-Pete Stereo Looper\nOne of the best multi-track looper pedals comes in the form of CNZ Audio\u2019s Re-Pete Stereo Looper. You get 10 minutes of recording time and unlimited overdubbing. You can throw together as many tracks as you want on a single recording, and that\u2019s pretty amazing. It\u2019s a dual looper pedal because there are dual inputs that you can use to record two instruments at the same time and adjust the volume separately. That allows you to sound like there\u2019s a whole band behind you on a track while you\u2019re covering all of the bases! You can see which mode the pedal is in with the bright, multi-colored LED. Every feature on the Re-Pete is controllable with your foot, allowing you to jam out hands-free. True bypass makes your recordings sound live. You can put those recordings on your computer to play around with via the micro USB port right on the pedal. This is a simple, sweet pedal!\nXvive Duet Looper Pedal\nThe Xvive DUET is a dual looper with two different modes, one of which is a Verse/Chorus mode that allows you to record two separate loops with a maximum length of five minutes. They can then be played separately or overdubbed, depending on how you want to play with your sound. It also has a Record-Overdub-Play feature to create ambient loops and really build up your sound. It outputs 24-bit audio that is uncompressed and extremely high-quality, as well as a flat frequency response for bass instruments and the capability to work with both instruments and line levels to create complex, rich sound. It\u2019s a true bypass looper pedal, which means that your output sound is true to how you would hear your instrument live. It\u2019s truly a remarkable pedal with enough features and buildability to work if you\u2019re doing something more than just jamming. With five minutes of recording time, you can get a lot done!\nRowin Tiny Looper Pedal\nThis looper pedal by Rowin is one of the smallest on our list that still packs a lot of punch and includes all of the basic, essential features to getting your sound just right. You can record 10 minutes of clear looping and unlimited overdubbing with this simple-to-use pedal. It\u2019s made of zinc, which is incredibly durable. There is a USB port for uploading and downloading tracks and loops to play with. All of the functions in this pedal can be accessed and adjusted using a single knob so that it\u2019s simple to use and doesn\u2019t include any of the fancy switches and other devices. It comes with a USB cable, and the AC adaptor can be purchased separately. You can input your WAV files to play with and record on, adding another dimension to this simple, small looper pedal that will take up only a little bit of space on your footboard. That\u2019s amazing!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 13874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genesis-news.com/c-Peter-Gabriel-II-Scratch-CD-review-s264.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QHVOR36AOJCFXKYRVFXQ5PB3G5VSPRIX", "length": 8082, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.genesis-news.com", "title": "Genesis News Com [it]: Peter Gabriel - II (Scratch) - CD review", "raw_content": "Peter Gabriel - II (\"Scratch\")\nPeter Gabriel\u2019s second album, nicknamed Scratch, is probably the most debated and perhaps the least loved album in his whole discography. It has no hits like Solsbury Hill or Biko but a mood that swings mainly between torn and depressed. The artwork mirrors this cold and inhospitable atmosphere. This obscure masterpiece is nevertheless worth a closer look and listen!\nIt is 1978, and it has been four years since Peter Gabriel has left Genesis. His former band mates are trying their hand at catchy pop music (Follow You Follow Me) while Gabriel faces the difficult challenge of producing his second solo album. His self-titled first release showed him on a search, a quest for musical identity and artistic directions. Despite the variety of styles and the lack of coherence the debut album had been very well-received by the critics. Solsbury Hill even turned out to be an unwreckable world-wide hit. Now the second album had to point the direction in which he wanted to go as an artist.\nIn preserving his inner rift Peter Gabriel manages to produce an album with a consistent mood. The sound is very special, even unique. This is partly due to Robert Fripp who produced the album. The sound is flat, rough, almost tortured, the vocals are often distorted. Critics complained that the sound were weak and lacked oomph, but this was intentional as the album oscillates between depression, helplessness and cynicism. The inner tension reaches a maximum in Exposure, a piece strongly influenced by Fripp. Its repetitive guitar riff (enhanced by Frippertronics) expresses a truly corrosive and seemingly unbearable desperation. There are some spots on the album where a brighter light shines through the gloom. Mother Of Violence, for example, is a wonderful fragile ballad, and there are also a number of groovy up-tempo pieces like On The Air, D.I.Y., Animal Magic and Perspective.\nHipgnosis have carefully designed a cover that fits the music perfectly. The front shows Peter Gabriel who seems to scratch a photo of himself with his fingernails; thus the album nickname Scratch. The back shows a dreary winter city scene: Someone is walking under a bridge, freezing and longing for warmth, but their surroundings are cold, lonely and dark. These two poles \u2013 aggression and tornness on the one hand and helplessness, loss and loneliness on the other hand \u2013 show up in many songs.\nListeners were as divided as the album itself. Few Gabriel fans would call this their favourite album. It is perhaps not quite wrong to say that Gabriel overcomes his inner division only after this album and turns the solution into perfect pop music on III, IV and So. The album at hand may not be a perfect Gabriel-style album, but its experimental and conceptual character brings it closer to Genesis (and particularly The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway) than any other of his albums. Artist and fans have made their peace with the second album, at least on the Warm Up summer tour 2007 when Gabriel played a number of songs from the album to enthusiastic appreciation.\nAgain Peter Gabriel managed to assemble an excellent band for his second studio album. Tony Levin was there, of course, and so were Larry Fast and Jerry Marotta. The album was recorded between November 1977 and February 1978 in the Netherlands and in New York.\nPeter Gabriel \u2013 vocals, organ, piano, synthesizer\nTony Levin - bass, Chapman stick, backing vocals\nSidney McGinnis \u2013 electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin\nLarry Fast - synthesizer\nBayete - keyboards\nRoy Bittan - keyboards\nJerry Marotta \u2013 drums, backing vocals\nTimmy Capello - saxophone\nGeorge Marge - Recorder\nJohn Tims \u2013 insect sounds on Mother Of Violence\nThe album begins with a lively rock piece. A pulsating no-nonsense number it profits most of the excellent work of Tony Levin on bass and Chapman stick. Gabriel\u2019s vocals seem rough and tortured. The lyrics mention the peculiar Mozo character again; it seems there is/was a bigger concept behind it. On The Air tells how Mozo breaks out his short wave radio every night to make a name of himself.\nD.I.Y. is the next song with a pumping bass sound. Despite that it is a light song compared to all the heavy-duty music that makes up the rest of the album. In concerts D.I.Y. would usually get the crowd going. It is a song about taking things into your own hand and not being a dummy who fulfills the expectations other have of them. It has also been read as a sexual innuendo. D.I.Y. was released as a single but did not succeed in the charts..\nMother Of Violence begins with the sound of insects on a warm summer evening. The song itself is based on acoustic guitar and classical piano. Peter Gabriel sings with a fragile voice about fear as the mother of all violence. The music of this touching ballad links very closely to the lyrics which makes the song one of the outstanding pieces in Gabriel's oeuvre. On the Warm Up summer tour 2007 the song would be sung by Peter's daughter Melanie.\nA biting satire on the Western supermarket society. A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World mixes reggae and funk with a couple of weird keyboard sounds. The sarcastic tone provides a lighter note on the album.\nWhite Shadow is another highlight. It begins with a long instrumental prelude; the foundation is provided by Tony Levin's excellent bass. Muffled drums and keyboard chors give the impression of resignation and hopelessness. Near the end there is a guitar solo, a rare thing in Peter Gabriel's music. The lyrics are rather cryptic and leave lots of room for different interpretations of the white shadow.\nMeet pure melancholy in Indigo with a heart-rending beginning. Accompanied only by the piano, Gabriel sings about letting go, about leaving life, about death. All the frustration culminates in this one most moving line \u201eAlright, I'm giving up the fight\u201c. The music supports the mood by its extreme slowness and elegiac flair. Another emotional highlight.\nTwo emotional highlights of White Shadow and Indigo are followed by a merrier song. Animal Magic is a short break on the cold and gloomy way Peter Gabriel is walking on this album. A bar piano and lively guitar create a sound that presages the pop side Peter Gabriel would bring to perfection in songs like Sledgehammer and Steam. It deals with the animal behaviour people show when they go to war.\nThis song marks the peak of depression on this album. It is based on a manic repetitive motive over which a distorted voice keeps repeating the word \u201eexposure\u201c. Note the remarkable bass line and the guitar effect Robert Fripp employs (the so-called Frippertronics). An alternative and even weirder version of Exposure can be heard on Robert Fripp's album of the same title.\nAnother piano-based song with strangely delayed vocals. Coming in at slightly over two minutes it is a short song that resembles a fragment rather than a full-size song. Peter Gabriel describes an inner emptiness in a lethargic mood. But as there are always flotsam and jetsam in the sea there is always hope in the ocean of life, a hope he wants to hold on to.\nPerspective is another rock song \u2013 a fat guitar riff, recurring chords on the piano, a hot saxophone and soulful vocals. Perspective is certainly the most optimistic song of the whole album. The lyrics describe how we as children of the Earth (\u201eGaia\u201c) should employ different perspectives to note different areas of life and nature.\nHome Sweet Home is the ghastly finale to a gloomy album. It tells the story of a couple who spend all their money on a flat in a high-rise. Their Home Sweet Home turns out a rather inhospitable sort of prison. One day the protagonist returns from work to find out that his wife committed suicide and took their child with her. He takes the insurance money to the casino to lose it all, but instead he wins and can afford a house in the country. He has finally found his Home Sweet Home. Peter Gabriel sings this horror story with lots of drama in his voice accompanied by piano and plaintive saxophone. A worthy finale to a great album!\nby Sebastian Wilken", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 10159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genetenner.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:51Z", "digest": "sha1:EPGXN6L7RJPSEUZG4VU62W3YJIKJFK4X", "length": 400, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.genetenner.com", "title": "HOME", "raw_content": "All of my personal photography is taken while low to the ground on my three-wheeled bike along Chicago\u2019s lakefront and assumes a bugs-eye view of plant-life. I strive for bright colors to tell a story of visual depth with solid composition. Photography is part of my personal and professional life. My art is unique, because it looks at the world differently: from the bottom up and not the top down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gentfuneralhome.com/obituaries/George-Corzine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XPTMOH7AG3M5NOZUVFCYWKPD365DWZUH", "length": 489, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gentfuneralhome.com", "title": "George \"Ben\" Corzine Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "George \"Ben\" Corzine\nDateline: Godfrey George “Ben” Corzine, 95, died at 11:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 5,2018 at his home. Born September 13, 1922 in Alton, he was the son of Cellestine and Louise (Markley) Corzine. Mr. Corzine served in the U.S. 8th... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of George \"Ben\" Corzine created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nGeorge \u201cBen\u201d Corzine, 95, died at 11:47 a.m....\nSend flowers to the Corzine's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 170.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.girlsaskguys.com/other/q752068-caught-naked-woman-in-house", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:41Z", "digest": "sha1:4OKIGGE6ZXBKOTVK4ESXOXDIO674VKMM", "length": 7694, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.girlsaskguys.com", "title": "Caught a Naked Woman in the house - GirlsAskGuys", "raw_content": "Caught a Naked Woman in the house\nSo I come from a family picnic with our two daughters back home. My husband didn't want to go because he hurt his foot but he managed to go out the night before and partied! He came back home and partied some more with his friends. So I came back home late afternoon. I left the sleeping kids in the car in the garage so I can get help from him because he was not answering the phone. Only to find a black purse in the family room, so when I was going up the stairs, he came down and asked what I doing. He had the guiltiest face in the world, and I was what are you doing. Then I ran upstairs and there was a naked girl was running to the third floor to the bathroom and locked herself there. So I yelled and screamed and ran back down to my daughters to leave but my husband comes outside with his underwear and manages to take my youngest (1 1/2) out of a moving vehicle. I was very emotional and just wanted my daughter back, I came back through the front of the house, but they all left! I was in tears, I just wanted her back, that's all I cared about. I called and he said he is coming back and wanted to talk, I had no strength but he kept on telling me that he didn't sleep with her or have his d*** sucked just that they kissed and if I didn't come home that they would have sex. He kept on apologizing and saying that he spoke about me the whole night. I really don't care at this point about him. I just wanted to leave but stayed because of the girls. I feel it is a bad decision & trying to heal. Is there a way for me to have prevented this? I am so hurt and betrayed. He said it was the alcohol and other drugs and he will stop everything and needs my help. I just don't believe him. I know that I am great person and I would never betray him like that. How do I move forward?\nPlease don't feel obligated to stay with him because of the children. You owe it to them to be the best parent you can be to them and that is intrinsically tied to your happiness. You can both be parents to your children without being married.\nHowever the decision to divorce your husband is a choice all your own and based on numerous things. Everyone makes mistakes we are only human but He's already planted the seed of doubt in your mind and in all likely hood you may never be able to trust him. What is a relationship without trust? You've alluded to a possible drug and alcohol problem which is dangerous to you and your children. But addiction is a genuine illness and if he is truly suffering from addiction and he wants help then it is quite possible to work through this and come out of this situation stronger than ever. but in my opinion his cheating doesn't appear to be the actions of a addict out of control. His actions seem very much so deliberate and well thought out. He chose to bring this woman to your home at a time he knew you and your children wouldn't be there for a significant period of time.\nTo move forward I would suggest that you separate. Definitely abstain from having sex with him because his infidelity can be a real risk to your health. Give yourself time to sort through the situation consider what you want as much as you consider what's best for your children. Best of luck.\nWhat song is stuck in your head? When was the last time you laughed so hard, that you had teary eyes? Do women have more power than we give them credit for? Why are men so annoying? Does this look like it'll leave a big scar?\nLOL of course he's gonna apologize snce you caught him red-handed. It's great you don't believe him. Lots of men get drunk but still stay faithful to their girl.\nOkay, just remember he blatantly cheated on you, every time you get feelings of sadness, remorse, or you miss him, remember, he couldn't even stay faithful for less than the full day you were away from him. Dwell on that thought, and as time passes, it becomes easier to imagine life without him.\n05Jueey\nTHERE WAS NO WAY FOR YOU TO PREVENT THIS! He was tested and he failed. F***him. You deserve better. Be a model for your girls and respect yourself enough to get OUT of this relationship. That's my opinion. I think its the best but if trying to work on it is best than do that. But my mind is on your self-worth and what you are modeling for those precious girls. Good luck <3\nYou don't move forward. You talk this through; he ges help for his addictions, he breaks off al contact with these drug girls (I would guess), and everything stops until he earns your respect. However long that takes, or you move out, kids or not., if you think he's stuck in this frame of mind.\nHe's full of it. Leave him and don't let him keep your daughters hostage.\nIts called cheating and its divorce time! I would ask him to leave after cleaning out the bank accounts and maxing out the credit cards...and restraining order\nYou move forward without him. He's not worth another second of your time. You will not lose your kids so don't even worry about that. Plus, you can't be the best mom you can be if all of your time and energy is wrapped up in this ***hole.\nNo, it's not your fault. It's his fault for being stupid. Just get a good lawyer and make a good case at court to get your daughters back. Let him rot in hell. And he threatened to bang the girl if you didn't come home? Wow, what an a**hole. If the house belongs to both of you, and not just him, then you should call the police for you get home and have her thrown out. Either way, you should ditch that dirt bag. Just make sure to keep it together and bring your guns for the divorce hearing.\ngristformill\nI don't think having sex with another woman was all that bad. What was unacceptable was that he broke a commitment not to have sex with another woman. He is also obviously lying and using his own child as a hostage is unacceptable under any circumstance.\nThe whole incident says a lot about who he is. Even if he gets off drugs or whatever addictions he has you are still left with a man who has very little regard for you, his own children and values.\nI'm not one to cry \"dump him/her\" at the first sign of trouble, but this guy needs to be cut loose.\nYou can lock his dick in chasity\nmake sure you do whatever you have to do to get both your girls with you and someplace where he doesn't know where they are and then have him served with divorce papers. what a d*** for taking your daughter out of the car and using her as leverage. This is why I have a concealed carry permit >:( no a**hole is taking my kids to save his sorry ass.\nyou deserve better than a lying, cheating ###Hol3! you are a great woman and mother. so don't use the kids as an excuse to stay. please! have some respect for yourself. get out and start divorce proceedings and child custody, support, alimony and bleed this idiot dry!\nWhere I come from, you're supposed to shoot him. And his skank. But that's not acceptable in normal society. So you divorce him. get full custody of your children, remove any of his visitation rights, and clean him out of house and home by taking all his cash in the divorce and then charging an outrageous amount in child support. Then have a limit and a time and if he doesn't pay so much by then, get his ass locked up in jail. Then you tell everyone what happened and it'll ruin any chance he has at having a good social standard. So basically, you'll have just ruined his life.\nBut the divorce proceedings are really all you need to do. You could also get him for kidnapping (debatable seeing as he is the child's father) but he could certainly get in trouble for holding a child against their will.\nTalk to a lawyer and start divorce proceedings.\nHome > Other > Caught a Naked Woman in the house", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 10039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gleaners.org/monday-motivation-helping-your-neighbor/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RXVJ7ZRK2YWRP4CFSFGTL7WIVRJMD6ZG", "length": 930, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gleaners.org", "title": "Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana", "raw_content": "#MondayMotivation: Helping Your Neighbor\nJune 15, 2015 Tags: News, Youth Programs\nOur 2nd Annual RTV6 Hope-A-Thon was an amazing day. The stories shared and the gifts given were spectacular. Over $10,000 was donated to help fight hunger!\nTwo 10-year-old boys, who started the day as strangers, had their paths cross during the Hope-A-Thon and Indians game. They are from different parts of town and have two different stories, but are connected in a special way.\nRay\u2019Sean (on the left) benefits from the BackSacks Program each Friday during the school year. A program that costs $5 each week to provide one BackSack to one student.\nMason (on the right) designs t-shirts, asks friends, family, and community members to purchase them, and donates all proceeds to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. In total, Mason has raised more than $1,500 in the past year to fight childhood hunger.\nBoth boys have the same goal\u2026 to end child hunger.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalcraftsb2b.com/store/pc/Dancing-Girl-Pin-with-Beads-27p613.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OIDZV3N4ADPKSSCETOUX37NV37LQZSM6", "length": 252, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.globalcraftsb2b.com", "title": "Wholesale Recycled Jewelry Handmade for Global Crafts Wholesale", "raw_content": "This dancing girl pin is made from recycled silver tin and copper wire and accented with colorful Maasai beads. Mounted on a safety pin for attaching to a lapel, hat, or backpack, the pin is approximately 2 inches tall. Bead colors may vary from shown.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 4731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalreinsurance.com/reform-on-hold/1324117.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QAVFSWIJUQEJJXZRGWFFNDK4QARYSCML", "length": 2423, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.globalreinsurance.com", "title": "Reform on hold | Global Matters | Global Reinsurance", "raw_content": "Reform on hold\nVenezuela postpones debate on re/insurance legislation reform.\nThe Venezuelan legislature, the National Assembly, has postponed a scheduled debate on reform of legislation governing the insurance and reinsurance sector until September. But this has not calmed fears in the market that the government is moving to take over the sector. First proposed in April 2005, the draft insurance and reinsurance law aims to include so-called \u201cco-operative\u201d insurers and reinsurers within its regulatory framework.\nVenezuela has over 70,000 registered co-operatives covering the farming, retail, tourism, taxis, waste disposal industries among others, based in low-income areas and financed generously through state banks. Co-operative insurers, loosely based on a mutual structure, have emerged in these low-income areas through \u201cmissions\u201d. These are state organisations which provide subsidised food, education and work and are financed to a total of $6bn annually from Venezuela's oil export revenues and which themselves are directly under the control of President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez.\nOver the past year, government ministers have been calling for insurance and reinsurance to be more \u201caccessible\u201d to the general, mainly low-income. In 2005, total written insurance premiums in Venezuela were about $2.7bn, approximately 1.9% of GDP. Five national companies dominate the primary market with a cumulative 54% share. The cooperatives are not regulated at present. But when they do eventually come under the supervisory umbrella, there could be less room for conventional insurers in the market, thinks Jorge Yanes, insurance analyst at ratings agency Fitch Venezuela.\nBut privately, market players interpret government calls for making insurance more accessible as a euphemism for ultimate state takeover of the private insurance and health care industry. Over the past seven years of the Ch\u00e1vez presidency about half of the private sector has collapsed and a growing number of firms have been expropriated. The government continues to issue regular calls for the expropriation of farms, land, second homes and even cars.\nInsurers and reinsurers in Venezuela are already facing severe difficulties under the country's strict exchange controls and fixed exchange rate. Reinsurance premiums to be paid abroad must first be approved by the government's foreign exchange regulator, Comisi\u00f3n de Administraci\u00f3n de Divisas (Cadivi).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalreinsurance.com/searching-for-standards/1319102.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:58Z", "digest": "sha1:SMJV6LRUOSOHMQ3JNXYWMCOZQSZKHH6C", "length": 13069, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.globalreinsurance.com", "title": "SEARCHING FOR STANDARDS | Online only | Global Reinsurance", "raw_content": "SEARCHING FOR STANDARDS\nMaria Kielmas looks at the expansion of global Islamic financial institutions and the challenges involved in addressing the needs of customers, regulators, liquidity and jurisprudence\nThe past three years have witnessed what appears to be a formidable expansion of insurance and reinsurance companies which operate in compliance with Islamic law, Shari'a. Known respectively as takaful and retakaful, these institutions hope to address the needs of customers throughout the Islamic world as well as those of Muslim communities in Europe and North America. The demand for such ethically-based products has been growing at between 15-20% annually, depending on the market.\nNo complete figures for the re/takaful market exist. But according to Omar Clark Fisher, formerly division manager for corporate business development at Takaful Ta'awuni, Bank Aljazira in Saudi Arabia, global takaful premiums in 1998 were $500m. He expects that this could have the potential to rise to $7bn in gross written premiums by 2015. But he urges a cautious approach to the latest phase of re/takaful expansion.\n\"There is definitely real growth, more capacity and from a consumer point of view more choices,\" he says. \"But there seem to be more companies without a carefully defined business plan. This could be a risk to the market, particularly in retakaful, and it's not obvious what the outcome will be.\" Re/takaful operations have opened and closed in recent years in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries without any apparent business purpose, raising suspicions that they had been used in money laundering operations, Mr Fisher adds.\nHe believes that, while there was a dearth of retakaful capacity four or five years ago, the word seems to have gone around that this sector was a new business opportunity. New players have piled into the market in a manner reminiscent of the expansion of conventional reinsurance in developing countries during the 1970s. The real need is for a couple of retakaful companies with massive capital, believes Mr Fisher. Average capitalisations of retakaful players are between $10m and $50m compared with many billions in the case of conventional reinsurers. New entrants into the retakaful market, such as Methaq Re, a Bahrain-based joint venture between Saudi, other Gulf Arab and European capital, has only a paid up capital of $2.6m. The Bahraini and Sudanese governments are discussing the creation of Takaful Re, but local experts doubt that this will be much larger than the current average. Even the largest retakaful company, Labuan, Malaysia-based Asean Retakaful International (ARIL), will only have a paid up capital of $50m by 2007.\nAs a result, takaful companies generally retain some 15-40% of their business or reinsure with conventional reinsurers, a dispensation allowed under Shari'a law because of the lack of alternatives. But this creates a significant credit risk in the entire re/takaful sector, believes Martin Mandabady, formerly of London-based law firm Norton Rose but from October head of the corporate insurance team at London law firm Lawrence Graham.\n\"Retakaful has not really taken off,\" he says.\nThe real reason for this, thinks Omar Clark Fisher, is the lack of Shari'a- compliant long term investment vehicles for the re/takaful sector. This in turn underlines the need for a more careful approach to Shari'a scholarship and greater supervision from regulatory authorities.\nShari'a scholars first declared conventional insurance forbidden (haram) in 1903, stating that it contravened Islamic law which forbids interest (riba), gambling (maisir) and uncertainty (gharar). Since then two divergent opinions have developed among Islamic scholars. The first argues that insurance is forbidden because it is based on betting, is of an uncertain nature and is an attempt to supersede the will of God. The second is held by a modernist group which argues that insurance has none of the forbidden three elements and that it can operate through interest-free channels.\nSlow beginning\nThe result has been the slow creation of Islamic finance, first in the form of a savings bank in 1963 in Egypt, the intergovernmental Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in 1974 to provide project and trade finance, and the first takaful company in 1974 in Sudan. The real impetus was provided by Malaysia in 1984 with the approval of the Takaful Act which was followed by the launch of the most imitative Islamic financial products. Even so, only 27% of the Malaysian re/insurance market is covered by re/takaful operators.\nThe next milestone will be the adoption of a new regulatory framework for re/takaful in Bahrain. Bahrain Monetary Authority (BMA), the financial regulator, issued a final version of its consultation paper on re/takaful regulation in late July this year. The aim is to clarify the regulatory position of re/takaful firms, ensure they meet regulatory objectives, and to align re/takaful regulation as reasonably as possible with its proposals for conventional re/insurance. Re/takaful regulation will be conducted through rules which are broadly consistent with international insurance standards, the BMA paper states. (see box)\nA Shari'a supervisory board is required for all re/takaful companies.\nThis rules on the compliance or otherwise of each product. Such rulings can vary widely as there is no central authority in Islam. In addition to the Sunni and Shia division, other groups in the Islamic world are the Ahmadis, Sufis and Salafis. Sunni Islam has four schools of jurisprudence while the Shia has three. This has led to disagreement on the nature of Shari'a compliant products offered by companies in the Far East, which generally follows the Sunni Shaf'i school, and the Arab Gulf, which follows the Sunni Hanafi school. Thus in December last year when the Munich-based FWU Group and the Dubai Islamic Insurance and Reinsurance Company (AMAN) announced a co-operation agreement to offer life takaful products, a joint statement also added that \"we are the first to offer a truly Shari'a compliant retakaful scheme.\"\nAMAN managing director Hussein Mohamed Al Meeza explains that this statement came about after his company's Shari'a board had examined products on offer from Malaysia and deemed those non-compliant.\nBut differences within interpretations of Islamic jurisprudence are at the heart of the matter, namely the definitions of interest (riba) and uncertainty (gharar). The late Ibrahim Shihata (d.2001) an Egyptian international lawyer who was Secretary General of the World Bank's arbitration tribunal, ICSID, and a founder father of its investment guarantee division Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), noted in his writing that the Arabic word riba has a much broader meaning than just interest on loans, which in any case did not exist 14 centuries ago when the primary sources of Islamic law, the Koran and the Sunnah, were written. The primary sources also show that co-operative risk sharing was practised at this time for long distance trade via caravans or sea voyage. The definition of riba is one of the most complex in Islamic jurisprudence and may cover cases of illegal enrichment in trading or lending, to ensure fairness in the conduct of business as well as the protection of weaker parties. \"This cannot automatically suggest, however, that every possible barter trading in fungible commodities and every financial instrument that has a fixed return is tainted by riba,\" Shihata said. He added that \"it is not clear how properly regulated and supervised banking operations can constitute riba or gharar or suffer from the underlying factors that justified the prohibition of these two condemned phenomena.\"\nThe lack of transparency in financial Islamic institutions has led to a reluctance on the part of Muslim communities in Europe and North America to buy their products. Expansion of all insurance products in the Middle East has been hampered by a lack of understanding of the business among the majority of the populations, notes Mr Al Meeza. And according to Abdul Rahim Abdul Wahab, executive director at Karachi-based accountants Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates, the take up of insurance has been hampered by the lack of effort on the part of the insurers, the concentration of core business in major cities, a lack of trust on the part of consumers about the companies' claims paying abilities, as well as antipathy to insurance on religious grounds.\nNeed to expand Shari'a dialogue\nOmar Clark Fisher thinks there is a pressing need to expand the scope of Shari'a dialogue to address matters such as risk securitisation and other innovative products, as well as providing a scholarly consensus on takaful products which are sensitive to regional differences. This has to be combined with an increase in the professional expertise in modern capital markets. He acknowledges that organisations such as the Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOFI) have made great progress in defining internationally acceptable standards for Islamic finance. \"This can only help to overcome scepticism on the part of consumers,\" he says. But a harmonisation of ruling (fatwas) by Shari'a boards is the critical issue facing the global Islamic finance industry and something which the institutions are now calling for.\nHowever, ultimately Islamic financial institutions cannot expand unless there is an efficient capital market system in which to operate. Many Islamic financial institutions place their surplus funds with western banks through Murabaha (a form of Islamic financing) trading on the London Metal exchange. But these are largely bilateral trades and counterpart limits pose a problem, notes Warren Edwardes, CEO of London-based consultancy Delphi Risk Management. There is nothing that can handle a multi-billion dollar market.\nThe development of Shari'a compliant bonds known as sukuk has been hailed as the beginning of an Islamic capital market. The first such bond issued out of Europe was a EUR100m bond issued by the state government of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. According to issue manager Noriba Bank, a division of Swiss UBS, it is based on a sale (to a special purpose vehicle) of a leaseback (to Saxony-Anhalt) of certain previously state-owned real estate assets. The return is derived from the rents paid to it under leases by the state.\nBut even though recent sukuk issues have been oversubscribed, most of this paper is bought to hold rather than to trade. Edwardes believes that this creates a problem both on sale, price determination and market-to-market, partly as a consequence of the view that debt trading is not Shari'a compliant. Many Islamic finance experts are echoing the earlier views of Ibrahim Shihata that if Islamic law is to be applied to financial institutions, \"due attention should be paid to the need for continuous adaptation of its jurisprudence to the necessities of development in an ever changing world.\"\nTakaful is based on the concept of Ta'awun, or mutual assistance.\nThis sets out to provide the services offered by a conventional insurer but in a co-operative manner consistent with Shari'a principles. The concept involves the payment of contributions that are wholly or partly donated from an insurance portfolio. The pooled resources are then used to pay the indemnity when a loss occurs. The two most common operating models are:\n- The Al Mudharaba model. This is a profit sharing model where investors and policyholders provide capital and contributions respectively. The contract specifies how the profit (surplus) from operations is shared.\nThe arrangement general allows the operators and shareholders to share in both the underwriting results as well as investment yields.\n- The Al Wakala model. In this model the policyholders pay contributions to the takaful fund. These include the payment of fees and charges due to the operator together with a donation to the takaful fund. All risks are borne by the fund and the annual operating surplus belongs exclusively to the policyholders. The operator does not share directly either in the risk or any surplus or deficit, instead receiving a managing fee which could include a performance fee based on any surplus.\nThe BMA has proposed that the only model acceptable in Bahrain is the Al Wakala model. This is followed in other Gulf states, is favoured from a regulatory perspective and ensures a common undertaking of takaful is developed in the market and the minds of consumers. The BMA has included transitional rules for those operators currently using the Al Mudharaba model.\nThe BMA does not propose to establish the precise rules as to what constitutes a Shari'a compliant product. This will be left to each company's supervisory board. But the BMA has decided that an insurer will only be permitted to carry takaful business if it is a pure takaful firm.\nEgypt to issue first sukuk of 2013\nFinance minister plans introduction of more financial tools to support sector", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 14855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/specialist-dementia-care-home-close-1605609", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4Z73O4DJEWNAGXAMWD2UPWKBC7BBVS5G", "length": 4488, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk", "title": "Specialist dementia care home to close in weeks because Gloucestershire does not have enough staff - Gloucestershire Live", "raw_content": "Specialist dementia care home to close in weeks because Gloucestershire does not have enough staff\nResidents being forced to move from the home which provided a \"homely\" environment for people with dementia\nA shortage of professional carers in Gloucestershire has been blamed for the closure of a nursing home designed for people with dementia almost six years to the day it opened.\nDevastated families are being forced to find new spaces for loved ones after bosses said they had no choice but to close Deanwood Lodge nursing home in Maisemore.\nA countywide shortage of professional staff has been exacerbated by the rural location of the home, said a spokesman for the company.\nOAP 'banned' from Wetherspoons after complaint of not enough chicken\n(Image: freelance)\nSome families have already moved loved ones from the specially adapted home which was praised by Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Dame Janet Trotter when she officially opened it during national dementia awareness week in 2012.\nGloucestershire County Council has found places for the 35 of the 37 people they have responsibility for at the home and work is ongoing to find a home for the others before the doors close for good next month.\n\u201cWe confirm that with regret, a decision has been made to close Deanwood Lodge nursing home on June 8 2018 which is currently home to 28 older adults,\u201d said a statement by parent company Casterbridge Homes.\n\u201cThis is due primarily to the ongoing challenge of attracting quality nursing and care staff to our semi-rural location, within the context of a countywide shortage of care staff.\n\u201cWe will be working closely with residents and their families to find suitable, alternative accommodation that will meet individual needs.\u201d\nThe spokesman added: \u201cWe recognise that moving home later in life can be extremely stressful, so we will be doing everything we can in collaboration with relatives, the local authority and health and social care partners to make the transition as smooth is possible, in line with NHS, Department of Health and CQC best practice guidelines.\u201d\nMark Branton, deputy director of adult social care, said; \u201cWhen a private care home takes the decision to close, it can be a very difficult time for residents and their families.\nWhen Prince Harry swatted away a bee, this Gloucestershire lad found himself right in the media spotlight\n\u201cThe county council was supporting 37 people in Deanswood Lodge Care Home and new homes have already been found for 35 of them. Our priority is now to work with the care home to help find alternative accommodation for the last two residents as quickly as possible.\u201d\nRelatives have taken to social media to praise the staff at the home and say how devastated they are to have to move their loved ones.\nCasterbridge says no decision has yet been made about the future of the building which is on the site of the former Uplands care home.\nDuring the last inspection a year ago inspections concluded that people and their relatives were positive about the home where patients felt safe and well looked after and gave good ratings for three out of five areas.\n\u201cThe service was caring,\u201d said the Care Quality Commission inspectors last year who concluded the home required improvements in two areas.\nMore than 100 redundancies announced at major Gloucestershire employer\n\u201cPeople were supported to spend their days as they choose.\n\u201cStaff respected people and treated them as equals. Staff knew people well and understood what was important to them such as their likes and dislikes. People were treated with dignity and respect.\nDame Janet Trotter and her Honorary Doctorate\n\u200bDeanwood Lodge was opened on Thursday May 24 2012 by Dame Janet who praised the extensive refurbishment and upgrading.\nIt has 47 single bedrooms, 37 of which are en-suite and five with en-suite wet rooms. Every element of the design was carefully thought out to meet the needs of those suffering from dementia including the colour schemes, the furnishings and the layout.\nUPDATED: Who\u2019d steal a Sue Ryder banner? 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With algebra we can solve for the acceleration of a free falling object. The acceleration is constant and equal to the gravitational acceleration g which is 9.8 meters per square second at sea level on the Earth. The weight, size, and shape of the object are not a factor in describing a free fall. In a vacuum, a beach ball falls with the same acceleration as an airliner. Knowing the acceleration, we can determine the velocity and location of any free falling object at any time using the following equations.\nX = .5 * a * t^2\nwhere a is the acceleration, V is the velocity, and X is the displacement from an initial location. If the object falls through the atmosphere, there is an additional drag force acting on the object and the physics involved with describing the motion of the object is more complex.\nHere is a table of calculated acceleration (meters per second squared), velocity (meters per second), and displacement (meters) at 1 second intervals.\nTime = 0, Accel = 9.8, Velocity = 0.0, Distance = 0.0\nTime = 2, Accel = 9.8, Velocity = 19.6, Distance = 19.6\nTime = 5, Accel = 9.8, Velocity = 49.0, Distance = 122.5\nNotice that the acceleration is a constant, the velocity increases linearly, and the location increases quadratically.\nThe remarkable observation that all free falling objects fall at the same rate was first proposed by Galileo, nearly 400 years ago. Galileo conducted experiments using a ball on an inclined plane to determine the relationship between the time and distance traveled. He found that the distance depended on the square of the time and that the velocity increased as the ball moved down the incline. The relationship was the same regardless of the mass of the ball used in the experiment. The story that Galileo demonstrated his findings by dropping two cannon balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa is just a legend. However, if the experiment had been attempted, he would have observed that one ball hit before the other! 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Contractors, retailers, and manufacturers alike will be pleased with the business insurance packages we provide. 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As the owner of an apartment, home, condo, or other property, you\u2019ll want to be prepared in the event that your investment is damaged. With a Landlords Insurance policy from Greteman & Associates, you\u2019ll receive a complete degree of protection to keep yourself and your rental property insured.\nBecause of the variety of options available, an insurance specialist at Greteman & Associates is available to make sure you have the right amount of coverage for your rental property at a price that meets your budget. With the benefits of a Landlords Insurance policy, you can rent to tenants with the confidence of knowing your investment is secure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 592, "original_length": 16916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gringopost.com/2018/10/ecuadorian-popular-cantata-boletin-y.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:44Z", "digest": "sha1:LW75K2RIJ2AD6X3NBNSSCI3BAVGFU3E4", "length": 3832, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gringopost.com", "title": "GringoPost | Ecuador: Ecuadorian popular cantata \"Bolet\u00edn y Eleg\u00eda de las Mitas\"", "raw_content": "Ecuadorian popular cantata \"Bolet\u00edn y Eleg\u00eda de las Mitas\"\nUniting efforts, the House of Culture Nucleus of Azuay, the National Ballet of Ecuador, the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cuenca and the Symphony Orchestra of Cuenca, present the Ecuadorian Cantata Popular \"Bolet\u00edn y Eleg\u00eda de las Mitas\", composition of Edgar Palaces on the poem by C\u00e9sar D\u00e1vila Andrade. The work of the poet, commemorates the centenary of his birth. This event has the participation of lyric singers Vanessa Regalado, Vanessa Freire, Alex Rodriguez, Andr\u00e9s Pineda and the choirs of the Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez Conservatory and the University of Azuay led by Mar\u00eda Eugenia Arias will be held on Wednesday 10, Thursday 11th and Friday, October 12th, at 8 PM at the Carlos Cueva Tamariz Theater with free admission.\nRub\u00e9n Guarderas began his dance studies in 1965 in the Ballet Ecuatoriano Folkl\u00f3rico; he completed his studies in Chile. During his university days, he joined the Chamber Ballet of the University of Chile and the Chilean National Ballet. After his studies he returned to Ecuador and achieved, the creation of the National Dance Institute, in 1974; two years later, in 1976, together with several dancers from the country, he formed the National Dance Company. In 1980, he managed to start what would be, the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet, with the purpose of strengthening the dance institution in the country, in 2010 he promoted the formation of the National Ballet of Ecuador; finally in 2004 he created the Metrodanza Arts College.\nEdgar Palacios. Outstanding Lojano musician, with a long career. He completed his degree in the city of Loja and later specialized in the execution of the trumpet in Romania and Paris. Upon his return to Loja, he dedicated himself to disseminate music as a teacher and interpreter, this year celebrates his 50th professional anniversary.\nMichael Meissner was born in Germany and then settled in Mexico for 25 years where he made music his principal activity. He has been in charge of 40 orchestras in Latin America and Europe. He is a career violinist. He is currently director of the Cuenca Symphony Orchestra.\nFreddy Tacuri is a professional dancer and teacher of the Metropolitan School of Dance. 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I am!\".\nDear friends, we always give you special reasons to be with us, so all of you already know all of us.\nFind us at www.sinfonicacuenca.gob.ec Facebook, Twitter, Instagram", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 16635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.groopdealz.com/deal/191578/cute-personalized-wine-caddies---6-options/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LQBMOADV5TM4NQXTRRAMGSX7EKLGN4J7", "length": 1741, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.groopdealz.com", "title": "GroopDealz | Cute Personalized Wine Caddies - 6 Options!", "raw_content": "Cute Personalized Wine Caddies - 6 Options!\nThis wine caddy is perfect for a date, picnic, or a casual bottle of wine with a friend or significant other! A great gift for anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, and more.\nWhether you're looking to add to your home decor, give a gift to a significant other or friend, or just looking for something creative, our items make great gifts!\nPlease keep in mind when purchasing personalized gifts that each piece is unique. No two wine caddies are the same as no wood is the same. This is what we love so much about what we do and the results we get; it will always be one of a kind! Due to each item being unique, this may cause differences in wood densities, grain color, texture. and sometimes darkness of engravings. These types of infrequencies are a natural result of using our ECO-Friendly wood products and do not qualify for returns or remakes.\nThis wine caddy is perfect for a date, picnic, or a casual bottle of wine with a friend or significant other! A great gift for anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, and more. 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He strives for excellence in construction through strict quality, programme and budget control. Jon now co-leads Savvy Construction and has a keen desire to ensure the continued and sustained growth of the business and to maintain Savvy Construction's enviable reputation and client base.\nContact David direct:\nClick below to email David\nDavid Dunne is an Electrical Engineer by trade and heads up the Maintenance and Renovations side of the Savvy Group. Dave manages over 30 staff from various trades and looks after clients and their buildings 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. David's approachable nature and \"nothing is too much trouble\" attitude has ensured his clients can rely on this service, time and time again. Savvy Maintenance and Renovations clients include Jesus College, Oxford Castle, The Bridge, Malmaison Hotels, Oxford Airport, Co-op Insurance Companies and The University of Oxford.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.groupaccommodation.com/locations/argyll-and-isles-region?f%5B0%5D=field_property_tick_disabled%3A0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PM5BG74LAZ2JWABAJPTEPQENJNWJECZE", "length": 1196, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.groupaccommodation.com", "title": "Large Holiday Houses in Argyll and The Isles Region | Group Accommodation", "raw_content": "Achnasmeorach House, Kilchrenan, by Taynuilt, Argyll\nLuxury lochside Scottish holiday house near Kilchrenan in Argyll with magnificent scenic views across Loch Awe and accommodation for up to 12 persons. Games room and hot tub. Private jetty.\nGreenbank, Lochgoilhead, Argyll\nVictorian character house with splendid views over the loch in Lochgoilhead. Fully refurbished in 2013. Convenient village location with pubs, restaurants and grocery store nearby. Half acre garden.\nOakfield House, Tobermory, Isle of Mull\nMagnificent, recently renovated Victorian country house, with spectacular views across Tobermory Bay and the Sound of Mull. Large garden and in a secluded location but still close to all amenities.\nThe Barcaldine Castle 'The Black Castle', Oban, Argyll\nLuxury exclusive use self catering or Bed & Breakfast in the historic Black Castle near Oban. Sleeps up to 14 with 6 bedrooms for celebrations, weddings and families and friends.\nLagganmore House, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland\nFormer farmhouse renovated to a high standard. 5 bedroomed property, ideal for group get togethers for up to 14 people, set in half an acre of garden for a relaxing break. Near Oban on the west coast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 428, "original_length": 10984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gulf-times.com/story/578208/The-Cranberries-singer-Dolores-O-Riordan-dies-aged-46", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PBEHI7RESAQKNS5Y5HDL7WE36CR7G526", "length": 1658, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.gulf-times.com", "title": "The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46", "raw_content": "The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46\nLondon attacker 'took steroids before deadly rampage'\nLondon Singer The Cranberries rock band Dolores O'Riordan\nIrish singer Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries is seen performing in this file picture.\nIrish singer-songwriter Dolores O'Riordan, frontwoman of the multi-million selling rock band The Cranberries, died suddenly in London on Monday aged 46, her publicist said.\n\"Irish and international singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly in London today, family members are devastated,\" Lindsey Holmes said in a statement.\n\"The lead singer...was in London for a short recording session,\" she added.\nThe band achieved international success in the 1990s with their debut album Everyone Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We?, which included hit single Linger.\nFollow-up album No Need to Argue went to number one in Australia, France and Germany, and number 6 in the United States.\nThe album also gave rise to single Zombie, which hit number one across Europe. The band sold around 40 million records worldwide.\nO'Riordan's last social media posting came shortly before Christmas on the band's Facebook page.\n\"Hi All, Dolores here. Feeling good! I did my first bit of gigging in months at the weekend, performed a few songs at the Billboard annual staff holiday party in New York with the house band,\" it read.\n\"Really enjoyed it! Happy Christmas to all our fans!! Xo\".\nThe band, formed in 1989, went on a break in 2003 but re-formed in 2009, releasing their final album Something Else last year.\nThey had to cancel several concerts and said at the time that this was because O'Riordan had a back problem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 5192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 139.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/idaho/twin-falls/liberal-arts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DMJND7WX77CKOXDGLYOPTZV4W7XSYTXQ", "length": 1333, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hackcollege.com", "title": "What are the hottest Liberal Arts Colleges in Twin Falls, ID?", "raw_content": "Liberal Arts Schools in Twin Falls, ID\nWith an overall population of 34,469 and a student population of 8,169, approximately 8,133 of Twin Falls students attend one of Twin Falls's schools that offer liberal arts programs.\nTwin Falls's largest liberal arts school is College of Southern Idaho. Approximately 156 students graduated in 2010 from College of Southern Idaho with credentials in liberal arts.\nIn 2010, 156 students graduated with a liberal arts degree from one of Twin Falls's liberal arts schools. If you decide to join their ranks, you can expect to pay an average of $13,728 per year in tuition if you are eligible for instate tuition. Out of state tuition for all Twin Falls liberal arts schools was an average of $17,048 per year in 2009.\nIn addition to tuition costs, you should plan on spending an average of $1,100 for books and supplies each year, while enrolled in a liberal arts program in Twin Falls. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $4,780 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $8,948.\nLiberal Arts Degree in Twin Falls\nMath Schools in Twin Falls\nHistory Schools in Twin Falls\nMusic Schools in Twin Falls\nEnglish Schools in Twin Falls\nLanguage Schools in Twin Falls\nLiberal Arts Schools in Twin Falls, Idaho", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/new-jersey/wayne/educational-leadership/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GMBZIIQ63B6NYS2DQ676HUTPEJ52EADS", "length": 3708, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.hackcollege.com", "title": "What are the hottest Educational Leadership Programs in Wayne, NJ?", "raw_content": "Educational Leadership Schools in New Jersey\nEducational Leadership Schools in Wayne, NJ\nWayne has a total population of 54,069 and a student population of 11,241. Of these students, 10,820 are enrolled in schools that offer educational leadership programs.\nThe largest educational leadership school in Wayne, by student population, is William Paterson University of New Jersey. Approximately 8 students graduated in 2010 from William Paterson University of New Jersey with credentials in educational leadership.\nA total of 8 students graduated with credentials in educational leadership from educational leadership schools in Wayne in 2010. If you decide to join their ranks, you can expect to pay an average of $24,668 per year in tuition if you are eligible for instate tuition. Out of state tuition for all Wayne educational leadership schools was an average of $31,422 per year in 2009.\nIn addition to tuition costs, you should plan on spending an average of $1,600 for books and supplies each year, while enrolled in a educational leadership program in Wayne. And if you live on campus at one of the Wayne-based educational leadership schools, you will have an added expense of $10,870 per year, on average, for room and board. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $14,688.\nEducational Leadership Salaries and Career Outlook in Wayne\nMany educational leadership graduates choose to work as educational leadership professonals after graduation. If you choose to follow that path and remain in Wayne, your job prospects are not very good. There were 9,800 educational leadership professonals working in New Jersey and 10,470 working in the greater Wayne area in 2010. The number of educational leadership professonals in Wayne is expected to increase by 4% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for educational leadership professonals.\nEducational Leadership Degree in Wayne\nEducational Leadership schools in Old Westbury, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in New York, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Orangeburg, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania\nEducational Leadership schools in Bronx, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in South Orange, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in New Brunswick, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Washington, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in West Long Branch, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Greenvale, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in New Rochelle, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Morristown, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Jamaica, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Purchase, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Caldwell, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Teaneck, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Brooklyn, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Sparkill, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Jersey City, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Flushing, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Garden City, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Staten Island, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Dobbs Ferry, New York\nEducational Leadership schools in Newark, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Lodi, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Montclair, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Union, New Jersey\nEducational Leadership schools in Hempstead, New York\nTeaching Schools in Wayne\nSpecial Education Schools in Wayne\nEducational Leadership Schools in Wayne, New Jersey\n1 William Paterson University of New Jersey\n300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, New Jersey 07470", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hamilton.k12.nj.us/domain/14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:UVIV2PLVXGO3BZV7T34STJT7PNHUH6WG", "length": 1629, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.hamilton.k12.nj.us", "title": "Emergency School Closing Information / Emergency School Closing Information", "raw_content": "In the event HTSD is closed due to inclement weather or emergency conditions, an announcement will be made using the websites, cable tv & tv stations, and social media listed below. Please do not call the station or cable tv station.\nHTSD Website\n6ABC, Philadelphia\nABC 7, New York\nNCB/10, Philadelpia\nCBS 3 - Local, Philadelphia\nFox5 - New York\nFox29 - Philadelphia\nNJNews12\nCable TV Stations\nCablevision: HTV (Channel 78)\nFiOS: HTV (Channel 22)\n6ABC/WPVI, Philadelphia\nABC7, Eyewitness News - New York\nNBC/10, Philadelpia\nCBS3, Philadelphia\nFox 5, Philadelphia\nFox 29, New York\nNews12 (Channel 12)\nTwitter @WeAreHTSD\nFacebook WeAreHTSD\nDelayed Opening Start Timeline\nHigh School start time - 9:20 a.m.\nMiddle School start time - 9:55 a.m.\nElementary School start time - 10:25 a.m.\nThe announcement for a ninety-minute (1\u00bd hours) delay schedule will be made no later than 6:00 a.m.\nBused students should report to their bus stops ninety-minutes (1\u00bd hours) later than normal pick-up time.\nA.M. Vocational School students will depart for Vocational School ninenty-minutes (1\u00bd hours) from their pick up time.\nEarly School Closing Timeline\nHigh School Dismissal Time - 12:16 p.m.\nMiddle School Dismissal Time - 12:50 p.m.\nElementary School Dismissal Time - 1:30 p.m.\nThe announcement for an early closing will be made no later than 10:00 a.m.\n1 Hr Early Closing Timeline\nHigh School Dismissal Time - 1:30 p.m.\nMiddle School Dismissal Time - 2:00 p.m.\nP.M. Vocational School students will be picked up from the Vocational School at 1:30 p.m.\nThe announcement for a one-hour early dismissal will be made no later than 12:00 p.m./noon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781554680290/la-dolce-vita-cookbook/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:X7O6XQKPULAKDG2GP3BN5DEJFNIG63F2", "length": 1246, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.harpercollins.ca", "title": "La Dolce Vita Cookbook - David Rocco - Paperback", "raw_content": "After four seasons as host of the hit TV series David Rocco\u2019s Dolce Vita, David Rocco has become one of Canada\u2019s most popular celebrity cooks. His show is aired on Food Network Canada, in Italian on TLN television and in French in Quebec via TVA. Chosen as one of Flare magazine\u2019s 20 most stylish Canadians, David is celebrated beyond our borders; his show airs in 100 countries. As a proud Italian Canadian, David says his love of food, cooking and preparing meals for friends and family is part of his DNA: \u201cI\u2019m not a chef, I\u2019m Italian!\u201d\nThis gorgeous cookbook is full of everything that makes David\u2019s TV show such a favourite: beautiful food photography and locales, and, of course, David\u2019s sense of dolce vita, the sweet life. It\u2019s all about taking a relaxed approach to the everyday, and the foundation of this lifestyle is simple, elegant food. David emphasizes the philosophy of quanto basta, or \u201cjust enough,\u201d and encourages readers to cook to their own tastes. Here is great food, simply and lovingly created.\nBISAC2 : COOKING / Courses & Dishes / Desserts\nOther Works by David Rocco\nLa Dolce Vita Cookbook by David Rocco\nThe Dahlia Bakery Cookbook\nStylish Cakes\nCharlotte Neuville\nAnt Bentley\nMaster it: How to cook today\nRory O\u2019Connell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 499, "original_length": 12160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hca.wa.gov/health-care-services-supports/program-administration/national-immigration-law-center-guide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OMAPIY5DNDLP2HTDU6UVUY5A5EAYR6RT", "length": 587, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hca.wa.gov", "title": "National Immigration Law Center guide | Washington State Health Care Authority", "raw_content": "The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) publishes the \"Guide to Immigrant Eligibility\". This Guide contains descriptions and pictures of key citizenship and immigration documents and information on how to decipher the coding on these documents.\nThe NILC Guide is maintained by the National Immigration Law Center and may not contain a complete list of immigrant statuses and documents. 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This Bible allows you to understand God\u2019s Word in its original cultural context, bringing Scripture to life by providing fresh understanding to familiar passages, beloved stories and all the Scripture in between.\nThe NIV First-Century Study Bible invites you into the questions, stories, and interpretations\u2014both ancient and modern\u2014which introduce you to a world vastly different from your own. Let us read with an eye on the past and with our feet planted in our present questions and circumstances.\nJoin Kent Dobson as he unpacks the culture of Bible times, and illuminates Scripture passages while asking thoughtful questions along the way. Kent is the teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, where he initially served as the worship director. He has been featured on Biblical programs for the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. Kent fell in love with Biblical studies in Israel and had the privilege of learning from both Jewish and Christian scholars.\nAfter his time in Israel, he returned to the States to teach high school religion and Bible before responding to God\u2019s call to the pastorate. Today, he keeps his connection to the Holy Land strong as he leads tours to Israel that combine study and prayer, inspired by the ancient discipline of spiritual pilgrimage.\n\u2022 Book introductions and outlines for each book of the Bible\n\u2022 Study notes expound on the Scripture and incorporate writings from early church writers, rabbis, and extra-biblical sources.\n\u2022 Word studies illuminate Hebrew words and explore their meaning\n\u2022 \u201cAddressing the Text Articles\u201d delve deeper into passages of Scripture\nLike no other Bible app for iOS, the all new NIV Study Bible immerses you more deeply into the Word. See for yourself!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthcanal.com/immune-system/32883-new-model-to-explain-the-role-of-dopamine-in-immune-regulation-described.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:E4USKB6XDDINQAUGXUQZPCB6W2JYG32X", "length": 5767, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.healthcanal.com", "title": "New Model to Explain the Role of Dopamine in Immune Regulation Described - Healthcanal.com : Healthcanal.com", "raw_content": "New Model to Explain the Role of Dopamine in Immune Regulation Described\nDopamine is a neurotransmitter that is associated with emotions, movement, and the brain\u2019s pleasure and reward system. In the current issue of Advances in Neuroimmune Biology, investigators provide a broad overview of the direct and indirect role of dopamine in modulating the immune system and discuss how recent research has opened up new possibilities for treating diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis or even the autoimmune disorders.\nDopamine can be synthesized not only in neurons, but also in immune cells which orchestrate the body\u2019s response to infection or malignancy. \u201cData strongly supports the theory that an autocrine/paracrine regulatory loop exists in lymphocytes, where dopamine produced and released by the cells then acts on its own receptors, and can have an influence on its own function,\u201d explains lead investigator Gy\u00f6rgy M. Nagy, PhD, DSc, of the Department of Human Morphology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroendocrine Research Laboratory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.\nElements of dopamine signaling and metabolites can also serve as a communication interface between the central nervous system and immune system, and that communication can work in both directions. Lymphocytes that can pass the blood brain barrier can be \u201ceducated\u201d by locally secreted neurotransmitters, including dopamine. Then they transmit brain-driven messages to other cells of the immune system via direct or indirect pathways.\nPermanent dysfunctions of either the central (CNS) or the peripheral (immune) dopaminergic system are frequently associated with immune malfunctions. Current dopamine replacement or receptor blocking therapies are based on the supposed action of these drugs at the target site, and they often only relieve disease symptoms. The mainstream in design of new therapies is to find drugs having more-and-more specific action and minimal or no potential side effects, however, there is always a risk/benefits consideration in the drug development processes. These approaches may need to be revisited with the concepts of neuroimmunomodulatory influence, and focus on the cross-talk between the immune and nervous systems,\u201d Dr. Nagy says.\nVarious immune mechanisms may contribute to the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. The pharmacological design of targeted drug delivery systems could carry a desired compound right to the sites of cellular pathologies, Dr. Nagy observes. \u201cWell designed clinical trials are needed for the critical evaluation of the new theories in human therapy, either by the use of available drugs with extended immunomodulatory functions, or newly designed compounds, or the combination of both. Evaluation of clinical efficacy and data on safety of patients should provide an answer to these questions,\u201d he concludes.\nIn a commentary accompanying the article, Istvan Berczi and Toshihiko Katafuchi, Editors-in-Chief of Advances in Neuroimmune Biology, ask why a central nervous system mediator such as dopamine would be produced locally, when dopamine made centrally could be deployed when necessary. \u201cWe suggest that the function of paracrine/autocrine (P/A) circuits is to maintain tissue viability in emergency situations, when no other regulators are available. Local P/A circuits are the key to healing and recovery,\u201d they say.\nDr. Berczi and Prof. Katafuchi note that the science of cryobiology, which deals with the medical application of hypothermia and freezing and tissue culture techniques, which grow cells and tissues in vitro from animals and man, owe their existence to P/A circuits to preserve tissue viability and reactivity beyond clinical death or under proper culture conditions. \u201cClearly, P/A circuits hold the possibility of resurrection after clinical death,\u201d they conclude.\n\u201cRole of Peripheral and Brain-Derived Dopamine (DA) in Immune Regulation,\u201d by B.E. T\u00f3th, M. Vecserny\u00e9s, T. Zelles, K. K\u00e1d\u00e1r, G.M. Nagy. DOI 10.3233/NIB-2012-012044\n\u201cDopamine in Immunoregulation,\u201d by I. Berczi, and T. Katafuchi. DOI 10.3233/NIB-2012-012046\nAdvances in Neuroimmune Biology, Volume 3, Issue 2 (October 2012)\nFull text of the articles is available to credentialed journalists. Contact Daphne Watrin, IOS Press, Tel: +31 20 688 3355, d.watrin@iospress.nl. Journalists wishing to interview the authors should contact Gy\u00f6rgy M. Nagy at nagym.gyorgy@gmail.com.\nABOUT ADVANCES IN NEUROIMMUNE BIOLOGY\nThe nervous, endocrine and Immune systems form a regulatory network, a Super-System, that governs all events from conception until death in higher animals and in man, including physiological and pathophysiological processes. Advances in Neuroimmune Biology publishes review articles that contribute to the understanding of the integrative regulation of higher organisms in their entire complexity from a multidisciplinary perspective.\nCommencing its publishing activities in 1987, IOS Press (www.iospress.com) serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities worldwide. IOS Press now (co-)publishes over 100 international journals and about 130 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences.\nIOS Press continues its rapid growth, embracing new technologies for the timely dissemination of information. All journals are available electronically and an e-book platform was launched in 2005.\nHeadquartered in Amsterdam with satellite offices in the USA, Germany, India and China, IOS Press has established several strategic co-publishing initiatives. 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Shivers", "raw_content": "Hazel A. Shivers\nHazel Alice Shivers, 95, of Sedalia, formerly of Salem, passed away Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Good Samaritan Care Center in Cole Camp.\nShe was born July 22, 1922, in Osage Beach, daughter of George and Grace (Mansfield) McDowell.\nIn October 1950, she was married to Ezra Shivers, who preceded her in death.\nBefore marriage, Hazel taught school. She then became a housewife. She was a member of the Church of Christ, and did a lot of volunteer work in the community. She raised and shared African Violets, and enjoyed gardening, winning many blue ribbons at the county fair for her work. She also enjoyed hand work, especially crocheting.\nSurviving are two nephews and two nieces, Russell Lucas (Vickie), of Edmundson, MO, Linda Intelmann, of Sedalia, James Lucas (Valorie), of Grand Junction, CO, and Glenda Muschany (J.D.), of Lebanon; several great-nieces and nephews; a brother-in-law, Jim Shivers; cousins; and an abundance of friends.\nIn addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Lloyd McDowell; a sister, Kathleen Lucas; and a niece, Jan Patrick.\nGraveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, July 20, at Freedom Cemetery near Camdenton, with the Bro. Charlie Rose officiating.\nFriends may pay their respects and sign the guest book from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thursday at Heckart Funeral Home in Sedalia.\nMemorials are suggested to Freedom Cemetery.\nLemoyne D Dotson :\nHazel was a fine Christian your loss is heaven\u2019s gain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.helenadamsrealty.com/realtors/info/robert_fitzhugh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HRRTNESU64DU6PJCHUFRELYI2C6JULSE", "length": 3800, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.helenadamsrealty.com", "title": "Robert R. Fitzhugh III, Real Estate Agent - Helen Adams Realty", "raw_content": "Robert R. Fitzhugh III\nNC / SC REALTOR\u00ae\nAbout Robert R.\nThe process of buying or selling real estate should be exciting, enjoyable and one where stress is minimized. This can be achieved through a high level of service based on honesty, trust ,and clear communication. It is Bob's goal to provide this type of service each and every time. Bob's vast and diverse real estate background provides him with the analytical skills, value assessment as well as marketing and negotiating skills to successfully represent you in the buying or selling process. Let Bob become your trusted real estate advisor. He will listen to your needs and act in accordance with your best interest. His goal is complete client satisfaction with every transaction.\nBob, a real estate enthusiast, has spent his entire career working in all aspects of real estate. He came to Helen Adams with an extensive background including commercial property management, asset management, and acquisitions. He acted as an advisor to public pension funds, corporate money sources and private family trust. Bob has a degree in finance from Louisiana State University. His extensive real estate and financial background as well as asset and market knowledge gives him an exceptionally strong skill set to focus on residential and investment sales/ purchases.\nBob began his real estate career in New Orleans soon after college. He moved from sunny and hot New Orleans with his wife, two young children and small dog to the Chicagoland area where he directed the expansion of a large real estate firm. Talk about a climate change and move adjustment! Bob and his family settled in Winnetka, IL and found it to be an ideal and beautiful place to raise his family and find lifelong friends. Eight years ago Bob and his wife, Jan, moved to Charlotte. He is now very proud to call Charlotte his home. Charlotte has friendly people, a central location, mild climate, accessibility to the perfect neighborhood, great restaurants, sports, proximity to mountains and beaches to name only a few things that make it a great place to live. No surprise that Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation.\nI know what it is like to move around the corner in a neighborhood (we did this) and to move across the country. I understand the many details that go with moving including finding the ideal home and neighborhood, seeking new friends, researching schools, doctors, and much more. We have been very fortunate and happy, but it is not just luck. With every move I carefully considered our own needs and did extensive market analysis, location and home research. Whether you are moving from within or outside of Charlotte; selling or purchasing; a first time home owner or already in the market; looking for one or more investment properties, I would welcome the opportunity to use my years of experience and extensive real estate knowledge to help you achieve your real estate dreams. - Bob Fitzhugh\nRobert R. Fitzhugh III has been rated by 4 customers.\nBob is an overall excellent real estate agent. Bob was very helpful throughout the entire sales process. I would definitely recommend him to anyone who is looking for a knowledgeable and easy to work with real estate broker. Bob was able to answer all my questions and provided guidance and encouragement during the whole sales process.\n‐ Jim Geisler, Charlotte\nBob put the same care and attention to detail into the services he provided to us, that he would his own family. Would reccomend him to anyone.\n‐ James, Charlotte\nIt was a pleasure to work with Robert Fitzhugh. He was extremely understanding to our needs and expectations. The timely and supportive advise was very valued and helped us achieve our goal of finding our new home.\n‐ Stefan Koppe, Charlotte NC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 6902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2008/07/23/shell-william-arms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3I3BVONHRPR2VL7PXB5R4QUFOTYMXNN", "length": 1903, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hellomagazine.com", "title": "Wills includes tribute to Diana in Garter crest with Spencer shell", "raw_content": "The pilgims' scallop from the Spencer coat of arms has been added to the wooden crest which will sit above the new Knight of the Garter's seat in St George's Chapel, Windsor\nThe carved lion, which was created by the official sculptor to the British royal household, Ian Brennan - pictured - is coated with 24 carat gold and designed to last a thousand years\nPhoto: \u00a9 Ian G Brennan\nIt will join the crests of William's fellow Garter Knights atop the carved stalls in the Castle chapel\nWills includes tribute to Diana in Garter crest with Spencer shell\nPrince William has had a touching tribute to his late mother the Princess of Wales incorporated into a crest marking his appointment as the 1,000th Knight Of The Garter. The carving, which will sit above William's seat in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, features a small scallop shell - a symbol which formed part of Princess Diana's coat of arms.\nAlthough it's unusual for maternal symbols to be added to a royal coat of arms, the sea shell - which has been a Spencer family emblem for over 400 years - was included at the 26-year-old Prince's specific request.\nThe design features a roaring lion perched on a crown, with a three-pronged plaque - a symbol showing William is the first-born son - on its chest bearing a tiny red shell motif.\nWhile the shells on the Spencer coat of arms are white, the one on Wills' crest is red, making it especially eyecatching.\nThe shell, which has been the symbol of pilgrims travelling to Spain's Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela since the 12th century, will be removed when he becomes Prince of Wales.\nCrest carvings date from 1348 when Edward III founded the Order of the Garter. Each is still carved from light, strong and durable lime wood - a legacy from medieval times when a version was worn atop a knight\u2019s helmet in battle - and is coated with 24 carat gold leaf designed to last for 1,000 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20040814/arcadia-looks-like-a-war-zone", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:35Z", "digest": "sha1:GY3DBIGJWH5UQK6SG2RMQQPY6DYKJHZI", "length": 3058, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.heraldtribune.com", "title": "Arcadia 'looks like a war zone' - News - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL", "raw_content": "Arcadia 'looks like a war zone'\nBy TOM BAYLES and TIFFANY LANKES STAFF WRITERS\nARCADIA -- Hurricane Charley devastated Arcadia on Friday, damaging nearly every home and business and lifting the roof off a shelter where several hundred people sought refuge.\nOfficials estimated 150 people were injured, three critically.\n\"It looks like a war zone,\" said Karl Turner, who lives near downtown. \"My neighbors said they went through (Hurricane) Andrew, and this is worse.\"\nThe storm blew houses off their foundations, snapped trees and power lines and destroyed the town's water tower. Mobile home parks were flattened.\nSeveral dead cows, wrapped in barbed wire, littered the roadside.\nHorse Creek overflowed its banks and flooded adjacent farmlands. Metal outbuildings near farmhouses seemed to have imploded, leaving metal strips wrapped around trees.\nArcadia is an inland town where people come to get away from hurricanes, and Charley's sudden turn Friday caught many by surprise.\nA lot of people had come from Sarasota and Charlotte County, expecting to be out of harm's way. Instead, they found themselves in the storm's path.\nHundreds of people seeking refuge at the Turner Civic Center auditorium near downtown were trapped as winds tore the roof off the shelter.\nWitnesses said the roof started to shimmer and shake and separate from the building.\nDavid Gladstone and his wife, Freddie Lou Gladstone, had evacuated from Bradenton to Arcadia.\n\"We were told it was going to hit Manatee County,\" David Gladstone said. \"We were lying on chairs, and then we could just see the daylight starting to come in. They shoved us under the bleachers. We were packed in like sardines.\"\nHeavy rains poured into the building. Nobody was injured, although a pregnant woman was taken to the hospital.\nTree limbs, fence posts, mattresses, power lines and other debris littered State Road 70 and State Road 72, which were closed to traffic Friday night.\nOfficials advised people not to travel in or out of Arcadia. The town remained without power late Friday.\nNothing seemed to be spared.\nA fruit packing company was heavily damaged. The front wall and front 20 feet of the roof at a feed store on S.R. 70 collapsed.\nDarlene Sewall said she closed on the purchase of her new house in Arcadia two days ago. She spent Friday riding out the storm there.\n\"Our house shook,\" she said. \"I thought it was going to collapse.\"\nThe rain was blowing so hard, she said, \"it didn't touch the ground.\"\nHer home was heavily damaged.\nThe historic downtown fared little better. Some buildings collapsed along Main Street, including the two-story brick Payne Antique Shop.\nMilissa and Jack Robson and their children, Angel, 8, and Jake, 4, just arrived in Sarasota County from Michigan, and are looking for a house to buy in Venice.\nThey came to Arcadia with all their belongings in trailers, hoping to escape the storm at the Turner Center.\n\"We came to Arcadia thinking it wasn't going to hit out here,\" Jack Robson said.\nStaff writers Erin Bryce and Bruce Asbury contributed to this report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heruniverse.com/product/star-wars-jedi-unite-t-shirt/11688676.html?cgid=new", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:42Z", "digest": "sha1:JE66H6JDESMWZORNX5IWXPBKPPVALBHD", "length": 116, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.heruniverse.com", "title": "Star Wars Jedi Unite T-Shirt", "raw_content": "Home new star wars jedi unite t-shirt\nhttps://www.heruniverse.com/product/star-wars-jedi-unite-t-shirt/11688676.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 7753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hhhistory.com/2018/10/an-empire-built-on-cheese-and-silent.html?showComment=1540202029204", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6JGAG3FHGEUY5RUW36K447DGUAH6GUKB", "length": 7772, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.hhhistory.com", "title": "Heroes, Heroines, and History: An Empire Built on Cheese (and a silent partner)", "raw_content": "An Empire Built on Cheese (and a silent partner)\nIn 1874, James Lewis Kraft (J.L.) was born in Ontario, Canada, the second of eleven children in a Mennonite family. When he was eighteen years old, he took a job at Ferguson\u2019s Grocery in Fort Erie, Ontario. An opportunity arose for him to invest in a cheese company in Buffalo, New York, and after moving to Buffalo, his partners sent him to Chicago on business. However, while in Chicago, his unscrupulous partners dissolved the company, leaving him with no company and no income.\nWith only $65 in his pocket, he bought a horse named Paddy and a wagon in order to carry out an idea he had to sell cheese door-to-door. The year was 1903, and grocers didn\u2019t have refrigeration, so cheddar cheese was not carried in the stores since it would mold quickly. In addition, the cheese was only available in large wheels called \u201cmammoths,\u201d which made storage even more difficult. J.L. decided to go to the wholesale farmers\u2019 market, buy a mammoth of cheese to put in his wagon, and starting early in the morning before the temperatures got too warm, he\u2019d go up and down the city streets, selling pieces of the cheese he cut off.\nThe idea was a good one, but at first, J.L.\u2019s sales didn\u2019t take off the way he\u2019d hoped. After a while of no success, J.L. had a conversation with Paddy. You see, J.L. was raised a devout Christian, and he realized he\u2019d forgotten something. As he told the story later, he said, \u201cPaddy, I think we need a partner in our business, and that partner is God. So let\u2019s ask Him to join us.\u201d Soon after J.L.\u2019s new partner joined him, the business took off. By 1909, his business was so good, four of his brothers joined him and the company was named J.L. Kraft Bros. Co.\nBecause natural cheese continues to age and thus spoil or mold, J.L. experimented with ways to extend its shelf life. By shredding the cheddar and heating it, he was able to stop the aging process, and in 1916, he received a patent for pasteurized, processed cheese. His process cheese was not only nonperishable, it could be shaped into smaller sizes and wrapped in foil or put in glass jars. By 1915, Kraft was putting process cheese in tin cans and exporting the product to other countries.\nDuring World War I, the U.S. Government ordered more than six million pounds in small cans to feed soldiers overseas. The name \u201cK-rations\u201d was derived from these cans of Kraft cheese.\nJ.L. Kraft was known for being innovative, from the cheese he produced to added products like Velveeta and Parkay. In addition, he was one of the first companies to use advertising on a large-scale basis, a pioneer in branding, making the Kraft name a household word.\nIn 1933, Kraft sponsored a radio show called the \u201cKraft Musical Review,\u201d then later the \u201cKraft Music Hour.\u201d\nWhile in his seventies, Kraft jumped into the new medium of television, helping to create one of the first major television programs, \u201cThe Kraft Television Theatre,\u201d which ran from 1947 to 1958.\nJ.L. Kraft never forgot His \u201csilent\u201d partner and contributed 25 percent of his income regularly to Christian causes. He once said, \u201cThe only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.\u201d\nFor 25 years, I was employed by Kraft Foods and was especially pleased to know its founder was a devout Christian. His high moral standards and work ethnic permeated the company for many years, and I\u2019ll always remember one of his favorite expressions, \u201cWhat we say we do, we do do.\u201d I tried to make that motto part of my own work ethnic as well, and keep my word to my customers.\nI bet you\u2019ve had a Kraft product in your home at some time, if not cheese, then mayonnaise, dressings, maybe even marshmallows or caramels. Do you have a favorite? Leave me a comment, and I\u2019ll enter you in a drawing to win one of my books of your choice!\nHistorical fiction flavored with suspense and romance\nMulti-published author Marilyn Turk calls herself a \u201cliterary archaeologist,\u201d because she loves to discover stories hidden in history. Her World War II novel, The Gilded Curse, won a Silver Scroll award. When readers asked what happened to the characters after the book, Marilyn wrote the sequel, Shadowed by a Spy. Her four-book Coastal Lights Legacy series\u2014Rebel Light, Revealing Light, Redeeming Light, and Rekindled Light\u2014feature Florida lighthouse settings. In addition, Marilyn\u2019s novella, The Wrong Survivor, is in the Great Lakes Lighthouse Brides collection. Marilyn has written a book of devotions called Lighthouse Devotions and also writes for the Daily Guideposts Devotions book. Website: http://pathwayheart.com.\nLabels: cheese, Christian, J.L. Kraft, Paddy, Parkay, Velveeta\nKayM October 22, 2018 at 3:13 AM\nMarilyn, I love this post and it is wonderful to learn the story of Kraft products. Thank you for sharing. Blessings...\nMarilyn Turk October 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM\nHi Kay. I'm glad you enjoyed the post! Thanks for your comment.\nWhat an interesting post. I had no idea the company was started by a Christian. Thanks for sharing.\nMarilyn Turk October 22, 2018 at 1:01 PM\nMost people don't, Linda, and probably only \"old-timers\" like me are aware of the story. When I was hired in 1977, I was given a booklet on the history of Kraft that gave that information. Sadly, I seriously doubt that booklet is given out to today's employees.\nThis was fun! Good to know that a good Christian started this trademark company that everyone has heard of nowadays! I wonder if it is still carrying out its' Christian values now. Thanks for the post!\nI don't know, Connie, but I hope so.\nFascinating post. I\u2019m glad to see another of our great American companies started by a Christian. I guess Kraft Caramels would be a favorite. But I love Cheese, too! Cream Cheese?\nHi Paula. I have a difficult time buying any other brand but Kraft, feeling disloyal if I do. I was shocked when my husband brought home a different cream cheese than Philadelphia brand! In my mind, it couldn't possibly be as good!\nBetti October 22, 2018 at 11:46 AM\nVery interesting post. I didn't know Kraft had been started by a Christian or that it followed Christian values. It certainly goes to show how the Lord can take a negative thing - Buffalo - and make it something new and good! Thanks for the giveaway :)\nHi Betti. Glad you enjoyed the post. Yes, thank God, J.L. didn't give up after the bad experience he had in Buffalo.\nMarilyn R. October 22, 2018 at 11:55 AM\nMarilyn, a wonderful post about the well known name of Kraft on shelves. I do not consume a lot of cheese but Kraft dressings are wonderful. Partnering with God is always the best thing to do in this life. Blessings.\nHi Marilyn! You are so right! Thanks for the comment!\nLinda Orr October 22, 2018 at 1:45 PM\nI had a grilled cheese sandwich for supper last night. I'm like you in buying this particular brand. Some things I do, but not for sandwiches.\nI also enjoy reading your devotionals in Guideposts.\nLinda - rayorr@bellsouth.net\nThanks, Linda, for your comment, and thank you too, for reading Guideposts!\nThank you, Marilyn, for this very interesting post! I didn't know the history of KRAFT. How wonderful that he was a Christian, and I love that the Lord was his 'silent partner'! As for a favorite KRAFT product...what's not to like?! Caramels, cream cheese, cheese, marshmallows...it's hard to pick just one :) Thank you as well for a chance to win a copy of one of your books!!\nMallori Norris October 28, 2018 at 8:41 PM\nThis was a very interesting post; I enjoyed learning the history behind Kraft. Their caramels are probably my favorite, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I love their cream cheese since my town is home to Kraft-Heinz's largest cream cheese factory in the US.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 13110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crigm/2018/2390213/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:46Z", "digest": "sha1:O45RU2R6SHYT6ZWSWBKVCQIE5RJ3KI36", "length": 18488, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.hindawi.com", "title": "Two Cases of Acute Cholecystitis and Symptomatic Choledocholithiasis in Two Women Less than 40-Years-of-Age with Hormonal Intrauterine Devices", "raw_content": "Two Cases of Acute Cholecystitis and Symptomatic Choledocholithiasis in Two Women Less than 40-Years-of-Age with Hormonal Intrauterine Devices\nHelen M. Shields1 and Hasrat Sidhu2\n1Helen Shields, M.D., Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA\n2Hasrat Sidhu, M.B.B.S, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India\nCorrespondence should be addressed to Helen M. Shields; ude.dravrah.hwb@sdleihsmh\nReceived 24 August 2018; Revised 21 October 2018; Accepted 11 November 2018; Published 21 November 2018\nAcademic Editor: Daniel C. Damin\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 Helen M. Shields and Hasrat Sidhu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nLevonorgestrel uterine implants are accepted as a safe and efficacious method of contraception. One of the two major health side effects in a large controlled study of subcutaneous hormonal implants with levonorgestrel was a significant increase in gallbladder disease. Gallbladder hypomotility is recognized as a side effect of the levonorgestrel (progesterone). We recently saw on a Gastroenterology Consult Service, two women under 40-years-of-age who had been transferred from outside hospitals with acute cholecystitis with symptomatic choledocholithiasis. Both required Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography and sphincterotomies in addition to laparoscopic cholecystectomies. Both had hormonal (levonorgestrel-releasing) intrauterine devices in place for contraception. Although one patient had a family history of gallstones, the other did not. Both were nonobese, young women patients. We were struck by the coincidence of seeing two such patients. Few articles in the medical literature detail the clinical risks of gallstone disease in patients with hormonal (levonorgestrel-releasing) intrauterine devices. Our experiences with these two patients led us to believe that patients with risk factors for gallstone disease, such as a positive family history, ethnic predisposition, or obesity, should be warned of possible problems, not only with gallbladder disease, but also of common duct stones.\nGallstone disease is common worldwide affecting 10\u201315% of the adult population [1]. Studies have shown that gallstone formation is multifactorial. Some risk factors include ethnicity, age, gender, family history, diet, and obesity. Women are twice as likely to develop gallstones compared to men [1]. Estrogen and progesterone are largely responsible for the difference in the incidence. Estrogen causes an increase in cholesterol secretion into bile leading to its supersaturation whereas progesterone impairs gallbladder motility causing bile stasis. Pregnancy, oral contraceptives, and hormonal therapy lead to an increase in the serum levels of these hormones and are established risk factors for gallstones [2\u20134]. Women using levonorgestrel-releasing uterine contraceptive subcutaneous implant showed a significant increase in gallbladder disease as compared to women using nonhormonal intrauterine contraceptive devices or surgical sterilization using a controlled cohort methodology [5]. We describe two nonobese, young women patients with hormonal (levonorgestrel-releasing) intrauterine devices with both common duct stones and acute cholecystitis.\nWe present two cases of symptomatic choledocholithiasis and acute cholecystitis seen by us (H.M.S. and H.S.) on a busy Gastroenterology Inpatient Consult Service at a tertiary care hospital in the fall of 2017 in nonobese women under 40-years-of-age who were transferred from outside hospitals. Both patients had hormonal-releasing intrauterine devices in place for contraception. Our memorable experiences with these two young women patients led us to report these two cases given that few articles in the medical literature discuss the occurrence of both acute cholecystitis and choledocholithiasis in patients with hormonal intrauterine devices.\n2. Case Presentations\n2.1. Case # 1\nOur first case was of a 39-year-old woman with two children with a history of ulcerative proctitis who was transferred to our hospital with a complaint of epigastric and right upper quadrant pain that began the evening before after eating a coconut macaroon and persisted with four episodes of vomiting bile. She was initially seen at another Boston Hospital where a CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis demonstrated a gallstone in the neck of the gallbladder, a white count of 11,900K/ul, and a Lactate of 2.2. mmol/L. She was given Morphine 4 mg IV, Zofran 4 mg IV and 1 liter of Normal Saline and Ceftriaxone 1 gram, and 500 mg PO of Flagyl prior to her transfer to our hospital. At our hospital, her laboratory studies revealed an elevated white count of 10,4600 with 88% Neutrophils, elevated Total Bilirubin of 1.5 mg/dl and AST of 66 U/L, and a normal Lipase of 34 U/L. The patient had cholelithiasis diagnosed several weeks before at our hospital, after an Ultrasound of the Abdomen was performed during an Emergency Room (ER) visit for episodic epigastric pain radiating to the right upper quadrant for one and a half weeks. The episodes of pain were triggered by rich or fatty foods. Following her ER visit, she was referred the same day to a General Surgeon who scheduled her for an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Her family history was positive for history of gallstones in a brother. A Skyla hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) with 13.5 mg of Levonorgestrel, a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, had been placed on 9/16/17, five weeks before the onset of symptoms. With a Skyla, the levonorgestrel release rate is 14 mcg/24 hours after 24 days and 5 mcg/24 hours after 3 years. An ERCP and Sphincterotomy were performed. The ERCP was noted to be difficult and complex. The common bile duct was mildly dilated without evidence of intrahepatic duct dilatation and no stones. Sludge was removed from the duct (Figure 1). Following the ERCP, the patient developed, later that evening, severe epigastric pain with an amylase of 3128 U/L and Lipase of 11030 U/L was diagnosed as Post-ERCP pancreatitis and she was hospitalized for three additional days.\nFigure 1: Case # 1, Sludge (arrow) coming from ampulla after sphincterotomy during ERCP.\nA laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed a month later. The gallbladder was noted to be large, distended with signs of acute inflammation and edema. Pathology report showed chronic cholecystitis. Patient did well and was discharged on the same day.\nAt her postoperative visit, good healing of laparoscopic incision was noted. The patient had the Skyla IUD removed three months later due to interest in becoming pregnant again.\nA 37-year-old woman with two young children and a history of endometriosis was transferred from an outside hospital to our hospital for abnormal liver function tests and a CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis showing a common bile duct stone. The patient had had intermittent right upper quadrant discomfort for the past year and a half. She was evaluated for this previously at an outside hospital, but the pain was dismissed as musculoskeletal in origin. At our hospital, the patient complained of two days of persistent right upper quadrant pain with nausea and loss of appetite. The outside hospital laboratory tests showed elevated liver function tests including Total Bilirubin of 6.0 mg/dl, Alkaline phosphatase 171 U/L, ALT of 970 U/L, and AST of 706 U/L. On physical examination, the patient was noted to have scleral icterus. Her abdomen was soft, nondistended with tenderness to palpation in the right upper quadrant and a positive Murphy\u2019s sign. Laboratory tests from our hospital on 11/8/17 showed a Total Bilirubin of 6.9 mg/dl (ref. range <1.2 mg/dl), Direct Bilirubin of 6.2 mg/dl (ref. range 0-0.3 mg/dl), Alkaline Phosphatase 166 U/L (ref. range 37-116 U/L), ALT 599 U/L (ref. range 0-40 U/L), and AST 301 U/L (ref. range 9-32 U/L)\nReview of the outside contrast enhanced CT of abdomen and pelvis showed dilatation of the common bile duct measuring 9 mm with a filling defect in the distal common bile duct consistent with choledocholithiasis (Figure 2) and mild mucosal enhancement of the gallbladder with pericholecystic inflammation compatible with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. The patient was taken for an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The cholangiogram revealed a moderately dilated common bile duct with a smooth tapering distally and a single large obstructive stone. A biliary sphincterotomy was performed followed by balloon sphincterotomy and complex balloon and basket guided removal were performed to fragment the stone into three large parts and remove it successfully (Figure 3). In the pelvis, a fibroid uterus with intrauterine device was noted. Mirena (levonorgestrel 20 mcg/24 hours for 5 years) intrauterine device had been placed two years earlier in 2015 (Figure 4).\nFigure 2: Case # 2, Dilated common bile duct with distal common bile duct stone (arrow), CT of Abdomen.\nFigure 3: Case # 2, Gallstone in duodenum removed by ERCP sphincterotomy, balloon dilation, and basket procedure.\nFigure 4: Case # 2, Mirena hormonal intrauterine device in uterus (arrow), CT of Abdomen.\nThe patient underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy without complications. Pathology of the gallbladder showed chronic cholecystitis. The patient did well in the postoperative period and developed no complications. She was discharged home two days after surgery. At her routine Surgery Clinic follow-up, a month later, the patient felt well with no pain. She was given permission to return to work.\nWe were struck by seeing two young women with normal BMIs on the Gastroenterology Inpatient Consult Service at a tertiary care hospital, this past fall with acute cholecystitis and choledocholithiasis who both had hormonal intrauterine devices. Each was transferred from an outside hospital for a therapeutic ERCP when it was noted that each had had an imaging study showing choledocholithiasis. Both also had acute cholecystitis by imaging and physical examination. We believe that our concentrated and memorable experiences with these two young women patients deserve to be recognized by gastroenterologists who are taking care of patients with hormonal intrauterine devices for contraception.\nMeirik, Farley and Sivin published a concurrent cohort study of 5 years\u2019 duration in 2001 which followed women in eight developing countries who were using Norplant subcutaneous implants, a set of six flexible closed capsules each containing 36 mg of the progestin, levonorgestrel. The capsules are inserted in a superficial plane beneath the skin of the upper arm. In the study, Norplant patients (n= 7977) were compared to women choosing nonhormonal intrauterine devices (n= 6625) or surgical sterilization (n=1419). Participants were interviewed semi-annually and followed up for five years. The overall follow-up rate was 94.6 % and 78,323 woman-years of observation were accumulated. One of the two significant excess risks of serious morbidity that were detected for Norplant (levonorgestrel) users compared to non-users was a significant increase in gallbladder disease. The incidence of gallbladder disease was significantly higher in women who were Norplant users than in the controls (rate ratio 1.52, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.02, 2.27). The other excessive risk was the presence of hypertension. The gallbladder diseases noted in this study were gallstones, acute cholecystitis, and chronic cholecystitis with a significant p value of p=0.002 compared to the control group. No mention of common duct stones or choledocholithiasis is made in this paper. Individual patient blogs have also noted gallstones in patients with hormonal intrauterine devices that contain the progestin, levonorgestrel.\nThe incidence of choledocholithiasis has been found to be 3%-10% in patients undergoing cholecystectomy [6]. The incidence of choledocholithiasis in patients with cholelithiasis increases with age. Women have a higher risk of developing gallstones due to the influence of estrogen and progesterone. Biliary sludge has frequently been reported during pregnancy and noted to disappear after delivery [7]. The proposed mechanism is an increase in cholesterol secretion leading to supersaturation of bile and formation of gallstones by action on estrogen receptors in the gallbladder and liver [8].\nGallbladder hypomotility leading to stasis of bile is another mechanism which predisposes to formation of stones. The presence of progesterone receptors in the gallbladder wall was associated with a decreased percentage of ejection compared with both healthy control subjects and patients whose gallbladders were receptor-negative [9]. Animal studies have suggested progesterone to be interfering with G-protein signaling pathway leading to impaired motility [10, 11]. One study found progesterone to inhibit L-type calcium channels in the gallbladder smooth muscle cells [12].\nThese physiologic studies help explain the increased risk of gallbladder disease seen in women using subcutaneous hormonal implants for contraception [5]. In our cases with levonorgestrel-releasing hormonal intrauterine devices, the two women started experiencing symptoms between a few weeks to two years after the insertion of a hormonal intrauterine device. Even though the systemic absorption from hormonal intrauterine devices is low, reaching plasma levels less than those compared to skin implants [5] and oral contraceptives, the long-term use of hormonal intrauterine devices could predispose to developing gallbladder disease particularly in women with additional risk factors such as family history which was present in one of our two patients. Both of our women patients had normal BMIs (Case # 1 BMI = 20.33 and Case # 2 BMI = 21.9), indicating that obesity did not play a role in their risk for gallstones.\nIn summary, we consulted on two nonobese, young women patients with hormonal (levonorgestrel-releasing) intrauterine devices on a busy Gastroenterology Inpatient Consult Service who had choledocholithiasis and acute cholecystitis. 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View at Publisher \u00b7 View at Google Scholar \u00b7 View at Scopus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 20119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hindawi.com/journals/geofluids/2018/1694567/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXVWDFNKZBSXRC5WEHB5KM7M4NVTYFNW", "length": 40629, "nlines": 109, "source_domain": "www.hindawi.com", "title": "Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Genesis Model of Jinjiang and Julong Hot Springs in Changbai Mountain, Northeast China", "raw_content": "Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Genesis Model of Jinjiang and Julong Hot Springs in Changbai Mountain, Northeast China\nBaizhong Yan,1,2,3,4 Xiujuan Liang,1 and Changlai Xiao1\n1Key Laboratory of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Aquatic Environment, College of Environment and Resources, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China\n2School of Water Resources & Environment, Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China\n3Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Sustained Utilization & Development of Water Resources, Shijiazhuang 050031, China\n4Hebei Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Sustainable Utilization of Water Resources and Optimization of Industrial Structure, Shijiazhuang 050031, China\nCorrespondence should be addressed to Xiujuan Liang; moc.621@46xal\nReceived 21 June 2018; Accepted 28 August 2018; Published 28 November 2018\nAcademic Editor: Mohammad Sarmadivaleh\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 Baizhong Yan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nChangbai Mountain in China has been explored as a potential area for its rich hot springs including the Jinjiang and Julong hot spring groups. The hydrogeochemical characteristics and conceptual genesis models of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs were evaluated by hydrogeochemical analysis, isotope analysis, rock sample analysis, hydrogeochemistry simulation, and geophysical exploration method. The results showed that HCO3\u2212 and Na+ were the most abundant anion and cation in the hot springs, and the hydrochemical type was Na-HCO3. And the hot springs are enriched with trace components such as H2SiO3 and Sr. The major gas composition of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were CO2, N2, and CH4, which were derived from the mantle. The chemical compositions were produced by feldspar and pyroxene mineral hydrolysis. The recharge source of the hot springs was atmospheric precipitation and was also influenced by evaporation, and the genetic models for the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were as follows: the heat source of both was a magma body and heat was mainly migrated in the form of thermal conduction. The cap rocks were both composed of trachyte of Baitoushan formation, basalt of Junjianshan formation, and rhyolitic pyroclastic rocks of Changbai formation. The geothermal reservoir of both hot springs was a fracture zone with the lithology of volcanic breccia, sand, and gravel and volcanic breccia and marble, respectively.\nGeothermal resources are being researched and developed as renewable and clean energy all over the world because of its rich reservoir, renewable resources, reliability, and environmental acceptability [1]. Hydrogeochemical composition is an important indicator for the quality evaluation of geothermal resources that reflects the formation evolution process, interaction between geothermal fluid and rock, and geothermal fluid circulation condition [2]. The hydrogeochemical compositions also have the vital role for corrosion and scaling, geothermal reservoir temperature evaluation, and geothermal fluid uses. In recent decades, many countries have conducted much research in geothermal water resource exploitation.\nChangbai Mountain is located in the east of the Songliao Basin, China, and is a tectonically and volcanically active area. Due to the previous volcanic activities, the region is rich in geothermal springs, which are discharged at different altitudes. The monitoring of geothermal fluid of Changbai Mountain began in 1985, and the main monitoring compositions include CO2, N2, He, H2, O2, and CH4 which were associated with volcanic activities [3]. Tianchi volcano is one of the famous active volcanoes in China. Its eruptive history included early shield-forming, middle cone construction, and late ignimbrite-forming eruptions in three stages [4]. The eruptive products were alkali and tholeiitic basalts, trachyte and comendite lavas, and pyroclastic equivalents [5]. So what are the hydrogeochemical characteristics of the hot springs and what are the sources of the hydrogeochemical compositions on the complex geothermal geological environments? Solving these problems are vital for the development and utilization of geothermal water resources.\nThe heat source, heat reservoir, heat conduction channel, and cap rock are four basic elements for the geothermal water system [6]. Study of the geothermal water system model is an important means to reveal the formation and distribution of a geothermal field. At present, the geothermal water system model mainly includes a simple conceptual model, analytical model, lumped parameter model, and distributed parameter model [7]. The geothermal field characteristics of the New Zealand Wairakei-Tauhara were revealed by a simple concept model. The hot water welled up to the surface through the NE-SW fracture, and the heat reservoir temperature ranged from 260 to 300\u00b0C [8]. Based on two-dimensional groundwater flow theory, the heat conduction model of Leibnitzer geothermal field was established by using FEFLOW software [9]. The heat sources of the Obama geothermal water system in Japan were studied by three-dimensional numerical model [10].\nGeothermal exploration is the most direct method to probe and identify geothermal resources, which can be used to deeply and fully understand the geothermal resource forming process [11]. Geophysical exploration for the subsurface geothermal reservoir began in early 1980 which was a geothermal exploration, mainly employing shallow electrical resistivity surveys [12]. Nowadays, the common geophysical exploration methods are the geoelectrical method, thermal method, seismic method, magnetic measurement method, and gravimetric method [13]. Newman et al. [14] expounded the characteristics of the Coso geothermal field and the relationship with tectonic fissures by using 3D magnetotelluric exploration method.\nAt present, the developed geothermal springs of Changbai Mountain were utilized for balneology and spa purposes. Most of the geothermal spring resources are still not developed. Among the hot springs, the Julong springs and Jinjiang springs have the highest flow quantity and temperature in this region. The distribution areas and flow quantity of the Julong springs and Jinjiang springs are, respectively, 3317.50\u2009m2 and 210.0\u2009m2 and 6455.48\u2009m3/d and 578.8\u2009m3/d. Nowadays, the local government has enhanced the development of the geothermal springs, and some geothermal water diversion projects were established. But the hydrogeochemical characteristics, recharge sources, and genesis model of the Julong springs and Jinjiang springs are not clear. Therefore, in order to develop, use, and protect the geothermal springs, studying the hydrogeochemical characteristics, recharge sources, and genesis model of geothermal springs is urgently needed. In this study, the Julong springs and Jinjiang springs were comprehensively analyzed via sampling and monitoring of geothermal spring water for hydrogeochemical characteristics and genesis model, isotope analysis, and geophysical exploration. The results of the research would promote the development and utilization of geothermal resources and enrich the genesis mechanism of the geothermal system.\n2. Study Area and Volcano Geology\nJulong springs and Jinjiang springs are located in the Changbai Mountain basalt area in the east of Jilin Province. Geographical coordinates are located in the north latitude of 41\u00b023\u201342\u00b035 and east longitude of 127\u00b015\u2013129\u00b000. The area has a temperate continental monsoon climate with an annual average temperature of 3.5\u00b0C. According to Changbai Mountain weather stations, the annual average precipitation is 1332.6\u2009mm, much of which occurs during the period from June to September.\nThe geological groups in the Julong spring and Jinjiang spring areas mainly include Proterozoic Laoling formation (Pt1z), Triassic Changbai formation (T3c), Cenozoic Pleistocene Junjianshan formation (Q1pj), Baitoushan formation (Q2b), and Cenozoic Holocene Bingchang formation (Q4bc). The lithology of the Laoling formation (Pt1z) is dolomitic marble, with an average thickness of 467\u2009m, the lithology of the Changbai formation (T3c) is rhyolite and rhyolitic pyroclastic rocks and the average thickness is 1300\u2009m, the lithology of the Junjianshan formation (Q1pj) is basalt and olivine basalt and the average thickness is 189\u2009m, the lithology of the Baitoushan formation (Q2b) is trachyte and tuffaceous trachyte and the average thickness is about 130\u2009m, and the lithology of the Bingchang formation (Q4bc) is alkaline pumice and the average thickness is about 51.5\u2009m (Figure 1).\nFigure 1: Geological map of the Changbai Mountain area.\nThe bedrock geology is composed of ancient metamorphic rocks, formed in the Archean-Proterozoic, and massive granite formed in the Mesozoic. The terrigeneous sediments were deposited in the Mesozoic, which was interrupted by intermediate to acid magmatic activities. In the Cenozoic, basalt magma was discharged from the upper mantle via the huge fault which led to the volcanic eruption and created a broad basalt platform. The Tianchi volcano region was the center of those volcanic activities. The bedrocks of the Julong hot springs are dolomitic marble of Laoling formation (Pt1z) and rhyolite of Changbai formation (T3c). The bedrocks of the Jinjiang hot springs are andesite of Changbai formation (T3c) (Figure 2).\nFigure 2: Bedrock geological map of the Changbai Mountain area.\n3.1. Hot Spring Sample and Analysis\nThe Julong hot springs and Jinjiang hot springs were sampled in October of 2015 and analyzed for pH, temperature, electrical conductivity (EC), inorganic chemical composition, metal elements, trace elements, and gas composition. The pH and EC were measured in situ by using a low-range pH/EC tester (Hanna Combo Model HI98129, Beijing Hengtai Ruibo Technology Development Co. Ltd., Beijing, China) [15]. Temperature was measured in situ by thermometer. Bicarbonate concentration was determined by using titration against hydrochloric acid. Sulphate and nitrate concentrations were determined by using a spectrophotometer (V-1300, Macy China Instruments Inc., Beijing, China). Silicate was determined by using potassium fluorosilicate. Chloride ion was estimated by titration against a standard solution of AgNO3. Sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AA-6300, Shimadzu International Trading Ltd., Shimane, Japan). Other metallic and trace elements were also determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AA-6300, Shimadzu International Trading Ltd., Shimane, Japan). The analytical precision for ion measurements was determined by calculating the ionic balance error, which is generally within \u00b15%. AquaChem software was used to determine the hydrogeochemical characteristics of spring waters [16].\nGas samples were collected by prevacuum collector method, and the gas samples were collected in the vacuum-packed bag. CO2, He, H2, O2, and N2 were determined by using a gas chromatograph (SP-3420A, Beijing Beifen-Ruili Analytical Instrument Co. Ltd., China). The ratio value of 3He/4He was determined by mass spectrometer (Noblesse SFT).\n3.2. Isotope Analysis\nStable isotope \u03b4D-\u03b418O, C isotopes, and noble gas isotopes (Ne, He) of the Julong hot springs and Jinjiang hot springs were detected to determine the sources of geothermal fluids. Two rain and snow water samples collected in the study area were also tested for stable isotope \u03b4D-\u03b418O. \u03b4D-\u03b418O were determined by IRM-GC/MS (Agilent 5973, Shimadzu International Trading Ltd., Shimane, Japan); C isotopes were determined by stable isotope mass spectrometer (DELTA plus XP); noble gas isotopes were determined by noble gas isotope mass spectrometer (Noblesse SFT).\n3.3. Rock Sample and Analysis\nIn order to determine the microstructure, element types, and mineral compositions of the rocks of the Julong hot springs and Jinjiang hot springs, four rock samples were precisely determined by scanning electron microscope (JSM-6700F on Windows NT) and X-ray diffraction (XRD, YST-I). For the SEM and EDS analyses, the rock samples are prepared into thin sections, 0.2\u2009\u00d7\u20090.2\u2009\u00d7\u20090.03\u2009mm3, and for the XRD analysis, the rock samples are prepared into powder.\n3.4. Hydrogeochemistry Simulation\nAlbite, potassium feldspar, pyroxene, silica, calcite, calcium montmorillonite, kaolinite, fluorite, illite, and gypsum possible mineral phases were selected to analyze the source of hot spring chemical compositions. The geochemical modelling programme PHREEQC [17] was used to calculate the possibility of mineral reaction in the Julong and Jinjiang hot spring water. The rain water samples were selected as the starting point of the reaction path. The Julong and Jinjiang hot spring water samples were selected as the ending point of the reaction path. The pyroxene hydrolysis equation was added in the PHREEQC database. And the uncertainty of the hydrogeochemistry simulation model is 0.05. The concentration of chemistry compositions on the hydrogeochemistry simulation is as shown in Table 1.\nTable 1: Concentration of chemistry compositions on hydrogeochemistry simulation (mg/L).\n3.5. Geophysical Exploration\nGeophysical exploration together with the geological and geochemical investigation could successfully establish the existence of geothermal anomaly and the presence of shallow reservoir features. Geophysical methods are very useful, if not essential, in deciphering the geological structures, such as the high-density resistivity (HDRT) method and magnetotelluric (MT) method.\nElectrical prospecting is very important in engineering prospecting and an effective method; the direct current method of the high-density resistivity imaging method is a common method of electrical prospecting [18]. The high-density resistivity method is a kind of array exploration method [19]. The resistivity distribution from electromagnetic surveys is interpreted in terms of water saturation of rocks, hydrothermal alteration, and presence of hydrated minerals. They are covered by basalt and trachyte on the surface around the Jinjiang hot springs. In order to get more geology information, the high-density resistivity method is used to dissect Jinjiang hot springs. Six prospecting lines were arranged with a length of each line of 590\u2009m. The measuring instrument is the DUK-2 high-density electrical apparatus, and each prospecting line has 60 electrodes with an electrode spacing of 10\u2009m. The arrangement diagram of the prospecting lines are shown in Figure 3.\nFigure 3: Arrangement diagram of the prospecting lines of the high-density electrical method.\nAs a deep geophysical technique, the magnetotelluric (MT) method is being widely used for the assessment of geothermal fields in many regions and is also the most appropriate electromagnetic technique to electrically image the subsurface structures [20]. In geothermal regions, it can provide useful information about the lateral and vertical variation of the resistivity of the subsurface. Qiu et al. [21] also analyzed the volcano magma chamber of the Changbaishan Tianchi volcano. In order to obtain more information on the stratum structure and magma chamber characteristics of Changbaishan Tianchi around the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs, a 103\u2009km long magnetotelluric sounding prospecting line was arranged in Changbaishan with the direction of NE10\u00b0. The point of magnetotelluric sounding prospecting was 41 whose dot pitch was 2.5\u2009km (Figures 3 and 4).\nFigure 4: Distribution of MT station at the volcanic area in Changbai Mountain [21].\nIn short, we present a multidisciplinary method including hydrogeochemistry, gas geochemistry, whole-rock geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, noble gas geochemistry, and geophysical exploration for understanding the hydrogeochemical characteristics and genesis of hydrothermal systems near the active Tianchi volcano (Changbaishan). The flow chart of the study is shown in Figure 5.\nFigure 5: Distribution of MT station at the volcanic area in Changbai Mountain.\n4.1. Hydrogeochemical Characteristics\nThe values of pH for the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs ranged from 6.63 to 7.05 (average value 6.77) and from 7.33 to 7.34 (average value 7.335), respectively. The values of temperature for the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were from 36.0 to 58.0\u00b0C (average value 48.5\u00b0C) and from 82.0 to 84.0\u00b0C (average value 83.0\u00b0C), respectively. The temperatures of the Julong springs were higher than those of the Jinjiang hot springs, and all the hot springs belong to low-temperature geothermal resources.\nThe values of EC for the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were 900\u20131400\u2009\u03bcm/cm (average value 1150\u2009\u03bcm/cm) and 1398\u20131400\u2009\u03bcm/cm (average value 1399\u2009\u03bcm/cm), respectively. The values of total dissolved solids (TDS) for the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were 1000.13\u20131708.77\u2009mg/L (average value 1247.68\u2009mg/L) and 1470.53\u20131471.79\u2009mg/L (average value 1471.16\u2009mg/L), respectively.\nThe thermal spring samples were also enriched with trace elements such as H2SiO3 and Sr. The concentration of H2SiO3 of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs ranged from 136.66\u2009mg/L to 232.28\u2009mg/L (average value 176.26\u2009mg/L) and 211.5\u2009mg/L to 211.93\u2009mg/L (average value 211.715\u2009mg/L), respectively. The concentrations of Sr of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs ranged from 0.029 to 0.062\u2009mg/L (average value 0.043\u2009mg/L) and 0.067\u2009mg/L to 0.089\u2009mg/L (average value 0.078\u2009mg/L), respectively. The types of thermal spring samples were silicate type and silicate-Sr type. The concentrations of hydrochemical data are shown in Table 2.\nTable 2: Hydrochemical data of the hot spring water samples (in mg/L except for T, pH, and EC. the units of Temp and EC are \u00b0C and \u03bcm/cm, respectively).\nThe distribution of ions of thermal spring samples are plotted on a Piper diagram (Figure 6). It was clearly seen that thermal spring samples were enriched in Na and HCO3 and were depleted in Cl. The thermal springs were all Na-HCO3 water type.\nFigure 6: Piper diagram of sampled spring water.\nThe main gas compositions of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs are CO2, N2, and CH4 (Tables 3 and 4). The percentage of CO2 of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs is 92.25%\u201393.82% (average value 92.96%) and 93.47%\u201393.54% (average value 93.47%), respectively, which are both higher than 90%. The average percentage of N2 of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs is 5.16% and 5.00%, respectively, and the average percentage of CH4 of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs is 1.57% and 0.29%, respectively. Gases associated with mantle magmatic activity include CO2, He, CH4, and H2, especially CH4 and He [22]. The average percentages of CO2, He, CH4, and H2 in the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were, respectively, 94.613% and 93.818%, and the average percentages of He and CH4 in these two hot springs were 1.575% and 0.291%, respectively, which indicated that the released quantity of gases related to magmatic activity of the Jinjiang hot springs is a little higher than that of the Julong hot springs. There is a rule that CO2 release quantity from thermal springs is higher in volcanic activity and fault areas, and CO2 as an important geochemical indicator predicts the activity degree of magmatic and earthquake activity [23]. So the gas origins of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs are related to magmatic activity. The average percentage of He of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs is both 0.0015%. The concentrations of He of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs are relatively stable expect for 2003 which was a seismic activity period [24]. A lot of abiogenic CH4 is also released in the magmatic lava area [25]. The concentration of CH4 of the Julong hot springs is relatively stable, but those of Jinjiang hot springs are slowly rising in the past years [26].\nTable 3: The main gas compositions of hot spring water samples (%).\nTable 4: Gas isotope (carbon and helium) characteristics of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs.\n4.2. Sources of Hot Springs\n4.2.1. Recharge Sources of Hot Springs\nFigure 7 shows the relationship of \u03b418O-\u03b4D of the hot spring samples. The relationship of \u03b418O-\u03b4D of snow and rain water samples is fall in the Changbai Mountain meteoric water line, which shows the reliability of water sample test results. The Jinjiang and Julong hot spring water samples all fall in the Changbai Mountain meteoric water offline and nearly along the global meteoric water line. Those characteristics of \u03b418O-\u03b4D of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs show the recharge sources from atmospheric precipitation, which are also influenced by evaporation. There was an 18O drift phenomenon of the hot spring samples, but the amount of drift is only about 1\u2030. The 18O drift phenomenon has correlation to oxygen isotope exchange between deep geothermal water and silicate [27]. Because 18O in silicate is richer than in geothermal water, the 18O exchange between geothermal water and silicate can make the 18O rise in geothermal water, especially in high-temperature geothermal water. The amount of 18O drift is small in the study area which confirms that the springs in the study area belongs to low temperature geothermal water.\nFigure 7: Relationship of \u03b418O-\u03b4D of the hot spring samples.\n4.2.2. Gas Sources of Hot Springs\nThe \u03b413CO2 values of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs are \u22121.20\u2030, \u22123.90\u2030, \u22122.78\u2030, \u22123.19\u2030 (average value \u22122.77\u2030); \u22121.20\u2030, and \u22123.90\u2030 (average value \u22122.55\u2030). The CO2/3He values of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs are 0.76\u2009\u00d7\u2009109, 1.49\u2009\u00d7\u2009109, 1.65\u2009\u00d7\u2009109, 0.96\u2009\u00d7\u2009109 (average value 1.22\u2009\u00d7\u2009109); 321.90\u2009\u00d7\u2009109, and 18.90\u2009\u00d7\u2009109 (average value 170.40\u2009\u00d7\u2009109). The different sources of carbon have different carbon isotope values. The \u03b413CO2 values of the upper mantle ranged from \u22129.0\u2030 to \u22124.0\u2030 (average value \u22126.5\u2030); the \u03b413CO2 values of earth\u2019s crust carbon from marine carbonate sediments are about 0\u2030, while those of organic sediments ranged from \u221240\u2030 to \u221220\u2030 [28]. The different sources of geological fluid also have different CO2/3He values. The CO2/3He values of the mantle fluid ranged from 108 to 1010, while those of the earth\u2019s crust fluid ranged from 1010 to 1012 [29]. So the carbon sources of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were the upper mantle and may have been influenced by marine carbonate sediments. The sources of 4He on the earth are radioactively decayed by 238U, 235U, and 232Th in the geological history process. 3He is almost produced by the mantle. The values of 3He/4He caused by the atmosphere, earth\u2019s radioactive crust, and upper mantle are, respectively, 1.39\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126 (1\u2009Ra), 0.0139\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126~0.139\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126 (0.01\u2009Ra~0.1\u2009Ra), and 11.12\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126 (8\u2009Ra) (Allard et al., 1997). The values of 20Ne/4He and 3He/4He of the Jinjiang hot springs are 2.11, 0.31, 0.20 and 0.30 (average value 0.73), 8.97\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126, 9.30\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126, 5.50\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126, and 5.93\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126 (average value 7.43\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126). The values of 20Ne/4He and 3He/4He of the Julong hot springs are 2.11 and 0.31 (average value 1.21), 2.18\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126, and 6.27\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126 (4.23\u2009\u00d7\u200910\u22126), which indicated that the gas sources of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were from the upper mantle.\n4.2.3. Hydrogeochemical Composition Sources of Hot Springs\n(1) Mineral Compositions of Rocks. The chemical composition percentage of the rock samples around the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs is shown in Table 5. The main chemical compositions are SiO2, TiO2, and Al2O3. The content percentage of SiO2 of D1 and D2 is about 50%, and those of D3 and D4 are more than 50%. By volcanic rock TAS classification, D1 and D2 belong to trachybasalt and D3 and D4 belong to trachyte.\nTable 5: Chemical composition percentage of rock samples around the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs.\nThe surface structure and mineral compositions of the rock samples were analyzed by scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectrum (EDS), and diffraction of X-ray (XRD) methods. Figure 8 shows that the dominant minerals of rock samples were plagioclase with the dominant elements of Na, Al, Si, and O. There are some pyroxene and potassium feldspar, whose dominant elements are, respectively, Ca, Mg, Al, Si, and O and K, Al, Si, and O. Figure 9 shows main minerals through the X-ray diffraction method. The dominant minerals of rock samples D1, D2, D3, and D4 are plagioclase, quartz, chlorite, and pyroxene; plagioclase, quartz, feldspar, pyroxene, chlorite, calcite, and dolomite; plagioclase, feldspar, and pyroxene; and plagioclase, pyroxene, and feldspar, respectively. There are some differences about the results of mineral compositions of rock samples by scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectrum (EDS), and diffraction of X-ray (XRD) methods. The reason is that scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrum (EDS) determine the mineral compositions through one point of the rock samples, while X-ray diffraction determines the mineral compositions through whole rock powder samples. Through mineral composition analysis, the main mineral compositions are plagioclase, quartz, and pyroxene, as well as chlorite, calcite, fluorite, gypsum, and dolomite.\nFigure 8: Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) and energy dispersion spectrum (EDS) diagrams of rock samples.\nFigure 9: Diagram of X-ray diffraction of rock samples.\n(2) Hydrogeochemical Composition Sources. Table 6 shows the results of hydrogeochemical simulation. The chemical compositions of the Jinjiang and Julong hot springs are mainly controlled by mineral hydrolysis of albite, potassium feldspar, calcium feldspar, and pyroxene. In the reaction path I (rain to the Jinjiang hot springs), the dissolving minerals are albite, potassium feldspar, calcium feldspar, pyroxene, dolomite, and gypsum. The maximum hydrolysis minerals are calcium feldspar and pyroxene with the hydrolysis amounts as 1.24E\u2009+\u200902 and 6.74E\u2009+\u200901, respectively. In the reaction path II (rain to the Julong hot springs), the dissolving minerals are albite, potassium feldspar, calcium feldspar, pyroxene, and dolomite. The maximum hydrolysis minerals are also calcium feldspar and pyroxene with the hydrolysis amounts as 4.41E\u2009+\u200902 and 5.52E\u2009+\u200901, respectively. The hot spring hydrogeochemical compositions are mainly composed of feldspar and pyroxene mineral hydrolysis.\nTable 6: The results of the hydrogeochemical simulation.\n4.3. Stratum Structure and Volcanic Magma Chamber\nThe data of the high-density resistivity method is inversed by Swedish RES2DINV processing software (Figure 10). The apparent resistivity values are ranged from 10\u2009\u03a9.m to 10,000\u2009\u03a9.m. In the six prospecting lines, high-resistance media are mainly distributed in the surface between 40 and 50\u2009m, which includes Cenozoic basalt and trachyte. There is a wide range of the low-resistance zone below the surface of 50\u2009m in the six prospecting lines, which includes volcanic breccia, sand, and gravel. There is a clear boundary line between the low-resistance zone and the high-resistance zone, which infers a fracture. The low-resistance zone is mainly a geothermal reservoir and aquifer. So the cap rocks of the Jinjiang hot springs are composed of trachyte, basalt, andesite, and andesitic tuff; the geothermal reservoir is a fracture zone with the lithology of volcanic breccia, sand, and gravel.\nFigure 10: The results of high-density resistivity method (HDRT).\nThe results of the magnetotelluric (MT) method are 2D inversed by NLCG 2D inversion technique (Figure 11). There is an obvious vertical volcano magma channel at the bottom of the Changbai Mountain Tianchi crater, and the magma channel is closed at the depth of about 5\u20138\u2009km. At the bottom of the crater, near the north direction about 7\u2009km deep, there exists an obvious low-resistance body where the resistivity is less than 10\u2009\u03a9.m and is connected to the magma channel. It is inferred that it may be a developing magma chamber in a shallow surface. The abnormal region is between stations EC07 and EC09 near the entrance gate of Changbai Mountain, and between EC04 and EC05 stations, there are two obvious nearly vertical low-resistivity zones existing at the depth of about 7\u201317\u2009km, and connecting with the low-resistance body directly below, it is inferred that the low-resistivity zone contains the magma. As the depth increases, the crust low-resistivity anomaly bodies are widely developed at the depth of 13\u2009km to 30\u2009km north to the position of 20\u2009km south from the Tianchi volcano, which may be the active magma chamber. So there is a magma chamber below the Tianchi volcano.\nFigure 11: Two-dimensional MT inversion result at the volcanic area in Changbai Mountain (Qiu, 2014).\n4.4. Hot Spring Genesis Conceptual Model\nThe genetic model for the Jinjiang hot springs is as follows: the heat source is a magma body below the north of the Changbai Mountain Tianchi crater with a distance of 7\u201317\u2009km [30, 31]. And the heat is migrated in the form of thermal conduction manner. The cap rocks are composed of trachyte of Baitoushan formation, basalt of Junjianshan formation, andesite of Changbai formation. The geothermal reservoir is a fracture zone with the lithology of volcanic breccia, sand, and gravel. Hot spring water is mainly supplied by precipitation and is also influenced by evaporation. The Jinjiang hot springs are exposed on the surface along the fault zone by deep circulation with a distance of 4.00\u20134.56\u2009km. In deep circulation, the hydrolysis of feldspar and pyroxene produces chemical compositions, and the gas compositions are derived from the mantle (Figure 12).\nFigure 12: The genesis conceptual model of the Jinjiang hot springs.\nThe genetic model for the Julong hot springs is as follows: the heat source is also the magma body. And the heat is also migrated in the form of a thermal conduction manner. The cap rocks are composed of trachyte of Baitoushan formation, basalt of Junjianshan formation, and andesite of Changbai formation. The geothermal reservoir is a fracture zone with the lithology of volcanic breccia and marble. Hot spring water is mainly supplied by precipitation and is also influenced by evaporation. The Julong hot springs are exposed on the surface along the fault zone by deep circulation and heated by the magma heat source. In deep circulation, the hydrolysis of feldspar and pyroxene produces chemical compositions, and the gas compositions are derived from the earth\u2019s radioactive crust (Figure 13).\nFigure 13: The genesis conceptual model of the Julong hot springs.\nThe temperatures of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs were from 36.0 to 58.0\u00b0C (average value 48.5\u00b0C) and from 82.0 to 84.0\u00b0C (average value 83.0\u00b0C), respectively. All the hot springs belong to low-temperature geothermal resources. The water chemical types of hot spring water were Na-HCO3, with high concentrations of Na+ and HCO3\u2212 and enriched in trace elements such as H2SiO3 and Sr. The main gas composition of the Jinjiang hot springs and Julong hot springs is CO2, N2, and CH4. The recharge sources of hot springs are atmospheric precipitation and are also influenced by evaporation, and the chemical compositions are produced by feldspar and pyroxene mineral hydrolysis. 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Why? Because fireplaces serve multiple purposes. For example, fireplaces keep homeowners warm\u2014a nice, cozy perk to have on extra cold nights. Fireplaces are also decorative and often become the main focal point of a room.\nAs you browse the below collection fireplace home plans, consider what architectural style speaks to you, as this can help determine what kind of fireplace you will require. If a lodge-like chalet feel is what you\u2019re going for, a wood-burning fireplace might be the best answer, as it will help achieve an extra rustic ambience and smell. On the other hand, if you\u2019re considering a modern townhouse, for instance, a sleek gas or electric fireplace might be the better option.\nFurthermore, consider where you want the fireplace to be located in the house. Many house plans in the collection below feature fireplaces in their great, living, or family rooms\u2014i.e. the main living area of the design. However, some home plans below feature a fireplace in more luxurious locations, like the master suite, while other house plans may feature multiple fireplaces.\nWhatever your fireplace needs are, you\u2019re sure to find what you\u2019re looking for in the HomePlans.com collection of fireplace house plans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hooklawcenter.com/newsletter/news-2010/2010-the-year-of-carryover-basis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7CRU3CGCH3JMOHDFKR3KBW7CHQ44QZKI", "length": 7045, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hooklawcenter.com", "title": "2010 - The Year of Carryover Basis | Hook Law Center", "raw_content": "2010 \u2013 The Year of Carryover Basis\nThe last issue of the Oast & Hook News addressed the estate tax laws that are effective for 2010. This issue of the Oast and Hook News will explore the issue of carryover basis. In previous years, the beneficiaries of estates received a great income tax benefit known as the \u201cstep up in basis.\u201d In simple terms, this meant that a person inherited property with a basis equivalent to the fair market value at the time of the decedent\u2019s death. A person\u2019s basis in property is the value from which they determine whether there is any capital gain to pay upon its sale. For example, if a person purchased some shares of stock for $5,000, and then later sold the same stock for $10,000, the person\u2019s basis is $5,000, and this person would pay tax on the $5,000 of capital appreciation. If that same person died owning the stock and it was worth $10,000 on the date of the person\u2019s death, then whoever inherits the stock would have a \u201cstepped up\u201d basis of $10,000. If the person who had inherited the stock sold it for $10,000, then this person would pay no tax on the sale due to the step up in basis.\nThe step up in basis has been the rule for many years; however, under current law, there is no longer an automatic step up in basis for property. In 2010 beneficiaries inherit property with a carryover basis. Using the example above, the person inheriting the stock would inherit the stock with a $5,000 basis and would be required to pay taxes on the $5,000 capital gain when this person sells the stock. Congress has allowed a reprieve for some individuals, allowing a step up in basis of $1.3 million for property passing to someone other than a decedent\u2019s spouse and a step up in basis of $3.0 million for property passing to a decedent\u2019s spouse. Any property passing at death in excess of these amounts will receive carryover basis.\nCarryover basis presents a number of potential problems, not the least of which is actually determining the basis in a decedent\u2019s property. For many assets, basis is not as easy as determining what an individual paid for property. Most assets will have adjusted basis at one point or another. For example, stock with dividends reinvested gets a basis adjustment each time the dividends are reinvested; another common stock basis concern occurs with companies that have spun off from parent companies. For real property, basis includes not only the initial cost, but also the cost of certain capital improvements. Real estate and stocks are just two examples of property with basis. Many people are not aware of the basis in their property, and after their deaths, determining basis can be next to impossible. Carryover basis rules also allow the Internal Revenue Service to approximate the basis in an asset if it is impossible to obtain records.\nAnother concern with the carryover basis is in the allocation of basis. The executor of an estate must file an allocation with the Internal Revenue Service indicating the basis in the property, to whom the property has been distributed, and whether any of the $1.3 million step up has been allocated to the property. It is left to the discretion of the executor which property will receive some or any step up in basis. Many individuals have named as the executors of their estates family members, who are also beneficiaries of the estate. If an executor is allowed to make the step up in basis allocation, then there is nothing to prevent the executor from allocating the step up in basis to property passing to the executor and giving the other beneficiaries carryover basis property. This can lead to some obvious family problems as well as unfairness in distributions in spite of provisions in wills stating that all beneficiaries should be treated equally.\nFinally, the Internal Revenue Service has provided for fines of up to $10,000 for not providing beneficiaries with basis information. For executors working with a large number of assets, or estates where basis information is not readily available, the additional pressure of a fine may make a difficult job even more difficult.\nIn conclusion, not only is 2010 a year of uncertainty for estate tax laws, carryover basis provides an additional burden both from a records keeping standpoint, and a tax standpoint for executors and beneficiaries of estates for individuals dying in 2010. With proper planning, you can improve this result and reduce the burden on those left behind.\nThe lawyers at Oast & Hook have studied the potential impact of the repeal of the federal estate tax and generation skipping transfer tax and are offering a free seminar to those who think they could be affected. Make sure your estate plan is not obsolete. Reserve your seat now. Oast & Hook will present this seminar twice on February 22nd at the Virginia Beach Central Library, 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452. The first presentation begins at 10:00 a.m., and the second presentation begins at 4:00 p.m. If you have any questions about this seminar or to register, then please phone Jennifer Lantz at 757-399-7506.\nLetha McDowell is an elder law attorney with Oast & Hook, and she practices in the firm\u2019s Virginia and North Carolina offices.\nO&H: Allie, we\u2019ve heard that a university student group has found a way to relieve stress during final exams. Please tell us about it.\nAllie: Sure! A Chapman University student organization called the Active Minds Club, a group that promotes mental awareness, had some puppies available outside the university library for students to play with during final exams week. Student event organizer Jennifer Heinz said, \u201cIt has been proven that having a dog helps relieve stress, so we thought it would be a cute idea if we brought some furry friends on campus. It\u2019s just a nice way to step back from reality and just be stress-free for a moment.\u201d The Active Minds Club also had pamphlets and resources available about how students can reduce stress and take care of themselves during their final exams. The 6,000 student campus in Orange, California, also hosted other exam week events, including a midnight breakfast served by professors. The puppy program sounds like a great idea, maybe they can add cats next semester! Speaking of breakfast, I\u2019m getting hungry\u2026. Let\u2019s see if my mom has some treats handy. See you next week!\nOast & Hook will hold its quarterly Social Workers and Administrators Breakfast on Monday, February 15th at the Virginia Beach Central Library, 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452. The topic is \u201cPaying for Long-term Care Without Running Out of Money.\u201d Registration beings at 9:00 a.m., and the presentation begins at 9:30 a.m. Questions will be answered from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The breakfast is designed to be both a networking opportunity and also an educational opportunity for area professionals who work with seniors, the disabled, and their families. Seats are limited, so please register early for this breakfast by phoning Jennie Dell at 757-967-9704.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 10918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/mental_health_disorders/adjustment_disorders_90,P01573", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MV23RHENMTLWV5CKSYFHMZ3HQUQGA22D", "length": 6176, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.hopkinsmedicine.org", "title": "Adjustment Disorders | Johns Hopkins Medicine Health Library", "raw_content": "<< Back to Mental Health Disorders\nAdjustment Disorders: What You Need to Know\nAdjustment disorders are predominantly diagnosed in children and adolescents, but they can also affect adults.\nSymptoms of adjustment disorders vary depending on how the disorder manifests. Adjustment disorder can be present with anxiety, depressed mood, disturbance of emotions and conduct, or combinations of these conditions.\nA child and adolescent psychiatrist or qualified mental health professional can diagnose adjustment disorder.\nTreatments for adjustment disorders depend on a variety of factors, but they may include individual psychotherapy, family therapy or peer group therapy.\nAdjustment Disorders Overview\nAn adjustment disorder is an emotional or behavioral reaction to a stressful event or change in a person\u2019s life. The reaction is considered an unhealthy or excessive response to the event or change within three months of it happening. Stressful events or changes in the life of your child or adolescent may be a family move, the parents\u2019 divorce or separation, the loss of a pet, or the birth of a sibling. A sudden illness or restriction to your child\u2019s life due to chronic illness may also result in an adjustment response.\nWhile adults can experience adjustment disorders, it is predominantly diagnosed in children and adolescents.\nCauses of Adjustment Disorders\nAdjustment disorders are a reaction to an event. There is not a single direct cause between the stressful event and the reaction. Children and adolescents vary in their temperament, past experiences, vulnerability and coping skills. Where they are in their development and ability to deal with specific needs related to the stress may contribute to their reaction. Stressors also vary in how long they last, how strong they are and what effect they have. No evidence is available to suggest a specific factor that causes adjustment disorders.\nAdjustment disorders are quite common in children and adolescents. They happen equally in males and females. While adjustment disorders happen in all cultures, the stressors and signs may vary based on cultural influences.\nAdjustment disorders can also happen at any age. However, it is believed that characteristics of the disorder are different in children and adolescents than they are in adults.\nIn all adjustment disorders, the reaction to the stressor is excessive to what would be otherwise expected. Also, the reaction should significantly interfere with social, occupational or educational functioning. Additionally, age can have an effect: Differences are found in the symptoms experienced, how long they last, how strong they are and what effect they have. Adolescent symptoms of adjustment disorders can be more behavioral, such as acting out. Adults who experience adjustment disorders exhibit more depressive symptoms.\nThere are six subtypes of adjustment disorder that are based on the type of major symptoms experienced. The following are the most common symptoms of each of the subtypes of adjustment disorder. However, each adolescent may experience symptoms differently:\nAdjustment disorder with depressed mood. Symptoms may include:\nAdjustment disorder with anxiety. Symptoms may include:\nFear of separation from major attachment figures\nAdjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood. A combination of symptoms from both of these conditions are present.\nAdjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct. Symptoms may include:\nViolation of the rights of others\nViolation of society\u2019s norms and rules (truancy, destruction of property, reckless driving or fighting)\nAdjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct. A combination of symptoms from all of the above subtypes is present (depressed mood, anxiety and conduct).\nAdjustment disorder unspecified. Reactions to stressful events that do not fit in one of the above subtypes are present. Reactions may include behaviors like social withdrawal or inhibitions to normally expected activities, like school or work.\nThe symptoms of adjustment disorders may resemble other medical problems or psychiatric conditions. Always talk with your adolescent\u2019s health care provider for a diagnosis.\nDiagnosing Adjustment Disorders\nA child and adolescent psychiatrist or a qualified mental health professional usually makes the diagnosis of an adjustment disorder following a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and interview with the child or adolescent and their parents. A detailed personal history of development, life events, emotions, behaviors and the identified stressful event is obtained during the interview.\nTreating Adjustment Disorders\nSpecific treatment for adjustment disorders will be decided by your adolescent\u2019s health care provider based on:\nYour adolescent\u2019s age, overall health and medical history\nExtent of your adolescent\u2019s symptoms\nSubtype of the adjustment disorder\nYour adolescent\u2019s tolerance for specific therapies\nExpectations for the course of the stressful event\nIndividual psychotherapy using cognitive-behavioral approaches. Cognitive-behavioral approaches are used to improve age-appropriate problem-solving skills, communication skills, impulse control, anger management skills and stress management skills.\nFamily therapy. Family therapy is often focused on making needed changes within the family system, like improving communication skills and family interactions. An additional area of focus is to increase family support among family members.\nPeer group therapy. Peer group therapy is often focused on developing and using social skills and interpersonal skills.\nMedicine. Medicines have very limited value in the treatment of adjustment disorders\nPreventing Adjustment Disorders\nPreventive measures to reduce adjustment disorders in adolescents are not known at this time. However, early discovery and getting professional help for your adolescent can reduce the severity of symptoms, enhancing normal growth and development and improving your child\u2019s quality of life.\nMood Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults Program at Johns Hopkins...\nFor tantrums that just won\u2019t quit, there might be more at play\nIntegrating Psychiatry And Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 11018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hoponhopoffplus.com/pickup-route-map", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:A3OOO3MM77KW5HELXS5RW3UKWUCNY5LC", "length": 482, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hoponhopoffplus.com", "title": "Pickup Route Map", "raw_content": "You\u2019re here: Home \u00bbPickup Route Map\nOperating in the morning and early evening only, the pick-up and drop-off route travels through the city\u2019s most popular hotel districts, ready to transport you into the centre for a brilliant day of sightseeing and then back to your accommodation again in the evening.\nPick-up service first bus starts at 7am and the last bus starts at 09.45am. Drop-off service in the early evenings, first bus starts at 4.56pm and the last bus starts at 6.28pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/tim-wainwright/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T5ELDA3XCFSMDIOEFC7CFOD6EACTNQCI", "length": 953, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.co.uk", "title": "Tim Wainwright", "raw_content": "WaterAid UK\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Chief Executive\nPer-Anders Pettersson via Getty Images\nCape Town Isn\u2019t The Only Water Crisis. For Nearly 850 Million People, This Is Reality\nWe need to give the water crisis the focus and urgency that it deserves\nWhat water and sanitation can learn from Facebook\nAs I look back on this year, and reflect upon what\u2019s before us in 2018, I find myself thinking of a number which at first\nWhy Water, Soap And Toilets Are Key In Ending Malnutrition\nTo End Cholera By 2030 We Must Start With The Basics Of Clean Water And Sanitation\nTogether We Can Confront The Challenges Of Water And Sanitation In The Modern World\n844 million people do not have clean water within reasonable walking distance. This is nearly impossible to believe in 2017, and illustrates the great challenge before world leaders if they are to fulfil the promise of the UN's Global Goals on sustainable development, including delivering water and sanitation to all by 2030.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ideaspies.com/a-3d-printed-dining-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:10Z", "digest": "sha1:Q752VSRYESFELZOMHBFHHZZYKO7Z2KRX", "length": 516, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ideaspies.com", "title": "A 3D printed dining experience | Idea Spies", "raw_content": "In April this year a team of Dutch 3D printed food innovators became the first in the world to open up a pop-up restaurant called Food Ink serving 3D printed food. To follow up on that success, Food Ink has been planning a world tour to the world\u2019s biggest culinary hotspots, and the next date has just been announced. They\u2019ll set up outside The Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch, London from 25 to 27 July, where a nine-course 3D printed dinner will be served. www.foodink.io\nVertical stairs that make climbing safer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iggesund.com/en/press-startpage/press/2014/tattinger/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:6VPPHJZSYQCMYN5XEU5SVHNO4ZXE2D4P", "length": 1585, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.iggesund.com", "title": "Holographic footballs decorate World Cup champagne - Care By", "raw_content": "Holographic footballs decorate World Cup champagne\nThe Taittinger champagne house is supplying the official champagne for this year\u2019s football World Cup. The company has developed a limited edition Brut R\u00e9serve NV and a gift carton especially for the competition.\nThe gift carton is a version of the packaging that won Carton of the Year award in 2012 at the Europe-wide ProCarton/ECMA packaging awards. The winning carton was decorated with round holographic effects representing champagne bubbles. In the new World Cup version these bubbles have been transformed into beautiful holographic footballs.\nThe World Cup gift carton is made of Iggesund Paperboard\u2019s Incada 235 g/m2 paperboard and the conversion is by Le Sanglier, which specialises in gift cartons for champagne. The foil lamination is by API. Even the bottle is specially produced for the event, with the World Cup trophy depicted on a gold label.\nTaittinger is one of only a few champagne producers still being run by the family whose name is on the label. Their champagnes are characterised by a dominant note of chardonnay, which contributes to the elegance and sophistication.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a momentous occasion for us to be associated with such a major event as the football World Cup,\u201d explains Clovis Taittinger, who is the company\u2019s export director. \u201cWe\u2019ve used the latest in both printing technology and 3D printing to create both the unique bottle and the carton.\u201d\nFor the football World Cup Taittinger has created an elegant gift carton made of Incada from Iggesund Paperboard and decorated with holographic footballs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ijprs.com/article/marketing-aspects-of-biotechnological-products-in-developed-ich-region-a-comparison/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:48Z", "digest": "sha1:GEMIRYD3IW44ED757ANLEIYWCDF5F5G2", "length": 869, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ijprs.com", "title": "Marketing Aspects of Biotechnological Products in Developed ICH Region \u2013 A Comparison - IJPRS", "raw_content": "Home Article Marketing Aspects of Biotechnological Products in Developed ICH Region \u2013 A Comparison\nMarketing Aspects of Biotechnological Products in Developed ICH Region \u2013 A Comparison\nKanani, M. K., Pethani, T. M., Sheth, N., Gandhi, S. N.\nBiotechnology products have different registration requirements than of allopathic drugs. They need to be deeply evaluated in case of safety and efficacy. Japan is the country which demands special requirements for registration of biotechnological products. Where as in Europe centralize procedure is mandatory for marketing of biotechnological products.\nBiotechnological products, Comparison\nKanani, M. K., Pethani, T. M., Sheth, N., & Gandhi, S. N. (2014). Marketing Aspects of Biotechnological Products in Developed ICH Region - A Comparison. International Journal for Pharmaceutical Research Scholars (IJPRS), 3(2), 897-904.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 4970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iknow-uk.com/articles/york-on-a-budget/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:JK4IHNL5SVSR4UZGSG2OPSGEQ3DXJX2D", "length": 1743, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.iknow-uk.com", "title": "York on a Budget - I Know UK", "raw_content": "York on a Budget\nA visit to York is an opportunity to explore one of the UK\u2019s most attractive, vibrant and historic cities enjoying a fast-paced break or a relaxing holiday at leisure. The city of York is home to culture, food, music, theatre and a deep and interesting history, and it\u2019s a city in which you can relax, play, work and learn without dipping too far into your bank account.\nOnce you\u2019re in York, you don\u2019t have to spend a fortune to have a great time. Strolls along the sides of York\u2019s rivers don\u2019t cost a penny and the \u2018City of Festivals\u2019 plays host to regular events and celebrations that can be enjoyed without a need to reach into your pocket. Even permanent attractions include free options that help you enjoy your whole break on a budget.\nThe National Railway Museum is one of York\u2019s free attractions and is home to exhibits for visitors of all ages. When you stay in York, cheap accommodation can form the base of an unforgettable low-cost break. Save money and pre-order your York Pass, an all inclusive pass guaranteed to save you money, inclusive of cash free entry into over 30 attractions.\nFree entertainment is always on offer around the streets of York where you\u2019ll often see great street artists and buskers. Relax in the city centre\u2019s Museum Gardens or book yourself on a free city tour available from the Association of Voluntary Guides to the City of York. Their great free tours depart daily, and twice daily across June and August, from outside York Art Gallery.\nTo enjoy York on a budget, be sure to seek out the best deals and lowest prices making the most of special offers.\nTravel Tips and Tourist Information, Yorkshire Budget, york, yorkshire, yorkshire holiday, Yorkshire tourist information permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 6598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.illinoisestateplanningandelderlawblog.com/dont-fear-prenup/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:C3KVZYZ66NHO3VCQRFO55UGCHFWRHT7D", "length": 991, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.illinoisestateplanningandelderlawblog.com", "title": "Don't Fear the Prenup \u2014 Illinois Estate Planning and Elder Law Blog \u2014 June 4, 2016", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Fear the Prenup\nPrenuptial agreements have become an important estate planning tool. Without a prenuptial agreement, a second spouse may be able to invalidate your existing estate plan. Prenuptial agreements are especially helpful if you have children from a previous marriage or important heirlooms which you want to keep on your side of the family.\nIt is important to make sure that your prenuptial agreement is valid. The following need consideration:\nIN WRITING. To be valid, a prenuptial agreement must be in writing and signed by both spouses. A court will not enforce a verbal agreement.\nNO PRESSURE. A prenuptial agreement will be invalid if one spouse is pressured into signing it.\nREVIEW. Both spouses must read and understand the agreement. Each spouse should seek advise from separate attorneys.\nFULL DISCLOSURE. Both spouses must fully disclose assets and liabilities. If either spouse lies or omits information about his or her finances, the agreement can be invalidated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.implantdentalbellevue.com/blog/visit-sedation-dentist-bellevue-accident/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PHZQTJ6CWEU5IHETOX3SX5N45NYN4KHV", "length": 3017, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.implantdentalbellevue.com", "title": "Visit a Sedation Dentist in Bellevue After an Accident", "raw_content": "As a sedation dentist in Bellevue, we are changing the way that people receive dental care. Traditionally, dentists perform treatments while a patient is fully aware. We will sometimes administer local anesthesia with a shot in the gums of the specific quadrant that we are working on. This is effective but getting a shot can often lead people to have anxiety as can being aware of the procedure itself. We offer another solution using sedation.\nSedation dentistry: The benefits\nanyone who avoids visiting the dentist needs to seek dental care and let the dentist know. The dentist is not going to judge and is more concerned with helping the patient than with lecturing. This is incredibly common since so many people are fearful of the dental drill or the overall experience. Sedation will help the patient to relax so that it will not be overwhelming. This is especially important after being in an accident in which the tooth sustains severe damage and needs immediate attention.\nFor example, if one chips or cracks a tooth in a car wreck, leaving it exposed will allow an infection to form. In this scenario, it is likely that one will end up with a severe toothache, needing a root canal and a dental restoration. If one visits our office immediately and allows us to restore the tooth, we can prevent an infection from ever starting. Some of the common restorations that we offer include:\nDental crowns that cap the tooth\nDental veneers that bond to the surface of the teeth\nDental implants to replace the tooth root\nAll of these restorative procedures and more can be completed while the patient is under sedation.\nHow to benefit from visiting a sedation dentist\nUpon visiting our dental office, we can provide one with oral sedation. A small pill that one takes an hour before the treatment begins, oral sedation is an alternative that makes the patient feel relaxed and comfortable. Some of our patients feel drowsy and fall asleep while others do not really remember what happened during the dental treatment. A patient will still be in control of his or her body and be able to respond to commands, but the experience will be a pleasant one. For most of our patients, this can make the difference of a dental appointment being stressful or entirely relaxing.\nOne of the reasons that we like to administer sedation is that it makes it possible for us to perform all of the dental procedures a patient needs in one visit. When patients are anxious, it makes it so that we often need to break up the treatments into several appointments. This is entirely possible, but it is inconvenient for our patients.\nNeeding to stretch out the treatment time means that one may need to take more time off of work and may delay the overall recovery time. By simply providing sedation, this inconvenience can be avoided entirely. For more information or to see a sedation dentist, give us a call at (425) 249-9186.\nDon\u2019t Undo All The Care You Put Into Your Teeth \u00bb\n\u00ab 4 Crazy Facts About Bad Breath That Are Actually True", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 7416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indianachamber.com/township-reform-trashed-tax-code-update-crashed-yet-alas-saas-passed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LPPLXXSFY4V4QQOBANJG75L6FENFKMIF", "length": 5785, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.indianachamber.com", "title": "Township Reform Trashed, Tax Code Update Crashed \u2026 Yet Alas, SaaS Passed! - Indiana Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "By Bill Waltz, vice president of taxation and public finance\nThe 2018 session looked quite promising in January. The Indiana Township Association supported a bill that included the merger of over 300 small townships, and the House Republicans endorsed it as a priority bill. The Governor made legislation to clarify the exempt status of software as a service (SaaS) part of his administration\u2019s agenda, even referencing it in his State of the State address.\nThese were both major initiatives of the Indiana Chamber \u2013 township reform one that we have steadfastly championed for many years. SaaS clarification was a position more recently developed by our Technology Policy Committee, in conjunction with our Tax Policy Committee, over the last year. Unfortunately, the course for these two items would not prove to be so smooth as it first appeared.\nThe township reform measure, HB 1005, made its way through the House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee with only modest opposition. Then the Indiana Farm Bureau decided it needed to go all out to protect the antiquated township system. The organization utilized local networks of its members, who are closely aligned with the township political structure, to raise fears and doubts about how the terms of the bill would be implemented.\nRural legislators succumbed to pressure, the support for the bill quickly unraveled and the House Republican leadership lost backing for the measure. As a result \u2013 and much to the chagrin of the author, Rep. Cindy Ziemke (R-Batesville), Rep. Kevin Mahan (R-Hartford City), chair of the Government and Regulatory Reform Committee, and many others who worked on and supported the measure \u2013 the bill was never taken up for a vote by the full House. But despite the disappointing demise, there are positive aspects to the effort. A renewed awareness of the need for reforms and a flushing out of the issues involved, both politically and administratively, will serve as a good backdrop for further discussions and future legislation.\nMeanwhile the SaaS legislation was gaining momentum, but its final impact was not at all certain. Yes, SB 257, the administration\u2019s proposal carried by Sen. Travis Holdman (R-Markle), passed the Senate 49-0. However, a quite different approach, in the form of HB 1316, was spurring a separate set of discussions in the House. But discussion is good, and both bills on the subject were moving, so the prospects remained good that something would pass. The problem was that both bills had some troubling language in them \u2013 as differing viewpoints led to philosophical debates, and there were lingering fiscal concerns. These issues brought into question what would emerge and whether it would ultimately forward the primary objectives of clarity on the subject.\nThe Chamber focused its efforts on the House Ways and Means Committee\u2019s consideration of SB 257 and making its language as straightforward as possible. A lengthy committee hearing featuring testimony from Chamber Technology Policy Committee members John McDonald of ClearObject and Chris Day of DemandJump apparently swayed the thinking. The committee chose to forego the undesirable language it previously passed in HB 1316 and instead refine and streamline SB 257. The end result was a clear-cut exemption for most all SaaS transactions and as such was viewed favorably by SaaS advocates. The new and improved SB 257 in turn gained approval of the full House and was concurred on by the Senate. Passage of this leading-edge legislation is yet another progression for our tax climate (only the fourth state with a statutory tax exemption) and will no doubt foster the growth of the SaaS industry in Indiana.\nThere are numerous people to thank for the success of SB 257, as it was a collective effort by many dedicated to the cause: The Chamber and our SaaS community allies, including TechPoint, together with the vision and support of numerous open-minded policymakers, combined to make it happen. We should start by applauding the Governor, the Office of Management, and Budget and the Department of Revenue. Of course, the authors of the two bills, Sen. Holdman and Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville), and their respective caucus leaders were key. Special thanks go to a couple of our Chamber Tax Committee members, Donna Niesen from Katz Sapper Miller and Mark Richards from Ice Miller; they volunteered a good deal of time consulting with us and policymakers on implications of the several iterations of the proposed bills.\nAnother important Chamber-led effort involved Indiana\u2019s conformance with the federal tax reforms. After Congress passed sweeping changes to the federal tax code at the end of 2017, it became evident that the degree to which Indiana would conform to those changes would be of great significance to taxpayers. Our adjusted gross income (AGI) is tied to the federal AGI and without any adjustments, taxpayers would experience state tax increases \u2013 substantial in some cases. Evaluation of the impacts of the federal reform package on Indiana taxes was not completed by the fiscal leaders until late in the session.\nConsequently, the Chamber was forced to react to details that were not formulated until a few weeks before the end. After outlining our serious concerns with the form of the updating, the fiscal leaders agreed to make two much-needed adjustments. All was good until the conference committee report that contained the changes; it fell victim to the last day time crunch and failed to pass before the midnight deadline. This failure became a primary impetus for a May special session, where we expect lawmakers to belatedly align Indiana with the federal tax code and save Indiana businesses from significant tax increases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 10997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infomanagementcenter.com/publications/e-newsletter/june-2006/estimating-tracking-and-scheduling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:11Z", "digest": "sha1:I7WWW4ONHAR3K7LHY3NEEZ6KAJLPUTHW", "length": 9396, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.infomanagementcenter.com", "title": "Estimating, Tracking, and Scheduling \u2013 CIDM", "raw_content": "Estimating, Tracking, and Scheduling\nHome/Publications/CIDM eNews/Information Management News 06.06/Estimating, Tracking, and Scheduling\nDawn Stevens, Jeppesen\nI love numbers! They tell me so many things, and I can use them to do so many things. For example, numbers tell me when my project will be done and how much it will cost. Numbers point out that I\u2019m over budget but also help me justify why. The manipulation of numbers can help me achieve pretty much anything I need as I run my department. I might even be able to convince some of you that 2+2 = 5 for large values of 2.\nIn reality, numbers are an integral part of managing the Aviation Courseware Development group at Jeppesen. We are a group of technical communicators who create documentation and training for pilots at all levels. Ask me today how long it takes to create one of our text books, I can quote it to the page. Ask me how long it takes to create a CBT, I can quote it based on the estimated length of the program. Ask me how long it takes to create an XML information repository\u2014well, I can give you an educated guess and promise you that I\u2019m currently gathering more specific information.\nIt hasn\u2019t always been this way. Six years ago, when I started at Jeppesen, there was no formal tracking method. Management didn\u2019t know what it cost to create a product nor when a product would be done. It cost what it cost when it was finally done. Having been \u201cborn and raised,\u201d if you will, in the industry with the understanding that the practices of Managing Your Documentation Projects by JoAnn Hackos were the equivalent of the Ten Commandments, this was the penultimate den of iniquity, and I set about to save the lost.\nToday we track pretty much everything; in fact, our estimating and tracking strategies were one of the highest maturity level rankings we received in an IPMM study conducted in 2004. We track up to 20 unique activities (management, writing, technical editing, copyediting, graphics, and so on) for each and every deliverable we create. At any one moment, I can tell you how we are doing according to our estimates and if we are on track to meet our next milestone. If we\u2019re not on track, I can tell you how much we\u2019ll be over at our current rate and whether there\u2019s any way to make up the time on another related deliverable.\nBut tracking does you no good if all you have is a bunch of numbers on the page. There\u2019s no point in tracking if it\u2019s just a tick mark on a checklist somewhere: \u201cYup, I\u2019m a good manager because I track my projects.\u201d It\u2019s the analysis that makes tracking data useful. Sure, at the highest level, tracking data tells you whether you met your budget. You can accomplish this with one line in a spreadsheet \u2013 \u201cDocumentation \u2013 estimated 1000 hours, actual 1074 hours.\u201d But that doesn\u2019t tell you why you went over, where you can improve, or what you can expect the next time.\nTracking is so much more than whether you met your budget or schedule. It can be the basis for all your management decisions. Certainly, you could also spend all day analyzing numbers and not get anything from it, either. What analyses you perform depend on what you\u2019re most concerned about, and that may change over time. For me, I find the following analyses the most useful based on my Level 2, moving to Level 3, organizational maturity:\nWho am I working for? At a project level, the numbers in my department show me who my customers are: what percentage of my time is spent supporting which business units throughout the company. This information helps me justify my budgets for the next year and also helps me know what business units I should be targeting for new work.\nProductivity. In this case, I am referring to productivity in terms of project time: how much time does my staff actually work on project work, as opposed to training, company meetings, time off, and so on. This metric helps me more accurately schedule my projects. If, for example, I find on average that people spend 25% of their average week in non-project related activities, then my projects should be scheduled based on 30 hours of work a week, not 40.\nManagement percentages. I\u2019ve found that my projects that go over budget typically have lower management percentages. Many people, especially new managers, think they can get the project done more easily by giving the writers, editors, or artists more time to complete their work, so they give away their management time. Tracking management percentages throughout the project flags potential problem projects early, and I can take corrective action with my managers to ensure the project gets the management attention it needs.\nEditing/writing ratios. When we first began tracking our budgets in this department, we found editing/writing ratios of 80-120%! That is, for every 40 hours a writer worked on a document, the editor spent 30-60 hours editing it. This was a huge red flag to dysfunction in the department and helped me pinpoint areas for immediate improvement. When this ratio is high, we either have a poor writer (whose work must be entirely rewritten) or a poor editor (who thinks everything must be his/her way or the highway). As we\u2019ve gotten this under control, continued monitoring of this ratio helps us take corrective action much earlier in the project.\nPlanning percentages. I\u2019ve found that my projects that go over budget typically have lower planning percentages. People are anxious to start writing, not planning to write. But when they are allowed to do this, the project tends to suffer from uncontrolled scope creep and meandering. Our projects are set up now with a certain expected planning percentage, and if a project gets through its planning stage in less than that, we\u2019re taking a second look to ensure it has been adequately planned.\nProcess. As a project progresses, I look for a spiraling trend of increasing time on each step. Frequently, early steps are right on budget, but as the document progresses through the process, it slows down. This does not necessarily mean that the editors are slow or the artists are slower just because it is their tasks that are going over budget or schedule. Instead, I\u2019ve found that this can be indicative of people early on in the process not holding up their end of the bargain: in interest of time, for example, they didn\u2019t edit their own work, or they didn\u2019t think about the scope of the art they were requesting.\nHistory and industry comparisons. We maintain a database of the effort required for every project we create and use that history for future estimates. Today, of course, I meet my budgets; after all, I\u2019ve increased them for the last five years based on the actuals we\u2019ve seen. Now that these adjustments have leveled off and we are consistently meeting our estimates, we can see clearly how we perform against industry standards and have begun to take appropriate action to bring ourselves more in line with those standards. But we had to know where we were first, before we could work to improve and hold people accountable for the expectations of their profession.\nHowever, these analyses are only as good as the numbers that are reported, and the question that must always be asked is whether people really track accurately. As we began tracking, we encountered many issues:\nMeetings. No one ever records the same amount of time for a meeting! Person A says they spent 5 hours on a meeting, person B, 3 hours on meetings this week. Who did person A meet with the other 2 hours? We found that we had to add an agenda item at the end of meetings to agree on how much time was to be recorded.\nEditing. When an editor is rewriting text from a writer\u2014is that editing or writing? Inconsistent approaches to this question led to inconsistent and misleading editing/writing ratios. As we better trained our editors, we helped this issue by pointing out that it wasn\u2019t their job to rewrite in the first place, but just to indicate a section needed to be rewritten. This put the rewriting back into the writers\u2019 hands and therefore the writing code.\nDual roles. In many cases, one person wears many hats and performs many activities on a single project. Is capturing a screen grab for a user guide writing or graphics? In our project management plan, we try to address these questions by detailing the specific activities that go into each general activity we track.\nCover up. Let\u2019s face it\u2014when you track, your staff is going to believe that they will get in trouble if they don\u2019t meet the budget or schedule. So what do they do? Charge their time to another project or activity or don\u2019t record their actual time at all? My approach has been to emphasize over and over that tracking is so we can be proactive during a project and that all anyone is accountable for is communication. I don\u2019t want to know after the fact that they needed more time; when I know beforehand, perhaps I can help mitigate.\nUltimately, these types of mistakes or purposeful misreporting of time will still happen. But I\u2019ve found that the trends are the same. Even with inherent inaccuracies about the specific details, I can spot the trends that I\u2019ve found indicate trouble. My tracking and these types of analyses have helped our organization grow to be a well-relied upon group within Jeppesen. Our customers are confident that we will meet the promises we make about delivery schedules and cost of products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 10300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.informatyka.agh.edu.pl/en/teaching/scientific-society-bit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TIKN3WB36342POMKKK5K5B5ZYIF6JUTE", "length": 865, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.informatyka.agh.edu.pl", "title": "Scientific Society BIT | Katedra Informatyki AGH", "raw_content": "BIT Scientific Society gathers the best students of Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology in Krakow. Our main goal is to give ambitious students an opportunity to develop their interests and talents. We are dedicated to expanding students participation in several branches of computer science, therefore, we have members that pursue computing challenges related to software development methods, modern web technologies, algorithms and artificial intelligence. We strongly believe that it is efficient to learn through a variety of activities including joint meetings, workshops, lectures and projects.\nFor more information go to: knbit.edu.pl/pl/\nFacebook profile: www.facebook.com/knbit/\nChairman: Bartosz Radzy\u0144ski\nVice-chairman: \u0141ukasz Ka\u017amierczak\nTreasurer: Jan Sznajd\nSecretary: Ma\u0142gorzata Stacho\u0144\nAcademic Advisory Board: Maciej Wo\u017aniak", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infratechheaters.com.au/infratech-heaters-around-town-chocolate-buddha/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JMF3IL3WLDTMLISGXY34LXRXGXG535J4", "length": 2328, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.infratechheaters.com.au", "title": "Infratech Heaters Around Town - Chocolate Buddha | Infratech Heaters", "raw_content": "Located in Federation Square, Melbourne, the Chocolate Buddha is a renowned eatery right in the heart of Melbourne\u2019s CBD at Federation Square. It has been named one of the top 50 restaurants in Australia for 2017 by OpenTable diners. The awards are based on more than 70,000 reviews submitted in the last year by verified OpenTable diners at more than 1,500 restaurants across Australia.\nYou will be sitting overlooking a stunning view of the Melbourne skyline that stretches along the Yarra river. Chocolate Buddha promotes the age-old Japanese tradition of communal dining.\nIt boasts an extensive menu which is primarily Japanese accompanied by some Korean and Chinese influences. They also cater for vegetarian and gluten-free requests. For those looking for a lunchtime dine and dash they offer a $20 lunch tray consisting of 6 different tastings. For an extra $10 you can include a beverage and dessert. Should you have a little more time you can choose from the small dishes to start of share menu. Perhaps maybe something from the sushi and sashimi choices and a rice or noodle dish. The dinner menu is more extensive and a more relaxed attitude can be adopted over a couple of drinks perhaps.\nA children\u2019s menu is available so there is something for the whole family. This is a wonderful way for the kids to experience the diversity of Japanese cuisine and their traditional communal style of dining. If it is a function or dinner party for 8 or more you are looking to host they have a variety of menus to choose from that include all their most popular dishes. It offers both indoor and outdoor dining. To make both areas accessible all year round commercial grade Infratech Heating have been installed.\nInfratech is one on the industry\u2019s leading panel heating specialist. They pride themselves on innovation, smart design and environmental ethics and have been producing heating products for over 50 years.\nThey use the best quality materials and components that technology allows. Infratech infrared heating delivers 90% efficiency outdoors. It does not lose continuum with the wind or elements, it is directional and produces an incredibly high level of radiant heat, consistently. Infratech heaters do not emit odours or greenhouse gases and are silent in their operation. They also do not require any ventilation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.innovyze.com/en-us/case-studies/city-of-tacoma-improves-budgeting-and-capital-projects", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OWX4RVIMVIWMGVJEWTXVBWGVT2PI5HDB", "length": 5241, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.innovyze.com", "title": "City of Tacoma Improves Budgeting and Capital Projects", "raw_content": "A City Commited to Sustainability and Resilience\nOn the banks of Puget Sound and in the shadow of Mount Rainier exists Tacoma, Washington. The city is home to approximately 211,000 residents, making it the third largest in the state of Washington. Tacoma\u2019s vision is one focused on stewardship and resiliency, as outlined the Environmental Services Department strategic plan: \u201cWe believe everything we do supports healthy neighborhoods and a thriving Puget Sound, leaving a better Tacoma for all.\u201d\nTacoma\u2019s Environmental Services Department has been developing an Asset Management Plan (AMP) since 2015. As AMPs become increasingly important, and are a foundation to preventative maintenance planning, it is critical to have the right solution in putting together an e\ufb00ective asset management program. To do this, the City of Tacoma relies on Innovyze\u2019s InfoAsset Planner to conduct risk analysis on its wastewater and surface water collection system assets and to prioritize maintenance needs. The result? A clearer picture of which assets need to be serviced, and when, and an accurate cost-estimate based on extensive calculation of risk.\nConsolidation of Data, Reduction of Manual Input\nTeresa Dressler is an Engineer and has worked for the City of Tacoma for 18 years, focusing on the city\u2019s wastewater management system. The system itself consists of two wastewater treatment plants, which treat billions of gallons of wastewater each year, multiple pump stations, and more than 700 miles of sewer pipe. Her colleague, Kali Legg, an Environmental Specialist, has been with the City since 2011, focusing on the surface water system. This includes four pump stations, more than 22,000 catch basins, over 500 miles of public stormwater pipe, and numerous detention ponds/structures. Together, Teresa and Kali are curating Tacoma\u2019s AMP to ensure responsible and e\ufb03cient management of their respective systems\u2019 integrity. When asked what problems they faced before their implementation of InfoAsset Planner, Teresa and Kali stated in agreement, \u201dWe had spreadsheets everywhere.\u201d When they needed answers to questions such as which assets are in sensitive or risk-prone areas like a wetland, or under a rail network, they found that \u201cwe had to manually build spreadsheets and at times questioned if the work was even getting done.\u201d They needed to address these issues and began searching for the right tool.\nIt's given us a place to put a lot of data - so that we can improve our budgeting and capital projects.\nA Clearer Determination of Risk and Maintenance Priorities for Now and the Future\nTeresa and Kali\u2019s team spent some time looking for the right software. They were relieved to \ufb01nd something that was \u201cexactly what we needed, exactly what we wanted \u2013 and was something we did not have to develop\u201d. It turns out that InfoAsset Planner was the right choice for administering Tacoma\u2019s AMP. With InfoAsset Planner, risk management is streamlined by taking ArcGIS and CCTV data, and employing advanced modeling technologies to generate Likelihood of Failure (LOF) and Consequence of Failure (COF) for each infrastructure asset. Working within custom parameters, risk analysis is used to generate a decision tree that can identify high priority action items based on data and logic. Kali stated, \u201cWe have so much information, so many assets, it was hard to know where to start, where to even look. [This software] helped highlight high-risk assets. We can identify maintenance and capital projects using it as our guide.\u201d\nThey were especially thrilled at InfoAsset Planner's customizable risk scenarios. \u201cIt's helped identify data issues, places where data needed to be cleaned up, and places where data was lacking,\u201d Teresa and Kali added. Looking to the future, Teresa and Kali are working on a 100-year risk assessment plan to proactively address future stresses on their collection system infrastructure. By using InfoAsset Planner, they are empowered to more easily determine the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of di\ufb00erent assets based on variables such as age, pipe material, condition and location. InfoAsset Planner can then generate a complete risk matrix of LOF and COF to determine a risk score. In doing so, the City of Tacoma can prioritize future needs and resource allocation for repair and rehabilitation projects in both the city\u2019s stormwater and wastewater systems for years to come.\nEfficient Deployment of Maintenance to Save both Time and Money\nTeresa and Kali acknowledged how InfoAsset Planner has helped them shift from reactive decision-making to identifying which assets are in greater need of surveys and interventions. In closing, Kali summarized their success with InfoMaster: \u201c[It\u2019s] given us a place to put a lot of data \u2013 so that we can improve our budgeting and capital projects. It\u2019s not sitting in buckets where we don\u2019t know what to do with it. Having a place to consolidate all of the data together has been very useful.\u201d While Teresa and her team are still doing some corrective maintenance, as their wealth of data continues to be consolidated in InfoAsset Planner they will be able to more easily shift towards preventative action to save both time and money.\nLooking for an Asset Management solution?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 7938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.intensivecareasm.com.au/speakers-list/olivia-elieff", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:11Z", "digest": "sha1:TAAZ2OBFN2S6STLB3XUX5RI4BSVRW53Q", "length": 656, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.intensivecareasm.com.au", "title": "Olivia Elieff \u2014 Intensive Care ASM - Adelaide", "raw_content": "Dr Olivia Elieff graduated with an MD from the University of Notre Dame Fremantle last year and is currently undertaking Internship at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Olivia is also registered as an ICU Nurse and has worked in Critical Care since 2002 within various adult, paediatric and neonatal Intensive Care Units located in Adelaide, Perth and Saudi Arabia. Olivia has a strong interest in teaching and supporting Medical Professionals in developing countries to help improve local practice. She has traveled to Myanmar refugee camps to teach Village Health Worker trainees, to Fiji with Open Heart International and to Myanmar with Open Heart International.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ipe.com/analysis/blogs/joseph-mariathasan-can-technology-alone-transform-education/10025346.fullarticle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OG62AV4MOY5GQYP5H5X4UGU3IVEMW3WD", "length": 4830, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ipe.com", "title": "Joseph Mariathasan: Can technology alone transform education? | News | IPE", "raw_content": "25 June 2018By Joseph Mariathasan\nAfter social security, health and education account for the two largest items in UK government expenditure \u2013 and figures are likely similar elsewhere.\nTechnology has the potential to be transformational in both cases. With healthcare, it is not just through the use of technology to make administration more efficient \u2013 with mixed success so far in the UK, which still lacks seamless access to medical records between doctors, hospitals and clinics. Excitingly, technology is also emerging in areas such as the use of artificial intelligence to better diagnose medical imagery. The metrics for success are clear in healthcare, although data protection remains a concern.\n\u2018Edtech\u2019 \u2013 the trendy term for technology applied to education \u2013 has the potential to radically change education in both developed and emerging countries. To what extent it will eventually do so is perhaps less obvious than in healthcare.\nThe EdTechX Europe 2018 summit, held last week in London, was full of exciting start-up companies led by dynamic management teams that saw themselves as providing transformational businesses.\nHowever, as former UK minister for universities David Willetts declared in a speech at the conference, education is thankfully not going down the online monopoly route that we have seen with Facebook and social media.\nCould online courses replace university teaching?\nOnline university courses have been around for a number of years, and free massive open online courses (MOOCs) are available from eminent institutions such as Harvard, MIT and Microsoft. At EdTechX entrepreneurs were offering new variations on this theme, including the creation of at least one new online university.\nTeacher-less teaching?\nTechnology is also arriving in the classroom throughout developed countries. However, some of the initiatives on show at EdTechX suggested that innovation was likely to be far more transformational for isolated communities in poor countries. For example, distributing tablets to provide access to specifically designed courses without school teacher involvement is likely to have far more of an impact than tweaking teaching aids in the developed world.\nOne presentation, for example, related to the Global Learning XPRIZE, a global competition with a $15m (\u20ac12.8m) prize purse provided by Tesla founder Elon Musk. It challenges teams around the world to develop open-source and scalable software to enable children with limited education access to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 15 months. Field testing of five finalists is already underway in villages in Tanzania.\nAt the other extreme, initiatives such as EtonX are subsidiaries of well-known institutions that leveraging their credibility to attract a worldwide audience.\nFor investors, there is a cornucopia of opportunities in edtech, but deciding what is likely to be a winner may be much more difficult than in healthcare.\nWith healthcare, it is clear that a technological solution that, for example, substantially improves detection of breast cancer from scans would have immediate applications and relevance, and the technology with the best performance would likely be the most successful.\nEdtech offerings are more problematic. There are many competing offerings in the same space without necessarily any differentiator in terms of quality \u2013 and, in many cases, they may be competing with free offerings from highly regarded institutions.\nThe rise of online learning opportunities does raise the issue of how traditional universities should be structured in response. David Willetts argued that, unless they are able to meet the demand for more places, universities will be increasingly sidelined as educational institutions while remaining as research entities.\nOxford and Cambridge, at the apex of the UK\u2019s higher education system, offer courses that are expensive to create with individual or small group tuition together with lectures. The collegiate system also means there are physical limits to how many new places can be created.\nOn the other hand, MOOCs offered by such entities may address the issue of disseminating information and teaching \u2013 but online courses cannot reproduce the university experience, or indeed the prestige of being admitted to such institutions.\nYet there must be alternatives that can utilise the almost-free resource of online courses together with some minimal campus teaching that would not result in students facing large debts at the end of three years. The technology for such offerings is there already but, so far, there has not been a synthesis of online and campus teaching that produces radically cheaper but acceptable alternatives with mass appeal.\nEdtech has immense potential, but the path to success requires much more than just technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 520, "original_length": 13656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishfoodanddrink.com/why-ireland/facts-figures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XWTTF5PFWUVUQL4DBNHY3ETLB32ELFBT", "length": 599, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.irishfoodanddrink.com", "title": "Facts & Figures - Irish food & drink by Bord Bia", "raw_content": "The Irish food and drink industry exported food and drink products with a total value of \u20ac12.6 bn in 2017. Ireland\u2019s export footprint has also expanded greatly over recent years with Irish food and drink now being sold in 180 countries worldwide.\nIreland provides a unique setting for food production. 80% of Ireland\u2019s agricultural land is devoted to grasslands, with a yearly grass growth rate that exceeds the European average by more than a third. The Irish agri-food sector has a rich heritage and is Ireland\u2019s largest indigenous industry, employing approximately 8.4% of the working population.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 119.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/claire-denis-we-are-normal-people-even-though-we-are-french-1.3457322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CRDJPGI2W2HCRHDF6CPLALAWFTXI6V2B", "length": 9528, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.irishtimes.com", "title": "Claire Denis: \u2018We are normal people. Even though we are French\u2019", "raw_content": "Claire Denis: \u2018We are normal people. Even though we are French\u2019\nThe distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work \u2013 just don\u2019t go asking what it\u2019s like being a female director\nClaire Denis with Juliette Binoche, who stars in her latest film Let The Sunshine In\n\u201cWhen you say \u2018female director\u2019 I already want to stop this conversation!\u201d Claire Denis almost yells. \u201cFemale director? I feel like I am an animal. I am a female director like this is a female bird. No, I am a director \u2013 good or bad I don\u2019t know. But I am a woman.\u201d\nThe unavoidable clich\u00e9 here is \u201crollercoaster ride\u201d. That creaky metaphor does capture the joy and terrors of interviewing Denis. The distinguished French film-maker \u2013 at a lean 71, now probably a \u201clegend\u201d \u2013 certainly engages with the interlocutor. She likes a laugh. She responds to your lame jokes with better jokes. But\u2026 well\u2026 can we also drag \u201ctreading through a minefield\u201d into the basket of clich\u00e9s? You always feel you\u2019re in danger of being blown arse over tit.\nHere\u2019s what happened. After 10 minutes of amiable rollercoaster fun \u2013 occasionally scary, but with no sense the carriage was about to leave the tracks \u2013 I address her early career with films such as Chocolat in 1988. Was French cinema welcoming to a female director then?\nI don\u2019t think she\u2019s really about to end the interview. But I make flustered noises about this conversation being more relevant than ever. She knows what I mean.\n\u201cI don\u2019t want this thing about Weinstein and women in film. It\u2019s boring. Phhhhllllllbt!\u201d she says. (If that last noise, something between a raspberry and a retch, has a name in French I have yet to encounter it.)\n\u201cI made my way,\u201d she continues without prodding. \u201cI made my films and I am a woman. Nobody raped me for making a film. The problem with this story is that people are victims when somebody has the power over them. But I was not really in that position. I had always a freedom. I was not obliged to go to a hotel room with somebody to get a film produced. I should have, maybe. To get a bigger film. Harvey Weinstein never asked me. I made my life differently. I don\u2019t want to comment on this story of female film-making. Oh, all those f\u2019s.\u201d\nIt\u2019s probably best to leave that answer as it stands and attempt no speculative gloss. Anyway, she will accept that it\u2019s a story that\u2019s not going away.\n\u201cOf course it won\u2019t go away,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause it\u2019s the story of humanity. It didn\u2019t start with Harvey Weinstein.\u201d\nDenis, whose latest puzzler Let the Sunshine In reaches us next week, has more experience of humanity than most. The director of the hypnotic martial reverie Beau Travail and the riveting social drama 35 Shots of Rum was born in Paris, but largely raised in bits of colonial French Africa. Her father, a civil servant, moved the family from Cameroon to French Somaliland to Senegal. Those experiences have long coloured her work, most conspicuously in Chocolat and the excellent 2009 drama White Materials. She did not properly return to France until her teenage years. Many critics have suggested that she must have felt like an outsider in France. She, perhaps, looks upon the country with a foreigner\u2019s eye.\n\u201cNo. I was not a stranger in France,\u201d she snorts. \u201cI was raised like a French person. But my father was born and raised in Bangkok. My mother is half Brazilian. I was raised in Africa. But of course France is my country. I am proud to be French. You know? I think it is good to recognise where you come from. My culture is French and that\u2019s that. I am unhappy when we lose a rugby game. But we beat England two weeks ago. So I was happy with that.\u201d\nEvery nation likes to beat the English. Right?\nShe positively cackles in (I assume) agreement.\n\u201cOh, I am talking to an Irish journalist. That is going to be the border of Europe soon. Right?\u201d\nWe laugh some more about that. She reminisces merrily about time spent at the Dublin International Film Festival. The woman really is a hoot.\nA slippery aesthetic\nShe first studied economics, but then drifted towards a course at the famous French film school IDHEC. Following graduation, she set forth into the world and found herself working as assistant director on Wim Wenders\u2019s Wings of Desire and Jim Jarmusch\u2019s Down by Law. Chocolat, about a French family in Cameroon, emerged shortly after those experiences. That time with Jarmusch and Wenders must have proved useful.\n\u201cI hate to answer this question,\u201d she says. \u201cYou don\u2019t learn from a person \u2013 unless you\u2019re getting drunk with them and things like that. You are not an assistant to learn from somebody. You are physically next to them. Driving next to them. Drinking next to them. Eating with them. It is not a monastery where the monks are learning from a prayer book. It is humanity. It is sexiness. They are sexy.\u201d\nI am sure they\u2019d be delighted to hear her say that\n\u201cOh, they know. Damn well. But it\u2019s also true.\u201d\nJuliette Binoche plays a divorced woman seeking meaning in Let the Sunshine In Photograph: Curiosa Films\nDenis has delivered films at a consistent rate ever since. Her admirably slippery aesthetic \u2013 applied to a horror films such as Trouble Every Day and dark thrillers such as The Intruder \u2013 has generated endless reams of tortured analysis. Certain common themes emerge. She has favourite actors. But it has remained difficult to pin down the cinematic voice. To add to the confusion, her next film High Life, from a script co-written by Zadie Smith, is a science fiction adventure starring Robert Pattinson. It is her first in English.\n\u201cIn space the language is English or Russian,\u201d she says. \u201cSo that made sense. Well, it\u2019s true. They speak Chinese, maybe.\u201d\nShe has not always seemed in harmony with the French cinematic establishment. The Cannes Film Festival has, for example, been reluctant to place her films in the main competition. Bastards from 2013 played in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Let the Sunshine In opened down the Croisette at Directors\u2019 Fortnight. No Denis film has competed for the Palme d\u2019Or since Chocolat. (She tells me High Life will not be ready for this year\u2019s event.)\n\u201cI take what I am given,\u201d she says. \u201cI am always considering maybe my films are not good enough. Maybe they are boring. Maybe there is something Cannes doesn\u2019t like. I never asked them, by the way. I don\u2019t care.\u201d\n\u2018They lied\u2019\nLet the Sunshine In continues Denis\u2019s experiments in the unpredictable. Juliette Binoche plays a divorced woman seeking meaning. The picture comprises a sequence of conversations that \u2013 according to the notes, anyway \u2013 address issues raised by Roland Barthes\u2019s A Lover\u2019s Discourse: Fragments. With characteristic spikiness, Denis dismisses any meaningful connection with Barthes. But what about that English-language title? Referencing a song from Hair, it could hardly give a less helpful impression of this intellectually dense film.\n\u201cNo, no. I hate that title,\u201d she says. \u201cThe title in French is like \u2018A great sunshine inside\u2019 [Un beau soleil int\u00e9rieur]. I don\u2019t know why suddenly \u2013 without telling me, strangely \u2013 it was Let the Sunshine In.\u201d\nShe says something I can\u2019t quite make out.\n\u201cTHEY LIED TO ME!\u201d she thunderously clarifies.\nMany of the Anglophone reviews have made sarcastic remarks about the staggering Frenchness of the project. The argument seems to be that only that nation\u2019s film-makers routinely structure their films around philosophical conversations. Even the snootiest US film-makers are wary of such an approach.\n\u201cWhy do French film-makers make films about philosophy?\u201d she says in a tone that warns of impending hurricanes. \u201cI have to tell you something. I don\u2019t care a damned shit! I do what I can. French people do what they want. Italian people do what they want. I am not waking up in the morning thinking: \u2018Oh my God. I am a French film-maker; my film will be philosophical. No, no.\u2019 This is not like that.\u201d\nShe\u2019s half-joking now.\n\u201cWe are normal people. Even though we are French.\u201d\nI explain that she\u2019s just delivered the line that will surely appear at the top of the published interview. She laughs her guttural laugh.\nBy now you\u2019ll know if that\u2019s true.\nFive films from Claire Denis\nNo, not that Chocolat. Ingeniously edited study of a young French woman\u2019s relationship with a Cameroonian native. Breakout performance by Isaach de Bankol\u00e9.\nPerhaps her masterpiece, Beau Travail adapts themes from Herman Melville\u2019s Billy Budd to the story of a French Foreign Legion division in Djibouti. Famous wordless sequences.\nStill her most controversial film, this art-horror oddity sends Vincent Gallo and B\u00e9atrice Dalle on a carnival of obscure blood-letting. Memorable for a famous Tindersticks score.\nLoosely structured, brilliantly acted study of an immigrant community in contemporary Paris. Denis admits the influence of Yasujiro Ozu\u2019s Late Spring on the piece.\nIsabelle Huppert plays a French coffee planter who decides to remain in an African country despite the advance of a savage civil war. Proud of its mysteries.\n\u2018Love, Simon\u2019 is a very welcome message\nThe movie quiz: There's a Baldwin who doesn't act? Really\n\u2018Abused women know that danger can be lurking everywhere\u2019\nCustody review: Hurtling drama of a horrific boyhood\n\u2018When the epidemic started I realised that we needed to be considered by society\u2019\nSolo: A Star Wars Story: Hopeful trailer for a \u2018troubled production\u2019\n120 BPM: Flawed but worthwhile saga of the French Aids years\nTruth or Dare: A good, honest, trashy horror\nCinema\u2019s best dance scenes, from Travolta to \u2018Trainspotting\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 16338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/survey-reveals-the-most-borrowed-library-books-in-ireland-1.2003327", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:3GXD4KIA263KYHY3XWH4IJHWBGD4ETXS", "length": 3534, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.irishtimes.com", "title": "Survey reveals the most borrowed library books in Ireland", "raw_content": "Survey reveals the most borrowed library books in Ireland\nTo mark Library Ireland Week \u2018The Irish Times\u2019 surveyed the country\u2019s libraries\nIreland\u2019s most borrowed: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, now also a hit film with Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck\nWhat do a disappearing wife, the driver theory test and a lot of wimpy kids have in common? They are among the subjects covered by Ireland\u2019s most borrowed books from public libraries this year.\nA survey of Ireland\u2019s public library services by The Irish Times revealed that Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, the popular children\u2019s book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney, and the Official Driver Theory Test feature frequently in the top five most borrowed book lists around the country.\nAmong adult fiction titles, Gone Girl was the most borrowed book in a quarter of the library services for which data was provided, leading the way in counties Cork, Clare, Cavan and Louth.\nTwo books by Tipperary author Donal Ryan were also high among the most borrowed adult fiction titles: The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December feature in 12 of 17 top five lists provided to The Irish Times.\nOther adult fiction authors took top spot in various public libraries nationwide: Brooklyn by Wexford native Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn was the top borrowed title in that area, while The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson, was the most borrowed title among readers in D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown.\nInteractive map: what's being read in your area\nWhen it comes to Ireland\u2019s most read children\u2019s books, one series reigns supreme. Jeff Kinney\u2019s Diary of a Wimpy Kid topped the charts in almost half of the library services surveyed.\nCinderella was the top borrowed book among young readers in counties Sligo and Monaghan, while other popular children\u2019s titles included The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, The Witches, by Roald Dahl, and The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd.\nDriving the adult non-fiction category is The Official Driver Theory Test, which topped the most borrowed non-adult fiction list in nine of the 17 library areas surveyed .\nMeanwhile, the memoir of Irish Times columnist Michael Harding, Staring at Lakes, was the most borrowed book in Cork city so far this year and the second most borrowed title in three other areas.\nThe variation in the non-fiction category depended greatly on the area: Come What May, the autobiography of former Cork hurling goalkeeper Donal \u00d3g Cusack, was the most borrowed book in Co Cork, but nowhere else.\nIn Dublin, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song has been borrowed more than 1,900 times in the year to date, more than twice as many issues as its nearest rival. Also notable among the most borrowed books in Dublin city were two titles on mindfulness, The Mindful Way Through Depression and Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation.\nTo mark Library Ireland Week, which runs from today until November 24th, The Irish Times contacted Ireland\u2019s 30 public library services seeking the top five most borrowed books in the year to date, in three categories: adult fiction, children\u2019s books, and adult non-fiction.\nSome 20 library services responded to the query by Friday\u2019s deadline, 17 of which were in a position to provide data on the top borrowed books.\nBernadette Bohan\nKing Kinney\nMichael O\u2019Brien: the reluctant publisher who \u2018doesn\u2019t tell lies\u2019\nTo be honest: School libraries are not up to scratch\nChildren\u2019s Books: Still capturing the castle \u2013 and teenage readers \u2013 65 years on", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 9355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/govt-probes-farms-allegedly-owned-u-thein-sein-ex-ministers-illegally.html/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IH4PCM32ZNO5RMZCQO2VVT7J3IZMEYVJ", "length": 3665, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.irrawaddy.com", "title": "Govt Probes Farms Allegedly Owned By U Thein Sein, Ex-Ministers Illegally", "raw_content": "Govt Probes Farms Allegedly Owned By U Thein Sein, Ex-Ministers Illegally\nNAYPYITAW \u2014 The government is inspecting more than 900 acres (364 hectares) of land allegedly acquired illegally by former President U Thein Sein and his cabinet members near the village of Za Laung in Ottarathiri Township in Naypyitaw.\nA task force formed by the Naypyitaw Council began on Thursday to investigate whether the land was being used to grow mangos, as per its stated purpose.\nUpper House lawmaker U Maung Maung Swe, who is leading the task force, told The Irrawaddy that the probe follows complaints from 169 local farmers and that a report would be submitted to the council chairman.\n\u201cSome people are very sensitive about the ownership of that land. We won\u2019t target individual owners. We will just check whether or not those people are really growing mango plantations,\u201d he said.\nIt is not clear whether any inactive land will be confiscated.\nThe land, located near milepost 211 on the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway, was previously owned by the Forest Department and had been used by local farmers for decades. In 2011 the department handed it over to the former ministers without any official documentation, said U Maung Maung Swe.\nAccording to U Tin Min Naing, a representative of the farmers, the land was now owned by 16 people including former President U Thein Sein and cabinet members U Hla Tun, U Kyaw Kyaw Win, U Tin Naing Thein, U Thein Tun, U Kyaw Has, Major General Aung Than Htut, Attorney General U Aye Maung, Major General Ye Aung and current Labor Minister U Thein Swe.\n\u201cThe [former] president took 204 acres, and the rest took 50 acres each. They took the land in July 2010 and started [plantations] in 2011,\u201d said U Tin Min Naing.\nThe land was permitted for growing mangos, agarwood and rubber, and a minimum 50 acres of land had to be bought at a price of 50,000 kyats ($33.25) per acre, said a source close to the accused ex-ministers.\n\u201cNow the mango plantations are yielding. So the owners don\u2019t want to give the land back. How can they? They bought it from the government; the government sold that lands to them. If [farmers] are not happy, they should complain to the current government, which succeeded the previous government. Or they should complain to the Forest Department,\u201d said the source, who did not want to be named.\nHe claimed that the farmers had been compensated twice \u2014 once by the Forest Department and again by the former ministers.\n\u201cWhy did they name U Thein Sein? Their statement [on social media] is wrong. None of that land is owned under the name of U Thein Sein. I think it is a deliberate political attack,\u201d he said.\nU Tin Min Naing said the former president compensated rice farmers 500,000 kyats per acre in 2012, but not those farming other crops. He said former Deputy Immigration Minister U Kyaw Kyaw Win also compensated the farmers, but at a lower rate.\n\u201cArmy chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing compensated them 500,000 kyats per acre up to 50 acres,\u201d he said, adding that they were also compensated by former Parliament Farmland Committee Chairman Major-General Tin Tun, former First Industry Minister U Aung Thaung, former Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Ye Myint and the Dagon International Company.\nAccording to U Maung Maung Swe, people are legally required to apply to the government for the right to use vacant and virgin land. But he said the Land Records Department had no documentation that the former officials had done so.\n\u201cThey gave that land directly, as if it were an inheritance, and they were not recorded in government records. So now we have to inspect them thoroughly,\u201d he said.\nTags: Agriculture, Crime", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/1-slash-57th-of-andy-warhol", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:JOSBEFMZB7LKOZ5JCCQO25F2K3NS2ESZ", "length": 986, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.itsnicethat.com", "title": "It's Nice That | Art: Lenka Clayton's new project offers 1/57th of Andy Warhol", "raw_content": "Lenka Clayton: 1/57th of Andy Warhol\nArt: Lenka Clayton\u2019s new project offers 1/57th of Andy Warhol\nWords by Maisie Skidmore, Tuesday 02 July 2013\nLaughing playfully at those types who might purchase \u201ca bit of Justin Timberlake\u2019s old shoelace\u201d, or \u201csome loo roll that Britney Spears maybe blew her nose in one time\u201d on eBay, Lenka Clayton\u2019s lovely project 1/57th of Andy Warhol reexamines the confines of what makes art, and what makes an artist. To create the work, Lenka took a red button-down shirt which once belonged to Andy Warhol and carefully unpicked it into 57 pieces, which she then numbered, boxed and distributed with a certificate of authenticity. The result? A truly charming selection of dispersed fragments which are both tiny souvenirs of the famous Pop Artist, and works of art in their own right, too The dinner party conversation would be an added bonus: \u201cWhat\u2019s that hanging over my fireplace? Oh, that\u2019s just 1/57th of Andy Warhol.\u201d Perfect.\nwww.lenkaclayton.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 25200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190201/naval-stations-to-conduct-terror-drills-from-feb-4-to-feb-15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DNYI2EZSS7FW5AD75FBKJEEZJLWMIPWG", "length": 2215, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.jacksonville.com", "title": "Naval stations to conduct terror drills from Feb. 4 to Feb. 15 - News - The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL", "raw_content": "Naval stations to conduct terror drills from Feb. 4 to Feb. 15\nBy John Biasotti jbiasotti@jacksonville.com\nBoth Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville will hold training exercises starting Monday that are designed to counter possible terrorism situations.\nThe drills will take place on all Navy installations located in the continental United States and run through Feb. 15.\nThe annual anti-terrorism exercise is designed to train Navy security forces in their response to threats at installations.\nAlthough precautions will be taken made to make sure as few interruptions take place as possible, the areas around Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville, especially the roads near the entrances, will experience heavier traffic.\nOfficials at Mayport outlined the exercises and the possible impact on the public.\nSteve Millican, the emergency manager at Mayport, said people who drive through the area regularly should plan to leave at least 30 minutes before their usual times due to delays.\nThe exercises will simulate scenarios such as a person attempting to gain unauthorized access to the base or active shooters on the base.\nThe drills aren't the result of any specific threat and the exercises have been carried out since 2007, according to officials.\nMillican said people in the area will likely hear simulated gunfire and see high speed boats on days when the drills are escalating. The exercises primarily will take place during the day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.\nDuring that time, naval facilities around the continental U.S. will collaborate with each other and the Pentagon for interagency coordinating.\n\"These exercises give us the opportunity to look at the after-action reports from other events to see how things were handled,\" said Millican, He said those scenarios will be reviewed and the Navy can learn what best to practice.\nNaval personnel aren't the only people taking part in the operation. The Jacksonville's Sheriff Office will send a number of its personnel to take part in the exercises.\nMillican said people who use the facilities such as the golf course or the base gym on the base shouldn\u2019t worry because the exercise won\u2019t affect normal base operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jaking.com/blog/j-a-king-account-manager-taylor-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:U4V5SEWC47QFT4MQN374MGS7UGDQY6ZH", "length": 1248, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jaking.com", "title": "J.A. King Account Manager - Taylor Brown - J. A. King", "raw_content": "J.A. King Account Manager \u2013 Taylor Brown\nPosted on December 7, 2017 December 13, 2017 by Colin Tahsuda\nHome \u00bb Blog \u00bb J.A. King Account Manager \u2013 Taylor Brown\nMy name is Taylor Brown, and I wanted to introduce myself as the local account manager for J.A. King in Charlotte, NC and the surrounding area. I am responsible for quoting service work and off-the-shelf products including micrometers, bench scales, force gauges, etc. In addition, I am here to ensure that our Charlotte team is providing you with the best possible quality solutions.\nJust to tell you a bit about myself, I graduated from NC State University with a degree in Tourism & Commercial Management. Before coming to J.A. King, I worked in business development for a data marketing intelligence company, providing sales growth opportunities for my customers. I have also spent time working as an account manager for a regional telecommunication company here in the Carolinas.\nI am excited to be a part of the J.A. King team in the Charlotte, NC territory in providing world-class customer support to you. To contact me regarding any products or services that J.A. King offers, click on the button below and mention my name in our contact form. I will get in touch as soon as I can!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 442, "original_length": 14867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jennybalase.com/store/serenity-prayer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:IG4DSMBS74HIRMNWD7TYLE22UUH34SCJ", "length": 443, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.jennybalase.com", "title": "Serenity Prayer \u2014 jbalase", "raw_content": "Shop Serenity Prayer\nPreviousRooster NextStill\nGod, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. A prayer authored by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971).\nToday, may the story of Jesus\u2019 death, burial and resurrection bring truth and peace to the world we are living in. The world may seem too big for you but know that Jesus is alive and He is with you always.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 140.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobboardfinder.com/jobboard-autoprohu-hungary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6JXFJMKJ7MEEI5FA5AR6ENYOV5EKZ5G3", "length": 3153, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.jobboardfinder.com", "title": "Best job board in Hungary | autopro.hu | Jobboard Finder", "raw_content": "autopro.hu\nDiscover autopro.hu\nNational jobboard : Hungary\nSite Languages : Hungarian\nReview autopro.hu\n37 job offers online in November 2018 on autopro.hu\nautopro.hu Presentation\nProfessional automotive site Autopro.hu was launched in 2009. Since then, it has become a key player in the Hungarian automotive industry. Along with hundreds of domestic companies, it is one of the automotive suppliers in Hungary. Although it does not supply components and parts, it provides the latest information, news, analyses, and presents technological novelties.\nSummary: Created in 2001, AutoPro reports on all the automobile news in Hungary and the rest of the world. The Hungarian newspaper website receives up to 331 140 views a month, mostly from Hungary, but also from some other European countries. That doesn\u2019t mean that the users visit the specialist job board section though, which is only a fraction of what AutoPro has to offer. Not big on social media, it has 14 275 Facebook followers and some Youtube videos. The website is available in English and in Hungary, but not the job board. There is no specific information about the newspaper, but it does conduct studies on the automobile industry, which are published on their website and on the SAP Hungary website.\nDesign: As a specialist job board on a newspaper website, accessing the job offers takes a few extra steps. The job offer panel is the before last one. From there, it\u2019s just about the job offers. There is a search engine (the company, the category and the location) and a list of offers. On the left-hand side, logos of big companies are featured, leading to company pages. The logo is visible in the listing and the job offers can include large images and even videos. There are no filters, but since there are few job offers, that is not a problem.\nThe job board objective: AutoPro makes it easy for those in the automobile industry to find relevant job offers in one place.\nRecruiter observations: It\u2019s easy to create an account and to order your adverts through the website.\nJobseeker observations: As a jobseeker, you don\u2019t necessarily need an account. Most offers include contact information and you are supposed to write directly to the company if that is the case.\nThe job offers: There are currently 37 job offers on the website (even though there were as many as 2 070 just two years ago). Since there are no dates on the job offers, it\u2019s difficult to know how updated they are.\nSpecial features: Job alerts; the news on automobiles; the events calendar; the 2018 media offer (with information on costs and the audience).\nVerdict: From the looks of things, AutoPro continues to be a popular website in Hungary in the world of automobiles. However, the job board doesn\u2019t seem to register on the radar, since there are very few job offers, and missing information.\nLogin here for FREE to unlock access to the traffic audience, content and pricing section for more information on autopro.hu.\nThe Great Book of Automotive Industry in Hungary - 2011; Autopro Magazine\nDo you know autopro.hu?\nJofogas\nDiscover Jofogas\nDiscover Profession.hu\nDiscover CVOnline.hu\nDiscover Workania.hu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk/blog/kathryn-russell-john-doe", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:51Z", "digest": "sha1:J56N5O4VHXKGSJ43VXRHOBCQMURDYVSM", "length": 912, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk", "title": "John Doe \u2014 THE JOHN BYRNE AWARD", "raw_content": "Kathryn Russell\nMy entry is 8 photos of homeless people living in Edinburgh. When I was out and taking my photographs, it amazed me how many people turned to look at someone interacting with a homeless person, only to ignore them when I moved on. When looking at my photographs, I want others to have a sense of empathy for what I experienced and what those I interacted with experience on a day-to-day basis. I wanted my photographs to communicate the need to persevere with fighting poverty, to not ignore these people and to address the fact that unless we can do something about this in our own hometown, we have no hope of helping people in other countries. Looking at my photographs, I cannot help but feel somewhat optimistic. Having the chance to photograph the homeless in Edinburgh has been a very enlightening experience for me, and I am honoured to have had the chance to meet and converse with them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johndoces.com/blog/brussels-and-bassam", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2D4SRBBUJVQS7ZZZLSR7A6GIGHRX6MWQ", "length": 4106, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.johndoces.com", "title": "Brussels and Bassam", "raw_content": "Brussels and Bassam\n\u200bThe recent attacks in Brussels were horrible and personally were a setback for myself and others around here. It\u2019s very hard to believe how evil these acts were and I feel for the people in Belgium as they seek to stand strong and move forward. It\u2019s hard to believe how many people needlessly lost their lives. The support pouring out for Belgium is spot on and I hope it continues to grow and that these acts can forever be prevented.\nAt the same time, it is hard to not compare the response to what happened in Belgium and what happened here in Bassam. The attacks here were as deadly, if not more than those in Belgium. We will never know the true number of people that died here as many were killed in the water and the strong Bassam currents washed them out to sea to be buried by the ocean. Even the government here has admitted we will never know how many people the ocean buried that day. People leave villages never to be seen again and nobody knows to ask if they are okay or not. That is life in Africa. And that fact is accepted. It is a sad reality that we cannot know all those that lost their lives here. They deserve better than that.\nAnd people here are suffering too. I have seen this every day. Veronique was noticeably different after the attack and eventually had to go to the hospital due to severe fatigue. I can\u2019t imagine the thoughts running through her head as the attacks took place at the beach where she works on the weekend and where her kids play. It was exhausting, and now, unfortunately, she has malaria. She is fine but it\u2019s a lot and there isn\u2019t much support beyond standard networks of friends and family.\nSimilarly, my good friend Appo has not returned to work at La Pailotte since the attacks. Several people were killed there and he helped guide many to a hiding place. He called me Monday to talk and we went and had coffee. His mind is deeply troubled. He said he thinks of me as an older brother and looks to me for support. I said I will be there for him, but he has little support to get through this time. He can\u2019t sleep, can\u2019t work, and now wants to return to his village to farm peanuts. Prior to this last October, he like many other Africans had not been to his village for over ten years. In October I told him he had to go back and I helped him do it. Now, he feels like it is where he should be for good. I can\u2019t blame him: growing peanuts and living in the village sounds good to me too.\nMany people here are losing work too. They ask me to come eat at their places to support them now that work has dried up. I am doing all that I can but it\u2019s not enough.\nJust like for Belgium, I also want Ivorian flags flying abroad, heads of state making speeches in support of Bassam, and robust international support when it\u2019s needed most. Brussels needs it and so does Bassam. Sadly, there was not one flower arrangement sent from a western country at the memorial in Bassam. Did they not know it happened? Liberia sent one.\nAt the end of the day, sad to say but the perception of these events is different. For Belgium, it is rightly treated as a horrible tragedy that requires mass support and unity, but for Bassam it is something different. Yet, for the people here, it was devastating too.\nThere is hope: amazingly, as I write this I hear beautiful singing from the street. A church group is walking through the French Quarter singing prayers. The people here are coming together as they always do.\nI am with Brussels and I am with Bassam. Tous le monde doit \u00eatre ensemble.\nVery well said, Johnny. I am incredibly sad for your friends there... both terrorist attacks are absolutely heart-breaking, but even here it seemed that less people heard about the attack in Bassam. The ripple effect of these tragedies is tremendous. I will say continue to say prayers for everyone affected.\nLove, Nic\nSo sad that there is not equal coverage and support. I am sure it makes you weary that what you are doing is not enough to fix the problem. You are fulfilling God's purpose which is to give people hope in this fallen world.\nStay strong John!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israels-Arab-MKs-back-Corbyn-as-a-principled-leftist-566359", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2GRMAFYOXKQR6JI6VRTN6HGZK2WOGK5D", "length": 2626, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jpost.com", "title": "Israel's Arab MKs back Corbyn as 'a principled leftist' - Arab-Israeli Conflict - Jerusalem Post", "raw_content": "Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015. . (photo credit: REUTERS)\nThe Arab-Israeli Joint List party wrote a letter in strong support of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, controversial politician and author of several recent infamous statements, reports The Guardian on Sunday.\nThe letter, which was sent to The Guardian, reads, \"We stand in solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and we recognise him as a principled leftist leader who aspires for peace and justice and is opposed to all forms of racism, whether directed at Jews, Palestinians, or any other group.\u201d\nIn this move the Arab Israeli Knesset members yet again striking against Netanyahu's coalition.\nEarlier this month, the party announced that it intends to appeal to the UN to censure Israel following the Nation-State Law.\nThe letter commends Corbyn for \u201chis long-standing solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world, including his unflinching support for the Palestinian people\u201d.\n\u201cAs long as efforts to curb anti-Jewish sentiment in the UK are focused on combating the disparagement of Jews merely for their membership in a minority group, they have our full support.\" wrote the members of the Joint List.\nThis letter comes as a precursor to the party's expected visit to Brussels this week to seek EU support in condemnation of the Jewish Nation-State Law.\n\u201cWe are traveling to Brussels to ask the Europeans to be loyal to their values of protecting human rights, especially minorities,\u201d said MK Jamal Zahalka. \u201cThe Nation-State Law was a declaration of war against us. We have a right to defend ourselves, including by enlisting the support of the international community.\u201d\nCorbyn and the UK Labour Party have been caught up in a maelstrom of antisemitism accusations, following its refusal to adopt in full the internationally accepted definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, along with several revelations of comments and actions made by Corbyn himself.\nMost recently, a video surfaced of the Labour leader saying about British Zionists that \u201chaving lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don\u2019t understand English irony.\u201d\nSeveral people spoke out against Corbyn, including Prime Minister Netanyahu and Former UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Corbyn is also being widely criticized on social media, alongside a strong lobby in his favor adorned with tags such as \"JeremyCorbyn4PM\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 9271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jupitermed.com/services/imaging/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:G5TJOWVNFW75WWO3WUA6OYPZHK3I6XFG", "length": 1169, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jupitermed.com", "title": "Diagnostic Imaging in Jupiter | Jupiter Medical Center", "raw_content": "Go to Home PageServices > Imaging\nAt Jupiter Medical Center, rest assured you will receive the most advanced imaging services with leading-edge technology and highly skilled radiologists who can help you detect, prevent and treat diseases. With a full range of comprehensive, diagnostic radiology services for adults and children, we strive to meet our patient\u2019s needs in a friendly and compassionate setting.\nOur Imaging Services Department has been accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR) in MRI, Breast MRI, CT, PET, Nuclear Medicine, and Ultrasound. The Margaret W. Niedland Breast Center is accredited by the American College of Radiology as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. ACR accreditation is recognized as the gold standard in medical imaging, so when you see the gold seal of accreditation, you can rest assured that our facilities have met the highest level of patient safety standards and image quality.\nJupiter Medical Center has also been certified as an Image Wisely facility for Radiation Safety in Adult Medical Imaging and an Image Gently facility for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.\nJupiter Medical Center Outpatient Campus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 5133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jupitermed.com/wellness-library/article/?CT=6&C=739999", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:40Z", "digest": "sha1:237NKYS2SXDXM2QKKON677S27PVD7JVH", "length": 70, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jupitermed.com", "title": "Article | Jupiter Hospital", "raw_content": "SOURCE: Children's National Health System, news release, Nov. 26, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 769, "original_length": 11637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 94.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justtheperfecthome.com/woodland-hills-ca-homes-sale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HVKJU5VZNKZ2B5LJQXSGMLLE6ISNXJBQ", "length": 2531, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.justtheperfecthome.com", "title": "Woodland Hills, CA Homes for Sale - Philip Nastasi | JustThePerfectHome.com", "raw_content": "Woodland Hills, CA Homes for Sale\nFeaturing a tremendous amount of San Fernando Valley real estate, the community of Woodland Hills is an excellent place to call home. Located in the southwestern portion of the Valley, bordering the Santa Monica Mountains, Woodland Hills CA real estate is surrounded by the other wonderful areas of West Hills, Canoga Park, Calabasas, Topanga, and Tarzana. The community was founded in the early 1920\u2019s when Mr. Victor Girard purchased nearly 3,000 acres for development and named the area Girard. A little over 20 years later, in 1945, the city was renamed Woodland Hills.\nToday, those who wish to purchase homes for sale in Woodland Hills CA are offered several options. From small condominiums and townhomes, to single-family residences and estates, Woodland Hills CA real estate is sure to please. Home buyers appreciate the community for its nice mix of suburban and urban amenities.\nAmenities Surrounding Woodland Hills CA Real Estate\nWoodland Hills CA real estate is convenient to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, with Highway 101 and Ventura Boulevard running east and west through the city. Within the community itself, residents enjoy a variety of amenities, including a multitude of shopping, dining, and entertainment. Two malls serve the area \u2013 Westfield Topanga and Westfield Promenade. The schools in Woodland Hills CA are under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Unified School District, primarily within Board District 4.\nRecreation surrounding homes for sale in Woodland Hills CA is found in several parks, including Warner Center Park which is especially popular in the Summertime for concerts, movie nights, and holiday events. The Woodland Hills Recreation Center spans 19 acres and features an indoor gymnasium/auditorium and facilities for baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, and more. The historic Woodland Hills Country Club includes 18 holes of golf and is situated south of Ventura Boulevard. To search Woodland Hills CA real estate, use the map-based property search provided below. For more information, contact Philip Nastasi of Rodeo Realty today.\n5265 Del Moreno Drive Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n5071 Llano Drive Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n5760 Rolling Road Woodland Hills, CA 91367\n4965 Queen Florence Lane Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n4912 Queen Victoria Road Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n4955 Winnetka Avenue Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n5150 Campo Rd Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n21241 Escondido St Woodland Hills, CA 91364\n5049 Serrania Ave Woodland Hills, CA 91364", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 12428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kamasatools.com/en/products/storage/tool-sets/sockets-12-10-22-mm-long/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZK3BOCINW5LNLFCXNUXXN7N3IVWNIPG", "length": 78, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kamasatools.com", "title": "Sockets, 1/2\", 10-22 mm, long - Kamasa Tools", "raw_content": "Sockets, 1/2\", 10-22 mm, long\n1/2\" sockets, 13 pieces\nSocket, 1/2\", 10mm, long", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 377, "original_length": 5782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kansascity.com/homes/article105517956.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IN7VYCZSSAEK4FVMWZIXT6DSBX4XVUDF", "length": 3717, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.kansascity.com", "title": "Builder reputation, personal lifestyle among considerations when building a custom home | The Kansas City Star", "raw_content": "If a buyer is interested in building a custom or semi-custom home, getting educated is the first step they should take, according to Jeff Riffe, owner of Riffe Custom Builders.\n\u201cThe first thing you have to do is decide who\u2019s going to live in the house, what are their needs over the time period you expect to live in the house,\u201d Riffe said. \u201cSo go out and look at a variety of houses and floor plans, and take notes of what features you like in particular.\u201d\nGetting educated also involves finding a high-quality builder that you trust and feel comfortable working with over an extended period of time.\n\u201cYou have to have seen their product and the quality of their work, and you have to trust and like them,\u201d Riffe said. \u201cThe more you are going to customize, the more time you will spend with your builder. If you\u2019re doing a full custom job, you will be with them for a lot of time for a lot of months, so it\u2019s important to know and feel comfortable with your builder.\u201d\nOnce you identify the right builder, you\u2019ll want to arrive at your first meeting with a general idea of where you want to live, the floor plan you would like to build and a list of features that are important to you.\n\u201cThe builders know the process and they have been through it before. In some cases, builders work directly with the homeowner and help with all the decisions, and other builders have people and processes in place that can point you in the right directions,\u201d Riffe said.\nWhen choosing between building a fully customized home from the ground up or purchasing a spec or model home that you can partially customize, the tradeoffs are fairly straightforward.\n\u201cThe more you customize a house, the more you get just what you want. The advantage of buying a spec house or model is you know exactly what you\u2019re getting, you know exactly what price is up front and it\u2019s available immediately,\u201d Riffe said.\n\u201cThe disadvantage of building a spec or a model is that you are going to get some things you don\u2019t need that you are paying for. That\u2019s the tradeoff. \u201c\nProspective buyers can see Riffe Custom Builders\u2019 craftsmanship at Parade Entry #43, 16700 Stearns, in Overland Park\u2019s Coffee Creek Crossing community. They can view Willis Custom Homes\u2019 expertise on display at Parade Entry #255, 16111 Carnoustie Lane in Loch Lloyd in The Village of Loch Lloyd and at Parade Entry #148, 15005 Chadwick St., in The Villas of Iron Woods in Overland Park.\nPresented by the Home Builder\u2019s Association of Greater Kansas City (HBA) and sponsored by Stewart Title, the Fall Parade of Homes highlights the latest in home design, construction, and technology, plus provides buyers the chance to research the abundance of local builders.\nThis year\u2019s Parade offers 318 single-family homes, townhomes, and maintenance provided villas constructed by 96 Kansas City metropolitan area builders across five counties on both sides of the state line.\nWhen: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. now through Oct. 9. Admission is free.\nWhere: 318 homes throughout the metro. Free Parade Guides listing addresses and information for every home on the Parade are available at the HBA office at 600 E. 103rd St., near Interstate 435 and Holmes Road, and at all Parade homes.\nHome prices range from $182,500 to $1.6 million.\nMore information: Event information and a digital Parade of Homes Guide can be found at KCParadeofHomes.com using an online Home Search tool for locating homes by builder, price, location, school district or amenities, plus a Mobile Search and Maps tool for searching from your smart phone or tablet.\nProspective buyers can see Riffe Custom Builders\u2019 craftsmanship at Parade Entry #43, 16700 Stearns, in Overland Park\u2019s Coffee Creek Crossing community.Submitted photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.karthikl.com/2014/01/mary-shelley-monsters-mom.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UVYA62LC3KXFBVB4VGUZTC44Y4ZIG2YU", "length": 4787, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.karthikl.com", "title": "Mary Shelley the Monsters' Mom", "raw_content": "Mary Shelley the Monsters' Mom\nOne of the earliest works of science fiction is by Mary Shelley, the wife of famous poet Bryce Shelley. It has been one of the most influential books and there would be scarce anyone who has not heard of this book \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 or \u2018Modern Prometheus\u2019. In fact Isaac Asimov, one of the giants of science fiction has coined a term called \u2018Frankenstein Complex\u2019 around the concept of this book to name human\u2019s fear of robots. The theme of man creating a biological or mechanical being that is physically or mentally stronger than mankind is one of the popular and recurring themes in science fiction. The reference to Prometheus is also with reference to one of the Greek Titans empowering men, their creation by giving them the gift of fire so that they could upstage men. In fantasy this theme of men upstaging their creation occurs now and then. In science fiction, we have this theme of humans creating beings that turn out to be their own nemesis.\nAs I start this review, I must admit that I have not read the original work and have only been exposed to derivatives from this book. So while I am familiar with the overall theme, I might not be familiar with some of the more intricate details of the work itself. I however felt this series on origins of science fiction would be incomplete without a post on this book. Since I could not find a suitable expert for a guest post, I decided to take it on myself based on my knowledge from secondary sources.\nThe book is considered as one of the most timeless classics in the horror genre as well along with Dracula. It follows the established pattern seen in quite a few horror books \u2013 a well-meaning powerful human or other human like being slighted and shunned by society turns into a dangerous homophobe wrecking destruction on humanity. The basic story is about a scientist who sets out to create life \u2013 he ends up creating a human like creature but incredibly strong and endowed with a grotesque physical appearance. Horrified by its physical appearance, he abandons the creature to fend on its own and flees. The creature tries to get accepted in human society but is universally shunned due its scary physical appearance. So it retaliates by killing the people who shun it, thereby really transforming into the monster whose appearance it bears. At a high level it is the story of the tumultuous relationship between this monster and its creator Victor Frankenstein. The story ends in tragedy for both the scientist and the monster.\nThe monster without a name is called Frankenstein monster after his creator. Over time the name Frankenstein has ended up sticking more to the monster than to the creator. This monster is often made use of in other works along with Dracula, King Kong, werewolves and Egyptian Mummies \u2013 so, even people who have not heard about the book may be familiar with this monster. So that way Mary Shelley ended up being the mother of one of the most famous monsters rather than being the mother of Science Fiction. But still one must acknowledge its role as a template for much more sophisticated future works not only in the horror genre but also in science fiction.\nI was waiting for you to invoke Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and here you are! I'd read the book rather early in my life -along with Dracula- and although I can't recollect the finer details but I must say you are there. I remember I was more taken by Dracula but I did write a story where a scientist revives his dead dog, who could then talk, and send it to Champak -it was duly returned with 'Greetings and Regrets' of the editor.\nMary Shelly's work was important in the sense, as you said, it sowed seeds of Frankenstein Complex, visible through Terminators and the Matrix.\nTrue, USP. No way can she be missed out. Your story rejection reminded me of my own experiences with Young World. I wonder what the people whose stories were accepted in the children's magazines doing now.\nMy basic cowardice keeps me from trying out horror genre in books as well as movies. So I have not yet read original versions of Dracula nor Frankenstein.\nFrankenstein's monster was also written at a time when it was believed that man could create life BUT not give a soul to the being. That, in part, is also the reason for the monsters' anger if I remember right.\nYeah - Since I have not read the original, I might have missed those nuances.\nNew to your blog, and loving it. I have to say, I wasn't the biggest fan of Frankenstein - too many gothic-romantic descriptions for my taste. Dracula was much more impactful. That being said, if the book was written by 20-year old girl back *then*, that's saying something.\nI am actually yet to read both original Frankenstein or Dracula. 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Over those years we\u2019ve acquired a great number of happy and loyal customers while completing some of the largest construction projects in the area. But we\u2019re always interested in working with new clients and tackling new projects.\nWe always have time to discuss new projects with potential clients. 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The concert will be presented by the soloists of the leading Russian theatres in cooperation with the Limassol music academy choir and Cyprus youth Symphony Orchestra.\n\u201cRequiem\u201d \u2013 is the last unfinished work by the prominent composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer was working on it until his last breath (1971). It is the classical opus, and the history of its creation is still covered with endless legends and unresolved mysteries.\nThe vocal part will be done by the leading soloists of the Moscow state academic kids music theatre of N.I. Saz -Yulia Urenkova (Soprano) and Anastasia Yaldina (mezzo-soprano), as well as soloists of the Irina Archipova fund \u2013 Sergei Spiridonov (tenor) and of Moscow State Academic Philharmonic \u2013 Alexander Fomin (bass).\nConductor \u2013 the artistic director of the orchestra, graduate of the St.Petersburg stated music school Giorgos Kounturis.\nvia tel: 22 463144;\nwww.cyso.org.cy.\nDate 10th of April at 20:30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Kitco-News/2266/2019-02-06/The-Best-Tax-Seasons-Tips-From-Kevin-OLeary", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FQRPSOEDPOOXZ22NDO44HCRTC3P4PK25", "length": 842, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kitco.com", "title": "The Best Tax Seasons Tips From Kevin O\u2019Leary - Kitco", "raw_content": "The Best Tax Seasons Tips From Kevin O\u2019Leary\nEvery tax-paying investor needs to be able to make back those taxes, according to Shark Tank star and chairman of O\u2019Shares ETFs, Kevin O\u2019Leary, and the best way to do that is to be invested in high quality, cash-flow generating assets.\n\u201cThe instability in the market and now the earnings disappointments are causing major volatility in a season where you\u2019re actually paying tax and you have to make it back. I always like to say that about paying tax, you\u2019ve got to get it back. You want to be in quality in 2019,\u201d O\u2019Leary told Kitco News. (show less)\n\u201cThe instability in the market and now the earnings disappointments are causing major volatility in a season where you\u2019re actually paying tax and you have to make it back. I always like to say that about paying tax, you\u2019ve got to ... (read more)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 10315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kksblog.com/2018/05/super-human/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KCOATXBK4WHVNS6YO7LFRVL5HRCTW5RK", "length": 2081, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kksblog.com", "title": "Super-human - KKSBlog", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbAll News\u00bbSuper-human\nSuper-human\n(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 January 2018, New Govardhana, Australia, SB 1.2.15)\nIt is extremely nice to explore Krsna because he is a personality who constantly moves between being very human-like and also very super-human. It is the human element however that brings him close to us because we can recognise ourselves in Krsna and his experiences. And yet, his solutions are sometimes very super-human in nature which is purely amazing. So in this way we become close to Krsna \u2013 the Supreme Personality.\nKrsna\u2019s all-pervading universal form is described in the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, where it is compared to many suns rising at the same time. It is said that Robert Oppenheimer was quoting the Bhagavad-gita when conducting the first tests of the nuclear bomb. They were situated in a bunker and were seeing the explosions go off, at which point Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad-gita saying how this appeared like many suns rising at the same time. Such a form is also Krsna, however it is difficult for us to approach Krsna\u2019s universal form. Krsna is much easier understood through his human nature where we can understand him and offer our human qualities when dealing with him. Therefore, it becomes easy for us to love him. It is not so easy to love that energy which is like many suns rising at the same time. One may be impressed by it, that is for sure, but loving that form can be difficult.\nStill Krsna is lovable, and such love is not by force. In the beginning, a little bit of force may be needed to fix the mind. But very soon, Krsna will capture us. We will be drawn to Krsna \u2013 it does not take much at all! A little service for Krsna and one becomes immediately drawn to him. The verses of this part of the chapter gradually lead us to show how we are being drawn and attracted to Krsna. So in this way, Krsna consciousness is a very natural thing. As Srila Prabhupada said, \u201cLove for Krsna is not an artificial imposition on the mind. It is a natural thing!\u201d\nkrishna love Universal form\nLoving exchanges", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.koreropress.com/666-photography-virgin-queens-and-high-camp-divas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3E3XBKRI5QD5BCA5WNY34JFTSIUJCVLI", "length": 830, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.koreropress.com", "title": "666 Photography: Virgin Queens and High-camp Divas", "raw_content": "A gorgeous, amazingly rich volume of the highly original work of Gayla Partridge's 666 Photography studio. Her photographs are a riot of burlesque and visual exuberance that never ceases to enthral. Gayla's images stand out in a market saturated with clich\u00e9s. A must-have visual feast to be savoured, over and over again.\nA Texan native, with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, Gayla Partridge\u2019s initial creative focus was working with stained glass. Then, in 2002, she picked up her camera, started shooting and her studio, 666 Photography, was born. Focusing initially on exploring the traditions of pin-up photography, Gayla\u2019s art developed into a high-concept genre, where she creates intensely detailed and complex sets and vignettes for her models, which she then photographs to remarkable effect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 4509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.krmwriting.com/blog/2019/1/28/going-home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YOG7AV5LF7WR3FF6KB4CMVVMN5ZINJOE", "length": 804, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.krmwriting.com", "title": "Going Home \u2014 Kevin Writes", "raw_content": "A long time ago, less than 6 years ago\u2026 I think, but more than 3 years ago. I had a dream.\nIn the dream was a man (me?) he had a sword made of smoke over his shoulder and it was kind of long and very wide. He was standing in a dark hallway. At the other end of the hall, a chittering sound was heard. Like thousands of giant cockroaches screaming a battle cry.\nThat\u2019s it. That\u2019s the whole dream that I remember.\nBut I\u2019ve built a universe around that dream. This is the first story that I finished (you see a pattern here?) in that universe.\nMaybe that will be my next novel. Maybe, now that things are settling down from the craziness of the holidays, I can write more. That\u2019s the goal.\nYou can find Going Home in the stories link above.\nI\u2019ll have another story tomorrow. That one about a lonely goddess.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.labcorp.com/help/patient-test-info/comprehensive-metabolic-panel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OCXVPK7NWNDYDVXM3QDNJHZUQMPPXPU6", "length": 8536, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.labcorp.com", "title": "Comprehensive Metabolic Panel | LabCorp", "raw_content": "CMP; Chem 12; Chemistry Panel; Chemistry Screen; SMA 12; SMA 20; SMAC (somewhat outdated terms)\nTo give your healthcare provider important information about the current status of your metabolism, including the health of your kidneys and liver as well as electrolyte and acid/base balance and levels of blood glucose and blood proteins; to monitor known conditions, such as hypertension, and to monitor the use of medications to check for any kidney- or liver-related side effects\nAs part of a routine health exam; when you are being monitored for a specific condition or are taking medications that may impact your kidney or liver\nYou may need to fast for 10-12 hours prior to sample collection; follow any instructions you are given.\nThe comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is used as a broad screening tool to evaluate organ function and check for conditions such as diabetes, liver disease, and kidney disease. The CMP may also be ordered to monitor known conditions, such as hypertension, and to monitor people taking specific medications for any kidney- or liver-related side effects. If a health practitioner is interested in following two or more individual CMP components, he or she may order the entire CMP because it offers more information.\nThe CMP is routinely ordered as part of a blood work-up for a medical exam or yearly physical. While the individual tests are sensitive, they do not usually tell a health practitioner specifically what is wrong. Abnormal test results or groups of test results are usually followed up with other specific tests to confirm or rule out a suspected diagnosis.\nResults of the tests that are part of the CMP are typically evaluated together to look for patterns of results. A single abnormal test result may mean something different than if several test results are abnormal. For example, a high result on just one of the liver enzyme tests has different implications than high results on several liver enzyme tests.\nSometimes, especially in hospitalized patients, several sets of CMPs, often performed on different days, may be evaluated to gain insights into the underlying condition and response to treatment.\nOut-of-range results for any of the tests in the CMP can be due to a variety of different conditions, including, for example, kidney failure, breathing problems, and diabetes-related complications. Typically, if any results are out-of-range, one or more follow-up tests are performed to help pinpoint the cause and/or help establish a diagnosis.\nSee the articles on the individual tests for more detailed information about each one.\nALT (alanine amino transferase)\nAST (aspartate amino transferase)\nA variety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs can affect the results of the components of the CMP. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider about any medications you are taking. Likewise, it is important to give a complete history as many other factors can also affect the interpretation of your results.\nThe comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is a frequently ordered panel of 14 tests that gives a healthcare provider important information about the current status of a person's metabolism, including the health of the kidneys and liver, electrolyte and acid/base balance as well as levels of blood glucose and blood proteins. Abnormal results, and especially combinations of abnormal results, can indicate a problem that needs to be addressed.\nGlucose - energy source for the body; a steady supply must be available for use, and a relatively constant level of glucose must be maintained in the blood.\nCalcium - one of the most important minerals in the body; it is essential for the proper functioning of muscles, nerves, and the heart and is required in blood clotting and in the formation of bones.\nAlbumin - a small protein produced in the liver; the major protein in serum\nTotal Protein - measures albumin as well as all other proteins in serum\nSodium - vital to normal body processes, including nerve and muscle function\nPotassium - vital to cell metabolism and muscle function\nCO2 (carbon dioxide, bicarbonate) - helps to maintain the body's acid-base balance (pH)\nChloride - helps to regulate the amount of fluid in the body and maintain the acid-base balance\nBUN (blood urea nitrogen) - waste product filtered out of the blood by the kidneys; conditions that affect the kidney have the potential to affect the amount of urea in the blood.\nCreatinine - waste product produced in the muscles; it is filtered out of the blood by the kidneys so blood levels are a good indication of how well the kidneys are working.\nALP (alkaline phosphatase) - enzyme found in the liver and other tissues, bone; elevated levels of ALP in the blood are most commonly caused by liver disease or bone disorders.\nALT (alanine amino transferase, also called SGPT) - enzyme found mostly in the cells of the liver and kidney; a useful test for detecting liver damage\nAST (aspartate amino transferase, also called SGOT) - enzyme found especially in cells in the heart and liver; also a useful test for detecting liver damage\nBilirubin - waste product produced by the liver as it breaks down and recycles aged red blood cells\nYou may need to fast (nothing but water) for 10 to 12 hours prior to the blood draw. Depending on the reason for ordering the CMP, it may be drawn after fasting or on a random basis.\nHow is the CMP different than the BMP and why would my doctor order one over the other?\nThe CMP is made up of 14 tests; the basic metabolic panel (BMP) is a subset of those and has 8 tests. It does not include the liver (ALP, ALT, AST, and bilirubin) and protein (albumin and total protein) tests. A healthcare provider may order a CMP rather than a BMP if he or she wants to get a more complete picture of the status of a person's organ function or to check for specific conditions, such as diabetes or liver or kidney disease.\nOne of the results from my CMP is slightly out of range. What does this mean?\nThe results of your CMP are interpreted by your healthcare provider within the context of other tests that you have had done as well as other factors, such as your medical history. A single result that is slightly high or low may or may not have medical significance. There are several reasons why a test result may differ on different days and why it may fall outside a designated reference range.\nBiological variability (different results in the same person at different times): If a health practitioner runs the same test on you on several different occasions, there's a good chance that one result will fall outside a reference range even though you are in good health. For biological reasons, your values can vary from day to day.\nIndividual variability (differences in results between different people): References ranges are usually established by collecting results from a large population and determining from the data an expected average (mean) result and expected differences from that average (standard deviation). There are individuals who are healthy but whose tests results, which are normal for them, do not always fall within the expected range of the overall population.\nThus, a test value that falls outside of the established reference range supplied by the laboratory may mean nothing significant. Generally, this is the case when the test value is only slightly higher or lower than the reference range and this is why a health practitioner may repeat a test on you and why he or she may look at results from prior times when you had the same test performed.\nHowever, a result outside the range may indicate a problem and warrant further investigation. Your healthcare provider will evaluate your test results in the context of your medical history, physical examination, and other relevant factors to determine whether a result that falls outside of the reference range means something significant for you.\nFor more, read the articles on Reference Ranges and What They Mean and How Reliable is Laboratory Testing?\nConditions: diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, hypertension\nMedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Comprehensive metabolic panel\nKidsHealth: Blood Test: Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP)\nMedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. Comprehensive metabolic panel. Available online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003468.htm. Accessed November 2015.\nQuest Diagnostics. Chemistry Screen, Patient Health Library. Available online at http://www.questdiagnostics.com/kbase/topic/medtest/tu6207/descrip.htm. 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I knew it would be set in the Victorian era, I knew it would be a nice shop, a place that people would want to come to, to feel comfortable in, and to buy what was offered. The ambiance and aromas of La Befana's Specialty Gift Shoppe Inc. would be breathtaking! It would be comfortable, inviting, and relaxing, it would feel like home! A home where people of all ages, cultures, and religions were welcome! It would be a place of sanction, a place of healing, a place, \"thee\" place just to be. And it was, and will be again.\nLa Befana's Specialty Gift Shoppe Inc. was opened June of 2005 in the Hudson Valley area of New York, and located in the Historic Village of Montgomery. 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All teachers at Lacombe Christian School are fully certified in the Province of Alberta. In addition to maintaining the highest academic standards as possible, the teacher, as a believer, must reflect at all times by word and example the love of Christ, and the honour of God.\nThe LCS Board is made up of nine elected (volunteer) members who are charged with governing the school in accordance with the desires of the Society. Numerous committees assist the Board in the execution of its duties. A list of Committees that are in operation are: Education Committee, Service Committee, Endowment Fund Committee, Booster Club, Finance Committee, Salaries/Benefits Committee, Transportation Committee, Maintenance Committee, and Auction Committee. These committees consist of parents who willingly share their gifts and talents. 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His work are also shown at the Santa Fe Indian Market (SWAIA), Heard Indian Market and other select exhibitions.\nRandy is a past winner of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Fellowship and a Dubin Fellow at The School of American Research,. Randy has accumulated many other awards and distinctions in his career. His studio is The Red Clay Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\nTALENT AT EARLY AGE\nRandy grew up in Chicago, Illinois, after moving there with his family in 1964. The Chitto family moved from the Choctaw reservation in Mississippi as part of the Indian Relocation Act of 1956. At an early age he showed talent, first by drawing in the dirt under the family porch in Mississippi. He later drew in the blank pages of any books he got his hands on. His family recognized his gift and was very supportive. While in high school, he was chosen in a citywide competition to be admitted in various specialized art classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the Illinois Institute of Technology.\nIn 1980, Randy enrolled at The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe. His main interest at the time was painting, but it was there he found clay. Otellie Loloma was his first instructor in a medium he had previously not worked with. Randy impressed Mrs. Loloma with each work he produced in the class. He continued his study in clay with his friend and mentor Ralph Pardington who who taught the advance ceramic class. Mr. Pardington allowed Randy to work late into the night , and many times he worked through the night. Seeing his potential, Mr Pardington challenged him to create his own style and work.\nHe continued to enjoy working in two-dimension, and took painting classes with the renowned artist and instructor Linda Lomahaftewa at IAIA. In 1983 , he graduated with both a two- and three- Dimensional Degree in Studio Art. Randy has worked as a clay artist since has graduated from IAIA.\nWORKS HAVE SPECIAL MEANINGS\nThe turtle is Randy's primary subject, for turtles have always been considered the Choctaw's story keepers and storytellers. The turtle keeps narratives shielded and protected under its shell until it is ready to share them. The storytellers are coiled-built and then finished with hand-burnishing . All of Randy's characters are well known for their cheerful, animated expressions. The bears represent the male facet of the tribe with their strength and courage. Like the turtle storytellers, the bears are also hand-built, but wet-sanded to add a high sheen.\nRandy is married to his bride of 31 years, Jackie Carpio, whom he met in Mrs. Loloma's clay class. Randy and Jackie have two boys, Hollis and Dillon. 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It is performed using a scrotoplasty of the scrotal skin whose size has to be adapted to each individual case, therefore it is a personalised operation.\nThe procedure yields a very satisfying aesthetic result especially since the scar can easily be hidden due to the particularity of scrotal skin. Before commencing the operation, the area of skin to be excised is marked, personalising the entity and the form according to the specific individual. The operation exclusively involves the skin and the superficial integument and therefore there is no involvement of the testicles whatsoever or their function. The risks are really minimal and are mostly linked to the presence of post surgical haematomas so a few days of rest and the use of a jockstrap for the the first week following the operation are recommended.\nThe operation is not at all painful, and the final appearance is natural since only the excessive skin is corrected and the result lasts for a very long time.\nCopy this Code Vf2r4zu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 13536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/james-rodriguez-doesnt-have-serious-injury-says-hopeful-pekerman-244602.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JCWL3J5LY2VGG4RKCOGX3WCUJZV4IL54", "length": 1297, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.latestly.com", "title": "James Rodriguez Doesn't Have 'serious Injury', Says Hopeful Pekerman | LatestLY", "raw_content": "James Rodriguez Doesn't Have 'serious Injury', Says Hopeful Pekerman\nAgency News PTI Jul 02, 2018 09:36 PM IST\nMoscow, July 2 (AFP) Colombia coach Jose Pekerman said star midfielder James Rodriguez does not have a serious injury and hopes he will be fit to face England in the last 16 of the World Cup.\nThe South American side take on England here tomorrow, but the status of James is unclear after he hurt his calf during the 1-0 win over Senegal last week.\n\"We had good news after his medical tests. 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The crowds were heavy as everyone gathered in front of the Main Street Train Station for a special moment. The Disneyland Band, the Dapper Dans, and cast members representing the entire park were joined by 62 Disney characters for a special birthday moment. Walt\u2019s opening day speech was played, and then the assembled sang \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to Disneyland.\nLater that evening, the Rivers of America were re-ignited as Fantasmic! returned for its 25th anniversary. While the show had soft-opened for guests of the D23 Expo, the grand return was set for the park\u2019s birthday. Before the show, the Disneyland Resort Ambassadors appeared on a Tom Sawyer\u2019s Island Raft to once again lead a birthday sing-along.\nThe thrilling spectacle of Fantasmic! has been updated during its hiatus. With new animation, technology, choreography, and effects, the show is a new experience into the world of Mickey\u2019s imagination. 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Sale, etc., of obscene objects to young person.\u2014Whoever sells, lets to hire, distributes, exhibits or circulates to any person under the age of twenty years any such obscene object as is referred to in the last preceding section, or offers or attempts so to do, shall be punished 2[on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and, in the event of a second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and also with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees].]\nPunishment\u2014On first conviction, with imprisonment for 3 years, and with fine of 2,000 rupees, and, in the event of second of subsequent conviction, with imprisonment for 7 years, and with fine of 5,000 rupees\u2014Cognizable\u2014Bailable\u2014Triable by any Magistrate\u2014Non-compoundable.\nSame as in Tamil Nadu.\n[Vide Orissa Act 13 of 1962, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 16-5-1962)].\nIn Section 293,\n(a) for the words \u201cany such obscene object as is referred to in the last preceding section\u201d the words, figures and letter \u201cany such obscene object as is referred to in section 292 or any such newspaper, periodical, circular, picture or other printed or written document as is referred to in section 292-A\u201d shall be substituted;\n(b) for the words \u201cwhich may extend to six months\u201d the words \u201cwhich may extend to three years\u201d shall be substituted;\n(c) in the marginal note, after the words \u201cobscene objects\u201d the words \u201cany grossly indecent or scurrilous matter intended for blackmail shall be inserted.\u201d\n[Vide Tamil Nadu Act 25 of 1960, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 9-11-1960)].\n2. 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The Vet Center Program provides free and confidential bereavement counseling at over 300 Vet Centers across the Country to families who have lost Service members while serving on active duty. If you would like to schedule an appointment, you can call your nearest Vet Center. Often counseling can be made available in the family's home or where the family feels most comfortable\nYou may use the Location Finder (please omit apartment or unit numbers in the search bar) to find the nearest Vet Center, or you may call our Vet Center Call Center at 1-877-WAR-VETS (927-8387) available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 8061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lendacademy.com/prosper-announces-partnership-consortium-160-community-banks/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:AVNPNTHWCE3RRHZJFX6EQ6YBDWC6YSQP", "length": 1974, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.lendacademy.com", "title": "Prosper Announces Partnership With a Consortium of More Than 160 Community Banks - Lend Academy", "raw_content": "Prosper Announces Partnership With a Consortium of More Than 160 Community Banks\nFebruary 26, 2015 By Ryan Lichtenwald Leave a Comment\nHot on the heels of Lending Club\u2019s partnership with community banks, Prosper today announced a partnership program with Western Independent Bankers (WIB). Banks who are members of WIB, will have access to consumer loans through Prosper\u2019s platform. This includes more than 160 independent and community banks located in 13 western states.\nProsper\u2019s CEO, Aaron Vermut had this to say about the recent partnership:\nIndependent banks are essential to the health of the American economy, but in order to compete and win customers, they need to be able to offer compelling products that are competitively priced and easy to understand. Prosper has facilitated billions of dollars in loans through its platform and continues to grow because our product is fast, convenient, and extremely consumer-friendly. We\u2019re very excited to work with WIB and its members to expand awareness of a smarter, lower-cost alternative to borrowing money through traditional means.\nIt seems like the next step to scale the marketplace lending model are strategic partnerships that open up new channels for borrower acquisition. Prosper will certainly benefit from the influx of borrowers, without the additional costs of operating a branch location. Banks will leverage the platform and be able to quickly make loans to their customers at affordable rates. Membership banks will also have the opportunity to invest in Prosper loans.\nThis is a great move for the team at Prosper and it is probably the first of many bank partnerships to be announced. With these new partnerships, I believe we are starting to see the beginnings of what may be the widespread adoption for marketplace lending loans. 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However, borrowers with decent or high credit scores can also benefit from FHA loans by taking advantage of the low down payment requirement and some of the lowest mortgage rates available. In terms of loan limits, the Federal Housing Administration sets its maximum loan amount relative to home prices in the area. As a result, FHA loan limits can range from $271,000 in areas with lower value homes to a maximum of $625,500 in areas with exceptionally high value.\nIf you are considering an FHA mortgage, remember to give yourself time to compare rates between lenders; small variations in interest rates can cost or save you thousands in the overall cost of the loan, so it\u2019s always worth the time to shop around. 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It is one such festival that is enjoyed by not just Christians but also by other people. People unite with their families during Christmas. Also, they share letters to wish each other Merry Christmas and all the success for the new year. All those who cannot travel to be with their family during Christmas write letters. A Father Christmas letter is written by a son to his father during the Christmas. For every child, their father is the Santa Claus, and they write a letter to them with innocence. It is a letter written to the father to fulfill the child\u2019s desire during the auspicious festival.\nIt is an informal type of letter. Every child wishes to be able to meet Santa one day, and as parents, they must keep alive the glimmer of hope in a child and give them the semblance of the existence of a figure who only wants to spread love and joy. Thus, such a letter is a crucial asset for the parents as well as the child.\n1 Father Christmas Letter Writing Tips\n2 Father Christmas Letter Template\nFather Christmas Letter Writing Tips\nUse polite and innocent language and keep it simple and short.\nLet Santa know what you wish to have, also make him aware of how good you were throughout the year.\nUse the words like please and thank you.\nDo not professionally write the letter. This letter should be written most simply.\nUse our free Father Christmas Letter to help you get started\nSubject \u2013 _______ (Mention the purpose)\nDear _____ (Name of the person)\nI am ________ (Name) writing this letter as I need something forms you on This Christmas. I have grown old, and I do not ask for any gift for myself. I request you to bring some gifts for the children who do not have parents. No one gives them any gifts, and if you give them any gift, they will be highly grateful to you. I would like to see them happy. You can give them some toys or books that can help them learn something. You can also bring them some sweets as they hardly get a chance to eat sweets. I once again request you to give these poor little children some gift and make their day. Please do tell me if you need any help from my side. Thank you.\nJohn Dameron\nSubject \u2013 Father Christmas letter\nI am writing this letter to you to let you know what I want on this Christmas Eve from your side. This letter is being written as inspired by my mother. This time I need something special from you, and I hope you say yes for the same. Every person should get a present at this festival. There is a house in my neighborhood, and four children live in it. They do not have parents. I feel sad for them, and I thank God for giving me, such good parents. I think that these children surely miss their parents on Christmas and feel sad as no one gives them any gift or wishes. So if you give them any gifts, they will be really happy with it.\nI want to ask you if you can also drop gifts for these little ones. I wish to see them happy. If you are very busy distributing gifts, I can give you a little assistance. I am sure you will bring something for them. Thanking you.\nHere is a sample email for Christmas Letter to Father which can be cited as an example for the same.\nFiled Under: Christmas Letter Tagged With: Father Christmas Letter Example, Father Christmas Letter Format, Father Christmas Letter Template, How to Write a Father Christmas Letter, Sample Father Christmas Letter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 7128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/people/kristen-stewart", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7E2AMDIC3QO4ZZG4ESDHBO6LXWSLRBP", "length": 4246, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.lifetimetv.co.uk", "title": "Kristen Stewart | Lifetime UK", "raw_content": "A young actress who isn't afraid to take on gritty roles. She came to fame as Bella Swan in the Twilight series and has recently courted controversy in her private life.\nAlthough Kristen Jayne Stewart is best known for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight saga, she has worked as an actress from a young age and isn't afraid to take on the toughest of roles.\nShe was born on 9 April 1990 in Los Angeles, California, to parents John and Jules Stewart who also both work in TV and film. Kristen has an older brother called Cameron who now works as a grip. Her mother is a scriptwriter, while her father is a TV producer for Fox.\nPerhaps it is no surprise then that Stewart decided to pursue a film career and is now a promising young actress. She went to school until seventh grade after which she continued her education via correspondence and a private tutor. That's because her career started when she was just eight-years-old. A talent scout saw her performance in a Christmas school play and decided she should be on-screen. Minor roles in The 'Thirteenth Year' (1999) and 'The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas' (2000) followed.\nStewart's first significant role came in 2001 when she was cast as Sam Jennings in 'The Safety of Objects' with Glenn Close. This was then followed by a starring role in 'Panic Room' alongside Jodie Foster in 2002. For the latter performance, Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award.\nDue to her performance in the aforementioned movie, she was given a role in 2003's 'Cold Creek Manor' as the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone. While the film did not perform well at the box office, she received another Young Artist Award nomination. This was followed by parts in 'Speak', 'Catch That Kid', 'Undertow', 'Fierce People', 'Zathura' and 'The Messengers', to name just a few.\nHer next notable role occurred in 2007 when she starred in 'Into The Wild', which was a critically acclaimed biopic with Sean Penn. Stewart once again received a Young Artist Award nomination. The same year she appeared in 'The Cake Eaters'.\nAt the age of just 18, she took on her most famous role as Bella Swan who falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen, who is played by Robert Pattinson. They starred in 'Twilight' in 2008, with the film opening to fans anxious to see the Stephanie Meyer novel brought to life. She reprised this role in 'New Moon' (2009), 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' (2010), 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part One' (2011) and 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part Two' (2012).\nNot only did these films make Stewart a star, due to the huge following of both the books and movies, she started dating her co-star Pattinson. Notoriously private about their love life, the couple did not reveal much about their relationship but they did move in together.\nIn terms of her career, 'Twilight' led to roles in the indie film 'Adventureland' in 2009, 'Welcome To The Rileys' in 2010 and gritty roles in 'The Runaways' (2010) and 'On The Road' (2012). Also in 2012, Stewart played Snow White in 'Snow White and the Huntsman', which was directed by Rupert Sanders. Rumours of an affair between Stewart and the married director emerged in July this year when photos of the pair together were published.\nStewart issued a statement confirming she had betrayed her boyfriend Pattinson and was deeply sorry for any pain she had caused. Since then she has been criticised in the media, and planned to stay away from the premiere of 'On the Road'. Both R-Pattz and K-Stew remained silent over the state of their relationship but the Sun reported that Pattinson was selling the home they had shared since September 2011.\nHer future after Twilight looks set to be a lucrative one if she can rescue her reputation after her fling with Sanders, with rumours that she will be returning as Snow White in 'Snow White and the Huntsman 2'.\nOn fame, she told Vogue: \"People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it.\n\"But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I\u2019m really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' 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Picture: Beth Wrigley\nA Sussex mum said she was shocked to find the back of her garden \u2018demolished\u2019 on Sunday morning after a car collided with her fencing.\nBeth Wrigley, 26, of Barnsnap Close, Horsham, was at home with her husband and 22-month-old son when the car \u2013 which was travelling along North Heath Lane \u2013 collided with the fence panels.\nBeth said her family slept through the incident \u2013 which police said happened shortly after midnight, on Sunday morning \u2013 but her husband discovered the damage at approximately 7.30am.\nShe said: \u201cIt is just a shock. You do not expect to see half your garden demolished.\n\u201cWe have got a letter from Sussex Police so we contacted them to ask what happened. We don\u2019t know the details but a car basically ploughed into the back of the gardens at about midnight. A few properties down the road have been affected but I would say ours was hit the most.\n\u201cWhen we woke up, there was police tape out the back of our garden but no sign of police officers.\n\u201cSome of our neighbours said they heard a bang but we didn\u2019t hear anything. My son\u2019s room is at the back of the property and even he didn\u2019t wake up.\u201d\u2028After discovering the damage to her garden, Beth made an appeal on Facebook for help with fixing the fence.\nShe added: \u201cMy husband was out looking at the damage and a passer-by \u2013 a man and his son \u2013 walked past and my husband asked if he had a spare fence panel. He said he had a couple so what we have done is stick them up at the back of the garden for the time being.\n\u201cAs we have a little boy in the house, we just wanted to make sure the back of our garden was secure.\u201d\nBeth and her husband are now in the process of clearing the remaining damage in their garden.\u2028Beth said: \u201cIt is just a big inconvenience. We may have got the fence sorted but we have now got to clear up the rest.\n\u201cIt is just the fact we have had to spend all morning clearing up the damage that is frustrating.\u201d\nPolice have been approached for a comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.littletongov.org/Home/Components/News/News/9286/242", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:20Z", "digest": "sha1:S5CPTALAGOEQ35THGOEZBVHGHZON57WV", "length": 805, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.littletongov.org", "title": "City News | Littleton CO", "raw_content": "South Datura Street Apartment Fire\nLittleton Fire Rescue (LFR) received a call at 5:40 a.m. this morning for a fire in the 5800 block of South Datura Street. The fire was reported on the first floor in the north wing. Forty-five units and 100 personnel responded from LFR, South Metro Fire Rescue, West Metro Fire Rescue, Littleton Police, and private ambulance companies. Thirteen people were transported to the hospital, three in serious condition and 10 are stable.\nLFR is assessing whether the residents can return to the apartments that don't appear to be damaged. In the mean time, residents who were displaced are being cared for at Littleton United Methodist Church by the American Red Cross.\nThe cause of the fire is under investigation. 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This allows them to create a home that suits them and is often considered to be a favourable alternative to purchasing an existing unit or house.\nIf you are thinking about selling land for development, there are a number of essential considerations involved in the process.\nLand transactions involve plenty of planning and there are a number of unique things to bear in mind, including the features and orientation of the property, awareness of restrictions and boundaries and other factors - such as access, services, features and amenities.\nWhile these can seem overwhelming - especially to those who are new to the industry - enlisting the service of an LJ Hooker agent can help you navigate this process.\nFrom helping you explore your options when it comes to land for sale to providing you with support throughout your property transaction, LJ Hooker can offer guidance through every stage of the process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 9419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2012/01/golan-v-holder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4U6HRR3X3MXPXSB2J3R5JL6M4PUPAID", "length": 9538, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.loeb.com", "title": "Golan v. Holder | Publications | Loeb & Loeb LLP", "raw_content": "U.S. Supreme Court affirms decision of Tenth Circuit holding that federal law restoring copyright protection to foreign works previously in the public domain does not violate Copyright Clause or First Amendment free speech protections.\nPetitioners, who formerly had enjoyed free access to foreign works in the public domain, brought suit asserting that Congress, in enacting \u00a7514 of the 1994 Uruguay Rounds Agreements Act granting copyright protection to those works, exceeded its authority under the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution and violated their First Amendment rights. The district court granted the government\u2019s motion for summary judgment and the Tenth Circuit affirmed in part, holding that Congress had not violated the Copyright Clause, but remanded the case for further proceedings on First Amendment implications in light of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2003 decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft. On remand, the district court granted summary judgment to petitioners on their First Amendment claim, and on appeal the second time, the Tenth Circuit reversed, ruling that \u00a7514 was narrowly tailored to fit the important government aim of protecting U.S. copyright holders\u2019 interests abroad. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Tenth Circuit\u2019s ruling, holding that Congress had not exceeded its authority under the Copyright Clause and that \u00a7514 did not violate the petitioners\u2019 First Amendment rights.\nCongress enacted the Uruguay Round Agreements Act to bring the U.S. into compliance with The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, a long-standing international treaty to which the U.S. became a signatory in 1989 and which requires, among other things, that member countries protect the copyrighted works originated in other member states unless the works\u2019 copyright term has expired in either the country where protection is claimed or the country of origin. Despite being a member country, the U.S. had not extended copyright protection to any foreign copyright-protected work not previously protected in the U.S. prior to 1994, when an additional treaty among the member countries required compliance with The Berne Convention. In enacting \u00a7514, Congress applied the term of copyright protection available to U.S. works to preexisting foreign works from member countries. Specifically, \u00a7514 grants copyright protection to works protected in their country of origin, but not protected in the U.S., for any of three reasons: (1) the U.S. did not protect works from the country of origin at the time of the works publication; (2) the U.S. did not protect sound recordings fixed before 1972; or (3) the author of the foreign work had failed to comply with statutory requirements for copyright protection \u2013 for example, failure to comply with notice or registration requirements. Works that had fallen into the public domain because of the expiration of a full copyright term, either their own country or the U.S., do not receive further copyright protection, and those works that are restored acquire copyright protection for the balance of the term they would have enjoyed, but not compensatory protection for the time lost.\nWriting for the 6-2 majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the government's arguments, concluding that the law did not exceed the authority of Congress under the Constitution's Copyright Clause. She also ruled the law did not violate First Amendment protections. \u201cIn accord with the judgment of the Tenth Circuit, we conclude that \u00a7514 does not transgress constitutional limitations on Congress\u2019 authority. Neither the Copyright and Patent Clause nor the First Amendment, we hold, makes the public domain, in any and all cases, a territory that works may never exit.\u201d\nThe Supreme Court rejected the petitioners\u2019 argument that, in passing \u00a7514,Congress had exceeded its authority, holding that the Copyright Clause did not exclude application of copyright protection to works in the public domain. Petitioners argued that the Copyright Clause\u2019s language allowing Congress to grant authors exclusive rights to their works \u201cfor limited Times\u201d prevented Congress from granting copyright protections once works had entered the public domain. The Court disagreed, finding that the language of Copyright Clause created no such restriction and noting that its 2003 decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft, in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) extending by 20 years the terms of existing copyrights, was largely dispositive of the argument. The Court reasoned that the terms afforded works restored by \u00a7514 were no less \u201climited\u201d than those the CTEA lengthened, and noted that, in fact, the terms of restored foreign works were typically shorter than those of U.S. works. Petitioners argued that the limited time of protection for works already in the public domain had already passed, since works previously excluded from U.S. copyright protection had a time limit of \u201czero.\u201d The Court disagreed, finding this argument made little sense and reasoning that a \u201climited time\u201d of exclusivity must begin before it can end.\nThe Court noted that historical practice corroborated its reading of the Copyright Clause to permit the protection of previously unprotected works, citing the enactment of the Copyright Act of 1790, and other acts of Congress restoring the copyrights and patents of works and inventions that previously had lost protection.\nPetitioners also argued that \u00a7514 failed to meet the objective of the Copyright clause to \u201cpromote the Progress of Science\u201d because restored protection only to already existing works. The Court disagreed, reasoning that the creation of new works is not the only way that Congress could meet the purpose of the Copyright Clause. The Court rejected a nearly identical argument in Eldred, concluding that the Copyright Clause does not require that each provision of copyright law induce the creation of new works, but rather allows Congress to create the regime of intellectual property protection that overall, in that Congress\u2019s judgment, serves the purposes of the Clause. Nothing in the text or history of the Copyright Clause requires the conclusion that the \u201cProgress of Science\u201d should only be confined to creation, and historical evidence, past congressional practice, and previous Supreme Court decisions support the conclusion that dissemination of existing works is as appropriate a means to meet the purpose of the clause. The Court concluded that: \u201cConsidered against this backdrop, \u00a7514 falls comfortably within Congress\u2019 authority under the Copyright Clause.\u201d\nPetitioners also argued that the First Amendment prohibited the restoration of copyright protection under \u00a7514. The Court disagreed, again finding its reasoning in Eldred compelling. In Eldred, the Court held that the CTEA\u2019s extension of copyright protection did not offend the First Amendment\u2019s freedom of expression guarantee. Acknowledging that while some restriction on expression was the inherent and intended effect of copyright protection, the Court reasoned copyright protection was not only for the purpose of limiting the manner in which works are used, but also as an engine of free expression. Copyright law already contained \u201cspeech-protective purposes and safeguards\u201d \u2013 that protection extends only to the author\u2019s expression of an idea, but not the idea itself, and is subject to the fair use defense. As it found with the CTEA in Eldred, the Court concluded it need not subject \u00a7514 to heightened scrutiny because the provision maintained the protections of the idea/expression distinction and the fair use defenses. The Court also noted that in enacting \u00a7514 Congress had specifically adopted measures to ease the transition, especially on those who had relied on those works being in the public domain before the act took effect.\nThe petitioners attempted to distinguish their case from Eldred, arguing that their First Amendment interests were of a \u201chigher order\u201d because they had enjoyed \u201cvested rights\u201d in those works in the public domain and Congress impermissibly took away those rights. The Court disagreed, finding that their claim rested on an argument that it had already rejected \u2013 that the Constitution renders the public domain largely untouchable by Congress. \u201cPetitioners here attempt under the banner of the First Amendment what they could not win under the Copyright Clause: On their view of the Copyright Clause, the public domain is inviolable; as they read the First Amendment, the public domain is policed through heightened judicial scrutiny of Congress\u2019 means and ends.\u201d According to the Court, however, nothing in the historical record, subsequent congressional practice, or its own jurisprudence warranted exceptional First Amendment protection for copyrighted works once in the public domain. Nor was this a case where Congress was attempting to regulate based on content.\nThe Court also noted \u00a7514 that did not impose a blanket prohibition on public access, but rather required would-be users of certain foreign works to pay for their desired use, or limit their exploitation to \u201cfair use.\u201d By fully complying with the Berne Convention, Congress ensured that these works, like domestic and most other foreign works, would be governed by the same harmonize copyright regime. In fact, the court noted, \u00a7514 placed foreign works in the position they would have occupied if the current copyright regime had been in effect when those works were created and first published.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 10711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.longmanhomeusa.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WCG3TUBKXDVPHFKUJL3QXQUWYTQJU335", "length": 1540, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.longmanhomeusa.com", "title": "About Pearson English Language Teaching (ELT) \u2013 Pearson ELT USA", "raw_content": "Pearson ELT USA > About Pearson English Language Teaching (ELT)\nPearson ELT, a division of Pearson Education, is the leading publisher of language programs for middle school students, high school students, and adult learners in English as a Second Language, In addition to its multilevel English courses, skills texts, test prep books, and videos, Pearson ELT publishes more than 30 separate dictionaries for customers in over 150 countries. Pearson ELT Multimedia Programs, especially MyEnglishLab, provides interactive resources for teachers and learners of English\nAbout Pearson Education\nEducating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help students learn at their own pace, in their own way.\nPearson has the most widely trusted and respected programs in educational and professional publishing, and offers the most comprehensive range of educational programs, in all subjects, for every age and level of student, from pre-K-12 through higher education and on into professional life.\nAs the leading education services company, Pearson is serious about evolving how the world learns. We apply our deep education experience and research, invest in innovative technologies, and promote collaboration throughout the education ecosystem. Real change is our commitment and its results are delivered through connecting capabilities to create actionable, scalable solutions that improve access, affordability, and achievement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loveandconfections.com/wanderlust-wednesday-paris-france/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ODKHA5YJFSRLPCT3PZ6NL6SR2DS6QUEK", "length": 91, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.loveandconfections.com", "title": "Wanderlust Wednesday - Paris, France - Love and Confections", "raw_content": "Wanderlust Wednesday \u2013 Paris, France\nSweets and treats of Paris, France. One day I will go!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loveholidays.com/holidays/corfu/barbati/golden-mare-barbati.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:763NZQTKRZ2KJGAO3ZV6GHKQD2XIO6BX", "length": 3201, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.loveholidays.com", "title": "Golden Mare Barbati in Barbati, Corfu | Holidays from \u00a3280pp | loveholidays", "raw_content": "Golden Mare Barbati\nBarbati, Corfu, Greek Islands\nThe Golden Mare Barbati offers you both beach relaxation and mountainous backdrops, making this an idyllic holiday retreat. This 4-star hotel is a superb choice for an escape to Corfu with its swimming pool for both adults and children, wellness club and spacious guestrooms!\nThere is a lovely outdoor pool area completed with a separate children\u2019s section as well as sun beds and umbrellas. The little ones can also benefit from a Kids\u2019 Club, while you take some time off with a soothing massage or therapeutic treatment. Spend the evening relaxing in the rooftop bar with a cocktail in hand and taking in the impressive views over Corfu\u2019s old town and the Venetian fortress. During the day, grab a bite at one of two restaurants (Royal main restaurant or the a la carte Galaxy restaurant), and a refreshing drink from the pool bar.\nThe Golden Mare Barbati offers comfortable double rooms, fitted with a 40\u201d LCD Satellite TV, a spacious private bathroom, air conditioning and either a full sea, side sea or garden view. There is free WiFi throughout the hotel so you can keep in touch with loved ones back home or relax catching up on your favourite show.\nBarbati Beach is a short stroll away from the hotel so why not discover one of the many paths leading down to the white stone beach and perhaps try some scuba diving? If not, simply kick back and relax as you watch the world go by from the comfort of your sunbed.\nRecently renovated in 2018, the 3-storey 4-star 2nd row beach hotel consists of a main building and 7 adjoining buildings, and has 100 rooms in total. It is equipped with a reception (check-in from 14:00, check-out until 11:00), a lobby with bar, an air conditioning, a safe (for free), a shop as well as a parking area (for free). For the meals, there is a restaurant (air-conditioned). You will be warmly welcomed in both the hotel\u2019s bars. WiFi is available for free. Room cleaning is free of charge.\nMassages available for a fee. In the outside area of the hotel there is a play area for children. Child supervision: babysitting (for a fee).\nBreakfast (from 07:00 - 10:00) from the buffet. All inclusive: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast and lunch and dinner only in selected restaurants or bars. Soft drinks (10:00 - 23:00), coffee & tea (16:00 - 17:00), cakes & pastries (16:00 - 17:00), small snacks (16:00 - 17:00), beer (10:00 - 23:00), wine (10:00 - 23:00), national alcoholic drinks (10:00 - 23:00), late riser\u2019s breakfast (10:00 - 11:00), Welcome Drink, free internet and free use of safe (with deposit).\nAdditional fees may apply for certain facilities, amenities or activities. Some services depend on the local climatic conditions and the season. Languages spoken: English and German.\nCorfu Airport 30 minutes\nTo make booking a cheap holiday at Golden Mare Barbati in Barbati easier for you, we provide a range of different payment options.To find out if you can book Golden Mare Barbati with a low deposit holiday option or to check if you can grab a last minute holiday deal, please click the \"Price and Availability\"button above.\nCaptains Barbati\nPorto Demo Boutique Hotel\nGrecotel Luxme Daphnila Bay Dassia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 416, "original_length": 12363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loveholidays.com/holidays/tenerife/costa-adeje/melia-jardines-del-teide.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ICZO35HBVIT7YQQHL57VZ5I6XG4PYBP2", "length": 2833, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.loveholidays.com", "title": "Melia Jardines del Teide in Costa Adeje, Tenerife | Holidays from \u00a3443pp | loveholidays", "raw_content": "\u201cGreat room. Tasty breakfast. Great location. Fantastic service. Good internet service. Great pool. Great wellness & sports facilities.\u201d\nThe Melia Jardines Del Teide is a fully renovated hotel, perfectly situated on the slope of a hill overlooking the Playa del Duque Beach and offering wonderful views over Costa Adeje. This hotel is made up of two buildings separated by a small square and provides elegant and spacious rooms and suites for both couples and families. On-site and nearby facilities offer a variety of entertainment and sport activities and guests of the Melia Jardines Del Teide Hotel will enjoy the most highly personalised services and facilities that will make for a memorable holiday in Tenerife.\nWith scorching temperatures of 29C at their highest, the Melia Jardines del Teide Hotel is the place to stay for sun-worshippers who want a holiday to remember. The huge pool is ideal for both couples and families, and there are plenty of other activities on offer too, including a playground for the little ones. When it gets too hot, head inside for a game of pool, darts or ping pong.\nThe hotel\u2019s main restaurant serves an extensive breakfast buffet with hot drinks, juices and delicious dishes as well as lunch and dinner, including locally produced alcoholic beverages as part of the all inclusive programme. Even the fussiest of kids will find something they love here, with a huge range of both international and local dishes served. Families can also benefit from the exclusive Meli\u00e1 Kids & Co services and the superior The Level service. Snacks, ice cream and soft drinks are also served throughout the day to keep you refreshed and ready for all of those activities.\nPlease note: The a la carte restaurant is currently closed due to renovations but the buffet restaurant Mosaico will remain open during this time. Guests may see the works taking place but will cause minor disturbance as only hand-held tools are being used. The works are due to be finished by the 1st May 2019.\nKids' Club (5-12 years)\nWellness centre (surcharge)\nThe Level Pool\nLagoon-style heated outdoor pool\nThe breakfast type is Buffet. The hotel has 3 restaurants.\nThe Melia Jardines Del Teide Hotel provides 299 well appointed rooms and suites. All rooms feature full bathrooms, flat screen TV with satellite channels, balcony or terrace, air conditioning, direct dial telephone, mini bar and safety deposit box. Cots available free of charge (on request).\nGolf Course 1.5km\nTo make booking a cheap holiday at Melia Jardines del Teide in Costa Adeje easier for you, we provide a range of different payment options.To find out if you can book Melia Jardines del Teide with a low deposit holiday option or to check if you can grab a last minute holiday deal, please click the \"Price and Availability\"button above.\nGoodRomantic Hotel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 437, "original_length": 12476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.luther-lawfirm.com/en/people/adviser/charlotte-wohlfarth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UXGPTNHXYRVN4RVHDU5SO7ARRY3JGZHW", "length": 896, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.luther-lawfirm.com", "title": "LUTHER Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH - Charlotte Wohlfarth", "raw_content": "Graduate in Business Law\ncharlotte.wohlfarth@luther-lawfirm.com\nCharlotte Wohlfarth was born in Osnabr\u00fcck (Germany). 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Prior to and during her legal training, she worked for internationally operating business law firms in Frankfurt am Main.\nCharlotte Wohlfarth was admitted to the German Bar in 2018 and is a member of Luther\u2019s litigation team.\nCharlotte Wohlfarth primarily advises on all matters pertaining to commercial and distribution law and dispute resolution, in and out of court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 5175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 108.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.luzerne.edu/classes/coursedetails.jsp?dept=coned&cat=On-Line&sub=Health%20Care&cid=201", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2LEWMMDDVC443XS2LOELJFLTEBGM2JAC", "length": 3565, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.luzerne.edu", "title": "Luzerne County Community College - Course Registration System", "raw_content": "Description: 28 contact hours: Today's health care system is evolving in its approach to the health and care of a culturally and ethnically diverse client population. In the United States, the aging population, an increasing public awareness of major risk factors contributing to chronic illness, and the public's growing desire for alternative health care options are just a few of the factors behind the expanding interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Rapidly gaining in popularity, CAM is used by more than 40% of the U.S. population. The demand for knowledgeable providers to meet the needs of this population is dramatically increasing, resulting in the development of new jobs and the creation of new services. To gain a broad understanding of these therapies and to stay current with emerging trends, health professionals who work with diverse populations will need continuing professional education. The ability to understand the many types of therapies available is essential to providing safe, effective care in any setting. Program Benefits: The Certificate in Complementary and Alternative Medicine is designed to provide a multidisciplinary educational experience. Your CAM certificate will distinguish you as a knowledgeable, skilled, and committed professional in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. This program will: enhance your professional marketability; build your skills and competencies; fulfill continuing education requirements for many professionals; and introduce you to an interdisciplinary, multicultural perspective on health care. Career Opportunities: The CAM certification program will provide you with the knowledge and skills to effectively meet the needs of a diverse patient and client population in a wide range of careers. Today, opportunities exist in the fields of nursing, teaching, service, administration, and research. Opportunities also exist within government programs and agencies; public and private institutions that provide health, education, and social services; research centers; special interest groups; colleges and universities; and corporate human resources divisions. Participants: This certificate is relevant for registered nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed vocational nurses, practical nurses, nursing assistants, social workers, occupational therapists, recreation therapists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, administrators, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, dieticians, educators, personal care assistants, volunteers, physicians, physician's assistants, chiropractors, clergy, physical fitness professionals, and adult children of aging parents. 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We welcome lives - delivering more than 4,000 babies annually. We save lives - providing surgical expertise to more than 3,000 patients each year. We are committed to detecting and preventing breast, cervical and ovarian cancers, as well as osteoporosis.\nWith an unmatched combination of compassion and skill, our team of physicians and advanced clinicians provide a comprehensive range of services. Because we understand that each woman in our community deserves an experienced medical team completely focused on her unique needs, we are devoted to your health and dedicated to your care through every season of life.\nOffering a premium level of care, one woman at a time - that's the Louisiana Women's Healthcare difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.m-7.it/portfolio-item/via-parma-sinfonia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:22QBMYNODZVHXZ6KQLEIRM75DJ2ABUFZ", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.m-7.it", "title": "Via Parma Sinfonia1. place Competition \u2013 in progress \u2013 M7 Architecture + Design", "raw_content": "Category: Competition (1st place)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.macneilgroup.com.au/titeline.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JZLPKNRDT5Y3EOPTTQ5T2BCNUBRIR6TT", "length": 420, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.macneilgroup.com.au", "title": "Titeline - Macneil Group", "raw_content": "This project was built for two individual companies within strict budgets and timelines. The unique project incorporates common access areas that create synergies and efficiencies in the movement of major machinery and deliveries. The contemporary offices to the front of the buildings provide a clean and professional public face to the public whilst providing a practical administration interface to the core business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.madisonpears.com/first-five-minutes", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HBVH57XY2TLXWW67UXUMZOFPFGH7ZDHD", "length": 9088, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.madisonpears.com", "title": "First Five Minutes of Conversation | Madison Pears \u2014 Madison Pears", "raw_content": "Your First Five Minutes of Conversation\nFind your square below to learn about the adventure behind its design\nTo help prepare for the compliments you're bound to receive, here's the adventure behind each square to supplement your first five minutes of conversation.\nIt\u2019s only natural to fear the risks associated with pursuing your dreams.\u2026 The Darwin\u2019s inspiration comes from a very well known man: Charles Darwin.\nWhat is not as well known is the adventure that led to his theory of evolution: The second voyage of the HMS Beagle. The Beagle sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and then carried out detailed hydrographic surveys around the coasts of the southern part of South America, returning via Tahiti and Australia after having circumnavigated the Earth. While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five.\nDarwin spent most of this time exploring on land. Early in the voyage he decided he could write a book about geology, and he showed a gift for theorizing. He ably collected and made detailed observations of plants and animals, with results that shook his belief that species were fixed. These observations provided the basis for the ideas that led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.\nPrior to his adventure, Darwin was enrolled at Dr. Butler\u2019s Shrewsbury School but he showed very little interest in his studies. After giving up his medical career, his father told him, \u201cYou care for nothing but shooting dogs and catching rat and and you will be nothing but a disgrace to yourself and all of your family.\u201d In his autobiography, he stated, \u201cI was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect.\u201d\nDarwin\u2019s refusal to believe anyone\u2019s else's hurtful words and his commitment to his dream led him to his eventual discovery. According to Julian Huxley, Darwin\u2019s idea \u201cis the most powerful and most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on earth. It helps us understand our origins.\u2026We are part of a total process, made of the same matter and operating by the same energy as the rest of the cosmos, maintaining and reproducing by the same type of mechanism on the rest of life.\u201d\nDare to pursue your dreams, listen only to your passion and tune out the rest. Adventure awaits.\nThe Colonel is a tribute to a long-held mystery of the Amazon: the tale of Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett. Fawcett is most famous for his life-long search for \"Z\": an ancient lost city, which he and others believed to be El Dorado, the mythical city of gold.\nCol. Fawcett was a British artillery officer, archaeologist, and South American explorer. Fawcett's first expedition to South America was in 1906 when, at the age of 39, he travelled to Brazil to map a jungle area at the behest of the Royal Geographical Society.\nFawcett made seven expeditions between 1906 and 1924. Based on documentary research, Fawcett had formulated his ideas about \"Z\" in Brazil by the outbreak of World War I. At that time he returned to Britain for active service, volunteered for the front in Flanders, and led an artillery brigade despite the fact that he was approaching fifty years of age. After the war he returned to Brazil to continue his search.\nAlong with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition into the uncharted jungles of Brazil in search for \"Z\". \u201cZ\u201d remains a lost city, though it is said that Fawcett finally found his way there and chose never to leave. This is the version we like to believe: commit to your dreams and the adventure will reward you.\nIt takes fierce imagination to question both the laws of physics and high society. The Aviator comes from the story of Pancho Barnes. Born into wealth, she hated the rules and obligations of her social caste and craved adventure. In her early teens she ran away on horseback to Mexico. She caught up with revolutionaries, escaped the attention of authorities, disguised herself as a man, and began to use the nickname \"Pancho.\"\nBarnes returned to San Marino, California, with an inheritance bequeathed her on her parents' death. It didn\u2019t take Barnes long to need another adventure, and she turned her attention skyward. In spring of 1928 she started taking pilot\u2019s lessons. Her instructor was a World War I pilot, and the airplane had one instrument in it: an oil gauge. A key chain hung from the control board to determine if they were flying straight, and they looked over the side to judge altitude. To know how much gas they had, they dipped a string in the tank and estimated how far they could go. Barnes was immediately hooked, and she bought herself a Travel Air biplane for $5,500. She was more captivated by the thrill of the early days of flying than deterred by the dangers. In 1928 on a trip to San Francisco her engine quit, and she had to make eight emergency landings.\nBarnes later moved to Hollywood to work as a stunt pilot for movies. In 1931, she started the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of film industry stunt fliers which promoted flying safety and standardized pay for aerial stunt work. She flew in several air-adventure movies of the 1930s, including Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930).\nPancho Barnes is the definition of a true adventurer: someone who is willing to break from conformity and follow her passions no matter where they led her. We hope this square passes her adventurous spirit on to you - spread your wings and don\u2019t look down.\nThe Voyeur is meant to be a window into our own duality. Our lives by day are cautious, where our nights are daring. This can be exemplified most during prohibition, where a corrupt government and increased crime forced individuals to look within themselves to find right and wrong.\nOrganized crime received a major boost from Prohibition. Mafia groups limited their activities to prostitution, gambling, and theft until 1920, when organized bootlegging emerged in response to Prohibition. A profitable, often violent, black market for alcohol flourished. Powerful criminal organizations corrupted some law enforcement agencies, leading to racketeering. Prohibition provided a financial basis for organized crime to flourish.\nWe find one story of an adventurer stuck between right and wrong in Bill McCoy, an honest man who fell on hard times and worked his way into rum running. Capt. McCoy, a nondrinker who never touched liquor, considered himself an \"honest lawbreaker.\" McCoy took pride in the fact that he never paid a cent to organized crime, politicians, or law enforcement for protection. Unlike many operations that illegally produced and smuggled alcohol for consumption during Prohibition, McCoy sold his merchandise unadulterated, uncut, and clean. He was an adventurer who broke the law with sound morals and ethics.\nMcCoy began to smuggle whisky into the U.S., traveling from Nassau and Bimini in the Bahamas to the east coast of the United States, spending most time dealing on \"Rum Row\" off Long Island. After a few successful trips smuggling liquor off the coast of the United States, Bill McCoy had enough money to buy the schooner Arethusa. Placing the schooner under British registry to avoid being subjected to U.S. law, Bill renamed the vessel Tomoka after the name of the river that runs through his hometown of Holly Hill.\nOn November 23, 1923, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seneca had orders to capture Bill McCoy and the Tomoka, even if in international waters. Instead of a long drawn-out trial, Bill McCoy pleaded guilty and spent nine months in a New Jersey jail. He returned to Florida and invested his money in real estate. He and his brother continued the boat building business and frequently traveled up and down the coast.\nAdventure puts us on many uncertain roads. The only thing we can do is look within ourselves and trust that deep down, we know which road to walk.\nThe mystery of the deep is a tale buried twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Giant squids, mermaids, and lost treasure enchant the minds of many. Only the few dare to risk the search. The lore of Davy Jones has disputed origin: Davy may come from Duppy, a West Indian term for a malevolent ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones may have come from the prophet Jonah, whose story is considered bad luck for sailors.\nOne story states that Davy Jones called out to the sky on a trip from Holland to Batavia: he swore to sail around the Cape \u201ceven if it means sailing toward our last judgment.\" Then the Devil took control of the ship and as a price the ship had to sail the seas forever.\nHis locker became a synonym for the ocean floor.\nFor us, he is a reminder that adventure holds many risks. The Davy Jones is a tribute to those sailors and pirates that brave the seas despite the risk of death. Though fear is omnipresent, we must face it if we ultimately want to find our treasure. Whether your treasure is a personal goal, career ambition, or a trip around the world, focus less on the fear of \u2018what if\u2019 and more on the treasure \u2018what if\u2019 may bring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 9527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.majentasolutions.com/blog/4-uk-data-breaches-that-prove-your-data-isnt-safe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:5MGRHHK2PEJKDHVSBDSFZ7K6OP36ESYY", "length": 3861, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.majentasolutions.com", "title": "Data Breaches Mean Your Data Isn\u2019t Safe - Majenta Solutions", "raw_content": "Home/Blog/Supplier Integration/4 UK Data Breaches That Prove Your Data Isn\u2019t Safe\nUnfortunately for businesses in the UK, 2015 seemed to be the \u201cYear of the Data Breach\u201d, thanks to the number of high profile companies that were reported to suffer from cybersecurity issues. The constant threat of cyber attacks and lack of security measures in place mean that many businesses, from your gas provider to your local pub chain, are potentially at risk to data breaches.\nThe scary part? It could be your information that is hacked, stolen, sold on, or used fraudulently.\nAffecting 157,000 customers, this was the breach that particularly worried the nation.\nFrankly, if these high profile companies don\u2019t set a precedent in terms of cybersecurity for SMEs and other businesses in UK, customers\u2019 confidence in your ability to protect their personal information will be compromised.\nThe 4 data breaches below prove that consumer trust in a company will wane if data protection solutions aren\u2019t secure enough. It\u2019s essential that all UK businesses learn from these examples when thinking of their own cybersecurity setup.\nWithout further ado, here are our 4 notable data breaches from 2015:\nMarks & Spencer. In October 2015, it wasn\u2019t a hacking incident but a \u201ctechnical fault\u201d that resulted in M&S customers being able to view other users\u2019 details on their website. This glitch reportedly affected around 800 customers, and although after brief website suspension the issue was resolved, this incident goes to show that it\u2019s not always cybercriminals at the root of data breaches, but sometimes the inefficient security of the business\u2019s data itself.\nBritish Gas. A few days on from the Marks & Spencer scandal, the Daily Telegraph reported on a gas leak of the cyber kind, as British Gas had to warn 2200 customers that their personal information could have been exposed online. Again, the reasons behind this data breach weren\u2019t fully revealed. Instead, British Gas insisted that the issue did not arise from a cyber attack.\nTalkTalk. The largest data breach in October, however, was the TalkTalk hack, which was discussed on the blog previously. Affecting 157,000 customers, this was the breach that particularly worried the nation. Being an Internet service provider implicitly suggests to the consumer that cybersecurity would be the main priority, but this case proved that hackers with the right tools can really cause havoc with lasting consequences.\nJD Wetherspoon. In June, pub chain Wetherspoons experienced a data breach that potentially concerned around 650,000 customers, although they stated that it was in fact only a \u201ctiny minority\u201d of around 100 customers that were directly affected as the last four digits of their credit card numbers were leaked. Even more disturbing, however, was the fact that Wetherspoons only found out about the data breach, thought to be at the hands of a group of Russian hackers, 6 months later, in December 2015.\nWhat can your business do to prevent data breaches?\nFortunately, there are many sophisticated tools on the market and tips and tricks designed to prevent and counterattack the threat of data breaches and other cyber attacks. From anti-virus software to firewalls, data exchange solutions to non-negotiable IT policies, there\u2019s no excuse for poor cybersecurity practises in 2016.\nOur data exchange solution, MX, was designed from the ground-up with security at its core.\nMX provides a fast, easy to use and fully encrypted environment for sending and receiving files of any size and type, so your business can feel confident when exchanging sensitive data online.\nSet your group, company or enterprise up in seconds, with our free 30 day trial. No obligation, no credit card required. Start exchanging securely at \u2013 www.mymxdata.com\nTags: cyber warfare cyber-security data exchange data protection hacking MX", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 356, "original_length": 11255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mapsland.com/asia/cocos-islands/small-map-of-cocos-islands", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KBSV2ZIJC45HFELLN53RXFDD3NEUQWUS", "length": 156, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mapsland.com", "title": "Small map of Cocos Islands | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Asia | Mapsland | Maps of the World", "raw_content": "Small map of Cocos Islands\nHome / Asia / Cocos (Keeling) Islands / Small map of Cocos Islands\nCocos Islands small map. 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The firm believes the latest economic data for March -- such as weaker than expected readings on the manufacturing sector -- should act as a \"rallying cry\" for more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, and for stronger flows into U.S. Treasurys.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marlboroughlines.co.nz/About-us/Ownership-and-Management/Board-of-Directors.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JDJP2KKE7ZTMWNY3BL5GWHV54TIO4U6O", "length": 3139, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.marlboroughlines.co.nz", "title": "The Board of Directors at Marlborough Lines", "raw_content": "Marlborough Lines > About Us > Ownership and Management > Board of Directors\nMarlborough Lines is managed by a highly experienced and qualified board of directors. Directors are appointed by the trustees on a rotating basis and have responsibility for the commercial operation of the company.\nDavid Dew is a commercial and personal lawyer and principal of Blenheim legal firm Dew and Company. He has been a member of the Board since December 2001. David is a director of Nelson Electricity Ltd and a director of various other companies.\nBSc Hons (Eng), MIPENZ\nKen Forrest has been the Managing Director of the Company since 1993, prior to which he was General Manager of the Marlborough Electric Power Board. Ken has a long history of service to the New Zealand electricity industry at a national level. His current directorships include: Nelson Electricity Ltd, Otago Power Services Ltd, OtagoNet and Cuddon Ltd \u2013 along with other private companies.\nJonathan Ross was appointed to the Board in September 2014. He was for 23 years a partner of Bell Gully in Wellington and Auckland, specialising in corporate, securities and finance law and transactions. He is a member of the Panel of Experts of P.R.I.M.E. Finance in The Hague. He is a director of Reserve Bank of New Zealand.\nBSc Eng (Civil) Hons, MIPENZ\nTim Smit was appointed to the Board in September 2014. Tim is a practicing civil engineer and project manager with more than 30 years\u2019 experience and is a Principal of Marlborough Management Services and TMCo. Prior to his appointment as a director Tim was the chairman of the Marlborough Electric Power Trust.\nVFM, ANZIV, MNZM\nIvan was appointed to the Board in September 2015. He was one of the early pioneers of the Marlborough wine industry, developing his own vineyards and subsequently the wine label Dog Point. Ivan has an extensive sporting background with NZ Rowing and is still heavily involved administratively. He was previously a Director of Marlborough Lines from 2000-2003 and Chairman of Otago Power from 2000-2003.\nBCom (Canterbury), ACA\nPeter was appointed to the Board in September 2015. He has been a Director of WK Advisors and Accountants Ltd since 1984, specialising in taxation. Peter was a former chairperson of the Marlborough Chamber of Commerce and an inaugural trustee of the Marlborough Electric Power Trust.\nNZCQS, MInstD\nPhil was appointed to the Marlborough Lines Board in September 2015. He is Managing Director of Robinson Construction Ltd and has been involved in business interests that include several construction and development related companies. Phil is a Director of various other companies.\nBCom, LLB Hons\nSteven was appointed to the Board in February 2017. After commencing his career as a lawyer at Bell Gully, Steven moved into investment banking, working for Macquarie Bank in London and then in Auckland. More recently, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Northington Partners, specialising in business sales, acquisitions, mergers, and capital raising transactions. He is a director of The New Zealand Automobile Association Limited and various other privately-held companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 168.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maxmonte.com/en/blog/item/18-a-lot-of-excitement-and-a-bit-of-madness.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:07Z", "digest": "sha1:MBHL522JSACHENZJSUOHHQYBKQHOPGZY", "length": 968, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.maxmonte.com", "title": "A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AND A BIT OF MADNESS", "raw_content": "Right after the harp guitar was finished and I posted the pics on the site I started getting messages and thumbs up! What a day.\nIn the meanwhile Francesco is playing on it 12 hours a day, taking it everywhere, skipping breakfast to play...\nI am really happy for him, it seems like he is bonding with a new friend :)\nAnd I got an email from Gregg Miner, the president of the Harp Guitar Foundation, who was sent a picture by Stephen Bennett (thanks Stephen!) and wanted to write a blog post about Francesco and the HG1L and put me up on the harp guitar luthiers' page! What an incredible honor for me.\nHere is the link to the post.\nSo... I am so hyped up that I started HG2! The mad plan is to finish it in time for the Sarzana Festival... it will be crazy! But I have all the wood I need, except for the soundboard... but I am working on it! Stay tuned...\nMore in this category: \u00ab Wandering with friends...\tThe other side of guitar festivals \u00bb\nFour Guitars, one maker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maynard.k12.ma.us/o/fowler-middle-school/page/student-government", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6R75CUKWW7QOL7ZPJY375TECNVLVAN6Z", "length": 47, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.maynard.k12.ma.us", "title": "Fowler School", "raw_content": "Stay tuned as the year goes on for information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 1970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 152.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mbastudies.co/Trinidad-and-Tobago/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WUPPCAEKJQZTY2BGPBO6LWZD37E7CMBH", "length": 144, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mbastudies.co", "title": "Estudia Estudios Empresariales in Trinidad and Tobago 2019", "raw_content": "MBAs in Trinidad and Tobago 2019\nFacts about Trinidad and Tobago\nFind your study program in Trinidad and Tobago\nGMAT Test in Trinidad and Tobago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mbird.com/2008/09/lady-doth-protest-too-much-methinks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VG3BCW3EPX3VTCG4C43NDTHN3J4GMZFF", "length": 10990, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.mbird.com", "title": "The Lady(?) Doth Protest Too Much | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "Gender / Identity / TV\nby JDK on Sep 10, 2008 \u2022 6:44 pm 3 Comments\nIf you\u2019re like me\u2013and lets hope you are:)\u2013then you\u2019ve been anxiously waiting for the 11th season of America\u2019s Next Top Model. As I\u2019m sure you already know, there has been a lot of \u201cinternet buzz\u201d about the full inclusion of a competitor named Isis, who is the first female contestant actually born male. Although this show has consistently failed to provide a legitimate \u201cTop Model,\u201d its value as another enjoyable vehicle for dramatized social engineering (think back to when the Real World was good) is limitless.\nNow, this post is not about the specifics of transgender people per se; rather, its about the broader concept of human identity in light of two topics we often discuss: freedom and the Gospel. Obviously, this is a huge topic, so I just want to make a few observations and see what you think.\nFor those (all) of us who love Reality TV, it should have come as no surprise that this season the concept of \u201cgender identity\u201d would be brought to the fore, because much of what constitutes this genre is simply a slightly less scripted iteration of the older \u201cmorality tale\u201d shows that dramatized contemporary social issues. Webster, Different Strokes, The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons etc. have given way to Road Rules, Beauty and the Geek, and, of course, The Real World.\nWhether its through the coverage of the now famous \u201cpregnant man,\u201d or recent articles like Save the Males, the fact is that the questions surrounding what constitute a \u201creal\u201d man or woman, combined with the technological ability to decide for oneself his/her \u201cgender identity,\u201d has brought the debate to the masses. What is going on in ANTM (as we call it) this season is the logical manifestation of a genre that began as the guilty voyeuristic pleasure where, from the comfort of your own couch, you could watch people attempting to create specific identities for themselves in front of a live audience. With this season, we\u2019ve perhaps seen the beginning of the end of \u201cnormal\u201d Reality TV. Gone are the days when the \u201cgeek\u201d wanted to get made over as a \u201cjock,\u201d or the \u201cartsy\u201d girl who wants to be the \u201cprom queen;\u201d when the very question of what sex you feel like you are is on the table, everything else pales\u2013and the ratings will probably confirm that.\nAnd this brings me to Mad Men. Well, I\u2019ve finally gotten around to watching it, and it\u2019s just as good as Browder said; however, what I\u2019ve been struck with is how pervasive the same question\u2013the one of human identity\u2013is in this show as well. Set in the beginnings of the birth-control-fueled emancipation of women from \u201ctraditional\u201d societal roles, this show is a painful look at sublimated rage that takes the form of workaholism and silent desperation. Even as both the women and men in this world take a large measure of comfort from fulfilling their respective roles, the resentment from this forced confinement drives them further apart.\nNeedless to say, I love both of these shows, and I appreciate the, admittedly, extremely varied ways they address a similar question.\nMad Men paints a sardonic portrait of the \u201cgood old days\u201d where there was no arguing about the given answers to the question of human identity\u2014men were men and women were women and everyone knew what that meant. Essentially, the whole show is a depiction of the different ways the characters attempt to relive themselves from this oppressive weight. But, that was then, and this is now.\nWhat ANTM is arguing today is that these questions are left for us to decide, and whatever we decide is ok. What is fun for us is that \u201cReality TV\u201d gives us the ability to observe these questions being worked out in front of a \u201clive studio audience.\u201d So, according to ANTM (and in the words of the Kinks) Girls will be boys and boys will be girls/ Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world.\nBut, the question is, is that freedom?\nThe supposed allure of complete self-definition, while promising the ultimate freedom, has actually enslaved people to their own capricious desires. Today, unlike any other time, the problems inherent in the slavery of self-definition have been exposed in such a dramatic (and entertaining) way, that the specific message of a genuinely inclusive Gospel that redeems humanity and establishes the proper foundation for self-understanding can be heard and understood in a similarly dramatic (and hopefully entertaining) way.\nA genuine conversation about what constitutes human identity can only be done in a context that acknowledges and understands the deep scarring and fearful realities where most people live in regards to their own identity. This fear is tragically exacerbated by a universally felt need for a message that addresses both the desire for self-authentication and the necessity for external definition. This is the fearful corner of our hearts where the message of the Gospel sheds a very unique light. It is only in this light\u2014the one that is very skeptical about any claims about ourselves other than the expression of our need for a Savior and our hope for redemption\u2013that perhaps we can begin to explore the differences between men and women without (hopefully) institutionalizing false ideals based upon (thinly-veiled) selfish projections. I realize that this is almost impossible, and\u2014like in the Ordination or Baptism vows\u2014our only reply to this whole issue can be \u201cWe will, with God\u2019s help.\u201d\nTags: America's Next Top Model, Mad Men, Real World, Reality TV\nGreat stuff. This is a timely address, especially for the church where the oscillation is even more evident. On one hand, we have \u2018muscular Christianity\u2019 which tends to over-identify the person with their gender (Wild at Heart). On the other hand, we see the progressive movement within the church attempting to nullify gender roles/identification by \u2018androgynizing\u2019 the human being. I\u2019m obviously generalizing, and would love to hear some more thoughts as it pertains to the church specifically. Come to think of it, feminist theology, liberal though it is, may also fit into the \u2018over-identification\u2019 camp as well.\nI love this post J. The quest for identity is seen everywhere all the time. Whether it\u2019s the hipster living in Brooklyn, the Steeler fan in Pittsburgh, the surfer in California, or the transgender model (to ironically use some stereotypes) the common thread is that everyone is trying to define themselves. Which implies a very scary truth: we do not know ourselves.\nWe understand others in terms of categories, and we try to understand ourselves the same way. It\u2019s because it is an unsafe thing to not have definition nor to be able to define someone or something that is beheld. Often we need to define others in order to define ourselves in light of them. Sum them up and put them into category in order to say \u201cI am not in that category.\u201d (Think of Luke 18 when the Pharisee defines himself against the tax collector: \u201cGod I thank you I am not like other men\u2026or even like this tax collector.\u201d)\nWhat if we do not fully know or understand ourselves? Isn\u2019t that the ultimate in helplessness? What if I don\u2019t even know what makes me tick or what motivates me to do what I am going to do next? I think the worst part is that we all have a sneaking suspicion that what makes us tick is not good \u2013 Romans 7. We spend our lives trying to deny the fact that in our thought life we are motivated by jealousy, hatred, fear, lust, etc because we can\u2019t be defined that way\u2026that can\u2019t be our identity. If it was then that would mean that we have no hope in ourselves, a frightening thought to a culture built on the idea of the autonomous individual.\nThe amazing thing about the Law is that it tells us our identity first: sinner. Again Luke 18, \u201cGod be merciful to me a sinner.\u201d There is no more posturing, no more categories, no more self-definition. The Law, as Jesus presents it in Matthew 5, defines us as failures in need of salvation. Then the best part happens \u2013 the cross.\nThe Gospel breaks into this dire situation and redefines us: saved sinner, loved sinner, forgiven sinner. Every other \u201cidentity\u201d out there will disappoint. The Gospel levels the playing field: \u201cThere is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.\u201d \u2013 Galatians 3:28.\nDylan: you bring up a good point about (non-orthodox) feminist theology (yes, there can be orthodox feminist theology). There seems to be this great striving to read the bible from a (i hate this word and idea) gynocentric point of view that inadvertently distorts the actually \u201cwoman restored/woman liberated\u201d passages of scripture. There is such a strong move to read the bible from this perspective that men become the enemy: a woman can\u2019t trust what a man has written so we must read into texts as women to get to the real meaning for women. I find this to be a great danger to biblical studies; it\u2019s something I pray God keeps me from in my own studies.\nSean: Your comment really hit home for me. one of the things I hate about being pregnant is that it defines me as a certain type of woman and all other aspects to me (even the follower of Christ aspect) gets relegated to the back burner (if it\u2019s put there at all!). The first thing people want to talk about with a preg. woman is her pregnancy and then, of course, baby stuff. As if these are the only things this woman thinks of. When I was pregnant with Quinn, all my classmates would talk with me about my preg. or prep for baby; out of the window went any of the scholarship i was working on or classes I was taking or things I was working on for my job. It really grated on me. My identity, as you have so gracoiusly and articulately put it, is not in the biological things that define me (my uterus and it\u2019s growing size and the life living inside me) but by Christ (Gal. 3:28). It\u2019s not the my sex becomes void or obsolete (not in the least, this would recreate loneliness that God called \u201cnot good\u201d); it\u2019s just that, in Christ, under the new covenant, sex doesn\u2019t define how one approaches Christ nor does it define them as a human: Christ does the defining. This is completely antithetical to our society today. God forbid our sex and, thus, our sexual activities does not define us\u2026where would that leave us\u2026as you clarified: in an \u201cunsafe\u201d place. And, as you put forward in better words than I can, this \u201cunsafe\u201d place is exactly where the Cross is. If we get to a place where all our saccharine identities are surrendered (not by our will but by His might), then we can finally hear Him call us by name: brother and sister. No matter what I call myself or what other people call me, I am first and foremost Sister in Christ to Christ. This is the only identity I need; too bad it\u2019s not satisfactory enough for my flesh.\nJady: awesome post\u2026i think Daniel and I will have to watch this MadMen show; I don\u2019t think I can get him to watch ANTM\u2026though, when we had TV, I would watch it when he worked late.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 15751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mccunewright.com/blog/2016/june/supreme-court-denies-petition-for-appeal-in-goog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VJWC6AZ72IPJZNY7CM7CZAD7N5P3OGDO", "length": 3318, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mccunewright.com", "title": "SCOTUS Denies Appeal in Google AdWords Class Action", "raw_content": "Supreme Court Denies Petition for Appeal in Google AdWords Class Action\nThe US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Google in a large class action brought against the search engine giant by advertisers, paving the way for the class action to go forward at the trial court level. The Supreme court\u2019s denial of certiorari leaves the 9th Circuit\u2019s decision granting class certification to the advertisers in place. Given the Supreme Court\u2019s rejection of class certification in the enormous Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action in 2011, the Supreme Court\u2019s action in declining to hear Google\u2019s appeal provides a positive outlook to potential class action plaintiffs facing the question of class certification.\nThe Advertisers\u2019 Allegations About AdWords\nThe class of plaintiffs are made up of advertisers who bought advertising with Google\u2019s AdWords service between 2004 and 2008. The advertisers allege that they were misled by Google in violation of California unfair trade practices law based on the fact that Google often placed their ads on so-called \u201cparked domains\u201d or error pages, and charged the advertisers for this service, but did not inform the advertisers of this practice when selling them advertising space through AdWords. Parked domains are websites that are either in development or not developed at all, and error pages are pages where no actual website exists, thus less valuable of a location to place an ad than on an active website.\nThe advertisers initially sought both injunctive relief and restitution, but dropped the request for injunctive relief when Google changed its practices regarding AdWords. The class action now seeks restitution on behalf of the class of advertisers, which is the difference between what the advertisers paid for the service and what they would have paid had they know that Google would place their ads on parked domains and error pages.\nChallenges in Measuring Damages Do Not Defeat the Class\nThe district court had initially denied class certification to the advertisers, agreeing with Google that the proposed method of using restitution to compensate the class was \u201carbitrary\u201d and therefore unable to meet the requirements for a class action that damages be reasonably measurable and that plaintiffs share sufficiently common issues relating to their damages.\nThe 9th Circuit disagreed, finding that the damage done to the various advertisers was sufficiently similar, stating that, when plaintiffs are \u201cdeceived by misrepresentations into making a purchase, the economic harm is the same: the consumer has purchased a product that he or she paid more for than he or she otherwise might have been willing to pay if the product had been labeled accurately.\u201d The court also held that the proposed method of compensating plaintiffs \u2013 by returning to them the difference between what they paid and what they would have paid had they known about Google\u2019s practices \u2013 was not unreasonable in its measurability.\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision to let the 9th Circuit opinion stand regarding class certification is notable, as class actions have faced challenges in the years since the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action in 2011, which had denied class certification based on issues of commonality among the plaintiffs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mckesson.com/blog/top-5-independent-pharmacy-trends-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:53Z", "digest": "sha1:B2OVUJYFOTC6FBY4WEU7Q7S4RN7WKLT2", "length": 7466, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.mckesson.com", "title": "Top 5 Independent Pharmacy Trends for 2019 | McKesson", "raw_content": "Top 5 Independent Pharmacy Trends 2019\nTop 5 Independent Pharmacy Trends for 2019\nBy Eyad FarahJanuary 22, 2019\nThere\u2019s a big reason that your independent pharmacy should be optimistic about 2019: it\u2019s the growing recognition that pharmacies just like yours are in a solid position to provide better care to more patients. But it will take creative thinking and forward-looking management on your part to deliver on that promise.\nThat sentiment connects the top five trends we think will have the biggest impact on how you run your pharmacy this year. In addition to revealing the top independent pharmacy trends for 2019, let me explain why they\u2019re important and how you can respond to each one to produce the best outcomes for you and your patients.\n1. Independent pharmacies will continue to experience downward reimbursement pressure\nIn 2019, your pharmacy will feel even more downward pressure on your reimbursement rates. Some of the additional pressure will come from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that continue to form narrow networks to compete and lower costs for payers. And to be part of those narrow networks, your pharmacy will have to accept lower reimbursement rates and try to make up that money on volume and differentiating services to those patients. In addition, PBM contracts are adding complexity with the growing impact of direct and indirect remuneration (DIR)\nfees and introducing more effective rate contracts.\nIf you\u2019re not part of these narrow networks, you won\u2019t have access to any of those networks\u2019 patients\u2014so it stands to reason that you do want to be included. It is then up to you to optimize each patient visit to your store. That could mean anything from providing reimbursable clinical services to making more front-end sales.\n2. PBMs will be under pressure to make their business practices more transparent\nPBMs will be under pressure in 2019 as the industry seeks to increase price transparency and lower patient costs. In the past, PBMs\u2019 operations have been opaque to the industry. However, as concerns over cost and other operational issues continue to grow, other stakeholders are scrutinizing how PBMs operate. They want to know how payers are paying PBMs, and they want to know how PBMs are paying everyone else.\nIn response, you should expect to see an increase in transparent PBM models, which will ultimately lower drug costs for patients. That\u2019s also a good thing for your pharmacy because now you can begin to follow the money and start to see how much is going to your pharmacy. As it becomes clear how little is actually going to independent pharmacies that care for patients, that can drive a different conversation with regulators. Those conversations can lead to laws that level the playing field (e.g. bar gag clauses, make DIR fees transparent or require disclosure of gross-to-net rebates). It also can help with the decision around which PBM networks to join. Long term, it means you should get more involved with your state and national pharmacy associations to seek relief from some of these PBM practices.\n3. Value-based care will create more opportunities for independent pharmacies\nYour business has traditionally been fee-for-product, but the downward pressure on reimbursement rates is making that model less sustainable. In the last several years, payment models have been evolving and will create new revenue opportunities in 2019.\nThe first step in that evolution is the increasing number of contracts and claims tied to performance metrics. The evolution began in the Medicare Part D space and has spread to large national commercial health plans. Health plans adjust your payment rates based on how well you meet performance measures. Now we\u2019re starting to see a shift to outcome-based reimbursement models. It\u2019s not just that you filled a prescription. It\u2019s not just that you filled a prescription and your patient is adherent to their drug. It\u2019s that you filled a prescription, the patient is taking the drug and the drug improved their health. This is a great opportunity for you to launch new clinical programs that let your pharmacists practice at the top of their licenses and transition from pharmacists to providers.\n4. Engaging patients through technology will be critical for independent pharmacies\nDisruptive innovation is happening all around your pharmacy, and we believe it will continue to challenge traditional business models in 2019. New and old competitors are finding new ways to engage with their patients. And they\u2019re finding new ways to make pharmacy services more convenient, especially when it comes to filling prescriptions. You\u2019ll need to look to technology to accomplish this.\nThink about mobile apps that let patients fill their prescriptions or remind them to take their drugs. Consider ways to make same- or next-day home delivery a possibility. I don\u2019t think brick-and-mortar pharmacies are ever going away. But your pharmacy needs to keep pace with your patients\u2019 expectations of engagement and convenience. That will mean investing in technologies and services to meet and exceed those expectations outside of your four walls.\n5. The number of partnerships across the pharmaceutical supply chain will grow\nLast year, CVS announced its intention to acquire Aetna and Cigna agreed to buy Express Scripts. I think we\u2019re going to continue to see mega deals that result in vertical integration, strategic alliances and partnerships across the pharmaceutical supply chain that create new ways of delivering and paying for care. It\u2019s all about accessing new patients and getting them to use your services.\nAs these partnerships and alliances scale, they could increase the competition and drive down payment rates even more for your pharmacy. But on the other hand, as these national healthcare entities get bigger and want to extend their reach even further, they may need your pharmacy in their network. They may need your pharmacy to guarantee access to pharmacy services for their enrollees. This is when you need the right pharmacy services administration organization (PSAO) to help you decide which networks are right for you.\nEach of the five trends I discussed above represents a significant change in the business of pharmacy across the U.S. For your independent pharmacy, each change is an opportunity to build upon and use your well-established patient relationship skills to reinvent your business model, better serve your patients and achieve financial success.\nRelated: Learn more about McKesson\u2019s managed care contracting services for independent pharmacies\nEyad Farah is the VP/GM for Health Mart Atlas, McKesson\u2019s Pharmacy Services Administrative Organization (PSAO), which offers industry leading centralized managed care solutions for independent and small medium chain pharmacies. He spent two years as the VP of Business Development & Strategy for AccessHealth and was responsible for the long-term strategy and business development opportunities. Prior to joining McKesson, Eyad worked at Super-Pharm, the largest retail pharmacy chain in Israel, and oversaw the operations of one of their leading drug store branches. Eyad holds a B.Sc. Pharm degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and a Master\u2019s in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia.\nJuly 09, 2018Reducing the Impact of DIR Fees on Pharmacies\nApril 09, 2018Five Steps to Improve Your Independent Pharmacy's Performance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 13873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mediamatters.org/print/blog/2013/08/12/right-wing-media-act-as-russias-pr-agents-in-an/195359", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:X6KIJIYHJW6KY7MQIUQMWJ4J4EEVCAKJ", "length": 6974, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.mediamatters.org", "title": "Right-Wing Media Act As Russia's PR Agents In Anti-Gay Crackdown", "raw_content": "Home > Right-Wing Media Act As Russia's PR Agents In Anti-Gay Crackdown\nRight-Wing Media Act As Russia's PR Agents In Anti-Gay Crackdown\nRussia's recent crackdown on its LGBT community has been condemned by everyone from President Barack Obama [1] to grassroots gay rights activists [2]. But since Russia passed a series of sweeping laws banning the dissemination of \"gay propaganda\" [3] and prohibiting the adoption of children [4] by Russian same-sex couples and any foreign couples from nations with marriage equality, many right-wing media figures have instead rallied to the country's defense.\nIt's not surprising that far-right figures from anti-gay hate groups [5] like the American Family Association (AFA) and Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) have enthusiastically endorsed President Vladimir Putin's draconian crackdown on gays. As the Russian news agency RIA Novosti recently reported [6], AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera has championed Putin's cause. In a statement [7] on his group's website, LaBarbera said, \"Russians do not want to follow America's reckless and decadent promotion of gender confusion, sexual perversion, and anti-biblical ideologies to youth.\" The AFA's Bryan Fischer praised Putin's anti-gay laws, stating that the country isn't being homophobic but \"homorealistic.\" [8]\nBut AFTAH and AFA are not alone in endorsing Russia's right to arrest anyone who offers a positive depiction of homosexuality, as the new laws will allow [9]. Outlets and figures within the mainstream of the conservative movement have also jumped on the bandwagon.\nOn the August 7 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh justified Russia's anti-gay policies [10] by citing the country's economic and demographic challenges:\nLIMBAUGH: Feminists are starting to lose themselves in these philosophical discussions, which of course are rooted in self-absorption and maybe tinges of guilt. Because what's going on here is -- it's continual -- a full-frontal assault on what has always been considered normalcy. And so the Russians -- just to close the loop on this -- the Russians and Putin are putting their foot down. They're saying, 'Enough of that. We aren't going to have that here. We need a growing population. We need a country that's growing. We need more people. We need more people working. We need more productivity. And we're not going to sign up for all this new-age, so-called elitist brilliance. So ergo, the reason why the ban on gay athletes at the Olympics.\nSimilarly, The Daily Caller, in blasting [11] President Obama's criticism of the Russian laws, suggested that sending a message of disapproval of homosexuality could be the key [12] to turning around Russia's population decline.\nWriting for The Daily Caller [13] on July 25, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute President Austin Ruse launched a spirited defense of Russia, saying that the U.S. could learn much from the gay crackdown:\nRussians understand that homosexuality exists in their society and always has, even when it was illegal under the Soviets and that it exists in all human societies. What is new and what they resist is the political movement to regularize and even celebrate it. They view this as harmful to children and society.\nThey are appalled, as are many Americans, at how these sexual practices and lifestyles are celebrated in the United States. The state of California now mandates the teaching of homosexuality to school children. Those individuals and institutions in the United States that oppose the homosexual advance are ostracized and in some cases criminalized. [emphasis added]\nGiven the horrific implications of the Russian laws, many conservatives are careful to steer clear of defending them. But in seeking to appeal to opponents of gay rights - and to undermine a president who has offered a full-throated defense of LGBT equality - some have diverted attention from the substance of the laws to criticism of President Obama's handling of the issue. For instance, in an August 7 column, Breitbart editor-in-chief Joel Pollak paid lip service [14] to keeping gay rights as \"part of a human rights agenda,\" even as he also questioned \"whether same-sex marriage is a 'right.'\" In that same column, however, Pollak baselessly asserted [15] that gay rights, not Russia's decision to grant NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum, were the real reason that President Obama cancelled a planned meeting with Putin. According to Pollak, gay rights had \"trump[ed] fundamental national security interests.\"\nRussia's anti-gay laws are especially dangerous in a society where homophobic vigilantes have reportedly ensnared and tortured young gays [16]. Undoubtedly, the new laws will further stoke homophobia and anti-gay violence [17], whether by the authorities or private citizens. The lives of Russian LGBT people and their allies are at stake - which makes right-wing American cheerleading for Putin's crackdown all the more reprehensible.\nBreitbart.com [19]\nRush Limbaugh [20]\nThe Daily Caller [21]\nSource URL: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/12/right-wing-media-act-as-russias-pr-agents-in-an/195359\n[1] http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/with-sochi-games-only-six-months-away-president-obama-condemns-russias-hein\n[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/gay-rights-activists-confront-russias-un-ambassador-demanding-elimination-of-anti-gay-laws/2013/08/08/0cd274f4-009b-11e3-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html\n[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/11/russia-law-banning-gay-propaganda\n[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-crackdown.html\n[5] http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners\n[6] http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20130803/182557638/Russia-Gay-Homosexuality-Laws-Cheered-by-US-Conservatives.html\n[7] http://americansfortruth.com/issues/youth-and-schools/\n[8] http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russia-not-being-homophobic-it-s-homorealistic\n[9] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/russia-gay-law-tourists-_n_3581217.html\n[10] https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/07/rush-says-russias-ban-on-gay-olympians-is-key-e/195273\n[11] http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/07/obama-lashes-out-at-putin-over-gays-suggests-olympic-boycott/\n[12] http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201308070003\n[13] http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/putin-is-not-the-gay-bogeyman/\n[14] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/07/Gay-Rights-not-Snowden-the-Reason-for-Obama-s-Anti-Reset-on-Russia\n[16] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/russian-nazi-torture-gay-teens_n_3658636.html\n[17] http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/08/12/kaleidoscope-trust-hate-attacks-have-increased-in-russia-since-the-passing-of-anti-gay-laws/\n[18] https://www.mediamatters.org/issues/lgbtq\n[19] https://www.mediamatters.org/networks-and-outlets/breitbartcom\n[20] https://www.mediamatters.org/people/rush-limbaugh\n[21] https://www.mediamatters.org/shows-and-publications/daily-caller", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 7226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=56702", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6KUEAKFFTASMCX7VVIZ2SR4IXHXV652S", "length": 21105, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.medicinenet.com", "title": "What does President Bush's top health official have to say about battling our bulge?", "raw_content": "home/health & living center/ prevention & wellness a-z list/ obesity in america article\nObesity in America, with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Kelly Brownell, PhD.\nWhat does President Bush's top health official have to say about battling our bulge?\nEvent Date: June 2003\nObesity is a big problem in the U.S. Some say it's an epidemic, with statistics revealing that as a nation we are heavier now than we've ever been. The impact on our health care system and our economy make curbing obesity everyone's concern. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and WebMD's weight management expert, Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, joined us to discuss the heavy cost of obesity.\nThe opinions expressed herein are the guests' alone and have not been reviewed by a WebMD physician. If you have questions about your health, you should consult your personal physician. This event is meant for informational purposes only.\nModerator: Welcome to WebMD Live, Sec. Thompson.\nThompson: Thank you very much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on WebMD; I'm delighted to speak on the topics of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and Medicare. In other words: wellness. Wellness is the absolute thing that we should do in order to improve the health conditions for all Americans. We are spending 90%-plus of our money in Medicare to treat people after they become ill, and spend thousands of dollars getting them well again, but just a very small percentage of dollars to keep them well in the first place.\nMy mission at the Department is to transform those percentages and put the emphasis on prevention.\nIf you follow those rules, you can be a lot healthier, more productive, and be able to have a very long and successful life.\nModerator: How are you going to sell prevention to the American public? We've all heard the messages before.\nThompson: In a number of ways:\nI am using my bully pulpit. In fact, I have just given two speeches on it today to thousands of individuals.\nI am asking the restaurant association, the fast food industry, and the soft-drinks industry to work with us to put healthier items on their menus and help promote good nutrition, as well as good exercise.\nI am encouraging health insurance companies across America to step up and give health credits for good lifestyles when they purchase health insurance, like automobile insurance companies give credits for good driving habits when you purchase automobile insurance.\nWe are putting on a prevention program in the Department of Health and Human Services to get more information out to individuals in several different languages.\nWe are starting a program called Healthy Cities, in which cities will be able to receive grant dollars from us for reducing diabetes, obesity, asthma, and by putting in recreation facilities for walking and exercising. For that money, and those results that will derive from these cities' good behavior, they will be able to be designated as the healthy cities in America.\nFinally, we are putting a huge emphasis on information and direct involvement with minority groups all across America to educate, encourage, and hopefully change lifestyles in minority communities as it relates to proper nutrition and exercise in order to drive down or reduce the epidemics of obesity, asthma, and diabetes in those communities.\nMember: What about getting insurance companies to provide benefits for weight-reduction programs and nutritional assistance?\nThompson: I happen to believe that that is a very good concept. The only problem is how to regulate it to make sure that people who get the credit are actually doing it. But I am very favorably disposed to that concept, the same way automobile insurance companies now give credit to good drivers and good driving habits when you purchase automobile insurance.\nI just got done speaking to the Association of Health Plan Managers and Owners this afternoon, several thousand of which were in Washington, D.C., and I asked them to assist me in getting involved in doing those things that will help stimulate changes of lifestyle, such as good nutrition, proper exercise, and to be involved more directly in disease management. I pointed out why it would be a good investment for them and their companies, their shareholders, and their patients, to do just that.\nMember: Britain and Australia are considering a VAT (value added tax) on unhealthy foods to counteract the high cost of obesity related diseases. Is this possible in the U.S.?\nThompson: At this point in time I think it is doubtful, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't look at accomplishing the same objective a different way, such as giving inducements to companies and discussing with these companies their corporate responsibility for providing healthier diets and more information about nutrition, diets, and exercise.\nMember: What stands in the way of requiring restaurants to provide nutrition information about the food products they serve?\nThompson: There is nothing that prevents a restaurant from doing just that, and I have been meeting with many restaurants, their association, the fast food industry and the soft-drink industry, to accomplish just that. I have been somewhat heartened, or at least encouraged by their responses, and I think we're already seeing some results by some of the companies that are putting out more information about nutrition and also putting out some items on their menu that can be classified as very heart healthy or otherwise helpful as far as good nutrition practices.\nMember: Secretary Thompson, regarding your statement that the government should single out fast food places that make us fat, I disagree. Good health is based on personal choice. It is common knowledge that fast food places offer selections that aren't healthy, and selections that are. People who want to eat healthier need to start making healthier choices. Why should the U.S. government be expected to force Americans to only eat certain foods? All fast food places offer healthy food choices, and publicly post the nutritional information for ALL the food they serve. It is not the government's responsibility. What happened to the concepts of personal responsibility and personal accountability for one's decisions?\nThompson: I happen to be very much in the camp of allowing people to have personal choices, but I also happen to be in the business of health care. And when you look at the numbers that are driving health care costs and costing the economy, and especially the taxpayers, billions of dollars, it's time that we start reflecting and trying to influence and change personal decisions that will improve their health conditions.\nWe spend $155 billion a year on tobacco-related illnesses, and 400,000 Americans die from those illnesses each year.\nWe spend $132 billion a year on diabetes-related illnesses, and 200,000 Americans are dying each year. You can change those individuals who are pre-diabetic, which amounts to 16 million more Americans, by encouraging them to lose 10 to 15 pounds, and by walking 30 minutes a day five or six times a week.\nWe spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related illnesses, from which 300,000 Americans die. Upwards to two-thirds of Americans are fat and obese.\nThose three, tobacco, diabetes, and obesity, are causing tremendous financial hardships for individuals who are trying to develop and improve our health care system. It is necessary for government to try and improve the health of its citizens and that is what we're doing by discussing it here, getting out information to people all over America, and trying to convince Americans to eat properly and to exercise.\nModerator: Mr. Secretary, why not ban cigarettes? They have no redeeming qualities. It would certainly reduce the tobacco related illnesses and expenses.\nThompson: We need to regulate tobacco and as long as it is a commodity that is legal. People have become addicted to tobacco, and it is necessary for us to try and influence those individuals and offer the 70% of smokers that want to quit the opportunity to do so with programs that will assist them in accomplishing that objective. By banning the products outright, you will encourage black markets, smuggling, and other ways to circumvent the law, and it does not appear that anyone is willing to ban tobacco completely.\nMember: Mr. Secretary, You lost a lot of weight recently. How did you do it?\nThompson: I have asked the whole Department of Health and Human Services, for those that need it, to go on a diet. If I am out asking people to change their lifestyles and to start watching what they eat and exercising, it would be hypocritical of me personally not to do the same thing. Therefore, the people in the Department of Health and Human Services have been advised by me to look healthier, be healthier, and to watch what you eat and to exercise.\nI personally have reduced my food consumption and have reduced my starches and have increased my exercise program. I do 50 pushups in the morning and 50 pushups in the evening and I have a pedometer that I hand out to a lot of individuals to register how many steps I take each and every day, and it has become an addiction! I check throughout the day how many steps I've done, and if I am not close to my 10,000 steps, I decide to walk up the steps instead of taking the elevator, and at the end of the day I walk around the blocks to make sure that I have reached my goal of 10,000 steps today. I just looked at my pedometer and I have 6,284 steps today, which means I will have 4,715 steps to take before I finish the day. That is what I have done to lose 15 pounds.\nModerator: Well, we had better let you go get the other 4,715 steps done! Thank you for joining us today Sec. Thompson. We'll look for HHS support and information to help those who want to prevent disease by living a healthy lifestyle.\nThompson: Thank you very much for having me on today.\nModerator: Our discussion continues with Kelly Brownell, PhD, WebMD's own healthy weight management expert. Welcome back to WebMD Live, Dr. Brownell. Would you like to respond to the secretary's comments?\nBrownell: One thing very positive the Secretary emphasized is the need to make sweeping changes in order to address the obesity problem. Having opportunities for people who seek help for their weight makes all the sense in the world. It is also nice that he is working with multiple parts of the business world to help this process along. History will tell whether working with the food industry to encourage changes will be successful or will be like working with the tobacco industry in the early days of the war on tobacco-related illnesses. If I were the president of a large food company, I would be happy to hear what the secretary is saying. I would be in the enviable position of introducing some healthier products, knowing that the majority of the population will continue to eat my high fat, high sugar, and high-calorie products.\nIn the presence of unhealthy but good tasting foods, introducing a few healthy options will probably make little difference. For example, putting water and juice into soft drink machines at schools is not likely to have an impact, because children already have those options and are selecting the soft drinks. More aggressive action is needed than to simply ask the food companies in a polite way to help solve the problem. The only way for the obesity problem to be solved is for people to eat less food and the food companies will make less money.\n\"Fast foods are certainly part of the problem, but not the sole contributor to obesity.\"\nModerator: Why is obesity such a problem in America?\nBrownell: There are many factors that contribute to obesity. The most prominent is that people are exposed to what I call a toxic food environment. Calories are available as never before, unhealthy foods are pushed relentlessly by a powerful food industry, and even institutions that should protect citizens, like schools, contribute to the problem. Combine this with rapidly declining physical activity and we have a recipe for obesity. This is why I believe that the environment must be changed or else we will make no progress on the obesity problem.\nMember: Don't you think that the government already has too much control on our personal lives? It's not so much what we eat that makes us obese, it's how we choose to overeat and not exercise that makes us that way. Do you really think that what is served in fast food places is really the government's business? The only thing they have the right to monitor in restaurants is the safe handling of food, nothing more as far as I am concerned. Fat is a good source of energy if you use it properly but it's the consumers who choose not to do that.\nBrownell: You are absolutely right, except that the situation has spiraled out of control. As a nation, we rely on personal responsibility as the default solution to most problems. I favor this as the most attractive approach, but in some cases, personal responsibility is not solving the problem. Such is the case with tobacco, for example. We have decided as a nation that too many people die from tobacco-related diseases, hence we are not willing to simply rely on personal responsibility. Therefore, we protect our children from the tobacco companies, we impose high taxes on cigarettes, and we take other dramatic actions in order to address the problem.\nYou may believe differently than I do, but it seems to me we are approaching the point where obesity is having an impact on poor health, equivalent to that of smoking, and all signs are that the rates of the problem are increasing. So, we can sit by and hope for personal responsibility to resolve this problem. But my prediction is that this stance will leave us with the problem growing worse rather than better.\nMember: Should we target the makers of fast food? It seems that calorie labeling on menu boards or something must be done!\nBrownell: Fast foods are certainly part of the problem, but not the sole contributor to obesity. Snack foods, soft drinks, and even normal foods eaten in the home are a problem, because of high calorie levels and large portion sizes. That's why it does not make sense to target one food, one company, or one category of companies. Rather, large changes will be necessary in order to create an environment that makes it easy, rather than difficult, for people to eat a healthy diet, and for parents to raise healthy children. Right now, the environment makes it just about as difficult as possible for parents to encourage their children to eat a healthy diet. We owe our parents more, and we owe our children more.\nMember: As a registered dietitian I have been looking at this issue a lot and a lot of research points to declining physical activity among kids as the primary issue related to childhood obesity. Calorie intake has remained relatively stable over recent years. So I hope we can focus more on physical activity as the solution.\nBrownell: You are absolutely correct that physical activity is a major issue. The stable calorie values in the population get cited very often in the press and by people like the food companies who want the focus to be only on exercise. It is hard for me to believe, with the increasing amount of food available, and the large portion sizes, and the large increases in average body weight, that declining exercise is the only explanation for obesity. Therefore, I agree with you that physical activity must be considered and should be addressed aggressively, but I have very little confidence that addressing only activity and ignoring the food part will allow us to make much progress on the obesity problem. Thank you for pointing out the importance of activity. We need to work on both it and on food.\nModerator: What can parents do at this point to help their children become healthier eaters?\nBrownell: Parents can do many things:\nThey can model healthy eating and regular physical activity.\nThey can create an environment where food is considered necessary for good health, vitality, and happiness.\nThey can help buffer their children against the relentless advertising of unhealthy foods. They can do this by engaging their children in a discussion of what the food advertisements are designed to do, and help convince the children that they are in control of their lives if they resist these inducements and instead, eat the food they know is good for them.\nParents can have a major impact in their communities, beginning by working with the schools. In several places in the country parents have worked with school officials to rid schools of soft drinks and snack foods. This sends a strong message not only to the children, but also to the community in general that schools are institutions that will protect children rather than collude with the food companies to sell them unhealthy foods.\nMember: Dr. Brownell, do you consider weight loss surgery as a ridiculous and very dangerous way of being a \"tool for permanent weight loss\"? I am a 39-year-old female and weigh 450 pounds, and was considering the surgery in the past, until I realized that it's nothing more than \"controlled starvation.\" You still have to eat right and exercise, shouldn't we do that anyway without endangering our health? What are your thoughts/comments?\nBrownell: For people who are capable of losing weight by changing their diet and exercise, surgery should not be an option because it does carry some risk. But for the people who have not been able to lose weight on their own, surgery can be a life-saving procedure. I am working with a person now for whom the surgery has had an enormously beneficial impact. I believe it is a viable tool to consider as an option for people who have a great deal of weight to lose.\nMember: My family had observed the weight distributions for normal, obese, and extreme obesity. We had to wonder where or how did they determine those numbers? As a family, my kids and I have been extremely active in multiple sports. My son, specifically, is considered quick, agile, and small as a baseball player, but yet is on your \"obese\" scale. He is stocky, but lean. Most people considered him heavy-boned to account for his weight, a deception to most people since his birth. I am the same way, although I feel I could lose maybe 20 pounds with a diet, but I don't consider myself extremely obese as the scales designate me. Medical checkups label me as very healthy. Should not this obesity scale contain a qualifier on the physical fitness of the person and not just weight alone? If you could run distances, participate in sports, are strong and agile, should the obesity scale slide some?\nBrownell: You raise a very good point. In general, the weight tables, most recently the body mass index charts, are a helpful means for many people to find where they stand in comparison to an ideal weight. There are, however, many people who get misclassified by these tables, including people who are stocky for genetic reasons, people who are quite muscular, and people who may appear to be overweight but are quite physically fit.\nDr. Steven Blair, in Dallas, has done very interesting research on whether it is possible for people to be fat but fit. His research indicates that a person is at lower risk if they are heavy but fit, than if they are thin and unfit. Not all the research agrees with this point of view, but it is clear that one can greatly reduce risk for serious disease by being physically active. Congratulations to you and your family for having such a commitment to physical activity.\nMember: Do you see the public education funding crisis as part of the issue with kids -- reductions in extracurricular activities, physical education classes, resources for educators to be trained, and to teach more about nutrition and physical activity?\nBrownell: Absolutely. The funding problems affect diet, exercise, and weight in several important ways. Schools become vulnerable to invitations from the soft drink and snack food companies to sell products because the schools get a cut. Physical education is one of the first programs to suffer, and schools have a budget crisis. Schools cutting back on after-school activities are contributing as well.\nIn addition, the way new communities are being built, very few children have the opportunity to walk or bike to school. The trend is toward larger rather than smaller schools hence children have less opportunity to participate in sports teams. For instance, there will be only boy's soccer team or one girls swim team, so a larger school means less opportunity for an individual to participate.\nIn the fight against poor diet and obesity, schools are where I believe the first victories will occur. The victories will begin with schools cleansing themselves of soft drinks, snack foods, and fast foods. 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Millions of people have been diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis. It results in pain, functional disability, restricted movements and sleep disturbances.\nIn patients, who have failed traditional therapies, radiofrequency neurotomy might be a successful alternative treatment with low risk of complications. Recently, a study was conducted in this context to compare the efficacy of intra-articular injection and radiofrequency (RF) neurotomy of genicular nerves in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain and results of the study were recently published in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases.\nAccording to Sinem Sari, M.D., from Adnan Menderes University in Aydin, Turkey, and his colleagues, enrolled 73 patients with chronic knee OA pain and compared the efficacy of intra-articular injection and RF neurotomy of genicular nerves. Patients were randomized to Group IA (intra-articular 2.5 mL of bupivacaine, 2.5 mg of morphine, and 1 mL of betamethasone) or Group RF (RF neurotomy of the genicular nerves).\nResults did not reveal any statistically significant difference between the two groups in baseline visual analogue scale (VAS) pain. Group RF had significant reductions in VAS pain in the first and third month (P < .001). A significant reduction was seen in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Index of Osteoarthritis total scores in the first month in Group RF versus Group IA (P < .001).\n\"This treatment modality may be recommended as a beneficial treatment option in inoperable patients with comorbidities or patients unresponsive to conservative treatment,\" the authors wrote.\nTherapeutic, Bupivacaine, Betamethasone, Osteoarthritis, Knee, Chronic, Comparative, Efficacy, VAS, Radiofrequency neurotomy, Intra-articular.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meelton.com/Music/Partyband", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OFH4GOIJTFPCPYIHPJ3KZSFQGIKNW5Z3", "length": 663, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.meelton.com", "title": "Live Music for Parties", "raw_content": "Every time we say the word \u201cparty,\u201d we imagine both the crowd and the sound of the music. Clearly, a party is not possible without either.\nWe also believe that the music should depend on your guests' tastes. That's why we are always working to keep in touch with the audience throughout the party to find out what your guests would like to hear.\nThanks to our diverse repertoire, we always get it just right. This makes your party an even brighter and more memorable moment of your life.\nWe must warn you: if you really go ahead and book our band for your dance party your guests could be in danger. They might get rather wet and they might even lose some weight!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.memorialparkfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Harley-Jacobs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GPALGHAZFLM62UJF43GUUTPPGAONFADN", "length": 481, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.memorialparkfuneralhome.com", "title": "Mr. Harley D. Jacobs Sr. Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Mr. Harley D. Jacobs Sr.\nHarley D. Jacobs, Sr., of Seminole, FLorida, passed away Thursday, July 26, 2018 in his home. He was 96. Harley was born Tuesday, April 18, 1922; the handsome son of the late Harley D and Rondeau T. Jacobs. He was a proud veteran of the... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Mr. Harley D. Jacobs Sr. created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nHarley D. Jacobs, Sr., of Seminole, FLorida, passed away Thursday,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mgonthehalifax.com/flying-high-daytona-beach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:67R2FMEOVFD6CNPTYEDYDEI2VBGQ7WB5", "length": 3335, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mgonthehalifax.com", "title": "Flying High in Daytona Beach - Marina Grande", "raw_content": "Daytona Beach, the home of the world\u2019s most famous beach, has so much to offer. Here, the attractions are catered to vacationers and northern based snowbirds. Naturally, this gives way to luxury type activities and unique pastimes. Residents of Daytona Beach often spend their weekends on the boat deep sea fishing, exploring the lights and sounds of the boardwalk, or enjoying some drinks at one of oceanfront restaurant lounges. But, there is a substantial community who believe that staying on the ground simply isn\u2019t their style.\nWhether you\u2019re a surgeon looking to get away from work or a snowbird who enjoys flying as a hobby, there are infinite possibilities in the world of Daytona Beach aviation!\nTo start things off, the Daytona Beach International Airport is a small, one-terminal facility with big time options. International flights include possibilities to the Caribbean and surrounding islands, plus constant outbound flights to larger capacity airports, like Atlanta Int\u2019l Airport.\nHugging the Daytona Airport and sharing its real estate is the world renowned Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute. In addition to their phenomenal engineering and airspace programs, the majority of the students are fully engaged in learning to fly. You can spot the constant flow of students, nicknamed Eagles, earning their wings; Embry Riddle planes can be identified while flying overhead by their unique blue stripes under the wings.\nDespite the large scale aviation facilities, the area has no shortage of tight knit community locations. A premier entity is the ex-WWII airfield that is now known as the Spruce Creek Fly-in. The Fly-in is a sort of isolated and undisturbed locale hugging a 4,000 ft. runway for private use.\nWe have the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport which is a public use, general aviation airport that is maintained solely by the cozy city of New Smyrna Beach. Among their many amenities, they offer a charter service with daily flights to the Bahamas as well as a state of the art flight school. Five miles down the road is the Massey Ranch Airpark. It is an and out, quick turn-around station, because you avoid the commercial Class B, C, or D airspace. They also boast a 24/7 self-service fuel system and rental aircraft for your pleasure. Similarly, there is a hidden gem nestled in gorgeous Ormond Beach that is Sunrise Aviation. They host private aircraft training in addition to training Florida State College at Jacksonville\u2019s students.\nFor those who love the freedom of the air, but are not quite ready to be at the controls, there are still abundant options. Just twenty minutes west is an adventure waiting to happen at Deland Skydive. They\u2019re a very positive crew with an outstanding track record.\nputs on an official air show every year, where the Air Force Thunderbirds make an appearance, and it is sure to please. The New Smyrna Airport are the hosts of the annual New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest, where the sky is saturated with designer balloons and festivities on the ground.\nThe air community around Daytona Beach is accommodating and inexhaustible. It is liberating to see Daytona Beach in the air with a totally different perspective. Whether you\u2019re making a short day flight in your private aircraft or touching down on the commercial runway, there is something here for everyone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=9134", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AMT4ECIIAPFEBNAS5NUFA35MKWV6WHUQ", "length": 3491, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.mi6-hq.com", "title": "Sir Roger Moore advocates for the rights of children with disabilities (video) - James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond", "raw_content": "Sir Roger Moore advocates for the rights of children with disabilities (video)\nIn a special video message marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sir Roger Moore called for better support for children with disabilities.\nThe video was recorded during a November visit to Kazakhstan where the British actor, perhaps best known for his role as James Bond, spent five days to advocate for the importance of upholding the rights of all children, especially those with disabilities, and address the issue of abandonment and stigmatisation.\nDuring the trip, Sir Roger and his wife Lady Kristina, met and spoke with Government officials, members of civil society, parents and children to raise awareness about the importance of inclusion for all children and ensuring access to education, health care and protection against abuse and neglect.\nAt a school in Almaty Region\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Karasay District, Sir Roger and Lady Kristina was joined by UNICEF Representative Hanaa Singer and hundreds of children in an earthquake and fire emergency preparedness drill. The exercise was part of a joint program on disaster risk reduction between UNICEF and the European Union\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Disaster Preparedness Humanitarian Aid Department (DIPECHO). Kazakhstan is located in a geographic area prone to earthquakes and flooding.\nLater that day, Sir Roger visited a baby home in Almaty, where he stressed the importance of ensuring that all children are raised in a loving family environment. With 75,000 children placed in state-run institutions, Kazakhstan ranks highest in terms of the number of children in state establishments per capita in Eastern and Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.\nOn the third day of the trip, Sir Roger and Lady Kristina were joined by UNICEF National Ambassador for Kazakhstan, Batyrkhan Shukenov and Ms. Singer, at an event by Special Olympics Kazakhstan in Almaty.\nUNICEF works closely with Special Olympics International and other organisations to advocate for health-care, education, recreation and employment policies benefiting all children with disabilities. There are over 150,000 children with disabilities in Kazakhstan, and only a third of them have access to educational and developmental programmes. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted on 13 December 2006, has been signed by Kazakhstan, increasing the status and visibility of disability as a human rights issue.\nSir Roger and Batyrkhan Shukenov spoke with children and their parents to learn more about the challenges that they face in everyday life. Both stressed the importance of changing society\u00e2\u0080\u0099s attitude towards vulnerable children, including those with disabilities and those living with HIV, to ensure inclusion and avoid stigmatisation.\nDuring a press conference later in the day, Sir Roger stressed that when it comes to improving the lives of children \u00e2\u0080\u0093 everyone has a role to play. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe all have a responsibility of doing our duties as a human being and help the man next door \u00e2\u0080\u0093 especially the child.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\nWhile in Kazakhstan, Sir Roger and Lady Kristina also attended a Charity Ball organized by Eventica Group, in support of UNICEF\u00e2\u0080\u0099s programme on children with disabilities. 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The Loons haven\u2019t lost since the opening weekend and currently sit at the top of the Spring Season Standings, but Indy could pull even on points with their northern visitors with a victory on Saturday night. The Carolina RailHawks, who are tied on points with Minnesota, make the trip to western Canada to take on FC Edmonton. A win for either club would put them in a favorable position in the chase for the Spring Season trophy.\nThe New York Cosmos, who sit just a point behind the league leaders, will attempt to get back on track after last week\u2019s loss, hosting the Tampa Bay Rowdies at Shuart Stadium to close out the weekend.\nElsewhere, Rayo OKC has a chance to continue its success against Florida sides when the club plays host to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, while Ottawa Fury FC aims to continue its good run of form at home against Jacksonville Armada FC.\nThe New York Cosmos continue to have a roller coaster Spring Season. The club will want to end the pattern of two wins then two losses after dropping a 2-1 result against FC Edmonton last Sunday. Yohandry Orozco was lively throughout his 90 minutes and scored the Cosmos\u2019 lone tally. All three losses for the Cosmos (4-0-3, 12) have come on the road, and they head back to Shuart Stadium to take on their rivals, the Tampa Bay Rowdies, needing to rebound to remain in the thick of the title chase.\nJoe Cole made his Rowdies (2-3-1, 9) debut last weekend, but Tampa Bay was unable to secure all three points in a 1-1 draw with Rayo OKC. Tampa Bay has attacking depth, but it hasn\u2019t yet yielded the goals the club needs to move up in the Spring Season Standings. The Rowdies have scored exactly as many goals (five) as they have conceded. Tampa Bay, though, has a chance to exact some revenge after seeing its 2015 postseason hopes dashed in New York during the final weekend of the Fall Season.\nOttawa Fury FC got off to a slow start this season, but playing in front of the TD Place crowd the past two games has provided the club with a platform to build on. Ottawa won and drew its past two league games, and now remains at home for an encounter with Jacksonville Armada FC. Fury FC (1-2-3, 5) recently had its off week, but earned a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against league-leading Minnesota United in its last outing.\nJacksonville (1-1-4, 4) currently sits second from the bottom in the Spring Season Standings, and may just be feeling snakebit in front of goal. Tony Meola\u2019s men have shown an ability to possess the ball and control the tempo in a majority of the club\u2019s games this season, but finding the back of the net has been the issue. Heading to Ottawa, Matt Fondy and Co. are in desperate need of a breakthrough.\nRayo OKC vs. Fort Lauderdale Strikers\nRayo OKC returns to Miller Stadium after a two-game swing in Florida, where the club picked up four points. Now, back at home, Rayo OKC (2-2-2, 8) takes on another side from the Sunshine State: the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. The expansion side has had success against Floridian opponents, picking up two wins and a draw in Miami, Jacksonville, and Tampa Bay, respectively.\nFort Lauderdale (1-3-2, 6) may have just had its best attacking performance of the year last Saturday, but Caio Zanardi\u2019s side ended up without any goals to show for it. The Strikers were thwarted by an incredible individual effort from Indy Eleven goalkeeper Jon Busch. Maicon Santos has been the main goalscoring threat with three goals on the season, but Jose Angulo has been in fine form as well as the Strikers head to Oklahoma this weekend.\nIndy Eleven vs. Minnesota United\nIndy Eleven and Minnesota United meet in matchup with big NASL Spring Season title race implications. Still unbeaten, Indy (2-4-0, 10 points) is three points back from the Loons, who are currently in first place. The Boys in Blue received an inspired performance from goalkeeper Jon Busch last Saturday to escape Lockhart Stadium with a point. Busch and his back line will need to be on their game once again in order to slow down a Minnesota attack that is tied for the league lead in goals with 11.\nMinnesota enters Carroll Stadium on a five-game unbeaten run after dropping its first game of the year, and four of those five contests have ended in clean sheets and wins. The Loons (4-1-1, 13) have been led by Christian Ramirez, who is tied for the league lead in goals with four. The former NASL Golden Boot winner has played creator too, and his assist in last weekend\u2019s 2-0 win over Jacksonville Armada FC tied him with Kevin Venegas for the club\u2019s all-time lead in assists.\nFC Edmonton vs. Carolina RailHawks\nFC Edmonton is unbeaten in its last four league games and has worked itself up to fourth place and two points out of first. The Eddies (3-2-2, 11) recently defeated the New York Cosmos, 2-1, after another strong display from center back Pap\u00e9 Diakit\u00e9, who scored the game-winning goal. The Eddies now match up with Carolina with a chance to leapfrog the RailHawks.\nCarolina had a fast start to the Spring Season, but hasn\u2019t recorded a win since Week 4. The RailHawks, after two losses and a draw, are still in the thick of the Spring Season title race but they can ill afford to drop more points. Colin Clarke can take some solace in the chances created against Miami FC, despite the 0-0 score line. 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"https://www.mindbodygreen.com/wc/sophie-hannah?mbg_p=a&mbg_ref=related&mbg_a=36604&mbg_ifs=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:KOQK24OS65SSIROL4W44TZ42IEPERQK3", "length": 1224, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mindbodygreen.com", "title": "Sophie Hannah on mindbodygreen - mindbodygreen", "raw_content": "Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories.\nIn 2014, with the blessing of Agatha Christie\u2019s family and estate, Hannah published a new Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, which was a top five bestseller in more than fifteen countries. She has since published two more Poirot novels, Closed Casket and The Mystery of Three Quarters, both of which were instant Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers.\nIn 2013, her novel The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the UK's National Book Awards. She has also published two short story collections and five collections of poetry\u2014the fifth of which, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A Level, and degree level across the UK.\nMost recently, Sophie has published a self-help book called How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment \u2013 The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life, and launched the podcast How To Hold A Grudge.\nShe lives with her husband, children, and dog in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.\nSee Articles By Sophie Hannah\nConnect with Sophie Hannah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 3834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-22-is-killed-in-fall-from-taxi-310130", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:H3ZJMRFIUGXYMY4GXF4NPCEHZKVWZB67", "length": 2144, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.mirror.co.uk", "title": "Mum, 22, is killed in fall from taxi - Mirror Online", "raw_content": "Mum, 22, is killed in fall from taxi\nCops quiz driver 'after row over fare'\nA taxi driver was arrested yesterday over the death of a young mum who fell from his cab as he drove off.\nKatie Bennett, 22, was on her way home from a nightclub with five pals before the incident at 2am on Saturday.\nIt is believed there had been a row over the fare just before she tumbled from the people carrier and struck her head.\nKatie - who leaves two-year old daughter Mia Louise - fell in a shop car park yards from her home in Newchapel, Staffs.\nParamedics rushed the Tesco worker to hospital. But she had suffered severe head injuries and died yesterday morning surrounded by her family.\nNewsagent Mick Prosser, 60, said: \"It is shocking. Katie used to come in the shop quite a bit.\n\"She was very quiet, but very sweet and always smiling.\nFrom what I heard a group of girls got out of the taxi before Katie and then there was an argument with the driver over how much the fare was.\n\"The next thing the driver set off but Katie hadn't got out yet. That's when she fell out of the taxi. It is very sad.\"\nA family friend, who asked not to be named, said: \"It's a real tragedy. She was a lovely girl who had her whole life in front of her. I have spoken to her little sister. She is devastated and the whole family is in bits.\"\nAnother neighbour said Katie was due to move back to her family's hometown of Manchester.\nThe neighbour added: \"They had lived here for two years and they had just sold the house and were looking forward to moving. It's terrible.\"\nStaffordshire Police confirmed the driver had been arrested and was being questioned.\nA spokesman added: \"The passenger fell from the vehicle whilst in motion and suffered severe head injuries.\"\nPolice are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information about the incident to contact them.\nOn her Friends Reunited webpage, Katie tells former classmates at Droylden High School, how she had found love again with a 19-year-old joiner called Simon who she described as \"brilliant wiv Mia\".\nIn an online tribute to Katie set up on Facebook her aunt Christine Bennett wrote: \"R.I.P. my beautiful niece.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 11322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missiondelcaribe.org/child-sponsorship-uganda-abato/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RTGLB52AQ2OUVNSIQYN5VLLJ76O2Z7XQ", "length": 934, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.missiondelcaribe.org", "title": "Sponsorship Programs \u2013 Uganda \u2013 Abato \u00ab Mission Del Caribe 501(c)(3) \u2013 Connecting People To The Great Commission", "raw_content": "Sponsorship Programs \u2013 Uganda \u2013 Abato\nMISSION DEL CARIBE 501(C)(3) EIN 72-1202161 works in collaborative partnership with Abato Foundation and Grace Community Bible Church in Uganda and both ministries are directly involved in a multitude of collaborative ministry missions and projects. We are happy to bring to you the opportunity to become a sponsor to a child, a widow, or an opportunity to help those who need a helping hand through sponsorships. Your sponsorship donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by U.S. law if you are a U.S. tax filer. Give joyfully today as a sponsor. In addition to various types of sponsorships we offer the opportunity as a sponsor to bless with special gifts such as wellness checkups, dental care, school supplies and more. Feel free to give to those special gift areas at any time. May God bless you and multiply His goodness to you as you care for the children who belong to God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mjhillfirm.com/San-Marcos-Family-Law-Office.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FGPBRIECFRLMVUPPMKCLBLBC6TK6QOIO", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mjhillfirm.com", "title": "San Marcos Family Law Office | M. J. Hill & Associates, PLLC", "raw_content": "M. J. Hill & Associates, PLLC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 120.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobiledekho.com/news/vivo-v7-now-available-rs-16990/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ETEKKXXHLNZ7Z6WMJJJBGXWZ74Q4VIEW", "length": 2288, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mobiledekho.com", "title": "Vivo V7 Is Now Available At Rs 16,990 | MobileDekho", "raw_content": "Vivo V7 was launched in India last month as a toned down version of earlier launched Vivo V7+\nVivo V7 is available at Rs. 16,990 in all variants; even Energetic blue color\nThe smartphone was released in November at Rs. 18,990\nOnline it can be bought on Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm Mall\nVivo and Oppo are never going to stop challenging each other. Yet again, both the smartphone giants in India have slashed the price of their flagship devices. Oppo has cut the price of Oppo F3 and now Vivo V7 has also received a price cut. The phone was launched last month in November itself at Rs. 18,990 in India. Even a price cut was done in the starting of this December only of Vivo V5s and was brought down to Rs. 15,990 for the Indian users from its launch price of Rs. 18,990.\nComing back to the price slash in Vivo V7, it is important for customers to know that this device is available at the new price offline as well as online at Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm Mall. Furthermore, the handset is available at Rs. 16,990 in all variants \u2013 Matte Black, Champagne Gold and the most recently unveiled energetic blue color variant.\nAs far as the specifications are considered, the smartphone is quite good and can challenge Oppo F3 with its 5.7-inch HD + FullView IPS display with a screen resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels and 18:9 of aspect ratio. The device runs on FunTouch OS 3.2, which is based on Android 7.1 Nougat OS and is coupled with a 1.8GHz octa-core Snapdragon 450 chipset. The smartphone also carries 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage capacity, which is expandable up to 256GB via microSD card with dual-SIM (Nano+Nano).\nFor the selfie lovers, this is a better option with respect to Oppo F3, as the smartphone is donning a 24-megapixel front camera sensor having an aperture of f/2.0 and a soft \u2018Moonlight Glow\u2019 selfie light. Nonetheless, this is not a device with dual rear camera setup and is accompanied with a 16-megapixel rear sensor alongside an LED flash and a f/2.0 aperture. The 3000mAh battery and dimensions of 149.3\u00d772.8\u00d77.9mm with 139 grams weight is also not bad with respect to the price. Still, one cannot say how much this step will help Vivo as it is facing the competition not only from Oppo, but also from other devices such as Honor 7X and Motorola G5s Plus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.modernghana.com/blogs/269140/infrastructure-a-must-to-empower-national-devttowards-mit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HD7BAKHYIO3WY5QECINNOEAKLAU2R54T", "length": 11690, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.modernghana.com", "title": "Infrastructure, a must to empower national dev't\u2026Towards mitigating regional migration", "raw_content": "Infrastructure, a must to empower national dev't\u2026Towards mitigating regional migration\nBy ABDUL WAKIL AHMED YAHYA\nFaced with the enormity of the country's problems and the scarcity of resources available, the Government is poised on an accurate set of priorities to be sought for in the medium term, within the framework of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II).\nThe main objectives of the GPRS, among others, is to reduce poverty form 39% to 32%; improve basic infrastructure such as roads, water, sanitation and market access; increase the level of primary enrollment and education completion rates; reduce infant, child and maternal mortality and the incidence infectious diseases; and improve governance and the efficiency of the public sector.\nIn the specific context of improving the level of infrastructure in the country, the goal is to facilitate both intra regional trade and to open up rural areas for investment, productivity enhancement and job creation, introduce/deepen competition and create an enabling environment for the private sector to spearhead the country's development.\nInfrastructure is key to national development, however; development should not be centrally based as is the common practice in most African countries, including Ghana. Central development dates back to the colonial era when the colonial powers developed only the major towns and cities to facilitate trade from the rural regions that supplied raw materials to the main cities for their domestic industries in Europe and elsewhere.\nThis has lead to infrastructure being focused in certain parts of the country above others, even the sources of raw material, that is, the geographical regions of most African nations that supply the center are not built up/developed, an example is the Niger \u2013delta in Nigeria that is fighting for resource control over 10 years now.\nInfrastructure development should spread from a country's regions to the capital cities, this is another means of allowing regions to develop at their own pace and with available resources. This is necessary because the people in each locality/ regions and their leaders know paramount needs than central based government.\nThis step will aid manpower development in all regions of the country and reduce the ever present rural \u2013urban migration in the country including social vices that are common in major cities such as Accra etc. It will also make sure that skilled and unskilled labour absent in our rural areas will be readily available.\nIt has been argued that the development of information and communication technology (ICT) provides leapfrogging opportunities for developing countries. Ghana has not been left out in this revolution. According to the Data Development Group of the World Bank, ICT infrastructure in Ghana is progressing better than other low-income countries and above the 1.1% average for Sub-Saharan Africa.\nThe Government of Ghana has, since February 2004, enacted an ICT development policy with 14 priority areas. The thrust of the policy is to primarily concentrate on promoting ICT physical infrastructure development, which will in turn facilitate the development of the private sector.\nThe energy sector is the lifeline in the development of any nation. This belief informed the decision to undertake the construction of the first hydroelectric (Akosombo) dam in 1965, which continues to be an important investment in Ghana's economic history.\nOver the years with the increased demand by power users for greater security and reliability other sources of power \u2013 thermal, solar and lately windmills, as well as imports \u2013 have been added to the generation mix.\nThus, Ghana is currently a net energy importer, having been a net exporter of the commodity till about a decade ago. In 2003, an amount of US$450 million was spent on the importation of crude oil and finished oil products, as well as 13% of its electricity needs.\nThe thrust of Government policy in the energy sector is to push for a significant increase in its energy resources to become a net exporter of both power and fuel within next five years.\nThe Ministry of Energy has the responsibility for developing and implementing energy sector policy in Ghana. As part of its oversight responsibility, the Ministry also operates the nation's strategic reserve of petroleum products through the publicly owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST).\nThe sector is composed of two main sectors, namely petroleum and power. The Petroleum sector is made up of two sub-sectors \u2013 the downstream activities (i.e. finished products production, distribution) and upstream activities (i.e. exploration, development, production of oil and gas).\nIn the downstream segment, the Tema Oil Refinery, which operates Ghana's only petroleum refinery with a processing capacity of about 45,000 barrels of crude oil per stream, produce gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil, pre-mix fuel, aviation fuel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), among others. Tema Lube Oil Company produces assorted lubricants and special oils on behalf of the 17 licensed Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).\nIn the upstream sub-sector, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is the key institution that is collaborating with private investors to prospect for crude oil and gas within Ghana's territorial boundaries.\nThe Power sub-sector is run by two utilities: the Volta River Authority (VRA) and Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG). The total installed generating capacity of electric power in Ghana is about 1,650MW comprising 1100MW of hydro generation (Akosombo and Kpong stations) and 550MW from Takoradi Thermal Power Station.\nThis is supplemented by imports from La Cote d'lvoire to the tune of up to 250MW. As at 2003, Ghana's power generation mix was: thermal and import \u2013 65% and Hydro \u2013 35%.\nThe large component of thermal power in the generation mix has very high financial implications for the country. Therefore, serious efforts are underway to bring a 125MW power barge into service by mid-2004 to be initially run on diesel and subsequently gas from the West African Gas Pipeline project.\nAdditionally, the Akosombo Dam retrofit project is to be completed by the year 2005 to gain 108MW extra capacity. Plans are far advanced to implement the Bui Hydroelectric Dam project, which is expected to be completed by 2009 with a capacity of 400MW.\nThe Ministry also has oversight responsibility over the Energy commission, which is a sector institution responsible for regulating, developing and managing the utilization of energy resources such as electricity, natural gas and petroleum products.\nThe commission is also responsible, in particular, for preparing indicative plans for the development of the energy sector, licensing of public utilities for transmission, wholesale supply, distribution and sale of electricity and natural gas and enforcing performance standards of the utilities.\nThe Public Utilities\nRegulatory Commission (PURC) is a statutorily independent body responsible for regulating and the overseeing provision of electrical and water utility services to consumers. Its functions include protecting the interests of providers and consumers, approval of rate, monitoring performance, standards and promoting competition among service providers.\nAnother significant part of the Government's development priorities is the provision of enhanced social services with emphasis on Education and Health. Investment in human resource development starts with education. Education does not only broaden one's perspective on global and national issues, but also one's up access to greater opportunities for improvement in one's living conditions.\nAccording to the 2000 Population Census, 53.3% of Ghana's population (15 years and above) is literate in either English or a known Ghanaian language. Since much of literature and mass communication is in English, the effective literacy level is 46.9%. The level of literacy is higher for males (62.9%) than females (45.7%).\nThe education system provides for a nine-year Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (F CUBE), which is followed by a middle-level of 3-year Secondary/Technical/Commercial, and Vocational education. The tertiary level consists of Teacher Training Colleges, Diploma and Degree awarding institutions.\nThe private sector plays an important role in education service delivery in Ghana. Until recently, this role was restricted to the kindergarten, nursery, primary, second-cycle institutions and to a lesser extent, tutorial colleges.\nSince 1996, however, private initiative in tertiary education has surged in response to excess demand for higher-level education and the shortfall in public sector delivery efforts.\nThe provision of infrastructure and operations in all modes of transport in Ghana are dominated by the state. Except in the case of road transport, the public sector has been heavily involved in operations in all modes and has monopoly over rail and inland water transport.\nRoad transport is very important to the Ghanaian economy. It is estimated that road transport accounts for 94% of freight ton-miles and about 97% of passenger miles in the country.\nRoad transport in Ghana may be categorized into 4 main segments, namely urban, express services, rural-urban and rural. The demand for urban passenger transport is mainly by residents commuting to work, school, and other economic, social and leisure activities.\nMost urban transportation in Ghana is by road and provided by private transport including taxis, mini-buses and state/private-supported bus services.\nBy road transport buses are the main mode of transport accounting for about 60% of passenger movement. Taxis account for only 14.5% with the remaining accounted for by private cars.\nOne important trend in road transport (especially inter-city) is that there has been a shift from mini-buses towards medium and large cars with capacities of 30-70 seats.\nThere has been a growing preference for good buses as the sector continues to offer more options to passenger in tons of quality of vehicles used.\nAccording to the Ministry of Roads and Transport, Ghana's road transport infrastructure is made up of 50,620km of road network linking the entire country.\nThese are under the control of the Ghana Highways Authority (14,047 km), Department of Urban Roads (4,063 km) and the Department of Feeder Roads (32,594 km). About 15.7% of the total road network is paved.\nOn the whole, traffic densities are low, except in the large cities of Accra and Kumasi, where peak hour densities are relatively high. The intention is to have many of the existing highways tolled and private-sector participation in road construction and ownership.\nGhana has a relatively good health delivery service with the West African sub-region. All regional and district capitals, as well as most towns have hospitals, polyclinics or clinics. The two (2) teaching hospitals in Accra and Kumasi have facilities for treating special cases, including skin grafting and all types of Cardiac cases.\nThe 37 Military Hospital (with the recent rehabilitation) is also gearing up to become one of the best medical facilities in the West African sub-region. Additionally, several religious organizations and private medical practitioners operate specialized and generalized hospitals and clinics all over the country. Herbal medicine and psychic healing are also generally practiced.\nThe \u201cSpirit Filled\u201d Easter Vigil\nGhana Day Of Percussion 2017 Held At Kakum National Park\nAKOM IN AMERICA? Yes ! 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With years of experience in supporting the growth of businesses by applying creative Agile-based approaches and frameworks, we can help you navigate today\u2019s complex world and discover what you can achieve when you\u2019re at your best.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mondaymag.com/news/vancouver-island-school-of-art-looking-for-new-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4DORHJFNDGIA2GQT4YZ2VKDS2XXJQTEW", "length": 4369, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.mondaymag.com", "title": "Vancouver Island School of Art looking for new home \u2013 Monday Magazine", "raw_content": "Wendy Welch (left), Vancouver Island School of Art founder and executive director, says the school is more than just its classes, it\u2019s a community. Board president Colette Baty regularly attends classes at the Quadra Street location, where her work is currently displayed in the ground-floor gallery. Kristyn Anthony/VICTORIA NEWS\nVancouver Island School of Art looking for new home\nIncreasing SD61 enrolment prompts district\u2019s termination of lease with Quadra Street facility\nThe iconic building at the edge of Quadra Village, home for the last 13 years to the Vancouver Island School of Art, is at the heart of some significant shuffling as the Greater Victoria School District has announced it plans to reoccupy the site.\nThe move effectively terminates the lease with the private post-secondary art school.\n\u201cWe\u2019re really saddened,\u201d says founder and executive director Wendy Welch. \u201cArtists really need space.\u201d\nWelch started VISA with just 47 students and four instructors back in 2005.\nNow, with over 3,500 part and full time students having painted, drawn, sculpted and studied in its classrooms, it\u2019s the only contemporary, art-focused school in the city attracting students from across the Island.\nThe school, which houses a non-profit gallery on the ground floor, is unique in that it also offers transfer credits to Emily Carr and the University of Gloucestershire in England. Welch says there are currently students studying at VISA from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India and Mexico.\n\u201cVISA is more than its classes, it\u2019s quite a community. Our students never really leave,\u201d she explains, pointing to a portion of custom-built studios the school rents to artists, students both past and present.\nMake sure the Vancouver Island School of Art stays in its wonderful central location. Click here to see what you can to do to help: https://t.co/HRfYywecXF #KeepVIArtSchoolAlive #yyjarts pic.twitter.com/sJUBAYL5Ed\n\u2014 VI School of Art (@VISchoolArt) April 26, 2018\nBuilt in 1921, the historic arts and crafts style building is in need of repair; SD61 estimates it would cost between $1.5 million and $2 million to seismically upgrade the space and update the heat, plumbing and electricity.\nBarring that, SD61 secretary-treasurer Mark Walsh says, the plan is to move students of Artemis Place secondary \u2013 young mothers and mothers-to-be \u2013 to the Quadra Street location, where there is ample room for a daycare.\nTransferring students from Artemis, currently housed in the Dean Heights Annex on Richmond Road, would free up space for Lansdowne middle school, located on the adjacent property.\nRELATED: Bigger student body, smaller classes putting pressure on school district\n\u201cGenerally, the school district is facing significant space issues, partially because of increasing enrolment and partially because of B.C. class size and composition standards,\u201d Walsh says.\nWhile some of the issues can be addressed by redrawing boundaries, space is still needed \u2013 particularly for middle-schoolers, he adds.\nIn the last year alone, SD61 created 90 new classrooms (the equivalent of 15 Quadra Street-sized locations) to accommodate increasing population.\n\u201cWe\u2019re ahead of our projections because of an influx of folks from Vancouver and Alberta,\u201d Walsh says. \u201cYou can see it in the cranes on the ground in downtown Victoria.\u201d\nRELATED: Vic High needs seismic upgrades\nThe school district let VISA know of its intentions more than a year ago and has given the school until Aug. 31 to vacate. Both Welch and Walsh acknowledge there has been some conversation around building learning studios for VISA \u2013 similar to portables \u2013 if the school was able to get the capital together.\nWelch is appealing to the community to help find a suitable, permanent space, ideally in the same neighbourhood. Or, she\u2019s open to donors or community partners who are able to help finance the move or who have space to donate or rent to VISA.\nWalsh isn\u2019t ruling out an extension for VISA to stay in the Quadra Street location, if for some reason the district was unable to upgrade the facility in a timely manner. 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Obviously the conditions in Libya are inhuman.\nThe man, Segen, whose full name was not given, disembarked in Pozzallo, a port on the southern coast of Sicily.\nWeighing only 35 kg (77 pounds), the 1.70 m (5 ft 7 inch) tall Segen needed help to walk and was immediately taken to hospital, where he died less than 12 hours later, according to Roberto Ammatuna, the mayor of Pozzallo and head of the local hospital\u2019s emergency room.\n\u201cHe looked like he had been in a concentration camp,\u201d Ammatuna told Reuters. \u201cAll the migrants who arrived on Monday were skin and bones, and their muscles were atrophied. Obviously the conditions in Libya are inhuman.\u201d\nThree other men were taken to hospital because of weakness and malnutrition.\nIn January, a three-month-old baby rescued by Proactiva died partly because of severe malnutrition, the group\u2019s medical coordinator, Guillermo Canardo, said.\nPeople traffickers in Libya have sent hundreds of thousands of migrants to sea over the past four years, but departures have fallen dramatically since July as some local armed groups stopped smuggling and Italy and the European Union helped bolster the Tripoli-based coast guard.\nArrivals in Italy from Libya have dropped more than 72 percent this year from last, official data show. That means many may have been trapped in widely lawless Libya for longer periods than before.\n\u201cMigrants tell me they have been in Libya longer than I was hearing a year ago,\u201d Marco Rotunno of the United Nations refugee agency said.\nSegen told the doctor on board the Proactiva ship that he had been in Libya for about 18 months.\nMigrants who travelled with Segen said they had been held by smugglers in a large warehouse for months, where they were tortured and beaten, according to Medu, a charity providing psychological support to those who arrive in Pozzallo. They told Medu they paid about $1,500 to make the sea crossing.\nThe United Nations estimates that hundreds of thousands of migrants remain in Libya. Those who make it to Italy tell of being extorted, beaten, tortured, raped, starved and forced to work for no pay.\nEven those in officially sanctioned detention centres or living openly in Libya have next to no access to healthcare and depend on international agencies that have a limited presence on the ground, said Christophe Biteau, Libya head of mission for MSF France.\n\u201cYou have people who are on the road for months. You have people who are malnourished, and mainly illnesses linked to lack of hygiene \u2013 scabies, diarrhoea, skin infections. 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Our portfolio is ever growing as we travel the country working on exciting new restoration projects.\nGet in touch for more information on our building restoration services, or view our portfolio and case studies below.\nOur experience combines traditional methods, modern and robust materials along with hand crafted joinery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/news/tool-dedicate-their-rock-on-the-range-headline-set-to-chris-cornell/9263", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:A7RSVRGMQLEDB7DHJWEPJ6RBR2HTM7V4", "length": 1881, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.moshtix.com.au", "title": "Tool dedicate their Rock On The Range headline set to Chris Cornell | Breaking News | moshtix", "raw_content": "Tool dedicate their Rock On The Range headline set to Chris Cornell\nWritten by Bianca Davino on 22nd May, 2018\nLast Friday marked a year since the passing of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Since then, tributes from his peers have poured out honouring the frontman\u2019s legacy, celebrating his impact on alternative music.\nOn Sunday night, alt metal titans Tool took to the stage to headline Rock On The Range festival, alongside Stone Temple Pilots, Avenged Sevenfold and more, tearing through a vast majority of their back catalogue.\nAs reported by Alternative Nation, the band opened their set with \u2018The Grudge\u2019 off 2001\u2019s Lateralus, after which frontman Maynard James Keenan said, \u201cWe\u2019d like to dedicate our entire set to the friends and family of Chris Cornell.\u201d\nThroughout the band\u2019s set, they played a slew of fan favourites including extended versions of \u2018Schism\u2019, \u2018Stinkfist\u2019 and \u2018Opiates\u2019, in which Maynard took the opportunity to discuss the band\u2019s collective fear of bananas.\nWatch the band tear through \u2018The Grudge\u2019 below:\nDuring the set Maynard also took the opportunity to update the crowd on the status of the new Tool album, confirming that things are progressing, however, the rate at which it is moving is \u201cslow as fuck\u201d.\n\u201cWe fear the end of your patience,\u201d Keenan told the crowd. \u201cThings are progressing. 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Lewis' novel: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. Picking up where the THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE left off, Prince Caspian summons Edmund and Lucy out of contemporary Britain to help him regain the throne. The story is replete with spiritual themes, but viewers should be aware that magic is used allegorically. Overall, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is a generous portion of superior family entertainment.\nThe magical land of Narnia comes alive in this excellent version of C.S. Lewis\u2019 famous novel: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. Picking up where THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE left off, Narnia is left under the corrupt rule of King Miraz. His nephew, Prince Caspian, summons Edmund and Lucy out of contemporary Britain to help him regain the throne. Accompanied by an army of dwarfs and talking animals, and under the guidance of the lion Aslan (C.S. Lewis\u2019 allegorical figure for Jesus Christ) Narnia is placed under the just rule of Caspian.\nThe story of THE DAWN TREADER is replete with spiritual themes. However, some viewers may be disturbed by the use of magic, even though by and large enchantment is used allegorically and is something that happens to the characters, rather than being performed by the characters. Even so, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is rich in adventure and high moral content. Acting performances and direction are superb. In terms of literary value, the video is also faithful to the original novel. Overall, PRINCE CASPIAN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is a generous portion of superior family entertainment.\n1 Berit Kjos (pronounced Chos) is the author of YOUR CHILD AND THE NEW AGE and A WARDROBE FROM THE KING, both from Victor Books. As a registered nurse, she was first introduced to the New Age Movement through \u201cholistic health\u201d in the early 70\u2019s. A few years later, while writing Bible studies for the women at Peninsula Bible Church, Palo Alto, and training leaders to teach neighborhood Bible studies, she recognized the need to understand counterfeit spirituality. Some of the group participants had been involved in occult practices and sought clear Biblical answers. Kjos began to prepare teaching material pointing out the differences between New Age teaching and Biblical truth. She has spoken extensively to women\u2019s groups on how parents can equip children to resist New Age influences. She is married to a lawyer and has three sons. All have input in her writing projects. They are members of Union Presbyterian Church and live in Los Altos, Calif.\nFor more information, please call or write:\n14710 Manuella Road\nLos Altos Hills, Calif. 94022\n2 Reprinted with permission of THE NEW AMERICAN, November 21, 1988. James Perloff is a contributing editor to THE NEW AMERICAN. 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We are pleased to announce that the dossier has now been handed to the authorities with a view to taking over the prosecution.\nIncreasingly corporate and private individuals are seeking criminal proceedings against defendants to increase prospects of conviction as a more cost effective method of asset recovery under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 4676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mtinnocenceproject.org/cle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3XVWMHJWW2JGOB556W64BVW3NVQFMNXE", "length": 257, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mtinnocenceproject.org", "title": "CLE - Montana Innocence Project", "raw_content": "Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00-1:00 p.m.\nAn examination of the nationwide Innocence Network, the causes of wrongful convictions, and the types of evidence that can be used to overturn them. 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Lebanon School District: Bell Schedule", "raw_content": "Below is the normal bell schedule for the 2017-2018 school year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 74.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mup.cz/kalendar/6302/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JURCPDDY23LR43MVT64YHJJCFC6B4FJ4", "length": 961, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mup.cz", "title": "19/12/2013 - Book Launch: Small State, Dangerous Region: A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain - Metropolitn\u00ed univerzita Praha", "raw_content": "\u00davod Kalend\u00e1\u0159 19/12/2013 - Book Launch: Small State, Dangerous Region: A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain\n19/12/2013 - Book Launch: Small State, Dangerous Region: A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain\nOn 19 December 2013, the Department of International Relations and European Studies at MUP hosted a roundtable discussion to mark the new publication by Mitchell Belfer, Small State, Dangerous Region: A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain (Peter Lang Publishing Group).\nThe event, attended by more than 50 students and academicians, was hosted by Gerald Power. Dr. Belfer\u2018s introduction and the subsequent discussion concerned the issue of Bahrain as an independent state in one of the world\u2019s most dangerous regions. Dr. Belfer shared with the audience his personal experience from the area which he visited several times in the past few years. Those who attended the event also had the opportunity to taste authentic Arabic food prepared especially for this occasion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.music-scores.com/instrument/composer.php?instrument=Flute&name=Elgar", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:VH2YVNMOBH2YE3VCG4ONM7LSYURKKARZ", "length": 1445, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.music-scores.com", "title": "Elgar Flute sheet music", "raw_content": "Edward Elgar Sheet Music for Flute\nThis is the music-scores Elgar sheet music section for Flute. We currently have 6 files available for download.\nDownload Flute sheet music and midi files for Edward Elgar\nElgar: Chanson de Matin: Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Cello, Double Bass\nChanson de Matin was written for popular demand, and has a lovely, fresh melody which became very well known. This version is of equal importance to all parts and is for a quintet of Flute, Clarinet, French Horn, Cello and Double Bass.\nElgar: Chanson de Matin: Flute, Guitar\nChanson de Matin was written for popular demand, and has a lovely, fresh melody which became very well known. The piece was later orchestrated, due to its popularity. Arranged for Flute and Guitar duo.\nElgar: Chanson de Matin: Flute, Piano\nChanson de Matin was written for popular demand, and has a lovely, fresh melody which became very well known. The piece was later orchestrated, due to its popularity. Transcribed for Flute and Piano\nElgar: Chanson de Nuit: Flute, Guitar\nChanson de Nuit was written to get Elgar out of financial difficulties. It is in fact a very beautiful and passionate piece which he later orchestrated, due to its popularity. This arrangement is for Flute and Guitar duo.\nElgar: Salut dAmour: Easier Flute\nSalut dAmour, or Loves Greeting. An easier version consisting of the main theme for Flute and Piano.\nWe have Elgar Flute sheet music for the following skill levels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myhandmadelife.com/2014/01/new-years-resolutioneverything-i-need-i.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ALYUTMOL2AJP5C3IKXTDJN3IMIQIUEKR", "length": 1743, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.myhandmadelife.com", "title": "Kathy Hardy's Handmade Life: New Year's Resolution...everything I need, I already have...", "raw_content": "New Year's Resolution...everything I need, I already have...\nWell, I may be a day late, but so far, I'm not a dollar short! At first I wasn't going to make a New Year's \"resolution\", mainly because I can never keep it, mainly because I make unrealistic resolutions, like climbing Mt. Everest, stuff like that [lol, not really, but really that unrealistic, in comparison]. I recently subscribed to an online website called \"Mind/Body/Green\", because I found myself going there almost daily to read some of the articles. One of the articles posted yesterday was about giving stuff away, clearing clutter, letting go, realizing what's important are NOT \"things\". It really hit home with me and I thought, that's it! I spend way to much money on stuff I really don't need. So the first thing I did this morning was write a big note that says \"Everything I need, I already have.\" and I taped it to my computer monitor [since most of the shopping I do is on-line]. Before I hit that \"add to cart\" button next time, I'll be sure to read my note first. I also \"unsubscribed\" to any e-mails that tempt me to purchase things...beads, shoes, jewelry, cloths, etc. So, my \"resolution\" this year will be to see how long I can go before I buy something I really don't need...I'll keep you posted on my progress.\nWhat resolutions have you ever made and kept? Do you have one you are starting for 2014? Let me know...we can encourage each other! Or, perhaps you can be encouraged by Frankie's daily affirmations...what I call \"The Daily Turtle\"\nHope you had a wonderful Holiday Season!!\n\"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.\" ~ Carl Bard\nLabels: New Year's Resolution, The Daily Turtle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 5058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturesbest.co.uk/pharmacy/pharmacy-health-library/conception-support/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:38Z", "digest": "sha1:A4WPG2UQD4UIHNMNDNIE4HQUYRUJ7X2D", "length": 15280, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "www.naturesbest.co.uk", "title": "Conception Support | Nature's Best", "raw_content": "Home / Pharmacy Library / Conception Support\nNobody knows how long it will take to get pregnant once a couple has decided to try for a baby. Some women conceive quickly, while others take longer. According to the family planning charity FPA, around 30 out of every 100 couples trying for a baby and having regular sexual intercourse will conceive within one month. Seventy-five couples out of 100 will conceive within six months, and 80 - 90 per cent will get pregnant within a year. That leaves 10 - 20 per cent who may take longer than a year, some of whom will need help to conceive.\nThe NHS claims that all most people need to conceive is an active, happy sex life. But there are some things you may need to know about beforehand, especially if you have a medical condition or a disability.\nWhy you should see your GP\nIt\u2019s advisable to speak to your GP if you\u2019re trying for a baby and have any medical condition, including diabetes, epilepsy, heart or circulation problems (including high blood pressure) or gynaecological problems such as endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Our guide to understanding PCOS and fertility can help you discover how it may be affecting your chances of conception. If you\u2019re being treated for a medical condition, there\u2019s a small chance that your medication may not be suitable to take while trying for a baby or during pregnancy, so your doctor will need to know about your plans as soon as possible.\nEven some over-the-counter medicines can affect your fertility, so always ask the pharmacist for advice before buying any non-prescribed remedies.\nYour GP can also refer you for genetic counselling if a hereditary condition such as muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis runs in your or your partner\u2019s family. In addition they will advise women who are trying for a baby to take a 400mcg folic acid supplement from while they\u2019re trying to conceive through to week 12 of their pregnancy. This is standard medical advice for all women, as it helps prevent serious abnormalities in unborn babies such as spina bifida.\nIf you get German measles while you\u2019re pregnant, the infection can damage your baby\u2019s heart, eyes and ears seriously. That\u2019s why women who haven\u2019t had German measles or a rubella vaccination (the jab that protects against German measles) are strongly advised have a rubella test before trying to get pregnant.\nEven if you have had the rubella jab or German measles itself, it\u2019s a good idea to take the rubella test, as there is a chance you may not still be immune. If you\u2019re not immune, you can get the jab from your GP or nurse \u2013 ideally you should have it at least a month before starting to try for a baby.\nContraception issues\nDepending on the contraception you\u2019ve been using, your cycle may take a short while to get back to normal when you stop (this only applies to hormonal contraception such as the pill, contraception injections or the IUD).\nAccording to FPA, if you\u2019ve been using contraception injections your cycle and your fertility may take longer to get back to normal than if you\u2019d been using other methods. The only method of contraception that causes infertility is sterilisation, so there\u2019s no need to be concerned if your cycle doesn\u2019t return to normal straight away.\nConception and your lifestyle\nThe fitter and healthier you and your partner are, the better your chances are of becoming pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy. So if your lifestyle could do with a bit of improvement, now\u2019s the perfect time to make some changes.\nShed some pounds\nIf you\u2019re a woman and need to lose weight \u2013 or indeed gain some weight \u2013 you may find that your menstrual cycle isn\u2019t normal, which can reduce your likelihood of getting pregnant.\nAccording to the NHS, women with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher can take longer to get pregnant than those whose weight is normal (that is, if your BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9). Men with a BMI of more than 30 are also more likely to have lower-than-normal fertility compared with men with a normal BMI.\nMeanwhile, if your BMI is less than 18.5, it means you\u2019re underweight. Women who are underweight may have irregular or non-existent periods. But if they gain enough weight to have a normal BMI, their chances of conceiving may improve as their menstrual cycle starts working normally again.\nWomen who smoke are thought to have reduced fertility. Even living with someone who smokes if they\u2019re a non-smoker can affect their chances of getting pregnant.\nIf you do become pregnant and carry on smoking, you may have an increased risk of one or more pregnancy and birth problems, including miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, having a baby with a low birth weight and other pregnancy and labour complications.\nIf you or your partner smokes, giving up is one of the most important things you can do, not just for yourself but for your baby too. Even after your baby has been born, not smoking can make them less likely to develop coughs and chest infections than babies whose parents do smoke. Smokers\u2019 babies are also more likely to have a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).\nThere\u2019s lots of help available if you need to quit. Stop smoking aids that reduce your cravings for nicotine are available from your GP and at pharmacies, including patches, gum and lozenges.\nDrinking a lot of alcohol can affect a man\u2019s sperm production, which could affect a couple\u2019s chances of getting pregnant. Women who are trying for a baby are also advised to limit their drinking to no more than two units of alcohol a week.\nMeanwhile, if you\u2019re a woman and you drink heavily and regularly while pregnant \u2013 or if you binge drink on a regular basis \u2013 it can harm your baby\u2019s brain, heart and kidneys, and lead to them developing behavioural problems and learning difficulties when they\u2019re older.\nAccording to FPA, women who are fit and active may have a healthier pregnancy than those who don\u2019t do much exercise. But not all types of exercise may be suitable during pregnancy \u2013 contact sports, for instance, or any activity where there\u2019s a chance you could be struck in the abdomen.\nTry something easy to start off with, especially if you haven\u2019t done much exercise lately \u2013 such as walking or swimming. Many women like to practise yoga or Pilates while trying for a baby and when pregnant, as both can make you feel more relaxed (which makes them good for dads-to-be too).\nIf you\u2019re not sure what exercise you should be doing when you\u2019re pregnant \u2013 and how much \u2013 have a chat with your GP or midwife about it before you start.\nOvulation: the best time to conceive\nAccording to the NHS, there\u2019s no need to try to time having sex around your monthly cycle \u2013 instead, you should try to have sex every two or three days throughout the month. But understanding how your cycle works, including when during your cycle you\u2019re likely to be at your most fertile, may be useful.\nThe day a woman\u2019s period starts marks the beginning of her cycle. Lasting from two to eight days, menstruation is caused by the shedding of the endometrium (lining of the uterus). Levels of the hormones oestrogen and progestogen are low right now, but your brain starts to produce FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) to stimulate the growth of new egg follicles.\nFor four to five days after your period finishes your hormone levels are still low.\nDuring the next three or four days, you start producing more oestrogen (oestrogen production peaks at around day 12).\nThe next few days is when a woman is at her most fertile, with ovulation usually happening at around day 14. This is when the egg released from the ovaries travels along the fallopian tubes and into the uterus. Once released, an egg only lives for 12-24 hours \u2013 so it must be fertilised by a sperm during this time. However, sperm can live for up to seven days inside a woman\u2019s body,. That means the egg could be fertilised by sperm that entered her body several days before her egg was released.\nOvulation triggers the production of another hormone, progesterone. This helps to thicken the lining of the uterus, making it a suitable environment for a fertilised egg.\nIf the egg hasn\u2019t been fertilised, it is reabsorbed into the body. Your hormone levels may be high for a few days \u2013 leading to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms in some women \u2013 and then fall again as the endometrium breaks down and your cycle comes to an end.\nConception problems\nSometimes, even when you do everything you\u2019re supposed to, you may still take a while to get pregnant. In fact, according to FPA, it often takes much longer than you may think to conceive \u2013 so try not to get upset if you don\u2019t get pregnant quickly.\nHere are some of the things that may affect your chances:\nIf you\u2019re a woman, you may not be ovulating regularly.\nIf you\u2019re a man, there may be a problem with your sperm (that is, you may not be producing large enough numbers or the quality of your sperm may not be high enough). According to FPA, sperm production can be damaged by mumps, untreated sexually transmitted infections, injury to the testicles, excessive heat (such as hot baths), tight fitting underwear, alcohol, smoking, recreational drugs or other unknown causes.\nYour chances of conceiving get lower as you get older \u2013 it\u2019s generally accepted that women over the age of 35 tend to find it more difficult to get pregnant than younger women as female fertility declines rapidly after this age.\nYour GP can advise you if you\u2019re worried you\u2019ve been trying for a baby for a long time, without any success. If you\u2019ve been trying for a year or more (or six months or longer if you\u2019re a woman over the age of 35), speak to your GP about it. However, this doesn\u2019t mean you have a medical problem.\nBut if you\u2019ve been trying for a baby for two years or more, during which time you\u2019ve had regular unprotected sex, there is a chance that either you or your partner (or even both of you) may have a fertility issue.\nAccording to the NHS, for nearly a third of people who have fertility problems there is no reason \u2013 this is called unexplained fertility problems by doctors and other healthcare professionals. Otherwise fertility problems may be caused by a low sperm count or poor quality sperm in men, or because a woman does not ovulate regularly or because her fallopian tubes are damaged or blocked.\nIf you\u2019re worried that you may have a fertility problem, see your GP for an initial assessment.\nNatural conception support\nHaving the healthiest lifestyle possible may increase your chances of becoming pregnant. That means eating a nutritious diet, cutting down on alcohol, taking regular exercise and not smoking. Taking certain natural supplements may also help support your body while you try for a baby \u2013 and during the pregnancy itself \u2013 including the following:\nGovernment health experts advise all women who are planning a pregnancy to take a daily supplement of folic acid. A member of the B vitamin family, folic acid is essential for a baby\u2019s development during the early weeks of pregnancy, and helps prevent serious brain and nerve defects such as spina bifida.\nYou should take 400mcg (0.4mg) a day from the time you start trying for a baby (or as soon as you find out you\u2019re pregnant) until the 12th week of your pregnancy. Some women may be advised to take a higher dose if they or their partner has a neural tube defect, or if they had a previous pregnancy that was affected by a defect such as spina bifida.\nAs well as taking a supplement, you can get more folic acid in your diet by eating fortified breads and cereals as well as lots of green leafy vegetables.\nA range of nutrients are also thought to be important for both male and female fertility, all of which can be found in a high-quality multivitamin and mineral supplement. Look for a supplement with a good level of zinc, which is essential for healthy hormone production in women and healthy sperm production in men.\nThe omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish support a healthy reproductive system as they help regulate reproductive hormone function. They are also needed for a baby\u2019s development, which may explain why many natural health practitioners advise women to take fish oil supplements for three months before they start trying for a baby.\nIron deficiency affects many women of reproductive age, especially those who have heavy periods. There\u2019s also lots of evidence that many women don\u2019t get enough iron in their diets, making iron a common mineral deficiency in this country. Many, however, may not be aware of how having low iron levels may reduce their fertility.\nIndeed, one study suggests women who take iron supplements have a significantly lower risk of ovulatory infertility than those not taking iron pills (ovulatory infertility means an inability to make healthy eggs) (iv).\nThis mineral is essential for a baby\u2019s brain and nervous system development, and low levels have been linked with an increased risk of pregnancy problems such as miscarriage and premature birth. One study also suggests babies born to women with low iodine levels in early pregnancy may have lower IQ levels at the age of eight and a decreased reading ability at the age of nine than others born to mums with healthy iodine levels (v).\nIodine found in dairy products, seafood, brewer\u2019s yeast, eggs and vegetables, but you can also find it in kelp supplements (always check with your GP before taking kelp tablets during pregnancy).\nResearch carried out at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, suggests taking vitamin B3 supplements could reduce the number of miscarriages and certain birth defects (vi). According to the researchers behind the study, vitamin B3 may help the body produce a substance called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), which they have linked to healthy foetal development. A lack of NAD may prevent a baby\u2019s organs from developing normally in the womb, the researchers claim. Vitamin B3 is found naturally in meats and green vegetables, as well as in supplement form. For more support on fertility, see our tips for natural conception.\nTrying for a baby can be full of ups and downs, but we hope this guide makes it a little easier. For more information on a range of other common health concerns, visit our health library.\nAranow. D. Vitamin D and the Immune System. J Investig Med. 2011 Aug;59(6):881-886.\nGemand. AD, Simhan. HN, Klebanoff. LM, Bodnar. MA. Maternal serum 24-hydroxyvitamin D and measures of newborn and placental weight in a US multicenter cohort study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Jan;98(1):398-404.\nLerchbaum. E, Obermayer-Pietsch. B. Vitamin D and fertility: a systematic review. Eur J Endocrinol. 2012 May;166(5):765-78.\nChavarro. JE, Rich-Edwards. JW, Rosner. BA, Willett. WC. Iron intake and risk of ovulatory infertility. Obstet Gyncol. 2006 Nov;108(5):1145-52.\nBath. SC, Steer. CD, et al. Effect of inadequate iodine status in UK pregnant women on cognitive outcomes in their children: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). The Lancet. 27 July 2013.Volume 382, No. 9889, p331-337.\nHongjun. S, et al. NAD Deficiency, Congenital Malformations, and Niacin Supplementation. N Engl J Med . 2017: 377:544-552.\nExplore more: Men's Health, Stress & Anxiety, Women's Health", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 18069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nba.com/nets/news/2018/07/25/jared-dudley-looking-forward-to-playing-for-nets-coach-kenny-atkinson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GQ2AY66UEJZTPXTOP74IAGPVHDGICRMI", "length": 3512, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nba.com", "title": "Jared Dudley Looking Forward to Playing for Nets Coach Kenny Atkinson | Brooklyn Nets", "raw_content": "Jared Dudley Looking Forward to Playing for Nets Coach Kenny Atkinson\nVersatile forward brings veteran presence and 3-point shooting range to Brooklyn\nJared Dudley almost became a Net two years ago. And the reason then is the same reason he's happy to be in Brooklyn today: coach Kenny Atkinson.\n\u201cI would say his confidence,\" said Dudley of what struck him about the third-year Brooklyn head coach. \"I think that you could tell the way he talks he\u2019s a New Yorker in a sense of his confidence. Not being bold, but his attitude toward trying to get better, trying to work, the hard work. He seems to me a blue-collar guy, put your hardhat on here, come and let\u2019s work, let\u2019s have fun and let\u2019s get better.\"\nDudley met the media at HSS Training Center on Wednesday, just a few days after the Nets acquired him -- along with a 2021 second-round draft pick (protected) -- in exchange for forward Darrell Arthur. Dudley, who has one year left on the three-year deal he signed two summers ago when he opted to return to Phoenix, doesn't seem to mind the change.\nHe gave the Nets strong consideration two summers ago, much because of Atkinson. And not just the attitude that he mentioned, but the style of basketball the Nets play.\n\u201cHigh IQ, ball movement side-to-side, likes to shoot a lot of different threes but likes to put pressure on the offense with different stuff, or as you saw in Atlanta how their offense was,\" said Dudley. \"Especially for me, being a trailing four where he likes those power forwards to be able to, once the point guard swings to you, to be able to go from side-to-side both ways and kind of being a second point guard. For me, that\u2019s one of my strong suits here in the NBA with reading defenses, moving side-to-side, going to pick-and-rolls. I just think it\u2019s kind of a perfect match.\u201d\nGoing into his 12th NBA season, Dudley has long been known for his glue-guy versatility and complete game. At 6-foot-7, he can play either forward spot, and with a career 39.6 3-point shooting percentage, he could bring needed shooting range to the frontcourt in small-ball lineups.\nFor his career, Dudley has averaged 8.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.6 assists per game.\nIn Phoenix, the 32-year-old slid into a mentorship role with the young Suns, and he expects to take on similar responsibility in Brooklyn. He likes what he's seen from two of Brooklyn's key young core pieces, D'Angelo Russell and Jarrett Allen.\n\"Everybody knows his scoring ability,\" said Dudley of Russell. \"I think for him, and I talked to him on the phone, is how you can make your teammates better. In this league if you look at all the top stars everyone can score, it\u2019s about how you can make others better. The point guard should be your biggest leader, sometimes not always, but when I played with (Steve) Nash, (Chris) Paul and John Wall, those guys all led by example. So for him, when I get here in a couple weeks I\u2019d like to see how he leads.\n\"I think Jarrett Allen \u2013 the potential for him where he\u2019s a big that can move side to side, be able to block shots. I know he\u2019s progressed over the last year and I think those two are the cornerstones and we all have to fall in place and play our roles around them.\u201d\nHe's looking forward to not just living in Brooklyn, but playing in Barclays Center, an arena in which he says he's always shot well.\n\"I think in Brooklyn they respect the hustle and playing the right way,\" said Dudley, \"and because of that, fans come out and support that.\"\nCatch the Brooklyn Nets this Season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Ford-Detroit-Train-Depot-Redevelopment-Plans-490915611.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3Y5R6ZZB7XRTV5DGIQTWSA62GP3FA5Y", "length": 1734, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nbcbayarea.com", "title": "Ford to Spend About $740 Million on Detroit Redevelopment Plans - NBC Bay Area", "raw_content": "Ford to Spend About $740 Million on Detroit Redevelopment Plans\nThe automaker's Ford Land development arm announced Tuesday it expects to seek $250 million in tax incentives to help offset the cost\nCarlos Osorio/AP, File\nThis June 11, 2018, file photo shows the historic Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, it plans to spend roughly $740 million renovating Detroit's long-vacant train depot and redeveloping other area properties for research and development of self-driving vehicles.\nFord plans to spend hundreds of millions renovating Detroit's blighted train depot and other area properties\nThe automaker wants to use the spaces for research and development of self-driving vehicles\nDetroit has had a long decline from its status as a manufacturing powerhouse, and Ford plans to fix up the depot over the next several years\nFord Motor Co. plans to spend roughly $740 million renovating Detroit's long vacant train depot and redeveloping other area properties for research and development of self-driving vehicles.\nThe Dearborn-based company in June used the Michigan Central depot as a backdrop while publicly laying out plans for the 105-year-old train station and surrounding Corktown neighborhood, but the anticipated cost wasn't detailed.\nThe automaker's Ford Land development arm announced Tuesday it expects to seek $250 million in tax incentives to help offset the cost.\nFord's plans call for the depot to be redeveloped over the next several years. The last passenger train left the station in 1988. A businessman purchased the building in the mid-1990s, but it remained empty and became blighted, exemplifying Detroit's long decline from manufacturing powerhouse to bankruptcy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/niteside/Miss-Universe-Celebrates-Cinco-de-Mayo-in-NYC-92944814.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:2LFQSTIWLMYZ7CLFY2EX5C4LGSMV3CDT", "length": 171, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nbcnewyork.com", "title": "Miss Universe Celebrates Cinco de Mayo in NYC - NBC New York", "raw_content": "Miss Universe Celebrates Cinco de Mayo in NYC\nVenezuelan beauty and reigning Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez celebrated Cinco de Mayo at Chevy's in the city on Wednesday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Pope-Schedule-of-Events-in-DC-328277151.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AOSRS4XMNJULTHJYWOHK246S5LLUBLVD", "length": 3110, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.nbcwashington.com", "title": "The Pope's Schedule of Events in D.C. - NBC4 Washington", "raw_content": "The Pope's Schedule of Events in D.C.\nA visitor takes a selfie with a cardboard cutout of Pope Francis at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)\nYou may have heard -- the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has arrived in D.C.\nBut when will he be where -- and what will he be doing? And what's the best day to catch a glimpse of him in person?\nHere's his public schedule:\nTUESDAY, Sept. 22 (Washington, D.C.)\n4 p.m.: Arrived from Cuba via a plane that landed at Joint Base Andrews, in Prince George's County, Maryland. He was greeted by a delegation including President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.\nTip to D.C. drivers: This is when the road closures begin.\nThe pope will then travel via a motorcade to his residence, at the Apostolic Nunciature on Massachusetts Avenue near Embassy Row in Northwest.\nChances to see the Pope in person? None.\nWEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 (Washington, D.C.)\n9:15 a.m.: The Pope attends an official welcome ceremony and meeting with President Obama at the White House. On Friday, the White House said it would allow 15,000 people onto the grounds to help welcome the Pope.\nAfterward, he'll travel around the White House Ellipse in what the Archdiocese of Washington is calling a \"parade.\" He'll be in the open Popemobile and visible to the crowds.\n11:30 a.m.: The Pope will attend Midday Prayer with the bishops of the United States at St. Matthew's Cathedral on Rhode Island Avenue in Northwest D.C.\n4:15 p.m.: The Pope will preside at the Mass of Canonization of Junipero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Michigan Avenue in Northeast.\nThis Mass is one of the highlights of the trip. About 23,000 ticketed guests are expected. And if you are trying to go or live in the neighborhood, be aware: Travel in this area will be a mess. Take Metro if you can, and try to use the Rhode Island or Fort Totten stations and take a shuttle bus.\nChances to see the Pope in person? Traffic disasters aside, this is a good day to try! Tickets are not required for the White House or Ellipse (though you will have to go through security screening, and certain items are prohibited). Tickets are required for the Mass, however.\nTHURSDAY, Sept. 24 (Washington, D.C.; New York City)\n9:20 a.m.: The Pope will address a joint meeting of Congress. Jumbotrons showing the speech will be set up in a special viewing area on the National Mall as well.\n11:15 a.m.: The Pope will visit St. Patrick in the City and meet with staff and clients of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington.\n4 p.m.: The Pope will leave the Nunciature for Joint Base Andrews and his flight to New York City.\nChances to see the Pope in person? Not as good as on Thursday. But his speech to Congress is a big deal, and if you head to the Mall, you can watch on the Jumbotrons and check out the concurrent rally on climate change being sponsored by the Earth Day Network. The Pope is expected to address climate change in his speech to Congress.\nAfter D.C., the Pope travels to New York and Philadelphia. Read more on his itinerary here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 184.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncconsumer.org/news-articles/first-cases-of-drug-resistant-fungal-infection-reported-in-united-states.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:09Z", "digest": "sha1:CG2LBUASCLKAX4YGGOHHBXVACF3FXX5H", "length": 3349, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ncconsumer.org", "title": "First Cases of Drug-Resistant Fungal Infection Reported in United States", "raw_content": "First Cases of Drug-Resistant Fungal Infection Reported in United States\nThirteen cases of the infection, which is sometimes fatal, have been identified\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that thirteen cases of candida auris, a fungal infection that is serious and, at times, fatal, have been identified in the U.S.\nSeven cases took place between May 2013 and August 2016, while the other six were not identified until after this period and are still being investigated.\nThe infection is frequently resistant to antifungal medications and often occur in patients who are hospitalized. Together with numerous state and local health departments, the CDC has been investigating reports of the infection since June 2016, and it expects to continue doing so as more people become aware of candida auris.\n\"We need to act now to better understand, contain and stop the spread of this drug-resistant fungus,\" said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. \"This is an emerging threat, and we need to protect vulnerable patients and others.\"\nOf the seven cases mentioned above, patients with the infection were reported in four states: New York, Illinois, Maryland, and New Jersey. Each patient had a serious underlying medical condition and had been in the hospital for an average of 18 days when the infection was discovered. Four of the patients died, but it is not clear whether the deaths were linked to the infection or the other health conditions. Twice, two patients had received treatment at the same hospital or long-term care facility and had fungal strains that were almost identical, which suggests that the infection may be spread in healthcare settings.\nSix out of the seven cases were identified by a retrospective review of records from the hospitals and reference laboratories. Specialized laboratory methods are necessary to identify the infection due to the ease with which it can be confused with another kind of candida infection, which may result in the patient not receiving the appropriate treatment.\nMost of the strains in U.S. patients\u201471 percent\u2014showed a certain amount of resistance to drugs, making it more difficult to treat the infection. Samples of strains taken from people in other countries have been discovered to be resistant to all three of the major classes of antifungal medications. However, none of the U.S. strains in the seven cases were resistant to all three classes. Laboratory testing revealed a relationship between the U.S. strains and strains in South Asia and South America, although none of the patients had travelled to or had any direct connection with those places. It is likely that the majority of patients contracted the infections locally.\n\"It appears that C. auris arrived in the United States only in the past few years,\" said Tom Chiller, M.D., M.P.H., chief of CDC's Mycotic Diseases Branch. \"We're working hard with partners to better understand this fungus and how it spreads so we can improve infection control recommendations and help protect people.\"\nHealthcare facilities housing a patient with the infection should carry out thorough daily and after-discharge cleaning of the patient's room using an EPA-registered disinfectant that is active against fungi. Any cases of candida auris should be reported to CDC as well as state and local health departments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 3762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/timeline-civil-war-august", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QFUNWFKOSQBBAJVGDC7PTTMJYMIHFXDC", "length": 4531, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ncpedia.org", "title": "NCpedia | NCpedia", "raw_content": "\u2039 The War Comes to an End, 1864\u20131865\nNorth Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, November 1864\u2013May 1865 \u203a\nGeneral William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign\nUnion General Sherman departed Chattanooga, and was soon met by Confederate General Joseph Johnston. Skillful strategy enabled Johnston to hold off Sherman's force -- almost twice the size of Johnston's. However, Johnston's tactics caused his superiors to replace him with General John Bell Hood, who was soon defeated. Hood surrendered Atlanta, Georgia, on September 1; Sherman occupied the city the next day. The fall of Atlanta greatly boosted Northern morale.\nGeneral William T. Sherman's March to the Sea\nGeneral Sherman continued his march through Georgia to the sea. In the course of the march, he cut himself off from his source of supplies, planning for his troops to live off the land. His men cut a path 300 miles in length and 60 miles wide as they passed through Georgia, destroying factories, bridges, railroads, and public buildings.\nSherman in Atlanta\nAfter three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon Atlanta, the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two-and-a-half months.\nAbraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected\nThe Republican party nominated President Abraham Lincoln as its presidential candidate, and Andrew Johnson for vice-president. The Democratic party chose General George B. McClellan for president, and George Pendleton for vice-president. At one point, widespread war-weariness in the North made a victory for Lincoln seem doubtful. In addition, Lincoln's veto of the Wade-Davis Bill -- requiring the majority of the electorate in each Confederate state to swear past and future loyalty to the Union before the state could officially be restored -- lost him the support of Radical Republicans who thought Lincoln too lenient. However, Sherman's victory in Atlanta boosted Lincoln's popularity and helped him win re-election by a wide margin.\nAfter Admiral David D. Porter's squadron of warships had subjected Fort Fisher to a terrific bombardment, General Alfred H. Terry's troops took it by storm on January 15, and Wilmington, North Carolina, the last resort of the blockade-runners, was sealed off.\nThe Fall of the Confederacy\nTransportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's forces, and although President Jefferson Davis approved the arming of slaves as a means of augmenting the shrinking army, the measure was never put into effect.\nSherman Marches through North and South Carolina\nUnion General Sherman moved from Georgia through South Carolina, destroying almost everything in his path.\nA Chance for Reconciliation Is Lost\nConfederate President Jefferson Davis agreed to send delegates to a peace conference with President Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, but insisted on Lincoln's recognition of the South's independence as a prerequisite. Lincoln refused, and the conference never occurred.\nFallen Richmond\nOn March 25, General Lee attacked General Grant's forces near Petersburg, but was defeated -- attacking and losing again on April 1. On April 2, Lee evacuated Richmond, the Confederate capital, and headed west to join with other forces.\nSurrender at Appomattox Courthouse\nGeneral Lee's troops were soon surrounded, and on April 7, Grant called upon Lee to surrender. On April 9, the two commanders met at Appomattox Courthouse, and agreed on the terms of surrender. Lee's men were sent home on parole -- soldiers with their horses, and officers with their side arms. All other equipment was surrendered.\nOn April 14, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of \"Our American Cousin\" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, cornered in a burning barn, Booth was fatally shot by a Union soldier. Nine other people were involved in the assassination; four were hanged, four imprisoned, and one acquitted.\nFinal Surrenders among Remaining Confederate Troops\nRemaining Confederate troops were defeated between the end of April and the end of May. Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia on May 10.\nAdapted from Time Line of the Civil War, 1861, compiled by Joanne Freeman for the Library of Congress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1208, "original_length": 43930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.negemlaw.com/practice-areas/toxic-exposure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5ZYVUNFP73CCEGBJRN7UPPARXAQ5NOR", "length": 2832, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.negemlaw.com", "title": "Smith County Toxic Exposure Attorneys | Negem & Worthington", "raw_content": "Home / Practice Areas / Toxic Exposure\nSmith County Attorneys Represent Victims of Toxic Exposure\nBased in Tyler, attorneys at Negem & Worthington represent victims of toxic exposure throughout East Texas, including in the counties of Smith, Upshur, Gregg, and Cherokee. A wide range of harm may stem from toxic exposure, including cancer, infections, burns, or birth defects. The resulting claims are often complex, involving building and construction issues, technical research, and consultations with experts, scientists, and doctors, and requiring attorneys with particular expertise in this area. To find out how we can provide assistance in your toxic exposure claim, contact our offices today for a free case review.\nPersonal injury claims based on toxic exposure typically involve injuries and illnesses related to living or working with any of the following:\nIn the past, asbestos was used in abundance: the fibers were mixed with cement, used in insulation and wiring, and even woven into fabric. Unfortunately, the inhalation of these fibers can cause serious illnesses, including malignant lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestos. Despite its harmful effects on human health, asbestos is still not entirely banned; rather, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has placed limits on the amount and length of fibers that can be used. If you or a loved one has sustained improper asbestos exposure, our attorneys can help you receive the compensation you deserve from the parties who are responsible for endangering your health.\nMold, mildew, and fungus can contaminate a building\u2019s carpet, walls, and air duct system. Such infestation is sometimes referred to as \u201csick building syndrome,\u201d and is the focus of a growing number of lawsuits across the country. While not all molds are hazardous, some contain poisonous substances that lead to adverse health effects, such as:\nAlthough banned in the United States for use in residential and commercial buildings as a wall covering, lead-based paint still persists in the environment, particularly in poor neighborhoods. If your landlord fails to remove or cover old lead paint in your apartment, he or she may be liable for your ailments caused by exposure to the harmful paint. Symptoms include:\nIt is almost impossible to avoid all contact with harmful pesticides because they are so frequently used inside and outside of homes, offices, schools, recreation areas, and most public buildings. Every year, more than 100 million pounds of pesticides are applied to lawns alone. Even small amounts of some pesticides can cause eye and skin irritations, damage to the nervous, hormonal, and immune systems, cancer, and even death. Also, some pesticides are known to cause birth defects and miscarriages, and others can decrease fertility in both men and women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 93054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neighbourly.com/project/556c4d7c8f60fd0e8cf4c2e7/fundraising", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ7GDHIBZROH2HGY5SSGNAKF5LYSIRFA", "length": 212, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.neighbourly.com", "title": "Haven House Children's Hospice - fundrai | Neighbourly", "raw_content": "Haven House Children's Hospice - fundraising | Neighbourly\nSince 2003 Haven House Children\u2019s Hospice has been supporting children with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses and their families from acros...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 159.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neptunecoring.ca/services/category/microtunneling/project/millwoods-sewer-upgrade-phase-i", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:41Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2XCG2O6B4GN6YFFWZKUDUIX3JSISY7L", "length": 428, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.neptunecoring.ca", "title": "Millwoods Sewer Upgrade Phase I", "raw_content": "450mm Concrete Pipe 600mm Concrete Pipe\nThis Microtunnel work consisted of the installation of approximately 550 meters (1805 ft.) of 450mm and 600mm concrete sewer pipe through residential subdivisions and beneath arterial roadways at depths up to 12 meters (40 ft.). The longest drive completed was approximately 110 meters (360 ft.) in predominantly clay till soil conditions. The total duration of the projects was 3 months.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neptunesociety.com/about-cremation/three-things-you-spend-too-much-money-on-and-affordable-alternatives", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CSRDR34OETUOHL4FVFKYGZSB4UNDWGD5", "length": 3907, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.neptunesociety.com", "title": "Things You Spend Too Much Money On Things You Spend Too Much Money On", "raw_content": "Three Things You Spend Too Much Money On and Affordable Alternatives\nNobody likes spending too much money when they could have gotten something just as good for fewer dollars. Here are three things that people overspend on and how you can avoid doing the same.\nThe dizzying pace of technological innovation means that not only do new devices depreciate in value quickly, but also they lose novelty nearly immediately. As soon as a consumer product hits the market, competitors begin work on their own versions which means that rarely is any one thing special for very long.\nTrying to keep up by buying each new gadget as it comes out is an expensive treadmill to jump onto. Instead, seek out products that have been on shelves a little bit longer and that companies are looking to get rid of to make room for different offerings. You can often get almost all of the same benefits in an older model as you can in the newest product, without the inflated price tag that comes with the cutting edge. As a bonus, you won\u2019t have to deal with the bugs that are often present in the first iteration of a device.\nGeneric medications are often as effective as branded equivalents.\nBrand-name Medications\nPeople take brand name drugs for a variety of reasons \u2013 because they have great familiarity with them and therefore trust them, because they believe they work better or, sometimes, simply because those are the pills that they happened to have been prescribed.\nIn many cases, this is a waste of money. Pacific Standard talked to a panel of dozens of experts, who agreed that while there are some circumstances in which only a name brand drug is appropriate, there are countless others where a generic counterpoint works just as well. In fact, those experts concluded that name brand drugs were the choice in only a small portion of cases, such as when patients are particularly sensitive to a unique side effect, or there is no generic counterpart. Said Dr. C. Seth Landefeld, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham:\n\u201cI think there are very few instances where name-brand drugs have been shown to be beneficial compared to an equivalent generic. We should by and large be prescribing essentially the highest-value interventions that we can, which means, generally, generics over name brands.\u201d\nIf you have been prescribed a drug and believe that a generic version will be equally effective at a fraction of the cost, talk to your doctor. Your physician may be able to find you a course of treatment that is significantly cheaper but provides the same efficacy. This information is especially valuable to older people: Considering the high cost of elderly care, every extra dollar helps.\nFuneral planning is a difficult and emotionally charged time for everybody involved. People rarely have an interest in comparison shopping after a tragedy, which means that end of life costs can balloon virtually unchecked. In the past 50 years, the average cost of a funeral has multiplied nearly tenfold.\nOne of the driving forces behind this jump is the high cost of burial. Caskets can run up to $10,000, according to Fox Business, and the price of a liner and gravesite can tack on thousands more to that figure.\nHowever, there is a cost-effective alternative: cremation. \u201cThe total costs of a full body burial are about 6-8 times more expensive than cremation,\u201d according to Neptune Society, one of the largest providers of cremation services in the country. With cremation, there is no need to purchase an expensive casket \u2013 a wood or metal casket starts around $500 and can go up to $14,000. You also do not need to purchase a plot of land or transport the body to the cemetery, two things which add additional costs to the process. All told, cremation is significantly more financially viable for many people than burial.\nFor more information, contact the Neptune Society today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 16693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nerdynaut.com/how-to-begin-your-fashion-career-in-the-uk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EHHS7ADSEWW2NVKDH3G4XHWYIKQ77SXB", "length": 6500, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.nerdynaut.com", "title": "How to begin your Fashion Career in the UK - Nerdynaut", "raw_content": "Is your goal to be a Fashion Designer someday? Back up that dream by setting your career path right from the very beginning. College is one of the most crucial elements in moulding one\u2019s future career, but almost every day we come across people who happen to regret their choice of College which took away opportunities which they would\u2019ve had if they were in the right track.\nEspecially when it comes to fashion and textile studies in the UK, the competition is relatively high. With talent possessing all opportunities, the right education would guide you to the correct aim. If you feel like Fashion is your forte, don\u2019t think twice, refer this list of the 5 best Universities in the UK to learn Fashion and Textile. This list and all the described facts are based on The Guardian \u2013 University League Tables for 2019 and each of their respective websites.\nMaking it all the way up to the top of the list is, The University of Edinburgh sits right on as the Number 1 University to learn Fashion and Textile in the UK. This dynamic and award winning programme is one of the few studies in the UK which gives more emphasis on the students\u2019 personal creativity and innovation while nurturing them to bring out the utmost potential of each individual.\nThis 4 year BA is integrated with the practical studio work, Design & Screen Cultures courses provide a contextual and theoretical understanding of the holistic nature of contemporary design. By the end of the programme the students develop a personal research plan, designing a six-outfit graduate collection that may be showcased at the annual Edinburgh College of Art Fashion Shows and exhibited externally if applicable, along with a dissertation.\nIf you are a Scottish student planning to study full time for a first degree interested in enrolling for Fashion in \u2018The University of Edinburgh\u2019 would be eligible to have their fees paid by the Scottish Government for the full period of study.\nFashion is an ever-changing industry that needs professionals who can respond to its challenges. On this course, you\u2019ll gain the skills to analyze existing ideas and express yourself through unique, creative fashion designs that delight, shock and inspire. The speciality of this programme is that lectures happen in small groups, giving more attention to each student ensuring more contact with staff.\nDuring the study, each student gets their own designated studio space alongside well-equipped workshops and to make the 3 year academic final exciting, students get to work on live industry projects for real companies \u2013 gaining work experience to boost their portfolio.\nMaking it to the third of our list, Loughborugh University is one of the best places to study Fashion and textile in the UK. According to the National Student Survey 2017, overall satisfaction on textile education has ranked up to 97%. And further 93% of those who graduated from Loughborough textile studies are employed.\nAs a student studying Fashion and Textile, students have access to a wide range of excellent facilities, including areas dedicated to printing, weaving, dyeing, stitch, embroidery and CAD, supported by knowledgeable technical staff and encompassing both traditional and digital approaches to practice. The Staff are also engaged in both research and professional practice, providing valuable insight into activity within the Textiles sector. The programme ensures that all students have broad first-hand experience in processes involved in the planning and production of contemporary Textile outcomes, whilst developing specialized knowledge aligning with current contextual requirements \u2013 Interiors, Fashion, Textiles Art, Research and the developing area of Digital Production.\nThe study includes innovative workshops, self-generated project work, seminars and technical training to all students throughout its 4-year programme.\nNottingham Trent & Salford University\nBoth these universities scored equally at the Guardian University League Table and their Fashion Textile studies are ranked two of the top programmes in the UK.\nNottingham Trent University hosts several outstanding course programmes related to Fashion, Designing and Textiles Marketing.\nGraduates of Fashion and Textile study programmes from Nottingham is known to have 100% demand for employment in the fashion industry. Textile students get to exhibit their work in the final year at the Degree Show in Nottingham, with the opportunity to be selected for New Designers, London. Apart from that students also gain a professionally accredited degree \u2013 this is the only textile design degree in the UK accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD).\nFashion students of Nottingham Trent receives the Opportunity to apply for an international exchange to one of their partner institutions, including the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At the final year, they get to showcase their final year work on the catwalk at the Nottingham Degree Show with the opportunity to be selected for Graduate Fashion Week, London.\nOn the next of our list is Salford University which has an amazing study programme for Fashion and Textile education. The Undergraduate Fashion Degree Programme is an opportunity for students to enhance their employability through local and international work placements, global collaborations and partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the fashion industry while also gaining the opportunity to exhibit locally and on the catwalk at a professional show at Graduate Fashion Week in London.\nThe course reflects contemporary practice in the fashion industry, with individual creativity as its core. Each student is encouraged to explore their individual talents through the application of the professional design process, from original concept to final product. This course aspires to create flexible and creative fashion practitioners with well-developed personal skills. Through a range of inspiring modules, students become multi-skilled and professional in an environment where personal talent and individual development is nurtured.\nThis 3-year academic programme is believed to be very flexible with modules and practical whilst ensuring employment in the Fashion Industry.\nSo if you are passionate about Fashion and Textiles, look no further! We\u2019ve listed the best institutions to enrol for your Fashion degree programme and start chasing your dream today!\nEducationFashionfeaturedNaut's University Rankings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newcars.com.pk/toyota/toyota-avanza.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:UPVIVSF76S4EWX6K2UPTAWQWBJ62RUGD", "length": 3518, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.newcars.com.pk", "title": "Toyota Avanza SUV in Pakistan - Big Price Tag with New Features", "raw_content": "Toyota Avanza SUV in Pakistan - Big Price Tag with New Features\nAvanza 1.5L Up Spec Price in Pakistan\nToyota Avanza is a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) manufactured by Toyota in partnership with Daihatsu. The nameplate refers to an Italian word \u201cAvanzato\u201d, which means \u201cadvance\u201d. The vehicle is also known as Diahatsu Xenia in some auto markets of the world.\nEvolution and Expansion\nInitially, the MPV was introduced only in Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. Later on, it found its way to other important markets of the Asian continent including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The first generation of the automobile emerged in 2003 and continued to charm car lovers till 2011. From then onwards, the second generation was developed with multiple revisions. The later generation continues to this day.\nPowerful and Fuel-efficient Engine\nThis five door beauty is powered by the Japanese company\u2019s famous EFI engine with VVT-I which lets you achieve impressive fuel economy. Moreover, you can drive freely without the fear of incurring damage to your beautiful and precious environment. It is a 1.5 L, four cylinder engine using DOHC technology. There is another option available in several markets with a 1.3 L, four cylinder engine. The latter can reach 92 horsepower generated at 6,000 rmp and a torque equal to 108 Nm at 4,400 rmp.\nThe vehicle is midway between a highly luxuriant and costly SUV, and an average five-seater Sedan. The interior has seats for seven individuals for a memorable ride. Therefore, you can share the wonders of your journey with more people. Toyota Avanza price in Pakistan is, therefore, lower than a magnificent SUV but higher than a Sedan.\nThe spacious interior has 7 seats arranged in three rows. While the passengers sit comfortably on the thicker and more comfortable seats of the 2017 model, the driver is also provided with many facilities. The vehicle\u2019s ergonomics, therefore, help increase the convenience for drivers.\nEnhanced Passenger Safety\nOne of the most prominent tweaks in the Toyota Avanza New Model is the enhanced passenger safety. Dual SRS airbags ensure the safety of the driver and the passenger sitting right next to the driver\u2019s seat. These air bags will play a significant part in preventing head injuries during unavoidable accidents. Other common safety features making the entire system stronger include anti-lock braking system as well as the EBD system for the brakes. A side door impact beam has also been incorporated in the new 2017 model to impart maximum protection to all the passengers.\nDazzling Exterior\nWhen the physical appearance of the automobile is assessed, it can be concluded that the first generation was a stunner with a design you could easily get infatuated with. The elegance is maintained in the decedents as well. A stylishly structured front grille sits between two dazzling crystal head lamps as you can see in Toyota Avanza pictures. The car\u2019s bumper stares at you with dignity while the rest of the body gives off the grace which its manufacturers have infused in it.\nPakistani families mostly go for low costing hatchbacks or a little more priced Sedans. However, with low Toyota Avanza price, this MPV has brought more comfort and convenience for families having more than five members. In particular, this automobile will serve you and your family better than a Sedan for long and adventurous journeys as its fuel tank capacity is equal to 45 liters. The vehicle can also be a better option than an expensive SUV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 6515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newpathonline.com/standard/Rhode_Island_Standards/117/Science/4/7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:P3PEOOHN7BVFDD3L5BV3IE3RS6CNGQQE", "length": 18935, "nlines": 146, "source_domain": "www.newpathonline.com", "title": "Rhode Island Standards Seventh Grade Science resources", "raw_content": "Rhode Island Standards Seventh Grade Science resources\nRI.ESS1.Earth and Space Science: The earth and earth materials as we know them today have developed over long periods of time, through continual change processes.\nEarth and Space Science: The earth and earth materials as we know them today have developed over long periods of time, through continual change processes.\nESS1 (5-8) INQ+ POC-1. Use geological evidence provided to support the idea that the Earth's crust/lithosphere is composed of plates that move.\nESS1 (7-8)-1. Students demonstrate an understanding of processes and change over time within earth systems by...\n1a. Citing evidence and developing a logical argument for plate movement using fossil evidence, layers of sedimentary rock, location of mineral deposits, and shape of the continents.\nESS1 (5-8) POC-3. Explain how earth events (abruptly and over time) can bring about changes in Earth's surface: landforms, ocean floor, rock features, or climate.\n3a. Evaluating slow processes (e.g. weathering, erosion, mountain building, sea floor spreading) to determine how the earth has changed and will continue to change over time.\n3b. Evaluating fast processes (e.g. erosion, volcanoes and earthquakes) to determine how the earth has changed and will continue to change over time.\n3c. Investigating the effect of flowing water on landforms (e.g. stream table, local environment).\nESS1 (5-8) SAE+ POC-4. Explain the role of differential heating or convection in ocean currents, winds, weather and weather patterns, atmosphere, or climate.\n4a. Explaining cause and effect relationships between global climate and energy transfer.\n4b. Using evidence to make inferences or predictions about global climate issues.\nRI.ESS2.Earth and Space Science: The earth is part of a solar system, made up of distinct parts that have temporal and spatial interrelationships.\nEarth and Space Science: The earth is part of a solar system, made up of distinct parts that have temporal and spatial interrelationships.\nESS2 (5-8) NOS-7. Explain how technological advances have allowed scientists to re-evaluate or extend existing ideas about the solar system.\nESS2 (7-8)-7. Students demonstrate an understanding of how technological advances have allowed scientists to re-evaluate or extend existing ideas about the solar system by...\n7a. Identifying major discoveries from different scientists and cultures and describing how these discoveries have contributed to our understanding of the solar system (e.g. timeline, research project, picture book).\nESS2 (5-8) SAE+ POC-8. Explain temporal or positional relationships between or among the Earth, sun, and moon (e.g., night/day, seasons, year, tides) or how gravitational force affects objects in the solar system (e.g., moons, tides, orbits, satellites).\nESS2 (7-8)-8. Students demonstrate an understanding of temporal or positional relationships between or among the Earth, sun, and moon by...\n8a. Using or creating a model of the Earth, sun and moon system to show rotation and revolution.\n8b. Explaining night/day, seasons, year, and tides as a result of the regular and predictable motion of the Earth, sun, and moon.\n8c. Using a model of the Earth, sun and moon to recreate the phases of the moon.\n8d. Describing the relationship between mass and the gravitational force between objects.\n8e. Describing the relationship between distance and the gravitational force between objects.\n8f. Explaining that the sun's gravitational pull holds the Earth and other planets in their orbits, just as the planet's gravitational pull keeps their moons in orbit.\nRI.ESS3.Earth and Space Science: The origin and evolution of galaxies and the universe demonstrate fundamental principles of physical science across vast distances and time.\nEarth and Space Science: The origin and evolution of galaxies and the universe demonstrate fundamental principles of physical science across vast distances and time.\nESS3 (5-8)-9. No further targets for EK ESS3 at the 5-8 Grade Span. The GSEs listed below are assessed at the local level only.\nESS3 (7-8)-9. Students demonstrate an understanding of the structure of the universe by...\n9a. Describing the universe as containing many billions of galaxies, and each galaxy contains many billions of stars.\nRI.LS 4.Life Science: Humans are similar to other species in many ways, and yet are unique among Earth's life forms.\nLS4 (5-8) INQ-10. Use data and observations to support the concept that environmental or biological factors affect human body systems (biotic & abiotic).\nLS4 (7-8)-10. Students demonstrate an understanding of human body systems by...\n10a. Predicting and explaining the effects of biotic factors (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) on human body systems.\n10c. Researching and reporting on how biotic (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) and abiotic (e.g., radiation, toxic materials, carcinogens) factors cause disease and affect human health.\nLS4 (5-8) INQ+POC-11. Using data provided, select evidence that supports the concept that genetic information is passed on from both parents to offspring.\nLS4 (7-8)-11. Students demonstrate an understanding of human heredity by...\n11a. Recognizing that characteristics of an organism result from inherited traits of one or more genes from the parents and others result from interactions with the environment.\n11b. Tracing a genetic characteristic through a given pedigree (e.g., genealogical chart, Queen Victoria-hemophilia or hypothetical example) to demonstrate the passage of traits.\n11c. Identifying that genetic material (i.e. chromosomes and genes) is located in the cell's nucleus.\nLS4 (5-8) POC-12. Describe the major changes that occur over time in human development from single cell through embryonic development to new born (i.e., trimesters: 1st-group of cells, 2nd-organs form, 3rd-organs mature.\nLS4 (7-8)-12. Students demonstrate an understanding of patterns of human development by...\n12a. Identifying and sequencing the stages of human embryonic development.\n12b. Describing the changes from one stage of embryonic development to the next.\n12c. Comparing and contrasting embryonic development in various life forms (e.g., humans, frogs, chickens, sea urchins).\n12d. Comparing the patterns of human development after birth to life stages of other species.\nRI.LS1.Life Science: All living organisms have identifiable structures and characteristics that allow for survival (organisms, populations, & species).\nLife Science: All living organisms have identifiable structures and characteristics that allow for survival (organisms, populations, & species).\nLS1 (5-8) FAF-4. Explain relationships between or among the structure and function of the cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems in an organism.\nLS1 (7-8)-4. Students demonstrate understanding of differentiation by...\n4a. Explaining that specialized cells perform specialized functions. (e.g., muscle cells contract, nerve cells transmit impulses, skin cells provide protection).\n4b. Comparing individual cells of tissues and recognizing the similarities of cells and how they work together to perform specific functions.\n4c. Explaining how each type of cell, tissue, and organ has a distinct structure and set of functions that serve the organism as a whole.\nLS1 (5-8) POC-3. Compare and contrast sexual reproduction with asexual reproduction.\nLS1 (7-8)-3. Students demonstrate an understanding of reproduction by...\n3a. Explaining reproduction as a fundamental process by which the new individual receives genetic information from parent(s).\n3b. Describing forms of asexual reproduction that involve the genetic contribution of only one parent (e.g., binary fission, budding, vegetative propagation, regeneration).\n3c. Describing sexual reproduction as a process that combines genetic material of two parents to produce a new organism (e.g., sperm/egg, pollen/ova)\nLS1 (5-8) SAE+FAF-2. Describe or compare how different organisms have mechanisms that work in a coordinated way to obtain energy, grow, move, respond, provide defense, enable reproduction, or maintain internal balance (e.g., cells, tissues, organs and systems).\nLS1 (7-8)-2. Students demonstrate understanding of structure and function-survival requirements by...\n2a. Explaining how the cell, as the basic unit of life, has the same survival needs as an organism (i.e., obtain energy, grow, eliminate waste, reproduce, provide for defense).\n2b. Observing and describing (e.g., drawing, labeling) individual cells as seen through a microscope targeting cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, and chloroplasts.\n2c. Observing, describing and charting the growth, motion, responses of living organisms\nLS1 (5-8)-INQ+ SAE-1. Using data and observations about the biodiversity of an ecosystem make predictions or draw conclusions about how the diversity contributes to the stability of the ecosystem.\nLS1 (7-8)-1. Students demonstrate understanding of biodiversity by...\n1b. Explaining how organisms with different structures and behaviors have roles that contribute to each other's survival and the stability of the ecosystem.\nRI.LS2.Life Science: Matter cycles and energy flows through an ecosystem.\nLife Science: Matter cycles and energy flows through an ecosystem.\nLS2 (5-8) INQ+SAE-5. Using data and observations, predict outcomes when abiotic/biotic factors are changed in an ecosystem.\nLS2 (7-8)-5. Students demonstrate an understanding of equilibrium in an ecosystem by...\n5c. Predicting the outcome of a given change in biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.\nLS2 (5-8) SAE-6. Given a scenario trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem, beginning with the sun, through organisms in the food web, and into the environment (includes photosynthesis and respiration).\nLS2 (7-8)-6. Students demonstrate an understanding of energy flow in an ecosystem by...\n6a. Explaining the transfer of the sun's energy through living systems and its effect upon them.\n6b. Describing the basic processes and recognizing the names and chemical formulas of the substances involved in photosynthesis and respiration.\n6c. Explaining the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration.\n6d. Creating or interpreting a model that traces the flow of energy in a food web.\nLS2 (5-8) SAE-7. Given an ecosystem, trace how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment (includes water, oxygen, food web, decomposition, recycling but not carbon cycle or nitrogen cycle).\nLS2 (7-8)-7. Students demonstrate an understanding of recycling in an ecosystem by...\n7a. Diagramming or sequencing a series of steps showing how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment.\n7b. Developing a model for a food web of local aquatic and local terrestrial environments.\n7c. Explaining the inverse nature or complementary aspects of photosynthesis/respiration in relation to carbon dioxide, water and oxygen exchange.\n7d. Conducting a controlled investigation that shows that the total amount of matter remains constant, even though its form and location change as matter is transferred among and between organisms and the physical environment (e.g., bottle biology, mass of a closed system over time).\nRI.LS3.Life Science: Groups of organisms show evidence of change over time (structures, behaviors, and biochemistry).\nLife Science: Groups of organisms show evidence of change over time (structures, behaviors, and biochemistry).\nLS3 (5-8) MAS+FAF-8. Use a model, classification system, or dichotomous key to illustrate, compare, or interpret possible relationships among groups of organisms (e.g., internal and external structures, anatomical features).\nLS3 (7-8)-8. Students demonstrate an understanding of classification of organisms by...\n8a. Sorting organisms with similar characteristics into groups based on internal and external structures.\n8b. Explaining how species with similar evolutionary histories/characteristics are classified more closely together with some organisms than others (e.g., a fish and human have more common with each other than a fish and jelly fish)\n8c. Recognizing the classification system used in modern biology.\nLS3 (5-8) POC-9. Cite examples supporting the concept that certain traits of organisms may provide a survival advantage in a specific environment and therefore, an increased likelihood to produce offspring.\nLS3 (7-8)-9. Students demonstrate an understanding of Natural Selection/ evolution by...\n9a. Explaining that genetic variations/traits of organisms are passed on through reproduction and random genetic changes.\n9b. Gathering evidence that demonstrates evolutionary relationships among organisms (e.g., similarities in body structure, early development, traits).\n9c. Differentiating between acquired and inherited characteristics and giving examples of each.\n9d. Explaining how natural selection leads to evolution (e.g., survival of the fittest).\n9e. Describing how scientists' understanding of the way species originate or become extinct has changed over time.\nRI.PS1.Physical Science: All living and nonliving things are composed of matter having characteristic properties that distinguish one substance from another (independent of size or amount of substance).\nPhysical Science: All living and nonliving things are composed of matter having characteristic properties that distinguish one substance from another (independent of size or amount of substance).\nPS1 (5-8) INQ-1. Investigate the relationships among mass, volume and density.\nPS1 (7-8)-1. Students demonstrate an understanding of characteristic properties of matter by...\n1a. Measuring mass and volume of both regular and irregular objects and using those values as well as the relationship D=m/v to calculate density.\nPS1 (5-8) INQ+POC-2. Given data about characteristic properties of matter (e.g., melting and boiling points, density, solubility) identify, compare, or classify different substances.\n2a. Identifying an unknown substance given its characteristic properties.\n2b. Classifying and comparing substances using characteristic properties (e.g., solid, liquid, gas; metal, non-metal).\nPS1 (5-8) MAS-5. Given graphic or written information, classify matter as atom/molecule or element/compound (Not the structure of an atom).\nPS1 (7-8)-5. Students demonstrate an understanding of the structure of matter by...\n5a. Using models or diagrams to show the difference between atoms and molecules.\n5b. Classifying common elements and compounds using symbols and simple chemical formulas.\n5c. Interpreting the symbols and formulas of simple chemical equations.\n5d. Using symbols and chemical formulas to show simple chemical rearrangements that produce new substances (chemical change).\n5e. Explaining that when substances undergo physical changes, the appearance may change but the chemical makeup and chemical properties do not.\n5f. Explaining that when substances undergo chemical changes to form new substances, the properties of the new combinations may be very different from those of the old.\nPS1 (5-8) SAE+MAS-4. Represent or explain the relationship between or among energy, molecular motion, temperature, and states of matter.\nPS1 (7-8)-4. Students demonstrate an understanding of states of matter by...\n4a. Creating diagrams or models that represent the states of matter at the molecular level.\n4b. Explaining the effect of increased and decreased heat energy on the motion and arrangement of molecules.\n4c. Observing the physical processes of evaporation and condensation, or freezing and melting, and describe these changes in terms of molecular motion and conservation of mass.\nRI.PS2.Physical Science: Energy is necessary for change to occur in matter. Energy can be stored, transferred, and transformed, but cannot be destroyed.\nPhysical Science: Energy is necessary for change to occur in matter. Energy can be stored, transferred, and transformed, but cannot be destroyed.\nPS2 (5-8) INQ+SAE+POC-7. Use data to draw conclusions about how heat can be transferred (convection, conduction, radiation).\nPS2 (7-8)-7. Students demonstrate an understanding of heat energy by...\n7a. Designing a diagram, model, or analogy to show or describe the motion of molecules for a material in a warmer and cooler state.\n7b. Explaining the difference among conduction, convection and radiation and creating a diagram to explain how heat energy travels in different directions and through different materials by each of these methods.\nPS2 (5-8)-SAE+ POC-6. Given a real-world example, show that within a system, energy transforms from one form to another (i.e., chemical, heat, electrical, gravitational, light, sound, mechanical).\nPS2 (7-8)-6. Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by...\n6a. Using a real world example to explain the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy.\n6b. Constructing a model to explain the transformation of energy from one form to another. (e.g. an electrical circuit changing electrical energy to light energy in a light bulb).\n6c. Explaining that while energy may be stored, transferred, or transformed, the total amount of energy is conserved.\n6d. Describing the effect of changing voltage in an electrical circuit.\nRI.PS3.Physical Science: The motion of an object is affected by forces.\nPhysical Science: The motion of an object is affected by forces.\nPS3 (5-8) INQ+ POC-8. Use data to determine or predict the overall (net effect of multiple forces (e.g., friction, gravitational, magnetic) on the position, speed, and direction of motion of objects.\nPS3 (7-8)-8. Students demonstrate an understanding of motion by...\n8a. Measuring distance and time for a moving object and using those values as well as the relationship s=d/t to calculate speed and graphically represent the data.\n8b. Solving for any unknown in the expression s=d/t given values for the other two variables.\n8c. Differentiating among speed, velocity and acceleration.\n8d. Making and testing predictions on how unbalanced forces acting on objects change speed or direction of motion, or both.\n8e. Describing or graphically representing that the acceleration of an object is proportional to the force on the object and inversely proportional to the object's mass.\n8f. Differentiating between mass and weight.\nPS3 (5-8) SAE+INQ. Experiment, observe, or predict how energy might be transferred by means of waves (Local Assessment Only).\nPS3 (7-8)-LA. Students demonstrate an understanding of the visible spectrum of light by...\nLAa. Experiment how light from the sun is made up of a mixture of many different colors of light (e.g. using prisms, spectrometers, crystals).\nLab. Representing in words, diagrams, or other models the visible spectrum as a part of the electromagnetic spectrum (consisting of visible light, infrared, and ultraviolet radiation) and composed of all colors of light\nLac. Differentiating between electromagnetic and mechanical waves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1763, "original_length": 83854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20111223/family-glad-to-have-each-other-after-fire-destroys-home-near-ormond", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HNT5TGQIUXNRABRAAALJCHFGC7OG2VE4", "length": 2639, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.news-journalonline.com", "title": "Family glad to have each other after fire destroys home near Ormond - News - Daytona Beach News-Journal Online - Daytona Beach, FL", "raw_content": "Family glad to have each other after fire destroys home near Ormond\nLINDA TRIMBLE, Staff writer\nCorrean Reddin and her family started picking up the pieces of their lives Thursday after their home near Ormond Beach was destroyed by fire, leaving them without permanent shelter, clothes and the Christmas gifts that had been carefully selected for their children.\nNone of that was enough to discourage Reddin, who hopes to rebuild the house where the family lived behind a group home for five handicapped adults that she has operated since 1999.\n\"Everything is for a purpose,\" Reddin said Thursday as she sorted through some of the clothes and toys people had dropped off. \"I have faith in God. I'm not worried. I know everything is going to be OK.\"\nReddin's son and his two children plus her granddaughter and her three children were asleep when the fire broke out about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday at 725 Parque Drive. The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of the blaze.\nGranddaughter Urshala Harris awoke to see curtains aflame near the microwave and roused the rest of the family. \"I only had seconds,\" she said Thursday.\nReddin and two other children for whom she's the legal guardian were asleep in the group home, which wasn't damaged and whose residents weren't hurt.\nShe and the two children are staying at the group home while the rest of the family is staying temporarily in a motel, as arranged by the Red Cross, until they can find long-term housing.\nStill, the family was counting its blessings Thursday.\n\"As long as we have each other, we're OK. We're gonna make it,\" Harris said.\nFamily pictures and mementos of relatives who died in years past were among their biggest losses in the fire. \"All I've got left is his memories,\" Reddin said of her father, Lafayette Harris, who died in February.\nGone, too, are the Christmas gifts Reddin, her son Anthony and Harris had been stocking up on since October for the children in the family.\n\"Our main goal was these kids were going to have a good Christmas,\" said Harris, who works as a nursing assistant.\nEmployees from Holly Hill School, where three of the children attend classes, were among those who stopped by Thursday with clothes and checks to help the family. Prince of Peace Catholic Church brought some toys for the children and a woman from the Bunnell chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, of which Reddin is a member, came by to see how that group could help.\n\"People have been so nice to us,\" Reddin said. \"We really appreciate it to the bottom of our hearts.\"\n-- Information on the family's needs is available by calling Correan Reddin at 386-439-9478.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsarama.com/17385-injustice-gods-among-us-comes-early-on-ios.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:B2P2XPG5SBIAOAOB5C77SBXRF2JBBSJA", "length": 4616, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.newsarama.com", "title": "INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US Comes Early on iOS", "raw_content": "INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US Comes Early on iOS\nBy Seth Robison, Newsarama Contributor April 10, 2013 02:01pm ET\nInjustice: Gods Among Us Mobile\nReview By Seth Robison\nRama Rating: 7 out of 10\nThis year\u2019s most anticipated superhero video game takes off early exclusively on iOS platforms (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) with the free-to-play Injustice: Gods Among Us Mobile game app. Gamers engage in a hybrid card/three-on-three fighting experience that features almost all of the console version\u2019s announced characters each with variant costumes, unique special attacks and stats that can be upgraded via combat or in-game currency.\nTaking place in a simplified version of the console version\u2019s alternate reality storyline you are issued a small handful of DC characters in the form of cards that come to life as they are pitted against a series of AI teams in each of twenty-plus battles that steeply increase in difficulty as you progress to fight \u2018boss\u2019 level characters in challenging three-on-one fights. The game\u2019s roster includes all the Justice League heavyweights like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, the Hal Jordan Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Nightwing and Cyborg as well as villains like The Joker, Harley Quinn, Black Adam, Deathstroke, Doomsday, Lex Luthor and the enigmatic Catwoman.\nWinning battles earns you experience points to level up the character cards you\u2019ve used and some in-game currency with which you can purchase packs of random cards or specific ones individually at a markup to unlock particular special attacks, stat bonuses or high level characters. For the impatient, these coins can be purchased using real money.\nThe core of the game does what it can to ape the frantic three-on-three kinetic style seen in the vs. Capcom series, but it is strictly limited by the capabilities, both in hardware and touch-screen controls, of the Apple platforms. The combat instead will feel very familiar to those who played the console version of the Injustice: Gods Among Us developer\u2019s previous mobile game, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, itself a game whose mechanics are in the Infinity Blade family. Basic attacks are limited to two types: taps that bring forth light strikes and swipes that deliver heavier blows. Completing a combo, really just a string of attacks, brings forth a split second chance to add another swipe to cause a knock down. Successful attacks build your super gauge, which you can tap to unleash, though the top two levels (of three) can only be unlocked by leveling up. You can also block by pressing two fingers to the screen, though in practice this is tricky to use effectively. While the basic combat devolves into screen-mashing, the experience is buoyed by the detailed (for the platform) character look, voice work and animation.\nThe fast and furious gameplay facilitates the most addicting aspect of Injustice: Gods Among Us Mobile, the plethora of unlockables. Not only can you get that rush from opening a pack of virtual cards, but the game cleverly links to the upcoming console version as well. Clearing mobile battles and/or unlocking characters will unlock icons, backgrounds and even character skins in the console game. This process even works both ways, as the unlock menu reveals that accomplishing tasks in the core game will unlock items in the mobile version. It should be noted that this option requires registration with WB Games\u2019 social/marketing network. Another bothersome element is a meter that limits the number of times you can use a particular character in a fight before he/she has to \u2018rest\u2019 to recharge. While it\u2019s obviously good strategy to cycle in new characters to level them up, this system feels completely artificial, since you can buy their way back into the fight if you are unwilling to wait.\nInjustice: Gods Among Us Mobile is not just a must-play for those who are locked in for the release of the core game, but the fact that it is free should work well as an advertisement for the retail experience. It\u2019s a great example of the 24-hour gaming experience that technology can now deliver and gamers are lucky it exists around a world that\u2019s starting to feel as deep as the comic book universe that spawned it.\nhttp://www.newsarama.com/games/injustice-gods-among-us-hands-on.htmlINJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US - Brutal, Accessible, Deep\nINJUSTICE GODS AMONG US Videos Reveal DC Easter Eggs\nBATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS Games (Plural) & Surprise Villain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2013/12/why-did-c-s-lewis-write-chronicles-narnia", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:H4K6TQMVKKJV2OZ5BPL6XP6HK244BGKF", "length": 7430, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.newstatesman.com", "title": "Why did C S Lewis write the Chronicles of Narnia?", "raw_content": "Why did C S Lewis write the Chronicles of Narnia?\nPlenty has been written about the themes - faith, innocence, love - but little has been said about Lewis's \"need\" to write the books.\nA middle-aged bachelor teaching English Literature at Oxford proposes to publish a children\u2019s fantasy: in most publishers\u2019 offices, it is a proposal destined for the wastepaper basket. Yet no one could deny the extraordinary and continuing appeal of the Narnia stories \u2014 to adults as well as children. The enormous recent success of the series of films based on the books testifies to this. And even the ferocity of some critics of the books bears witness to their influence. Philip Pullman\u2019s powerful trilogy, His Dark Materials, is confessedly part of a counter-campaign \u2013 as if recognising that, for once, God has the best tunes and the devil (or rather the world of strictly secular morality and aspiration) needs to catch up in imaginative terms.\nWhy the books go on working so effectively is no easy question to answer. It isn\u2019t every reader, even every Christian reader, who finds them instantly compelling. Yet they bear many re-readings, and constantly disclose more things to think about. In this brief guide to some of their themes, I don\u2019t intend to try and answer the question of why they are popular \u2014 though there are some obvious things to be said. I am more interested in what precisely C S Lewis thought he was doing in writing the books in the first place.\nThe question of what Lewis thought he was doing is not quite the same question as \"What prompted him to write?\" On this, there are various theories. Some biographers, including A N Wilson in his brilliant and contentious study of 1990, have made much of the fact that Lewis began work on The Lion at a time in his life when multiple stresses, personal and intellectual, were driving him back towards a long-lost world of childhood imagination where matters did not have to be settled by constant conflict. He had been much taken aback by a rather traumatic debate in Oxford with the formidable philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, who had severely trounced him in argument, exposing major flaws in his book on miracles. Is it wholly an accident that the Narnia books have such a quota of terrifying female figures assaulting the simplicities of faith, hope, and love? And is Lewis retreating from argument back into the world of myth and fairy-tale which meant so much to him as a child? More damagingly, John Goldthwaite claims that the Anscombe debate \"stung him back into the brooding of adolescence rather than the innocence of childhood\", generating a fantasy picture of noble martyrdom at the hands of evil that finds its expression in Aslan\u2019s slaughter by the Witch.\nLewis gives a little colour to such an explanation when he says both that he was writing the sort of books he himself would have liked to read and that he felt an urgent need to write them. But the theory of an origin in some sort of panicked retreat from debate is pretty doubtful. Apart from the oddity of imagining Elizabeth Anscombe as the White Witch or the Queen of Underland (she was a passionately devout Roman Catholic who wanted simply to avoid the slightest suggestion that the faith was being defended by faulty reasoning), it is an odd reading of the books that sees them as being in flight back to the simplicities of the nursery. They are successful children\u2019s books \u2014 but, like most truly successful children\u2019s books, they are very far from just being comforting. Lewis wrote of The Lion, when early sales were slow, that some mothers and schoolteachers \"have decided that it is likely to frighten children\", and then added wryly, \"I think it frightens adults, but v. few children\". If these were indeed the kind of stories that Lewis felt he would like to read, it does credit to his appetite for challenge in his reading material. And in response to the notion that he is indulging in adolescent self-glorifying, we need to read all that is said again and again in the books about the dangers precisely of such melodrama.\nBut it is also important to recognise how much the themes of the Narnia books are interwoven with what he was thinking and writing in other contexts around the same time, and with material he had already published in the 1940s \u2014 as well as the fact that the first seeds of the actual Narnia narrative seem to have been sown as early as 1939. For example: his 1946 book, The Great Divorce, foreshadows many of the ideas in the Narnia stories \u2014 most particularly a theme that Lewis insists on more and more as his work develops, the impossibility of forcing any person to accept love and the monumental and excruciating difficulty of receiving love when you are wedded to a certain picture of yourself. It is this theme that emerges most clearly in his last (and greatest) imaginative work, the 1956 novel, Till We Have Faces. These issues are very much the issues that Lewis is trying to work out in a variety of imaginative idioms from the early 1940s onwards \u2014 the problems of self-deception above all, the lure of self-dramatising, the pain and challenge of encounter with divine truthfulness. What Narnia seeks to do, very ambitiously, is to translate these into terms that children can understand. And as to why Lewis decided to address such an audience, there is probably no very decisive answer except that he had a high view of children\u2019s literature, a passion for myth and fantasy and a plain desire to communicate as widely as possible.\nIn a letter of 1945 to Dorothy L Sayers, he declares that he is \"all for little books on other subjects with their Christianity latent. I propounded this in the SCR [Senior Common Room] at Campion Hall [the Jesuit House of Studies in Oxford] and was told that it was 'Jesuitical'.\" Against such a background, writing children\u2019s books \"with their Christianity latent\" makes good sense enough. It is, we need to be clear, something rather different from simply writing standard defences of Christianity in code: he and Sayers would have agreed passionately that the writing has to have its own integrity, its own wholeness. It has to follow its own logic rather than being dictated by an argument. But this does not mean that it cannot be powerful in showing how an argument can be properly put into context. And if we turn back to his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, we shall find that this Jesuitical lack of scruple is simply a reflection of God\u2019s unprincipled methods in nudging us towards faith. \"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading,\" says Lewis; apparently harmless literary works are littered with traps for the unwary, seductive style, compelling narrative and literary integrity blinding us to the doctrine that a writer takes for granted and so insinuating the doctrine when we\u2019re not paying full attention.\nThis post originally appeared at blog.oup.com\nRowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. His most recent book is The Lion\u2019s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia, from which this blog post was exerpted.\n\u203a Don't abandon the women of Afghanistan\nWas the White Witch born of a flouncing from the formidable philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe? Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images.\nRowan Williams is an Anglican prelate, theologian and poet, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He writes on books for the New Statesman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/bigger-better?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=facebook&mbid=social_facebook", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GUTLNF4VSKO6KPWOFV53CNGAMFKWRP3H", "length": 41874, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "Reinventing Plus-Size Style | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "Full-\ufb01gured fashion gets a new look.\nI attended a runway show at New York Fashion Week this year, and I managed to get a very good seat\u2014in the front row, right where the models made their turns. As is often the case in fashion, the best part was not where I was sitting but with whom: two of the biggest players in the industry\u2014the editor-in-chief of the leading magazine and a colleague, a former model.\nShow time: the lights went up, and a model sashayed onto the runway in something that resembled Miami club wear, by way of an ashram. She wore black platform heels and short white harem pants with a white tailored draped top. A crackle of flashes came from the photographers. The clothes seemed to be a success. At a black-and-white wool herringbone suit, the editor exclaimed, \u201cYes! I love that!\u201d\nThen a model came down the runway wearing a skintight leopard-print dress with a V neck and a scandalously high slit up the front. There were gasps from the audience as the model narrowed her eyes and strutted toward us. The editor whispered, \u201cThat is an air-your-coochie dress!\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t look up!\u201d the editor\u2019s colleague joked, as the model pivoted on the runway.\nThis scene did not take place at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, where coochie jokes are about as common as last season\u2019s sweatpants. I was at Full Figured Fashion Week, an independent event held this summer, in downtown Manhattan, to showcase plus-size clothes\u201414 and above. The editor-in-chief was Madeline Jones, of the magazine PLUS Model\u2014an online-only magazine that is sometimes described as the Vogue of the industry\u2014and her companion was Alexandra Boos, a former plus-size model who now runs the \u201ccurvy\u201d division of TRUE Model Management and is the marketing and creative director for PLUS Model. For anyone accustomed to navigating the anxious crowds at uptown Fashion Week, Full Figured Fashion Week can feel like passing from a land of famine into one of plenty. The guests are more racially diverse\u2014there were plenty of white people, but much of the crowd was African-American and Latino\u2014and they come in every shape and size: short women with slim waists and enormous breasts, tall women with narrow shoulders and thick torsos, round women, pear-shaped women, and a few mesmerized men. The atmosphere is celebratory, rather than cutthroat. There were snacks, and buoyant music was playing. People referred to the \u201cplus community,\u201d and they wore T-shirts with slogans such as \u201cThick Girls Do It Better.\u201d\nFull Figured Fashion Week is the creation of Gwen DeVoe, a onetime plus-size model who now works in human resources at Scholastic publishing. DeVoe, a tall African-American woman with broad shoulders and prominent cheekbones, wears a size 18. She got the idea for Full Figured Fashion Week in 2007, after attending a Tracy Reese show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Reese is one of her favorite designers, and DeVoe told me she\u2019d been excited about the show. \u201cMy friends were texting me, like, \u2018Oh my God, take a selfie!\u2019 \u201d But after watching a procession of clothes she loved she had a sinking realization: \u201cNone of these things are for me. And not because I wasn\u2019t a buyer\u2014because I had the money. But because they didn\u2019t come in my size.\u201d\nDeVoe is the take-charge type: \u201cMy motto has always been, if you don\u2019t invite me to the party, I\u2019ll have my own party.\u201d She raised ten thousand dollars in sponsorship money and spent ten thousand of her own to host a plus-size runway show. This year, its sixth, the event attracted about a thousand people, from as far away as Japan and Germany, and featured events all over town\u2014parties, trunk shows, panels\u2014culminating in two fashion shows: an Indie Designer show, which displayed the work of eleven plus-size designers from cities around the country, including Portland and Atlanta, and a runway show, which featured larger companies, including Kiyonna and ModaMix. For people working in the often overlooked business of selling clothes to large women, \u201cit was recognition,\u201d Boos told me. \u201cIt was no longer feeling invisible.\u201d\nTo understand what fashion for plus-size women is, it\u2019s important to understand what it hasn\u2019t been\u2014which is fashionable. At Full Figured Fashion Week, people often asked me to imagine a typical department store. Upstairs, above cosmetics and accessories, is the elaborate layer cake of women\u2019s apparel: juniors, sportswear, swimsuits. There are sections for \u201caccessible luxury,\u201d celebrity lines by Jessica Simpson and Kate Moss, power suits, ten-thousand-dollar wedding dresses, designer jeggings. But these clothes typically come in sizes 0 through 12. To find anything bigger, you have to go to the top floor or the basement, \u201ca hidden little grotto,\u201d as Boos told me. \u201cLike it\u2019s the dirty secret, hidden between the tire department and home goods.\u201d\nHistorically, plus-size apparel has had a conservative look. Its unofficial name, I quickly gathered at Full Figured Fashion Week, was \u201cfat-girl clothes.\u201d The clothes were heavy on basics\u2014items like plain T-shirts\u2014in stretchy materials and dark colors. They usually conformed to a set of generally accepted rules about what plus-size women should wear. No one can decide who wrote the rules (perhaps it was the principal of a very strict all-girls school), but everyone could rattle them off: Nothing tight or body-hugging. No crop tops. No loud colors. No patterns. No horizontal stripes. As a result, the plus section became the land of the mom jean and the muumuu\u2014of dresses that were less fashion statement and more \u201ctent to hide your body,\u201d as one woman put it.\nIn the past five years, however, things have changed. Fast-fashion outlets\u2014H&M, Forever 21, Wet Seal, and Mango\u2014have rolled out new, plus-size lines, forcing their more traditional competition to catch up. Macy\u2019s is spicing up its \u201cWoman\u2019s\u201d section. (This season, a representative told me, the store\u2019s in-house line, INC, is focussing on \u201cpeasant tops, soft pants, and jumpsuits.\u201d) And on the Internet a new generation of e-retailers\u2014the U.K. brand ASOS and the plus-size-only brand Eloquii\u2014have found success selling trendy clothes to a younger market. \u201cTruthfully, it\u2019s gotten better,\u201d Boos told me.\nThe improvements in plus-size clothing shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise. Consider the demographics: In 1985, the average woman wore a size 8. Today, she wears a size 14. The U.S. government considers more than a hundred million Americans\u2014and more than sixty-four per cent of females\u2014to be overweight. Plus-size apparel represents almost eighteen billion dollars of the hundred-and-sixteen-billion-dollar women\u2019s-apparel business, and in the past year it has grown three per cent. According to Marshal Cohen, a former retail executive who is now an analyst at the market-research group NPD, \u201cThere is money in it, and there is big, healthy money.\u201d\nThe question in the air at Full Figured Fashion Week was whether plus-size fashion can find acceptance in the high-fashion realm. Last fall, Lane Bryant\u2014the brand that most people associate with the dowdy, conservative look of yore\u2014announced a collaboration with Isabel Toledo, the designer known for her meticulous architectural clothes. In March, Lane Bryant and Toledo put on a plus-size show in New York that was attended by editors from Glamour and Vogue. The former Vogue contributing editor Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley, who attended, told me that he was impressed by the show: \u201cIt was hip. It had today written all over the silhouettes, the casting, the shoes. Attitude. Everything.\u201d Talley added that in the past three years he\u2019s noticed a change in the women he sees on the streets. \u201cThe big girl rocks. The big girl is dope,\u201d he said. \u201cWalking down the street, all the big girls are looking and thinking fashion. They\u2019re on point with the fashion trend.\u201d\nThere\u2019s a sense that the fashion world is on the verge of a change equal to the \u201cdemocratization\u201d that\u2019s gained momentum in the past ten years\u2014in which runway-knockoff chains like Zara and big-box designer collaborations like Vera Wang for Kohl\u2019s have made high fashion available to the masses. This hope has been buoyed by the box-office triumph of female celebrities with non-Jennifer Aniston-esque bodies, who seem to be closing the gap between fashionable and \u201creal\u201d America. Melissa McCarthy, who starred in \u201cBridesmaids,\u201d said that just two years ago she had trouble finding a designer to make her a dress for the Academy Awards. As Jill Herzig, then the editor of Redbook, told a reporter, \u201cThe second wave of this big style revolution . . . is that accessibility doesn\u2019t just mean price\u2014it means size.\u201d\nI first met Alexandra Boos on the Wednesday of Full Figured Fashion Week. Hundreds of full-figured women, dressed in white and showing skin, were lined up along a pier on the East River, waiting to board a party boat for an event called Curves at Sea. Boos is tall and voluptuous, with a bright, Midwestern disposition and a blond-bombshell look\u2014flowing hair, pouty red lips, and a face that resembles Cindy Crawford\u2019s. She was wearing an A-line dress from Macy\u2019s and was shepherding a group of young plus models: busty twentysomethings of various races, in high heels. \u201cO.K., girls!\u201d Boos called out, lining up the models for a picture. One of them asked, \u201cHave we got all the curves in?\u201d\nBoos, who is in her forties, has never had the mainstream recognition of famous plus-size models, such as Mia Tyler or Ashley Graham, but in the industry she\u2019s a fixture. She came to New York from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1989, with plans to become an actress. People kept asking her if she modelled. She was confused: \u201cHow can I be a model? I\u2019m a size 14.\u201d Eventually, though, she became a plus-size Ford model, and shot campaigns for Lane Bryant, Catherine\u2019s, and Ulla Popken, a German brand. Work was plentiful, but plus-size models didn\u2019t have the same status as their thin counterparts. Major brands ordered them to show up for photo shoots at 8 A.M., in their own makeup. \u201cThe straight-size models would come and have pro makeup artists do their hair and makeup,\u201d Boos said. \u201cIt was a blatant stepchild feeling.\u201d\nAt Full Figured Fashion Week, people wondered whether plus-size designers could find acceptance in the high-fashion world. Alexandra Boos, a former model, described the shows as \u201crecognition.\u201d\nPhotographs by Pari Dukovic\nBoos explained the rules of the game. Despite the aura of inclusiveness surrounding the plus-size fashion industry, its models are subject to many of the same forces as their thinner counterparts\u2014including the need to appear thin. It\u2019s not uncommon to find size-8 models in plus-size clothing catalogues. \u201cThere\u2019s pressure to have an angled face,\u201d Boos said. \u201cWhat some models would do is they\u2019d be on the smaller spectrum\u2014normal weight\u2014and they would get padding.\u201d In her modelling years, Boos said, she always carried pads. \u201cOn top of that, if I was on the smaller side, the seamstresses would make me a fat suit out of pillow padding.\u201d\nThere is also the matter of terminology: in the plus-size world, sizes 0 to 12 are generally called \u201cstraight\u201d\u2014or, occasionally, by department-store buyers, \u201cmissy\u201d\u2014never \u201cstandard\u201d or \u201cregular.\u201d Terms for larger sizes keep piling up. \u201cWhen I started, they called them \u2018mama sizes,\u2019 \u201d Boos said\u2014an expression still used by some Chinese manufacturers. Then came \u201cwomen\u2019s\u201d sizes, followed by \u201cfull-figured,\u201d which was popularized by lingerie sellers. The more assertive \u201cplus\u201d arrived in the past decade. Lately, it has been losing traction to \u201ccurvy,\u201d though some people think that favors an hourglass physique. An alternative movement has long pushed to reclaim the word \u201cfat.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a big controversy,\u201d Boos told me. \u201cWe haven\u2019t landed on the word that pleases everybody, and, frankly, I don\u2019t know if we ever will.\u201d\nFull Figured Fashion Week is as much a fashion show for the audience as for the models. \u201cPeople have been plotting their outfits all year,\u201d one blogger, Marie Denee, told me. Boos urged me to attend the Indie Designer show on Friday. The show was held in the Broad Street Ballroom, a bank building downtown, with classical columns. Club music played, the runway was decorated with paper butterflies, and, in a bar area, waiters served cream-cheese-stuffed strawberries and champagne.\nIf the cruise had tweaked the rules of \u201cfat girl\u201d dressing, the scene at the show ripped them to pieces. Instead of white, people wore eye-catching color: sequins, bodysuits, flashy headpieces. I chatted with an entrepreneur named Camille Newman, who went to Oberlin and lives in Brooklyn. She had a reverse-ombr\u00e9 hair style, with light bangs and dark hair extensions. Her outfit mixed high and low: hot-pink lipstick, dollar-store earrings, a tight pink top, and a shiny purple \u201cskater skirt\u201d from an independent designer named Youtheary Khmer. \u201cWe carry this on my site,\u201d Newman said; she is the owner of a pop-up store and online designer shop called Pop Up Plus. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to be the Nasty Gal of plus,\u201d she said, referring to the fast-growing e-tailer.\nI found Boos talking to the French plus-size model Cl\u00e9mentine Desseaux, who has brown hair and girlish freckles. Boos threw her arms around Desseaux\u2019s manager, Becca Thorpe, another stately blonde. \u201cEee! Good to see you!\u201d Boos said. She told me, \u201cBecca and I modelled together back in the day.\u201d\nThey posed for pictures, and Desseaux, whom Thorpe seems to be positioning as a kind of plus-size Gwyneth Paltrow\u2014she writes a life-style blog called Bonjour Clem\u2014said that she had recently moved to New York, and was finding the city \u201cempowering and awesome.\u201d In France, plus size is called grande taille, and is considered something of an embarrassment. Desseaux sighed: \u201cIt was not easy being curvy in France.\u201d\nI sat between Boos and Jones, the editor of PLUS Model. The lights went down, and a hush came over the room. Full Figured Fashion Week plays \u201ca spiritual role,\u201d Boos told me. Sometimes, the body-acceptance talk has an evangelical tone. Late in the show, a male spoken-word artist named Jamaal St. John*, invoking a preacher, delivered an ode to curvy women. Sample lines: \u201cOn the eighth day, God created thickness and saw that it was good!\u201d; \u201cStop asking me if those jeans make your butt look big. No. Your butt makes your butt look big! And I love every inch of it\u201d; and \u201cI like my women the way I like my pancakes: hot, fluffy, and stacked!\u201d\nThe lights went up, and the m.c. told us to greet one another: \u201cTurn to your neighbor and say, \u2018Girlfriend, you are beautiful!\u2019 \u201d\nIt\u2019s worth recalling that the very idea of \u201cfat\u201d is a fairly recent creation. For most of human history, as Amy Farrell, a professor of women\u2019s and gender studies at Dickinson College, notes in \u201cFat Shame,\u201d only the wealthy could have extra fat on their bodies. Most people worked too hard, had too little food, and were often too sick. Then came the Industrial Revolution: mass food production and more sedentary jobs meant that the new middle class, and not just the wealthy, became heavier. Once \u201caverage\u201d fat people came on the scene, Farrell writes, \u201cfat denigration\u201d became more common: fat jokes proliferated in nineteenth-century magazines.\nClothing changed, too: with manufactured garments came standardized sizes. People used to sew their own clothes (or, if they were wealthy, hired tailors), so they made clothes that fit their body\u2019s shape. But factory-made clothes came in predetermined sizes. (In 1939 and 1940, the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a survey of fifteen thousand women\u2019s bodies to devise commercial standards.) Suddenly, it became important for your body to fit your clothes, instead of the other way around: it was possible to try on a skirt in a store and think, My legs are too short, or My butt\u2019s too big.\nStill, until the nineteen-sixties\u2014with the brief exception of the Flapper era\u2014 the ideal body shape for women was curvy and feminine; Marilyn Monroe reigned. The Youthquake of the nineteen-sixties fuelled the ascent of teen-age beauty icons like Twiggy and Penelope Tree, and the ultra-thin body became the new ideal. The ancient equation was completely reversed: fatness became associated with low social status; thinness became a symbol of wealth and prestige.\nBut, as Full Figured Fashion Week demonstrated, class and racial politics complicate this narrative. \u201cIn the black community, there\u2019s always been a celebration and a recognition of the fact that black women have thick, curvy bodies,\u201d Tanisha Ford, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told me. She pointed out that traditional African clothes were designed to highlight curves, and that hip-hop today embraces a wide range of shapes, including \u201cthickness.\u201d Nicki Minaj is a reigning beauty icon. Ford, who is the author of a forthcoming book called \u201cLiberated Threads: Black Women and the Politics of Adornment,\u201d noted that fashion shows have long played an important political role in African-American culture, starting with Sunday processions, when slaves walked to church, and extending through Marcus Garvey\u2019s Universal Negro Improvement Association, which hosted beauty pageants and fashion shows with a Black Nationalist bent. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s no shocker that black women would be leading the charge toward full-figured fashion,\u201d Ford said. \u201cBlack people have always used clothing as a form of resistance.\u201d\nIn the modern era, resistance tends to happen on the Internet. The plus-size fashion movement owes much to the emergence, in the past six or seven years, of a new generation of fashion bloggers, who challenge mainstream beauty standards using cheeky names: Plus Size Princess, Curvy Girl Chic, Stylish Curves, La Pecosa Preciosa, A Well-Rounded Venture, Chubble Bubble, Curves and Chaos, Hey, Fat Chick!\nMany blogs grew out of \u201cbody acceptance\u201d communities on the Web, like the Livejournal community Fatshionista, and they have flourished, in part, for practical reasons. Sarah Conley, a social-media consultant and the blogger behind StyleIT, told me that readers often follow bloggers whose bodies look like their own. \u201cTake Chastity Garner,\u201d Conley said, naming the blogger behind Garner Style. \u201cHer readers follow her because their body is similar to hers\u2014she\u2019s more pear-shaped\u2014so they want to know how clothes look on her, and what her tips and tricks are.\u201d\nOnce in a while, a single post can spark a movement. In the summer of 2011, Gabi Gregg, who writes the blog GabiFresh, went on a quest to find a bikini; at the time, bikinis were hard to find in large sizes. When she found one, she posted a picture of herself in it, calling it a \u201cfatkini.\u201d (Gregg says that she got the word and the idea from a Tumblr user.) The picture, and a follow-up article for the Web site xoJane, the next summer, went viral, prompting a wave of copycat posts. Plus-size women took bikini pictures and tagged them #fatkini. Gregg ended up on the \u201cToday\u201d show, and the retail landscape changed. Gregg told me, \u201cOut of nowhere, all these plus-size brands were suddenly making bikinis.\u201d\nThe fatkini movement\u2014and plus-size fashion in general\u2014has occasionally sparked a backlash. \u201cBeing really visible when you\u2019re a plus-size woman is not for the faint of heart,\u201d Conley told me. Many blogs attract lewd and misogynistic comments, but the more mild-mannered critics cite health concerns. \u201cThere\u2019s a fine line between anti-body-shaming and obesity-glorification,\u201d one reader wrote, at the bottom of a Buzzfeed article about the fatkini trend. Another added, \u201cCelebrating obesity seems a bit ridiculous.\u201d\nObesity is a genuine health concern, but the connection between health and the wearing of crop tops is a murky one. \u201cThis should never be a conversation about health,\u201d Madeline Jones told me. People become plus size for all sorts of reasons, not all of which involve life-style choices. And it\u2019s not clear that shaming people\u2014or requiring them to wear muumuus\u2014is an effective weight-loss tool. (Most psychological studies suggest the opposite.) In general, the academics I spoke with argued that health-related critiques of plus-size fashion veil an age-old impulse: the desire to police the prevailing social order, in which fat women are inferior. Kinitra Brooks, a scholar of black women and popular culture, has a word for it. \u201cThat\u2019s called concern-trolling,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s another tool of control.\u201d\nBeing among the first to challenge the social order can be lucrative. Gabi Gregg, the blogger who started the #fatkini movement, now designs her own line of swimwear, called Swim Sexy. Her galaxy print suit, which she described as her \u201call star,\u201d sold out in twenty-four hours.\nIn the world of plus-size fashion, activism and consumerism often cheerfully intermingle. Bloggers move merchandise. Raina Penchansky, the chief strategy officer of Digital Brand Architects, an agency that represents bloggers, told me that plus-size bloggers have the highest \u201cconversion rate\u201d in the business\u2014meaning that their blog posts result in sales. Retailers are eager to get them on board, and bloggers often do double duty as paid spokespeople. One executive at a plus-size-clothing chain told me that winning \u201cgrass-roots\u201d support was critical to any sales strategy. \u201cOur market moves much more bottom up than top down.\u201d\nThe rising clout of bloggers occasionally creates tension. The Italian brand Marina Rinaldi used plus-size fashion bloggers as models for a recent ad campaign, and some models, Boos told me, saw themselves out of a job. \u201cThe bloggers are becoming kind of industry celebrities,\u201d she said. Gwen DeVoe, the organizer of Full Figured Fashion Week, said that she\u2019d considered inviting a popular plus-size blogger, only to be told by the blogger\u2019s booking agent that the fee would be three thousand dollars. \u201cI\u2019m not mad at her,\u201d DeVoe added. \u201cDo your thing! But I can\u2019t afford her.\u201d\nAt Fashion Week, I attended several events set up by brands to wine and dine bloggers, including a \u201cpampering session\u201d at the W downtown, hosted by the British brand Evans, and a \u201cbirthday party\u201d thrown by Just My Size, an underwear company celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. The room was full of youthful women in dresses with loud patterns: the uniform of the new wave. I spoke to Karen Ward, a Toronto blogger and store owner who writes the blog Curvy Canadian, and several New York-based bloggers: Mellie Davis, from the Fat Apple; Ty Alexander, from Gorgeous in Gray; Beck Delude, a six-foot-three twenty-four-year-old who works as a social-media strategist and writes a blog called the Manfattan Project; and Chastity Garner, the thirty-three-year-old blogger behind Garner Style. Garner, who is African-American and from Georgia, wore a girlie outfit\u2014a long dress with a black-and-white striped skirt and a black top with lace detailing\u2014and had her hair in a chin-length curly bob. She started blogging in 2008, while working at a nonprofit. \u201cPlus-size clothes were just getting good,\u201d she said. She quit her job two years ago, and now lives in San Francisco, where she has a high-five-figure income, thanks to a combination of sponsored posts, advertisements, consulting for brands, and writing a column on plus-size fashion for About.com. She told me, \u201cThe crazy thing is, I think the reason I\u2019m able to be a full-time blogger is because I\u2019m fat.\u201d\nWhile plus-size and fast-fashion brands scramble to attract attention from the plus-size community, \u201cstraight\u201d fashion brands are more ambivalent. At Full Figured Fashion Week, I heard people making reference to the fashion industry\u2019s \u201ccloset\u201d plus-size designers: accessible luxury brands with big licensing businesses\u2014including Calvin Klein, Vince Camuto, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Michael Kors. All have plus-size lines that are sold in stores like Macy\u2019s but are not advertised.\nSome people in the plus-size fashion world have attempted to persuade them to be more vocal, to little avail. Jones told me that PLUS Model has remained online-only for eight years, rather than in print, because she can\u2019t get fashion companies to buy ad pages. \u201cI\u2019ve approached INC, Roberto Cavalli, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Adrianna Papell,\u201d she said. \u201cThey never buy ads.\u201d (She has hired a new marketing director to approach the brands again this fall.) Nicolette Mason, a columnist for Marie Claire and a blogger, said that she had made it a mission to persuade Michael Kors to acknowledge his \u201cbeautiful\u201d plus-size line, Michael. \u201cI tried to get samples from Michael Kors, and they wouldn\u2019t lend them to me,\u201d she said. \u201cThey pretty much said that they would not publicize their plus brand.\u201d When I contacted Michael Kors, a public-relations representative sent over a statement: \u201cThe MICHAEL Michael Kors plus size line launched in 2007. Michael prides himself on being able to dress women of all shapes and sizes, and making them feel and look good.\u201d\nThe fashion world\u2019s paranoia about associating itself with the plus-size movement goes beyond simple prejudice. Morty Singer, a consultant who works with luxury fashion companies, told me that retail executives constantly worry about maintaining \u201cbrand equity\u201d\u2014that nebulous commodity, beloved by marketers, which represents some combination of reputation and market share. Luxury brands aren\u2019t just selling clothes, of course; they\u2019re selling a life-style fantasy. Singer reeled off a few: \u201cGucci or Prada: luxury. Coach, Tory Burch, Kate Spade: accessible luxury. Tory Burch is the uptown-downtown, cool-chic girl. Michael Kors: Hollywood jet set.\u201d In the fashion industry, Singer said, there\u2019s a common (and, in his opinion, misguided) belief that associating one\u2019s image with down-market things\u2014like fat bodies\u2014will result in mall-ification.\nEven for brands that do advertise to plus-size customers, choosing what imagery to promote can be tricky. At Full Figured Fashion Week, TRUE Model Management sponsored a panel called \u201cThe Great Debate.\u201d It was hosted by the actress and comedian Erica Watson, who played a small role in the movie \u201cPrecious.\u201d (She also received the Full Figured Entertainer of the Year Award.) Participants addressed the question of whether \u201cplus\u201d had become a \u201cdirty word,\u201d and discussed their frustration at the tendency of brands like Macy\u2019s to use size-12 models when selling clothing to size-24 women.\nMacy\u2019s\u2014aware of the rumblings of discontent among its consumers\u2014had sent word that its buyers were coming to the event. I sat next to the Macy\u2019s representatives, and discovered that the buyers had actually sent their assistants: nervous\u2014and thin\u2014young women clutching notepads.\nThe blogger Marie Denee, one of the panelists, said, \u201cThe marketers still think that we\u2019re in transition. They can\u2019t accept a plus-size woman who isn\u2019t waiting to be a smaller size.\u201d\nMadeline Jones turned to the audience with a rallying cry: \u201cYou know why the plus-size industry is the way it is? Because we have a voice! This is what we have to do. We have to say, \u2018You know what? We\u2019re going to write to Macy\u2019s!\u2019 \u201d\nThe Macy\u2019s assistants kept their heads down and took notes, but Watson hadn\u2019t forgotten about them. \u201cWhere\u2019s the girl from Macy\u2019s?\u201d she asked. The assistants waved shyly. Jones said, in a sweet voice, \u201cHi, Macy\u2019s!\u201d\nWatson cut in: \u201cPut some fat girls in your advertisements!\u201d\nNot all brands are getting it wrong. One day during Full Figured Fashion Week, I stopped by a trunk sale at the London Hotel for the relaunched plus-size e-tailer Eloquii. Eloquii started three years ago as a \u201csister brand\u201d to The Limited, the ubiquitous mall store, and it gained a small but devoted following for its workplace-centered clothes. In 2013, it was shut down amid a corporate restructuring by The Limited\u2019s private-equity owners, Sun Capital Partners.\nThere was an outcry online: plus-size bloggers, including Marie Denee, wrote open letters to The Limited\u2019s owners, asking them to bring the brand back to life. To their delight, an anonymous Internet mogul bought up all of Eloquii\u2019s assets\u2014technical specs, e-mail lists\u2014rehired members of the original executive team, and, last February, relaunched it.\nI showed up early at the Eloquii trunk show, and found the two-room suite decorated as if for a girlie carnival: vases of fresh flowers, a tarot-card reader, a photo booth uploading pictures to Instagram, and a salon area with manicurists at the ready. Along the walls and upstairs in the bedroom suites, racks of the bright new clothing line\u2014skirts, dresses, and tops, in sizes 14 through 24\u2014stood ready to be tried on by bloggers and fans.\nJodi Arnold, the company\u2019s creative director, roamed around, making last-minute adjustments to the clothes on the racks. Arnold is a veteran of the straight retail world\u2014she had her own line before being hired by Linda Heasley, who was then The Limited\u2019s C.E.O., and is now the head of Lane Bryant. Arnold is not plus size, but she lets it be known that, at times in her life, she\u2019s worn a size 12.\nArnold told me that the Eloquii woman is \u201ca trend customer.\u201d After years of being relegated to fashion\u2019s sidelines, she\u2019s developing a yen for of-the-moment items: animal prints, miniskirts. \u201cAt launch, the best-selling item was a crop top,\u201d Arnold said.\nArnold aspires to make Eloquii into a \u201cZara for plus size\u201d\u2014a brand that sells expensive-looking clothes at affordable prices, with styles that turn over quickly. She approached a rack of clothes: their bright colors and horizontal stripes had a faintly revolutionary quality. She fingered a body-hugging, black-and-white striped skirt made of a thick, stretchy material. \u201cThis fabrication is called scuba,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s stretchy, but it\u2019s also constructed.\u201d The skirt had a short overlay called a peplum. Arnold explained, \u201cThe peplum has been a big thing in fashion, in general, but for this customer it\u2019s been really good, because it feels like she covers something, but she can still show off her waist.\u201d\nThe shoppers arrived: a giddy mob of women decked out in Eloquii-ish hues\u2014black-and-white stripes, yellows, pinks. A collective squeal went through the room as they descended on the clothes. Sheri Atwell, twenty-eight, the blogger behind Shapely Chic Sheri, admired the cutout detailing around the neckline of a lilac-colored dress. \u201cAnything unique is really hard to find for plus-size women,\u201d she said.\nShe was accompanied by Georgette Niles, who was wearing an all-yellow ensemble. Her skirt, the Citron Midi Skirt, with pleats, had in the past week become an iconic Eloquii item: the company posted the piece on Instagram, and sold a hundred and fifty-eight skirts in five days. Niles, who is forty-two, is a fashion blogger and a social worker in Philadelphia. \u201cI\u2019m helping little children and being fashionable at the same time,\u201d she said. She grabbed the black-and-white scuba skirt. \u201cOh my gosh! I love this!\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m trying this on. This is going to be mine, in my house.\u201d\n\u201cThis one is mine,\u201d Atwell said, holding a floral asymmetrical skirt up to her waist. \u201cLook at this, right?\u201d\nThere was something touching about the scene\u2014and about the way the women were mobbing Arnold. Any revulsion at the unbridled consumerism was mitigated by the earnest joy of the customers. I couldn\u2019t remember seeing a Zara shopper expressing this much appreciation for the designer\u2019s work.\nAtwell admired a white midi skirt. \u201cBeautiful,\u201d she said. \u201cLook at that heavy material.\u201d\nNiles rolled her eyes. \u201cA lot of times they give us cream, or off-white or ivory, because it\u2019s supposed to camouflage you. Just give me white!\u201d\n\u201cWe want color. We want fun prints,\u201d Atwell said. \u201cWe can be bold, it\u2019s O.K.!\u201d\n\u201cGive me some leopard print\u2014I\u2019m all right!\u201d Niles said, before she was distracted by another dress. \u201cOoh!\u201d she exclaimed. \u201cLace hem! Lace hem!\u201d She seemed to be having an out-of-body experience. \u201cThis is happening! This is happening today!\u201d\nI spotted Alexandra Boos looking through the racks, fingering a studded ponte-knit skirt. \u201cYou know what is the best?\u201d she said. \u201cWhen a straight-size girl comes up to me and is, like, \u2018Oh my God, I love your outfit. Where did you get it?\u2019 And you\u2019re, like, \u2018I\u2019m sorry, it doesn\u2019t come in your size!\u2019 \u201d\nThe longer you spend in the world of plus-size fashion, the clearer it becomes that self-esteem isn\u2019t just a personal issue\u2014it\u2019s an economic one. People sometimes refer to the lack of clothing options for plus-size women as a chicken-and-egg problem. Designers don\u2019t make the clothes because store buyers don\u2019t request them. Buyers don\u2019t request them because, when they do, shoppers don\u2019t buy them. The blogger Nicolette Mason pointed to an \u201cinformation gap\u201d\u2014the lack of media coverage devoted to plus-size fashion and the fact that, for the most part, fashionable plus-size women aren\u2019t represented in the engines of mainstream consumerism: celebrity magazines and television. \u201cLauren Conrad drives so much in terms of fashion and sales,\u201d she told me. \u201cKim Kardashian.\u201d But it also has to do with people\u2019s self-image. Marshal Cohen, the NPD analyst, told me that among retailers plus-size customers are known for being more \u201cprice sensitive\u201d than straight-size shoppers. And it\u2019s not merely a difference in income levels. \u201cHalf of the plus-size population doesn\u2019t have a passion for fashion,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t like the experience of going into stores and trying things on; they don\u2019t like having to buy a size that they don\u2019t fit into.\u201d The other half are \u201cjust as fashion-conscious as anybody else,\u201d and their spending patterns are the same. But, in an already volatile retail business, the plus-size market is extra volatile. \u201cWhen it\u2019s good, it\u2019s really good,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s bad, it\u2019s really bad.\u201d\nCohen pointed out that the plus-size clothing industry is coming out of a rough patch. Saks Fifth Avenue stopped offering plus-size clothes two years ago; the plus-size brands Ashley Stewart and Avenue filed for bankruptcy. \u201cA decade ago, plus size was hot, and it was hot for capital investment,\u201d Cohen said. \u201c2004 and 2005 was a real hot era.\u201d Then the economy dipped, and many plus-size brands went under. Cohen predicted that plenty of today\u2019s upstarts will suffer the same fate. Retail executives are business people first. \u201cIf the business isn\u2019t big enough\u2014no pun intended\u2014to be able to sustain a profit, they\u2019re going to walk away.\u201d\nIf anyone can survive in the new era of plus-size fashion, it will probably be Lane Bryant. The company long ago solved the problem of how to make plus-size retail profitable, by acquiring a sturdy reputation and a loyal customer base. \u201cIt is the tortoise in the apparel tortoise-and-the-hare story,\u201d Cohen told me. \u201cIt is slow and steady.\u201d Yet, from a fashion standpoint, it has helped to solidify the frumpy look you envision when you think of plus-size clothing.\nThe company was started at the turn of the twentieth century, in New York, by Lena Himmelstein, a young immigrant from Lithuania who married a jeweller named David Bryant, and, within two years, found herself widowed with a baby. Lena could sew, and she moved in with her sister in Harlem and began tailoring lingerie for brides and expectant mothers. She opened a shop on Fifth Avenue, uptown. (Her business became Lane Bryant thanks to a clerical error made by the bank on a loan application.) One day, a wealthy pregnant customer asked for a dress that would hide her stomach, so that she could throw a dinner party\u2014at the time, it was considered taboo for pregnant women to show themselves in public. Lena made a pleated silk underskirt for a dress with a slimming elastic waistband. The dress took off. Soon, with the help of Lena\u2019s second husband, a Lithuanian engineer named Albert Maslin, Lane Bryant expanded into \u201cstout sizes.\u201d An early marketing campaign was titled \u201cCalling All Chubbies.\u201d\nThe company went public in 1928. In 1982, Lane Bryant\u2019s heirs sold their majority stake to The Limited. By then, the company had acquired an uncool reputation. Two of Bryant\u2019s great-grandsons, Michael and Nick Kaplan, have started Fashion to Figure, a fast-fashion chain for plus sizes. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to be a fashion store, not just a size store,\u201d Michael said. \u201cAnd they were the quintessential size store.\u201d\nThese days, that\u2019s something Lane Bryant no longer wants to be. A few weeks ago, I met with Linda Heasley, who was hired to turn around Lane Bryant by the Ascena Retail Group, the corporation that now owns the brand. (Ironically, Heasley was the Limited executive who started Eloquii.) Lane Bryant\u2019s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio, but Heasley was in New York, interviewing to fill new executive positions. Heasley is straight-size and delicate, but, she told me, \u201cthat shouldn\u2019t matter.\u201d She wears her hair in a short brown bob, and she had on red lipstick. She was dressed in an edgy take on Midwestern corporate chic: black blazer, tweedy black-and-gray dress, and round Le Corbusier-style glasses.\nShe outlined her plan to turn around the brand. The first order of business: getting Lane Bryant stores out of strip malls. She had just come back from a trip scouting new real-estate locations. When I asked about the threat of competition from fast-fashion companies like H&M, she made a case for Lane Bryant\u2019s technical know-how. She pointed out a dress in the fall catalogue. \u201cOur denim has special fibre wrap that has incredible recovery and helps to lift and slim. It has tummy panels in here that give her a girdling effect. You can get this, or you can just get any old denim.\u201d Heasley told me that Lane Bryant\u2019s new motto is \u201cWe are \u2018her\u2019 size, we\u2019re not plus size.\u201d\nBut who is she? \u201cThat\u2019s the hard one,\u201d Heasley said. It can be difficult to imagine a customer who represents the majority of the country. \u201cYou can go into an Ann Taylor Loft and you say, \u2018I know who their customer is.\u2019 \u201d But in a Lane Bryant store, she said, \u201cyou see so much variety, it makes it harder to get a direction.\u201d In Heasley\u2019s ideal world, Lane Bryant would attract both the fashion-conscious bloggers I met at the Eloquii sale and women who are coping with post-pregnancy weight gain.\nHeasley is trying to solve the problem of the divided consumer base by breaking Lane Bryant\u2019s line into \u201csub brands.\u201d Half are designed for a more conservative, self-conscious shopper, whom the company calls \u201cAva.\u201d The other half are designed for \u201cJennifer,\u201d who feels great about her size. The denim brand, Lane Bryant Denim, is broken into life-style ideas: \u201crocker cool,\u201d \u201cout and about on Saturday,\u201d \u201cgreat American sportswear.\u201d The intimates brand Cacique has taken inspiration from the film roles of Angelina Jolie. Heasley said that her design team had put together a \u201ctear sheet\u201d with images. \u201cWe have her doing all sorts of things,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s Lara Croft, she\u2019s Nina the nurse, she\u2019s Adele the teacher.\u201d\nHeasley said that Lane Bryant wants to deliver a message to the straight fashion world: \u201cWe want to put the fashion industry on notice. There\u2019s a new woman on the scene. Lane Bryant isn\u2019t your mother\u2019s plus-size brand, and it\u2019s not your grandmother\u2019s, either.\u201d\nThe company\u2019s new direction doesn\u2019t thrill everyone on the grass-roots side of the movement. When I spoke to Madeline Jones about Lane Bryant\u2019s rebirth as a fashion brand, she was skeptical. \u201cThe whole plus-size industry always wants to be legitimatized by the mainstream industry, and that\u2019s never going to happen,\u201d she said. She added, about Lane Bryant, \u201cThey\u2019re trying to find that happy medium, where they\u2019re marketing to the plus-size women but still being seen by Seventh Avenue as a viable fashion contender. But these plus-size women don\u2019t care! They don\u2019t give a flying fajita whether Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley likes Lane Bryant. They want clothes!\u201d\nThere\u2019s a paradox to the very idea of the plus-size-fashion movement. As with other civil-rights causes\u2014feminism comes to mind\u2014there are trade-offs inherent in the prospect of success. If plus-size fashion achieves its goal of mainstream acceptance, it risks losing some of its outsider energy and community.\nOne evening, I stopped by the Lane Bryant in downtown Brooklyn. The store looked slick and polished, and so did its saleswomen, who wore hip glasses and chunky jewelry. The \u201c6th & Lane\u201d display of runway-inspired clothes\u2014black with shades of fuchsia\u2014looked like something you might find in SoHo. The Isabel Toledo collection\u2014with its feminine, textured dresses and hundred-dollar blouses in metallic colors\u2014looked even better. It wouldn\u2019t have seemed out of place at Barney\u2019s. There was just one problem: there were no customers here. Everyone was upstairs, browsing the clearance racks.\n\u201cI\u2019m just looking,\u201d Deanna, a consultant, said. She wore a white cotton dress and had her brown hair in a long braid. She said that she\u2019d noticed an improvement in Lane Bryant\u2019s offerings. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a shift in the past six months. I bought these two cute dresses that I wore all summer long: a white, tight thing with a blue gradated pattern and a gray dress that had a high-low back.\u201d She added that she was in a weight-loss program: \u201cI hope not to be plus-size in the next couple years.\u201d\nI asked if she considered herself a follower of fashion. \u201cNot really,\u201d she said. \u201cI wear what I like.\u201d She\u2019s not risqu\u00e9, either: \u201cI\u2019m never going to wear a crop top.\u201d She felt that Lane Bryant\u2019s clothes, in general, fit better than those from other stores, but, she added, \u201cthere\u2019s been ebbs and flows.\u201d She turned to a wall of tweed biker jackets, in aqua, from the spring collection. \u201cI tried on one of those jackets, and it didn\u2019t fit at all\u2014it\u2019s really boxy,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes you wonder, What were they thinking?\u201d \u2666\nWatch a runway show from this summer\u2019s Full Figured Fashion Week.\n*An earlier version of this article misstated the last name of the spoken-word artist.\nAnnals of Style\nThe world of virtual Anna Wintours.\nA new show at the Costume Institute features outr\u00e9 outfits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 46962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/a-tale-of-two-cities-art-andrea-k-scott", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AQU4OOLAK3DLUPYUCAYBVHVRZ6GUXG24", "length": 3992, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "More Than a Youthquake at MOMA PS1 | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "\"Greater New York\"\nThe Old Guard meets a new crop in \u201cGreater New York.\u201d\nDavid Hammons\u2019s \u201cAfrican-American Flag\u201d (1991/2015) flies in the courtyard at the entrance to MOMA PS1.\nImage Courtesy the Artist / Photograph by Pablo Enriquez\nFifteen years ago, the Museum of Modern Art merged with P.S.1, an alternative art space in Long Island City housed in an old public school. To mark the occasion\u2014and to give the Whitney Biennial some competition\u2014the newly minted MOMA PS1 launched the quinquennial exhibition \u201cGreater New York,\u201d a bellwether of the local and new. In 2005, the opening of its second edition coincided with a big art fair, prompting one critic to write that the survey had \u201cno way of separating itself from the market\u2019s engorged desire for some institutional guidance among the sea of young artists now plying their wares.\u201d\nThat critic was Peter Eleey, who has since become the associate director of the museum and the co-curator of the fourth \u201cGreater New York,\u201d which is far more than a youthquake. Name a social issue, the show takes it on. (There\u2019s even a self-reflexive salon des refus\u00e9s: \u201clesser new york,\u201d a project by the Swedish-born Fia Backstr\u00f6m, which was rejected by the show\u2019s organizers in 2005.) While many of the hundred and fifty-eight artists are in their twenties and thirties, the show also includes pieces that were made as long ago as the nineteen-seventies. The transgenerational trend extends to the co-curators, the attuned up-and-comers Thomas J. Lax, of MOMA, and Mia Locks, of MOMA PS1, and the \u00e9minence grise Douglas Crimp, an art historian best known for his generation-defining essay \u201cPictures\u201d (also a show), which is now almost forty years old.\nThe result is a deeply thoughtful if muted affair, with one selfie-baiting exception: an installation of twenty-four figurative sculptures on the second floor. They range from John Ahearn\u2019s loving, life-size rendition, in painted cast fibreglass, of a South Bronx mother and daughter, made in 1987, to a statue encrusted in beads\u2014a giddy hybrid of Umberto Boccioni and Bootsy Collins\u2014completed last year by the Mexican-born, Brooklyn-based Ra\u00fal de Nieves. Standing sentinel is \u201cKali Bobbit,\u201d a slapstick warrior-goddess in the form of a mannequin wearing thigh-high stockings and a belt full of knives, made in 1994 by the feminist pioneer Mary Beth Edelson. (Note to Eleey: Give this octogenarian phenom a one-woman show.)\nL.G.B.T. issues are prominent, seen through scrims of both nostalgia (Alvin Baltrop\u2019s candid photographs of gay men cruising on the West Side piers in the post-Stonewall seventies) and rage (the AIDS activism of the collective Fierce Pussy). This year, Charles Atlas trained his video camera on the drag legend the Lady Bunny for nineteen riveting minutes as she championed the disenfranchised in an impassioned rant that could give Bernie Sanders a run for his money, before bursting into lip-synched song.\nWe shouldn\u2019t need hash tags to remind us that black lives matter. It\u2019s a self-evident truth, signalled at the outset of the show by David Hammons\u2019s red-green-and-black \u201cAfrican-American Flag\u201d (1991/2015), which flies in the courtyard. That spirit of visibility recurs throughout, in works by emerging talents (Kevin Beasley, Deana Lawson) and in a text piece by Glenn Ligon, an artist so established that his work hangs in the White House. Ligon chronicles every apartment he\u2019s had in New York, from the public housing project in the Bronx where he grew up to a condo on the edge of Tribeca; in the same room, the soundtrack of an installation by Sergei Tcherepnin pounds away like a sonorous jackhammer. Ligon concludes, \u201cThe idea of living anywhere else has never occurred to me. 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(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) ( Matt Winkelmeyer )\nThe 15th annual Mountain Jam music festival won\u2019t take place on a mountain, but it will feature some big names in jam music -- and other genres.\nOrganizers announced the 2019 Mountain Jam lineup Thursday, confirming the fest won\u2019t take place at Hunter Mountain in Upstate New York. Instead, this year\u2019s event will take place over four days on three stages at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, more than 70 miles away on the site of the original Woodstock festival, on June 13-16.\nWillie Nelson, Gov\u2019t Mule and The Avett Brothers will headline this year\u2019s Mountain Jam; an additional headliner will be announced in the spring. Other performers include Michael Franti & Spearhead, Alison Krauss, Dispatch, Toots & The Maytals, The Revivalists, Joe Russo\u2019s Almost Dead, Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real, Twiddle, Mandolin Orange, Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, Amy Helm, The Allman Betts Band, and dozens more artists.\nTickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at mountainjam.com. Four-day general admission passes start at $159; camping passes start at an additional $150.\nAccording to the Daily Freeman, even though the festival won\u2019t take place in Hunter, N.Y., it will still feature onsite camping. It will be the first music event at the Bethel site to let people stay on the grounds overnight since the original Woodstock in 1969.\nDespite the venue change (and new concert promotions partner Live Nation), organizers vowed the 2019 Mountain Jam would go \u201cback to the Jam\u201d with this year\u2019s theme. Recent headliners included artists like Tom Petty, Jack Johnson and Steve Miller Band.\n\u201cMountain Jam has continuously evolved over the past 15 years, growing from a small one day festival to one of the largest annual multi-day rock and camping festivals in the Northeast,\u201d Mountain Jam founder Gary Chetkof, president of Radio Woodstock, said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to present this year\u2019s event at Bethel Woods, one of the most beautiful places to see live music in the country.\"\nExcited to announce our 2019 lineup, new home at Bethel Woods PLUS the return of Warren Haynes / Gov\u2019t Mule! #MountainJam Early Bird Passes on sale tomorrow @ 10am through Feb. 11 @ 11:59pm. 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And now, you\u2019ll be covered all year with our new Tech Training Pass.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 11219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nielsen.com/ma/en/insights/news/2014/multiplying-mobile-how-multicultural-consumers-are-leading-smartphone-adoption.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:39Z", "digest": "sha1:RM7TDWREM2YAU7U5PNG7QLEDGQQJF5OU", "length": 1418, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nielsen.com", "title": "Multiplying Mobile: How Multicultural Consumers are Leading Smartphone Adoption", "raw_content": "Smartphone ownership grew to 68 percent between November and January 2014, up 9 percent from the start of 2013. And among those who bought their mobile phone within the last three months, a whopping 84 percent chose smartphones for their new handsets.\nMulticultural consumers have led the growth in smartphone penetration, as they\u2019re adopting smartphones at a higher rate than the U.S. average. In fact, Asian Americans lead the U.S. in smartphones ownership, as nearly four out of five (78%) already use smartphones. Hispanics are ahead of the curve in adopting digital devices, including smartphones, as over three-quarters (77%) of Latinos in the U.S. use smartphones. And according to Nielsen\u2019s Digital Consumer Report, about half of Hispanics said they plan to upgrade/replace their mobile handset in the next six months. African-Americans are also pioneers of smartphone technology, as 73 percent of Black consumers in the U.S. currently own smartphones.\nAs smartphone ownership continues to grow across most consumer segments, what mobile experience are they choosing? The majority of smartphone owners use handsets running Android OS (52%) in terms of U.S. market share. 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[More]\nArthur's Battles\nTwelve battles listed by Nennius. [More]\nArthur's Bed\nThe name given to a group of hills in Cornwall, signifying a local legend about Arthur.\nArthur's Castle\nThere are two places so called. One, in Brittany, lies near the well-known megalithic site of Carnac. Another, also known by its Latin name (Castrum Arthur is near Dumbarton.\nArthur's Cave\nThere are a number of caves associated with King Arthur. One is located on the Isle of Anglesey, where Arthur was thought to have taken shelter during his strife with the Irish. His treasure may have been hidden in a cromlech, surrounded by stones, which once stood there. The treasures was said to be guarded by supernatural creatures.\nAnother is on the edge of the Forest of Dean in Wales; another is located at Craig-y-Dinas and yet another at Alderley Edge.\nCave Legend | The Legend of King Arthur\nArthur's Chair\nRefers to four locations in Britain: a rock formation at Tintagel, the saddle between the two highest peaks at Brecon Beacons in Wales, an extinct volcano east of Edinburgh, and a sandstone formation near Hadrian\u2019s Wall in Northumberland. The legends associated with these features, if any existed, have been lost.\nArthur's Crown\nIn 1283, when Edward I had conquered Gwynedd, the regalia of this princedom was handed over to him. This was said to include the Crown of Arthur, which was subsequently presented at the shrine of St Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey. Thereafter it disappeared and some have doubted its very existence.\nArthur's Cup\nWeighing fifteen marks, it was fashioned of gold; the workmanship was worth more than the gold, and the inset jewels worth more than either. Arthur promised this cup to any man, even a foot-soldier, who took the rebel Count Angrs' castle; if the man were a knight, he would get any other possible reward he asked along with the cup.\nOn capturing Angrs, Sir Alexander accepted only the cup and promptly talked Gawaine into accepting it from him for friendship and courtesy.\nArthur's Cups and Saucers\nNatural rock basins on the side of the headland of Tintagel, on the coast of Cornwall.\nArthur's Grave\nThough Arthur's grave is said to be a place of mystery, there are two sites so called.\nOne is in Cornwall, where Arthur is supposed to be buried beneath a stone with indecipherable letters in a nook beside the River Camel. Another, called in Welsh Bedd Arthur, is to be found amidst standing stones in the Preseli Mountains.\nArthur's Hall\nA megalithic monument in Cornwall, on Bodmin Moor.\nEhangwen | The Legend of King Arthur\nCastel del Trespas | The Legend of King Arthur\nUchdryd Cross Beard | The Legend of King Arthur\nArthur's Hunting Lodge\nThe hill fort Castle-an-Dinas.\nArthur's Insignia\nAn image or emblem. [More]\nArthur's Ivory Thrones\nGiven to Arthur and Guenevere by Sir Bruiant of the Isles. [More]\nArthur's Men\nA force of British soldiers. [More]\nArthur's O'on\n'Arthur's Oven'\nA Roman temple (second century AD) near Falkirk, Scotland. It was pulled down in 1743, but the dovecote at Penicuick House, close at hand, was built as a replica of it. It was first recorded by Nennius, a Welsh historian and monk.\nN.L. Goodrich argues that the temple was used by Arthur and was the original of the Round Table. Interestingly, a suburb of Falkirk is called Camelon.\nArthur's Oven\nSome French priests from Laon were reported to have been shown this rock formation in 1113 in Dumnonia. While it cannot be identified with certainty, it undoubtedly lay west of Exeter.\nKing's Oven on Dartmoor has been suggested as its site.\nArthur's Palace\nA name given to the top of Cadbury Castle in Somerset. Archaeologists have discvered a structure buried in this earthwork, a hall made of timber.\nArthur's Quoit\nArthur was alleged to have thrown a great number of quoits in different parts of the country. Two notable exemples are Carreg Coetan Arthur, a cromlech near Newport, Gwent, and the Lligwy Cromlech near Poelfre on the east side of Anglesey, Gwynedd.\nA volcanic plug 823 feet high, in east Edinburgh, Scotland, that was, according to legend, the place where Arthur watched his army defeat the Picts. Another such rock exists in Wales.\nThe sleeping Arthur is said to lie in a cavern inside it, with his knights about him. The name 'Arthur's Seat' is also borne by a number of other elevations.\nThere are six features known throughout Britain and Wales as Arthur's Stone, but I have listed two. [More]\nArthur's, Succession of\nSuggestion that there were several Arthurs. [More]\nArthur's Table\nThe name given to two prominent features in Clwyd, Wales. One is a circle of twenty-four indentations in a rock that is said to represent Arthur's knights at a table, and the other is a barrow at Llanfair Dyffin Ceiriog.\nTwenty-Four Knights of Arthur's Court | The Legend of King Arthur\nA grave in Glastonbury and a location in Cornwall. 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Broadway fans are invited to come out and \u201cselect their seats\u201d for the 2018-2019 season. The party features Broadway music, complimentary hors d\u2019oeuvres, a wine tasting and backstage tours. The event is FREE and all are welcome to join us! Best of Broadway season ticket packages start at just $206.\nThe Best of Broadway presented by Planet Fitness series announced the shows for the 2018-2019 season. The series\u2019 20th anniversary season will welcome six shows including the return of Les Mis\u00e9rables (October 16-21, 2018), back by popular demand after a successful engagement in 2013. The season also includes Something Rotten! (November 12 & 13, 2018); Rodgers & Hammerstein\u2019s The King and I (December 11 & 12, 2018); The Sound of Music (March 12 & 13, 2019); Finding Neverland (April 2 & 3, 2019); and the highly-anticipated return of Jersey Boys (May 7 & 8, 2019). All performances are at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center.\nThe Best of Broadway series will also feature a special performance by MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER on November 24, 2018. As with the Broadway shows, season ticket holders will have priority access to seats before they go on sale to the general public.\n\u201cWe needed a stellar line-up to celebrate our 20th Best of Broadway season and we certainly have one,\u201d said Frank Lapsley, General Manager of the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. \u201cThere truly is something for everyone this season with both timeless classics and hot new shows straight from Broadway!\u201d\n\u201cTime flies when you are having fun! Hard to believe we are approaching the 20th season of Best of Broadway at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center,\u201d said North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey. \u201cWe continue to bring the biggest blockbuster shows direct from Broadway to the Lowcountry and I know fans will love all of the wonderful selections this season.\u201d\nIn addition to having the same seat for all performances, Best of Broadway season ticket holders enjoy many other benefits such as free parking, priority access to tickets for select Coliseum & Performing Arts Center events before they go on public sale and special discounts & offers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 176.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com/events/detail/chris-stapleton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:48Z", "digest": "sha1:PKMBMLMIMY43Q5YN3HM4BGJOFZHEPUHL", "length": 2020, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com", "title": "Chris Stapleton | North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center", "raw_content": "Chris Stapleton will continue his extensive, sold-out \u201cAll-American Road Show\u201d through 2019 with newly confirmed performances this summer and fall. The shows will kick-off July 9 at Allentown\u2019s PPL Center and will span through November 2 at Louisville\u2019s KFC Yum Center. Stapleton will bring special guest openers Brothers Osborne and Kendell Marvel to the North Charleston Coliseum.\nThe newly confirmed shows follow yet another monumental year for Stapleton, who is nominated in three categories at the 61st GRAMMY Awards: Best Country Album (From A Room: Volume 2) and Best Country Solo Performance (\u201cMillionaire\u201d) as well as Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his performance on Justin Timberlake\u2019s \u201cSay Something.\u201d Additionally, last year, Stapleton won Male Vocalist of the Year (for the fourth-straight year), Single of the Year (\u201cBroken Halos\u201d) and Song of the Year (\u201cBroken Halos\u201d) at The 52 Annual CMA Awards, Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (From A Room: Volume 1 as both artist and producer) at the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards, Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist and Top Country Album (From A Room: Volume 1) at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards and Best Country Album (From A Room: Volume 1), Best Country Song (\u201cBroken Halos\u201d) and Best Country Solo Performance (\u201cEither Way\u201d) at the 60th GRAMMY Awards.\nReleased in December 2017 on Mercury Records Nashville, From A Room: Volume 2 takes its name from Nashville\u2019s historic RCA Studio A (the capital \u201cA\u201d in \u201cFrom A Room\u201d) where it was recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb. 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It took me 20-something years to learn how to love myself. I don\u2019t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.\u201d \u2013 Daniel Franzese", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.novaparks.com/parks/whites-ford-regional-park/history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4BJ4EKJVUWD6CPODDGONQAVWDGBZ4Q5", "length": 2109, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.novaparks.com", "title": "History | Nova Parks", "raw_content": "White's Ford was once owned by Lt. Col. Elijiah White, who called the area home beginning in 1856. Lt. Col. White is best known for his role as an aide and scout for Col. Eppa Hunton\u2019s 8th Virginia Infantry during the Battle of Ball\u2019s Bluff. White and his men eventually played a role in the Battle of Gettysburg, and were also a part of the Laurel Brigade.\nDuring the Civil War, White's Ford on the Potomac River was employed by Confederate troops on three separate occasions. Lee's troops crossed here in their invasion of Maryland, September 4-7, 1862. General Jubal A. Early's II Corps, after an abortive attack on Washington's defenses, returned to Virginia using this ford on July 14, 1864.\nMajor General J.E.B. Stuart used this ford to cross into Virginia on October 12, 1862, following his raid to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Federal cavalry under Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton, expecting Stuart to recross the Potomac near the mouth of the Monocacy, rushed his troops and those of Brigadier General George Stoneman to attempt to intercept him.\nStuart was guided by Captain B.S. White of Poolesville, Maryland, to White's Ford, which was defended by 200 men of the 99th Pennsylvania Infantry under Lieutenant Colonel E.R. Biles. They were bluffed out of their strong position by Colonel W.H.F. Lee. Stuart was shocked to learn that his rear guard, 400 men under Colonel Matthew C. Butler, was in danger of being left behind. Sending an aide, Captain William W. Blackford, to find Butler, Stuart's position became precarious as Stoneman and Pleasonton closed in.\nMajor John Pelham, who had taken a position on the towpath of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, near the present Lock #26, kept at bay the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Butler's troopers, hearing Pelham's one gun, knew the ford was still open and with drawn sabers - ready to cut their way out if necessary - raced toward the ford. They reached it with less than ten minutes to spare from certain disaster.\nStuart returned to Virginia with much booty, including 5,000 small arms and 1,200 horses, with the loss of only two men and two horses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 8650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 147.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nps.gov/archeology/IforA/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NFFBH2SYHN3OKKYDEBD6SR4Z73Z332HJ", "length": 687, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nps.gov", "title": "Interpretation for Archeologists: A Guide to Increasing Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities", "raw_content": "Interpretation for Archeologists: A Guide to Increasing Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities is for archeologists who wish to use interpretive techniques and products to communicate with the public. The guide pulls back the curtain on the who, what, and why of interpretation in order to create a foundation for archeologists and interpreters to work together.\nIn this guide, discover a shared philosophy about encouraging public stewardship. Learn about methods and techniques of resource-based interpretation. Explore techniques for engaging audiences to find meaning in archeological resources. By the end of the guide, you will apply what you've learned to pitch an interpretive product.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/geyannis/pub/pc324-critical-driver-behaviour-and-risk-factors-in-europe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:07Z", "digest": "sha1:NCFDX23RCZ2J6UDR6RPGV2OGBQU6OTT7", "length": 954, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nrso.ntua.gr", "title": "Vachaviolos D., Theofilatos A., Yannis G., \u201cCritical driver behaviour and risk factors in Europe\u201c, Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Road Safety Conference, Larissa, Greece, 11-12 October 2018. | George Yannis", "raw_content": "Vachaviolos D., Theofilatos A., Yannis G., \u201cCritical driver behaviour and risk factors in Europe\u201c, Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Road Safety Conference, Larissa, Greece, 11-12 October 2018.\nThe aim of the present Diploma Thesis is the analysis of critical behavior and risk factors of drivers in Europe. To this end, we analyzed the responses of a representative sample of 17,980 European citizens who participated in the panEuropean ESRA survey, which took place in 2016. The analysis of behavior and the investigation of the critical factors affecting driver behavior and safety, was carried out by using statistical methods of cluster analysis and binary logistic regression. The model results revealed that speeding leads to the increase of accident involvement probability, as is the case also for fatigue \u2013 drowsiness and distraction. These findings are also confirmed at the analyses carried out for the specific groups of European Countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nursery-rhymes-fun.com/uncle-wiggily-in-the-woods.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:26TBDEUMD6MECV5HR2U7NEIYFC3NEPUB", "length": 136, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nursery-rhymes-fun.com", "title": "Uncle Wiggily in the Woods", "raw_content": "He's back! Get ready for some new and exciting adventures with your favorite Uncle - Uncle Wiggily. Hope you enjoy.\nBegin the adventures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nycriminalattorneyblog.com/a_long_island_lawyer_is_a_must/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TRBKLAMOU4RL5CY2ZYLENDVHWUC4A7CB", "length": 1659, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nycriminalattorneyblog.com", "title": "A Long Island Lawyer is a Must if You've Been Charged With Child Abuse \u2014 New York Criminal Lawyer Blog \u2014 August 6, 2008", "raw_content": "A Long Island Lawyer is a Must if You\u2019ve Been Charged With Child Abuse\nJosh Werkman who manages the careers of children has pleaded no contest to a charge of child molestation and a charge of selling of alcohol to a minor. Werkman\u2019s plea was entered this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. He will be sentenced on April 2.\nThe theatrical manager controls the careers of Cole and Dylan Sprouse who star in the the Disney Channel\u2019s \u201cThe Suite Life of Zack and Cody.\u201d The Sprouses were NOT mentioned as being a party to this case. Merimark Entertainment produces the series and Werkman has also produced the Sprouse twins\u2019 two latest screen releases.\nIf you or a family member is arrested, hiring a Nassau County Criminal Lawyer is essential for you. Not having a Long Island Criminal Attorney will lead to trouble in terms of not knowing your rights and options.\nLaw enforcement says Werkman was initially arrested for felony sexual battery by restraint. Sources say the alleged victim is a 16-year-old male. Werkman\u2019s lawyer, Steve Cron, says \u201cJosh admitted he annoyed an individual who is a minor and provided that person with alcohol on the day in question. He acknowledged that he used bad judgment on that occasion and that is why he pleaded no contest to the two charges.\nThe firm of Stephen Bilkis & Associates with its New York Criminal Defense Attorneys and convenient locations in the Metropolitan Area, including Baldwin, Long Islandcan be of invaluable assistance to you if you find yourself a defendant in a criminal action. Facing charges without professional representation could lead to disastrous results.\nPosted in: Long Island and Sex Crimes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-alabama-cop-indicted-for-obstruction-of-justice-20181003-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BC5IMXKKTUG7RLQ4I5T6LUTFCSLHK73J", "length": 1656, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "Ex-Alabama cop indicted for obstruction of justice and civil rights violations - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "Ex-Alabama cop indicted for obstruction of justice and civil rights violations\nEx-Alabama cop Michael Smirnoff has been indicted for obstruction of justice and civil rights violations. (Tallapoosa County Jail)\nAn ex-Alabama cop has been indicted for civil rights violations and obstruction of justice.\nThe indictment alleges Michael Smirnoff of the Tallassee Police Department used unlawful force on arrested suspects twice while submitting a false report to cover up one of the incidents, noted the Department of Justice in a written statement.\nOn March 29, 2016, the cop allegedly threw a handcuffed man to the ground before using unreasonable force as he placed him into a cop vehicle.\nNearly nine months earlier, Smirnoff was accused of using a Taser on a male suspect in handcuffs and not resisting arrest.\nBoth victims reportedly suffered physical injuries.\nSmirnoff, 25, had been a member of the Tallassee force for more than two years before the indictment, claimed Tallassee Police Chief Jimmy Rogers after his arrest.\nTallassee, a town of about 4,800 residents, is a suburb of metropolis and state capital Montgomery, which is located in central Alabama.\n\u201cWe are aware of the charges against Officer Smirnoff and are in the process of obtaining and reviewing whatever evidence the state has against him,\u201d his attorney Bill Wetumpka previously said. \u201cMr. Smirnoff maintains his innocence and based on what we have been provided and are aware of there is no evidence that substantiates the charge against him.\u201d\nIf convicted, the former officer faces a prison term of up to 10 years for deprivation of rights and 20 years for the obstruction charge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/obituaries/mabel-grammer-overlooked.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OO4TWMIFTZM26P5KMVZ2L67TC7KIQOIV", "length": 6855, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Obituaries|Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds\nOverlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds\nGrammer\u2019s self-run adoption agency made it possible for unwanted mixed-race children in Germany to find homes after World War II.\nMabel Grammer, who started the Brown Baby Plan to help mixed-race children in Germany. She adopted 12, and found homes for 500 others.CreditCreditAssociated Press\nSince 1851, many remarkable black men and women did not receive obituaries in The New York Times. This month, with Overlooked, we\u2019re adding their stories to our archives.\nBy Alexis Clark\nBut when Mabel Grammer, an African-American journalist, became aware of the orphaned children, she stepped in. She and her husband, an army chief warrant officer stationed in Mannheim, and later Karlsruhe, adopted 12 of them, and Grammer found homes for 500 others.\nFrom 1950 to 1954, and from 1959 to 1965, during her husband\u2019s two postings in Germany, Grammer helped bring about adoptions on behalf of African-American couples in the United States and black army families in Germany. She called her program the Brown Baby Plan.\nThere were about 5,000 of these babies born between 1945 and 1955, with the numbers reaching upwards of 7,000 in the 1960s, according to records from the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota, although the exact count is unknown.\n[Read about a design for Overlooked that brought life to death.]\n\u201cWomen faced the stigma of being unmarried, having a baby out of wedlock and having a baby who wasn\u2019t white with a man who was part of the occupation,\u201d said Silke Hackenesch, who researches post-war adoptions and is a history professor at the University of Cologne in Germany.\nFor Germans, the presence of the half-black children was also a reminder of a defeated nation.\nGrammer got to work, visiting orphanages and speaking to the nuns who ran them.\nShe churned out articles for the Afro-American, a newspaper in Baltimore, reporting on the dire situation and asking black families to step forward and adopt.\nIn 1956, she wrote: \u201cI can\u2019t understand why people think it is so strange for a colored couple to adopt these children. Don\u2019t they think we have hearts, too? And you don\u2019t have to be wealthy to adopt children. I never had so little financially as we have now, but my children are just as well provided for as any others. If you really want to do something you can.\u201d\nOther black publications picked up the story and word began to spread.\nThough international adoption laws were still in development, Grammer managed to maneuver through bureaucratic red tape, approaching German officials as a private agency. She was able to arrange adoptions by proxy for African-American couples who were unable to travel to Germany.\nMabel and Oscar Grammer. During their time in Germany, the house was always full of children.CreditU.S. Army Office of the Surgeon General\nShe published a step-by-step adoption guide in the Afro-American and interested couples provided her with letters of reference as well as proof of education, income, housing and other paperwork required by the State Department and German authorities. She appeared in German courts on behalf of American couples, and after approaching several airline companies, convinced Scandinavian Airlines to fly the children at a reduced fare to their new homes in the United States.\n\u201cShe did what militaries and what the government and what the community wouldn\u2019t do,\u201d said the journalist and filmmaker Regina Griffin, who made the documentary \u201cBrown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story.\u201d\nHer yearning to help the orphans ran deeper; she was unable to bear children of her own.\nMabel Treadwell was born in Hot Springs, Ark., around 1915. She was one of seven children to Pearl and Edward Treadwell, a bellhop who died of a heart condition when she was a child. At 10, Grammer suffered from peritonitis, a life-threatening illness caused by an inflammation of the abdominal cavity that had ruptured her appendix. There were no black hospitals in the area and the family couldn\u2019t afford to pay for surgery. Grammer eventually recovered but the severity of her illness left her infertile.\nShe graduated from Ohio State University and became a journalist. She also worked at the War Department, where she pushed for desegregation of the graves of servicemen who were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite an injustice to be segregated even in death after serving their country,\u201d Lt. Gen. Nadja West, the Army surgeon general, who was also the youngest child adopted by the Grammers in Germany, recalled her mother saying.\nIn 1950 she married Oscar Grammer. While in Europe, she traveled to a Catholic shrine in Lourdes, France, with other army spouses. She was deeply religious, and discovered a need to help others. Shortly after, she started the Brown Baby Plan.\nDuring the Grammers\u2019 time in Germany, the house was full of children. Local newspapers called Grammer \u201cthe Black Fairy.\u201d\n\u201cBasically she stretched every penny on my dad\u2019s salary,\u201d West said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about faith for us in our family.\u201d\nBut there were difficult times too. One of her adopted sons, Edward, died of leukemia in 1955 when he was 9.\nThe Brown Baby Plan wasn\u2019t free of controversy. Some German social service agencies felt Grammer wasn\u2019t experienced enough in child welfare matters to oversee adoptions, and some civil rights groups felt the more urgent need should be helping African-American children living in the Jim Crow South, not babies abroad. And years later a few of the babies described being raised by cruel adoptive parents.\n\u201cI was stunned to find out there were those of us who didn\u2019t live in loving and nurturing homes,\u201d said Shirley Gindler-Price, who was 2 when a black military family adopted her in Ansbach, Germany. Her family later settled in Philadelphia where Gindler-Price, 66, founded the Black German Cultural Society, a community for the now-grown children and their descendants.\n\u201cShe was essentially a one-woman adoption agency and did the best she could,\u201d Griffin added.\nGrammer and her family settled in Washington in 1965. In 1968, she and her husband received a humanitarian award from Pope Paul VI. Of the babies that remained in Europe, some also remained in orphanages or were adopted by German and Danish families.\nGrammer died in 2002 of complications from hypertension and dementia. She was about 88.\n\u201cSometimes when I look back I don\u2019t know how she did all the things she did,\u201d West said. \u201cI just think of my own life. The opportunities to be where I am today would not have been there. I know that for a fact.\u201d\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page D7 of the New York edition with the headline: Mabel Grammer. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oawhealth.com/condition/dementia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NJ3II6IPPBUYFFS2TYEWZWSKX4CZFRZ6", "length": 11041, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.oawhealth.com", "title": "Dementia - OAWHealthDementia - OAWHealth", "raw_content": "Becoming forgetful in old age is often the subject of many jokes, but dementia is no laughing matter. It is really a slow form of brain death that can shorten the length and quality of your life greatly. The good news is that the majority of dementia is totally avoidable. Let\u2019s find out how.\nDementia is characterized by a group of symptoms that are caused by gradual death of brain cells. Dementia results in cognitive dysfunction that makes it difficult or impossible for its victims to function effectively at their daily activities of living. By definition, it must last for longer than six months, not have been present from birth, and not be associated with loss of or changes in consciousness.\nDementia is a progressive disease that is caused by the gradual, steadily increasing death of brain cells. Most types of dementia start slowly, and worsen over a period of years. While most people who suffer from dementia are elderly, it is a different issue than the mild deterioration of memory and cognitive functions that often accompanies old age. Dementia is caused by specific diseases that affect memory, reasoning, planning skills, and personality. The symptoms vary dependent on the type of dementia and the particular areas of the brain affected. Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) is the most common variety of dementia, followed by vascular dementia.\nIt is difficult to put exact numbers on the incidence of dementia, but it is estimated that up to 20% of folks between the ages of 75 and 84 suffer from some form of dementia, and those figures increase to 30-47% for those 85 and over. It is known that 2-4 million Americans currently have AD, and these numbers are expected to increase to as many as 14 million as we enter the mid-twenty first century, a time when the aged population in the U.S. will rise dramatically. Most folks who experience dementia are retired from the work force, so the direct effect on the economy is minimized. However, the cost of care for those with dementia is quite considerable due to financial burdens for care givers, including adult daycare and necessary home alterations, as well as medical care and institutionalization in nursing homes and special dementia care units.\nSpecific signs of dementia will vary from individual to individual, based mostly on the part of the brain that is affected. Most dementia is the result of brain cell death within the cerebral cortex, an area of the brain responsible for emotions, thoughts, memories, and personality. We must be careful to differentiate between dementia and delirium, which is a condition that can appear similar to dementia. The difference is that delirium typically exhibits a quick onset, and may be intermittent. It is caused by trauma or the side effects from certain drugs or medications, and is associated with changes in the level of consciousness. However, to complicate diagnosis, dementia and delirium will often exist simultaneously. Depression, a common malady among the aged, is also often confused with dementia. All this being said, there are some general symptoms that are quite common amongst dementia patients. These include:\nMemory loss: Short-term memory loss is often the first indicator of dementia. This may begin with misplacing personal items, and progress to forgetting how to find your way home while out on a drive, and can even get to the point where patients are no longer able to recognize or identify family members.\nDiminished problem-solving skills: Dementia victims often find it increasingly difficult to draw logical conclusions from gathered facts, or to organize their thinking and plan a project or do anything that involves multitasking. This can be especially troublesome for patients at work.\nPoor relational skills: As the illness causing the dementia progresses, victims may begin to behave inappropriately, and act overly aggressive, suspicious, friendly, or flamboyant.\nPoor personal hygiene: Normally tidy people may begin to neglect cleanliness and personal grooming.\nSpeech and communication difficulties: Dementia patients will sometimes lose the ability to effectively communicate with others. This can take the form of inability to express their own thoughts, or to understand those of others. Some folks will speak in sentences that are improper and seem like nonsense, while others may speak grammatically very well, but their speech will not fit in with the current line of discussion.\nDisorientation: Dementia eventually affects a person\u2019s ability to correctly determine the time of day, season, or their location, even if it is one they are very familiar with. They begin to lose perspective and suffer from confusion as to the realities of every day life.\nRestlessness and wandering: This can become a real problem for both the patient and caregivers. Dementia patients often have a very short attention span, and may start a project, such as cooking something on the stove, and shortly walk away and forget about it. Wandering away from the safety of their home is also a big issue. Many dementia units must have secured areas both inside and outside to prevent patients from meandering off.\nPersonality changes: In the advanced stages of dementia, folks will often exhibit changes in moods such as depression, anxiety, paranoia, and even hallucinations in some cases. Psychosis can also occur. Some dementia patients begin to have difficulty distinguishing between their dreams and the real world, and may begin to act out on certain aspects of their dreams as if they were reality.\nInsomnia: This and other sleep disturbances are very commonly associated with dementia. Some will wander at night, when their disorientation is often greater than during the day.\nAlzheimer\u2019s Disease is the most common condition that causes dementia, and accounts for an estimated 50-75% of all cases. In a nutshell, AD occurs because of the abnormal growth of two different structures within the brain: neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques.\nNeurofibrillary tangles are masses of protein fibers that form inside brain cells or neurons. These growths are thought to interfere with normal function of the neurons, thereby causing brain dysfunction.\nSenile plaques involve the formation of \u201cclumps\u201d of certain parts of the neurons that enclose proteins known as beta-amyloid deposits. These too cause the brain to malfunction.\nThe greatest risk factor for AD and dementia in general is advanced age, but it is important to realize that AD and/or dementia are not an inevitable result of aging, but distinct diseases with specific causes. More study has been done on AD than any other form of dementia, and certain causes have been pinpointed:\nFamily history: Risk is increased for AD/dementia if it runs in your family. One genetic factor in particular has been identified. We all produce a protein called polipoprotein E (ApoE), which is needed to properly carry cholesterol in the blood, but research indicates that about 15% of people inherit a gene that produces a form of ApoE that increases a person\u2019s risk for AD/dementia. The precise reason why this form of ApoE leads to a greater likelihood of dementia is not well understood as of yet.\nHeavy metals: The ingestion of certain heavy metals such as aluminum and, to a lesser degree copper, have been linked to a greater incidence of AD. It is best to avoid excessive exposure to food cooked in aluminum cookware, beverages in aluminum cans, as well as certain over the counter products such as antiperspirants and antacids that contain aluminum. Some public water systems are also treated with a form of fluoride that can combine with aluminum and form aluminum fluoride, a substance that has been identified as a risk factor for AD in some studies.\nObesity: Being overweight has innumerable negative consequences on our bodies, and increasing risk for dementia is one of them. One study of 1500 subjects indicated those that were significantly overweight in middle age had twice the risk for dementia as senior citizens. When combined with hypertension and high cholesterol, the risk increased to about six times the chance of otherwise healthy people. The connection between obesity and dementia is a strong one.\nThis type of dementia is the second most common, accounting for approximately 5-30% of all dementia cases. It is called vascular because the causes of this form of dementia are related to decreased blood flow to the vessels that feed the brain. Vascular dementia is most often the result of either a total or partial blockage of an artery in the brain. A complete blockage is called an infarction, commonly known as a stroke. Not all strokes lead to dementia, but approximately one-third of stroke victims will experience some degree of dementia within six months.\nIn the case of a partial blockage or narrowing of a blood vessel in the brain, the portion of the brain affected may experience neuron death due to a lack of nutrients and oxygen, leading to dementia symptoms.\nA medical history of any type of vascular disease such as stroke, hypertension, or diabetes (high glucose levels can damage the circulatory system) increases a person\u2019s risk for vascular dementia. Vascular dementia often occurs in conjunction with AD, and has many signs that are similar to AD. It usually, but not always, comes on much faster than AD. Vascular dementia can also be associated with conditions such as lupus, Lyme disease, Parkinson\u2019s disease, head trauma, and prolonged drug and alcohol abuse, among others.\nHow Can Dementia be Prevented?\nThe body cannot replace brain cells. Once they die, there\u2019s no coming back. So, in that sense, there is cure for dementia. However, the good news is that most cases of dementia, other than those caused by hereditary diseases beyond our control, can be prevented. Here\u2019s how:\nMaintain a healthy weight: As discussed above, obesity is a huge factor in dementia. It greatly affects your overall health, and can contribute to many vascular diseases that increase risk for dementia. The best way to do this is eat well and get enough physical activity.\nWatch your blood pressure: Hypertension (high blood pressure) weakens your entire circulatory system, and this automatically puts you at greater risk for dementia.\nAvoid diabetes: Diabetes is a major public health problem in the United States and other Western countries mainly because of poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle choices. It also is one of the major contributors to increased risk for dementia.\nAvoid aluminum: It has been proven in studies time and time again that excess exposure to aluminum has a clear link to increased dementia. Think about what you are putting in or on your body.\nAs with so many other epidemic diseases in modern times, most cases of dementia are a direct by-product of the dietary and lifestyle choices we make throughout our lives. You do not have to be sick and worn out when you reach middle age and beyond. It is not inevitable. Just as sickness is a choice, so is wellness, in the vast majority of cases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 15281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ohioemployerlawblog.com/2017/04/job-descriptions-count-but-not-as-much.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:06Z", "digest": "sha1:E3APEWL6XDU6Q62JTAM73ROMDYCMUZTU", "length": 3348, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ohioemployerlawblog.com", "title": "Job descriptions count (but not as much as you think) in ADA cases", "raw_content": "Job descriptions count (but not as much as you think) in ADA cases\nDonald Bush worked as a chef manager for Compass Group. According his written job description, his duties included routinely lifting more than 10 pounds. Bush informed his employer that he suffered from rapidly progressing cervical/thoracic spondylosis (a degenerative back condition), and requested a transfer to a less physically demanding job. Ultimately, Compass Group fired him because his illness prevented him from heavy lifting of over 50 pounds.\nSo, who wins Bush\u2019s disability discrimination claim? Bush (based on the 10 pound limit in his job description), or Compass Group (based on its estimation of the practical realities of his job\u2019s lifting requirements)?\nThe answer? In Bush v. Compass Group (6th Cir. 3/23/17), the appellate court affirmed the trial court\u2019s dismissal of Bush\u2019s claim.\nUncontroverted evidence shows that lifting up to fifty pounds was an essential part of Bush\u2019s job duties. During his deposition, Bush confirmed that the written job description did not accurately reflect his actual job duties. Specifically, when asked about the description\u2019s statement that candidates needed to be able to lift up to ten pounds, Bush stated that he \u201cwas lifting and moving quite a lot more than that.\u201d Bush confirmed that he was required to move cases of meat and fifty-pound bags of potatoes and sugar. Moreover, Bush stated he was lifting heavy weights \u201cfor quite a bit of my employment\u201d because he would have to assume the duties of less senior cooks when they did not show up for work. When asked if lifting heavy weights \u201cwas essential\u201d to his job, Bush responded \u201cYes. Yes.\u201d\nThus, because Compass could not accommodate Bush\u2019s disability to meet the actual essential function of his job, the ADA did not protect his job.\nA written job description is only one of seven factors courts consider in determining whether that function is essential to the job:\nThe employer\u2019s judgment as to which functions are essential;\nWritten job descriptions prepared before advertising or interviewing applicants for the job;\nThe consequences of not requiring the incumbent to perform the function;\nThe terms of a collective bargaining agreement;\nThe experience of past incumbents in the job; or\nThe current work experience of incumbents in similar jobs.\nThus, written job descriptions are important, but are not dispositive of a job\u2019s essential functions. Just because you list a function as \u201cessential\u201d doesn\u2019t mean a court has to take your word for it. If the other six factors show otherwise, then they will carry the day, and not the written job description.\nPlease do not, however, mis-assume that you should not have written job descriptions. To the contrary, you should have written job descriptions for each position in your organization. They not only help establish reasonable expectations for what you expect from your employees in a position, but it also help set a baseline for what you do, or do not, have to reasonably accommodate. You must provide a reasonable accommodation to enable a disabled employee to perform the essential functions of a job; you do not, however, have to accommodate the non-essential functions. The point is that a job description is only part of the story of whether a job functions is essential; it is rarely ever the whole story.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 9792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ok-om.com/blog-entry/buy-lease-real-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BAKEMYLIQHV4OLONGMQ3Q2M5W43UEWUS", "length": 3287, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ok-om.com", "title": "Should you buy or lease your real estate? - O'Keeffe & O'Malley Mergers & Acquisitions", "raw_content": "Should you buy or lease your real estate?\nWhen it comes to buying a business, real estate often doesn\u2019t get a lot of attention. But it should. Whether a business owns or leases its property impacts the business and its value. And if the business leases, prospective buyers need to understand the type of lease and its terms. Here are the basics.\nOwning a home as an individual is usually a no-brainer value proposition. But for a business, there are definite pros and cons to owning real estate.\nThe benefits of owning are pretty clear-cut. The business has more collateral to support the borrowing capacity of the business. As it pays down the mortgage, it builds equity. Owning also allows the business to customize or even add on to the space without getting approval from a landlord.\nThe downside of owning is, of course, capital. Owning a property requires additional equity capital for an asset that has a lower internal rate of return (IRR) than the business. That lowers the overall IRR of the investment. Owning can also come with future complications. The business may outgrow the space, the location may be inconvenient, or a future buyer may not want to purchase real estate. It\u2019s a lot to consider.\nLeasing has its own pros and cons. A big benefit is flexibility. The business isn\u2019t tied to the facility long term. Plus, the business has limited liability for capital expenditures related to normal wear and tear on the building.\nThe problem with leasing is that the business is somewhat at the mercy of the landlord. The owner could decide not to renew the lease or to increase the rent. Moving a business is expensive and time-consuming under the best of circumstances. When it\u2019s not necessarily your choice, it\u2019s even worse.\nKinds of leases\nThere are three main types of leases:\nNon-triple net (or gross) \u2013 In this agreement, all costs and expenses of the lease are included in the monthly base rent. The lessee pays the rent \u2013 and nothing more of the landlord\u2019s costs. Rent under this kind of lease is generally higher than rent under a triple net lease.\nTriple net \u2013 This lease requires the lessee to pay the base rent and a proportionate share of other expenses. These include real estate taxes, building insurance, and basic maintenance. Rent is typically lower than under a non-triple net (gross) lease but you have other expenses which can increase if they go up.\nAbsolute triple net \u2013 This agreement is similar to a triple net lease, with one big exception. The lessee is responsible for almost all repairs to the property. If there\u2019s a problem with the foundation, a busted sewer line, or a roof that needs to be replaced, it is the responsibility of the lessee. This type of lease is common when the parties are related or if there\u2019s been a sale-leaseback transaction.\nOne-of-a-kind situations\nEvery business is unique, so there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all answer to the buy vs. lease quandary. But what you can do is gather all the information and determine what works best for your business.\nIf you\u2019re concerned with how real estate is going to work in your transaction, O\u2019Keeffe & O\u2019Malley can help. Call us at 913-648-1085 for a confidential meeting.\n\u2190 What do buyers look for in a business?\nDollins Tool was acquired by a Swiss automation and tool manufacturer \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onecebu.com/travel/destination-guide-reviews/information-3668.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HXQLVFC4JXGU36EZTNFSHQLXMRVGRYZQ", "length": 2385, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.onecebu.com", "title": "Cebu Beaches, Mountain Parks and Nature Spots - OneCebu.com", "raw_content": "Cebu Beaches, Mountain Parks and Nature Spots\nCebu is endowed with natural resources that benefit a lot of Cebuanos. There are also a lot of sights to see in Cebu. Be it from the seas to the mountains, there\u2019s always something worthwhile to check out and do. You will never run out of beaches, nature spots and mountain parks in Cebu. There\u2019s an abundance of all of these things in Cebu. The good thing about the province is that you do not have to go far from the city to be able to get in touch with nature. Spots, beaches and parks are usually within minutes or hours from the city.\nCebu is famous for beaches and dive spots. There\u2019s just a wide array of beaches that Cebu can offer you. You can choose from 5-star resorts to affordable and even free beaches, depending on your budget. Lapu-Lapu City hosts the 5-star and luxurious resorts in Cebu that have the best beaches. You can go to Shangri-La, Movenpick, Plantation Bay, Imperial Palace, and other resorts that are lining up along the shores of the city.\nIf you want farther from Metro Cebu, Bantayan is the place to be. It\u2019s an island on the northern tip of Cebu that is famous for the pristine waters, powdery shore, and friendly people.\nDespite being a small province, Cebu boasts of the mountains that are challenging and scenic. Aside from that, there are many mountain parks that you can visit and stay in when you just want some cold mountain breeze. Mountain View is one of the famous mountain parks in Cebu. It is also affordable. Busay has a lot of other mountain parks that offer ziplines and other recreational activity. Kan-irag Nature Park is also another place to go to when you just want to be far away from the bustling city without going too far. It\u2019s also a favorite place for photographers as the place provides a good background, especially when you want a nature-inspired shoot.\nNature spots abound in Cebu. Eco-tourism is already catching up especially in Cebu where a lot of enthusiasts are coming out. There are just a lot of beautiful and natural places scattered all over Cebu. You can go river trekking in Budlaan, go rock climbing in Cantabaco, Toledo, go scuba diving in Moalboal, go swimming with the whale sharks in Oslob, go spelunking in Balay sa Agta, Argao, go swimming in the waterfalls in Kawasan, and the list goes on. There are just many natural spots in Cebu that you shouldn\u2019t miss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oneindia.com/2006/04/14/one-killed-3-hurt-in-egyptian-church-stabbings-1145019977.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:09Z", "digest": "sha1:WCOS4SMVYFTFMPGSSKIPPSSRV7XG6YAI", "length": 1476, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.oneindia.com", "title": "One killed, 3 hurt in Egyptian church stabbings - Oneindia News", "raw_content": "One killed, 3 hurt in Egyptian church stabbings\nCAIRO, Apr 14 (Reuters) Three Egyptians killed a Christian worshipper and wounded three others today in knife attacks in three churches in the coastal city of Alexandria, security and police officials said.\n''We believe the three men were working together to carry out the attacks,'' said a security official, who did not want to be named.\nHe said all three were captured after the attacks and a fourth man was apprehended before he could carry out a similar attack on a fourth church in an area called Sporting.\nThe officials said Mahmoud Abdul Galil, a former government employee who was removed from his position because of mental illness, killed a 67-year-old worshipper at Saint George Church in the Hadra area of Alexandria.\nMohammed Salah Eddin, a recent university graduate, wounded three worshippers in the Saints Church in the Sidi Bish area of Alexandria and an unknown man attacked worshippers in the Virgin Mary Church in the Fleming area, the officials said. No one was hurt in the Fleming incident, they said.\nAlexandria was the scene of violent protests in October over a church play demonstrators said was offensive to Islam. Three people died when the protesters clashed with police.\nRelations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt are generally peaceful but there are occasional outbreaks of sectarian violence, notably in 1999 when 22 people were killed in the southern village of Kosheh.\nREUTERS SI KN1750", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinecfc.com/dgroups", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2LZZE4QMLVDVE7ZCEVFB73V75IXRCPIM", "length": 1536, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.onlinecfc.com", "title": "Discipleship Groups :: Christian Fellowship Church", "raw_content": "The CFC Disciple Group path helps to align those individuals desiring a group discipleship experience with leaders and other men and women in the church who can guide them on that path.\nOur groups are \u201copen groups,\u201d meaning you can expect to have as many as 12 people \u2013 men, women, single, married, younger, older, with kids and without kids in the group. We expect our groups to meet multiple times each month.\nIn a group, you can expect a time of fellowship and activities with other members of the group before closing in on an intentional study of God\u2019s Word. We make that part as easy as possible for our leaders by providing the lesson each week for groups to go through.\nDuring this time of study, groups will look at a passage of Scripture and be asked a set of observation and application questions to discuss.\n1. Fill our minds with the truth of God\u2019s Word\n2. Fuel our affection for God\nIn other words, we hope that our groups will help people have a stronger knowledge of God\u2019s Word, grow in their love for The Lord, and see that love manifest by serving through CFC both locally and globally. And we desire to see these groups \u201cbranch.\u201d As other people in the group develop and rise up to their God-given potential, we will ask them to \u201cbranch\u201d or form new groups from their existing group.\nAs a result of being a part of a group, we hope that people will learn how to study God\u2019s Word, have a more fervent prayer life, serve others, and enjoy being in relationship with other people.\nClick HERE FOR A MAP OF CURRENT GROUPS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onthebeach.co.uk/hotels/balearics/menorca/cala-n-bosch/grupotel-aldea-cala-n-bosch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GJD43UNEMSM6EPSXZCJPILXIYBLQP3GQ", "length": 1774, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.onthebeach.co.uk", "title": "Grupotel Aldea Cala'n Bosch - Cala N Bosch, Menorca | On the Beach", "raw_content": "This apartment is ideal for family holidays. Its manicured gardens surround this small town of Menorca air with direct access to the dunes of the beach. This welcoming hotel comprises a total of 114 apartments. The beautiful lobby, a lift and a reception open 24 hours a day, which offers currency exchange service and wireless in public areas. All public areas are air conditioned. The hotel also has a playground, entertainment for adults and children and babysitting service (paying).\nThe light and welcoming apartments come with a bathroom and a hairdryer, a balcony or terrace, offering a stunning view, as well as a bedroom with a double bed and a cosy living room with a sofa bed. Further fittings include a direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, as well as a kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge. The lounge features a dining area and a hire safe. The apartments are cleaned five times a week.\nBreakfasts and dinners are provided in the main restaurant offering a wide variety international cuisine. In the display cooking area. Local cuisine, so that you can sample Menorca cooking.,\nThe well-maintained grounds include a swimming pool with two separate children's paddling areas. Surrounded by palm trees, a sun terrace with parasols and sun loungers is also available to guests. The hotel provides an ideal location for sunbathing or simply relaxing. Pool towels are supplied and guests may enjoy the offerings of the poolside snack bar. Here, no wish is left unfulfilled. Sporting options include billiards, table tennis and tennis (3 courts available). The surrounding area affords excellent conditions for cycling and mountain bike tours. There is also an entertainment programme to provide some variation for guests.\nCala N Bosch, Menorca, Balearics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 388, "original_length": 11476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/cameron-demands-action-on-child-abuse-images", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YBWN3UGCIQFNXJFR2L4MCZVLWBYGI3JR", "length": 4825, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.openrightsgroup.org", "title": "Open Rights Group - Cameron demands action on child abuse images", "raw_content": "Cameron demands action on child abuse images\nToday we were expecting an announcement from David Cameron on the Andrew Marr Show previewing a speech on Monday about filters to stop children accessing adult pornography. Instead we have an announcement about paedophiles on the Internet. These are very different issues, needing different policy responses.\nEvery right minded person wants to get rid of child abuse images, and stop people from accessing them. But Cameron's targeting of search engines seems wrong headed and rather 1995.\nFirstly, most child abuse images are circulated in private networks, or are sold by criminal gangs. Banning search terms seems unlikely to combat the serious activity, which is independent of search engines. It may help for casual searches, but this seems at best a marginal help, and certainly not worth a Prime Ministerial announcement, nor threats of legislation implying that this action is critical for child safety.\nLet us accept that some identifiable search terms will bring up illegal images. If a list of blacklisted terms exists, then new terms will be invented so that people can find what they want. Thus Cameron invites a game of cat and mouse which is likely to have very limited impact. The terms used may hide themselves into search terms that cannot be banned because they are innocuous. This, for instance, is the kind of reason why the term 'Lolita' was adopted to signal such material.\nThe first thing that should be done is for Cameron to ask for statistics about the searches he wants to ban. It would be interesting to know if this has been requested but no figures have been quoted so far.\nIn any case, search engines have moved well beyond being dependent on identifying content through a small set of accurately reproduced keywords. Banning a few terms seems unlikely to prevent any kind of material from being available through search.\nOf course, Google and other search engines, once they are aware of such material, will always remove it from their databases. Organisations like IWF who look for it may well, of course, be using search engine terms to find it as well, probably in more sophisticated ways than the casual searchers Cameron believes he is trying to target: he should be careful that his policy does not make the lives of the IWF more difficult.\nIt is also being reported that Cameron is going to say tomorrow to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! that:\nYou're the people who take pride in doing what they say can't be done.\nYou hold hackathons for people to solve impossible internet conundrums.\nWell \u2013 hold a hackathon for child safety.\nSet your greatest brains to work on this.\nOn the face of it, this would be an open invitation to the public \u2014 in that any member of the public can create a search engine, or any other kind of network software \u2014 to engage in an activity that would almost certainly result in a violation of the Sexual Offences Act 2003*. One may well expect someone to use this in a future defence: \"I only downloaded those images to help train an algorithm to block them\".\nThe real ways this offensive and rightly illegal material is combated is through takedown and targeting criminals. Takedowns of child abuse image websites still take days, rather than hours in the case of bank phishing attempts. More could be done to make sure international co-operation improves the speed that images are taken down, therefore.\nCEOP have done work to restrict the use of payment mechanisms, with some success, but more could be done to stop the money laundering that is necessary for images to be traded.\nSearch engines are an easy target. They cannot be seen to aid criminality as serious as paedophilia. They will therefore be under immense pressure to do what Cameron asks, no matter if it is counter productive or simply irrelevant to his aims. Cameron will be able to chalk up a victory and move onto the next Daily Mail headline generating press stunt.\nShould we, therefore, care? We should: it is embarrassing for our Prime Minister to stand up and demand a policy that is likely to be of highly marginal impact, and discuss it as if it was of vital national interest, while failing to concentrate on the real answers.\nCameron's announcement is symptomatic of the way the Internet is viewed and treated by policy makers. The technical challenges and consequences of policies are viewed as less important than the moral purpose justifying calls for action. Policies are announced before they have been properly considered. And worse, these announcements risk being another case of blaming the commercial intermediaries \u2013 in this case search engines \u2013 because that is easier and cheaper than doing what is really necessary.\n* Actually, Section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 and section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.orangepublicrecords.com/sample.php?id=35003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:T35PM4NCMSJD7CIHPANCJKFOR3NUPNEF", "length": 2429, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.orangepublicrecords.com", "title": "WILLIE M JR SMITH | Is There A WILLIE M JR SMITH On Facebook? | Is There A WILLIE M JR SMITH On LinkedIn?", "raw_content": "WILLIE M JR SMITH\nLawmakers in Florida have long believed in the importance of an open system of government. As such, any document filed by a clerk of courts throughout the state, as well as any correspondence sent from, or received by, any government employee, shall become the immediate property of the citizenry. In short, in the State of Florida, the people have a right to know. That is why you are seeing information below regarding WILLIE M JR SMITH. Once a report is filed by a criminal justice agency in Orange County, Florida, it becomes accessible to anyone who desires to see it. So after WILLIE M JR SMITH was detained by authorities on 12-06-2018, all of the information filed on that date, as well as all future files docketed in connection with the apprehension of WILLIE M JR SMITH in Orange County, became a matter of public record. If you write to the governor of Florida (currently Richard Scott) or to the attorney general (currently Pamela Bondi), your name and e-mail address will become part of Florida's public record. If you are jailed, for any reason, the complete report and your photograph (if taken) are immediately available to anyone, anywhere in the world, at virtually any time. That is why you are seeing this report about WILLIE M JR SMITH; this website endeavors to publish an accurate record of all detainments in Orange County to better provide for transparency in government.\nFor an update on the detainment of WILLIE M JR SMITH, you are welcome to contact the Orange County Clerk of Courts. This website does not have the resources to publish a file-by-file of all papers docketed in any individual criminal case proceeding. The inclusion of information regarding WILLIE M JR SMITH on our website is an indication merely of an apprehension. DO NOT ASSUME ANY CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ANYONE WHOSE NAME, ADDRESS, DATE-OF-BIRTH, OR THE LIKE, APPEARS HEREIN. In the United States, everyone detained by a law enforcement official, including WILLIE M JR SMITH is presumed innocent. The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1788, provides all defendants in criminal proceedings the right to a speedy trial (Amendment Six) and Due Process (Amendment Fourteen). 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That\u2019s why we are proud to have a unique portfolio of programs specifically for the next generation of physician-leaders. We are dedicated to helping you address your goals through an array of resources and learning experiences designed to guide you toward a rewarding academic and professional life.\nResident Research Awards: This annual research award is exclusively designated for residents and fellows. The maximum award is $10,000 per year with a one or two-year project duration, totaling a maximum of $20,000 (inclusive of indirect costs which are capped at 10%).\nAAOMS Travel Awards: Through travel awards, the Foundation continues to partner with the American Association of Oral and Maxiollofacial Surgeons and to maintain an annual commitment to support residents to attend important meetings and conferences.\nClinical Observership Program: This program is a unique offering designed especially for OMFS residents interested in a private practice experience. This practical opportunity offers intensive, individualized training by carefully matching residents with leading practitioners in the field.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pastatavola.ca/ahhh-spring/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EPADQELGYLWENANXNQFOFKMEUC6A6CJ3", "length": 2292, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.pastatavola.ca", "title": "Ahhh Spring! - Pasta Tavola", "raw_content": "Ahhh Spring!\nIt\u2019s hard to believe that spring is upon us. Our team at Pasta Tavola has been gearing up for what we hope to be a busy season!\nEaster April 2-8:\nDuring Easter week, the Pasta Ladies will once again roll out their homemade baked goods. Zia\u2019s Panetone Bread will be making a comeback on the menu as well as our various homemade pastries and cookies. Of course, we will have cannoli. Did you know that you can now order cannoli any day of the week? We\u2019ve had many requests to keep our cannoli on the menu, so if you ask for it we will make it to order!\nOur hours of operation that week will be:\nTuesday to Thursday (April 3- 5): 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.\nGood Friday (April 6): CLOSED\nSaturday (April 7): 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.\nEaster Monday (April 9): CLOSED\nIn May Pasta Tavola will be returning to the Belleville Farmer\u2019s Market. This year, not only will you be able to purchase our delectable pastas and sauces (because fresh pasta is ALWAYS a great meal option or bbq side!) but we will also be introducing some new products. Check out our facebook page or follow us on twitter for details. We will be putting out some \u201cteasers\u201d over the next few weeks.\nSome exciting news. We have been working on a new gluten-free pasta recipe\u2014one that is not only gluten-free but egg free and lactose free. Our recipe \u2013which will be produced and packaged in an entirely gluten-free environment\u2014will allow us to make new pasta shapes as well as lasagne noodles. There is still some tweaking to do, but we are excited about this new development. More details to follow once the testing is complete!\nSince returning from our trip to San Francisco, and since visiting various food trade shows earlier this year, the Pasta Ladies are even more inspired than ever! Chef Paula has been creating a new spring menu which will be out just in time for our re-appearance at the Belleville Farmer\u2019s Market in May. Watch for our selection of salads, dips & spreads and other meal ideas. We will be bringing back our Italian sandwiches for lunch and we will also be making some changes to the shop to make your shopping experience even more enjoyable.\nThere\u2019s always something happening at Pasta Tavola. 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The collection was shown at the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Horlogerie et de l\u2019Emaillerie (Museum of Watchmaking and Enameling) in Geneva. The catalog follows the structure of the 1989 exhibition; it is an important source of information and a popular reference work on pocket watches and wristwatches. Numerous photographs, many of them close-ups, show richly decorated dials, elaborate enamel miniatures and intricate engravings as characteristic details of the horological master pieces that were chosen and acquired for the Patek Philippe private collection.\n136 pages, 20 \u00d7 25.5 cm, color photos. Bilingual edition with text in French and English. Published in 1989. 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PayByPhone will help the campus decrease the costs associated with parking maintenance, while giving convenience to commuters. The service is currently offered at MIT\u2019s 139 Mass Ave lot.\nThe app consists of several student-friendly features, such as the ability to extend your parking from anywhere, even the classroom. Other features include a countdown timer, and smart reminders that trigger before a parking session expires, reducing the risk of receiving a parking ticket, something any fiscally responsible student can appreciate.\nMIT joins over a dozen other universities that have implemented PayByPhone as popularity for the parking app spreads throughout major universities in the U.S.. The app is also available in other areas of Massachusetts, including the Town of Concord and Park Plymouth, and at parking lots along \u2018the T\u2019, MBTA\u2019s commuter rail.\n\u201cUniversities are key to creating a seamless parking experience for our users,\u201d explains Kush Parikh, President and CEO of PayByPhone. \u201cAs MIT is an advocate for progressive technologies, it is a natural addition to our university space.\u201d\nThe PayByPhone app can be downloaded from the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store. 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Is it true that the overall weight of the van is the same if bees are flying instead of sitting?", "raw_content": "Asked by: Rob Mclachlan\nOf course this is true! How else could the bees push up if there were not an equal, but opposite, force pushing down? This is an example of Newton's Third Law. This Law of the universe says that for every force there is an equal and opposite force.\nYou can try an experiment that is close to the bee example for this law. You will need someone to help you. Get a bathroom scale and have your helper watch the scale as you stand on it. Have your helper record your weight. Now, bend your knees and jump up and off of the scale. (You might ruin your scales if you land back down on them, but, you can explain to your mother that it was done in the name of science!) At the exact same instant that you push down on the scales to jump up have your helper read the scale. You will find that you have exceeded your weight in order to jump. This is because in order to push up an equal and opposite force had to be pushed down. Now, if you were a bee with wings you would exceed your weight only for an instant at take-off and then while you hovered the force you would have to push down with would equal your weight.\nI hope this helps you to better understand Newton's Third Law. Most people get confused when they try to understand this Law. this is easy to do because people often forget that the two forces that are equal and opposite act on different objects. There is a famous story about a farmer and his horse. The horse is a lazy beast who spends his time eating hay and lazily reading science books. One day the farmer attaches a heavy cart to the horse and demands that the horse pull the cart. 'Well,' says the horse, 'I cannot pull the cart because, according to Newton's third law, if I apply a force to the cart the cart will apply an equal and opposite force on me. The net result will be that I cannot pull the cart since all the forces will be balanced. And, as you know, Newton's first law says that if there are equal forces acting on an object the net result is no change in motion. Therefore, it is impossible for me to pull this cart.' The farmer was very up set! Do you know what he could say to convince the horse to move?\nYes. For an object to be supported by air, its weight needs to be countered with an upward force of equal magnitude. Newton's third law of motion also says that if the air provides an upward force on the bees, it feels an opposite force of the same magnitude pushing down on it. In your example, the downward force on the air results in a downward force on the floor of the van equal to the weight of the bees.\nIf you replace the bees with grasshoppers which don't fly, but get into the air by pushing off from the van's floor, however, the situation is different. The air is not supporting them as it does the flying bees (jumping can still occur in a vacuum). So if all the grasshoppers jump at the same time, it results in the van temporarily 'weighing' MORE, then less, until they all returned to the floor. You can do this experiment yourself by getting on a bathroom scale and jumping up. While in the air, the scale registers zero. Just before, and upon landing, it registers MORE than your weight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pilot-expo.com/team-member/brynjar-orn-sveinjonsson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VL2HUS4PDFDA3IIMR53PLXBQZTOGVNA5", "length": 1127, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pilot-expo.com", "title": "Brynjar \u00d6rn Sveinjonsson - Pilot Expo", "raw_content": "He started flying single engine airplanes at an early age in his native country Iceland and from that point on there was no turning back from aviation. He went on to complete the ATPL at British Aerospace Flight Training where he graduated in 2001. Shortly after he joined CityJet, a passenger operation based in Paris and London City, where he flew the BAE-146 around Europe. He was a part of the training department there initially as CRMT and then as TRI in 2005.\nAfter city hopping around Europe for a few years the opportunity to join Cargolux and fly the 747 on their worldwide network came in 2007 where he joined as a First Officer. He has held various training positions there over the last 12 years, such as CRMT, Technical Knowledge Instructor and TRI on the 747-400 and 747-8. He has been the Assistant Chief Pilot at Cargolux since January 2017 and was appointed Deputy Chief Pilot in 2019 and will be appointed Chief Pilot.\nHe is a member of Cargolux Peer to Peer Advisory Group and Pilot Recruitment Selection Board.\nAdditional to his flying experience he holds a BA degree in Law from the University of Iceland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 199.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plantemoran.com/get-to-know/news/2017/04/sharon-ulep-joins-plante-morans-healthcare-consulting-strategy-and-operatio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ETRCP7RLBBMZ3THWEEKCIR6QPSBDNUAK", "length": 2277, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.plantemoran.com", "title": "Sharon Ulep joins Plante Moran\u2019s healthcare consulting strategy and operations practice | Get to Know Plante Moran | Plante Moran", "raw_content": "Home Get to Know Plante Moran\nSharon Ulep joins Plante Moran\u2019s healthcare consulting strategy and operations practice\nApril 10, 2017 Press Release 1 min read\nSouthfield, Mich. \u2013 Plante Moran, one of the nation\u2019s largest public accounting and business advisory firms, is pleased to announce that Sharon Ulep has joined the firm as a principal in its healthcare consulting strategy and operations practice.\nUlep, who will work out of the firm\u2019s Southfield office, specializes in healthcare consulting and process improvement program deployment with a focus on quality, patient safety and process efficiencies using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. In her new role, she\u2019ll work with Plante Moran\u2019s healthcare clients to help them with care delivery, connect and engage patients, and become healthy, profitable organizations.\n\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to welcome Sharon to our team,\u201d said Anthony Colarossi, leader of Plante Moran\u2019s acute healthcare consulting practice. \u201cHer work with clients in the healthcare industry not only results in deeper learning and improved processes, but ultimately creates a better and safer experience for patients.\u201d\nPrior to joining Plante Moran, Sharon was the Lean throughput engagement director and Master Black Belt in the clinical division at Community Health Systems.\nUlep is a GE Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a GE Certified Master Change Agent. A supporter of the community, she\u2019s also active in Habitat for Humanity and the Redford Brightmoor Initiative.\nPlante Moran is among the nation's largest accounting, tax and consulting firms and provides a full line of services to organizations in the following industries: manufacturing and distribution, financial institutions, service, health care, private equity, public sector and real estate and construction. Plante Moran has a staff of more than 2,200 professionals in offices throughout Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois with international offices in Shanghai, China; Monterrey, Mexico; and Mumbai, India. Plante Moran has been recognized by a number of organizations, including FORTUNE magazine, as one of the country's best places to work. For more information, visit plantemoran.com\nHealthcare Strategy & Operations\nSeven techniques to reduce costs and improve profitability", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plantemoran.com/get-to-know/people/d/matt-dopp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:37Z", "digest": "sha1:4QPJ3W6LUT66VK7ZV6LRKV5DPFE4UREY", "length": 1740, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.plantemoran.com", "title": "Matt Dopp | Get to Know Plante Moran | Plante Moran", "raw_content": "Home Get to Know Plante Moran People Matt Dopp\nMatt Dopp\nmatt.dopp@plantemoran.com 312-980-2958\nI\u2019m a leader in the firm\u2019s services practice, and I\u2019m also very active in the emerging enterprises and technology group. With nearly 25 years of experience, I consult with several of the firm\u2019s larger and more complex clients engaged in business-to-business transactions in different sectors, including consumer services, distribution, and other technology services. I counsel clients on the most effective use of technology to improve their financial reporting capabilities, implement business analytic and business intelligence concepts, and develop cash flow models.\nView More of Matt's Experience\nMy clients appreciate that I consistently look for ways to help them improve their businesses. I like to think this is because I\u2019m a candid communicator and, when I present a case, I try not to force my ideas. Rather, I approach it from a place of experience and conviction that my clients come to trust.\nI\u2019m also passionate about innovation. I assist my clients with the strategy, implementation, and execution of their innovation efforts. As the chair of our firm\u2019s audit and tax innovation committee, I\u2019m always focused on ways for our own team members to advance their skills and enhance the client experience. I\u2019m thankful that Plante Moran has built its own culture around innovation. This inspires all of us to have a sense of purpose as well as a long-term strategic vision.\nI belong to the AICPA and the Illinois CPA Society. I received my B.S. in economic management from Albion College.\nMy colleagues and family know me as a proud Chicago Cubs fan. When I\u2019m not watching games, I enjoy spending time with my family and playing golf.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 5426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=16433", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HXLOPEXNBJQZTWGZGIKIVB7JFY25XV5W", "length": 3204, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.plantwise.org", "title": "poplar and willow borer (Cryptorhynchus lapathi)", "raw_content": "poplar and willow borer (Cryptorhynchus lapathi)\nPopulus alba (silver-leaf poplar)\nPopulus berolinensis\nPopulus interamericana\nPopulus simonii (Simon poplar)\nSalix caprea (pussy willow)\nSalix purpurea (purple willow)\nSalix triandra (almond willow)\nSalix viminalis (osier)\nStems - lodging; broken stems\nInitial larval activity is revealed by a thin, powdery frass coming out from very small holes in the bark of young stems and branches. Later, when the larva ages and penetrates into the wood, the frass becomes coarser and whitish, and sap exudes from the wound. Plant reaction, when present, enhances the girdling trend of the galleries in the stem.\nElimination of the infestation sources has to be considered unlikely and almost impossible, as the pest is largely distributed on spontaneous poplars and willows and on the crowns of older trees.\nAttention has to be paid to the sanitary protection of poplars and willows in nurseries, in order to prevent diffusion of the pest to stands by infested nursery stock. Young plants can be chemically protected and checked in order to eliminate the infested ones.\nChemical protection is generally also needed in young poplar stands when high-quality wood has to be obtained (Italy, Spain, France, Hungary). Protection in older stands is useless as trunks over 15-20 cm in diameter are unlikely to be attacked and damaged. Organophosphate or pyrethroid insecticides are commonly used. Pest control can be achieved by spraying trunks against adults (Dafauce, 1965; Lapietra and Arru, 1973) or young larvae (Schvester and Bianchi, 1961; Lapietra, 1972; Cavalcaselle and De Bellis, 1983; Allegro, 1997). In the latter case, very high mortality levels are reached when larvae are still feeding on bark tissues and before they penetrate into the wood; moreover, the trunks have to be abundantly wetted by the chemicals. In countries where C. lapathi overwinters as larvae, nursery plants can be effectively treated in winter using pyrethroid insecticides (Lapietra and Allegro, 1986); this technique is particularly useful in order to prevent the passive distribution of the pest to stands by infested nursery stock.\nBiological control of the pest is possible by injecting entomopathogenic nematodes (Cavalcaselle and Deseo, 1984; Hou et al., 1992a) or fungi (Cavalcaselle, 1975) into the larval galleries. C. lapathi larvae control by X-ray radiation has also been carried out (Cavalcaselle and De Bellis, 1968, 1970).\nPhysical barriers have been tested, and proved to be effective in preventing C. lapathi adults climbing the trunks of trees (Allegro, 1990).\nC. lapathi is considered to be an economically important pest in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Hungary, China, Korea, Japan, USA and Canada (Nef and Menu, 1994).\nIt is mostly injurious in countries where poplars (and secondarily willows) are grown with the aim of producing high-quality wood, mainly for plywood and furniture industries (Italy, Spain, France, Hungary). 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Rick Scott unless his office is appropriated full $59.9 million he's requested.\nEscambia County sheriff: No compromise on budget funding Sheriff David Morgan will appeal his budget to Gov. Rick Scott unless his office is appropriated full $59.9 million he's requested. Check out this story on pnj.com: http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/07/19/escambia-county-sheriff-no-compromise-budget-funding/492981001/\nSheriff Morgan discusses cuts he would make if his budget isn't met. Wochit\nEscambia County Sheriff David Morgan speaks during an interview July 13, 2017, about Escambia County Commissioners' reluctance to approve his budget request.(Photo11: News Journal file photo)\nEscambia County Sheriff David Morgan said he will appeal his budget to Gov. Rick Scott unless his office is appropriated the full $59.9 million he has requested.\nCommissioner Doug Underhill presented a plan at Tuesday's commission meeting that would cut funding in other areas of the county's $455.6 million budget to add $3.2 million to the sheriff's budget.\nCommissioners informally agreed to a part of the plan that would free up $1.77 million but did not come to a resolution on where the savings would be applied.\nThe county's proposed budget calls for $56.3 million for the Sheriff's Office, a difference of $3.6 million from what the sheriff wants.\n\"We're going to get the $3.6 million from the county commission,\" Morgan told the News Journal on Wednesday. \"Either they're going to find the money, either through (a Municipal Service Taxing Unit) adjustment or raising the ad valorem taxes \u2014 to be quite honest with you, I really don't care how they find the money \u2014 or we're going to present our position to the governor of the state of Florida.\"\nMore: Sheriff: It's lucky there were no civilian casualties in triple murder suspect's suicide\nTensions arose between the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and the Board of County Commissioners during a budget hearing on July 11.\nChief Deputy Eric Haines gave a presentation to commissioners that showed Escambia County had twice the attrition rate of similarly sized sheriff's offices in Florida. Haines said two issues are causing the attrition: low pay and pay compression.\nPay compression is from the lack of pay raises for several years during the Great Recession, which created a situation in which deputies with the potential to retire are earning up to $4,000 less than deputies who retired 15 years previously.\nMorgan said deputies are leaving the department after six to 12 years of experience on the job, which is when they're the most valuable to a law enforcement agency.\n\u201cWe've come to the table many times in good faith only to be given a sleight of hand.\u201d\nDavid Morgan, Sheriff\n\"Those are officers that require little or no supervision on the street,\" Morgan said. \"They're coming up for sergeant and lieutenant, and that's your corporate knowledge in your organization. That's your future captains and majors and colonels and commanders, etc.\"\nMorgan said during his time in office as sheriff, his efforts to work with the County Commission have been discouraging and usually ended in broken promises.\n\"We've come to the table many times in good faith only to be given a sleight of hand,\" Morgan said. \"...I use the euphemism sleight of hand, but it's really being deceived by the county commissioners.\"\nSanta Rosa County commissioners recently passed a pay raise for Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office deputies.\n\"I have no doubt that they may siphon off some of our officers,\" Morgan said.\nMorgan said because of the lack of officers, he will be forced to pull back to core areas and focus on high-crime areas.\n\"(Commissioners) want to wave the flag and talk about how much they support law enforcement when you're giving the minimum (in funding) out of all like-sized counties,\" Morgan said.\nMore: Escambia County Sheriff says 'draconian' cuts likely unless office funded, calls for tax increase\nDuring Tuesday's meeting, Commissioner Steven Barry said the sheriff's office budget has increased by 2 or 3 percent each fiscal year since Barry has been in office.\n\"I have always thought that that's been relatively supportive,\" Barry said. \"I feel like we've been good partners since we've been sworn in.\"\nThe money Morgan has asked for will not solve the entire problem, he said, but it will be a step in the multi-year process to provide the proper amount of law enforcement for Escambia County.\n\"Even if we magically got the money this afternoon, our rebuilding process would take several years, and for each and every month that you put this off, it's going to take longer and longer and longer to fix this problem,\" Morgan said.\nRead or Share this story: http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/07/19/escambia-county-sheriff-no-compromise-budget-funding/492981001/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/news/sky/115645-eurosport-added-to-sky-go-app", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QAPEMI7XN7X2QULMHBJDSXFZJUSEA7DH", "length": 1337, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pocket-lint.com", "title": "Eurosport added to Sky Go app - now it's even better - Pocket-lint", "raw_content": "Eurosport added to Sky Go app - now it's even better\nDanny Brogan | 29 May 2012\nSports fans rejoice, as British Eurosport becomes the latest channel to be added to the Sky Go app - the video-on-demand service that won Pocket-lint's \"Best App\" category in last year's Gadget Awards.\nWith a sport-packed summer ahead, Eurosport will be showing live coverage of the Tour De France, the tennis French Open and 24-hour sports car endurance race, Le Mans, all of which can be watched or caught up with on your mobile device with Sky Go.\nSky Go is available on both the iOS and Android platforms and enables users to watch and even pause live TV on their smartphone or tablet device, as well as catch up with any action they have missed.\nSky Sports 1, 2, 3, and 4, Sky Sports F1, Sky Sports News and ESPN are already available on Sky Go. 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11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/el/\u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u03c7\u03bd\u03af\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1/\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03ba\u03cc\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/gu/\u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0acb/\u0ab8\u0acd\u0a9f\u0ac0\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/ht/jw\u00e8t/avek-stickers-son/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/ha/wasanni/lambobi/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/haw/p\u0101\u02bbani/n\u0101-pepili/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/hmn/ua-si/stickers/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mw/games/stickers/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/he/\u05de\u05e9\u05d7\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd/\u05de\u05d3\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05ea/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/hi/\u0916\u0947\u0932/\u0938\u094d\u091f\u093f\u0915\u0930/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 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Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/lb/Spiller/Pousteren/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mk/\u0438\u0433\u0440\u0438/\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0435\u043f\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0438/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mg/lalao/autocollant/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/ms/permainan/pelekat/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/ml/\u0d17\u0d46\u0d2f\u0d3f\u0d2e\u0d41\u0d15\u0d7e/\u0d38\u0d4d\u0d31\u0d4d\u0d31\u0d3f\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d31\u0d41\u0d15\u0d7e/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mt/log\u0127ob/stikers/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mi/k\u0113mu/whakapiripiri/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:27\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mr/\u0916\u0947\u0933/\u0938\u094d\u091f\u093f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0938/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 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Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/ku/games/slots-bike-birca-steam-legit/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/lo/\u0ec0\u0e81\u0ea1/\u0eaa\u0eb0\u0ea5\u0eb1\u0ead\u0e94\u0e95\u0eb4\u0e87\u0ead\u0ead\u0e99\u0ec4\u0ea5\u0e99\u0ecc-tower-\u0ead\u0eb2\u0e8d-legit/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/la/ludos/online-legit-turrim-vapore/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/lv/sp\u0113les/tie\u0161saistes-slots-legit-tvaika-tornis/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/lt/\u017eaidyn\u0117s/slots-teis\u0117tu-garo-bok\u0161tas/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/lb/Spiller/online-Plaze-legit-Dampzuch-Tuerm/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 11:33\nhttps://www.poundslots.com/mk/\u0438\u0433\u0440\u0438/\u043e\u043d\u043b\u0430\u0458\u043d-\u0441\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0438-legit-\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0435\u0430-\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430/ 70% Monthly 2019-01-09 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A big part of her practice is also dedicated to special needs children, with a focus on autism spectrum disorder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2013/04/tomorrow-only-virgin-mobile-samsung.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MFXAZG2LF7LZ6LB6YHCAWO4LKXOYWRWR", "length": 1660, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.prepaidphonenews.com", "title": "Today Only: Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sale for $174.99 | Prepaid Phone News ' : ''; var month = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]; var month2 = [\"Jan\",\"Feb\",\"Mar\",\"Apr\",\"May\",\"Jun\",\"Jul\",\"Aug\",\"Sep\",\"Oct\",\"Nov\",\"Dec\"]; var day = postdate.split(\"-\")[2].substring(0,2); var m = postdate.split(\"-\")[1]; var y = postdate.split(\"-\")[0]; for(var u2=0;u2'+posttitle+'", "raw_content": "Home - - Today Only: Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sale for $174.99\nToday Only: Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sale for $174.99\nPosted by Dennis Bournique at 7:35 AM on Monday, April 15, 2013 // 1 comment\nVirgin Mobile has put its only LTE phone, the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, on sale for one day only. The sale is on now through 7AM (EST), tomorrow 4/16. The sale price is $174.99, 30% off the phone's regular $249.99 price.\nBesides 4G LTE, the Galaxy Victory has a 4 inch 800 x 480 px WVGA screen; 5.0 Megapixel camera with auto focus, LED flash, dedicated camera button and 720p video recording plus a 1.3 Megapixel front facing camera for video calls and a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor. It runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).\nThe Galaxy Victory can be used on any of Virgin's Beyond Talk plans which start at $35/month for unlimited (throttled to 256 Kbps after 2.5 GB) data, unlimited text and picture messaging and 300 voice minutes.\n4G LTE high speed data is available in 67 markets currently including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Baltimore and is expected to cover 200 markets with over 200 million pepole by year end.\nI expect the Galaxy Victory to sell out quickly at the $174.99 price so if you want this phone be sure to visit the Galaxy Victory page on the Virgin Mobile site and order the phone ASAP.\nTo think the phone came out at $300, then it dropped by $50 due to bad reviews and now it's on sale again at $175 or $125 off the original list price.\nDespite the good price for LTE device, there's no LTE service in my hometown plus I don't want to support a company like Samsung that steals IP.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 14497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2018/07/06/sponsors-propose-33-wind-turbines-broome-produce-electricity/759219002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LO6RQFLQIBF7EVQXZ4S3HLFTXFPXJMT4", "length": 5008, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.pressconnects.com", "title": "Sponsors to propose 33 wind turbines in Broome to produce electricity", "raw_content": "Sponsors preparing formal proposal to state PSC for 33 wind turbines in Broome County\nSponsors of a 33-turbine wind power project proposed for eastern Broome County are now ready to proceed with the state's lengthy regulatory review.\nSponsors preparing formal proposal to state PSC for 33 wind turbines in Broome County Sponsors of a 33-turbine wind power project proposed for eastern Broome County are now ready to proceed with the state's lengthy regulatory review. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: https://press.sn/2zfkn79\nJeff Platsky, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin Published 10:21 a.m. ET July 6, 2018\nHigh Winds in New York created a record breaking 1,622 megawatts of power. Natasha Vaughn, Albany Bureau\nA wind farm in Wethersfield, Wyoming County from February, 2016, one of 17 commercial wind generators in the state.(Photo11: Max Schulte, Max Schulte/Rochester Democrat a)\nThe 33 turbines would be in the towns of Windsor and Sanford.\nBluestone Wind Energy, a unit of Houston-based Calpine Corp., proposes the Broome County wind farm.\nAnother Calpine unit proposes to erect 25 to 30 turbines in Guilford, Chenango County.\nSponsors of a wind power project with 33 turbines proposed for eastern Broome County are now ready to proceed with the state's lengthy regulatory review.\nThe 124-megawatt wind power generating facility \u2014 enough juice to supply an estimated 20,00 homes \u2014 would be erected on private land leased by Houston-based Calpine Corp. in the towns of Windsor and Sanford.\nBluestone Wind Energy, a unit of Calpine, submitted the first documents this week that will begin the state's formal project review.\nAlthough the general scope of the project was unveiled last year, Bluestone held off starting hearings before the state Public Service Commission while sponsors worked out lease arrangements with the landowners.\nTurbines, some of which can reach nearly 600-feet in height from base to top tip of the blade, will be placed on hillsides spread across 38,000 acres \u2014 about 60 square miles \u2014 of rural parcels. Many of the turbines will be visible from Route 17.\nIn March, a Delaware Otsego Audubon Society survey indicated a large presence of bald and golden eagles throughout the project territory. The birds, they noted, could be affected by the project.\n\"The number of non-migrant eagles of both species was exceptionally high, considerably more than had been anticipated,\" the group said in a report to the PSC.\nAndy Mason of the regional Audubon Society, said his group is uncommitted on the project, awaiting the results of a similar survey conducted by sponsors.\n\"Seeing that many resident birds was a surprise to us,\" Mason said.\nIn an ironic twist, some of the property owners in Windsor and Sanford gaining long-term leases from Bluestone were the same who won big money contracts for natural gas drilling in New York's portion of the Marcellus Shale. Those now-expired natural gas leases lapsed when New York barred fracking four years ago.\nThe approximate area of the proposed wind farm. (Photo11: Chris Brown/USA Today Network)\nNew York is encouraging the development of renewable energy projects with incentives and tax credits under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to produce 50 percent of the state's electric needs from sustainable sources by 2030.\nA disclosure document indicates that land owners granting easements to access the towers or hosting the turbines will be paid between $2,500 and $30,000 annually by Calpine.\nMore: 600-foot wind turbines planned for Windsor, Sanford\nMore: With the death of fracking, can renewables fill New York\u2019s energy gap?\nMore: Wind farm under scrutiny by Broome residents\nIn terms of power generated, the planned wind farm will be among the larger projects in the state, although other projects for as much as 400 megawatts are also on the drawing board.\nThe closest existing wind farm is in Dutch Hill/Cohocton in Steuben County with 50 turbines, producing 125 megawatts of electricity. It came on line in 2008.\nNew York now has 17 commercial wind farms across upstate producing 1,739 megawatts of electricity \u2014 enough power to supply 285,000 homes \u2014 or about 4 percent of the state's installed capacity, based on the most recent report from the New York Independent System Operator, which manages the state's electric grid.\nA second Calpine project \u2014 High Bridge Wind \u2014 is being proposed the Chenango County community of Guilford, where the company proposed a 100 megawatt wind farm employing 25 to 30 turbines. The company began initial outreach for that project last year, and started to execute leases early this year.\nAs a part of the Bluestone project, Calpine expects to build up to a four-mile electric transmission line to bring the wind-generated electricity into a 115-kilovolt line in Sanford to connect to the statewide grid.\nConstruction on the Windsor/Sanford project is scheduled to begin late 2019 or early 2020.\nFollow Jeff Platsky on Twitter @JeffPlatsky\nRead or Share this story: https://press.sn/2zfkn79", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/BBC1/view/167603/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VYXJ3OU6KCF4N6SKUWELKXO4M2NMORSG", "length": 2758, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pressparty.com", "title": "BBC One and BBC Music announces One Love Manchester broadcast plans: Pressparty", "raw_content": "BBC One and BBC Music announces One Love Manchester broadcast plans\nBBC One and BBC Music today announces broadcast plans for One Love Manchester, the special concert to be held on Sunday 4 June at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground to honour and raise vital funds for the victims and families who were tragically affected by the Manchester attack after Ariana Grande\u2019s show last week.\nThe concert will feature performances by Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams, Take That and Niall Horan, with added acts today including Little Mix, Robbie Williams and Black Eyed Peas.\nAs well as being the host broadcaster for international television networks, the concert will be broadcast live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC World Service and BBC Radio Manchester, as well as commercial radio.\nThe BBC One coverage, broadcast from 6.55pm to 10pm, will be presented by Sara Cox and Ore Oduba, with Nick Grimshaw and Anita Rani hosting from backstage and in the crowd.\nBetween 6.30pm and 10pm, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio Manchester will join together to simulcast a programme hosted by Scott Mills, Jo Whiley, Phil Williams and Becky Want live from within Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground. Between 6.30pm and 7pm, the four presenters - with guests - will be providing all the context and build-up before the concert starts. From 7pm all the live music and action from the concert will be featured with Scott, Jo, Phil and Becky providing a unique commentary especially for radio listeners.\nBob Shennan, Director of Radio and Music says: \"The One Love Manchester concert on Sunday will be a very special occasion that resonates throughout Manchester, around the UK and across the globe. BBC Music will unite radio services with BBC One to offer the best possible coverage of this unique national event.\u201d\nEarlier this week, Tony Hall, Director General said: \"Bringing the nation together, the BBC is proud to be broadcasting what will undoubtedly be a moving tribute to the victims and their loved ones.\"\nAll net ticket proceeds from the show will go towards the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, set up by Manchester City Council in partnership with the British Red Cross.\nOne Love Manchester on BBC One was commissioned by Jan Younghusband, Head of Commissioning, BBC Music. Television coverage of the One Love Manchester concert will be executive produced by Guy Freeman, Editor Special Events and Formats, BBC Studios.\nThe BBC schedules will remain flexible if the show overruns.\nJune 2, 2017 5:57am ET\tby BBC One\nmanchester, ariana grande, one love manchester, bbc one, bbc1, bbcone, bbc, one\nShortlink to this content: http://bit.ly/2rylitT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.professionaljeweller.com/swarovski-dives-netflixs-cinematic-library-fresh-water-safeguarding-flick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:I6BX2XSYHZULGVJ6VEGZZHSXO6JBHLYD", "length": 1927, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.professionaljeweller.com", "title": "Swarovski dives into Netflix\u2019s cinematic library with fresh water safeguarding flick - Professional Jeweller", "raw_content": "Swarovski dives into Netflix\u2019s cinematic library with fresh water safeguarding flick\nCrystal jewellery label Swarovski has made a splash with its small screen flick, which is available on streaming service Netflix.\nSwarovski teamed up with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television to create \u2018Waterschool\u2019, a new film which centred on continuing the supply of fresh water.\nThe documentary follows the experiences of several young female students who live along six of the world\u2019s major rivers, including the Amazon, Mississippi, Danube, Nile, Ganges and Yangtze.\nThe jewellery maker\u2019s feature also celebrates the work of Swarovski Waterschool, a community investment program set up in 2000 that has reached almost half a million young people through 2,400 schools worldwide.\nTo make Waterschool, a team of seven UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate students travelled across five continents to capture the moving stories of these young girls, giving voice to the generation for whom the preservation of clean water is most pressing.\nNadja Swarovski, a member of Swarovski\u2019s executive board, commented: \u201cThis project embraces principles which lie at the foundation of our philanthropic legacy \u2013 environment, female empowerment and education.\n\u201cThe glimpses the film offers into the lives of six young women highlight some of the issues around water within different geographic regions, and will hopefully inspire communities to focus on education and enable change.\u201d\nTeri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, added: \u201cKey to our school\u2019s mission is providing diverse students with transformational opportunities to create stories that not only entertain, but also foster social impact. This amazing partnership with Swarovski underscores our shared belief in the power of story to enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world.\u201d\nTAG CLOUD Jewellery, Netflix, Swarovski", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 425, "original_length": 34675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prosperitypointe.com/uncategorized/how-often-should-you-visit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FOSSBOZZI3COVKZIG3CV6BVXWKJXWTGE", "length": 2649, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.prosperitypointe.com", "title": "How Often Should You Visit? | Prosperity Pointe Assisted Living", "raw_content": "Family members are often unsure about how to go about visiting a loved one that resides in an assisted living facility. They may not know when they can visit, how long one should stay, and how often they should arrive. Every case varies; however, here are a few things to keep in mind before and while visiting a loved one.\nIdentify Visiting Protocols\nDoes your loved one\u2019s facility specify visiting hours or can you arrive whenever you please? Be sure to check when meals or activities occur so that you can plan to visit before or after those times.\nIf your loved one prefers routine and stability, aim to visit on the same day each week around the same time so that it does not disrupt the flow of your loved one\u2019s day. Depending on how far you live, it might be suitable to stay for an hour if you live in the area, whereas you might want to stay for a few hours if you are traveling from a further distance.\nIf you are visiting for a few hours, check with the facility to see if you can make eating arrangements for a meal. On special occasions, you might be able to bring a cake or special treat to share.\nDon\u2019t Visit Out of Guilt\nAdult children typically feel guilt around their loved one residing in an assisted living facility, and they wind up feeling as though they need to visit 24/7. After your loved one settles into their new home, they create a routine for themselves and their day is filled with activities.\nWhile you may feel a plethora of emotions, do not let those emotions determine how often you are going to visit. If you can only visit once a week, make a schedule with your loved one so that they are aware what day and time you plan on spending time with your loved one.\nJust as you have a busy life, your loved one has a schedule, so you have to make sure that you the times and dates work with the both of you. Don\u2019t visit all the time as a way to feel less guilty because you will not be able to enjoy the time spent with your family member.\nCall and Text at Convenient Times\nCheck up with your loved one on social media and through the phone as often as you\u2019d like. Sending a text is only a few short characters away. If your family member prefers calls over social media and texting, block out thirty minutes to an hour of your time so that you can catch up on one another.\nWhether you visit weekly or monthly, take advantage of technology by interacting with your loved one on social media and over the phone. If you see an adorable picture of a dog, send it your family member\u2019s way as it is sure to put a smile on their face. Missing being near a loved one isn\u2019t easy; however, there are many ways to stay in touch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.protiviti.com/US-en/insights/bpro100", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RSMRNSPVNWDEJL6OZLRXS3WNJ5D4VKMN", "length": 15708, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.protiviti.com", "title": "Board Oversight of Performance Management | Protiviti - United States", "raw_content": "Board Oversight of Performance Management\nNo more pervasive issue falls within the board\u2019s purview than performance management \u2014 the process by which performance toward targeted goals is measured and monitored. Performance relates to virtually everything that is important to a company\u2019s progress \u2014 execution of its strategy, the customer experience, investor expectations, executive compensation and the board\u2019s oversight itself.\nPerformance management is so integral to a board\u2019s oversight, it\u2019s easy to forget that it too is a process and, like all processes, can be effective or ineffective in delivering value. Given the complexity of the global market-place, the accelerating pace of disruptive change and ever-increasing stakeholder expectations, how should the board oversee the performance management process so that it is effective in driving execution of the strategy and incenting the desired behaviors across the organization? In spite of its importance to a company\u2019s success, there is very little literature on this topic.\nIn August 2017, Protiviti met with 18 active directors during a dinner roundtable at a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) event to discuss the board\u2019s oversight of performance management. As the ultimate champion for effective corporate governance, the board engages management with an emphasis on four broad themes \u2014 strategy, policy, execution and transparency. Effective performance management touches each of these themes by focusing outwardly as well as inwardly and looking to the future as well as to the present and past. The message is that, in today\u2019s environment, the focus on performance must be anticipatory and proactive as well as reactive and interactive in focusing company resources on the pursuit of its goals.\nMany organizations use some variation of a balanced scorecard that integrates financial and nonfinancial measures to communicate what\u2019s important, focus and align processes and people with strategic objectives, and monitor progress in executing the strategy. Our discussions with the 18 directors identified a number of priorities for boards to consider when overseeing performance management. These priorities are discussed below using six important themes that we are observing in the marketplace.\nRETURN ON EXPECTATION \u2014 Performance management must embrace the appropriate metrics, given the strategy management seeks to implement and the organization\u2019s expected investments. Alignment with strategic priorities is a challenge. As one director noted, most organizations have yet to bridge the gap between efforts to attract and retain employees and efforts to engage and align them. The traditional strategic priorities relate to such matters as quality, cost, time, innovation, customer loyalty and talent strategy. More recently, sustainability objectives around environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities are being integrated into the performance management process as asset managers incorporate the linkage of corporate sustainability performance and financial performance in their rationale for evaluating investment decisions.\nThe directors agreed that managing the balance between short-term and long-term performance presents particular challenges when determining executive compensation. Executives must be rewarded for performance, and long-term shareholder interests must be preserved. The prevailing view was that performance management should be linked to the storyline articulated in investor communications. In addition, proactive outreach to major shareholders is sometimes necessary, creating a dilemma about how to communicate long-term imperatives impacting areas such as culture, innovation and the customer experience when the stock price is down. However, directors should not allow stock price performance to dominate the spotlight so much that it detracts management from focusing on business fundamentals and strategic drivers.\nSTRUCTURE \u2014 In aligning organizational performance with the strategy, performance management must focus on operational excellence in the structure, or business model, in place to execute the strategy. Alignment starts with defining performance expectations, as set forth by the strategy, and communicating those expectations across the organization. For example, performance expectations should be incorporated into the roles, responsibilities and authorities defined for key personnel in job descriptions and reinforced through training and appropriate metrics, measures and monitoring. Performance measures should be used to track the execution of the strategy at the organizational, process and employee levels so that accountability for results cascades down into the organization. Tracking of these measures allows for necessary midcourse adjustments to be made on a timely basis to achieve performance targets.\nQuestions arise with respect to the reward system. Are people being incented in the right way, consistent with the strategy? How does the board know? How should the board assess incentive compensation and whether there are incentives that spur unacceptable behavior such as taking on excessive risks? In responding to these questions, several directors noted that the board needs to adopt an ownership mentality to function as effective advocates for shareholders (i.e., directors should discharge their responsibilities under the assumption that they \u201cown the company\u201d and provide guidance and direction to management accordingly).\nCULTURE \u2014 A key concern for the directors, culture sparked much discussion during the roundtable. Several directors noted that while most boards assess and understand the tone at the top, they neither assess nor understand the tone in the middle. One director suggested the use of organizational health and effectiveness surveys to gauge how employees perceive the current leadership culture and compare that perception to the culture they desire. Gaps in perception, as revealed by such surveys, almost always provide informative insights into what\u2019s really happening in the business and what people below senior management really think. They also reveal opportunities for leadership development and improving the tone at the top and in the middle. The board should be privy to the results of such surveys.\nThere were several takeaways on culture:\nPerformance management should drive the type of organization, inclusive of employee values and expectations, that management and the board would like stakeholders to experience when they interact with it. Conversely, it should not influence improper behavior and inculcate a dysfunctional culture.\nWhen the board sets goals, directors should consider how those goals will be achieved by management. For example, growth is always a worthwhile goal, but does the board really understand how management will make it happen?\nWhen attrition is unusually high, does the board ask why? Obtaining an understanding of the specifics as to why people are leaving could pinpoint problems embedded in the organization\u2019s culture.\nWhen performance levels are way above the industry norm, does the board inquire as to why? Dominant performance levels could result from undertaking unacceptable risks or engaging in unscrupulous activities.\nThe consensus of the group was that boards should encourage and, if necessary, push management to consider culture-related measures and come forward with an approach that makes sense. It\u2019s that important. As one director noted, \u201cWhat gets measured matters.\u201d To that end, the board should insist that human resources be engaged proactively in the process so that the function is not an impediment and, when culture issues are identified, progress is made toward identifying the root cause.\nOne interesting question \u2014 often raised in the wake of high-profile examples of dysfunctional cultures \u2014 is this: \u201cDoes the company\u2019s culture emphasize treating people with respect and support individuals challenging something that is wrong or not safe?\u201d Being risk-averse in such circumstances and supporting contrarian views, even in the face of significant organizational or peer pressure, should be encouraged and supported.\nCUSTOMER EXPERIENCE \u2014 The customer base should be segmented and metrics should focus on the needs of each targeted segment. Customer experience metrics should address the distinctive attributes of the value proposition underlying why customers choose the company\u2019s product or service over other alternatives. For many organizations, success in sustaining customer loyalty can make or break their success in the market-place; therefore, it is important that the focus on financial results does not detract from the need to serve and delight customers.\nCustomer-related metrics should provide insight as to what a company needs to do once issues are identified. To that end, they should reach beyond nonfinancial areas and address quality, responsiveness and other critical aspects of the brand promise, both expressed and implied. Interestingly, less than half of the directors in the roundtable indicated that their top executives reported on one or more customer experience metrics.\nData tells the story. The strategy drives the business model that creates the necessary alignment across the organization to deliver the desired customer experience. Data is collected at the appropriate customer touch-points to monitor the effectiveness of customer-facing processes in delivering the desired experience. Based on mining, analyzing and synthesizing the data to derive predictive, focused insights, process adjustments are made to improve the customer experience. The cycle continues unabated, and is enhanced through advanced analytic capabilities.\nWhen it comes to the customer experience (and even culture across the company), it is incumbent upon board members to also be observant and \u201cdo some homework.\u201d For example, directors should listen to the language and observe the behavior of their executives, read information about competitors, and seek information from other data available in the market. It also can be highly informative to talk directly with customer-facing personnel in the organization, as well as visit company locations and assess how people behave. As one director put it, \u201cTry to do your own research and be a \u2018secret shopper.\u2019\u201d\nINNOVATION AND RESILIENCE \u2014 Disruptive change and unwelcome surprises have become the norm rather than the exception. Accordingly, metrics should inform the organization\u2019s focus on innovation, changes in technology and the business environment, emerging disruption, and market opportunities. During a portion of the roundtable, the directors focused on innovation as a source of new revenue-generating opportunities and a driver of a positive, thriving culture. Several key points were made:\nThe board should encourage consideration of innovation in the performance management process and expect management to report results to the board. In measuring innovation, management should consider business processes as well as products and services. An \u201cinnovation pipeline\u201d should be established, and reporting should address progress through the pipeline.\nWhen appropriate, the board should establish innovation as a performance metric for the CEO and other C-suite executives. If innovation is not a performance goal, the board likely will not observe the desired engagement.\nWith the wrong culture, innovation can create significant issues and possibly lead to a loss in market valuation.\nThe board composition should include \u201cinnovation experience.\u201d Innovation oversight can be difficult for directors who haven\u2019t been part of an innovative, entrepreneurial culture. The key question is: Does the board require entrepreneurial experience among its directors to ensure diversity and the proper mindset to assess innovation, or is it enough to have the necessary knowledge and perspective to ask the right questions and frame the right requests? The former approach is vital if innovation is essential to survival.\nThe directors viewed innovation as more than just technology. Other innovation opportunities reside in financial re-engineering, portfolio management and launching new product ideas. The board should be mindful of the different ways organizations can be innovative and embrace them.\nMETRICS, MEASURES AND MONITORING \u2014 Some directors pointed out that when it comes to performance management, there is a risk of gaming the system. It is human nature for management to instinctively want measurements to reflect positive results. That is why there are several key attributes of effective performance metrics for the board to consider. Metrics should be realistic, understandable, objectively determinable, believable (meaning a \u201csingle version of the truth\u201d) and actionable. There should be a balance of forward-looking lead metrics to complement the traditional retrospective lag metrics.\nAs one director noted, \u201cFlawed stories are better than perfect ones.\u201d It\u2019s a positive when the performance management process identifies one or more areas requiring attention and improvement. \u201cPerfect narratives\u201d tend to raise questions about the rigor under which performance is measured and monitored, as well as the authenticity of the results. As long as senior and operating managers are forthright in seeking the facts and telling the true story, with an eye toward improving products, services and processes continuously, the board can stand behind them with confidence when results are communicated to shareholders.\nThe above points get to the bottom of the essential question: Do the CEO and executive team really want to know the unvarnished truth? About the culture? The customer experience? Innovation? The effectiveness of the business model? When executive management commits to managing by fact and earnestly seeks genuine results, there is no holding back.\nWith today\u2019s competitive global marketplace being all about quality, speed and continuous improvement, every organization\u2019s ability to transform, innovate and change is paramount. Protiviti\u2019s Business Performance Improvement solutions are supported by digital capabilities that provide a \u201cdigital lens\u201d to help clients solve complex business challenges relating to the customer experience, digital transformation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), and process analytics. We provide pragmatic approaches to define, adopt and execute dynamic strategies to establish a cultural foundation that\u2019s accepting of the most complex transformations and partner with clients to help them improve:\nAlignment \u2014 focusing on culture, process and technology;\nCollaboration \u2014 through idea sharing, engagement and results;\nInnovation \u2014 to increase differentiation, transformation and business value; and\nDelivery \u2014 enhancing product life cycle, methodology and change management.\nClients working with us report lasting results in 90 days or less and that we are respectful of their time, talent and resource challenges; are effective in helping them bridge communication gaps between functional teams and the business; and bring to bear pragmatic approaches and tools that enable maximum stakeholder participation in achieving measurable results in a wide variety of areas. These results include increases in revenue, innovative idea sharing, global and cross-functional collaboration, and human capital retention, as well as reductions in elapsed process times (e.g., customer service center turnaround and speed-to-market of new innovations).\n(Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight Issue 100)\nBoard Matters | Cybersecurity and Privacy | Internal Audit and Corporate Governance | Business Performance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 369, "original_length": 23211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prozis.com/nl/en/ingredient/5-htp-5-hydroxytryptophan", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:C3TNVCVCPEGTD2CN6MHMBEQNQF4WYJCC", "length": 803, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.prozis.com", "title": "5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan)", "raw_content": "ProzisShop by Ingredients5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan)\nTryptophan is an amino acid mainly found in the gastrointestinal tract (90%), the blood cells (8%) and the brain (2%). 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If you\u2019re from a far-away country and you want to get a head-start on experiencing student-life in Belfast, then here are some hacks for you.\nHaving a part-time-job is a great way to expand your professional skills, meet new friends, and earn some of the much-needed extra-cash for shopping, travelling etc. Having worked as a university ambassador for my undergraduate and then as a barista for my Masters, I found having the experience of a part-time-job made me a much more resilient and outgoing person. If you are on the lookout for a part-time-job, companies hire the most during October and then around April so this is a great time, to network and find a job you like. 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Keep in mind there are also tighter deadlines for applications and interview for International students, so networking and researching from summer onwards is essential. However Student Circus is an excellent resource for filtered jobs that sponsor tier-2 visas and this was what I used to save time. It\u2019s definitely worth applying if there are any jobs that interest you because chances are, even if you don\u2019t get the job, you will be a lot more confident in your next try and have more experience.\nVisit international supermarkets\nMaking food can be especially tough if you\u2019re craving food from home. I found that International foodmarkets, like the Asian Supermarket on Ormeau Road, are great places to shop for ingredients from home. For example, I was surprised to find Maggi-Coconut Milk powder that my family uses for a lot of Sri Lankan Curries. It\u2019s also worth trying out new food especially with the vast range of restaurants in Belfast. 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So have a look at all the societies available to you at Queen's Students Union Fresher\u2019s and Refresher's Fair.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 9663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/380599/lawyer-of-woman-forced-to-pay-likely-abuser-says-decision-will-have-chilling-effect", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OXP6SIST6QN3R2MRTVMCBLNPRPLGCYYO", "length": 5927, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.radionz.co.nz", "title": "Lawyer of woman forced to pay likely abuser says decision will have 'chilling effect' | RNZ News", "raw_content": "The lawyer of a woman ordered to pay $28,000 to her likely abuser has urged the justice minister to intervene and has called for law reform to avoid 'retraumatisation' of victims.\nPhoto: Women's Refuge\nYesterday, Justice Edwards ordered Mariya Taylor to pay her alleged abuser $28,000, despite finding it \"likely\" he assaulted and falsely imprisoned her in the 1980s in behaviour described as \"heinous\".\nMs Taylor made her claims against Robert Roper and the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), which were dismissed in September because the claims were made outside The Limitations Act.\nIn separate case in 2014, Roper was tried and convicted of 20 counts of sexual offending against members of his family and three other women between 1976 and 1988. This included the rape of his own daughter.\nOne of the woman's lawyers, Geraldine Whiteford, said her client was overwhelmed by the decision and had been revictimised and retraumatised due to the legal process.\n\"It's a terrible decision for other victims of sexual abuse\" Lawyer Geraldine Whiteford duration 4\u2032\u2009:54\u2033\n\"It's a terrible decision for other victims of sexual abuse\" Lawyer Geraldine Whiteford\n\"Mr Roper is a man who subjected her to serious abuse and the judge found most of it had occurred and it's had a devastating effect on her psychologically, so the effect of the decision is to revictimise her,\" she said.\nShe said the case highlighted an area where law reform was required to ensure abuse victims were able to achieve adequate redress and that failure to do would create a chill factor, making victims reluctant to come forward.\n\"It's a terrible decision for other victims of sexual abuse because they can't get justice through the criminal system, but delivers shockingly poor outcomes for victims, the civil system is a slightly easier route for victims who wish to seek justice against the perpetrators and this decision will have a chilling effect on victims who are considering this route.\"\nMs Whiteford said the United Nations had called for governments to ensure laws allowed victims to pursue redress.\nMs Whiteford called for Justice Minister Andrew Little to intervene and for law reform to give judges a better guide to use their discretion around determining court costs.\nSpeaking to Morning Report from the United Nations offices in Geneva, Mr Little declined to address the particulars of the case until he had studied what legal advice had been given to Ms Taylor, which he said may have been poor.\n\"It's a most unfortunate outcome, I'd have to consider how she's been been a victim or what she's been a victim of, whether it's the court system or whether indeed it's the poor advice of her lawyer,\" he said.\n\"As a former lawyer myself, dealing often with vulnerable people ... I was equally aware of lawyers who often gave advice to people that I found unfathomable and the only person who walked away with anything was the lawyer with a big fat paycheque and the client who had to pay for it.\"\nMs Whiteford has denied her client was given shoddy legal advice. \"Mariya had a very very good case and a very good legal team.\n\"The barrister taking the case is a very senior barrister. He's done hundreds of cases in Australia. He was an acting judge for a while. He's a senior counsel.\"\nMr Little signalled he would not be looking into the issue of costs being paid under these types of the circumstances.\n\"The issue of High Court costs, the judges and the Law Society deal with and the Attorney-General takes responsibility for that sort of thing.\n\"There's long-established rules about costs...\" Justice Minister Andrew Little duration 7\u2032\u2009:00\u2033\n\"There's long-established rules about costs...\" Justice Minister Andrew Little\n\"There's long-established rules about costs and ... costs and cost rewards are reviewed periodically, but there are some basic principles that are about ensuring that some people who take big risks or lawyers who advise clients to take risks, when the risks don't pay off, then there is a consequence.\"\nMs Taylor had sought damages against both Roper and the RNZAF for the mental harm she said was caused by Roper's actions between 1985 and 1987 at the Whenuapai air base in Auckland.\nSixteen witnesses, including two experts, gave evidence at the trial.\nRNZAF denied she raised complaints with it. However, witnesses said he locked her in a wire-walled storage cupboard and she said it occurred once a month, sometimes for more than an hour, over years.\n\"I found it likely that Mr Roper had acted as [she] alleged, and that these acts were a material and substantial cause of [her] mental injury, namely, her post-traumatic stress disorder,\" Justice Edwards wrote in a decision.\n\"There can be no dispute that Mr Roper's conduct towards [her] was heinous.\"\nThe abuse allegedly took place at the Whenuapai air base in Auckland in the 1980s. Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly\nHowever, because the Ms Taylor's claims were made outside The Limitations Act, and because there was insufficient evidence to support her claims of disability preventing her from making them earlier, Justice Edwards could not uphold the case.\nBecause Roper incurred costs while providing a legal defence, he was eligible to claim costs against Ms Taylor.\nJustice Edwards said awarding the costs against Ms Taylor \"encourages litigants to consider whether there are cost-effective alternatives to court litigation to resolve the underlying dispute\".\nDoctors and DHBs to discuss rosters and pay again\nWoman loses fight to claim damages after sexual assault\nA court has accepted a woman who served in the air force was sexually harassed by a sergeant known as \"Groper Roper\" but barred her from claiming damages as she took legal action too late.\n'Nothing was done about the abuse' - RNZAF staffer\nA former Air Force staffer lived in constant fear of a Sergeant known as \"Groper Roper\", she says, and nothing was done despite numerous complaints.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 9264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raiffeisen.ch/fribourg-ouest/de/ueber-uns/raiffeisen-englisch/disclaimer-english.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YMPHJVTTUMYUBPVFOBHW4UV2XLKOXPUM", "length": 13993, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.raiffeisen.ch", "title": "Disclosure, Disclaimer and Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Property rights/copyright\nNo offer and no advisory\nLimited access and geographical restrictions\nNo warranty and exclusion of liability\nFuture performance (risk notice)\nSupplementary provisions for areas with authentication\n\u00a9 Raiffeisen Switzerland, 9001 St.Gallen\nBy accessing the web pages at www.raiffeisen.ch (hereinafter referred to as the \"Raiffeisen website\") you declare that you have understood and accepted the regulations for use and the legal information with regard to this website. 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The exclusive place of jurisdiction is St. Gallen, Switzerland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 868, "original_length": 30419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.railpassengers.org/happening-now/news/hotline/hotline-699/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MGDM3R24WLKSP4DUQUJAIYPEW4NE6QE5", "length": 3538, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.railpassengers.org", "title": "Hotline #699 | Rail Passengers Association | Washington, DC", "raw_content": "President Bush will sign the surface transportation bill on December 18 in a ceremony at a construction site in Dallas, to highlight what he feels is important about the bill -- jobs. With the passage of the law, there will be no more UMTA. The Urban Mass Transit Administration's name will be changed to Federal Transit Administration (FTA). DOT Secretary Sam Skinner leaves his post as of December 15.\nThere are now as many trains between Sacramento and the Bay Area as 30 years ago, thanks to the start of regular service on Amtrak's Capitol Corridor yesterday. Three daily local trains run in each direction between San Jose, Oakland, and Sacramento, in addition to the Coast Starlight and California Zephyr. The new local trains should take away whatever local patronage there is on the long-distance trains and hopefully lure people out of automobiles in I-80 with low fares. The trains are the first major project to result from the Proposition 116 bond money passed a year and a half ago.\nAmtrak service to Detroit could face an interruption this winter. The City of Detroit's lease on the privately owned Michigan Central Depot property expires January 31. The city, which allows Amtrak to use the site, is trying to negotiate an extension to the lease, but if they are not successful in time, look for Dearborn to be the only area stop on a temporary basis.\nBecause of the revenue shortfalls experienced during Thanksgiving, Amtrak will sharply cut back on its excursion black-out days during the coming weeks. The only two travel days which will have black-outs will be December 20 and January 5.\nThere will be some organizational changes affecting Amtrak in the west. As of January 15, the Amtrak Western Regional Public Affairs office will be moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Bruce Heard, who is now Senior Director of Special Projects in the Government and Public Affairs Department in Washington, will go to Los Angeles to take over the public affairs duties of Art Lloyd, who retired this fall.\nNew Jersey Transit has announced that their preferred alternatives analysis option is light rail for the Hudson Waterfront corridor. However, the NJT plan still preserves an element of earlier plans for interim busways. The New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers, NARP, and local communities have opposed any interim busways, because there really is no such thing. No interim busway has ever been converted to light rail. Nevertheless, NJT says the light rail line could be operational in 1998. Just getting NJT to give this much acknowledgement to light rail is a moral victory.\nCanadian National has announced plans to construct a new, single-track tunnel under the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ont. It would lie 80 feet north of the existing, single-track tunnel, which was built in 1891. Unlike the old tunnel, the new one would be tall enough to permit double-stack service. Presumably, it would also mean Amtrak could operate a Superliner International, if it wanted to, when the new tunnel opens in 1994.\nThe American Trucking Associations is expanding its interest in buying state-owned toll freeways in the Northeast and Midwest. It believes it can buy a system of roads that will greatly reduce its federal tax burden. However, trucks don't pay their own way now, so there is no justifiable reason their tax burden should be reduced at all. Putting trucks on private roads will not solve any air pollution, energy inefficiency, or safety problems associated with large trucks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.randomanime.org/shows/687/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QLA4BWLB77WGDCKR45AQADRFJ2UC6BLA", "length": 968, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.randomanime.org", "title": "Kuromukuro | RandomAnime.org", "raw_content": "During the dawn of the 21st century, the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established in Japan to investigate an ancient artifact, which was discovered during the construction of the Kurobe Dam. Scientists from around the world have gathered in the facility to study the object, while their children enjoy their everyday lives attending Mt....Read More Tate International Senior High School.\nYukine Shirahane, a reserved high school girl, is the daughter of the facility's head scientist. While visiting her mother at the facility, Yukina manages to solve part of the artifact's puzzle. To her surprise, what appears before her is Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma, a young samurai from the Sengoku era.\nAs a threat approaches from outer space, Yukina, along with Kennosuke, finds herself defending Earth against the invading forces. Along the way, she discovers the mystery behind Kennosuke and the reason he is determined to protect her. Read Less\nName: Kuromukuro", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raveis.com/towns/NJ_Fredon.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:4IIMUXQQLMCUND364FTAX4ZNWSF63QCJ", "length": 1327, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.raveis.com", "title": "Fredon homes for sale - (NJ)", "raw_content": "Fredon Homes For Sale\nClick here to view homes for sale in Fredon\nWelcome to William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance, the largest family-owned company in the Northeast serving Fredon . For 43 years, our dedicated mortgage, new homes, international and relocation divisions have provided the resources and experience to find the perfect home for you, whether you're a first time homebuyer, raising a family or downsizing. Since our establishment in 1974 - William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance has experienced steady growth primarily through the sale of Fredon.\nToday, William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance maintains the largest database of Fredon homes for sale and has a network of 85 sales offices and 3,500 sales associates and/or Realtors. Our Connecticut real estate and Massachusetts real estate sales have topped the $5.6 billion mark, and we've closed more than $9 billion worth of mortgage loans. No other real estate firm in Fredon has grown as rapidly under the same owner or has offered such innovative programs and home ownership services to its customers.\nPlease take some time to explore our website and call us with any questions you might have concerning Fredon homes for sale. We promise we'll never be too busy to remember what got us to where we are today - you, the customer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.razeproducts.com/awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4P2VYF2EJEOY3GAT7K4Z6GI473RFWAI7", "length": 238, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.razeproducts.com", "title": "Raze Products Awards - Raze Products", "raw_content": "Raze Products has been awarded the following citations:\nA gold medal at the Royal Agricultural Show in Pietermaritzburg in 1999 for our exhibition.\nCertificates of excellence for our exhibition in 2000 and 2001\nThe Royal Agricultural Show", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rdsp.com/category/rdsp-2-21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:O3DYQ6S5SPQDPBFHBJSUPDZLP4CINOWB", "length": 284, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.rdsp.com", "title": "RDSP Archives - RDSP", "raw_content": "Sign up for the best government program in Canada \u2013 Globe and Mail\nImagine a savings program where the federal government gives a man or woman up to $3 for every $1 contributed by that man or woman \u2013 to a lifetime maximum of $70,000. Wouldn\u2019t people flock to that program? Wouldn\u2019t...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 4474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 185.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.readersdigest.co.in/aboutus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6NUU2J2FWHEYY5PDHOKXSXJ6PDEQ7JES", "length": 11804, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.readersdigest.co.in", "title": "About us", "raw_content": "Reader\u2019s Digest India: Legacy and Mission\nWhile some copies of the US edition of Reader\u2019s Digest, launched in 1922, had for long been available in India right from early days, it was in January 1954 that the Indian edition was first launched by the Digest\u2019s British company. Forty thousand copies a month were specially edited and printed in England for shipment to India, with a cover price of Rs 1.50 per copy. London sold advertising space and managed the business with executives visiting India periodically.\nSoon, as demand grew, it was evident that a remote-control operation from London was impractical and that a permanent representative in India was required. That man was Tharoor Parameshwaran (\u201cParam\u201d, as he was known), who was asked to open a Reader\u2019s Digest office in Bombay in January 1955. The circulation of the magazine was now 60,000. Param later became Reader\u2019s Digest India\u2019s first Managing Director.\nFor the first 15 months, his office was his home in Worli, Bombay, and his only equipment a typewriter, a telephone, and a filing cabinet in the dining room. Being the only employee, he typed all the correspondence himself and was out on the road most of the day, cajoling companies to buy advertising space, inspecting the newsstands and supervising subscription promotion.\n\u201cEvery evening,\u201d Param said of those early days, \u201ceither my wife, Lily, or I used to go to the post office with all the mail to get them stamped or franked.\u201d\nApril 1963 was the next major milestone in the history of the Indian edition. An Indian company, The Reader\u2019s Digest Association Private Ltd, a subsidiary of the British company, was registered with the magazine entirely printed in India. By then the circulation had risen to 100,000 at offices at Bombay\u2019s Gunbow Street and a branch at Calcutta had been opened (branches in Madras and Delhi were to follow). Shortly afterwards, production, accounts, and marketing departments were added. Finally, the Indian Reader\u2019s Digest became a full-fledged operation with the appointment in June 1969 of Rahul Singh as Resident Associate Editor. Then 28, Rahul he had already served five years as an Assistant Editor with The Times of India.\nLike Param, Rahul Singh also started modestly: with only a secretary, he ran the editorial office under the guidance of the British edition of Reader\u2019s Digest. It was during this period that local Indian articles were first developed by the Indian edition. (Earlier, writers from UK came to India to write some of the local articles.) Among the first locally developed stories were those on Field Marshal Maneckshaw, Jayaprakash Narayanan, the Indian film industry, and the Grant Trunk Road. The best articles were also condensed from some leading Indian publications. In January 1975, Rahul was made Editor-in-Chief and soon had an editorial staff of about 10 persons.\nIndian readers have since early days also been major contributors to the humour in the magazine. A number of their funny and thought-provoking anecdotes have figured in the\nmagazine\u2019s humour sections, including Life\u2019s Like That, All in a Day\u2019s Work, and Humour in Uniform. Jokes and articles from India are often seen in the Digest\u2019s many foreign edition as well.\nIn January 1979, The Digest\u2019s Indian edition observed its 25th anniversary. Shortly after that, the magazine started to be published by a wholly owned Indian company, named RDI Print & Publishing Ltd, in conformity with a new government policy that required all multinational companies in India to dilute their equity. After that the Tata Group managed The Digest\u2019s Indian business while editorial control remained with the magazine\u2019s US parent company. In 2003, the business was taken over by Living Media India Ltd., India\u2019s largest publishing company. Under the new management the magazine sold over 6,00,000 copies in 2008. The development of local editorial material was further encouraged without sacrificing the magazine\u2019s international flavour, which comes from membership in the most cosmopolitan family in publishing history.\nToday The Digest is published in 46 editions and 17 languages and for many decades has remained the world\u2019s largest-selling magazine. The Indian edition is also the largest-selling English magazine in the country.\nA little fact\nPrime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru must have had a special place in his heart for this magazine and you, our readers. Back in 1955, a cabinet committee he headed debarred all foreign investment in the print media, with the solitary exception of Reader\u2019s Digest! The rule stayed until the mid-1990s, after India accepted the path of economic liberalization.\nReader\u2019s Digest Editorial Mission\nTo inform, enrich, educate and inspire the world\u2019s largest magazine audience by creating every month a publication that so excites and satisfies their curiosity, so encourages them with advice, compassion and humour, and so stirs them with the courage and enterprise of others, that it becomes an indispensable part of their lives.\nAll articles in Reader\u2019s Digest are thoroughly fact-checked and verified for their accuracy and authenticity, including editorials, jokes and fillers.\nKnow the Editors\nSanghamitra Chakraborty, Editor\nIn a career spanning nearly 28 years, Sanghamitra Chakraborty has worked with Sunday magazine, The Statesman, The Times of India, Outlook and went on to launch Prevention and Women\u2019s Health, both women\u2019s health magazines, for the India Today Group. As a journalist she has covered a wide breadth of topics from politics, people and issues. An editor for the past 12 years, her heart still lies in ground reporting with a focus on health, environment and human rights. Her twitter bio once said, \u2018Fears death by proofreading\u2019.\nSanghamitra grew up in Calcutta and went to the Loreto Day School and is a graduate from Lady Brabourne College. She was a Chevening Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, in 2000.\nHer current passion is Reader\u2019s Digest, keeping its soul alive, nurturing longtime readers while reaching out to newer audiences, with sharp and relevant content. Reader\u2019s Digest is her natural homing ground, given her love for reading and social issues. She is the first woman editor of Reader\u2019s Digest, India.\nShe lives in Delhi with her husband, son and her dog Tingmo.\nIshani Nandi, Assistant Editor\nA postgraduate in English Literature from Calcutta University, Ishani Nandi is an editor and writer with more than a decade working in fields such as standardised test prep, corporate communications and publishing. She spent the last five years creating non-fiction books for children at Dorling Kindersley, a part of Penguin Random House. Since then she moved to Reader\u2019s Digest, where her love of language and storytelling found safe haven.\nSuchismita Ukil, Assistant Editor\nSuchismita Ukil has always lived in Delhi. She studied at a middle-class Protestant school, with a focus on the humanities; and public universities for her bachelor's and master's degrees, in history and arts and aesthetics, respectively\u2014St. Thomas' School, Mandir Marg; Hindu College, Delhi University; Jawaharlal Nehru University.\nSuchismita worked in the field of Indian arts briefly before naturally moving into the connected fields of media and publishing six years ago. She was in the editorial team of First City Delhi, a long-form print magazine.\nA big part of her learning, on developing an eye and a love for the English language, came from the time she worked in academic publishing, at Pearson.\nReader's Digest has deepened that love\u2014and sharpened her journalistic sensibilities. She is thankful to be a part of an editorial that follows the best practices\u2014all stories are thoroughly vetted and fact-checked before publication. She is into her third year with the magazine, the longest she's worked anywhere.\nSuchismita is interested in gender, human rights, social formations, law, the human condition, intersectionality, linguistics, history, humour, socio-political art, among others. She is a strong supporter of the print format, especially because it is slower.\nViva la print! should be a hashtag, she thinks (the irony isn\u2019t lost on her).\nBlessy Augustine, Contributing Editor\nBlessy Augustine loves academics. She has a bachelors in English Literature from St Xavier\u2019s College Mumbai, a PG diploma in Print Journalism from Asian College of Journalism Chennai, a masters in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from School of Visual Arts New York City.\nShe started her writing career with a year-long stint at Mint Lounge, where she wrote on a wide range of topics: from art to sports, parenting to boating. Since then she has written for publications such as Blouin Artinfo India, Time Out Delhi, Vogue and Art in America. Before joining Reader\u2019s Digest as a contributing editor, she was a columnist for BLink, the weekend supplement of the Hindu Business Line. Titled \u2018Afterimage\u2019, her column was about looking at and understanding social issues through the prism of art.\nIn 2018, her essay on the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was selected as a runner up for the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing.\nShe is always looking for people to adopt her many cats.\nKhushboo Thakur, Editorial Coordinator\nBorn and brought up in New Delhi, Khushboo Thakur went to Lady Irwin School. She graduated from the Delhi University and recently, she got her master\u2019s degree in psychology from IGNOU, with a focus on mental health wellness and clinical psychology.\nKhushboo started her career in the development sector eight years ago, working for the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, and the NGO Expressions India, among others. Currently, she is working as an editorial coordinator with Reader\u2019s Digest, providing administrative- and research-support to the team. She is excited about her current profile, as it provides her knowledge and broadens her outlook.\nKhushboo is passionate about multi-tasking as she loves to accept challenges with a \u2018lemme do it\u2019 attitude. She is a keen observer of people and an enthusiastic traveller. She loves to experiment with her culinary skills and also enjoys photography.\nSadhana Moolchandani, Senior Art Director\nSadhana Moolchandani has worked in the Indian media for almost three decades now. Starting off her career with The Times of India in 1991, she was the first to design the newspaper\u2019s daily supplement Delhi Times when it launched in the early \u201990s. She brought her expertise to the Hindustan Times, where she designed the first issue of HT City in 1999. In 2008, she joined the India Today Group as art director for Prevention and later also Women\u2019s Health. Here, in addition to overseeing the layout of the magazines, she organised and coordinated cover shoots with well-known names in the Indian film industry. Sadhana is a senior art director with Reader\u2019s Digest, and has been with the team since the editorial and design shifted base from Mumbai to Delhi in late 2015. She brings in a vast and enriching repository of experience to the magazine. Sadhana is a lover of nature and is spiritually inclined.\nKeshav Kapil, Assistant Art Director\nEnergetic, innovative and strategic\u2014all at the same time\u2014Keshav stepped into the professional world almost a decade back. Having kicked off his career in advertising and and moving to join Prevention that was part of the India Today Group, he finally came to be associated with the group once again in 2015 and started working for Reader's Digest in late 2015. Keshav believes that his ability to see and create a world on a black canvas puts him in good stead, along with his excellent designing skills. Keshav has a funny bone that he often uses to lighten up the workplace, and is also an avid gym- and music-enthusiast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 15947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rebalancerehab.ca/women-who-are-in-shape-are-90-less-likely-to-develop-dementia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XQ3SNZAMQTHM655TI2HQXW5EII2BS5PU", "length": 2682, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rebalancerehab.ca", "title": "Women Who Are in Shape Are 90% Less Likely to Develop Dementia \u00b7 Rebalance Rehab", "raw_content": "Many factors contribute to dementia \u2014 some of which are within your control, and others that are not. In the latest study published in Neurology, researchers focused on one thing that people may be able to do to lower their risk of developing dementia later in life: staying fit.\nIn the study, which involved nearly 1,500 women in Sweden who provided information on their physical activity levels and took cognitive tests for up to 44 years, scientists found that women with higher fitness levels were 88% less likely to develop dementia compared to women with average fitness. Women with lower fitness had a 41% higher risk of developing dementia than women with average fitness.\nFitness is not the same as exercise, however, and higher levels of physical activity don\u2019t necessarily translate into improved fitness. Helena Horder, a physiotherapist from the Center for Aging and Health-AGECAP at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and her colleagues measured cardiovascular fitness, an indicator of how well the circulation of blood is feeding the heart and the brain. \u201cIf the small blood vessels and circulation in the heart are okay, then the brain is also affected in a positive way by good small vessel circulation,\u201d says Horder.\nWhile there is strong data showing that having low fitness is unhealthy for the heart and brain, \u201cI was very surprised that high fitness was so protective,\u201d Horder says, \u201cand that so few developed dementia in the high fitness group.\u201d\nCurrent recommendations suggest at least 30 minutes of exercise at least two or three times a week, until people feel a little tired but not exhausted. For people who are not active, that could mean starting out with shorter sessions of 10 or 15 minutes, but getting 30 minutes of exercise total in a day. They could start with brisk walking on flat surfaces, and as that becomes easier, include some routes that require walking up hills. As you become more fit, you can include more intense interval training that intersperses a few minutes of intense activity with a few minutes of stretching or less intense exercise.\nWhile the study focused on cardiovascular fitness, Horder says that as people get older, strength training and building muscle are also important. More research is needed to pinpoint when during midlife the fitness benefits start accruing to reduce dementia risk \u2014 in the current study, the women ranged in age from 38 to 60 when they began the trial \u2014 and also whether improving fitness can actually slow or prevent dementia.\nWhat the results do show is that even though genes can work against you for developing dementia, \u201cthrough behavior you can prevent a lot of diseases,\u201d she says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reddymatrimony.com/jhunjhunu-matrimonial", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IHPOUGAHESON5DMNUU6PGXS6PHKCTROT", "length": 197, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.reddymatrimony.com", "title": "Jhunjhunu Reddy Matrimony - Jhunjhunu Reddy Matrimony - ReddyMatrimony.com", "raw_content": "Reddy Jhunjhunu Matrimony\nMy name is Amit Gajraj and I am working as a Army in the Private sector. I have completed my B.A.. I grew up in a Middle Class class, Joint family with Traditional values.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.redeemerbellingham.com/lord-i-believe-help-my-unbelief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:42Z", "digest": "sha1:G656BS3XVRFSSGK2SVWVI24VF2BPKPLN", "length": 5109, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.redeemerbellingham.com", "title": "Lord I Believe, Help My Unbelief \u2013 Redeemer Lutheran Church", "raw_content": "Lord I Believe, Help My Unbelief\nSeptember 16, 2018 / Pastor Don Mossman / Text: Mark 9:14-29\nHis name was Traugott Dalke, member at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Aldergrove. He was a simple man, semi-retired, living on a small farm with his wife and disabled daughter on out edge of town. Traugott was a man of faith who didn\u2019t put on airs. So when I visited him in the hospital after a heart attack, he greeted me with a smile. I remember his words in the ICU. He said, \u201cI know who has called me by name and made me his own. I know who had come into my life at baptism, and I know who I belong to now, in this hospital. \u201cSo, Pastor Mossman,\u201d he said, \u201cWhile in my life I have had my questions and doubts, I know that \u201cwhether I live or I die, I am the Lords.\u201d His faith was much more than a spark or bent reed; his faith was comparable to a blazing furnace. Today, Traugott is with Jesus, not because he reached a particular level of righteousness he had earned, but solely because of Jesus.\nHer name was Elizabeth Morrison. We called her Aunt B or Beth. One visit that Valerie and I made, she asked me, \u201cDonnie,\u201d what about death? I do believe in Jesus, and you know, I think I\u2019ve been a pretty good person, lived a pretty moral life and did my share of charity work. What do you think? Is it enough.\u201d I was given an opportunity to remind her of a faith that she had been baptized and confirmed in at Grace Lutheran Church, Calder, SK. Now 80 years later, she\u2019s questioning Jesus. Her doubting faith was similar to the confused father who had brought his son to Jesus to be healed. Can you help us or not? And his prayer is similar to many of us who have had occasion to pray, \u201cLord, I believe, help my unbelief.\u201d\nThe reality in which we live.\nA. The questioning of the followers of Jesus\nJesus, Peter, James and John had just returned from Mt. Transfiguration. They come upon a number of people arguing with the disciples. When the crowds saw Jesus, they ran to meet him. Jesus asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d What are you arguing about?\u201d\nThen a distraught father, even with his doubts about Jesus, steps forward and says, \u201cTeacher, I have brought my son to you. So I asked your disciples to cast out the demons, but they were not able to do so.\u201d \u201cCan you do anything for me?\u201d Jesus: \u201cIf I can? Are you kidding? I can and I will.\u201d All things are possible for the one who believes. Immediately the father cries out, Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.\nB. The questions surrounding us and within us\nIf you were to believe that human efforts help save us, you would among 50% of Americans who claim Christ as Savior who do. I haven\u2019t always been the example that some people look to for guidance and direction. I question at times whether God is concerned about our society, our country. And my prayer life is erratic at best. Marriages fail, loved ones die, and the results of the medical tests are not what I wanted to hear. Lord, if you can do anything to help me, can you do it?\nWe are a long way from the NT times. Things are different today. Jesus doesn\u2019t walk among us now. So the question presses us, Can Jesus help us or not? Does he have any authority over what afflicts me the most?\n2. The faith in which we live\nA. Jesus\u2019 total willingness to be involved in our lives.\nIn my life I have been blessed to work with and to walk beside some giants of faith. They have served as district presidents, teachers, professors, mothers, fathers, and certainly pastors. There are giants of faith among us here at RLC. Nevertheless, not all of God\u2019s people are giants. The men and women described in Isaiah 42:3 are those whose faith is as a bruised reed or a smoldering wick. They are people whom Jesus loves and whose faith at times wobbles and wonders.\nLord I believe. Can you help me? I have had the privilege of answering that question with the authority of the resurrected Lord. The Jesus who now lives and reigns in our hearts and in heaven, in whose name we began this service and with whose blessings we will leave this service, can do and does what he says. He has the authority to forgive you of all sins and he has. You were given that promise in Baptism, you receive it as from our Lord Himself in Holy Communion. So your sins cannot separate you from God. That means that your weakness, your troubles, your sorrows, only have a short season to live. They do not, they will not reign endlessly. Jesus reigns. No authority in heaven or on earth will stop him. \u201cNothing will separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201c\nWe recognize our unworthiness, but at the same time we recognize it is not dependent upon the greatness or smallness, the weakness or strength of one\u2019s faith. \u201cThough devils all the world should fill\u2026\u201d LSB #656, vs 3. One little word, namely Jesus. It is dependent upon the power and love of Jesus, the constant in our inconsistent lives.\nE.G: Trimming shrubs here at RLC; forgot battery for trimmer. Used Ross Abbe\u2019s electric trimmer. Proceeded to cut the extension cord. No power whatever the source. We need to stay connected through the power of the Word etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.redsign.com/piute-county-real-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SEC66LSBXRKY3GOYAF6L5K4VGPDUJIRX", "length": 2453, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.redsign.com", "title": "Piute County Real Estate | Utah Real Estate :: Red Sign Team", "raw_content": "Piute County Real Estate\nPiute County, located in southern Utah, has a population under 2,000. The largest city is Circleville and the county gets its name from the Piute Native Americans.\nPiute County Real Estate History\nPiute County was a part of Beaver County until it was split off in 1865. Both Circleville and Junction were settled only a year before by Mormon pioneers as the area offered great lands for grazing. Shortly after the area was settled, a huge silver and gold boom brought hundreds of miners into the area and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad line was eventually linked to Piute by 1900.\nToday, much of the economy still revolves around agriculture although recreational activities also lead to more jobs. Otter Creek and Piute reservoirs here are great for water skiing, fishing and boating while Piute County homes for sale remain more affordable than most of Utah.\nPiute County Real Estate Attractions\nThe Dixie and Fishlake National Forests are both located, in part, in Piute County. Dixie National Forest is headquartered in Cedar City and has rather impressive temperature and climate extremes. At mid-elevations, the park has juniper and pinyon pines while the higher elevations of the park are home to pine, spruce and fir trees. Both forests in the county offer plenty of recreation, including hiking, fishing and horseback riding.\nMajor Influences of Piute County\nResidents in Piute County enjoy a very low cost of living. Most jobs here are in education and health services, although over 15% of the economy still revolves around agriculture, forestry and fishing. Home prices here are also much lower than most of Utah.\nThinking about buying a home in Circleville or Junction? You may qualify for the HomeStart grant program, which triples the money you\u2019ve already saved for a down payment up to $5,000. Two especially popular programs in the county are the USDA Rural Housing program and the Utah Housing Corp. Both offer 100% financing on a home loan so you can buy a home even if you don\u2019t have a down payment.\nPiute County Real Estate Experts\nThinking about settling in beautiful Piute County? Contact the knowledgeable Piute County realtors at Red Sign today! We\u2019ve helped people just like you buy homes in Circleville and Junction and we\u2019ll help you get the best price possible. We can also help if you\u2019re thinking about selling your home in the county. Contact us today to learn more about our strategy for you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regattacentral.com/v3/cms/regatta/5410/heat_sheet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KV2O5KIYMMIXSEJAX4K7VGKCTB6TV6BV", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.regattacentral.com", "title": "Kerr Cup", "raw_content": "Hosted By Drexel University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.renewalhouse.org/blog_months.cfm?m=7&y=2015", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:B3GYSIAN4GKO4BH6AITJSHJWLDKFEG2T", "length": 1525, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.renewalhouse.org", "title": "Blog > 2015 - 7", "raw_content": "Pontus Aberg, Emil Pettersson, Evan Smith and Nick Saracino traded in their hockey sticks for paintbrushes on Thursday afternoon at the Renewal House in Nashville.\nThe prospects, along with members of the Preds front office, painted, cleaned and readied an apartment for a new family at the complex. A family-centered treatment facility, Renewal House offers services for mothers who are struggling with substance addiction and poverty, allowing their children to stay with them during the process and heal together.\n\"The Predators' efforts today help create a healing and welcoming environment for women and children who have known so much trauma and chaos,\" Renewal House Development Director Jennifer Wheeler said. \"The staff and prospects' ability to paint and clean an apartment in a few hours saves us weeks of preparation time and allows us to move a family into the apartment sooner. It also does wonders for the spirit of our women.\"\nFor Smith, who was just drafted by the Preds less than two weeks ago, the opportunity to give back to the Nashville community and become part of the Predators organization during Development Camp this week has proven to be a worthwhile experience.\n\"It's been great to be out here, and it really shows you what it's like to be a professional hockey player,\" Smith said of painting at Renewal House. \"It's a great thing to know that you can give back as much as the fans can give to you.\"\nFor more information about the Nashville Predators efforts in the community, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live2011/track_splash_sectionID_24", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DSIAL6RXFX6X5QBWMECQPERYSGA7Q7ZN", "length": 2163, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.rfidjournalevents.com", "title": "RFID Journal LIVE! 2011 | RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Conference & Exhibition", "raw_content": "This track is designed specifically for airports, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, maintenance companies and others looking to understand how radio frequency identification can improve operations and reduce costs.\nThe U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is rapidly expanding its use of radio frequency identification to better manage its supply chain. A growing number of suppliers are being asked to tag goods before shipping them to the agency. This track will focus on how the DOD and its suppliers are benefiting from using the technology. The presenters will also explore the ways in which suppliers can benefit from utilizing RFID internally to lower costs, improve security and expedite payment from the military.\nPharmaceutical and health-care companies are achieving real benefits from employing radio frequency identification. In the health-care field, hospitals and other medical facilities are employing RFID to improve patient safety, increase asset utilization with real-time tracking, boost revenue with automated billing and reduce medical errors using track-and-match applications. Pharmaceutical companies are exploring the technology's potential for collecting pedigree data, as well as examining other potential uses, including reducing counterfeiting and theft, and improving shipping accuracy. Learn how RFID is impacting ROI in the health-care environment, while also improving efficiencies in the pharmaceutical industry.\nManufacturing companies are employing RFID to achieve major benefits, both in their supply chains and in their factory operations. This can be accomplished cost-effectively by tracking tools, reusable containers, work in process, finished inventory and more. This track will focus on how leading manufacturing firms are utilizing RFID to achieve benefits today.\nConference Track Sponsor:\nRetail and apparel companies have been among the early adopters of RFID technologies, both internally and within their shared supply chains. Many businesses are already seeing benefits, and are prepared to share their insights about those benefits, as well as the implementation issues they needed to address before achieving them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rieter.com/investor-relations/strategy/business-model/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FIQLNR3FGPT4IXNNI3VT2BQEDRGCZFDC", "length": 5808, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.rieter.com", "title": "Business Model: Rieter", "raw_content": "Around 94 million tons of fiber are processed annually around the world, for example for clothing, technical textiles or household textiles. Fiber consumption is growing with the world population and disposable income, on average at around two to three percent per year.\nThe process from fiber to textile begins with fiber production. A yarn is produced from the fibers, for example from cotton, linen, polyester or viscose. A textile is then produced from the yarn via various processing steps such as weaving, knitting, dyeing or finishing.\nYarn is produced in two basically different ways. On the one hand, this is done by spinning staple fibers. These are fibers with a staple length of 23 to 60 mm (short-staple fibers) or over 60 mm (long staple fibers). On the other hand, yarn is produced by processing so-called filaments to make continuous filament yarn. The resulting yarns have different properties. In the clothing industry, the yarn produced from staple fiber predominates because it offers pleasant wearing comfort.\nEach of the two types of yarn production accounts for around 50 percent of world fiber consumption.\nRieter is mainly engaged in yarn production from staple fibers. The most important of these are cotton (about 24 million tons per year), polyester (about 16 million tons per year) and viscose (about 5 million tons per year).\nThe process for producing a yarn from staple fibers consists of two stages: preparation and end spinning.\nIn the preparation stage, the fibers, which are delivered in bales, are separated, cleaned if necessary, aligned, homogenized and drawn. This is done in three process steps: blowroom/bale opener, carding machine and draw frame. In cotton processing, the combing machine also plays a role: here, short fibers are combed out to produce a higher-quality yarn. At the end of the preparation stage, a uniform sliver has been produced, which is as yet untwisted.\nSpinning Process\nIn the end spinning stage, the fiber mesh is further drawn (up to about 40 fibers in cross-section for very fine yarns) and spun into a yarn by twisting. Twisting takes place either by means of a rotating spindle (ring spinning, compact spinning), by rotation of a rotor (rotor spinning) or by an air flow (air-jet spinning). Compact spinning is a variant of ring spinning, in which, by means of an auxiliary device, a more compact yarn with a higher yarn density is achieved due to improved fiber bonding.\nAfter spinning, imperfections are removed from the yarn. The yarn is then wound, in order to present it in a suitable form for the subsequent process steps in the textile production chain.\nMeasured Variables for Capacity\nThe production capacity for producing yarn from staple fibers is measured in spindle equivalents. The production capacity of a ring spindle serves as the basis. The spinning unit of a rotor spinning machine corresponds to the productivity of five to six ring spindles, whereas that of an air-jet spinning machine corresponds to the productivity of 20 ring spindles.\nA total of more than 250 million spindle equivalents are used worldwide to produce yarn from the around 50 million tons of staple fibers, of which around 103 million are in China, 54 million in India, 54 million in Southeast Asia and 12 million in Turkey. Every year, between 11 and 13 million spindle equivalents are installed worldwide: spinning mill owners invest in rationalization, replacement or expansion. In 2017, Rieter delivered 1.93 million spindle equivalents (2016: 1.83 million). In addition, spinning mills require wear and spare parts for ongoing operation.\nThe world market for staple fiber machines, which is relevant for Rieter, has an annual volume of CHF 3 200 to 4 000 million. Rieter is the market leader with a market share of around 30 percent.\nBusiness with New Machines, Wear and Spare Parts\nThe business with new machines is cyclical. The tendency to invest in the spinning industry is mainly influenced by expectations regarding fiber consumption and the margins that can be achieved by selling yarns. Fiber consumption is dependent on the economy, while the margins for yarn depend on the movement of raw material prices, capacity utilization and the production costs of the spinning mills, foreign exchange rates and government policies.\nThe business with wear and spare parts is much less cyclical. The basic business is driven by the degree of capacity utilization of spinning mills \u2013 operational spinning mills require wear and spare parts. Project business such as the conversion or modernization of entire spinning mills, on the other hand, are subject to the investment cycle described above.\nRieter plans spinning mills, develops, produces and supplies the machines for both preparation and end spinning, and supervises the installed machines throughout their life cycle.\nRieter with all its brands is established worldwide as a premium supplier. The innovative products and services from Rieter enable spinning mill operators to be more competitive. Success factors are lower yarn costs, as savings can be made on raw materials, energy, labor and depreciation, with the same or better yarn quality, which allows higher prices for the same production costs.\nThe professionalism and availability of the service is also a key aspect when customers decide to buy Rieter products.\nThree Business Groups\nThe Business Group Components develops, produces and distributes technology components and precision winding machines for use in the textile value chain. Technology components come into contact with fibers and affect yarn properties; they are used in new machines and have to be replaced at regular intervals during operation. Precision winding machines are used for downstream yarn processing like dyeing.\nSource: PCI, ITMF, estimate Rieter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 10910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/east-orange-police-search-hit-and-run-driver", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CJORLE37JGWSWX7YDL6JJSMVIBPZK6SZ", "length": 634, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rlsmedia.com", "title": "East Orange Police Search for Hit-and-Run Driver | rlsmedia.com", "raw_content": "East Orange Police Search for Hit-and-Run Driver\nSubmitted by RLS Staff on Jan 29 2017 - 8:59am.\nPolice in East Orange are on the search for the driver of a vehicle that struck another vehicle then fled the scene at around 8 a.m. the morning.\nThe crash that happened in the area of Park Avenue and North 15th Street has police looking for a BMW X3 with NY licenses plate numbers \"HHS3246\".\nThe vehicle reportedly fled towards Newark.\nNewark Police is in the area of North 6th Street and Park Avenue with a suspect that fits the description of the driver.\nThe suspects attempted to resist arrests causing minor injuries to the officer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockefellergroup.com/about-us/overview/history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OCW2IVERPIEFYF5CF6EKVOGRL535HKGN", "length": 1140, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rockefellergroup.com", "title": "History \u2013 Rockefeller Group", "raw_content": "For nearly nine decades, Rockefeller Group has initiated some of the most memorable endeavors in American commercial real estate. Our proud tradition of real estate excellence began with the vision and development of the world\u2019s finest urban business and entertainment complex \u2013 Rockefeller Center.\nThe company marked its 80th anniversary on December 6, 2008. It was incorporated December 6, 1928, as the Metropolitan Square Corporation. After building the original 6 million-square-foot, Art Deco complex throughout the 1930s and into the \u201940s, Rockefeller Group developed several towers in the \u201950s and \u201960s. By the early \u201970s, the company had added four International Style towers to Rockefeller Center on the west side of Avenue of the Americas, more than doubling the size of the original center \u2013 including 1211, 1221, 1251 and 1271 Avenue of the Americas.\nBeginning in the mid-1970s, Rockefeller Group applied its distinctive brand of quality to develop signature office complexes across the country, and the company began acquisitions and formations of new business lines complementary to its office development and management core.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 98.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/corgan-looks-beyond-zwan-233018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:09Z", "digest": "sha1:P6EPB2CAPPMX6IOESXY67DUISQLXYRDG", "length": 1547, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rollingstone.com", "title": "Corgan Looks Beyond Zwan \u2013 Rolling Stone", "raw_content": "Corgan Looks Beyond Zwan\nPoetry, solo album next on docket for former Pumpkin\nAfter putting two bands on ice in the past four years, Billy Corgan will go it alone for his next album. The former Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan frontman has begun work on what will be his debut solo recording, though in a Web post he joked, \u201csome would argue that it\u2019s not my first, and I wouldn\u2019t argue with you there.\u201d\n\u201cI am excited to work on this music,\u201d Corgan continued, \u201cbecause for the first time in my life it will be my tunes with no compromises to anyone or anything. It\u2019s gonna be loud and beautiful and poetic and dumb. Just the way I like it.\u201d\nCorgan disbanded Smashing Pumpkins in late 2000, taking drummer Jimmy Chamberlin along with him in Zwan, which he formed a year later. The group released one album, Mary Star of the Sea, before Corgan announced their breakup last fall, complaining that \u201cband members viewed it as something they could decide to do or not to do.\u201d\nZwan guitarist David Pajo had been working with his project Papa M for several years before joining Zwan, and didn\u2019t seem inclined to dissolve it. Zwan bassist/vocalist Paz Lenchantin joined Pajo\u2019s troupe, which has an active 2004 planned including a February tour with Super Furry Animals, the next in its numerical singles series (\u201cSix\u201d) due in March, and Hole of Burning Alms, a collection of singles from 1995 to 2000 due in February.\nIn addition to Corgan\u2019s solo debut, he\u2019s a week away from turning in a book of poetry for future publication.\nIn This Article: Smashing Pumpkins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 5459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ropesgray.com/en/biographies/p/david-peloquin?AK=david%20peloquin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3VCCXHZH5DDNT5DXDFKFWVQRNL3O4NTQ", "length": 12539, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.ropesgray.com", "title": "David Peloquin | Ropes & Gray LLP", "raw_content": "Peloquin, David\nDavid.Peloquin@ropesgray.com\nJD, Yale Law School, 2011; online editor, Yale Law Journal ; managing editor, Yale Journal on Regulation\nBA (Economics), summa cum laude, Carleton College, 2006; Phi Beta Kappa\nHonorable Diana E. Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit\nCommunity Member, Brigham & Women\u2019s Hospital Institutional Review Board, Boston, MA\nDavid Peloquin joined the corporate department in 2012. He works primarily on health care matters, particularly in the area of clinical research and health data privacy. Prior to attending law school, David worked as a project manager for a leading supplier of electronic medical records.\nCounsel multiple leading pediatric hospitals on matters related to \u201cbig data research collaborations\u201d, receipt of research data from countries in the European Union, and design of biobanking research protocols and consent forms.\nCounsel a leading information technology firm regarding compliant strategies for obtaining data from health care organizations.\nAdvised a university client in connection with a government investigation of its Select Agents research program.\nAdvised a university client regarding requirements for tissue donation consent forms under various state laws.\nAssisted multiple clients in updating business associate agreements and research consent forms to comply with changes to HIPAA.\nAssisted multiple clinical trial sponsors and sites in drafting informed consent forms and reviewing subject recruitment processes.\nAdvised a large pharmaceutical client regarding the permissibility of using clinical trials data and biospecimens for secondary research purposes.\nAdvised multiple clients regarding transfers of clinical trials data from the European Union to the United States.\nAnalyzed for a pharmaceutical client the potential implications of changes to European Union privacy law on the conduct of clinical trials in Europe.\nAnalyzed for a major medical device company the pathway to seek reimbursement for its products in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.\nAssisted multiple health care providers in preparing and submitting self-disclosures of overpayments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare Administrative Contractors, and the New York Office of the Medicaid Inspector General.\nCounseled hospital and clinical laboratory clients regarding the Medicare and New York Medicaid compliance implications of proposed billing practices.\nAssisted a clinical laboratory client in identifying possible fraud and abuse violations and drafting internal policies related to fraud and abuse compliance.\nAssisted a hospital client in filing administrative appeals of Medicare payment denials.\nQuoted, \u201cResearch Reg Changes Apply to 20 Agencies\u2019 Grants\u2014Half Are Closed (1),\u201d Bloomberg Law (January 11, 2019)\nCo-author, \u201cInsights On Right To Try Act And 'Expanded Access' Concerns,\u201d Law360 (December 18, 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cINSIGHT: The Right to Try Act and Its Implications for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers,\u201d Bloomberg Law (July 24, 2018)\nCited, \u201cReturning Individual Research Results to Participants: Guidance for a New Research Paradigm,\u201d National Academies of Sciences Consensus Study Report (July 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cGDPR Complicates Admissions Applications for U.S. Universities,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Privacy Law Watch (June 27, 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cWill Consent Be Disfavored as Basis for Processing Personal Data in Clinical Research Under EU Data Protection Law?\u201d Bloomberg Law\u2019s Medical Law & Research Policy Report (June 15, 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cFinal Guidelines on Consent Requirements Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation: Implications for Scientific Research,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (April 30, 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cNew Draft Guidelines on GDPR Consent Requirement\u2019s Application to Scientific Research,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Medical Law & Research Policy Report (January 17, 2018)\nCo-author, \u201cExtraterritorial Effect of the GDPR and Implications for U.S. Academic Medical Centers Treating EU Patients,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Medical Law & Research Policy Report (November 1, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cCertificates of Confidentiality After the 21st Century Cures Act\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Medical Research Law and Policy Report (October 4, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cReconciling Personal Data Consent Practices in Clinical Trials with the EU General Data Protection Regulation,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Medical Research Law & Policy Report (September 20, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cOIG\u2019s Warranty Safe Harbor Opinion and Value-Based Care,\u201d Law360 (September 14, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cWhat to Know About New FDA Informed Consent Guidance,\u201d Law360 (August 11, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cNew Frontiers in AMC Funding: Mission Support Alternatives Post-Halifax,\u201d Member Briefing, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) AMCs and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group (May 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cUsing Biospecimens Collected Abroad in Future Research: Key Considerations,\u201d Bloomberg BNA\u2019s Medical Research Law & Policy Report (April 19, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cRecent Changes in French Law Affecting Clinical Research and Trials,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (February 15, 2017)\nCo-Author, \u201cWhat To Know About HHS Revised 'Common Rule'\u201d Law360 (February 13, 2017)\nQuoted, \u201cNew rules on trial subjects omit consent requirement, aiding test development,\u201d S&P Global Market Intelligence (January 27, 2017)\nCo-author, \u201cHHS Finalizes Comprehensive Revisions to the Common Rule,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (January 26, 2017)\nCo-Author, The Biomedical Research Enterprise, The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Healthcare Law (2016) Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoffman, and William M. Sage\nCo-Author, \u201cImpact of the European Union\u2019s Approved General Data Protection Regulation On Scientific Research and Secondary Uses of Personal Data,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (February 17, 2016)\nCo-Author, \u201cImpact of Proposed Federal Research Regulation Amendments (the Common Rule NPRM) on Life Sciences Companies,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (November 13, 2015)\nCo-Author, \u201cSingle IRB Review: Legal and Policy Perspectives,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (November 4, 2015)\nCo-Author, \u201cThe CLIA/HIPAA Conundrum of Returning Test Results to Research Participants,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (July 15, 2015)\nCo-Author, \u201cNational Institutes of Health Issues a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Clinical Trials Registration and a Draft Policy on Registration and Reporting of Results for NIH-Funded Clinical Trials,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (December 17, 2014)\nCo-Author, \u201cNew EU Clinical Trials Regulation and its Interaction With Proposed EU Privacy Regulation and Proposed EMA Policy on Clinical Trials Data Transparency,\u201d Bloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (August 20, 2014)\nCo-Author, \u201cEuropean Union's Proposed General Data Protection Regulation Promises Big Changes for Secondary Uses of Data from Clinical Trials,\u201dBloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (November 20, 2013)\nCo-Author, \u201cEMA Draft Policy on Publication and Access to Clinical Trials Data Provides Broad Researcher Access to Participant-Level Data,\u201dBloomberg BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Report (July 17, 2013)\nCo-Author, \u201cRethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy,\u201d NBER Chapter in Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (2011)\nSpeaker, \u201cInformed Consent & Data Sharing,\u201d Vivli Webinar (February 14, 2019)\nAmerican Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) AMCs and Teaching Hospitals Conference, presentation entitled \u201cApplication of the European Union\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation to Research Conducted at U.S. Academic Medical Centers,\u201d Alexandria, VA (January 2019)\nSpeaker, \u201cCurrent Issues in Technology Transfer,\u201d Ropes & Gray Roundtable (November 2, 2018)\nVirginia Institutional Review Board Consortium, Annual Conference, presentation entitled \u201cBig Data and Confidentiality,\u201d Charlottesville, VA (October 2018)\nAssociation for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Annual Conference, Presentation on Big Data & Confidentiality, Denver, CO (April 2018)\nPanelist, \u201cThe Importance of Data in Value-based Health Care,\u201d Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System? Conference at Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (March 2, 2018)\nSpeaker, \u201cClinical Trials and Human Research: Complying With New Regulatory Obligations,\u201d Strafford Webinar (January 17, 2018)\nRopes & Gray Roundtable Discussion, \u201cComplying With the EU GDPR Requirements in Clinical Trials\u201d (December 2017)\nRopes & Gray Teleconference, \u201cThe EU GDPR: Implications for U.S. Academic Medical Centers Treating EU Patients and Conducting Other Activities in the EU\u201d (November 2017)\nChildren\u2019s Hospital Pediatric Research Alliance Conference, Presentation on Legal and Practical Considerations in the Sharing of Data and Biological Specimens for Research, Boston, MA (October 2017)\nNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Panelist for Presentation on Laws and Regulations Governing the Return of Results to the Consensus Committee on the Return of Individual-Specific Research Results Generated in Research Laboratories, Washington, DC (September 2017)\nInternational Association of Privacy Professionals, KnowledgeNet Presentation on Privacy and Research, Cambridge, MA (September 2017)\nDIA, Clinical Trial Disclosure and Transparency Conference, Panelist for Discussion on Preparing for Results Submission Under the ClinicalTrials.gov Final Rule and Other Global Requirements, Rockville, MD (September 2017)\nMAGI East Conference, \u201cRecent Developments in Data Privacy and Security,\u201d Philadelphia, PA (May 2017)\nInternational Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), Annual Meeting, \u201cLegal, Ethical and Structural Considerations in Biobanking Involving Academic and Commercial Entities,\u201d Toronto, Canada (May 2017)\nUniversity of Connecticut, Annual Combined IRB Panel Meeting, talk entitled \u201cRecent Developments in the Laws and Regulations Governing Human Subjects Research,\u201d Farmington, CT (May 2017)\nJackson Heart Study, Workshop on Return of Results, University of Mississippi Medical Center, \u201cConsiderations for Institutional Review Boards,\u201d Jackson, MS (April 2017)\nStrafford Webinar: \u201cComplying With Final Rule Revising the Common Rule for Clinical Trials and Human Research\u201d (February 2017)\nStrafford Publications, webinar entitled \u201cClinical Trials and Human Research: Complying with New Regulatory Obligations\u201d (January 2017)\nChildren\u2019s Hospitals Pediatric Research Alliance Conference, presentation entitled \u201cConsortium Collaborations: Contractual Considerations,\u201d Philadelphia, PA (November 2016)\nMAGI West Conference, presentation entitled \u201cRecent Developments in Research Subject Data Privacy,\u201d Las Vegas, NV (October 2016)\nBiorepositories & Sample Management Conference, presentation entitled \u201cImpact of Changes in European Union Data Privacy Law on Biorepositories,\u201d Boston, MA (October 2016)\nAmerican Health Lawyers Association, Academic Medical Center & Teaching Hospitals Conference, presentation entitled \u201cHot Topics in Genomics Care and Research,\u201d Washington, DC (March 2016)\nPetrie-Flom Center, Harvard University, Specimen Science Conference, presentation entitled \u201cLegal and Regulatory Issues in Biospecimen Research: National and International Perspectives,\u201d Cambridge, MA (November 2015)\nAmerican Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Annual Meeting, presentation entitled \u201cEngaged in the Conduct of Research? How to Keep the Government from Finding Violations and What to do When They Do,\u201d Houston, TX (October 2015)\nCross-Practice Team Authors Law360 Article on FDA\u2019s Right to Try Act and Expanded Access Pathway\nA cross-practice team co-authored a Dec. 18 article published in Law360 that provides insights on the Right to Try Act pathway that provides patients not eligible for clinical trial enrollment with ways to obtain investigational drugs or biologics ...\nINSIGHT: Will Consent Be Disfavored as Basis for Processing Personal Data in Clinical Research Under EU Data Protection Law?\nCross-Practice Team Hosts Technology Transfer Roundtable in Boston\nLife sciences partner Susan Galli and IP transactions partner Melissa Rones (both of Boston) hosted a Nov. 2 roundtable in Boston on \u201cCurrent Issues in Technology Transfer,\u201d which included life sciences partner Katherine Wang (Shanghai) and health care ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 16254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=9001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UD2J4HZ6MEJCU2XYLKDG7IJ6GJSGGP7K", "length": 3066, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rrauction.com", "title": "RR Auction: Bidtracker Item Detail", "raw_content": "9001 Christy Mathewson 1902 New York Giants Signed Player Contract $10000 $38977 $42875 7 You must login to place a bid.\n#9001 - Christy Mathewson 1902 New York Giants Signed Player Contract Estimate: $75,000+\nSigned at the end of his first full season\u2014Mathewson's NY Giants contract for 1902\nContract, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 14, September 18, 1901. National League and American Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs player's contract between \"the National Exhibition Co. (N.Y. Base Ball Club) of the city of New York\u2026and Christy Mathewson of the city of Factoryville, in the State of Pa,\" for the baseball season beginning on April 15, 1902, at a salary of $3,000. Nicely signed at the conclusion by Christy Mathewson and countersigned by New York Giants Secretary-Treasurer F. M Knowles. The reverse is signed by National League President Nicholas Young. In very good condition, with partial edge separations to horizontal folds; Mathewson's ideal autograph is unaffected.\nThis incredibly rare contract was signed as the 1901 season\u2014Mathewson's first as a regular in the New York Giants' rotation\u2014neared its end. In his second season, the 20-year-old hurler proved himself as the team's best pitcher, compiling a respectable 20-17 win/loss record on a bottom-dwelling team that went 52-85. He continued to vex National League batters in 1902, performing under the terms of this contract, throwing a league-best eight shutouts despite accumulating a 14-17 record. Mathewson emerged as a truly dominant force a year later in 1903, winning 30 games and leading the league in strikeouts for the first time.\nThis is one of only just a few Mathewson contract examples extant, predated only by his 1900 New York Giants contract. At the time Mathewson signed this contract (the tender age of 21), baseball was considered a rough and tumble sport, and Mathewson was the antithesis of what a ballplayer was at the time. While almost every ballplayer was a product of the streets, alleys and coal mines, Matty was a college graduate who spoke well, was mild-mannered and had high moral convictions. These characteristics plus his stellar abilities on the field were some of the reasons for his extremely high popularity.\nThe offered contract would easily be the pinnacle piece of the most advanced collection. Mathewson's 1900 rookie contract was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2005, and again in 2008, finding its way into a permanent collection. His 1903 contract has not been seen again since Legendary auctioned it in 2000 when it went for $27,000, and mid-1920s Cincinnati coaching contracts have been auctioned usually achieving $10,000 plus results, but these are of little significance compared to his early legal documents from his playing career. It seems an understatement to call this 1902 contract museum quality as it is clearly that and more. Such dominant historic pieces are seldom offered and the Mathewson name elevates this to an iconic status among all baseball collectibles. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 5491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rrcity.com/rocky-river-events/2019/2/14/parks-and-recreation-commission-meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NIHTD5NICH5NJ5ENES563HV62DVW2PMB", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rrcity.com", "title": "Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting \u2014 City of Rocky River, Ohio", "raw_content": "Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting - 7:45 a.m. - Ice Rink Pavilion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 2874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 130.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.russellspest.com/blog/post/what-s-the-big-deal-about-carpenter-ants", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:N6CVSFTSYCBIOF6ZYDVTK7I65FPS2HXZ", "length": 3046, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.russellspest.com", "title": "What's the Big Deal About Carpenter Ants?", "raw_content": "Home > Blog > What's the Big Deal About Carpenter Ants?\nWhen you think of the term carpenter ant, what do you picture? Do you see a little ant, wearing his little yellow hard hat, sporting little steel-toed boots, and carrying a little toolbox with his tool belt around his waist? Wouldn't it be nice if this were the case? Perhaps if you had a repair to be made around the house you could send a bunch of these little Mr. Fix-Its on their way to do your bidding; kind of like elves.\nThe problem is, these ants aren't really builders or fixers of any kind. They are destroyers. In fact, they really ought to be renamed destructor ants. That would certainly be more appropriate since they burrow into wood and weaken the structure of your home. Yes, these are a pest we all need to take seriously, because if left to their own devices, they can do some pretty serious damage over time.\nWhat do carpenter ants look like?\nCarpenter ants are among the largest ants in the world, but the size of these ants within their colony varies. Adults are anywhere from 6 to 12 mm in length. Some males and winged swarmers can be as large as 18 mm, and the queens are around 20 mm. They are typically black but can have a reddish tint. And, the thorax of these ants is evenly rounded.\nWhat do carpenter ants eat?\nYou may be tempted to think that carpenter ants eat wood like termites do, but this is not the case. These ants actually feed on sources of protein and sugar, such as dead insects, honeydew, meats and pet food. They do most of their foraging for food at night, between sunset and midnight during spring and summer. Sometimes worker ants travel up to 100 yards away from their nest in search of food. It is typical during this time when carpenter ants find their way into homes.\nSo what do carpenter ants have to do with wood?\nCarpenter ants create tunnels and nests inside of wood. This can be either outside, such as in a log or tree stump, or inside, such as inside your walls or under roofing. And it\u2019s most common for homeowners to find carpenter ants inside during the spring. If you find these ants in your home during late winter or early spring, this suggests that they are coming from a nest that is already inside your walls. And if you see piles of wood shavings underneath wooden items, then you should be appropriately concerned.\nWhat can you do if you find these \"destructor ants\" or evidence of them, inside your home?\nIf you have seen these ants or evidence of them, it is a best to contact a professional pest control company as soon as possible. If left untreated, these little home wreckers can do quite a bit of damage both to outdoor wooden structures as well as the wood in your house. Here at Russell's Pest Control, we have decades of experience dealing with carpenter ants, and a whole host of other household pests. And unlike those \"carpenter\" ants that do not live up to their name, our expert pest control technicians certainly will. You can count on it.\nTags: carpenter ants | home pest control | carpenter ant facts |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.russianschool.com/location/bellevue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JOQAR3CKCZI4262HQQ3TFMG7LROETRJW", "length": 2078, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.russianschool.com", "title": "RSM Bellevue | Math Schools", "raw_content": "About RSM-Bellevue:\nRSM-Bellevue is the first branch of the Russian School of Mathematics in the state of Washington!\nRSM-Bellevue opened in 2012 in response to the strong demand for after-school math enrichment for K-12 students in the Bellevue area. Today, the school serves families in Bellevue and the surrounding communities of Redmond, Seattle, Kirkland, Renton, Sudbury, Lynnwood, Maple Valley, Bothell, Chelmsford, and Issaquah.\nAs a branch of the award-winning Russian School of Mathematics, our mission is to use a well-structured teaching strategy to help students build a solid math foundation and develop lifelong critical thinking skills. RSM is fully accredited by WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges), ensuring that each aspect of our program has been carefully evaluated against state standards and that local schools accept and acknowledge our transcripts.\nWe are conveniently located at 13122 NE 20th St., Suite # 100, Bellevue, WA 98005.\nThank you for voting us as the winners of the Parent Map magazine's Golden Teddy Award for best after school program for two consecutive years!\nDarena Gateva\nEducation: M.S., Economics, University of Economics, Varna, Bulgaria\nHaving worked with young children for many years in Bulgaria and the US, Darena Gateva became a teacher at RSM in 2008. She taught in the school\u2019s Newton, Lexington, and Andover branches before relocating to the Seattle area. Her beloved students know her as \u201cMrs. D.\u201d\nDarena enjoys the cultural diversity of the Seattle area and believes it creates a very rich environment for developing minds. She finds working with children inspiring and exhilarating. As an RSM parent since 2007, she appreciates working with other parents and guardians who value education and seek the best for their children. Her goal for RSM-Bellevue is to build a strong community of people for whom education and ongoing learning are priorities.\nShe believes that education is about sharing, and she endeavors to transfer the knowledge she has gained to her students in an exciting and challenging way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.saebo.com/john-humphrey-alt/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:45Z", "digest": "sha1:IFMPY4VMBJSZ6ONNFSDUTSRMN7LKRZX2", "length": 929, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.saebo.com", "title": "\"When other therapists and patients see me working out, they are absolutely amazed\" | Saebo", "raw_content": "\u201cWhen other therapists and patients see me working out, they are absolutely amazed\u201d\nI just received my SaeboGlove in the mail and I have been going to my physiotherapist twice a week now for three weeks and things are coming along EXCEPTIONALLY well. Today\u2019s workout was just stunning. I had great strength and control and I\u2019m really getting accustomed to it. By the way, when other therapists and their patients see me working out, they are absolutely amazed.\nYou have to understand that this is a scary premise for me. I could have gone the rest of my life with a non-functioning left hand. But now, I know that I will have significant use of it for the rest of my life. I never dreamed that would happen. My therapist tells me that at the next session he wants me to take the glove home after that and start working at home. I will, however, still be going twice a week for the next three weeks.\nJohn Humphrey, Stroke Survivor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.samsaidyes.com/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7NFBUMROFEZVUCYWP3WU5QLDRYJPTNXL", "length": 644, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.samsaidyes.com", "title": "About SamSaidYes \u00f0\u0178\u017d\u2030 SamSaidYes - Wedding photo app", "raw_content": "Our true passion is connecting people - building bridges between the online and offline world is a great way of doing it!\nSamSaidYes is a Zurich based company, that combines technology and fun for you. We are a bunch of young photographers, digital experts, software engineers and creative weirdos, passionate about magic moments of our precious lives.\nWe want you to be able to collect all your greatest and most authentic moments effortlessly. This is why we are committed every day to provide you the simplest solution \u00e2\u20ac\u201c convenient, inspirational and personalized for you.\nWe are excited about this journey. Thank you for being part of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scan4jobs.com/quotes/topic/business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ7MOH5J2EB3QPJPPKFTGSX2UCNJVREM", "length": 1936, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.scan4jobs.com", "title": "Business Quotes", "raw_content": "Jason Aldean Food\nPeople see you onstage and the glamorous side\tbut they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night\teating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.\nBusiness Quotes 959\nOur competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the...\nMcSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only...\nA belief in God is vitally important\tnot just in show business\tbut...\nTo me\tthe print business model is so simple\twhere readers pay a dollar for...\nIt's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff...\nThe worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not...\nI could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar\tbut am I expanding...\nYou can't run a business or anything else on a theory.\nIt's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a...\nIt is an immutable law in business that words are words\texplanations are...\nIf you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference...\nI am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the...\nAccept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. 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This article offers ideas for inspiring young writers and includes a mini-lesson.\nExcerpt from the Scholastic Professional title: Teaching Young Writers to Elaborate by Megan S. Sloan.\nI\u2019ve just finished a lesson in writing workshop, and it\u2019s time for students to begin their own writing. Everyone is moving around the room getting paper, taking out writing folders, and finding a space to sit and write. As the buzz quiets, I notice Michael (usually an eager writer) sitting with a blank piece of paper and an equally blank stare. I pull up my stool and ask Michael, \"What are you thinking about?\"\nHe answers with the dreaded, \"I don\u2019t know what to write about.\"\nAt first I think, \"Oh, no\u2014we could be here for a while.\" But then my mind races to recent events and I say, \"Michael, didn\u2018t your mom have a baby yesterday?\"\nHe looks at me with wide eyes. \"Oh yeah!\" he responds excitedly, and off he starts writing, needing no more help from me.\nLearning to Choose Topics That \"Fit\"\nI would like to say it is always so easy: I nonchalantly make suggestions to a stumped writer and all of a sudden he or she is off and running. But that\u2019s not always the case. Take Tyler, for instance, a boy I worked with a few years ago. Tyler was smart. He loved to read. Despite that, he came into my third-Grade classroom with an IEP for reading and writing. Tyler could read above his grade level with deep understanding of text. What he could not do was write about it. We quickly dismissed his reading IEP, but he still had a valid IEP for written language. Tyler hated writing about anything. He could write if he set his mind to it, but he struggled. Tyler was a great thinker, but getting him to put even one idea on paper was a battle. When Tyler said, \"I don\u2019t know what to write about,\" he meant it, and all of the brainstorming I might do with him over a 30-minute period would still result in a boy without an idea, with a blank sheet of paper.\nThen there's the child who is willing to write, but just can\u2019t think of topics. He is always the one at the beginning of writing workshop, looking around the room with unsure eyes. He has that half-frown, doubting that he has any idea interesting enough to keep him, the writer, focused, and us, the readers, interested. He wants to write, but depends on the help of the teacher to choose his topic.\nHow do we help children like these discover topics? How do we help them see that there is an abundance of rich ideas around them?\nCONNECTING TO TEXT: Thinking About Topics to Write About\nOne of my favorite books for helping students find topics is You Have to Write by Janet Wong. It is a wonderful text for exemplifying that a student\u2019s own life is a great place to begin when searching for ideas. Wong urges the reader to write. She suggests that it is in our nature to write, that we must tell our stories and the stories of our mothers, father, grandparents, and so on. She says we want readers to laugh or cry at our words. Wong seems to go inside the head of the reluctant writer who wants to be a writer, but just can\u2019t seem to believe she can come up with that topic that will wow everyone.\nThe illustrator of Wong\u2019s book, Teresa Flavin, created little snapshot of everyday activities: a birthday party, a walk in the rain, cookie-baking with Dad. On the same page Wong asks the reader, \"Who else can say what you have seen? Who else can tell your stories?\" Immediately, the reader sees that writing can be telling stories about her life and the lives of those around her. Most young students are interested in themselves, so getting them to write about their lives usually takes only a slight nudge.\nI read this book to students and we talk about the everyday topics that might inspire us. We make a chart of ideas, and I encourage students to think of the ordinary, and the not-so-ordinary, things in their own lives that will make good stories.\nMINI-LESSON: Finding a Topic Using Literature as a Model\nWong\u2019s message resonates with many students. They want to write about their lives. Some students, however, are still not sure. This is when I introduce Flip's Fantastic Journal by Angelo DeCesare. In this book, a dog is asked to write in his journal about his life. He begins to write, but reluctantly, because he finds his life to be quite boring and unlucky. It is clear that Flip does not like to write. He says so. But he does his homework, dutifully. He writes, but what he writes is quite dull. Then flip has an idea. He remembers his teacher saying he doesn't have to write about his read day, and inviting him to make things up. All of a sudden, Flip twists his real events into more exciting happenings, and these new and exciting happenings are now illustrated in color. What used to be Flip hitting himself in the head with the soccer ball turns into Flip kicking the soccer ball to the moon. What used to be a cereal box with no toy inside becomes a cereal box filled with toys. This is Flip's life, exaggerated toward the positive. After reading the book, I ask students, \"So what do you think?\"\nTyler says, \"I like how the book went from black-and-white to color.\"\n\"Yes. That was pretty neat. Why did the author/illustrator do this?\" I ask.\nJessica answers, \"Because he wanted you to notice the second half of the story is much more interesting.\"\nI ask, \"In what way?\"\nTatum begins, \"In the beginning, Flip just listed the things he did. It wasn\u2019t very interesting. Then, in the middle of the book, when he started over, Flip made up things, like instead of his cereal box not having a toy, it was full of toys.\"\nMichael adds, \"Yeah, and when his sister woke him up early in the morning in the first half, you could tell he didn\u2019t like that. Then in the second half he says his sister tried to wake him up, but he told his pet dinosaur to get her instead.\"\nI agree, \"I get what you\u2019re saying. He made up his story in the second half and it was more interesting?\"\nMiya says, \"Yes. But he used things from his life and then made them seem bigger and better.\"\nI ask, \"Do you think this is a good technique when you write a story? Can you use things from your own life and exaggerate them to make your story more interesting? Do you think authors of fiction use things from their own lives in their stories?\"\nStudents nod their heads and a few shout out, \"Yes!\"\nMemoirs in Literature\nI tell students, \"You know, one of the masters at taking moments from her life and stretching them into stories, and perhaps filling in the gaps with fictional ideas, is Patricia Polacco. Many of her stories are about things she experienced at some time in her life, a lot of them when she was a child.\"\nAt this time, I introduce the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco. I read the story and as I do, students are outraged by how the main character is treated. She cannot read and the boys tease her. But her teacher never gives up. He believes in her, and listeners are swept into the story, really caring about whether this child learns to read. At the end, of course, we all get a surprise. We find out who this little girl is: no other than the author of the book, Patricia Polacco.\nAs I close the book, I ask students to look at this story through writers\u2019 eyes. \"What do you think? What did you think of her topic?\"\n\"I think it was a good topic because it was about her,\" says Tayler.\n\"Yes, that was a surprise at the end to find out Patricia Polacco had a hard time learning to read and now she is a wonderful author!\"\n\"So this story is about her life?\" asks Johnny.\n\"Yes. She might have been like Flip, adding things to make this story, but she got the idea from her own life.\"\n\"Patricia Polacco has written a memoir. A memoir is when an author writes about a specific memory or time in his or her life.\nJolie says, \"So, we can write memoirs too?\"\n\"Yes, you might when you write about your life,\" I answer.\nI ask students to consider using their own lives as springboards for writing topics. Think about the \"moments\" of time. Maybe it is a day, or a week, or just a few minutes of time. Perhaps you found a hermit crab under a beach rock, or were caught in a bed rainstorm. Maybe your dog finally learned the new trick you were teaching him. Remember these moments and write about them. They will make great topics!\nTeacher Tips and Strategies Writing Process Writing Prompts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 10643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencefactory.co.uk/david-bainbridge-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HC7IV5EUJTK6ULCJEGPVVMO5H2QRWJDW", "length": 1222, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sciencefactory.co.uk", "title": "Jesse Bering \u2014 The Science Factory", "raw_content": "Jesse Bering is an award-winning science writer specializing in evolutionary psychology and human behaviour. He is the author of several acclaimed popular books, and he and his work have been featured on numerous documentaries, television shows and radio programmes, including 'Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman', 'Conan', 'Chelsea Lately', 'Q&A' (Australia), NPR\u2019s 'All Things Considered' and the BBC. He has written for Slate, Guardian, the New York Times, Discover, Chicago Tribune, New Republic, Vice and many others. Several of his science-writing projects have sold for option rights to major US television and film producers, and his 'Bering in Mind' column at Scientific American won a 2010 Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. An experimental psychologist by training, he spent his early career researching the cognitive science of religion, and has published extensively in that field. Formerly director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University, Belfast, and a professor at the University of Arkansas, he is currently an associate professor at the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand.\nWorld rights \u2013 Macmillan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 65.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/front-matter-774", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IOTID64C2AS445XU3AC53NNZS2WTB5OM", "length": 66, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sciencenews.org", "title": "Front Matter | Science News", "raw_content": "Magazine issue: Vol. 131 #25, June 20, 1987\n12:00am, June 20, 1987", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 322, "original_length": 7742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 130.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/email-this-article/?contentid=53432B10-B293-1797-3ABE559346F5D3F3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZSWFCZ43IHYVNHDGJ46HT4BZJZD5Z4L", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.scientificamerican.com", "title": "Email This Article - Scientific American", "raw_content": "U.S. Military to Test Lasers for Warplanes in 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 95.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scientology.org/scientology-today/church-openings/scientology-malmo-the-knowledge-center-of-northern-europe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XVNJTIYJH5QDQ7C45ACBFFY3LT6LBOWU", "length": 4446, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.scientology.org", "title": "The Knowledge Center of Northern Europe", "raw_content": "Guests from 32 nations gathered in celebration of the historic opening of the new Church of Scientology in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, on April 4, 2009.\nMr. David Miscavige, ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, presided over the ceremony and dedicated the new Church in the name of a better tomorrow for Scandinavians.\nMr. David Miscavige leads the pulling of the ribbon, joined by the Executive Director and honored guest speakers, officially opening the new Malm\u00f6 Church of Scientology to all.\nDr. Iva Ryggest\u00e5hl, Human Rights attorney and Parliament Vice-Deputy: \u201cWhat you bring to this region is important and needed. There is nothing we cannot accomplish together. Let this Church be a reminder to us always of a new beginning and of the inspiration it brings.\u201d\nDr. Gunnar Bramst\u00e5ng, Distinguished Professor of Law: \u201cIn the course of 30 years, I have watched with my own eyes how you save one life after another through the methods of L. Ron Hubbard. Your contributions to Swedish society cannot be measured.\u201d\nDr. Bertil Persson, Professor of Religion and Scandinavia\u2019s Permanent Representative at the UNESCO University for Peace: \u201cWith the opening of this Church, we are really at a turning point. The future activities based on Scientology are, in fact, predestined for great success for humanity.\u201d\nDr. Adly Abu Hajar, President Scandinavian Muslim Academic Council, Director General European Islamic Conference: \u201cGod decided I had to meet you and I am grateful for that. I see a hope in the future, for Sweden to take a big step toward understanding and trust, and in the name of God, peace for all.\u201d\nTo serve an expanding Scientology congregation throughout Sweden and Scandinavia, the 72,000-square-foot Church of Scientology of Malm\u00f6, dedicated April 4, 2009, was acquired, designed, renovated and opened in less than six months.\nAnyone of any religion or belief is welcome to visit the Church of Scientology of Malm\u00f6 to find out more about the works of L. Ron Hubbard, introductory films and seminars or other services offered seven days a week.\nVisitors are always welcome to tour the Public Information Center in Church of Scientology of Malm\u00f6, where interactive multimedia displays present the basic principles of the Scientology religion, the life and legacy of L. Ron Hubbard and global social betterment programs.\nScientology ceremonies, including Sunday Services, Weddings, Naming Ceremonies, and Graduations, as well as community events, workshops and meetings, are held here in the chapel of the Malm\u00f6 Church of Scientology.\nTHE KNOWLEDGE CENTER OF NORTHERN EUROPE\nMr. David Miscavige opened the new European Church of Scientology on April 4, 2009, in the Swedish seacoast city of Malm\u00f6.\nThose in attendance hailed from 32 nations, including Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Israel, Iraq and Uganda. They gathered to celebrate a historic day: dedication of the 72,000-square-foot landmark Church of Scientology, acquired, designed, renovated and opened in less than six months.\nMr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, officiated at the dedication and opening of the Church of Scientology of Malm\u00f6 on April 4, 2009.\nAmong those present to honor the occasion were European dignitaries including Dr. Iva Parizkova Ryggestahl, human rights attorney and Vice-Deputy in the Swedish Parliament; Dr. Adly Abu Hajar, Director General of the European Islamic Conference, a group of Muslim leaders of 33 nations; Dr. Gunnar Bramst\u00e5ng, Distinguished Professor of Law, Dean of the Lund Law faculty and author of groundbreaking human rights legislation; and Dr. Bertil Persson, renowned educator, Professor of Religion, and Permanent Representative at the UNESCO University for Peace.\nThe day was further distinguished by Mr. Miscavige dedicating this new Church in the name of a better tomorrow:\n\u201cOur ability to uplift generations with Study Technology, our ability to eradicate drug abuse and awaken populations to the inherent moral decency within them\u2014all this is now possible on a previously unimaginable scale.\n\u201cSo yes, today is truly just a beginning and, forever after, let us mark this day for freedom, for Sweden, and for all eternity.\u201d Mr. Miscavige, joined by the other honored guests, then cut the ribbon, officially marking a new era for Scientology in Sweden.\nDavid Miscavige Church of Scientology Malm\u00f6 Malm\u00f6, Sweden Sweden", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 8815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scipress.com/ILSHS.67.1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NNQKYGK7SCYHJFV4BQKHO6CQLWKVOCBX", "length": 2370, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.scipress.com", "title": "The Day of the Son of Man and its Anticipation (Luke 17:26-30)", "raw_content": "ILSHS > Volume 67 > The Day of the Son of Man and its Anticipation...\nThe aim of this paper is to focus on the biblical images in the text Luke 17:26-30. The verses Luke 17:26-30 describe the coming of the day of the Lord and the manner of waiting such a day. The evangelist offers an example of lack of preparation for the return of Christ, the Son of Man. The members of the lukan communities have a lot of the activities without connection to the spiritual life. First, Luke intends to condemn an immanent vision on life. Secondly, comes the lack of concern for the kingdom of God. The comparison with the days of Noah and Lot has exhortative function, inviting the members of Luke\u2019s community to focus their look and attention on the divine realities. In the conclusion, the delay of the Parousia should not lead to a life limited to the earthly activities, thus forgetting about God. The anticipation of Christ return must be alive, while being aware that the Lord may arrive at any moment, and His coming should find people prepared for it.\nI. Faraoanu, \"The Day of the Son of Man and its Anticipation (Luke 17:26-30)\", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 67, pp. 1-10, 2016\nIulian Faraoanu\nDrinking, Eating, Eschatology, Judgment Day, Lot, Noah, Salvation\n[1] J. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke (X-XIV), Doubleday, Garden City, (1985).\n[2] G. Ross\u00e8, Il vangelo di Luca, Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Roma, (1995).\n[3] R. Schnackenburg, La vita cristiana, esegesi in progresso e in mutamento, Jaca Book, Milano, (1977).\n[4] R. Meynet, Il vangelo secondo Luca. Analisi retorica, Edizioni Dehoniane, Roma, (1994).\n[5] L. Sabourin, Il vangelo di Luca. Introduzione e commento, Piemme, Roma, (1989).\n[6] J. Schlosser, Les jours de No\u00e8 et de Lot, Revue Biblique 80 (1973) 27-28.\n[9] K.H. Rengstorf, Il vangelo secondo Luca, Paideia, Brescia, (1980).\n[10] S. Brown, Apostasy and Perseverance in the Theology of Luke, Roma, (1969).\n[11] B. Corsani, L'uomo nelle parabole di Ges\u00f9, in: Associazione Biblica Italiana (ed. ), L'uomo nella Bibbia e nelle culture ad essa contemporanee, Paideia, Brescia, 1977, p.166.\n[12] S. Zedda, L'escatologia biblica I, Paideia, Brescia, (1972).\n[13] G. Segalla, Evangelo e Vangeli, EDB, Bologna, (1993).\n[14] G. Ross\u00e8, Il vangelo di Luca, Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Roma, (1995).\n[15] J. Dupont, Studi sugli Atti, Paoline, Roma, (1971).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2142567/chinese-consumers-snap-80000-durians-after-alibaba-signs-3-billion?edition=international", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QULDVRI7AZZRTN67EYXDS7MOQ2VVR7LM", "length": 3577, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.scmp.com", "title": "Chinese consumers snap up 80,000 durians after Alibaba signs 3 billion yuan food deal with Thai government | South China Morning Post", "raw_content": "Chinese consumers snap up 80,000 durians after Alibaba signs 3 billion yuan food deal with Thai government\nThe flash sale of the fruit was part of a joint initiative to promote Thailand\u2019s local products via the internet.\nAlibaba acquires Chinese food delivery platform Ele.me\nAlibaba backs free trade with smart digital hub in Thailand\nChinese consumers ordered 80,000 durians the minute a new online promotion went live as part of a Chinese-Thai initiative to help sell the Southeast Asian country\u2019s local products via the internet.\nIn a deal struck Thursday by Chinese and Thai officials, the two governments will work with e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to drive the development of Thailand\u2019s digital economy. Under the agreement, agencies of the Thai government and business units of Alibaba will work together in a number of areas, including e-commerce, digital logistics, tourism and training.\nThe 80,000 Monthong durians, weighing a combined 200,000 kilograms, were snapped up by Chinese consumers on Alibaba\u2019s Tmall platform within 60 seconds of them going online, after the Hangzhou-based e-commerce operator closed a 3 billion yuan (US$478 million), three-year deal on the fruit\u2019s sales with Thailand government, according to statement issued by the company.\n\u201cChina is on its way to becoming the world\u2019s largest consumer, driven by rising income and a growing middle class of 300 million. There is no better time than now for trade-oriented countries to seize this opportunity to export to China as the country continues to open its doors wider for global trade,\u201d said Jack Ma, executive chairman and co-founder of Alibaba, the parent company of the South China Morning Post.\nThailand is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Chinese travellers, with its appeal growing in recent years thanks to the 2013 Chinese comedy film Lost in Thailand, which was the first local movie to break through the 1 billion yuan mark at the box office. In February, 1.2 million Chinese travelled to Thailand, up 40 per cent from the same month last year, according to data from the Thai tourism authority.\nThe durians will be sold via Alibaba\u2019s online and offline retail channels, including its business-to-consumer platform Tmall, its Hema cashless supermarkets, as well as the 450 RT-Mart hypermarkets owned by Sun Art Retail Group, which received US$2.9 billion in funding from Alibaba last November.\nOn Tmall, an order for 4.5 to 5 kilograms of Monthongs goes for 199 yuan (US$32), inclusive of delivery and taxes. The Tmall website claims more than 2 million durians have been sold on the platform so far, including those before the current deal was in place. In Southeast Asia durians are known as the King of Fruit, though some people liken its pungent smell to stinky socks.\n\u201cNot just durians, Thailand is also famous for bananas and crops such like rice,\u201d Thailand\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said at the launch of the initiative.\nLove it or hate it: Singapore\u2019s durian-themed cafe smells winning combination\nA Thai rice shop was also officially launched on Tmall on Thursday.\nAlibaba said Chinese consumers bought more than 7.7 trillion yuan worth of imported goods from its online channels in 2017, with food accounting for a large part of the total.\nApart from the Thai food deals, Alibaba\u2019s online travel platform Fliggy is working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand on improving the Chinese travel experience in the country.\nThis article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Thai push sees Durians gone within 1 minute", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 413, "original_length": 10206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/17/79871/a-trump-executive-order-aims-to-bring-down-veteran/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VVUF4U5GQPWCRHHFDLCFQCX6C3CQ4KL2", "length": 4362, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.scpr.org", "title": "Audio: A Trump executive order aims to bring down veteran suicides. Will it help? | 89.3 KPCC", "raw_content": "A Trump executive order aims to bring down veteran suicides. Will it help?\nThe campus of the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.\nNancy Pastor for NPR\nLibby Denkmann | January 17, 2018\nAbout 20 veterans kill themselves every day in the U.S. The VA says the annual veteran suicide rate in California is around 39 per 100,000 people. That\u2019s significantly higher than the suicide rate for the state population as a whole: 14 per 100,000.\nSince taking the top job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary David Shulkin has pledged to bring the number of veteran suicides down.\nPresident Trump helped boost this effort with an executive order signed last week. It guarantees one year of mental healthcare to all troops separating from the military.\nAt the White House signing ceremony, Shulkin said 60 percent of new veterans currently don\u2019t qualify for mental health care at the VA, and the first year of transition into civilian life is critical.\n\u201cThat 12 month period after you leave service is the highest risk for suicide,\u201d Shulkin said. \u201cAlmost 1\u00bd to 2 times higher risk in that first 12 months when you leave the service.\u201d\nThe President\u2019s order directs the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, and Homeland Security to put together an action plan within 60 days to implement the new policy. The VA is expected to begin providing mental health treatment and suicide prevention services to all newly separated servicemembers on March 9th.\nThe VA said in a statement the services will include a peer support call center run by the Department of Defense and the expansion of resources from the Military One Source program, normally reserved for active duty members, to newly separated veterans.\nThere are also plans to expand the VA\u2019s Whole Health initiative, which creates a personalized health plan for patients including \u201cthe physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and environmental elements that work together to provide the best quality of life for each Veteran.\u201d\nThere are currently 18 Whole Health Flagship facilities, including the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System. A spokesman told KPCC their programs include mindfulness, acupuncture, yoga and tai chi, and they are the only facility in the nation implementing a practice called \u201cMindful Self-Compassion.\u201d\nThe Los Angeles VA spokesman added: \u201cOver the past year we have hired 23 additional providers in mental health across our catchment area. We have developed a system for same day access for mental health across all sites and have increased telemental health to improve access to Veterans.\u201d\nLocal service providers worry the VA already faces steep challenges connecting veterans to care. First: how to pay for it.\n\u201cThis doesn\u2019t talk about funding. It talks about coming up with a plan,\u201d said Steve Peck, CEO of the Los Angeles-based housing and services nonprofit U.S.VETS. \u201cI\u2019m hoping they will devote more money to this, because there is a tremendous need.\u201d\nPeck said there are major obstacles to expanding the VA\u2019s mental health reach, including the stigma among military members against admitting they need help. There\u2019s also an ongoing struggle to improve the patient experience at the VA. The agency\u2019s reputation has taken a hit due to recent scandals involving long wait times and falsifying records.\n\u201cEven though they do provide some terrific services, the reputation is that it\u2019s bureaucratic and there are long wait times,\u201d Peck said. \u201cA lot of veterans don\u2019t want to go to the VA.\u201d\nPeck said he hopes the VA partners with community organizations who have a broader reach connecting with local veterans.\n\u201cI always think it\u2019s a mistake for the VA to say, \u2018we are going to handle the problem by ourselves,\u2019\u201d Peck said.\nPeck said he would also like to see the VA focus on working with the Department of Defense to connect with troops in the six months before they separate from the military, as well as finding a way to maintain that contact for years after service. This would allow for a smoother access to health records, especially for those veterans who have experienced combat and may face challenges related to PTSD or other conditions.\n\u201cA lot of the homeless veterans that we deal with don\u2019t become homeless for several years,\u201d Peck said. \u201cSo this has to be part of a larger plan that maintains contact with these veterans for several years after they transition.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seisakukikaku.metro.tokyo.jp/en/diplomacy/city-to-city-diplomacy/message.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:I32VGVEYLWOGGKZ5JCM5HANXIKX3IXAI", "length": 1041, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.seisakukikaku.metro.tokyo.jp", "title": "Messages From the Governor|City-to-City Diplomacy|Tokyo's City Diplomacy|Office of the Governor for Policy Planning -Tokyo Metropolitan Government-", "raw_content": "TOP > Tokyo's City Diplomacy > City-to-City Diplomacy\nMessage of Condolence Following the Terrorist Attack in New York City\nThe Honorable Bill de Blasio\nDear Mayor de Blasio,\nI was deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news from New York City. Such acts of terrorism are impermissible.\nAs the leader of Tokyo, a sister city of New York, and on behalf of the citizens of Tokyo, I pray for all the victims and express my sincere condolences to their families. Tokyo stands with New York City. Yours sincerely,\nGovernor of Tokyo\nMessage of Condolence Following the Terrorist Attack in London\nThe Honorable Sadiq Khan\nI was deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic terrorist attack at the popular London Bridge and Borough Market, which came just a few months after the Westminster attack in March. Such acts of terrorism are impermissible.\nAs the leader of Tokyo, a friendship city of London, and on behalf of the citizens of Tokyo, I pray for all the victims and express my sincere condolences to their families. Tokyo stands with London.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/San-Francisco-s-famous-fog-3226232.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LQCPVBXGAUTZJKKT4P47ANHUOK2P75YK", "length": 6733, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.sfgate.com", "title": "San Francisco's famous fog - SFGate", "raw_content": "https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/San-Francisco-s-famous-fog-3226232.php\nSan Francisco's famous fog\nIt's part of the magic and beauty of San Francisco, permeating all avenues of life - and we should expect even more of it in the future\nThe sun rose through a thin bank of fog resting near the top of the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge.\nIconic as the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's world-famous fog is both predictable and unpredictable - one of the ethereal pillars of the city's myth and beauty.\nIn his 1949 book, \"Baghdad-by-the-Bay,\" Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in the \"This is San Francisco\" chapter: \"Newly formed whitish fog filtering through the harp strings of the Golden Gate Bridge and then puffing out its chest as though pleased with its dramatic entrance; but the only applause is the quiet lapping of the waves as they disappear under the silent mass.\"\nPerhaps no place on earth is more associated with fog than this city, where the sometimes modest, sometimes overpowering weather phenomenon affects all parts of life, whether it's our arts, transportation, homes, even our general disposition.\nNow, as fog season drifts into high summer gear and scientists predict even more fog in the future, fog remains as elusive, yet romantic, as ever.\nSan Francisco poet August Kleinzahler, who has written many poems about the fog, believes the sterling-gray weather is part of what makes San Francisco a city of individualists, where residents burrow in and spend years without getting to know their neighbors.\n\"I never tire of the fog,\" says Kleinzahler, who lives above the Haight. \"I find it consoling, like the rain. It is another layer between me and the world. The light is softer. Sounds are muffled. It pushes one inward.\"\nArthur Ollman, an award- winning photographer who lived in San Francisco for a decade beginning in 1974, said: \"At night, the fog would take whatever colored light there was and scatter it around. \"When I was shooting at the beach during the day, the fog would reduce the tonal range, erasing the distinction between water and sky. The fog is an obstacle for a lot of people. But for me, visually, I'm drawn to what I can't see.\"\nIngram Marshall, a contemporary composer whose signature piece is \"Fog Tropes,\" said he \"heard things differently when the fog rolled in.\"\n\"The fog obviously doesn't make any sound itself, but it creates an acoustical environment,\" said Marshall, who recorded the mournful sounds of foghorns for his piece. \"Foghorns have this deep, resonant sound.\"\nDiverse like San Francisco itself, the fog can arrive - without warning - in pale wisps or dark waves, rolling over the hills of Marin or boiling through the Golden Gate. But as murky and chameleon-like as fog is, it is nothing more than a cloud in contact with land or sea. Fog forms over the bay when warm air is cooled by the waters of the Pacific.\nTwo main types of fog call San Francisco home, though their arrival and departure are very difficult to forecast, because it doesn't take much to change fog.\nAdvection fog comes out in the summer and pours over the chaparral hills of Marin and through the ruddy cables of the Golden Gate Bridge. This fog is reminiscent of the poet Carl Sandberg's famous lines: \"The fog comes in on little cat's feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.\"\nConvection fog, also called tule fog, comes out in the winter, is low-lying, reduces visibility and produces drizzle. Columnist Caen described the effect: \"When the city is all covered with fog, it's like living inside a great gray pearl.\"\nTo others, the fog can linger like an unwanted houseguest.\nSan Francisco writer Herb Gold said his late wife became depressed by the fog. \"June, July and August are foggy here, and I know a lot of people who get depressed,\" Gold said. \"When fog came in, I'd tell my wife, 'They're playing our weather.' \"\nBesides being depressing to some, fog can be dangerous - putting pilots and mariners in peril.\nThere were at least 58 plane crashes between 1941 and 1945 in Marin County alone, most weather- and fog-related, said Matt Cerkel, a Mount Tamalpais park ranger who is researching the crashes. \"A lot of pilots wouldn't see the Marin Headlands until it was too late.\"\nThe fog has also contributed to Bay Area boating disasters, including the 1971 collision of two Chevron oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge, causing a huge oil spill, and the November 2007 incident involving the Cosco Busan piling into the western tower of the Bay Bridge.\nCapt. Patrick Maloney, executive director of the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisan, said, \"Nobody likes running blind in the fog, with your face stuck to radar. ... But I've been out on ships where the crew asked the captain to stop so they can get their cameras to take a picture of the fog pouring over the Marin Headlands. You just don't see that anywhere else in the world.\"\nEven Rick Hurt, a former sea captain who is now vice president of the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association, cannot deny the beauty of fog, even if it's a pain when you're on the water. \"Fog,\" he said, \"is like moving art.\"\nPerhaps one of the most important endorsements comes from Mike Pechner, a meteorologist in the Bay Area for more than 40 years: \"Fog is a natural air conditioner, and it makes San Francisco one of the most comfortable cities in the world to live in. It also makes the city very romantic. I'm a fan of the fog.\"\nFamous fog lyrics: \"When that foghorn blows, I will be coming home. And when that foghorn blows I want to hear it. I don't have to fear it\" - from \"Into the Mystic,\" by Van Morrison.\nSan Francisco fog in literature: From \"On the Road: The Original Scroll,\" by\nJack Kerouac, 1957:\n\"I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco, long bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness.\"\nLocal observers say: \"In San Francisco's Sunset District, you know it is truly summer fog when the St. Ignatius boys are walking around in two T-shirts.\"\nLost in the Fog was one of Northern California's most famous race horses, winning 10 straight starts and a 2005 Eclipse Award before being euthanized the following year due to cancer.\n6 types: Listed above are the National Weather Service's six main types of fog. San Francisco's fog is mainly advection fog, which forms when warm moist air moves over a cold surface.\nTwo places often claim to be the foggiest in the United States. Not surprising, they are both on the Pacific Coast.\nCape Disappointment, Wash.\nFOG WEEK\nToday: Our fabled fog\nTuesday: Foggy ZIP codes\nWednesday: Fog home colors\nThursday: Fog food\nFriday: Fog in the arts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 356, "original_length": 14497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/the-strangest-and-most-unusual-ufo-sightings-in-yorkshire-1-9100205", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7INPX5TAADTPTC6C2CKAGSHIQJVNDUBZ", "length": 4871, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk", "title": "The strangest and most unusual UFO sightings in Yorkshire - Sheffield Telegraph", "raw_content": "Numerous places around the UK have had multiple UFO sightings over the past few years and with Yorkshire seeing more and more apparent sightings, it now believed that Yorkshire is the top place in the country to see UFOs.\nThe white rose county has made over 840 reports since 2008, making it one of the top places to see one of the unidentified flying objects.\nThere have been many reported UFO sightings in Yorkshire over the past 70 years\nThere have been many sightings of UFOs in Yorkshire, especially from the middle of the 20th century onwards, but which of these were the most renowned sightings?\nBritish Meteor aircraft encountered a UFO near Topcliffe, 1952\nOn September 19, 1952, at around 11 am, it is believed that a silver disc-shaped object followed a Gloster Meteor which was returning to RAF Topcliffe. Observers on the ground stated that it rotated whilst hovering, before travelling in a westerly direction and a very high speed.\nThis sighting is now associated with \u2018Operation Mainbrace\u2019, which was a large scale naval operation which attracted the attention of multiple UFOs, the one being seen at Topcliffe being just one of many UFO sightings from September 14-25.\nYorkshire is the top place in the UK for UFO sightings\nA UFO was found on Silpho Moor, Scarborough, 1957\nIn 1957, it was reported that a small \u2018copper-bottomed flying saucer\u2019, believed to be around 18 inches, was found on Silpho Moor, near Scarborough.\nThis evidence being part of a UFO was widely controversial and disputed, with many believing the copper parts originated from earth.\nHowever, these mysterious findings, which reports suggested contained thin copper sheets which were engraved with hieroglyphics, sparked wide intrigue.\nThese shards were recently found in the Science Museum archives and were then re-examined after archivists were told of their past significance.\nAliens abducted a police offer in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, 1980\nOn November, 1980 at approximately 5 am, Alan Godfrey, a then on-duty police officer, claims that he was abducted by an alien spacecraft.\nThe incident is said to have taken place in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, where a strange brightly-lit object was said to have been spotted by other police officers around the same area at the same time.\nMr Godfrey was on patrol in Todmorden when he saw what he believes to have been a large UFO whilst he was out searching for missing cattle.\nHe reported this incident to senior officers after he lost time due to this believed abduction by aliens and 38 years later, Mr Godfrey insists more than ever that this abduction took place.\nMilitary scoured Wilsthorpe beach after multiple UFO sightings, East Yorkshire, 2009\nAfter a large number of witnesses reported seeing strange lights, odd-shaped aircrafts, a UFO entering the sea and the appearance of a UFO which caused cars to grind to a halt.\nThis mixture of bizarre events took place along a 25-mile stretch of both the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast between May and September 2009.\nThis resulted in two Chinook helicopters made up of RAF personnel landing at Wilsthorpe beach, East Yorkshire, on September 15 2009.\nIt was said the military men had what looked like metal detectors, which they were sweeping up and down beach.\"\nThe mysterious military activity associated to these apparent UFO sightings branded this event as Britain's new Roswell, Roswell being a highly controversial UFO case said to have taken place in America in 1947.\nMultiple UFO sightings in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, 2002-2017\nOver the past decade and a half, the West Yorkshire town of Rothwell has seen an increase in reported UFO sightings.\nOn December 16 2002, a variety of objects were spotted in the sky, this consisting of large, long and thinly shaped objects which joined together and soared through the sky.\nOne of the most recent sightings was on January 9 2017 when a dog walker spotted a group of white lights which had three red lights attached, with the aircraft moving slowly from north east to south east.\nA police officer witnessed a UFO in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, 2016\nIn 2016, a retired police officer claims he saw a UFO over Holmfirth, West Yorkshire after he reportedly saw a triangular-shaped aircraft which glowed bright green in the dark, night sky.\nThe man took a closer look through binoculars, before reporting it to a Scholes-based UFO investigator, who then went and filmed what he also believed to be the same UFO.\nStargazers saw a UFO in the Yorkshire Dales, 2017\nThe most recent well-known UFO sighting in Yorkshire was in September 2017. Two young stargazers saw a strange-looking orange object which moved around the sky for over two hours.\nThis event took place near the Ribblehead railway viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales, with the Yorkshire Dales being a place which has had numerous UFO sightings during the past decade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shopify.com/guides/new-zealand/global-digital-marketplace", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGIZVMEDYGX25EC3N2D4D2TGSAF32QZN", "length": 338, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.shopify.com", "title": "Online Business Law & Regulations - New Zealand Ecommerce Legal Guide", "raw_content": "New Zealand Legal Guide\nEcommerce Legal Guide: New Zealand\nWe want to make you aware of all the important implications that come with conducting business online so you can prepare yourself and carry out all the necessary steps to ensure everything you're doing meets the legal requirements for an online business operating in New Zealand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shorefriends.org/new-events/2018/10/1/wrigley-association-community-meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:MSYXU4H3ZDJBRIEHWEKSFATHYBDAW6DO", "length": 244, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.shorefriends.org", "title": "Wrigley Association Community Meeting \u2014 Friends of Belmont Shore", "raw_content": "This is an opportunity to hear from a representative of LBPD and councilmembers for districts 6 and 7. This meeting will also focus on the ballot measures for the upcoming election on 11/7/18. 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The theme was \"Big Data\" and how these companies were using data to build their businesses.\nIt was a varied and interesting collection of startups. Here are some of my notes:\n- George John from Rocket Fuel talked about the digital advertising business and how data mining is helping to improve results for advertisers. The company applies a wide variety of behavioral, contextual and other measures to improve advertising results.\nThe company uses various techniques to serve the right ad to the right person and to make those decisions in milliseconds -- a tough job especially when you have to query multiple, very massive databases.\n- Steve Adams from VirtuOZ, provides a virtual agent that is used to provide support to a client's customers by leveraging advanced computer linguistics. He said that the virtual agents are so good that people sometimes ask them out on a date even though it's clearly labelled that they are conversing with a software program.\nThat's a new form of Turing Test I hadn't considered: instead of trying to emulate a human, computers are able to emulate a dateable human! Maybe Match.com should offer a virtual partner to its customers to practice real life encounters.\n- Faye Pairman, from Panasas was very impressive. It provides storage for high performance data intensive applications. Files sizes run into the terabytes just for one file. Customers are dealing with massive amounts of data, such as those in oil, and life sciences.\n- Rob Bernshteyn, spoke about Coupa, which helps companies save money on many of their business operating expenses, such as buying shelving, or sourcing local goods. It's a competitor to Ariba. The company compares similar businesses and develops a set of best sourcing practices that can add up to substantial savings.\n- Andrew Dreskin, from Ticketfly, is trying to take on Ticketmaster. I wish him and his team all the luck they need, I hate Ticketmaster -- the most reviled brand in the US. But it's a tough job because Ticketmaster pays huge amounts of money to key venues to handle their ticketing. This acts as a formidable barrier to competition.\n[Please see: My Ticketmaster Mugging... 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A [\u2026]\nBlog Series \u2013 Philadelphia Social Security Disability Attorneys Speak about Threats to Successful Claims: Illegal Use of Drugs and Alcohol - September 7, 2012\nIf you are applying for Social Security Disability benefits and do not want to risk losing the benefits to which you are entitled, you should avoid using illegal drugs and alcohol. If the use of illegal drugs and alcohol is a major factor causing your disability, Social Security laws can prevent you from receiving benefits. [\u2026]\nPhiladelphia Social Security Disability Attorneys: One Disability Claim with Many Difficulties to Overcome - September 7, 2012\nYou might think that the Social Security Disability claims process simply involves filling out paperwork \u2013 lots and lots of paperwork, waiting for it to move through the system, and collecting your check. We\u2019ve come to expect that dealing with a governmental agency is a tedious process, but we tend to believe that eventually we\u2019ll receive [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sittercity.com/nanny/ct/hartford?page=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5WLZR4KBDNRCBSEQMYOAM5KFZOPLIKV4", "length": 2927, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.sittercity.com", "title": "Find a Nanny in Hartford, CT - Hartford Nannies - Sittercity", "raw_content": "Find a Nanny in Hartford, CT\nHome Nanny Nannies in Hartford, CT\nConnect with the best nannies in Hartford\u2014today!\ni have been a nanny for the past 27 years to present. I am currently employed with a family of 5. Three beautiful little girls.Twins ages 5 soon to be 6 and an older sister 9 soon to be 10....\nHello, I have been working with children for 19 years. During this time, my goal in childcare is to make sure the kids are being active and enjoying themselves in a safe environment. In the past...\nI am a child friendly person very naturing and at the same time fully in charge of an house-hold. I am creative active and very mature. I am looking to become part of a great family to help in the...\nJaquana B.\nI am a recent college graduate. I have a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the University of Connecticut. My experience with children...\nHi there! I'm Melody, i'm a college student in the area. I will be in the Hartford area for most of the summer and am looking for a nannying job! I have many years of childcare experience and I...\nHello, how are ya? My name is Destiny, I\u2019m 19 years old and I\u2019m currently a student attending Manchester Community College for Speech Language Pathology. I\u2019m going to be completely honest with you,...\nHi, my name is Rachel. I graduated with my degree in Psychology in 2016. I am very passionate about working with children and have been babysitting for over ten years. I also work part-time as a...\nHi. I have over 14 years of childcare experience. Most of my experience has been working in childcare centers where I have worked with every age infants through school-age. I love all ages of...\nHi my name is Tara Kearney! I am 23 years old and have just recently obtained my bachelors in Health Studies from Bay Path University. I have also completed a year of graduate classes in occupational...\nYamilex G.\nHello, I am 18 years old and I have 2-3 years of experience with babysitting. I enjoy being around children and I enjoy being a good role model towards them. I also like to be able to teach them basic...\nI have a very outgoing personality. I like being loud and crazy. My hobbies include reading, fishing (salt and fresh water), taking random trips and getting lost, and watching reality shows. ...\nI have worked in a childcare setting for the past year and a half. I worked as an infant teacher and was responsible for changing diapers, feeding food, and giving bottles. I am CPR/First Aid...\nKristilyn C.\nHi I'm Kristi! I have been caring for children for about 7 years. I have experience with newborns through age 13. I am very responsible and caring and especially love caring for babies! I am very neat...\nLooking for a career change. I love kids and worked as a nanny in college. I have a lot to offer...I cook and bake, I am multi-lingual, love to travel and can easily adapt to new cultures and...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 10840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skinhealthalliance.org/news/miiskin-offers-free-patients-leaflets-use-dermatology-clinics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QAMKABEEH57VD3BXUE3UNZF6DEKQPJOC", "length": 1402, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.skinhealthalliance.org", "title": "Miiskin offers free patient\u2019s leaflets for use by Dermatology clinics \u2022 Skin Health Alliance", "raw_content": "Miiskin, the leading skin checking app, is delighted to offer free patient educational leaflets to any dermatology clinic who might find them useful for their patients. Miiskin became the first app to receive independent dermatological accreditation from the Skin Health Alliance in 2018.\nSkin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the UK, and rates continue to rise. At least 100,000 new cases are now diagnosed each year, and the disease kills over 2,500 people each year in the UK \u2013 that\u2019s seven people every day. Early detection is the best defence against skin cancer, and regularly checking your skin for changes is recommended.\nThe helpful leaflet, which can be requested from https://miiskin.com/doctors/ or by emailing doctors@miiskin.com , advises patients about keeping track of changes to their skin and moles, signs to look out for in moles and how to protect themselves in the sun.\nProf Chris Bunker, former president of the British Association of Dermatologists and Consultant Dermatologist at University College London Hospital said: \u201cIt\u2019s important to stay vigilant in paying attention to changes in moles and marks on your skin. People should regularly examine their skin to track any changes, use photos to keep records of the skin\u2019s appearance and show these photos to their doctor if worrying changes are seen. Miiskin offers a sensible solution to facilitate this approach.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skinhealthalliance.org/news/skin-health-alliance-sponsors-the-ocean-brothers-atlantic-row-fundraiser/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KUTKW26OTRQNWZX3P22XTKMDYW26UPBE", "length": 2004, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.skinhealthalliance.org", "title": "Skin Health Alliance sponsors the Ocean Brothers Atlantic row fundraiser \u2022 Skin Health Alliance", "raw_content": "Skin Health Alliance have committed \u00a315,000 to sponsoring a mammoth fundraising challenge taking place in January 2018. Ocean Brothers Greg Bailey (26) & Jude Massey (18) are rowing the Atlantic Ocean to raise funds for the British Skin Foundation in memory of their father Peter Massey.\nSadly, Peter passed away in August 2015 after an arduous 16 year battle with skin cancer. One year on, the brothers made a decision to cross the second largest ocean in the world to raise as much money as possible for research into the disease.\nJames Stalley, Skin Health Alliance Business Manager said:\n\u201cWe are proud to support Greg and Jude with this amazing challenge. As a not-for-profit organisation the Skin Health Alliance is committed to donating surplus income to skin charities. By helping the Ocean Brothers we are not only reaffirming our commitment to supporting good causes but also investing in their dedication, determination and courage by using our donation to raise even more money for the British Skin Foundation.\u201d\nGreg and Jude added:\n\u201cThe Ocean Brothers are incredibly proud to announce the Skin Health Alliance as our first Gold Sponsor. The Skin Health Alliance\u2019s kind generosity will go a long way towards supporting a cause that both Jude and I hold so dear to our hearts. We feel that the Skin Health Alliance is a perfect sponsor as they too are committed to supporting skin disease charities such as the British Skin Foundation.\u201d\nThe 3,000 mile trip from Gran Canaria to Barbados should take approximately eight weeks and will be a test of both physical and psychological strength. To add some perspective, only 317 crews have successfully crossed the Atlantic, with 153 unsuccessful crews and six crews who died attempting the challenge. Some 536 individuals have been into space and over 5,500 have climbed Mount Everest. Conditions on the boat will be basic, relying on solar panels to power a water maker for both vital drinking water and fresh water to rehydrate freeze-dried meals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.snel.com/blog/efficient-planning-important-in-keeping-data-safe/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:53YPHBZIH5DODCA7Q4KDI5IZ2PK7TFES", "length": 2314, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.snel.com", "title": "Efficient planning important in keeping data safe | Snel.com", "raw_content": "Home > Blog > Efficient planning important in keeping data safe\nEfficient planning important in keeping data safe\nIT departments planning an overhaul of their web servers and data centers will need to plan the changes efficiently if they are to reduce the risk of a cyber attack striking the company. Businesses are increasingly concerned about the risks involved in becoming a victim of cybercrime, but there are a range of measures they can take to ensure they are protected.\nLarge scale responses have to be planned out in great detail so that in the event of an attack, mechanisms are in place to reduce the damage caused by the incident. Knowledge of procedures and information flows must be spread from the IT department throughout a firm, as this is crucial for fast and effective response to cybercrime.\nOther factors involved in providing a level of protection against cyber attacks include up-to-date technical infrastructures, while tools are also critical for effective cooperation. These processes also have to be well-publicised, according to the findings of the recent Cyber Europe 2012 report, which is the largest ever pan-Europe cyber security exercise.\nSome 339 organisations took part in the drafting of the report, totalling 571 individual players being exposed to thousands of incidents. The discoveries made in the research can lead to lessons being learned for companies that have been made victims of cybercrime in the past.\u201dPublic\u2013private cooperation structures differ among countries\u201d, the study noted, observing that a lack of consistency between public and private approaches to data protection on the national level sometimes resulting in additional difficulties.\nIt added challenges in crisis management decision making were faced by countries, while scalability of operational procedures was also found to be a problem because of the large number of nations taking part. One thing that may help cut the risk of cybercrime in the future is more pan-European and national cyber exercises, as these were noted to be necessary to improve cross-country cyber crisis cooperation.\nSecuring data centers and backing up vital information can play a key role in protecting companies from cybercrime, as these steps can ensure that losses sustained during such an attack are kept to a minimum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.soccerpro.com/thecentercircle/world-cup-day-eight-suarez-strikes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2I7UVHDIWRBLIVE6UNKDBKR7OYRZ5YXB", "length": 6823, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.soccerpro.com", "title": "World Cup Day EIGHT: Suarez Strikes - The Center Circle - A SoccerPro Soccer Fan Blog", "raw_content": "World Cup Day EIGHT: Suarez Strikes\nImage: Action Images\nIn match day eight, several teams needed to find their winning way in order to avoid being sent packing early from Brazil. Colombia and the Ivory Coast would be looking to stand on top of the table after their match, England and Uruguay would need a win in order to avoid being put in a very difficult situation within their group, and Greece and Japan would be hoping to sneak back into the competition for their group. Who would steal the headlines for today and would any of these teams have to walk off the field knowing that their journey is over?\nColombia vs Ivory Coast\nIn a match where the leader for Group C would be decided (this tournament has truly spoiled us in terms of expecting an outright winner instead of a draw), Colombia and the Ivory Coast got the day started. In the opening stages, the Ivory Coast would dominate possession with Colombia attempting to score on the counter. However, the opening exchanges would result in very few clear-cut chances\u2026that is, until the 28th minute\u2026when Gutierrez would spurn one of the easiest chances of the tournament as he was given the ball on a plate\u2026perhaps the Colombian was paying tribute to Fernando Torres\u2026? There would be the occasional flash of opportunity for both teams, but neither seemed to be able to get on top in this contest.\nThe second half would look amazingly open, with the only true question being which team would score first. Defensive openings and clumsy fouls would become ever-present in the second half, with neither side able to grab hold of this game. Still, if you provide a team with enough chances, they will eventually score, as Colombia did in the 64th minute from a cannon-blast of a header from Rodriguez. As Drogba had entered into the game a few minutes prior, could Ivory Coast find a response? The opening goal had completely opened this game up, but the next goal would come from Colombia in the 70th minute Quintero finished off a counter to take control of the game and the group. While Gervinho would duck and weave his way into the box to take the score to 2-1 in the 74th (all the while having Arsenal fans go \u201cWhere was that!?!?\u201d), the Ivory Coast will not feel completely out of contention as a victory in their last game could still propel them to the knockout rounds.\n\u201cSuarez starting\u201d was the biggest order of the day for this match. While everyone wondered how big of an impact the Liverpool star would have, it seemed obvious that Uruguay (as a whole) were more confident with their number 9 on the pitch. The opening chances for England came from dead-ball situations, but the keepers for both sides seemed unprepared for the occasion as both showed a few questionable decisions early on. England certainly felt the more likely to score, but both squads looked unable to find an adequate attack. It has to be said, that for the first 30 minutes, there was never a very dangerous shot on target from either team (though, Diego Godin did flirt with a second yellow card\u2026). Then, on almost the stroke of 30 minutes, Wayne Rooney continued to be found wanting at World Cups as he missed a point blank header to put his squad ahead. Then, after 38 minutes, Luis Suarez (who else?) scored a goal to put Uruguay 1-0 up. A nice cross from Cavani that Suarez placed just beyond Joe Hart\u2019s outstretched hand. While England would press hard for an equalizer in the remainder of the half, the intermission would come with Uruguay on top.\nGIF: Mashable.com\nThe second half would begin with Uruguay attempting to go up 2-0 instead of looking like England could level the match. Suarez may have lost some speed after his surgery, but his class and talent were starting to shine through. However, Uruguay just could not find a finish to nearly constant pressure\u2026and England looked like they were still in the locker room from halftime. And, of course, Wayne Rooney would add to the drama with the keeper at his mercy in the 52nd minute as he smashed the ball into Muslera. However, in the 60th minute, Pereira set Twitter alight by going down with an obvious concussion and then (almost immediately) returning back to the pitch\u2026just ask Taylor Twellman, and he will tell you that this is an issue that needs to be discussed at the highest level of FIFA. Still, England pressed for their equalizer and much needed relief, making it unbelievably fitting as Wayne Rooney would provide the crucial tying goal in the 75th minute. The relief would only be short-lived, as Suarez would pop up with the soul-crushing winner in the 85th minute to put England in a horrible position. Who will survive the group and who will perish? The pressure piles on\u2026\nGreece vs Japan\nIn the last game of the day, both Japan and Greece would be aware that a win could see them in perfect position to progress, while a loss would (effectively) knock them out of the tournament. While Japan would start the brighter of the two, Greece would begin to grow into this fixture in order to provide a decent ending to the day. Lots of tackles, lots of free-kicks, and very few shots that actually looked very dangerous\u2026such was the order of the first 37 minutes. Then, two yellows for the Greek captain would send the Greek side down to 10 men and create more intrigue in this fixture. Sadly, Japan would not be able to take advantage as the first half would come to a close\u2026a victor would have to be found in the second 45\u2026\nWhile ten men should have been a good prospect for Japan, their final ball always seemed to be poor and Greece refused to allow Japan to break them down. Surprisingly, it almost seemed more likely that Greece would snag the first goal of this fixture. For Japan, however, every attack seemed to culminate into an extremely poor final ball that would allow Greece to keep the score at 0-0. Although the Greek defense was formidable and should be praised for getting a point after going down to ten men, it really feels like Japan wasted the opportunity in a very promising situation. Poor from Japan, but lots of pressure piled on the last group game.\nThe suffering for England may have already begun in this young tournament. While some may point to Steven Gerrard\u2019s header late in the game, the Liverpool skipper had performed well in the tournament to this point and England fans would do well to remember that he should not bear the sole blame for their performance. For the members of Group C, they would have all felt extremely capable of qualifying when the groups were originally made. Now, only Colombia will be sure of their continued presence in Brazil. Who will be the non-Colombia team to qualify? And how much worse can it get for England?\nTags: colombia, drogba, england, gerrard, gervinho, greece, group c, ivory coast, japan, rooney, suarez, uruguay, world cup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 8739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sockscap64.com/tag/ronin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KRHO24FRIHQ36YJXDAWWBQDNQPVCKIWI", "length": 1908, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sockscap64.com", "title": "ronin Archives - SocksCap64", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \u2018ronin\u2019\nLost Ronin\nLost Ronin captures the struggle and journey of a Young Samurai; a musical platformer. Lost Ronin is designed to give you an intense and memorable experience. The game has 18 Handcrafted levels grouped into six worlds. Each world brings new gameplay [...]\nKonnichi Wa! The Time: 17th Century. The Place: Feudal Japan. The Conflict: The land is rife with civil war as the great warlords of Japan battle with each other for control of the Shogunate, and control of Japan itself. The Hero: Usagi Yojimbo is the [...]\nClaim your destiny as a proud warrior and honor your ancestors in Soul of the Samurai for Sony\u2019s PlayStation. It\u2019s the end of the Edo Period in Old Japan and forces are plotting against the Shogunate. The most powerful of the Shogun\u2019s [...]\nSengoku is a deep character driven strategy game set in 16th century Japan. Play as a Japanese nobleman and unite the land of the Rising Sun under your iron fist. Use your military might, your smooth talking tongue, and your guile to increase your power. [...]\nTale of Ronin\nTale of Ronin A game about the human side of the Samurai. Live as a Ronin, survive the consequences of your choices in a dynamic world of turmoil and violence. Tale of Ronin\nIn a vast and fertile land lies a small town known as Etria, a peaceful village that became famous for a startling discovery. A crack in the vast forest opened at Etria\u2019s edge, leading downward like a gaping maw. It all began there\u2026 Your [...]\nTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Legends is a mobile action/RPG based on the 2012 TMNT animated series, which allows players to unlock and play as over 30 characters from the show.\nMove like a shadow. Strike like a snake. After amassing an army of ninjas and lords of darkness, the mysterious Tenrai has begun a quest to conquer 16th-century Japan. Now your master, Lord Gohda, has called upon you \u2013 a cunning stealth assassin [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sonicboomrecords.com/blog/2018/11/24/gift-guides-indie-department", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IET7IWTZTVWDCWSHZLWDTXNN32CXKZZR", "length": 457, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sonicboomrecords.com", "title": "Gift Guides: Indie Department \u2014 Sonic Boom Records", "raw_content": "Perhaps it\u2019s the realms of Indie-Rock that our store first made it\u2019s name, from some of our biggest name instores to the locals we\u2019ve worked closely with over the years. It\u2019s a genre certainly well represented in our best-sellers week after week. We\u2019d like to think we know a thing or two about what\u2019s good. Here\u2019s some tips for what might please the indie-rocker in your life if you\u2019re trying to put a record under the tree!\nOlder PostBest of 2018: Mike S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 192.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southbaybyjackie.com/roundhouse-marine-studies-lab-and-aquarium/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RBFK7LLINLJ2JVR34ZSVQZSK7FYOQEUL", "length": 1295, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.southbaybyjackie.com", "title": "Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab & Aquarium | South Bay by Jackie", "raw_content": "Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab & Aquarium\nThe Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium is ideally located at the end of the Manhattan Beach Pier.\nOpen daily to the public free of charge, the Roundhouse is dedicated to teaching students and visitors about the oceans, marine life and the environment.\nThey offer a variety of programs including class field trips, volunteer opportunities, summer camps and more. Group tours are also available by reservation.\nThe aquarium is open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. until sunset and Monday through Friday 3 p.m. to sunset.\nWhen visiting the Roundhouse, a donation of $2 per person or $5 per family is suggested.\nThe Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium is a non-profit organization committed to fostering and promoting the public study of, and interest in, the oceans, tidelands and beaches of Southern California, the marine life therein, and the impact of human population on that environment.\nThe Roundhouse Aquarium is located at the end of the Manhattan Beach Pier at the western end of Manhattan Beach Boulevard in Manhattan Beach.\nFor more information, visit the website at http://www.roundhouseaquarium.org/index.html or call 310-379-8117.\n\u2190 May 11, 2012 \u2013 The South Bay Show\nMay 12, 2012 \u2013 Manhattan Beach Police & Fire Open House \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 103.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southlakebeer.com/events/2018/12/14/live-music-by-ross-robinson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MKAIQBAQOC7LO7H4FW42XWZZWTV3RKJF", "length": 264, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.southlakebeer.com", "title": "Live Music by Ross Robinson \u2014", "raw_content": "Live Music by Ross Robinson\nRoss Robinson will be performing in the tasting room on Friday, December 14th, from 6PM-9PM.\nThe Oven will be our food vendor on-site for the night. Don\u2019t miss out on their delicious wood-fired food. Your tastebuds will be thanking you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southshoebury.org/about-us/exploring/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LGK6UM2FHFFL3EV3ZWAGUJNRD3A4RFUK", "length": 1200, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.southshoebury.org", "title": "St Andrew with St Peter, South Shoebury - Exploring", "raw_content": "Exploring what it means to be a follower of Jesus.\nIf you are new to faith or are exploring what it means to be a Christian, please speak to Louise our Rector (01702 292778 or via email here). She would be delighted to talk further about this with you.\nGroups are run throughout the year that explore the very basics of Christian faith.\nFor some of us, it\u2019s about debunking the myths. For others, it\u2019s about realising, maybe for the first time, that being a follower of Christ isn\u2019t having a long list of things we believe or don\u2019t believe, but it's more about having a real relationship with God through Jesus, who died on the cross so we can be forgiven and rose from the dead so we can have life in all its fullness.\nWe often run a Pilgrim Course for those wishing to know more about what it means to be a Christian.\nThe Pilgrim courses are very informal and usually have a small group of people drawn from both within our congregations and from the wider Shoeburyness area who simply want to know more about what it means to be a Christian in the 21st Century.\nWe would be pleased to see you but please could you contact Revd Louise Williams (01702 292778) to find out when the course is running.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 153.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/trouble-brewing-in-hong-kong-24292/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OUWQ32LERJM2U6ABCG4M4675GFPKK7EO", "length": 4723, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.sovereignman.com", "title": "Trouble brewing in Hong Kong | Sovereign Man", "raw_content": "Trouble brewing in Hong Kong\nHong Kong has for decades been one of the most stable places in the world.\nWhen the British took Hong Kong over in the late 1800s, it was nothing more than an irrelevant backwater made up of fishing villages and illiterate fishermen.\nBut after a few decades, it became one of the most prosperous places in the world.\nAnd that wasn\u2019t an accident. Hong Kong allowed unbridled capitalism to dominate and it worked extraordinarily well.\nSure, a handful of people got super wealthy. But, in general, there\u2019s been bountiful prosperity across the board.\nAs a result of the prosperity and bent toward capitalism, Hong Kong has become one of the most important financial centers in the world. And for decades, it\u2019s had a very well capitalized banking system.\nAnd one of the key reasons for that is the Hong Kong dollar (HKD) has been pegged to the US dollar (USD) since the early 1980\u2019s.\nThe peg is a double-edged sword for Hong Kong.\nThe key advantage is international stability. As long as the USD remains the global reserve currency, the fact that it\u2019s interchangeable with HKD means economic stability.\nThe disadvantage is that the peg doesn\u2019t give Hong Kong any independence. They have to follow US interest rate policy regardless of whether or not it\u2019s good for them.\nAnd that\u2019s definitely caused problems, which are accelerating this year.\nThe US is just coming off a decade of ultra-low interest rates meant to boost domestic growth. But HK, which wasn\u2019t in a dire, economic situation to begin with, has also had a decade of low rates.\nOne of the results of that is that Hong Kong has become one of the most expensive property markets in the world. It makes London look cheap.\nAnd the property market in Hong Kong is highly leveraged. People typically get bank loans to buy property without putting much money down.\nAnd a lot of those loans are like what we saw in the US in 2008 \u2013 no money down, low teaser rates, variable rate loans, etc\u2026 the type of lax lending that rocked the entire financial system.\nI expect we\u2019ll see a similar, financial crisis in Hong Kong down the road as a result of this lax lending against property.\nAnd now that interest rates are rising in the US, they\u2019re rising in Hong Kong\u2026\nSo the local mortgages will reset at higher rates that people can\u2019t afford. I expect we\u2019ll see a wave of defaults that will slam the banks big time.\nIf that were the only problem in Hong Kong, I wouldn\u2019t be terribly concerned because the banks there are so well capitalized.\nHowever, the ongoing dispute between the US and China adds another risk.\nThe US-imposed sanctions against China are problematic and will force the Chinese to scramble for the dollars they need to engage in international commerce. Even though the dollar isn\u2019t the local currency, China still needs dollars to buy oil, copper and pretty much everything else on the global stage.\nAnd that takes a steady supply of dollars.\nRight now, China gets a lot of USD from the US, because China runs a big surplus with the US. And those dollars fund China\u2019s deficit with its other trading partners.\nIf that dollar supply gets cut off because of a trade dispute, China will need another supply.\nAnd where is there a giant supply of dollar\u2019s available for the Chinese?\nHong Kong is sitting on around half a trillion USD.\nIn a crisis, China could take those dollars and repeg the HKD to the renminbi.\nI\u2019m not saying that\u2019s likely. But it\u2019s more of a possibility now than it has been in the past. And things change.\nStill, I felt compelled to raise this with you as a potential risk \u2013 albeit a somewhat minor one.\nI\u2019ve often discussed holding HKD as a risk-free way to hold USD. If the USD ever tanked, Hong Kong could remove the peg and allow the HKD to float freely.\nBut this new risk changes the situation\u2026\nEnough so that I\u2019m taking my money out of HKD and reducing my exposure to Hong Kong banks.\nI don\u2019t think this will become a major catastrophe or that this HKD scenario is even that likely. But it is riskier than it was.\nIt\u2019s sensible to take some money off the table. The HKD trades in a tight band with the USD and it costs very little to switch in and out.\nAnd you can put that money into 28-day T-bills, which are yielding over 2%.\nIf I had to choose between making 2%+ in T-bills and the potential threat of the HKD being repegged to renminbi, I\u2019m taking T-bills.\nThis week I\u2019m telling Sovereign Man: Confidential readers more about what\u2019s happening with the Hong Kong dollar and what they can do about.\nBut for now, I think it makes sense to take some money out of HKD. It makes sense regardless of what may or may not happen in the future.\nAnd like many things we discuss regarding a Plan B, there\u2019s no downside.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sp-bx.com/electric-car-look-three-types-available-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XWOHIGIUHDDGSAC57TWJATIQUI7LT5PA", "length": 4766, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.sp-bx.com", "title": "What Is An Electric Car? A Look At The Three Types Available Now", "raw_content": "Automotive Environmental\nWhat Is An Electric Car? A Look At The Three Types Available Now\nAugust 30, 2017 driveEV Car, Electric Car, Electric Cars, Hybrid Car, PHEV\ndriveEV\nEditor of driveEV, the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. Delivering EV news, reviews and advice from EV drivers.\nLatest posts by driveEV (see all)\nWhat Is An Electric Car? A Look At The Three Types Available Now - August 30, 2017\nThe word \u201celectrified\u201d has recently come into use by the media and the marketing departments of car makers to describe their latest range of cars, leaving many to assume this means the cars they are describing are electric cars, this isn\u2019t always the case, thus creating much confusion.\nThere are 3 distinct types of electric cars\u2026 here is our guide.\nRenault\u2019s ZOE is one of UK\u2019s best selling\nOften referred to as an EV or BEV. Standing for Electric Vehicle and Battery Electric Vehicle.\nPowered only by an electric motor with energy (fuel) drawn from a large bank of batteries.\nThe batteries are positioned below the passengers so do not take up any boot space.\nThe amount of energy stored is measured in kilowatt hours (kwh).\nA Renault ZOE supermini has a 41kwh battery, enabling a range of up to 250 miles (NEDC).\nThe UK Plug-in Car Grant grant can reduce the list price of an EV by up to \u00a34,500.\nEVs require minimal maintenance and have ultra low running costs.\nThe batteries can be recharged via special wall box for faster charging or by using a domestic 3 pin outlet.\nA Government grant is available to help fund the installation of your wall box.\n95% of charging is done at home with an 80% charge possible in just 30 minutes when using a rapid charger at a Motorway Services.\nAlmost all electric cars have the ability to rapid charge using a 50kw charger.\nEnergy is returned to the batteries when the car slows down. This is known as regen.\nProgress is quiet and smooth as power is delivered directly to the wheels without the need for a gear box, just select drive or reverse.\nPower and torque is instant with acceleration to match much larger and more powerful cars.\nThe car calculates and displays the distance you can travel, referred to as range and satnav can direct you to the nearest charge point if necessary.\nThe average journey in the UK is less than 10 miles leaving you many more left miles in the \u2018tank\u2019.\nA Plug-in Hybrid\nA BMW 330e is proving very popular in the company car park\nAlso referred to as a PHEV standing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.\nA vehicle powered by both a electric motor, a petrol or diesel with an automatic transmission.\nThe UK Plug-in Car Grant grant can reduce the list price of an Plug-in Hybrid by up to \u00a32,500.\nThe best selling plug-in hybrid in the UK is the Mitsubishi Outlander.\nMany Plug-in hybrids have their batteries in the boot, often slightly reducing its size.\nCharging times are much lower as batteries are far smaller than those in an electric car.\nThe batteries can be recharged using a special wall box for faster charging or using a domestic 3 pin outlet.\nOnly one Plug-in hybrid available has the ability to rapid charge \u2013 the Mitsubishi Outlander, others charge between 3 and 7kw maximum.\nEnergy is also returned to the batteries when the car slows down.\nDriving is similar to a conventionally powered vehicle with extra power delivered by the electric motor.\nPure electric motoring is limited to a maximum speed dependent on the model of car.\nThe car\u2019s electronics seamlessly switch from petrol or electric or a combination of both depending on your needs.\nSome PHEVs have an engine driving the front wheels and an electric motor driving the rear, creating an efficient four wheel drive car.\nThe Toyota Prius is the most recognisable Hybrid on sale\nAlso referred to as a Mild Hybrid.\nA vehicle powered primarily by a combustion engine with an electric motor used at low speeds for silent, zero tailpipe emissions driving.\nThere are no Government grants available for this type of vehicle.\nHybrids are set to become more popular as a result of tougher emissions legislation.\nThe vehicle is fitted with small battery enabling short, lower speed journeys to be made.\nThe batteries do not need to be recharged.\nThe battery is topped up when the vehicle slows down using regenerative braking.\nAt slow speeds the car can be driven silently.\nAll hybrids have an automatic gearbox.\nSwitching between power sources is seamlessly managed by on-board electronics.\nThis article was originally published on driveEV.net\n\u2190 Three Little-Known Health Benefits of Regular, Quality Sleep\nNetflix Film Review \u2013 Meet The Patels \u2192\nWhat Is An Electric Car? \u2026\nby driveEV time to read: 3 min\nAutomotive How To Get The First E-Bike?\nAutomotive Elon Musk Reveals the Interior of the New Tesla Mo\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 8277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spartannation.com/2007/05/22/head-coach-rod-marinelli-from-the-lions-ota/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XNPSHJSYEHABK25WE3QZ3VMXQ56FPITZ", "length": 7682, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.spartannation.com", "title": "Head Coach Rod Marinelli from the Lions OTA | Spartan Nation", "raw_content": "Head Coach Rod Marinelli from the Lions OTA\nAllen Park, Mich. \u2013 The Lions held their fourth OTA practice session today. The following are transcripts from Lions Head Coach Rod Marinelli\u2019s media sessions following the practice.\nOpening Statement: \u201cWe\u2019ve had a great turnout. You know, we had a hard week last week. We had our mini-camp on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It worked out where they had the chance to have the weekend and then they came back to a new environment (outdoor fields). This is really good for us; you know just to come (outside). I thought they did a nice job; all of a sudden the speed they have (on natural grass) is not as fast (as FieldTurf). So you\u2019ve got to adjust your feet and your cleats. It\u2019s different; the sun\u2019s out, the glare, all of those things.\u201d\nOn whether they\u2019re doing anything different in the OTAs than last week\u2019s mini-camp: \u201cEverything is just a lot shorter; the periods are a lot shorter. We lose about three periods. So we get a 20 minute individual (period), usually get a ten minutes of kind of a blitz period, just blitz pickup; we kind of lay off the run drills, and then 7-on-7 in team (periods). Other than that it\u2019s all the same; we are getting the same kind of classroom work in the morning. We meet early; we use up all the time.\nOn the team\u2019s willingness to work: \u201cThey\u2019re carrying it. This team is carrying it, they are putting it on. They want to win. I mean who doesn\u2019t want to win I should say. They are doing some of the things I think are necessary to be a heck of a football team. They are carrying this attitude together, the work. They\u2019re just here all the time, they\u2019re working at it \u2013 that\u2019s all you can ask. The first rule of getting better: show up. The second rule: be ready to work.\u201d\nOn the team\u2019s willingness in the weight room: \u201cWe have really gained strength this off season. (A priority) in the off season, was to go get speed; I wanted edge speed and we got it. One thing with speed, you\u2019ve got to go hunt it; you got to go find it and dig it out. Then it\u2019s our job to give them the endurance so they can play that fast the entire game. To have speed for the first ten plays and the last sixty plays it just doesn\u2019t make sense. So that\u2019s endurance. But now strength training you just tape up your hands, roll up your sleeves, get in the weight room and work. You know that\u2019s the beautiful thing about it. All these guys are in there together working as a unit, there\u2019s a lot of energy in there so that\u2019s good.\u201d\nOn his optimism for the team this season: \u201cI\u2019ve got very high expectations. I really like the speed we brought in, we\u2019re fast. I had a chance to see this team for a year and I can see that we have some dominant players at certain positions; they\u2019ve got to go out and have career years for us. The work ethic that they are putting in to this off season has been very good, so I like that. We have a veteran quarterback coming (back) who has been in this system \u2013 and it\u2019s a tough system to learn. We\u2019ve added speed to our running back corps, our wide receiver corps; we\u2019ve got some nice veterans in the offensive line. That\u2019s encouraging but probably the most (important) thing is just how all of these men have come together and just worked in this off season. We don\u2019t have to hunt anybody down; I\u2019m not looking for anybody. You want them here but they\u2019ve got to want to be here because it\u2019s not mandatory. That\u2019s a big part of anything that you have a chance to be successful with. They take the first step; they do it. Once they get in the building then hopefully we do a good job of wanting to keep them here by helping develop them.\u201d\nOn the depth of the linebackers: \u201cWell you know we\u2019ve got eight deep right now. We\u2019re really two deep at every position that\u2019s played. We\u2019ve got two roll backers; you know we\u2019ve got Ernie (Sims) and (Anthony) Cannon. Cannon played a little bit last year on special teams. Our (strongside): with Boss (Bailey) and Alex (Lewis), who played a ton; our (middle) position, (Paris Lenon) who\u2019s played a ton. So we\u2019ve got some good depth and then added some young players to it and so that\u2019s where you\u2019d like it.\u201d\nOn measuring game strength: \u201cI think it\u2019s hard because we don\u2019t just go out there and go for a bench-press strength. There\u2019s different ways they measure it. Maybe it\u2019s the poundage that they use on a certain exercise; its dangerous to me just to go out and just get a rep, you\u2019ll snap a shoulder and all that.\n\u201cJason does a nice job with all of it; you know by all their different sets and you can see the gain. Here\u2019s the key thing though: it\u2019s developing the strength in the weight room and then the players understanding that your position coach helps you convert your weight room strength into power. Without technique, your weight room strength just doesn\u2019t matter. If you can\u2019t bend your knees, know how to place your hands inside, your leverage, your steps \u2013 those are all things that all work together. From the weight room, to the practice field to your position coach. It\u2019s all the body mechanics. You get strong in there and learn the body mechanics. That\u2019s why I love the first twenty or thirty minutes of practice, you see all the fundamental work. All the steps, assignments, drill work, knee bend, pad-level and then that helps to really convert our strength. To be strong without conversion doesn\u2019t make sense.\nOn RB T.J. Duckett running to the endzone after every running play in practice: \u201cHe\u2019s mentally training himself \u2013 I like him. He comes out everyday and he runs. Some of those things become contagious; guys see it and everybody else \u2013 they are just great habits.\nOn this being an important year for Duckett after only signing a one-year deal: \u201cHopefully, guys just come in and whether you have a 10-year contract or a one year contract, all you control is the snap your in. Hopefully that snap can run all the way downfield; get the right vision. So if you just kind of concentrate on where you\u2019re at and you keep doing those things, then good things are going to happen for you.\nOn whether he has a projected role for Duckett: \u201cNo. Right now we just want these guys to learn this. Right now in the off season, all of the stuff that we are doing, it\u2019s a teaching camp. How to learn the systems, you teach, you learn fundamentals, and then the hitting is when you put pads on, but it\u2019s about teaching.\u201d\nOn facing Duckett (Atlanta) while he was coaching for Tampa Bay: \u201cHe\u2019s very good. He was a load man. We had a few thigh bones in our jaws. The guy is a load man \u2013 playing against this guy. He is a physical back.\nOn the depth of the running back corps: \u201cThen you have a guy like Tatum (Bell) who has great speed, and you\u2019ve got Kevin (Jones) coming back who\u2019s a proven back, a great back. So you just keep looking at that. You know we\u2019ve got (Brian) Calhoun coming back in, so it\u2019s good. All those areas are good and we\u2019ve tried to add to it. And the speed and movement, you know hopefully it will all come together for us.\u201d\u00c2\nPreviousNEW VIDEO: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MATT MILLEN, ROD MARINELLI FROM TODAY\u2019S OTA AND OUR STORY FROM THE MICHIGAN WHITETAIL MUSEUM FROM LAST NIGHT\u2019S NEWS!\nNextSpartans Add Defensive Lineman To 2007 Football Recruiting Class. Michael Jordan recorded 36 tackles, including 11 for losses, as a freshman at Eastern Arizona College.\nMICHIGAN STATE NAMED MEN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S BASKETBALL PRESEASON FAVORITE BY MEDIA HERE IN CHICAGO AT THE BIG TEN MEDIA DAY!\nCheck in all Day for Updates From Here at the Big Ten Football Meetings in Chicago\nFive Reasons to be Fired Up About Spartan Football in 2010\nThe Spartan Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ryan Miller Prepares for Olympic Glory and a Man from Michigan Prepares His Helmet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 10987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.speicher-hotel.com/en/privacy-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4BCGHEM5PABFV5KVZ7VWJZVSB2EKCDM5", "length": 3443, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.speicher-hotel.com", "title": "Speicher-Hotel", "raw_content": "We want to strengthen your trust in our used here Enquiry & Reservation Form and send you the expiration of a booking and dealing with the data collected during the booking process transparent. 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More information about the technology used by Google to see www.google.com/analytics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spencefuneralhome.com/tributes/Melanie-Begley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KMWDKJDUYYMKFRKFPHYQMNDK7CAFUELW", "length": 1172, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.spencefuneralhome.com", "title": "Tribute for Melanie Begley | Dwayne R Spence Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Melanie Begley\nMelanie L. Begley, age 57, of New Albany, died Thursday, June 14, 2018 at Kobacker House. Born September 30, 1960 in Wheeling, WV, she was a 1979 graduate of Wheeling Park High School. She received her bachelor of education degree from West Virginia University, and her masters from Mary Grove College. She was an English teacher at Pickerington Central High School, and was a member of Epiphany Lutheran Church.\nShe is survived by her children, Krista Begley, Columbus, Nicholas Begley, Pickerington, Kaytlynn Begley, New Albany; parents, Ron & Liz Smith, Wheeling; former husband, James \u201cRuss\u201d Begley; sisters, Kimberly (John) Clark, Tami (Michael) Greco, Jodi (Gary) Hall; brothers, Ronnie (Amanda) Smith, Sean (Jennifer) Smith; special friend, Julie (Larry) Brunner; nieces and nephews, Brandi Hall, Travis Smith, Britney (Alan) DePeu, Trevor Smith, and Rachel Smith.\nFriends may visit noon to 2:30 pm Tuesday at the DWAYNE R. SPENCE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY, 550 Hill Road N. (St. Rt. #256), Pickerington. Funeral service will be private.\nFriends who wish may contribute to the Anal Cancer Foundation or gofundme.com/give-cancer-the-boot in her memory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.star2.com/health/2018/11/20/support-from-fellow-cancer-survivors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PPGZWJPNRADWBEB3COALFGBJDCFVD3RP", "length": 6632, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.star2.com", "title": "Support From Fellow Cancer Survivors And Caregivers \u2013 Star2.com", "raw_content": "Informal talks and Q&A sessions by healthcare professionals, like consultant clinical oncologist Dr Matin Mellor Abdullah (seated, second from left), are one of the activities the support group has during its monthly meetings at Kow\u2019s home. \u2014 Photos: Jim Kow\nGetting support from fellow cancer survivors and caregivers\nNovember 20, 2018 Health, Wellness\nIn 2005, he was diagnosed with stage 3 nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) involving his nose.\nWhile he had the support of his family and friends, there were times when Jim Kow wished he could speak to a fellow cancer patient \u2013 someone who could intimately understand the journey he was undergoing.\nAt that time, there was no support group for NPC patients and survivors.\nSays Kow: \u201cI learnt the hard way; my battle was like walking alone through a dark tunnel, not knowing what was in it or how long the tunnel was.\n\u201cI was hoping for some light or someone who could hold a torch to guide me on what was ahead, but I ended up only talking to God.\u201d\nHaving undergone this tough journey, Kow, who is now in remission, wanted to help new cancer patients so that they need not feel so alone in their battle against the disease.\n\u201cI have gone down the path they are going through now, I know their fears and what\u2019s in their mind. I know how to comfort them and help them to build confidence to battle cancer,\u201d he says.\nAs a Lions Club of Kuala Lumpur Sentul member, Kow, along with his wife Annie Chai and other cancer survivor friends, set up the Cancer Survivor Support Group (CSSG) under the auspices of the non-governmental organisation.\nSince the group was formed in 2011, they have had about 80 survivors and caregivers join them. Some had fought the good battle and lost, leaving them with about 40 survivors and caregivers at the moment.\nWhile the group welcomes all cancer patients and survivors, more than half of their members have or had NPC, making it one of the largest active NPC support groups in Malaysia.\nNational badminton player Datuk Lee Chong Wei\u2019s diagnosis of NPC, which is the fourth most common cancer in Malaysia. brought it back into the spotlight. \u2014 ART CHEN/The Star\nThe members usually meet at Kow\u2019s home in USJ, Selangor, once a month as it provides a more comfortable, relaxed and friendly environment in which to share.\nThe group\u2019s objectives are to share experience, knowledge, fears and thoughts between the cancer survivors and patients, and assist the patients in their treatment journey or choices.\nOccasionally, healthcare professionals are invited to come and give informal talks, as well as to answer some of their questions and concerns.\nChai (left) and Kow at their home where the group meets once a month.\nThe sharing of post-treatment concerns like recovery period, types of suitable food or supplements; traditional or complementary medicine; the need for scans; types of exercise; and lifestyle changes; are very common.\nThe importance of palliative care and cancer research is also discussed.\nThe group also welcomes caregivers, irrespective of whether they are spouses of survivors or just someone who would like to share their experiences.\nAs Chai not only took care of Kow, but also both her parents, father-in-law, cousin and many of the female members of the group, she has plenty of experience in cancer caregiving and is most willing to provide any advice or assistance needed to cancer caregivers and patients.\nTina Woon, who was the caregiver for her husband and was referred from the National Cancer Society of Malaysia to the group, says: \u201cJim and Annie appeared in our time of need and gave us mental and spiritual support during my husband\u2019s treatment.\n\u201cWe found the strength to continue the treatment journey from the real experiences shared by them. They are our friends in need as a cancer patient and our friends indeed as a caregiver.\u201d\nNPC is usually treated with concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy.\nThis treatment can be tough to many as it involves radiation to the head and neck area, which affects the mouth, salivary glands, neck and jaw.\nSome of the common side effects include ulcers in the mouth or tongue, limited saliva that results in poor appetite, severe pain in the throat with difficulty in swallowing, and post-treatment neck and jaw stiffness.\nThese are painful changes to the body, but with proper guidance from peers, they can be managed.\nThe group also helps to raise funds for various cancer-related causes, including cancer research, as seen here by their donation to Cancer Research Malaysia.\nNPC survivor Henry Wong found the CSSG very important in helping him to manage his initial fears after his cancer treatment.\nI got very useful feedback for all my questions and concerns from the other members in the group, he says, encouraging all NPC patients to join a support group.\nNPC has a good survival rate, especially if the cancer is diagnosed at the early stages of the disease (stage 1 or 2). Even later stage cases can have good outcomes.\nKow says: \u201cI am living proof, having survived stage 3 NPC for 13 years now, and am looking forward to celebrate my 15 years survival in 2020.\u201d\nAside from him, the group also has two other NPC survivors who have lived more than 12 years since their cancer diagnosis, including Michael Gan, a stage 4 survivor.\nGan\u2019s motto is \u201cI\u2019m the chosen one; I chose how to live my life and my choice is to be happy always\u201d.\nKow agrees that this is the type of lifestyle change survivors need to have and all survivors must remember that the journey of survivorship (life after cancer) is only as great as the survivor themselves want it to be.\nFor example, former bodybuilder Jeffery Lim was diagnosed with stage 3 NPC at the age of 32.\nNot only does he want to prove that cancer can be curable, he also wants to prove that anything is possible with the proper focus.\nHaving survived 14 years now, Lim has shown that he can be stronger than before, running marathons and twice completing Ironman triathlons.\nDespite being a small and little known support group, Lions Club of KL Sentul president Low Seong Lim is glad that this signature community service project of the club has quietly helped so many cancer patients, congratulating Kow and his team for their dedication over the past seven years.\nThe group will celebrate their seventh anniversary next month.\nThose who wish to learn more about the CSSG can email Jim Kow at jim_kow@yahoo.com or message 012-2529392, or view their activities on their Facebook page.\nNext article Albert Nico book launch draws elite crowd for a good cause\nPrevious article Actor Chris Pine is tired of questions about his penis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 11800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/01/surgeon-general-nominee-gun-violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2WVLHPQ4KFDJC6VPIFGC3WZ2A5DLX7G", "length": 2993, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.statnews.com", "title": "Surgeon general nominee, asked about gun violence, treads carefully - STAT", "raw_content": "Surgeon general nominee, asked about gun violence, treads carefully\nDr. Jerome Adams has been nominated by President Trump to be surgeon general. Screen Capture via Senate HELP Committee\nAt a hearing Tuesday for five of President Trump\u2019s nominees at the Department of Health and Human Services, a long contentious issue briefly flared: the public health threat posed by gun violence.\nSen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) asked Dr. Jerome Adams, Trump\u2019s nominee for surgeon general, what the surgeon general can do to stem gun violence. It was a notable moment because Dr. Vivek Murthy, the former surgeon general, saw his confirmation delayed for a year because of his support for gun-control laws.\nIn response, Adams, the Indiana health commissioner, sought to separate gun violence from guns themselves.\n\u201cGuns and gun owners aren\u2019t inherently a public health problem, but the violence that results absolutely is,\u201d he said, likening the difference to car crashes being a public health issue, even if cars themselves are not.\nAdams, who said he is a gun owner, also noted that he regularly helps treat gunshot victims at Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis and raised the issue of suicides caused by guns.\nThe exchange was short, as Murphy ran out of time for his questions, but Adams\u2019s response did not sit well with the senator. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit deeper than the problem you suggested,\u201d Murphy said, citing evidence of an association between the availability of guns and the likelihood of a crime being committed with a gun.\nStill, the hearing overall was mostly cordial, with the nominees and senators discussing how they can address the opioid crisis, a lack of mental health treatment, and emergency preparedness. Democratic senators also used the hearing to get the nominees to push back on some statements from Trump and other administration officials related to vaccines and medication-assisted treatment that were not based on evidence.\nMiles Fortis says:\nIf the number of guns in circulation were the problem, we here in the U.S. would all be dead by now.\nThe number of guns in the hands of the people are estimated to be from 300 to 600 million, with a large part of that increase in the last 20 years.\nIn the last 25 years, not just the murder rate, but the total crime rate has fallen to levels not seen since the late \u201950s early \u201960s.\nThe murder and crime rates are from the FBI\u2019s Uniform Crime Statistics Report. Anyone who cares can look them up online.\nSo, while correlation is not causation, we can say with certainty that more guns does NOT equal more crime, especially violent crime.\nSO, maybe it\u2019s not guns. Maybe it the hands holding the guns.\nThe majority of murders and other crimes are committed by the street gangs running the drug trade in most major metro areas, not your average American\u2026But that doesn\u2019t fit the progressive liberal narrative.\nGuns are not the problem its liberals giving criminals a slap on the rist ,and a get out of jail free card.That\u2019s not my American.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/whdd/david-sterritt-with-films-in-focus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CTE42SWLRQJUSTYUIUDZIDRMXOIXCBHB", "length": 1762, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.stitcher.com", "title": "David Sterritt With Films In Focus | Listen via Stitcher Radio On Demand", "raw_content": "David Sterritt With Films In Focus\nDavid Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. Sterritt is known for his intelligent discussions of controversial films and his lively, accessible style.Read more \u00bb\nDavid Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. Sterritt is known for his intelligent discussions of controversial films and his lively, accessible style.\nFilms in Focus with David Sterritt: Of Fathers and Sons; Bohemian Rhapsody; Cold Pursuit\nDavid Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until... Read More \u203a\nDavid Sterritt with Films in Focus: The Invisibles; They Shall Not Grow Old\nDavid Sterritt with Films in Focus: Untouchable; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Cold War\nDavid Sterritt with Films in Focus: Jonas Mekas; Never Look Away; Glass\nDavid Sterritt with Films in Focus: Burning; Dead Souls; On the Basis of Sex", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 45.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storeopscouncil.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZV5UCUATIZGIK2TVTEAVKRBISD5TNJ5", "length": 110, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.storeopscouncil.com", "title": "Register \u2014 Store Operations Council 2019", "raw_content": "Save YOUR seat.\n5011 44th Street NW Washington, DC 20016 (202)549-3954\nThank you! We\u2019ll be back in touch soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 158.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/tags/civil-engineering.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLKIW3WJT3NCCJMIWVH2IATKEMV2DAE5", "length": 229, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stuffyoushouldknow.com", "title": "Civil engineering | Stuff You Should Know", "raw_content": "People used to use deer antlers to beat the minerals out of rock hidden in the earth. Luckily, they got better at it, and now modern mining is a mind-boggling process for efficiently removing stuff we want from inside the planet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 3647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.subpop.com/artists/king_tuff", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SD3UFUN66PYJFQLLAK6TPDKQMLZBJKXH", "length": 7027, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.subpop.com", "title": "King Tuff on Sub Pop Records", "raw_content": "When asked to describe the title track from his new record, Kyle Thomas\u2014aka King Tuff\u2014takes a deep breath. \u201cIt\u2019s a song about hitting rock bottom,\u201d he says. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know what I wanted to do anymore, but I still had this urge\u2014this feeling\u2014like there was this possibility of something else I could be doing\u2026 and then I just followed that possibility. To me, that\u2019s what songwriting, and art in general, is about. You\u2019re chasing something, there is something out there calling to you and you\u2019re trying to get at it. \u2018The Other\u2019 is basically where songs come from, it\u2019s the hidden world, it\u2019s the mystery. It\u2019s the invisible hand that guides you whenever you make something. It\u2019s the thing I had to rediscover\u2014the sort of voice I had to follow\u2014to bring me back to making music again in a way that felt true and good.\u201d\nAfter years of non-stop touring, culminating in a particularly arduous stint in support of 2014\u2019s Black Moon Spell, Thomas found himself back in Los Angeles experiencing the flipside of the ultimate rock and roll cliche\u2014that of an exhausted musician suddenly unsure where to go or what to do, held prisoner by a persona that he never meant to create, that bore little resemblance to the worn out person they now saw in the mirror. Thomas was suddenly at odds with the storied rock and roll misfit mythology that he\u2019d spent the past ten years, four full-length albums, a handful of EPs, and multiple live records, unwittingly bringing to life.\n\u201cAt that point I had literally been on tour for years,\u201d recalls Thomas. \u201cIt was exhausting. Physically and mentally. At the end of it I was like, I just can\u2019t do this. I\u2019m essentially playing this character of King Tuff, this crazy party monster, and I don\u2019t even drink or do drugs. It had become a weird persona, which people seemed to want from me, but it was no longer me. I just felt like it had gotten away from me.\u201d\nFor a time, Thomas involved himself in projects that gave him space from all things King Tuff, and allowed him to, as he says, \u201cgo out and play music without having to actually be the boss.\u201d Eventually, after being asked to play a handful of solo shows, Thomas began to see a way through to making new music. \u201cI\u2019d never played a show with just an acoustic guitar,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just seemed like the scariest thing. I knew I wanted to write some new songs that could stand up in that kind of setting, which really opened the door to a new way of working.\u201d\n\u201cI knew I wanted to record myself on my own time in my own space, so I put together a studio in a room in my house we called the Pine Room. It was like being inside of a wood-paneled spaceship. Suddenly I had all of this new crazy gear that I had no idea how to use in any sort of technical or \u2018correct\u2019 way. I just embraced the beauty of not knowing, which I think is where you get interesting things happening.\u201d Thomas self-produced the record, as he did his debut, Was Dead, but on a far grander scale, this time playing every instrument aside from drums and saxophone. He pulled Shawn Everett (War On Drugs, Alabama Shakes) in to assist with the mixing process. \u201cFrom the moment I started recording, it was like going home, like I had finally found myself again.\u201d\nThe ten tracks that would eventually become The Other represent a kind of psychic evolution for the King Tuff. No less hooky than previous records, the new songs ditch the goofy rock and roll bacchanalia narratives of earlier records in favor of expansive arrangements, a diversity of instrumentation, and lyrics that straddle the fence between painful ruminations and reconnecting with that part of yourself that feels childlike and creative and not corroded by cynicism. The soulful and cosmic new direction is apparent from the album\u2019s first moments: introduced by the the gentle ringing of a chime, acoustic guitar, and warm organ tones, \u201cThe Other\u201d is a narrative of redemption born of creativity. As Thomas sings about about being stuck in traffic, directionless, with no particular reason to be alive, he hears the call of \u201cthe other,\u201d a kind of proverbial siren song that, instead of leading towards destruction, draws the narrator towards a kind of creative rebirth. Elsewhere, tracks like \u201cThrough The Cracks\u201d and \u201cPsycho Star\u201d balance psychedelia with day-glo pop hooks. \u201cThe universe is probably an illusion, but isn\u2019t it so beautifully bizarre?\u201d he asks on \u201cPsycho Star,\u201d providing one of the record\u2019s central tenets. At a time when everything in the world feels so deeply spoiled and the concept of making meaning out of the void seems both pointless and impossible, why not try?\n\u201cI\u2019m talking about things that I don\u2019t necessarily feel good about, that aren\u2019t easy,\u201d says Thomas, who views the record as a way to push back against that internal voice that so often keeps us from trying new things. \u201cI feel like this relates to a song like \u2018Birds of Paradise,\u2019 which is definitely about trying hold on to that childlike part of yourself that doesn\u2019t care what anyone thinks, the endless curiosity and unbounded creativity.\u201d It\u2019s a sentiment that pops up throughout the record, particularly in the preening funk of \u201cRaindrop Blue,\u201d and the ripping \u201cUltraviolet,\u201d tracks that crack open new sonic territory for King Tuff, complete with rainbow keyboards, strutting basslines, hot-buttered bongos, harmonicas, angelic backing vocals, and strikingly danceable grooves. After nine songs that take on everything from creative insecurity, the isolating evils of technology, and the redemptive power of art, the album wraps up with \u201cNo Man\u2019s Land.\u201d The song is a slow-build gospel-tinged stunner that comes complete with harp strums and pillows of space synths for Thomas\u2019 beleaguered lyrics (\u201cI\u2019m going down to the forgotten part of town with roses and rubies in my hands\u201d), which sound both weary and strangely at peace. It\u2019s a song about ending up where you need to be, even if you have no idea how you might have arrived there. \u201cIt\u2019s about attaining The Other,\u201d says Thomas. \u201c\u2018No Man\u2019s Land\u2019 is a vision of the afterlife, it\u2019s where the journey eventually leads you. It\u2019s some other plane of existence that you kind of aspire to. It\u2019s ending up inside the dream.\u201d\nThomas views the entire experience of writing and recording The Other as a kind of psychic reset. \u201cI let the songs lead me where they wanted to go, instead of trying to push them into a certain zone. King Tuff was always just supposed to be me. When I started doing this as a teenager, it was whatever I wanted it to be. King Tuff was never supposed to be just one thing. 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Wilkins, Jr. Athletics & Events Center.\nIn addition, the Wilkins Center, located immediately south of Sprint Field at Shentel Stadium, will serve as an events center for the university and the Winchester/Frederick County community. Convocation and commencement are both planned for the building.\nThe inaugural athletic events in Wilkins are set for Wednesday, January 31 as the men's and women's hoops teams host a doubleheader beginning at 5 p.m.\nHowever, before the gleaming new showpiece takes center stage, Shingleton, built in 1968, hosts one final time.\nOriginally constructed on the edge of campus with a tartan (rubber) surface and serving just the volleyball and men's basketball programs, Shingleton has seen the campus grow up and all around it as the site became the home base for a 21-team, 500-student-athlete intercollegiate athletic department.\nEvery student-athlete has used Shingleton during his or her time at SU, whether it was for practice, an activities class or just as a fan of the men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball teams.\nWith the maximum capacity of just 680 fans, it never took much for Shingleton to seem packed.\n\"The crowd, the administrators on the sideline and the baseball, lacrosse and soccer players (crowded) on the baseline is what I am going to remember,\" Phil Dixon '96 said.\n\"The live radio broadcasts\u2026 everything about it (the atmosphere) was electric.\"\nAnd Dixon isn't alone in holding Shingleton close to his heart.\nDeanna Estes '98 led her women's basketball team to a Dixie (now USA South) Conference championship in 1996 before a home crowd, and that is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the facility.\n\"We were the last seed and we won three games in three days!\" Estes said. \"People were everywhere. I will never forget those games and playing the 'Last of the Mohicans' soundtrack as warm-up music that weekend.\"\nLongtime radio color commentator Richard Helm has a memory that stretches almost all of the way to the opening night of the building. \"It was 1972 or '73,\" Helm said. \"There was a foul on a shot that went through the hoop but the referee missed that second part. The Shenandoah coach stopped the game and got the officials to do a video review. The call was changed!\n\"I was there and I remember Soupie Hillyard (a longtime basketball official) talking about it to my 6th grade PE class later as an historic event. It might have been the first time video was ever used to change a call.\"\nHelm's broadcast partner, play-by-play man Mike O'Dell, began calling games in Shingleton 30 years ago. As to be expected, his memories run deep.\n\"So many great games over the years that I don't think I could pick one above the rest,\" O'Dell said. \"What stands out to me though was the individual performances - Al White '96 had the greatest dunk I ever saw. He took off from the foul line and just exploded to the hoop.\n\"And Al was just one of the great players that played in Shingleton. There are too many to mention, but they all seemed to come alive when playing at home.\n\"On the flip side, I remember some of the sad times as well. Dave's (former AD Dave Dutton) memorial service back in 2001 and seeing an official have a heart attack and pass away in front of a capacity crowd are two memories that unfortunately come to mind when I think back on my time in Shingleton. The building truly has seen it all.\"\nDutton and his wife, Kathy, will be honored on February 10 when the university dedicates the Wilkins Center playing court to the couple following the men's game versus Lynchburg.\nThe basketball and volleyball teams hosted numerous conference tournaments during Shingleton's near 50-year history with the women's basketball team hosting what turned out to be the final two tournament games - ODAC Tournament wins against Hollins in 2013 and Randolph College in 2014.\n\"The Hollins win was huge for us,\" Holly Chittenden '15, '18 D.PT said. \"It was our first year in the league and that win got us to Salem (for the remainder of the ODAC Tournament).\"\nThat trip to Salem was the first of three for the women in five seasons of league play.\nThe on-court memories extend to the volleyball team as well.\n\"My favorite memory is just being able to play there with my friends and being able to use the low ceiling as an advantage during volleyball games - the other teams weren't prepared for that!\" Haley (Smith) Nelson '14 said. \"However, I think my funniest memory was the multiple times the lights went out in the middle of games and when burning popcorn caused the fire alarm to go off during a match!\"\nThe Wilkins Center, with a 37-foot ceiling, is 40 percent higher than the 22-foot height inside Shingleton.\nDespite those challenges, Nelson's fellow co-captain, Katy Griffith '14, '16 M.AT, remarked, \"Even though there is a nicer gym coming that is going to be a better opportunity for future Hornets, Shingleton will always be HOME to me.\"\nShingleton will remain as an alternate practice facility for intercollegiate athletics as well as a space used by Student Life. 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It applies to all landowners, except in the ACT, where it also applies to all residential properties rented or owned by a trust or corporation.\nThere are various land tax exemptions to be taken advantage of. These differ between jurisdictions and there are many qualifying criterias which need to be taken into consideration.\nThe experienced team at Synergy Accountants will simplify this seemingly complicated impost, while working with you to identify opportunities and implement strategies for tax minimisation. 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October is National Crime Prevention Month; as people across the country have a heightened sense of awareness about crime and safety concerns in their neighborhoods, so should you. Here are five things you can do right now to keep your family safe:\nNearly every day, we have one (if not multiple) cases of unlocked cars being burglarized. Let\u2019s not make it easy on the bad guys. Lock your vehicles and keep your valuables out of sight. Place any items that may be attractive to crooks (purses, money, jewelry, electronics) in your trunk before you arrive at your destination.\nTalk to your kids about cyberbullying\nOur School Resource Deputies see it far too often \u2013 bullying in school that begins with inappropriate texting. Often, it\u2019s a student-to-student interaction, where one student sends a racy text message only to have it disseminated to many of his or her peers. Have a discussion with your children about appropriate communication with friends and classmates and know who your child is communicating with on a regular basis. There are a number of apps that allow parents to monitor their child\u2019s chat threads on various social media platforms.\nHave a discussion about basic internet safety\nUnfortunately, having access to some or all of your kids\u2019 social media may not be enough. You need to talk to them about keeping personal information private when it comes to communication with strangers on the internet. Explain to your children that it\u2019s dangerous to tell someone they don\u2019t know where they live, what school they go to or where they hang out.\nTrick-or-treat with caution\nThere are approximately 2,000 sex offenders and predators living in Hillsborough County right now and your kids shouldn\u2019t be near a single one of their homes on Halloween. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has a feature on its website where you can search a radius to view sex offenders and predators living in your neighborhood. Check out the website. Take note of the homes to keep your kids away from and notice that the lights will be off with little to no holiday decoration at the homes of sex offenders and predators. Walk with your children on their trick-or-treating route, keep them in sight at all times, never walk into a home or garage of a stranger and check your kids\u2019 candy for any signs of repackaging.\nNow that the new school year is in full swing, it\u2019s a perfect time to remind everyone about being vigilant near school buses. School buses stop\u2026 a lot! They stop at railroad crossings and multiple times to pick-up and drop-off students. The biggest excuse we hear from drivers is that they didn\u2019t see the bus or they were going too fast to slow down and stop for it. This year alone during a one-day survey, 357 drivers in Hillsborough County did not stop when they should have for a school bus. That\u2019s 357 incidents where the safety of children was put at risk. 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The company is developing both the 10 million tpy Calcasieu Pass facility on the Gulf of Mexico and the 20 million tpy Plaquemines LNG facility on the Mississippi River using a highly efficient, mid-scale liquefaction technology provided by its strategic partner GE Oil & Gas LLC, part of Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE).\nIn response to the capital raise, Co-CEO Mike Sabel said: \u201cBoth new and existing investors recognise our quality execution as we continue signing binding 20-year agreements for the purchase of LNG from our Calcasieu Pass and Plaquemines projects. Our growing list of world-class partners, which includes Shell, BP, Edison S.p.A., Galp, and PGNiG, among others, can feel confident in our ability to deliver the lowest cost LNG from North America.\u201d\nCo-CEO Bob Pender added: Following receipt of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for our Calcasieu Pass project in June, we are preparing for our FERC authorisation and the commencement of construction in early 2019. 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Each year, the Pentawards celebrate the underrated art of package design by recognizing the most influential pieces from around the world. Featuring hundreds of works and with key pieces described in detail, this book brings together the lucky winners to celebrate the vivid creativity of packaging in its every form.\nPackaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, it can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by recognizing the world's most groundbreaking and influential designs. Designers compete in five main categories \u2014 beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets \u2014 and no fewer than 50 sub-categories.\nFeaturing a selection of hundreds of works, this book brings together Pentawards winners from 2008 to 2016, providing a vivid demonstration of creativity in every form of packaging. Readers will discover, through product descriptions and plenty of images, what drives design industry leaders and agencies behind these creations, which permeate all aspects of our everyday lives. This well of inspiration will not just serve design and marketing professionals, but anyone with an interest in the creative process of packaging.\nPentawards is the first and only worldwide competition dedicated to packaging design in all its forms, and is open to anyone associated with its creation or marketing. Aside from prize-giving, Pentawards\u2019 mission is the worldwide promotion of packaging design among companies, media, economic and political authorities, and the general public.\nJulius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.\n\u201cBlurring the lines between marketing and art, this publication is a hardcore pop culture bible.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 5680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dairy-queen-involuntary-manslaughter-suicide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:42Z", "digest": "sha1:MOX52SG3UGKSJY3C3LZTDUXYHTQ3ZOQ7", "length": 2312, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.teenvogue.com", "title": "Dairy Queen Manager Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Employee Suicide - Teen Vogue", "raw_content": "Dairy Queen Manager Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Employee Suicide\nThe teen died after enduring years of bullying.\nPhoto: Howard County Coroner\nA teen in Missouri died by suicide, and now his former boss is being charged with involuntary manslaughter.\nAccording to the Columbia Daily Tribune, 17-year-old Kenneth Suttner died by suicide in December after enduring years of bullying. While the harassment happened in school and at work, a jury found Kenneth's manager at the Dairy Queen where he worked bullied him so much it may have been a direct factor in his death.\nA coroner\u2019s jury ruled Kenneth's death was caused by [involuntary manslaughter, a result of intense bullying by Harley Branham, one of his managers at the Dairy Queen he worked at. Harley allegedly ridiculed Kenneth and forced him to do cruel tasks that weren't part of his job. The Daily Tribune reports Harley is accused of making Kenneth clean the floor by hand while lying on his stomach, throwing a cheeseburger at Kenneth when he didn't make it correctly, and more. The jury also found that Dairy Queen did not train its employees well enough and Kenneth's school district did not do enough to prevent his bullying.\nThe mother of one of Kenneth's friends told the Columbia Missourian he had spent much of his life being bullied.\n\"Kenny spent his life trying to tolerate negative words and actions,\" she said.\nKenneth's friend, Lexie Graves, backed that up, saying, \u201cA lot of people, kids, made fun of the way \u2014 basically everything about him.\u201d\nNumerous people reported they told the school district about Kenneth's bullying, and the mother of another student said she even moved her child out of the district because of bullying. This is a heartbreaking story, and it's tragic that Kenneth was bullied so badly that it caused his death. But it's not an uncommon story. Recently, there have been numerous stories about teens dying by suicide after experiencing bullying. We also know bullying increases your risk for depression, which can include suicidal ideation.\nIf you or someone you know is being bullied, first know that you're not alone, and there are many people who love you. 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Do you get a present? Do you go out? Do you celebrate Galentine's day? Do you hide in your room and watch Netflix? The list goes on. Well, if you're looking for ideas, Kendall Jenner may have given us a sneak peak of what her February 14th will look like this year. On Instagram, she posted a photo of herself laying on a very dirty red car. She has her hair in braided pigtails and she's holding a bat (we'll get back to this) while donning a white bralette and red bikini underwear. Written in the dust on the hood of the car is \"Boys Lie,\" and she captioned the post with \"there's no crying in baseball\" hence the bat.\nKendall tagged her friend and the Editor-in-Chief of Love Magazine Katie Grand in the photo, leading us to believe that the photo is most likely for the glossy. Regardless, this is a fascinating image coming from someone who has famously kept her love life very private. Whether or not this is just a general warning or a message to one of her rumored boyfriends, it's definitely working. Read: don't mess with Kenny.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tele2.com/media/news/2012/tele2-rewarded-second-best-cr-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:B62RJYNRJGGMERSPLF2YZKFNBY5KWKJX", "length": 745, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tele2.com", "title": "Tele2 rewarded second best CR report! - Tele2", "raw_content": "Tele2 rewarded second best CR report!\nIn Sweden, The Magazin Milj\u00f6rapporten, together with an external jury reviewed this year\u2019s sustainability reports from the major listed companies.\nThe audit shows that the range varies widely when it comes to size, accessibility and content. Everything from two pages to over 160, integrated and stand-alone and single documents as well as continuous updates on the Web.\nEricsson got premiered as best report, scoring 19 points, closely followed by Tele2 and Stora Enso second with 18 points each. Among the other finalists of the 54 audited statements are Sandvik and Husqvarna.\nThe Environmental Report is a monthly magazine with news, analysis, interviews and the latest trends in CSR and sustainability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 3902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/16/eight-things-we-learnt-from-budget-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:17Z", "digest": "sha1:TVPQ5554NEYLN2Y4CG2MZ4BRH5ZY2RSR", "length": 805, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.telegraph.co.uk", "title": "Eight things we learnt from Budget 2016", "raw_content": "Eight things we learnt from Budget 2016\nHere are all the best bits from George Osborne's eighth Budget\n1. George Osborne probably hates young people\nThe Chancellor sold his Budget as one for the \"next generation\" - a phrase he repeated around half a dozen times. But maths will now be compulsory until 18, school hours could get longer, and there's a sugar tax. I make that a triple whammy.\n2. There were only two jokes but they were really good\nBoth aimed at his political opponents. George Osborne kept his jokes few and far between but they were zingers:\nOn Corbyn and Crossrail 2: \"It could've been designed just for him, because it's good for all those who live in North London and are heading south.\"\nOn the Lib Dems: \"The former Liberal Democrat pensions minister Steve Webb said 'we're going to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 5551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com/notices/Bertha-Ade", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VKR3HXB5FOFSY5DEAY6766ZI4ESVVWUQ", "length": 1457, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary for Bertha Lenora Ade | Terrace Park Funeral Home & Cemetery", "raw_content": "Bertha Lenora Ade\nBertha Lenora Ade, 89, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away at home, Wednesday January 31, 2018. Bertha was born March 19, 1928 to Jesse and Sophie (Bessenbaucher) Wagner, in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up in Kansas City. She married her childhood friend, Bobby Joe Ade on January 1, 1948. For a short time she worked for National Carton and Tubing. In her free time she enjoyed camping, garage sales, and spending time with her family. She will always be remembered for her \u201cBerthaisms\u201d and as a jokester.\nShe is preceded in death by both parents, her husband of 48 years, brothers; Marion, Ralph, Archie, and Jack Wagner, and her sister Ethel Mae Crawford.\nBertha is survived by her children; Linda (Mike) Sanders of Odessa, MO, Danny (Sandy) Ade of Kansas City, MO, and Suzi (John) Cliff of Kansas City, MO. Also surviving are sisters; Ruth Ann Harp of Oak Grove, MO, Katheryn Berkibile of Adrain, MO ,and borthers; Jimmy Wagner of Belton, MO, Roy of Butler, MO, six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.\nVisitation will be Monday, February 5, 2018 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM with Funeral Services immediately following at 12:00 PM at Terrace Park Funeral Home; 801 NW 108th St. (169 Hwy & Shoal Creek) Kansas City, MO. Burial to follow in Terrace Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, family requests that memorial contributions go to Harbor Hospice. Share online condolences at TerraceParkFuneral.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com/notices/Thelma-Appleby", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:B3IVRBEAT2FWX7IZJN3DF6EPYNR4BT52", "length": 2377, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary for Thelma B. Appleby | Terrace Park Funeral Home & Cemetery", "raw_content": "Thelma B. Appleby\nThelma B. Appleby, 99, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away at the North Care Hospice House on Monday, January 15, 2018. Thelma was born April 27, 1918, to Thomas and Bessie (Linton) Johnson, in Coalgate, Oklahoma. Her mother passed away when Thelma was a year old and she and her brother Coleman was raised by her grandparents, Lou and Dock Linton. After moving to Kansas City she went to work for Sears, from which she retired after 27 years. She married William Burton Appleby on December 17, 1946. She was a member of the Faubion United Methodist Church, former Secretary-Treasurer of the KC Masonic Temple, and member of the Independence Assembly #150 Social Order of Berauceant, Worthy Matron four times, Gr. Representative of Indiana, District Deputy of the 22nd District, President of State District Deputy Club of MO., President of State Secretary Club, President of City Wide Past Matron-Patron Club, and a Golden Gate Chapter #58 Order of the Eastern Star since 1957. Thelma was also past president and current Treasurer of Nazarene Shrine #2, White Shrine of Jerusalem, and she also served on various city, state, and National committees. She is past President of the K.C Assembly #4, Independence #150, East Gate #180 Social Order of the Berauceant, and was currently serving as a Recorder of Independence #150, along with many state and national offices. She is a former Elder and Clerk of the Sessions of Grace Presbyterian Church.\nShe is preceded in death by both parents, her husband of 52 years, her son William Burton Appleby Jr., and her brother.\nThelma is survived by her daughter-in-law Helen Appleby, Grandchildren; William Burton Appleby III, Joyce (Bill) Amador, Linda (Greg) Griffin, and James Appleby, Great grandchildren; William Burton (Michele) Appleby IV, Sheryl Appleby, Emily Appleby, Andrea Amador, and Michael (Rachel)Amador, Great great grandchildren; Tyler Appleby, Lucas Amador, and Nathan Amador, and many nieces and nephews.\nVisitation will be Friday, January 19, 2017 from 10 AM to 12 PM with Funeral Services immediately following at 12:00 PM at the Faubion United Methodist Church, 7113 N Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO. Burial to follow in Terrace Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, family requests that memorial contributions go to Faubion United Methodist Church. Share online condolences at TerraceParkFuneral.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tfa.net/let_s_back_boris_s_positive_vision", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4PI2MMVQDNSKDWB5RM3A7OG7BCYBHJ22", "length": 1393, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tfa.net", "title": "Let\u2019s back Boris\u2019s \u201cpositive vision\u201d of UK\u2019s future not Juncker\u2019s \u201cnightmare,\u201d says independent Labour Peer - The Freedom Association", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s back Boris\u2019s \u201cpositive vision\u201d of UK\u2019s future not Juncker\u2019s \u201cnightmare,\u201d says independent Labour Peer\nThe independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon has welcomed Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson\u2019s controversial intervention in the ongoing debate about the Brexit negotiations. Lord Stoddart said: \u201cI congratulate the Foreign Secretary for having the courage to write about a positive vision of the future of our great country, in the face of so much pessimism from gutless politicians who seem to have no faith in our country or its prospects.\n\u201cMr Johnson has laid out the golden future that awaits us outside of the European Union and the public sector ought to welcome the \u00a39 billion net saving we will make on leaving, as this sum gives the Government the funding not only for decent public-sector wage increases but also for investing in the NHS. His vision is particularly timely given that the European Union, in defiance of public opinion, has unashamedly set itself on the road to a federal super-state, as has been made all too clear by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in his recent state of the Union address.\n\u201cWe must strongly support the Foreign Secretary\u2019s vision of the future, not the nightmare envisaged by Mr Juncker.\u201d\nNote to editors: Boris Johnson\u2019s full article can be read at:\nhttps://en-gb.facebook.com/borisjohnson/posts/10155036320191317", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-daily-record.com/business/20190210/james-prince-named-vice-president-for-finance-and-business-at-college-of-wooster", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:04Z", "digest": "sha1:UTIW6RAYAKOPNXL3MSFZ5TJDBZ5YLGFF", "length": 1837, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.the-daily-record.com", "title": "James Prince named vice president for finance and business at The College of Wooster - Business - The Daily Record - Wooster, OH", "raw_content": "James Prince named vice president for finance and business at The College of Wooster\nWOOSTER \u2014 James E. Prince has been named vice president for finance and business at The College of Wooster, effective June 24. As vice president, his responsibilities will include management and oversight of the college\u2019s budget process, business office, facilities and facilities planning, investments, grounds, purchasing, the bookstore and food services.\nPrince comes to Wooster from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he has served as vice president for business and finance since 2009. At Kalamazoo, he created a five-year budget modeling tool to assist with financial forecasting, provided leadership for the development of the college\u2019s master plan and oversaw the planning and execution of several major capital projects. Over the course of more than 30 years in higher education administration, Prince also has held senior financial management positions at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Penn., Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and Bethel College in Mishawaka, Ind.\n\"I am so delighted Jim Prince will be joining us at Wooster,\" said Wooster President Sarah R. Bolton in a news release. \"His deep knowledge of and experience in residential liberal arts colleges is matched by an equally deep commitment to this distinctive form of education. He will be a superb addition to our team and to the college community.\"\n\"It is an honor to have been selected for this position,\" said Prince in the release. \"I am attracted to Wooster\u2019s commitment to a high level of academic excellence, long history of inclusiveness, deep regard for its students and employees, prudent fiscal management, and a willingness to embrace positive change. I look forward to working closely with President Bolton, the campus community and the Board of Trustees.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 153.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebridgecc.org/new-page", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BFKNXHUI6Y3B62V7R4AT4U4BFL4Z44DW", "length": 752, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thebridgecc.org", "title": "How To Neighbor \u2014 The Bridge Community Church", "raw_content": "As the world grows more connected, our neighbors are closer than ever. But how close are we to our neighbors? You might not share a fence, but you can still share their burdens and joys. As the body of Christ, let\u2019s work together to show the world How to Neighbor.\nPart 1: Racism Reconciled\nThis message will tackle why Christians should lead the way in addressing the issue of racism in cultures.\nPart 2: Orphans Embraced\nThis week has a focus on caring for children in foster care or in need of an adoptive family.\nPart 3: Poor Empowered\nThis message will focus on how to be a neighbor to those in need.\nPart 4: Lonely Loved\nThis message emphasizes the relationships we can build with the elderly, the outcast, or the lonely and forgotten in society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecable.ng/lagos-apc-defected-commissioner-betrayed-fashola-in-2007", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FD5DWCFKOLYA7HJHJLU4BE3KXAWRM3BB", "length": 2979, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.thecable.ng", "title": "Lagos APC: Defected commissioner betrayed Fashola in 2007 | TheCable", "raw_content": "Lagos APC: Defected commissioner betrayed Fashola in 2007\nThe Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Wale Oluwo, ex-commissioner for energy and mineral resources in the state, defected from the party because his attempts to deceive party members were foiled.\nOluwo had dumped the ruling party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and resigned his position as commissioner.\nHe had accused the leadership of the ruling party of being anti-democratic in the process through which Babajide Sanwo-Olu emerged as the flagbearer of the APC in the 2019 governorship election.\nHowever, the Lagos APC, in a statement by Joe Igbokwe, its spokesman, said Oluwo had been found wanting of anti-party activities.\nThe party accused him of allegedly working to foil the emergence of Babatunde Fashola as the state governor in 2007.\nHe also accused Oluwo of several attempts to use the power of his office to place his wife in strategic positions in the state.\n\u201cIt is on record that Oluwo first made an attempt to reap from the challenges of internal party democracy in our progressive movement when he teamed up with one of the losers in the 2007 primaries of the Action Congress to stop Babatunde Fashola\u2019s sure victory at the polls. The unfortunate political adventurism failed woefully,\u201d the statement read.\n\u201cHowever, in the conventional demonstration of mercy and forgiveness, Oluwo\u2019s principal, was accommodated in the second term cabinet of Governor Babatunde Fashola as the Commissioner for Tourism.\n\u201cA similar milk of mercy and kindness led to the consideration Of Oluwo as a member of the Lagos State Executive Council under Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the hope that he has purged himself of opportunism, disloyalty and vaulting desperation for power.\n\u201cOluwo had hardly resumed as the Commissioner when he began his plot to use that office to advance his quest for political fiefdom. The object of his ambition was the positioning of his wife as the chairman of a local government.\n\u201cThe party rank and file aborted this abuse of power and reckless peddling of influence and everybody thought the lesson had been learnt. He, apparently, had not.\n\u201cAs soon as the procedures for the general elections began, Oluwo once again became the only commissioner to seek his wife as the member of House of Assembly for Eti- Osa.\n\u201cBy now the pattern of his ambition had become clear. The intrigue that enabled him to make his wife the first- term commissioner\u2019s wife to become the chairperson of the committee which organised the annual National Women Conference became clear. It was meant to achieve undeserved visibility.\n\u201cThis obnoxious attempt to deceive party members was again foiled and it is the aggravated frustration that has led to this defection.\u201d\nIgbokwe alleged that Oluwo\u2019s defection is evidence that he was a mole of the opposition party.\nHe, however, added that it remains unshaken, while wishing Oluwo well in his future endeavours.\nAPCdefectlagosPDPWale Oluwo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 8149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecandidadiet.com/forums/reply/pure-stevia-does-it-feed-candida-90-25/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:37Z", "digest": "sha1:P5DUAYGKMMUOH627QMCDKH7XZTAHTFZS", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thecandidadiet.com", "title": "Reply To: Pure Stevia...does it feed Candida \u00bb The Candida Diet", "raw_content": "moochpb;42650 wrote: I have no issues with stevia. It shouldn\u2019t be an issue if its pure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1992-05-30/2-exhibits-reflect-lds-diversity-5208", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QTOTVZ34I2LX7SE66HER45TAMTA6HG46", "length": 2885, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thechurchnews.com", "title": "2 exhibits reflect LDS diversity - Church News", "raw_content": "2 exhibits reflect LDS diversity\nThe cultural diversity of LDS pioneer artists is just beginning to be appreciated, said the curator of two new art exhibits at the Museum of Church History and Art.\nOne exhibit is titled \"The Spiritual Foundations of Latter-day Saint Art.\" Opened in April in the central gallery, the exhibit is a permanent installation replacing the LDS Masterworks exhibit that opened in 1984.\"As Church membership grows worldwide, Latter-day Saints are rapidly becoming more culturally diverse,\" explained curator Richard Oman. \"Translation skills are increasingly needed to understand the spiritual insights expressed by the saints to each other.\"\nThe variety of cultural backgrounds was reflected in early Mormon art by the emigration from Scandinavia and the British Isles.\n\"That diversity meant that the Danish artists chose different subjects with a different emphasis than their English neighbors in Utah,\" Brother Oman said. \"The pioneer Scandinavian artists told the epic story of the Latter-day Saints by painting everyday life and shared experiences.\"\nExamples of the work by C.C.A. Christensen and Dan Weggeland illustrate this portion of the new exhibit.\nBritish immigrant artists such as William Major, John Tullidge and George Beard were interested in \"showing God's handiwork in the national environment and the divine institutions of church and family,\" Brother Oman pointed out. Other examples of this approach include renderings of glowing landscapes by artists H.L.A. Culmer, Reuben Kirkham and Alfred Lambourne.\nBrother Oman, an authority on early Mormon artistry and religious symbolism, explained that artists such as John Hafen and Lorus Pratt became impressionists through their studies in Paris. Another group that emphasized the spiritual significance of human labor includes LeConte Stewart, Minerva Teichert and Mahonri Young.\nAlso in the gallery are 10 sculptures representing works of nationally known artists Cyrus Dallin, Mahonri Young, Torlief Knaphus and Avard Fairbanks.\nAn adjunct to the central gallery spiritual foundations display is the new contemporary art exhibit titled, \"Seeing With Other Eyes: Cultured Divinity and Religious Symbolism in Contemporary Latter-day Saint Art.\" This exhibit is in the east gallery. It opened Feb. 13 and closes next year on Feb. 22.\nIn explaining the importance of symbolism, Brother Oman said: \"Symbols are visual elements whose meaning expands beyond the literal representation of life. Symbolic art can open our souls to an understanding that is unavailable to people who see only with the temporal eyes. Understanding symbolism helps us focus on the religious content in art; it helps bind us together as a religious people.\"\nJust west of Temple Square, the museum is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Admission is free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecirclepit.com/2015/05/gwar-split-with-new-vocalist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EZCURNJQVTBEMOBPQDKEOQB66552LYAW", "length": 2160, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thecirclepit.com", "title": "GWAR Split With New Vocalist | The Circle Pit", "raw_content": "GWAR Split With New Vocalist\nPosted By Mike on May 8, 2015. Under Heavy Metal, News, Punk, Thrash Metal\nIt\u2019s been a little over a year since the untimely death of GWAR vocalist Dave Brockie (aka Oderus Urungus). This hasn\u2019t stopped the band from progressing though. In that time, they\u2019ve opened the Gwar Bar, continued the infamous GWAR-B-Q, and toured with new members. One of those new members was frontwoman Kim Dylla aka Vulvatron. Now, it appears as if they\u2019ve moved on without her. The band gave the following statement:\nGWAR, the world\u2019s premier shock rock band, today announced that Kim Dylla was released from the band directly following the fall 2014 GWAR Eternal Tour, and will no longer perform with the group. Dylla played the character of Vulvatron, a buxom Scumdog from the distant future, on the band\u2019s last national tour. The group garnered quite a bit of press when it was erroneously reported that Dylla, in the role of Vulvatron was the new lead singer for the band.\nBrent Purgason, slave of the recently defrosted intergalactic barbarian, Pustulus Maximus, had this to say; \u201cKim did a great job, but we wanted to go a different direction with the Vulvatron character. You will absolutely see more of Vulvatron in the future, just not portrayed by Kim. There is no ill will, no acrimony, and no drama. We respect Kim\u2019s talent without question, it just isn\u2019t what we needed in the character.\nIn response, Kim had the following to say:\n\u201cIt\u2019s really nice when you find out important things from people you consider to be your friends from posts on the internet and messages from strangers. There is something called basic respect not existing in that modus of communication. That being said, I\u2019m currently looking for a new vocal gig with a serious metal band that likes to tour their asses off. Doesn\u2019t matter what style but no core b.s., no symphonic metal. Must be chill dudes and down with beer drinking hellraisers. Must not be threatened by strong women, no deep-seated drama. Location unimportant.\u201d\nSee More: GWAR, Heavy Metal, Punk, Thrash Metal\n\u00ab Being As An Ocean \u2013 New Song / New Album Incoming\nCryptopsy Are Crowdfunding A New EP \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegoldenstar.net/news/ndp-hopefuls-downplay-harcourts-rejection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NDMEXKAWZ5PQERTWCAMTTHFYL454ZF2F", "length": 2024, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thegoldenstar.net", "title": "NDP hopefuls downplay Harcourt\u2019s rejection \u2013 The Golden Star", "raw_content": "Mike Farnworth, John Horgan agree the party has to recover its standing in rural B.C. and on resource development\nMike Harcourt endorses Mike Farnworth for the B.C. NDP leadership in 2011.\nFormer premier Mike Harcourt\u2019s disenchantment with the NDP is a sign of the challenge ahead for the party after last year\u2019s election loss, leadership candidates John Horgan and Mike Farnworth said Tuesday.\nHarcourt has let his party membership lapse and gave several interviews this week to express his disappointment with the NDP\u2019s performance in the 2013 election. Harcourt told the Globe and Mail he is not sure if his decision to quit the party is \u201ca trial separation or a decree absolute,\u201d but he won\u2019t be voting in the leadership contest in September.\nHorgan said he has spoken with Harcourt in recent weeks about the party\u2019s standing in rural B.C., particularly after leader Adrian Dix\u2019s mid-campaign decision to oppose the expansion of the Trans-Mountain oil pipeline from northern Alberta to Burnaby.\n\u201cThe message it sends to me is that I have a lot of work to do,\u201d Horgan said. \u201cI have a lot of work to convince Mike Harcourt and other New Democrats and all British Columbians that there\u2019s a better way for us to proceed, a balanced approach to the economy and the environment.\u201d\nHarcourt, the former Vancouver mayor who served as premier from 1991 to 1996, endorsed Farnworth in the 2011 leadership campaign.\nFarnworth said Tuesday he agrees with Harcourt\u2019s criticism, and the struggle to balance resource development with environmental concern has a long history in the NDP. It was Harcourt who faced the \u201cwar in the woods\u201d in the 1990s over coastal logging and came up with land use plans that still serve B.C. today, he said.\n\u201cI think Mike is saying what he thought, and it\u2019s reflective of the comments we heard after the election last May,\u201d Farnworth said.\nNDP members vote this fall on their choice to succeed Dix, with results to be revealed Sept. 28.\nEconomic development, Kicking Horse Culture among Habart\u2019s concerns", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 7389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/19/jay-z-philadelphia-mayor-jim-kenney-made-in-america-festival", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HAYXUURFA36DLCBDFE5KY2JSX3ANPDUY", "length": 2353, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Jay-Z in dispute with Philadelphia mayor over music festival\nMayor Jim Kenney softens stance after rapper reacts strongly to decision to move Made in America festival out of city centre\nJay-Z performing in Cardiff in June. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images\nJay-Z is embroiled in a dispute with the mayoral office of Philadelphia after it announced plans to change the location of his music festival, Made in America.\nOn Tuesday, a representative for Mayor Jim Kenney said this year\u2019s festival would be the last to be held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the centre of the city. The festival, founded in 2012, was \u201cintended to provide a unique attraction to the city on the otherwise quiet Labor Day weekend\u201d but thanks to a rise in tourism, the mayor\u2019s office argued \u201cthe need for an event of this scale at this location may no longer be necessary\u201d.\nWriting for the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, Jay-Z said: \u201cOur question is: how do you think that tourism grew, Mayor Kenney?\u201d The rapper said he and his company, Roc Nation, were never consulted over the city\u2019s decision and that the move showed \u201czero appreciation\u201d for the festival. \u201cWe are disappointed that the mayor would evict us from the heart of the city, through a media outlet, without a sit-down meeting, notice, dialogue or proper communication,\u201d he wrote. Roc Nation\u2019s chief operating officer, Desiree Perez, told the New York Post: \u201cWe\u2019re shocked. We couldn\u2019t believe it. We don\u2019t have a clue about the hostility we\u2019ve received.\u201d\nJay-Z also said that the city council had tried to cancel this year\u2019s event, which is being held on 1-2 September, and will feature Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Meek Mill as headliners. He claimed the festival had brought in more than $100m (\u00a377m) to the city\u2019s economy plus $3.4m paid in rent, and highlighted the work of its philanthropic partner Cause Village.\nKenney has since released a statement softening his stance, saying he was \u201cgreatly appreciative\u201d of the festival. \u201cWe hope to be able to resolve what has been an unfortunate misunderstanding,\u201d he said, adding he was \u201ccommitted to continuing our partnership with the Made in America festival\u201d.\nMade in America has featured high-profile headliners such as Jay-Z himself, Beyonc\u00e9, Kanye West, Rihanna, Coldplay and the Weeknd. Barack Obama gave a video address at the inaugural 2012 event.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/we-know-who-did-this-how-solving-peter-falconios-changed-a-detectives-life", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FLS74ENUAP3QO7Y7TSFMXPIEPQXF66X2", "length": 16284, "nlines": 92, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "The Peter Falconio murder case\n'We know who did this': how solving Peter Falconio's murder changed a detective's life\nFifteen years after the UK backpacker went missing, former detective Colleen Gwynne reflects on a challenging case she will \u2018never equal\u2019\n@StoryProjects\nThu 7 Jul 2016 18.46 EDT Last modified on Wed 26 Oct 2016 18.28 EDT\nBritish couple Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio pulled over on a remote outback highway in the Northern Territory in 2001 to help Bradley Murdoch, whose vehicle had broken down. In 2005 Murdoch was convicted of murdering Falconio and abducting Lees. Photograph: Reuters\nSix months after Peter Falconio disappeared, Det Supt Colleen Gwynne huddled under a saltbush not far from Barrow Creek in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory. As she watched the tail lights of her police car disappear down the Stuart Highway, Gwynne felt overwhelmed by the stillness of the desert.\nShe had returned to the place where the British backpacker and his girlfriend Joanne Lees were attacked to try to understand what Lees experienced that night. Crouched in the scrub, she looked out and imagined Lees cowering, her attacker not far away, searching for her.\n\u201cI felt extremely vulnerable out there,\u201d Gwynne says. \u201cI could hear my own heartbeat.\n\u201cThat\u2019s when it felt really real for me. I understood what this woman had been through and it was terrifying. What she endured and her fight for survival was just remarkable.\u201d\nIn the darkness, Gwynne recalled the details of the crime: a Kombi van with two British backpackers headed north; a man in a white utility pulled off to one side of the highway, hazard lights blinking; a helpful Falconio coaxed to the rear of the vehicle; male voices discussing something about exhaust pipes and then a gunshot ringing through the night; a terrified Lees pulled from the front seat, stunned by a blow to the head, hands bound, forced into the ute; an anxious killer returning to Falconio\u2019s body; a tiny, wild window of opportunity for Lees to scramble out into darkness and run to this very place, under the saltbush.\nPolice recreate the scene at the site of the ambush when Falconio and Lees pulled over to help Bradley Murdoch, who had broken down. Photograph: Brian Cassey/AP\nTaking on the case\nSix months earlier Gwynne was at home in Alice Springs when her phone rang: \u201cHey, boss, you better come to work. A bloke\u2019s missing and his missus reckons someone\u2019s shot him,\u201d a young police officer said.\nGwynne knew this was no ordinary report and when she pulled into the station she expected to find an operations room set up and the buzz of a big case.\n\u201cAlarm bells rang for me straight away when I got there,\u201d says Gwynne.\nGwynne wasn\u2019t in the investigations squad and didn\u2019t have a direct role in the case. Instead, she watched what she describes now as a response with \u201cno clear direction\u201d.\n\u201cMy memory of the press conference is of Joanne Lees fronting the cameras with Cheeky Monkey plastered across her breasts. It was as if no one thought to ask \u2018what would this look like to the world?\u2019 The whole thing was embarrassing,\u201d she says.\nWithin a week, Gwynne stopped watching the nightly news.\nThe Kombi van belonging Falconio and Lees was impounded as evidence. Photograph: Ian Waldie/AFP/Getty Images\nThen in February 2002, six months after Falconio\u2019s disappearance, Colleen Gwynne was promoted to superintendent, head of crime in Alice Springs. She knew what this really meant: she would be taking on the case.\n\u201cThe reaction for me was a bit like when you go to a movie and you buy a big bag of lollies,\u201d Gwynne recalls. \u201cThe blood sugar levels are high, and then all of a sudden you fall off the side and the low hits you.\n\u201cThat\u2019s what it was like for me. I was on that high. What a chance, what an opportunity! And all of a sudden, the sugar hangover hit. I was feeling pretty apprehensive.\u201d\nGwynne knew that to solve the case she needed to bury herself in the detail of the crime.\n\u201cTo deal with the anxieties, I worked day and night and I read every little piece of that case,\u201d she says. \u201cI was up until two or three in the morning, reading, reading, reading. After that, I knew what I needed to do \u2026 I had to put together a winning team.\u201d\nJoanne Lees leaves the Northern Territory supreme court in Darwin after Murdoch\u2019s conviction for murder was handed down. Photograph: Rick Stevens/AP\nPicking her side\nThere were more than a dozen people involved in the investigation when Gwynne took over the case and she began downsizing.\nAfter watching and observing the team for a week, Gwynne worked out who would stay. The old-school detective who had worked in Alice Springs most of his life: \u201cHe went at his own pace, he was smart, he was methodical but he believed that something bad had occurred,\u201d Gwynne says.\nThe second person Gwynne chose was a talented detective in her 30s who believed Lees was innocent. \u201cShe was tired of dealing with drug- and alcohol-induced violent crimes. She wanted something different and she was very committed to solving the case.\u201d\nThe final team member was an intelligence officer who possessed unrivalled attention to detail.This rigour was exactly what Gwynne was looking for and, while she didn\u2019t know it then, her last team pick would be vital in closing the case.\nSurrounded by police, Bradley Murdoch arrives at Darwin airport from Adelaide in 2003. Photograph: David Hancock/AFP/Getty Images\nA breakthrough was desperately needed in the case. Gwynne tasked her team with finding a match for the DNA profile taken from Lees\u2019s T-shirt and the gearstick of the Kombi. At the time there were 2,500 persons of interest. Near the top of the list was a diesel mechanic from Broome, known to police for outback drug running. He fitted Lees\u2019s description and investigators had placed him in the area during the week of the attack. His name was Bradley John Murdoch.\nGetting a DNA sample from a person of interest is no easy task. You need to find someone who doesn\u2019t want to be found and then convince him or her to give you a sample. Gwynne knew if her team approached Murdoch directly he would go to ground.\n\u201cIf he disappeared, we wouldn\u2019t have found him,\u201d she says. \u201cHe was an expert in disguise. He was constantly changing the look of his car. He would swap the mudflaps, the plates, the hubcaps and the canvas.\u201d\nSo they decided to approach Murdoch\u2019s brother, Gary. This was risky and they only had one shot at it, but Gwynne was confident after she learned there was a falling out between the siblings.\n\u201cI thought a lot about who could convince Gary to give us a DNA sample. In the end, I sent the young, quiet, female detective because I thought her approach would give us the best opportunity \u2013 and my intuition paid off.\u201d\nThe forensic expert advised that the DNA from Lees\u2019s T-shirt was 150 quadrillion times more likely to have come from Murdoch than someone else.\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe we had a match. We now know who touched Joanne Lees on her shirt. We now know who touched the gear stick in the Kombi. It was Bradley John Murdoch.\u201d\nThe press went crazy. Papers across the country homed in on Murdoch and Alice Springs was flooded with TV crews and British reporters.\n\u201cBradley Murdoch knew we were on to him and he panicked. He started to escape and this man knows the bush like no other. We had a window of opportunity to find him and we knew that it was now a hunt.\u201d\nPolice all over Australia were on the lookout for Murdoch and he may have eluded them if he hadn\u2019t committed another crime.\nOn 28 August 2002 the South Australian police arrested him in the coastal town of Port Augusta, 300km north-west of Adelaide, for the suspected rape and abduction of a woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Gwynne listened in via speakerphone as they made the arrest.\n\u201cI felt a mixture of excitement and apprehension. We were now under enormous pressure. We had to be in a position where we could arrest him and transfer him to the Northern Territory should he be acquitted or bailed of the South Australian charges.\u201d\nIn 2002 South Australian police arrested Murdoch in the coastal town of Port Augusta for the suspected rape and abduction of a woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Photograph: Tony Lewis/Getty Images\nMeeting Murdoch\nShortly after his arrest, Gwynne and one of her colleagues flew down to meet Murdoch. \u201cWhen we arrived at Yatala prison, my heart was beating like you wouldn\u2019t believe,\u201d she says.\n\u201cI was finally going to meet this man. There was an element of excitement too. I\u2019d spent the entire previous night prepping for the interview. I was ready.\u201d\nBut something was unsettling Gwynne, something she had been trying to suppress since the first time she saw an image of Murdoch.\n\u201cThere was a remarkable resemblance between Murdoch and my father, who was the most intimidating and violent man, who made my upbringing a living nightmare.\u201d\nGwynne knew that in facing Murdoch, she would also be confronting her own violent past. When they walked Murdoch into the cell, his size startled Gwynne.\n\u201cHe stood over me with his tall, intimidating figure and I was so small under his frame. He was leaning in, yelling and spitting on my face. My past flashed before me and I knew Murdoch was playing a game of intimidation.\u201d\nIt was then she found the strength to do something she hadn\u2019t been able to as a child. \u201cI never could stand up to my father but I wasn\u2019t going to take a backwards step now. I played the game and I won. He took the first step back.\u201d\nJoanne Lees pictured with Peter Falconio. Photograph: PA\nMeeting Joanne Lees\nGwynne was acutely aware that solving the case hinged on getting inside Lees\u2019s head. Up until that point, it had been difficult for Gwynne to get a sense of her. Her original witness statement, taken on the night of the crime, had been lost, and subsequent statements lacked some clarity. According to Gwynne \u201cambiguity like this could discredit even the best witness\u201d. So in November 2002 Gwynne travelled to the UK to reinterview Lees.\nGwynne always loved the British cop show The Bill. When she walked into Brighton\u2019s Hove police station, the young man at the front desk looked up.\n\u201cMorning, guv, cuppa tea?\u201d\nGwynne beamed: \u201cThanks, mate. One sugar.\u201d\nIt got harder after that. The interview with a wary Lees stretched on for the best part of a day.\n\u201cThis was a woman who had no trust. She thought we were a bunch of dickheads who had no idea how to solve a crime,\u201d recalls Gwynne.\nGwynne tackled it head on by acknowledging the inadequacies in the case. She stressed that she was there to make amends, to hear Lees out on her own turf, in her own time. Slowly, Lees warmed up and she began to recount her memories of the attack. It took energy to revisit the violence and Gwynne had great respect for her courage. Afterwards it was as if they\u2019d been through something immense.\n\u201cWe spent this special time together \u2026 There were tears, there was laughter \u2026 and she renewed her confidence in the Northern Territory police and she was so happy that she gave me a rock from Brighton Beach. I\u2019ve still got that rock.\u201d\nLuciano and Joan Falconio after the first day of the murder trial. Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP\n\u2018We know who did this, and we\u2019re going to convict him\u2019\nThe following day Gwynne travelled to Huddersfield, Yorkshire, to visit Falconio\u2019s parents.\n\u201cThis was something I was really anxious about,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what I would find and I wasn\u2019t sure they would want to see us.\u201d\nGwynne had seen plenty of families racked by grief. She knew how it would play out before she knocked on the door. \u201cJoan Falconio was so distraught she couldn\u2019t get out of bed to talk to me. It took her an hour.\u201d\nThe police officer sat with the family in their lounge room, talking, listening and drinking a lot of tea. \u201cI drank about 30 cups of tea and went to the toilet about every four minutes. That\u2019s a pretty good way to break the ice.\u201d\nWhen the small talk dried up, Gwynne took a deep breath and said what she had come to say: \u201cWe know who did this and we\u2019re going to convict him.\u201d\nThe words hung in the quiet of the room and Gwynne wondered whether she had promised too much. Then, Joan Falconio got up and hugged her.\n\u201cWe had a moment and that bond has never left me \u2026 I knew I had to solve the case and if I couldn\u2019t find Peter, then they wanted the person responsible found, and convicted. When I left Huddersfield that day, the pressure on me and the weight on me was enormous \u2013 the hope they had and the way they looked at me, like I was the one that was going to change things for them.\u201d\nThis weight would bury Gwynne at times, forcing her to immerse herself in the case over and over again, to live and breathe the detail. But it lifted her too, urging her to keep going when closure looked unlikely.\nHair tie or trophy?\nGwynne\u2019s team still didn\u2019t have a body but the evidence was stacking up. Lees had identified Murdoch from a board of 12 people, police knew he had been in the Alice Springs area on the day of the attack and they had a DNA match. But was it enough to put him behind bars? Gwynne needed to be sure that they had found everything. She gathered her team together for \u201cone last push at goals\u201d.\n\u201cIt was like being four behind in extra time. We knew we had to move fast or we\u2019d be out.\u201d\nThen a detective \u2013 the one Gwynne had chosen for her acute attention to detail and who had sifted through thousands of Murdoch\u2019s belongings \u2013 discovered a small, round, Mary Jane hair tie.\n\u201cIt was the hair tie that was taken from Joanne Lees when she struggled to survive and keep her life. [Murdoch] had it wrapped around his shoulder holster, inside his belongings. I think it was a trophy but no one will ever know.\u201d\nMonths later, when the hair tie was presented as evidence in the trial, it clearly made an impression on Murdoch.\n\u201cHe recoiled and he wouldn\u2019t touch it,\u201d recalls Gwynne. \u201cYou could see that he knew that was it. That was the nail in his coffin.\u201d\nPeter Falconio case: parole plan raises hopes British backpacker's body will be found\nOn 13 December 2005, four and a half years after he stopped the Kombi near Barrow Creek, Murdoch was convicted of the murder of Peter Falconio and the assault and abduction of Joanne Lees. He was given a mandatory life sentence with a minimum 28-year non-parole period.\nColleen Gwynne sat in the front row when the jury handed down their guilty verdict. After all those years of pursuit, the closure was overwhelming.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know how to feel,\u201d says Gwynne. \u201cI wanted to cry. I wanted to laugh. I felt numb.\u201d\nShe scanned the courtroom for the woman she embraced back in Huddersfield. \u201cThere was Joan Falconio and she mouthed \u2018thank you\u2019 to me and I had to remove myself from the courtroom. The emotion was overwhelming and I had to find somewhere I could just cry.\u201d\nWhen she regained her composure, Gwynne stood, and she knew both the case and her career were over.\n\u201cThat was the moment that marked the end of my police career. I would never equal such a challenge. It\u2019s like being best on ground in consecutive grand finals. There\u2019s nothing left after that.\u201d\nThese days Colleen Gwynne works as the Northern Territory children\u2019s commissioner but she still thinks about the Falconio case and the profound impact it had on her life.\n\u201cFor many years I wanted to forget the case. It\u2019s not until recently that I felt the need to talk about the personal impact it had on me. It\u2019s the Falconio family who I think about the most. They lost their son and brother under some devastating circumstances and their grief stays with me.\u201d\nIn her new role, Gwynne works to make the Northern Territory a safer place for children and their families. Most of the time she feels worlds away from that desert saltbush and the prison cell at Yatala but occasionally she comes across a story and is reminded of something she has always known \u2013 that our pasts shape what we do and where we end up.\n\u201cMy own story of growing up has compelled me to seek out work that looks at ways of addressing family violence. It\u2019s only in the last couple of years that I\u2019ve realised that we can turn our most difficult, personal challenges into things that are good. 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Rather, such factors as age and date of conviction, seriousness and nature of the crime, and rehabilitation will be considered.\nIn accordance with Washington, DC law, applicants will not be asked about their criminal record, and no criminal background checks will be conducted, unless and until a contingent offer of employment has been extended.\nIn accordance with Prince Georges County, MD and Montgomery County, MD law, applicants will not be asked about their criminal record and no criminal background checks will be conducted until after a successful first interview has been conducted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themystica.com/time-zurvan-myth/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FOKKSWHLDAOSW3JUKXOBOD2GPCXOVRAQ", "length": 4431, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.themystica.com", "title": "Time and the Zurvan myth \ud83d\udcd7", "raw_content": "Time and the Zurvan myth\nThe specific concept of time in both Iran and India is described as being composed of three successive or connecting phases: the succession of events (infinite time); the wearing away or erosion of beings, their transformation and death; and their greater or lesser renewal according to the prevailing concept of time as cyclic or linear (finite time). Such a concept, although philosophic, harmoniously connects two types of myth: first is the myth of the creation of the world in three phrases, the universal creation of good and evil; the intermingling of the two forces; and the separation and the final triumph of good. The second type of myth, proceeding Zoroastrianism, is divided into epochs, where each epoch is corrupted but is turned back by one of the three sons of Zoroaster born of a virgin who bathed in a lake where the father\u2019s seed was preserved. The first myth stems more from a moral concept; whereas the second from the physical concepts of erosion and degeneration, and the fusion of the two is natural. In India, the second dominated, while in Iran, it was the first minus much explanation for the existence of evil since it existed before the creation of the world (Grimal 195).\nPerhaps the myth of Zurvan (Time) can help to explain Zoroaster\u2019s basic concept of his religion, Zoroastrianism. The concept is of good constantly in combat with evil; Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainya in a continual struggle. In the myth, Zurvan , through the supreme god, has been offering sacrifices for a thousand years in order to obtain a son. In the end, when he doubts the efficacy of his actions Angr Mainya is conceived as a result of the father\u2019s doubt while Ahira Mazda comes from the merits of the sacrifices. While still in Time\u2019s androgynous womb Angra Mainya realizes the first to be born enjoys the privileges of kingship, so he hastens to enter the world first before his twin brother. Zurvan, with his plans thwarted, can only wait with the assurance that in the end good would prevail (Grimal).\nThe myth of Zurvan appears to answer previously purposed questions: in the initial paragraph it was stated that Iran held to the first myth accounting for the creation of the world without much explanation of the existence of evil that existed before the world\u2019s creation. This raises the first question, why did Iran, particularly Zoroaster, hold so steadfastly to this myth. The second question which the Zurvan myth seems to answer is how or why Zoroaster was so certain the twins would be constant combatants; Zoroaster confirms his certainty of this in his teaching that Ahura Mazda, through his wisdom, knew if he became Creator and fashioned the world, then the Hostile Spirit would attack it because it was good, and it would become a battleground for the two forces, but in the end he, God, would win the great struggle there and be able to destroy evil, and establish a universe which would be wholly good forever (Boyce 21).\nThe answers to both questions seem to rest upon the Zurvan myth itself and both answers seem to merge into one: Zoroaster, knowing the myth, believed evil did exist before the creation of the world since he gives no description of the origin of the two forces; for him, they always seemed to exist, and this was the way he explained evil in the world. This can be observed both from the myth and his teaching. In the myth the Hostile Spirit, Angra Mainya, conceived from doubt was hostile by nature before birth. Zoroaster\u2019s teaching only emphasizes this \u201cAhura Mazda, through his wisdom, knew if he became Creator and fashioned the world, then the Hostile Spirit would attack it because it was good, and it would become a battleground for the two forces\u2026\u201d Ahura Mazda knew, from this statement, that if he became Creator and fashioned the world, meaning this was prior to the creation of the world, that the Hostile Spite, evil by nature, would attack it, the world, because it was good, and it would become the battleground for the two forces. Simply, Zoroaster believed and taught that the two combatant forces of good and evil which existed before the creation of the world would continue their battle within the world, which also aided his explanation of the evil that existed in the world. His further teaching was that good would finally conquer evil. A.G.H.\nBoyce, Mary, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, New York, Routledge, 2002", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 5055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenational.scot/news/17403666.tory-gold-member-offer-wont-have-you-rushing-to-sign-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:V6PM45WOHZGT4BOXS3AZL2YC2HDXHFKD", "length": 1452, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thenational.scot", "title": "Tory party's 'Gold member' offer won't have you rushing to sign up | The National", "raw_content": "Tory party's 'Gold member' offer won't have you rushing to sign up\nMichael Gove's offering isn't, perhaps, the most enticing membership perk to have been offered\nIN the olden days the Tories used to reward their donors with knighthoods and peerages.\nChuck John Major a few quid, and you could spend the rest of your life in ermine, eating subsidised swan and caviar in the House of Lords cafeteria, getting called \u201cm\u2019lord\u201d or \u201cm\u2019lady\u201d.\nBut things aren\u2019t what they once were.\nWith local elections coming up in England in May, the party are putting out the begging bowl, and the offer to big money donors isn't as flash.\nIn an email to supporters, Gove warns the party faithful that the traitorous bastards in Labour are actually trying to win votes.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a fact,\u201d he warns, \u201cJeremy Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party have more staff on the ground than we do.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve recruited over 70 full-time campaigners \u2013 to help them win the local elections in May.\n\u201cAnd with a majority of their campaigners based outside London, it\u2019s clear what Labour are doing.\n\u201cThey\u2019re targeting our most important seats.\u201d\nGove asks supporters to consider becoming \u201cGold members\u201d and donating \u00a350 a month. To tempt them he offers a signed copy of his \u201clatest despatch box statement\u201d.\nHaud. Me. Back.\nAnyway. We\u2019re sure this email asking for donations for \u201ccampaign managers\u201d is purely because of the local elections. Definitely not for any other reason \u2013 like, maybe, a general election...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 4670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenews.mx/science/trump-budget-again-targets-regional-water-cleanup-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:F3PCX36S2WTBFKCO5ITDSPYI4UUYNQU7", "length": 4166, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thenews.mx", "title": "The News", "raw_content": "Trump budget again targets regional water cleanup programs\nPresident Donald Trump again is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support for cleanups of some iconic U.S. waterways. His proposed budget would slash Environmental Protection Agency funding for Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay restoration programs by 90 percent. It would kill all EPA spending on programs supporting other waters including San Francisco Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound. The administration made a similar attempt last year but Congress refused to go along.\n, FILE - In this May 31, 2002 file photo, the sun sets over the Mackinac Bridge and the Mackinac Straits as seen from Lake Huron. The bridge is the dividing line between Lake Michigan to the west and Lake Huron to the east. President Donald Trump again is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support for cleanups of some iconic U.S. waterways. His proposed budget would slash Environmental Protection Agency funding for Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay restoration programs by 90 percent. It would kills all EPA spending on programs supporting other waters including San Francisco Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound. The administration made a similar attempt last year but Congress refused to go along. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)\nTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) \u2014 For a second consecutive year, President Donald Trump is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support of cleanups for iconic U.S. waterways including the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay.\nTrump's proposed 2019 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency released Monday would cut funding by 90 percent for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative \u2014 an Obama-era plan for dealing with pervasive pollution in the world's biggest surface freshwater system \u2014 and a similar program for Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.\nIt would remove all EPA funding of cleanup programs for the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Champlain, Long Island Sound, San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound and South Florida, including the Everglades and Keys. The administration's EPA spending plan said the agency would \"encourage state, tribal and local entities to continue to make progress\" in those places.\nThe administration sought to zero out spending on the regional water initiatives in its first budget a year ago, describing them as \"primarily local efforts\" and contending state and local governments were capable of paying for them.\nBut Congress decided otherwise, illustrating the popularity of the cleanups among lawmakers of both parties and voters who want progress on long-standing problems such as toxic algae that fouls beaches, invasive species that starve out native fish, and industrial toxins embedded in river bottoms.\nThe Great Lakes program is the largest, taking in about $300 million annually since it was established in 2010. Trump's budget would give it $30 million. Chesapeake Bay, which is getting nearly $73 million this year, would receive $7.3 million. The other programs receive significantly less federal funding.\nSupporters pledged another fight to keep them intact.\nU.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, denounced the proposed Great Lakes cuts as \"outrageous.\" Rep. Bill Huizenga, a Michigan Republican, pledged to seek full funding of the initiative, which he said boosts the economy and environment of an eight-state region extending from New York to Minnesota.\n\"Why the Trump administration would continue to try to slash funding for the world's most important freshwater resource is beyond my comprehension,\" said Mike Shriberg, regional director for the National Wildlife Federation.\nThe Chesapeake Bay program, which dates to 1983, has accelerated in recent years in the watershed's six states and Washington, D.C., with adoption of pollution reduction targets. Trump's budget would provide money for water quality monitoring but none for cleanup work, advocates said.\n\"A cut of this magnitude would severely damage Bay restoration efforts, just at a time when we are seeing significant progress,\" said William Baker, president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.\nEPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox declined comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theoldsoulandthesea.com/shop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:S5IH3NUPRKQ7M3SUXCM2KMPZTALNTPQ6", "length": 191, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theoldsoulandthesea.com", "title": "shop \u2014 The Old Soul and the Sea", "raw_content": "Currently the shop page of this site is not active, but all items are for sale. I also do custom work. If interested in making a purchase or discussing a custom piece, please contact me here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesportster.com/football/dream-team-building-a-legendary-roster-of-nfl-players-who-retired-this-offseason/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3HIMJWEP465VSTTAUOLZDXNQZIPBMB6Z", "length": 23002, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "www.thesportster.com", "title": "Dream Team: Building A Legendary Roster Of NFL Players Who Retired This OffSeason", "raw_content": "Dream Team: Building A Legendary Roster Of NFL Players Who Retired This OffSeason\nEvery offseason in the National Football League often features one or two memorable names who had amazing careers. Some were short and sweet and others spanned the majority of two decades with one or multiple teams, filled with highlight plays that fans from throughout the nation can recall at the mention of a player's name.\nFootball is the type of sport that can make legends of various types of athletes. There are the quarterbacks who can throw a football high through the sky and deep across the field, while there are mountains of men who battle each other on the line of scrimmage. And there are ball carriers who can find ways around defenders with a combination of speed and agility, while others find ways through them with power and strength. It's a sport where we see wide receivers, cornerbacks and safeties fly through the air and snagging the football from an opposing player. The field has often hosted hybrid athletes that are needed for positions like linebackers and tight ends.\nThe period between the 2015 and 2016 NFL seasons saw plenty of these kinds of players choose to leave the sport for good -- players ranging from youngsters to wily veterans who could have filled an all-star team in the Pro Bowl. There are several who are hall-of-fame bound. With this list, we are going to be assembling an offensive and defensive unit from the players who retired this offseason. You'll see how together, this dream team looks unstoppable.\nLet's take a look at who those players are and remember why they will be missed.\n22 Peyton Manning - Quarterback\nHe might not have as many Super Bowl rings as some of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, but Peyton Manning deserves to be placed in the same company as Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw. Ever since he debuted in 1998 with the Indianapolis Colts, he was a statistical juggernaut during the regular season with nearly 72,000 passing yards and 539 touchdowns, while completing 65.3 percent of his passes.\nDespite having earned a win over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in 2007 with the Colts, Manning had been thought of as a great regular season quarterback who couldn\u2019t win the big game as he struggled in playoff games against Brady and the New England Patriots and lost in Super Bowl XLVIII against the Seattle Seahawks. But there\u2019s no denying what Manning has done overall on the field and also as one of the best role models in league history.\nAfter an 18-year career filled with five reigns as the league\u2019s Most Valuable Player, Manning was able to walk off into the sunset with one more Super Bowl win (this time with the Denver Broncos) against Carolina, even if he wasn\u2019t the biggest offensive factor for the team, giving him the best way to end his professional run.\n21 Marshawn Lynch - Running back\nThe former Seattle Seahawks running back is just on this list so he doesn\u2019t get fined. Besides that, there will never be another player quite like him \u2013 both for his physical abilities and his unique personality. Let\u2019s start with the fact that in only nine seasons in the league, he was averaging about 4.3 yards per carry with a style of running that saw him run over more defenders than the ones he juked around.\nThe best example of his abilities can be found with the \u201cBeast-quake\u201d run in 2011 where he ran over the entire New Orleans Saints defense for a 67-yard touchdown run in the NFC Wild Card game. It was a highlight play that looked like someone controlling him in Madden and unlocked the unlimited trucking mode. Lynch was a big part of Seattle\u2019s offense during the Super Bowl run in 2013 and the return to the championship in 2014.\nBut his body started to break down in 2015 with limited time on the field. Fans not only remember how dominant he was on the field, but also remember him for his antics when he gave reporters a hard time getting a usable quote for their story.\n20 Calvin Johnson - Wide Receiver\nThere was more than met the eye when looking at Calvin Johnson on the field. The reason he was nicknamed \u201cMegatron\u201d was because he was much more than just a mortal human wide receiver on the field; he was a six-foot-five, 240-pound machine that dominated secondary units throughout the NFL. He led the league in receiving yards for consecutive seasons in 2011 and 2012, with the latter season of 1,964 yards being a single-season receiving yards record \u2013 more than 100 yard ahead of other receivers like Julio Jones, Jerry Rice and Antonio Brown.\nJohnson had video game-like numbers during only nine seasons in the NFL with 11,619 yards and 83 touchdowns. The unfortunate thing about Johnson\u2019s career is that despite the high numbers that make him one of the best receivers of all time, he only advanced in two playoff games between 2011 and 2014 with the Detroit Lions. Similar to how Dan Marino is considered one of the best quarterbacks to never win a championship, Johnson has that title among receivers \u2013 his six Pro-Bowl invitations and seven 1,000-yard seasons support that claim.\n19 Greg Jennings - Wide Receiver\nWhile some receivers like Johnson use their height and size to make catches over opposing defenders, a smaller receiver like Greg Jennings \u2013 standing at five-foot-11 and weighing under 200 pounds \u2013 was someone who used his speed and agility to get by defenders. Over the course of 10 seasons in the NFL, Jennings had a total of 8,291 yards and 64 touchdowns on 571 receptions. His best years were as the top aerial weapon available to Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay during the 2010 season with 1,265 yards and 12 touchdowns.\nThat was also the season where the Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV where Jennings had 64 yards and two touchdowns to help Green Bay win 31-25. He would spend two more seasons in Minnesota before a tough season last year in Miami wherein he only had 208 yards and one touchdown the entire season. But Jennings will always be known best for the time he spent in green and gold at Lambeau Field.\n18 Percy Harvin - Wide Receiver\nMaybe Percy Harvin is a case of a player who divided locker rooms and wasn\u2019t exactly the best teammate in the league. Or we can think about what could have been possible if he would have stayed healthy and had a chance to play more than the seven seasons in the NFL. But Harvin definitely had a positive impact for the Minnesota Vikings after he was drafted from the University of Florida in 2009. He would become one of Brett Favre\u2019s favorite deep threat targets as Harvin had 790 yards and six touchdowns in his rookie season and his numbers would grow to 967 yards to lead the Vikings in 2011 as the top receiver for Minnesota.\nBut he was also a big benefit in the special teams department, which was a key reason the Seattle Seahawks wanted him in a 2013 trade. Despite injury struggles, Harvin would have a kickoff return in the second half of Seattle\u2019s big 43-8 blowout win in Super Bowl XLVIII, where he had an 87-yard kickoff return touchdown. A combination of injuries and personal issues shortened his NFL career to just seven years, but he was still electric when he was at full health.\n17 Heath Miller - Tight End\nNot many players who are tight ends are the biggest contributors in terms of fantasy football statistics. While he wasn\u2019t a top target like Tony Gonzalez was for the Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons, Heath Miller was one of the best tight ends and spent all 11 seasons of his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Overall, Miller had 6,569 yards and 45 touchdowns on nearly 600 career receptions.\nBut another part of his job was being a great run blocker for a Steelers offense that won two Super Bowls (2005 and 2008). He utilized every bit of his six-foot-five, 256-pound frame to help a variety of running backs that included Jerome Bettis in his final season, as well as new names like Le\u2019Veon Bell. It was a shame that Miller was only invited to a couple of Pro Bowls, but earned those invites with six touchdowns in 2009 and another eight in 2012.\n16 D\u2019Brickashaw Ferguson - Offensive Tackle\nIt is hard for anyone in the NFL to go an entire career without missing some time due to the physical toll that playing football professionally can put on someone. But D\u2019Brickashaw Ferguson is not your average NFL player as he was able to play 10 seasons with the New York Jets \u2013 never missing a game or practice.\nIt\u2019s a little tougher to rank offensive tackles because there aren\u2019t as many statistics like other positions offer. But Ferguson was the type of football player any franchise would want -- someone who was able to stay healthy for a long period of time. However, his retirement came as his abilities on the offensive line were declining. While he could have continued in 2016 as a serviceable left tackle, he made the choice to leave and not be a hindrance on the Jets. He could be counted on to make every snap \u2013 except for a trick play in 2008.\n15 Logan Mankins - Guard\nPlaying the offensive line can be quite a difficult challenge with an offense that is developing behind you; just ask Logan Mankins. But he was playing at the Pro-Bowl level last season in his second year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers \u2013 helping protect a developing Jameis Winston, who threw for more than 4,000 passing yards in his rookie season, and then helped block for Doug Martin as he rushed for more than 1,400 yards.\nBut Mankins started his career playing nine seasons with the New England Patriots after being drafted in 2005. He learned how to protect quality with players like Tom Brady behind him. Mankins was someone who was good for every game in the first five seasons. He even played most of the 2011 season with an ACL injury, which only proved that he was truly one of the toughest men to play on the line of scrimmage.\n14 Manny Ramirez - Center\nWhile Manny Ramirez is not going to be joining the Pro-Football Hall of Fame in the future, he is still going to be remembered for being a serviceable offensive lineman who was able to go in for the occasional start. His first eight seasons in the NFL were split between the Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions, where he was able to play in a total of 83 games \u2013 he spent most of his time playing as an offensive guard that could play either side of the offensive line.\nUnfortunately, injuries were a big factor in him struggling to get regular time as a starter with the Detroit Lions in 2015. He was signed to a one-year contract to play with the Chicago Bears. The team was hoping that Ramirez would provide more depth to their line, but he announced his retirement in July, citing multiple injuries that impacted him so much that he didn\u2019t feel he could be able to give the proper effort to playing in the 2016 season.\n13 Phil Loadholt - Guard\nPhil Loadholt was someone who was a very dependable offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, who drafted him in 2009 after he made an impressive career playing at the University of Oklahoma. The former Sooner was able to start every game for the Vikings between 2010 and 2012 and was usually a dependable player who was a difficult tackle to get by because of being such a, well, load of mass at six-foot-eight and 343 pounds.\nOverall, Loadholt played in a total of 89 games as a starter for Minnesota before he suffered a torn Achilles tendon just before the 2015 preseason. Injuries would continue to hamper one of the league\u2019s best run blockers. His announced retirement came in the same tough week as when the Vikings also said goodbye to longtime defensive tackle Kevin Williams \u2013 both made quite the impression with the fans in Minnesota and definitely left a void on the team.\n12 Eugene Monroe - Offensive Tackle\nThere was plenty of expectation around the Jacksonville Jaguars offices when the team decided to select Eugene Monroe with the eighth overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. He might not have been the greatest athlete at six-foot-five and 310 pounds, but he was good enough to be a regular left tackle for the Jaguars offense with 53 starts on the offensive line in his first five season, with the team before he was traded during the 2013 season to the Baltimore Ravens.\nAfter two seasons with the Ravens, Monroe was given a surprise release from the team. One would have thought he was destined to find a new team quickly, but he decided to retire with concerns of wanting to preserve his long-term health. He did mention that he could have played the 2016 season with the same intensity, but he made a decision that others at his age have also chosen.\n11 Jared Allen - Defensive End\nOne of the best defensive ends in the past decade originally started his career with the Kansas City Chiefs in a rookie season that saw Jared Allen collect nine sacks. His numbers would continue to grow with his run as the league leader in sacks on two separate occasions, including a career-high 22 sacks in 2011 with the Minnesota Vikings. The one thing he didn\u2019t have for most of his career was a chance to play for a Super Bowl championship.\nAfter a short stint with the Chicago Bears, he was able to have a chance with the Carolina Panthers in 2015, even though he was on the losing end against the Denver Broncos last season. However, Allen finished his 12-year NFL career with nearly 500 tackles, 136 sacks and six interceptions. He was truly a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks throughout the league as he played for four different teams.\n10 B.J. Raji - Defensive Tackle\nThe Chicago Bears already had a refrigerator, but the Green Bay Packers got someone called \u201cthe Freezer\u201d when they drafted the six-foot-two, 334-pound B.J. Raji out of Boston College. While he didn\u2019t put up the same monster numbers as other great defensive tackles, Raji was known for creating memorable plays that started during his breakout season in 2010, when he had 6 1/2 sacks and 29 tackles.\nBut his big play in that season was an 18-yard interception return for a touchdown to help the Packers defeat the Bears, 21-14, in the NFC Championship that helped Green Bay advance to Super Bowl XLV -- a game in which they would defeat Pittsburgh, 31-25. He had some troubles staying healthy in 2014 and would play his final season in 2015. Raji would finish his career with 11 sacks and 104 tackles as a nose tackle for Green Bay\u2019s defense. One could only imagine how those numbers would climb if Raji was returning to Green Bay for this season\u2019s training camp.\n9 Darnell Dockett - Defensive Tackle\nDarnell Dockett was one of the key factors in helping the Arizona Cardinals find success in a very tough NFC West, especially in recent years with the Seattle Seahawks. After building up a great resume at Florida State University, Dockett continued his success with having 349 tackles and 40-and-a-half sacks in a career where he was mostly used as a defensive tackle. However, he did spend some time as a defensive end in the 2007 season for the first of three Pro-Bowl invitations.\nDockett was also very good at causing turnovers as he would force nine fumbles in his career and had snagged four interceptions as part of the 18 passes he defended on the line of scrimmage. His career had a tough ending after the 2013 season, when he had an ACL tear before the 2014 season began and was unable to remain on the San Francisco 49ers roster in 2015 \u2013 ultimately leading to his retirement last month.\n8 Justin Tuck - Defensive End\nIt may have taken Justin Tuck a few seasons to get into his groove as a defensive tackle, but he began to flourish in the 2007 season after the New York Giants moved him into the defensive end role. It was during that season that he had 48 tackles and 10 sacks during all 16 games (he only started two) as part of a defense that would surprise the league by handing the New England Patriots their first loss of the season at Super Bowl XLII in 2008. Tuck sacked Tom Brady twice as the defense kept the Patriots to only 274 yards in a 17-14 win.\nTuck would have most of his success with the Giants, including having one touchdown in his career on a 41-yard interception return during the 2008 season. However, Tuck made the decision to leave for Oakland, where he only had six sacks between two seasons. His overall career numbers included 66.5 sacks and more than 350 total tackles.\n7 Jon Beason - Linebacker\nNoah K. Murray-USA TODAY\nJon Beason is another talented player who could have further established his career if he would have been able to stay in the NFL a little longer. But he retired at the age of 30 after only nine seasons in the league that started with his rookie season with the Carolina Panthers \u2013 a season where he was an immediate impact with 106 tackles. He would return with three consecutive Pro-Bowl appearances from 2008 to 2010.\nHis performance earned him a contract that made him the highest paid in his position within the franchise history, but he would go on the injured reserve one game into the 2011 season and lost his starting job to Luke Kuechly, who was the new top middle linebacker for the Panthers. Beason would then be traded to New York, but struggled to stay healthy beyond the 12 games he played for the Giants in 2013. He would retire after health prevented him from playing more than nine games between the 2014 and 2015 season.\n6 Jerod Mayo - Linebacker\nWhile his career only lasted eight seasons in the NFL, Jerod Mayo was making an impact as a linebacker for the New England Patriots. He started off strong after collecting 98 tackles in his rookie season in 2008. After some minor injuries in 2009, he would bounce back with 114 tackles, two sacks and three fumble recoveries in a 2010 season for the first and only Pro Bowl invitation.\nOverall, Mayo finished his career with 535 tackles and 11 sacks and was worthy of being a top-10 draft choice out of the University of Tennessee. But he struggled with shoulder injuries in each of his final three seasons and was held to a cap of $11.4 million with a $4 million bonus for the beginning of training camp. It was an understandable decision, but Mayo obviously made himself one of the team\u2019s best linebackers in franchise history. Not too shabby after eight seasons.\n5 A.J. Tarpley - Linebacker\nIt\u2019s not often that players retire from professional football shortly after their NFL debut. A.J. Tarpley was a unique case after he was able to make it to the league as an undrafted free agent out of Stanford University. He played his one and only season in the league last year with the Buffalo Bills after building quite the resume as one of the top pass-covering linebackers in college football the year prior.\nIn that one season, Tarpley showed some promise with a few tackles and a sack. However, he was making the biggest contributions in pass defense as he had two interceptions that included a 37-yard return. He also forced a fumble as part of the 15 games he played, mostly as a non-starting linebacker for the Bills. The unfortunate thing is that Tarpley decided to leave the game after he had concerns about concussions and head trauma that others have suffered, which makes one think how good he would have been if he was able to work through those fears.\n4 Charles Tillman - Cornerback\nThe man known as \u201cPeanut\u201d wasn\u2019t the most physically imposing defensive back in the NFL, but he made quite the impression early in his career with the Chicago Bears when he was able to intercept a pass right out of the hands of the taller Randy Moss during a 2003 game against the Minnesota Vikings. Charles Tillman was also known for his signature \u201cPeanut Punch\u201d that would force 10 fumbles as part of a memorable Chicago defense in 2012.\nMany football fans in Chicago consider Tillman a Bear 'til the end, but he would leave the team after 12 seasons and play one season with the Carolina Panthers \u2013 part of it due to playing only 10 games between two seasons. With a limited role, Tillman still contributed to a Panthers team that would advance to last season\u2019s Super Bowl. Overall, Tillman finished his career with nine turnovers turned into touchdowns and a total of 38 interceptions over the course of 13 years in the league.\n3 Rashean Mathis - Cornerback\nWhen looking at the career numbers for Rashean Mathis, one would think how he would have done with a team that had better success. His career started in Jacksonville, where he was the top defensive player for the struggling Jaguars. He only earned one trip to the Pro-Bowl in 2006 after he collected eight interceptions to go along with 56 total tackles, but Jacksonville was only good for an 8-8 record and third place in the AFC South Division that year.\nMathis would then take his talents away from Florida and sign a contract with the Detroit Lions, where he had some moderate success in the Detroit secondary. His second year in Motown included a 41-yard interception return for a touchdown and two forced fumbles. Mathis called it a career after 13 seasons, when he had more than 600 tackles and 32 interceptions \u2013 not bad for coming from the lesser-known Bethune-Cookman football program.\n2 Charles Woodson - Safety\nHe was a corner for most of his career, but for the sake of building the best team possible, we'll put Woodson at safety here.\nConsider the number of NFL players who are retiring before the age of 30, it\u2019s important to show respect for someone who is able to play in the league for a lengthy run. It\u2019s especially noteworthy when a player is able to establish himself as someone who probably earned himself spots on two team\u2019s Hall of Fames, in addition to the main hall located in Canton, Ohio. Woodson was able to show he belonged as one of the best safeties in the league with five interceptions in his rookie season with Oakland.\nAfter eight seasons with the Raiders, he would be a big contributor to the Green Bay Packers, with 38 interceptions over seven seasons in Lambeau Field, winning his one and only championship ring in the 2010 season. He was able to finish his career in the black and silver, collecting another five interceptions last season before ending his career after 18 total seasons.\n1 Husain Abdullah - Safety\nBefore the 2008 NFL season, many football fans were not aware of who Husain Abdullah was, as he didn\u2019t pop up during the 2008 NFL Draft. The former safety out of Washington State University would get a chance with the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent signing. He didn\u2019t get his first start until the 2010 season, which would be his breakout season in which he had 50 tackles and three interceptions. A concussion would impact the 2011 season before he was signed to Kansas City in time for the 2013 season.\nAfter three seasons with the Chiefs, Abdullah made a tough decision to retire from professional football at age 30. He was just another NFL player leaving the league due to concerns about the effects of concussions. He even wrote an essay on the Players Tribune explaining how he felt it was the right choice to leave football.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 25965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 165.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/nvidia-shares-slip-after-softbank-reveals-3-6-billion-stake-sale-by-vision-fund-14857012?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:24Z", "digest": "sha1:255YLTTMRJQ74YUCE3FPSGN52X462KI4", "length": 2220, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thestreet.com", "title": "SoftBank Reveals $3.6 Billion Stake Sale in Nvidia By Vision Fund - TheStreet", "raw_content": "SoftBank Reveals $3.6 Billion Stake Sale in Nvidia By Vision Fund\nNvidia shares edged higher Wednesday following a report that SoftBank's $100 billion technology fund has sold its entire stake in the chipmaker.\nNvidia (NVDA) shares rose Wednesday after Japan's SoftBank Corp.'s (SFTBY) said it had sold its entire stake in the chipmaker held by its $100 billion technology fund.\nSoftBank said the Vision Fund dumped all of its Nvidia shares, worth around $3.6 billion, as of the end of January, as the stock lost nearly half of its value over the fourth quarter of last year. The Nikkei Asian Review reported that the the Fund, which was launched in 2016 with financial support from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, will also sell down stakes in Uber Technologies and Slack, both of which are expected to go public this year.\n\"For the investment in Nvidia, unrealized loss on valuation of \u00a5299,539 million was recorded for the period due to a large fall in its share price in the third quarter, versus share price increase in the first and second quarters,\" Softbank said. \"In January 2019, SoftBank Vision Fund disposed of its entire holding of Nvidia shares.\"\nNvidia shares gained 2% by the close of trading Wednesday and changed hands at $153.00 each, trimming the stock's three-month decline to about 26%.\nNvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the final months of last years as \"an extraordinary, unusually turbulent, and disappointing quarter\" for the chipmaker, and cautioned that revenues this year would fall far short of analysts forecasts following weaker-than-expected demand for its gaming and datacenter products and slowing growth in China.\nNvidia said sales for the three months ended on Jan. 27, its fiscal fourth quarter, would come in at $2.2 billion compared to earlier guidance of $2.7 billion. The company also said GAAP and non-GAAP margins would be hit by charges of around $120 million, adding that after a number of deals for its latest Turing graphics chips failed to close over the final months of the year as customers potentially waited for lower prices and demonstrations of the technology in actual games.\nGo Behind the Label of the big tech companies | More videos on our Youtube Channel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 7425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3140443/kick-it-out-troy-townsend-racism-russia-world-cup/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:F7UU3E5KFX3RBETKEI2O7JMORA7G5KAL", "length": 6798, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", "title": "Russia World Cup racism: Kick It Out's Troy Townsend, dad of Andros, says 'As an English black man, I tick all the boxes as being a target'", "raw_content": "racist attacks warning\nRussia World Cup racism: Kick It Out\u2019s Troy Townsend, dad of Andros, says \u2018As an English black man, I tick all the boxes as being a target\u2019\nKick It Out Education Manager and father of England winger Andros Townsend has reservations about taking his family to Russia to support his son if Gareth Southgate picks Crystal Palace winger for World Cup\nUpdated: 23rd March 2017, 10:41 am\nTROY TOWNSEND has major safety concerns about going to support his son Andros if he's selected for England to go the World Cup next year in Russia.\nTownsend, who is the Education Manager at anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out, questions what Russia is doing to stamp out discrimination in the country ahead of this summer's Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup.\nKick it Out Education Manager Troy Townsend and Chief Executive Roisin Wood\nJust three days after Fifa announced the closure of its anti-racism task force, claiming it had achieved its objectives since starting in 2013, FC Rostov's Champions League game with PSV Eindhoven was marred by racism - bananas were thrown onto the pitch, clearly aimed at the Dutch outfit's black players.\nTownsend, who delivers equality and diversity workshops to clubs around England and follows Andros all over the country playing for Crystal Palace, firmly believes he and his family could be targets for racist abuse during the tournament.\nTroy Townsend fears he could be a target in Russia if his son is selected for next summers World Cup\nTroy Townsend and Roisin Wood with Sun Reporter Warren Haughton\nAndros Townsend could be in the frame for World Cup 2018 in Russia with England\nHe revealed to SunSport: \"As an English black man, I tick all the boxes as being a target over there, but the most important thing is to go out there and support him.\n\"This is the World Cup. I look on with the most hesitancy because you never know what\u2019s going to happen. Fingers crossed he gets picked and as a playing experience I want him to be out there.\n\"But I would not be encouraging people to go out there.\nAndros Townsend back in the Premier League with Crystal Palace after his move from Newcastle\n\"We travel everywhere with him. I didn\u2019t have that support when I was playing as a youngster - would I take a holiday in Russia? No I would not.\"\nHe added: \"For me, I have to think about the welfare of my family and myself and would he comfortable with us being out there.\n\"I would not want my son playing out there worrying about if something goes off in the stands or worrying about where his family is.\"\nRoisin Wood questions how Fifa will ensure the Russian World Cup\nRoisin Wood, Kick It Out Chief Executive Officer, questions Russia's ability to welcome football fans from around the world and just how much pressure Fifa are exerting on the hosts to make sure there are no incidents inside or outside stadiums.\n\"When they gave the World Cup to Russia, the first thing we thought about was 'God what is going to happen?'\" Wood said.\n\"We know there is so much racism, homophobia and anti-semitism in Russia. I\u2019m not making this up. Everyone knows that.\n\"So my question to Fifa is what are you going to do. How are you going to ensure nothing happens?\n\"What is Russia doing to make people like me think it will be safe to go there?\"\nFormer Chelsea star Alexei Smertin (left) is in charge of investigating racism in Russian football, pictured with Brazil star Cafu\nWood added: \"Russia appoint someone (Alexi Smertin as anti-racism inspector) who claims racism does not exist in the country.\n\"I don\u2019t think they are doing anything, in fact when Fifa say Russia know what they need to do. Do they?\n\"Do you want to go to games? Because I don\u2019t want to go to the World Cup in Russia that much.\n\"Lots of fans will go \u2018It\u2019s not for me.'\"\nRacism on the terraces made the headlines again when Tottenham Hotspur's South Korean star Son Heung-min was subjected to taunts from Millwall fans during the FA Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane.\nCries of \"DVD\" and \"He's selling three for a fiver\" were heard every time Son took possession of the ball.\nSon Heung-Min was targeted with racist taints by the Millwall fans\n\"Millwall is not alone in this, there\u2019s an element of these fans at nearly every club that thinks it\u2019s still acceptable, it\u2019s only a bit of banter,\" Wood adds.\n\"I\u2019ve had people come to me and say 'you\u2019re overreacting' - I\u2019m not overreacting, these are professional players who are playing a game, this is the wrong language to be using and in 2017 you don\u2019t want to see it in the game.\nHeung-Min Son answers the abuse with a hat-trick in the 6-0 thumping of Millwall at White hart Lane\nTownsend added:\"It's derogatory and stereotypical language, full stop. It\u2019s aimed at the South East Asian background, historically there\u2019s always been jokes about the 'DVD' seller and who that may be.\n\"But were now in 2017,\"he added, \"I\u2019m not saying it was historically right then, but there's more of a focus on what people say, how they say it and who they direct it to.\n\"It was obviously offensive enough for Kyle Walker to make a gesture when Son scored and if that\u2019s the case, the impact of that is that someone was offended by the words said.\n\"I\u2019m not directing it only at Millwall, as a club they have done so much great work behind the scenes. It\u2019s disappointing particularly this season, all we\u2019ve spoken about is Leicester City, Watford and Spurs in the FA Cup as well.\n\"It's when they are in a competition of note, we talk about that element of fans that will follow them because of the glory of the competition more than anything else.\"\nKick It Out were also clear in their message to Uefa, accusing the Europe's football governors of not taking tough enough action against Serbia.\nPartizan Belgrade's Brazilian midfielder Everton Luiz was subjected to monkey chants throughout a top-flight league game against FK Rad.\nEverton Luiz left the pitch in tears after suffering 90 minutes of racial abuse in Serbia\nTownsend would go as far as banning the the Serbians from future tournaments.\nHe said: \"They claimed it was only ten fans and they were ejected, but it lasted for 90 minutes, so if Fifa and Uefa are not going to take the strongest stand with Serbia, I\u2019d stop them playing in World Cups, Euro qualifiers and everything.\n\"Don\u2019t give them paltry fines, because they are obviously not bothered.\n\"What will bother them is not taking part in World Cup or European championships - whether that is effective enough to stop the fans doing what they do? Who knows.\"\nKick It Out\u2019s free mentoring event for people wishing to work in the football industry, which offers a unique chance to engage with professionals from across the industry, is taking place at Arsenal FC on Monday 24th April. Click here to sign up and to find out more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 10923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/im-a-celebrity/harry-redknapp-runs-away-from-a-snake-eating-a-rat-in-their-camp-on-im-a-celebrity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WGOTJBWR777BZH5TSOSNLIDPB4M6N3BD", "length": 181, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", "title": "Harry Redknapp runs away from a snake eating a rat in their camp on I'm a Celebrity", "raw_content": "Harry Redknapp runs away from a snake eating a rat in their camp on I\u2019m a Celebrity\nFASTEST I\u2019VE RUN IN 40 YEARS\nHarry Redknapp runs away from a snake in the camp on I'm a Celebrity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 580, "original_length": 20149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 184.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetelegraph.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Back-Roads-Film-Review-Alex-Pettyfer-s-12853661.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SX5EXKKSPZM46UOZWRDELMNU7ZQCB3HD", "length": 834, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thetelegraph.com", "title": "\u2018Back Roads\u2019 Film Review: Alex Pettyfer\u2019s Directorial Debut Follows a Twisty Path - Alton Telegraph", "raw_content": "https://www.thewrap.com/back-roads-film-review-alex-pettyfer-jennifer-morrison/\n\u2018Back Roads\u2019 Film Review: Alex Pettyfer\u2019s Directorial Debut Follows a Twisty Path\nThe actor isn't afraid to go dark with this tale of family pain and secrets\nDan Callahan, provided by\nThe dysfunctional family plot of \u201cBack Roads,\u201d which marks the directorial debut of actor Alex Pettyfer, is so twisted that every 10 minutes or so there is a new revelation meant to shock the audience, and this presumably goes back to Tawni O\u2019Dell\u2019s novel, on which the film is based.\nThe way this story is told also might have something to do with the participation of Adrian Lyne, who co-wrote the script with O\u2019Dell. This is Lyne\u2019s first film credit since the drama \u201cUnfaithful\u201d in 2002, and the particular emphasis on sex feels like it is his handiwork, so to speak.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetradenews.com/cesr-unlikely-to-find-european-dark-pool-volumes-above-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IEEUJ372ZFO3NMMGEPHX5H3X5EAA6ECY", "length": 2941, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thetradenews.com", "title": "CESR unlikely to find European dark pool volumes above 4% - The TRADE", "raw_content": "The TRADE > News > Asset Classes > Equities > CESR unlikely to find European dark pool volumes above 4%\nEquities, Europe December 16, 2009 5:37 PM GMT\nCESR unlikely to find European dark pool volumes above 4%\nAn investigation by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) is expected to find that dark trading currently accounts for no more than 4% of overall European equity trading volumes.\nThe UK\u2019s financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), today presented its figures on dark trading volumes conducted on the internal crossing engines of leading banks with a UK presence. The banks are thought to include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS.\nLike other national regulators, the FSA was asked by CESR to collate data on the level of dark trading within its jurisdiction, following conflicting claims on the dark liquidity volumes across Europe. Deutsche Bank was included in the FSA\u2019s research even though the firm\u2019s lead regulator is Germany\u2019s BaFin.\nA source that participated in the FSA\u2019s research said that the final pan-European dark trading total is unlikely to exceed 4% of overall European volumes once CESR added the UK data to that of other national regulators such as France\u2019s Autorit\u00e9 des March\u00e9s Financiers (AMF) and the statistics available from non-displayed MTFs, which must publish their trading data under MiFID. AMF is the lead regulator for French brokers CA Cheuvreux, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, which operates a crossing network called Alpha x.\nIf Europe\u2019s dark trading volumes do turn out to be below 4%, it less probable that CESR will recommend restrictive action to the European Commission (EC). In an interview to be published in the Q4 2009 issue of The TRADE, CESR\u2019s Secretary General, Carlo Comporti, said: \u201cWhere there are a large amount of trades executed outside markets that do not interact with the normal price formation process, the overall efficiency of the market would be at risk.\u201d A number of broker-owned dark pools are not registered under MiFID as either MTFs or systematic internalisers and pressure has grown on brokers to classify the pools in accordance with the directive.\nAlthough the EC is scheduled to conduct a review of MiFID before the end of 2010, CESR can recommend legislative action prior to the review process.\nRegulators\u2019 concerns over the threat of dark trading to market transparency and price formation were heightened in July when the Federation of European Securities Exchanges claimed 40% of European trading is conducted on an over-the-counter (OTC) basis, with 10-12% of this figure transacted in broker pools. According to the source, Europe\u2019s regulators will look at new ways of quantifying levels of OTC trading in Europe\u2019s equity markets in the New Year.\nTagged: Crossing networks, Dark pools, regulation\n\u00ab Ex-Instinet CEO to lead Newedge in Americas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetrustedinsight.com/investment-news/the-next-wave-of-unicorn-start-ups-the-new-york-times-20190210790/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:13Z", "digest": "sha1:52KIWZITANBXDSTYB7CPEQX3V6XUJ5XR", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thetrustedinsight.com", "title": "Trusted Insight | The Next Wave Of \u2018unicorn\u2019 Start-ups - The New York Times | Investment News | Trusted Insight Platform", "raw_content": "The Next Wave Of \u2018unicorn\u2019 Start-ups - The New York Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thevrara.com/blog2/2018/3/12/virtual-reality-amp-education-40", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:35Z", "digest": "sha1:5KRFKJYMMVOLPWBBLRNV63AATVL4NXPH", "length": 4584, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thevrara.com", "title": "Virtual Reality and Education 4.0 \u2014 VR/AR Association - The VRARA", "raw_content": "Virtual Reality and Education 4.0\nBy Carlos J. Ochoa, Co-Chair Education Committee carlos@thevrara.com\nToday, we are at the beginning of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. Developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing and biotechnology, to name just a few, are all building on and amplifying one another. This will lay the foundation for a revolution more comprehensive and all-encompassing than anything we have ever seen.\nSmart systems\u2014homes, factories, enterprises, grids or cities\u2014will help tackle problems ranging from supply chain management to climate change. The rise of the sharing economy will allow people to monetize everything from their empty house to their car. The question, then, is how business, government and individuals will react to these developments. To prevent a worst-case scenario\u2014technological change accompanied by talent shortages, mass unemployment and growing inequality\u2014reskilling and upskilling of today\u2019s workers will be critical.\nBuilding Innovation Bridges\nWhile much has been said about the need for reform in basic education, it is simply not possible to weather the current technological revolution by waiting for the next generation\u2019s workforce to become better prepared. Instead, it is critical that businesses take an active role in supporting their current workforces through re-training, that individuals take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning and that governments create the enabling environment, rapidly and creatively, to assist these efforts.\nDisruptive changes to business models will have a profound impact on the employment landscape over the coming years. Many of the major drivers of transformation currently affecting global industries are expected to have a significant impact on jobs, ranging from significant job creation to job displacement, and from heightened labour productivity to widening skills gaps.\nEducation 4.0 vs Industry 4.0\nWe can talk about Education 4.0 in a future and adequate context to train students in a scenario of needs and new skills demand for Industry 4.0. In this Industry 4.0 scenario, new technologies converge in a disruptive and complex ecosystem and basically comprise it.\nThe Smart Innovation Space\nAdvanced reality (Virtual, augmented, mixed\u2026reality), Additive manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Cars/ Drones, Big Data and Real Time Analytics, Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Digital Twins, Internet of Things, Machine-Machine interface, Robots, Total Systems Integration\u2026\nTo do this, new training, skills and training are required, which will enable this new industrial revolution to be addressed in an efficient and sustainable manner.\nEmpowering teachers: Empowering and training teachers with tools and methods to become real entrepreneurs of the educational community and improve the engagement factor with students as coachers.\nDiversity of time and space: Through immersive learning, students have the opportunity to study at different times and in different places, encouraging self-training.\nAdaptive learning: Different levels of complexity will be adapted for each student, empowering those who present more difficulties for learning.\nExperimental Learning: From a simply \u2018learning\u2019 topic to \u2018interact and experiment\u2019 the content. This allows a student to explore, to experience or to be involved in something \u201creal\u201d.\nFree choice of content and learning path: Each student can prepare with the tools and topics needed to perform in the industry.\nThe Immersive Experience: Traditional educational materials fail to inspire and engage further learning with most students as it forces them into a form of memory testing rather than retaining knowledge through practice and immersive experience.\nNew Evaluation Methods and Processes: In this new context, new evaluation process has to be defined, according the new \u201cstudent learning objectives\u201d, and defining new performance indicators according to that. That means, the exams should change radically. With the help of technology and new methodologies, it is possible to carry out a complete follow-up on the training process, measuring the different indicators according the evaluation criteria, impact in society and added value provided.\nNow, let\u00b4s think about it. This is the future that VR/AR technology promises and it\u2019s not that far away. Will you take it one-step further? Participate in our Education Committee today!\nVRARA Sees 500% Growth By Connecting the VR AR Industry\nSubmit Your Virtual/Mixed Reality Research for the $10,000 Human Factors Prize", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 7358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewellingtoncentre.com/therapy/homeopathy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ7AASTK5TQMU4NXH76I43MRUSBLEJLP", "length": 1043, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thewellingtoncentre.com", "title": "Homeopathy \u2014 The Wellington Health and Wellbeing Centre", "raw_content": "Homeopathy was discovered by a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, who was looking for a way to reduce the damaging side effects associated with the medical treatment of his day, which included the use of poisons. He began experimenting on himself and a group of healthy volunteers, giving smaller and smaller medicinal doses, discovering that as well as reducing toxicity, the medicines became more effective as the doses were lowered.\nHe also observed that symptoms caused by the toxic \u2018medicines\u2019 of the time, such as mercury which was used to treat syphilis, were similar to those of the diseases they were being used to treat. This observation led to the principle he described as \u2018like cures like\u2019.\nHahnemann went on to document his work, and his texts formed the foundations of homeopathic medicine as it is practised today. A BBC Radio 4 documentary aired in December 2010 described Hahnemann as a medical pioneer who worked tirelessly to improve medical practice, insisting that medicines were tested before use.\nHomeopathy Practitioners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/education/north-somerset-council-bids-to-government-to-build-free-school-in-churchill-1-5739816", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3E23EUS2YYFL7D5BSNKJDU243OCWU5AP", "length": 2365, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thewestonmercury.co.uk", "title": "North Somerset Council bids to Government to build free school in Churchill | Get the latest educational news in Weston | Weston Mercury", "raw_content": "Council bids to build school for pupils with special educational needs\nNorth Somerset Council wants to build a free school in Churchill.\nAn independent school for children with mental health needs could be built in a North Somerset village after the local authority launched a bid for funding.\nNorth Somerset Council will prepare a bid to the Government\u2019s Department for Education next week to open a social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) free school on an undisclosed parcel of agricultural land in Churchill.\nThe move comes after education watchdog Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in June raised \u2018significant concerns\u2019 over the lack of strategic direction and effectiveness of special education needs and disability (SEND) services in North Somerset.\nA subsequent internal review of SEND provision in North Somerset conducted by the council earlier this year revealed 70 pupils travel out of the district to go to SEMH schools, and this is expected to rise over the next decade, unless a school is built.\nAnd North Somerset\u2019s only independent SEMH education provider, Woodspring School in Wick St Lawrence, was slapped with an inadequate rating by Ofsted in June and is set to close.\nA decision notice set to be signed by Cllr David Pasley, the authority\u2019s executive member for finance, explains the need for a free school to be built.\nIt says: \u201cThere is an identified lack of provision for pupils with SEMH within North Somerset.\n\u201cAs we do not have a specialised school, high numbers of pupils travel significant distances to provisions which are not always of the quality the council would wish to commission.\n\u201cThe council has a statutory duty to ensure that pupils living in North Somerset have access to appropriate education.\u201d\nThe council declined the Mercury\u2019s request to name the proposed location of the school as it is locked in \u2018commercially sensitive\u2019 negotiations with the landowner, but it would be in Churchill.\nThe decision notice reveals the site is valued at more than \u00a31million, and the council would lease the site to the new school for 125 years in return for a \u2018peppercorn rent\u2019 \u2013 which is likely to be of nominal expense.\nNorth Somerset hopes to save a significant chunk of cash each year by opening the SEMH school, as it forks out almost half a million pounds a year on transport for children who study outside of the district.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 5970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/rebecca-ferguson-joins-hugh-jackman-zendaya-in-the-greatest-showman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:O5PNEF557F6LIJOF5VJQJBKWHI3Y5FY5", "length": 3009, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.thewrap.com", "title": "Rebecca Ferguson Joins Hugh Jackman, Zendaya in 'The Greatest Showman'", "raw_content": "Rebecca Ferguson Joins Hugh Jackman, Zendaya in \u2018The Greatest Showman\u2019\nMichael Gracey will direct from a script by Michael Arndt\nBeatrice Verhoeven | September 6, 2016 @ 12:52 PM\tLast Updated: September 6, 2016 @ 1:39 PM\nRebecca Ferguson has joined the cast of the P.T. Barnum musical film \u201cThe Greatest Showman,\u201d in which Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron and Zendaya are also set to star.\nThe film is set up at 20th Century Fox. Michael Gracey will direct from a script by Michael Arndt. Chernin Entertainment and Laurence Mark are producing.\nFerguson will star as Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, who was one of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century.\nSee Video: 'Wolverine 3': Hugh Jackman Says Goodbye to Mutton Chops\n\u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d is an original musical with songs written by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek and is inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum (played by Jackman).\nBarnum created the circus he dubbed \u201cThe Greatest Show on Earth.\u201d The biopic focuses on the founder of the well-known traveling Barnum & Bailey Circus.\nFerguson will next star in the film adaptation of the novel \u201cThe Girl on the Train\u201d for DreamWorks. She will also star in \u201cLife\u201d opposite Ryan Reynolds and Tomas Alfredson\u2019s \u201cThe Snowman\u201d opposite Michael Fassbender and Chloe Sevigny.\nSee Video: Emily Blunt Witnesses a Crime in First 'Girl on the Train' Trailer\nHer most recent credit includes playing Tom Cruise\u2018s leading lady in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 Rogue Nation.\u201d\nShe is represented by ICM Partners and Tavistock Wood.\n\u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d is looking at a Christmas 2017 release. Kira Goldberg is overseeing the project for Twentieth Century Fox.\nToni Braxton Lifetime Movie: 11 Actresses Who Could Play the Singer (Photos)\nTamar Braxton-When you want someone to play you, who better than your own sister?\nAnika Noni Rose-This actress has singing credits to her name like \"Dreamgirls\" and \"The Princess and the Frog\"\nYaYa DaCosta-The \"America's Next Top Model\" previously played Whitney Houston in the Lifetime biopic \"Whitney\"\nSerayah-The \"Empire\" breakout is taking on the acting world with her powerful voice\nZendaya-The Disney Channel star released a self-titled album in 2013\nKeke Palmer-The \"Keep It Movin'\" singer has also appeared in movies like \"Akeelah and the Bee\" and \"Madea's Family Reunion\"\nTessa Thompson-She has appeared in movies like \"Dear White People\" and \"Selma\" and has a singer/songwriter for a father\nNaturi Naughton-The \"Power\" star started out as a member of the R&B group 3LW\nCiara Renee-This Broadway star will soon hit TV screens with a role on CW's \"DC Legends of Tomorrow\"\nFantasia Barrino-The former American Idol previously played herself in a Lifetime movie based on her life\nBrandy Norwood-The 90's star recently had a resurgence on Broadway in the lead role of \"Chicago\"\nStars such as Fantasia Barrino, Anika Noni Rose or Zendaya could fill the role of the legendary singer\nSpider-Man Creator Stan Lee Says Zendaya Will Be \u2018Absolutely Wonderful\u2019 as Mary Jane", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 254.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2018/2/10/book-review", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JLPRHXC7JTD7XTMQA5HHMDTFQ2N63LFU", "length": 4143, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thisawfulawesomelife.com", "title": "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow - Reviewed by Frances Joyce \u2014 This Awful-Awesome Life", "raw_content": "Feb 13 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow - Reviewed by Frances Joyce\nBearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the seventh annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.\nFrom 2011 to 2017, Garrow was a professor of Law and History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow has also taught at Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The City University of New York, The Cooper Union, the College of William and Mary, American University, and Emory University.\nHe spent seven years researching and writing this book. The information in this comprehensive biography is based on more than 700 interviews and Dr. King\u2019s private papers. Garrow personally interviewed nearly 200 people who knew Dr. King including Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and law enforcement officers and political leaders who fought to maintain racial segregation in their communities. In addition to these interviews, Garrow sifted through hundreds of published interviews and used the Freedom of Information Act to access F.B.I. Transcripts pertaining to their surveillance of Dr. King.\nAs I was reading the accounts of Dr. King\u2019s life and the struggles of the African American community to fight Jim Crow laws and end racial segregation, I read several passages out loud to one of my sons. That\u2019s how incomprehensible this time period was (unfortunately some of these beliefs and behaviors still exist). I actually had to say the words out loud to appreciate the full impact of what I was reading.\nGarrow presents an unbiased and balanced account of Dr. King\u2019s life providing valuable insight into King\u2019s uncanny sense of realism tempered by his strong faith and his commitment to social justice for all people. Despite his many faults and fears, which Garrow carefully documents, Dr. King never wavered in his belief in nonviolent resistance, the power of forgiveness and mankind's ability to live together in harmony.\nGarrow carefully chronicles the Civil Rights movement from the early days of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership League, acts of civil disobedience and meetings in church basements to a national movement which would forever change the lives of all Americans.\nAlong the way, Garrow introduces us to some of the lesser known heroes of the Civil Rights movement whose courage and sacrifice helped propel the quest for equal rights to the attention of the United States Supreme Court and ultimately persuaded President Lyndon Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark Civil Rights and US labor law outlawing discrimination based on color, religion, sex or national origin. Johnson also signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that prohibits racial discrimination in voting (an act to enforce the 15th amendment of the Constitution).\nIf you want to have a better understanding of current events in relation to the history of the United States and the Civil Rights movement, this book should be on your reading list.\nDavid J. Garrow is the author, co-author and editor of several books about the Civil Rights movement including biographies of Dr. Martin Luther King and other prominent African Americans. Some of his better known works include: Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; The F.B.I. And Martin Luther King, Jr., from \u201cSolo\u201d to Memphis; Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe V. Wade; and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. You can find his books in bookstores and on amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. His review essays and law review articles have been featured in several national newspapers and magazines, Garrow\u2019s past non-book publications can be found on his website, www.davidgarrow.com, organized chronologically and by topic.\nFeb 13 The February Quiz: Romantic Couples in Classical and Contemporary Literature\nJan 20 Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Fran Joyce", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 102.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/meghan-markle-wedding-dress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HY6UWNNHJL4HJQA4JGT3DPUNSZQ5N5UG", "length": 335, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thisisinsider.com", "title": "Meghan Markle Wedding Dress - INSIDER", "raw_content": "Lingerie brand is selling a sexy 'American Princess' costume based on Meghan Markle\u2019s royal wedding look\nA retailer is selling a look-alike version of Meghan Markle's wedding dress, and it's only $60\nHere are the photos of Meghan Markle's wedding dress and veil, which features hand-embroidered flowers from all 53 Commonwealth nations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisinsider.com/walking-dead-uncensored-season-six-finale-2016-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XBB4TR5PH2I2OISWQCOUXZ5JUF4RQM2F", "length": 3467, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.thisisinsider.com", "title": "'The Walking Dead': How the uncensored season six finale is different - INSIDER", "raw_content": "Here's how the uncensored 'Walking Dead' season 6 finale differs from the one that aired on TV\nSeason six of \"The Walking Dead\" is out on Blu-ray and DVD August 23, and with it comes a long-awaited uncensored version of Negan's entry onto the season six finale.\nFor those who may not be familiar with the character, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has quite the colorful vernacular. In the comic series, he drops the f-bomb quite frequently. How frequently? You can't turn a page in the comic without a handful of them from Negan.\nHere's a scene from issue 100 of \"The Walking Dead,\" in which Negan makes his entry into the comic series.\nSkybound/Image\nHis mouth is so foul that it was unclear how \"The Walking Dead\" crew could go about adapting the character faithfully for television. Part of the answer was to start filming two versions of big scenes with Negan's character moving forward for the fans.\nINSIDER received a review copy of the new season ahead of its release, and after watching it side by side with the regular finale, it's definitely worth the watch and almost helps make up for the frustrating finale.\nAnd while the cliffhanger ending is still annoying (sorry, there are no hints as to who died if you watch with the captions on), the ever-so-slightly longer finale strikes a bit more terror, fear, and \u2014 if you're a fan of the comics \u2014 excitement over watching one of the series' fan favorites in all of his uncensored glory.\nHere's .... Negan!\nThe two monologues that Jeffrey Dean Morgan delivers aren't too different. There are a few minor tweaks here and there. The biggest additions are 23 (yes, I counted) glorious f---s, including these two gems which are slight changes (and I think improvements) from the comic:\nYou killed my people, a whole f---ing damn sh--load of them. More than I'm comfortable with. And for that, well for that you gotta f---ing pay. So, now I am gonna beat the holy f--- f---ing f--kedy f--- outta one of you.\nSo, if someone comes to your door you f---ing let us in. We own that f---ing door. You try to f---ing stop us and we will f---ing knock that f---er down.\nSee I wasn't kidding about the language.\nFor those who are a little mystified by Negan's affinity for the word, these lines are taken straight from issue #100 of the series. The dialogue mirrors it pretty much word for word with a few deviations to accommodate for character changes and parts that didn't make it into the show.\nHowever, the funniest changes are seeing how \"The Walking Dead\" writer's room dealt with adapting some of Negan's colorful language. It looks like they had to go through some serious verbal gymnastics to make it work for television.\nFor instance, take a look at this line:\n\"But the word is out. You are not safe. Not even close. In fact, you are pegged, more pegged if you don't do what I want.\"\nIf you watched the season six finale when it aired back in April, you probably didn't think much of the line. After seeing it side by side with the uncensored line, it's pretty funny:\nCensored Version Uncensored Version\nIn fact, you are pegged, more pegged if you don't do what I want.\nIn fact, you are f---ed, more f---ed if you don't give me what I want.\nFor those who are curious, I've transcribed Negan's monologues from both the censored and uncensored versions of the season six finale below, side by side, with the minor tweaks and changes highlighted.\nSEE ALSO: A new \"Walking Dead\" teaser may hint at a big character death", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisourbliss.com/tag/ikea/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:07Z", "digest": "sha1:N6V4KS2LFCEBLNLVHAH6PG7PJYEZSRWL", "length": 161, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thisisourbliss.com", "title": "IKEA Archives - This is our Bliss", "raw_content": "This week has been BUSY with projects \u2013 inside & outside. I am tackling inside the house and a painting project in the garage, while Ted is chipping away at his\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/clintonville/news/2008/11/25/1127clkenyan_ln.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:11Z", "digest": "sha1:VKWOUGHSPBAX3Z47FIOJ2YQYS6SXGOP7", "length": 2978, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thisweeknews.com", "title": "Volunteer reached out to Kenyan women - News - ThisWeek Community News - Lewis Center, OH", "raw_content": "Volunteer reached out to Kenyan women\nLori Peacock sees a connection between her 13-year-old autistic son and the malnourished children of Africa.\nSo when Peacock's employer provided an opportunity to travel to Africa to work with a group of international volunteers, she saw it as an opportunity to learn about children's health in Africa.\nEarlier this month, Peacock spent two and a half weeks in Kenya's Kwale district, working with UNICEF's Malezi Bora campaign, which strives to reduce the mortality rate for children younger than 5 by educating their mothers and providing health care.\nAlong with other volunteers, Peacock traveled to rural areas of Kenya, delivering vitamins, performing educational plays and weighing and measuring children to help mothers monitor their growth, among other things.\nPeacock also was invited into homes to talk to mothers and their children about health, home sanitation, vaccinations and the importance of growth monitoring, and to provide them with food, clothing, toys and mosquito nets to be hung around the children's beds to help prevent malaria.\nThe female volunteers also bonded with Kenyan women while on the trip, by participating in soccer games and bike races in various towns.\n\"It was very eye opening,\" Peacock said. \"I definitely got a very intense, on-the-ground view of life for the majority of Kenyan women and children.\"\nPeacock traveled to Uganda a few years ago with her mother and was prepared for the extreme poverty many people in Africa face.\nNevertheless, she said with this trip, she was struck by the strength of the mothers as they cared for their children and also by the overwhelming work load health care workers there deal with.\n\"I just had to keep remembering what one of our volunteers said: Sometimes just being there is enough,\" Peacock said.\nNow that she has returned from her trip, Peacock said she looks forward to working with her company to keep the program going. Peacock works for Exel Supply Chain, a division of DHL's parent company, Deutsche Post World Net.\nThe program has been in place for three years, Peacock said, and new volunteers are chosen each time.\nPeacock said she feels a connection to Africa, both because of her interest in children's health issues and because of her mother, who often talked about charitable causes in Africa.\nPeacock said she sees volunteering in Africa as a way to help bring to fruition the hopes of developing countries.\n\"There's a great hope and there's a great drive to make infrastructure better in these countries and leadership better, and I want to be a part of that,\" Peacock said.\nOn her trip, Peacock said she saw evidence of progress in Africa when visited a school for girls in a Kenyan town.\nThere, a woman in her late 60s spoke about learning to read after she became a grandmother and about how important it is for young girls to be educated.\n\"Her words were so empowering,\" Peacock said. \"To me, she's a force of change in that community.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thorograph.com/phorum/read.php?1,114316,114380", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RS5R7XK22CUX6VWJNQ2A3UKOD3DKYS2W", "length": 271, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thorograph.com", "title": "Thoro-Graph :: Ask the Experts :: Re: Holy Bull (277 Views)", "raw_content": "They were indeed slow. The 2nd and 3rd slowesr tops. The winner was coming off a pair that was 9 points slower than the favorite - who had run his 3 times in a row. Garter had run his 5 times in a row. Either the top two jumped way up, or everyone else went back bigtime.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2287, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timspinballmods.com/pages/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FREOW5QCU5O7RAWBGF4ZFBADAY5KY5U5", "length": 2655, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.timspinballmods.com", "title": "About Me \u2013 Tim's Pinball Mods", "raw_content": "My name is Tim Carrillo. Ever since I was a kid I loved playing video games in the local arcade. There was also a small selection of pinball machines that I would occasionally play but never really understood what to do and how to progress in those games. In 1993 I was working at a local grocery store and they put a Jurassic Park pinball machine in the break room. This was the first game that sucked me in and I started to understand the rules and strategy. I was constantly late from break trying to get my initials on the high score. I played that game for a little over a year until I found another job in the electronics industry.\nFast forward to 2013, I was browsing the local craigslist and stumbled across a pinball machine for sale. I had completely forgotten about pinball but the ad piqued my interest. I started doing some research on pinball and was surprised that there were still companies making them. I thought it would be neat to own one so I found a local Freddy: Nightmare on Elm Street for sale. It was in need of some work but the price was right. Trying to figure out how to fix the machine I realized that this new hobby was right up my alley.\nI've always been interested in electronics, mechanics and how things work. My parents bought me all the Radio Shack electronic experiment kits so I would stop taking apart radios, VCRs and other electronics around the house. I also had a bit of an artistic background. Pinball combined all my interests and soon completely took over all my free time.\nBefore you know it I was looking for my next machine and then the next and so on. I was fixing, restoring and flipping less expensive machines so I could buy more expensive machines. Finally I bought the machine that sparked my passion, Jurassic Park.\nOnce I was done fixing and restoring Jurassic Park I started thinking about what I could do to make it better. I started working on a functioning gate to replace the stationary gate above the ramp. Several prototypes later I made something I was happy with.\nI then realized that designing mods for pinball machines was just as fun if not more so than fixing and restoring games. It allows me to be creative and not just figure out how things work but rather how I can engineer things to work.\nAfter creating a couple more Jurassic Park mods, I started getting ideas for several other mods. I decided to form Tim's Pinball Mods as a way to share my mods with the pinball community. My goal is to design unique, creative and functional mods that look and feel like they could have been part of the original design.\nTim's Pinball Mods is located in Thornton, CO www.timspinballmods.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tinyakropol.com/en/high-lights/Xanthos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YPGXYMKGMRLSYH6XD3UTKKHKLCSTIROJ", "length": 2465, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tinyakropol.com", "title": "Tiny Akropol | Xanthos", "raw_content": "The ancient Lycian city is located near the village of Kinik on a hillside in a gorgious natural site overlooking the Esen river. Xanthos long remained independent until it was taken by the Persians: according to Herodotus, the warriors of Xanthos showed an extreme bravery killing their wives, children and slaves entrenched in the burning citadel. They themselves fought to death . Only a few families that were away, survived.\nThe city was completly burnt down between 475 and 450 BC. During excavations this was confirmed by a thick layer of ash covering the site. Rebuilt and repopulated, Xanthos, along with Pinara, Patara and other cities, surrendered to Alexander the Great. The city, which came to the hands of Antigonus, was claimed by Ptolemy I who took it from him by force in 309 BC. In 197 BC, Antiochus III , who wanted to take Lycia from the Ptolemies, made an agreement with the Xanthians, declaring the city free and dedicating it to Leto, Apollo and Artemis. After Antiochus\u0081f defeat at Magnesia of Sypile, and because of their support to her, Rome gave Xanthos to the Rhodians. Complaining that they were treated like slaves, the Xanthians revolted many times so that Rome finally put an end to the Rhodien domination in 167 BC. During the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BC, the Lycians sided with Caesar against Pompeius.\nBut Caesar was assassinated in Rome by Brutus and Cassius who came to Asia Minor to collect money and recruit soldiers. As the Lycians were reluctant to make any contributions, Brutus attacked Xanthos where the Lycian League\u0081f s soldiers were gathered. He demolished the Acropolis and slaughtered the inhabitants. For the second time in their history, in the year 42 BC, the Xanthians underwent mass suicide for their freedom. Marc Antony, hoping to heal the scars left by Brutus, rebuilt their city. In Byzantines times, the city walls were renovated and a monastery was added. The city was deserted, ruined by Arab raids in the 8th century.\nXanthos was discovered in 1838 by Sir Charles Fellows who had all the reliefs and finds of any significance transported to London, on a warship that anchored in Patara.\nThe Hellenistic walls and gates of the city, the Lycian buildings and monuments, the necropolis with typical Lycian tombs and sarcophagi, the funerary pillars, the Roman theatre, the agora, the Byzantine church with mosaics, the Byzantine monastery are among the main vestiges of the archaeological site..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 6406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tinyakropol.com/en/tours/activities/camel-trekking.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UFIRDYGDIPXNBJD2CDZ7LD2TJ2NWMZNZ", "length": 1144, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tinyakropol.com", "title": "Tiny Akropol | Camel Trekking Kayakoy", "raw_content": "Camel Trekking in Kayakoy lets you to meet with program hard to beat for excitement and fun! If you ever wanted to ride a camel you can take advantage of this program to do it in style of picturesque setting of Ghost Town (Kaya Village) with the actual ride for 45min..You will experience what was a common mode of transportation in ancient times and still popular today in some part of the world!!..\nIf you are more than 4 people as party then need to go 2 seperate rides also camel ride is only suitable for the fit people..!!\nFREE PICK UP & DROP OFF SERVICES ARE INCLUDED IN THE PRICES FROM/TO YOUR ACCOMMODATION..\nCal\u0131\u015f:09:00, Cal\u0131\u015f:11:00, \u00c7al\u0131\u015f:14:00, Fethiye:09:00, Fethiye:11:00, Fethiye:14:00, Hisaronu/Ovac\u0131k:09:15, Hisaronu/Ovac\u0131k:11:45, Hisaronu:14:45, Oludeniz:09:00, Oludeniz:11:30, Oludeniz:14:30\nDrinks,Camel Trekking CD\nPax 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25\nPax 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14\nLocation & Time Cal\u0131\u015f:09:00 Cal\u0131\u015f:11:00 \u00c7al\u0131\u015f:14:00 Fethiye:09:00 Fethiye:11:00 Fethiye:14:00 Hisaronu/Ovac\u0131k:09:15 Hisaronu/Ovac\u0131k:11:45 Hisaronu:14:45 Oludeniz:09:00 Oludeniz:11:30 Oludeniz:14:30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 5442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tocris.com/cell-biology/er-stress-upr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MVJI2DSAUOSZ4GEFP6JDJG5IHL6KNHE7", "length": 3295, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.tocris.com", "title": "ER Stress/Unfolded Protein Response | Tocris Bioscience", "raw_content": "Home / Cell Biology / Cell Metabolism / ER Stress/Unfolded Protein Response\nEndoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress occurs when the protein synthesis requirements of the cell exceed the protein folding capacity of the ER. Improperly folded proteins accumulate in the ER, which triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR) to restore ER homeostasis.\nER Stress/Unfolded Protein Response Target Files\nOther ER Stress/UPR\np97 ATPase\nFollowing translation, secreted and transmembrane proteins enter the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where they are post-translationally modified and properly folded in the presence of specialized chaperone proteins. This process is overwhelmed during ER stress, which can be triggered by stimuli such as nutrient deprivation, infection, toxins or mutations in abundantly expressed proteins.\nIn severe cases, the accumulation of improperly folded proteins can cause cell death, so in order to relieve ER stress and restore ER homeostasis, the cell activates a series of signaling pathways, collectively called the unfolded protein response (UPR).\nThe UPR is regulated by three main proteins: inositol-requiring enzyme 1\u03b1 (IRE1\u03b1), PKR-like ER kinase (PERK) and activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6). Under normal conditions these proteins are inhibited via the binding of chaperone protein BIP, also known as GRP78, which is a member of the Hsp70 family. However, under ER stress conditions BIP dissociates to assist with protein folding. This process activates IRE1\u03b1 and PERK and causes the translocation of ATF6 to the Golgi apparatus, where it is cleaved to initiate UPR-gene transcription.\nThe UPR results in the reduced synthesis of new proteins, the upregulation of proteins that aid correct protein folding, such as protein disulphide isomerase (PDI), and the upregulation of ER-associated protein degradation program (ERAD) proteins. These linearize improperly folded proteins which are ultimately ubiquitinated and degraded by the proteasome.\nIn cases of chronic ER stress, homeostasis may not be restored and the cell may initiate cell death. This is seen in a number of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, which are exacerbated by aggregates of misfolded proteins. The UPR response is also linked to cancer, in which IRE1\u03b1 mutations are common, as all pathways in the UPR are proposed to promote cancer progression.\nER Stress and the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR)\nFigure 1: Schematic showing the UPR signaling pathways initated during ER stress. The process of post-translational modification and protein folding is overwhelmed during ER stress and results in the accumulation of improperly folded proteins, which can ultimately cause cell death. In order to relieve ER stress and restore ER homeostasis, the cell activates a series of signaling pathways, collectively called the unfolded protein response, which upregulates proteins that aid correct protein folding or mediate the degradation of improperly folded proteins.\nAdapted from Todd et al. (2008) Nat.Rev.Immunol. 8 663.\nLiterature for ER Stress/Unfolded Protein Response\nTocris offers the following scientific literature for ER Stress/Unfolded Protein Response to showcase our products. We invite you to request* or download your copy today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 8694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.top10blogstyle.com/p/about-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:FJBLZJG6WRORJGX47OVTI3OFT4HCAJA6", "length": 344, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.top10blogstyle.com", "title": "About Us - Top 10 Blog Style", "raw_content": "We are bound to provide enough knowledge to our readers that we could gather on what is happening inside and out of the Country. Top 10 Blog Styles is a website that gives reliable information. It is our Responsibility to deliver reliable article and avoid false information.\nAbout Us Reviewed by Zedrick John Villas on March 16, 2018 Rating: 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tqcsheen.com/en/standard/iso-11127-6-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:TQSO4D3IR24RWZVYSFWO7DYOKQNHB6B3", "length": 234, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tqcsheen.com", "title": "ISO 11127-6 Test Methods | TQC Sheen ISO 11127-6 Test Methods | TQC Sheen", "raw_content": "ISO 11127-6 \u2013 Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products \u2014 Test methods for non-metallic blast-cleaning abrasives \u2014 Part 6: Determination of water-soluble contaminants by conductivity measurement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 2488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 127.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/needle-free-diabetes-care-market.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3CUZPZQ34HPGC5CBRHP4QQ5KFZU45CRC", "length": 3609, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.transparencymarketresearch.com", "title": "Needle-Free Diabetes Care Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast | 2025", "raw_content": "Needle Free Diabetes Care Market\nNeedle-Free Diabetes Care Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2017 - 2025\nDiabetes is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has a high blood glucose/sugar level either because of inadequate production of insulin in the body, or because of body cells not responding properly toward the insulin, or both. People with high blood glucose level in the blood will experience polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (thirst), and polyphagia (hunger). According to a WHO report in 2014, 422 million people suffered from diabetes with 8.5% of prevalence rate worldwide. Insulin is the first line therapy treatment for diabetes when patients do not respond to oral hypoglycemic agents. Insulin is administered into the body by intravenous and subcutaneous injection. In the diagnostic process, pricking of blood vessels is the most common which might cause needle stick damages for healthcare specialists and that result in pain and infections. Diabetes self-care is pain, it needs constant draw blood for glucose testing, needs daily insulin therapy and also having high risk of infection because of poking. Nowadays, glucose monitors and insulin pumps are available for automating the tedious process of the blood glucose level management, but these tools do not removed the use of needles for skin pricks and shots. Hence, non-invasive needle-free diabetes technology is increasing used and is the most advanced and popular field worldwide. Several companies are focusing on developing technologies that could replace the poke with a patch. Manufacturers are working on various techniques such as transdermal patches that read blood sugar level through the skin without drawing the blood. Increasing geriatric population, modern lifestyle, rising prevalence of diabetes and obese population, and changes in food habits are key factors that are driving the growth of the needle-free diabetes care market at a global level. In addition, rise in awareness toward diabetes is boosting the market growth. However, infection, incorrect dosage, high cost, skin damage or pain, and technical mistake associated with needle-free diabetes care might restrain the growth of the market.\nThe needle-free diabetes care market is segmented on the basis of type of device, end-user, and region. Based on the type of device, the market is categorized as diagnostic devices and treatment devices. On the basis of end-user, the market is categorized as hospitals and clinics, diagnostic centers, and consumer.\nGeographically, the needle-free diabetes care market is distributed over North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East & Africa. North America dominates the market owing to advanced health care set-up, high public alertness related to diabetes management, and rise in research and development events associated with diabetes management are the key factors driving the growth of the North America market. The Asia Pacific market is projected to expand at a high growth rate due to growing health care expenditure and high patient base. The market in Europe is growing at a significant rate due to increasing R&D investment in the field of diabetes and awareness among the population toward the disease.\nKey players operating in the needle-free diabetes care market include Zogenix, Inc., Injex Pharma AG, Bioject Medical Technologies, 3M, Johnson & Johnson, Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies Ltd., Antares Pharma Inc., Pancreum LLC, JDRF, Akra Dermojet, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Pharmajet, Inc., and Medtronic, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 9185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.travelagewest.com/Cruise/Crystal-Cruises/Crystal-Ravel/Cruise-p53152890", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:P4SC6JIQGVJ72NKYOQVBLMGQF4EOZAOX", "length": 170, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.travelagewest.com", "title": "7 Night European Inland Waterways Cruise on the Crystal Ravel Cruise Schedule | TravelAge West", "raw_content": "4 Wednesday, 04/17/2019 Melk\n5 Thursday, 04/18/2019 Linz\n7 Saturday, 04/20/2019 Vienna (Wien) Vienna, Austria\n8 Sunday, 04/21/2019 Arrive at Vienna (Wien) Vienna, Austria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/major-shifts-in-north-atlantic-ecosystems-driven-by-unprecedented-climate-change-in-last-half-century.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RDTFCO4K6PTAEDG2XQLY25KNW3VNCLQT", "length": 3591, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.treehugger.com", "title": "Major Shifts in North Atlantic Ecosystems Driven by 'Unprecedented' Climate Change in Last Half-Century | TreeHugger", "raw_content": "Major Shifts in North Atlantic Ecosystems Driven by 'Unprecedented' Climate Change in Last Half-Century\nThe last half-century has witnessed the most dramatic climate-induced ecosystem-level shifts since the advent of human civilization, almost 5,000 years ago, posits a new study published in the November issue of Ecology. Charles Greene, its lead author and an oceanographer at Cornell University, says that current and projected rates of global warming are \"unprecedented\" in human history and that we could very well see very rapid periods of intense warming in the near future -- rivaling the episodes of rapid cooling, during which temperatures dropped by up to 18\u00c2\u00b0F (10\u00c2\u00b0C) over a period of years to decades. (These drastic shifts, or \"abrupt\" climate changes, could be precipitated by tipping points, such as the mass release of methane from thawing permafrost regions, according to some researchers.)Large slugs of cold Arctic water drove the shifts\nThe release of large amounts of cold, low-salinity water into the North Atlantic from melting Arctic ice sheets and glaciers may have caused the most dramatic changes, Greene believes. One example is the introduction of a microscopic algal species from the Pacific Ocean (which has not been seen in the North Atlantic for more than 800,000 years); though it only crossed over the Arctic Ocean a little over a decade ago, it has already spread throughout the North Atlantic region. (Algae are notorious invasive species, and this is probably one of many similar examples.)\nGreene and his colleagues did discover that their findings ran counter to many previously widely accepted assumptions. For instance, ecologists had assumed that most species would move northward to seek refuge in cooler areas as the climate warmed; instead, as the colder Arctic waters flowed south all the way to North Carolina, they observed that many northern species actually moved southward.\nEcosystem changes created new \"winners\" and \"losers\"\nThe presence of cooler waters also extended the growth periods of phytoplankton (cooler waters are typically rich in nutrients), which could sometimes alter trophic level dynamics (resulting in new \"losers\" and \"winners\") by introducing a more durable food source. Atlantic cod stocks, which had already been overfished, may have failed to recover in part because of the introduction of colder Arctic waters, which inhibited their growth and reproduction cycles. That, coupled with the arrival of more resilient crustacean species, like the snow crab and shrimp, likely did them in, Greene says.\nIs this only the beginning?\nReading this study, I couldn't help but think of the larger potential threat posed by the mass melting of ice sheets and glaciers in Greenland and the Arctic Ocean: namely, the shutdown of the ocean conveyor belt (which could effectively precipitate another ice age). While it is certainly premature to consider this a possibility -- most scientists seem to think it is unlikely to happen -- Greene's study, and others in the same mold, make me worry about all of the climate's intangibles.\nVia: ScienceDaily: 'Unprecedented' Warming Drives Dramatic Ecosystem Shifts In North Atlantic, Study Finds\nReally Abrupt Climate Change Really Happened\nArctic Climate Tipping Point Happening Now! Sea Ice in Its \"Death Spiral\" Scientist Claims\nThe last half-century has witnessed the most dramatic climate-induced ecosystem-level shifts since the advent of human civilization, almost 5,000 years ago, posits a new study published in the November issue of Ecology. 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As people get older, they may need to be taken care of to carry out daily functions. When families are unable to give them the attention they need, nursing homes can become a good option. In nursing homes, these individuals can receive [\u2026]\nWrongful death lawsuits can provide compensation for families of those who have died from an accident. Compensation can be received in the form of damages, which are monetary payment for the result of the accident that was experienced. This compensation can include medical expenses prior to death, pain and suffering of the deceased, lost wages [\u2026]\nBuying new products is easier than ever with the internet. With only a few clicks, we can have a new item delivered to our front door. This can be efficient since it saves us the time we would waste going to the store and looking around. Now, we can just shop all in one place. [\u2026]\nIf an employee suffers from a workplace accident, they may become injured as a result of this incident. This may cause them to be unable to work during their recovery time to heal. For these types of accidents, the employee may be able to collect workers\u2019 compensation. Through workers\u2019 compensation, they can get the aid [\u2026]\nAs people walk to different locations, they should remain aware of their surroundings. Drivers may not be driving in the safest manner. This could lead to a pedestrian accident. These incidents can cause serious harm to a pedestrian since they do not have protection from a motor vehicle. When pedestrians are injured as a result [\u2026]\nPremises liability cases can involve a lack of security measures that have been involved in this accident. These situations can be accidents where an individual slipped and fell or had criminal activity occur. Property owners should maintain a standard level of security for customers that pass through. Security measures are taken to prevent criminal acts [\u2026]\nTruck drivers operate these big vehicles as part of their job. They have certain guidelines they must follow to prevent accidents from happening on the road and to protect them from these accidents. These drivers need to make sure they do not drive past a limited amount of hours for the day and the week. [\u2026]\nPatients seek the help of doctors during times of pain and unhealthy conditions with their body. They turn to medical professionals in order to feel better about physically. The advice they get from doctors can help them feel better and get on a healthier track. Unfortunately, this can lead to negligence experienced from a doctor [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truthinsideofyou.org/3-ways-you-destroy-your-childs-self-esteem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UQCESKZO7CAIME7OJJRGCZ2R4TLQNYLB", "length": 2589, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.truthinsideofyou.org", "title": "3 Ways You Destroy Your Child\u2019s Self-Esteem Without Knowing It. - Truth Inside Of You", "raw_content": "3 Ways You Destroy Your Child\u2019s Self-Esteem Without Knowing It.\nInstilling confidence in a child can be difficult at times. Their brains work in such a way that we often forget that the words we choose to say to them, and the actions we perform in front of them, will leave a lasting mark, be it good or bad.\nBefore letting loose a common remark that you\u2019d say to a friend, think about the true implications of what you\u2019re saying or doing. Try to think about how you\u2019re interacting with your child, and whether it is helping them grow their self-esteem or discouraging them.\nHere are three ways you will unknowingly lower your child\u2019s self-esteem:\nLearn that Depression may be the result of you being too nice.\nTelling them \u201cit\u2019s easy\u201d \u2013 This one is probably pretty obvious when viewed at face-value. You wouldn\u2019t feel very good about yourself if someone told you that the task you were struggling to complete was easy. Ok, if it\u2019s easy, then that must mean that I am somehow incompetent.\nThis is exactly what your child thinks when you try to encourage them by letting them know how easy something is. Instead, practice telling them that the tasks they struggle with are difficult or hard. That way, when they finally achieve their task, they feel a sense of accomplishment and work ethic.\nDoing everything for them \u2013 One of the biggest things I wish my mom did for me as a kid is let me struggle and fail more often. When children are faced with tasks and are then able to figure them out and solve them on their own, they feel a great sense of accomplishment. Letting them learn how to fail, re-assess, and then succeed all by themselves is great for their self-esteem.\nDoing things for them takes away this opportunity for growth. If the task at hand truly is too difficult, try reducing it into several, smaller tasks that they might be able to handle better.\nLosing your cool when they make mistakes \u2013 Just like Lewis\u2019 Aunt Billie says in the Disney film Meet the Robinsons, \u201cFrom failure we learn, from success not so much.\u201d Having a natural inclination to protect your children from all of the mistakes they are inevitably going to make throughout their lifetime is a surefire way to handicap them for life.\nYour child is going to make mistakes in life, a lot of them, just like you did when you were young, and like you continue to do as an adult. Never freak out when your kids make mistakes, recognize that they are opportunities to grow, and teach them how to be responsible, accountable, and honest (with themselves and those around them).\nSource: heartcenteredrebalancing.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 7393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tucker.sh/podcast/119-rely-on-your-foundation-and-serve-your-customer-with-illustrator-michael-grills", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7IDJ2DGSJFSCHF4OG77RS6CWMFITW2LC", "length": 1903, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.tucker.sh", "title": "119 - Rely on your foundation and serve your customer with illustrator Michael Grills \u2014 www.tucker.sh", "raw_content": "I\u2019m your host Tucker and this week is an interview with illustrator Michael Grills. Michael has been a professional illustrator for nearly 20 years and has a very clear vision of what it means to be an illustrator: Rely on your foundation and serve your customer. Those aren\u2019t his words those are mine so he may describe it a little differently but that\u2019s what I got out of the conversation.\nIn today\u2019s chat we talk about Michael's time at the video game company Bioware, why he thinks the alumni of Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) can be so successful and how his career choice works in his family.\nWe also talk about taking responsibility for your own career and skills. There is no blame for anything coming from Michael and you\u2019ll hear it when we talk about art schools preparing students for running a business.\nI\u2019m confident you will enjoy today\u2019s talk with illustrator Michael Grills.\nDo you know someone who is working at being a professional illustrator? It would be selfish of you not to share today\u2019s episode with them. The easiest way to share it is to send the short url TheSparkAndTheArt.com/119. The hardest way would be to drag your feet across and barren field marking a transcription of the episode in the soil then taking your friend on a hot air balloon ride and hope they look down and read it all before the wind continues you on your trip.\nGet me on twitter @sparkartpodcast or leave your own version of the hardest way to share a podcast at 1-877-966-4886 leave your name and website and I\u2019ll play it on a future episode.\nAlberta College of Art and Design - https://acad.ca/\nBioware - http://www.bioware.com/en/\nModern Library - http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/\nAnne Handley: Everybody Writes - http://annhandley.com/everybodywrites/\nPMP (Project Management Professional) Certification - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Professional", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tutton.com/commercial-products/coverage-for-your-employees/group-benefits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:N4CFLJVDYKZ6QVTE72GREKS2RAF7XZZS", "length": 445, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tutton.com", "title": "Group Benefits - Orange County CA & Riverside County CA - Tutton Insurance Services, Inc.", "raw_content": "Group Benefits in Santa Ana and Irvine, CA\nTutton Insurance Services, Inc. provides group benefits to businesses in Orange County, Riverside County, Los Angeles County, San Diego County, San Bernardino County, Ventura County, and surrounding areas.\nTutton Insurance Services, Inc. proudly offers these group benefits, plus many more:\nContact a representative at Tutton Insurance Services, Inc. to go over group benefit options for your business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 432, "original_length": 10129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/badge-holds-expectations-people-want-a-heroe-and-im-not/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:01Z", "digest": "sha1:A5KGFO3OCXPVVYQ4RBN3BF7IAYLICTNF", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tvfanatic.com", "title": "Badge holds expectations. 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It makes clear it should not impact on the character of the buildings.\nBishop of Chelmsford the Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell said: \u201cWe know that rural churches in particular have always served as a hub for their communities. Encouraging churches to improve connectivity will help tackle two of the biggest issues rural areas face - isolation and sustainability.\n\u201cThe Diocese of Chelmsford has been pioneering this approach with County Broadband since 2013. Our work has significantly improved rural access to high speed broadband.\u201d\n\u201cMany new forms of technology are available to improve internet access in rural areas and I hope that this partnership between the Church of England and the Government will help rural churches consider how they can be part of the solution.\"\nExisting cases\nDCMS said there are already more than 120 cases of broadband and mobile services being delivered from parish churches around the country. 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Year-to-date, net tax collections totaled roughly $22.71 billion, for an increase of $961.3 million, or 4.4 percent, compared to June 2017, when net tax revenues totaled almost $21.75 billion.\nThe changes within the following tax categories contributed to the overall net tax revenue increase in June:\nIndividual Income Tax: Individual Income Tax collections for June decreased by $10.4 million, or -1.1 percent, compared to last year when Income Tax collections totaled $958.2 million.\nThe following notable components within Individual Income Tax combine for the net decrease:\nIndividual Income Tax refunds issued (net of voided checks) were up $41 million, or 29.4 percent.\nIndividual Withholding payments were up $24.6 million, or 2.9 percent.\nIndividual Income Tax Estimated payments were up $11 million, or 6.9 percent.\nAll other Individual Tax categories, including Non-Resident Return payments, were down a combined $5 million.\nSales and Use Tax: Gross Sales and Use Tax collections totaled $992.5 million, for an increase of $61.3 million, or 6.6 percent, over last year. 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Finally, sales tax refunds decreased by roughly $3.7 million, or 66.8 percent.\nCorporate Income Tax: Corporate Income Tax collections for June decreased by $10.6 million, or -5.5 percent, compared to last year when Corporate Tax collections totaled $193.3 million.\nThe following notable components within Corporate Income Tax make up the net decrease:\nCorporate Income Tax refunds issued (net of voided checks) were up $23.2 million, or 266.7 percent.\nCorporate Income Tax payments were up $7.8 million, or 62.1 percent.\nAll other Corporate Tax categories, including Corporate Estimated payments, were up roughly $4.8 million.\nMotor Fuel Taxes: Motor Fuel Tax collections during the month totaled nearly $160.8 million, for an increase of $11.9 million, or 8 percent, compared to June 2017.\nMotor Vehicle Tag & Title Fees: Motor Vehicle Tag & Title Fees for the month totaled $32.2 million, for an increase of almost $1.8 million, or 5.8 percent, over last year. 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It also has a slightly less than average population density.\nThe people living in ZIP code 31003 are primarily white. The number of seniors is extremely large while the number of middle aged adults is extremely large. There are also a small number of single parents and a large number of single adults. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 31003 ZIP code is extremely small compared to other areas of the country.\nTotal 7 2 3 3 4 2 0 8 3 8 13 8 12 13 14 7 2 3\nOwner 1 0 3 9 13 17 6 1\nThe majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 31003 were primarily built in the 1990s. Looking at 31003 real estate data, the median home value of $58,200 is low compared to the rest of the country. Rentals in 31003 are most commonly 1 bedrooms. The rent for 1 bedrooms is normally $200-$299/month including utilities. 2 bedrooms are also common and rent for $500-$749/month. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 31003 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.\nAs with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. Pedestrians and cyclists beware. The area has some of lowest percentages of commutes without a vehicle in the country. Compared to other ZIP codes in the country, 31003 has very few people that work at home. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. Most commuters in 31003 can expect to fall in that range. 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(UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee, one of the members of the rock group Motley Crue, celebrates with fans following a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California January 25, 2006. The ceremony coincides with Motley Crue's 25th anniversary. They have sold more than 40 million albums during their career. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nMembers of the rock group Motley Crue Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars (L-R) savior the moment after their star was unveiled during a ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California January 25, 2006. The group, one of rock's most notorious groups who have sold over 40 million albums, celebrated their 25th anniversary during the ceremony. 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(UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee (C), and Vince Neal (L), two members of the rock group Motley Crue react to comments by Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant (R) during a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California January 25, 2006. The ceremony coincides with Motley Crue's 25th anniversary. They have sold more than 40 million albums during their career. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee (C), one of the members of the rock group Motley Crue, reacts as bandmate Vince Neal playfully starngles him during a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California January 25, 2006. Inttroducing the band is Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant (R). The ceremony coincides with Motley Crue's 25th anniversary. They have sold more than 40 million albums during their career. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee (R), one of the members of the rock group Motley Crue, reacts as bandmate Vince Neal playfully starngles him during a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California January 25, 2006. The ceremony coincides with Motley Crue's 25th anniversary. They have sold more than 40 million albums during their career. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee (L), one of the members of the rock group Motley Crue, gestures during a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California January 25, 2006. The ceremony coincides with Motley Crue's 25th anniversary. They have sold more than 40 million albums during their career. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo\nTommy Lee (R), one of the members of the rock group Motley Crue, points to a fan following a ceremony unveiling the group's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California January 25, 2006. 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Identify key issues facing the community and share the latest advances in the treatment of gerontology.\nDirector: Dr. Michael Forster, Dean-College of Health\nDisability Studies, Institute for\nThe Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) is housed at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg with satellite offices in Jackson and the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach. The institute\u2019s mission is to positively affect the lives of Mississippians with development and other disabilities and their families in helping them work toward increasing their independence, productivity and integration into their communities. 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Martin, Ph.D.\nThe vision of the Institute of Child Nutrition is to be the leader in providing education, research, and resources to promote excellence in child nutrition programs. The mission of the Institute of Child Nutrition is to provide information and services that promote the continuous improvement of child nutrition programs.\nDirector: Keith T. Rushing, Ph.D., RD\nMississippi-INBRE\nMississippi INBRE is network of colleges and universities throughout Mississippi. The Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) is designed to build a biomedical research infrastructure in Mississippi.\nDirector: Mohamed Elasri\nMississippi Network for Cancer Control and Prevention\nTo meet the needs of the African-American community in Mississippi, leading universities and national health organizations have come together to form the Mississippi Network for Cancer Control (MNCCP) at The University of Southern Mississippi.\nDirector: Freddie White-Johnson\nSustainable Health Outreach, Center for\nIndividuals at the greatest health risk are often those who are least likely to be appropriately served by the health care system. Because of language barriers, financial barriers, cultural beliefs, or mistrust of the system, many people do not receive the needed health care and preventative services. The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO) believes that community health workers are an important answer to these problems. CSHO serves as a national point of contact for community health workers and community health worker programs. CSHO-USM provides support and technical assistance to community health workers and community health worker programs in areas of program development and support, training and education, and program evaluation. CSHO-GULC assists with sustainability strategies and public policy with funders, policy makers, health systems, and community organizations. CSHO-USM also houses several model demonstration programs. The Community Health Advisor Network, The Deep South Network for Cancer Control, and the Getting on Target with Community Health Advisors are just a few model CHW programs CSHO-USM offers.\nDirector: Susan L. Mayfield-Johnson\nSouthern Regional Public Safety Institute\nThe Southern Regional Public Safety Institute (SRPSI) is a multi-function safety training facility located at Camp Shelby, an Army National Guard training center just south of Hattiesburg. The institute\u2019s mission is to provide up-to-date professional training through a nine-week (440 hours) basic academy, as well as to offer in-service or advanced training across the broad spectrum of public safety areas to officers from all over the southern United States.\nDirector: Capt. Todd Stewart\nNational Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security\nEstablished in 2006, The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security was created to provide an interdisciplinary academic environment to further increase sports security awareness; improve sports security policies and procedures; and enhance emergency response through evacuation, recovery operations and crowd management training. The Center also houses the National Sports Security Laboratory where best practices in security are designed and tested.\nDirector: Dr. Lou Marciani\nBusiness and Innovation Assistance Center\nOrganized in 2009, USM/BIAC represents a set of programs, services and expertise that have organically grown from USM\u2019s services that for more than a decade provided support to the State\u2019s universities, NASA\u2019s and other federal agencies\u2019 technology development and transfer programs and related efforts in working with small businesses, industry and other organizations in technology development and commercialization.\nDirector: Joseph Graben\nThe Southern Entrepreneurship Progam provides a forum for students to engage with educators, business leaders, sponsors, and service providers in a uniquely hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship education and business development.\nCo-Directors: Jennifer Sequeira and James Wilcox\nHigher Learning, Center of\nThe Center of Higher Learning, located at the John C. Stennis Space Center, is a consortium of three universities and one community college which provides a coordinated multi-university approach for interdisciplinary education. CHL is the one-stop location at Stennis to assist with educational opportunities, training classes, and other workforce development needs.\nDirector: Joe Swaykos\nInnovation for Construction and Engineering Enhancement\nThe Innovation for Construction and Engineering Enhancement (ICEE) Center is a multi-disciplinary industrial, educational and research hub housed at The University of Southern Mississippi within the School of Construction. The mission of ICEE is twofold:\nDevelop, implement and assess the latest educational technology for the Architecture/Engineering/Construction community;\nEnhance the economic development of the construction industry through the use of the latest technologies and management tools.\nJack and Patti Phillips Workplace Learning and Performance Institute\nThe Jack and Patti Phillips Workplace Learning and Performance Institute (WLPI) at The University of Southern Mississippi serves as a research and outreach center for best practices in workplace learning and performance.\nDirector: Cyndi Gaudet, Ph.D.\nLogistics, Trade and Transportation, Center for\nThe University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Logistics, Trade and Transportation provides valuable professional development and applied research for private and public sectors of the growing transportation and shipping industry.\nDirector: Dr. Shannon Campbell\nMississippi Enterprise for Technology\nThe Enterprise is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to creating high-skill, high-wage jobs in Mississippi. The Enterprise taps the scientific and technical assets of the state to promote industrial growth, stimulate new business start-ups, and attract companies to Mississippi.\nRobbie Ingram, CEO\nThe Trent Lott Center in Hattiesburg houses the university\u2019s economic and workforce development programs along with other outreach centers focused on university entrepreneurship and innovation.\nFisheries, Research and Development, Center for\nThe Center for Fisheries, Research and Development\u2019s objectives are conduct key biological research on valuable marine recreational and commercial fishery resources, collaborate with Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) staff on developing and conducting fishery research projects, and provide to the DMR biological information critical to the assessment and management of the state\u2019s marine recreational and commercial fisheries.\nDirector: Read Hendon\nGulf Coast Geospatial Center\nGulf Coast Geospatial Center (GCGC) was established in September 2001 and became operational in late 2002. Our mission is to provide coastal geospatial information, research, and applications that will benefit the public and private sectors of the communities we serve. The GCGC operational infrastructure utilizes modern remote sensing science, technology and data in conjunction with other sources of spatial data in a geographic information management systems (GIS) environment.\nDirector: Greg Carter, Ph.D., Chief Scientist\nHydrographic Science Research Center\nThe HSRC was created to develop and broaden the applications of ocean mapping and navigation technology. It provides research support to address the needs of governmental and commercial clients for information related to ocean navigation, the ocean floor and ocean processes. The center is located within the Division of Marine Science at Stennis Space Center.\nDirector: Ken Barbor\nDirector: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran\nInternational Coatings and Formulations Institute\nICFI is an organization dedicated to promoting interaction between The University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) School of Polymers and High Performance Materials and the coatings industry. Established in January 1998, ICFI affords participants a unique opportunity for industrial, academic, and governmental partnerships in the field of coatings and formulations R&D.\nDirector: Dr. Shelby F. Thames\nMarine Education Center\nThe Marine Education Center at Gulf Coast Research Laboratory endeavors to enlighten the citizenry to produce a cadre of well informed and knowledgeable stewards of our coastal ecosystems. The Marine Education Center is the public education and outreach arm of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. The Center supports a career based working environment utilizing formal, non-formal, free-choice learning and higher education strategies focusing on the coastal ecosystems of the north central Gulf of Mexico to promote careers in marine sciences and foster community involvement.\nDirector: Christopher T. (Chris) Snyder\nThe Mississippi Polymer Institute is an industry outreach agency currently located at The Garden, the University of Southern Mississippi\u2019s innovation and commercialization park. It provides technical and scientific services including analytical and physical testing; workforce training; and new product development and rapid prototyping.\nDirector: Monica Tisack\nThad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center\nThe Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center is the centerpiece of the marine aquaculture program of The University of Southern Mississippi\u2019s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Miss. The university is investing heavily in marine aquaculture at the GCRL's 224-acre Cedar Point site.\nMonty Graham, Ph.D., Interim Director\nTrace Analysis, Center for\nThe USM Center for Trace Analysis (CETA) coordinates analytical services provided by the USM Division of Marine Science. Most specifically, this means trace element analysis utilizing the division's high resolution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS). CETA's ultimate mission is to provide state-of-the-art expertise, training, analytical services, and research in trace chemical analysis.\nDirector: Dr. Alan Shiller\nUndersea Vehicles Technology Center\nThe UVTC is a division of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, a partnership of Southern Miss, the University of Mississippi and NOAA\u2019s Undersea Research Program to develop and apply new technologies that enhance undersea research. UVTC personnel explore advances in AUV and ROV design and capabilities and high resolution seafloor mapping with an AUV.\nDirector: Dr. Vernon Asper\nChild Development, Center for\nThe primary purpose of the University of Southern Mississippi Center for Child Development is to serve as an academic/teaching and research facility for faculty and students across the university. A secondary purpose of the CCD is to serve children birth to five and their families in a quality childcare environment.\nExecutive Director: Stephanie Haney\nIts central purpos is to further the education of gifted students and those with leadership abilities through teaching, research, and service. Emphasis is also placed on these areas for those interested in the gifted: teachers, parents, administrators, psychologists, counselors, and other concerned citizens.\nInterim Director: Dr. Pola Jakacki\nThe mission of the Learning Enhancement Center is to meet the needs of faculty, staff and students through innovative approaches to teaching, learning and research which align with the broader mission of the institution through the facilitated support of effective instructional strategies; distance education; and faculty, staff and student development.\nDirector: Sheri Lyons\nResearch in Learning and Education, Center for\nDirector: Sarah Hutto\nScience and Mathematics Education, Center for\nThe Center for Science and Mathematics Education is dedicated to preparing science and mathematics teachers capable of providing the high quality instruction that will better enable students to understand themselves and the world around them. The Center works with the departments to coordinate programs in teacher education offered by the College of Science and Technology, and provides, in cooperation with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, a curriculum in the sciences for prospective elementary school teachers. In addition to providing programs in secondary education and for advanced degrees, the Center works with the public schools to improve science and mathematics curriculum and works to utilize educational technology in personal development.\nDirector: Sherry Herron\nCancer is not an equal-opportunity disease. Cancer rates are 10 percent higher among African-Americans than Caucasians, and death rates are twice as high. While the cause of these statistics is still unknown, many minorities must face this great burden without the resources they need. The purpose of the MNCCP is to build on an established community and institutional capacity in order to eliminate cancer health disparities by conducting community-based participatory education, training and research. The goals of the MNCCP are to improve access to and utilization of proven beneficial cancer interventions.\nThe Technology Learning Center is a community-based, university-directed, nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing education, independence and quality of life for persons with disabilities. TLC serves children and adults with disabilities, their families, teachers and education professionals through assessment, training and lending of assistive technology including adapted toys, augmentative communication, computer access and adapted sports and recreation equipment.\nDr. Rebekah Young\nDirector: Keith Long\nThe University of Southern Mississippi provides an educational opportunity designed to meet the needs of America\u2019s maturing population through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Adults over the age of 50 who care about their education, who are self-motivated and who wish to define their own educational experience can realize their personal goals in a relaxed university atmosphere through participation in the institute.\nDirector: Brett Harris\nHuman Rights and Civil Liberties, Center for\nThe Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties at the University of Southern Mississippi is founded to advance the principle of \"liberty and justice for all,\" both here and abroad. The Center is committed to excellence in education and in preparing its students to translate classroom knowledge into action in a variety of careers in the public and private sectors. The Center's faculty is devoted to providing an academic home for an interdisciplinary minor in human rights and civil liberties.\nKatrina Research Center\nThe Katrina Research Center (KRC) serves as an inter-disciplinary center and a public clearinghouse to facilitate the gathering of historical and current information and knowledge. Such knowledge includes the natural, physical, social, political, economic and spiritual aspects of recovery from Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.\nDirector: Dr. Deanne Nuwer\nOral History and Cultural Heritage, Center for\nThrough the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, The University of Southern Mississippi has been collecting and preserving the stories of Mississippians since 1971. Especially strong in the history of the civil rights movement and veterans' histories, the oral history collection now contains nearly four thousand interviews, by far the largest in the state and one of the largest in the South. The collection is available to researchers in the Mississippian Room of the McCain Library and Archives and in the Center\u2019s offices at USM. The Center also provides access to an increasing number of its oral histories online.\nWar and Society, The Dale Center for the Study of\nThe Dale Center for the Study of War and Society (CSW&S) at The University of Southern Mississippi serves as a local, national and international resource for the study of the history of warfare and its influence on both soldiers and civilians.\nChildren\u2019s Center for Communication and Development\nA United Way agency, the Children\u2019s Center is an early intervention program serving infants, toddlers and preschoolers with communicative and developmental disabilities. As a clinical division of the Southern Miss Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the Children\u2019s Center serves families and children while providing clinical training for university students.\nInterm Director: Sarah Case-Price\nDirector: Dr. Beth Bryant\nFamily Network Partnership\nThe Family Network Partnership works with young people and families on the east side of Hattiesburg. The partnership is a community project of the School of Social Work at Southern Miss. Staff members work with the community and university to provide services such as positive youth development activities; improving school attendance, behavior and academic performance; addressing parenting issues and family conflicts and securing adequate resources such as food, housing and clothing.\nDirector: Laurie Risher\nExecutive Director: Jeff Leffler\nIts central purpose is to further the education of gifted students and those with leadership abilities through teaching, research, and service. Emphasis is also placed on these areas for those interested in the gifted: teachers, parents, administrators, psychologists, counselors, and other concerned citizens.\nDirector: Dr. Pola Jakacki\nInternational Education, Center for\nThe Center for International Education supports the university's core mission by preparing students, staff and faculty for leadership and success in today\u2019s globally interdependent world through the greatest possible exposure to people, ideas and issues of global importance.\nDr. Daniel Norton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 27148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uwsp.edu/ucm/news/Pages/OutonScreen14.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:NXNXWFJXPQXBOIFNHYNPVUCJK6Q3UAIB", "length": 2501, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.uwsp.edu", "title": "\u2018Out on Screen\u2019 film festival at UW-Stevens Point - News Releases and Events | UWSP", "raw_content": "University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point > University Communications and Marketing > News Releases and Events > \u2018Out on Screen\u2019 film festival at UW-Stevens Point\n\u2018Out on Screen\u2019 film festival at UW-Stevens Point\nThe third annual \u201cOut on Screen\u201d Film Festival will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point throughout March and April, sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Gay-Straight Alliance.\nThe film screenings are free and open to the public. Each film begins at 7 p.m. in the Dreyfus University Center Theater, offering audiences the latest award-winning independent and feature films to explore the diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) spectrum. \u201cOut on Screen\u201d is presented with support from UWSP's Gender and Sexuality Alliance student organization.\nThe film series includes:\nTuesday, March 4, \u201cReaching for the Moon\u201d \u2013 Set in the 1950s, the film recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop\u2019s move to Rio de Janeiro, where she falls in love with an architect and social activist. The film is in English and Portuguese, with English subtitles.\nWednesday, March 5, \u201cThe New Black\u201d \u2013 This documentary explores how the African-American community grapples with gay rights issues such as gay marriage, in light of the black community\u2019s institutional pillar \u2013 the black church.\nMonday, March 10, \u201cTest\u201d \u2013 A 1985 period drama set in San Francisco, the film follows a young male dancer in a modern dance company and his friendship with another dancer in the troupe.\nWednesday, March 12, \u201cWill You Still Love Me Tomorrow?\u201d \u2013 A lighthearted, comedic romp set in Taiwan, the film is about an introverted optometrist who begins to question his marriage and sets out to find true romance. In Mandarin, Korean and English, with English subtitles.\nThe festival will continue with six additional films through the second week of April. Titles include the documentary \u201cValentine Road\u201d and the narrative films \"Margarita,\" \"Kill Your Darlings,\" \"All About My Mother,\" \"Saving Face\" and \"G.B.F.\"\nThe Faculty and Staff Gay-Straight Alliance aims to bring together LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies across campus to reduce fear, prejudice and discrimination. The group educates members of the campus community on LGBTQ+ issues and promotes a safe and open environment to welcome, encourage, discuss and support diversity. For more information on the \u201cOut on Screen\u201d Film Festival, including film trailers and a complete schedule, visit OutOnScreen.wordpress.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 118.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vafoods.eu/en/disclaimer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CTMTLMJWFV4I7PLMP6DPP6Z42HU3E5JM", "length": 2585, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.vafoods.eu", "title": "Disclaimer | VA Foods", "raw_content": "This notice includes the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. This will apply to the use of all VA Foods website, including content, functionality and services offered through the websites . Read the Disclaimer and the policy carefully before using the website of VA Foods. 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Any disputes will be submitted to the competent court in Den Bosch, The Netherlands.\nFor questions please contact us via the contact form and FAQs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vancouverorthodontist.com/for-adults", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HSVRQKIHLHVP7EOOANXSP4PRMYYPJNIN", "length": 444, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.vancouverorthodontist.com", "title": "For Adults - Oakridge Orthodontics | Vancouver BC", "raw_content": "Orthodontic treatment is no longer just for teens. In fact, the Canadian Association of Orthodontists states that one in four orthodontic patients is over the age of 21. Many adults are choosing to receive treatment because they understand the importance of maintaining their health, and they want to feel better about their appearance. Adults everywhere are taking advantage of the opportunity to receive orthodontic care, and now you can too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 149.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vancouverorthodontist.com/invisalign-treatment-for-teens", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RJXQCV7LXGAEK2DDWOX6NZQ6N2AT7BT3", "length": 366, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vancouverorthodontist.com", "title": "Invisalign\u00ae Treatment for Teens - Oakridge Orthodontics | Vancouver BC", "raw_content": "Invisalign Teen aligners give you a whole new way to wear braces for a \"clearly\" amazing smile!\nInvisalign Teen aligners fit in with all of your extracurricular activities. So whether you're swimming the 50-meter race, throwing the football out on the field, or playing the clarinet with the school band, you don't have to worry about your braces getting in the way!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.varnumlaw.com/newsroom-publications-auto-employers-should-plan-ahead-for-h-1b-visa-needs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2U3GD2SZQIXOMBDG7HIHCHFNBFZL7XV2", "length": 2579, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.varnumlaw.com", "title": "Auto Employers Should Plan Ahead for H-1B Visa Needs | Automotive Law | Varnum LLP", "raw_content": "Auto Employers Should Plan Ahead for H-1B Visa Needs\nAs the US auto industry continues to grow and approach record high sales numbers, many employers in the industry struggle to recruit qualified employees for its STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) positions. To address these shortages and expand the pool of qualified applicants, employers may consider recruiting outside of the US or hiring foreign students currently completing degrees in the US.\nIn exploring visa options to keep or bring these highly skilled foreign nationals to the US, the H-1B visa may often be the best choice. The H-1B visa allows US employers to employ foreign employees in specialty occupations that require the theoretical or practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, such as scientists, engineers or information technology professionals.\nWhile the H-1B appears to be the ideal visa to allow employers to recruit qualified STEM candidates from abroad to address shortages in technical fields, there are some constraints to keep in mind. The H-1B visa is subject to a congressional mandated annual cap initially set in 1990 of 85,000 visas (65,000 for the general category and 20,000 for applicants who hold a US Master's degree). The H-1B also requires planning for hiring needs over six months in advance of the start date for employees not already in the US in another work authorized status, such as a recent foreign student graduate working on post-education employment authorization.\nEmployers may first apply for 2017 H-1B visas for individuals not currently in H-1B status on April 1, 2016 with a start date of October 1, 2016. Pre-filing requirements and application preparation times require employers to decide on H-1B hiring needs by early March 2016. USCIS received approximately 233,000 H-1B petitions during the first week applications were accepted for the 2016 H-1B visa cap and conducted a random lottery to select the 85,000 petitions for the H-1B cap. We anticipate similar high demand again this year. This H-1B cap limitation does not apply to extensions of H-1B status or those obtaining H-1B status to teach at colleges, universities, related nonprofit or government research organizations or J waiver physicians. If your company has potential H-1B candidates currently outside of the US or working on post-education employment authorization that will expire prior to October 1, 2017, please contact us to prepare H-1B petitions for these individuals as soon as possible to secure an available visa.\nAutomotive Blog Post, October 10, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.venadvisory.com/contents/2018/6/13/how-to-spend-less-time-and-money-gtm-transcript", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:06Z", "digest": "sha1:HX3USFIWQZMQF24CSWFKTM357J64EMN3", "length": 31351, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.venadvisory.com", "title": "VenAdvisory\u00ae \u2014 Transcript: How to Spend Less Time and Money GTM", "raw_content": "We are very excited to have Purvi Gandhi and Geof Baker join us today, both of whom bring many years of investment operator and startup experience into this commercialization discussion. Let's pivot to our speakers Purvi and Geof.\nPurvi Gandhi:\nThank you Julia, and I'm looking forward to sharing all my experiences of having seen perhaps over a thousand startups and being part of investments in 200 plus startups here in silicon valley throughout us and including internationally in Asia. I'm particularly looking forward to sharing with you my CFO lens, which is: how do you raise cash, how do you manage the cash, have you get traction with the cash and how do you hit the next milestone?\nGeof Baker:\nI'm fortunate to have both the experiences of the harder and successes as well as some of the failures and I'm really glad to help others today and be part of MassChallenge. Briefly, our firm helps entrepreneurs and companies grow their value by closing the gap and product market fit and gaining early proof points and sales interest. Business to business cycles can take about six to nine months at the enterprise level and that really varies depending on the solution complexity and the top bar we see that there's a 30 percent difference between the average enterprise sale and what companies do today. And the reason for that is there's some evidence-based frameworks that we'd like to share with you today.\nSo, you've all heard, your parents tell you ever since you were born that it's important to save money. That learning comes in very handy when you set up your own startup. And what we mean by this is that the key to validating your business idea comes when you gain early signs of customer traction and it's very critical for you to understand how you will gain that traction. Also, what level of capital is required to gain that traction. And perhaps at the early end, think through alternatives to gaining traction at the most minimal amount of cash outlay. I think are very related metric here is also when you gain that customer, what is the potential long-term value and is there anything you could do to extend that? If you could bring in that kind of discipline early into your venture I think you are set up to preserve the life of that early hard-earned capital that you will have raised.\nThere\u2019s a universe out there of different management theories, startup playbooks on sales, product management and marketing. In particular, there are two that really stand out for new launches and customer validation and a go to market theories, and that's because they're evidence based. And then down below, what's also interesting is, from INSEAD, there were about 490 authors that did an early crowdsourcing of business model design. And that was the forerunner for design thinking, which has been used by Stanford and other universities, and it was also forerunner for books like Lean Startup from Eric Ries, the many of you are familiar with and a guy named Ash Maurya who did The Lean Canvas, which is used by many entrepreneurs and incubators today. So, there are hundreds of these books out there, but one in particular we found to be very helpful in developing sales metrics and Max Altschuler\u2019s book Hacking Sales and he talks about the different types to set up these CRM systems and these free tools and ways to get the metrics. It's very likely that you'll get trapped, you'll get trapped in time as you burn more time and cash and not get to market. And that's what is known as the Valley of Death.\nThese five points are critical to understand. The product market fit I think is probably closest to Geof's heart. By that what we mean is that, and I think CB insights has also pointed this out, is that when you are excited about a product, that is great. That is exactly what we want to see in an entrepreneur from an investment perspective. But is that product the right product for the market today or the market as it evolves? If it is not the right product for the market today, but perhaps right for the market as it evolves, then definitely position it that way, think it through that way and plan to have adequate cash at the front and, to also address that. I think team fit is a very, very interesting one to me.\nI think the Bro Culture of hiring people like yourself who don't have the diversity of thinking can be very damaging as well. You definitely want a lot of diverse, strong opinions early on. Of course, your job as a founder is to coalesce all these ideas to converge into something executable, but to get as many different viewpoints is important. In fact, at my firm, as we focus heavily on machine learning, we went back 10 years and captured the history of every single startup in America. So yes, we do have that data of over 50,000 startups. We captured build our tools and we found a very interesting start, which is that, the companies that had more than one founder had stronger likelihood of succeeding. But more importantly, when these founders were from different schools, they graduated from different schools, the likelihood of success had even thought has gone up even higher. All the cycles where the value of death begins\nDepending on how you execute through that valley of death in terms of your, your product market fit, you're engineering prototypes. You can stay there for a long time and burn cash or you can pivot out of that and start to get earning revenues. So, it's critical as we start to discuss some of the things today, particularly around how we lower the cost of customer acquisition, and how we lower that cycle time, that we can really diminish that Valley of Death.\nIdentify as many risks as you can and then stack them and say which are the ones that will hit me a potentially and my business idea the hardest and what can I do to mitigate them? For example, not hitting your milestone. It's understandable that times that perhaps you didn't, but how do you develop a backup plan that when you're not hitting that milestone, then should you be a re purposing your cash another way. Also testing which financial assumptions you originally made as you kind of threw out this plan on a piece of paper and now that you're an action which of those initial assumptions are not supportable anymore. And the technology risk is the, perhaps the biggest one because we all want to be at the leading and bleeding and cutting edge of technology ideas, but often the market is just not ready for it. Keep in mind: \u201care there significant unproven technology risk to me?\u201d\nHow should entrepreneurs save time and money going to market? We can go to market and blow through that initial investor capital as rapidly as you want. The question is how long do you want that capital to last? Remember that first capital you raised, you raised very easily. You are working hard for it and now that you have raised it, how should you extend its runway and life? I think if there are themes that I can summarize for our discussion today, those are the ones that are laid out on the slide number nine and the gap closing product market fit perhaps is definitely a very key one early on. The cost of customer acquisition is a very, very big, big point to address as well. You will of course be expecting to get gain significant traction with your exciting idea into an enterprise or into a retail segment very fast. However, nine times out of 10 that never happens and you're going to burn through cash rapidly before you acquire that first customer. So, I would definitely expect everything to work against you as you think of your customer acquisition and then say yet, in spite of that, how will I continue to lower my COA and I'm continuing to move forward and propel.\nWhat we really want to ensure is that the company propaganda or what you may be listening to internally is not blinding your process of going to market that is not creating the kind of biases and your assumptions or potentially influencing the way you roll out your features or your product market sets. And so it's very important to have that voice of the customer. I'm involved in this process. And so, this is I think very meaningful in terms of, in terms of getting that bias out of the group process and cutting down your cycle time.\nDoes one happy customer equal your heading that product market fit? And the answer is \u201cNo\u201d. So definitely, as you sign up that first customer, even if it's a free customer, you ask yourself \u201cIs this going to help you bring in more repeatable sales and then actually eventually be able to charge those customers and then scale and expand?\u201d That\u2019s an idea to accomplish.\nThese are the inner loops of a harmonized process you want to think about as you start to go to market. From simply screening your screening your particular opportunity, to validating that opportunity in terms of the product market fit represented by the blue interloop, and the gray loops and then actually growing yourself over time.\nIt's the story of Andrus Purde who's an Estonian as he developed a marketing automation tool that was part of Pipe Drive, which is similar to some of the Salesforces out there, the CRMs systems today. It was a cloud-based solution for a small market, small, medium business market priced at $15 a user. He used many of the metrics to track progress and the tools and the hacking sales book that I mentioned from Max Altschuler, but he did this very rapidly because he was able to basically establish the metrics, understand his sales conversion and what it costs to acquire the customer. He\u2019s gone on to advise Weekdone, which is a terrific standup tool.\nIt starts with those personas. Understanding who those personas are, who are those buyer influencers, those users and what are their stories? What other jobs that need to be done, understanding what is it that they do now and what do they need to do and what potentially are those pain points? Is it an easy decision or is it a complex decision? On the hypotheses and assumptions, it's important to spend some time here developing key hypotheses and assumptions for the questions and for you to go to market and typically in the hypothesis testing, you want to test one MVP at a time and you also want to gain some key learning updates in your interviews and the results from those interviews around those hypotheses. So, you would hope that at the beginning of this assumption phase, you've been able to confirm who those early adopters are. If they're interested in your solution, you've been able to validate what the top two three problems are. A, you've been able to identify the critical feature sets that are part of your minimum viable product to go to market. You've also identified the pricing and you've also identified that the customers have a willingness to pay for this solution. There's tons of mentors and MassChallenge, but there's also mentors and all these incubators across the US and UK and across the world for that matter that would be more than interested in speaking with you and may actually provide a referral or become a future member of your advisory board. So, um, the, the other thing we want to be very careful about is when you recruit, you need to also recruit those influencers if they're nurses and healthcare or if they're doctors, but also the buyers who might be the CFOs of these hospital systems.\nThere's definitely a science around market research for developing those open ended and close questions for the qualitative and quantitative research. So, when we think about closed questions, \u201cOut of these five features, what is most important in what is least important?\u201d And in developing those questions, we want to be able to weave the price sensitivity into your feature preferences, particularly if you do any kind of polls. And if you ask someone if they like the product, you should also ask them if they like it at what price point. And generally when you ask that question, the whole conversation starts to change, so it's vital to ask people not necessarily what they most prefer, but what are they likely to use and, and watch them do that. There's a great resource I want to mention. Um, it's, it's an easy read. It's called The Mom Test and one of the things about The Mom Test is that we'd never, for example, ask the question, \u201cDo you think this is a good idea?\u201d And the whole premise here is that opinions are generally worthless, and people will generally not tell you necessarily how they feel because they want to please you. So, you've got to be very careful in not introducing bias into those, into those types of questions. In terms of the campaigns, I think everybody has a good understanding of what a lead generation campaign is nut you want to be able to do the hypothesis testing around your messaging around your value propositions, classically in software that's called the AB test. So you want to test what people are opening, what they're reading, what they're clicking on, and for that matter, if you called up for an interview and schedule that interview, why did they come to that interview? What attracted them to you and your message that led to that interview for your customer validation process. So, through that, through that campaign in the sprints, you want to be able to optimize that messaging.\nA little bit about those campaigns: generally, in the BTB environment, in the enterprise sales environment, you'll be looking at probably starting out with 100 potential leads in the universe of your, of your prospects out there. You convert those to prospects. So those are people that you touch. They opened up your email they returned your phone call and then the folks that actually schedule those interviews for those discussions, that will lead to potentially five that are interested in doing a trial, a pilot, or potentially purchasing that solution. So, five would be on the high side that range, maybe between three to five percent in terms of an enterprise sale for a $50,000 annual license, for example. The MVP interview itself is generally fairly structured. It should not last more than an hour. You can start the conversation by understanding the person's role, getting to know them, what they do, what their story is and then once you understand their role and their use cases and how they work in their environment and how they would potentially use your solution, it's helpful to provide some artifacts of that. Maybe it's a click through PowerPoint or it's a quick demo of your particular solution and to get that feedback and then you can use a poll using Likert scales a to basically get the feature feedback and the price and feedback and then you can close that out with a Net Promoter score question, which might be \u201cAre you willing to refer this to another person?\u201d And that's a good indicator that there's a high level of interest in this or there's not. And what typically also happens out of that question is you start to identify what the objections are. \u201cWell, I would give this a higher score because it would need to have these things\u201d so that can lead to your next step.\nA design tool to understand what feature set I'm going to need to get a really high score or to knock this out of the park. The final part of this is really the whole, the whole iteration process and that's really understanding that you might be in a position now to take this to market, or in fact, that this market is no good. You've gone through all the hypotheses and the assumptions you need to add additional features or there are things that you have to test or for that matter, you have to pivot and find another way to potentially use, your feature sets in a market that's very attractive for that particular product.\nSo, we want to identify here is whether your problem or solution has exit criteria. So, for example, have you identified the adopters of the problem? Um, have you defined the minimum features that are needed to solve the problem? Have you identified the price that customers are willing to pay? And for that matter, have you confirmed a business around this? So, if you think about this, a stoplight dashboard, it's a set of criteria for you to move on from that market, stay in that market or potentially pivot completely.\nThe customer's willingness to pay is perhaps a very important one to understand. \u201cAre you willing to pay the price points to, to acquire the product the same? The pricing thresholds become very relevant here. In working with Geof, I definitely learned and tested benchmarking those against not only the willingness but the ability to pay so that we could still gain customers at certain pricing thresholds and continue to validate our product with them and then eventually expand those thresholds with additional benefits and insights like pitching a very generic, very simple model. Don't make it complicated, keep it simple, and as you gain the interest, even perhaps at a lower price point, the question is, can you extend that customer's LTV and their interest by adding in things that they would want and then being able to charge them incrementally.\nThat gets you in the door in front of them at a very low pricing threshold perhaps, but then allows you to upcharge over time. The solution has to be something that solves a major problem. An incremental solution to an average problem is a very, very difficult sell, especially at the enterprise level. And if you are going to do that, if you are going to solve just a slight problem in an incremental manner, perhaps another option is to consider a channel partner very early on so that you are not pounding the pavement, convincing the customer that your company is going to solve a major issue for them.\nThose proof points are critical. So, these are: testimonials, this is the ROI calculator, this is the belief in your value proposition. Proof points are 40 percent more important than benefits in predicting the success of any innovation. So that's where the value proposition comes in. This is your claim that you do something and it's believable and it's provable and there's this whole process is that your sales team can have better conversations and in doing this, this product market fit you can actually reduce your outside agency costs for websites, customer ROI calculators, branding and so on. Because a lot of the content, a lot of the results that you generate from this process can be used directly. And this is a concrete example of what the product market fit lean validation process does for you. And there are these many spinoff benefits. So, we've described the customer interview, we've described some of the results in terms of the stoplight dashboard. We've talked about some of the insights that you've gained from that process through these validation interviews. Will all that information can then be condensed, be purpose. It can be purposed in terms of the micro sites that you were testing, the features that you are testing into a new landing page and it can create the web and the case studies by some of the quotes that folks are happy to be quoted on. You can create those sales decks, you can actually simplify your sales contract, and for that matter, you can put an ROI calculator on your website. And most importantly, you have now a super explainer video to cut down that sales process. Those phone calls, the customer can go to that explainer video and understand exactly what is it that you do and what makes the proof points in that particular video very compelling because you collected that evidence through your conversations and through your interviews. And then finally, after you've made these repeatable sales as Purvi was describing, you're in a position to do a press release and make announcements on LinkedIn and other places.\nWe hope that by going through the PMF process, you've been able to identify what your sales like sales cycle looks like, the duration of that sales cycle, the mix of marketing and the mix of sales in that process. It shows the kind of sales people and the kind of cost I'm going to incur in order to sell my product. So, if I'm on the right-hand side of this, I'm going to need a field staff team. Getting this right, understanding this mix can make a dramatic difference.\nAnother key aspect of all of this is really the sales conversion rate. Understanding what that conversion rate looks like. If you can get at that through the product market fit discussions of what that might look like, that can really help inform your total addressable market. It can evolve your financials and all of the assumptions that your investors were looking for. \u201cWhat is that sales conversion rate? What kind of service mix do you have? How long is the duration of your sales cycle? How can you cut that down? How can you do that very efficiently?\u201d\nMarket size and the TAM are very important. Segmenting the market is also very helpful early on. Some of our most sophisticated entrepreneurs tend to not only understand the TAM, but they segment the TAM out and try to understand the willingness and the ability for each of these segments to pay them. And then also the sales cycle for each of these segments. Pricing, of course, I believe that that first opportunity to get in the door is very relevant and you might have to price down in some cases as you enter. I know a lot of entrepreneurs who say that \u201cMy product is so exciting, I'm not going to sell the low price point period. The customers will have to understand its value\u201d and unfortunately, the enterprise side of the world doesn't work that way. They have to see something, prove out and then you can make it very sticky and price up and in fact, increase LTV as you introduce your product in phases to an enterprise.\nWell, we would expect to see things like strong usage patterns over time by our customers. We would see adoption, we would see activation. We see lower retention, lower churn rates. We would actually see an improved sales conversion rate as our brand is established. We would expect to see that improve over time rather than a lot of investment that that may take. We will actually start to see a repeatable growth and more bookings and more importantly, annualized recurring revenues, which is a metric that many will watch.\nThe other thing we want to see is we want to see profitability as we start to come out of the trough, we want to ensure that, that, the long-term value of the customer, whether it's three years or four years, if we look at the revenue that that customer generates, it exceeds the cost of customer acquisition by at least 3X. How long does it take us to actually recover, uh, the cost of that customer acquisition over time? And then by doing these, um, things that we described around lowering your cost of customer acquisition and by going through the product market fit process to identify what is it that we need to do we can achieve that, that 20 to 30 percent delta that's been borne out by 1200 companies and more from Steve Blank's experience at Stanford as well as MITs.\nAlways understand the situation before you take the action. We certainly don't want to have you stay within the Valley of Death, but rather get out of that as quickly as possible and climb the trees as you need to and, and, and find new forest so that you can build your house and be successful with your strategies.\nThat concludes our session. We'd like to open up the floor to questions. The first question was: \u201cHow do I know when to pivot?\u201d\nAs a startup you have to have the agile mentality and a pivot can be pivotal. Very good idea. They could not monetize it. They could not get the mass market traction. And very interestingly, as they were running out of money, they came to us and said that we are really low on money and we have not gained customer traction, so time to, for us to fold up the company or pivot and we decided to pivot and here's what we want to do. They had done the analysis around how, much more money they would need to continue to push that technology through and who their customers would be. So, we did another round in them and today this company is at $400,000,000 valuation and I'm just blown away that in three years that it went from a wedding registry to a vested search company because they were so agile, the earliest indicators of course being that the cash was running out and they had to survive. There are other, other approaches of identifying when to pivot too but, one of the shortest measure as early on as you set a benchmark for how you want your cash to stretch and what milestones you want to hit and halfway through your execution, you're not hitting any of those milestones and you have a certain amount of cash left, you might want to think of where else you can pivot with what you've developed.\nThe next question is: \u201cWhat's the, a prototypical example of a channel partner?\u201d There are several types of channel partners. So obviously we've seen in the retail sector the distribution of goods through whether it's Best Buy, Amazon and so on. The one I can speak or articulate to is, is the enterprise the enterprise channel that are part of the ecosystem that seek the professional services that actually want to do the implementation of that particular solution. So, they get a lot of revenues and it\u2019s part of their client base, their long-term client base to create those professional dollars around the configuration of these systems. So that's one example. Another example in the physician practice market where they're small practices and there's something like 800,000 doctors in the United States and about half of them are salaried or employed by large health systems. So how do I actually sell to those practices? How do I reach those practices? A good channel for that might be detailing channels by pharmacy Reps. If you have a particular device or solution that is sold by a representative for a drug that benefits from your particular device, that might be a very good channel partner to work with. Another one might be to go through a supply chain company that actually sells the office supplies or the medical supplies to that particular customer. So these are small customers. That's an easy way to reach these folks by developing a partnership or a revenue sharing arrangement, a with that particular distributor. So, you might have a wholesale cost and you give them anywhere between 30, 40, or 50 percent or more you reduced the retail cost of the wholesale cost and that delta is what incentivizes that particular channel, uh, to work for you. But in order to do that, you'll need to develop a business case how big the market is, why it's in their best interest to sell this, why it's not difficult to sell. So this is the kind of homework it takes in order to bring a, a channel partner on,\nI\u2019d like to add an example from our portfolio companies, one on the retail side and one on the enterprise side about how they leveraged channels. On the retail side, we have a very exciting smart oven that cooks meals, artificially intelligent, you can put anything in it and it senses what it is, and it cooks it to your desired point and alert you through your iPhone when it's ready. And this is a brilliant idea of course for the market and the millennials and, and the, the food market as you know, Blue Apron and hundreds of other companies trying to solve this issue of meals at home for one very, very interesting thing that entrepreneur has done is a find a channel partner in a very, very large prominent grocery chain and basically working with the grocery chains to this chain to design meal kits. So that on my way home I could go in, look through this rack of options, what I want to cook. I can literally go home and throw in the oven as they are, and I've got a meal at home that is fresh, and I can go for a walk and it tells me when it's ready or I can go have a drink and a neighborhood bar with a friend and it tells me your food is ready at home. This channel partner I think is going to be very pivotal for the company to hit the hit the larger market. They don't need to be out there spending a lot of money marketing directly to the customer at this point and they're partnering with this grocery chain.\nFantastic. I think we have about time for one more question.\nOkay, sure. The question is, \u201cAre there some key metrics, which might be misleading?\u201d and I think that's a, that's a very good question, I mean metrics likes statistics have been used in ways that can mislead us if not confound what the reality is of, of your actual performance. And I think the metrics of that folks use sometimes they're very specific to the industries that they're in. But I think the, the, the COCA metric that we have used, the sales conversion metric, the long-term value metric are very, very good metrics to identify how you're actually doing and they had this sort of relationship between the duration and the time as well as what's happening. So, I think looking at the metrics over time, looking at the interplay of these metrics with others, provide the insights to really guide your business.\nSo, in looking at this, we really want to understand what's the quality of those revenues, do we have a lot of churn in those revenues? Are the type of customers that we're acquiring going to cost us a lot to maintain? Are we getting instore growth with those customers? Are we running out of market for those customers? So, I would focus on those one or two that I think are of importance to your investors into your board or if you're in a large company, to your managers into the P and l for your nonprofit that drive outcomes for example in healthcare. Um, but there are definitely some metrics that can mislead. And I think it's, it's sort of a basket of metrics that can really provide the visibility and insights into what's going on in those relationships.\nThe ones that can be misleading is ones that show that, \u201chey, we kept our cash and burn very low. We were spending very little money as a startup. \u201cI think it's irrelevant to track cash but want to eat or the ROI on the cash against calls made customers interviewed technology progress on the product side and so as, as much as I like, I like to see cash saved, I don't like to see it preserved at the compromise of both either. I think another, another misleading one could also potentially be the overall market size and as a number of uniques, that you may be getting are less relevant as more customers that you are able to convert. You have a very high conversion rate early on and then you are turning up your unique visitors. That's when, but just getting a lot of people to visit your site and not being able to convert even a half a percent of them early on is a, is a very metric unless you believe that down the road that high volume of visitors are our recurring visitors that can be monetized.\nAlright. Well thank you so much. Purvi and Geof, that marks the end of our hour together everyone. 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While Cardi later said she was \u201csharing\u201d her win with Miller, she continued to receive criticism that proved to be too much to handle \u2014 so she decided to step away from the drama and deactivate her Instagram account.\nStars Fight Back on Social Media\nThe \u201cMoney\u201d wordsmith, 26, said goodbye to Instagram on Monday, February 11, shortly after she went on a rant about the situation. \u201cIt\u2019s not my style for people to put other people down to uplift somebody else \u2014 that\u2019s not my style and that\u2019s not what I\u2019m with and I don\u2019t support that,\u201d she said in a since-deleted video. \u201cHowever, I\u2019ve been taking a lot of s\u2014t today. I\u2019m seeing a lot of bulls\u2014t today and I saw a lot of s\u2014t last night and I\u2019m sick of this s\u2014t. I worked hard for my motherf\u2014king album.\u201d\nCardi also defended herself, reminding critics that she was pregnant when she created the Grammy-winning CD. She asserted: \u201cMy album went two times platinum, my n\u2014ga. In every chart that there was, my album was always top 10. [It was a] No. 1 album as well. I f\u2014king worked my ass off, locked myself in the studio for three months, my n\u2014ga. Then went to sleep in my own bed sometimes for four days straight, pregnant.\u201d\nStars Who\u2019ve Surprisingly Never Won a Grammy\nShortly before she deactivated her Instagram, the rapper posted a cryptic note to her main feed. \u201cI used to want this s\u2014t foreva,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYa can have it back!\u201d\nThe Love & Hip Hop: New York alum became the first-ever solo female rapper to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys. The Brooklyn native was emotional as she accepted the award during the Sunday, February 10, show.\nCelebs Who Took Social Media Breaks\n\u201cWhen I found out I was pregnant, my album was not complete,\u201d she told the audience, giving her 7-month-old daughter, Kulture, a shout-out. \u201cWe was like, \u2018We have to get this album done,\u2019 so I could still do [music] videos while I\u2019m still not showing. And it was very long nights.\u201d\nCardi also thanked her husband, Offset, who held her hand on stage as she spoke. She gushed: \u201cHusband, thank you. Nah, seriously he was like, \u2018You want to do this album, girl. You going to have this baby and we going to make this album.\u2019 Thank you so much, everybody.\u201d\nTaggedCelebrity NewsGrammysGrammys 2019\nPrevious Article The Umbrella Academy Behind-the-Scenes \u2013 Ellen Page & Co. Introduce New Netflix Superhero Series\nNext Article Ryan Lochte Cries Explaining Rio Scandal on \u2018Celebrity Big Brother\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welcometoromania.eu/E60_Oradea_Cluj/E60_Oradea_Cluj_Gheghie_Castelul_Zichy_e.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:F4GQSJUPPNFVEPDEYWSGOXME7UQCERGA", "length": 1875, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.welcometoromania.eu", "title": "Castle Zichy, Gheghie (E60/DN1 Oradea-Cluj)\u00b7", "raw_content": "ROADS >E60/DN1 > Gheghie\nGheghie is a locality situated in Bihor county, with a population of 255 inhabitants.\nSights, Gheghie\nCastle Zichy\nMeteo, Gheghie\nGheghie, Castle Zichy\nThe castle in Gheghie, one of the few preserved in good condition, was built in 1860 by former Bishop of Veszprem, Zichy Domokos, who moved to Transylvania after the crushing of the Revolution of 1848 and the execution of his brother Jen\u0151 in 1849. He died in 1879.\nIn 1904, the building was turned into a hunting castle by nephew Zichy \u00d6d\u00f6n (1874-1967) of the other grof brother, Zichy \u00d6d\u00f6n, the founder of the Vienna Oriental Culture Museum. The nephew marries in 1907 with Bethlen Gabriella (the successor of Chancellor Bethlen Farkas). In 1918, after World War I, they had to sell the castle. The new owner becomes Gheorghe Mateescu the wallachian boyar, very popular with the locals.\nHe built a school, donated land for church building, and on Christmas holidays he gave books to children arriving around the common tree. The Mateescu family kept intact the castle interior. The original furniture and the knights' hall were preserved until 1947. One of the boy's sons died of leukemia and the other fell into prison and was dug in Siberia, dying shortly after returning to the country. Old Mateescu died in 1952. After the nationalization, the castle was emptied of furniture and in 1950 it was transformed into a TB sanatorium, which functioned until autumn 2006.\nOn the right side of the castle stands a beautiful ornate bastion. Above the spiral staircase leading to the tower you can read the year 1904. The castle is surrounded by a beautiful park. The heir of the boyar, his second wife, left his nephew's entire fortune. The succession process between the nephew and the other boyars of blood of the boyar was not completed until 2012.\nShare Castle Zichy, Gheghie (E60/DN1 Oradea-Cluj)\u00b7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 8818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernsydneycareerexpo.com.au/Exhibitors/c/coderfactoryacademy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:37Z", "digest": "sha1:GELUYJIKPFVLMFUKPUF7CJRPDP3KYJHQ", "length": 690, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.westernsydneycareerexpo.com.au", "title": "Western Sydney Careers Expo: Coder Academy", "raw_content": "Coder Academy's mission is to reduce inequality and drive innovation via high-quality technology training. Known for operating Australia\u2019s only accredited coding bootcamps for students wishing to pursue careers as web developers, amongst many other high-quality technology & STEM training options for people of all ages, Coder Academy provides a unique, innovative, and industry-driven educational experience. Through a variety of programs in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Coder Academy equips Australians with the in-demand coding and technology skills they'll need to tackle the future of work. Visit coderacademy.edu.au\nWestern Sydney Careers Expo / Coder Academy is also available as", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westharpethfh.com/obit/william-c-bill-binkley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KHC3KOUEGSY7ZJCLDL5KXRJ3M6SD46C2", "length": 1847, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.westharpethfh.com", "title": "William C. \u201cBill\u201d Binkley | West Harpeth Funeral Home & Crematory", "raw_content": "William C. \"Bill\" Binkley\nDeparted on June 16, 2018 and resided in Buchanan, TN\nGraveside Service: McCall Family Cemetery\nMonday June 18, 2018 10:30am to 11:00am\nWilliam C. \u201cBill\u201d Binkley- Born on October 7, 1934, passed away June 16, 2018.\nHe retired from Carpenters Local Union 223 and Metro Emergency Rehab. Bill lived in West Nashville until his retirement. After, they moved to the Goosehorn Community outside of Red Boiling Springs, TN, most recently residing in Buchanan, TN.\nBill is preceded in death by his son, David Binkley. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Irene Binkley; children, Sheila (Mark) Sowell, Charlotte (John) Mondeli, James Binkley, Kay (Darrell) Merritt, and Robert (Christina) Binkley; 13 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren; sister, Daisy Lowry; and many nieces and nephews.\nA Graveside Service will be held on Monday June 18, 2018, at 10:30am, at McCall Family Cemetery (Hummingbird Lane) Visitation will be private.\n3 Comments to Mr. William C. \"Bill\" Binkley\nSo sorry to hear about your loss,It\u2019s been awhile since we saw you.\nJimmy and Diane Meadows\nBarbara Antoinette Felts\nSo sorry about Bill . I remember when we met Bill and Howell.June 1953 so long ago.\nMy condolences to the family on the loss of your loved one William. When we lose a loved one we are left with a void in our life and extreme sadness. To help ease our sorrow, our Heavenly Father has given us promises in His word the Bible that provide comfort and hope. One promise is in Revelation 21:4 which says \u201cdeath will be no more\u201d and another promise is in Acts 24:15 which says \u201cthere is going to be a resurrection\u201d. When these promises are fulfilled, we have the hope of never being separated from our loved one again. Titus 1:2 says that God \u201ccannot lie\u201d so we know this will happen. Other heartwarming promises can be found on jw.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westhoustondental.com/general-services/oral-surgery/extractions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:08Z", "digest": "sha1:HOTIO6YDFGH3SIPQEXDSMQN6YHLCLAN6", "length": 4099, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.westhoustondental.com", "title": "Extractions | Houston, TX | West Houston Dental", "raw_content": "Tooth Extractions in Houston, TX\nReason for Extraction\nTeeth are often removed because they are impacted. Teeth become impacted when they are prevented from growing into their normal position in the mouth by gum tissue, bone, or other teeth. Dicovering an impacted tooth or impacted teeth is a common reason for the extraction of wisdom teeth. Extraction is the only known treatment method that will prevent further problems. Teeth may also be extracted to make more room in the mouth prior to straightening the remaining teeth (orthodontic treatment), or because they are so badly positioned that straightening is impossible. Extraction may be used to remove teeth that are so badly decayed or broken that they cannot be restored. In addition, patients sometimes choose extraction as a less expensive alternative to filling or placing a crown on a severely decayed tooth.\nIn some situations, tooth extractions may need to be postponed temporarily. These situations include:\nInfection that has progressed from the tooth into the bone. Infections may make anesthesia difficult. They can be treated with antibiotics before the tooth is extracted.\nThe patient's use of drugs that thin the blood (anticoagulants). These medications include warfarin (Coumadin) and aspirin. The patient should stop using these medications for three days prior to extraction.\nPatients who have had any of the following procedures in the previous six months: heart valve replacement, open heart surgery, prosthetic joint replacement, or placement of a medical shunt. These patients may be given antibiotics to reduce the risk of bacterial infection.\nTooth extraction can be performed with local anesthesia if the tooth is exposed and appears to be easily removable in one piece. If the extraction is likely to be difficult, the dentist may refer the patient to an oral surgeon. Oral surgeons are specialists who are trained to give nitrous oxide, an intravenous sedative, or a general anesthetic to relieve pain. Extracting an impacted tooth or a tooth with curved roots typically requires cutting through gum tissue to expose the tooth. It may also require removing portions of bone to free the tooth. Some teeth must be cut and removed in sections. The extraction site may or may not require one or more stitches to close the cut (incision).\nPre-Extraction Procedures\nThe dentist may then prescribe antibiotics or recommend stopping certain medications prior to the extraction. The tooth is x-rayed to determine its full shape and position, especially if it is impacted.\nPost Care Instructions\nAn important aspect of aftercare is encouraging a clot to form at the extraction site. The patient should put pressure on the area by biting gently on a roll or wad of gauze for several hours after surgery. Once the clot is formed, it should not be disturbed. The patient should not rinse, spit, drink with a straw, or smoke for at least 24 hours after the extraction and preferably longer. Vigorous exercise should not be done for the first three to five days.\nFor the first two days after the procedure, the patient should drink liquids without using a straw, and eat soft foods. Any chewing must be done on the side away from the extraction site. Hard or sticky foods should be avoided. The mouth may be gently cleaned with a toothbrush, but the extraction area should not be scrubbed.\nWrapped ice packs can be applied to reduce facial swelling. Swelling is a normal part of the healing process. It is most noticeable in the first 48-72 hours. As the swelling subsides, the patient may experience muscle stiffness. Moist heat and gentle exercise will restore jaw movement. The dentist may prescribe medications to relieve the postoperative pain.\nPotential complications of tooth extraction include postoperative infection, temporary numbness from nerve irritation, jaw fracture, and jaw joint pain. An additional complication is called dry socket. When a blood clot does not properly form in the empty tooth socket, the bone beneath the socket is painfully exposed to air and food, and the extraction site heals more slowly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitewright.com/projects---events.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZP5UDSLQBEUEAW3ZTRWKCJWELLN7FYO4", "length": 127, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.whitewright.com", "title": "Projects and Events", "raw_content": "Come enjoy a cup of coffee with Mayor Jamie Lawrence on 1st Fridays from 8 - 9 a.m. at 111 W Grand Street. Everyone is invited!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/blogs/Focus-on-Audit-Committees-Accounting-and-the-Law/regulators-discuss-accounting-and-auditing-developments-at-annual-aicpa-conference", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QPDKJFGZNGU22JMGFV3DSEZSA6KI27GV", "length": 5333, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wilmerhale.com", "title": "Regulators Discuss Accounting and Auditing Developments at Annual AICPA Conference | WilmerHale", "raw_content": "Regulators Discuss Accounting and Auditing Developments at Annual AICPA Conference\nThe American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' annual conference on SEC and PCAOB reporting developments is always a fertile source of information about current regulatory issues affecting audit committees, auditors and issuers. The major topics discussed at this years' conference, held on December 8-10, included:\nDemand for Assurance Services. Echoing themes from prior conferences, PCAOB Chair James Doty noted that audit practices have shrunk in comparison to audit firms' other client services. He said that, if present trends continue, within 10 years audits may yield less than 20% of the revenue of the global accounting firm networks. He suggested that the audit profession's challenge is to generate \"demand pull\" for additional assurance services. This requires \"attending to the public's desire for confidence that the audit function is the watchdog the public expects it to be. The public needs to hear auditors bark when there's a problem.\" PCAOB Director of Registration and Inspections Helen Munter also expressed concerns about the effect of firms' efforts to boost profits, \"including expanding non-audit and related services and outsourcing audit work to off-shore locations.\"\nAudit Committee Disclosures. SEC Chief Accountant James Schnurr noted SEC Chair Mary Jo White's initiative to examine the existing audit committee report to seek ways to make it more useful to investors. Mr. Schnurr discussed the developments that have led to consideration of enhanced audit committee disclosures, but did not identify any specific proposals or lay out a timetable for action.\nIFRS. Mr. Schnurr made news with his remarks on implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards in the United States. Consistent with prior comments by SEC commissioners and staff, Mr. Schnurr observed that \"US constituents generally are not supportive of full adoption [of IFRS] for a variety of reasons, including legal issues and general cost-benefit concerns....\" Mr. Schnurr floated the idea that domestic issuers might be permitted to provide IFRS-based financial information in addition to US GAAP financial statements. He noted that domestic issuers may currently be dissuaded from doing so, because current SEC rules consider this information to be a \"non-GAAP\" financial measure. He asked, \"[S]hould it be thought of differently?\" He indicated that permitting voluntary provision of IFRS-based information would allow issuers who do not believe the information would be useful to investors to avoid the implementation costs of IFRS conversion. Mr. Schnurr stated that his remarks were \"a starting point\" for consideration in the coming months of alternatives for further incorporation of IFRS.\nAuditor Independence. SEC Deputy Chief Accountant Brian Croteau reiterated comments he made at the 2013 AICPA conference about the importance of auditor independence. He again emphasized the importance of management and audit committees having appropriate policies and procedures in place to evaluate non-audit services provided by a company's auditor. This includes \"monitoring the provision of non-audit services for the risk of 'scope creep' that could result in a service becoming impermissible and impairing the auditor's independence.\" PCAOB Director of Enforcement Claudius Modesti reported that independence was a high priority for the PCAOB's enforcement program, particularly \"as audit firms' business models continue to evolve into large multidisciplinary platforms, involving new lines of advisory and consulting businesses unrelated to the audit.\"\nPCAOB Standard-Setting Activities. Members of the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant expressed their dissatisfaction with the pace and focus of standard-setting by the PCAOB. SEC Chief Accountant Schnurr, echoed by Deputy Chief Accountant Croteau, noted that \"some of the most important projects to update auditing and quality control standards that are on the PCAOB's agenda simply have been moving too slowly\" and indicated that he is working with PCAOB Chair Doty to improve the standard setting process. Mr. Doty committed to identify efficiencies in the rulemaking process, while also stressing the importance of considering the economic impact of rulemaking and the need for public input.\nInternal Control Over Financial Reporting. Deputy Chief Accountant Croteau renewed comments he had made at the 2013 conference questioning whether material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting were being properly identified and disclosed. At that time, he had observed that \"it was 'surprisingly rare' to see management identify a material weakness in the absence of a material misstatement.\" He reported that \"based upon our cumulative efforts this year, I continue to question whether material weaknesses are being properly identified, evaluated, and disclosed.\" According to Mr. Croteau, \"our efforts throughout the SEC pertaining to the ICFR requirements are ongoing, coordinated, and increasingly integrated into our routine consultation, disclosure review and enforcement efforts.\" PCAOB Inspections Director Munter, meanwhile, noted that the PCAOB's inspection staff continues to observe significant auditing practice issues related to ICFR audits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 6903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:FPAP4LHCO45WTJGAI2CMVVFD3JBXP4CL", "length": 8416, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.wired.com", "title": "Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA | WIRED", "raw_content": "When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease. But one group of biohackers has demonstrated how DNA can carry a less expected threat\u2014one designed to infect not humans nor animals but computers.\nIn new research they plan to present at the USENIX Security conference on Thursday, a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it\u2019s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer. While that attack is far from practical for any real spy or criminal, it's one the researchers argue could become more likely over time, as DNA sequencing becomes more commonplace, powerful, and performed by third-party services on sensitive computer systems. And, perhaps more to the point for the cybersecurity community, it also represents an impressive, sci-fi feat of sheer hacker ingenuity.\n\u201cWe know that if an adversary has control over the data a computer is processing, it can potentially take over that computer,\u201d says Tadayoshi Kohno, the University of Washington computer science professor who led the project, comparing the technique to traditional hacker attacks that package malicious code in web pages or an email attachment. \u201cThat means when you\u2019re looking at the security of computational biology systems, you\u2019re not only thinking about the network connectivity and the USB drive and the user at the keyboard but also the information stored in the DNA they\u2019re sequencing. It\u2019s about considering a different class of threat.\u201d\nA Sci-Fi Hack\nFor now, that threat remains more of a plot point in a Michael Crichton novel than one that should concern computational biologists. But as genetic sequencing is increasingly handled by centralized services\u2014often run by university labs that own the expensive gene sequencing equipment\u2014that DNA-borne malware trick becomes ever so slightly more realistic. Especially given that the DNA samples come from outside sources, which may be difficult to properly vet.\nIf hackers did pull off the trick, the researchers say they could potentially gain access to valuable intellectual property, or possibly taint genetic analysis like criminal DNA testing. Companies could even potentially place malicious code in the DNA of genetically modified products, as a way to protect trade secrets, the researchers suggest. \"There are a lot of interesting\u2014or threatening may be a better word\u2014applications of this coming in the future,\" says Peter Ney, a researcher on the project.\nRegardless of any practical reason for the research, however, the notion of building a computer attack\u2014known as an \"exploit\"\u2014with nothing but the information stored in a strand of DNA represented an epic hacker challenge for the University of Washington team. The researchers started by writing a well-known exploit called a \"buffer overflow,\" designed to fill the space in a computer's memory meant for a certain piece of data and then spill out into another part of the memory to plant its own malicious commands.\nBut encoding that attack in actual DNA proved harder than they first imagined. DNA sequencers work by mixing DNA with chemicals that bind differently to DNA's basic units of code\u2014the chemical bases A, T, G, and C\u2014and each emit a different color of light, captured in a photo of the DNA molecules. To speed up the processing, the images of millions of bases are split up into thousands of chunks and analyzed in parallel. So all the data that comprised their attack had to fit into just a few hundred of those bases, to increase the likelihood it would remain intact throughout the sequencer's parallel processing.\nWhen the researchers sent their carefully crafted attack to the DNA synthesis service Integrated DNA Technologies in the form of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs, they found that DNA has other physical restrictions too. For their DNA sample to remain stable, they had to maintain a certain ratio of Gs and Cs to As and Ts, because the natural stability of DNA depends on a regular proportion of A-T and G-C pairs. And while a buffer overflow often involves using the same strings of data repeatedly, doing so in this case caused the DNA strand to fold in on itself. All of that meant the group had to repeatedly rewrite their exploit code to find a form that could also survive as actual DNA, which the synthesis service would ultimately send them in a finger-sized plastic vial in the mail.\nThe result, finally, was a piece of attack software that could survive the translation from physical DNA to the digital format, known as FASTQ, that's used to store the DNA sequence. And when that FASTQ file is compressed with a common compression program known as fqzcomp\u2014FASTQ files are often compressed because they can stretch to gigabytes of text\u2014it hacks that compression software with its buffer overflow exploit, breaking out of the program and into the memory of the computer running the software to run its own arbitrary commands.\nA Far-Off Threat\nEven then, the attack was fully translated only about 37 percent of the time, since the sequencer's parallel processing often cut it short or\u2014another hazard of writing code in a physical object\u2014the program decoded it backward. (A strand of DNA can be sequenced in either direction, but code is meant to be read in only one. The researchers suggest in their paper that future, improved versions of the attack might be crafted as a palindrome.)\nDespite that tortuous, unreliable process, the researchers admit, they also had to take some serious shortcuts in their proof-of-concept that verge on cheating. Rather than exploit an existing vulnerability in the fqzcomp program, as real-world hackers do, they modified the program's open-source code to insert their own flaw allowing the buffer overflow. But aside from writing that DNA attack code to exploit their artificially vulnerable version of fqzcomp, the researchers also performed a survey of common DNA sequencing software and found three actual buffer overflow vulnerabilities in common programs. \"A lot of this software wasn't written with security in mind,\" Ney says. That shows, the researchers say, that a future hacker might be able to pull off the attack in a more realistic setting, particularly as more powerful gene sequencers start analyzing larger chunks of data that could better preserve an exploit's code.\nNeedless to say, any possible DNA-based hacking is years away. Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing equipment, said as much in a statement responding to the University of Washington paper. \"This is interesting research about potential long-term risks. We agree with the premise of the study that this does not pose an imminent threat and is not a typical cyber security capability,\" writes Jason Callahan, the company's chief information security officer \"We are vigilant and routinely evaluate the safeguards in place for our software and instruments. We welcome any studies that create a dialogue around a broad future framework and guidelines to ensure security and privacy in DNA synthesis, sequencing, and processing.\"\nBut hacking aside, the use of DNA for handling computer information is slowly becoming a reality, says Seth Shipman, one member of a Harvard team that recently encoded a video in a DNA sample. (Shipman is married to WIRED senior writer Emily Dreyfuss.) That storage method, while mostly theoretical for now, could someday allow data to be kept for hundreds of years, thanks to DNA's ability to maintain its structure far longer than magnetic encoding in flash memory or on a hard drive. And if DNA-based computer storage is coming, DNA-based computer attacks may not be so farfetched, he says.\n\"I read this paper with a smile on my face, because I think it\u2019s clever,\" Shipman says. \"Is it something we should start screening for now? I doubt it.\" But he adds that, with an age of DNA-based data possibly on the horizon, the ability to plant malicious code in DNA is more than a hacker parlor trick.\n\"Somewhere down the line, when more information is stored in DNA and it\u2019s being input and sequenced constantly,\" Shipman says, \"we'll be glad we started thinking about these things.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 11989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-joystick.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YTBKVJYYE6DRHR3DX7FDF6IGF4A3DED6", "length": 5977, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.wisegeek.com", "title": "What is a Joystick? (with picture)", "raw_content": "What is a Joystick?\nA joystick is a type of gaming controller.\nA joystick is a type of gaming controller that may mimic the appearance of an aircraft flight stick. One typically consists of a stick, mounted on a base of some kind, that can be articulated in two or three directions. One of the oldest control methods for video games, joysticks are prevalent on arcade machines and may also be available for home use. Most home video game systems have had a variety of joysticks available as optional peripherals, with older systems even using them as the primary controller. They are often sought out in situations where a game requires precise inputs and a great deal of control, such as in flight simulators or games in the fighting genre.\nWhile the joystick is typically an analog input device, digital versions have also existed. An analog joystick typically works by transmitting an angle reading to a video game system or computer. This way, the device can detect where the stick is moved, along both x and y axes, at any time. Models with a z axis are also able to transmit this additional date along with the x and y positions.\nAnalog joysticks often have what may be known as gates. These are a part of the movement mechanism, and allow the user of the stick to easily lock it into four or eight different cardinal positions. While the movement remains analog, this may be useful to some people that use a joystick for fighting-type games. Round gates may also be available, and it is often possible to modify a joystick with a different style of gate according to personal preference.\nDigital joysticks operate in much the same way as the analog variety, though they are only capable of reporting that a movement has occurred, rather than the distance the stick was moved in that direction. These may still be capable of reporting in-between movements, such as an up-left movement, a down-right movement, or anything in between. They were commonly seen in many of the earliest home video game systems.\nMany home computers may have a port that was originally designed specifically for a joystick connection. This port was later used for all kinds of game controllers, including console-like gamepads in addition to traditional joysticks. While most computers still have this port, modern joysticks may often be connected via universal serial bus (USB) or other ports, like IEEE 1394. Joysticks using these types of connections may include features like force feedback, with which the game can send a signal for the joystick to vibrate or resist movement.\nWhat is a Flight Simulator?\nWhat is a Pointing Stick?\nWhat is Atari?\nWhat Were the First PCs Like?\nWhat Were the Earliest Video Games?\nWhat Should I Consider When Buying an Arcade Game?\n@Izzy78 - I believe gates are usually used more often to restrict the movement of a joystick. With something like a flight simulator joystick that you're using with the computer, you don't really want restricted movement. You want to be able to get very precise controls.\nIf you have an old game with an arcade joystick, though, you might need to limit the movements. Some of the older arcade games were only designed to accept up, down, left, and right commands. Later on, though, arcade games started letting people move the joystick in eight directions (added the four directions in between the four cardinal directions).\nIf a game can only accept 4 commands, and someone used a newer joystick\nto move northeast, the game would have difficulty registering the exact direction intended, and might not do like the player intended. What the gate does is restricts a newer joystick to only be able to move in a certain number of directions.\nI loved playing flight simulator games and Air Force type games on the computer when I was a kid. It was always so much fun getting to feel like you were really controlling the plane. Some of the games could be really realistic, as well.\nBack then, you couldn't really buy a USB joystick. You had to have the kind that connected with the pins. I remember a while back that I tried to plug my old joystick into the computer, and they don't even make computers with the ports to handle those type of connectors anymore.\nI had never heard of gates for joysticks, though. I guess mine probably wasn't fancy enough for that. How exactly do the gates work on a joystick? Is it just like a button or something that you can lock down that keeps the joystick in the same spot?\n@Emilski - I definitely went through my fair share of Atari controllers when I was little. I remember that one of the biggest problems with them was that you could actually pop the joystick right out of the socket with enough force. I remember a lot of heated battles that ended up with broken controllers after someone got mad.\nThe thing I think is interesting is that game controllers started out with the joystick as the main mode of movement. During the next wave of consoles like the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega systems they ditched the joystick in favor of directional buttons. Finally, once the Playstation came out, consoles started using buttons again. I guess the companies realized once they started making 3D games that they had to have joysticks to get more fluid movement from the characters.\nI remember playing the Atari when I was growing up and using the little plastic joystick. It is amazing how games have advanced since then. Now the game controllers are so complicated that I don't even know how someone could keep track of all the different buttons.\nI didn't know that there were different types of joysticks as far as the digital and analog went. I had heard those words used before to describe joystick but just assumed they were interchangeable.\nThe thing I have noticed now on the modern controllers is that most of them actually have two joysticks. I guess they usually control different types of movement. They are much smaller and easier to control than the joysticks I used to use.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 8344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wittenborg.eu/30-years-wittenborg.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WZ6NPIYJTN4DVX7BKB2I7AUALTVH64ZR", "length": 7602, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.wittenborg.eu", "title": "30 years Wittenborg!", "raw_content": "On 21 September 2017, Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences celebrated a great milestone - 30 years of providing quality education to students from more than 100 different nationalities! The day was celebrated by students and staff at the Wittenborg campuses in Apeldoorn, Amsterdam and Vienna.\nThis has resulted in a long list of alumni who have distinguished themselves in many industries, achieving great success and serving as role models in communities all over the world. Wittenborg is proud to have made a contribution in shaping their future, providing a unique international perspective in their training.\nWittenborg College was founded in 1987 as a small, private institute in Deventer, preparing its students for careers in banking, insurance and property management. In 2002, it started developing English-taught business programmes, and in 2008 management was taken over by Peter Birdsall and Maggie Feng. In 2010, Wittenborg moved to Apeldoorn where it has two locations and various properties used for international student accommodation. The name officially changed to Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences in 2013.\nToday, with almost 700 students from 80 different nationalities, Wittenborg is considered one of the fastest-growing, most international institutes of higher education in the Netherlands. It has locations in 3 European cities - Apeldoorn, Amsterdam and Vienna - and offers Bachelor and Master programmes. With its School of Business and School of Hospitality established, it now aims to establish schools of Education, Arts & Technology, as well as Health and Social Care.\nDust off your dancing shoes, because Wittenborg's 30th Year celebrations will culminate on 10 November in a magnificent gala at the Apeldoorn City Hall. Festivities will start from 19:30 onwards.\nThe event promises an unforgettable night of live entertainment, dancing, drinks and snacks, surpassing even the 25th anniversary gala in 2012.\nBesides students, alumni and staff, invites have also been sent to Wittenborg alumni, education partners like the University of Brighton in the UK, Nuffic, the Ministry of Education, NVAO, NRTO and FIBAA, and representatives from various foreign embassies in the Netherlands.\nNew international students coming to study at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences need not worry about housing - the university has always provided shared, affordable accommodation to incoming students and continues to do so.\nStarting from the time the institute was situated in Deventer, Wittenborg has always ensured students have rented accommodation in the city, making them feel at home and allowing them to adapt to their new environment quicker.\nWhen Wittenborg moved its operations to Apeldoorn in 2010, the university worked closely with local housing corporations to provide shared accommodation for students. In addition, as a temporary solution to support growing student numbers, it set up the Spaceboxes in 2012. The Spaceboxes - ship containers transformed into independent units for single-occupation - were a colourful feature of the Apeldoorn landscape for 5 years.\nLast year, Wittenborg invested for the first time in real estate by buying 5 apartments in the south of Apeldoorn, about 3km from its campus at 500 Laan van de Menserechten, after some of its rental agreements with housing corporations came to an end. It also partnered with the\nFull Force Sports Academy, that has made some of its modern apartments available for Wittenborg students.\nCurrently the institute has a mixed housing approach when it comes to accommodating its students. Besides the existing property, it just purchased and renovated a former office building in the heart of Apeldoorn into student accommodation. It acquired the property in partnership with Van der Leij Vastgoed, a project developer specialising in re-purposing office space into living quarters. In addition, the university continues to rent a minimum number of properties from housing corporations.\nFor more than two decades Wittenborg was situated in Deventer, first at a handsome villa on the Pikeursbaan where it was opened by the Mayor on 21 September 1987, then to the 'Villa de Heuvel ' on the Diepenveenseweg in Deventer.\nWith slogans like 'Hoe Pittig wil je het hebben!', which is literally a play on words in Dutch meaning - 'how spicy do you want it', or 'how tough do you want it', Wittenborg started creating its own unique brand.\nWhen in 2003 Wittenborg opened its doors to international students it moved, with its new English and Dutch programmes, to a 3-storey building at Nieuwe Markt 23, right in the centre of Deventer - one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands.\nApeldoorn - Laan van de Mensenrechten\nIt was also from here that it started positioning itself as an international Business and Management School offering all its programmes in English. From here it quickly spread out over three European cities: Apeldoorn, Amsterdam and Vienna.\nApeldoorn - Spoorstraat\nIn 2010, the school moved from Deventer to Apeldoorn after discussions with the city of Apeldoorn as part of ambitions to attract more institutions of higher education to the city. It moved into a wing-building of ROC Aventus at Laan van de Mensenrechten 500.\nThen came 2015 - a big year for the school in terms of extension. Not only did it open a campus in Amsterdam, but also a second location in Apeldoorn, Spoorstraat 23, forming part of the city's new education hub around the railway station.\nThis year, Wittenborg reached another milestone - opening its first transnational campus in the heart of Vienna, Austria.\nThis year the university reached 100 different nationalities that studied here the past three years, with the two latest additions being from Finland and Belarus, making its classrooms more diverse than ever. Student numbers grew by over 15% in the 2017/18 academic year, and will reach around 700 by the end of the year.\nWittenborg's 10-year plan, unveiled in 2013, sees it aspiring to reach a number of 1,500 students. It also aims at growing into a broad university with 5 schools: School of Business, School of Hospitality, School of Education, School of Arts & Technology and a School of Health and Social Care.\nIt has been and continues to be involved in various research projects. The latest as an education partner in the Robotics Experience Centre Testing Ground Project - a venture which advances robotics technology in the eastern provinces of the Netherlands. Something the partners hope to strengthen is the country\u2019s Smart Industry overall, with the resulting growth in employment .\nPreviously, Wittenborg was also involved in the GREAT Project - an EU-funded research project in growing renewable energy applications and technologies.\nThe coming year will see new research projects started in the fields of sustainability and innovation and according to Wittenborg's chair of the executive board, Peter Birdsall, the education priorities for the new year will be to ramp up academic quality and improving student experience. In the coming years Wittenborg will launch a range of a new programmes at various locations, new and old - including a Master of Arts (MA) in Education - in conjunction with its long-term academic partner in the UK, the University of Brighton, which will permanently move the institute away from only being a Business School, towards becoming a broader private and international University of Applied Sciences!\nOriginally posted by WUP 21/9/2017\nhttps://www.wittenborg.eu/happy-30th-birthday-wittenborg.htm\nby James Wittenborg, Anesca Smith and Others", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 14630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmur.com/article/head-butting-goat-caught-on-camera-vandalizing-business/10321678", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VIUT3ESLAXRZPGCWTO5WOGJLF4LT7DPB", "length": 1712, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wmur.com", "title": "Head-butting goat caught on camera vandalizing business", "raw_content": "Head-butting goat caught on camera vandalizing business\nPolice are puzzled, but they have a description of a suspect and a pile of evidence\nA destructive criminal remains on the loose in Colorado. Police believe he's part of a gang of vandals who destroyed a glass door at a Denver-area business.He's also a goat.Surveillance video shows the angry animal head-butting both sides of the entrance at Kryptane Systems for nearly a half an hour before it shattered. He then ran off with the rest of his herd of delinquents.\"I don't know why. That was just to be mean I guess,\" Greg Cappert, an engineer for the company, told KDVR.Police are puzzled by the vandals' motive, but they did leave a pile of evidence in the form of feces. And the video gave them a good look at the suspect.\"We understand the description is he's very hairy, has some large horns, and is possibly hooved,\" said Louisville Police Commander Jeff Fisher.\nA destructive criminal remains on the loose in Colorado. Police believe he's part of a gang of vandals who destroyed a glass door at a Denver-area business.\nHe's also a goat.\nSurveillance video shows the angry animal head-butting both sides of the entrance at Kryptane Systems for nearly a half an hour before it shattered. He then ran off with the rest of his herd of delinquents.\n\"I don't know why. That was just to be mean I guess,\" Greg Cappert, an engineer for the company, told KDVR.\nPolice are puzzled by the vandals' motive, but they did leave a pile of evidence in the form of feces. And the video gave them a good look at the suspect.\n\"We understand the description is he's very hairy, has some large horns, and is possibly hooved,\" said Louisville Police Commander Jeff Fisher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmur.com/article/shaheen-hopes-democrats-republicans-will-work-together/5194807", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:57QWBBFNAL4DPDCLWPAN6RQKUXTVEF27", "length": 4403, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.wmur.com", "title": "Shaheen hopes Democrats, Republicans will work together", "raw_content": "Shaheen hopes Democrats, Republicans will work together\nSenator says she wants to resurrect energy bill\nU.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., spoke to the press Friday for the first time since her election night victory.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The senator gave her take on the how she pulled off the win in a very favorable year for Republicans and described what she expects out of working in the Senate minority.Shaheen said she hopes to resurrect the bill known as Shaheen-Portman. It's energy-efficiency legislation that was an apparent casualty of election year politics.Shaheen stopped by Harvey's Coffee Shop in Dover on Friday morning, her first public appearance since winning re-election and withstanding a Republican wave that swept Senate Democrats out of office in nearly every other swing state in the country.\"As I've always said, it speaks to the intelligence of New Hampshire voters, and I'm very grateful for their support,\" Shaheen said. \"This was a tough election year, but I think people really listened to what we had to say.\"Shaheen said she believes another key to the win was familiarity.\"When you've been involved in politics, you get to know people, and party becomes less important than relationships, and that's the way I've tried to run, whether for the state Senate, or governor, or United States Senate,\" she said. \"People want to know that who is in office is going to care about them.\"Independent voter Liz Cooper said she split her ballot between Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday, and she chose Shaheen over Scott Brown.\"I really thought she had done a lot for the state, and there was no reason to vote her out,\" Cooper said.Shaheen faces a new reality in Washington: life in the minority.\"We're going to have a caucus among the Democrats this week, and I think we're going to talk about how we can work with the Republicans,\" she said. \"I think what I heard loud and clear from people is they want change in Washington. They want to see us work together. They want an end to the gridlock, and that's what I'm committed to doing.\"Shaheen said her 2014 victory was one to remember.\"It was a very sweet win,\" she said.Shaheen said it's too soon to know whether Sen. Harry Reid will retain his leadership in the minority.\nU.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., spoke to the press Friday for the first time since her election night victory.\nThe senator gave her take on the how she pulled off the win in a very favorable year for Republicans and described what she expects out of working in the Senate minority.\nShaheen said she hopes to resurrect the bill known as Shaheen-Portman. It's energy-efficiency legislation that was an apparent casualty of election year politics.\nShaheen stopped by Harvey's Coffee Shop in Dover on Friday morning, her first public appearance since winning re-election and withstanding a Republican wave that swept Senate Democrats out of office in nearly every other swing state in the country.\n\"As I've always said, it speaks to the intelligence of New Hampshire voters, and I'm very grateful for their support,\" Shaheen said. \"This was a tough election year, but I think people really listened to what we had to say.\"\nShaheen said she believes another key to the win was familiarity.\n\"When you've been involved in politics, you get to know people, and party becomes less important than relationships, and that's the way I've tried to run, whether for the state Senate, or governor, or United States Senate,\" she said. \"People want to know that who is in office is going to care about them.\"\nIndependent voter Liz Cooper said she split her ballot between Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday, and she chose Shaheen over Scott Brown.\n\"I really thought she had done a lot for the state, and there was no reason to vote her out,\" Cooper said.\nShaheen faces a new reality in Washington: life in the minority.\n\"We're going to have a caucus among the Democrats this week, and I think we're going to talk about how we can work with the Republicans,\" she said. \"I think what I heard loud and clear from people is they want change in Washington. They want to see us work together. They want an end to the gridlock, and that's what I'm committed to doing.\"\nShaheen said her 2014 victory was one to remember.\n\"It was a very sweet win,\" she said.\nShaheen said it's too soon to know whether Sen. Harry Reid will retain his leadership in the minority.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wnycatholicschools.org/news/article/current/2015/12/07/100443/dr.-tererai-trent-teaches-others-tinogona-it-is-achievable", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VGDFPCKOLWLQ4MLUASFMTZENQXYXYP6S", "length": 6812, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wnycatholicschools.org", "title": "Dr. Tererai Trent Teaches Others \"Tinogona -It is Achievable\"", "raw_content": "Dr. Tererai Trent Teaches Others \"Tinogona -It is Achievable\"\nI was fortunate enough to witness speeches given by Dr. Tererai Trent to two groups of students at Our Lady of Black Rock School (OLBR), on the west side of Buffalo. I'm sure the majority of the students listening to her story that day did not know that Dr. Trent is an internationally acclaimed African writer, educator and literacy advocate or that she had given a speech on the same topic to global leaders at the United Nations.\nDr. Trent was in Buffalo to appear at the WNY Children's Book Expo with her illustrated children's book, The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can. At first glance, Dr. Trent is a calm and soft spoken woman with a lilting voice and an easy smile. Upon introduction, I had an immediate urge to invite her to dinner so I could get to know her better. While sharing her story and later as she invited even the youngest students to ask her questions, her interactions were warm, genuine and compassionate.\nWhile amazingly inspirational in the end, her personal story is hard to hear at times. But nothing I saw or heard that day at OLBR with the students prepared me for the passion, determination and fervor she displayed the following day when I heard her present as a keynote speaker at the WNY Children's Book Expo. Crossing the stage like a caged lioness, she expressed her fierce desire to educate the people, especially girls, of Zimbabwe in a voice that, at times, bordered on a tribal chant.\nDr. Tererai Trent was born to a poor cattle raising family in southern Africa, in a country under colonial rule that was then called Rhodesia. At that time cultural traditions in Rhodesia forbade girls from going to school. But tradition did not discourage young Tererai from wanting to go to school. When her brother brought home a geography book from school one day, she begged him to tell her what was going on the photos in the book. Eventually, Tererai bargained with her brother; if he taught her to read and write, she promised to do his homework. Tererai's brother wanted to hunt and be outside, not sit in a classroom, so the deal was struck.\nWhen it was discovered that Tererai was the person doing her brother's homework- since he could not pass the tests on the material- the teacher begged Tererai's father to allow her to go to school. Her father acquiesced, but traditions are strong in the village, and two semesters later, Tererai's father accepted a bride price for her. She was soon married - she was not yet 13 years old at the time.\nIn 1980, after many years of war, peace came, and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. A visitor came to Tererai's village from Heifer international to meet with villagers. During the visit, she asked Tererai \"what are your dreams?\" Tererai, who had three children at the time, said \"I want to go to America to attend college, then I want to get a masters degree and then a PhD.\" The visitor, Jo Luck, who later became president and CEO of Heifer International, said \"If you believe in your dreams, they are achievable.\"\nTererai went home and told her mother about her encounter with Jo Luck. Tererai's mother told her to write down her dreams on a sheet of paper. When her mother asked her to read what she had written, Tererai said \"I want to go to America, I want to get a college degree, I want to get a masters degree and I want to get a PhD.\" Her mother pointed out that all Tererai's dreams were for herself, she said \"dreams are stronger when they are for the betterment of the community.\" So Tererai added a fifth dream, to go back to Zimbabwe and build a school, so no other girl would have to go through what she did to get an education.\nIt is tradition in the culture of her village, for the umbilical cord of a newborn baby to be wrapped in a scrap of its mother's clothing and buried deep in the ground, \"so no matter where that child goes, they always know their roots are in this village.\" So Tererai's mother gave her a tin can and told her to bury her dreams deep in the ground. This simple act reset the history of women in her family.\nAfter that day, Tererai began taking courses for her GED by correspondence. Her husband, a man of tradition, did not believe girls should go to school, so he beat her often. Still, Tererai continued her classes. It took her eight years, but she attained her GED and set her sights on college. Tererai did fulfill her dreams of earning her bachelor's degree a masters degree and a PhD in the United states, all while raising her now, five children. The road was long and full of challenges, but Tererai never lost her intense determination. Each time she accomplished a degree, she returned to her village, dug up the can with the list and check off her accomplishment. A shared mission led Oprah Winfrey to help Dr. Trent achieve her final goal, that of building a school where all children in the village are educated.\nOur Lady of Black Rock School (OLBR) has a large immigrant population with many children who have escaped from war-torn countries like Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Burma and the Congo. Dr. Trent's visit offered these children an opportunity to see and hear someone who may look and sound familiar to them; a successful and powerful woman who had endured some of the same things they might have seen or experienced. I felt honored to be a witness that day.\nBefore her visit, the students at OLBR had all read Dr Trent's book, The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can. After the presentation, the children were invited to ask questions, even the littlest ones. The children formed a line and quietly stepped forward to ask their question. When she started seeing faces familiar to Africa, Dr. Trent started asking the children where they were from. The responses were Rwanda, Sudan, Congo, Kenya. When a child asked her \"What are you proud of?\" Dr. Trent's response was \"I am proud when I go back to my village and see older men walking the young girls to school. The villagers now realize it is important to educate all the children.\"\nThe following day, at the children's Expo, Dr. Trent explained that the proceeds from her book would go to providing breakfast and lunch for the 1,200 children that now attend the eleven schools that have been built or refurbished through the generosity of large and small donations. She went on to say \"three quarters of those students are orphans due to the AIDS epidemic; they walk five to eight miles to school each day, barefoot and with little or no food.\"\nThis holiday season, we have so much to be thankful for, especially the people who are willing to endure pain and overcome challenges that result in significant and beneficial change for others, people like Dr. Tererai Trent. Tinogona!!\nTo watch a video about Dr. Trent visit: http://www.tereraitrent.org/videos/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 18292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wolfermans.com/w/pastries-baked-goods/croissants/51309", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LMY5P7ZMA2YM6JYZYOLU2TIC4MP72QS4", "length": 314, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wolfermans.com", "title": "Chocolate Croissants | Wolferman's", "raw_content": "12 chocolate croissants (2.75 oz each)\nEnjoy a classic favorite warm from the oven. Rich Belgian chocolate melts into the air pockets created by delicate, textured layers of puff pastry. This exceptional delight thaws in 30 minutes, proofs for a few hours, is brushed with egg wash, and bakes for about 20 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 5612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenfitnessmag.com/tag/disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:30Z", "digest": "sha1:OTKFKFVRKWMFX4SCUPJPRABJ3YIEQV4B", "length": 4105, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.womenfitnessmag.com", "title": "disease - Women Fitness Magazine", "raw_content": "Women and HIV/AIDS : Globally, AIDS-related illnesses are the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age. 2 In areas such as Western and Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Oceania, women account for a relatively low percentrage of people living with HIV. However, in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, the percentage is significantly higher.\nIs swine flu curable?\nIs swine flu curable? With swine flu claiming so many lives across the nation it is little tricky to give a straight answer to such a simple question. However, there is a fair amount of chance to recover from the flu if treatment and care can be provided on time and during the initial phase soon after contracting the viral infection.\nCan yoga prevent you from contracting the H1N1 virus?\nCan yoga prevent you from contracting the H1N1 virus? With the newspapers and internet flooding with the rising cases of swine flu everyday, it is time that we take proper measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus. Apart from following the general guidelines such as wearing a mask and maintaining proper hygiene, it is vital that you build a strong immunity to prevent the flu.\nSwine flu symptoms and signs you MUST be aware of! Amidst the rising cases of swine flu all over World and the fear of spreading throughout the nation, what everyone should be aware of is the fact that panicking won\u2019t help you. Instead of blaming your fate and the Government for not providing effective healthcare facilities, you can educate yourself about the symptoms and signs of swine flu and create awareness among your family.\nPrevent swine flu with these 10 dos and don\u2019ts\nPrevent swine flu with these 10 dos and don\u2019ts : The H1N1 virus, which is extremely contagious, enters the body through the respiratory tract. With the number of swine flu cases continuously on a rise, it is important to take measures to prevent it. While it is not possible to completely protect yourself from getting infected, you can take certain precautions to reduce the chances of contracting the disease.\nHow do I increase my immunity to prevent swine flu?\nHow do I increase my immunity to prevent swine flu? Swine Flu has managed to frighten the life out of us, many of us are searching for ways to increase our immunity to prevent this infection. Although there are many ways to prevent an infection, not all of them are foolproof and considering our lifestyle, we are bound to be exposed to these infections some way or the other.\nAre Those Razor Bumps\u2026Or an STD?\nAre Those Razor Bumps\u2026Or an STD?, how to get rid of razor burn on vag, ingrown hair or std, razor burn on vag itchy, what do hair bumps look like on your private area, how to get rid of hair bumps on private area, does razor burn itch, pimples on vag, do razor bumps itch,\nThree questions that can save you a trip to the gyno\nThe skin of your vagina is the most delicate of your entire anatomy. No wonder it\u2019s such a target for issues and infections, from zit breakouts to razor rash to more serious things, such as STDs like herpes and genital warts.\nIt is common knowledge that heart disease is one of the leading causes of death around the world and the number one cause of death in the United States. Obesity, smoking, poor diet, and lack of exercise are well documented as major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there are a number of other seemingly unrelated conditions that may represent hazards to cardiac health. The presence of these conditions (while not necessarily an indicator of actual heart disease), increases a person\u2019s risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Here are eight hidden risk factors for CVD ca everyone should know.\nDiabetes Symptoms: How to Recognize the Onset of Diabetes\nDiabetes is the commonly used term for the medical condition called Diabetes Mellitus which is actually a group of metabolic disorders leaving the person affected with a high blood sugar level. This may be either because the body fails to produce enough quantities of insulin or because the body cells fail to respond to the insulin produced by it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 12361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenshealthletter.com/Health-Alert-Archive/View-Archive/2093/The-Fatless-Fat.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4IRJS6B3LWX6IR7GFLGA2I2SSO4GBAMG", "length": 1617, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.womenshealthletter.com", "title": "The \"Fatless Fat\"", "raw_content": "The \"Fatless Fat\"\nA subscriber to Women's Health Letter asked me if I had ever heard of a \"fatless fat.\" She heard it can be used in salad dressings and to saut\u00e9 foods, and that it helps you lose weight. \"What gives?\" she asked. Well, in one sense, all fats are alike. Each gram of fat, whether it's a long-chain fatty acid like most fats and oils or a medium chain fat (MCT, which stands for medium-chain triglycerides), contains nine calories. The difference is in how fast each of these kinds of fats burn.\nLong-chain fats, such as butter, vegetable oils, and meats, take a long time to burn. MCTs, on the other hand, burn as quickly as starches.\nThey get into your bloodstream right away where they're used for immediate energy. You may have heard that exercise creates body heat called thermogenesis, which increases your metabolism and burns more calories. So do MCTs. The more you burn, the less you store in your fat cells. If you replace your current fats with MCTs, you'll probably lose weight.\nHowever, not everyone burns fats at the same rate. Some people burn them so slowly that the only way they can lose a pound or two is to go on a strict low-fat diet \u2013 even when they exercise. For them, MCTs added to exercise should give better results.\nMCTs have been around for over 40 years, so we know they're safe. They used to be used in hospitals as nutrition for babies and sick people. Later, they were packaged for athletes to lower their body fat and increase stamina.\nMost MCT products taste terrible, but there is one that I like.\nIt is MCT Fuel by TwinLabs. It's available at most health food stores.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wonderwall.com/celebrity/remembering-john-lennon-9781.gallery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:U2RQ6IPQNUWWAPN3KBK4JVAIYZ6VN7VK", "length": 489, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wonderwall.com", "title": "Remembering John Lennon | Gallery | Wonderwall.com", "raw_content": "Today, October 9, marks what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. Though taken down in his prime, Lennon's influence on the world seems as strong now as it was when he was killed in 1980, especially with the re-release of his post-Beatles work and \"Nowhere Boy,\" a biopic about Lennon's early life, hitting theaters yesterday. Take a moment to look through the celebrated music man's life in photos and his legacy since his death.\nBy Wonderwall.com Editors 11:28am PDT, Oct 8, 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 143.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.workingforest.com/research-funding-to-help-protect-forest-workers-from-tick-borne-illnesses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XVSVAXBY5YZD3WBOTXD5YBBKDLII2W6S", "length": 3805, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.workingforest.com", "title": "Research funding to help protect forest workers from tick-borne illnesses | The Working Forest", "raw_content": "A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases.\nThe three-year project, \u201cDeveloping adaptive forest management practices to mitigate impacts of climate change on human health,\u201d is being led by Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology, and Carly Sponarski, an assistant professor of human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries conservation.\nOther UMaine researchers involved in the study are Jessica Leahy, a professor of human dimensions of natural resources, and Anne Lichtenwalner, a professor, veterinarian, and director of the Animal Health Laboratory. Laura Kenefic, a research forester with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, also is working on the project.\nMaine has experienced a fivefold increase in Lyme disease cases over the past decade, likely due to climate change and land use change, according to the researchers. The increase in cases, combined with the high percentage of nonindustrial private land ownership in southern Maine, they say, provides an urgent need and a unique socio-ecological context to investigate the effects of forest management on infectious disease transmission.\nForest workers are at particularly high risk of contracting tick-borne illnesses due to their frequent exposure to ticks.\nThe team plans to conduct applied ecological research to understand the impact of timber harvesting on the risk of exposure to tick-borne diseases. They also plan to conduct applied social science research to understand the economic, environmental and production factors that influence private forest landowners\u2019 decision-making processes related to land management and tick-borne disease prevention.\nBy integrating natural and social science research, extension and education, the team aims to develop and test adaptive land management practices to protect private forest owners, foresters, and loggers against exposure to tick-borne diseases.\nThey also hope their recommendations will manage the spread and persistence of tick-borne diseases in Maine\u2019s forests.\n\u201cA lot of land is privately owned in Maine, creating a unique context for large landscape management practice,\u201d Sponarski says. \u201cWe need to work together with private landowners to come to creative solutions on how to mitigate disease spread and keep people healthy.\u201d\nUsing science to guide best practices\n\u201cOur forest management decisions can have dramatic effects on the abundance and behavior of vertebrate hosts of tick-borne pathogens and also the abiotic conditions that influence tick survival during the large proportion of the tick life cycle spent off-host,\u201d Gardner says. \u201cBecause our state is dominated by forest land cover, it is important that Mainers understand the numerous ecosystem services provided by healthy forests, including buffering zoonotic disease transmission.\u201d\nResults of the three-year project will be used to inform practical recommendations to mitigate the impacts of climate change on tick-borne disease transmission that are based on scientific data and compatible with landowners\u2019 economic interests.\nOther long-term goals of the study include understanding how land management can alter infectious disease transmission in the context of an urgent public health problem in the country; analyzing and forecasting how landowner decision-making may alter risk of human exposure to infectious disease on the front lines of climate change; and developing place-based, interdisciplinary education models to engage students and forest workers in promoting resilient agroecosystems and protecting community health while sustaining a robust forest product supply chain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldcourier.com/insights/new-zealand---a-country-focus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OPNXZUZCDLHA3LLTU74RJDZWGBRKCTDN", "length": 4716, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.worldcourier.com", "title": "Article: New Zealand - A Country Focus", "raw_content": "By World Courier | November 5, 2015\nNew Zealand is a water-locked country comprising the North Island, or Te Ika-a-M\u0101ui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu, and numerous smaller islands. There are 4.5 million inhabitants, not including hobbits (who are only there when NZ-ian Peter Jackson is filming) or the 70 million sheep which have multiplied from those set ashore by Captain Cook in 1773. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. There are individual trees which have been around longer than humans.\nThe country has produced many high achievers, including Sir Edmund Hillary who conquered Mt Everest in 1953, AJ Hackett who introduced the bungee jump, Lord Rutherford who managed to split the atom, and Maurice Wilkins who was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Crick, \u201cfor their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material\u201d for his x-ray crystallography of DNA.\nOther credits include the referee\u2019s whistle, the eggbeater, the electric fence (for the sheep, obviously), disposable syringes and the national dessert \u2013 the pavlova.\nThe official languages are English, M\u0101ori and New Zealand Sign Language, with English predominant. New Zealand is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, ANZUS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pacific Islands Forum, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.\nNew Zealand has experienced a series of \u201cbrain drains\u201d since the 1970s. Nearly one-quarter of highly-skilled workers live overseas, mostly in Australia and Britain. In recent years, however, a \u201cbrain gain\u201d has brought in educated professionals from Europe and lesser-developed countries. Life expectancy for New Zealanders in 2012 was 84 years for females, and 80.2 years for males, putting them equal 9th globally. New Zealand is considered the fourth most peaceful country in the world according to the 2014 Global Peace Index.\nThere have been approximately 1300 clinical studies, on many standard developed world conditions and orphan diseases, due to the predominantly European demographic of the population. More than 500 are actively recruiting according to http://clinicaltrials. health.nz/.\nThere is a mutual recognition agreement between the EU and New Zealand allowing straightforward importation of manufactured APIs and finished drugs into the EU. The local legislation covering all aspects of manufacture and distribution is the New Zealand Code of Good Manufacturing Process for Manufacture and Distribution of Therapeutic Goods, which is administered by the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe). There is a single abbreviated process for eligible clinical trials to streamline applications. Certified clinical trial sites are registered with Medsafe. Approvals for eligible trials will be issued within five working days. New Zealand is a participating authority in the Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/s) and uses the PIC/s current GMP guide as the New Zealand code for inspection.\nImporting into New Zealand requires simple paperwork:\nImport License:\nClinical trial drugs:\nThe importer must have a Medsafe approval letter\nThe Medsafe approval letter states the protocol, drug name and the approved investigator sites.\nImport Permit:\nA MOH (Ministry of Health) Import Permit is required for controlled drugs, e.g. morphine. Private medication requires a copy of the prescription from a doctor confirming the shipment is for personal use, and the reason.\nInvoice MUST be on company letterhead and state:\nConsignee details (importer of record, if different to consignee)\nHarmonised tariff code\nValue & currency (NCV is not acceptable)\nReason for sending\nCustoms are open 24/7. Clearance can take up to four hours. However, Customs pre-clearance (start at flight departure) is not possible when quarantine clearance is required, which includes pharmaceuticals (investigational), medical supplies/kits (containing drug). Quarantine clearance can only be obtained during MPI (Ministry for Primary Industry) operating hours, which are Mon-Fri 0800-1700, and starts at flight arrival.\nNew Zealand offers a different destination for clinical trials to take place, but with a familiar ethnicity to participants providing pertinent data which can be applied to a standard North American and European demographic, with a very similar set of regulatory requirements. The only factor which might limit participation is the distance and time difference, which should not be a barrier for any practical purposes\nCommercial Supply Chain Clinical Trial Logistics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 7486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wpr.org/shows/shrinking-newsroom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QFEWMKGV4TO6RHFG5X4YR7E4J6SJEDPR", "length": 270, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wpr.org", "title": "The Shrinking Newsroom | Wisconsin Public Radio", "raw_content": "Big newsrooms at BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Vice are being hit hard. Hundreds are being laid off at a time when the economy is strong. What are they doing wrong? And what are other newsrooms doing right? What happens when we pay for the news and what happens when we don't?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 4929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xula.edu/aboutcollegeofpharmacy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JIEY7QSIL77VEY4MSYSQ7RTT73AK7B6R", "length": 1993, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.xula.edu", "title": "Xavier University of Louisiana", "raw_content": "About the College of Pharmacy\nAffordable, Quality Education with Proven Results!\nThe mission of the Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy is to prepare pharmacists to impact medically underserved communities, particularly African Americans, in an effort to eliminate health disparities through patient-centered care, community service and scholarly work.\nThe vision of the Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy is to be the premier institution preparing pharmacy practitioners who demonstrate outstanding leadership and dedication to the medically underserved populations in our society, while striving to eliminate healthcare disparities. The College of Pharmacy has been integral in educating a diverse student population and remains committed to achieving excellence in all of its endeavors. It seeks to continue to expand its regional, national, and international leadership in the pharmacy profession by broadening its achievements in student development, scholarship and service. It strives to improve its ability to provide excellence in pharmaceutical care and education by strengthening its ability to act strategically in relation to the rapid and dynamic changes in the profession.\nCreate a growing body of knowledge across all disciplines with a particular focus on eliminating health disparities;\nContribute to the goals of federal initiative, \u201c\u00c4 Healthy People 2010\u201d by increasing the number of African American pharmacists;\nProvide clinical services and pursue scholarship in a variety of practice settings to include a strong commitment to the medically underserved community;\nInculcate our graduates with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to care for patients from diverse cultures;\nBuild and nurture a learning environment which satisfies work, career opportunities, and professional growth for faculty, staff, and students;\nEngage in the assessment and evaluation of its program outcomes in an effort to improve student learning and development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 150.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/opinion/article/How-will-Gulf-of-Mexico-recover-from-Horizon-9281949.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRZRJT2YLDHRLYXTY4SJKIXLJXCCUMJC", "length": 1758, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.yourconroenews.com", "title": "How will Gulf of Mexico recover from Horizon spill? - The Courier", "raw_content": "https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/opinion/article/How-will-Gulf-of-Mexico-recover-from-Horizon-9281949.php\nHow will Gulf of Mexico recover from Horizon spill?\nThe crowd was modest, but the topic was vital. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, what should be done to restore what the public lost in environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico?\nThe Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several state agencies were at Texas A&M University at Galveston recently to hear public comments on the Phase I Early Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment.\nAll the initial projects are in the other four coastal states, which felt the immediate effects of the spill. Texas will be in line for funding for some of the projects later.\nTexans ought to be slow, however, in trying to get pet projects funded. There are bigger issues here.\nScientists are still trying to assess the damage \u2014 not just to specific beaches and marshes and wildlife in specific areas, but to the overall Gulf.\nIt would be good if all five Gulf Coast states could put aside state boundaries for a bit and think of the Gulf of Mexico as a single, common resource. It would be good, in other words, if we stopped thinking about how to get new boat ramps with this pot of money and started thinking about such basic things as water quality in the Gulf.\nPerhaps the best suggestion at the meeting in Galveston, given the uncertainty of the damage and the uncertainty of what it would take to address it, came from the Ocean Conservancy: Set high standards for scientific monitoring the damage and restoration efforts. Fund those monitoring efforts adequately.\nThat is an excellent place to start.\n\u2014 The Daily News of Galveston County", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourfavoritebible.com/BibleAlive/Chapter/2Sam18NKJV.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KXQ3NKN7JKLTO2N34S3ZCT7N7GRWFBUY", "length": 5714, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.yourfavoritebible.com", "title": "2 Samuel Chapter 18 (NKJV): Bible Alive", "raw_content": "1. And David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.\n2. Then David sent out one third of the people under the hand of Joab, one third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, \"I also will surely go out with you myself.\"\n3. But the people answered, \"You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.\"\n4. Then the king said to them, \"Whatever seems best to you I will do.\" So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.\n5. Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, \"Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.\" And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains orders concerning Absalom.\n6. So the people went out into the field of battle against Israel. And the battle was in the woods of Ephraim.\n7. The people of Israel were overthrown there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter of twenty thousand took place there that day.\n8. For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.\n9. Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.\n10. Now a certain man saw it and told Joab, and said, \"I just saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth tree!\"\n11. So Joab said to the man who told him, \"You just saw him! And why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt.\"\n12. But the man said to Joab, \"Though I were to receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king's son. For in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Beware lest anyone touch the young man Absalom!'\n13. Otherwise I would have dealt falsely against my own life. For there is nothing hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.\"\n14. Then Joab said, \"I cannot linger with you.\" And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Absalom's heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree.\n15. And ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded Absalom, and struck and killed him.\n16. So Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel. For Joab held back the people.\n17. And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his tent.\n18. Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, \"I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.\" He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.\n19. Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, \"Let me run now and take the news to the king, how the Lord has avenged him of his enemies.\"\n20. And Joab said to him, \"You shall not take the news this day, for you shall take the news another day. But today you shall take no news, because the king's son is dead.\"\n21. Then Joab said to the Cushite, \"Go, tell the king what you have seen.\" So the Cushite bowed himself to Joab and ran.\n22. And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, \"But whatever happens, please let me also run after the Cushite.\" So Joab said, \"Why will you run, my son, since you have no news ready?\"\n23. But whatever happens,\" he said, \"let me run.\" So he said to him, \"Run.\" Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.\n24. Now David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man, running alone.\n25. Then the watchman cried out and told the king. And the king said, \"If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.\" And he came rapidly and drew near.\n26. Then the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, \"There is another man, running alone!\" And the king said, \"He also brings news.\"\n27. So the watchman said, \"I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.\" And the king said, \"He is a good man, and comes with good news.\"\n28. And Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, \"All is well!\" Then he bowed down with his face to the earth before the king, and said, \"Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king!\"\n29. The king said, \"Is the young man Absalom safe?\" Ahimaaz answered, \"When Joab sent the king's servant and me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was about.\"\n30. And the king said, \"Turn aside and stand here.\" So he turned aside and stood still.\n31. Just then the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, \"There is good news, my lord the king! For the Lord has avenged you this day of all those who rose against you.\"\n32. And the king said to the Cushite, \"Is the young man Absalom safe?\" So the Cushite answered, \"May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise against you to do harm, be like that young man!\"\n33. Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said thus \"O my son Absalom--my son, my son Absalom--if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5221, "original_length": 140641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zameenforyou.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-best-city-to-buy-property", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QLWQZK4APHNPO7ZRO7P5SAK2YE3EWVKF", "length": 3320, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.zameenforyou.com", "title": "How to choose the best city to buy property - Zameenforyou", "raw_content": "There are many ways to get profit by investing in property. So, this blog is to guide customers about where to invest and where not to invest. People know the importance of real estate marketing in Pakistan and they always choose the top real estate agents for buy and selling. Moreover, a big part of succeeding in real estate investing is finding the best place to invest in real estate. Furthermore, the tips regarding investment in Pakistan and selection of city for investment are as follow:\nHow to choose the best city:\nPakistan is the best country for property business in South Asia. It is because of the fact that the population of Pakistan is increasing rapidly. Furthermore, when it comes to choosing the best city for investment, the following facts should be considered:\nThe population growth is directly related to the job market. Thus, people tend to move to places that are economically flourished. However, this explains why the demand for rental properties is high in locations where major employers are located. So if one wants to invest in property he should invest in a city which has high population and demand for housing.\n2. Crime rate:\nYou are suggested to invest in a country has low crime rate. Likewise, people prefer to live in a place where there is sense of security. Moreover, you have to keep in mind that any stolen or broken item is a financial loss for real estate investors. Therefore, invest in a city that is crime free and safer.\n3. Schools and Hospitals:\nIt is also important to consider before making decision regarding best city for property investment that there are enough health and educational facilities. Thus, before making any decision make through research regarding health and educational facilities. Because people prefer to move in a city that has more educational and health institutes.\n4. Laws and State regulations:\nThe most important thing to consider before buying a property is the law. Moreover, you must avoid investing in real estate business against any laws and regulations. Thus, check out the state legislation in that location, and make sure to follow the procedures. However, if you think they are too strict, there are always other places where you can invest. In particular, choose locations with landlord-friendly regulations on the landlord-tenant relationship.\nTransportation is another important factor that determines purchaser\u2019s mindset. Furthermore, all people do not afford to travel on a private car. Thus, before making any decision regarding investment in real estate you should take a look at transportation facilities.\n6. You should be aware of your budget:\nFor most buyers, your budget dictates which areas you can afford to live in or invest. Furthermore, to get clear idea of market you should visit Zameenforyou. We are a real estate company that provides a platform to its customers. Moreover, for the convenience of buyers we have launched an android app. In short, you can get each and every information regarding property while sitting at home.\nAll the information provided above is the facts that make a city special for investment. Thus, you are advised to invest the best place of investment while considering above mentioned tips. However, if you make decision after involving Zameenforyou that will likely reduce your risk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/ofcom-may-allow-3g-over-2g/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:JJAYVAPUXV3MTGT5O3KJTIYWVMOR6CM4", "length": 3809, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.zdnet.com", "title": "Ofcom may allow 3G over 2G | ZDNet", "raw_content": "Ofcom may allow 3G over 2G\nAfter Nokia shows it can be done, Ofcom may allow operators to reuse their 2G networks to offer improved 3G services\nBy David Meyer | November 14, 2006 -- 13:30 GMT (05:30 PST) | Topic: Networking\nNokia has made what it claims was the world's first successful 3G call on a commercial network at a frequency of 900MHz \u2014 a band usually used for standard 2G voice calls.\nAs 3G currently operates around the 2GHz band, this lower-frequency call could open the way for vastly improved coverage and, crucially, better indoor 3G reception.\nThe call was made over the Finnish network Elisa, using Nokia's Flexi WCDMA technology to transmit 3G traffic through the previously GSM-only base station infrastructure.\nUsing the lower frequency can stretch coverage by as much as four times, so Nokia's advance could also lead to cheaper rollouts of 3G or HSDPA (3G's souped-up successor) in rural areas, as infrastructure costs would be lower. Ari Lehtoranta, senior vice president of radio networks at Nokia, said on Monday that the WCDMA900 call was \"another testimony of Nokia's strong commitment to support operators in developing their offering to better meet the demand that they face in today's increasingly competitive environment\".\nTwo UK operators \u2014 Vodafone and O2 \u2014 already use the 900MHz band for their GSM services. At the 3GSM conference in February of this year, O2's chief technical officer Dave Williams called for \"dialogue with the regulators on how to reuse 2G frequencies for 3G\". UK regulator Ofcom said at the time that it was conducting \"further economic and technical analysis of the issues with the assistance of external consultants\".\nAnd on Tuesday, Vodafone's chief executive Arun Sarin said in an investor webcast that his company was also lobbying in some markets for the ability to \"refarm\" some of its 900MHz spectrum.\n\"If an operator came to us and asked us whether we could consider licence variation we would consider the request, but we would obviously have to conduct a lot of analysis and research into that request,\" a spokesperson for Ofcom told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. Asked about the analysis that was mentioned in February, the spokesperson replied that it was \"still in the phase of evidence gathering\".\nThere have traditionally been tight controls over which services can be uses in which parts of the radio spectrum. Ofcom's position, though, is that it is better to allow companies and organisations to decide the best use of the spectrum they control. However, existing licences \u2014 such as for 900Mhz \u2014 dictate that only 2G services may be operated.\nAnalyst Dean Bubley believes that allowing Vodafone and O2 to offer 3G services with better indoor penetration and overall range \u2014 not to mention cheaper infrastructure \u2014 could provoke complaints from other operators such as T-Mobile and Orange, who use the 1800MHz band for their GSM services. All these operators paid billions for their 3G licences. And, if Ofcom is willing to open up 900MHz to allow non-GSM services, promoters of entirely different technologies such as WiMax might also want access.\n\"Fundamentally there's going to be a lot of people saying that if you're going to change the rules then you need to change them completely,\" Bubley told ZDNet UK on Tuesday, adding that it could be argued that, \"if you accept the principle of changing the use of spectrum, then it should be completely up for grabs\".\nOfcom's spokesperson pointed out that the Ministry of Defence is already another major user of the 900MHz band, and reiterated the regulator's position that it endorsed technology neutrality. \"As set out in the 2004 spectrum framework review, we said our long term goal for spectrum management was to remove any unnecessary restrictions on spectrum use,\" the spokesperson added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 8636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zebranet.co.bw/index.php/zebra-content/cid/8/national-leased-lines-(nll)/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MHM26FCLZQMJKBNM5WTJQQTPUIGQNT4I", "length": 812, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.zebranet.co.bw", "title": "ZebraNet :: National Leased Lines (NLL)", "raw_content": "Our NLL product is essentially domestic leased line services provided on the national backbone to provide transmission across Botswana. A ring like network connects all major villages and cities throughout the country providing a robust network to meet the demands of our customers. The network has been designed to ensure that almost all districts have connectivity on the promise of providing access for all through our NLL product. Our NLL services are critical for carrying and supporting 3G and 4G network expansions in the country and providing high quality services to the retail segment at amongst the lowest prices in the region. This has re-affirmed our position as the \ufffdgo to\ufffd enabler in the national market in addition to being increasingly recognized as a reliable carrier of carriers in the region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zerohedge.com/comment/9638318", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FZR3EUNGSSISUVJYYKDLAL73Z7G6ASF2", "length": 6261, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.zerohedge.com", "title": "\"Now The Pain Begins\": S&P, Moodys Cut Illinois To Near Junk, Lowest Ever Rating For A U.S. State | Zero Hedge", "raw_content": "\"Now The Pain Begins\": S&P, Moodys Cut Illinois To Near Junk, Lowest Ever Rating For A U.S. State\nThe monetary problems plaguing the state of Illinois (not to mention its public pensions) have been widely documented here over the past few years, and today the rating agencies finally noticed, when in the span of a few hours, first S&P, then Moody's downgraded Illinois to BB+/Baa3, respectively, both just one notch above junk, the lowest rating ever given to a U.S. state, as both agencies cited a long-running political stalemate over a budget shows no signs of ending.\nIn the first downgrade, S&P warned that Illinois is at risk of soon losing its investment-grade status, an unprecedented step for a state that would only deeper the government\u2019s strain. Bypassing its traditional 90-day review, S&P said Illinois will likely be downgraded around July 1, when the new fiscal year begins, if leaders haven\u2019t agreed on a budget that starts addressing the state\u2019s chronic deficits.\nIn a statement, S&P analyst Gabriel Petek said that \"The unrelenting political brinkmanship now poses a threat to the timely payment of the state\u2019s core priority payments.\"\nPetek's ire was prompted by Illinois' inability to pass a budget for the past two years amid a clash between the Democrat-run legislature and Republican Governor Bruce Rauner. The ongoing confrontation has left the fifth most-populous US state with a record $14.5 billion of unpaid bills, ravaged entities like universities and social service providers that rely on state aid and undermined Illinois\u2019s standing in the bond market, where investors have demanded higher premiums for the risk of owning its debt, Bloomberg reported.\nThe S&P analyst added that \"the rating actions largely reflect the severe deterioration of Illinois\u2019 fiscal condition, a byproduct of its stalemated budget negotiations.\"\nIn a similar statement, Moody's said that \"legislative gridlock has sidetracked efforts not only to address pension needs but also to achieve fiscal balance, allowing a backlog of bills to approach $15 billion, or about 40% of the state's operating budget. During the past year of fruitless negotiations and partisan wrangling, fundamental credit challenges have intensified enough to warrant a downgrade, regardless of whether a fiscal compromise is reached in an extended session.\"\nThe rating agency added that \"the downgrade to Baa3 for Illinois' GO bonds is consistent with the state's intensifying pressure from pension liabilities; by our calculation, the state's unfunded pension liability for its five major plans in aggregate grew 25% in the year ended June 30, 2016, to $251 billion.\"\nAnd like S&P, Moody's kept the state on negative outlook, citing the potential for additional credit weakening \"because of a continuing political impasse that has left Illinois increasingly vulnerable to adverse revenue trends and severely underfunded retiree benefit plans.\"\nThe downgrades, which also pushed some debt backed by legislative appropriations into junk, came a day after Illinois\u2019s legislature blew the deadline for approving a compromise budget by a simple majority. Now, it gets even more difficult as it will take a higher threshold, or three fifths majority vote in each legislative chamber, to pass anything which effectively guarantees that one month from today Illinois will be America's first ever Junk rated state.\nOn Wednesday, governor Rauner, who is up for re-election in 2018, and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, who controls much of the legislative agenda, faulted each other for the unprecedented gridlock. The governor also held Democrats responsible for Thursday\u2019s rating cut.\nCited by Bloomberg, a spokeswoman for Rauner said that \u201cMadigan\u2019s majority owns this downgrade because they didn\u2019t even attempt to pass a balanced budget, get our pension liability under control, and other changes that would put Illinois on better financial footing. The governor will continue working toward a truly balanced budget with changes to our system to grow jobs and provide real and lasting property tax relief.\u201d\n\u201cHer comment is typical Rauner incompetence, and that\u2019s too bad,\u201d said Steve Brown, a spokesman for Madigan.\nMeanwhile, as the political circus continues, Illinois' unpaid bills are piling up.\nBy June 30, the state will owe an estimated $800 million in interest and fees on the unpaid bills that have been piling up, according to estimates from Comptroller Susana Mendoza, a Democrat. She warned of \"dire\" consequences for residents if a budget isn\u2019t reached by the start of fiscal year 2018 on July 1, including the shuttering of more social service providers and layoffs at public universities. With only a month to go before the start of fiscal year, the ratings cut wasn\u2019t unexpected.\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to start to see some real pain now,\u201d Senate President John Cullerton told reporters in Springfield on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re going to start to see downgrades. We don\u2019t have any funding for schools. We don\u2019t have any funding for higher end and a bunch of social programs. We don\u2019t have a budget.\u201d\nJust like Venezuela, despite not having a budget, Illinois has dutifully continued to cover payments due on its bonds, and, like other states, has no ability to resort to bankruptcy to escape from its debts.\nFor now. A downgrade to junk, though, would add even more financial pressure by increasing the state's borrowing costs and preventing many mutual funds from buying Illinois\u2019s securities.\nTo be sure, today's announcement did not come as a surprise to markets: Illinois\u2019s 10-year bonds already yield 4.4%, 2.5 percentage points more than those on top-rated debt. That spread is the highest since at least January 2013 and more than any of the other 19 states tracked by Bloomberg. In fact, ths spread to AAA debt is now the highest on record.\nDiscussing next steps, Dennis Derby, a money manager at Wells Fargo which holds Illinois bonds among its $40 billion of municipal debt said \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be too far of a stretch at this point\u201d to get to junk, , said in an interview before S&P\u2019s downgrade. \u201cI don\u2019t know if being downgraded to junk would motivate the state to come together. You would think getting downgraded to a BBB would have motivated them and it didn\u2019t.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 8942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zoom.co.uk/category/music/joe_carroll", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:5C6Q2LZ2SS32G6FSLMOAU6HT77XRA775", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.zoom.co.uk", "title": "Joe Carroll \", //nextArrow: \"\" }); });", "raw_content": "Kermit's Swamp Years [DVD]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 202.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zuckerman.com/news/press-release/martin-s-himeles-jr-recognized-champion-justice-maryland-legal-aids-equal-justice-council", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2CU6CMJUIIOSPHFNXX4TUBE7UPEXSCP5", "length": 2640, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.zuckerman.com", "title": "Martin S. Himeles, Jr. Recognized as \u201cChampion of Justice \u201d by Maryland Legal Aid's Equal Justice Council | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP", "raw_content": "Martin S. Himeles, Jr. Recognized as \u201cChampion of Justice \u201d by Maryland Legal Aid's Equal Justice Council\nOn Thursday, May 22, 2014, the Equal Justice Council (EJC) of Maryland Legal Aid recognized Martin S. Himeles, Jr., managing partner of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP\u2019s Baltimore office, as a \u201cChampion of Justice\u201d at its 17th Annual Recognition Breakfast. Mr. Himeles was one of two people who received the \u201cChampion of Justice\u201d honor at the event, which was held at Camden Yards. The EJC recognized Mr. Himeles for his pro bono support of the organization, as well as his participation and leadership in its fundraising and member recruiting efforts.\n\u201cMaryland Legal Aid and the Equal Justice Council are doing amazing work for the community and I am proud to support the organization,\u201d said Mr. Himeles. \u201cIt is an honor to be named a \u2018Champion of Justice\u2019 and I look forward to continuing to promote the mission of Maryland Legal Aid for years to come.\u201d\nA lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Himeles currently serves as co-chair of the EJC\u2019s law firm campaign, an annual giving program focused on connecting with area firms. At Zuckerman Spaeder, Mr. Himeles\u2019 practice encompasses a diverse mix of litigation of commercial origin. As a former federal prosecutor and private practitioner representing corporations and individuals, his courtroom record includes trials of a broad range of civil and criminal matters.\nMr. Himeles currently serves as co-chair of the Health Care Fraud Substantive Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) White Collar Crime Committee. He is past president of the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and has spoken and written about the federal criminal justice system, health care fraud and abuse, and other legal matters. In addition to supporting Maryland Legal Aid, Mr. Himeles is actively involved in Baltimore\u2019s Jewish community, holding positions in service organizations such as the American Jewish Committee, the Baltimore Israel Coalition, and the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.\nThe EJC is the fundraising arm of Maryland Legal Aid and was formed in 1997 with the goal to promote equal access to justice by increasing and diversifying Maryland Legal Aid\u2019s resources and serving as advocates and ambassadors on behalf of the organization. The EJC focuses on securing funding from the private bar and business community. Members also work to increase pro bono involvement, participate in fundraising activities and educational programs, and cultivate relationships on behalf of Maryland Legal Aid.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www2.noodle.com/schools/ca-san-diego-unified_district", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EOY7UVD3YNMXLDDKL7S2NVKC47EBTWX7", "length": 2217, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www2.noodle.com", "title": "San Diego Unified Schools in California | Noodle", "raw_content": "San Diego Unified Schools in California\nLearn more about the San Diego Unified. Find the best fit for you among the 228 education options in this California school district.\n3045 Felton St, San Diego, CA 92104\nMcKinley Elementary is a coeducational public international baccalaureate school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public Setting: Urban District: San Diego Unified\n4431 Mt. Herbert Ave, San Diego, CA 92117\nJohn Muir is a coeducational public magnet school for students in grades Kindergarten through 12. learn more\n4510 Landis St, San Diego, CA 92105\nRosa Parks Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\n6033 Stadium St, San Diego, CA 92122\nSpreckels Elementary is a coeducational public magnet school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\n4800 T St, San Diego, CA 92113\nPorter Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 6. learn more\nHigh Technology High International\n2855 Farragut Rd, San Diego, CA 92106\nHigh Technology High International is a coeducational public vocational charter school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public, Public Charter Setting: Urban District: San Diego Unified\n2633 Melbourne Dr, San Diego, CA 92123\nJuarez Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\nSunset View Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 4. learn more\nIbarra Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\nSan Diego International Studies is a coeducational public magnet school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nEuclid Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\n2146 Julian Ave, San Diego, CA 92113\nBurbank Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more\nFacts About San Diego Unified Schools in California\nThere are 228 San Diego Unified Schools in California.\nBrowse San Diego Unified Schools in California by District", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 6130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 209.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zero-footprint.com/blog/why-go-zero/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ERTX5B5TMW3D2S3XWP3BF6PJLNGU7CGA", "length": 941, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "zero-footprint.com", "title": "Why? go zero! \u2013 Blog zero-footprint", "raw_content": "Imagine you drink a tea or a cup of coffee. While you enjoy the flavor of it, you just produced a carbon footprint of about 2 pounds of carbon emissions. Just for a cup of coffee!\nAnd it adds up all along your day.\nImagine a day you could change the world and would drink a cup of coffee made with zero emissions made with 100% clean and cheap renewable energy. Made by the wind and with solar energy. This day is today.\nThat\u2019s exactly why. That\u2019s why we created this website to list all carbon free, zero emission products (ZEPs). And there is more to it.\nBecause wind and solar energies are cheaper now, with economics at our back, it is easier than ever to reduce my carbon footprint. I just need to see it. Please, give me consumer choices. We need a label for products made with zero emissions made with 100% cheap renewable energy. We searched for it, but did not find it. So we invented it and trademarked it.Our zero-footprint label!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zh-tw.coursera.org/lecture/statistical-thermodynamics/video-1-0-the-thermite-reaction-Qu2MO", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XCGZMT677NWT6TA6AKNESCM2QEEDXBH4", "length": 2213, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "zh-tw.coursera.org", "title": "Video 1.0 - The Thermite Reaction - Module 1 | Coursera", "raw_content": "Video 1.0 - The Thermite Reaction\nVideo 1.0 - The Thermite Reaction2:52\nMy name's Chris Cramer, and\nI'm a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota.\nAs a researcher, I try to predict how molecules will behave,\nespecially large collections of molecules.\nAnd thermodynamics is one of the most powerful tools we scientists have to make\nsuch predictions.\nI'd like to perform a short demonstration of something called the thermite reaction.\nIn this little flowerpot, I have a mixture of two common substances,\naluminum powder and rust, the latter of which a chemist would call iron oxide.\nA quick thermodynamics calculation, which you'll learn how to do,\ntells me that if I can start a chemical reaction between these two species,\nit ought to generate a spectacular amount of energy.\nShould we give it a try?\nI'm going to light this sparkler to deliver a focused heat to the mixture.\nWe generated enough energy to give off huge amounts of heat and light.\nIt was so hot that we made molten liquid iron\nthat fell from the bottom of the flower pot into the pan below.\nYou can still see it here, red hot.\nThis course is especially focused on molecular thermodynamics.\nWhich means that we'll explore the connection between the microscopic\nproperties of molecules, and the rules that govern the way that macroscopic\ncollections of such molecules behave.\nIn particular, we'll examine the three great laws of thermodynamics.\nAnd we'll see how those can be used to understand the relationships between\nenergy, work, heat, and other important thermodynamic state functions.\nTo stay focused, we'll mostly confine ourselves to the study of gases.\nBut the rules that we'll establish are applicable in general, and\nby the time we're done with the course, you'll have a strong foundation\nto go on to understand the behavior of other phases of matter.\nThermodynamics is a powerful tool.\nScientists and engineers use it to guide the design of everything\nfrom computer chips to power plants.\nIn this course you'll learn the fundamentals through viewing video\nlectures and demonstrations and working through problem solving exercises.\nI look forward to teaching you more about this fascinating subject.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00002.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://100experiencepoints.com/2013/02/21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:12Z", "digest": "sha1:N5YKIMJFHM3IDXA6UAQANEHTVKXVN7Q6", "length": 973, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "100experiencepoints.com", "title": "\u00bb 2013 \u00bb February \u00bb 21", "raw_content": "21:35: As you can see, so far today, I\u2019ve been distracted with a couple of other posts. I think they were worth the time. Now I\u2019m off to do some game programming, at least for a little while. It\u2019s starting to get late\u2026 23:58: That\u2019s about two and a half hours of work and no Continue reading \u2192\nShip Building Q&A\nWindwalker asked a whole pile of questions in the comments to yesterday\u2019s post, and I think they\u2019re interesting enough to discuss in a full blog post. So here it is. This is essentially a piece straight out of my design document, for your viewing pleasure. Will I be able to make any kind of shape Continue reading \u2192\nThe Principle of Immediate Recognition\nLet\u2019s play a game. Take a look at the three images below, from the game Mass Effect. If you\u2019ve played Mass Effect before, pretend you haven\u2019t. I\u2019m going to ask you a few questions and see if you get them right, even without ever playing the game: One of these is much tougher to destroy Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1888mpm.org/book/3-separation-church-and-state", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RKD6UB2N6Z5CE2RS5JTX6YDFYR4PQZTT", "length": 8449, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "1888mpm.org", "title": "3 - The Separation of Church and State | 1888 Most Precious Message", "raw_content": "When God said to Abraham, \"Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee,\" Abraham \"went out, not knowing whither he went\" (Heb. 11:8).\nGod had not yet showed to him the land or country into which he was to go, and which was to be his. So far, the Lord had only promised to show it to him.\nThere were three things, however, which Abraham must do before he could fairly expect God to show him the country which He had promised, and which was to be his. First, he was to get out of his country; secondly, from his kindred; thirdly, from his father's house.\nHe left his country; but when he did so, his father and his kindred went with him to Haran, and dwelt there. There his father died; and now, separated from his father's house, he went on to the land of Canaan.\nBut there accompanied him yet one of his kindred -- Lot, his brother's son. While Lot was with him, and he was thus not separated from his kindred, though separated from his country and his father's house, the time could come for God to show to him the land, nor the country which He would give him.\nBut there came a day when Lot should be separated from him. Lot chose all the plain of the Jordan, and journeyed east, and \"they separated thus, one from the other\" (Gen. 13:11).\nAnd just then it was that God showed to Abraham the land which He had promised to show him, the country which should be his. \"And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever\" (Gen. 13:14, 15).\nAnd the country which the Lord then showed to Abraham, and which He there promised him should be his for an everlasting possession -- that country embraced the world; for \"the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith\" (Rom. 4:13).\nTherefore, when at the word of the Lord Abraham lifted up his eyes to see what the Lord would show him, he saw \"the world to come,\" which is to be the everlasting possession of all them which be of faith. For \"if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise\" (Gal. 3:29).\nAnd from that day forward Abraham \"sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country,\" looking for \"a better country, that is, an heavenly,\" and looking \"for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God\" (Heb. 11:9, 16, 8). For, though God promised that He would give to Abraham that land, and to his seed after him, yet as long as he was in this world God really \"gave him none inheritance in it, no not so much as to set his foot on\" (Acts 7:5).\nNow note: God had called Abraham out of his original country, and thus had separated him from that. Then He gave him not even so much as to set his foot on in any other country in this world.\nAbraham at that time represented the religion of God. The Lord in His dealing thus with Abraham and in recording it, has shown, for all time and to all people, that it is His will that there should be an absolute separation of His religion from any State. And in thus showing the complete separation of His religion from any State, He shows that this separation consists in the separation of the individual believer of His religion, from any State. Are you walking \"in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,\" the friend of God? (Rom. 4).\nAbraham, representing at that time the church of Christ, being thus totally separated by the Lord from every State and country on the earth, there is thus shown to all people, as an original truth of the Gospel of Christ, that there should be total separation of Church and State, and that the church of Christ can never have any country in the world. And in thus showing that the church of Christ can never have any country in this world, He shows that the individual members of the church of Christ can never have any country in this world; for that which composes the church of Christ is the individual membership.\nSo also dwelt Isaac and Jacob, heirs with Abraham of the same promise, accepting with Abraham separation from every earthly State and country, confessing \"that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth,\" looking for the country which God had prepared for them, and the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.\nAnd that they accepted this freely of their own choice, by faith in God, is shown by the fact, as recorded: \"Truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He hath prepared for them a city\" (Heb. 11.15, 16).\nThis dealing of God with Abraham, and the record of it, was for the instruction of all the people who would believe God, from that time to the world's end. For Abraham was the called, the chosen, the friend, of God, the father of all them that believe. And all \"they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham\" (Gal. 3:9). And not the least element of instruction in this account of God's dealings with Abraham is the great lesson it teaches that the religion of God means separation of religion and the State. Are you walking in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham? Have you gotten out of your country? Or have you still a country in this world? Is there in you a union of religion and the State?\nFurther: \"Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy Seed, which is Christ\" (Gal. 3:16). Therefore the promises recorded and referred to in the scripture, \"To Abraham and his Seed,\" are always to Abraham and Christ, and to Abraham in Christ. And, therefore, \"if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise\" (Gal. 3:29).\nAnd when Christ, that promised Seed, came into the world a man amongst men, then in Him, as formerly in Abraham, there was represented the religion of God and the church of Christ. And as such He ever maintained the same principle of separation of religion and the State which He Himself had set before the world in the life and record of Abraham.\nHe refused to recognize, even by a sign, the wish of the people to make Him king. (John 6:15). He refused, when requested, to act the part of a judge or a divider over men as to the rights of property. (Luke 12:13-15). He refused to recognize the national lines of distinction, the wall of partition, which Israel in their exclusiveness had built up between themselves and other nations. He refused to judge, or to allow any others to judge, any one for not believing on Him. (John 12:47, 48). He distinctly declared that, though He is a king, yet His kingdom is not of this world, and that it is not in any way connected with this world. (John 18:36).\nHe distinctly declared the separation of His religion from the State. \"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's\" (Mark 12:17). And when He sent forth His disciples with His heavenly commission to preach the Gospel of His kingdom, He sent them not to one particular nation, but to \"teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.\" He sent them to preach the Gospel; not to one particular, favored, exclusive people, but \"to every creature.\"\nThus it is seen again that in every phase of the fundamental principle of the religion of God and the church of Christ, from the beginning to the end of the world, there is required the absolute separation of religion and the State -- the total disconnection of His church from every State and country in the world, and from the world itself.\nAnd this total disconnection of His church from every State and country in this world, and from the world itself, is, and can be, accomplished only by the total disconnection of the individual members of His church from every State and country in the world, and from the world itself. \"Ye are not of the world; for I have chosen you out of the world.\" \"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world\" (John 15:19; 17:16). Are you?\n\u2039 2 - The Origin of the State\n4 - The Renunication of Egypt \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 10015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1stclasseconomics.com/jean-baptiste-say/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:51Z", "digest": "sha1:R23KQBCBA25EKU5UPE3DU3YOUX2HC6BH", "length": 3471, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "1stclasseconomics.com", "title": "Jean-Baptiste Say | 1st Class Economics", "raw_content": "Businessman, Economist (1767\u20131832)\nName: Jean-Baptiste Say\nBorn/Died: Born/Died: 1767 (Lyon, France) \u2013 1832 (Paris, France)\nSchool of thought: the Classical school\nKnown for: Say\u2019s Law, political economy\nFamous works: \u2018A treatise on political economy; or the production distribution and consumption of wealth\u2019\nJean-Baptiste Say was a French economist and businessman who strongly supported the reign of free market forces and argued against government intervention. He is best know for Say\u2019s Law.\nSay\u2019s Law states that \u201csupply creates its own demand\u201d and forms one of the tenets of the Classical school of economic thought. The basic idea behind Say\u2019s Law is that producers, by selling their own goods, generate income which they can spend on other goods in the economy, hence creating demand from their supply.\nThis is a testament to the workings of the free market as much as anything else. \u2018Supply creates its own demand\u2019 is basically the age-old adage \u2018build it and they will come\u2019 that the layman uses. Manufacture some cars, for example, and the buyers will materialise, thats how free markets work. Say asserts that markets should, therefore, be left alone to work free as demand should automatically meet supply at a robust level.\nAs Say himself writes in pages 138-139 of his 1803 book \u2018A treatise on political economy\u2019: \u201cIt is worthwhile to remark that a product is no sooner created than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value. When the producer has put the finishing hand to his product, he is most anxious to sell it immediately, lest its value should diminish in his hands. Nor is he less anxious to dispose of the money he may get for it; for the value of money is also perishable. But the only way of getting rid of money is in the purchase of some product or other. Thus the mere circumstance of creation of one product immediately opens a vent for other products.\u201d\nIt must be emphasised that the exact phrase \u201csupply creates its own demand\u201d was coined by John Maynard Keynes, and some dispute this characterisation as a misrepresentation of Say\u2019s Law. In fact, many argue that Adam Smith came up with the idea behind \u2018supply creates it\u2019s own demand\u2019 years before Say when he published his book \u2018The Wealth of Nations\u2019. The closest Say came to stating Say\u2019s Law was on page 153 of his 1803 book \u2018A treatise on political economy\u2019, where he says that \u201cproducts are paid for with products\u201d. It could be argued that Say\u2019s Law is therefore an elaboration and popularisation of Adam Smith\u2019s work.\nJean-Baptiste Say is credited with coining the term \u2018entrepreneur\u2019.\nMost of Say\u2019s life was interrupted with major wars and political turmoil. For instance, his generation experienced the French Revolution, the Revolutionary Wars and the rise of Napoleon. Consequently, his career took a number of diversions as he took on many different jobs; he worked as a journalist, soldier, politician, cotton manufacturer, writer, apprenticeship in a commercial office and secretary in a life insurance company. It was only later in his life that he could devote his time to teaching and writing about economics.\n\u201cIt is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.\u201d\n\u201cA tax can never be favourable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.\u201d\n\u201cAlas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?\u201d\n\u2013 Jean-Baptiste Say", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://27.unseenamsterdam.com/photographers/carolle-benitah", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VEYP5ESQFM55RYZAQ3UWXJJNZBGVY5TX", "length": 965, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "27.unseenamsterdam.com", "title": "Carolle Benitah | Unseen", "raw_content": "Carolle Benitah was born in Casablanca (Morocco). She lives and works in Marseille (France).\nShe graduated from the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (Paris). For ten years thereafter, she worked as a fashion designer. She decided to learn photography in 2001. Carolle Benitah attended photography classes for two years at the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des beaux-arts of Luminy in Marseille (2001 to 2003) ; she also followed the cycle of courses on photography (\u00ab Collecting Photography \u00bb) with Christie\u2019s Education in Paris in 2003 and the evening courses at the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de Photographie in Arles and art classes at the Universit\u00e9 du Temps Disponible in Marseille (2003-2004 and 2008-2009).\nShe attended many photography workshops in France and other countries with Lise Sarfati, Mathieu Pernot, Antoine d\u2019Agata, Klavdji Sluban, Bernard Plossu, Mary Ellen Mark, Alessandra Sanghinetti, Richard Dumas and Jean-Louis Garnell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 162.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2ww.lowchensaustralia.com/diy/agility-open-tunnel-construction.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OQZDVUOI6CJGJKJPLH64ZEXA3MUGCXQG", "length": 3029, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "2ww.lowchensaustralia.com", "title": "Dog Agility FAQs - Obstacles - Open Tunnel Construction", "raw_content": "Topics: Contruction | Training\nMost people buy their tunnels direct from the manufacturer. Although the \"tunnels\" are really manufactured for other real-world applications, they will know what you are talking about if you call it a dog agility tunnel. The tunnels come in a variety of colors. The newer gaily colored tunnels do not seem to be constructed to take as much abuse as the old yellow construction tunnels that all the older agility groups have.\nYour next decision is what length you wish to specify. 12' is the practical minimum but you will find it difficult to set up some common training patterns with a tunnel that short. For example, it is difficult to set up the configuration where the tunnel is shaped like an S and stretches from one end of the A-frame underneath it to the other end of the A-frame. You can also go to the other extreme and get a 20' tunnel or so. Occasionally you will see judges that, when given a tunnel this long to work with, will set the tunnel so that it contains many bends & contortions. That many bends and contortions can unsettle a dog who's never been exposed to it in training so it is nice to be able to train for it ahead of time (although it really is very rarely seen). The problem with a tunnel that long though is that it is *very* heavy and really does require 2 people to manage it. If you have to pack any of your equipment away after training sessions, you will find it difficult to stack properly without causing possible long term damage to the ribs and stitching. It's also that much more tunnel to keep clean.\nA nice reasonable compromise is a tunnel of 15' or so. One person can manage it (although that really should be discouraged; agility isn't worth ruining your back over), it is just long enough to stretch in a S under the Aframe, and it still stacks nicely for storage. 15' is also the minimum most USDAA judges would prefer to work with and it is the maximum tunnel length permitted for an AKC tunnel. (Janet Gauntt)\nFor a cheap tunnel, look for the children's play tunnel at an IKEA store. The tunnel is ripstop nylon (not vinyl, so less likely to crack or tear) and is about 9 feet long. It's a smaller diameter than a \"real\" tunnel, so you might not want to try it with a St. Bernard, but some larger breeds manage it just fine! The good news is they're only about $20. They also fold up into an incredibly small package so it would be easy to store. You probably wouldn't want to leave them out in the weather. (Jo Ann Mather)\nFor those of you seeking a tunnel that is more durable than the Toys R Us variety there is a place that sells therapeutic merchandise that sells a tunnel called the \"Heavy Duty Crawl Tunnel.\" It is 108\"x24\", with a coil steel frame and heavy duty dark blue canvas for the cover. It's easy to store and lightweight, (has to be braced on windy days). It sells for $39.95 at Flaghouse (1-800-793-7900). There is a fee of $5.00 for orders under $50. 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But you couldn\u2019t have ruined it all. Analyze the situation step by step and you will understand that there were other people and events that influenced the outcome. Toxic people will try to prove that the fault is all yours.\n5 Types of Males Ladies Should Never Think of Marrying\n5 Most Breathtaking Luna Parks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://666haofeng.com/watch/vs-50803", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QXZXN4R3HT56X5HAPYW7E6NHBFBJKGTV", "length": 93, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "666haofeng.com", "title": "Watch Vs. 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The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has announced the US dollar for Thursday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://activatelearning.com.au/2012/03/book-review-preparing-instructional-objectives-a-critical-tool-in-the-development-of-effective-instruction-by-robert-mager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IQUFVUALBPS4EGOI642SA6T2LH27XTPZ", "length": 4193, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "activatelearning.com.au", "title": "Book Review: Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction by Robert Mager - Activate Learning Solutions", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Professional Development / Book Reviews / Book Review: Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction by Robert Mager\nObviously I am taking my new year resolution to read all my reference books in my well-stocked library at home and write a review on each of them seriously.\nOne of the most critical skills for an instructional developer to have is to write effective instructional objectives. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve lost count the many times I have seen facilitator guides, power point slides and other learning material with fuzzy instructional objectives. If I see the verb, \u201cto understand\u201d one more time, I\u2019m going to jump up and down in frustration.\nBut here\u2019s the thing. To anyone else, outside of the instructional design and development world, writing an instructional objectives is \u201cmeh\u201d (with shoulder shrug). They don\u2019t realise the importance of having a measurable objective that outlines the performance, conditions and criteria a learner must perform. So when their instructional design team jump up and down when they look over the learning material and hone in on the objectives, they wonder just what our problem is. It\u2019s just an objective, they must think.\nIt\u2019s much more than that and Mager outlines this right from the second chapter. Why care about objectives? He says, \u201d instruction is only successful to the degree that it succeeds in changing students in desired ways, rather than in undesired ways. If instruction doesn\u2019t change anyone in desired ways, it isn\u2019t any good, regardless of how elegant the lectures are or how complicated the hardware used to present it is. If instruction is to accomplish desired outcomes, it is imperative that those designing the instruction, as well as the ones doing the instruction, have a clear picuture of those desired outcomes.\u201d\nIf that doesn\u2019t explain it in simple terms, I don\u2019t know what will. But here\u2019s the rub. I have known trainers and other instructional developers who use wishy washy course objectives when writing their courses and I believe this may be because people outside our field simply don\u2019t understand their importance. When I provide my materials for review to the client, they skip over the objectives and hone in on the content. In fact, I get my clients to sign off and approve the course objectives before I even start developing any content just to ensure that I have my understanding of the subject material correct and they are indeed, what their learners must demonstrate.\nThe book is a criticial reference item that should be in any instructional developer\u2019s library. It is well written and explains fully the qualities of useful objectives. What I really liked about this book was that it was written in such a way where the reader could engage with the material. Remember those stories you read as a kid where you could \u2018choose your own adventure\u2019 dependent on how you answered a question? Well, this book is written the same way except the author asks a question about the topic and then the reader tests their understanding by referring to the page mentioned to read further.\nThe back cover says that this was the best selling book ever written on the subject and this is not surprising to me as it is a great hands on resource that enabled me to learn more about objectives than I have since I started my career in the field over 20 years ago. It is with a tinge of sadness that as experts in our field, we still haven\u2019t been able to influence our clients, sponsors and stakeholders to value instructional objectives or to explain their importance when it comes to demonstrating peformance that means some impact to business results. Maybe this is the argument that Learning and Development professionals are too wrapped up in their own world of people and learning; and less on the business realities but this may be a topic of another blog post down the track.\nI know that any Mager book I will read this year or through the rest of my working life will be critical reference books \u2013 the \u2018bibles\u2019 of our industry and as such, important additions to any library. For me, I will be guarding this book with my life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 7644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://actuafreearticles.com/article451501.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6P4NKD4GGZYIJKMD44WPWT6FB7FQ4DM6", "length": 3875, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "actuafreearticles.com", "title": "1 Big Question on Acupuncture and Penis Size ActuaFreeArticles.com free content free articles for web sites opt-in newsletters e-zines", "raw_content": "1 Big Question on Acupuncture and Penis Size By: John Dugan\nThere are plenty of quacks out there eager to take advantage of men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obsession with their penis size and the insecurities that result when a man fears that his equipment is less impressive than that of his neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. Even men who know that factors like penis health (http://www.menshealthfirst.com/) and skillful use of the penis are far more important than size may fall prey to advertisements that claim they can add inches to the endowment. Recently, there has been more attention paid to the possibility that acupuncture could be employed to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153supersize\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a modestly gifted man. But is there truth to this claim?\nAn ancient treatment\nAcupuncture is nothing new. As a matter of fact, it has been around for ages. A primary part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture is based on the belief that the body\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life force energy (called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153qi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) flows across the body in defined lines called meridians. These meridians are thought to be special conduits to the qi. Acupuncture is a way of utilizing those conduits to access the qi in ways intended to benefit the body, mind and spirit.\nTraditionally, the conduits are accessed by long, very thin needles inserted into specific points of the body. Most of these points are along the meridians, although some are intentionally located off a meridian for specific purposes. In essence, placing a needle in the appropriate point redirects energy to a particular purpose. Those who are trained in the practice of acupuncture use their skills to treat pain, discomfort and other issues aggravating a person.\nAlthough acupuncture is an ancient practice, it is disregarded as a science by most doctors. However, many researchers also agree that when performed by a knowledgeable practitioner, acupuncture is harmless and does seem to produce results in many patients.\nIt is believed that acupuncture has been promoted as a means of lengthening the penis for centuries. Certainly in recent years there has been a resurgence in the popularity of this view. One nationwide acupuncture chain has claimed they treat more than 650 men a week with the goal of adding length or girth to their members.\nAre men really so eager to increase their penis size that they will submit to having needles stuck into their members? Interestingly, many (but by no means all) acupuncture treatments geared toward penis size don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually involve inserting needles in the manhood. The pressure points are located in other parts of the body, and are used to redirect the qi toward the penis.\nHowever, while some men have claimed to see results from this procedure, there have been no published studies that verify these results. There have been studies looking at whether acupuncture can play a role in fighting erectile dysfunction, and some of these studies have indeed indicated a possible correlation; however, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also possible that other factors may be influencing the positive effects on erectile function.\nAt any rate, there appears to be no hard-and-fast evidence to support the use of acupuncture as a means of increasing penis size.\nOf course, whether acupuncture increases penis size or not is somewhat irrelevant. A man is far better off concentrating on his penis health and using a top flight penis health cr\u00c3\u00a8me (http://www.man1health.com/Order.php health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil, which is clinically proven mild and safe for skin) can be a big aid in that department. Be sure to find a cr\u00c3\u00a8me that includes L-arginine, an amino acid and part of the chain of events that enhance the ability of penile blood vessels to expand and accept greater blood flow during the erectile process. The cr\u00c3\u00a8me should also include vitamin D, as it helps fight disease and improve cellular function.\nRate this article: 1 Big Question on Acupuncture and Penis Size", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 8829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://akafco.com/news/best-encryption-software-tools-of-2019-keeping-your-data-secure-and-private/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ADREUVCLZ6PFOLM6FBCDWO3MMVVQI6JO", "length": 1105, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "akafco.com", "title": "AKAF System", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re looking for the best encryption software for your needs in 2018, then you\u2019ve come to the right place, as we\u2019ve listed the top software that will keep your important files and documents safe from malicious users.\nThe sad fact is that as hackers are become ever more adept at stealing private information, we must be ever more vigilant when it comes to protecting our files, regardless of if we are a business or home user, and this is where our list of the best encryption software of 2019 comes in.\nEncryption tools encode data so that it can only be unlocked with a certain key, making it harder for third-parties to gain access. This means that only people who have access to that key can also access the data, making encryption software an essential tool for keeping data safe.\nThese encryption tools can be used to protect data such as email addresses, customer transactions and passwords, and other crucial information which you really can\u2019t afford to potentially expose. Many companies are also using encryption software to ensure internal online conversations and emails are kept private.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alexkazlaw.com/reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IHYYIYQPGDMSHMGYTBYJTPL55455PX2J", "length": 3559, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "alexkazlaw.com", "title": "Reviews: Whittier & Los Angeles, CA: The Law Office of Alexandra Kazaria", "raw_content": "Satisfied Clients: Lauren K.\nI consider myself VERY lucky to have come across attorney Alexandra Kazarian.\nWhile seeking out some legal advice, I was contacted by a number of lawyers and Alexandra happened to be one of them. To start, Alexandra calmed me down and put me at ease. she was patient during my times of panic ((there were many)) and was incredibly reassuring. Our initial conversation was amazing. She wasn't the first or last attorney I spoke to, but she was certainly the best.\nAlexandra was very straight forward and to the point, which honestly made me feel more comfortable with her than with anyone else. I got the vibes from other attorneys that they were trying to scare me into hiring them. there was NONE of that here! She told me plain and simple the benefits of me hiring a private attorney in general and never once did I feel any pressure to hire her. THIS WAS A HUGE PLUS IN MY BOOK! She cared more about me being WELL-INFORMED than pressuring me into forking over a retainer.\nShe did tell me her retainer fee, and even though I told her that I'd likely go the route of getting a public defender, she still invited me to contact her if i had any more questions !!! Have you HEARD of any attorney being this KIND and CARING!? ((other lawyers that i spoke to basically shut the door when they thought that I wasn't going to hire them, and while I don't blame them, the fact that Alexandra still offered to answer my questions just goes to show how incredible of a PERSON she is!))\nI was able to email her any questions i had and she provided a timely response, even calling me to speak with me in a moment of uncertainty.\nBut let's be real here, this IS her career. She was able to ADVISE me as much as possible without getting too involved in my situation. But i know EXACTLY who I'm going to should I need a private attorney.\nI can't stop singing her praises to my friends and family. This woman is truly a blessing and I don't know what I would have done without her. Her legal expertise is impressive in itself, but her care and compassion is really what sets her far apart from others.\nWe came to Alexandra when we were in a tight spot, and needed help. Her professionalism and experience are why we hired her initially, but her compassion and care are why we ALWAYS will. Alex went above and beyond the call of duty, and made one of the scariest times in our lives bearable. She\u2019s the ace you want up your sleeve.\nMy family was hit with a tragic situation over the Memorial Day holiday last year. We needed help and didn\u2019t know where to turn to. That\u2019s when we sought out an attorney and came upon Alexandra. She\u2019s a godsend. The legal process was so confusing to us, but Alexandra made it so much easier to understand. She got us out of our situation successfully. She\u2019s more than an attorney, she\u2019s a life-line!\nAlex is an amazing lawyer, I couldn\u2019t say enough about her. She\u2019ll definitely take the time to take care of you, and make sure you understand what\u2019s happening in your case. I needed a lawyer for a family member and out of everyone we interviewed, she was by far the best, and we\u2019re all so glad we chose to go with her. You\u2019re definitely making the right decision by hiring Alex as your attorney.\nIf you need a lawyer Alexandra is the one to see. She is very knowledgeable and professional. I would highly recommend her for any legal needs you have.\nShe was professional, effective, expedient, and made herself available when I needed immediate action. Her trial experience was crucial in settling our case quickly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allforloveblog.com/?p=10708", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6G2GIQTYLR2K3JFUSGOEJCX4SMYYBW32", "length": 43417, "nlines": 119, "source_domain": "allforloveblog.com", "title": "Exposing Radar Online\u2019s Secret Shame: The Truth About What Michael Jackson Had (And Didn\u2019t Have) In His Bedroom-Pt 3 | Allforloveblog", "raw_content": "Current News, Gossip, The Allegations, The Never-Ending Media War\nExposing Radar Online\u2019s Secret Shame: The Truth About What Michael Jackson Had (And Didn\u2019t Have) In His Bedroom-Pt 3\nA Magazine That Was Part of Michael\u2019s Stash-The December 1994 Issue Of Playboy. When They Couldn\u2019t Build A Case Against Him For This\u2026They Went After His Art Books Instead!\n\u201cThe most pure people are always torn down.. It will continue to be proven that my beloved dad has always been and forever will be innocent.\u201d-Paris Jackson\nAs I\u2019m readying to post this third installment of my series rebutting the lies Radar Online was responsible for spreading throughout the media, I am noticing a disturbing trend. Memories are all too short in today\u2019s world of sound bite journalism, and already the malicious lie Radar Online released just in time to darken celebrations honoring Michael\u2019s death anniversary is starting to fade from headlines and is dropping from the search engines. Traffic here has pretty much stabilized to normal, and on social media, many fans are back to tweeting images of Michael\u2019s gold pants and all of the usual stuff we enjoy discussing when news is slow. Maybe in a way that is a good thing if this story that was never a story is dying down, as it should.\n12-Year-Old Michael Famously Flipped Through A Playboy Issue During A Jackson 5 Interview\nBut I find it beyond disturbing that what Radar Online and the rest of the media did to Michael Jackson and his family this past week is being allowed to sink without formal retraction or apology, even after being called out by several conscientious journalists and even after the Santa Barbara authorities issued a statement concluding that they had issued no such documents to the media and that the documents included falsified information, which their statement made plain in no uncertain terms. It is also inexcusable that much of the media has turned a deaf ear as artists like Jonathan Hobin and others whose work has been similarly slandered as \u201cpornography\u201d have spoken out.\nFrom Jonathan Hobin\u2019s Twitter:\nJonathan Hobin \u200f@JonathanHobin Jun 28Ottawa, Ontario\nJonathan Hobin Retweeted MJJJusticeProject\nMore than a 1000 tweets and the media are not listening.\nMichael\u2019s friend Corey Feldman has also reached out to the media time and again to say that he was abused as a child by a Hollywood pedophile ring. He continues to insist that his real abuser is still out there, but the media and-most importantly, the police-stopped listening to him as soon as he told them his abuser wasn\u2019t Michael Jackson. The response to any offers to reveal his true abuser? Crickets chirping. Even The Daily Mail ran a story on it in 2013, so no one can say Feldman hasn\u2019t been trying to get the truth out for a long time-that Michael Jackson provided him the only sense of normalcy he had as a child.\nCorey Feldman In 2013 When He Came Forward About His Abuse-He Said Cops Didn\u2019t Care When They Found Out It WASN\u2019T Michael Jackson.\nTime and again, I have seen this cycle repeat itself-a really malicious story is printed about Michael (we are guaranteed at least one really good hit piece every six months or so) and the furor is stirred for a little while; then, eventually, the story drops from the headlines and everyone becomes complacent again-for a little while, until the next storm hits. This cycle has got to stop! How long can they keep picking the flesh from a dead man\u2019s bones? I am going to continue working to expose these people for as long as it takes-not because I enjoy keeping the story going or \u201cfanning the flames\u201d but because I refuse to rest this time or to become complacent again until Radar Online and all of the outlets who spread this latest trash have issued a FORMAL RETRACTION AND APOLOGY. In the last seven years, I have seen quite a bit that has been allowed to simply sink without formal retraction-a good case in point being the phony FBI files story which was eventually squelched after a damning story in CNN exposed the hoax. At that time, many media outlets that had ran with that story simply deleted it, allowing it to quietly drop out of search engines. But not everyone. And again, because no formal retraction was ever given, the bogus story is still occasionally unearthed and given new legs for the uninitiated who, of course, will not remember the expose\u2019 of 2013 (as I said, memories are fleetingly short in the media world-but that doesn\u2019t make the damage done any less forgiving).\nWe really do have to ask some tough questions about the especial vindictiveness around this particular anniversary-June 25th, 2016. For example, although certainly a much less damaging story than the fabricated assertions of child pornography, The Daily Mail ran a hit piece on June 25th asserting that Michael had viciously dissed Prince during the taped sessions for his \u201cMoonwalk\u201d autobiography, claiming he was \u201cthe rudest person I ever met.\u201d The purpose of running with such a story on June 25th of all dates is pretty obvious: They know that the emotions of Prince fans right now are very raw (the man just died in April) and, of course, what better way to play up the \u201crivalry\u201d than by having Prince fans turn en masse on MJ on his own death anniversary! A cheap tactic to be sure, although I credit Prince fans with more intelligence than to fall for it. The fact is, if any such tape exists, it hasn\u2019t surfaced. Secondly, even if we extended benefit of the doubt and assumed maybe, okay, he said it, I would say to that: Big whoop de-do deal. If truth be known, most fans would be shocked to know what artists really have to say about each other in private moments-they are human beings, after all. Let\u2019s not forget that this was the era in which Prince had just refused, twice, to collaborate with Michael and had effectively snubbed every overture Michael had made toward him. But what we do know is that their respect for each other as artists was immense and only grew exponentially throughout the years (I even learned recently that Prince hung out with Michael in the recording studio during the HIStory sessions!) and in 1983, it was Michael who persuaded James Brown to call Prince up on stage with them. As I have been writing in many previous blog posts, Michael\u2019s relationship with Prince-just like his relationship with Madonna-was a complex one fraught with all of the complexities that comes with success, ego, and artistry, but also with the kind of immutable bond that only those who have shared the experience of fame can understand. This is nothing more than celebrity gossip, of course, which doesn\u2019t mean much in the grander scheme of things-gossip, as always in the celebrity and tabloid world, will come and go, and we can\u2019t afford to expend too much energy getting overly riled up about these things. However, I am concerned-very much-with the especially slanderous allegations of the past week which cannot afford to go unchallenged.\nWith that in mind, I am going to resume where I left off in refuting the claims that Radar Online and other media outlets professed, via overly sensationalized headlines, made about the 2003 police reports on Neverland. To do that correctly, I will need to go back to a previous page that was missing from RO\u2019s originally published 88-page document. Here goes:\nhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-stfayCXLjudXY1b0d2c2JoSUU/view\nItem #505 is especially important to this discussion, as this was an apparently sealed package containing three books that will be crucial to our discussion in this post-Underworld, Room To Play, and Drew and Jimmy. Room To Play is important because this book played a prominent role, both directly and indirectly, in creating many of the most sensational media headlines. First, this was the volume for which Jonathan Hobin\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d photo was mistakenly identified as being a part of in Radar Online\u2019s pages that were falsified. As discussed in Pt 2, we now know that this image was not included in Room To Play at all, but instead, was part of Hobin\u2019s collection of art photography titled In The Playroom-an important detail because In The Playroom, a book published in 2008, could not possibly have been a book recovered during the 2003 raid. Granted, we could attribute such an oversight to human error, but this was not the kind of error that would have been allowed in an actual police report! However, it is exactly the sort of error that could be made unknowingly by someone doing a sloppy Google search for images from Room To Play-just exactly the kind of error that could have been made by Robson\u2019s and Safechuck\u2019s attorneys before \u201cleaking\u201d these newly sensationalized documents to Radar Online (the \u201cAmercian Idol\u201d photo featuring a JonBenet Ramsey lookalike with a noose tied around her neck is now among the twenty-seven pages that have suddenly \u201cdisappeared\u201d from Radar Online\u2019s documents). Just as a test, I did a Google search myself for In The Playroom. Guess what image came up? That\u2019s right-Hobin\u2019s photo!\nHere you can see page 11 of Radar Online\u2019s version, where the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d photo from In The Playroom is identified via a handwritten note as being from Room To Play.\nfile:///C:/Users/user1/Downloads/RO-report-88-pages%20(5).pdf\nThis image does not appear at all in the original report-and now we know for good reason! Because it didn\u2019t exist in 2003, and was never recovered from Michael Jackson\u2019s home!\nBut what about the actual book, Room To Play, as well as the other two books that were in this sealed package? I would like to take an especially close look at Room To Play because the description of this book in the report was responsible for a particularly reprehensible headline ran by Vanity Fair, an article written by Laurie Bradley claiming that pornographic photos were seized in Michael\u2019s home of children\u2019s heads morphed onto adult bodies. That headline was particularly disturbing because they had the brass balls to run it above one of the most innocent photos of Michael that could have possibly been used-a photo op from one of one of the many charitable events at Neverland for under privileged, inner city children.\n\u201cVanity Fair\u201d Twistedly Used This Innocent Photo Of Michael Inviting Inner City Children To Neverland To Help Promote Its Malicious Agenda!\nThe sensationalized juxtaposition of the image and headline were completely intentional. Unfortunately, this was a hit piece that received a lot of traction from the fan community because Vanity Fair was the first outlet that also ran the rebuttal statement from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff\u2019s Department denying that they had authorized the documents for release and also that some of the information appeared to have been tampered with. That was an important step, but unfortunately, having that information did not lead to a retraction or formal withdrawal of the story-it is merely tacked on as a kind of obligatory footnote, where it is bound to be all but ignored amidst that glaring salacious headline.\nEven though I knew that no such photos had ever been claimed to have been found in Michael\u2019s possession (this \u201crevelation\u201d was total news to me!) I couldn\u2019t help but find the headline disturbing. I know of pedophiles who have been convicted for possessing just such material. It is a particularly sick \u201chobby\u201d in which pedophiles will sexualize children by placing images of their heads and faces onto adult bodies. But going back to the report, it is clear that those descriptions came solely from the description of the book Room To Play (i.e, these did not refer in any way to photos Michael had personally taken or doctored himself, as the Vanity Fair headline suggests).\nCover Photo From Simen Johan\u2019s \u201cRoom To Play\u201d\nI did some more digging, and guess what? Room To Play, like so many of the books that came into question from this report, is a perfectly legal art book by Simen Johan that can be purchased on Amazon! (Provided one can afford the exorbitantly high cover price of $750.00; evidently the book must be out of print or an extremely valuable collectible!). An excerpt from a review of the book written in July of 2003 stated thus:\nJohan has many similar images in Room to Play. \u201cUntitled #71. 1999\u201d shows a girl in a gymnasium, taking a model\u2019s pose, one hand on her hips, facing to the left of the viewer into the distance. She is wearing a transparent one-piece outfit, and her young face does not match the pre-pubescent body. Indeed, the darker complexion of the face makes it easy to guess where Johan stuck the image of the head to that of the body. In \u201cUntitled #79. 1999\u201d a girl with a baby doll-like face but very styled hair is reclining in a park, exposing adult breasts. She has bright eyes but her face is utterly devoid of expression. The picture brings to mind bring to mind some of Hans Bellmer\u2019s use of dolls and the psychoanalytic interpretations such work invites. It\u2019s easy to analyze them as the expression of forbidden fetishistic desires, embodying a consciousness of their own depersonalization. They also could be read as feminist works, protesting the sexualization of young girls in pageants, and the loss of childhood innocence that comes with the commodification of girls\u2019 bodies.\nHowever, the other pictures here tend to discount such readings, because they are darker, more bizarre, and more complex. The first image in the book, \u201cUntitled #71. 1998\u201d shows a boy and a dog, and is more obviously a well-crafted collage. They seem to be in a trailer park surrounded by high-rise apartment buildings. The boy has Asian facial features and looks at the viewer. His body is that of a toddler, but his face is of an older boy. He is wearing an odd sort of hat or crown, with a furred cylinder topped by a crude bejeweled dome with a cross in the middle. His underwear has a wet dark spot in the front. The little dog is a highly groomed fluffy white poodle, also wearing a garish ornament on its head. The picture has a drab feel to it, but it relishes its own incongruity. \u201cUntitled #65. 1997\u201d shows a girl in a foggy field holding a dead sheep, with flies on her and the sheep. Her face is intend but not upset. \u201cUntitled #78. 1999\u201d shows a boy and girl dancing in their underwear against a background of jet planes leaving impressive looped jet trails. The blond boy looks about four years old, and is wearing a wet tight fitting pair of swimming trunks \u2014 he seems to have a rather large penis for his age. \u201cUntitled #75. 1999\u201d shows a girl in a room with the curtains drawn. Her face gives little clue to her age \u2014 her hair is unevenly cut and disheveled, and her upper teeth have large gaps between them. Her eyes are rolled up in her head and she has running mascara; a tear rolls from her right eye. She is wearing a bright silver necklace and the pendant shines from inside her mouth. She looks drugged or even possibly dead. These are not pretty images, and their flirting with taboos of child sexuality, disturbance, and death place Johan\u2019s work in the realm of a rather adolescent surrealism. Yet they are emotionally powerful, and even darkly humorous.\nA detailed discussion of the book (and others) on the Vindicating Michael website contained these images from the book to give a feel for Johan\u2019s particular style of photography:\nSomething that struck me was that the image at top left bore an uncanny resemblance to Aubrey Powell\u2019s famous cover for Led Zeppelin\u2019s 1973 Houses of the Holy album. That cover photo had, in turn, been inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clark\u2019s novel Childhood\u2019s End. So\u2026does this mean that all of us who own classic rock albums are guilty of owning porn?\nLed Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cHouses of The Holy\u201d Album Cover\nThe image on the top right also reminds me a lot of a slightly demonized Carol Ann, the character that Heather O\u2019Rourke played in Poltergeist.\nAs with Jonathan Hobin, whose work was discussed in Part 2, the images in Johan\u2019s work can be viewed as disturbing because they depict children in various extreme settings, but they are not pornographic in nature. The purpose, as with Hobin\u2019s work, seems to be depictions of how society has victimized children. We know that childhood was a subject dear and close to Michael\u2019s heart; it permeated much of his own work, and in songs like \u201cChildhood,\u201d \u201cLittle Susie,\u201d \u201cHollywood Nights\u201d and \u201cDo You Know Where Your Children Are\u201d he was brutally honest in confronting the darker aspects of childhood. \u201cLittle Susie\u201d depicts a child who is murdered. Both \u201cHollywood Nights\u201d and \u201cDo You Know Where Your Children Are\u201d feature as subjects young girls who have been sold to prostitution.\nMichael\u2019s Own Artistic Vision Of Childhood Could Be Quite Dark: He, Better Than Anyone, Recognized It\u2019s Not Always A Happy Time For All Children. \u201cLittle Susie,\u201d For Example, Is The Story Of A Murdered Girl.\nGiven Michael\u2019s artistry and vision, it\u2019s easy to see how and why he might have found inspiration in these works-that is, if we can assume he indeed had ever even looked at or opened this book! Let\u2019s not forget, it was described along with the other three as being inside a sealed packaging-one for which the the seals had to be broken in order to review the items! This suggests the possibility that Michael could have merely received the books as gifts and had never opened them-for sure, we know Michael received thousands of such gifts from fans every day, as Michael often said and which has been confirmed by many sources who knew him.\nCorey FeldmanVerified account\u200f@Corey_Feldman\n@SamKING89265444 @TheWhackyPaki @GellarUri I hav boxes of unopened fan mail from years ago that we haven\u2019t gotten 2. #DUH now LEAVE IT ALONE\n@SamKING89265444 @TheWhackyPaki @GellarUri doesn\u2019t mean he purchased it, or even looked at it. I\u2019m sure U hav weird stuff ppl giv U. Magnify\nBut even if these were books he legitimately owned and had purchased, they really speak of nothing except Michael\u2019s insatiable curiosity to learn as much as he could about the human condition.\nHowever, what about the morphed images referred to in the report? Although some of the images were described in the report as \u201cappearing\u201d to sexualize the children by morphing them with adult images, the intent in most of the images seemed to be more about showing the children as neglected and prematurely aged by a society that has forced them into adulthood too soon-a society that has literally left them with no \u201croom to play.\u201d\nThis Is One Of The So-Called Scandalous \u201cMorphing\u201d Images From \u201cRoom To Play\u201d\nWhat of the other two books contained in the packaging-Underworld and Drew and Jimmy? Kelly Klein\u2019s 1995 book Underworld is also a book that can be purchased on Amazon. It appears to be nothing more than a boudoir coffee table art book featuring Calvin Klein-like images of models wearing underwear in ads throughout various decades of the twentieth century. And guess what? It was a book highly endorsed by my all time favorite author of vampire and Gothic fiction, the venerable Anne Rice, who wrote the introduction!\nOne Of My Favorites, Best Selling Author Anne Rice, Highly Endorsed \u201cUnderworld\u201d As \u201cA Monument To Our Freedom.\u201d Yet For Simply Owning It, MJ Was And Is Being Raked Over The Coals!\n\u201cThe camera empowers you to be intimate with the lens, even abandoned, in a way that may not be possible with another human,\u201d Rice muses. \u201cThis book is a monument to our freedom, not only to express ourselves but to want more than we are allowed. The camera is the safest vehicle for this excess.\u201d-Anne Rice, from the introduction to Underworld.\nUnderworld is also a highly rated book on goodreads.com.\nThe Cover of \u201cDrew and Jimmy\u201d by John P. Salisbury\nDrew and Jimmy by John P. Salisburyis also available on Amazon and appears to be little more than a pictorial of rural boyhood. This is what one reviewer wrote of the book:\nI came across this book on the recommendation of the author\u2019s mother. She was my grade school art teacher and mother of a long time classmate-Burton. I had not seen her since Burton\u2019s funeral, but when she mentioned Patrick\u2019s book I couldn\u2019t resist. I had been back in Walnut Grove for a weekend visit for a girlfriend\u2019s wedding. I had left for college a few years before and kept going. My family was not as deep rooted there as the Salisbury\u2019s were, but I grew up there and those roots run just as deep. Whenever school or life was getting stressful, the Delta was the first place I\u2019d run to. It was a truly wonderful place to grow up, and the book depicts the eviroment beautifully. When I saw the pictures of the glass-like water, it made me want to be behind a ski boat once more. I knew Burton well, but Patrick was always the quiet older brother. I did know that they were total opposites personality wise. Burton was always the daredevil; class clown, as well as very gifted artistically like his mother and now as I see, Patrick also. My earliest memory of Burton I have is:him standing on a huge round table in our kindergarten classroom, which he then fell off of and cracked his head open for a few stitches. We grew apart after graduation, but he was part of many good memories I had while growing up in Walnut Grove\u2026including one of my first crushes. I think about him often, though my life is far away from where I knew him last, and I miss him. Thank you Patrick for a little more closure:)-\nEven the original police report couldn\u2019t offer too much to say about this book or its contents, conceding that it contained merely \u201cphotographs of two Caucasian male juveniles that appeared to be in their early to mid teens. The boys in these photographs are primarily clothed with occasional photographs of them wearing swim trunk-type clothing.\u201d\nFrom what I can tell, the following example photographs are about as \u201cerotic\u201d as it gets, and quite frankly, these young men appear to be far older than \u201cearly to mid teens.\u201d\nTypically, the report concluded of all three books:\n\u201cNone of the above noted books contained materials, which depicted illegal activities (including sexual acts with children) None of the books would meet legal requirements to be considered child pornography.\u201d -Sheriff\u2019s Department, Santa Barbara County Continuation Sheet Page 3.\nKeep in mind that the police, as well as prosecuting attorneys, were well aware that these items did not constitute pornography. But when their search for actual pornography had turned up nothing but a bunch of heterosexual adult magazines, their only alternative, as stated previously in Part 1, was to seize any items that could be construed as possible \u201cgrooming material.\u201d However, the jury didn\u2019t buy that argument when these items were presented in 2005, and it is a lame argument that doesn\u2019t hold up any better under scrutiny today.\nSo again, we must ask, what can possibly be the motive in attempting to \u201cretry\u201d Michael on these items in the court of public opinion, eleven years after his acquittal and seven years after his death? That is the burning question a lot of people want answers to right now. We can\u2019t afford complacency until we have those answers-not just for the sake of Michael\u2019s musical legacy, but for his children and all artists whose works and reputations are being impacted by the media\u2019s carte blanche attitudes in printing anything they want and running wild with a story without the slightest degree of fact checking.\nI will continue combing through these reports; hopefully I should be able to have the next post up sometime this weekend.\nIn the meantime, I want to continue to urge everyone to please sign these petitions:\nhttps://www.change.org/p/nfo-360tv-ru-we-demand-the-refutation-of-false-articles-about-michael-jackson-posted-20-06-2016\nhttps://antidefamationlegacylawadvocates.org/2016/06/20/weve-had-enough-an-appeal-to-the-fan-community-to-take-a-stand-against-slanderous-tabloids/\nPrevious PostExposing Radar Online\u2019s Secret Shame: The Truth About What Michael Jackson Had (And Didn\u2019t Have) In His Bedroom-Pt 2Next PostJUST WHEN WE THOUGHT BETRAYAL COULDN\u2019T SINK EVEN LOWER\u2026IT DOES!!!\n21 thoughts on \u201cExposing Radar Online\u2019s Secret Shame: The Truth About What Michael Jackson Had (And Didn\u2019t Have) In His Bedroom-Pt 3\u201d\nGreat post! I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve given you this link already, but here\u2019s a newspaper article about \u201cBoys Will Be Boys\u201d from 1965. MJ\u2019s inscription that he wrote inside of the book \u201cLook at the true spirit of boyhood. A life I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children.\u201d is 100% consistent with the article\u2019s description of the book! https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D55fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zzEMAAAAIBAJ&dq=book-horizons&pg=4397,1755348&hl=en\nMy mistake! That newspaper article isn\u2019t about \u201cBoys Will Be Boys\u201d but \u201cThe Boy: A Photographic Essay\u201d. My mistake!\nThe description of the book from the article is a testament to the innocent nature of the book, and this can definitely be used to rebut any haters who say it was made for sexual gratification.\nThanks as always. I will have a look at those tomorrow. It\u2019s been a long day-and I\u2019m still editing some errors and other small things I didn\u2019t catch before the article posted. But I\u2019ll have a look first thing in the morning!\nAm I the only person to find Corey Feldman annoying, unhelpful, and to some degree, not credible? If there were that many pedophiles in Hollywood when he was a child actor, then surely at least one has passed on and Feldman can reveal the name without fear of being sued. Instead he exploits his minor association with Michael, and is pretty damn wishy-washy in his defense. If Corey isn\u2019t willing to name names, he needs to shut up and move on with his life and career.\nItsBlackItsWhite says:\nI can see why you\u2019re saying what you\u2019re saying, but I urge you to watch this Discovery Channel documentary that was pulled before it could air. I urge everyone reading these comments to watch. We have no clue \u2026.\njune elizabeth says:\nI have those same thoughts re Feldman. While he did say when questioned by PD that he told the detective who it was (not Michael) the detective was not interested and only seemed to focus questioning him on MJ, I agree that by this time Feldman could and should be able to state a name. If I recall correctly, he sat with Alki David and BHoward when the phony DNA test results were revealed using MJ\u2019s supposed dental mold from 25 years prior to prove 99.9% dna match, so what was Feldman\u2019s place there? As a supporter of BHoward? I read his book and was fairly taken with it until I read a plethora of others. Even his most recent tweet on 7th anniversary was heartfelt until the end where he conveniently plugs his new record.\njacksonaktak says:\nHe did tell the name of his abuser to Sgt. Debrah Linden when he was interviewed by the police in 1993. They just did not care.\nI did state in my comment that he gave the name of his abuser to the police; just did not recall the specific name, Linden, at the time of making the comment. Thanx for clarifying.\nThe name was never revealed to the public. Back in 2005 Celebrity Justice reported about Corey\u2019s 1993 interrogation and they played some parts from it and even mentioned that he did name his abuser but the police ignored it. But they did not show that part or reveal the name in any other way on their show. I guess, out of legal reasons.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdITa9Ulx2A\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0I7q94HEQ\nBut the name is there somewhere on tapes made by the police. And apparently they never did anything with it.\nNo, and yet they certainly never minded throwing Michael\u2019s name around even before he was ever formally charged.\nThe way I see it, though, at least he IS willing to speak out on Michael\u2019s behalf and that is more than a lot of his so-called celebrity friends have been doing.\nOne note about these books supposedly being found in sealed bags. This is often misunderstood when people are reading these reports. No, the books weren\u2019t FOUND in sealed bags \u2013 they were put into sealed bags by the police when they confiscated them. So, of course, when the writer of this police report got them they were in sealed bags \u2013 in the sealed bags in that the police put them in.\nThese three books were found in MJ\u2019s arcade/library area. So they were basically taken from his library. Room to Play had another copy too, which was found in one of the big cardboard boxes that had a lot of art photography books of all kinds and that were in the downstairs section of MJ\u2019s room. Here is a photo of those boxes from Aphrodite Jones\u2019 book: http://michaeljacksonallegations.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mjbookslocated02.jpg\nThe fact they were in cardboard boxes suggests that they were temporarily there \u2013 maybe just coming from a book store (they seemed to have lots of old, second hand books to \u2013 so maybe from a second hand book store). Mez even made a reference to that in one of his questions when he asked an officer \u201cso you don\u2019t know if they were just coming or going?\u201d.\nContext is everything. And I think the biggest mistake (or malice on part of the prosecution and the media) that people are doing with these books is dragging them out of context. The tabloids manipulatively place them in the context of MJ\u2019s pornography, by simply putting them in the same sentence. In sentences like (just paraphrasing but this is the type of description one could read in many of these articles): \u201chorrific pictures of pornohraphy, S&M, torture, nude pictures of children were found\u201d. This gives the impression to the reader that even if nothing that could be construed as child porn was found, but MJ kept nude images of children among his pornography. The suggestion is clear: that he had such photos out of sexual interest.\nIn reality, the context tells a totally different story. Nude images of children were never found among his pornography! The nude images of children were always as part of art books \u2013 art books that didn\u2019t have nude children as their focus, they only happened to have some nude images, among others. The prosecution just took everything with a nude person in it. That meant from a library of about 10,000 books they eventually took about 17-20 books. And the vast majority of those weren\u2019t even about children, but about adults! And even those which did have nude images of children \u2013 well, a nude can be many things. For example the book Cronos is described as including nude pics of children. Well, technically yes. But how is this anything sexual or horrible? (Just one example of the many.)\nhttp://michaeljacksonallegations.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cronos18.jpg\nThe fact is that these art books weren\u2019t a concentrated collection of books with nude children in it. They were found among other art photohraphy books and scattered around many places at NL, not as one collection. Some were in his library in the arcades, some in cardboard boxes that appeared just to have come in from some book store etc.\nHis actual pornography, on the other hand, WAS a concentrated collection of adult, heterosexual porn magazines. One portion of it was found in his nightstand. One other portion in a box at the base of his bed. And another in the infamous briefcase in his bedroom that was so much talked about at the trial. Those were clearly collected over a long period of time (with release dates between 1991-2003), regularly, and they WERE kept together as a collection. The idea that the porn magazines that MJ kept in such places as his nightstand don\u2019t mean anything about his sexuality, but some random book found somewhere at the bottom of a pile of other art books in some cardboard box or in the library does, is ridiculous.\nMJ was a bookworm and also a serious student of photography. Here is what his bodyguards said in their book about how he bought books:\n\u201cJavon: That\u2019s how he filled all those hours by himself: books. He\u2019d read anything and everything he could get his hands on. History. Science. Art. There were so many trips to Barnes & Noble. It was almost a weekly thing. He would go into bookstores and drop five thousand dollars like he was buying a pack of gum. At one point, he actually bought a bookstore\u2014 I\u2019m talking about an entire bookstore. He paid cash for it.\nBill: It was on his way back from Tokyo, during those couple days he spent in L.A. He went to visit this used bookstore. It had a lot of rare books from the personal libraries of some pretty famous people, Hollywood stars. These were books that Humphrey Bogart had signed, books that Ingrid Bergman had signed. He asked the owner how much it would take to buy all of his books. The owner didn\u2019t take him seriously. So he made an offer of $ 100,000. Said he\u2019d pay cash on the spot. Couple weeks after he got back from L.A., this U-Haul filled with all these books showed up at the house in Vegas.\u201d\nAnd this was his relationship with art photography:\n\u201cCBS executive Ray Newton spoke about having met Jackson in 1979 and discovering how well versed Jackson\u2019s love for photography was back then: About an hour later we picked up the professional photographer who was coming with us to radio. The photographer gets in the front seat of the limo says hello and then starts to assemble his camera. Once his camera is assembled he points it at me and Michael in the back seat of the limo. I instruct him not to shoot us so Michael can relax. Looking back, that would be a cool photo to have now but I was looking out for Michael\u2019s well-being. Michael sees the camera and starts this deep photography discussion. I was in the discussion for about a minute then it got so deep that I just dropped out and that\u2019s when the photographer looked at me and I looked at him with the looks saying check this out \u2013 Michael Jackson is knee deep in photography discourse. I asked Michael if he was a photographer and he said \u201cNo, I just like photography!!!\u201d.\nSo Michael continues engaging in this very deep photography conversation with the photographer where he mentions something that the photographer said he needed to look into further. This went on for about 5 minutes, and the only thing that stopped that topic was that the photographer said something that Michael didn\u2019t know and Michael got quiet.\nLet me translate how deep Michael\u2019s photography discussion was: imagine if someone says in the middle of a general conversation \u2013 pataflaflas swiss 6 accented parafliddle lesson 25 around the set groove. You would not only have to be a drummer but a drummer with not just a knowledge of rudiments but an advanced knowledge of rudiments that one can apply and play around the drumset and make them groove to know what that person was talking about.\u201d\nand also photographer Todd Gray who worked with MJ from 1979-1982 said of Jackson in his book Before He Was King:\n\u201cWhen Michael did find time to relax, he loved to leaf through photographic picture books. He would bring his favorite books with him on tour and buy more books while on the road \u2013 the bus weighted with an increasing number of boxes as we left each city. The Triumph Tour began in Memphis with no boxes; by the time we got to Dallas, a few days later, I noticed two; then came Houston; and by the time we hit San Antonio, I noticed a score of boxes being loaded onto the bus. He especially loved books on Hollywood glamour from the 1930s, richly illustrated children\u2019s books, and coffee-table books on photography. Michael would usually hole up in the rear of the bus, while the others spent their time together in front. I also preferred the quiet at the back, and I would sit down with him while he was engrossed in a book of Hollywood glamour photographs from the 1930s. Looking at a particularly striking photo, he would say, \u201cThis is magic. They don\u2019t make photos like this anymore.\u201d He studied the pose, eyes, make-up, and expression \u2013 everything that went into a great glamour photo.\nMichael also loved books that showed children from around the world. One day on the bus I remember him saying \u201cI wish I could write a book about the children of the world. I could go to every country and show how everyone on earth is beautiful. I want to go to India and show the poverty and suffering of the children there, and maybe I could help improve the situation. Africa, too, where there is so much starvation and disease. Todd, would you want to do that with me?\u201d I was stunned, both because I wondered how Michael would ever find the time and also that he wanted me to be the photographer. I suggested that he take a look at the photographs of Lewis Hine, the influential photojournalist whose work helped spur the introduction of child labor laws in the early twentieth century.\u201d\nHe was also looking at art photography for inspiration. Bernt Capra who worked with Michael before he died on This Is It said in 2009:\n\u201cMichael Jackson was very well read and he loved art, and he knew his photography, and he liked this photographer, Lewis Hine, who had been a social worker in the depression era and shot photographs of victims of child labor \u2013 four, five, six year olds working in mills and mines. He was also very well known for a collection of photos of the construction of the Empire State Building which are very valuable now. Michael loves this guy and he based \u201cThe Way You Make Me Feel\u201d choreography and set design on the photos of the men constructing steel beams as if they were on the top of a skyscraper having a lunch break.\u201d\nAnd this is from William Van Valin\u2019s book, Private Conversations in Neverland:\n\u201cFrom there it was back to his room where we decided to open and go through some of the large boxes that had arrived the day before. They lined the hallway to his room and there were probably ten of them there in all different sizes. It turned out that they were full of books (one of Michael\u2019s favorite things) that he had ordered from a catalogue. As Michael was tearing through one box, and I another, he told me that it was always his dream to have a huge library full of all his favorite books, and he had many.\nAs I looked through one box, I pulled out a large hardback book on Baroque Rococo architecture and art. Being a mutual interest of ours, this was mostly what he and I were looking for in the stacks of books. We sat down in his bedroom and went through it page by page. Many of the photographs were of places he\u2019d actually been. He told me, \u201cI think there\u2019s a picture in here of a fabulous wrought iron entry way.\u201d\nShortly thereafter, he turned a page and said, \u201cThat\u2019s it.\u201d He pointed to what was beyond a doubt the finest wrought iron handy work I\u2019d ever laid my eyes on. Parts of it had been gold leafed like the gates to Neverland. Michael said, \u201cI\u2019m going to copy this where the front gates are by the lake. I\u2019ll take those down and build copies of these.\u201d He knew all about who made it and where it was located. He\u2019d even tried to buy it. He said, \u201cI tried to buy it at one time many years ago but it wasn\u2019t for sale at any price. I know because I offered them a lot.\u201d\nFor those interested in seeing them you can Google \u2018Place Stanislas Wrought Iron Railings\u2019. They\u2019re in a town called Nancy in France.\nOne evening my wife and I were in the library with Michael and she was looking through this book. Michael looked at her and said, \u201cCriss, I\u2019m going to ask you something and you have to say yes.\u201d He did this a lot and it always meant that he wanted to give something to you or show you something he knew you\u2019d like. She asked, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d He said, \u201cNo you didn\u2019t say the magic word.\u201d She corrected herself and said, \u201cWhat is it, please?\u201d He laughed and said, \u201cNo. \u2018Yes\u2019 is the magic word.\u201d \u201cOkay, yes then.\u201d She said laughing. He said, \u201cI want to give you that book. I know you love this kind of architecture because you\u2019ve commented on it before.\u201d He asked her to hand it to him and he opened it and on the first page inside the front cover he wrote, \u201cTo Criss, All my love, to the first family of love. Love, Michael Jackson.\u201d\nThat is a good point regarding the items being described as sealed. However, the report does not mention that all of the books were sealed so that is what led me to interpret that those particular titles may have been sealed when found. Personally, I wouldn\u2019t have read much into it, either way since he could have had any number of legit reasons for keeping them sealed, if he did (including that he may have never even opened them, or that he was protecting them from damage, as people often do with rare volumes, or even just trying to keep them away from prying eyes-after all, even though they aren\u2019t pornographic, he might still have considered some of the images too mature and graphic to risk having young children stumble across them). Obviously, I wasn\u2019t there so I can only go on what is written in the reports, although I do agree it makes sense they would have sealed all evidentiary items confiscated in a raid.\nSandra Faikus O'Brien says:\nGood article discussing the MJ prince \u201ctapes\u201d http://www.showbiz411.com/2016/06/28/michael-jacksons-book-editor-skeptical-about-audio-tapes-says-he-had-utmost-respect-for-prince\nsusannerb says:\nRaven, let me tell you how much I appreciate this series of posts and your persistence to analyze and refute this fake report. I am sure it will make a difference. I am very glad about the common efforts of our MJ bloggers and advocates who work together on this necessary response to this devilish campaign. It\u2019s wonderful to see these joint efforts from those you didn\u2019t give up the fight since Michael died. Thanks very much!\nThank you. It has been a lot of hard work (and little sleep) this past week but is worth it to get the truth out there.\nRaven, have you seen these videos of Corey Feldman\u2019s 1993 police interview, where he denied abuse by MJ and named his real abuser, who the police didn\u2019t give a damn about catching:\nAlso, Feldman was interviewed by Bashir on 20/20 in early 2005, and his words about MJ have constantly been misconstrued as admitting that MJ was \u201cinappropriate\u201d with him, even though he still denied being molested (MJ showed him a book with graphic photos of STDs, and haters say that is tantamount to showing porn): http://abcnews.go.com/2020/LegalCenter/story?id=481709&page=1\nHere are some tweets from Sept. 2012 where Feldman defended himself and said the media (i.e. Bashir) twisted his words:\nhttps://twitter.com/Corey_Feldman/status/248967252467126272\nPingback: JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT BETRAYAL COULDN\u2019T SINK EVEN LOWER\u2026IT DOES!!! | Allforloveblog\nArnela Wirth de Noir says:\nI will just say that am upset! That this kind of privacy is out for everyone to see. If they took notes what he had and where, it should stay behind walls of court. It\u2019s his privacy. I can\u2019t stand how world robe him of his \u201chumanity\u201d. I don\u2019t wonder he had much will to work or live after. All this shit around him just killed his soul. I can\u2019t imagine how it\u2019s to walk red carpet to court where they say you are pedophile, that\u2019s worse then serial killer, and expose all your privacy to world. Even after his death his privacy is coming out for everyone to judge. It\u2019s totally disgusting. I mean pictures of his scalp surgery? Why? That was his cross, it ruined him. He didn\u2019t want public to know his privacy\u2026 Am upset, and I agree with Mike saying \u201cI wear sunglasses because that\u2019s all privacy am left with\u201d (something in that sense).\nPingback: The Truth About What Michael Jackson Had (And Didn\u2019t Have) In His Bedroom \u2013 The Michael Jackson Innocent Project", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 48003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allminsk.biz/56-English/News-56/1105-Great-presentation-of-the-UN-initiative-the-Global-Compact-in-Belarus", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:T2I2T7RF4HWZARJ666EGZ354CKIUH7BD", "length": 3606, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "allminsk.biz", "title": "Great presentation of the UN initiative \u2013 the Global Compact in Belarus", "raw_content": "Great presentation of the UN initiative \u2013 the Global Compact in Belarus\nOn December, 20 during a great presentation representatives of the organizations which joined the UN initiative \u2013 the Global Compact in 2006 in Belarus were awarded with the certificates. MCAEE and a range of partnership enterprises of the Association are in the list.\nThe speech of Ms. Gihan Sultanoglu, UN/UNDP Representative in Belarus regarding the great presentation of the UN Initiative \u2013 the Global Compact in the Republic of Belarus.\n\u201cI congratulate the first group of Belarusian companies which joined the Global Compact \u2013 the most numerous and commonly accepted initiative within corporate social responsibility. The idea of the Global Compact initiated by the UN Secretary General in 1999 is aimed at creation of conditions for business to cooperate with different UN agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations for realizing the mainframe principles of ethical doing business regarding maintenance of human rights, labour relations, environment protection and fight corruption. The UN Representative Office in Belarus cordially welcomes your decision to apply these principles in the business strategy of your company, in relations with business partners and clients and also implication of your personnel in the process of implementation of principles of corporate social responsibility.\nUNDP within which the Global Compact is being developed, is assisting by all means the development of this movement in Belarus and will support in future the voluntary initiative of business circles to recognize the importance of corporate social responsibility in this regards. Joining the Global Compact principles is an important event in the life of every company. Participation in the Global Compact opens new possibility for effective activity such as the dialogue on the issues of social equality and social responsibility of business, participation in a wide range of UN programs and events, creation of new partner projects, exchange of experience and information aimed at ensuring sustainable development within multi-party cooperation. On the next stage it is planned to create the National Network in Belarus that will consist of socially responsible businesses \u2013 the Global Compact participants. Its activity will be aimed at organization of regular meetings and discussion of different issues to perfect business strategies and implementation of the Global Compact principles, personnel training, creation of partnership projects.\nAt the same time I would like to call the Global Compact participants to cooperate with UNDP in Belarus more intensively on the issues that are mutually beneficial and thus to bring their impact to the further development of the private sector and economy of Belarus.\nI sincerely hope that the private sector in Belarus will become an active participant of the social and economic development of the country, and your personal participation and and specific actions as the Global Compact members will bring results for your business, strengthen its competitiveness, rase the risk management level, increase relations with the partners and open new possibilities for development of entrepreneurial initiative. Our mutual efforts will assist in rise of prosperity of the population and the country.\nI hope for effective cooperation and mutual work\".\nFor the detailed information please apply to Ms. Ludmila Istomina, UNDP projects coordinator, ph. +375 17 2274527, e-mail: \u042d\u0442\u043e\u0442 \u0430\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u0447\u0442\u044b \u0437\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0449\u0451\u043d \u043e\u0442 \u0441\u043f\u0430\u043c-\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432. \u0423 \u0432\u0430\u0441 \u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0435\u043d \u0431\u044b\u0442\u044c \u0432\u043a\u043b\u044e\u0447\u0435\u043d JavaScript \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0430.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 11398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allpowertothelamb.com/2009/09/the-three-dispensations/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DSIKNFZLMDUMTSP6GYTS5BCGFWU5BAD3", "length": 2350, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "allpowertothelamb.com", "title": "The Three Dispensations | All Power to the Lamb", "raw_content": "\u2190 Types of the Exodus\nIs the Account of the Rich Man and Lazarus a Parable? \u2192\nThe Three Dispensations\nPosted on 7 Sep 2009 by James Johnson\nWhile there has always only been one hope (Eph 4:4) in God\u2019s eternal plan (Eph 3:11), namely, everlasting life with God, God has nonetheless dealt with man in various ways through the ages (Heb 1:1, Dt 5:3). In the earliest ages from Adam through 12 generations of the patriarchs to Arphaxed, God had a law that applied to all the descendants of Adam. This time of God\u2019s dealing with men through this series of 12 patriarchs is sometimes called the Patriarchical dispensation.\nThat law of God to the nations was never repealed, but it was replaced among the descendants of Jacob by the Mosaic law, a preview of which God gave to Abraham in the days of Arphaxed. The Mosaical dispensation was characterized by the Law of Moses as administered by and fulfilled in the Son. During the Mosaical dispensation from Abraham to the Pentecost, Israel and the Law were God\u2019s primary way of dealing with men (Ro 1:24), even though the Law applied only to the Jews (Dt 5:3). The Law has never been repealed (Mt 5:18) and continues to apply to Israel. However, the Law was replaced on Pentecost by King Jesus as God\u2019s primary way of dealing with men. The law of Christ applies only to Christians and will continue in force until the end of the world. Pentecost was the beginning of the Christian dispensation\nIn the three dispensations, each of the three Persons in the Godhead was successively predominant. In the Patriarchical, it was the Father. In the Mosaical, it was the Son. In the Christian, it is the Holy Spirit. These three dispensations were typified by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Patriarchical dispensation emphasized the beginnings that were in the past. The Mosaical dispensation emphasized the Lord working with Israel in their present day. The Christian dispensation emphasizes the Christians future hope of everlasting life that will be inaugurated by the Second Coming of Christ.\nName: Patriarchical Mosaical Christian\nDominant Person: Father Son Holy Spirit\nDuration: Adam-Abraham Abraham-Pentecost Pentecost-2nd Coming\nTemporal Emphasis: Past Present Future\nTheme: The beginnings The Messiah The Second Coming\nThis entry was posted in Biblical Studies, God's Eternal Purpose. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://altnewscoin.com/ethereum/ethereum-eth-technical-analysis-short-term-relief-imminent-as-long-haul-still-in-limbo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:50Z", "digest": "sha1:O4RDCMHPR7APMAZ365ZB3JE7M7S5L2WA", "length": 2181, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "altnewscoin.com", "title": "Ethereum [ETH] Technical Analysis: Short-term relief imminent as long-haul still in limbo - altNewsCoin", "raw_content": "Ethereum [ETH] Technical Analysis: Short-term relief imminent as long-haul still in limbo\nEthereum [ETH], the third largest cryptocurrency, has been trying hard to fight the bear in the past few weeks, and it seems to have a little control over it. The cryptocurrency has seen a minimal growth of 0.81% in the past seven days.\nAccording to CoinMarketCap, the coin was valued at $86.56 with a market cap of $8 billion. The coin reported a 24-hour trade volume of $1 billion and had plunged by 3.92% within 24 hours, at the time of press. The coin noted a growth of 0.54% over the past one hour.\nAccording to the 1-hour chart, the coin reported two visible downtrends; one from $96.89 to $89.94 and second, from $89.20 to $85.40. An uptrend was observed from $85.99 to $87.76. The coin faced an immediate resistance at $86.09, while a strong support was provided at $84.22.\nAwesome Oscillator indicates a bullish trend gaining momentum.\nChaikin Money Flow, on the other hand, showcases a bearish trend but might take a turn towards a bullish one, as the line seems to travel upwards and cross zero.\nRelative Strength Index highlights that the buying and selling pressure are evening each other out.\nThe one-day chart shows a downtrend from $457.30 to $211.22, which continued further to $89.02. The coin did not show a significant uptrend. The coin registered an immediate resistance at $121.95 and a strong support at $85.16.\nBollinger Bands indicates a bearish market as the moving average line appears to be above the candle. The bands appear to be at a converging point but may diverge as per the previous trends.\nParabolic SAR notes a bearish market, as the markers are above the candles.\nMACD line is under the signal line right after a crossover, indicating a bearish market.\nAs per the CMF and Awesome Oscillator, the market appears to be bullish but other indicators like Bollinger Bands and MACD, point towards a bearish trend.\nanalysis, as, ETH, ethereum, imminent, In, limbo, long-haul, Relief?, short-term, Still, Technical\nUkraine Considers Blockchain as an Effective Means of Fighting Corruption\nLitecoin [LTC] Technical Analysis: Cryptocurrency to stay with the bears", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/renewed-deficit-hysteria-based-on-flimsy-cbo-projection.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:DL2FV66WSDQV62Y2XMEUNBAQKTNUX2HF", "length": 5826, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "america.aljazeera.com", "title": "Deficit Hysteria Based on Flimsy CBO Projection | Al Jazeera America", "raw_content": "U.S. President Barack Obama signs the bipartisan budget bill 2015 into law in the Oval Office of the White House Nov. 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. Dennis Brack / Getty Images\nDennis Brack / Getty Images\nWe should not cut Social Security and Medicare based on something the CBO has gotten wrong for the past six years\nIt is often said that in Washington, no bad idea stays dead for long. This is certainly true for the crazy paranoia we see around the budget deficit and idea that it is going to bankrupt the country and leave our children impoverished. The moral of this story is usually that we need to cut and/or privatize Social Security and Medicare.\nThe deficit hawks had been relatively quiet the last few years. They had a big victory with the 2011 budget deal between President Barack Obama and House Republicans. This led to substantial reductions in spending for 2012 and subsequent years. These cuts slowed the economy and kept millions of people from getting jobs, but the small positive from the deal was that it temporarily silenced the deficit hawks. After all, with the deficit falling rapidly and the debt-to-GDP ratio going down, what did they have to complain about?\nBut the new budget projections released last month by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) resurrected their complaints from the dead. The projections show deficits rising as a share of GDP with the debt-to-GDP also rising.\nThese projections were covered widely when they came out, but perhaps more importantly they became prime talking points for the deficit hawks. The clique of groups funded by hedge fund billionaire Peter Peterson responded to the new projections like a shot of adrenaline to the heart. They are now flooding newspapers with ads warning of the evils of runaway budget deficits. The Washington Post gave another round of stern warnings about irresponsible politicians. Needless to say, there will be much more in this vein. For this reason, it is worth taking a closer look at the CBO numbers.\nThe numbers show the deficit rising from 2.9 percent of GDP this year to 4.9 percent by 2026, the last year in the projection period. While a deficit of 2.9 percent of GDP is small enough to leave the debt-to-GDP ratio pretty much constant (the economy would be growing at roughly the same pace as the debt), a deficit of 4.9 percent of GDP would mean the debt is growing more rapidly than the economy. If the CBO projections prove correct, we would be on path of rising debt and interest payments. That\u2019s not by itself terrible, but it does imply that interest payments on the debt will be a growing burden on the economy over time.\nHowever the CBO\u2019s projection of a rising deficit is not based on a projection of either increased spending or lower taxes. Its sole basis, rather, is the CBO\u2019s assumption that interest rates will rise sharply over the next few years. While the interest rate on 3-month Treasury bills is currently around 0.25 percent, CBO projects it will rise to 3.25 percent by 2019. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury notes is currently 1.8 percent; CBO projects it will be more than 4.0 percent by 2019. Based on these sharp increases in interest rates, CBO projects that net interest will increase by 2.0 percentage points of GDP over the next decade, fully accounting for the projected increase in the deficit.\nJust think, we kept people out of work in order to avoid giving the children in Flint safe drinking water. Not only is this absolutely awful social policy, but it is also bad economics.\nWhile CBO may be right in its interest rate projections, it is important to realize that they have been projecting that interest rates will rise sharply for some time. In fact, their projections in each of the prior six years, from 2010 to 2015, showed that interest rates would rise sharply over the next 2-3 years. In each case, CBO\u2019s projections proved wrong. Interest rates remained pretty much constant or actually fell, and are little different at the beginning of 2016 from what they were at the start of 2010.\nIt\u2019s possible that 2016 will be the year that CBO finally gets it right, but it is also possible that it is again making dire deficit projections based on illusions about the way the economy works. If interest rates follow the same pattern they have over the last six years, rather than the path projected by CBO, there is nothing to worry about as far as exploding debts and deficits.\nThis episode offers important background for budget debates. When the deficit hawks start yelling about projections of out-of-control deficits, they are relying on projections that have repeatedly shown to be wrong in the past. That is a flimsy basis for their preferred path for deficit reduction: cuts to Social Security and Medicare.\nIn fact, rather than suffering from deficits that are too large, the economy\u2019s major economic problem is deficits that are too small. As has been the case ever since the collapse of the housing bubble, we don\u2019t have enough demand in the economy. The Fed has tried to boost private sector demand by lowering interest rates, but this has clearly proven insufficient.\nThere is no shortage of areas where additional public spending could both boost the economy in the short-term and meet important needs for the longer term. Infrastructure spending is the top of most people\u2019s lists. Just think, we kept people out of work in order to avoid giving the children in Flint safe drinking water. Not only is this absolutely awful social policy, but it is also bad economics.\nSo don\u2019t let the deficit hawks fool you. We need more spending and more demand in the economy today, and it is quite likely this will continue to be the case for some time into the future.\nCongress, Debt, Deficit, Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security\nMaking America safer for predatory capitalism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amkcs.ch.bme.hu/Research/Pirazol.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:F5BUGMWN3CUAAPN2XY7YIUMRHX7SRSNU", "length": 1247, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "amkcs.ch.bme.hu", "title": "4-acetyl-3(5)-amino-5(3)-methylpyrazole", "raw_content": "Andrea Szab\u00f3, V. I. \u010ce\u0161ljevi\u0107, and Attila Kov\u00e1cs\nTautomerism, hydrogen bonding and vibrational properties of 4-acetyl-3(5)-amino-5(3)-methylpyrazole.\nChemical Physics, 270 (2001) 67-78.\nThe structure and molecular vibrations of 4-acetyl-3(5)-amino-5(3)-methylpyrazole have been investigated by quantum chemical calculations and vibrational spectroscopy. The calculations predicted a predominance of the 5-amino-3-methyl form in the tautomeric equilibrium, however, the energy difference between the two tautomers is rather small, 2 kJ/mol at the B3-LYP/6-311++G** level of the theory. The most stable conformers of each tautomer are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding. This interaction plays an important role also in the tautomeric equilibrium contributing significantly to the stability of the 5-amino-3-methyl tautomer. Another characteristics of the hydrogen bonding is its strengthening effect on the conjugation of the NH2 and C=O groups with the pyrazole ring.\nThe molecular vibrations of the title compound have been analysed by means of the scaled quantum mechanical (SQM) method. Using joint theoretical and experimental information the FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of solid 4-acetyl-3-amino-5-methylpyrazole have been assigned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 1293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amysmarathonofbooks.ca/swimming-in-the-monsoon-sea/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3BQODGJXKR3AZASGX7WA6CUQVFLI6OTY", "length": 3093, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "amysmarathonofbooks.ca", "title": "Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai | Amy's Marathon of Books", "raw_content": "Summary: Living with his mother\u2019s best friend Bundle and her family since his parents died when he was six, fourteen year-old Amrith is left to piece together the mysteries of his past. Although his new family is very supportive, Amrith is still drawn to connect with his blood relatives when the uncle and cousin he never knew he had come visit Sri Lanka from Canada. Being around his older cousin Niresh opens up the past for Amrith, and also ends up revealing surprising truths about himself. Amrith\u2019s anger over his sisters taking up Niresh\u2019s precious time grows, but figuring out the reason for his jealousy leads to complicated and troubling actions on Amrith\u2019s part. Somehow he must come to terms with himself, and find a way accept who he is.\nReview: Is this truly a teen book? I have my reservations. Although it\u2019s about a fourteen year-old named Amrith dealing with family secrets, identity issues, and fitting in, Shyam Selvadurai\u2019s style of writing is adult. The story itself took a long time to develop, and while it moved pretty quickly for me after I reached the halfway point, it was still a long read. I was frustrated by unanswered questions about Amrith\u2019s father and family, and I didn\u2019t truly understand why Amrith\u2019s uncle hated Amrith\u2019s mother so much.\nIn the most stunning scene of the book, Amrith nearly drowns his adopted sister on purpose. He thinks it\u2019s because he\u2019s simply jealous of her taking his cousin Niresh\u2019s time and attention, and it took me a while to realise that Amrith doesn\u2019t understand what I did as a reader, that he was really jealous because he wanted Niresh to be attracted to him and not his sister. Niresh\u2019s visit reveals to Amrith that he is attracted to other men. Living in Sri Lanka, Amrith doesn\u2019t even know there\u2019s a proper name for his attraction, but he does know that he needs to keep it a secret. Reading his story provided me with a different perspective, and I wanted to know more about what his life would be like after Amrith realised he was gay.\nI appreciated the fact that Amrith had a family that loves him, even though he believes their love will only go so far. I sincerely hope he is wrong about that.\n\u201cNiresh leaned back in his seat and looked out of the window. \u2018It\u2019s just that when people comment on my accent, it makes me aware that I\u2019m not Sri Lankan. I mean, I\u2019m not Canadian and then, over here, I\u2019m not Sri Lankan. I don\u2019t belong anywhere.'\u201d \u2013 Niresh from Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai, page 172\n\u201cJust by saying it out loud, just by admitting that it was so, Amrith felt the burden of his secret ease a little. It was all he could do for now. He would have to learn to live with this knowledge of himself. He would have to teach himself to be his own best friend, his own confidant and guide. The hope he held out to himself was that, one day, there would be somebody else he could share this secret with. But for now he must remain silent.\u201d \u2013 Amrith from Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai, page 267\nSwimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai is published by Tundra Books, (2005).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amysmarathonofbooks.ca/when-the-war-is-over/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BWRN5XFM2D5UJM7A5XVJV5GTXNWV5QGY", "length": 4510, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "amysmarathonofbooks.ca", "title": "When the War is Over by martha attema | Amy's Marathon of Books", "raw_content": "Summary: Living in the Netherlands during World War II, Janke and her community face a five year-long Nazi occupation. Working to protect the Jews divers being hidden by the Dutch, Janke is part of the resistance movement against the Nazis, trying her best to help her country survive until the Allies come and liberate them. She and her best friend Alie practice their dancing on a regular basis, preparing themselves for the day when the Nazis will be gone and the celebration that will follow. But after Janke meets Helmut, a reluctant Nazi soldier, previously clear lines become blurred, and their relationship changes Janke\u2019s perspective and life forever.\nReview: With Janke\u2019s experience of being shunned for loving Helmut, attema\u2019s title begs the question, \u201cWhen will the war really be over?\u201d The physical expulsion of the Nazis from the Netherlands is just physical as the after effects of war last a life time. attema stunningly develops the black and white attitudes of an occupied country, while telling the story of a sixteen year-old girl named Janke whose view turns from black and white to grey when she meets and falls in love with Helmut, a Nazi soldier.\nIt\u2019s not an easy choice. Janke knows what she has lived through, and all of the people that have been lost at the hands of the Nazis. As a resistance fighter herself, she is confident in her cause, going on missions to protect others from the Nazis whenever she can. All Nazis are evil until she meets Helmut, and an instant attraction forces her to reconsider. In the beginning, she fights being drawn to him, because even the attraction feels like a betrayal to her country.\nI loved it because though it strongly reminded me of The Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries (published after attema\u2019s book), I was left stunned. Yes, attema sets things up so it seems Janke and Helmut will have a happy life in Canada, but after such a strong reaction from her family, I\u2019m not sure their life together would end up being happier in Canada or not. Was the stigma toward Germans and former Nazi soldiers any less in Canada? Would Helmut have been prosecuted for his actions during the war?\nIt\u2019s a compelling story, and another book that challenges preconceived ideas about historical events with real characters. Recommended for mid to older teen readers.\n\u201cHer hands clasped together on the table. \u2018The woman who owns the store had heard what happened.\u2019 She stood up, her hands balled into fists. \u2018They have no hearts!\u2019 Her voice rose. \u2018They think they kill with God on their side!\u2019 Her fist hit the table as she collapsed back onto the chair. Dishes and teacups clattered, tea sloshed into the saucers.\u201d \u2013 Aunt Anna from When the War is Over by martha attema, page 13\n\u201c\u2018Why do you do it?\u2019 Janke couldn\u2019t resist the Question.\n\u2018It happened gradually. Somebody asked me to give someone a message and, before I knew it, I was deeply involved.\u2019 She shrugged her shoulders. \u2018At first it was like a game. I liked it when we outsmarted those stinking Nazis. Now it\u2019s much more dangerous. A few times I\u2019ve been lucky. But what else can I do? I\u2019m used to it now. I need to feel the danger. It\u2019s like a drug. When the adrenaline rushes through my weins, I feel high. I\u2019m addicted to danger.\u2019 Celia laughed, but it didn\u2019t sound like laughter.\u201d \u2013 Celia from When the War is Over by martha attema, page 160\n\u201cWhen Father and Jan left, Mother cried with long sobs. Janke felt helpless. She wanted to go to her mother, but something held her back. Instead of crying, her mother should\u2019ve been grateful for the fact that Father and Jan were both still alive. She should have been proud of them, proud that they were going to fight for the liberation of their country. She would never understand her mother\u2019s actions.\u201d \u2013 Janke from When the War is Over by martha attema, page 202\n\u201cJanke stood facing her friend. Should she be ashamed of being alive? Should she be ashamed of what she had shared that night with Helmut? A deep feeling settled in her heart. She would never be ashamed of their love. She was no whore. Janke realized she could never share her experience with Alie. She didn\u2019t want to. In those two nights, Janke and Helmut had soared beyond this world, beyond these people so full of hate, including her best friend. She turned away from Alie and started to run. She never looked back at Alie or the hotel.\u201d \u2013 Janke from When the War is Over by martha attema, page 232\nWhen the War is Over by martha attema is published by Orca Book Publishers, (2002).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aqdiagnostics.com/contract-manufacturing/manufacturing-standards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7H2ALPMAYDREOSG44KYHEWXAAM6SQWQP", "length": 871, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "aqdiagnostics.com", "title": "Our Manufacturing Standards | AsureQuality Diagnostics", "raw_content": "AsureQuality Diagnostics has many years of experience manufacturing products for the animal health sector and for the medical research community.\nWe comply with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) principles and hold a USDA licence (No 582A, for Mycobacterium Bovis Gamma Interferon test kits for cattle, for Mycobacterium Bovis Gamma Interferon test kits for non-human primates and Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis Antibody test kits) and a APVMA licence (No 1085, Category 1 (immunobiologicals and/or sterile veterinary preparations).\nWe are certified under ISO9001:2015 and are working towards the ISO13485:2016 certification to be obtained by early 2019 to enable us to contract manufacture IVDs.\nWe are fully engaged in continuous improvement to optimise systems and procedures to be able to address the ever-changing regulatory requirements and meet our customer needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.santegidio.org/pageID/3/langID/en/itemID/16796/Elard-Alumando-has-passed-away-on-10th-June-at-7pm-in-Johannesburg-It-is-a-great-sorrow-for-all-the-Communities-in-the-world.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NMRNALGDE6NPKFQ36ZS4QEDU5REYYJSO", "length": 3432, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "archive.santegidio.org", "title": "Elard Alumando has passed away on 10th June at 7pm in Johannesburg. It is a great sorrow for all the Communities in the world. | NEWS | Community of Sant'Egidio", "raw_content": "Elard Alumando has passed away on 10th June at 7pm in Johannesburg. It is a great sorrow for all the Communities in the world.\nElard Alumando has passed away on 10th June at 7pm. It is a great sorrow for all the Communities in the world. After a serious car accident, on 28th December 2015, Elard, with the caring help of many, fought to live and recover, despite of his critical health conditions. During the time of hospitalisation, he felt surrounded by the love of his brothers and sisters from Malawi, from Rome, and from all other parts of the world. He said this a few days ago on his birthday, even with a weak voice but with a firm gratitude.\nBorn in a Malawian village in 1980, he met the Community of Zomba in 1999, during the first Pan-African congress. Referent of the Community of Malawi, he gave a big drive to the communication of the Gospel, to the service to the poor and the healing and care to the sick. Point of reference for many and lately of the Youth for Peace movement, he always hoped in the redemption of his country, Malawi, beginning from the young generations. The School of Peace was for him a place of education to hope. It was also a place to empower the most disadvantaged children. He felt the sorrow of those children of Malawi that don't have the opportunity to have a future, because they did not have a chance to study. This was the beginning of the BRAVO programme in Malawi that consists of giving a name and a right of citizenship to the children, so they could stop being invisible.\nPromoter of hope in many fields of his country's life, he did not agree with resigning, even in the most difficult situations: with DREAM, the programme to cure AIDS, he longly fought to tear away from the death sentence many children and women who were sick. He had a high sense of service to the people of Malawi, for the country's health and advancement. He did so through developing fruitful relationships with the international institutions of the country. Witness of hope, he enlivened the I-DREAM commitment; he fought for the poor, the elderly and the prisoners. He represented the Community during the African Synod of the bishops in 2009. Convincing and amiable communicator of the Gospel, he strengthened many in hope and faith. He nurtured many friendships in the world of the Communities of St. Egidio, of which he has been member of the presidential council since 2009. He visited many Communities in Africa, Europe, in Rome and in the United States. He has been considered by many a friend and a witness of the Spirit of the Gospel.\nThe embrace of the whole Community of Sant'Egidio reaches his wife Dyna and his three children, his brother Lawrence, the Community of Sant'Egidio in Malawi and the many who have loved him and sustained him during these years. The Community of Sant'Egidio is in prayer, in the sadness of this parting, in the memory of a sincere Christian, of an African who believed in Africa's resurrection.\nFrom the abyss to the light after 10 years: the true story of an injustice redeemed through love in Malawi\nLet's fill the gap with the poor: Sant'Egidio in Lilongwe renewes the commitment of the poorest in Malawi\nThirst for Peace: the public role of young people for peace, dialogue and development\nThe lesson of Mozambican refugees in Luwani to the Youth for Peace: Hope is stronger than evil\nThe DREAM Center in Blantyre dedicated to the memory of Elard Alumando", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/27th-june-1896/6/a-new-african-province", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VXOGKP6DT7JFVHESENHOZN7Z223JBBXP", "length": 11193, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "archive.spectator.co.uk", "title": "A NEW AFRICAN PROVINCE.* \u00bb 27 Jun 1896 \u00bb The Spectator Archive", "raw_content": "Page 6, 27 June 1896 \u2014 A NEW AFRICAN PROVINCE.*\nIMPEltIkl, Britain, like Imperial Rome, has good reason to reflect on the truth of the words\u2014Ab Africa semper novi aliquid, for her attention is perpetually engaged upon one province or another of that continent ; still, it is to be hoped that this attempt to enlist her interest in a province which has hitherto been somewhat neglected will not prove un- successful. Mr. Robinson states the case of Hansaland, the country lying behind the River Niger, and more or less under the control of the Royal Niger Company, very modestly, and is yet more modest in the recital of his own connection with it; but it is impossible not to recognise the importance of our interests there or to deny a tribute of admiration to the traveller who has tried to bring them home to us. It is to be feared that he is quite right in his surmise that the general public is profoundly ignorant of the Hausa States, and of the immense region, reaching from the mouths of the Niger to Lake Chad and comprising something like half-a-million square miles, which is practically under the jurisdiction of the Royal Niger Company, but his book and the work of the Hansa Association should do much to dispel that ignorance and quicken our interest in a country and people which may some day play a prominent part in British African history. To say that Hansaland is a British province is, perhaps, somewhat incorrect. It is a congeries of little native States, including the Sultanates of Sokoto and Bornu, with whom treaties have been made. Nor, owing to the climate, is it in the least probable that the district could ever be settled by Englishmen or become an English colony; but it is one that deserves our earnest attention not only as a field for our commerce, but also as being the centre of one of the worst forms of the slave-trade which we are pledged to suppress.\nIt would be well to say a word here as to the meaning of the Hausa Association. The association was formed three or four years ago to carry on the work of Mr. J. A. Robinson, a brother of our author's, who in 1891 died, while in the employment of the Church Missionary Society, at Lokaja, on the River Niger. Mr. J. A. Robinson was one of the first Englishmen to realise the importance of studying the Hausa language\u2014a language which may be described as the lingua franca of the Soudan, and is spoken by some fifteen millions of people\u2014and it was with the idea of promoting this\n\u2022 Hausaland. By the Rev. Charles H, Robinson, M.A. London: Sampson 1.ow, Marston. and Co.\nstudy and the interests of the Hansa natives that an asso- ciation was set on foot by English people who had various interests in African exploration. It was under their auspices that Mr. Robinson's brother, the author of this book, was sent to study the Hausa language, first at Tripoli, where exten- sive Hansa colonies exist, and then at Kano, the centre and capital, so to speak, of the Hansa States ; and the present volume combines the record of his journey to and from Kano and an account of his experiences of Hausa life. The author seems to have been most fortunate in the companionship of the two Englishmen who shared in his enterprise, and, like all other African explorers, most unfortunate with his native ser- vants. That, however, is no new feature of African travel, and it is without surprise that we find that \"Troubles with Car- riers\" enjoys far more references than any other single item in the index. As matters now stand, the only way of travelling with any degree of comfort in the Soudan would be the employment of one's own slaves ; a method, it need hardly be said, altogether impossible for Englishmen. Failing that, however, and the construction of the railway which the author earnestly advocates, there is no other resource than to exercise an infinite patience and to be content with a very slow progress. Of patience and forbearance the author seems to have had a plentiful store, though both were often sorely tried. He was evidently helped a good deal by a saving sense of humour, which enabled him to see the comic as well as the grim side of his discomforts and delays. Some of the tales which he relates of the African potentates who pillaged his goods, and the carriers who deserted on every possible occasion, are extremely amusing in print, though it is probable that amusement was by no means the uppermost sentiment at the time of experience. It is pleasant to learn that he sometimes succeeded in outwitting the wily native and beating him with his own weapons. One story to this effect is too good to be lost. On the arrival of the party at Kano a present was sent them from the King, comprising, amongst other things, a hundred thousand cowries, the currency of the country, in five bags of twenty thousand each. It was the custom to present the bearer of them with ten thousand cowries for himself ; but the author, noticing that one bag was under weight, suspected that the bearer had already helped himself, probably to the amount of some two thousand :-\n\" I asked him if he was certain that this particular bag con- tained its proper amount. On receiving his assurance to this effect, I told him to sit down and count from this bag the ten thou- sand cowries, which, according to native custom, I owed him. He did so with great alacrity, thinking, no doubt, that the white man was sadly lacking in sagacity to allow a creditor to count his own money unchecked. I noticed that he took full advantage of his privilege, and, so far as I could judge, the sum which he counted exceeded by at least two thousand cowries that to which he was entitled. His task completed, I asked him again if he was sure that the bag as delivered by him had originally contained twenty thousand cowries. On his replying in the affirmative, I suggested to him that, this being so, the amount which remained over must also be ten thousand. On his assuring me that my calculation was correct, I told him to leave with me the ten thousand which he had just counted and take the rest as his due. He departed with a look of chagrin on his face which it was piteous to see, but doubt- less with his opinicn as to the intelligence of the white man very considerably improved.\"\nOn another occasion the same ready wit saved the author's dinner ; though, in this case, the honest credulity was rather on the side of the native. The latter had asked for medicine, sending a fee in the shape of a fat fowl in advance. The party were very hungry, and the fee was already in the pot, when they sent to learn the nature of the disease to which they were required to minister :\u2014\n\" Dr. Tonkin returned to inform me that the man's favourite wife had recently run away, and he wanted me to give him some medicine, which, if drank by himself, would cause her to run back to him. As we were extremely desirous of retaining the dinner that had so opportunely arrived, Dr. Tonkin, on my suggestion, informed the man that, though we were sorry to be unable to provide the precise medicine he had asked for, we would, if he wished, give him some medicine that would make him stronger to run after his wife, which would in the end come to the same thing. Fortunately for us, or rather for the prospects of our dinner, the man agreed to accept this proposal, and we gave him the medicine which we thought most suitable for such a purpose.\"\nIn spite, however, of much superstition on the subject, the author discovered that the Hausas themselves possessed a knowledge of medicines which was not altogether to be despised. Indeed, his account of their commercial and other selatiQua fairly bears exit hie cohtehtiou that the Rums are superior, intellectually as well as physically, to all other races of Equatorial Africa. Kano itself is a city of no little importance, not only on account of its size\u2014the author roughly estimates the population at one hundred thousand\u2014but also on account of its native industries and the production of wares which find their way into almost every market in Africa. Notable amongst these are the cloths, woven from native cotton and dyed in Kano, which clothe more than half the population of the Central Soudan, and the Kano shoes and sandals, which can be bought even upon the north coast of Africa. Another well-known article of export is the kola-nut, a drug of universal use throughout Central Africa, though it is only lately that a recognition of its properties has introduced it into Europe. Two great difficulties, how- ever, stand in the way of trade\u2014want of means of trans- port and want of a currency\u2014and this brings us to a point upon which the author lays special stress,\u2014the disastrous and suicidal character of the slave-trade through- out the Hausa States. Not only are the slaves almost the sole means of transport, but they are also, after a fashion, the chief currency of the country, bearing, one might say, the same relation to cowries as gold to an infinitesimal copper coinage. Nearly all the tribute payable to the Sultan of Sokoto, for example, is paid in slaves. Now, a small chief, who is responsible for a certain amount of tribute, not un- naturally takes the easiest method of providing it; he simply raids his own villages, and by burning and pillaging in addi- tion leaves hundreds of miles of his own territory a desolate waste. It seems to have been the author's misfortune on more than one occasion to follow in the track of a native King who, to use the native expression, was \" waging war \" through his own dominions, and to note the appalling devasta- tion of life and property which this process involved. As the author says, we have assumed the moral responsibility of the well-being of this country, and we cannot afford to shut our eyes to the terrible state of things which at present exists in the interior. The remedies which he suggests are not impracticable, we think, and are such, moreover, as would some day amply repay us for our interference.\nThe immediate object of Mr. Robinson's mission seems to have been successfully fulfilled. The only existing dictionary of Hansa words, that of Dr. Schon, was carefully revised by him during his stay at Kano, and augmented by at least three thousand more words ; he also collected materials for the formation of a Hausa. grammar, a certain number of Hausa manuscripts, written in Arabic characters, and a translation into Hansa of two of the Gospels. From a strictly scientific point of view, his journey does not yield very much information ; nor is a naturalist likely to derive much knowledge from the chapter devoted to the fauna and flora of the regions through which he passed. Nor, one must con- fess, is the author very skilful in the matter of description ; for the reader is left with a very scanty idea of the outward appearance of the Hausas and their surroundings. Neverthe- less, his book is one to be warmly commended, not only on account of the interest and value of the ethnical study it con- tains, but also for the pleasant and entertaining style in which it is written. It is provided with numerous illustrations, both photographs and original sketches, and with a very complete map.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 12348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.spectator.co.uk/page/16th-march-1878/9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:TF4YS6K3FA4BCOT74L3STVU4AW2BQVJH", "length": 477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "archive.spectator.co.uk", "title": "Page 9 \u00bb 16 Mar 1878 \u00bb The Spectator Archive", "raw_content": "The Policy Of Austria. T Here Are Two Beliefs Current Among\nthe War party in this country which are, if not mutually self-destructive, at least contradictory, but which seem to be immovable. One is, that there exists a secret league of......\nWrongs By Married Women. Av Hen Messrs. Hancock Sued...\nfor \u00a314 remainin g due on a locket which she had undertaken to pay for by instalments out of her separate estate, they reckoned without her husband. They had supposed or had......", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.conlang.info/khu/vhodhun/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:CYINTLWHWJ6K3NL7NEL764ZS5L2PQUZW", "length": 227, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "archives.conlang.info", "title": "Conlang: YAPT: Dutch ij and ui", "raw_content": "YAPT: Dutch ij and ui\nSaturday, July 24, 2004, 0:10 Tim May\nFriday, July 23, 2004, 19:19 Philippe Caquant\nFriday, July 23, 2004, 17:01 Paul Bennett\nFriday, July 23, 2004, 16:07 Tristan Mc Leay\nFriday, July 23, 2004, 13:55 vehke", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.wineskins.org/article/afterglow-the-difference-between-recovery-and-salvation-sept-oct-1993/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ERXGXZ2XCDRJ3CRC4XLFZWCJ35U4FNMP", "length": 2852, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "archives.wineskins.org", "title": "AfterGlow: The Difference Between Recovery and Salvation (Sept-Oct 1993) \u00ab Wineskins Archive", "raw_content": "AfterGlow: The Difference Between Recovery and Salvation (Sept-Oct 1993)\nThe phone call came at a most inconvenient time, but I paused long enough to talk with the recovering alcoholic. It didn\u2019t take long; he just wanted me to know he\u2019d been sober for 10 days. As I shared the excitement of his victory, I remembered another alcoholic I had met a few days before. \u201cMy name is Bill, and I\u2019m an alcoholic,\u201d he began. \u201cI haven\u2019t had a drink since July 5, 1978.\u201d One had been sober just 10 days, the other more than 15 years, but both were still alcoholics, still in recovery.\nThat\u2019s the big difference between recovery and salvation: recovery programs treat, but salvation heals. Yet, although the blood of Jesus takes away sin in a definable salvation experience, it is no one-shot miracle potion which never needs renewing. We have been saved by the blood of Jesus, and it continues to cleanse us, continuously washing our sins away (I John 1:5-7).\nPeople in recovery need to stay in close touch with their fellow-victims, leaning on one another, remembering the goals they have set, drawing strength from a power higher than themselves. Likewise, people who are saved need to stay in close touch with their fellow sinners, sharing Christian fellowship, looking forward to their heavenly destiny, trusting their Lord and Savior for constant cleansing (1 John 1:9-11).\nIt would be great if we could say that we have been sinless for 15 years\u2026or even for 10 days. If we could make such a claim we would likely be praised as super-righteous. Even such saintly behavior, however, would not exempt us from the need of Jesus\u2019 cleansing.\nBy God\u2019s grace I may have been spared addiction to alcohol or drugs. But I have not been spared addiction to sin. Like every person who has ever lived, I have forsaken my Creator and I must, for the sake of my soul, turn back to him and accept his gift of grace (1 John 1:8-10). I may not need recovery (though that\u2019s debatable), but I do need salvation (and that\u2019s not debatable).\nRecovery and salvation are sometimes seen as separate and unrelated, but the truth is that they are inseparably linked. Salvation is the logical end result of biblical recovery. And continuing recovery is the daily commitment of one who has come to know God\u2019s salvation.\nThe recognition that salvation and recovery are linked has led to the publication of The Life Recovery Bible (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992). The biblical text is supplemented with a variety of helpful notes, devotionals, and other recovery-based materials. As the Preface correctly notes, \u201cWithout God, there is no recovery, only disappointing substitutions and repeated failure.\u201d We must better understand \u201cwho God is and how he wants to heal our brokenness and set us on the path toward wholeness.\u201d That\u2019s the recovery that results in salvation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artmaprome.com/en/space/basement-roma-outdoor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JMAC4HHVHUJZGVUOSHMKXHZJOQXVFVT4", "length": 256, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "artmaprome.com", "title": "Basement Roma Outdoor @ Settembrini Bar and Restaurant - Artmap Rome", "raw_content": "Settembrini is a well-known bar and restaurant and also the off-site location of Basement Roma Outdoor, a cycle of seven interventions by Rome-based Italian and international artists curated by Basement Roma.\nMonday to Saturday 7am\u20131:30pm\nSunday 8am\u20131:30pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asiamarineoffshore.com/exhibiton/808-myanmar-ratifies-bunker-convention.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXCV6RNHVXVX3QAWCUHKYMHI2UKF3NKB", "length": 1372, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "asiamarineoffshore.com", "title": "Myanmar Ratifies Bunker Convention", "raw_content": "Myanmar Ratifies Bunker Convention\nMyanmar has acceded to International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (BUNKER).\nKyaw Zwar Minn, Ambassador of Myanmar to the United Kingdom, met International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London to deposit the instrument of accession on January 19, 2018.\nAs informed, Myanmar\u2019s ratification brings the number of states to accede to the treaty to 87, representing 92.5% of the world\u2019s merchant fleet tonnage.\nThe IMO treaty ensures that adequate compensation is available to persons that suffer damage caused by oil spills when carried as fuel in ships\u2019 bunkers. The convention applies to damage caused on the territory, including the territorial sea, and in exclusive economic zones of states under the convention.\nUnder the convention, a registered owner of a vessel is required to maintain compulsory insurance cover, and there is also the requirement for \u2018direct action\u2019 \u2013 which allows a claim for compensation for pollution damage to be brought directly against an insurer.\nAlso on January 19, the Republic of Armenia joined the Convention on the International Maritime Organization, becoming the latest member of IMO.\nWith the acceptance of the convention by Armenia, the number of IMO member states stands at 173, with a further three associate members.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 2327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://athletics.northallegheny.org/news/tigers-earn-top-seed-in-class-6a-wpial-playoff-bracket/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:L2ABX4KRRSTSOJBEMDCIDBA34LMNAQ3V", "length": 762, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "athletics.northallegheny.org", "title": "Tigers Earn Top-Seed In Class 6A WPIAL Playoff Bracket - North Allegheny Sports Network", "raw_content": "Tigers Earn Top-Seed In Class 6A WPIAL Playoff Bracket\nAfter finishing the regular season 22-0, there was no denying that the North Allegheny girls\u2019 basketball team deserved the No. 1 seed in the Class 6A WPIAL playoff bracket.\nThe Tigers received that seed on Tuesday night during the WPIAL Playoff Pairings Meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel in Green Tree.\nNA will face the winner of No. 8 Butler vs. No. 9 Upper St. Clair on Friday, Feb. 23 at a site and time to be determined. The Tigers have defeated the Golden Tornado twice this season, 60-24 at home on Jan. 11 and 56-23 at Butler on Feb. 1. North Allegheny last played Upper St. Clair in the regular season last season, defeating the Panthers 57-35.\nFor a complete look at the Class 6A bracket, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://athomeinalexandria.org/dr-atul-gawande-presentation-september-25/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DDVB65RNDPC7K7QW4VWMPJYWZUFYB54N", "length": 1015, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "athomeinalexandria.org", "title": "Dr. Atul Gawande Presentation September 25 | At Home in Alexandria", "raw_content": "Dr. Atul Gawande Presentation September 25\nThe Village to Village Network celebrates 15 years of the Village Movement with a live streamed webinar from Boston by the author of Being Mortal, Dr. Atul Gawande on Monday, September 25th. The talk is entitled \u201cBeing Mortal\u2019s Village: The Value of Community and Choice as We Grow Older.\u201d The live stream event will be held locally in conjunction with Mt. Vernon at Home at Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church, 1909 Windmill Lane, Alexandria. This program is open to the public with a paid reservation.\nOur AHA/MVAH event begins at 4:30pm with the live stream from 5-6pm. A reception will be held in conjunction with the presentation with food and beverage. The fee to attend is $10 payable in advance by check sent to AHA or paid securely online with a credit card here. Please be sure to make payment by September 24 as no day-of walk-ups can be accommodated.\nTo learn more about Dr. Gawande, click here for his website.\n\u00ab A Busy Summer!\t\u00bb Going Places: Safe Driving as You Age", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-17-16-wallethub-report-racial-integration-ranking-state-texas-martin-luther-king-jr-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UPSQQH4WALU74JKUL6RTU724MM5H3IRE", "length": 1449, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "austin.culturemap.com", "title": "Texas tops list of most racially integrated states in the U.S. - CultureMap Austin", "raw_content": "Could Austin-San Antonio land an NFL stadium? Speculation resurfaces\nNFL stadium speculation brews around Austin and more top stories\nTexas tops list of most racially integrated states in the U.S.\nWalletHub ranks Texas the third most racially integrated state. Photo courtesy of IAmericasFlags.com\nIn honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a new report sheds light on which states are the most racially integrated and which have achieved the most racial progress over time. In both scenarios, Texas comes out on top.\nFinancial website WalletHub used 10 metrics, ranging from median annual income to voter turnout, to assess the racial climate in each state. According to the report, Texas is the third most racially integrated state in the country.\nContributing factors include our low gap between whites and blacks in the following areas: voter turnout (No. 1), percentage of residents with a high school diploma (No. 1), poverty rate (No. 3), and labor force participation (No. 5). The Lone Star State, however, needs to work on closing the gap in median annual income (No. 11), unemployment rate (No. 12), and percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree.\nA separate list form WalletHub ranks Texas No. 4 for racial progress over time, noting that we have seen the highest change in the business ownership rate gap.\nHawaii (No. 1), New Mexico (No. 2), Maryland (No. 4), and California (No. 5) round out the five most racially integrated states.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://australiapostagestamps.com/2018/07/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IKSIL5CGQ4MFJQPQ2FMVDOACMST7EMQP", "length": 2531, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "australiapostagestamps.com", "title": "July 2018 \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Australia Postage Stamps", "raw_content": "by Richard Goldberg July 2, 2018 October 22, 2018 on\nThe interior architecture and designing isn\u2019t solely based on looks. There are many uses of using certain attractive interior or even exterior items. Blinds are one of those aspects that you need to give the attention that it deserves. There are many factors to consider when buying these sort of items and it is the best to do your research right. Have you ever asked yourself why you would be needing them?Here are 5 reasons to have new exterior blinds.\nBoost the value of your homeAddition of the necessary items to your house that are both visually aesthetic and useful is only going to improve the value of your house. It\u2019s just like landscaping, but cheaper and just as much as better. In a country like Australia where the summer burns your skins off, having things like these that are in good quality is always a valuable asset.\nIrritating privacy issuesHave you had enough of your neighbor\u2019s irritating peeking? Or is there a certain outdoor area of your house, in the garden or even upstairs, that you prefer if it was a little covered? This is where you should go for quality outside blinds Melbourne that will not only help you to maximize your privacy. On the other hand, if you\u2019ve felt like that you\u2019ve had too many awkward staring with your neighbor, it is high time that you try out for implementing solutions like these. But you need to ensure that the installation is done by professionals for the longest and most efficient use.\nIssues with orientation of the houseIf your house happened to face the sun in the most uncomfortable way, using typical window covering would make your house feel like an oven. During Australian summer, it\u2019s going to be a nightmare. The solution for this issue is installing some ziptrak outdoor blinds Melbourne so that it would obstruct the direct sunlight while securing your privacy. They typically come in white (which bounce off the sunlight) and black (which absorb sunlight). In the end of the day, both types are amazing.\nHigher energy billsThe lesser the temperature of your house, lesser energy would be needed to maintain a favorable indoor and even outdoor temperature. You shouldn\u2019t ever disregard the importance of this since eventually, it will add up to a huge expense.\nYour old ones are horrible in many waysHave you been having your old, discolored and smelly blinds for a long time? If so, it\u2019s about time you replace them with something that would last a longer time while being more useful than the previous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://auth.cengr.commonspotcloud.com/alumni/GivingOpportunities/deptpriorities/index.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HJWHCQHRZPTUB6JXF3V7BVEYV5UE6VWU", "length": 151, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "auth.cengr.commonspotcloud.com", "title": "Cornell Engineering: Department Fundraising Priorities", "raw_content": "Each department and school within the College of Engineering has a unique set of fundraising goals which address challenges or needs within their area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 157.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://avcollect.com/pw_mosquito_hawks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:I5ZMZVEACNNU3KY7IIBBXMGXGIUB5JGO", "length": 2518, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "avcollect.com", "title": "Night Hawks by Philip West Skyraider The BEST in AviationLimited Edition Art www.AvCollect.com", "raw_content": "Overall print size 28\u201d x 14\u201d\nThe ever-vigilant crew of this Mosquito night-fighter successfully intercept a Luftwaffe Bf110 as it heads towards a bomber stream over target in Germany.\nSigned by two Mosquito night-fighter pilots including\nthe RAF\u2019s top scoring night-fighter pilot.\nWing Commander Branse Burbridge DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar (85 Sqn. Pilot) gained his wings in 1941. Putting duty before personal feelings as a conscientious objector Branse, together with his navigator, Bill Skelton, became known as \u201cThe Night Hawk Partners\u201d.\nThe two of them went on to shoot down 21 enemy aircraft - 16 during a seven-month period. The total included a Bf110 and three Ju88Gs during the night of 4-5 November 1944. Their officially credited 21 enemy aircraft destroyed made the pair the top night fighting crew in the whole of the RAF. Branse recalls, \u201cI always tried to aim for the wings of enemy aircraft \u2013 and not the cockpit. I never wanted to kill anyone.\u201d\nThe citations for their awards paid tribute to both men setting \u201can unsurpassed example of outstanding keenness and devotion to duty\u201d.\nSquadron Leader John Hall, DFC and Bar (85 Sqn. Pilot) joined the RAF in 1940 and after gaining his wings, followed by operational training at Cranfield, near Bedford, he joined 85 Squadron, then stationed at Hunsdon, in the North Weald sector. At that time, 85 Squadron flew twin engine Havocs, a night fighter version of the American light bomber, the Boston, with the radar operator where the Boston\u2019s gun turret would have been and 12 machine guns in the nose, in place of the Boston\u2019s navigator. The radar then was the Mark 4, not very reliable, and with a very limited range. During 1942, the Squadron re-equipped with the much faster and more maneuverable Mosquito, with a scanner in the nose for the infinitely more effective Mark 8 radar and 4 cannon, [instead of the Havoc\u2019s 12 machine guns]\nAfter a rest from operations, during which he taught budding night fighter pilots air gunnery, John Hall teamed up with John Cairns as his navigator/ radar operator and they joined 488 New Zealand Night Fighter Squadron at Bradwell Bay on the Essex coast, destroying three German bombers during the \u201cmini-blitz\u201d of early 1944. The Squadron flew over the D-day beaches from Zeals, and Colerne in Wiltshire, before moving at the end of 1944 to Amiens Glisy in northern France and then to Gilze Rijen in Holland, where it celebrated VE Day. 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However, Save the Children that some parents encounter barriers to engaging their children in early education and development.\nWhilst some parents might simply be unaware of the educational opportunities that can take place at home; many face financial, geographical, or personal challenges that prevent them from being able to support the best early learning outcomes.\nAbecedarian Approach\nThe Abecedarian approach uses a range of teaching and learning strategies that all parents can perform with their young children throughout the day to create a home environment that meets their emotional and educational needs.\nLabelling objects and asking specific questions.\nUsing common daily events as learning opportunities.\nReading books in a\nconversational way.\nGames\u00ae\nA series of specific games that follow a formula.\nEvidence has shown that early education support using the Abecedarian Approach in the first 5 years of life results in a long-lasting impact for at-risk and vulnerable children.\nWorking with Save the Children, the Victorian Department of Education & Training and the Centre for Evidence & Implementation we developed Day by Day, an innovative mobile app that uses engaging activities to support parent-child connections, boost early education outcomes and drive behavioural change.\nExcellent resource for new parents\nGreat App for new parents looking for ways to help their child develop and grow\nCute graphics and easy to use\nSince launch, almost 40% of users have returned to the app for multiple sessions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://awesomecanada.com/how-much-is-a-mother-worth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KDQT2BNG43646NNYCGYFPNUF4QVU27QE", "length": 3806, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "awesomecanada.com", "title": "How Much is a Mother Worth? | Awesome Canada - Entertainment and Lifestyle for Canadians", "raw_content": "Battle Raps Next Generation\nOne of the most important jobs on the planet does not come with a paycheque, but Canadians have a salary in mind. According to a recent survey conducted by Leger Marketing on behalf of Walmart Canada, Canadians would pay their mom an average annual salary of $161,287 for all of her hard work.\nThe survey was commissioned in celebration of the second annual Walmart Mom of the Year Award, giving people across the country the opportunity to recognize the enormous contribution mothers make to their families and to their communities. On May 6, 2013, Canadians are encouraged to nominate the important moms in their lives by describing the qualities that make them special and by sharing why they deserve to be recognized.\n\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to bring the Mom of the Year Award back for a second year,\u201d said Emma Fox, chief marketing officer for Walmart Canada. \u201cThis award celebrates moms as both role models and integral members of the community, and gives Canadians an opportunity to say thank you for everything moms do every day.\u201d\nWalmart\u2019s survey also asked Canadians who they thought embodied the quintessential TV mom; The Cosby Show\u2019s Clair Huxtable led the poll being named by one in five respondents (21 per cent). Marge Simpson of The Simpsons came in second at 17 per cent. When asked who their mom would be if she was a superhero, 43 per cent said Wonder Woman, followed by The Bionic Woman at 23 per cent. The vast majority of Canadians, however, feel that they do not thank their mom enough for everything that she does and believe that she deserves to be named Mom of the Year (both 79 per cent).\n\u201cBeing a mom is really a labour of love and though music has always been a central part of my life, the day I became a mother was the day I became who I was meant to be,\u201d said Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer, songwriter and pianist. \u201cMy journey into motherhood nine years ago renewed my sense of creativity and strengthened my passion for giving back to the causes that are dear to my heart. These things combined along with my commitment to my family continue to help me in my effort to be the best version of me possible.\u201d\nA Selection Committee of Mom Ambassadors comprised of three admired Canadian mothers, one Walmart Canada mom and last year\u2019s Mom of the Year will determine the recipient of the 2013 Award. Professional singer, songwriter and Juno award winner, Chantal Kreviazuk, alongside notable comedian, actress and radio host, Sophie Pr\u00e9gent, and the 2012 Mom of the Year, Katie Schulz, will work together with editor-in-chief of Walmart Live Better magazine, Sandra Martin and Emma Fox to review the entries.\nNew this year is the My Finalist public voting, where Canadians will have the chance to review the top 20 candidates and vote for one mom they want to see become one of the eight finalists. Each finalist will receive $10,000 to spend on themselves and the remaining seven will receive $10,000 for the charity or cause of their choice. The Mom of the Year award recipient will receive $100,000 for the charity or cause of her choice. Last year, Schulz\u2019s donation benefitted Cystic Fibrosis Canada, an organization she volunteers for in support of her daughter who is living with the genetic disorder.\nThe Mom of the Year finalists will be flown to Toronto for a day of pampering and an awards gala on October 5, 2013. Nominations for the Mom of the Year Award close on June 16 and My Finalist public voting will begin on July 4 through August 1. The eight finalists will be notified around August 6. To participate in the program and support Canadian moms, visit www.momoftheyear.ca.\nSOURCE: Walmart Canada\ncanadian momsChantal KreviazukEmma FoxKatie SchulzLeger Marketingmom of the yearmothers day 2013Sandra MartinSophie Pr\u00e9gentwalmart canada", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 9224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://az-coconinocounty.civicplus.com/1188/Ann-Tatham", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:45Z", "digest": "sha1:TZ5DLQGXZODAMF6CLNIESYPPSZFATJ35", "length": 539, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "az-coconinocounty.civicplus.com", "title": "Ann Tatham | Coconino", "raw_content": "Ann Tatham\nAnn Tatham was laid off from her job at Job Corps in February. By March, she had an internship, thanks to the Coconino County Career Center. In May, the Center hired her as a Workforce Development Specialist.\n\u201cThis is the program that helped me,\u201d she says. Now, she\u2019s helping young people through the same program. \u201cI\u2019ve always had that passion for teens and young adults ~ helping them find their passion.\u201d She can help young adults discover a career they can care about, and get training and a job in that field.\nSarah Benetar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://b-townblog.com/tag/prison/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EYYXEEDCOOJDKI4PQEET6WJ4ZI5N7Y3M", "length": 4286, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "b-townblog.com", "title": "prison | The B-Town (Burien) Blog", "raw_content": "prison Section\nFather sentenced in 2014 beating death of 8-month old daughter in Burien\nAhmed Ibrahim, 29, was sentenced to 145 months in prison for the beating death of his 8-month old daughter in Burien in 2014. Ibrahim pled guilty by Alford to Murder 2 Degree on Nov. 24, 2015. He was... [Read more]\nBurien man sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend\nScottye Miller, 31 \u2013 of Burien \u2013 was sentenced Friday afternoon (Jan. 10) to 50 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend in Auburn in 2012 (read our previous coverage here). A jury... [Read more]\nPosted on Friday, January 10, 2014 at 2:31 pm | 2 Comments\nBurien man convicted in 2010 Halloween shooting death in Kent\nA jury has convicted Jorge L. Lizarraga, 23, of Burien, in the shooting death of Devin Topps, 18, at a Halloween party in Kent in 2010. The jury returned its verdict Tuesday afternoon (Dec. 17), finding... [Read more]\nMan who killed wife and dumped her body in Burien sentenced to 18+ years\nNicole Pietz was murdered by her husband David, who dumped her naked body in Burien. Martin David Pietz, 36, accused of murdering his wife Nicole and dumping her naked body in Burien (read our previous... [Read more]\nCharles Glenn Perkins, 53, of Burien, plead \u2018Guilty\u2019 Monday (June 10) in U.S. District Court in Seattle to child pornography related offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Because... [Read more]\nMan Who Killed Burien Girlfriend Over MySpace Post Sentenced To 14 Years\nOn Monday (Oct. 17) the King County Prosecutor\u2019s Office sentenced Matthew Dubois, who shot and killed his girlfriend in Burien on Dec. 31, 2009, to 14 years in prison\u2026\nSCORE \u2013 Our Reporter \u2018Does Time\u2019 Inside South King County\u2019s New Jail\n[EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Ralph Nichols was one of the first persons to \u201cdo time\u201d in SCORE \u2013 South King County\u2019s new correctional facility, located in Des Moines, for miscreants charged with... [Read more]\nPHOTOS: New SCORE Jail Facility Dedicated Thursday Afternoon\nThe new South Correctional Entity Multijurisdictional Misdemeanant (SCORE) Jail was dedicated under sunny skies In Des Moines Thursday afternoon (Sept. 8), with lots of local dignitaries gathered at the... [Read more]\nPosted on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 4:24 pm | No Comments\nBurien Teen Pleads \u2018Guilty\u2019 To Shooting Girlfriend On New Year\u2019s Eve 2009\nThe King County Prosecutor\u2019s Office reports that Matthew Dubois has pleaded guilty in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Mikarah Nasabreo Sanders, which happened on Dec. 31, 2009\u2026\nPosted on Friday, September 2, 2011 at 4:54 pm | No Comments\nDedication/Open House For New SCORE Jail Is Set For Thursday, Sept. 8th\nAccording to the City of Burien\u2019s monthly newsletter, a dedication/open house for the new SCORE jail will be held Thursday, Sept. 8, from 2 p.m. \u2013 4 p.m., at its location in Des Moines at 1801... [Read more]\nPosted on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 8:45 pm | 1 Comment\nProlific Burien \u2018Smash-And-Grab\u2019 Burglar Sentenced To 68 Months In Prison\nThe King County Prosecutor\u2019s Office announced Friday that Stephen H. Kirk, the prolific burglar responsible for several \u2018smash-and-grab\u2019 style robberies targeting businesses\u2026\nPosted on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 2:03 pm | 3 Comments\nBurien Woman Who Videotaped Raping Of Her 4-Year Old Gets 26+ Years\nHollie Beston, a Burien woman who videotaped herself and her husband raping her own 4-year-old daughter, was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison by Judge Mariane Spearman on Friday (Feb. 18) in King... [Read more]\nPosted on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 3:47 pm | 14 Comments\nWith One Week Left, Murderer Of Burien Woman Files Another Stay Of Execution\nKING5.com is reporting that, with just one week left until his scheduled execution for the murder of a Burien woman, Cal Coburn Brown\u2019s filed an emergency motion for a stay of execution to the 9th... [Read more]\nPosted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 2:45 pm | 1 Comment\nKiller Of Burien Woman Loses Stay Of Execution, Could Die In September\nThe state Supreme Court has lifted a stay of execution for Cal Coburn Brown, who was convicted of torturing and killing Holly Washa, 22, a Burien woman, in 1991. He could be executed as early as September... [Read more]\nPosted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:09 pm | 5 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 8758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://babyforyou.net.ua/tag/digital-health-roundup", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QBPCUQXKCTR72QPHSDL3XUMF5MQB7V6T", "length": 464, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "babyforyou.net.ua", "title": "digital health roundup | Babyforyou.net.ua- babyforyou.net.ua", "raw_content": "digital health roundup\nRoundup: Digital health payer news of Q1 2018\nDigital health-focused news from payers during the first quarter of 2018 generally focused on employee wellness and app-focused member engagement strategies, with a handful of similar partnerships or deals announced around the edges. These came from a number of major players, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fitbit, and a variety of other payers and digital health...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://badmammy.com/october-reads-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6MSTBKW7BT4PLI3VJMGDCQ7ZGQT636JI", "length": 6912, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "badmammy.com", "title": "My October Reads 2017 - What's Been On My Kindle This Month.", "raw_content": "Lisa\t October 23, 2017 Reviews\nOur family holiday wasn\u2019t exactly a lie back on the beach with a good book type of break, but that didn\u2019t stop the reads from accumulating. Long flights will do that for you \u2013 the Kindle app on my iPad was definitely kept busy. Here\u2019s a look at my October reads, the books I dove into over the last month, and what I thought of them.\nOh My God What A Complete Aisling (Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght)\n\u201cAisling is 28, and she\u2019s a complete \u2026 Aisling. She\u2019s living at home in Ballygobbard (or Ballygobackwards, as some gas tickets call it) with her parents and commuting to her Good Job at PensionsPlus in Dublin. Aisling goes out every Saturday night with her best friend Majella, who\u2019s a bit of a hames (she\u2019s lost two phones already this year \u2013 Aisling has never lost a phone). They love hoofing into the Coors Lights, if they\u2019re Out, or the vodka and Diet Cokes, if they\u2019re Out Out. Twice a week, Ais spends the night at her boyfriend, GJ\u2019s (Generic John). He\u2019s from Down Home, and was kiss number 17 at her 21st.\nBut Aisling wants more. She wants the ring on her finger. She wants the hen with the willy straws. She wants out of her parents\u2019 house, although she\u2019d miss Mammy turning on the electric blanket like clockwork and Daddy taking her car \u2018out for a spin\u2019 and bringing it back full of petrol. When a week in Tenerife with John doesn\u2019t end with the expected engagement, Aisling calls time on their relationship, and soon she\u2019s surprised herself and everyone else by agreeing to move into a three-bed in Portobello with stylish Sadhbh from HR and her friend, the mysterious Elaine. Newly single and relocated to the big city, the Adventures of Aisling are only just beginning.\u201d\nIf you\u2019re not aware of the phenomenon that is \u201cOh My God What A Complete Aisling\u201d, let me introduce you to the Facebook page. Aisling is the quintessential country girl, and I do find myself laughing along with the little references that remind me of people I grew up with, and the other people I see myself fitting in with. As a country girl who moved to the city, I can totally empathise with some of Ais\u2019s thoughts on the world. This book is filled with warmth and feels like a big literary hug. Whether you\u2019re a bit of an Ais, A Niamh From Across The Road or a mad Majella, there\u2019s something in it for everyone.\nRachel\u2019s Holiday (Marian Keyes)\n\u201cMeet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters \u2013 Dublin\u2019s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She\u2019s only agreed to her incarceration because she\u2019s heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going tepid turkey \u2013 and it\u2019s about time she had a holiday. But what Rachel doesn\u2019t count on are the toe-curling embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy, the lack of sex, drugs and rock\u2019n\u2019roll \u2013 and missing Luke, her ex. What kind of a new start in life is this?\u201d\nI\u2019ve been a fan of Marian Keyes for years, and recently wrote about how much I\u2019d loved her latest book \u2018The Break\u201d. In an interview with the writers of Oh My God What A Complete Aisling on The Women\u2019s Podcast, they cited Rachel\u2019s Holiday as being a major inspiration in the tone of their writing. I\u2019d read the book years ago but had forgotten most of it, which made it a proper treat to get into again. Rachel is a very flawed character, she\u2019s an addict, she\u2019s a liar and the world isn\u2019t really how she sees it most of the time. But as one of the lovely Walsh sisters, she\u2019s got a warm lovely side to her which makes you root for her even when she\u2019s being a total bitch. And you get just as gutted with her when you realise the Cloisters isn\u2019t what she had thought it would be. If you\u2019ve not read it already, I thoroughly recommend it.\nHighest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters (Chesley B., III Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow)\n\u201cOn January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain \u201cSully\u201d Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. His story is now a major motion picture from director / producer Clint Eastwood and stars Tom Hanks, Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhart. Sully\u2019s story is one of dedication, hope, and preparedness, revealing the important lessons he learned through his life, in his military service, and in his work as an airline pilot. It reminds us all that, even in these days of conflict, tragedy and uncertainty, there are values still worth fighting for\u2014that life\u2019s challenges can be met if we\u2019re ready for them.\u201d\nJust a point to start with: this probably isn\u2019t the best book to read while you\u2019re on a plane, especially when it\u2019s landing and there\u2019s a bit of turbulence. However, I did it and we all survived, so it could be worse. The autobiography of the incredible pilot who saved all 155 lives in 2009 is really interesting, not only for his descriptions of the events themselves that happened on the day, but his entire life story. If you\u2019re into aviation at all, or know anything about the event, it\u2019s a really good read.\nReported Missing (Sarah Wray)\n\u201cFour months ago, Rebecca Pendle\u2019s husband disappeared. So did 14-year-old Kayleigh Jackson. Just a coincidence? Rebecca wants to believe so\u2026 But as the police start to draw parallels between Chris and Kayleigh, it\u2019s getting harder for her to trust his innocence. Faced with an angry town that believes Chris has abducted the teenager, Rebecca tries to discover the truth. But what she finds shocks her more than she ever thought. How well does she really know the man she loves?\u201d\nThe synopsis of this book drew me in as an interesting subject \u2013 what would you think if your husband and a 14 year old girl disappeared on the same day? In a world where you hear stories of school teachers running off with pupils, Rebecca is left defending the man she loved to a baying crowd who want to know what has happened to Kayleigh. Her own life turned upside down, she tries to find out for herself just what has happened to the 14 year old, and just where exactly her husband has vanished to. It\u2019s a bit of a slow start but I didn\u2019t guess the twists and turns and enjoyed the ending.\nThose are my October reads \u2013 there\u2019s a few on my Currently Reading list, including \u201cWhat Happened\u201d (Hillary Clinton) which I\u2019m listening to on Audible, and December Girl (Nicola Cassidy) which I\u2019ll be reviewing soon. What have you been reading this October? Let me know your October Reads in the comments below, or over on Facebook.\nLosing the plot, a journey through baby \u2026\n\u201cI Forgot To Take My Pill\u201d, the \u2026\nbook review, books, reading\nPrevious Post What You NEED To Know Before Traveling to South Africa With Kids\nNext Post Cork Goes Spooky This Halloween: A Guide To What\u2019s On", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 10245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bamp-bg.org/index.php/bg/members/portfolio-2/289-harbour-island-records", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OKQO64BD4U5CX67UHN6262T3UVOP5H3L", "length": 864, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bamp-bg.org", "title": "\u0425\u044a\u0440\u0431\u044a\u0440 \u0410\u0439\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0434 \u0420\u0435\u043a\u044a\u0440\u0434\u0441", "raw_content": "\u0425\u044a\u0440\u0431\u044a\u0440 \u0410\u0439\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0434 \u0420\u0435\u043a\u044a\u0440\u0434\u0441\nHarbour Island Records was established in 1999.\nThe company is one of the largest media production and services conglomerates in Bulgaria and the region. 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You also have to be able to keep your eyes up, and and read the game while you dribble the ball. This means that you need to be able to dribble the basketball so well that you don't even have to think about it while you are dribbling.\nThe number basketball drill is a great way to work on ball handling, conditioning, and thinking all in the same basketball drill. As you begin to get tired, you will have to rely on your mental toughness. At the end of a close game you need to be sharp mentally, even if you are tired. 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The Deerhunter and Elliot Smith picks are from \"BCB approved modern artists\" but the former is a cracker. There's some dreck too mind, that Autechre track for example or the Dead Moon track. That Bush Tetras track is one of those fantastically unfunky post punk things that makes me want to drown a dog. B is a bit more obvious but it has some stuff I genuinely love like Todd and Nyro and the Mac.\nHowever, despite its \"free Wire compilation giveaway\" feel I'm voting for...\nBoth lists contain too much of the kind of critically-acclaimed dull-fuck earnest shit I run a mile from - Go-Betweens, Joni, Elliott Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Cocteaus, John Martyn...\nA, mainly 'cos it has the Velvet Underground. And I adore the Velvet Underground.\nDion - Daddy Rollin' (In Your Arms) -\nDavid Bowie - Candidate (Alternate) -\nJacques Dutronc - Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris S'\u00e9veille -\nBetty Davis - Down Home Girl -\nWally Badarou - Chief Inspector -\nRedman - Blow Your Mind -\nThe Jacobites - It'll All End Up In Tears -\nJean Wells - Have a Little Mercy -\nDead Moon - Graveyard -\nJoni Mitchell - Coyote -\nDarrell Banks - Open the Door to Your Heart -\nThe Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll -\nBlack Star - Respirati0n -\nAutechre - Bike -\nBush Tetras - Can't Be Funky -\nElliott Smith - Angeles -\nMercen\u00e1rias - Me Perco Nesse Tempo -\nAnna Karina - Roller Girl -\nDeerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened -\nLee Moses - Time and Place -\nSir Douglas Quintet -\nJ Mascis - Stumble -\nTodd Rundgren -\nLaura Nyro - When I Was A Freeport And You Were The Main Drag -\nHarry Nilsson - Life Line -\nThe Go Betweens - The Ghost And The Black Hat -\nTommy James and the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion -\nJohn and Beverly Martyn - Traffic Light Lady -\nFleetwood Mac - I Know I\u2019m Not Wrong -\nJohn Cale - Buffalo Ballet -\nTalk Talk - John Cope -\nHorace Andy - Skylarking -\nHeron Oblivion - Oriar -\nCocteau Twins - Golden-Vein -\nMelanie - Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) -\nGene Clark & The Godsin Brothers - So You Say You Lost Your Baby -\nJoni Mitchell - Don Juan\u2019s Reckless Daughter -\nThe Isley Brothers - That Lady, Pts. 1 & 2 -\nVic Chestnutt - Flirted With You All My Life -\nLeon Russell - Roll Away The Stone -\nB with seven Mr. Greens!\nB. I fuckin hate the VU.\nVery, very close, but I think A is digging a touch deeper on the new ones, notwithstanding the laudable Chestnutt choice.\nGoat Boy wrote: However, despite its \"free Wire compilation giveaway\" feel I'm voting for...\nSomeone's not seen a Wire comp for many a long year, if ever. Wire doesn't include any artist you've ever heard of, or will ever hear of again, and will never even feature in the mag. I don't understand why they do that, but they do.\nElliot Smith is terminally dull, which seems to be one of the qualifications in being approved of around here. Mercen\u00e1rias was surprisingly listenable, and short. I quite liked that. Anna Karina seems to be doing Hang on Sloopy badly. Deerhunter seem very earnestly dull. Les Moses is a great name, I can't decide if he's a rasta darts player, or a French anarchist collective. Songs alright, for that kinda thing which I don't generally listen to.\nB was an initially crap list, which improved itself for round 2, then rolled around in its own shit again. But that Vic Chesnutt song is surprisingly good, even if once again, it ain't my kinda thing. That last track sounds like something Jools Holland would love though, and sinks the list for good.\nToo much Joni Mitchell for me but B's choices are better overall.\nOof. 2 mixed bags, really. B's second half of the list has kinda petered out for me, a lot of just 'ok' with only 2-3 I love. A's list isn't totally my thing but has some unexpected sparkle from the Mercenarias, who I haven't heard before but will investigate, cheers. The Deerhunter & Lee Moses ending is more my thing too.\nLeon Russell sounds like he's doing Mott the Hoople in the club style on Shooting Stars. A is all over the place but it seems more heartfelt and it takes more risks, even if they don't always pay off. 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The answer is always a matter of supply and demand, economic climate and the political climate in British Columbia. Having said that, prices have consistently advanced over the past 50 odd years in Vancouver Residential Real Estate (See Website Article \u201cThe Older You Get The Richer You Get\u201d). This case study was done in 2010. Below is a brief summary update regarding value performance for this property to 2017.\nSale/Purchase Price August 2010: $803,500\nCapital Appreciation Factor 10%/annum: Gross $$/Wealth Gain: $770,500\nCash Flow Gain - Wealth Gain: This Wealth Gain does not include mortgage balance pay down by tenants/income, and the current cash flow returns which would increase each year as rental rates increased. The original mortgage balance of $602,600 would have been paid down to approx. $482,000 if mortgage rates remained at 3.6+/-% over the ensuing years, adding an additional $120,000 to the Buyer\u2019s Wealth Gain. Continued increases for rental rates in this area & for this property indicate current monthly Net Operating Income could be in the range of $5,000/mo or over $60,000/yr, creating very decent net cash flows to the Owner.\nThe Property: A 2200 sq.ft., 3 level \u201ccharacter\u201d house containing 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 3 kitchens on a 24.75\u2019 X 112\u2019 lot on West 12th (busy street) in the City Hall area of Vancouver. Built in 1910, the building is structurally sound, with partially upgraded plumbing, electrical, and cosmetic work. The accommodation is Top floor: 1 Bdrm suite; Main floor: 2 Bdrm, 2 Bath suite; and Basement: 3 bdrm suite; plus single car detached garage with electric service.\nThe Revenue: At closing, the house was delivered vacant. Area rents indicated that the monthly revenue should be Top floor: $1,100; Main floor: $1,500; Basement $1,550; Garage $250 = total of $4,400/mo or $52,800/yr. An expense ratio of 25% or $13,500/yr, gave Net Income = $3,300/mo or $39,600/yr.\nThe Sale: The Property was listed for $845,000, reduced to $799,000, and sold for $803,500 in August 2010, after 45 days on the market.\nThe Analysis (2010): Financing @ 3.6%, 5 year term and 25 year amortization was available. If the Buyer put down 25% ($216,000 including closing costs), the mortgage payment for $602,600 was $3,040/mo or $36,500/yr, giving a modest positive cash flow. Assuming an average annual net income increase of 3%, the 1st, 5 year-end holding period should give the Buyer\u2019s financial position as: Mortage Balance=$520,900, Net Income= $3,825/mo or $46,000/yr.\nThis change in financial position provides \u201cMortgage Rate Insurance\u201d for the Buyer, so that interest rates could rise to 7.5% before increased mortgage payments would cause the Buyer to be out of pocket and \u201cfeed\u201d the investment - or be forced to sell it.\nThe Update (Dec 2013): As noted, this property sold in August of 2010, and is still owned by that Buyer. Presently, 3 years later, the property generates $5,000/mo (estimate $1,650/mo for owner\u2019s main floor suite), with a 25% expense ratio, current net income = $3,750/mo or $45,000/yr - a compounded increase in net rental income of 4.35% since purchase date - better than predicted. At purchase in 2010, the Assessed Value was approximately $720,000; the 2013 Assessed Value for the house is $910,000, for an annual, compounded increase of 8.12%. If the 9% \u201chistorical\u201d appreciation factor is applied over the 3 years, the computed market sale price would be $1,040,000 today, giving a 4.3% cap rate - a feasible likelihood. This deal was available for anyone in mid 2010. It is likely that there are properties available today that provide the same opportunity for Buyers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beingoutthere.in/tours/shimla-heritage-walk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QQUURSCQ5L2RY75GP4LUHALHRV24QL7U", "length": 2530, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "beingoutthere.in", "title": "SHIMLA HERITAGE WALK | Being Out There", "raw_content": "Shimla district lies between 30\u00b045\u2032 and 31\u00b044 North Latitude and between 77\u00b00\u2032 and 78\u00b019\u2032 East Longitude. It is bounded by Mandi and Kullu in North, Kinnaur in the East, the state of Uttar Pradesh in the South and by Sirmaur district in the West. Shimla derived its name from \u2018Shyamala\u2019 \u2013 the name of Goddess Kali whose temple once existed in the forest which covered Jakhoo Hills. The place gained prominence after the British arrived here in 1819. They made it their summer capital in 1864. With its enticing location, the incomers were quick to explore the surrounding Shivalik foothills and before long, some of the worlds\u2019 first trekking agencies were set up here, offering treks to officers and their families. By 1921, Shimla had a branch of the Himalayan Club which assisted with expeditions across the Western Himalaya. These adventurous Victorian colonialists chose their town well. To the north and north-east lies the Great Himalayan Range dividing the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. Slightly to the west are the Dhauladhar, cutting through the heart of Himachal Pradesh into eastern Uttaranchal. And beyond these mountains lie the complex Trans Himalaya that include the Zanskar and Ladakhi ranges. Perhaps a near perfect setting for exploring the Himalaya Shimla is situated in the North-West Himalayas and is spread over the ridge measuring about 12 km. The hills are robed with dense forests of oak, deodar, pine, fur and rhododendron. The high mountain peaks, steep slopes, deep valleys, waterfalls, rapids and colorful natural flowers form the scenic natural beauty of Shimla attracts tourists from all over the world. The important tourist destinations are the Kali Bari temple, Jakhoo Temple, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Prospect Hill and Chadwick falls. The highest cricket ground in the world is at Chail. Shimla also offers adventure sports such as skiing, trekking, fishing and golfing. Though the British had left the city long back, the echoes of the colonial era still lingers on. 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Advertising business (excluding the outdoor advertising business prescribed in the Act on the Management of Outdoor Advertisements, etc. and Promotion of Outdoor Advertisement Industry);\nIn any of the following cases, the Organizing Committee may grant some of the funds raised by the profit-making business to other institutions, corporations and organizations relating to the Games upon approval from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism pursuant to Article 12 (2) of the Act:\n(1) Where the Organizing Committee intends to request the president of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation (hereinafter referred to as \"president\") to issue an increased number of sports promotion betting tickets prescribed in Article 24 of the National Sports Promotion Act pursuant to Article 13 of the Act, it shall specify the total expenses incurred in relation to the preparation for and operation of the Games and the amount requested for subsidization.\n(2) The president in receipt of a request to issue an increased number of sports promotion betting tickets as prescribed in paragraph (1) shall do so, upon approval from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in an edition different from that of the sports promotion betting tickets issued for other sports events.\n(3) Profits accruing from the increased issuance of sports promotion betting tickets pursuant to Article 13 (2) of the Act shall be used to subsidize the expenses incurred in relation to the preparation for and operation of international tournaments by the organizing committees of international tournaments (hereafter referred to as \"operating expenses\" in this paragraph) where the grounds therefor exist in the Act or other Acts or subordinate statutes: Provided, That remainder of the profits after such subsidization shall be contributed to the National Sports Promotion Fund established under the National Sports Promotion Act.\n(4) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (3), the National Sports Promotion Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to the increased issuance of sports promotion betting tickets.\nWhere the Organizing Committee intends to collect service charges or usage fees as prescribed in Article 17 of the Act, it shall submit a document stating the following to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism for approval:\nNotwithstanding Article 41 (2) 1 of the Decree on the Appointment of Public Officials or Article 27-2 (2) 1 of the Decree on the Appointment of Local Public Officials, public officials dispatched for at least one year as prescribed in Article 19 (1) of the Act may be dispatched until March 31, 2019.\n(1) \"Games-related symbols, etc. prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as insignias and mascots designated by the Organizing Committee\" in the first sentence of Article 25 of the Act means any of the following symbols, etc.: \n1. Games-related insignias, mascots, torches, medals, testimonials, slogans, a theme song, pictogram, the flag of the Games, commemorative money, memorial stamps, public publications, posters, design of uniforms, and visual symbols, all of which are designated by the Organizing Committee (Look of the Games);\n(1) The Support Committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (hereinafter referred to as the \"Support Committee\") established under Article 26 of the Act shall deliberate on and coordinate the following: \n2. Matters concerning the formulation of a plan to revoke the designation as a conservation zone for forest genetic resources, and to protect, conserve, and recover forests pursuant to Article 34 of the Act;\n(4) If the chairperson of the Support Committee is unable to perform his/her duties due to an extenuating circumstance, his/her duties shall be performed by (in the following order) the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Minister of Strategy and Finance, and the Minister of Education, and if the chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Support Committee are all unable to perform their duties due to an extenuating circumstance, a member in the order prescribed in the subparagraphs of Article 26 (2) of the Act shall perform the duties of the chairperson of the Support Committee. \n(5) Where the chairperson of the Support Committee intends to call a meeting, he/she shall notify all members of the date, place and agenda of the meeting by no later than seven days before the meeting: Provided, That where such meeting is to be held urgently or any extenuating circumstance exists, he/she may notify all members of such matters by one day prior to the meeting.\n(6) Meetings of the Support Committee shall be held with attendance of a majority of all incumbent members, and resolutions shall be adopted with the consent of a majority of those present.\n(1) The Support Working Committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (hereinafter referred to as the \"Support Working Committee\") referred to in Article 26 (4) of the Act shall be comprised of not more than 30 members, including one chairperson, and each of the following persons shall become a member: \n1. One person from each of the following agencies who shall be nominated by the head of the agency he/she belongs to, from among public officials of the Senior Civil Service of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Unification, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Korea Communications Commission, the Korea Forest Service and the Office for Government Policy Coordination;\n6. Persons appointed or commissioned by the chairperson of the Support Working Committee based on the male-female ratio, from among those with extensive expert knowledge of and experience in preparing and holding international tournaments.\n(3) The Support Working Committee shall have one executive secretary who shall be designated by the chairperson of the Support Working Committee to manage its administrative affairs.\n(4) Where the chairperson of the Support Working Committee is unable to perform his/her duties due to unavoidable circumstances, a member designated by the chairperson shall perform the duties of the chairperson on his/her behalf.\n(5) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (4), Article 11 (3), (5) and (6) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the operation of the Support Working Committee. In such cases, the \"Support Committee\" shall be construed as the \"Support Working Committee.\"\n(1) Where the Support Committee and the Support Working Committee deems it necessary to deliberate on agenda and perform other duties, they may have interested persons or relevant specialists attend meetings to state their opinions, or request them to submit their opinions.\n(2) Interested persons or relevant specialists who attend meetings of the Support Committee or the Support Working Committee may be paid allowances within budgetary limits: Provided, That this shall not apply to a member who is a public official who attends such meetings in direct relation to his/her duties.\n(3) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2), matters necessary for the operation of the Support Committee and the Support Working Committee shall be determined by the chairperson of the Support Committee upon resolution by the Support Committee.\n5. Where the project plan is modified to utilize other existing facilities, other than those planned, as Games-related facilities (limited to cases where operating expenses are not modified).\nWhere a project plan or any modification thereto is approved as prescribed in Article 27 (4) or (6) of the Act, the Governor shall, without delay, announce the project plan so approved or modified on the official bulletin and make it available for inspection by the public for at least 14 days.\n(1) The State or local governments may grant subsidies to cover the operating expenses necessary for constructing, remodeling and repairing facilities directly related to the Games (excluding facilities defined in subparagraph 2 (a) of Article 2 of the Act and access roads to the stadiums among the facilities defined in subparagraph 2 (b) of Article 2 of the Act), including design costs, compensatory payments, and construction costs, within budgetary limits: Provided, That this shall not apply to facilities established based on private investment.\n(2) Where the State allocates a budget to subsidize project funds as prescribed in paragraph (1), the rate of subsidization shall be determined by the Minister of Strategy and Finance. In such cases, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may present his/her opinion thereon.\n(3) Pursuant to Article 28 (5) of the Act, the Governor may request the State or a local government to complete Games-related projects that are being implemented or scheduled to be implemented by the State or the local government by no later than one year before the Games. In such cases, the State or the local government in receipt of such request shall actively comply therewith in the absence of extenuating circumstances.\n2. Where Games-related facilities located in a local government, other than in the venue Sis or Guns, are to be improved and repaired for use as Games-related facilities, the head of the local government having jurisdiction over such facilities.\n(3) A person who intends to be designated as the implementer of a project (hereinafter referred to as \"implementer\") to establish and use Games-related facilities pursuant to Article 30 (1) of the Act shall prepare documents containing the following information and submit them to the Governor:\n2. Name and address of a person who intends to implement the project (in cases of a corporation, the name and address of the corporation, and the name and address of its representative);\n(1) Each implementer shall prepare an implementer's project plan including the following and obtain approval from the Governor as prescribed in Article 31 (1) of the Act: Provided, That subparagraphs 2, 3 and 7 shall be included only where relevant facts exist:\n2. Location, lot number and land category and size of land, articles and rights (referring to land, articles and rights as defined in Article 3 of the Act on Acquisition of and Compensation for Land, etc. for Public Works Projects; hereinafter referred to as \"land, etc.\") to be expropriated or used, details of ownership and rights other than ownership, and names and addresses of the owners or persons holding such rights;\n9. In the case of a project subject to environmental impact assessment pursuant to Article 22 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act or a project subject to small-scale environmental impact assessment pursuant to Article 43 of the same Act, documents on the details of consultation over the environmental impact assessment pursuant to Article 29 or 45 of the same Act.\n(2) Upon receipt of the project plan under paragraph (1), the Governor shall verify the cadastral map of the area in which the project is to be implemented through the joint use of administrative information pursuant to Article 36 (1) of the Electronic Government Act.\nAn inspection necessary for verifying the completion of construction pursuant to Article 38 (2) of the Act shall be conducted by an affiliated public official or a person requested to conduct the inspection pursuant to the latter part of Article 38 (1) of the Act, and where the construction is subject to the construction project management, such as acting for the authority of the inspector under Article 55 (1) 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Construction Technology Promotion Act, an inspection necessary for verifying the completion of construction may be replaced by confirmation of the construction project management report and completion inspection report prepared by a construction technology service business entity. \n2. In any of the following cases where a special zone is developed after being divided into at least two development project districts and the size of the respective development project district divided as such (hereinafter referred to as \"unit development project district\") is modified:\n(b) Where the total size of a unit development project district is less than one million square meters: Modification of size by less than 10/100 of the total size of a unit development project district;\n6. Change of the name and address (referring to the name, address and the name and address of the representative in the case of a corporation; hereinafter the same shall apply) of the implementer of a special zone development project (hereinafter referred to as \"special zone project implementer\") pursuant to Article 49 (1) of the Act;\n7. Modification to reflect the details of consultation pursuant to Article 18 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, matters requiring improvement, etc. pursuant to Article 16 (4) of the Urban Traffic Improvement Promotion Act and the details of prior consultation on the examination of factors influencing disasters pursuant to Article 4 of the Countermeasures against Natural Disasters Act (where accompanied by the modifications referred to in subparagraphs 2 through 4, limited to such modifications);\n8. Correction of the size of areas for implementation due to mistakes, etc. to the extent that there is no change to the area, in which a special zone development project is implemented;\n(2) The size referred to in paragraph (1) 2 and the size referred to in subparagraph 3 of the same paragraph shall be calculated by adding the size to be modified pursuant to paragraph (1) 2 or 3 to the size that has been modified pursuant to paragraph (1) 2 or 3 in the same unit development project district during the last one year.\n(1) Where the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism designates a special zone pursuant to the first sentence of Article 40 (3) of the Act, he/she shall publicly post the following matters on the Official Gazette as prescribed in paragraph (4) of the same Article:\n3. Location and size of an area in which a special zone development project is implemented, and the person scheduled to implement a special zone development project or the implementer of a special zone development project;\n9. Other matters deemed necessary by the Olympic Winter Games Special Zone Committee (hereinafter referred to as the \"Special Zone Committee\") established under Article 42 of the Act.\n(2) Where the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism modifies the contents of a special zone comprehensive plan as prescribed in the latter part of Article 40 (3) of the Act, he/she shall publicly notify the grounds therefor and matters referred to in the subparagraphs of paragraph (1) in the Official Gazette.\n(3) Where the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism revokes the designation of a special zone as prescribed in Article 46 of the Act, he/she shall publicly announce the matters referred to in the subparagraphs of paragraph (1) (referring to the matters referred to in paragraph (1) 1 through 3 where wholly revoking the designation of the special zone) and the following matters in the Official Gazette:\n1. A topographical map drawn on a scale of at least 1 to 25,000 indicating the location of the special zone; and a topographical map drawn on a scale of at least 1 to 5,000 indicating the special zone;\n(3) Where deemed necessary, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may request additional matters to be included in the relevant special zone comprehensive plan from the Governor.\n(1) Before filing an application for the designation of a special zone as prescribed in Article 41 (2) of the Act, the Governor shall publicly announce a draft special zone comprehensive plan that includes the details referred to in paragraph (1) of the same Article and the following information on the Official Bulletins of Gangwon-Do and the relevant Sis/Guns or the websites thereof, and in two or more daily newspapers having Gangwon-Do as their main circulation district. In such cases, the Governor shall make such documents available for inspection by the public for at least 14 days from the date of public announcement:\n(2) Any person who has an opinion on the matters publicly announced as prescribed in paragraph (1) may submit a written opinion to the Governor within the period for inspecting documents referred to in paragraph (1) 3.\n(3) If the Governor holds a public hearing as prescribed in Article 41 (2) of the Act, he/she shall publicly announce the following on two or more daily newspapers having the relevant Sis/Guns as their main circulation district and the Official Bulletins of Gangwon-Do and the relevant Sis/Guns or the websites thereof, at least once, by no later than 14 days prior to the scheduled date of the public hearing:\n(1) \"Heads of central administrative agencies prescribed by Presidential Decree\" in Article 42 (2) 2 of the Act means the Minister of Science and ICT, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of National Defense, the Minister of the Interior and Safety, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Minister of Health and Welfare, the Minister of Environment, the Minister of Employment and Labor, and the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. \n(2) Commissioned members under Article 42 (2) 3 of the Act shall be commissioned based on the male-female ratio, from among experts in the fields related to the special zones, such as the sports industry, the green industry, culture, tourism, the environment, foreign investment and urban policies.\n(2) Where the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee deems it necessary or at least 1/3 of all incumbent members make a request, the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee shall call a meeting.\n(3) If the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee is unable to perform his/her duties due to an avoidable circumstance, such duties shall be performed by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Minister of Strategy and Finance, and the Minister of Education, in that order, and if the chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Special Zone Committee are all unable to perform their duties due to an extenuating circumstance, a member in the order prescribed in Article 24 (1) shall perform the duties of the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee. \n(4) Where the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee intends to call a meeting, he/she shall notify all members of the date, place and agenda of the meeting by no later than seven days before the meeting: Provided, That where such meeting is to be held urgently or any avoidable circumstance exists, he/she may notify all members of such matters by no later than one day before the meeting.\n(5) Meetings of the Special Zone Committee shall be held with the attendance of a majority of all incumbent members, and resolutions shall be passed with the consent of a majority of those present.\n(6) An executive secretary shall be appointed for the Special Zone Committee to manage the administrative affairs of the Special Zone Committee, who shall be designated by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism from among persons under the control of the Olympic Winter Games Special Zone Planning Body established under Article 42 (3) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as \"Special Zone Planning Body\").\n(7) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (6), matters necessary for the operation of the Special Zone Planning Body shall be determined by the chairperson of the Special Zone Committee upon resolution by the Special Zone Committee.\n(1) The heads of central administrative agencies, other than the heads of the central administrative agencies referred to in Article 24 (1), may attend meetings of the Special Zone Committee to make a statement.\n(2) Where deemed necessary for deliberation, the Special Zone Committee may have the head of the competent local government having jurisdiction over the special zones, interested persons or relevant specialists attend meetings of the Special Zone Committee to state their opinions.\n(3) Members and relevant specialists who attend meetings of the Special Zone Committee may be paid allowances within budgetary limits: Provided, That this shall not apply to a public official member who attends such meetings in direct connection with his/her duties.\n(1) Where deemed necessary for the Special Zone Planning Body to conduct its affairs, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may request relevant administrative agencies, institutions, organizations, etc. to dispatch public officials, executives and employees.\n2. Convenience in securing a site necessary for the development of the relevant special zone and infrastructure, such as wide-area transportation networks, information and communications, water and electric power;\n(1) \"Act prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as changing the form and quality of land, constructing buildings, constructing temporary buildings and building structures\" in Article 45 (1) of the Act means any of the following:\n1. Change of the form and quality of land: Change of the shape of land by means of cutting, embanking, filling-up, leveling or paving land, excavation of land or reclamation of public waters;\n3. Building of structures: Establishment of artificially-manufactured facilities (excluding buildings defined in Article 2 (1) 2 of the Building Act (including temporary buildings));\n4. Collection of earth and rocks: Collection of earth, sand, aggregate, rocks, etc.: Provided, That subparagraph 1 shall govern if such collection is to change the form and quality of land;\n(2) The Governor shall grant permission for the acts referred to in the subparagraphs of paragraph (1) to the extent that such acts do not hinder the relevant special zone development project. In such cases, the Governor shall hear from the special zone project implementer before granting permission.\n(3) \"Act prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as acts done for emergency measures necessary for recovery from a disaster or control of accidents\" in Article 45 (1) of the Act means any of the following acts, which do not require permission for development acts pursuant to Article 56 of the National Land Planning and Utilization Act:\n2. A person who intends to develop a site, etc. for industrial, culture and tourism or research facilities, and directly use part of the site, etc. as facilities appropriate for a special zone development project and supply the remainder to persons who hope to move therein.\n(3) \"Corporation which meets the requirements prescribed by Presidential Decree\" in Article 48 (1) 5 of the Act means a corporation, at least 30/100 of the total investments in which is made by persons referred to in Article 48 (1) 1 through 3 of the Act.\n(4) \"Association which meets the requirements prescribed by Presidential Decree\" in Article 48 (1) 6 of the Act means any of the following: \n3. A partnership for urban environment rearrangement projects prescribed in Article 16 of the Act on the Maintenance and Improvement of Urban Areas and Dwelling Conditions for Residents.\n(5) \"Constructor who meets the requirements prescribed by Presidential Decree\" in Article 48 (1) 7 of the Act means a person who has registered the business of carrying out general construction pursuant to the Framework Act on the Construction Industry (applicable only to civil engineering business, and civil engineering and construction business) and whose construction capacity made public as prescribed in Article 23 of the same Act is assessed to be an amount at least the annual average project funds (excluding the amount of compensation) of a special zone development project.\n(6) \"Registered business entity which meets the requirements prescribed by Presidential Decree\" in Article 48 (1) 8 of the Act means a person whose average business performance (referring to expenses incurred in the creation of a site; excluding the amount of compensation) for the preceding three years, submitted as prescribed in Article 10 of the Housing Act is at least the annual average project funds needed for the relevant special zone development project (excluding the amount of compensation). \n(1) A person who intends to perform part of a special zone development project on behalf of the relevant implementer as prescribed in Article 48 (2) of the Act shall prepare an application therefor and submit it to the relevant special zone project implementer:\n1. Name (in cases of a corporation, the name of such corporation and the name of its representative) and address of a person who intends to perform the special zone development project on behalf of the implementer;\n(2) Upon receipt of an application under paragraph (1), if the implementer of a special zone development project deems it necessary to have the applicant perform the special zone development project or deems it necessary to smoothly perform the special zone development project, he/she may allow the applicant to implement part of the special zone development project on his/her behalf, such as the creation of a site for facilities to be used by such applicant.\n(3) Where the implementer of a special zone development project intends to allow the applicant referred to in paragraph (1) perform part of a special zone development project as prescribed in paragraph (2) on his/her behalf, he/she shall enter into a contract on the performance of the special zone development project on his/her behalf.\n(4) The implementer of a special zone development project shall guide and supervise the proxy of the special zone development project with whom he/she enters into a contract as prescribed in paragraph (3) so that the proxy performs the special zone development project faithfully according to the implementation plan for the special zone development project prepared under Article 49 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as \"special zone implementation plan\") and to the terms and conditions of such contract.\n(1) When the implementer of a special zone project intends to obtain approval for a special zone implementation plan or any modification thereto as prescribed in Article 49 (1) of the Act, he/she shall prepare an application for approval (approval for modification) for the special zone implementation plan containing the following information and submit it to the Governor:\n5. Where the building-to-land ratio and the floor space index are to be otherwise determined as prescribed in Article 51 of the Act, the necessity to apply such special exceptions and details thereof;\n(2) An application for approval (approval for modification) for a special zone implementation plan referred to in paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the following documents and drawings:\n3. A projected ground plan, construction drawings, etc. (in the case of a project requiring consultation on construction pursuant to Article 29 of the Building Act, preliminary design drawings);\n5. Documents concerning a plan to purchase land, etc. in an area in which the special zone development project is implemented, a compensation plan and measures to relocate residents;\n6. Plans concerning the use, profit-making, management and disposal (including matters concerning the method of disposal and price) of land and facilities to be created by the special zone development project;\n7. In the case of a plan subject to strategic environmental impact assessment under Article 9 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, documents concerning the details of consultation on strategic environmental impact assessment under Article 18 of the same Act;\n8. In the case of a project subject to environmental impact assessment under Article 22 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act or a project subject to small-scale environmental impact assessment under Article 43 of the same Act, documents concerning the details of consultation on environmental impact assessment under Article 29 or 45 of the same Act;\n13. Documents stating the location, lot number and land category, size of land to be expropriated, the details of ownership and rights other than ownership, and the names and addresses of the owners and persons holding such rights;\n(3) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2), the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall determine and publicly announce the matters necessary for the establishment of a special zone implementation plan, such as the method of preparing attachments and documents.\nWhen the Governor grants approval for a special zone implementation plan or any modification thereto as prescribed in Article 50 (1) of the Act, he/she shall publicly announce the following:\nPursuant to Article 51 of the Act, Sis/Guns having jurisdiction over a special zone may otherwise determine a building-to-land ratio and a floor space index applicable in the special zone by municipal ordinance within 150/100 of the building-to-land ratio and the floor space index applicable in the specific-use area: Provided, That where the specific-use area is changed as prescribed in Article 57 (1) 16 of the Act, the building-to-land ratio and the floor space index applicable in the changed area shall not be otherwise determined.\n(1) \"Where a special zone project implementer supplies created land for a purpose prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as the inducement of foreign investment\" in Article 55 (2) of the Act means any of the following cases:\n1. Where land created under Article 55 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as \"created land\") is supplied to a foreign-invested enterprise, foreign educational institution or foreign medical institution moving into the special zone;\n(2) Where a special zone project implementer intends to supply created land as prescribed in Article 55 (1) of the Act, he/she shall conduct competitive bidding: Provided, That he/she may supply such land by means of a negotiated contract in any of the following cases:\n(3) Where a special zone project implementer intends to supply created land, he/she shall publicly announce the following by no later than ten days (five days in the case of emergency or re-supply) before the deadline for the application for supply: Provided, That where he/she supplies such land by negotiated contract pursuant to the proviso to paragraph (2), he/she shall be exempt therefrom:\n(4) Standards for the price of created land by use are as listed in attached Table 1: Provided, That where created land is supplied at or below the creation cost of such land as prescribed in Article 55 (2) of the Act, the price shall be determined by the special zone project implementer after consultation with the Governor.\n(5) Except as prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (4), details regarding the supply of created land shall be determined and publicly announced by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.\n(1) Where a special zone project implementer intends to undergo a completion inspection pursuant to Article 59 (1) of the Act, he/she shall submit an application therefor, which contains the following information, to the Governor:\n(2) An application for completion inspection referred to in paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the following documents and drawings: \n4. Records of devolvement and drawings of public facilities (in the case of the special zone project implementer referred to in Article 48 (1) 2 and 4 through 8 of the Act, including records of the appraisal of disused public facilities, land, etc. which are prepared by an appraisal business entity prescribed in the Act on Appraisal and Certified Appraisers and the calculation statement of construction costs of new public facilities);\n6. A statement of land to be acquired by the special zone project implementer and land, etc. to devolve on the State or a local government pursuant to Articles 35 (4) and 46 of the Public Waters Management and Reclamation Act (only applicable to the reclamation of public waters under the Public Waters Management and Reclamation Act).\n(3) Upon receipt of an application for completion inspection under paragraph (1), the Governor shall determine the schedule for completion inspection and notify the head of a relevant central administrative agency or the head of a local government who will acquire or manage the public facilities included in the application for completion inspection by no later than five days before the date of inspection; the head of the relevant central administrative agency or the head of the local government who intends to participate in such completion inspection shall make a request for participation by no later than one day prior to the date of inspection.\n(4) If the Governor deems that the special zone development project has been completed in compliance with the special zone implementation plan or any modification thereto approved pursuant to Article 49 of the Act after the completion inspection, he/she shall issue a certificate of completion inspection to the relevant special zone project implementer and publicly announce the following:\n(1) Where a person who rents or purchases parcels of land or facilities developed or established due to a special zone development project requests the relevant special zone project implementer to grant permission to use the developed land or established facilities before the completion inspection, he/she shall file an application therefor, along with the following documents, if he/she recognizes that the use before completion inspection does not hinder the special zone development project:\n(2) The Governor in receipt of an application for permission for use from a special zone project implementer pursuant to paragraph (1) shall issue approval or disapproval actions within 30 days from the receipt of the application after determining whether the developed land or established facilities can be used in accordance with their intended purposes.\nWhere the State deems it necessary for smoothly promoting a special zone development project, it may subsidize the special zone development project implemented by a local government after deliberation and resolution by the Special Zone Committee pursuant to the proviso to Article 60 (1) of the Act.\n1. A construction contract: A contract concerning general or special construction work pursuant to the Framework Act on the Construction Industry, electrical construction work pursuant to the Electrical Construction Business Act, information and communications construction work pursuant to the Information and Communications Construction Business Act, and fire-fighting system installation pursuant to the Fire-Fighting System Installation Business Act;\n2. A contract for manufacturing or purchasing articles: A contract for manufacturing or purchasing various machinery, tools, materials, office equipment, and computers, etc. for performing construction work prescribed in subparagraph 1;\n3. A service contract: A service contract concerning engineering activities prescribed in the Engineering Industry Promotion Act, and design and building construction supervision prescribed in the Certified Architects Act.\n(2) Implementers and special zone project operators shall determine requirements for preferential treatment of local enterprises after consultation with the Minister of Strategy and Finance and the Minister of the Interior and Safety in consideration of the nature, etc. of contracts. \n(3) Implementers and special zone project operators shall post the requirements for preferential treatment of local enterprises determined under paragraph (2) on the websites, and may request the Governor to post such information on the official website of Gangwon-Do. In such cases, the Governor shall comply in the absence of special circumstances.\n(1) \"Infrastructure prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as roads, water supply facilities, communications facilities, and electric power supply facilities\" in Article 64 (1) of the Act means any of the following facilities:\n(2) The State may subsidize the construction of infrastructure referred to in the subparagraphs of paragraph (1), and matters necessary in relation to such subsidization, including entities eligible for subsidies and scope of subsidization, shall be determined after deliberation and resolution by the Special Zone Committee.\n(1) The State or local governments may subsidize maintenance activities, such as removal, repair, refurbishment, or replacement of any of the following inferior facilities in any special zone within budgetary limits:\n(2) Where the State allocates a budget to grant a subsidy as prescribed in paragraph (1), the rate of subsidization shall be determined by the Minister of Strategy and Finance. In such cases, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may present his/her opinion on the rate of subsidization to the Minister of Strategy and Finance.\nIf a foreigner who has invested in a special zone pursuant to Article 78 of the Act files an application, the Minister of Justice may grant him/her the status of sojourn therein after examination according to the residency requirements (F-2) set forth in subparagraph 27 of attached Table 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act.\n(3) Where a foreigner makes a request in any special zone, the Governor shall provide English version of data concerning matters referred to in the subparagraphs of paragraph (2), and may provide interpretation services, if necessary.\n(4) To provide foreign language services under the subparagraphs of paragraph (2), the Governor shall employ necessary specialists, such as interpreters and translators, or prepare and keep relevant data, etc.\n(1) A person (hereinafter referred to as \"rental business entity\") who intends to lease rental housing exclusively for foreigners (hereinafter referred to as \"rental housing exclusively for foreigners\") pursuant to Article 82 of the Act shall have any of the following persons as a party to a lease contract:\n(2) A rental business entity shall select a tenant according to the following standards, determine the method of selection beforehand, and obtain approval therefor from the head of a Si/Gun having jurisdiction over the location of the relevant rental housing:\n(3) A rental business entity shall calculate key money or a rent based on the construction costs of rental housing exclusively for foreigners and subsidiary facilities, the level of key money or the rent in the vicinity of the relevant rental housing exclusively for foreigners, the depreciation cost, charges for repair and maintenance, etc. and shall obtain approval therefor from the head of the competent Si/Gun: Provided, That where he/she intends to construct rental housing exclusively for foreigners with subsidies from the State or local government, he/she shall comply with the standards determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.\n(4) Where a rental business entity sells rental housing exclusively for foreigners after ten years from the commencement of lease, he/she shall prepare a plan for sale in parcels, first considering those residing in such rental housing at the time of conversion for sale in parcels, and obtain approval therefor from the head of a Si/Gun.\n4. A type of business or facilities recognized as making substantially low contribution to the development of the national economy, in light of technical transfer, creation of employment, etc.\n(2) Where the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism orders an enterprise to suspend its business or close its facilities pursuant to Article 86 (2) of the Act, he/she may consult the person entitled to manage an industrial complex or the management agency prescribed in Article 30 of the Industrial Cluster Development and Factory Establishment Act and recommend such enterprise of a type of business or with facility eligible to relocate to the industrial complex such industrial complex, as a substitute place for relocation.\n1. Any modification to insignificant matters of the special zone comprehensive plan pursuant to the latter part of Article 40 (3) and to paragraph (4) of the same Article, and publication of the details of such modification in the Official Gazette;\n2. Making public announcement of the types of business, etc. to be expelled pursuant to Article 86 (1) of the Act, ordering an enterprise to suspend its business or to close facilities if such enterprise belongs to a type of business, etc. to be expelled under paragraph (2) of the same Article moves into the special zone, holding a hearing pursuant to paragraph (3) of the same Article and execution on behalf of the relevant entity pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article.\n(2) When the Governor has completed duties delegated as prescribed in paragraph (1), he/she shall send copies of the relevant documents to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.\nThis Decree shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation: Provided, That, if any Presidential Decree, parts of which are amended by Article 8 of this Addenda, was promulgated before but has yet to enter into force as at the time this Decree enters into force, such amended parts shall enter into force when that relevant Presidential Decree enters into force.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 569, "original_length": 80477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blatanthomerism.com/articles/c305-2011-articles/c62-november/reality-rankings-top-10-week-9.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:38Z", "digest": "sha1:I56374XJV7E4ZBXFSR765KTQ2YJYJASE", "length": 3928, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blatanthomerism.com", "title": "Reality Rankings Top 10: Week 9 \u2014 Blatant Homerism", "raw_content": "Reality Rankings Top 10: Week 9\nWhat a difference a week makes! After giving up a lead on the road to Kansas State, OU erupts in the second half and unleashes all its fury borne during the Texas Tech disaster onto Bill Snyder and his not-quite-miracle in Manhattan. I have to say I couldn't have asked for a better response from the Sooners. 58-17!\nI wrote the season off after the Tech loss. I didn't watch TV or surf the internet for one WHOLE day that Sunday after. That's huge. Every time I thought about the loss, I winced in pain and had a Tourette's-like outburst. I had to forget. It was my only way I could survive.\nThe hiatus only lasted until Monday noon time. I'm like Chris Rock in New Jack City: \"Crack, it be callin' me!\"\nNow I'm back on the pipe. I just can't be without my crimson-clad warriors. I'll will not, though, repeat, I will not think about how we can make the title game, I won't, really I won't, but... wait... the... BCS Standings... are... out... and... what... we... are... ranked... where?\nWhat... Clemson... lost? If Stanford loses and we win all our games...\nHere are this week's rankings based on performance on the field, not by touchy-feely fantasies. (Compare to BH's BlogPoll ballot.)\n1. Louisiana St (Last week: 1) \u2013 Bye week preparing for the rumble in Tuscaloosa. I don't care what anybody says, the loser of LSU-Alabama game does not deserve a rematch for the title. You had your shot.\n2. Alabama (2) \u2013 See above.\n3. Oklahoma St. (4) \u2013 The Cowboys have laid waste to just about everyone and have done what's expected of them. Their closest win was at Texas A&M at a crazy Kyle Field. That resume is not too shabby.\n4. Stanford (7) \u2013 Stanford is slowly showing what kind of team it is. The Cardinal beat down Washington last week and fought hard to pull out a tough win at the Coliseum against USC. That win in of itself is better than anything Boise State has done.\n5. Boise St. (5) \u2013 Bye week. I'm still giving the Broncos the benefit of the doubt here. They look tough, but they are playing in a bubble. I can only judge them by the Georgia game and the upcoming TCU game. In a BCS conference, they could either be undefeated or have three losses. I just don't know.\n6. Oregon (8) \u2013 Oregon keeps winning even when its starting quarterback and running back are out of the game. Still, the Ducks should be ineligible for a national title rematch against LSU if that scenario were to present itself.\n7. Oklahoma (-) \u2013 When OU decides to turn it on, the Sooners are as impressive as anyone in the country. However, to lose at home to a team that got smoked at home to Iowa State is a huge black eye. No matter how great Oklahoma has shown it could be, the Sooners also have shown how bad they could be. Up to this point, they are not worthy of being up for title game consideration.\n8. Clemson (3) \u2013 The run was good while it lasted. Not a horrible loss to Georgia Tech, but bad enough to where the rest of the Tigers' resume can't keep them in title game consideration.\n9. Michigan (-) \u2013 Slight edge over Nebraska due to not having a blowout loss on the resume. The Wolverines will have a chance to settle it on the field Nov. 19th against the Cornhuskers.\n10. Nebraska (-) \u2013 Nebraska is getting a resurrection of sorts after a disappointing loss to Wisconsin earlier in the year. After the big win against Michigan St., the Cornhuskers control their own destiny in the Legends Division of the Big Ten. If they win out, they are in the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game.\nDropped from rankings: Kansas St. (6), Michigan St. (9), Wisconsin (10)\nIn November Tags Alabama Crimson Tide, BCS, Boise State Broncos, Clemson Tigers, college football rankings, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Oregon Ducks, Stanford Cardinal\n\u2190 Getting the Sooners to the BCS Championship GameRidiculous and Sublime: Oklahoma 58, Kansas State 17 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.brooklinepolice.com/2017/06/6262017.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OO2SOJGXRLUIA4EAUZC772OQDWTM2KD3", "length": 3009, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.brooklinepolice.com", "title": "Brookline Police News: 6/26/2017", "raw_content": "1:35 a.m.: Officers responded to an address on Winthrop Road for a report of malicious destruction of property. The reporting party stated that four teenage boys were across the street knocking over yard debris. Four boys were observed on Winthrop Road and were stopped by officers. While speaking to them another Winthrop Road resident approached the officers to inform them that she had been awoken around 1:30 a.m. to the sound of glass breaking and discovered her storm door glass shattered. This resident had yard debris bags in front of her house. It could not be determined what caused the window to shatter and the resident was advised to notify her landlord of the damage. The boys appeared to be telling the truth about simply walking down the street and were told they could leave.\n8:52 a.m.: An officer was dispatched to an address on Harvard Street for an attempted larceny of a bicycle. Upon arrival, the caller stated that between 8:20 and 8:30 a.m. she noticed an individual using a tool to remove the rear wheel from her coworker\u2019s bicycle, which was locked to a sign outside the business. The reporting party banged on the window in an attempt to scare off the individual and he began travelling southbound on Harvard Street. He was described as having short black hair, wearing a black t-shirt, grey shorts, and a black backpack. Officers checked the area for the subject with negative results. Another business in the area may have captured the event on video surveillance and is being requested.\n9:05 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to an address on Beacon Street. Upon arrival, it was discovered that there was drug activity at the residence. An individual was placed under arrest and charged for Possession of a Class B Substance with the intent to Distribute and Possession of a Class E Substance.\n11:55 a.m.: An officer was dispatched to an address on Beverly Road for a report of found property. The reporting party stated that the previous day she had noticed a red Razor scooter leaning against the fence. She assumed a child would return to the area for it, but found it was in the same location the next day. The scooter was taken into custody and secured at the police station for safekeeping.\n4:47 p.m.: A citizen reported the larceny of a bicycle to the front desk of the police station. He stated that his and his wife\u2019s bicycle were stolen from the bicycle room at their residence. He last noticed the bicycles approximately one year ago and noticed they were missing on 6/26/2017 at approximately 3:30 p.m. The bicycles had been locked with combination locks, but these were not present once he saw the bicycles were stolen. The bicycle room is shared by the building and only accessible from inside the building.\n6:00 p.m.: Officers were provided with a found wallet at the front desk of the police station. The wallet contained a driver\u2019s license and officers attempted to contact the owner, but were unsuccessful. The wallet has been placed into evidence for safekeeping.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 656, "original_length": 17561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.cascades.com/2014/03/11/sochi-2014-molympic-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4P27MOWPFT3RSV6JFNJ64GZBIVZCJFXU", "length": 3380, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.cascades.com", "title": "Sochi 2014: My Olympic story \u2013 Blog Cascades", "raw_content": "Posted on March 11, 2014\tby Alexandre Bilodeau\tin Cascades Family\nAlexandre Bilodeau, double Olympic champion in moguls\u2019 freestyle skiing\nIt\u2019s already been a few weeks since I got home from Sochi, and only now am I beginning to realize that I\u2019ve reached my long-time goal: I am a two-time Olympic champion. Partners like Cascades have believed in me from the start. Thanks to them, I\u2019ve been able to push my passion for freestyle skiing to the limit.\nMy first Olympic medal at Vancouver 2010 meant something completely different to me. I was the first athlete in Canadian history to have won a gold medal on Canadian soil. I was like the little boy who grew up to be an astronaut. I dared to dream, and all my hard work finally paid off. At those games, all I wanted to do was bask in the victory and have a good time.\nFour years later, after a year of rest in 2011 to refocus on my priorities and three years of pretty intense training, I had quite a different mindset as I embarked on my most recent Olympic experience. Yes, I was going to defend my title, but most of all I was going to have fun. I was surrounded by my brother and the rest of my family, my fianc\u00e9e and my friends. I wanted to share with them the intensity and excitement of the Games. After that unforgettable day, February 10, I had the chance to make some amazing memories with my loved ones. I was also able to return to Quebec before long to celebrate with the people who hadn\u2019t been able to make the trip but who still played their part in helping me succeed.\nCascades has been a partner since 2001. With its support, my dreams have become a reality. I really see the importance of surrounding myself with the right people\u2014in the end, we owe our successes to the relationships we build.\nHappy 50th birthday, Cascades!\nIn sports and in business, longevity is as good as gold.\nTags: alexandre bilodeau, athlete, cascades, freestyle, games, olympic, skiing, sochi, vancouver\nWhen he became the first Canadian double Olympic champion in moguls\u2019 freestyle skiing, Alexandre Bilodeau captured the imagination of an entire nation. A native of Rosem\u00e8re, Quebec, Alexandre first fell in love with freestyle when he watched Jean-Luc Brassard compete in Lillehammer. Following in the footsteps of his idol, he became the top Canadian junior in freestyle at age 14. At age 17, he joined the national freestyle moguls team and went on to an astounding career, by dint of sheer hard work. In the 2008-2009 season, he won the world championship in dual moguls, as well as placing first in the World Cup. Nearly one year after his historic medal, he repeated the feat, grabbing the world champion title in the duals event. Following a light season to perfect his technic and to concentrate on school, his convincing comeback for the 2012-2013 season, winning, among other titles, the World title in Norway and the National championship in Val-St-C\u00f4me, Quebec, both in parallel. For his last season before he retires, in 2013-2014, he finished second at his 3 first World Cup, in Finland, Calgary and Deer Valley, before finishing in first place for the following in Deer Valley again, Lake Placid, and Val-St-C\u00f4me. Once his freestyle career comes to an end, Alexandre intends to pursue a career in business. With \u201cdare to dream big\u201d as his watchword, there is every reason to believe he will be just as successful there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 180.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.fabkids.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7YV7RN4DCUQEHTEWDVFOB44EWKCZ2FOD", "length": 17842, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "blog.fabkids.com", "title": "FabKids Blog \u2013 Mom\u2019s BFF", "raw_content": "How to Help Kids and Families Affected by Recent Natural Disasters\nFabKids x Erin Condren Back to School Giveaway Official Terms and Conditions\nOFFICIAL RULES. The following are the official rules (\u201cRules\u201d) for the FabKids 5 Days of Giveaways Sweepstakes (\u201cSweepstakes\u201d). 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Entries that are lost, late, incomplete, misdirected or altered for any reason, including hardware, software, browser or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility will be ineligible. Only legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older may enter and participate in the Sweepstakes.\nThe following \u201cPrize\u201d is being awarded to 2 (Two) Grand Prize winners in this Sweepstakes: 4 (Four) Tickets to see Smallfoot \u00a9 2018 WBEI, 1 (One) gift certificate to FabKids.com for $100 US Dollars. Estimated value of 4 (Four) Tickets to see Smallfoot \u00a9 2018 WBEI is $64 depending on the location of the theatre. FabKids to contact winner directly to award prizing. Total prize valued at $164 US dollars. All results and decisions of the random drawing are final and binding in all respects. The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the Entry Period. All results and decisions of Sponsor are final and binding in all respects. Any difference between the approximate retail value and the actual value of the Prize will not be awarded and any difference will not be refunded. The Prize is not transferable or redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded. Taxes related to the Prize, if any, are the sole responsibility of the Winner\nSWEEPSTAKES. The Entry submission period of the Sweepstakes begins on September 27, 2018 at 8am PST and ends on October 4, 2018 at 11:59pm PST (\u201cEntry Period\u201d). Winner will be notified on the original post on or around October 8, 2018 on FabKids official page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. If the winning Entry is discovered to be invalid for any reason prior to delivery of the Prize, or if the Winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within three (3) business days, an alternate winner may be selected, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. If there is no winner by the 30th day after end of Sweepstakes, no further winners will be chosen.\nGENERAL.This Sweepstakes is governed by the laws of the State of California, United States. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. By entering and participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by these Rules and by Sponsor\u2019s decisions, which are final and binding on all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Entrants are required to provide accurate, valid and truthful information at all times. Sponsor will reject and delete any Entry that it discovers to be false, fraudulent, illegal or deceptive and will disqualify any entrant who tampers with the Entry process, the operation of the Sweepstakes, or is otherwise in violation of the Rules. Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors, which result in the omission, interruption, deletion, defect, destruction, alteration, and/or delay of any Entry. Sponsor is not responsible for any technical, network, electronic, computer, hardware and/or software malfunction, problem, incompatibility, congestion or failure of any kind. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Sweepstakes at any time, in its sole discretion, if the Sweepstakes is not capable of completion as planned, including without limitation, the lack of Entry submissions, incomplete Entries, computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort, without notice. Upon cancellation or termination of the Sweepstakes for any reason, Sponsor shall have no obligation to award prizes or compensation of any kind.\nBy submitting an Entry and participating in the Sweepstakes, you represent and warrant that (i) your Entry is original and that you are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submitted Entry, or you have obtained the necessary permission to include the Entry in the Sweepstakes, and that you have the right and authority to submit the Entry in the Sweepstakes; (ii) your Entry does not violate any third party intellectual property or proprietary rights; and (iii) you are otherwise not in violation of any applicable laws, rules and/or regulations.\nBy submitting an Entry and participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree and hereby grant Sponsor and its affiliates permission to use, copy, modify, publish, and/or reproduce your Entry, including but not limited to your name, likeness, image, story and photos, for any purpose, including but not limited to marketing, media, editorial, commercial, advertising, promotional and/or publicity purposes, in any form of media anywhere in the world, without further compensation to you except where prohibited by law.\nIn no event shall Sponsor be liable to a winner or entrant for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages of any kind, whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, statutory or any other theory of liability arising from or related to the Sweepstakes, or any aspect of winner\u2019s or entrant\u2019s participation in or termination from the Sweepstakes as provided herein, even if Sponsor has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Sponsor be liable to a winner or entrant for any amount with respect to winner\u2019s or entrant\u2019s participation in or disqualification from the Sweepstakes, or from the termination or cancellation of the Sweepstakes. To the extent permitted by law, the rights to litigate, seek injunctive relief or to any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or related to the Sweepstakes are hereby excluded, and you expressly waive any and all such rights.\nIf any section, provision, term or clause shall be held or found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court decision, statute, rule or otherwise, the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby and shall continue in full force and effect and such provision may be modified or severed from these Rules to the extent necessary to make such provision enforceable and consistent with the remainder of these Rules.\nPRIVACY POLICY: Sponsor is committed to protecting your privacy. The privacy policy located at https://www.fabkids.com addresses how we will use the information we collect from you on the Sweepstakes entry form. By entering the Sweepstakes, or providing your information to us, you agree to accept the uses of your information described in this privacy policy.\nWhen you register as an entrant in the Sweepstakes your name, email address and will be collected. Once a Prize Winner is chosen, the Prize Winner\u2019s first and last name will be publicly shared and displayed on FabKids\u2019s Instagram page, FabKids\u2019s website, and/or other promotional materials. The Prize Winner\u2019s name will also be shared with any inquiring parties.\n// End of Official Rules //\nFabKids x Juice Beauty x Yoobi Giveaway \u2013 Official Terms and Conditions\nOFFICIAL RULES. The following are the official rules (\u201cRules\u201d) for the FabKids x Juice Beauty x Yoobi Giveaway (\u201cSweepstakes\u201d). In order to enter the Sweepstakes, you must agree to these Rules. You agree that submission of an entry form and/or participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes your agreement to these Rules.\nENTRY & ELIGIBILITY. To enter the Sweepstakes, follow the instructions on the FabKids Instagram page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. To enter the sweepstakes, follow @FabKids, @Yoobi, @JuiceBeauty on Instagram. \u201cLike\u201d the sweepstakes post. Tag two friends. Repost giveaway photo for additional entries.. Multiple entries are allowed. Entries that are lost, late, incomplete, misdirected or altered for any reason, including hardware, software, browser or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility will be ineligible. Only legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older may enter and participate in the Sweepstakes.\nThe following \u201cPrize\u201d is being awarded to 1 (one) Grand Prize winner in this Sweepstakes: 1 (one) $200 digital gift card to FabKids.com, 1 (One) $50 digital gift card to yoobi.com, $50 worth of products from Yoobi, 1 (one) STEM CELLULAR Cleansing Oil from Juice Beauty, 1 (one) STEM CELLULAR Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizer from Juice Beauty, 1 (one) STEM CELLULAR Anti-Wrinkle Booster Serum from Juice Beauty . Estimated value of Juice Beauty Products is $200. FabKids to contact winner directly to ship Juice Beauty and Yoobi Prizes. FabKids to contact winner directly to issue FabKids and Yoobi gift cards. Total prize valued at $500 US dollars. All results and decisions of the random drawing are final and binding in all respects. The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the Entry Period. All results and decisions of Sponsor are final and binding in all respects. Any difference between the approximate retail value and the actual value of the Prize will not be awarded and any difference will not be refunded. The Prize is not transferable or redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded. Taxes related to the Prize, if any, are the sole responsibility of the Winner\nSWEEPSTAKES. The Entry submission period of the Sweepstakes begins on June 4, 2018 at 8am PST and ends on June 8, 2018 at 11:59pm PST (\u201cEntry Period\u201d). Winner will be notified on the original post on or around June 9, 2018 on FabKids official page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. If the winning Entry is discovered to be invalid for any reason prior to delivery of the Prize, or if the Winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within three (3) business days, an alternate winner may be selected, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. If there is no winner by the 30th day after end of Sweepstakes, no further winners will be chosen.\nHappy Women\u2019s History Month! To celebrate, we put together a special GIRL POWER edition of #DowntimeDoodles, featuring designs from the March Collection. Download the free coloring book here. Enjoy!\nNew month, new arrivals, new #DowntimeDoodles. Download this month\u2019s free coloring book here, and share your creations with us on Instagram!\nPut your own spin on the prints and graphics from our January collection. Download the free coloring book here, print it, and get creative.\nDowntime Doodles make a great addition any classroom or play date. And don\u2019t forget to share your creations with us on Instagram by tagging your post with #DowntimeDoodles.\nTo help you keep the kids busy this winter break, we turned our favorite graphics and patterns from the December collection into a free downloadable coloring book. Here\u2019s how to get it:\nShare your creations with us on Instagram. Use the hashtag #DowntimeDoodles\nOFFICIAL RULES. The following are the official rules (\u201cRules\u201d) for the 5 Days of Giveaways (\u201cSweepstakes\u201d). In order to enter the Sweepstakes, you must agree to these Rules. You agree that submission of an entry form and/or participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes your agreement to these Rules.\nENTRY & ELIGIBILITY. To enter the Sweepstakes, follow the instructions on the FabKids Instagram page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. Multiple entries are allowed. Entries that are lost, late, incomplete, misdirected or altered for any reason, including hardware, software, browser or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility will be ineligible. Only legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older may enter and participate in the Sweepstakes.\nThe following \u201cPrizes\u201d will be awarded (Five) Grand Prize winners in this Sweepstakes. There will be one winner for each prize: (One) 1 FabKids gift card worth $200 and (One) 12-month subscription to Little Passports; (One) 1 FabKids gift card worth $200 and $150 worth of Yoobi products; (One) 1 FabKids gift card worth $500; (One) 1 FabKids gift card worth $200 and $200 worth of products from GoldieBlox; 4 outfits from FabKids worth $150 FabKids to contact winner directly to initiate gift card process. Little Passports to contact winner directly to initiate subscription process. FabKids to ship Yoobi and GoldieBlox prizes directly to winners. Total prizes valued at $2000 US dollars. All results and decisions of the random drawing are final and binding in all respects. The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the Entry Period. All results and decisions of Sponsor are final and binding in all respects. Any difference between the approximate retail value and the actual value of the Prize will not be awarded and any difference will not be refunded. The Prize is not transferable or redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded. Taxes related to the Prize, if any, are the sole responsibility of the Winner\nSWEEPSTAKES. The Entry submission period of the Sweepstakes begins on December 14, 2017 at 8am PST and ends on December 22 at 11:59pm PST (\u201cEntry Period\u201d). Winner will be notified on the original post on or around December 22, 2017 on FabKids official page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. If the winning Entry is discovered to be invalid for any reason prior to delivery of the Prize, or if the Winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within three (3) business days, an alternate winner may be selected, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. If there is no winner by the 30th day after end of Sweepstakes, no further winners will be chosen.\nWhile relief efforts for the recent natural disasters are underway, our thoughts are with the kids and parents who were affected. To help those in need, we\u2019ve rounded up the organizations that are specifically helping little ones and families:\nOrganizations helping families in Texas and Florida:\nOrganizations helping families in Mexico:\nProject Paz\nSave the Children Mexico\nOrganizations helping families in Puerto Rico:\nSave the Children Puerto Rico\nHere at FabKids, we\u2019ll be donating over 10,000 styles of shoes and clothing.\nOFFICIAL RULES. The following are the official rules (\u201cRules\u201d) for the FabKids x Erin Condren Instagram Sweepstakes (\u201cSweepstakes\u201d). In order to enter the Sweepstakes, you must agree to these Rules. You agree that submission of an entry form and/or participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes your agreement to these Rules.\nENTRY & ELIGIBILITY. To enter the Sweepstakes, follow the instructions on the FabKids Instagram page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. To enter the sweepstakes, follow @FabKids and @ErinCondren on Instagram. \u201cLike\u201d the sweepstakes post. Tag two friends. Comment with your best back to school advice. Multiple entries are allowed. Entries that are lost, late, incomplete, misdirected or altered for any reason, including hardware, software, browser or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility will be ineligible. Only legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older may enter and participate in the Sweepstakes.\nThe following \u201cPrize\u201d is being awarded to 3 (Three) Grand Prize winners in this Sweepstakes: (Four) FabKids outfits, 1 (One) gift certificate to ErinCondren.com for $150 US Dollars. Estimated value of 4 (Four) FabKids outfits is $150 depending on selections made. Erin Condren to contact winner directly to initiate gift certificate process. FabKids to contact winner directly to initiate outfit order process. Total prize valued at $300 US dollars. All results and decisions of the random drawing are final and binding in all respects. The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the Entry Period. All results and decisions of Sponsor are final and binding in all respects. Any difference between the approximate retail value and the actual value of the Prize will not be awarded and any difference will not be refunded. The Prize is not transferable or redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded. Taxes related to the Prize, if any, are the sole responsibility of the Winner\nSWEEPSTAKES. The Entry submission period of the Sweepstakes begins on August 2, 2017 at 8am PST and ends on August 9, 2017 at 11:59pm PST (\u201cEntry Period\u201d). Winner will be notified on the original post on or around August 10, 2017 on FabKids official page located here https://www.instagram.com/fabkids/. If the winning Entry is discovered to be invalid for any reason prior to delivery of the Prize, or if the Winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within three (3) business days, an alternate winner may be selected, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. 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We find affinity with strangers and create bonds that last the length of our lives. We aspire to greatness and we teach each other what we know.\nOver the past 14 years, we\u2019ve embraced our Flickr family and we\u2019ve made Flickr our home.\nNow, we are excited to expand our family and our home. We\u2019re thrilled to announce that Flickr will be joining SmugMug to create the world\u2019s best home for photography.\nSmugMug is one of the most dynamic platforms for visual storytelling in the world and we share their passionate dedication to photography and photographers.\nAs we unite with them, we are returning to the focus that made us the world\u2019s trailblazing online photography community. We are reinforcing our commitment to creators and making sure Flickr remains the best place for them to connect, to share, and to develop their passion.\nOver the course of the next month, we look forward to providing more details and we\u2019ll keep you informed of developments that will matter to you. In the meantime, please read our extended Q&A and join the discussion on the Help Forum.\n~The Flickr Team\nflickr, News\nThe time has come! I know many of you were waiting on this to get you through your Monday. Let\u2019s make this week a good [\u2026]\nWe Can\u2019t Stand Spam Either\nWe\u2019ve been fighting spam for some time now. And thanks to our recent acquisition by SmugMug, we have new resources that are helping us take stronger action and make significant progress on this front.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.julkka.com/?p=251", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FECRTGSM3FGHIQBENN7AIWDZPC2KVS5A", "length": 69, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.julkka.com", "title": "Snowhite \u00ab Julkka's blog", "raw_content": "Have I told you lately\u2026 \u00bb\n\u00ab Deep inside, Vaasa\u2019s pretty old-fashioned", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.supersonicsoul.com/2008/06/big-money.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:P352VQZAC4LPZVJKDQU5RM65C7GPR6RL", "length": 1160, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.supersonicsoul.com", "title": "Supersonicsoul - The Sonics Blog!: Big Money", "raw_content": "According to Sports Illustrated, Kevin Durant was the 13th highest-paid athlete (using both on- and off-court income) in the U.S. last year.\nIn addition, Durant is the youngest man in the entire top 50, as well as the only teenager. Including endorsements, SI lists the young Sonic\u2019s take at $25.9 million this past year, including the $12 million signing bonus he received from Nike (just edging the $0.12 signing bonus I received from Editor Paul on my last contract).\nEven more amazing, Durant is younger than all but three of the 14 \u201cFuture 50\u201d candidates SI trumpets in another section of the website. Only Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, and Brazilian soccer star Alexandre Pato are younger than Durant. He finished sixth among NBA players.\nAmong others, Durant received more money than Tom Brady, Jeff Gordon, Manny Ramirez, Tim Duncan, and Rich King.\nWhat?! Paul pays you?! I knew I should have asked to be paid in money instead of Supersonicsoul stock!\nI pay in hugs.\nKevin Durant has yet to surpass the lifetime earnings of Jim McIlvaine, though.\nPaul really does pay his debts in hugs. It's kind of creepy and not very satisfying.\nAmen to that, Eric.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 5169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.transportbusinesslaw.com/2013/09/13/aviation-airports-federal-aviation-administration-hereby-publishes-the-entire-policy-regarding-airport-rates-and-charges-currently-in-effect-in-a-single-document-this-new-compr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:NTXJJO2JMIONXDFYNTH6MPXREFND4BDK", "length": 2202, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.transportbusinesslaw.com", "title": "AVIATION (AIRPORTS) / Federal Aviation Administration hereby, \u201cpublishes the entire Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges currently in effect in a single document\u201d. This new comprehensive document does not either adopt or propose substantive changes to existing regulation. | Transport Business Law & Compliance", "raw_content": "September 10, 2013. Notice; Publication Of Entire Policy Statement As Amended.\n\u201cThe Department of Transportation (Department) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges in the Federal Register on June 21, 1996 (61 FR 31994). (\u201c1996 Rates and Charges Policy\u201d). The statement of policy was required by \u00a7 113 of the FAA Authorization Act of 1994, 103 (August 23, 1994), now codified at 49 U.S.C., 47129, Specific sections of the 1996 Rates and Charges Policy (namely, paragraphs 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.1(a), 2.5.1, 2.5.1(a)-(e), 2.5.3(a), 2.6 and other portions of the Policy necessarily implicated by the Court\u2019s holding) were subsequently vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Air Transport Ass\u2019n of America v. DOT, 119 F.3d 38, amended by 129 F.3d 625 (D.C. Cir. 1997). In July 2008, following notice and opportunity for public comment, the Department and FAA adopted three amendments to the Policy (73 FR 40430, July 14, 2008). The amendments are intended to provide greater flexibility to operators of congested airports to use landing fees to provide incentives to air carriers to use the airport at less congested times or to use alternate airports to meet regional air service needs. The amendments to the Policy were affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Air Transport Ass\u2019n v. DOT, 613 F.3d 206 (D.C. Cir. 2010). In 2012, Congress included foreign air carriers (in addition to air carriers) under \u00a7 47129. See,\u00a7 148 of the FAA Authorization Act of 2012, Public Law 112-95, 126 Stat. 11 (Feb. 14, 2012).\n\u201cThe FAA has received requests for a complete official version of the Policy, as amended since 1996, and FAA understands the convenience of a complete statement of the policy for anyone needing to refer to the contents of this Policy. Accordingly, by this notice, FAA is publishing an official version of the entire Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges that reflects all of the changes to the language of the Policy since 1996, and is republished solely for the convenience of stating a complete version of the Policy in a single document.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 88.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogdoofus.com/1083/the-so-called-recession/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MYYCXU7JJQEG6STJRTUQWLFIV7VNOCX2", "length": 1147, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blogdoofus.com", "title": "The So-Called 'Recession' - BlogDoofus", "raw_content": "\u00ab Chet Is A Turd\nA Really Bad Diet \u00bb\nI call it a \u201cso-called\u201d recession because that\u2019s not really what it is. It\u2019s a full on depression. One that when the dust settles and historians dig out the truth, is going to look every bit as bad to future generations as the Great Depression of the 1930\u2019s looks to us.\nThe problem is that politicians are driving themselves silly trying to put the best possible face on this nightmare instead of actually doing anything constructive about it.\nThey\u2019re all worried about how this thing is going to look on their records and how it\u2019s going to affect their chance of re-election that it\u2019s all just a big PR campaign to them. Meanwhile the rest of us are busy making funeral arrangements for the hopes that we had of doing things like getting out of debt and having a fair shot at the American dream. We know that unless there are major changes and the government stops spending money faster than they can print it that we will soon all be doomed to scraping pennies just to survive.\nAnd no, I\u2019m not exaggerating one bit.\nThe So-Called \u2018Recession\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.acu.edu/sitc/project/brian-burton-associate-professor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SUQ67IKKYBOM3RBG2KU7ODMDRXXTXQZG", "length": 18585, "nlines": 138, "source_domain": "blogs.acu.edu", "title": "Brian Burton, Associate Professor | School of Information Technology & Computing", "raw_content": "(325) 674-2173 sitc@acu.edu\nComputing Theory \u2013 Accreditation Details\nInformation Technology \u2013 Accreditation Details\nComputer Science and Math with Teacher Certification\nDigital Entertainment Technology\nSITC Scholarship\nVR Jam\nOffice: 230 Mabee Business Building\nAddress: ACU Box 28036, Abilene, Texas 79699\nEmail: brian.burton@acu.edu\nBrian Burton, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Digital Entertainment Technology\nDoctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri. Dissertation topic: Collaboration and the use of three-dimensional interface within a virtual learning environment and the impact on communication and learning: a case study. Advisor: Dr. Barbara Martin. July 2001 to May 2008\nCompleted 22 graduate hours in Computer Information Systems. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. August 2000 to August 2007\nMasters of Science in Secondary Administration. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Completed seminar research on Differences in Utilization of Technology between Large, Medium and Small Schools in Missouri. June 1997 to May 1999\nBachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education, Certification in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems; Graduated Cum Laude with a double major in Secondary Education and Business Administration and a minor in Computer Science. Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. May 1990 to May 1992\nAssociate Professor of Digital Entertainment and Information Technology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas; Teaching courses in Digital Entertainment, and mobile application/game development. Developed new major and minor in Digital Entertainment Technology in the fields of Game Development and Digital Media Production. Sponsor of Digital Entertainment student organization. iPhone Fellow researching collaboration using mobile devices. iPad Optimist project leader \u2013 Developed Apple iPad application for university newspaper. Named teaching faculty of the year \u2013 College of Business/iSchool, 2010 and received the Dean\u2019s award for outstanding research and service, 2011 & 2016. August 2007 to present.\nHeadmaster/owner, Burton\u2019s Garden of Schools. An online school to provide educational support for homeschooled children. Responsibilities included oversee faculty, curriculum, development, website, and technological innovation to improve online educational experiences for K12 students. May 1993 to present.\nCEO, Burton\u2019s Media Group. Develop and publish eTextbooks, technical reference eBooks and mobile applications. January 2010 to present.\nServed in various capacities over a sixteen-year period at Missouri State University. Initially was hired as staff to manage campus computer labs. Soon became teaching adjunct courses for the Computer Information Systems department. Upon completion of master\u2019s degree, was brought on as a full-time lecturer in Computer Information Systems. While working on doctorate, assisted the College of Education in completing their NCATE accreditation by creating the first of its kind online accreditation website. After successfully completing NCATE accreditation, returned to full-time faculty as an Assistant Professor on the West Plains campus of MSU serving as the Distance Learning Coordinator, created and co-chaired the Computer Graphics and Programming degree, charied the Computer Science/Computer Information Systems department and taught courses in Computer Graphics and Programming, Computer Science and Computer Information Systems. Since leaving Missouri State University, have maintained a close relationship and occasionally teach online graduate courses for the Computer Information Systems department. June 1997 to December 2007.\nDirector of Technology, Republic R-III School District, Republic, Missouri. Supervised, directed, coordinated and maintained computer infrastructure for Republic Schools. Duties included supervising employees, training students, planning for future technology trends, maintaining networks, servers, and computer systems. Train faculty and staff in the use of computers. Assist the Superintendent in planning for future needs. Assist in writing and facilitating grants. June 1998 to August 1999.\nComputer Coordinator and teacher of Computer Literacy, Computer Applications, and Advanced Placement Computer Programming, Lake Country Christian School, Ft. Worth, Texas. Designed and implemented a K-12 computer literacy program, teaching students, teachers, administrators and the community in all aspects of using computers. Developed and implemented internet presence for the school system. July 1993 to June 1994, July 1995 to May 1997.\nComputer Coordinator and sixth grade teacher, Anderson Christian School, Anderson, Indiana. Designed and implemented 3rd through 6th grade computer literacy program. June 1994 to June 1995.\nInstallation and Maintenance Group Leader, University Computing Services, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Oversaw the operations of the Computer Installation and Maintenance areas. Duties included the supervising of a 30-member team in the installation and maintenance of over 14,000 microcomputers and related equipment; maintain programs necessary for day to day operations; developed ongoing training for staff and students; assisted with the maintenance of the wide area network. January 1987 to April 1990.\nOver 25 years programming experience in various languages including: ASP, Basic, Visual Basic, C#, COBOL, Actionscript, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, Lua, Pascal, PHP, and Objective-C, iOS & Android mobile application development. Texas Lifetime Secondary Teaching Certificate. Missouri Secondary Administration Certificate.\nProfessional organization membership/service:\nCaptivate Conference \u2013 Advisory board \u2013 2013\nArkansas State University \u2013 Beebe \u2013 CIS program review \u2013 Out of state consultant \u2013 2013\nKindleEditora \u2013 Brazilian eBook publisher \u2013 Editorial staff \u2013 ad hoc consultant \u2013 2013 to present\nAmerican Educational Research Association \u2013 2011 to 2014\nReLIVE \u2013 Academic Committee \u2013 2011\nMissouri State University \u2013 West Plains Computer Graphics & Programming Advisory Board \u2013 2010 to present\nAACE \u2013 2010 to present\nReviewer for Journal of Educational Computing Research \u2013 2009 to present\nReviewer for Journal of Virtual World Research \u2013 2009 to present\nInternational Game Developers Association \u2013 2005 to present\nNew Media Consortium \u2013 2007 to present\nAssociation of Computing Machinery \u2013 SIGGRAPH \u2013 2005 to 2013\nReviewer for First International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (IEEE co-sponsor) \u2013 2009\nFuturePlay Conference \u2013 Program Committee \u2013 2008, 2010\nInternational Society for Technology in Education \u2013 2004 to 2007\nMissouri Distance Learning Association \u2013 Board Member \u2013 2003 to 2007\nUnited States Distance Learning Association \u2013 2004 to 2007\nAchievement/awards/grants:\nFaculty Service award \u2013 School of IT & Computing \u2013 2016\nFaculty Fellow \u2013 Abilene Christian University \u2013 Gamification research \u2013 2015 to 2016\nMicrosoft Azure Cloud Research Grant \u2013 $32,400 \u2013 2014 to 2015\nAmazon AWS Cloud Educational Grant \u2013 $4,600 \u2013 2013 to 2016\nCorona Labs Software Grant \u2013 $18,000 \u2013 2013 to 2014\nDean\u2019s Outstanding Researcher of the year \u2013 College of Business Administration \u2013 2011\nUnity Mobile Education grant recipient \u2013 2010\nClassroom Teacher of the year \u2013 College of Business Administration \u2013 2009 to 2010\nMobile Technology Fellow, Abilene Christian University \u2013 2008-2009, 2010-2011\nHonors College Research Grant \u2013 Abilene Christian University \u2013 2009\nCisco CCNA Instructor certified\nMissouri Teacher Certificate in Secondary Administration\nTexas Teacher Certificate in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems\nDET Club sponsor \u2013 2013 to present\nATEMS High School Student Mentor \u2013 2014 to 2015\nSuspension Appeals Committee \u2013 2014 to present\nACU Undergraduate Research Festival Judge \u2013 2013 & 2015\nUniversity Disciplinary Review Board \u2013 2012 to present\nMcNair student mentor \u2013 2010 to present\nLocal/communitiy presentations & consulting:\nRegularly present at campus and regional events on mobile application development, mobile research, and distance learning, including at ACU Connections events on local Mobile Learning initiative.\nBurton, B.G. (2014) Consulting: TVO training in mobile application and game development. Toronto, ON.\nBurton, B.G. (2014) N-tier mobile application development. Presented at Corona Meet-up, ReelFX, Dallas, TX.\nBurton, B.G. (2013) Consulting: DeVry University training in mobile application development. Chicago, IL.\nBurton, B.G. (2012) Mobile application development simplified. Presented at Dallas SDK.\nBurton, B.G., Lewis, S., Pybus, K., Wiggins, M. (2010) Romancing the app: How four faculty members and 12 students from three departments moved the Optimist to the iPads in 60 days. Presented for Faculty Enrichment, ACU.\nBurton, B.G. (2009) The use of three dimensional interface within a virtual learning environment and the impact on student collaboration and knowledge creation. Presented for Faculty Enrichment, ACU.\nBurton, B.G. (2008) The call for Christian leadership in digital entertainment. Presented at Summit, ACU.\nBurton, B.G., Childers. J., Dickson, K. (2008) Talking Pictures \u2013 How to Podcast.\nBurton, B. G. & Burton, B. (in development) Creating isometric games with Corona SDK. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-08-0\nBurton, B. G. & Burton, B. (in development) Game design fundamentals with Lumberyard. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-01-1\nBurton, B.G. & Huff, J. (in development) Game development fundamentals pipeline with Unity 3D: Air Hockey. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-17-2\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N. (accepted) Knowledge creation and student engagement within 3D virtual worlds. International Journal of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Vol. 1(1) IGI Publishing, Hersey, PA.\nBurton, B. G. (2011; 2016) Beginning mobile app development with Corona. eTextbook. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-02-8\nBurton, B. G. (2011; 2016) Mobile app development with Corona: Getting started. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-00-4.\nBurton, B. G. (2016) Step by step guide to Corona SDK. Corona Labs, Austin, Texas.\nBurton, B. G. & Martin, B. (2014). The Second Generation of Teaching Mobile Computing: Practices and Pitfalls. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (pp. 278-292). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).\nBurton, B. G. (2014; 2016) Learning mobile app development with Corona SDK. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-07-3\nBurton, B.G. & Huff, J. (2013) Game development fundamentals pipeline with Unity 3D:Rollerball. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-16-5\nBurton, B.G. & Huff, J. (2013) Game development fundamentals pipeline with Unity 3D:Plinko. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-15-8\nBurton, B.G. (2013) Beginning mobile application development \u2013 Lesson Plan in ISTE Learning on the go. Available through http://www.iste.org/learn/professional-development/resources.\nBurton, B. G. (2013) Desarrollo de Aplicaciones M\u00f3viles con Corona. Translated by Raul T Delgado, Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN: 978-1-937336-18-9\nBurton, B. G. (2012) Corona Certified Developer Study Guide. Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN: 978-1-937336-10-3\nBurton, B. G. (2012) Criando Aplica\u00e7\u00f5es M\u00f3veis com Corona. Translated by Duarte, L.F. Jr, Burtons Media Group, Abilene, Texas. ISBN 978-1-937336-12-7\nBurton, B. G. (2010) Unity Mobile Generation Education Giveaway. Peer-Reviewed Grant. First Round winner.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N. (2010) Learning in 3D virtual environments: Collaboration and knowledge spirals. Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 43(2) 259-273.\nBurton, B. G., Pybus, K., Lewis, S., Wiggins, M. (2010) Mobile distribution methods for journalism and mass communication. Mobile Learning Fellows Research Grant.\nBurton, B. G. (2008). Collaboration and the use of three dimensional interface within a virtual learning environment and the impact on communication and learning: a case study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri \u2013 Columbia.\nBurton, B., Chin, J., and Chin, M., (2007) Classical Epistemology in CIS: A Model for Teaching Programming Logic through Marketing. Global Education Journal, Vol. 2007, Issue 1, pp 24-49.\nBurton, B.G. (1998) Differences in utilization of technology in Missouri between large, medium, and small school districts. Masters Seminar paper.\nPeer-reviewed presentations:\nBurton, B. G. & Martin, B. N. (2016) Teaching mobile computing: What we have learned. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technology, Austin, TX.\nBurton, B. G. & Martin, B. N. (2016) Teaching mobile computing: Six years later. SITE AACE Conference, Savannah, GA.\nBurton, B. G. & Martin, B. N. (2014) The second generation of teaching mobile computing: practices and pitfalls. E-Learn AACE conference, New Orleans, LA.\nBurton, B. G. (2013, Invited) Panelist: Innovation in Media Education. Captivate Conference, Austin, TX.\nBurton, B. G. (2013, Invited) Using analytics and metrics to turn app users into gold. Captivate Conference, Austin, TX.\nBurton, B. G., Brothers, L, Martin, B. N. (2013) An examination of the outcomes of gamification when used in a university level classroom. American Educational Research Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.\nBurton, B. G. (2013) The mobile application & game development landscape: comparison and evaluation of the major players. Corona Meetup, Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston, MA.\nBurton, B. G. (2012) Teaching mobile application development. ConnectED. Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX\nDillin, A., Burton. B.G. (2012) eTextbooks as apps. Undergraduate Research Festival. Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX\nBurton, B. G. (2011) Mobile app development for ministry. Mobile Ministry Forum, Waxhaw, North Carolina.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N., Robins, J. (2011) Creation of knowledge and student engagement within personal learning environments. ReLIVE11 Conference, Milton Keynes, England.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N., Mhlanga, F. S., Robins, J. (2011) What are the Practices and Challenges of Teaching Mobile Computing at the University Level? American Educational Research Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.\nBrothers, M., Burton. B.G. (2011) Serious games in education, Undergraduate Research Festival. Abilene Christian University\nBurton, B. G., Tanner, R. (2011) Panelist on mobile applications in journalism. Texas Associated Press Conference, Tyler, TX\nBurton, B. G. (2011) Gaming on the go: mobile game development. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Invited Presentation\nBurton, B. G. (2011) Panelist on teaching mobile computing courses. ConnectED, Abilene, TX.\nBrothers, M.C., Burton, B.G. (2010) Serious games in learning environments. Ronald E. McNair National Research Conference. Lake Delevan, Wisconsin\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B.N. (2010) iPhone in the Classroom. Missouri Distance Learning Association Conference, Springfield, MO.\nBurton, B. G., Mhlanga, F.S. (2010) Best practices: Teaching mobile computing: practices & pitfalls. Ed-Media Conference of AACE, Toronto, ON.\nKight, B., Burton, B. G. (2010) Developing the Optimist ipad project. Undergraduate Research Festival. Abilene Christian University.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N., (2010) Collaboration and the use of Mobile Devices. American Educational Research Association Convention, Denver, CO.\nBurton, B.G., Martin, B. N., (2010) Collaboration and 3D Virtual Environments. American Educational Research Association Convention, Denver, CO.\nBurton, B. G., Mhlanga, F. S., Tanner, R. (2010) Experiences and direction in teaching an undergraduate course in mobile computing. Southwest EduCause Convention. Austin, TX.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N., Thomas, D. (2009) Collaboration and the use of three dimensional interface within a virtual learning environment. Presented at American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N. (2009) Using mobile technology for collaboration. Presented at ConnectEd, Abilene, TX\nBurton, B. G., Martin, B. N. (2008) The Use of Three Dimensional Interface within a Virtual Learning Environment and the impact on Student Collaboration and Knowledge Creation. Presented at ReLIVE 08, Milton Keynes, England.\nBurton, B. G. (2007) Served on a panel discussion on the educational uses of immersive environments at FuturePlay. Toronto, Canada.\nBurton, B., Huff, J. (2007) Development of a gaming degree. Presented at Illinois Online Conference.\nBurton, B., Chin, J. (2007) Inclusion of Game concepts in Introductory Programming Courses. Presented at Illinois Online Conference.\nChin, J., Burton, B., Chin, M. (2006) Logic concepts in CIS: a marketing example. Presented at Illinois Online Conference.\nRotten Apples (in development) iOS and Android Game \u2013 Lead programmer/production.\nDragons vs Gods (2016) iOS and Android Game \u2013 Publishing/Production.\n5 Second Frenzy (2014) iOS and Android Game \u2013 Publishing/Production.\nSea Blurp (2014) \u2013 iOS and Android game \u2013 Lead programmer/production.\nCorona Certified Developers Exam App (2014) iOS & Android exam app \u2013 Lead programmer/production.\nThe Optimist (2010) \u2013 iPad app for Abilene Christian University newspaper. First University newspaper available on the iPad \u2013 Programming & production faculty supervisor.\nSA Vote (2010) \u2013 iOS app for Abilene Christian University Student Association \u2013 Programming & production faculty supervisor.\nCorona Geek (Aug, 2012 to present) \u2013 Weekly Google+ Hangout covering the field of mobile application and game development.\nKTAB News/Telemundo (Sept. 22, 2016) \u2013 \u201cPlayStation & VR Game Development\u201d\nSay Something Smart (Aug, 2015) \u2013 Podcast discussing the educational/therapeutic uses of games.\nKTXS News (Mar. 3, 2011) \u201c100% Job Placement For Game And App Design Students\u201d http://bigcountryhomepage.com/search-fulltext?nxd_id=349046.\nKTXS News, (Feb. 15, 2011). \u201cACU Offers New Course About Application Development\u201d http://bigcountryhomepage.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=342956.\nKTXS News (Apr. 6, 2010) \u201cACU Launches First Student Paper on iPad\u201d http://bigcountryhomepage.com/search-fulltext?nxd_id=233495.\nACU (Apr, 2010). \u201cThe Optimist is first to publish on iPad.\u201d http://www.acu.edu/promise/innovative/ipad_optimist.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 20212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bloguinhos.com/essay-renting-a-house-or-apartment/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:LWUDDKVZPEIQWUKIRFQKNXKXHCRFWFVH", "length": 55901, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "bloguinhos.com", "title": "Essay Renting A House Or Apartment \u00bb Online Essay Archives", "raw_content": "Apartment Hunting Tips Apartment hunting can be very daunting for some potential renters. Often the variety of options available to these renters is a source of overwhelming frustration for the renters. With so many appealing options it can be difficult to choose just one. However, there are some tips which can help to ease the process of apartment hunting. The process of finding the perfect apartment can be broken down into three simple steps. The first step is to set a budget. Next the renter should research their available options and then comparison shop to determine which option is the best. Set a Budget First For many renters the most important consideration is how much they are willing to spend on an apartment per month. For this reason it should come as no surprise that the first step in the apartment hunting process should include establishing a budget. Renters should consider their monthly income and subtract out all of their monthly expenses from this amount. Monthly expenses should include all bills which are paid regularly as well as money spent on food, entertainment and miscellaneous items each month. The renter may also wish to subtract out an additional amount to allow for some savings each month as well as emergencies. The total left after these subtractions is the amount the renter is able to spend on an apartment per month. Once this amount is established the renter will have a better understanding of the type of apartment they are able to afford. Research Available Properties Once a budget has been established, the renter should begin researching the properties which fall within his budget range. It is likely to consider properties which are slightly above the range as well as properties which are slightly below the range. Doing this will allow the renter to see if there is an opportunity to either make improvements on the amount of monthly spending to allow for the renting of a more expensive property. The renter can also determine whether or not they feel there is the opportunity to negotiate a lower rental rate on a particular property. When initially researching properties, the renter does not necessarily have to visit each property. Most of the pricing information can be obtained from resources such as Internet websites, newspapers and rental magazines. Since pricing is the primary concern at this point, the initial research will enable the renter to eliminate properties which are too far out of their price range. Comparison Shop Once the renter has narrowed down his list of possible apartment complexes to a more manageable number it is time to start visiting these properties. It is during this step that the renter will really get a feel for the quality of the apartment as well as the amount and quality of amenities offered by the complex. This is very important because this information can be used to decide between properties which are otherwise very similar. The comparison shopping process is also worthwhile because it gives the renter some bargaining power in negotiating more favorable rent rates. Renters who have visited a number of apartments likely have a good idea of the going rate in a particular area for a particular size apartment. These renters can use this information to potentially convince some leasing agents to lower their prices at least a little bit. There will not likely be huge drops in price from these negotiations but it will likely be enough to be considered worthwhile. Word count 581\nBefore renting an apartment\nBefore Renting an Apartment Renting an apartment is a very serious decision which warrants a great deal of attention before a final decision is made. When choosing an apartment to rent, renters have a variety of factors to consider including, but not limited to, price, size, location, amenities, whether or not they want a roommate and how long they want to stay in the apartment. Those who plan to rent an apartment should consider all of their options before making a decision to ensure they are making the best possible decision. This article will discuss the importance of considering all of the possible options as well as the possibility of having roommates and the importance of reading contracts carefully. Consider All of the Possible Options When renting an apartment, the renter should first investigate all of the options available to him to ensure he is able to make an informed decision. This is important because the renter may not even be aware of all of the available options until he starts to for an apartment. The best way to find out what type of apartments are available is to do some research on the Internet and in newspapers and rental magazines and then start visiting apartments which seem interesting. In visiting the apartments the renter will get a better idea of the size and types of amenities which are available in his price range. He will also begin to learn more about the types of amenities available. This is important because not all apartments will offer the same amenities. Renters may not find what they are looking for unless they visit a few places before making a decision. Consider the Possibility of Roommates Deciding whether or not to have a roommate or multiple roommates is one of the important decisions a renter will have to make. This is an important decision because roommates can make a living situation either significantly better or significantly worse depending on a number of factors. These factors may include compatibility of the roommates, ability to pay the rent and ability to assist in the household activities. Having roommates can make an apartment more affordable. Often larger apartments may be more affordable for two people than a smaller apartment would be for one renter. Additionally, apartments designed for two or more people often have a larger overall living space with a larger kitchen, dining room and family room. This makes the possibility of roommates very appealing to some renters. However, there are some caveats to making the decision to live with a roommate. Care should be taken to carefully screen potential roommates to ensure they are not potentially harmful. Strangers do not present the only potential roommate problems. Problems may even occur when the roommate is a trusted friend. In these cases, compatible living styles may be the issue. For example, if one roommate likes to stay up late and listen to music or watch television and the other roommate likes to go to sleep early there can be some conflicts if compromises are not made. Also, if one of the roommates is particularly neat and the other rather messy, conflicts may arise. Read the Contract Carefully Whether a renter opts to have a roommate or not and regardless of the type of apartment they select, the renter should be careful to read the contract before signing it. This is important because a rental agreement is a legal document and the renter should understand this document before they sign the agreement. Many renters may never need to know the exact information in their contract document but if a dispute arises, the renter should be aware of his rights. Additionally, the renter should pay special attention to any sections of the contract which specify the landlord\u2019s ability to evict the tenant. Contract sections specifying the requirements of the renter are also very important. This may include requirements for breaking the lease agreement in the event that the renter has to move before the lease period ends. Word count 669\nBenefits of Renting While there are some renters who view renting an apartment or a house as a failure, there are others who see the benefits there are to be gained from renting a property as opposed to purchasing a property. Some of the benefits of renting include the ability to save money while renting for the purpose of purchasing a home, few maintenance requirements and the inclusion of amenities which the renter would not likely be able to afford if they were to purchase a home instead of renting. Although there are some negative aspects to renting an apartment, this article will focus exclusively on the benefits of renting a property. The Ability to Save Money Being able to save up a great deal of money for the purpose of making a down payment on a dream home is just one of the many great advantages to renting a property. Many homeowners were able to realize their dream of homeownership only after living in a rental property for a certain amount of time. Although renting is often criticized as throwing money away because it does not result in equity, the ability to save money while renting is unparalleled Rent for an apartment is usually considerably less expensive than the monthly mortgage on a home. The home is also typically much bigger than the rental property but in cases where the renter is renting for the sole purpose of saving money, the value of renting cannot be denied. Depending on how long the renter stays in the apartment, they may save hundreds or even thousands of dollars during the course of the rental agreement. No Maintenance Properties Another advantage to renting a property is there is typically little or no maintenance required by the renter. This is especially true in an apartment situation. The renter may be responsible for small items such as changing light bulbs but more extensive repairs such as leaks in plumbing or clogs in drains are typically handled by the maintenance staff of the rental property. Additionally common areas such as grassy areas or gardens are maintained by the maintenance staff. The exception is usually when the renter rents a home as opposed to the apartment. In these cases the renter may still not be responsible for small repairs but might be obligated to take care of items such as maintaining the grass. Worthwhile Amenities Another advantage to apartment living is often the amenities offered to residence. Such amenities might include usage of the pool, an exercise room, meeting spaces and a theater room. In most cases these amenities are offered free of charge to resident and their guests. Many renters who might be able to purchase a home would not likely be able to purchase a home with amenities such as a pool, fully equipped exercise room and a home theater. These items are often considered luxurious and are not available in the majority of homes which are on the market at any particular time. In fact searching for homes which specifically have these features may severely limit the number of search results and may result in no search results at all when these features are searched in conjunction with a typical price range. However, those who rent can enjoy access to these amenities. They may pay more in rent than those in a comparable apartment complex without these amenities but they are also still likely saving a considerable amount of money each month as long as they are budgeting wisely and have chosen a rental property within their price range. Word count 596\nBreaking a lease on a rental agreement\nBreaking a Lease on a Rental Agreement Most rental agreements have a section regarding the renter breaking the lease agreement. While there is also likely a section or several sections regarding when the leasing agent can evict the renter, the section on breaking the lease should be of particular interest to those who might be in a position to have to break the lease some day. Renters should understand these contract terms so they can make an informed decision. Additionally the renter should consider all costs associated with breaking the lease. This includes both financial costs as well as emotional costs. Understand the Contract Terms Renters should review their rental agreement carefully before signing this document. The rental agreement is a legally binding document which should be given proper consideration before entering into the agreement. This is important because understanding these terms will be essential if the need to break the lease becomes a reality. Rental agreements typically do allow the renter to break the lease but not without some form of penalty. This penalty usually comes in the form of requiring the renter to give a specified amount of notice before the contract is up and also requires the renter to pay a sum of money to break the rental agreement. A notice of 30 days and a lease break amount equal to one month\u2019s rent are common penalties associated with breaking a lease, however, individual leasing agents may impose penalties which are either harsher or less severe. Consider the Costs of Breaking the Lease As previously mentioned there is typically a fee associated with breaking a lease. This fee is often set equal to one month\u2019s rent. While paying this fee may seem excessive there are some instances in which it is an economically good decision to break the contract even though there is a financial penalty imposed. Consider the example of a homeowner who is the process or relocating due to a job change. The homeowner may opt to rent an apartment in the new state while the house is put up for sale in the previous state. If the renter enters into a 12 month contract under the supposition that it will take this long to sell the old house and purchase a new house, he may be surprised if his other house sells quickly and he finds a home in his new state rather quickly. This may all occur within a matter of 2-3 months. The renter has the option to stay in the apartment until the rental agreement nears expiration and then start looking for a home. However, this option runs the risk that the home he previously found will not likely be available. The renters other option is to place a bid on the new house and plan on breaking the lease if he is able to close on the new house. In this case, the renter would be saddled with both a rent and a mortgage for 9-10 months. This will likely be significantly more expensive than the price the renter would pay to break the lease. Breaking the Lease is Not Always a Financial Decision The decision to break a lease is not always completely a financial decision. There are sometimes emotional components which factor into the equation. For example a renter may have only 1-2 months remaining on his rental agreement when he is offered a dream job which will require him to relocate immediately. Although breaking the lease that late in the agreement is usually not financially wise, the renter may make this decision to avoid missing out on a dream job. Word count 603\nCaring for a rental property\nCaring For a Rental Property Those who live in a rental property may have questions regarding how they should care for their domicile. While treating the property with respect and not intentionally doing damage to the property should be understood there are other gray areas where renters may not be sure what their rights and responsibilities are in the rental situation. In most of these cases, these questions can be resolved by carefully reviewing the rental agreement. This can provide the renter a great deal of insight regarding which items will be corrected by the leasing agent and which items are the responsibilities of the renter. Treat the Property Like it Is Your Home The heading to this subsection is certainly appropriate in theory but in reality it may not be true. The theory behind treating a rental property like it is your home is that you should treat the rental property in the same way you would treat your own home. This means the renter should not intentionally damage or otherwise neglect the rental property. It also implies that the renter should care for the rental property by making necessary repairs as they arise. However, the reality of this heading is not true because renters are often not free to treat a rental property like it was their home. Homeowners are free to make modifications at any time to their property. Renters do not have this option and are only allowed to make modifications which are permitted by the contract agreement. These permissible modifications are usually rather insignificant in nature. Seek Assistance from the Property Manager When Warranted Renters should also seek assistance from the property manager when there are repairs which fall under the jurisdiction of the property owner or manager. Such repairs might include items such as unclogging drains, fixing appliances and making modifications to the residence such as installing lighting features. Although the renter may be capable of performing some or all of these actions, the rental agreement may specify these items are the responsibility of the property owner or manager. Renters who attempt to fix these items may be held liable for damages which occur during these attempts. Similarly, the rental agreement may imply, by omission, that certain items are the responsibility of the renter. These may be small items such as changing light bulbs or similar items. In these cases the renter is free to make the adjustments. However, in other situations where the rental agreement specifies the apartment manager will handle certain complaints, these complaints should be called to the attention of management. When the Property Manager Isn\u2019t Doing His Job Renters may encounter a problem where the apartment manager is not being responsive to his complaints and is not addressing situations which are brought to his attention. When this occurs the renter may have no choice but to bring this to the attention of the property manager\u2019s supervisor. When a property manager is required to make certain repairs and address certain issues and fails to do so, he is creating a hazard for the members of the community. This is why the renter should not allow these transgressions to occur. The renter should also not be fearful of retaliation by the property manager because the contract will likely specify the renter\u2019s rights to complain to a higher authority about the quality of service they are receiving. Word count 564\nConsider the Amenities The amenities on a rental property can often be the deciding factor for many renters. The available amenities may make a less affordable property seem more appealing. Conversely a property which is more expensive may be considered worthwhile if the amenities offered are considered valuable enough to compensate for the higher price. When making this decision, homeowners should consider their own personal preferences as well as their budgetary constraints to make an informed decision. Before making a decision to rent a property, the renter should carefully consider which amenities are necessary, which amenities are optional but highly desired and how much the renter is willing to pay for these amenities. What Amenities Do You Really Need? Although many of the amenities offered by rental properties are not exactly necessary to live, there are some amenities which some renters would not consider renting a property without. An exercise room is one such example. While this is certainly not necessary, many renters prefer having this option. Without an onsite exercise facility, many renters would have to consider joining a gym for their exercise needs. This will likely increase the monthly expenses significantly and, depending on the location, may also make it inconvenient for the renter to visit the gym. An onsite exercise is significantly more convenient than traveling to a gym in another location. For this reason many renters consider the added expense associated with an onsite exercise facility to be worthwhile. Some renters may even consider only renting an apartment in a facility that has a pool. Although this is not a necessity some renters, especially in warm climates, might only consider living in a rental property where there is access to a pool especially if the majority of rental properties include this amenity. What Amenities Do You Really Want? In addition to the amenities a renter feels he needs, there are some amenities which may be desired as opposed to necessary. A movie theater may be an example of this type of amenity. Renters may not decide against a rental property which does not have this feature but may be more inclined to select a property that has this feature as opposed to one that does not as long as the price is comparable. A meeting space may be another example of an amenity which may not be required but that many renters are willing to pay extra to have. Renters who entertain frequently may enjoy this type of amenity because it affords them extra space for entertaining. They may be able to easily invite eight or more people over for a dinner party if there is meeting space available but this might not be possible if the renter were confined to their apartment. Are You Paying Too Much for Amenities? While some amenities may be viewed as necessary and others may merely be viewed as worthwhile and still others may be viewed as superfluous, the most important decision renters will have to make is how much they are willing to pay for these amenitiesparison shopping may be the best way to determine whether or not certain amenities are financially worthwhile. Renters who are considering apartments of similar size in the same geographic region should consider the amenities offered as well as the price of the apartment. Apartments of similar size in the same area should be fairly close in price. However, an apartment which offers more advanced amenities might be significantly higher in price. Renters should list the available amenities and use this information in making cost comparisons. This information can be used to determine whether or not the renter is willing to pay a higher price for such amenities. Renters who conclude the additional cost is not warranted have determined that the prices of the amenities are not worthwhile to them and they are likely to choose the more affordable apartment which features fewer amenities. Word count 651\nDealing with neighbors in an apartment\nDealing with Neighbors in an Apartment One of the major disadvantages to renting an apartment is the potential for conflict with the neighbors. While some renters may foster incredible relationships with all of their neighbors and never once have a disagreement with a neighbor this is not a likely scenario. Most renters experience at least one instance of dissatisfaction with their neighbors. They may or may not confront the neighbor about this issue but it is likely to cause at least some tension in the living situation. In some cases avoiding the issue can cause the problem to worsen. In other situations, discussing the issue can make the situation worse. Paper Thin Walls Although most modern apartment buildings are built with a fair amount of insulation, there is still the real possibility of neighbors in an apartment building hearing music, television, conversation or other noises emanating from a neighbor\u2019s apartment on a regular basis. This is due to the close proximity of the apartments to each other as well as the common practice of having at least one shared wall among neighbors in an apartment complex. Renters should be aware of this and make an effort to avoid noises which will likely be heard through the walls during nights or early in the morning when others are likely to be sleeping. Being Considerate of Others Consideration for others is one of the key elements which can make apartment living more bearable and less prone to conflict. For example, while renters are free to listen to music in their own apartment, they should limit listening to music at a loud decibel to daylight hours when it is not likely that other residents are trying to sleep. Residents in an apartment complex should also be conscientious when throwing parties. This is important because the renter is responsible for the actions of his guests. Therefore the renter should ensure his guests are not causing discomfort for residents of the apartment complex. When Your Schedule is Unusual Finally renters who have an unusual schedule may have a great deal of difficulty functioning in an apartment complex. This includes, but is not limited to, renters who work a night shift and sleep during the day. The unusual schedule kept by these renters makes them more prone to being disturbed by other renters who assume everyone residing in the complex sleeps at roughly the same time. Unfortunately renters in this situation may have to make an effort to make their living situation bearable. While discussing the situation with the neighbors is certainly worthwhile, it is unrealistic to expect the neighbors to remain exceedingly quite during the daytime hours. Many residents do chores such as vacuuming during this time which can resonate in the apartment of another renter. However, asking the neighbor to do these types of activities in the evening is not feasible because the neighbor would likely be disturbing a number of other neighbors by doing so. This is why the renter with the unusual schedule is often required to make changes to make the living situation workable. This may include purchasing and using earplugs while sleeping or investing in a white noise machine which can help to drowned out ambient noise and make the environment more conducive to sleeping. Additionally, the renter with the unusual schedule should make an effort to be quite during hours in which they are awake but the majority of neighbors are likely sleeping. Word count 574\nDecorating a rental apartment\nDecorating a Rental Apartment Those who live in a rental apartment are usually quite limited in the amount of decorating they are able to do. This can have the impact of making a rental apartment not quite feel like a real home. In many cases the rental apartment is painted a bright white and residents often feel as though this color is somewhat impersonal but are not able to repaint the walls to a more appealing color. This is just one example of the decorating restrictions which may be placed on an individual renting an apartment. There may be other restrictions and reading the contract carefully will help the renter to determine what is allowed and what is not allowed. Review the Contract Carefully Renters who are living in an apartment should review their contract documents carefully before they begin decorating their apartment. This is important because there may be some common decorating items such as painting or installation of shelving which may not be allowed by the contract documents. Decorating in any manner which is strictly prohibited may result in harsh penalties. These penalties might involve the assessment of fees at the conclusion of the rental period or possibly even eviction. Most standard decorating items such as hanging pictures are usually acceptable but some particularly strict policies may either prohibit this completely or place restrictions on the type of nails which may be used or the methods of patching the holes. Renters who have questions regarding whether or not specific decorating actions are permissible or prohibited should contact their leasing agent before taking action. This will help to ensure the renter is not penalized in the future for their actions. Additionally, if the leasing agent tells the renter it is acceptable to perform an action prohibited by the rental agreement, the renter should always ask for a signed, written document stating the exception to the contract. This is helpful because the leasing agent may not remember making an exception to the rule or may not even still be working at the property when the renter\u2019s lease expires. Consider Whether or Not Modifications are Reversible When renters in an apartment living situation are making decorating decisions, one of the most important factors to consider is whether or not a modification to the apartment is reversible. In most cases, the action is likely to be permissible as long as it is easily reversible. However, the case of painting the apartment is a common exception to this rule. Although painting can easily be reversed, most apartment complexes due not allow residents to pain the apartment in which they reside. This is because although painting is often reversible, the process of returning the wall to the original color is not always easy. Irreversible modifications such as removing walls or adding permanent fixtures to the apartment are typically not considered acceptable when decorating a rental apartment. Although even major modifications are typically not completely irreversible, most leasing agents would consider modifications which require the assistance of a general contract to be permanent in nature. Conversely, small modifications such as nail holes to hang pictures are considered reversible because they can easily be corrected. Again, if the renter is unsure of whether or not an action is permissible, they should seek clarification from the leasing agent. Consider the Security Deposit Most renters pay a security deposit before they take possession of the apartment. This security deposit is collected to protect against damages which may be caused by the renter during the course of the rental agreement. The leasing agent may expect to need to do some minor cleaning or a few small repairs after the renter vacates the premises. However, a deposit large enough to cover the cost of more significant repairs is often collected to provide the leasing agent with some protection in case the renter damages the apartment and leaves it in need of considerable repair. Word count 653\nDecorating a rental house\nDecorating a Rental House Those who opt to rent a house as opposed to an apartment may still be held to certain restrictions regarding the type of decorating which can be done on the property. These restrictions may be stricter or more lenient than those typically enforced when a renter is renting an apartment property. This will largely depend on the preferences of the homeowners. Homeowners who do not want to see major modifications done to the property may place strict restrictions while those who want to see the property improved may allow the renter a great deal of freedom in their decorating options. How Much is Too Much? This can be a difficult question to answer when used in reference to how much decorating is permissible in a rental house. Many renters opt for a situation where they are renting a house as opposed to an apartment strictly because they are looking for more freedom in their decorating options. However, the renter may find this desired freedom is not available to them. Some homeowners may allow the renter to make minor decorating changes such as painting the walls, hanging up pictures or installing decorative shelving. However, more extensive decorating items such as new flooring, knocking down walls or putting in windows might not be considered acceptable by some homeowners while others may allow the renter to perform such actions. Still others may require this type of work to be done but may place restrictions which specify all improvement work shall be done by a qualified professional. Check with the Homeowner When considering doing some decorating in a rental house, the renter should first carefully review all of their contract documents. This is important because the contract may clearly prohibit certain items. In this case the renter would know for sure that they are not allowed to perform these actions. However, the renter should not count on the contract documents to spell out every possible scenario. Therefore if a renter is considering making modifications to the rental house they should consult the owner before performing any work. They should also ask the homeowner to provide a written statement expressing their approval of the work to be completed. The homeowner is the renters best resource of these types of questions because the homeowner has the best understanding of their intentions when they wrote the rental contract. They might have specified that no renter can alter the appearance of the apartment without the consent of the homeowner but they may have meant for this statement to only apply to certain situations. In these cases, seeking clarification and written approval can be very beneficial to the renter. When in Doubt; Leave it Out If renters are in doubt about whether or not to perform a specific decorating action and are unable to reach the homeowner for clarification, they should opt not to make the changes. This can save the renter a great deal of time and money in the long run by preventing them from incurring excess charges for repair of the apartment and wasting a great deal of time making an improvement which the homeowner may ask to have reversed in a short period of time. This is why renters should assume an action is prohibited unless they have concrete proof otherwise. Word count 550\nDo not let the furnishings fool you\nDo Not Let the Furnishings Fool You Renters who are viewing apartment complexes are often led to furnished models which have been tastefully decorated. Although the furnishings in these model apartments are usually very aesthetically appealing they also usually serve another purpose as well. This other purpose is to make the room appear larger than it is. There are decorator and furnishing techniques which can make a room in an apartment appear considerably larger than it really is. The size of the bed, the amount of furniture and the layout of the furniture are all items which should be carefully considered when viewing model apartments. This article will cover these three items and will provide useful information for renters who are trying to evaluate furnished apartments. The Size of the Bed Determining the size of the bed in a model apartment is important for the purposes of evaluating the apartment. If you are unsure of the size of the bed used in the model, ask the leasing agent for clarification. This is important because if the bed used in the model is a full size bed and your own bed is a king size bed, it will be difficult to make assumptions about the size of the bedroom. The differences in a full size bed and a queen size bed may not be as noticeable but renters should be aware a queen bed will result in less free space in the room. If the bed used in the model is not the same size as your own bed, take measurements to determine how well your own bed will fit in the room. Is There Enough Furniture? When viewing a furnished, model important it is important to note whether or not there is enough furniture in the room. For example there may be a kitchen table and only two chairs instead of four. This may make the room appear larger to those who are viewing the apartment but they are likely going to be disappointed when they move in. Consider the furniture in other rooms as well. For example a bedroom which only has a bed and a nightstand will be decidedly less crowded than a bedroom which has a bed, two nightstands and a dresser. Your furniture may not be exactly the same size as the model furniture but there should be comparable items in each room. Does the Layout Make Sense? Renters should also carefully consider the layout of the furniture when visiting a furnished apartment. An apartment may feature all of the pieces of furniture the renter expects to see in the room but may position these pieces of furniture in a way that is not logical. Consider the family room as an example. There may be a couch, an entertainment center, a television set, a coffee table and two end tables but if these items are positioned strangely it can be deceiving. Most renters arrange their living room furniture in a manner which makes the area conducive to conversations as well as viewing of the television. If the television is positioned where it is not viewable from any of the seating options, the layout of the room is somewhat unnatural. It is not likely to be similar to the layout used by the renter and therefore does not offer an accurate representation of how the space will likely be used. Word count 563\nFinding a rentalapartment\nFinding a Rental Apartment Those who do not wish to purchase a home may find that renting an apartment is an ideal solution for their situation. An apartment can offer many of the conveniences of home ownership such as a functional living space offering the renter the opportunity to eat, sleep and entertain in their domicile. Renting can also offer additional amenities such as meeting spaces, pools, weight rooms or exercise equipment. These types of amenities are optional and may not be available in all rental situations. This article will discuss the art of finding a rental apartment that will suit all of your needs. Renters who are interested in finding an apartment should consider a number of factors. These factors might include their budget, location, requirements and desires. The key to finding an ideal apartment to rent is to strike a balance of these factors. For example a renter may desire amenities such as a pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room and onsite theater but these options may not be available in his budget range. In this scenario, the renter will likely have to make some compromises which may include realizing not all of the desired amenities are feasible within the current budget or making the decision to allot additional funds for rent. Set a Budget First Budget is one of the primary concerns for those looking to rent an apartment. For these individuals, the search for an apartment should begin with the process of narrowing down the search for apartments to those that are within the set budget. It might be worthwhile to look at a few apartments which are priced slightly above the budget. This is because, depending on the vacancy rate, there may be an opportunity to negotiate a slightly lower rate which can bring the rent of the apartment to within the renter\u2019s budgetary constraints. Alternately the renter may decide he is willing to pay a little more for certain features such as a larger living space, more desirable amenities or a choice location. Choose a Location Location is a very important factor for renters to consider when searching for an apartment. An ideal location is one which is not to far from family, work or leisure activities. Again this is a matter of personal preference and will depend largely on the desires of the renter. Some renters may favor a shorter commute to work because it affords them more time to spend with their families. Other renters may not have family close by and may opt to rent an apartment further from work if it is near access to an activity they enjoy such as skiing in the mountains or surfing in the ocean. Renters should also consider the surrounding areas when choosing an apartment. Some renters may enjoy being near social activities such as movie theaters and shopping centers while others may prefer to rent an apartment in an established neighborhood apart from the commercial areas. Likewise some renters may prefer living in an apartment where there is nearby access to public transportation while others may not favor this option. Consider the Requirements and Amenities Finally, renters should consider their requirements and preferred amenities when searching for an apartment. Requirements might include criteria such as two or more bedrooms, two or more bathrooms or a minimum square footage. These are criteria which the renter feels they must have in order to function in the apartment. For example a family with two children might need 2-3 bedrooms while a single person may be able to function with only one bedroom. However, a single person who works from home may require an additional bedroom to use as an office. Renters should also consider the features they would like to have in an apartment complex. This may include access to a pool or exercise equipment, the use of a home theater for residents or meeting facilities which are only available to residents. Renters should carefully consider these options and determine which are most important to them. Word count 670\nFurnished or Unfurnished? Renters will often be faced with the decision of whether to opt for a furnished apartment or an unfurnished apartment. The majority of apartments available for rent are likely to be unfurnished apartments but there are some apartments which are available with furnishings. There are some situations in which it makes sense to choose a furnished apartment. Likewise there are situations in which a furnished apartment is not a good idea.\nThis article will discuss these situations in an effort to assist the reader in determining whether or not it is better to rent a furnished apartment or an unfurnished apartment. What Does Furnished Mean? A furnished apartment may mean different things to different people. Some renters may expect a furnished apartment to have each and every room completely furnished with every possible piece of furniture. Typical furnishings may include a bed, a dresser, nightstands, alarm clock with built in radio, a television, stereo equipment, DVD player, an entertainment center, couch, coffee table, end tables, kitchen table and kitchen chairs.\nIt may also include dining room furniture such as a dining room table, chairs and a curial cabinet. Others may assume a furnished apartment includes only the necessary furnishings such as a bed, couch, kitchen table and chairs. This essentially eliminates all electrical equipment as well as furniture deemed to be decorative in nature such as a coffee table, end tables or nightstands.\nWhen is a Furnished Apartment a Good Idea? A furnished apartment is a good idea for recent college graduates who lived on campus in a dorm room prior to graduation. These students likely have very little furniture of their own. In this case, renting a furnished apartment may be more economical than purchasing enough furniture to live comfortably in the apartment. The overall cost of a furnished apartment may be higher in the long run because the renter may pay more but those who are unable to pay a great deal of money upfront to furnish an apartment might not mind paying this additional amount.\nFor these renters, they are not likely to notice the impact of a slightly higher monthly rent payment but they would definitely feel the impact of significant purchases such as a bed, couch or dining room set. When is an Unfurnished Apartment a Good Idea? There are certain situations in which an unfurnished apartment is a good idea. This includes a situation where the renter has already accumulated enough furniture to furnish the entire apartment. In this case, selecting a furnished apartment would not make sense because the renter would have to find a location to store either his own furniture or the furniture supplied by the apartment complex. The cost of storage can add up very quickly. Additionally, the renter probably pays a higher rent to stay in a furnished apartment. An unfurnished apartment is also a good idea when the renter currently does not have any furniture but is looking forward to purchasing furniture and has already saved up enough money to make these purchases. In this situation the renter will likely select an unfurnished apartment and plan on shopping for furniture almost immediately after taking possession of the rental property. Storing Extra Furniture Renters who opt for a fully furnished apartment when they already have a sufficient amount of furniture have to determine what they will do with their furniture while they are staying in the rental apartment. The options are basically as follows: * Sell or give away all currently owned furniture * Store your own furniture * Store the furniture which comes with the apartment While each of the above options is certainly valid, the renter should seriously consider whether or not they want to pay additional storage fees just to rent a furnished apartment. Renters who plan to sell or donate their current furniture do not face this dilemma but those who plan to store one set of furniture should carefully consider the price of storage. They should also consult with the leasing agent to determine if there are any contract items which prohibit placing furniture owned by the apartment complex in an offsite storage facility. There may be provisions which allow for these items to be stored but require them to be stored onsite. Word count 709\nGetting Your Security Deposit Back For many renters the subject of the security deposit is somewhat of a touchy subject. Most renters assume they should receive their security deposit back in its entirety as long as there is no significant damage done to the apartment. However, this is rarely true as there are number of factors which contribute to whether or not the security deposit or a portion of the deposit will be returned to the renter when they vacate the premises. Did You Do Any Major Damage? Certainly doing major damage to the apartment such as putting holes in the walls, breaking appliances or tearing up the flooring may warrant the security deposit being kept but even in these cases the leasing agent must justify these costs. In other words the leasing agent cannot use one damaged item to justify keeping the whole security deposit. Rather the leasing agent is obliged to determine a cost to repair the item. If this estimate is large enough to justify not returning the security deposit the renter should be informed of the estimated cost of repairing the apartment. Is Your Apartment Clean Enough? All apartments should be cleaned thoroughly before the tenant vacates the property. This should include extensive cleaning of all rooms of the apartment including the bedrooms, bathrooms and any common areas. A cleaning should also include cleaning of all of the blinds in the apartment. Blinds can be rather difficult to clean and many leasing agents charge approximately $10 per blind if they deem there is a need to clean these items. This can add up rather quickly if there are a number of windows in the apartment. Many leasing agents also perform a number of standard cleaning functions when any resident vacates the property. This may include items such as cleaning out the refrigerator, shampooing the carpet or repainting the walls. When these items are required, there is typically a fee associated with each item. In many cases, adding up these required fees results in a number which is likely already approaching the sum of the security deposit. Additionally, leasing agents often only allow for one hour of cleaning services to prepare an apartment for the next residents. This is rarely enough time to complete the work and therefore renters wind up being charged an additional fee at an hourly rate. Have You Read Your Contract Documents? Renters who want to have the greatest chance of having a large portion of their security deposit refunded to them should be very familiar with their contract documents. This is important while living in the apartment as well as while getting ready to vacate the apartment. It is important to be familiar with the contract terms while living in the apartment because it can prevent the renter from making decorating choices which are explicitly prohibited by the rental agreement. These types of decisions can be costly in the long run because they may result in the renter being assessed for perceived damages by the leasing agent. Renters should also carefully review the contract documents as they are preparing to vacate the property. This is important because it may help the renter to clean and make repairs to the apartment in accordance to guidelines set forth by the leasing agent. Doing this will make it much more likely the renter will not be assessed exorbitant fees at the conclusion of the rental agreement. Word count 571\nHow much apartment can you afford\nHow Much Apartment Can You Afford? Deciding how much apartment they can afford is one of the most important decisions a renter will have to make. This decision will help to determine a number of factors include the size and location of the potential apartment as well as the types of amenities offered. Those who are interested in renting an apartment will have to consider all of their current expenses in comparison to their monthly cash flow.\nThey will also have to determine whether or not there are changes they can make to their current budget to make a larger or more well situated apartment affordable. Consider All of Your Expenses When deciding how much apartment they can afford, renters should carefully consider all of their monthly expenses in relation to their monthly income. Expenses may include, but are not limited to, utilities such as gas, water and electric, telephone, cell phone, Internet services, cable television, car insurance, renter\u2019s insurance, gas for car, cost of commuting to work, groceries and other incidental charges. Subtracting these costs from the monthly income will give the renter a good idea of how much money they can afford to spend on rent each month. Renters might also consider subtracting an additional amount out of their monthly income to give them the opportunity to save some money each month. Expenses to be considered should also include expenses for entertainment purposes such as dining in restaurants, going to movie theaters or cultural events. Even movie rentals should be considered in this category. Considering these expenses is necessary because otherwise the renter may not allot a portion of their budget for such purposes and may find themselves unable to participate in some previously enjoyed leisure activities. Is There Room for Improvement? When examining the monthly budget, renter should take the opportunity to determine whether or not there is room for improvement in their current financial situation. For example a renter may find they are able to minimize their monthly bills by obtaining their car insurance and renter\u2019s insurance from the same insurance carrier. The carrier may be willing to offer a discount to a customer who utilizes their services for more than one type of insurance. Likewise there may be the opportunity to minimize expenses by bundling services such as telephone, Internet and possibly even cable television. Also, consider entertainment expenses as an opportunity for financial improvement. If a renter currently eats out in restaurants for dinner on both Friday and Saturday of every week, they could consider limiting these dining experiences to only one night a week or even only one night every other week. This can result in a significant cost savings which may enable the renter to afford a more expensive apartment. Other areas where renters can sometimes cut expenses are on cell phone bills and cable television bills. Examine your cell phone bill carefully. If you are not using all of your minutes each month, it might be worthwhile to switch to a plan with fewer minutes. This would lower your monthly bill without causing you to make any sacrifices. One area where sacrificing might contribute to more monthly cash flow is with cable television. Renters who pay higher fees for premium channels can consider eliminating these channels. All of these small changes to monthly spending can contribute to the renter being able to afford a more expensive apartment which may be larger or in a better location than the apartment they would be able to afford without making changes. Is There a Need for Improvement? Although trimming superfluous expenses is always a good financial strategy, renters should determine if this is necessary in terms of their rental situation before making drastic changes. Once a renter has established the amount of money they can afford to spend in rent, they can start to look for available apartments in that price range. If the renter is happy with the choices available to them at this time, there may not be a need to make financial adjustments at this time. However, if the renter is not happy with the options available, financial changes and stricter budgeting are warranted. Word count 693\nMaintenance on a rental property\nMaintenance on a Rental Property Maintenance on a rental property can be a confusing issue. Renters may mistakenly assume all maintenance is the responsibility of the leasing agent and maintenance staff but this is usually not true. In many cases the leasing agent and maintenance staff are responsible for maintaining the common areas and performing major repairs on the apartments but the renters do typically have some responsibilities. These responsibilities are often defined in the rental agreement and the renter should familiarize himself with this document to verify his rights if a dispute arises. Renter Responsibilities Typically renters have the responsibility of maintaining their apartment and the surrounding area. This may include the interior of the apartment as well as deck or patio space. However, maintenance of these areas applies to generally cleanliness only and not issues such as painting or repairs to the exterior or the interior of the apartment structure or the appliances within the apartment. Additionally, renters are responsible for small repairs in their home. This may include plunging a clogged toilet or changing a light bulb. However, if there are any duties a renter feels uncomfortable performing such as changing a light bulb in a high location, the renter should contact the maintenance staff for assistance. Renters also have a responsibility to show common courtesy to other renters by not intentionally damaging or otherwise marring public areas. This includes vandalism, littering and even failure to pick up after dogs. Renters who fail to follow these rules of common courtesy may be subject to fines or other penalties according to the rental agreement. Leasing Agent Responsibilities The leasing agent and maintenance staff are generally held responsible for major items such as repairs to the exterior of the building, fixing appliances which are malfunctioning and dealing with plumbing issues such as leaky pipes. Additionally, the maintenance staff is responsible for intervening if the renter is having trouble with public utilities. Problem such as no hot water or heat to the apartment should be addressed by the maintenance staff in conjunction with the public utilities entity. The leasing agent and maintenance staff is also responsible for maintaining the common areas. This may include keeping grassy areas manicured and other common areas looking clean and attractive. When the Leasing Agent is Not Taking Responsibility As previously discussed, the leasing agent has certain responsibilities to perform tasks and address concerns and complaints by the renters. However, when the leasing agent is not fulfilling these responsibilities it could create a harmful living environment for the renter. For example hot water is required to adequately clean dishes. This is why there should always be hot water to the apartment. Additionally, in severely cold weather the inability to heat the apartment due to faulty utilities or windows which are not properly sealed can create a hazardous condition for the renter. Both of the examples mentioned above are situations in which the renter may put in a hazardous condition by the leasing agent\u2019s negligence. In these situations the renter should contact the Department of Housing to determine the proper cause of action to take in this situation. In some cases the renter may be informed the alleged transgression by the leasing agent is not actually his responsibility. However, in other situations the renter may be informed that the actions of the leasing agent are a serious violation of the rental agreement. In either case, the representative can provide information on how to proceed to achieve the desired results. 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While rates are also going up in adults older than 45, the rate isn\u2019t the same as in younger adults.\nThe increase in the cases in younger adults implies that there is a steadily rising number of patients who have diabetes for a longer period in their lives.\nThe study, which was spearheaded by Professor Dianna Magliano and Professor Jonathan Shaw from Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, along with their colleagues, examined data from 743,709 Australians with T2D.\nThe participants were all registered on Australia\u2019s National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) for a 15-year period from 1997 to 2011. All-cause mortality and mortality caused by cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and other causes were determined.\nAverage age at T2D diagnosis was 59 years, and overall 115,363 deaths occurred during the study period. The authors said that an earlier diagnosis of T2D, or a \u201clonger duration of disease,\u201d was linked to \u201ca higher risk of all-cause mortality\u201d that was mostly due to CVD mortality.\nAccording to the data, for two people of the same age, the individual who was diagnosed 10 years prior (which meant a 10 years\u2019 longer duration of diabetes) had a 20 percent to 30 percent increased risk of all-cause mortality and at least a 60 percent increased risk of CVD mortality. The effects were similar for both men and women.\nThe authors explained that the growing body of evidence proves that \u201cearlier onset of type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of complications and comorbidities compared with later onset, and that the development and progression of complications might be more aggressive in those with earlier onset.\u201d\nThe researchers added that increased clinical attention is crucial for individuals with earlier onset of T2D. Endeavors must center on the prompt optimization of a patient\u2019s self-management skills and medical treatment can help avoid or minimize the onset of complications and comorbidities. (Related: HIGHER quality of life with LESS medication: A review of research reveals, again, that diet and exercise are BETTER THAN DRUGS at controlling type-2 diabetes.)\nThere is also a need to diagnose people who are at high risk of developing diabetes so they can immediately make lifestyle changes that will stop or delay the onset of diabetes.\nIf you\u2019re looking for natural ways to prevent diabetes, try some of the tips below:\nEat \u201creal\u201d food instead of processed food \u2013 Real food includes fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, meat, nuts, and seeds. Consuming real food will minimize your intake of refined carbohydrates, added sugars, and trans fats which may cause unhealthy weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes.\nExercise daily \u2013 Regular physical activity boosts tissue sensitivity to insulin and weight management.\nGet enough sleep \u2013 Poor-quality sleep and sleep deprivation may increase your risk for obesity and diabetes.\nTry mindfulness meditation to manage stress \u2013 The hormones cortisol, epinephrine, and glucagon increased when you are stressed and this increases blood glucose and antagonizes insulin.\nYou can learn more about diabetes and how to prevent it or manage its symptoms at DiabetesScienceNews.com.\nTagged Under: cancer, diabetes, Diseases, heart disease, natural remedies, obesity, overweight, remedies, stroke, Type 2 Diabetes, young adults", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bmxbikegames.net/bmx-backflips", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KHRQYEYBZAMVFQRVOD6SNBGHL7Y7U5BS", "length": 5880, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bmxbikegames.net", "title": "BMX Backflips | BMX Bike Games", "raw_content": "BMX Bike Games \u00bb BMX Games, Stunt Games \u00bb BMX Backflips\nRate BMX Backflips:\nBMX Backflips Instructions\nAccelerate using the up arrow key. Brake using the down arrow key. Lean back on your bike using the left arrow key. Lean forward using the right arrow key.\nBrave Boy BMX Master Manic Rider Motorcycle Dummy ATV Offroad Lightning Turbo Spirit Stunt Bike Draw 2\nBMX Backflips Walkthrough\nYou have only three lives to get through all of the levels in BMX Backflips, and if the limited number of lives and the level goals aren't enough to really make the game difficult enough to prove to be a challenge for you, there is also a time limit. If you run out of time before you reach the finish line, you lose one of those three lives. If you reach the finish line in time but fail to achieve the goal for the level, you will also lose a life. Finally, if you crash and land upside down, you will lose a life. Lose all three lives and your game is over and you'll have to start from the beginning. For that reason, you really need to focus on every aspect of your ride as you play. You need to make sure you keep your bike balanced so you don't crash. You need to figure out exactly what you need to do to accomplish your goals and make sure you do it as quickly as you possibly can so you don't fail to reach your goal or run out of time. As you progress in the game, goals get a little harder to reach and tracks get a little more complicated so you'll have a bit of a harder time making it through the end and doing everything you need to do, but that challenge is why this game is so addictive. Each time you fail, you want to play again to try to make it a little further than you did the time before. With enough time and practice, you will be able to beat the game. It just takes patience.\nNewcomers to BMX games are going to have a bit of a hard time with BMX Backflips. This is a game that definitely rewards experience. It can be hard to keep your bike wheel side down, especially if you've never played a game that requires you to do so. The key to preventing crashes is balance. You need to lean forward or back on your bike to keep yourself from flipping over when you're riding over hills or down into bowls. If you start flipping, you may be able to right yourself or even perform a back flip if you time your leaning properly, but the better idea is to just attempt to keep your bike balanced. Later in the game, one of the level goals requires you to keep your wheels level in the air at all times. That isn't easy to do but luckily by then, you should have plenty of experience keeping your bike balanced anyway. As for reaching the other level goals such as collecting stars or completing a specific number of back flips, your best strategy will change depending on the goal. One thing always remains the same though - don't sacrifice stability on your bike to try to reach your goal. Both things are important so focus on them equally.\nOne of the more difficult level goals for newcomers in BMX Backflips is going to be 'beating the butterfly'. You need to move fairly quickly in order to stay ahead, but you also need to focus on solid landings when you come off ramps. Struggling to balance your bike once your on the ground will cost you time. Instead, focus on trying to balance your bike while its still in the air. Look at the terrain where you expect to land and try to make sure your wheels are in a good position for the impact. Also have your fingers ready on the left and right arrow keys to quickly correct any tilt that results from a bounce upon landing. It's also important to maintain a decent speed which can be difficult when you encounter new obstacles that will slow you down. Do your best, but don't be surprised if you lose a life on this one. It's fairly difficult; especially for someone with little experience in the BMX game genre.\nThe best way to do well in BMX Backflips is to do everything you can to gain speed without sacrificing control. Leaning back on your bike while riding will give you a pretty decent speed boost, but you need to make sure you're ready to lean forward to prevent yourself from flipping if you lean back to far. You can also handle bowls more effectively by allowing your front wheel to hit the bowl first. Lean back to keep yourself from flipping forward and to maintain a decent speed and no bowl in the game should be too hard to overcome. If you're a high score fanatic you can boost your score by doing back flips and wheelies, but make sure you have a good handle on controlling your bike before you attempt to get a higher score. It's also important to make sure you have enough room to land a back flip before you even attempt it. If you don't, your attempted back flip can easily turn into a crash and a lost life. Wheelies are a bit easier as you don't actually have to leave the ground to perform them. Just keep in mind that leaning back too far to do a wheelie will result in a crash. If it looks like things are headed that way, lean forward and you should be able to keep yourself from crashing.\nOverall, BMX Backflips is the type of game any fan of BMX games is going to love. It's difficult and different enough from most of the other BMX games online to feel fresh and new. The graphics aren't spectacular, but they're more than enough to hold your interest. Newcomers are going to have a hard time in the beginning, but the game never feels impossible to beat for even the most inexperienced players. Those with a little more experience on their side are going to find this one a bit on the easy side as far as the actual riding goes, but will appreciate the increased level of difficulty that comes with the level goals and the time limit. If you are a fan on BMX games, this is one you absolutely should not pass up. It's a lot of fun and will keep you coming back for more game after game.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bnbeatniks.com/gtrstory.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:G7BXL44HW647CCVLLSCGZP72FKCNY5ZV", "length": 2023, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bnbeatniks.com", "title": "Bossa Nova Beatniks", "raw_content": "\"Got Them Ray Guns\" is a side project that became a release. Heather Matarazzo, star of \"Welcome to the Dollhouse\", asked us to back her up on stage for a punk rock performance. Beatniks George and Tom were joined by guitarist Mike Bifulco to complete the band they called 'Crash Course'. We had so much fun backing Heather that when she went back to making movies the core band continued to play together. With the success of our last CD, \"Danger Bongo Crossing\", we set out to make the sequel but thought it would be fun to do something completely different in between. We decided to do an album with this line up in the tradition of some of the great Rock \u0152n\u00b9 Roll albums of the past. A kind of garage band approach in the classic guitar, bass, and drum ensemble. We rehearsed a bunch of songs, performed them once in a club, and recorded them the next day. All the drum tracks for the body of the album were recorded in one session; most of them in one take. No click tracks were used. When the minimal over dubs were finished we set up and recorded \"Bad Little Baby\", live, in one take and included it as a bonus track.\nWhat happened next was most remarkable. We called our engineer friend, John Tabacco, to mix the tracks only to find that he had just entered into partnership with Bob Ball to form Sound Archeology. Bob has invented a new way of mastering recordings that widens the sound stage and adds depth to the recordings. He was able to put back the warmth and ambient sound lost in today's stark digital masters.\n'The Bossa Nova Beatniks' \"Got Them Ray Guns\" is the first outside project mastered through the Sound Archeology process from raw tracks. Though this process is not yet a year old, they have already remastered a Bob Marley collection and have had Keith Richards praising them for finally getting the guitar sound he has been waiting 35 years to hear on a recording.\nWe always knew the 21st Century would bring great new technological advances yet; who would have dreamed it would happen so soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 2046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bntnews.co.uk/app/news.php?nid=34496", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CHRBGIZZQH4RQPWECDNM44GIEC6GW2VK", "length": 3873, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bntnews.co.uk", "title": "BNTNews- 4 foods which please the palates of Hong Kong people", "raw_content": "4 foods which please the palates of Hong Kong people\n[by Kim Hyo-Jin] When you visit Hong Kong, you have to visit the night market along with the shopping area. The Hong Kong viewed from Victoria Peak at night time is essential for Hong Kong tour. In addition, as Hong Kong is a famous destination for the delicious foods, there are many tourists going to Hong Kong who want to enjoy the foods. Though the size of population is not so big, there are a variety of restaurants and various street foods in Hong Kong that Hong Kong can be called as the city for gourmet. If you travel Hong Kong, there are foods you have to try. They range from the dim sum and noodle which are the representative foods of Hong Kong to the dessert. Of course, they are the foods strongly recommended by Hong Kong people.\nDim sum in Hong Kong is the menu which people can lightly enjoy as brunch or lunch. Dim sum literally means \u201cto tap the heart\u201d and you can enjoy 150 varieties of dim sum at a dim sum restaurant. It would be a real healing if you gather with family members, friends and work colleagues at a dim sum restaurant, order dim sums and spend the time with them together while making conversations.\nIn addition, the Dim sum is often called as Yum cha, which literally means \u201cto drink the tea\u201d. When people eat the dim sum, they also drink tea. If you enjoy the dim sum along with the warm tea, it means that you enjoy the dish in Hong Kong style.\nSiu mei is the traditional cooked Chinese barbecue. When you go to Hong Kong, you would see a lot of meats hanging from the hooks in the windows of restaurants. If you want to enjoy the local taste, you have to eat the barbecue along with the cooked rice, noodle or/and rice noodle. Especially, the Char Siu is the Chinese barbecue pork which is the dish which is familiar to the people around the world. As it is the boneless pork meat marinated and then cooked over the fire, it is characterized by the sweetness.\nIn addition, you can easily find the duck or goose meats. The products which are vacuum packed are good for the present. You can also easily find the small plate which is the barbecue you can taste without feeling any burden. It is the good news for the single traveler.\nHong Kong is the place where you can strongly feel the Chinese tea culture. If you add the condensed milk to various kinds of teas such as black tea, you can enjoy the sweetness and aroma filling your palate. Due to the attractiveness of the milk tea, there are a lot of people who prefer the milk tea to coffee.\nAs the milk tea\u2019s popularity is high, its popularity spreads around the world. More people love the milk tea not only in Hong Kong but also in other countries. To keep better taste of milk tea, people in Hong Kong make effort to keep its tradition and develop new taste. Meanwhile, the milk tea is growing not just as the beverage or dessert but also to become the representative food of Hong Kong.\nIf you look for new trendy food which you have not tasted up to now, pay attention. You can meet the leader in Korea\u2019s chicken-beer boom even in Hong Kong. Goobne Chicken, which is Korea\u2019s No. 1 oven cooked chicken, cooks the chicken meat by cooking it in an oven without frying it in the oil, thus considering both the taste and the health at the same time.\nGoobne Chicken which is favored by not only Korean people but also people around the world, has various menus including the Goobne Honey Curry Basasak Chicken, which is one of best menus, the Pepper Basasak Chicken, and Soy Garlic Chicken as well as the special rolled omelet, cheese tteokbokki and others. Goone Chicken branches located in Causeway Bay, Tesung Kwan O and Central are favored by many people in Hong Kong. (photo by Goobne Chicken, official webpage of Hong Kong Tourism Board)\n\u25b6 4 recommended destinations for this autumn that are cost-effective and satisfying", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boatus.org/clean-boating/recycling/marine-debris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:D66AGGAES5W455TIHSWTFZXG55DLCLDY", "length": 3829, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "boatus.org", "title": "Trash and Marine Debris : BoatUS Foundation", "raw_content": "On the water, trash can quickly become marine debris. Marine debris is any manufactured item that ends up as trash in our oceans, lakes, or inland waterways.\nMore than an eyesore, trash in the ocean is one of the world's most pervasive pollution problems. It sickens and kills marine animals and birds. It also undermines economies based on tourism and fisheries. While as much as 80 percent of marine debris is said to come from land-based activities, as boaters, we need to do our part.\nUnder federal law, it is illegal to toss ANY garbage from a boat while you are anywhere in lakes, rivers, bays, sounds, and offshore in the ocean less than 3 miles. Recent changes to MARPOL (marine pollution guidelines) Annex V went into effect on January 1, 2013. All U.S. boats (commercial and recreational) must now comply with these changes. Below is a chart of what cannot be discharged from a boat.\n\"Special areas\" include the Wider Caribbean region which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Click here for more information on special areas.\nAdditionally, all boats 26 ft or more in length must have a written garbage placard and an oil discharge placard \"prominently posted\" to remind you and your crew what can be thrown overboard and what can't. The placards must be permanently attached, be made of durable material, and must be at least 5X9 inches in size. Until U.S. regulations are updated to reflect the new garbage discharge requirements and placards are readily available, U.S. flagged ships operating exclusively in U.S. waters may continue to use existing placards. Placards can be found at your local boating retail store.\nViolations may result in civil penalties up to $25,000, a fine of up to $250,000 for an individual or up to $500,000 for an organization and/or a prison sentence of up to 6 years. State anti-littering laws may also apply on your boating waters.\nBoats 40 ft and longer must also have a written waste management plan, stating how you deal with the collected waste onboard, who handles it, and where it is disposed. This can be as short as one paragraph. We recommend that you keep your plan in your onboard ship's papers. For a sample waste management plan, click here.\nPlease note that this law only covers garbage, and does not cover sewage (black water) or sink or shower water (grey water). Learn more about these in our sewage section.\nDiscarded items that can pose an immediate safety threat include broken glass that can cut bare feet and discarded rope, line, bags, or sheeting that may seem harmless but can entangle divers and disable boat propellers.\nAesthetic and Economic Impacts\nShorelines covered with litter are unattractive and often hazardous. They can keep tourists and recreational users away and impact local economies. Common debris items often last for weeks, months, or even hundreds of years in the marine environment.\nDebris can affect the water quality of aquatic habitats and also cause physical damage. Submerged debris can cover coral reefs, smother sea grasses, and harm other bottom-dwelling species.\nWildlife Entanglement and Ingestion\nMonofilament line, fishing nets, six-pack holders, and strapping bands are some of the worst culprits for wildlife entanglements. Some animals mistake plastic debris for food and eat it, causing serious harm to the animal.\nMake a rule that nothing goes overboard.\nHave sturdy trash and recycling containers with lids on your boat.\nBring all of your trash back when going out on the water.\nPurchase reusable products, containers and water bottles.\nSave and re-use plastic bags.\nRecycle your plastic, metal, glass, paper products and monofilament fishing line.\nBe sure to stow or tie down all gear when underway on the water or the highway.\nParticipate in a cleanup event - especially in areas accessible only by boat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 307, "original_length": 9995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boldprose.com/?m=200504", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LUGLM7SIFA2PCPJKCUIMQ4PERAETHMYP", "length": 15621, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "boldprose.com", "title": "April 2005 - Bold Prose", "raw_content": "21st April by twallis4509 Leave a comment\nCivilian Peacekeepers: Creating a Safe Environment for Peacebuilding\nTim Wallis and Claudia Samayoa\n[From Paul van Tongeren et al, eds, People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society, Lynne Rienner, London 2005. pp 363 \u2013 368]\nMost people think of \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 as a military activity, involving troops sent into a conflict area by the UN or some other official body to stop the fighting and restore order. In its broader sense, however, peacekeeping can include any activity that seeks to reduce violence and create a safe environment for other peacebuilding activities to take place. Many peacekeeping activities can be carried out just as effectively by unarmed civilians. This chapter looks at some examples of civilian peacekeeping as well as some of the issues involved.\nPeople cannot create or re-establish peaceful communities while they are being threatened, intimidated or attacked. A certain degree of personal security is needed in order to use any of the peacebuilding tools described in the other chapters of this book. The aim of civilian peacekeeping is to establish and maintain that minimum level of security that enables people to feel safe enough to move around, organize and take effective action to defend human rights and promote peace. Civilian peacekeeping cannot resolve a conflict or build peace, but it can enable other peacemaking and peacebuilding activities to take place.\nCivilian peacekeeping involves a set of tools which have proven to be effective in deterring violent attacks and opening up the political space within which local people can engage in peacebuilding activities. The organizations which have developed and continue to use these tools do not necessarily see themselves as \u2018peacekeepers\u2019. Some describe themselves as \u2018unarmed bodyguards\u2019 or \u2018human shields\u2019. Others talk about \u2018witnessing\u2019, being \u2018monitors\u2019 or providing a \u2018presence\u2019. All the activities included in this chapter, however, involve attempts to stop or deter violence and therefore we feel justified in using the generic \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 term to describe them.\nDeterring Violence, Changing Behaviour\nAll peacekeeping, whether civilian or military, has as its foundation the concept of a \u2018presence which can deter violence and change behavior\u2019. During the Contra war in Nicaragua, attacks on border villages would cease whenever a delegation from Witness for Peace was in the area. At Israeli checkpoints on the West Bank, treatment of Palestinians has been markedly more civilized when journalists or foreign peace activists have been present. Such responses cannot, of course, be guaranteed, but establishing a \u2018presence\u2019 has become an effective tool for averting violence in many parts of the world.\nMonitoring of ceasefire agreements and of military or police activities is something that civilians have been doing alongside military peacekeepers for some time. In 1998-99, the entirely unarmed OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission was responsible for monitoring the withdrawal of Serbian troops and return of Kosovan refugees to their homes. Since 2000, civilian monitors with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have been monitoring the border between Georgia and Chechnya. Civil society organizations have tended to focus on more specialist monitoring activities such as monitoring of election violence and policing of peaceful demonstrations.\nProtective accompaniment is a more specific peacekeeping tool developed by Peace Brigades International and now used by a number of other organizations working in Latin America and other parts of the world. This involves being with individuals (human rights activists, for example) or groups who are under threat of violent attack for up to 24 hours a day. It relies upon various forms of political pressure to dissuade the attackers from carrying out their threat. This has proved highly effective in certain situations, although it is dangerous to assume it will work in situations where the perpetrators of violence are not so susceptible to outside pressures.\nMany people assume that peacekeeping is essentially about getting between opposing armies and preventing them from fighting. Unless the aim of a military intervention is to fight and defeat one or other party militarily, however, the only way a peacekeeping force can effectively \u2018keep the peace\u2019 is if all sides consent to their presence and have already agreed to a ceasefire. Civilians are even less able to stand between opposing armies and make them stop fighting, although there have been valiant attempts to do just this. On a smaller scale, however, civilians have certainly \u2018interposed\u2019 themselves between attacker and victim and in many individual cases this has prevented an attack from taking place.\nA Brief Survey of Civilian Peacekeeping\nCivilian peacekeeping techniques have evolved in part from their military equivalents. But many techniques also have their own history which can be traced back to Gandhi and other visionaries who proposed purely nonviolent methods of preventing or stopping violence. In 1922, Gandhi proposed the establishment of a Shanti Sena or \u2018peace army\u2019 made up of trained volunteers who would intervene nonviolently to prevent communal bloodshed throughout India. This Shanti Sena was later set up after his death and spread from India to other parts of Asia, where they continue to this day, although focused more on rural development than on peacekeeping as such.\nThe civilian component of official UN peacekeeping missions has risen dramatically, now accounting for over one quarter of all UN peacekeeping staff. Purely civilian missions, such as those of the OSCE and the European Union, have also grown in recent years. The OSCE alone currently has over 1,000 international field staff and 2,000 local staff on 18 missions throughout Eastern Europe and central Asia. These are engaged in monitoring and promotion of human rights, elections, democratization and rule of law as well as basic monitoring of violence and military activity. Other civilian missions have been established on an ad hoc basis, for instance the Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group, the Temporary International Presence in Hebron and the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission \u2013 all official civilian missions although not directly under the auspices of the United Nations.\nThere has been a proliferation of civil society organizations engaged in peacekeeping activities since the launch of Peace Brigades International in 1981. Growing itself out of earlier projects, it was the pioneering work of PBI in Guatemala during the early 1980s that demonstrated how effective this work could be and set the scene for other organizations to follow. During the 1980s and 1990s, Witness for Peace, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Balkan Peace Team, Cry for Justice (in Haiti) and the International Service for Peace in Chiapas (SIPAZ) brought larger and larger numbers of Europeans and North Americans face to face with the realities of conflict and began to make a significant impact on the ability of local groups to function and organize in those regions.\nIn 1994, the Ecumenical Monitoring Project for South Africa (EMPSA) brought over 400 people to South Africa to help monitor and prevent violence before and during the first post-apartheid elections in that country.\nSince the second Palestinian intifada began in 2001, many hundreds of people have gone to be part of the international presence there, through organizations such as the International Solidarity Movement, Grassroots Initiative for the Protection of the Palestinians (GIPP), United Civilians for Peace, the Women\u2019s International Peace Service for Palestine and the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine/ Israel (EAPPI).\nThe challenges of civilian peacekeeping\nThe changing nature of civilian peacekeeping is illustrated by the Bantay Ceasefire case, where an intervention in the South is done by groups also from the South (see Chapter 15.4). With the emergence of the South as an actor in this field and not only as a passive recipient of interventions from the North, other issues about the nature of civilian peacekeeping have arisen.\nFor Northerners, civilian peacekeeping has been largely seen as an activity for external third parties, but there are conflict situations where local groups can play the role of peacekeeping more effectively than outsiders. In Colombia, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines and elsewhere the tools and techniques are being used more and more by local actors to prevent violence in their own communities. In this context, the role of outsiders has become one of capacity building with local organizations as a way of recognizing and strengthening their own peacekeeping potential.\nAs new patterns of violence emerge in the South that involve not only state sponsored violence, but also organized crime and transnational corporations, new and more creative solutions to the problem of tackling violence and intimidation are required, but protection by respected outsiders in many cases is still the only resort there is to create space for local groups to operate.\nThere is a continuing tension between the voluntary nature of many organizations engaged in this work versus the need for professionalism and specialist skills. When PBI began working in Guatemala, for instance, young volunteers with no training or experience would join the teams for as little as two weeks. Other projects in the Balkans and elsewhere have relied on young conscientious objectors doing their alternative to military service. These experiences have led many organizations to set higher standards for the level of maturity and specific skills required for the very sensitive situations faced by civilian peacekeepers. For example, PBI now requires that volunteers are at least 25 years old, undertake an intensive period of training and long-distance learning, and commit to volunteering in the field for at least one year.\nAnother challenge facing civilian peacekeepers is their relation to governments and official (military) peacekeeping missions. Unarmed civilians may be able to influence the behavior of armed actors precisely because of their independence from governments. But they may also need political and financial support from governments in order to be there at all. Finding the right balance between these two positions can be very difficult, particularly on the ground where complete separation from official missions operating in the same area may be impossible.\nMany of the organizations involved in this work have grown out of a strong religious or ideological commitment to nonviolence. This has affected both the ways in which this work has been described as well as the constituencies to whom it appeals. As the field becomes more professionalized, there is a growing tendency to describe it more pragmatically in language understood by more mainstream audiences. The tension between the ideological and pragmatic approaches to this work continues to manifest itself over issues such as nonpartisanship versus solidarity with local partner organizations.\nAnother tricky area facing civilian peacekeepers is their relationship to international media. Peacekeepers want to encourage media interest in the conflict and on the peace work that is being done locally. When these are not in themselves of mainstream interest, however, the media tend to focus on the personal stories of outside peacekeepers. This is sometimes helpful but can also be extremely counterproductive and therefore requires careful consideration by the organizations engages in this work.\nBuilding global capacity for civilian peacekeeping\nSome of the lessons learned over the last half century of civilian peacekeeping are that neither military nor civilian peacekeepers can \u2018stop wars\u2019 just by standing in the middle of the battlefield. There is a need for long-term commitment and for many different types of complementary activities to effectively stop wars or build a sustainable peace. The local conditions must be right for civilian peacekeeping to have any chance of success. And it has proved to be crucially important that outsiders work with and through local partners on the ground and that they are backed up with political and other pressures from outside. Civilian peacekeepers, like their military counterparts, need proper training and preparation. They need adequate backup support and an effective infrastructure to maintain the work over time.\nThe most comprehensive attempt to evaluate best practice and lessons learned in civilian peacekeeping to date was commissioned by Peaceworkers (USA) in 1999. This two-year research project looked at mandates, strategies, infrastructure, field relationships, personnel issues, training, recruitment, funding and political support behind the civilian peacekeeping efforts of 57 civil society initiatives between 1914 and 2001. It also looked at a number of larger-scale civilian or predominantly civilian missions of the UN, OSCE and other official bodies.\nOut of this research effort has come a global initiative of over 90 organizations from 47 countries to build the capacity for larger-scale civilian peacekeeping interventions by civil society. The Nonviolent Peaceforce was officially launched in India in 2002 and is currently running its first pilot project in Sri Lanka.\nAlthough the Sri Lanka project is still on a comparatively small scale, the Nonviolent Peaceforce is building a pool of people with appropriate skills and experience for much larger missions if and when these are needed. It is also collaborating with other civil society organizations engaged in this work to ensure that best practices and lessons learned are shared and used to strengthen and improve future efforts in civilian peacekeeping.\nAs the Nonviolent Peaceforce experiments with the possibilities of civilian peacekeeping on a larger scale, other organizations in this field are continuing to develop and refine the techniques required to meet the challenges of violence in the 21st century. Still a largely untapped resource, civilian peacekeeping is rapidly becoming an essential element of the peacebuilder\u2019s toolbox.\nList of organizations/websites\nNonviolent Peaceforce: www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org\nPeace Brigades International: www.peacebrigades.org\nWitness for Peace: www.witnessforpeace.org\nChristian Peacemaker Teams: www.cpt.org\nEcumenical Action for Peace in Palestine/Israel: www.eappi.org\nInternational Service for Peace (SIPAZ): www.sipaz.org\nChristine Schweitzer et al, Nonviolent Peaceforce Feasibility Study, Nonviolent Peaceforce, St Paul, Minnesota, 2001.\nLiam Mahoney and Luis Enrique Eguren, Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights, Kumarian Press, W. Hartford, Connecticut, 1997.\nThomas Weber and Jeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders: A Recurring Vision, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 2000.\nLisa Schirch, Keeping the Peace: Exploring Civilian Alternatives to Violence Prevention, Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1995.\nTim Wallis and Claudia Samayoa are co-chairs of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. Tim is a former International Secretary of PBI and currently Director of Peaceworkers UK in London. Claudia is a Guatemalan human rights defender and Acting Secretary to the Coalition of Human Rights Organizations that Struggle Against Clandestine Groups.\nPosted in civilian peacekeeping, Nonviolent Peaceforce, peacebuilding\t| Tags: Kosovo, OSCE, PBI, peacekeeping, UN\t|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 18103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bonaxclusive.com/video-2baba-holy-holy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4C5DMXVKVMC2DKH4FWY6GVXPD4X3MODD", "length": 1065, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bonaxclusive.com", "title": "VIDEO: 2Baba - Holy Holy | Download Mp4 | BonaXclusive |", "raw_content": "VIDEO: 2Baba \u2013 Holy Holy \u2013 Internationally recognized music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba has announced the release of the official music video for his latest single, Holy Holy. He made the announcement on social media today.\nThe track Holy Holy was released in April 2016. 2Baba did the premiere live performance of the single at the grand finale event of the Big Brother Naija show in South Africa on the 9th of April. The song has received rave reviews for its lyrics, sound and delivery.\nAgainst speculations of whether the message of the song was directed at certain individuals, the Holy Holy music video gives viewers an entirely different angle and dynamic interpretation of the song.\nThe music video was shot by ace music video director Clarence Peters on May 7th at a spectacular location in Abeokuta, the city on top of a hill. The video is arguably one of Clarence\u2019s finest works till date.\nTags:2Baba, Holy Holy\nVIDEO: AKA \u2013 The World Is Yours\nVIDEO: TSpize \u2013 Vybz Kartel Music Ft. Runtown\nVIDEO: Jay Sean Ft. Davido \u2013 What You Want", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bookreviewsbydi.blogspot.com/2016/11/review-ever-hunted-erin-summerill.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7BEOLVFUTISDOVGJU7SWIS3QCRGTZ3YT", "length": 3020, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bookreviewsbydi.blogspot.com", "title": "Review: Ever the Hunted - Erin Summerill", "raw_content": "Expected publication: December 27th 2016 by HMH Books for Young Readers\nSource: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group via NetGalley\nI normally rate a book as soon as I close the cover because then I feel like I better capture how the book made me feel - what effect it had on me and how it left me. This one though I needed some time to step back and really think about because... I hated how the author left this book. Had the last few pages or even the very last page been different this would have probably been a solid four stars from me, but now I'm wavering between 3 and 4. I'll probably stick to 3.5 stars rounded up.\nThe writing is clear and easy to read, and for the most part it is compelling, but I was annoyed with how the author tries to hammer home her points at various times (Britta is an amazing tracker, Britta finds it hard to express her emotions and is not used to being touched). For me it made Britta harder to like and as the main character and the book being from her POV I really wanted to connect with her from the get-go.\nThe world building was just enough for me, especially for a debut novel and there are no info dumps which was great. It's not a grand sweeping Tolkienesque world but there are still coherent qualities of history and geography. I don't need epic tomes of world building to create a good fantasy and Summerill exercised brevity well here.\nThe execution of some of the typical YA tropes and cliches was actually done well although I did find the romance a little eye rolling at times and it was painfully obvious that they both want each other however I can forgive the angst.\nThe magical elements were interesting and I found them to be quite well thought out - there was a cost to the magic and you could tell there were limits even though these weren't clearly defined. I'd like to continue to see structure to this in the sequels as I hate it when fantasy writers fall prey to 'the magic wins all'.\nThe characters weren't brilliant, but they were given more depth as the story went on and I grew to like Britta more and more. Cohen was annoying at times but at the end of the day I also liked him as the love interest.\nNow, that last page... It's so hard to talk about without it being all spoilery, but the author really threw a spanner into the works and it's basically there just to queue the cliffhanger for book two. I didn't appreciate that at all and I already have a few ideas of where the author will take this. I'm hoping that most of them are wrong. In fact I'm hoping that this ambiguous cliff hanger is actually cleared up within the first few pages of the next book and we can all move on because I can't see myself enjoying the potential that it's brought about. I could be wrong though! And I really hope I am.\nIn short this book holds a lot of potential, especially for a fantasy ready that enjoys adventure along the way. It isn't particularly fresh or gritty but it was enjoyable for the most part and I am looking forward to the next one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boryslawski.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOK6TSKOU7G5QDUA7OJ22X7NZAFD3PF7", "length": 1166, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "boryslawski.net", "title": "pinhole photography / grzegorz sawa-boryslawski", "raw_content": "Grzegorz Sawa-Boryslawski (born 1983, Wroclaw - Poland). Polish photographer, musician, graphic designer who began taking photographs in the mid 1990's. Since 2005 focused only on pinhole and zone plate. Studied photography at Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland (master degree) and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Receiver of numerous photography awards. Had lot of exhibitions incl. his personal (\"Labirynt\", K\u0142odzko/Poland, 2009; \"Pinhole Festival\", Iserlohn/Germany, 2010; \"OFFO\", Jastrz\u0119bie Zdr\u00f3j/Poland, 2011; \"Paryz-Wroclaw\", Wroclaw/Poland, 2013; \"Ghosts of Chernobyl\", Wroclaw/Poland, Barcelona/Spain, Senigalia/Italy, 2016) and photo festivals (\"OFFO\", Jastrz\u0119bie Zdr\u00f3j/Poland, 2009; \"Pinhole Day\" 2009-2013; \"Pinhole World\", Sopot/Poland, 2012; \"Revela-T\", Barcelona/Spain, 2016). He works with multiple camera/film combinations, mostly done by himself. Frequently uses classic techniques like talbotype/cyanotype processes and modifies them. Current exhibition titled \"Ghosts of Chernobyl\" includes 20 photographs taken in Chernobyl/Pripyat exclusion radioactive zone and these are world's first pinhole photographs from that restricted area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breitlinks.com/DeweyChallenge2/question_21.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GKTBXT344PCWVSKTD4EZV32QL7Q7NA3X", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "breitlinks.com", "title": "Mr. Breitsprecher's Dewey Challenge II, Question 21", "raw_content": "The American Civil War, by Philip Clark. Discusses events that led to the founding of the Thirteen Colonies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 50.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bridgetramblings.blogspot.com/2007/01/passwords-passwords.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QMOY6EUBHGJ43H2N3F2FYGGKBB4UME4W", "length": 1364, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bridgetramblings.blogspot.com", "title": "Ramblings of a Runner: passwords passwords", "raw_content": "Am I the only person out there who can not remember their login and passwords to all of the eight billion online accounts that they have? I have had such problems recovering my username and password for this blog - hence the long absence! But ok - i'm back. So - since we've last chatted I've been very busy trying to get back into the swing of things and plan our upcoming wedding. The wedding is taking up a lot of time what with different appointments and stuff - but it is also motivating me to get back to running. Did you know that they make wedding dresses 2-4 size smaller than real dress sizes!!!? that means i'm trying on size 14's!!! I don't want to remember my wedding dress as a size 14! That being said - I've got a lot of work to do. I took my first pilates class on Monday (figured I needed to add some more strength training and toning to my regimine.) Let me tell you - i must have the core muscles of a large wet noodle! I am finally not sore today -- it's Friday!!! isn't that crazy? I'm excited to go back though - maybe I'll finally get my abs into some sort of shape! I'm currently trying to figure out what races I am going to do this year. Any suggestions for my first triathlons this summer?\nyeah the whole wedding dress sizing seems completely counterintuitive to me. You would think they would go the other way to make you feel slimmer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://burnskellycorrigan.com/immigration-and-visa-queries/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UKU5OGJOVJ7ZIONEJRYHGNPWFEPBFNOI", "length": 7204, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "burnskellycorrigan.com", "title": "Burns Kelly Corrigan Immigration Solrs |Work permits|Visas|Immigration", "raw_content": "Burns Kelly Corrigan / Immigration & Visa Queries\nWe provide expert legal advice and assistance in all areas of immigration.\nWhether you need a visa to enter Ireland for work, business, to join an EU spouse/partner or Irish National spouse or partner or for family reunification, we can guide and support you through the process.\nWe also assist with Irish Citizenship applications and applications for EU treaty rights, Long Term Residency, and change of status.\nWe provide legal advice in the area of Asylum Applications and Appeals to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, and with applications for Subsidiary Protection and Humanitarian leave.\nFor employers or workers, we can also advise and assist with work permits and green card applications, renewals and appeals.\nImmigration Areas\nImmigrant Investor and Business Permission\nWhere a job offer already exists, we can advise and assist employers and workers with applications for general employment permits and Critical Skills employment permits, renewal applications and also appeals from refusals. We can also advise on entry visa requirements.\nIrish Citizens and residents may apply for immigration permission to be granted to their non-EU citizen spouse, civil partner, children and dependents. These applications can be complicated and certain criteria must be met depending on the individual\u2019s circumstances.\nTo be joined by a family member in Ireland is of huge significance to our clients. We have a huge portfolio of successful cases in nearly all scenarios.\n\u2018Zambrano\u2019 Cases\nIn March 2011 the European Court of Justice made a landmark finding that for a Member State to refuse to grant residency to a third country national with dependent minor EU citizen child living in the EU, amounted to a breach of Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.\nAs a response, the Irish Department of Justice and Equality introduced an administrative scheme where a non-EU parent of an Irish born dependent citizen child living in Ireland could be granted residency here on a \u2018stamp 4\u2019 basis.\nWhile this can be a straight forward matter for some people to prove; complexities can often arise i.e if the parent or the child has left the EU, where the \u2018child\u2019 has reached 18 or where there has been a separation between the parents of the child.\nVisa applications and appeals\nThere are two main types of visa applications:\nTemporary or short term visa. This visa permits the holder to enter the State only for a limited period only. On entry to the State, the visa holder will be given a stamp in their passport to allow them to remain in the State for a specific period of time, up to maximum of 90 days. Here, the visitor has no entitlement to remain in the State after the specific period.\nLong term visa. This visa is issued to applicants who express an intention to travel to the State for the purposes of residing long term. It will only be issued to applicants who have some connection to the State entitling them to remain on a long term basis. For example, they are the holder of a work permit or green card, or they have particular family connections in the State. This D visa permits the holder to enter the State, at which point they will usually be given a stamp in their passport that allows them to remain for a one month period. During this month they must register with the Garda National Immigration Bureau in order have their permission to remain extended.\nRegularising legal status\nWe are able to advise those with no legal status in Ireland. In some cases we can help to regularise their position in the country.\nDeportation Orders issued by the Minister for Justice and Equality are permanent. If a person is served with a deportation order and leaves Ireland voluntarily or is actually deported \u2013the deportation order remains in effect. If you receive a deportation order or an intention to make a deportation order, this is serious and urgent advice should be sought.\nWe can advise in circumstances where a person has been served with a 3 options letter (proposal to deport) or where a deportation order has been made and you wish to challenge or appeal this.\nWe have a wide experience of challenging decisions of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation where we are assisted by a group of highly skilled barristers.\nThere is a strict time limit in which to issue proceedings and advice should be sought as soon as possible.\nLong-term residency (stamp 5 & 6)\nIf you have been resident in Ireland legally for 5 years on work permit conditions you can apply forLong Term Residency. After 8 years legal residency, you can apply for leave to remain without conditions as to time.\nWe can assist with the process and ensure the correct papers are lodged with the application to ensure the quickest decision.\nSubsidiary Protection.\nSubsidiary Protection is a complementary form of protection, which may apply to those who would be at risk of serious harm if returned to their home country, but who do not fit the strict definition of a refugee. It is provided by European Directive 2004/83, the \u201cqualification directive\u201d. A person is entitled to subsidiary protection if they can show that if returned to his or her country of origin they would face a real risk of suffering serious harm, defined as: \u201cDeath penalty or execution; Torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or Serious and individual threat to a civilian\u2019s life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict.\u201d\nWe acted on behalf of the applicant in the case of MM and the Minister for Justice & Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General (No.3), which involved a preliminary reference on a question of law from the\nIrish High court to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).\nBecause of this judgment the Irish government has been forced to introduce this new law on subsidiary protection in response to the judgment of the High Court in January 2013. A new system for the processing of subsidiary protection applications was introduced and following same a subsidiary protection applicant is now entitled to an oral hearing and if they are refused they are entitled to an oral appeal.\nThe High Court and the CJEU found that Ireland had failed to properly implement European law in this area. The Court held that an applicant who has applied for subsidiary protection after the rejection of their asylum claim must be granted a fresh hearing, where any further submissions must be taken into account. Following this judgment, the Irish High Court struck down the Minister of Justice\u2019s refusal to grant subsidiary protection to the applicant. In MM\u2019s case,\nBurns Kelly Corrigan Solicitors have assisted many visa applicants acquire visas to enter the State. Many applicants request our assistance in order to advise them in respect of the visa application process, and how to make the best visa application possible. In particular, many applicants have difficulty in acquiring the long term D visa, and are often refused on their first attempt. We assist such applicants at the initial stages of application and on appeal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 9171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business-review.eu/business/romania-ranks-16th-in-the-eu-in-terms-of-air-passenger-traffic-bucharest-has-the-37th-biggest-airport-192835", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QKJOU77EAUNANHL5MCWXX7ZXWMAYOU6U", "length": 1754, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "business-review.eu", "title": "Romania ranks 16th in the EU in terms of air passenger traffic, Bucharest has the 37th biggest airport - Business Review", "raw_content": "Romania ranks 16th in the EU in terms of air passenger traffic, Bucharest has the 37th biggest airport\nRomania ranks 16th among the 28 European Union in terms of air passenger traffic with 17.9 million passengers carried last year, half the level registered in Denmark, according to Eurostat.\nIn the same time, Bucharest\u2019s Otopeni airport ranks 37th among the EU\u2019s airports in terms of number of passengers, with 12.8 million passengers, just after Budapest (13 million).\nIn the EU, the largest number of air passengers was recorded last year in the United Kingdom (265 million passengers), followed by Germany (212 million), Spain (210 million), France (154 million) and Italy (144 million).\nThe number of air passengers carried in 2017 rose in all EU member states compared with 2016.\nBefore being stuck for an hour at Baneasa Airport, EC president Juncker said that \u201cinvestments make no sense without respect for the rule of law\u201d\n\u201cThe highest increases were registered in Slovenia (+20 percent), Luxembourg, Estonia, Bulgaria and Czechia (all +19 percent), Romania, Croatia and Malta (all +18 percent), ahead of Poland and Portugal (both +17 percent). 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You may even have created one yourself. But have you ever had it critiqued? Well now\u2019s your opportunity! During this session we will offer you the opportunity to give your \u2018elevator pitch\u2019 (with a maximum time of 60 seconds) and then draw from the reaction and expertise in the group to give you valuable feedback \u2013 what people liked and any suggestions for what would make it even better.\nIn case you\u2019re wondering, an elevator pitch is a brief, persuasive speech that you use to spark interest in what your organisation does. You can also use them to create interest in a project, idea, or product \u2013 or in yourself. They should be interesting, memorable, and succinct. They also need to explain what makes you \u2013 or your organisation, product, or idea \u2013 unique.\nIf you want to create one for this session then start your pitch by describing what your organisation does. Focus on the problems that you solve and how you help people. If you can, add information or a statistic that shows the value in what you do. Ask yourself this question as you start writing: what do you want your audience to remember most about you?\nKeep in mind that your pitch should excite you first; after all, if you don't get excited about what you're saying, neither will your audience. Your pitch should bring a smile to your face and quicken your heartbeat. People may not remember everything that you say, but they will likely remember your enthusiasm!\nSo come along on the 8th February and even if you don\u2019t want to take up the challenge yourself, you\u2019ll get the opportunity to hear other people\u2019s pitches and go away with a whole raft of new ideas to presenting yourself and your company in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://butler-harris.org/archives/175", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CDBK5G6BTWSSKTTCDRN2BKSJ564BAF4D", "length": 9538, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "butler-harris.org", "title": "Berlin | After Thought", "raw_content": "Now before getting to the question that is at the forefront of everyone\u2019s thinking, namely: what were the women like? (and rightly so: there is hardly any question that is more important) I want to give a general overview of the city.\nThe wall is long since down, so the economic dynamics have changed. The Kurf\u00fcrstendamm was the west\u2019s great shopping boulevard before the wall fell, but after the fall, there were historically more apt areas, to which the center of gravity naturally shifted. But in the meantime, the heavy subsidies from the Federal Government fell off; the misallocation of resources coupled with less of them has created a pinch. People have moved away. Unemployment is in the double-digits.\nThe Ku-Damm still has a lot to offer. I saw Mephisto shoes for just a little over half what I paid at Nordie\u2019s. So shoppers\u2013 plan ahead and you may be able to pay for part of the trip with the savings. That\u2019s not my cup of tea, however.\nIn Berlin after New Year\u2019s eve, there was trash everywhere. Apparently it\u2019s a huge party. People come in from all over. At a bar the next day, I met four nice Spaniards that had come to Berlin just for the New Year\u2019s celebration. Apparently Berlin is in Europe what Times Square is for us.\nBut don\u2019t you do it! I heard horror stories about firecrackers and sirens continuing until 5 in the morning. Fortunately, I was staying in the little town of Seelow that night. Even there, firecrackers kept going off every six seconds until two in the morning. It\u2019s so boring. I pity the young boys setting them off. I should think catching frogs would be much more interesting.\nKleist Park is a small part with a court building on one flank. The tour guides celebrate this as a place of alleged National Socialist show trials. At the other end of the park is this nice flank of columns\u2013 except of course the context is all wrong.\nPerhaps this is the place to make a general comment about the architecture of the city. There are three kinds: the grand, the stately-traditional, and the modern. The modern is either dismal or creative. Often the stately and the dismal are mixed together, as the Kleist park colonade illustrates.\nThe Kreuzberg is kinda cool. My camera ran out of juice unfortunately. The cross at the top used to be visible for miles, and represents the cross that became a coveted soldiers medal. At the top of the memorial a janitor was patiently sweeping up the mess left by the New Year\u2019s Eve parties. Schweine, I said. Ja, he said. There was instant understanding, across lands and sea, generations, and nationalities.\nIt should be mentioned that most Berliners do not litter. I saw many going out of their way to deposit trash properly. There must be something about the party spirit; maybe all the foreigners in town.\n(< \u2014 Warschauer Platz. This would be an example of the modern creative.)\nThe Schoeneberg Rathaus is where Kennedy made his famous speech. Germans fell in love with Kennedy. He landed in Frankfurt, made a speech there too I believe, then motorcaded all the way to Berlin. When he died, tens of thousands gathered to memorialize. Just like everyone here 50 or older remembers where he was when Kennedy was shot, so do the Germans.\nNearby is an ugly reminder of the post-war. This apartment complex was built right over an anti-aircraft bunker. Apparently there was simply too much steel and concrete to be able to remove it first.\nThe Soviet Denkmal is \u201cimpressive\u201d\u2013 like our own Lincoln Memorial, it still rears its ugly head years after the war criminals should have long since been recognized and exposed.\nThe 1936 stadium is grand. I put my photos of it here.\nAs mentioned, the shopping street Kurf\u00fcrstendamm is still nice, at least at the holidays. I stayed just off it on Fassinenstrasse. Though it is right in the heart of the elegant shopping district, I was able to get a room for under 50 a night, at the Augusta Hotel. Normally it is more, but look for the \u201clast minute specials\u201d on their web page. They give a parking pass for street parking, but good luck finding a spot!\nNearby are museums and supposedly a big train layout. This is my cup of tea, but time ran out.\nThe breakfast buffet was included in my special. You sat in a nice old-world room with a view of the street.\nView from breakfast room\u2013>\nAn easy walk away is the Ged\u00e4chniskirche. This is the famous church with the bombed out tower, which they have left so. There is a museum area with interesting pictures. Look for the pictures of the same corner before and after the wicked Bomber Harris did his nefarious work.\nIt was Christmas season, so booths were set up all over with red lights selling sausages and Gl\u00fchwein. Wonderful.\nThere is a continuing congregation meeting at the modernized adjacent facility. They were offering organ concerts followed by a short sermon. A couple people were outside passing out fliers to encourage the sausage-eaters to come in.\nPerhaps there is life in the land yet. Perhaps\u2026\nAlso the St. Matthew church (near Potsdamer Platz) gives a daily organ concert around mid-day, followed by a short homily. The homily is somewhat vague (\u201clet us think about putting the past behind us as we approach the new year\u2026 but what does that really mean? blah blah\u201d) which we associate with liberalism; but the prayer book and hymnal is still there; the benediction is Trinitarian; and even the homily may reflect an effort to connect. Perhaps there is life in the land yet. Perhaps\u2026\nThe nearby musical instrument museum is so wonderful I dedicated a post of its own to it.\nMitte (Center)\nThe entrance to the general downtown or \u201cMitte\u201d is the famous Brandenburg Gate, commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II to represent peace.\nBefore entering the gate from the animal-park side, one finds the Reichstag building. The center of this building has been rebuilt as a spiral walk that leads up to a a 360 degree view of the city. However, there is often a long wait, and the view was frankly not usually beautiful.\nWithin the downtown area, the Gendarmen square is the highlight for beauty. The \u201cFranz\u00f6sischen Hof\u201d was the church built by the Huguenots; the Germans, who never could accommodate themselves to the Reformed distinctives, had to match it with the \u201cGerman\u201d tower. Either way, they are very beautiful. Note the tents and lights set up in the market area in foreground for the Christmas special events.\nThe opera Unter den Linden was nice, inside and out. Note the Christmas lights in the open area in background.\nOpera house \u2013>\nBetween it and the University is the site of the book-burnings that the tour books still lament.\nThe book burnings continue today in the form of internet censorship. I will explain this more anon.\nWe need to get back to book burnings. It can be very cathartic.\nThe National Socialist book burnings were voluntary. The modern statist censorship is not.\nCheckpoint Charlie is still done up as if. There was a mob of people. The matter still generates interest. The wall photographs were quite moving.\nThe Berliner Dom (Cathedral) had a concert that I attended on New Year\u2019s Day. It was wonderful. A very fresh and youthful, yet precise, string ensemble.\nThe cathedral is ornate beyond description inside.\nIt is solidly Lutheran, yet there were racks for superstitious women to light candles (with the coin drop, of course), and iconography that can only lead to more of the same.\nThe Spree River wends its way through the city. It is said that Berlin has more bridges than Venice!\nThe east sections are being rebuilt.\nThe Hackesch shopping district, and the Scheuneberg, are touted in the tour guides. Well, as my father used to say, \u201cfor them as like that kind of thing, I guess that\u2019s just the kind of thing they would like.\u201d\nWay to the east is the K\u00f6pnick section. Here, in the early part of the 20th century, the shoe maker Wilhelm Voigt feigned himself as Captain, and actually took over the city hall. A memorial is set up, and a 1930s play about the story was actually running on the Ku-damm (I didn\u2019t have time this time).\nThe area has the potential to become a funky yuppie/art district, but for now, the graffiti gives it a burned-out feeling.\nAt the historic Reformed cemetery, I found Georg W.F.Hegel, and Bertold Brecht (with his concubine Weigel). In Germany, I guess, if the Romanists and Lutherans don\u2019t want you, the Reformed are always there with open arms.\nMuch more will need to be said about Brecht, because of his iconic status. Suffice it say for now: this is another ghost that desperately needs to be exorcised from the German psyche.\nI found the Grimm brothers in a more standard Lutheran cemetery.\nThe young women, at least in the winter, wear boots over pants, giving Berlin the look as if full of horsewomen. Often they go shopping in pairs, and walk arm-in-arm. The last day I saw a pair that were as if marching in step, like a couple Prussian soldiers. But that\u2019s not fair. They were definitely women.\nBut they walk with a sense of purpose, even when shopping. There is no dithering around like young American women typically exhibit.\nMy camera doesn\u2019t do very well at night. I pledge to get more of a lineup in this department on the next trip.\nThis entry was posted in Travelogue by TJH. Bookmark the permalink.\nML on December 4, 2007 at 4:18 pm said:\nIn other words: German girls are cocksure materialist tramps like any other \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but they don\u2019t \u201cdither\u201d.\nML \u2014 ouch! 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On March 11, 2018 that happy anniversary will be celebrated at the 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance with a special class of the rare and significant Ferrari 365 GTB/4 \u201cDaytona\u201d.\nIt was revenge, not Ferrari that gave the 365 GTB/4 its popular nickname. The name of America\u2019s first superspeedway clung to the big Italian GT after Ferrari prototypes avenged themselves on American soil following their stinging defeat at Le Mans in 1966. Three victorious Ferrari P4 and P3 prototypes executed a perfectly choreographed photo finish winning the 1967 Rolex 24 at Daytona, below. It mocked Ford\u2019s botched photo finish at Le Mans the previous June. There was little subtlety in it and everyone got the point. And the name Daytona stuck to the 365 GTB/4 almost at once.\nSo the mighty 365 GTB/4 became known as \u201cDaytona\u201d even though Ferrari never made it official. Some historians claim that the project was labeled \u201cDaytona\u201d internally during its gestation following the 1967 Daytona 24 Hour sweep. Then the internal nickname \u201cDaytona\u201d leaked. Ferrari himself was said to have squelched the use of the name when it became public.\nToday the Daytona has a special place in Ferrari\u2019s lustrous history. Automotive tastes and the traditional designs that had served Ferrari so well for two decades were under assault in the late sixties. So Ferrari made one last thunderous declaration regarding the creation of the thoroughbred grand touring car. They labeling it in traditional Ferrari fashion: 365 ccs per cylinder, Grand Tourismo Berlinetta, four overhead camshafts; 365 GTB/4.\nNearly 1,400 Daytonas were built in coupe and convertible configurations. It outgunned its pricier and rarer 3-liter predecessors with a muscular 4-cam 4.4-liter V-12 fed by six enormous 40-mm Weber carburetors. This exotic recipe makes 380 horsepower and propels the big two-seater to nearly 180 mph. A sobering number for a 3,600-pound GT. Engine powers Daytona #65, top.\nDespite its weight the Daytona made a fine race car. Ferrari created 15 special competition 365 GTB/4s from 1971 through 1973. They scored class victories at Daytona, Watkins Glen and Le Mans and won the 1972 Tour de France outright. Second overall (with class victories) at the 1973 and 1979 Rolex 24 at Daytona, appropriately, are the Daytona\u2019s North American racing high water marks.\n\u201cThe Daytona has traditional Ferrari provenance, presence and poise.\u201d said Bill Warner, founder and Chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance. \u201cThe Daytona is the last of the true \u2018Enzo\u2019 Ferraris created before the Fiat influence arrived in Maranello in 1969. The howl of that big V-12 should be part of Il Canto degli Italiani, the Italian national anthem. 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Hodges, the name for four linked cases challenging same-sex marriage bans in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee.\nThe expectation by virtually everyone is that the court will overturn marriage bans, and the response from the religious right has been\u2026well, if not apoplectic, certainly defiant. Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said at a recent meeting of the convention (where the SBC passed a resolution in which they \u2013 and don\u2019t be shocked here \u2013 vowed to keep supporting the homophobic status quo regarding marriage equality) that he said he would never officiate a gay wedding, conjuring up the spirit of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the process. (His gay friends are presumably devastated.)\nAnd then there\u2019s a bunch of religious righters vowing to \u201cdefy\u201d any ruling that overturns gay marriage bans.\nBut the resistance isn\u2019t just coming from religious groups. It\u2019s also coming from government officials, such as Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore\u2019s obfuscation in the wake of the 11th Circuit\u2019s overturning of that state\u2019s gay marriage ban. And North Carolina\u2019s state legislature even managed to override their Republican governor\u2019s veto to pass a law that allows local magistrates to decline to issue marriage licenses that violate their religious beliefs.\nIn the past few months, though, these Republican-controlled state legislatures have gotten even more creative. In Oklahoma, the state House passed H.B. 1125, which \u2013 at first \u2013 eliminated marriage licenses in favor of \u201ccertificates of marriage\u201d submitted by clergy alone and subsequently prohibited judges from issuing such certificates. (The bill\u2019s sponsor, under pressure to pull the legislation entirely, amended it so that judges could officiate weddings again. This move has been widely seen as confusing and contradictory, at best.) That bill currently languishes in the Senate Rules committee and has not come to a vote in that chamber.\nAnd just this past week, Republicans in Michigan put forth legislation to require clergy to sign off on a marriage license, taking that responsibility entirely out of the hands of municipal and judicial officials.\nAs someone who\u2019s still fighting this battle at the state level, this might seem like reason to be discouraged. After all, legislation like this pushes back not only against the inexorable path to marriage equality but even against the right of citizens to have a civil ceremony, let alone a secular one performed by a secular celebrant. This is the opposite of what I\u2019ve been fighting for.\nBut I say this to any legislator who wants to push utterly unconstitutional bills like this:\nThe marriage equality fight is almost certainly about to be lost, and soon. The fight for secular celebrants to be recognized proceeds slowly, but I believe that fight will move forward soon. The biggest obstacle we face, as I see it, is that too many people either don\u2019t know that we\u2019re pushing for this change or don\u2019t care.\nYou know what could make them care? State legislators deciding to push legislation that gives religious groups the power of gatekeeper to marriage.\nYou know what could help us get our day in court? Judges hearing cases about clearly unconstitutional laws, in which we can also point out the additional injustice of being treated differently as celebrants just for not being religious.\nYes, the battle moves slowly. There\u2019s been a little progress in Minnesota, and Oregon already has secular celebrant legislation through one chamber (it\u2019s in the Rules Committee in the state Senate). Progress elsewhere is even slower.\nBut we are progressing on this front, and I don\u2019t think Americans want to go backward. Attempts to pull us that direction are more likely to arouse frustration than to result in success for the myopic legislators trying to prevent the inevitable move away from bigotry and discrimination toward equality.\nConsider the gauntlet thrown down. 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Not a copy of the old masters, The Warner Loughlin Technique empowers the actor to create rich, nuanced and unique characters. Discover the technique used to help create some of the most remarkable performances of our time from actors such as Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Kyra Sedgwick and countless other Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy nominees and winners. Loughlin debunks the myth of the tortured actor and guides you step by step through her groundbreaking technique revealing powerful ways to unlock your creativity in a psychologically safe way. Her insight into life and art is remarkable. The Warner Loughlin Technique changes the way acting will be taught for generations to come.\nAuthor: Warner Loughlin\nGenres: Non-Fiction, Reference\nWarner Loughlin\nFor over 20 years Warner Loughlin has been a teacher and coach to Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy winners and nominees. Known for her warmth and intuitive approach, her technique shatters the myth that an actor's past emotional traumas must be the fuel or foundation for their work. Warner's technique is imaginative, practical and psychologically deep, giving actors a safe and effective way to access emotion and create extremely nuanced and unique performances. Warner studied Contemporary Literature and Shakespeare at Oxford University and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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Since most of these files are rather large it is recommended that you download them for viewing later.\nNot all, but most links are currently available, but as time and space allow, the library will increase in size and content. I hope you enjoy the materials currently available below.\nThese Books are for personal viewing only and are not to be sold or distributed without the direct consent of the publishers. Thank You.\nBooks on 16th century Reformation\nJ.A. Wylie's History of Protestantism, Vol. 1\nHagstotz's Heroes of the Reformation\nM'Crie's The Life of John Knox\nD'Aubigne's The Protector\nWilkinson's Truth Triumphant\nWhiston's The Life and Writings of Flavius Josephus\nWars of the Jews by Flavius Josephus\nThe National Sunday Law Arguments of A.T. Jones before the 50th Congress\nLuther's 95 Theses\nStandish's Modern Bible Translations\nCassel's Christ and AntiChrist\nGuiness' Romanism and the Reformation\nAndrews' History of the Sabbath", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chicago.businessdistrict.com/chicago-tax-time/helping-dog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GROXZDSM3YRL36IDY7DDA5VD6LHGRNTM", "length": 90, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "chicago.businessdistrict.com", "title": "helping-dog - Chicago Business District", "raw_content": "helping-dog\nPublished on February 5, 2018 in Chicago: Tax Time!Full resolution (960 \u00d7 640)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://childrensglobalhygienefoundation.org/founder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3SIT377EC6Z7CVMZWNCCT3IRQF54RKVX", "length": 6719, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "childrensglobalhygienefoundation.org", "title": "The Founders | Children's Global Hygiene Foundation", "raw_content": "The founder Keith Gregory developed a passion for changing children\u2019s issues when, on having his son diagnosed as being within the spectrum of severe Autism, he was told that, his son Asher, would spend his adult life in an institution. Like many parents both he and his wife Michelle started searching the world for a cure not content to just accept the fate set down by the professionals of the day. They discovered a method called Applied Behavioural Analysis that had been developed some 30 years prior to Asher\u2019s diagnosis that was being used in the United States. They adapted the program at home, taking university students that had been involved in an ABA program at a local university, giving Asher up to 30 hours of one on one therapy per week. Now in 2013 Asher, at age 19, will graduate with a diploma in Sound Production and continue on his chosen career mixing music for bands at live venues.\nThis has given Keith the passion to fight for children, to not accept that nothing can be done. Perseverance was the key to Asher\u2019s recovery and that is what we must do with all issues that face our children. Persevere and dont give up.\nKeith\u2019s vision to change global hand hygiene began following the H1N1 pandemic and the ever increasing incidence of antibiotic resistant bacteria. He saw how helpless our authorities where to protect us as the virus seemed to be gripping the world. On the basis that 80 % of all infection is transfered by our hands Keith\u2019s initial focus had become on increasing hand hygiene compliance within the community. Why are there hand hygiene issues? Keith identified the problems as primarily being due to lack of sustainable education programs worldwide to influence change, and the lack of access to soap at critical times. The addressing of the school hand hygiene issue had been put in the too hard basket with many countries not having hygiene legislation for schools.\nThe Children\u2019s Global Hygiene Foundation has since become an initiative to unite and empower children around the world by giving them a platform from which to influence governments and their immediate community. The faces and the voices of the foundation will be children as they engage with media and advocate not only on health issues but also on issues such as child labour, child prostitution, child abuse and any other issue that impact on all children\u2019s well being.\nWe will be asking schools around the world to nominate their own students to be ambassadors to the Children\u2019s Global Hygiene Foundation who will then join with the foundation to undertake campaigns within their own communities to influence adults and local government. As at 2013 over 76 million children playing a game called Moshi Monsters, imagine if those children could be united as one voice to bring about change and influence the world\nKeith has now developed a program based on empowering children to bring about change. By blending the fantasy notion that there is an Intergalactic Health Council looking down on Earth watching the battle between the Super Bugs and the scientists with real lives issues that face our global community today we will be able to engage with children. Three Celestial Guardians are being sent to Earth to gather all the children to become GrimeStoppers and save the world by having the adults wash their hands. This will be all played out both in real life and also within the global game GrimeStoppers.\nIn order to remain engaged with children and unite them we will use social media and the other mediums such as online games that reflect real life as it is happening in the world today. Keith has developed a unique education concept utilising a serious interactive game called GrimeStoppers which is the key to empowering the children. It is also a medium that many children are familier with and engage with regularly. Children will be encouraged to join the GrimeStoppers Club to become community hygiene advocates attempting to influence the hygiene habits of their own family. By empowering children this way we will influence their own hygiene habits and tackle an issue that many schools around the world face which is vandalism in school toilets.\nThe Children\u2019s Global Hygiene Foundation is to be a not for profit initiative. Its aim is also to partner with other organisations to undertake the development of sustainable programs for the provision of hygiene systems, soap, and education programs into Australia and around the world through subsidiaries.\nThe foundation through the GrimeStoppers and the student ambassadors to the foundation will develop programs to assist developing countries all over the world through the \u2018Adopt a school\u2019 and \u2018Adopt a village\u2019 programs, aimed at increasing hand hygiene compliance. The foundation aims to inspire children to join with the founders to bring about a generation of children with natural hygiene habits.\nCarol is a champion of all aboriginal people when it comes to community hygiene. A Noongar/Ngadu woman from the south-east coast of Western Australia. She has lived and worked in Albany for most of her life, and is well-known throughout the Noongar nation as a tireless worker for her people. She has been very active in Indigenous affairs for over 40 years.\nADJUNCT PROFESSOR DON PALMER ThL, MA\nDon\u2019s connection with aboriginal people goes back to the early days of the Land Rights movement when he produced some of the earliest television programs dealing with this fundamental issue. Since then he has been involved at many levels and travelled the nation in effort to support Indigenous Australians including acting as a consultant to a major Federal Government Indigenous men\u2019s health project. He is a keynote speaker on Aboriginal health in a wide variety of forums. He has worked on a range of projects with NSW Aboriginal Land Council in communities across the state. Don acts as a cultural advisor the Noetic Group and Equbed.\nDon is a member of the advisory group for the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission and has worked in health promotion for the NSW Department of Health. He spent several years on the ABC\u2019s NSW Advisory Board and as an academic training some of Australia\u2019s most prominent media personalities and journalists. He is a Winston Churchill Fellow and holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication. As a documentary film maker he was winner of a United Nations Media Peace Prize and acts as a provider of media training to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the board of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council. He recently joined the Board of the Children\u2019s Global Hygiene Foundation.\nHe\u2019s known in Central Australia as Tjungurrayi and Watama in recognition of his strong connection with Aboriginal people", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 9475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chriscarosa.com/2018/04/5-tactics-of-a-winning-little-league-coach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BWWQHLRPTBTRGXZVUN23EJQC4E4IYL5B", "length": 10125, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "chriscarosa.com", "title": "5 Tactics of a Winning Little League Coach", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Business Tips / 5 Tactics of a Winning Little League Coach\nI never asked to be a baseball coach. As you might recall (see \u201cA New Beginning,\u201d Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel, April 27, 2017), baseball and I have had a strange \u2013 and sometimes strained \u2013 relationship. You could understand my reluctance to agree to play the part of assistant coach for my son\u2019s T-Ball team. Still, it was only T-Ball (how hard could that be) and it was my neighbor who was the head coach. He needed help, so, as any good neighbor would, I readily assented to assist. But, then, the unexpected happened.\nEven at that age, my neighbor\u2019s son was a natural athlete. (He would eventually be a heavily recruited college athlete and go on to coach Division I college sports.) Though normally too young to play in the next level up, his prowess at the plate and in the field made him an attractive addition to any roster in that higher league. So when he was called up, his father was called up too.\nThat\u2019s when I realized the significance of the phrase \u201conly a heartbeat away.\u201d With no other assistant coaches to turn to, taking the reins of head coach fell upon my feeble shoulders. \u201cWhat the heck,\u201d I thought, \u201cit was only T-Ball. How hard could that be?\u201d\nIf you\u2019ve ever rode the current of Little League sports (or any youth organization, for that matter), you know once they\u2019ve got you, they\u2019ve got you. And they got me. As my son aged up through the higher leagues, so too did I. Each year I wore the cleats of head coach. Each year I feared moving closer to being exposed as a baseball fraud.\nThat I knew nothing of the strategy and tactics of baseball became clear that final year. I had already found a willing volunteer to replace me as head coach the following year. All I needed to do was survive this one last go-around and no one would ever have been the wiser. Alas, by mid-season, I could sense the grumblings of the parents as our winless team wallowed in last place.\nPerhaps what angered the parents the most was their kids didn\u2019t seem to care. They, like I, knew apathy is the bane to success \u2013 in sports, in school, in work, and at anything else you do in life. Rather than get all worked up about losing, I made sure the boys had fun, laughed, and joked around. Yes, they knew the score. Yes, I made sure they didn\u2019t care. The parents, no doubt, feared I was encouraging bad behavior within their precious little gems.\nNow, remember, my son was included among this collection of jewelry. Like the rest of the team\u2019s parents, I most assuredly did not want him to learn bad habits. The challenge, of course, what I, myself, never learned good baseball habits. My quiver, though, was not quite empty.\nIt wasn\u2019t as though I didn\u2019t know how to play baseball \u2013 I did \u2013 but, perhaps more importantly, I had learned through other endeavors the importance of quickly identifying the critical path to success. Sure, this was something practiced in fields far removed from baseball (and sports in general). Nonetheless, it was a template I knew, a template I was comfortable with, and a template which seemed to work consistently.\nThis template, which I continue to employ today (although not in youth activities), boils down to these five tactics:\nKnow the Rules \u2013 Any game, including Little League Baseball, comes with a standard set of instructions. These include things like the boundaries of the playing field, the permitted actions, and the conditions which you must abide. There\u2019s only one thing that prevents success more than not knowing the rules. That\u2019s burying your head so deep into the rules that you lose sight of the ultimate goal and fail to\u2026\nMeasure Yourself by the Relevant Benchmark \u2013 You\u2019d think this means simply \u201cthe team with the most points at the end wins.\u201d This, however, only describes the conditions in which one merely wins the battle de jour. The real prize, however, is winning the championship. In other words, it\u2019s not about winning every game, it\u2019s about winning the right games. In my last season of coaching, the first half of the season did not count towards play-off seeding. In other words, they were all like pre-season games. It didn\u2019t matter if we won or lost them. I understood that going in and acted accordingly. Which meant\u2026\nFail \u2013Why is failing important? As anyone familiar with the basic structure of a three-act drama knows, the first two acts end in failure. The end of the third act is the only end that counts. This doesn\u2019t mean to \u201cprepare for failure\u201d or even \u201cplan to fail,\u201d it means simply to fail. Yes, that might mean failing on purpose. You need to fail to understand your true limits, as opposed to your imagined constraints. The secret to failing successfully is to do so when the downside is smallest. Since the first half of the season didn\u2019t count, I used those games to test which players performed best at which positions. As a result, the boys got a broad taste of the game from every position. They might perform best in that position, but now they understood what the person in that position might be thinking. That, theoretically, made them a better team player in the position they were eventually assigned. Or course, it could also place them in a position to fail. Again theoretically, this might have a negative impact on their self-confidence. To avoid this, you must\u2026\nEmbrace the Psychology of Positive Thinking \u2013 Sure, we all know this, but are we really willing to do what\u2019s necessary to achieve this. Too many coaches ultimately fail because they reach for their inner drill sergeant when leading the wide-eyed youngsters around them. By the time the team reaches the playoffs, the players are so afraid to fail (see Tactic #3), they avoid taking the risks necessary to win (like stretching a long single into a double, diving for a line drive, or swinging for the fences). Rather than some strict task master, the coach must embrace his inner Indiana Jones. Yeah, Indy didn\u2019t always end up with what he was looking for, but he would have never found it in the first place if he didn\u2019t have the confidence to go where others would never risk going. And, in what would prove to be the ultimate lesson, along the journey he never forgot to\u2026\nHave Fun \u2013 Yep, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. It\u2019s not about the trophy you get for winning the championship. It\u2019s about the camaraderie you build among the team \u2013 the coaches, the players, and the parents. It\u2019s about the memories your share \u2013 the highs as well as the lows \u2013 and knowing everyone else felt exactly as you did at exactly the same time you felt it. Finally, it\u2019s about the smiles each lesson brings. The boys might not have realized the sense of those lessons at the time. Like a hidden Easter Egg, however, as they reflect on that wonderful season with their friends and family later in life, the true meaning of those events reveals itself. During that final season, it was critical we have fun from the very beginning. Not because that was the time when we were busy losing and most needed to think positively, but because it set the tone for the rest of the season.\nDespite our winless start, we won nearly every game in the second half of the season. That gave us a middle seed, so we began the playoffs against evenly matched teams. Because the first half of the season taught the boys to focus on having fun rather than winning, they were non-plussed when they fell significantly behind that first play-off game. This unabashed confidence apparently caused the opposition to question their own confidence. That may or may not have helped us come back to win. This win generated so much positive thinking that we then cruised through the play-offs.\nWhen the time came to play the championship game, I could detect the normal jitters such important games bring. To alleviate this, I spontaneously interrupted pre-game festivities. I unexpectedly rose up, saying we couldn\u2019t start without first singing the national anthem. Since there were no volunteers, I stepped forward and sang our country\u2019s song. Very poorly. But with enthusiasm.\nHaving that much fun wasn\u2019t enough to make us win, but it was enough to make us end regulation in a tie after six innings. That put us in a bind. Knowing the rules said no boy could pitch more than three innings, it meant I had to replace the pitcher. We only had two consistent pitchers, and I had used them up. I knew they were our two best pitchers because I tested them in the first half of the season when the games didn\u2019t count. There was another boy who, if he could trust himself, could pitch well. He was also our second-best outfielder. (Our best outfielder was also our best pitcher).\nWithout hesitation, I switch the two boys. The best pitcher went to left field and the left fielder came in to pitch. I asked the new pitcher how he felt coming in from the bullpen. I could tell he was nervous \u2013 this was the championship, mind you. I reminded him how uncomfortable he was when he pitched for the first time earlier in the season. I then reminded him how well he did. He said he was ready to go.\nWe scored one run in the top of the seventh. In the bottom, our new pitcher got the first two batters out. The next one hit a long double to right field. The fourth batter came up. He was their power hitter. He slammed a sure-thing run scoring line drive to left field. Only thing, our best pitcher \u2013 and best outfielder \u2013 took a perfect read on the ball and made a spectacular catch.\nAnd true to the idea of having fun, I let the boys poor sticky Gatorade on me.\nThe best part was this: During the post-game celebration, a couple of the parents came up to me and admitted to the near-mutiny earlier. \u201cAfter you lost all those games in the beginning, we thought you didn\u2019t know anything about baseball,\u201d they began, \u201cbut it\u2019s pretty clear you knew exactly what you were doing.\u201d\nWell, truth be told, no and yes. No, I don\u2019t know anything about baseball. But, yes, I did know exactly what I was doing.\nPosted in Business Tips, Memoir of a Real Life, The Compleat Carosa Commentaries Tagged baseball, fail, fun, psychology, sports, success", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 11869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/04/boone-and-crocket-club-b-news-release.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZWU3AOCSRF4CUBMG2BOM2NP7RWYMP63", "length": 9142, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com", "title": "Chronic Wasting Disease: Boone and Crocket Club B&C News Release CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE TSE Prion", "raw_content": "Boone and Crocket Club B&C News Release CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE Effective Date: March 29, 2018 Situational Overview Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a highly contagious, always-fatal disease that affects cervids such as deer, elk, and moose. It is difficult to detect in live animals because there is not a practical test to determine if live animals are infected. Additionally, the outward physical and behavioral signs of CWD often take several years before they are readily observable. There is no vaccine. Research indicates that CWD can contribute to localized population declines in wild cervid populations and it is spreading, affecting wild populations in more areas in North America. It has been detected in captive and wild populations in about half of the states in the U.S. and several Canadian provinces. Attempts to eradicate the disease have failed, and efforts to control its spread through herd reduction, hunter surveillance, and other methods have had limited success. Natural and human-caused factors are contributing to the spread of CWD. Infected animals shed disease agents called \u201cprions\u201d that are transmitted to healthy animals through direct contact (saliva) or by encountering shed prions in the environment. Prions are shed when an infected animal feeds, urinates, defecates, or dies and decomposes. These shed prions bind to soil and remain in the environment, capable of infecting healthy animals for several years. In addition to the spread of CWD through the natural movement of wild animals, there are human-caused factors accelerating the spread of the disease. The leading factor is the transportation of captive deer and elk between breeding facilities and game farms where infected animals come in contact with other captive and wild animals. Transmission of CWD between wild and captive cervids can occur in either direction through fence-line contact and escape of captive animals. Another human-caused factor spreading the disease to new locations is the movement of infected carcasses with improper disposal at the destination. Other practices, such as feeding and baiting, can unnaturally congregate normally scattered elk or deer that increases opportunities for CWD transmission if it is present in a wild population. State agencies are responding differently to CWD, with some taking aggressive action and some doing very little. Public awareness and participation of hunters vary as well, from denying the existence of the disease to recognizing it as a real problem that must be addressed. As a result, wildlife agencies and other managers are likely to face hurdles when new control strategies impact or conflict with the interests of stakeholders, including sportsmen (e.g., wild herd reductions) and commercial game farms (e.g., depopulation measures and transportation bans). So far, there is no evidence that CWD is transmissible to humans, nor are there any documented cases of people becoming infected. However, scientists believe the possibility cannot be entirely ruled out, as incubation periods for CWD prions in humans may last for decades and prion diseases in general are capable of developing new strains that can adapt to different species. As the nation\u2019s oldest hunter-conservationist organization, the Boone and Crockett Club is concerned with wildlife health issues, especially those that can have a negative and widespread effect on game populations. In North America, wildlife conservation is primarily funded by sportsmen in the form of license and tag fees, and excise taxes on sporting arms and ammunition. Conservation funding, and the advocacy for wildlife and their habitats, come primarily from public hunting\u2014one of the cornerstones of our system of wildlife conservation. Without such funding, it will be virtually impossible to conserve our irreplaceable and treasured wildlife resources for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations. Position The Boone and Crockett Club maintains CWD is a significant wildlife health problem. CWD has the potential to prevent many populations of wild deer, elk and other cervids from thriving in the long-term. Since eradication is most likely not possible, the Club believes efforts now should focus on containment and control strategies. The scientific community has solved many of the mysteries about CWD biology and ecology, but the knowledge needed to develop effective management and control strategies remains incomplete. How we address diseases among species like cervids that have large, continent-wide distributions is challenging, yet vitally important to the long-term sustainability of these populations. CWD containment is also complicated by the fact it is found in both captive and wild populations that interact and infect one another. The transportation of captive cervids will continue to pose increasing risks to both wild and captive animals in the absence of strict regulations governing such practices. States, provinces, and tribal lands that are currently CWD-free should consider all available options to prevent it from entering their borders and to detect it if it is present. Another priority should be to obtain more certainty about human exposure risks. Efficacy of various management techniques intended to contain and control the disease should be rigorously evaluated and field-tested. The Boone and Crockett Club strongly encourages governmental authorities as well as scientists, wildlife management specialists, and stakeholders, to collectively foster and develop sustainable approaches and initiatives to prevent, detect, monitor, control, and contain CWD. The Club will contribute to research, outreach/education, and legislative efforts to reduce infection and transmission rates, fill in knowledge gaps to most effectively manage CWD, stabilize wild cervid populations, and protect people through three primary avenues: The Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, of which the Club is a founding member,the Club\u2019s William I. Spencer Conservation Grants Program, and the Club\u2019s network of Boone and Crockett Wildlife Conservation Programs located at prestigious universities across the nation. https://mailchi.mp/boone-crockett/bc-news-release-175613?e=80e6705e7b\n''Caribou concerns Alberta\u2019s threatened woodland caribou could also be at risk, said University of Alberta researcher Debbie McKenzie, who is among a group of scientists funded by the Alberta Prion Research Institute. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing that we\u2019re very concerned about,\u201d she said, adding at least four CWD strains have been confirmed.''\nAT LEAST FOUR STRAINS OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!\nThe 29th Legislature Fourth Session Alberta Hansard\nThursday afternoon, March 15, 2018 Day 5 The Honourable Robert E. Wanner, Speaker\nDr. Swann: Mr. Speaker, we learned nothing from the BSE crisis. Mad cow disease, an incurable and rapidly fatal infectious prion disease of the brain, devastated our cattle industry 15 years ago at roughly a cost of $10 billion in lost markets. Conventional wisdom at the time assured us that this could not be transmitted to humans. This proved wrong, and variant CJD cost over 200 human lives.\nCWD, chronic wasting disease, is a similar, decades-old prion disease which began in deer and elk farms and is now growing across western Canada in the wild. It is spread easily from body fluids, not only from eating the meat, across the deer family, with weak and inconsistent provincial and federal control measures. Both game farming and wildlife management are provincial issues, but the federal food inspection agency, CFIA, sets the standards for meat safety and just last year relaxed the regulations for controlling this disease.\nPaul Glover, the CFIA director, wrote the following: since 2010 CWD has spread and become firmly established in wild cervids in Saskatchewan and Alberta and cannot be eradicated with the tools currently available. End quote. This highlights the failure of cooperation between federal and provincial governments in control measures.\nRecent U of C studies on CWD showed that it can be transmitted to experimental monkeys after they eat the flesh of infected deer. This is mobilizing the wildlife and hunting community, especially indigenous communities who depend on wild game. It\u2019s also the agricultural community\u2019s worst nightmare. We know that a significant number of infected deer and elk are consumed without being properly tested.\nDr. Neil Cashman, a noted neurobiologist and prion scientist from UBC, recently said, quote, we appear to be waiting till CWD is found in humans, end quote, before taking serious action on control and elimination of the disease.\nThis provincial government is negligent. We have learned nothing from . . .\nThe Speaker: Thank you, hon. member\nhttp://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files/docs/hansards/han/legislature_29/session_4/20180315_1330_01_han.pdf\nCanada Liberal MLA David Swann quoted, This provincial government is negligent, spread of CWD reminiscent of the onset of Canada\u2019s mad cow disease crisis\nhttp://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/04/canada-liberal-mla-david-swann-quoted.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 41071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cinemademerde.com/Bright_Star.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DNBSCWYBURO5LLM22HF5MZ6G34RQVHF5", "length": 7393, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cinemademerde.com", "title": "Bright Star | Cinema de Merde", "raw_content": "I would not be adored!\nAbbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox\nWoman has doomed love affair with John Keats.\nIt seems that me and Jane Campion are just not on the same wavelength. Her movies almost always miss with me, like artified romance novel The Piano or her butchering of The Portrait of a Lady, if they don\u2019t actively enrage me, like In The Cut. This movie didn\u2019t really draw much reaction at all out of me, and as far as I\u2019m concerned, THAT\u2019S the problem this time, but I can see where there might be those who can get into it. If you like a lot of high emotion, love sniffling, and are really into moping.\nWe begin in Hempstead, England in 1818. Abbie Cornish [of Somersault, here looking like Charlize Theron with dark hair] is Fanny Brawne, sensitive young lass who, at 19, has her own very specific ideas of exactly how everyone should behave, what\u2019s right and wrong, and basically everything about everything in the world\u2014and is not afraid to haughtily lecture everyone she comes into contact with on her views. They go to a nearby place where Keats is staying with fellow poet Brown. Apparently Brown published something making fun of Fanny\u2019s hand-made gowns, which are of her own design. She is quite fashion-forward for 1818, and again, has her own ideas about what clothes should look like. She and Brown are nasty to each other from the start, and it never lets up throughout the movie. She also meets Keats briefly, and becomes interested in him. Sort of.\nShe buys his book and likes the first line, \u201ca thing of beauty is a joy forever,\u201d perhaps because she seems to relate it to her fashions. The rest she could frankly live without, and tells Keats so, at this party. He also has an ailing brother, who she is professing much concern for. Eventually the brother dies, and weep, weep, everyone\u2019s so upset. Although we don\u2019t know him, only Keats knons him but we don\u2019t have any idea of their relationship, so the whole event unfolds without any emotional involvement. Fanny invites Keats for Christmas, and Brown, as he does here and often [often] throughout the movie, finds some reason why Keats can\u2019t go. He goes anyway.\nFanny goes over to Keats\u2019\u2014he now lives next door\u2014for poetry lessons, which includes him saying such things as \u201cif poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it should not come at all.\u201d Perhaps that kind of line does NOT make you roll your eyes, but for me\u2026 let\u2019s just say I have a clearer picture of my theater\u2019s overhead heating and cooling ducts than any of the relationships in this movie.\nEventually it becomes clear that Keats really likes her, but won\u2019t woo her because there\u2019s no way he could marry her on his lack of income, and it\u2019s better to just stay out of her way. Her family tells her this, but Fanny won\u2019t hear it, and responds with enough haughtily tearful outbursts to have me write: \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek of the 19th Century\u201d in my notes. When she is told that Keats is stepping aside so that someone else may adore her she wails \u201cI would not be adored!\u201d Several people try to warn her that she\u2019s only getting in worse [\u201cAttachment is such a difficult thing to undo,\u201d one says sadly], but Fanny considers everyone who isn\u2019t her or Keats to be a dolt who couldn\u2019t possibly understand how very deep and true her feelings are, and soon she\u2019s either haughtily superior to those around her, mooning with Keats, or having another go at the tearful outburst. Among the many emotions Campion hopes to elicit in her audience, I doubt the desire to kick Fanny square in the face is included.\nAnother reaction I suspect she didn\u2019t intend to arouse is the feeling of \u201cChrist, is this douche going to get sick and die here, or what?\u201d Yes, this movie just trudged forward with such slow, steady momentum from incident to incident to incident that long was I in love with the idea of Keats\u2019 easeful death. Eventually he gets tuberculosis and starts coughing blood, leading Fanny\u2019s mother to relent in her permissiveness toward the relationship, and Fanny to get a whole new area of moral superiority to hold over others in whether they are desperate enough to keep Keats alive as long as possible. Eventually he dies, Fanny cries, and it\u2019s over.\nMy primary problem with this film is that the relationship never came to life for me. It was just completely inert, and I didn\u2019t sense any spark between the two leads whatsoever. They moon, they kiss, they hug, but I never had a sense of real connection, which can make the movie seem extremely long, as that\u2019s pretty much all there is to the movie. I can imagine how one might get into it, and perhaps if it\u2019s working for you, it would be easy to be swept away on its low-plot mooniness. Contrast this to The Lover, also about a very ill-advised but meaningful relationship, which was suffused with aching emotion and blissful reveries. But that film put its heroine more in the context of her youth, portraying her as a young woman being swept away, her immaturity blinding her to how she might be hurt. But the point of view here is that Fanny is the only one in town with her priorities straight, with the courage to follow her heart over her head, etc., without much sense that she is being foolish and young.\nBut I\u2019m willing to concede that a lot of my problem here may be my issues with Campion in general. To me she comes across primarily as a feminist filmmaker, due to the strong gender-relations content in her films, but her feminism is the kind that should be sold at Barnes & Noble in a gift basket with some herbal tea, chocolate-covered cherries, some aromatherapy oils and a small how-to embroidery kit. It\u2019s that \u201cwomen are great, girls are awesome\u201d attitude that seems to exist in the absence of any deeper thought or analysis [except that, by extension, men and boys are pretty horrible\u2014unless, of course, they have been converted into women with penises], and comes suffused in a tendentious attitude of \u201cif you don\u2019t love my movie, it\u2019s because YOU ARE NOT SOCIALLY ENLIGHTENED.\u201d This comes across strongly here in the utter lack of criticism for Fanny, as well as NUMEROUS shots of an adorable red-headed girl doing adorable things. It\u2019s a virtual repeat of her loving admiration of young Anna Paquin in The Piano, and how very sweet and adorable and guileless she is. Girl power! I could only hope there would be a coffee-table book of these scenes on heavy, acid-free paper that I could put out in my beach house next to a tiny vase of fresh-cut daisies!\nHowever, I will tell you that the friend I attended it with\u2014much more acquainted with Keats\u2019 biography and work than I am\u2014liked the film very much and has grown to admire it more since he saw it. He saw in it that everyone touched by Keats becomes a better person through their association with him, including Fanny, who I, by contrast, saw almost no development in\u2014except that she did start to tone down her hideous outfits. He was also much more convinced by their relationship and the ferocity of their feelings. So\u2026 it is possible to get in to this.\nNevertheless, I don\u2019t think anything about this film is crucial, it doesn\u2019t bring a great deal of new insights to Keats\u2019 life or work, so you could see and it possibly enjoy it or miss it and still live a full and complete life. Sorry to be a party pooper.\nIf I had it all to do over again, I wouldn\u2019t have, but it\u2019s your life.\nPixar and Soda", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 8909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cipce.org.ar/en/articulo/second-meeting-of-the-ufede-network-santa-fe-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:A4H7CV33WAQBY7INVRUY5KIWOSDQRQXJ", "length": 1719, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cipce.org.ar", "title": "Second Meeting of the UFEDE Network - Santa Fe, 2015 | Cipce", "raw_content": "Second Meeting of the UFEDE Network - Santa Fe, 2015\nUFEDE Network Public Prosecutor\nIn Argentina there are 25 General Attorney\u2019s Offices (public prosecutors), each one with a different institutional reality. That is why, in 2014, we decided to create a Network of \u201cProsecution Units Specialized in Economic Crime\u201d (Red UFEDE, by its spanish acronym), to gather the prosecutors and general attorneys from all provinces. The objective of this Network is encouraged the growing and development of this kind of specialized prosecutions units, and also improve the already existing.\nTo start with this Red, 30th and 31 October 2014 we organized the the First National Meeting of Prosecution Units Specialized in Economic Crime. It was organized in Buenos Aires, jointly by the CIPCE and the Federal Attorney General\u2019s Office. The Attorney General\u2019s Office from the provinces of Chubut and Santa Fe gave us its institutional support.\nIn 5th and 6 of November 2015, we organized the Second National Meeting. It was carried out in the Law School of the National University of Litoral, in the province of Santa Fe. It was organized by CIPCE, this University and the Attorney General\u2019s Office from Santa Fe, with the institutional support of the Federal Attorney General\u2019s Office.\nBetween the First and the Second Meeting, ten General Attorney\u2019s Offices were involved, from provinces in differents regions of the country. In addition to this, there were public servants from several oversight bodies and control organisms.\nThis document sums up the Second National Meeting of the Network ok Prosecution Units Specialized in Economic Crime.\nReport Second National Meeting UFEDE 621.03 KB\nInforme Segundo Encuentro UFEDE 616.59 KB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://civilrights.org/2017/11/14/civil-rights-health-advocates-express-strong-concerns-hhss-draft-strategic-plan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7EUAW7R74TSM2R5G6SBCCJ6SXUGIIXXB", "length": 3182, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "civilrights.org", "title": "Civil Rights and Health Advocates Express Strong Concerns about HHS\u2019s Draft Strategic Plan - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights", "raw_content": "Civil Rights and Health Advocates Express Strong Concerns about HHS\u2019s Draft Strategic Plan\nEconomic Security, Fighting Hate & Bias, Health Care, Human Rights 11.14,17\nThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updates its strategic plan every four years, and last month invited the public to comment on its draft plan for FY 2018\u20132022. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, members of our Health Care Task Force, and other stakeholders submitted comments to the agency with concerns about the draft plan and recommendations to ensure that the opportunity to access quality health care and live a healthy life is equally available to all.\nChief among our concerns is that the draft plan fails to mention Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which builds on longstanding federal civil rights laws and is the first federal civil rights law to prohibit sex discrimination in health care. As our comments state, \u201cSection 1557 must be fully implemented and robustly enforced by HHS to ensure that HHS\u2019 programs and activities, and those it supports with federal funds, are responsive to consumer demands and serve the purposes of the ACA to reduce barriers and expand access to health care and coverage.\u201d\nThe draft plan actually excludes LGBTQ people as a population altogether. This is extremely troubling, as the record shows that LGBTQ individuals consistently face health care discrimination, including verbal abuse, physical abuse, and outright refusals of treatment. This is especially true for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals.\nIn addition to the robust implementation and enforcement of Section 1557, The Leadership Conference also urges HHS to:\nAdopt a broad definition of health care disparities in its strategic plan, which includes not only racial and ethnic health disparities but also disparities based on language, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability.\nRemove all language that could threaten women\u2019s access to a broad array of health care services, including reproductive health care services.\nRemain religiously and morally neutral in its funding and activities to ensure that individuals do not feel proselytized by providers or receive access to a limited scope of services due to the moral or religious nature of an organization.\nAccess to quality, affordable health care is a civil and human right. The Leadership Conference and our Health Care Task Force urge HHS to ensure that all people in the United States can access quality, affordable health care, without discrimination.\nRead comments from The Leadership Conference, members of our Health Care Task Force, and other stakeholders:\nLetter led by Center for American Progress from 40 FedWatch Coalition members\nSex Ed Coalition, on behalf of 39 members or supporters\nIn September, advocates held a press call to explain why Section 1557 of the ACA is integral to the law and how revising it will limit access to comprehensive health care for women and LGBTQ people. Click here to read statements from advocates and to listen to a recording of the call.\nUpdated Scorecard and New Report Examine Local Police Body Camera Programs and Process", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clarksoncollege.org/immortality-and-education/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVF2J2XQSMPBS7WNCXFB2PLP4RHT3A34", "length": 3200, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "clarksoncollege.org", "title": "Immortality and Education | Clarkson College", "raw_content": "The thinking process is a little convoluted, but I think, some scientists statements about music to the contrary, technically it begins with artists.\nArtists present thoughts that are expressed in the most free medium relative to its communicability to most people. There are many people who don\u2019t understand music-it can depend radically on one\u2019s sense of taste, or how loud the music is played, or whether one hates violins, and this and that thing. But artwork is easily communicated as either something representational or abstract, which carries certain subliminal messages about symbolism and emotion very easily to a large population. Having a perspective on art does not require as much intellectual training as appreciating music-music requires appreciation, whereas artwork merely requires perspective. Therefore, artwork does not require the level of emotional sophistication or commitment that music requires. Understanding some music actually requires playing an instrument, which is not at all as common as is usually assumed. Real talent in art is far more common than real talent in composing or playing instruments.\nAlthough literature is an important step, I think the next truly significant step is philosophy, where the symbolism of art and literature is formed into knowledge.\nSo, in my view, the creative process does not begin with philosophers. There is a lot of basic investigation of visual forms-rudimentary investigation of intelligence-and a lot of reading-experience of abstract concepts, which is necessary before doing meaningful things with logic.\nAnd it is true that for some mathematics and representations of mathematics (such as musical harmonies, golden ratios, Fibonacci sequences, and classical beauty) come first, because for certain people the nature of logic is mathematics, but that is not true for everyone.\nSo it seems in the philosophical path art and literature come first, but in the mathematical path music and certain mathematical logics come first.\nHowever, it can be argued that if we assume philosophy is the source of all fundamental logic (logic being a discipline of philosophy originally), then where mathematics depends on the fundamental it also depends on philosophy, which it has been argued, in turn depends on literature, which depends on art.\nSo, as far as the fundamental, it seems that art rather than philosophy comes first, and literature may also come earlier than philosophy.\nThis is easily shown from the depiction of human development, and even aspects of modern education, where children do finger-painting before they do drawing, and drawing before they do writing, and writing before they do critical thinking, and critical thinking before they do mathematics. It is also clear that those who are extremely smart will want knowledge of many languages, which is an aspect of polymathy, and those who want to do very well with languages will want something like magic, and those who truly succeed with magic will become immortals (whether or not this is possible is not entirely clear to me, but it is one of the ultimate goals I have found).\nPosted in: EducationTagged : the depiction of human development,the nature of logic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://climatenepal.org.np/main/index.php?p=research&sp=onlinelibrary&opt=detail&id=350", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TXKIFI2SUI64THRHIPV2ZAVCUNHFCLMP", "length": 381, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "climatenepal.org.np", "title": ".:: Climate Nepal ::.", "raw_content": "Climate Change and Local Impacts-Synergy between Adaptation and Renewable Energy Development for Nepal\nDescription This paper has been designed to provide basic overview on climate change issues and associated impacts. It has also tried to link role of renewable energy for building resilience capacity of the vulnerable areas and populations.\nI am unable to download this document", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clubs4uk.co.uk/athletic/greater-manchester-middleton-athletic-club.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:3ONBROIGRIJDJKZ3WDNOH4FAZRWWTEJ5", "length": 1768, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "clubs4uk.co.uk", "title": "Middleton Athletic Club", "raw_content": "Middleton Athletic Club\nMiddleton athletic club in Greater Manchester is so much more than track and field. It is a pillar of the community where the populace of similar mind can come together and discuss related interests.\nWhile anybody can go out jogging at no cost...other than a pair of trainers and some inexpensive sports gear - which various people wear for normal everyday use as well.\nAn athletic club can provide a pooling of resources if you wish to have a go at other sports such as the throwing events where the specialised paraphernalia is more pricey as well as requiring a well-built safe quarter where shot, hammer, javelin can land safely. Every athletic club comes with their individual experts and Middleton is no exception, there is always one character who have been doing it for years and typically give away their time without charge. They purely want to see the next generation grow up enjoying life, taking part, competing next to like minded people and getting off that X-box!\nMiddleton athletic club is also responsible for an assortment of fun runs which raise a lot of good cash for humanity.\nMiddleton athletics club is a splendid way to initiate juniors to athletic competition in the local area by staging competitions alongside other competitive clubs in the local area although emphasizing the importance of taking part, enjoying yourself and doing your best as being the most significant components of any club affiliate.\nThe kind of activities which are open if you are to sign up to Middleton athletic club are:\nBy clubbing as one we can make available cheaper travel arrangements as well as providing cheaper cover in case of any mishaps that may crop up, something that you would not cater for yourself on a personal foundation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cmgfi.com/news/read/cmg-financials-jill-lyons-ranked-as-one-of-the-nations-top-originators?channel=corporate", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FR5DOZR6XYFAU3IFNRYDL7XGTXQCNH6D", "length": 1936, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cmgfi.com", "title": "CMG News - CMG Financial\u2019s Jill Lyons Ranked as One of the Nation\u2019s Top Originators", "raw_content": "CMG Financial\u2019s Jill Lyons Ranked as One of the Nation\u2019s Top Originators\nSan Ramon, CA \u2014 Apr 13, 2018 \u2014 CMG Financial congratulates Jill Lyons, senior loan officer, San Ramon, California, for ranking as a Scotsman Guide 2017 Top Originator. Jill was ranked 15th for Top HELOC Volume 2017.\nThroughout her twenty-five-year mortgage career, Jill has held numerous positions, including mortgage advisor, mortgage sales trainer and manager, certified FHA specialist and certified mortgage planner. Her depth of experience enables her to act not just as a loan officer but as a financial planner, setting her clients up to meet their long-term goals. With CMG Financial\u2019s proprietary All In One LoanTM, she is able to help her clients reduce the amount of mortgage interest paid and accelerate total loan payoff. Her network of real estate professionals know they can rely on her for consistently superior service.\nIn her current role as Sales Manager at CMG Financial, she manages her team from the San Ramon office and originates loans across the country. Currently, Lyons is licensed in Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. She is also a Utah lending manager. Her substantial production volume has earned her membership in CMG Financial\u2019s President\u2019s Council and Chairman\u2019s Club.\n\u201cI am always excited to see each year how Jill is planning to increase her production from the previous year,\u201d said Charlie Rogers, SVP of Retail Lending, \u201cher passion for the business is remarkable and she has built a fiercely loyal referral base. It won\u2019t be long before Jill surpasses the $100 million annual production mark.\u201d\nFor more information about CMG Financial, please visit www.cmgfi.com.\nCMG Financial NMLS# 1820. Jill Lyons NMLS# 206346.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coffeecops.weebly.com/in-case-you-missed-it/pensioners-association-meeting-january-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:W2XVMFK6WPSCDO32HXYUBY5D4IN3MV3H", "length": 362, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "coffeecops.weebly.com", "title": "Pensioners Association Meeting - January 2017", "raw_content": "Pensioners Association Meeting - January 2017\nSA Fire & Police Pensioners Asso. Meeting The next meeting will be held On January 10, 2017 We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 1:30 PM.\nOur meetings are held at 11603 W. Coker Loop Suite 201, San Antonio, TX 78216\nBelow is the link to update your Pension Fund Personal Info http://www.safppa.org/update.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://completepropertymanagement.co.uk/areas-covered/ribble-valley.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QT6OENMME65YETKJNCUEZHQARKJZTIPA", "length": 655, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "completepropertymanagement.co.uk", "title": "Areas Covered | Ribble Valley | Complete Property Management Solutions Ltd", "raw_content": "We provide professional residential management services to clients with apartment blocks in Ribble Valley. With the greater availability of apartments in Ribble Valley, developments need to be expertly managed to ensure the highest return on investment at resale. Managing agents provide a variety of services to ensure this happens.\nLike most residential management companies providing block management in Ribble Valley, the usual services such as maintenance forecasts and communal area servicing are available. However, the most noticeable difference will be guaranteeing the highest level of service is maintained, whilst proving to be cost effective.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://complexmeme.net/thoughts/?currentPage=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:31Z", "digest": "sha1:N4RTOFTXPEZOIAYBNAWFFVXPNWE5QH4Q", "length": 16628, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "complexmeme.net", "title": "ComplexMeme - Thoughts", "raw_content": "Murray and Meritocracy\nI\u2019m going to write a bit more about Murray, in response to an op-ed follow-up to his recent book. The op-ed responds to the accurate criticism that his book describes a problem but doesn\u2019t lay out policy suggestions or responses. In the article, he makes several suggestions:\nEliminate unpaid internships\nReplace the SAT with subject-specific tests\nReplace ethnic or racial affirmative action with socioeconomic affirmative action\nEliminate bachelor\u2019s degrees as a job requirement\nAll of those sound reasonable to me, though I don\u2019t think those would make that much of a difference. Neither does Murray, he thinks it would be more symbolic.\nThe big about degree requirements is interesting, in part because there\u2019s been some action on a similar legal front with regard to high school diplomas. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has at least raised the issue of whether high-school diploma requirements could be discriminatory when that credential is not well-connected to actual job requirements. There are probably quite a few jobs where the credential of a college degree (especially if not requiring any particular subject) is also not well-connected to the job requirements, and may have an adverse effect on protected groups.\nMurray really does have a lot in common with meritocratic liberals. A common mis-characterization of the liberal position on group differences among alt-righters seems to paint liberals as radical \u201cblank-slate\u201d believers, who either think there are no identifiable groups (plainly wrong), there are no differences between identifiable groups (plainly wrong), or that there are differences between groups but by really lucky coincidences none of those differences are morally significant (plainly wrong and incredibly implausible (unless you think no differences are morally significant, I guess)). Rather, liberals mainly disagree with Murray on whether wandering into the rhetorical minefield of biological group differences is net-beneficial.\nMurray himself notes in an essay summarizing his previous book:\nIn all cases, the variation within groups is greater than the variation between groups. On psychological and cognitive dimensions, some members of both sexes and all races fall everywhere along the range. One implication of this is that genius does not come in one color or sex, and neither does any other human ability. Another is that a few minutes of conversation with individuals you meet will tell you much more about them than their group membership does.\nWhich makes me wonder why he can\u2019t avoid those minefields entirely instead of merely tiptoeing.\n(There\u2019s some further fascinating discussion of the op-ed here. The comments are really worthwhile, in particular the comment (left March 8, 2012 at 10:19 am, sadly no comment permalinks on that site) by Albatross on meritocracy.)\ntagged politics, society\nThe Fall of \"Fishtown\"\nA while ago, I picked the January 2012 issue of conservative journal The New Criterion (Volume 30, Number 5) from a local newsstand. The issue caught my eye because it had a symposium on the question \u201cIs America in decline?\u201d, a topic I find fascinating as a futurist and someone interested in Peak Oil and similar phenomena.\nOne of the essays on the purported decline of America was \u201cBelmont & Fishtown\u201d by Charles Murray, summarizing Murray\u2019s book Coming Apart, which discusses \u201cThe State of White America\u201d. (Presumably \u201cwhite America\u201d specifically for rhetorical reasons, given the fate of Murray\u2019s most famous work.) Murray discusses the richest and poorest of whites, using \u201cBelmont\u201d and \u201cFishtown\u201d as emblematic labels for these groups. Murray\u2019s conclusion is that since the 1960s, \u201cFishtown\u201d has gone into deep decline in terms of American core values (Murray refers to such as \u201cFounding virtues\u201d). \u201cBelmont\u201d has avoided such decline, but become isolated (geographically (for more on that topic, see Bill Bishop\u2019s The Big Sort) and in terms of tastes and preferences (becoming David Brooks\u2019s bourgeois bohemians)).\nMurray talks about four values in his study: Marriage (and single vs. married birth and parenting), industriousness (Murray just looks at hours worked and participation in work force), honesty (Murray just looks at crime rates), and religiosity (which Murray posits causes increased civic engagement, but I\u2019d say that it\u2019s just correlated to civic engagement in general; church attendance is just a civic engagement thing religious people do).\nWhy did this happen? Murray goes into little detail (at least in the short essay version of his work, I have not read the book). One reason cited is the sorting effect of elite universities, coupled with financial aid. This is an unintended consequence of meritocracy, the best and brightest, no matter how poor, are able to escape from troubled \u201cFishtown\u201d (and, presumably, ensconce themselves in isolated \u201cBelmont\u201d), leaving \u201cFishtown\u201d with even less social, cultural, human, and financial capital to deal with its escalating problems. (Affirmative action would presumably bring the same effect to a broader cross-section of de-facto-segregated communities, but Murray doesn\u2019t discuss this because he\u2019s focusing on whites.) As the problems get worse, the best and brightest of \u201cFishtown\u201d have fewer opportunities where they grew up and more incentive to leave.\nThere\u2019s one big thing missing from Murray\u2019s explanation, though, perhaps best explained by a graphic like this:\n(Excerpt from a graphic by the New York Times, from this opinion piece, HT Nick Huber.)\nI\u2019d say that\u2019s the real power behind the wedge that\u2019s driving \u201cFishtown\u201d and \u201cBelmont\u201d apart. I\u2019d guess that the decline in the top marginal tax rate has something to do with that phenomena, though that came too late to be the primary cause. Once you have the wedge of economic inequality (that is, declining economic opportunity that disproportionatly affects those already worse off (and pretty much anything will disproportionately affect those already worse off)), all sorts of feedback loops start up related to Murray\u2019s metrics:\nMarriage: Less economic opportunity means fewer people can find a match who will make them better off. Job-related stresses also take a toll on relationships.\nHonesty: Less economic opportunity means more desperate people on the fringes.\nIndustriousness: Murray asserts that divergence on this metric began when demand for labor was still high, but work that pays less (relative to national standards of living) is still less motivating.\nCivic Engagement: Less economic opportunity means less funds for church dues and other activities. Increased job stress may mean less time/energy for other activities.\nHonesty + Marriage: Harder to get married if you\u2019re a criminal.\nHonesty + Industriousness: Ditto for finding employment, even if it\u2019s available.\nHonesty + Civic Engagement: Why participate in your community if you don\u2019t like/trust your neighbors?\nCivic Engagement + Marriage: A good context to meet people, and in terms of child rearing in or out of wedlock, you\u2019re more likely to care about social censure if you\u2019re a member of a social group in the first place.\nCivic Engagement + Honesty: Building the sort of trust and norms that discourage crime.\nAny one of those four + itself: Norms change, it\u2019s a vicious cycle. The sorts of capital that keep these metrics high is also driven out when they decline. Successful people leave, organizations move or cease to exist, webs of trust break down.\nThe above isn\u2019t an inclusive list, and that\u2019s not all that\u2019s going on. Technology has a role to play, too, and given my earlier points about the Robot Revolution (related), I expect the trend in the graph above to get worse.\nI think both liberals and conservatives are aware of the decline Murray discusses, though I\u2019ve seen rhetoric from both sides accusing the other of being in denial. The underlying problem is largely untargeted by either side. Liberals only have the political power to defend stop-gap measures that help the poorest of the poor. Conservatives deny that a gap between productivity and wage growth is a problem, or suggest that the poor will pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if only liberals stopped \u201chelping\u201d. That line misses two things: First, the \u201crising tides lift all boats bit\u201d doesn\u2019t really fit with the psychological reality of the situation, which is that people judge how well off they are relative to others in their society, so economic inequality means social breakdown even if standard of living continues to rise. Second, there seem to be some implicit and very rosy assumptions about the form such bootstrap-pulling would take, especially if the \u201csocial safety net\u201d really is removed (or overwhelmed).\n(There\u2019s been about Murray going around the blogosphere (especially among alt-righters), some posts to start on include this speculation about Charles Murray and the Future and this review of the book. I\u2019d be curious to see more left-wing reactions to the book, too, if there are good ones to read.)\ntagged economics, history, politics, society\nInflation, Hyperinflation, and Gold\nHere are two interesting pieces that address the same issue.\nFirst, a great bit of explanation from this alarmist essay:\n[\u2026] hyperinflation is not an extension or amplification of inflation. Inflation and hyperinflation are two very distinct animals. They look the same\u2014because in both cases, the currency loses its purchasing power\u2014but they are not the same.\nHyperinflation is the loss of faith in the currency. Prices rise in a hyperinflationary environment just like in an inflationary environment, but they rise not because people want more money for their labor or for commodities, but because people are trying to get out of the currency. It\u2019s not that they want more money\u2014they want less of the currency: So they will pay anything for a good which is not the currency.\nIn other words, in inflationary conditions, everyone is pulling the currency. They want (and need) more of it because everyone who they buy goods and services from wants (and needs) more of it. On the other hand, in hyperinflationary conditions, everyone is pushing the currency, they want anything but currency and require more currency as a sort of bribe to except currency at all. In either case, the currency flows more rapidly, the pushing and pulling happen in the same direction. The symptom in terms of on-the-shelf prices is similar, but the effect on everything else in the economy is quite different.\nOne significant difference is what happens relative to alternate currencies, which brings me to the other piece:\nI can guarantee that the majority of people who make the claim that gold is an inflation hedge have never looked at the data. Imagine you were a retiree in 1980 looking to protect yourself against inflation. If you were to accept conventional wisdom and bought gold to hedge against inflation, your retirement would have been a nightmare. [\u2026]\nThe reason I am very bullish on gold is because of the obvious debt problems we face. The truly monster spikes in gold are going to come because of sovereign debt defaults.\nIn inflation, people want more of the inflating currency relative to other currencies (not to sit on, to spend). In hyperinflation, people want any other currency (since they still need to buy day-to-day stuff). In the former situation, gold will do poorly against things that are significantly more useful. In the latter situation, gold will do well to the extent that it functions as a not-currency currency. It\u2019s not tightly-coupled to other currencies, and \u201cyou can\u2019t print gold\u201d, after all.\nDisclosure: I\u2019m long in gold and silver, for pretty much the reasons above.\nDisclosure disclaimer: The above should not be construed as investment advice. Any investment advice I do give may be terribly bad.\nHow Can Occupy Wall Street Win?\nOccupy Wall Street continues to be very interesting. (On the economic side, see also.)\nI previously mentioned that non-violent protests can only win by being economically or politically disruptive, but there are a few ways to achieve that goal:\nConsumer Siege: Cut someone off from funding by refusing to do business with them (boycott) is the typical example. Indirect boycotts can sometimes work (for example, see Color of Change\u2019s successful campaign against the Glenn Beck Show, which worked by convincing advertisers that being associated with Glenn Beck was not a good idea for their brand (or at least that it would be better to spend their advertising budget\u2019s elsewhere). Divestment can also work, since the people running an institution tend to also be investors. Of course, that only works if equity in the institution is publicly held and the protesters have a lot of it (not usually the case).\nIn the case of OWS, this is why I\u2019m interested in this story in which a bunch of protesters who were Citi Bank customers tried to close their accounts, only to be locked in by guards and arrested by police. Bizarre. A question: In the actual bank runs of the 1930s, did banks ever try to get police to arrest customers who were closing their accounts?\nDisruption of Business: Protesters prevent the institution from doing business with anyone. This either involves discouraging customers or actually preventing institutional activities from happening. The strike is an obvious (and fairly mild) example of this type. So is the picket line, in which customers and/or replacement workers are discouraged (but not actually prevented) from entering a place of business.\nGiven the name \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d, I\u2019m surprised there isn\u2019t more action of this type. While seeing the protesters \u201coccupy\u201d Times Square was impressive, it\u2019s a far cry from actually occupying, you know, Wall Street. There\u2019s no indication that OWS has been at all disruptive to the business activities of anyone working on Wall Street.\nPetition: In general, just expressing one\u2019s grievances, no matter how publicly is pretty useless unless you can effectively turn that to recruiting people for one of the activities listed in this post. Getting arrested is only great if you emerge from jail with your numbers doubled. (The IWW was great at this, Anonymous not so much. (That topic might be worth its own post, but in the meanwhile, read this, which also includes some very good speculation about the possible outcomes of the protests.))\nThere\u2019s one exception, though. If your grievances are expressed directly, in person, to an institution itself, then the actions the institution takes against you can effect the institution\u2019s reputation enough to be disruptive. That only works if the institution is considered to be in control of the action taken against protesters and the institution is perceived to have some sort of obligation to listen to protesters. Here, that\u2019s likely to be just government, and maybe not even that.\nThat tactic can also work as the political equivalent of \u201cdisruption of business\u201d. If hundreds of people are showing up in person to present their grievances at each congressional office every day, it does give Congress a bit more personal motivation to resolve the situation.\nElections: In a democracy, if you can mobilize enough support to actually get incumbent legislators replaced with legislators loyal to your position, then that\u2019s one way to change things. To do this at a large scale, you really need to establish an effective political party. Specifically, it must be able to do two things effectively: Get candidates elected, and ensure that candidates who don\u2019t toe the party line on important issues (the platform) are not reelected (and preferably are left with their careers in total ruin, such that they actually fear defecting).\nI\u2019ve heard suggestions that OWS needs a \u201cnon-partisan political party\u201d, which is nonsense. To the extent that the concept is coherent, we already have a non-partisan political party, the Democrats, which is wildly ineffective at whipping their members into going along with even the core of the party platform. The Republicans, on the other hand, are wildly effective whips, at least on the limited platform of opposing Obama (or whatever non-Republican is in power at the time). (They\u2019re less effectively partisan when actually in charge, but you don\u2019t really have to coordinate much on how to burn the place down in order to do so effectively.)\nYou also need a lot of political power to push around the bureaucracy, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s an intractable problem in the case of OWS. (At least not compared to the difficulty of getting legislators elected in the first place.)\ntagged economics, ideas, news, politics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 45036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://concussioninc.net/?p=8820", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HU4UOUSDVW2GXV72TADKR4JD6LRTOT4L", "length": 7557, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "concussioninc.net", "title": "Guest Columnist Eva Rodansky on Why the USOC Is To Blame For U.S. Speedskating\u2019s Olympic Woes in Sochi \u00ab Concussion Inc. \u2013 Author Irvin Muchnick", "raw_content": "Guest Columnist Eva Rodansky on Why the USOC Is To Blame For U.S. Speedskating\u2019s Olympic Woes in Sochi\nWhile the main focus of Concussion Inc. is the sexual abuse scandals in USA Swimming, we recognize that many of the problems of swimming are also evident, in various ways, in other amateur sports. Indeed, that is one more reason why Congress needs to investigate the subject thoroughly, hold the appropriate leaders accountable, and reform the Amateur Sports Act.\nLast November we wrote about reports by others on the corruption of U.S. Speedskating, the national sport governing body (NGB), and included detailed comments by former ranked speedskater Eva Rodansky \u2013 see http://concussioninc.net/?p=8336. Here we publish a guest column by Rodansky on the fiasco behind the national speedskating team\u2019s poor performance at the recent Winter Olympics.\nby Eva Rodansky\nEven a casual observer of Olympic sports would have heard by now of the scandals plaguing U.S. Speedskating (USS) over the past two years: sexual and mental abuse of athletes by coaches, a skate-tampering scandal, top athletes forced to go on food stamps because of funding cuts. If USS thought redemption would come in Sochi, those hopes were crushed, as the American speedskaters drastically underperformed while the Dutch dominated the podium.\nYet the sport\u2019s insiders will know that for almost a decade the athletes have begged the United States Olympic Committee for help getting their dysfunctional NGB to comply with the Ted Stevens Amateur Sports Act. The USS, however, continued to operate as though athletes were performing for its administrator\u2019s benefit. Through the years, the USOC remained willfully deaf to the athlete\u2019s struggles. If the USOC is unwilling to enforce the Sports Act properly, perhaps a governmental agency should provide oversight for enforcement of the Sports Act.\nAs a former competitor who raced World Cups for the USA in long track from 2001-05, I want to laugh when I see stories coming out, just now, calling U.S. Speedskating \u201cthe most dysfunctional\u201d Olympic sport. I want to laugh when I read that Scott Blackmun, CEO of the USOC, insists that he will \u201cleave no stone unturned\u201d in an investigation of what went wrong with the U.S. Speedskating team. Really, Mr. Blackmun? The dysfunction within U.S. Speedskating has been festering for years, and your organization knew about it. You just stood by and did nothing, while athletes were forced to take the responsibility of requiring the NGB to comply with federal law \u2013 a proposition that is prohibitively expensive, a waste of precious energy, and an enormous source of retaliation. In other words, relying on athletes to enforce federal law is unreasonable.\nBack in March of 2006, following a grossly unfair Olympic team selection process and a disastrous Olympics in Torino for the U.S. women\u2019s long track team (no medals \u2013 a drought that continues to this day), I wrote an email to USOC Athlete Ombudsman John Ruger, informing him of the problems within U.S. Speedskating. In this email, I described USS as a totalitarian and unfair governing body that lacked transparency to its membership and was rife with conflicts of interest. All of this hurt the athletes and their ability to perform.\nIn response, Mr. Ruger asked permission to share my email with the people \u201cin charge of speedskating.\u201d I agreed, naively thinking we were \u201cgetting somewhere.\u201d But I should have thought, \u201cOh. You mean share my email with the foxes who are watching the henhouse?\u201d Mr. Ruger never followed up with me, and I never learned if anything happened as a result of my email.\nFor a time, the American speedskaters continued to win medals, though many grumbled that it was more despite, rather than thanks to, the NGB. However, that was not to last. Not surprisingly, the seething discontent eventually boiled over, leading to the scandals and underperformance of the last few years.\nThrough it all, I have learned that our esteemed Athlete Ombudsman, a position created by Congress to remedy just such inevitable conflicts, has repeatedly failed to do his job and actually stand up for athletes when they went to him for help. There has been at least one instance where the USOC has denied Olympic athletes access to their Ombudsman during a sensitive meeting involving complaints of harassment by USOC staff. Why is this? Could it be that the USOC\u2019s top priority is the protection of their own image, doing damage control and attempting to sweep problems under the rug, in the interest of keeping the sponsor money rolling in, rather than serving the athletes?\nI would love to have a job like John Ruger\u2019s. Put my picture up on the USOC web site: \u201cEva Rodansky, Athlete Ombudsman. Look, everybody! We have an athlete ombudsman! This means we\u2019re fair and we care about athletes!\u201d\nWhy is it that the USOC wouldn\u2019t step in and reform a corrupt NGB, as Scott Blackmun did when he brought in Mike Plant in the spring of 2013, until a major scandal blew up in the media? Why did the USOC ignore the boycotting short track skaters for so many months, forcing them to hire an attorney that performed hundreds of thousands in pro bono legal work? Why did John Ruger ignore, bury, and fail to act on my March 2006 email, laying out the problems within USS?\nI believe that this is an issue that is faced by athletes in many Olympic sports, not just speedskaters. In my experience, the USOC is primarily motivated by serving its own employees, and not athletes. Scott Blackmun focuses on fundraising and creating an image for the media, fans and sponsors, rather than the interests of athletes in conflict with their NGB.\nWithin speedskating, the culture can be characterized as administrators first, athletes second. The athletes didn\u2019t trust the leadership in USS to have the best interests of the athletes at heart. For example, it is telling that the one aspect of the settlement agreement that USS has not complied with is establishing of a fund specifically for athlete support. All funds raised through donations and sponsorships go instead to fund the salaries of the NGB employees.\nUSS is run like a private club, by a few individuals. As an athlete trying to change the culture, I was met with arrogance and a desperate grasping to regain control; with paranoia and retaliation for daring to question those at the top. I am not alone.\nNow, Scott Blackmun insists on leaving \u201cno stone unturned\u201d in the search for what went wrong. Don\u2019t make me laugh, Mr. Blackmun. How many stones have we, the American speedskating athletes and their supporters, overturned and presented to you in the last eight years? Would you have gotten your act together sooner if USS or the USOC had been forced to cover the athletes\u2019 legal bills? Our attorney, U.S. Olympian Ed Williams, worked half a year for free, but even covering his expenses was a real stretch for athletes living on food stamps. Meanwhile, USS didn\u2019t rely on pro bono attorneys \u2013 they hired them, paying top-dollar. Athletes shouldn\u2019t be forced to require that their governing body comply with federal law.\nDon\u2019t be fooled. Now that the Games are over, the USOC and U.S. Speedskating will simply barricade themselves behind those closed doors, where they feel so comfortable, and manufacture some politically correct \u201cexplanation\u201d for the failure of the speedskating team, that absolves them from any responsibility. Don\u2019t buy it. Instead, if the USOC won\u2019t require its NGB\u2019s to comply with federal law, perhaps a governmental agency should be appointed for the task.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 8079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cphpost.dk/community/out-about-cis-honours-international-baccalaureate-anniversary-with-two-new-scholarships.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:09Z", "digest": "sha1:AMPOQZ4GQOWTPLEZPCNOREG2RPJ3PHGF", "length": 1782, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "cphpost.dk", "title": "\u007f Out & About: CIS honours International Baccalaureate anniversary with two new scholarships \u2013 The Post", "raw_content": "There\u2019s no doubt these graduates feel prepared for anything life might throw at them (all photos: CIS)\nDecember 7th, 2018 2:54 pm| by Dave Smith\nThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the International Baccalaureate, the standardised syllabus taught to 16 to 19-year-olds at international schools across the world, and Copenhagen International School couldn\u2019t let the landmark go un-noticed.\nIn addition to its range of academic scholarships, it is introducing two more for its 2019-20 school year \u2013 the CIS Arts Scholarship and the CIS Sustainability Scholarship \u2013 which will give the recipients an 85 percent reduction on fees over two years of studies.\nThe former is for students with exceptional talents in the creative arts, while the latter is for students with an outstanding commitment to the environment and sustainability.\n\u201cOur focus on creativity and sustainability is based on the vision and mission of CIS \u2013 developing the potential of each individual in order to create a just and sustainable world,\u201d explains the school.\nCIS funds its scholarships through its \u2018Giving Tree\u2019 Community Scholarship Fund, which was launched in 2014 with the help of donors, and already there have been a large number of beneficiaries.\n\u201cCIS is one of the leading IB schools in the world, and an IB Diploma opens so many doors to universities in both Denmark and abroad,\u201d enthused scholarship student Phillip Mondrup.\n\u201cWhen I joined CIS in August this year, I quickly made friends from all over the world and it\u2019s so exciting to be a student in such an international environment.\u201d\nDanish architects win design award for new CIS building\nSustainable success: CIS students on their way to Oxford\nOut & About: School's version of the CIStine chapel's ceiling\nCIS: realising a singular vision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://craford.com/extension-of-dependent-coverage-effective-june-1-2010-and-beyond", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:12Z", "digest": "sha1:WXXDLPS7NHJ7WJLZL5LLRHKGC44VIGTI", "length": 4115, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "craford.com", "title": "Extension of Dependent Coverage Effective June 1, 2010 and Beyond \u2014 Craford Benefit Consultants - A Risk Strategies Company", "raw_content": "Extension of Dependent Coverage Effective June 1, 2010 and Beyond\nThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly referred to as \u201cHealth Care Reform,\u201d was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. One of the provisions of this law requires health care plans that currently allow enrollment of eligible dependent children to continue to make such coverage available until the child reaches age 26. The provision becomes effective on the first plan anniversary following September 23, 2010.\nThere are a few key caveats to the new provision:\nA dependent child\u2019s marital or residency status DOES NOT exclude their eligibility; in other words, the dependent child can be married and eligible for coverage under the parent\u2019s plan\nCoverage for the dependents of a dependent child (i.e. employee\u2019s grandchildren) is NOT REQUIRED under the law\nUntil January 1, 2014, \u201cgrandfathered\u201d(1) plans CAN EXCLUDE any dependent that is directly eligible to enroll in his/her own eligible employer-sponsored health plan even though the dependent may be considered an eligible dependent under the parent\u2019s plan\nIn response to the Health Care Reform legislation, a number of medical carriers are proactively expediting the mandate by extending dependent coverage up to age 26 effective June 1, 2010 (more than three months in advance of the provision taking effect). The option to extend coverage in June is voluntary for self-funded plans and mandatory for most fully insured plans. Following is clarification on who will be impacted by the changes and when:\nDependent Coverage: Who is Eligible on June 1, 2010?\nCurrently enrolled dependent child(ren) under the age of 26 who will lose dependent or student status and access to health care coverage between June 1, 2010 and the first plan anniversary following September 23, 2010\nDependent Coverage: Who is Eligible on the 1st Anniversary Following September 23, 2010?\nDependent children up to age 26 who are currently not covered by a medical plan; enrollment of these dependents can take place during the next anniversary open enrollment period that occurs after September 23, 2010\nDependent children up to age 26 of newly hired employees seeking coverage under their parent\u2019s plan\nDependent Coverage: Who is NOT Eligible on June 1, 2010 and Beyond?\nDependents of an eligible dependent child\nSpouse of an eligible dependent child\nCraford understands that each of our clients is unique in their culture and approach; what works well for one client may not work well for others. To that end, we would recommend each client consider the following factors before deciding to extend coverage on June 1, 2010. As noted above, some clients will not have the option of foregoing the early extension. For those that do, please do not hesitate to contact your Craford Consultant or Client Manager should you want to discuss options and/or possible outcomes in more detail.\nConsiderations for Self-Funded Plans:\nFinancial Exposure/Risk\nAllowing the June extension liberalizes your plan thus increasing the potential for higher claim costs prior to the enactment date. This risk will likely be mitigated to some degree by increased employee contributions.\nAlignment with Other Plans\nWhile medical carriers are providing an early extension, several dental and vision carriers are not. Allowing the early extension for medical and not other plans could create confusion amongst your employees and their enrolled dependents.\nA change in the dependent age will require programming and reconfiguration changes mid-year to HRIS systems and online benefit enrollment websites. COBRA administrators will need to be notified of the early extension decision so they can prepare and update notices accordingly.\nIf the decision to implement in June is made, communication will be key when advising employees of the early extension. Helping employees understand who is eligible, and who is not, will be paramount in the process.\n1A grandfathered plan is any plan in which an individual is enrolled \u2013 either directly or through any group plan \u2013 on the date of enactment (3/23/2010)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cragmama.com/2011/12/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:UZTHQI6HF76T5SAHNA3EW27EAZMVUUKH", "length": 572, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cragmama.com", "title": "2011 December 12 | Cragmama", "raw_content": "\u2026and it wasn\u2019t me. I\u2019ll give you a hint \u2013 he\u2019s just over 2 feet tall and 25 pounds of sheer energy. Yep, that\u2019s right. While hubby and I have both been very diligent and committed to our 3 weeks of rest, Cragbaby has been literally climbing the walls, flaunting his young muscles that have yet to discover the need for rest days. Household bouldering is anything but a new phenomenon for C. He\u2019s been projecting various items around the house such as chairs, stairs, tables, and shelves since he was around 5 months old. In fact, I even found\u2026Read the rest of this entry \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://creativenursesshoes.eklablog.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2TGT22SZQEUNSOJC5M6B235DUAORGX2A", "length": 1598, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "creativenursesshoes.eklablog.com", "title": "Creative Nurses Shoes -", "raw_content": "Par CreativeNursesShoes dans Accueil le 29 Ao\u00fbt 2018 \u00e0 06:59\nHelping others, especially those who are in need of help, has long been the cornerstone of human civilization. Whenever we see someone suffering, we want to do everything that is possible within our ability to reduce it. The profession that lets you do this on a daily basis is nursing. It is the most ancient, time-honored and most trusted job in the world. The members of this profession are well respected and loved.\nIf you are a nurse, you will find yourself in a difficult situation. You might need to stand on your feet all day long. Only the best shoes for nurses can help one with more than an eight-hour shift. People with foot problem can get real benefits with special shoes or best compression socks for nurses. In short, you would need to invest carefully to buy a pair of shoes or two.\nStanding in not the only trouble with nurses. There are other problems like hazardous environments. In a hospital, there are often chances of accidental spills which would make the floors slippery. If a nurse carries heavy objects and slips, there might be physical problems. So your nursing shoes need to be a slip-resistant sole.\nThe style is also an essential factor to consider while buying a shoe for any nurse. There are some styles that a nurse or medical personnel need to adhere. So you must be careful, or you might break the rules. Luckily, with the internet, you have to chance to look at the picture of the shoes before making the final decision.\nCreative Nurses Shoes - Cr\u00e9ation blog sur Eklablog - CGU - Signaler un abus -", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://criminologie.com/article/police-m%C3%A9tier", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:47Z", "digest": "sha1:FGVRBFB4HNQ5UIFWGUG7K3VGJR5NSAB5", "length": 13197, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "criminologie.com", "title": "Police m\u00e9tier | criminologie.com", "raw_content": "There is an endlessly elastic sociopolitical context within which policing operates. This elasticity results in shifting targets, deployment of resources, and new rhetoric that shapes the mandate over time through the stabilizing medium of the police m\u00e9tier. The police m\u00e9tier is a window into the ways in which policing shapes1 the social order in which it is located. This m\u00e9tier contrasts with how policing manages the mandate publicly. Rather, the police m\u00e9tier captures the show occurring backstage, characterized by occupational assumptions and practices focused around and reflexively shaping the incident.\nAssumptions are made, as in any occupation, about the politics of the field, the etiquette of treating citizens, mistakes at work, and routines and performances required of the practitioners. This is the assumptive world in which the occupation operates. There is an assumed practical model or logic in action that informs choices made in line with these assumptions. These assumptions and connections are taken for granted as being in the nature of the work and how it is to be carried out. Police practices are verified with reference to the several compatible assumptions that produce them. The assumptions about policing are the context within which practices have a life and a social reality. They reflect the value of the assumptions, and the assumptions are the context within which the practices are lodged. They are mutually supportive and are logical and methodical.\nThe police assume they know local areas, people, buildings, places, and their dynamics.\nThe structural features of places, neighborhoods, corners, and niches, \u201cpockets of crime,\u201d as St. Jean (2007) terms them, are largely immutable.\nThe people found in problematic areas are incorrigible. If they are drug dealers, they are \u201calways dirty\u201d (Moskos 2008, 83) and have no rights because they have forfeited them (ibid., 43\u201345) and can always be arrested (ibid., 49).\nLong-term \u201cprevention,\u201d \u201cproblem solving,\u201d or efforts to change the contours of such neighborhoods have no purchase on shaping policing reality.\nDisorder can be altered superficially by local and personalized \u201ctreatments\u201d and pragmatic, order-based policing.\nIt is only possible to disrupt, briefly deter, and make the occasional arrest as needed to maintain the essential authority of the officer.\nPolicing is differential by targets, time, place, and persons.\nPolicing should be personalized in the sense that officers identify with their district or beat.\nWhile it is democratic in the sense of being responsive, policing in local areas, or neighborhoods, is shaped by ethnicity, class, time of day, and the political context. There is little one can do to change the economy, schools, family life, or religious values; these rarely change.\nThe Incident Focus\nDomestic everyday policing is grounded in what might be called the cynosure of the incident (see Manning 2008, 81\u201382). Here, the m\u00e9tier is displayed.\nIn the police world, the incident is a microcosm of sensible, thoughtful, rational individualistic choices. It is the sacred center of policing. The idealized concept of the police officer transcends the actual officer in everyday practice. The officer is idealized as exceptional\u2014he or she stands apart from malice, emotion, prejudice, or distorted perceptions. The sacred status attributed to the officer is complemented in law by the \u201creasonable man\u201d legal standard. To call actions within an incident sacred is to reaffirm the nature of these social facts \u2014 they are obdurate, external, and constraining. Incidents involving corruption, violence, or showing personal everyday flaws such as anger, exultation, or depression are seen as rare by the media and the police and fall under the category of \u201crotten apples\u201d and exceptions that prove the overall integrity of the police as a body.\nThe incident is framed or viewed organizationally exclusively as the officer at the scene describes it unless otherwise known. As Moskos writes, \u201cThe chain of command is a myth. A sergeant cannot be in active command of five units simultaneously (2008, 112). Moskos captures the \u201cyou had to be there\u201d rule: \u201cWhile an officer may believe that another officer handles certain situations differently, the idea that officers should be allowed to make their own decisions is never in question. If these decisions are wrong, then the officers will face the legal, departmental or physical consequences\u201d (ibid., 112\u201313). What is left unsaid here, but revealed by the notion of absent supervision, creative writing, management of calls for service, and stops to avoid \u201ctrouble,\u201d is the rarity of actual information that might be seen as showing an officer was \u201cwrong\u201d in his or her decisions. \u201cOtherwise known\u201d refers to review later by supervisors, captured by the media or a citizen\u2019s camera, witnessed by third parties with an interest in the outcome, or observed as a result of the officer\u2019s request for advice or backup. Given that the theatrical core of policing is thought to be patrol work, the incident is seen in the context of responsiveness to citizen demand for order and showing activity to supervisors, but it is virtually always a low-visibility matter seen metaphorically through the eyes of the officer.\nThe M\u00e9tier\u2019s Sustaining Practices\nThe first shaping force is the authoritative patterning of relationships called the organization. There is an abiding sense in which the work of the police is structured, that is institutionalized, routinized, unquestioned, done as if there was no other way to do it, taken for granted as to its effectiveness, purposes, and means. These constraints, social facts, make everyday work possible. They are valued up and down the hierarchy of the organization and in that sense are the deep structures that sustain meaning. The basic foundational assumption is that this organizing is functional and rational. The organization is designed to allocate officers to randomly patrol, mostly by automobile, to react and respond to calls, and to investigate \u201cfounded\u201d (deemed valid as a result of police investigation of the report) calls. It is so structured and concentrates its resources at the bottom of the organization. The officers focus in the incident from whatever source to which they react. In this sense, \u201cpolicy\u201d is set on the ground by lower participants\u2019 situated practices. This kind of policy results from decisions made quasi independently and seriatim by loosely supervised officers.\nThe second shaping force is interpersonal tactics in the incident. The sanctioned interpersonal tactics of policing are those thought to guarantee successful asserting of authority, taking control, closing the incident in some fashion, and returning to service. These are learned on the job from other officers and especially field-training officers, as the academic aspects of their training are viewed as irrelevant and even an impediment to doing good police work (discussed above as \u201cpolice tactics.\u201d) These constitute an aesthetic from which variation is permitted \u2014 a style \u2014 that has local departmentally shaped shadings.\nThe belief is that good policing, or a good piece of police work, has the following features. As a dramaturgical act, it requires:\nsizing up the incident quickly (the police joke is that the officer is supposed to have it sized up before arriving)\ndealing with the current situation in a parsimonious fashion\navoiding violence or extended arguments\ndeciding what to do and how to do it with dispatch\nminimizing paperwork\nproducing solutions that facilitate returning to \u201cservice\u201d (meaning becoming \u201cavailable\u201d \u2014 patrolling)\nreducing cogitations about eventual guilt or innocence of the parties\neliminating remedies that are extensive, rehabilitative, educational, or transformative\nThe belief is that, once framed by the officer and handled in accord with these features, the incident has the social reality attributed to it by the officer. It takes organizational shape as the officer defines and describes it. A protective epigram protects and elevates judgments made on the scene: \u201cYou had to be there\u201d (to understand what was done, why it was done, and the results produced). This epigram rules the occupational culture. It protects the officer from criticism or punishment. It has a patently irrational element in that it attributes to officers that which no one possesses: endless patience, insight into human deception, deep penetration into character, a wariness combined with trust, and a moderated \u201cwait-and-see\u201d attitude. Even researchers seek the buried but obvious reasonableness that must characterize police deciding. The idea that \u201cdistortions\u201d are called upon suggests that the baseline of police deciding is of course reasonable, and somehow it must be shown by data that emotion, worry, guilt, anxiety, anger, and other mixed feelings exist in police shootings. This epigram and associated stereotype reinforce the inviolate and sacred center of the work \u2014 the reasonable, thoughtful, rational, cogitating individual officer, on the street deciding things. It provides for flexibility of action and freedom from close supervision. The officer\u2019s account is virtually the rule of thumb in court as well: if the officer defines him- or herself as being in danger (or a police partner or member of the public), a shooting is considered prudent and legal (Hunt 1985). In addition, since the work is not defined in concrete terms or in terms of the content of the interactions involved, but rather is defined as a social form, what is done is open-ended and can be described using the conventional rhetoric sanctioned within the oral culture.\nThe third shaping force is repetitive modes of deploying resources. This is partially structural and partially processual \u2014 a result of how officers patrol. The repetitive modes of deploying resources (by beats, districts, and other territorially based obligations) ground \u201corder\u201d and ordering in places and doings more than in categories of crime, law, or morality. Policing is about the control of territory and the symbolization of that control. These deployment modes are sensitized by the list (above) of shifting targets, places, and people. In disadvantaged areas especially, where policing is expected as required, policing is played out as reflexive cybernetic policing. It responds to the known understandings of policing about where crime lies, in what areas of the city, and carried out by what groups of people, and during what hours, days, and months of the year. The records kept sustain the validity of the practices because they are based on the same assumptions.\nThe fourth force is the cluster of rewarded activities. Any organization operates by inducements and their distribution. These inducements to perform policing as expected are based on assumptions about how the social world of work operates, as well as what practices are necessary to cope with this world. These generally revolve around stops, arrests, and other visible interventions in areas known as being full of that potential. As discussed above, the absence of rewards for other activities \u2014 problem solving, developing partnerships, working with community groups, excellence in organizational politics (other than rank promotion) \u2014 continues to tie the organization to its symbolic crime-control emphasis and ritual attachment to routine stops and \u201cshowing activity.\u201d\nIf we think of the incident as the window in which the practices are displayed, and these in turn being shaped by forces that are social facts, we can see that the incident is a ceremonial locus for repeating that which is valued and recognized as such in policing. In the incident the subjective and objective forces that govern the performance are mobilized. The activities have resemblance, coherence, and not a clear and obvious reality. Yet they are recognizable as \u201cpolice work\u201d in the here and now. The underlying continuity and resemblance between the actions may not be verbalized or described in nuance; the coherence is often assumed, not directly stated. The terms tied together by a fuzzy logic or like strands in a rope (Wittgenstein 1969) come to mind. They are known in spite of their emergent properties and complexity. These practices, and their existence as known properties of the incident, reproduce the modes of policing so frequently observed.\n1. The term shapes can be only inferred from a number of studies of policing and its impacts as well as the available ethnographies and community studies of those policed.\nHunt, J. 1985. \"Police accounts of normal force.\" Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 13:315.\nManning, P.K. 2010. Democratic Policing in a Changing World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.\n_________. 2008. The technology of policing: crime mapping, information technology, and the rationality of crime control. New York: New York University Press.\nMoskos, P. 2008. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. Princeton: Princeton University Press.\nSt. Jean, Pierre 2007. Pockets of crime. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.\nWittgenstein, L. 1969. The Blue and Brown Books. Oxford: Blackwell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 14890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crweworld.com/article/health/720086/why-quitting-your-high-cholesterol-medication-without-talking-to-your-doctor-is-a-big-mistake-video", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DAAWRTYYSFZKDDXZQRI6NOB3ZW5EZKIT", "length": 5158, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "crweworld.com", "title": "Crwe World | Why quitting your high cholesterol medication without talking to your doctor is a big mistake [Video]", "raw_content": "Why quitting your high cholesterol medication without talking to your doctor is a big mistake [Video]\n(BPT) - For Howie Mandel, it was just a routine checkup. Because he was in his early 30s at the time, with a lean and fit physique, he was expecting nothing less than a clean bill of health. But the doctor did have news for the popular comedian, actor and TV-show host. Mandel learned he had high cholesterol.\n'That news came as a shock, because I was young and felt great,' he said.\nHis doctor recommended that Mandel use a statin. But it wasn't long before Mandel became wary of the potential side effects, so he stopped taking it altogether. He didn't tell his doctor about his decision to stop taking the medication - \"out of sight, out of mind,\" he thought. But in his mind, that wasn't a problem. After all, he felt fine, and he figured his own efforts to ramp up his healthy diet and exercise program would be enough to get down his cholesterol levels.\nBut eventually, Mandel got caught. His blood levels revealed that he wasn't properly managing his high cholesterol, and he had to admit that he hadn't been taking his medication. To his surprise, instead of pressuring him to stay on his statin, the doctor prescribed him a different statin that helped to ease Mandel's concerns about side effects.\n\"That was a long time ago. Today, I'm feeling great,' he says. In fact, Mandel is hoping to encourage others to learn from his mistakes through the Take Cholesterol to Heart campaign, which aims to educate those who are struggling to manage their high cholesterol so that they play an active role in working with their doctor to find a treatment plan that works for them.\nAt least 100 million Americans are living with high cholesterol. When blood cholesterol levels get high, it's important to manage them; untreated high cholesterol can lead to heart disease and stroke, two of the leading causes of death in the U.S.\nTo manage high cholesterol, doctors often recommend statin medications along with a heart-healthy lifestyle, which includes 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise to make the heart stronger, and eating healthy foods, especially lean proteins and fruits and vegetables.\nHowever, like Mandel, at least 50 percent of patients stop taking their statin within a year of starting. Many of them do so for similar reasons: They are experiencing uncomfortable side effects, such as muscle aches, dizziness, insomnia, flushed skin or nausea.\nHigh cholesterol doesn't have symptoms that impact one's day-to-day life, so, like Mandel, people don't often feel the need to do anything about it. Sometimes, taking a statin to treat it can make you feel worse than before. These factors can cause people to follow the all-too-human response: They quit taking their statin medication and they don't tell their doctor. But that's a mistake. Not all statins are alike, and the body can process them in different ways, depending on the individual. Things like ethnicity, age and even your diet, can affect your body's response to a given statin.\nHere's another thing to consider: When the patient is already taking a supplement or medication, introducing a statin can increase the potential risk of drug-to-drug interactions. According to the ACTION survey, the average person who uses a statin is also taking nearly eight other medications and supplements, making the risk of drug-to-drug interactions with statins a serious possibility for many of them.\nACTION: The Statin Survey (Understanding Patient Adherence and Concerns with Statins, and Medication Discussions with Physicians), was conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Kowa Pharmaceuticals America. ACTION is one of the largest surveys of its kind, evaluating 5,014 U.S. adults aged 45 or older who have been diagnosed with high cholesterol and had ever used a statin to treat high cholesterol. The survey also found that seventy-nine percent of people say they were never told there were other statins available to try that might work better for them. Too many people are unaware of their options.\nTake Cholesterol to Heart\nWhen Mandel saw how easy it was to have a conversation with his doctor and get a treatment plan that worked for him, he wanted to let others struggling to manage their cholesterol know that they had options, too. That's why he joined Take Cholesterol to Heart, a national education campaign by Kowa Pharmaceuticals America Inc. The goal of Take Cholesterol to Heart is to empower people to speak up before they stop their statin. The campaign arms people with the tools they need to understand that not all statins are alike, so everyone has a chance to manage their high cholesterol and feel good.\n'It's so important for people with high cholesterol to talk more openly with their doctor and find the statin that works best for them,' Mandel says. 'That's why I'm so glad to be involved in Take Cholesterol to Heart.'\nLearn more by visiting TakeCholesteroltoHeart.com where you can find useful tips on how to 'master the cholesterol conversation' with your doctor, take the Discover Your Statin Status quiz, find heart-healthy recipes and more.\nSource: BrandPoint", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 11856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://csl.uchicago.edu/announcement/student-forum-moving-dialogue-action", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2FTUQL32PPK6HAYBYC6PNMCPGIQUQW72", "length": 569, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "csl.uchicago.edu", "title": "Student Forum: Moving from Dialogue to Action | Campus & Student Life", "raw_content": "Over the past year, people from across the UChicago Community have come together to contribute their ideas and energy to campus-wide efforts on diversity and inclusion. All undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, along with postdocs, are invited to take part in this student forum. Dinner will be served immediately following the program which includes panel presentations, discussions, and action planning with multiple campus partners.\nWhen: Thursday, May 24, 6-8 p.m.\nWhere: Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 115\nLearn more and sign up to attend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ctg.albany.edu/publications/digital_preservation_partnerships/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JL5RHEFI5FUBKUW2V43UMJ7GV6REZURA", "length": 2133, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ctg.albany.edu", "title": "CTG - digital_preservation_partnerships", "raw_content": "Building State Government Digital Preservation Partnerships: A Capability Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Version 1.0\nTheresa A. Pardo, Anthony M. Cresswell, Sharon S. Dawes, Brian Burke, Lucy Dadayan, Sudarshan Embar, and Hyuckbin Kwon\nState and local governments are creating vast amounts of information solely in digital form, including land data, school records, official publications and court records. Much of this material is of permanent value, yet is at risk because of fragile media, technological obsolescence, or other hazards. State libraries and state archives typically have broad responsibility for preserving and providing public access to state and local government information of enduring value, but many other agencies also play critical roles in managing and preserving digital information.\nStates vary greatly in the work already undertaken on behalf of digital preservation, as well as in the resources available for the task. The degree and focus of leadership for digital preservation varies from state to state, as do the specific priorities for immediate preservation attention. This variation comes in part because there is currently no consensus view about how states (or other organizations) should go about doing digital preservation. The challenge is both so new and so large that everyone is still trying to determine the best methods.\nThis toolkit is designed for library, archives, records management, and information technology professionals to use when considering or planning for a digital preservation initiative. It provides a process for assessing where capability for digital preservation exists and where it must be developed in order to achieve the goal of preserving significant and at risk government information.\nThe toolkit is presented in four chapters as well as a comprehensive set of worksheets and related materials. Chapters 1-4 and Appendices 1-8 are available for download in PDF. Note: In order to help users of the toolkit compile multiple capability assessment ratings electronically, Appendix 8. Dimension Worksheets is provided also as a separate Microsoft Word document.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ctg.albany.edu/publications/nys_central_acctng/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BUS4MKI5X2AHTRHPM37WD6DRU3C5NKJH", "length": 736, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ctg.albany.edu", "title": "CTG - nys_central_acctng", "raw_content": "New York State Central Accounting System Stakeholder Needs Analysis\nTheresa A. Pardo, Hans J. Scholl, Meghan E. Cook, David R. Connelly, and Sharon S. Dawes\nThe Office of the New York State Comptroller recognized the need to design and develop a next generation Central Accounting System (CAS), but first decided to define its stakeholders and conduct a stakeholder needs analysis before making any decisions. This project was conducted by CTG in partnership with a team from the Comptroller's Office as part of the Using Information in Government (UIG) program. The report summarizes the information gathered from system users in 42 state agencies, and presents a set of recommendations for next steps in developing a plan for the CAS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://davidandersen.co.uk/blog/georgian-courtyard-garden-liverpool/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:4FAPWFJENJQCEWAKIELZNJ2IELIJSL3O", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "davidandersen.co.uk", "title": "GEORGIAN COURTYARD GARDEN - LIVERPOOL - David Andersen", "raw_content": "Posted in General on October 16th, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 104.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dbdogshop.com/2015/09/16/dental-crowns-tips-for-eating-with-the-crown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ENNXLUDG2I32FWMEFG65CCXDFHZJJF2C", "length": 2454, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dbdogshop.com", "title": "Dental Crowns: Tips For Eating With The Crown - Give Yourself the Gift of a Beautiful Smile", "raw_content": "Dental crowns are made of sturdy materials that allow them to cap your tooth and protect it from damage. While you should be able to eat a good amount of food with crowns, they can still get damaged. Here are some tips for eating when you have a dental crown.\nFirst of all, you should be aware of the types of foods you can eat. Crowns are actually very durable, so you can still eats most kinds of foods. If you had a temporary crown prior to the permanent crown, you were probably advised to eat mostly a soft food diet of soup, mashed potatoes, yogurt, and gelatin. With the permanent crown, it can handle different food consistencies, such as meat, cheese, pizza, rice, and pasta. Even salads should be fine, as long as you are careful about extra-crunchy ingredients like croutons. The majority of the food you enjoy can still be eaten with a crown.\nAvoid Hot and Cold Temperatures\nIt can seem counterproductive when you are sensitive to hot and cold temperatures prior to a root canal, only to get treatment and have the same sensitivity with a crown. However, some people do still experience this sensitivity. This is why you should be careful with foods or drinks that have extreme hot and cold temperatures. It might not be quite as painful as it was before you got the root canal, but crowns are sometimes sensitive to certain temperatures. It is best to avoid these extreme temperatures until you know what you can handle.\nBe Careful With Hard, Crunchy, and Sticky Foods\nYou also want to be careful with hard and crunchy foods, as they can wear down your crown. Crowns can handle a good amount of pressure while chewing, but they are not as strong as natural teeth. In order to prevent the crown from breaking or popping off prematurely, try not to eat foods that are too hard. This includes hard nuts like almonds and macadamia nuts. If you like nuts for protein, stick to softer varieties like cashews and peanuts. Also avoid foods that are especially sticky, as this could also wear down the crown over time and cause damage to it.\nDon't Consume a Lot of Sugar\nJust like natural teeth, porcelain crowns are susceptible to damage when you consume a lot of sugar. The sugar content of many foods and drinks, like candy, soft drinks, and fruit juice, can ruin the outer layer of porcelain, which will make it more susceptible to cracking or breaking.\nFor more information about crown care, contact a local dentist such as Dental Associates PC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dbdogshop.com/2016/03/08/2-things-beyond-brushing-and-flossing-to-improve-oral-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DV5REF7QRSXJRPHCHJXBNX4ME3KRD6WJ", "length": 2445, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dbdogshop.com", "title": "2 Things Beyond Brushing And Flossing To Improve Oral Health - Give Yourself the Gift of a Beautiful Smile", "raw_content": "2 Things Beyond Brushing And Flossing To Improve Oral Health\nIf you are looking for additional ways to promote great dental health, you may not know where to start. Although brushing and flossing should be the main components of your dental regimen, there are other things that you can do. Here are a couple of them:\nOil Pull\nOil pulling involves the moving of an edible oil about the oral cavity for a period of time to trap bacteria and promote better dental health. The practice can be performed with a favorite healthy oil, such as coconut oil, olive oil or sesame oil. After placing the oil in the mouth, it is best to continue moving the oil about until you feel the need to release it. The longer that you can keep the oil in the mouth, the longer it can absorb the oral bacteria.\nWhen you feel the need to release the oil, simply spit it out into a trash receptacle. It is usually not best to spit the oil in a toilet or sink because the oil can promote the clogging of pipes. This is especially true for coconut oil, which is a solid at room temperature.\nPeople who regularly oil pull often realize multiple oral health benefits, such as whiter teeth, fresher breath and a cleaner feeling in the mouth.\nIf you have trouble keeping the oil in your mouth for a prolonged period, it may be because you do not find the oil palatable. To help improve its taste, consider adding a few drops of peppermint oil. In addition, if you choose to oil pull with coconut oil, you may find it easier to use the oil in a liquid state. Thus, it can be helpful to warm the oil slightly so that you don't have to place a spoonful of solid oil in your mouth.\nChewing gum is not only enjoyable. It can also be advantageous for your overall health. Sugarless gum does not promote tooth decay. In addition, due to its sticky nature, it can pull plaque and particles of food from the surface of your teeth. Gum also helps encourage salivary production.\nWhen adequate amounts of saliva are in the mouth, the liquid is able to wash away food debris and oral bacteria that can cause tooth decay. In addition, saliva dilutes acid that may be in the mouth to help further protect the teeth.\nTo maximize the benefits of chewing gum, select a sugarless gum that is sweetened with xylitol and is cinnamon-flavored. The cinnamon and xylitol can help control the bacteria in your mouth.\nTo learn more ways to improve your oral health, consult with a dentist in your area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ddwire.com/welding.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JXRFWXS57HA6XKUVBEFUYDJQJ7R2RCSV", "length": 506, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ddwire.com", "title": "DD Wire: Welding and Fabrication", "raw_content": "D.D. Wire Company\u2019s welding department employs a diverse range of processing options to meet the needs of your application. Offering both short-arc and heli-arc (mig and tig) welding, D.D. Wire is able to process large structural plate jobs as well as finely detailed stainless, aluminum, or cold rolled steel.\nWith the help of the company\u2019s in house laser, tight tolerances on small precision weldments are maintained. This is achieved by the precise cutting of both the part details and welding fixtures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://delffincap.com/anime/hakushaku-to-yousei/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VKW6NBEICXOVD437S4FM2WJY7LYZ6QPX", "length": 755, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "delffincap.com", "title": "Hakushaku to Yousei \u2013 delffincap.com - Streaming Anime Bahasa Indonesia", "raw_content": "In the nineteenth century, we find Lydia Carlton living in Scotland, making a living as a fairy doctor. She is one of those rare humans who can see and communicate with fairies. But no one believes her. However, Edgar is in need of someone with a vast knowledge of fairy lore, and Lydia is just that person. After rescuing her, he becomes her employer, but there are many secrets and emotions that seem to follow Edgar, who claims to be the Blue Knight\u2019s Earl.\nJapanese: Earl and Fairy\nGenres: Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Magic, Romance, Shoujo\nReminders: If download link doesn't work, make sure to try another download link. Hakushaku to Yousei Returner subbed episode listing is located at the bottom of this page.\nHakushaku to Yousei Episodes List", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://deliberative-democracy.net/portfolio/clarke-square/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KE6BLOUPPHHZM4ASCOMBXCKZQ7QE7F3G", "length": 1805, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "deliberative-democracy.net", "title": "Clarke Square \u2013 DDC", "raw_content": "Clarke Square is a neighborhood of many riches. Above all, the people of Clarke Square fill the neighborhood with their talents, ambitions, and values. One of the most diverse communities in Milwaukee, it is home to Journey House, a community-based organization that helps move families out of poverty. The community boasts the Milwaukee County Mitchell Park Conservatory where visitors can enter the world\u2019s only beehive-shaped glass domes. C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Drive, a commercial strip that forms the neighborhood\u2019s eastern border, draws Milwaukee\u2019s Latino community and others to shop, eat authentic Mexican food, and enjoy the vibrant atmosphere.\nThe neighborhood is named for Norman and Lydia Clarke, who in 1837 purchased a parcel of land immediately west of Walker\u2019s Point, one of three original settlements that eventually formed the city of Milwaukee. Clarke\u2019s Addition, as it was known in those days, went largely undeveloped until the late 1800s when Walker\u2019s Point had absorbed all the residents it could accommodate. Newcomers moved into Clarke Square, building on the vacant lots and reaching the neighborhood\u2019s western boundary of Layton Boulevard by 1900.\nThese early settlers had their roots in Germany, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and the eastern United States. They were drawn by the jobs to be found in the Menomonee Valley, located just north of Clarke Square. Giant companies such as International Harvester and the Milwaukee Road, along with smaller local ventures, employed thousands of blue-collar workers. Many of them walked to work from their homes in Clarke Square. Enterprising merchants and tradesmen located their businesses within the neighborhood, adding a commercial element to the mix.\n(Taken from www.clarkesquare.org/aboutus.)\nCommunity Milwaukee Neighborhood Poverty", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://denigma.de/data/entry/ontology", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ENNDRGRSAB3V4T6MGRCY4O6Z7REOHSFF", "length": 5761, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "denigma.de", "title": "Denigma: Ontology", "raw_content": "Denigma > Data > Entries > Ontology Entries | Changes | Relations | Alterations\nCreated on Dec. 15, 2012, 8:16 p.m. by Hevok & updated by Hevok on May 2, 2013, 4:46 p.m.\nOntology (Greek on participle of \"to be\" and logia Science) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, Existence or Reality, as well as the basic Categories of being and their Relations.\nIt deals with what is real in the World. Therefore, the basic Question is what does really exists and what can be said to exist? It is a question of general Metaphysics in Philosophy. It is in contrast to the Epistemology that only deals with things of our perceptions, so what we see, what we hear and so on. Often our perceptions are betraying us. We can only experience the world with out perception but sometimes the perceptions might betray us so one has to know what is real in the world, i.e. what is True. To define what is really True and independent of our Perception is what Ontology original was intended to define.\nAn Ontology is an explicit, formal specification of a shared conceptualization. The Term is borrowed from Philosophy, where an Ontology is a systematic account of Existence. For Artificial Intelligence Systems, what \"exists\" is that which can be represented.\nConceptualization: Abstract Model (Domain, identified relevant Concepts, Relations)\nexplicit: Meaning of all Concepts must be defined\nformal: Machine-Understandable\nshared: Consensus about Ontology\nA Conceptualization is nothing else than a Model. One tries to form a model about a domain one is talking about. Inside this domain one tries to identify relevant Concepts and how this Concepts are related to each other. This model (i.e. the conceptualization) has to be explicit which means all Meanings of all Concepts has to be defined, nothing has to be left out. Everything need to be defined. This Definition must be formal, which means it must be understood by the Machine, i.e. it has to be Machine-Understandable, not only Machine-Readable but must be interpreted correctly. Only if you read it and interpret it correctly means that you understand it. One of the most important thing is that the things one is referring to must be shared among communication partner, so this model of conceptualization must be a shared conceptualization, there must be consensus about the Ontology. This is required otherwise one can not communicate.\nFor Communication the Semantic Triangle applies. In Language on has a Symbol that stands for a certain Object. However language is ambiguous a term might have multiple Meanings. One can only communicate with other if two or ore communication partners apply a shared Concept (i.e. the same Concept). Then communication and understanding is possible.\nOntology is the most critical enabling Technology in Semantic Web Applications. Basically an Ontology describes Terms, and Types of Relationships between Pairs of Terms. In such an Ontology can be expressed/represented by a List of Tuples in the form of (term x, relationship r, term y). For instance,\nDenigma, is a kind of, Decipher Machine or\nAging, is a, Problem.\nThe basic Tasks in Ontology Development are Term Selection, Relationship Assignment and Evolution.\nNormally an Ontology is developed by a small Group of Experts. However, this Approach does not scale with the ever increasing amount of Information. Specifically Experts have difficulty keeping up with Advances in Knowledge in the open dynamic World Wide Web Environment. Crowd Sourcing has the potential to be the most influential way to solve the problem of Ontology Development, by outsourcing a Task traditionally done by Experts to also non-Experts (typically a large Group of People) in the form of an open call (The Call of Duty).\nAn expression is correct if the majority of the users agree on it.\nOne approach to implement this is to aggregate Knowledge from common Web Users. Ontology can be used to redefine a Search Query [http://www.hahia.com] and in this way the Ontology evolves indirectly.\nDefinitely Crowd Sourcing will significantly change the Approach of Ontology Maintenance and Evolution.\nAn Ontology is a Data Model that represents a Domain and is utilized to reason both the Object in this Domain and the Relations between them. The application of Ontologies includes Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Software Engineering and Information Architecture, where it is used as a form of Knowledge Representation about the World. An Ontology can also be understand as a set of Definitions of a formal Vocabulary with a huge potential in Information Technology.\nOntology is a Semantic skeleton of a Domain, i.e. it defines what we can have in Annotations. It defines Categories, Properties, Rules, etc. We can have many Ontologies to describe one Domain. It is only an Idea. We are not there.\nTags: definitions, classification, information, knowledge\nParent: Research\nChildren: explicit, Fundamental Questions of Ontology, Gerontology, Individual, Ontology Design, Ontology Engineering, Ontology Hacking\nData Mining Protocol -belongs to-> Ontology\nData App -is similiar to-> Ontology\nOntology Engineering -belongs to-> Ontology\nOntologies -is plural of-> Ontology\n1 Comment to Ontology\nDaniel Wuttke (Hevok) on March 16, 2013, 2:47 p.m.\n\"An ontology is an explicit, formal specification of a shared conceptualization. The term is borrowed from philosophy, where an Ontology is a systematic account of Existence.\nFor AI systems, what \u2018exists\u2019 is that which can be represented.\u201cThomas R. Gruber: A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications.Knowledge Acquisition, 5(2):199-220, 1993.\nconceptualization: abstract model domain, identified relevant concepts, relations\nformal: machine understandable\npermalink for comment 1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/mauryans/essay.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MQ6N4VIWXSVRDVTVC5LDWE7BIUWQNUNI", "length": 4641, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "depts.washington.edu", "title": "The Mauryan Empire", "raw_content": "The Mauryan empire encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent from the end of the 4th century BCE to the beginning of the 2nd century BCE. Candragupta Maurya, the founder of the dynasty, took control away from the Nanda dynasty that had ruled Magadha (modern southern Bihar in northern India) from their capital in Pataliputra (modern Patna). According to Indian literary traditions, Candragupta Maurya became ruler with the aid of Kautilya (or Canakya), a Brahmin minister traditionally credited with the authorship of the Arthasastra, a Sanskrit manual on statecraft. Eyewitness accounts of political, social, economic, and religious life in northern India during the Mauryan period are preserved in the fragmentary records of Megasthenes, a Seleucid ambassador to the Mauryans. When Candragupta Maurya relinquished control to Bindusara around 297-8 BCE, his dominion reached from the Ganges-Yamuna valley to the northwestern frontiers of the Indian subcontinent. Bindusara further extended the boundaries of the Mauryan empire to the Deccan peninsula of southern India before dying in 272 BCE.\nThe Mauryan empire reached its zenith during the reign of Asoka (ruling ca. 268-232 BCE). Asoka's inscriptions on stone monuments have been found in northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, western India (Gujarat and Maharashtra), southern India (Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh), and eastern India (Orissa), demonstrating a network of administrative control radiating outwards from Pataliputra. These inscriptions were written in various dialects of Prakrit vernaculars, and are the earliest examples of writing in the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts. Bilingual translations in Greek and Aramaic at Kandahar and Aramaic inscriptions in eastern Afghanistan illustrate the importance of promulgating his messages to the borderland inhabitants in their own languages. Sets of major and minor rock edicts, inscriptions on polished sandstone pillars, and inscriptions in caves record public proclamations of Asoka's moral and administrative policies, declarations to the Buddhist community (sangha), and donations to the Ajivikas (another heterodox community that received Mauryan patronage). The conquest of Kalinga (modern Orissa) in the eighth year of his reign caused Asoka to express great remorse in the thirteenth major rock edict. In that edict, he proclaims to his offspring and subjects that they should \"consider the conquest of Dharma the real conquest.\" Asoka goes on to implore the people and ministers of his realm to live and govern according to the principles of Dharma, which in his view include the ideals of non-violence, religious tolerance, and respect for parents, teachers, and elders.\nAlthough the policies of Dharma outlined in Asokan inscriptions do not correspond precisely to Buddhist doctrines, Asoka declared himself an ardent lay patron of Buddhism who personally visited several pilgrimage places linked with events in the life of the historical Buddha. Buddhist texts provide many illustrations of Asoka's role in giving donations to the Sangha, redistributing the Buddha's relics, and calling the third Buddhist council at Pataliputra. With Asoka's support, Buddhist missionaries (according to Pali texts, these included his son Mahinda and daughter Samghamitta) expanded the network of Buddhist monastic institutions throughout the Mauryan empire and in Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Gandhara, and the Swat Valley. Archaeological remains of stupas and monasteries established during the Mauryan period show that Buddhist centers in these regions functioned as bases for the transmission of Buddhism to Southeast Asia and Central Asia.\nThe succession of Mauryan rulers after Asoka is not certain, since genealogies recorded surviving texts differ. According to the Divyavadana, a Buddhist Sanskrit text, Asoka's immediate successor Kunala did not rule; rather, it was his son Samprati (who is known in Jain literature as a great patron) who became the Mauryan emperor. The last Mauryan ruler according to Puranic sources was Brihadratha, who was overthrown around 185 BCE by Pusyamitra, the founder of the Shunga dynasty. Although the Mauryan empire disintegrated within fifty years after Asoka's death, his legacy is preserved in his many inscriptions (which are indispensable for understanding ancient Indian history), mention in numerous literary traditions (including Sanskrit, western classical sources, and Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist texts), and in Mauryan artistic traditions, which produced the lion capital on the Asokan pillar at Sarnath, now the official seal of the government of modern India.\n--Jason Neelis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 4661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.thearb.org/conservation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DNSZO5LNDG7JDVCIU5RVY5U7PK7MQVMS", "length": 1279, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dev.thearb.org", "title": "Notice: Constant THEARB_DELETE_LIMIT already defined in /home/thaddeus/dev.thearb.org/wp-content/themes/Vertex-child/functions.php on line 25", "raw_content": "Conservation |\nThanks to your support, our dedicated staff can continue their deep appreciation, research and understanding of the Colorado Plateau through research initiatives and investigations. We can then create programs and opportunities for our community to learn and conserve our native landscape along with us.\nThanks to the new and continuing support from our private, state and federal partners, the research staff is able to further The Arboretum\u2019s mission to increase the understanding, appreciation, and conservation of plants and plant communities native to the Colorado Plateau. Our projects allow us to then create programs and learning opportunities for volunteers, docents, and school groups, allowing us to share our deep understanding of our unique environment with the public.\nClimate change is happening. You can help in the American Southwest and through Reusing, Recycling and Reducing.\nThe Research Department focuses on research of native flora, restoration of disturbed sites, and recovery of threatened and endangered species. Find out more about our research initiatives.\nOur projects are funded through grants and cooperative agreements from federal and state agencies as well as private foundations and societies. Find out about our resources here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/witherspoon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:7LGGOH4XTRRT3IYL4YZJGLPZO2IFR6QC", "length": 4075, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dev.ushistory.org", "title": "Signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Witherspoon", "raw_content": "Birthplace: Gifford, Scotland\nEducation: Master of Arts, University of Edinburgh; Doctorate of Divinity, University of St. Andrews. (Clergyman, Author, Educator)\nWork: President of College of New Jersey, 1768-1792; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776-1782; Twice elected to State Legislature of New Jersey.\nJohn Witherspoon brought some impressive credentials and a measure of public acclaim with him when he joined the colonies in 1768, as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton).\nBorn in 1723, he received the finest education available to a bright young gentleman of that era. John attended the preparatory school in Haddington Scotland. He proceeded to Edinburgh where he attained a Master of Arts, then to four years of divinity school. At this point he was twenty. In 1743 he became a Presbyterian Minister at a parish in Beith, where he married, authored three noted works on theology. He was later awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews, in recognition of his theological skills. It was only through a protracted effort on the part of several eminent Americans, including Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush, that the colonies were able to acquire his service. In colonial American, the best educated men were often found in the clergy. The College of New Jersey needed a first rate scholar to serve as its first president. Witherspoon was at first unable to accept the offer, due to his wife's great fear of crossing the sea. She later had second thoughts, and a visit from the charming Dr. Rush secured the deal. He emigrated to New Jersey in 1768.\nDr. Witherspoon enjoyed great success at the College of New Jersey. He turned it into a very successful institution, and was a very popular man as a result. He also wrote frequent essays on subjects of interest to the colonies. While he at first abstained from political concerns, he came to support the revolutionary cause, accepting appointment to the committees of correspondence and safety in early 1776. Later that year he was elected to the Continental Congress in time to vote for R. H. Lee's Resolution for Independence. He voted in favor, and shortly after voted for the Declaration of Independence. He made a notable comment on that occasion; in reply to another member who argued that the country was not yet ripe for such a declaration, that in his opinion it \"was not only ripe for the measure, but in danger of rotting for the want of it.\" Witherspoon was a very active member of congress, serving on more than a hundred committees through his tenure and debating frequently on the floor.\nIn November, 1776, he shut down and then evacuated the College of New Jersey at the approach of British forces. The British occupied the area and did much damage to the college, nearly destroyed it. Following the war, Witherspoon devoted his life to rebuilding the College. He also served twice in the state legislature. In the last years of life he suffered injuries, first to one eye then the other, becoming totally blind two years before his death. He died on his farm, \"Tusculum,\" just outside of Princeton in November of 1794, a man much honored and beloved by his adopted countrymen.\nJames Wilson Index of Signers John Adams Samuel Adams Josiah Bartlett Carter Braxton Charles Carroll Samuel Chase Abraham Clark George Clymer William Ellery William Floyd Benjamin Franklin Elbridge Gerry Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall John Hancock Benjamin Harrison John Hart Joseph Hewes Thomas Heyward Jr. William Hooper Stephen Hopkins Francis Hopkinson Samuel Huntington Thomas Jefferson Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Francis Lewis Philip Livingston Thomas Lynch Jr. Thomas McKean Arthur Middleton Lewis Morris Robert Morris John Morton Thomas Nelson Jr. William Paca Robert Treat Paine John Penn George Read Caesar Rodney George Ross Benjamin Rush Edward Rutledge Roger Sherman James Smith Richard Stockton Thomas Stone George Taylor Matthew Thornton George Walton William Whipple William Williams James Wilson John Witherspoon Oliver Wolcott George Wythe NEXT >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dictionaryofwar.org/concepts/Vacuity_topo_deception_detour_bunker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5RDJUFTE63D3ROYZHINZKEJ5NO6JHJHT", "length": 1182, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dictionaryofwar.org", "title": "Vacuity, topo, deception, detour, bunker | Dictionary of War", "raw_content": "Chi Ti-Nan was born in 1957 in Taipei. His parents were immigrants from Manchuria after WWII. He received architectural training from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and completed his graduate study at Yale University in the United States, under architect Frank Gehry and philosopher Karsten Harries. In 1985, his drawing of the Style for the Year 2001 won the 2nd price in the Shinkenchiku international competition. In 1995, Z house project won him Asakura Award of SD Review in Japan. He participated in Ke Da Ke Xiao exhibition, AA gallery, London, 1998, Venice Architecture Biennial 2000, Beijing Architecture Biennial 2006, etc. Currently he is the principal of Chi Ti-Nan Architects in Beijing.\nHis research interest lies in pre-scientific cultural thinking and European phenomenological philosophy. Since 1999, as the founder of Human Environment Group NGO, he has been the curator of a series of Urban Flashes workshops held over Euro-Asia continent, as part of his practice on Micro-Urbanism. Since 2004, he joined the faculty of Bergen School of Architecture in Norway. 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I came to this site looking for information and the opportunity to help others if I could. This forum has turned into a joke and a waste of time. I will admit that it has been fun joking with some of the posters, but if you read my messages, not the profane ones from someone using my name, you will quickly see that I take these issues seriously and would like to learn and make a difference. I think everyone using this site should register. The information used to register should not be available to the posters, only the moderators and owners of this web site. It should be kept confidential to prevent identity theft, harassment and other problems. This needs to happen now, because this site has become overrun with idiots and stupidity. Bear in mind that I am in no way supporting censoring or editing these messages unless the moderator chooses to **** out profanity. We should still be able to express ourselves. My concern is that people seeking help will read these postings and not use this site to get the help they need. I am also sick to death of being impersonated, badly and stupidly. I'd like to hear how the rest of you feel.\ni agree 100 % i have bene here 2 days an dwell that is enough for me.\nI totally agree with linda,but may not agree with illegal promotion ,loopholes offered on this board\nI totally agree with you guys, registration for the forum should be implied as soon as possible, no more impersonating...\nI also agree with Linda (the real one!)...this board unfortunately is beginning to look like a bathroom wall in an old gas station.\nIt is a great privilege to express opinions, whether people agree with them or not, and perhaps even to vent a bit, but in the interest of common decency one would hope that the four letter words need not appear too often or may be more appropriately referred to with \"****\" or something that gets the message across without having to impress everyone with one's ability to scrawl obscenities.\nCertainly the adolescent exchanges that have been going on do little to address any issues nor offer meaningful opinions, no matter how informed or uninformed they may be. Those individuals having difficulty with our immigration laws are not going to benefit by a discussion of genital size nor alleged sexual proclivities. These types of exchanges would be better suited at a forum whose focus is not visas or green cards.\nLet's try to continue to share ideas, thoughts, opinions and keep the profanity to an absolute minimum so that this board remains constructive (PG-13) rather than adults only (though I wonder sometimes if adults have been actually writing some of this stuff).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 6483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/2007/11/expocomic-madrid-poster.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JTMQHBMUKRFJPZYCYJ7PLFPFFFTBLS7Q", "length": 1304, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "disraeli-demon.blogspot.com", "title": "D'Blog of 'Israeli: Expocomic Madrid Poster", "raw_content": "Expocomic Madrid Poster\nPoster for Expocomic Madrid by Mark Buckingham, colours by me\nAside from my proper job, I've also been managing the odd little extra bit here and there - one of the more fun things has been colouring Mark Buckingham's poster for this year's Expocomic festival in Madrid.\nPublicity work is always very different from comics. In the comics industry, the artist's work is the finished product; in publicity work, the illustrator is a collaborator, providing raw material to be processed by designers and other hands in order to become the finished product. It's always interesting to see what becomes of the work as a result. At first I was a bit startled by the amount of cropping and post-processing they'd done to the original file (see below), but on reflection I think it works well. With the integrated panels and dot-screening, there's certainly more of a \"comic-related\" feel to the final layout.\nThe original colour version of the poster.\nArt by Mark buckingham, colours by me.\nEach year's poster is based on the symbol of Madrid; the bear and a tree called the Madro\u00f1o. As you can see, Mark's original drawing (above) is a much wider shot and my original colours were bolder. The blank space at the top was to allow for a banner.\nLabels: Buckingham, Expocomic, Madrid, Mark", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://docksiderealty.ca/recently-sold-property/388485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7QZN7PLKJVUKGPLQHQYQYHEA2YFLPBTG", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "docksiderealty.ca", "title": "| Dockside Realty - Pender Island", "raw_content": "SOLD ON Jul 4, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://doingdrugs-darta.blogspot.com/2015/03/when-should-parents-start-making-rules.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AKLKNAFOEXCHOUD46WKBSMUXZOP5P4BJ", "length": 4144, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "doingdrugs-darta.blogspot.com", "title": "When should parents start making rules around alcohol and parties?", "raw_content": "One of my key messages to parents this year is around the timing of setting rules around alcohol and parties. Too often, parents wait too long to outline their views on the issue of alcohol with their child, many of them believing that if they do it too early they could spark interest and lead them down the road to alcoholism! Other parents believe that the conversation is not relevant for their child at this time in their life - they don't believe they are drinking alcohol, why should they outline rules on the topic? If you just sit back and think for a second how much information (including marketing and advertising, heavily promoting the product) your son or daughter is bombarded with regarding alcohol from the time they are born, you quickly realize that a conversation in this area is vitally important well before they hit their teens.\nAround the same time it is also wise to have a discussion about rules and boundaries to do with parties and gatherings. This is an opportunity to talk about your own experiences with parties - what was good about them and what could go wrong, no matter what age your child is. Of course, the content of that conversation would vary greatly, depending on their age, e.g., one with a 16 year-old could involve talking about a party you went to where someone got drunk and you had to look after them, whereas a discussion with your 11 year-old would more likely be about feeling left-out or uncomfortable in a social setting and making it clear to them that should never be worried about calling you should they feel the need to be taken out of that situation. By discussing your experiences and your concerns, rules and boundaries should be established - what do they want from the party experience, what do you want and then the trick is to somehow try to meet in the middle. Do this early (I recommend no later than Year 7) and it's going to be so much easier. As I said in a previous blog entry - try to make a rule around a teenage party the first time they get invited to one and you are highly likely to find yourself in all sorts of trouble! On the other hand, if you sit with your 12 year-old and talk about rules around alcohol (i.e., \"alcohol is adult activity, you're not to drink!\"), well before they've even thought about drinking, you're not going to meet nearly as much resistance. In fact, most 12 year-olds are going to be quite surprised that the discussion even came up and will most probably accept the rules without question, agreeing wholeheartedly with you that alcohol should not be a part of their life.\nSo, in summary, here are my thoughts on how best to handle this issue:\nRules around alcohol and parties should be established no later than Year 7, well before they come into contact with alcohol and start being invited to parties where it may be an issue\nYour first rules around alcohol will always be 'you're not having any' - evidence shows clearly that the key message should be 'delay, delay, delay' for as long as possible\nUse your own experiences with parties to establish age appropriate rules\nCreate rules for parties around calling the hosts to find out more about the event, as well as insisting on dropping and picking them up in primary school - start this behaviour now and you won't have so many problems later\nMake it clear that rules around alcohol for adults are very different to those for young people and that is entirely appropriate\nRules change as they get older and good behaviour will be rewarded - make this clear when rules are first established. Bring your child back to the table once a year and maybe even every six months as they get older to discuss how the rules can be made more age-appropriate but still address your concerns\nEvery family is going to have different rules around alcohol, just as they are when it comes to parties and gatherings. No-one can tell you as a parent what to do in these areas, you're going to have to make those decisions yourself - but whatever you come up with, you've got to make absolutely certain that the rules you establish match your values and you can live with them should something go wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 10551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dot.ca.gov/paffairs/pr/2018/prs/18pr048.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:B5NZRM4MZG7AU7HUYXVAY2KCGQ3TPB5X", "length": 2155, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dot.ca.gov", "title": "Public Affairs Press Release: Caltrans Accelerates Repairs on Interstate 10, and State Routes 111 and 86 in Riverside County Due to SB 1 Funds", "raw_content": "Caltrans Accelerates Repairs on Interstate 10, and State Routes 111 and 86 in Riverside County Due to SB 1 Funds\nPavement Project Will Improve 149 Lane Miles Providing a Safer & Smoother Commute for Motorists\nContact: Tyeisha Prunty\nRIVERSIDE - Caltrans announced today it has begun work to replace and repair 149 lane miles on Interstate 10, and State Routes 111 and 86 in Riverside County due to the funds from Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.\n\"State Routes 111 and 86 are the main north-south connectors through the southeastern desert region. These routes also link to I-10, one of California\u2019s major trucking corridors. Repairing these highways will improve freight movement and operational efficiency.\"\nOf the 105,000 vehicles that use I-10 daily, nearly one-fifth of them are carrying freight, the weight of which contributes to rapid road surface deterioration.\n\"This SB 1 funded project will repair our aging transportation system. Being able to provide a better infrastructure is critical in keeping motorists moving and the economy growing in the Coachella Valley.\"\nJohn Bulinski, Director, Caltrans District 8\nThe $17 million pavement repair project was awarded to Hazard Construction, began the week of July 9, 2018, and will last for approximately seven months. The project will fill potholes, and repave and resurface the roads to increase ride quality and extend their lifecycle. Motorists can expect lane closures between the hours of midnight and 2:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Advance warning signs will inform motorist of closures.\nThe work on I-10 will stretch from Jefferson Street to Polaris Wash; on SR-111 from Lincoln Street to SR-86; and on SR-86 from the Imperial County Line to I-10. Motorists are encouraged to plan ahead, use alternate routes, and Be Work Zone Alert.\nThe work schedule is subject to change due to traffic incidents, weather, availability of equipment and/or materials, and/or construction-related issues. More information and updates on Inland Empire projects can be found at www.caltrans8.info where you may sign up for commuter alerts, or on Twitter via @Caltrans8.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 9282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dotsndoodles.com/event/1547/?instance_id=727", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WIGR2KWGQTROUECX5L3Q2AXZMTLJVYL3", "length": 2621, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dotsndoodles.com", "title": "Hoffman Center for the Arts - Botanical Drawing News Release", "raw_content": "Hoffman Center for the Arts \u2013 Botanical Drawing\nPosted on January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 by admin_dots\nHoffman Art Center\n$45.00 per sesson\nart botanical class drawing Hoffman Art Center\nHoffman Center Offers Botanical Drawing\nThe Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita will offer five Botanical Drawing classes throughout 2018, starting Saturday February 10. The first workshop will be Botanical Sketchbook, followed by spring, summer, fall and winter sessions.\nLed by Dorota Haber-Lehigh, the series of workshops will focus on drawing from nature while being inspired by changing seasons. The workshops can be taken independently or as a series. Each workshop will have a different seasonal focus while emphasizing sketching from observation. Students will experiment with new techniques, study botanical accuracy and the learn the importance of self-expression. The series is designed for students 18 and up, and all skill levels are welcome.\nThe first workshop will focus on keeping a botanical sketchbook. In this workshop, students will engage in creative, meditative, and structured exercises to dive into this practice. In this foundation class, students will learn sketching, measuring, tonal/shading, application, color blending and layering, and composition ideas. Using pen, graphite and color pencils for sketching and combining and adding text will give students the tools to embrace their personal style and use a sketchbook to record their botanical journey. By the end of the first class, students will complete several entries in their sketchbooks and will walk away with ideas on how to continue throughout the year.\nTuition is $45 per session, or $150.00 for all five sessions. ($30/per session).\nClasses will be held February 10, from 1:00 to 4:00pm; and April 28, August 25, October 20, and December 1, from Noon to 4:00pm.\nHaber-Lehigh\u2019s art and teaching explore the ephemeral beauty of nature, magic of native plants and human connection with plants. She holds degrees in Art, Indigenous Studies, Spanish and Education. She authored two ethnobotanical coloring books. Her workshops are engaging, inclusive and fun. They are designed for all levels and abilities. She is currently working on a Diploma in Botanical Illustration through the Society of Botanical Artists in London. She has taught students whose age ranged from 10 to 90+, and of all artistic abilities in public schools, community colleges and art centers.\nAdditional information may be found at: http://hoffmanblog.org/register-for-workshops\n\u2190 Hoffman Center Offers Botanical Drawing\nMixed Media \u2013 HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://draftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=2065&draftyear=2001&genpos=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2YWQUPY4HC3MWSVSJAZEQRYFA34VS7BA", "length": 2977, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "draftscout.com", "title": "Adrian Wilson | North Carolina State, SS : 2001 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile", "raw_content": "Adrian Wilson, DS # SS, North Carolina State\nName: Adrian Wilson\nCollege: North Carolina State Number:\nClass/Draft Year: /2001\nRated number out of 21 SS's / 533 TOTAL\nAdrian Wilson/North Carolina State football Videos\nDraft Scout Adrian Wilson News\n08/24/14 - S Adrian Wilson will be released by the Bears , the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday. The 34-year-old Wilson signed with the Bears in June after spending the entire 2013 season on New England's injured reserve list because of an Achilles injury. Wilson was one of the league's most feared safeties while with the Arizona Cardinals. For his career, he compiled 25.5 sacks, nearly 900 tackles and 27 interceptions. He did see action in the Bears' 34-6 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Friday. He recorded one tackle.\n08/24/14 - S Adrian Wilson had his contract terminated by the Bears Sunday (Aug. 24).\n06/23/14 - S Adrian Wilson was signed by the Bears Monday. A five-time Pro Bowler (2006, '08-11), Wilson has started 162-of-181 games over 12 seasons (2001-12) with Arizona, recording 885 tackles, 27 interceptions, 25.5 sacks, 99 pass break ups, 15 forced fumbles and eight fumble recoveries. He has four return touchdowns (two interception and two fumble return). The 6-3, 230-pound Wilson is one of 13 players to record 20 or more interceptions and 20 or more sacks in their career since sacks became an official statistic in 1982. Wilson spent the 2013 season with the Patriots on injured reserve with an ankle injury. H ewas released by New England in early April.\n04/04/14 - S Adrian Wilson was released by the Patriots Friday. Wilson, 34, is a veteran of 13 NFL seasons with the Arizona Cardinals (2001-12) and the Patriots (2013). The 6-foot-3, 230 pounder, signed with the Patriots as a free agent on March 16, 2013, but missed the entire season after suffering an ankle injury in the preseason that forced him to spend the year on injured reserve. Wilson originally entered the NFL as a third-round draft choice (64th overall) by the Cardinals out of North Carolina State in 2001. He was released by Arizona on March 8, 2013. Wilson has played in 181 career games with 162 starts and compiled 716 tackles, 25\ufffd sacks and 27 interceptions in his 12 years with the Cardinals. He holds the NFL record for most sacks in a single season by a defensive back (8), is the Cardinals' all-time leader in passes defensed (99) and forced fumbles (15), and his 99-yard interception return for a touchdown in 2006 is tied with Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie for the longest in team history. Wilson has earned Pro Bowl honors five times (2006, 2008-11) and All-Pro honors four times (2006, 2008-09, 2011). He is just the sixth player in NFL history to record 25 sacks and 25 interceptions.\n08/31/13 - S Adrian Wilson was placed on IR on Saturday as the New England Patriots got down to the league-mandated 53-player roster to start the season.\n--> [Adrian Wilson TSX Player News Log]...\n--> [Adrian Wilson Dynamic Newsfeed]...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 135.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dragan-skocic.com/dragan-skocic-graduated-master-professional-sports-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:58Z", "digest": "sha1:URYSK24QLRAEUPCDKRN333INNBSQBVYI", "length": 1131, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dragan-skocic.com", "title": "Dragan Sko\u010di\u0107 | OFFICIAL | Professional Football Coach \u00bb Skocic got the Master\u2019s Degree in Sports Management", "raw_content": "After finishing specialist graduate study of sports management graduates acquire competences required to manage the systems of higher level of complexity on \u201ctop management\u201d jobs, as well as possibility to continue higher education on postgraduate studies in accordance with the Bologna Declaration.\nThe competences acquired by this study program, especially considering the continuity of undergraduate and graduate study of sports management can be divided into general and specific.\nGeneral competences are based on comprehensive education which includes basic theoretical, methodological, and applicative knowledge in the area of economics, management, kinesiology, law, information and communication sciences, psychology and sociology.\nSpecific competences are based on highly professional and expert training in the area of sports management, marketing management in sports, management of sports facilities and events, controlling and financial management in sports companies, sponsorship in sports, public relations in sports, sports law, and among other, managing human resources and socially responsible behavior in sports.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=WAR50082", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:UWZDP2PJARLP7WESGHSHFZALALC3PU43", "length": 1307, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dragon-models.com", "title": "50082 - F/A-18F Super Hornet, VFA-102 \"Diamondbacks\", U.S. Navy 2003 - Dragon Wings Warbirds Series", "raw_content": "F/A-18F Super Hornet, VFA-102 \"Diamondbacks\", U.S. Navy 2003\n1/72 F/A-18F Super Hornet VFA-102 \"Diamondbacks\", U.S. Navy 2003\n- Display In Flight or In Landing Mode\n- Dimensions: 10.05\"L x 7.48\"W x 2.67\"H\nAbout the VFA-102 \"Diamondbacks\"\nThe VF-102 DIAMONDBACKS were established on July 1, 1955 in Jacksonville, Florida. Having served on numerous carriers, the Diamondbacks have proven themselves to be one of the most versatile strike fighter squadrons in the Navy.\nAbout the F/A-18F Super Hornet:\nThe multi-mission F/A-18E/F \"Super Hornet\" strike fighter is an upgrade of the combat-proven night strike F/A-18C/D. The Super Hornet will provide the battle group commander with a platform that has range, endurance, and ordnance carriage capabilities comparable to the A-6 which have been retired.\nThe F/A-18E/F aircraft are 4.2 feet longer than earlier Hornets, have a 25% larger wing area, and carry 33% more internal fuel which will effectively increase mission range by 41% and endurance by 50%. The Super Hornet also incorporates two additional weapon stations. This allows for increased payload flexibility by mixing and matching air-to-air and/or air-to-ground ordnance. The aircraft can also carry the complete complement of \"smart\" weapons, including the newest joint weapons such as JDAM and JSOW.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://druglibrary.org/olsen/rastafari/redemption.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ICRXJDOYDNSL3VE3WZF6V5SUHE5RD4QA", "length": 6786, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "druglibrary.org", "title": "Rasta Redemption", "raw_content": "The Jamiaca Observer\nUN recognises Rastafari\nMove praised, criticised\nBy SAM PRAGG\nA move by the United Nations to grant consultative status to the international Rastafarian movement is coming in for criticism and praise across Jamaica.\n\"Now I know for sure that the United Nations has nothing to do. The Rastas are a bunch of indisciplined criminals and the UN is recognising them as a social and religious entity. What is the world corning to?\" grumbled store clerk, John Harris, when the news first hit.\nNot so, says sociologist, Barry Chevannes, widely regarded as having written the most definitive work on the movement since it first became a force to be reckoned with in the 1930s.\n\"No prophet is without honour in his own country. While international bodies are recognising the achievements of the Rastafarian movement, back home they can't even get recognition from a lot of local organisations. Other religious movements with a smaller following and limited appeal are embraced by the authorities than Rastafarianism,\" says Chevannes, a university lecturer.\nOn November 14 the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations approved the consulative status of the International Rastafarian Development Society as a non-governmental organization (NGO).\nThe group was one of 86 organisations approved, including the right-wing US National Rifle Association and the Liberal American Civil Liberties Union. They have all been invited to work with all UN subsidiary bodies as NGOs, including all economic, social, humanitarian, technical, scientific and educational bodies.\nThe recognition comes at a time when the Rastafari community is lobbying government to legalise the use of ganja for use as a religious sacrament. But yesterday, prominent members of the Rastafari community were unaware of the recognition by the world body or what it meant for the local movement.\n\"Whatever recognition that is given can only assist the Rastafarian movement as a respected organisation. We would expect them to work towards the general principle and aims of the movement,\" attorney-at-law, Sandra Alcott, said.\nSinger, Freddie McGregor, praised the UN decision. \"Any move that is made by an international organisation that would enhance the upliftment of the movement is welcome. Things, have started to turn around, so there had to be a change,\" he said.\nChevannes calls the move an extremely significant break with tradition.\n\"Any incorporation of the Rastafarian movement at that level is tantamount to bestowing legitimacy. (But) there are some within the movement who will see it as a watering down of the message,\" says Chevannes.\nOne young Rastafarian who calls himself Ras Silver agrees with Chevannes. \"Anything with a flavour of Rasta is good. The Rastafarian movement is growing rapidly and now is the time for the brethren to get together. Our small tree has become a large one, and it is now beginning to bear fruit,\" he says.\n\"In the past, we were timid of Babylon. Our movement was young then and we did not trust Babylon. Now that a number of our brethren have profited in the system in spite of Babylon, we are bolder now,\" said Ras Silver, a graduate of the University of the West Indies.\nPartly because of their sour relations with the police force and partly because of Garveyism, the Rastafarian doctrine arose in the 1930s stating the inevitability of the transformation which would climax with the destruction of Babylon and return of blacks to the motherland, Africa.\nThe term Babylon covers the western world, the church and government, as agents of imperialism.\nCapitalism is seen as the system of Babylon. Today, among the younger members of the movement \"Babylon\" has become synonymous with the police force.\nRas Silver says the Rastafarian movement needs a good internal government in order to gain strength, and he believes that this form of international recognition is a stepping stone to that goal.\n\"There are a lot of Rastas who share the views of Ras Silver,\" says Chevannes.\nWriters disagree on the exact date of the emergence of this movement, some going as far back as the 19th century. They all agree, however, that Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), played a significant role in its development.\nThe main tenets of the movement are based on several of Garvey's teachings, and it was the notorious Garvey who in the 1920s is said to have ignited the sparks of the Rastafarian fire.\nGarvey was concerned with what he described as the negro's inferiority complex and made a number of predictions about the greatness of the black man.\n\"Look to Africa when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near,\" Garvey is reported to have said in one of his famous speeches. In 1930 Ras Tafari was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia, taking the name Haile Selassie and many followers of Garvey felt that the prophecy was fulfilled and the Rastafarian movement was formed.\nThey believe that repatriation -- the miraculous return to Ethiopia by the supernatural power of the King -- is the way of redemption for all blacks.\nBlacks are Africans and neither the Jamaican nor any other government has authority to rule over them. The only true government is that of Selassie, many still believe.\nTo many of those who hold firmly to these beliefs, the move by ECOSOC is not a step in the right direction.\n\"I an I just meditate within myself and I an I have nothing to do with the politicians and their creed,\" says Ras Mackonnen, an elder statesman of the movement.\n\"They are the Scribes and Pharisees that are seeking to bring down the true followers.\"\nRastafarians regard man as God, hence the \"I\" and \"I\" construction referring to \"I\" the God and \"I\" the man.\nBut the younger and more militant members of the movement have added a new principle to their beliefs, said to have originated during the visit of Selassie to Jamaica in 1966. Selassie is reported to have said that Rastafarians should liberate themselves in Jamaica before they repatriate, giving birth to a group which seems more prepared to enter into a socio-political struggle with the government.\n\"We have to take command of our destiny. Until we can come together and govern ourselves, we are going nowhere,\" says Ras Dawit Tewdoros.\nAnd in all of this Chevannes believes that Jamaica needs to \"catch up\" with the rest of the world and recognise Rastafarianism for what it is -- a religion.\n\"The more recognition the Rastafarian movement gets from abroad, the more approval they will get at home. 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Repaying that debt can be an overwhelming burden for many borrowers, but forgiveness programs may be available to help borrowers tackle their federal student loan debt.\nFederal student loan borrowers may be able to have some of their loans forgiven if they choose certain repayment plans:\nPay As You Earn Repayment Plan (PAYE). This repayment plan is for borrowers facing a partial financial hardship. Monthly payments are based on income, family size, and state of residency, and are capped at 10 percent of discretionary income. If borrowers repay under the PAYE plan for 20 years and meet other requirements, any remaining balance will be forgiven.\nIncome-Based Repayment Plan (IBR). This repayment plan is for borrowers with a high debt-to-income ratio. It calculates monthly payments based on income and family size. If borrowers repay under the IBR plan for 25 years (or 20 years for new borrowers on or after July 1, 2014) and meet other requirements, any remaining balance will be forgiven.\nIncome-Contingent Repayment Plan (ICR). This repayment plan is also for borrowers with a high debt-to-income ratio and calculates monthly payments based on income and family size. If borrowers repay under the ICR plan for 25 years and meet other requirements, any remaining balance will be forgiven.\nNote: Borrowers making payments under an income-driven repayment plan (listed above) and are seeking forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (discussed below) may qualify for forgiveness of any remaining loan balance after 10 years of qualifying payments, instead of 20 or 25 years.\nPeople who work full-time public service jobs may be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. This program grants forgiveness of the remaining balance of a borrower's eligible loans after the borrower has made 120 qualifying payments on those loans. The borrower must be employed full time (in any position) by a public service organization or must be serving in a full-time AmeriCorps or Peace Corps position. Organizations that meet the definition of \"public service organization\" for purposes of the PSLF program are:\nA government organization (including a federal, state, local, or tribal organization, agency, or entity; a public child or family service agency; or a tribal college or university).\nA not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.\nA private, not-for-profit organization (that is not a labor union or a partisan political organization) that provides one or more of the following public services \u2013 emergency management, military service, public safety, law enforcement, public interest law services, early childhood education, public service for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, public health, public education, public library services, school library or other school-based services.\nFor more specific information regarding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, check out studentaid.ed.gov.\nIn addition to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, several other loan forgiveness or loan repayment programs exist that are restricted to borrowers who are pursuing particular occupations. Many of these occupations are also eligible for public service loan forgiveness:\nSpecial programs for getting out of student debt are available to military personnel. In addition to the PSLF program, military personnel may qualify for the military's loan repayment programs. While qualifications and benefits vary among the different branches, these programs may offer service members up to $65,000 in debt forgiveness. For more information on these programs, visit military.com.\nSeveral options for student loan forgiveness are available for those in health care services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers loan forgiveness programs to encourage health professionals to work in health care shortage areas:\nNational Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. 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Teachers who work full-time for five complete and consecutive academic years in certain elementary or secondary schools or educational service agencies that serve low-income families and meet other qualifications may be eligible for forgiveness of up to a combined total of $17,500 on Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized loans and Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Stafford loans.\nTeacher Cancellation. Borrowers from the Federal Perkins Loan Program may be eligible for loan cancellation for full-time teaching at a low-income school or for teaching in certain subject areas.\nFor more specific information about loan forgiveness programs for teachers, visit studentaid.ed.gov.\nMany programs exist that help borrowers pay off student loans in return for volunteer work. The most common volunteer organizations that offer this option are:\nAmeriCorps. 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Singer / Songwriter / Recording Artist and Composer Fawn has created, written and sung many of the songs heard on popular television shows that we watch daily. She also is a well noted singer and has won some of the most prestigious awards. Fawn, please tell our readers about your early days in music and your greatest influence towards this profession.\nFAWN-The earliest connection I had to music was when I was still in diapers, and not yet walking. My parents have video footage of me pulling myself up in the crib, bouncing up and down to music, until my diapers fall down around my ankles! My earliest recollection however, was when I was 7, singing in the famed Children\u2019s Chorale directed by Duane Wolfe. Surely, that was a huge influence on me as well as other recording artists towards this profession. I would sit for hours with my heard phones on, listening to records, over and over, each time listening to a different instrumental line in the song and memorizing it. At the time, I didn\u2019t realize that by listening to incredible songwriters, I was being taught prosody, commercial melody, lyrics, structure. Writers such as Gershwin, Sly Stone, John Denver, John Bettis, Queen, Pink Floyd, Sting, Michael Jackson, Paul Williams, Eminem, Marty Panzer, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Mercer, Dolly Parton, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Diane Warren, The Carpenters, James Taylor, Dan Foelberg, India Arie, Cat Stevens, Billy Joel, Carole King, The Beatles \u2013 were influencing and shaping my composing and lyrical skills. It felt like music was seeping out of my pores, so it had to go somewhere \u2013 into my piano, into my voice, into writing songs, into doing commercials. I started singing radio jingles at age 10 and I think that the catchy jingle melodies also had an influence on making me a very commercial writer.\nED- One of your earliest television shows that you created music for was \u2018Witchblade\u2019. Please tell us how you were given this coveted assignment by the producers of this show.\nFAWN- I was called by a licensing company who was working with the show, and happened to have the correct sound for the type of song that they were looking for.\nED- How excited were you to find out that you were chosen by the show?\nFAWN- Extremely excited, grateful and blessed.\nED- The next shows that your music appeared on were episodes of \u2018The X-Effect\u2019 and \u2018Ugly Betty\u2019. Both of these shows are well known and this must of thrilled you. Please tell our readers about these experiences.\nFAWN- For X-Effect a Music Supervisor submitted a piece I had written and thankfully, they liked it. For Ugly Betty, they were looking for a specific storyline, sound, genre and style of song, so I wrote it and sang it for them. Luckily, they said, \u2018yes!\u2019\nED- You also had worked with a number of other shows between 2002 to 2011. Please describe these and the work you did with them.\nFAWN- Basically I will get a call from a music supervisor, producer or licensing company, inquiring if I have a specific piece of music in a certain style or feel, and if I don\u2019t, depending on the deadline, time frame, and what I am currently working on, I will write and record it. One of my favorite jobs was for the Natalee Holloway Story. I felt passionate about contributing to this film, because of the circumstances that had taken place and everything the family had been through. I wrote and sang a piece in French for the movie, with the musical genius of Chad Jack contributing music, producing and mixing the track. When they aired it through out the film and in the ads, I felt that I had been able to contribute in some small way. I wanted to tell the Holloway family that \u2018I support you in your search for the truth and your daughters life mattered\u2019.\nED- You then produced the music for fourteen episodes of \u2018Guiding Light\u2019. This must have been a great accomplishment for your career. Please tell our readers all about it.\nFAWN- I signed a contract with CBS/Guiding Light for 1.5 years and it was a thrill to be able to be on board with such a legendary show. It was really fun to see what scenes they were going to use my songs in. My mom called one day and said \u2018I just heard your voice on the show singing \u2018Trippin\u2019 \u2018- That was a fun moment.\nED- In 2009-2010 and the following year you worked on two more productions, \u2018Dead End Falls\u2019 and \u2018NewNowNext Pop Lab\u2019. What were the themes behind these and tell us how you contributed to them?\nFAWN-\u2018New Now Next Pop Lab\u2019 was when my music video directed by Stephen Wozniak, \u2018Wish U Love\u2019 debuted with Beoynce\u2019, Lady Ga Ga, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift, Jay Z and Jennifer Lopez. The show aired a few times over the months. The theme for this song was wishing the one you have left, love, even through the heart break. As for the film, \u2018Dead End Falls,\u2019 I was asked to write a particular style song for a specific scene, with a precise subject matter and type of lyric. I did my best and luckily, my best ended up being good enough! I was honored that they picked \u2018Dream Weaver\u2019 produced and mixed by Jake Benson for the one of the pivotal scenes in the film. The theme of that song is being completely enthralled and in love with some one.\nED- In 2010 your work appeared in \u2018The Click List: Top 10 Videos\u2019. Tell us about this and how it compared with your earlier work.\nFAWN- It\u2019s difficult to compare this because it had nothing to do with composing or writing songs for Film and Television, this was for mainstream dance/pop music. The Click list aired my music video for my hit dance song \u2018Wish U Love\u2019, produced by Chad Jack and Tim Letteer, and the music video was Directed by Stephen Wozniak. The song ultimately made it to #6 on the Billboard Dance Charts and the music video stayed in the top 10 for 5 months on MTV\u2019s LOGO Channel, The Click List. It was a wonderful surprise.\nED- During this same period (2008-2011) you also worked with the popular television show \u2018The Young and the Restless\u2019. Please describe your work on this production.\nFAWN- The songs I\u2019ve written for Young and The Restless have ranged from Pop songs, ala Katy Perry in French to Dance songs, to piano based compositions, to Standard Christmas songs, to Jazz songs, to Halloween songs, to acoustic songs, to rap songs, to hip hop, to broadway, to children\u2019s songs. As a songwriter and vocalist, I have an expansive range of styles I\u2019ve written and performed in. I also sing in almost every language. There is one specific memory I have where there was an \u2019emergency\u2019- the deadline was just one hour. I had to write, sing and record the song in French\u2026luckily I had a brilliant arranger and producer to work with to make that deadline happen, Danny James. He sent me a 10 second loop, which I looped into 1 minute and while I was recording my vocals, he was working on the arrangement and production end, I sang the song in one take, flew the vocals over to him, he mixed it and viola\u2019! There was the song! You can hear this song on youtube/FawnTv, it\u2019s called \u2018French Kiss.\u2019 I think I thrive under this kind of pressure. Some writers don\u2019t do so well with that, but I tend to blossom and revel in it, because I am extremely competitive, even with myself and it challenges me on every level.\nED-You have also won many coveted awards. Please tell our readers about these and the sense of accomplishment that you felt in receiving them.\nFAWN- The fist award I ever won was for saving a Junior High School from a fire when I was 13 and another award at that age for philanthropic work, but as far as my music goes, the first award I ever won was when I was 16 for The Elovox Jazz Festival for my A Cappella, 12 voiced vocal rendition of \u2018Here, There and Everywhere\u2019 by the Beatles. Shortly after that I won the top songwriting awards 3 years in a row at Berklee College Of Music for my songs \u2018Livin\u2019 With Out Your Love,\u2019 \u2018Just Look At Us Now,\u2019 and \u2018Playin\u2019 The Fool.\u2019 Those will always be precious and dear memories to me, being noticed in the infantry of my music career. I have won a few songwriting awards over the years, one of which was the VH-1 song of the year for my song \u201cInto The Light\u201d with music co-written and produced by Lasswell. In 2009 I won the JPF Music Awards for Best Dance Song for of the Year \u2013 \u2018Wish u Love,\u2019 the JPF Music Award for Best Dance Album of the year \u2013 \u2018Body, Soul and Mind,\u2019 and was nominated for the Hollywood Music In Media Award in 2010 \u2013 \u2018Wish U Love\u2019 and the Wake Up Award for 2010, which is for people who make a difference in this world. This is all I can think of, off the top of my head. I am always completely surprised just being recognized with any kind of nomination, and winning\u2026well forget about it! I\u2019m a mushy mess of gratitude! I do my music because it chose me, I didn\u2019t chose it, so it is always a blessing to be recognized that you are touching people in some way and making a difference in the world through the gift of music.\nED- Your newest projects are \u2018Little Red Wagon\u2019 which is in Post-Production and \u2018The Girl Is In Trouble\u2019. Can you give us a sneak peek behind the scenes and tell us something about them?\nFAWN- The song featured in \u2018Little Red Wagon\u2019 is an original Christmas piece. The film is based on a true story about a young boy who becomes an advocate for the homeless. It\u2019s written by Patrick Sheane Duncan (Mr. Holland\u2019s Opus/Courage Under Fire) and directed by David Ansapaugh (Hoosiers). I hear it is a dear film and I am thrilled to be a tiny part of this endearing movie. \u2018The Girl Is In Trouble\u2019 is a murder mystery film. It has Spike Lee onboard as Executive Producer and is directed by Julius Onah. The song in the film is \u2018Solitude\u2019 with music co-written by Danny James. \u2018Solitude\u2019 is also on my upcoming electro album with several of the cuts produced and mixed by Danny James, along with a few co-writes with him.\nED- You\u2019ve also sung, written, produced and done voice over\u2019s for some of the leading commercials in the world. Please name a few that we are sure to be familiar with that you have also written.\nFAWN- Ford, Mazda, Barbie, Lavazza Coffee, Pontiac, Target, Ponds, Squand, Epicurious and others.\nED- In 2009 you won the JPF music awards for \u2018Wish U Love\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Best Dance Song\u2019 and \u2018Body Soul and Mind\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Best Dance Album\u2019 for your album. You were also second only to Madonna in sales for the Masterbeat exclusive releases for \u2018Wish U Love\u2019 for 2 months running and you have produced several albums and singles and are working on some new material as well. Please tell us about these accomplishments and new developments.\nFAWN-The JPF Music awards were held in Nashville, TN. and it was my first time ever being there, so just traveling and seeing the city was exciting enough! I remember when my name was called at the awards show \u2013 I couldn\u2019t believe it! I think that the laughter and clapping in the audience was due to the funny, shocked look on my face when my jaw dropped down to the floor in surprise. As I was leaving the stage with my award, they were announcing the other category. The photographer was taking photos of me with my award when some one came running over to the red carpet where we were and yelled, \u201cFawn! You won again!\u201d So I went back out there onstage, still a ball of nerves and excitement with tears streaming down my face from the first win. It was surreal. As for the success of \u201cWish U Love\u201d it has been a dream come true. To be second to Madonna in sales was mind blowing. It was also another pleasant surprise to be just underneath Lady Ga Ga on the Billboard Charts. I was overwhelmed by the incredible talent surrounding my music and was also in awe of it. As for new developments, I am currently writing and recording some Christmas songs for a Movie Of The Week, after that I will start recording a Dance Remake of an old song for Hades Records and will be finishing up my 2 new albums \u2013 An Electro Dance Album and a Piano Compositions Album. Both will be available this year.\nED- Your work has also raised over five million dollars for people with HIV/ AIDS. This was a most worthy cause, and we know that you are a star in every right for all the fine work that you have created. We have been honored to be able to have this interview with you and want to thank you for your time with us. Please promise that you keep us updated with your career so that The Eerie Digest can share this news with our legions of readers.\nFAWN \u2013 Well thank you. I think that we are all stars in our own right. I used to have this saying on my wall growing up, and I memorized it: \u201cTo be a star, you must shine your own light and do not be afraid of the darkness, for that is when stars shine their brightest.\u201d We each need to be who we are born to be and be a LIGHT in the world. The song for HIV/AIDS was my first \u201creal\u201d song for the masses. Everything was donated on that song, and that was long before I knew any one with HIV/AIDS. I was a teenager when I wrote, sang and then recorded it with BT. The reason I wanted to do this song, was to give back to the world. I think we are only as good as what we give away. Thank you so much for asking me to be part of your magazine. I am honored and yes, I promise to keep you posted on my life, just for the Fawn of it! Ha Ha.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 19022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://electromontaj.com/artists/Neil-finn", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:Y266LBH2JCF7YAF2AUDCXSVCPJBKKC53", "length": 543, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "electromontaj.com", "title": "Neil Finn Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius", "raw_content": "About Neil Finn\nNeil Mullane Finn OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer/songwriter and musician. 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And in the same year, it also made the finals of the award for Residential Development Under 250 Lots.\nA snapshot of our development plan\nSpearwood Stage 1 \u2013 Sold Out\nSpearwood Stage 2 \u2013 One block remaining.\nCoogee Stage 4 \u2013 Available, a mix of family-sized \u2018traditional\u2019 lots and front or rear loaded lots \u2018garage at rear\u2019 with Coogee postcode.\nCoogee Stage 8 \u2013 Delightfully liveable and affordable lots, with the majority front or rear loaded lots \u2018garage at rear\u2019 blocks.\nStage 5, Stage 6 and Stage 7 are earmarked for future development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emilie.io/blog/page:4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OZMZ5SWVUB4IRUBFMG3LETBTII5UI5VS", "length": 4090, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "emilie.io", "title": "Emilie Thaler | Seattle, WA | Blog", "raw_content": "I wouldn't consider myself a power user by any means, but I am always looking for ways to improve and speed up my workflow, particularly for developing. Here are some tools I rely on: OneNote I have always been an avid user of Microsoft's OneNote. I've only been an Apple user (happy) for about five years, but in all the years since I switched from Windows OS I've been kinda gutted to not be able\u2026\nLast Friday in New Media class we were visited by the very talented and lovely Kate and Drew of Hum Creative. Hum Creative is a small, local, all-encompassing design firm that boasts clients like Hello Giggles, The Shriver Report, Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, and Seattle dessert fave Cupcake Royale. They were very thoughtful speakers and were kind enough to impart some advice to design students on\u2026\nCigar Box Typography\nDanforth & Carter's Cigars is a fictitious company founded in 1873 by two families (the Danforths and the Carters) in New York City. In 2015, they are planning the release of a limited-edition cigar to celebrate the heritage of the company: Havana Blend, a cigar product featuring an organic wrapper and hand rolled in NYC. To commemorate this product they are also releasing a limited edition\u2026\nDid you know that the term jellyfish is a misnomer? Of course you did, because \"jellyfish\" don't have vertebrae! The proper term is (of course) jellies, and when given the opportunity to design a plant or animal using only type, jellies were the first thing that popped into my mind. I'm a huge documentary geek, my absolute favorite series being The Blue Planet, narrated by documentary\u2026\nWell, its back to school after a long and relaxing break. We kicked off the week by picking up where we left off in Interaction and Graphic Production last quarter (which meant beginning coding and working more in Illustrator) and by beginning two new classes: Intro to Color Theory and Typography. For Color Theory, each studio group has been assigned one color from the color wheel to study and to\u2026\nFor last quarter's final day of new media, every student paired up to create a Vine video that in some capacity represented \"creativity.\" I knew from pretty much from the get-go that stop motion was something I was interested and my partner Luke very kindly indulged me! The video took (not surprisingly), quite a while to pull together and involved taping my phone to a box so we could\u2026\nExercise in Story Boarding\nIt's our second to last class in storytelling, and we spent the day discussing how to create visual narratives and then creating story boards ourselves. I was happy to be able to pick up where I left off last week with Madewell and our group spent some time watching Madewell videos. Rather than continue with the existing style, which we didn't feel reflected the company, we decided to create a\u2026\nMadewell: A Story of Curated Social Media\nMadewell is for the young, fresh, simple, sustainable, fashionable, professional woman in her early twenties to mid-thirties. She is cultured, educated, and well-traveled with a sophisticated sense of style. The Madewell woman want to be elegant and professional but still playful and comfortable. She dresses herself well in simple, classic, and understated looks. She purchases well-made clothes\u2026\nOn Friday night I had the pleasure of seeing the one and only Stefan Sagmeister speak at the Seattle Public Library as part of the Design Lecture Series hosted by Civilization. Mr. Sagmeister\u2019s lecture was about what makes people happy and his work to date on his side project, The Happy Film. Not surpisingly, the things that make us happy aren\u2019t things like money, attractiveness, or where we liv\u2026\nA Morning with Digital Kitchen\nLast Friday we had the privilege of being visited by Mike and Al from Seattle's Digital Kitchen. It was, without a doubt, one of the most inspiring presentations I've sat in on, and Mike and Al were chock full of hilarious nuggets of truthy wisdom. 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This meeting has been held since 2015 under Putin's initiative. It's aimed at attracting investments to Russia's heavily underdeveloped Far East region, including the disputed Kuril Islands, which is the reason for Putin's proposal to Abe.\nAbe didn't respond to Putin's sudden suggestion, even after the Russian leader said, \"I was not joking.\"\nThe official Japanese response came a day later when chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga officially rejected Putin's offer. Suga said while Abe and Putin had held frank talks at a number of summits, there is absolutely no change to Japan's perspective of resolving the problem of rights over the Northern Territories before signing a peace treaty.\nAt Vladivostok, Abe said that over the long stretch of more than 70 years since the end of World War II, Japan and Russia have yet to conclude a peace treaty between them. He noted that both he and Putin agree this is an abnormal state of affairs.\nAbe and Putin have met 22 times over the Kuril Islands since Abe came into power in 2012. No significant progress has been made in resolving this thorny issue.\nPolitical observers also pointed out that the suddenness of Putin's proposal might have been prompted by the need to prevent Japan from deploying a United States anti-ballistic missile defense system in northern Japan to counter a North Korea missile attack. This U.S. defense system could also be used to counter Russian missile attacks, as well.\nThe disputed islands are part of the Kuril Islands lying between Hokkaido in northern Japan and Russia's Sakhalin peninsula to the northeast. The Soviet Union invaded and seized the southern Kuril Islands held by Japan in mid-August 1945 towards the end of World War II.\nThese islands, called the Northern Territories or Southern Chishima by Japan, consist of four islands and islets, and are the reason why Japan and Russia have not signed a formal peace treaty ending World War 2. Japan wants Russia to relinquish control of the islands as a pre-condition to a peace treaty. Russia has said it would never do that.\nThe disputed islands (Etorofu Island, Kunashiri Island, Shikotan Island and the Habomai Islands) are under Russian administration as the South Kuril District of the Sakhalin Oblast. The Soviet Army evicted all the 17,000 Japanese inhabitants of the islands in 1946. 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He published numerous articles and books, mainly in the areas of history and literature. Browne published in areas which few other Western scholars had explored. Many of his publications are related to Iran, either in the fields of history or Persian literature. 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The visit also included a tour of other interesting laboratories at the Institute.\nOwing to its unique spirit, state-of-the-art research and fruitful innovations, the Institute of Physics is recognised in Serbia as the leading national research institution, a centre of excellence in the region, and trustworthy partner and relevant research centre in Europe and across the world. In addition to their encounter with the supercomputer in the Scientific Computing Laboratory, the students learnt about the research performed at the Laboratory for Biophysics, the High Pressure Physics Laboratory and the Environmental Physics Laboratory, and had the pleasure of witnessing current scientific experiments.\nThe lecture about the supercomputer was followed by a modern lecture on gravity delivered by an esteemed Quantum Gravity researcher.\nCherishing love for knowledge through visits and field trips\nInternational School Savremena knows that its students learn the most from exciting visits and unusual interdisciplinary lessons, and that learning on location from experts in the field stays in their memory for a very long time. This is why the teachers strive to organise as many of them as possible and make sure their students enjoy enriching their knowledge about all subjects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 11431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.skyrock.com/r?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemaystudio.com%2Fpublicite.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7GEV6JP3VQQTOKJEL64RK5WC2QLHZRYL", "length": 85, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "en.skyrock.com", "title": "Skyrock.com", "raw_content": "You are leaving Skyrock.com and will be redirected to: www.lemaystudio.com/publici...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enablelabs.com/services/horicon-ny", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XRIIIWZ52YSUNE5UFA66OMOIE3PZ4PT6", "length": 388, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "enablelabs.com", "title": "Enable Labs - Horicon, NY Services", "raw_content": "Horicon Services\nCentrally located in the heart of New York's Tech Valley, Enable Labs can provide all of our services to businesses located in or operating in Horicon, NY. Many of our staff were born and raised in upstate New York and know Horicon well. As you can see listed below, Enable Labs has a lot to offer the businesses of Horicon, NY. Contact us at 866.895.8189 to get started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 1937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://englewoodreview.org/review-the-story-of-god-the-story-of-us-sean-gladding-vol-3-39/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6PNEZ2YOKXLSNZNRJB2GFD7MLMOSHFZG", "length": 3228, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "englewoodreview.org", "title": "Review: THE STORY OF GOD, THE STORY OF US \u2013 Sean Gladding [Vol. 3, #39] | The Englewood Review of Books", "raw_content": "Review: THE STORY OF GOD, THE STORY OF US \u2013 Sean Gladding [Vol. 3, #39]\nThe Story of God, the Story of Us:\nGetting Lost & Found in the Bible\nBy Sean Gladding.\nPaperback: IVP Books, 2010.\nFor ten years now, Sean Gladding has been orally telling the biblical story with groups around the United States. What started as a Bible study for a group of people who had little familiarity with scripture, Gladding has refined his telling of the scriptural story over the last decade and has now been published by IVP Books as The Story of God, The Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible. One of the big shifts that Gladding made early on in this narrative project was to move from talking about the biblical story to telling it as a story, and this change is one of the strengths of his work in book format. The Old Testament story is told from the perspective of a group of Israelites suffering under the weight of the Babylonian exile. A wise sage spins the tale of the history of Israel and all creation up to that time with the hope of encouraging younger Israelites who are struggles with the challenges of life in exile. Gladding does a superb job of emphasizing the central theme of hope throughout the Old Testament story. For instance, he concludes the telling of the Old Testament story: \u201cThe Old man takes the arm of the young musician and leaves with his people, who depart in near silence, nurturing the flame of hope that has been kindled in them, daring to believe that the story is not yet over.\u201d\nAfter a very brief (one page) interlude between the book\u2019s stories, Gladding proceeds to the telling of the New Testament story, which he sets in a small house-church-type setting in the early Christian era. As he did for the Old Testament, Gladding tells the story in a way that emphasizes hope to its hearers. He also drives home the point that we cannot merely be listeners to the story of God\u2019s work, but rather are caught up ourselves in this story; he offers the following prayer in the book\u2019s postscript:\nMay this book draw you deep into the grand Story of Scripture, as you read it with others and discuss the difficult question of what it means to be faithful to the God who makes covenant with us. Whether it is your first time to hear the Story, or the hundred and first time, may you hear the voice of God\u2019s hesed, God\u2019s lovingkindness, gently inviting you to step into the narrative and partner with God in the work of new creation. Shalom.\nGladding\u2019s delightful telling of the scriptural story here is effective for energizing followers of Christ \u2013 whether new or old \u2013 as well as those who may not yet claim to follow Christ. However, I think its compelling power, drawing us into the scriptural story, will be most effective among youth or others who are new to the faith.\nIn *Featured Reviews*, VOLUME 3\tNarrative, Scripture, Sean Gladding, Story\nBargain Books [Vol. 3, #39]\nLast Chance to get a FREE...\nOne response to Review: THE STORY OF GOD, THE STORY OF US \u2013 Sean Gladding [Vol. 3, #39]\nBen Emerson April 2, 2011 at 9:30 pm\nHappy birthday to sean! I thought this book was excellent and I am very much looking forward to reading it with students I work for someday soon. 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For the designer, see Christian Dior. For other uses, see Dior (disambiguation).\nEuronext: CDI\n(Creative Director)\n(Creative Director, Dior Homme)[2]\n(Designer, Dior Fine Jewelry)\n\u20ac41.6 billion[3]\n\u20ac5.323 billion[4]\n\u20ac1.279 billion[4] (2011)\n\u20ac24.94 billion[4] (2011)\nChristian Dior Couture[5]\nLVMH (42.36%)\nChristian Dior SE (French pronunciation: \u200b[k\u0281is.tj\u0251\u0303 dj\u0254\u02d0\u0281]), commonly known as Dior, is a European luxury goods company controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH, the world's largest luxury group. Dior itself holds 42.36% shares of and 59.01% voting rights within LVMH.[6][7]\nThe company was founded in 1946 by designer Christian Dior. It currently designs and retails leather goods, fashion accessories, footwear, jewelry, timepieces, fragrance, makeup, and skin care products, while also maintaining its tradition as a creator of haute-couture under the Christian Dior Couture division. The Christian Dior label remains largely for women's offerings, although the company also operates the Dior Homme division for men and the baby Dior label for children's wear. Products are sold throughout its portfolio of retail stores worldwide, as well as through its online store.\n1.2 \"New Look\"\n1.3 Dior Parfums\n1.4 Expansion and death of Dior\n1.5 Dior without Christian Dior: 1957 through the 1970s\n1.6 Arrival of businessman Arnault\n1.8 Celebrity Ambassadors\n2 Financial data\n4 Galliano controversy\n6 Ownership and shareholdings\n7 Creative directors\nThe House of Dior was established on 16 December 1946 in \"a private house\"[5] at 30 Avenue Montaigne Paris B. However, the current Dior corporation celebrates \"1947\" as the opening year.[5] Dior was financially backed by wealthy businessman Marcel Boussac.[5][8] Boussac had originally invited Dior to design for Philippe et Gaston, but Dior refused, wishing to make a fresh start under his own name rather than reviving an old brand.[9] The new couture house became a part of \"a vertically integrated textile business\" already operated by Boussac.[8] Its capital was at FFr 6 million and workforce at 80 employees.[8] The company was really a vanity project for Boussac and was a \"majorly owned affiliate of Boussac Saint-Freres S.A. Nevertheless, Dior was allowed a then-unusual great part in his namesake label (legal leadership, a non-controlling stake in the firm, and one-third of pretax profits) despite Boussac's reputation as a \"control freak\". Dior's creativity also negotiated him a good salary.[8]\n\"New Look\"\n\"Bar\" suit, 1947, displayed in Moscow, 2011\nOn 12 February 1947, Dior launched his first fashion collection for Spring\u2013Summer 1947. The show of \"90 models of his first collection on six mannequins\" was presented in the salons of the company's headquarters at 30 Avenue Montaigne.[5] Originally, the two lines were named \"Corolle\" and \"Huit\".[5] However, the new collection went down in fashion history as the \"New Look\" after the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar Carmel Snow exclaimed, \"It's such a new look!\"[5][8] The New Look was a revolutionary era for women back in the forties.[10] When the collection was presented, the editor in chief also showed appreciation by saying; \"It\u2019s quite a revolution, dear Christian!\" [10] The debut collection of Christian Dior is credited with having revived the fashion industry of France.[11] Along with that, the New Look brought back the spirit of haute couture in France as it was considered glamorous and young-looking.[12] \"We were witness to a revolution in fashion and to a revolution in showing fashion as well.\" [13] The silhouette was characterised by a small, nipped-in waist and a full skirt falling below mid-calf length, which emphasised the bust and hips, as epitomized by the 'Bar' suit from the first collection.[14][15] The collection overall showcased more stereotypically feminine designs in contrast to the popular fashions of wartime, with full skirts, tight waists, and soft shoulders. Dior retained some of the masculine aspects as they continued to hold popularity through the early 1940s, but he also wanted to include more feminine style.[16]\nThe New Look became extremely popular, its full-skirted silhouette influencing other fashion designers well into the 1950s, and Dior gained a number of prominent clients from Hollywood, the United States, and the European aristocracy. As a result, Paris, which had fallen from its position as the capital of the fashion world after WWII, regained its preeminence.[17][18] The New Look was welcomed in western Europe as a refreshing antidote to the austerity of wartime and de-feminizing uniforms, and was embraced by stylish women such as Princess Margaret in the UK.[19] According to Harold Koda, Dior credited Charles James with inspiring The New Look.[20] Dior's designs from the \"New Look\" did not only affect the designers in the 1950s, but still some of the newer designers we know from now in the 2000s, including Thom Browne, Miuccia Prada, and Vivienne Westwood. Dior's evening dresses from that time are still referred to by many designers, and they have been seen in different wedding themed catwalks with multiple layers of fabric building up below the small waist (Jojo, 2011). Examples include Vivienne Westwood\u2019s Ready-to-Wear Fall/Winter 2011 and Alexander McQueen's Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2011 (Jojo, 2011).[21]\nNot everyone was pleased with the New Look, however. Some considered the amount of material to be wasteful, especially after years of cloth rationing. Feminists in particular were outraged, feeling that these corseted designs were restrictive and regressive, and that they took away a woman's independence.[22] Fellow designer Coco Chanel remarked, \"Only a man who never was intimate with a woman could design something that uncomfortable.\"[18] Despite such protests, the New Look was highly influential, continuing to inform the work of other designers and fashion well into the 21st century.[11] For the 60th anniversary of the New Look in 2007, John Galliano revisited it for his Spring-Summer collection for Dior.[23] Galliano used the wasp waist and rounded shoulders, modernised and updated with references to origami and other Japanese influences.[23] In 2012 Raf Simons revisited the New Look for his debut haute couture collection for Dior, wishing to update its ideas for the 21st century in a minimalist but also sensual and sexy manner.[11][24] Simons's work for Dior retained the luxurious fabrics and silhouette, but encouraged self-respect for the woman's body and liberation of expression.[24] The design process for this collection, which was produced in only eight weeks, is documented in Dior and I, presenting Simons's use of technology and modernist re-interpretations.[25]\nAvailable references contradict themselves whether Christian Dior Parfums was established in 1947 or 1948. The Dior corporation itself lists the founding of Christian Dior Parfums as 1947, with the launch of its first perfume, Miss Dior.[5] Dior revolutionized the perfumery industry with the launch of the highly popular Miss Dior parfum, which was named after Catherine Dior (Christian Dior's sister).[5] Christian Dior Ltd owned 25%, manager of Coty perfumes held 35%, and Boussac owned 40% of the perfume business, headed by Serge Heftler Louiche.[5] Pierre Cardin was made head of the Dior workshop from 1947 until 1950. In 1948, a New York City Christian Dior Parfums branch was established\u2014this could be the cause of establishment-date issue.[5] The modern Dior corporation also notes that \"a luxury ready-to-wear house is established in New York at the corner of 5th Avenue and 57th Street, the first of its kind,\" in 1948.[5] In 1949, the \"Diorama\" perfume is released and[5] by 1949, the New Look line alone made a profit FFr 12.7 million.[8]\nExpansion and death of Dior\nEva Per\u00f3n, the First Lady of Argentina, wearing a Dior Dress in the Teatro Col\u00f3n, 1950\nExpansion from France began by the end of 1949 with the opening of a Christian Dior boutique in New York City. By the end of the year, Dior fashions made up 75% of Paris's fashion exports and 5% of France's total export revenue.[8]\nIn 1949, Douglas Cox from Melbourne, Australia, travelled to Paris to meet with Christian Dior to discuss the possibility of having Dior pieces made for the Australian market. Christian Dior and Douglas Cox signed a contract for Dior to produce original designs and for Douglas Cox to create them in his Flinders Lane workshop.[26] A young Jill Walker, still in her mid teens, was one of the many workers for Douglas Cox, a couture label now in the headlines in Australian newspapers almost daily. Jill would go onto forming a couture legacy in Melbourne with popular labels such as Jinoel and Marti with husband Noel Kemelfield.[27] The agreement between Dior and Douglas Cox really put Australian dressmaking on the global stage, yet ultimately the 60 Dior models proved to be too avant-garde for the conservative Australian taste. Douglas Cox was unable to continue the contract beyond the single 1949 season making these Dior-Cox couture pieces some of the most rare collectors items in Australian couture.[28]\nIn 1950, Jacques Rou\u00ebt, the general manager of Dior Ltd, devised a licensing program to place the now-renowned name of \"Christian Dior\" visibly on a variety of luxury goods.[8] It was placed first on neckties[5] and soon was applied to hosiery, furs, hats, gloves, handbags, jewelry, lingerie, and scarves.[8] Members of the French Chamber of Couture denounced it as a degrading action for the haute-couture image. Nevertheless, licensing became a profitable move and began a trend to continue \"for decades to come\",[8] which all couture houses followed.[5]\nAlso in 1950, Christian Dior was the exclusive designer of Marlene Dietrich's dresses in the Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright. In 1951, Dior released his first book, Je Suis Couturier (I am a Couturier) through publishers Editions du Conquistador. Despite the company's strong European following, more than half of its revenue was generated in the United States by this time.[8] Christian Dior Models Limited was created in London in 1952.[5] An agreement was made between the Sydney label House of Youth for Christian Dior New York models.[5] Los Gobelinos in Santiago, Chile, made an agreement with Dior for Christian Dior Paris Haute Couture.[5] The first Dior shoe line was launched in 1953 with the aid of Roger Vivier. The company operated firmly established locations in Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and Italy by the end of 1953.[8] As popularity of Dior goods grew, so did counterfeiting.[8] This illegal business was supported by women who could not afford the luxury goods.\nBy the mid-1950s, the House of Dior operated a well-respected fashion empire.[8] The first Dior boutique was established in 1954 at 9 Counduit Street. In honour of Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Marlborough, a Dior fashion show was held at the Blemhein Palace in 1954 as well. Christian Dior launched more highly successful fashion lines between the years of 1954 and 1957.[8] However, none came as close to the profound effect of the New Look.[8] Dior opened the Grande Boutique on the corner between Avenue Montaigne and Rue Fran\u00e7ois Ier in 1955.[5] The first Dior lipstick was also released in 1955.[5] 100,000 garments had been sold by the time of the company's 10th anniversary in 1956.[8] Actress Ava Gardner had 14 dresses created for her in 1956 by Christian Dior for the Mark Robson film The Little Hut.\nChristian Dior appeared on the cover of TIME dated 4 March 1957. The designer soon afterwards died from a third heart attack on 24 October 1957.[5][8] The captivating impact of Dior's creative fashion genius earned him recognition as one of history's greatest fashion figures.[8] Kevin Almond for Contemporary Fashion wrote that \"by the time Dior died his name had become synonymous with taste and luxury.\"[8]\nDior without Christian Dior: 1957 through the 1970s\nThe death of the head designer left the House of Dior in chaos, and general manager Jacques Rou\u00ebt considered shutting down operation worldwide. This possibility was not received graciously by Dior licensees and the French fashion industry; the Maison Dior was too important to the financial stability of the industry to allow such an action. To bring the label back on its feet, Rou\u00ebt promoted the 21-year-old Yves Saint-Laurent to Artistic Director the same year.[8] Laurent had joined the House's family in 1955 after being picked out by the original designer himself for the position of the first ever and only Head Assistant.[5][8] Laurent initially proved to have been the most appropriate choice after the debut of his first collection for Dior (the mention of Dior from this moment on refers to the company) in 1958.[8] The clothes were as meticulously made and perfectly proportioned as Dior's in the same exquisite fabrics, but their young designer made them softer, lighter and easier to wear. Saint Laurent was hailed as a national hero. Emboldened by his success, his designs became more daring, culminating in the 1960 Beat Look inspired by the existentialists in the Saint-Germain des Pr\u00e8s caf\u00e9s and jazz clubs. His 1960 bohemian look was harshly criticized, and even more in Women's Wear Daily.[8] Marcel Boussac was furious, and in the spring, when Saint Laurent was called up to join the French army\u2014which forced him to leave the House of Dior\u2014the Dior management raised no objection. Saint-Laurent left after the completion of six Dior collections.[5]\nChristian Dior Haute Couture suit designed by Marc Bohan, spring/summer 1973.\nAdnan Ege Kutay Collection\nLaurent was replaced at Dior by designer Marc Bohan in late 1960. Bohan instilled his conservative style on the collections. He was credited by Rebecca Arnold as the man who kept the Dior label \"at the forefront of fashion while still producing wearable, elegant clothes,\" and Women's Wear Daily, not surprisingly, claimed that he \"rescued the firm.\"[8] Bohan's designs were very well esteemed by prominent social figures. Actress Elizabeth Taylor ordered twelve Dior dresses from Bohan's Spring-Summer 1961 collection featuring the \"Slim Look\". The Dior perfume \"Diorling\" was released in 1963 and the men's fragrance \"Eau Sauvage\" was released in 1966.[5] Bohan's assistant Philippe Guibourg\u00e9 launches the first French ready-to-wear collection \"Miss Dior\" in 1967. This is not to be confused with the already existing New York Ready-to-Wear store established in 1948. Designed by Bohan, \"Baby Dior\" opens its first boutique in 1967 at 28 Avenue Montaigne. The Christian Dior Coordinated Knit line is released in 1968 and management of the Fashion Furs Department of Christian Dior is taken by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Castet.[5] This year as well, Dior Parfums was sold to Mo\u00ebt-Hennessy (which would itself become LVMH) due to Boussac's ailing textile company (the still-owner of Dior).[5][8] This, however, had no effect on the House of Dior operations, and so the Christian Dior Cosmetics business was born in 1969 with the creation of an exclusive line.\nFollowing this, Bohan launched the first Christian Dior Homme clothing line in 1970. A new Dior boutique at Parly II was decorated by Gae Aulenti and the \"Diorella\" perfume was released in 1972. Christian Dior Ready-to-Wear Fur Collection was created in France in 1973, and then manufactured under license in the United States, Canada, and Japan.[5] The first Dior watch \"Black Moon\" was released in 1975 in collaboration with licensee Benedom. Dior haute-couture graced the bodies of Princess Grace of Monaco, Nicaraguan First Lady Hope Portocarrero, Princess Alexandria of Yugoslavia, and Lady Pamela Hicks (Lord Mountbatten of Burma's younger daughter) for the wedding of HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. In 1978, the Boussac Group filed for bankruptcy and so its assets (including those of Christian Dior) were purchased by the Willot Group under the permission of the Paris Trade Court.[5] The perfume \"Dioressence\" was released in 1979.[5]\nArrival of businessman Arnault\nIn 1980, Dior released the men's fragrance \"Jules\".[5] After the Willot Group went into bankruptcy in 1981, Bernard Arnault and his investment group purchased it for \"one symbolic franc\" in December 1984.[5][8] The Dior perfume \"Poison\" was launched in 1985. That same year, Arnault became chairman, chief executive officer, and managing director of the company.[5] On assuming leadership, Arnault did away with the company's mediocre textile operations, to focus on the Bon March\u00e9 department store and Christian Dior Couture. Operations for Christian Dior drastically changed for the better under Arnault. He repositioned it as the holding company Christian Dior S.A. of the Dior Couture fashion business.[8] On the 40th anniversary of Dior's first collection, the Paris Fashion Museum dedicated an exhibition to Christian Dior.[5] In 1988, Arnault's Christian Dior S.A.'s took a 32% equity stake into the share capital of Mo\u00ebt-Hennessy \u2022 Louis Vuitton through its subsidiary Jacques Rober, creating what would become one of the leading and most influential luxury goods companies in the world. Under this milestone merger, the operations of Christian Dior Couture and Christian Dior Parfums were once again united. Italian-born Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9 replaced Bohan as head designer in 1989.[8] The first such non-Frenchman, Ferr\u00e9 left behind traditional Dior associations of flirtation and romance, and introduced concepts and a style described as \"refined, sober and strict.\"[8] Ferr\u00e9 headed design for Haute Couture, Haute Fourrure, Women's Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Wear Furs and Women's Accessories collections. His first collection was awarded the D\u00e9 d'Or in 1989.[5] That year, a boutique was opened in Hawaii and the LVMH stake by Jacques Rober rose to 44%.[5]\nFurther Dior boutiques were opened in 1990 in upscale New York City, Los Angeles, and Tokyo shopping districts. The stake in LVMH rose again, to 46%.[5] Another collection of watches named \"Bagheera\" \u2013 inspired by the round design of the \"Black Moon\" watches \u2013 was also released in 1990. Having fired the company's managing executive Beatrice Bongbault in December 1990, Arnault took up that position until September 1991, when he placed former Bon March\u00e9 president Phillipe Vindry at the post.[8] In 1991, Christian Dior was listed on the spot market and then on the Paris Stock Exchange's monthly settlement market, and the perfume \"Dune\" was launched.[5] Vindry dropped ready-to-wear prices by 10%. Still, a wool suit from Dior would come with a price label of USD 1,500.[8] 1990 revenue for Dior was USD 129.3 million, with a net income of $22 million.[8] Dior was now reorganized into three categories: 1) women's ready-to-wear, lingerie, and children's wear 2) accessories and jewelry 3) menswear. Licensees and franchised boutiques were starting to be reduced, to increase the company's control over brand product. Licensing was in fact reduced by nearly half because Arnault and Vindry opted \"for quality and exclusivity over quantity and accessibility.\"[8] Wholly company-owned boutiques now opened in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Cannes, and Waikiki, adding to its core stores located in New York City, Hawaii, Paris and Geneva. This held a potential to increase direct sales and profit margins while maintaining high-profile locations.\"[8] In 1992, Dior Homme was placed under the artistic direction of Patrick Lavoix, and the \"Miss Dior\" perfume was relaunched.[5] Francois Baufume succeeded Vindry in 1993 and continued to reduce licenses of the Dior name.[8]\nLeather gloves by Christian Dior\nThe production of Dior Haute Couture was spun off into a subsidiary named Christian Dior Couture in 1995.[5] Also, the \"La Parisienne\" watch model was released \u2013 embodied in the watch \"Parisian Chic\". By that year, revenue for the label rose to USD 177 million, with a net income of USD 26.9 million.[8] Under the influence of Anna Wintour, editor and chief of Vogue, CEO Arnault appointed British designer John Galliano to replace Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9 in 1997 (Galliano on CBS News: \"without Anna Wintour I would certainly not be at the house of Dior\").[5][29] This choice of a British designer, once again instead of a French one, is said to have \"ruffled some French feathers\". Arnault himself stated that he \"would have preferred a Frenchman\", but that \"talent has no nationality\".[8] He even compared Galliano to Christian Dior himself, noting that \"Galliano has a creative talent very close to that of Christian Dior. He has the same extraordinary mixture of romanticism, feminism, and modernity that symbolised Monsieur Dior. In all of his creations \u2013 his suits, his dresses \u2013 one finds similarities to the Dior style.\"[8] Galliano sparked further interest in Dior with somewhat controversial fashion shows, such as \"Homeless Show\" (models dressed in newspapers and paper bags) or \"S&M Show\".[8] Meanwhile, Dior licenses were being reduced further by new president and CEO Sidney Toledano.[8] On 15 October 1997, the Dior headquarters store on Avenue Montaigne was reopened \u2013it had been closed and remodeled by Peter Marino \u2013 in a celebrity-studded event including Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore and Jacques Chirac. That year, Christian Dior Couture also took over all thirteen boutique franchises from Japan's Kanebo.[5]\nIn May 1998, another Dior boutique was opened in Paris. This time the store opened its doors on the Left Bank, Place Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s. Also this year, Victoire de Castellane became lead designer of Dior Fine Jewellery and the first Dior Fine Jewellery boutique opened in New York City. Paris itself would witness the opening of the first Parisian Dior Fine Jewellery boutique the following year, at 28 Avenue Montaigne.[5] The perfume \"J'adore\" was released in 1999,[5] and on 5 October 1999, Galliano released the Dior Spring-Summer 2000 ready-to-wear fashion show, debuting the new Saddle bag. In the same year, Dior's long watch partner Benedom joined the LVMH group. In 2000, Galliano's leadership was extended to Ready to wear, accessories, advertising and communications. The first campaign under his leadership was photographed by Nick Knight and featured two women simulating intercourse.\nWhile other brands in the late 1990s, notably Gucci,[30] had resorted to porn chic as a mean to draw attention, Dior ads had such an impact that porn chic became a trend in most fashion ads. Galliano ignited the escalation of porno chic advertisements, which culminated with Ungaro's zoophilic ads,[31] shot by Mario Sorrenti, and Gucci's ads, which featured a model with pubic hair shaped like the signature Gucci logo. As a matter of fact, it is considered that Galliano had revolutionized Dior more through his advertising campaigns than through his designs.[32][33]\nOn 17 July 2000, Dior Homme lead designer Patrick Lavoix was replaced by Hedi Slimane. Notable Dior releases that year were watches such as the distinctive \"Malice\", which features bracelets made of \"CD\" links, as well as the \"Riva\". Hedi left Dior Homme in 2007 and replaced by Kris Van Assche.\nIn 2001, the Dior Homme boutique on 30 Avenue Montaigne reopened with a new \"contemporary masculine concept\" instilled by its designer Hedi Slimane. Slimane used this concept in the creation of his first Dior Homme collection.[5] Soon, Dior Homme gained prominent male clientele including Brad Pitt and Mick Jagger.[8]\nJohn Galliano then began to release his own Dior watches in 2001, beginning with the \"Chris 47 Aluminum\" line, marking a new era in Dior watch design. Next, the \"Malice\" and \"Riva\" watches were redesigned with precious stones to create the \"Malice Sparkling\" and \"Riva Sparkling\" spin-off collections. Inspired by the Spring-Summer 2002 Ready-to-Wear collection, Dior released the \"Dior 66\" watch, breaking many feminine traditional expectations in design.\nThe Dior flagship boutique in the upscale Ginza shopping district of Tokyo. First opened in 2004.\nThe men's fragrance \"Higher\" was released in 2001, followed by the perfume \"Addict\" in 2002. The company then opened Milan's first Dior Homme boutique on 20 February 2002. By 2002, 130 locations were in full operation.[8] On 3 June 2002, Slimane was presented with the \"International Designer of the Year\" award by the CFDA. Until 2002, Kanebo was the Christian Dior ready-to-wear license holder in Japan and, when the license expired, Christian Dior was able to profitable directly sell its ready-to-wear and accessories in its own boutiques.[34] The \"Chris 47 Steel\" watch was released in 2003 as a cousin of the original \"Chris 47 Aluminum\". Bernard Arnault, his wife, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny, and Sidney Toledano witnessed the opening of the Dior flagship boutique in the Omotesand\u014d district of Tokyo on 7 December 2003. The second Dior flagship store was opened in the upscale Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in 2004.[5] An exclusive Dior Homme boutique was opened also that year in Paris on Rue Royale, and it presented the entire Dior Homme collection. A second Dior Fine Jewelry boutique in Paris was opened at 8 Place Vend\u00f4me.[5] A Christian Dior boutique was opened in Moscow after the company took control of licensed operations of its Moscow agent.[5]\nThe designer of Dior Fine Jewelry Victoire de Castellane launched her own watch named \"Le D de Dior\" (French: \"The D of Dior\"). signifying the entrance of Dior watches into its collection of fine Jewelry. This watch was designed for women but made use of many design features which are typically thought of as masculine. Slimane next released a watch for the Dior Homme collection called \"Chiffre Rouge.\" This special watch included the signature look of Dior Homme: \"Watch design and technology match each other inseparably, to create the perfect expression of Dior Homme\u2019s artistic excellence and to increase the watchmaking legitimacy of Dior timepieces.\" De Castellane then launched her second line of watches called \"La Baby de Dior\". The design for this line was meant to be more feminine with more of a \"jewelry look.\"\nDior Omotesand\u014d, 2007\nDior sign in the Debenhams store in Sutton, London, England\nThe \"Miss Dior Ch\u00e9rie\" perfume and the \"Dior Homme\" fragrance were released in 2005.[5] Galliano released his \"Dior Christal\" watches in which he combined steel and blue sapphires to create a \"creative and innovative collection.\" Christian Dior S.A. then celebrated the 13th anniversary of Dior Watches in 2005, and, in April of that year, its \"Chiffre Rouge\" collection was recognized by the World Watches and Jewelry Show in Basel, Switzerland. Also in the year, the fashion house also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birthday of designer Christian Dior.[5] An exhibition, \"Christian Dior: Man of the Century,\" was held in the Dior Museum in Granville, Normandy.\nIn 2006, the Dior watch booth was dedicated to the Dior Canework. This pattern was made by designer Christian Dior and based on the Napoleon III chairs used in his fashion shows.\nIn 2007, Kris Van Assche was appointed as the new artistic director of Dior Homme. Van Assche presented his first collection later that year.[5] The 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Maison Dior was officially celebrated in 2007 as well.[5]\nBy February 2011, the House of Dior was in scandal after accusations of John Galliano making anti-Semitic remarks made international headlines: the company found itself in a \"public relations nightmare.\"[35] Galliano was fired in March and the scheduled presentation of his Fall-Winter 2011/2012 ready-to-wear collection went ahead without him, amid the controversy, on 4 March.[36] Before the start of the show, chief executive Sydney Toledano gave a sentimental speech on the values of Christian Dior and alluded to the family's ties to the Holocaust.[37] The show closed with the staff of the atelier coming out to accept applause in the absence of their artistic director. (The previous January 2011 presentation of Spring-Summer 2011 haute-couture was the last appearance of Galliano on the Dior runway.) The company went on ahead and appointed Bill Gaytten as head designer interim in absence of artistic director.[38] Gaytten had worked under Galliano for Dior and for the John Galliano label. The first haute-couture collection (for the Fall-Winter 2011 season) under Gaytten's management was presented in July and was received with mainly negative reviews.[39][40] Meanwhile, speculation remained for months as it was unknown who would be selected to replace Galliano. During its 13-month period of having no artistic director, Dior began undergoing subtle changes in its designs as the influence of the theatrical and flamboyant Galliano faded. The all-new resigned dior.com was launched in late 2011.\nThere is a subtext to this New New Look that goes beyond respect for the house's esteemed founder. In one fell swoop, John Galliano has been all but removed from the Dior history books. By making a visual connection between his era and that of Christian Dior himself, Raf Simons has redrawn the line of succession. The unimpeachable codes of Dior are illustrated for a new generation; the bias-cut dresses and Kabuki styling of Galliano downgraded to a footnote.\n\u2014Critic surmising the meaning of Simons' premier collection for Dior[41]\nOn 23 January 2012, Gaytten presented his second haute-couture collection (for the Spring-Summer 2012 season) for Dior and it was much better received than his first collection.[42]\nBelgian designer Raf Simons was announced, on 11 April 2012, as the new artistic director of Christian Dior. Simons was known for his minimalist designs,[41] and this contrasted against the dramatic previous designs of Dior under Galliano. Furthermore, Simons was seen to have emerged as a \"dark horse\" amid the names of other designers who were considered high contenders.[35] To emphasize the appropriate choice of Simons as the right designer, the company ostentatiously made comparisons between Simons and the original designer Christian Dior.[43] Reportedly, Bernard Arnault and fellow executives at Dior and LVMH were keen to move Dior from the Galliano years.[35] Simons spent much time in the Dior archives[44] and familiarizing himself with haute-couture (as he had no previous background in that niche of fashion).[35] Simons was then scheduled to debut his designs in July. Meanwhile, Gaytten's Spring-Summer 2012 haute-couture collection was presented as the first Dior haute-couture show ever to be held in China on 14 April in Shanghai;[45] and it was a mark of the company's devotion to its presence in the Chinese market.\nCosmetics counter at New Zealand department store Smith & Caughey's in Auckland, New Zealand\nThe show was the last presentation by Gaytten for Dior, and he remained as head designer for the John Galliano label.[46]\nOn 3 May, the Dior: Secret Garden \u2013 Versailles promotional film was launched.[47] It was highly buzzed about throughout various industry and social media sources as it was a display of Dior through its transition. Simons presented his first ever collection for the company \u2013 the Fall-Winter 2012 haute-couture collection \u2013 on 2 July. A major highlight of the fall-winter 2012 haute-couture shows,[35][44][48] the collection was called by the company as \"the new couture\" and made reference to the start of a new Dior through the work of Simons \"wiping the [haute couture] slate clean and starting again from scratch.\"[49] The designer's collection \"made more references to Mr Dior than to the house of Dior\"[41] with pieces harkening back to themes Dior's post-WWII designs introduced to fashion.[35] Simons, who rarely makes himself available for interviews, gave an interview published by the company through its Dior Mag online feature.[50] While previous runway presentations under Galliano were held at the Mus\u00e9e Rodin, Simons' show was held at a private residence, near the Arc de Triomphe, with the address only disclosed to select top-clients, celebrities, journalists, and other personnel exclusively invited in a discreet affair.[51] High-profile figures in attendance included designers Azzedine Ala\u00efa,[35][44] Pierre Cardin,[35][52] Alber Elbaz (Lanvin designer),[35][41][44] Diane von F\u00fcrstenberg,[35][41][52] Marc Jacobs,[35][41][52] Christopher Kane,[35][41] Olivier Theyskens,[44] Riccardo Tisci,[35][52] Donatella Versace;[35][41][44][52] and Princess Charlene of Monaco,[35] actresses Marion Cotillard,[35] M\u00e9lanie Laurent,[35] Jennifer Lawrence,[35] Sharon Stone; film producer Harvey Weinstein;[44] and Dior chairman Arnault with his daughter.[35] Live satellite feed of the show was provided on DiorMag online and Twitter was also implemented for real time communication.[51] By then, it was also known that the company had purchased the Parisian embroidery firm Maison Vermont sometime earlier in 2012.[41]\nIn March 2015 it was announced that Rihanna was chosen as the official spokeswoman for Dior; this makes her the first black woman to take the spokeswoman position at Dior.[53] In 2015, Israeli model Sofia Mechetner was chosen to be the new face of Dior.[54]\nIn April 2016 a new Dior flagship boutique opened in San Francisco, with a party hosted by Jaime King.[55]\nIn 2017, Dior renovated and expanded its Madrid store. The brand celebrated the opening of the new boutique in a masked ball attended by a number of Spanish celebrities like Alejandro G\u00f3mez Palomo.[56]\nDior has created strong partnerships with Hollywood celebrities and social media influencers, working closely with these individuals to reach more demographics and re-establish its identity as a new, modern brand, despite the fact that it has been around for a while.[57] This has allowed the brand to portray a more populist image and attract a wider audience.[58] The brand has worked with and dressed contemporary style icons like Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong'o, who may resonate with millennials.[59] Dior has effectively implemented social media into their marketing communication strategy, in which images and videos from campaigns are shared on both the official Dior profile, and on the celebrity ambassadors' social media pages.\nAn example of this success is seen in the Secret Garden campaign featuring Rihanna.[60] In this campaign, Rihanna is seen dancing to a song from her album (Only If For a Night) through a hall of mirrors.[61] By being associated with Rihanna's song, the company created a sense of association with her brand, which was beneficial to the company as she was ranked as the most marketable celebrity in 2016.[62] Despite the reach not being completely suitable to the Dior target audience, collaborating with the likes of Rihanna allows the company to engage with more of the market, as Rihanna's social media following is four times larger than that of the fashion house.[58]\nBelow are some of the celebrity ambassadors who have fronted Dior campaigns:\nIsabelle Adjani: Poison perfume (1985\u20131990s)[63]\nCarla Bruni: Lady Dior handbag (1996)[64]\nMilla Jovovich: Hypnotic Poison perfume (1999\u20132000)[65]\nCharlize Theron: J'Adore Dior perfume (2004\u2013present)\nSharon Stone: Capture skincare (2005\u2013present)[66]\nMonica Bellucci: Dior cosmetics (2006\u20132010),[67][68] Lady Dior handbag (2006\u20132007), Hypnotic Poison perfume (2009\u20132010)[69]\nEva Green: Midnight Poison perfume (2007\u20132008)[70]\nMarion Cotillard: Lady Dior handbag (2008\u20132017),[71] Miss Dior handbag (2011)[72][73]\nJude Law: Dior Homme fragance (2008\u20132012)[74]\nNatalie Portman: Miss Dior fragrance, Dior cosmetics (2010\u2013present)[75][76]\nM\u00e9lanie Laurent: Hypnotic Poison perfume (2011\u2013present)[77]\nMila Kunis: Miss Dior handbag (2012)[78]\nJennifer Lawrence: Miss Dior handbag (2012\u2013present)[79]\nRihanna: Diorama bag, J'adore Dior perfume, Dior sunglasses (2015\u2013present)[80][81]\nJohnny Depp: Dior Sauvage fragrance (2015\u2013present)[82]\nAngelababy: DiorAmour collection (2017\u2013present)[83]\nJennifer Lawrence: Joy by Dior fragrance (2018-present) [84]\nFinancial data in \u20ac billions[85]\nRevenue 29.881 30.984 35.081 37.968 43.666\nNet Income 3.926 3.883 6.165 4.164 5.753\nAssets 55.555 61.161 60.030 62.904 72.762\nEmployees 108,546 117,806 122,736 131,523 128,637\nChristian Dior, together with others in the fashion industry and the culture of the industry as a whole, was criticized by fashion model Inga Radziejewski for promoting anorexia nervosa and unrealistic body image in women, by designing clothes so small that the anorexic model could not fit into them even when she was dangerously underweight.[86]\nGalliano's collection inspired by homeless people also drew a lot of criticism, but also attention, to the house of Dior.[87]\nThe Spring 2017 collection also caused a lot of controversy as it was later revealed that many pieces were in fact exact replicas of traditional Romanian folk costumes. The refusal of Dior and of Maria Grazia Chiuri, the lead designer, to acknowledge the replications, led to an online campaign under the hashtag #give credit.[88]\nGalliano controversy\nOn 23 February 2011, scandal arose when John Galliano was accused of making anti-semitic comments after drinking in Paris. Footage was released of the designer under the influence of alcohol saying \"I love Hitler\" and \"People like you would be dead today. Your mothers, your forefathers would be fucking gassed and dead\" to a Jewish woman.[89] He was then accused of assaulting a gallery curator that same night and verbally insulting her and her boyfriend. Actress Natalie Portman, who had recently become the new face of Miss Dior Cherie perfume, commented on the matter to express her disgust, stating that she will in no way be associated with him. However, another model for Dior, French actress Eva Green, downplayed the seriousness of the incident, stating: \"Sometimes, you can make mistakes. I don't think he's anti-semitic. I'm Jewish. I don't think he has anything against the Jews. I think it's more that he was probably a bit drunk.\"[90] On 25 February, Dior announced Galliano's suspension pending an investigation, citing that the company has a \"zero-tolerance\" policy toward anti-semitism.[91] In France, it is against the law to make anti-semitic remarks of this nature, and it can be punished by up to six months in prison.[89]\nOn 1 March 2011, Christian Dior officially announced that it had fired Galliano amidst the controversy.[92]\nIn January 2018, Delhi, India-based People Tree, a garment retailer, accused Christian Dior of plagiarising the design of an outfit worn by Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor on the January cover of Elle (India).[93][94]\nOwnership and shareholdings\nAt the end of 2010, the only declared major shareholder in Christian Dior S.A. was Groupe Arnault SAS, the family holding company of Bernard Arnault. The group's control amounted to 69.96% of Dior's stock and 82.86% of its voting rights.[4] The remaining shares are considered free float.[4]\nChristian Dior S.A. held 42.36% of the shares of LVMH and 59.01% of its voting rights at the end of 2010. 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It Happened on the Way to War is a true story of sacrifice and courage and the powerful melding of military and humanitarian service. It\u2019s a story of what America\u2019s role in the world could be.\nAlso you can download My Sketch for free today only. With that application you can transform your photos into beautiful, realistic sketches. Also you can create unlimited high-resolution sketches from the photos taken by your Android\u2019s camera or those stored in your photo album.\nPhoto Goes In, Sketch Comes Out\nIt\u2019s easy to change your photos into works of art. Choose a photo from your Android device\u2019s gallery, or snap a photo from within the app. Crop the photo to your preference. Now you\u2019re ready to get to work.\nEndless Sketching Options\nSelect from 20 different and unique sketch styles. Your options include color contrast, smooth, canvas, smudge, rough, classic frame, and many more. 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Today\u2019s selection of five true-crime stories hammers home this point, and they\u2019re just $1.99 each (up to 88% off).\n1. Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America\u2019s Bloodiest Asian Gang by T. J. English\nThey are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know a particular brand of cruelty\u2014which they are about to export to the United States. When the Vietnamese gangs come to Chinatown, they adopt a name remembered from GI\u2019s helmets: \u201cBorn to Kill.\u201d And kill they do, in a frenzy of violence that shocks even the old-school Chinese gangsters who once ran Canal Street. Killing brings them turf, money, and power, but also draws the government\u2019s eye. Even as Born to Kill reaches its height, it is marked for destruction.\nThis story is told from the perspective of Tinh Ngo, a young gang member who eventually grows disenchanted with murder and death. When he decides to inform on his brothers to the police, he enters a shadow world far more dangerous than any gangland.\n2. The Westies: Inside New York\u2019s Irish Mob by T. J. English\nIt\u2019s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell\u2019s Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two long-time friends take the reins of New York\u2019s Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window. Under their reign, Hell\u2019s Kitchen becomes a place where death literally rains from the sky.\nWhen Mickey goes down for a murder he didn\u2019t commit, he suspects his friend has sold him out. He returns the favor, breaking the underworld\u2019s code of silence and testifying against his gang in open court. From his testimony comes this incredible story of what it means to make it in a world where murder is commonplace.\n3. Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan\nIn this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn\u2019s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter\u2019s accidental connection to organized crime in Albuquerque. When Duncan loses faith in the system, she reaches out to anyone that can help, including private investigators, journalists, and even a psychic. Written to inspire other families who have lost loved ones to unsolved crimes, Who Killed My Daughter? is a powerful testament to the tenacity of a mother\u2019s love.\nThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author\u2019s personal collection.\n4. The Good-Bye Door (True Crime) by Diana Franklin\nThe true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair. Nicknamed \u201cthe Blonde Borgia,\u201d Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati\u2019s Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman into the electric chair, Hahn gained a place in the annals of crime as the nation\u2019s first female serial killer to be executed in the chair. Told here for the first time in riveting detail is Anna Marie\u2019s gripping story, an almost unbelievable tale of multiple murders, deceit, and greed. Born in Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when, as a teenager, she gave birth to an illegitimate son, Oscar. She was shipped off to America in 1929 where she initially lived with elderly relatives in Cincinnati. A year later she married Philip Hahn, a Western Union telegrapher, with whom she bought a new house and opened a delicatessen/bakery.Pressed economically by the Great Depression, the ever-resourceful Anna Marie found other ways to get the money to support her passionate past-time\u2014betting on horses. She tried burning down the house, then the deli, for the insurance; and she tried killing her husband, also for the insurance. Then she took to befriending the neighborhood elderly, latching on to their life savings before feeding them arsenic with deadly results. For weeks her Cincinnati trial for \u201cthe greatest mass murder in the history of the country\u201d was a front-page sensation across the nation. A thousand or more curiosity seekers came daily to the courthouse to try to get just a glimpse of her. Nearly 100 witnesses gave damning testimony against her, and the jury\u2019s guilty verdict put her on the path to the electric chair. Finally, after a year, all appeals were exhausted, and Anna Marie, age 32, was executed on December 7, 1938, at the state penitentiary in Columbus. True crime buffs, historians, legal professionals, and others seeking an extraordinary story will find The Goodbye Door a compelling addition to true crime literature.\n5. Circle of Six: The True Story of New York\u2019s Most Notorious Cop Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Hi by Randy Jurgensen, Robert Cea.\nCircle of Six is the true story of what is perhaps the most notorious case in the history of the New York Police Department. It details Randy Jurgensen\u2019s determined effort to bring to justice the murderer of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo.\nCardillo was shot and killed inside Harlem\u2019s Mosque #7 in 1972, in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. The New York of this era was a place not unlike the Wild West, in which cops and criminals shot it out on a daily basis.\nDespite the mayhem on the streets and the Machiavellian corridors of Mayor Lindsay\u2019s City Hall, Detective Jurgensen single-handedly took on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass, and City Hall, capturing Cardillo\u2019s killer, Lewis 17X Dupree. He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen\u2019s witness. The relationship they formed during the time before trial gave each of the two men a greater perspective of the two sides in the street war and changed them forever. In the end, Jurgensen had to settle for a conviction on other charges, and Dupree served a number of years. The murder case is still officially unsolved. In 2006 the NYPD re-opened the case, and it is once again an active investigation with full media attention.\nThe book has received acclaim from current New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, as well as former Commissioner William Bratton.\nRandy Jurgensen\u2019s co-author is Robert Cea (No Lights, No Sirens), also a former NYPD detective.\nFor young readers Amazon offers Johnny Tremain written by Esther Hoskins Forbes just for $0.99.\nJohnny Tremain, winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was fifty years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Fourteen-year old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper, the Boston Observer, and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events shaping the American Revolution from the Boston Tea Party to the first shots fired at Lexington. Powerful illustrations by American artist Michael McCurdy, bring to life Esther Forbes\u2019 quintessential novel of the American Revolution.\nEsther Forbes received the Pulitzer Prize for history for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In.\nAs usual Amazon makes a one game for free every day. Today it is Topple Drop.\nNew! Topple Drop now has a total of 90 levels (50 new ones)!\nUse your noggin\u2019 deleting blue cubes and purple-blue platforms to topple the red one-eyed monsters from platforms without toppling the green cubes. Sound easy? It is at first, but then it gets more challenging. Topple Drop features challenging physics-based puzzles adding up to lots of fun for all ages.\n90 fun physics puzzles in a 3D environment.\nUse helicopter, ice, balloon and bouncing pieces to solve each puzzle.\nPosted in Kindle Applications, Kindle Apps, Kindle Books, Kindle Daily Deal\t| Tagged Born to Kill, Circle of Six, Diana Franklin, Lois Duncan, Randy Jurgensen, Robert Cea, T. J. 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As the third quarter played out, the effort was noble. The Stars closed to within a point before a strong kick at the end by the visitors pushed the lead to 90-83.\nSioux Falls (26-17) used the final 12 minutes to extend the lead up to 23 before settling on the final margin. In the process, some revenge was enacted for the last meeting on December 30. The \u2018Force built a big third quarter lead then eventually lost in overtime back in December at Bruin Arena.\nExecuting on the fast break and getting points in the paint was a big part of the Skyforce attack propelling them to 52 percent shooting from the floor. On the Stars side of things the hosts shot almost twice as many free throws (27-33) as the \u2018Force, but from the floor things didn\u2019t come as easy by mustering a 43 percent performance.\nGreg Whittington would ensure the Skyforce would taste victory with 22 points on a perfect night from the floor and the free throw line (9-9 FG, 3-3 from deep and 1-1 FT). Malik Beasley on assignment from the Denver Nuggets had a well-rounded performance of 20 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals and Keith Benson with another double-double with 18 points and 16 rebounds.\nFor Salt Lake City, two players stood above the rest. Center Henry Sims finished with 22 points and 7 rebounds meanwhile guard Sundiata Gaines racked up 19 points and 12 boards.\nSioux Falls will be the ones trying to complete the back-to-back sweep tomorrow (March 12) against the Northern Arizona Suns in Prescott Valley. 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Prices are around \u00a346 one way, and the travel time is around 2 hours. You can book in advance on the National Rail website.\nNational Express runs a direct bus service from Heathrow to Southampton, which departs every two 2 hours. Prices are around \u00a325, and travel time is around 1 hours and 45 minutes. You can book a ticket on the National Express website, or you can also book your ticket at one of the coach stations.\nWe can organise a taxi transfer for you. The price for a one-way taxi from Heathrow to Southampton is \u00a3125.\nYou can take the train from Gatwick Airport to London Waterloo, and then take a direct train from London Waterloo to Southampton Central. Prices are around \u00a335 one way, and the travel time is around 2 hours. You can book in advance on the National Rail website.\nNational Express runs a direct bus service from Gatwick Airport to Southampton, which departs every 2 hours. Prices are around \u00a328, and travel time is around 2 hours and 30 minutes. You can book a ticket on the National Express website, or you can also book your ticket at one of the coach stations.\nWe can organise a taxi transfer for you. The price for a one-way taxi from Gatwick to Southampton is \u00a3140.\nYou can take the train from Southampton Airport Parkway to Southampton Central. Prices are around \u00a35 one way, and the travel time is around 10 minutes. You can book in advance on the National Rail website.\nWe can organise a taxi transfer for you. 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This conference will focus on understanding key processes underlying lung development, injury and repair in the context of age, environment and species, with the hope of better understanding disease development and to discover novel therapeutic approaches.\nWe will highlight critical issues on lung epithelial biology such as stem cells and regenerative medicine, while expanding sessions to encompass themes such as single cell analytical approaches, cell-cell communication, dissect the biological distinctions mesenchymal proliferation as a repair mechanism and fibrosis; present the impact of new tools in single cell analysis on understanding lung development, repair, and disease; and characterize epithelial-mesenchymal interrelationships that maintain lung homeostasis and orchestrate repair and regeneration. The entire program has been designed to achieve a better understanding of the key clinical research issues and how they relate to basic mechanistic investigation.\n- Fgf signaling in lung development and fibrosis\n- Aging and lung fibrosis\n- Lung stem/progenitor cells and their regulation in health and disease\n- Organoid cultures to model lung development and disease\n- Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in lung development and fibrosis\nScientific chairs: Stijn De Langhe (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Barry Stripp (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)\nSpeakers: Saverio Bellusci (University of Giessen), Zea Borok (Keck School of Medicine of USC), Wellington Cardoso (Columbia University), Gianni Carraro (Cedars-Sinai), Harold Chapman (University of California, San Francisco), Elie El Agha (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen), John Engelhardt (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine), Finn Hawkins (Boston University), Brigid Hogan (Duke University), Alison Humbles (MedImmune LLC), Carla Kim (Harvard Medical School), Melanie Koenigshoff (University of Colorado Denver), Mark Krasnow (Stanford University), Maya Kumar (Stanford School of Medicine), Daniel Lafkas (Genentech), Susan Majka (Vanderbilt University), Parviz Minoo (Keck School of Medicine of USC), Edward Morrisey (University of Pennsylvania), Paul Noble (Cedars-Sinai), David Ornitz (Washington University), Anne-Karina Perl (Cincinnati Children's Hospital), Jayaraj Rajagopal (Harvard University), Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge), Jason Rock (Boston University), Jason Spence (University of Michigan), Xin Sun (University of California, San Diego), Nan Tang (National Institute of Biological Sciences), Victor Thannickal (University of Alabama at Birmingham), David Warburton (Keck School of Medicine of USC), Rui Zhao (Novartis)\nEvent Date: 17 February 2019 - 20 February 2019 Contact Person: Conference Manager\nVenue: Melia Nassau Beach All Inclusive, Nassau West Bay Street, Nassau Email:\nCountry: Bahamas Tel: 00441638724137\nSubmitted by Love Evvnt, Evvnt on Sunday, 17 February 2019 at 2:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://everyonequestion.com/tag/super-bowl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WLL2JQSXZRRY45WKYVL3IHYJDQW5RG3U", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "everyonequestion.com", "title": "EveryoneQuestion \u2013 super bowl", "raw_content": "Who\u2019s going to win the \u201cBud Bowl\u201d in 2013?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://evolvedworld.com/2012/09/excerpt-sign-of-the-times-by-susan-buchanan/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:17Z", "digest": "sha1:C2L7ZXSW56XGKNQYCP42H2C2LZBNTF4W", "length": 6792, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "evolvedworld.com", "title": "Excerpt: Sign of the Times by Susan Buchanan \u00bb Evolved World", "raw_content": "Paula Evolved September 10, 2012 Books\nAbout Sign of the Times by Susan Buchanan\nSagittarius \u2013 Holly, a travel writer, visits Tuscany to research her next book. Seeking help when her car breaks down, she gets more than assistance when Dario, a vineyard owner, puts temptation in her path. Disappearing without explanation, he proves elusive. Bruised, Holly tries to put it behind her until a chance encounter brings her feelings to the surface again.\nGemini \u2013 Holly\u2019s sister, Lucy, a serial man-eater finally meets her match, which puts her long-term relationship and career in jeopardy. Cheating she discovers, can have devastating consequences.\nLibra \u2013 Holly\u2019s uncle Jack, an eminent prosecutor, juggles a difficult teenage son with his high profile career and finds himself lacking. When his son\u2019s school work starts slipping, he decides he needs to take control, but it\u2019s not long before the balls all come tumbling down and Jack finds his family on the wrong side of the law.\nWhilst relaxing in his lounge, Holly hadn\u2019t realised it had started to rain. It had been so warm when she had arrived. Cursing her light jacket and skirt, she jumped when he enveloped her in a large waterproof jacket. His touch was electric. She felt as if she\u2019d accidentally bumped into a high voltage fence. Approaching her car, she unlocked it with the electronic key fob. He was beside her, a torch shining from beneath his waterproof. He walked slowly around the car and whistled, then dug the jack out of the boot and worked away silently. After five minutes, he looked up at Holly, who hadn\u2019t dared interrupt him and told her it was no good. It wasn\u2019t just the tyre that was punctured, the wheel was buckled. It would have to go to a garage.\nHolly was at her wits\u2019 end. What the hell was she meant to do now? She realised she was standing staring open-mouthed at this complete stranger. Eventually, she latched on to the idea that she would need to find a hotel nearby. She asked if he could recommend somewhere to stay. In typical Italian fashion, he gesticulated with his arms and told her that the nearest hotel was Il Giardino, but unfortunately it was twenty miles away. She couldn\u2019t drive twenty miles with her wheel like that and besides the garage was only two miles away. She must stay the night here. There were many guest rooms in his house. Holly started to protest, but he silenced her, saying he would be offended if she didn\u2019t accept and besides, what was the alternative? Smiling at her, he leaned forward slightly and said, \u201cNo need to be afraid. I am not some crazed madman.\nHolly followed her host inside. She didn\u2019t even know his name. Dawning on him, too, he said \u201cDario Barsacchi.\u201d He offered his hand to Holly, which she accepted, saying \u201cHolly Jameson. Where am I anyway?\u201d\n\u201cThis is Rosetto. It is around thirty kilometres from Pisa.\u201d As Holly didn\u2019t ask him anything else, he turned, passing the lounge and indicated a room on the left.\n\u201cThat is where you will find me once you have settled in. Are you hungry?\u201d\nHolly was starving, but didn\u2019t want to impose further. As if reading her mind, Dario said, \u201cIt\u2019s no trouble. I am cooking for myself and it is always more pleasant to have company.\u201d\nAcknowledging his generosity with a barely discernible smile, Holly followed, as he ascended a marble staircase. Alabaster busts were positioned at intervals along the staircase. Holly tried to appear nonchalant, but was dying to see, as she passed, if they were members of Dario\u2019s family. Some of the inscriptions were so worn it was impossible to read to whom they belonged. At the top of the staircase, Dario swept towards the left wing. It was dark in this corridor, but Dario pulled an object from behind a hidden alcove. He then scrambled around a little more and the next moment, there was light. It was an old oil lamp, encrusted with semi-precious stones.\nWho is this guy? Holly found it odd that he should be knocking around in this stately home all on his own. She couldn\u2019t deny it, the size and grandeur of this building made it obvious that this was the home of someone of standing. Leaning across her, Dario turned a key in the lock. He stepped into the room and laying the oil lamp down, beckoned Holly to enter.\n\u201cWow!\u201d She wasn\u2019t sure what was more impressive, her host or this sumptuous room. In front of her there was a huge four poster bed, with full canopy. The ruby red hangings looked ridiculously expensive. An enormous, cast iron bath, occupied the middle of the room. Glancing round, she was surprised to see the furnishings were terribly feminine. There was a mahogany dressing table, several replica, Louis XVI chairs, at least she imagined they must be replicas, they couldn\u2019t be real could they, a credenza, a roll top writing desk as well as a chaise longue. How decadent. She had always imagined having a chaise longue, although she knew they were terribly impractical, much better off with a squashy sofa from Laura Ashley. She decided she would have a little lie on it later.\nDario pointed to a room off the main chamber, which housed a bathroom with power shower and a dressing room. Such a strange mix, Holly thought, power showers, but oil lamps. She had noticed there was no electric lighting. After inviting her to use the telephone, Dario excused himself.\nHolly thanked him for his kindness and he left. She really must start being more articulate. She would be spending the evening with this drop-dead gorgeous man and she couldn\u2019t string two words together. It wasn\u2019t even speaking Italian which was making her tongue-tied, more the fact that Dario was stirring emotions in her, which she didn\u2019t want stirred, because of Tom. She loved Tom. Dario probably had a beautiful wife or a girlfriend who was a sultry sex goddess. It was true how much women let themselves get carried away, one date and they were planning the wedding. She hadn\u2019t even been on a date with Dario, nor was ever likely to be, yet was already picturing their dark eyed, perfectly tanned children, with her flawless complexion and green eyes. Snapping back to reality, Holly called the hotel in Bibbiena.\nSusan Buchanan lives in Central Scotland with her partner, Tony. Sign of the Times is her first novel, published Mar 2012. Her second novel is expected to be released late 2012.\nSign of the Times is available from Amazon.com and Amazon UK\nSusan can be found here:\nTwitter: @susan_buchanan\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/susan.buchanan.author\nBlog: www.susancbuchanan.blogspot.co.uk\nWorth Keeping by Susan Mac Nicol (Excerpt, Review, and Giveaway!) \u201cI wanna be a writer!\u201d A Guest Post by Susan MacNicol for the \u201cWorth Keeping\u201d Blog Tour The Christmas Spirit by Susan Buchanan Excerpt: The Dating Game by Susan Buchanan\nastrology Book Excerpts Sign of the Times Susan Buchanan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 7541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://exchange.dp.la/item/9603/yukon-madness", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YEX2K2VJIBSSGXNF34SPX3QLVOZIOGJP", "length": 485, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "exchange.dp.la", "title": "Yukon Madness - L. Ron Hubbard | DPLA Exchange", "raw_content": "Yukon Madness\nThere are all kinds of crazy, but there\u2019s only one Yukon Madness. And Royal Mountie Tommy McKenna\u2014a role made for Canadian-born Glenn Ford\u2014has seen the terror that follows in its wake . . . his partner murdered and fed to a pack of wolves. Bent on revenge, McKenna sets out to find the madman who did it, and there\u2019s only one way to get him\u2014through his girlfriend. But whose side is she on? The trap has been set. The question is, who is the predator and who is the prey?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/jchoi/node/235", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:11Z", "digest": "sha1:L444KU5VWFTUT5Q7J56PUO5ENBJARLDW", "length": 3845, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "faculty.ucmerced.edu", "title": "\ufeff Publications | Jinah Choi", "raw_content": "Choi, J. Oxidative stress, endogenous antioxidants, alcohol, and hepatitis C: pathogenic interactions and therapeutic implications. Free Radical Biology & Medicine 52(7):1135-1150, 2012.\nSeronello, S.; Montanez, J.; Presleigh, K.; Barlow, M.; Park, S.B.; and Choi, J. Ethanol and reactive species increase basal sequence heterogeneity of hepatitis C virus RNA and produce variants with reduced susceptibility to antivirals. PLoS One 6(11):327436, 2011.\nReyes de Mochel, S.N., Seronello, S., Wang, S.H., Ito, C., Zheng, J., Liang, T.J., Lambeth, D.R., Choi, J. (2010). Hepatocyte NAD(P)H oxidases as an endogenous source of reactive oxygen species during hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatology, DOI 10.1002/hep.23671. (Featured in MDLinx.com in May 2010 and Bay Bio Report 2011. Also featured by the Target Intelligence Service.com in July 2010 (Case Report 39093) and in Biological Research Information Center (BRIC) website, March 2010.).\nLiu, R.-M., Choi, J., Wu, J.-H., Gaston Pravia, K.A., Lewis, K.M., Brand, J.D., Reyes Mochel, N.S., Krzywanski, D.M., Lambeth, J.D., Hagood, J.S., Forman, H. J., Thannickal, V.J., Postlethwait, E.M. (2010). Oxidative Modification of Nuclear Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase 1 Is Involved in Transforming Growth Factor \u03b21-induced Expression of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 in Fibroblasts. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(21), 16239.\nSeronello, S., Ito, C., Wakita, T., Choi, J. (2010). Ethanol Enhances Hepatitis C Virus Replication through Lipid Metabolism and Elevated NADH/NAD+. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285, 845-854. DOI10.1074/jbc.M109.045740.\nSir, D., Chen, W.-L., Choi, J., Wakita, T., Yen, T.S.B., Ou, J.-H. (2008). Hepatitis C virus induces autophagy via the induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress. Hepatology, 48, 1054-1061. ([Commentary (Editor's Choice) appeared in Science 321:1135, 2008: \"Hitchhiking in Membrane Traffic,\" by Chin, G; and Yeston, J., eds.]).\nSheikh, M., Choi, J., Qadri, I., Friedman, J.E., Sanyal, A.J. (2008). HCV infection: molecular pathways to metabolic syndrome. Hepatology, 47(6), 2127-2133.\nSeronello, S., Sheikh, M.Y., Choi, J. (2007). Redox regulation of hepatitis C in non-alcoholic and alcoholic liver. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 43(6), 869-882.\nChoi, J., Forman, H.J., Ou, J.H., Lai, M.M.C., Seronello, S., Nandipati, A. (2006). Redox modulation of hepatitis C virus replication complex is calcium dependent. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 41, 1488-1498.\nChoi, J., Ou, J.H. (2006). Mechanisms of Liver Injury. III. Oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus. American Journal of Physiology, Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 290, 847-851.\nChoi, J., Yi, K.J., Yan, Y., Lai, M.M.C., Ou, J.H. (2004). Reactive oxygen species suppress hepatitis C virus RNA replication in human hepatoma cells. Hepatology, 33, 89-93.\nChoi, J., Xu, Z., Ou, J.H. (2003). Triple decoding of hepatitis C virus core protein coding sequence by translational frameshifting. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 23(5), 1489-1497.\nXu, Z., Choi, J., Benedict Yen, T.S., Lu, W., Strohecker, A., Govindarajan, S., Selby, M.J., Ou, J.-H. (2001). Synthesis of a novel hepatitis C virus protein by ribosomal frameshift. EMBO Journal, 20(14), 3840-3848.\nChoi, J., Liu, R.M., Sangiorgi, F., Wu, W., Maxson, R., Forman, H.J. (2000). Molecular mechanism of decreased glutathione content in human immunodeficiencey virus type 1 Tat transgenic mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275(5), 3693-3698.\nKaul, N., Choi, J., Forman, H. J. (1998). Transmembrane redox signaling activates NF-kB in macrophages. Free Radical Biology in medicine, 24(1), 202-207.\nChoi, J., Liu, R.M., Forman, H. J. (1997). Adaptation to oxidative stress: protection of signaling in rat lung epithelial L2 cells by quinone. Biochemical Pharmacology, 53(7), 987-993", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 4025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 199.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fairfieldmirror.com/news/career-fair-offers-opportunities-students/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JIEKK43ZTNWZX4OFWESI3KRMLBNW5SDT", "length": 3713, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "fairfieldmirror.com", "title": "Career Fair Offers Opportunities For All Students | The Fairfield Mirror", "raw_content": "Career Fair Offers Opportunities For All Students\nAsk any college student what the most stressful part of the college process is, and you\u2019re likely to get an answer involving internships or careers. The vast majority of universities around the country provide resources to their students to aid them in their career path and Fairfield University is no exception.\nAlthough Fairfield is listed as a liberal arts college, the student population is nearly divided in half between both the Dolan School of Business and College of Arts & Sciences,1,576 in the DSB and 1,527 in the CAS, according to Fairfield University\u2019s Office of Institutional Research. As both schools offer a combined total of 36 different majors, internship and career resources must span a wide range of fields.\nSome students at Fairfield believe that there is an imbalance of resources provided to the DSB and the CAS, with career opportunities favoring Dolan. \u201cI believe that the Dolan School of Business is held to a higher standard compared to the College of Arts & Sciences,\u201d says English major Christopher Capparis \u201819. In order to get a better idea of all the opportunities available to both Dolan School of Business and Arts & Sciences students, Stephanie Gallo, associate director of career services, gave some insight on the inner workings of the Academic and Career Development Center.\nThere are a variety of career-oriented events provided to students of both schools through ACDC. Stags in the City is a program that has been at Fairfield for the past four to five years, which takes students to the New York City area to visit both financial groups and other large corporations, such as Vineyard Vines and NBC.\nAnother well-known event held at Fairfield is the bi-annual Career and Internship Fair. While the Big Four firms are always present, corporations who are likely looking to hire finance and accounting majors, there are many other companies in attendance that are interested in hiring all majors. \u201cIf students came with an open mind they would see the opportunities. What happens is they walk in and feel overwhelmed \u2026 they end up not talking to anybody,\u201d commented Gallo on the experience some Arts & Sciences students have at the Career and Internship Fair.\nFeedback from both students and those who work in the Career Center point out that the problem seems not to lie in opportunities provided, but the way these opportunities are communicated to students. \u201cI mostly feel as if DSB takes a more aggressive approach with their students \u2026 I would like to see the college of Arts & Sciences push their students as much as a business student,\u201d said digital journalism major Gabrielle Arlotta \u201819.\nThe Dolan School of Business recognizes what a crucial resource the ACDC is to college students, \u201cDSB puts on the Professional Development Series \u2026 it is a defined professional series comprised of events used by the school of business but they also use our workshops\u2026 they\u2019re essentially re-packaging our workshops\u201d said Gallo.\nThis series encourages DSB students to utilize the opportunities provided to them by the Career Center, a program that has no equivalent in the college of Arts & Sciences. \u201cI think the issue is that Arts & Sciences have not built the same development programs that DSB has built,\u201d says finance major and economics minor Bryce Talbot-Dion \u201819.\nEssentially, the opportunities are there for Arts & Sciences students, the issue is that they may not know about them; Gallo\u2019s final comment was, \u201cWe have the resources, we just need the students.\u201d\nCareer Planningcollege of arts and sciencesdolan school of business\nAthletes Show Off Their Talents At Annual Talent Show\nDSB StartUp to Start Up on April 26", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 7925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://faithandlifebookstore.net/product/proverbs-for-a-womans-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RRWX5N43RO6AKVVYJUPU2GCQRIWL2JGW", "length": 1039, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "faithandlifebookstore.net", "title": "Proverbs for a Woman\u2019s Day \u2013 Faith & Life Bookstore \u2013 Newton, KS \u2013 Christian Bookstore \u2013 Everyday Faith\u2026.Extraordinary Life", "raw_content": "Home / Books / Devotional / Proverbs for a Woman\u2019s Day\nBestselling author and Bible teacher Elizabeth George takes you on a journey through the 31 chapters of Proverbs, which cover the matters closest to your heart. Get a clear view of the right path as you follow God\u2019s wisdom.\nFind the Wisdom You Need to\nFlourish Every Day\nAre you stressed out by your responsibilities? At a crossroads in your life? Wondering what to do about a complicated relationship?\nDon\u2019t guess about the next step and hope for the best. Get a clear view of the right path as you follow God\u2019s wisdom found in the book of Proverbs.\nBestselling author and Bible teacher Elizabeth George takes you on a journey through the 31 chapters of Proverbs, which cover the matters closest to your heart, including how to\u2026\ntrust in God when it\u2019s hard\nfind fulfillment in your marriage\ntrain and enjoy your children\nconquer your bad habits\npursue lasting success\nA woman\u2019s day is full of challenges and opportunities. Let the wisdom of God show you how to thrive through it all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 4257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://faithandlifebookstore.net/product/purpose-driven-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HCIDG4BD2KWRK5SLZT2BKXUHTRRUHEWU", "length": 1266, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "faithandlifebookstore.net", "title": "Purpose Driven Life \u2013 Faith & Life Bookstore \u2013 Newton, KS \u2013 Christian Bookstore \u2013 Everyday Faith\u2026.Extraordinary Life", "raw_content": "Home / Books / Christian Living / Purpose Driven Life\n: Introducing an expanded edition of the #1 international bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life now includes two bonus chapters. This spiritual journey will transform your answer to life\u2019s most important question: What on earth am I here for? Simplify your life, increase your motivation, discover God\u2019s amazing plan for you both now and for eternity.\nSince its release, The Purpose Driven Life has been translated into eighty-five different languages and has become the \u201cBestselling non-fiction hardback book in history\u201d according to Publisher\u2019s Weekly, all because of the Christ-centered approach the book takes to answering life\u2019s most fundamental question: What on earth am I here for?\nThis new softcover edition is reimagined for a new generation, with four new features including:\nAn audio lesson at the end of each chapter, with more than thirty additional hours of teaching by Rick Warren\nTwo new bonus chapters on the most common barriers to living a purpose-driven life\nOn your journey you\u2019ll find the answers to three of life\u2019s most important questions: The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?, The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?, The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 4749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fallout.nuke-con.com/event/detail/00000fa2000002c3/The+League+of+Extraordinary+Gentle+Mana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FTRWMOSBHOJOH7VQXHRNMAPMCIQY4L5R", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fallout.nuke-con.com", "title": "Fallout Shelter", "raw_content": "Friday 02:00 PM (12 Hours)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 97.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://falseeconomy.org.uk/cuts/item/malcolm-x-centre", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:22Z", "digest": "sha1:743KHORDF6AHY4XIRIR4Z34OIIBZHUAZ", "length": 268, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "falseeconomy.org.uk", "title": "Malcolm X Centre | Cut | False Economy", "raw_content": "Malcolm X Centre\nCharity. Community centre providing social, recreational, educational and entertainment facilities to the residents of St Pauls and neighbouring areas.Local authority funding cut: \u00a34,908. Details: Received \u00a370,018 in 2010/11; cut by \u00a34,908 in 2011/12.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 165.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://familyandworkflexiblity.blogspot.com/2009/09/change-is-coming.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GML533ZH4UYYV5BGUS55B47FFHZFDI3T", "length": 1490, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "familyandworkflexiblity.blogspot.com", "title": "CareerMums: Family and work flexibility: The change is coming", "raw_content": "The change is coming\nThis month, I will be talking at a conference in Canberra on using technology to access a flexible and remote workforce. While researching my presentation, I have been inspired by employers that are embracing a flexible workforce - and this means good news for you. Take IBM for example; 140,000 IBM staff work flexibly/remotely. it is not just about the flexibility requirements of their workers, it is also about 'Green IT'. 'Green IT' is the new buzz word and it means embracing work practices that cut energy costs, commuter travel time, and the carbon footprint.\nOther information I have picked up in my research includes:\n- In 2007, 3.2 million or 31% of employed people worked some hours from home. 81% worked from home for 15 hours or less per week (ABS);\n- The number of people aged 65 years and over is projected to outnumber children aged 0-14 years in 2018. By 2050, 26% of the population is projected to be aged 65 years and over, in comparison to 15% of the population being aged 0-14 years. (ABS)\n- One in six US cities with more than 25,000 residents now operates a reduced working week. They found the rewards are not just in saving energy: a shorter working week boosts morale and productivity and at the same time cuts overtime, absenteeism, staff turnover and utility bills.\nThis information may not help you right now in getting back to work, but sometimes it is important to see what is happening at a macro level and know that a change is coming.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://familyllb.com/2018/02/20/custody-battle-gone-very-wrong-moms-cellphone-tracker-shows-how-misguided-dad-really-is/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OGBWYXEZ5YA3HKUFDLPB37T2RL6AOJGY", "length": 5845, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "familyllb.com", "title": "Custody Battle Gone Very Wrong: Mom\u2019s Cellphone Tracker Shows How Misguided Dad Really Is | FamilyLLB - Ontario Divorce & Family Law Blog", "raw_content": "Custody Battle Gone Very Wrong: Mom\u2019s Cellphone Tracker Shows How Misguided Dad Really Is\nI have reported previously about a case called M.M.B. (V.) v. C.M.V., the background facts of which are not terribly unique: After their split in 2013 the parents had agreed to a \u201cparallel parenting\u201d and equal-time arrangement for their three children. The mother now claimed that in the time since, the father had been engaging in a concerted effort to alienate her from them. She asked for sole custody and an order that the father undergo therapy.\nWhat\u2019s more noteworthy is the rather epic court ruling in their case, which spanned over 1200 paragraphs, where the court recounted a dizzying array of tactics by each of the parents; overwhelmingly, however, the ruling focused on the misconduct of the father, who the court repeatedly noted had viewed himself as being \u201cin a war\u201d with his former spouse and determined to \u201cwin\u201d at all costs.\nAmong the many accusations of rather mind-boggling misconduct on his part, one of the more interesting ones involved him using an app installed on the mother\u2019s own cell phone to \u201ctrack\u201d her location. As the court explained the gist of the mother\u2019s testimony:\nDuring the last two years of the relationship prior to separation, her evidence is that the [father] became more volatile and threw things at or near her. The [mother] testified that he was obsessed with the idea that she was having an affair. Her evidence is that she had never had an affair during the marriage.\nShe further testified that the [father] had a constant need to be \u201cin control\u201d and that he utilized a feature on her cell phone to be able to track her whereabouts. Two examples that she cited were, on one occasion when she attended at a lawyer\u2019s office in July 2011, he telephoned her four times during her appointment with the lawyer, knowing exactly where she was at the time. The second example she gave happened in August 2011. They were in New York for a few days and she left early to return to school. While the [mother] was still in New York, she claims that he was able to track her whereabouts and knew that she had taken a different route home. She says that she did so in order to look at possible housing for her and the children. He accused her that she was travelling to a residence for purposes of having an affair.\nAs further proof that he was tracking her whereabouts through her cell phone, she indicated that she, as a result of these situations, learned that there was a \u201ctrack my phone\u201d feature on her phone which she then disabled. Shortly thereafter, however, she testified that he insisted on having her cell phone for some unrelated purpose. When he returned it to her she noticed that that the tracker had been reconnected. \u2026\nWhen asked about the allegation of tracking the [mother] on her cell phone, his explanation for his knowledge of her going to a lawyer is that their cleaning lady told him this in July 2011 when the [mother] was going to the lawyer.\nWhen asked about the feature of \u201cfind my phone\u201d so that he could allegedly track her whereabouts from his phone, he has a very \u201cplausible\u201d explanation. He claims that because he was using his phone for Association work they jointly downloaded this app so that she would be able to find his phone in the event that he lost it.\nRegarding the knowledge that he had that the [mother] was on a different route on the way home from New York City, the [father] once again has a \u201cplausible\u201d explanation. His brother who is a real estate agent, by happenstance, was showing a house across the road from where the [mother] was driving. His brother took it upon himself to call the [father] to report that he had seen his vehicle, thinking that it was the [father] but of course it was the [mother].\nThis court views each of these explanations with a great deal of cynicism.\nThat cynicism was borne from many other conflicting and incredible explanations by the father, including one piece of \u201csmoking gun\u201d evidence noted by the court several hundred paragraphs later:\nIn response to the [mother\u2019s] concern that the [father] was tracking her and the children\u2019s whereabouts, the [father\u2019s] response is somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, he \u201cdenied this\u201d and stated that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t care where she goes\u201d. On the other hand, on several occasions, he admitted to \u201cwanting to locate the children and not her\u201d, which he believes to be a safety issue. He said he \u201dwas able to locate the children by their cell phone devices\u201d.\nThis was an admission by the [father] that the court finds is consistent with the evidence given by the [mother] at trial; that she knew that the [father] was tracking her movements through her cell phone. The court finds that this is inconsistent with the [father\u2019s] \u201cexplanations\u201d of how he knew the [mother\u2019s] whereabouts on two separate occasions at about the time of the separation. He specifically denied under oath at trial that he was tracking her whereabouts through her cell phone. Undoubtedly, he had forgotten what he said during the assessment, or did not expect this court would take the time to read all of the exhibits.\nParticularly as it relates to the father\u2019s highly misguided win-at-all-costs focus, the M.M.B. (V.) v. C.M.V. decision is a virtual judicial textbook on \u201cHow Not to Behave\u201d in the post-separation phase. It could be interesting reading for those who can get through the 1,200-paragraph judgment.\nFor the full-text of the decision, see\nM.M.B. (V.) v. C.M.V.\nFrom: Child Support, Costs, Court Cases, Court Procedure, Divorce, Ontario Child Support, Ontario Custody, Ontario Divorce, Privacy, Separation, Spousal Spying\n\u2190 Parents Lose Custody for Failing to Respect Teenager\u2019s Wish to Transgender\nWednesday\u2019s Video Clip: Two Necessary Evils \u2013 Know Your Obligations on Income Tax and Spousal/Child Support \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 10548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fashionhandbook.co.za/david-waste/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DZBRTD64HKXQIED5BL32VYSO7WCT77YR", "length": 735, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "fashionhandbook.co.za", "title": "David Waste - Fashion Handbook", "raw_content": "David Waste\nDavid West began selling one-off handmade jeans in Long Street while completing his studies. His range has since been exported to Japan, Europe and the UK. He\u2019s had two stores in Cape Town, partnering with like-minded creatives outside of fashion to create exciting retail spaces. David has been recognised as one of South Africa\u2019s most progressive designers and was recently included in the Mail & Guardian\u2019s Top 200 Young South Africans. He currently designs for Woolworths\u2019 womenswear.\nFounder: David West | Started: 1998 | Location: Cape Town | Design Style: Clothes designed for men and women that are more about ideas than fashion. Traditional, yet forward-looking.\nContact: www.davidwest.co.za | info@davidwest.co.za", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fatlossfiesta.com/580/more-addictive-than-cocaine-how-to-stop-those-nasty-sugar-cravings-once-and-for-all/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YXMVXNHXS55QOY2HRXPR36YZEDJNVSZ2", "length": 5886, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "fatlossfiesta.com", "title": "More Addictive Than Cocaine...? How To Stop Those Nasty Sugar Cravings Once And For All | Fat Loss Fiesta", "raw_content": "More Addictive Than Cocaine\u2026? How To Stop Those Nasty Sugar Cravings Once And For All\nA massive obstacle that keeps millions of people from ever uncovering the body of their dreams\u2026\nBecause it cripples your fat loss efforts.\nNot a day goes by without someone asking me to help them get this problem under control.\nWell, today, that help has arrived\u2026\nBecause I\u2019m about to show you how to put an end to those nasty, progress-stopping sugar cravings\u2026 once and for all.\nI know first-hand how horrible they can be to deal with.\nHere you are, trying to eat right\u2026 trying to live healthy\u2026 so you can look and feel your best\u2026\nBut that nagging voice in the back of your head just won\u2019t shut up!\n\u201cGive me cookies\u2026 give me ice cream\u2026 give me candy!\u201d\nYour body starts crying out for sugar. And it feels unbearable.\nThat\u2019s because it\u2019s a real, physical addiction\u2026\nIn fact, recent studies at the University of Bordeaux in France have shown that\u2026\nSugar Actually Has Addictive Effects\nStronger Than Cocaine!\nAnd nothing will destroy your body faster.\nNot only has sugar proven to be toxic\u2026\nNot only has it been linked to diabetes, heart disease, cancer\u2026 and everything in between\u2026\nBut sugar causes your body to release massive amounts of insulin\u2026\nSending You Spiraling Into\nFat-Storage Mode!\nWhen I made the decision to change my life and lose the extra weight\u2026 these sugar cravings made me miserable.\nI was constantly angry and irritable. The slightest thing would set me off. And it would only be a matter of time until I had to give in to the cravings\u2026\nErasing full days of perfect eating with one binge into an ice cream carton.\nI knew that I needed to find a way to get rid of these cravings\u2026\nI knew I needed to develop a system for silencing that nagging voice in the back of my head\u2026\nAnd once I got that system down, everything changed.\nI was able to drop 55 pounds of ugly fat\u2026 in little time.*\nThat breakthrough system is called Fat Loss Fiesta. It\u2019s the step-by-step guide to achieving almost effortless fat loss that actually lasts. Click here to watch a free video presentation that details how it works.\nHere are some of the tips I used to crush those awful cravings\u2026\nSo next time you find yourself about to reach for that candy bar\u2026 or go digging into the freezer, try these:\nEat meals often. Sugar cravings are often your body\u2019s way of showing that it\u2019s hungry. When hunger strikes, we reach for the first food available, and it\u2019s often something processed and unhealthy. By eating small meals often throughout the day, we keep our body nourished, our blood sugar levels regular, and our cravings minimized.\nInclude more protein in each meal. Protein takes longer to digest, so it can keep us feeling full for longer periods of time, making us less likely to binge on sugary foods.\nAvoid sugar at breakfast. Having a sugary breakfast sets your day off on the wrong track and makes it more likely for you to crave sugar throughout the day.\nAvoid artificial sweeteners. In addition to all of the serious side effects they\u2019ve been linked to, eating foods with artificial sweeteners can cause you to crave more sweet foods.\nDistract your mind until the craving fades. An idle mind is the biggest enemy of a lean, sexy body. Next time you feel a craving coming on, you can cause it to fade by occupying your mind. Go for a walk\u2026 do some work around the house, etc\u2026 What you do isn\u2019t as important as long as you\u2019re doing something. When you\u2019re busy, you don\u2019t have the time to focus on unhealthy foods.\nDrink a full glass of water. When you\u2019re dehydrated, you may feel like you\u2019re hungry instead. It\u2019s hard to tell the signals apart\u2026 so before you dive into that bag of M&Ms, try drinking a nice cold glass of water. Chances are, you may have just been thirsty and the cravings will fade.\nBrush your teeth. One of my favorite tricks when I feel a craving coming on is to go and brush my teeth. When you get that clean feeling in your mouth, you won\u2019t want to ruin it by chewing on sugary foods.\nEat some fruit. It\u2019s the healthy way to satisfy a sweet tooth. The natural sugars found in fruit taste good and are accompanied with lots of important nutrients that improve your health.\nChew some sugar-free gum. If all else fails, chew on some sugar free gum. This will help occupy your mind and satisfy your sweet tooth\u2026 without actually eating anything.\nYou can use these tips immediately. Put them to work and you\u2019ll start feeling those sugar cravings become easier to handle.\nBut if you want to get rid of those cravings permanently\u2026\nIf you want to train your mind and body to eliminate the cravings before they even get started\u2026 so you aren\u2019t even tempted to veer off course\u2026 and can effortlessly and comfortably drop the fat (without feeling deprived)\u2026\nWell then, you need the advance secrets that I don\u2019t have the room to explain here.\nIt\u2019s a breakthrough phenomenon called Mind-Body Merging\u2026\nAnd what it allows you to do is\u2026\nManipulate Your Mind Into Actually\nHelping Your Body Lose Fat Faster!\nRemember that nagging voice in the back of your head?\nWell now instead of crying for sugar\u2026 it sends signals to your body\u2026 ordering it to drop its extra fat!\nIt almost sounds too good to be true\u2026\nBut it\u2019s been proven to work by researchers at Harvard University!\nAnd as far as I know, the only place you can discover this incredible Mind-Body Merging secret\u2026 is inside Fat Loss Fiesta\u2026\nThe step-by-step guide I used to blast away 55 pounds of stubborn fat in little time! *\nAnd you can find all about how Fat Loss Fiesta works by watching this free video presentation. Click here.\nSo if you want the best results\u2026 in the shortest amount of time, then be sure to watch that video while it\u2019s still available!\nAnd if you have any friends who you think would benefit from these secrets, please share this with them before it\u2019s too late\u2026 because I don\u2019t know how much longer this video will stay up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 8063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://feistyfoodie.com/2018/05/30/evolution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IOT26O43KCUK7MELV4X73HZVKU22ZGKA", "length": 3529, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "feistyfoodie.com", "title": "Evolution \u2014 The Feisty Foodie", "raw_content": "Baby A expressing her \u201cI don\u2019t know!\u201d with this current Mets season\nI\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all seen this coming for a while. I started to hint and I posted things along these lines, but honestly\u2026 it\u2019s been overdue. The site, much like my life, is evolving. Food is such a huge part of my life, but now so too is this small child with whom I spend 95% of my time and 100% of my energy.\nThankfully there\u2019s an overlap. She\u2019s over 6 months old now and eating real food \u2013 we\u2019re doing Baby Led Weaning (which will get its own post!). She is \u201cchatting\u201d and mobile, she is a real person now (as opposed to a pooping potato that I carried with me wherever I went). And I\u2019m happy to say that I think I\u2019m ready to start writing about this chapter of my life \u2014\nI AM SUPER EXCITED TO SHARE THINGS WITH YOU ALL. I know some of you may close the tab in disgust because you\u2019re here for food \u2013 and food is still the main focus, with a bit of family and parenting tossed in! \u2013 but maybe some of you are interested in how this journey looks for me. Maybe you\u2019re not. Sorry not sorry, this is my life now! Come along for the ride, or don\u2019t \u2013 but I promise it\u2019s a wild one!\nOne of the biggest things I\u2019ve realized over my 13 years (!!!) of food blogging is that who I was 13 years ago isn\u2019t who I am now. When it comes to food, my tastes have changed and matured, but also my understanding of what is what has as well. For example, as a 22 year old living in NYC and scraping by to save a down payment while working full time, then going to school full time \u2013 all that young lady could afford was to visit these trendy places once before dashing off her opinion of a place.\nI\u2019m now 37 and fully understand that one visit doesn\u2019t really give you the full picture. At 23, I couldn\u2019t justify visiting a place multiple times and that was a \u2018good enough\u2019 snapshot for me to share \u2013 if a place didn\u2019t make me want to return and spend my hard-earned dollars on it again, then that was part of the review. But now, as I explore my community and neighborhood (which will feature prominently here), I understand more about all of these things, and I am fortunate enough to have my neighborhood staples, my mainstays, and places that I can comfortably say are awesome (and who wants to focus on the negative, anyway?). Places I can speak confidently on the menu, the staff, everything.\nThis will be reflected in new reviews! I\u2019m super excited for my first one coming next week \u2013 this evolution is so important to me. I\u2019ll even include stuff about family-friendliness \u2013 yup, because this is part of my life now.\nI\u2019m super excited to share with you and hope you\u2019re just as excited to read about my life. It\u2019s pretty great \u2013 I am truly happy \u2013 and I wish you all the same happiness, whatever form that takes for you.\nThanks for sticking around, I know it\u2019s been a rocky few years of very intermittent posting. I hope to keep this going.\nSpeaking of which \u2014 does anyone do web design? I think it\u2019s time for an update of the site and I\u2019d love to hire a reader or a reader\u2019s friend, if that\u2019s possible.\nFiled Under: Around NYC, Articles, featured, Feisty Fun, Jersey City Tagged With: feisty family, parenthood, parenting\n\u00ab New York Baby Show \u2013 Wrap Up and Recap!\nPiggyback Bar \u00bb\nJust read through all your recent (2018) posts and I\u2019ve missed you and your blogging! First off, congrats on 13+ years of blogging (I\u2019m including Xanga here, where we met, hehe)!!! And can\u2019t wait to read all your new posts since that\u2019s where I am in life as well! ^_^\nExcited for the next post!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 7085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2010-2-1-the-state-of-our-union/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2S3FQOIVAZLPEORXJE7GROPP4ZMF73NF", "length": 14966, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "felixonline.co.uk", "title": "The State of our Union", "raw_content": "Kadhim Shubber interviews Union President Ashley Brown on his achievements and failings as president so far\nMonday, 1st February 2010\nBEIT REDEVELOPMENT\nKadhim - Let\u2019s start by talking about the third phase of the Beit Redevelopment. What\u2019s the vision?\nAshley - Our aim is to create an atmosphere where people feel like they\u2019ve got a high quality product but not extortionate prices. We want to have a venue that\u2019s for students but that\u2019s also really good quality.\nK - You\u2019ve been asking for student input into the redevelopment. How has that been?\nA - I\u2019ve found that people just doodle or draw jacuzzis on the plans; we haven\u2019t had a lot of positive input. If students want to have input then they should give proper ideas, otherwise we\u2019ll do what we think is right, and if that turns out to be wrong, well we\u2019ve given students a chance.\nK - Don\u2019t you think that if the union actively went out, face-to-face to get student input, it would work better?\nA - We did actually go around the JCR with the plans for the redevelopment showing them to students. We got some good ideas but most people, like I said, just messed about. The feedback hasn\u2019t been as good as we\u2019d hoped but if students don\u2019t submit ideas then there\u2019s no way we can take it into account. We\u2019re still working on the plans so there\u2019s still a lot of space for student\u2019s ideas and comments to be worked into it. We also have a working group of around 10 students which has provided good feedback so it hasn\u2019t all been bad.\nK - Do you think that the problems with say, dBs, are a bit overblown?\nA - The bar service capacity, even with the mobile bar, is terrible. With the re-development, the bar will be twice as big so on busy nights there won\u2019t be a problem with getting drinks. In terms of getting students into dBs, it\u2019s been much busier this year on Wednesdays and Fridays since we\u2019ve tweaked the music lineup. Once you\u2019ve got completely pissed, you just want cheesy music and to dance around. So we\u2019ve given them that and it\u2019s been a lot busier in dBs.\nK - A large part of the renovation of dBs involves turning it into a high quality live music venue, but what\u2019s the point when like you say, it\u2019s drunken cheesy music that\u2019s pulling people in?\nA - One of the key things that came out of the Trading Survey 18 months ago was that students wanted to see more live music. And we also want students to be proud to come over here and say \u201cWell, actually we\u2019ve got a really good Union\u201d. Which means, on Sports Night, then we cater to the situation but on say, a Friday, we can put on some good live bands.\nK - Well this year a \u201cFreshers Festival\u201d was held, with live acts. It wasn\u2019t a wild success you might say. You\u2019re aiming to have more live music, but does that sit well with the failure of the \u201cFreshers Festival?\u201d\nA - The problem with the Freshers Festival was that it was a week after a heavy freshers week. We should have lumped it in with Fresher\u2019s Week, included it with the marketing for that and dropped the price, then it would have worked a bit better. And there\u2019s a difference between doing a live gig on a Friday night and doing a whole weekend of music.\nK - One of your manifesto points has been to have more student input into the planning of Union events. What have you done so far to achieve that?\nA - At Southampton university, their executive committee (which is made up of students) receives the term planner in advance and can say we want this to change or we want to tweak this. So we\u2019re going to bring that method in. But what I\u2019ve wanted to do, which is the best way to ensure that students are getting what they want, is to get clubs to hold events at the Union and support them doing that.\nK - How\u2019s that worked out? A - Not as well as I hoped if I\u2019m honest, mainly because I\u2019ve been running around doing so much other stuff. What I\u2019ve found is that I\u2019ve got less than a day a week, if that, to work on my manifesto points, and the rest of my time is spent trying to stop the Union crashing down around me.\nK - So you\u2019ve found that the demands of your job day-to-day mean that it\u2019s quite hard to reach out to students?\nA - Yes, much more difficult than I imagined. During Freshers Week we connected well with a lot of students. I must have spoken to hundreds of students that week. But then term starts and everything kicks off. You\u2019ve got to help individual students with problems and there are committees to go to; you find that you\u2019re running around all the time. After the initial burst in Fresher\u2019s week it\u2019s been more difficult.\nUNION FOOD\nK - Let\u2019s talk about the changes in da- Vinci\u2019s. What\u2019s happening there?\nA - We\u2019re going to change the design of the kitchens because we don\u2019t need them in their current state. The Tower Rooms has damaged our lunchtime trade. The idea is to have a grill kitchen like the Prince Regent, which doesn\u2019t take up a lot of space, but they can still cook a lot. But we\u2019re still discussing what that lunchtime trade will be, and actually that would be quite a good thing for students to have input in. I think we still need to keep some form of lunchtime food at the union, but it\u2019s whether we stick with hot food or just a sandwich bar.\nK - The catering is quite a financial burden on the Union right?\nA - Lunchtime catering was losing us around \u00a380,000 a year, we\u2019ve made some changes which reduced this to around \u00a340,000 a year but it\u2019s getting better still. If we were making a profit, then we\u2019d keep it in its present state but with a new venue it\u2019s a good time to think about what students want.\nK - Why do you think that students would rather eat at say, the Library Cafe, than the Union?\nA - I think it has something to do with the location, and what we are capable of serving. The kitchens are so old and knackered we cannot produce something of the same quality as say, the Tower Rooms. When I was a fresher there would be a massive queue in dBs for baguettes at lunchtime, but then the JCR started offering baguettes and people didn\u2019t come over anymore, so our location is a disadvantage.\nK - Let\u2019s talk about food in the evening. When you campaigned you wanted to re-introduce table service. Why hasn\u2019t that happened?\nA - The problem with table service is that people move around and then the bar-staff waste loads of time looking for them, and then your food gets cold. On busy nights we can\u2019t spare the staff to do table service. We\u2019re discussing, with the re-development, to introduce hand held buzzers which will tell you when you can collect your food.\nK - Why isn\u2019t it coming in this year?\nA - I didn\u2019t expect the refurbishment to happen this year, we were told that we wouldn\u2019t get any money from the College, but we put together a good business plan and reduced the scope of what we\u2019re doing to the point where we can afford it. So now it makes more sense for a lot of the stuff that I wanted to do this year to be included with the refurbishment.\nK - Another thing that you promised in your manifesto was to have \u201csecret shoppers\u201d to report on the quality of service in the Union. Is that happening?\nA - It\u2019s starting this term. I haven\u2019t selected the secret shoppers yet. Basically you\u2019d go to the Union, get a meal, fill in a form about it and we\u2019d refund you so you get a free meal. Anyone who\u2019s interested, give me an email. We actually did it over the summer, with the barbecue that we had outside and we identified some problems which were fixed. I wanted to start it straight away at the beginning of term but I found that there was no need because even as President at times I was getting poor service. We\u2019ve got to the point where I think the service standards have come up, so now maybe I\u2019m too close to it and so hopefully the secret shoppers will help to iron out any problems that I\u2019m unaware of.\nK - In terms of motivating student staff, what can you actually do to, say, speed up bar service?\nA - What I want to do is hold on to experienced bar staff, which you can only do by offering them money. We\u2019re trying to put in a training program. What the Union does quite badly is that we throw people in at the deep end and then people complain that they can\u2019t pour a pint properly, well what can we expect when we don\u2019t train them properly. That said, we do have some excellent bar-staff who could be part of that training process.\nK - When is that going to come into action?\nA - We\u2019re trying to get an intern from College because we don\u2019t have the staff resources to do it ourselves. If that happens, then we\u2019ll have someone starting in March to build this training package for about six months. There is training at the bars already, which needs refinement also. The problem is that we didn\u2019t do this in October so we didn\u2019t train all the new staff as we would have liked. So it\u2019s behind where it should be. We also want to review pay-scales so that student staff that progress through the training and stay on longer will see an increase in their wages. K - At the moment, the bar-staff get paid near enough minimum wage. Do you think that acts as a disincentive to really care about the job?\nA - Yes. But it\u2019s not as simple as that, because we have to structure it to be fair. It\u2019s great to give people extra pay if they\u2019re experienced, but how do you define if they\u2019re experienced? There\u2019s the basic pay when you first start and that wouldn\u2019t go up because there\u2019s quite a high turnover, and you don\u2019t want to invest resources if staff aren\u2019t going to stick around. Hopefully this will start coming in around March.\nK - The price of drinks usually increases every couple of years, is this going to happen next year?\nA - It will go up this summer, probably by about 10p. We managed to avoid putting the prices up last summer because we had a deal with a new supplier, but as result of that it has to go up this summer. Obviously there\u2019s another issue with the wider crackdown on cheap drinks. If the government decides to introduce minimum drinks pricing then our prices could go up, but then prices could go up everywhere.\nK - In your manifesto you promised to do more deals on spirits. But that hasn\u2019t happened.\nA - Nope. We did some deals at the beginning of the year, but part of the problem is that alcohol license holders are being told, in no uncertain terms, not to encourage excessive drinking. If we introduce, for example \u201cdouble up for 10p\u201d, as a new promotion, then there\u2019d be issues with the licensing people. I would like to see some deals on spirits, but squaring it with licensing authorities is a problem.\nK - Do you think that students should care about what goes on at the Union?\nA - It depends on what\u2019s going on. For example, there\u2019s a motion coming to Council this month asking for a referendum on a smoke-free campus. Now if students think that\u2019s a good idea, or a bad idea, then they should come and have their views heard. If people want things changed, then they should come to Council.\nK - Will a smoking ban have a positive impact at imperial?\nA - It will definitely cause problems in some areas. For example, if you\u2019re in the bar, you\u2019ll have to go all the way out to Prince Consort Road, which is quite inconvenient.\nK - Do you agree with the principle of a smoking ban?\nA - Students are adults and if they want to smoke, that\u2019s their choice. I\u2019d be in favor of more rigorous controls to stop people smoking by doors, but not a complete ban. Of course, policing that sort of thing is a right pain.\nFACULTY CRISIS\nK - The RCSU and CGCU Autumn Balls attracted a lot of controversy last term. Did they spend too much money on their events?\nA - They lost money, so you\u2019d say yes they spent too much money, but it\u2019s not as black and white as that. The FUs have two main roles. One is welfare for their students, which is the most important thing that they should be doing and they should be spending time on that. If you get people involved and comfortable about talking to the FU by throwing parties, then great. The other role is to foster a community spirit with the FU, which is the reason for the parties, but I\u2019m not sure that you want to be spending extortionate amounts of money on that sort of stuff.\nK - The CGCU President last term, Kirsty Patterson, responded to criticism about the amount of money spent on the CGCU\u2019s Masquerade Ball by referencing Rudyard Kipling\u2019s poem \u2018If\u2019. Do you think that was an appropriate way to explain to engineering students why money was spent in the way that it was?\nA - No, basically. I\u2019m fairly laid back and if people think that I\u2019ve screwed something up, I should talk to them and explain why things have or haven\u2019t been done, which is why I\u2019m doing this interview. I think that you have to do that because people have voted for you.\nK - Also, the CGCU\u2019s Welfare Officer, Alice Rowlands criticised the amount of support that you provided to the CGCU in an article in felix. Do you feel that her criticism was fair?\nA - The problem with the CGCU was that nothing was written down. I told them that we\u2019ll support it and we\u2019ll find an act for it. The Union Entertainment team offered them a number of acts that they could choose and they went for an expensive one. That\u2019s their choice. Our role was not, and was never going to be, to run their event for them and give them the profit. The situation was that we\u2019d support them in their event and on the Friday before I was with the President of Guilds getting things prepared for the Ball. The support was there, they just had to ask for it, not just sitting there and whingeing. They should have come and said \u2018this is going wrong, what can you do?\u2019\nK - Regarding the Freshers Festival, Dan Fowler, the organiser said they didn\u2019t get enough Union support either.\nA - That was our fault like I talked about before, and they did get less support than Guilds did. But we learned a lot from that and I wouldn\u2019t say the Guilds didn\u2019t receive enough support. When I asked them to really lay out what they expected from us, and what we didn\u2019t give them, they didn\u2019t respond. I can\u2019t do anything about that if they\u2019re not going to tell me what they expected.\nK - What is your main aim for the rest of your time as President?\nA - Getting the re-development done properly. Even if I do nothing else, I want to make sure that we get that right, because we don\u2019t get the opportunity to spend that kind of money very often.\nK - The elections for next years sabbatical will be starting soon. What do you think next year\u2019s President should be focused on?\nA - There are probably two things, firstly pushing Phase 3 of the re-development through smoothly. But also making students aware of the representation network and the changes that have been put in place. Students fill out surveys and then wonder what\u2019s been done but for example, we have a new Dean of Teaching and Learning to deal with student\u2019s issues. The university created a whole new position specifically for that and the challenge I think is to ensure that students know about and are able to take advantage of these changes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 16298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2017-12-13-mad-about-the-boy-jane-eyre-returns-to-the-nt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZP2S33IRJGAE373STJOTHAGZ2ESO5YSV", "length": 4155, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "felixonline.co.uk", "title": "Mad about the boy: Jane Eyre returns to the NT", "raw_content": "Mad about the boy: Jane Eyre returns to the NT\nPatchy in parts, Sally Cookson\u2019s adaptation remains a worthy staging of the much beloved novel\nJane Eyre opens with a scream \u2013 it\u2019s one of the moments I think most after I leave the theatre. It is at once all the things I find difficult about the performance, and what seems essential to the spirit of the original novel which is itself a howl for women\u2019s independence and self-determination.\nAdapting any novel as concerned with a single protagonist\u2019s inner experiences as Jane Eyre is an unenviable task. Director Sally Cookson has tackled this issue with aplomb: there is much to admire in her reimagining.\nFirst staged as a two-part play at the Bristol Old Vic in 2014, the production spent a short spell at the National Theatre three years ago, toured the country, and is now back in London. It remains an inventive sensory experience that despite its strengths sometimes becomes too enmeshed in its complex theatrics \u2013 becoming a showcase of style over substance.\nEschewing 19th century aesthetics, Michael Vale\u2019s set is a stripped down, bare bones two-level stage has been built around a three-man band. The simple stage acts as a background to bold lighting and choreography. The company clambers up and down iron ladders in a frenzy of movement accompanied by Benji Bower\u2019s modern folk score. Some scenes are punctuated with song \u2013 Melanie Marshall\u2019s mellifluous voice soars above the strings. The production would not be half as successful without Marshall who, it quickly emerges, is not merely narrating the story but is the voice of the \u2018mad-woman\u2019 Bertha Mason. Cookson\u2019s treatment of Bertha is a triumph: not only is she allowed out the attic room in which she is incarcerated in the novel and given a voice, she is also given one of the most memorable scenes in the play. The sequence in which Marshall belts out a hauntingly gothic rendition of \u2018Mad About the Boy\u2019 was spine-tinglingly good.\nOther dramatic flourishes threaten to overshadow the substance of the play in some parts however. In the transitions in which Jane travels from Gateshead to Lowood, the company congregates around Nadia Clifford to form a human coach, jogging on the spot to mimic its journey through the countryside. Novel at first, by the second time it seems indulgent. Similarly, Paul Mundell\u2019s embodiment of the dog, Pilot, is played to great comedic effect, but his enthusiastic portrayal, complete with panting and wagging tail, detracts rather than adds to the weight of some of the crucial scenes between Jane and Rochester.\nMuch like the novel, the play comes into its own at Thornfield. There, the chemistry between Nadia Clifford in the eponymous role, and Tim Delap, playing Rochester, is electric. Clifford in particular is superb, scrappy and rebellious as a child, self-assured with a hidden steeliness as a woman.\nDespite excellent performances, timing remains an issue. The three hour run-time is at once exhausting and too short to do the novel justice. It\u2019s at Lowood, the tyrannical boarding school Jane attends in her youth, that the play seems truncated. We have been scarcely introduced to Jane\u2019s only friend and solace at the establishment, Helen, when she dies. We never really feel the impact her friendship and her subsequent death has on Jane. Similarly, towards the end of the play, Jane\u2019s time with the Rivers feels rushed. The hour that was cut in order to accommodate the play as a single performance in its transition from Bristol may well have smoothed both the beginning and the end of the production.\nCharlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s novel took the literary world by storm when it was first published in 1847, with its strong fiery heroine and its undercurrent of sexual charge, it was unlike any other novel of the time, especially not one written by a woman. 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Although I think the contest-based publication model makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways, I just couldn\u2019t afford to submit Mule that often. But I would have submitted it to more contests if I could have afforded it.\nTell me about the title. Had it always been Mule? Did it go through any other changes?\nMule had every worst title any book ever had\u2014figuring out a title for the whole thing gave me a lot of trouble. Early on, the manuscript was half rueful, kind of yuck poems left over from my MFA years, and half whatever it is now. And I think this disunity made the manuscript basically unnamable. Eventually, I put a poem called \u201cMulatto\u201d at the front of the manuscript, and then wrote a few other poems also called \u201cMulatto,\u201d and, thinking I had a theme going, decided to call it Mule. It wasn\u2019t until the book had been taken by Cleveland State that I recalled a friend of mine, Kara Andrade, had written a memoir called Mule years before, and I\u2019ve felt a bit weird about the title ever since. Sorry Kara!\nWell, I would have liked to win a contest\u2014that seems like it would be a neat thing\u2014but I didn\u2019t really think I was gonna win a contest since I\u2019m not the book contest winning sort. Like I said, I think the contest model makes a lot of sense, but it\u2019s also problematic\u2014in part because it facilitates this notion that the only way to get a first book published is to win a contest. And that just isn\u2019t true. If a publisher likes a manuscript enough, and if he or she can find the money, etc. to do it, he or she will publish that manuscript. I was very fortunate that Michael Dumanis liked Mule enough to publish it even thought it didn\u2019t win Cleveland State\u2019s first book contest.\nThe oldest poem in Mule dates back to 2005; it was written a few weeks after I had drastically changed the way I wrote poems. Because of this, the first versions of Mule were hybrids of pre-change poems and post-change poems. It was an unpleasant mess, really, but Jorie Graham took pity on me\u2014I was workshopping with her at the time\u2014and gave the manuscript its first sensible order. I reordered it many times after that, but if she hadn\u2019t shown me how to order it in the first place, I don\u2019t know that I ever would have sorted it out.\nI had some notions of what I wanted on the cover and strong feeling that I didn\u2019t want any of the lines to overlap, but really it was Amy Freels at Cleveland State who designed the book. She was very patient with me, and endured my notions. And yes, I stumbled across the wonderful painting on the cover\u2014it\u2019s called Passing and it was painted by Michael Dixon\u2014and sent it to Amy, and she made it work.\nIn the years before Mule got picked up, I was sending poems out constantly\u2014I wanted to be part of the writing community, to be part of the dialogue between writers in whatever small way I could, and publication in journals seemed like one way I could make that happen. But I wasn\u2019t particularly worried about placing the poems with regard to submitting the manuscript.\nHuh. A lot? I think I did a lot of work, but it\u2019s hard to say. Just before the final proofing stage, I compared the final version of the manuscript to the version that Cleveland State had taken, and the differences weren\u2019t that many\u2014I had cut out a few poems, and maybe added a few as well. Most of the changes were cuts. But it felt like I went through dozens of versions of the manuscript, so maybe I did? Inexcusably, every time I made a tiny change, I sent the revised version of the manuscript to Katie Ford. She was then, and is now, a saint.\nI remember thinking that I needed to take a picture of the open box of books right away so I could post in on Facebook\u2014and to maintain the purity of the moment, or whatever it was I was thinking, I had to take this picture before I had actually touched any of the books. Sigh. I don\u2019t know why I do the things I do.\nI\u2019ve felt blessed mostly every day, even on difficult days, because I wrote this thing and some people maybe like it. For most of my life, I\u2019ve wanted to be a part of the poetry community (communities, I know), whatever it is, and I\u2019ve felt closer to becoming a part of that community since Mule came out. And I get to do things like this interview, which is, at this very moment, blowing my mind\u2014I\u2019ve loved the first book interview project since way back when Kate Greenstreet was doing them. Basically, it is my favorite interview series ever. So yeah, blessed.\nHa! I can\u2019t image ever doing that! But if somehow it got out that I had written a book, I would probably say, lamely, that it was about stuff that had happened in my life, because I would feel presumptuous saying that the poems were actually about what I tried to write them about. Like, I wrote a bunch of poems about God, for example, but how could I say such a thing? And if I said instead that those poems were about me trying to write poems about God, well, then that would just be me being a jerk. I would be very bad at this conversation.\nWhat have you been doing to promote Mule, and what have those experiences been like for you?\nI worry that I haven\u2019t done enough\u2014I\u2019ve done some readings, quite a few of them (or an amount that I think of as being \u201cquite a few\u201d), and I always love doing readings and I honestly wish I could do them every day forever. And I\u2019ve done a few interviews, and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun doing those. But I feel like I should be standing atop parking garages all over the country with a megaphone, shouting, \u201cHey! You should buy this book because I don\u2019t want Cleveland State to get screwed on this deal!\u201d I worry a lot about the people who have been kind enough, unbelievably kind, to publish the books I\u2019ve written.\nActually, I think I got the advice I needed from reading first book interviews. I learned that my life wouldn\u2019t change all that much, for one thing, and I learned not to expect the book to be reviewed right away or at all. I learned not to expect anything especially good, beyond the publication of the book itself, to happen. When your book is published it is a moment both for rejoicing and for making peace with whatever comes next.\nSince Mule was published, I\u2019ve felt a bit freer, I think\u2014rather, I\u2019ve noticed a bit of a falling away of self-imposed constraints I hadn\u2019t known I had. But I\u2019ve also felt a bit of self-imposed pressure to prove that the first book wasn\u2019t a fluke, which I imagine is a common feeling to feel. And I can say happily that I have a second manuscript now called Blood\u2014it took me about two years to write it; I started writing it right after Mule was taken. And I don\u2019t know what the next thing will be, but right now I\u2019m OK with that.\nIt can, yes\u2014it has. Much of the Hebrew scriptures and the Christian scriptures is poetry; the Qur\u2019an is such an awe-inspiring text in part because it is very much like poetry, absolutely bursting with beautiful sounds. These texts in large measure made the world Westerners recognize as their own (and I don\u2019t mean to prioritize the Western world at all, or to suggest that it ought to be prioritized; it\u2019s just the one I know best), and the Homeric epics made the world before this one. And the Western world as it is today would also be unimaginable without Shakespeare. Beyond that, each person is a world, and I know people are changed as individuals by poems, and they then take their changed selves out into the world, and consequentially that initial change ripples outward.\nShane McCrae is the author of Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and two chapbooks, One Neither One (Octopus Books, 2009) and In Canaan (Rescue Press, 2010). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Best American Poetry 2010, The American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and others. Currently, he is studying for a PhD in English at the University of Iowa.\nYes, in the sense that human endeavor can always create change in the world. It\u2019s important to remember that \u201cchange\u201d is a value-neutral term\u2014poetry can create just as much dreadful, boring, or mediocre change in the world as it can good. But we should always have high expectations for it nonetheless. Maybe it\u2019s that \u201cchange\u201d isn\u2019t just value-neutral, but by definition, it\u2019s never stable or safe\u2014there are always unimaginable repercussions to change. That\u2019s what I love about poetry\u2014the good stuff changes you in ways that you never could have expected.\nHow often had you sent out The Diminishing House before it was chosen for publication in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon University Press? What was the process like assembling the book? How many different versions did it go through as you were sending it out?\nThe manuscript was chosen for publication back in late 2008. I\u2019d been sending it out for about four years at that point, and was starting to despair about how many times I\u2019d been a finalist, but hadn\u2019t gotten the jackpot. I\u2019d started joking that I felt like Susan Lucci. However, I got some good and timely advice from Linda Bierds, who suggested that if I\u2019d come close so many times without winning, it was probably a sign that I needed to reorder the book. Shortly after following her advice and sending out the newly ordered manuscript, I got the call from Jerry Constanzo at Carnegie Mellon.\nTell me about the title. Had it always been The Diminishing House? Did it go through any other changes?\nFor a while it was called Apocrypha for the Body, because of the anatomical poems within the book. My husband, the poet Brian Barker, eventually suggested changing it to its current title; after being attached to the former one for so long, it was liberating to see how a new title can help change one\u2019s ideas about a manuscript. I enjoyed the dual idea of a \u201chouse\u201d as both a domestic structure and a family line, and the ambiguity of the adjective\u2014the sense that a \u201cdiminishing house\u201d could be a house that was somehow shrinking, and the sense that this could also be a house in which one is diminished, as in a slaughterhouse.\nI would rather have my eyes gouged out with a rusty screwdriver than strike up a conversation with someone on an airplane. But let\u2019s say that someone was threatening to gouge out the eyes of someone I love with a rusty screwdriver unless I did\u2014okay. The short version I\u2019d give them is that it\u2019s about the death of my father. Hopefully that would end the conversation, and I\u2019d be able to get back to my Entertainment Weekly and Courvoisier.\nI was absolutely concerned, in the general sense of just trying to get the book picked up\u2014the passing years during which I sent out became a kind of slow panic in that respect, one that I\u2019m guessing a lot of other writers can identify with. And of course, the pressures of the academic job market & its relation to publishing didn\u2019t help much, either. But in terms of trying to decide whether one should chose a contest or an open reading period, I think the character and reputation of the press you\u2019re wanting to work with is much, much more important than the means you choose to get published. The relationship that you have with them and how they respect and promote your work is going to last a lot longer than any prize money you might win. Of course, if you\u2019re trying to pay off loan sharks, that\u2019s a different story.\nCarnegie Mellon was very generous about this, and was very proactive about soliciting my input for the cover. I\u2019d had the idea for a while of using a blueprint image, which they were very receptive to, and I\u2019d sent them some mock-ups to illustrate the idea using blueprint images I\u2019d pulled off the internet. Annie Jacobson, the designer, did a fantastic job in bringing it all to life.\nAnd, in a very poetry-geek admission, I should say that I really liked the idea of my first book being blue, because Elizabeth Bishop requested a blue dust jacket for North & South.\nI was concerned about it a little, because I felt, rightly or wrongly, that a juicier publication list at the front of the manuscript might give a contest reader a reason to hang on to the work for a few minutes longer. But I didn\u2019t let that keep me from sending out the manuscript. I\u2019d seen enough first books with only a handful publication credits not to agonize over it too much. And, in the end, because it took so long to get the book picked up, a lot of the poems did wind up getting published before the book came out.\nNot a great deal\u2014many of the poems had been finished for so long before the final proofing, and I\u2019d felt pretty solid about where they were. But the weird thing is that once the book came out, I found myself wanting to fool with the poems much more\u2014sometimes I\u2019ll be doing a reading, and in the back of my mind as I\u2019m saying a line aloud, I\u2019ll find myself ruminating, \u201cHuh\u2014that line break could be improved,\u201d or \u201cMaybe I should have used \u2018putrescent\u2019 instead,\u201d etc. Something about having something so solid and unchangeable in my hands must have brought out the Highly Perverse Editor in me.\nThat I wished my parents were alive so I could show it to them.\nI am less consumed by a blinding envy when I meet other people with published books. Or rather, I can now focus my blinding envy on their talent and good looks, where it belongs, rather than on the fact that they\u2019re published.\nWhat have you been doing to promote The Diminishing House, and what have those experiences been like for you?\nI\u2019ve done a fair amount of readings in the past year and half since the book came out, and they\u2019ve all been a tremendous amount of fun. I\u2019ve gotten to read at Central Missouri University, University of Missouri-Columbia, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Sarah Lawrence College, and at the Triptych reading series in Manhattan, the Chin Music series in Brooklyn, the Sarabande reading series in Louisville, and the Gypsy House series and the Bad Shadow Affair series, both in my adopted home city of Denver. I know it sounds corny, but they\u2019ve all been really wonderful experiences\u2014partially because I love doing readings, but also because of all of the incredibly talented and distinguished writers that I\u2019ve gotten to read with as well. Not to mention all the dedicated folks who run these series\u2014I don\u2019t think it\u2019s always widely understood how much hard work and headache goes into keeping those things afloat, and I greatly admire the people who do it, often against the odds, without much money, if any, and without the level of thanks that they truly deserve.\nThere are so many kinds of advice I could have benefited from in the thirty-four years before the book came out! \u201cNever indulge in \u2018Ladies\u2019 Night\u2019 in Tijuana,\u2019\u201d \u201cNever date someone who says he does \u2018A little of this, a little of that,\u201d for a living,\u201d \u201cNever get a body piercing at an establishment that also does motorcycle repair.\u201d\nI don\u2019t think the book\u2019s publication has had a huge influence on my subsequent writing\u2014I sit down to the same big ol\u2019 blank page I did before I had a book, and still worry that I\u2019ll never write another good poem again.\nI\u2019m trying to finish up my second manuscript, The Octopus Game, right now. Many of these poems are less explicitly autobiographical, which I suppose might be an unconscious pushing-back against the content of The Diminishing House. The majority of the poems are about cephalopods\u2014primarily octopuses, but I\u2019ve got a squid poem and a cuttlefish poem swimming in there as well. But if I have to have that conversation with a stranger on an airplane, I\u2019ll probably say that it\u2019s about fiery plane crashes.\nNicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). Her poetry has been published in Poetry, The Washington Post, The Nation, Best American Poetry, McSweeney\u2019s, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a fellowship and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, a Campbell Corner Prize, a \u201cDiscovery\u201d/The Nation Award, and the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. 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Home to Sportclub Heerenveen since opening in 1994, the 26,100 stadium was designed by Alynia Architecten Harlingen bv.\nHeerenveen\u2019s stadium first opened on the 20th August 1994 courtesy of Prince Willem-Alexander with the inaugural match held against PSV Eindhoven who\u2019s side featured the young Brazilian superstar Ronaldo. Construction on the stadium began a year before with the original design consisting of 4 separate stands, although the club opted to fill the corners in with seating to create a more intimate arena.\nThe ground is named after Abe Lenstra Stadion who is widely regarded by fans of Heerenveen to be the greatest player ever for the club, having jointed the club as a 15 year old back in 1920. He would then go on to play for the club before the best part of 17 years, making over 730 appearances where he scored a remarkable 700 goals across all competitions.\nAbe Lenstra stadium has undergone one significant expansion to date, with the 2002 renovations essentially doubling the initial 13,000 capacity to today\u2019s 25,100.\nThe club have twice now planned further developments in order to satisfy the growing waiting list for season tickets but progress has been frustrating: the 2011 expansion to 32,000 was seen as too risky and the expansion plans a year later for a scaled back 29,000 were put on hold due to the global economic downturn.\nThe stadium was included as one of five stadiums along with Amsterdam Arena and De Kuip to host matches of the 2022 World Cup, although sadly the competition was awarded to Qatar (2022). A successfully joint bid with Belgium would have seen Abe Lenstra expanded to an impressive 44,000.\nBelow is a seating plan of Abe Lenstra Stadion:\nAbe Lenstra Stadion is comprised of four stands: North, East, South and West.\nAway fans or \u201cGastenvak\u201d are housed within the south-east corner of Abe Lenstra between the main stand (Oost) and the southern goal-end (Zuid) as highlighted in the above seating plan by the colour purple.\nSeating within the away section is divided into four sections across two-tiers if you will: section 24 is lower down, whereas sections 421, 422, and 423 are regarded as the upper.\nLess than 10 minutes north of the ground next to one of the car parks there is a McDonald\u2019s which always does a roaring trade on matchdays.\nWith the exception of the www.sc-heerenveen.nl/feansjop, the club shop at Abe Lenstra stadium is hands down the best way to purchase official merchandise of De Superfriezen.\nMonday: 1.00 pm \u2013 5.00 pm\nTuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 9.00 am \u2013 5.00 pm\nPlease note that the club shop is closed on Sundays, and usually open for up to 2 hours before kick-off on matchdays, as well as 1 hour after the full time whistle.\n90 minute stadium tours of the facilities at Abe Lenstra Stadion begin from from only \u20ac7.50 per person with various packages also including food ranging from a coffee and cake to a full blown meal with a 30 minute film of the club\u2019s history.\nStadium tours can be booked by visiting this page on the official website, and are generally available six days a week with the exception of Sundays, bank holidays and matchdays.\nThe blue and white colours of SC Heerenveen on display during a cup final against FC Twente.\nTickets to see SC Heerenveen play at their home ground, Abe Lenstra, can be purchased online from the official website. We don\u2019t currently have access to prices however expect to pay anywhere between \u20ac30 \u2013 50.00 euros for a decent seat within the grandstand at the side of the pitch.\nDemand for tickets within the local area is usually quite strong so it is advisable to book in advance where possible.\nAbe Lenstra Stadion sits within the wider sports complex (Sportstad) of the same name surrounding by canals and the A32 motorway less than 1.3km from the city centre.\nThe welcome sign adorning the main entrance of Abe Lenstrastadion.\nAbe Lenstra Blvd 19, 8448 JA Heerenveen, Netherlands\nThere are a total of nine car parks dotted around Abe Lenstra stadion however seven of these are reserved for season ticket holders, the players and, fans who reserve and guests of the club.\nThe only car parks available to the general public on matchdays are car parks 8 and 9 which are capable of accommodating 1000, and 1,100 vehicles respectively.\nSpaces here are allocated on a first come first serve basis so make sure you get there early!\nHeerenveen railway station is served by two main train services to Rotterdam and The Hague which run approximately one per hour. 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Concerned with site specificity, his work is always unique to the immediate environmental context and addresses issues of local and sustainable systems. His projects have been featured in Artforum, Domus, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Sunset, Dwell, and The Architect's Newspaper. In addition to his work as a designer, he is also an educator and curator. He has organized several exhibitions including \"Dialogues\" and \"Yves Klein-Air Architecture\" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and \"Architectones\" in several locations. Perrin has taught at UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Cal Poly Pomona, Woodbury University, and Sci-Arc and has lectured on his work internationally including the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, MAK Vienna, Columbia University, USC, UCLA, Universite de Montreal and Ecole Speciale d'Architecture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 92.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freearticlehouse.com/looking-for-a-career-in-human-resources-here-are-a-few-important-facts-you-need-to-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:34Z", "digest": "sha1:D4UQNHNE2525TMPYAJ7MTMKXKZSRUZHR", "length": 2416, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "freearticlehouse.com", "title": "Free Article House \u00bb Looking For a Career in Human Resources? Here are a Few Important Facts You Need to Know", "raw_content": "Looking For a Career in Human Resources? Here are a Few Important Facts You Need to Know\nWritten by Marty on November 27, 2013 . Posted in Human resource software solution, Human resources solution, Jobs in human resource management\nEssentially every business in the country needs to have dedicated human resources resources. Making sure that everything runs smoothly and according to book in your company will help your employees be happier, and will help your company to run more efficiently. If you need to hire new human resources professional for your company, here are a few reasons to outsource your hiring duties to human resources agencies that are familiar with the use of human resources software applications instead of doing the hiring yourself.\nHuman resources is defined as the set of individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector or an economy. Their job is to ensure that the company runs smoothly both internally, and externally. Efficient and effective management of \u201chuman capital\u201d can be streamlined by human resource management systems software. Not only do these kinds of systems offer your human resources representatives with the resources they need to get the job done, they will be able to do more quickly and efficiently than they have ever been able to before. This will save your company time and money.\nThe typical HR management module is a component covering many other HR aspects. These human resource solutions programs can have the capability to help with the most important aspects of the job from application to retirement. The training modules that are also present in these systems also provide a simple vehicle for organizations to administer and track employee training and development efforts. You and your company will never need to worry about undertrained employees again since all the important and relevant information will be at your fingertips.\nThe employee self service module allows employees to query HR related data and perform some HR transactions over the system. Hiring human resources agencies that are comfortable and experienced with this kind of work is an important step in finding the best professionals for your company. Though some might argue that all great companies need to be strongest in sales, each and every sales person needs to have the strong support of a well staffed HR department in order to do their best work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fun4birthdays.com/birthday/september_24.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FEOOLSMRN3RUYY6QZWOAP76GEZGQISTM", "length": 1486, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "fun4birthdays.com", "title": "Celebrity Birthdays - famous people whose birthday is 24 September", "raw_content": "September 24th is the 267th day of the year (268th day in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of the year.\n15 Vitellius (Roman Emperor 69)\n1870 Georges Claude (engineer, inventor)\n1883 Franklin Clarence Mars (businessman, founder of Mars. Incorporated)\n1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald (author)\n1911 Konstantin Chernenko (Soviet leader)\n1923 Fats Navarro (trumpet player)\n1936 Jim Henson (creator the \"The Muppets\")\n1941 Linda McCartney (photographer, singer)\n1942 Gerry Marsden (singer, guitarist - Gerry and the Pacemakers)\n1946 Jerry Donahue (guitarist, music producer)\n1959 Theo Paphitis (businessman)\n1961 Jack Dee (comedian)\n1962 Ally McCoist (soccer player and manager)\n1980 John Arne Riise (soccer player)\n1980 Victoria Pendleton (cyclist)\n768 Charlemagne is crowned King of the Franks.\n1664 Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam (today part of New York City) to England.\n1890 The Church of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) officially renounces polygamy.\n1906 President Theodore Roosevelt declares Devil's Tower the first US National Monument.\n1946 Cathay Pacific Airways is founded.\n1948 Honda Motor Company formed.\n1960 The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is launched.\n1968 \"60 Minutes\" debuts on CBS.\n1968 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.\n1979 Compu-Serve offers the first consumer internet email service.\nIndependence Day (Guinea-Bissau)\nRepublic Day (Trinidad and Tobago)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://funjoelsisrael.com/2010/11/what-is-a-pillbox/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CU7XVJ5IFUXVUHDDCA4YSLCXFYK7P2NA", "length": 5586, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "funjoelsisrael.com", "title": "What Is\u2026 A Pillbox? | Fun Joel Israel Tours", "raw_content": "First a little background. The British controlled Palestine from the end of World War I until the 1948 declaration of an independent State of Israel. The era is known as the British Mandate, since Britain never intended to maintain control of the land or to annex it to the British Empire. It was always operating under a temporary mandate to oversee the land for the Jewish and Arab residents until control could be handed over to them.\nDuring that time, there were successive waves of Arab riots, both against Jews and against the British. First in 1920, then in 1929, and finally in a series of riots from 1936-1939, the Arab population displaced Jews from their homes and neighborhoods and tried to overthrow the British overseers.\nAs a response, to keep the peace, the British first built small fortress watchtowers, or above-ground bunkers, to guard the major roads of the country. Made of concrete, they had metal doors, slit windows for firing guns through, and were (according to the Hebrew wikipedia Pillbox entry) typically 4 meters high with a diameter of about 3.5 meters. They generally had flat roofs, and resembled the small boxes that pharmacists would sell pills in, and thus received the name \u201cpillbox.\u201d\nIt is easy to see pillbox bunkers all over Israel today, though most are simply closed up. Very few, if any, are in secondary usage, or house museums or tourist attractions. They simply stand guarding major intersections or roads, a living memorial to the recent past. I don\u2019t know how many were originally built, nor do I know if any or many of them have been subsequently destroyed. But I do know that if you keep your eyes open, you are sure to spot them. I know of three in Jerusalem alone (and I\u2019m told there are at least one or two others in this city.\n(By the way, as a humorous side note, Israelis often refer to a pillbox as a fillbox. This is because the Hebrew letters for the \u201cP\u201d and \u201cF\u201d sounds are the same, with a slight variation. And so when Hebrew is written without vowelization, the two sounds can get confused, particularly when the actual meaning of the word is lost on Hebrew speakers!)\nA Tegart Fortress that now houses the Givati Brigade Museum, known as the Yoav Fortress.\nShortly after the construction of the pillboxes, a celebrated British engineer and police officer named Sir Charles Tegart was brought in to help further settle the unrest, after succeeding at handling rebellious Bengali in Calcutta, India. He arrived in Mandatory Palestine in 1938. His plan was to build larger fortresses throughout the country, all on the same basic architectural plan (though with a few variations of type). These were built of reinforced concrete, and were designed to house British police.\nThey too usually guarded important road junctions and many still exist today. Some former Tegart forts currently serve as police stations (such as the one in Beit Shemesh) or prisons, while others are museums (such as the Givati Brigade Museum in the Yoav Fortress, or the Armored Corps Memorial and Museum at Latrun). Again, if you become familiar with what these fortresses look like, it is fairly easy to spot them all over Israel.\nThey were actually quite effective, and when learning the history of the 1948 War of Independence, many important battles and operations took place at or in the shadow of Tegart forts and pillboxes.\nA slightly larger pillbox guarding an important set of bridges near Ashdod, at Ad Halom.\nIn the months preceding the formal withdrawal of the British from Palestine, and the ensuing Israeli independence, the Brits began to consolidate their police. They gradually withdrew from Tegart fortresses in the outskirts of the country, all moving to the center, and then leaving from there at the same time. Unfortunately, however, it seems the British were just happy to be getting out and handing the problems over to someone else, because they had no plan for what to do with the Tegarts and Pillboxes as they left.\nThus, each time they left one, Jews and Arabs raced to see who would be the ones to seize control first. For example, at Gesher, south of the Kineret / Sea of Galilee in the Jordan Valley, Jews seized control of the Tegart fort and were thus able to successfully hold off attack by much larger and more experienced forces. On the other hand, Egyptian forces took control of what is now known as the Yoav Fortress, east of Ashkelon. It took Israeli forces eight attempts before they were able to finally conquer it.\nSimilarly, members of the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood were occupying the pillbox guarding the Ad Halom bridge, outside Ashdod. It was in the shadow of this pillbox that at 5 AM on May 12, 1948, eleven Givati soldiers blew up the bridges spanning the Lachish River, thus preventing a future advancement of Egyptian troops northward. (The name \u201cAd Halom\u201d was applied later, since it means \u201cuntil here.\u201d)\nKeep your eyes open on your next trip to Israel and you are sure to spot some pillboxes and Tegart fortresses. Just another example of how seemingly ordinary things can serve as constant reminders of this country\u2019s complex and storied history.\nGreat post. By the way, IDF routinely uses movable prefab \u201cpillboxes\u201d all around Judea and Samaria.\nOrah and Sha'ul says:\nGreat guiding point!\n\ud83d\ude42 Thanks. Hadn\u2019t thought of it in those terms! If you have any other suggestions for this kind of post, let me know.\nSee you tomorrow. \ud83d\ude42\nArky Staiman says:\nAs an army man I\u2019ve stayed in those for days at a time. And they are still called Pillboxes. Not so fun. But great to hear the history of them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 10561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://furtradestories.ca/sub_category.cfm?cat_id=3&sub_cat_id=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FSWYXVLIZ77VP7OMQCWVAVTHYAMH3O67", "length": 484, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "furtradestories.ca", "title": "Fur Trade Stories", "raw_content": "Home >> From 1867 to Present Day >> Historical Connections\nThe fur trade influenced the historical development of Canada in a number of ways including: the development and expansion into western and northern Canada; the significance of Canadian place names; the origin and rise of the M\u00e9tis Nation; the impact of interaction between the First Peoples and the Europeans-and these connections can be found in personal and commercial stories about the people and events of the fur trade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 164.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://geberzahn.com/galerie-3/close-up-100x100cm-2010.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:3NZQ3MG3UAWBJIFD6HBT3WRZWDQL3E4Y", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "geberzahn.com", "title": "Close up, 100x100cm, 2010 | wog.art | W.O.Geberzahn", "raw_content": "Close up, 100x100cm, 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://genealogy.lannin.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=20&tree=tree1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EXKBGRIZIIGPBTJ6PJKCNQZSJTV7P6BB", "length": 520, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "genealogy.lannin.org", "title": "Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA: Our Family History", "raw_content": "Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA\nhttp://www.dignitymemorial.com/oak-woods-cemetery/en-us/index.page\nBurials include: Jesse Owens (Olympian), James Colosimo (murdered by Al Capone), Mayor William Hale Thompson, Mayor Harold Washington and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.\nOak Woods Cemetery was established on February 12, 1853; it covers an area of 74 hectares and is located at 1035 E. 67th Street in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side. 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Despite reaching the age of 115, Rhodes never became the oldest living person in Canada, or even Ontario, due to Marie-Louise Meilleur, who passed away one month after Rhodes, at the age of 117. Rhodes was statistically old enough to be the world's oldest person in an average year. Due to being in \"second place,\" Mary Ann Rhodes was never in the major-media limelight, having been featured only in local media coverage.\nMary was born in South Lake, Leeds, Ontario on 12 August 1882. Her parents were John and Annabelle Dormer.\nIn 1912, she married Victor Rhodes; the couple had one child, a son called Murray. Victor died in 1954, and Mary continued to live in Seeley's Bay until 1968. She lived in her own home until 1986, when she moved to the Providence Manor nursing home in Kingston.\nShe died on 3 March 1998, at the age of 115 years, 203 days. At the time of her death, she was the second oldest living Candian. 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The young actress went to Rio de Janeiro to promote her latest feature, Night Moves, in the 2013 Rio Festival. As could be expected, AdoroCinema used the visit to chat exclusively with child star, who is not as well mirim. Friendly and beautiful, Dakota talked about the new work, in which co-stars with Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard, and also about the upcoming projects. Check out the full interview!\nWhat attracted you to the role of Dena?\nI really wanted to make the film because of the director, Kelly Reichardt. I was a great fan of hers and I was very happy to work with her. And also the character. I could identify myself with various elements. I identified with the idea of being young and wanting to change things and commit acts that people notice. I can understand that and I also know that when you are young, you usually do things more dangerous because you feel that nothing bad can happen. You think you will live forever and end up taking more risks. I found this very interesting on paper.\nYou did research on environmental activism?\nActually, no. I think this film, however it has the element of activism and environmental issue, it is much more about these three people and their emotions. I focused more on that and did research. Kelly wrote the characters and I followed her vision rather than read what others have written.\nHas anything changed in your day to day way contributes to the environment?\nAfter the film? I think not. You try to do some things to save energy and not waste it all, but I do not think that makes more than the average person. And this is what frustrates people in the film, that small changes are not noticed quickly.\nHow was working with director Kelly Reichardt?\nIt was wonderful. She's great, a great person, very nice and funny. She is also a great director with a clear vision. And that makes it easier to achieve your goals. It is confidence, know what you want and you can get the best out of people.\nThe film also has a good cast. How was working with Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard?\nI had worked with Peter before (in Very Good Girls) is my second film with him and loved it. We became great friends. And also with Jesse. We spent a lot of time together and we get to know each other very well. The two actors are amazing, but even better as friends.\nYou've acted in major productions like War of the Worlds and Twilight, but in recent years you've focused on small independent dramas. What attracts you to this type of project?\nFor me, a movie is a movie. No matter the size. My job does not change if a production is large or small. There's no reason that I've done more independent films, it's only the characters and the stories that have attracted me most in recent times.\nI start a new film in a few weeks called Franny, with Richard Gere, and I'm really excited. I also did one called The Last of Robin Hood, with Kevin Kline and Susan Sarandon, who is leaving. I feel like I'm forgetting something.\nStill have Effie Gray. How was working with Emma Thompson?\nTrue! It was extraordinary, she is so talented. Loved working with her.\nCan you talk a little more about The Last Robin Hood and working with Kevin Kline and Susan Sarandon?\nIt was great working with Kevin and Susan. They are two legends and eventually became two good friends. The film portrays the last two years of the life of Errol Flynn. Susan plays my mother and I live his last girlfriend, Beverly Aadland. It is a kind of love story between the two, a strange love story, which was very controversial because of the age difference.\nHow is it being a Hollywood veteran at age 19?\nI do not know. Definitely, I am not a veteran. I had great opportunities to work with talented people who taught me a lot, but still have a lot I want to do. 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Not a peep.\nLabels: map, The Manor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1642, "original_length": 35024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gotula.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10325&p=178170", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EYBO75LGMHVGI7FTTWVE3V67XI63XB7I", "length": 787, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "gotula.net", "title": "The View from the Land of ' Poison Nuts \" - goTULA.NEt", "raw_content": "The View from the Land of ' Poison Nuts \"\nmods, merge...or delete...your choice\nhttp://www.toledoblade.com/College/2018 ... State.html\nhttps://buckeyewire.com/2018/03/31/ohio ... mportance/\nhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... spartandhp\nhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... li=BBnb7Kz\nSo we catch Ohio State the week after a road game at TCU, and a week before they open Big Ten play on the road at Penn State. They could easily lose the TCU game, which would mean they'd take it out on us. Or, they could beat TCU, and be looking past us to the Penn State game and we catch them unawares. That would be the better scenario, I think. Not saying we'd beat them, but would provide us an opportunity to make a really good showing.\nI figure we're getting ass-raped either way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://greensborosports.com/2019/01/14/greensboro-college-play-9-dinnerthis-event-has-sold-out-the-last-2-years-and-is-certain-to-sell-out-againget-your-tickets-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6FSFXSWE52VBBEJG5BWKXL6DKLVP7U7X", "length": 554, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "greensborosports.com", "title": "Greensboro College \u201cPlay 9 Dinner\u201d:This event has Sold Out the last 2 years and is certain to Sell Out Again!(Get your TICKETS NOW!!!!!) \u00bb Greensboro Sports", "raw_content": "Greensboro College baseball\u2019s 3rd annual \u201cPlay 9 Dinner\u201d January 26th at 6:00pm.\n**********Keynote speaker will be former Durham Bulls\u2019 hitting coach and current Tampa Bay Rays 1st base coach Ozzie Timmons.**********\nThe cost is $75 per person. includes cocktails, appetizers, dinner and desert.\nThere will also be a raffle and silent auction.\nTo reserve a seat contact Head Baseball Coach Frank Maldonado at 336-272-7102 ext. 5213 or by email francisco.maldonado@greensboro.edu.\nThis event has sold out the last 2 years and is certain to sell out again!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://guyana-cricket.com/article/hoops-chin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LS3ASAUY7K253VYBAFRNC64W2HG5WA2Z", "length": 3443, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "guyana-cricket.com", "title": "Hoop's Chin Is Up | Guyana-Cricket", "raw_content": "Hoop's Chin Is Up\nA few reflections and the encouragement of Sir Viv Richards have banished Carl Hooper's blues. So disconsolate after the West Indies' first-round elimination from the World Cup that he said he would \"definitely be looking at my future with the team and rethinking my role as captain\", he spoke cheerily yesterday of looking forward to next month's home series against Australia in the Caribbean \"with eagerness\".\nWhile admitting he was \"really gutted\" by the early exit after losses to New Zealand and Sri Lanka and the critical rained-out match against Bangladesh that cost two points, he now saw it as \"just a minor setback\".\n\"At no time at all did I consider being knocked out in the preliminary round as I think we're a much better team than that,\" he said prior to the last match here today against Kenya, the surprise qualifiers for the next round, the Super Sixes. \"It's something we've got to overcome,\" he added. \"I've had a few days to think about it and I look forward to the Australian tour with eagerness.\"\nHe confirmed he had discussed the subject with Sir Viv, the chairman of selectors, a former captain and an avowed fan of his. \"I had a chat with the chairman basically because, at the end of the day, you want to have a clear and concise picture of where we go from here,\" he explained.\nIt now seems clear and concise that he will be reappointed captain for the four Tests against the Australians, by record and reputation if not by the International Cricket Council's peculiar ratings, the strongest team in the game. Hooper, 36, and a veteran of 102 Tests and 226 One-day Internationals, has been captain for two years since he came out of sudden retirement prior to the 1999 World Cup and was immediately appointed to succeed Jimmy Adams.\n\"It's good to have the support, not only of the chairman but any sort of support,\" he said. \"It's very important now to rally around each other. It's been a very, very big [psychological] blow to the team,\" he added. \"There's just over a month before the first Test against Australia in Guyana (April 10-14) and we've definitely got to try and regroup as a team. Obviously, people will take a little bit of time to look at themselves and to see where they go from here but, as a team, we've collectively got to be well prepared for the Australians.\"\nHis contention was that the team's progress could not be judged by \"an isolated tournament\". \"We've got to look back over the last few years and see where we've come from and I think we've made steps along the way,\" he said. \"The Australian tour will be a good test again and we've got the Sri Lankans immediately after that, so the next couple of months should be exciting.\"\nThe West Indies have won two and lost five of the seven Test series under Hooper with a match ratio of four victories, 11 defeats and seven draws. He was buoyed by the 4-3 triumph over India in the One-Day series in India last November and victory over South Africa in the World Cup opener. But poor cricket led to narrow defeats by New Zealand, by 20 runs, and Sri Lanka, by six runs, that put the West Indies out.\nHooper himself has had a poor World Cup, his first since 1992. He scored 93 runs in four innings at an average of 23.25, and had three wickets at an average of 55.33 and an economy rate of 5.03.\nHe needs to reassert himself again against Australia or his position would be in more jeopardy than it is at present.\nHooper CL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 147.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gwapp.org/2013/11/get-lost-in-the-decs-online-remediation-database/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BRMWRH3XTNSP4Y7JHXFSZEX7WJZLGBBE", "length": 11262, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "gwapp.org", "title": "Get lost in the DEC\u2019s Online Remediation Database | GWAPP \u2013 Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning", "raw_content": "The Department of Conservation is adding almost 2,000 remedial sites, which include Brownfield Cleanup programs and State superfund sites, to their online database. Most of these sites are classified as P, PR, and N* and were not online previously \u201cbecause, by the nature of these sites, the information is often preliminary, incomplete, or not verified.\u201d Why did they decide to add these sites? \u201cTo help address the rising number of requests from the public for information about possible environmental contamination on properties across New York State.\u201d Yeah, power to the people!\nWhy does a site get placed on the Registry?\nA site must pass two basic conditions: 1.) there must be evidence that hazardous waste was disposed on the site, and 2.) the existence of hazardous waste on the site must create an existing or reasonably foreseeable significant threat to public health or the environment.\nWhat sites exist in our neighborhood?\nI thought it would be fun (and informative) to see what sites came up for North Brooklyn. A search of Kings County resulted in 234 records. When I entered Greenpoint as the City, I got 3 results, see below. Any emphasis on the description below is mine.\n1. 49 Dupont Street\nBrownfield Cleanup Program, 2.8 acres, Classification N*\n\u201cThe plasticizers bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate anddi-n-octylphthalate, as well as #4 fuel oil have been found in groundwater (both as non-aqueous phase liquid and in the dissolved phase) and in soil. From 1983 to 2004 NuHart & Company (the tenant) manufactured vinyl siding and sheeting at the factory.\nAfter manufacturing ceased in 2004, environmental investigations were performed. The investigations identified soil and groundwater contamination consisting of liquid plasticizers and petroleum. The amount of each material that was released is unknown. Soil concentrations as high as 20,000,000 ppb of bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate were detected in soil boring SB-44. Non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) was found at thicknesses of up to 5 feet in one well. A large plume of plasticizer NAPL was identified under the western end of the factory where the plasticizer USTs were located. This plume had migrated off-site in a northwesterly direction. A small plume of mostly #4 oil NAPL was identified under the northeast corner of the factory and had migrated a shorty distance off site.\nThe environmental remediation which followed involved cleaning the floors of the factory, cleaning out the underground storage tanks, cleaning all sumps and pipe gallery wells, installing monitoring wells, and installing NAPL collection wells and equipment.\nThe NAPL plumes have now been reduced in size and consist of three separate plumes. All of the plumes are contained under the sidewalks bounding the factory and under the footprint of the building. The smallest plume is under the northeast corner of the site. The former large plume under the western end of the factory is now two separate plumes (according to the November 26, 2008 gauging event) and consist solely of plasticizers. The thickness of the NAPL ranges from 0.16 feet to 1.38 feet.\nProduct collection from these two plumes is continuing and, as of December 2008, has recovered a total of 8,356 gallons of NAPL.\u201d\n2. 155 West Street\nBrownfield Cleanup Program, 2.8 acres, Classification A: Assigned to a non-registry site in any remedial program where work is underway and not yet complete.\n\u201cNature and Extent of Contamination: Subsurface Soil: Metals were detected in all soil samples analyzed from the 47 boring locations across the site. In many samples, metals were present above the Track 1 Unrestricted Soil Cleanup Objectives (SCOs) and Track 2 Restricted Residential SCOs. Arsenic was found in seven samples, all above Track 1 and Track 2 SCOs. No \u0093hotspots\u0094 were apparent. Concentrations ranged from 16.6 mg/Kg to 49.3 mg/Kg. Barium was only found above Track 2 in three samples. Copper was found to exceed Track 1 in twenty six (26) samples. Of these twenty six samples, two samples exceeded Track 2. One sample had 25,300 mg/Kg of copper, compared to the Track 2 SCO is 270 mg/Kg. The high concentration of copper in this sample, WS-G5, is an isolated result. Samples from boring locations near WS-G5 are below the Track 2 SCO and above Track 1 SCO. Lead was detected above the Track 1 SCO in thirty six (36) samples. Of those 36 samples, sixteen (16) of them contained lead concentrations that exceeded the Track 2 SCO of 400 mg/Kg. The highest concentration of lead detected was 3,190 mg/Kg, in sample WS-G5, the same sample that had a high concentration of copper. Mercury was detected above the Track 1 SCO in twenty six (26) samples. Ten of those samples were detected above the Track 2 SCO of 0.81 mg/Kg. Zinc was detected above the Track 1 SCO of 109 mg/Kg in twenty six (26) samples. No samples exceeded the Track 2 SCO of 10,000 mg/Kg. The highest concentration was seen in sample WS-G5, 9,830 mg/Kg, though it did not exceed the Track 2 SCO. VOCs were detected in twenty five (25) samples above the Track 1 SCOs but all were below Track 2 SCOs. SVOCs were detected in fifteen (15) samples above the Track 1 SCOs. Of these 15 samples, fourteen (14) were detected above the Track 2 SCO. Sixteen end point samples were analyzed. The end point samples were collected from the bottom of borings in the silty clay native material below the fill at depths ranging from 20 to 30 feet below grade. End point samples were collected to assess soil that will remain following the remedial construction. Both alternatives proposed for the site call for removal of approximately 20 feet below the proposed building. Results include the discovery of metals in two endpoint samples in the northwest region of the property outside of the proposed building footprint.. The concentration of metals in these two samples exceeded Track 1 and Track 2 SCOs. The following metals were identified to exceed Track 1 and/or Track 2 limits: arsenic; copper; lead; mercury; nickel; and zinc. These metals were present at high elevations in samples A1 at twenty (20) feet, and B2 at twenty five (25) feet below ground surface (bgs). These two samples also exceeded the Track 1 Residential Restricted SCOs for various metals. Sample A1 (20\u0092) contained the following metals at concentrations above Track 1 and/or Track 2 limits: lead (132 mg/Kg), mercury (0.28 mg/Kg), nickel (31.1 mg/Kg), and zinc (113 mg/Kg). Sample B2 (25\u0092) contained the following metals at concentrations above Track 1 and/or Track 2 limits: arsenic (18.2 mg/Kg), copper (76.4 mg/Kg), lead (270 mg/Kg), mercury (1.25 mg/Kg), nickel (29.2 mg/Kg), and zinc (185 mg/Kg). No Volatile or Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs and SVOCs), PCBs, or pesticides/herbicides were found above Track 1 SCOs for any end point soil samples.\nGroundwater: Groundwater samples were collected from four groundwater monitoring wells installed on site. Several metals exceeded groundwater standards for each of the groundwater samples. The metals exceeding these standards and their corresponding standards are: aluminum (0.1 mg/l), iron (0.3 mg/l), lead (0.025 mg/l), magnesium (35 mg/l), manganese (0.457 mg/l), and sodium (20 mg/l). Groundwater sample MW-101 had aluminum (2.02 mg/l), iron (7.49 mg/l), manganese (5.12 mg/l), and sodium (158 mg/l) present above standard. Groundwater sample MW-102 had aluminum (0.417 mg/l), iron (10.4 mg/l), and sodium (130 mg/l) present above standard. Groundwater sample MW-103 had iron (1.31 mg/l), lead (0.278 mg/l), magnesium (834 mg/l), and sodium (7,740 mg/l) present above standard. Groundwater sample MW-104 had magnesium (291 mg/l), manganese (0.457 mg/l) and sodium (2,210 mg/l) present above standard. Only one sample had any VOCs detected above the detection limit of the analytical method, but this concentration was lower than the standard of 10 \u00b5g/l. Sample MW-102 had 1.6 \u00b5g/l methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE)which is likely due to an up gradient spill site. SVOCs were not detected above the detection limit of the analytical method.\nSpecial Resources Impacted/Threatened: The site borders the East River, but no significant impacts have been identified. Significant Threat: The site does not pose a a significant environmental threat. Elevated metals in the soil are common in urban fill, and the groundwater has not been impacted.\u201d\n3. 269 Freeman Street\nState Superfund Program, 1.2 acres, Classification: N*\n\u201cThe site is covered with multiple buildings and parking facilities. One small area of the site contains a dirt construction yard that is largely underlain by a concrete slab. The shallow subsurface soil is comprised of historic fill that contains building debris such as brick and concrete, ash, and soil. This material contains elevated concentrations of inorganics that are generally below allowable concentrations at industrial sites. SVOCs are also present in the soil at the site but also do not exceed standards for industrial areas. No VOCs were detected at levels that cause concern. Data from TCLP analyses were all below hazardous waste thresholds. Groundwater is sporadically impacted by PCE and breakdown products. There is no continuous plume of impacted groundwater as would be observed if a source of PCE was present.\u201d\nI recommend you give the site a visit, Environmental Site Remediation Database Search, and see for yourself. I found the best way to search\u2013so you don\u2019t get too many or too few results\u2013is to search by street name. For example: of the 234 records for Kings County, there are 26 listed for Kent Avenue.\nHappy digging, and let us know what you find in the comments.\n*Sites are given a classification of \u201cN\u201d when:\nthe investigation and evaluation of a Class P site results in a determination that contamination at the site does not warrant placing the site on the Registry or it is being addressed under a brownfield program;\na site was in a brownfield program (BCP, ERP or VCP) or other non-Registry program, remediation was not completed, and the site did not otherwise qualify for listing on the Registry. As an example, this occurs when a volunteer begins a brownfield project and then for economic or other reasons, determines they cannot complete the work and the brownfield project is terminated. If the contamination at the brownfield site qualifies it for placement on the Registry, the Department acts to do so. If the site re-enters a brownfield program, it can be reclassified to Class A (active) to indicate that work has recommenced;\na site was identified simply as the location(s) where a drum(s) or other discrete waste was at one time present and subsequently removed by DEC or others and, based on the resulting conditions, no need for additional work was apparent; or\nan application to the BCP, ERP or VCP was submitted, and was then withdrawn or terminated before any actions were taken to investigate or remediate the site.\nDEC offers this information with the caution that the amount of information provided for Class N sites is highly variable, not necessarily based on any DEC investigation, sometimes of unknown origin, and sometimes is many years old. Due to the preliminary nature of this information, significant conclusions or decisions should not be based solely upon this summary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 15318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hank-china.com/gongsi/gongsijianjie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DWBNLBYY4UVMOHOZUU7UTRWWKESZFVIJ", "length": 2628, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hank-china.com", "title": "Profile__Qingzhou hanke intelligent equipment co.,Ltd", "raw_content": "Position:Home/About Us/Profile\nQingzhou hanke intelligent equipment co.,Ltd (SWLTD )located Qingzhou city, shandong province, China. It mainly produces and sells wheel loaders ,Concrete mixer truck and forklifts and structural parts of engineering machinery. It is a main equipment manufacturer of rims and frames for Caterpillar (Qingzhou city) Company and Foton Lovol Heavy Industry. It has a registered capital of One hundred and eleven million one hundred and seventy thousand RMB yuan(USD16,300,000). The company has 360 employees, including 62 engineering technicians. The enterprise of Weili World was accredited ISO90001:2000 by the international quality management system. The products of wheel loader and forklift series were approved by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and have international CE certificate.\nAt present, the company has successfully studied and has developed CPCY30, CPCY35, CPCY50, CPCY100 series of Four wheel drive rough terrain trucks and HK4.0, HK1.2 Concrete mixer truck and SWM series of wheel loader,. The company obtains 31 national patents and two software copyright, including that the company\u2019s 4WD off-road forklift trucks are made to fill the national gap. The company has been awarded with the titles of \u201cChina Patent Shandong Star Enterprise\u201d and \u201cShandong Province High-Tech Enterprise\u201d by Shandong Province Department of Science and technology in the end of 2010, and has been evaluated as \u201cChina\u2019Machinery Industry Industry Independent Innovation Demonstration Base\u201d by China Promotion Committee of Constructing and Innovation Oriented Country Strategy in December 2011.\n2010 Was established :Qingzhou Honorsun Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. It mainly sells the construction and agricultural machinery: excavator roller,grader and tractor ect. 2017 was estavlished : Qingzhou hanke intelligent equipment co.,Ltd. It mainly produces and sells Rough terrain forklifts,Concrete mixer, wheel Loader, Backhoe Loader, etc. The company\u2019s sales and service network is all over 26 provinces, municipalities and territories. A wide range of wheel loaders, Concrete mixer,forklifts available at Shandong Weili World Machinery Co., Ltd (SWLTD). are sold worldwide in Belgium, Germany, Britain, France, Holland, Finland, Syria, Sweden, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Egypt, and Mexico ect.\nHANK has passed the ISO9001:2000 international quality management system certification.\nThe wheel loaders and forklift products have been approved by the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine and have the international CE certification.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://harryjconnolly.com/kindle-unlimited-switches-to-pay-per-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UGR7ECT5YW3PIIOT6DMYMBXJ2AA5I6J3", "length": 1334, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "harryjconnolly.com", "title": "Kindle Unlimited Switches to Pay Per Page \u2013 Harry Connolly", "raw_content": "Kindle Unlimited Switches to Pay Per Page\nCue surprised reaction.\nI\u2019ve been arguing for a while that Kindle Unlimited is a bad idea for writers. Instead of taking a commission on book sales (don\u2019t bother calling it a \u201croyalty\u201d, because it isn\u2019t), they set up a fund and divvy it up among the authors.\nThat fund has been getting smaller. And that makes sense, since Amazon has long been in the business of squeezing other people\u2019s margins. For authors who have been paying 30% or 65% commissions, it\u2019s difficult to work out why they would agree to bigger cuts. Amazon\u2019s idea of creating a subscription library that paid a share only if the reader read 10% of the book.\nNaturally, authors began to game that system right away. Why dump a 400-page novel into the KU marketplace when you could drop in, say, 50 eight-page novels? If a reader merely opened to page one, that was enough to reach the 10% threshold and trigger payment.\nThat was clearly not a situation that was going to last (although it lasted much longer than I expected). Now Amazon has switched to a \u201cpay per page\u201d system. Instead of dividing their (arbitrarily-designed) kitty among partially-read books, they\u2019re going to distribute it according to the number of pages people have read.\nThat improves a terrible program somewhat, but I still wouldn\u2019t put my work in it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hatta-wiki.org/~Radomir%20Dopieralski", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3BQLYIVDCEUTZDR3PWO4J6GESS6VNSAG", "length": 1922, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "hatta-wiki.org", "title": "~Radomir Dopieralski - Hatta Wiki", "raw_content": "~Radomir Dopieralski\nI started to write Hatta Wiki because I couldn't find a wiki engine written in Python that would be simple and easy to modify (not just extend). I also wanted to experiment with a couple of techniques.\nAt this point (end of year 2009) I'm putting only small amount of my time into Hatta, concentrating on bugfixes and improvements of the code. There is a number of features it is still missing, but not much in my opinion.\nYou can usually find me on the channel #wiki on http://freenode.net under nick of TheSheep.\nFor more about me, see my home page.\nI'm wondering which version of Hatta should be documented on this wiki: I've tried to keep it up to date with the latest stable release, but this means that I have to wait with any edits until the release. By that time I often simply forget what was added or changed, and I don't have the energy to edit a lot of pages at a time and update everything on the same day. I'm thinking about just keeping a clone of this wiki and updating it to be up-to-date with the development version, and then synchronizing it on release.\nYes, that seems very practical and useful. Hopefully you will prominently mention where to find the two versions of the repos for others to clone and what the distinction is between them.\nSpeaking of release, any volunteers for building the Windows and Mac binaries? Unfortunately I don't have access to development setups on those platforms anymore. \u2013 Radomir Dopieralski\nSome of you might have noticed that the hatta-wiki.org website and it's related sites were not available for several days. That's because I had to move them to a different hosting, and some technical problems coupled with lack of time made it a little more difficult than expected. Most everything should be working fine now, except for translation.hatta-wiki.org, which I hope to bring online soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. \u2013 Radomir Dopieralski", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hauntedearthghostvideos.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-visit-to-haunted-bachelors-grove.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QZFIBT43PN5WM5K2URBWL66EVMRC3WNI", "length": 955, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "hauntedearthghostvideos.blogspot.com", "title": "A VISIT TO HAUNTED BACHELOR`S GROVE CEMETERY | Haunted Earth`s Ghost World", "raw_content": "A VISIT TO HAUNTED BACHELOR`S GROVE CEMETERY\nHere is the first of three productions shot while recently in Chicago, Illinois, USA.\nIn company with the writer and folklorist, Ursula Bielski and Wendy Moxley-Roe an investigator and archivist of this cemetery, we carry out a short investigation which provided some interesting EVP.\nBoth Ursula and Wendy also provide to camera their own experiences and with a special focus on the now famous White Lady Ghost whose presence haunts this area.\nAll in all, an interesting experience which I hope you will enjoy.\nHERE ARE SOME LINKS TO FOLLOW:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BachelorsGroveForever/\nhttps://www.thepathtobachelorsgrove.com/\nhttp://www.chicagohauntings.com/\nThe show will start at 10pm tonight, (4pm (CDT) Friday, 21st October 2016\nLabels: bachelor`s grove, chicago, chris halton, evp, Ghosts, haunted, Haunted Earth, paranormal, ursula bielski, USA\nA HAUNTED EXPERIENCE AT THE CONGRESS PLAZA HOTEL -...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://headline-pictures.co.uk/film/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:SYVILZGVTMT5XPLAYTUBWVF33RPMS334", "length": 350, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "headline-pictures.co.uk", "title": "Headline Pictures \u00bb Feature Films", "raw_content": "Screenplay by BAFTA-winning writer Abi Morgan (SHAME, THE IRON LADY), adapted from the book THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: THE STORY OF NELLY TERNAN AND CHARLES DICKENS by Claire Tomalin\nDirector: Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (THE CONSTANT GARDENER, THE READER)\nScreened at Toronto Film Festival and released in the US December 2013 and in the UK February 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 190.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://heretolisten.org/topics/anger/Keeping_My_Cool.html?story_id=FCYU-2010-01-04b", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IASJKXFEZ5PNKHN3NZSWT7KDIRGAO27P", "length": 10672, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "heretolisten.org", "title": "Heretolisten Story: Keeping My Cool - Anonymous", "raw_content": "See all stories from issue #99, Winter, 2010\nWhy a phone call is more powerful than a meltdown\nI sat in the conference room of my foster care agency, filled with apprehension. My caseworker, her supervisor, and my foster mother sat around the table with me. I had a feeling that what I was about to hear would make my life plummet.\nMy caseworker had recently told me that she wouldn\u2019t be my caseworker much longer, which somehow meant I might have to switch homes. The idea of changing homes was absurd to me. I\u2019d put a lot of effort into making things go smoothly in my current foster home, and I\u2019d decided I would rebel if they tried to make me move. But I didn\u2019t really have a plan for how I would do that.\nIn the conference room, my caseworker\u2019s supervisor said something about switching homes. Even though I knew this might be coming, my breath tightened, my mouth parted in disbelief, and I quickly snapped my head around to look at my caseworker next to me.\n\u201cWait\u2026\u201d I said. \u201cI have to switch homes?\u201d\nMy caseworker looked like it was painful for her to reply, but she nodded and in a soft tone answered, \u201cYes.\u201d\nI tried to object but it was so difficult for me to speak. I choked up, on the verge of tears. My voice trembled when I tried to say, \u201cThis is unfair.\u201d In that moment I felt weak, like there was nothing that I could do about it.\nMy caseworker\u2019s supervisor explained that my mother hadn\u2019t done anything she was supposed to do to get me back home, so the agency didn\u2019t have any documents in my folder to show that my case was progressing. Right now, the supervisor said, my case was in a certain unit of the agency, but because my mother wasn\u2019t doing her part, they were thinking of moving me to a different unit.\nThen she made a big mistake.\n\u201cThis unit is not receiving funds for your case. If we were to move your case to another unit, that unit would receive funding for you.\u201d\nShe was not supposed to say that. I later found out that not even my caseworker had known why I was being moved. It was all about money, not at all about what was best for me. To describe me as livid would be an understatement.\n\u201cSo you\u2019re basically moving me to do yourselves a favor?\u201d I angrily asked. Giggles floated around the room.\n\u201cShe\u2019s smart,\u201d my caseworker commented.\nI sat at the big brown conference table thinking over what the change of homes would do to my life. I was so enraged. I never knew that my thoughts could stutter until that moment. When my thoughts finally came together, they were racing.\n\u201cYour school isn\u2019t in Brooklyn, it\u2019s in Queens,\u201d I told myself. \u201cThey\u2019re gonna force you to live in a totally different borough, with total strangers all over again. You\u2019re gonna have to wake up earlier to go to school\u2014you\u2019re gonna drop out.\n\u201cBut you can\u2019t drop out because that\u2019s just doing harm to yourself. But you\u2019re gonna drop out and have a horrible life. All of your friends are in Queens so you can\u2019t even hang out with them anymore. Your mom is in Queens. It\u2019s gonna be more difficult for you to see your mother....\u201d\nThat\u2019s when I flipped out.\nEven though my mother and I have a very distant relationship, I felt that moving farther away from her would make me lose her completely. That, on top of all the other things I\u2019d lost by coming into foster care, sent me over the edge.\nMy mind went blank. Then I screamed. It was a horrid scream that could have punctured the heart of every person within earshot. It spoke for all of the disturbing thoughts that were going on in my mind, the things I had no control over.\nI was overwhelmed. I felt helpless, I felt pity for myself, and at that moment, I hated my mother and my sister, because they were the reason why I was in this situation in the first place.\nThen came the tears. I was full of so much loathing and rage that my body shook involuntarily. The anger swelled inside me and must have given me superhuman strength because suddenly I picked up a big sturdy chair and I threw it across the table. Then I grabbed and threw another one and it broke on the wall.\nI stared at the broken piece and thought about picking it up and smashing the windows with it. My fist pounded into the wall over and over again as I screamed and cried the woeful words, \u201cI\u2019m tired of people f-ckin up my life! I\u2019m tired of people f-ckin up my life! I\u2019m tired\u201d\u2014those were the only words that my mind could form.\nimage by Daniela Castillo\nA flashback stopped me from picking up the piece of furniture and breaking the agency\u2019s windows. Suddenly, the whole sequence of events that led to me entering foster care replayed in my mind: my mother brutally abusing me after hearing me talk negatively about her as a reaction to her physical and verbal abuse. Me trashing her home by breaking up her furniture and punching in the walls. The fact was, I had damaged her home as a way to prevent myself from damaging her.\nAfter that, I\u2019d been arrested. I had practically no one. My older sister abandoned me. I cried about it constantly. Soon after that, I was put into care.\nNow, sitting in that room with the broken chair as shocked faces looked on, the memory caused me so much pain that all I could do was cry. I thought my life was over.\nI didn\u2019t want to try anymore. Why should I? I had worked hard not to be derailed by this terrible ordeal. Now the big bad foster care agency comes and tears it all right down by moving me to freakin\u2019 Brooklyn? Why should they demolish what took me so long to build?\nI had come into care as an A-plus student, but stress and depression made me drop to a C average. I managed to pull my life together and get my grades back up, I sought a paid internship all on my own, I joined activities, and I took care of myself. This required painstaking effort and persistence. I forced myself to be strong and independent despite sleepless nights filled with sob-drenched memories.\nI couldn\u2019t understand why the agency was doing this to me. Their decision had no logic to it. I don\u2019t like it when things don\u2019t make sense.\nMy caseworker held me and tried to soothe me. Somehow, I pulled myself together and sat back down at the table. After about five minutes I was calm again\u2014and ready to take a different kind of action. As the meeting continued, I quietly brainstormed about who could help me through this situation.\nMy lawyer! Without even getting up from the table, I whipped out my phone and called her. I told her what was going on, and she spoke to my caseworker and my caseworker\u2019s supervisor. My lawyer then assured me I would not be moved. She told me all I needed to do was maintain my composure and come to court with her.\nA Different Kind of Action\n\u201cHere goes,\u201d I thought as I trotted toward the courtroom door, excited to advocate for myself. My caseworker, her supervisor, and my lawyer all walked into the courtroom in unison. I walked in behind them. I was nervous, but ready and confident because my lawyer had already assured me that we were going to win the case.\nOnce I entered the courtroom, my lawyer whispered to me a heads-up to state my name and age when the judge asked for it and to raise my right hand and promise to state the truth. You know, all that court stuff. All the judge said to me was \u201cHello,\u201d \u201cHow is school?\u201d and \u201cGood luck with everything.\u201d It went smoothly.\nOnce that was over with, I left as quickly as I\u2019d sat down. I was confused. They\u2019d said nothing about what I thought we were going to court for, but instead spoke about the classes they wanted my mom to take to better herself as a person and as a parent. It was over in a matter of literally five minutes.\nMy lawyer told me afterward that the reason nothing was said about me is because before the case, once she threatened my agency with court, they\u2019d decided to drop the issue and not move me. Instead, they focused on what the court hearing had originally been intended for: talking about my mother not complying with services. Everything was done.\nThe decision I made to call my lawyer might seem simple, but it taught me a major life lesson. It taught me to have enough tools in my toolbox because when the time comes to stand up for yourself, you never know when you will need that specific tool.\nSome of the best tools in my toolbox are the people on my team. This experience showed me how important it is to communicate with those people and develop good relationships with them so that they will be willing to help me.\nIn this case, an important tool was my lawyer. But she wouldn\u2019t have been able to help me if I hadn\u2019t reached for my own tools: my communication skills, inner strength, and the confidence it took to make that phone call and fight for what I know is right.\nCommunication was crucial because without it my voice wouldn\u2019t have been heard; this wouldn\u2019t be my success story. But strength and confidence were just as crucial because without them I wouldn\u2019t be able to communicate at all.\nNow that I\u2019m out of such a horrid situation, reflecting on my actions makes it easier to see things more clearly. I\u2019ve thought a lot about which was more important in getting me what I needed: the outburst, or calling my lawyer.\nIn the end, I\u2019ve decided that my outburst was very self-destructive. It did nothing but startle everyone and make me feel worse about everything that was going on. It made me disappointed in myself because I saw that I still needed to work on my temper.\nOn the other hand, the phone call to my lawyer immediately got me what I needed. If I had only communicated through my outburst, I probably would\u2019ve been moved to a new home\u2014or maybe moved to a more restrictive placement.\nCalling my lawyer displayed wits, poise, and knowledge. This just goes to show that going about things in an appropriate manner (advocating for oneself with a confident, professional demeanor) is much more likely to lead to a successful outcome.\nIt doesn\u2019t stop there. Learning a lesson means using it again. I will be going to college next year, and I am going to have to rely on the agency to help me pay my way through. I\u2019ve got to be able to communicate with the staff in a constructive way, even when I get frustrated.\nIf, for example, I have problems with my financial aid, and the agency is not giving me what I am entitled to for college, I\u2019ll be aggravated, but I won\u2019t throw a fit. I\u2019ll use the lesson I learned from this situation. I will research what I am entitled to, print out the information, and lay it out to the agency to show them that they aren\u2019t providing me with what I deserve. At the same time, I\u2019ll go straight to my lawyer to make sure things get handled.\nIn the end, outbursts are a major don\u2019t. 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In the early stages of the project, Nacht & Lewis worked closely with the County and Sheriff\u2019s Department on a two-part feasibility study. The study determined the facility\u2019s suitability, identified its deficiencies and the improvements necessary to meet essential services requirements and transform the facility into a functional, state-of-the-art 911 communications center.\nAfter determining that the facility was suitable for the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s needs, over 70 percent of the building was gutted to accommodate the new 911 operations. The new operations floors, equipped with 35 call taking and dispatch workstations, are designed for controllability of lighting conditions and proper room acoustics. The equipment room provides rack space for the Sheriff\u2019s current radio and call taking systems and expansion space for future growth. The electrical and mechanical systems were overhauled to provide redundancy. The building\u2019s security was upgraded to increase the level of ballistic and blast resistance while maintaining the architectural character of the building.\nTags: Nacht & Lewis, Public Safety, Sacramento", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hostelineurope.com/top-hostels/hostel/18575-center-valencia-youth-hostel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4X74MYSHLY447A5SCXN3JHZ3T4JK5QHP", "length": 1125, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hostelineurope.com", "title": "Center Valencia Youth Hostel in Valencia - Top Hostel in Spain - Hostel in Europe", "raw_content": "Samaniego, 18, Valencia\nThe most central budget accommodation in Valencia, offering ensuite rooms, chill out roof terrace, free wifi and internet access. Rooms feature air-con, free bedsheets, big free lockers.\nLocated right in the city center just 50 meters from Plaza de la Virgen and the Cathedral, and just 100 meters\nCenter Valencia\nWe are just two blocks from the square 'Plaza de La Virgen' which is right in the center of Valencia.\nFrom the square you walk towards the river Turia and we are in the first street to the left. The street is called Samaniego and you will see us on the end..\nLocated in the City centre in the famous 'barrio de Carmen', just 50 metres from Plaza de la Virgen and the Cathedral, and just 100 metres from El Miguelete. Enjoy the charm of Valencia from the very heart of the city.\nFree cancellation up to 48 hr before arrival, EXCEPT on the following dates of 2019, when cancellation is free of charge only up to 14 days before arrival. 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According to the release, we are about to witness a separation into two companies.\nThe division for corporate hardware and services will become Hewlett-Packard Enterprise under CEO Meg Whitman, while HP Inc. is to become the printing and PC brand, with new opportunities like 3D printing arising. The CEO of HP Inc. will be Dion Weisler and notably, Whitman remains as Chairman of the board of the consumer company.\nThe separation allows the two companies to expand with their own tempo. Moreover, it creates new possibilities for partnerships as each stem has its own objectives and requirements.\nThere is a chance that by making the two companies work so closely, they were essentially forbidden to form relationships with companies in direct competition with one of the halves. Specialists predict the split will reduce debt at operating level and help make the organization more able to deal with market changes.\nExploring further shows that the move opens up potential acquisition opportunities. In fact, the enterprise division has been attracting interest from businesses like EMC. 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This issue should be revisited legally and each and every individual who refused the allegiance pledge should be denied any financial entitlements, taxpayer funded benefits and then heartily encouraged to self deport as legal residency expires.\nAnn Barnhardt \"Islam, Religion or Political System\" posted June 19, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://idahoptv.org/schedules/listingDetails.cfm?TZ=MT&SeriesID=10710&thisChannel=PLUS&VersionID=154779&ThisDate=12-10-2012&thisTime=07:00:00", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VKZTYKMOTQM4KGJUOYNGAYGPK5XUHSIW", "length": 1191, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "idahoptv.org", "title": "Idaho Public Television Schedules", "raw_content": "Monday, Dec 10, 2012 - 7:00 AM \"Rick Steves' Europe: The Making Of\" After 16 years and more than 100 travel shows, Rick and his crew take you behind the scenes to show you just how they produce this series. 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These men and women and other service industry professionals are now being recruited for a landmark series of clinical studies on the health effects of secondhand smoke on nonsmokers, taking place at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and other locations around the world.\nFunded through a $8.7 million Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) grant, the initiative will employ a multidisciplinary research and clinical program to enhance early detection and treatment of diseases related to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure-including cancer, heart disease, emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis and osteoporosis.\nThe initiative, called the FAMRI-IELCAP Collaborative Network, is a joint effort between FAMRI and the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP), the largest collaborative CT screening effort in the world.\nA total of 5,000 patients will be recruited, with an emphasis on workers in industries with a high degree of secondhand smoke exposure-including flight attendants, restaurant and entertainment professionals.\nStanley M. Rosenblatt, chairman of FAMRI, says, \"My wife, Susan, and I established FAMRI in 1997 with $300 million from a court-approved partial settlement of a class-action lawsuit we had filed in 1991 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on behalf of non-smoking flight attendants against the tobacco industry. Susan and I selected a majority of flight attendants to serve on the Board of Trustees. We know that early screening saves lives and we enthusiastically support the FAMRI-IELCAP Collaborative Network.\"\n\"Secondhand smoke is a vital issue for flight attendants and anyone who has been exposed, willingly or unwillingly, to secondhand smoke. The FAMRI-IELCAP Collaborative Network represents an important opportunity to help ensure that exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke doesn't equate to a death sentence for its accidental victims,\" says Elizabeth A. Kress, executive director of FAMRI.\n\"The good news is that we expect to show that it is possible to screen for disease caused by secondhand smoke early enough for effective treatment,\" says Dr. Claudia Henschke, Professor of Radiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is principal investigator of I-ELCAP and of the entire FAMRI-IELCAP Collaborative Network projects (see below).\nThe initiative will employ many disciplines, ranging from diagnostic imaging for early detection of disease combined with advanced image processing to laboratory development of key biomarkers.\nThe FAMRI-IELCAP Collaborative Network has planned three major projects, lasting five years, to:\nDetermine the probability of specific respiratory diseases (emphysema, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, focal pneumonia, lung and mediastinal cancer) among patients exposed to secondhand smoke, with the aim of developing appropriate screening programs. (The principal investigator is Dr. Claudia Henschke.)\nAssess the increased risk of cardiovascular disease from secondhand smoke, independent of other risk factors, and develop guidelines for a clinical screening program for cardiovascular diseases. (The principal investigator is Dr. David Yankelevitz at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.)\nDetermine if increased levels of prostaglandins (PGE-M) in urine, a marker of inflammation, particularly of diseases of the lung, can be used as a biomarker of the effects of tobacco smoke. (The principal investigator Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, director of cancer prevention at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and the Henry R. Erle, M.D.- Roberts Family Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.)\nAdditionally, two pilot projects will be initiated each year. Interested participants must be 40 and over, and must have been exposed-either as a child or as an adult-to an environment where heavy smoking took place. All participants will receive a low-dose CT screening.\nFor more information, patients may call the Early Lung and Cardiac Action Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center at (212) 241-2937 or e-mail coordinator@ielcap.org.\nAccording to a 2006 U.S. Surgeon General's report, secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke. Scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Many millions of Americans, both children and adults, are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes and workplaces despite substantial progress in tobacco control. Secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease and lung cancer among adult nonsmokers. The Surgeon General has concluded that smoke-free workplace policies are the only effective way to eliminate secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace. In the United States, 35 percent of children, or 21 million, live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis. Approximately 50 percent to 75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of cotinine, the breakdown product of nicotine, in their blood.\nFAMRI's mission is to sponsor scientific and medical research for the early detection, prevention, treatment and cure of diseases and medical conditions caused from exposure to tobacco smoke. Further, they seek to ensure that health-care providers ask the right questions of their patients about secondhand tobacco smoke exposure. According to an Association of Flight Attendants survey of their members, their most commonly identified on-the-job safety and health hazard is air quality and smoking. 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Through the use of a designated hashtag, students were encouraged to share their experiences and connect with community support groups to reduce barriers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://immigrationsarasota.com/tag/estate-planning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PEKCYHGCICNKEKKL2V3ZRY2WBP5SMJ4V", "length": 5279, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "immigrationsarasota.com", "title": "Immigration Sarasota \u00bb Estate Planning", "raw_content": "Sarasota Immigrant Resource: Estate Planning\nPosted: September 17th, 2013 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: Investor Visas, Sarasota Immigrants | Tags: Estate Planning, Immigrant Investors, Sarasota Immigration Attorneys | No Comments \u00bb\nWhat is estate planning and why do immigrants need it?\nImmigrants often come to Sarasota for the investment opportunities and the relaxed atmosphere. For some, their peak earning years are behind them and they are looking to retire or semi-retire. Canadians, Germans, and UK citizens regularly fit this category. We are more than willing to help our clients plan the immigration strategy that works best for them, but we often find that they need assistance in other legal matters as well. For immigrant investors, one of those matters is estate planning. We are not experts in estate planning so we recommend our clients go to other attorneys, such as Bradley Magee.\nAttorney Bradley Magee is a trusts and estates lawyer in Sarasota. He recently provided us with some of the information he gives to his clients and we decided to post it on immigrationsarasota.com as a resource for immigrants who may need these legal services. For more information on these legal matters please contact Mr. Magee: (941) 918-9894.\nEstate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging for the disposal of an estate during life. Estate planning typically attempts to eliminate uncertainties over the administration of a probate (execution of the Will after death) and maximize the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses. Guardians are often designated for minor children and beneficiaries in incapacity.\nAn important consideration for any foreign person contemplating immigration to the US is that after establishing US residence for US income and transfer tax purposes, they will be subject to the global application of the US income tax and taxation of their worldwide estate for US estate tax purposes. Before coming to the US, such a client should consider accelerating taxable income, postponing possible income tax deductions and engaging in other asset and trust transactions to limit or eliminate future US income and transfer tax risks.\nThis is one of the most common issues we come across. Standing for Foreign Investment in Real Property Act, FIRPTA authorizes the IRS to collect taxes on real estate transactions carried out by foreigners. The IRS does so in several ways, including.\nWithholding tax: When the non-resident, non-citizen (NRNC) sells the property, any gain realized will be subject to tax, and the buyer must generally withhold 10% of the purchase price and remit it to the US government.\nRental Property Income Tax: There is a general 30% withholding on rental income from US real property owned by the NRNC unless a treaty provision changes that or the NRNC elects to have the rental activity treated as a US trade or business subject to the US tax generally.\nThere are strategies for mitigating this tax burden and we urge our readers to consult with a trusts and estates attorney and a CPA who is in expert in foreign tax matters.\nSource: http://images.jw.com/com/publications/992.pdf\nEstate Planning Attorney Bradley D. Magee\nBradley D. Magee practices law devoted to wills, trusts, estate planning, probate, taxation, business transactions, contracts and non-profits in Sarasota, FL. Mr. Magee became an attorney in 1983, a Certified Public Accountant in 1987, and is a former litigator for the Internal Revenue Service. He received a Juris Doctorate Degree and a Master of Taxation Degree from the University of Akron, and an LL.M. in Taxation Degree from the University of Florida Law School. He is a member of the Florida Bar in good standing since 1990.\nAs he explains there are 8 estate planning issues that everyone must address:\nWills \u2013 A legal document that sets forth your wishes regarding the distribution of your property and the care of any minor children.\nTrusts \u2013 A trust is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries. Trusts can be arranged in many ways and can specify exactly how and when the assets pass to the beneficiaries.\nDurable Powers of Attorney \u2013 This is a power of attorney that will continue to be effective even if the grantor becomes incapacitated.\nLiving Wills \u2013 A set of written instructions that a person gives that specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity.\nHealth Care Surrogates \u2013 A health care surrogate is an adult who is appointed to make healthcare decisions for you when you become unable to make them for yourself.\nPre-Need Declarations of Guardian \u2013 This document states your preference for a guardian of both you and your property if you should become incompetent to manage your own affairs.\nHIPAA Medical Release \u2013 This allows others to see your private medical data.\nMEDICAID Planning \u2013 The process of utilizing and protecting assets within state and federal guidelines, in the event of a costly, long-term nursing home stay or an extended at home stay.\nBradley Magee can help Sarasota immigrants with all these documents. For more information please contact Mr. Magee: (941) 918-9894.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 7877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://independenceia.org/calendar.aspx?PREVIEW=YES&EID=2209", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IWTCSSCPSYYLFVET6XWJGBTDP5NN643J", "length": 1006, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "independenceia.org", "title": "Independence, IA", "raw_content": "RE-STRUCTURED 2nd & 3rd Grade Flag Football\nRe-Structured Grades for Flag Football in 2018... K/1st, 2nd/3rd, and 4th/5th/6th together. Register at the Falcon Civic Center by September 1st. Volunteer Coaches are NEEDED!!\nAs of 2018, we have re-structured the grades in our youth flag football leagues. In this leagues boys and girls currently in 2nd or 3rd grade are eligible to play. Participants will be divided into a combined 2nd/3rd grade division, placed on teams and assigned volunteer coaches. Games will be played on Saturday mornings for 6 weeks. The registration deadline is September 1st and full payment is due at the time of registration. Volunteer Coaches are NEEDED!! Practices are arranged by the Volunteer Coaches and the coaches will contact their players about practice times, dates and locations. Fee: $37 per child includes a team shirt, games + practices. Days/ Dates: Games will be played on Saturday mornings and will run 9/22- 10/27 at the Independence Baseball/ Softball Complex.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://industry-buzz.com/playboy-to-stop-printing-nudes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:U53OCRKVBHQMFE66RIM5C3T22AWFYZBA", "length": 2580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "industry-buzz.com", "title": "Playboy to Stop Printing Nudes - Industry Buzz", "raw_content": "Posted by Mary Summers | Oct 14, 2015 | Business, Entertainment, News | 0 |\nIn a surprising plot twist, gentlemen\u2019s literary journal Playboy has announced that it will stop publishing photographs of fully-nude models in its print edition. The companion website stopped featuring nudity in August of this year\u2014and as a result, internet traffic has increased from 4 million to 16 million users a month.\nThe print journal only has a readership of 800,000 people currently, compared to 5.5 million subscribers in 1975. Playboy says that the change in material is a necessary one, as \u201cits executives admit that [the magazine] has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered\u2026You\u2019re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it\u2019s just pass\u00e9 at this juncture.\u201d\nHugh Hefner agreed to the decision, proposed by chief content officer Cory Jones, who says that the magazine will still feature some racy photos as well as a \u201cPlaymate of the Month,\u201d but that the images won\u2019t be as risqu\u00e9 as they have in the past.\n\u201c12-year-old me is very disappointed in current me. But it\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d Jones told the New York Times.\nJezebel considers the magazine\u2019s move to be one intended to keep the magazine modern and relevant, to keep it from losing its \u201cmost desired class of readership of young well-off men. There\u2019s also a probable interest in trying to continue to gain readership among women; the magazine has clearly courted the market with features on \u201cwomen\u2019s issues\u201d like college sexual assault or Gamergate.\u201d\nOther attempts to revamp the publication have not done well, notes the Times, but removing the nudity might help. Playboy\u2019s largest competitor, Penthouse, tried to change the market by going even more explicit, a decision that sent it crumbling down; it has yet to recover.\nIf Playboy wants to continue to be relevant, changing its direction might be the only way to go. People can now see whatever they want on the internet, and probably for free\u2014so what\u2019s the point of keeping nude photos in the magazine? Something else must be offered. Already, Playboy has published some pretty big names in the writing community like Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Luis Urrea.\nWhat\u2019s next for the magazine? Now that they have changed what used to be the foundation of their work, it could be just about anything.\nFast Company Presents the 100 Most Creative People in Business\nGoogle Is Expanding Fiber into Four Metro Areas\nChanging the Buzz About Buzzfeed\nPreviousJames Harden Signs $200 Million Adidas Deal\nNextJapan and China Combine Financial Forces", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://info.biotech-calendar.com/draft-usc-receives-21.7m-research-grant-to-study-epilepsy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7DOATQTTFBJADC4NWJX64GSCVK2LBGKD", "length": 3530, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "info.biotech-calendar.com", "title": "USC Receives $21.7M Research Grant to Study Epilepsy", "raw_content": "Posted by Emily Olson on Wed, Oct 19, 2016\nThe Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California recently received a $21.7 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to study epilepsy. Epilepsy is currently incurable, and the research team supported by the recent NIH grant will work toward finding a cure and developing treatments to prevent the condition.\nEpilepsy causes a disruption of electrical communication between neurons in the brain, leading to seizures. Because the seizures are unpredictable and can vary greatly in severity, and because epilepsy affects millions of people world-wide, working towards a cure is an important endeavor. The researchers involved with the study, the Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic Therapy, will identify biomarkers associated with the condition's development. They hope to develop therapies to prevent epilepsy from starting after a traumatic brain injury, one of its main causes.\nUnlike other causes of epilepsy such as stroke, brain tumors or central nervous system infections, researchers are able to reproduce brain injuries in animal models. This will allow the researchers involved in the study to gather the comprehensive data necessary to developing effective interventions.\n(A patient inflicted with an epileptic seizure. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)\nEven though the researchers of this study will rely on studying epilepsy caused by brain injury, current understanding of the condition is that it has consistencies across affected individuals regardless of its cause. According to USC News, this means that \"treatments and interventions that will prevent epilepsy from occurring after traumatic brain injury will likely have wide applicability to the other.\" In other words, a cure for post-traumatic epilepsy should lead to a cure to all epilepsy.\nThe study will be led by researchers at the USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging within the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. The institute aims to use imaging and information technologies to enhance studies of the brain. According to Arthur Toga, director of the institute and a key investigator in the recently-funded study, \"advances in technology are expanding the scope of what we can measure, how precisely we can take those measurements, and how quickly and easily we can analyze and disseminate that information. We at the USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute are excited to be both at the forefront of this new era of possibility and a hub for such an important collective endeavor.\"\nOn April 19th, 2017 Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. will be hosting the 16th Semiannual BioResearch Product Faire\u2122 at the University of Southern California on the Health Sciences campus. If you are a laboratory equipment supplier, this is an excellent opportunity to meet with life science researchers at this prestigious research market and educate them about your lab or chemical supply products.\nLife science professionals are invited to attend the upcoming trade fair for free. To pre-register or get additional information, click on the button below.\nWhile in the area, lab supply companies may also want to consider exhibiting at the 39th Semiannual Biotechnology Vendor Showcase at UCLA the following day, April 20th, 2017.\nTags: USC, University of Southern California, California, CA, Southwest Region, Epilepsy, research grant, NIH award, NIH grant, Research Funding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 4077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 233.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infohostels.com/notizia.php?chiave=2631", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:M32GDQG4C6HX2JBDX4AAO7UPAVZVRN62", "length": 2361, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "infohostels.com", "title": "\ufeff You will love New Orleans - InfoHostels.com", "raw_content": "\u00a9 By Leaveyourdailyhell.com\nYou will love New Orleans\nFrench touch in the USA\nNew Orleans is the city of jazz, Mardis Gras, and Cajuns cuisine. Located along the Mississippi River, it is the largest city in Louisiana and one of the largest inland ports in the United States.\nNew Orleans is a true melting pot of cultures.\nThe Vieux Carre or French Quarter of New Orleans, the old town center, extends along a crescent shaped bend on the Mississippi. French influence is particularly noticeable in the buildings, some of them between 100 and nearly 300 years old.\nLocated in the French Quarter, Jackson Square is the main square in the old town. The whole area is very attractively laid out along the banks of the Mississippi, with the promenade known as the Moon Walk.\nThe best known street in New Orleans is Bourbon Street. This street is known for hot jazz spots, restaurants, and all kinds of entertainment options.\nOn the north side of Jackson Square is the St Louis Cathedral, a landmark structure in New Orleans.\nThe Cabildo, to the left of St Louis Cathedral, was built as the residence of the Spanish governor. It is noteworthy both as a historic building and for the collection it contains.\nPreservation Hall is an old building that has long been an institution in New Orleans known for jazz music. The hall still features traditional jazz by local artists in an historic setting.\nAt the National WWII Museum the story of WWII soldiers is told through artifacts, film, photographs, diaries and oral histories.\nNew Orleans City Park covers more than 1,300 acres and contains numerous attractions.\nThe paddle steamer, Steamboat Natchez offers cruises on the Mississippi River and offers a unique way to see and learn about the city.\nNew Orleans and Mardi Gras go hand in hand. This is New Orleans' biggest event of the year, with parades and all kinds of festivities.\nLink: www.infohostels.com/en/hostels-in-New%20Orleans/\nBy: By Leaveyourdailyhell.com\nBook Hostels in New Orleans.\nRead blog news about New Orleans\n0 properties in New Orleans\nTop Related New Orleans News.\n11.28.2014. New Orleans, boisterous third world Heading to the America but you have no intention at all to see the classics? Well, there is just on...\n03.31.2006. Hostel in Europe Happy Easter 2006 # 04/06 First of all we would like to offer you an apology for writing this news...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infoperu.com/lima.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TMZN4PZMFGRYY6CZDCSE4IP6LZ3PPDPN", "length": 6553, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "infoperu.com", "title": "Lima", "raw_content": "Even if you don't have the time or the inclination to search out and savour the delights and agonies of Lima, it is possible to get a good feel for the place in only a few days. Out at Anc\u00f3n, now a popular beach resort just north of Lima, an important pre-Inca burial site shows signs of occupation - including pottery, textiles, and the oldest-known archer's bow in the entire Americas - from at least three thousand years ago. Although certainly one of the most populous valleys, the Rimac area first showed indications of true urbanization around 1200 AD with the appearance of a strong, independent culture - the Cuismancu State - in many ways parallel to, though not as large as, the contemporary Chimu Empire which bordered it to the north. Cajamarquilla, a huge, somewhat crowded, adobe city-complex associated with the Cuismancu, now rests peacefully under the desert sun only a few kilometres beyond Lima's outer suburbs. Dating from the same era, but some 30km south of the modern city, is the Temple of Pachacamac. For hundreds of years, until ransacked by the conquistadores, this shrine attracted thousands of pilgrims from all over Peru, the Incas being the last in a series of groups to adopt Pachacamac as one of their own major huacas.\nWhen the Spanish first arrived here the valley was dominated by three important Inca -controlled urban complexes: Carabayllo to the north near Chill\u00f3n; Maranga, now partly destroyed by the Avenida La Marina, between the modern city and the Port of Callao; and Surco, now a suburb within the confines of greater Lima but where, until the mid-seventeenth century, the adobe houses of ancient chiefs lay empty yet painted in a variety of colourful images.\nFrancisco Pizarro founded Spanish Lima , \"City of the Kings\", in 1535, only two years after the invasion. Evidently recommended by mountain Indians as a site for a potential capital, it proved essentially a good choice, offering a natural harbour nearby, a large well-watered river valley, and relatively easy access up into the Andes. By the 1550s the town had grown up around a large plaza with wide streets leading through a fine collection of mansions, all elegantly adorned by wooden terraces, and well-stocked shops run by wealthy merchants. Since the very beginning, Spanish Lima has been different from the more popular image of Peru: it looks out, away from the Andes and the past, towards the Pacific for contact with the world beyond.\nLima rapidly developed into the capital of a Spanish viceroyalty which encompassed not only Peru but also Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. The University of San Marcos, founded in 1551, is the oldest on the continent, and Lima housed the headquarters of the Inquisition from 1570 until 1813. It remained the most important, the richest, and - hardly credible today - the most alluring city in South America, until the early nineteenth century.\nPerhaps the most prosperous era for Lima was the seventeenth century . By 1610 its population had reached a manageable 26,000, made up of 40 percent blacks (mostly slaves), 38 percent Spanish, no more than 8 percent pure Indian, another 8 percent (of unspecified ethnic origin) living under religious orders, and less than 6 percent of mixed blood - now probably the largest proportion of inhabitants. The centre of Lima was crowded with shops and stalls selling silks and fancy furniture from as far afield as China. Even these days it's not hard to imagine what Lima must have been like, as a substantial section of the colonial city is still preserved - many of its streets, set in large regular blocks, are overhung by ornate wooden balconies, and elaborate Baroque facades bring some of the older churches to life, regardless of the din and hassle of modern city living. Rimac, a suburb just over the river from the Plaza Mayor, and the port area of Callao, grew up as satellite settlements - initially catering for the very rich, though they are now predominantly \"slum\" sectors.\nThe eighteenth century , a period of relative stagnation for Lima, was dramatically punctuated by the tremendous earthquake of 1746, which left only twenty houses standing in the whole city and killed some five thousand residents - nearly ten percent of the population. From 1761 to 1776 Lima and Peru were governed by Viceroy Amat, who, although more renowned for his relationship with the famous Peruvian actress La Perricholi, is also remembered as the instigator of Lima's rebirth. Under him the city lost its cloistered atmosphere, opening out with broad avenues, striking gardens, rococo mansions and palatial salons. Influenced by the Bourbons, Amat's designs for the city's architecture arrived hand in hand with other transatlantic reverberations of the Enlightenment.\nIn the nineteenth century Lima expanded still further to the east and south. The suburbs of Barrios Altos and La Victoria were poor from the start; above the beaches at Magdalena, Miraflores and Barranco, the wealthy developed new enclaves of their own. These were originally separated from the centre by several kilometres of farmland, at that time still studded with fabulous pre-Inca huacas and other adobe ruins.\nIt was President Leguia who, in 1919-30 , revitalized Lima by renovating the central areas. Plaza San Martin's attractive colonnades and the Gran Hotel Bolivar were erected, the Palacio de Gobierno was rebuilt, and the city was supplied with its first drinking-water and sewage systems. This was the signal for Lima's explosion into the modern era of ridiculously rapid growth. The three hundred thousand inhabitants of 1930 had become over three and a half million by the mid-1970s , and the population has more than doubled again in the last thirty years or so. Standing at more than eight million today, most of the recent growth is accounted for by massive immigration of peasants from the provinces into the barriadas or pueblos jovenes (young towns) now pressing in on the city along all of its landbound edges. Many of these migrants escaped from the theatre of civil war that raked many highland regions between the early 1980s and 1993.\nToday the city is as cosmopolitan as any other in the developing world, with a thriving middle class enjoying living standards comparable to those of the West or better, and an elite riding around in chauffeur-driven cadillacs and heading to Miami for their monthly shopping. The vast majority of Lima's inhabitants, however - who form the very core and essence of the city - scrape together meagre incomes and live in poor conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 7334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://informationwarriors.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=377&p=1817&sid=c1414c6e461a500f8598b8558da5d521", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HNMJ65DWE57JB3Y5PKD4ZQBYTNDNPBFH", "length": 2410, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "informationwarriors.net", "title": "Information Warriors \u2022 View topic - The purpose of this forum.", "raw_content": "The purpose of this forum.\nby phrogpilot73 \u00bb Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:13 pm\nWe would like to take this opportunity to address the purpose and intent of this forum, and to clarify what we (the moderator team) envision.\nFirst, this forum is not an official Navy website, and was envisioned from the start as a forum created by JOs for JOs. It's intent was to foster increased communication in the community between commands, specifically at the JO level. We realize that JOs are the future of the community and the Navy, and if we can increase our communication then perhaps what appears to be the greatest complaint can be addressed for some of the young up and coming IW's.\nSecond, this board is anonymous. While the moderator team can access a lot of information about the users on this board, we do not and will not share any of that information with someone who requests it - short of a court order. In the case of a post containing classified information (unauthorized disclosure), we will self-report the \"fact of\", the member's screen name, and our mitigation actions, anything else will require a written request. Beyond that, if the users wish to share their personal information with each other, that is their prerogative.\nThird, senior leadership reading/lurking/posting. They are welcome to come and post, however they are not the focus of this site. It is not our intent for them to come on board and task point papers, provide guidance, or crush you for your thoughts. That's the reason anonymity is so important to us.\nThe bottom line is all users should feel free to come online and discuss whatever they think is important. Complaining is fine, and you don't have to have an identified course of action to correct it. However, this board should not turn into a bitch-fest. There is a happy medium, and we realize that at times one person's complaint may lead to another person's solution. JOs don't always have all the answers, but they can identify problems that may not have previously been identified.\nThis forum is intended to be a virtual wardroom, and as we all know - some of the discussions over a cup of coffee in a real wardroom sometimes are productive, sometimes they aren't, and sometimes result in really good ideas. Continue to do what you've been doing and this website will be great.\nIf you have questions or concerns please send them via PM to the mod team and will we address them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investors.nrg.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=121544&p=irol-EventDetails&EventId=2173627", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VAA3GZKFJLTS6RR5MCTUQT7ABRUKHHCO", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "investors.nrg.com", "title": "Event Details | Investors | NRG Energy", "raw_content": "Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:00 a.m. ET Description", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 3285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 50.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iqballawservices.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=204&p=209", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YTZX5R5IKWW245XVS3O6GQJ2SAFVARFS", "length": 1558, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "iqballawservices.com", "title": "Iqbal International Law Services Forum \u2022 View topic - Enquiry before registration by registering officer", "raw_content": "Enquiry before registration by registering officer\n(1) Subject to the provisions contained in this Part and in Sections 41, 43, 45, 69, 75, 77, 88 and 89, no document shall be registered under this Act, unless the person executing such document, or their representatives, assigns or agents authorized as aforesaid, appear before the registering officer within the time allowed for presentation under Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26:\nProvided that, if owing to urgent necessity or unavoidable accident all such persons do not so appear, the Registrar in cases where the delay in appearing does not exceed four months, may direct that on payment fine not exceeding ten times the amount of the proper registration-fee, in addition to the fine, if any, payable under Section 25, the document may be registered.\n(2) Appearances under sub-section (1) may be simultaneous or at different times.\n(3) The registering officer shall thereupon-\n(a) enquire whether or not such document was executed by the persons by whom it purports to have been executed ;\n(b) satisfy himself as to the identity of the persons appearing before him and alleging that they have executed the document; and\n(c) in the case of any person appearing as a presentative, assign or agent, satisfy himself of the right of such person so to appear.\n(4) Any application for a direction under the proviso to sub-section (1) may be lodged with the Sub-Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is subordinate.\n(5) Nothing in this section applies to copies of decrees or orders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irisonline.org.uk/index.php/lite/157-long-to-reign-over-us?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEPZRQG2IRKZBTTZG5WBZEYFCWWNTWZL", "length": 1703, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "irisonline.org.uk", "title": "Long to reign over us?", "raw_content": "Long to reign over us?\nDo you like having a Queen? Perhaps not. Perhaps, though, you like it so much, you think it would be a good idea to have two ruling over you at the same time.\nThat might seem like a bizarre idea, but in the Greek city state of Sparta they had two kings as their heads of government.\nLike our monarchy, succession was hereditary. You may feel that this a recipe for disaster as the two kings battled for power. There was some competition but, for the most part, they co-operated. Stability was helped by the fact that their areas of responsibility were split: one king was the commander-in-chief for the armed forces, and the other king took charge of domestic affairs.\nThis arrangement was particularly handy in violent times as, if one king was killed, there was already another in place to carry on as leader. Perhaps this is why King Leonidas thought he wasn't being too reckless when he faced a vast Persian army, at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE), with a small Spartan force of only 300!\nThe Romans had quite a different view on monarchy. In the 5th century BCE they were ruled by Tarquininus Superbus. Trouble started when the king's son raped a woman called Lucretia who then, sadly, went on to commit suicide. A nobleman called Lucius Junius Brutus was so angered by this that he forcibly exiled the royal family.\nFrom that time onwards, the idea of one man ruling through hereditary power was feared and hated. Rules were created to ensure it would never happen again. There were to be two ruling officers, Consuls, who were elected for one year only, with no immediate chance of re-election. In this way they limited the degree of power that any one man could gain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irondaletoday.com/videos/travel-beauty-tips", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:H7SUHOSEAGWKZ4ALHCPLQPTOLQT7FAZF", "length": 5321, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "irondaletoday.com", "title": "Watch Travel Beauty Tips | Bravo TV Official Site Videos", "raw_content": "Tanya tells how to take care of your skin and look great while traveling!\nChuy Valencia\nPROFESSION: Chef/Partner Chilam Balam\nCULINARY EDUCATION: A.O.S. California Culinary Academy\nFAVORITE FALL DRINK: Templeton Rye Old-fashioned\nChuy Valencia was born and raised in Sonoma, California by parents who grew their own food in the backyard and always had a pot of something delicious simmering on the stove. Growing up, he spent his summers and holiday seasons in his parents' native Colima, Mexico on the family orchard. After school, he went to Chicago and began working as Sous Chef at the renowned Frontera Grill as well as Topolobampo, which reinforced the cultural connection to his food and refined his style. Chuy presently co-owns and operates Chilam Balam, a seasonal small plates restaurant.\n@nyeshajoyce\nChef Nyesha J. Arrington has been in love with the kitchen since she was just a little girl cooking from the age of five alongside her Korean grandmother, Ai-Soon Lee. Born in Southern California to a multi-cultural family, Arrington was early introduced to diverse foods such as bulgogi, octopus, and homemade kimchi. These first stages of culinary experiences definitively shaped Arrington's palate development and her ideas in cooking. By integrating flavors and techniques from around the world, Arrington has been able to create a style that is both personal and unparalleled.\nA graduate of the prestigious Culinary School at the Art Institute of California in Los Angeles in 2001, Arrington's pivotal career step led her in the direction of the one person that would change her life and help her professional dream become a reality. Josiah Citrin, Chef/Owner of the acclaimed 2 Michelin Star M\u00e9lisse restaurant in Santa Monica, California became her true mentor. Citrin perceived the raw talent in his student and carefully groomed her in his kitchen, teaching her technique and discipline that would serve her always. Citrin appointed her as saucier at M\u00e9lisse and later assigned to help open two of Citrin's restaurants in Santa Monica.\nArrington's resume also includes work with legendary French chef Jo\u00ebl Robuchon at his Michelin and Mobil award-winning Las Vegas restaurants, L'Atelier and The Mansion. With both Master Chefs, Arrington recognizes her great fortune to have been guided by these two extremely passionate culinary stars who taught her a wide range of valuable skills in a highly competitive environment. Arrington is celebrated for her advocacy of using farm fresh, locally, and responsibly sourced ingredients. She is also confident enough to use essential products from around the world as the best way to draw global inspiration when creating her works of art.\nArrington is member of a highly artistic family; both her father and sister have passion for music. Her father, John Edward Arrington plays bass; sister Janet Lee Arrington excels on drums. Her mother, Sophia Yvonne Arrington, uses her creativity as a seamstress. Before pursuing her culinary career and an exceptional eye for her visual detail, Arrington aspired to learn everything relating to art. She took on sculpting, watercolor, pointillism, and photography classes, developing her use of color, texture and composition, ultimately reflected in her approach to cooking. \"Every plate is like a canvas,\" says Arrington. \"Chefs must be able to control brain function like no other, including everything from organizing from their prep, to assessing the menu and knowing their audience. I love the process.\"\nDuring Arrington's tenure as Executive Chef at Wilshire restaurant in Santa Monica from 2011-2013, she was named a Rising Star by Brad Johnson, then the restaurant critic of Angeleno. She has been featured in Restaurant Hospitality, on StarChefs.com and was a guest chef at the popular Test Kitchen restaurant in 2011. In 2011, Nyesha has appeared simultaneously on two reality cooking shows as a \"cheftestant\" -- Top Chef and Food Network's series, Chef Hunter, where she won the competition. In 2012, Nyesha was recognized by Zagat.com as one of the 30 Under 30 -\u2013 LA's Hottest Up-And-Comers as well as Where LA's top talent under 30. She was also profiled in the LA Weekly's People issue as one of the most 69 interesting people to watch in 2012. She has also appeared on KTLA and Good Food on KCRW. In 2013 she won the cooking competition show Knife Fight on Esquire Network and later returned to Knife Fight in 2014 as a Guest Chef Judge.\nChef Arrington has started her own business ventures including a recent dinner installation called \"Food is Art\" and hosting cooking demonstrations and events nationwide. She is an enthusiastic supporter of the Santa Monica Farmers' Market and sustainable farming as well as numerous community organizations, including Taste of the Nation for Share Our Strength; California Spirit for the American Cancer Society; Planned Parenthood, Destin Charity Wine Auction, California WineMasters for Cystic Fibrosis, Good Food Festival Santa Monica, Plate by Plate for Project by Project and the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions.\nWhen she's not creating culinary masterpieces, Nyesha delights in spending time outdoors and is an avid snowboarder, loves hanging on the beach, and continues to love art. Her greatest enthusiasm will always be cooking for others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 293, "original_length": 41949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://james.seng.sg/2006/01/06/developing-the-advance-research-and-education-network-in-singapore/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6JRHUFLJQ5GLOG2HQJ53NVD3VCKZ2QIA", "length": 4359, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "james.seng.sg", "title": "James Seng\u2019s Blog : Blog Archive : Developing the Advance Research and Education Network in Singapore", "raw_content": "\u00ab MyICMS 886 Strategy\nInternet is for Porn \u00bb\nDeveloping the Advance Research and Education Network in Singapore\nI wrote an article for the Dec issue of SingaporeWave the monthly newsletter published by IDA. Check out the other issues of Singapore Wave too while you are there.\nIn the early days, Internet is a research and education network among the major universities. It is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153playground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for academics to experiment with network technologies and develop new applications, many are still being use today like TCP/IP, Email and the World Wide Web.As the Internet became more commercialized in the mid 90s, US recognized the importance of having an advance research and education network (AREN) where innovations can continue. Thus, in 1996, Internet2 was born, modeled after the \u201cold Internet\u201d.\nSingapore followed closely after US and started a national project in 1997 known as Singapore Advance Research and Education Network (SingAREN) to ensure that Singapore research and education (R&E) community is connected to the international R&E community. As a project, SingAREN was initially funded by then Telecom Authority of Singapore (now known as Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore) and National Science and Technology Board (now known as Agency for Science, Technology and Research).\nOn Oct 2003, SingAREN was officially registered as a Society. It also restructured itself to be self-funded via the services it provides to its members. Although SingAREN become an independent society, Technology Group of IDA continues to play an active role in SingAREN, advocating and championing for advanced network applications and technology in Singapore.\n2005 is a particularly successful year for SingAREN.\nFirst, SingAREN has successfully upgraded its network infrastructure to a Gigabit Ethernet network between the major universities and research institutions. The international connectivity to Internet2 has also increased to 155mbps. This S$1.2M project, known as SingAREN Gigabit Internet Exchange (GIX) is to ensure SingAREN has sufficient capacity to handle the increased R&E collaborations with US universities (e.g. Singapore-MIT Alliance or SMA) as well as the additional requirements from the National GRID Pilot Platform.\nBeside the 155mbps link to US Internet2, SingAREN also gained a 155mbps link to Taiwan Acadeic of Sinica Computer Center (ASCC) and a 155mbps to Japan Gigabit Network II (JGN2), fully funded by the Taiwanese and Japanese respectively. The latter was established in November and several projects has already been planned, including an e-Learning platform connecting Catholic High School with the schools in Mitaka City and an e-Health project between Singapore National Eye Centre and Asahikawa Medicial College Hospital for 3D high-definition medical communications.\nThe most significant activity for SingAREN in 2005 is the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN2), a 10M Euro (S$20M) project largely funded by the European Commission. TEIN2 goal is to build R&E connectivity between Europe and Asia-Pacific region and within Asia Pacific-region for the benefit of developing countries in Asia. Although Singapore was not one of the named benefactors, SingAREN participated in the project representing the Singapore R&E community. Working together with industry and IDA, SingAREN successfully anchored Singapore as one of the three central core for the TEIN2 network in Asia-Pacific, serving Malaysia (45mbps), Thailand (155mbps), Indonesia (45mbps), Korea (622mbps), Australia (622mbps). In addition, Singapore hub will also have connectivity to the other two central core, Tokyo (622mbps) and Hong Kong (622mbps) as well as providing the primary Europe-Asia connectivity (2.1Gbps).\nWhile these activities are not well publicise, these are important to the research and education community in Singapore, providing a conduit for Singapore researchers to do cutting edge network experimentation and also enhancing collaborations among Singapore academics with their overseas counterparts.\nMost important of all, it has established Singapore as the leader and AREN hub for this region.\nThis entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2006 at 6:37 pm and is filed under IDA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 5111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jamespllc.com/?p=988", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UMY47SANFZ5MRHH66HATRNAVUZ5NK4KD", "length": 2077, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jamespllc.com", "title": "Grizzly Bears \u2013 Self-Defense? - Walter D. James III PLLCWalter D. James III PLLC Grizzly Bears \u2013 Self-Defense? - Walter D. James III PLLC", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Current Affairs \u203a Grizzly Bears \u2013 Self-Defense?\nOn June 26, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion that reversed the trial court conviction of a Montana man who had been convicted under the criminal provisions of the Endangered Species Act for shooting and killing a grizzly bear. United States v. Charette, ___ F.3d ___, No. 17-30059 (9th Cir. June 26, 2018).\nBrian Charette shot the grizzly bear as it was harassing horses in a pasture behind his rural home. The government indicted Charette on one count of \u201ctaking\u201d a threatened species in violation of the ESA. Charette was convicted in a bench trial before a magistrate judge and the report and recommendation was affirmed by the district court. Charette then appealed. There were a number of issues raised by Charette that were rejected by the Ninth Circuit; however, ruled that there was an error in how the trial court handled the affirmative defense of self-defense.\nThe ESA provides, at 16 U.S.C. \u00a7 1540(b)(3), that a defense to the \u201ctaking\u201d is \u201cif the defendant committed the offense based on a good faith belief that he was acting to protect himself or herself, a member of his or her family, or any other individual, from bodily harm from any endangered or threatened species.\u201d The trial court ruled that good faith must be determined using an \u201cobjectively reasonable standard.\u201d The Ninth Circuit disagreed, holding that the standard only required a subjective belief in the need to protect oneself or others. That standard would be \u201csatisfied when a defendant actually, even if unreasonably, believes his actions are necessary to protect himself or others from perceived danger from a grizzly bear.\u201d As a result, the case was remanded to the trial court to make a determination in applying the subjective standard. In the original trial, Charette had elected not to testify in support of his claim of self-defense. He will now get an opportunity to rethink that decisions.\nAs always, feel free to contact me at walter.james@jamespllc.com.\n\u2039 The Carrot or the Stick?\nArkema Indictment \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://janglyrecords.com/artists/don-merckle-the-blacksmiths/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:40Z", "digest": "sha1:LSNEPNEUNHI3WJFE4CLKWAUGKWYX2T27", "length": 775, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "janglyrecords.com", "title": "DON MERCKLE & THE BLACKSMITHS | Jangly Records", "raw_content": "Donald is a singer/songwriter and recording artist based out of Charleston, SC. His previous bands include the popular Celtic rock band Loch Ness Johnny as well as a founding member of American Gun. Donald\u2019s combination of strong vocals and honest songwriting has made him a popular draw in the region. Throughout his career Donald has had the privilege to have performed with such acts as Drivin\u2019N\u2019Cryin, Lucero, Shooter Jennings, The Avett Brothers and Cracker. Having recently located to Charleston SC, Donald continues to tour and perform both as a solo artist and with his band The Blacksmiths, including the talents of Jason Buchannan, Chris Lawther, Kevin Petitt, and Stan Gardner.\nhttp://www.donmerckleandtheblacksmiths.com\nhttp://www.facebook.com/DonMerckle\nDMBS_bio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 174.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jdbabbitt.com/works/louden-up-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DASD4L4KHJPFQZZQKU4GTDKYVD65TNUB", "length": 139, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jdbabbitt.com", "title": "!!! \u2013 Louden Up Now | JDavidBabbitt", "raw_content": "Full length in the form of a double twelve inch release. Dan Gorman and John Pugh came and worked on the art for the better part of a week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 180.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jessicalynnhunt.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HNISJDIBF74IUWIFEXGN3YUNWSUSSNB3", "length": 2739, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jessicalynnhunt.com", "title": "about \u2014 jessica lynn hunt", "raw_content": "Jessica Hunt was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where she presently resides. She received her MFA in 2018 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and currently teaches sculpture at John Burroughs School. She has shown in several regional midwestern galleries including the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mildred M. Cox Gallery, and the Praxis Gallery. She placed first for her public sculpture, \"Bound,\" from artist and juror David Deming. Most recently, she received the Wend Petit Gay Memorial Scholarship.\nThe lens through which I make my art that has been ruled between a rigid dichotomy of my mother and father\u2014the emotional and the impassive, the intimate and the reserved. Intimacy is the common denominator of my work, whether the objects were arranged as such, inherently built in, or coldly withdrawn\u2014the idea is always present.\nI share my emotional thoughts and feelings without much hesitation and I absorb other\u2019s just the same. I am highly sensitive to the interactions and connections I make with friends, family, strangers, and people in general. My sculptural practice begins by contemplating this collection of subjective experiences and feelings, as well as a dissection of my own. I often work intuitively, transforming personal experiences into ambiguous objects and making them public, so they can be reexamined and more relatable to the viewer.\nMost of my work deals with the interpersonal relationships we create and maintain with others and ourselves, which means I have a tendency to work in multiples. Centering on themes of love and family, the work explores our desire to be vulnerable and non-sexually voyeuristic. Visually and conceptually, the work falls somewhere on the spectrum of consciously ambiguous to highly personalized.\nIn their sculptural form, the seemingly soft and plush forms almost always relate to the body in some way. The internal body plays a metaphorical role in my aesthetic, one that symbolizes the way we consume, digest, and release our feelings and emotions. The forms often wear various \u201cskins\u201d that touch on the idea of growth and experience. At times, the object is the skin itself\u2014shed and preserved from another form.\nThe objects range from representational figures to abstract bulbous forms to soft internal sculptures that feel familiar, yet are at the same time unrecognizable. I create forms that simultaneously feel sexual and asexual, humorous and sobering, comforting and grotesque. They are arranged, and perhaps later rearranged, to give a different and ever-shifting understanding of their dynamic dependent on the viewer\u2019s subjectivity. When I make I find I project myself, or others I know, onto the work. My goal is for the viewer to do the same.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jessicalynnwrites.com/2012/05/holiday-card-2011/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6IVJSACYAOREV5PEKTNI4AAEFG4B73E2", "length": 2069, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "jessicalynnwrites.com", "title": "Holiday Card 2011 - Jessica Lynn Writes", "raw_content": "I\u2019m not even going to apologize for how overdue this post is. I mean, it\u2019s not like I told people, \u201csorry\u201d when I sent them out three months late (I did), so I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll forgive me for sharing this in May\u2026\nSo here, without any further delay, is our Christmas New Years Valentine\u2019s Day St. Patrick\u2019s Day Easter 2011 Holiday Card:\nYeah\u2026that\u2019s an iPhone photo. Don\u2019t even get me started on how hard it was/is to take a picture of ourselves. See picture below\nDo you send out traditional Christmas cards or are you known for sending them another time during the year? (In other words, do you have your act together or are you a procrastinator like me?)\n*Thank you, Shutterfly, for providing me with 50 free cards to send to my family and friends.\nFiled Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: holiday, holiday card, mail\nI love your cards! They're so cute! Miss you!\nA Girl In Beta says\nI love it! Who cares if they're late. They're so damn cute you can get away with it. The photos are adorable.\nI was nutso about my Christmas cards, I turned into a Nazi about them, but I think because my marriage sucked, I tried to find control in little things, like Christmas cards.\nI'm trying to figure out what my cards are going to look like this year. I'm thinking something that involves lingerie and antlers is particularly called for. Maybe in the form of trading cards.\nHahahahaha! I love this. You could have saved it for \"Christmas in July!\" I like to get mine out by Christmas, at least\u2026 but I don't care if they're not. This last year I think I got them sent like Friday before Christmas! It's a card, not an obligation! I'm sure your friends and family loved getting them whenever they arrived!\nCute card! Was your newsletter thing on the back of the card or on a separate card? I like the idea of a few paragraphs, but never feel like I have enough fodder for a full newsletter thing. Also I got a New Year's card from one couple this year, and I loved getting something later on! It helped keep my \"mail high\" going (you know what I mean, who doesn't love getting mail?).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jiayoowushu.com/tai-ji-vs-mma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JOKZJKJYVJDW2YLHQSIQIQQV2EJPLJX7", "length": 9919, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "jiayoowushu.com", "title": "Tai Ji vs MMA \u2013 Jiayoo Wushu", "raw_content": "By Frank Zhong | 05/07/2017\nFeaturing content from the Grouchy Tigger blog:\nDiscussion about style vs style is nothing new. From AOL chatrooms to facebook groups, I\u2019ve heard people brag about which style is best. The discussion seems to have been made popular again with the recent viral video of Xu Xiao Dong and Wei Lei. Talking about which style is better than another is an exercise in futility. What is worth discussing are the misconception by the general public about what is \u201ctraditional\u201d, what is \u201cmodern\u201d, and the truer history and reality of traditional vs modern martial arts.\nDelusion is a powerful influence, and can cause people to be blind to exactly what they are doing. In this specific case, martial arts practitioners should know what they are training for. Often times, they turn into feel good knitting circles. MMA is not free from this type knitting circle delusion, and neither are arts that are considered \u201cdeadly\u201d or \u201ctactical\u201d. How are you executing your movements? Are you drilling them with the intended purpose that suits the goal that you seek, be it health, fitness, combat effectiveness, or a combination? Is your current physical, mental, and spiritual state in a place where you can achieve the tasks of what your training goals require? Indeed, many practice groups that exist in a casual setting has members that like to delude others, and themselves, into believing that they are effective in an area that they are not in. Usually that area is combat, since that is the popular media association with martial arts, and who doesn\u2019t want to be a badass? And who doesn\u2019t want to see the easiest, fastest, and surest way to that level of invincibility?\nThis brings up back to the issue at hand: The persistence of the debate of \u201cX style vs Y style\u201d, \u201ctraditional vs modern\u201d, \u201cold vs new\u201d, and, in many ways, \u201ceast vs. west\u201d. When methods are presented as simple, practical, and \u201cmodern\u201d, they are often presented as purely a product of the west: boxing, wrestling, mixed martial arts, competition and quality control of martial arts schools through hard, heavy contact based, and free flowing competition. The non-western martial art is often presented as: myth based, convoluted, story based, and lacking in empiricism. This is helped by various movie portrayals, too numerous to count. In reality, \u201ctradition\u201d is more manufactured than something that evolved organically from history and cultural customs. The truth is, many arts that are seen as \u201ctraditional\u201d, have a rich history practitioners who train with individuals from different disciplines and different schools, including people from the west, as well as participating in competition with folks from other disciplines and other parts of the world. Seeing as how the martial arts in every culture has been used in warfare throughout human history, it should hardly surprise anyone that the movements in the forms of \u201ctraditional\u201d martial arts is intended for combat use at its core. But, perception in the West, and in many cases, in the countries or origins of the art, has turned traditional martial arts into something that it is not (more on this in a moment).\nTwo of my teachers have important quotes that they like to emphasize, which apply very well here. One, from Coach Helder Gomes, is \u201cmovement is movement\u201d. The other, from my Tai Ji (Tai Chi) teacher Dr. Tim Lee, is \u201cit\u2019s not what you do, but how you do it.\u201d\nMovement is movement: without movement, there is no combat, or anything physical or that matter. The better someone can move, the more potential they have to be an effective fighter.\nThis brings us to \u201cit\u2019s not what you do, but how you do it.\u201d HOW you train, is much more important than WHAT you train. Labels are often given to martial arts: \u201ctactical\u201d, \u201creal life self defense\u201d, \u201cno nonsense street fighting methods\u201d, or the more popular marketing terms \u201cfitness\u201d, \u201cconfidence\u201d, \u201cspiritual peace\u201d. It means nothing if intention and the HOW are not there. There are an infinite number of hows to train with. Training purely for enjoyment, or health, or competitive combat, are all different. In exercise programming, we have a acronym called the SAID principle: Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. You are only going to get good at something by doing that thing that you are looking to get good at. In this case, the Lei Lei would have been best served to take on Xu Xiao Dong by learning the game of Mixed Martial Arts, with good coaches, training partners, and camps. To jump into a match under a set of rules that are foreign to him would have been similar to a star NBA player attempting to play tennis against a prime Rafael Nadal. That arrogance to not prepare for an mma match with proper respect to the game of mma, was the reason that Wei Lei had to clean up his own blood.\nHowever, the problem is not isolated to Wei Lei. When we say \u201cKung Fu\u201d, most of the images conjured up are of something esoteric, mystical, and mysterious. We are fed images of East Asian monks meditating on a mountain, or robed old men chanting obscure passages. We do not have enough exposure to stories of those who had to use their martial art to enforce, protect, or survive. These practitioners were real live people who have a long history, including in the USA, of throwing down. That is what needs more publicity, not the image of flying Wuxia warriors. This would also decrease the likelihood of the general public from discussing traditional gong fu (kung fu) in cliches and idioms. There is often a huge gap between what Gong fu actually is, and what it is perceived as by the general public. Contrast that with MMA, boxing, or kickboxing, and that gap is much narrower.\nOn the other hand, the SAID principle applies to MMA as well. Since its recent rise in popularity in the past 2 or 3 decades, its most boisterous promoters like to describe it in hyperbole, with almost mythical status given to its top champions as supreme warriors who are impossible to defeat hand to hand by any mortal man. To its credit, the game of MMA is designed for this myth to be busted, with new champions crowned regularly, but it still doesn\u2019t change the fact that it does not prepare its practitioners for specific demands. It is still a sport, with rules, weight classes, and a controlled environment. It is also a sport where injury risks are high, and athletes are consistently walk a fine line of overtraining and injury, between improper strength and conditioning, poor sleep habits, and stressful travel schedules. This contributes to shortening of careers, and does not encourage refinement of movement over having a successful win/loss record. There are exceptions, but this is generally the rule. What they are good at though, is understanding intensity, urgency, and partner training as being necessary to prepare to fight against an uncooperative opponent in a high stakes matchup, where the loser may end up unconscious, injured, or humiliated, or all three. An MMA fighter would likely lose to a Tai Ji practitioner in a push hands contest almost every time, and a Tai Ji practitioner who has not trained to compete in the cage would lose to an MMA fighter in a cage style matchup, every time. Which one is more practical? It depends on what you\u2019re looking to develop, and what setting you\u2019re preparing for. It also depends on the state of the participant.\nWhen a loss by a traditionalist gets broadcasted, it is easy to have the knee jerk reaction that causes people to dismiss an entire system or martial art culture, and say that *insert style here* is useless. But is it? For example, Tai Ji trains relaxation, body alignment, and maintaining framework for sound body structure and power generation, if practiced properly. Is it really accurate to say that these are useless? Or is it more accurate to say that the HOW may not be appropriate for a given situation? I don\u2019t think any serious athlete would say that having better relaxation and body alignment is useless to them against competition. Having a long history of handing down knowledge through lineages means that records can go back a long time, with interpretations and understanding from different high level thinkers and masters of the arts. After that, it is up to the current participant to understand the when and how of the art. A little more patience, understanding, and experimentation may be all that is needed to understand how to utilize a certain aspect of an art, instead of jumping to something else. After that it\u2019s just drilling. Grandmaster Bobby Taboada likes to say that \u201cIt\u2019s all there\u201d, when it comes to his art of Balintawak Cuentada. It is just not readily apparent to those who cannot read the code. Seeing as how he made his name as a fighter and is respected by most of the top martial artists throughout recent history, it may be another voice worth listening to.\nWhat do I hope will come out of this fiasco? A reality check, not for an art, but for participants and people who perceive an art. An understanding of what exactly you are training for is paramount. Not having that understanding can have disastrous results, as Wei Lei saw. He is far from an isolated case, and he won\u2019t be the last one. As for Xu Xiao Dong, I am not sure of what\u2019s in his mind and heart with what he is doing, but his actions are those of a cheap bully. As a Sanda fighter himself, he knew what he was getting when a Tai Ji participant with no ring or cage experience was standing across from him. It is a cheap way to rocket himself to fame, although at the same time, has set some important dialogue into motion yet again.\nFrank Zhong\n\u2190 Previous Story 2017 US Capital Wushu Championships: A Personal Account\nNext Story \u2192 Pan Qingfu: Wushu Masters You Should Know\nCoach Helder\nGood Stuff, Frank!\nThank you Coach! Glad you enjoyed!\nneojavan\nWell said, hope this will be viral as the video, unfortunately people are lazy to read", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 11788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnmenadue.com/john-tulloh-fidels-ghost-teases-washington/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OICOFGGIEL2D5NWUE6QJN7DMUUT7KCDM", "length": 5581, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "johnmenadue.com", "title": "JOHN TULLOH: Fidel\u2019s ghost teases Washington. | John Menadue \u2013 Pearls and Irritations", "raw_content": "\u2190 Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration \u2013 the desperate situation of Rohingya in Myanmar.\nCastro\u2019s legacy. Cuba\u2019s achievements in health have been remarkable. \u2192\nJOHN TULLOH: Fidel\u2019s ghost teases Washington.\nJohn Tulloh argues that for Trump to renege on Obama\u2019s changes, would be fraught with legal problems, specially for those businesses which have already invested tens of millions in infrastructure in anticipation of Cuba becoming more accessible.\nHaving been thwarted on many occasions by a hostile Republican Congress, Barack Obama in the gloaming of his presidency may well reflect with some pleasure that at least he was able to bring about a rapprochement with Cuba. That was until Fidel Castro died on his watch. His passing revived old enmities going back to the Cold War days of the 60s and stoked during the election campaign by his successor, Donald Trump.\nTrump faces two issues regarding Cuba. The first is whether to maintain the trade embargo imposed by Washington 47 years ago or to dilute it or abandon it. But that is a matter for a Congressional vote, not a decision by the White House. The second is whether to rescind Obama\u2019s executive orders allowing concessions, such as travel, US investment in Cuba and cultural and sporting ties. But why would a man who wants to make America great again pass up all those opportunities to help fulfil that when they are right on his doorstep?\nAs we all know now, speculating on Trump\u2019s intentions is not so much about predicting what he will do, but whether he will change his mind depending on what suits him on the day. During his run for the White House, he spoke approvingly of engaging with Cuba. But later he and his running mate, Mike Pence, promised to reverse Obama\u2019s executive orders. This was when they were in Florida, a critical state for Electoral College votes. It may have been nothing more than cynical fodder for the large Cuban American community forever hostile to Castro for their exile.\nAlthough Trump marked Castro\u2019s death with a statement of \u2018good riddance\u2019, he has not repeated his vow to undo Obama\u2019s work as a matter of policy. Why would he? Trump, of course, is or was a businessman who was never too fussed by legalities or ethics. The embargo has been a hindrance to US business as he well knows when he tried to circumvent it 18 years ago. Today there are enormous openings for US companies thanks to Obama, such as the airlines, tourist operators, hotel chains and agriculture businesses as well as the well-known dispensers of fast food and coffee.\nThe New York Times notes that \u2018billions of dollars in goods from American stores like Walmart and Best Buy, financed on American credit cards, make their way to Cuba every year. Restaurants, cellphones and the internet have changed the rhythm and expectations of Cuban life\u2019. In short, corporate America is already entwining Cuba with its business tentacles. As Obama said two years ago when announcing the thaw in US/Cuba relations, \u2018Change is going to come to Cuba. It has to\u2019.\nThis week, Trump said on Twitter: \u2018If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban-American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate the deal\u2019 (Obama\u2019s concessions). Again, why would he? The trade, business and financial potential is there for the asking \u2013 jobs, income and profits for Americans and Cubans alike. Furthermore, it would inject life into the enfeebled Cuban economy and in turn may well undermine the socialist Cuban government which has infuriated Washington for half a century.\nReneging on Obama\u2019s changes would be fraught with legal problems, especially for those businesses which have already invested tens of millions in infrastructure in anticipation of Cuba becoming more accessible. Trump has to be mindful of hardliners who want to tighten the embargo until Cuba releases political prisoners and allows free elections. But he is more likely to take note that the majority of Americans say it is time to end the embargo and, more importantly, ponder all that money it has cost over 47 years: an estimated $1.126 trillion.\nAs the New York Times said in an editorial: \u2018Mr. Trump could build on Mr. Obama\u2019s approach by pressing lawmakers to do away with the senseless embargo. Once that happened, the American government would be better positioned to keep promoting freedom of expression, free enterprise and democratic governance, while making it clear that the future of Cuba must be decided by Cubans\u2019.\nIt will be a challenge for Donald Trump in having to forsake his blustering business style in Manhattan\u2019s Trump Tower for his new world on Pennsylvania Avenue of political appeasement and diplomatic niceties. Although he claims to have handed over all his business interests to his family, one cannot help wonder whether a man so infatuated with his own name as a brand can already foresee a Hotel Trump towering over the Havana waterfront as a symbol of American power and greatness.\nJohn Tulloh had a 40-year career in foreign news.\nThis entry was posted in International Affairs, Politics and tagged Castro, John Tulloh, Obama and Cuba, Trump and Cuba. Bookmark the permalink.\nOne Response to JOHN TULLOH: Fidel\u2019s ghost teases Washington.\nIf Raul Castro has any sense he will immediately offer concessions to build new hotels and golf courses in Cuba. I kid you not, that is what several other countries (including, BTW, Russia) have already publicly said they will do. They know Mr Trump has never been acquainted with the term \u201cpersonal conflicts of interest\u201d and his election won\u2019t change that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 10172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joyousreads.net/2014/10/02/440-possession-fallen-angels-5-by-j-r-ward.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:39Z", "digest": "sha1:RIGIAU3CPVODZI3QIEE35GHAEEUCBWWD", "length": 2762, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "joyousreads.net", "title": "[440]: Possession (Fallen Angels, #5) by J.R. Ward \u2013 J O Y O U S R E A D S", "raw_content": "[440]: Possession (Fallen Angels, #5) by J.R. Ward\nNew American Library | Hardcopy, 529 pages\nAdult Fiction | Paranormal Romance\nAt the end of Rapture, Jim Herron, our resident angel made a bargain with the devil herself: a flag for Sissy Barton. We then find him on tenterhooks at the beginning of Possession, waiting anxiously for Divina\u2019s seemingly reluctant decision. Surprising, considering her determination to win this war of world domination matches only that of Jim\u2019s. But perhaps Jim\u2019s drive to win this war is waning as he gets closer to victory. After all, he only needs one more win and it\u2019s game over. Handing over a flag in exchange for a soul that Jim can\u2019t forget means that with one win, Divina could likely even out the score.\nJim\u2019s obsession with Sissy Barton\u2019s soul will prove to be costly as they lose one important player on their side of salvation.\nAs you can tell from the picture, I downloaded a copy of this book from Audible (I had a free download) even though I already own a hardcopy. I don\u2019t normally have any problems reading J.R. Ward\u2019s books, but it\u2019s getting harder and harder to read these books. This series is pretty much my go-to when I\u2019m missing the Brothers. But let\u2019s call it for what it is, shall we? We all know that it\u2019s an anaemic substitute. For me, I\u2019m not that invested in it as much as I\u2019ve been with BDB. I also found myself nitpicking every single thing about Ward\u2019s writing in this series. The more I read, the more I realize how much of a habitual writer she is. I notice how much she loves using nouns as verbs; and the number of times she used \u201cin the awkward silence that followed\u201d was made even more pronounced when the novel is being narrated rather than read.\nSpeaking of which, there is something really grating with the narrator\u2019s voice. The gruff that comes through the listener\u2019s ears is hardly pleasing, to be honest. I could barely keep myself laughing during sex scenes; worse still when he tries to narrate a female character\u2019s POV.\nBack to the novel, Jim really ticked me off here. His obsession with Sissy was at an all-time high. Without consulting with Adrian (his partner in crime), he made the deal with Divina knowing that they\u2019re so close to winning. The only thing that would make all these annoyance worth my while is if something comes of this relationship between Sissy and Jim. Fortunately for them, it looks promising.\nRegardless of how I felt with this novel, I am looking forward to reading Immortal. It is, after all, the last book to this series. Possession (and the Fallen Angels series, for that matter) lacked the most important ingredient to Ward\u2019s novels: her male characters aren\u2019t nearly as sigh-worthy as the Brothers.\n[439]: Dreams of Gods \u2018& Monsters by Laini Taylor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jssgroupusa.com/interesting-research-on-companies-things-you-probably-never-knew/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YZDV2VKL3ZQN5P6LBXAUYQPTFBGWAYJL", "length": 2723, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "jssgroupusa.com", "title": "Interesting Research on Companies \u2013 Things You Probably Never Knew | Jss Group USA", "raw_content": "Importance of Hussain Al Nowais Business Strategists.\nCurrently, there are a lot of difficulties faced by the owner of the firm in the effort of trying to make things run in the manner that he or she wants. There may be a lot of challenges in the selection of the best methodology to follow owing to that fact that there are issues like the budget that a person is expected to consider in the making of those decisions. As a result, there are some of the activities that the business can decide to undertake, but the resultant is a lot of losses. Consequently, this calls for the assistance of a professional who can help in the matter. This expert is called a Hussain Al Nowais Business strategist. Hussain Al Nowais Business strategist play an important [part in helping the organization meet its objective. For this reason, one is advised to consider hiring Hussain Al Nowais Business strategist to achieve the mentioned benefits. The ensuing is a list of some of the benefits of hiring this specialist.\nIncrement of paybacks and reduction of spending. It is imperative to indicate that the reason why most establishments are in operation is to create more profit. For this reason, every move that a firm undertake is aimed at increasing their outcome which is the profit. In some instances, the projects may never work since they are speculations that may or not bring about the best result. Conversely, with the signing of Hussain Al Nowais Business strategist, the speculation is no longer chancy, but it is now an opening Through such engagement, there is an assurance that there will be reimbursements.\nThe professional is skillful in the matter. Deciding on an investment and following it through is not an easy job. There are a lot of skills and expertise that is needed in the effort. In most situation, there is difficulty finding such a person in the organization and therefore the decisions to be made are not informed. The outcome of such a project can estimated way before it is enacted. On the other hand, with the engagement of Hussain Al Nowais Business strategist, he or she has all that is mandatory, consequently, they will aid you make a choice that one can effortlessly forecast the consequence.\nNew perspective to the business.New ideas to the firm. Due to poor communications channels in the firm, the owner might make investment mistakes but the employees cannot help. In some of the cases, they don\u2019t want to disappoint your effort. As a result, there are higher chances of the opportunity failing and bringing about loses. consequently, through the appointment of a professional, there are new views that are brought to the business. As a result, the outcome of the project changes to positive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justovertheriver.blogspot.com/2011/08/summer-dreamin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QMIE5AIHCKBHV6KWNQPXOHH2535CIB4P", "length": 939, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "justovertheriver.blogspot.com", "title": "...just over the river: Summer Dreamin'", "raw_content": "It's been super duper hot here which means we had to halt on the bathroom remodel. Our upstairs only has one a/c register which is not enought to cool the entire space ... and that whole heat rises thing wasn't helping things. But not to worry! We are starting to work on things again because the temp is finally in the low to mid 90s.\nRight now I'm dreamin' of some summer non-bathroomrenovation things:\nI'm dreaming about a hammock in the shade, a tall (nay, bottomless!) glass of ice-cold lemonade, and a fast, fun read. (Work is kind of intense right now, can you tell?)\nHolyoke Home August 8, 2011 at 3:46 PM\nI am dreaming about being a size 10. I know, I know. That is a TERRIBLE thing to dream about. But there it is. And here YOU are! Missed you!\nThe Tiny Abode August 8, 2011 at 8:45 PM\nLove, love, and love! I'm dreaming of my bed right now!!\nThe Stucco Bungalow August 8, 2011 at 10:03 PM\nVAY-CAY-TION to the beach in 19 days...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k945.com/peter-gabriel-pulls-song-from-limbaughs-show/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:07Z", "digest": "sha1:A3JGMWRWTDMFNDKOYAYYKBNAU2MRS7DW", "length": 838, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "k945.com", "title": "Peter Gabriel Pulls Song From Limbaugh\u2019s Show", "raw_content": "Peter Gabriel Pulls Song From Limbaugh\u2019s Show\nPhoto by Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images\nAdd Peter Gabriel to the list of names of people outraged by comments made by Rush Limbaugh on his show last week.\nGabriel's '80's hit \"Sledgehammer\" was playing in the background as the conservative radio host referred to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a \"slut\" and a \"prostitute\" last Wednesday.\nOn his Facebook page, a rep for Gabriel said, \"Peter was appalled to learn that his music was linked to Rush Limbaugh's extraordinary attack on Sandra Fluke. It is obvious from anyone that knows Peter's work that he would never approve such a use. He has asked his representatives to make sure his music is withdrawn and especially from these unfair aggressive and ignorant comments.\"\nFiled Under: entertainment news, peter gabriel, rush limbaugh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kaleidio.com.au/author/admin/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:COHFCY27JCBV3HD2EQTCE4LMWX753TTM", "length": 5277, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "kaleidio.com.au", "title": "David | Kaleidio Communication Design", "raw_content": "An ideas-based approach\nAfter years of designing landmark communication projects, we\u2019re often asked how we manage to lead large groups of people through our projects and successfully manifest what are seemingly unattainable, far-fetched ideas into practical, goal-based reality. Apart from the obvious hard work and experience, we believe that it is possible to have a structured approach behind fluid, free-form thinking. We call this our ideas-based approach and this is how we enter each creative process.\nMatt Coldrick\nMatt is a composer, producer and ambient sound artist. He has a successful track record in the UK music industry. Matt has written and produced commissioned music for a variety of global brand clients in different media including Sony, Sega, BBC, Ch4, ITV, National Geographic and Sky.\nMatt worked as a performing and recording session musician, (guitarist and arranger ), during the 90\u2019s working closely with PolyGram recording artist \u201cGabrielle \u201c in the three years leading up to her prestigious Britpop award. From 2000 \u2013 2009 Matt founded and ran Absolute Ambient, a record label and platform for exploring his artistic interests and it was during this period he began to explore the human connection to the elements and nature through ambient music.\nDavid is a software developer, and a technical and creative writer.\nHe has been involved in the field of interactive multimedia since 1985, and was instrumental in developing some of Australia\u2019s most prominent multimedia projects, including the visitor information system for World Expo \u201988, CD-ROM editions of the Fairfax newspapers, EANworks, the GS1 Supply Chain Knowledge Centre, the Siemens Innovation Forum, and any number of smaller projects for museums, trade shows and educational institutions. He particularly enjoys projects which involve explaining complex technical matters to a non-technical audience.\nOn a more personal side, David has always been a science fiction reader, and was heavily involved in the local fan community during the 1970s and 1980s, ultimately becoming Chairman of the 43rd World Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne in 1985.\nIn recent years, David has made something of a return to the creative writing field and has begun writing short stories again after a long gap. His latest venture is a web site called The Narratorium, dedicated to publishing short fiction and other narratives online. You can find it at http://narratorium.com.\nJohn Uiterwyk\nJohn is a software developer who creates innovative and intuitive applications that push the boundries of human computer interaction. John studied Computer Science at Boston College where he developed a solid understanding of the foundations of software development. In 2007, John relocated to Melbourne and began working with Kaleidio. He has developed numerous intuitive, interactive interfaces and multimedia applications. John developed an intuitive touch based \u201cidea generator\u201d that created a tangible, virtual space that spanned multiple touch screen computers. The application allowed users to visually combine different concepts to stimulate new ideas. Throughout his career, John has focused on delivering high quality technological solutions that fulfil the needs of his client.\nTam Connor\nSenior Graphic/Interactive Designer\nTam is responsible for the development of design concepts across a range of media including interactive, motion graphics, animation, video and print and directs a team of designers to implement these concepts. Tam has over 10 years industry experience and specialises in interactive and user interface design. Tam is expert in the use of major graphics tools including Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, After Effects and InDesign. Tam attends client briefing meetings and participates in creative and strategic development of concept proposals.\nJohn Skibinski\nCharacter Designer and Animator\nJohn\u2019s TVC Work has seen him based in London, Sydney and Melbourne. Animating Australian animals is both a passion and his forte. This is evidenced in much of his work: as is designing such characters. For Dennis Tupicoff\u2019s CHAINSAW and INTO THE DARK he animated 4 minutes of magpies, kookaburras, crows and sparrows using live action reference. Realistic animation was required in these mostly rotoscoped, (traced live action), films. In John\u2019s films THE EMU AND THE SUN and LIZARD native animals feature prominently, the designs are whimsical.\nRobert Brunton OAM\nBob is expert in exhibition design services including design, planning and management.\nHis extensive work for the Australian Government as exhibition designer for decades of world expo pavilions, including Shanghai 2010, demonstrates his ability to develop innovative and flexible solutions, interpret complex briefs, manage armies of sub-consultants, and provide best value for money on time and on budget.\nBob has designed over 60 major and over 2000 smaller exhibition stands, interpretive centres and marketing centres in Australia and overseas. Few individuals in Australia or overseas can match Bob\u2019s credentials in this field. He has won 20 national and international design awards for his work around the world, including the Order of Australia Medal for his services to industry through exhibition design.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kidscreen.com/2017/06/06/dreamworks-theater-to-open-at-universal-studios/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WWPZQFFI5OGOXFK5B2KACZZXFRCLRJXX", "length": 2070, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "kidscreen.com", "title": "Kidscreen \u00bb Archive \u00bb DreamWorks Theater to open at Universal Studios", "raw_content": "DreamWorks Theater to open at Universal Studios\nIn its bid to keep pace with Disney's theme parks, Comcast's NBCUniversal will open a DreamWorks Theater attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2018.\nComcast-owned NBCUniversal has revealed its first wave of theme park plans that capitalize on its 2016 acquisition of DreamWorks Animation. A brand-new DreamWorks Theater attraction that will open at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2018.\nCreated in partnership with Universal Creative and DreamWorks\u2019 Artists, a Kung Fu Panda multi-sensory adventure featuring state-of-the-art projection mapping and LED lighting effects will be the theater\u2019s first branded experience in the newly designed venue.\nAdditional yet-to-be-announced DreamWorks characters will be featured in their own immersive attractions at the theater.\nPrior to the theater\u2019s opening, new DreamWorks costumed characters from Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Trolls and Shrek will head to Universal Studios Hollywood this summer for fan meet-and-greets and photo opportunities.\nThe launch of DreamWorks Theater arrives as NBCU looks to keep up with theme park leader Disney, which recently beat its Q2 profit estimates due to gains in its parks and resorts business. The revenue uptick was largely driven by the opening of Shanghai Disney Resort and better results at the House of Mouse\u2019s US theme parks.\nNot to be outdone, Comcast saw its 2016 Q4 sales increase due to a 32.1% revenue spike for its NBCUniversal theme parks division. The success of Universal Studios\u2019 The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and the impact of a stronger Japanese Yen drove the results. The inclusion of DreamWorks factored into Comcast\u2019s 38% rise in content licensing revenue and drove the company\u2019s other film segment revenue up by 56%.\nComcast, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Theater, Kung Fu Panda, NBCUniversal, Universal Studios Hollywood\nComcast buys DreamWorks Animation for US$3.8 billion\nCPLG goes global with Felix the Cat\nNBCUniversal Brand Development gets new EVP\nDreamWorks acquisition boosts Comcast\u2019s Q4 results", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://knightnews.com/2018/04/c-s-lewis-onstage-the-most-reluctant-convert-hits-orlando-april-15/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JXRNFZHC3I2UJBYJXN2BUOAHGVZZ6CL2", "length": 2437, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "knightnews.com", "title": "C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert Hits Orlando April 15 | KnightNews.com", "raw_content": "Home Business Sponsored Story C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert Hits Orlando April 15\nFollowing its hit, 2017 national tour, Fellowship for Performing Arts\u2014the producers of The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce\u2014returns to Orlando with C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert.\nAwarding-winning actor Max McLean presents this highly-acclaimed theatrical portrayal of Lewis\u2019 journey from atheism to faith. TheaterMania says McLean delivers an \u201cuncannily spot-on performance!\u201d The Chicago Sun-Times calls it \u201cBristling, Provocative, Highly Entertaining and Highly Recommended!\u201d And The Weekly Standard writes \u201cC.S. Lewis Onstage delivers something truly novel in modern theater: a story about an immensely creative mind arriving at the threshold of faith\u2026 a truthful, richly textured and witty account of religious conversion.\u201d\nIn The Most Reluctant Convert, adapted exclusively from Lewis\u2019 writings, McLean inhabits Lewis from the death of his mother and his estranged relationship with his father to the experiences that led him from vigorous debunker to one of the most vibrant and influential Christian intellectuals of the 20th century. C.S. Lewis Onstage is a joyous evening of Lewis\u2019 entertaining wit and exhilarating insight.\n\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to bring our latest production to Orlando,\u201d said McLean, who adapted and co-directed Convert. \u201cC.S. Lewis wrote more than 30 books that have sold more than 200 million copies, making him arguably the most influential religious writer of the past century. In The Most Reluctant Convert, we visit the events that led to his conversion.\u201d\nMcLean is founder and artistic director of New York City-based Fellowship for Performing Arts, which produces theatre from a Christian worldview presented in leading performance venues nationwide and created to engage\ndiverse audiences.\nC.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert Northland Church\u2014Longwood Auditorium performances are Sun., April 15 \u2013 4 p.m.\nTickets are $39 to $59, and $30 tickets for anyone under 30. Rush tickets are available on the day of performance only at this venue.\nID Required. Box office only. Subject to availability. For groups of 10 or more, call 888.294.1733 or email Groupsales@fpatheatre.com.\nTickets are available at CSLewisonStage.com, by calling 407-937-1816 or by visiting the box office at 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood, FL, 32750. Venue facility fee is included.\nService fees will apply.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kslegislature.org/li_2018/b2017_18/statute/058_000_0000_chapter/058_032_0000_article/058_032_0021_section/058_032_0021_k/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OMB7VYYDFPICWOQGFWCHIKDDLQAJDTNC", "length": 1149, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kslegislature.org", "title": "Statute | Kansas State Legislature", "raw_content": "Prev Article 32. - LAND AND WATER RECREATIONAL AREAS Next\n58-3221.\u2003Sport shooting ranges; definitions. As used in this act:\n(a)\u2003\"Generally accepted operation practice\" means those safety practices adopted, pursuant to rules and regulations, by the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism and established by a nationally recognized nonprofit membership organization that provides voluntary firearms safety programs which include training individuals in the safe handling and use of firearms and which practices are developed with consideration of all information reasonably available regarding the operation of shooting ranges.\n(b)\u2003\"Local unit of government\" means a county, city, township or any other political subdivision of the state, or any agency, authority, institution or instrumentality thereof.\n(c)\u2003\"Person\" means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, club, governmental entity or other legal entity.\n(d)\u2003\"Sport shooting range\" or \"range\" means an area designed and operated for the use of archery, rifles, shotguns, pistols, semiautomatic firearms, skeet, trap, black powder or any other similar sport shooting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kslegislature.org/li_2018/b2017_18/statute/065_000_0000_chapter/065_006a_0000_article/065_006a_0024_section/065_006a_0024_k/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:O3UFFECEVHLS6HGBBYW5ZT5A6FT3OJ5X", "length": 3791, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kslegislature.org", "title": "Statute | Kansas State Legislature", "raw_content": "Prev Article 6a. - MEAT AND POULTRY Next\n65-6a24.\u2003Packaged meat and poultry products; labeling and container standards; violations, procedure; hearing; judicial review. (a) When any meat, meat food product, poultry or poultry product prepared for intrastate commerce which has been inspected and marked \"Kansas inspected and passed\" shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under the provisions of this act is maintained, the person preparing the product shall cause a label to be attached to a can, pot, tin, canvas or other receptacle or covering, under supervision of an inspector, which label shall state that the contents thereof have been \"Kansas inspected and passed\" under the provisions of this act, and no inspection or examination of meat, meat food products, poultry or poultry products deposited or inclosed in cans, tins, pots, canvas or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under the provisions of this act is maintained shall be deemed to be complete until such meat, meat food products, poultry or poultry products have been sealed or inclosed in the can, tin, pot, canvas or other receptacle or covering under the supervision of an inspector.\n(b)\u2003All carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products, poultry and poultry products, inspected at any establishment under the authority of this act and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they leave the establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, directly thereon or on their containers, as the secretary may require, the information required under subsection (m) of K.S.A. 65-6a18, and amendments thereto.\n(c)\u2003The secretary, whenever the secretary determines such action is necessary for the protection of the public, may prescribe: (1) The style and sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling of any meat or meat products, poultry or poultry products; or (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition for articles subject to this act and standards of fill of container for such articles shall be adopted by the secretary of agriculture in the manner provided by law.\n(d)\u2003No article subject to this act shall be sold or offered for sale by any person in intrastate commerce, under any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are not false or misleading and which are approved by the secretary, are permitted.\n(e)\u2003If the secretary has reason to believe that any marking or labeling or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for use with respect to any article subject to this act is false or misleading in any particular, the secretary may order that such use be withheld unless the marking, labeling or container is modified in such manner as the secretary prescribes so that it will not be false or misleading. If the person using or proposing to use the marking, labeling or container does not accept the determination of the secretary, such person may request a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling or container shall, if the secretary so directs, be withheld pending hearing and final determination by the secretary. Hearings under this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act.\n(f)\u2003Any action of the secretary pursuant to this section is subject to review in accordance with the Kansas judicial review act.\nHistory:\u2003L. 1969, ch. 296, \u00a7 7; L. 1986, ch. 318, \u00a7 88; L. 1988, ch. 356, \u00a7 189; L. 2004, ch. 101, \u00a7 91; L. 2010, ch. 17, \u00a7 123; July 1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kslegislature.org/li_2018/b2017_18/statute/068_000_0000_chapter/068_010_0000_article/068_010_0083_section/068_010_0083_k/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PE3OSIAL5Q2ZKFVZUP7MVJVFB6MJQGGZ", "length": 807, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kslegislature.org", "title": "Statute | Kansas State Legislature", "raw_content": "Prev Article 10. - NAMING AND MARKING OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES Next\n68-1083.\u2003Designating bridge no. 85 in Labette county as the veterans memorial bridge. Bridge no. 85 located on United States highway 166 in Labette county is hereby designated as the veterans memorial bridge. The secretary of transportation shall place suitable signs to indicate the bridge is the veterans memorial bridge, except that such signs shall not be placed until the secretary has received sufficient moneys from gifts and donations to reimburse the secretary for the cost of placing such signs and an additional 50% of the initial cost to defray future maintenance or replacement costs of such signs. The secretary of transportation may accept and administer gifts and donations to aid in obtaining and installing suitable signs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kticradio.com/regional-sports/brown-earns-spot-on-big-ten-weekly-honor-roll/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:55Z", "digest": "sha1:U62KSMGZFEOPNBDV5R7O4B4SAAJIDA47", "length": 2301, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "kticradio.com", "title": "class=\"post-template-default single single-post postid-365264 single-format-standard custom-background group-blog masthead-fixed full-width singular wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-5.6 vc_responsive\"", "raw_content": "Brown Earns Spot on Big Ten Weekly Honor Roll | KTIC Radio\nBY huskers.com | February 11, 2019\nNebraska\u2019s Leigha Brown claimed a spot on the Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Weekly Honor Roll following her 30-point performance in Sunday\u2019s win over Purdue at Pinnacle Bank Arena.\nBrown, a 6-1 freshman from Auburn, Ind., put up the first 30-point game by a Husker in more than two seasons by erupting for 30 points on 8-of-14 shooting in the 67-61 win over the Boilermakers. She scored 22 of her career-high 30 points in the second half, to help the Huskers rally from a 33-23 third-quarter deficit. Brown knocked down career bests with 4-of-6 threes and 10-of-12 free throws to help Nebraska complete a season series sweep of Purdue.\nBrown\u2019s 13 points in the fourth quarter matched Purdue\u2019s team output in the final period, and helped Nebraska outscore the Boilers 25-13 down the stretch. Her 30-point effort came off the bench for the Big Red in just 25 minutes. She added four rebounds and two steals on the day. Earlier in the week, she scored six points while adding three rebounds and an assist in 12 minutes off the bench at Michigan. Brown entered Sunday\u2019s game averaging 9.3 points per contest on the season and increased her season scoring average by nearly a full point to 10.2 points per game to take over Nebraska\u2019s season scoring lead.\nShe is also averaging a team-best 11.5 points per game in conference play. For the week, Brown averaged 18.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.0 steal while hitting 10-of-20 shots (.500), including 5-of-9 three-pointers (.556). She also hit 11-of-14 free throws. She scored 36 points in 37 minutes of playing time during the week.\nIowa\u2019s Megan Gustafson was named the Big Ten Player of the Week, while Michigan\u2019s Naz Hillmon earned Freshman-of-the-Week honors. Hillmon and Brown were also joined on the three-person honor roll by Minnesota senior guard Kenisha Bell.\nBrown, who was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Jan. 7, is the first Husker to earn a weekly honor roll spot this season. Fellow freshman Sam Haiby was also the Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week (Feb. 4).\nBrown and the Huskers will travel to No. 7 Maryland on Thursday. Tip-off between the Huskers and the Terrapins in College Park is set for 7 p.m. (CT) with live television coverage by BTN.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kushjournal.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:54Z", "digest": "sha1:S7CG4XNOH7KYWKM4NMBXPZAWLRYNZZ6U", "length": 16104, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "kushjournal.com", "title": "Privacy Policy \u2013 KushJournal.com", "raw_content": "KushJournal.com is owned and operated by Domain Media (\u201cDM\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d or \u201cus\u201d). 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If you wish to access or correct any PII that you have submitted through our Website, or to have us completely remove your PII from our systems, please send an e-mail with your specific request to privacy@kushjournal.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 16592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ky.filly.tripod.com/kentuckypages/id3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RKEKDPMLWCCIWJ3VUANNBPJ33YSTLE7I", "length": 2796, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ky.filly.tripod.com", "title": "Adventures in Eastern Kentucky", "raw_content": "Adventures in Eastern Kentucky\nFoothills of the Appalachian Mountains\nBerea on I-75 is a little bit hilly and a little bit Bluegrass. It is famous for its handmade crafts. Look for pottery, quilts and many other traditional Kentucky items. Down the road is the Renfro Valley entertainment complex with its music barn and some lovely views.\nIf you have time while driving along the I-75 corridor, drop by Cumberland Falls, famous for its moonbow. Prestonsburg (near the Mountain Parkway in Eastern Kentucky) has (1) live outdoor theater at Jenny Wiley State Park, (2) a Mountain Arts center with celebrity and local talent, and (3)harness horse racing. Between Prestonsburg and Paintsville you will find the homeplace of country singer Loretta Lynn.\nThere are several lively festivals in nearby counties including an apple festival, a sorghum festival and celebrations of pioneer life. If you are in extreme southeastern Kentucky, you might enjoy a trip through the tunnel at the Cumberland Gap area. Cumberland Gap is the site where many early pioneers, including Boone, traveled through in route to Kentucky.\nBerea links\nTwo Cities You Might Enjoy Visiting - Morehead and Ashland\nMorehead, the home of Morehead State University, is within a few miles of the Daniel Boone National Forest and Cave Run Lake. Cave Run Lake has excellent fishing (muskie, etc.), craft shops, camping and hiking. Stop by the National Forest Visitor Center for interesting displays on the plants and animals of the area as well as maps and guides. Cave Run Lake is host to a Cave Run Storytelling Festival in the fall which draws performers from many areas. Morehead has several local art or craft galleries including the Folk Art Museum, a project of Morehead State University. The city is a short drive away from Carter Caves State Park.\nPlans for a traditional music center are being made, and should provide a wonderful experience for visitors.\nAshland is the home of the Paramount Arts Center which presents a series of musical programs ranging from the Everly Brothers to the Russian Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. Bill Ray Cyrus fans may remember it as the site of the Achy-Breaky Heart video. The City Park is beautiful and well worth visiting. State parks in the eastern area of the state include Carter Caves (606) 286-4411, Greenbo (606) 473-7324, and Jenny Wiley (606) 886-2711.\nState Parks in the Eastern Kentucky area\nPine Grove Art Gallery\nCave Run Lake area\nPike County Kentucky adjoins the area where Breaks Interstate Park, operated jointly by Kentucky and Virginia, is located. It is the site of the annual Hillbilly Days festival, voted one of the 10 best seasonal festivals in the state. Although the county was once a site of the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud, today it hosts a Hatfield-McCoy Reunion!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laindependent.com/events/?ajaxCalendar=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6QB46MV5JADZG3XXGFM6DCHSLFEM2QLD", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "laindependent.com", "title": "Events - Los Angeles Independent News", "raw_content": "The Los Angeles IndependentEvents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://landesmuseum.10.advanced.li/Landesmuseum/Museumsbauten/tabid/109/Default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:07Z", "digest": "sha1:44GZXDGAQIJ5AQPTGRZ2GDGM2LLDLM5M", "length": 2162, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "landesmuseum.10.advanced.li", "title": "Liechtenstein National Museum > National Museum > Buildings", "raw_content": "Since 2003 the Liechtenstein National Museum has been located in a complex comprising several buildings: two historic constructions, the former Princely Tavern and the Administrator\u2019s House, and a more recent extension built between 1999 and 2003.\nThe modern-day site of the National Museum was occupied from 13th/14th century by residential and commercial buildings that housed the administrative staff of the ruling Counts. Work to extend and renovate the buildings then led to the creation of the Administrator\u2019s House. In around 1440 a further building, with interior decora-tion typical of the period, was constructed nearby. Also belonging to the Counts, it was later used as an inn, first bearing the name \u2018Zum Hirschen\u2019 (\u2018Deer Inn\u2019) and later \u2018Zum Adler\u2019 (\u2018Eagle Inn\u2019).\nBoth buildings were extended and changed several times and assumed a number of different functions. From 1594 the Administrator\u2019s House was the official residence and seat of the highest Princely official (known as the \u2018Landvogt\u2019 and later the \u2018Landesverweser\u2019, hence the German name \u2018Verweserhaus\u2019). In the first half of the 19th century it housed the government and was used as a meeting place for the \u2018St\u00e4ndelandtag\u2019, a precursor to today\u2019s parliament. The Princely Tavern remained an inn until 1856, before serving as the seat of the national government between 1865 and 1905. In 1972 it became home to the Liechtenstein National Museum.\nOpened in 1994, the Farmhouse Museum (B\u00e4uerliches Wohnmuseum) in Schellenberg is also part of the National Museum and showcases the traditional lifestyle and customs of the local farming community. The museum itself is located in the Biedermann-Haus, a wooden farmhouse dating back to 1518. During its long history the building has been dis-mantled, moved and reassembled at new locations in Schellenberg on several occasions.\nThe Postal Museum, first founded in 1930 and part of the National Museum since 2006, has been located in the English Building in Vaduz since 1957. The building was originally constructed as business premises for an English lottery company and served a range of purposes following the closure of the lottery in 1934.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 130.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lanvienhotel.com.vn/where-shop/vietnamese-womens-museum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6FC6ZDQJTO5VPH3CHV5IZQLXPNVVMGTG", "length": 663, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lanvienhotel.com.vn", "title": "Vietnamese Women\u2019s Museum | LanVien Hotel Hanoi", "raw_content": "Vietnamese Women\u2019s MuseumTuesday | 06/8/2013\nThe museum displays rather recent history of women, such as women and ethnicity; women and the national struggle; Vietnam women association and the feminism; women and traditional costumes; and women\u2019s cultural traits expressed through handicrafts. There are also frequent exhibitions on contemporary women, such as women working as street vendors or women\u2019s place in the family. The Vietnam Women\u2019s Museum is definitely worth a few hour visit, especially for those keen on learning about culture and gender.\nAddress: 36 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hang Bai ward, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi ( open from 8am o 5pm, Monday to Sunday)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://latravelmagazine.com/the-broadmoor-colorado-springs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:CMZRTQXW5HMRQP6MPQ2ON2V4LGXXZ4BG", "length": 3240, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "latravelmagazine.com", "title": "The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs | Los Angeles Travel Magazine", "raw_content": "Hotels, Pet Friendly\nPosted on February 15, 2014 July 21, 2015 by LA Travel Magazine\nSituated between picturesque mountains, streams and canyons, The Broadmoor dates back to 1918 and still offers guest a way to experience the beauty of the American West in Colorado Springs. The hotel features 754 guest rooms, suites, cottages and ranch accommodations providing modern amenities in a rustic and charming setting. Views of Cheyenne Mountain and Cheyenne Lake can be seen from some of the spacious rooms while plush furnishings inside make for a relaxing stay.\nFamilies that wish to have a home away from home experience can choose to stay at The Broadmoor Cottages. One to eight bedroom cottages feature high-beamed ceilings, wood floors and natural stone fireplaces for a welcoming environment. Guests are welcome to bring their dogs, as The Broadmoor is a pet-friendly luxury property. Outdoor patios overlooking the East Golf Course with a beautiful backdrop of towering mountains enhance the charming accommodations.\nNine dining experiences can be found on the property offering classic pub fare to steakhouse favorites and an extensive Sunday Brunch. The formal Penrose Room has been serving classic fine dining since 1961 and is the only Five-Star and Five-Diamond restaurant in Colorado. An extensive European wine list can be enjoyed with high-end dishes, live entertainment and dancing. For Italian cuisine try Ristorante Del Lago featuring four courses of fine Italian dishes. The contemporary restaurant, Summit, offers classic American dishes with seasonal selections from across the country. Steaks and seafood can be found at the Tavern, established in 1939 this restaurant offers a bourbon selection with live music Friday through Sunday nights. For breakfast, wake up to Lake Terrace for Sunday Brunch with over 150 items to choose from in an elegant dining room. Discover other dining options including: Play, Golden Bee, Golf Club Dining, and the Mountain Clubhouse.\nIf activity sounds better than restaurant hopping avid golfers will be delighted with the legendary golf courses available. The original Broadmoor Golf Club\u2019s 18-hole course was designed in 1916 and was followed by the 1918 opening of Broadmoor East, the highest golf course in the United States at 6,400 feet in elevation. In 1948 a third golf course was designed with nine holes but was later joined with the original holes and opened in 1952 as the new East Course. Professional instructions are available for newcomers to enjoy the historical courses as well.\nPamper yourself during a holistic spa treatment where guests can design their own perfect day of relaxation at the hotel\u2019s spa resort. Explore the hotels salon services including manicures, makeup applications, waxing, haircuts and color and even an in-room salon appointment. Whatever the occasion, The Broadmoor has a luxurious service for every guest.\nWith an incredible surrounding of natural elements, The Broadmoor is the perfect place to explore. Nestled on 3,000 acres under the Cheyenne Mountains, The Broadmoor is the premier lodging choice for anyone who enjoys a scenic vacation full of adventure and beauty.\nThis entry was posted in Hotels, Pet Friendly. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lattimergallery.blogspot.com/2011/09/impressive-northwest-coast-objects-at.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TZE7SSWSY3V7B2IKRE5PMMDCZFVGN27R", "length": 1527, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lattimergallery.blogspot.com", "title": "LATTIMER GALLERY: Impressive Northwest Coast objects at the Vancouver Art Gallery", "raw_content": "Impressive Northwest Coast objects at the Vancouver Art Gallery\nIf you haven't seen it already, make sure to spend some time perusing the spectacular Northwest Coast ceremonial objects at the Vancouver Art Gallery's current exhibition, The Colour of My Dreams. Guest curated by Dawn Ades, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of Surrealist art to ever be shown in Canada.\nArtists of the 1930s Surrealist movement, such as Salvador Dali and Andre Breton, found themselves to be fascinated with the passion behind the creation of Northwest Coast art. These artists were avid collectors who found indigenous ceremonial objects to be especially aesthically pleasing and inventive. Included in the exhibition are several of these pieces from their collections such as this Kwakwaka'wakw headdress which was once confiscated by the Canadian government in 1922 during the potlatch ban. It has since been returned to the Kwakwaka'wakw people and has been lent by the U'Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay for the duration of the exhibit. This exhibition is rich with history and provides an interesting, informative perspective on the role of Northwest Coast art within the Surrealist movement.\nThe exhibit is on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery until October 2, 2011. Since it's not travelling, it would be worth the effort to see these impressive works!\nPhoto credit: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kwakwaka'wakw Ya x wiwe' (Peace Dance Headdress) 1922\nLabels: Northwest Coast Art, Surrealist art, Vancouver Art Gallery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2012/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CFB2CX2MMM5E5NJQQVEGQS5CGE2OYILH", "length": 29502, "nlines": 111, "source_domain": "laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com", "title": "Laura's Miscellaneous Musings: December 2012", "raw_content": "Tonight's Movie: Airport '77 (1977)\nOur family's New Year's Eve traditions the last few years generally involve Honeybaked ham and a disaster movie, followed by toasting with Martinelli's at midnight.\nOver the last several years we've spent New Year's Eve watching EARTHQUAKE (1974), CRACK IN THE WORLD (1965), THE CROWDED SKY (1960), ZERO HOUR! (1957), SKYJACKED (1972), and TWISTER (1996).\nLate tonight was spent watching AIRPORT '77, which we found to be a lot of fun, if slightly overlong at 114 minutes. They just had to draw out the suspense with one more \"gotcha\" near the end!\nJack Lemmon stars as Captain Don Gallagher, piloting a private luxury jet owned by corporate tycoon Philip Stevens (James Stewart). The plane is carrying a load of VIPs and some priceless artwork to Stevens' new museum. (I found a post listing the addresses of various locations from the film, including the museum.) Among those on board are Stevens' daughter Lisa (Pamela Bellwood, later of DYNASTY) and her little boy Benjy (Anthony Battaglia).\nAlso on board are art critic Emily Livingston (Olivia de Havilland), who is reunited with a flame from decades earlier, Nicholas St. Downs III (Joseph Cotten); the alcoholic wife (Lee Grant) of an executive (Christopher Lee); and Stan Buchek (Darren McGavin), who knows all about the plane and becomes the pilot's righthand man when the going gets tough.\nThere are a bunch of art thieves on board, including the copilot (Robert Foxworth of FALCON CREST), and they knock out the rest of the crew and temporarily gas the passengers into unconsciousness. While flying at low altitude in order to escape radar detection, the wing clips an oil rig and next thing you know, the plane, still intact, is sitting on the floor of shallow ocean waters -- and for good measure, they're in the Bermuda Triangle!\nFans of AIRPORT films won't be surprised that this is a case for Joe Patroni (George Kennedy)! Although as it turns out, he really doesn't play a significant role and has little more than a cameo. The rescue is led from inside by the captain, who manages to get off the plane with a raft with a beeping radio, then leads U.S. Navy dive teams in raising the plane to the surface. Captain Dan can do it all, by golly!\nLemmon is excellent in the lead role, totally committed to the part and selling a somewhat unbelievable story (but when it comes to AIRPORT films, aren't they all?!). I thought he did a terrific job. And he looks so very '70s in his mustache!\nOther than Lemmon, the greatest pleasure for me was watching Stewart, de Havilland, and Cotten, who have a reasonable amount of screen time; de Havilland, in particular, gets a chance to shine as a ladylike woman who also plays a mean game of poker. I also particularly enjoyed McGavin. Lee Grant, with apologies to the lady, is boring in what should be a flashy role as the unhappy wife.\nThis film follows in the tradition of having a musician on board, and instead of Helen Reddy as a singing nun (AIRPORT 1975), we have the blind singer-pianist Tom Sullivan, who briefly finds love with young Kathleen Quinlan.\nBrenda Vaccaro plays Lemmon's live-in love whom he'd like to marry, prompting a family discussion that back in the '70s, living together sans marriage was shocking enough to make this movie seem \"edgy\" in its day; now, of course, it's completely commonplace so the movie loses a tiny bit in the translation without that context.\nThe other cast members include Maidie Norman, Gil Gerard, Elizabeth Cheshire, Monica Lewis, Arlene Golonka, and Monte Markham. Longtime Western stuntman Chuck Hayward is one of the passengers.\nIt's all a bit hokey and improbable, yet, as is the case with so many films of this genre, it's also quite entertaining. Even the sillier aspects help make it fun to watch, and it's also enjoyable recognizing the various faces from movies and TV. I commented to a family member that I wonder what it says about me that I enjoyed this film so much more than the \"classic\" STALAG 17 (1953), watched earlier in the day. But there you have it!\nWe rented AIRPORT '77 for streaming from Amazon Instant Video via our Roku. It was a beautiful widescreen print, and we were very happy with the experience.\nIt's been released on DVD in various versions, including a four-film \"Airport Terminal Pack,\" but be on the alert that my favorite AIRPORT film, AIRPORT 1975 (1974), is the wrong screen ratio in this set. (And they misspell Concorde on the box!) AIRPORT '77 has also had a release on VHS.\nRecommended as a fun time for those who enjoy the AIRPORT movies.\nTonight's Movie: Les Miserables (2012)\nThis New Year's Eve I went to see LES MISERABLES with great anticipation, and I found it a very worthwhile and enjoyable experience. It was a great pleasure spending this afternoon once again immersed in the moving story and beautiful music of this special musical.\nI came to the film having seen the musical on stage twice; the first time was at the now-gone Shubert Theatre in Century City, circa 1988-89, and the second time was a production at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in 1991. That particular version, which starred country singer Gary Morris as Valjean, ranks among the top three stage productions I've ever seen of any show; it was a transcendent experience of such beauty that I cried pretty much from start to finish. (The L.A. Times, in its rave review, noted Morris's \"towering presence.\") The memory of that experience is such that to date I've been unwilling to see the show on stage again, as nothing could match it, but recently I've started to feel the yen to see LES MIS once more, so the movie came along at just the right time.\nThe film version was completely absorbing, strongly holding my attention for all of its 157 minutes. I liked the film very much, though I didn't find it a complete success; for sections of the film I felt more as though I were an interested observer than totally emotionally committed. That said, when the movie was good, it was very, very good, and there were moments, particularly Valjean's death scene, when it reached the heights.\nI'll tackle my issues with this version before moving on to what I liked. First, as others have noted, director Tom Hooper is too much in love with closeups. One of my daughters commented that it was as though he was afraid to lose capturing the performances and the much-ballyhooed live singing by pulling back the camera.\nThere was an overabundance of shots of tear-stained faces, and while there were moments when that style of filming was beautifully appropriate -- particularly that final scene between Valjean, Cosette, and Marius -- there were times I would have really appreciated a wider shot and more visual context. For instance, \"A Heart Full of Love\" would have been very satisfying if the three actors were seen in a wider master shot some of the time, instead of cutting back and forth among closeups. After all, LES MISERABLES has had no trouble being exceptionally moving on the stage, when many in the audience are at a great distance from the actors.\nThe lack of distance was interesting in another way, in that things such as Fantine's travails and the Thenardiers' grossness are treated in a more \"impressionistic\" way on stage. It was more difficult to watch these moments treated more realistically on screen -- all the more so as the viewer's face is up so close to the sausage-making, literally and figuratively. The less seen on screen of Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen as the cartoonish Thenardiers, the better.\nFinally, when the camera does pull back, the film's look was such that I was too aware that I was watching a \"CGI\" world. I couldn't help speculating in some scenes, such as Javert overlooking the city, as to how much was real and how much was green screened. I suppose that was the only way to simultaneously film outdoors and go back in time to such an extent, but I found it a distraction.\nReally, though, these are fairly minor quibbles in a brave, bold filming of a classic musical, in an era when screen musicals are all too rare.\nAlthough I thought that the live singing was more of a marketing angle than anything else -- does anyone really care that Julie Andrews couldn't sing \"The hills are alive\" live because the helicopter would have drowned her out?! -- this technique did have its impressive aspects. Anne Hathaway's rendition of \"I Dreamed a Dream,\" shot in a continuous long take, is a remarkable achievement for an actress not known as a singer, and I will be quite surprised if it doesn't net her an Oscar.\nWhile I had an issue with so many closeups, in \"I Dreamed a Dream\" the close angle was very appropriate, and the flip side of the closeups is that I admire director Hooper's willingness to stay with the actors for extended periods and not use overediting as a crutch. A decade ago CHICAGO (2002) was interesting but arrived on screen as more of an extremely long music video than a true musical, with the dizzying hyperediting preventing the viewer from truly enjoying and/or assessing things such as Catherine Zeta-Jones' dancing ability. Hooper allows the viewer to stay with the actors and really \"see\" their performances and singing, and for this he should be commended.\nHugh Jackman was a perfect Jean Valjean, excellent in terms of both performance and singing. As a side note, the brief song added, with Valjean musing on the wonder of having suddenly become a parent, worked well. The casting of Colm Wilkinson, the original Valjean of both the West End and Broadway stage productions, in the small but key role as the bishop added an extra layer of emotion to the scene spurring Valjean's transformation.\nI was deeply impressed by Eddie Redmayne (MY WEEK WITH MARILYN) as Marius; he was a fine singer and completely believable, a really outstanding performance in every way. Samantha Barks, as Eponine, appeared very much at home on screen, despite this being her first film role, and I liked that she sang Eponine's songs with some restraint, as they are often simply belted out. Isabelle Allen made an excellent young Cosette.\nI also very much liked Amanda Seyfried, who was visually perfect as the older Cosette; I felt as though a couple sections of her songs needed to have the range lowered, but overall I was pleased with the casting.\nThe biggest surprise for me was Russell Crowe as Javert. There had been whispers in social media that he might not be up to par as a singer, especially given that early trailers didn't include his singing, and at least one reviewer mused as to whether Crowe's \"rock star baritone\" was right for the part. Crowe's singing was just fine and in fact his rendition of \"Stars\" was one of the highlights of the film for me, movingly performed both vocally and emotionally. Other actors might be more polished singers, but this is simply one version, one interpretation among many Javerts over the years, and I completely bought in to Crowe in the role.\nMy favorite scenes included the confrontation between Valjean and Javert at Fantine's deathbed, which was excellent even though the staging necessitated that the song be somewhat cut off, and Valjean's death scene, as Cosette learns the full truth from Marius. I initially was trying to hold back the tears there, then thought \"Oh, just go with it!\" and let the tears flow. Between LES MIS and DARK VICTORY (1939) there were quite a few tears shed watching movies over the last couple days!\nAs an aside, I watched the trailers several times apiece in recent months and noticed that some bits in the trailers weren't in the final film version, including a scene where Marius asks Eponine about Cosette when he first sees her. I was also curious about the absence of some lyrics, particularly Valjean's deathbed scene, where the words \"It's the story of those who always loved you, your mother gave her life for you...\" are missing.\nParental advisory: This film is rated PG-13 for suggestive sexual material, mostly relating to Fantine, who turns to prostitution to obtain money to save her daughter Cosette. Beyond that, it's a classic story and musical with beautiful themes about mercy, forgiveness, and redemption which are of value for all viewers.\nIt would be very interesting if -- just as there have been many stage productions around the world -- one day another cast and crew tackles this musical to see what other ideas might work in bringing it to the screen. In the meantime, this version of LES MISERABLES is an excellent movie in fairly lean times for quality films, and an even more rare modern movie musical, and I have no hesitation in strongly recommending it.\nTonight's Movie: Stalag 17 (1953)\nThis New Year's Eve I enjoyed a rare triple bill, two films at home and one in a theater.\nFirst up for review is the very last film from my list of 10 Classics for 2012! I successfully accomplished my goal of seeing 10 specific classics for the first time this year, and while I didn't enjoy all the films on the list, I'm glad I saw and became familiar with them firsthand.\nSTALAG 17 falls in the \"didn't enjoy\" half of the list. While I liked certain aspects of it, the tedious dumbbell humor just about ruined it for me; I might as well have been watching HOGAN'S HEROES at times -- which is not a compliment, in my view. And, frankly, I didn't find the concentration camp setting easy to watch either.\nThe movie concerns a group of Americans held in a German prisoner of war camp during WWII. Somehow the Germans always seem to know what is going on in the men's bunkhouse, and after a failed escape attempt by two of the men, suspicion turns to Sgt. J.J. Sefton (William Holden). Sefton wheels and deals for small creature comforts, and the men suspect he may be selling out to the Germans in order to obtain his little luxuries.\nThe true culprit is eventually revealed as the POWs plot to rescue an officer (Don Taylor) who blew up an enemy army depot and is about to be \"disappeared\" by the Germans.\nHolden, the winner of a Best Actor Oscar, is excellent as the wheeler-dealer who keeps mostly to himself, other than his friendship with his righthand man, \"Cookie\" (Gil Stratton). The more intelligent sections of the movie, in which Holden's character plays detective, were really interesting; the moment where Sefton watches the light bulb swinging, as a light bulb figuratively turns on in his head, is classic. I also really liked Richard Erdman as the sergeant in command of the group.\nUnfortunately, the movie is dominated by Harvey Lembeck and Robert Strauss as two goofball sergeants, and I do not \"get\" their type of humor at all. Their \"comic\" scenes went on so long that at times I hit the fast forward button just to get back to William Holden. Strauss was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and I just can't see it. Humor is a fairly individual thing and according to some film references, these actors are hilarious, so others may well find them enjoyable! Honestly, they bored me silly.\nSecond-billed Don Taylor arrives well into the film and only has a handful of scenes; I assume he was cast as he could successfully convey the authority and confidence of an officer from a wealthy background, but since I like him it was a bit of a disappointment that his role was so small in proportion to his billing.\nThe cast includes director Otto Preminger as the camp commandant, Sig Ruman as Sergeant Schulz (who I assume inspired the Sergeant Schulz of HOGAN'S HEROES), plus Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Michael Moore, and Peter Baldwin (GENERAL HOSPITAL). Robert Mitchum's brother John is one of the many POWs.\nSTALAG 17 was cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder, based on a play -- which, incidentally, was directed by Jose Ferrer. The film runs 120 minutes.\nI watched STALAG 17 on a Collector's Edition DVD. Extras include a commentary track with Richard Erdman, Gil Stratton, and one of the original playwrights. The DVD can be rented from Netflix.\nSTALAG 17 has been shown on TCM in the Essentials series. A re-issue trailer can be seen here.\nHere's beautiful Joan Leslie, celebrating New Year's Eve in style:\nTonight's Movie: Dark Victory (1939)\nThe year has nearly drawn to a close, and with tonight's viewing of DARK VICTORY, I've also nearly come to the end of my list of 10 Classics for 2012.\nDARK VICTORY is polished classic-era filmmaking at its best, certainly one of the films on the above-mentioned list which I have enjoyed the most, despite the fact that it's a weeper guaranteed to turn on the waterworks.\nBette Davis has a tour de force role as Judith Traherne, a flighty socialite suffering from headaches and blurred vision. Her lifelong doctor (Henry Travers) and best friend-secretary Ann (Geraldine Fitzgerald) drag the reluctant patient to a specialist, Dr. Frederick Steele (George Brent), who soon confirms that Judith needs brain surgery.\nThe surgery is a short-term success, but when the pathology reports come back, indicating that Judith will suffer a recurrence in a few months and die, the doctor and Ann decide not to tell Judith, as they want her last months to be happy ones...especially as the doctor has developed deep feelings for Judith. But all does not go quite as Ann and the doctor have planned...\nAlthough this was my first time to see the movie, I've seen quite a bit of the final scenes in documentaries and clip shows over the years, and I steeled myself against tears, telling myself not to let my emotions be manipulated. I admit I failed on that score, but I didn't really care, watching Judith's farewells to Ann, her husband, and her dogs (sob!) with a large lump in my throat. It was beautifully done, with superb acting by all three actors, and the tears were fully earned.\nI think my only quibble with DARK VICTORY -- well, other than Humphrey Bogart attempting an Irish brogue in his role as Judith's horse trainer -- is that it takes quite a while to see Judith's lovable side. Surely, we understand later on in the film that she has been transformed both by love and by staring death in the face, but early in the story it's hard to see why she inspires such loyalty in Ann or the doctor.\nDavis aptly conveys her character's more frivolous side, veering from high spirits to panic, and her transformation to a more mature woman in love is deeply touching. I was particularly moved by Geraldine Fitzgerald, who tugs at the heartstrings as she tries to hold close her friend, who is slipping away. And this film completely cemented my love for the underappreciated George Brent, who couldn't have been more perfect. I love a quote by Bette Davis on the TCM website: \"Of the men I didn't marry, the dearest was George Brent.\"\nDARK VICTORY was directed by Edmund Goulding, who also directed THE RAZOR'S EDGE (1946), seen a few days ago, and other excellent films such as THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943) and NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947). It's been a pleasure becoming better acquainted with his work over the last couple of years.\nDARK VICTORY was filmed in glorious black and white by Ernie Haller, with a score by Max Steiner. Casey Robinson's screenplay was based on a play. The supporting cast includes Ronald Reagan, underutilized as Judith's drinking companion; and if you don't blink, John Ridgely plays a man decked by the good doctor late in the film. The movie runs 104 minutes.\nDARK VICTORY is available on DVD as part of the five-film Bette Davis Collection or alternatively in the four-film TCM Greatest Classic Legends - Bette Davis Collection.\nIt's also available as a single-title DVD release and has had multiple releases on VHS.\nThe DVD can be rented from Netflix. DARK VICTORY can also be rented for streaming from Amazon Instant Video. Update: DARK VICTORY is also now available on Blu-ray.\nThe trailer can be seen at the TCM website.\nRecommended as a wonderful exemplar of Golden Era moviemaking in top form. Yes, you'll cry, but you'll also be glad to have experienced DARK VICTORY.\n...is taking this weekend off due to the busy holiday season. It will return next week!\nIn the meantime, please visit last weekend's roundup if you missed it in the hectic run-up to Christmas, and be sure to stayed tuned! I have several posts planned for the next few days, including the annual Tonight's Movie: The Year in Review which will be posted on New Year's Day.\nA Beautiful Day in California\nWe spent the day visiting family in the Santa Barbara area...here's a photo I snapped nearing sunset in Malibu.\nThere was periodic rain around Southern California today but somehow we managed to drive around it!\nHappy New Year, and Very Best Wishes for 2013!\nAs we turn the corner into the new year, it's time to look at the wonderful schedule Turner Classic Movies has lined up for January. My DVR will be humming this month!\nTCM celebrates the January 6th centennial of the birth of Loretta Young by featuring her as the Star of the Month starting on Tuesday, January 2nd. I'll have much more information on that aspect of the schedule in the coming days.\nHere are just a few of the interesting titles airing on TCM in January:\n...Tuesdays in January the theme will be \"Great Capers.\" My oldest daughter recommended I try RIFIFI (1955), directed by Jules Dassin, which airs on New Year's Day.\n...A day of fantasy films on January 2nd includes one of Robert Montgomery's best performances, in HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941). Montgomery is pictured above with costars Edward Everette Horton and Claude Rains. I strongly encourage anyone who hasn't seen this wonderful film to check it out.\n...There's more Montgomery on January 3rd, costarring with Marion Davies in EVER SINCE EVE (1937). It's part of a day of Davies films which also includes PAGE MISS GLORY (1935) costarring Dick Powell and POLLY OF THE CIRCUS (1932) with Clark Gable.\n...I was puzzled by a recent article in which Robert Osborne said I'LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) would air on TCM this Christmas season. It didn't quite make the Christmas schedule, but it's on January 3rd, and the early January timing is wonderful, as the film is set around Christmas and New Year's. This is a film which mixes tough subject matter with warm performances by a top-notch cast: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Spring Byington, Tom Tully, and Shirley Temple. This is one to make it a point to see.\n...Jane Wyman's January 5th birth date will be celebrated one day early, on January 4th. The lineup includes HONEYMOON FOR THREE (1941), a comedy with George Brent and Ann Sheridan which I really enjoyed. Brent and Sheridan were a real-life married couple for just a year, from 1942-43, and it just so happens their anniversary date, like Wyman's birthday, was January 5th.\n...The night of January 4th is a mini festival of '50s sci-fi directed by Jack Arnold, including CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953), and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) which has been highly recommended to me.\n...With the recent passing of the great Harry Carey, Jr., I particularly want to recommend one of my all-time favorite Westerns, John Ford's SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949), airing January 6th. The Ford Stock Company is out in full force; besides Carey, the film stars John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick, Victor McLaglen, George O'Brien, and Arthur Shields.\n...January 9th is the birthday of lovely Anita Louise. TCM is celebrating by showing half a dozen films starring the actress, including a fun-looking programmer, PERSONAL MAID'S SECRET (1935), and the comedy CALL IT A DAY (1937) with Olivia de Havilland and Ian Hunter.\n...A day of George Raft films on January 11th includes BACKGROUND TO DANGER (1943) with Brenda Marshall and NOCTURNE (1946) with Lynn Bari. I really enjoy these ladies and look forward to checking these films out in the future.\n...TWO IN THE DARK (1936), starring Walter Abel and Margot Grahame, is the original version of Anthony Mann's TWO O'CLOCK COURAGE (1945), which starred Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford. TWO IN THE DARK is on January 12th.\n...ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM (1946) makes its TCM debut on January 13th. This original non-musical version of THE KING AND I (1956) stars Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison. It's a bit ironic that Dunne, a musical star, was in the non-musical version of the story, while the Rodgers and Hammerstein version starred an actress, Deborah Kerr, who needed to be dubbed.\n...Last fall TCM had a wonderful day of \"B\" movies directed by Lew Landers, and there's another great day of Landers films ahead on January 14th. TCM will show 10 Landers films that day. Some of the titles that interest me most are DOUBLE DANGER (1938) with Preston Foster and Whitney Bourne, TWELVE CROWDED HOURS (1939) with Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, and Allan \"Rocky\" Lane, and STAND BY ALL NETWORKS (1942) with Florence Rice and John Beal.\n...How can a \"B\" movie fan not love the title GIRLS ON PROBATION (1938)? It stars Ronald Reagan and Jane Bryan (seen at right) with Susan Hayward in a small role. It's part of a day of Hayward films on January 15th.\n...A morning of Diana Wynard films on January 16th includes the original version of GASLIGHT (1940), released four years before the better-known Ingrid Bergman version.\n...FORCE OF ARMS (1951), starring William Holden, Nancy Olson, and Frank Lovejoy, was recently recommended to me. Love the cast! It airs early on January 17th.\n...I'm very excited about Film Noir Foundation President Eddie Muller cohosting a night of Noir City on January 17th. The first title on the slate of five films is my favorite: CRY DANGER (1951), starring Dick Powell. This terrific film, with a great cast, witty script, and excellent L.A. location shooting, needs to come out on DVD. It's followed by John Payne in 99 RIVER STREET (1953), Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman in another favorite, TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (1951), John Garfield in THE BREAKING POINT (1950), and Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes in THE PROWLER (1951). It's going to be a great night!\n...NOTORIOUS (1946) ranks in my Top 5 favorite Hitchcock films. This Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman romantic thriller will air on Grant's birthday, January 18th, along with several other Grant titles.\n...Anita Louise returns in THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD (1932) on January 19th, costarring Ricardo Cortez and Karen Morley.\n...The centennial of Danny Kaye's birth is on January 18th, and TCM will mark the occasion with a 24-hour Kaye Festival starting early on January 20th and running into the next morning. Titles include a trio of my childhood favorites, UP IN ARMS (1944) with Dinah Shore, and THE KID FROM BROOKLYN (1946) and WONDER MAN (1945), both costarring Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellen. (Southern Californians of a certain age may remember the films used to run often on KTLA Ch. 5.) There are many more Kaye films on tap that day!\n...My younger daughter is a big fan of William Wyler's HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966), starring Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn, airing as part of \"Great Capers\" on January 22nd. It's a TCM premiere.\n...The evenings of January 24th and 25th celebrate the January 26th centennial of the birth of composer Jimmy Van Heusen. I recently reviewed a longtime favorite, THE TENDER TRAP (1955), which airs on the 25th. It stars Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Celeste Holm, and David Wayne.\n...There's a great lineup of George Brent films on January 25th, including SILVER QUEEN (1942), one of the last two films I need for my Priscilla Lane collection. I'm also especially interested in YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942) costarring Brenda Marshall.\n...PRINCESS O'ROURKE (1943) is a charmer starring Olivia de Havilland; it was also a significant film in the career of Jane Wyman, as her performance led to her being cast in THE LOST WEEKEND (1945). It's on January 27th.\n...There are several short films on January 28th which will be fun to try, including HAT, COAT, AND GLOVE (1934) with Ricardo Cortez and LET'S TRY AGAIN (1934) with Diana Wynard.\n...I absolutely loved ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950) in November. It's on January 29th as part of the \"Great Capers\" series.\n...I'm looking forward to Chester Morris and Virginia Grey in THUNDER AFLOAT (1939) on January 30th...I just wish it didn't star Wallace Beery, for whom I have a low tolerance level.\n...I'm curious about OVER THE MOON (1939), which stars Merle Oberon and Rex Harrison. It's on January 30th.\nI've barely scratched the surface of all the treasures airing on TCM in January. Please visit the online schedule for the complete list of all the movies playing on TCM this month.\nFor more recommendations please also visit Thrilling Days of Yesteryear and The Hollywood Revue.\nHarry Carey, Jr.1921-2012\nOne of the last great movie cowboys has passed on at the age of 91.\nI expect to have more thoughts to share on the passing of this wonderful man in the days to come.\nChristmastime Fun: Huntington Harbour Cruise\nWe had a very nice evening last night thanks to friends who invited us out on their boat for a cruise to view the Christmas Lights in Huntington Harbour.\nOur kids each enjoyed having a turn piloting the boat while we took in the beautiful lights. My cell phone photos don't do the beautifully decorated homes justice, but here's a brief peek:\nWe docked at Sunset Beach and enjoyed dinner at Woody's Diner on Pacific Coast Highway, which had good burgers and onion rings, as well as exceptionally friendly service.\nEating there was like stepping back into the '50s! 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We walked into a candy store, and while perusing the oversized Millhouse Pez dispensers, we heard a deejay's voice coming from the stereo. \"That was the Arctic Monkeys with....\" I expected the usual banter from her, which we've all grown so used to: \"It's __ degrees in [town you're in], we got that wacky beach festival down at [local venue where people all go to get wasted] comin' up...\"\nBut no. This is the age of satellite radio. Modern technology can be fun and helpful and great and whatnot, but what I really fear, as we become a \"global community,\" is the complete loss of local identity. This woman wasn't \"with us\" in Providence, she was in New York City, and her voice was being heard all over the world. How utterly depressing.\nEverywhere is becoming the same as everywhere else. I don't need to tell you about strip-mall America. (On this theme, thanks to those who made comments about the movie Idiocracy. We actually rented it last night and watched it once the Sox were up big (the second time). And I thought it was good. Lots of great moments, great commentary on today's America (Judge could've set it in 2050 instead of 2505), and good to see some classic characters, like Milton, Michael Bolton, and an older, larger \"Bob\" from Bottle Rocket, who I'm sure was brought in by Luke Wilson.)\nBut getting back to radio, I'm about to kick it \"glory days\"-style, so you can stop reading here if you don't want to go down Memory Ave.\nI was recently talking to someone who brought up how he'd pull in all these other cities on his AM radio. Having grown up fighting to get 1080-WTIC out of Hartford through layers of static, I also knew of the vast landscape that is (soon to be \"was,\" I guess) AM radio. I picked up games from almost every team east of the Mississippi. Here's the rundown, from memory, then I'll look up anything I have trouble with, and fill in at the end.\nThe AL East:\n1. Boston Red Sox. The classic WTIC-AM 1080 Hartford. For over 50 years now, they've played every Sox game that isn't on during a weekday afternoon, a UConn football game, or the Greater Hartford Open golf tournament. (Because you know everyone loves to tune into golf on the radio.) Was hard to get much of the time, due to either the hills of the Waterbury, CT area (which my dad always called \"the mountains of Meriden,\"--then again, he was from Meriden) being between me and Hartford OR Steinbrenner messing with the airwaves in his lifelong quest to keep any mention of the Red Sox out of Fairfield County, Connecticut. (read the first answer in this FAQ.)\nEvetually we got the Sox in Danbury on WLAD-AM 800. But after a few years, they gave up and switched to carrying the Yanks. But even from the town next to Danbury, I sometimes got the Hartford station even clearer. If you fine-tuned hard enough, you could also hear the Sox on 1240 and 1420, one being out of Old Saybrook, I think 1420. I also picked up WPRO 630 out of Providence once while driving on 1st Avenue in Manhattan. I always used to marvel at the Red Sox yearbook's list of stations that carried the games. We'd come up with possible jingles for the stations in Bath, Maine, or whatever. But the above are the stations I could get from Ridgefield, CT. (The last few seasons have seen the addition of New Haven and Greenwich stations as well.)\n2. New York Yankees aka Dunbar. WABC 770. But this was never needed, as literally every Yankee game played in my lifetime up until a few months ago was available on my TV set. The Ridgefield radio station (ha!), WREF 850 (it started in 1985-- REF=Ridgefield Eighty Five) picked up the Yanks at one point, as did WLAD, mentioned above. I know they also have a vast network of stations, including one in Worcester! TJ by that station.\n3. Baltimore Orioles. Do you know how many O's games I listened to growing up? Way more than someone who never tried to listen to them should have. They were on WBAL 1090. Which, despite the fact that it was four times farther from me than Hartford was, came in about four times clearer. Jon Miller, loud and clear, almost every night. Sometimes it would cycle in and out. Two minutes of Castiglione, then faaade over to Miller for an Oriole batter or two, then baaaack to the Sox game. I'd let that happen when I was sick of sitting there finely tuning or if I was doing homework or something.\n4. Cleveland Indians. Just to the other side of the O's was the Indians broadcast on WWWE 1100. They called it 3WE. Thinking back, if there were any Indians fans in Fairfield County, they had the same problem as I did: the Orioles game interfering with their own.\n5. Toronto Blue Jays. I think I used to pull them in, too. And I think it even might have been 1070 AM. If so, what a crazy baseball corridor that was 1070, 1080, 1090, and 1100, each with an AL East team.\n6. Detroit Tigers. I could usually barely get 760 WJR out of Detroit, but not without the Yanks on 770 drowning most of it out.\n7. Milwaukee Brewers. Can't say I remember ever getting the Brew Crew.\nAnd that's your AL East. Or should I say, my AL East, from the early 70s til the mid-90s.\n1. New York Mets. WHN 1050, which became WFAN, and later took over WNBC's 660 spot, where it still is today, still playing the Mets. Again, never needed to listen to Bob Murphy, as the Mets were also always on TV where I lived.\n2. Pittsburgh Pirates. KDKA. Can't remember the number. I'll never forget getting it in for the first time, and thinking it was some west coast station. But no, there is a station in an east coast that starts with a \"K.\"\n3. Philadelphia Phillies. I vaguely remember getting a Philly station, maybe 1300 or 1400.\n4. Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals. Never got any of these, although maybe I got some Montreal action occasionally. And I know KMOX had a strong signal, but I think it pointed west of of St. Louis. I never picked it up in CT.\nAs for the west teams in both leagues: I got the Chicago White Sox, but can't remember the station. And I got the Cincinnati Reds somewhere around 850. The only other team anywhere near me would've been the Braves, but nothing there (although all their stupid games were on TV, too, on TBS-Superstation.)\nOkay, that was all from memory. Here are some updates and corrections: 1420 is still there, in Old Saybrook. It's WLIS. WWWE is now WTAM. They changed in 1996. I was right on 1070 for the Jays--it's CHOK. Not the call letters you want if you're a sports team. (You wouldn't want people to think it's a Yankees station.) Was right about the Tigers, but they moved in 2000 to WXYT. Looks like the Brewers have been on 620 for a long time. I'd say I never got that one in. KDKA is 1020, and carried the Pirates for over 50 years, but stopped last season. I guess the Philly station is 1210 WPHT. Was way off on the number. Also way off on the Reds number. It was 700 WLW.\nIt really stinks when you've got an eight-run lead with two outs in the fifth, and you don't get the win. Too bad for Gabbo, but the key thing is, the team held on to win the game, 14-9. The Wily Mo homer took the score from 9-5 to 12-5, and since the Indians ended up scoring nine, he gets my PotG award. His first, I'm pretty sure. (With his 4 for 5 night, he's just six points shy of Lugo's .225 BA.)\nHow 'bout them Royals? Finally they come through for us, pounding No Dice. We're back to 7.5 games up.\nTomorrow, at, well, who knows what time, really, the Yanks will finish their suspended game with the O's. The little schedules on the teams' sites have been messed up since that game was interrupted. First it gave the Yanks an 8-6 \"W\" and the O's a 6-8 \"L\". Now it just shows that game's \"result\" as \"SUSP\" on both sites. Then they show a 7:05 game--the regularly scheduled game. I guess the world will tune in to the O's or Yanks channel around 5 or so, and just sit there until baseball begins.\nIn the completion of the suspended game, A-Rod could hit his 493rd homer (he had 492 when that game started), which would make his most recent homer the 500th of his career. Could, mind you. Odds are he gets one at bat in that game, since it's already the eighth inning. I mean, it's not like the slim chance of this happening warrants an entire mlb.com article...or does it?!\nGreat job, sir. You're bankin' on an all-or-nothin' at bat by A-Rod. Should he do anything but hit a home run, you've written the most irrelevant article of all time. Also, nice job on the last paragraph:\n\"Rodriguez entered Thursday the Major Leagues with 35 home runs and 102 RBIs...\"\nI've got a proposal for an mlb.com article: \"Yanks Could Win 2004 ALCS If Time Travel Is Invented And Brian Cashman Goes Back To The 60s And Keeps Dave Roberts' Parents From Kissing At The Fish Under The Sea Dance.\"\nYou Be The...\nA quick plug for a movie I haven't seen yet. That article, about Mike Judge's film Idiocracy, came out almost a year ago. But because of the way the movie got swept under the rug, I'm sure many of you--even Beavis/Office Space fans--haven't heard of it.\nI actually saw the DVD a while back, while living in New York, at the Virgin Store or whatever it's called, in Union Square. I said, Wait a minute, what's this now? How have I not heard of this?? The article answers those questions. I'd planned on buying the DVD, but forgot, until just now, when I was reading a little about the great Mike Judge. So I've got to see it. In the meantime, see it yourself. It'll be good. Has to be.\nSox at Grinning Savages, 7-ish.\nGirls have more friends than boys. You know what I'm talkin' about? Maybe this is a stereotype, but it seems like every female I know considers every person they've ever met to be their \"friend.\" Know a woman long enough, and you'll hear about \"my friend Matt,\" \"my friend Josh,\" and \"my friend Christina/Kristina.\" You'll learn about the four Kevins, the eight Steves, and amazingly, at least one Ian. (You'll also note they've got these crazy things called \"friends of the opposite sex,\" which most of us dudes have only dabbled in.) When the friend-count gets high enough, I always start to wonder what their criteria is. You can only have so many people you really know. (See Dunbar's Number--ha! Dunbar!)\nHow do you determine who's a \"friend\" as opposed to people who are just, as my friend Pat once said, \"in the filing cabinet of dudes I've met\"? For me, you have to be someone I've actually spent a lot of time with on purpose (\"at work\" doesn't count!) for me to call you \"my friend.\" No offense to some guy I give a nod to in an elevator and never see again--I'm sure he's a great guy. But a \"friend\"?\nTo me, a person who introduced himself to me at a party in 1998 and maybe exchanged email addresses with me just to be nice is just that: \"a person I met once.\" To a woman, he's \"my friend Rob.\" Welcome to the club, Rob. The \"friends of hers named Rob\" club, because you're definitely not the only Rob.\nRecently, my girlfriend mentioned one of her \"friends,\" and I broached the hell out of this subject. I finally got it out of her that this \"friend\" was someone she knew a little bit and hadn't seen in a decade--and I think she even said they had a fight and they hadn't seen each other since! \"Friend\" status, for that? I don't know.... Also, \"friend\" implies \"current friend.\" Once you \"break up,\" you at least have to call that person an \"ex-friend.\"\nWhile we were talking about this, I used this example: \"Is Jessica Bennett my friend? We used to carpool--to nursery school. After that, her family must've moved, because I haven't seen her since. Sure, we were carpoolin' buddies. We had some good times together, playing in the sandbox and making pictures out of glitter and glue. We even had some bad times--me getting her a Magilla Gorilla-related gift for her birthday that went, uh, underappreciated. But if I'm listing friends, Jessica Bennett is not making the cut.\"\nThis story gets Jere-fied when, the next night, my girlfriend and I go to see Evan Almighty. Standing in line in front of us at the theater is, no, not Jessica Bennett, but, incredibly, the third person in my nursery school carpool, Leigha Cuniberti,* who went to school with me through high school. A friend of mine? Let's see, we had the carpool thing in '79; I swam in her pool a few times while her family was on vacation because my sister was feeding their cats; haven't seen her in 14 years....nice girl, but I'm gonna say no. But had I had the nerve to say anything to her and introduce her to my girlfriend, you can bet she'd be my girlfriend's friend right now.\n*Since I didn't verify that it was Leigha, well, it might not have been her. If it was, though, I think this was an amazing coincidence, especially since, during the Bennett coversation, we'd talked about what it would be like if I suddenly ran into her, and if I'd introduce her as my \"friend.\" I just Googled Leigha's name, though, and I'm happy to report that as of 2004, she's listed, at least on this page about a 5-mile run, as living in Boston. Her family was always into running, and her dad's a Sox fan, and with that unique name, it's gotta be her. (206th out of over 900 in that race. Nice work, my fr-- uh, my person I carpooled with and whose pool I swam in and who graduated with me but who I haven't seen since except for maybe at that movie theater. Hmmm, maybe \"friend\" is easier....)\nJust As Close\nGreat call by McCarty after the game. After Pedroia nearly got hit in the head, he should've expected a pitch away. (\"...but watch out for 'in your ear'.\") Instead, since he was all pissed, he tried to pull the outside pitch, and did, grounding out instead of going to right field with it.\nMan, a 1-0 loss is frustrating, but even more so when you have a runner thrown out at home by a foot who would've been safe had he not slowed down between third and home because he didn't know the throw was coming home.\nI think Coco saw the fielder do that little pump fake, and figured he'd decided not to throw home. Or something. Really a shame considering the job Beckett did.\nTJ on the missed sign, with Tek on first. There was another play recently where Tek was up and someone missed a sign and it also cost us. Not his fault necessarily, but we gotta work on those signs. In the inning that happened in tonight, we had that miscue costing us an out, and then Lugo got thrown out. So that's two baserunners out on the basepaths in the eighth, meaning we should have, at the very least, had Manny and Youk get a chance in the ninth.\nGood to see Lowell and Lugo get the night off. That four-month offseason, the built-in off days, and the three-day All Star break that happened two weeks ago ARE NOT ENOUGH! Hey, maybe if we rest the whole team the rest of this decade, we can win it all in 2010!\nMeanwhile, the Royals continue to shit the bed against the Yanks.\nI predict a huge trade at the deadline for someone. Why? Because everyone's saying with certainty that there won't be one.\nAlmost had a 1979 Bristol Red Sox autographed ball, featuring Gedman. But the price went too high. This isn't ebay, this is Hunt Auctions. They had a 1,000-lot auction that went down tonight. I got nothing. Everything else I wanted also went too high.\nSome stuff about the preview for the latest \"Bronx is Burning\" episode (which I watched that night while NESN went out--review: \"Eh,\" as usual).\nThey got the top of the Fenway bleachers right. That high green wall and that auxiliary scoreboard, which I think was still there in '78. A lot of this series takes place at Fenway. It's funny how they just paint stuff in Fenway green to imply Fenway, for the clubhouse, dugout, etc.\nNot such a good job with this one. Clearly Fenway today, with the glass-enclosed areas on the roof. And that crowd--terrible job! I like how they did those little cut-outs in the 2-D crowd for the aisles. Ridiculous.\nDo I need to tell you what's wrong with this shot? So, basically, I've seen much of parts one and three, with no plans of watching four through eight, unless NESN goes black again.\nSome B-Ball Out By The School\n\"In 2007, the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame will host a special New England Basketball history exhibit. The exhibit will encompass memorabilia and other items which reflect the history and tradition of New England basketball. A special component of the exhibit will be the sale of \"Our Game: A Story of New England Basketball\" by acclaimed author, Bill Reynolds. \"Our Game\" is being published by Hall of Fame Press, a new entity of the Institute for International Sport.\"\nHall of Fame Press is publishing the book I'm writing with my mom. While visiting with the fine folks at the Institute for International Sport yesterday in Rhode Island, I took a peek at the above-described exhibit. Really fun hoops memorabilia there. This post is by no means a comprehensive photo gallery, but I snapped some interesting stuff. Check it out in person if you're in the Kingston, Rhode Island area. See the links above for more details. In the first shot--that's gotta be a peach basket. Click these to enlarge.\nThe 1921 URI men's team. URI was Rhode Island State College back then. Love those socks, and the \"RI\" logo.\nThe blurb below this picture says how it's still a tradition at Providence College for fans to gather for practice, as they're doing here in the 20s. Check out the knee pads, too.\nMore great socks, more knee pads, and the full year on the uniform. (I'd guess these weren't what they wore in games.) You can also see the \"P\" for Providence on their shorts.\nA URI warm-up from 1991, with the centennial patch.\nWomen in action, with the classic short shorts of the 70s/80s.\nThis really shows the knee pads that were so common back in the day. And it appears this team didn't wear socks at all.\nSomerville representin'.\nYou don't see the horizontally-striped shorts much nowadays. And this team's socks are clearly not part of the uniform. I think they just wore whatever socks they had. In another action photo which I didn't get a good shot of, this team (I see \"H-W\" on two of the balls, so it must be Hamilton-Wenham high school in Mass., still home of the Generals today) is playing another team with a wild, horizontal swath across their shorts. You'll just have to go to the museum to check that out...\n7 innings, no runs for Dice. 6 innings, 4 runs for Wang. Flyouts beat groundouts, 8-6, for Wang, which is not what he wants. Both teams get wins, but we continue to have the better starting and relief pitching.\nGotta love a 1-0 win. Starter, 7 innings, nothin'. Jeemer and Pap, 1 shutout inning each. Perfect. Too bad our NESN and some other cable stations went black in the top of the ninth. Fortunately, I had Castiglione at the ready, and he talked us through the last three outs.\nWe're the only team in baseball with more than 60 wins, and the only one with less than 40 losses.\nInteresting situation tonight, the exact one that was hypothetically brought up at Joy of Sox before the season. With Pap essentially only able to go an inning at a time, do you go with him in the eighth, with a one-run lead and the tougher hitters coming up? In other words, worry about the now, then worry about next inning. My theory was that despite that this method seems to make sense, it came from the fact that we used to not be able to trust many relievers other than Jon. But now that we've got the Mighty Oak, we just go with him in the 8th automatically in that situation. It's interesting, and still debatable, how this should be handled. I'm fine with the way we do it now, but should \"closer\" be a defined role, or should your best go when the situation calls for him, instead of saving him for a \"close situation\" that may never come? I still say until there's a league-wide revolution, no closer is gonna want to come in at a point that's not the end. But that revolution has to start somewhere. Then again, I think the closer role is cool, and none of those guys would want to not get that final out, so we might as well keep Pap in that \"role.\" Yet, ironically enough, Jeemer gets the Player of the Game, for getting the tougher outs. Albeit not the final outs. Eh, whatever. We win, either way.\nLester Bangs Tribe's Drum. Slowly.\nExcellent job by Jon Lester tonight. As we thought, and as NESN noted a million times, no nerves visible. Getting out of the bases loaded, one out situation was hog. (I'm just inventin' new words at this point.) The only runs he gave up were on the Little Grady homer, which I blame myself for. He'd just given up a bloop hit, Orsillo was talking about the big lead at the time, and my mind went to the fact that Grady hadn't been hitting Sox pitching lately and was probably psyched to see someone new out there. So I saw a home run in my mind. And it happened. I take full blame.\nTimlin continues his goodness, and MDCops was back to form.\nMcCarty tonight--said \"struggling\" when he could've said \"scuffling.\" I should've known a genius like him would come through for me. Dave also described a moment from his career, and I knew that unlike most ex-players, he'd probably actually have the facts straight. He said it was Nolan Ryan's last home game, and he knocked him out with a two-run double. He was exactly right. He also sounds like Nikki Sixx a little bit, I just realized.\nThis delay thing is still affecting my enjoyment of NESN games. It's the centerfield camera that's in real time, while all the others are a split second behind. (Don and Rem's audio are in real time all the time.) You can really tell on the audio, like when there's a Red Sox chant, or that drum is beating in Cleveland. You'll hear two quick beats in a row or a word repeated right when they switch back to the centerfield camera for a pitch. You can also tell visually when the pitcher will be shown from another angle starting his wind-up. When they switch to the centerfield cam, his arm repeats its previous split-second. I guess it doesn't bother enough people for them to scrap this idea. They must do it so after a line drive, we don't miss the ball getting through the infield. We get to see the swing, then they switch cameras, then we see the ball pretty much coming off the bat. Which is fine unless we're hearing Orsillo making the call before we see what happens! Like in Curt's near no-no, when you heard him say \"Into right field\" before the ball was past the second baseman.\nRem and Don agreed that we haven't seen a squeeze play from the Sox this season. We did it on July 4th, when Cora safety squeezed home Coco. Maybe they meant suicide squeeze.\nOn Lester's walk to the mound--they stayed with it instead of going to commercial. People in the crowd, including the many Sox fans, had just started to catch on and stand and cheer...when NESN made the call to indeed cut to commercial. Too bad about that.\nOn Saturday, during the Fox game, they showed someone with a sign that said something like \"The Sox and Fox, a perfect team.\" I remember thinking how cheesy and phony it seemed, even for your average \"wants to get on TV\" fan. Something wasn't right about it. Tonight, NESN showed a kid with a great sign that had his message (something about driving out there to see Nixon), and below it, the words \"Mandatory Rem & DO Plug.\" They started joking about how sometimes people will make great signs but they'll just be missing a little something (meaning the plug.) Then they said \"at least we don't plant signs like some networks...over the weekend.\" I wonder if they meant that sign I saw on Fox on Saturday....\nEverybody's going crazy about how Drew would've had at least a productive out with his grounder to first that was a DP, had Manny been running, getting a double instead of a single, before JD came up. Okay, Manny didn't run full speed the whole time. But did Drew think he was on second, and hit it to the right side on purpose? Come on. Just because the guy in front of you is on first when he should be on second, you still have to hit in whatever the situation is, not what it could've been.\nOdalis Perez actually did better against the Yanks than he did against us. But the Royals didn't score enough. It was 4-2 Yanks going to the ninth, but KC gave up 5 in the inning, with two errors helping out. So they'll stay 7.5 out.\nLester's player of the game, of course. Pic from when I saw his first-ever game last year.\nDid you hear about the first base coach who was killed by a line drive in a minor league game last night? It was Mike Coolbaugh, who played briefly in the majors. His brother Scott played in the late-80s, early-90s. I had his card. Please be careful if you have box seats near home plate at baseball games. Especially if you're bringing kids with you. Yesterday proved that line drives can be fatal. And that was a guy paying full attention who was farther from the plate than some seats are.\nSpeaking of first base coaches, tonight it's the battle of teams whose first base coaches are named Luis and played middle infield for the Red Sox. Alicea vs. Rivera. Alicea played briefly with Scott Coolbaugh, even appearing back to back in the starting lineup in this game in 1994, exactly 13 years before Mike's death.\nOn the night Jon Lester makes his return from his bout with cancer, it's a good time to think of those who are sick and and yet to go through the hardest part of their ordeal. Kaylee is a 16-year old who blogs about the Red Sox. I've had her blog linked for a long time over in the links section. She recently revealed that the reason she hadn't been blogging as much is because she'll be having open-heart surgery next month. At 16. So keep her in your thoughts, if that's your thing, and ask for good things for her from the \"big man upstairs,\" if you're Arnold Jackson. And check out her blog. She's done a great job keeping her sense of humor right where it always is, despite what she knows she'll have to face soon. Nice job, Kaylee. You'll be back on the hill pitching against the Indians soon.\nNow back to Lester. I think this kid is gonna be fine. We remember the guts he showed last year, and if you don't think he has guts, look at the fact that last year he was diagnosed with cancer and he's fucking pitching tonight.\nYou can't put a number on that. I know all the fantasy people are in a bit of a panic right now about Jon, and they'd kill me for saying something as preposterous as that--that it matters what's inside the human being behind those stats. Funny, because those are the people who probably never played baseball. The type who would've gone right up to me in Little League and said, You can't get this guy out, he's hitting .750 vs. 10-year old righties at Fitzgerald Field. And then I'd say, Does that take into consideration that this kid killed my family and I've waited five years to exact my revenge? It's like a Quint vs. Hooper thing. Hooper was the scientist, and sure, he knew about sharks. And sure, we even grew to like him a little bit. And he did play \"Little League,\" meaning he once had a little shark eat his little boat when he was a little kid. But Quint--this dude was the man. He's got a thousand shark jaws on his wall, all done without the help of that scientific equipment Hooper bought. (With inherited money.) And we all remember, when they were out at sea, when Quint said it was a shark, and Hooper tried to tell Quint his business, and was proven wrong, and couldn't admit it.\nBut Jere, didn't Quint die in the end? Yeah, but while Hooper survived by swimming away, Quint died with his boots on, going right into the shark's mouth.\nLester goes nose to nose with the shark tonight.\nSpeaking of people who confuse fantasy with reality, I noticed recently that every time I clicked a link that took me to RotoWorld, their little opinion-blurb about that player would be dead wrong. So I started going back through all their old blurbs. I found something interesting. Not only are they wrong all the time, but it seems a lot of fantasy people have been basically reading RotoWorld and repeating it. So this is where these people get these silly ideas, I thought. So, you'll be happy to know that the site says this about Lester:\n\"The Red Sox would then have to decide whether to keep him in the rotation or send him down and go with Kason Gabbard as a fifth starter. We're guessing they'll choose the latter. Lester hasn't been sharp enough for Pawtucket to suggest that he's ready to be a big asset for Boston.\"\nFine. AAA numbers are everything, right? Pithing in the bigs after coming back from cancer mean nothing? This is the guy we've been banking on to be our fifth starter for quite some time. And they say he's ready now. That's why he's up. This kid's gonna be all right. The thing is, he could do really well, and the fantasy people will find some stat that says he's no good, and don't take him for your fake team or whatever. The rest of us will look at him with our eyes, as well as his numbers, to judge. (And if he ends up out of the rotation, it'll only be because Gabbo is doing that good right now.)\nAnd I have to say this every time I make fun of that fantasy faction: I love stats. Always have. It's one of the main things I love about baseball, and one of the things that makes it so much more fun to follow than any other game. When the games are over, you can spend even more time looking at boxscores than you did watching the games. And I was in fantasy leagues, starting when I was about 12. I found the ad in the back of The Sporting News and joined, then having packets come every week in the mail with all the updates on the teams and everything. People kept saying \"I'll trade you Mattingly for Greenwell.\" But I wouldn't budge. This was my achilles heel in those leagues--I wouldn't pick any Yankees. Also, I refused to talk on the phone with strange men. I later started basketball and football leagues with my friends in high school, while the other kids were, I don't know, having sex or something, and I've always invented teams and uniforms and played all the dice games ever made, and invented plenty of my own. But after all that, when you're talking about real teams and the real humans on them, you have to realize that there's so much more to it than just numbers. You can't make Coco Crisp get a hit every time, simply by using my cousin Kara's dice rolling method of putting the dice in your palm with \"1\" facing up, and letting it slowly roll down to the floor, consistently producing a \"6\". I don't know, I'm down with the concept of \"fantasy,\" but I think it should be kept separate from reality. The perfect example is Wily Mo. This guy, to fantasy people, is, like, the best there ever was. In fantasy leagues, women in black veils are shooting this guy in hotel rooms after he struck out the Whammer on three pitches. Yet I look at him and I see a flailing, bumbling, albeit lovable, fool.\nSheep Guy\nI Better Not Hear \"Jon Lester Scuffled With Cancer\"\nWeekend scuffle alert: Thom Brennaman said it yesterday, and Orsillo today said the \"White Sox bullpen is scuffling as a group.\" Hey, that one's almost correct--if you mean they're fighting with each other! One more thing about Fox--TJ cutting away from our game entirely so we could see Bonds, even though he was two homers away from tying the record. That's like missing an entire day's work to make your phone call to court to see if you've been taken off the jury duty list.\nI was disappointed today when Tina introduced a sound-byte from Jim \"How can I live the rest of my life, knowing I could of been with Marisa\" Thome. She told us that Thome has a \"different perspective\" on Manny Ramirez. That perspective? That the stories about Manny are overblown and that he's a really hard worker. So why wouldn't Tina lead in with something more along the lines of \"Jim Thome knows what we in Boston already know about Manny:\"?\nSox win, and take three out of four from the Caucasian Sox. On to Cleveland, where Jon Lester will start tomorrow night! I think most people just think of him as \"that cancer guy,\" forgetting about awesome he is on the mound. A real spine of steel, like Papelbon.\nCrappy job by the D-Rays these last two days, but at least they got one win in the series. How can you give up 10 runs in an inning, and give up eleven runs aside from those? We know the Yanks can score, especially against the Rays. But they've got serious pitching issues. I'm not going to ignore that like many people will. Yanks starters over the last 4 games, in which the team won three games: 20.3 IP, 15 ER. As the modern humans say, \"no worries\" for us.\nI've only become a regular reader of UniWatch in the last few months (TJ by me), but while going through the archives, I found this. Awesome. Please click on the link of Rudy in Little League.\nDroppin' Gs\nI've always noticed that Boston-accent people drop the \"g\" in \"-ing\" words. But I couldn't quite pin down exactly when they did it, and how it was different from when anyone else did it. I kept telling my girlfriend (who's from around here, and has a hint of an accent) that \"her people\" dropped their \"g\"s, and she'd tell me I was crazy, citing Southerners and Midwesterners with their drawls who also do it. And she'd occasionally point out times when I'd do it. But I knew there was something specific about Boston \"g\" dropping, I just had to figure out what it was.\nFinally, it hit me. What's really unique about Boston-ish people is the dropping of the \"g\" in \"-ing\" nouns. Think about it. Curt Shillin'. Nobody says that. Except Boston people. \"It's only the third innin', Schillin's pitchin', and I gotta get to a weddin'!\" (Like I said, any of us might say \"pitchin',\" but it's the three nouns in the sentence that are Boston-only.)\nI have pretty much proven my point to my girlfriend at this point, although I don't know just how convinced she is. 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An authoritative book on pharmacology 'Goodman & Gilman's the pharmacological basis of therapeutics', 12th edition, edited by Laurence Brunton, Bruce.\nhercules classic silver driver for xp\nwonder party album zip\nipod music extractor\nemd music s legal\ntrend following michael covel pdf\nmetro-2033-metro-2034-metro-2035-by.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://libcom.org/history/articles/1889-1952-wilhelm-willi-jelinek", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HO735SRHGXLDDVN7COJZZRX6WJZNX2YA", "length": 7686, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "libcom.org", "title": "Jelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952", "raw_content": "Jelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952\nBiographical information about Willi Jelinek, and information about the anarchist movement in post-war East Germany under Russian occupation.\nThe dark night of Willi Jelinek\nWilhelm Rudolf Jelinek, or Willi as he was known, was born in Ludwigsdorf, Germany on Christmas day in 1889.\nHe lived in Zwickau, an industrial town in Saxony, in the former East Germany, not far from Chemnitz and the Czech border.\nMetal smelting factories and mines are in the close vicinity. From 1922 to March 1933 the anarchist journal Proletarischer Zeitgeist (The Worker\u2019s Spirit) had been edited there.\nIt was a weekly, anti-authoritarian in character, which attempted to develop links between anarchists and the council communists. It was distributed by Otto Reimers and gained the support of Otto R\u00fchle, who was attempting to build the Bloc of Anti-Authoritarian Revolutionaries\nFollowing World War II, in May 1945 only six survivors of the group remained. Twenty seven had been murdered by the Gestapo. One of the survivors, Willi Jelinek, had hidden the subscription list to Zeitgeist and now sent detailed letters to the most sure of these, with the view to reviving an organisation. Jelinek had been a member of both the anarchosyndicalist Freie Arbeiter Union (FAUD) and the councilist AAUD.\nThe Russians now occupying the area were pushing for the fusion of the Social-Democratic Party (SPD) and the Communist Party (KPD) to create a United Socialist Party (SED) which could be a camouflage for the Communists. Jelinek denounced this move: \"The Communist Party plays the role of a fox who wants to calm the fears of the hare by making out he is a vegetarian.\"\nIn another letter (February 1946) to anarchists he took a stand against any participation by anarchists in a socialist-communist bloc. He thought that the SPD-KPD union would be of short duration and then the anarchists would come into their own. Hence the need to reorganise the anarchist movement.\nIn June 1946, the Zwickau Circle - made up of old readers of Zeitgeist and workplace activists was formed. It started sending out information circulars to anarchists in the Russian zone and in West Germany. Jelinek re-established contact with Reimers, who had started building an anarchist organisation in Hamburg.\nFive or six groups were set up in Saxony, the same number in Thuringia. Links were established with anarchists in Hamburg, Muhlheim and Kiel.\nIn the factory where he worked, Jelinek had been elected president of the workplace council by 95% of the workers and he worked within the FDGB union central in the Russian zone in order to extend his influence. The Communists, who had known him for a long time, thought that he had modified his ideas, but from the first meetings of the workplace council, they were quickly disillusioned.\nWhen the united SED Party was founded, the Communists called on Jelinek to leave the presidency of the council - which he refused to do. The Zwickau Circle set up an Information Bureau and sent out circulars exposing the insurmountable practical problems in the Russian zone: the editing of a paper, the use of a duplicator, were forbidden.\nNevertheless, they resolved to continue. They decided to forget about the anarchists like Rudolf Michaelis who had joined the SED and to address themselves to the new generation and to the workers, showing them the nature of Stalinism. At the end of 1947, Jelinek wrote a pamphlet which would never be published. He denounced the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' \u201cwhich signifies the authority of the leaders. Where there is obedience, there are leaders who command\u201d. All dictatorship meant the rule of a minority. Distribution of leaflets and letters became more difficult. The police kept a constant watch on Jelinek. He took the precaution of transmitting the Zeitgeist subscription list to Willy Huppertz in Muhlheim in the Ruhr, in West Germany.\nHuppertz was a freelance anarchist, active from the 20s on, who had belonged to no organisation, not even the FAUD. He had spent time in the Oranienburg concentration camp From March 1948 he edited and distributed the anarchist monthly Befreiung. Huppertz organised distribution of Befreiung and of anarchist leaflets to the Russian zone.\nJelinek still had some illusions that the regime in the Russian zone would \u2018liberalise\u2019 a little, allowing for the open circulation of an anarchist paper, and he wrote that things would be better under Ulbricht than under Hitler!\nOn November 10th 1948, he was arrested by two Russian officers accompanied by an interpreter and by an official of the German criminal police. His wife and son-in-law were arrested - and the latter disappeared without trace.\nAfter a long interrogation Mrs Jelinejk returned to a flat which had been completely emptied of furniture. The anarchists in the Russian zone were summoned to a bogus meeting in Leipzig and arrested. Jelinek himself was sent to the former Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, which now housed opponents of the Communists!\nThere, Jelinek met up with other comrades and they set up a secret group. Jelinek\u2019s ration was reduced, and then because of his continued association with other anarchists, he was sent on to the concentration camp at Bautzen.\nHere prisoners suffered from hunger, and many died of TB. On March 13th 1950, a revolt took place and a commission of Russian officers and members of the German \u2018people\u2019s police\u2019 promised better conditions. In fact, they became worse, and a new uprising took place on March 30th.\nJelinek managed to smuggle an appeal to West Germany about the miserable conditions in Bautzen and Torgau camps. The appeal appeared in the Hamburg Echo of May 15th 1950.\nFor this Jelinek was rewarded by worse treatment. At the beginning of 1952, two anarchists died of TB at Bautzen. On March 20th 1952, Jelinek was still in reasonable health when visited by his daughter. But on March 24th he died in conditions that still remain mysterious.\nThe little known story of Willi Jelinek deserves to be repeated, not just for the courage of a devoted anarchist militant, but as an example of what anarchists can expect under a Leninist regime.\nG\u00fcnter Bartsch: Anarchismus in Deutschland. Bd. 1, 1945-1965. Hannover 1972\nJelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952.pdf 220.83 KB\nHuppertz, Willy 1904-1978\n1919-1945: The Proletarischer Zeitgeist\nPaul, Willi, 1897-1979\nHelberg, Paul (1905-1989)\nJelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952.pdf (220.83 KB)\nwould be interesting if the Stasi mole Otto Freitag who had access to most of the groups of the \"homeless left\" (a term used for those groups who neither joined SPD or KPD after 1945) in Germany was also involved in the crackdown on the group around Jelinek. Freitag, a former army officer and low-ranking SED bureaucrat went 1948 or 1949 in a staged flight to Western Germany playing a left critic of Stalinism which put him into contact with all the Trotskyist, Council Communist, Anarchist, Brandlerite, etc. groups there ... he was definitely involved in poisoning the Czech Trotskyist V\u00e1clav Salus in Munich 1953 and led a section of the Healyite Fourth International after the split 1953/54 (not a bad choice for a Stalinist secret agent) until he \"defected\" again in the early 1960ies to the East\nPicture of Willi Jelinek added\nVisited Bautzen last week. The camp where Jelinek died is still in use as a penitentiary so it has had continuous use since 1904, including by the Gestapo. Bautzen 2 in a leafy suburb not far from the town centre was set up in 1906 and is now a museum. Bautzen 2 was also used by the Russians and then the Stasi. A grim place but then aren't all prisons grim places?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 11014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://library.law.columbia.edu/w/index.php?title=Finding_Books_and_Articles_on_International_and_Foreign_Law&action=edit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GPM5N3AGMKNYJPZ3PCULVHDQYNUB273X", "length": 33074, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "library.law.columbia.edu", "title": "View source for Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law - Research Guides", "raw_content": "\u2190 Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law\n{{Guide|title=Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law |email=ssahl@law.columbia.edu|author=Silke Sahl|updated=April 2017}} The way to find books and articles continues to change as technology changes. Library catalogs evolve and use federated search engines which search across scholarship types, from books to journals, and across disciplines. The following guide is an introduction to catalogs, key journal indexes, and other finding aids relevant to international and foreign legal research and finding books and articles in general. Most of the databases described are fee-based and available only to members of the Columbia community. This list is not exhaustive. For additional assistance, please visit the [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/services/students/student-reference-services Reference Office]. See [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/services#3995 Law Library Services.] == BOOKS == ===[http://www.law.columbia.edu/library Arthur W. Diamond Law Library]=== The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library houses an impressive collection of domestic, foreign, comparative, and international law materials on four floors throughout the library. Most of the materials are located in open stacks; which means that users can go to the shelf and retrieve items without assistance. Many items in our collection do circulate and may be checked out by patrons who have borrowing privileges. However, some of the collections do not circulate and must be used within the law library. The library does have scanners that are available for use free of charge to scan items, which may then be emailed or downloaded to a USB device. Some of our collections are located in closed stack areas which require assistance for retrieval. The law library also houses part of its collection in a retrievable off-site storage facility in Princeton, New Jersey. Any items requested from offsite are generally available the next business day if requested before 2:30 PM or within 2 business days if requested after 2:30 PM. See the law library website for a description of the [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/collections library collections] and for [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/about/call_no maps] to each floor. :'''International Law Books''' :International law covers the relationships between countries and includes international relations and international organizations. International law books in the law library are classified according to the Library of Congress Classification System. For more information on this system, see the [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/about/classification#3949 Library of Congress Classification System] page on the library website. :'''Foreign Law Books ''' :Most of the library's foreign law collections are arranged in the Schiller Classification System. In the Schiller System, call numbers begin with the country code, for example Af Tun for Tunisian law and Ger for German law. More details are available at the [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/about/classification Schiller Classification System] page on the library website. The collection of materials from the United Kingdom and some other commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada, are generally classified according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Just as with domestic law books, some early British law primary source materials are classified according to the Hicks Classification system. :'''Domestic Law Books''' :Most of the law library\u2019s domestic law collection is arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Call numbers beginning with the letter K are most common since Class K covers the majority of law. A small amount of the collection, early primary source original materials, is classified according to the Hicks Classification system. :[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/ '''Pegasus'''] :Pegasus is the catalog of the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library. The catalog provides a register of all of the materials, books, journals, microform, videos, and databases) that the law library owns or licenses. You may search the library catalog in a variety of ways. [[File:Figure_1.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 1]] :If you know the specific item that you are looking for, the best way to search is by title or author. Choose the method by clicking on the search options box and then choosing either title or author from the dropdown menu. You may then enter the title of the book (excluding articles such as the, an, a, etc.) or the name of the author (last name, first name) in the search box to the right. [[File:Figure_2.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 2]] :When you are not sure what you are looking for, it is often helpful to start with a keyword search. You can choose to search by keyword by choosing that from the search options menu or if you are looking for multiple terms together, you may want to click on the advanced keyword searching option circled in yellow in Figure 1. When you are performing a keyword search in the catalog, the search is not looking through the contents of the actual item. The search looks through titles, subjects, and if it is included as part of the catalog record, the table of contents of a book. Since it is casting a wide net, you may get some results that are not quite what you are looking for. Once you do find an item that looks like it may be of interest to you, make sure that you click on that record. Figure 2 depicts a typical item record. For purposes of finding other books that may be of interest to you, you should look at the subject headings used to describe the book (in the red box in Figure 2). Subject Headings are assigned based on the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) system. A book receives subject headings based on its content. So the book in Figure 2 discusses criminal evidence in England, admissible evidence in England, and Reputation (Law) in England. Many subject headings contain not only the subject but also the geographical area in which the subject is discussed. You can click on any of the subject headings that you are interested in to find other items in the collection on the same subject. If you are interested in getting the book in figure two, you can use the information in the record to find it. In all records, the most important information for locating the item is located in the heading at the top (in the blue box in Figure 2) or in the line of information below the heading (the green box in Figure 2). The green box notes the floor location (in this case the 4th Floor), the call number (in this case KD8371.S68 2016), the bar code, and the status (in this case nothing is listed). If you do not see anything in the status field the book should be on the shelf. Sometimes you will see a date in that field. If this is the case, the book is checked out to another patron and the date the book is due is provided. :You can start off with a subject search if you feel comfortable that you know what subjects might be used in the catalog. When you perform a subject search, your result list will show you the subject you entered as the first result and then the subject headings that follow it in alphabetical order. If you click on the subject heading that you want you will see a list of results for items we have in the collection with the same subject heading included. At this point, you may want to rearrange your search results if there is a lengthy list that would require scrolling through several pages. To do this, you can click on the Limit Display button toward the top of the screen (circled in purple in Figure 3). You can click on the option of sorting the results by year at the bottom of the screen (to see the most recent items first) you can choose the type of material, perform a search within your current results, etc. [[File:Figure_3.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 3]] :Call Number searches are useful to find an exact item you are looking for or in foreign legal research (particularly in Pegasus since we use Schiller Classification). If you want all books on law in Norway, you could run a Hicks/Schiller search for NOR. Just remember that this will not provide you with the items that may be more comparative in nature, since these items are cataloged under the prefix of COMP. ===[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ Columbia University Libraries]=== [[File:Figure_4.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 4]] To find books in the rest of the Columbia University Libraries you can use [https://clio.columbia.edu/ CLIO]. Clio includes the CUL catalog. To search it for books, the best choice is to click on catalog to only run a search of the catalog (circled in orange in Figure 4). Once in the catalog, you can run many of the same searches that were discussed above. The records do display a little bit differently, but the same type of information as discussed above is available. You will particularly want to focus on which library the item is located in, the call number, and whether it is available (see green highlighted area in Figure 5). The subject headings are located on the left hand side of the record (highlighted in red in Figure 5). It is important to note that CUL has a large collection of electronic books available through many different services that you can have access to. However, there may be restrictions on downloading and printing. [[File:Figure_5.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 5]] CLIO includes the holdings of most of the Columbia University Libraries. Law Library materials are also cataloged in CLIO. However, it is better to use Pegasus to ensure that you see both the most up-to-date information on Law Library holdings, as well as the most complete information since some items may not always appear in CLIO. CLIO does not contain materials held by the Teachers College Library. For items held by Teachers College you will have to consult [http://educat.tc.columbia.edu/ Educat]. ===Beyond Columbia=== To look for materials beyond Columbia , search for books at other libraries using [https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat]. WorldCat allows you to search the collections of libraries in your area and around the world. There are over 10,000 libraries that have listings in WorldCat. There are over 402 million bibliographic records in WorldCat. The Diamond Law Library is a member of OCLC and WorldCat and can borrow materials from other University libraries throughout the country through Interlibrary Loan. For more information, see the [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/services/students/student-reference-services Reference Librarians]. ===Books Online=== Some texts and treatises are available in full-text online. Sometimes the books are exact PDF facsimiles of the printed work, and other times, there is only html text available. [https://signon.thomsonreuters.com/?productid=LSC&returnto=https%3a%2f%2flawschool.westlaw.com%2fauthentication%2ftoken%3ffwdURL%3d%252fDesktopDefault.aspx&bhcp=1 Westlaw], [https://signin.lexisnexis.com/lnaccess/app/signin?aci=ls&back=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexisnexis.com%2Flawschool Lexis], and [https://essential.bna.com/login/signin?msg=deny&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwsauth.bna.com%2Fwsauth%2Fblawauth%3Ftarget%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberglaw.com%2Fstart&lddty=-518&pcv= Bloomberg Law] all have many secondary sources available in html format. These items are not cataloged in Pegasus so you would need to go to the individual database to see what is included. [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b565946~S9 HeinOnline] and [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b616798~S9 Making of Modern Law Legal Treatises 1800-1926] also have access to many PDF copies of books. These items are cataloged in Pegasus and note that they are electronic resources, but you can also go into the databases to search through what is available. == ARTICLES == There are many ways to find law review and journal articles using the resources available to you at the Law Library and the University Libraries. There are differences between Pegasus and CLIO that must be addressed when it comes to searching for articles. :'''Pegasus''' [[File:Figure_6.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 6]] :As mentioned above, Pegasus does not search the actual text of items held by the Law Library. Pegasus will only search the title, author, or subject of the journal. This means that you cannot look for the title or author of an individual article in Pegasus. When using Pegasus, you should be searching for the title of the journal itself. Some journals will only be available in print. Recent unbound issues of journals are kept in the 3rd Floor Reserve area, while bound volumes will be located elsewhere. There are separate item records for the print copies of journals and the electronic journals (see Figure 6 in red and green respectively). When you click on the electronic resource listing for the journal, you will see all of the databases that the Law Library subscribes to that provide access to the journal. Please use the dates provided only as a guideline since there may be more recent issues available than indicated. When you click on the link to the database, you should be taken directly to the journal. :'''CLIO''' [[File:Figure_7.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 7]] :Unlike Pegasus, CLIO searches not only local information in the catalog, but uses the Blacklight search and discovery engine that allows users to find the over 1.6 billion items in the Summon article database. This means that users can search for article titles and authors in CLIO in addition to searching for the actual journals. In CLIO, you can just search without choosing a particular option. If you do this, you will get the search results divided by catalog, GeoData (spatial data collections), Articles, Academic Commons (CU digital repository), and Libraries Website (see Figure 7). You can also choose where you would like to search to begin with. For instance, with searching for books, you clicked on catalog first so that you were searching the University catalog. If you want to search for articles, you can click on Articles. The advantage of this is that you will then be able to search by title, author, keyword, and publication title, thus allowing for more targeted searching for a specific item. If you click on a result in Articles, you will be taken to the E-link page to show which database you can find the article in. Some journals that we have in Pegasus may also be available electronically through the University so it can be helpful to look for journals in both catalogs. ===Finding Articles on your Topic=== Pegasus and CLIO are great to use once you know what articles you are looking for. If you are just starting your project you will need to do research to find articles that will be useful to you. Once you do find an article, you can always use the footnotes in the article to find other articles that may be of interest to you. There are generally two ways that you can search for articles. The first is to use a full text database that has articles within it and search among all the articles by keyword or phrase. The second method is to use a periodical index to find articles based on subject. Whichever method you use, there is no single database that indexes or includes every journal that exists so you may need to search in more than one place in order to conduct a thorough search. ====Full Text Searching Databases --[https://signon.thomsonreuters.com/?productid=LSC&returnto=https%3a%2f%2flawschool.westlaw.com%2fauthentication%2ftoken%3ffwdURL%3d%252fDesktopDefault.aspx&bhcp=1 Westlaw], [https://signin.lexisnexis.com/lnaccess/app/signin?aci=ls&back=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexisnexis.com%2Flawschool Lexis Advance], and [https://essential.bna.com/login/signin?msg=deny&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwsauth.bna.com%2Fwsauth%2Fblawauth%3Ftarget%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberglaw.com%2Fstart&lddty=-518&pcv= Bloomberg Law]==== :These three databases are available to current Columbia Law School students, faculty, and staff. Each database is accessed using an individual username and password. In each database, it is always a good idea to check out the scope notes or information to see what journals are included. Additionally, only a portion of the journal may be included in the database, not the entire run.
:In these databases, you can search through particular journals or through all of the journals that are available. Journals are generally listed under secondary sources in all of these databases. You can also search through certain portions of the articles, known as fields or segments, by using the advanced search option once you have narrowed down the type of resource to journals. When you are searching, remember that since it is a full text database, you will receive a result on your search every time your search word or phrase appears in a document. This is true even if a search term or phrase only appears once. The downside of this is that you will get back search results that are not really about what you are looking for, but do use the search term or phrase you entered. To ensure that you only get results that are actually about a topic, you can use term frequency or the \u201cat least\u201d command. Term frequency and the \u201cat least\u201d operator allow you to ensure that the search term or phrase appears in the results a minimum of x times. By using this, you can ensure that your results are actually about what you are searching for rather than just using the search term or phrase only once or twice. If you ever have questions about which Boolean operator or terms and connectors to use in a database, you can generally find the answer by clicking on the help icon or of course always come to the reference desk. ====Legal Periodical Indexes==== :[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b783946~S9 Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (ILP)] :There are two versions of this particular index, Index to Legal Periodicals and Books and Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective 1918-1981. As its name implies, the Retrospective version indexes periodicals from 1918-1981, so for anything after 1981 you would use Index to Legal Periodicals and Books. This index includes over 500 legal periodicals that are published in the U.S. Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. This index is hosted by EBSCO, which provides it with an additional useful feature. If you are searching for articles on a topic that is interdisciplinary and is not just law, you can search through multiple indexes to look for articles. This means that in one search, you could be searching economics journals, business journals, academic journals, etc. In order to do this, you click on the link where it says \u201cChoose Databases\u201d (see Figure 8 circled in red). When you do this, you will then be able to choose which databases you would like to search and then click OK once you have made your selections. [[File:Figure_8.png|200px|thumb|left|Figure 8]] :Once you have entered in search terms you can look through the search results. You can filter through the search results on the left-hand side of the screen or read through the results. Each result will show the title of the article, author, journal, citation, subjects, and either a link to the PDF of the article or the e-link option. The e-link will show you where within any of the databases that Columbia University subscribes to you can find the article. Sometimes, there will be no results; which means that the article is not available electronically through Columbia. When this happens, make sure to see if the journal is available in print here at Columbia. If the journal is not available in print here at Columbia, you can always try to get a copy through interlibrary loan (ILL); law students must make all ILL requests in person at the Reference Desk. When you click on a particular result, you should consult the subjects that are provided. These subjects are how the database indexes these topics and provides the most accurate way to find information on a topic. You can click on any of these subjects and you will then run a search based on that subject. :[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b553484~S9 LegalTrac] :LegalTrac is an expanded online version of the print resource, Current Law Index. More than 1200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, Bar Association journals, specialty publications, and international legal journals are indexed in LegalTrac. Of these, more than 200 titles are available in full text. The database covers federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, British Commonwealth, EU, and international law. The indexed content is also available below as the Legal Resource Index although this version does have better subject searching capabilities since the database will provide suggested subjects for the terms you enter. :[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b739544~S9 Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)] :This is a current awareness service for legal research rather than an easily searchable database for articles. Current Index to Legal Periodicals provides subject indexing of over 500 journals. Article citations are organized by subject area in each weekly listing. Each edition is available in HTML, Word, and PDF format. There is no full text linking, but you can identify the articles that you will want to retrieve separately.
:[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b768414~S9 Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)] :A multilingual index to legal articles and book reviews published worldwide. Over 500 legal journals are included in this index. The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals covers international (public and private), comparative, and foreign law of jurisdictions other than the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. A list of journals covered can be found at Berkeley's IFLP [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/iflp/periodicals.html website]. Periodicals are continually being added. Coverage in IFLP includes records from 1984 to date. For records from 1960-1983, you need to click on the print edition tab once you are in the resource on HeinOnline. In addition to the journals that are indexed, IFLP also analyzes the contents of some individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, M\u00e9langes, and congress reports every year..
:[https://1.next.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/SecondarySources/LegalResourceIndexElectronicCompaniontoCurrentLawIndex?originationContext=AutoComplete&contextData=(sc.Default)&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&firstPage=true&CobaltRefresh=61873 Legal Resource Index (LRI)] :Accessible via Westlaw. :This index has coverage of over 700 journals from common law countries going back to 1980. You can search based on terms and phrases, title, author, subject, and citation. This is the electronic companion to the print publication known as Current Law Index, which was published on a monthly basis.
:[https://1.next.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/InternationalMaterials/UnitedKingdom/LegalJournalsIndex?originationContext=typeAhead&contextData=(sc.Default)&transitionType=CategoryPageItem Legal Journals Index (LJI)] :This index, available in Westlaw, indexes and provides abstracts for articles published about UK and relevant EU law since 1986.
:[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b595922~S9 Articles Index via Lawtel] :Lawtel\u2019s Articles Index contains abstracts from approximately 73 legal publications in the UK and EU. The abstracts include the key issues contained in the article as well as direct links to all cited cases and all cited Legislation.
====Indexes to Non-Law Journals, Relevant to Legal Research==== :Often, articles on legal subjects are published in Non-Law Journals. Additionally, many legal topics also include interdisciplinary topics. The following is a selective list of indexes that will help you find these articles. Other indexes may exist for other subjects. The following databases are available through the [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources Columbia University Libraries]. You can search through databases in [http://www.clio.columbia.edu CLIO] to find additional subject indexes. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4888784 ABI/INFORM Global] :Provides indexing of local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Coverage is from 1985 to present. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7468803 Academic Search Complete] :This is a multidisciplinary full-text database with more than 6100 full text periodicals, including more than 5100 that are peer-reviewed. More than 10,000 journals are indexed as well. PDF content goes back as far as 1887. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5416050 Africa-Wide Information] :Over 3.5 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century, this database combines bibliographic databases from around the world to cover Africa and African studies. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4784657 Business Source Complete] :Full text for scholarly business journals and other sources. Coverage goes back to 1922. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5960456 EconLit] :Contains citations, abstracts, and full text to economic materials dating back to 1969. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8588396 Environment Complete] :Coverage of sources in the area of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, and urban planning among others. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/2552765 ERIC] :Indexes journals, reports, conference papers, and other materials on education back to 1966. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3023448 GenderWatch] :Provides indexing and full text of journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, and reports on women\u2019s studies and LBGT research. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1960949 Humanities full text] :Has full text back to 1995 and indexes back to 1984 of scholarly sources in the humanities. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4256067 Index Islamicus] :Indexes material on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world from periodicals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and other materials in European languages, Turkish, Malay and Bahasa Indonesia. More than 2000 journals are included. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8088762 MEDLINE] :Provides abstracts to over 4800 current biomedical journals. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/6255949 Omnifile full text mega] :Provides indexing in all core undergraduate subjects and cross-disciplinary work with full text articles from over 2500 publications dating back to 1994, indexing and abstracts from approximately 3600 publications, and retrospective coverage back to 1982. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/2135173 PAIS International] :Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, reports, directories, and other items from all over the world. Subjects included are public policy, social policy, social sciences, public affairs, business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, law and legislation, political science, finance, education, and statistics. Coverage is from 1972 to the present. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8557099 ProQuest] :Includes citations and full text articles in academic and professional disciplines like business, economics, gender studies, literature, and political science. :[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4815156 Social Sciences full text] :Covers more than 350 international English language periodicals in the area of the social sciences. Indexing back to 1983 and full text back to 1995. ===Full-Text Journals Online=== Some journals can be found online in full-text. Many of the indexes listed above provide full-text access. To see if a journal is available in full-text online, search the library catalogs, [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/ Pegasus] or [https://clio.columbia.edu/ CLIO] for the title of the journal. The Columbia Law Library and the Columbia University Libraries subscribe to several good journal collections online. Note that the individual journal titles covered in the following databases are cataloged in [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/ Pegasus] or [https://clio.columbia.edu/ CLIO], and most of the articles in these journals are indexed in the indexes listed above. Just because some issues of the journal are available in full text, does not mean that all issues will be available; quite often, some journals will have a temporary embargo on allowing these databases to provide electronic full text access for a period of time following the initial publication of the issue. Following is a list of a few of the journal collection databases, most useful for legal research. : [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b565946~S9 HeinOnline] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3240527 Cambridge Journals Online] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3290725 China Academic Journals] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1959655 JSTOR] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3031491 Oxford Journals] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3443755 Sage Full-Text Collections] : [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/2402476 SpringerLink] ===Journals Available in Print=== While many journals are available electronically, it is important to note that some are only available in print; this is particularly true for many of the Law Library\u2019s foreign periodicals. Search [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/ Pegasus] or the other catalogs described in the \u2018Books' section for the title of the journal. Make sure that you look to see what the Library\u2019s current holdings are since we do not always have a complete run of journals. == DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS == The following dictionaries and encyclopedias provide definitions of legal terms and can include citations to books and articles about the terms. :''Dictionary of international and comparative law''. James R. Fox. 3rd ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 2003.
:3rd Floor Reference and Reserve Dictionaries, [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b601279~S9 JX1226 F832 2003] :''Encyclopedia of public international law''. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, under the direction of Rudolf Bernhardt. Amsterdam: New York, North-Holland, 1992-2003.
:2nd Floor, [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b457275~S9 JX1226 En19a 1992] and [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b716459~S9 online] :''Modern dictionary of international legal terms: English, French, German''. E. Lindbergh. Boston : Little Brown, 1993.
:3rd Floor Reserve Dictionaries , [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b456551~S9 JX1226 L64 1993] :''Parry & Grant encyclopaedic dictionary of international law''. Parry, Clive. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
:3rd Floor Reference, [http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b736679~S9 KZ1161 .P37 2009] == RESEARCH GUIDES == There are many excellent research guides on foreign and international law that can lead researchers to relevant books and articles. Some are general guides to foreign and international legal research, and others are on specific subjects, such as international environmental law or international criminal law. '''Foreign Legal Research Guides''' :For foreign legal research guides, both online and in print, see the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library guide, [http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/A_Selective_List_of_Guides_to_Foreign_Legal_Research A Selective List of Guides to Foreign Legal Research]. '''International Legal Research Guides''' :For international legal research guides, see [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/Research_Guides Arthur W. Diamond Law Library Research Guides Page] :Beyond Columbia , the following resources are mega sources and provide access to the many international guides available. ::[https://www.asil.org/resources/electronic-resource-guide-erg ASIL Electronic Resource Guide (e-RG)]
::Published by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) since 1997. This excellent resource provides links to electronic resources around the world. ::[http://www.eisil.org/ Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)]
::Also provided by ASIL, EISIL is an open database of authenticated primary and other materials in international law. ::[http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/ GlobalLex] ::Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. The guides and articles are written by scholars who are well known in their fields. ::[http://www.llrx.com/category/comparative-foreign-law/ LLRX-Comparative/Foreign Law Guides] ::A free web journal with excellent guides to international legal research.\nReturn to Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 34022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://liducks.com/news/current/?article_id=917", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7OB6SKPUN52GO7NMX33GUGI4JGHSCHET", "length": 3526, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "liducks.com", "title": "Long Island Ducks Baseball - Affordable Family Fun on Long Island: Current News", "raw_content": "FIRST FANS ARRIVE EARLY FOR DUCKS TICKETS\nBox office opens at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21\n(Central Islip, N.Y., March 19, 2015) \u2013 On Thursday morning, the Czark Family of Setauket arrived at Bethpage Ballpark nearly 50 hours before Long Island Ducks individual tickets go on sale for the 2015 season. In doing so, they became the first fans in line for the team\u2019s annual Opening Day of Ticket Sales for a second consecutive year. The Czarks will be the first to purchase their tickets when the box office opens at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21.\n\u201cIt was a great feeling to arrive at the ballpark this morning and see fans already camped out for tickets,\u201d says Ducks President/GM Michael Pfaff. \u201cNo matter what Mother Nature has thrown our way, Long Islanders continue to show their excitement for baseball and for the Ducks.\u201d\nChristopher and Sharon Czark, along with their daughters Brianna and Kaylin, 8, claimed their spot as \u201cfirst fans in line\u201d by setting up a tent and chairs outside the West Gate of the ballpark at 8:30 a.m. Their son Patrick, 13, will also be joining in the fun later in the day. The Czarks also prepared for their stay with sleeping bags, warm blankets, food, beverages, board games, baseball mitts and much more.\nThe Ducks hope everyone will join the Czarks for all of the fun-filled activities planned for Saturday. The good times start rolling at 8:00 a.m. with The Wiseman from B-103 emceeing the festivities. Long Island\u2019s favorite mascot, QuackerJack, will be on hand to pose for pictures with fans and will be joined by baseball legend Buddy Harrelson, manager Kevin Baez, 2014 Atlantic League Player of the Year Lew Ford, and outfielder/Long Island native Bryan Sabatella.\nAll children in attendance on March 21 will have the opportunity to enjoy the always popular Ducks inflatables. Those looking for more fun at the Duck Pond can also stop by the Wax Creations table and get their very own wax hand replicas. The Waddle In Shop will open up at 8:30 a.m., and fans will be able to browse and purchase a wide selection of brand new Ducks apparel.\nWhile waiting in line for tickets, fans will be treated to a variety of complimentary snacks and beverages, courtesy of Centerplate, the official concessions provider of the Ducks. Snacks will include bagels, Hebrew National hot dogs, North Fork Chips samples and Kona Ice frozen ice treats. Warm beverages such as Hampton Coffee Company coffee, tea and hot chocolate will be available along with water, Pepsi soft drinks and Tropical Smoothie Caf\u00e9 samples.\nAlong with these exciting activities, the Ducks will be attempting to set a World Record prior to opening the ticket windows. As fans are waiting in line for tickets, QuackerJack is going to high five as many people as possible in a one minute span. Fans are encouraged to be in their place in line and ready to dish out high fives by 9:45 a.m.\nAll of the fun will lead into the opening of the Bethpage Ballpark box office at 10:00 a.m. Prior to the opening, the Czarks will receive a $500 gift card, courtesy of Bethpage Federal Credit Union, for being the first fans in line. They will also receive other special prizes from the Ducks. The 2015 Promotional Schedule has been announced and can be viewed by CLICKING HERE.\nFollowing the opening of the ticket windows, Long Island-based rock and roll band Tony K. & Boardwalk will be performing live on the plaza. The four-man crew will play several classic fan favorites, spanning the decades, throughout the rest of the morning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 6326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lists.nycbug.org:8080/pipermail/talk/2018-January/017470.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5ADAC45II54VVMAAUTPJF7UJHE6LCMW3", "length": 706, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lists.nycbug.org:8080", "title": "[talk] a Port Maintainer day conference in NYC", "raw_content": "I would recommend making it open to current port maintainers and to\npeople interested in maintaining one or more ports. I'd probably break\nthe day up into two parts, with the first part being for people who\nmaintain ports. This part of the day can be organized unconference\nstyle (i.e. the topics are generated by the people who show up) with\nspace/time being given to hands on work and collaboration. The second\nhalf of the day would include new porters with one or more laptop-open\ntutorials (similar to Brian's talk on Wednesday).\nI'd like to see software developers show up. No better way to have\npeople use your software than to make it easy to install.\nIt would be like an install fest but for ports.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://live.abcul.netxtra.net/media-and-research/news/view/1043", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:54Z", "digest": "sha1:XOXSKM4FPUOQBME2ZA5G6WVQ7U6JCTIC", "length": 5463, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "live.abcul.netxtra.net", "title": "Credit unions celebrate the Lloyds Banking Groups Credit Union Development Fund in House of Commons - ABCUL", "raw_content": "\u00bb Credit unions celebrate the Lloyds Banking Groups Credit Union Development Fund in House of Commons\nCredit unions celebrate the Lloyds Banking Groups Credit Union Development Fund in House of Commons\nCredit unions, politicians and Lloyds Banking Group, gathered at the House of Commons this week to celebrate the 21 credit unions sharing the 2017 \u00a31 million round of funding from the Lloyds Banking Group Credit Union Development Fund.\nEstablished in 2014 as part of Lloyds\u2019 Helping Britain Prosper Plan and run in partnership with the Credit Union Foundation, the Fund is designed to strengthen the financial position of credit unions and give them the capacity to develop new strategies for sustained and effective growth, and to provide additional much-needed responsible lending to communities across Britain.\nThe event celebrated the recent announcement by Lloyds Banking Group that an additional \u00a31 million will be invested into credit unions through the grant scheme. This will make it the fifth year of the fund, which will bring Lloyds Banking Group\u2019s total grant contribution the UK\u2019s credit union movement to \u00a35 million.\nThe fund is part of Lloyds Banking Groups initiative of \u2018Helping Britain Prosper Plan\u2019, which was set up as a four year fund with \u00a31 million available each year to credit unions. Following on from the success of the first four years, Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to contribute another \u00a31 million additional funding in 2018 in partnership with The Credit Union Foundation.\nThe event was hosted by Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions Jeremy Quin MP, Chair of the Credit Union Foundation Lord Roy Kennedy, and was addressed by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen MP, Managing Director of Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland at Lloyds Banking Group Robin Bulloch, and Minister for the Department for Work & Pensions, Guy Opperman MP.\nJohn Glen MP, spoke about the funding from Lloyds Banking Group, he said; \u201cI am committed to promoting the benefits of credit unions, there are over 400 of them across the country, serving 1.9 million members, and each plays a vital role for the people and community they serve. This funding from Lloyds is fantastic news for the sector and I hope that other banks follow by example.\u201d\nRobin Bulloch, Managing Director, Lloyds Bank & Bank of Scotland said: \u201cAs part of our ambition to be the leading supporter of the UK\u2019s Credit Unions, we are contributing an additional \u00a31 million to provide sustainable lending to even more Credit Unions, and in turn, their members. Over 66 Credit Unions have benefited from the funds support to date, helping over 400,000 members across the UK, underscoring our commitment to Help Britain Prosper.\u201d\nThe fund has helped 66 credit unions lend over \u00a320 million to its members, with this number set to exceed \u00a325 million by the end of 2018. The announcement of an addition \u00a31 million will help 13 credit unions that apply for large grants up to \u00a3100,000 and another 8 credit unions will receive small grants between \u00a310,000 & \u00a320,000. Larger grants are intended to help remove barriers to growth and innovation whilst smaller grants are to help credit unions invest in resources and activities to improve sustainability.\nExecutive Director of The Credit Union Foundation Carol Strand attended the APPG event this week and said: \u201cThe partnership between Lloyds Banking Group and The Credit Union Foundation has been essential to the growth in the credit union sector since 2014. The funding has provided new digital services for members and it has supported significant growth for credit unions all over the UK.\n\u201cCredit unions provide an ethical and affordable financial service to some of most financially excluded communities in the UK. The development fund helps credit unions support these people to improve their lives, whilst committing to improving the wider community. Now heading into the fifth year of funding, the development fund is in demand by credit unions more than ever.\n\u201cWe thank Lloyds Banking Group for their ground-breaking partnership with credit unions. The high demand for the funding proves the great success of the partnership and I am delighted to see so many credit unions benefit from this. The first deadline for applications to this year's fund is fast approaching, and we've had a tremendous response with some very strong proposals which are sure to give the Grants Committee some difficult decisions to make later this year.\u201d\nIf you wish to apply to 2018 funding there are changes to the application process, ABCUL has provided detailed guidance notes on the Credit Union Foundation website here. Applications close Monday 18th June. To access the application form please click here.\nFor any more information please contact enquiries@creditunionfoundation.org.uk\nLARGE GRANT RECEIPIENTS\nPrince Bishops Credit Union\nLASER Credit Union Ltd\nOldham Credit Union Limited\nSt Albans District Credit Union\nWest Cumbria Credit Union Ltd\nWyvern Credit Union Limited\nCroydon Merton & Sutton Credit Union\nDrumchapel Credit Union\nLewisham Employees Credit Union Limited\nMoneywise Credit Union\nBradford District Credit Union\nManchester Credit Union Limited\nSEED GRANT RECEIPIENTS\nBorough & Parish Community Credit Union\nColchester Credit Union\nLincolnshire Credit Union Ltd\nNorwich Credit Union Limited\nSouth Manchester Credit Union Ltd\nCash Box Credit Union\nSmart Money Cymru Credit Union Ltd\nSwan Credit Union", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://londonpokerguide.com/london-poker-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BECEHA5HOVS7R2HGPDC2M64D44OTTTBM", "length": 1386, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "londonpokerguide.com", "title": "LONDON POKER NEWS \u2013 London Poker Guide", "raw_content": "The 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is well underway, and there are 10 gold bracelets and a guaranteed prize pool of over \u20ac13 million at Europe\u2019s most popular poker festival up for grabs...\nWe're happy to launch our new mobile responsive site at Londonpokerguide.com....\nChelsea Football Club tends to divide opinions but whether you love or hate them, you can\u2019t miss taking part in the Grand Prix Poker Tour leg ta...\nChelsea Football Club tends to divide opinions but whether you love or hate them, you can\u2019t miss taking part in the Gra...\nPoker players in London are spoilt for choice, and there is no need for a trip to the casino in order to enjoy this great game. 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Playboy Poker is bringing you the most ant...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://loonmtn.com/events/first-class-dec-15-16", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6NZNC424EAP2JYDWRHFMJSKMFZ5D5TDO", "length": 101, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "loonmtn.com", "title": "First Class Beginner's Weekend | Loon Mountain Resort, NH | Calendar of Events | Loon Mountain", "raw_content": "Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16, 2018\nSaturday, December 15, 2018 & Sunday, December 16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 4135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 89.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lordkoopa7.tripod.com/id28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QI5YRBWC2EB3P424HZJ26OVQFBRKVU3G", "length": 723, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lordkoopa7.tripod.com", "title": "Did You Know?", "raw_content": "Super Mario 64 facts that you may not know. I've collected some cool or interesting facts about SM64 and displayed them here for you to use.\nI give credit to the following websites and Forum Members for this information. Visitors may also send in oddities about SM64. If it isn't already on this page, you'll be credited.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_64\nHeartless_bowser\nSuper Mario 64 was first released on 5/23/96 (Jap), 3/1/97 (Europe), and 9/29/96 (US)\n6,000,000 Copies have been sold worldwide.\nWas first launched with the Nintendo 64.\nSM64 was as revolutionary as SMB.\nIn devolpment for 5 years\nAt one point was going to be a SNES game.\n32 courses were planned to be plyable but scrapped soon before completion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.playbill.com/article/andrus-nichols-to-star-as-margery-kempe-in-off-broadway-revival", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:R5GE5U4AYOE7Z5FAC4MOLIO2KFZ7FOVD", "length": 1603, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "m.playbill.com", "title": "Andrus Nichols to Star as Margery Kempe in Off-Broadway Revival | Playbill", "raw_content": "Andrus Nichols to Star as Margery Kempe in Off-Broadway Revival\nOff-Broadway News Andrus Nichols to Star as Margery Kempe in Off-Broadway Revival\nAustin Pendleton will helm the remount of the original 1958 version of John Wulp\u2019s The Saintliness of Margery Kempe.\nAndrus Nichols\nActor and director Austin Pendleton is set to remount John Wulp\u2019s The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, originally produced at the Poet\u2019s Theatre in Cambridge in 1958 (followed by a heavily revised Off-Broadway version the following year). The comedic play is inspired by The Book of Margery Kempe, considered by many to be one of the first autobiographies in the English language.\nAndrus Nichols (Bedlam\u2019s Saint Joan and Sense & Sensibility) will star as 14th century English mystic Margery Kempe, a woman who refused to have her life defined either by men or by the strictures of her society.\nThe Saintliness of Margery Kempe, directed by Pendleton, will begin performances July 5 at The Duke on 42nd Street, ahead of a July 12 opening night.\nCompleting the cast are Vance Quincy Barton, LaTanya Borsay, Timothy Doyle, Michael Genet, Ginger Grace, Jason O\u2019Connell, Pippa Pearthree, and Thomas Sommo.\nThe Saintliness of Margery Kempe will feature scenic design by Wulp, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton and Matthew Richards, costume design by Barbara Bell, and sound design and original music by Ryan Rumery.\nThe limited engagement, presented by Perry Street Theatricals, Jonathan Demar, Frederick M. 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You are stuck trying to figure out what you are going to do to get your car repaired, while dealing with any injuries you sustained along the way. The insurance company isn't exactly the easiest to deal with. The last thing you want to do is end up making a mistake that can cost you a lot of money on your settlement. Here are some of the things you don't want to do when injured in a car accident.\nAvoiding giving out any details.\nWhen you first start dealing with the insurance company about a settlement, you shouldn't provide them with a bunch of information about what happened just yet. You only want to tell them that you are planning on filing a claim against their company. They will try and get information from you when you least expect it. Simply tell them that you aren't at liberty to discuss what happened right now.\nAvoid providing the insurance company with your medical history.\nThe insurance company is going to do everything they can to claim that your injuries weren't a result of the accident. Just because you might have injured your back years ago, that doesn't mean your back can't be reinjured in a car accident. Their goal is to pay you the least amount of money they can. Avoid sharing your records with the insurance company. They cannot make you give them this information. If they ask you to go to their doctor to be checked out, tell them no. You have the right to go to your own provider and send them the results.\nAvoid saying that you aren't injured.\nEven though you might feel okay right now, that doesn't mean you are in the clear. Many people don't notice anything until a couple days have passed. If you were to take the settlement from the insurance company now when you might end up needing medical treatment for an injury later, you wouldn't be able to go back and ask for more money. Your best bet is to tell them that you don't know the extent of your injuries and you plan on getting a check-up done through your own doctor.\nBy going through everything and making sure you don't make one of the mistakes above, you can make sure your car accident claim goes through without a problem. Contact a lawyer like one from Flett Manning Moore for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://makeitbetter.netshop.thebookstall.com/book/9780345544988", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7KZTUWLMIVBPVWCVB3WXI2XWWVYZ2SH4", "length": 1766, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "makeitbetter.netshop.thebookstall.com", "title": "A Spark of Light: A Novel (Hardcover) | The Book Stall", "raw_content": "A Spark of Light: A Novel (Hardcover)\n\u201cOnce again, Jodi Picoult tackles a highly charged social issue head on with compassion and insight. The characters in A Spark of Light offer readers insight into the varied and complex issues surrounding the pro-choice/pro-life debate. Although I know where I stand on the issue, I finished this novel with a greater understanding of how a person could hold beliefs different from my own. I hope this book becomes required reading for high schools across the country as well as a reading group favorite!\u201d\n\u2014 Andrea Avantaggio, Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO\n\u201cThis is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.\u201d\u2014People\n\u201cTold backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult\u2019s compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues.\u201d\u2014Us Weekly\nJodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister\u2019s Keeper. She is also the author, with daughter Samantha van Leer, of two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.\n\u201cThoroughly realistic storytelling . . . Picoult has achieved what politicians across the spectrum have not been able to: humanized a hot-button issue. Excellent for book clubs, this should also be considered for discussions in critical thinking and political debate.\u201d\u2014Library Journal (starred review)\n\u201cAn important and thoughtful read that is perfect for book clubs looking for deep conversations.\u201d\u2014PopSugar\n\u201cNovels such as this . . . are necessary\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews\nLibrary Binding, Large Print (January 2nd, 2019): $38.99", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://malecelebnews.com/2017/05/02/watch-cillian-murphy-tom-hardy-dunkirks-trailer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Y73VRCPQB2Z3USVPVPI4EPLQX7POSJVX", "length": 1914, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "malecelebnews.com", "title": "Watch Cillian Murphy & Tom Hardy 'Dunkirk\u2019s Trailer | Male Celeb News", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb * Actors \u00bb * Movies \u00bb * Videos \u00bb Cillian Murphy \u00bb Tom Hardy \u00bb You are reading \u00bb\nWatch Cillian Murphy & Tom Hardy \u2018Dunkirk\u2019s Trailer\nMay 2, 2017 Watch Cillian Murphy & Tom Hardy \u2018Dunkirk\u2019s Trailer2017-05-02T09:40:30+00:00 - * Actors, * Movies, * Videos, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy - No Comment\nHollywood heartthrobs Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy star in an upcoming English-language war film \u2019Dunkirk\u2019 by acclaimed director Christopher Nolan.\nSet during World War II, it concerns the Dunkirk evacuation. Allied soldiers from Britain, Belgium, Canada, and France are surrounded by the German Army on the beaches of Dunkirk and evacuated in Operation Dynamo between 26 May and 4 June 1940, during the early stages of the Second World War.\nThe film also stars some good looking young casts: Harry Styles, Hack Lowden, and Elliott Tittensor, just to name a few.\n\u2018Dunkirk\u2019 is scheduled to be released on July 21, 2017 in IMAX.\nWatch Ryan Reynolds' 'Deadpool' TV Promo\nToday's Birthday: Piolo Pascual\nOvidio Gonzalez for Bang! 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Heavy rain just before the race meant that about 15-20 metres...\nBalfron 10k\nby Andy Sutherland | Apr 27, 2014 | Race Reports\nLast Sunday was the 8th Balfron 10K race which took place under cool, sunny conditions. The route is an out and back along traffic-free country roads. For me, this is the toughest 10K road race in the local area (even harder than the Barge!) with a tough climb from 7...\nKirkcudbright Half Marathon\nI travelled down to the town of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries & Galloway on Friday night to take part in the half marathon on Saturday. The race is organised by the local secondary school and has been run every year since 1982. A healthy field of 182 runners took on...\nLoch Katrine Marathon\nby Fletcher Murdoch | Mar 23, 2014 | Race Reports\nThe second running of this event, together with a half-mar & a 10k, each limited to 100 runners, was held as a fund-raiser for Alzheimers disease, & organised by Audrey McIntosh. 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True, she knows a lot about cooking, but she's not a good cook. He froze with fear when he saw the snake. \"Mom, do farts weigh anything?\" \"No, sweety.\" \"Then I pooped my pants.\" Emily goes to sleep at 10 o'clock at night. I didn't have to say it twice. Also visible during a total solar eclipse are colorful lights from the Sun's chromosphere and solar prominences shooting out through the Sun's atmosphere. I just want life to be like it was before.\nChris runs the risk of burnout in his current job. Little did she dream that she could win first prize. I think you're old enough.\nI needed something more. The small boys rang the door bell and ran away. I'm worried that I might be late. How did you get them to laugh? Micheal is sticking a bill on the wall. Phill has a drawer full of letters from Phil.\nHow long will that last? Vivek isn't afraid of snakes, even poisonous ones. I never get tired of talking. Cindie couldn't eat anything, but he drank a little water. Let him do all the talking. Why don't you just do it? You're wearing my shoes.\nI didn't even get to talk to Sergio. I'll put it on your bill. Sergei isn't conscious.\nGilles may never get out of prison. Novorolsky lit a candle. Nicholas never thought he'd be able to do what he just did.\nIt's clear that he stole money from the safe. This was my mistake. Jean is jealous of Varda's friends. Did you know that was there? Do not expose to heat or direct sunlight.\nAll Jean ever drinks is water. How did you get our address? Even drunken celebrity tweets look better in 24-point Georgia. How much have we saved this month? You'll be nice to Malloy, won't you?\nThese pictures always remind me of the old days. Was it Mr Yamada that came to see me during my absence yesterday? Where did the horse go? Thousands of spectators got very excited. She pretended not to hear me. We held many negotiations but to no purpose. Are these all your belongings? They capitulated unconditionally. She surprised him with a kiss.\nThis is a good house. You're a fast worker. Tommy caught me by surprise. Perry will be the winner. I'll just have to risk it. I'd rather go for a walk. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time I hope everybody is on our side. A lot of people went by on the main street. I am sorry, I've got to go.\nI think I'll have more fun reading something now. I was always part of the bookworm group, but there are times when I just don't feel like reading anything. Right now I'm getting lots of \"Read! Read!\" waves coming at me. You can see the Empire State Building from here. I like the sound of harpsichord very much. Have you discovered anything new today?\nVidhyanath tied the balloon to Milner's wrist. Our top priority is to settle the dispute once and for all. Our company's base is in Tokyo.\nThe notes are at the bottom of the page. That's bad news. Manny didn't know what was really going on. I didn't have the courage to tell her the truth. We're aware of that. Who is it that Jimmy wants to talk to?\nLeila is our employee. Petr is just going to say no. This house is made of stone. I can't think about anything else. I finished my sandwich. Ramanan had to look after Stephe.\nConsisting of bacon and cheese, the sandwich was quite greasy. The girl likes the music. I'd better tell the others. Stacey turned to me. \"What shall I do next?\" she said to herself. I want an electric fan. That's very sweet of you. Where is her dog?\nWe have a margin of just five minutes to change trains. I could barely walk at that time. It's summer already.\nShe might be taller than you. He made me his own assistant. Pilot couldn't believe that Hirotoshi had never listened to Stairway to Heaven. Be careful when you cross a road. Could you please hurry? That is a recognized American author. I had some calls to make, too.\nThese flowers you see are roses. I'm not really busy. Woody and Piet stood real close together. The clouds are getting darker and darker and it's beginning to look like it might rain. It was there that I saw the accident.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://masterilo.ru/a-30787.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EBCHATFEMW4PUTCRW6ATESFPBKKZUYII", "length": 3158, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "masterilo.ru", "title": "The American English Accent:: The \"Explosive\" T And P Sounds", "raw_content": "The American English Accent:: The \"Explosive\" T And P Sounds\nThe \"explosive consonants\"\nEarlier we said that the vowels are an important factor in hearing a \"foreign\" accent. But it is not only the vowels. The consonants also must be mastered.\nWhen we say that English consonants are \"explosives\", we mean that they are pronounced with a sudden release of air. It is this characteristic that marks the accent of an English speaker when they try to speak your language. You should try to speak like an American and you will be reaching for the American English way of pronouncing the consonant. It is the characteristic explosive nature of the English consonant that is the basis of so many jokes about the pronunciation of the English speaker who is learning other languages.\nPronounce the following sentence with the most exaggerated American accent that you can: \"Peter, answer me! Can you talk?\"\nDid you exaggerate the words Peter, can you talk? If you did, the sounds that sound bad in your language are correct in English.\nMost of my students are shy and speak with a low voice because they think that they do not pronounce correctly. In this way, they will never pronounce correctly because they do not exercise the pronunciation. They do not hear their mistakes; they do not feel the effort of reaching for the correct sounds, and worse of all, they begin to say, \"Well, they understand me and that's what counts.\"\nDon't be afraid! You have to exaggerate the English sounds now to be able to pronounce them normally later on in your progress with the language.\nWhat are the sounds that give away the English speaker? The explosives. And the mispronunciation of these same sounds is what makes up the foreign accent.\nWhen you pronounce the words Peter, can you talk? in your language you probably don't use as much force as in English. For the \"p\" of the word Pedro, Pierre, or Piotr, you close your lips and then you open them for the sound to come out. It is the same with the \"t\" of the work talk.\nHowever, in English you have to expel a little blast of air to make the sound of the \"p\" and the \"t\"; that's why they call the sounds \"explosive\", because they make a litlle \"explosion\"!\nThe teachers of Spanish to English speakers have to teach them to NOT expel the air for these sounds. They often make them say words like \"pap\ufffd\", \"Tom\ufffds\" etc. with a lit match in front of their mouth. The student has to pronounce the Spanish correctly without blowing out the match.\nYour job is the opposite. You have to be able to blow out the match (or feel the blast of air on the back of your hand) when you pronounce the explosive English sounds.\nListen to these sounds!\nTo hear the sound of the letter \"p\" http://www.bookslibros.com/sounds/p.wav\nTo hear the sound of the letter \"t\" http://www.bookslibros.com/sounds/t.wav\nFrank Gerace Ph.D has worked in Latin America in UN and national Educational and Communication Projects, and has taught in Bolivian and Peruvian Universities. He currently teaches English in New York City at La Guardia College/CUNY. He provides resources on accent reduction and the proper American English accent at www.GoodAccent.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://matt-hypnotherapist.co.uk/does-online-hypnotherapy-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QNGERL4KQUVNH27MQQCGISM4FS53MK6R", "length": 7587, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "matt-hypnotherapist.co.uk", "title": "Skype hypnotherapy - Does online hypnotherapy work ?", "raw_content": "In the last few years lots of hypnotherapist have gone online to offer treatments. This has been a controversial area. Some therapists and societies are resisting the move, citing the problems of dropped calls and broken connection. Equally, some prestigious establishments like the world-renowned centre of hypnotherapy research, the South Manchester Neurogastroenterology service, are starting to employ skype in their work (Pilcher 2016). I resisted doing online therapy myself for many years. Eventually, an existing (in-person) client asked to carry on our work even after she moved to another part of the country and I ventured online. I was soon convinced it had merits, but not without reservations. Since then I have conducted lots of skype sessions with. Hypnotherapy by Skype has obvious benefits for people who are cut off in some way. Perhaps because they are housebound or live in a foreign country. I have experienced some great results \u2026 and some moderate ones. Ultimately I want to know does online hypnotherapy work ?\nSkype hypnotherapy \u2013 Does online hypnotherapy work \u2013 the hypnosis research\nAlmost nothing has been published in academic journals on the effectiveness of hypnotherapy via video calling. This of course means nothing. Gravity existed long before Newton formally described it. What we do know is that successful hypnotherapy treatments have been conducted via Skype (Sidman 2015). Sadly, this just confirms what I already knew, that hypnotherapy by Skype can work. What I want to really know is how good that therapy is?\nSkype hypnotherapy \u2013 Does online hypnotherapy work \u2013 insights from other therapies\nIs hypnotherapy by Skype better, worse or as effective as in-person therapy? To answer this question, we need to turn to other forms of therapy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is probably the most well researched online therapy. A lot of online CBT research has used specially designed online programmes, which are often designed to minimise the need for a therapist. This is unfortunate for our purposes as this is not the same as therapy through skype. However, CBT has proven successful over video conferencing platforms (Bouchard et al 2004, Choi et al 2014). Significantly, this has been with larger groups than the hypnosis work. This suggests that the success of hypnosis over skype is no fluke but part of a pattern of success for therapy in general. However, in these studies comparison groups are absent so we don\u2019t know how they hold up against in-person work.\nComing away from CBT we have randomised controlled trials of other online treatments working (Vincent & Lewycky 2009). Unfortunately, this is of recorded therapies, such as guided meditation, rather than interactions. How generalisable the results are we cannot say, but once more we see a picture of online therapy working. However, one early piece of work comes to our aid, back in 2007 Paxton et al conducted small group therapy to help with body image issues amongst a total of 114 women. The women were split into 3 groups\n1. An in-person group\n2. An on-line group (same treatment as in-person but delivered through video calling)\n3. A delayed treatment control.\nAfter the treatment it was found that both interventions (online and in-person) produced beneficial effects. However, at post treatment follow up, the effect size for the in-person was substantially greater (often double) that of the video group. The authors concluded that in-person should be the preferred approach where possible. This is the only evidence that I have been able to find which compares in-person therapy with video calling therapy.\nSkype hypnotherapy \u2013 Does online hypnotherapy work- therapeutic alliance\nThis raises the question of what is the differences between skype therapy and in-person. One suggested mechanism is alterations in therapeutic alliance. Therapeutic alliance is the strength of the relationship between the therapist and their client towards the desired goal. Evidence exits to suggest that therapeutic alliance can be established perfectly well via the internet (Cook & Doyle 2002, Hanley 2009). However, on line therapeutic alliance may not be such a good predictor of the efficacy of treatment as it is in in-person therapy (Knaevelsrud & Maercker 2006). Which doesn\u2019t help.\nIt is possible that despite the presence of good therapeutic alliance that other factors get in the way. Factors such as\n1. Dropped calls \u2013 I\u2019ve certainly had this happen in skype sessions.\n2. Difficulty seeing the client \u2013 camera\u2019s rarely pick up the whole body, which limits observations of body language.\n3. Interruptions at the client\u2019s end \u2013 when you do therapy in a special environment (i.e therapy centre) interruptions are usually rare. When a person does them at home sometimes the need to minimise distractions is not grasped, pets can interrupt, family members (especially children) accidently walk in.\nYou may well be able to come up with more.\nSkype hypnotherapy \u2013 Does online hypnotherapy work \u2013 conclusion\nIt seems that online therapy does work. But, not necessarily as well as in-person therapy. Time and evidence may prove otherwise but currently I would recommend that therapy by video calling is used only when in-person sessions are not practical. Practical reasons may include cost, time and travel issues and clients. Skype sessions may be particular good for clients in remote areas, or who are disabled for whom such therapy may otherwise be impractical. There may even be an argument for clients in high cost areas (The US) using skype therapists in other, less expensive, parts of the world or there own country, if therapy would otherwise be prohibitively expensive. Another possible time is when supporting an existing (in-person) therapeutic relationship who moves away or is out of the country working.\nThe author \u2013 Matt Krouwel is a hypnotherapist working in Birmingham (UK) he specialises in Anxiety, IBS and psychosexual issues like Erectile dysfunction and pornography.\nBouchard, S., Paquin, B., Payeur, R., Allard, M., Rivard, V., Fournier, T., \u2026 & Lapierre, J. (2004). Delivering cognitive-behavior therapy for panic disorder with agoraphobia in videoconference. Telemedicine Journal and E-health, 10(1), 13-25.\nChoi, N. G., Hegel, M. T., Marti, C. N., Marinucci, M. L., Sirrianni, L., & Bruce, M. L. (2014). Telehealth problem-solving therapy for depressed low-income homebound older adults. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(3), 263-271.\nCook, J. E., & Doyle, C. (2002). Working alliance in online therapy as compared to face-to-face therapy: Preliminary results. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 5(2), 95-105.\nHanley, T. (2009). The working alliance in online therapy with young people: Preliminary findings. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 37(3), 257-269.\nKnaevelsrud, C., & Maercker, A. (2006). Does the quality of the working alliance predict treatment outcome in online psychotherapy for traumatized patients?. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 8(4).\nPaxton, S. J., McLean, S. A., Gollings, E. K., Faulkner, C., & Wertheim, E. H. (2007). Comparison of face\u2010to\u2010face and internet interventions for body image and eating problems in adult women: An RCT. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 40(8), 692-704.\nPilcher, H. (2016). Q&A: Peter Whorwell. Nature, 533(7603), S112-S113.\nSidman, J. (2015) Case Study: Interstitial Cystitis Patient (CC) Treated with STSH over Skype.\nVincent, N., & Lewycky, S. (2009). Logging on for better sleep: RCT of the effectiveness of online treatment for insomnia. 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However, under certain circumstances, such as in an emergency situation, we may make these uses and disclosures without your agreement.\n[To the extent another state or federal law restricts the ability of the practice to use or disclose protected health information as discussed above, the descriptions above must reflect the more stringent law.]\nAppointment reminders. We may use and disclose medical information to contact you as a reminder that you have an appointment or that you should schedule an appointment.\nTreatment alternatives. We may use and disclose medical information in order to tell you about or recommend possible treatment options, alternatives, or health-related services that may be of interest to you.\nOTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION\nWe are required to obtain written authorization from you for any other uses and disclosures of medical information other than those described above. If you provide us with such permission, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose personal information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization, except to the extent we have already relied on your original permission.\nYou have the right to ask for restrictions on the ways we use and disclose your health information for treatment, payment and health care operation purposes. You may request that we limit our disclosures to persons assisting your care or payment for your care. We will consider your request, but we are not required to accept it.\nExcept under certain circumstances, you have the right to inspect and copy medical, billing and other records used to make decisions about you. 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You may ask for a copy at any time.\nYou may also obtain a copy of this form at our web site, www.mcoaeyecare.com.\nTo exercise any of your rights, please contact us in writing, attention: Privacy Officer, Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates, 9157 Huebner Rd., San Antonio, TX 78240. When making a request for amendment, you must state a reason for making the request.\nWe reserve the right to make changes to this notice at any time. We reserve the right to make the revised notice effective for personal health information we have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. In the event there is a material change to this notice, the revised notice will be posted. In addition, you may request a copy of the revised notice at any time.\nIf you have any complaints concerning our privacy practices, you may contact the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at 200 Independence Avenue S.W., Room 509F, HHH Building, Washington, D.C. 20201 (e-mail: ocrmail@hhs.gov). You may also contact: Privacy Officer, Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates, 9157 Huebner Rd., San Antonio, TX 78240.\nYOU WILL NOT BE RETALIATED AGAINST OR PENALIZED BY US FOR FILING A COMLAINT.\nTo obtain more information concerning this notice, you may contact our Privacy Officer at 9157 Huebner Rd., San Antonio, TX 78240.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 15412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mdrc.mn/conferences/trade-and-investment", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5SQV3TZJH2DUGGWMLP73UP7CHDDCROXO", "length": 21062, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "mdrc.mn", "title": "MDRC - Trade and Investment", "raw_content": "Foreign Trade and Investment: Shifting Attitudes in Northeast Asia\nheld 26-27 February 2004\nIn accordance with the action plan of the Project, an international workshop entitled 'Foreign Trade and Investment: Changing Attitudes in Northeast Asia \u201d was held on 26-27 February 200 in Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia . The Conference was held in the big conference hall of Chinggis Khan hotel. Close to 70 scholars and government officials from Mongolia , China , Japan , South Korea , and Russia participated in the Conference.\nThe Northeast Asia is entering to a new period of its foreign trade and investment development. This means in the last decade most countries in the region has improved their foreign trade relations and shifted to investment relations. Therefore, the topic of the conference was chosen to concentrate on \u201cshifting attitudes\u201d from foreign trade to investment. Over two days, the Conference participants were engaged in discussions of key issues of foreign trade and investment in Mongolia , China , Japan , Korea and Russia and in Northeast Asia at large.\nThe Opening of the Conference was chaired by Dr. Ts. Batbayar, Chairman of the Board, Mongolian Development Research Center.\nIn his opening speech, Mr. T. Ochirkhuu, Member of Parliament and Chief of the Economic Standing Committee expressed his appreciation to MDRC and SPF for touching such a timely issue for both Mongolia and the other regional countries.\nThe other guests by Prof. Sumio Kuribayashi ( Japan ), by Prof. Doo Won Lee ( Korea ), Prof. Long Guoqiang ( China ) who delivered welcoming speeches also highlighted the importance of the issue and need for conducting theoretical research and develop practical policy recommendations.\nSession 1 entitled \u201c Foreign Trade and Investment Relations in Northeast Asia \u201d was chaired by Prof. Long Guoqiang, Development Research Center , the State Council of People's Republic of China.\nProf. Jeong Dong Park, University of Incheon , Korea delivered keynote speech on The Northeast Asian Economic Community: Background, Necessity and Possibility. His presentation consisted of the following parts:\nI. Beginning of the \u201cNew Age\u201d in Asia and the Northeast Asia\nII. Various Aspects in Establishment of a Northeast Asian Economic Community\nIII. Standpoints of Leading Nations on the Northeast Asian Economic Community\nIV. Basic Idea of the Northeast Asian Economic Community that Begins with the Construction of SOC\nV. In Place of Conclusion: The Northeast Asian Economic Community and Win \u2013 Win Game.\nIn the first part or \u201cBeginning of the \u201cNew Age\u201d in Asia and the Northeast Asia\u201d he described \u201cnew age\u201d in relation to characteristics of the world economy in the 21 st century, outlook of Northeast Asia in the 21 st century, e nd of Cold War and beginning of \u201cNew Age\u201d when NAC countries (NIEs, ASEAN and China) gain power. Further he explained the emergence of p olicy issues during era of trade and poli cy issues in era of direct investment.\nThe second part of his speech was about various aspects in establishment of a Northeast Asian Economic Community and its difficulties including remains of the Cold War, differences of political and economic institutions, difference between developmental stages and economic power and i nitial stage of collaboration.\nThe most important part of his speech was standpoints of Leading Nations on the Northeast Asian Economic Community. From China 's standpoint, he pointed out chronic deficit afflicted SOE, d evelopment scheme of the Western Region, and said the Chinese government holds high expectations for the role of foreign capital. According to Prof. Park, Japan needs to resolve the problem of outworn facilities and correspond to an aging society. From Korea 's Standpoint, he described factors upon which Korea 's future development progress depends.\nProf. Park's basic ideas of the Northeast Asian Economic Community that begins with the construction of SOC were:\nSpecial consideration must be given to the Northeast Asian region, because unlike the European Economic Community , the Northeast Asian region includes vast undeveloped areas.\nIt is impossible to establish a large market without the construction of SOC: harbor industry, railroad, road construction and electricity, and communications sector.\nTo operate Northeast Asian economic community rationally we need to, harmonize the varying standards of products from each country, establish educational institutions for government officials, and equalize the levels of higher education in each country by revamping each country's own educational system.\nNortheast Asian economic community should also expand into an all-encompassing community, which covers even the non-economic sectors: unique fusion of cultures and traditions will be formed with time and increase in inter-racial marriages and mixed offspring will result.\nIn effect, as \u201cwalls\u201d of national spirit get removed, a comprehensive national spirit encompassing all Northeast Asian member countries would grow. The Northeast Asian economic community will evolve into a communal society.\nThe keynote speech was concluded that it is necessary to organize an EU-like community in Northeast Asia and the Northeast Asian cooperation must be \u201cwin-win game\u201d for all the countries in the Northeast Asia\nMr. D. Nachin, Senior expert of FIFTA Mongolia, first briefed about the current FDI situation in the world, and then talked about Foreign Direct Investment in Mongolia.\nDuring the past years the Government of Mongolia has paid a significant attention to the foreign direct investment. As a result, relatively more favorable external and internal legal environment is established to provide a free regimen for the business (incentives such as tax exemptions, deductions and export encouraging policy are provided by the Foreign investment and all other related laws) which has an important impact in the increase of total amount of FDI as well as in the broadening the sectors too.\nSince 1990 till the end of 2003, there were registered 3042 foreign invested companies from 73 countries with the total direct investment of about one billion USD in the country.\nFDI is concentrated mainly on geological prospecting, mining and oil sectors (represents above 46% of the total FDI), trade and restaurants (13%), textile (8%), processing of animal originated raw material (7%), construction sector (7%), banking and financial services (6%) and tourism (2%).\nThe country has experienced diverse interests in different sectors from all over the world specifically from the East Asia and North America . China has been leading the list having about 37.9% of total investment followed by Canada (13.2%), USA (11.4%), Republic of Korea (8.1%), Japan (6.0%), Russia (3.3%) and others 20.1%. Here I note that since disclosure in 2003 FDI data in oil exploration field; this data has been incorporated to FDI in geological prospecting and mining sector.\nIn 2003, there are 653 companies registered with the total investment of 203.8 million USD, 17.5 per cent of the GDP, which compared to the previous year both indicators increased by 10%. Hereby, it is interesting to note that, existing in Mongolia foreign investors are re-investing, making certain contributions to the year's FDI besides new comers. For instance, in 2000-2003 by 105-140 existing foreign incorporated companies have made investment US$ 29.5-141.1 million, which comprises 28.3-69.2% of the year's FDI.\nOn the other hand, there was an increase in the size of private savings of our citizens, which reached around the same level as yearly FDI. It requires increasing the threshold of FDI in order to support local businessmen and improve competitiveness of their products and services. Improving competitiveness is closely linked with transfer of innovative technology and efforts should be done to use FDI for this purpose.\nAt present, foreign invested companies in Mongolia have created around seventy thousand jobs (cumulative data). They are also executing about half of the country's total export and paying about forty billion togrog tax revenue each year. In addition to this, the companies are supporting other industries and services (electricity, heating, telecommunication, transportation etc.) indirectly.\nHe also talked about future trend of FDI in Mongolia that it would be likely to expect foreign investor's growing interest to the country, especially in geological prospecting and mining by international companies (such as Cameco Gold, Ivanhoe mines, Placer Dome Inc. and others). The main ways of achieving its targets for the Mongolian Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency might be professionally developed FDI advertising activities directed on attracting foreign investment to mining, infrastructure and other sectors and support activities for implementing registered/approved projects and monitoring them.\nNext, Prof. Doo Won Lee, Economics Department, Yonsei University , Korea gave and interesting presentation on \u201c Effect of Korea-Japan FTA on Korea 's Trade with Japan : Estimation by Modified Gravity Models.\u201d\nThis paper tried to figure out the effects of Korea-Japan FTA using gravity models with some variations. In the first section, he has set up a simple but conventional gravity model that can explain about Korea 's bilateral trade volume with its major trading partners. In the second section, similar gravity model with additional variables are introduced in order to figure out how IIT of Korea with its trading partners are determined. In both estimations, he has come up with expected results for most of the variables. However, the most powerful variables with high t-values were overall income level and distance. This was particularly true in the first gravity model for trade volume. The explanatory power of per-capita income and tariff rate were rather weak. Also, inclusion of variables that can capture the characteristics of economic structures have improved the general outcome of the estimation in IIT gravity model.\nWith regard to Korea 's FTA with Japan , this paper predicted that there would be substantial amount of trade increase between the two countries once trade distortion measures are removed as a result of FTA. In particular, most of the increase will occur in manufacturing sector's IIT activities and this will happen when NTB are removed. It means that once Korea 's trade relation with Japan became normalized as a result of FTA, there would be notable expansion of trade between the two countries. As this model does not incorporate potential trade increase that can be brought about by the dynamic effects of FTA, the actual expansion of trade can be even larger than the one predicted in the paper.\nThis paper wash highly interesting especially for academics: professors, researchers, and lecturers.\nProf. Naran from University of Hohhot , Inner Mongolia, gave an extensive overview of Chinese Investment in Mongolia . Her presentation was highly informative about Chinese investment interest in Mongolia (industry fields), number of joint ventures, and future perspectives.\nSession 2 entitled \u201cWTO and NEA countries\u201d was chaired by Prof. Sumio Kuribayashi, Tokyo International University .\nIn the beginning of the session, Mr. B. Galsandorj, Department Director, Ministry of Trade and Industry , Mongolia , gave presentation on \u201cCurrent Review and Future Trends of Mongolian Foreign Trade.\u201d His presentation was useful to understand policy trends of the Government of Mongolia on foreign trade.\nThen, Prof. Long Guoqiang, Senior Fellow and Deputy-Director General Department of Foreign Economic Relation Studies, Development Research Center, The State Council of P.R. China delivered speech on \u201c Chinese Foreign Trade after Joining WTO.\u201d This was a wonderful work based on broad research.\nAccording to Prof. Guoquiang, the entry into WTO brings both advantages and disadvantages to China , but in general the advantages exceed disadvantages. Research works show that in the coming ten years, the entry into WTO will cause China 's yearly GDP growth rate to be about 0.5% higher than that rate in bench mark situation. The advantages and disadvantages are not equally distributed among different industries. As is indicated by the analyses of agriculture, the manufactory industry and the service industry respectively, there are great uncertainties in terms of the alteration of advantages and disadvantages. There may be a relatively big gap between the advantages that an industry shall enjoy theoretically and the advantages that it actually enjoys, and it cannot be precluded that this industry may find itself situated in a passive situation; on the contrary, for an industry that shall be exposed to relatively strong negative impacts theoretically, there is also great potential for transformation of challenges into opportunities.\nDr. Alexandr Goryunov, Senior Research Fellow, Economic Research Institute, Khabarovsk , gave a brief presentation on \u201c Russia on the Way to WTO: Problems and Prospects.\u201d\nAs per Prof. Goryunov, to get admitted to WTO, a country should meet the level of openness of its foreign economic sphere in accordance with the requirements set by GATT/GATS. That is why the point regarding the entrance of Russia into WTO, is the conformity of the foreign economic policy and its constituent parts to the norms of WTO. To date, it has already done much of work to conform the appropriate sections/parts of the Russian legislation to the requirements of WTO. So far, the State Duma of the Russian Federation has already adopted 300 out of 340 amendments to the existing legislation, which were subject of agreement with a WTO working group on Russia 's admission to this organisation. However, there is a number of principal moments in the Russian foreign and home/internal economic regime that do not satisfy Russia 's partners in the negotiations regarding Russia 's entry into WTO.\nOne of the main problems of Russia at this stage of negotiations on entry into WTO is the insufficient level of quantitative and qualitative assessment of potential consequences of admission to WTO for the national economy as a whole. There is no sufficient data/information for comprehensive estimation in absence of actual agreements on regime/management of quantitative tariff specifications while the negotiations on the major non-tariff restrictions are under consideration.\nProf. Goryunov deems that it is necessary to bring more attention to the problem of Russia 's entry into WTO, because of the level of involvement of Russia in the world economy, and the liberalization of the foreign economic policy of the country leading to very serious consequences for its economy.\nThe last but not least presenter of the session was Mr. S.Nemekhbayar, Project officer, GTZ Cooperation in the Field of International Trade Policy-WTO. His topic was on Mongolia and WTO.\nAs Mr. Nemekhbayar pointed out the outcomes of WTO accession were positive on Mongolia 's economy: 1) consumption, government expenditure, investment, exports and imports volume increased; 2) expectation that WTO accession promotes foreign investments didn't appear in the growth; and 3) GDP increased seeing the significant increases in personal consumption, exports and imports.\nHe also warned that although the economy of WTO member country has a tendency to raise in the long run, Mongolia 's lack of export diversifications could cause vulnerability to the economy. Therefore, export diversification is essentially required in near future.\nThe session was interesting to the audience as it compared interaction of three countries, China , Russia and Mongolia , with WTO.\nSession 3 entitled \u201cRegional Development and Free Trade/Economic Zone Issues\u201d was chaired by Prof. Jeong Dong Park, University of Incheon, Korea.\nThe first speaker was Prof. Sergey Luzyanin from Russia-China Analytical Center Institute of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences. He talked about \u201cProblems of Economic Security and Sustainable Development in East Asia .\u201d Among economic security and sustainable development issues, the main focus was given on energy supply.\nAccording to Prof. Luzyanin, in the context of Russia 's interests, the energy supplies' security is determined by the following factors and trends. These are successful conclusion of the talks on North Korea in Beijing and the commencement of energy cooperation on the Korean Peninsula ; solution of problems around Datzin oil project; successful accomplishment of the Kovykta project; further development of the Russo-Chinese cooperation in the field of power supplies and trade.\nHe concluded that the issue of collective discussion of most sharp issues of power supplies' security along with elaboration of appropriate recommendations is at high importance in order to come to correct decisions. The discussion should be carried out with the participation of Russia, China, Japan, USA, South Korea, Mongolia and other countries in the framework of various economic forums.\nMr. B. Enebish, Ministry of Finance and Economics, Mongolia presented on \u201cRegionalised Development of Mongolia and Foreign Trade and Investment.\u201d He briefed about the Parliament of Mongolia policy on economic regional development to ensure social balance, utilize fully and adequately land and its resources at the world market, and expedite the country's development and international cooperation possibilities. A system of five regions such as Western, Khangai, Central, Eastern and Ulaanbaatar were identified in the country. Mr. Enenbish said that such as system was based on environmental and historical needs of the nation in order to provide environmental and social balances. Further he talked about perspectives, development opportunities and importance of the cooperation with NEA region in order to develop this concept on practice.\nAt the end of his speech, he thanked the MDRC and Sasakawa Foundation of Japan for holding this important conference and was sure that recommendations and outcome of the conference will play crucial role designing state policy and most importantly in defining regional development issues.\nMr. D. Erdenebat, Altanbulag Free Trade Zone Administration gave speech on \u201cOpportunities to invest in Free Trade Zone.\u201d His speech was based on Altanbulag Case, yet-to-be built free trade zone on the north border of Mongolia .\nIf last year his presentation described more necessities to build free trade and economic zones and their legal foundations, this year he talked more about actions: investment opportunities, government efforts to attract local and foreign investment into the Zone and biddings some of which had already been launched.\nThe Closing of the Conference was chaired by Mr. B. Bathishig, Chief of the Mongolian President's Chancellery.\nThe draft of earlier distributed Conference Policy Recommendations for policymakers and practitioners was extensively discussed and adopted.\nThe Recommendations consisted of the following four parts:\nForeign Trade and Investment Relations in Northeast Asia\nWorld Trade Organization and Northeast Asian Countries\nMongolia in Trade and Investment of the Region. Mongolia and WTO\nRegional Sustainable Development and Free Trade/Economic Zone in Mongolia .\nof the conference offer the following recommendations to the Mongolian Government:\nA long-term strategy shall be developed for proper linking the Mongolian economy with international and regional countries market and developing as an attractive country for trade and investment of the world. A policy to create a macroeconomic environment that will assist Mongolian industries to increase competitiveness and to realize potential gains in trade with Northeast Asian economies will be the basic for this strategy. With this, it is important to:\n\u00b7 Undertake comprehensive dialogue and discussions with Northeast Asian countries on promotion trade and direct investments with and into Mongolia\n\u00b7 Discuss issues of utilization of ODA sources for lowering of transport costs, promotion of marketing efforts for Mongolian exports, especially new manufacturing goods' exports in their markets with Northeast Asian countries\n\u00b7 More active cooperation with the private sector on the elements of the trade, investment and manufacturing development strategy\n\u00b7 Recognize government's role in providing physical infrastructure that the private sector cannot finance itself, particularly in rural areas\n\u00b7 Diversifying the export commodities as well as the foreign markets\n\u00b7 Establish shared public-private mechanisms for implementing the agreed policies and investment programs\n\u00b7 Lowering the tax burden for business, extend the same privileges to domestic investors to avoid discrimination and level of playing field\n\u00b7 To reduce the cost of doing business\n\u00b7 Take decisive measures to prevent of animal deceases and improve the poor hygienic and sanitation standards\n\u00b7 Improve the financial markets, trade and investment promotion services from government agencies as well as from institutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 23524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://media.theweek.com/articles/753976/rise-fall-olympic-rodeo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:38Z", "digest": "sha1:VI7KCCSEGOMIM7JOXDV3RYVQ6UCH2WTO", "length": 7944, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "media.theweek.com", "title": "The rise and fall of Olympic rodeo", "raw_content": "The rise and fall of Olympic rodeo\nIt didn't seem like the craziest idea. After all, prior Olympic Games had included tug-of-war and ski ballet, even an ill-fated push for motor boating. Equestrian sports had been included since 1900.\nSo why not rodeo?\nThe fleeting push to include rodeo in the Winter Olympics all started in 1986 with a saddle bronc rider named Winston Bruce. Described by the Calgary Herald as \"the man who would become famous for making the Calgary Stampede an event known around the world,\" Bruce had a knack for showmanship and the ambition to fight for the sport to be taken seriously on the global stage.\nAs the Stampede Rodeo manager at the time, Bruce was tasked with bringing hundreds of thousands of spectators annually to the exhibition's grandstands in Alberta. The Olympics seemed like a natural next step in his promotion of the sport. As Mike Whittle, the Canadian rodeo spokesman at the time, put it to The Palm Beach Post in January 1988: \"[Me and Bruce's] dream is to see the Russians against the United States in a rodeo.\"\nWhittle's comments came just a few weeks before the Winter Games in Calgary, where demonstration sports like curling, freestyle skiing, and short track speed skating were making their auspicious Olympic debuts. Rodeo's debut, meanwhile, was relegated to the Olympic Arts Festival, a cultural sidebar event that lacked the same official standing as demonstration sports. Instead, the \"Challenge Cup,\" as the rodeo demonstration was called, got lumped alongside displays of Native arts, hockey goalie masks, and a performance of Porgy and Bess by the Calgary Opera.\nThe rodeo world, though, held its breath and crossed its fingers that the Arts Festival demonstration could be the first step to becoming a full Olympic sport. \"This is the first time in the 51-year history of professional rodeo that we've ever been invited to participate in the Olympics,\" the director of rodeo administration for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), T.J. Walter, told ProRodeo Sports News. \"Rodeo is one of the most popular sporting events in the Western world and it will receive television exposure in 144 countries. That much exposure will help create a worldwide interest in the sport of rodeo and that makes this an exciting opportunity.\"\nThe rodeo showcase was a huge success, selling out every night. And while only two teams would compete \u2014 Canada vs. the USA \u2014 the top three winners in events including saddle bronc, bull riding, and calf roping received Olympic Arts medals, broken up in tiers of gold, silver, and bronze, just like real Olympic athletes. The champions in each event also received prize money and, of course, a belt buckle, for their efforts.\nWhittle and Bruce might not have seen the Soviet Union face the U.S., but they did earn the attention of other major athletes. \"After attending a hockey game, [World Champion Bull Rider Tuff Hedeman] remembers well a visit to the Team USA cowboy locker room by Soviet hockey legend Vladislav Tretiak, who talked with the American cowboy contingent through an interpreter,\" writes American Cowboy. \"After watching the rodeo, the hulklike goalie declared rodeo 'much more dangerous' than hockey.\"\nThe cowboys themselves reveled in the newfound international attention for their sport. Canadian bareback rider Robin Burwash called the 1988 Olympics \"the best thing that's ever happened to rodeo.\" Added Hedeman to American Cowboy in 2001: \"Of all the things I ever did rodeoing, the Olympics was one of the neatest things I ever did. At the awards ceremony, we stepped up on that platform to get our medals in front of 90,000 people. The whole world was watching. How do you describe that feeling?\"\nBut not everyone was so taken with the sport. The New York Times observed \"a chorus of protests from beef-eating European visitors here for the Olympics has appeared in the local press, complaining about North American cruelty to broncos, buffaloes, calves, and steers.\"\nIt would be over a decade before rodeo returned to the Olympics. The 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, though, which marked the first return to North America since Calgary, seemed like the perfect opportunity to clinch the sport as an Olympic staple. The entire Games, in fact, took on an Old West vibe:\nPRCA Commissioner Steven J. Hatchell voiced the optimism of the entire rodeo community in the months ahead of the second Olympic demonstration: \"This is a tremendous opportunity for the sport of rodeo to play not only before audiences from North America, but around the world,\" he told Mid-South Horse Review. \"The 1988 experience was a tremendous success.\"\nBut trouble was brewing. The three-day rodeo event was slated to take place in the small city of Farmington, Utah, in Davis County, 12 miles north of Salt Lake City. The competition would again be a part of the sidebar Olympic Arts Festival. This enraged activists at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness), who complained that the sport was rife with animal abuse, seeing as \"half of the participants are unwilling.\"\nAs the event drew near, the protests ramped up. Demonstrators gathered outside the International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Switzerland. A Buck the Rodeo billboard popped up on 500 South. SHARK followed the Olympic torch route in a video truck \"educating people about the cruelty of rodeo.\"\nThe warring factions took their battle to the president of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee \u2014 none other than one Mitt Romney. \"I was part of an international group that met with [Romney] \u2026 to explain to him inherent animal abuse in rodeo, particularly the roping events,\" said veterinarian Peggy Larson in an interview with SHARK. \"My role was to provide him with veterinary medical documentation of injuries sustained by cattle in rodeos. Meat inspectors have described broken backs, broken necks, ruptured tracheas, broken bones, internal injuries, ruptured ligamenta nuchae, and gallons of blood under the skin.\"\nEven pro football hall-of-famer Marv Levy got involved, writing to Romney: \"Rodeo is something that Americans should be ashamed of. I hope you will do the right thing and cancel this bizarre, inhumane event.\"\nBut to many other Utahans, especially those in tiny Farmington, the chance to host Olympic rodeo was a point of pride. State Rep. Paul Ray (R) also appealed to Romney: \"The rodeo is a very important piece of our culture here in Utah and should not be on the table for negotiations,\" he insisted. \"We cannot allow terrorist groups such as SHARK and PETA to frighten us with threats of violence.\"\nThe \"terrorist\" comment, so soon after 9/11, incensed SHARK, which demanded Ray either \"prove that statement or resign.\"\nRomney ultimately cited the contract signed with rodeo officials and allowed the show to go on. \"Despite the bullying tactics \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 of the animal rights activists, Mitt Romney had the sense to not cancel the Olympic rodeo as a part of the local cultural Olympiad,\" praised Deseret News columnist Lee Benson. \"Because if rodeo ain't a part of the local culture, what the heck is?\"\nActivists may have lost the battle, but they ultimately won the war. Rodeo has not been seen at the Games since, despite a return to North America in 2010 with the Vancouver Games. Vancouver even took a preventative measure in 2006, with the city council unanimously voting to prohibit rodeo activities like calf roping and bucking straps. The controversy-averse International Olympic Committee will likely not do anything itself to approach rodeo again.\nFor the cowboys, though, the brief ride was exhilarating. \"I think about riding in the Olympics every day,\" bull rider Cory Check told American Cowboy. Added World Champion All Around Cowboy Joe Beaver: \"Gold medals are something special. They aren't just another saddle hanging in the corner.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 9705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://meditateinauckland.org/new-kadampa-tradition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WE4QGVL7NWIL3FY7HFP5W7UQ4HFLLTJM", "length": 884, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "meditateinauckland.org", "title": "New Kadampa Tradition - Meditate in Auckland", "raw_content": "This centre is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition \u2013 International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU).\nThis is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso that is derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa.\nNKT is an association of study and meditation centres dedicated to helping people everywhere find meaning and purpose in their lives, and to the developing of genuine inner peace and happiness.\nPutting Buddha\u2019s teachings into practice in the context of our family and work commitments, we discover they are unsurpassed methods to resolve daily difficulties and problems.\nRapidly growing, our Kadampa community is an international family, offering support, inspiration and encouragement for this joyful and profound spiritual path at centres around the world.\nFor more information please see the main Kadampa website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://methodistchurchinscotland.org.uk/1113753-my-name-is-brain-brian/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VFTZ3DB2WGGFMWW2RSPZIWKHFYRZXEK6", "length": 9711, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "methodistchurchinscotland.org.uk", "title": "[PDF] \u00cf Free Read \u2713 My Name Is Brain Brian : by Jeanne Betancourt \u00f5", "raw_content": "Jeanne Betancourt\nAugust 09, 2018 August 09, 2018 Jeanne Betancourt\nMy Name Is Brain Brian This outstanding School Library Journal book for children is the sensitive portrayal of a boy who struggles to hide his dyslexia from his friends Based on the author s personal experience as a dyslexi\nTitle: My Name Is Brain Brian\nAuthor: Jeanne Betancourt\nThis outstanding School Library Journal book for children is the sensitive portrayal of a boy who struggles to hide his dyslexia from his friends Based on the author s personal experience as a dyslexic, this novel is drawn from real insight Kirkus Reviews.\nOne thought on \u201cMy Name Is Brain Brian\u201d\nThis book takes place in 1993 (published in 1993). I love that the author used the term 'learns differently' for the main character, Brian. Brian has dyslexia and needs to figured how he can learn differently than most students in his class. He learns to use assistive technology, a tape recorder and a laptop. For the times I think this is great and right on what was available. In many ways I'd love to see this story updated but I also like how simple it is with technology. A great story to share [...]\nBrian is a boy with dyslexia but doesn't know it. His teacher realizes his condition and gets Brian the help he needs. Brian is embarrassed of the extra attention he needs but realizes that he needs the attention becuase his brain works differently than everyone elses. This book would be used in my classroom to discuss self-esteem and always having hope.\nGreat lesson about dyslexia for kids.\nNice story about how it only takes one person to give a child what he needs in order to succeed. I only wish there had been some help/punishment for the trouble maker.\nThis was the first book I ever read, I still remember it with fondness.\nBetancourt, Jeanne. My Name Is Brain Brian. New York: , 1993. Print.Summary: Brian is a 6th grade boy who has problems with school work. His father accuses him of being lazy, despite the fact that Brian is trying as hard as he can. His best friends are John, Dan and Richie. They hang out in the shed of the Colgate Mansion (which really exists), an abandoned home in Sharon, Connecticut. The boys invent 1Cthe Joker 19s Club 1D. They get points for playing jokes on different people, but not on each [...]\nMy Name is Brain Brian, is about a young boy entering 6th grade who is challenged with the difficulties of reading and writing. He can\u2019t even write his name correctly (writes Brain for Brian) but is unsure of why he can\u2019t. He compensates for his insecurities by the acting out in class, joking around, and being known as the \u201cclass clown\u201d He thinks that his friends like him, however, when he finally receives help from a caring teacher his \u201cso called friends\u201d tease him him and call him [...]\nMeh.It's a story about a 12yo boy with dyslexia, lousy friends, and even lousier parents. I'm probably being picky, but a few things left a bad taste in my mouth-- for one, kids with shotguns, making fun of others as sport, and again, lousy parents.It's nice to see a book about a main character coming to terms with his dyslexia. However, the resolution at the end left me wanting. I'm sure the author was going for the the \"orphan complex\" by giving the mc such uninvolved, uncaring parents. By the [...]\nBrian, Dan, Richie, and John are the class clowns in school. They call themselves \u2018The Jokers Club\u2019. Sometimes Brian makes people laugh without even meaning to, such as when he writes his name as Brain instead of Brian. Mr. Bigham, Brian\u2019s sixth grade teacher, diagnoses Brian with dyslexia. The other members of the Jokers Club begin to tease Brian about his problem, which forces Brian to truly assess what makes a real friend. He ends up becoming friends with a former enemy (Isabel) and dis [...]\nMy name is Brain BrianBy Jeanne BetancourtBrian, is a very funny! He makes his classmates laugh when he write his name as Brain! But Brian knows that he is not really a brain! He is very stupid, and some of his classmates call him teachers pet! One day he discovered why he was so stupid, and it changed all of it.I would not like to be friends with any character! Some are mean, most are stupid! I did not really like the book.I did not like the book because Brian is very stupid and he doesn't real [...]\nI don't like the way kids and family are treating each other in the book but I do like that we are reading about dyslexia and the challenge of a boy who is diagnosed. One of our children also has dyslexia so it's nice to read about someone else with this challenge who is also bright in other ways that have to be discovered.We finished this little book with some disappointment on my part. I really did not like how the parents behaved as adults. They sound unhappy and selfish.I did like the change [...]\nSummary: My Name is Brain Brian is a coming of age story of a sixth grade student, Brian Toomey, who struggles with dyslexia. The novel is a depiction of overcoming obstacles and making positive choices. Brian discovers he must choose his friends carefully, and that learning differences can be positive!Review: The book positively portrays a character with a learning difference. Brian learns to overcome difficulties with the helps of parents, teachers, and friends. Accurate and detailed portrayal [...]\nIt is extremely difficult to find a book for middle school students that gives them a peek into the life of a child with a learning disability. This was one of the better books. I felt that it was a slow start but improved as it went along. I was glad to see his teacher and tutor as two people pulling for him. It was disappointing that although his teacher was a good guy, he never took control of the teasing/bullying in his classroom. I would like to think that this aspect of the book was unreal [...]\nThis is an excellent realistic Fiction. Brain is a good kid with responsible behavior. However, he gets into trouble at home and school because of his unknown problem and peer pressure. Him and his friends go to a secret hide out club where they meet after school and make jokes of other people. His parents are worried about his education and try to help him by hiring a tutor. At school he was assigned a project with a classmate, named Isabell that he is not really friends with. However, he puts [...]\nBoy named Brian finds out from his 6th grade teacher that he isn't stupid, just dyslexic. He worries about not being friends with his \"Joker's Club\" because they all don't want to do well in school. He starts working with a tutor and feels much better about himself as the book goes along. He finds out he inherited his dyslexia from his father and grandfather. It seemed a little short in the explaining how dad got such a good job with dyslexia that went undiagnosed and untreated, but overall a go [...]\nAlthough it does have some inaccuracies about the handling of disabilities in school, this book takes a humorous and sensitive approach towards the problems many new middle schoolers face. Kids will be able to relate to the themes of friendship and problems in school, and Brian is an interesting and intelligent narrator.\nBrian and a group of boy's could not stand school so they tried to make people laugh. One day Brian was called to the board, and spelled his name Brain. This was not part of a joke, but Brian had dyslexia. Brian is now the one who is teased, and troubled by his cognitive disability. His father is also a dyslexic, making matters even worse. You will see Brian grow.\nThis is a juvenile fiction book about a boy with dyslexia. Brian, a sixth grader, has to learn how to cope with his learning disability as well as his choice of friends and their behavior. The disability is realistically portrayed and does not overwhelm the plot line. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't moved by it either, hence 3 stars.\nI was supposed to teach this to my kids this year, but ended up running out of time. I'll be interested in what they have to say next year, though--I think some of them will recognize themselves in the annoying bad boys.\nThis book would be appropriate for a low elementary student who was struggling with their special needs. I love that it speaks to a special needs child, but I didn't find much substance to the book. Perhaps one day I'll run across a student who connect with this character.\nI'm reading this for my special education course. I love the perspective the book is giving through the eyes of Brian. Not only is he struggling with a learning difference, but then the peer pressure all kids go through. I'm intrigued as to how my professor is going to use this in the class.\nIt was a good book but was disappointed with the ending. It wrapped up too quickly leaving several story threads incomplete. While I don't think all stories need to have a neat and happy ending, I do think it's important to follow through and finish threads that were started.\ntwo words not good\nProbably 4th-5th grade level. Great description about dyslexia for anyone though. Clever book with a few details about geese too!\nAnyone with any kind of disabillity should read this\nI love this book it is such a good book about dyslexia\nyfukfufyugugufutyfyfyu\nIn this book \"my Name Is Brain Brian\" the author Jeanne Betancourt explores a boy that has hard time dealing with his condition, he has dyslexic and struggles at school.\nA Day to Remember (Quick Reads)\nThe Heath Hover Mystery\nManuel pour mon fils\nThe Doctrine of the Subtle Body in the Western Tra...\nYogasutra of Patanjali: With Commentary of Vyasa\nLibrary Cat-A-Clysm (Library Cat Chronicles)\nSPX 2003 Anthology\nSPX 2004 A Sequential Arts War Journal (2004)\nDeadly Magic\nFlashlight by Jeanne Betancourt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 11665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mfgarber.com/blog/category/uncategorised/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CQMCAG7L5BZS42UAQAHPXNNLT4NO5CWJ", "length": 270, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mfgarber.com", "title": "Uncategorised | Michael Fielding Garber", "raw_content": "The Choir of St Peter\u2019s, Nottingham will be in residence at York Minster on Monday 31st May and Tuesday 1st June. We will be singing Choral Evensong on both evenings at 5:15. These two services are regular church services and there are no tickets or \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mgdwalker.com/gallery-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6HQTGD2BU4RBZMILLRWIYVZXL5B76VVT", "length": 1040, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mgdwalker.com", "title": "Life is a Dream \u2014 M G WALKER & Ellen Johansen", "raw_content": "From 2009 to 2011 M G Walker worked on a series of complex, figurative, fine line drawings and prints based on the Spanish play \"Life is a Dream\" by Calderon de la Barca.\nThe images, and Calderon\u2019s play, explore the subtle boundaries between our dream life and waking life, creating at times familiar yet fanciful human narratives.\n15 drawings were made in the series. The dimensions of each drawing are 24 by 48 inches and form one continuous drawing when placed end to end.\nM G Walker selected details from two drawings in the sequence in which the fertility god, Priapos is featured. Priapos is a fertility god in the Greek Pantheon who is the protector of fishermen and the male sexuality.\nThe original brush and ink drawings were created for the print format. As a printmaker, I sometimes use the drawings as \u201cplates\u201d from which a limited edition of prints will be made.\nLife is a Dream: Priapos and the fishermen (detail)\n\u200bBrush and ink on paper\nLife is a Dream: carpe diem (detail)\nLife is a Dream: priapus and the fishermen (detail)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micetimes.asia/in-lithuania-dismantled-the-monument-to-soviet-soldiers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VYWEPE7OUWEOPAXLYSAKW3UD3JBGHW4E", "length": 823, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "micetimes.asia", "title": "In Lithuania dismantled the monument to Soviet soldiers - micetimes.asia", "raw_content": "Home WORLD In Lithuania dismantled the monument to Soviet soldiers\nIn Lithuania dismantled the monument to Soviet soldiers\nThe sculpture was installed over 30 years ago.\nIn Alytus district of Lithuania was demolished monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator. According to media reports, now the monument will transfer to Grutas Park, where all the dismantled Soviet monuments.\nThe sculpture was installed over 30 years ago on the site of one of the first tank battles of the great Patriotic war.\nOriginally it symbolized the victory over fascism all the anti-Hitler coalition and consisted of two boulders: one was carved the face of the red army, on the other \u2013 French soldiers.\nPrevious articleOpel electrificare popular model\nNext articleThe Ukrainian team has not lost 334 days. This is the 4th figure in the history of", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micetimes.asia/roc-will-create-the-all-russian-unified-registry-of-atheists-and-pagans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:O3QEUNMOWOSF32GSF6L4ZBJOSB3OXRFY", "length": 2347, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "micetimes.asia", "title": "ROC will create the all-Russian unified registry of atheists and pagans - micetimes.asia", "raw_content": "Home business ROC will create the all-Russian unified registry of atheists and pagans\nROC will create the all-Russian unified registry of atheists and pagans\nThe ROC engaged in the development of Russian unified registry of atheists (BELIEF), which will contain data on persons practicing pagan religion or adhering to radical atheism.\nThe project will be allocated 65 million rubles, of which part of the amount of subsidies from the budget for the programme of subsidies for religious institutions. The development of the registry will be engaged FGUP \u201cScientific research Institute of Orthodox science\u201d, created a few years earlier when the Russian Orthodox Church. The database also will get information about completed or upcoming pagan rituals.\nIn the Church said that they would not resort to restrictions on the basis of data from the registry \u2014 for example, even the defendants in the list will appear in the Orthodox churches, if \u201cwill manifest the truth of his intentions for the transition to the true faith\u201d. At the same time, the internal security service of the Patriarchate will track staff contacts and Ministers of the ROC with the persons from the lists and, if necessary, make the appropriate personnel decisions.\nAccording to the head of the credit and banking sector of the Synodal Department of the ROC, Archpriest Alexander Kaganovich, now considered the option of adding services related to the system of FAITH, Orthodox in a Single network of terminals operating in Russia since last year. If now through the terminal only to order a prayer or put a virtual candle, in the future there may be services to hide or delete data from the registry of atheists.\n\u201cThe terminals until we have a pilot project in test mode. The system of \u201cFAITH\u201d is already approved the terms of reference, work began in General, there is clearer vision. But we are considering the possibility of their combination in individual services. In the basic architecture of the application developers lay the possibility of networking, and how we implement it, will be resolved in the next quarter,\u201d said Archpriest Kaganovich at the selector meeting in the Patriarchate.\nPrevious articleA true story of escape from \u201cAlcatraz.\u201d Photo\nNext articleSecurity forces were sent for the salary of the VTB. Experts predict the risks of privatisation of Sberbank", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micetimes.asia/the-united-states-will-overtake-russia-in-oil-production/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:09Z", "digest": "sha1:7T2INKMZVVSOKVUF4MYQKL2ZL6IO7MSJ", "length": 1563, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "micetimes.asia", "title": "The United States will overtake Russia in oil production - micetimes.asia", "raw_content": "Home Oil The United States will overtake Russia in oil production\nThe United States will overtake Russia in oil production\nUSA in 2018 will dramatically increase oil production and will overtake on this indicator Russia, according to the forecast of the International energy Agency (IEA). According to the organization, the United States will produce over 10 million barrels per day.\nIn General, the growth of oil production in the United States, Canada and Brazil in 2018 will provide a total rise of production in countries outside OPEC, by 1.7 million barrels a day. This will be enough to cover the growth in world demand, which will amount to 1.3 million barrels a day, said the IEA.\nAt the same time, the effect of this growth on prices will not be particularly significant because of the production decline in Venezuela. The overall rate of production for OPEC countries will amount to 32.3 million barrels a day, which is less than the established quota.\nBy the end of 2017 hydrocarbon production in Russia amounted to 10.9 million barrels per day. RF stabilized production for the sake of fulfilling a quota set at the OPEC meeting and countries that have acceded to the agreement on limiting oil production.\nIn late November, countries oil exporters, including Russia, have agreed to extend their agreement to limit production to the end of 2018. USA is the largest global manufacturers who have not joined the agreement.\nPrevious article\u201cCrimea and Chechnya give a lot more\u201d\nNext articleCB: in January outflow of capital from Russia increased 2.3 times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mickeytravels.com/team/kim-hart-md-disney-travel-agent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SEW6K77YVKD52PKH7RPYZFUJCIUM4IXA", "length": 3757, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mickeytravels.com", "title": "MD DIsney Travel Agencies | Disney World Travel Planning | Disney Maryland", "raw_content": "Kim Hart \u2013 MD Disney Travel Agent\nHi! My name is Kim Hart!\nI would love to help create some magical memories for you and your family/guests! My love of Disney started with a live show of Walt Disney\u2019s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at Radio City Music Hall when I was a little girl. I fell in love with Snow White and decided it was my destiny to be her (seriously, I would scrub my neighbor\u2019s floors and sing in exchange for an apple).\nMy parents took me on my first trip to Walt Disney World when I was 7 years old, and at that moment it became a part of my soul. I even wrote a letter to the CEO of Disney Corporate when I was 10 exclaiming my love for Walt Disney World and prophesying that one day I would be the General Manager of Disney\u2019s Grand Floridian Resort (only slightly more realistic than growing up to be Snow White). Since then, I\u2019ve become a Disney Vacation Club member, and I\u2019ve visited Walt Disney World more times than I can count for family vacations and special occasions such as: a surprise marriage proposal, RunDisney events, our honeymoon, our babymoon, and multiple birthday trips!\nI\u2019ve also been lucky enough to visit Disneyland in California, Aulani in Hawaii, and set sail with Disney Cruise Lines (we took a Halloween cruise where I dressed as Princess Jasmine \u2013 it was one of the best nights of my life). I know the ins & outs to make these trips extra special, and I would love to do the same for you.\nMy background is in marketing & communications, and I\u2019ve held several marketing roles in the corporate landscape. I also am an Adjunct College Professor, and I hold a Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree in business administration. I currently reside in Maryland and look forward to Making Magic with you and your family, whether you are in NC or anywhere else in the country!\nAs a Disney Travel Agent with MickeyTravels, I would plan your vacation with the same level of care as I would my own. Disney is unique in that there is no place as magical. The memories that you are able to create are irreplaceable. However, it can be a bit overwhelming to plan, and that is where I can be of service! I\u2019ll roll out the red carpet, and most importantly, I\u2019ll listen to your needs & wants to help design a vacation that will bring smiles to your family\u2019s faces for years to come! The best part is that my service is completely FREE; there is no additional cost incurred to have me help plan your magical trip.\nI feel honored to have the opportunity to work with you to plan such a special vacation.\nContact me at 410-529-1324 or khart@mickeytravels.com\nKim is very detailed oriented, responsive, and was a pleasure to work with! We had friends and family of all ages travel for our Disney adventure and Kim was able to make suggestions to keep all our guests happy! Highly recommend using Kim Hart to assist in all your Disney planning!!\n~ Jennifer D, Safety Harbor, FL\nOur trip was so perfect because of all of Kim\u2019s efforts. She helped from the initial planning, to all the reservations, down to the final details. Kim brought so much knowledge and follow-through, and I am definitely looking forward to working with her again!\n~ Amy M, Baltimore, MD\nI don't even think amazing would adequately describe our trip! It was magical from the moment we arrived at the resort until the moment we left. Spectacular, wonderful, fun & also exhausting!!!!!!!! We all loved it! Absolutely loved it. I honestly feel like we have had the trip of a lifetime. I couldn't possibly thank Kim enough for all of her help & advice throughout this whole process. She made the whole thing so easy from the day I first contacted her. I really am so thankful for everything she did. Thank you, thank you, thank you.\n~ Patricia H, Christ Church, Barbados", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://militarycontamination.com/RiversideCA.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:20Z", "digest": "sha1:S2NX4N3NCGLQRXAQPEN2XUKEZPASZUWS", "length": 2527, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "militarycontamination.com", "title": "Bases with reported TCE water contamination. Bell Legal Group", "raw_content": "March AFB opened in 1918 for training pilots and consisted of 640 acres east of Highway 395. In 1940, Camp Haan was constructed west of Highway 395 primarily as an anti-aircraft gunnery training encampment and a staging area for tank forces during World War II. After World War II, Camp Haan became part of March AFB and the area became known as West March.\nFrom 1918 to 1949, the base was used primarily for aircrew (pilot, bombing and gunnery) training. In 1949, the Strategic Air Command took control of March AFB primarily to support bombers and refueling tankers (Tetra Tech 1994). After 1982, the base's primary mission became aircraft refueling.\nThe U.S. Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Closure and Realignment announced March AFB for base closure and realignment in the third round of closures in 1993. March AFB was closed and realigned on April 1, 1996. In the realignment, the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command retained 2,258 acres for March Air Reserve Base as the predominant operating entity (CEDAR 1997) with tenants including the Air National Guard.\nConcurrent with base redevelopment activities, the AFBCA and Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) are conducting environmental characterization and clean up activities to address chemical contamination of the environment. The chemical contamination is the result of past disposal, accidental spills, and routine releases of waste and materials. Wastes from base operations have included spent solvents, cleaners, waste and recoverable fuels, waste oils, refuse, and small-scale munitions (Earth Technology, 1989, Tetra Tech 1994, 1997b).\nIn 1989, U.S. EPA listed March AFB as a National Priorities List (NPL) site for cleanup under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) because of contaminated groundwater found in a base drinking water well and contaminated soils at several on-base areas.\nTo carry out the investigation and cleanup, the AFBCA has been operating under the Department of Defense Installation Restoration Program (IRP), and the authorities of CERCLA and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) To date, the IRP program has identified and investigated 43 sites under CERCLA and 105 Solid Waste Management Units and 50 Areas of Concern under RCRA through a base wide Expanded Source Investigation/RCRA Facility Assessment. Through an Environmental Baseline Survey (EBS) of the entire base, March AFB identified an additional 35 sites. Appendix B includes a list of these sites and their status.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjdurkinseminars.com/author/mjdurkinseminars/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:35Z", "digest": "sha1:S7TAPXUVEXTIM5IQFXXVPZEHAWF57R6K", "length": 3207, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "mjdurkinseminars.com", "title": "mjdurkinseminars \u2014 MJ Durkin Seminars \u2014 Page 2", "raw_content": "Why Meditation is Vital to your Success!\nThe following question comes from a Q&A session MJ did following an event in Waterbury CT 2016. Question: In your program, Recommendation Selling\u00ae, you talk about quiet time\u2026 on quiet time. You had a statistic that said that all successful people take quiet time/meditation time. How is that related to success? MJ Durkin: You want\u2026\nMeditation Secrets For Manifesting\nWhat is YOUR life going to look like? How do you actually get your life to look the way you want it to? What are the HABITS that create abundance? One of the trainings I do with my Coaching Members involves \u201cpre-paving\u201d the things that you want. This means that you actually go into a\u2026\nAre you sitting behind your lemonade stand?\nI was five years old. My father had helped me make a lemonade stand. And I was about to make my first cold call, ever. I decided to set my price for my lemonade at 25 cents a glass, which at the time was a strong price because my competitors were selling their lemonade for\u2026\nYour \u201cProspecting Story\u201d\nGold, silver, diamonds\u2026those are the things the prospectors of old were searching for. They would search through rocks, rivers and dirt with their shovels and gold pans\u2026 Trying anything and everything to find these valuable materials. What do modern-day prospectors do? They sort and sift through a lot of people who are not interested in\u2026\nMy Dog\u2019s Not Depressed\nWell-being is always streaming towards us. I thought of this as I was outside and enjoying the beautiful trees, the smell of the fall air and the leaves that are falling\u2026it\u2019s just a gorgeous time of year here in Connecticut. Nature has always been a place where I\u2019ve strongly felt the presence of God. It\u2019s always\u2026\nWant To Attract More Success? \u2014 Have More Fun!\nHi Everybody, It\u2019s MJ Durkin here and if you just watched my very important and critical video (tongue in cheek) you may be wondering, \u201cHey MJ, that was just you fooling around in the kitchen cooking and laughing with your Sons \u2014 what\u2019s the point?\u201d Let me tell you a story: When I dropped out\u2026\nSavoring Your Life\nThis article, and the video (make sure you watch it!) will teach you a very important key: How to use the Law of Attraction to your advantage by learning how to savor and be excited about the things that you DO have! \u201cClick here to learn the 2-Step Script to Get New Leads!\u201d Many of you\u2026\nHow To Attract Better Prospects\n\u201cMy prospects have no money.\u201d \u201cMy prospects can\u2019t make a decision.\u201d \u201cMy prospects just aren\u2019t INTERESTED.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t have any good prospects!\u201d These four issues, and more, are problems that I hear all the time from my Coaching Members. They\u2019ll often say things to me like, \u201cI\u2019m trying to attract good people to my presentations and\u2026\nIf you do this ONE thing, every day, you\u2019ll feel SO much better about yourself. And that one thing is\u2026 \u2026you must keep your promises to yourself! A couple of months ago I made a commitment to myself to work out on a consistent basis. I\u2019ve got a workout place in the basement of my\u2026\nWhat To Do With Your Chicken List\nIn this 1 minute and 39 second video, I will teach you what to do with the people you are afraid to call! \u201cClick here to learn the 2-Step Script to Get New Leads!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mobile.royalgazette.com/news/article/20181011/turtles-show-their-faces-on-church-street&template=mobileart", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DDPBDDNLBMKMPEJJXC6FJDNMLW66Y4K7", "length": 799, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mobile.royalgazette.com", "title": "Turtles show their faces on Church Street | The Royal Gazette:Bermuda News - Mobile", "raw_content": "Turtles show their faces on Church Street\nThe Bermuda Post Office has marked the 50th anniversary of the Bermuda Turtle Project with a series of postal panels featuring special stamps.\nThe panels, on display on the Church Street side of the General Post Office in Hamilton, was unveiled by Lovitta Foggo, Minister for the Cabinet Office.\nThe Bermuda Turtle Project was launched in 1968 to study and protect sea turtles.\nScientists have examined and analysed information from more than 4,000 green turtles and 138 hawksbill turtles found in Bermuda\u2019s inshore waters.\nMore than 1,500 green turtles have been tracked, creating one of the largest databanks in the world on growth rates, habitat use and movements of immature green turtles. The unveiling was timed to recognise World Post Day on Tuesday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://modexlusive.com/modexlusive/big-words-plus-size-curvy-full-voluptuous-and-ample/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FAM2SIXJEJ6ED34H2D3J7FK3NSPZ7TKV", "length": 2726, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "modexlusive.com", "title": "Big Words- Plus-Size, Curvy, Full, Voluptuous and Ample \u2022 modexlusive", "raw_content": "\u201cSticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me\u201d \u2026 the fat girl credo.\nWords are just words. But yes, they can hurt. Trust me, I can talk about this, because I was always \u201cbig-boned\u201d as a kid. You know, I had a lot of \u201cbaby fat\u201d. It seems I was always reminded of this particularly when it was time to try on dresses for my Armenian folk dance group. It didn\u2019t matter if I was taller than all the kids (no, this was a good thing!) as soon as that dress wouldn\u2019t fit my arms or zip up my back\u2026 I was labelled as a fat kid. And trust me, I could see the look of disappointment on the teachers\u2019 faces, because I was a \u201cgood dancer\u201d. At an early age, I learned the best way to deal with being made fun of, is to develop a witty sense of humour and attack yourself before anyone else has the chance. When others do the same, don\u2019t think they have low self esteem\u2026 it\u2019s a defense mechanism to actually make you feel good about yourself. I know this sounds backwards, but just trust me on this one. After the summer of grade 8, the good lord blessed me with more growth spurts and sporty skills which helped me shed some of that \u201cbaby fat\u201d everyone hated about me. But still today, I struggle with weight.\nBut I digress. The real reason I am writing this post is to address some talk about labels. Words that are supposed to help women shop for clothing that fit them. The fashion industry has chosen to segregate \u201cregular\u201d people\u201d from \u201clarger\u201d ones by stopping at size Large. That\u2019s when the official \u201cPlus-Size or 14+\u201d market was born! It\u2019s still however, a touchy subject. After having conversations with other women, some more \u201cplus-size\u201d than others (yes, there is a prejudice for people of my size that are not deemed fat enough to represent larger women) I realize that we cannot change the words. We must focus on behaviours.\nThe word large has a more negative connotation.\nI started this blog to help inspire women of any size to look good and feel good about their image. Maybe you hate your legs, maybe you want to show off your tiny waist, but at the end of the day, all women have their insecurities and assets. I want to help women get over their insecurities, by sharing what I do with mine, and teach them to flaunt what they love about themselves. When you are truly happy with your image, these words won\u2019t mean much to you.\nEven though I am not about the words, I was challenged to find a better word to replace \u201cplus-size\u201d, so my word is \u201cVoluptuous\u201d. Now it\u2019s your turn! Share your word in the comments below.\nI like how the word voluptuous is filled with positive vibes!\namplebigcurvyfashion industryfat shamingfullin the newslargemediamodelplus sizeplus size fashionplus size modelvoluptuous", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monicks.net/2013/07/19/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UVPICNYP7UPMV3SZV7YUAFPYRAYDH5VV", "length": 1800, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "monicks.net", "title": "Which came first, the chicken or the egg? | Monicks: Unleashed", "raw_content": "Most of my usual readers know the answer to this question, but let\u2019s break it down for you, dear reader, who were not taught science, and were googling this.\nTo ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began. A long time ago, in the dark ages maybe, people used to refer to this as one of the unanswerable questions: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?\nSimply put, and for most of us, the answer is: \u201cDuh, the egg.\u201d, since egg-laying species pre-date the existence of chickens. So a \u201cfirst\u201d chicken must have come from an egg which pre-dated that chicken. Actually, since an animal does not evolve into another species during its lifetime, and since organisms can fail to breed true, it is biologically necessary that the chicken egg came first\u2026 not from a chicken, though.\nThis is really not that hard to understand, but you do need to read a science book to be able to grasp how evolution works.\nWhen someone tells me that #evolution is only a theory, I reply that #god is only an improbable hypothesis. (\u25d5\u203f~)\u273f #atheism #atheist\n\u2014 Monica Salcedo (@Monicks) June 24, 2013\nNo, evolution isn\u2019t just a theory, it is a scientific theory, which has a completely different meaning. A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of knowledge that has been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation.\nGrab a copy of On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, it\u2019s not even hard to read; or even better, if you really wanna read it and learn something, email me and I will send you a digital copy. Deal? (\u25d5\u203f~)\u273f\nOne Response to Which came first, the chicken or the egg?\nHhenry22n says:\n\u201c\u2018It\u2019s a transitional stage,\u201d\u201d\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moviemoka.com/movies-films/tag/a-a-cavallaro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3RKNBEKDO3ULDP65HOTDD33RPXGT3U4C", "length": 201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "moviemoka.com", "title": "A.A. Cavallaro | Movie Moka", "raw_content": "Tag: A.A. Cavallaro\nOn a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://multicultclassics.blogspot.com/2018/01/13967-four-lessons-not-learned.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:06Z", "digest": "sha1:2L3CEK5D2GAVNPIQ7JWBXJVUPMWAOX65", "length": 5664, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "multicultclassics.blogspot.com", "title": "MultiCultClassics: 13967: Four Lessons Not Learned.", "raw_content": "Campaign published divertsity directives from Eleven Inc. Partner and Chief Growth Officer Michele Sileo, who presented \u201c4 lessons\u201d for White men mentoring White women. The generic lessons could be applied to any mentor-mentee relationship. And a peek at the Eleven Inc. team shows the place isn\u2019t applying any of the basic lessons to achieve diversity\u2014or even diverted diversity.\nBy Michele Sileo\nWithout men, we can\u2019t make our workplaces safer and more equitable for women, says Eleven\u2019s chief growth officer.\nMen are having a tough time in the news these days. We\u2019re in the midst of a much needed reckoning where harassment, assault and disrespect of women are coming to the surface in unprecedented ways. And while the stories may differ in detail and degree, at the heart of these stories are women who were likely just trying to do their jobs well and respectfully.\nWe hope these men are the minority and there are as many, if not more, willing to push for change. Men who are genuinely concerned about making the workplace a safe, supportive environment where women can grow in their careers and move into positions of leadership themselves. These men get that this moment in history is not just about changing the conditions that have enabled harassment and assault, but also creating workplaces where women can thrive, advance and make a full contribution.\nSome men want to make change because they believe making the workplace more equal for women is the right thing to do. Others are waking up to the fact that what\u2019s good for working women is good for business\u2014that ignoring the talents and contributions of half the population is a massive missed opportunity. We can\u2019t make our workplaces safer and more equitable for women without these men.\nI recently spoke at last year\u2019s 3% Conference in November about the role of male mentorship. I was inspired to write about how I\u2019ve been helped along the way by men who didn\u2019t need to wait for a big public reckoning to see that women are worth investing in\u2014and they themselves were more successful for it. Here are some lessons taken from what they did, that we can all learn from when working alongside women.\nRecognize and acknowledge her strengths.\nMy first boss\u2019s parting words to me after four years together were, \u201cTrust your instincts. You have good ones and they will take you far.\u201d These words had a tremendous impact on how I approach my work, and they still do. Though I wish he had said it a year or two earlier, it was incredibly reassuring to know that he\u2019d been paying attention and had recognized something in the way I worked and made decisions. I was still in the formative years of my career, and he lit a spark of confidence in me that I could build on throughout my career.\nAsk her opinion.\nMy second agency was Deutsch in NY. It was tiny then, about 90 people, and Donny was moving into a leadership role. Donny showed himself to be a good leader because he would always ask for the opinions of others in meetings\u2014including younger employees, women and others who didn\u2019t often have a voice. The first time he turned to me, I was speechless. I had been working in advertising for four years, and it was the first time someone important wanted to know what I thought.\nNot only did this make me realize that my opinion mattered, it also inspired me to come to meetings prepared with ideas, opinions and a strong point of view. Expectations mean a lot, and I learned that I was expected to make a full contribution to the team, in spite of my young age.\nPut her forward.\nNo matter how young, no matter how many more senior men might be able to do the job instead, look for opportunities to give young women a chance to show you what they\u2019re capable of. I was put forward by male bosses at a few significant moments in my career, and I remember them vividly to this day. Each time it was scary and I was unsure of myself, but the experience was entirely worthwhile for both me and my team. For instance, I was given the chance to present to clients on behalf of the agency at several large and important meetings. Not only did this build my confidence, but it told the people around me that I mattered, that I had a voice on the team and that I was capable of leadership.\nCreate an environment of unconditional trust.\nOur always-on industry needs to practice what we preach and get serious about de-stigmatizing and honoring flexible work schedules. Women, especially as they advance along in their careers, are jugglers. They\u2019re handling work, maybe kids, partners, homes, hobbies, passions. They need you to trust that they can excel in their jobs, while also handling the rest of their lives. I\u2019ve had the good fortune to work with some fantastic men who were empathetic and supportive.\nIn the 13 years I have been at Eleven, they have readily given me the trust and the space to get my job done while also living my life. There was never hesitation around my need to leave early most days, work from home, flex up or down as family needs evolved. The trust was felt and the trust was given without hesitation. In return, I deliver over and above in my work, with gratitude.\nOur workplaces are evolving, and as the social conversations around women\u2019s positions in the workplace grow louder, more big changes are sure to come. The male leaders who stand up and empower women to do their best work and to share in that power will be the ones who see their businesses succeed the most.\nMichele Sileo is Partner and Chief Growth Officer at Eleven Inc.\nLabels: bullshit, campaign, diversity in advertising, diverted diversity, divertsity, exclusivity, mentoring, white ad agencies, white women", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 10285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mykisscountry937.com/jennifer-nettles-stage-fall-broken-rip/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WCXPBVGXKM62O4FTRPL37WZOVGOGQJLJ", "length": 1825, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mykisscountry937.com", "title": "Jennifer Nettles Suffers a Broken Rib After Stage Fall", "raw_content": "Jennifer Nettles Suffers a Broken Rib After Stage Fall\nOh no! Jennifer Nettles is suffering from a broken rib after falling off the stage at a recent show in New York.\nThe New York Post reports that the Sugarland star tripped over a light fixture as she made her way to the stage at the Hammerstein Ballroom for a corporate gig on Thursday (May 4). Nettles knew she had broken her rib immediately after the fall and was rushed to the hospital soon after.\nIn a series of tweets, Nettles reveals that this is the first time she's fallen off stage in her more than two decade career. Nettles was scheduled to take participate in show on Thursday morning for Time, Inc's presentation to advertisers before the fall. \"Hi loves. Thanks for all your kind wishes. Broken rib and banged up, but grateful. Maybe slowly moving for a bit. But I'll rally,\" she writes in one tweet after her visit at the hospital.\nNettles took a break from her work with country duo Sugarland in 2013 to focus on her solo career, which warranted her most recent album, Playing with Fire, that debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and rounded out the top 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200. She's also dipped into the acting pool, portraying the role of Dolly Parton's mother Avie Lee Owens in the two made-for-TV films, Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors and Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love.\n\u201cI wanted to take a chance and to see what I would create from a solo perspective and to offer my fans a little bit more of an intimate look at who I am as an artist,\" she says in an interview about going solo. \"And so consequently I have felt super liberated by it.\"\nJennifer Nettles and 11 More Female Country Trailblazers\nNext: Jennifer Nettles Liberated By Solo Career\nSource: Jennifer Nettles Suffers a Broken Rib After Stage Fall", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 192.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myschoolgrants.net/grants-for-photography-projects/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:V34KQPK2OJLVT5WJDYWMR5JOHECLWW4M", "length": 2552, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "myschoolgrants.net", "title": "Grants for Photography Projects", "raw_content": "Very few people have never snapped at least a photo or two in their lives. Most of us pull out our cameras on birthdays, holidays, milestone events and vacations. However, there are some that view their surroundings in such a way that even everyday sights are \u201cphoto ops\u201d to them. Because there lives a love of photography in the hearts of so many, there are many different foundations dedicated to photography and many of them provide grants for photography projects. Additionally, photography grants can be photography education grants for entire degree programs, or a single grant for courses on photography.\nTypes of Photography. Some foundations are specific in the type of photography they will support. For example:\nAaron Siskind Foundation. Provides grants annually to photographers using still-photography based media. http://www.aaronsiskind.org/\nMissions. Other foundations use photography to promote a specific mission. For example:\nGetty Images Inc. \u201cGrants for Good\u201d sponsors projects that promote positive change in the world.\nType of Photographer. Some awards are specific to the type of individual, such as for minority photographers. One example is the Inge Morath Award by the Magnum Foundation that provides $5,000 each year to a female documentary photographer.\nMedia Grants. Some media companies provide grants to photographers. One example is:\nNational Geographic Magazine. The grant is obtainable by professional still photographers and includes assistance on the chosen project through the same support services provided to the magazine\u2019s regular contributing photographers. The 2010 grant is $30,000.\nGrant Search. Many photography grants can be found on the International Center of Photography\u2019s website: http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.1853489/k.A145/Grants_and_Awards.htm\nScholarships. There are also grants that enable students to study photography, as well as awards for education awarded to photographers through photographic contests. For example,\nThe Google Photography Prize is a world-wide competition for students to generate themes for iGoogle.\nSigma Corporation of America Scholarship Contest \u2013 details can be found on their website at http://scholarship.sigmaphoto.com/rules.asp\nSo, whether your goal is to advance your photography career, study photography, or use your photography to support a cause, there are photography grants available to assist you in financing your aspiration. There will always be struggling artists, but those that take the time to do a little research may struggle a bit less.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nacchopreparedness.org/tag/infectious-disease/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WNINEWV4DQFV2O5XVYS7UJARFOOQ37ER", "length": 1134, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nacchopreparedness.org", "title": "Infectious Disease | NACCHO Preparedness Brief | Page 4", "raw_content": "Google Hangout \u2013 Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Disease\nJoin the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on Friday, Feb. 6 from 12:15 PM \u2013 1 PM ET for a Google+ Hangout. Panelists will discuss the nation\u2019s health security preparedness as detailed in a recent\u2026\nLocal Health Departments Play a Key Role in Measles Outbreak Response\nThe CDC held a press conference on January 29 in response to the ongoing measles outbreak. State and local health departments are working vigorously investigating the current multistate measles outbreak. Since January 1, 84 measles\u2026\nMeasles Outbreak Resources from the CDC\nFrom January 1-23, 68 people from 11 states were reported to have measles, and most of these cases are part of a large, ongoing outbreak linked to an amusement park in California. On January 23, the\u2026\n\u201cOutbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014\u201d Report Released\nTrust for America\u2019s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released the \u201cOutbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014\u201d report. 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Currently, the nation is reactive rather than proactive, with most federal funds being used for storm response and cleanup, and not enough being spent on consequence reduction strategies, such as elevating buildings. A national vision, informed by a national coastal risk assessment, is needed to get the most benefits from federal investments. 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He felt obligated to play the game that was thrust on him at a young age by his father, an Iranian immigrant. His attitude toward the game led to personal issues, including drug use, and he sank to world No. 141 in 1997, prompting many to believe that his career was over. After coming to terms with the game and learning to play for himself, Agassi returned to world No. 1 in 1999 and enjoyed the most successful run of his career over the next four years.\nHave a passion. Agassi\u2019s passion post-tennis is education. Andre created the Andre Agassi Foundation For Education in 1994 and has been hands-on every step of the way \u2013 from envisioning and creating Agassi Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas and continuing to engage with its students, to raising funds to support public charter schools and advocating for changes in public education. He said that making a difference in children\u2019s lives is his life\u2019s work. Agassi sacrificed his own education for success on the court, but saw education as the key to opportunity because giving kids education gives them options.\nAndre Agassi spoke to the Conference of Chief Justices at their mid-year meeting in Nevada. The session was facilitated by Chief Justice of Nevada Michael L. Douglas.\nKnow your strengths. After successfully graduating 9 senior classes, Agassi Prep made the decision to turn over operations to a high achieving charter management organization. Agassi said he made this decision because he realized that he was not an educator and was not a school administrator. As much as he wanted to be part of the daily operations, he knew it was not a sustainable model. He said he had to figure out what he was good at, besides playing tennis, and use that strength to accomplish his goals. Agassi told the chiefs that his gift was being a facilitator, connecting people with needs with people with assets.\nLeverage your resources. Since the inception of the Andre Agassi Foundation more than $180 million dollars has been raised to benefit the mission of the foundation. In 2007, along with several other athletes, Agassi founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities. He most recently created the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund. The Fund is an investment initiative for social change, focusing on the \u201cnationwide effort to move charter schools from stopgap buildings into permanent campuses.\u201d The Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund meets the facilities challenge by acting as a \u201cbridge developer\u201d for charter schools. Turner-Agassi serves school operators by taking the lead on site selection, acquisition, design and construction and providing 100 percent of development costs. School facilities developed by Turner-Agassi are then leased to school operators, who can then purchase the sites once they reach full occupancy. It has funded 79 campuses for high-performing charter schools. Agassi said the investors have recouped their initial funds and are now recycling that money to assist an estimated 85 more campuses.\nWhile I will always think of Agassi as the brash young tennis player with the long hair and the rock-star attitude, I will not forget the lessons I learned from the man with a passion who is willing to use his celebrity for the greater good.\n\u2190 NASJE 2018 Conference Registration\nNASJE\u2019s Leadership Wants YOU! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 11270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://naturalharmony.co.nz/congratulations-to-the-arrival-of-ms-a-hs-baby-on-30-09-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIPHLLV75YJ25HSM4UB735OMA7BHD7R3", "length": 208, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "naturalharmony.co.nz", "title": "Congratulations to the arrival of baby Luciana on 30/09/2018 ! | Natural Harmony Clinic", "raw_content": "Congratulations to the arrival of baby Luciana on 30/09/2018 !\nThe hero mum Ms. A.H had her baby Luciana on 30/09/2018 at the age of 47! And this is the 5th birth of our fertility acupuncture success in 2018!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://neoker.org/detailed-privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:GH3YGVRFKD7RDVTBRQPTSO4DSOJHGLKB", "length": 4110, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "neoker.org", "title": "Detailed Privacy Policy | Neoker", "raw_content": "NKR Fibers\nResponsable Who is responsible for the processing of your data?\nIdentity: NEOKER, S.L.\nRegistered Office: R\u00faa da Xesta n\u00ba 78 \u2013 A1, Pol. Ind. 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You live in a world where just about anything can be bought. From the moment you wake up and have your breakfast, everything you touch is something you bought.\nThe various campaigns and ads you see on billboards, television, and even on your mobile screen unknowingly lure you to purchase more. The supplement industry, for one, is a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S. It\u2019s not about consumers being gullible; it\u2019s about what they \u201cthink\u201d is important to their daily needs.\nThe Real Deal in Public Consumerism\nIn the world of dentistry, parents are probably the only ones reminding kids to have their routine checkup at dental clinics like Family Smiles. Adults tend to brush off the notion of a visit to the dentist. Statements such as \u201cI can\u2019t afford it.\u201d have echoed through centuries even before the rise of consumerism.\nCenturies ago, people really could not afford a visit to the dentist. It was a privilege not all people could pay for. Today, however, it\u2019s a different story.\nThink about it. You can afford a new set of clothes and a brand new car. Why can\u2019t you afford a visit to the dentist?\nPeople have interchanged the definitions of want and need. Is it the rush of shopping and wearing trendy clothes? Is it that pride you get when you drive around in your new vehicle and inhale the new car smell?\nThe Real Deal in Dentistry\nThe world is now a place where almost everybody can afford a visit to the dentist. Yet, most people would rather splurge on a Starbucks drink every day. Most are either scared of the dentist or are unaware of how vital a visit is to their health.\nAds show you the different pros and cons of buying certain products. This is a huge factor that has led to business success.\nDentistry needs to live up to the hype and educate people. The more exposure they have, the more the public will learn, understand and eventually, get their services.\nThe Best Countries to Earn Money Teaching English and Travel\nAre you looking for an enriching job this summer? Why not get paid to teach English abroad? As a teacher in a country wherein English is a second language, you get to learn about their culture and gain work experience. Geovisions.org suggests you get to know the countries that provide you with a good paycheck to teach students their ABCs.\nThe competitiveness and drive of Chinese students make them one of the best to teach English as a second language. Students\u2019 parents are willing to pay top dollar to make their child speak the language fluently. As long as you are a native speaker, teaching experience (not a requirement but helps) and TEFL certification.\nAfter teaching hours, China\u2019s vastness, and different landscapes and cultures make it an interesting destination for intrepid travelers at heart. Hop on a bus or ride the train to the nearest tourist attraction to learn more about the country.\nSouth Korea is a popular destination for those who want to make a quick buck teaching English. The Koreans are eager to learn the language because of the advantages it provides them. Students are also willing to pay a premium to speak and write fluently. The country is also an interesting place because of the distinct culture and history.\nThe Land of the Rising Sun is like its other East Asian counterparts in their eagerness to learn English. Learning the language opens doors for students who want to complete their undergraduate or graduate studies in the U.S., Canada, Australia or the UK. Thais are also willing to pay top dollar to learn the language.\nThailand is an attractive destination for those who want to teach English abroad because of the tropical weather, culture, and delicious food.\nThese are the top countries to teach English in because of the demand and need of students. The culture, weather, landscape and food also make them noteworthy destinations for teaching.\nHealthy Habits: Encouraging a Healthy Diet at Work\nCompanies rarely understand the importance of a healthy workplace. The health of your employees brings several benefits to your business. Having healthy employees translates into better productivity and an improved working environment. They function better, and you notice them being more resourceful and innovative.\nAs a result, your company\u2019s image will improve, and potential employers will see a positive atmosphere. You don\u2019t need to alter the whole working environment, though. You just need to lead the way to a healthy lifestyle.\nA Healthy Canteen\nFor employers who have a canteen exclusively for their employees, start the change there. Hire the services of health food companies such as Transform Health that provide catering approved by professional cooks, trainers and dietitians. You can never go wrong with hiring a team with the background and expertise in delivering healthy meals.\nThe office must have a pantry that has clean and bright surroundings. It should be separate from the immediate workplace. In this area, everyone should clean as they go, to encourage a clean environment. Also, give them a place where they can store their packed meals, such as a fridge, to avoid food-borne illness. This may lead to them taking fewer sick days.\nA Healthy Reminder\nInspire them by participating in local healthy eating campaigns. Create a monthly guide and distribute it to everyone. Let the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating help you create programs that encourage a healthy lifestyle even when employees are not in the workplace. Set up an event celebrating health, and invite nutritionists to share healthy recipes.\nEncouraging a healthy lifestyle does not only boost your employees\u2019 health; it also boosts your company\u2019s productivity.\n3 Natural Ways to Keep Vermin Out\nBugs are always unwanted guests in your home. A few insects are usually not much of a concern, but they become annoying pests the moment they start invading your house. They can damage the structure of your property and pose health threats. Before you know it, your family is exposed to a number of hazards right in your very home.\nCalling the services of an experienced pest control company in Corona, or in any suburb or city, is the best way to get rid of the presence of vermin at home. These precautions can also help in preventing them from coming back.\nDispose of Food Scraps Properly\nPests are attracted to homes because of one thing: food. The smell of food lures insects and keeps them coming back. Naturally, the best way to prevent any infestation is to control your food scraps.\nCleaning your dining area thoroughly after eating to clear all crumbs and mess should be a habit. Put your food scraps in a secured container and dispose of them properly. Refrain from eating at any places where you\u2019re not supposed to. If you do, make sure to remove any debris immediately.\nErase Insect Paths with Soapy Water\nSeasoned pest inspectors often suggest cleaning your home surfaces with soapy water. This solution helps erase the traces bugs leave in the trail. Ants, too, leave a trace to find their way back to the food source. Spray soapy water across the trail whenever you spot one.\nMix Your Own Insecticide\nYou can create an insect-killing mixture using basic ingredients you can find at home. All you need is one litre of water, a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of Borax. Mix them and soak cotton balls in your natural bug-exterminator. Place the cotton balls in a container where bugs have access and often go. The solution will kill insects slowly upon contact.\nTake the initiative to keep bugs out of your home. These may just be a temporary remedy, though. The best way is to get help from a professional pest control service provider.\nProperty Buying: How to Stay Away from Pitfalls\nBuying property is serious business, whether it\u2019s a house you intend to live in or a place to do business. In many cases, a buyer eventually finds out that had they prepared better and longer they would have avoided some of the most common pitfalls, or at least found better property elsewhere.\nHere are some ideas you can use to avoid regrets after buying a property.\nSome properties become known because of the hype surrounding them, mostly because of the marketing ministrations of savvy realtors. Instead of being swayed into believing the hype, do your own research. Find out about the median property prices in the area, the average number of buyers and sellers, and the effect of interest rates on the location. Supply and demand figures over time are particularly important. You may also ask for the assistance of property lawyers in Brisbane to find out more about the property, especially if it\u2019s intended for business, Creagh Weightman Lawyers recommends. Such lawyers have more access to data you might otherwise miss.\nThe location is always a primary factor in choosing a piece of property, whether for home or business use. Check the distance to major roads and important establishments. Hospitals or clinics, a fire station, universities, shopping malls, jogging paths and the like are always great to have near you. Additionally, find out about the neighbourhood culture. A good way to scout a location is to visit and enjoy a meal there, maybe a cup of coffee; just take a walk or drive around, imagining how it is to live or work there.\nScrutinise the Property\nDon\u2019t be convinced immediately by the realtor or owner\u2019s sales pitch. Of course, they\u2019ll put their best foot forward. Ask relevant questions, inspect the property, comment on the windows, roofing, etc.; say things that may catch them off-guard and make them tell you something they would rather not (\u2018the kitchen is a little old and the sink has a leak\u2019).\nA seller or realtor will do what they can to make you buy. It\u2019s up to you to find out whether the property is worth your hard-earned money.\nFew Facts on Referrals: An Impartial Perspective on the Kindness of Your Clients\nJune 13, 2016 Online Business\nOne of the best things about a booming business is that you can rely on a constant stream of referrals. Good customer service will do miracles in increasing your customer base; not only do you retain the original pool of patrons, you can also add to them through word of mouth marketing. All this just because of the kindness of your customers. It is amazing, really, what you can achieve with hard work as a business owner.\nReferrals, however, are not as easy to earn as business from your loyal customers. If it were that easy, then every business would not have a problem maintaining high numbers. In the real world, you cannot even ask for it just because it is just not good practice.\nHere are some facts about business referral systems to help you understand the approach much better than the average business owner:\nA Marketing Aid\nYour business needs marketing. If you already have a campaign in place, then you are already doing much better than many proprietors. The efficiency of SEO will play a major role in the success of your marketing efforts, something that referrals can also do. To be more specific, what your customers say about you affects the effectiveness of your marketing campaign by 54%.\nDigital WOM\nThere is no point arguing the advantages of social media in business. It is effective, so leave it at that. Referrals can also come from there, but not all will be positive. More than half of all who respond on social media platforms spoke of their negative experiences with the company. Do not underestimate how many people one tweet can reach.\nTaking from the IT Crowd\nWhen it comes to B2B recommendations, no industry takes referrals as seriously as the IT guys. What they buy usually hinge on what their colleagues say work, an ideal example of B2B referral. On a side note, someone even saw this high preference on colleague recommendations as a disconnect between the IT industry and marketers.\nWhether you end up relying on referrals or not, know that you are getting more business because you served someone well or reached out to a colleague. 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Click Download or Read Online button to THE WAR ON WELFARE book pdf for free now.\nAuthor : Marisa Chappell\nWhy did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution\u2014and not necessarily by the Right. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called \"the end of welfare as we know it\" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety of sources, historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960s through the mid-1990s. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves. During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both \"welfare\" and the War on Poverty itself.\nWar And Welfare\nAuthor : Jytte Klausen\nFrom belligerent to neutral countries, the civilian war economy that developed from 1939 to 1945 created the foundations for the postwar welfare state. War and Welfare examines the legacy of the 'warfare state' and reveals how it paved the path for the welfare state in ensuing decades. Jytte Klausen shows how the institutional marks made by World War II were critical to capitalist reform after the war. She argues that the warfare state was a gift to the European Left, and asserts that state-expansion and the changing domestic order during the war, in most countries regardless of their stances, anticipated the welfare state. When the war ended in 1945, the reconstruction process rested on piecemeal decisions to remove or retain war-time controls over the economy, ranging from state cartels to wage fixing. Klausen argues that the welfare state ratified prior changes in state-society relations and represented a continuation of institutional development undertaken during the war years. Meticulously researched and cogently argued, War and Welfare offers a different angle on the conception and construction of the welfare state, and lends insights into what may lie ahead in the future.\nAuthor : J. Klausen\nAuthor : Elizabeth McKeown\nThe Cult Of True Victimhood\nAuthor : Alyson Manda Cole\nDemonstrates how the campaign against \"victim politics\" and the \"victim mentality\" has profoundly altered Americans' understanding of victimhood, and investigates the consequences of this change in politics, law, culture, and the \"war against terror.\"\nAuthor : Barbara Hately-Broad\nDuring the Second World War, some 250,000 British servicemen were taken captive by either the Axis powers or the Japanese. As a result of this, their families became completely dependent on the military & civil authorities. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the British Home Front during the Second World War.\nThe Cold War In Welfare\nAuthor : Richard Minns\nDiscusses the dispute regarding the role of pensions in financing economies between Anglo-Americans who believe in private pension investments in the stock market and Europeans who believe in state provisions and avoiding unstable stock markets.\nAuthor : John F. McClymer\nAuthor : Michael B. Katz\nExamines changing attitudes towards the problem of poverty, argues that the poor are often blamed for their condition, and suggests a constructive approach to the problem\nThe Color Of Welfare\nAuthor : Jill Quadagno\nThirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class. In The Color of Welfare, Jill Quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the center of the \"American Dilemma,\" as Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal did half a century ago. The \"American creed\" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says Quadagno. It is racism that has undermined the War on Poverty, and America must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform today. From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Drawing on extensive primary research, Quadagno shows, for instance, how Roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded African Americans from the core programs of the Social Security Act. Turning to Lyndon Johnson's \"unconditional war on poverty,\" she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which triggered a white backlash. Job training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groups. This shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class Americans, who had some of the same needs--for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities--but who got very little from these programs. At the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integrated. Quadagno shows that Nixon, who initially supported many of Johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted. He realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the Family Assistance Plan, threatened to undermine wages in the South and alienate the Republican party's new constituency--white, southern Democrats--and therefore dropped it. In the 1960s, the United States embarked on a journey to resolve the \"American dilemma.\" Yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismally. The Color of Welfare reveals the root cause of this failure--the inability to address racial inequality.\nDoodlescapes: Pattern And Design Coloring Book - Calming Coloring Books For Adults (Doodle Designs and Art Book Series)\nThe International Tax Law Concept of Dividend (Series on International Taxation) Ebook\nInside Insurgency: Violence Civilians and Revolutionary Group Behavior\nFilming Reality: The Independent Documentary Movement in India\nDid Somebody Step on a Duck?: A Natural History of the Fart\nIntroductory Algebra with P.O.W.E.R. Learning 1st edition\nGood ideas for good teachers who want good jobs\nConflict Management for Security Professionals\nThe Kingmaker's Daughter (The Cousins' War)\nFuels Energy and the Environment\nillustrated guide to door hardware pdf\nbuddhism without beliefs free pdf\nnew annotated oxford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 13605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newisland.ie/product-category/authors/mary-odonnell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:5KI3BOILJLRF3V56CV7MSLOTS5XKBT7J", "length": 360, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "newisland.ie", "title": "Mary O'Donnell Archives - New Island Books", "raw_content": "New Island Books > Authors > Mary O'Donnell\nMary O\u2019Donnell is the author of eleven previous books. Her novels include The Light-Makers, Virgin and the Boy and The Elysium Testament. Her works of poetry include The Place of Miracles and The Ark Builders. Her latest novel, Where They Lie was released this year from New Island Books. She is a member of Aosd\u00e1na.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 150.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.palmbeachstate.edu/tag/lithgow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:J5FLXHFYTQQC2DN6RZB4NUBP5Q7LPYHI", "length": 588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "news.palmbeachstate.edu", "title": "lithgow | Palm Beach State News", "raw_content": "Tag: lithgow\nJohn Lithgow to speak at January STEAM event\nBe Creative, Be Useful, Be Practical, Be Generous \u2013 this is the philosophy of actor John Lithgow, who will be the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach State College Foundation\u2019s STEAM fundraiser Jan. 30.\nThe event, titled \u201cInside the Mind of John Lithgow\u201d is expected to attract more than 600 guests and is presented by Bank of America. It will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts.\nThe goal is to raise money to support STEAM scholarships, \u2026 Continue reading John Lithgow to speak at January STEAM event \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.uis.edu/2010/02/burlingames-biography-of-lincoln-wins.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:10Z", "digest": "sha1:42ZBZ75AH6GMDNZEMIP5V24QF7YRTXPJ", "length": 6446, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "news.uis.edu", "title": "UIS News: Burlingame's biography of Lincoln wins 2010 Lincoln Prize", "raw_content": "Burlingame's biography of Lincoln wins 2010 Lincoln Prize\nA two-volume biography that was 30 years in the making, by one of the foremost living authorities on Abraham Lincoln, has won the 2010 Lincoln Prize.\nMichael Burlingame will receive the $50,000 Lincoln Prize for his book, \u201cAbraham Lincoln: A Life\u201d (Johns Hopkins University Press), as well as a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens life-size bust, \u201cLincoln the Man.\u201d Burlingame is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield. The prize, sponsored by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will be awarded April 27 at the Union League in New York.\nThe prize was co-founded in 1990 by businessmen and philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, co-chairmen of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York and co-creators of the Gilder Lehrman Collection - one of the largest private archives of documents and artifacts in the nation. The Institute is devoted to history education, supporting magnet schools, teacher training, digital archives, curriculum development, exhibitions and publications, as well as the national History Teacher of the Year program.\nThe book is a comprehensive look at Lincoln\u2019s life - from growing up impoverished in rural Kentucky and Indiana, to building a career as an ambitious politician that led him to become the 16th president of the United States. Burlingame writes about the trials and tribulations Lincoln experienced as commander-in-chief and focuses on his leadership during the Civil War. From private sorrows to public disasters, Burlingame tells the whole story of one of America\u2019s greatest presidents.\n\u201cBurlingame\u2019s massive biography of Abraham Lincoln is a landmark of American historical scholarship. Nothing surpasses Burlingame\u2019s comprehensive and detailed research into the entire life of Lincoln,\u201d Lehrman said. \u201cHis prose and arguments are always clear and straightforward, even if some judgments will be vigorously debated. Because the author of this extraordinary biography has unearthed new evidence and reviewed all previous scholarship, these debates will have to contend with the vast document-based evidence, which this Lincoln Prize winner brings to bear on the life of Lincoln. Every member of the literate general public, interested in Abraham Lincoln, is surely indebted to Burlingame for his tireless research into archives and newspapers never before examined.\u201d\n\u201cMichael Burlingame\u2019s \u201cAbraham Lincoln: A Life\u201d is meticulously researched and provides a multi-faceted portrait of a man who grew into greatness,\u201d said Janet Morgan Riggs, president of Gettysburg College. \u201cThough its length may be intimidating to some, Burlingame\u2019s narrative is accessible and engaging. No one who reads this powerful work will ever look at Lincoln quite the same way again.\u201d\nThe three-member 2010 Lincoln Prize jury - Douglas Wilson, the George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College; Joseph R. Fornieri, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology; and James Oakes, Distinguished Professor and Graduate School Humanities Professor at CUNY Graduate Center - considered 118 titles for the award before recommending the finalists to the Lincoln Prize board which makes the final decision. In addition to Lehrman, Gilder and Riggs, the Board includes James G. Basker, President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute; Gabor Boritt, Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies emeritus at Gettysburg College; and Edwin T. Johnson, Gettysburg College Trustee emeritus.\nFinalists for the prize included Robert McGlone\u2019s \u201cJohn Brown's War Against Slavery\u201d (Cambridge University Press) and Mark Wahlgren Summers\u2019 \u201cA Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction\u201d (University of North Carolina Press).\nPast Lincoln Prize winners include Ken Burns in 1991 for his documentary, \u201cThe Civil War,\u201d Allen Guelzo for his books, \u201cAbraham Lincoln: Redeemer President\u201d in 2000 and \u201cLincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America\u201d in 2005 and Doris Kearns Goodwin in 2006 for her book, \u201cTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.\u201d Last year's co-winners were James McPherson for his book, \u201cTried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief\u201d and Craig Symonds for his book, \u201cLincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War.\u201d\nAbout Burlingame\nBorn in Washington, D.C., Burlingame attended Phillips Academy, Andover. As a freshman at Princeton University, he enrolled in the Civil War course taught by the eminent Lincolnian David Herbert Donald, who took him under his wing as a research assistant. When Donald moved to Johns Hopkins University, Burlingame followed him upon his graduation from Princeton. Burlingame received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Johns Hopkins University and joined the history department at Connecticut College in New London, where he taught until retiring in 2001 as the Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield in 2009.\nBurlingame is the author of \u201cThe Inner World of Abraham Lincoln\u201d (University of Illinois Press, 1994) and has edited volumes of Lincoln primary source materials. Burlingame has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize (1996), Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (1998) and an Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize (2001). He was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.\nFounded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.\nThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founded in 1994, is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the Gilder Lehrman Collection and conducts history education programs in all fifty states, serving more than 3,000 teachers, their students and their communities, across the country every year.\nPosted by Courtney Westlake at Friday, February 12, 2010\nLabels: Awards, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty, history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 10500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 138.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newstalkkit.com/donuts-with-deputies-set-for-friday-in-harrah/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6AO3JBGBLWOAACL26V6VNN2ATL6FDHDV", "length": 580, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "newstalkkit.com", "title": "'Donuts With Deputies' Set for Friday in Harrah", "raw_content": "\u2018Donuts With Deputies\u2019 Set for Friday in Harrah\nYou've heard of Coffee with a Cop now you can enjoy a doughnut with a deputy. The Yakima County Sheriff\u2019s Office will be holding its second \u201cDonuts with a Deputy\u201d event at the Harrah Caf\u00e9, this Friday, June 29. Beginning at 7 a.m., they'll be sharing coffee and Krispy Kreme donuts with anyone who wishes to meet with deputies! This is the second such event sponsored by Krispy Kreme, and the first one was well-attended according to the Yakima County Sheriff's Office.\nFiled Under: donuts with deputy, harrah, yakima county sheriff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newtspad.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZZJ4747JWVGMX5BEOCKVBFY5TGYQTVP", "length": 10975, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "newtspad.blogspot.com", "title": "Newt the Wonder Frog's Lily Pad: December 2006", "raw_content": "The truth about Slander\nWell, I think I hurt Thomas' feelings with my last post because he went and tried to be mean to me in revenge. Darn it if he just couldn't do it very well. I know everyone is on the edge of their seats wondering why I lashed out like I did. Well I will tell you.\nThomas won't come see me. Boo Hooooo!!!!\nThat's right, I wanted Thomas and Jess to come here for New Years so they could celebrate it in our brand new house and maybe help unpack. I mean, who wants to spend their New Years in Midland. There is nothing to do there aside from a bar, a bowling alley, and a drive in. So what if he already told people he would be there. Who cares if he doesn't get to see his family. I am talking about pleasing me. That is more important. I was going to find something so super awesome to do, but now I guess I don't have to now.\nSo Thomas, I sure hope sitting at home on New Years Eve is all kinds of fun because as you're doing it I would hate for you to regret going to Midland. I would hate to think you were sitting there, about to get ready for bed because no one came up with anything to do.\nMerry Freakin' Christmas and a effin Happy New Year,\nI am pretending to be annoyed with Thomas so I present to you The Slander of Thomas.\nThomas is a loser. He is so stupid he couldn't even get on the special bus. And have you smelled his breath? Whooo!!! I think he must have hypnotized Jessica into marrying him and I am still trying to figure out the secret word that will get her to wise up. I am fairly sure he always has Swamp Ass, at least that is the only explanation that I could come up with for his raunchy odor.\nHe is a raging hornball in real life. He goes around hooting and hollerin' at all the girls he sees. I think he slept with one of the Jacksons, though I can't tell if it was Micheal or LaToya because they look so similar. What is up with his kumquat fetish? There for a while he used to have them all over his room and I had to sleep downstairs when he really got going.\nFinally, he never chews his food all the way. This may not seem that bad, but after he swallows he always asks \"Did it go down?\" and when you say yes he always replies \"That's what she said.\" Oh, and I know for a fact that three cheerleaders in high school were rumored to be carrying his love children... and they all had the clap. You do the math.\nWell, I guess that is enough bullsh...facts for today. Maybe next time, Thomas, you won't be such a loser.\nCan I be gay?!?\nDo you ever wish you could be gay but just not have the sex? It seems like the perfect scenario. I watch 'How I Met Your Mother' and one of the guys loves those pink drinks w/fruit in them but he can't order them because he looks gay when he does it. So they go to a gay club and he gets to drink his drink without getting judged.\nI will make some confessions now. First, I liked High School Musical. Yes I have the soundtrack and I secretly want to go see the show when it comes to Dallas. Yet I won't. I could definably get away with it if I were gay though. Also, I kind of like Celine Dion but I can only listen when she is on the radio(Or in private. Shh, don\u2019t tell).\nAlso, if I could be gay without the sex, I would finally be able to dance. I think it is part of the gay gene. Another thing, I doubt I would have to ask Diana if my shirt and pants matched if I was gay. And when I go by myself to see 'The Devil Wears Prada' I won't be looked at funny.\nYep, I think being gay would be great as long as I could keep my poop shoot closed. I mean, I have a Hetero-life partner anyway. And yes, I am reading Sex in the City and I am enjoying it.\nSo, How'd you meet?\nI have recently been bombarded on the web with this website for a company called 'True'. There is always a picture of some really cute girl in a bikini or something like it and it says 'Live, Love, Learn'. It is always the sidebar for my Hotmail account and uses the same couple of girls over and over again.\nAfter viewing this stupid ad for the umpteenth time I just have to ask, \"Do dating sites work?\" I have only met one person who has used one and she told me that it was awful. She was my neighbor in college and got in the rut of being a divorced thirty year old in Lubbock, Texas. After she told me she had used one, I think it was Match.com, she said all the guys on there were losers or were so far away that it was impossible to see them.\nI hate to generalize people who use these sites because I am sure that they hold some value, but I just wonder how far down the dating ladder you are when you use them. I have to imagine that the people on these sites are introverts with very few options left to them. I, being an extrovert, have never had any real trouble meeting a woman so it is hard to put myself in the shoes of someone who logs on to eHarmony or True. To me, it seems like if you have exhausted your available pool of people, maybe it is time for a change in lifestyle.\nIf you are always sitting at home watching TV, maybe you should turn off the computer and go outside. If you live in a town where men or women aren't readily available, move. If you are the fat guy or girl living in your parents spare room, move out and go on a diet. Maybe this is harsh but its true. I have known so many people, ex. Tim Burleson, who never moved out of the house and got bigger and bigger while simultaneously loosing personal skills. He stayed in a dead end job at Albertsons and is more than likely never going to make anything of himself.\nAgain, a generalization, but if you are having trouble meeting someone, should you really turn to other people who are having the same trouble or instead go look for the people who are doing fine in that area and try to adapt. Really, if you aren't bringing anything to the table, no one will come to eat.\nWhat's up with Racists?\nHas anyone noticed that there have been quite a few racial slurs by celebrities lately? First Michael Richards blows up on stage and yells the N word over and over from out of nowhere and then Andy Dick tries to make fun of it and it is so awkward that he ends up having to apologize.\nNow, MSN is asking the question, \u201cWere Rosie\u2019s comments racist?\u201d Is this some sort of celebrity epidemic where they see a racist and see how much press it gets so they jump on it and start spouting racial slurs? And should they apologize?\nI don\u2019t want it to sound like I support racism but clearly, if you feel that way then your apology is somewhat tainted. It\u2019s not like Kramer was saying something and let the N word slip in there. He just kept yelling at them. Then he goes on TV and explains that it just started pouring out of him and he feels so ashamed.\nReally? That is your excuse? If you\u2019re racist then you\u2019re racist. If you feel bad about it then maybe you should apologize but if you are a racist then you wouldn\u2019t have a problem with what you said. None the less, celebrities need to keep their mouths shut.\nSavin' Money\nAs most of you know, we are buying a house. And this means we will need to start being more responsible with our money. Well, I like to be proactive so this morning I started considering ways to cut back and make things last longer.\nWhile doing this I thought of one way to save water. The phrase \"If it's Yellow let it mellow, if its Brown, flush it down\" instantly popped into my noggin and I thought of how many flushes we really use just on pee.\nThen my mind began to wander and I thought, \"Does that work for the color blind?\" Well, I assume it does but just in case I made up a colorless version of that lovable limerick.\n\"If it's water, let it sit. Only flush it when its...\"\nLast night Diana and I went to Target(pronounced Tar-je cause its French) and in an impulse buy that was completely Diana we bought the wonderful board game, Mouse Trap.\nSide story for you, when I accidentally burned my old house down I owned this game. As they pulled my smoldering toy chest out of the window of my bedroom, pieces of the game were melted together in a multicolored conglomerate of trap. I haven't played it since.\nBut hey, I am a man who gives everything another chance and I did love it. We came home and started playing, but as neither of us knew the rules, it was time to break them out and read them. I have just one question. \"How in the Hell is a child supposed to play this game?\" There are so many different steps to Mouse Trap. First you have to make sure you get cheese pieces, you only build part of the trap if you land on a space that has the correct number of players, you get stuck on this circle that never ends. I didn't know what was going on.\nLuckily, I still beat Diana so fast that she couldn't see straight. I just have to say, \"Damn, Hasbro\"\nIt's my Homey!\nFor those of you who haven't heard, Diana and I are buying a house. The last two weeks have been a whirlwind because all of this got decided pretty quickly. We found a cute place in Lewisville, Texas that is a 3br, 2bath with a small yard, a garage, and a great kitchen.\nTonight we went and finalized our mortgage and will be closing on it in a few weeks. This means moving again. YEEHAW. I hate moving. Hate it. Packing, lifting, unpacking. It sucks. We do seem to always get rid of stuff when we move so clutter goes away to some extent, but it is very little.\nI am excited about getting our own place. Hopefully I will grow up a little bit and be more responsible. Though I doubt it will make too dramatic of an effect. I have had to deal with all sorts of adult stuff in the last few days. Finding homeowners insurance, doing a house inspection, signing papers. But in the end, I am very excited. It's one hell of a Christmas present.\nWell, I have been busy so that is my reason for the lack of posts.\nKevin Bacon that is. Last night, Diana and I went out with some of her friends to a place called 'Pete's Piano Bar'. Pete's is a bar that has two pianos in the center and people play almost any song imaginable.\nWell, After two of three beers and a Jager-bomb later, Footloose started and, if you know me, I love me some Footloose. Diana's friend Mary Alice got up and started dancing and I just had to get up and dance with her.\nI heard someone say 'Now this guy is serious' and I looked up and one of the piano players had a flashlight shining on me. They were waving me up so I ran up on the stage and got in between the pianos. They picked up playing the song again and I preceded to do the Footloose dance, or at least a version of it, on stage in front of everybody in the bar.\nI must say that I really didn't notice the crowd watching me while it was going on. When they finished the song, the two piano guys said, \"I don't know if you need it, but go to the bar 'cause a shot is on us\".\nI went to the bathroom and had people telling me, \"Nice Dancing\" and got a shot from a bartender, though I have absolutely no idea what I drank. It was awesome and just goes to show you that dancing isn't a sin. Eat that John Lithgow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 18856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ng2g.com/index.php?topic=1236.msg8897", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LB2CFTZZODD6GIPXIROZNLT5V7IDQ3HE", "length": 1835, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "ng2g.com", "title": "Life Is Short. Live Life to The Fullest. - Village Square (Under the Guava) - NG2G Underground", "raw_content": "Author Topic: Life Is Short. Live Life to The Fullest. (Read 868 times)\nLife Is Short, Live Life to The Fullest.\nWhen we die, our money remains in the bank...\nYet, when we are alive, we don't have enough money to spend.\nOne business tycoon in China passed away. His widow, left with $1.9 billion in the bank, married his chauffeur.\nHis chauffeur said:- \"All the while, I thought I was working for my boss... it is only now, that I realise that my boss was all the time, working for me !!!\"\nThe cruel reality is:\nSo, we must strive to have a strong and healthy body,\nIt really doesn't matter who is working for who.\nIn a high end hand phone, 70% of the functions are useless!\nFor an expensive car, 70% of the speed and gadgets are not needed.\nIf you own a luxurious villa or mansion, 70% of the space is usually not used or occupied.\nHow about your wardrobes of clothes? 70% of them are not worn!\nA whole life of work and earning... 70% is for other people to spend.\nGo for medical check-ups even if not sick.\nDrink more water, even if not thirsty.\nLearn to let go, even if faced with grave problems.\nEndeavour to give in, even if you are in the right.\nRemain humble, even if you are very rich and powerful.\nLearn to be contented, even if you are not rich.\nExercise your mind and body, even if you are very busy.\nRe: LIFE IS SHORT. LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST.\nThank you for this piece but do please remember that all capitals in titles are not encouraged\nAbsolutely, life is very brief comparatively. If all men understand this there will be less problems and we will live longer on earth. We will live all our lives affecting people. Which really counts before God.\nA thought provoking piece.\nsure you right. if and only if we all could follow this simple piece of advice.\n@ Boss Tony - Thanks, correction is noted....\nLife Traffic feeds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 7988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nightmarerecords.com/online-store/prototype-trinity-mp3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FOUY3SBX2PSOZIKZIXWA3BKRXW7DYBMT", "length": 1883, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nightmarerecords.com", "title": "Prototype \"Trinity\" - MP3", "raw_content": "Home Prototype \"Trinity\" - MP3\nHalf Life \u2013 European bonus track\nChrysalis \u2013 European bonus track\n\"Technical, powerful, well-conceived ... it was a long time coming since I last listened to an album so full of pyrotechnics and flares such as Trinity, the first full-length record of American band Prototype. In fact this band, born from the ashes of Los Angeles-based Psychosis, delivers ten songs that are cut from the finest progressive/thrash metal roots. The opener, \"Living A Lie,\" is a real killer: complex rhythmic passages, intense verses, catchy choruses, schizophrenic drum parts ... it's hard to believe that a song that lasts only 4 minutes and a half has all these characteristics thrown in. Just try to imagine a cross between Metallica, Dream Theater and Nevermore and you will be near the full depiction of Prototype. But this song is only the first bullet, as the chameleon-like \"Pure\", with all its changes reminiscent of such deft bands like Death or Cynic, proves soon thereafter. The more atmospheric side of Prototype comes out with \"Utopia,\" an instrumental interlude which paves the way for the title-track, another clever composition which shows a lot of diverse influences, but most of all the many strengths possessed by this combo. Thus once again I really have to mention the unbelievable drum work of Pat Magrath (ex-Killing Culture), but it's the group as a whole who always delivers a lasting impression in the mind of the listener. Moreover to put the final touch to this masterpiece you have to note also the cover artwork, made by gifted Travis Smith, who already adorned tons of records, and who delivers another outstanding pic here. 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The second movement, \"38 Cadences in memory of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-18-47)\", harmonizes the same two note cadence 38 times above a CF in the pedal of Mendelssohn's hymn tune \"Consolation\". The piece was awarded first prize in a competition sponsored by New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in 1978. 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As technology improved, the system became obsolete and was replaced with the VOR site near the Nome River and eventually more modern GPS systems.\nNow, the site has moved up on the FAA\u2019s list of places to clean up and the process began last year when the FAA\u2019s Contaminated Sites program director Brad Platt and project engineer Jon Schleder traveled to Nome to sort out ownership of the land and to do a site survey.\nUsually, the CAA \u2013 as the FAA was called back in the 1940s \u2013 used federal lands to build supporting infrastructure for airports on. However, things were different in Nome. According to a time line provided by Platt, the Nome airport was developed in 1941. The following year, the CAA entered into a lease agreement with the Harrison-Munn Corporation to built and maintain the air navigation and communication facilities, about three miles east of the Nome airport. There were four 140-ft steel transmission towers erected near the Beam Road plus a building and a Quonset hut with several oil tanks and, three 250-ft. high towers, a generator building and more oil tanks on the far end of the 46-acre property, towards Gold Hill. The communication facility was active until 1949, the navigation station until 1967.\nIn 1975 the lease agreement ended and the land was returned to the Harrison-Munn Corporation. The three tall communications towers were dropped onto the tundra and everything except for the Quonset hut remained on the property. In 1987, Gary Longley bought the property in order to develop a Nome landfill, but the land proved unsuitable for the purpose due to the amount of permafrost present. The land was divided and another person, Chilly Belarde, bought the communications facility, and at a later time, a one acre parcel was acquired by Paul Haskell.\nLast year, the FAA received the green light from the property owners to access the land and begin the remediation process.\nDuring a very sparsely attended meeting at Old St. Joe\u2019s on Monday evening, FAA Regional Administrator Kerry Long, Platt and Schleder informed the three people in attendance, namely Nome Mayor Richard Beneville, property owner Paul Haskell and Planning Commissioner Ken Hughes, about their intentions and purpose.\nPossible contamination at the site could include oil leaking from the present fuel tanks, chlorinated solvents, lead contamination and PCBs associated with transformers.\nPlatt said the plan is to conduct a massive soil sampling effort this summer, to determine how much contamination there is and how involved the removal of contamination would be. The next step would be to demolish the infrastructure on the property. Platt said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know how wide, how deep and how bad it is.\u201d He said he doesn't expect the worst, but people driving by should not be alarmed when they see workers dressed in white Tyvek suits, donning respirators as they sample the soil.\nPlatt said that the project is fully funded, but couldn\u2019t put a price tag on the effort, since the sampling has not been done yet to determine the amount of cleanup to be conducted. However, he said that the downed towers resting in tundra ponds will bring the price of the endeavor up because it will be hard to get the towers first out of the water and then across the waterlogged tundra to be hauled off to special hazmat dump sites in the lower 48.\nBeneville and Hughes both emphasized that they were glad to see the FAA address the contamination issue and step up to clean up the site. \u201cWe\u2019re glad to seem them cleaned up,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cThere is a lot of contamination left here and in the villages. There are now health issues consistent with contamination. 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Serving with Primary Care Health Services (PCHS), Inc. at the Alma Illery Medical Center, my responsibilities focus on providing and improving access to care for the medically underserved populations...\nWhere are they now? PHC Alum\nAngela Freitas served 2010-2011\nLeah Yingling: How can the Pittsburgh Health Corps shape your future?\nHow do you see your service experience this year shaping your future? During my service year thus far, I've had the opportunity to learn about and inform others about diabetes. Through this, it has been revealed to me how nutrition and lifestyle are central to chronic disease conditions. In the future, I hope to work in a clinical setting where I can implement nutrition intervention for preventative care...\nWhat do you do at your site to address the issue of food insecurity? I help to address the issue of food insecurity each day at the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry. 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He will evaluate whether or not a mutually beneficial relationship can be formed between potential partners and NovaLink.\nPrior to NovaLink, Jason spent almost 12 years as a Senior Manager of Business Development for a leading middle-market M&A firm. He was responsible for a team of advisors counseling small business owners on exit strategy planning and liquidity options. Jason understands the challenges one can face growing a business and how critical it is to form good partnerships along the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nursingschoolsdirect.com/states/florida-nursing-schools/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GDLJL65B7LLEOE2CTEUWDDSWJZBHWQ6P", "length": 4001, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "nursingschoolsdirect.com", "title": "Florida Nursing Schools - Nursing Schools Direct", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Search by State / Florida Nursing Schools\nDue to a significant shortage of qualified nurses in the area, Florida medical facilities are working hard to hire top-notch professionals from all around the state. Many facilities in the largest regions of Florida are offering sign-on bonuses to attract the best nursing school graduates and long-time professionals. Thanks to this new boom in the nursing industry, Florida nursing schools are brimming with student applications. Support organizations are working just as hard to make sure professionals, patients, and students find their professional home in the state.\nThe Florida Nurses Association is one of the oldest nursing resources in the state, with the foundation of today\u2019s association being laid in 1909. Part of the American Nurses Association, the FNA is supportive of all nursing specialties and works with special interest groups to further the agenda of the nursing profession in Florida. It also works toward collective bargaining activities for nurses employed in the state, with representatives available for individual nurse support.\nAmong the support provided by the FNA is the Florida Nurses Foundation, which helps to \u201cpromote nursing and delivery of healthcare through the advancement of research, education, and practice.\u201d Nursing school students are eligible for grants and scholarships from the foundation, which was formally established in 1983. For students attending classes, the Florida Nursing Student Association provides information and assistance through their website and organization activities. Many of the resources available on the FNSA website can answer questions for those considering a career in nursing.\nThe regulatory agency for the nurse profession in the state of Florida is the Florida Board of Nursing. The Florida Board of Nursing provides online access to regulations, frequently asked questions and other services. Students and professionals can visit or call the board for information about applying for licenses, continuing education credits, education programs, professional publication information, and more.\nAbout the State of Florida\nFlorida has a population of about 19 million people, making it the 4th most populous state in the country. With a subtropical climate and abundant natural resources, the state is an attractive area for residents and vacationers, alike. Most of the state is on or near a coast line, either on the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. \u201cFloridians\u201d are accustomed to heavy rains in the summer and mild winters, with very few nights of freezing temperatures in the greater part of the state.\nFlorida was once home to Paleo-Indians and early Spanish settlers. As the first area of the U.S. to be visited by European explorers, Florida is also home to a history rich in triumph and conquest for early settlers. Conquistador Ponce de Leon was among the first Europeans to visit the area, but he was not the last. Some areas were conquered several times, leading to diverse cultural histories. Along the path to today\u2019s Florida are stories of economic disparity and bloody battles. Until the 20th century, the state was the least populated state in the South. (Today, Florida\u2019s population ranks it the 2nd most populous state in the south, following Texas.)\nRequest Information From Florida Nursing Schools\nLocations: Port Saint Lucie, Miami, Pensacola, More...\nGet personalized attention at UMA.\nOne-on-one tutoring, pre-interview coaching, job search assistance, alumni services\u2014they\u2019re all included in Ultimate Medical Academy\u2019s competitively priced tuition. As a nationally accredited school, we provide quality career training at our campus in Clearwater, Florida. 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Andrew Cuomo's impassioned call for campaign finance reform in his State of the State address, it's time for lawmakers to show that they are serious about fighting corruption by taking action on his proposed reforms. As the governor noted, \"For government to be effective, we must be trusted.\" Unfortunately, there is a growing trust deficit in New York, in no small part because of our antiquated campaign finance rules.\nNew York's campaign finance system is built for the big donor \u2014 not the average voter. Individuals can contribute $60,800 to a single candidate \u2014 that's more than 10 times the limit to presidential candidates \u2014 and unlimited contributions are allowed to party's \"housekeeping\" funds. Disclosure requirements are inadequate, and donors can easily shield contributions through business entities. Corporations are allowed to contribute directly to campaigns, a practice that the federal government and numerous states have outlawed. Under these rules, it is no surprise that corruption scandals have become routine in Albany.\nPerhaps the greatest failure of the current system is that constituents' voices are too often drowned out by corporations and big donors. Elected officials are encouraged to spend their time with the wealthy and the well-connected, and cater to the special interests of very few, instead of the constituents who put them in office.\nFortunately, strong models exist for how we can improve our system. Sixteen states provide public financing to candidates in order to reduce special interest influence, and New York City offers a proven model for how such a system could work.\nIn order to increase the role of small contributions, the city matches donations of $175 or less, at a rate of six-to-one. For more than two decades, this small-donor matching system has enabled politicians to raise campaign funds from a wide swath of their constituents, and made it less likely that any single donor has an outsized influence over a candidate. More people donate because they know that their participation matters, and running for public office is an achievable dream for citizens from all walks of life, not just the very wealthy.\nStatewide campaign finance reform with small-donor matching funds would kindle new excitement and renewed trust in the political process by ensuring that it is open to all, not just the wealthy and the well-connected. It would also lead to better policy, by focusing elected officials on the needs of their constituents, instead of the needs of special interest donors.\nFortunately, with Cuomo's leadership, we have a unique opportunity to pass reform. The latest polling reveals that 79 percent of New Yorkers support his proposal for campaign finance reform with matching funds, lower contribution limits, and greater transparency and enforcement. And surprising allies, like my colleagues in the business community, have emerged. According to the Committee for Economic Development, 80 percent of New York business leaders support reform that includes public financing.\nBusiness leaders support campaign finance reform because we know that the current system hinders economic growth. Tax loopholes, pay-to-play antics, and special interest projects waste taxpayer dollars and tilt the scale in the favor of very few.\nThat's not how to grow New York's economy. Long-term growth will come through innovation and an open marketplace that is free from corruption and applies the same set of rules to everyone.\nIf lawmakers are serious about growing our economy and cleaning up state government, they should act swiftly on campaign finance reform. As the dust settles on the outrageously expensive 2012 election cycle, there is no better moment to restore faith in our elections and make government accountable to all New Yorkers.\nSean Eldridge is the president of Hudson River Ventures, a small business investment fund in the Hudson Valley. 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We are unable to verify those due to movement restrictions imposed by the Government of Sudan, particularly against international organizations and personnel,\" said Amos in a statement issued Saturday.\nShe has called on all parties to grant the safe and unhindered passage of civilians, humanitarian personnel and assets, and noted that these serious allegations of violations of human rights need to Kordofan need to be investigated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 194.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oemcats.com/oem-parts/96614367.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:O7QGBU65OWARHS3CVMADF4R7XITDKEYF", "length": 213, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "oemcats.com", "title": "Buy GM 96614367 Harness, genuine OEM part", "raw_content": "This is a harness, front side door dr. lock dr. wiring, for Chevrolet automobiles. 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It's a genuine General Motors part with an OEM part number 96614367.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ohiobobcats.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/releases/20190126qc2k9o", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BZDDBVJB6SEE3XVWXMCLM65OHHLLGS2Y", "length": 7331, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ohiobobcats.com", "title": "Block\u2019s Late Three Leads Ohio Men\u2019s Basketball Past Ball State, 78-74 - Ohio University", "raw_content": "$restriction.code /sports/mbkb/2018-19/releases/20190126qc2k9o\nBlock\u2019s Late Three Leads Ohio Men\u2019s Basketball Past Ball State, 78-74\nATHENS, Ohio\u2013 A three-pointer by senior guard/forward Gavin Block with 39 seconds left and 16 second-half points from redshirt sophomore forward Jason Carter helped the Ohio men's basketball team (11-8, 3-4 MAC) overcome a hot shooting Ball State team (11-9, 2-5 MAC), downing the Cardinals, 78-74, Saturday afternoon (Jan. 26) inside the Convocation Center.\n\"That was just a really good college basketball game with two pretty good teams trading blows,\" fifth year head coach Saul Phillips said. \"We beat them in Muncie; they clearly did not have their best night and that had something to do with us winning. Tonight, I thought they played very, very well. They had timely, big shots\u2014I can't say enough about the big shots that Gavin made and the way we tightened up on defense in the final stretch there. Jason, coming out of the locker room after halftime, I bumped into him as he left the locker room and said 'what can I do to get you more involved? You only had two shots.\" And he said, \"No, we're doing the right stuff I just have to get more aggressive and the first media he had 10 points, so that's pretty good response by him. Another kind of hidden gem in this game\u2014obviously Jay was extremely poised running the show down the stretch, just really creating for everybody\u2014but TK, the job he did on Persons, that's generally been Antonio's role this year, but I just felt tonight that TK was having a little more success against him even when Antonio went back in the game we slid him over to someone else and let TK roll on a very good guard for a little while. Again, staying locked in, out turnover numbers have been down recently, our shooting has been up, I like the direction this is heading right now.\"\nCarter (Johnstown, Ohio) led the Bobcats with 16 points, all in the second half, going 6-of-13 from the field and 4-of-6 from the free throw line. He grabbed six rebounds, dished out four assists and had a season-high three blocks. Block (Lincoln, Ill.) finished the game with 15 points, going 5-of-10 from the field, 3-of-7 from three-point range and 2-of-2 from the free throw line. Junior guard Antonio Cowart, Jr.(McComb, Miss.) finished with 11 points, going 4-of-7 from the field, 3-of-5 from three-point range, while grabbing four rebounds and one block. Freshman guard Jason Preston (Orlando, Fla.) finished with 10 points, going 5-of-8 from the field and registering two steals. Meanwhile, redshirt freshman forward Ben Vander Plas (Ripon, Wis.) finished the game with seven points and a career-high 12 rebounds.\nBall State opened the game with the first points, a three-pointer to give the Cardinals their first lead of the day. A layup from senior forward Doug Taylor (Columbus, Ohio) would get the Bobcats on the board and then back-to-back layups from Kirk and Block and a three from Cowart, Jr. would out the Bobcats up 9-5 at the 15:56 mark. Ball State would bring the game within one with a three of their own, but Vander Plas would put Ohio up 11-8 with a driving layup.\nA free throw from Ball State would give Ball State a 12-11 lead, however Cowart, Jr. would follow that up immediately with another three-pointer, giving Ohio a 14-12 lead. The Bobcats and Cardinals would trade baskets over the next few minutes until Ball State would go on an 8-0 run to take a 29-21 lead with 4:12 to go in the half.\nThe Bobcats would battle back over the remaining minutes of the half, with Cowart, Jr. draining another three to bring Ohio within four with 44 seconds left. However, Ball State's Tayler Persons would hit a three of his own with one second left to send the teams to the locker rooms with Ball State leading, 37-30.\nAt the half, Ohio shot 39.0 percent from the field, 29 percent from three-point range and did not make the one free throw that they took. Meanwhile, Ball State shot 45 percent from the field, 63 percent from three-point range and 67 percent from the free throw line. The Bobcats were out-rebounded 22-17, while the Bobcats dished out five assists, had three steals and three blocks, compared to Ball State's seven assists, four steals and three blocks.\nBall State would open the half with the first points, taking a nine-point lead within a minute. However, after a Carter steal and dunk, the Bobcats would go on a 14-0 run over the next four and a half minutes, capped by a second-chance dunk from Taylor, giving the Bobcats a 45-41 lead with 15:04 left in the game. After Ball State would go on to tie the game up at 45-45, two free throws from Block would put the Bobcats up, 51-47, with 12:36 to go.\nThe Bobcats and Cardinals would start trading buckets again, however a three-pointer from Trey Moses would put Ball State up 65-61 with just under eight minutes to play. A three from Block would momentarily give Ohio the lead back, however, a matching shot from Ball State would put the Cardinals back up by one. A minute later, the same sequence would occur, with Block hitting a three only to be followed up by another Ball State bucket. However, the Cardinals would connect on a layup, taking a 72-69 lead with under six minutes to play.\nWith 2:53 left, Carter would give Ohio the lead with a layup, which would be matched by a jumper from Ball State, giving the Cardinals a 74-73 lead. After a couple defensive stops on both ends of the court, the Bobcats would set up Block perfectly, when with 39 seconds to go, Block would drain his third three of the night, giving Ohio a 76-74 lead. Sophomore guard Teyvion Kirk (Joliet, Ill.) would hit two free throws down the final seconds, securing the 78-74 victory for the Bobcats and the season sweep of the Cardinals.\n\"It was one of my biggest ones,\" Block said. \"I think I hit one in Charleston last year versus Indiana State; it was definitely up there,\" said Block. \"I started out in the far corner, someone got downhill, hit Ben on the wing, Ben shot-faked and took one dribble, hit Jason on top of the key, Jason got in there and played off too. My guys just left me and I did a little roller-place at the top of the key and then I saw Kyle Mallers flying at me, so I took a little side-step and let her fly.\"\nOverall, the Bobcats registered a 46.3 percent (31-of-67) field goal percentage, hit 29.2 percent (7-of-24) of their three-point shots and 56.3 percent (9-of-16) of their free throws. As a team, Ohio secured 14 assists and 37 rebounds, falling neck and neck with Ball State. The Bobcats compiled eight steals and five blocks compared to Ball State's eight and three, respectively.\nBall State finished just ahead of Ohio with a 47.5 percent (29-of-61) field goal percentage, sinking significantly more three-point shots at 55.6 percent (10-of-18) and hitting 75.0 percent (6-of-8) of their free throws. The Cardinals only earned seven second-chance points, paling in comparison to Ohio's 18, and allowed 23 Ohio turnovers. Individually, Persons finished with a game-high 21 points, going 9-of-16 from the field and 3-of-7 from three-point range, while Mallers and K.J. Walton finished with 10 points each.\nUp next, the Bobcats head to Dekalb, Ill. On Tuesday, Jan. 29 when the Bobcats take on Northern Illinois. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. inside the NIU Convocation Center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 16158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onelittlerayndrop.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentines-garland.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7MEERVIGV6FKLJAC7REPMNI43YIWOZW", "length": 205, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "onelittlerayndrop.blogspot.com", "title": "one little rayndrop: Valentine's Garland", "raw_content": "I found this cute little project over on madebyrae, and I just HAD to give it a try.\nIt was just as simple and easy as she said it would be... some cutting, some sewing, and Voila! A pretty little garland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://openscience.org/software/chemistry/theoretical-and-computational/ab-initio-quantum-chemistry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BCSUEWRN3ZWHKVBL35LEITD6F4SVSC4V", "length": 1893, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "openscience.org", "title": "Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry | The OpenScience Project", "raw_content": "OpenScience / Software / Chemistry / Theoretical and Computational / Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry\nNWChem aims to provide its users with computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available parallel computing resources from high-performance parallel supercomputers to conventional \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nQuantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft). Find Quantum-Espresso at: http://www.quantum-espresso.org\nABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials and a planewave \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nDoD Planewave\nA General Scalable Density Functional Code Find DoD Planewave at: http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/people/singh/planewave/v3.0/\nMOPAC is a general-purpose semi-empirical molecular orbital package for the study of chemical structures and reactions. Find MOPAC7 at: http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/LINUX/mopac7/index.shtml\nThe General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System is a freely availible general ab initio quantum chemistry package. Free graphics programs are also availible for downloading. Find GAMESS at: http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/GAMESS/GAMESS.html\nMPQC is the Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program. It computes properties of atoms and molecules from first principles using the time independent Schrodinger equation. It runs on a wide range of architectures ranging from single many-core computers to massively parallel \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 5892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://outofnature.org.uk/artists/tania_mosse_2015", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LU6BSF3FPO5A7P4GEZYBTPQ2TVZMRTJY", "length": 724, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "outofnature.org.uk", "title": "Out of Nature", "raw_content": "Tania Mosse was born and grew up in Ireland. She now lives in works in Wales. She studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and Leeds College of Art. More recently she took a postgraduate course in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths College. She exhibits regularly in England, Ireland and Wales. As well as making sculpture, she cuts letters in stone for commemorative plaques and memorials to commission. She uses a wide range of materials in her work, principally stone and bronze.\nI continue to experiment with combining materials in my work. However in this show I have included mostly carved stone and cast bronze sculpture. I have mounted some of the works on fragments of architectural salvage.\nhttp://taniamosse.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 132.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oxfordleadershipprize.org/news/what-we-can-learn-brexits-bad-example", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HWHKY4DSZBOKE43GIAKMHOOLGSACAZZN", "length": 5236, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "oxfordleadershipprize.org", "title": "What we can learn from Brexit\u2019s bad example | Sa\u00efd Business School", "raw_content": "What we can learn from Brexit\u2019s bad example\nPaul Fisher on the challenges of negotiating in an age of transparency\nLike \u2018authenticity\u2019, \u2018transparency\u2019 is one of those concepts that is assumed always to be good. To be inauthentic or opaque is to be untrustworthy. We crave clarity, directness, people who say what they mean and mean what they say.\nBut there are some circumstances in which transparency needs to be tempered. One of them is when you are in the middle of a negotiation. More than anything, a successful negotiation requires you to be able to spend most of your time listening and understanding the other party\u2019s needs, or pausing to consider possibilities -- without having to provide a running commentary to outsiders or muddying the waters with other people\u2019s opinions and interpretations. The problem is that in the age of social media, it is increasingly difficult to keep other people, and especially the media, quiet.\nTraditionally, diplomatic and trade negotiations were always conducted in private, even secretly. During a negotiation you need to be able to \u2018float\u2019 a potential concession to see if it might be acceptable to the other party. The idea generally is to offer something that might be of relatively low cost for you to give away but of high value to your counterpart to acquire; in turn, your counterpart might offer something of low cost to them but enormously valuable to you. This \u2018give and take\u2019 and creative and flexible approach to negotiation can form the central basis for an agreement of genuine value to both sides.\nHowever, it is not advisable to be too explicit about just how much you value (or don\u2019t value) the offers under discussion. You want to create what feels like a \u2018win\u2019 for both sides, not leave your opposing number with the impression that you\u2019re congratulating yourself after walking away with a cow for a handful of beans \u2013 or vice versa.\nSimilarly, you want to keep your \u2018red lines\u2019 pretty close to your chest. This is partly because any minimum quickly becomes a target: if you \u2018won\u2019t accept anything less than \u00a310\u2019, say, it is hard to argue why anyone should pay you anything more. In addition, the give and take of negotiation depends on flexibility: if you tie yourself to a fixed position you will soon find that the situation deteriorates to the point where you are effectively shouting at each other from opposite ends of the room, incapable of meeting at any point in the middle.\nBoth of these things are relatively easy to achieve if you are an individual with a fair amount of self-control and negotiating on your own behalf. It becomes more difficult if you are negotiating as part of an organisation of any type, and particularly if there is any kind of media or public interest in the talks.\nOther members of your organisation will demand transparency from you regarding what you will be saying and offering on their behalf. This, of course, may be fair enough (depending on the subject) but it does mean that you have to conduct and manage pre-negotiations with your own side. If your discussions are \u2018leaked\u2019 to journalists or on social media they may undermine your position when you start the negotiations proper. A good example of this has to be the UK Conservative Party during the Brexit negotiations. While Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s talk of \u2018Brexit means Brexit\u2019 might be interpreted as an attempt to conceal her hand, her Cabinet colleagues\u2019 bellicose language, threats of non-payment of debts, and comments about \u2018having\u2019 and \u2018eating\u2019 cake only served to damage the UK Government\u2019s credibility and harden positions. The popular press\u2019s interpretation of every putative compromise as a sign of weakness can hardly have helped.\nOnce you have your own side on-side you are in a position to go to the table, metaphorically speaking. I would advise all parties involved in the negotiation to set the \u2018rules\u2019 from the start, and agree them together. These should include the principles that any statements to the media are agreed and issued jointly, and that no one involved in the negotiation will talk about it or post anything on social media unless agreed by all sides.\nDoes this mean that you can hold the negotiations in complete secrecy? Probably not. Someone is bound to notice particular groups of people in the same building; industry gossip is quick to put two and two together; and even the \u2018quality\u2019 newspapers will run speculative articles. But you can simply refuse to add fuel to the fire. Keep Twitter silence, hold your nerve, and agree with all parties\u2019 press offices a standard statement.\nHaving said that, I do recommend that communications directors are kept informed every step of the way. Preferably they should be in the room during the negotiations: they need to understand the nuances of what has been agreed so that they can be sensitive and informed when communicating.\nFinally, and this has clearly been hard for everyone involved in the Brexit negotiations, don\u2019t react too easily. Pretend you haven\u2019t heard insults and ignore ultimatums. Don\u2019t let barbs get to you. In negotiations, impenetrability can be a virtue.\nPaul Fisher will take over as Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at the end of November 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://palatineconcertband.org/program-notes/o/overture-to-die-fledermaus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3UFI2HXDCIUTYKVKSQQCA6BMLQ5P23F4", "length": 997, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "palatineconcertband.org", "title": "Palatine Concert Band - program notes", "raw_content": "program notes > O > Overture to \"Die Fledermaus\"\nThe title of this operetta refers to an event which precedes the curtain: Dr. Falke had gone to a costume ball dressed as a bat. He drank too much, passed out, was laid on the sidewalk, and awoke in full costume to the derisive shouts of school children. The plot pivots on his wish to get even with the perpetrator of the joke. The Viennese masked ball offers farcically confused identities. This overture gives a sample of all the tunes to come.\nJohann Strauss II (1825\u20131899), aka Junior, The Younger, and The Son, was an Austrian composer of light music. He remains the most admired today of a dynasty of composers that includes his father and his brothers Josef and Eduard. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as \"The Waltz King,\" and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 147.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://palestinemonitor.org/details.php?id=lepxrqa5415ykr68leejk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZLWBA63ZFCRUJBCDJBBQFOWOQQRVU6Q", "length": 5900, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "palestinemonitor.org", "title": "Wadi Fukin is disappearing", "raw_content": "Wadi Fukin is disappearing\nSection: [Main News] [Videos] [Life under Occupation] [Features]\nTags: [Occupation]\n\u201cWho has all the power? They do. That\u2019s it,\u201d replied Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim Manasrah, member of the Wadi Fukin Local Council, when asked about the current situation of his village, situated south-west of Bethlehem. He spoke directly, starting with the most accurate conclusion he sees and feels each day.\nLast week Israeli authorities stopped the construction of a park and children\u2019s playground in Wadi Fukin, on the grounds that it was built without a license. After showing the Palestine Monitor around the site, Mr. Manasrah expressed his feelings of shame at the park's unfinished state. A simple idea bursting with love and good will, blocked and stunned so quickly. The incomplete park is empty, with no children, no life.\nWith part of the village in Area B, another part in Area C, and over 3000 dunums area isolated behind the separation wall, the usually assumed convenience of having one\u2019s own village intact and under one administration is completely unthought of, shattered. Yet it is just one of the many problems residents of Wadi Fukin have to deal with on a daily basis.\nBoth Mr. Manasrah and Mr. Ibrahim El Hroub, Vice President of the Village Council, explained how Wadi Fukin, 'the Valley of Thistle,\u2019 lies in between two hills, on top of which are the settlements of Betar 'Illit and Hadar Betar. The waste water dumped by the settlers into Wadi Fukin pollutes the irrigation water and the agriculture produce is consequently contaminated, rendering it inedible. Big boulders of rock are also thrown into the valley as if it were a rubbish dump. Construction debris destroys olive trees and is dangerous to anyone walking in the vicinity. \u201cIt is not safe for us to work there. I also had trees and they destroyed them,\u201d said Mr. Manasrah.\nOver the past years, most of the indigenous residents of Wadi Fukin have been forced to leave their homes due to a variety of complications\u2014isolation from clinics and other facilities, loss of agricultural land, lack of potable water and and unemployment\u2014seeking refuge elsewhere, mostly in Bethlehem's Deheishe refugee camp.\nWadi Fukin\u2019s silence and inactivity speaks loudly within the village. Betar 'Illit, on the other hand, has around 35,000 inhabitants, 43 schools, 2 clinics, public transportation, gardens, playgrounds and is still expanding. One can see and hear the cranes and construction going on just a little ways off up the hill from Wadi Fukin, which, on the other hand, has around 1,300 inhabitants left, one school, no reliable clinic - especially at night, no gardens or parks and, as a whole, is disappearing at an alarming rate.\nNo buildings or houses are allowed in the part of the valley that falls within Area C\u2014the 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli civil and military control\u2014an area the village reserves for agricultural purposes. In truth, the garden is an open space not a built-up closed structure, and hence, does not need the required Israeli granted construction permit. In one way or the other, both the agricultural and recreational aims of Wadi Fukin are blocked.\nThe President of the Village Council, Mr. Ahmad As-Sukkar, explained that they were receiving funds from Heks-Eper, a European based organization for International Aid, in order to create the park, yet since they had to stop, the funds have been suspended until further notice. \u201cWe have a hearing at court in 45 days, then we will know what will happen,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThere are no lively facilities, truly, no such facilities at all. Everything is prohibited and suffocated for our children. So we started to make a playground just at the edge of our village. Just a simple garden,\" said Mr. Manasrah, explaining how it is far from actually becoming a functional park. \u201cThey pass laws on everything, the roads, the gardens..everything. They send us orders to stop construction, claiming we are offenders of the law, but we are not. We just want to work with the land, we want to support our fathers, that\u2019s all, no harm. That is the aim of our garden,\u201d he said.\nThe Council members highlighted the fact that most people need to apply for working permits within Israel since they are not able to find work in the village. In the end, they are forced to depend on the same authority that deprives them of their liberty. The contradiction is unsettling. The same authority which in once instance allows Israel\u2019s network settlements to continually expand, facilitating their annexation of privately owned Palestinian land, simultaneously declares a small garden to be illegal.\nPower in this case allows for the ability to define what is legal or possible, at a given time and place. Strong and rigid, yet versatile and subtle, power hides behind such noble ideas as truth and justice, as well as administrative formalities, which often aid in obscuring the underlying irony of an endless and organized mess of manipulation.\nStopping the park\u2019s development is not just an isolated incident, it is a continuation of a much larger and often hidden Israeli strategy of exercising uncontrolled power and stripping the Palestinians not just of their land but of their will and strength. Wadi Fukin\u2019s cage-like situation is representative of many other Palestinian villages throughout the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and present day Israel.\n\u201cThe water contamination makes the farmers abandon their land... one of the reasons we made this project was to encourage farmers to go and work there nonetheless.\u201d said Mr. El Hroub, passionately emphasizing that all they want is the chance and space to build facilities for the villagers. The members\u2019 dedication shines through their eyes as they speak. \u201cWe are like a bird in a cage,\u2019\u2019 said Mr El Hroub, \u201cbut we will not give up.\u201d\nVideo by Laurent Vinckier, subtitles by Samuela Galea.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 7061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pando.sc/resources/non-profit-sector-participation-infrastructure-planning-and-development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:15Z", "digest": "sha1:PIYXAVZVU53F3UVZDI3EW62HEJJECLSQ", "length": 1120, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pando.sc", "title": "Non-profit Sector Participation in Infrastructure Planning and Development | Pando", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Resources \u00bb Non-profit Sector Participation in Infrastructure Planning and Development\nNon-profit Sector Participation in Infrastructure Planning and Development\nResource created Fri, 05/03/2013 - 11:18 by Julia Fryer\nThe Building Stronger Communities: Non-profit Sector Participation in Infrastructure Planning and Development study explores the unique contribution non-profits can make to public infrastructure as a result of their close connections to community. It discusses the benefits of, barriers to and trends in non-profit participation in public infrastructure development in Canada, the US and UK.\nNon-profits have played a vital role in building communities. This study examines the unique contribution non-profit organizations can make to public infrastructure as a result of their close connections to community. Non-profits are able to leverage non-traditional sources of funds, generate social and financial returns on investment, and tailor infrastructure solutions to local needs.\nTo read this joint VanCity Community Foundation & Infrastructure Canada Report, please visit the VanCity website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 256.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parallaxpower.com/contact/linkedin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXZVKSYCXWJ3YEEES7RCEETERM3G7VU7", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "parallaxpower.com", "title": "Parallax Power Supply", "raw_content": "Published September 18, 2018 at 124 \u00d7 95 in Contact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 104.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parentpumpradio.podbean.com/p/about-your-host-1489129658/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QZCEWJS25RPZESUN644WACCYRGZQOHGR", "length": 1794, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "parentpumpradio.podbean.com", "title": "About Your Host", "raw_content": "Jacqueline T.D. Huynh was born in Saigon, Vietnam and was raised in Orange County, California. She is the first born of five girls. In 1975, when she was 8 years old her family arrived in the United States as refugees with less than $20 in their pocket, a dream and hope for a better future.\nShe is a speaker, radio personality and consultant on the topic of Family Leadership, Leadership Development and Emotional Intelligence and an Amazon #1 Best Selling author of \u201cYour Amazing Itty Bitty Book on Family Leadership: 15 Simple Tips Successful Companies Use That Families Can Implement At Home\u201d. She is also an ICF Certified Coach in Leadership Development, a Certified Master in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as well as NLP\u2019s innovative Mental Emotional Release (MER) Breakthrough program.\nShe brings over 30 years of corporate and business world experience and integrates her coaching with her knowledge, training and life skills. Her clients have included businesses in the manufacturing, aerospace, legal industry, and family & children services. She helps her clients get connected to the Whole self (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual).\nShe specializes in leadership development, organizational transformation and culture, dynamic communication, employee/family engagement, strategic thinking and time management.\nShe found her inspiration, passion and purpose after the suicide of her sister and her decision to leave her marriage. As she developed the skills and talents of a great leader she stepped out of her fear, insecurities and self-doubt and became an instrumental role model for her children, clients and community. She is doing what she loves, making a difference and leaving a legacy.\nGet to know more about her services and products at www.IntegrativeMinds.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://patents.com/us-10051567.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7HHEKDGGBKDQMSMYUUJ2NORRWGC4JRIM", "length": 38248, "nlines": 130, "source_domain": "patents.com", "title": "US Patent # 1,005,1567. System, method and article of manufacture to conserve power in a mobile device by temporarily displaying a scanning code over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper without unlocking a mobile device - Patents.com", "raw_content": "Soundararajan August 14, 2018\nSystem, method and article of manufacture to conserve power in a mobile device by temporarily displaying a scanning code over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper without unlocking a mobile device\nPower is conserved in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper by: (1) identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (2) identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location, (3) activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and (4) conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nSoundararajan; Ramraj (Lorton, VA)\nAVANT-GARDE IP LLC\nAVANT-GARDE IP LLC (Lorton, VA)\nCurrent CPC Class: G06Q 20/3224 (20130101); G06Q 20/20 (20130101); G06Q 20/3221 (20130101); G06Q 20/3278 (20130101); G06Q 20/3274 (20130101); G06K 19/06028 (20130101); G06K 19/06037 (20130101); H04L 67/10 (20130101); H04W 4/02 (20130101); H04W 52/0209 (20130101); H04W 4/80 (20180201); Y02D 70/164 (20180101); Y02D 70/166 (20180101); Y02D 70/144 (20180101); Y02D 70/00 (20180101)\nCurrent International Class: H04W 52/02 (20090101); G06K 19/06 (20060101); H04L 29/08 (20060101); H04W 4/80 (20180101); G06Q 20/20 (20120101); G06Q 20/32 (20120101); H04W 4/02 (20180101); G06F 21/00 (20130101)\n8156128 April 2012 Ramer et al.\n8230016 July 2012 Pattan et al.\n8660965 February 2014 Bickerstaff\n8666895 March 2014 Grigg et al.\n8676273 March 2014 Fujisaki\n8668492 April 2014 Kruglick\n8910274 December 2014 Sanders\n8914875 December 2014 Matus\n2004/0267663 December 2004 Karns\n2007/0300063 December 2007 Adams et al.\n2008/0248815 October 2008 Busch\n2010/0125509 May 2010 Kranzley\n2010/0330953 December 2010 Rogel\n2011/0251910 October 2011 Dimmick\n2012/0011561 January 2012 Courtney et al.\n2012/0054046 March 2012 Albisu\n2012/0095911 April 2012 Ibasco et al.\n2012/0185066 July 2012 Kern et al.\n2012/0185398 July 2012 Weis\n2012/0197743 August 2012 Grigg et al.\n2012/0223890 September 2012 Borovsky et al.\n2012/0233571 September 2012 Wever\n2013/0031623 January 2013 Sanders\n2013/0050250 February 2013 Brinda et al.\n2013/0069962 March 2013 Nealer et al.\n2013/0080964 March 2013 Shigeta\n2013/0110678 May 2013 Vigier et al.\n2013/0256403 October 2013 Keith\n2013/0282193 October 2013 Tyagi et al.\n2014/0033273 January 2014 Rathbun\n2014/0040035 February 2014 Cusack\n2014/0058862 February 2014 Celkonas\n2014/0189578 July 2014 Shuttleworth et al.\n2014/0304280 October 2014 Oursbourn\n2014/0310174 October 2014 Heeter\nS Aguinaga et al., \"Method for Privacy-Protecting Display and Exchange of Emergency Information on Mobiles Devices,\" 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), May 21-25, 2012, Denver, CO, 4pgs. cited by applicant .\nA. 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Rosa, \"NFC on Mobile: On the Real Security of Mobile Payments,\" CARDS 2012, Oct. 16-17, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, 95 pgs. cited by applicant .\nT. Rosa, \"Mobile Devices Security: On Practical Risks of NFC Payments,\" Mobile Payments 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, 51 pgs. cited by applicant.\nPrimary Examiner: Ade; Garcia\nAttorney, Agent or Firm: IP Authority LLC\nThis application is a Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/896,313 filed May 16, 2013.\n1. A method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper comprising: identifying the mobile device is at a business location; identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location; activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in a screen locked state; and conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\n2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scanning code is a QR code.\n3. The method of claim 1, wherein the scanning code is a barcode.\n4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises receiving an indication of a completion of the transaction based on the scanning code and, upon receiving the indication, reverting the lock screen wallpaper to a default lock screen wallpaper.\n5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises receiving an indication of a completion of a transaction based on the scanning code and, upon receiving the indication, updating the lock screen wallpaper to another image showing a balance left on an account associated with the scanning code.\n6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises reverting the lock screen wallpaper to a default lock screen wallpaper upon leaving the business location.\n7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the mobile device is at the business location is based on GPS data.\n8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the mobile device is at the business location is based upon any of the following interactions with a device at the business location: (a) a near field communication (NFC) interaction, (b) an RFID interaction, or (c) a Bluetooth interaction.\n9. The method of claim 8, wherein step of identifying the mobile device is at the business location is based upon either an NFC or RFID interaction with a device at the business location, and the device at the business location is an NFC tag in case of NFC interaction or an RFID tag in case of RFID interaction.\n10. The method of claim 9, wherein the NFC tag or RFID tag is either integrated into a point-of-sale terminal or is attached to a point-of-sale terminal at the business location.\n11. The method of claim 1, wherein the scanning code encodes user defined customization data in addition to the payment information.\n12. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is any of the following: a mobile phone, a tablet, a portable gaming device or a digital music player.\n13. A mobile device comprising: a processor; a display; storage storing computer readable programmable code, which when executed by the processor implements a method to conserve power in the mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, the storage comprising computer readable program code to: identify the mobile device is at a business location; identify a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location; and activate a display of the mobile device and display the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in a screen locked state, wherein power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\n14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the scanning code is a QR code.\n15. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the scanning code is a barcode.\n16. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the mobile device is any of the following: a mobile phone, a tablet, a portable gaming device or a digital music player.\n17. A method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper comprising: identifying the mobile device is at a business location; identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based, card-not-present, transaction at the business location; activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in a screen locked state; and conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\n18. The method of claim 17, wherein the scanning code is a QR code.\n19. The method of claim 17, wherein the scanning code is a barcode.\n20. The method of claim 17, wherein the mobile device is any of the following: a mobile phone, a tablet, a portable gaming device or a digital music player.\n21. A method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper comprising: identifying the mobile device is at a business location; identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based transaction at the business location, wherein a payment provider automatically covers transaction cost with issuer linked funds and, in a separate transaction, the payment provider charging purchaser's selected, cloud-linked account in a card-not-present transaction; activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in a screen locked state; and conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nThe present invention relates generally to the field of conserving power in a mobile device. More specifically, the present invention is related to a system, method and article of manufacture to conserve power in a mobile device by temporarily displaying a scanning code (e.g., QR code, barcode, etc.) over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper without unlocking a mobile device.\nIt is well known in the art to utilize a mobile device, such as a cellular phone, to conduct financial transactions. As an example, a mobile device can be used to pay for financial transaction at a retail establishment. One such example is discussed below to note some of the problems associated with the prior art in conducting such financial transactions.\nA retail establishment, e.g., ABC Coffee Shop, may have a software (may also be called an application or app) that a user is able to download on his/her mobile device. Once the software is downloaded and installed by the user of the mobile device, the user can then power up/open the mobile device, click on an icon representative of the software, and run the software on the mobile device, which may display, as part of the running software, a scannable barcode. Users are, therefore, able to use the software installed on the mobile device to conduct a transaction at the retail establishment, which in this example is the ABC Coffee Shop, by having someone at the retail establishment scan the barcode, which allows the user to purchase an item (or items) that he/she desires to buy.\nA problem with this scenario is that the user has to go through numerous steps in order to access the software and pay for a purchase, which starts by unlocking the phone, finding the right page having the icon representative of the desired software, clicking on the icon for the desired software, navigating within the software to the appropriate location to load up the barcode that may be used for payment, and presenting the barcode to the retail establishment. This process is time consuming and is also error-prone.\nThis problem is further compounded for users with numerous software applications that are currently installed on their mobile device, which makes it even more difficult and time consuming to locate and run the software. One mechanism provided for in various mobile devices is the ability to search for a software among the list of installed software. But, even this approach requires the user to unlock the phone, type the first few characters of the software name (if the user can remember the name) and find an appropriate match in the results for the software corresponding to the retail establishment, i.e., the ABC Coffee Shop, run the software, and navigate within the software to the appropriate portion of the software that deals with conducting a transaction. This process is even more time consuming than the scenario discussed previously and is also error-prone.\nEmbodiments of the present invention are an improvement over prior art systems and methods.\nIn one embodiment, the present invention provides a method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper comprising: (a) identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location, (c) activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and (d) conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention provides a method to conserve power in a mobile device comprising: (a) identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based, card-not-present, transaction at the business location, (c) activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and (d) conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nIn yet another embodiment, the present invention provides a method to conserve power in a mobile device comprising: (a) identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based transaction at the business location, wherein a payment provider automatically covers transaction cost with issuer linked funds and, in a separate transaction, the payment provider charging purchaser's selected, cloud-linked account in a card-not-present transaction, (c) activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and (d) conserving power in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention provides a mobile device comprising: (1) a processor, (2) a display, (3) storage storing computer readable programmable code, which when executed by the processor implements a method to conserve power in the mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, the storage comprising computer readable program code to: (a) identify the mobile device is at a business location, (b) identify a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location, and (c) activate a display of the mobile device and display the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, wherein power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device\nIn yet another embodiment, the present invention discloses an article of manufacture comprising non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer readable program code which, when executed by a computer, implements a method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, the medium comprising: (a) computer readable program code identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) computer readable program code identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a transaction at the business location, and (c) computer readable program code activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, wherein power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention discloses an article of manufacture comprising non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer readable program code which, when executed by a computer, implements a method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, the medium comprising: (a) computer readable program code identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) computer readable program code identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based, card-not-present, transaction at the business location, (c) computer readable program code activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and wherein power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device\nIn yet another embodiment, the present invention discloses an article of manufacture comprising non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer readable program code which, when executed by a computer, implements a method to conserve power in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, the medium comprising: (a) computer readable program code identifying the mobile device is at a business location, (b) computer readable program code identifying a scanning code to be displayed over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the scanning code encoding payment information for conducting a cloud-based transaction at the business location, wherein a payment provider automatically covers transaction cost with issuer linked funds and, in a separate transaction, the payment provider charging purchaser's selected, cloud-linked account in a card-not-present transaction, (c) computer readable program code activating a display of the mobile device and displaying the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state, and wherein power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code over the portion of the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, without having to unlock the mobile device.\nIn one embodiment, the scanning code is a QR code.\nIn another embodiment, the scanning code is a barcode.\nIn one embodiment, the present invention further receives an indication of a completion of the transaction based on the displayed scanning code (e.g., QR code, bar code, etc.) and, upon receiving the indication, reverts the lock screen wallpaper to a default lock screen wallpaper.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention further receives an indication of a completion of the transaction based on the displayed scanning code (e.g., QR code, bar code, etc.) and, upon receiving the indication, updates the lock screen wallpaper to another image showing a balance left on an account associated with the scanning code.\nIn yet another embodiment, the present invention further reverts the lock screen wallpaper to a default lock screen wallpaper upon leaving the business location.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention identifies the mobile device as being at the business location based on GPS data.\nIn another embodiment, the present invention identifies the mobile device as being at the business location based upon any of the following interactions with a device at the business location: (a) a near field communication (NFC) interaction (e.g., where the device at the business location being interacted with is an NFC tag, which may either be integrated into a point-of-sale terminal or is attached to a point-of-sale terminal at the business location), (b) an RFID interaction (e.g., where the device at the business location being interacted with is an RFID tag, which may either be integrated into a point-of-sale terminal or is attached to a point-of-sale terminal at the business location), or (c) a Bluetooth interaction.\nIn yet another embodiment, the scanning code encodes user defined customization data (e.g., details associated with a food or a drink) in addition to the payment information.\nNon-limiting examples of the mobile device include any of the following: a mobile phone, a tablet, a portable gaming device or a digital music player.\nFIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention to facilitate a financial transaction without unlocking a mobile device.\nFIG. 2 depicts a non-limiting example of a mobile device according to the present invention.\nFIG. 3 depicts an example of an image having the scannable code wherein the image is rendered as the lock screen wallpaper.\nFIG. 4 depicts an example of a default lock screen wallpaper.\nFIG. 5 depicts an example where the image having the scanning code is centered and partially covers the default lock screen wallpaper of FIG. 4.\nFIG. 6 depicts an example of an image showing the scanning code and an account balance.\nFIG. 7 depicts an example of a digital receipt shown as part of the lock screen background.\nWhile this invention is illustrated and described in a preferred embodiment, the invention may be produced in many different configurations. There is depicted in the drawings, and will herein be described in detail, a preferred embodiment of the invention, with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered as an exemplification of the principles of the invention and the associated functional specifications for its construction and is not intended to limit the invention to the embodiment illustrated. Those skilled in the art will envision many other possible variations within the scope of the present invention.\nFIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention which discloses method 100 to facilitate a financial transaction without unlocking a mobile device. In step 102, the mobile device is identified to be at a business location. In one embodiment, the mobile device is identified as being located at the business location based on GPS data received at the mobile device. In another embodiment, the mobile device is identified as being located at the business location based upon a near field communication (NFC) interaction with a device at the business location. For example, the device at the business location may be a NFC tag and the mobile device may interact with such a NFC tag to confirm that it is located at a particular business location. In yet another extended embodiment, the NFC tag is either integrated into a point-of-sale terminal or is attached to a point-of-sale terminal at the business location.\nIn another embodiment, the mobile device is identified as being located at the business location based on a RFID interaction with a device at the business location. For example, the device at the business location may be a RFID tag and the mobile device may interact with such a RFID tag to confirm that it is located at a particular business location. In yet another extended embodiment, the RFID tag is either integrated into a point-of-sale terminal or is attached to a point-of-sale terminal at the business location.\nIn yet another embodiment the mobile device is identified as being located at the business location based on a Bluetooth interaction with a device at the business location. For example, the device at the business location may be a point-of-sale terminal that can communicate via Bluetooth with the mobile device.\nIn step 106, a processor in the mobile device dynamically sets a lock screen wallpaper in the mobile device to an image having a scanning code (e.g., a QR code, a barcode, etc.) for use at the business location the user is at. It is important to note that the lock screen wallpaper, which is displayed when the mobile device is in a locked state to conserve power, is updated, and not the home screen wallpaper, which is generally displayed when a mobile device is not in a locked state.\nIn step 108, a display of the mobile device is activated and the image having the scannable code is rendered as the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state. Such activation may be user initiated or triggered automatically (e.g., when the mobile device is proximate to a point of sale terminal). FIG. 3 depicts an example of such an image having the scannable code wherein the image is rendered as the lock screen wallpaper.\nIn step 110, a financial transaction is facilitated at the business location based on the scannable code displayed as the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, wherein such a financial transaction is facilitated without having to unlock the mobile device. For example, the attendant at the point of sale terminal may scan the scannable code displayed as the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device and a financial transaction could be completed at the point of sale terminal for an item (or items) the user may wish to purchase at the business location.\nIn an alternative embodiment, the image having a scanning code (e.g., a QR code, a barcode, etc.) may be rendered in front of a default lock screen wallpaper (where it visually covers the entirety of the default lock screen wallpaper and looks like FIG. 3) or in front of a portion of the default lock screen wallpaper (see FIG. 4 for an example of a default lock screen wallpaper, and FIG. 5 for an example where the image having the scanning code is centered and partially covers the default lock screen wallpaper), where the default lock screen wallpaper is either a custom image previously set by the user of the mobile device or is the system default of the mobile device (the system default image for the lock screen wallpaper when the user has not previously set the lock screen wallpaper to a custom image). The point of sale terminal is able to scan the scannable code to complete a purchase at the business location.\nIn one embodiment, the method further comprises reverting the lock screen wallpaper to a default lock screen wallpaper (i.e., a lock screen wallpaper previously set by a user) upon either a successful completion of the financial transaction or upon the user leaving the premises of the business location.\nIn one embodiment, the financial transaction is associated with a financial account and the method further comprises updating the lock screen wallpaper to another image showing a balance left on the financial account after successful completion of the financial transaction. After displaying the image showing the balance as the lock screen wallpaper, the mobile device may revert to a default lock screen wallpaper (i.e., a lock screen wallpaper previously set by a user) upon either the expiration of a pre-determined time (e.g., a few seconds after the display of the image showing the balance) or upon the user leaving the premises of the business location.\nIn one embodiment, the image having a scanning code for use at the business additionally displays a balance associated with a financial account (e.g., an account associated with a credit card account, a gift card, a credit account associated with the business, etc.) which is used during the financial transaction. Such an example is shown in FIG. 6 which depicts the scanning code and the balance as part of the lock screen image.\nIn one embodiment, after successful completion of the financial transaction, the lock screen wallpaper is updated to display a digital receipt as new lock screen wallpaper. Such an example is shown in FIG. 7. The digital receipt image may be received from a device at the business location, like a point of sale terminal or may be received over a network such as the Internet or via the cellular network. After displaying the image showing the digital receipt as the lock screen wallpaper, the mobile device may revert to a default lock screen wallpaper (i.e., a lock screen wallpaper previously set by a user) upon either the expiration of another pre-determined time (e.g., a few seconds after the display of the image showing the digital receipt) or upon the user leaving the premises of the business location.\nIn one embodiment, the scannable code comprises user-defined customization data related to the financial transaction in addition to information required to perform the financial transaction. For example, the user may have previously stored data identifying order details associated with a drink (e.g., type of drink--coffee/espresso/cappuccino, syrup additives, number of pumps of syrup additives, type of milk to be used to make drink, etc.) or order details associated with a food item (type of toppings on a pizza, requested condiments, etc.) and this previously stored information regarding the order details may be encoded into the scannable code (at either the request of the user or is automatically identified via a profile storing what was previously ordered at the business location and is presented to the user for verification prior to being encoded as the scannable code), where the point of sale terminal may decode this information and the attendant at the point of sale terminal can review the order details. Such order details that may be encoded along with information required to perform a financial transaction may be useful in getting an order correct as it is directly from the user and is not based on the attendant at the point of sale terminal inputting such data, which by definition is error prone.\nIn one embodiment, the financial transaction is a cloud-based transaction, wherein a payment provider automatically covers the cost of a purchase with issuer linked funds and, in a separate transaction, the payment provider charging the purchaser's selected, cloud-linked account in a card-not-present environment to recoup its losses on the first transaction.\nIn one embodiment, the image having a scanning code for use at the business location is generated by a software running on the mobile device, wherein the software is associated with the business location.\nFIG. 2 depicts a non-limiting example of a mobile device 200 according to the present invention. While select components (processor 202 memory 204, display 206, speaker 208, microphone 210, camera 212, wireless electronics 214 required for wireless communication, GPS unit 216) are shown as being part of the mobile device 200, it should be noted that these components are provided as a simplistic case scenario and other known components (such as, but not limited to, a Bluetooth module, a NFC module, a RFID module), may be present within the mobile device 200. Mobile device 200 comprises: a processor 202; a display 206 (e.g. a touch screen display); and memory/storage 204 storing computer readable programmable code, which when executed by the processor implements a method to facilitate a financial transaction without unlocking a mobile device, the memory/storage 204 comprising computer readable program code to: identify the mobile device 200 is at a business location (using for example, GPS 216); dynamically set lock screen wallpaper in the mobile device 200 to an image having a scanning code for use at the business location; activate the display 206 of the mobile device 200 and render the image having a scannable code as the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display 206 of the mobile device 200 which remains in the screen locked state; and facilitate a financial transaction at the business location based on the scannable code displayed as the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device 200, the financial transaction facilitated without having to unlock the mobile device 200. It should be noted that the mobile device may include any of the following: a mobile phone, a tablet, a portable gaming device or a digital music player.\nAdditionally, the present invention provides for an article of manufacture comprising computer readable program code contained within implementing one or more modules to facilitate a financial transaction without unlocking a mobile device. Furthermore, the present invention includes a computer program code-based product, which is a storage medium having program code stored therein which can be used to instruct a computer/processor to perform any of the methods associated with the present invention. The computer storage medium includes any of, but is not limited to, the following: CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic tape, optical disc, hard drive, floppy disk, to ferroelectric memory, flash memory, ferromagnetic memory, optical storage, charge coupled devices, magnetic or optical cards, smart cards, EEPROM, EPROM, RAM, ROM, DRAM, SRAM, SDRAM, or any other appropriate static or dynamic memory or data storage devices.\nThe present invention also provides for an article of manufacture having non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code executable by a processor to implement a method to facilitate a financial transaction without unlocking a mobile device, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising: computer readable program code identifying the mobile device is at a business location; computer readable program code dynamically setting lock screen wallpaper in the mobile device to an image having a scanning code (e.g., a QR code, a barcode, etc.) for use at the business location; computer readable program code activating a display of the mobile device and rendering the image having a scannable code as the lock screen wallpaper on the activated display of the mobile device which remains in the screen locked state; and computer readable program code facilitating a financial transaction at the business location based on the scannable code displayed as the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, the financial transaction facilitated without having to unlock the mobile device.\nA system, method and article of manufacture has been shown in the above embodiments for the effective implementation of a system, method and article of manufacture to conserve power in a mobile device by temporarily displaying a scanning code over a portion of a lock screen wallpaper without unlocking a mobile device. While various preferred embodiments have been shown and described, it will be understood that there is no intent to limit the invention by such disclosure, but rather, it is intended to cover all modifications falling within the spirit and scope of the invention, as defined in the appended claims. For example, the present invention should not be limited by software/program, computing environment, mobile environment, specific computing hardware, or specific mobile hardware.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 41548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://patersonalliance.org/john-p-holland-charter-school", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRNDNQ4COXXD2MPMTEDNSR5K6T4EKIOZ", "length": 67, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "patersonalliance.org", "title": "John P. 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Holland Charter School 0 5 0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 139.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peacefmonline.com/pages/sports/news/201710/331879.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EFUVKRDNAEJF5H7XIAZEWZ6NNWTT222O", "length": 3893, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "peacefmonline.com", "title": "Let\u2019s All Speak Up Against Corruption In Football | General Sports | Peacefmonline.com", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s All Speak Up Against Corruption In Football\nThis week, the President of Elmina Sharks has openly complained about the lack of fair play in the Ghana Premier League, especially in situations where referees have decided the results of matches instead of players of opposing sides, or where club administrators connive to cheat.\nDr Paa Kwesi Nduom\u2019s club lost 1-2 to Aduana Stars at Dormaa-Ahenkro last Sunday and as a result handed Aduana the league title. But beyond protests by Sharks over perceived injustice during the match, Dr Nduom followed it up by venting his disappointment about the lack of fair play in the competition and the need for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Premier League Board (PLB) to sit up to the clear danger presently facing the sport.\nHe said it was about time the GFA took bold steps to promote exciting football whose outcome was totally dependent on the players only, else it could compromise the essence of competition, negatively affect the image of the league and further drive potential sponsors away.\nDr Nduom is not alone in his criticism of the lack of a level playing field in the league with referees often in the line of fire for alleged acts of corruption and blatant bias. Many other club officials have made similar claims in the past but there has not been a well-coordinated action by the FA and other organs of the state to weed out the bad lots in Ghana football and destroy the image of the sport once and for all.\nThis season alone, the Referees Committee of the FA and the FA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee have handed various sanctions against referees for bias officiating but have not been able to nail any of them for alleged bribery because of the absence of concrete evidence by complainants.\nGranted that bribery and other forms of corruption are hard to prove, with the burden of proof on the complainant, the football regulatory body can send strong and clear signals that it would not tolerate any act that would bring the game into disrepute, not least if it is a crime against the state such as bribery.\nIt is an open secret that football administrators have often bribed their way through domestic and international competitions, with, the President of Tema Youth and Deputy Chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee, Wilfred Osei (Palmer) admitting reluctantly on radio that match officials had previously been compromised to favour the national team. In certain jurisdictions, the Tema Youth boss would have been invited not only by the state security agencies to clarify his comment or be subject to investigations by the football regulatory body. Not in Ghana, where people who operate within the corridors of power are themselves neck-deep in such practices which bring the game into disrepute.\nHowever, we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to this canker which has undermined fair play and killed the spirit of the game. Ghanaian football legend Anthony Yeboah has often said that he was forced out of football administration as a result of his refusal to yield to the demands of corrupt referees who eventually ganged up against his club in the second tier league.\nIt is about time the media took the issue more seriously and influential people such as Dr Nduom, Yeboah and others must speak out loudly against corruption of all forms in our game to force the GFA and other regulatory bodies to sit up and deal with the issue head-on.\nThis weekend, the curtain will be drawn on the Premier League season and the many clubs involved in a relegation dogfight will be engaged in all manner of underhand dealings in a desperate bid to escape relegation, but as has been the case in the past, the football regulatory bodies look on powerlessly or even turn a blind eye to such reports instead of engaging the investigative bodies of the state to get to the bottom of the issue and deal decisively with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pearsecom.co.uk/Marion/017marionkidnapped.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DJRRSJECM6LIQLX67ONSQDC2AGV7UNX6", "length": 18282, "nlines": 134, "source_domain": "pearsecom.co.uk", "title": "Marion Kidnapped", "raw_content": "Six months! Can it really be that six months had gone by? Marion sighed with pleasure as she packed her books away after the last tutorial before the February semester break. She knew Kristoph would be waiting at the gate as he always was, and they had a holiday in the sun planned. Not this sun, of course. What was the name of the planet again? Kallo V\u2019Asel. It had TWO suns, in fact. The sunsets were amazing, Kristoph told her. And from every part of the planet, as well as a viewing platform above it, there was a remarkable aurora that occurred every night after sunset. As much as she liked Liverpool, and loved the cosy home she shared with Kristoph, Kallo sounded like a wonderful alternative to what the weather forecasters were predicting as wet and windy.\nShe was smiling happily as she walked through the university, waving to friends and teachers who wished her a good break. She didn\u2019t even notice the dark haired man who watched her with more than passing interest. She didn\u2019t think anything of him at all until he grabbed her arm and pulled her through a door marked \u2018library supplies\u2019.\nShe barely registered the fact that this building was nowhere near the library before she realised this was not a supply cupboard. A moment later, she lost consciousness.\nShe didn\u2019t feel as if she had been out of it for long. Maybe a few minutes. But it was long enough for her to be tied, hand and foot, and anchored by a chain set into the wall. She pulled herself up into a sitting position and looked around.\nIt was a TARDIS.\nIt looked different to Kristoph\u2019s TARDIS. This one had red and black lacquered walls with what looked like Chinese symbols. The console was bigger, with ceramic panels around the controls.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t seem surprised by your surroundings,\u201d the man said as he operated something on his console. \u201cBut then you wouldn\u2019t, would you? You have been in a TARDIS before.\u201d\n\u201cAnyone who has travelled in a TARDIS picks up a certain resonance. It is the reason why you can understand languages. And a very well attuned mind can practically SCENT a time traveller.\u201d\nHe turned from the console and moved faster than she thought anyone could move. He grabbed her face roughly and forced her to look at him.\n\u201cWhat does The Executioner want with you? Where do you fit into his efforts to find me?\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re the traitor he was sent to Earth to find, to capture\u2026\u201d\n\u201cTo KILL,\u201d he snarled. \u201cThere are no half measures with the Celestial Intervention Agency. They kill their quarry. Ordinary criminals may be sentenced to Shada and the cryogenic prison or, if they are lucky, a quick death in the vaporisation chamber. But for Gallifrey\u2019s political dissidents there is only one outcome. The Executioner is also my judge and jury and he sentenced me long ago. He only awaits the chance to carry it out.\u201d\n\u201cWell, if that\u2019s true, you must deserve it,\u201d she replied, wondering where she summoned the courage. \u201cYou must have done something very terrible. He called you the TRAITOR. You\u2026 you must have done something bad to your world. Kristoph is a good man. If he wants to kill you then you must deserve it.\u201d\n\u201cKristoph?\u201d he laughed. \u201cDid he not teach you to say his name properly?\u201d\n\u201cYes, he did. But he is Kristoph to me. I\u2026\u201d\n\u201cYou are in love with him!\u201d He laughed coldly. \u201cThe Executioner takes a woman and she is in love with him!\u201d\n\u201cHe is in love with me, and when he finds out that you have kidnapped me\u2026\u201d\nWhat? She wondered. What WOULD Kristoph do? Would he come for her? HOW could he do that? Could he follow this TARDIS and reach her?\nWas she lost in time and space with a stranger who hated Kristoph and had no reason to be kind to her?\n\u201cOh, he WILL come. I know he will. And when he does I will have him. I have known for a long time that he was close. I have seen the pattern of his TARDIS materialising and dematerialising within a few miles of me. I knew he was closing in.\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re wrong. Kristoph has given up the hunt for you. He retired from the CIA. He is working as a teacher in Liverpool. We are\u2026 We are engaged.\u201d\n\u201cSo I see!\u201d He grabbed her hand and looked at the ring she wore. \u201cGallifreyan.\u201d\n\u201cYou can tell?\u201d\n\u201cI feel it. The resonance\u2026 the gold, the stone, both came from the soil of my homeland. I feel it like an ache in my hearts. My world. You don\u2019t know what it is to be an exile, to never even dream of setting foot on my native soil again.\u201d\n\u201cIt was your own fault,\u201d she answered him. \u201cYou became a\u2026\u201d What was the word Kristoph used?\u201cA Renegade.\u201d\nThe man hit her, hard. She reeled back from the blow.\n\u201cNever\u2026 NEVER use that word in my presence. You don\u2019t know\u2026 you have no idea what it means.\u201d\n\u201cI know that Kristoph is going to punish you,\u201d she answered when her head cleared enough to let her speak.\nKristoph had waited by the gate until it was obvious something was wrong. Then he passed through the gate and found the English department where Marion should have been. The classrooms were all empty. It being the end of semester there weren\u2019t even any evening classes later.\nEven so, he found some of the staff still in their rooms. He asked several if they had seen Marion.\n\u201cNot since the end of the tutorial,\u201d her Modernism tutor told him. \u201cIs there something wrong?\u201d\n\u201cYes,\u201d Kristoph said. \u201cShe is missing.\u201d\n\u201cMissing?\u201d the tutor looked up at him. \u201cA little dramatic, surely? Perhaps she went to the library or the refectory\u2026 some of the students were planning to go to the pub\u2026\u201d\nKristoph made an impatient noise and turned away. He knew there was no point in looking in the library or the refectory. She certainly didn\u2019t go to the pub.\nSomething had happened to her.\nHe stopped. There was something\u2026.\nHe looked at the blank wall behind which he assumed was one of the lecture theatres. Something about that wall\u2026\nHe could feel the resonances. A TARDIS had been here.\nHe ran. He felt as if he couldn\u2019t run faster as he ran through the corridor and through the college grounds. When he reached his TARDIS he didn\u2019t even bother to look to see if anyone was watching. He yanked the door of the telephone box open and ran to the console.\nYes, he could detect the resonance. But it was just a residual, an echo of the presence. He had no way of tracing it.\nHe had lost her.\nHis hearts thudded. Grief overwhelmed him. He had lost her.\n\u201cMarion!\u201d he screamed.\n\u201cWhat do you want with me?\u201d Marion asked. \u201cWhy did you kidnap me?\u201d\n\u201cBecause HE will come looking for you. And when he does, I can kill him.\u201d\n\u201cHow can he look for me? We\u2019re not even on Earth any more. You dematerialised the TARDIS. We could be anywhere. You\u2019ve taken me away from Earth, from Kristoph\u2026\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re still on Earth. Just not in your time and we\u2019re certainly not in Liverpool.\u201d\n\u201cIf you must know, we are in China, in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, approximately 2000 BC by the system of dates you would be familiar with.\u201d\n\u201cBecause I like China. I like the culture. It reminds me of Gallifreyan society in many ways.\u201d\n\u201cTake me back. Take me back now, before he knows I\u2019m missing, and I won\u2019t say anything. I told you, Kristoph isn\u2019t even interested in finding you any more. He RETIRED.\u201d\n\u201cWhy would he do that? He is the best agent the CIA ever had. He is relentless in his pursuit of his prey. He kills in an eyeblink. But not this time. I will not meekly wait to be assassinated. I will kill him first.\u201d\n\u201cNo!\u201d Marion cried. \u201cNo, you can\u2019t. Why\u2026 why do you hate him so much?\u201d\n\u201cHate him?\u201d he laughed. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing. That\u2019s the reason the CIA sent HIM of all people. I don\u2019t hate him. He was my best friend since we were children. We were like brothers. But I will kill him to preserve my own life.\u201d\n\u201cIf you were so close, why did HE come to\u2026 to get you?\u201d\n\u201cBecause our friendship means less to him than his honour with the High Council.\u201d\n\u201cI think you might be wrong about that. And\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2026 Maybe\u2026 Look\u2026 if you mean to keep me here until he comes\u2026 at least\u2026 tell me what it\u2019s all about.\u201d\n\u201cYou want to hear stories of brotherhood and friendship among men who had to do the dirty work that the great Time Lords would not soil their robes with?\u201d\n\u201cYes,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat else do we have to do?\u201d\nHe laughed. And strangely, Marion thought, it wasn\u2019t a cruel laugh. It was a pained one, if anything, as if the memories she had probed were difficult for him.\n\u201cCome on,\u201d he said, and he unfastened the chain and lifted her to her feet.\nKristoph materialised his TARDIS on the exact spot that the Traitor\u2019s TARDIS had been. He hoped it would pick up a more complete resonance.\nHe was disappointed. It gave him no more information than before. A TARDIS had been there. It had gone. He had no idea where or when.\nThe Traitor could be anywhere in time and space and Marion was with him.\nThere ought to be a way to identify TARDISes, he thought grimly. Even here on Earth, in 1993, they were starting to develop ways of tracking vehicles. At this stage it was confined to military uses, but in another ten years it would be fitted in ordinary cars. Why his own people had never managed to work out some way to locate individual TARDISes he didn\u2019t know. Goodness knows it would make HIS job easier.\nNot his job. He wasn\u2019t The Executioner now. He was a teacher.\nIf The Traitor had Marion, then he would have to BE The Executioner again.\n\u201cI could go faster if you freed my legs,\u201d Marion said as she stumbled through the TARDIS corridor. \u201cIn fact, what is the point in keeping me tied up? Where could I go? Even if I got out of the TARDIS I\u2019m in ancient China according to you.\u201d\n\u201cGood point,\u201d he said and he cut her bonds with a knife. \u201cWalk this way.\u201d\nHe brought her to a room that was again decorated in the Chinese style. There was a low table made of some dark wood, lacquered to a beautiful shine. Around it were low cushioned seats and there was a Chinese tea set on it, complete with oil burner with a kettle boiling on it.\n\u201cSit down,\u201d he said to her.\n\u201cWhat? We\u2019re going to take tea?\u201d\n\u201cYes,\u201d he answered. \u201cI bear you no ill will. You are a means to an end. Sit and drink tea and I will explain to you why we both come to this pass.\u201d\n\u201cWhat is your name?\u201d she asked. It was strange, but she didn\u2019t really think he was a naturally cruel man. He had hurt her, but not badly. She didn\u2019t even feel particularly scared of him. Not for herself. She was scared for Kristoph. She was scared for HIM, because one of them was going to kill the other and both scenarios worried her.\n\u201cMy name would be unpronounceable to you. I was known as Lee to my comrades in he CIA.\u201d\n\u201cLee. Ok. That sounds normal.\u201d\n\u201cYou mean it sounds like an Earth name.\u201d\n\u201cYes, I suppose I do. Sounds kind of Chinese, too. Goes with your obsession.\u201d\n\u201cAnd you are Chr\u00edst\u00f5 Mian\u2019s lover? Finally he lives up to his suffix.\u201d\n\u201cThe heir of an Oldblood House receives the name of his father at birth, but with a new suffix to it. The name is chosen based on the reading of his timeline and reflecting some characteristic or talent he will have in his future.\u201d\n\u201cSo the one who fought dragons\u2026 I did wonder about that.\u201d\n\u201cAnd his father was called Delun because he was destined to become our greatest astronomer.\u201d\n\u201cSo what does Mian mean?\u201d she asked as she watched him prepare tea in the formal Chinese way and pass her a cup in such a polite, precise way, as if they really WERE just enjoying a social occasion.\n\u201cDesire,\u201d he answered. \u201cWe never understood that. Chr\u00edst\u00f5 Mian subsumed all of his physical desires. As a soldier and as an assassin he was only ever focussed on the job.\u201d\n\u201cWell, I suppose he must have changed. Because he is the most gentle, sweet, loving man I have ever known. He is\u2026\u201d\n\u201cHave you considered he is just USING you? After all, that is the point of an undercover agent. You could be his perfect cover.\u201d\n\u201cNo,\u201d she answered. \u201cHe is NOT using me. His love for me is real.\u201d\n\u201cIf you say so,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you were asking, were you not, about our past.\u201d He sipped from his own tea. Marion wondered what would happen if she threw the hot liquid over him.\n\u201cIt would be painful for a few seconds and it would be mildly irritating. It would also be bad manners to upset a tea ceremony in such a way,\u201d he said.\nShe remembered that Time Lords could read minds.\n\u201cYes, we can. We don\u2019t often. It is considered rude.\u201d\n\u201cKidnapping people is pretty rude,\u201d she countered.\n\u201cA means to an end. Chr\u00edst\u00f5 Mian would understand that, curiously enough. He has done much worse in the name of Gallifreyan security.\u201d\n\u201cHe has kidnapped people?\u201d\n\u201cHe has done worse. You don\u2019t want, or need to know what agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency have to do in the course of our work.\u201d\n\u201cProbably not. I understand that he gave it up. He\u2019d had enough.\u201d\n\u201cYes, I know.\u201d Lee sighed. Marion looked at him. \u201cI know that.\u201d\n\u201cThe Executioner killed the wrong man. He was filled with remorse for his actions. He vowed he would never take another life and resigned from the Agency. But he made it clear that he placed the ultimate blame on the one who had given him the information implicating the innocent man.\u201d\n\u201cAnd who was that?\u201d\n\u201cIt was me. It was my mistake that led to that innocent death. We joined the Agency together, Chr\u00edst\u00f5 Mian and I. We both rose through the ranks, I more than he. I was his supervisor. It WAS my responsibility to ensure he had the right information to work from. I WAS guilty of negligence. But I was not alone in that.\u201d He paused. \u201cThe information came from a member of the High Council. I killed him.\u201d\n\u201cNo, not just like that. The man had deliberately implicated another man in a serious breach of security. He did it because he wanted the man killed in order to raise a relative of his own into the very important post the dead man held. And in doing so, he not only allowed a good, innocent man to be killed, but nearly let the REAL traitor escape.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t tell me, you killed him, too?\u201d\n\u201cI did. And then I took my TARDIS and left Gallifrey for good. I was not authorised to assassinate the High Councillor. I acted out of anger. A crime of passion. Yes, a crime. There was no immunity for me as an Agent. I was deemed a criminal. My only chance was to flee.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s the truth? That is what you did?\u201d\n\u201cAnd Kristoph knows that? Knows that you killed the one responsible for\u2026 for the mistake HE made?\u201d\n\u201cAnd still he is prepared to kill you for being\u2026\u201d She hesitated to say the word that had made him angry before.\n\u201cYes, but I do not blame him for that. He remained loyal to Gallifrey. I would be loyal to Gallifrey if I could. But Gallifrey has rejected me. I was declared Renegade. My name was expunged. Even my family cannot acknowledge me. I can never return there. All I can do is evade the Agents sent after me. I have done so for nearly two hundred years, but now, he closes in on me.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand. He told me he was brought out of retirement. He had been working as a diplomat. But he said they recalled him and he accepted this one last assignment. But why would he do that if you were friends?\u201d\n\u201cYou can ask him, before I kill him,\u201d Lee answered her.\n\u201cI\u2026\u201d She looked at him. Could he tell what she was thinking now?\n\u201cYes, I can. You\u2019re feeling disgusted with yourself because for a little while there, when I was talking, you forgot I am the mortal enemy of your lover. You felt sympathy for me and didn\u2019t want him to kill me.\u201d\n\u201cI DON\u2019T want him to kill you. I don\u2019t want him to be a killer again. He wouldn\u2019t have had to if you hadn\u2019t kidnapped me. I don\u2019t want him to kill you, and\u2026 and please\u2026 Don\u2019t kill him. I know you\u2019re not a murderer. You don\u2019t have to be one, anyway.\u201d\nShe put down the tea cup, her hands trembling as the reality of her situation hit her.\n\u201cIf you kill him\u2026 what happens to me? I\u2019m\u2026 I\u2019m still here with you in ancient China.\u201d\n\u201cWhat do you think will happen to you? Should I sell you as a concubine to the local mandarin? Or should I keep you for myself? You\u2019ve known one Time Lord\u2019s bed. Would another be any different?\u201d\n\u201cHaven\u2019t what?\u201d\n\u201cI haven\u2019t been in his bed. Not the way you mean, anyway. We\u2019re engaged, but he said that Gallifreyans don\u2019t\u2026 before marriage.\u201d\n\u201cAh. Gallifreyan honour even in such matters. What if I took you to MY bed first, then? For amusement while we wait for him to arrive?\u201d\n\u201cPlease don\u2019t,\u201d she begged. \u201cI would rather die than let anyone but him touch me. I love him.\u201d\n\u201cSo you do, it seems. Relax. I am a Gallifreyan, too. I know about honour. I was just trying to frighten you. It is poor sport though.\u201d\nMarion was about to say something in reply, but she was distracted by a noise. She reached slowly into her pocket, watching Lee as he watched her with hawk like eyes.\nShe pulled out the mobile phone that Kristoph had given her. It was the smallest phone she had ever seen. He bought it for her in the future, assuring her that such technology was only ten or fifteen years away. And he had altered it inside so that the battery never went flat and there was no bill, and it worked no matter where or when she was.\nIt was working now. It was set to vibrate mode and it had begun to vibrate.\n\u201cIt\u2019s him, isn\u2019t it?\u201d Lee said.\n\u201cYes,\u201d she replied looking at the display. Lee held out his hand. She had no choice but to give it to him.\n\u201cYour pretty little Earth Child is perfectly well,\u201d he said in a cold voice. \u201cWhether she stays well is up to you. Your life for hers. I know you\u2019ll be in your TARDIS, tracing the call. That saves me having to give you the co-ordinate. We\u2019ll be waiting.\u201d\nHe listened to Kristoph\u2019s reply and smiled. He passed the phone to Marion.\n\u201cHe wants to hear your voice. Speak to him.\u201d\n\u201cKristoph,\u201d Marion whispered in a voice suddenly hoarse and frightened. \u201cOh, Kristoph, don\u2019t. The Pazzione Gallifreya is a legend. I would never expect you to give up your life for me. Don\u2019t come here. He wants to kill you. He WILL kill you if you try to rescue me. I know he will.\u201d\nShe listened as Kristoph spoke very gently to her, asking her if she was all right.\n\u201cI\u2019m not hurt,\u201d she said. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t hurt me. I\u2019m not scared for me. I am scared for you. Please don\u2019t walk into his trap.\u201d\n\u201cMarion,\u201d he said in response. \u201cI love you. And I am coming for you.\u201d\nThe line cut off. She put the phone back in her pocket and looked at Lee.\n\u201cHe\u2019s coming, isn\u2019t he?\u201d he said. I knew he would. So much for retired. The Executioner will have his day. Except I will be ready for him.\nMarion sobbed quietly and prayed she would hear Kristoph\u2019s voice again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 19258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pelvi-care.co.uk/consultants/richard-parkinson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:08Z", "digest": "sha1:E43ZPZGVT5747RPEY4KHZWCIM6ZZIX67", "length": 1117, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pelvi-care.co.uk", "title": "Pelvicare", "raw_content": "Mr Richard Parkinson\nMr Richard Parkinson qualified from Nottingham University Medical School in 1995. After completing his basic surgical training, he returned to Nottingham and spent three years doing a PhD followed by six years of higher surgical training in urology.\nAt the end of his training he undertook a subspecialty fellowship in female urology, reconstructive surgery and vaginal surgery before returning to Nottingham as a consultant urologist specialising in incontinence, vaginal prolapse and female urology.\nAs the principal incontinence specialist, Mr Parkinson treats all urology patients requiring surgical interventions for urinary incontinence in Nottingham. These treatments include Botox bladder injections, vaginal tape operations and other incontinence procedures.\nHe is a member of the British Society of UroGynaecology (BSUG) and the British Association of Urological Surgeons Section of Female and Reconstructive Urology (BSFRU). All his operations and outcomes are audited by BSUG to ensure the highest standards are maintained.\nMr Parkinson is married with three children.\nMon pm / Wed am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pennyborn.com/testamentarytrusts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6JP6OAUI6KU5YJOKVW2SP7M3YWPTGPOF", "length": 7911, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "pennyborn.com", "title": "Testamentary Trusts", "raw_content": "A testamentary trust is a type of trust created by a person's last will and testament or another disposition that takes effect upon the death of the settlor, also sometimes referred to as the grantor or trustor. Unlike an inter vivos trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor, a testamentary trust does not take effect until after the settlor has died. An example of an inter vivos trust commonly used in estate planning is a living trust.\nHow Does a Testamentary Trust Work?\nHow a testamentary trust will operate varies depending on many factors, including the provisions set forth in the will and trust, the amount of property involved, the state laws that govern the estate and trust, the type of heirs and beneficiaries, etc. Although every testamentary trust is unique, the following is a basic overview of how testamentary trusts are often structured:\n1. The testator names a trustee and a successor trustee of the trust. In many wills, the testator names the same person as executor and trustee.\n2. The provisions of the trust direct the trustee to make payments to beneficiaries in installments, increments, a lump sum or some other manner.\n3. If there is a concern about a beneficiary's ability to manage financial matters or a desire to provide protection from creditors, a spendthrift trust provision may be included in the document.\n4. A contingent heir or beneficiary may be named to inherit any balance remaining in the trust if the primary beneficiary dies before the trust is closed.\n5. The trust will terminate or end after a period of time or date specified in the document.\nIssues Related to Testamentary Trusts\nWhen reviewing legal issues involving testamentary trusts, it is important to be aware of related estate planning issues that may need to be addressed, either for tax purposes, state law requirements or other goals associated with the estate plan.\nThe following issues may also need to be considered when drafting a testamentary trust:\n1. Life Insurance Trusts. Along with its benefits, life insurance presents many complex tax issues. In addition, when making an estate plan, it is important to be aware of the impact of naming different types of beneficiaries on a life insurance policy. Before making any type of trust or finalizing life insurance beneficiary designations, consult an attorney.\n2. Medicaid Planning. If an heir or beneficiary may need to qualify for Medicaid or other government benefits, the impact of an inheritance on eligibility for benefits should be considered when drafting a will or trust.\n3. Children. If minor children may inherit from the estate, a testamentary trust may be structured to appoint a trustee to manage the child's inheritance until the child attains a specified age. See Childrens Trusts.\n4. Spouses and Partners. If you are leaving all or part of your estate to a spouse or partner, consult a CPA or other tax professional about estate planning strategies to minimize the tax burden. Also, if you want to use a testamentary trust to provide your spouse with a lifetime income, but have the principal balance of your estate pass to your children or other heirs, consult an estate planning attorney about the best way to structure this arrangement.\nAdvantages of Testamentary Trusts\nDepending on your estate planning objectives, there are several reasons you may decide to add a testamentary trust to your will. If you have minor children, a testamentary trust would allow you to exercise some control over the timing and amount of distributions to your children or other heirs. A testamentary trust also allows you to select a trustee to manage estate assets on behalf of beneficiaries. Avoiding complications in a beneficiary's eligibility for Medicaid or other government benefits is another reason a testamentary trust may be used instead of a lump sum inheritance.\nIf you are leaving an inheritance to your spouse, children, grandchildren or other beneficiaries for whom taxes may be a concern, discuss the benefits of a testamentary trust with an estate planning lawyer. One of the most common reasons for using a testamentary trust instead of other types of trusts is to obtain a more favorable tax outcome when the estate is distributed.\nAnother advantage of testamentary trusts is the person making the trust does not have to administer the trust or serve as the initial trustee. Because a testamentary trust is not established until the death of the testator, there is no need to transfer title to property to the trustee during the life of the settlor, which is a step that is required when you make a living trust. Many people like the idea of having a trust, but have difficulty complying with the requirement to transfer title to the trust and hold title correctly as they buy and sell assets from time to time. If you are interested in making a trust but want to defer the responsibilities of trust administration until after you pass, ask your attorney whether this type of trust should be used in your estate plan.\nDisadvantages of Testamentary Trusts\nOne disadvantage of using a testamentary trust in your estate plan is increased legal fees and expenses. Due to the involvement of the probate court in testamentary trusts, it may cost more to settle the estate than if you set up a different type of estate planning trust.\nIf you are interested in having your estate administered without any oversight from the courts, and maintaining privacy regarding your finances and any property you pass on to your heirs, you may want to explore other types of trusts, including a living trust. To compare testamentary trusts with living trusts, go to benefits of living trusts.\nIf you have a simple estate, plan to leave everything to one adult beneficiary in a lump sum, and there are no limitations you want to place on estate distributions, you may determine you do not want the added complexity of a testamentary trust. Although a testamentary trust offers advantages that help some individuals achieve their estate planning goals, in other estates a testamentary trust is not necessary and could result in additional expenses, time delays, etc.\nThere may be other advantages and disadvantages of testamentary trusts not outlined above. Consult a lawyer familiar with your unique circumstances for advice on which type of trust is best suited to your needs. See finding an attorney.\nHow to Make a Testamentary Trust\nIf you are interested in using a testamentary trust in your estate plan, the first step is to get more information. There are many different types of estate planning trusts. For a comparison, see Other Types of Trusts. You may find another form of trust that is a better alternative for your specific objectives. Consult an estate planning lawyer for advice on the pros and cons of using a testamentary trust before making a final decision.\nAfter you have compared different options for passing your property through a trust, the next step is preparing your estate planning documents, including a will. Go to types of wills for more details. To add a testamentary trust to your estate plan, you will need a lawyer to draft the necessary documents. A testamentary trust is created by transferring property to a trustee by will or other disposition effective upon the death of the settlor of the trust.\nDo not attempt to write your own will or testamentary trust. Common drafting mistakes and errors in execution often result in substantial legal costs which can consume an entire estate. Ask a qualified attorney to prepare your estate plan and arrange the proper execution of all documents in accordance with applicable state law requirements.\nNote: If you have questions about the terms used in this article, such as the term settlor, also sometimes referred to as grantor or trustor, go to our Glossary of Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Terms for an introduction to estate planning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 12632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pension-antoni.cz/pokoje/?language=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:R464LTDWQPWI2TXNMDFUKQBVDUJNN4I7", "length": 576, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "pension-antoni.cz", "title": "Pokoje | Pension Antoni", "raw_content": "The Antoni guesthouse is located in the historical building of the town of \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov. The rooms are decorated by retro items and decorations, which, along with the paintings, contribute to the unique character of the guesthouse. In the sensitively reconstructed interior, original vaults and alcoves have been preserved, creating the comfortable atmosphere of the whole building.\nWe offer accommodation in stylish two-bed rooms, three-bed rooms and one barrier-free room. Each room has its own sanitary facility, TV with satellite, and wireless connection to the Internet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://perspectives.acct.org/stories/the-complexity-behind-the-aapi-inclusion-who-counts-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2OAZIXL4ALFUSW7OJUT6F2FVRA57OQBL", "length": 9776, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "perspectives.acct.org", "title": "The Complexity Behind the AAPI Inclusion: Who Counts? \u2022 ACCT \u2022 Perspectives", "raw_content": "The Complexity Behind the AAPI Inclusion: Who Counts?\nDisaggregating data can help community colleges move beyond the \u201cmodel minority\u201d myth and better serve all Asian American and Pacific Islanders.\nPam Y. Eddinger\nIn the summer of 2015, the White House hosted the historic first all-day Summit for the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), welcoming from across the country some 2,000 opinion leaders in the areas of health, education, civil rights, immigration, and economic and community development. WHAAPI Executive Director Kiran Ahuja opened a packed day of sessions, illuminated by panels and participants from the highest level of national leadership from Congress and the President\u2019s Cabinet, and punctuated by cultural celebrations in the performing arts. White House summits are coveted venues that give high visibility to emerging, urgent national issues. We only have to look to the most recent White House convenings on college opportunity and community colleges, and how these dialogues informed the President\u2019s proposal of free community college education in America\u2019s Promise.\nGrowth and Complexities\nSo what is the impetus behind the scale and scope of this historic convening on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI)? Why now? The answer is at once direct and complex. The simple answer points to the sheer growth in numbers. AAPIs represent the fastest expanding racial group, growing at four times the rate of the total U.S. population. AAPIs will exceed 47 million by 2060.\nThe complexity and challenges behind this growth pattern, however, is often obscured by the perception of AAPIs as a monolithic and homogenized group. The high-achieving Asian students in our schools and colleges, the vast number of accomplished Asians in the STEM fields, the self-sufficient and upwardly mobile Asian professionals \u2014 these are the AAPI images uppermost in the American public\u2019s consciousness. In this stereotypical world, AAPIs are rarely bedeviled by poverty, lack of academic preparation, unemployment, and inadequate health care. The \u201cmodel minority\u201d myth continues to taint public understanding, and it poses a barrier to public policies and programs that must attend the anticipated population growth.\nAs we examine the disaggregated population data in the iCount report, published by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) and WHIAAPI in advocating for data quality in AAPI research, it becomes clear how much the model minority myth, bolstered by undifferentiated population data, has obscured the true picture. The report identifies some 29 subgroups within the AAPI population, with wide variations in socio-economic status and educational attainment. As much as we note positive signs of stability and affluence, the deficits are just as stark, troubling, and entrenched. High dropout rates, poverty, barriers to higher education, and social mobility are all present within the subgroups, mirroring the urgent issues prevalent in low-income urban and rural communities of color. The projected AAPI population increase in the coming years will only exacerbate the need for programs and policies to address these deepening issues.\nThe White House convening this past summer was certainly an unprecedented celebration of AAPI heritage and achievements. Even more importantly, it was a defining point in our national dialogue, where we take racial perceptions about AAPIs beyond the model minority myth to explore fundamental questions about disparities in the AAPI subgroups, and how to craft better public policies to lift the attainment of a growing segment of the American population. The summit brought onto the national stage concerns and debates that, until now, existed in the echo chambers of race-based organizations and some community colleges.\nIn its struggle to tell the full story of an American experience, AAPIs are no different from our African American and Hispanic/Latino brethren. Until the full story is told, until individual experiences inform the experience of the whole, until there is nuanced understanding of ethnicity, language, immigration, generational histories and socio-economic variations within the sub-populations, there can be no meaningful policies, programs, or full inclusion of AAPIs in the dialogue of our nation. The summit was a start, and the White House has called to us to continue this work.\nAAPI Subgroups: Profiles and Realities\nThe iCount report recognizes Asian American and Pacific Islanders to be two distinct categories; it further identifies subgroups under each. Two categories and their respective subgroups represent wide-ranging geographic disbursement, socio-economic backgrounds, and educational attainment. There are some 29 subgroups under the AAPI designation:\nChinese (except Taiwanese)\nOther Polynesian\nOther Micronesian\nOther Melanesian\nThe socio-economic range of these groups spans the spectrum, from low-income to high-earning. An examination of median household income of AAPIs from 2008 to 2010 finds that the Hmong, Bangladeshi, and Cambodian groups are some $20,000 below the median, while the Asian Indian and Filipino groups anchor the more affluent and high-skilled end of the spectrum at more than $10,000 and more than $20,000 above the median, respectively.\nA look at educational attainment during that same period from 2008 to 2010 echoes a similar theme of wide-range differentiation among the subgroups. Hmong, Cambodian, and Laotian subgroups have the highest percentage of individuals with less than a high school diploma, while over 70 percent of Taiwanese and Asian Indian subgroups earned a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher, according to the iCount report. Even the well-rehearsed refrains of over-representation of AAPIs at elite colleges can benefit from a reality check: While a number of subgroups, such as Chinese (including Taiwanese), Asian Indians, and Koreans have higher representation, far many more subgroups have disproportionately lower representation, among them Hmong, Samoan, Thai, and Filipino, the report says.\nWith the wide variations manifested in these key indicators, it is not surprising that there is a corresponding wide range of student achievements among the subgroups. The myth of the high-achieving Asian student, like that of the model minority, is a distortion that obscures the hidden achievement gap with high praise, a distortion that provides no clarity for the high-achieving and no remedy for those struggling in the shadows.\nTo leverage the notice and momentum of the historic national convening, we call to action the leadership of our nation\u2019s community colleges, along with state education leaders, trustees, presidents and CEOs, foundation boards, leaders of professional associations, reform networks, and communities of practice. The majority of low-income and first-time college-attending AAPI students are in our institutions and at our door. Nearly 150 of our public community colleges are AANAPISIs (Asian America Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions), in which at least 10 percent of their enrollment are AAPIs and underserved. Our ability to tell the full story of AAPIs, and our programs, practices, and policies are powerful tools to lift struggling students into success. We present the following agenda for your consideration:\nAsk for Better, Disaggregated Data\nRequest disaggregated data in your institutional effectiveness reporting, and insist on accompanying narrative about language, socio-economic and immigration factors, and geography that places your data in context.\nEnsure that strategies and programs are based on disaggregated data, as well as the cultural context of the local communities.\nAdvocate for disaggregated data in AAPI and other minority population reports at the local, regional, and state level.\nBuild AAPI Inclusion in Core Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Advising\nCurriculum, pedagogy, and advising practices are at the heart of our institutions. If inclusion is to be sustainable, it must live in the classroom and advising practices. Seek out powerful reforms that value culturally relevant and community based curriculum.\nBuild a Pipeline of Leadership and Create Role Models for Students\nConsider AAPI inclusion as an integral factor, and not an add-on, in talent recruitment.\nEncourage internal talent development and participate in regional and national professional development activities targeting emerging AAPI leaders.\nProactively recruit AAPI teachers and mentors to ensure there are role models for students.\nInsist on Systemic Understanding and Systemic Change\nServe as purveyors and facilitators of AAPI knowledge among civic, philanthropic, educational, and governmental institutions.\nInitiate and convene public and organizational policy discussions to further the work of AAPI and minority population inclusion.\nPam Y. Eddinger, Ph.D., is president of Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts.\nLeveraging Community Colleges in Workforce\nLeveraging Community Colleges in the Workforce and Innovation and Opportunity Act is a blueprint for taking a federated approach through which federal, state and local policymakers, educational institutions, and the nonprofit and private sectors come together to build a better system.\" data-placeholder=\"1-2 sentence summary\">Leveraging Community Colleges in the Workforce and Innovation and Opportunity Act is a blueprint for taking a federated approach through which federal, state and local policymakers, educational institutions, and the nonprofit and private sectors come together to build a better system. 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Students are expected to demonstrate excellence in research area via quality publications in reputed journals and conferences.\nApplication deadline for PhD admissions Winter 2018-19 is closed now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://philippine-sea-slugs.com/Look-alike/Coeloplanidae/Coeloplanidae.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HKCYXGB5SQ4E6573DFX75XDLOOK5UYGB", "length": 673, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "philippine-sea-slugs.com", "title": "Look-Alikes: Coeloplanidae", "raw_content": "Comb jellies, family Coeloplanidae Willey, 1896\nCoeloplana sp. 01\nTo tell frankly, I never heard that a comb jelly had been mistaken for a seaslug, but sometimes divers are wondering what this might be...\nThat's why I post pictures of the family Coeloplanidae at these websites.\nThis specimen looks very similar to Coeloplana sp. 2 in Gosliner et al. (1997) at page 95.\nGosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Williams, G.C. (1997) Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific. 314pp.\nMonterey, California: Sea Challengers.\nK\u00f6hler, E. (2017), published 9 July 2017, Coeloplanidae Willey, 1896\navailable from https://www.Philippine-Sea-Slugs.com/Look-alike/Coeloplanidae/Coeloplanidae.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://phoenix.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=140690&p=irol-govcharter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YEBG3Z7LTKCXOSDYBHJS74RIQY3GXC2D", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "phoenix.corporate-ir.net", "title": "Committee Charters - Carnival Corporation", "raw_content": "Health, Environmental, Safety & Security Committee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 117.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://piedmontcoc.net/read/2014/2/23/let-god-do-the-clapping", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BJA74X4AO6PJT6UTFEWSFB776B7VMKKY", "length": 5489, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "piedmontcoc.net", "title": "Let God Do the Clapping \u2014 Piedmont Church of Christ", "raw_content": "Let God Do the Clapping\nFrom time to time a question arises concerning the practice of clapping during our worship periods to show our approval of something said or done. This practice is, generally speaking, relatively new among churches of Christ. That fact within itself does not make the practice either right or wrong. Neither does the fact that it is a practice borrowed by our denominational neighbors from the entertainment industry, and then by churches of Christ from our denominational neighbors. The rightness or wrongness of an act is determined, not by its antiquity or its novelty, not by who has or has not made it a practice, but by whether or not it is in harmony with the teaching of the New Testament.\nClapping during worship fits into the agenda of those who are trying to change the church. Some of them have made it plain that worship must be changed to make it more appealing to the worshiper. Calvin Warpula wrote, \u201cI also believe we should let individuals and congregations use the musical format they like without judging them.\u201d Rubel Shelly said, \u201cThe tired, uninspiring event we call worship in traditional churches has to give away to the exhilarating experience of God that exhibits and nourishes life in the worshipers.\u201d He also said in the same speech, \u201cThe church has got to change. If it doesn't change, my kids are not going to stay with it.\u201d\nThese statements suggest that worship must please the worshiper. They ignore the fact that worship is designed to honor God. When the design of worship is to entertain the worshiper, we expect those being entertained to show their approval by clapping.\nThere is the same authority for clapping in Christian worship as there is for playing a piano or organ. It is doing something for which there is no divine authority. Furthermore, those among our brethren who first started clapping in worship are the same ones who have stretched the tent of fellowship over the denominational world, and who will not say those who use the instrument in worship sin in so doing. While clapping has now caught on with some who are otherwise, it should be remembered that hand clapping in worship was originally borrowed from the denominations by some who believe those in the denominations have God\u2019s approval.\nIt would be admitted by most that clapping the hands in worship does not in any way add to the dignity and solemnity of the occasion. It does not do honor to God; we honor Him by doing what He has told us to do in worship, and He has not told us to clap.\nIt is also a fact that, until recent years, it was considered in bad taste to applaud any religious activity. If you think otherwise, consult the books by Emily Post, whose name for many years was synonymous with etiquette.\nWho is being applauded when there is hand clapping in worship? Are those who clap their hands doing so to honor God? If so, they are seeking to honor God in some way He has not authorized instead of as He has directed. \u201cGod is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth\u201d (John 4:24). II John 9 says, \u201cWhosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.\u201d It will be admitted by all that we can abide in the doctrine of Christ without ever having a round of applause in any of our worship assemblies.\nIf hand clapping is something of value in our worship, then why didn't God prescribe it? Could it be that those who initiated this practice think they have thought of something God overlooked? Or did God simply not know of its great value? Brethren with such wisdom would do well to read I Corinthians 3:18-20: \u201cLet no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.\u201d\nThose really interested in the peace and harmony of the church will not insist on clapping in worship. They themselves will agree that clapping is not necessary in order to have Scriptural worship. They will acknowledge also that clapping is not an act God has prescribed. Therefore, they must confess they can worship Scripturally and conscientiously without applauding. In love for those who conscientiously oppose it, and in the interest of peace and harmony, it should be omitted.\nOccasionally one will be heard to say that hand clapping is no different from saying, Amen. But there is one slight difference: saying, \u201cAmen\u201d is authorized in Scripture. I Corinthians 14-16, \u201cElse when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?\u201d\nWhere is the verse which mentions clapping hands in worship?\nI would emphasize that I am not one who is opposed to change, provided the change is in harmony with the Will of God, and provided the change will be an improvement. However, if we are to improve our worship, it will not be by adding other acts, but by improving the worshipers.\nIf there is to be applause in connection with our worship, let it be by God; he is the only audience. All of us are participants.\nTags clap, clapping, Bobby Duncan, worship, practice, change, honor, Christ, doctrine, denominations\n\u2190 MarriageThe Unity of the Church \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://placematters.net/node/1061", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HGJHIPVOYF3MONOXZNLO33F4Y53QETI2", "length": 4162, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "placematters.net", "title": "Brooklyn Historical Society | Place Matters", "raw_content": "Museum and library devoted to Brooklyn's history\nJoseph Cordaro\nThe Brooklyn Historical Society's four-story Queen Anne style building was completed in 1881 and was designed by architect George B. Post. Post's bold use of extensive terra cotta ornamentation on the facade, and innovative truss system to support the ceiling of the central library, has long been revered by architectural historians. The building's masonry of unglazed terra cotta and repressed brick was the first building in New York City to use locally produced terra cotta. The facade was sculpted by Olin Levi Warner and is adorned with heroic busts of figures from history, interspersed with representations of American flora by Truman H. Bartlett. Post employed artisans in the spirit of the Aesthetic Movement to embellish and enrich the interior spaces of the building. Stained glass in window lunettes and a central laylight are believed to have originated from the studio of the noted artist, Charles Booth.\nDecorations throughout the building include Minton tile floors, custom made bronze hardware (designed by Post), and elaborately carved black ash woodwork in the library.\nThe Brooklyn Historical Society was founded in 1863 as the Long Island Historical Society. At that time, the city of Brooklyn was the commercial and cultural center of Long Island. During World War I, BHS contributed to the war effort by transforming its 600-seat auditorium into a Red Cross headquarters by removing the seats and building a flat floor over the original sloping floor. After 1926, this space was subdivided and rented to commercial tenants to raise funds for the institution's operating expenses. During the mid-twentieth century, BHS operated only as a library, although it continued to add to its collections.\nIn the 1980's, new leadership reestablished the organization as a museum and education center. In 1989, after conducting its first capital campaign, BHS restored its ground floor, installing a permanent exhibit that showcased the eclectic range of its collections and chronicled the history of African-American, white, Latino, Asian and Native American Brooklynites. The exhibit included a wax figure of Nat King Cole from Coney Island, Dodger memorabilia, tool boxes from the WWII Navy Yard, \"The Honeymooners\" stage set, and a drawing of a 17th Century Brooklyn Indian. BHS also began to create a series of exhibits focusing on topics such as the history of African-American churches in Brooklyn, an insider's view of Latino communities, and a chronicle of Crown Heights. BHS's AIDS exhibition was the first to cover this topic at a history museum in the United States. Documentary photographers working for BHS have recorded thousands of images of contemporary Brooklyn.\nBHS has the most comprehensive collection of Brooklyn-related materials in existence. In 1993, the U.S. Department of Education designated its library as a \"major research library\" under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act. As one in seven Americans can trace their family roots to Brooklyn, the BHS collections represent an important national resource. Inquiries received each month reflect the nationwide interest in the borough and its relevance to many family histories.\nIn October 1999, BHS began a full-scale restoration of its National Historic Landmark building. A central objective in the renovation of its headquarters is positioning BHS as a community hub for the exchange of ideas and an accessible resource for learning. Since reopening our building in 2003, BHS has served 120,000 students and teachers throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan through on-site educational programs, classroom visits, teacher development workshops, and classroom \"toolkits.\" Additionally, the public now has access to a database containing 33,000 images, walking tours of Brooklyn, and on and off-site exhibits ranging in a variety of topics covering the social and cultural history of Brooklyn. BHS is committed to offering programming that helps Brooklynites young and old develop pride in their own cultural traditions while fostering understanding of their neighbors' similarities and differences. (July 2006)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://plan2succeed.org/frontpagemag-librarians_for_terror17aug2004by_lee_kaplan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SFNDYHPXW2TSG5MSEDP7WSFXX4NQHISF", "length": 15979, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "plan2succeed.org", "title": "librarians for terror", "raw_content": "librarians for terror\nat one time american libraries stood at the heart of community education, forming in a positive way the minds and character of our youth, changing lives for the better. but sadly, the traditional mission of these august institutions of learning for generations of americans is disappearing as they gradually turn into indoctrination centers against the united states and israel.\none of the main reasons for this tragic and disturbing turn of events is the american library association, where a clique of leftists has taken over, dedicating itself to padding libraries across america with anti-israel books, videos and other materials, excluding both sides in the israel/palestine dispute.\nthe american library association is the oldest and biggest professional society of librarians in the world with over 60,000 members. when college majors in library science graduate, they must have attended ala accredited schools accredited if they hope to find the best jobs in their field. starting in the 1980's, hard-core leftists and pro-palestinian activists have steadily been working to take control of the ala much in the same manner as has occurred with middle east studies centers on college campuses nationwide. these people decide what will you and your children will read and see at the local library.\ndr. stephen karetzky, a noted librarian, wrote more than 20 years ago about the ala's embracing, soviet-style totalitarianism in the american library system in his book, not seeing red: american librarianship and the soviet union, 1917-1960. he contends that the ala has always advanced radical socialist doctrine as being positive while not presenting in a fair manner views concerning the benefits of the american capitalist system. adding to that background, with the advent of the vietnam war, college radicals, as they moved into mainstream jobs in all areas of academia, continued to promote their ideas of radical change in american government and society. library science is closely tied in with today's university atmosphere where marxism now thrives along with a resurrected policy of anti-semitism.\nbut the growth of the palestinian and saudi propaganda movements on u.s. campuses created a new cause celebre in the library system after the fall of the soviet union. as communist groups such as international answer and the international socialist organization sprang up advocating the overthrow of the american capitalist system, their adherents, who had frequently allied themselves with the palestinian \"revolution\" against the jews (euphemistically called \"zionists\") on us college campuses, moved into leadership positions within the ala.\nkaretzky experienced this first hand. a columbia university graduate, he taught library science at san jose state university and then went to work at haifa university in israel. when he returned to the united states to find work, karetzky found himself frequently ostracized from jobs because of the political indoctrination found in his field. he said: \"i was asked, 'what did you think of censorship in the gulf war?' or 'why did you live in israel?' if i told them i believed in a jewish state, i was refused a job.\"\nevery job interview centered on politics rather than his experience as an academic and library professional. whenever karetzky would try to teach his students both sides of an issue, he was chastised for not adhering to the \"progressive\" point of view. despite ala policy that says library materials should show all sides of an issue, karetzky explained how the actual game plan is to admit only progressive points of view to the exclusion of conservative ideas. \"when errors in information were called to library officials' attention, their response was that the library system is allowed to teach opinion,\" he said.\nthe ala \"bill of rights\" has been twisted to the point that \"anything goes\" in library science as long as it is deemed progressive. the ala proved its adherence to this philosophy when it spent 1.5 million dollars in lawsuits that reached the supreme court to oppose the child online protection act, h.r. 3783, passed by congress; an ala victory would have allowed pornography for children in public libraries. when extremist positions like that thrive within the ala, it creates an atmosphere conducive to promoting any one-sided propaganda exported from totalitarian regimes abroad as part of the \"progressive agenda\".\nit is therefore not surprising that american libraries, those on college campuses as well as in neighborhood communities, include a disproportionate number of anti-israel books. works by edward said and noam chomsky condemning \"american imperialism\" or that call israel a \"colony\" of america are commonly found with other similar materials available regardless of the speciousness of their content. solid scholarly research with factual information about israel is difficult to find, if at all.\nas well, the council on american-islamic relations (cair), an organization that bills itself as an arab civil rights group but was shown to have links to hamas, has utilized american libraries' budgetary problems to provide books \"free of charge\" to advance the \"arab point of view\". cair has given books to more than 7,000 american libraries so far.\nto librarians uninformed about middle eastern history, or to those who intentionally wish to attack america and israel, the chance to stack the racks with free books is certainly enticing. but while donating books to our library system should be a laudatory thing, cair's agenda is to persuade readers that israel must be dismantled, an idea that conforms to hamas doctrine. and such donations are not limited to just books; today's public and college libraries feature dvds, videotapes, symposiums, and educational outreach to public schools and community groups using such one-sided resource materials. research becomes tainted when the information is not objective, but rather a subtle form of indoctrination.\nthe film jenin, jenin is a good example of such propaganda with its staged scenes that falsely claim a massacre by israelis; it is screened at \"events\" or \"lectures\" designed to misinform the same way as in any totalitarian, middle eastern, educational system. hamas, islamic jihad or hizbollah are no longer perceived as terrorist groups but political, and even human rights organizations, as was done on duke university's library website.\nmajor players within the ala, who have made the ala into a vehicle for their anti-american and anti-israel views, include past ala president maurice j. \"mitch\" freedman; university of pittsburgh librarian thomas twiss; california librarian rory litwin (who also produces a leftist-socialist oriented library newsletter, library juice, that condemns u.s. foreign policy and israel); chicago public librarian david l. williams; avowed marxist mark rosenzweig; zoia horn; al kagan; and ghada el turk, among others.\nfreedman has scheduled events at past ala conferences that set the tone for the political climate within the ala. for example, at the midwestern ala convention he offered a special treat by screening \"the trials of henry kissinger\" and \"power and terror: noam chomsky in our times\". both films attacked u.s. foreign policy, blaming the united states for terrorism, and the chomsky film, as usual, attacked israel. freedman also chose as a guest speaker amy goodman, a pro-palestinian writer and host on pacifica radio. the media watchdog group camera once condemned pacifica for \"repeatedly providing a forum for racists, anti-semites and other critics of israel.\" in 1992, khalide hamide, a fundraiser for the terrorist organization the popular front for the liberation of palestine, was also invited to attend an ala convention.\nthomas twiss took the ala into the international arena by presenting resolutions against israel, which were then sent to the un, the us state department and yasser arafat. but he wasn't alone. since the early 1990's ala members have joined twiss by passing resolutions and writing articles that condemn the jewish state. rory litwin allowed library juice to be used by al kagan, a library administration professor at the university of illinois, urbana, where he is active in the anti-israel divestment campaign. david l. williams, who works in the public library system out of chicago, organized an ala committee on israeli censorship. he published a bibliography at taxpayer expense listing books biased against israel. this is housed in chicago's public library. zoia horn, now an octogenarian and lifelong san francisco bay area marxist, published an article bashing israel in the main ala journal, american libraries.\nmark rosenzweig, an avowed marxist librarian, and the other activists within the ala, continually put forth resolutions that openly portray israel as a villain that destroys palestinian libraries. to date, there is no evidence of the idf ever having destroyed a palestinian library despite plo accusations. meanwhile, when a palestinian suicide bomber at hebrew university in jerusalem murdered an american librarian, ala leaders made no comment. nor did the ala take exception to what palestinian libraries teach children about jews and israel, instilling and inciting hatred and war.\nin most professional associations, the positions of those who organize and run things are usually non-paying and manned by volunteers. this system attracts only the most dedicated people in their professions\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdor those with an agenda who appreciate a bully pulpit, which, in the case of libraries, is at taxpayers' expense. and the latter reason explains why those people mentioned above got together and formed an even more powerful cabal within the ala to further their mutual goals of demonizing israel and advancing marxist ideology. called the social responsibilities roundtable (srrt), this subgroup has played an aggressive role within the ala that affects every library in the country.\nthe srrt has run wild. in 1992 its members passed a resolution, backed by the ala, which protested \"the deportation of omar al-safi, a librarian at bir zeit university ... in the west bank.\" al-safi was a terrorist with a long criminal record in the democratic front for the liberation of palestine (dflp), a terrorist group that unequivocally calls for the murder of all israelis. the dflp's pinnacle achievement was the murder of 22 children and adults taken hostage at a high school in israel in 1974, afterwards known as the ma'alot massacre.\nin 2002, the srrt was still openly passing resolutions against israel and sending them to the un, the u.s. state department and yasser arafat. this ala cabal has sent personal representatives to support and meet yasser arafat and had anti-israel literature distributed in children's sections of american public libraries. and with the recent creation of another ala subgroup, the international responsibilities task force, the taxpayer's dollar can now be tapped to purchase \"alternative literature\" calling for israel's annihilation.\nfront page magazine has featured articles showing how saudi money is used to fund palestinian goals and add to the climate of indoctrination against the united states and israel on our college campuses, in high schools and in public school textbooks. being the main accreditation authority for librarians, the ala's prominence has also lent credence to similar activities at college libraries and programs nationwide, such as at duke university where a library website featured a jewish star of david made out of barbed wire to imply palestinian suffering at the hands of jews.\nfor a local example of this, one need look no further than ghada elturk, who works out of the boulder public library in colorado. an active srrt member, ms. elturk, lebanese by birth, is responsible for acquisitions and books for a program designed to appeal to minorities. her series on readings on racism have outreached as far as new england libraries. ms. elturk extends her job to promoting film festivals, reading material and events that are all designed to present israel as oppressing palestinian arabs. elturk's acquisitions of library materials are heavily skewed against israel in her library's online catalog.\nelturk also joins fellow ala members in accusing israel of destroying palestinian libraries but never extends her reading against racism program to pointing out how palestinian libraries have books that compare jews and christians as the children of monkeys and pigs, or that deny the jews' right to have their own country in the muslim world. ms. elturk recently held a symposium at the boulder public library where she screened no less than six pro-plo films. the main feature, a film called \"the bombing,\" contained content blaming israel for suicide bombers that kill israelis.\na boulder community member, michael wolin, who objected to the bias of ms. elturk's screenings, particularly after they were advertised for free in conjunction with a yearly international conference at the nearby university of colorado, said his complaints to the head of the library to allow the showing of pro-israel films to provide balance only got him referred to ms. elturk. needless to say, she refused.\nsome israel activists then went to boulder's library commission. ms. elturk showed up for the meeting to explain how her program somehow advanced social justice. the commission deferred to the professional librarian. after all, the thinking went: she is a member of the ala, so she must know what she is doing. the community members demanding balance on the side of israel were virtually shut out of their own library system by a propagandist for the plo. her palestinian propaganda films, some with completely fabricated content like jenin, jenin, are in the permanent collection for loan at taxpayers' expense. ms. elturk uses her bully pulpit well. her outreach efforts extend to the materials high school students read in world history.\nthe boulder librarian's activities provide a template for libraries across america to follow as palestinian film festivals demonizing israel are scheduled from ames, iowa, to flint, michigan, to berkeley, california. they all present one-sided films with \"recommended reading\" as follow-up that is neither objective nor free of a political agenda against israel and us policy.\nfor example, the ames public library screened \"jenin, jenin\" as part of their series on \"palestine unabridged.\" tributes were made to rachel corrie, the international solidarity movement radical who was reportedly killed for protecting a doctor's house from demolition by the israeli army but who was actually killed by accident when she tried to block a tractor from demolishing a weapons smuggling tunnel that was no where near the doctor's house. the myth of the innocent victim killed by the israeli army was perpetuated to the ames community, as corrie's relatives were invited to speak against israel. like in boulder, complaints to ames library administrators from the pro-israel community for some type of program to lend balance fell on deaf ears. similar one-sided presentations are popping up in libraries all over america.\nthere are ala members opposed to what is happening but who are afraid to speak out for fear they will lose their jobs. however, there are workers in the library trade who have had enough of this lack of balance. librarians for fairness, a group of library professionals, has sprung up to monitor the situation and to recommend balanced reading materials in our public libraries in order to stop them being turned into propaganda ministries.\nbut the fact remains: those who support the actions and goals of terrorists and oppose israel's existence and america's war on terror have infiltrated america's knowledge distribution centers \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd our libraries. as a result, all of us should take a good, hard look at what is going on at our local libraries and get involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 16083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1574", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBV52WENFZTIB4VEO5YFEUUWMLRLI3IK", "length": 7219, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "plasticsoldierreview.com", "title": "Plastic Soldier Review - Strelets Thin Red Line", "raw_content": "Home > Manufacturers > Strelets > Thin Red Line\nColours Green/Red/Light Blue\nThe 'Thin Red Line' refers to part of the Battle of Balaclava on 25th October 1854 during the Crimean War. On that day the Russians planned to attack the port of Balaclava, thus cutting the British off from their supply line. Their assault came as a complete surprise, and began with a bombardment of a temporary redoubt manned by Ottoman troops. After withstanding the attack for over an hour this redoubt, and the other three in the area, fell to an overwhelming infantry assault. The next obstacle for the Russians, indeed almost the last, was around 550 Highlanders of the 93rd Regiment, along with about 100 British invalids and some numbers of Turks. These were formed into a line and when around 400 or 500 Russian hussars approached they fired two volleys plus a half volley, all at long range, which caused the hussars to depart. There were no Allied casualties and few of the Russians were killed, and it was all over in a couple of minutes, so hardly a major engagement, particularly as the two sides never got to within 200 metres of each other. Nevertheless this action was widely reported in the press and made to seem like a great victory, largely because another action on that day, the charge of the Light Brigade, was so obviously an embarrassing fiasco.\nThis Strelets set is another of their 'Big Box' affairs, where some new figures are added to previously released sets to create a large themed playset. In this case the box contains sets of Russian Infantry, Russian Hussars and British Highlanders. Since all these sets have been reviewed before we will not consider them again here, except to say that as Russian infantry played no part in this action their presence here is merely to help fill the box.\nThe new figures are those pictured above, and all represent the Ottoman troops. The Ottoman Empire was no stranger to wars with that of the Tsar, but her armies had gone through many upheavals in the previous half century. Sultan Selim III had tried to introduce reforms into the army and wider society, but met stiff conservative opposition and achieved little. Sultan Mahmud II had much more success, and succeeded in destroying the Janissaries in 1826, which paved the way for the development of a new, more modern army organised on European lines. One obvious sign of this change was the uniform, which took on a much more European (largely French) style. The soldiers in this set are roughly divided into three types of uniform, and the first third are those with this new uniform of single breasted tunic, trousers tucked into boots and the universal fez with tassel. The uniform was simple and practical, and has been well represented here, as has the equipment.\nThe second third of these figures are wearing a greatcoat, of which many styles were seen on the troops. Many of these figures have a hood, which may be separate or part of the greatcoat; both would be authentic. Turkish organisation and supply was often woefully inadequate and many items of clothing were to be found in use, but these figures all conform to regulations.\nThe last third wear a more exotic uniform of short jacket and loose trousers, which marks them out as from North Africa. Egypt and the Bey of Tunis, as part of the Empire, contributed troops such as these to the war effort. The uniform style was to be the inspiration for the famous Zouave uniform initially created in Algeria and later copied widely. In addition the style was largely repeated in the mainstream Ottoman army after the Crimean War as it was seen as more Turkish than the European style. The troops manning the redoubts at Balaclava are usually described as Tunisian Militia, so may well have been wearing this uniform.\nThe final two rows show a number of officers and other figures. Officers tended to wear the modern uniform even if their troops did not, and so it is with all those seen here. The third figure in the bottom row as an attendant for a senior officer (the widely reproduced photograph of Ismail Pasha is surely the inspiration for this figure and the seated officer), and the final figure is an imam.\nAlthough there are 49 different poses the fact that there are three different styles of costume mean many poses are repeated for each style, which is no bad thing. All the usual poses can be found here, and there are quite a large number of marching poses which many will welcome. We particularly liked the man using the butt of his musket (row eight), but all the poses are useful. The pair of a man helping a wounded comrade harks back to the Esci sets and is very nice, while the bugler and drummer and also appealing, although the flag-bearer seems to have quite a small example to carry. The man reaching for a cartridge in the fifth row would not have grounded his musket like that, and the same is true of the similar pose in the seventh row, but there are otherwise no problems in any pose. The officers are particularly noteworthy, with the man shouting being a simple yet very effective pose that is rarely seen in this hobby. The rather splendidly uniformed man on the bottom row holds his long chibouque pipe, while the general's attendant holds another, and the imam is presumably at prayer. Although a few of the poses are rather on the flat side in general they are well done.\nStrelets quality has been quite variable of late, but this set is firmly set in the classic Strelets mould. The figures have a fairly chunky feel to them and some items such as swords or the pipes, which should be long and slender, tend to be fatter and shorter. Many of the sword and bayonet scabbards are actually ludicrously short for the weapon they are alleged to be holding. Detail is OK but not intricate, but the faces are nicely expressive and help bring life to the figure. There is virtually no flash so these require almost no 'cleaning' before they can be painted or 'deployed'.\nDespite the name the Crimean War extended well beyond the Crimea. In fact thanks in part to the arrogance of the British and French, the Ottoman army had a small role to play in the siege of Sevastopol, being used mainly as labour to dig trenches, carry supplies and so on. However outside the Crimea the Ottoman army was free to face their old enemy on many battlefields, and while the names of Silistria and Kars are not well known in the West they have every right to be represented in this hobby. The Ottoman military machine was very far from perfect but the soldiers were brave when well led and it is fitting that their vital but largely unremembered part in the war with Russia is finally acknowledged with this very fine set.\n\"Balaclava 1854\" - Osprey (Campaign Series No.6) - John Sweetman - 9780850459616\n\"Crimean War Basics - Russia & Turkey\" - Partizan - Michael Cox & John Lenton - 9781858180199\n\"Ottoman Wars 1700-1870\" - Pearson - Virginia Aksan - 9780582308077\n\"The Crimean War\" - Osprey (Essential Histories Series No.2) - John Sweetman - 9781841761862\n\"The Crimean War\" - Boxtree/Channel 4 - Paul Kerr - 9780752211121\n\"Turkish Uniforms of the Crimean War\" - Partizan (Partizan Historical Series No.18) - Chris Flaherty - 9781858186870", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 8290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/budget-2012/bold-action-with-an-aging-tool-kit-toward-a-true-canadian-innovation-strategy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YE7I3EA2JOTPELSMFNMJJXGE2D3MRZLT", "length": 20186, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "policyoptions.irpp.org", "title": "Bold action with an aging tool kit: Toward a true Canadian innovation strategy - Policy Options", "raw_content": "Bold action with an aging tool kit: Toward a true Canadian innovation strategy\nBudget 2012 proclaimed a \u201d\u0153new approach to supporting entrepreneurs, innovators and world-class researchers.\u201d\u009d Speculation and expectations had mounted in the months and weeks preceding the budget, particularly in the wake of the recommendations found in a key review of federal support to business innovation called Innovation Canada: A Call to Action \" also known as the \u201d\u0153Jenkins Report.\u201d\u009d This October 2011 report called for bold action and a fundamental rethink of how government support for business innovation is structured and delivered given the withering performance of Canadian business in investing in research and development (R&D), with regard to finding commercial value through the creation and sale of new products, goods and services. In the innovation space in this country, made up of a multitude and diversity of stakeholders and actors (small, medium and large firms; universities, colleges and polytechnics; private R&D firms, public laboratories, accounting firms; policy experts; and government program managers), hopes \" and fears \" had grown that the federal budget would radically change the innovation landscape.\nSo what was new in the federal budget? What has really changed? What are some underlying messages that we should take from Budget 2012 about future directions for Canadian innovation? How much is left to accomplish?\nThe budget document itself sets out succinctly the perennial conundrum that has faced Canada: while our investment in higher-education research puts Canada at the top of OECD country rankings, the performance of our business sector in research and development is shockingly low (figures 1 and 2). This reality holds true despite having one of the most generous tax credits in the world. (Such credits are used widely to encourage incremental private-sector R&D in the OECD countries, as well as emerging economies.) In addition, Canada has over 500 programs \" federal and provincial \" in support of science, technology and business R&D. While we spend considerable sums, we have the well-documented innovation lag that has persisted over decades. And labour productivity remains a problem we cannot get our heads around. Among the many questions posed to the Jenkins Panel was whether we have the right mix of federal support programs for business R&D: indirect and direct measures. Budget 2012 begins to answer that question.\nThe causes of the weak performance of Canada\u2019s private sector in R&D have been studied to death with a cottage industry of \u201d\u0153experts\u201d\u009d diagnosing the problem and suggesting a myriad of prescriptions. Today, with our fragile economic recovery, high Canadian dollar, shifting demographics, looming skills shortages, lagging productivity and heavy reliance on natural resources it is paramount that we get the innovation supports right. Our challenges are specific to Canada, but they\u2019re not unique to Canada. The United States, Australia, the UK, Scandinavia, Japan and others share most or all of the same problems as us, at a time when new players such as Russia, Brazil, China, India and Korea are upping their innovation activity in order to compete in an increasingly intensive global economy.\nReport upon report has focused on the historical overreliance upon the (then) low Canadian dollar, the resource economy and the lack of sufficient access to capital and the risk-averse business culture of Canada\u2019s private sector. The prevailing logic is to blame industry for the lack of receptor capacity for the ideas and inventions being generated by fundamental discovery-based research. (Federal basic research programs were specifically outside the mandate of the Jenkins Panel.) The confounding question is whether there are public policy levers available to government to adequately enable improved business R&D performance, to spur innovation in Canada. Given the over $5 billion per year of federal support to business innovation through a range of direct support programs and through a 35-year-old tax credit incentive, this question is not inconsequential. In a time of government fiscal restraint, this question becomes all the more urgent.\nMinisters of the federal government have emphasized that they accept the guiding principles of the Jenkins Report, namely that to grow our industrial sector into high growth and high R&D performing firms, we must find ways to encourage small firms to grow into large firms. To do that, we must have transformative, large-scale programs that focus on commercialization, as well as the ability to consolidate similar programs and eliminate the ineffective ones. A new system design may be needed that enables Canadian companies to put innovation at the heart of their business strategy.\nSpecifically the R&D Report found that our challenges are these:\nThere are too many government programs spread too thinly across too many government departments, making it hard for companies to locate the program that\u2019s right for them.\nOur Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit is too complex, too unpredictable in what research qualifies for a credit and too costly for claimants, and may not be entirely stimulating the R&D it was intended to foster.\nWe do not leverage procurement for innovation in the same way that other countries have successfully done.\nThere is no federal R&D agency with a single-minded focus on supporting business R&D.\nThere is a lack of access to financing at both the early and late stages of bringing a product or service to market.\nWe do not have the leadership we need in Canada to oversee a broad strategy for business innovation.\nSix recommendations and about 20 subrecommendations constitute the essence of the Jenkins Report (box 1). There appears to be unanimous consensus among all stakeholders on this diagnosis. Yet acting on these recommendations takes leadership, time and resources. Many hope that with a majority government, we have all three and that we are now in the process of seeing that reset button finally pressed.\nThe budgetary (spending) aspects of the Jenkins Report are indeed being implemented through a slew of announcements for Innovation (box 2).\nThe government has understood that the Jenkins Panel made recommendations in two broad categories: budgetary and operational. Any quick comparison between the Jenkins Report and the budgetary announcements for innovation leads to the conclusion that the government took surprisingly swift action on spending programs related to capital, procurement and the R&D tax credit, as well as support for small business.\nBut the operational proposals relating to governance, accountability and delivery of federal support programs for R&D are yet to come. Gary Goodyear, the minister responsible for R&D, himself acknowledged after the budget was tabled that further options are being considered that could lead to consolidation of the suite of programs that support business innovation. \u201d\u0153The government will announce actions in the coming months and the next federal budget in 2013. This is the first of two or three steps, in a nine or 10 step process,\u201d\u009d he said.\nImmediate reaction from the community at large focused mainly on the boldness of the will to tackle the long-standing SR&ED tax credit and to partially address the key recommendation of the Jenkins Report.\nBy doing so, the government sent a message to industry: SR&ED must act as a true incentive for increased R&D; those who need to use the tax credit as a proxy for capital (notably small and midsized firms) will now find a new and more direct solution in early and late stage capital. The one program that supports small business marketing R&D needs, the Industrial Research Assistance Program, or IRAP, has been significantly enhanced with new funds and a new service to clients. Many other stakeholders were relieved, if not buoyed, to see that federal funding for science and technology and for a range of innovation programs would either continue or see modest increases.\nHowever, there are several other underlying messages for Canada\u2019s innovation players in Budget 2012, which are worth reflecting on. Taken together these messages hint at more change to come and it would be short-sighted to think that this is all there is or will be. Most importantly, the federal government has signalled that it is ready to tackle the R&D conundrum head on. There is clarity of thinking in the statement that the government is \u201d\u0153pursuing active business-led initiatives that focus resources on better meeting private sector needs.\u201d\u009d This is a dramatic shift in focus. The budget document points to re-aligning savings from the tax credit to direct programs, revealing a willingness to sharpen the objectives of direct grants and contributions programs to meet the needs of their users: Canada\u2019s innovative firms.\nImplicit in Budget 2012 is an inalienable fact: Canada\u2019s industrial base is made up of small and midsized enterprises (SMEs). Only 20,000 of Canada\u2019s 1.1 million SMEs use the SR&ED tax credit. That\u2019s less than 2 percent of all SMEs investing in R&D activities for their own improved commercial outcomes. Canada\u2019s challenge is to grow small firms into midsized firms, and to encourage more small firms to enter the R&D space. To do so, SMEs need timely access to federal support programs, access to capital and access to opportunity and markets. Equally the message to Canadian industry is that companies can use the federal supports if they are seriously committed to R&D. The winners are those firms ready to go to market with a highvalue good or service. High-growth firms create wealth and so create high-value jobs. Canada needs more high-growth firms in all sectors.\nFor decades now, federal programs have been underpinned by the \u201d\u0153idea-push\u201d\u009d logic, conflating \u201d\u0153invention\u201d\u009d with \u201d\u0153innovation.\u201d\u009d Current federal innovation programs are actually science and technology programs, focused predominantly on the search for new Nortel-like breakthroughs. These programs are generally unresponsive to firms that innovate in processing, services or creating consumer products. The assumption is that innovation is a linear activity with ideas born in labs and academia that must be pushed on to industry \u201d\u0153receptors.\u201d\u009d However, small firms with very specific and near-to-market innovation needs do not have the luxury of time that working with university researchers generally requires. When obtaining financing from banks, venture capitalists or backers is most pressing for a firm, the firm cannot wait for the knowledge generation of the academic enterprise to yield the practical result needed now. The budget\u2019s proposed concierge service through the National Research Council, or NRC, IRAP program to help small firms make more effective use of innovation programs is a clear-cut acceptance of one of the Jenkins Report\u2019s subrecommendations.\nOther budget emphases on \u201d\u0153collaborative research partnerships with postsecondary institutions,\u201d\u009d knowledge transfer, applied research and financing for commercialization would indicate that the government is taking the Jenkins Panel\u2019s advice seriously and investing in programs that translate research into market use. That colleges are now seen as key to applied research and technology translation is an important recognition that government\u2019s role is to enable companies to access solutions that meet their needs (figure 3). We need more of this: collaboration and commercialization to help our research and development make it to market. It does not diminish the importance of investing in science. Quite the opposite; it shows that we have the capacity to invent and innovate in order to make our lives better and our economy more productive.\nProponents of \u201d\u0153demand-driven\u201d\u009d innovation should take encouragement from the first-ever signals that the federal government is willing to use government procurement as a spur to innovation and that a major rethink of the mandate and functions of the century-old NRC will be driven by a new logic, making it industryresponsive and industry-relevant. Yet these announcements are aspirational at best, given that only one small program for procurement through innovation has been made permanent, and that changes to the way the NRC interacts with industry and academia will involve fundamental culture change. The budget also indicated that the government is willing to consider alternative delivery mechanisms for administering programs, such as the Industrial Research and Development Internship, which was a long-standing talent support program at the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council. Taken together, these changes hint that the government is prepared to modernize the mission and mandate of some R&D focused agencies.\nAclose read of Budget 2012 also indicates that the government needs more time to think through the \u201d\u0153reset\u201d\u009d button on innovation. Thus, the budget commits to more consultations on changes to the NRC, the research granting councils and the SR&ED tax credit administration. This, at a time when other reviews are also ongoing, most notably the Aerospace Review, along with a slew of other internal government studies on science and technology programs, industrial R&D and the ongoing fiscal and spending reviews. Further, major changes to the way the tax credit program works are not planned until a year from now, indicating a recognition that both government and the private sector will need time to adjust to new changes. This allows the government some skating room to address remaining recommendations of the Jenkins Report.\nFrankly, adjusting and altering spending programs without taking a look at policy and program design \" the tool kit \" will not result in measurably improved outcomes. Budget 2012 does not yet change the tools, the mechanisms that the government has at its disposal to assist business innovation. No federal business support program was cancelled; in fact, many received funds for ongoing activity.\nWhat\u2019s wrong with the tool kit anyway? In addition to the complexities and inefficiencies identified with SR&ED and the industry support from the NRC, there are a few other critical impediments that the Jenkins Report identified. These are the following:\nPrograms are subscale and operate within the silos of numerous federal departments. The alphabet soup of the direct support programs for federally funded R&D support programs is confusing, inaccessible and not meeting the needs of these firms \" the vast majority of whom do not even know these other programs exist!\nThe research granting councils \" also known as the TriCouncil \" have suffered mission drift, blurring the lines between basic academic research and industry focused applied research.\nPrograms that purport to focus on commercialization actually assist academia and not those companies whose core purpose is to commercialize ideas for the market.\nNational outcomes for federal R&D support have never been set. Innovation in one part of our country is not considered the same as innovation in another. We have no means of measuring, evaluating, updating, consolidating or, when justified, ending these programs.\nOur R&D talent programs have narrowly focused only on graduate and postgraduate student supply seemingly on the belief that \u201d\u0153best and brightest\u201d\u009d means highest trained thinkers and managers, and not necessarily highly qualified skilled doers. A survey for the Jenkins Panel showed that only 18 percent of R&D performing firms have doctoral graduates as R&D staff. The vast majority of R&D employees have master\u2019s or bachelor\u2019s degrees or are technicians and technologists graduated from the college sector. Yet the innovation programs focus only on the elite \u201d\u0153knowledge workers\u201d\u009d rather than recognizing that innovation is a team sport, requiring a skilled multidisciplinary team of R&D performers to bring a product or service to market.\nNo one minister has full accountability in cabinet over business innovation spending or outcomes.\nAnd finally, we do not have an Innovation Strategy, only a Science and Technology Strategy.\nIn short, many implements in our innovation tool kit are not working, are underutilized and are developed from an outdated understanding of business innovation needs. These problems have accrued over several years, even decades. What dismayed me through the year of the panel\u2019s work was the creeping realization that there is no quick fix \" nor can there be. But without some fundamental rethink of policies and programs now, there will never be a fix.\nSo what remains to be done? As Minister Goodyear has hinted, Budget 2012 was a first step in perhaps a 10-step program of change. Program consolidation with one reporting minister and an oversight arm\u2019s-length council, for example an industrial research innovation council, would help. (Most G7 and OECD competitors have such mechanisms; why not Canada?) We need to remove duplication and reallocate funding to fill the pressing gaps in the commercialization space. Until and unless we prune, yes even \u201d\u0153kill,\u201d\u009d some older ineffective programs, any new spending simply gets spread like peanut butter across the country and does not reward or motivate innovation.\nCanada still has no talent strategy for innovation: we have programs for skills and training, we have funding for education and research, and we have funding for internships for university (not college), but none of these has building an innovationready workforce as its primary objective. Fitting programs into the existing Science and Technology Strategy rubric continues the \u201d\u0153idea push\u201d\u009d model. Until we have an innovation strategy that shifts our thinking to \u201d\u0153demand-driven innovation\u201d\u009d we will not see radical change. A complement to the Science and Technology Strategy, such a innovation strategy would provide the missing governance and direction over industry programs and help to deepen a culture of business innovation and competitiveness in Canada.\nThe most pressing rethink that should happen is to measure programs with appropriate metrics. Part of our collective malaise results from applying the wrong metrics to the wrong programs; basic research has metrics that differ vastly from the commercialization of research, and we need to speak clearly about that.\nAbove all, policy-makers and government officials must appreciate this simple, but profound, difference. Remember the adage: what gets measured gets done!\nThese changes relate to governance, what some refer to as \u201d\u0153machinery\u201d\u009d changes. There is optimism that these changes could yet materialize through policy announcements, a possible cabinet shuffle or a Speech from the Throne. It might take yet another federal budget.\nAfter dozens of reports and studies, we can all agree that the \u201d\u0153innovation ecosystem\u201d\u009d has grown this dysfunctional through decades of Band-Aid solutions, conflicting mandates, boutique programs that serve a specific purpose but never go away, and zero emphasis on outcomes for investments, all in search of the Holy Grail of topping the world\u2019s innovation rankings. Sadly, we must all agree that the system cannot be changed overnight. The 2012 budget was a first and dramatic step in the right direction, but much more remains to be done.\nRestructuring our supports for business innovation is the equivalent to changing the oil in a car while driving down the highway. It\u2019s not impossible, but it\u2019s not going to be easy, and we need the right tools. Canadian businesses can\u2019t wait for the government to hit the reset button and start from scratch, and our global competitors won\u2019t wait either.\nAll innovation stakeholders must encourage the government to take more action in fleshing out this \u201d\u0153new approach to innovation, entrepreneurship and world-class research.\u201d\u009d All sectors and all actors should help to support the further changes that government will need to make, and provide their ideas and sweat equity to the urgent national effort. Budget 2012 sets on us a better path, but only time and further action will tell if we have updated our blueprints for better action on innovation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 21812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/institution-of-engineering-and-technology/article/think-about-technology-innovation-and-wider-transport-infras", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EGSNBKUEGYCLDKJCRHW6TTLKW3V6D555", "length": 4680, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "politics.co.uk", "title": "Think about technology innovation and wider transport infrastructure, urges Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)", "raw_content": "Think about technology innovation and wider transport infrastructure, urges Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)\nTuesday, 25 October 2016 8:35 AM\nAs the Government approves the expansion of Heathrow airport, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is highlighting three important engineering and technology issues that it hopes the Government is considering as part of a wider airport expansion strategy:\nWider transport infrastructure\nAny airport expansion cannot be considered in isolation, but as part of the transport system as a whole. For example, in the case of Heathrow, there have been significant challenges to creating an appropriate rail link to the west of Heathrow airport so currently all freight to and from Heathrow is by road. Should the Heathrow expansion go ahead, has the Government considered how to develop a rail-freight link so that the rest of the country can also benefit from this new infrastructure project?\nFuture technology innovation\nTechnology already plays a major part in improving efficiency and reducing emissions in air travel, however, there is still scope to improve on existing airfield movement capacity through adopting more innovations. For example, new technology developed by Lockheed Martin and NATS uses a technique known as 'time-based separation' (TBS), which enables aircrafts to land safely closer together, with the potential to cut delays caused by headwinds by 60 per cent. This technology has the potential to reduce separation between aircraft, altering today\u2019s assumptions about airspace and runway loading, which could have huge implications on the number of airline operations able to operate from an airport or runway.\nWhile additional runway space is clearly needed, could more investment in technology innovation provide a more long-term answer to the South East\u2019s air travel capacity challenge?\nIncreasing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)\nOnce regulatory hurdles for the use of autonomous air vehicles are cleared, UAS developments could give logistics companies the opportunity to move freight away from central hubs to dispersed regional airfields and change how we transport goods by air.\nThere needs to be a review of the airspace structures and changes to flight paths that introducing UAVs for freight may have.\nSummarising the considerations, Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology\u2019s Transport Policy Panel, said: \u201cThe decision around additional airport capacity for London and the South East needs to take into account how new technologies will change the way we travel and transfer goods by air in the future, and not just look at the here and now.\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite possible that more investment in new technology, as well as additional runway space, would provide a more sustainable solution for air travel in the UK\u2019s busiest region. Important too is that the Government not only considers the potential for an individual airport expansion, but also how the surrounding road and rail infrastructure might support it effectively \u2013 and how a new runway can benefit the whole of the transport system and the economy of the country.\u201d\nInterview opportunities are available with IET spokespeople from a broad range of engineering and technology disciplines including cyber-security, energy, engineering skills, innovation, manufacturing, technology, transport and women in engineering.\nThe IET is one of the world\u2019s largest engineering institutions with over 167,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most interdisciplinary \u2013 to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. Energy, transport, manufacturing, information and communications, and the built environment: the IET covers them all.\nWe want to build the profile of engineering and change outdated perceptions about engineering in order to tackle the skills gap. This includes encouraging more women to become engineers and growing the number of engineering apprentices.\nEBacc reforms will damage engineering\nIET sets out priorities for the industrial strategy ahead of Autumn Statement\nReform to overly complex technical education system will tackle engineering skills gap head on\nWhy you should study maths and physics\nIET: Engineering makes the world go round!\nFor more information, visit www.theiet.org\nFollow the IET on Twitter.\nMore Articles by Institution of Engineering and Technology ...\nRegions 'frozen out' of transport spending splurge\n'Deeply unfair': Londoners dominate transport spending\nCoalition splurges on rail spending spree\nDavid Cameron's road privatisation speech in full\nBudget 2012: PM sees UK roads' salvation in private sector", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://polkcounty.wtsp.com/news/community-spirit?page=6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FTDC6HWW67GCZI3T65XHYC4N7SRTUEP6", "length": 3080, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "polkcounty.wtsp.com", "title": "Community Spirit | Polk County News", "raw_content": "Nonprofit Organizations Awarded Grants\nBartow, Florida -- Six Polk County nonprofit organizations are receiving nearly $560,000 in grant funding awarded by the Polk County Board of County Commissioners.\nThe grants come from two programs offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).\nThis year six agencies receive Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for public service activities for underserved individuals and families throughout Polk County. In accordance with federal program guidelines, these funds must be used to primarily benefit low and moderate income families.\nPolk School District named among 'Best Communities for Music Education'\nPolk County, Florida-- The NAMM Foundation recently named the Polk County School District among the Best Communities for Music Education. The prestigious designation is given in recognition to school districts from around the country that demonstrate an unwavering commitment to providing top-quality music education for all students, particularly districts that have demonstrated exceptional efforts toward maintaining music education as part of the core curriculum provided in schools.\n'Cops on Doughnut Shops' Fundraiser for Special Olympics\nLakeland, Florida-- On March 21, 22 and 23, 2013 from 6 a.m. \u2013 10 a.m., officers from the Lakeland Police Department and other Polk County law enforcement agencies will be on top of the Krispy Kreme to raise funds for Special Olympics.\nLakeland Police say this event is in conjunction with the same event being held in Tampa, and even in other states across the country.\nFestival for children's literacy coming up\nLakeland, Florida -- Lakeland High\u2019s Leadership Cadre will host its annual Naughty Children\u2019s Reading Festival at Lake Bonny Park.\nOn Friday, April 5 at 800 U.S. 98 South in Lakeland, approximately 600 second graders are expected to show up for the event aimed at promoting literacy among students. The event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m.\nVolunteers Sought for Reading Workshop\nLake Wales, FL \u2013 READ Polk will offer a free training workshop to volunteers who would like to teach adults how to read on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Polk State College J.D. Alexander Center, 152 E. Central Avenue, Lake Wales, FL.\nA continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. No experience is necessary. Volunteers will receive the training and materials to become certified tutors. Class size is limited.\nClick here for more information on READ Polk.\nVolunteers needed to teach reading skills\nLake Wales, Florida -- READ Polk is looking for volunteers to help teach adults how to read.\nREAD Polk will offer a free training workshop to volunteers who would like to teach adults how to read on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Polk State College on J.D. Alexander Center, 152 E. Central Avenue, Lake Wales, FL.\nA continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. No experience is necessary as volunteers will receive the training and materials to become certified tutors. Class size is limited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 7325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pornoelle.info/index.php/2018/10/11/the-correctional-gay-club/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QAUUQE22ID2T3VOR7SJO6GOYY3B6HEBG", "length": 6779, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "pornoelle.info", "title": "The Correctional Gay Club | Free Sex Stories & Erotic Stories", "raw_content": "I would like to tell you all about a club that I only recently came across by accident. Apparently, only well vetted and introduced people are invited to attend, as the club likes to keep a very low profile because of the nature of what occurs there. I remember that it took so long for me to get accepted, that I almost gave up on the whole idea, thinking that I would never be allowed to join.\nIt is basically a large hall divided up into small rooms with different activities happening in every one of them. Here is a run down of what is on offer.\nThe \u201cInitiation\u201d On being given the privilege to join, you have to undergo an \u201cInitiation.\u201d On the first night of attending, you are stationed near to the entrance of the main door for the first hour or so, where you are expected to give anyone who enters a bit of a sucking, just like an aperitif for them to get their evening off to a good start. Then an orange band is secured around each arm to indicate to everyone present that you are a newbie. On seeing this, anyone can come up to you and demand your services in any shape or form that they seem fit. Failing to comply fully to any request made by other members, results in instant dismissal from the club.\n\u201cThe Pegging Room\u201d\u2026..In here a victim is naked with his arms hoisted up above his head by a rope that is tied around his wrists and secured to a hook in the ceiling, so that his feet are just off the floor. Now whenever you pass this room you must enter and attach a peg to his body. You can put it wherever you like on him. The basket contains 100 pegs, and once all of these are used up and attached to him, he is made to suffer this indignity for about 30 minutes before he is released to be replaced by another unfortunate guy. ( or fortunate guy, depending how you perceive it )\nThen there is the \u201cThe Suspension Room\u201d\u2026.This is the room where a guy is suspended by ropes from the roof at about head height minus his clothes of course. His arms and legs are splayed out wide, with his head and cock pointing to the floor. He also has a ball gag in his mouth that is fastened to his head. Other guys enter the room and place metal clips with small chains on to a part of the body, and then attach weights to it. These vary in size from tiny little ones to very heavy big ones. A favourite with a lot of people is to secure a clip to a single pubic hair, then add the smallest weight to the attached chain, and then keep adding more of the same value, to see how many it takes before the pube in question eventually gets plucked from the body. Hearing the muffled moans and groans of the poor chap is quite exciting\u2026or at least I found it so.\n\u201cThe Old and Young Room\u201d\u2026\u2026This is where the young service the old and vice versa. An old guy enters the vacant room for example, and puts a notice on the door\u2026\u201dOld guy inside seeks young guy to fuck\u201d or Old guy inside seeks young guy to service him\u201d Also there are many other combinations.\n\u201cThe Special Treatment Room\u201d. This comprises of a minimum of ten men in a room where the subject will be striped of any clothes that they happen to be wearing, then bent over at right angles, and made to spread their legs wide open. They will then have all of their body hair removed, and be sprayed with strawberry flavoured oil. Four men restrain him, two for his arms and the same for his legs. A cock will be pushed into his mouth for him to suck, his balls will be sucked, and his ass fucked, and two mouths will lick and suck each of his nipples. Another male will record it all in high definition digital to put on the web.\n\u201cThe Fuck and Suck Station\u201d this room unlike the others is a very small room, about the size of a public toilet. To the left and to the right of you are two glory holes. In here you line your mouth and ass up with the respected holes. It is a tight squeeze but you can just about manage to turn sideways to accomplish this, and wait for a cocks to come through from either side of the wall to fill you from both ends, while you take whatever you\u2019ve got coming to you like a man.\nThen of course you\u2019ve got the \u201cPrivate Correction Room\u201d Now the sort of male that enters this type of room knows full well that if they go in there for treatment, the first thing that they have to do is to explain to everyone there why you they have come. It could be that they just have very low self esteem, or feel that they need to be punished for past misdemeanour\u2019s, or for bad habits etc.\nAfter you have finished telling your story, your treatment will begin, and you will be expected to take your punishment however the group see fit. This can and usually does include, a damn good spanking on your bare ass cheeks by all and sundry with hands, canes or belts, vicious biting clothes pegs / pins will be attached to your private parts, and you can expect to be blindfolded, restrained with some very coarse and chaffing rope, handcuffed, toyed with, made to rim and suck anyone who requires that particular attention from you\u2026..and you will be made to perform on demand, and let anybody fuck you and to deposit their jizz inside you if they so desire. To finish off with, a live piss enema will be administered to your ass, the funnel connecting to your depositing tube will be kept topped up by the rooms contributors from time to time, to make sure that there is always a good supply waiting for entry into you. Once you are full to bursting, a very large butt plug is inserted, and you will not be allowed to relieve yourself until everybody thinks that your corrective treatment has been completed. This can be anything up to thirty minutes.\n\u201cThe Tag Team Wrestling Room\u201d In here you team up with another guy of about the same age, height and build, and go up against another duo who will be exactly opposite to you. For example, old vs young or thin vs fat etc. The referee will be very bias towards one of the teams, so that that team will be able to get away with almost everything, whilst the other team will be continually penalised. For example, The ref can be telling you off over in your corner whilst your team mate is being restrained by the other duo and being made to suck and be fucked by them.\n\u201cSize Matters\u201d Room. The type of action that you can expect to receive in here is that in this room are several men in a queue with different sized cocks. At the front of it is someone who is very small followed by the next male who is small, I am sure you get the picture. Last in line is a male with an extra large penis. The idea is that you get fucked in turn by each participant, and each time that you are entered by a different cock, it is slightly larger than the one before it, finally taking the biggest one of all, which made my eyes water I can tell you, even though I\u2019d built up to it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 7922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://portuguese.ttnet.net/show_html.jsp/garden-hose-nozzles/SS/listprd/Y/cono/pqvgvrgbka3gr/itno/PC300999/dtno/011/ik/4/type1/A", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EDH6X37MMTUZRT5RB4NOBS5DYFD32C35", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "portuguese.ttnet.net", "title": "Hairdressing Supplies/n.e.s.,cat\u00e1logo de Hairdressing Supplies/n.e.s.-Jean-Modern's Ind. 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After the premiere on February 4, 2007, in multiplex cinema CineStar Zagreb, it will be further showed in all Croatian cinemas since February 8, 2007.\nOn the occasion of the movie premiere Animal Friends' activists handed out leaflets and stickers asking guests at the premiere to be compassionate to animals. Animal Friends' info stall visited Croatian celebrities Zlatan Zuhric Zuhra and Hamed Bangoura, whilst Internet surfers can win 10 tickets for \"Charlotte's Web\" movie on Animal Friends' web site www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr.\nThe movie promotes vegetarian lifestyle through love that little girl Fern had for the piglet Wilbur. She doesn't want Wilbur to be slaughtered, nor the Wilbur himself wants to be slaughtered, which is actually the point of this movie, that like every other pig in the world Wilbur doesn't want to be slaughtered for food.\nIn \"Charlotte's Web\" the piglet is saved thanks to his animal friends. Unfortunately, in real life millions of pigs are slaughtered every year and processed into sausages, salamis and hams which are eaten by humans.\nPigs are sensible, intelligent animals which make strong emotional bonds between each other. They are more intelligent than dogs, loyal and playful. But in factory farming business terrified piglets, only a few weeks old, are taken away from their mothers. They are trapped and confined in a way that they can barely move. The first time they see sunshine is the time when they are loaded to trucks which take them away to slaughterhouses. In slaughterhouses piglets are so horrified by screams of piglets slaughtered before them they can't even move. Some are still conscious while slaughtered.\nPigs are friends, not food, so the best thing we can do for them is stop eating them! If you still see no reason to become vegetarian, go and watch the movie \"Charlotte's Web\" about the piglet who doesn't want to become a ham!\nYoung actress Dakota Fanning who plays Fern stopped eating pigs after the shooting of the movie. 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Harsh Vardhan pointed out that the amended rules stipulate that generators of bio-medical waste such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and dispensaries etc will not use chlorinated plastic bags and gloves beyond March 27, 2019 in medical applications to save the environment. The Minister added that Blood bags have been exempted for phase-out, as per the amended BMW rules, 2018.\nVardhan stated that these amendments have been made vide Notification G.S.R. 234(E) dated March 16, 2018. The Notification will be available on the website of the Ministry. The amendment to the\n, 2016 was undertaken after several rounds of stakeholder consultations, including Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Central Pollution Control Board, State Pollution Control Boards, and Health Care Facilities.\nSalient features of Bio-Medical Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018 are as follows:\nBio-medical waste generators including hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, dispensaries, veterinary institutions, animal houses, pathological laboratories, blood banks, health care facilities, and clinical establishments will have to phase out chlorinated plastic bags (excluding blood bags) and gloves by March 27, 2019.\nAll healthcare facilities shall make available the annual report on its website within a period of two years from the date of publication of the Bio-Medical Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018.\nOperators of common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal facilities shall establish bar coding and global positioning system for handling of bio-medical waste in accordance with guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board by March 27, 2019.\nThe State Pollution Control Boards/ Pollution Control Committees have to compile, review and analyse the information received and send tis information to the Central Pollution Control Board in a new Form (Form IV A), which seeks detailed information regarding district-wise bio-medical waste generation, information on Health Care Facilities having captive treatment facilities, information on common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal facilities.\nEvery occupier, i.e. a person having administrative control over the institution and the premises generating biomedical waste shall pre-treat the laboratory waste, microbiological waste, blood samples, and blood bags through disinfection or sterilisation on-site in the manner as prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) or guidelines on safe management of wastes from health care activities and WHO Blue Book 2014 and then sent to the Common bio-medical waste treatment facility for final disposal.\n\u201cBio-medical Waste Management Rules Amended to Protect Human Health\u201d: Harsh Vardhan Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules- BMW rules 2018 Digital India amends Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules; brings in tech and GPS for strict adherence to new BMW rules 2018 hospitals- nursing homes- clinics- and dispensaries will not use chlorinated plastic bags and gloves beyond March 27 2019 management of biomedical waste in India\t2018-03-24\nTagged with: \u201cBio-medical Waste Management Rules Amended to Protect Human Health\u201d: Harsh Vardhan Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules- BMW rules 2018 Digital India amends Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules; brings in tech and GPS for strict adherence to new BMW rules 2018 hospitals- nursing homes- clinics- and dispensaries will not use chlorinated plastic bags and gloves beyond March 27 2019 management of biomedical waste in India\nPrevious: WHO theme of World TB Day 2018 \u201cWanted: Leaders for a TB-free world\u201d; India vows to End TB by 2025\nNext: Experts bring out success stories created by people affected by Down Symptom on World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 11968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://psoriasis4cure.blogspot.com/2011/04/there-is-no-doubt-that-you-could-have.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:33Z", "digest": "sha1:23PF4ZQEMY5OCWV46VIQYOOJAU5XUEIS", "length": 139, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "psoriasis4cure.blogspot.com", "title": "psoriasiscure", "raw_content": "There is no doubt that you could have went long on the EUR/USD and generated a return, nevertheless a quick glimpse... http://ping.fm/HLsLs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 6695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicaffairsnetworking.com/public-affairs-graduates.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4TIGFLELMNAPPEI5RDB7PVYD5LG2ZFTN", "length": 1101, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "publicaffairsnetworking.com", "title": "Info for Graduates - Public Affairs Information from PubAffairs at PublicAffairsNetworking.com - The Leading Public Affairs Network for those involved in government relations, policy & communications.", "raw_content": "Find job opportunities, career advice from industry practitioners, and training & educational courses in the GraduateForward section.\nOpportunities for undergraduates, recent graduates and junior level job-seekers within the public affairs and communications industry.\nGraduate Advice Centre\nAdvice for students and graduates about getting into, and working in, the industry from public affairs and communications practitioners and recruitment professionals.\nInformation about public affairs, policy, public relations and communications related higher & further educational courses and training & professional courses.\nIntroduction to Public Affairs (07/11/18)\nThe PRCA is offering a course for those who would like to gain an insight into public affairs work....\nOrbit, one of Scotland\u2019s leading integrated PR, public affairs and design agencies, is offering this excit...\nAbout The Royal British Legion The Legion is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forc...\nAre you passionate about health policy and public affairs? Ambitious and eager to work with and learn from peopl...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 7071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publichealthbuyersguide.com/Listing/Company/3455238", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WRM6GQEBTM2CYXDKZYJBXZL4ZC2JYAIM", "length": 560, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "publichealthbuyersguide.com", "title": "Wiley - Public Health Buyer's Guide", "raw_content": "111 Riverstreet\nhttp://www.josseybass.com\nA GAME FOR THE REST OF US\nWiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) business, also known as Wiley-Blackwell, serves the world's research and scholarly communities, and is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. 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Pedro Fuentes Clavel has applied for a variance to reduce the minimum lot area for a two-family dwelling at 1707 31st St E to allow an addition to convert a single-family dwelling to a two-family dwelling. 2. VonFinch MN LLC has applied for a variance to reduce the required minimum lot area to establish a duplex at 2401 University Ave NE. 3. Landform, on behalf of Costco, has applied for a variance to increase the maximum size of a wall sign at 3311 Broadway St NE. 4. Oleksander Ivakhnenko, prop\u001eerty owner, is requesting a front yard setback variance to allow a second story addition to an existing single-family home at 4723 Abbott Ave S. 5. Margaret Wurtele has applied for the following applications to allow for an addition to a single-family home and site improvements at 1700 Mount Curve: \u2022 Variance to reduce the required inte\u001erior side yard setback adjacent to the west prop\u001eerty line. \u2022 Variance to allow develop\u001ement on or within 40' of the top of a steep slope in the Shoreland Overlay District. 11496960", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pulitzercenter.org/education/meet-journalist-susan-meiselas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:23Z", "digest": "sha1:46QOWHHFVQHXRPDUBB4CY2O7OUKPSLAR", "length": 970, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pulitzercenter.org", "title": "Meet the Journalist: Susan Meiselas | Pulitzer Center", "raw_content": "Meet the Journalist: Susan Meiselas\nOver the past decade, foreign investors have purchased land in Honduras near Trujillo, capitalizing on the newly developed port for cruise ships. 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She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora\u2019s...\nHonduras: \"Aqui Vivimos\"\nDispatch from Honduras: What Life Is Like in the Murder Capital of the World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws/2664.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7R2QRP5DBE6AELDGTLRHUFNNSHXP745V", "length": 29628, "nlines": 232, "source_domain": "punjablaws.gov.pk", "title": "The Punjab Blood Transfusion Safety Act 2016", "raw_content": "THE PUNJAB BLOOD TRANSFUSION SAFETY ACT 2016\n(Act XLVI of 2016)\n6. Technical Committee.\n7. Licensing Board.\n8. Appellate Committee.\n10. Functions of blood centers.\n11. Functions of hospital blood banks.\n12. Documentation, record keeping and traceability.\n13. Information to the Authority.\n14. Data protection, etc.\n15. District blood transfusion committees.\n16. Registration and licensing.\n17. Obligation.\n18. Offence.\n22. Publication of offender's name.\n23. Secretariat and employees.\n24. Fund of the Authority.\n[1]THE PUNJAB BLOOD TRANSFUSION SAFETY ACT 2016\nAn Act to regulate collection, testing, processing, storage, distribution, issuance, transfusion of human blood, blood components, ensuring health protection and prevention of transfusion transmissible diseases.\nIt is necessary to regulate the collection, testing, processing and storage of human blood and blood components, as well as the rational use of safe blood and its products whenever intended for transfusion; and, to deal with ancillary matters.\n1. Short title, extent and commencement.\u2013 (1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Blood Transfusion Safety Act 2016.\n2. Definitions.\u2013In this Act:\n(a) \u201cAct\u201d means the Punjab Blood Transfusion Safety Act 2016;\n(b) \u201cAuthority\u201d means Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority constituted under the Act;\n(c) \u201cautologous donation\u201d means that donor and recipient are the same;\n(d) \u201cblood\u201d means whole blood collected from a donor;\n(e) \u201cblood center\u201d means any structure or a body which manufactures blood and blood components; and, performs collection, testing, processing, storage, and distribution of blood and blood components to the hospital blood banks;\n(f) \u201cblood component\u201d means a therapeutic constituent of blood including red cells, white cells, platelets, plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant prepared by various methods;\n(g) \u201cblood establishment\u201d means any facility carrying out one or more of the processes in the blood transfusion chain;\n(h) \u201cblood product\u201d means any therapeutic product derived from human blood or plasma such as albumin, factor concentrates, prothrombin complex concentrates;\n(i) \u201cdeferral\u201d means temporary or permanent suspension of the eligibility of an individual to donate blood or blood components;\n(j) \u201cdistribution\u201d means an act of delivery of blood or blood components to other blood centres, hospital blood banks and manufacturers of blood and plasma derived products but shall not include the issuance of blood or blood components for transfusion;\n(k) \u201cdonor\u201d means a person who, by his free will and without compensation or payment, donates blood or a part of his blood such as plasma or cellular components for use in the medical treatment or for scientific research;\n(m) \u201chaemovigilance\u201d means a continuous process of data collection and analysis of transfusion-related adverse events and reactions, conducted to investigate their causes and outcomes, to prevent their occurrence or recurrence throughout the blood transfusion chain, and to increase the safety, efficacy and efficiency of blood transfusion, but haemovigilance shall be dependent on the traceability of blood and blood products from donors to recipients and vice versa (bi-directional tracking);\n(n) \u201chospital blood bank\u201d means a hospital unit which receives and stores screened blood and blood components received from a blood centre, performs compatibility testing and issues blood and blood components for clinical use;\n(o) \u201cinspection\u201d means an official, formal and objective inspection based on the adopted standards to assess and measure the non-compliance of the Act, rules and regulations;\n(p) \u201cInspector\u201d means a blood safety inspector appointed under section 9 of the Act;\n(q) \u201cissuance\u201d means the provision of blood or blood components by a hospital blood bank, or specialized blood transfusion service for transfusion to a recipient;\n(r) \u201cnon-compliance\u201d means deviation from the standards prescribed by or under the Act or the Authority, as the case may be, and shall include:\n(i) critical non-compliance that directly affects the safety of a recipient or donor; or\n(ii) serious non-compliance that on its own does not directly affect the safety of a recipient or donor; or\n(iii) significant non-compliance for which there is insufficient information to classify it as critical or serious non-compliance;\n(s) \u201coffence\u201d includes a critical and significant offence as prescribed under section 18 of the Act;\n(t) \u201cprescribed\u201d means prescribed by the rules or regulations made under the Act;\n(u) \u201cprocessing\u201d means any step in the preparation of a blood component carried out between the collection of blood and its storage;\n(v) \u201crecipient\u201d means a person who receives transfusion of blood or blood components;\n(w) \u201cresponsible person\u201d means a person accountable for ensuring that every unit of blood or blood components has been collected, tested, processed, stored, distributed and issued in compliance with the provisions of the Act, rules or regulations made thereunder;\n(x) \u201csafe blood\u201d means the blood which is safe for both the donor and the recipient;\n(y) \u201cscreened blood\u201d means human blood or blood products which, based on established testing methods, has been tested negative for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C viruses or other viruses or infective agents, like malarial parasites and treponema pallidum (syphilis) or such other viruses or infective agents as the Authority may specify;\n(z) \u201cSecretary\u201d means the Secretary of the Authority;\n(aa) \u201cserious adverse event\u201d means an untoward occurrence associated with the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of blood and blood components that might lead to death or life-threatening, disabling or incapacitating conditions for the patients or which results in or prolongs hospitalization or morbidity;\n(bb) \u201cserious adverse reaction\u201d means an undesirable response or effect in a donor or in a patient associated with the collection or administration of blood or blood components which is fatal, life-threatening, disabling, incapacitating, or which results in or prolongs hospitalization or morbidity;\n(cc) \u201ctraceability\u201d means the capacity of a blood transfusion system to trace blood and blood components from the donor to its final destination and vice versa (bi-directional tracking); and\n(dd) \u201cunhygienic\u201d means anything or atmosphere harmful to donor, blood, reagents or equipment.\n3. Authority.\u2013 (1) The Government may, by notification, establish the Authority to be known as Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority.\n(2) The Authority shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and shall by the said name sue and be sued.\n(3) The Authority shall consist of the following:\nthree members, including at least one female member, of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab;\nAdditional Secretary (Technical) to the Government, Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department;\nDirector General Health, Punjab;\nDirector, Institute of Blood Transfusion Services, Punjab;\nFour professors, including at least one female Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Hematology or Transfusion Medicine;\nCommandant, Combined Military Hospital, Lahore;\nDirector General of Punjab Employees Social Security Institution; and\na representative of the blood donor organizations, to be nominated by the Authority.\n(4) A member, other than an ex-officio member, shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of assuming office but the Government may extend the term of a member for such period as it may deem necessary.\n(5) The Government shall nominate the Minister for Health or Advisor to Chief Minister for Health as the Chairperson of the Authority and determine the terms and conditions of such appointment.\n(6) In case of a casual vacancy in the Authority, the Government shall nominate a new member for the remaining term of the outgoing member.\n(a) be responsible for the general administration, supervision, superintendence and management of the affairs of the Authority;\n(b) approve polices and schemes;\n(c) regulate all matters relating to blood transfusion throughout the Punjab;\n(d) ensure that the standards and specifications shall, at least, cover:\n(i) the registration and licensing of blood establishments;\n(ii) standards for processes performed by blood establishments;\n(iii) specifications and quality control requirements of blood and blood components;\n(iv) storage and transportation of blood and blood components;\n(v) traceability and haemovigilance;\n(vi) motivation of blood donors;\n(vii) autologous donation and transfusion;\n(viii) imparting relevant information to donors and obtaining from them appropriate information such as identification, health history and signature of the donor;\n(ix) determining the requirements concerning the suitability of donors of blood and blood components;\n(x) screening of donated blood including deferral criteria and possible exemption thereto; and\n(xi) procedures for notifying serious adverse reactions and events, notification format and guidelines on optimal clinical use of blood;\n(e) ensure that any serious adverse events related to the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution, issuance or administration of blood and blood components, which may have an influence on the quality and safety of blood and blood components or on donor and staff safety, as well as any serious adverse reactions observed in donors that may be attributed to the donation or in patients that may be attributed to the transfusion are notified to the Authority;\n(f) take all necessary measures to ensure that blood and blood components collected, tested, processed, stored, released, distributed or issued are traced from donor to recipient and vice versa;\n(g) take all necessary measures to ensure that the system used for the labeling of blood and blood components complies with the identification system;\n(h) manage and report data for planning, implementation and evaluation of services;\n(i) take all necessary measures to ensure that access is provided to documents (operational procedures, guidelines, training, reference manuals and reporting forms) to the officials entrusted with inspections and control measures;\n(j) hold regular meetings with the bodies designated by the Government, delegations of experts and other relevant parties to exchange information on the experience acquired with regard to the implementation of the Act;\n(k) register blood establishments, categorize them indicating which processes the blood establishments are entitled to perform, issue licenses, and, subject to the fulfillment of prescribed conditions, renew licenses;\n(l) regulate matters relating to the meetings of the Authority; and\n(m) perform such other functions as may be prescribed.\n(a) suspend or revoke the license of a person if any condition of the license or any provisions of the Act, rules or regulations has been infringed;\n(b) prescribe minimum standards and specifications for registration and licensing;\n(c) collaborate with other institutions, professional bodies and experts;\n(d) take all necessary measures to ensure that each blood establishment establishes and maintains a quality management system as prescribed by the Authority;\n(e) set up minimum requirements for record keeping of blood establishments and keep records of the data received from the blood establishments with regard to registration and licensing, inspections, responsible person and notification of serious adverse reactions and events; and\n(f) organize inspections and appropriate control measures in blood establishments, to make certain that the requirements of the Act, and any rules, regulations, and standards hereunder, are complied with.\n5. Secretary.\u2013 (1) The Government shall appoint the Secretary of the Authority on such term and conditions as it may determine or as may be prescribed.\n(2) The Secretary shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Authority and shall exercise such powers as may be prescribed or as are delegated to him by the Authority.\n(3) A person shall not be appointed as Secretary if he is a director, officer or employee of any healthcare service provider or has an interest or share in any blood establishment.\n6. Technical Committee.\u2013 (1) The Authority shall, for a specified period, constitute the Technical Committee, consisting of the following:\nTwo Professors of Haematology;\na representative of the blood donor organizations, to be nominated by the Authority; and\na legal expert.\n(2) The Authority shall nominate the convener of the Technical Committee from amongst its members.\n(3) The Technical Committee shall provide advice on any matter referred to it by the Authority including matters related to blood transfusion standards and quality assurance.\n7. Licensing Board.\u2013 (1) There shall be a Licensing Board consisting of the following:\n(a) Secretary;\n(b) one haematologist; and\n(c) one other technical expert nominated by the Authority for a specified period.\n(2) The Secretary shall be the convener of the Licensing Board.\n(3) The Licensing Board shall:\n(a) review all inspection reports and decide on the issuance of licenses to blood establishments, blood centers, hospital blood banks, and specialized blood transfusion services; and\n(b) categorize non-compliances observed as critical or significant.\n(4) The Licensing Board, in case of non-compliance or violation of the Act, rules or regulations, may, in the manner prescribed by the Authority:\n(a) refer a case to the Inspector concerned or the local police for prosecution in the blood safety court;\n(b) direct sealing of the premises of the blood establishment;\n(c) impose fine up to one hundred thousand rupees;\n(d) order to take into custody the blood, blood components, equipment and any other materials being used in violation of the Act, rules or regulations;\n(e) enter or seal the blood establishment in the case of any gross violation of the Act, rules or regulations;\n(f) mark, seal or otherwise secure any equipment or material in the case of any violation of the Act, rules or regulations;\n(g) place a blood establishment on probation;\n(h) suspend or cancel the license of the blood establishment; and\n(i) debar the re-licensing of the blood establishment for the specified period.\n8. Appellate Committee.\u2013 (1) The Government shall, for a specified period, constitute an Appellate Committee consisting of four members, including a Haematologist or blood transfusion expert and a legal expert.\n(2) The Government shall nominate one of the members as convener of the committee.\n(3) A person aggrieved by any decision or order of the Authority or the Licensing Board may prefer an appeal to the Committee within fifteen days from the communication of such decision or order.\n(4) The Committee may, after due investigation and affording opportunity of hearing to all concerned, pass an appropriate order within thirty days.\n9. Inspectors.\u2013 (1) The Government shall appoint blood safety Inspectors in each district.\n(2) An Inspector shall carry out inspection of blood establishments and perform other functions assigned to him by the Authority.\n(3) An Inspector shall implement the decisions of the Licensing Board, with the assistance of the local police, if required.\n(4) An Inspector shall inspect and report an unregistered establishment to the Authority.\n10. Functions of blood centers.\u2013 (1) A blood centre shall implement the requirements of the Act, the rules and regulations made thereunder.\n(2) A blood centre shall:\n(a) perform processes related to the promotion of blood donations, collection, testing, processing, storage, transport, distribution of human blood and blood components according to the license issued;\n(b) not accept blood from paid donors and shall ensure to get blood and blood components for transfusion through voluntary and non-remunerated blood donations;\n(c) follow the procedures and criteria prescribed by the Authority for donor selection of blood;\n(d) follow the criteria of permanent and temporary blood donor deferral prescribed by the Authority;\n(e) communicate the reasons for deferral to the donor through a qualified health professional registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, and shall provide counseling, if so required;\n(f) while performing testing of donated blood, ensure that each donation of blood and blood components is tested for ABO and Rh blood groups and screened for HBV, HCV, HIV, Malaria, Syphilis and any other communicable disease or such other disease as may be prescribed;\n(g) not receive or supply blood unless it is registered and licensed under the Act;\n(h) have qualified personnel having relevant qualification from a recognized institution for the collection, testing, processing, storage, transport and distribution of human blood and blood components;\n(i) have a dedicated department, staff and set of equipment for the performance of each type of processes under the license;\n(j) comply with minimum requirements for the performance regarding location, process flow, personnel, equipment, reagents and documentation adopted and endorsed by the Authority;\n(k) submit an annual report to the Authority in such form as may be prescribed or determined by the Authority;\n(I) notify to the Authority the name of the responsible person and job description of other staff working in the blood centre; and\n(m) distribute blood and blood components to a hospital, based on hospital blood bank request, and in accordance with provisions of a written contract.\n(3) The responsible person in a blood centre shall be a qualified individual, preferably having post-graduate qualification in blood transfusion, haematology or clinical pathology recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.\n(4) Where the responsible person in a blood centre is permanently or temporarily replaced, the blood centre shall immediately communicate the name and other details of the new responsible person to the Authority.\n11. Functions of hospital blood banks.\u2013 (1) Every hospital blood bank shall observe and implement the requirements of the Act, rules and regulations.\n(2) A hospital blood bank shall:\n(a) receive, store and perform compatibility tests before issuance of blood and blood components;\n(b) have qualified personnel directly involved in compatibility testing, storage, transport and issuance of human blood and blood components;\n(c) designate a responsible person in the hospital blood bank;\n(d) have a dedicated location, staff and set of reagents and equipment for the performance of each type of licensed processes; and\n(e) ensure that blood and blood components issued by them are transfused in a licensed medical institution by a clinician registered with Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.\n(3) The physician shall ensure that blood and blood components being transfused are certified as safe blood by a licensed blood establishment.\n(4) The hospital administration shall ensure rational clinical use of blood and blood components through the hospital transfusion committee in accordance with guidelines adopted and endorsed by the Authority.\n(5) All processes performed at hospital level in relation to transfusion therapy shall be documented in accordance with the prescribed procedures.\n12. Documentation, record keeping and traceability.\u2013 A blood establishment shall:\n(a) maintain documentation on procedures, guidelines, training, reference manuals and reporting forms;\n(b) maintain records of the information obtained from donors, including their identification, health history, temporary and permanent deferral and signature; total number of donors and donations; whole blood donations not used; number of every blood component produced and distributed, as well as screening results of the donated blood;\n(c) keep the record safe for a minimum of fifteen years; and\n(d) implement a system for the identification of every single blood donation, every single blood unit and components thereof, allowing full traceability to the donor as well as to the transfusion and its recipient.\n13. Information to the Authority.\u2013 A blood establishment shall immediately inform the Authority, in the prescribed manner, of any serious adverse event or serious adverse reaction.\n14. Data protection, etc.\u2013 (1) Every blood establishment shall have a procedure in place to accurately, efficiently and verifiably prevent distribution or issuance of any unhealthy blood or blood components.\n(2) The blood establishment performing blood collection shall take all necessary measures to ensure that all data, including genetic information, collected under the Act to which third parties have access have been rendered anonymous so that the donor is no longer identifiable.\n(3) For the purpose, every blood establishment performing blood collection shall ensure that:\n(a) data security measures are in place and safeguards are provided against unauthorized data additions, deletions or modifications to donor files or deferral records and transfer of information;\n(b) procedures are in place to resolve data discrepancies; and\n(c) no unauthorized disclosure of such information occurs, whilst guaranteeing the traceability of donation.\n15. District blood transfusion committees.\u2013 (1) The Government may constitute District Blood Transfusion Committees, consisting of philanthropists, social workers and such other persons as the Government may deem appropriate.\n(2) A Committee shall perform such functions as are assigned to it by the Authority or as may be prescribed.\n16. Registration and licensing.\u2013 (1) A blood establishment shall not receive or supply blood unless it is registered with the Authority and holds a valid license issued by the Authority in such manner and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.\n(2) The Authority may issue a provisional license to a blood establishment in a case where the non-compliance is not critical, subject to the condition that the blood establishment shall rectify the non-compliance documented by the Authority within the specified time.\n17. Obligation.\u2013 A person shall:\n(a) not operate a blood establishment unless it is registered with Authority and holds a valid license under the Act;\n(b) fully observe the provisions of the Act or rules or regulations; and\n(c) ensure that the standards prescribed or specified by the Authority are fully implemented.\n18. Offence.\u2013 The offence under the Act shall be of two kinds:\n(a) \u201ccritical offence\u201d which means an offence involving a serious adverse event or serious adverse reaction;\n(b) \u201csignificant offence\u201d means an offence falling under any of the following categories:\n(i) unhygienic premises;\n(ii) inadequate number of staff or engagement of non-qualified staff and untrained staff;\n(iii) the use of any equipment, including the storage equipment which is not functioning according to prescribed protocols or standing operating procedures;\n(iv) non-observance of standard operating procedures;\n(v) any equipment present in blood unit not functioning according to prescribed temperature;\n(vi) improper display of standard operating procedures in working areas of the blood unit;\n(vii) use of substandard or expired consumable, reagent, chemical, disposal, kit, solution or water in use of blood unit or manufactured by a non-registered manufacturer;\n(viii) improper maintenance of records regarding an inventory relatable to blood, blood products, consumables, disposables, chemicals in use or stock, issued or used, expired, discarded, supplied, re-deposited;\n(ix) lack of alternate source for electric supply causing interrupted functioning of cold chain or processing in blood unit;\n(x) improper labeling of blood, blood products, blood samples with careless, incomplete, non-legible, erasable, tampered, overwritten written or a label without bar-coding;\n(xi) improper transportation of blood and blood products or reagent; and\n(xii) lack of separate areas for donor reception, history taking and examination, donor bleeding, cross-matching and screening of blood in a Blood Bank.\n19. Penalty.\u2013 (1) Subject to subsection (2) whoever, either by himself or through another person, commits an offence under section 18 or willfully contravenes any of the provisions of the Act, rules, regulations or standards prescribed thereunder shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years and with fine which may extend to one million rupees.\n(2) Whoever, either by himself or through another person, willfully contravenes the provisions of clause (b) of subsection (2) of section 11 shall be liable to fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees but which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees.\n(3) An offence under the Act shall be non-bailable.\n20. Cognizance.\u2013 A court shall not take cognizance of an offence under the Act except on a complaint in writing by an officer authorized by the Authority.\n21. Offences by companies.\u2013 (1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a Company, every person, who at the time of the commission of the offence, was in charge of the Company, shall be liable to punishment for the offence and the Company shall also be liable to the punishment of fine specified for the offence.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where it is proved that the offence is attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the Company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be liable to punishment for the offence.\nExplanation.\u2013 In this section, \u201cCompany\u201d means a body corporate and includes a firm or any other association of persons.\n22. Publication of offender's name.\u2013 The Authority shall publish the name of any person convicted of an offence under the Act in such manner as may be prescribed.\n23. Secretariat and employees.\u2013 (1) The head-office of the Authority shall be at Lahore and it may have such other offices in the Punjab as the Authority, with the approval of the Government, may determine.\n(2) The Authority may employ, in the prescribed manner, such officers and staff as may be necessary for the performance of functions under the Act.\n24. Fund of the Authority.\u2013 (1) The Government shall establish a Fund of the Authority to be known as the Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority Fund which shall vest in the Authority.\n(2) The Authority shall maintain the Fund in the prescribed manner.\n(a) grants received from the Government through budgetary allocations;\n(b) income received from registration fees and license fee and all other sums received by the Authority;\n(c) money received from the Federal Government or any international organization by way of grant, loan, advance or others;\n(d) money received from the disposal of movable and immovable property of the Authority; and\n(e) any other money received by the Authority.\n25. Accounts and Audit.\u2013 (1) The Authority shall maintain complete and accurate books of accounts of its actual expenses and receipts in the manner prescribed.\n(2) The Board shall approve the annual budget of the Authority in the prescribed manner.\n(3) The accounts of the Authority shall be audited annually by the Auditor General of Pakistan.\n26. Delegation.\u2013 The Authority may delegate any of its functions to the Secretary or any other officer of the Authority except the following functions:\n(a) making of regulations;\n(b) approval of budget of the Authority in addition to the budget allocated by the Government; and\n(c) making of policies.\n27. Miscellaneous.\u2013 (1) The Act shall apply to the collection and testing of blood and blood components, and to their processing, storage, distribution, issuance and use but it shall not apply to blood stem cells.\n(2) The Authority may allow import into or export from the Punjab of blood and blood components provided that the requirements of quality and safety under the Act shall be observed.\n(3) The following principles shall also be followed with regard to the blood transfusion process:\n(a) blood donation shall be a voluntary, anonymous and non-remunerated act;\n(b) transfusion is a not-for-profit health sector activity;\n(c) implementation of a common set of standards across blood establishments shall ensure an equivalent level of quality and safety of blood and blood components in the Punjab, regardless of the source; and\n(d) self-sufficiency in blood and blood components and its rational and optimal use in compliance with modern good clinical practices shall be the priority of the Government.\n(4) A person shall not perform blood transfusion therapy unless it is prescribed and performed under a physician's responsibility and surveillance and may only be performed in licensed medical institution.\n28. Immunity.\u2013 No suit or other legal proceedings shall be instituted against the members, officer or officials of the Authority for any actions taken in good faith under the Act.\n29. Power to make rules.\u2013 The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of the Act.\n30. Power to make regulations.\u2013 Subject to the Act and the rules, the Authority may, by notification in the official Gazette, frame regulations to give effect to the provisions of the Act.\n31. Repeal.\u2013 The Punjab Transfusion of Safe Blood Ordinance, 1999 (XXXVI of 1999) is hereby repealed.\n[1]This Act was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 19 October 2016; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 28 October 2016; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 29 October 2016, pages 2449-59.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 30773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pwufg.us/auto-glass-why-cracks-need-to-be-dealt-with-swiftly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PBS45WVOYWQ44XPELH24WAKFZZCZYSUR", "length": 2963, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pwufg.us", "title": "Auto Glass \u2013 Why Cracks Need To Be Dealt With Swiftly \u2013 Wufg Auto Care", "raw_content": "Auto Glass \u2013 Why Cracks Need To Be Dealt With Swiftly\nIf your windshield has recently ended up with a crack, you really do need to consider getting it repaired as soon as you possibly can. The reason for this urgency is due to a number of factors. First of all, most auto glass cracks can be successfully repaired, providing you act on them in a timely manner, and of course this is certainly a cheaper option than having to actually replace your windshield. Remember though, with each day that passes, that crack is going to get bigger and bigger, hence the reason why you need to act on it immediately. The second reason is that strictly speaking, it happens to be illegal to drive a vehicle on public roads if the windshield is cracked. To the best of my knowledge, this is applicable in all States within the USA, and also in most other first world countries. Finally, if your windshield is cracked, its integrity is jeopardized, and that means it could in fact implode with little, if any warning at all, particularly if your vehicle is involved in a collision.\nWhat many motorists don\u2019t realize is the fact that a windshield does more than just offer protection from the elements. In today\u2019s vehicles, the windshield is actually providing the vehicle both with a great deal of support. In other words, the glass itself is under a considerable amount of tension, which is exactly why cracks get bigger so rapidly if they\u2019re ignored. Ironically however, when it comes to vehicle maintenance, and repairs in particular, auto glass is probably the most neglected aspect of a vehicle. By and large, people just don\u2019t see auto glass as being important. As long as it keeps the wind and the rain out, there\u2019s nothing to worry about. Others, who are more responsible in terms of road safety, are often under the impression that auto glass repairs cost an arm and a leg, and as a result, they simply choose to ignore a crack. Admittedly, having to replace your windshield is certainly going to cost you a fair bit of money, especially if it\u2019s not covered by your insurance policy, but that\u2019s even more reason why you need to act quickly if your windshield gets a crack.\nIn many cases, although many drivers don\u2019t realize it, auto glass repairs are covered by the average insurance policy. Even if your own policy doesn\u2019t cover you, and you simply don\u2019t have the money to have your auto glass repaired professionally, you can nowadays purchase DIY repair kits. While they may not be the ideal solution, at least a DIY repair can buy you a bit of time.\nUltimately, if your windshield is cracked, you need to get it seen to as soon as possible. As with other types of vehicle repairs, it\u2019s always best to get quotes from several auto glass repair specialists before you make a final decision, bearing in mind that the cost can vary tremendously from one place to the next.\nAuto Accessories That Fit Your Needs And Budget Easily\tHow To Reduce Gap Auto Insurance Premiums", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pza.sanbi.org/podocarpus-elongatus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:EFWUOCTAP73LR56KRL5NCMP5YR3T3FT7", "length": 10034, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "pza.sanbi.org", "title": "Podocarpus elongatus | Plantz Africa", "raw_content": "Podocarpus elongatus (Ait.) L'Herit. ex Pers.\nCommon names: Breede River Yellowwood ( Eng. ), Breeriviergeelhout, westelike geelhout (Afr.)\nMany visitors to Kirstenbosch, remember the huge tree on the main lawn whose crown reached down to the ground and created a magical private sanctuary for anyone who stepped inside. This tree is a Breede River yellowwood, nearly as old as the Garden itself. It was planted as one of a pair, but the other one, equal in magnificence, was unfortunately blown down during a severe winter storm in May 1984.\nOn Tuesday 1 November 2005 a gale force North West wind hit Cape Town, blowing down the 'Magic Tree'. The wind split it in two pieces, exposing the roots and breaking many of the branches.\nThis event was met with much sadness by everyone that knew and loved the tree. But, instead of chopping it up and consigning it to the compost heap and woodstack, like its twin that blew down in 1984, Kirstenbosch staff decided to try to save it. It was cordoned off from the public to prevent both additional damage to the tree and potential accidents as we were not sure how stable it was. Tree experts were consulted, a percentage of the crown was cut back, some of the boughs were braced, the exposed roots were covered with soil and regularly watered, and we watched and waited. Although the newly exposed parts of the canopy showed signs of sunburn, it was not long before new shoots sprung up all over the now exposed old trunks. If it had been any one of our other species of yellowwood it would probably have died but Podocarpus elongatus has the ability to resprout from epicormic buds - i.e. buds on the trunk of the tree.\nUnlike the other yellowwoods that are tall trees with long straight boles, Breede River yellowwoods are usually multi-stemmed and as broad as they are high. It is the smallest of the South African yellowwoods, commonly reaching no more than 6 m in height, although trees in sheltered, well-watered ravines can reach 20 m. It is most often found growing in open, dry and exposed positions where it develops into a large gnarled bush or spreading shrub, or a small rounded tree.\nThe bark is smooth, grey to brown, sometimes peeling longitudinally in long narrow strips. Leaves are narrowly oblong-elliptic, usually 30 - 60 mm long and 3 - 5 mm broad, tapering to both apex and base, tough and leathery. They are spirally arranged and are usually crowded towards the ends of the shoots. Juvenile trees may have larger leaves. The foliage is blue-green or grey-green; trees from Clanwilliam and Ceres districts generally have more silvery-grey leaves than those from the Swellendam and Robertson districts. At Kirstenbosch many of the specimens that are in the garden were selected for their glaucous foliage (i.e. the greyish-blue bloom on the leaves).\nYellowwoods are dioecious, i.e. there are male trees and female trees. Male cones are about 25 x 3 mm, cream to pinkish when fresh and are solitary or in groups of 2 - 5 in leaf axils. They are made up of many spirally arranged scales, each scale bearing two pollen sacs on its lower surface. The female cones are solitary, also borne in the leaf axils, on a naked (i.e. it bears no leaves or scales) stalk 4-6 mm long. The female cone is reduced to 1 or 2 fertile scales, each bearing 1 seed, that sit on top of a conical fleshy receptacle 9-15 x 10-16 mm that is actually a few sterile scales that have fused with each other and with the cone axis.\nThe receptacle is glaucous green turning to bright scarlet when the seed is ripe ageing to almost black. The seeds are smallish dark blue-green to dark violet berries with a leathery shell, 7-10 mm in diameter. The seeds mature rapidly and are on the trees in late summer to autumn (from January to May). The seed does not remain viable for long and should to be sown soon after it is ripe. Germinated seedlings have 2 cotyledons.\nThis species is closely related and very similar to Podocarpus latifolius , the true yellowwood, and they are often difficult to identify where their ranges overlap. A way to distinguish them is to look for the scattered stomata (pores) on the upper surface of P. elongatus leaves - you will find them in longitudinal grooves on the upper surface of most leaves. The grooves are usually near the margin or the petiole and are visible to the naked eye but you will need 10x lens to see the stomata.\nBoth species have stomata on the lower surface of the leaves, but on Podocarpus latifolius they are very few to none on the upper surfaces. In general, the leaves of Podocarpus elongatus tend to be narrower and shorter, and more greyish to bluish and less shiny than Podocarpus latifolius. Also Podocarpus latifolius male cones are not found in groups but only singly or in pairs.\nPodocarpus elongatus is confined to the winter-rainfall Western Cape . It occurs from the Van Rhynsdorp area in the north through the Cedarberg and Bokkeveld Mountains to Swellendam in the south and does not occur naturally on the Cape Peninsula. It is found growing on deep sandy soils, often along rivers and streams. Large trees can be seen on the banks of the Breede River at the Bontebok National Park near Swellendam. Podocarpus elongatus is the only member of the family that is endemic to southern Africa.\nThe name Podocarpus is derived from the Greek podo- foot and karpos fruit, in reference to the fleshy 'foot', the receptacle, on which the fruit of some species develops. In fact Podocarpus elongatus was the first southern African yellowwood to be scientifically recognised and was chosen as the type species for the genus. Elongatus means drawn out in length, elongated or lengthened in Latin.\nThe genus Podocarpus belongs to the group of conifers that does not produce cones, but carry their seeds in round shells with a fleshy skin. The yellowwood family (Podocarpaceae) has 17 genera and approx. 125 species that occur mainly in the Southern Hemisphere in the tropics and subtropics with a few members extending into the temperate areas. The genus Podocarpus consists of nearly 100 species but there are only four species that occur in southern Africa: P. falcatus (Outeniqua yellowwood), P. henkelii (Henkel's or KwaZulu-Natal yellowwood), P. latifolius (true yellowwood) and P. elongatus ( Breede River yellowwood).\nPodocarpus elongatus is wind pollinated. It may be a primitive method, but is far from ineffective or random. A recent study shows that female P. elongatus ovules selectively extract P. elongatus pollen from the air; even though the air contains pollen from other species 98.9% of the sampled ovules contained only P. elongatus pollen. The foreign particles in 1.1% of the ovules were particles of black carbon and tiny grains of sand - no foreign pollen grains were found. Furthermore, one of the tree being studied was isolated and quite far from any male trees yet the ovules were pollinated.\nThe seeds are eaten and dispersed by small mammals and birds that relish the juicy brightly coloured receptacles. The leaves show adaptations to surviving in a dry environment - they have a thick cuticle, a layer of wax covering the leaves, resin canals, sunken stomata and conspicuous supporting tissue.\nP. elongatus has adapted to growing beside rivers and streams which are notoriously unstable - riverside plants are often partially up-rooted, knocked over or damaged by floods or rocks carried in the water, washed downstream when river banks subside etc. As a result it has evolved a survival strategy that the other southern African yellowwoods have not - it has the ability to resprout from epicormic buds i.e. buds on the trunk of the tree. In an undamaged tree with a full canopy these buds lie dormant, but if a tree falls or is knocked over or the crown is damaged and the trunks are exposed to the heat and light of the sun they spring to life sending out shoots that grow into branches that eventually repair the damage. Eugene Moll - personal communication\nAlthough the Breede River yellowwood produces good timber, comparable to that of the others, it is not of great economic importance because large straight pieces can seldom be obtained. It has a darker reddish tinge than the others and has many more knots thanks to its gnarled shrubby habit. Wood-turners and chair-makers used large quantities of it in the past, as did the wagon-builders around Swellendam.\nGrowing Podocarpus elongatus\nThe Breede River yellowwood is tougher and more drought-resistant than the other South African yellowwoods and makes a handsome medium-sized garden tree. The fruits on female trees will attract a variety of birds to the garden.\nFresh seed must be sown soon after harvesting, in late summer-autumn. Refrigeration will extend the life of the seed but not beyond a few months. Many of them, particularly those that are produced first, are parasitised. Waiting and collecting the later seeds usually produces more viable seeds. Sow into deep (10 cm) trays and keep them moist and shaded. The young seedlings should be kept in the semi-shade for at least two years before transplanting. This tree can also be propagated by tip cuttings taken in spring and placed in a mist house, but we have found that they do not transplant easily.\nPalmer, E. and Pitman, N. 1972 Trees of Southern Africa . A.A. Balkema, Cape Town.\nvan Wyk, P. & van Wyk, B. 1997 Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town\nJackson , W.P.U. 1990 Origins and Meanings of Names of South African Plant Genera. U.C.T. Printing Dept., Cape Town.\nFlowering Plants of Africa 50: pl. 1966\nLeistner, O.A. (ed.) 2000 Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera, Strelitzia 10. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.\nNieuwmeyer, Hans 2002 The Aerodynamics of Wind Pollination, Veld & Flora 88(2):73\nChristien Malan & Alice Notten\nNico , South Africa\nDie artikel is baie interessant, MAAR, dis jammer dat daar nie 'n detail-foto van die stam en bas is nie - want dis een van die vernaamste kenmerke om 'n boom aan uit te ken.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 14702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qualitymanagementsystem.com/what-is-iso/as-9000-the-aerospace-quality-management-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SBJCV4ZLE5NGDA325KGQHDXNRJMSCKEJ", "length": 4563, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "qualitymanagementsystem.com", "title": "AS 9000 - the Aerospace Quality Management System \u2014 Quality Management System", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / What is ISO? / AS 9000 \u2013 the Aerospace Quality Management System\nAS 9000 \u2013 the Aerospace Quality Management System\nWhen the ISO 9000 standard was first introduced, the aerospace industry took the program to heart and began reforming their quality management systems to comply with the standard. What many major manufacturers and suppliers soon discovered, however, was that the ISO standard did not go far enough in addressing the additional safety, risk management, and regulatory requirements of their business, so they augmented it with additional quality standards of their own. The result was a hodge-podge of company-specific quality management systems, many with competing, and in some cases contradictory, requirements, leaving suppliers and component vendors holding different sets of documents for each company with whom they did business.\nThe first effort at rectifying this issue was completed in 1997, when several of the big aerospace industry players, including Grumman, Rolls Royce, Lockheed-Martin, and General Electric got together with others to try and write a standard specific to their industry. This standard, titled AS 9000, was based on ISO 9001:1994, but added quality standards and best practices from across the industry.\nAS 9000 was barely off the printing presses when a larger group of sector players and international organizations, including the Aerospace Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA), and the American Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG), with oversight from the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), sat down and began to rewrite the standard again. The final result was the AS9100 standard, published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International in 1999. It was the first comprehensive standard written for the aerospace industry.\nThe driving factor behind the rewrite was to make it a truly global standard, touching all parts of the aerospace industry to keep costs down while maintaining compliance and ensuring quality. The new version helped to placate regulatory agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and others that felt that the ISO standards did not go far enough to ensure the safety and quality of the industry. To complement the ISO standards, AS 9100 encompassed all military and non-military sectors as well as the space and defense industries.\nThe AS9100 standard provides guidance for suppliers, designers, and manufacturers alike, and is now a several-part-series of standards that cover inspection, maintenance, and the requirements for stockpile suppliers and distributors. Although the entire ISO standard is contained within AS 9100, it is only about 70% of the total standard. The balance is aerospace-specific programs and topics, most of which can be backtracked to directives issues by the FAA including airworthiness, part certification, and identification marking. Beyond the ISO portion, some of the requirements specific to the aerospace industry included in AS9100 are:\nSubcontractor performance approval and review\nMaintenance, reliability, and safety\nVerification of design, validation and testing processes\nPurchased product verification\nProduct identification throughout its life cycle\nProduction machinery, tools and numerical control programs compliance\nWork performed at an outside supplier\u2019s facility\nTechnical documentation reporting and control\nAS 9100 has undergone two revisions since it was first published. The last rewrite was designed to coincide with the release of ISO 2001:2008, and is known as AS9100C. The most notable changes in AS9100C are the addition of new requirements for project management and risk management, two of the biggest concerns facing the industry today. The project management requirements were included to ensure that stakeholders had a say in the changes proposed by a company, as well as ensure that continuous improvement efforts followed along with the project management process. As for risk management and assessment, it has now been implemented as its own process, weaving in business, supply chain, cost, technical, program constraint and quality considerations. Each business must undergo a risk management review any time a new project is undertaken, a process is changed, or a product is modified. Acceptable programs, along with each assessed action item, must include a responsible party, mitigation criteria, completion of the criteria, and final acceptance to each line item.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 5569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotio.com/quote/I-tried-hard-to/338960", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4BNGFCIRZN3XKJCH5MPCWQ5ZCA7VX25R", "length": 242, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "quotio.com", "title": "I tried hard to meet her, but when I saw her in the str.. @Quotio", "raw_content": "This quote is just one of 8 total Kevin Brownlow quotes in our collection. 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The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of Oceania. Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government bureaucrat whose job is rewriting history and erasing people from existence. While his co-worker Parsons (Gregor Fisher) seems content to follow the state's laws, Winston starts to write in a secret diary despite the fact the \"Big Brother\" is watching everyone at all times by way of monitors. He silently suffers and tries to comprehend his oppression, which forbids individual human behaviors such as free thinking and sex. He meets Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), who works for the Ministry of Truth, and they engage in a stoic love affair. They are soon found out, and Winston is interrogated and tortured by his former friend O'Brien (Richard Burton in his final film appearance).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rafaelmoneo.com/en/noticias/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YTR7ZW3RS4CVOUPHDTILSDYG3RJNV4AV", "length": 3200, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "rafaelmoneo.com", "title": "\ufeff Noticias \u2013 Rafael Moneo Arquitecto", "raw_content": "ARCHITECTURE LECTURE ON THE DOMES OF THE MAQSURA\nAn audience of two hundred met in the assembly hall of the Obispado de C\u00f3rdoba for a presentation of the findings from the vault belonging the Mosque of al-Hakam II. Antonio Cruz, Rafael Moneo, Carmen Pin\u00f3s, El\u00edas Torres and Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero were the speakers.\nRAFAEL MONEO WINS THE PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE 2017\nRafael Moneo was distinguished with Japan\u00b4s most important award for the Arts, the Preamium Imperiale, in recognition of Moneo\u00b4s professional career. The ceremony was held in Tokyo and presided over by Prince Hitachi. Moneo is the fourth Spaniard to receive this prestigious award, after tenor Placido Domingo, sculptor Eduardo Chillida and painter Antonio T\u00e0pies.\nAwards/Lectures\nMONEO TO GIVE THE INAUGURAL SOANE ANNUAL LECTURE\nRafael Moneo has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Soane Medal, an annual award recognizing architects whose work has broadened and enriched the understanding of architecture and the built environment. As laureate, Moneo will give the first Soane Lecture, at the RIBA next November 1st.\nRAFAEL MONEO RECEIVES THE NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE PRIZE OF 2015\nThe Minister Rafael Catal\u00e1 has awarded the National Architecture Prize of 2015 to Rafael Moneo, citing the quality of his work, his contribution to architectural thought and his teaching in the most prestigious international Universities.\nThe retrospective of Rafael Moneo's work organized by the Fundaci\u00f3n Barri\u00e9 is being presented in Hong Kong. This exhibition has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of HKDI Gallery\nRAFAEL MONEO. 'EN EL ORIGEN, ROMA'. 30th Anniversary of the National Museum of Roman Art\nThe National Museum of Roman Art is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the museum with the seminar 'Thinking and Making Museums', whose inaugural lecture was given by Rafael Moneo with the title 'En el origen, Roma'\nINTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE. VI EDITION. Fondazione Frate Sole\nRafael Moneo is awarded the International Prize of Sacred Architecture VI Edition for the Iesu Church in San Sebastian (Spain).\nRAFAEL MONEO: ORIA D'HERM\u00c8S CHAIR. Salone del Mobile Milano 2016\nHerm\u00e8s presents the Oria d'Herm\u00e8s chair, inspired by the Oria chair designed in the early sixties by Rafael Moneo for his personal residence. The chair pays tribute to Alvar Aalto and to the tubular steel furniture of the Bauhaus.\nRAFAEL MONEO, ARCHITECTURE NATIONAL PRIZE FOR 2015\nRafael Moneo has been awarded the Spanish National Architecture Prize for 2015, in recognition of the quality of his work, recognized in Spain and around the world, for his contribution to architectural thought, as well as for his international teaching career.\nRAFAEL MONEO. UNA VISI\u00d3N TE\u00d3RICA DESDE LA PROFESI\u00d3N. MATERIALES DE ARCHIVO (1961-2013). Mexico City\nThe Fundaci\u00f3n Barri\u00e9 presents Rafael Moneo's exhibition in Mexico, thanks to Arquine's collaboration within the MEXTR\u00d3POLI 2016 framework and to the support of CEMEX.\nThis is the first retrospective of the Spanish architect and winner of the 1996 Pritzker Prize and 2012 Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts. The exhibition consists of 46 projects, with 17 models, 143 photographs and 98 drawings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rapid-bi.com/price-calculator.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GVEGGHMQGUNUQB7BLSW7SAD35HNBQRLG", "length": 274, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rapid-bi.com", "title": ":::. 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It's roof rats (Rattus rattus, a.k.a. citrus rat, fruit rat, black rat, or gray rat).\nA typical roof rat is between 13 to 18 inches long from nose to tail. It is commonly known as the black rat, but is often dark brown in color. Unlike other rats, their tails are longer than the length of their bodies and they have large ears. Roof rats will nest in trees, woodpiles, garbage and plants, but they generally like inside high places, like attics. They sometimes co-exist with sewer rats, though they like to be up high. They are good climbers and only need a hole the size of a quarter to gain entry. Roof Rats can have up to 8 litters per year each bearing 6-8 rats. They become sexually active 2-3 months after birth. Roof Rats are most active one hour after sunset and one hour before dawn. They primarily consume fruits and nuts, although they will eat anything. They tend to hoard food for consuming later. They are known for hollowing out citrus fruit in trees or on the ground.\nThe roof rat is an introduced species of rat native to southern Asia. It was brought to America on the first ships to reach the New World and has spread around the world. This rat is the same species that carried the bubonic plague around the world and is also the reservoir host for murine typhus. Roof rats are the worst rodent pest in the state of Florida and most abundant. The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) that is familiar to most people is rare in Florida.\nCopyright 2008-2017 RatsinFlorida.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://raynehall.booklikes.com/post/57612/deep-down-jack-reacher-16-5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DT6KYE2PAVL7S663ZKWR4OKSIYKZDTCY", "length": 1768, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "raynehall.booklikes.com", "title": "Deep Down (Jack Reacher, #16.5) - Rayne Hall, Fantasy and Horror Author", "raw_content": "Deep Down (Jack Reacher, #16.5)\nI like most Reacher books, but not this one. Am I the only one to shake my head over this book?Someone is selling military secrets (supposedly the specifications for a sniper rifle). The top military can't work out who it is, so they bring an undercover guy from the military police (Jack Reacher). They've identified four suspects, and Reacher's job is to find out who of the four is guilty.That's a promising premise.But... It's so blatantly obvious what information is really being sold here, and therefore who dunnit.I have no particular knowledge of military matters, yet all I needed to solve the mystery was a glance at the summaries of the transcripts at the beginning of the story. If I could work it out so easily, how come that military professionals could not?I was hoping that this blatantly obvious solution was a red herring, that there would be a surprise twist - but no.The story has several other weaknesses - structure, point-of-view, characterisation - which make it of a lower standard than what this author normally delivers.The price is also frustrating. I paid $1.99 for the ebook. For this price, I could get a decent full-length novel. I wouldn't mind paying that amount for a high quality story - but this story is not \"high quality\", not by my standards, anyway.You may enjoy this story if you're a Jack Reacher fan and enjoy anything featuring your hero, regardless of plot. You may also want to read it to see if you discover the solution as easily as I did.On the other hand, if the plausibility of a story plot or the depth of characterisation are important to you, you may find this book disappointing.If you're new to the Jack Reacher series, one of the other books by the author may be a better start.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rbma.exclaim.ca/music/article/kurt_vile_xylouris_white-le_th_tre_corona_montreal_qc_february_20", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BQLWNFYAVPBA263FKSKOUST7BQNCCENY", "length": 3006, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rbma.exclaim.ca", "title": "Kurt Vile / Xylouris White Le Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Corona, Montreal QC, February 20", "raw_content": "Kurt Vile / Xylouris White Le Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Corona, Montreal QC, February 20\nShrouded in long hair and weirdo boyish charm, the widely beloved and critically acclaimed Kurt Vile seemingly possesses the power of hypnotism; his understated confidence and undeniable skill draws crowds in with a magnetic pull. Touring in support of his latest LP b'lieve I'm goin down\u2026, Vile took to the Corona Theatre stage yesterday evening (February 20) in front of a sold-out crowd, his backing band the Violators in tow.\nOpening for Vile were Xylouris White, a duo composed of lauded Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian post-punk drummer Jim White. Joined by an upright bass player for the entirety of their set, the group proceeded to throw the audience into a state of mild \u2014 and fascinated \u2014 confusion. With no single geographical location grounding their music, the group infused their set with everything from klezmer to folk to punk and bluegrass, each track carrying a distinct flavour of its own. Surprisingly nuanced and masterfully played, Xylouris White's music managed to warm up the crowd just enough, with everyone turning to their friends afterwards to discuss what they'd just seen.\nShowered in blue light, Kurt Vile and co. took to the stage shortly afterwards with a quick \"Hey,\" and launched immediately into \"Dust Bunnies\" off b'lieve I'm goin down. Switching to the banjo for the second song \"I'm an Outlaw,\" and then to another guitar for \"Pretty Pimpin',\" it was clear that the night would feature a variety of instruments on constant rotation. Empty spaces between songs normally reserved for witty stage banter were instead filled with guitar changes, quick tuning and the occasional \"Thank you.\" While the transitions were sometimes choppy, the crowd fell silent, again and again, whenever Vile launched back into a new song, his twangy, milk'n'honey vocals sedating the crowd.\nWhile Vile began his set with a handful of new tracks, the latter half was defined by everything that came before. Performing \"KV Crimes\" and \"Wakin' on a Pretty Daze\" off his previous LP of the same name, followed by \"Jesus Fever\" (Smoke Ring for My Halo) and a heavy solo performance of \"Dead Alive\" and \"Hunchback\" (Childish Prodigy), it became clear that much of Vile's allure could be attributed to his consistency throughout the years.\nThe audience revelled in his trademark poetic nonchalance, everyone fixed in place, staring straight ahead, save for a few who were swaying back and forth, singing along with a smile. Finishing the main act with a stellar sax solo by bandmate Jesse Trbovich during \"Freak Train,\" Vile saluted the crowd before coming back on stage for the encore, holding the bottle of red wine that he had been nursing throughout the evening.\nClosing the night with \"Peeping Tomboy,\" \"Baby's Arms\" and a wild, resonating cover of Bruce Springsteen's \"Downbound Train,\" Vile mumbled that he'd be hanging out by the merch table afterwards, encouraging people to come by and say hello.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rdcounty.ca/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2018&month=9&day=13", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:16Z", "digest": "sha1:6OODJIYLGRYZ2LWHUWBY4IN6P653LHS3", "length": 82, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rdcounty.ca", "title": "Red Deer County, AB - Official Website", "raw_content": "September 13, 2018, 10:00 AM\u2009-\u20092:00 PM @ Red Deer County Centre - Council Chambers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 119.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://religiousaffections.org/series/worship-in-hebrews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JRDPTD65TTKJKFH2NLJICSVMCNB3VXN4", "length": 3910, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "religiousaffections.org", "title": "Series: Worship in Hebrews | Religious Affections Ministries: Conservative Christianity, Worship, Culture, Aesthetics, Classical Education, Homeschooling, Family", "raw_content": "Series: Worship in Hebrews\nThis entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Worship in Hebrews You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.\nWorship emerges in Hebrews as a major theme when on considers the overall structure of the book. Jones argues that two minor climaxes in the literary structure that lead to the climax of 12:18-29 reveal that the primary theme of the entire book is a call to \u201ccome near and worship.\u201d1 The first climax is found\u2026 Continue Reading\nSynthesizing a theology of worship in the New Testament has been a struggle for Christians since the early church. In particular, how Christ\u2019s coming, life, death, and resurrection altered and in some cases revolutionized the worship of OT Judaism has been the subject of considerable debate, and missteps in this matter have led to various\u2014sometimes\u2026 Continue Reading\nHebrews 12:18-29 provide an important summary of the book\u2019s argument concerning worship. The author\u2019s descriptions of these two contrasting mountains are instructive and important to his argument, highlighted by the emphatic position of the negative term \u03bf\u1f50 (\u201cnot\u201d) in verse 18 and the strongly negative term \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac (\u201con the contrary\u201d) in verse 22. Lane summarizes,\u2026 Continue Reading\nGod required OT saints to offer sacrifices with him as means of temporary forgiveness. These sacrifices themselves were imperfect, and they did nothing to change the heart of the one offering the sacrifice. They did not provide full atonement (10:4, 11), but rather a temporary, legal satisfaction of immediate wrath.1 They could not cleanse sin, but\u2026 Continue Reading\nSignificant discontinuities exist between OT and NT worship, and it is important to note that each of these cases of discontinuity stems from the author of Hebrews\u2019 primary discontinuity, that of the physical vs. the metaphysical. Human prophets, a mediator, priests, animal sacrifices, and a Temple each represent physical realties that Hebrew worshipers could see,\u2026 Continue Reading\nHebrews 12:18-29 is structured around a discontinuity of the location of worship, and the rest of the book reflects this emphasis. In Hebrews 12:18, Sinai stands as a representative for worship under the Law, and thus the location of this worship is first the Tabernacle and later the Temple. In contrast, worship for a Christian\u2026 Continue Reading\nWhat becomes apparent when studying worship in Hebrews, as exemplified by this central idea of faith, is that all of these continuities between OT and NT worship exist because they are metaphysical realities. Worship\u2019s focus, consequences for refusing it, its attitude, and faith are all metaphysical in nature both in OT and NT worship. This\u2026 Continue Reading\nFaith (\u03c0\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03da) stands in Hebrews as the supreme continuity between OT and NT worship since it functions as an essential link between the physical and metaphysical. The author of Hebrews defines faith as \u201cthe assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen\u201d (11:1). Two modifiers in the author\u2019s definition of faith reveal\u2026 Continue Reading\nThe theology of worship from the book of Hebrews is that Christian worship is drawing near to God through Jesus Christ by faith, and therefore it cannot be touched; not that there will be no physical involvement in earthly worship, for there is no such thing as disembodied worship. But the physical involvement or feeling is\u2026 Continue Reading\nThis entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Worship in Hebrews You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.\nThroughout the history of the Church, Christians have always been tempted to follow after more physical, more sensory forms of worship because of a misunderstanding of this discontinuity, and this is perhaps no more true than it is in the 21st century Church. 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It accommodates up to 4 people in its separate bedroom where a king-size bed is installed, and in the living room where additional sleeping space is available (a double convertible sofa). There is also a flat-screen plazma TV in the living room. Both the bathroom and the kitchen are fully fitted; the kitchen in particular has everything necessary for you to cook, make coffee and tea. Internet is also available", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Bibliography/A/Anderson-2001-Syst.-Biol.-50", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XYVFK2EW5WHS3CLWS7SAJUAUYQ4PN2RB", "length": 181, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "research.amnh.org", "title": "Anderson, 2001, Syst. Biol., 50 | Amphibian Species of the World", "raw_content": "Anderson, J. S. 2001. The phylogenetic trunk: maximal inclusion of taxa with missing data in an analysis of the Lepospondyli (Vertebrata, Tetrapoda). Systematic Biology 50: 170\u2013173.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 9328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/20857/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GJUNXEPLPMRIRUNDPXFGFVVAIJHJWUCE", "length": 1384, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk", "title": "LSHTM Research Online", "raw_content": "Public Health in History\nBerridge, V; Gorsky, M; Mold, A; (2011) Public Health in History. Open University Press. ISBN 978-0335242641 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20857\nThis fascinating book offers a wide ranging exploration of the history of public health and the development of health services over the past two centuries. The book surveys the rise and redefinition of public health since the sanitary revolution of the mid-nineteenth century, assessing the reforms in the post World War II years and the coming of welfare states. Importantly, the book also includes: A comparative examination of why healthcare has taken such different trajectories in different countries Case studies on malaria, sexual health, alcohol and substance abuse Exercises enabling readers to easily interact with and critically assess historical source material Visual materials and illustrations ranging from a fifteenth century syphilis sufferer to the 1980s HIV/AIDS mass media campaigns Written by a team of historians from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, this is the definitive guide for teaching the history of public health and health services. Public Health in History will engage health students, practitioners, policy makers and anyone who would like know more about these crucial areas of public health in countries across the global north and global south.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/3882616/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:13Z", "digest": "sha1:C7GKCHSK2MRQALTYJRUWN7HXKKCUFPXX", "length": 1001, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk", "title": "LSHTM Research Online", "raw_content": "Falsified antimalarials: a minireview.\nChaccour, C; Kaur, H; Del Pozo, JL; (2015) Falsified antimalarials: a minireview. Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 13 (4). pp. 505-9. ISSN 1478-7210 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1586/14787210.2015.1015990\nMalaria is a curable disease, provided timely access to efficacious drugs is sought. Poor quality and, in particular, falsified antimalarial drugs harm the population of malaria endemic areas; they put lives in peril, cause economic losses to patients, families, industry, and generally undermine the trust in health systems. The extent of the problem is not easily assessed, and although a prevalence of up to 35% of poor-quality antimalarials has been reported, this number should be interpreted with caution given the heterogeneity of methods used to measure it. The trade in falsified antimalarials can be curtailed by putting in place drug quality surveillance, better legislation and improving the access and affordability of these essential drugs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 166.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://riffsjournal.org/issues/volume-1-issue-2-oct-2017/dropping-pebbles-brian-david-stevens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:AV3ND6GNG6IZW47WYDELL6DHIZY4DR53", "length": 1299, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "riffsjournal.org", "title": "Dropping Pebbles \u2013 Brian David Stevens \u2013 Riffs", "raw_content": "Dropping Pebbles \u2013 Brian David Stevens\nA song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many different people. They are little bits of magic in that respect. They travel in infinite possible directions, to innumerable locations, whether a song itself has been heard by millions, or else more modestly received. Yet songs almost always originate from a single source \u2013 a person, or a small group of people. These are the people who drop the pebble into the lake. Sometimes they hang around to watch the ripples, and sometimes they don\u2019t. In this photo essay, and in the accompanying notes describing \u2018how we first met, on the warmest day\u2019, you can decide for yourself whether thoughts of \u2018peace or war, or the sins of industry, or the discontents of fame, or of obscurity\u2019 can be discerned. If you don\u2019t know some of the songs these people have lobbed into the lake, maybe you will choose to seek them out, and perhaps enable the songs to travel just a little further from the source. That\u2019s what they do.\nBrian David Stevens is a photographer based in London. He has work in The National Portrait Gallery and in the National Museums Of Scotland. Brian\u2019s work has been published worldwide. His favourite colour is gold.\nhttp://www.briandavidstevens.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rkdretailiq.com/news_published.php?id=30", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HVKCIXUMFYNJSXLIFKQ2X5JX2ZSM6MI6", "length": 1580, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rkdretailiq.com", "title": "rkd retail/iQ", "raw_content": "There was a time, not too long ago, when anyone looking for total immersion gambling would have headed to the island of Macau, off the coast of mainland China. But Macau\u2019s vision of itself is evolving, and, with the addition of the Cotai Strip, the complete \u2013 beyond gambling \u2013 Las Vegas experience is becoming a reality in this part of the world.\nWith direct connections to the Four Seasons Hotel Macau and the Venetian Casino, the new DFS Galleria, designed by rkd retail/iQ of Bangkok, promises to be the most complete luxury shopping destination in Macau. The complex focuses on retail brand assortment and presentation, and \u2013 with 60,000 sq.ft. \u2013 anchors the entire ground level of the retail podium.\nBuilding on the directive of ultimate luxury, rkd retail/iQ developed a concept of progressive experiences. \u201cBoutique\u201d galleria comprises 18 of the worlds\u2019 top luxury brands, while \u201cBeauty\u201d showcases 24 of the best cosmetics, treatment and fragrance brands. In the \u201cWorld of Luxury\u201d there are three areas of luxury boutiques consisting of six of the very finest jewelry brands. An impressive line-up of watchmakers and leading brands in fashion accessories.\nRKurt Durrant, president of rkd retail/iQ notes. \u201cA further departure from the traditional DFS was the inclusion of significant neutral and non-selling architectural spaces. The introduction of \u2018palette cleansing\u2019 transition zones showcase artwork, offer the opportunity for periodic change and provide a positioning element for DFS to express their artistic personality to complement the luxury retail environment.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 4306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roseburgsda.org/podcasts/1498/media_entries/26609", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6A7YEP2T4DAUPCLX6EF32MJ6AOJLZF2", "length": 14, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "roseburgsda.org", "title": "Roseburg Oregon USA - Media Entry", "raw_content": "\"Where Is God\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 96.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rpmrush.com/article/1533", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JRV65VGUXXDMRVOUQUHEXV7G36QBILA6", "length": 2455, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "rpmrush.com", "title": "How To Save Money On Your Car Repairs This Summer | RpmRush", "raw_content": "How To Save Money On Your Car Repairs This Summer\nWhen it comes to repairs for your car, some of them can come when you aren\u2019t prepared for the financial investment that it requires.\nHowever, not all car repairs have to cost a lot of money, if you are someone who is savvy enough to think outside the box and consider a few techniques to save money. Here are some tips for how to save money on your car repairs this summer, so you can still have enough money to fill up your tank, while still making sure your car is running properly.\nDo The Simple Things On Your Own\nThe workings of a car can often seem very daunting and intimidating, especially for those that are not familiar with how engines and the mechanics of a car work. However, there are plenty of things that you can do on your own that will save you money, and many of them aren\u2019t incredibly difficult to accomplish. You can learn to change your own oil, air filter and even spark plugs. Many of these tasks are quite simple, after just familiarizing yourself with how to do them. Once you know how to do them once, you can continue doing them to save you money year round.\nSmall Investments Make Big Differences\nIf you have a chipped, cracked or broken window, you could be doing your car some serious harm. First, consider the fact that running your air conditioning during the summer won\u2019t be nearly as effective if you have a broken window that doesn\u2019t insulate your vehicle. All-West Glass Ltd., who specializes in auto glass in Edmonton, suggest that cars with broken windows are more likely to be broken into. This can cause you even more concerns to deal with in the future. Be sure that you make these easy fixes as part of your summer repairs, in order to avoid them becoming larger issues in the future.\nFind A Trusted Mechanic\nIf you have a mechanic that you can trust, all of your car repairs are going to come much easier. Instead of relying on a big name body shop, find a local mechanic that you can develop a personal relationship with. In doing so, you can rely on them to ensure that they are suggesting only the repairs that you need, without being sold on extra items that aren\u2019t required for your vehicle.\nYou can save a lot of money by simply putting in a bit of extra effort with your car repairs this summer. Before you let things go to the wayside and think that those repairs can wait, just remember that a few early fixes can prevent timely mistakes in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 4589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rubaka.angelfire.com/page30.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TCKEREWIMSYBQM6XGR4EXL7N6VNNHRUI", "length": 7000, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rubaka.angelfire.com", "title": "treadmill This Life", "raw_content": "S. Alphabet soup. Professional reviewers and consumers alike have accused the Life Fitness treadmill of relying more on a carefully marketed brand name than a well constructed treadmill, but for every Life Fitness treadmill detractor out there, you will find an exerciser who just loves their Life Fitness treadmill. There have been a lot of discussions about whether to put a hyphen in the domain name. It made perfect sense to than It best certainly difficult to find the middle ground The the enthusiasts to naysayers, but there does appear to be some common ground upon which the fitness equipment consumer can find a the perch.com.\" No 'die' t 4 me\" with a lot of stress on the word \"die\" and shook her head with a worried and confused look on her face.com domain you want is already taken.com or .. I am going to assume that most people who read this little article are probably trying to do some SEO (search engine optimization) themselves, and one of the best places to start is with the domain name itself. After all, LifeFitness treadmills are one of the most famous pieces of exercise equipment available in todays fitness market place. I went through all the \"short\" and \"easy to remember\" names I could think of, but they all were taken. A few years ago I needed a domain name for a weight loss product. To dash or not to dash. Some people try to make their domain name memorable by using puns, jokes, wordplay, or number combinations. One domain is all you need to set up a website. By the way, . Ever wonder what's best. . Just be careful. Just to continue this discussion on extensions for a moment.com and . Having the right domain name, or domain names, can bring more traffic to your site. There is one danger to be recognized if you choose to use the hyphen. If you want to attract both people within your country and those in other countries, have both. chickensoup vs. This presence points towards a general consensus reached by both LifeFitness treadmill supporters and detractors alike the Life Fitness treadmill is better suited to the professional exerciser than the novice. The Life Fitness treadmill would not be out of place in a commercial gym, and their treadmills indeed grace many such fitness emporiums with their glossy looks. What the heck do those things mean anyways and does it matter. People will remember it and associate it with your business. So, in most cases, .org will not matter one way or another..us.ws, or . Should you get a .tv is the top level domain for the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu and . Although we are not going to get into Meta tags in this article, keywords are important. Example. You must make sure it is clearly shown in any printed advertising or representations, and if giving the domain name verbally, go to great lengths to make sure that your listener understands the hyphens MUST be inserted. Despite the fact that the LifeFitness treadmills are often the first choice of the professional gym, it is, in fact, not always the top recommendation of the seasoned runner. I went to have a magnetic sign made for my car, and the lady read it this way. They use various factors to rank the pages they visit, and sometimes the words used in the domain can increase the rank of the page. Well, in today's world, most people entering the internet world are familiar with . So are LifeFitness treadmills really all theyre cracked up to be.net. LifeFitness treadmills sit comfortably in the higher price bracket of the treadmill world, and this is reflected in their sleek design and commercial looks. Branding.com on the end as that is what they are most used to hearing.. When passing someone your domain name whether verbally or in writing, make sure they see or hear the extension. Also consider the following factors when choosing your primary domain. Why more than one domain name.net. Even if hardly any search engines look at the \"keyword\" Meta tag any more, they are still searching the content of your site for keywords found within the text of the body, \"alt\" tags on the images, and \"title\" tags on anchor text and other links. In some cases, a domain name may be associated with an easily recognized, or branded, product.biz or . This brings up another point. Let's say that you're creating a website for Barb's Specialty Pet Products.. However, if you are working with a product or company which has or is in the process of branding itself, some of the information given above about selecting domain names might not be relevant. And while a hundred people praise the brand to the hilt, another hundred can be found who find that the LifeFitness treadmill is more about hype than anything else. Think about keywords.tv, .ws is the top level domain for Samoa. Taking number 3 and number 4 together, the best of both worlds is to have a business name that is a keyword or phrase relevant to the business and use that as the domain name. And while the professionals might not like the Life Fitness treadmills, consumers certainly do, as any perusal of the consumer reviews their treadmills will illustrate. I will not get into country specific top level domains at the moment, as this article is primarily directed at those either doing business in the U. Cute's nice, but. They may therefore be more comfortable buying from you. Humankind is never going to universally agree about anything, and the LifeFitness treadmill in the perfect example of this. Should the domain name be barbsspecialtypetproducts. Chances are that the . I then came up with the domain name NoDiet4Me. In the end, this might be the most important consideration when purchasing a LifeFitness treadmill, that the people who have purchased them before you think that they hit the right exercising spot. The site worked fine and got a lot of traffic and made me a lot of money, but now I wonder if I lost any traffic because of my domain name. Many people are not that internet savvy and will hear \"bobs dash bicycles\" and still type in \"bobsbicycles\".This is not only for the eyes of internet surfers, but for the search engines as well. People from outside the country of the extension may be less inclined to buy if the business looks foreign to them. But the people who use the Life Fitness treadmill cant be wrong, and they are telling you that the these treadmills are a hit. Each domain could direct to the same site, with each audience seeing the domain intended for them.. After that, they tend to get confused. I can't honestly answer based on my own experiences, as I use both, but the consensus seems to be from my research that it is easier for a search engine to categorize and rank a site that has a hyphen than one where the words are run together. The brand name is however recognisable to many consumers, and this familiarity is converted into LifeFitness treadmills purchases at a high rate. To use my earlier example, simply saying, \"My website is bobsbicycles\", will probably cause people just to type in the . Will it be okay to get a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 7021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rutlandcountyaudubon.org/journal/tag/christmas-bird-count?currentPage=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VH5BWTNMTP4NZZUETGJNTWEBI65MID7H", "length": 8882, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "rutlandcountyaudubon.org", "title": "Rutland County Audubon Society - Birds and Bird Watching in Rutland County, Vermont, USA - Birding Journal", "raw_content": "Bohemian Waxwings graced us with their presence during the CBC With nearly a foot of snow on the ground, the forecast of another day of snow on Saturday, December 29, while welcomed by ski enthusiasts, was of some concern to those who had planned and committed themselves to Rutland\u2019s 39th annual Christmas Bird Count. Despit snow all day as forecast, the full roster of 8 teams nevertheless took to the field while 5 feeder watchers from the comfort of home tallied all and every bird bold enough to show itself or be heard.\nUnder the circumstances it was to be expected that relatively fewer miles would be traveled on foot in comparison to miles traveled by car. However, a nice diversity of species was observed, 49 to be exact, only two species less than the running ten year average of 51. Six thousand four hundred seventy-one individual birds were tallied, a significant decrease from the 8,884 running ten year average.\nTwo new numerical records were set for the count, namely 78 Common Raven and 775 Common Redpoll. The former was attributed to a carcass upon which the ravens were feasting on the Clarendon Flats and the latter reflecting the predicted implosion of the species into Vermont this winter. Unusual, but not unique to the Rutland CBC, was a single Great Black Back Gull at the Rutland transfer station, two Wilson\u2019s Snipe in a drainage ditch, a single Rusty Blackbird and a single White-winged Crossbill observed at a feeder.\nAt day\u2019s end several brave souls made it to the countdown gathering and potluck supper at the Proctor library, and, more importantly, safely home again! An elegant sufficiency of food appeared for a balanced meal while all 8 teams each had a representative to report the day\u2019s observations!\nWell done, Rutland! Here\u2019s to next year\u2019s fortieth count.\nCommon Redpolls are here this yearFirst, a look back at Rutland County Audubon\u2019s past participation in the Christmas Bird Count tradition. By way of keeping track, RCAS designated last year\u2019s count as #112/38. The numbers indicate that it was the 112th national count and the 38th local count. That\u2019s right - Rutland County Audubon supporters have undertaken 38 local Christmas Bird Counts while on the national level counts have been undertaken all the way back to Christmas Day 1900. The first count was an alternative to the post-Christmas \u201cside hunt\u201d tradition of wanton slaughter. The Christmas Bird Count phenomenon of data collection is both the longest running and most broadly based citizen science project in this country. Data already collected continues to drive legislation and policies that designate, protect and sustain birds in general and those in crisis in particular.\nChristmas Bird Counts must occur between December 14 and January 5. Count circles of a 15-mile diameter once designated remain constant. The center of our local circle is where Route 4 crosses the Otter Creek in Center Rutland. The area covered radiates 7.5 miles all around from there. There are 19 counts scheduled to take place this year in Vermont.\nOver the 38 years the Rutland count has tallied 98 species. Results from count 112/38 indicate that 8,744 individual birds were counted and 60 species were observed. New records continue to be set and last year was no exception with counts of 819 Canada Geese, 1 Eastern Screech-Owl, 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker, 136 American Robin and 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers. These observations were collected by 34 field observers and 6 feeder watchers.\nCount # 113/39 will take place this year on Saturday, December 29. Field teams will be assembled and field captains will be in touch with their members who will cover their designated area. As always feeder watchers located within the count circle are very welcome. Note a major change this year: There is NO PARTICIPATION FEE. Results both national and international will be available when compiled on the internet and not in print form.\nAn important tradition of most counts is the \u201ccountdown pot luck dinner\u201d and that of the Rutland count is no exception. We will gather at the Proctor Free Library following the count at 6 o\u2019clock. Participants and spouses/family are asked to bring a hot dish, a salad or a desert. Beverages, flatware and utensils will be provided.\nIf you participated last year you will be contacted, if not please give Roy a call at 775-3461. More eyes looking, more birds tallied, the end result is more fun!\nFor a list of all the CBCs in Vermont, click here.\nFor prior years' summaries, click here.\nrcas 38th christmas bird count results\nWhy, you ask, give up eight or nine hours of your time to participate in an annual count of the birds?\nTufted TitmouseCould it be because there are birds out there to be counted and birds are part of our natural world? And the more one knows about them the more one appreciates them and the greater the wonderment? Or is it because there are those fellow enthusiasts whose addiction and concentration may rival your own and whose company is to be enjoyed?\nHowever, striking a more rational stance, don\u2019t forget there is a tradition now stretching back one hundred and eleven years of generations of birders who were similarly motivated to record and to contribute their time and their efforts to an ever expanding database of information of which the local contribution is a mere miniscule, nevertheless essential part! With the enormous capabilities of computers to store data, Christmas Bird Counts have now gone global expanding beyond the U.S.A and Canada to many countries of the Western Hemisphere.\nSaturday, December 31, was the appointed day for Rutland County\u2019s thirty-eighth annual count. The weatherman\u2019s prediction was for sleet and rain after midnight but we were spared! Intermittent light rain and a generally cloudy day were as favorable conditions as could be expected for this season of the year. Our standard 15-mile diameter circle was divided as usual into eight sectors. It was covered by eight designated teams of three to seven members each with the mandate and responsibility to record with due diligence the numbers and species of birds present. These teams totalling 38 individuals traveled 289 miles by car and another 38 miles on foot. While at home six households within the count circle maintained a watchful eye on their feeders over a combined period of 48 hours.\nFollowing the day's efforts, and despite it being New Year's Eve, over two dozen participants gathered at the Proctor Library to enoy a bountiful potluck and to count down the day's birds.\nWith the last list submitted and a final tally made, the data for the local Rutland Count is ready to be transmitted electronically and gathered with between two to three thousand similar counts from across the hemisphere.\nRoy tallies the day's resultsFor our Rutland County count, 58 bird species were observed on count day with two additional species not seen on count day but during count week (three days prior and three days following the actual CBC day), yielding a grand total of 60 species. As to individual birds, a total of 8,744 was tallied on count day. By way of comparison the running ten year average of species for the Rutland count is 52.3, an increase this year of 15%, and 9,200 individual birds, a decrease this year of 5%.\nThis year\u2019s list:\nGreat Blue Heron (1), Canada Goose (819*), American Black Duck (14), Mallard (329), Hooded Merganser (1), Common Merganser (7), Northern Harrier (2), Sharp-shinned Hawk (1), Cooper\u2019s Hawk (2), Red-tailed Hawk (24), American Kestrel (1), Merlin (CW), Peregrine Falcon (1), Ruffed Grouse (2), Wild Turkey (74), Wilson\u2019s Snipe (3), Rock Pigeon (581), Mourning Dove (603), Eastern Screech Owl (1**), Barred Owl (3), Belted Kingfisher (2), Red-bellied Woodpecker (6*), Downy Woodpecker (65), Hairy Woodpecker (43), Northern Flicker (1), Pileated Woodpecker (10), Horned Lark (CW), Blue Jay (302), American Crow (794), Common Raven (19), Black-capped Chickadee (873), Tufted Titmouse (44), Red-breasted Nuthatch (14), White-breasted Nuthatch (97), Brown Creeper (20), Carolina Wren (8), Golden-crowned Kinglet (10), Eastern Bluebird (30), American Robin (136*), Northern Mockingbird (1), Gray Catbird (1), Cedar Waxwing (244), Northern Shrike (2), European Starling (2276), Yellow-rumped Warbler (3**), Northern Cardinal (79), American Tree Sparrow (91), Chipping Sparrow (1), Song Sparrow (3), White-throated Sparrow (7), Dark-eyed Junco (221), Snow Bunting (13), Red-winged Blackbird (73), Brown-headed Cowbird (5), Purple Finch (11), House Finch (149), Common Redpoll (29), Pine Siskin (15), American Goldfinch (195), House Sparrow (382).\nBOLD Equal to previous Numerical Record.\nBOLD* New Numerical Record.\nBOLD** New Species to the Count.\nThe thirty-eight local Rutland counts have now tallied 100 species!\nHistorical information on Rutland's counts and CBCs across the hemisphere, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 17801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rvn.co.za/blog/entry/2016-11-14-18-44-04", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TIRLG3LVFVGZS46OERD2VYFQPUJJ4H7G", "length": 207, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rvn.co.za", "title": "New Draft Construction Sector Codes", "raw_content": "Herewith a link to our LinkedIn page with an article on the Draft Construction Sector Codes as well as videos to watch:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKeb0jMQvWo\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONnaL_XSJRE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 80.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com/samsung_z650i_men.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WL6EMMP6C4OZMOSNZCJVAEUQO5BA2HNU", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "samsung.free-cellphone-wallpapers.com", "title": "Men Samsung Z650i Samsung Z650i - Free Cell Phone Wallpaper - Mobile phone Background - Cell phone Images", "raw_content": "[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Men Samsung Z650i wallpapers 6 >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 59.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samuel-warde.com/tag/world-peace/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:L746FKB4KUT2XIUZ6WPQLMRRXUXQKBSJ", "length": 961, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "samuel-warde.com", "title": "World Peace Archives - Samuel Warde, Writer", "raw_content": "Obama Just Forced Iran To Surrender Its Nuclear Stockpile \u2013 Conservatives Silent\nBy Samuel Warde on January 4, 2016 Defense Homeland Security War and Foreign Policy, Important accomplishments of President Obama, International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Iran Agreement, International Peace Treaties, Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful now, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Obama Forced Iran To Surrender Its Nuclear Stockpile, The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, World Peace Barack Obama, Defense, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, War\nShare on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Obama\u2019s Nuclear deal scored a major victory last week; however, conservatives remain silent. Iran has surrendered most of its nuclear stockpile to Russia in a major step towards fulfilling President Obama\u2019s controversial nuclear agreement. The agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is an [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samuelokonkwok.blogspot.com/2016/05/5-things-to-remember-when-someone-you.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DCWIL35RHKYLKKZDG6PVFQDMXRZLPX5M", "length": 6289, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "samuelokonkwok.blogspot.com", "title": "5 Things to Remember When Someone You Love Loses Someone They Love", "raw_content": "5 Things to Remember When Someone You Love Loses Someone They Love\n1. A person who\u2019s grieving already knows that time heals wounds, and they don\u2019t need to be reminded of it.\nWhen you\u2019re grieving, everyone wants to remind you that time will heal your pain, but no one can seem to tell you exactly what you\u2019re supposed to do and how you\u2019re supposed to cope right now. And that\u2019s all you really want to know.\nBecause it\u2019s right now that you can\u2019t sleep. It\u2019s right now that you can\u2019t eat. It\u2019s right now that you still hear his voice, and smell his scent, and sense his presence, even though you know he\u2019s not here anymore. It\u2019s right now that all you seem to be capable of is crying. So despite the fact that you intellectually know all about time\u2019s power to heal wounds, if you had all the time in the world right now, you still wouldn\u2019t know what to do with the immediate, intense pain you feel.\nRealize this, and treat those who are grieving accordingly. Don\u2019t remind them that time heals. Instead, remind them that you\u2019re with them right now, and that you\u2019ll be available tomorrow too. Remind them that you love them, and that you\u2019re standing beside them through their grief. Remind them that they aren\u2019t going through this alone.\n2. Grief doesn\u2019t suddenly disappear, and some days are much better than others.\nWhen someone you love passes away (or simply leaves), and you\u2019re not expecting it, you don\u2019t lose them all at once. You lose them a little bit at a time over weeks, months and years \u2013 the way snail mail gradually stops coming to an address, and a person\u2019s scent slowly fades from the pillows and even from the clothes they used to wear.\nEveryone grieves in their own way. For some of us, it could take longer or shorter. One thing you can be certain of, however, is that grief never completely disappears. An ember still smolders inside our grieving hearts, even when we\u2019ve moved forward with our lives. Most days we don\u2019t notice it, but, out of the blue, it may flare to life. This reality is hard to deal with. We think we\u2019ve accepted that they\u2019re gone \u2013 that we\u2019ve grieved and it\u2019s over \u2013 and then BOOM! One little thing happens, and we feel like we\u2019ve lost that person all over again.\nThis is exactly why caring for someone who\u2019s grieving requires incredible patience.\n3. The grieving process exhausts and consumes a person, which is why you can\u2019t take their withdrawn behavior personally.\nRelentless exhaustion is a common side effect of grief. Just getting out of bed in the morning can be an overwhelming and excruciating experience for a while. Also, someone suffering from grief may feel OK one moment and feel completely heartbroken the next, even if the environment around them hasn\u2019t changed one bit. This can result in them canceling plans, departing get-togethers early, or saying no far more often than you\u2019d like. Just remember it\u2019s not about you \u2013 it has nothing to do with what you did or didn\u2019t do. These are just some of the prevalent side effects working through the grieving process.\nDo your best to not take anything they do too personally. People can only give to others what they have, and deep grief takes almost everything away from a person. All your actions and words should come from a place of love, but that doesn\u2019t mean your grieving loved one will always be loving in return, and that\u2019s OK. When you do not take things personally, you liberate yourself \u2013 you open yourself to loving someone who truly needs you, generously, and without letting needless expectations get in the way of the immeasurable amounts of support and affection you are capable of giving.\n4. A person who\u2019s grieving still wants to smile about the good times, and it\u2019s OK to help them reminisce.\nIn the long run, grief can devour us, or it can enlighten us. It depends on what we focus on. We can decide that a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end earlier than we expected, or we can recognize that every single moment of it had more meaning than we dared to accept at the time \u2013 so much meaning it frightened us, so we just lived, just took for granted the time spent together every day, and didn\u2019t allow ourselves to consider the sacredness of it.\nWhen a wonderful relationship ends abruptly we suddenly see what was there all along \u2013 it wasn\u2019t just a hug and a smile, not just a long walk together, not just meeting for lunch and talking about politics, people, and another day at work. It was EVERYTHING \u2013 all the little intricacies of life shared by two souls. The answer to the mystery of living is the love and respect we share sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss awakens us to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of a wonderful relationship that\u2019s been lost, we\u2019re driven to our knees.\nWhen this happens to someone you love \u2013 when they are mourning the loss of someone they love \u2013 help them focus on all those good, imperfect times worth smiling about. Help them counterbalance the weight of their loss with the weight of their gratitude for what preceded the loss.\n5. Grief can be a burden, but also a healthy anchor for healing and living well.\nAs human beings, we sometimes get used to the weight of grief and how it holds us in place. For instance, Angel once told me, \u201cMy brother will die over and over again for the rest of my life, and I\u2019m OK with that \u2013 it keeps me closer to him.\u201d This was Angel\u2019s way of reminding me that grief doesn\u2019t disappear. Step-by-step, breath-by-breath, it becomes a part of us. And it can become a healthy part of us too.\nAlthough we may never completely stop grieving, simply because we never stop loving the ones we\u2019ve lost, we can effectively leverage our love for them in the present. We can love them and emulate them by living with their magnificence as our daily inspiration. By doing this, they live on in the warmth of our broken hearts that don\u2019t fully heal back up, and we will continue to grow and experience life, even with our wounds. 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E-mail: elise_feingold{at}nih.gov\nENCODE Project Scientific Management: National Human Genome Research Institute (E. A. Feingold, P. J. Good, M. S. Guyer, S. Kamholz, L. Liefer, K. Wetterstrand, F. S. Collins).Initial ENCODE Pilot Phase Participants: Affymetrix, Inc. (T. R. Gingeras, D. Kampa, E. A. Sekinger, J. Cheng, H. Hirsch, S. Ghosh, Z. Zhu, S. Patel, A. Piccolboni, A. Yang, H. Tammana, S. Bekiranov, P. Kapranov, R. Harrison, G. Church, K. Struhl); Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (B. Ren, T. H. Kim, L. O. Barrera, C. Qu, S. Van Calcar, R. Luna, C. K. Glass, M. G. Rosenfeld); Municipal Institute of Medical Research (R. Guigo, S. E. Antonarakis, E. Birney, M. Brent, L. Pachter, A. Reymond, E. T. Dermitzakis, C. Dewey, D. Keefe, F. Denoeud, J. Lagarde, J. Ashurst, T. Hubbard, J. J. Wesselink, R. Castelo, E. Eyras); Stanford University (R. M. Myers, A. Sidow, S. Batzoglou, N. D. Trinklein, S. J. Hartman, S. F. Aldred, E. Anton, D. I. Schroeder, S. S. 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Shin, J. Schein); Broad Institute (M. Clamp, K. Lindblad-Toh, J. Chang, D. B. Jaffe, M. Kamal, E. S. Lander, T. S. Mikkelsen, J. Vinson, M. C. Zody); Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (P.J.deJong, K.Osoegawa, M.Nefedov, B.Zhu); National Human Genome Research Institute/Computational Genomics Unit (A. D. Baxevanis, T. G. Wolfsberg); National Human Genome Research Institute/Molecular Genetics Section (F. S. Collins, G. E. Crawford, J. Whittle, I. E. Holt, T. J. Vasicek, D. Zhou, S. Luo); NIH Intramural Sequencing Center/National Human Genome Research Institute (E. D. Green, G. G. Bouffard, E. H. Margulies, M. E. Portnoy, N. F. Hansen, P. J. Thomas, J. C. McDowell, B. Maskeri, A. C. Young, J. R. Idol, R. W. Blakesley); National Library of Medicine (G. Schuler); Pennsylvania State University (W. Miller, R. Hardison, L. Elnitski, P. Shah); The Institute for Genomic Research (S. L. Salzberg, M. Pertea, W. H. Majoros); University of California, Santa Cruz (D. Haussler, D. 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The pilot phase of the Project is focused on a specified 30 megabases (\u223c1%) of the human genome sequence and is organized as an international consortium of computational and laboratory-based scientists working to develop and apply high-throughput approaches for detecting all sequence elements that confer biological function. The results of this pilot phase will guide future efforts to analyze the entire human genome.\nYou are going to email the following The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 8550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scrantoncanoeclubgolfcourse.weebly.com/blog/archives/12-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2UKLJHIHN5UNJSJAPAZYO7RWCJFJAIUD", "length": 370, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "scrantoncanoeclubgolfcourse.weebly.com", "title": "Blog Archives", "raw_content": "The above image is an Ash Tree under attack by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). While hunting in the woods in Forkston Twp., I noticed several of the Ash trees being affected by the EAB. Unless the trees are treated with an insecticide, they will die. Fortunately, we only have a few Ash Trees on our golf course property located in the wooded section near our new pro shop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scs-forum.forumotion.com/t25-free-desktop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:62DS3KHQO5DP55G2GQKRRCDOTVQD37VN", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "scs-forum.forumotion.com", "title": "FREE DESKTOP", "raw_content": "Size 1024X768 download here:\nhttp://www.shabbyprincess.com/download.asp?link=169", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 199.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scv-habitatagency.org/146/Plan-Participants", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FMDJNNOFZFWHKUWXMOCO7XCRUPX5MZAK", "length": 508, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "scv-habitatagency.org", "title": "Plan Participants | Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency, CA", "raw_content": "The Habitat Plan was prepared by six local agencies (also known as Local Partners):\nIn developing the Habitat Plan, these Local Partners worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the two agencies responsible for applicable state and federal laws pertaining to endangered species. USFWS and CDFW are collectively referred to as the Wildlife Agencies.\nCollectively, the Local Partners and the Habitat Agency are referred as Co-Permittees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 116.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://secularalliance.ca/news/one-religion-beyond-criticism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YCC75O4RJOOVOFOH6HAEFNCHHPDNL5YP", "length": 122, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "secularalliance.ca", "title": "One religion beyond criticism", "raw_content": "One religion beyond criticism\nhttp://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/09/10/robert-fulford-one-religion-beyond-criticism/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sergecote.blogspot.com/2016/02/encouragement.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4A7FREFEBWHMLHDLL64HROBCWSRAJ3N", "length": 944, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sergecote.blogspot.com", "title": "From Mage Mind: Encouragement", "raw_content": "A little word of encouragement can change a lot of things.\nToo many people are underestimating the power of encouragement. They think that it doesn\u2019t matter. In the end, it will always matter. And sometimes, it\u2019s all that matters.\nBe true with your encouragement, say what you really think and like. And say it with simple words. No need to get complicated here.\n\u201cIf you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it \u2013 young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous \u2013 is changed by it.\u201d \u2013 John C. Maxwell\nAnd even better, those good words will bring back more then you gave. Its wheel of good energy, you have to start it moving and then it will roll on its own. You\u2019ll find out that you\u2019re giving and getting continuously.\nIf you choose to take that path, you\u2019ll find out that life will be nicer.\nLabels: business, encouragement, john c maxwell, money, path, success", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sfbayproductions.com/securus-technologies-and-govpaynet-partner-to-improve-communication-in-correctional-facilities/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PJMQV4RYPQPDFZNRLZDWIECHCHOJRBBB", "length": 2319, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sfbayproductions.com", "title": "Securus Technologies and GovPayNet Partner To Improve Communication In Correctional Facilities \u2013 SF Bay Productions", "raw_content": "Securus Technologies and GovPayNet Partner To Improve Communication In Correctional Facilities\nby BayAreaMan on February 5, 2018\nGovPayNet is a firm that specializes in credit card processing, and services. The company serves about 25% of American citizens. It boasts of market presence and the news that it was recently acquired by Securus Technologies came as a surprise to many. Moreover, the company offers services for paying court fines, cash bails, and traffic violations. On the other hand, Securus Technologies provide technological solutions to correctional facilities, for crime and investigations department, and law enforcement.\nBackground Look\nSecurus has worked with other firms to improve their services, and reach more clients. It is among the leading technological firms in the state, and boasts of customer loyalty. Despite its milestones in the industry, Securus finds it necessary to acquire modern technology. This prompted them to acquire GovPayNet to improve service delivery and reach more clients. Although stakeholders were not sure at the beginning whether the deal would go through, everything worked out eventually. Securus is hopeful that the acquisition of GovPayNet will enable them to offer quality services and offer variety of services. Since GovPayNet specializes in credit card solutions, Securus said that they will retain solutions offered by the company to attract customers. Moreover, Securus wants to retain customers from the company, hence the idea to continue offering their services.\nRobert Pickens, the President of Securus, is hopeful that GovPayNet will improve service delivery, and help them reach a wide audience. Pickens also pledged to continue working the management of GovPayNet to come up with strategies to improve the company, and how they can benefit from the process. He assured customers that Securus is determined to offer quality service and its recent acquisition is a step towards that goal. The management of GovPayNet also expressed optimism that Securus will be more effective and they will help when called upon. The future of Securus Technologies looks bright after the acquisition of GovPayNet.\nPosted in Inmate Communication Technology\n\u00abPrevious Whitney Wolfe Starts A New Venture\nNext\u00bb Dr. Walden Is One Of The Most Accomplished Women In Austin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sggpnews.org.vn/culture_art/book-exhibition-celebrates-day-of-national-unity-12098.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:41Z", "digest": "sha1:BEBYG3WYZ6J23ZIEDBODPWSCO5GLYUXN", "length": 784, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sggpnews.org.vn", "title": "Book exhibition celebrates day of national unity | Culture/art | SGGP English Edition", "raw_content": "Book exhibition celebrates day of national unity\nA book exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of Southern liberation and national reunification opened at Ho Chi Minh City General Sciences Library on April 27.\nThe event themed \u201cThe country's unity\u201d features more than 10,000 books and documents on the anti-American Resistance War, South\u2019s liberation, and Vietnam in the development and integration.\nMany activities will be held during the event, such as workshops and chats with authors.\nOn the occasion, Tre(Youth) Publishing House has announced the reprint of the famous novel, Van Bai Lat Ngua (Put your cards on the table) by revolutionary writer Tran Bach Dang. It is one of the best war and history novels on the anti-American Resistance War.\nThe display will run until May 1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sheptess.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:18Z", "digest": "sha1:NUGGHWVPUYF3MSCDXNWTESVXORGRRFHZ", "length": 902, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "sheptess.co.uk", "title": "Sheptess Home Page", "raw_content": "Sheptess\nMy wife and I have been going to Menorca since 2004 and we love it. Read about the History of Menorca.\nI am not an expert, but I have found information available for free online which I would like to share with you.\nI try to write something on a regular basis, i hope you may find something here of interest.\nWelcome to my Web Pages. I will try and put useful information here. If you have any comments please contact me on the About Me page or click here.\nAs you see by the logo on the left, I am a Bristol Rovers fan and have been since I was a young lad growing up in Southmead, but leaving when I was 18 to join The Army.\nI am still working on this site and I am amending pages every day do please come back and also email me to tell what you think.\nHong Kong 1984 with my Wife and Daughter. Read more about me by clicking the link above.\ngenealogy-guide.org.uk\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 Mike Smith", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shop.edcpub.com/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=110847", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:EQMCAJY7SEODCDXAJQQ276BFI6LPUBWC", "length": 108, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shop.edcpub.com", "title": "EDC Online Store", "raw_content": "Art Coloring Book with Stickers\nThis book is full of pictures based on famous works of art for you to color.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shtetle.com/shtetls_mog/konohovka/konohovka_eng.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:C2FUMMO2R5RI4F6UUPYQ7EDISXLW6LCY", "length": 604, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "shtetle.com", "title": "My shtetl\\Konohovka", "raw_content": "The village of Karpachi (now Konokhovka), which consisted of 15 houses and had the population of 61 people and were burned in September, 1943.\nPlace of execution of about 60 Jews from Karpachi (now Konokhovka) in autumn 1941 on the bank of the Sosnovka.\nIvan Matveyevich Kurchikov, born in 1935, indicated the place of execution in the village of Karpachi.\nAfter 1944 the relatives of the executed reburied the bodies in a bed of honor in the village of Babichin.\nPlace of reburial of the Jews from Karpachi in the bed of honor in Babinichi (the village does not exist today).\nPhotos taken by the author.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sierpes.cs.us.es/~fsancho/?p=cultureplex", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MNT3ER4FANSQ6H7Z5ZEOCMSEJW3TXUYZ", "length": 1690, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sierpes.cs.us.es", "title": "CulturePlex Lab - Fernando Sancho Caparrini", "raw_content": "Proyectos: CulturePlex Lab\nThe CulturePlex Lab is directed by Dr. Juan Luis Su\u00e1rez, Ph.D., and formed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers and Ph.D. students with very diverse personal and intellectual backgrounds. To know more about our people and projects, please, click on the relevant links in the main menu.\nThe CulturePlex Lab does research on the several phases of cultural dynamics: creation, transmission, and representation. The different different academic perspectives of our researchers \u2014from philosophy to mathematics, computer science, economics, philology, and art history\u2014 provide us with a varied toolbox that we use to select, develop and tailor the most appropriate solution for the problem at hand.\nDoing research on cultural complexity means three things: analyzing the same phenomena at several scales (from the individual's to the network's), employing a multidisciplinary approach, and taking advantage of the available computing power.\nThe problems we tackle range from tracking the origin and spread of baroque culture, to developing new ways to catalogue digital objects and preserve our global heritages, to creating powerful software systems that make possible to manage creative and humanistic content in the web 2.0.Also, we build and adapt the computer tools needed to enhance our analysis and offer the best visualization of the most complex cultural processes: agent-based modeling, topic maps, databases, and natural language processing are some of these tools.\nThe CulturePlex Lab has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (LOF), the Government of Ontario, and The University of Western Ontario.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 9065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2012/10/books-ive-read-this-week_27.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DPXZJ4VFKGPETP3VA5CRA6DEDKQ7C6JC", "length": 1258, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "simonmacdonald.blogspot.com", "title": "Simon Mac Donald: Books I've Read This Week", "raw_content": "Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski is a manifesto for properly designing web pages. With the advent of mobile devices we need to start thinking of smaller screens first and build our way up to larger screens. He makes a number of really good points as to why you should go mobile first and he backs it up with plenty of data. Although this isn't really a book about responsive design, for that you should check out Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte for a great book on the topic.\nDisarming the Narcissist by Wendy T. Behary is exactly the type of book I needed to read. I firmly believe that the world, nay the cosmos revolves around me. You see, I am a narcissist. Now the question is does that level of self awareness make me more of an ass or less of an ass? Probably more.\nSo this book was very, very interesting to me. A number of things I read helped me understand better how people relate and react to my behaviour. I can honestly say the book was eye opening. I hope that I can put to use what I've learned in this book to better relate to my family and friends.\nAlso, if you've met me and come away with the impression that I'm a jerk. Sorry. I know ignorance is not a defence but I hope to leave you with a better impression on a second meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 5871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://siress.com/power-supply-repair/manufacturer/Carl%20Zeiss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:L6JL6HPMALND3XYOMUJYGHRYX3S5ESHR", "length": 2311, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "siress.com", "title": "Carl Zeiss Power Supply Repair, Siress Enterprises", "raw_content": "Quality Carl Zeiss Power Supply Repair Service\nQuality Carl Zeiss Power Supply Repair\nThe following is a list of many of the Carl Zeiss models we repair:\nAs the industry\u2019s premier source for repair services, we constantly strive for perfection, detailed by the wondrous things that we have achieved with commodities like Carl Zeiss Power supplies. Since every single facet must be accomplished without any glitches, we intensely focus on all sides of our repair services. Thus, we were able to gain the favor of consumers that mainly utilize Carl Zeiss Power supplies. Undaunted in the face of stringent requirements, our company issues the finest brand of repair solutions, one which will directly address the most prominent problems of the products. With the impressive reputation associated with Carl Zeiss Power supplies, it would be unthinkable if our company were to commit erroneous repair tasks. Unlike other repair service companies, we thoroughly understand the facets that are essentially at stake. For example, if were to commit a mistake, then our reputation as a topnotch repair service provider and the above mentioned OEM\u2019s reputation as a power supply manufacturer can be inopportunely tainted with an undesirable color. With this in mind, our company heads out to mend various power supplies with an unyielding amount of commitment for quality. And remarkably, that facet alone keeps us ahead of other repair service companies in the industry.\nEver since the start of company\u2019s operations, we were able to pinpoint the most pressing concerns of consumers and OEMs with commodities such as Carl Zeiss Power supplies. In fact, we are very proud to say that we have been dealing with the above mentioned commodities for over 16 years. Thus, were able to forge a strong relationship with top power supply manufacturers, headed by the highly respected Carl Zeiss. Since the industry considers us as the finest company in the current crop of repair service providers, then it is our intention to perform at the highest possible level. Hopefully, we will be able to branch out and get the nod of more top players in the power supply industry. At the end of the day, we will be able to connect the most prominent players in the power supplies game, with our company conveniently sitting in the center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sleepcottage.com/the-history-of-insomnia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:21Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5G7LBX4FWFWMEPM6U4K3333LEJATLZG", "length": 3995, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "sleepcottage.com", "title": "History Of Insomnia", "raw_content": "Insomnia and some other sleeping disorders are part of our lives for many centuries as we will discuss in the short history of insomnia detailed below.\nInsomnia is far from being a modern problem. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the term \u201cinsomnia\u201d appeared in 1623, was Anglicized as insomnie, from Latin insomnia \u201cwant of sleep,\u201d composed of \u201cin\u201d(meaning not) and \u201csomnus\u201d (meaning sleep).The actual modern form dates from way back, in 1758.\nInsomnia is far from being a problem of the modern society as it has affected us from the beginning of time. I do not think that caveman didn\u2019t had problems sleeping, as they had lots of \u201cproblems\u201d on their head, like, for example, worrying about what they\u2019ll eat the next day, how to keep the carve warm or how to avoid those pesky predators that were wandering around.\nAll this stress they encountered could easily cause insomnia even to them, even if there is no written document that can attest this as the start of insomnia history.\nHow the word insomnia appeared\nThe history of insomnia, most precisely the \u201cinsomnia\u201d word began back in 1623, in the third known English Language dictionary, written by Henry Cockeram, and the first that actually has the word \u201ddictionary\u201d in title. He gave the following meaning to the word insomnia: \u201cInsomnie. Watching, want of power to sleepe\u201d. The start of the 20th century attributed this with the meaning it has today.\nFamous people that suffered from insomnia\nBenjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens and Winston Churchill are some of the people that admitted to having problems sleeping. They didn\u2019t actually called it insomnia, but you get the picture. Here is a short list of famous people that had hard time getting a good night\u2019 sleep.\nWinston Churchill had two beds and if he couldn\u2019t sleep in one, he would lye down in the second.\nBenjamin Franklin wanted sheets that had low temperature as this always helped him sleep.\nSir Isaac Newton suffered from a severe case of depression and, consequently, had trouble sleeping.\nThomas Edison was the best in everything he did, but was unable to have a normal night sleep pattern so he started catnapping during the day.\nCharles Dickens believed that the position he had in bed and the position of the bed itself are key factors in getting a good sleep. His bed was always facing north and he slept exactly in the middle of the mattress. No matter how silly this may seem to some of you, these two tricks worked excellent for the great writer.\nMarcel Proust used Barbital, a barbiturate commercialized by Veronal to trick his insomnia.\nEven the great Napoleon took part in the history of insomnia as he couldn\u2019t sleep more than three hours every night but it seemed that this was enough for him.\nArthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, an English writer used to take bromides but still couldn\u2019t get the sleep he wanted.\nMarilyn Monroe had a tumultuous life and she took up to 20 Phenobarbital daily hoping she will get some sleep.\nAlexandre Dumas was one of the most productive people on this list. he written so much words that he can fill almost 1,200 volumes so think well what you are doing with your sleepless time.\nThe Earl of Rosebery, the Prime Minister of England for one year, between 1894 and 1895 was forced to resign due to chronic insomnia.\nMargaret Thatcher stated that \u201cSleep is for wimps\u201d so what can we say more than that\u2019s truly an \u201cIron Lady\u201d.\nAll these people had no insomnia information at all, but they encountered with it, some way or another. And you can bet that they would have really wanted to learn how to fall asleep fast and not stay awake for hours at night. The history of insomnia showed that even famous people can have trouble sleeping, at least from time to time and that this is not a modern problem, as it stated in various newspapers and magazines and even on TV. Insomnia is a fact of life and has always been.\nInsomniasleep disorders\nWhat Is The Best Way To Block Sounds From Under Door While Sleeping?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sleipnir.net/Magic/AncestorWorship.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JKKQINGSUN72QG3AZKOWGZBBJT2FAWGT", "length": 567, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sleipnir.net", "title": "ANCESTOR WORSHIP", "raw_content": "Ancestor Worship reaches into the early days of mankind. The fire place in the night was the right place for story telling. This, made the night to the time and place of the ancestors. Furthermore, in dreams the world of the ancestors can be reached. This divided time into the day of the living and the night of the ancestors. Thus, the stars became connected to the ancestors and the history of the tribe as well.\nThe spirits of the ancestors were honoured and worshipped. In a similar sense, the spirits of nature were worshipped by a a process of Personification.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smokinya.com/news/videos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7MXBDZSNKG3NGHNTS4ICWWWMDL7FKG3F", "length": 407, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "smokinya.com", "title": "Videos \u2013 Smokinya Foundation", "raw_content": "ReMOVEit \u2013 Youth Exchange in the Netherlands, videos\n14/06/2017 15/06/2017 All news, Posts in English, Exchanges, Personal Development, Videos\nUnited in Adventure \u2013 \u041f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0432\u0430\u0449\u0430 \u0434\u0435\u0439\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442, \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043e\n11/10/2016 08/08/2017 All news, Posts in English, \u0421\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u044a\u043b\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u0435\u0437\u0438\u043a, Trainings, Personal Development, Videos\n12/05/2016 21/09/2017 All news, Posts in English, Trainings, Exchanges, Personal Development, Videos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smtv24x7.com/english-news-42417-pantham-audio-launch-date-locked.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GZ2AWYJVZ5ZOL5AYA2OTOYUBW2MZNKIL", "length": 1138, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "smtv24x7.com", "title": "Pantham Audio launch date locked Pantham Audio launch date locked", "raw_content": "'Pantham' Audio launch date locked\nHyderabad, June 18: Tollywood Hero Gopichand's much-anticipated film 'Pantham' produced by K.K. Radhamohan on his Sri Satya Sai Arts banner is set to release on July 5.\nOn Sunday, the film's team organized a press meet in Hyderabad where the producer shared: \"This is the seventh film for our banner and we are glad it is a landmark film for Gopichand. We've gone all out and left no stone unturned in the production. Post-production of the film is presently going on.\nAs we said earlier, the film is releasing on July 5. And we scheduled the shoot in such a way to meet the date. Key scenes and some songs have been shot in the UK. An audio launch will take place in Vijayawada on June 20 after which we have planned a pre-release event in Vizag.\"\nDirector Chakravarthy said, \"We are happy with how the film has shaped up and hope we get the audiences blessings.\"Art director AS Prakash was also a part of the event.\nDirected by K. Chakravarthy, who wrote the screenplay for films like Balupu, Power, and Jai Lava Kusa, the film is Gopichand's landmark 25th film. Mehreen is the female lead in the film", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 19109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snescentral.com/review.php?id=0354&num=0&fancy=yes&article=proto", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DZTQFT2BJRQKO572I7QICJOKHVOCITZ6", "length": 2230, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "snescentral.com", "title": "Snes Central: Flintstones, The: Treasure of Sierra Madrock", "raw_content": "Flintstones, The: Treasure of Sierra Madrock\nThe Flintstones - Treasure of Sierra Madrock is a platform game based on the cartoon. This prototype of the game is almost complete. Thanks to Martin at NES World for the ROM Image!\nThe prototype of The Flintstones is of the US version, which surprised me a bit considering that this was developed in Japan. The prototype appears to be pretty much the same as the final version, except for one thing - the prototype is full of slowdown. If you look at the animations below, Fred appears to run about twice as fast in the released version. However, the timer runs exactly the same as in the final version, meaning that you can easily run out of time, even in the first few levels.\nPrototype Released\nDecember 27, 2015 update: The slowdown observed above is a result of emulators incorrectly assigning the wrong mapping. If you use the mapping from the released US version in Higan, it fixes the slowdown problem.\nLooking at the binary in a tile viewer, the graphics appear to be compressed differently between the prototype and the final. This may account for why the binary is 41% different (though at least some of that is due to data offsets). However, this does not change the visuals, as far as I can tell. If you look carefully at the gifs above, you will notice that the way the top stats and Fred's club appear are different between the prototype and final. In the prototype, they all appear at once, while in the final version, different elements appear in different frames.\nBelow, I show the difference between the prototype and released version using a tile viewer. These appear to be graphics tiles (though after playing through the entire game, I was not able to find out where they are in the game), but they look different, and there is an offset in the binary itself.\nPrototype tiles Released tiles\nThe only real difference in the game that I found was the admission fee for the Park. The sound test option also has 35 tracks (compared to 21 in the released version), though there definitely are repeated and blank tracks in that mix.\nPrototype: 30 clams Released: 10 clams\nPrototype cartridge (apparently the cart is glued shut, so no PCB scan!)\nDownload prototype here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://soccerkings.co.uk/products/details/?PID=4482&PN=Mitre+DELTA+HYPERSEAM+", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ACMC2VMWATKWCC7C5UVOQIOC7M5AGS5L", "length": 665, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "soccerkings.co.uk", "title": "Mitre DELTA HYPERSEAM", "raw_content": "Footballs > Mitre > Mitre DELTA HYPERSEAM\nThe official match ball of the The Football League and The Scottish Professional Football League\nFeaturing Mitre's latest technology Hyperseam, the only technology that fuses stitched and bonded to give the players the benefits of both\nZero water uptake and consistency in wet and dry conditions\nFoam and rubber inter lining increases power and control\nTextured surface combined with a 12 panel construction for optimum aerodynamic control\nWhite/Black/Fifa Pro Size 5 Choose Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20\nFluo Yellow/Red/Fifa Pro Size 5 Choose Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://solarbean.com/a-link-i-like-star-wars-fan-film-gives-you-the-stormtroopers-point-of-view-nerdist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VOTKAXPULK3JB563D42S6GC6TOUE24KR", "length": 202, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "solarbean.com", "title": "A Link I Like: STAR WARS Fan Film Gives You the Stormtroopers\u2019 Point of View | Nerdist | solarbean.com", "raw_content": "A Link I Like: STAR WARS Fan Film Gives You the Stormtroopers\u2019 Point of View | Nerdist\nNice. Only around 3 minutes and worth the time if you\u2019re a fan of Star Wars.\nHere\u2019s the link: http://ift.tt/2cIhtdq", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://southernpigskin.com/acc/clemson-clutch-and-still-coming/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4FQMVVZGL35KHUALTVXZW6UABBK7ZFC", "length": 4934, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "southernpigskin.com", "title": "Clemson: Clutch and Still Coming - Southern Pigskin", "raw_content": "Back Clemson: Clutch and Still Coming\nClemson: Clutch and Still Coming\nSince 2011, Dabo Swinney's Tigers are an unfathomable 23-4 in one-possession games.\nSaturday night in College Station was what college football is all about: two big-name programs, the favorite fresh off three straight playoff appearances, over 100,000 fans in a storied venue and, with iconic head coaches on the sidelines and countless athletes on the field, a dramatic fight to the finish. A narrow, perhaps fortunate, 28-26 Clemson victory at Texas A&M has resulted in some relative early questioning of Dabo Swinney's Tigers. Truth is, wins like those are part of the process for championship teams. Success, even for the best, comes in many forms.\nOne of the downsides of consistency is the idea of perceptive depreciation; do something well for a long period of time and some start to expect it, nitpick it, even, when outside expectations aren't fully reached. This past weekend included, Clemson is now 45-4 since late November of 2014, with three of those losses by a total of nine points and two of them in the College Football Playoff. The recent matchup with the Aggies may prove to be the Tigers' toughest challenge on the 2018 regular season schedule.\nWeek two wasn't a step-back from the program's recent run, rather a high-profile continuation of it; Clemson went into one of the most-intimidating stadiums in the country in primetime, played one of four head coaches in the game with a national title ring, took a talented opponent's best shot, rotated quarterbacks, was largely outexecuted, outgained and outproduced -- and won. How many programs nationally could make such a claim? It was a brutally-tough FBS opener; the Tigers didn't necessarily play well, yet still rank second in the national polls.\nFor many, the lasting theme from the matchup will be the clip of Texas A&M wide receiver Quartney Davis fumbling out of the endzone on, with an ensuing two-point conversion, a potentially game-tying score. The turnover resulted in a Clemson touchback, instead. Less than a minute-and-a-half later, the Aggies were back in the endzone nonetheless, when Kellen Mond found Kendrick Rogers on a magical 24-yard touchdown strike. It was a remarkable comeback from Fisher's Texas A&M and a wild scene at Kyle Field.\nWith the game then on the line, the Tigers did what great teams do: they came through when it mattered most. The Clemson defense, with overtime merely a few feet away, responded with an overwhelming pass rush, forcing a holding penalty and a hurried throw that was ultimately intercepted by K'Von Wallace. It was just one play, but, in that defining moment, the Tigers were better. Sometimes the margin between winning and losing, especially at the highest level, is that thin.\nThe late College Football Hall of Fame head coach Darrell Royal once said that you've got to be in a position for luck to happen, that luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.\nIn leaving College Station with a victory, Clemson, as Swinney said postgame, simply found a way. Sure, a simple box score review will show that Texas A&M turned the football over twice, the aforementioned endzone fumble included, and missed two field goals in a two-point loss. The Tigers, correspondingly, did not turn the ball over and scored four touchdowns in not settling for three-point attempts. Which team doesn't make the big mistake is often more important than which team does make the big play.\nUnder Swinney, Clemson has developed a culture of clutch. More so, it's a conviction. In crunch time, the Tigers continue to show a remarkable confidence and poise. That moxie, perhaps more than anything else, is the new Clemson brand.\nIn 2015, the Tigers' first march to the final four, they won consecutive games against Louisville and Notre Dame by a total of five points, picking off the Cardinals on the edge of field goal range and stopping a two-point conversion try against the Fighting Irish. In Clemson's title season, a short fourth down conversion attempt ended a Lamar Jackson upset bid, a missed NC State field goal resulted in an overtime win and a two-minute score was the difference at Florida State. Even in the championship bout, Deshaun Watson responded to a late Alabama touchdown with a now-legendary game-winner with :01 left.\nSince 2011, Swinney's Tigers are an unfathomable 23-4 in one-possession games.\nThe Texas A&M showdown was far from a perfect performance for Clemson -- and that's kind of the point. There are obvious rooms for improvement for a team is quite clearly already one of college football's absolutely elite. Expect the Tigers to only get better from here. Who knows what the future holds, but Clemson has a firm grasp of how to win, regardless of the type of victory it may be.\nCredit the Aggies, but don't discredit the Tigers. In the spotlight once again, Clemson won once again. That, for the Tigers, is a trend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spectronic.se/wb/page4/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BRQ5DF55KR47PROQ5TTRHOPML6XPIK4P", "length": 3164, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "spectronic.se", "title": "About Spectronic", "raw_content": "Spectronic Medical\nSpectronic Medical is a subsidiary of Spectronic, founded by Dr. Carl Siversson in 2012, based on technology developed in collaboration with researchers at Lund University. Spectronic Medical is focused on developing advanced image analysis products for health care and industry.\nSpectronic history\nSpectronic was founded in 1964 by Per Siversson. Since then, the company has been engaged in research, development and manufacturing of radio communications and mobile telephony. With pioneering technical innovations the company has developed a long series of successful products over the years. These products have been developed both under the Spectronic brand name but also for Philips, Plessey, Bosch, Siemens, Ericsson and other well-known companies.\nDuring the late 70\u2019s the world\u00b4s first unit for making selective calls with portable radios was designed by Spectronic. This technique is now one of the cornerstones for the ability to develop mobile telephones.\nThe development of the first handheld mobile telephone for the NMT network, the Spectronic TS200, begun in 1985. When it was launched four years later, the telephone quickly assumed a position of technical leadership. Its successor, the Spectronic Data Telephone TS220, with an integrated digital data terminal, was the first mobile telephone to enable simultaneous communication in speech, text and data.\nDuring the second half of the 90\u2019s the Spectronic Sidetouch Mobile for the GSM network was developed. This was the first mobile ever with a built-in digital camera. It was also featuring the very inventive Sidetouch interface, with which the user controls the entire phone by touching its sides. With full email support, MMS, SMS, fax and a built-in web browser this phone was truly unique when it was first shown.\nWhen the Spectronic Sidetouch Mobile was released in the year 1999 it received massive attention in media with astonishing ratings in many tests. Among many other judgements it was dubbed the \u201dThe star of the show\u201d by the exhibition magazine Cebit News and \u201dThe most exciting product on CeBIT\u201d by Swedish newspaper Expressen.\nToday, Spectronic focuses on research and development of exciting new technologies in the field of medical image processing as well as investments in promising technology related businesses.\nThe gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, has been awarded to Spectronic. The enterprise received this distinction for among other things the development of the first mobile telephone with a built-in computer.\nThe Polhem prize, Sweden\u2019s oldest and foremost technological science prize has been given to Spectronic. The prize is given to enterprises which have distinguished themselves for successful engineering on a high technological level.\nSpectronic has also been appointed the Export Enterprise of the Year and the Electronic Enterprise of the Year in Sweden.\nSpectronic Medical is awarded as one of Sweden's 33 hottest young technology companies of 2017\nSpectronic's previous line of mobile phones\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences gold medal awarded to Spectronic founder Per Siversson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spiritualflow.weebly.com/spiritual-flow/category/satan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSKGUYFROBDJTWWLR46APKDWPQXZ447K", "length": 5742, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "spiritualflow.weebly.com", "title": "Category: Satan -", "raw_content": "Satan's Experiments: Your Turn!\nWe're currently in the series, \"Satan's Experiments for this Generation.\"\nThis week I want to ask you all: What do you think Satan's Experiments for this generation are?\nWe've talked about mental imprisonment and apathy...but now I'm interested in what you believe Satan is doing to warp and hurt and distract our generation.\nWhat do you think Satan's Experiments (or schemes) for this generation are?\nLeave your comment below, or even better - leave a video reply!\nI hope we can all have our eyes opened to Satan's schemes so that we can see them and push past them for the glory of our God and of our Savior, Jesus Christ!\nIn Christ and For Christs' Glory! Jared\nSatan's Experiments: Apathy\nFrom the Latin: apathos \u2013 a, \u201cwithout\u201d and pathos, \u201cemotion\u201d\u2026\u2026.without emotion. Apathy\nIn this day and age it is so easy for me to just slip out of passion for God\u2026and this is me being honest (in other words, it\u2019s not easy to admit).\nBut it doesn\u2019t make sense\u2026I believe God exists and that He sent His Son, Christ, to die for me. So why do I lose passion? I mean what He has done and is doing is amazing! Think of what He has done and what He\u2019s doing!!!\nBut then I slip out of passion. It\u2019s like I fall asleep in my awareness of and love for God\u2026\nIt\u2019s like all of a sudden \u2013 swoosh --- there it goes. It\u2019s like it is blindly taken away from me\u2026\nEvery once in a while I become apathetic (definition above) toward the things of God.\nHow about you? Right now? Have you lost the passion you once had? Does your passion for God seem to come and go? Rise and fall? It\u2019s there one day, but the next it just disappears? Or has it been gone for a while?\nHmmm\u2026let me think: Why would our passion fluctuate? Why would our emotions for the things of God go up and down?\nSatan\u2019s Experiments for this generation: Make God\u2019s people apathetic\nBut why would Satan want to make us emotionless? Why would he want to steal our passion?\nThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy\u2026 John 10:10\nWell, I believe it\u2019s pretty simple: Satan removes passion = we become uncaring = people don\u2019t see or hear Christ through us.\nAnd if we don\u2019t live representing Christ and the message of salvation\u2026then Satan gets more people to go to hell with him.\nBut NO! We must stop allowing ourselves to slip into these areas of apathy! Satan makes it so easy! Because to become apathetic, we don\u2019t have to do anything\u2026all we have to do is sit. And that\u2019s where Satan\u2019s power lies \u2013 in nothingness.\nBut again, no! We were not given spirits without passion! We, who are in Christ, have been given spirits with passion! \u201cFor this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God\u2026For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.\u201d (2 Timothy 1:6-7)\nWell Jesus, speaking to the church of Sardis, said, \u201cI know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.\u201d Let\u2019s stop right here again. Is that you?\nIf so, read on to the solution: \u201cWake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die...Remember, therefore what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.\u201d Revelation 3:1-3\nWhat\u2019s the solution? Strengthen what remains and is about to die.\nDid you used to read God\u2019s Word more often?\nDid you used to pray more often?\nRestart talking with God, your Creator \u2013 and again do it more often.\nRepent (turn) and do the things you did at first.\nBottom line: WAKE UP! We all need to wake up to the reality of what is going on around us! We need to wake up and remember who died for us, why he died for us and how we don\u2019t deserve it! We need to pray for forgiveness and pray God gives us passion again!\nAnd then you will once again see yourself with passion for the things of God.\nSatan is trying to make us apathetic to the things of God! But here\u2019s the deal: he has to bow to the name of Christ.\nSo tell him to leave in the name of Christ. Explain to him how he will no longer have power over you\u2026and then run to Christ, pray again for passion\u2026\u2026\u2026and RUN!\nRun! (and I mean it! I\u2019ll run with you! Let\u2019s run with Christ to accomplish the mission He has given us! Matthew 28:18-20)\nFor those of you who don\u2019t yet know Christ:\n\u2026you probably would say that you have always been apathetic toward God (or maybe for you it was passion against God). He offers you Life (notice the capital \u201cL\u201d). As I noted above, God sent His Son Jesus Christ as payment for your sins \u2013 He died for you \u2013 because He loves you. God said your payment could be met in Christ\u2026and He loves you so much that He did give His only Son (John 3:16). And now He says, \u201cHere I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me\u201d (Revelation 3:20). That signifies a relationship. Will you open the door to the Messiah, Savior, Christ? God\u2019s grace? If you feel him \u201cknocking\u201d on your heart, will you open the door and say, \u201cCome in\u2026\u201d?\nIf you feel Christ invading your life right now, open up and give him your life. If you have more questions about how to begin a relationship with God, call or text me @ 405-315-4837 or Facebook message me\u2026\nBecause whoever finds God\u2026\u2026..finds Life!\nSatan's Experiments: Wk 2 - Words of Freedom\nSatan's Experiments for This Generation: Week 2 - Words of Freedom\nSatan tries to get us to believe that following God's Word, the Bible, is like putting chains on...it is pressurizing, burdening, and stressful.\nBut in REALITY, God's Word brings freedom...and that is what this message is about.\nWe are revealing Satan's Experiments for This Generation! Watch the video below and I pray God releases you from this lie of Satan!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 16532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sportslashlife.com/capital-eyes-vlog-31-molonglo-gorge/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:41Z", "digest": "sha1:WKCDF4Z3UEXL7FGDQQT3PDQCKQUEIEJO", "length": 1291, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sportslashlife.com", "title": "Capital Eyes - Vlog 31 - Molonglo Gorge - Sport/Life", "raw_content": "Published on November 9th, 2017 | by Daniel Boyle\nMolonglo Gorge is a pleasant walk along the river just outside Queanbeyan. I was able to visit recently and put together a new Capital Eyes vlog.\nI have been to the Molonglo Gorge a few times before and it\u2019s always quite impressive.\nBefore starting up the walk I was able to visit the skatepark in Queanbeyan and have a bit of a roll around there. I was considering a dip in the water as it was quite a hot day but I didn\u2019t end up with enough time remaining.\nI was also lucky, as in some previous vlogs, that I was doing some footbag on a rock and it fell down but I was able to retrieve it. This led to some rockhopping down closer to the water before scrambling back up onto the regular track.\nOne issue with the track, which is reasonably easy, is that there are many sticks and stones poking out from the path so you have to be careful not to trip over, which happened to me. You can also get a good view of the gorge if you catch the train towards Sydney. Likewise, you can get a good view of the train if you are walking when it passes by.\nTags: bushwalking, Canberra, Capital Eyes, hiking, Molonglo Gorge, Queanbeyan, vlog\nOne Response to Capital Eyes \u2013 Vlog 31 \u2013 Molonglo Gorge\nPingback: Canberra Walks - Queanbeyan East - Sport/Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spotmagazine.net/events/2019/2/28/oregon-humane-society-diamond-collar-hero-awards", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6Y2MVLJB5FHU27XOX3I7634SJF57Z774", "length": 848, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "spotmagazine.net", "title": "Oregon Humane Society Diamond Collar Hero AwardsFurry FunPlanner sponsored by Bend Pet Express \u2014 Spot Magazine", "raw_content": "Multnomah Athletic Club 1849 Southwest Salmon Street Portland, OR, 97205 United States (map)\nThe Diamond Collar Awards recognize and honor animals who have acted to save a human or animal life in peril, performed services within the community with undying loyalty, or overcome incredible odds in order to survive. Award winners can also be humans who have had a positive impact on the lives of animals, exhibiting courage and compassion in the pursuit of animals\u2019 well being.\nThe Diamond Collar Awards are a chance to celebrate the heroic stories that exemplify how important pets are in our lives. It is also an opportunity to support the mission of OHS. Come join us for a delicious lunch and many inspiring stories.\nTickets: $50 per person; $500 for a table of ten\nSource:: https://www.oregonhumane.org/get-involved/events/diamond-collar-awards/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 4032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stbartsnorbury.co.uk/latest-news/archives/01-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:10Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6WB6D6ZRRZ56XBC7RLJAA6CXVDZFMVO", "length": 865, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "stbartsnorbury.co.uk", "title": "St. Bart's - Latest News", "raw_content": "A Day with Mary at St. Bartholomew's - 17 February 2018\nThe Polyphony Choir is looking for an organist\nThe Polyphony Choir is looking for an organist to accompany them for the Masses and Services they sing at, and for the last two Tuesday evening practices each month. This opportunity may suit a grade 7-8 pianist wishing to extend their keyboard abilities to the pipe organ. Sight-reading skills a huge advantage.\nThe Choir's Web site may be found here, together with details of the instrument.\nA monthly stipend is available, negotiable according to ability.\nPlease contact Tony Price by email or by 'phone 020 8647 4435 for more details\nConfessions Saturday 13 January\nPlease be aware that, due to a special event for our First Holy Communion candidates, there will be no Confessions after the 10:00 Mass. Confessions will be heard as usual from 17:00 to 18:00.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 7593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stemcellpioneers.com/showthread.php?12628-Impatient-patients-turn-to-online-buyers-club-for-new-drugs&s=d9281e1499496453e05dd5a8d67791a0&p=27502", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7YIIUX375QQASEXBTXLNRIRVS6QNHIDE", "length": 3722, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "stemcellpioneers.com", "title": "Impatient patients turn to online 'buyers club' for new drugs", "raw_content": "Thread: Impatient patients turn to online 'buyers club' for new drugs\nHEALTH NEWS OCTOBER 3, 2018\nLONDON (Reuters) - Frustrated by delays in new medicines reaching their own country, a small but growing number of patients are turning to an online broker that bills itself as a legal version of the Dallas Buyers Club.\nWhile regulators warn of the risk of buying drugs online, the Amsterdam-based Social Medwork sees its network of trusted suppliers as filling a gap in the market for the latest drugs against diseases such as cancer, migraine and multiple sclerosis.\nNow it is looking to raise its profile and expand, by signing up former EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes to its supervisory board and securing 1.5 million euros ($1.73 million) in new funding from the Social Impact Ventures capital fund.\nLike Ron Woodroof, the 1980s AIDS patient in the movie \u2018Dallas Buyers Club\u2019, patients who cannot get the drugs they want through local healthcare systems are using the organization to self-import medicines from abroad.\nBut while Woodroof had to smuggle drugs across the Mexican border, the Social Medwork\u2019s customers can place orders online legally, as long as they have a prescription and a doctor\u2019s letter stating that the drug is strictly for personal use.\nIn the past 18 months, the group, which is registered with the Dutch Ministry of Health as a medicines intermediary, has supplied more than 3,000 patients.\nThey include British migraine sufferer Senty Bera, 43, who recently used the system to buy Aimovig, a new monthly migraine injection from Amgen and Novartis, the first in an improved class of drugs that target a chemical involved in triggering attacks.\n\u201cMy quality of life was so poor I thought it was worth trying and it is working brilliantly,\u201d Bera said.\nAs yet, Aimovig is not approved for use within Britain\u2019s state health service - though Bera hopes it will be soon - but its reputation means it is one of Social Medwork\u2019s top-sellers, despite a price tag of 698 euros for two autoinjectors.\nA spokeswoman for Britain\u2019s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency confirmed there were no formal restrictions on importing such medicines for personal use.\nIn the past, informal drug-buying networks here have helped supply cheap generic versions of treatments for HIV and hepatitis C. But the Dutch group, which charges a fee of around 6 percent, claims to be the only organization focused on newly approved branded drugs.\nFILE PHOTO: Pharmaceutical tablets and capsules are arranged on a table in a photo illustration shot September 18, 2013. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic/File Photo\nWith customers in 70 countries, its line-up includes new cancer drugs that are U.S.-approved but not yet available elsewhere, as well as medicines for chronic disorders, such as Roche\u2019s new multiple sclerosis treatment Ocrevus.\nFounder Sjaak Vink says the Internet means patients are increasingly aware they may be waiting months or even years for novel drugs following a first approval elsewhere.\n\u201cWe really need to bridge this gap because this situation is ridiculous,\u201d he said in an interview.\nVink said he was inspired to found the organization by delays in European availability of Merck & Co\u2019s innovative cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.\nToday, his group has customers in Australia, the Middle East and Asia, as well as major European markets such as France, Italy, Germany and Britain, where drug delays could worsen if Brexit disrupts supply lines.\nGiven relatively speedy U.S. approvals, there are currently fewer customers in America, although there was a spike in U.S. demand last year for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma\u2019s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis drug Radicut/Radicava, which was approved first in Japan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stjohnswahroonga.org/info/baptisms-weddings-and-funerals/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3CDARJLNKHWKBKBUBUOIVPDHP2DO5Q43", "length": 733, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "stjohnswahroonga.org", "title": "Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals \u2013 St. John's Uniting Church Wahroonga", "raw_content": "If you are interested in having a child baptised at St. John\u2019s, please contact the Minister (minister@stjohnswahroonga.org).\nTo enquire about the availability of St. John\u2019s for a wedding, please contact the Church office (office@stjohnswahroonga.org or\n9487 2941). If you worship elsewhere and would like your minister to marry you, that\u2019s fine \u2013 ministers of any recognised Christian denomination are more than welcome to officiate at St. John\u2019s. On the other hand, if you\u2019d like our Minister to perform the ceremony, simply contact minister@stjohnswahroonga.org.\nPlease contact minister@stjohnswahroonga.org if you are looking for a minister to preside at a funeral or memorial service, whether at St. John\u2019s or at the crematorium.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stlgamedev.com/2016/10/find-a-team-and-make-a-game-at-the-stl-scatterjam-november-4-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6TWO3AQYNY6YKOIMEDOOM5UQCPCMZKFH", "length": 4524, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "stlgamedev.com", "title": "St. Louis Game Developer Co-op \u00bb Find a Team and Make a Game at the STL Scatterjam November 4-6", "raw_content": "By: Malcolm Pierce\nDo you want to make a game? The STL Game Dev Co-op is putting on the third annual STL Scatterjam, so it\u2019s time to round up a team, fire up your computers, and clear up your calendars for the first weekend of November.\nSo, what\u2019s a Scatterjam?\nA Scatterjam is an (approximately) 48 hour game-developing event for experts, newbies, and everyone in between. If you\u2019ve ever participated in a game jam before, you\u2019ll recognize most of the rules. Everyone will meet up on Friday, November 4 at The Saint Louis Zoo\u2019s Anheuser-Busch Theater. That\u2019s in the Living World building, at the north entrance.\nDoors will open at 5:30 PM and you can sit, chat with your team, and listen to some rad video game covers by the local musicians of Fat Bard until 6:00 when the event begins. A keynote speech will reveal the theme of the jam, and that\u2019s when the rules change. Because once your team has the theme, it\u2019s time to scatter.\nWhat do you mean \u201cscatter\u201d?\nTo paraphrase late 90s alternative rock band Semisonic, you don\u2019t have to go home but you can\u2019t stay at the St. Louis Zoo. All Scatterjam development takes place off-site. Go to a team member\u2019s house, a cafe, a park, or anywhere else you have permission to occupy and make a game! The teams will then reconvene on Sunday, November 6 to show off your work and probably make post-jam drinking plans (if you\u2019re under 21, those plans will be to drink apple juice).\nWhat kind of game can I make?\nYou can make a video game, a board game, a card game, a sport, an e-sport, or anything else you might want to call a game. Though making an e-sport is probably ill-advised because you only have 48 hours. The only rules are that you follow the theme and have fun.\nAt this point, all this is just paraphrasing from our excellent overview of the event at http://www.stlscatterjam.com/, where you can also register for the event.\nAs tempting as it might be to get a head start on your game, you shouldn\u2019t do that. Part of the fun of a game jam is putting together a game in only 48 hours! But there are some steps you can take to get ready.\n1. Make a team\nUnlike a traditional game jam, teams are encouraged to form up prior to the kick-off of the event. Because we can\u2019t stick around at the St. Louis Zoo (the animals need to sleep) you won\u2019t have much time for team formation after the theme is revealed. If you need help finding a team, there are plenty of ways you can find folks to work with.\nIf you\u2019re a member of the STL Game Dev Co-op, head on over to our #scatterjam slack channel. Tweet with the hashtag #scatterjam and it will show up on the website. Or, if you prefer to network in person, the Co-op is holding an event on November 2 at Asynchrony (900 Spruce St #700). There, Nate Haskins of BunnyGun games will go over Unity3d FREE assets, templates, and resources you can use to make your games. Afterward, there will be time reserved for team formation and recruitment. Need a programmer, artist, musician, or whatever else to work with? This event is for you!\nOnce your team is together, go over to the website at http://www.stlscatterjam.com/ and register!\n2. Get some space\nTeams can come back to the Zoo on Saturday if they want, but only during normal hours and there won\u2019t be any room set aside for the jammers, so you\u2019ll be trying to work in the middle of the weekend zoo crowd. Find somewhere else you and your team can work. A house, a dorm, wherever you feel comfortable and you have permission to work. It\u2019s a good idea to decide where you will be jamming before the event, so you\u2019re not scrambling to find a work space.\nIf you\u2019re making a video game, you\u2019ll probably want to pick your engine and any other tools you plan on using so everyone can have them installed. If you haven\u2019t done a jam before, you might not know there are plenty of great, free resources out there for jamming! And once you\u2019ve picked your tools, it can\u2019t hurt to check out some tutorials if you\u2019re new to them.\nFree Engines\nUnity 3d (Standard version, and check out the event on November 2 for more info)\nOfficial Unity Tutorial Channel\nUnreal Engine 4 (free until you start selling and making $$$)\nOfficial UE4 Tutorial Videos\nUE4 2d Paper Tutorial\nGamemaker Studio (Basic version)\nShaun Spalding\u2019s Gamemaker Tutorials\nHeartbeast Gamemaker Tutorials\nHaxeFlixel (2d games)\nRen\u2019py (Visual novels)\nTwine (Interactive fiction)\nJPixel\nFree Sound Editors\nAnd one last time for the end of the article, go to http://www.stlscatterjam.com/ and get yourself signed up with your team!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stnicholasjamestown.org/ourfaith/great-lent-holy-week-and-pascha/sunday-of-thomas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PGNGAHKTI7HU4QCEZYMMXB4RYHA6NDGQ", "length": 3898, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "stnicholasjamestown.org", "title": "Sunday of Thomas | St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Our Faith \u00bb Great Lent \u00bb Sunday of Thomas\nSecond Sunday After Pascha: Feast Of The Sunday Of Thomas\nThe Orthodox Church observes the Sunday of Thomas one week following the celebration of the Sunday of Holy Pascha. The day commemorates the appearance of Christ to His disciples on the evening of the Sunday following Passover. It also commemorates the appearance of the Lord to His disciples eight days later when Thomas was present and proclaimed \"My Lord and my God\" upon seeing the hands and side of Christ.\nThis Sunday is also called Antipascha (meaning \"in the stead of Pascha,\" not \"in opposition to Pascha\") because with this day, the first Sunday after Pascha, the Church consecrates every Sunday of the year to the commemoration of Pascha, that is, the Resurrection.\nSaint Thomas the Apostle is commemorated by the Church on October 6.\nIcon for the Sunday of Thomas provided by Theologic and used with permission.\nThe events commemorated on the Sunday of Thomas are recorded in the Gospel of Saint John 20:19-29. Following the crucifixion and burial of Christ, the disciples were gathered in a room with the doors closed and locked for fear of the Jews. On the evening of the Sunday after Passover, Jesus Christ entered the room and stood in their midst, greeting them with the words, \"Peace be with you.\" (v. 19) He showed the disciples his hands, feet, and side. (v. 20)\nThomas was not present with the disciples when Jesus appeared, and he did not accept the testimony of the other disciples concerning Christ's Resurrection. He stated, \"Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.\" (vv. 24-25)\nEight days later, the disciples were gathered together again with Thomas present, and the Lord appeared in the same manner. Standing in their midst he said, \"Peace be with you.\" He then spoke directly to Thomas and said, \"Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.\" (vv. 26-27) Thomas answered, \"My Lord and my God!\" Jesus replied by saying, \"Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.\" (v. 29)\nIcon Of The Sunday Of Thomas\nThe icon of the Sunday of Thomas depicts Christ standing in the midst of the disciples. He has appeared to the eleven in the upper room, and he is inviting Thomas to come and examine his hands and his side. Thomas is reaching out to touch the side of Jesus. He is also looking to Jesus in a manner that indicates his faith and the proclamation recorded in Scripture.\nOrthodox Christian Celebration Of The Feast Of Sunday Of Thomas\nThe Sunday of Thomas is celebrated with the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. On this Sunday and throughout the Paschal period until the Apodosis or leave-taking of Pascha, the day before the Feast of the Ascension, the services begin with the chanting of the troparion of Pascha, \"Christ is risen...\"\nScripture readings for the feast are the following: At Orthros: Matthew 28:16-20, the first of eleven resurrectional Gospel passages that are read in a cycle throughout the year during the Sunday matins. On this day the cycle always begins with the first Gospel passage; At the Divine Liturgy: Acts 5:12-20 and John 20:19-31.\nApolytikion (Grave Tone)\nWhile the tomb was sealed, You, O Life, did shine forth from the grave, O Christ God; and while the doors were shut, You did come unto Your disciples, O Resurrection of all, renewing through them an upright Spirit in us according to Your great mercy.\nWith his searching right hand, Thomas did probe Your life-bestowing side, O Christ God; for when You did enter while the doors were shut, he cried out unto You with the rest of the Apostles: You are my Lord and my God.\nSource- http://lent.goarch.org/sunday_of_thomas/learn/#sthash.G0Ful7fH.dpuf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://studyofoahspe.com/id22.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MYKIPRMPRHIMP7FPO6UCFGJEYADA24KX", "length": 97156, "nlines": 618, "source_domain": "studyofoahspe.com", "title": "Human origins - Pygmies - I'hins", "raw_content": "Human origins - Pygmies - I'hins\nGerman anthropologist posed with Onge hunter-gatherers during a trip to the Andaman Islands in 1928.\nBritish colonies were first established on the Andaman Islands in 1858 and remained until 1947. Onge and Jarawa pygmies, who lived on separate islands, retreated into forests to avoid the British.\nHow an MMA fighter found salvation among the Pygmies\nhttp://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-an-mma-fighter-found-salvation-among-the-pygmies-203846372.html\nJustin Wren left a promising MMA career to live as one with the Mbuti Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Through his foundation, Fight for the Forgotten, and other benefactors, Wren helped the Pygmies secure their own land and drill wells to support their community and launch sustainable farming efforts.\nhttp://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/justin-wren-big-pygmy-mma/\nLaurens Van der Post and adult San-Bushmen\nAdult San Bushman and adult original I'hin had very close proportional symmetry. San Bushman and Mitochondrial Eve (L) (4 feet tall I'hin or pygmy) both were L1 or L1a mtDNA. as are many sub-Saharan africans.\nWhen we test mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), your results are a list of the four bases that make up DNA, represented by the first letter of their name (Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine). Your results are then compared to the RSRS (Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence).\nhttps://www.google.com/#q=rsrs+definition+DNA\nIn April, 2012, a groundbreaking, watershed, paper was published by Dr. Doron Behar and 8 other authors titled \u201cA \u201cCopernican\u201d Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root.\u201d\nWhat Dr. Behar has spent years doing is going back in time, genetically, and reconstructing what we believe the original \u201cmitochondrial Eve\u201d looked like, at least in terms of her mitochondrial DNA. He could do that because he took the time to sort through each haplogroup, taking him back in time to the ancestral state of all of the mutations, in other words, before they happened.\nThe result is something called the Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence, or RSRS.\nhttps://dna-explained.com/2012/07/15/the-crs-and-the-rsrs/\nPage 368 of Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People 2007 by Jon Entine:\n\"scientists have identified small portions of the Y and mtDNA that are passed on virtually unchanged\nfrom father to son or mother to daughter. Testing of this portion provides information about direct\nlineages by identifying genetic mutations at markers or loci that occur every few hundred generations\nper marker. At a locus, there might be ten to thirty alleles, or identification markers, that are\nvaluable for genetic anthropologists or genealogy study.\"\n\"To those new to OAHSPE the foregoing will, no doubt, seem like gibberish but\nafter you have studied OAHSPE a little, the foregoing...will become quite significant.\"\nFrom David Garcia in Germany June 13, 2018:\n\u201cThe study's most startling result, perhaps, is that nine out of 10 species on Earth today,\nincluding humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.\u201d\nAccording to Oahspe man came into being on Earth about 80,000 years ago, a close\napproximation of 100,000 years ago.\n...the I'hin race, ...They were a people of great spiritual gifts, and the little that we inherit today of\nmysticism and occult knowledge and psychic power and divine light has come to us from them; and\nthey were born with the caul. - page 62 of DARKNESS DAWN AND DESTINY\nAbove Infant born with caul.\nA caul or cowl (Latin: Caput galeatum, literally, \"helmeted head\") is a piece of membrane that can cover\na newborn's head and face.[1] Birth with a caul is rare, occurring in fewer than 1 in 80,000 births. The\ncaul is harmless and is immediately removed by the physician or midwife upon delivery of the child.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caul\nAbove orthographic projection parallel lines showing similar head and facial features.\nAbove: on top, clothed clean-shaven white and blonde original Panic I'hin man (from George Adamski painting) with long straight silky hair and short nose like the naked I'hin man (top right) drawn by John Ballou Newbrough. George Adamski probably made his Orthon space-man features from the drawing of the Oahspe I'hin. I was told by a bookstore owner in San Diego, California back in 1983 that Adamski had read Oahspe and believed in the book. Above: on right Melanesian (Solomon Islands) child with wavy blond sliky hair and dark skin like some of the original I'hins of Ham (Africa). Melanesians got their blonde hair from the I'hins who were white and yellow. Melanesian blond hair has been traced to an allele of TYRP1 unique to these people, and is not the same gene that causes blond hair in Caucasians. Melanesia is located where the Pacific continent of Pan was.\nGeorge Adamski may have made his Nordic space-man (Orthon) after the drawing\nof the I'hin in Oahspe. A website using image recognition software\n(and mathematical algorithms) to measure the similarity of two pictures has\ndetermined that the drawing of I'hin in Oahspe matches closer to African-Americans\nand sub-Saharan Africans than to white Europeans and the portrait of Orthon by\nGeorge Adamski (see results below for proof). Above results show when compared to the head of Orthon from the chin up\n(where there is no background image other than the clear sky) African-American\nor sub-Saharan African score higher in image recognition similarity than white\nEuropeans or Asians (see bottom of \"Israelites I'huans Ghans Oahspe\" page\nof this website for further proof).\nIt is probable that the original I'hins had a combination of negroid, caucasoid,\nand mongoloid features. The I'hins nose and lips were probably negroid, the eyes\nprobably had an epicanthic fold like mongoloids, and the hair was like northern\nEuropeans, long silky straight and often blond.\nOriginal Panic I'hin man has been extinct for over 3,000 years. \"The I'hins as a race became extinct upon the earth about 3,000 years B.K.\" - page 161 of SEVEN YEARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, 1941-1948 (1940) by Wing Anderson. Oahspe The Lords' Fifth Book CHAPTER 5:\n14. Regarding the tribes that went in the two ships to the north land (Japan), after a thousand years, no man could draw the line between them and the I'huans, for they mingled with them, and were lost, as I'hins. Nevertheless, they redeemed the barbarians into wisdom and peace. http://oahspestandardedition.com/OSE_19.html\n\"Jean Pierre Hallet was a Belgian born anthropologist who lived with the Twas and studied their history and culture for more than 20 years. Hallet\u2019s Pygmy friends told him that in the distant past they developed a highly technical and advanced type of material culture and that they built boats and traveled widely around the world, but that this technical excellence bought them nothing but bad luck, so, preferring happiness to misery, they finally gave up this high material civilisation. There may be a lot of truth in these traditions, for Pygmy fossils have been found in all parts of the world.\u201d\nhttp://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-wonderful-first-civilization-of-the-ancient-twas-of-africa-by-mena7/\nAbove map showing geographic location of modern Pygmies around the world and map of where the I'hin fleets (ships) landed after the sinking of Pan.\nModern pygmies are found in northwest South America near Central America, central equatorial Africa, Bay of Bengal near India, Southeast Asia near Thailand, South China Sea near the Philippines, all areas near where the fleets (ships) of I'hin little people landed. More geographical and anthropological evidence that supports the story of the I'hins in Oahspe. Susan B. Martinez, P.h.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University named the I'hins Homo sapiens pygmaeus.\nMiddle English pigmei \"pygmy, dwarf,\" from Latin pygmaeus (noun and adjective) \"pygmy, dwarfish,\" ...\nMitochondrial Eve ...was born in Africa, stood 4 feet tall ....[an I'hin or pygmy]. - page 53 of ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, 2007 by Jon Entine. The original man [Homo sapiens] was a pygmy [I'hin] and was a L1 or L1a mtDNA like the Khoisan (Kung and Khwe) peoples, L2 and L2a mtDNA of the Mbuti pygmies is a direct branch off the original human mtDNA. L1 is the earliest mitochondrial lineage, ...common in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Khoisan people. - Page 357 of ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, 2007 by Jon Entine.\n\"The mitochondrial clade which Mitochondrial Eve defines is the species Homo sapiens sapiens\"\nMitochondrial Eve - Wikipedia\nOAHSPE: The Lords' Fifth Book Chapter III: 4. Of all colors (black, white, yellow, copper, red and brown)\nwere the tribes of Ham [Africa]; nevertheless, they were I'hins ...\nBelow is a photo of an Efe pygmy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and\nOriginal I'hin drawn by Newbrough, Notice the Efe (Mbuti) pygmy and the\nOriginal I'hin had very similar proportional symmetry.\nThe Efe and Mbuti pygmies of central African Congo are the shortest pygmy tribes on earth.\n143 Centimeters = 4 Feet, 8.2992 Inches.\nWhat is 143 Centimeters in feet and inches? - CalculateMe.com\nAfrican Pygmies (Mbuti, Efe, Twa) are the direct descendants of the original Homo sapiens little people (I'hins) with very little crosses to the taller races (I'huans about 10%, and no crosses to Ghans).\nEcuador\u2019s Larons descended from conversos, Sephardi Jews (European Ghans) who converted to Christianity and fled to South America at the time of the Spanish inquisition in the 16th century. At first there may have been just one person who had no outward symptoms but who carried a recessive gene (autosomal recessive disorder) and over generations, inbreeding in the small, isolated Ecuadorian community led to children being born with copies of this gene inherited from both parents, which causes Laron syndrome.\nThe African Pygmies are a unique population of short-statured humans whose existence dates back to early Paleolithic\ntimes. Their stunted height should be thought of as a variation (or adaptation), rather than as a defect or abnormality,\nDespite these observations leading to the notion that GH resistance was the underlying mechanism responsible for the\nshort stature of the African Pygmy, it should be noted that African Pygmies bear no particular morphological or biochemical\nresemblance to individuals with genetically mediated GH resistance due to proven mutations in the GH receptor gene, i.e.,\nLaron dwarfs (64), other than that both groups are very short.\nhttps://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/19/5/625/2530825 Journals | Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press\nAbove is Betaface facial recognition of Newbrough drawing (in Oahspe) of A'su (first race of man) to Laron Dwarf (79%) of Ecuador, Homo erectus (76%), and Efe pygmy (66%) of Congo Africa. Abnormal facial shape (Unusual facial appearance) is characteristic of over 80% of Laron Dwarfs.\nhttps://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6859/laron-syndrome\nAbove images show to the far left a modern 4 feet tall Efe (Mbuti) pygmy of the Congo in Africa, to the right is an ancient I'hin of Oahspe, and right of him is an ancient I'huan or Cro-Magnon type modern man.\nNotice both the modern pygmy and the ancient I'hin have beards and the I'huan doesn't (full-blooded Native Americans also usually don't grow beards).\nMoses and Abraham according to Oahspe were pure I'huans who did grow long beards.\nCro-Magnon is a common name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens).\nThe earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiocarbon dated to 43,000 years before present.[2]\nThey are thought to have been on average 176.2 cm (5 feet 9 1\u20443 inches) tall,[30]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon\nFOLKLORE a small brown elf or goblin that does helpful tasks for people at night\nhttp://www.yourdictionary.com/brownie\nShortest tribe\nThe smallest pygmies are the Mbutsi from Zaire, with an average height of 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for men\nand 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in) for women, with some groups averaging only 1.32 m (4 ft 4 in) for men and 1.24 m\n(4 ft 1 in) for women. According to medical research, pygmy children are not significantly shorter than\nthe children of other tribes. But they do not grow in adolescence because they produce only a limited\namount of the hormone called insulin-like growth factor (IGF).\nhttp://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/shortest-tribe\nInteresting Facts About the People of Africa\nThe shortest people in the world, the pygmies, live in Africa.\nhttp://interesting-africa-facts.com/Africa-People/Africa-People.html\nDistribution of Congo Pygmies\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_people#mediaviewer/File:Pygmy_languages_(Bahuchet).png\nfrom Billy Jack (1971):\nJean: We'll go someplace else, someplace were it doesn't have to be like this.\nBilly Jack: Oh, really? Tell me, where is that place? Where is it? In what remote\ncorner of this country-no-entire goddamn planet is there a place were men really\ncare about one another and really love each other? Now, you tell me were such a\nplace is, and I promise you that I'll never hurt another human being as long as I live.\nBilly Jack: Just one place!\nhttp://www.imdb.com/character/ch0011107/quotes\nThat remote corner of this planet where men really care about one another and really\nlove each other is the Ituri Forest of the Congo River Basin where the Mbuti pygmies live.\nThe Ef\u00e9-Mbuti pygmies really care about one another and really love each other.\nhttp://anthrogroup1.blogspot.com/\nBelow: I'hin (art by Newbrough) and photo of African Congo Pygmy showing similar proportional symmetry.\nNotice above the facial match of a Batwa pygmy of Uganda (on the left) with the\noriginal I'hin (middle) and the Congo pygmy (on the right). Notice the same facial\nand head proportions and symmetry with the same mid-forehead indentation.\nThe Batwa, also known as Twa,...one of the first homo sapiens in the world with Kalahari San people.\nhttps://quizlet.com/163745886/vocabulary-unit-2-chapter-7-purple-flash-cards/\nAbove I'hin and Congo Pygmy man have very similar forehead, eye brows, nose, mouth, beard, sideburns, ear,\nAbove: Travis Fimmel of German and English ethnicity and original I'hin (drawn by Newbrough).\nNotice 8 Orthographic projection lines match face to face, head to head.\nand photo of African-American Pusha-T head and facial features match very high, very\nsimilar. Notice how the orthographic projection lines from the I'hin to Pusha-T match almost\nexactly for bottom of chin, middle of lips, top of lips, bottom of nose, bottom of eye socket,\nmiddle of eye, top of eye socket-eyebrow, and top of head.\nAbove 10 Orthographic projection lines from photo of Rugged Man of Nigeria to Original I'hin\ndrawn by Newbrough (under Angelic control) showing extremly high matching of head and\nfacial features when both heads are magnified to the same size.\nNotice how the orthographic projection lines from Nigerian Rugged Man to the I'hin match\nalmost exactly for bottom of chin, bottom of lips, middle of lips, top of lips, bottom of nose,\nbottom of eye socket, middle of eye, top of eye socket-eyebrow, horizontal mid-forehead\nindentation and top of forehead hairline.\n\"african-american DNA seems to have more Ihin blood than the europeans\" - Joan Greer Mar 12, 2017.\nIt is often assumed by readers of Oahspe that because Oahspe says the I'hins were white\nand yellow that they were white people or Caucasians, the scientific mathematical results of\nthe orthographic projection lines above disprove that assumption. In fact the results show that\nthe drawing of the I'hin by John Newbrough (under Angelic control) show a higher facial match\nto some Sub-Saharan Africans and African-Americans than to some (but not all) Europeans or Caucasians.\nLips (thicker) and nose (flatter more rounded) of African-Americans are more similar to the original I'hin than are the white\neuropean's nose and lips. Notice on the drawing of the I'hin by Newbrough from the bottom of the nose to the top of the upper lip angles upward like it does for African-Americans Pusha-T and Kendrick Lamar (and the lips come out almost even with the nose), whereas on the white European-American it is straight or angled slightly down (and the nose goes out much farther than the lips). The Nose and lips of the I'hin are more sub-Saharan African than European. This is also evident in other pictures.\nAbove original (22,000 B.C.) I'hin (Homo sapiens pygmaeus, Latin scientific name) and 1930s African Congo pygmy.\nThe Pigmy populations of Central Africa are known as the shortest human populations\nworldwide showing an endocrine profile similar to Caucasian individuals with idiopathic\nshort stature. Therefore, the study of these subjects may significantly improve our\nknowledge of the mechanisms regulating normal growth in humans. In this review we\nsummarize the existing knowledge on Pygmies' short stature, including evolutionary\nhypothesis, studies on their GH/IGF-I axis and their immune system functioning. We\nillustrate in depth our recent studies on the ethnic group of Pygmies called Babinga,\nliving in the forest of Cameroon, suggesting that the size of Pygmy subjects is reduced\nfrom birth, compared to a neighbouring population, and that it is associated with reduced\nGH and GH receptor gene expression. These results provide a research target for future\nepigenetic investigations and suggest that the short stature of African Pygmies is probably\ndetermined by complex genetic systems.\nid\u00b7i\u00b7o\u00b7path\u00b7ic: relating to or denoting any disease or condition that arises spontaneously\nor for which the cause is unknown.\nhttps://www.google.com/#q=idiopathic+definition\nHumans in the basin\nHumans are certainly no newcomers in the Congo River Basin. Evidence of pygmy culture\ndates back 20,000 years, while Bantu farmers are known to have migrated into the\nCongo River Basin forests some 5,000 years ago.\nIn the Congo River Basin and Great Lakes of Central Africa, archaeologists have found\nthe remains of the Ishongo people who lived some 8,000 years ago. They used a counting\nsystem inscribed on bone, the earliest record in the world of mathematical notation.\nhttp://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/congo_basin_forests/the_area/people/#2\nCould you have Pygmy ancestors? That\u2019s difficult to say. About 12% of African Americans\ncarry mitochondrial DNA lineages belonging to haplogroup L1c, which indicates maternal\nancestry somewhere in the Congo basin and surrounding areas, but not Pygmy ancestry\nper se. Absent a confirmed assignment to L1c1a, the odds are that the maternal ancestry of an\nAfrican American individual in haplogroup L1c traces back to farming rather than Pygmy populations.\nhttp://blog.23andme.com/news/the-origins-of-the-forest-dwelling-african-pygmies/\nAbove drawing of the transatlantic slave trade starting in the Cameroon and Congo,\ntall and little people. Notice the pygmy stature of grown old looking little men. I had a\nshort black friend in Virginia who told me he traced his ancestry back to an African\npygmy who was brought over across the Atlantic to North America.\nhttps://www.google.com/#q=transatlantic+slave+trade\nHow many people died in the Atlantic Slave Trade?\nanswers scholars given over the years:\n9 million to 55 million,\nby Prof. Peter L. Patrick University of Essex\nhttp://orb.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg449/AtlanticSlaveTradeDeaths.htm\nUse the GEDmatch.com HarappaWorld Admixture Proportions or MDLP WORLD 22\nADMIXTURE PROPORTIONS for confirmation of pygmy ancestors in uploaded raw DNA data file.\nGEDmatch Tools for DNA and Genealogy Research\nMy mother's Mtdna maternal lineage (according to Family Tree DNA) traces back to L2a\nhaplogroup the same as the Mbuti Pygmies of the African Congo.\nMy AncestryDNA highest African ancestry is 25% Cameroon/Congo, only 3% Bantu,\n3% Senegal, < 1% Nigerian, South-Central Hunter-Gatherers (Khoisan-San, Pygmy) < 1%.\nhttp://postimg.cc/image/bw6qx8wc1/\nMy Family Tree DNA Pygmy (South-Central-Africa 2%) ancestry:\nhttp://postimg.cc/image/8kn4c467r/\nBelow map and chart showing African mtDNA:\nhttps://images.nature.com/m685/nature-assets/srep/2015/150727/srep12526/images_hires/srep12526-f4.jpg\nPaleolithic Africa: Culture of the Vasikela !Kung\nGeneticists believe that the population of the Vasikela !Kung (L1a) of the northwestern Kalahari\ndesert in southern Africa is the population that lies nearest to the root of the human\nmitochondrial DNA tree. Another population that is almost equally old is that of the Biaka\npygmies of Central Africa (L1b). The L2 populations of the Mbuti Pygmies (L2a) and the\nSengalese (L2c) are almost as ancient.\nBelow Betaface facial recognition of San Bushman (male-baby-female) oldest human I'hin DNA:\nWhite = I'hin DNA (white and yellow)\nAsian = infant neotenized features (I'hin parents died in infancy, infant DNA passed on).\n\"Asians\" are \"clearly\" the most neotenized human \"race\".[14]\nThe San People or Bushmen of South Africa, also known as the Khoisan\nThe average height of an adult is approximately 1.5 m and their complexion is yellowish.\n1.5 meters to feet = 4.92126 feet = pygmy height\nhttps://www.google.com/#q=1.5+meters+to+feet+%3D\n4. The I'hins were white and yellow, ...the I'hins were small and slender,...\nOtherland: City of Golden Shadow - Google Books Result\nShe turned and found herself confronting a slender boy with yellowbrown skin. His short ...\n\u201cOne of the San people\u2014what they sometimes call 'Bushman,'\nThe San People - Botswana's Last Bushmen - Africa Point\nThey are generally light skinned, with distinct yellow-brown colouring African-American (79%) matches closer to San Bushman than European (60%).\nWithin the African MP phylogeny (fig. 2), the southern-African Kung and Khwe samples cluster together\nin L1a. Within L1a, L1a2 is predominantly Kung, L1a1 is Kung and Khwe, L2b includes Kung and Khwe,\nand L3a is predominantly Khwe. This asymmetric distribution of haplotypes is also seen for the\nBiaka Pygmies, L1b2; and the Mbuti Pygmies, L2a (fig. 2).\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1288201/figure/FG2/\nBelow comparison of L2a2 Mbuti Pygmy mtDNA to my mother's L2a mtDNA matching on\nposition (mutation) 16311:\nBelow M.J. Ivory L2a mtDNA matching L2a2 Mbuti Pygmy mtDNA on HVR2 position (mutation) 146:\nWhen we look at your mtDNA HVR1 results, we look for differences in your mtDNA\ncaused by small changes - copying errors \u2013 that we also call \u201cmutations\u201d or\n\u201cpolymorphisms.\u201d We compare those differences to the differences for other people\nFamily Tree DNA (https://www.familytreedna.com/tr_mtDNA.pdf) does provide some guidelines\nin their learning center.\nMatching at the HVR1 level means that you have a 50% chance of sharing a common maternal\nancestor within the last fifty-two generations. That is about 1,300 years.\nMatching on HVR1 and HVR2 means that you have a 50% chance of sharing a common\nmaternal ancestor within the last twenty-eight generations. That is about 700 years.\n2% South-Central Africa estimate by Family Tree DNA seems to confirm Mbuti Pygmy\nancestry https://postimg.cc/image/8od4ozxgt/\nhttps://dna-explained.com/2016/01/06/we-matchbut-are-we-related/\nWithin 1,300 years is much more recent than the 3,169 years since the original I'hins have been\nextinct in Uropa, Ham, Shem, Jaffeth, and Guatama. Along with the San (Bushmen) Mbuti Pygmies\nare the closest living relatives of the original I'hins in genotype and phenotype.\nOahspe God's Book of Eskra 50:30-33: Now, after the fall of the great empire, Egupt, her people\nmigrated westward, hundreds of thousands of them, and they settled in western Uropa, where these\npeople married with the aborigines. Their offspring were called Druids, Picts, Gales (Gaelic),\nWales (Welsh), Galls (Gauls), and Yohans (Johns), all of which are Eguptian names, preserved to\nthis day. According to Oahspe 3,500 years ago Israelites left Egypt for France, Germany, Russia, etc..\n31. Now, when the Faithists were moved by the inspiration of God to have no more kings,\nand to flee away from the Kriste'yan warriors, they came amongst the people above mentioned.\n(The apostate Faithists married with them, and their offspring were the forefathers of those\nnow called, French, German, Russian and English.)\n33. For, inasmuch as I have suffered them to become scattered, so will I appropriate them as\nseed to quicken all the races of men to comprehend the All One.\n1553 B.C.E (beginning of the Arc of Bon, time of Moses). Thus subtracting 3400 from 1848 we find that the date of the dawn of the Arc of Bon in common era dating is 1553 bce. This is the time when Moses began his mission resulting in the Exodus of the Israelite Faithists from Egypt some 4 years later. This places the date when the Israelite Faithists left Egypt at ca 1549 bce. http://web.archive.org/web/20170419003441/http://oahspestandardedition.com/OSAC/Exodus1.html\nWe are a fascinating and diverse lot who all trace from an African \"mother\" who lived 2,000-3,000 years ago.\nWho was she? Where was she? By what path through history did she lead to all of us? That's what this\ngroup is going to discover!\nhttps://www.familytreedna.com/groups/l-2a-1-mtdna/about\nAbove Highlighted feature Map of the migrational route of Haplogroup L2a1 mtDNa is very similar to the above\n\"Israelites migrations into Africa\" map.\nHaplogroup -L2a1 @ positions HVR1 16223T, 16278T, 16294T, 16309G, 16368C and 16519C.\nAbove my mother's MtDNA Haplogroup was further divided into L2a1i.\nmtDNA L2a1 Africans, Jews, Gypsies and Beyond\nhttps://www.familytreedna.com/groups/l-2a-1-mtdna/about/background\nMitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has two major parts, the control region and the coding region.\nThe control region is often called the hypervariable region (HVR). Hypervariable means fast changing. In mitochondrial DNA, the control region is the fast changing part. The control region may be further divided into two hypervariable regions, HVR1 and HVR2.\nHVR1 runs from nucleotide 16001 to nucleotide 16569.\nThe coding region (CR) is the part of your mtDNA genome that contains genes. Because it does contain some genes, the coding region is believed to be slower mutating than the control region. Often, the mutations that are found in the coding region are used to define haplogroups.\nThe coding region runs from nucleotide 00575 to nucleotide 16000.\nhttps://www.familytreedna.com/learn/mtdna-testing/parts-mitochondrial-dna-mtdna-hvr1-hvr2-coding-region/\nTracing African Roots - AncestryDNA Regions.\nAncestry.com provides extensive background information and careful disclaimers on how to interpret their \u201cEthnicity Estimates\u201d.\nTo get a better idea of the possible ethnic origins hiding behind the samples being used here\u2019s the African overview of the HGDP dataset (taken from this link)\n\u201c\u2013 Central African Republic \u2013 Biaka Pygmy (relatives)\nThis sample is comprised of Biaka, living in the village of Bagandu, in the southwest corner of the Central African Republic (3.42N; 18E altitude approximately 500m). This group is probably an admixture of 3/4 \u201cnon-pygmy\u201d African ancestry and 1/4 Mbuti ancestry. The transformed cell lines were established by Judith R. Kidd. The sources of this sample are L. Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University) and K.K. Kidd, J.R. Kidd (Yale University).\n\u2013 Democratic Rep of Congo \u2013 Mbuti Pygmy (relatives)\nThe sample is composed of Nilosaharan and Niger Kordofanian speaking Mbuti pygmies from the northeastern part of the Ituri Forest (northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo). It was collected by L.L. Cavalli-Sforza in 1986.\nCentral African Bantu speakers whose ancestors were already intermarrying with Pygmy groups centuries or even millennia ago. Especially the Bakongo from Congo and the Fang from Gabon are known to have high Pygmy (Biaka) admixture.\nMaternal traces of deep common ancestry and asymmetric gene flow between Pygmy hunter\u2013gatherers and Bantu-speaking farmers.\nMaternal traces of deep common ancestry and asymmetric gene flow ...\n\u2013 Senegal \u2013 Mandenka (relatives)\nThis sample from [Senegal] is part of the Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel collected by the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) and the Foundation Jean Dausset (CEPH). This sample consists of unrelated individuals and was collected with proper informed consent.\nThe Mandinka (also known as Mandenka or Mandinko or Mandingo or Malinke) is a West African ethnic group ...\nSouth-Central Hunter Gatherers\nThis is a pretty straightforward ancestral cluster based on samples from both the Khoisan and Pygmies.\nFor many Afro-descendants it will most likely be capturing Pygmy affinity instead of San affinity...\nhttps://tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/ancestrydna-regions/\nMy AncestryDNA South-Central Hunter Gatherers ethnicity estimate range of 0%-2%.\nhttp://postimg.org/image/czltnv18v/\nThe above ethnicity estimate range for South-Central Hunter Gatherers closely matches the 2.47% estimate of pygmy DNA for me on GEDmatch (HarappaWorld Admixture Proportions).\nMbuti or Bambuti are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Their languages are Central Sudanic languages (a family of the Nilo-Saharan phylum) and Bantu languages.\nThere are four distinct cultures within the Bambuti. These are\nThe Ef\u00e9, who speak the language of a neighboring Sudanic people, Lese.\nThe Sua aka Kango aka Mbuti, who speak a dialect (or perhaps two) of the language of a neighboring Bantu people, Bila.\nThe Asua, the only Mbuti people with their own language, which is closely related to that of the neighboring Sudanic Mangbetu.\nThe term BaMbuti (Mbuti) is therefore confusing, as it has been used to refer to all the pygmy peoples in the Ituri region in general, as well as to a single subgroup in the center of the Ituri forest.[1]\nAround 2500 BCE, the Ancient Egyptians made reference to a \"people of the trees\" that could have been the Mbuti.[citation needed]\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuti_people\nThe Efe Pygmies are \u201cwholly non-aggressive,\u201d Jean-Pierre Hallet told me. Could that be true? Since Hallet largely grew up with the Efe in equatorial Africa, and has lived with them for much of his sixty plus years, I figured he might know.\nAnd since aggressive people increasingly threaten our lives, both locally and internationally, his claim seemed worth checking out. Whether or not humans are genetically violent, as some maintain, has significant relevance for we who are peace activists. The root causes of aggression, both interpersonal and international, matter greatly regarding effective strategy for prevention and elimination of human violence.\nAccording to Hallet, Efe Pygmies are physically healthy. Living traditionally, they do not succumb to such modern diseases as high blood pressure, heart disease, or cancer.\nMost significantly, Efe Pygmies are free of hatred, greed, and competitive feelings. Physical violence against others is forbidden.\nThe Pygmies have no chiefs, no courts or prisons. Turnbull wrote that they did not want individual power, preferring shared decision-making.\nThe image of human nature demonstrated by the living Pygmies offers us the hope of better ways of relating, arising from a more accurate view of our original nature. The Efe Pygmy culture reassures us that we need not assume that human beings are genetically violent or greedy.\nThey also suggest that, contrary to earlier studies, the western African Pygmies were isolated from non-Pygmy populations until about 2,800 years ago, when they began exchanging marriage partners with neighboring farming populations.\nToday, social taboos discourage Pygmy men from taking wives belonging to neighboring farming groups. But farming men and Pygmy women can marry, and sometimes the children of these unions sometimes return to their mother\u2019s natal group in the forest. These cultural taboos and the resulting sex-biased gene flow probably began after western Africans invented farming techniques and began expanding through the rainforests about 5,000 years ago.\nTwo groups of populations with completely different lifestyles\u2014the Pygmy hunter\u2013gatherers and the Bantu-speaking farmers\u2014coexist in Central Africa.\nCoalescence analyses revealed that these two groups arose through a complex evolutionary process characterized by (i) initial divergence of the ancestors of contemporary Pygmies from an ancestral Central African population no more than \u224870,000 years ago, (ii) a period of isolation between the two groups, accounting for their phenotypic differences, (iii) long-standing asymmetric maternal gene flow from Pygmies to the ancestors of the farming populations, beginning no more than \u224840,000 years ago and persisting until a few thousand years ago, and (iv) enrichment of the maternal gene pool of the ancestors of the farming populations by the arrival and/or subsequent demographic expansion of L0a, L2, and L3 carriers.\nAccording to DNA ethnicity estimate tests from my raw DNA data file the amount of African pygmy dna I have ranges from 0.50% minimum to 7.27% maximum, and 2.47% medium. This matches the common minimum to maximum range of ethnicity estimates for my other ethnic groups on Ancestry.com such as Mali (range 0%-7%), and Finland/Northwest Russia (0%-7%). Ancestry.com came up with an ethnicity estimate of 2% for both Mali and Finland/Northwest Russia in my DNA which matches the 2.47% medium estimate of pygmy DNA for me on GEDmatch.\nNovaya Ladoga (English)\n\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u041b\u0430\u0434\u043e\u0433\u0430 (Russian)\n- Town[1] -\nLocation of Astrakhan Oblast in Russia\nhttp://s17.postimg.cc/47lcw7iof/Kungaas.jpg\nhttp://s29.postimg.cc/jqgi4egxj/Kasan_Russia.jpg\nhttp://s17.postimg.cc/u5tkfzdjj/Minsk.jpg\nhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Volga-Baltic_Waterway.PNG\nNorthwest Russia or Northern European Russia can be roughly defined as that part of European Russia bounded by Finland, the Arctic Ocean, the Ural Mountains and the east-flowing part of the Volga River. Although it was never a political unit there is some reason for treating it as a distinct region.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Russia\nNeolithic pygmy skeletons found in Northwest Russia area: This corresponds to Finland/NW Russia AncestryDNA.\nhttps://postimg.cc/image/fuml56rxr/\nAround the year 3 000 B.C., a new Stone Age culture, known as the Comb-Ceramic culture, spread throughout Finland. It took its name from an art that was introduced into Finland fully developed: the art of pottery-making.\nThe Comb-Ceramic people inherited their stone implements from an older, pre-Ceramic culture, which, at least, signifies that an unbroken contact with the earlier inhabitants of the country had existed.\nOn the basis of findings made east of Finland, anthropologists have ascertained that the Comb-Ceramic population was short,...\nhttp://uralica.com/earlyfin.htm\nThe most ancient skulls which have been ...are small and round, indicating the small stature of the people ...\nLife of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward: Associate of ...\nNeolithic-pygmies-dwarfs-in-Europe:\nhttp://funkyimg.com/view/2iQjj\nNeolithic-pygmies-age-281 (pygmies in Central-Europe and Scandinavia in prehistoric times).\nhttp://funkyimg.com/view/2iQjv\nNeolithic-pygmies-page-282 (European prehistoric pygmies)\nhttp://funkyimg.com/view/2iQjS\n\"Today,\" he said, \"we are learning the language in which God created life.\" - President Bill Clinton on the international Human Genome Project to reveal DNA sequence.\nOn 26 Jun 2000, the first draft was announced of the human genome, the result of an international research effort to map the entire sequence of genes in human DNA.\nhttp://todayinsci.com/C/Clinton_William/ClintonWilliam-CreationQuote800px.htm\nWhen Jehovih created the universe, Jehovih created genetics (DNA). Jehovih is the author of genetics. When man studies the science of genetics (like other sciences) he is studing a reliable testimony or word of God you can trust. No man or angel created genetics.\nAnthropology - human origins. The existence of pygmies is evidence and proof of what Oahspe says about the I'hin race.\n\"There alighted upon the new earth millions of angels from heaven; but many of them had never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy, and these angels comprehended not procreation nor corporeal life.\"\nAccording to Oahspe these were the angels who were tempted and bred with the first race of humans to produce the short people called the I'hins. The I'hins were so short because their parents had died in infancy, in a underdeveloped corporeal state, that last corporeal state became fixed in their genetics for over 10 million years (since many of them were older than the earth at that time). Semu is a mixture of both the physical and non-physical. The infancy/pre-natal/fetal death was a vortexian record in their genetic make-up, a non-physical record, a vortexian record that continued with them in the spirit world. DNA is a vortexian record, that is why DNA is a twisted double-helix (spiral) shape like a primary vortex. The vortexian record carries over from the corporeal to the spiritual world.\nEpigenetic stunted corporeal growth\nThe angels who died in infancy on other corporeal worlds had their corporeal growth stunted by their experience, this was epigeneticly passed on to the I'hin offspring who's corporeal growth was also stunted.\nEpigenetic infancy stunted growth equation\nGrowth stunted parent(GSP) = growth stunted offspring(GSO) = I'hins(I) =\nPygmies(P)\nGSP = GSO = I = P = pedomorphic = infantile features = neotony\nEpigenetics turns switches off, the growth hormone receptor switch was turned off in the I'hin and Pygmies\nFrom: The Tech Geneticist\nSubject: An answer to your question\nIf two people experienced something in their childhood that stunted their\ngrowth could this be epigenetically passed on to their children where the\nchildren would be short in stature?\nA: It might. We certainly have seen big shifts in terms of height due to changing nutrition(as populations get more protein, they get taller). What we haven't yet seen is if the poor nutrition of the parents has an epigenetic effect on the children such that even with good nutrition, they don't grow as tall as they could.\n\"Epigenetics is very interesting topic and a growing area of genetics. There are studies that suggest epigenetic modifications to genes are heritable and can be passed down to offspring. However, we do not know enough yet about epigenetics and these modifications to make specific predictions about how these might affect a person\u2019s children. In addition, height is generally a complex trait with many genes involved and contributing factors.\" - Certified Genetic Counselor\nAbove: I'hin (art by Newbrough) and photo of Modern Ghan showing not similar proportional symmetry.\nComparison to Preschooler (ages 2-5 years) shows I'hin and Congo Pygmy have very similar neoteny proportions.\nThe Mbuti pygmies of the Congo along with the Khoi San people are the closest living relatives of the I'hins, they have the closest matching phenotype (short stature, body proportions and symmetry) and genotype (HLA-C and L1, L2 oldest mtDNA haplogroups) to the I'hins of any modern people. The Mbuti pygmies also have a peaceful society like the I'hins. The I'hins were the shortest and oldest Homo sapiens race with body proportions very similar to a small child. The African pygmies are closer to the I'hins than European Caucasians, or Negroes, or Asian and American Mongoloids. Sub-Saharan Africans have the most recent I'hin or pygmy DNA with a higher percentage of the oldest mtDNA haplogroups (L1 and L2) and the highest percentage of enhanced hippocampal volume and higher intracranial volume genes than any other modern people over 5 to 6 feet tall.\nHuman body proportion changes with age\nAlthough an I'hin was much shorter, his head and brain capacty was as large as a modern human (see above images of I'hin, Ihuan {modern man} comparitive height and head/brain size). The I'hins had better intracranial volume, genotype rs10784502(C;C) higher cranial capacity, than Asu, the Druks, and about equal to modern I'huans and Ghans.\nAbove: tracing total intracranial volume white line (inside skull).\n3. Gradeschooler 5 - 12 years = head is 1/6th body height\nForensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkenson (Caroline Wilkinson) wrote in 2004 that\nAustraloids have the second largest brow ridges \"with moderate to large supraorbital arches\".[13]\nCaucasoids have the largest brow ridges similar in size with \"moderate to large supraorbital ridges\".[13]\nNegroids have the third largest brow ridges with an \"undulating supraorbital ridge\".[13]\nMongoloids are \"absent browridges\", so they have the smallest brow ridges.[13]\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australoid_race\nNative American Prophet Ea-Wah-Tah of Oahspe has even mixture of Mongoloid Caucasoid facial features according to state-of-the-art facial recognition technology:\nNative American Ea-Wah-Tah matched up with 5 Caucasion people, and 5 Asian people.\nhttp://postimg.cc/image/79dqdxbyp/\n2 feet 10 inches tall (just under 3 feet) for average height of I'hin .\nhttp://divinecosmos.com/forums/showthread.php?10107-4D-on/page2 Above is a depiction of a Grey alien that is face recognition matched to a human infant. Both showing infancy traits of the I'hins and the angels who died in infancy on other corporeal worlds. Facial recognition is an important and rapidly evolving biometric science.\nAre the grey aliens Homo-sapiens who died on other corporeal worlds (planets from other star-systems such as the star system Zeta Reticuli) in a pre-natel fetus state and they never full-filled a corporeal life and never learned how to manifest a fully-developed human form and thus they default back to their last corporeal form (fetus) when they take on mortal form??? Are they attracted to mortals to learn about corporeal things and do they perform experiments on adult humans to learn about corporeal things they never experienced or never got a chance to learn about during their corporeal life (such as adulthood, reproduction, genetics, DNA, etc...)??\nDoes the below words apply to the grey aliens?\nGrey\u2019s appearance: large, bulbous forehead with bulging, unblinking eyes. Skin is pale gray and wrinkly. Those who have encountered this type of alien characterize their skin as having the texture of an ocean mammal like a dolphin or whale.\nhttp://carolinemichelle.hubpages.com/hub/Do-Aliens-Exist-Three-Prominent-Alien-Types-Exposed\n\"skin as having the texture of an ocean mammal like a dolphin or whale\" would fit the human fetus inside the liquid of the amniotic sac.\nInterestingly and synchronously human abduction by aliens mentioned below happened in a warm or up-spike year (corresponding to the times of dan in Oahspe).\nShe [Betty] insisted that they were more human-like in appearance with eyes only slightly larger and more widely spaced.\nhttp://www.viewzone.com/zeta.html\nBetty and Barney Hill = 1961 = warm up-spike year\nA rendering of a grey (left) and a male human being (right) bearing similarities to each other\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien#mediaviewer/File:Greyalien.svg\nThe lack of sex organs of the grey denotes a fetal (pre-infancy) state or a Iesu (neutral) state.\n...other claimants say that they have seen Nordics inside the same craft as greys. In such reports, the Nordics are often interpreted as leaders, with the greys as their subordinates.\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/nordics.html\nNordics = adult state, greys = child state, child is subordinate to adult.\nthe prefix \"Dan\" from Danish = Scandinavian or Nordic.\nDan Tribe of Ivory Coast, African Dan Tribal Masks, Dan ...\nhttp://humansarefree.com/2014/10/the-amazing-history-of-dogon-tribe.html\nThe Tribe of Dan, also sometimes spelled as \"Dann\", (Hebrew: \u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05df, Modern Dan, Tiberian D\u0101n ; \"Judge\") was one of the Tribes of Israel.\nAccording to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Dan, a son of Jacob ...\nIn the Biblical census of the Book of Numbers, the tribe of Dan is portrayed as the second largest Israelite tribe (after Judah).[7]\nAs part of the Kingdom of Israel, the territory of Dan was conquered by the Assyrians, and exiled; the manner of their exile led to their further history being lost.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan\nSymbolism of Oahspe in the Bible:\nWho and what are the Grey aliens who are short in stature and resemble a human fetus in appearance?\nGreys are typically depicted as...diminutive humanoid beings...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien\nWatch and listen to the Youtube video BOOK OF JEHOVAH - PART 2 below:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4B8rSJPeL0&playnext=1&list=PLTN1HhwGPiqtteqYuRa7oWIJzNu4AQlqN&feature=results_video\nFrom the 23:00 mark to the 25:00 minute mark of the Youtube video above it talks about the I'hins and shows a picture of african pygmies, and the angels who came to earth to help Asu. Angels partook of the Tree of Life (procreation). The angels did themsleves and Jehovih a good service. These were the \"Eve\" angels that bred with (knew) \"Adam\" (Asu) and produced the I'hins (Abel, Ability to understand and percieve spiritually). Eve (angels) knew (partook of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil) Adam (Asu).When the Eve (angels) materialized during the time of semu (dense dark molecular cloud, nebula) they took substance (ectoplasm) from the sides (rib area) of the Asuans (Adam). Ectoplasm is semu-like.\nThe above says these angels were \"heirs of other planets\", meaning they came from other planets (other corporeal worlds). The odds that all of the angels that came to earth and procreated with the asuans were of very short stature is not likely since they came from different planets. We would expect a variation in stature from medium height to tall as we find on earth (or some short and some very tall, with the majority being of average height).\n\u201cThe truth is we don\u2019t know where pygmies came from,\u201d\n\"Pygmies are known for one trait, it is their short stature...the reason why these groups are so short and neighboring groups are not remains unclear.\"\n\"Pygmy height is one of those longstanding mysteries in biological anthropology,\u201d\nInjected human growth hormone (HGH) into Pygmy children produced sub-responsiveness to the effects of HGH . Multiple studies indicate that the pygmy responds poorly to HGH. A HGH-binding protein, which is a fragment of the GHR (growth hormone receptor)is markedly diminished in pygmy serum, suggesting a defect in the GHR. African Pygmies do not grow much taller when given extra HGH. Their stature is believed to stem from a relative lack of \"receptors\" for the hormone.\nThe origins of pygmies have long been a mystery. Researchers have debated whether African pygmies inherited their height from a common ancestor they shared long ago (angels who had never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy) or whether shortness evolved independently in each tribe because it was advantageous for life in the forest. The Pygmies are thought to be the first inhabitants of the African continent (the I'hin survivors of the sinking of Pan who sailed to Ham in their ships). Pygmies are often romantically portrayed as both utopian and \"pre-modern,\" (the Heavenly angels and the I'hins lived utopian lives).\nMigliano et al. (2007) compared growth curves of pygmy and U.S. women, and found that pygmies grew faster than under-nourished U.S. citizens, but ceased to grow earlier. They concluded that small stature in pygmies was due to a shorter duration of growth rather than to a lower growth rate, and that nutritional stress was not a likely explanation for pygmy short stature.\nThe riddle of pygmy stature being unsolved (Perry and Dominy 2009), ...\nhttp://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/PDF/migliano_final_10-09.pdf.\nResearch at the Univ. of Cambridge suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, or pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature.\nThe study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, at the Univ. of Cambridge, helps unravel the mystery of how small-bodied people got that way. The article appears in the journal Current Anthropology.\nAdult males in small-bodied populations found in Africa, Asia and Australia are less than four ft, 11 in. tall--about a foot shorter than the average U.S. adult male. Why people in these populations are so small remains a mystery, but several hypotheses have been proposed.\nIf death comes at an early age, then natural selection would favor those who are able to reproduce at an early age. But early sexual maturity comes with a cost. When the body matures early, it diverts resources to reproduction that otherwise would have gone to growth. So small body size could be essentially a side effect of early sexual maturity.\nStock's and Migliano's study provides the first long-term evidence for the mortality hypothesis. The researchers looked at over 100 years of data on three small-bodied populations from the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, south of Burma. When the British established colonies on the islands in the 1850s, these indigenous tribes had very different reactions to their new neighbors. Those reactions would have vast implications for the tribes' mortality rates.\nTwo tribes, the Onge and the Jarawa, resisted relations with the British, and retreated deep into the forest to avoid them. But the largest group of tribes, the Great Andamanese, befriended the British, some even living in homes built and supervised by colonists. In doing so, the tribesmen were unwittingly exposed to infectious diseases for which they had no defenses. As a result, the Great Andamanese experienced a sharp increase in mortality due to influenza, tuberculosis, measles and syphilis. By 1900 their numbers had dwindled to 600, from 6000 just 50 years before. By the 1960s, only 19 individuals remained.\nUsing historical records compiled by British researchers at the time, Stock and Migliano found that during the peak period of increased mortality, the Great Andamanese got smaller in stature. From 1879 to 1927, the height of the adult males who were measured decreased at a rate of 4.7 cm/100 yr.\nMeanwhile, the Onge and the Jarawa, who for the most part isolated themselves from colonists and did not have dramatic increases in mortality, saw no drop in stature. The Jarawa, which have had the most stable mortality rate, remain the tallest of the three tribes today.\nThe relationships of the tribes with colonists \"led to differences in mortality among these tribes, which appears to have been a fundamental determinant of variation in body size,\" the authors conclude.\nThis is first time that a link between mortality and body size has been shown using long-term data, the authors say. And it bolsters the idea that the reproductive trade-off associated with a short life could play a role in the evolution of human body size.\nSource: Univ. of Cambridge\nhttp://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2009/10/mortality-rates-may-explain-pygmy-size\nThe parents of the I'hins all had high mortality rates (50 % died in infancy). The article says if death comes at an early age...early sexual maturity and small body size could be a side effect, well dying in infancy (including fetus and embryo) is as early you can die. The parents of the I'hins all died at an early age.\nHigh mortality rate = Epigenetics = short stature of offspring = I'hins = Pygmies\nThe Efe Pygmies in equatorial Africa are \u201cwholly non-aggressive,\u201d (genetically non violent from their I'hin/heavenly angel ancestry, having a high percentage close to 40-50% of peaceful angel ancestry. Ihins non-agressive = 50% angel, 50% Asu (earthly man). Druks war-like = 25% angel, 75% Asu. The culturally pure Efe Pygmies from early childhood live a trusting, cooperative, and joyful lifestyle. It is customary for Efe Pygmies to have only one lover at a time. Most significantly, Efe Pygmies are free of hatred, greed, and competitive feelings. Physical violence against others is forbidden. The entire Efe Pygmy society had not one criminal, not one rapist, one molester, or one case of incest.\nFrom DARKNESS, DAWN AND DESTINY by Augustine Cahill (Drawn from Oahspe) pages 63-64 says \"The tabu against incest is one known to every race and tribe of mankind in the world today. The physical degeneracy which incest may produce is peculiar to the human animal. If mankind had evolved by the mere process of natural selection from ape-like primates, how did brute-man come to understand the peril of incest in good time to avoid it? The evil of incest lies primarily in the spiritual weakness of the offspring, from which the physical degeneracy follows. (The unseen rules the seen). Oahspe clearly states that the children of close blood relations, when born into spirit after death, have initialy less of that spiritual viability, that life-force of the soul which confers everlasting life. If the process of incest is continued through generations, man loses his power of life after death altogether, his spirit going into dissolution--he reverts in fact to the purely animal. The command against incest was therefore given to the I'hins from the first, and only those tribes of mankind, however primitive, which have kept this commandment have survived.\" According to the Christian Bible in the Book of Genesis after the flood the offspring of Noah's sons (first cousins) would have committed the tabu of incest to re-populate the world which would have produced degeneracy. The children of first-cousin marriages have an increased risk of genetic disorders. Incest is condemned by The Bible: Leviticus 18:6 \"None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.\" Of course one of the problems that Christians who believe the book of Genesis are still faced with is how there can be such a variety of DNA in the world today. Because if the offspring of Noah were the only humans to start the chain over again and existed only 4500 years ago, then we would not see the variety of DNA we see now. Incest or inbreeding shortens or limits the pool of genetic variety. Outcrossing or outbreeding expands the pool of genetic variety. The genetic variety we see today in humans is in harmony (the Father, Creator is harmony) with the outbreeding between the thousands of non-closely related I'hins who survived the flood, with the non-closely related Druks, and non-closely related I'huans in Oahspe, and is in disharmony with the Biblical story of Noah and his offspring repopulating the earth. The Biblical story is in disharmony (darkness) with genetics (the Father's creation or word) and the Oahspe story is in harmony (light) with genetics (the word or creation of the Father).\nEfe Pygmies are physically healthy. Living traditionally, they do not succumb to such modern diseases as high blood pressure, heart disease, or cancer. The Pygmies have no chiefs (no kings, no tyrants), no courts or prisons. Turnbull wrote that they did not want individual power, preferring shared decision-making. According to Hallet, the Pygmies believe in one God, one Spirit, one Creator of all life (faithists like the I'hins and Essenes). They consider no form of punishment, no hell or revenge, because they see God as being only benevolent.\nThere is no ruling group or lineage within the Mbuti (pygmies), and no overlying political organization. The Mbuti are an egalitarian society where men and women basically have equal power (like the etherea angels of Oahspe).\nThe Pygmies also differ from most Negroes in skin color. The Western Twides have been described as having yellowish skin and pink lips. The Eastern Twides are said to have clay-yellow skin color with brownish overtones and also pink lips. Oahspe says the The I'hins were white and yellow and small and slender in contrast to the druks who were brown and black, tall and stout like the Tutsi and Hutu neighbors of the pygmies.(the Tutsi for example reach 6 ft. 5 inch in height). The pygmies average 4 ft. 6 inch in height. Pygmies are born covered with a thick lanugo, or fetal hair, which is usually blond to reddish. Pygmy males characteristically have heavy beards (just like the drawing of the I'hin race in Oahspe in contrast to the American Indian who has no beard just like the I'huan race pictured next to the I'hin in Oahspe).\nAccording to Oahspe pygmies are the missing link between heaven and earth. The Bible and the Koran do not mention the sacred little people. African Pygmies are the closest living relative of the human race called I'hin in Oahspe. The I'hins were short in height because their parents were angels who had died in INFANCY (never fulfilled a corporeal life). Infants are short/small in height. The genes for short height had become fixed for millions of years (over 10 million years). Pygmies' heads are usually oval to globular, like those of infants. Oahspe could have just said angels came to earth, took on physical bodies and inter-bred with man producing normal size human off-spring. But Oahspe mentioned \"many of them had never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy.\" The angel parents had died in a underdeveloped physical state that was passed on geneticly to the off-spring (a hereditary trait). The I'hins breading amongst themselves further fixed the small stature genes. Pygmies are descendants of one of the founder populations of modern humans (I'hins).\nPygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually short. The best known pygmies are the Aka, Ef\u00e9 and Mbuti of central Africa. There are also pygmies in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Andaman Islands[3] Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Brazil.[4] The term also includes the Negritos of Southeast Asia. Some have reported a tribe of pygmy Tibeto-Burman speakers known as the T'rung inhabiting the remote region of Mt. Hkakabo Razi in Southeast Asia on the border of China (Yunnan and Tibet), Burma, and India. Oahspe says the I'hins were preserved by Jehovih in all the world as a scattered people, even after they became extinct as a race.\nThe Mysterious Little People of Japan\nhttp://www.cryptomundo.com/homo-floresiensis/koropokkuru/\nMany Bantu view the Pygmies as having supernatural abilities...Perhaps most disturbing of all are the stories of cannibalism from the Congo; soldiers eating Pygmies in order to absorb their forest powers (in Oahspe the I'hins were thought to have spiritual powers by their neighbors). Although this is an extreme example, it graphically illustrates the attitude that Pygmies are often considered subhuman, making it difficult for them to defend their culture against obliteration (the short I'hins {Abel} were killed by the tall Druks {Cain} on the pacific continent of Pan). According to Minority Rights Group International there is extensive evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape of Pygmies and they have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate a campaign of extermination against pygmies.\nScientists say the first pygmies diverged genetically from other humans (first apeared) 60-70,000 years ago. Oahspe says the first I'hins appeared around 73,000 years ago, so the dates match up very close.\nThe I'hins were vegetarians, modern pygmies eat meat as well as fruits and vegetables. Meat eating was probably introduced by contact and inter-breeding with neighboring tribes that were carnivorours.\nDwarfism in other people is abnormal, but in pygmy society it is normal.\nhttp://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pituitary+dwarfism\ndwarfism [dwor\u00b4fizm]\nunderdevelopment of the body; the state of being a dwarf. It may be the result of a developmental anomaly, of nutritional or hormone deficiencies, or of other diseases. The size of pygmies found in some parts of the world, such as the Philippines and equatorial Africa, is not the result of dwarfism; their small stature is a hereditary trait. Called also nanism and nanosomia.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples\nVarious theories have been proposed to explain the short stature of pygmies...evidence points towards unusually low levels of expression of the genes encoding the growth hormone receptor and growth hormone relative to the related tribal groups, associated with low serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 and short stature.[12]\nIt is estimated that there are between 250,000 and 600,000 Pygmies living in the Congo rainforest.[13] However, although Pygmies are thought of as forest people, the groups called Twa may live in open swamp or desert.\nResearchers found \"an early divergence of the ancestors of Pygmy hunter\u2013gatherers and farming populations 60,000 years ago\nPygmy culture is unwritten and ancient; some Pygmy groups being the first known cultures in some areas of Africa.[28\nThe remains of at least 25 miniature humans, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were recently (as of 2011) found on the islands of Palau in Micronesia.[34]\nTheir origin and the route of their migration to Asia is still a matter of great speculation. They are genetically distant from Africans,[33] and have been shown to have separated early from Asians, suggesting that they are either surviving descendants of settlers from the early out-of-Africa migration of the Great Coastal Migration of the Proto-Australoids, or that they are descendants of one of the founder populations of modern humans.[35]\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/04/26/the-short-answer-on-pygmy-height-genes/\n\u201cThe truth is we don\u2019t know where pygmies came from,\u201d said lead researcher Dr. Sarah Tishkoff, associate professor of genetics and biology and the University of Pennsylvania. \u201cBy looking at a million genetic variants across the genome, we finally have a good understanding of their ancestry.\u201d\nScience Daily (Apr. 26, 2012) \u2014 If Pygmies are known for one trait, it is their short stature: Pygmy men stand just 4'11\" on average. But the reason why these groups are so short and neighboring groups are not remains unclear.\nWestern African Pygmies, are 17 centimeters shorter on average than their Bantu-speaking neighbors.\nThese two groups diverged genetically 60-70,000 years ago. But roughly 4-5,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking groups expanded into the tropical forests where Pygmies' ancestors lived. The resulting contacts led to population mixing, typically Bantu men reproducing with Pygmy women. Their children would return to Pygmy villages; therefore Pygmies' genomes reflect the contributions of Bantus, while Bantu genomes contain little to no input from Pygmies.\n\u201cThis study has tremendous value, because Pygmy height is one of those longstanding mysteries in biological anthropology,\u201d says Edward Hagen, an anthropologist at Washington State University in Vancouver, Washington, who studies West African Pygmies. Nonetheless, he adds, the results don\u2019t resolve the debate. \u201cThis study provides lots of clues, but no answers yet,\u201d\nhttp://www.nature.com/news/hunt-for-genetic-link-to-pygmy-height-yields-clue-1.10517\nBoris Ade, who spent years as a doctor to Pygmies in the Ituri country, attributes their flexibility to a combination of two unusual endocrine condition, a hereditary deficiency in growth hormones in the anterior lobe of the pituitary...no one has yet, to our knowlege, published a detailed autopsy of a Pygmy cadaver--or injected growth hormone into Pygmy children year after year to see what would happen.\nSuch an experiment, which would harm no one, could help us determine what makes the Pygmies dwarfs and whether different dwarfing mechanisms might be found to operate in different dwarf populations, not only in Africa but elsewhere. At the moment we are not in a position to state from simple observation, as some have stated, that certain Pygmies are infantile, others partly achodroplastic, and so on...The Pygmies also differ from most Negroes in skin color. The Western Twides have been described as having yellowish skin and pink lips. The Eastern Twides are said to have clay-yellow skin color with brownish overtones and also pink lips. Gates calls the skin color of the Ituri Pygmies mahogany. He has postulated that the Pygmies posses three genes for skin color: mahogany, yellow, and brunette. The Bushmen have only the last two, and the Negroes all three and in addition a fourth, which makes them black....The darkest-skinned Pygmies are the potters of Lake Kivu, who, according to Hiernaux, have reddish brown skins more or less matching 28 and 29 on von Luchan's widely used skin color chart, on which Number 30 is the darkest.\n\"Of all colors (black, white, yellow, copper, red and brown) were the tribes of Ham; nevertheless, they were I'hins\" - Oahspe\nThis makes them little if any lighter than their overlords the Hutu, but unlike the latter, many Kivu Pygmies have large, relatively unpigmented yellow patches on their bodies...Pygmies are born covered with a thick lanugo, or fetal hair, which is usually blond to reddish, and when retained in adults turns dark brown. Both sexes also have rich terminal hair, particularly on their armpits and pubis. In some males it is distributed over much of the body, and males characteristically have heavy beards. ..As one would expect in dwarfs, the Pygmies' heads appear large in proportion to their body size. Their heads are usually submesocephalic, with cephalic index means between 75 and 77 for both sexes. They are also relatively high-vaulted, except for Lake Kivu potters, who are also aberrant in other respects. Pygmies' heads are usually oval to globular, like those of infants, and bulbous foreheads are common, particularly in children and women...In comparing the Rwanda-Burundi Pygmies with their neighbors the Hutu and Tutsi, Hiernaux found that the Pygmies have the lowest heart beat and the highest blood pressure of the three, but there is little difference in respiration rate.\nAnthropologist Brian Shea of Northwestern University...Other researchers have found slowed growth during childhood for Africa\u2019s Mbuti pygmies, apparently due to reduced levels of a key growth hormone. Such data suggest that these groups have evolved small bodies in direct response to as yet unidentified, long-term challenges in distinctive habitats, Shea says.\nhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/why-pygmies-are-small/\nGROWTH HORMONE IN AFRICAN PYGMIES\nOriginal TextDavidL. Rimoin M.D. McGill, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1, ThomasJ. Merimee M.D. Louisville , David Rabinowitz M.D. W'srand, M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E. , VictorA. Mckusick M.D. Johns Hopkins , LuigiL.Cavalli Sforza M.D.\nThe plasma-level of human growth hormone (H.G.H.) was investigated in twenty-two African pygmies after insulin-induced hypoglyc\u00e6mia and/or arginine infusion. After these stimuli, their plasma concentration of immunoassayable H.G.H. rose to normal levels. Their glucose and insulin responses, however, were similar to those of H.G.H.-deficient individuals. These paradoxical findings could be due to either a peripheral unresponsiveness to the actions of H.G.H., or to the secretion of an altered H.G.H. molecule which is antigenically intact, but functionally inert.\nJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, BALTIMORE, U.S.A.\n1 Present address: department of medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.\nMETABOLIC EFFECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE IN THE AFRICAN PYGMY\nOriginal TextT.J Merimee M.D. Louisville a b c d, D.L Rimoin M.D. McGill, PH.D. Johns Hopkins c d, L.C Cavalli-Sforza M.D. Padua c d, D Rabinowitz M.D. W'srand, M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E. 1 d, V.A Mckusick M.D. Johns Hopkins d\nThe term \u2018Pygmy\u2019 is applied to human populations whose adult males exhibit an average height of ~150 cm or less, although thresholds between 140 and 160 cm have been employed [1]. Such groups are found all over the world including Africa, Asia, and the Americas, tend to live in tropical environments, have high levels of pathogen exposure, and practice a predominantly hunting and gathering lifestyle [2]. Studies of African mtDNA diversity suggest a time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) between African Pygmies and West African Bantu groups of ~60\u201370 thousand years...To date, a variety of physiological traits related to stature have been examined in African Pygmy populations [13], [14]. These studies documented normal levels of circulating human growth hormone (HGH) but...peripheral sub-responsiveness to the effects of HGH in various tissues.\nThe growth hormone receptor gene in the African pygmy.\nMerimee TJ, Hewlett BS, Wood W, Bowcock AM, Cavalli-Sforza LL.\nDepartment of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.\nMultiple studies indicate that the pygmy responds poorly to GH. A GH-binding protein, which is a fragment of the GHR is markedly diminished in pygmy serum, suggesting a defect in the GHR.\nIt is far from certain, however, that such children will end up taller if they are given growth hormone. (African Pygmies, for example, do not grow much taller when given extra HGH. Their stature is believed to stem from a relative lack of \"receptors\" for the hormone.)\nAnd since aggressive people increasingly threaten our lives, both locally and internationally, his claim seemed worth checking out. Whether or not humans are genetically violent, as some maintain, has significant relevance for we who are peace activists. The root causes of aggression, both interpersonal and international, matter greatly regarding effective strategy for prevention and elimination of human violence. And, while I cannot tolerate false hope, I was feeling a need for first-hand information that could offer genuine hope of a better world for our human family.\nMy fascination with the African Pygmies began in the 1960s, when I read The Forest People by Colin Turnbull, who had lived with the Mbuti Pygmies for three years. In the late \u201860s I attended Turnbull\u2019s lecture series at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.\nIn the early 1970s I heard Jean-Pierre Hallet speak about the Efe Pygmies at the University of California in Berkeley. At that time he showed his 1972 documentary film on this indigenous African tribe. Later I read Hallet\u2019s book, Pygmy Kitabu. Hallet has lived with the culturally pure Efe Pygmies from early childhood. He gave startling evidence of the trusting, cooperative, and joyful lifestyle of these forest people.\nMr. Hallet was born in Belgian, but went to Zaire\u2019s Ituri Forest, where his artist father had been living, when he was only six months old. Hallet told me that, for the most part, he grew up with the Efe Pygmies. He went barefoot, wore a loincloth, and did everything that they did. He still spends time with them every year.\nIf a girl becomes pregnant, she always knows who the father is, because it is customary to have only one lover at a time. Should the couple wish to marry, they do. If they choose not to, then many men will want to marry the mother-to-be, because children are most desirable.\nThe Pygmies do not equate breasts with sexual stimulation, Hallet claimed, and they do not use the breast for erogenous foreplay. The breast is considered sacred, reserved for the child.\nHallet never saw a Pygmy adult hit or criticize a child. Nor do they tell their children how to behave. When I asked how they control their children, Hallet answered, \u201cThey don\u2019t. The children do not need to be controlled. Whatever the adults do, the children do. The woman goes to gather wood for the fire, and the little girl follows and picks up a few pieces too.\u201d\nOnce he saw a toddler heading straight toward a blazing fire, and called out to alert the mother. The mother calmly replied, \u201cLet him go.\u201d As Hallet put it, the mother knew the child would soon feel the heat and slow down. She trusted nature, including the instinctual wisdom of her child\u2019s human nature. The child might touch a glowing twig and learn about fire without serious harm to either his fingers or his budding self-confidence.\n\u201cThis is probably the most striking difference between the Pygmies and our society,\u201d said Hallet. \u201cThey do not tell their children what to do or what not to do.\u201d\nAccording to Hallet, Efe Pygmies are physically healthy. Living traditionally, they do not succumb to such modern diseases as high blood pressure, heart disease, or cancer. Death is usually due to pulmonary diseases like pneumonia, a result of the constant nearly 100 percent humidity of their forest environment. The second leading cause of death is what Hallet termed \u201caccidents,\u201d such as being crushed by a falling tree.\nFor simple ailments like an infected cut, the Pygmies have natural medicines derived from various combinations of roots and plant juices. They have a cure for every normally occurring illness, according to Hallet. They either eat the substance, drink it, or make a little scratch and absorb it into the bloodstream much like an injection. Through centuries of trial and error, they know what works and what does not.\nThe emotional health of the Pygmies is also impressive. Hallet, constantly touched by their goodness, believes that the simplicity, harmony, and serenity that the Pygmies experience are qualities we could learn to incorporate. \u201cThey are not afraid,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are totally secure.\u201d They have a high level of respect for themselves and others.\nThey pygmies do not suppress their emotions; instead, they say, \u201cTell the truth. Do not hide it\u2014let it out.\u201d\nTurnbull referred to the bright-eyed, open look of the playful Pygmies, and was surprised by the extent of their emotional freedom: they may even fall to the ground and roll around when expressing intense sorrow, or laughter.\nAccording to Hallet, Pygmies concentrate their attention on the betterment of their personal relationships. He said that the entire Efe society had not one criminal, not one rapist, one molester, or one case of incest.\nAlthough a man might think of making love with a woman other than his wife, knowing how that would threaten the root of their sacred marriage for life, he would resist the temptation.\nAccording to Hallet, the Pygmies believe in one God, one Spirit, one Creator of all life. They consider no form of punishment, no hell or revenge, because they see God as being only benevolent. In The Forest People, Turnbull records the words of a song he heard his Pygmy companions sing: \". . . If darkness is, then the darkness must be good.\u201d So completely do the Pygmies experience a trustworthy world.\nThe images and expectations we hold in our minds powerfully influence our children\u2019s development. The picture of \u201chuman nature\u201d given by some modern people depicts a human \u201cinheritance\u201d of violent and selfish \u201cinstincts.\u201d\nPygmy Proverbs\n\u201cGoodness and kindness put an end to badness.\u201d\n\u201cGod returns the good that one does.\u201d\n\u201cWith truth one may reach God.\u201d\n\u201cA bad mother is not a mother.\u201d\n\u201cChildren are people\u2019s treasures.\u201d\nComparative height of a Pygmy man (right) and a European man (left).\nPygmy References in History\nThe Pygmies are thought to be the first inhabitants of the African continent. The earliest reference to Pygmies is inscribed on the tomb of Harkuf, an explorer for the young King Pepi II of Ancient Egypt. The text is from a letter sent from Pepi to Harkuf around 2250 B.C.E., which described the boy-king's delight at hearing that Harkuf would be bringing back a pygmy from his expedition, urging him to take particular care, exclaiming, \"My Majesty longs to see this pygmy more than all the treasures of Sinai and Punt!\"[2] References are also made to a pygmy brought to Egypt during the reign of King Isesi, approximately 200 years earlier.\nPygmies are often romantically portrayed as both utopian and \"pre-modern,\" which overlooks the fact that they have long had relationships with more \"modern\" non-Pygmy groups (such as inhabitants of nearby villages, agricultural employers, logging companies, evangelical missionaries, and commercial hunters.)\nThere is no ruling group or lineage within the Mbuti, and no overlying political organization. The Mbuti are an egalitarian society where men and women basically have equal power. Issues in the community are solved and decisions are made by consensus, and men and women engage in the conversations equally. Little political or social structure exists among the Mbuti.\nIn Africa, the Pygmies are in very real danger of losing their forest home, and consequently their cultural identity, as the forest is systematically cleared by logging companies.\nMany Bantu view the Pygmies as having supernatural abilities...Perhaps most disturbing of all are the stories of cannibalism from the Congo; soldiers eating Pygmies in order to absorb their forest powers. Although this is an extreme example, it graphically illustrates the attitude that Pygmies are often considered subhuman, making it difficult for them to defend their culture against obliteration.\nThe origins of pygmies have long been a mystery. Researchers have debated whether African pygmies inherited their height from a common ancestor they shared long ago or whether shortness evolved independently in each tribe because it was advantageous for life in the forest.\nIn the most likely scenario, a small group of short people split off from nonpygmy populations between 50,000 and 90,000 years ago.\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/02/short-history-african-pygmies\nHigh mortality rates and short life expectancy is recorded in the genes and passed on to the children causing early maturity and short stature.\nThe I'hins were produced by angelic parents who had the shortest lifespan and the highest mortality rate (they had all died in infancy or fetal state on other planets).\nPage 70 of DARKNESS, DAWN AND DESTINY by Augustine Cahill (a student of Oahspe) says \"For both physically and spiritually all was not quite as well as it seemed with the I'hins. They matured early and died young, and this condition progressed in after generations until few lived much beyond the age of thirty.\nResearchers from the University of Pennsylvania announced on Thursday that they may have discovered why pygmies are short ...\nTheir short stature mirrors their short lifespan, with average life expectancy a mere 17 years.\nPygmies' Small Size Linked to Short Life Spans\nHuman pygmies around the world are smaller than average because they tend to live very short lives, in some communities as little as 16 years, a new study says.\nhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071210-pygmy-size.html\nThe team has found that a mathemaical model backs the idea that the high mortality rate cuts height and now wants to find out the genes involved in short stature, she said, adding that similarly high mortality rates may explain the small size of the \"hobbits,\" human relatives found on the island of Flores.\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3317989/Pygmies-life-expectancy-is-between-16-and-24.html\nSmaller is healthier.\nThe small size of pygmies, like the family shown here with French anthropologist Alain Froment, may be linked to better disease resistance.\nDid Dodging Disease Keep Pygmies Small?\nBy Elizabeth Norton Apr. 26, 2012\nThe researchers were looking for variants called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced \"snips\") that might account for traits unique to pygmies.\nThe fact that pygmies seem to show genetic differences in CISH suggests that growth and immunity are physiologically linked, Tishkoff says. \"Our finding raises the intriguing possibility that short stature could be the result of better disease resistance\u2014\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/04/did-dodging-disease-keep-pygmies-small\nThat growth and immunity (disease resistance and short stature) are physiologically linked is true for the Ecuadorian little people (Laron dwarfs). The Little people of Ecuador, their dna is different, they dont get cancer or diabetes\nThe Ecuadorian dwarf community immune to cancer and diabetes.\nGenetic disease resistence is a I'hin trait (SNPs that give resistence to virus, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc...).\nHLA-C belongs to the MHC (human = HLA) class I heavy chain receptors. The C receptor is a heterodimer consisting of a HLA-C mature gene product and \u03b22-microglobulin. The mature C chain is anchored in the membrane. MHC Class I molecules, like HLA-C, are expressed in nearly all cells, and present small peptides to the immune system which surveys for non-self peptides.\nHLA-C is a locus on chromosome 6, which encodes for a large number of HLA-C alleles that are Class-I MHC receptors. HLA-C, localized proximal to the HLA-B locus, is located on the distal end of the HLA region. Most HLA C:B haplotypes are in strong linkage disequilibrium and many are as ancient as the human species itself.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-C\nHLA-C plays a key role in tumor cells recognition and elimination.\nhttp://postimg.cc/image/ddtv414av/\nHLA-C is important in viral control and tumor elimination.\nhttp://postimg.cc/image/jm36ygnx5/\nHLA \u00bb Allele Frequency Search\n% of individuals that have the allele\n56 C*02:02 Central African Republic Mbenzele Pygmy 77.0 36 3_32_N_16_4_E\nThe Allele Frequencies Website [Search HLA Allele Frequencies]\nC*02:02 Allele reported 144 time(s) and present in 133 population(s)\nPopulation Phenotype Frequency (%) Allele Frequency (in_decimals)\nCAF Central African Republic Mbenzele Pygmy 77.0 0.5204\nCMR Cameroon Baka Pygmy 0.2500\nhttp://www.allelefrequencies.net/hla6002a.asp?all_name=C*02:02\nC*02:02 allele = HLA-C.\nCw2 Serotype: C*02:02\nReports of genocide\nIn 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. In neighbouring North Kivu province there has been cannibalism by a group known as Les Effaceurs (\"the erasers\") who wanted to clear the land of people to open it up for mineral exploitation.[20] Both sides of the war regarded them as \"subhuman\" and some say their flesh can confer magical powers.[21] Makelo asked the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide.[22] According to Minority Rights Group International there is extensive evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape of Pygmies and they have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate a campaign of extermination against pygmies. Although they have been targeted by virtually all the armed groups, much of the violence against Pygmies is attributed to the rebel group, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, which is part of the transitional government and still controls much of the north, and their allies.[23]\nThe Pygmy population was also a target of the Interahamwe during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Of the 30,000 Pygmies in Rwanda, an estimated 10,000 were killed and another 10,000 were displaced. They have been described as \"forgotten victims\" of the genocide.[24] The current Rwandan Pygmy population is about 33,000, and is reportedly declining.[25]\nI'huans can also be savage and barbaric:\n16....And God said unto them, ere they started: Very fierce and savage are the I'huans who inhabit the wilderness on the way. Behold, they eat the flesh of both man and beast.\n...Through the I'hins can the Lord your God speak all languages, even the language of the barbarians, the I'huans.\n11. Out of se'mu I made man, and man was but as a tree, but dwelling in ha'k; and I called him Asu (Adam).\n12. I looked over the wide heavens that I had made, and I saw countless millions of spirits of the dead that had lived and died on other corporeal worlds before the earth was made.\n13. I spake in the firmament, and My voice reached to the uttermost places. And there came in answer to the sounds of My voice, myriads of angels from the roadway in heaven, where the earth traveleth. I said to them, Behold! A new world have I created; come ye and enjoy it. Yea, ye shall learn from it how it was with other worlds in ages past.\n14. There alighted upon the new earth millions of angels from heaven; but many of them had never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy, and these angels comprehended not procreation nor corporeal life.\n15. And I said, go and deliver Asu from darkness, for he shall also rise in spirit to inherit my etherean worlds.\n16. And now was the earth in the latter days of se'mu, and the angels p. 11 could readily take on corporeal bodies for themselves; out of the elements of the earth clothed they themselves, by force of their wills, with flesh and bones. By the side of the Asuans took they on corporeal forms.\n17. And I said: Go ye forth and partake of all that is on the earth; but partake ye not of the tree of life, lest in that labor ye become procreators and as if dead to the heavens whence ye came.\n18. But those who had never learned corporeal things, being imperfect in wisdom, comprehended not Jehovih's words, and they dwelt with the Asuans, and were tempted, and partook of the fruit of the tree of life; and lo and behold they saw their own nakedness. And there was born of the first race (Asu) a new race called man; and Jehovih took the earth out of the travail of se'mu and the angels gave up their corporeal bodies.\n19. Jehovih said: Because ye have raised up those that shall be joint heirs in heaven, ye shall tread the earth with your feet, and walk by the sides of the new born, being guardian angels over them, for they are of your own flesh and kin.\n20. Fruit of your seed have I quickened with my spirit, and man shall come forth with a birth-right to My etherean worlds.\nThe first mix occured around 73,000 years ago and resulting in humans being half animal [Asu] half angel. They were diminutive, well shaped humans with short arms and longer legs with the ability to walk upright. They could also speak and were able to see and communicate with their angel forefathers. These were called I'hins.\nSome Ancient Races of Man (Oahspe)\nhttp://www.oahspebible.com/1stlords1.html\n3. And it came to pass that a new race was born on the earth, and these were called I'hins, because they were begotten of both heaven and earth. Hence it became a saying: The earth conceived of the Lord.\n4. The I'hins were white and yellow, but the druks were brown and black; the I'hins were small and slender, but the druks were tall and stout\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20170923035751/http://oahspestandardedition.com/OSAC/AncientRacesofMan.html\nPygmies of the rainforest of Central Africa (Congo rainforest).\nAnother well-known Pygmy group in equatorial Africa are the Twa (Batwa), who live in the high mountains and plains around Lake Kivu, in Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi,...\nhttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/484571/Pygmy\nBelow Betaface facial recognition and race classification of Congo rainforest pygmies:\nClick below to get the maps for the rainforest you are interested in:\nLatin America | Africa | Southeast Asia\nThe little people (I'hins, pygmies, San Bushmen) have an angelic spiritual quality about them, they do not war with other tribes. They are descendants of Abel and Seth (the angels who came with Seth-antes) of the Bible and it is from them we inherited our spiritual qualities (DNA) and abilities (Abel, ability).\nAbove 3 Batwa (Twa) pygmies in Uganda, Africa.\nhttp://gorillastour.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-tales-of-batwa-people-pygmies-of.html\nThe white woman in the video below is Marlice Elrethra van der Merwe, she married in 2006 and her last name became van Vuuren. Marlice grew up closely with the San Bushmen community of Namibia in southwest Africa, and is one of only a handful of white people who can speak their language.\nThe Bushman taught Marlice the words N/a'an ku s\u00ea which means 'God will protect us' or \"God watches over us.\".\nMarlice and her husband work to preserve both African wildlife and the culture of Namibia's original inhabitants (The San Bushmen).\nThe Pygmy hunter-gatherers of the Cameroon and Congo River Basin are closely related to the Bushmen (San people) of the Kalahari Desert (Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region). The Bushmen (pictured above) have Epicanthic eye fold (infancy feature).\nBelow cheetahs are happy to trot next to their handlers, men from the San tribe, on their daily three-hour walk across the desert.\nAbove Taking a stroll: A Nomadic tribesman walks side by side in the company of a cheetah that he has helped to tame.\nOAHSPE: Book of God's Word CHAPTER XXV.\n20. The king had two trained cheetahs, large as the largest lions, and he ordered them to be unloosed and set upon Zarathustra. And it was done; but, lo and behold, the cheetahs came and licked his hands.\nhttp://oahspebible.org/word9.html\nOahspe - Book of Wars Against Jehovih: Chapter XXI: 3. And oft these traveling hunters dwelt with the sacred little people in the wilderness, the I'hins, whom Jehovih had taught to charm even the great serpents and savage lions and tigers to be their friends and worshippers. And herefrom sprang a people called Listians, who, living mostly in the forests [wilderness], went naked,...\n\"The San are the same as the Bushmen, and they are the little yellow people in the Kalahari desert with so many of the I'hin ways in their oldest traditions, even taming the wild beasts to be their friends.\" - May 15, 2015, Susan Martinez, Ph.D, Author of: The Lost History of the Little People.\nAbove is a depiction of an infant looking alien Grey that is face recognition matched to a San girl with a high percentage match (showing neoteny traits of the I'hins and the angels who died in infancy on other corporeal worlds). Facial recognition is an important and rapidly evolving biometric science.\nMusic plays an integral role in Baka society. As with other Pygmy groups, Baka music is characterized by complex vocal polyphony, and, along with dance, is an important part of healing rituals, initiation rituals, group games and tales, and pure entertainment.\nSome ethnomusicologists believe this yodeled polyphonic music may be a remnant of the earliest music of our species. It certainly carries the resonance of antiquity, of having lived forever in the forest.\nAbove a 1930s expedition to the Congo forest filmed the construction of a suspension bridge over a crocodile infested river by a group of pygmies. An incredible feat of engineering.\n\u201cas great a feat TO THEM as any of our great modern spans\u201d\u2026 \"except they built it in a few days with FREE organic locally harvested biodegradable zero impact materials.. as well as full community involvement and apparent joy..\" - Sept, 2014 paulflute on youtube.\nA family of BaMbuti pygmies in the Ituri Rainforest\nASU, THE FIRST MAN\nI'HIN I'HUAN YAK\nIn both Asu man and the Yak sketches above, the arms are still longer than the overall length of their legs similar to Australopithecus afarensis. The first australopithecine to be discovered and documented was a fossil in 1925, 44 years AFTER Oahspe was typed. Asu had a human-type face and extremely long arms; evidently, to enable him to gather fruit from the trees, as the picture seems to indicate. Asu apears dark-skinned with dark tightly curled hair. The dividing line between apes and the earliest man is very thin and a matter of opinion. No matter where the dividing line is placed, the humans just above the line and the apes just below it will be more similar to one another than they will be to other humans or other apes. The first man was in fact Adam (Asu), and Asu was a species not an individual. Asu was a long-armed low-browed man-animal, with no language save perhaps that of a scream, grunt,\nor \u201cwhoop\u201d vocalization. We can see that Asu and the Yak are somewhere in between an ape and a modern human. Asu became extinct.\nThe Oahspe story of the origin of the original (genesis) races of man (which the pygmies are evidence of) is very similar to the Biblical Jesus-Christ Savior story but goes back 73,000 years instead of 2,000 or 6000, predating all of the Egyptian and Indo-European savior stories around the world. Asu is the first man = Adam, but is the natural man of the earth only, incapable of everlasting life. The natural man came first on the earth, then the spiritual man. The first man Adam was of the earth, the second man was of heaven. The ability for everlasting life is brought to earth by the heavenly host (the Angels). The Angels are sinless (they are not fallen, they obey the voice and will of God), they bred with Earth man and produced the Ihin, The Angels give them the blood or the genetics for everlasting life. The threshold of everlasting life is 1/3 Angel blood (genetics) and 2/3 animal man (Asu) the mark of the beast is 2/3 or 666 of a thousand. For man to have everlasting life he has to have less than 2/3 Asu or animal man (natural man) or below the mark of the beast, and more than 1/3 Angel blood. The Angels had to die (in infancy on another world before they had the chance to sin) in order to give everlasting life to man, they gave their blood to save man. The Angels obeyed the voice and will of the Father and came to earth and took on physical bodies (became flesh and dwelt amongst man). The Angels who died in infancy on other worlds were a sacrifice for man to give him everlasting life (suffer the little children for of such is the kingdom of heaven).The Angels died so that we may have everlasting life. The I'hins were born capable of everlasting life, from a earthly parent and a heavenly parent. The I'hins were born of Holy Angels or Holy Spirits, the Angel of the Lord or Holy Spirit.\n(Oahspe Book of Saphah Se'moin: 34) I'su (Panic). Ie Su, a young child that has not sinned. [Iesu = Jesus = infant that has not sinned].\nDied in infancy = Angel sinless sacrifice so that mankind can have eternal life.\nA true Gift from God, the genetic gift of eternal life:\nThe I'hin angel/infancy savior story is a gift (non-conditional) you don't have to believe to receive.\nThe Jesus savior story they say is a gift from God, but it is conditional (you don't receive unless you believe).\nThe things that are really true in life are true whether you believe it or not, it does not depend on your belief, it is objective, not subjective.\nThe Father's love = unconditional love.\nGenetic gift of eternal life = unconditional.\n\u25c4 Hebrews 1:14 \u25ba of the Bible:\n\"those who will inherit salvation\".\n3. The latter Druks (1/4 mix) = 3/4 I'huan/1/4 Druk = 65.62 Asu, 34.38% heaven *\n* The latter Druk (1/4 mix) was capable of eternal life in heaven because they had less\n5. I'huan = 62.5% Asu, 37.5% heaven = Homo sapiens sapiens Cromagnon (62%/38% = golden ratio).\nOrigin of the short pygmies and negritos:\nMbuti Pygmies and San people: 90% I'hin + 10% I'huan = 46.5% Angelic, 53.5% Asu.\nOctave of corporean races according to Oahspe:\nThe Oahspe story of the origin of man (both Asu and I'hin) makes 100% genetic sense. After man (A'su) was created, the Creator (Jehovih) called out to his angels to come to earth and help man (Asu) who was helpless, crawling on his belly like a human infant. The Angels who had fullfiilled a corporeal life were like Jesus, they had overcome earthly fleshly desires, they had no desire for sexual intercourse or procreation. But the angels who had died in infancy would not have overcome fleshly desires, they would still be subject to corporeal desires such as lust, sexual desire. They (the angels who had died in infancy) would be the ones tempted by sex and would procreate with Asu. The Creator Knew this was going to happend just as he knows what is going to happend to man when the earth and the solar system passes into a'ji, ji'ay, and dan (the proof is the ORACHNEBUAHGALAH plate 48. of Oahspe). That's why he sends a'ji purposely because he knows what is going to happend. That is why he sent the angels purposely to help Asu because he knew what was going to happend. The Creator created man, created genetics, created DNA, created nebula, a'ji, ji'ay, and dans and he knows what is going to happend. The Creator is not disappointed he made man or anything because he already knows the outcome.\nJim Velasques said the Ethereans told him the New Covenant is that this time man saves himself, he takes up his own cross, he gets up on the cross himself to crucify the flesh or flesh desires (through Etherealization).\n\"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit\" - That thought or idea (desire) which is born of the flesh is flesh (fleshly, worldly), that thought or idea which is born of the Spirit is spirit (holy, spiritual) - Science of Etherealization (Jim Velasques).\nhttp://biblehub.com/john/3-6.htm\n\"That which is born of the flesh\" = indirect inspiration from the creation. \"that which is born of the Spirit\" = Direct inspiration from the Creator (ethe or etherealization taught to Jim Velasques in 1959 or Kosmon 111).\n\"take up your cross, and follow me\" - \u25c4 Matthew 16:24 \u25ba\nThe seven and eight dispensation schemes are often closely associated with the announcement or inauguration of certain Biblical covenants.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensation_%28period%29", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1184, "original_length": 156763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://studyphysicswithme.com/blog/tag/classical-mechanics/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:44Z", "digest": "sha1:RFZMHH4KNGUOTS5G3DTPKFEPKSWV3PMG", "length": 1003, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "studyphysicswithme.com", "title": "Classical Mechanics Archives - Study Physics with me", "raw_content": "The variational Principle(or Hamilton\u2019s Principle), as proposed by Hamilton is also known as the Law of Least Action. It is a fundamental principle of Mechanics and is more basic than Newton\u2019s laws of motion. We have discussed D\u2019Alembert\u2019s Principle before\nphysics-grad February 5, 2017 January 29, 2017 Physics No Comments Read more\nGeneralized coordinates in classical mechanics are a way to describe the phase space configuration(relative to a reference) of a system. In simple words, these can be used to simplify description of a system by using a small set of (not\nphysics-grad January 7, 2017 January 7, 2017 Physics No Comments Read more\nKinematics : translational motion\nKinematics is the domain of Mechanics that deals with simple translational motion. In this domain, we simply discuss the relationships among displacement, velocity and acceleration; without considering the cause of the motion. We know that velocity is the rate of\nphysics-grad November 8, 2016 Physics No Comments Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sunweber.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-middle-ages.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IN24IXUVA5LAH4JLDMOWA6PLCYVA6OVW", "length": 18149, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "sunweber.blogspot.com", "title": "SunWeb: The New Middle Ages", "raw_content": "We will go kicking and screaming down the path to the new Middle Ages as fossil fuels desert us. With the decline of available energy, those of most of us who have sat at the top of the energy pyramid will become the new peasants. With the popular view of the Middle Ages as a brutal and dirty time filled with famine and disease and at the mercy of armed overlords. We cringe at the thought.\nWith great sadness, we must recognize the direct connection between present day population levels and the use of fossil fuels in food production, medical procedures, medicines and hygiene. With the fall in fossil fuel availability there will be a reduction in population. Population soared with the industrial revolution and the development of industrial, fossil fuel based agriculture. It cannot be sustained.\nI will try not to reinvent the wheel. There are many well researched and written works on these issues. I provide references to works that underline points I am making. (See both POPULATION and PETROLEUM PRODUCTS listings in the bibliography.)\nWe need to celebrate our inventiveness and wonderment. We must also recognize there will be losses of people that will evoke great grieving. There will be losses of dreams. There will be great stresses causing both physical and emotional pain. We must honor these in each person. We must not get trapped in these, seeking a control through blaming others or ourselves, through seeking scapegoats or self-flagellation. Humans have a history of this during times of great losses (black death of the Middle Ages). We must beware.\nThe Middle Ages have been given somewhat of a bad rap. Yes, there was little buffer from year to year for the bulk of humanity against hunger and famine. Medicine was primitive and poorly conceived. Hygiene was not understood. And yes, there were the rich that controlled and took from the poor. Most of humanity worked very hard to make daily living work.\nHowever, let me suggest that this future without fossil fuels may not be significantly different from present once we work through the inevitable losses and grieving. In an Excel spread sheet I created in 2000 looking at the per capita use by country of petroleum, natural gas and electricity, some 75 to 80 per cent of the population had very little use of fossil fuels. Many people today work hand to mouth and lived on the edge with hunger, low energy accessibility, poor water resources and fragile shelter. What is in process is the great leveling of globalization. Many of us will be joining the peasant class.\nToday is no different. As I indicated globalization is the new leveling and pathway to peasanthood given the peaking and ultimate depletion of fossil fuels and other resources.\nComments about work and worker control in the Middle Ages are quite interesting.\n\u201c . . . By 1338 Florence was importing 10,000 lengths of cloth while manufacturing 80, 000. . . .\nThe banking and commercial techniques of the merchant capitalists of Florence effectively enslaved the majority of the thirty thousand textile workers of the city. Describing such medieval conditions, Arnold Hauser in The Social History of Art wrote that\nThe raising of the output demanded a more intensive exploitation of the available labour, a progressive division of labour and the gradual mechanization of labour methods, by which is to be understood not merely the introduction of machines, but also the depersonalization of human work, the valuation of the worker purely in terms of the output achieved. Nothing expresses the economic philosophy of this new age more trenchantly than precisely this materialistic approach, which estimates a man according to his achievement and the output according to its value in money - the \u2013 which, other words, turns the worker into a mere link in a complicated system of investments and financial yields, of risks and of profit and loss, of assets and liabilities.\n. . . The assembly-line system of today is criticized in that the workman is only a cog, an element separated \u2013 in effect, alienated \u2013 from the final, complete product. The Florentine textile workers were alienated, too, and for the same reasons. And they had the added frustration of the entrepreneurs\u2019 refusal to let them form an association. Their bosses knew only too well what power such organizations could offer, for their own power was itself largely founded on the associations or guilds of the Florentine ruling classes.\nIn order to hold this urban proletariat in check . . . introduce(d) . . .the truck system, which consisted in granting advances in goods or money to be repaid later in work, the goods themselves being, of course, generally overvalued. This chained the workman to his employer.\u201c\nPg. 104-105. Gimpel, Jean. 1975. The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. Penguin. N.Y.\nWhat I find absolutely fascinating is that the \u201ctruck system\u201d (the company store of \u201cSixteen Tons\u201d by Tennessee Ernie Ford) is at work today. Buy, buy, buy. Credit cards, house loans, new cars. Right after 9/11, the president of the United States of America was telling people to buy, buy, buy. Can you quit your job with all this debt? Do you think this is free will? In 2007, $149 billion was spent on advertising in the United States alone. Psychologists, ad people, sociologist get paid top money to convenience you and I to buy, buy, buy on credit.\nAnother interesting comparison is environmental concerns. We are gouging the earth, polluting the oceans, messing with the ground water, perhaps changing the climate, creating plastic beaches by plastic debris in the oceans and creating all kinds of toxic as well as nuclear material. The past had its own salting of land from irrigation, pollution of rivers and fouling of the air from burning as well as serious resource depletion. Here are two interesting pieces from history. The first is earlier than the Middle Ages.\n\u201cPopulation, fueled by agriculture, rose in an upward moving curve. In a repeating ecological pattern, our growing numbers exhausted the land, strained and polluted the water, depleted the forests, and crowded people into unhealthy conditions. Under these pressures, some people relocated using their feet, the wheel and domesticated energy in the form of animals. Or they died of starvation or pestilence or killed each other off.\nOne of the early Church Fathers, Tertullian (c. A.D. 160 - 240), commented on the effects of human enterprise on the earth: \u201cFarms have replaced wastelands, cultivated land has subdued the forests, cattle have put to flight the wild beast, barren lands have become fertile, rocks have become soil, swamps have been drained, and the number of cities exceeds the number of poor huts found in former times . . . Everywhere there are people, communities - everywhere there is human life!\u201d To such a point that \u201cthe world is full. The elements scarcely suffice us. Our needs press . . . Pestilence, famine, wars, [earthquakes] are intended, indeed, as remedies, as prunings, against the growth of the human race.\u201d\n(Gies, Frances and Gies, Joseph. 1994. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel. Harper Collins. N.Y. p. 6.)\nThe second is directly in the Middle Ages.\n\u201cThe building of thousands of furnaces in hundreds of medieval forests to satisfy the extensive demand for iron was a major cause of deforestation. . . . From the very beginning, the fuel used was charcoal, the black porous residue of burned wood. . . . The extent of the damage caused by iron smelters to forests can be appreciated when one realizes that to obtain 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of iron it was necessary at that time to reduce approximately 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of iron ore with as much as 25 steres (25 cubic meters) (883 cubic feet) of wood. It has been estimated that in forty days, one furnace could level the forest for a radius of 1 kilometer (over a square mile.)\u201d\nPg. 79. Gimpel, Jean. 1975. The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle\nAges. Penguin. N.Y.\nIt is the scope of the changes and environmental degradation that makes this a very different human experience. It is global.\nA misconception of the Middle Ages was that it was a time of no learning or creativity \u2013 a dark ages. However:\n\u201cOver the past forty years, historians have increasingly recognized that technological development \u201ctook off\u201d in the medieval and early modern West . . . The \u201cdry\u201d compass, mechanical clock, firearms, and the printing press \u2013 all medieval inventions . . . More mundane inventions including new agricultural methods, the wheelbarrow, the spinning wheel, the chimney, and eye glasses, had significant and long-lasting effects on European society. Medieval people also adapted older technologies, such as the watermill and windmill, the stirrup, and gunpowder, to new uses.\u201d\nPg. 111. Whitney, Elspeth. 2004. Medieval Science and Technology. Greenwood Press. London.\n\u201cWatermills proliferated in the Middle Ages. As early as the late eleventh century, southern England had over 5,600 mills in approximately 3,000 communities. By about 13000, England had over 9,000 watermills and at least 3,000 windmills. . . . By the fourteenth century, Paris had sixty-eight mills less than a mile from the center of the city. . . .\n. . . During the High and late Middle Ages, water-driven mills were adapted to pound hemp, saw wood, make paper, grind grain and pigments, sift flour, strip bark, press grapes for wind and olives for oil, tan leather, forge iron, , prepare cloth, and power bellow used in furnaces. Of these, fulling cloth, the process which cleaned, strengthened, and tightened the weave of woolen or linen cloth, probably had the most sustained economic impact. . . . \u201c\npg. 116-117. Whitney, Elspeth. 2004. Medieval Science and Technology. Greenwood Press. London.\nMany of these techniques and technologies will be available to us to provide food, clothing, tools and housing. We will be able to mine the carcass of civilization for many decades. Metal and materials already extracted and processed wait our turning them into useful tools.\nWe can go kicking and screaming into the new peasanthood or we can plan and learn. We need to assess what medicine and medical technologies can be carried into this new world of less per capita energy. We need to not lose the reams of knowledge that have been gleaned by the hard work of research by tens of thousands of us learning about our world and how it functions.\nBall, Warwick. 2010. Out of Arabia. Olive Branch. Great Britain.\nBrimblecombe, P. and Pfister, C. (editors). The Silent Countdown. Springer-Verlag. N.Y.\nCipolla, Carlo. 1967. The Economic History of World Population. Penguin Books. Baltimore, MD.\nChefurka, Paul. 2007. Population The Elephant in the Room. http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html\nCohen, Mark Nathan. 1977. The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. Yale University Press. New Haven.\nGies, Frances; Gies, Joseph. 1994. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel. Harper Collins. N.Y.\nGimpel, Jean. 1975. The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. Penguin. N.Y.\nHauser, Arnold. 1951. The Social History of Art. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London.\nLe Goff, J. 1980. Time,Work, & Culture in the Middle Ages. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.\nMollat, M. 1986. The Poor in the Middle Ages. Yale. New Haven.\nNewman, F. 1986. Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages. Bhinghamton. N.Y.\nOdum, Howard T. and Odum, Elisabeth C. 1976. Energy Basis for Man and Nature. McGraw-Hill Book Co. N. Y.\nPfeiffer, Alan. 2003. Eating Fossil Fuels. New Society. Canada.\nPostan, M. 1973. Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy. Cambridge.\nPrice, David. 1995. Energy and Human Evolution. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Volume 16, Number 4, March 1995, pp. 301-19\nRoss, S. John . 2008. Medieval Demographics Made Easy. http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm\nSteinhart, Carol E. and John Steinhart. 1974. The Fires of Culture. Duxbury Press. Mass.\nSteinhart, John and Carol Steinhart. 1974. \u201cEnergy Use in the U.S. Food System\u201d. in Science 184:307-316, 19 April.\nWhite, Lynn. 1978. Medieval Religion and Technology. Univ. of California Press. Berkeley.\nWhitney, Elspeth. 2004. Medieval Science and Technology. Greenwood Press. London.\nPetroleum Products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_product\nProductsfromPetroleum http://peakoil.com/consumption/things-you-didnt-know-were-made-of-oil/\nMcCluney, Ross. 2004. \u201cHow Many People Should the Earth Support?\u201d from Humanity's Environmental Future: Making Sense in a Troubled World. SunPine Press, Cape Canaveral, Florida\nHere are some of my blog essays of interest perhaps.\nhttp://sunweber.blogspot.com/\nhttp://sunweber.blogspot.com/2011/03/do-lemmings-grieve.html\nmicheal June 2, 2011 at 1:41 AM\nWhat the Middle Ages had was a luxurious earth biosphere of expansive, clean, and plentiful air, water, soil, plants, and animals. That is gone and so too are those opportunities.\nI am putting your site into my favorites, along with the ArchDruid and a couple other sites. Our family's long-term plan is to buy enough land to be self-sufficient in food and energy, with an energy-efficient home with enough spare bedrooms for all the kids and grandkids. I just hope we can do this before everything falls apart completely...\nSusan wrote: Our family's long-term plan is to buy enough land to be self-sufficient in food and energy\u2026\nI urge you to not go it alone!\nThe last time energy levels were as low as they're going to be soon, the unit of civilization was the tribe, clan, village -- not the nuclear family.\nYou'll need help. We could use some help!\nJohn Weber June 21, 2011 at 9:06 PM\nmicheal - you are right. we will have to let the earth cleanse itself if it can.\nSusan - keep at it. I believe hope is doing. We just finished putting in 300 blueberry plants and several hundred hills of potatoes. Orchard is growing slowing but surely. For the next generation.\nAn excellent article, thank you. The possibility of relapse into a dark age/medieval epoch is strong due to resource depletion. It is scenario that could be deemed similar to the collapse of Rome (but on a much larger, possibly more catastrophic scale.) I remain optimistic that technology could save us from such a fate (as per Ray Kurzweil) but I wouldn't like to put money on it.\nThe scenario you speak about certainly struck a chord with me, as it is grid collapse leading to neo-feudalism that forms the basis for my novel 'Dragon Line'. Dragon Line is set in Britain in the near future, where such a scenario has taken place due to Peak Oil and Climate Change. I have featured a short review and a link to your article (and the Ecologist article where you left a comment) on my blog about the novel, due to the fact that it is highly relevant. I hope this is okay. If you would like to check out the blog and find out a little more, the link to the latest post is as follows: http://owenlaw.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/article-recommendations-world-not-prepared-for-peak-oil-and-the-new-middle-ages/\nLeibowitz Society August 30, 2011 at 4:47 AM\nInteresting essay. One point for people to bear in mind is the remarkable ability of the earth to heal itself. If you leave a patch of yard (which is essentially useless) alone for even a couple of years, it will already be will into succession and new growth.\nThe population of the world is inevitably going to begin to drop at some point. We're obviously running up against the buffer of what is feasible in terms of carrying capacity and even just willingness to carry on the species. It was one thing for a person in the frontier era, for example, to want a large family. There would be plenty of land to hand down to one's children, plus labor to perform. Now, people are looking at bleaker prospects for their potential children and taking a big pass on having them. Maybe there's something deeply rooted in the individual psychology, I don't know.\nOne other point about the Middle Ages was that there were two cultural inputs of great importance -- the first being what was stored in the monasteries of Western Europe, and the second being the trickle of ideas in from the Byzantine/Islamic world. While neither can really claim to be the cause of late medieval/early Renaissance greatness in Europe, both were important in their own time as being at least a beacon for people to look to, as evidence that civilization still existed someplace in the world during the worst of the Dark Ages (China really only being a subject of stories at that point).\nAs globally linked as we are, we're going to have to carry our own legacy forward again. The entire world is now dependent on an increasingly shaky \"System of the World,\" which has snaked itself into all areas of the global economy. What source of information is there going to be for a rebirth if all areas are equally broken?\nNice blog. Keep up the good work.\nDavid McGaha October 3, 2011 at 9:51 AM\nInteresting article. Quite thought provoking. I am curious, how did you calculate that the earth's carrying capacity is unsustainable? I did some quick back of the napkin calculations based on current \"stocking\" rates and I get 11.7 billion and with only 80% dependent on oil, I get 9.4 billion as a post peak oil carrying capacity at current technology and energy production. I am sure that number goes up with mature permaculture techniques and other technology and market based fixes we may see.\nAlso, how do we reconcile that people have been concerned about over population since the 1st century AD yet we now have billions in population rather than millions?\nAgain, good article and I am working on reading the rest of your blog. I hope your other articles are as thought provoking as this one.\nmopc May 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM\nKevo Downunder July 18, 2015 at 9:40 PM\nSadly John Weber omits the 430 nuclear meltdowns and the 1200 odd spent fuel pool fires, the collapse of habitat leaving virtually no food and every particle of air radioactive,I am surprised he missed these details, there will be no middle age.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 23209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://swapnilmidha.com/2018/09/hilton/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SLPDZQAZUCCNCNYQXJUTMCALCRRIZPZP", "length": 511, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "swapnilmidha.com", "title": "Hilton - Swapnil Midha", "raw_content": "Brief: The resort required a script for their property video. I was approached by the APAC head office to work on it in collaboration with the resort\u2019s Marketing Manager and General Manager. The video showcased its sprawling grounds, luxury rooms, conferencing facilities, restaurants and bars, guest-entertainment facilities, and overall hospitality. The script needed to complement what was being visually presented.\nSample: This is the script, where I also did the sample voice-over for the artist to follow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sweptmedia.ca/author/coltongilson/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZPEY353SIDSQYXGSWAN76VPZZLFIUF5", "length": 473, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sweptmedia.ca", "title": "Colton Gilson, Author at Swept UA-35785461-1", "raw_content": "Bio: Colton Gilson is an emerging Toronto based artist operating in traditional and digital media. His work includes digital painting, t-shirt and logo design, and independent and editorial comics for various publications. In 2013 Colton Gilson graduated from the Humber College Visual and Digital Arts Program while under mentor-ship with DC Comics artist Ken Lashley. He is now enrolled in Bachelor of Fine arts in Illustration at OCAD University.\nPosts By Colton Gilson:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://swiss-libyan-art-project.info/english/tamimi.php?m=mm5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IHT5YZDENLKT5WDNRIS47OBKTZU4ZHCF", "length": 2088, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "swiss-libyan-art-project.info", "title": "Swiss-Libyan Art Project | libya - libyan art - art libya - sahara - saharan art - sahara rock art - rock art - rock paintings - trust for african rock art - tara - aars - prehistoric - prehistorien art - stone age - graffiti - african art - touareg - unesco world heritage - akakus - messak - tripoli", "raw_content": "Memories of Paradise Gardens - The Painter Salem Tamimi\nBorn 1956, lives and works in the medina of Tripolis.\nDream Memory, 2001\nSalm Tamimi was born in Tripolis in 1956. As artist he\u2019s working in a studio slightly bigger than a European children\u2019s room, in the shade of Roman art (next to the Arc of Marc Aurel) and in resistance to ethnic art which includes nothing the people could refer to. To make art in Libya today is a particular challenge, an attempt to overcome a tradition that, for the most part, is popular or classical as well as an experiment to make contact with international tendencies with quite stylistic devices of one\u2019s own.\nTamimi is exemplary for the situation of artists in Libya.\nTamimi\u2019s is an informal style. Simplified signs and often symbolically and signal-like applied colors come together in a unity that suggests that the artist has an excellent overall view of the international scene. The way Tamimi produces traces in his pictures it\u2019s not at all out of place to make comparisons with Cy Twombly. Tamimi often sells his works to passing tourists.\nCircumstances add to the fact that Tamimi has to make do with small or at the least middle formats. There should be the impression of narrowness on his pictures, did the artist not succeed, at the same time, to produce an impression of spaciousness. What sometimes looks like a rubbing-off of an outside wall can make one think, through the colors\u2019 density, of luxuriant vegetation, of gardens that, in a country like Libya, can only be compared with the idea of gardens of paradise.\nAfter visiting Tamimi in his studio, J\u00f6rg Mollet and I saw the graffiti on the walls of houses in the streets of the medina in a different way. There are as few figurative representations, there, as in the work of Tamimi. Therefore, one finds, in his work all the more signs, signals, traces, always in a complementary connection with an accentuating coloring so that one feels tempted to think of Islamic art, in any case of its roots, though in a unperturbed free form and interpretation and in an individual language.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://talesoftheeasyrider.blogspot.com/2010/08/sign.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2HI3BOWJ7XW76CRUN2WM7DRIPB3G543A", "length": 10004, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "talesoftheeasyrider.blogspot.com", "title": "The Last-Minute Madness: The Sign", "raw_content": "I wondered if she was \"A Sign\"...\nThis morning I was at the hospital I did my internship at to \"collect\" recommendation letters. It was late in the morning, and the doctors were deep into their clinic work. Since the attending I wanted to see still had a patient, I told the secretary that I was going to wait outside in the hallway (he had a full waiting room).\nI spied a quiet corner near the stairwell, so I leaned on the wall there, browsing through a book I had brought along to kill time with.\nA few minutes later, one of the attendings/consultants from my internship year called out to me. He had just come out of his clinic and probably noticed me ('cause I was loitering?) leaning on the wall, just flipping through the pocket text.\n\"Hey Michiko,\" he went, \"What are you up to, these days?\"\nI looked up from my book, and grinned. I told him the gist of what I was doing, and that I was interested in doing either Psychiatry or Neurology. He was the only one in the hospital who called me Michiko, perhaps either it was because my last name sounds Japanese, or that he totally thought that my name really was Michiko...either way, I didn't have the heart to correct him then. Well anyway, he wished me well, and was off to do rounds at the main building.\nPresently, an elderly (OR slightly more middle-aged) lady came up to me, and said, \"Are you really doing Psychiatry, Doc?\" I replied, \"I'm applying for it, Ma'am...but how it all fares, still remains to be seen.\" Her reply: \"You'll be dealing with crazy * people, right? Right now, I am totally discouraging you...\"\n( * N.B. She used the dialect word buang to refer to people who were mentally ill.)\nShe was one of the secretaries there at the building. The surgeon she served under was still at the OR, and as such, there were no patients in her clinic. She was just coming out of the clinic when the attending (who called me Michiko) talked to me. She probably overheard our conversation.\nShe invited me to step inside so it would be cooler and more comfortable while waiting. Besides, the clinic was just parallel to the clinic of the consultant I wanted to see. I could easily see him if he comes out and not miss him.\nShe sat down at her secretary's table and started telling me about how she had once been a secretary to a psychiatrist who had practiced in that hospital. \"Do you know Dr. So and So?\" she asked. I didn't. So she went on to tell me that Psychiatry was going to be a bad idea because once people heard the word Psychiatrist, they immediately associated it with the \"CRAZY\". \"Why, when Dr. XY ( a prominent obstetrician) referred patients to her, they wouldn't go to the clinic because they were afraid of being called buang.\" she said. \"That's why, as early as now, I would suggest that you change your mind, and pick a different specialty, like IM (Internal Medicine) or OB-GYN...\" she declared, matter-of-factly.\nShe was an older woman, with her hair cut short, in a pageboy dyed black brown. She had a ready smile, and an air that bespoke of years and years as a secretary, having seen different tides and times in the hospital. She was in pink scrubs, with low-heeled leather sandals. When she talked, she had a way of speaking that, if it weren't in such a light, and amusing tone, would bring to mind something cautionary.\nThe doctor she worked for was a friend of hers, she said, and oftentimes (according to her), she would chide her boss that maybe it was wrong to take up psychiatry in the first place. Apparently, the doctor had to concede that maybe she WAS indeed in the wrong profession. Times were hard, according to her, and sometimes they'd go well into the night during consults. And they didn't charge much, she said, they made only Php 150 per consult, and that the biggest they had from a patient who gave 2500 a month. There were others too who didn't pay. They just gave cake (or a chicken. literally.).\n( She really was funny.)\nShe lamented about how her doctor was the only consultant in the hospital who still took the pedicab to go around the city, when all her other contemporaries were driving flashy cars. She really didn't make that much, she said. There was no money to be had in Psychiatry.\nAnd so, this doctor moved to the States, where she had a thriving practice. Actually, the secretary told me other stuff, gossipy stuff, about that doctor. I pretty much dismissed that as irrelevant, but considered that she and I were nothing alike... and I therefore considered that maybe I wasn't going to be in the same situation she was going to be in, if ever I DID end up in Psychiatry.\nFrom a secretary's perspective, she told me of \"misadventures\" of certain patients. Since there was no official psych ward at the hospital I did my internship at, they admitted Psych patients into the top floor. One time, she said, there was this patient at the top floor, who spied someone building a fire (to burn leaves and stuff), she immediately got on the horn and called the fire department. And so, the fire fighters come rushing to the hospital, the alarm was sounded, which threw the whole hospital into a frenzy.\nIt was a false alarm, of course. And, the patient was eventually discharged.\n(I couldn't help but laugh aloud at this one inspite of myself. She was such an amusing storyteller.)\nThere was also a patient who, would come down from the top floor to flirt with the attendings and the interns. She had been taking all sorts of psychotropic medications, had the side effect of lactation. She'd declare that she was pregnant (in English, too) and would go up to the males that she'd see and openly propose marriage.\nThe secretary told me about the time when she had to chase around an agitated (or manic, who knows, she thinks they're all \"crazy\", anyway) patient who wasn't given a tranquilizing \"cocktail\"...\nShe had other stories, but it was cut short because the other doctor's secretary had told me that I could see that doctor now. I thanked her, and told her that I'd think about what she'd said to me.\nFor all it's worth,what she said got me thinking, which is why, at this hour, I'm taking time to write this one blog entry out.It's true, Psychiatrists don't make as much money as the surgeons, but it's a different story now (they earn a little bit more :-p), and if the Php 150.00 consultation fee was true in the late eighties, it surely wasn't the same case now.\nYet I believe it's not just about money...and, so far, from what I've gleaned, that psychiatrist she was telling me about was the only one who had second thoughts, because most of the mentors I've had from Medical School who were psychiatrists pretty much enjoyed their jobs, enough to say, \"I love Psychiatry\", so i don't think I can count this one doctor's experience as significantly valid.\n:-) Although I was amused by the secretary's willingness to share, and maybe give me good advice, it was a bit of a, well, a turn-off to listen to her talk about clinic stuff and her boss' personal life to a perfect stranger (me.). She didn't really give details, but still, it was pretty personal, and if I had a secretary in the future, it'd be helpful if she had occasional Broca's aphasia.\nWas she a \"sign\", though? I mean, it's pretty uncanny to have someone just come to you and just say her piece like that. I mean, what are the chances of me being there, applying for psychiatry, and she being an experienced secretary of a lady psychiatrist, coming up to me to \"warn\" me. How often are things are coincidental as that?\nStill, a secretary's perspective is not the same as the perspective of the psychiatrist in question. This secretary will always have her biases, I suppose.\nI'm still scared of the unknown.\nAdventure coming up in a few days. I'll keep you posted.\nOk, back to work for me.\nAbout Life lessons, Medicine, Psychiatry\nMaybe you could track down the former boss and ask if she would make the same choice now.\nNathan Manila August 17, 2010 at 5:06 PM\nI guess it all boils down to what you really want to do. True that psychiatry is not a lucrative practice in the provinces, but some people still sure need your help still.\nI still am not comfortable with people giving unsolicited advice, especially from someone you barely know. but I guess that's just me. oh well.\nOne thing that I always ask myself is, \"Will I be happy doing this?\" Another is, \"will I be happy doing something that not many people close to me are happy about?\" Then it's all priorities! :-)\nYou can't live your life the way someone tells you to live it, you live your life how you want. :-)\nbricalz August 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM\nHaha, uhm, tep, before your week ends you will see and meet lots and lots of more \"signs.\" There is no right or wrong choice, coz you won't know what it'll be like should you take the other direction at that fork in the proverbial career road.\nBut it's simple. Really.\nWhat do you like (key word)?\nDo you think you can live a content (key word) and happy (key word) life with that choice?\nAre the Piston gonna beat the Lakers for the NBA Championship?\nLike one of the greatest slogans of our generation:\nriechness August 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM\nnay it wasnt for me. just a bump in the road. steffy i just dont think you'll end up like his former boss. as youve said times have changed and you and her boss are two different entities and ages apart. im fascinated with psychiatry, its just so amazing how varied our human brains can get when they are cells fired up with dopamine, serotonin (and all the long list of neurotransmitters)... like how i was entertained with the idea that love is all about chemicals. how these chemicals produced charles manson, adolf hitler.. these famous psychotic people. and this is the only field exclusive for humans. we dont study how dogs can become manic or narcissistic or borderline.. do we? whhahaha. perhaps in the next millenia..\natticus August 26, 2010 at 12:31 AM\nbzzzzt, pwede ako na lang muna ang pasyente mo bago ka maghanap ng ibang \"signs?\" seriously.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 11884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=38948", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3A7ODSCUTVODOHZXXDAKTE7J2BZ75QN2", "length": 289, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl", "title": "Species Cepaea nemoralis - Hierarchy - The Taxonomicon", "raw_content": "Taxon: Species Cepaea nemoralis (C. 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Once here, you\u02bcd never know you\u02bcre located in the middle of it all, minutes from major employment centers such as the Galleria/Uptown and the Energy Corridor. However, the city has had a ban on businesses since its inception; only homes, churches and schools are. Because of this, Piney Point Village remains a quiet, secluded enclave of homes.\nPiney Point Village occupies a heavily wooded 2.1 square miles, and residents have easy access to I-10, with both Beltway 8 and the 610 Loop only a few minutes away. According to the 2010 census, its population was 3,125 residents.\nThe city is named for the residence established on the townsite by John D. Taylor in 1824, after he received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin. 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It also received a gold certification from the RIAA.\nThere I was again tonight\nForcing laughter, faking smiles\nSame old tired lonely place\nWalls of insincerity,\nShifting eyes and vacancy\nVanished when I saw your face\nAll I can say is it was enchanting to meet you\nYour eyes whispered, \"Have we met?\"\nAcross the room your silhouette\nStarts to make its way to me\nThe playful conversation starts\nCounter all your quick remarks\nLike passing notes in secrecy\nAnd it was enchanting to meet you\nAll I can say is I was enchanted to meet you\nThe lingering question kept me up\n2 AM, who do you love?\nI wonder 'til I'm wide awake\nAnd now I'm pacing back and forth\nWishing you were at my door\nI'd open up and you would say, \"Hey,\nIt was enchanting to meet you,\nAll I know is I was enchanted to meet you.\"\nPlease don't have somebody waiting on you\nRetrieved from \"http://taylorswiftlifeandmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Enchanted_(lyrics)?oldid=868\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 4058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teenchallengeky.com/priscilla.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:RTDLKEYFR2IX6NC2F52LK7Q2QHDE6VTS", "length": 4717, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "teenchallengeky.com", "title": "Priscillas Place | Teen Challenge KY", "raw_content": "Priscilla's Place Staff\nJulie Duvall, CEO of Adult & Teen Challenge KY\nJulie has been serving with Adult & Teen Challenge of Kentucky since starting as a residential staff member in 2003. 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Dani was in a car accident and got hooked on pain pills which eventually led to her family finding her cold and lifeless on the ground. It is only by the grace of God that she survived. She walked into the doors of Teen Challenge and now her life will never be the same. God is restoring all the things that she lost and family members that she hadn\u2019t spoken to in years. Dani wants to stay in the Teen Challenge ministry so that she can help people who are just as broken as she was.\nJennifer Rosenberger, Ministry Team Member\nJen joined the team in April 2018. She grew up in Bakersfield, California. After battling a pill and alcohol addiction for 19 years, she entered Teen Challenge of Southern California in December of 2015. There she accepted the Lord into her heart. After graduating, she enrolled and completed a year at the Teen Challenge Ministry Institute in March of 2018. 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Suppliers must log in and add the Tender Access Code 3E94KF83N4 following any instructions provided.\nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-GB-Telford:-The-Place-in-the-Park---Concessions-for-Catering-and-Bar-Services/3E94KF83N4\nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/3E94KF83N4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thebulldogbark.com/6226/opinion/the-ghost-of-sparta-returns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MC3OTD2ELLS7UGVZJWLRFOLSI4YJFCA5", "length": 2738, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thebulldogbark.com", "title": "The Ghost of Sparta Returns \u2013 Bulldog Bark", "raw_content": "The Ghost of Sparta Returns\nDaniel McClymont, Contributor\nGod of War is a video game series set around Greek mythology until the newest edition of God of War, which is set in Norse mythology. The most recent God of War is set sometime after God of War III: when you start the story you don\u2019t know much of what has happened in the many years between the third and fourth game except that he survived killing himself, he is now in Norse mythology, he got a new wife by his side, Faye, who is dead from the beginning, and a son, Atreas.\nThe main goal of the game is to spread your wife\u2019s ashes, Faye\u2019s, at the highest point in all of the norse realms. The tallest point is a mountain in Midgard, but Kratos does not go because he does not think his son is ready for the challenges of the outside world and thinks he is reckless because he does not know how to control his temper. Kratos doesn\u2019t decide to go until a strange man randomly appears at his door saying,\u201cI know who you really are,\u201d and that he was sent by Odin. The stranger cannot feel pain which makes the boss fight in the game very exhilarating and I think it\u2019s one of the best boss fights i\u2019ve ever had the pleasure to experience. After Kratos defeats the stranger he embarks on a journey to the top of the mountain with his son to spread his wife\u2019s ashes.\nThe entire game is one shot meaning the camera never cuts away from Kratos through the entire game which is very impressive considering how amazing the game looks, that it never really needs to load. There are technically loading screens when you\u2019re on an elevator or going through a small crack in the wall, but it is still impressive that there is never a true loading screen that takes away from the game itself.\nThe gameplay is absolutely amazing with a challenge at first, but once you get the hang of it, the game becomes easier to maneuver while still being challenging. The game has a gear system which means that you can craft or find different armour sets to upgrade your strength, defence, runic attack, cooldown, luck, and vitality. Your weapon can also be upgraded as well as your son, Atreas.\nThis is by far one of the best games I have ever played and is definitely the best Playstation exclusive. God of War is on the same level as The Last of Us and the Uncharted series in terms of graphics, gameplay, and story.\nIf I had to give God of War a rating it would definitely be a 10 BOY out of 10 BOY. I recommend you checkout this amazing piece of art for yourself as it will truly change your perspective on the gaming industry and the word \u201cBOY.\u201d\nMeet Daniel McClymont, a 16-year-old who goes to South Broward High School. Daniel has a couple fears, but his biggest fear is failing high school. Some...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/slang-shouldnt-be-banned-it-should-be-celebrated-innit-58672", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FKGFAM3FKKPGDQFZ7HWXPZJOC7RJWSRN", "length": 5569, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Slang shouldn't be banned ... it should be celebrated, innit", "raw_content": "Slang shouldn\u2019t be banned \u2026 it should be celebrated, innit\nRob Drummond, Manchester Metropolitan University\nRob Drummond receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust.\nBeware the language police. Shutterstock\nGeezers and girls literally ain\u2019t allowed to use slang words like \u201cemosh\u201d (emotional) anymore. The head teacher and staff of an academy in Essex, England appear to have taken great pleasure in banning the type of slang used in reality television series TOWIE, including many of the words in the above sentence, in a bid to improve the job prospects of their students.\nHead teacher David Grant reportedly believes that by outlawing certain words and phrases and forcing students to use \u201cproper English\u201d, they will be in a better position to compete for jobs with non-native English speakers who may have a better command of the language. The way forward, he believes, is for young people to be using \u201cthe Queen\u2019s English\u201d, and not wasting time getting totes emosh about some bird or some bloke.\nWhile nobody would doubt the good intentions behind such a scheme, it simply isn\u2019t the way to go about achieving the desired aims. Of course, there\u2019s always the possibility that this is all part of some clever plan to raise awareness and generate debate among the students about the language they use; in which case, great. Unfortunately, phrases such as \u201cproper English\u201d, \u201cwrong usage\u201d and \u201cQueen\u2019s English\u201d suggest a very different and alarmingly narrow-minded approach to language.\nIndeed, banning slang in schools is a short-sighted and inefficient way of trying to produce young people who are confident and adaptable communicators. What we should be doing is encouraging students to explore the fluidity, richness, and contextual appropriateness of an ever-changing language.\nSlang: the real English. Shutterstock\nThe fact is, there really is no such thing as \u201cproper English\u201d; there is simply English that is more or less appropriate in a given situation. Most of us would agree that \u201cwell jel\u201d (very jealous) or \u201cinnit\u201d have no place in most job interviews, but they do have a place elsewhere. Similarly, some people might get annoyed at what they see as the overuse of \u201clike\u201d, but it\u2019s as much a part of young people\u2019s language as \u201ccool\u201d, \u201cyeah\u201d, or \u201cdude\u201d might have been to their parents in their day.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time a school has gone down this particular route in the quest to create more employable school leavers. In 2013, Harris Academy in south London produced a list of banned slang words and phrases including \u201cbare\u201d (alot), \u201cinnit\u201d and \u201cwe woz\u201d in a bid to improve their pupil\u2019s chances. Fast forward to 2015 and the policy was hailed a success, with the \u201cspecial measures\u201d school now being rated \u201coutstanding\u201d. But are we really to believe that this turnaround was purely due to eager staff policing children\u2019s use of a few slang words? Isn\u2019t it perhaps more likely that the new leadership team brought with them rather more than a naughty words list?\nLanguage in flux\nWhat is always missed in these discussions is that English is in a constant state of change, and this change simply can\u2019t be stopped. You can hang on to your belief that \u201cliterally\u201d can only mean \u201cin a literal manner\u201d as much as you like, but you can\u2019t change the fact that it has another, equally legitimate, meaning. You can disapprovingly count the number of times your teenage son or daughter says \u201clike\u201d in a single conversation, but you can\u2019t stop its rise in English in general.\nWhich is why a ban is so pointless. All it can possibly achieve is to make young people self-conscious about the way they speak, thus stifling creativity and expression. Do we really want the shy 13-year-old who has finally plucked up the courage to speak in class to be immediately silenced when the first word he or she utters is \u201cLike\u2026\u201d? Or would we rather the teacher listens to what they have to say, then explores how the use of language can change the message, depending on the context? In other words, celebrate language diversity rather than restrict it.\nAnd this is precisely what English language teachers do every day in their classes. Learning about language variation, about accents, dialects, and slang is all part of the curriculum, especially as they head towards A level. I can only imagine how frustrated they must be when their senior staff then seek to publicly undo their good work by insisting on outdated, class-based, culturally-biased notions of correct and incorrect usage.\nIn an English language class, students are taught how the ways in which we use language are part of how we construct and perform our social identities. Unfortunately, their break-times are then patrolled by some kind of language police who are tasked with ensuring those identities aren\u2019t expressed (unless, presumably, they happen to be performing an acceptably middle-class job applicant identity at the time).\nDifferent language is appropriate for different contexts. Yes, using TOWIE slang is inappropriate in a job interview, but no more inappropriate than using the Queen\u2019s English in the playground. Unless you\u2019re the Queen, obvs.\ndelete08/flickr.com\nDinter, bitz and gwop: a guide to British youth slang in 2016\nNo platform shoes for pedants. Pavel Savchuk/www.shutterstock.com\nAustralian slang is alive and well, but where does it come from? Shutterstock\nAussie slang is as diverse as Australia itself\nHow prepared are we to support young Syrian refugees entering our school system? Reuters/Marko Djurica\nWhat does an influx of refugee-background students mean for schools?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 8762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thedaybreak.net/bandbio.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MITEKRWJZLAFOUYLIW3VTKUGUDABHKTU", "length": 5740, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "thedaybreak.net", "title": "The Band", "raw_content": "[Shoe] [Mike] [Pat]\nA recent article in Scene and Heard described the songs of The Daybreak as \"a music geek's wet dream\". As the sound of the band continues to evolve from their disparate and unique influences, such a statement becomes more and more accurate. The history of the group, too, continues to be written as the band achieves greater and greater success, notoriety and musical accomplishment.\nThe Daybreak were born on November 22, 2001 when fellow university students Sumon Mukherjee, Mike Dawson, and Rob Domagala came together with the goal of making the best music - period. Bent on bringing melody and rock'n'roll back to the music scene, the trio started writing and rehearsing their own material, quickly amassing a strong collection of songs.\nWith Mukherjee taking vocals and guitars, Dawson on drums and percussion, and Domagala on guitars, the group felt they had something special. Drawing influence from the UK indie scene and the 'Madchester' movement of the 90s, the group keeps listening to favourite acts like the Stone Roses, Oasis, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and The Verve. Classic acts like The Beatles, The Jam, and The Who were also studied for inspiration.\nAfter a succession of bass players, Pat Bramm joined the band in March 2003, permanently filling the position. With an average age of 21, The Daybreak's music offers an impressive mix of youth and maturity.\nThe Daybreak has performed extensively around Toronto, drawing strong crowds at many of the city's top clubs. The band has played such venues as the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, Lee's Palace, The Mod Club Theatre, and The El Mocambo. Each show by The Daybreak has seen the band play to more and more people, and the buzz around the group grows with every performance. The early buzz generated by the band, coupled with the growing acclaim accorded their live shows was displayed when House of Blues Productions asked The Daybreak to open a massive showcase for English phenomenons \"The Music\", even though the band had only performed live six times prior to the show. The band was thrilled to play to a completely sold-out house, and solidified their growing reputation as one of Toronto\u2019s most promising buzz bands with a spectacular performance.\nSince then the band has shared the stage with Maroon 5, Gavin DeGraw and Mono as part of alternative radio station 102.1 The Edge's \"Nu Music Night\". The Daybreak was happy to close this show and be the lone indie act on this major-label bill. On May 30th, 2003 The Daybreak was again asked to perform a show for House Of Blues, this time opening a showcase for Sweden's The Sounds and America's Vue. The band also showcased at the 2003 North By North-East Festival, sharing the stage with Swervedriver\u2019s Adam Franklin, The Salads, Robyn Black and the I.R.S. and All Systems Go! Additionally, the band was very pleased to headline the 102.1 The Edge showcase at the 2004 North By North-East Festival at the Hard Rock Cafe. Recently, The Daybreak was asked to perform as part of a Universal Music showcase at the massive and beautiful Mod Club Theatre alongside stellastarr* and The Killers, two of the biggest current buzz-bands. Again and again, The Daybreak are linked to new bands making vital and groundbreaking music, either through performance, comparison or both, and, in the process, the band is becoming internationally recognized for both the distinctiveness and timelessness of their own songs, showcased through their notorious live performances and their 5-song debut E.P. \"Everything In-Between\", released in August of 2003.\nThe Daybreak has also achieved significant success on national radio, having been featured and interviewed on Canada's biggest rock radio station, 102.1 The Edge, among others. Indeed, the band was very pleased to be the station's 'New Rock Preview' twice: shortly before their April 6th, 2004 show and again over the April 24th weekend. The Daybreak was very happy to have been twice given such a prestigious honour, one which very few independent bands receive. The band was also featured on The Edge's \"Next Big Thing\" special, alongside Pilate and The Killers.\nThe Daybreak has begun to schedule their first European Tour, to take place in late 2005. The band plans to play primarily in the UK, and particularly in London over a 2 week period. The band has also finished work on their sophomore E.P., \"these lines in your eyes\", released on Pure Violet Records April 19th, 2005. Finally, the band is in the process of editing their first video, shot in late March 2005 for \"Hindsight\".\nThe band has also proven itself in competitive circles, finishing second in the semi-finals of the Emergenza Festival. Having caught the eye of several of the event's organizers, The Daybreak was dubbed one of Emergenza's \"Bands to Watch For\". Just as the band caught the eye of Emergenza, The Daybreak has not gone unnoticed by the music press: reviews of the group have been favourable. Scene and Heard\u2019s Andrew Horan wrote that the band\u2019s music \u201csits comfortably alongside releases by fellow Canuck anglophiles Pilate, The Dears and The Stills\u201d and pointed out that the new EP \"only adds to the strong buzz that's presently surrounding the band, and solidifies The Daybreak on the list of local bands to watch\"; The Strand observed that the band \u201c[leads] the Brit-Pop scene in Toronto\u201d; Chart Magazine wrote that The Daybreak is \u201cmoving to something good\u201d; The Varsity noted that the band is \u201cwell on their way to a breakthrough\u201d; and Toronto paper, The Mike remarked: \"finally Canada can boast about an epic band, hard on melody and groove and with all the attitude and songs to boot.\"\nThis Is The Daybreak.\nFORMER MEMBERS: [Rob] [Thomas] [Malcolm] [James]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 5956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theflames.org/picking-best-wedding-officiant-big-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EXGENQITTDHZTBULGPRLIODQQVG2UV7Q", "length": 3032, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "theflames.org", "title": "Picking The Best Wedding Officiant For Your Big Day \u2013 The Flames", "raw_content": "Dream, Plan, Live the perfect wedding\nPicking The Best Wedding Officiant For Your Big Day\nHow many years have you been planning out your wedding in your head? The answer is probably a lot of years. Some people actually plan out their wedding well in advance, starting when their children and lasting until they actually do get married. So, you know exactly what you want your special day to look like. For women, it\u2019s far more planned out in advance as they don\u2019t just plan this out in their heads, they practically dream over it and go over every little detail in their head.\nFrom the moment they arrive in the building to the moment they kiss their groom, even walking down the aisle and how all eyes are on here. This is something that needs to be taken into consideration for whoever is doing the hiring of the officiant. Remember that this is an important day but it\u2019s so much more important for her. You need an officiant who relates to weddings well, has a lot of experience and can relate to the bride well.\nHere are some things to go over before we begin on picking the absolute best officiant for your wedding.\nMake sure that you decide you know exactly what your ceremony is going to look like and not just something that you want in your head. This shouldn\u2019t be an ideal; it should be etched out in stone and already decided.\nThe next things you need to look at are the values. Are you a spiritual person? Are you just traditional and don\u2019t really care about the spiritual connection? Is religion important to you, especially when it comes to the officiant?\nThe ceremony will need to reflect you and your significant other, no one else.\nNow then, you need to know what things should be taken into consideration when hiring the officiant and choosing someone who will relate well to you and your wedding theme.\nSomeone who is reliable should be the very first point. Obviously, someone who\u2019s great with business and someone who can be found easily. If someone isn\u2019t reliable asks to officiate, then what if you\u2019re left standing there at the altar without an officiant on your wedding day?\nCan this officiate be found on any social media network or any network at all? Do they have any reviews, even if they\u2019re all positive? Look for negative things posted, try to personally contact that person and people who have had a bad experience usually have no problem talking to someone about it.\nWhen you have some additions you\u2019d like to make to the ceremony, make sure you have an officiant that\u2019s more than willing to accommodate those needs and someone who understands them as well. Make sure that if you\u2019re doing a rehearsal, that they\u2019re more than willing to oversee it and to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch.\nHiring people for your wedding crew is stressful enough but making sure that you hire someone who is competent and someone who is professional is important.\nThings You Should And Shouldn\u2019t Do On Your Wedding Day\nEssential Tips For Wedding Brides On The Big Day\nHow To Plan For Your Wedding Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thekey.xpn.org/tag/willie-nelson/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FM6Z64KHGU5UW72RCRMYI5LSY3ENHUW4", "length": 6746, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "thekey.xpn.org", "title": "Willie Nelson Archives - Page 2 of 3 - The Key", "raw_content": "July 28th, 2015 | 9:38AM | By Bob Bumbera\nXPN MusicNotes: Watch Keith Richard\u2019s video for new song \u201cTrouble,\u201d Listen to Frank Turner\u2019s latest song \u201cMittens,\u201d and members of The Clash & Roxy Music to perform.\nKeith Richards has shared a video for his new solo single \u201cTrouble\u201d from his forthcoming album \u201cCrosseyed Heart.\u201d Watch. 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Continue reading \u2192\nApril 20th, 2015 | 8:08AM | By Bob Bumbera\nMusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Watch Florence + the Machine sing with Father John Misty at Coachella, See Patti Smith induct Lou Reed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Neil Young debuts news songs with Willie Nelson\u2019s sons.\nEven with a broken foot, Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine was able to excite fans at Coachella by bringing out Father John Misty for a duet. Watch. Continue reading \u2192\nMusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Watch Nirvana play a living room concert in the mid \u201980\u2019s, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard team-up on a new album, & \u201cABBA\u201d restaurant to open in Sweden.\nThe soon to be released documentary: \u201cKurt Cobain: Montage of Heck\u201d shows video of a very young Nirvana playing a living room show for 3 people. Band members appear to by 16 or 17 years old. Watch. Continue reading \u2192\nFebruary 19th, 2015 | 7:31AM | By Bob Bumbera\nMusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Early Jimi Hendrix recordings coming, Willie Nelson and Bono team up on new movie, & Jerry Garcia, Cyndi Lauper & Linda Perry voted into Songwriters Hall of Fame\nRecordings from Jimi Hendrix\u2018 early career will be released next month. Continue reading \u2192\nMusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Father John Misty covers Nirvana\u2019s \u201cHeart Shaped Box\u201d, Stevie Wonder\u2019s new album, & Willie Nelson writes autobiography\nJosh Tillman, (formerly of Fleet Foxes) now performing as Father John Misty performed a cover of Nirvana\u2019s \u201cHeart-Shaped Box\u201d during a session for Sirius XMU. Continue reading \u2192\nMusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Willie Nelson hosts new TV show, Carlos Santana writes autobiography, and Neil Young mourns passing of longtime bassist\nWillie Nelson will be the host of a new TV show called, \u201cInside Arlyn Studios,\u201d set in a recording studio in Austin, Texas. Continue reading \u2192\nJune 16th, 2014 | 10:22AM | By Shaun Brady\nA special evening of country music with Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss & Union Station\nPhoto by Jennifer Brady | harveystreetstudios.com\nWillie Nelson isn\u2019t much for pomp and circumstance. Before the intermission music had even been turned off at the Mann Center on Friday night, the gray-haired Red Headed Stranger had already strolled unceremoniously on stage and slung his guitar around his shoulder, lurching into \u201cWhiskey River\u201d as the members of his band were still situating themselves. That ragged looseness pervaded the entire show, as the country legend tore through shambling renditions of more than two dozen classics, barely stopping for breath from one to the next.\nNelson has always drawn inspiration from jazz, and that influence was clear in his constant disregard for the familiar melodies of his songs, rushing ahead or stretching out a line, his vocals in constant tension with his raw, eclectic guitar work. Despite his renown as a witty songwriter and a singer with an avuncular twang, his fretwork has always been the rough-hewn heart of Nelson\u2019s sound. Veering off in unexpected directions, brusque and halting one moment, stunningly lyrical the next, these six-string inventions were clearly what keeps these songs fresh after, in some cases, more than five decades.\nSeveral members of Nelson\u2019s Family band have been with him as long as much of that repertoire. On piano was Bobbie Lee Nelson, referred to by the 81-year-old singer only as \u201cLittle Sister Bobby,\u201d who supplied a traditional country piano sound in contrast to (and occasionally in conflict with) her older brother\u2019s more renegade approach. Drummer Paul English (the co-subject of the hilarious road stories in Nelson\u2019s \u201cMe and Paul\u201d) has been playing with Nelson since 1955, joined on percussion since a 2010 stroke by his brother Billy. Bassist Kevin Smith and harmonica player Mickey Raphael fill out the line-up, all there to keep a steady anchor for Nelson\u2019s meanderings.\nAfter an audience singalong of \u201cBeer for My Horses,\u201d Nelson\u2019s 2003 duet with Toby Keith, a quick \u201cWell, hello there\u2026\u201d served as both greeting to the audience and kick-off to a woozy, last-call-at-the-saloon version of his classic \u201cAin\u2019t It Funny How Time Slips Away.\u201d Aside from a few thank yous and introductions, that\u2019s about as much patter as Willie spared during the breakneck evening, never letting the last notes of one song die out before crashing into another. \u201cCrazy\u201d was followed by \u201cNight Life,\u201d \u201cOn the Road Again\u201d by \u201cAlways on My Mind,\u201d \u201cGeorgia on My Mind\u201d by \u201cTo All the Girls I\u2019ve Love Before,\u201d occasionally punctuated by tossing his trademark red bandana to the crowd (another always seemed to spontaneously reemerge on his forehead). The set also included \u201cBand of Brothers,\u201d the title song from a new album due out this week, and tributes to fellow outlaws Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, and Billy Joe Shaver.\nEarlier in the night, co-headliner Alison Krauss & Union Station was more interested in engaging the audience. Leading her longstanding band, the singer and fiddle player was given to long, droll introductions of her bandmates, including a description of bassist and hunting enthusiast Barry Bales as someone who \u201clikes to get real close to nature and then just stop it.\u201d Continue reading \u2192\nTonight\u2019s Concert Picks: Reuben and the Dark at World Cafe Live, Drive-By Truckers at Chameleon Club, Geology at Kung Fu Necktie and more\nReuben and the Dark return to play at World Cafe Live tonight. The Calgary band consists of Reuben Bullock, Shea Alain, Dillon Whitfield and Kaelen Ohm. Their debut album, Funeral Sky came out last month. 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This will be the first child for the actors, who tied the knot on Aug. 14, 2004.\nCook, 33, is currently filming the second season of TNT's Perception, which returns with all-new episodes on June 25. \"I've been hiding my rapidly growing bump while shooting but this kiddo is vying for screen time,\" says the actress, who plays special agent Kate Moretti. \"We clearly have a future actor on our hands.\"\nSays Gillies, \"A lot of people are asking whether I'd prefer a boy or a girl. In truth, it doesn't matter to me -- I just can't wait to meet little Keanu Robocop.\"\nIn addition to prepping for the arrival of their firstborn, the stars are also gearing up for the May 15 premiere of Showtime's Broken Kingdom. Directed and produced by Gillies (who appears in the film with Cook, Darren LeGallo and SeymourCassel), Broken Kingdom features two interwoven narratives told from the perspectives of a street girl, a writer, a day-care teacher and a university student. A documentary chronicling the making of the drama, Kingdom Come, premieres the same night.\nAs if that weren't enough, Gillies has another reason to count his blessings. The CW recently ordered a full season of The Vampire Diaries' spinoff, The Originals, after airing its backdoor pilot episode Apr. 25. The 37-year-old will reprise his role as Elijah Mikaelson; Joseph Morgan, ClaireHolt and Phoebe Tonkin will also appear on the new series.\nKingdom Come premieres May 15 at 7:00 p.m. on Showtime; Broken Kingdom airs one hour later. The Vampire Diaries' fourth season finale airs Thursday, May 16, at 8:00 p.m. EST.\n05/07/13--19:14: Iggy Azalea joins Angel Haze on stage\nAngel Haze brought out fellow female rapper Iggy Azalea\n05/07/13--19:46: More Shape mag pics, y'all!\n05/07/13--19:46: Exclusive: Tiger Woods Gets Tipsy, Embarrasses Lindsey Vonn at Met Gala Afterparty\nTiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn's first night out together in the Big Apple didn't exactly go without a hitch. After walking the red carpet amid a sea of celebrities for the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, the talked-about couple headed downtown for a star-studded after party at the Boom Boom Room, held at the top of the Standard Hotel.\nLooking stunning in a long white dress with high see-through slits in the front, the blonde ski champ, 28, confidently steered her golfer beau, 37, through the formidable crowd. (Leonardo Dicaprio, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Chris Brown, Solange Knowles and Kate Upton were just a few of the boldfaced attendees.)\n\"Tiger looked uncomfortable,\" an onlooker at the Boom Boom Room says. The twosome checked out the Manhattan skyline (with a tux-clad Woods embracing Vonn from behind) and then took their seats, where they chatted, drank, held hands and kissed for much the night. At one point in the evening, the once-divorced golfer got up to dance awkwardly, bopping from side to side and grabbing Vonn's butt affectionately as she giggled.\nWhen it was time to go, around 2 a.m., a seemingly tipsy Woods fell while walking up a small flight of stairs -- and didn't move from the spot until Vonn, clenching her teeth and looking embarrassed, helped him up and guided him (swaying a bit as he walked) to the exit, according to a witness.\nIn their red carpet debut as a couple, the pair attended the Met Gala as guests of Vogue; the magazine dressed both of the athletes, who declined interviews with reporters on the carpet.\n\"Lindsey and I have been friends for some time, but over the last few months we have become very close and are now dating,\" Woods wrote when he and Vonn announced their relationship via Facebook last March. He famously split from wife Elin Nordegren back in 2010 following an epic cheating scandal.\n05/07/13--20:10: K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul (Webisode #1)\nK. Michelle has risen to stardom on VH1\u2019s \u201cLove & Hip Hop Atlanta,\u201d which kicked off its second season last month. But there\u2019s more to the in-your-face reality star than what we see on TV.\nIn the premiere episode of her \u201cDay in the Life\u201d diary, the Memphis soulstress heads to New York to start promo for her upcoming debut Rebellious Soul. She stops by the Atlantic Records offices and conducts interviews with media outlets before heading to the hair salon to get bangs (\u201cI get excited by weave,\u201d admits K).\nDuring her whirlwind trip to the Big Apple, she also meets with her manager Jeff Robinson of MBK Entertainment and hits the studio to record a new song. She shows her deep connection with her fans during an emotional phone call with a Twitter follower who sent her flowers.\nOver the next seven weeks, K\u2019s webisodes will be premiering exclusively on Rap-Up.com.\nlet us use this glorious post to talk about K. Michelle mercilessly dragging Rasheeda last night on LHHATL.\n05/07/13--20:11: The Vampire Diaries 4x22 \"The Walking Dead\" Clips + Stills\n05/07/13--20:11: Tim Tebow Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of America's Most Influential Athletes\nBy Tom Van Riper\nWell, this would seem to be a first. The four most influential athletes in America really don\u2019t play. At least not lately.\nIdle NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has been back in the news, but not for any heroics: he was recently cut loose by the New York Jets after a one-year experiment as a part-time QB behind Mark Sanchez failed to yield results. The \u201cTebowmania\u201d days in Denver are only 15 months old, but it seems like 15 years. And yet, when Americans are asked which pro athletes they believe carry the most influence on the public, Tebow\u2019s name tops the list.\nA unique set of QB strengths and weaknesses and an affinity for wearing his Christian faith on his sleeve combine to make Tebow a compelling public figure, even as an NFL backup. Whether or not he\u2019s able to remain deeply ingrained in the public consciousness without eventually getting more time on the field remains to be seen. But for now, Tebow, he of 2.2 million twitter followers, is still the man people talk about.\n\u201cFor a backup quarterback to be talked about so much is incredible,\u201d says Stephen Master, Senior Vice President of Sports for Nielsen, which conducted the surveys over the past several months in partnership with E-Poll, a market research firm in Encino, Calif. \u201cBut it is the biggest market.\u201d\nTebow, judged to be \"influential\" by 29 percent of respondents, certainly felt the wrath of the New York market, where fans and press harped on his acquisition as an ill-fated experiment that helped lead the Jets downhill. That Tebow would be blamed for the Jets demise to a 6-10 team last year is puzzling - Tebow didn\u2019t lose any of those games because, really, he didn\u2019t even play. But the uneven play of Sanchez naturally led to speculation of whether the backup should get a chance to start, a development that would naturally ignite the Tebow debate yet again.\nThe three athletes in line behind Tebow haven\u2019t seen much action over the past several months either: Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Derek Jeter. Don\u2019t be too surprised though \u2013 Jeter is a Yankee legend whose rehab from an ankle injury gets more press than the performance of any Yankee on the field does.\nAnd 2012 was an Olympic year, after all. \u201cYou always get that pop,\u201d says Master of the afterglow enjoyed by Bolt and Phelps. Teen gymnastics sensation Gabby Douglas also makes the cut at No. 7. And Master points out that he 2012 summer games probably pushed soccer star David Beckham onto this year\u2019s list, thanks to his visible role in helping to deliver the torch at the opening ceremonies in his native London.\nHere are the top five most influential athletes:\n05/07/13--20:11: \"Holly Has a Baby\" Premieres May 12th On E!\nCelebrate Mother's Day With New Mom Holly Madison When\n\"Holly Has A Baby\" Premieres Sun., 05/12 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on E!\nHolly Madison just took on the biggest role of her life when she became a mommy to a baby girl she named Rainbow Aurora Rotella. In this intimate one-hour special, viewers will follow Holly and her boyfriend Pasquale Rotella's journey as they prepare for the arrival of their baby, move into a new home, and eventually welcome Rainbow into the world. Plus Holly and Pasquale discuss at length what the future holds for their family, including the possibility of wedding bells. Celebrate new moms everywhere when \"Holly Has A Baby\" premieres this Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12 at 9:00 PM ET/PT only on E!\nThe 48 hours leading up to labor can be stressful for any mom-to-be. Throw in moving into a new home and decorating a nursery with a floor-to-ceiling mural (painted by Holly herself), and it becomes pure chaos. With her due date looming, Holly turns to her close friends to talk about her fears regarding labor and her anxiety surrounding horror stories she's heard about giving birth. To avoid being induced, she tries to jump-start the process with a few strategic but unusual tactics.\nWith labor imminent, this special accompanies Holly and Pasquale to the hospital and inside the delivery room. Like any baby story, the experience is not exactly what Holly was expecting, as one of her worst fears actually comes to fruition. However, Holly's wish comes true when her newborn arrives - but not without some pain, tears and laughter.\nViewers will watch as Holly and Pasquale bring their bundle of joy into their new home and Holly attempts to adjust to life as a mom. Through all of this, Holly and Pasquale discuss plans for their future and the possibility of Pasquale proposing. With Rainbow in tow, the pair look at diamonds and even make an unplanned stop at a Vegas chapel, but do they set a date and become officially engaged? Tune in to find out.\nAt the grand opening of TAO Beach at The Venetian Las Vegas (May 4):\nIt's only been nine weeks since she gave birth for the first time, but\nHolly Madison is already anxiously awaiting to expand her family again.\nIn a recent interview with People magazine, the former \"Girls Next Door\" star\nexplained that she and boyfriend Pasquale Rotella \"want a huge\nfamily, like a Kardashian-sized family.\"\nDishing on her plans for the future, Holly said, \u201cI want to\nhave three, then wait a few years for them to be older,\nthen have another three,\u201dlater adding, \u201cI want to be\nthat minivan mom \u2014 the one piled full of kids.\u201d\nSome pics of Rainbow:\nDon't forget Mother's Day is this Sunday!\n05/07/13--20:16: As I Lay Dying Frontman Arrested For Plotting To Kill His Wife\n(Reuters) - Tim Lambesis, lead singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested over accusations he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed, police said.\nLambesis was taken into custody on Tuesday in Oceanside, California, after he solicited help in the scheme from the undercover detective, said San Diego County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell.\nPolice had previously learned Lambesis was seeking someone who could commit the slaying, Caldwell said.\n\"The information came to us late last week. We acted quickly on it. I believe that we averted a great tragedy,\" she said.\nCaldwell said the ongoing investigation prevented her from disclosing any details about why Lambesis might have wanted to have his estranged wife killed or how police first learned about what they described as his murder plan.\nA representative for the As I Lay Dying's record label, Metal Blade, could not immediately be reached for comment. It was unclear if Lambesis had an attorney.\nThe band's 2007 album \"An Ocean Between Us\" debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 list, and ranks as one of their top-selling releases. Last year, As I Lay Dying put out its sixth album \"Awakened.\"\nLambesis is a founding member of the band, which was formed in San Diego.\nAs I Lay Dying has at times been described in the media as a Christian group, but Lambesis said this year in an interview with heavy metal website Noisecreep that group members wanted \"to be judged on the music\" rather than their \"personal beliefs.\"\nLambesis is expected to appear in court for an arraignment on Wednesday or Thursday. A spokesman for the San Diego District Attorney's Office could not be reached for comment.\nthese dudes are also pro-life. but it's totally okay to kill your wife.\n05/07/13--20:33: In Other Relevant Teen Mom News: Teen Mom 2 Finale: Kail and Jenelle\nTeen Mom 2 has come to an end, and while we don't know if it's forever or just for now, it's time for the cast to talk about their troubles with Dr. Drew Pinsky.\nThis is Teen Mom, where \"promising futures gave way to daily struggles, such as poverty, addiction, family breakdowns, absentee fathers, and revolving door boyfriends,\" says Dr. Drew. \"The pressures and responsibilities of motherhood can be catastrophic.\" Then, to prove his point, the TV doctor welcomes Leah Messer Simms Calvert, Chelsea Houska, Kailyn Lowry, and Jenelle Evans to the stage and reminds us what happened this season.\nLeah flip flopped between Corey Simms and Jeremy Calvert, but her Magic 8 ball ultimately told her to marry Jeremy. Also, Corey and Leah searched for answers for little Ali. Chelsea and Adam Lind hooked up sans birth control but avoided a second pregnancy. Then, hell froze over, and Chelsea realized that Adam is no good for her. #hallelujah\nKail fought with Jo Rivera. Kail fought with Javi Marroquin. Kail fought with anyone with a pulse. Kail and Javi got married\u2026 military benefits, yo!\u2026 Jenelle left her military man, Gary Head, after he beat her up and reunited with her pot head, Kieffer Delp, after he wooed her with the green hoodie. Sadly, Kieffer introduced Jenelle to heroin.\nPhew. Let the healing begin.\nPart one of the reunion special focuses on Jenelle and Kail. Barbara Evans, Jo, Vee Torres, and Javi will eventually take the stage as well.\nBefore Dr. Drew talks to Jenelle, he reminds us (because we forgot since the last montage, two minutes ago) that she dated Gary, obsessed over Kieffer, fought with Gary, bought boobs, reunited with Gary, accepted Gary's marriage proposal, went to jail with Gary, broke up with Gary, reunited with Kieffer, and became addicted to heroin.\nNo mention of Jace.\nJenelle starts to cry. \"Mostly seems like the Gary stuff gotcha,\" surmises Dr. Drew. \"Tell me about that.\" About the physical fight with Gary, Jenelle says that she wishes it never happened and that she was scared to death. Dr. Drew points out that Gary nearly killed her, to which Jenelle says, \"It hurts that he says that he loves me, but if he loved me, he wouldn't have strangled me.\" Jenelle reveals that Gary has been kicked out of the Marines as a result of the charges brought against him.\nJenelle says that she turned to Kieffer for support following the fight with Gary. \"I needed someone there for me,\" Jenelle sobs. \"To support me and to hug me and to care for me and to tell me it was going to be all right. Then, when I got his support, he wanted me to do the drugs.\"\nJenelle mentions that this was her first experience with heroin. She says, the drug use made her vomit constantly, caused her to seek medical treatment three times, and led to panic attacks and insomnia. Jenelle says that this went on for a month before she asked Barbara for help, adding, \"I felt like I was about to die. I felt like my organs were shutting down.\"\nJenelle whines at a higher pitch, now, talking about how Kieffer sells stories to the tabloids. \"I'm not that bad of a person,\" she cries. \"I've cleaned up so much.\"\nApparently, Dr. Drew doesn't care about Jenelle's tabloid woes, because he brings the topic back to the drugs. Jenelle admits that Kieffer did the injections, adding, \"One time, he shot up so much, I passed out. When I woke up, Kieffer goes, 'Oh, it happens sometimes.'\" Dr. Drew is like, that's an overdose. \"Heroin addicts die,\" he says bluntly. \"It happens all the time. There's no casual heroin use.\" Dr. Drew asks Jenelle if she replaced the heroin with another drug, and she says no, adding that she stayed with Barbara for four days to withdrawal. On that note, Dr. Drew thanks Jenelle for courageously sharing her story.\nBarbara joins Jenelle on the couch, and Dr. Drew is like, your fans are in the audience, woot! Funny. I must have dozed off during the shout out to Jenelle's fans.\nBarbara shares that she and Jenelle are getting along much better since the \"rescue\". Yawn. Been there, done that. Let's discuss Gary. Dr. Drew points out that we all liked him, initially, and wonders what went wrong. Um. Jenelle Evans went wrong. The girl is toxic. Barbara reveals that Gary drinks too much and then becomes violent. \"I had my suspicions that he was hurting Jenelle,\" Barbara admits. \"I went to Jenelle a couple of times, asking, and she denied it.\"\nMoving on to Keiffer, Barbara admits that several acquaintances had reached out to her, asking her to help Jenelle. She recaps the events from the finale again, adding, \"I thought she'd be dead. When I went over to her house, I thought she would be dead. I didn't know if she was alive; I didn't know if she was dead. If he gave her a hot shot, she's going to be dead, and then she'd be gone.\" Heavy stuff.\nSurprisingly, Jenelle is completely silent, until Dr. Drew brings up Jace. First, Dr. Drew urges Jenelle to acknowledge the \"amazing job\" Barbara is doing with Jace, and Jenelle thanks her mom. Then, Dr. Drew asks if Jenelle could ever regain custody of Jace, and things turn sour. \"It's going to be a long time before I would ever agree to that,\" Barbara admits. \"His home is with me. He's happy there. He's secure there.\" Jenelle starts to cry because Jace isn't allowed to sleep over her house. Barbara says that Jenelle is welcome to spend Thursday through Sunday with Jace, to which Jenelle says, \"The only reason why she's letting me is because it's so convenient for her.\" Dr. Drew is like, Are you for real? It's four days a week. Barbara's reason is irrelevant.\nDr. Drew points out that Jace is thriving, adding, \"Jenelle, he's got two of you, he's very lucky.\"\nBefore Dr. Drew talks to Kail, he reminds us that she and Jo got into a physical fight, which led to court-ordered therapy, and then Javi moved in with her, which led to her physically assaulting him. Nevertheless, Javi married Kail, and now she wants to move Isaac away from Jo, to follow her military husband around the country.\nWith a blank expression on her face, Kail assures us that she hasn't put her hands on Javi \"in a long time\" and that things with Javi are \"good\" now. Anxious to bring some life to Kail's face, Dr. Drew decides it's time to talk about Jo's girlfriend, Vee.\n\"Javi spends a lot of time with Isaac. He's a great presence in his life,\" Dr. Drew says. \"Why couldn't Vee be the same thing? Isn't that a double standard?\" Kail is like, Um. Not when Vee smokes weed out of a gas mask and then posts the pictures on the internet. In response to that, Dr. Drew asks Kail if she ever smoked pot. Yes, she says, but not since she found out she was pregnant with Isaac. And she certainly didn't post photographic evidence of it on the internet, because, like, that's the worst crime ever. ever. ever.\nDr. Drew challenges Kail, saying, \"I don't think that's what this is.\" Oh snap! Kail is officially pissed off. I think. She always looks miserable, so it's hard to know for sure, but I'm going to go with definitely pissed off. Kail tells Dr. Drew that she doesn't care what he thinks, adding, \"I'm protecting my only family.\"\nThen, Dr. Drew asks Kail if she's willing to share the stage with Jo and Vee. Yikes. Kail threatens to rip off Vee's head so Jo comes out alone. Dr. Drew asks Jo for his input on Kail's hatred of Vee, and Jo, too, thinks it goes much deeper than she admits.\nMoving on to Javi's military career and Kail's desire to relocate, Dr. Drew asks Kail if she thinks it's a good idea to take Isaac away from his dad. \"I don't look at it like that,\" Kail responds. \"Javi and I are working together to better Isaac's stability.\" Dr. Drew asks Kail how she'd feel if Jo joined the Air Force and wanted to take Isaac away from her. \"Well, that's not happening, is it Dr. Drew?\" snaps Kail. \"We can figure out a custody agreement that works for us.\" That means Kail will dictate what she wants, says Jo, and then take him to court when he disagrees.\nDr. Drew brings Vee out, finally, and Kail manages to control her rage. \"When I do see Isaac, I'm not doing any of the things she thinks I'm doing,\" Vee shares. \"I know what's right to do in front of children and what's not right to do in front of children.\" Also, Vee informs Dr. Drew that she works in a daycare, but Kail is not impressed. Kail backtracks now, saying that if Jo and Javi smoke and drink sometimes, that's okay. \"Posting pictures is not okay with me, by any means,\" Kail says. \"There's no justification for that.\"\nVee realizes that she cannot say or do anything to make it right, as Kail's mind is already made up. \"As much as I don't want it to bother me, it does,\" she says. \"I do have feelings.\" Dr. Drew interrupts, reassuring Vee that Kail will eventually want to get to know her, and Kail is like, Nope. Not really. Kail hopes that Jo will always monitor Vee's time with Isaac in case she's drunk or high.\nDr. Drew asks Kail why she doesn't want to learn more about Vee, to which Kail says, \"What are you getting at here?\" Dr. Drew tries again, saying that he wants Kail to let go of her fantasy about Vee, based on the pictures, and get to know the real person. Kail storms off, saying, \"F-k this. You guys all f-king suck. Get me the f-k out of here. I'm done.\"\nBack from commercial, Jo and Vee are gone and Kail and Javi are on the couch, sitting three feet apart. Can you feel the love? Kail shares, she loves Javi because he puts up with her and tries to keep her sane. After a brief (useless) discussion about wanting to move away from Jo, Dr. Drew wishes them luck, adding, \"I hope this works out for Isaac. I believe everyone's heart is in the right place, but I think it's going to be a little bit of a battle.\"\nNext week, Dr. Drew sits down with Chelsea, Adam, and Papa Randilicious, as well as Leah, Corey, and Jeremy.\nKailyn is ridiculous. She needs to learn how to coexist with someone who's going to be with her daughter. It's not fair that she can move off but if Jo and his girlfriend do it's not okay.\n05/07/13--20:35: Grimm 2x21: \"The Waking Dead\" + Interview w/David Giuntoli Re: Season Finale\nAs if having your fianc\u00e9 fall under a sleeping spell and then awaken in love with someone else was not enough of a challenge in the Nick and Juliette romance, the latest temptation will be in the form of a Wesen muse who tries to enslave Nick. The path to true love is never easy, but it is always worth it. Let\u2019s just hope that the writers of GRIMM do not tread any heavier on our already taxed romantic hearts. In a recent press conference call, star David Giuntoli provided some candid thoughts about what is upcoming for Nick and Juliette as well as a few more fun teasers about what is upcoming in the second season finale.\nWith the muse coming in and Nick getting wrapped up with another woman even if it\u2019s only for an episode in whatever way, is there\u2019s going to be a point where he doesn\u2019t want to wait for Juliette anymore. Or is he just kind of going to wait for her forever?\nDAVID: I certainly hope he wouldn\u2019t wait forever. I am personally more shocked at the point that she would be interested in him after all he\u2019s done. I mean truly cowardly moves on his as far as Juliette\u2019s relationship is concerned. I wouldn\u2019t tell her about any of this after she\u2019d lost her mind, went into a coma, just really struggling with memory loss and like what is happening to her \u2014 going crazy. And I\u2019m still sitting back like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to tell her. What if she leaves me?\u201d So I hope we have to talk about things in a real way before we get back together. I think Nick\u2019s a guy who knows what he\u2019s done to her and would probably do anything to get her back. So I think he\u2019d wait for a long time.\nWhat could possibly happen for the season finale of this season? A Nick and Juliette reunion? What about Adalind\u2019s baby? Like maybe Nick\u2019s mom will return? Is there anything you could tell us?\nDAVID: All three of which are very much on the table. You could definitely see a Nick and Juliette reunion. And again, in GRIMM fashion they love tearing people apart and bringing them back together and who knows how hard they\u2019re going to make that for Nick and Juliette. What you will be seeing that I haven\u2019t spoken about yet is we deal with the undead in a way that\u2019s really never been dealt \u2013 in a way that it\u2019s never been approached before \u2014 in very typical GRIMM fashion. So \u201czombies\u201d will be coming to Portland. And I would also say the cliff hanger of this season is \u2014 I don\u2019t know how the writers are going to get themselves out of this corner that they\u2019ve painted themselves into \u2014 one of the cast may not live through the finale.\nDo you have a favorite scene or storyline in the episodes that is going to be coming our way in this last month?\nDAVID: That\u2019s going to be coming your way. Something about season two that I\u2019ve really loved and going into season three that I\u2019m going to continue to love is more and more of the main characters are in the know sort of speak, which means that certain characters can interact that wouldn\u2019t have during much of season two, all of season one. And it brings a fresh, lovely dynamic to scenes where I\u2019ll be in a room with say, like a completely new group of actors and watching them interact. And there\u2019s comedy to be found in it when someone is learning the ropes of the GRIMM world for the first time. I really enjoy those scenes where we all get to spend the whole day together. I really do enjoy the moment of levity in the dark world of GRIMM, and there was a scene in particular that played in the Volcanalis episode where Russell Hornsby\u2019s character Hank went on vacation. It was almost out of another show like an ALLY MCBEAL episode. But it was very fun. It was fun. And here\u2019s a fun bit of info. That scene was written in reaction to Russell in real life snapping his Achilles tendon. So he can walk we had to somehow keep him in a chair and get him off of the show for two episodes so he can get surgery. Two episodes and then he\u2019ll come back.\nDid that injury cause a problem with the story line at all?\nDAVID: No problem, really. We just a couple of things had to be tweaked. I\u2019ll do a little more working with Wu, with Sergeant Wu, which was really fun and a pleasure to get to work so much with Reggie Lee. He is just a phenomenal actor. So it shook things up for a little while. But I think it was fresh and really wonderful. And Russell I think is fully repaired at this point.\nWere you surprised by the state of the Nick-Juliette-Renard relationships this season?\nDAVID: Nothing really surprises me on GRIMM. Our writers are not afraid to go anywhere. So nothing really surprises me. I want to speak especially to the relationship between the Captain and Nick. I wanted to make sure that even though we are working together I\u2019m not too easy with him. I wouldn\u2019t call it a friendship. I wouldn\u2019t call us pals. We wouldn\u2019t go out and eat together. I think we more or less have a common enemy. When I\u2019m working with the Captain I always think about that picture from World War II where like Stalin and FDR were sitting next to each other with Churchill. Like how did Stalin get there? But they just had a common enemy. And so we\u2019re working tentatively together. He did after all try to kill my aunt. So as far as Juliette goes I think we\u2019re going to be seeing us kind of patching things up \u2014 turning things around a bit. And I\u2019m sure that in GRIMM fashion they\u2019ll find some way to make that as difficult as humanly possible.\nGRIMM has so many elements to it \u2014 drama, action, romance, fantasy \u2014 are there any of these that you enjoy performing in the most or do you appreciate the variety overall?\nDAVID: I do appreciate the variety. Though I will say it is a dark show, and I really love when we squeeze in some more comedic elements. And every now and then we\u2019ll have a more comedic episode, like when we had a Ziegevolk lawyer charming the entire jury and Rosalee was on the jury and Sergeant Woo was testifying, and he changed his testimony. There were a lot of many great comedic moments in that. So I\u2019d say the comedy is something I like squeezing in there.\nNick was temporarily blinded in the recent Mr. Sandman episode, what was it like acting without sight?\nDAVID: Well I could see. I had prosthetics in my eyes. I had lenses in my eyes. That was crazy. But I could see through them. I\u2019d say really fun. It was fun finding new ways to sell especially fighting without seeing. And I was pretty happy with how it turned out. So all in all I was very pleased with the challenge of acting without sight.\nGRIMM did great on Friday and then was moved behind THE VOICE. Why do you think your show has worked when maybe some of the others haven\u2019t?\nDAVID:A successful television show is a mystery how to make it. But there has to be certain components. We have writers and creators who are seasoned and excited, and that\u2019s a really great combination. They know what they\u2019re doing. They have found the sweet spot. David Greenwalt has this gallows humor about him as does Jim Kouf \u2014 our two main writers, executive producers. And they balance story well with a lot of darkness and a little bit of levity. And there\u2019s some very lovable characters. And that\u2019s what it takes. They just know their stuff.\nHave you gotten any hints from David or Jim about kind of Nick\u2019s heightened abilities?\nDAVID: I have not received any nuggets of what\u2019s to come as far as Nick\u2019s supernatural powers. At the end of season one I did get some info that they wanted to turn me more into a hero with supernatural abilities. But I did not ask what they were. And I just kind of found out a month before the viewer did. I would imagine going forward we\u2019re going to revisit some of what we kind of teased with my super human hearing and ability to fight fruit with a bat.\nWhat other character if you weren\u2019t playing Nick would you like to play?\nDAVID: Monroe would be fun, but I wouldn\u2019t even want to try that. Because I mean he\u2019s mastered that whole thing. Some \u2013 yes, either Monroe or Wu.\nLooking at season two have you found any new acting challenges with playing the Nick character? And how did you see Nick sort of grow and develop in season two also?\nDAVID: Nick was written as a little more accepting of his role. In a way Nick went through the stages of grief of finding out that he was a Grimm and the loss that that would entail with Juliette, revisiting why his family is no longer with him. a lot of lies had happened in his life systematically, and he found out about it all kind of at once. So he was denial, anger toward it, befuddlement. And finally I think he\u2019s kind of accepted it, and throughout season two he\u2019s owning it now. So it\u2019s more fun to play \u2014 as far as I\u2019m concerned \u2014 a very confident guy who\u2019s coming into his own and becoming more of a force to be reckoned with in the Wesen world. So it\u2019s been really fun to play that.\nCan you talk a little bit about the Nick-Monroe relationship, how you\u2019ve seen that develop this season? And what maybe you enjoyed most about that relationship.\nDAVID: I think Silas put it best. He said, \u201ceverybody has seen the cop and partner relationship, the detective and his wife or girlfriend relationship, the detective\u201d \u2013 there are a lot of dynamics that have been played out and some really well and some not so good. But in our show we have the detective and this thing, which is Monroe. It\u2019s a totally different thing. And it\u2019s been such a pleasure to work with Silas and have this wonderful dynamic that plays out on screen. The writers have done a very good job with that. As far as the relationship and how it\u2019s grown, I\u2019d say we were always reluctant. We allied in the first season. But he could always turn into a creature, and I could always behead him. And this season we are more, I\u2019ll just say friends. He\u2019s housing me in his attic for God\u2019s sake. And I love the relationship he has now with Bree Turner, Rosalee.\nHow did Wesens recognize you as a Grimm? What\u2019s a Grimm face look like to them?\nDAVID: It looks like my face believe it or not. Truly. They don\u2019t see anything aside from they are not used to having their emotions in check. Because non- Grimm human beings cannot see them. And then when they see someone reacting to this or they sense someone knowing what they\u2019re going through and watching them change, they\u2019re on to me. And they\u2019ve learned from a young age through their storybooks about Grimms and how evil we are and almost like we\u2019re this supernatural thing that may or may not exist. They\u2019ve been told by their family, their parents, and their grandparents about us. So when that actually see them it\u2019s like they\u2019re seeing a ghost, but not literally. But they can\u2019t believe that one actually really exists.\nYou hinted about Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio coming back as your mother Kelly. So she\u2019s been hanging around Portland a long time. What\u2019s she up to?\nDAVID:Well I think she stole a car at the station. And I think she was just pretending. She just didn\u2019t have a train ticket because she\u2019s like, \u201cWhy when I can just steal this car and go?\u201d But I do believe she is dealing with the Collins right now. And I believe in the coming episode there\u2019s communication with her.\nWhich GRIMM story has not yet been told that you are really pulling for that the writers tackle next season?\nDAVID: I actually don\u2019t know. I feel like we\u2019ve hit all the classics. And every time I see a new Grimm\u2019s fairytale I\u2019m almost learning about it as we go through the season. What I do really enjoy now about our show is the fact that we\u2019re kind of straying from the Grimms fairytales. And remember in the lore of our show \u2014 in the world of GRIMM \u2014 there are only Grimm\u2019s fairytales because they\u2019ve been written about in a book. Now certain things that have not yet been explained maybe they just haven\u2019t been written down yet. So I get to add to that book. And thus a phenomenon or a phenomena that is here to for unexplained gets written down in the Grimms fairytales, and it becomes a legend for kids to learn about forever. In other words, we\u2019re borrowing from a lot of lore that\u2019s even outside the standard Grimm\u2019s fairytales. And we are adding it to those Grimm\u2019s fairytales.\nLooking forward to season three what would you like to see happen with your character \u2014 both professionally and personally?\nDAVID: Well I\u2019d like to see some resolve to the Juliette storyline. I love working with Bitsie Tulloch and it\u2019d be nice to be just a couple again. I want to get Sergeant Wu into the fray of the knowing. That would be really fun to work with him in the way that now Russell, Hank, and I can work together and Bree and Silas and the Captain. I would love to get Sergeant Wu into the fray.\nNick deals with a lot of gruesome scenes and gruesome things. Have any of those scenes every stayed with you?\nDAVID: Oh god, yes. The horribly gross scenes. One of which when Monroe gouges out the eye of a fly person. I believe the person\u2019s name was David Jinnamuru Xunte, which sounds like someone who\u2019d be touring with Erykah Badu. But it\u2019s the fly person. That scene stays with me. That was hideous. Another scene that stayed with me was the season one episode maybe five where the rats are\u2026 and I remember just before we even shot I was on set and I walked by this car in a parking lot that I didn\u2019t know had a corpse with rats pouring out of his mouth \u2014 into his stomach out of his mouth. That ruined me for a good , oh, 90 days. I couldn\u2019t handle. It was so gross. That was a very strange scene, absolutely life like reproduction, usually just completely dismembered on the ground after you just met them and had lunch with them. It\u2019s so strange. The child in you does not know what\u2019s real and what is not for a split second.\nWhat\u2019s your favorite weapon that you\u2019ve used, or what weapon are you looking forward to using?\nDAVID: Sexist T.V. weapon has to be the cross bow. It\u2019s just so cool. They do those shots that kind of pan up on the crossbow and then the eyes go right above it. But Nick really loves the \u2013 I believe it\u2019s pronounced conobo or conabo, which is just a basically a baseball bat with spikes on it \u2014 nothing too technically fancy. But he loves it.\nIt was established that on the episode that La Llorona is not necessarily one of them. What do you think about this great idea of the writers about expanding the motility of the creators \u2013 the creatures of this show.\nDAVID: I really enjoyed that aspect of it. I think that it shows you in keeping up with the lore of Grimm the Grimms fairytales are just stories that have thus far been logged in these books. But they\u2019re growing as the Grimms continue to discover more and more I suppose Wesen. And reasons behind phenomena that human beings make up stories to explain. The Grimms can then explain it in this book and try to put it out to the rest of the world. I really enjoy getting to borrow from other folklore legends that had not yet been in the Grimm books.\nAbout working with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Can you just tell us a little bit about what it\u2019s like to have here on the show? And who is on your personal wish list for potential guest stars in the future that you like to work with?\nDAVID: Oh gosh. I can\u2019t say that just because there\u2019s so many. I wouldn\u2019t want to offend the people \u2013 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was wonderful to work with. And the episodes that she\u2019s been in have been so work intensive, and she has such a wonderful you know ethic \u2014 work ethic. And she\u2019s so fury, and she working with her I get caught watching her all of the time and almost forget that I\u2019m in the scene. Because she\u2019s so captivating and compelling and beautiful and just makes wonderful choices. And that\u2019s what I think about her. I\u2019ve really enjoyed the guest actors we\u2019ve had thus far. And anybody\u2019s who\u2019s decided to come who can swing it we\u2019ll love to have.\nAre we ever going to see or hear anything about Grimms in the rest of the country, the rest of the world?\nDAVID: Honestly, not as of yet that I know of. You would think that does have to do become a storyline at some point, or are there only a couple Grimms left and they\u2019re just a lot of little Santa\u2019s little helpers out there who are Grimm-like. I don\u2019t quite know. The only Grimm that they really currently want to deal with is me. Because they know that I have one of the keys. Whereas you know as far as the Royals are concerned they know I have one of the keys. And that\u2019s why they even care about me at all. So who knows?\nCan you share a little more depth of some broad strokes about some of the plot lines for the remainder of this season?\nDAVID: Absolutely. Nick and Juliette start patching things up. And it\u2019s looking very hopeful for us come the end of the season. A Level 10 \u2014 as I like to call it \u2014 Wesen comes to Portland who is pulling the strings controlling a lot of other types of Wesen. We can call them the undead. And he has an army of people under his control that wreak havoc. And this is a longer story arc. We\u2019ll be visited by an actor named Reg E. Cathey. He\u2019s a wonderful actor who\u2019s just been in HOUSE OF CARDS, and he\u2019s been in everything. And he\u2019s great. And he plays this kind of powerful Wesen that we will be introduced to in the next couple of episodes. The Royals get closer and closer to me. They come to Portland, and they want the key. And I learn much more about why it is they want the key. The captain and I start working together. Let\u2019s see, zombies are entering Portland, and also as far as the Adalind storyline is insane. And that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say about that!\nTheTVAddict\n05/07/13--20:35: NeNe Slams Sheree Whitfield! Labels Her As Evil & A True Bitch!\nNeNe Leakes was not sorry to see Sheree Whitfeld leave \u201cThe Real Housewives of Atlanta\u201d because she thinks there\u2019s something sneaky about her former friend.\nNeNe sat down for a one-on-one special with Andy Cohen to see how she really feels about all things Housewives. The diva really got lips flapping when she called her former cast mate the b-word!\n\u201cSheree out of all the girls, is the one person that I will never have anything else to do with.\u201d NeNe unapologetically said. \u201cI think Sheree is very evil. I think she is very mean and she is a true b*tch and that\u2019s not cute.\u201d\nBut NeNe\u2019s beef with Sheree isn\u2019t exactly anything new. In fact, it goes back way before the world first saw them on Bravo. While NeNe said that she and Sheree were once very close girlfriends, things changed because she never felt like Sheree was being real with her.\n\u201cTo be honest, Sheree and I had an argument before the cameras actually started rolling. It was like our first Housewives meeting with the production company, and Sheree and I got into our first argument,\u201d NeNe recalled. \u201cI felt Sheree wasn\u2019t being a good friend. Like I felt like she would want information from you\u2013like you tell her stuff\u2013but she would never really tell you anything. I hated that about her.\u201d\nNeNe added, \u201cShe never would tell me about stuff. She was super secretive.\u201d\nSheree Responds to NeNe's Insults\nNeNe Leakes may have had her share of conflicts with most of her Real Housewives of Atlanta co-stars, but just last week she revealed that there's one former co-worker she'll never be hugging at an upcoming reunion: Sheree Whitfield. According to NeNe, Sheree is straight-up evil.\nWhen Too Fab recently stalked caught up with Sheree at the airport, they couldn't resist asking her for her reaction to NeNe's comments.\n\"That sounds like the pot calling the kettle black, but I would say I'm flattered that she's still thinking about me that much,\" Sheree shrugged with easy nonchalance that's bound to infuriate NeNe if she ever learns of it.\nSheree then theorized that maybe the reason her friendship with NeNe is permanently damaged is because she knows all of NeNe's \"baggage\" and \"dirt,\" before adding the highest of insults: \"I wish her the best in all she does.\"\nThere's nothing worse than a Real Housewife responding to shade with well wishes.\nS2S, WetPaint\n05/07/13--20:36: Rap News: Ja Rule released from jail; rapper logic releases Welcome to Forever Mixtape\nLogic keeps the ball rolling after gracing the cover of our Freshman issue. Today, the Def Jam signee is offering a new of set tracks on Welcome to Forever. He gave us a preview with \u201cRoll Call,\u201d and followed that with a video for \u201cNasty.\u201d Judging from his past mixtapes, Welcome to Forever will be another fan favorite. You can stream and download the mixtape via Datpiff.\n(link at source + youtube links)\nThe Pro Era Crew member known as Dessy Hinds returns to the scene today with a dope new track for our listening enjoyment. The track is called \u201cP. Enlightenment\u201d and finds Dessy showing off his lyrical ways over top of something extremely silky. \u201cP. Enlightenment\u201d is driven by a smooth vocal sample and set of keys that gets backed up by some dope drum work that Dessy effortlessly does his thing upon. This shit is too smooth to be slept on, check out the track after the jump and speak your mind below.\nRapper Ja Rule was released from jail earlier today.\nJa Rule served almost nearly two years in federal prison, but now the rapper is a free man. The rapper was jailed for illegal gun possession and tax evasion. The rapper didn\u2019t pay taxes on $3 million in taxes, according to authorities. RELATED: Hip-Hop Rumors: Ja Rule Is Out Of Jail!!!!!??? Celebrate! The platinum seller is under house arrest until July 28, which is the official date where Ja will be totally free. His wife reportedly picked him up from jail and took him home. Last year, Ja released Pain Is Love 2 while he was still incarcerated.\nIt sold 3,200 copies in its first week.\n05/07/13--21:00: Fans lash out at Sylvia Browne over false prediction on Cleveland missing child's fate\nOne of the world's most recognizable self-proclaimed psychics was wrong yet again about the fate of a missing child, and her followers on social media are taking her to task.\nBrowne's prediction about Amanda Berry's fate was not the first child whose fate she attempted to explain, but her fans on social media are waiting for acknowledgment from the self-proclaimed spiritual leader.\nOn Facebook and Twitter, Browne sends inspirational messages to hundreds of thousands of fans, often advertising her latest appearances or one of 45 books she's published over the years (most recently Afterlives of the Rich and Famous). She reached a high level of visibility after years appearing as a regular guest on Montel Williams' television show, a long-running daytime talk program that subsisted on paternity test results, cheating spouses and half-baked psychic predictions before it finally stopped production in 2008.\n\"I remember you on Montel Williams telling the family of Amanda Berry she was dead,\" wrote one commenter on Browne's Facebook page. \"What do you have to say for yourself? What a horrible horrible thing to say to a family holding on to nothing but hope and faith.\"\n\"Can you admit that you're a hack now?\" asked another.\n\"I hope todays events seal it for you and everyone else who take advantage of those in mourning,\" wrote another.\nBrowne announced the death of Amanda Berry in 2004, when she appeared on Williams' show to tell Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, that her daughter was \"in heaven and on the other side\" and that her last words were \"goodbye, mom, I love you\". Miller would die a year later of heart failure.\nIn fact, Berry escaped Monday from a Cleveland home where she had been held captive with two other women for more than a decade. A child who is hers was also removed from the home, according to police.\nAs Jon Ronson wrote in his 2007 profile on predatory psychics, Browne has spoken face-to-face with many distraught parents and wrongly forecasted life or death. Shawn Hornbeck was a missing child whose parents were told by Browne that their son was buried between two boulders. When he was found alive after four years in 2007, Browne's publicist told CNN in a written statement: \"She cannot possibly be 100% correct in each and every one of her predictions. She has, during a career of over 50 years, helped literally tens of thousands of people.\"\nFor her part, Browne told Montgomery Media in Pennsylvania in April that she's exceptional at spotting imposters:\n\"You can always see when they start doing guessing games.\"\nOn Facebook, some of Browne's fans are defending her predictions. \"everyone makes mistakes. Even doctors, lawyers \u2026 Psychics,\" wrote one.\n\"Sylvia you were right on for me, you have my support,\" added another.\nThe Guardian has asked Browne for comment.\n05/07/13--21:22: Waiting for the Catholic League's response to David Bowie's new video tbh\nLovin' that DA on Commissioner Gordon.\n05/07/13--21:51: 'Hart of Dixie' Season 2 finale sets up Season 3\n\"Hart of Dixie\" closed out its second season tonight -- and while the season had its ups and downs for us, we're obviously thrilled that the feel-good dramedy has alredy been picked up for Season 3.\nZoe began the season finale with a whole lot of romantic options... and by the time the episode ended, it seemed she still hadn't quite made up her mind. A rendezvous with her ex Wade proved to be the bad idea we all knew it was but were hoping it wouldn't be, particularly when their morning together was interrupted by George walking in to declare, well ... something.\nGeorge was pretty conflicted about his feelings for Zoe; over the course of the episode he went from wanting to be with her, to encouraging her to get back together with Wade, to drinking all Zoe-related issues away at the Rammer Jammer, to... singing the blues. (On any other show, this might have been a cheesy turn, but since Scott Porter's actually got some impressive pipes, it was downright awesome.)\nMeanwhile, some unexpected bonding between Wade and Lemon (thanks to a road trip to retrieve Gloriana ... yes, the country band) only served to convince Wade that Zoe is the girl for him. He's got renewed confidence in himself -- he's not the ne'er-do-well he once was, and he can be good for her -- but Zoe doesn't necessarily share his optimism about their relationship.\nZoe is headed to New York for a wedding, and for a much-needed break from her Bluebell drama, but there's also a summer opportunity at her old hospital there that could take her out of Bluebell for a few months. Her relationship with Wade is on hold for the summer, though they agree to revisit the possibility in the fall, and she's still in denial about George's feelings for her.\nJust when it looks like she might be spending her NYC summer alone, though, Jonah Breeland pops up -- as he tends to do -- to escort Zoe to her friend's wedding.\nWhat did you guys think of the finale?\n05/07/13--22:14: A Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch Interview\nBenedict Cumberbatch sits down to do a seriously in depth interview with Google Play for Star Trek Into the Darkness promotional tour. Benedict chats away about being the villain in Star Trek,method acting,Sherlock,fame,tumblr,and of course his beyond loyal fanbase,the Cumberbitches.\nBenedict imitating this gif gave me all kinds of life.God this man just does terrible things to me.My cumberfixation is getting worse you guys.911.SOS.411.LIFE ALERT,KATIE COURIC,SOMEONE PLZ HELP ME .\n05/07/13--22:15: An excuse to marvel at Zefron's abs\nZac Efron shows off his abs while playing with a basketball on the set of his new flick Townies on Tuesday (May 7) in Los Angeles.\nThe 25-year-old actor was also seen having some fun with a fake baby and a dumbbell.\nZac was last spotted attending a Lakers game, where the team was defeated by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs.\n\u201cZac Efron is incredibly handsome,\u201d Zac\u2018s Townies co-star Seth Rogen recently shared. \u201cHe\u2019s the sexiest [expletive] on the planet!\u201d\nSeth added, \u201cI did a scene with him, and we\u2019re both shirtless, and it was a very humbling experience. I marveled at the fact that we\u2019re literally the same species.\u201d\n05/07/13--22:34: Warner Bros. to Develop New DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Movie\nWhile the current slate of blockbuster movies seem to be all superheroes and sci-fi, Warner Bros. is looking to reboot one of the bastions of swords-and-sorcery stories. The studio is looking to develop a feature film franchise based on the long-running fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. \u201cBut wait,\u201d you say, \u201cdidn\u2019t someone already try that with the horrendous 2000 movie by the same name?\u201d Why yes they did! Thirteen years is apparently enough of a cooling-off period to warrant another try. It looks like the picture is already fairly far along the road to development thanks to a reworking of an existing script. Hit the jump for more.\nDeadline reports that WB is keen on restarting the Dungeons & Dragons film franchise and will attempt to do it with a reworked script from screenwriter David Leslie Johnson (Wrath of the Titans). Johnson\u2019s script for a movie titled Chainmail was based on an earlier version of the RPG from D&D developer Gary Gygax. The story is being beefed up in order to fit a larger world and make a fitting start to a hopeful franchise. Producing the picture will be Roy Lee (The Lego Movie) and Courtney Solomon, who produced the 2000 flop, Dungeons & Dragons. Allan Zeman \u2013 also of Dungeons & Dragons \u2026 seeing a pattern here? - will serve as executive producer. If at first you don\u2019t succeed, repeat the exact same steps and hope for something different. There\u2019s a definition of insanity in here somewhere\u2026\nAccording to the write-up, the studio is taking the script to filmmakers and is treating it as a big priority with the intention of introducing a whole new generation to D&D.\n05/07/13--22:35: Vanilla Girls Edition: Cara Delevingne kisses Sienna Miller\nShe has yet to officially comment about the baggie containing a mysterious white powder she dropped outside her home Wednesday. And Cara Delevingne certainly didn't let an alleged drug scandal get in the way of her good time at the Met Ball in New York Monday. 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Considering that later historical or religious texts in Tibetan based themselves on the \u2018Red Annals\u2019, their English translation and publication would greatly assist researchers focusing on this period.\nThis translation project is being carried by Mr Thupten Tenzing, Research Officer, NIT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tichascool.com/my-dream-career-essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GCJJHBUAW3RL3JJGGBQQJXJA5ITKXGJV", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tichascool.com", "title": "My Dream Career Essay Example for Free", "raw_content": "My Dream Career. (2016, Oct 01). Retrieved from http://tichascool.com/my-dream-career-essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/3929290/solar-system-nasa-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GLHXHTVGPSR537ZOSVU7PZQMX3LDCNFB", "length": 588, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Space: Beautiful NASA Photos From Across the Solar System | Time", "raw_content": "Check Out These Beautiful NASA Photos From Across the Solar System\nIt\u2019s one of the most mysterious aspects of the universe\u2014what, exactly, is out there? NASA\u2019s Deep Space Network has for decades been helping us get closer to understanding, sending back images from across our solar system. It\u2019s a glimpse into just how vastly different, and how strangely lovely, our neighboring yet still far-off planets are.\nRead Next: TIME is following astronaut Scott Kelly\u2019s yearlong mission to the International Space Station in the new series, A Year In Space. Watch the trailer for the series here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tinaturnerfanclub.eu/archives/archives_dallas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:K6L5IK62LL3WIJRMTNLXYGDVTPGVQO3B", "length": 1993, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "tinaturnerfanclub.eu", "title": "- International Tina Turner Fan Club - Archives", "raw_content": "In a word \u2014 fabulous!!!-08:05 AM CDT on Monday, October 27, 2008\nBy MARIO TARRADELL / Music Critic mtarradell@dallasnews.com\nThe 68-year-old icon performed for more than two hours Sunday night at American Airlines Center during her first tour in eight years. Before what looked like a hair-from-sold-out crowd, Tennessee's Anna Mae Bullock rocked 'n' rolled, turned soulful, got the blues and even summoned the heavens during a bit of Tina-styled gospel.\nThe woman looked fabulous, easily fitting into mini-dresses that showed off her lithe legs. She's a force of nature, maybe even a freak of nature. Time has been mighty kind to her, both physically and artistically. She offered up a career-spanning set of songs, all of which felt new again in her capable hands.\nThe opener, \"Steamy Windows,\" and her signature tune, \"What's Love Got to Do With It,\" among others, proved every number for her is an emotional experience. She puts her being into each song.\nShe also knows how to put on a show that delivered on spectacle without ever using flash to compensate for a lack of artistry. Ms. Turner chews up production. During \"We Don't Need Another Hero\" from the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, she was in the classic costume for her role as Aunty Entity. With dancers in appropriate get-up, she sang under a steel arbor-like contraption.\nFor \"Goldeneye,\" it was all about Bond, James Bond. She emerged from a lighted ring up high. Her dancers were decked out in gold trench coats.\nThe eye candy was wonderful. But she doesn't need it. She was fiery during \"What You Get Is What You See,\" sultry during \"Private Dancer,\" explosive during \"Undercover Agent for the Blues,\" electric during the Rolling Stones' \"Jumpin' Jack Flash\" and fearless during \"Nutbush City Limits.\" She sang that one from a crane that stretched out into different areas of the audience.\nWatching Tina Turner perform is akin to witnessing entertainment royalty. She remains simply fabulous.\nPhotos by @Elle Denneman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 2317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JVHJKT6XZW4AN7ZDYDLAL7MEWIPMAF3A", "length": 678, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tlindner.macmess.org", "title": "The Byte 6809 Articles | frakendirary", "raw_content": "In the first three months of 1979 BYTE magazine published a series of articles describing the brand new microprocessor: the 6809. Written by the co-designers of the 6809, these articles are a fascinating trip down memory lane. Terry Ritter and Joel Boney go to great lengths to justify the design decisions made during the creation of the microprocessor.\nIt is extremely interesting. Anyone who as worked with the 6809, or any other microprocessors of that generation will enjoy this work. In the third article the 6809 designers list several features missing and the reasons why they were not implemented. Almost every one of those features were put into the Hitachi 6309 part.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tomrancich.com/resources/articles.php?obj=article&oid=65", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GVJXSK2JW2U64LLNRGJB7EQBOPTDQTY7", "length": 10017, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "tomrancich.com", "title": "Recollections and Cross Connections - Provided by Tom Rancich", "raw_content": "Recollections and Cross Connections\nSynopsis: Tom Rancich sent in these musings on Dutchess County and elsewhere from the USS Enterprise somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. \"I hope people will enjoy my small tribute to the Hudson Valley,\" writes Navy SEAL Rancich. The tribute speaks for itself.\nCredits: Tom Rancich, LCDR USN\nSource: Dutchess Magazine, March 1997\nStaring into the darkness from 24,000 feet all I could see was the reflection of the red lights in the C-130's fuselage. I was standing on the tail ramp, helmet, goggles, and O2 mask snug against my face, rucksack and weapon synched to my body, 13 others tight at my back. I strained to see into the moonless dark. Off to my right I saw a familiar shape silhouetted against the dim starlight. Though not what I recognized, it was comforting, and I allowed my mind to wander. The reflection turned green and I launched into space, free falling through the darkness with nothing familiar and no time for a wandering mind.\nIt was a few days before I had the opportunity to reflect on that night. The familiar shape that I saw was one of the Catskill Mountains, odd, since I was over South America at the time. I don't know the name of it, but when you're headed west over the Kingston/Rhinecliff Bridge, it is at about one o'clock. I've been watching it for years now. It's told me when autumn arrived, and when the skiing was good even though there was no snow in Red Hook. That night, when I was nowhere in the world near the Kingston/Rhinecliff Bridge, the mountain assured me all was well.\nAs I reflected on that night, particularly that thought, I felt embarrassed. Here I am, a highly trained sailor, taking solace in the vision of a mountain whose name I don't even know. I have been around the world a few times, lived overseas, and participated in a fair share of government sponsored adventures. For all practical purposes I left Red Hook 20 years ago, when I was 14, to pursue a swimming career; as I write this I am sitting in a stateroom on board the USS ENTERPRISE listening to the jets slamming onto the deck during recovery operations. In all that time, I have probably only been home for a few months, but that night I realized how important the Hudson Valley is to me.\nI came home last Christmas with my wife and two sons. Coming home is something that I have done often over the years. As always, the trip was drudgery as I headed north out of New Jersey. I collected my thruway ticket and as my wife read and the children slept, I began to get that old excited feeling again. I was a little surprised actually, I suppose I always am, but I was on the familiar road home. I began to anticipate the landmarks. There is the hill that drops down to the building with the four stars on it where the troopers always set up shop. The orchard just past the second rest area which signals the halfway point. New Paltz goes past ... the steep downhill with the shack at the bottom, turning right and heading up toward Kingston. As I cleared the rise just past the school buses, I think my hands had actually begun to sweat. Just up ahead, \"It's not there!\"\n\"What's not there?\" asked my wife.\n\"The Skytop Restaurant sign, it's not there!\" I was fairly beside myself. I suppose that seems a little strange, but that sign has signaled the end of my trip for two decades. Sure, I still had twelve miles to go, but that red neon may as well have read \"Welcome Home.\" I guess I couldn't see the sign in the night.\nI used to go swimming at a place called Talifofo Falls in Guam. It was a little swimming hole, not too far from where the last Japanese holdout defended the Emperor for 40 some years. It was plush, the jungle coming down the stream banks. Lying there with my eyes closed I was almost in Palenville but not quite. For one thing the water was warm, very little refreshment to it. Secondly, the jungle doesn't breathe like the Hudson Valley. It's heavy, not fresh. My sister took me to Palenville Falls my first time, and I remember it as if it were yesterday. The crystal clear water so cold and refreshing, you could drink it while you swam. A bit upstream was Fawn's Leap, an easy 10 meter jump if you dared. I also remember the Genny Cream ales, chilled in a stream around which there were no cares. Since then I've jumped into streams around the world, sometimes for fun and sometimes for business, but always with the memories of another stream in my mind.\nI remember Hunter Mountain one day when a low cloud had socked in the lower slopes. The chair lift rose out of the cloud to reveal an artist's unfinished masterpiece. The perfect blue sky has been completed, as had a few mountain tops but the rest was the grey of untouched canvas. (The first time I kissed a girl on a chair lift was at Hunter. Contrary to my teenage fantasies, that kiss came when I was 31, bestowed by my beautiful wife of six years.) I remember the days of inexpensive fun at High Mount, where the T-bars were almost as much fun as the runs, and for some reason whenever I hear the song, Sixteen, I'm right back on the chair lift, night skiing at Catamount.\nI took my sons sledding at Mills Mansion this year. Living in Virginia Beach we usually don't get a lot of snow, and the only hills are manmade, so to watch my boys and their cousins running up that snow covered hill was a new experience for me. I'd done it a hundred times myself, but to watch all that joy on those little faces ... it should have lasted forever.\nThe Hudson Valley has its summertime memories too. Riding Harleys with my brother through the small mountain towns ... stopping at PJ's Pub in Saugerties after a day of exploration. Tubing the Jackson Corners Creek and rock climbing outside of New Paltz. There is a cavern up there somewhere, an underwater stream actually, and when I was 12 my brother and his buddy Doug, a.k.a. \"Dirt Bag,\" took me there. It was winter and by the time we finished for the day we were wet and cold. That was much more fun than the last time I was working tunnels. I was wet and cold again, but this time I had been at it for three days, holding 360 degree security, ferreting out some very determined exercise opposing forces.\nOf course, there is the river itself. Most everybody takes it for granted, when it really is a wonder. I've seen some rivers in my time: Rio Beni in Bolivia, the Shagrass in Panama, the Rhine and the Danube, Ol' Miss and even the Amazon. All of them are memorable in their own right ... it takes 20 minutes to fly over the Amazon, the Rio Beni changes its course almost monthly. But the Hudson ... maybe you have to miss it to appreciate it. A mile, mile and a half wide, mountains, railroad tracks and trestles. It is beautiful and awesome. It has history. The mansions, the paintings of the Hudson Valley School. Every mile of river is fed by another 200 miles of streams and ponds. Get to know it if you don't. You'll be glad you did.\nAnyone else out there think that maybe life is just a series of the same things told over from a different point of view? I've touched on a few already. It's a mind association thing. A smell, sight or sound can set it off. Like being in a pub in Palma, Mallorca and suddenly thinking of the old Gaffney's Pub in Hyde Park. I've had beers in the Rock City Tavern, the Red Hook Inn and the Hyde Park Pub, all at least 2,000 miles away from their Dutchess County counterparts.\nThere was a time I was running an exercise for a platoon of Navy SEALs. Their mission was to infiltrate a hostile area and disable a railroad trestle. The first concept of operations was to blow up the trestle itself. Contrary to the movies, SEALs are people just like everyone else, (Okay, that stretches the truth a little, but ...) and are not bestowed with superhuman strength. After listening to the plan, I informed the platoon commander that it wouldn't work, he couldn't carry enough explosives that far. He assured me he could. So, what does this story have to do with Dutchess County? I think I was about 14 when I climbed the burned out trestle that used to cross the Hudson in Poughkeepsie. I remember the steel and lumber; huge girders, I-beams and cross connects. It had already been condemned and I remember wondering how it could be destroyed. Maybe when I was 14 I thought a commando squad could do it. Twenty years later I knew they could not; not in one shot, not in one cycle of darkness. The plan that succeeded was not very dramatic, and I can't really discuss it in detail. Suffice it to say that the target trestle suffered damage very similar to that which led to the original demise of the Poughkeepsie trestle.\nI rarely eat apples ... almost never. I don't remember deciding to stop eating them. Mom used to send them to me in college, and I ate them then. I remember picking them from the orchard just outside of Red Hook on Route 199, and I ate them then. I just don't eat them anymore because they never taste right \u2013 always too soft or too dry, never just right, never fresh from Dutchess County. Sometimes though, when I am wet and crawling with bugs, staring into the dark, listening for river traffic in some South American country, or racing toward a sanction violator off the Persian Gulf, armed to the teeth with my head out of the helicopter straining to see if the ship has arranged a welcoming for us, I think of what is going on at that moment back in Red Hook; I wonder what my friends are doing, knowing there is no reason they'd be thinking of me, and really wish I had an apple.\nOn October 25, 1996, a beautiful day in the Persian Gulf, the helicopter I was in crashed while conducting exercises in support of Operation Southern Watch. On board were members of SEAL Team Eight and Helo Squadron Fifteen. Three of my brothers in arms were killed, AW1 Steve Voigt, LT Robert Wood and LCDR Jeff Hilliard. Although this story in a tribute to the people and places of the Hudson Valley and Dutchess County, it is dedicated to those three who have recently given so much.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 10558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tpl.housetube.tw/img/news/3b/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3JZC5O34YCGTED4JRARPV2FVP4RD6U47", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tpl.housetube.tw", "title": "Index of /img/news/3b/", "raw_content": "ac/ 2016-Oct-14 10:47:30 - Directory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trandell56lovesong.weebly.com/lines-126-128.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VAZ2UR52ZEXXMZ2VXGRI7LHHOWPVAZNB", "length": 292, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "trandell56lovesong.weebly.com", "title": "Lines 126-128 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "raw_content": "Prufrock no longer tells us of his tales of \"biscuits and coffee\". It seems much more interesting and surreal now. Did his sense of imagination and curiosity heighten with age? This poem is starting to resemble the shattered hopes and aspirations of an elderly individual riddled with regret.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trumpetpower.com/Papers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:40Z", "digest": "sha1:C7GLVFS62EFXIXRRJLUTSCNOHH3AFMFL", "length": 2263, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "trumpetpower.com", "title": "Papers", "raw_content": "Over the years, I\u2019ve written a few things on various topics. A significant percentage of what you\u2019ll find here on this site I first wrote for classes I\u2019ve taught at Mesa Community College.\nFor example, CIS105 included a bit on databases. The official textbooks included no theory at all, so I wrote up a little introduction to database normal forms. Read it if you think it\u2019s a good idea to use Excel or Word for mailing lists.\nEver wonder just how your computer manages to get a Web page (such as the one you\u2019re reading right now) or send and recieve email? Then read through my introduction to Internet protocols. You probably won\u2019t be surprised to learn that I wrote it because the textbooks for CIS133DA don\u2019t describe anything past \u201cPackets are small bits of information. Routers transfer packets. Look, you can buy books at Amazon!\u201d\nBefore I started teaching at MCC, I had a near miss with a less-than-honorable graphic designer that has since come to exemplify to me the whole dot-bomb thing. Shortly after it happened, I had used it to describe everything needed to run your own Web site, but that\u2019s since gotten a bit less involved and the true prophecy of the incident has come to light.\nI\u2019ve long had an interest in cryptography. For many people, it\u2019s pure voodo, but there\u2019s no reason it should be. Yes, understanding the state of the art requires some seriously heavy-duty math chops, but you don\u2019t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that a really hot fire makes lots of stuff go really fast out of one end of the rocket and Newton\u2019s third law takes care of the rest. For a quick-and-dirty understanding of how basic cryptography works, have a look at the Cryptography subsection.\nWhile I\u2019ve never paid all my bills by administering networks, I\u2019ve administerd a fair number of networks over the years, both as part of a job and for myself. I\u2019ve collected a distillation of my current thoughts on how to do it right in a paper on Network Design.\nThat\u2019s it for now. There\u2019s lots more I want to write; expect to see additions sometime real soon now\u2026\nThis page lives at http://trumpetpower.com/Papers and was last modified 2002-05-02 14:28:01 MST by Ben Goren. With any kind of luck, it uses valid strict xhtml. If you\u2019re lost, try the site map.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tubacaz.com/events/2018-02-15/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XMWK7MIPQ5S3E3ZZEOXYT3SUUVF4PV7J", "length": 559, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tubacaz.com", "title": "Events for February 15, 2018", "raw_content": "Arts Speak: The Magnificent Master of Color: Henri Matisse\nTucson Museum of Art docent, Susie Heinz will immerse us in the color, pattern, and texture of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, Henri Matisse. His life, his influences, and struggles, as well as his artistic motifs, will be explored. Also, this talk would not be complete without mention of Matisse\u2019s greatest friend and rival, Pablo Picasso. Come and enjoy this virtual tour of art at its best.\nJoin Susie Heinz for a presentation on Henri Matisse: \"The Magnificent Master of Color.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uclacademicals.co.uk/History/AGM/agmminutes2006.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:26Z", "digest": "sha1:47JMLJFWDGOM3A2DOVBO2LVB5DKCKC7A", "length": 21837, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "uclacademicals.co.uk", "title": "UCL Academicals F.C.", "raw_content": "Held at 7pm on Monday 3rd July 2006 at Oxbridge Group, 2nd Floor, Inigo Place Churchyard, 31-32 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 9ED.\nPresent: Danny McConnell, Graham Whitworth, Mark Dawson. Danny Fewkes, Steve Hair, Andy Williams, Alex Keast, Dave Swaby, Chris Carter, Phil Stewart, Mark Emmerson, Chris Coates, Aaron Lyon.\nApologies for absence: Stuart Bannister, Dan Willoughby, Mark McGuigan, Adrian Haysome, Steve Nash, Rick Hirst, Jon Day, Scott Atkinson, Alex Heaton.\nUCL had been approached about whether Sky TV could be provided, and had requested that if the Academicals wished for the college to take out a subscription, we would need to give an undertaking that players would be likely to stay at the club house longer after games. It was felt this undertaking could not be given, so the status quo would continue.\nThe Accies - Preamble\nIn the mid 1990\u2019s the Accies were as fractured a \u201cclub\u201d as it is possible to imagine. Effectively six separate clubs running under the same banner, with the only movement of players between the 1st and 2nd teams, and that rare.\nA good Saturday meant a team turned up with eleven players, a better one meant they were all good enough for the standard. Getting a result was a bonus. The club rarely won any trophies, because we\u2019d no chance of putting out sides consistently, but we would get results because we always attracted decent players.\nMany people didn\u2019t pay subs \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ll give it to you next week\u201d was commonplace, and next week never came. No-one paid annual subs, and no-one took anything very seriously.\nThe Accies muddled on, but in May 1998 the crisis point had been reached. The club was broke, owed the league \u00a3600 in fines, and the remaining officers had had enough, and resigned en masse. The club stared at the brink, and extinction, and then stepped back.\nIt\u2019s only eight years ago, but a historical lesson worth remembering. Most existing members simply won\u2019t recognise that as being the current Accies, but in my opinion it\u2019s a path we\u2019re starting to drift back down.\nThe Accies are, to use a common phrase, a \u201cunique\u201d club, with significant strengths and weaknesses. Our members live all over London and travel to Shenley from great distances. Graduates of UCL tend to live all over London (Highgate, Camden and Islington being the most common areas) but we are in no sense a \u201cgeographical club\u201d. As such, people won\u2019t generally stay at Shenley for the evening afterwards and so forth.\nEqually, we are a club for very busy people. At the risk of generalizing most of our constituency are busy people, with high powered, high stressed, and time consuming jobs. I\u2019ve often described us as a club for people who \u201cwant to take their football seriously on a Saturday, but can\u2019t during the week\u201d and I still believe this to be so.\nThe weakness is that we don\u2019t have the natural club spirit. An Old Meadonian probably lives close to the ground, goes home on a Tuesday and Thursday, heads off for 6.30pm training, is back home by 8.30pm, and perhaps spends much of Saturday at the club, and even Sunday morning. We can\u2019t do that.\nThe positive is that we attract players of a like ilk. Good players will travel to Shenley, because they\u2019re playing in a club with a hundred people of similar nature. They won\u2019t get grief for missing training, and so forth.\nIt is an incredibly difficult balance \u2013 on the one hand you\u2019ve got the \u201cold Accies\u201d where it\u2019s a week to week fun element. On the other you\u2019ve got the \u201cnew Accies\u201d \u2013 where over the last 7-8 years we\u2019ve managed to churn out consistent results and start to pick up trophies.\nIn 2003-04 the Accies won 78 league games, drew 23 and lost 29. We reached four cup finals, winning two.\nIn 2004-05 the Accies won 75 league games, drew 21 and lost 34. We reached three cup finals, winning two.\nIn 2005-06 the Accies won 49 league games, drew 11 and lost 68! We reached one cup final, and won it.\nThere is a pattern, and it\u2019s club-wide.\nInterestingly, only 48 people paid an annual sub (between seven sides), and the strain on the club administrators increased. At the end of the season five of the seven captains/managers stepped down.\nThe Accies belong to the 100-150 footballers who turn out most weeks to play for the club, and what the club is is what they want it to be. If people want a club that\u2019s run \u201con the hoof\u201d, results and performances will be reflected in it. If people want a serious, competitive club, then it needs to be reflected not only in footballing ability, but in organization and attitude. Do the fitness work during the week to be able to showcase your ability, turn up on time on a Saturday so the team is focusing on the game, not on whether the kit will arrive, pay up your subs when they\u2019re due so the skipper isn\u2019t stressing and make yourself available as much as the diary will allow.\nI believe all of these elements to be club-wide, some reflected in certain teams to greater or lesser extents.\n1st XI (6 annual subs paid) \u2013 After two seasons of finishing in anti-climax, a very different season. From October through to January the firsts simply didn\u2019t know how to win. Lack of sharpness was doubtless a factor, as a lazy preseason continued into a lazy winter, and only when relegation stared us in the eyes did we show signs of shaking off the ennui, and scramble to safety.\nFor this observer, the biggest difference was one of match sharpness. 3-4 years ago most of the firsts played two competitive games per week (once for the Accies, once in the Legal League). Now it\u2019s one competitive game per two weeks. Availability declined, probably without the same eleven starting a game all season, which meant Saturdays were more of a struggle, but the team also played less during the week.\nThat was reflected in results \u2013 too many games were lost because we didn\u2019t play for ninety minutes. As some of the core members get older the diary pressure gets bigger, and if we want to remain a side capable of performing at AFC Premier Division standard more commitment, during the week, however hard that may be, will be needed.\nMark McGuigan stands down after two seasons as manager, due to time constraints with work and family.\n2nd XI (1 annual sub paid) \u2013 A difficult year to analyse. Overall I think for the club to hold its 2nd XI at Senior 3 North level is an achievement, particularly as availability issues in the 1sts affected the 2nds. Yet at Christmas a league title seemed a realistic option, only for a late season drop off in results to drop the side to 4th place.\nDanny Fewkes steps down after a number of years as skipper, again due to pressures of time constraints with work and home.\n3rd XI (5 annual subs paid) \u2013 The brutal analysis is that the pattern of the second half of 2004-05 continued, with the team struggling all season to avoid relegation. That only one regular player was available for the final game of the season said it all, and the side struggled with availability all season.\nDespite that, cup results were good, with a long run in the AFA Cup and winning the London Old Boys Cup, but these shouldn\u2019t mask the league record.\nPhil Stewart also steps down, after a particularly trying season of scrabbling around for players.\n4th XI (7 annual subs paid) \u2013 after a couple of seasons of over-achievement, the 4ths pre-Christmas continued the exact same theme, looking like potential title winners, and putting the club in danger of being charged with running a stronger 4th team than 3rd team. Post Christmas, the team collapsed, losing seven games on the spin at one stage.\nAvailability was a constant and continuing issue, with the side regularly short on numbers. Much of the credit for the papering over of these cracks over a number of seasons should go to Dan Willoughby, who now steps down as skipper as he moves north to Nottingham. With Dan leaving I feel the Accies have lost one of best team captains in the club\u2019s history, and we owe him a particular vote of thanks.\n5th XI (14 annual subs paid) \u2013 A mixed bag of a season, with consistency never achieved. The side conceded too many goals, and probably started the season too focused on the bigger picture of trying to win the league title, rather than individual games.\nNevertheless, this was probably the most stable and settled Accies side, slightly short on natural defenders (a common complaint from third team downwards) and by far the best in terms of administration.\n6th XI (10 annual subs paid) \u2013 In one sense a side showing movement in the right direction, but not reflected enough in results. The turmoil of previous seasons showed signs of disappearing, but the squad still needs to be bigger, and with more flexibility. Liason with the 5ths and 7ths was good, and if we can get a few pairs of younger legs integrated into the side, the team should settle down and challenge for promotion.\n7th XI (4 annual subs paid) \u2013 Effectively this team was rebuilt during the season. Too many of the old 7ths were interested only in playing for a clique, and when a few disappeared at the start of the season, they disappeared too, though a few moved up to higher teams which suited their abilities.\nDanny McConnell took over as captain in October, and throughout the season brought in new players, and a few older ones who\u2019d been passed over in previous seasons in favour of better players who ought to have been playing higher up. As the season progressed a core slowly came together, and next season there ought to be enough of a core of players suited to the standard of 8 North that results next season should pick up significantly. Yours truly steps down as skipper for next season.\nOptimists \u2013 The Veterans effectively died this season. Availability continued to decline and the team played no friendlies, and lost their one cup match in the London Old Boys Cup.\nDanny Goldman remains keen to breathe life back into the Optimists, and we\u2019ve entered the LOB Veterans Cup, but the real key is whether a dozen (ideally more) players \u201cof an age\u201d want to play Veterans football \u2013 at present most of those who are eligible are choosing to play for the league sides.\nGolden Boot \u2013 The Golden Boot was shared by Max Lovell and Lloyd Vanson, the latter beneficiary of a late recount of goals and a dodgy decision to allow goals from an expunged game at the start of the season to count. The Golden Gloves were comfortably won by Mark Dawson, who shared his talents between the 2nds and the 1sts and played a key part in the late season surge for survivial.\nAFA Cups \u2013 I should also report that during the season we lodged a protest about the AFA Intermediate Novets Cup. Kew Association cancelled their 2nd team game but still played their 6th team, and knocked us out of the AFA Cup. We protested this, as far as a Board of Appeal to the AFA, unsuccessfully. Sadly the AFA Rules didn\u2019t seem to cover the situation, and the AFA had little concept of the Spirit of the Competition.\nThere is also some discussion at league level about changing the regionalization to ease issues in the south. One suggestion is that the North should be extended to include clubs such as Parkfield, Challoners and Kolsassians. The second, perhaps less appetizing for us would be to re-designate us as a Western Club. I should be grateful for comments and thoughts from all concerned at the AGM.\nThe Secretary\u2019s report was accepted. It was particularly noted that in some teams promptness of players last season had been particularly lacking, and this was felt to be related to the lack of overall numbers (the threat of making latecomers start on the bench was hollow when numbers were tight.\nThe regionalisation aspect was considered, and whilst we prefer to remain considered as a Northern Club it was noted that our membership generally live all over London, and different people would probably welcome/not welcome any changes. This was not a major issue for the club.\nA copy of the balance sheet and accounts is attached. It was noted that the season surplus was \u00a31500, but this was mainly due to the imbalance of home and away games (we played 16 more away cup games than home games, due to the vagaries of cup draws, with a consequent impact on finances).\nThe club\u2019s cash balance stood at \u00a36000, the reserve figure identified as a target back in 1998 as our requirement to have at the end of the season. This \u00a36000 enables us to pay our AFA, AFC and LOB affiliation fees (about \u00a31000) and our pre-Christmas pitches at Shenley (\u00a34000) and still have \u00a31000 to cover kit, balls etc. All of these bills are basically due before we kick a ball (and collect a penny).\nThe irony of this improvement of finances was that it came in the face of a serious drop in subscription income. Only 48 annual subs were collected (one would expect 100, which is a shortfall of \u00a31250). Furthermore the system of players paying their AFA fines on the day for cautions was, in the main, ignored and on a couple of occasions teams didn\u2019t collect match fees. Probably a further \u00a3500-\u00a31000 went astray through subs/fines not paid, and features a few serial offenders who when chased claim they always pay their fees!\nFurthermore we\u2019d agreed that we\u2019d charge a fee for pre-season training (\u00a35) but this was often not collected, further placing a drain on the collective resources\nIn light of the above, it was considered whether a re-structuring of subscriptions was in order.\nThe annual subscription was introduced in 1998, in the main because of a cash-flow issue as the club was broke. With the club having achieved a \u00a36000 surplus that was now irrelevant. Furthermore, the annual subscription had continually proved difficult to collect, evidenced by last season\u2019s numbers.\nIt was proposed we consider three options:-\n1. Retain the current subs - \u00a330 annual subscription and \u00a38 match fee.\n2. Increase match fees to \u00a39 and abolish the annual subscription\n3. Increase match fees to \u00a310 and abolish the annual subscription, as well as abolishing the training subscription for pre-season etc.\nThe last option was approved (with one dissenting vote favouring option 1). Whilst this shows a higher \u201cheadline\u201d subscription it makes the collection of subs much easier, and will hopefully reduce the workload on captains.\nBased on the 168 games played last season the increase in match fees would be approximately \u00a33200, but the loss of annual subscriptions (based on last year\u2019s collect) would be approximately \u00a31500. This ought to leave us with substantial scope to subsidise training and still leave the club in surplus.\nIt was further agreed that the \u201chalf-subs\u201d discount for new graduates would be extended from one year to two years \u2013 anyone unemployed, still a student, or within two years of graduation would be entitled to pay half match fees.\nThe post of Results Secretary, who will collate the result sheets from the seven captains and send off the Comprehensive Results Sheet to the league, was created.\nThe post of UCL Liason officer was created.\nThe discipline code agreed last year was discussed, and it was agreed that the system of collecting fines for cautions on the day of the game should be continued.\nContacts with UCL\nWhilst the influx of ex-UCL players was slowly improving, it was agreed we should do more.\nDuring the season the UCL Alumni Office have been making serious strides, particularly in trying to gather the other alumni sports (Hockey, Cricket, Rowing and Rugby to the fore) under an umbrella organization. This has led to the creation of www.uclsport.net - a blogging website which it is hoped will develop over the next twelve months.\nConsequently the post of UCL Liason has been created, someone to liase with the Students, and the alumni office. One of the major strengths the Hockey Club have told us is that they have a first year graduate on their committee to liase with the current students (they also have current students playing for them, as there\u2019s no student hockey on a Saturday) and we may be able to learn from this. We may not be able to get current students playing for us, but perhaps we could look at getting them along to any training we may organise.\nFollowing the AGM the Chairman to try and seek one of more recently graduated members to take up the post.\nNumber of Teams to Run in 2006-07\nOne of the fundamental problems during 2005-06 was the lack of players at 2nd/3rd/4th team level. The club currently run sides in the AFC Premier Division (top division), Senior 3 North (3 divisions below Premier), Intermediate North (4 divisions below Premier), 1 North (5 divisions below Premier) and then 5 North (4 divisions below the 4ths). Effectively the 4ths are as close to the 1sts as they are to the 5ths.\nThat we have sufficient players of an ability to play in 5 North, 7 North (6ths) and 8 North (7ths) is in little doubt, but to find 45+ players capable of filling the 2nds, 3rds and 4ths is much harder, particularly if, as currently seems likely, movement from the 2nds next season is likely to be upwards, rather than downwards.\nThere was a good amount of discussion about this problem, and it was felt the appropriate course was to warn the league we might have a problem, but to place particular emphasis on recruiting new players over the summer \u2013 many of the club members may not have been aware of the gravity of the problem, as the skippers generally managed to sort out sides. If at the end of September, we were still unable to field separate 3rd and 4th teams, then we might have to ask the AFC to allow us to withdraw one or other side.\nThe following had all been proposed, unopposed, 21 days in advance of the AGM, so were duly elected according to club rules:\nChairman \u2013 Danny McConnell Vice Chairman \u2013 Mark Dawson\nTreasurer \u2013 Mark Emmerson Secretary \u2013 Danny McConnell\nFixture Secretary \u2013 Mark Dawson Results Secretary \u2013 Ethu Crorie\nReferees Secretary \u2013 Graham Whitworth 4th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Steve Woodrow\n5th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Chris Coates 6th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Chris Carter\n7th XI Captain/Manager \u2013 Jonathan Day Veterans XI Captain \u2013 Danny Goldman\nIn addition, on the evening there were nominations for the posts of 1st XI Captain (Steve Hair) and 2nd XI Captain (Mark Walker).\nThe position of the 3rd XI captain was more tricky. It was felt a number of possible candidates might be put off because they hoped to be playing 2nd team football, and this would be dependent on the influx of new players, pre-season and so forth. In the circumstances Phil Stewart agreed to continue as captain to oversee the team through pre-season, but once the season started and the squad had become more settled, we would find a replacement.\nPhil\u2019s offer was accepted with gratitude.\nThis left vacancies for Social Secretary and UCL Liason.\nLast season\u2019s pre-season was, to put it mildly, a shambles, with a general ennui and lack of commitment that continued into the season.\nIt was agreed that the general structure of pre-season (starting in Regents Park in late July, club-wide midweek sessions/practice matches throughout August and into September, and pre-season games increasing from late August to the start of the season) should continue, but captains should emphasise to players the importance of commitment. If we don\u2019t want a repeat of last season we need to take pre-season more seriously.\nRick Hirst was keen to organize much of the pre-season fitness sessions.\nIt was also agreed that with the hoped for influx of new players, we should organize a number of inter-club fixtures during pre-season, to ensure new players are settled into the right teams.\nIdeally each team should have at least one \u201cproper\u201d pre-season game the week before they start league games.\nLeague games start on Saturday 16th September for the 1sts and 2nds, Saturday 23rd September for the 3rds and Saturday 30th September for the rest.\nTraining was once again discussed. The majority opinion was that regular training remained impractical for a club so widespread and busy, and that any training had to be club-wide, both to be fair to all and also to get the maximum number of people attending.\nIt was hoped a number of ad hoc training opportunities might arise through contacts in the London Legal League, and these would probably be sufficient. It was possible the 1st and 2nd teams might investigate a 5-a-side facility, and it was agreed if this progressed it should be self-funding.\nAn alternative suggestion to training was entering a midweek league. It was agreed that Danny Fewkes and Mark Emmerson would investigate the viability of this. Again, it would need to be self-funding, so we would need to identify the costs and then outline to the club the commitment, and match fee which would be involved. If sufficient members (20+) then showed a genuine interest we would look at entering such a league.\nGiven the surplus from this season, it was agreed that each team should have its own set of \u201cchanged shirts\u201d, to reduce the hassle of tracking them and also to cater for opposition not having a change at away games. It was felt this would require us to buy three new sets of shirts (yellow, matching the change set bought last season).\nThe Chairman was in the process of sorting out the existing kits, to identify whether any new kit was needed, or simply old kits un-muddling! We should still ensure that a full spare kit, and at least two sets of change shirts resided at Shenley.\nIt was agreed to \u201cencourage\u201d all teams to wear Accies colours where possible \u2013 no more pretending we\u2019re Crystal Palace!\nWatford\u2019s promotion to the Premiership was not considered likely to affect the Accies.\nThe meeting closed at 9.30pm, with particular thanks to Andy Williams for supplying his company offices at last minute notice. Thanks were also noted to Paul Ballantyne and Neil Gillard, who made similar offers, but weren\u2019t able to include free beer so their offers were not taken up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 23857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/2015/02/interesting-live-stream-video-of-angel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:30Z", "digest": "sha1:YFHUMVITSWSVB62YFU7PBGLFHBQVMZGA", "length": 514, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com", "title": "Interesting live-stream video of an angel-like object near the ISS - Feb 27, 2015", "raw_content": "Interesting live-stream video of an angel-like object near the ISS - Feb 27, 2015\nThe International Space Station's (ISS) live stream has once again captured a UFO, what looks like an angel-like figure, on February 27, 2015.\nAlthough it is possible that it is a genuine spacecraft of unknown origin, there are other potential explanations for the strange object like space junk, satellites or even a man-made secret craft, but it is very doubtfully.\nSo far, there is no explanation as to what this object could be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 8495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://umbcretrievers.com/sports/msoc/2013-14/releases/20131029uyexws", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:00Z", "digest": "sha1:32P46XMI3XTNMQEZQ3CJGQEMFDOXYWEY", "length": 4282, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "umbcretrievers.com", "title": "11th-Ranked Men's Soccer Hosts Explosive Delaware Side on Tuesday Evening - UMBC", "raw_content": "11th-Ranked Men's Soccer Hosts Explosive Delaware Side on Tuesday Evening\nUMBC JR B Oumar Ballo\nDelaware at UMBC, 10-1-13\nThe 11th-ranked UMBC men's soccer team completes its three-game homestand on Tuesday, Oct. 1 when the Retrievers face an explosive Delaware squad at Retriever Soccer Park. UMBC (9-0-0) is ranked fourth in the nation in scoring offense at 2.78 goals per match and Delaware (7-1-0) leads the country at 2.88 per contest. The Retrievers will also put their 18-martch unbeaten streak on the line against the Blue Hens. Live stats and free live video (www.umbcretrievers.tv) are available for the contest and all UMBC home soccer matches in 2013.\nRETRIEVER STORY LINES:\nDating back to 2012, UMBC is now unbeaten in its last 18 contests (15-0-3) and has outscored their opponents, 43-12, in that span. It is the longest unbeaten streak since 1999, when that championship squad went 19-0-2 in the regular season.\nEntering play this weekend, UMBC is second with 25 goals scored. Cal Poly leads the nation with 27 scored.\nSR Pete Caringi III is tied for the nation's lead in goals scored (9) and tied for third in goals per game (1.00). JR M Geaton Caltabiano is second in assists (7) and third in assists per game (0.78).\nThe Retrievers remained at No. 8 in the Top Drawer Soccer poll and moved up seven spots to 14th in College Soccer News' poll. UMBC made its debut in the Soccer America poll at No. 25 (tied) and is No. 11 in the Continental Tire/NSCAA Coaches' poll for games ending Sept. 22, 2013. UMBC garnered its top two rankings in school history in two polls for games ending Sept. 22. In the NSCAA poll, UMBC is now No. 11, surpassing its previous mark of No. 14 in 2000. The Retrievers' No. 8 ranking by Top Drawer Soccer (the last two weeks) is its top position in any media-affiliated men's soccer poll.\nFor the first time in school history, UMBC was ranked No. 1 in its (Northeast) region (NSCAA, Sept. 24. In games through Sept. 23, UMBC was ranked No. 1 in the nation for NCAA Division I college soccer programs in the Massey Ratings. The Massey Ratings utilize actual game scores and margins in a diminishing returns fashion.\nThe current nine-game winning streak ties the second-longest in school history. The 2009 Retrievers also won nine straight contests to open the season. The 1999 Retrievers won 13 in a row in the midst of a 19-1-2 campaign.\nCal Poly leads the nation with 27 goals scored and UMBC is just behind at 25. Delaware leads the nation at 2.88 goals per game and UMBC is fourth at 2.78.\nUMBC is 34-4-13 (.794) in August/September home games since the 2003 season. Overall, UMBC was a perfect 8-0-0 in September- one fewer win than the 9-0-0 the 2009 produced in the ninth month.\nUMBC was ranked 25th in the nation in home attendance in 2012 with 981 fans per game. Through Sept. 28 (7 games), UMBC was averaging 1,245 at Retriever Soccer Park.\nSCOUTING THE BLUE HENS\nThe Blue Hens come into the game with an overall record of 7-1-0 and have outscored their opponents, 23-11. UD has won four straight games and are receiving votes in this week's College Soccer News' poll.\nDelaware had the weekend off after blanking Iona, 3-0, in New Rochelle, N.Y. on Sept. 25. SO M Joe Dipre doubled his goal total for the year with a pair of scores vs. the Gaels. FR M Guillermo Delgado has made a tremendous impact in his first season. The collegiate newcomer and Pete Caringi III are tied near the top of the national charts with nine goals apiece. JR G Borja Barbero has started in seven of the Blue Hens' eight games, and leads the team in saves with 22.\nThis will be the 17th meeting between the Retrievers and the Blue Hens.The Retrievers have a 14-7-3 overall record against the Blue Hens and are 6-2-1 when playing at Retriever Soccer Park since 1989 (NCAA Division I era).\nThe last matchup between the Retrievers and the Blue Hens occurred in 2009 when UMBC prevailed, 5-1 in Baltimore.\nUMBC is unbeaten in its last seven matches (5-0-2) vs. Delaware.\nUMBC opens its 11th season of America East Conference play and the defense of its 2012 league title on Saturday, Oct. 5 when they travel to West Hartford, Conn. to take on the Hartford Hawks. Game time from Al-Marzook Field is 7:00 p.m. and live, free video streaming will be available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 14009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unbain.com/9802931490", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VTVVDHFWRKK5T5LLKZD4QQS3CCNLAXM2", "length": 3162, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "unbain.com", "title": "980-293-1490", "raw_content": "We can just about read each other's minds. The cow is drying up. I can speak English. I recognized his face.\nI've told you once already that you can't use my car this afternoon. Everyone knows about Charlie. Rain, rain, go away. / Come again another day. Are you sure you're up for it? He died of lung cancer. Why do you think it was Bea who did that? Where did you meet your wife?\nI risked my life revealing this. Luc loved being outdoors. It looks like Art was shot to death. People needed a more practical system of exchange, so various money systems developed. He never misses reading the papers every day. Maybe nobody wants to leave. He ran onto the field. It was yesterday that he died. I think people should stop using plastic bags from supermarkets.\nIt has to review the concepts.\nTo get back to my original point, yesterday I sent the report off to Tokyo. Rodger doesn't like it when this kind of stuff happens. The magician Sarah. Apparently people call her \"The Great Mage\" or some such.\nIndeed, he could have bitten off his tongue. Melinda Jackson is the man you met the other day. He tried with all his might to lift the box. Samuel made a quick decision. Next Monday and Tuesday are holidays. I think you should talk to Luis now. My friends go to The New Pizzeria every Friday evening. Yawn, that's enough for today. We're not blaming you. It's your decision, Roxie.\nI want him left alone.\nNo, Hugh, you can't touch the paintings! Yesterday I was in a meeting. I don't know what this means. That movie is suitable for people of all ages. You can't contact Takeuchi directly.\nWe need to deal with this problem right now. There has to be a better way to do this. The traffic's congested. Do you want me to say that I'm sorry? Manjeri held out his hands. You really should buy a new car.\nIt's supposed to rain tomorrow night, so let's leave our umbrellas until then. Everything Bush does is right. Do you know the teacher who taught me French? You are our one millionth customer. Please show me how to do it. You might not like this movie very much.\nDespite all its disadvantages, it was serfhood to be the main of the means to keep unity of the nation. If it had not been for your advice, I could not have succeeded. Please eat up your dinner. I am to go there today.\nDid you flash your lights?\nWhen was this decision made? We are both from Boston.\nWe probably won't need to do that again. Here is my air ticket. Let's open the box and see what's inside. There are several reasons. He bought some chocolate for her. Do you remember your passport number? Her failure is not to be ascribed to want of diligence. His grades took a big jump. It was clever of you to tell him that.\nUnfortunately, I don't share your opinion. The shoe doesn't fit me. It's too small. This was totally unexpected. I'll never forgive her. \"Do you hate me?\" \"No.\" \"So do you love me?\" \"Why are you asking?\" What makes you think Tuna is here? She is intent on mastering French.\nI knew I'd forgotten something. \"Any good news in today's paper?\" \"No, nothing in particular.\"\nWas this man an enemy of the church? Are you suggesting I'm a liar? Computers have invaded every field.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://underthegunreview.net/2015/06/18/choke-up-woke-up-drunk-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2KMWHSXBY74Z6XNYZ6ZTAZ3A4A2PHBP3", "length": 1882, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "underthegunreview.net", "title": "It\u2019s Time You Fell In Love With Young Punk Heroes Choke Up | Under the Gun Review", "raw_content": "It\u2019s Time You Fell In Love With Young Punk Heroes Choke Up\nPop punk has dominated the alternative scene for the better part of the last half decade. So much so, in fact, that many seem to have forgotten there are variations of punk that don\u2019t involve constant references to friendship, pizza, and getting over that girl who broke your heart in junior high. If that applies to you, maybe you should feel bad. I\u2019m not here to ruin your day, but there are a number of great punk artists fighting to survive out there, and you\u2019re only doing yourself a disservice by not taking time to discover their immense talent.\nOne act I cannot urge you to check out enough is young Boston punk group Choke Up. These guys seriously kick a lot of ass. I like to think of their sound as a punk version of Tiny Moving Parts, with all the ferocity of a rabid wolf who has developed an unquenchable thirst for baby blood, but who also isn\u2019t afraid to have a good time. Most people don\u2019t think of punk as the soundtrack to their next big party, but as the band\u2019s new video for \u201cWoke Up Drunk\u201d reveals, it\u2019s probably high time you plan a punk get-together with all of your closest friends. You can view the video, which premiered on Substream earlier this week, at the end of this post.\nChoke Up\u2019s critically-acclaimed Black Numbers full-length debut, Black Coffee, Bad Habits, is available now. Don\u2019t be a fool who doesn\u2019t order a copy, then later kicks themselves after all their friends get hip to the band. Buy a copy today to help yourself, Choke Up, and Black Numbers thrive. Go on. We believe in you.\nChoke Up \u2013 Woke Up Drunk from Mason Marino on Vimeo.\nPosted in News Tags: Best Punk Band, Black Numbers, boston, Choke Up, music video, punk (genre), review, Woke Up Drunk\n\u00ab UTG INTERVIEW: Lydia Discuss Their Recent Tour, Upcoming Album\nMOVIE REVIEW: \u2018I Believe In Unicorns\u2019 Showcases Young Love \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unidir.ch/programmes/gender-and-disarmament/disarmament-and-non-proliferation-education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NQIZWJQEJRJS3DRYKFOTOUAF7ICB62JT", "length": 688, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "unidir.ch", "title": "UNIDIR : Conference - Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education", "raw_content": "To discuss different practical ways in which to teach disarmament and non-proliferation education; in particular, drawing on the hibakusha stories, explore effective ways to incorporate first-person testimony into disarmament education activities.\nPartners: Japan (site in Japanese).\nIn addition, dedicated project funding was received from Japan (site in Japanese).\nNote: A report of the seminar is available on the website of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Further information on disarmament and non-proliferation education is available on the United Nations Cyberschoolbus.\nSpeaker(s): E. Hushbeck, N. Porseva, W. Potter, S. Sasamori, K. Sullivan, T. Tanaka, S. Tarui", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uppsalaekonomerna.se/en/verksamhet/international/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:4FBF2INVCY7Q6EGUQR2XA37MYIAMPTAJ", "length": 5629, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "uppsalaekonomerna.se", "title": "The International Committee - Uppsalaekonomerna", "raw_content": "Company visit at LinkedIn during European Career Tour 2018\nThe International Committee\u2019s main focus is to operate as a link between business and economic students in Uppsala and the international labor market. Our vision is to offer our members the opportunity to gain international experience during their studies at Uppsala University.\nThe International Committee is responsible for all international activities within the association. We act as a bridge between students and prospective future employers. This is done by arranging several career trips to i.e. New York, London and Hong Kong where students get the chance to meet with global enterprises. Furthermore, we strive to encourage international networking by inviting over 20 students from all over the world during one week full of cultural exchanges.\nOur goal is to help you to explore your interest and eventually achieve a future international career.\nThe committee meetings\nThe International Committee has committee meetings every third week on Wednesdays between 4-5pm. The meetings take place at the KPMG Arenan in our association building Borgen and everyone who is interested is welcome to join. Every meeting has a new theme or a new guest. Examples of previous themes at meetings are \u201cLinkedIn Workshop,\u201d \u201cVisit from Business Sweden\u201d and \u201cMeet our project groups\u201d.\nThe International Committee has a president and a vice president who have comprehensive responsibility for the committee. The president and the vice president are in charge of the operational issues of the committee and work to support and guide the project groups. This includes tasks such as mediating contact internally and running a start-up and follow-up meetings for the project groups. They are also responsible for arranging and executing the committee meetings. The president and the vice president of the International Committee have similar responsibilities. You will find a more clear description of their roles and tasks below.\nIf you have any questions regarding the committee, our projects or anything else, do not hesitate to contact us! You can reach us at internationellautskottet@uppsalaekonomerna.com\nThe President of the International Committee is currently responsible for a certain number of projects. One of the responsibilities of being the president of the committee is that you will act as a mentor and link between the projects and the association. The president is also responsible for the budgets of our projects and the committee budget. In addition, the president attends the Investigation Group meetings, which is a platform where all committee presidents meet to discuss, workshop and investigate regarding the operational part of the association.\nThe Vice President of the International Committee is currently responsible for a certain number of projects. One of the responsibilities of being the president of the committee you will act as a mentor and link between the projects and the association. In addition, the vice president is also responsible for the committee meetings. The vice president is also present in the Leadership- and Personal Development group, which is a group where you discuss and workshop about leadership and personal development.\nUppsala International Week 2018\nEuropean Career Tour 2018\nIWCO Conference Budapest 2018\nNew York Week 2018\nHong Kong Week is a career trip the International Committee arranges. The main purpose of this project is to connect top Business and Economies student in Uppsala, who wish to pursue an international career, with companies located in Hong Kong. H&M, NASDAQ OMX, HSBC, and Scania are some of the companies visited during this trip.\nContact: hongkongweek@uppsalaekonomerna.com\nEuropean Career Tour\nEuropean Career Tour is an annual career trip with the main focus to establish a global network, expand your knowledge about a career abroad and have the time of your life. You will get to visit well known global companies in a variety of cities. During this Career Trip, we have had the chance to visit companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Nike and Google in cities such as Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt \u2013 just to name a few.\nContact: contactcareertour@uppsalaekonomerna.com\nUppsala International Week (UIW) is part of a global network (IWCO) of 26 universities enabling Uppsala business students to go abroad and experience new cultures and meet people from all over the world. Each year every university arrange an International Week inviting students from all other universities. Uppsala Internationa Week, taking place in May is a week filled with activities such as company visits, lectures, parties, and Swedish traditions. For more information visit http://uppsalainternationalweek.com or http://www.iw-co.org.\nContact: project@uppsalainternationalweek.com\nDuring the fall, 20 lucky students will get the chance to spend a week in New York and visit several companies in different sectors. The students will get the opportunity to experience the city life, and get an exclusive insight into the American business culture. The aim of the trip is to offer the students an opportunity to create future business relationships in USA as well as getting a better understanding of what an international career can look like.\nContact: newyorkweek@uppsalaekonomerna.com\nGuest Lecture is a project within the International Committee where the theme will present a topic with an international connection. The thought behind the project is to offer the members an opportunity to expand your international perspective without having to travel abroad!\nContact: internationellautskottet@uppsalaekonomerna.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 7501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://urinal.net/chipotle/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:P574YNJMIRZDDJX6DP44NA3ERXH4W7ZP", "length": 1147, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "urinal.net", "title": "The Urinals of Chipotle Mexican Grill", "raw_content": "The Urinals of Chipotle Mexican Grill\nChipotle Mexican Grill operates a chain of fast Mexican food restaurants with locations around North America and Europe. Chipotle is headquartered in Denver, CO.\nWikipedia states: \"Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. is an American chain of fast casual restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France, specializing in tacos and burritos. Its name derives from chipotle, the Nahuatl name for a smoked and dried jalape\u00f1o chili pepper. The company currently trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CMG.\n\"The company has released a mission statement called Food with Integrity, which highlights its efforts in using naturally-grown ingredients, and serves more naturally raised meat than any other restaurant chain. Chipotle is one of the first chains of fast casual dining establishments. Competitors in the fast-casual Mexican market include Qdoba Mexican Grill, Moe's Southwest Grill, Rubio's Coastal Grill, Pancheros Mexican Grill, Freebirds World Burrito, and Baja Fresh.\"\nThis photo was sent in by MrK. It was taken at the Hillsboro, OR location on Cornell Road.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 115.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uzumakipedia.weebly.com/hy363ga-clan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VU7RHQ6ADFJ75367TJEG2WYTXAJE74HM", "length": 2448, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uzumakipedia.weebly.com", "title": "Hy\u016bga Clan - Uzumakipedia", "raw_content": "The Hy\u016bga Clan\nHy\u016bga Elder\nHikari Hy\u016bga\nHoheto Hy\u016bga\nThe Hy\u016bga clan (\u65e5\u5411\u4e00\u65cf, Hy\u016bga Ichizoku) is one of the oldest and most powerful clans in Konohagakure. All members born into this family possess the Byakugan, a kekkei genkai that gives them extended fields of vision and the ability to see the chakra circulatory system amongst other things.\nThe clan is separated into two parts, the main house (\u5b97\u5bb6, S\u014dke) and the branch house (\u5206\u5bb6, Bunke), a system that protects the secrets of the Byakugan from outsiders. The main house runs the family while the branch house protects it. The members of the branch house are branded with a cursed seal upon the next heir/heiress of the main house's third birthday. This seal gives the main house members absolute control over the branch members, because they can destroy the branch members' minds with a simple hand gesture, or cause them great pain to punish them. This seal also makes sure the secret of the Hy\u016bga's Byakugan is safe, because it seals the Byakugan after the wearer of the seal dies. Because they are essentially servants, simply because of their birth order or heritage, some branch house members are hostile to those of the main house.\nMembers of the clan are instructed in the use of the Gentle Fist style, which uses the Byakugan to view the opponent's Chakra Pathway System and deal precise blows to disable and impede the flow of chakra. Due to training in this style, Hy\u016bga clan members tend to have excellent chakra control. This is emphasized in jutsu that utilize this chakra control, as well as the nuances of the Gentle Fist style. The clan's strongest techniques, like the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, are only allowed to be taught to members of the main house. Some members such as Neji Hy\u016bga, however, have bypassed this restriction by learning them on his own, earning a reputation as a \"genius\" in the clan.\nThe Hy\u016bga are the possessors of the renowned d\u014djutsu - Byakugan. It allows them to view everything in all directions, as well as through most objects. This ability renders the bloodline of the Hy\u016bga to be feared as the 'all seeing eye'. It is said that sneaking up on a skilled Hy\u016bga is almost impossible.\nThere are, of course, exceptions to their ability to see - which include various sealing barriers and space-time related techniques. There is also a certain limit up to which they can see - which varies from user to user and depends on their skill and practice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://v4.fews.net/southern-africa/zambia/market-fundamentals/december-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IW3Z2FBNRS2QDZPYFOTJN2GCTOJBJ2WH", "length": 5783, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "v4.fews.net", "title": "Zambia - Market Fundamentals: Wed, 2017-12-20 | Famine Early Warning Systems Network", "raw_content": "The objective of this report is to document the basic market context for staple food production and marketing in Zambia with a focus on maize, the country\u2019s key commodity.\nThe information presented stems from a literature review, secondary data, and a field assessment. In-country research took place in October 2014 and included market visits and a three-day stakeholder consultation workshop held in Lusaka.\nZambia\u2019s economy is largely dependent on its mining industry, especially the export of copper. Following a period of rapid growth, the country\u2019s economic growth rate fell in 2013 and remains sluggish, driven by a drop in international copper prices. The subsequent decline in revenue from copper exports also led to currency depreciation and inflation in recent years.\nZambia\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown steadily since 2001, with a growth rate remaining above 5 percent for most of the past decade. However, the agriculture sector\u2019s contribution to GDP declined from 16.0 percent in 2001 to 12.6 percent in 2012. Although agriculture is not the main driver of the Zambian economy, it is the most important sector for employment and supports the livelihood of over 66 percent of the population.\nDespite economic growth, poverty rates remain high (over 60 percent of the population is poor), especially in rural areas. While Zambia\u2019s political environment is relatively stable and calm, electricity, transport, and storage infrastructure drawbacks continue to limit the country\u2019s ability to improve living standards across all socioeconomic levels of the population.\nMaize, cassava, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, groundnuts, and mixed beans represent the main food staples in the country in terms of area planted and production volume. Higher-value, commercial cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, and sugar are also produced and are among Zambia\u2019s main agricultural exports.\nOn aggregate, Zambia is surplus in terms of domestic food availability. Most food production in Zambia takes place at the smallholder and subsistence level, with low use of agricultural inputs, and in rainfed conditions. The presence of one rainy season provides one main harvest for predominantly rainfed crops, including maize. For these type of products, seasonality plays a major role in food availability and trade, while other heavily irrigated food crops, such rice and wheat, can be and are harvested and marketed throughout the year, depending mostly on stocks, import levels, and prices. Finally, cassava, while also rainfed, can be harvested throughout the year due to the crop\u2019s growth cycle and resilience. Cassava is harvested depending on household food needs and is mostly consumed within the household and not marketed.\nBesides production-related aspects, several other factors influence the performance of agricultural markets due to their impact on food availability, access, and/or trade. In broad terms, these factors are:\nGeographic/climatic: the unimodal rainfall pattern leaves the country vulnerable to long-term supply implications from the annual harvest. Weather irregularities can therefore have very significant effects on the supply level for the entire following marketing year, as well as subsequent years.\nPhysical: insufficient and inadequate infrastructure, mostly roads, irrigation systems, and storage facilities impede the staple food value chain growth and functionality at various levels, from productivity to distribution.\nInstitutional: substantial government intervention in the agriculture sector (purchase of staple foods, subsidized sales of staple foods on the market, input subsidies, and extension services) serves as a source of demand for some producers and affects prices in the markets. High public spending on these programs is a heavy financial burden on the national agriculture budget.\nPolitical economy environment: uncertainty in trade policies (including export bans), as well as in the domestic public market interventions (including timing and price levels of purchases and sales of maize on markets), creates disincentives, volatility, and biases within the food markets.\nRegional context: structural deficiency in neighboring deficit countries, surplus levels in other East and Southern African regional exporter countries, price differentials, trade policies, and regional integration to a large degree dictate the magnitude and direction of flows of staple foods between countries.\nZambia is second only to South Africa as the main staple food exporter and source of regional food supply and trade. Staple foods are exported to neighboring structurally deficit countries (mostly Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)). Factors affecting production and overall supply in the broader region impact production and trade dynamics in Zambia. In addition, regional integration mechanisms (such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)) facilitate the access of Zambian goods in the regional market.\nWhite maize, the nation\u2019s most produced and consumed staple food, is produced mostly in Eastern, Central, and Southern Provinces and is exported formally and informally to several countries in the region. White maize is consumed across the country fresh or as dried (grain, flour) product, and is also used for the brewing of local drinks. The maize value chain is very complex and involves multiple actors, both private and public, large- and small-scale, formal and informal. The public sector is a big market actor and is involved in both purchasing and selling on the market, as well as setting trade policy. Zambia both became and sustained its role as an important source of maize for the Southern Africa region in the past decade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 9440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vacouf.com/4162036725", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:EWRCJLQFTHHHRYC2ZAJCY4W46WIXZANB", "length": 2605, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "vacouf.com", "title": "4162036725", "raw_content": "It was a satisfying meal. You are surrounded. Andries went out for a walk with his dog.\nWho told Mitch that? Not all species of spiders are poisonous. I still might do that. Andrea has been very busy this week. I wonder where Dwayne could've gone. You are really very productive today. Who wants to go to Boston anyway? She is my mistress! I hope you all learn something. 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Two years ago, I traveled to Obihiro.\nPatricio opened his present. I'm watching a movie.\nPhil asked Perry to pretend to be his wife. Draw me the Pareto curve. Sharada was surprised by what James said. I stood in line yesterday to get to the lab to do blood work. He has a lot of pictures. No matter what may happen, you mustn't forget your smile. Please wait five minutes. It may have happened when Dion was in Boston. The next station is where you get off. This is where I grew up.\nI have several dozens of them. You don't have to go if you don't want to. That's wasteful.\nThis kid is smarter than average. The fate of the hostages depends on the result of the negotiation. See if you can find out more about Liber. I work at home. It was filmed in Australia. September is the first month of the school year in Israel. I live in a town. Heresy was a crime for which people were sometimes sentenced to death. I'm also a student.\n60,000 lucky number request: I got a request to draw an illustration for the site of Beikyu, who hit the lucky number, \"Standing By A Little Maple Tree\". The cat burglar must have entered the mansion from the roof. The bus broke down at one end of the bridge. Countless lives have been lost. 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The first thing worth noting is this high-quality leather from which the accessories are made. The style of the latest Louis Vuitton handbags can be characterized by a mixture of minimalism and classics. Typically, the latest Louis Vuitton handbags do not use a lot of decorative elements, the advantage is given to one, but flashy decoration. And another important feature of the Louis Vuitton brand is their courage in terms of design, shape and contrasts.\nHow to choose the latest Louis Vuitton handbags?\nIt is worth saying that Lthe latest Louis Vuitton handbags rarely go out of fashion, so when choosing them, it is more to rely on your own taste rather than on fashion trends. The most popular model among the latest Louis Vuitton handbags is the Speedy 25 model. 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Super obvious in the colors used in this collection, there are combinations that we would never had thought of. You\u2019ll be able to find this collaboration in selected optical doors and fashion doors in late 2015.\nThe scandinavian label was founded by Carin Wester in 2003 aiming to produce modern classics with an explicit attention on shapes, prints and fabrics. 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The Britain's Got Talent and Saturday Night Takeaway star first entered a rehabilitation centre in June 2017, after developing an addiction to prescription painkillers following a knee operation in 2015. He later said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the public support.\nAt the scene: Colin Paterson, BBC entertainment correspondent\nOutside Wimbledon Magistrates' Court there are about 40 photographers and news crews, split into two groups as they try to work out which entrance Ant McPartlin will come in through.There is no sign of any fans yet - although cars are regularly stopping to ask what is going on.One driver to do so greeted the answer with a cry of \"never heard of him\". But he is vastly in the minority.\nCo-presenter Declan Donnelly hosted the final two episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway alone and will also host Britain's Got Talent on his own, although Mr McPartlin was seen on the ITV show over the weekend as the talent show aired its pre-recorded audition shows.\nDec (centre) was joined by Scarlett Moffatt and Stephen Mulhern on Saturday Night Takeaway\nAnt and Dec have established themselves as one of Britain's most popular double acts and, for the 17th consecutive year, were voted by viewers as TV's best entertainment presenters at the National Television Awards in January.\n\u00bb Saturday Night Takeaway: Applause for McPartlin at finale\n\u00bb Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving\n\u00bb Ant McPartlin charged with drink-driving\n\u00bb Ant McPartlin to step down from TV work\n\u00bb Ant McPartlin arrested after 'drink drive crash'\n\u00bb Ant McPartlin held over drink-driving after collision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://veganposters.com/author/john-wesley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QRUOHBUXAYUML6BBIUTRY6AC7JRYKEDF", "length": 176, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "veganposters.com", "title": "John Wesley | Vegan Posters", "raw_content": "Quotes By John Wesley\nDo all the good you can by all the means that you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://video.impa.br/index.php?page=2013---conferencias-magnas-wendelin-werner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:G6STYOWV64K4ORW3DSGLE5WCM3H6ED3V", "length": 686, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "video.impa.br", "title": "VIDEO | video.impa.br - 2013 - Confer\u00eancias Magnas: Wendelin Werner", "raw_content": "Professor da Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud 11 in Orsay\nInstituto Nacional de Matem\u00e1tica Pura e Aplicada \u00e0s 17:00\nT\u00edtulo: Surface fluctuations and their geometries\nAbstract: We will first introduce in a heuristic way the natural generalization of Brownian motion to random surfaces i.e. heuristically speaking the random mountains defined in the continuum. We will discuss some basic features of this object called the Gaussian Free Field, such as its lack of continuity and we will discuss recent work that enable to describe its topography, focusing on the analogy with one-dimensional Brownian motion. This will be based on work by and joint work with Scott Sheffield, Jason Miller and Hao Wu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://virally247.live/tr-foundation-reporting-on-human-trafficking-and-modern-day-slavery-2019-funded/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:R3WBMR7KQAXDIOQSUSRIBVJAMY4BD7PN", "length": 2255, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "virally247.live", "title": "Viral News Blog - Latest News | Entertainment | Gists", "raw_content": "Applications are open for the TR Foundation Reporting on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery 2019. The program is a unique chance for journalists in India to gain practical skills and knowledge and work on your story ideas with guidance from experienced Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists and subject experts from reputed anti-trafficking charities.\nWith support from the C&A Foundation, the workshop offers a combination of specialist expertise and hands-on training, with an emphasis on producing high-impact stories for widespread dissemination.\nAs well as coming away with a deep understanding of the scale, nature and causes of the problem, participants will learn about efforts to set global standards for combating modern slavery, including fundamental conventions, international instruments and a new, legally binding protocol that requires countries to take real action.\nThomson Reuters Foundation can fund travel expenses and accommodation for participants travelling from outside Kolkata. This arrangement is subject to variation.\nApplicants must be Indian full-time journalists or regular contributors to broadcast media organisations in India;\nApplicants must be able to demonstrate a commitment to a career in journalism in their country;\nMust be a senior journalist with a minimum of three years\u2019 professional experience and have a good level in spoken and written English;\nIf you have been on a Thomson Reuters Foundation training programme within the last two years you will not be eligible to apply.\nWhen applying you will be asked to upload the following documents \u2013 please have these ready:\n2 relevant work samples (maximum file size 5 MB) \u2013 in English if possible. For stories not in English, please include a 250-word English summary about the story.\nA letter from your editor consenting to your participation in the programme and committing to publish/broadcast resulting stories\nPlease note you will be asked to submit one or more story ideas within your application. They will not share your ideas with anyone.\nFor more information, visit TR Foundation Reporting.\nAmerican India Foundation (AIF) William J. Clinton Fellowship 2019-2020 (Fully-funded)\nAshton Kutcher Quietly Saved 6,000 Children From Human Sex Trafficking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vm.instituteofjamaica.org.jm/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:PMUWSYZKCZL6L3HSTCAR2XR5OM3MHU7W", "length": 132, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "vm.instituteofjamaica.org.jm", "title": "Discussion Forum | Virtual Museum", "raw_content": "admin : January 27, 2012 6:36 pm : Blog\nSite last updated April 4, 2018 @ 10:04 am; This content last updated May 21, 2012 @ 9:43 am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://voyagehouston.com/interview/north-loops-rising-stars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:27Z", "digest": "sha1:46VQALY3VOC57RNMPN3MA5HJFQMTBTDB", "length": 4603, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "voyagehouston.com", "title": "North Loop's Rising Stars - Voyage Houston Magazine | Houston City Guide", "raw_content": "North Loop\u2019s Rising Stars\nThe heart of our mission at VoyageHouston is to find the amazing souls that breathe life into our city. In the recent weeks we\u2019ve had the privilege to connect with some of the Houston\u2019s finest artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and rabble rousers and we can\u2019t begin to express how impressed we are with our city\u2019s incredibly deep talent pool. Check out North Loop\u2019s rising stars below.\nShantae Smith\nI found fashion as my passion by playing dress up all the time growing up as a little girl and working in retail since I was 17. I have worked in retail stores such as Rainbow, Guess, BCBG, JC Penney\u2019s, Dillard\u2019s and Intermix. I always enjoyed helping customers pick out outfits for special events. I also had the privilege to dress mannequins how I wanted, which provided me with the opportunity to experiment with different looks. Read more>>\nRobert Harper II\nWhat makes Robert\u2019s story so interesting is that he never had aspirations to be a speaker growing up. Robert says after his freshman year in college he decided to make a change from within. Robert grew up being apathetic towards his education. He knew he desired a shift in his life spiritually and mentally. He wasn\u2019t sure how all it was going to happen, but God shifted his environment before his eyes. Read more>>\nNot knowing the alphabet by third grade, the school psychologist kept telling my parents that there were major issues with me. They were right. You couldn\u2019t get me to speak in front of two people. So what did I do with that? Choosing to turn a negative into a positive, I decided to become an Actor in New York City and attended New York City\u2019s most avant-garde acting school. Read more>>\nConecia Wiggins and Ulavia Dilworth\nWe started with our love for music. We decided that we were going to set up a raw and underground show catered to the independent and underground artist in the Houston area. We started back in October of 2018 and have expanded in ways that we didn\u2019t know were possible. In just under four months, we were able to travel to Atlanta and interview some big names out there also. Read more>>\nSharonda Britten\nI started out as a payroll clerk when I was 17 at the hospital. As I learned all about payroll and finance, I ended up finding out that I enjoyed dealing with numbers. I went on to get my Bachelors Degree in Business Management with a minor in accounting. I love what I do and have always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Read more>>\nI recognized my vocal ability when I first joined the choir at Wells Middle School in the 7th grade. From there, I started developing my talent for singing, initially in groups. In 2007, I decided to go solo and release my first single \u201cThat Girl.\u201d From 2007 through 2014, I auditioned and performed for Making the Band 4, American Idol auditions, Hatta\u2019s Idol, America\u2019s Got Talent auditions, The Voice auditions, Fastracx R&B Winner, and performed the first year of Springboard South in 2012. Read more>>\nThiago Leych\nMy vision was to combine technology and creative under one roof without compromising on quality. On top of that, many small businesses struggle to market their products and services in the digital era, especially industrial companies. We believe that a company\u2019s branding is much more than just their logo and social media, it is also their internal processes and everything that their customers and employees touch and see. Read more>>\nJonathan Homan\nWinter of 18, I officially started my modeling career. I began attending local insta-meetups around the Houston area. After receiving several opportunities, I climbed my way up the ladder. It wasn\u2019t an easy journey working a full-time job and modeling, with time and a little patience I evolved into the model I am today. Read more>>\nRodolfo Soules\nI started acting since I was six. It is something that I\u2019m really passionate about. Back in Venezuela, when I was 18, during my first semester of Journalism in College, I wanted to work in radio so bad, so I found a job in a pop station as Production Assistant. I did it for six months and learned all the processes, and later, with a friend, I presented my own show with me as a host to another radio station. Read more>>\nJade Owhadi\nI\u2019ve always been fortunate, blessed with a family who has showed me right from wrong, who love and support me unconditionally. I\u2019ve made it my mission to help those that haven\u2019t received the same opportunities. I believe ensuring people receive the proper education is one of the key factors we can utilize to break the cycle of poverty and efficiently combat injustice. Read more>>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vultuschristi.org/index.php/page/699/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:7STPLHGZXP5MMGQGCUCJVC7VKRAGN6RM", "length": 5193, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "vultuschristi.org", "title": "Vultus Christi", "raw_content": "My brother Terence, his wife Sandy, and their two children Michael Colin (3 years old) and Mary Elizabeth (20 months) just returned from a family holiday in Costa Rica. Terence rang me to let me know that they had arrived home safely after a thirteen hour trip. Little Michael was eager to give me details of his adventures. Part of our conversation went like this:\nMichael Colin \u2014 I wish you had come to Costa Rica on the airplane with us, Uncle Mark.\nUncle Mark \u2014 Oh, thank you, Michael. What a nice thought!\nMichael Colin \u2014 Butcha didn\u2019t, Uncle Mark.\nFrom what I understand, one of the highlights of the trip was swinging through the trees of the jungle on a cable. There was also lots of time to play in the water. I look forward to seeing Terence, Sandy, and the children at Thanksgiving time. And I want to hear Michael Colin tell me more about his experiences.\nPie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem.\nCommemoration of All the Departed\nWho Militated Under the Rule of Saint Benedict\nPsalm 63, 1, 2\u20133, 4\u20135, 7\u20138 (R. 1b\nGospel: John 12:23\u201328\nMembers of the Family Even in Death\nWe saw yesterday that each of the great Orders of the Church has its own festival of All Saints; the same is true of the Commemoration of the Departed. The Augustinians remember all their dead on November 14th, the Dominicans on November 8th, the Franciscans on November 24th, the Carmelites on November 15th, the Jesuits on November 6th, and the Benedictines and Cistercians on November 14th.\nThe departed remain members of the monastic family in which they were consecrated to God. Those who are still in the purifying fire of God\u2019s just and merciful love rely on our help. They cannot pray for themselves because their time of being able to merit has forever passed, but they are not without gratitude towards those who pray for them.\nIn ages past one of the principal motives for entering a monastery or for becoming an Oblate was to learn the\n14 November, Requiem Mass for All the Departed Who Did Battle Under the Rule of Saint Benedict\nIt is a cherished monastic tradition to pray for the dead. Cistercians, in particular, have the custom of praying an entire Psalter (all 150 Psalms) for the dead, concluding each psalm with the verse, \u201cEternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.\u201d\nToday\u2019s Mass will be offered for all the departed who soldiered under the Rule of Saint Benedict. The Christian life is marked by spiritual combat. \u201cFor we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiitual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places\u201d (Eph 6:12). The monk, the nun, or the oblate living in the world engages in spiritual combat by making use of the seventy\u2013four tools of good works enumerated in Chapter Four of the Rule of Saint Benedict.\nAfter death, the veterans of spiritual combat are not abandoned by their monastic family. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, psalmody, and the prayer of the Rosary hasten their purification and obtain a speedy deliverance into \u201cthe land of the living\u201d where\nSalvete, Cedri Libani\nAll Saints Who Militated under\nPsalm 102: 1\u20132, 3\u20134, 8\u20139, 13\u201314, 17\u201318a (R. 1a)\nSo Great a Cloud of Witnesses\n\u201cSince we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith\u201d (Heb 12:1\u20132). Each of the great Orders in the Church celebrates, in addition to All Saints on November 1st and All Souls on November 2nd, special days in honour of their own \u201cgreat cloud of witnesses\u201d (Heb 12:1) and in commemoration of all their beloved dead.\n\u2014 The Augustinians remember all saints of the Order of Saint Augustine on November 13th and all their departed on November 14th.\n\u2014 The Dominicans remember all saints of the Order of Preachers on November 7th and all their departed on November 8th.\n\u2014The Franciscans remember all saints of the Seraphic Order on November\n13 November, All Benedictine Saints\nToday we celebrated the feast of All Saints Who Militated Under the Rule of Saint Benedict. One might also translate the name of the feast as \u201cAll Saints Who Soldiered Under the Rule of Saint Benedict.\u201d It\u2019s enough to make a Jesuit envious!\nI thought that Spinello Aretino\u2019s depiction of Saint Benedict exorcising a demon might be appropriate for today\u2019s feast. Saint Gregory the Great recounts the whole story in his life of Saint Benedict. The painting, however, tells more than the story. The monks are engaged in a building project. The undertaking comes to a halt when a \u201cheavy devil\u201d decides to sit on a stone. No one can lift the stone. This happens not infrequently in community life.\nSaint Peter reminds us that we are all \u201cliving stones\u201d destined by God to be \u201cbuilt into a spiritual house\u201d (1 P 2:5). Sometimes one \u201cliving stone\u201d becomes heavy to the point of being immovable. Then the upbuilding of the community stops and the \u201cimmovable stone\u201d becomes the focus of much frustration and unhappiness.\nWhat can be done when a \u201cheavy devil\u201d fastened itself to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 14591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wanderingtowellness.com/2013/07/27/my-health-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:48Z", "digest": "sha1:4BLPVJ6QMJWADUXRABOEFXV3HTOR7ER5", "length": 7429, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "wanderingtowellness.com", "title": "Eating as a gluten-free vegan healed me | Wandering to Wellness", "raw_content": "My health transformation\nI know some of you have read this from our website, but I realize that many have not discovered this area of the website. Here is my version of my health journey\u2026\nAlways happy, always positive . . . that was my internal dialogue when I asked myself who I was. It wasn\u2019t just lip service. I felt it in my soul. Maybe I got lucky? There were plenty of other people I had met in this world that didn\u2019t operate from the same safe place. I had a track record of leaving people feeling better about their day after they hung out with me and I loved it. It filled me up. Sure I had down days just like everybody else, but they were few and far between.\nFast forward a couple of years. When I look back and reflect, I\u2019m not really sure when it changed. It seems as if it was very gradual and completely justified by me. \u201cI am in a demanding, stressful job,\u201d I thought to myself. \u201cSurely anybody in this situation might be struggling the same way\u201c, but my struggle was different. My body was slowly breaking down on me. I just couldn\u2019t see it.\nAfter all, I worked out three times a week with my buddies from work. These were hard workouts . . . I was in good shape . . . so why couldn\u2019t I catch my breath? I held out for a couple of months, but it only got worse. Finally I caved. Maybe I had some sort of chest cold that wouldn\u2019t go away? I had chest colds that wouldn\u2019t quit the previous two winters, so maybe this was more of the same? It wasn\u2019t.\nOne day after visiting my general practitioner, I was being escorted by a lady in a hazmat suit down a hospital corridor. She was informing me that if I did indeed have Tuberculosis that I would immediately be placed in isolation. Twenty minutes and one CT scan later; I was told I could go home. I wasn\u2019t; however, told anything about what they had discovered.\nNext, a rather pathetic experience in a plastic surgeon\u2019s office where I had a nodule in my arm biopsied (remind me, I\u2019ll tell you the tale sometime). They didn\u2019t find what they were looking for. Later, it was a biopsy of my lung tissue. I remember quoting Airplane to the two doctors who were about to snake instruments through my nostrils, past my vocal chords and into my lungs, \u201cI just want to say good luck; we\u2019re all counting on you\u201d.\nApparently they found what they were looking for this time. They even had a name for it, although it was nothing I had ever heard of before \u2013 Sarcoidosis. \u201cThe good news is that it is VERY treatable.\u201d This seemed to be the first thing in the handbook to tell a patient with my condition because I heard it a lot. This sentence represented a lot of different emotions to me over the next two years. In the end, it has become my source of hope and of truth, but not in the way it was ever intended from those who told me.\nSo I did what I thought I needed to do. I listened to my doctors. I went to a pulmonologist who started me on a high dose of prednisone, 60 mg. My lungs were in stage 4, which meant I had fibrosis (scarring in laymen\u2019s terms). What else would I do? These people knew what they were doing. They had seen this before.\nFour months later, things were different. I was different. I had put on weight, was distant from my family and I was still in full blown denial that this was really happening to me. Soon after, a bacterial infection showed up on my shin. This worried my doctor. He started me on an antibiotic and had me begin the taper off of prednisone. Three+ months later, I stopped the prednisone and the antibiotic. I was taking an inhaled steroid now \u2013 Flovent.\nA lot happened over the next year. I worked a lot. I endured a lot of stress. I drank a fair amount with my coworkers to deal with the stress we were enduring. I learned about meditating. I tried a few different antioxidant juices. I experienced panic attacks, depression and anxiety (or the magical trifecta, as I like to think of them). I had a short stint with a counselor. I tried two acupuncturists and eventually settled on a third. She has helped me in ways I never thought possible.\nThen the hives came. It was my arms. It was my legs. It was my stomach, my chest, my butt. I seemed to be allergic to my clothes, my bed, my carpet, even my underwear. My body was breaking down on me. I was barely holding it together at work (although my coworkers had my back and were picking up the slack). Somehow, I was still denying that anything really needed to change on my part. I was still detached from this experience. I didn\u2019t want to accept that any of this was real.\nIt was real. My pulmonologist said he couldn\u2019t help me with my hives or fatigue. I told him about my shortness of breath and how it was the reason I came to see him, but my blood oxygen level was fine, so he sent me home. When my acupuncturist said she wanted me to go get my heart checked out, because she was concerned about the signs my body was giving her . . . EVERYTHING CHANGED. I went home and I sobbed and I wailed. I don\u2019t remember ever crying like this before in my life. It sounded like a walrus giving birth to an elephant (or what I imagined it might sound like). My body was releasing everything. All of the things I had packed away in my denial trunk over the past two years were suddenly coming to the surface and I had to face it all.\nThat was the moment I took ownership of what was happening to my body. It was clear to me that I needed to start fighting, but I was worried I was too late. I was desperate. My mother, wife and a coworker all suggested a naturopath for my hives. I was willing to try anything. What I got that day in my ND\u2019s office was the glimmer of hope.\nI wanted her to fix my hives; she wanted to focus on why my immune system was so out of whack. A couple of tests later, it was clear I had a gluten issue and that my adrenals were under performing. She started me on a paleolithic elimination diet and an adrenal support supplement. An amazing thing started to happen, I began to improve.\nSure I knew that what you put in your body affected things, but I ate pretty healthy . . . didn\u2019t I? Seeing my diet change my health conditions opened up a whole new world of possibilities to me. I was like a sponge, reading websites, books and watching movies. I suddenly realized that maybe it wasn\u2019t too late to fight this disease. What other information could I find to help me out of this health spiral? I learned about monitoring my pH balance. I learned about juicing vegetables. I learned the importance of diligent hydration (my horrible issues with dry eye literally disappeared overnight!). I learned about the studies correlating cancer and heart disease to eating animal products.\nAs week has stacked upon week the changes in me are dramatic. As of May 24th, 2013, it has been 5.5 months since I changed my diet. I have been on a strict vegan and no grain diet for the past 3 months which is where the most dramatic changes have come. I am taking no medications. I have no dry eye. I have no hives. I have no depression, anxiety or panic attacks. I have little to no fatigue. I am energized at work again. I am happy and I am present for my children and my wife. Most importantly, I now have hope that this disease IS treatable. The main repercussions of this new lifestyle have been dropping 50 pounds and feeling healthier than I can ever remember. Now those are side effects I can live with!\nFiled Under: ryan\nTags: immune, Sarcoidosis, vegan, wellness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 7949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wangyujian.hku.hk/?p=5745&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OI4DSUD2G4RJFRWTAEBFSSI2KXEU3WTR", "length": 4575, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "wangyujian.hku.hk", "title": "Yue Chim Richard Wong \u738b\u4e8e\u6f38 | Shopping for Solutions", "raw_content": "Causes and Consequences of More Time and Money Random Thoughts at Year\u2019s End\nShopping for Solutions\nThe day before Christmas I spent an afternoon walking around Central. It was busier than ever.\nFast paced, opulent and cosmopolitan, Central exudes Hong Kong\u2019s vibrancy. I don\u2019t live or work there, but since childhood I have felt its heartbeat powering my city. Central is not just a photo on postcards, it is the soul of one of the world\u2019s proudest international economic cities.\nI have been told many people today, including young people, no longer feel this way about Hong Kong. They don\u2019t know Central and hardly ever go there.\nMany children, perhaps as many as half, grow up in New Territories\u2019 housing estates and do not come into Central until past their teens. They see it as a costly luxury and more importantly, see no obvious reason to make the trip. Central is far too remote from their lives.\nIn the past 30 years, Hong Kong\u2019s economy has prospered, but growing numbers in the low- and middle-income classes have been left behind. Income inequality has risen in all the rich nations, but Hong Kong\u2019s situation is particularly severe.\nUnder-provision of education opportunities means the income gap has failed to narrow as economic and technological advances increasingly reward those with more human capital.\nEven more devastating is the impact from rising property prices. Society is now divided into \u201chaves\u201d and \u201chave-nots\u201d based on property ownership (half of households are without property). This has lasting negative consequences for long-term economic and intergenerational inequality.\nThe sense of alienation that a growing proportion of Hong Kong people feel towards Central is reinforced by the rising number of Mainland visitors, whose purchasing power has bid up retail rents in many parts of the city and dictates what shops sell. The value-added reaped by landlords is not trickling down, which further worsens the income gap and asset ownership divide.\nIt puzzles me why more shopping malls and outlet stores haven\u2019t opened in new town areas to provide relief for congested areas. People in the know tell me land is so scarce and the political cost of getting every stakeholder to agree to such projects so formidable, that no government official dares to propose them.\nA similar puzzle is why the many industrial buildings in older areas haven\u2019t been allowed to be converted into other uses. This is all the more odd because most of our industries left two decades ago.\nRelated to that is the most puzzling case of Old Flatted Factory Estates operated by the Housing Authority. Why is Hong Kong still subsidizing sunset operations from yesteryear, especially when many now only use the space for storage? There are about 325,000 square meters of such floor space.\nThe supply of residential space, as both shelter and savings vehicle for the middle and low-income classes, is another great puzzle.\nLiving conditions have become increasingly cramped in Hong Kong. Yet there is much land that cannot be developed because of political resistance from narrow special interest groups. Less than 25 percent of Hong Kong\u2019s land has been developed.\nThese cases bring to mind the argument in favor of a diversity of minorities, which are considered the foundation of a pluralistic society. Alexis de Tocqueville made this observation in his Democracy in America.\nBut this view has increasingly been eclipsed by developments in the West, where minorities have gained political power at the expense of majorities.\nDemocracy is intended to be all-inclusive, but it is increasingly being hijacked by minorities \u2013 robber barons, conservationists, cyclists, unionists, environmentalists, chicken farmers, and what not. This is not healthy for an inclusive system.\nAs I walked around Central just before Christmas, I noticed different kinds of shoppers. Some were keen and some, like myself, not so keen. Yet we all took up approximately equal street space. I was wasting street space without paying sufficiently for it by spending more. An economist would say: I have produced an externality for others by being in Central.\nDemocracy is analogous: everyone has an equal vote, but different voters feel differently about issues. Their views also differ in intensity. We saw this in attitudes toward the Occupy Movement. When votes are counted, \u201cone person one vote\u201d does not accommodate the difference in intensity a person feels for an issue.\nIf we can fix the Christmas shopping problem, we may perhaps be able to also fix the difficulties of democratic voting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wangyujian.hku.hk/?p=6636&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:36Z", "digest": "sha1:YGLO2HKSXOSLOCU3D7TXCWDZVTNVXORH", "length": 5411, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "wangyujian.hku.hk", "title": "Yue Chim Richard Wong \u738b\u4e8e\u6f38 | How Hong Kong came to be governed by an oligarchy", "raw_content": "Hong Kong Youth Activism and Parallels with German History Political Reform or Livelihood Issues?\nAfter the Occupy Movement ended, the government hoped political reform would take a back seat to livelihood issues. However, livelihood issues are also impregnated with politics. Without a working political system to aggregate diverse views and interests, the implementation of livelihood policies will become unavoidably opportunistic, populist and fragmented.\nThe background to this situation lies with the political forces that formed around two large coalitions in the lead up to 1997: the democrats versus the establishment.\nThe democratic coalition had initially two groups of supporters \u2013 the social liberals and the liberal democrats. The social liberals favored an expanded role for social policies, wanted to limit economic liberalism, and were ready to use populist democracy to realize their goals.\nThe liberal democrats were more concerned about building liberal democracy to shield Hong Kong from Beijing and protect civil and economic liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, rule of law, and private property rights.\nThe establishment coalition also contained several diverse interests. Business and professional interests supported the rule of law, private property rights, free markets, and low taxes, but were divided in their support for political democracy. Some supported it as a system to uphold the rule of law and protect private property rights.\nBut others were more worried that all forms of political democracy would succumb to populist pressure and sooner or later infringe upon private property rights in the name of a populist majority. They did not trust the democratic coalition, especially its social liberalism.\nBeijing was, at least initially, optimistic that the administrative machinery inherited from the British could provide an effective governance structure for \u201cone-country two-systems\u201d to operate with a high degree of autonomy. They were also more sympathetic to the business and professional interests and their concerns about populist democracy. Traditional patriotic grassroots organizations were mobilized to support and join the establishment coalition to rival the social liberal interest groups.\nBut the optimism was misplaced. Once the nomination and selection of the Chief Executive was transferred to a body of representatives from Hong Kong and the legislature was returned through geographic and functional constituencies, the critical features of the old British model of governance were subverted.\nThe British colonial governor could dismiss a member of the ruling coalition from a seat of power, which gave him great leverage over this group. The post-1997 administration has not had this control over the appointment and discipline of members of the ruling coalition. It has also had to share the blame for their failures, but cannot take credit for their successes.\nA ruling coalition made up of successful businessmen and professionals always runs the risk of becoming a rent-seeking coalition \u2013 a governing oligarchy. The post-1997 administration, under pressure from the democratic coalition, has had to rely on this group to govern, but it has been fighting a losing battle over rent-seeking. It has had to fill its ranks with more loyalists than achievers to govern effectively. In a fundamental and profound way the political system had changed.\nThe administration has also recruited traditional patriotic grassroots organizations as the \u201cjunior partner\u201d (and sometimes a reluctant one) of the establishment to rival the social liberal interest groups that had now become part of the democratic coalition.\nUnder the British, the social liberals were the voice of social conscience from the grassroots, often critical of government policies, but played an indispensable role in effective governance. They were a different type of junior partner of the old ruling coalition.\nThis change of roles is not surprising, but the politicization of social support for the needy could not have come at a worst time because new social problems have appeared.\nA much higher fraction of low-income households, divorced and single parent households with children, and recent immigrant households now live in the public rental housing estates, especially in the northern New Territories.\nThe delays and failures in getting help to these families and neighborhoods that are poor, isolated, and feel abandoned and without hope has fed growing support for radical politicians by a new generation of young voters. Politics cannot help these people; it can only help them to vent their frustrations and misery on the streets and in violence.\nThe tug-o-war over the political centre has given way to radical angry politics that is fragmenting the democratic coalition and, within the establishment coalition, extreme hardline voices that are gaining in strength. Both sides embrace radical populist politics.\nPolitics is about everyone\u2019s livelihood. Changing the political rules at the same time as momentous economic and social changes will create hiccups that are best approached through reason, tolerance and accommodation. If Beijing fails to demand such a standard of its officials on the ground, then everyone will cease to be sober. Whether Beijing likes it or not, it is the only player that wields the powers possessed by former British governors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wanttostudyabroad.blogspot.com/2016/09/fatura-per-arketim-if-you-are.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IOXR2PRH3ITKIJWINST565DMPMVNM4AY", "length": 857, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wanttostudyabroad.blogspot.com", "title": "Scholarships|Provimet e Matures", "raw_content": "FATURA PER ARKETIM\nIf you are interested in studying in the United States, research the school or program that interests you the most. The Department of State\u2019s EducationUSA helps prospective students learn about the types of education available in the United States, including community colleges, bachelor\u2019s degrees, master\u2019s degrees and more.\nOnce you determine the level of education and degree you would like to earn, you can apply to schools. Only schools certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS\u2019s) Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) can accept international students. You can use the Study in the States school search page to make sure the school you are interested in is SEVP-certified. You can also view the SEVP 101 tutorial to learn more about the various U.S. government roles in the international education process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 149.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wcaassessing.com/on-the-verge-of-virtual-reality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WBNO63BPHVVFWXZQ7BIES7HCTI2SO5MG", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wcaassessing.com", "title": "On the \u201cVerge\u201d of Virtual Reality \u2013 WCA Assessing", "raw_content": "Our team is composed of senior-level public relations consultants with editorial and creative skills that have been built over years of delivering PR services to top businesses and brands, from established companies to early-stage enterprises. We thrive on helping our clients make.\nOn the \u201cVerge\u201d of Virtual Reality Our team is composed of senior-level public\u2026 On the \u201cVerge\u201d of Virtual Reality Our team is composed of senior-level public\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wd3.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=48687", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ITCD6IDZCUTOCOYKJSGRJLMQRPZK7DCL", "length": 165, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wd3.org.uk", "title": "WD3 Wargames Directory 3.4 \u2022 View topic - Fending off the Zulus!", "raw_content": "Today, we had a very hard game against my Zulus!\nTo see the report, please go to my blog at: http://herkybird-richardbradley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/zulu-assault.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.mit.edu/cbi-events/2018-bioman-summit/acknowledgments.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SLPTLTFP53JOASPMKITZLE4FIWNCZW6Z", "length": 6682, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "web.mit.edu", "title": "BioMAN Summit - December 11-12, 2018", "raw_content": "CBI would like to thank our BioMAN members and collaborators for their continued support.\nAbout MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation\nLearn more by visiting our website: cbi.mit.edu\nThe mission of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) is to improve global health by overcoming obstacles to the development and implementation of biomedical innovation. CBI provides a safe and transparent environment for collaborative research among academia, government, and industry, and draws on the expertise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Schools of Engineering, Science, and Management, as well as the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).\nBiomanufacturing Program (BioMAN)\nThe BioMAN program is a forum for knowledge transfer between industry, government, and the academic community, focusing on industry studies and the development and execution of collaborative research and education in biomanufacturing. BioMAN\u2019s working groups, workshops, and conferences bring together thought leaders from across the value chain including manufacturers, vendors, the government/FDA, and academia. BioMAN leverages both MIT and industrial expertise to create impactful educational experiences, to expand the reach of biomanufacturing education, and to better connect theoretical concepts to real-world application. BioMAN utilizes MIT research in both engineering and science to advance new technologies for bioprocessing and also draws on the economics, business strategy, and supply chain expertise at MIT to assess the impact of globalization of the industry and changes in biomanufacturing landscape.\nConsortium on Adventitious Agent Contamination in Biomanufacturing (CAACB)\nThe CAACB Consortium focuses on mitigating the risk of adventitious agent contamination in biomanufacturing through collaborative research between MIT and 25 biopharmaceutical manufacturers and technology & service providers. The Consortium currently has four major projects including an industry-wide assessment of viral contamination experiences, an evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of media treatment options, identifying best practices in assessing viral contamination risk, and developing industry consensus on facility segregation approaches to viral safety. Each year, the CAACB also hosts two members-only workshops on topics such as \u201cThe Role of Testing in Control of Viral Contamination\u201d and \u201cThe Science and Practice of Decontamination.\u201d\nNEW Drug Development ParaDIGmS (NEWDIGS)\nMIT\u2019s NEW Drug Development ParadIGmS (NEWDIGS) program is a unique collaborative \u201cthink and do\u201d tank focused on enhancing the capacity of the global biomedical innovation system to reliably and sustainably deliver new, better, affordable therapeutics to the right patients faster. NEWDIGS provides a safe haven environment for designing, evaluating, and catalyzing meaningful high-impact advancements involving the coordinated evolution of technologies, processes, and policies that are so complex and cross-cutting they cannot be addressed by a single organization or market sector. Participants include global regulators, payers and health technology assessment officials, industry, patients, providers, and academic researchers, among other key stakeholders. The initial program area of NEWDIGS focused on catalyzing the evolution of global pharmaceutical regulation and helped to inspire the European Medicines Agency\u2019s (EMA) adaptive pathways pilot program announced in March 2014.\nAdvanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), a Manufacturing USA Institute, is a member driven non-profit organization, whose mission is to make practical the large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies, to benefit existing industries and grow new ones. This mission is supported by $80,000,000 in federal funding that has been leveraged to secure additional financial commitments from ARMI | BioFabUSA members, including industrial, academic and non-profit organizations and institutions.\nCASSS is the leading non-profit professional scientific membership society providing networking and peer-to-peer learning opportunities for professionals involved in the development and regulation of biopharmaceutical products worldwide.\nIn aggregate, CASSS symposia attract nearly 1,800 participants annually from more than 20 countries; who, on average, have over 10 years of experience in their jobs. When you break that down, however, each meeting plays a different role in the drug development domain. Whether your role is in the practical applications of various technologies\u2014or the strategic decisions that are made with regard to biopharmaceutical product development, our symposia are designed to help you at every stage in the development cycle.\nIn addition to our symposia:\nCASSS supports students and post-docs to attend our meetings. We have provided over $250,000 in travel grants;\nWe maintain an on-line archive of all CMC Strategy Forum summary papers; and\nManage an on-line career center - post resume/CV, create job alerts and search hundreds of jobs.\nThe Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science\nHarvard Medical School, MIT, and the FDA have partnered to engage researchers, physicians, and patient advocates from across academia, industry, and government institutions to improve the process of evaluation for new medical products. The Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science (CRS) brings stakeholders together to solve key issues within regulatory science by promoting research collaborations, educational opportunities, and furthering the discussion around effective ways to integrate innovations into the therapeutics development system. The ultimate aim is to accelerate the introduction of new therapeutics and reduce the economic burden of biomedical innovation.\nNIIMBL is a public-private partnership with the goal of advancing innovation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. NIIMBL is funded through a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and leverages additional support from industry, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and the states of Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The NIIMBL mission is to accelerate biopharmaceutical innovation, support the development of standards that enable more efficient and rapid manufacturing capabilities, and educate and train a world-leading biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce, fundamentally advancing U.S. competitiveness in this industry. NIIMBL is part of Manufacturing USA\u00ae, a network of 14 manufacturing institutes across the country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 6920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/High_place", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TT6Q6AME6GUO6QZMZBU6RRAK4DE7L2ZM", "length": 14050, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "web.newworldencyclopedia.org", "title": "High place - New World Encyclopedia", "raw_content": "Previous (High density lipoprotein)\nNext (High school)\nThe bamah (high place) of Megiddo\nA High Place, (Hebrew bamot or bamah) was a raised altar or hilltop shrine in ancient Israelite and Canaanite times described as existing from the patriarchs period through at least the sixth century B.C.E. and beyond. High places consisted of a stone or earthen altar, often accompanied by a stone or wooden pillar symbolizing the presence of a deity, and sometimes a sacred tree. High places near major settlements sometimes evolved into formal temples.\nAccording to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Israelite patriarchs and early prophets established altars and sacred pillars at high places, such as Bethel, Shechem, and Gilgal. Both prophets and Levite priests attended altars at these and other high places until at least the period of the ministry of the Elijah and Elisha. A movement against the use of high places developed as the Temple of Jerusalem emerged as a central sanctuary and the exclusive place of sacrifice to the Hebrew God.\nSome Israelite high places apparently combined the worship of the Hebrew God with Canaanite fertility rites, leading to increasingly harsh condemnations by prophetic and priestly writers. Scriptures such as the Book of Deuteronomy thus banned high places and the later prophets associated these local altars with idolatry, sexual immorality, and even human sacrifice.\nIn the late sixth century B.C.E., King Josiah of Judah initiated a religious reform that destroyed some of the high places and attempted to bring local Levite priests who served at these sites to Jerusalem. The Books of Kings characterizes rulers as righteous or evil, depending on their attitude first toward idolatry in general, and second toward the high places in particular. Eventually, the Jerusalem Temple, itself a highly institutionalized high place, would be the only authorized place of sacrifice in the Jewish tradition.\n1.1 Patriarchal times\n1.2 The high places of Israel\n1.3 Canaanite high places\n1.4 High places become banned\n3 In Christian tradition\nArchaeologists have found numerous raised areas in or near towns that were undoubtedly high places, some with religious artifacts such as altars, inscriptions, and images of deities. Although Israelite and Canaanite high places are now history, in the contemporary world, high places\u2014both institutional and personal\u2014are sought out by many people seeking spiritual insight and direct communication with God. Many have reported deep insights and profound life-changing experiences in such environs.\nJacob's dream at Bethel\nPatriarchal times\nFrom mankind's earliest times, mountains and hilltops were sacred places where humans stood suspended between the heavens and the earth. The earliest biblical descriptions of the sites later called \"high places\" are found in the Book of Genesis. Abraham first built an altar under the \"great tree of Moreh\" at Shechem and then moved on to Bethel, where he constructed a hilltop altar (Gen 12:6-8). Here, Jacob would later have his famous dream of \"Jacob's ladder\" (Gen. 28:18). Jacob himself also reportedly established both an altar and a sacred pillar at Bethel, which would eventually become a national shrine when the northern Kingdom of Israel seceded from the united kingdom established by David and Solomon.\nAbraham established another altar under \"the great trees of Mamre at Hebron.\" (Gen 13:18) Later, he would climb a mountain in the region of Moriah, where he built an altar upon which to sacrifice his son Isaac as a burnt offering to Yahweh. Traditionally, this is understood to be the same high place where the Temple of Jerusalem was eventually built (2 Chronicles 3:1).\nPrior to the coming of the patriarchs, high places may already have been used by the Canaanites, who, like the Hebrews, viewed mountaintops as having spiritual significance because of their presumed physical proximity to the home of the gods.\nThe high places of Israel\nHigh places would continue to play a major role in Israelite worship for centuries. Moses met God at the top of Mount Sinai (also called Horeb), and the prophet Elijah, several hundred years later, journeyed to the same mountain for his own encounter with the Almighty. At Gilgal, Joshua set up 12 stone pillars when the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into Canaan. It was here that Joshua re-confirmed the covenant of circumcision for Israelite men, and the site would later become one of the high places visited regularly by the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 7:16), as well as a place of idolatrous Canaanite worship (Judges 3:19).\nThe Book of Joshua describes a major high place altar that was established by the Israelite tribes who settled among the Ammonites and Moabites. Believing this shrine to be a threat to the centrality of the Tabernacle which housed the Ark of the Covenant, the other tribes nearly went to war with their brothers over this, until the transjordan Israelites promised not to offer sacrifices there but only to use it only as a \"witness.\" (Joshua 22)\nSamuel shared a sacrificial meal with the future king Saul at a high place in the district of Zuph, where Samuel apparently presided (I Sam. 9). Saul himself temporarily joined a band of prophets coming down from the high place at Gibeah with lyres, tambourines, flutes and harps. (1 Sam. 10). King Solomon, before building the Temple of Jerusalem, \"went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.\" (I Kings 3:4)\nBands of Israelite prophets attended various high places from the time of Samuel through period of the prophets Elijah and Elisha. Elijah even battled the prophets of Baal for control of the high place at Mount Carmel and to demonstrate Yahweh's superior power as a rain god.\nCanaanite high places\nHigh places were equally important in Canaanite and neighboring religions. When the prophet Balaam was hired by the Moabite king Balak to curse the Israelites who threatened his territory, Balak took Balaam to a succession of high places, where the prophet famously blessed Balak's enemies instead of cursing them. King Solomon later established idolatrous high places for his Moabite and Ammonite wives outside of Jerusalem, earning him, according to the author of the Books of Kings, Yahweh's rejection. The Moabite king Mesha boasted in the Moabite stone monument of seizing an Israelite shrine at Nebo (the legendary mountain where Moses died) and dedicating it to his own god, Chemosh/Kemosh.\nAnd Kemosh said to me, \"Go, take Nebo from Israel.\" And I went in the night and fought against it from the daybreak until midday, and I took it and I killed the whole population: seven thousand male subjects and aliens, and female subjects, aliens, and servant girls\u2026 And from there I took the vessels of Yahweh, and I presented them before the face of Kemosh.\nIn the biblical literature, the gods worshiped at non-Israelite high places included Baal, Chemosh, Molech, and Ashtoreth (Astarte/Ishtar). Ancient Canaanite literature indeed indicates that Baal was associated with mountains, being a god of the skies and storms. The prophet Jeremiah indicates that Molech worship was practiced by Israelites in his time, and he accuses them of engaging in human sacrifice to this deity, who may be identified with Baal. \"They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech.\" (Jeremiah 32:35) Astarte was a consort of Baal, as was her warlike counterpart Anat. Prophetic accusations of Israelite sexual corruption associated with the high places are often linked to these deities. (Note also the idea of \"high places\" in a valley, indicating that the term could also relate to raised altars at low elevations, as well as to hilltop shrines.)\nHigh places become banned\nPetra may once have been the site of an Edomite high place.\nThe Levite priesthood gradually replaced the prophetic bands as officiators at the high places scattered throughout Israel and Judah. These local priests competed with the central sanctuary at Jerusalem for the benefits associated with their sacrificial office. The Book of Deuteronomy, however, stipulates that God would name only one place where sacrifice was authorized, implying that this would be the Temple of Jerusalem itself. Under King Josiah (late seventh century B.C.E.), Levites were encouraged, perhaps forced, to move to Jerusalem, where they would be accepted into a second-tier priesthood under the priests descended from Aaron. Josiah destroyed many of the high places and slaughtered those priests who sacrificed to gods other than Yahweh (2 Kings 22-23). The Book of Kings mentions that Josiah even dared to destroy the ancient altar and high place at Bethel, just a few miles north of Jerusalem, to which northern pilgrims were likely to go.\n800 steps lead up to the monastery at Petra.\nAlthough other high places survived, Jerusalem would henceforth be the only high place of the Jewish tradition. The high place at Mount Gerizim, near Shechem, would emerge as the central shrine of the northern worshipers of Yahweh, who became known as Samaritans. Gerizim was the site of a major temple for several centuries and is still a sacred place among the small Samaritan community in Israel and Palestine today. Meanwhile, Moabite, Ammonite, and Edomite high places continued as places of worship well into the Christian era. A probable former Edomite high place at Petra in modern Jordan later became the site of a Christian monastery carved into stone atop a mountain. Petra has been named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\nFrom the Old Testament and from archaeological remains, a good idea may be formed of the appearance of high places. They were typically on a hill above a town (1 Samuel 9:12-14). There was often a sacred pillar (matzevah), or a wooden pole (asherim), which marked the place as sacred and might itself be an object of worship. Of particular importance was the altar, either of stone or earthen bricks, on which offerings were burnt. A cistern for water might also be in evidence, as well as low stone tables for dressing the victims. Large sites included a hall for the sacrificial feasts.\nThe religion of the ancient Israelites and Canaanites centered on these places. At festival seasons or to fulfill a vow, a person or family might journey to more famous sanctuaries, but ordinary offerings which linked everyday life to religion were made at the local high place. The building of royal temples in Jerusalem or Samaria initially made no change in this respect; they simply took their place beside the older sanctuaries, such as Bethel, Shiloh, Dan, Gilgal, Beersheba, etc.\nHowever, this began to change when the religious reformers of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E. assailed the popular religion as corrupt and licentious. The prophet Jeremiah, for example, declared:\nLong ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds;\nYou said, 'I will not serve you!'\nIndeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree\nThe fundamental law expressed in Deuteronomy 12:1-32 prohibits sacrifice at every place except the Temple of Jerusalem. It was in accordance with this law that Josiah, around 620 B.C.E., destroyed and desecrated the high places throughout his kingdom (2 Kings 22-23), where Yahweh had been worshiped from time immemorial.\nWhile the earlier prophets up to Elijah had themselves sacrificed at high places even after the establishment of the Temple of Jerusalem, for the later prophets, the word bamot (high place) connotes a place of idolatrous worship. Even the most pious kings of Judah are censured for tolerating their existence. Following the death of Josiah (c. 608 B.C.E.) the old altars of Yahweh were restored; they survived the destruction of the Temple in 586, and it is probable that after its restoration (520-516) they only slowly disappeared.\nIn fact, the Deuteronomic dogma that sacrifice can be offered to Yahweh only at Jerusalem was never fully established either in fact or in Jewish legal tradition. The Jewish military colonists in Elephantine in the fifth century B.C.E. had their altar of Yahweh beside the highway, and the Jews in Egypt in the Ptolemaic period had, besides many local sanctuaries, one greater temple at Leontopolis, with an official sacrificial priesthood, the legitimacy of whose worship is admitted even by the Palestinian rabbis of the early Talmudic period.\nIn the Eastern Orthodox Church the High Place is also the name for the location of the episcopal throne, set in the center of the back of the apse of a temple's sanctuary. In larger temples there may be a literal elevation. It is surrounded on both sides by the synthronos, a set of other seats or benches for the use of the priests. Every Orthodox temple has such a High Place even if it is not a cathedral.\nThe tradition of establishing crosses on mountaintops may also be seen as hearkening back to the ancient tradition of the high place.\nAbright, William F. The Archeology of Palestine. Magnolia, MA: Peter Smith Pub. Inc; 2nd edition, 1985. ISBN 0844600032\nDever, William G., Did God Have A Wife? Archeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN 0802828523\nFinkelstein, Israel. The Bible Unearthed: Archeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Free Press, 2002. ISBN 0684869128\nKlawans, Jonathan. Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0195162639\nMazar, Amihai. Archeology of the Land of the Bible-10,000-586 B.C.E. Doubleday, 1990. ISBN 038523970X\nMiller, J. Maxwell. A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1986. ISBN 066421262X\nThe High Place of Sacrifice. www.raingod.com.\nHigh place history\nHistory of \"High place\"\nRetrieved from http://web.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=High_place&oldid=1017980", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 15840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://web1n2.com/web-2/web-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3F2GC2SNNNBN6SS5YWOZRSLANFB3P4LW", "length": 253, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "web1n2.com", "title": "Web Resources | Web 1 N 2", "raw_content": "When I have a web design problem and I need an answer fast the first thing I do is turn to the internet. 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Additionally, students undertake coursework in African American literature and non-African American literature. MFA candidates also present an MFA thesis (minimum 30 poems or 5 short stories [at least 100 pages] or 150 pages of a novel or creative non-fiction), successfully complete a comprehensive examination in African American literature, and a public literary reading/performance of their original work (manuscript). Essentially, the thesis constitutes a volume of poetry, a short story collection or a novel which students may publish after graduation. Students will show competency in the genre of their choice, choosing from the following categories: fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. Students may take course work in playwriting and scriptwriting for film and television as electives.\nThe Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a terminal degree and the appropriate credential for the teaching of creative writing. According to the Associated Writing Programs, the MFA in creative writing is considered the equivalent of the Ph.D. in literature, linguistics, or composition. Holders of the degree from Chicago State University will not only be able to teach courses in creative writing, but courses in African American literature, African literature, Third World literature, as well as non-Black literature. The MFA degree focuses on the study of writing through the practice, performance, and publication of original work.\nThroughout the academic year, writers of prestige and established literary reputation serve as visiting writers at CSU. MFA students have an opportunity to participate in writing workshops or seminars conducted by established poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and scriptwriters. Visiting Writers include Martin Espada, Honree Fannon Jeffers, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Roger Bonair-Agard, Crystal Wilkinson, Kevin Coval, Frank Walker, Achy Obejas, and Sterling Plumpp.\nFor admission to the program, prospective MFA students must meet the general requirements of the graduate school, hold a baccalaureate degree in the arts and sciences from an accredited college or university, and have a GPA of 3.0 or better (on a 4.00 scale). Applicants are expected to have completed a general education program that includes courses in the natural and biological sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and humanities. Applicants who do not have an undergraduate major in English may be admitted on the condition that they make up deficiencies in course work.\nProspective students are required to submit the following two-part application:\nPart One: Application forms from the Graduate Studies Office, official transcripts, three letters of recommendation, GRE general test scores, and a personal essay describing the nature of their writing and their writing process. Part Two: a portfolio of creative work: for poets, 20 pages of poetry; for fiction and creative non-fiction writers, 40 pages of prose. The portfolio is the most essential part of the application. Every manuscript is read by the MFA faculty committee.\n9501 South King Drive, LIB338\nFulfillment of the general requirements for admission to the graduate program.\nCompletion of a minimum of eighteen semester hours of undergraduate work in English and the baccalaureate degree, with an acceptable grade point average.\nCompletion of at least thirty-six credit hours of graduate level course work, exclusive of teaching methods courses, with grades averaging B (3.0) or above.\nSuccessful completion of the:\n1) Thesis\n2) Comprehensive exam in African American or non-African American literature\n3) Oral presentation\nCompletion of thirty-six semester hours of graduate work in English selected with the approval of the MFA advisor. 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Founded in 1990, The Gwendolyn Brooks Center is a literary and cultural center invested in researching, teaching, and disseminating information about acclaimed Black writers, especially the life and works of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), former Poet Laureate of Illinois and Distinguished Professor of English at CSU. The goal of the Brooks Center is to strengthen the humanities in general and promote the study of Black writers to a local, national, and international community of students, faculty, and the general public. The Center's broad selection of culturally insightful and academically stimulating programs include the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writer's Conference, Black History Month Video and Film Festival, and Women's HIstory Month Lecture and Workshop Series, and The Conjure Woman Writing Writing Workshops. The Center publishes a bi-annual literary journal, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, featuring the works of renowned, emerging, and new writers.\nMFA graduates have books in print with Simon and Schuster, Main Street Rag, Third World Press, Urban Books and Willow Press, and have received the following awards, fellowships and prizes: Fulbright and Cave Canem fellowships, Transitions Abroad Narrative Writing Contest, Elixir Poetry Prize finalist, The Guild Complex Nonfiction Award finalist, and The Essence Magazine bestseller list. Their work has appeared in national juried literary journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Reverie, Caylx and Sage Publications. Since the first graduating class in 2003, six students have gone to Ph.D. programs. Half have received their doctorate degrees in English/Creative Writing and three are ABD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Milwaukee, The University of Illinois, Chicago, and the State University of New York, Albany and Binghamton. Finally, our graduates hold tenure-track teaching positions/administrative appointments at Wiley College, University of New Haven, The New School in New York, the City Colleges of Chicago, Purdue University, Lane College, DePaul University, and Columbia College, Chicago.\nMFA Faculty(and recent publications):\nKelly Norman Ellis, Director\nTougaloo Blues,\nSpaces Between Us: Poetry Prose and Art on HIV/AID co-editor, M.L. Hunter,\nOfferings of Desire\nBrenda E. 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William Mitchell Ball had not yet joined the church. (about 1863-64)\nHistory of William Mitchell Ball\nWritten by Elva Tall Kinghorn\nWilliam Mitchell Ball, son of Richard and Hannah Mitchell Ball, was born 10 May 1832 at Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England. He was the seventh child in a family of eight children. Little is know of his boyhood. He married Elizabeth England 1 April 1855. Nector Norton performed the ceremony. He was the father of five children, Hannah, Alfred, Arthur Richard, Matilda, and Heber Orson Ball.\nHis wife, Elizabeth, was not strong, but with some assistance from her mother she took good care of her family and was never idle. Her fingers were busy making quilts, lace edging, and fancy articles which she sold. She heard the Gospel and accepted it and was baptized.\nGrandfather William Mitchell Ball did not accept the Gospel, but her gave her his consent to take her family to America to Utah. When word reached him of her death (24 Feb 1871) he sailed for America to find his children. When he found them, they were each located in good homes with good people, and he realized they would be given care and opportunities. Undecided what best to do and filled with grief, her returned to England where he stayed a year. Then he decided to return to Salt Lake City. He joined the Church and was baptized by John Sears of Salt Lake City on 13 October 1871 and confirmed by the same man. He received his endowments 25 March 1872 in the Salt Lake Temple.\nHe was a very polished gentleman having a pleasing personality, and he was very immaculate and proud of his appearance. His eyes were deep blue and his hair gray for many years. He wore a silky, shiny mustache and goatee.\nHe was married several times, but not in polygamy. He married Ann Alice Long, a Mrs. Fanny Machin Merrill by whom he had a son who died I infancy. He and this wife separated. He married a Mrs. Flowers who had money. She was very good to him, and he had a good home with her. When she died, Uncle Alfred, Matilda, and Uncle Heber went to the funeral. I accompanied my mother and remember after the funeral that Grandfather, Matilda, Alfred, and Heber were at the home and that Grandfather decided to come to Idaho to make his home with his children. He chose Alfred to be the administrator, and he chose to make his home with him.\nI remember at this time he gave Mother (Matilda) a cook range known as \"Miller\". It was a left hand stove--the fire box being on the right side and the oven on the left. It didn\u0092t have a reservoir, but a large copper tank sat on the back of it. This was like the large tanks used in making coffee in the eating houses of that day and in this water was always kept hot for dish washing, etc. This stove lasted many years and was taken into the Rigby home when Matilda moved from the farm.\nGrandfather had an east room in the log house of Uncle Alfred and Aunt Mary Ann when they lived in Grant vicinity, Lewisville Ward. Grandfather had his meals at the table with the family. His daughter, Matilda, and granddaughter, Coral Tall, did his weekly laundry for him. He was of nervous temperament and had a delicate stomach which gave him distress, and he took soda and water for relief.\nIn his early days while residing in Salt Lake City, he engaged in freighting and taxi service. When he came to Idaho he always had a fine horse and buggy. He was very proud and his buggy was washed and polished and his horse well fed and groomed. Sometimes he drove in his buggy, sometimes he rode in his saddle. Many times he took Aunt Mary Ann on long journeys traveling around the Rigby Stake visiting primaries for Aunt Mary Ann was Stake Primary President.\nWhen he came to Idaho he told that he had been a pony express rider. Aunt Mary Ann and some of his family doubted the story because of dates of events, but Uncle Heber when asked what he thought would smile and say, \"I really don\u0092t know;\" but he never offended his father by denying it. Often his picture would be taken at Old Folks\u0092 celebrations in Rigby, and it with a write-up would appear in the paper. One clipping I have in my possession is a picture of he and a friend wearing their old folk badges.\nThe article reads as follows:\nCouple of Boys of Former Days. We herewith present an excellent picture of a couple of our citizens, E. L. Probart (Edward Leroy Probart?) and William Ball. Both attended the Old Folks picnic at Menan and took pleasure in recounting scenes of early days here in the West. Mr. Probart was a stage driver out of Salt Lake, while Mr. Ball was a pony express rider. Both had many escapes from Indians and highway robbers.\"\nMany listeners were convicted these stories were true, but when Aunt Mary Ann saw these articles in the paper she would scold and scold Grandfather; but he believed his own story and never did deny it. He has an U.S. Money bag in his possession and he gave it to his friend, Robert Gilcrist who believed his story. And at his funeral Robert Gilchrist was a speaker. He showed the U.S. money bag and said Grandfather had been a Pony Express Rider and that because of their friendship he had given this bag to him. Again members of the family were embarrassed and doubted the tale.\nOne day when riding his horse, he came up on the west side of our farm from Uncle Alfred\u0092s and my Father, John Tall, was plowing with a team of horses and a hand plow. Perhaps the furrows were not very straight. Anyway, when Father came to the end of the field near the road, Grandfather tied his horse to a post and said, \"I\u0092ll start you a straight furrow in that next land and teach you how to turn the following furrows. This he did which indicates that at perhaps some earlier time in his life in England he had farmed. Grandfather never engaged in physical work when he came to Idaho. He spent his time riding, visiting, and doing errands.\nOne day he met in Rigby Mrs. Fannie Merrill (Carr), his former wife from whom he had separated. She was living with her daughter, Mr. Barrows, in a home near the Utah-Idaho Sugar factory in Rigby. He courted her again, and they wanted to remarry. When he told Aunt Mary Ann she said, \"No, No, No.\" When he asked Uncle Heber what he thought about it, he said \"Well, Father, you are of legal age--do what you want to do.\"\nWell he didn\u0092t. When Alfred and Mary Ann left their farm and came to Lewisville to live, he came too and had a one-room frame house near the home located where A. Vernon Ball now lives.\nI remember two compliments Grandfather gave me when he was visiting in our home. I was a young girl and prepared to wash the dishes after a meal he had had with us. I cleared the table, putting remaining food, etc. in the pantry. Then I shook the table cloth having stacked the dishes to be washed. I raised the lid off the coffee tank and with a quart cup carried water from stove to dishpan on the table putting the lid of the tank under the quart cup so as not to have drops of water fall to the floor. For being particular he complemented me.\nAnother time when I had picked a fallen article from the floor and put it in place he took time to tell me this story; \"A young man was in love with two sisters. He couldn\u0092t decide which one to ask to be his wife. One day while at their home some company drove up in a buggy. Both girls were eager to see and welcome them and ran from the house to the gate. The first girl brushed too close to a standing broom which fell at her feet. She quickly stepped over and on she went. The second girl stopped picked up the broom, put it in place, and then hurried out to welcome the guests. \"Now,\" said Grandfather, \"Which girl do you think the young man asked to marry him?\"\nHis Granddaughter, Cora, was always very good to him, inviting him to her home where she cooked calves\u0092 brains for him because he liked the dish and other members of the family didn\u0092t especially care to cook it.\nAunt Mary Ann was very good to him. She was an excellent cook and served good meals. His daughter, Mathilda, would cater to him when he came visiting and make Yorkshire pudding.\nWe are grateful for his good life--that he came to America, joined the Church and lived to be near and associate with all his children.\nIn this later years when sickness came he had the Elders administer to him and he said, \"I have not lost the faith.\" Matilda, his daughter, spent the last days of his sickness at Alfred\u0092s home where she could assist in his care. He died in his room at Lewisville, Idaho at 9:00 p.m. on 23 Aug 1916.\nWilliam Mitchell Ball was sealed to his first wife, Elizabeth England by Proxies Alfred Ball and Matilda Ball Tall, his son and daughter.\n(Elisabeth England)\nPlace: Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.\nPlace: Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho\nBaptized: October 13,1871\nArrived in Salt Lake City by steam in 1871. He was 39 years of age.\n1. Hannah Ball 5 October 1855 Brightside, Yorkshire, England\n2. Alfred Ball* 23 November 1856 Brightside, Yorkshire, England\n3. Richard Arthur Ball 25 January 1859 Brightside, Yorkshire, England\n4. Matilda Ball 4 January 1863 Brightside, Yorkshire, England\n5. Heber Orson Ball 4 November 1865 Brightside, Yorkshire, England\nOther Wives (not in Polygamy)\nAnn Alice Long\nMrs. Fanny Machin Merrill (had a son who died in infancy)\nMrs. Flowers\n(History written by Elva Tall Kinghorn)\nWilliam Mitchell Ball, son of Richard and Hannah Mitchell Ball, was born 10 May 1832 at Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England. He was the seventh child in a family of eight children. Little is known of his boyhood. He married Elisabeth England on 1 April 1855. Nector Norton performed the ceremony. He was the father of five children, Hannah, Alfred, Arthur Richard, Matilda, and Heber Orson Ball.\nGrandfather William Mitchell Ball did not accept the Gospel, but he gave her his consent to take her family to America to Utah. When word reached him of her death he sailed for America to find his children. When he found them, they were each located in good homes with good people, and he realized they would be given care and opportunities. Undecided what best to do and filled with grief, he returned to England where he stayed a year. Then he decided to return to Salt Lake City. He joined the church and was baptized by John Sears of Salt Lake City on 13 October 1871 and confirmed by the same man. He received his endowments 25 March 1872 in the Salt Lake Temple.\nHe was a very polished gentleman having a pleasing personality, and he was very immaculate and proud of his appearance. His eyes were deep blue and his hair gray for many years. He wore a silky, shiny mustache and goatee. He was married several times, but not in polygamy. He married Ann Alice Long, a Mrs. Fanny Machin Merrill by whom he had a son who died in infancy. He and this wife separated. He married a Mrs. Flowers who had money. She was very good to him, and he had a good home with her. When she died, Uncle Alfred, Matilda, and Uncle Heber went to the funeral. I accompanied my mother and remember after the funeral that Grandfather, Matilda, Alfred, and Heber were at the home and that Grandfather decided to come to Idaho to make his home with his children. He chose Alfred to be the administrator, and he chose to make his home with him. I remember at this time he gave Mother (Matilda) a cook range known as \"Miller\". It was a left hand stove--the fire box being on the right side and the oven on the left. It didn't have a reservoir, but a large copper tank sat on the back of it. This was like the large tanks used in making coffee in the eating houses of that day and in this water was always kept hot for dish washing, etc. This stove lasted many years and was taken into the Rigby home when Matilda moved from the farm.\nWhen he came to Idaho he told that he had been a pony express rider. Aunt Mary Ann and some of his family doubted the story because of dates of events, but Uncle Heber when asked what he thought would smile and say, \"I really don't know;\" but he never offended his father by denying it. Often his picture would be taken at Old Folks' celebrations in Rigby, and it with a write-up would appear in the paper. One clipping I have in my possession is a picture of he and a friend wearing their old folk badges. The article reads as follows: \"Couple of Boys of Former Days. We herewith present an excellent picture of a couple of our citizens, E. L. Probart and William Ball. Both attended the Old Folks picnic at Menan and took pleasure in recounting scenes of early days here in the West. Mr. Probart was a stage driver out of Salt Lake, while Mr. Ball was a pony express rider. Both had many escapes from Indians and highway robbers.\"\nOne day when riding his horse, he came up on the west side of our farm from Uncle Alfred's and my Father, John Tall, was plowing with a team of horses and a hand plow. Perhaps the furrows were not very straight. Anyway, when Father came to the end of the field near the road, grandfather tied his horse to a post and said, \"I'll start you a straight furrow in that next land and teach you how to turn the following furrows. This he did which indicates that at perhaps some earlier time in his life in England he had farmed. Grandfather never engaged in physical work when he came to Idaho. He spent his time riding, visiting, and doing errands.\nWell he didn't. When Alfred and Mary Ann left their farm and came to Lewisville to live, he came too and had a one-room frame house near the home located where A. Vernon Ball now lives.\nAnother time when I had picked a fallen article from the floor and put it in place he took time to tell me this story; \"A young man was in love with two sisters. He couldn't decide which one to ask to be his wife. One day while at their home some company drove up in a buggy. Both girls were eager to see and welcome them and ran from the house to the gate. The first girl brushed too close to a standing broom which fell at her feet. She quickly stepped over and on she went. The second girl stopped picked up the broom, put it in place, and then hurried out to welcome the guests. \"Now,\" said Grandfather, \"Which girl do you think the young man asked to marry him?\"\nHis Granddaughter, Cora, was always very good to him, inviting him to her home where she cooked calves' brains for him because he liked the dish and other members of the family didn't especially care to cook it.\nIn this later years when sickness came he had the Elders administer to him and he said, \"I have not lost the faith.\" Matilda, his daughter, spent the last days of his sickness at Alfred's home where she could assist in his care. 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It is open 5 days a week during school term time. Please visit our Facebook page for the latest news. You can contact our manager, Jo, on 01256 359431", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 121.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wisconsingenealogy.net/racine/t-driver-manufacturing.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:KIGCN6LAO3T37AFE2CPZTAQPTI4BGXLJ", "length": 2331, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wisconsingenealogy.net", "title": "T. Driver & Sons Manufacturing Company", "raw_content": "The History of T. Driver & Sons Manufacturing Company\nT. Driver & Sons Manufacturing Company is one of the old established industrial enterprises of Racine, business having been begun in 1867 by Thomas Driver, as a sash and door manufacturer. At that time he bought out Lucas Bradley, who had established the business in the '40s and who was then located at Sixth and. Campbell streets. When Mr. Driver took charge he used every energy toward the further development of the trade and success was crowning his undertakings when, on the 17th of January. 1870, his plant was destroyed by fire. Although he suffered considerable loss, he met the situation courageously and rebuilt his mill at No. 212 East Second, now State Street. The plant consists of two buildings; one seventy by seventy feet and three stories in height; the other one hundred by one hundred and thirty feet and two stories in height. For the second time the company sneered a disastrous loss through fire, when the plant burned in 1896. but again it was rebuilt. After purchasing the business from Lucas Bradley, Thomas Driver had continued alone for a few years, but in 1875 was joined by his son, at which time the business was reorganized under the firm name of Thomas Driver & Son. Still later a further reorganization occurred and the firm name of Thomas Driver & Sons Manufacturing Company was assumed, for at that time not only John was his partner, but three other sons, Andrew, Charlie and Sinclair M. Driver were taken into the company. The business was incorporated in 1884. The father continued at the head of the undertaking until his death, at which time J. C. Driver was made president with John M. Driver as secretary and treasurer and Sinclair M. Driver, superintendent. There was no further change among the officers until June, 1915, when Sinclair M. Driver bought out the interests of his brothers, and is now president of the company, with Clara Driver as secretary and treasurer. They manufacture a full line of sash, doors, stairs, cupboards and in fact many things in woodenware and employ on an average of from fifty to sixty men. The work done is of excellent character and the product finds a ready sale on the market, while the reputation of the house for commercial integrity as well as enterprise has always been an unassailable one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 3043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wisecrackers.biz/Comics_Pages/patty_rosborough.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KB5GIXZ5IE6NPIA6N5M3GZOKUZFEY5AF", "length": 555, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wisecrackers.biz", "title": "Patty Rosborough", "raw_content": "Patty is a top New York City comedian with a long list of credits including headlining at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the BBC's \"The World Stands Up\", VH1, Showtime, and co-hosting Comedy Central's \"Short Attention Span Theater\" with Jon Stewart. She is the winner of the Bud Light Ladies of Laughter Comedy Competition and is currently touring theaters with the comedy show, Four Sides of 40. You can follow her breathless, frenetic, and shamelessly uninhibited performances through every major club throughout the country.\nPattyRosborough.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 187.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wmrc.org/events/2015-valley-of-the-sun-stage-race/john-nelson-earley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AWOYOIKU7FYO7B3SAUKKJ4AV3KYPQDNJ", "length": 1937, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "wmrc.org", "title": "John Nelson Earley \u2013 White Mountain Road Club", "raw_content": "Home Events 2015 Valley of the Sun Stage Race John Nelson Earley\nIn loving memory of John Nelson Earley\nThe White Mountain Road Club is very proud of the Valley of the Sun Stage Race that was renamed in 1994 in memory of John Earley. John Earley was one of our founding members who passed away in 1994. The stage race, which was first promoted in 1992, has been a big success. It is heavily attended by national and international teams such as United States Postal Service, Saturn, Health Net, and Canadian and United States National Teams. The race offers all categories and attracts almost eight hundred racers and thousands of spectators.\nJohn Nelson Earley was born in San Francisco, California, and raised an only child in Palo Alto, California. After graduating from high school he attended Menlo Park Jr. College for a year. He then packed up his Chevy and headed for Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. John graduated from ASU with a degree in history. Realizing this wasn\u2019t going to help him get a job, he returned to ASU and took some accounting courses. He then took the CPA exam and passed it at his first attempt.\nBy age 33, John was pursuing his career with Fortune 500 accounting firms. He decided he needed an outlet, especially with a wife and three girls at home. He found that outlet in cycling and became obsessed!\nThe first team John raced for was Apollinaris Cycling Club of Tempe. In 1981 John and three of his friends rode for the Marina Del Ray Cycling Club from California. Then in 1982 John and his three friends organized the White Mountain Road Club (WMRC) in Tempe with Dick Landis of Landis Cyclery as the primary sponsor.\nJohn continued his support of WMRC until just before his death. He died unexpectedly of a heart condition while on a business trip to Texas.\nJohn is survived by his wife Ronnie, three daughters Jennifer, Joanne and Anjie and a son John Leo. The family lives in Arizona.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 172.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://womenshealthsection.com/content/print.php3?title=gynmh009&cat=54&lng=english", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:GP32M4MDXFVH46J6VSRNFYJCTZJUUOYI", "length": 17506, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "womenshealthsection.com", "title": "Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC) - Psychological Impact of Infertility", "raw_content": "The psychological stress of infertility and its managements is widely acknowledged; and it actually affects pregnancy rates. The relationship between stress and infertility has been recognized since biblical times. Recent research indicates that distress may indeed influence the outcome of infertility treatments, and that psychological interventions are associated with increased pregnancy rates. Most of the women undergoing infertility treatment have some type of mental health problem, mostly anxiety and depression. Some studies show the least distressed women during in-vitro fertilization (IVF) egg retrieval are nearly twice likely to become pregnant and give birth than women who were distressed. Not becoming pregnant when you want to, coping with a diagnosis of infertility, and undergoing fertility treatments is stressful. Obtaining the support and resources to cope with this difficult situation can help you feel better and may even improve the chance of success.\nThe purpose of this document is to understand infertility and the mind/body connection. Infertility affects every aspect of women's lives. With infertility treatment, some women become pregnant after one or two tries, but others need many attempts before they are successful. A few never be able to become pregnant or have live and healthy baby. This chapter reviews the psychological impacts of infertility and helps to guide the various coping mechanism. Many institutions have developed mind/body program for infertility, and helps many to reduce the distress of coping with infertility. Although attending the sessions is no guarantee of pregnancy, women who have participated generally feel better.\nUnderstanding Psychological Impact:\nIt is not surprising that infertility patients experience psychological symptoms after unsuccessful treatment; it is troubling that the majority of patients also report such symptoms prior to treatment. If psychological distress can interfere with the success of treatment and most patients are affected, then the impact of distress can not be overestimated. Women who experience infertility report increased levels of distress, as this condition has an impact on virtually every aspect of their lives; i.e., partner relationships, sex life, employment, relationships with fertile family members and friends, financial stability and even religious beliefs. In addition, many infertile women are blamed by others for their condition. A proliferation in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has dramatically increased the number of diagnostic and therapeutic options available to patient and her partner. Healthcare costs also have increased as a byproduct of this technologic expansion. Thus, not only the physician but also the patient may face the daunting task of selecting from among myriad highly technologic and expensive healthcare choices.\nThe maternal-fetal relationship is unique in medicine because of the complete physiologic dependence of the fetus on the pregnant woman and because both the fetus and the woman are regarded as patients of the physician. The level of distress in infertility patients tends to increase as treatment intensifies, so it is possible that the 40% or higher patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) will have anxiety or depression (1). Because IVF is the most invasive and intensive form of infertility treatment, patient distress is extremely common. In fact, most IVF patients report that treatment is more of psychological than a physical stressor. Many IVF patients report depressive symptoms prior to initiation, which likely reflects the impact of prior unsuccessful forms of treatment. The \"gold standard\" in psychological evaluation is a structured personal interview with a trained mental health professional.\nPsychological difficulties of infertile patients are complex and influenced by a number of factors, such as gender differences, causes and length of infertility, specific stage of investigation and treatment procedures at which couples are studied, or the coping strategies used to deal with their infertility problem. Moreover, a recent study revealed significantly higher levels of anxiety in mother who had conceived by IVF about the survival and normality of their newborn babies, about damage to their babies during childbirth and about separation from their babies after birth as compared with matched control. The most commonly investigated psychological problems at the time of infertility treatment procedures, especially at the time of retrieval and embryo transfer during IVF are anxiety and depression (2). The overall percentage of psychological problems in infertile couples ranges between 25-60%. Different factors including approach-coping strategies and stable emotional, marital and psychological relationships at the time of embarking upon IVF have been shown to play an important role in predicting adjustment to infertility and patient satisfaction with fertility treatment. On the other hand, psychological counseling and supportive psychotherapy have been very effective in reducing high levels of anxiety in couples undergoing different treatment procedures.\nThe degree to which psychogenic or lifestyle factors play a role in infertility is controversial. Couples should not be told their infertility is related to stress unless there is documented evidence of sperm dysfunction, ovulatory dysfunction, or sexual dysfunction. However, because lifestyle variables, such as tobacco exposure, alcohol consumption, drug use, excessive exercise, weight loss or gain and psychogenic stress, can compromise reproduction, it is worth reviewing lifestyle factors with the couple and informing them of the potential adverse consequences of these factors in a supportive manner.\nDistress and Outcome:\nSince a link has been suggested between anxiety-depression dynamics involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (e.g., anxiety-induced hyperprolactinemia) and failure to conceive, psychological interventions aimed at reducing anxiety might increase the likelihood of conception. Psychological services in an infertility clinic help to identify at an early stage those individuals who are more likely to be vulnerable. This would enable psychological interventions to be targeted towards those in greater need. A higher prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among patients could be expected. Various studies on stress and IVF identify the theory that distress adversely affects pregnancy rates. The studies found a statistically significant relationship between distress and IVF outcome suggest, baseline depression is associated with lower pregnancy rate, marital harmony is predictive of fertilization, stress led to higher T cell activation and anxiety on day of retrieval has significant predictor of failure of implantation (3) (4). These results indicate that the baseline level of stress is significantly related to numerous biologic end-points, including number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized, pregnancy, live-birth rate, and birth weight. The stress level on the day of the procedure is significantly related to the number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized and the strength of the correlation between distress and outcome is profound. In these studies it is noted that the women who expressed the least distress were 93% more likely to give birth than those who expressed the most distress and counseling, support, and education to decrease stress levels during baseline period is strongly recommended.\nA patient's psychological state prior to treatment may predict dropout behavior. Because infertility patients are highly motivated, factors affecting the voluntary dropout rate (other than cost) have been under-explored until recently. It is widely presumed that patients discontinue therapy either because the physician instructs them to do so, or because they have exhausted their funds. However, active censoring by the physician or medical team is rare. Research also suggests that cost is not the determinant of many IVF patients. The most common reasons (66%) for terminating treatment are emotional. Pretreatment levels of depression are highly predictive of patient dropout behavior after only one cycle. Thus, the majority of insurance-covered patients voluntarily terminate prior to completing the allotted cycles. Not only are anxious and depressed patients more likely to discontinue treatment after only one cycle, but patients who prematurely terminate treatment cite psychological burden as the primary reason. Prematurely discontinuing treatment severely limits a couple's chance of conception. While the potential impact of psychological intervention on treatment termination decisions is unknown, it is plausible to assume that patients who receive support services have lower discontinuation rates.\nPatients undergoing ovulation induction with medications, especially with injectable gonadotropins should be informed about possible risks and benefits before receiving any medication. The risks of multiple-gestation, ovarian hyperstimulation, genetic defects, incidence of miscarriage and premature delivery are real. Before beginning ovulation induction patient and her partner should be counseled about the option of multifetal reduction to increase likelihood of delivering viable infants if a high-order multiple conception does occur. Diagnostic uncertainty and a seemingly endless array of treatment approaches can easily provoke tension, indecision, and disagreement in the couple with infertility. A sense of psychological and physical invasion is common. Infertile men and women may feel angry, damaged or guilty. The potential for husbands and wives to respond differently to the experience of infertility and its treatments, particularly any of the assisted reproductive technologies, can overwhelm customary adaptation patterns and lead to psychological decompensation.\nAlmost all patients who undergo infertility treatment experience a loss of privacy as they cope with physicians, nurses, insurance carriers, psychologists, hospitals, and laboratory personnel. Ultimately, infertility presents the specter of a psychological death. Thus, it is not surprising that patients with infertility report anguish and distress. Reproductive technologies have made it possible to separate biological and social parenthood. A further concern of infertile couples is whether assisted reproductive techniques increase the risk of neurodevelopmental or other abnormalities, including childhood cancers. The uncertainty as to whether there is a link between infertility treatments and poor health outcomes in the mother or child only serves to exacerbate anxiety and guilt. Infertility is a far more devastating disorder than most lay persons and physicians realize.\nMind/ Body Intervention:\nA typical psychological profile for infertile couples can not identify using standard psychometric rating methods. For some couples, the infertility crisis can be seen as a cumulative trauma, which indicates that couples have a marked need for infertility counseling. The impact of infertility on psychological functions is a complex matter influenced by a number of variables, such as the investigative procedures involved, the duration of infertility, the diagnosis which is made, or the quality of the couple's relationship. Psychogenic variables can interfere with coital frequency and reduce the likelihood of conception and can suppress the central hypothalamic-pituitary drive to the gonad and compromise the quality and quantity of gametes produced. Treatments of infertility are expensive and consume much time and energy.\nIdeally, psychological support services should be available for all individuals and couples undergoing active evaluation and intervention for infertility. Since 1987, mind/body infertility programs have been established throughout the United States and in other countries (5). They generally include training in relaxation, stress management, and coping skills, plus group support. Programs range from 5 to 10 sessions, and most include partners. Sessions are led by mental health professionals, nurses, or both. Participants report significant decrease in all assessed psychological and physical symptoms, including depression, anxiety, hostility, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, and abdominal pain. Approximately 45% of patients conceive within 6 months of program completion. In many studies significant differences in birth rates; 55% in the mind/body group, 54% in the support group, and 20% in the control group, has been reported. There are also significant differences in psychological status, with the mind/body patients reporting improvement, the support group reporting no change, and the control group reporting an increase in psychological symptoms.\nThe mechanism whereby such interventions increase pregnancy rates is unknown. However, in a randomized, prospective study that assessed natural killer cell activity in group of 74 infertile women, 50% were randomized to a five-session mind/body group and 50% served as routine care controls. Psychological distress and natural killer cell activity decreased significantly in the intervention group, while the control group had no change. In addition, 38% of the intervention subjects conceived during the 1-year follow-up (P< .03) compared with only 13.5% of the controls (6).\nDysfunctional attitudes and disharmony constantly threaten the infertile person. Prophylactic evaluation is preferred in all treatment settings, but specialized services may not always be immediately available. Stress can compromise gametogenesis and libido, and infertility treatment alone can be stressful enough to activate the central mechanisms that compromise reproductive function. Psychological support is intended to lessen the likelihood of this effect and reverse it if it is already occurring.\nPerhaps it is time to consider psychologically screening all prospective infertility patients. Infertile women report elevated levels of distress, which may in turn contribute to their infertility. If a patient is found to be psychologically healthy, she could undergo therapy knowing that her psychological state should have little or no impact on the outcome. Highly distressed patients have lower pregnancy rates, and are more likely to terminate treatment. However, a patient who is determined to be highly distressed could be counseled that receiving support services is likely to facilitate treatment, and may increase the chance of pregnancy and decrease the risk of premature termination. Current psychological interventions for infertility patients include psychotherapy, support groups, and mind/body approaches. Specifically, mind/body approaches show the greatest promise in symptom improvement, and also appear to promote pregnancy. Because mind/body programs are easy to administer and utilize a group format, they are highly cost-effective as well. They generally include training in relaxation, stress management, and coping skills, plus group support. Patients can put together these programs themselves, if the mind/body programs are not available at their healthcare facilities or it is financially not feasible. Teach yourself yoga, meditation, or relaxation exercises through books or videotapes available at libraries, or through low-cost classes at hospitals, health departments, or community centers.\nProfessionals in the field of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) should be aware of the importance of psychological factors in consumers of infertility treatment, the need to make available a rapid and reliable screening instrument for identifying patients at greater demand for psychological support, and the inclusion of counseling and supportive psychotherapy in the general therapeutic framework of infertility. Psychological counseling should be offered at any stage of infertility treatment, and not only when treatment fails. It might be useful to provide written information on common emotional / psychological reactions to infertility, and information about coping with this condition. For those couples whose coping resources are inadequate and/or depleted, counselors must make efforts to contact such patients individually to discuss the potential benefits of using counseling and/or participating in support groups.\nChen TH, Chang SP, Tsai CF et al. Prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders in an assisted reproductive technique clinic. Hum Reprod. 2004;19(10):2313-2318\nVerhaak CM, Smeenk JM, Eugster A, et al. Stress and marital satisfaction among women before and after their first cycle of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertil Steril. 2001;76(3):525-531\nCsemiczky G, Landrgren BM, Collins A. The influence of stress and state anxiety on the outcome of IVF-treatment: psychological and endocrinological assessment of Swedish women entering IVF-treatment. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2000;79(2):113-118\nLovely LP, Meyer WR, Ekstrom RD, et al. Effect of stress on pregnancy outcome among women undergoing assisted reproduction procedures. 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Please check back soon.\nCONTACT: Sam Haswell (415) 699-2802\nKellogg's Threatens Nonprofit On Use of Toucan Image in Logo\nSAN FRANCISCO -- Kellogg's, the maker of Froot Loops and other sugary breakfast products, is taking legal action against the Maya Archaeology Initiative (MAI), a nonprofit that defends indigenous Maya culture, claiming that the use of a toucan in its logo infringes on Kellogg's Toucan Sam character and games. The MAI logo can be viewed at www.mayaarchaeology.org.\n\"This is a bit like the Washington Redskins claiming trademark infringement against the National Congress of American Indians,\" said Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli, president of the Maya Archaeology Initiative and a globally recognized expert on Maya archaeology and culture.\nIn a detailed response to the cereal giant, Maya Initiative legal counsel Sarah Mott explained that the toucan in MAI's logo looks nothing like Kellogg's cartoon character and said the two entities are not in competition. MAI's logo is based upon a realistic toucan native to Mesoamerica, while Kellogg's Toucan Sam is a cartoon character with colors that represent Froot Loops' food coloring.\nMott also challenged Kellogg's claim that it uses \"Mayan\" imagery, another reason Kellogg challenged MAI's logo, and accused the company of sending racist messages to children.\n\"There is nothing Mayan in [the Froot Loops] Adventure,\" Mott wrote to Kellogg's corporate counsel David Herdman. \"Disturbingly, the villain in this Kellogg's Adventure -- and the only character of color -- is a 'witch doctor' who cackles malevolently when stealing from children. At best, this is culturally insensitive. I would characterize it as a demeaning caricature of an advanced and ancient civilization.\"\n\"Kellogg's products are a staple of many Guatemalan households,\" said Estrada-Belli, a Guatemalan national whose organization promotes education opportunities for Maya children, archaeological work and defense of the rainforest. \"We expect a brand that is so familiar to children to play a role in supporting cultural and racial understanding around the world, rather than undercutting it by promoting demeaning racial stereotypes.\"\nThe company has a history of unsuccessful challenges to others' use of toucans, claiming to hold a trademark on all images of the Central American bird.\nThe Maya Archaeology Initiative is a project of the California-based World Free Press Institute, a non-profit with a history of defending free expression and challenging repression of cultural heritage issues. 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It is a vasodilator that is used to treat spasms of peripheral blood vessels (as in acrocyanosis). It has also been used (in conjunction with Sodium nitroprusside) successfully as an antidote to reverse the severe peripheral vasoconstriction which can occur as a result of overdose with certain 5-HT2A agonist drugs such as 25I-NBOMe, DOB and Bromodragonfly (prolonged severe vasoconstriction can lead to gangrene if untreated).[1][2]\nIt is however most commonly used in veterinary medicine, to reverse xylazine-induced sedation.[3][4]\n^ Bowen JS, Davis GB, Kearney TE, Bardin J. Diffuse vascular spasm associated with 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine ingestion. Journal of the American Medical Association 1983 Mar 18;249(11):1477-9. PMID 6827726\n^ Thorlacius K, Borna C, Personne M. Bromo-dragon fly--life-threatening drug. Can cause tissue necrosis as demonstrated by the first described case. (Swedish) Lakartidningen. 2008 Apr 16-22;105(16):1199-200. PMID 18522262\n^ Boothe DM (2001). \"Anticonvulsant drugs and analeptic agents\". In Adams HR (ed.). Veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics. Ames: Iowa State University Press. pp. 378\u20139. Retrieved September 8, 2008 through Google Book Search.\n^ Hall LW, Clarke KW, Trim CM (2001). \"Principles of sedation, analgesia and premedication\". Veterinary anaesthesia. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders. pp. 90\u20131. 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The library holds more than 5 million books, and is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\nThe National Library owns the world's largest collections of Hebraica and Judaica, and is the repository of many rare and unique manuscripts, books and artifacts.\nGoals and objectives 2\nPalestinian books 3.1\nThe B'nai Brith library, founded in Jerusalem in 1892, was the first public library in Palestine to serve the Jewish community. The library was located on B'nai Brith street, between the Meah Shearim neighborhood and the Russian Compound.[1] Ten years later, the Bet Midrash Abrabanel library, as it was then known, moved to Ethiopia Street.[2] In 1920, when plans were drawn up for the Hebrew University, the B'nai Brith collection became the basis for a university library. The books were moved to Mount Scopus when the university opened five years later.[1]\nIn 1948, when access to the university campus on Mount Scopus was blocked, most of the books were moved to the university's temporary quarters in the Terra Sancta building in Rehavia. By that time, the university collection included over one million books. For lack of space, some of the books were placed in storerooms around the city. In 1960, they were moved to the new JNUL building in Givat Ram.[1]\nIn the late 1970s, when the new university complex on Mount Scopus was inaugurated and the faculties of Law, Humanities and Social Science returned there, departmental libraries opened on that campus and the number of visitors to the Givat Ram library dropped. In the 1990s, the building suffered from maintenance problems such as rainwater leaks and insect infestation.[1]\nIn 2007 the library was officially recognized as The National Library of the State of Israel after the passage of the National Library Law.[1] The law, which came into effect on 23 July 2008, changed the library's name to \"National Library of Israel\" and turned it temporarily to a subsidiary company of the University, later to become a fully independent community interest company, jointly owned by the Government of Israel (50%), the Hebrew University (25%) and other organizations.\nIn 2011, the library launched a website granting public access to books, periodicals, maps, photos and music from its collections.[3]\nIn 2014, the project for a new home of the Library in Jerusalem was unveiled. The 34,000 square meters building, designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled for full completion in 2019. [4]\nThe Ardon Windows in the lobby of NLI.\nThe library's mission is to secure copies of all material published in Israel, in any language; all publications on the subject of Israel, the Land of Israel, Judaism and the Jewish people, published in any language, in any country in the world; and all material published in Hebrew or any of the languages spoken in the Jewish Diaspora (such as Yiddish and Ladino).\nBy law, two copies of all printed matter published in Israel must be deposited in the National Library. In 2001, the law was amended to include audio and video recordings, and other non-print media.[5] Many manuscripts, including some of the library's unique volumes such the 14th century Nuremberg Mahzor, have been scanned and are now available on the Internet.\nAmong the library's special collections are the personal papers of hundreds of outstanding Jewish figures, the National Sound Archives, the Laor Map Collection and numerous other collections of Hebraica and Judaica. The library also possesses some of Isaac Newton's manuscripts dealing with theological subjects.[6] The library houses the personal archives of Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem.[7]\nPalestinian books\nFollowing the occupation of West Jerusalem by Haganah forces in May 1948, the libraries of a number Palestinians who fled the country as well as of other well-to-do Palestinians were transferred to the National Library.[8] These collections included those of Henry Cattan, Khalil Beidas, Khalil al-Sakakini and Aref Hikmet Nashashibi.[9] About 30,000 books were removed from homes in West Jerusalem, with another 40,000 taken from other cities in Mandatory Palestine. It is unclear whether the books were being kept and protected or if they were looted from the abandoned houses of their owners.[10] About 6,000 of these books are in the library today indexed with the label AP \u2013 \"Abandoned Property\".[11] The books are cataloged, can be viewed from the Library's general catalog and are regularly consulted by the public, including Arab scholars from all over the world.\n^ \"Hebrew University Hails \u2018Landmark Legislation\u2019 for the Establishment of the National Library\".\n^ Israel's National Library puts collection online\n^ \"herzog & de meuron reveals designs for national library of israel\".\n^ Jewish National & University Library History (English)\n^ Newton Collection (English)\n^ National Library, Germany partner to put papers online\n^ The Looting of the Palestinian Books Mitaam: a Review for radical thought 8 (December 2006), pp. 12-22, by Gish Amit\n^ Israel State Archive, Jerusalem, 1429/3\n^ Preserving or looting Palestinian books in Jerusalem\n^ Overdue Books: Returning Palestine\u2019s \u201cAbandoned Property\u201d of 1948 by Hannah Mermelstein, Jerusalem Quarterly, Autumn 2011\nOfficial website (English) (Hebrew)\nSaving the Holy of Holies of Jewish texts, by Nir Hasson on Haaretz\nNational libraries of Asia\nLibraries established in 1892\nLibraries in Jerusalem\nOrganizations based in Israel\nWorld Digital Library partners\nGovernment buildings in Israel\nHebrew language, Aliyah, World War I, National Library of Israel, Vienna\nBritish Library, Internet Archive, National Library of Israel, 2010 Winter Olympics, Austrian National Library\nEthnological Museum of Berlin, Sana'a, National Library of Israel, Damascus, Tangier\nUnesco, Computer science, Library of Congress, Google, Web development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 11545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 121.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wp.magnium-themes.com/himmelen/himmelen-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RJVJU5O67KCD7Q7IAPBZJ7TFCNB27ZRX", "length": 389, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wp.magnium-themes.com", "title": "Himmelen | Personal & Magazine WordPress theme", "raw_content": "Everyday creative impulseFeatured\nThe literature on creativity suggests that there are at least a few personality traits that promote creative behavior, such as openness, a willingness to take risks and an ability...\nA balanced composition feels right. 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While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 8032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wristbandrubber.com/the-essentials-of-products-101/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FV36YBYE4DHJXVSV6GGJNZ5JQVDXIJFY", "length": 2697, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wristbandrubber.com", "title": "The Essentials of Products \u2013 101 | WRISTBANDRUBBER", "raw_content": "Home | Health & Fitness | The Essentials of Products \u2013 101\nLearn How To Find Drain Cleaning Services\nThe drain cleaning is important for all commercial and residential buildings so that it ensures conducive environment for day to day operations and therefore it is everyone\u2019s responsibility to ensure that the place of residence or business should have clean drainage system. When it comes to drainage, it involves the use of pipes to transport water as well as other liquid wastes and materials that could have otherwise be hazardous to the human health and therefore sometimes you find that they are blocked by other larger objects hence interfering the movement of the liquid and for this reason drain cleaning is the best solution to solving such a problem when it arises.\nYou are more likely to find the best quality drain cleaning services when you hire a professional compared to when you could have done since a professional first evaluates the main problem and when he or she realizes it then he undertakes the necessary procedures including removing the material that could have blocked the drain using the appropriate tools. Time is an important factor and therefore if you want to save on time then the best thing you can do to solve your drainage system problem in your house.\nYou would always want to maintain the cleanliness of your house in order to make it comfortable by ensuring that the drain system are functioning properly and therefore you would need to hire a company for drain cleaning services which could be a challenging step for one to take. The most preferred tip when choosing the rain cleaning provider is visiting the internet since many companies have come up with their own websites which shows how they charge and even list all the services available for the drainage system services and here you are expected to choose the company which offers the drain cleaning service.\nIn some cases, you would find that some drain cleaning companies do not have their own websites maybe because they have other strategies to market their services and hence you can as well gather information from the beneficiaries of the company or by asking your family members and friends to advice you on the company to choose.\nThe company you choose should be able to assure you of regular maintenance and service of the drainage system by entering a contract so that they would always act and respond promptly whenever you experience or require urgent drain cleaning in your home. Cleaning the pipes is quite a delicate procedure which should be handled with care and this can only be done by experienced plumbers and professionals since they have better and perfect skills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://writergrrlreads.blogspot.com/2018/04/top-10-books-in-2018-thus-far.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BSVEAQS464V5UEMOT4S3UW76NN6QMKFU", "length": 2072, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "writergrrlreads.blogspot.com", "title": "Top 10 Books in 2018 Thus Far ~ Writer Grrl Reads", "raw_content": "Top Ten Tuesday is now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl! This week's topic is a freebie, so I thought I'd list off the ten best books that I've read so far this year. I've read some truly amazing books and it makes me excited for all the amazing books I have yet to read!\nThis book really set the stage for my reading this year, as it was the first book I read and I gave it five stars. It was everything that I love in a good YA contemporary.\nI read this in January and I am STILL thinking about it. A truly, truly incredible book -- perfection from beginning to end.\n3. When My Heart Joins the Thousand by\nIt saddens me that this book isn't ALL OVER THE INTERNET. It's amazing, heartfelt, and perfect and I wish it was one of those books that everyone in the world is talking about and has read.\nOne of my 2018 goals is to read the entire Anne series, and I loved the first book so, so, so much during my re-read! I only read the first two (or maybe three) books when I was young and now I'm so excited to finish this classic Canadian series.\nThis book will probably win the best surprise of the year. I thought I'd like it, but I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.\n6. The Other Side of Lost by Jessi Kirby\nMy review is coming in August, but I've come to understand that Jessi is now a favourite contemporary author of mine.\nI only read this one this month and I'm still processing it. To say I loved it doesn't feel like it would do it justice. An incredible book from cover to cover and one that will be resonating with me for some time to come.\nI'll have to refrain from reading any more of John's books this year, otherwise all of my favourites of 2018 will be his books.\nThis volume of poetry is just as incredible as her Instagram feed.\nI've reviewed a few of Colleen's books on Netgalley and borrowed the rest from the library. For me, her books aren't ones that I would reread, so I've never purchased one of her books. I read an egalley of All Your Perfects and have pre-ordered a copy of this incredible book. Truly Colleen's BEST book to date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 5103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://writteninc.blogspot.com/2015/03/purple-and-proud.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:JEH653ZYUMI2OH7OJZBOCK2CTBRIZ2ZE", "length": 1496, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "writteninc.blogspot.com", "title": "Written Inc.: Purple and proud", "raw_content": "It's been a long, tough winter here in the Great White North, and as much as Canadians seem to revel in beating back the worst of it, I'm sure I'm not the only one looking forward to more moderate weather.\nOne of the things I miss most when the snow falls is the abundance of color that surrounds us for the rest of the year. I'm aware that the typically winter shades of white, grey and brown-ish are all colors, as well, but they're nowhere near as kind to the soul as scenes like this.\nI'm looking forward to more purples like this. And I'm looking forward to more walks with my kids so they can capture more moments like this one through the lens.\nYour turn: Your favorite color is...? Why?\nShades of blue because they are peaceful. But all other colors are close behind in my favor. If you stop by the grocery get a potted plant to put on your desk until the weather changes. It will provide great comfort.\nJoe Pye weed is very beautiful. A nice spring touch to the table.\nBLUE! All shades of it too. Perhaps because I'm a fan of sky and water, and blue sports cars, because they are so cool, and everything blue seems to ignite goodness!\nNow where is that new theme you promised?\nIt varies - often it's purple, but then I like yellow because it's so bright and cheerful, and blue for the same reasons as Karen, and fresh lovely greens...\nBrown (all shades) is my favorite color. I like earth tones in general and brown is the earthiest of them all. Hope things have been going well for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 561, "original_length": 11924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wtug.com/tuscaloosa-city-schools-pre-k-registration-deadline-is-friday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TCYRT3GRRCNQ7UU2IFF7Q7QIOP2DQX7G", "length": 654, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wtug.com", "title": "Tuscaloosa City Schools Pre-K Registration Deadline is Friday", "raw_content": "Tuscaloosa City Schools Pre-K Registration Deadline is Friday\nLeigh Vogel\nIf you live in Tuscaloosa and have a child that is or will be 4 years old by September 2, the Pre-K registration deadline is this Friday. The child must live within the Tuscaloosa City school zone to be eligible. Applications are available at all Tuscaloosa City elementary schools.\nThe Tuscaloosa City Schools serves eligible four-year olds with high-quality pre K instruction. Recognized as a leader in pre kindergarten education, the system serves nearly 450 students at multiple sites throughout the district. Funding for the program comes from local, state and federal funds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1994f1.com/2018/04/29/ayrton-senna-his-final-hours/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EVXANRS324KZ5WNJUKRVXYAEQODAN2QO", "length": 7469, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.1994f1.com", "title": "Ayrton Senna \u2013 His Final Hours \u2013 1994 The Untold Story", "raw_content": "24 Years ago today Formula One lost one of its greatest ever drivers. Ayrton Senna\u2019s passing was felt across the globe, especially Brazil, which declared three days of official mourning. He had been the world\u2019s most famous racing driver and his death was broadcast live on television in front of millions. The grief felt was on par with the deaths of Princess Diana or JFK, and he is still sorely missed among F1 fans even 24 years on. The loss of Roland Ratzenberger a day earlier had been profoundly shocking, however, Senna\u2019s passing was another order of magnitude. It turned a shocking situation into the biggest crisis F1 had faced in recent times.\nAyrton Senna was a unique champion and is still adored by F1 fans today.\nSenna was a complex, charismatic yet contradictory character who evoked strong emotions within others \u2013 qualities which were evident during the final hours of his tragically short life. The death of Roland Ratzenberger during qualifying for the 1994 San Marino GP, the first death at a race meeting in 12 years, deeply affected Senna. Indeed, the Brazilian commandeered an official FIA car to visit the accident himself as he wanted to understand what lessons could be learnt for the safety of others. It was something the triple world champion would be chastised for before the race. He then went to the medical center where he was met by his friend Professor Sid Watkins, F1\u2019s senior doctor, who answered his questions with complete honesty. Upon learning that Ratzenberger was beyond medical help Senna could no longer hold back the tears. \u201cYou\u2019ve got nothing left to prove. Give it up and let\u2019s go fishing together\u201d Watkins told him. Senna took a long time to think about his reply \u201cSid, I have to go on\u201d. Those words must have haunted Watkins 24 hours later.\nSenna always showed great compassion towards his colleagues whenever they suffered horrific accidents. The driver injured in the above photo (Erik Comas in 1992) fully recovered.\nPerhaps the most comparable experience the Brazilian had to draw upon was the 1990 Spanish GP when Senna visited the scene of Martin Donnelly\u2019s near-fatal accident. In that example, he watched all the medical treatment the Ulsterman was receiving possibly watching him die from a crash. He watched all the needles and syringes and the tracheotomy. Then he went back to his garage, put his helmet back on, visor down, and with just 10 minutes left, did the fastest lap of Jerez ever of that track. Maybe that was Senna\u2019s way of dealing with fear. He later reflected on that day; \u201cI had to put myself together, walk out, go to the racing car and do it again, and do it even better than before. Because that was the way to cover the impact it had on me.\u201d The next time Senna stepped into an F1 car after Ratzenberger\u2019s tragic accident was the following morning. The Brazilian topped the warm-up time-sheets with a massive margin over the next car, just as he had done in Spain 1990.\nSenna always had great natural speed but was famous for harnessing his emotions to excel to even greater heights.\nThis is not to suggest the Brazilian was reckless. He was simply overcoming his fear by facing it head-on. At the 1994 San Marino GP there was an added incentive, Senna was determined to blow Michael Schumacher away and he wanted the German to know it. He had started that season as the overwhelming favorite to win the championship however Senna was being blown away by these upstarts, so he needed to reassert his authority on them. However Benetton appeared to be playing their own mind games; during that warm-up Schumacher was a massive 2.4 seconds slower, suggesting he might opt for an unfancied one-stop strategy in the race. Senna\u2019s lap time suggested the more conventional two-stop strategy, but Schumacher\u2019s lack of warm-up pace must have made the Brazilian wonder what his rival was up to.\nUnknown to Benetton, Senna had other issues on his mind all of which is extensively detailed in the upcoming book. For instance, he had become increasingly concerned with F1 safety in recent times. Senna said in a pre-race interview how the reintroduction of refuelling in 1994 turned races into a series of sprints with low fuel levels. The triple world champion considered this to be an unreasonable strain on both drivers and cars. Senna felt this factor had not been considered when refuelling was pushed through. Hence why Niki Lauda urged him as F1\u2019s most famous driver to reform the Grand Prix Drivers\u2019 Association (GPDA) and lobby the FIA for better safety for its participants.\nLauda was an advocate of safety, not least because he was lucky to survive a fiery crash in 1976. After Senna\u2019s death, it was Lauda who became GPDA spokesman.\nOn the way to the pre-race drivers briefing, Senna asked Berger and Hill to raise a complaint for him. The Brazilian didn\u2019t want to be the instigator because he was in trouble with the FIA over his actions the previous day. Namely commandeering one of the official cars to visit the scene of Ratzenberger\u2019s accident and not attending the obligatory post-qualifying press conference. So at the behest of Senna, a complaint was made about the FIA using a standard road car to lead the field around the formation lap at Aida. The road car was too slow and prevented F1 drivers from getting their tyres up to the correct temperature/pressure. This adversely affected the handling and ride height of the F1 machines during the opening laps of a race and was something Senna was especially worried about. Consequently, the FIA decided not to use their road car prior to the start of an F1 race again.\nAmong the last people to speak with Senna before that fateful race was former rival Alain Prost who told Autosport Magazine in 2014. \u201c\u2026I met him (Senna) on Sunday twice \u2013 the main constant was safety and the fact that we he was not happy with the situation, thinking that the Benetton was not legal.\u201d Similarly, legendary Williams designer Adrian Newey said in his recent book \u201cHow to Build a Race Car\u201d he was in the garage when Ayrton came running in to get into his car for the start. Newey had a quick chat with him and Senna reiterated his concern that he was about to battle an illegal car-driver combination. Newey said; \u201cHe went into that race with all that buzzing in his head. But he went in, above all, with a desire to win. Ayrton was one of the fiercest, most passionate competitors the sport has known..\u201d\n1994 \u2013 The Untold Story of a Tragic and Controversial F1 Season investigates these allegations against Benetton, the subsequent politics and much more. A free sample of the book can be viewed here. Alternatively you can keep up to date with this and future books by the author, as well as upcoming 1994 F1 blogs by signing up here.\nImages courtesy; of Martin Lee, Vikiskiss, Stuart Seeger and Osado via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and M\u00e9hes K\u00e1roly\n2 Responses to \u201cAyrton Senna \u2013 His Final Hours\u201d\nSimon O\u2019Donovan\nNoted Niki & Ayrton & he got on well, after being asked why he BLOCKED Ayrton in Qualifying & he said: \u201cYou do it\u201d! A Mental note was made.\nDespite being the reason I began competing in Karts due to only him, he was no saint\u2026\u2026..I was told I was dangerous, but at the speed we went\u2026..I don\u2019t think so & a Decade on, I was potentially the most responsible\u2026\u2026.Afraid GV was in my style of driving, but Pschology & that win at all costs & kit made you a worrying person, just to have near you.\nGV was my all time fav too", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 9227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.21datasheet.com/index/derice_list/indexes_f/0rln", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NZLPGSUC4CSH4ODRIIIX7K6ITY5M3KDD", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.21datasheet.com", "title": "0rln_\u5668\u4ef6\u7d22\u5f15_21datasheet_\u7535\u5b50\u5143\u5668\u4ef6\u641c\u7d22\u7f51", "raw_content": "0rln 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\n0RLN001.T \u7535\u8def\u4fdd\u62a4\u4fdd\u9669\u4e1d industrial & electrical fuses 1A 250vac class H", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 39.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.247travelinsurance.co.uk/blog/why-you-should-taken-an-ehic-on-holiday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VKZOFQJYKGISK3UMSQCJJ3HNS2MLDYZQ", "length": 2169, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.247travelinsurance.co.uk", "title": "Why you should take an EHIC on holiday - 24/7 Travel Insurance", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / 24/7 travel insurance / Why you should take an EHIC on holiday\nOctober 5, 2011 /in 24/7 travel insurance, Travel Tips /by djeffrey\nThe European Health Insurance Card also known as EHIC replaced the E111 form in 2005. It serves the same purpose and gives the holder rights to medical treatment that becomes necessary when temporary visiting a EEA country including Switzerland. As a UK resident you receive the same level of care as that of a citizen of any European country. So if you fall ill or were injured you would be treated as if you were a resident of that country.\nWith a valid EHIC you are able to receive reduced cost or sometimes free state-provided healthcare only if you are able to show your card at the hospital. It is important to apply for one before you travel. Some insurance companies will waiver your medical excess if you used the EHIC.\nThe EHIC is free and easy to apply for. You can go online at www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/home.do or call 0845 606 2030. An EHIC will last for up to 5 years and you can renew your card up to 6 months before its expiry date, or at any time after. You will find the expiry date printed on the front of your card.\nIt is important to note that the EHIC is not a replacement for travel insurance. Although you will receive health care whilst abroad in Europe, the EHIC does not cover you for repatriation or other expenses. Therefore it is recommended that you purchase comprehensive travel insurance cover along with taking your EHIC with you when you travel to the EU.\nIf you already have an EHIC and are planning on travelling abroad in the future please remember to check the expiry date and if needs be order a new card in plenty of time.\nSource ww.ehic.org.uk\nTags: ehic, Europe, FCO\nhttp://www.247travelinsurance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/247-travel-300x95.png 0 0 djeffrey http://www.247travelinsurance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/247-travel-300x95.png djeffrey2011-10-05 13:57:002016-02-15 14:12:54Why you should take an EHIC on holiday\nMobile phone calls will be cheaper when travelling in Europe Have you checked your travel insurance policy to see if you are covered for...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.a-pepe.com/tenso-structure-in-pizzighettone.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TXJGTMZP6ZI5BOWECBNV3PFDY7MG2NK6", "length": 747, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.a-pepe.com", "title": "Tenso structure in Pizzighettone", "raw_content": "Name of the project: Tenso structure in Pizzighettone\nWith: Pierre-Alain Croset\nPizzighettone is an urban center near the city of Cremona, in Lombardia, North of Italy. The fortification walls had been built to protect the passage on the river Adda. In the year 2004 the Pizzighettone city hall administration asked us a project for refurbishing the interior spaces of the Rivellino (main space of the fortified walls) in a space for exibitions, covering the exterior square with a tenso structure visible from the outside of the walls. The main pillar of the structure is suspended in the center of the square, creating the focal point for a circular dimension. 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It is also one of the first universities accredited by the State Council to determine and approve the qualifications of professors, associate professors and doctorial supervisors. It is also one of the universities of Project 211 and Program 985 that is financed by the central government to build as a world-class university.\nNow, Southeast University has become a comprehensive university of high reputation comprising of various Schools departments of science, engineering, art, social sciences, law, economics, management, languages, etc., with engineering as its focus.\nThe university will continue to maintain its good tradition developed over years, adjusting and optimizing its programs, focusing on teaching and research, stressing the whole person education. It strives to build itself into a first-rate university in the country in terms of the overall level of school running and comprehensive capabilities, featured by its uniqueness, openness and comprehensiveness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 135.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.accounting-service.ca/bookkeeping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LRWDHIABJTA2MVILC6MRJMIAWJ3UWA2P", "length": 3616, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.accounting-service.ca", "title": "Bookkeeping Services in Vancouver BC Canada - Navigator Consulting Group Inc.", "raw_content": "Business Accounting / Personal Accounting\nDo you want to feel confident in your company's financial matters while taking the next step up your business development stairway? Navigator Consulting is here to help and support you by providing a wide range of bookkeeping services in Vancouver.\nBookkeeping includes everything that might be useful for your business, starting from giving minor advice to a full company\u2019s accounting management and development. We have transformed the traditional bookkeeping services into some simple and useful services, like:\nIt is necessary to make well-informed management decisions for a business to succeed. One can make good decisions only with useful, timely and accurate information. Usually that information is contained in a company\u2019s interim and annual financial statements. These statements are also frequently relied on by other organizations, including companies (when choosing a business partner) and banks (when making financial arrangements).\nFull and consistent maintenance of your company\u2019s general ledger is one of the bookkeeping services our company offers. Accurate and timely recording of all accounting transactions will let you best assess the company\u2019s financial condition. We have really experienced staff providing the best general ledger management service in Vancouver.\nNavigator Consulting also provides bookkeeping of wages for small and medium-sized companies. If you take advantage of our services, you will benefit through improved efficiency, privacy and CRA compliance.\nOur bookkeeping services include all the preparation activities needed to register the company with the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency), ensuring GST / HST compliance on goods bought and sold, the completion and filing of returns. Our experts will help you to make a claim for input tax credits and rebates of GST / HST that was paid or is payable when making purchases of goods or services.\nNote: Canadian laws may allow you to obtain a rebate of the tax assessed on taxable goods manufactured in Canada. To do this, the company must be registered with the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) and file the appropriate tax return form. This claim should be filed on a regular basis (monthly, quarterly or annually).\nAccounts Receivable/Payable Data Entry & Management\nAn important component of accounts receivable/payable management is the best use of all funds received and paid. Navigator Consulting is happy to provide its bookkeeping services to assist with your cash management, preventing duplicate payments, overpayments and missing funds.\nBank Account & Credit Card Reconciliations\nA company\u2019s bank account and credit card management is a service that allows you to monitor the status of each of the company\u2019s accounts and their activities. Account activity tracking is performed regularly in order to avoid unnecessary bank service charges, accounting errors, \"pseudo-transactions\" and theft or misappropriation of corporate cash resources.\nNavigator Consulting provides fixed asset management services to its clients. Our experts provide services related to fixed asset record keeping and reporting, and the calculation of depreciation, accounting for the economic effect derived from the use of fixed asset during their useful life.\nNote: Fixed assets include real estate, vehicles, equipment and tools on a company's books.\nInventory Bookkeeping\nOur professional staff will quickly and efficiently carry out a full or a partial inventory of your company\u2019s assets. 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For more info, see: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/\nBy Adrian Minde|2012-04-20T02:39:54+00:0017 June 2009|Categories: Film|0 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/40069/we-can-be-proud-of-our-military-heritage?utm_source=related&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=readrelated", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VBF7DV5XSUF7C6NQL4BBCUADRPJ6NOUB", "length": 9499, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.advertiser.ie", "title": "Advertiser.ie - We can be proud of our military heritage", "raw_content": "By Ronnie O'Gorman Galway Advertiser, Thu, May 26, 2011\nKing George V: Endeavoured to avoid civil war in Ireland.\nOn June 12 1922 a very special ceremony took place at Windsor Castle, near London. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State the previous December, five Irish regiments, including the Connaught Rangers, the Royal Irish, the Leinsters, the Munsters, and the Dublin Fusiliers, which had served the British army with exceptional valour at times, were disbanded. It was a day of special significance for both the participants and onlookers. It was reported in the London Times.\nThe Connaught Rangers, which had been recruiting men from Galway and the West of Ireland since 1793, was the most important source of employment in this area. The army provided opportunities for travel and advancement, giving pride and purpose to ordinary men who, if they didn\u2019t work the land, had little prospects other than emigration. The Rangers fought in Egypt, India, South America, particularly in Portugal and Spain against Napoleon; at the Crimea, South Africa, and suffered great losses during the Great War. In just over a week\u2019s fighting at the Somme (September 1916 ), the Rangers\u2019 6th lost 23 officers and 407 other ranks. During the German breakthrough at St Emilie on March 21 1918 that same battalion was \u2018practically annihilated\u2019 when, following a fierce bombardment, the order to withdraw did not reach them, leaving them exposed to the onslaught of two fresh German divisions. At least 2,500 Rangers were killed between 1914 - 1918. Yet their marching anthem, Its a long way to Tipperary, cheered the hearts of thousands during those dark days. The remains of the Rangers who never returned home can be found in small and large graveyards in France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Egypt, Palestine, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and England.\nNo doubt many Rangers felt a sense of betrayal at the 1916 Rising, which added to the confusion and their discomfiture when they returned to a \u2018different\u2019 Ireland. But it also took courage when on June 28 1920 private James Daly led a protest at Wellington Barracks, Jalandhar, in the Indian Punjab. He and his 88 mutineers refused to soldier in protest against harsh British measures during the War of Independence at home. After a firefight they were captured and dealt with severely. Nineteen men were sentenced to death. The rest received long prison sentences. In the end only Daly faced the firing squad; the last member of the British armed forces to be executed for mutiny.\nSupported Home Rule\nOn that June day 89 years ago, the band of His Majesty\u2019s First Guard escorted the procession of the disbanding regiments\u2019 commanding officers and Colour parties up the hill to the castle. Each regiment Colour, which is regarded with an almost sacred sense of possession, is inscribed with the names of the battles they have been engaged in for more than 200 years. They are deeply symbolic to the regiments involved. The band played the march past of each regiment in turn, including Tipperary. When they arrived at the entrance to St George\u2019s Hall the tune suddenly changed to Auld lang Syne. The regiments\u2019 Colours were then handed over to the king, for his safe keeping.\nKing George V* (wearing the service uniform of a Field Marshall ), stood with Queen Mary, and their daughter, the Princess Mary, accompanied by the highest ranking dukes, marshals and lords of the land, on a platform at the end of the Hall. The king was particularly moved by the occasion. George V was very supportive of Home Rule for Ireland, and had done his utmost to move the aspiration forward. He had visited Ireland in July 1911, and was delighted with the warm reception he received. Even though he was prohibited from taking any political role in the drama leading to the third vote to pass the Home Rule Bill in the House of Lords, he appeared to encourage John Redmond and the Irish parliamentary party to persevere. But when in 1913 well-drilled Ulster Volunteers were marching regularly in the streets of Belfast, and a nationalist response took the shape of the Irish Volunteers in Dublin, he became alarmed. He did not want a civil war. Matters really came to a head when a substantial quantity of arms was landed at Larne, making it clear that the Ulster Volunteers would fight rather than accept Home Rule from Dublin. In a final attempt to get some kind of compromise between Dublin and Ulster the king offered Buckingham Palace as a meeting place. On July 21 1914 John Redmond and John Dillon for the nationalists, Edward Carson and James Craig for the Ulster Unionists, HH Asquith and Lloyd George for the Liberals, Boner Law and Lord Lansdowne for the Tories sat down face to face. But there was little change in ever hardening attitudes. Within a week however, Germany invaded Belgium, and the King\u2019s attention was on the appalling tragedy that was about to overwhelm Europe.\nI was reminded of Ireland\u2019s military past, and how proud the men and women are who wear our Irish colours when I saw the exemplary manner with which our soldiers met Queen Elizabeth, and escorted her and our President last week. It was impossible not to admire Capt Laura Keane, 2nd Cavalry Squadron, who was the escort of honour, Capt Tom Holmes, 5th battalion McKee Barracks, requested and escorted the queen to inspect the guard of honour at \u00c1ras An Uachtarain; and Capt Derek McGourty who led the military duties of the cadets (drawn from the army, navy and air corps ), at both the Garden of Remembrance, and at Island Bridge. Ireland has a magnificent small but effective armed force. It adds the appropriate gravitas to ceremonial occasions, but is also dedicated to helping fragile communities maintain peace in trouble spots around the world.\nGeorge V showed that he appreciated the military mind when he received the regimental colours that day.\n\u201c We are here today in circumstances which cannot fail to strike a note of sadness in our hearts. No regiment parts with its Colours without feelings of sorrow. A knight, in days gone by, bore on his shield his coat-of-arms tokens of valour and worth. Only in death did he surrender them. Your Colours are the records of valorous deeds in war and of the glorious traditions thereby created. You are called upon to part with them today for reasons beyond your control and resistance. By you and your predecessors these Colours have been reverenced and guarded as a sacred trust, which trust you now confide in me as your King. I am proud to accept this trust, but I fully realise with what grief you relinquish these dearly prized emblems and I pledge my word that within these ancient and historic walls your Colours will be treasured, honoured and protected as hallowed memorials of the glorious deeds of brave and loyal regiments.\"\nOutside the Hall the band played the regimental slow marches: Oft in the Stilly Night, The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, Let Erin Remember. Inside the Hall, to this evocative music, each Colour party marched forward in succession, led by its commanding officer, and handed their Colours to the King.\nAnd there they remain today.**\n*The succession to the British throne after Queen Victoria is as follows: Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She died 1901, and was succeeded by Edward VII (he visited Connemara and Galway in 1903 ), died 1910. George V (visited Ireland in 1911 ), and died 1936. Edward VIII (abdicated in 1936 ), then George VI (\u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019 ) died 1952, succeeded by his elder daughter Elizabeth II.\nGeorge V was the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, and first cousin of the German Emperor Wilhelm II who started World War I. George V dropped the German part of his name, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and changed it to the House of Windsor.\n**An earlier set of Connaught Rangers\u2019 Colours can be seen at the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, along with several stone memorials to fallen members of the regiment. There is an interesting museum at D\u00fan Ui Maoil\u00edosa (Renmore Barracks ) showing quite a lot about the Rangers\u2019 history. 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Almost none of it, however, is \u201cdumped\u201d overseas.\nThat, at least, is the conclusion of the first comprehensive survey of what happens to U.S. e-waste after it is dropped into a recycling bin. Published in February, the study by the U.S. International Trade Commission surveyed 5,200 businesses involved in the e-waste industry (companies that received the survey were required by law to complete it, and to do so accurately), and found that almost 83 percent of what was put into American recycling bins in 2011 was repaired, dismantled or recycled domestically.\nR2 certification R2 Certified recycling r2 certified recycler ohio IT Scrap Recycling ohio tv recycling", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allthingsif.org/archives/1169", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:33Z", "digest": "sha1:STBTF63RO2SHULN4JCVAAFEHTC7HR5RC", "length": 25359, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.allthingsif.org", "title": "What If There Were Kipling\u2019s \u201cIf\u201d\u2014For Girls?", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Viewpoints / What If There Were Kipling\u2019s \u201cIf\u201d\u2014For Girls?\nBy Susan Hawkins\nI have long admired famous Kipling\u2019s poem \u201cIf\u201d; however, it ends \u201cAnd\u2014which is more\u2013you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!\u201d with its short 32 lines clearly focusing on men. For years I wondered what \u201cIf\u201d for women would look like until I realized there\u2019s a work of art channeling the same values, teaching the same lessons and calling our Daughters to the same moral heights. This work is not a poem; it\u2019s definitely longer than Kipling\u2019s 32 lines (so is this review!), but, as you\u2019ll see, it contains the same message.\nDirector Tim Burton accomplished on film what Rudyard Kipling accomplished poetically\u2014they both spoke to children about living a life of honesty, integrity and courage. Apparently, the planet has been losing its grip on these attributes since the beginning of time. Maybe it just seems more evident now because technology allows us to see the worst of humankind around the world at the touch of a button. Rudyard Kipling used pen and ink and spoke to sons everywhere. In \u201cAlice in Wonderland,\u201d Tim Burton speaks to our daughters through film, and the similarities are remarkable.\nA Bit About the Movie\nIf you haven\u2019t seen Burton\u2019s version of Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, you\u2019re missing a visual orgasm. The film, scripted by Linda Woolverton, is not another version of the story; it\u2019s a reimagined Alice, who returns to Underland (which she had called Wonderland) as a young woman, reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen\u2019s reign of terror. Characters from Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alices\u2019 Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat, the Red Queen and others) join characters from Carroll\u2019s famous nonsensical poem Jabberwocky (the frumious\u2014filthy, with a very bad smell\u2014Bandersnatch and the Jabberwocky himself), creating an intriguing plot line.\nAlice, age 19, is at her surprise engagement party on the lawn of a lord\u2019s manor just outside London. In front of dozens of guests, a young, unattractive, snarky English lord asks forAlice\u2019s hand in marriage. At that moment, she spots the White Rabbit.Alice, looking for any excuse not to answer, bolts and the adventure is on. Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds herself back in \u201cWonderland,\u201d where she\u2019s clearly been expected for some time. It seems the Oraculum, a compendium of time in Underland, shows Alice wielding the powerful Volpol sword and slaying the Jabberwocky (the Red Queen\u2019s ultimate weapon, a fierce and fiery, winged dragon-like creature who, like many of Underland\u2019s creatures, can speak), thereby restoring the crown from the evil (\u201cOff with their heads!\u201d) Red Queen to the beautiful, benevolent White Queen. Will Alice, who insists \u201cI don\u2019t slay!\u201d, save Underland as foretold? Let\u2019s find out, and while we\u2019re at it, we\u2019ll see how Burton channels Kipling for girls.\nIf You Can Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs and Blaming It On You\u2026\nHow ironic that the first line of Kipling\u2019s poem talks about people losing their heads. Beheadings are the Red Queen\u2019s favorite pastime. But the scene in the movie that corresponds to these words is at the beginning of Alice\u2019s journey. It\u2019s Gribling Day according to the Oraculum, when Alice is supposed to return to Underland. She\u2019s small, having drunk the potion (Pishsalver) that said \u201cDrink Me,\u201d and she\u2019s gone through the small door into Underland, where she first meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the March Hare, the Dormouse and a couple of snobbish talking flowers, none of whom are convinced that the White Rabbit brought \u201cthe right Alice.\u201d They were expecting a child.\nWhile they\u2019re quibbling, Alice says, \u201cHow can I be the wrong Alice? This is my dream.\u201d Suddenly, that doesn\u2019t matter, because the malevolent Red Queen (Iracebeth) has sent the Red Knight, her army of red playing cards and the frumious, enormous (at least, to a two-foot-high Alice) Bandersnatch in search of her, putting all those near her in danger. The Red Queen\u2019s henchmen think they\u2019re looking for a child. The Bandersnatch, fur flying, sharp teeth showing, is gaining on her rapidly, when Alice realizes this is her dream and nothing can hurt her. She stops, turns around and faces him. He stops short, growls threateningly and scratches her arm. Just then, the Dormouse plucks out the Bandersnatch\u2019s eye with her tiny sword, rendering him helpless, and Alice is able to escape. Not so, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who are captured and taken to the Red Queen. While everyone panicked and scattered wildly, Alice found her inner strength, stood up to the Bandersnatch and, with a little help from a friend, escaped the Red Queen\u2019s grasp.\nIf You Can Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You, But Make Allowance for Their Doubting, too\u2026\nIn a way, this is an overarching theme of the film. In the prologue of the film, when Alice is six years old, she wakes from her recurring \u201cnightmare,\u201d and her father, an adventurous international trader contemplating trade with faraway countries, comforts her. She tells him about strange creatures and a talking cat, which Alice believes is impossible. Her father says to her, \u201cThe only way to achieve the impossible is to believe the impossible.\u201d Later, when she returns to Underland, almost everyone she meets thinks she\u2019s \u201cthe wrong Alice.\u201d Though they doubt her, she insists it\u2019s her dream, and she is Alice, though not the Alice they\u2019re looking for. Even wise Absolem, the blue, monocle-wearing , hookah-smoking caterpillar, tells her she\u2019s \u201cnot hardly Alice,\u201d though knows she\u2019s the right Alice, but he also knows she has to discover that fact for herself. For all intents and purposes, Absolem is Alice\u2019s conscience.\nIf You Can Wait and Not Be Tired By Waiting\u2026\nIt should be pointed out here that, although the film includes events that reflect all of Kipling\u2019s ideals, they don\u2019t necessarily arrive in the same order as the poem. So now, we find ourselves much later in the film, when the White Rabbit tells Alice the location of the Vorpal sword in the Red Queen\u2019s castle. Alice knows the sword has special powers\u2014in essence, she\u2019s looking for her heart\u2014but the sword is locked in a trunk inside the lair of the Bandersnatch, cast aside when his lost eye rendered him ineffective. She finds the Dormouse, also in the castle looking for the Mad Hatter, who gave himself up earlier in the film to protect Alice from capture.\nThe Dormouse has kept the Bandersnatch eye with her; Alice retrieves it, enters the lair of the creature and, like a bowling ball, rolls his eye toward him from a distance. \u201dHere\u2019s your eye,\u201d she says. He takes the eye, pops it back in and, instead of attacking, shows he\u2019s grateful by calmly allowing Alice to stay. She uncovers a trunk which, no doubt, contains the Vorpal sword, but it\u2019s locked. It\u2019s late, she\u2019s tired, so Alice, content to wait until morning to solve her problem, lays her head in her arms on the trunk and falls asleep. Alice, now of enormous size (having eaten some Upelkuchen) but still much smaller than the Bandersnatch, awakens to him licking the wound he caused on her arm, clearly in an effort to repay her for returning his eye. When he backs away, she sees the key to the trunk hanging on the chain around his neck. He allows her to take it, she opens the trunk and finds the Vorpal sword. Her patience paid off. Just as Absolem is her conscience, the Vorpal sword is Alice\u2019s heart.\nAlice remains the \u201cwrong Alice\u201d to most of the characters almost until the end of the film. Only the Mad Hatter and Absolem, of course, believe she is the right Alice. Though Alice knows whom she is, she never insists she\u2019s the right Alice verbally, but her actions as she gains courage and resolve during her adventure, prove her to be \u201cright\u201d in the end.\nOr Being Hated, Don\u2019t Give Way to Hating, and Yet Don\u2019t Look Too Good Nor Talk Too Wise\u2026\nJust after a very tiny Alice has made her way to Salazen Grum (the Red Queen\u2019s fortress) to rescue the Hatter, she navigates the head-filled moat, finds a small crack at the bottom of the massive castle wall, and goes through to find herself behind some shrubs in the courtyard, where the Red Queen is playing a game of croquet. Iracebeth strikes a terrified curled-up hedgehog with an apologetic flamingo (remember, this is Wonderland), sending the hedgehog flying beyond the bushes where Alice is hiding. Iracebeth sends her servant, the White Rabbit, to fetch the \u201cball.\u201d\nA bit of exposition here: Virtually all of the Red Queen\u2019s servants and courtiers are her captives, and because they\u2019re miserable in her service, would much prefer to reside in Mamoreal, where the White Queen (Iracebeth\u2019s younger sister) holds court. Because she\u2019s the elder, the \u201cregrettably large head\u201d of Iracebeth wears the crown as the ruler of Underland. Alice doesn\u2019t know it yet, but she\u2019s destined to return the crown to Mirana, the kindhearted White Queen.\nWhen the White Rabbit goes behind the bushes to retrieve the hedgehog, he discovers tiny Alice. \u201cWell, if it isn\u2019t the wrong Alice,\u201d he remarks. She tells him she\u2019s there to rescue the Hatter, but they both know, as the size of a mouse, she won\u2019t have much success. He gives her a square of Upelkuchen, and she grows to an enormous size. The queen walks toward the bushes to find a giant, and barely dressed, Alice. Iracebeth asks the White Rabbit (actual name: Nivens McTwisp) who she is. Flustered, he says, \u201cUm,\u201d the queen says, \u201cUm?\u201d and Alice cleverly chimes in with \u201cFrom Umbridge.\u201d Because Alice\u2019s head is far larger than hers, Iracebeth has clothes made for her and welcomes Alice into her court.\nAlice knows the Red Queen and her loyal knight, Ilosivic Stayne, are looking for her; she is hated and feared by them because they know Alice has returned to Underland to slay the Jabberwocky, but they, too, expect a child. Still, Alice, knowing she\u2019s hated, stays calm in their presence, treating them with respect, and not allowing their red-hot hate to keep her from rescuing the Hatter.\nIf You Can Dream\u2014And Not Make Dreams Your Master\u2026\nTo safeguard tiny Alice, the Hatter (actual name: Tarrant Hightopp) gives himself up in the forest between Salazen Grum and Mamoreal. The Hatter and Alice, who travels on the brim of Tarrant\u2019s topper, are making their way to the White Queen when they hear the Red Knight and the armed cards approaching. The Hatter flings his top hat forcefully, with Alice holding on for dear life, to the edge of the forest, where it lands. He shouts \u201cDown with the bloody big head!\u201d to divert attention, and he is captured. She spends the night under the top hat and is awakened in the morning by Bayard, the bloodhound, who is pressed into service by Iracebeth because they\u2019re holding his wife and pups in the castle\u2019s dungeon, but he, like the Hatter and many others, is secretly working in Mirana\u2019s behalf.\nBayard flips over the hat and asks, \u201cAre you Alice?\u201d She replies, \u201cYes, but not that one,\u201d to which the bloodhound replies, \u201cThe Hatter wouldn\u2019t have given himself up just for any Alice.\u201d Bayard tells Alice he\u2019s to take her to the White Queen, but she insists he take her to Salazen Grum so she can free the Hatter, who wouldn\u2019t be there \u201cif it weren\u2019t for me.\u201d It was not \u201cforetold\u201d in the Oraculum, Bayard reminds her: \u201cIf you diverge from the path\u2026\u201d to which Alice says, \u201cThis is my dream. I make the path!\u201d Alice is clearly the master of her dream.\nIf You Can Think\u2014and Not Make Thoughts Your Aim\u2026\nAlice thinks she\u2019s dreaming through most of her adventure. When she first arrives in Underland, she pinches herself, as her father recommended to wake herself up when she had these recurring dreams as a child, and, of course, she doesn\u2019t wake up. Though wondering why she didn\u2019t awaken after the pinch, Alice doesn\u2019t dwell on it; she lets the dream take her where it will. Otherwise, she would have spent the rest of the film trying to wake up. Perhaps, deep down, she knows, in the end, she\u2019ll find herself.\nWhen Alice falls down the rabbit hole in chase of the White Rabbit, she lands in an enclosed room with a number of doors. In the center of the room is a glass table with a key on it. She takes the key and tries all the doors, but none opens. She then notices a tiny door where the wall meets the floor. Amazingly, the key opens the door, but she\u2019s far too big, so she shuts it. After looking around, she spies a liquid-filled bottle (known as Pishsalver) with a message attached: Drink me. She puts the key on the table, uncaps the bottle and drinks it.\nIf you know the story of Alice in Wonderland, you know she shrinks to just the right size to pass through the door. Triumph! Unfortunately, she left the key on the now-unreachable table top. Disaster! Persevering, she finds a small cake that says \u201cEat Me\u201d in icing. She eats a bite and grows so tall she has to bend to fit in the room. Semi-triumph! She\u2019s tall enough to get the key, but far too tall to fit through the tiny door. Disaster! This time, she grabs the key and drinks the potion to return to the tiny size necessary to fit through the door. Neither Triumph nor Disaster affect her efforts to pass through the door\u2014which was truly her only way out.\nIf You Can Bear to Hear the Truth You\u2019ve Spoken Twisted by Knaves to Make a Trap for Fools\u2026\nThe Red Knight, Ilosivic Stayne, first encounters Alice when he greets the Red Queen, who\u2019s sitting on her throne, with a very large Alice seated beside her. \u201cAnd who is this lovely creature?\u201d he asks. \u201cUm,\u201d the queen replies.\n\u201cI believe your name has slipped the queen\u2019s mind,\u201d Stayn offers, to which the queen insists, \u201cHer name is Um! Idiot.\u201d A bit later, as Alice is headed to the lair of the Bandersnatch to return his eye, Stayne, quite taken with \u201cUm,\u201d corners her in a hallway, gets in her face and says, \u201cI like you, Um. I like your largeness.\u201d Alice pushes him away and continues her mission, saying \u201cGet away from me.\u201d One of the queen\u2019s courtiers, a woman, sees the interlude and can\u2019t wait to tell the queen what she\u2019s seen and overheard. The queen screams for Stayne, who tells her it was Alice who seduced him. \u201cShe\u2019s obsessed with me.\u201d The queen believes him. \u201cOff with her head!\u201d Though Alice is unaware, the queen is now her enemy, and Stayne is sent to \u201csieze that girl for unlawful seduction!\u201d The knight finds her in the room where she\u2019s about to rescue the Hatter by shattering his chains with the Vorpal sword. It isn\u2019t until the Hatter insists it\u2019s more important that Alice take the Vorpal sword to the White Queen. The Dormouse (actual name: Mallymkun), also there to rescue the Hatter and now, finally realizing that this is, indeed, the right Alice, unwittingly shares that revelation with the Red Knight by shouting \u201cRun, Alice!\u201d And she does, escaping capture.\nOr Watch the Things You Gave Your Life to, Broken and Stoop and Build \u2018Em Up with Worn-Out Tools\u2026\nIn the film, we first meet 19-year-old Alice with her mother in a horse-drawn carriage, on their way to Alice\u2019s surprise engagement party. Her father, Charles, had passed way, which accounts for his absence. Alice, a product of her father\u2019s unconventional, individualistic view of life, is scolded by her mother for not wearing the proper undergarments (no corset or stockings). She responds to her mother defiantly: \u201cIf everyone wore a codfish on their head, would you wear one, too?\u201d We learn from the beginning that Alice isn\u2019t always going to do what\u2019s expected of her, yet she\u2019s now expected to marry a lord she doesn\u2019t even like, much less love.\nIn the end, after her adventure in Underland, Alice rebuffs his marriage proposal, promising her mother to build a life for herself. Alice is her father\u2019s daughter, and his uncompromising words, which she took to heart throughout her life, will be her tools.\nThese lines, with similar meaning to \u201cIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same\u2026\u201d are also represented by Alice\u2019s endeavor to get through the tiny door into Underland. Never once did she whine about her predicament. She perseveres. She risks whatever it takes to get where she wants to go.\nWe now find ourselves at the film\u2019s climax, the battle between Alice and the Jabberwocky.\nKnowing that Alice has returned the Vorpal sword to complete the armor in the White Queen\u2019s castle, the Red Queen commands that the Jabberwocky be prepared for battle. \u201cWe\u2019re going to visit my little sister.\u201d Everyone in Mamoreal, including the Mad Hatter, the Tweedles, the Dormouse, Bayard the Bloodhound and his wife and pups, all who have escaped the Red Queen, expects Alice to come forward as the Champion of the White Queen and slay the Jabberwocky. When asked who will be her champion, the Hatter, the Tweedles and the Dormouse step forward. The crowd and the queen look to Alice, and the queen instructs her, \u201cDo not live your life to please others because, when you step out to face that creature, you will step out alone.\u201d\nIf we suppose that the Jabberwocky is a metaphor for life\u2019s greatest obstacles and challenges, we understand why Alice, or anyone for that matter, is reluctant to jump into danger willingly. Alice runs off to another part of the palace courtyard, where she encounters Absolem the Caterpillar for the last time. She doesn\u2019t see him right away. His chrysalis, almost complete, is hanging from the limb of a tree. She\u2019s pacing and crying, finally sitting down on a bench next to the tree, when she hears Absolem say \u201cNothing was ever accomplished with tears.\u201d Here\u2019s the rest of their conversation (somewhat paraphrased):\nAlice: \u201cAbsolem? \u201cWhy are you hanging upside down?\u201d\nAbsolem: \u201cI\u2019ve come to the end of this life.\u201d\nAlice: \u201cYou\u2019re going to die?\u201d\nAbsolem: \u201cTransform.\u201d\nAlice: \u201cBut you can\u2019t leave. I don\u2019t know what to do. I need your help\u201d\nAbsolem: \u201cI can\u2019t help you if you don\u2019t even know who you are, stupid girl.\u201d\nAlice (boldly): \u201cI\u2019m not stupid! My name is Alice. I live in London with my mother Helen and my sister Margaret. My father was Charles Kingsleigh. He had a vision that stretched halfway around the world, and nothing ever stopped him. I\u2019m his daughter. I\u2019m Alice Kingsleigh.\u201d\nAbsolem: \u201cAlice, at last! You were just as dim-witted the first time you were here. You called it \u2018Wonderland\u2019, as I recall.\u201d\nAlice: \u201cWonderland.\u201d\nAt this point, Alice flashes back to her visits to Wonderland as a child. She realizes it isn\u2019t a dream, and she understands that she\u2019s there to save Underland.\nAlice: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a dream at all. This place is real!\u201d\nAbsolem: \u201cRemember, the Vorpal sword [Alice\u2019s heart] knows what it wants. All you have to do is hold on to it.\u201d\nBy now, the Red Queen, her minions and the Jabberwocky have reached the giant, checkerboard battlefield that sits just outside Mamoreal. The White Queen dismounts from her horse and walks toward her sister Iracebeth, who has been helped out of her red card-carried sedan chair by the Red Knight. They meet in the middle, and Mirana, whose vows prevent her from harming any living creature, attempts to settle the situation amicably.\n\u201cNo,\u201d screams the Red Queen, \u201cit is my crown! I am the eldest! Jabberwocky!\u201d Then the Red Queen arrogantly asks, \u201cWhere\u2019s your champion, Sister?\u201d\nMirana looks back, still not sure who will step forward, when Alice comes out of the castle, riding on the back of the Bandersnatch. She\u2019s dressed in armor from the neck down, and she\u2019s holding the Vorpal sword. To answer Iracebeth\u2019s question, Alice says, \u201cHere.\u201d\nEveryone moves back except Alice and the Jabberwocky, who says, \u201cSo, my old foe. We meet on the battlefield once again.\u201c\nAlice replies, \u201cWe\u2019ve never met.\u201d\nAnd the Jabberwocky counters, \u201cNot you, insignificant bearer. My ancient enemy, the Vorpal one.\u201d\nAlice, reaching inside herself, says, \u201cThat\u2019s enough chatter,\u201d and she promptly cuts off the tongue of the Jabberwocky with the Vorpal sword. The battle is on, and it\u2019s one for the ages.\nAlice is tossed in the air by the Jabberwocky\u2019s tail, loses the sword, regains it, hides behind columns to avoid the electrically charged, fiery breath of her opponent, runs up a stone, spiral staircase\u2014the sky-high ruins of a now-demolished edifice\u2014almost falling when part of the staircase is missing, but she hangs on and makes it across the gap. Dodging great pieces of stone as the Jabberwocky\u2019s wings and tail demolish the staircase to get at his prey, Alice reaches the final step and can go no further. It appears as if she\u2019s outmatched when she comes face- to-face with the Red Queen\u2019s champion.\nAs the creature crouches down to spread his wings and savor his imminent victory, Alice jumps onto his long neck. He flings her into the air above, where she readies the Vorpal sword in both hands high over her head and shouts, \u201cOff with your head!\u201d Down she comes, separating the Jabberwocky\u2019s head from his body, which plummets to the ground. If that\u2019s not forcing your heart and nerve and sinew to\u2019 hold on\u2019, what is?\nThe disappearing Cheshire Cat (actual name: Chessur) invisibly lifts the crown off the Red Queen\u2019s huge head and reappears as he places the crown on the head of the White Queen. Mirana banishes the Red Queen and her knight to the outlands, where no one is to speak a word to her. Finally, all is as it should be in Underland.\nIf You Can Talk With Crowds and Keep Your Virtue, \u2018Or Walk With Kings\u2014Nor Lose the Common Touch\u2026\nAlice\u2019s demeanor with both queens was no different than her demeanor with every other character in the story. She treated everyone as an equal.\nWe\u2019ve already learned that her foes can\u2019t hurt her, and Alice also stands up to her loving family and friends, who might inadvertently, yet potentially hurt her by arranging her marriage to a man who\u2019s \u201cnot the right man for me.\u201d So Alice says when she turns down the future lord after returning from her adventure in Underland. She also proceeds to set everyone else straight.\nTo her sister, Margaret, who had told Alice she wouldn\u2019t do better than a lord: \u201cThis is my life, Margaret. I\u2019ll decide what to do with it.\u201d\nTo her mother, Helen: \u201cDon\u2019t worry, Mother. I\u2019ll find something useful to do with my life.\u201d And, indeed, she does.\nWell, in Alice\u2019s case it was queens, knights, a disappearing cat, a Mad Hatter, a Dormouse, a wild-and-whacky March Hare, a White Rabbit, the lord and lady of an English manor, and other quirky characters, all of whom Alice treated with dignity and respect, no matter what was transpiring.\nAnd\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be\u2026\nA fitting ending to both the poem and the film! After Alice\u2019s stirring speech about how she will \u201cfind something useful to do\u201d with her life, Lord Astor, father of the young man who asked for Alice\u2019s hand and the new owner of Charles Kingsleigh\u2019s trading company, saw a spark of fire. He and Alice\u2019s father had been good friends for many years, but the lord wasn\u2019t willing to invest his money in what he thought were Kingsleigh\u2019s flights of fancy\u2014particularly extending trade routes halfway around the world to Sumatra and Borneo.\nAs Alice concludes the polite admonition of her sister, her mother, Lady Astor (who hates white rabbits), and a couple of others who saw fit to intrude upon her life, Lord Astor says, \u201cYou\u2019ve left me out.\u201d Alice replies, \u201cNo, I haven\u2019t, sir. You and I have business to discuss.\u201d\nThey go to the lord\u2019s study, where Alice tells him she doesn\u2019t believe her father was thinking far enough. \u201cWhy not go all the way to China? It\u2019s vast, the culture\u2019s rich, and we\u2019d have a foothold in Hong Kong! Can you imagine it?\u201d\nIf anyone else had said that to him, he would have brushed it aside, but \u201cI\u2019ve seen that look before. As you\u2019re not going to be my daughter-in-law, perhaps you\u2019d consider becoming an apprentice with the company.\u201d\nThe film ends with Alice, transformed, boarding a frigate headed for China. She takes with her the confidence and courage born of her amazing experience in Wonderland. Alice stands on the bow of the ship as it leaves port, facing her future, when a beautiful, blue butterfly lands on her shoulder.\n\u201cHello, Absolem,\u201d Alice says in greeting. He flies off and leads the way to her future\u2014as she follows her heart and admirably fills every unforgiving minute tomorrow has in store for her.\nAnd that\u2019s how filmmaker Tim Burton inspires in our daughters the same ideals Rudyard Kipling inspires in our sons.\nWow! I really want to watch the movie now! I did read Alice in Wonderland when I was a kid, but never saw any movie versions. Thank you Sue for a very perceptive review. By the way, I really like your website.\nThanks, Your Highness! If you\u2019re only going to see one movie version, this would be the one! I wish you could see the movie in its original 3-D, but it\u2019s wondrous either way. So glad you like the Web site, too! We have lots of great stuff in store for you!\nThank you Sue. I am taking your advice. My friend has a 12\u2032 screen and has movie nights every few weeks, so I have asked him to add Alice in 3D to our movie schedule! Will let you know what I think after I see it!\nOooh, boy! Twelve feet. I wish I could be there, too! Enjoy!\nYou\u2019ve Lost Your Muchness \u00ab getrightwithyourlife says:\n[\u2026] the film with Rudyard Kipling\u2019s famous, inspiring poem, \u2018If\u2019 but for girls, here http://www.allthingsif.org/archives/1169) The Mad Hatter (Jihnny Depp) in Tim Burton;s Alice in [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 28827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anb.org/browse?btog=chap&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&t=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenownANB%3A1861&t0=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenownANB%3A704", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JIXSC4AURUDVPULBBUZTCISJHFVKWI3N", "length": 3426, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.anb.org", "title": "autobiographer | American National Biography", "raw_content": "Angelou, Maya (4 Apr. 1928\u201328 May 2014), writer, performer, and activist\nJacqueline S. Thursby\nAngelou, Maya (4 Apr. 1928\u201328 May 2014), writer, performer, and activist, was born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, the second child of Bailey Johnson, Sr., a doorman and Navy dietitian, and Vivian Baxter, a registered nurse, cocktail hostess, and Merchant Marine. Her brother, Bailey, Jr., nicknamed her Maya, and the name stuck. After their parents\u2019 divorce, the two young children were sent alone on a train from San Francisco to Stamps, Arkansas, to be met and raised by their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, and their father\u2019s brother, Uncle Willie, who was disabled. Grandmother Henderson had managed to build and own a general store with living quarters in the back, and it was also a safe black community gathering place in the segregated town. Uncle Willie provided a steady stream of good reading and high scholastic expectations, and their grandmother, \u201cMomma,\u201d taught them no-nonsense life skills, took them to church, and loved them....\nGoodwin, Ruby Berkley (1903-1961), actress and author\nJohn E. Hallwas\nGoodwin, Ruby Berkley (17 October 1903\u201331 May 1961), actress and author, was born in Du Quoin, Illinois, the daughter of Braxton Berkley, a coal miner and union organizer, and Sophia Jane Holmes, who had nine other children. She graduated from high school there and, in 1920, moved with her parents to Imperial Valley in California. She attended San Diego State Teachers\u2019 College for one year and later taught in El Centro, where, in 1924, she married Lee Goodwin, an auto mechanic. They had five children and adopted another. In 1931 the Goodwin family moved to Fullerton, where she attended Fullerton Junior College, held various jobs, and was extensively involved in civic organizations. From 1936 to 1952 she worked as personal secretary to actress ...\nJohnson, Osa (1894-1953), author, lecturer, and film producer\nJohnson, Osa (14 March 1894\u201307 January 1953), author, lecturer, and film producer, was born Osa Helen Leighty in Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of William Sherman Leighty, a railroad engineer, and Ruby Isabel Holman. In 1910 she left high school to marry Martin Johnson, whom she had met eleven years earlier when he visited Chanute as an eighteen-year-old itinerant photographer. In the meantime he had visited Europe alone and traveled with ...\nLee, Gypsy Rose (1914-1970)\nLee, Gypsy Rose (1914-1970), striptease artist, burlesque entertainer, and writer\nGypsy Rose Lee Photograph by Fred Palumbo, 1956. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-112035).\nStephen M. Archer\nLee, Gypsy Rose (09 January 1914\u201326 April 1970), striptease artist, burlesque entertainer, and writer, was born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of John Olaf Hovick, a newspaper reporter, and Rose Thompson. Lee\u2019s parents divorced when she was about four years old. She and her sister June (who later became screen actress June Havoc) lived with their mother\u2019s father in Seattle, where Rose Hovick, a prototypical stage mother, drove the girls into a show business career. They began by performing at several lodges to which their grandfather belonged. Lee described herself as a child as being \u201cbig for my age and more than just chubby\u201d with the nickname of \u201cPlug.\u201d Lee once described her childhood to a reporter: \u201cAt that time I wanted to die\u2014just for the vacation.\u201d...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 10705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 169.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/2005/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:43SSSLKG6Y7FS63UBLBPGCVERXE3A2UP", "length": 4461, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.apejet.org", "title": "a broken thought \u00bb 2005 \u00bb January", "raw_content": "Super Bumpy Clean Glass\nEngineers at Ohio State University are working on self-cleaning glass that would cause water to bead up and roll off. Think of it as a permanent coating of Rain-X. Not only that, but their bumpy, slick, glass could be used to reduce friction in micro-machines (the new technology, not the toy cars).\nGetting Cut Off\nI had some more tests today. I think I aced them all. Memory games, IQ tests, and everything else they could throw at me seemed way too easy now that I have my own little mental whiteboard. It almost feels like cheating. They asked me how I was doing it, and I explained it to them. They just nodded and made some notes. Typical, isn\u2019t it?\nApparently I\u2019m not the only one who has figured out how to work the whiteboard. To be honest, I got the impression from the questions they were asking that several others had figured it out a while ago. On the other hand, a few people\u2019s daydreams are more than they can handle and are causing serious problems. They think that it\u2019s something the psychologists will have to figure out, and that those people probably weren\u2019t too happy to begin with.\nThe bad news is that they\u2019re cutting me off. No more little white pills to keep me going. I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019ll be able to go before I\u2019ll start to feel like I need real sleep again. Actually, thinking back, it\u2019s been almost two days since I took my last pill and I feel fine. I think I have developed a bit of a caffeine addiction though, but who hasn\u2019t?\nOne last thing. They found my blog and have asked me to stop talking about the study. They even hinted that I should delete a few posts. They admit that I haven\u2019t broken any contracts or anything, but they want to make sure that nothing I say about these early studies will have an impact on how the public receives the final product. I guess I understand, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m doing any damage, so I\u2019m going to keep on blogging.\nJanuary 28th, 2005 | Posted in food\nLast night I made grilled chicken sandwiches for dinner. Unfortunately, I did something wrong and it came out really tough and flavorless. I may have rushed it and over defrosted in the microwave. I might have left it in the pan too long, or maybe the chicken was bad to start with. Anyway, it was bad. Jesse was nice enough to not complain, but I could see she was having a hard time eating it. Oh well, I\u2019m sure dinner tonight will go better.\nForty Thousand Words\nToday I passed the 40,000 word mark on my blog. Forty thousand is generally considered the minimum length for a book to be called a novel. Don\u2019t get me wrong. It\u2019s not that I think of my blog as a novel, it\u2019s just nice to have a number with which to compare my word coun. I think I still have a long way to go before I become even a decent writer, and even if I become a good blog writer, that doesn\u2019t make me a good argumentative, creative, or technical writer. Oh well, words are words, and this is still a nice milestone.\nFor the archive, here are my current stats:\nRecent Posts: 12\nOutgoing Links: 740\nJanuary 26th, 2005 | Posted in reference\nI created a little Phonetic Alphabet Study Guide to help me learn how to talk in preparation for my aviation class. It\u2019s not pretty, but it does the trick for visual learners like me.\nI went in for some more test, and to talk about the side effects I\u2019ve been experiencing. They suggested that I try meditation and biofeedback to help clear my head, and gave me a guided meditation CD. We did one session there at the office, and it really seemed to help. We also tried some relaxation techniques to help give my neck a break. They think it\u2019s cramping up because of the lack of rest, and that\u2019s contributing to my headaches.\nThe doctors warned me that some of the patients aren\u2019t doing so well. Nobody has gotten hurt or at least that\u2019s what they tell me. I guess some of the patients are having really bad hallucinations. They\u2019re taking precautions by asking anyone who has had problems with hallucinations to not drive, and they ask that I report it right away if I have any problems. The weird thing is that I have been having little hallucinations here and there. Nothing freaky or anything, and I can usually tell that it\u2019s not real right away, so I\u2019m not really worried about it. I didn\u2019t mention it to the doctors because I\u2019m a little worried about what the other \u201cprecautions\u201d might be. If it gets bad, and I\u2019ll go ahead and let them know, but not yet. I\u2019m not ready to stop quite yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 13811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:VVZQARZRKXR3JAR5XW4CPRYG5QV67JCC", "length": 2903, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.apejet.org", "title": "a broken thought \u00bb About", "raw_content": "Name: Aaron McBride\nLocation: Oak Park, California, USA\nEmail: aaron*apejet.org (change * to @)\nBooks/Authors:\nSites are always asking me to describe myself. Now I have to come up with something for my own site. Let\u2019s see\u2026\nI grew up in Mira Loma, CA. That\u2019s about 50 mi. east of Los Angeles. Whenever I met people from far away, I always thought it was weird that they assumed that I lived in LA. If someone lives 50 miles out of New York City, you wouldn\u2019t assume they\u2019re a city slicker would you? Okay, not quite the same thing, but close enough. I\u2019ve heard that Mira Loma is one of the smoggiest zip codes in the world. It\u2019s not because it\u2019s a big town \u2014 it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s because all of the smog from LA blows to the east. It\u2019s not exactly country either. Very few people have more than two acres, but most people there do own some sort of livestock (mostly horses).\nI went to private Christian schools until sixth grade when I switched to public. I think I learned more academically in private schools, but learned more about \u201cnormal\u201d people in public school. I always enjoyed learning, but hated busy work. I wanted to learn more than I wanted to get good grades. And yes, to a large extent, they are are mutually exclusive; at least at the schools I went to. I graduated from Jurupa Valley High School in 1995 with a little better than average GPA.\nFor college I started out as an Electrical Engineering major at Cal Poly Pomona. I did okay there, but mostly used the time to knock out my out-of-major classes (GEs, maths, sciences, etc\u2026). In June of 1996, my sister and I drove up to Yellowstone National Park where I had a summer job working in a fast food restaurant. The first day I was there I met my future wife, Jesse. We dated over the summer, and did the long distance thing when we went home \u2014 her to Texas, and me to California. That fall she applied to UC Davis and was accepted the following winter. The next summer (1997) we both worked in Sequoia National Park so that we could be together. She started school at UC Davis that fall which was nice because then we at least lived in the same state. I transfered to CSU Sacramento as a Computer Science Major in January so that we could live in the same town, and we got married in June of 1998.\nWe finished up our degrees, and moved back to Southern California in 2001. I have been working full time for Conversive since then. I\u2019d worked as an intern for them when I was in college. We both love traveling and the outdoors. We\u2019ve taken road trips as far as Canada, and also visited New York, Europe and Hawaii. We bought our first home in 2005. That same year, I started learning to fly. By December I earned my private pilot license and have been flying since then (well, not continuously).\nWell, that about covers my life story. Let me know if you think I left anything out, or if something big has happened and I need to update this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 5422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.app.com.pk/trying-to-help-pakistan-is-important-for-cricket-englands-collingwood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:58Z", "digest": "sha1:G6GVFPJOU5RW7HKC6UB4TJ4ZV5TGEBAQ", "length": 2661, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.app.com.pk", "title": "Trying to help Pakistan is important for cricket: England's Collingwood | Associated Press Of Pakistan", "raw_content": "Home Sports Trying to help Pakistan is important for cricket: England\u2019s Collingwood\nTrying to help Pakistan is important for cricket: England\u2019s Collingwood\nISLAMABAD, Sep 5 (APP): Former England captain Paul Collingwood, part of the World XI squad which will tour Pakistan next week, is hopeful the series \u201ccan be a significant step\u201d in bringing international cricket back to the country.\n\u201cYou can only imagine how demoralising it must have been for\nPakistan\u2019s players during the last few years and it\u2019s an\nopportunity to show and prove that they can hold big fixtures in\ntheir own country once again,\u201d he wrote in a column for the ICC\nwebsite, private news channel reported.\n\u201cPlaying away from their home would have done nothing to help them improve their game in the long-term and it must have been so frustrating.\n\u201cDespite that, I have to say I\u2019m not surprised that they\nstill topped the ICC Test Team Rankings last year and won the ICC\nChampions Trophy 2017, because when it comes to cricket, they\u2019re a\nhugely-talented nation.\n\u201cSometimes, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to get in terms\nof performance and that\u2019s why they can be such a dangerous\nopposition.. Getting those home games again \u2013 although there is a\nlittle way to go \u2013 would be a big thing,\u201d he wrote.\nReminiscing about his previous tour to Pakistan, Collingwood\nfondly recalled the passion of Pakistani fans. \u201cI\u2019ve had a taste\nof it myself because I toured there with England just after The\nAshes in 2005. It\u2019s a very passionate place and the atmosphere in\nthe grounds can be deafening, particularly in Karachi.\n\u201cI\u2019m sure that once we get out there, the locals will want\nPakistan to win, but they will see the bigger picture and they\nwill be behind us too,\u201d he said.\nThe 2010 T20 World Cup-winning captain said he cannot wait\nto play on Pakistan soil again, but regretted he would not be able\nto do much sightseeing because of the `head of state\u2019 security\nwhich would accompany the team.\n\u201cI\u2019m just looking forward to playing three really competitive games of cricket and for it to be as normal as possible,\u201d he wrote, adding that he was \u201creally proud\u201d of getting selected in the World XI squad.\n\u201cTrying to help Pakistan is important for cricket and no-one\ncan pretend the money isn\u2019t great \u2013 but, added to that, playing\nthem in their own back yard also really floated my boat.\n\u201cI\u2019ve not played international cricket since 2011, so to\nplay in games with full international status against the full\nPakistan side is very, very exciting and it\u2019s great to be\ninvolved,\u201d the 41-year-old cricketer remarked.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll have three great matches and hopefully we will have\nhelped in a small way,\u201d he added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arakanmedia.com/news/international-news/rohingya-repatriation-do-the-right-thing-bangladesh-writes-to-myanmar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:H6KD7YNUW54VLDWKKXF2HPRQICOBM6R3", "length": 2871, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.arakanmedia.com", "title": "Rohingya Repatriation: \u2018Do the right thing\u2019, Bangladesh writes to Myanmar | ArakanMedia News Portal", "raw_content": "Home News International News Rohingya Repatriation: \u2018Do the right thing\u2019, Bangladesh writes to Myanmar\nHundreds of Rohingya refugees shout slogans as they protest against their repatriation at the Unchiprang camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh November 15, 2018 Reuters\nThis is the first communication after the repatriation attempt failed on Nov 15\nFollowing the November 15 failed attempt to begin the Rohingya repatriation process, Bangladesh has communicated with Myanmar to reiterate the concerns of the refugees on Sunday.\nDhaka asked Yangon to address the concerns that refugees have to facilitate the safe, voluntary and dignified return of the persecuted people from Rakhine, diplomats in both Dhaka and Yangon told Dhaka Tribune on Sunday.\nA note verbale (government to government diplomatic communication), containing the issues to be addressed has recently been sent to the Myanmar government; they said requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to officially speak to the media.\nThis has been the first official communication between the two governments after the failed attempt to begin the repatriation on November 15, said the diplomats.\n\u201cYes, after the failed attempt, we have sent a note verbale to the Myanmar authorities to address the issues that were raised by the Rohingyas,\u201d a senior diplomat at the embassy in Yangon told this correspondent over phone.\nWhen asked about the content, he said that all the aspects concerning Rohingyas, especially verifiable safety and security in the short term, and citizenship in the long run has been mentioned in the letter.\n\u201cLet\u2019s see what they come up with,\u201d said the diplomat.\nWhen contacted, Ambassador to Myanmar Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury said: \u201cWe are always intent on engaging with Myanmar, the international community and the Rohingyas.\u201d\nA senior Foreign Ministry official said: \u201cWe have just informed what needs to be done on the other side of the border to begin the repatriation without any problem,\u201d\nDhaka is waiting for the reply, they said, stressing that living up to the pledges has never been Myanmar\u2019s strong point.\nIn accordance with a decision taken by the Bangladesh-Myanmar joint working group on repatriation on October 30 in Dhaka, the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas, who had to cross into Cox\u2019s Bazar to escape the unprecedented atrocities orchestrated by the Myanmar security forces, local Buddhist mobs and people from other ethnic groups in Rakhine, was supposed to begin on November 15 with the persecuted people earlier cleared by the authorities in Naypyitaw.\nBut, the repatriation could not go ahead due to the reluctance of the Rohingyas, who believe that the condition in Rakhine was unfavourable for their return.\nS: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/rohingya-crisis/2018/12/03/rohingya-repatriation-do-the-right-thing-bangladesh-writes-to-myanmar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 357, "original_length": 11620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arc2020.eu/alan-matthews-merkels-agricultural-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HYGDYWSIYMTNC7YEIIMTNA2V4ESRYXTY", "length": 7959, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.arc2020.eu", "title": "Alan Matthews | Merkel\u2019s Stance on Agricultural Policy", "raw_content": "HomeLatest from EU Member StatesAlan Matthews | Merkel\u2019s Stance on Agricultural Policy\n6 July, 2017 Alan Matthews Latest from EU Member States, Main stories\nBy Alan Matthews\nGiven the pivotal importance of Germany in shaping the future CAP, it is worth paying attention to what the CDU/CSU coalition have to say about agriculture in its just announced programme for government for the German elections in September. Not least because opinion polls currently suggest that Merkel will succeed in her bid for re-election.\n(Photo: NumberTen/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\nAmong other issues, there are commitments to maintain direct payments after 2020 (though no commitment to seek any particular size of the CAP budget), to maintain the two-pillar structure of the CAP, to improve the crisis instruments at the disposal of the Commission and a preference to compensate for biodiversity loss arising from agricultural production through financial compensation rather than land set-aside (though how this might work in practice is not spelled out).\nBelow is my rough translation of the agricultural section of the CDU/CSU programme for government.\nAgriculture has a future\nAgriculture, forestry and the food industry in Germany contribute greatly to economic activity, but also to the quality of life, culture and landscape management. These sectors provide valuable and modern jobs, training and apprenticeships particularly in rural areas.\nCDU and CSU have always been the party of agriculture and forestry. We value In particular the modern family-oriented agriculture and the diversity of family businesses. We want to promote and preserve them. Agriculture must have a future in Germany. Our mission statement is a diverse, sustainable, competitive, land-based and land-covering agriculture in the hands of family farms.\nWe stand for the preservation of creation. Therefore, we reject cloning from animals. We want a partnership between agriculture and society and therefore promote this dialogue. CDU and CSU stand for the protection of property. A widely dispersed property is the foundation of agricultural and forestry production in farmers\u2019 hands. We stand for maintaining a separate ministry for agriculture and the food industry.\n\u2022 The EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a very high priority for us. We stand for continuity in the Common Agricultural Policy and for maintaining the 2-pillar model. We also stand for the continuation of direct payments after 2020. CDU and CSU are the reliable partner for farmers. We will pay attention to agricultural structure objectives and support particularly active farmers, young farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises.\n\u2022 We want farms to have more time for their crop and livestock operations. That\u2019s why we will reduce the bureaucratic burden for administration and operations. We need more exemptions for small businesses and must prevent multiple checks.\n\u2022 We will launch an innovation fund for farmers. We want to accelerate technical, biological and digital progress such as precision agriculture through agricultural research and innovation. This will help us to make a further contribution to resource and climate protection. For this reason, an equal expansion of the digital infrastructure in the rural space is important.\n\u2022 Conventional and organic farming for us are not in opposition and both will be encouraged.\n\u2022 Through a livestock management strategy, which takes greater account of animal welfare, we want to create a greater social acceptance and to promote investment and planning security for enterprises. Agriculture and animal welfare are not opposites, but condition each other. Further improvements in animal protection we see as a cross \u2013 border challenge and we will strive for uniform standards in the EU. For CDU and CSU animal protection is an important concern, because animals are our fellow creatures.\n\u2022 The introduction of a new official animal welfare label can help to increase animal welfare and to improve the market opportunities of the holdings concerned. Further development in animal protection must be practicable.\n\u2022 Species protection is important and indispensable. To prevent misguided policies the protection status of animals and plants should be regularly reviewed in the light of their population development and, if necessary, adapted.\n\u2022 Land is the basis of production for our farmers. We want to curb the consumption of land and will therefore reform and simplify the compensatory area system. We want that interventions in nature, wherever appropriate, should be compensated not by additional land set-aside but by financial compensation. The resulting revenue should then be used to achieve ecological concerns in other ways.\n\u2022 The primary task of agriculture is food supply. We want to promote the appreciation of these high-quality domestic products through consumer education from childhood on. Therein lies a great potential to use food properly and to reduce waste.\n\u2022 Market prices must be fair and producers should be enabled to have a decent income. We require a permanent risk equalization reserve so that farms can set aside an amount tax free in good years to draw down in years with lower income. Market and production risks should not be borne by the producer alone. We want a fair supply chain with market responsibility of both processors and the retail trade. At EU level, we are committed to an improvement of the crisis instruments.\n\u2022 Particularly in relation to the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU we will take the concerns of the deep sea fishing industry especially into account.\n\u2022 In the interests of sustainable wood and raw material management, we will strengthen and use the future potential of the forestry industry, while taking account of environmental and landscape protection concerns.\nThis article originally appeared on Alan Matthew\u2019s blog, Capreform.eu\nAbout Alan Matthews\t5 Articles\nAlan Matthews is Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is a past-President of the European Association of Agricultural Economists and is currently a member of Ireland\u2019s Climate Change Advisory Council. He is a regular contributor to the blog capreform.eu on issues relating to the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy.\n\u2013Road Map for Good Food \u2013 Good Farming and a living countryside\n5 February, 2015 ARC Recent updates\nIn 2010 ARC2020 launched a \u201cCommunication from Civil Society to the European Union Institutions on the Future of Agricultural and Rural Policy\u201d which was elaborated over six months and adopted by a broad alliance of civil society organisations and networks. The Communication was submitted to the European Commission, to the Council and the Parliament on the same day when the Commission published its first outline for a reform of the CAP. During the following debate and negotiations of the future of agricultural and rural policies ARC2020 has strongly advocated for a paradigm change in agriculture and food systems and for an economic, social and environmental renaissance of rural areas. ARC2020 has become a European Platform for a debate on the future of farming and food. Our #ARC2020 conference \u2013 Good Food, Good Farming and a living Countryside \u2013 is an opportunity for renewing our civil society\u2019s agenda for the coming five years. We offer a framework for a ROAD MAP of goals and activities which ARC2020 and its partners could follow in the coming years, based on [\u2026]\n17 May, 2018 Oliver Moore Latest from Brussels, Main stories, Recent updates\nThere is, it seems, a lot of eco-spin and not a lot of public goods substance in the MFF CAP proposals. 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Many of these require a simple yet eye-catching logo that can be employed in a variety of uses. Others require a full brand design and production service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.archivoelectoral.org/partidos-politicos/progressive-citizens-party-fbp/386", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SEC2ZECTDI2N67X4KMJC2N7K2VYQOTI5", "length": 58, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.archivoelectoral.org", "title": "Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) | Archivo Electoral", "raw_content": "Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP)\nAurelia Frick\nwww.fbp.li", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arkcode.com/custom3_396.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PGSSGMM3EXFMUOJZD3UOMAV4MZX3IQSZ", "length": 4394, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.arkcode.com", "title": "Trump & Kelly Bimbo", "raw_content": "TRUMP AND THE MEGYN KELLY BIMBO REMARKS\nTrump and Megyn Kelly are literally mortal enemies. This page under construction on 1/31/2016\nDonald Trump doesn't like to lose. When Megyn Kelley and Fox News unsuccessfully set out to destroy him during the first Republican debate he had a right to be angry. When Fox refused to remove Kelly from moderating another debate he boycotted it and tried to hurt Fox financially. Each now has great vested interest in destroying the other. On the matrix below the axis term is MEGYN KELLY. On January 23, 2016 Trump said, \"They say I have the most loyal people - did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters.\" On this matrix SHOOTER is at the same skip as MEGYN KELLY, who works only a block from 5th Avenue. TRUMP touches her name. Her hostile question was about how Trumps sees WOMEN and an ELS of this word goes through her name. He tweeted about whether it was right to call her a BIMBO, and this word is parallel to her name and SHOOTER. The phrase TAKE HER goes through her name in the open text where there is a discussion about raping a woman who lost her intended mate in battle before a planned wedding. Trump and Kelly seem to be physical threats to each other.\nSTATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FIGURE 1. As per my standard protocol, no statistical significance is assigned to the axis term, here MEGYN KELLEY at its second lowest skip in wrapped Torah. The primary a priori word sought was a transliteration of TRUMP. Before factoring in ELS rank 2 of the axis term, a transliteration using a letter tav rather than tet for the T in his name was found on the matrix against odds of about 139.9 to 1. No extra value is assigned for the fact that his name and Kelly's name touch each other. The next most significant term was SHOOTER which is at the same skip as MEGYN KELLEY. It was found at a special case skip (+/- 1 or the absolute skip of the axis term) against odds of about 23.7 to 1. Of course, we don't know if Trump wanted to shoot Kelly for lack of respect but if he gets elected and manages to get Kelly fired (which she deserves) then she would probably like to do what is suggested by the term that match's her name's skip. BIMBO looks like it would be at a special case skip because it's parallel to the axis term, but since I had to use a row split of 2 to show MEGYN KELLEY and TRUMP, it's not. BIMBO is at half the skip of MEGYN KELLEY. It was found at a non-special case skip against odds of about 2.6 to 1. An ELS of WOMEN was located against odds of about 3 to 1, with no extra value assigned for the fact that it shares a letter yud with MEGYN. No value was assigned to TAKE HER because it was only noticed a posteriori. Overall, after factoring in ELS rank 2 of the axis term, the matrix was found against odds of about 13,611 to 1.\nA WORD ABOUT FOXNEWS. On most days FoxNews is on in my home almost continuously. This is necessary because other new networks all censor the news that isn't in line with rule by the Democratic (now Communist) Party. Fox has become the voice of the Republican Party, but more and more (like many Republicans) I'm disturbed by the fact that Fox is loading its staff with liberals or Independents who are all too fast to feed us nonstop propaganda for treason by Obama, Kerry, and the Clintons. Bill O'Reilly is a rude, arrogant, anti-Semitic, self-serving idiot who spends the last 10 minutes of his shows at 8 pm and 11 pm selling his Killing series books and reading us all his fan mail. None of this garbage is in line with real news coverage. The rest of his show is largely a combination of 4 to 5 minutes of discussion followed by 4 minutes of advertising. It's apparent that Fox seeks to control the Republican Party in much the same way that Obama (actually, whoever bought Obama) controls the minds of Democrats. Fox has turned its back on the one man who represents Judeo-Christian values and a sincere desire to defend our nation - Mike Huckabee, and Huckabee will likely endorse Trump. When he does (and hopefully earn the VP spot on the Republican ticket), I'll be right there with them both. As for FoxNews, I hate to admit this as an Orthodox Jew, but the news coverage is generally more substantial at Al-Jazeera. Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him? 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So we continue to define footwear with our wide range of products from the classics such as asadi Basic, asadi Active, Health Sandals, School Shoes, Ultralite Sandals, Children Shoes to the latest styles in the Flipper\u2019s collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.at0086.com/SUSTE/order.aspx?pid=941310", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CHVDJ5WRJ5AAF5BZPAXTGWCYKA6YVI5T", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.at0086.com", "title": "Welcome to Shandong University of Science and Technology ( \u5c71\u4e1c\u79d1\u6280\u5927\u5b66 )", "raw_content": "Thank you for choosing of Shandong University of Science and Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 11872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 142.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aviewfromthebalcony.com/2016/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TPORGRY4T3QPTOFCLMEKBY7NU7BN2YHZ", "length": 7224, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.aviewfromthebalcony.com", "title": "January 2016 | A View from the Balcony", "raw_content": "Ever since I did my Christmas #OOTD I've been desperate to do another. So apologies, but I'm back with my awkward posing pretending like I'm a fashion blogger or something. I know, I know, but humour me - at least for one more post.\nReview: A Year of Losing the Dating Game - Samantha Bye\nWhen I was deciding what to read whilst travelling, I knew I wanted to mix things up a little, and not just stick to my usual fiction choices. Plus, I'd read (and loved) Lena Dunham's Not that Kind of Girl in the summer and was keen to find some more non-fiction/ memoir/ anecdotal style books.\nI came across A Year of Losing the Dating Game when reading a review of it on someone\u2019s blog, and it seemed like a light-hearted and funny read, to break up the accumulation of slightly melancholic fiction I had collected.\nKuala Lumpur was the third stop on our trip, and we got the bus from Melaka to the capital city. There are so many buses between the two so there was no need to book; we got on a coach within minutes of arriving at the bus station in Melaka and the journey cost us \u00a34 each.\nAs soon as we arrived in Kuala Lumpur we were confronted with the difficulty of manoeuvring yourself around the city. Although there is an extensive rail network, the lines were built by different operators, meaning that stations and lines don\u2019t connect practically at all. In fact, it\u2019s even tricky to get around on foot, with the concrete highways sprawling in every direction across Kuala Lumpur.\nCan I just say, I don\u2019t remember the last time I actually had Sunday brunch, and that is basically a crime. Next Sunday anyone?\nReview: And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini\nI first came across Khaled Hosseini when I was in Sixth Form and he quickly became one of my favourite writers. The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns were books that I could have happily read in one sitting, and I loved the latter so much that I wrote my A Level English Lit coursework on it. And still liked it just as much at the end. If you're a fellow literature student you'll know that very few books manage to pass that test.\nI have been desperate to read And the Mountains Echoed since it was published, but I was waiting for Tom to finish the copy I had bought him (HA). Two years later I decided I couldn't wait any longer and I downloaded the book to read whilst travelling.\nAs I\u2019ve mentioned before, it wasn\u2019t until I got into blogging and started reading beauty blogs that I started looking after my skin. Blogger girls have got your back, thanks pals.\nSince then I\u2019ve been gradually trying out new products and trying to introduce them into my everyday routines. My skincare routine is by no means perfect, and I\u2019m not suggesting that anyone should be doing the same, but I wanted to share what I do with you so that I can talk through some of the products that I have loved since creating a skincare routine.\nWhen it came to choosing which books to download to my Kindle in preparation for two months away, All the Bright Places was one of the first I noted down. In the few months leading up to the trip I'd seen so many recommendations and posts/ videos talking about how amazing the book was, so my expectations were high. Too high.\nThe second place we visited on our travels was Melaka (sometimes written as Malacca), on the southwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. We travelled to Melaka by coach from Singapore, which is the easiest and cheapest way to travel between the two. It only cost nine pounds each and the coach was super luxurious with fully reclining seats.\nAs this is the first Sunday Brunch Post of 2016, I\u2019m just going to take a moment to say Happy New Year! 2016 already, huh?!\nI\u2019ve been loving this time of year for blogging; everyone\u2019s 2015 round-up posts and goals for 2016 have been so fun to read. Definitely leave me links in the comments to any you\u2019ve done, because I love reading them.\n*WARNING: This review may contain mild spoilers.*\nAlthough Markus Zusak\u2019s The Book Thief was one of the books that got me back into reading for fun after finishing my literature degree, it took me a long time to read. And I mean a long time. I started it at the end of my trip in America and didn\u2019t finish it until the beginning of my travels in Southeast Asia, a whole four months later. I can\u2019t pinpoint exactly why it took me so long to get to the end, because I loved the book, so much so that it made it into my 2015 favourites. But it didn\u2019t quite captivate me enough to be a book I couldn\u2019t put down.\nReview: The Railway Children - King\u2019s Cross Theatre\nLast week, once all the Christmas excitement had come to an end, I went to King\u2019s Cross Theatre to see The Railway Children for my little brother\u2019s birthday.\nThe Railway Children is a story which I somehow missed growing up, and is one of those classics that I\u2019ve never seen or read. But classics get their status for a reason, so I was excited nonetheless to experience an iconic tale come to life, particularly given the unusual set-up of this theatre.\nI knew this wasn\u2019t going to be a conventional theatrical space, given that one of the show\u2019s selling points is the 60 tonne steam train that arrives into the space, but beyond this I had no concept of how the performance would be played out.\nSingapore was the first stop on our two month trip, and as someone who had never been to Asia before, I would definitely recommend it as a good starting point and a slow transition into a new continent. I\u2019m a full-time worrier and am usually a little on edge when getting to know new places, and whilst Singapore was like nowhere I\u2019d been before, it did have the feeling of lots of different cities and cultures mixed together, so there were a lot of small familiarities.\nThe main preconception I had about Singapore was that it would be super clean, and that wasn\u2019t wrong. There was absolutely no litter, you could eat your dinner off the floor of the MRT (underground train network), and on almost every street corner there was someone jet washing the pavements.\nWhen I got back from travelling and drafted up a blog schedule for the forthcoming couple of weeks, I had 2016 Goals down for my first post of the year. But when it came to planning the post I realised that I didn\u2019t really have anything to say on the matter. I think that in previous years it would have been an easier post to write, especially when I was still at uni; join a new society, get X grade for the year, find an internship for the summer etc etc. But I\u2019m never one for New Year\u2019s Resolutions either, so rather than root around for a few things I want to achieve just for the sake of the post I thought I would kick off the year by spreading a bit of blogging love.\nAs I mentioned in Reflections on Blogging So Far and Reflections on 2015, 2015 was the year that I properly threw myself into blogging, and honestly a lot of my motivation was driven by the amazing bloggers I was following and from whom I was continually drawing inspiration.\nIf I were to mention every blogger who has inspired me over the past year, you\u2019d be looking at a 10,000 word post, so here are five who I particularly look up to and can always count on to boost my blogging ambitions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 11869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.axisgp.com/2013/02/erp-vs-warehouse-management-systems-which-is-best/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SEMPOSUCF25GKQP73YJST3YJMCO7TAAP", "length": 1997, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.axisgp.com", "title": "ERP vs. Warehouse Management Systems: Which is Best? | Axis Global Partners", "raw_content": "\u2190 Software as a Service \u2013 The Benefits to Your Business\nSmall Businesses Looking to ERP to Increase Efficiency \u2192\nIt has been around long enough to be considered one of those \u201cclassic debates\u201d: ERP warehouse management module or best-of-breed warehouse management system? One would think that by now this debate would have been settled. The facts and opinions have been examined for well over a decade, surely there must be a clear winner by now. If only it were that simple.\nThere are many reasons why this debate persists. One of the primary reasons is that companies are made up of departments and people that often have differing, or even conflicting, priorities. Sprinkled in among these differences are often strong opinions. Opinions are not easily altered and the people that hold them didn\u2019t get to where they are by quickly letting go of theirs in the face of debate.\nAnother key factor that keeps this debate fresh is the expansion of the dilemma to small and medium size companies. Early in the debate, most of the buzz was around SAP and Oracle ERP versus tier 1 best-of-breed warehouse management systems (WMS). Today, many ERP providers to small and medium businesses are also venturing down the path of expanding their suites to include warehouse management functionality.\nAlthough still playing catch-up, the likes of SAP and Oracle have made gains in the last few years and are closing the functionality gap versus best-of-breed warehouse management systems. Due to a later start, the same cannot be said of ERP providers to small and medium-sized businesses. In this space there still exists a significant gap with respect to warehouse management system functionality. If the debate were solely focused on functionality, it would be short-lived for small to medium-sized businesses. Since there are other factors to consider, the debate endures.\nDownload the \u201cERP vs Best of Breed WMS\u201d whitepaper to examine the debate between ERP and WMS for mid-sized companies more thoroughly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 8882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.baselinemag.com/it-management/agile-methodologies-help-tranform-a-nonprofit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TXYJA4V2O4KOQUGT64KYGCLFPTNEJQBS", "length": 3934, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.baselinemag.com", "title": "Agile Methodologies Help Tranform a Nonprofit", "raw_content": "IT Management / Agile Methodologies Help Tranform a Nonprofit\nBy John O. Saunders\nMost nonprofits are interested in process improvements that will better enable them to accomplish their respective missions. However, major change can be intimidating and complicated to implement, especially if the organization isn\u2019t quite sure what it needs to do differently or lacks the expertise to make it happen across the organization.\nAs a senior program manager with AIM Consulting, I had the opportunity to assist a nonprofit with a major business transformation using agile methodologies. The nonprofit is an endowed charitable organization whose mission is to reduce or eliminate the need for foster care through direct services to children at risk of abuse or neglect.\nTo achieve their strategic goals, the organization wanted to do two things: overhaul their entire practice and implement new technology that would enable social workers to better manage their cases.\nInitially, the nonprofit treated each goal as its own project and ran them simultaneously under separate project managers. They started the practice redesign by hiring a consulting company to create a new practice model\u2014a narrative document that describes the goals and values of the organization and how they go about achieving their mission.\nThese early efforts proved frustrating. The people who were most familiar with the organization were involved only sporadically in the process, and there were prolonged delays. The practice model was created through a waterfall-like process of conducting interviews, drafting, redrafting and editing.\nWhen the document was finally completed, it didn\u2019t reflect the organization\u2019s view of itself. After weeks and months with no results, the nonprofit's leadership knew they needed help.\nRealizing that they needed expertise in program and project management, the nonprofit turned to AIM Consulting. I was brought into the organization as an expert with 30 years of experience building and managing programs for companies of all types.\nThe nonprofit hadn\u2019t considered using agile methodologies, but a lot of techniques under the umbrella of agile were well-suited to the problems it was struggling to solve.\nAgile is project methodology typically used in software development. It was conceived as an alternative to waterfall methodology, a step-by-step process that relies heavily on documentation and has a long wait before a final product is delivered.\nIn contrast, Agile stresses frequent delivery of \u201cworking software\u201d through an iterative looping process of one-to-four-week increments called \u201csprints\u201d. Agile emphasizes collaboration and transparency, meaning that development teams and stakeholders work closely together so that everyone knows how the project is progressing and can collaborate quickly on changing needs.\nAgile is especially applicable for big, thorny projects with unclear outcomes that are subject to change as new business needs are discovered.\nAlthough the nonprofit was not developing software, it was developing their business\u2014redefining all their offerings and operations and implementing new tools to better serve children and families. This was a herculean undertaking that could only be successful through a disciplined approach to program and project management.\nMy first task was to create a program charter that outlined the goals and broke down the total quantity of effort into three major streams of activity: redefining the practice, selecting and implementing a new case management system and preparing the organization for widespread change. Accomplishing all three would be an interdisciplinary effort requiring participation from social services, research and IT, with more than 50 resources across the organization participating over a period of 18 months. The three streams of activity were broken down into 17 projects, most with specific deliverables, such as a new practice model.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.baselinemag.com/mobility/slideshows/tablets-take-their-place-as-essential-work-tools.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:23Z", "digest": "sha1:COI2OOVPQ43MH7XTHJP5H2LH65CFFUXW", "length": 2299, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.baselinemag.com", "title": "Tablets Take Their Place as Essential Work Tools", "raw_content": "Mobility / Tablets Take Their Place as Essential Work Tools\nTablets Take Their Place as Essential Work Tools\n73% of IT decision-makers surveyed said that tablets are a standard tech device offered to employees at their organization.\nOne-third said their company has developed tablet assignment/BYOD policies.\n51% said their enterprise allows employees to pay for and use their own tablets, and 53% said their organization pays for the devices.\nOperating Systems Used for Tablets\nWindows: 72%, iOS: 69%, Android: 60%\nDepartments Using Tablets\nIT: 93%, Sales/marketing: 70%, Executive suite: 67%, Business development: 63%, Administrative: 60%\n75% of IT decision-makers in companies that allow the use of tablets said the devices are companion pieces to laptops, and 85% said they supplement smartphones.\n61% said tablet deployment has met expectations, and one-third said they've exceeded expectations.\nOptimal Output\n81% of respondents said tablets increase productivity, and most of them said the increase is 20% or more.\n63% said tablets are more vulnerable to accident damage than traditional desktops, and 42% said they're more likely to experience a software security breach.\nTablets have emerged as standard work devices in most organizations, according to a recent survey from Dell. And, so far, these deployments are getting good reviews: Most IT decision-makers surveyed reported that tablets are meeting\u2014if not exceeding\u2014their expectations. An overwhelming majority of the respondents said that these devices are increasing employee productivity. Perhaps the widespread acceptance goes back to the \"Goldilocks\" factor: For users who consider laptops too clunky and smartphones too small to use as primary work machines, the tablet has emerged as \"just right.\" Nevertheless, tablets are not replacing laptops or smartphones. Given our obsession with perpetual connectivity, tablets are most frequently used in tandem with the other devices. Not all of the feedback from survey participants is positive, however, as a significant number of the respondents believe that tablets are more vulnerable to both physical damage and cyber-security threats than traditional desktop computers. 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Viciunai Group consists of 80 companies in 17 countries. The group employs more than 8000 enthusiastic people across its 13 processing sites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 122.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beingmvp.com/2017/03/4-great-backyard-ideas-that-will-save.html?showComment=1495134932376", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MGLD66TEQ6PXI55XC4R2QVHTLXNY2PRN", "length": 4270, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.beingmvp.com", "title": "being MVP: 4 Great backyard ideas that will save you a lot of money", "raw_content": "4 Great backyard ideas that will save you a lot of money\nIf you think about it, backyard is nothing more than an empty lot waiting to be utilized. Truth be told, most of us will see it as a space where you can have a lot of fun as you already have all the necessary things within your home. But, what if I told you there are ways to utilize your backyard to save money?\nThere are some really amazing ideas for your backyard that are not only great for your household but they are also very economic. Let\u2019s check them out.\nSolar panels are not the future; they are the present! For a while now, they were rather expensive and only a handful of homeowners were able to afford them. Nowadays, they became really cheap and it would be foolish to miss on this opportunity. A lot of governments all over the world are giving subsidies and are using other methods to stimulate people to buy them. This is not an economic trick; this comes from real need to conserve energy and save the planet. Although most people put solar panels on their roof (as it has the best access to the Sun) you can also place them in backyard as it allows much more panels to be placed.\nChemical companies are making a lot of money on fertilizers and other gardening products. But, there is no real need for you to buy those products. In fact, you can quite easily create your own fertilizers. All you have to do is keep all your organic matters. Then, create an empty area where you can dump them. Leave them be so they decompose creating a cohesive mass. Afterwards, all this bio matter can be utilized as a fertilizer without you spending a dime.\nWater barrels were popular for a long time. They have a simple concept where you put a barrel under your roof and wait for rainwater to pour down into it. Given its practicality, it was only a matter of time until people found a new, technologically advanced concept. Water tanks are relatively new form of water barrels. They are submerged into ground and as barrels, rainwater pours into them. This is where similarity stops. While barrels require a person to manage them and take water out of them, tanks are completely autonomous. They have rainwater tank pumps that are able to distribute water from tank to pipes and ultimately, your home. During this process, water is filtrated and if needed, warmed up. So, when you turn on the sink, you will get the same quality of water which you could\u2019ve gotten from a local water supplier.\n4. Planting a food garden\nWhen we say \u201cplanting a food garden\u201d we refer to both fruit and vegetables. Same as barrels, this was a solution that was used for centuries. However, in last couple of decades, homeowners wrongfully neglected it choosing to utilize their backyards in a fun manner. Changes in global climate and potential food shortage in future forced us to rethink our strategy. This way of thinking was further bolstered by the recent economic crisis that forced many families to manage on a low budget. With food and vegetable garden you are able to save so much money. On top of it all, you always know that the food you\u2019re eating is healthy and unprocessed. If you implement other solutions from this article (such as water tank, solar panels and compost) having a garden becomes that much easier and cheaper and it would be a real shame if you wouldn\u2019t do it.\nPosted by Elizabeth Pyo\n\u0646\u0635\u064a\u0628\u064a \u0627\u0639\u064a\u0634 \u0643\u062f\u0627 \u0646\u0635\u064a\u0628\u064a \u0627\u0639\u064a\u0634 \u0643\u062f\u0627 April 13, 2017 at 12:13 PM\nI've been wanting to start a garden. We are renting right now, though, so I would have to do a container garden, but I think I might give it a try.\nThese are some great backyard tips, thanks for sharing! I really want to have my own vegetable/herb garden someday.\nCindyWindy2003 May 16, 2017 at 10:42 AM\nWe've got a water barrell but I haven't picked up on the gardening at all. Something I want to do in theory but in reality hasn't quite happened.\nThese are great backyard ideas for saving money.\nThese are great ideas! We try to plant our own tomatoes every year so we don't have to buy them at the grocery store.\nAmber Ludwig October 31, 2017 at 11:14 AM\nAll things I plan to do when we have our own place!! That time really cannot come soon enough!!\nShelly Peterson November 15, 2017 at 12:44 PM\nLove these ideas. I would love to have my own garden.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betroyal.com/baseball-betting/dodgers-take-on-mets-in-baseball-betting-action", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4QIJEKBZ6KGWDSAEN35CVTEGDB7IS4DI", "length": 1942, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.betroyal.com", "title": "Dodgers Take on Mets in Baseball Betting Action | Baseball Betting", "raw_content": "Dodgers Take on Mets in Baseball Betting Action\nBet on the MLBThe New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers have both been on substantial post-break slumps. The 47-45 Mets and 49-44 Dodgers have both lost seven of their last ten games. The two teams start a three game series at Citi Field tonight. The two teams have already played each other in Los Angeles last month with the Mets going 3-1 in that series.\nTonight's game has the Dodgers' Aaron Harang taking on the Mets' Johan Santana. Harang is 6-5 with a 3.53 ERA. Santana is 6-6 with a 3.59 ERA and has gone 3-4 since early June when he threw his no-hitter against St. Louis. The two pitchers have technically gone on the same streaks as each other with Harang stuck near an even record throughout the year.\nThe big difference between today's series and the series that took place last month is that the Dodgers have a number of players who were not available back on the lineup. Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier were both injured and unavailable during the first series. Both players are going to be in this series. Kemp has a .354 average while Ethier is batting .295.\nThe Mets have Mike Baxter on the disabled list but this is the only substantial injury that the Mets have in terms of position players. The Mets have a .260 team batting average. This is much higher than the .248 that the Dodgers have been dealing with during the entire year.\nDavid Wright particularly leads the Mets in practically every notable offensive category. He has a .353 average, fourteen home runs and 65 RBI. He is one RBI behind St. Louis' Carlos Beltran for the National League lead and is third in the league in batting average.\nThe New York Mets have the early advantage on the current sportsbook line. The Mets have a -155 bet on them while the Dodgers are at +135. The game has an over/under of 7.5 runs in the game while the Mets have a +135 line to go at or over a two run lead for the final game result.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betroyal.com/nhl-hockey/nhl-hockey-odds-pens-sens-a-rangers-lead-east", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BZ7AM6GH3XOIL6KTKQ5MA3AHAB7DDUXK", "length": 2199, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.betroyal.com", "title": "NHL Hockey Odds - Penguins, Senators & Rangers Lead East | NHL Hockey", "raw_content": "NHL Hockey Odds - Penguins, Senators & Rangers Lead East\nBet on the NHLNHL hockey odds bettors have seen the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins bolt out of the hockey betting gate to take control of the Eastern Conference. NHL hockey odds handicappers have one big hockey betting surprise in the East as the Ottawa Senators have jumped out in front of the Northeast Division.\nThe Rangers 4-1 NHL hockey odds win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday extended their hockey betting win streak to 7 games. The big online betting difference for the Rangers so far has been the dramatic improvement of their offense. The Broadway Blueshirts ranked 2nd with the NHL hockey odds in goal scoring and were led by Marian Gaborik, who had 6 goals in their first 8 games. The Rangers defense, which was their strength with the NHL hockey odds last year, ranked 2nd as well. The Rangers are skating with increased confidence in the young season.\n\u201cA lot of it is confidence,\u201d said goaltender Henrik Lundqvist. \u201cEven though we know we\u2019re not having the best night, we have the confidence right now that we can win.\u201d Lundqvist is off to a phenomenal start with the NHL hockey odds as he was 6-1 with a 2.15 goals against average and a save percentage of .932.\nThe Pittsburgh Penguins look primed to defend their Stanley Cup championship this year as they beat the NHL hockey odds in 7 out of their first 8 games. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has continued to impress as he beat the NHL hockey odds in all 7 of his starts with a 2.10 goals against average. The Penguins were blowing out their NHL hockey odds opponents. That made for boring games to which right winger Pascal Dupuis replied, \u201cWe\u2019re winning, what\u2019s boring about that?\u201d\nThe Ottawa Senators won 5 out of their first 7 games to start the season. Ottawa\u2019s strength has been their defense and penalty killing as they ranked 2nd best in the NHL when down a man. Alexei Kovalev arrived from Montreal and has 3 goals and an assist. He scored a goal at Montreal in the Senators 3-1 win last Saturday. \u201cWe\u2019re getting more comfortable every night,\u201d said Kovalev. Atlanta looks like a potential bounce back team as they won 4 out of their first 5 games.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biasedtransmission.org/2012/08", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:655X6C5BWHA66GE3JFN3YA36PIH6T252", "length": 3941, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.biasedtransmission.org", "title": "August | 2012 | Biased Transmission", "raw_content": "My Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology article: The Evolution of Cooperation\nThis month the University of California Press published the Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. I have an article in it, written with Richard McElreath and Pete Richerson, on the \u201cEvolution of Cooperation.\u201d The article\u2019s intended audience are undergraduate biology majors and graduate students with backgrounds in evolutionary biology or ecology, but it might also be relevant to social scientists interested in evolutionary game theory. You can read the article, in its entirety, here. Below is a brief summary.\nIn the article, we try to give an overview of work in the evolution of cooperation and also alert the reader to some common misunderstandings, listed below. If you keep some of these ideas in your back pocket, you can pull them out at parties conferences to impress your friends colleagues! (YMMV):\nNot all observed cooperative behavior is altruistic. Many cooperative behaviors are mutualisms or coordination or threshold cooperation. (The article explains what we mean by these terms with a simple model of cooperative hunting in wolves.) Theorists and empiricists tend to focus on models of altruism, but it is important to determine what model of cooperation is most appropriate to the question being asked. However, this is often hard to do. (See also Tim Clutton-Brock and Brian Skyrms.)\nKin-selection and group-selection are not different mechanisms of selection, they are different ways of accounting for fitness effects in models of selection. This argument will not be new to regular readers of this blog, so I will not repeat it here. However, I should point out that our encyclopedia article was finished in summer 2010, before the huge dust-up over Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson\u2019s infamous anti-kin-selection article and before the recent anti-group-selection writings of Dawkins and Pinker. It turns out that our claim that \u201cold debates concerning the \u2018correct\u2019 style of analysis have largely faded in biology\u201d was, in retrospect, sadly premature. However, in editing the page proofs, we were able to sneak in a reference to this excellent review of the debate by Lion, Jansen and Day.\nAll models where altruism evolves are based on mechanisms of positive assortment \u2013 that is mechanisms where altruists are sufficiently more likely to interact with each other than with non-altruists. Plausible mechanisms of assortment are limited dispersal (biologists sometimes call this population structure or viscosity and social scientists sometimes call this clustering), signaling (green beards and kin recognition), and book-keeping (direct and indirect reciprocity).\nTit-for-Tat is not an evolutionarily stable strategy in the iterated prisoner\u2019s dilemma. In fact, there are no evolutionarily stable strategies in the interated prisoner\u2019s dilemma. In fact, there are no evolutionarily stable strategies in any sufficiently iterated game. This is an old result (see Boyd and Loberbaum), but many social scientists seem unaware of it. My guess is that this is because Axelrod\u2019s Evolution of Cooperation is still the most common introduction to cooperation in the social sciences and, while Axelrod\u2019s book should be required reading for anyone interested in cooperation, it is particularly confusing on this point. I will elaborate on this further in a future post\nIn humans, cultural inheritance is more likely to generate altruistic behavior in large groups than genetic inheritance. This is because it is much easier to maintain cultural variation between groups than genetic variation in the face of migration (i.e., the children of immigrants tend to adopt the cultural norms of their new group, but they still have copies of their parents\u2019 genes).\nIt occurs to me that the points in the above list will not be clear to many readers. This is just a taste! If you are interested in more elaboration and examples, give the actual article a try!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bible-prophecies.org/articles/Why%20should%20we%20stop.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6LMQ3LHD5T3U3KLQIVUDCSGCQNXS7VHI", "length": 25984, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "www.bible-prophecies.org", "title": "Bible Prophecies", "raw_content": "Why should we stop affiliating\nWith the Davidian SDA Headquarters\nIn Waco Texas, USA ?\n\u201cWe must be alert, too, to realize that the blow is to come from surprisingly unsuspected foes --- from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the priests in Christ\u2019s day.\u201d --\nThe White House Recruiter, p. 33.\nhe above statement is a portion taken from Bro. Houteff\u2019s warning, issued before he died in 1955. The whole statement could be read as follows :\nEvery honest reader would readily see for himself that there are at least two times knockout blows delivered by the Enemy\u2018s effort against God\u2019s message of today. And even the whole world would have witnessed by themselves that the deliverance of the blows had taken place as soon as after the death of Bro. Houteff in 1955.\nAs the message of today was then centralized at the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, the Headquarters which was established by the divinely appointed prophet of the Lord Himself in 1935, we should be sure that the first knockout blow delivered by the Enemy, had led to dissolution of the General Association of Davidian SDA and the liquidation of the whole Organization in 1962 by Mrs. Houteff. This is the reason why Brother Houteff in the same warning had said : \u201c Unparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy\u2019s effort to deliver a knockout blow.\u201d\nBetween 1962 and the 1991, there was no Davidian SDA Headquarters could be found leading at the Top of Carmel for about 29 years long. However, when we reconsider the warning further, when the servant of the Lord said :\nThis passage leads us further to be very careful toward the next General Association of Davidian SDA that was to emerged in 1991. This new Headquarters was established by the professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the priests in Christ\u2019s day. Though located on the same premises up to the future end of the harvest in the church, and even having the judicial power of all printing rights of the Shepherd\u2019s Rod publications, they still lack the favor of God. This should be seriously taken into consideration, because the next knockout blow was to come right from them, the surprisingly unsuspected foes \u2013 from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the Jewish priests in Christ\u2019s day. If the first knockout blow were the result of the Enemy\u2019s own effort to send the blow, the second one seemed clearly to come right from the professed friends of the gospel themselves. This is the reason why we have been warned to be alert too.\nThe Enemy had first successfully employed Mrs. Houteff in her capacity as President of the Association to succeed the late Bro. Houteff as soon as after his death. And the result is the whole Organization was dissolved and liquidated, and the message was repudiated as unhealthy. And later, with the professed friends of the gospel, who are not at all suspected by most of our people to be foes emerged in 1991, they are just to be the antitypical Sanhedrin of today in this time of the harvest, because they are no less pious than were the Jewish priests in Christ\u2019s day., thus said Bro. Houteff. Satan has successfully recruited them to be his appointed agents, so that the next knock out blows (after 1991) were no more delivered right by the Enemy himself against the message and the people, but enough through the unsuspected friend of the gospel, who are just the staunch defenders of the message even up to this very moment.\nTo fulfill the prophetic words of prophet Isaiah\nIn his Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 43 Bro. Houteff had ever written the following passage :\nThe statements, \u201cI have trodden the winepress alone,\u201d \u201cI looked, and there was none to help ; and I wondered that there was none to uphold\u201c (all in the past tense) show the Savior\u2019s zeal and determination to save His misled people at His first advent, though there was no one with Him to help; that is, all the priests and religious leaders \u2013 the General Conference of His day (the Sanhedrin) were against Him instead of helping Him in His work. But the statements, \u201cfor I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment; for the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come\u201c ; and \u201cI looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore Mine Own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My fury, it upheld Me (all in future tense) --- show the present church\u2019s condition not only equally as bad as at His first coming, but even much worse. How true that history repeats! As the day of vengeance approaches, those who are supposed to uphold and help in the work of redemption, the ministers and religious leaders, the antitypical Sanhedrin of today (the General Conference) are seen to be hindering, standing in His way of reaching the people. Thus they incur His displeasure, and necessarily He girds Himself to free His people from the hands of the unfaithful shepherds. They cause Him to stain His garments with their blood as He tramples them in His fury.\u201d \u2013 Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 43.\nAlthough during the time he wrote the Timely Greetings, vol. 1, No. 43, he had mentioned the General Conference of SDA as the antitypical Sanhedrin of today to be the main foes to block the present Truth to reach the people, several years later when he warned us through The White House - Recruiter, p. 33 he said : \u201cWe must be alert, too, to realize that the blow is to come from surprisingly unsuspected foes --- from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the priests in Christ\u2019s day.\u201d\nSince the warning of the White House Recruiter was directed specifically to the present Truth believers affiliating with the Head Quarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, then we must be surely positive that the present leadership of the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, will be the last of the antitypical Sanhedrin of today.\nNot only is the General Conference of SDA to be the antitypical Sanhedrin in this time of the end, but even the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, USA, will be the last antitypical Sanhedrin of today, as well.\nAn addition to the prophetic words of prophet Isaiah Bro. Houteff warned us the following words :\n\u201cEverything that can be done against God\u2019s message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven\u2019s message in the days of Christ\u2019s first advent, for the Devil knows that if he loses now, he loses forever --- that he is to have no other chance. Unparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy\u2019s effort to deliver a knockout blow ! \u201c \u2013 The White House Recruiter, p. 33.\nThis warning is a general and strong warning, that applies for the safety of our people up to the end of time. What was mentioned in that warning had actually taken place as soon as after the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955. And the result is clear that the Top of Carmel as the re-organized body of the General Conference of SDA (to meet the Call for a spiritual Revival and Reformation, Review and Herald, February 25, 1902) had been dissolved.\nBut, with the re-establishment of the General Association of Davidian SDA in 1991, located on its original location, by those professed friends of the gospel, whose piety are no less than were those of the Jewish priests in the time of Jesus, do you think the Devil would be idly standing by, and only as an ordinary onlooker observing on the whole situation ? Do you think the Devil will be more lenient today toward the present leadership in Waco, Texas, than against those under the leadership of Mrs. Houteff ?\nThe Devil knows that if he loses now, he would lose forever \u2013 that he is to have no other chance. This is to prove that with the re-establishment of the Headquarters in 1991 the Devil would be more aggressive than ever before. And this is to be proven from the fact, that prior to the death of Bro. Houteff, we have been advised: \u201cUnparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy\u2019s effort to deliver a knockout blow.\u201d But after the knockout blow succeeded to get Mrs. Houteff fallen and the Headquarters dissolved, we were yet advised to be alert, too, for the next knockout blow would come right from the re-established Sanhedrin themselves. This is the antitypical Sanhedrin of today established in 1991, at the same location in Waco, Texas, USA. And it is yet to exist up to the end of the harvest in the church.\nType to meet Antitype :\nTreading the winepress in Edom and In Bozrah :\nSlaughter of Ezekiel 9 in SDA and in Davidian SDA\nLet us turn again to the reading of the Timely Greetings, Vol. 1 No. 43 in which the servant of the Lord, Bro. Houteff said :\nIsaiah 63 : 1 --- \u201cWho is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.\u201d\nIn vision the prophet saw someone with bloodstained garments hastily returning from Edom and Bozrah. To the prophet\u2019s question, \u201cWho is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?\u201d came the answer, \u201cI that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.\u201d\nWho else could this person be but the Lord Himself, the Savior of the world, the Mighty One to save?\nIsaiah 63 : 2 --- \u201cWherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat?\u201d\nThe Lord\u2019s brief explanation of the situation is amplified by the prophet Ezekiel. Says He:\n\u201cHe cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer\u2019s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which has the writer\u2019s inkhorn by his side; And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. .And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.\u201d\u2014 Ezekiel 9 : 1 \u2013 6. --- Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, N0. 43.\nFrom the above clarification by Bro. Houteff, we have discovered that Christ, at His first advent, He should have had treaded the winepress not only in Edom, but also in Bozrah. Since the history repeats itself in the time of the end, then the typical event in the past must eventually repeat itself anti-typically in this time of the end. Thus it is, that the prophecy of Ezekiel 9 : 1 \u2013 6 would at last be fulfilled, not only in the antitypical Edom of today, wherein the antitypical Esauets now hold their tightly control, but also in the antitypical Bozrah wherein the servants of the Lord have been concentrated but failed to arouse to the Eleventh-hour Call of their Lord to uphold the work, so that the Lord should have accomplished the treading of the winepress Himself without them. In other words, the Lord should have accomplished the harvest of the first fruits in the church alone without any helping hand coming from His servants in the antitypical Sanhedrin of today in Waco, Texas, USA.\nTarget of the Eleventh-Hour Call now unraveled\nThe Eleventh-hour Call is the last message of the angel of Revelation 18 : 1, that is to unite his voice with the message of the angels of Revelation 14., which is the Spirit of Prophecy by Mrs. Ellen G. White. It is the message from God that came in 1929 through His own appointed prophet, namely Bro. Victor T. Houteff.\nSince this last message was at the outset rejected on and on even up to now by the General Conference of SDA, then the target of the Call is the lay members. Mrs. White said :\n\u201cThe words of Christ apply to the Church : \u201c\u2018Why stand ye here all the day idle ?\u201d Why are you not at work in some capacity in His vineyard? Again and again He has bidden you : Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.\u201d But this gracious call from heaven has been disregarded by the large majority.\u201d \u2013 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 203.\nBro. Victor T. Houteff was the first layman of the Church to welcome the Eleventh-Hour Call, that he was specifically appointed by the Lord to be His mouth-piece for us. As ever before \u201cGod has a church, and she has a divinely appointed ministry. \u2018And He gave some apostles; and some, prophets; and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..etc. \u201c\u2013 Testimonies to Ministers, p. 52.\nSo as one of a divinely appointed ministry in 1935 he was not alone to reorganize the General Conference of SDA into becoming the General Association of Davidian SDA located in Waco, Texas, USA.\nAnd the process of re-organizing the General Conference of SDA was not wrong, because they had acted accordingly to fulfill the Call for a Spiritual Revival and a Spiritual Reformation as stipulated in the message by Mrs. E. G. White in the Review and Herald, dated back in February 25, 1902.\nGeneral Conference of SDA as the angel of Laodicea must be spewed out of the mouth of Jesus, according to the prophecy. Due to its unpardonable sins against the Spirit of Truth, accumulated from time to time, the year 1935 is seemingly fit for it to be succeeded by the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, USA. But for how long will the General Association of Davidian SDA stand, and how strong could it withstand the Dragon of Revelation 12 : 17 in this time of the end ?\nAs long as Bro. Houteff was still alive he had successfully interpreted all the prophecies of the Old Testament and the parables of Jesus of the New Testament. He had proven that we are now living in the time of the end, when the Spirit of Truth of John 16 : 13 has guided us into not only ALL TRUTH, but showing us THE THINGS TO COME as well. We have in possession of the Law and the Testimony of Jesus Christ in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. And for that end, we should have been able to withstand the Dragon of Revelation 12 : 17. He then warned us as follows :\n\u201cEverything that can be done against God\u2019s message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven\u2019s message in the days of Christ\u2019s first advent, for the Devil knows that if he loses now, he loses forever --- that he is to have no other chance. Unparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy\u2019s effort to deliver a knockout blow!\u201c \u2013 V.T. Houteff.\nHowever, from the fact it was totally different. As the power of the Organization could no more be strong enough to withstand the Dragon after the death of Mrs. White in 1915. Even after the death of Bro. Houteff in 1955, as founder of the re-organized body of the Organization of General Conference of SDA, it was then in 1962 dissolved and completely liquidated. Let alone the present Organization on the Top of Carmel, whose founders were only those, whose piety are no less than were the Jewish priests in Christ\u2019s day ?\nTargets of the Eleventh-Hour Call must inevitably now unraveled to meet the words of the Lord Himself when He said :\n\u201cThe words of Christ apply to the Church : \u201c\u2018Why stand ye here all the day idle ?\u201d Why are you not at work in some capacity in His vineyard? Again and again He has bidden you : Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.\u201d -- EGW.\nThe words of Christ apply only to the lay members of the Church, no more to those of the Organization of the Church. This is the original target of the Eleventh-Hour Call ever since the beginning. Mrs. White said :\n\u201cIt is a fatal mistake to suppose that the work of souls saving depends alone upon the ministry. (Organization) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 God will send forth into His vineyard many who have not been dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands.\u201c \u2013 The Acts of the Apostles, p. 110. (In brackets added).\nIf you could agree with me that, for now, the vineyard is the church wherein the first fruits of the harvest are to be gleaned, then you should have agreed also that many vanguards of the Lord will soon emerge from among lay members as divinely appointed ministers and teachers, without first being dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands, either at the Headquarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, or at some other places. This is to show us that many vanguards will soon disclose to view without the consent of those leading at the Top of Carmel.\nThus is the case, that we must never again suppose to think that the message of the Shepherd\u2019s Rod as the Eleventh-hour Call, after being published and proclaimed by Bro. Houteff, it should be succeeded and accomplished only through the leadership of those now leading at the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, USA.\nMost of the publications of the message have long reached the lay members in the field. Brother Houteff said : \u201cMillions ! So it is that these small comprehensive publications, the bright clouds, laden with present Truth, are now being scattered as leaves of autumn throughout Laodicea to every church member, \u201cto every one grass\u201d in the vineyard of the Lord. The final results ? More than one thousand will soon be converted in one day \u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d TG. Vol. 1, No. 17, p. 5.\nHow to face\ncontradictive passages of the message\nAlthough Bro. Houteff has successfully interpreted all the prophecies and the parables of Jesus into THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, he was no more alive when all the prophecies one after another meets their fulfillment in these times of the end. Therefore when contradictive passages of the message arise, let us not turn to the antitypical Sanhedrin to find the solution, but let us go to a divinely appointed teacher to find the way out. Bro. Houteff ever said :\n\u201cThe Bible and the books of the Spirit of Prophecy being the sole source of the Shepherd\u2019s Rod message, therefore when the Rod is taught, the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy are taught. \u2026\u2026\u2026.. we must therefore, as teachers of the Shepherd\u2019s Rod teach only in the light of the Rod those passages which in one way or another need to be interpreted. Thus only will all Present Truth believers ever become of the same mind, seeing eye to eye and speaking the same thing.\u201d \u2013 Fundamental Beliefs, pp. 26, 27.\nWhatever passages of the message that still need to be interpreted, let them be interpreted by a divinely appointed teacher of the Rod or a vanguard. And the result would certainly be contradictive to those of the antitypical Sanhedrin of the Top of Carmel .in Waco, Texas.\nA portion of a sermon entitled, \u201cToday if ye will hear His voice harden not your heart!\u201d The servant of the Lord said :\n\u201cThe prophet Jeremiah in the following words explains that this wailing by those who are thus deceived will be at the close of probation. For they shall say \u2018the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.\u2019 That is, after the harvest, the time in which they could have been saved, they will realize that the probationary time has closed. Then the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.\u2019 Hence, before that time the top of Carmel must have been green with much pasture, otherwise there would be nothing to wither; that is, though Carmel has n o w (in 1935) plenty of pasture (present truth), when probation closes it shall be deserted (\u2018wither\u2019), for says the Spirit of Prophecy : \u2018In the time of trouble we all fled from the cities and villages.\u201d \u2013 Early Writings, p. 34. ---THE SYMBOLIC CODE, Vol. 1, No. 14. (August, 1935), pp. 5 \u2013 7.\nThis sermon was given in 1935 wherein the Mount Carmel was first officially established as the permanent location of the General Association of Davidian SDA. But from the statement : \u201cThen the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn , and the top of Carmel shall wither,\u201d it is conclusively clear that the whole sermon was predicting the fate of only present Truth believers who have been affiliating with those now leading at the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, USA.\nBro. Houteff in his message has deemed the General Conference of SDA leadership as the antitypical Sanhedrin of today. Although the angel of the Church of Laodicea has been spewed out of Jesus\u2019 mouth in 1935, he is yet to stand regally up to the close of probation. And regarding the General Association of Davidian SDA Headquarters in Waco, Texas, though not straightly be deemed the antitypical Sanhedrin of today, the mention of their piety that is no less than were those of the priests in Christ\u2019s day, is enough to prove, that they also are worthy to be deemed the antitypical Sanhedrin of today. They are yet to stand regally up to the close of probation, to which they are yet to account to the mourning multitude whom they have deceived for so long.\nGod is taking the reins in His own hands\nMrs. E. G. White has ever predicted in the following words : \u201cLet me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message (of THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY) to be given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness.\u201d \u2013 Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300. (In the brackets is added)\nIf we could be sure that the last message of the eleventh-hour Call is the message of the angel of Revelation 18 : 1, that is now united with the message of the third angel of Revelation 14, enlightening our Church, then this is the last message indeed. It is the message for accomplishing the harvest of the first fruits in the Church prior to the harvest of the second fruits in the world.\nSince the Lord has to work alone without any helping hand upholding from His servants of the Sanhedrins, either of the General Conference of SDA or of the Headquarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, then no wonder if Mrs. White should have said :\n\u201cThe Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning.\u201d What does this mean ? Let us turn to the parable of Jesus, when He said :\n\u201cAnd though harvest time is the shortest of all the periods of the harvest year, the work of reaping is not done in a moment; it takes time. The yield is not garnered by turning the field right into the barn; no, that would be a conglomerate mass instead of a harvest. First the sickle is put to the grain, and next the grain is bound into sheaves, then threshed, after which it is put into the barn; and thereafter the chaff and the tares are destroyed. This work being completed during the autumn, it shows that the harvest is a season of time after \u201cthe summer is past,\u201d and that it is followed by the fruitless winter period. So it must be with the spiritual harvest, which otherwise could not be illustrated by the literal. Do not regard lightly the wisdom of God : His illustrations are perfect.\u201d \u2013 The Judgment and the Harvest, p. 65.\nTo help speed up the work of harvest just in this time of the end, Bro. Houteff said :\n\u201cBecause the work is so broad, its expansion so vast, and its importance so great, God has inspired modern science to invent, and build speedy equipment to quickly finish His work. \u201cBut thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall understand. (Daniel 12 : 4, 10).\u201d \u2013 2 Shepherd\u2019 Rod, p. 229.\n\u201cMany shall be purified, and made white, and tried\u201d, that is, as grain they are to be r e - a p e d and then bound into sheaves, then threshed or tried during a short time of Jacob trouble, prior to their deliverance to the Kingdom in Palestine (the barn).\nAnd as the result of the harvest in the Church many new associations of Davidian SDA would have emerged in many places of the world. And for edifying the body of Christ the Lord will have appointed more vanguards. This is what the servant of the Lord ever said:\n\u201cGod will send forth into His vineyard (Church) many who have not been dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands.\u201c \u2013 The Acts of the Apostles, p. 110. (In brackets added).\nGod has inspired modern science to invent, and build speedy equipment as ways and means to quickly finish His work. And He will bless those ways and means to be applied successfully through His appointed agencies. By this it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 31814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blamefootball.com/2018/10/09/manchester-united-midfielder-set-for-la-liga-move-in-january/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4HVDRYTV7ZGCUHAPBDREEDPHUIUMGQWM", "length": 2120, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.blamefootball.com", "title": "Manchester United Midfielder Set For La Liga Move In January", "raw_content": "Manchester United Midfielder Set For La Liga Move In January\nBy Shawn Ivan D'souza | October 9, 2018\nAnder Herrera could join Athletic Bilbao once the transfer window opens in January.\nManchester United\u2018s midfield has undergone a lot of changes since Sir Alex Ferguson\u2019s retirement in 2013. Scholes and Carrick have played out their time at Old Trafford, and Fergie\u2019s successors have brought in a bunch of players to the club in the subsequent years.\nAnder Herrera is one of them. The Spanish midfielder was a long-term target for the Red Devils. He was set to join the club under David Moyes, but due to fake representation, the move broke down, and Manchester United turned their attention towards Marouane Fellaini.\nIn 2014, Louis van Gaal arrived at the helm of Old Trafford and made Herrera one of his first signings. Since then, the midfielder has made 164 appearances for the Red Devils, scoring 17 goals across all competitions.\nZidane\u2019s Agent Provides A Massive Update Regarding His Next Destination\nMourinho\u2019s arrival has seen the player fall down the pecking order. The Portuguese gaffer has brought in Fred, Nemanja Matic, and Paul Pogba over the past three seasons, which has reduced Herrera\u2019s playing time significantly.\nAccording to a Basque source, El Correo, Athletic Bilbao made an attempt to sign their former star last summer. Los Leones are monitoring the player\u2019s situation in Manchester, and are set to make an approach in January, as his contract expires at the end of this season.\nREVEALED: Why Man United Officials Met With Mourinho\u2019s Agent\nManchester United might sell the Spanish midfielder in the upcoming transfer season. Mourinho is packed with options in the midfield, and wants to raise funds for a quality centre-back to reinforce his shaky defence.\nHowever, if this departure does materialise, the fans shall be frustrated to see another player being sold away after showing some impressive performances and passion for the club during this difficult period.\n\u2190 Manchester United Could Lose Their Most Important Player For FREEWhat Pogba Said To Mourinho During Half-Time vs Newcastle \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bobcornwall.com/2010/07/why-progressive-theology-matters-god-is.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TCDP77PS737NFV2IVNB64VBRV5JK24LN", "length": 9927, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.bobcornwall.com", "title": "Why Progressive Theology Matters: God is Still Speaking (Bruce Epperly)", "raw_content": "Why Progressive Theology Matters: God is Still Speaking (Bruce Epperly)\nThere is a verse that appears near the close of the book of Revelation, which suggests that anyone adding to the book faces divine curses. Some have taken this little message to be speaking of the Scriptures as a whole, so that if you share any revelatory materials beyond this passage, then God will get you. In other words, God has spoken once and for all and is now forever silent. But is God forever silent? Could it be that God might still be speaking?. Remember that this passage only works because of its placement at the end of the canonical books of the New Testament, a placement that was in doubt as late as the fifth century. But, if God is still speaking, how is God speaking and what does this mean for us? Bruce Epperly once again points us toward progressive theology, suggesting that it has resources that might help us hear God's voice today.\nWhy Progressive Theology Matters:\nMy denomination, the United Church of Christ, proclaims \u201cGod is still speaking\u201d in much of its literature, but is still trying to figure out what this statement truly means for moderate and progressive Christians. I believe this statement takes people in the United Church of Christ and other denominations much further than its original intent: it asks us to become practically-oriented mystics. In fact, the affirmation that \u201cGod is still speaking\u201d is at the heart of a spirit-centered progressive faith that can transform the face of North American Christianity. In light of the recent Pew Center report, indicating that 50% of mainstream Christians have had mystical experiences, today\u2019s progressive and moderate Christians are challenged to claim their spiritual experiences and develop open-ended practices appropriate to progressive Christian theology.\nToday, progressives need to claim a holistic spirituality that embraces action and contemplation, and mysticism and social transformation. Progressive theology has untapped resources for holistic mysticism and spiritual transformation. First, of all, progressive theology affirms the universality of God\u2019s presence and revelation. God is moving in and through all things; no one is exempt from revelation. God touches everyone and everyone can touch God. Second, progressive theology affirms that God is alive and constantly creating in our world. The affirmation that \u201cGod is still speaking\u201d embraces and joins spirituality and social transformation. God is constantly doing a new thing in widening the scope of liberation and healing for us and all creation. God\u2019s new vision invites us to go beyond biblical literalism and exclusiveness to affirm God\u2019s presence in science, medicine, evolutionary theory, and gender and marriage equality. But, just as important, God is inspiring us in new ways as individuals, calling us to explore new dimensions of spiritual formation and healing and wholeness. Third, the dynamic divine-human \u201ccall and response\u201d brings forth constantly new possibilities for creativity and adventure in spirituality, politics, and relationships. Our changes inspire God to act in new ways and divine activity inspires us to embody new paths of faith and action.\nThe God who is \u201cnew every morning\u201d and \u201cnew every moment\u201d invites us to novel forms of spirituality and social concern appropriate to our time and place. A joke among United Church of Christ folk is \u201cGod is still speaking, but is anyone listening?\u201d Listening to God implies that we trust God\u2019s voice in our lives as we open to the many media of revelation \u2013 in moments of quiet contemplation, intuitive experiences, dreams, encounters, literary work, meditative practices, yoga and energy work, and calls to service. Listening to God inspires us to let our lives speak through actions that transform our relationships and social structures.\nToday, progressive Christianity needs to come out of the closet and claim its spiritual gifts and resources. Our churches need to become laboratories of the spirit, inspiring our care for this good earth. Today\u2019s Christianity needs holistic spiritual practices, embracing the traditions of Christianity in a new and creative ways, and open to the insights of non-Christian spiritualities.\nProgressive Christianity can be a leader in dynamic global spiritual formation that embraces the quests of seekers within and beyond the church.\nBruce Epperly is Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Continuing Education at Lancaster Theological Seminary and co-pastor of Disciples Community Church in Lancaster, PA. He is the author of seventeen books, including Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living and Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry .\nBruce Epperly Canon of Scripture Churches and social justice Equality Guest Posts Holistic spirituality mysticism Progressive Theology Spirituality Voice of God\n(an excerpt from \"Reclaiming God\")\nGod has always been the same. God does not change. What is changing is our expanding view of God and the increasing wisdom of our understanding of God and the Godly life we are called to live. From Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, through the entire course of the Biblical scripture, God is calling us from within the scripture to grow and to continually move forward and to mature beyond the view and wisdom found in the scripture. From mere existence through tribal justice through the detailed code of the Law of Moses through the revelation by Jesus of the dual foundation and purpose and expectation of the Law through the invitation to live a new life of resurrection and transformation with God as the only ruler of our new life. God is continuously calling us to grow and to move forward and to mature beyond our usual human existence to be the Kingdom of God. Without the requirement of death as a precedent, we are constantly invited to be resurrected for and transformed into the Kingdom of God for our life and especially the lives of others. We are called to live here and now a life of resurrection and transformation as the Kingdom of God - this is the Good News.\nGod is Always New\nGod is never old\nGod is never silent\nnew additions to \"GOD IS...\"\nhttp://dcsloan.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/god-is/\nJohn King said\u2026\nA great article. I think the experience of God fills the need of human spirituality. I am interested in the places, circumstances, and situations in which we encounter God. With God being everywhere and in everything it seems that we could encounter God at any time, place or circumstance (and I think that is true); however, for me, it seems that certain places, circumstances, and situations prompt the encounter with God more than others. I wonder how we can or if we can determine the validity of those encounters? I have many thoughts on the answers to those questions, but I enjoy the questions more - questions are one of the contexts in which I encounter God.\nJohn King,\nfrom \"The Heart of Christianity\"\n\"A thin place is anywhere our hearts are opened. To use sacramental language, a thin plce is a sacrament of the sacred, a mediator of the sacred, a means whereby the sacred becomes present to us. A thin place is a means of grace.\"\n\"Thin places can literally be geographical places. For Celtic Christianity, the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland is a classic thin place. So also are traditional destinations of pigrimage.\"\n\"There are many kinds of thin places. ... Nature, especially wilderness areas, can sometime become a thin place.\"\n...\"Even times of serious illness, suffering, and grief can become thin places. They do not always, of course, but sometimes our hearts are broken open by such experiences.\"\n\"People can become thin places. Many of us have known at least one or two people through whom we experienced the presence of the Spirit at particular junctures in our lives.\"\n\u201cGod is still speaking\u201d is true provided that it means that God still speaks through his Word. However, liberal/progressive theologians tend to use this phrase to mean that God is changing his moral laws.\nRemember, these are the people who didn\u2019t believe what He said the first time around in his word. And I\u2019m supposed to believe that He is speaking new truths through them?!\nSome people appear to believe in Leopard Theology, the false notion that the Bible is only inspired in spots and that they are inspired to spot the spots. But the \u201cGod is still speaking\u201d folks have also completed Advanced Leopard Theology, where God is also changing spots and adding/removing spots, and, oddly enough, He is only telling theological liberals and progressives in the West.\nThey don\u2019t think He communicated his laws in a discernable way in the first place (i.e., in the Bible), but they now think He is communicating with Swiss-watch precision to them.\nI'm skeptical.\nIn the late 18th century, long before the emergence of the current \"Progressive Theology\" school of thought, John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Movement, advocated a four-pronged method for theological reflection - now known as the \"Wesleyan Quadrilateral.\"\nThese four components of theological reflection, according to John Wesley's thought, are: 1) Scripture \u2013 the Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments); 2)Tradition \u2013 the two millennia history of the Christian Church; 3)Reason \u2013 rational thinking and sensible interpretation; and 4) Experience \u2013 a Christian's personal and communal journey in Christ. To take only one aspect of theological reflection in isolation from the other three - as is the case with Biblical literalists - is to produce a very lop-sided and uni-dimensional way of talking about God, not to mention a very lop-sided and uni-dimensional view of God.\nGod is much, much bigger than just one source alone, and we need to bring all four sources of information and knowledge to our reflection on the nature of God and how God works and operates in the world as we know it today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6899, "original_length": 116686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page159/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:END6LG6PW5AXF6CF3Q5JILANWUE4IRWH", "length": 120, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bookwyrmscomic.com", "title": "159 \u2013 Bookwyrms Comic", "raw_content": "Since I said what this chapter was about in the previous page\u2026 I have nothing to say here! So come on, jump to the next!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bosaudconsult.com/treatment.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SPRUK2ZDQH2P2LUBW5BIWAAWSWK6NY6P", "length": 2479, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bosaudconsult.com", "title": "Treatment - Boston Audiology Consultants", "raw_content": "Personal Amplification: Hearing Aids\nIf your recommended treatment for hearing loss is to be fitted with hearing aids, our goal is for you to feel more confident about yourself when you use them! People often are concerned about their self-image, with others seeing them using hearing aids\u2026 but what about your self-image when you can\u2019t keep up with the conversation, or you misheard someone and give an inappropriate answer? Do they think you aren\u2019t paying attention? Do they think you aren\u2019t very bright? How unbelievably frustrating\u2026 and isolating.\nHearing aids are \u201csmart\u201d technology that boosts the sounds that you need boosted, but not the ones you hear well anyway. Hearing aid technology today is very advanced compared to only 5 years ago. Hearing aids are miniature computers that mimic the function of the damaged sensory cells in the inner ear. They are programmed according to an audiological prescription, based on what the patient/partner uses his or her hearing for. Other treatments for hearing loss include \u201caural rehabilitation\u201d (learning to listen critically, even in background noise), remote microphones, \u201cstreaming\u201d devices that let you hear television or telephone better, and visual indicators.\nMost permanent hearing loss is not treatable with prescription drugs or surgery. While some hearing losses are due to an underlying medical condition, the vast majority in adults are due to a lifetime of wear-and-tear. Regardless the cause, audiological treatment is geared toward maximizing remaining hearing to make communication as easy as possible. Very often (but not always) being fitted with hearing aids is the choice best-suited for maximizing the hearing that you have, if your hearing is not in the normal range.\nHow big are hearing aids?\nMany people can use hearing aids that are very discrete \u2013 they might be completely hidden in the ear canal (\u201cInvisible-in-the-Canal\u201d or \u201cCompletely-in-the-Canal\u201d hearing aids) or they may be very small behind-the-ear style hearing aid with a tiny wire sneaking down the side of the ear and into the ear canal (these are called \u201cReceiver-in-the-Canal\u201d hearing aids). Regardless of size, the best hearing aid is the one that you will use! The right hearing aid is a balance between how much better it helps you hear and how you feel while using it: this is why our patients are our partners in their treatment.\nHere is a well-programmed hearing aid to help with that mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 3097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brandslut.co.za/2014/04/09/dove-beauty-patches/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ARSNZROTH6YCA4OKTJYELPBNCBBU4AW7", "length": 161, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.brandslut.co.za", "title": "Dove Beauty Patches - Brandslut", "raw_content": "Dove Beauty Patches\n[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDMXvdwN5c[/youtube]\nPretty powerful. See what I did there?\nGelish. It\u2019ll Change Your Life, Ladies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businessmobiles.com/company-vs-yourself/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4IQHO6WZDU6PZQBROABEHX6LZAFYI3TB", "length": 1840, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.businessmobiles.com", "title": "Working for a Company vs Working for Yourself - Business Mobiles", "raw_content": "Working for a Company vs Working for Yourself\nby Glennb1970 | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog | 0 comments\nConsidering making the jump?\nWhether you\u2019re a business owner, a business employee, or your own boss \u2013 we\u2019ve all been there. We all want what we can\u2019t have.\nYou work at home, you want to be in an office. You work in an office, you want to be at home.\nBut which one is actually better?\nWith the help of Sarah Cooper\u2019s hilarious animations, we\u2019re going to take you through the big debate.\nSomeone telling you what to do all of the time? You hate it.\nNobody telling you what to do at all? Yep, you still hate it.\nIn this case, working for yourself definitely wins.\nRolling straight out of bed 100% beats the morning getting-ready process that comes with working in an office.\nHere\u2019s one for those of us working in offices.\nOnce you clock out, you\u2019re (usually) done for the day. You can leave all your worries behind you at your desk.\nWhen you work for yourself? Not the case. AT ALL.\nIt\u2019s difficult to crown a winner, here.\nIs it those who are free to chat away all day, or those who don\u2019t have to speak to anyone at all?\nOne thing\u2019s for sure, when you work for someone else \u2013 you usually have a pretty set schedule, with totally free weekends!\nWorking for yourself, however\u2026 Things can get a little jumbled up.\nEither way, is anyone ever really satisfied?\nWhen you work for a company, someone else is deciding your salary for you. When you work for yourself, you\u2019ve got to deal with the question of \u2018can I even give myself a salary\u2019?\nAgain \u2013 one of the great struggles.\nWhen you work for a company, you\u2019ve got to build up the motivation to get up and out every single day. Working for yourself, however, you\u2019ve got to face the fact that you\u2019re probably not going to leave the house at all on any given day.\nWhat do you think? Who\u2019s the real winner?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bvsc.com.vn/404.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:MBFLRY5D4ECBUSICJCMSDAM6ZF7CWKPY", "length": 79, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bvsc.com.vn", "title": "Page Not Found", "raw_content": "Try using your browser's \"Back\" button to choose a different link on that page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.canadaadopts.com/quest-find-forever-family-adoptee-remembers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ILL5NUEO46YU4X4TUSHFL6PCWZLIVAXZ", "length": 7443, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.canadaadopts.com", "title": "My Quest To Find A Forever Family: An Orphan Remembers", "raw_content": "I was born in poverty, taken from my biological family at the age of six and driven in a big white car to an orphanage by a man wearing a suit.\nNo one has ever given me a reason. I later found out that my siblings, three brothers and a sister, were all sent to live with different families, all at the same time, but later returned to live with our mother again.\nI can only speculate that, since she was raising us alone, since I was the youngest of the five kids and we were so poor, my mother wanted to give me a shot at a better life.\nThere can be nothing but bad explanations and this the only one I\u2019ve ever allowed myself to contemplate.\nSo I was left behind at the orphanage, which was called \u201cVille Joie,\u201d or \u201cHappy Town,\u201d and this is where the quest to find a family for me began.\nThe adults at the orphanage were called \u201cEducators,\u201d a group of people as kind and as dedicated a kid in my shoes could ever need.\nIt still amazes me to this day: an orphanage called \u201cHappy Town\u201d and it actually lived up to its name.\nSoon after my arrival, I was introduced to Danielle. She was so kind and had nothing of the bureaucrats who sometimes manage cases like mine.\nI loved Danielle immediately.\nDuring our first meeting, she told me her job wasn\u2019t to just find a home for me; it was to find family where I would be happy.\nRight then and there I knew she was for real. She also gave me marbles. That sealed the deal between us.\nIf the orphanage was as close to perfection as it could be, the era in which I grew up wasn\u2019t.\nAt the time, kids like me who were in essence taken in charge by the government, were somewhat treated as guinea pigs.\nIt wasn\u2019t done with mean intentions, but it has had its consequences. And so I never lived in \u201cfoster homes\u201d.\nI was instead sent to live with \u201cpre-adoption\u201d families.\nPeople would pick me up at the orphanage and on our way to their home my entire world would change. I had to adapt to their lives: new habits, new rules, new food, new school and new friends.\nA new name also. That\u2019s how it was at the time: when I joined a family, I took their name.\nThat would have been inconsequential had it happened once or twice. I didn\u2019t have that kind of luck.\nConsidering I had to revert to my birth name whenever I was sent back to the orphanage after things didn\u2019t work out with a family, I changed my name nine times in a little over four years.\nSome kids are loners. I was a loner.\nFamilies were allowed to try me. If they weren\u2019t fully satisfied, they could simply return me, no questions asked.\nI sometimes joke by telling people that I came with a toaster as a free gift. When customers sent me back, they could still keep the toaster.\nWhen I set out to write my book, Citizen of Happy Town: An Orphan Remembers, I went back deep inside that period of my life.\nI saw again the man with the suit and his white car. I saw the moment I arrived at the orphanage and Alain, the great friend I made there.\nI saw Danielle and the \u201cEducators.\u201d In my head, I also went back to the families who took me in, starting with the very first one where I spent three months.\nIt turns out three months is an eternity when you spend most of it in hell.\nYet, in my reflection, it wasn\u2019t the meanness of these terrible people I was able to measure.\nIt was the kindness of the other families I was sent to live with, like that of the \u201cP family\u201d for example.\nThey were a beautiful couple with two generous daughters. But they had the bad luck of welcoming me after my stay with the bad first family.\nGiven my state of mind, it was never going to happen with the P\u2019s. Ultimately, I was the one who rejected them and Mr. P drove me back to \u201cHappy Town.\u201d\nHis goodbyes will stay with me forever.\nThere was the \u201cB family\u201d who were simple and down to earth folks. I was starting to open up a little and to allow people inside of my bubble.\nDanielle was on sick leave at the time and was replaced by one of the bureaucrats I spoke of earlier. I make some light of it in my writings but the truth is, this cold man caused a great deal of pain to a lot of people.\nAs a result of his lack of compassion, and common sense, he denied the \u201cB family\u201d a very simple request they made and so they too had to let me go. They too had to drive me back to the orphanage.\nI was eight years old and I was beginning to wonder if there was a place for me out there in the world.\nThere was also another couple which I won\u2019t name because I don\u2019t want to ruin it for those who will chose to read my book.\nIt\u2019s fair to say I felt they were my dream family.\nI was finally ready to be loved but I didn\u2019t know how to give some of it back.\nI had been an orphan long enough to forget what it entailed to be a son. That family made the decision not to keep me and at the same time another one agreed to take me in.\nThis time around, there would be no return to \u201cHappy Town.\u201d I would be leaving one family and going straight to another one.\nThat \u201cother family\u201d would turn out be the right one for me. They are the ones I met at the restaurant on my tenth birthday.\nIt sure wasn\u2019t an easy adaptation and with everything I had experienced prior to joining them, they had to show a lot patience and understanding at first.\nSome people even asked them if they were in their right minds, taking in a ten year old kid with such a past.\nI\u2019m glad their desire to give a child a family was stronger than the doubts expressed by some.\nI tried to write my story a few times over the years. I knew it was different. I knew it was a story \u201cyou can tell\u201d.\nI just couldn\u2019t find the right words to tell it. Something was missing to my approach in the writing process and therefore, something was also missing on the pages.\nA chapter or two worth of meaningless words and to the recycling bin it all went.\nWhat was missing was a reflection. The one I did in order to finally be able to write my book, which took nearly three years to complete, was a powerful wake up call.\nInstead of seeing the negative or difficult moments like I did in my previous attempts, I was reminded of the kindness most of the people I met on my path showed to me.\nI was also surprised by few the tears I shed; not by their presence but more because they were reserved for those who brought some much needed light to my life at a time where there could so easily have been only darkness to remember.\nIt seemed like the deeper I went into the emotions of the time, the less bitterness I felt and the less regrets I had.\nAnd with the completion of my book, not only was I able to find again most of the images of my life as an orphan, I was also able to put them back in the right order, which is behind the images of my life as an adoptee.\nI can\u2019t for one second imagine a life without the memories I have of my childhood because they now lead to my life with my family.\nIt\u2019s ok to reflect. It\u2019s ok to go back. Sometimes when you go back, you end up in \u201cHappy Town.\u201d\nSteve Marchand is the author of Citizen of Happy Town: An Orphan Remembers, an ebook he wrote in both English and French. 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(weekdays; 6-8 PM) featuring \u201cThe Black Crowes\u201d drummer, Steve Gorman. This FOX Sports Radio show delivers unique sports commentary and entertainment, including Gorman\u2019s perspective on what\u2019s happening in sports, music and pop culture. For years, his secret to staying sane on the road was an obsessive devotion to watching sports, and now he\u2019s talking sports for a living.\nJ.T. The Brick (weekdaysl 8-11 PM) is a sports talk show based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. A former stock broker, J.T. parlayed his dream of becoming a Sports Talk host into a full-time radio job after winning Jim Rome\u2019s inaugural \u201cSmack-Off\u201d championship title in 1995. J.T. hosts radio\u2019s most interactive show as he fields calls from listeners across the country.\nThe Jason Smith Show (weekdays; 11 PM \u2013 1 AM). 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During the aging process, skin loses some elasticity, causing the mid-section to lose its natural shape and firmness. This procedure is designed to remove loose skin and related fat deposits, thus, providing a more youthful appearance. A thigh lift involves tightening and lifting the thighs. Liposuction may also be completed in conjunction with a body lift.\nReasons for Considering a Thigh Lift:\nReshape thigh and buttock contour.\nThe precise procedure varies with each patient, depending on the body type and desired surgical outcome. Generally speaking, the thigh lift procedure entails making an incision that follows the upper and/or inner thigh, to the waistline. In more extensive surgeries, the incision goes down the medial thigh. Adjustments to the buttocks and thighs require an incision at the crease of the buttocks. Excess skin is then removed, followed by the underlying fat deposits. Finally, the skin is pulled taught and sutured into the new configuration. The entire procedure can last from 3 to 5 hours and may be combined with other body procedures. The surgery is performed under general anesthesia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-bulls-talk/2012/01/well-balanced-bulls-defeat-magic-97-83/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4MUXHAR4OYVLQFF2V5UCPOCBUCJHV45I", "length": 3655, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.chicagonow.com", "title": "Well-balanced Bulls defeat Magic 97-83 | Chicago Bulls Talk", "raw_content": "Well-balanced Bulls defeat Magic 97-83\nBy Shams Charania, January 7, 2012 at 1:36 am\nIn an all-around effort, the Chicago Bulls won their sixth straight game with a 97-83 road victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night. After trailing by eight points just three minutes into the game, coach Tom Thibodeau's team started to impose its will on the offensive end and put the clamps down defensively.\nThe Magic shot 40 percent from the field and 7-for-20 (35 percent) from three-point range, while the Bulls hit 44.2 percent from the field and outrebounded the home team 46-37.\nThe Bulls -- without Rip Hamilton, who re-injured his left groin in Wednesday's 99-83 win over the Detroit Pistons -- had three players reach the 20-point plateau. Derrick Rose, sporting a heavily padded black sleeve on his left arm because of his bruised left elbow, had 21 points, 10 assists, eight rebounds and two steals in yet another stellar floor game. The 6-foot-3 point guard even added a block. He missed 11-of-18 shots, but scored 12 points in the first quarter to erase the Bulls' early deficit. Luol Deng continued to grind on the court and also scored 21 points to go with five assists and four rebounds. Statistically, Carlos Boozer had his best performance of the young season, posting 20 points, 13 rebounds and a block in almost 37 minutes of action.\nMeanwhile, Kyle Korver poured in a season-high 18 points on 5-for-7 shooting from three-point range. Joakim Noah struggled offensively, but grabbed 10 rebounds in 32 minutes. The 6-foot-11 big man managed to stay out of foul trouble, a rarity given the fact that he has had issues against Magic center Dwight Howard in recent years, and did his best to pester the league's best center.\nIt was a game of runs. The Bulls used a 20-9 stretch that began midway through the second quarter -- in which the Bulls outscored the Magic 27-16 -- to take a 53-43 lead at halftime. Boozer knocked down a 17-foot fadeaway from the left wing to beat the first-half buzzer. Then, the Magic used a 13-5 run in the fourth quarter to cut the Bulls' lead to 80-77 with six minutes and nine seconds to play. But the Bulls answered back with a 17-6 run to close out the contest. Leading 88-80 with under three minutes left, the Bulls went on a crucial 9-0 run that included back-breaking jumpers from Boozer, Korver, a three-pointer, and Taj Gibson -- who had seven points and five rebounds.\nOnce again, the Bulls showed why so many NBA followers believe the Eastern Conference is a two-headed monster that features Chicago and the Miami Heat. Rose's cast was simply too much, from top to bottom, for Dwight Howard's to handle. While Howard dropped 28 points, 15 rebounds and two blocks, he didn't get much help. Jason Richardson (17 points) and Hedo Turkoglu (12) shot a combined 11-for-25. Thibodeau will have numerous moments throughout the condensed 66-game season where he will praise his team for its resolve, and Friday night was a prime example of the toughness and composure the Bulls are working toward sustaining for 48 minutes each game.\nNext, the Bulls, on the second night of a back-to-back, will face the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night at Philips Arena. The Bulls had a stunning 76-74 home win over the Hawks on Tuesday. The Hawks will be playing their third game in three nights.\nFiled under: Game Reaction\nTags: Carlos Boozer, Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose, Dwight Howard, Jason Richardson, Joakim Noah, Kyle Korver, Orlando Magic, Rip Hamilton, Tom Thibodeau\nAquinas wired said January 7, 2012 at 12:00 am\nBarring key injuries, the Bulls should finish with the best won and lost record. 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June 2 & 3, 2018!\nVisit http://www.viva.org/pray/world-weekend-of-prayer/ for more information!\nEVEN IN THE MIDST OF THEIR HURT, POVERTY AND TRAGEDY, WE BELIEVE GOD IS ALWAYS PRESENT FOR THE WORLD\u2019S VULNERABLE CHILDREN, WITH HIS ENDURING, IMMEASURABLE LOVE AND COMPASSION.\nAs we join together for the 2018 World Weekend of Prayer, let us do so with an attitude of praise, not forgetting God\u2019s goodness and faithfulness.\nPraising God helps us:\nremember what He has done in the past,\nsee how He is at work now, even in the tough places, and\ntrust that He will shape the lives of generations to come.\nHow marvelous that God\u2019s power and the effects of our answered prayers today will ripple throughout the years!\nNewer PostIt's here... and we are 4 months early!\nOlder PostWhat's happening at the NAD?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chrysalisbooks.co.uk/pricecheck/110420536X/History-of-Llangynwyd-Parish-1887-Thomas-Christopher-Evans.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UBF2BV32HTAXPJYCRPGZK7HRJBDWODQ6", "length": 733, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.chrysalisbooks.co.uk", "title": "History of Llangynwyd Parish (1887) by Thomas Christopher Evans | Cheap books", "raw_content": "Thomas Christopher Evans - History of Llangynwyd Parish (1887)\nHistory of Llangynwyd Parish (1887) by Thomas Christopher Evans\nPrice comparison results for Thomas Christopher Evans - History of Llangynwyd Parish (1887) are listed below. 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Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2017/11/We-won/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UFRW63746R7FR5S2SBQBRQSRAVX4ZIEX", "length": 776, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cmsmadesimple.org", "title": "Announcements : : CMS Made Simple", "raw_content": "Posted: November 8, 2017 by scotch33\nWe\u2019re so proud to have another accolade for CMS Made Simple. It reflects not only the fantastic ongoing work of the many volunteers who have been part of the dev team over the years, but also the strong support of the wonderful CMSMS user base.\nSo, to all of you that voted in the awards, encouraged your customers to vote in the awards and generally showed CMSMS the love it deserves, we the dev team would like to thank you. Your active participation in the community is always appreciated. Without all of you CMSMS would not be the system it is today. We look forward to continuing the development of CMSMS for you to make sure it remains at the top of its game for many years to come.\nOnce again. Thank you!\nYour CMSMS Development team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cmsmyth.com/2012/07/love-the-one-youre-with/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CN5RRLPC2GKU72K2ZXGXBS2VBG7DCQ3Y", "length": 2429, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cmsmyth.com", "title": "Love the One You\u2019re With - The CMS Myth", "raw_content": "By John Eckman \u2022 July 3rd, 2012 \u2022 Content Management's Greatest Hits\nStephen Still\u2019s 1970 debut self-titled solo album brings us another entry in Content Management\u2019s Greatest Hits: Love the One You\u2019re With.\nAccording to wikipedia Stills got the line from Billy Preston and got his permission to build a song around it. It also featured prominently on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young\u2019s live album 4 Way Street.\nYou can understand \u201cLove The One You\u2019re With\u201d as a kind of ode to infidelity born of travel (if you strip out all the nonsense about roses in fisted gloves, and eagles flying with doves):\nAnd you don\u2019t remember who you\u2019re talking too\nCause you\u2019re baby is so far away\nCause she\u2019s a girl and you\u2019re a boy\nIn the world of Content Management, we often yearn for some better platform (see the entry on Don\u2019t You Want Me). But sometimes the wiser advice is to invest a bit more in the platform you\u2019re on.\nDon\u2019t assume that the only way to make your business more responsive is to change platforms. We find ourselves responding to RFPs in which the decision to replatform is the only sure thing. But replatforming without first figuring out your broader strategy is a sure path to the CMS Selection Myth.\nA better approach, counter-intuitive as it sometimes seems to those issuing the RFPs, is not to assume that the new platform is the core of the effort or even necessary as part of the effort. If you are dissatisfied with how your organization manages content, changing your organizational approach may prove more effective than changing the platform.\nThere are cases, of course, where platforms have become obsolete, insecure, unsupported, or all three \u2013 where the mandate to replatform is the opportunity for a broader strategic evaluation. But sometimes what\u2019s needed is a set of targeted enhancements to the platform already in place, plus an improved focus on content strategy, governance, analytics, and optimization.\nWhether this turns out to be a \u201cmake do\u201d strategy (use the current platform for another year while designing its long term replacement) or a \u201clong term\u201d strategy (sometimes the current platform isn\u2019t so bad after all) it helps put the focus back on the business goals and organizational maturity for supporting an ongoing content effort and gets you out of the checklists-of-features game.\nNext time you find yourself focused on replatforming, ask yourself, could we learn to love the one we\u2019re with?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cnewa.org/blog.aspx?ID=35&pagetypeID=33&sitecode=HQ&pageno=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EHUIUQIXSE6ZNKRYOEXP7PFACYBXINXM", "length": 15347, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "www.cnewa.org", "title": "CNEWA - One-to-One", "raw_content": "Sister Lilly Chirayath, C.H.F.\nSister Lilly Chirayath, C.H.F., joined by the children at her \u201cHouse of Hope,\u201d enjoys a visit from CNEWA\u2019s Msgr. John E. Kozar in 2012. (photo: CNEWA)\nSome of CNEWA\u2019s greatest heroes are heralds of hope.\nThat would include Sister Lilly Chirayath, C.H.F., who runs the Holy Family Asha Niwas in New Delhi, otherwise known as the \u201cHouse of Hope\u201d:\n\u201cOur main mission is taking care of our orphanage,\u201d Sister Lilly explains. \u201cIt\u2019s where we help neglected and unwanted street girls 4 to 18 years of age.\u201d\nOn her orphanage\u2019s website, Sister Lilly explains even more about the hope that animates her mission:\nJesus said, \u201cWhen you do something for the least of my brethren, you do it for me.\u201d\nChildren are the loveliest creation of God. They are so innocent, so unblemished, so lovely, and so marvelous. They deserve everything best in the world. They deserve love, they deserve to be happy and they deserve to be well taken care of. God entrusts them to us, elders.\nBut what do we see in the world? For me, a child being treated cruelly is the most painful thing in the world. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and feeling of being unwanted.\nLove the children; care for the children, help the children to grow up happily, and the world will be beautiful.\nWhen one is happy, he/she spreads that happiness to others, to the society, to the whole world. So fill the hearts of children with love and make them fully active, creative and enthusiastic.\nIt is something Sister Lilly and her sisters happily do with boundless compassion, tenderness and joy.\nBishop John G. Nolan\nIn this image from the 1970\u2019s, Msgr. John G. Nolan greets the children at the Pontifical Mission Orphanage in Bethlehem during one of his frequent visits. (photo: CNEWA)\n\u201cA rascal for God\u201d is how longtime CNEWA president Msgr. Robert Stern described Bishop John G. Nolan, who served CNEWA for 25 years as National Secretary and then President. Bishop Nolan had \u201ca fantastic imagination,\u201d Msgr. Stern wrote, and loved a good story. But above all, this \u201crascal\u201d had a special commitment to orphans, particularly those CNEWA helped support in Bethlehem.\nAs Msgr. Stern wrote not long after Bishop Nolan\u2019s death in 1997:\nHis heart was always in the Holy Land. As did his predecessors, he spent every Christmas there. He always shared in the ceremony and splendor of Midnight Mass in Bethlehem. Then, Christmas morning, he would go to the Pontifical Mission Girls\u2019 Orphanage and offer Mass for them. After, with the children gathered around him, the celebrant would become Santa Claus, giving each of them her gift. \u201cThis is my parish,\u201d he would say with deep feeling. \u201cThis is my family.\u201d\nHis background and experience were far-ranging and far-reaching:\nThe youngest of six children, John Nolan was born in Mechanicville, N.Y. He entered the former St. Charles Seminary in Catonsville, Md., and completed theological studies at St. Mary\u2019s Seminary in Baltimore and at Theological College of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Ordained for the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., on 11 June 1949, Bishop Nolan served in parishes and held a number of teaching positions, including a post at the College of St. Rose. In 1956, Bishop Nolan earned a doctorate in theology from Catholic University.\nAppointed to CNEWA in 1962, Bishop Nolan succeeded Archbishop (then Msgr.) Joseph T. Ryan as National Secretary in 1965. Bishop Nolan initiated a number of fund-raising programs, including an Annuity Program in 1968. Children were dear to the heart of Bishop Nolan and he started CNEWA\u2019s Needy Child Sponsorship Program during his tenure. An expert on Middle East affairs, he visited the region often and was regularly consulted by the Holy See. In 1974, Bishop Nolan established Catholic Near East magazine. In 1985, he initiated a reorganization of CNEWA to expand its services. Ordained by Pope John Paul II in Rome on 6 January 1988, Bishop Nolan was responsible for the chaplaincy program for U.S. military personnel stationed in Europe. Among his many awards was the Gold Cross of the Council of Rhodes, presented by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in 1967. Bishop Nolan was the first Catholic to receive this award.\nIn 1976, our magazine described his great commitment to the care of orphans of Bethlehem:\nMonsignor John Nolan, President of the Pontifical Mission and National Secretary of Catholic Near East, has spent many a Christmas with \u201chis children.\u201d His greatest wish is that each child in need will find a home here as these happy youngsters have, and that no child in Bethlehem need ever hear the words, \u201cThere is room...\u201d\nBut perhaps it was Msgr. Stern who best captured his character and personality:\nWherever he went, whomever he was with, he would spin them a fascinating tale...His imagination was so great that he always imagined others would respond with the same love he had.\nAt Bishop Nolan\u2019s funeral in St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, when all the tributes were paid and prayers said, his former boss and good friend, John Cardinal O\u2019Connor, fondly reminded the congregation that, besides everything else, John Nolan was a rascal!\nThe world needs more heroic \u201crascals\u201d like John Nolan \u2014 and we\u2019re grateful his legacy lives on in CNEWA\u2019s care for children around the world, care made possible through generous donors who help to give these little ones a place to call home.\nTo continue Bishop John G. Nolan\u2019s work and help care for needy children, visit this page.\nSister Ayelech Gebeyehu\nSister Ayelech Gebeyehu helps administer a church-funded school food program for children who lack the means for daily lunch. (photo: Petterik Wiggers)\nIf you want to find a real CNEWA hero, consider looking in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, where a woman named Sister Ayelech Gebeyehu oversees nearly 1,000 children at the Blessed Gebremichael Catholic School.\nA member of the Daughters of Charity, Sister Ayelech has a special mission to \u201cserve the poorest of the poor.\u201d This includes making regular visits to 30 poor families, whose children attend the school. Some of the parents have tested positive for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.\nShe told us some of her story several months ago:\nHer commitment and love for the people she serves is heroic \u2014 and, we think, even holy.\nTo help support Sister Ayelech, visit this link. And please keep her and her people in your prayers.\nPope Pius XI, CNEWA\u2019s founder, was born 159 years ago today. (photo: CNEWA)\nThe man we know as Pope Pius XI \u2014 Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti \u2014 was born on this date, 31 May, in 1857.\nFrom 1919 to 1921, he served as papal nuncio to Poland, where he gained extensive firsthand knowledge of the Eastern churches \u2014knowledge that would later help guide one of his most important moves: establishing the Catholic Near East Welfare Association in 1926.\nElected pope in 1922, he witnessed some pivotal moments of 20th century history, including the rise of Mussolini, the signing of the Lateran Treaty (which created an independent Vatican City state) and the growing threat of totalitarianism. Encyclopedia Britannica notes:\nPius XI, a student of Hebrew, was responsible for the three major encyclicals against the totalitarian systems that challenged Christian principles: \u201cNon Abbiamo Bisogno\u201d (1931; [We Do Not Need to Acquaint You]) against the abuses of Fascist Italy; \u201cMit Brennender Sorge\u201d (1937; \u201cWith Deep Anxiety\u201d) against Nazi Germany, and \u201cDivini Redemptoris\u201d (1937; \u201cDivine Redeemer\u201d) against the ends of atheistic communism. Under his leadership the Vatican challenged the extreme nationalism of Action Fran\u00e7ais in France and the anti-Semitism of the Reverend Coughlin in the United States.\nBut for us at CNEWA, a critical decision he made 90 years ago would leave an indelible mark and launch a new era:\nOn 13 March, Pope Pius XI merged The Catholic Near East Welfare Association and the Catholic Union into a new pontifical association with Father Walsh as its President. Catholic Near East Welfare Association was retained as the name of this new pontifical organization. The Board of Trustees agreed to continue to use the original civil charter.\nThe new CNEWA incorporated the purposes of both groups, including emergency relief in Asia Minor, the Balkans, Greece and Russia; religious welfare; education and the needs of the Eastern Catholic churches.\nOn 15 September 1926, the American Catholic bishops formally endorsed the new organization at their meeting in Washington, D.C., and named CNEWA as the sole instrumentality authorized to solicit funds for Catholic interests in Russia and the Near East.\nHis commitment to missions was total:\nSurpassing his predecessors in support of overseas missions, he required every religious order to engage actively in this work, with the result that missionaries doubled their number during his pontificate. Most significant was his consecration of the first Chinese bishops, in 1926. He equally encouraged historians and liturgiologists to study Eastern Christianity, inaugurating the work of codifying Eastern canon law. In 1930 he witnessed the reunion of the Syro-Melankarese Christians (of southern India) with Rome.\nPope Pius XI died in 1939, but one of his enduring legacies remains the ongoing work of CNEWA around the world. He helped clarify and define the Catholic Church\u2019s teaching on social justice, and made concern for one another a cornerstone of that teaching. As he wrote in his encyclical \u201cDivini Redemptoris\u201d: \u201cIt is the essence of social justice to demand from each individual all that is necessary for the common good.\u201d\nTags: CNEWA Pope\nBrother Donald Mansir, F.S.C.\nBrother Donald Mansir and Bishop Denis Madden stand outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, circa 1997. (photo: Sister Christian Molidor, R.S.M.)\nOne of the many unsung heroes in CNEWA\u2019s story is a man who helped give new life to one of Christianity\u2019s holiest sites. Four years ago, learning of his passing, Michael La Civita paid tribute to Brother Donald Mansir, F.S.C.:\nA brother of the De La Salle Brothers of the Christian Schools and a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Brother Donald joined CNEWA in 1989 as the field projects coordinator for the Pontifical Mission\u2019s Jerusalem office. In 1990, he became its associate director, and later that year, he was named office director. As such, Brother Donald supervised the expansion of the agency\u2019s programs and services in Palestine and Israel, earning respect for his balanced but strong advocacy for justice and peace issues throughout the Holy Land. In 1993, he succeeded Sister Maureen Grady, C.S.C., as chief operating officer and vice president of the Pontifical Mission.\nBrother Donald was instrumental in the restoration of the dome of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Working with CNEWA\u2019s Msgr. Robert Stern and (then) Father Denis Madden, he brought together the shrine\u2019s Armenian Apostolic, Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic custodians with concerned donors in the United States anxious about the dome\u2019s structural integrity. To learn more about this \u201cTurning Point for Christendom,\u201d read Brother Donald\u2019s own account published in CNEWA\u2019s magazine in 1996. A year later, Father Denis Madden (now an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore) reflected on this historic moment engineered by this agency of the Holy See.\nIn 1996, reflecting on the restoration of the dome, Brother Donald offered his simple hope:\nAs the scaffolding is disassembled and the luminous cloud appears on the great dome \u2026 may God\u2019s grace penetrate to the core of [pilgrims\u2019] hearts.\nTags: CNEWA Art Historical site/city Architecture\nSister Diana Momeka, O.P.\nCNEWA President Msgr. John E. Kozar meets Sister Diana Momeka on a visit to the convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in Ain Kawa, in northern Iraq, last year. (photo: CNEWA)\nLast year, a tiny powerhouse made headlines for her passionate witness on behalf of the suffering people of Iraq:\nThe first thing that struck me about the veiled woman in white standing in our reception area was: \u201cShe\u2019s so little.\u201d The petite Dominican sister with the piercing eyes and dark hair didn\u2019t look like someone who would shake the world.\nBut I soon learned that her passion and her message are, in fact, earth shaking. Small wonder that this small wonder has made some of the most powerful people in world capitals sit up and take notice.\nSister Diana Momeka left Iraq a few weeks ago to visit the United States; one of her most important stops was Capitol Hill, where she spoke to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Last night, she braved a thunderstorm to drive from Washington to New York, to visit with several of us this morning at the offices of CNEWA. Beyond a reunion between old friends and collaborators \u2014 CNEWA has sponsored the work of her congregation for many years \u2014 this meeting held a deeper and more poignant purpose. She wanted to share her message about the plight of thousands of Iraqi refugees \u2014 men, women and children, young and old, healthy and infirm \u2014 who fled their homes last year to escape ISIS, and settled in whatever housing they could find in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.\nIt has been a harrowing time \u2014 and the Iraqi families aren\u2019t the only ones suffering. Sister Diana and dozens of other Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena fled their convent and also settled in Erbil, where they are working tirelessly to help people who sometimes feel helpless.\n\u201cMy main message,\u201d she told those of us gathered in the board room, \u201cis to get human dignity to people there, in Iraq.\u201d Her words were measured and her focus, laser sharp.\n\u201cPeople,\u201d she continued, \u201chave been humiliated. They are living in slums. These people are human beings with great love, great faith. But when you lose your home, your heritage, your culture, you lose your dignity. When you live in a container, in a tent, you don\u2019t have any privacy, this is not a real human life to live. My hope is to find a way to give dignity back.\u201d\nWe chronicled the remarkable work she and her order have undertaken in the pages of our magazine:\n\u201cPeople came with fever, dehydration, diarrhea,\u201d says Sister Diana. \u201cThey were sleeping on the ground with no tents in the beginning. After some days they got tents, but there was no clean water, and so no proper bathing. Diseases like scabies started to increase.\u201d It became clear some sort of health service was essential, and thus was the Martha Schmouny Clinic born \u2014 first in tents donated by French charity SOS Chr\u00e9tiens d\u2019Orient, and later transformed into a cluster of three prefabricated containers donated by CNEWA.\nAs time has passed, and the reality of the Christians\u2019 displacement has become more and more entrenched, the Martha Schmouny Clinic has continued to grow, its capacity and range of services expanding to provide a better safety net for the vulnerable community.\n\u201cWe often talk about the role of the Holy Spirit in our work,\u201d Sister Diana said as she made her way to the clinic early one recent morning. \u201cWe started the clinic like a small grain of yeast and now it has steadily increased like dough.\u201d\nSister Diana remains a hero to those who fled their homes \u2014 and remains a great advocate for their cause. 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The Clerk is, by virtue of the Constitution ex-officio Clerk of Superior Court.\nThe goal of the Clerk\u2019s Office is to protect the integrity and accuracy of the court records of Asotin County Superior Court while serving the public and legal community in a courteous, professional, and expedient manner.\nCLERK\u2019S DUTIES\nThe county clerk is one of several independent, elected officials provided by the Washington State Constitution (Article IV, Sec 26), with specific and special duties assigned by statute, as well as local and state court rules. The position of county clerk is best characterized as the administrative and financial officer of the Superior Court.\nThe county clerk\u2019s purpose is to ensure the separation of powers among the three branches of government by preserving the integrity of the judiciary. Those three branches are Executive, Judicial and Legislative.\nThis purpose is accomplished in three ways:\nBy being independent of the judicial branch, the clerk protects the judiciary from the appearance of impropriety or unfairness in the setting of cases, implementation of orders or investment of funds.\nAs an independent elected official, the clerk preserves for the public unrestrained access to a fair, accurate and independently established record of the opinions, decisions and judgments of the court.\nADMINISTRATOR OF COURT RECORDS AND EXHIBITS\nThe clerk receives and processes all documents presented in a Superior Court cause of action. The processing of court documents involves record classification, assignment of cause number, computerized docketing and manual filing of hard copy records. The clerk is responsible for seeing that these records are maintained, retained and purged in accordance with statutory time constraints and required archival standards. The types of cases that are filed in the clerk\u2019s office are felony criminal, civil, domestic/family law, probate, adoptions/paternity, mental commitment, juvenile offender and juvenile dependency.\nFINANCIAL OFFICER FOR THE COURTS\nAs the court\u2019s agent, the clerk collects statutory fees, fines, trust and support funds; maintains a trust account for monies received; disburses monies as ordered by the court and further provides an investment plan for monies held. The collection, accounting and investment of court monies is done to ensure that the interests of the public and the county are secured.\nQUASI-JUDICIAL OFFICER\nThe clerk serves a quasi-judicial function (to exercise discretion of judicial nature) for the issuance of court related orders. 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The property is fully leased for the next 13.5 years to Canada Revenue Agency.\nIt is the first asset added in the Concert portfolio in that specific neighbourhood. However, the company does have a residential development a few blocks away.\n\u201cThat whole area on the east side that\u2019s called False Creek Flats is looked upon as a transformation area for the City of Vancouver,\u201d said Brian McCauley, Concert\u2019s president and chief executive officer.\n\u201cThey want to attract new employment-generating uses down there. They certainly want to attract the tech sector in addition to other uses. But, it\u2019s primarily an office-incubating space with a little bit of value-added manufacturing there that is mostly tech-oriented.\u201d\nRegulations deter mixed-use development\nMcCauley said Concert has been keeping its eye out for potential purchases, either existing properties or sites with development potential, in False Creek Flats \u201cfor a long time.\u201d The city recently completed an area plan for the neighbourhood, but McCauley was disappointed it does not allow for much residential development.\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t allow very much residential to be built in conjunction with the office and retail uses that are permitted in that area, which is a bit unfortunate in today\u2019s world where you\u2019re looking for true mixed-use opportunities in the city,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe other piece of the neighbourhood that\u2019s really quite interesting is the potential for St. Paul\u2019s Hospital to relocate just off Terminal Avenue in that vicinity. And that of course would be a game-changer for ancillary uses for medical down in the future if the hospital gets built.\n\u201cSo it\u2019s a very attractive area and obviously it\u2019s well connected by transit to the downtown core, well-connected to the region by transit, and it\u2019s walkable to False Creek.\u201d\nTerminal Avenue purchase was perfect\nMcCauley said Concert will continue to look for more assets in the area. The Terminal Avenue purchase was a perfect opportunity for Concert where things are changing.\n\u201cIn this market today, first of all, it\u2019s tough to find good assets. One of our business plans for our Commercial Fund and assets in general is to look for opportunities to make our portfolio younger,\u201d he said.\n\u201cSo whenever we can acquire newly built or relatively modern buildings, we\u2019d like to do that. I wouldn\u2019t say we\u2019re targeted specifically at that location. I think we\u2019re very opportunistic.\u201d\nManaging director Andrew Tong said a common theme for properties Concert has purchased through the fund is a path to change.\n\u201cWhere we see an opportunity where things are changing, whether it\u2019s a development area that\u2019s changing like the False Creek Flats or where lease rates are changing because of market shifting, demand changing, that\u2019s in the path of change, too,\u201d said Tong.\n\u201cThis (Terminal Avenue building) actually fits both, where it\u2019s in the path of change, the area is completely transforming, and catalysts like St. Paul\u2019s Hospital and others will over time be incredible for the area.\n\u201cBut, also if you look at the market right now office rents are rising rapidly and what we\u2019ve got here on an asset is lease rates that are below market. We think over time we\u2019ll have an opportunity to capitalize on that for our investors.\u201d\nNearby Vancouver residential development\nConcert\u2019s residential development near False Creek Flats comprises five residential buildings, including Voda, Navio South and North, the Railyard Housing Co-op and a final landmark building, which is yet to be completed.\nThe Railyard Housing Co-op is the result of a partnership between the City of Vancouver and Concert. The new building, to be delivered in February 2018, is a 15-storey rental which provides 135 suites of much-needed affordable housing geared toward families.\nMcCauley said Concert Properties has almost four million square feet of residential rental buildings in Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto \u2013 about 5,000 units it owns and manages.\nThe company also has a portfolio of seniors residences under the Tapestry brand. There are three completed communities \u2013 one in Toronto and two in Vancouver \u2013 comprising 463 rental units. A 173-unit residence is under construction in Victoria and construction will begin on a fifth facility, with 135 units, at Niagara on the Lake in the spring of 2019.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got a growing presence in seniors\u2019 housing,\u201d McCauley noted, \u201cand we have a series of condominium projects we\u2019ve completed over the years between Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto.\u201d\nConcert and the CREC Commercial Fund\nConcert was founded in 1989. It has five lines of business: purpose-built rental homes; for-sale condominium homes; Tapestry seniors\u2019 communities; industrial office and commercial assets through the CREC Commercial Fund; and public private partnerships through Concert Infrastructure.\nThrough all its business, it has more than $3 billion in assets and more than $2 billion in shareholder equity and it is exclusively owned by Canadian union and management pension plans.\nConcert\u2019s fully subscribed CREC Commercial Fund is a diversified Canadian portfolio valued at about $1.4 billion. Created in 2016, it has 64 assets of about 8.5 million square feet in industrial, office and commercial space.\nIts portfolio is spread across the following provinces: Ontario, 57 per cent; British Columbia, 27 per cent; and Alberta, 16 per cent.\nTong said the fund has ongoing plans to expand the open-ended, limited partnership to maximize long-term value for investors by investing in, and managing, commercial and office real estate in Canada.\nConcert Infrastructure invests in P3 projects\nThe company says Concert Infrastructure has become the largest investor in multi-site, public-private-partnership projects in North America with seven P3 projects.\nIt was founded in 2010 through a unique partnership involving the City of Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia, union and management pension funds and private investors, with the mandate to provide assured rental housing in British Columbia.\nIn 1992, Concert entered the condominium market and the company\u2019s structure was also altered. It became a real estate corporation wholly-owned by union and management pension plans.\nIn 1999, it expanded into the acquisition and development of commercial properties.\nConcert opened its Toronto office in 2001 and that same year it began construction on its first Tapestry Retirement Community in Vancouver.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 12094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.conclusiononline.com/category/u-s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:37Z", "digest": "sha1:GMX5GHDUYECX4JBLFY56K4QFOTQ5A5GT", "length": 994, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.conclusiononline.com", "title": "U.S Archives - Conclusion", "raw_content": "A recent hurricane has struck and vicitimized the citizens of Texas. So far, the body count totaled to be around 37 civilians. Homes have been flooded and evacuees have been [\u2026]\nIn light of the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, several voices have been thrown into a mixture of discussion of what the First Amendment of the US Constitution means and [\u2026]\nIt\u2019s funny how Trump only cares about equality when it comes to condemnation. Last week we all watched in horror as the events in Charlottesville unfolded before our eyes. Whether [\u2026]\n\u200bIn a recent speech delivered to law enforcement officers, President elect Donald Trump recently addressed the current racial tensions between citizens and law enforcement officers by endorsing Police brutality. Trump [\u2026]\nSan Antonio newspaper threatens to publish address of every local police officer after another unarmed black man is shot dead. 36-year-old Antronie Scott who was wanted for felony firearm and [\u2026]\nPosted in U.S, Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.copenhagenize.com/2013/01/california-gold-or-why-we-must-re.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:USNWHOXIVIKFUUOZY2LN6WP3DPPSX2OT", "length": 3055, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.copenhagenize.com", "title": "Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design: California Gold - or why we must re-Copenhagenize Los Angeles", "raw_content": "California Gold - or why we must re-Copenhagenize Los Angeles\nHuell Howser died earlier this month\n\"Who?\", you ask?\nHuell Howser was a television presenter in California who, though he had worked on commercial television, and even on syndicated U.S. Hollywood gossip programming, was known for his down-to-earth presentations about life in and attractions in the \"Golden State\", a style of television he successfully transplanted from his birthplace of Tennessee.\n\"But I am not in California, so I have never seen him, right?\" you say.\nYes, well, you see, there is this industry based primarily in Los Angeles that makes these things called \"Talking Motion Pictures\" which you have perhaps viewed? Because of this and the further industries it has spawned, there is a lot of creative work done in and around Los Angeles and throughout California.\nWhich is why when something appears even just on local media in Los Angeles, it quickly gets relayed to the rest of the planet via happenstance or satire.\nJust ask Bob Crane (you can't actually as he is dead), Gary Owens, or more recently, Jim Thornton.\nSo you've likely heard or seen Huell, no matter where you are on this planet, if you are a fan of Winnie the Pooh, or more prominently, The Simpsons, where he was repeatedly parodied as the character Howell Huser.\nWhat's this have to do with Copenhagenize? A while back, Mikael wrote a post here about the history of Cycling in Southern California that was resplendent with photos taken over one hundred years ago showing how much bicycles were used in the region. Another post reprints an article Mikael wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the city's major newspaper, recounting the Bicycle Culture 1.0 that Southern California experienced .\nNow it's one thing to read the scripts, but Huell made a movie. If you've got 27 minutes, why not sit down and enjoy the \"Bikes\" episode of Howser's premiere program \"California Gold\", \"A look at L.A.'s bike history with stops at the Pasadena Museum of History, [and] a Sunday Morning ride back in time as Huell uncovers other important stops in L.A.'s Bike History\"\n(With thanks to the Chapman University Huell Howser Archive)\nWhy is this important? Because there is most certainly an existing and rebounding bicycle culture in Southern California, which is growing quite rapidly. But what is important to realize is that Hollywood very much imposes its street-view on the rest of the world, so it's culture of automobile domination gets presented as the norm. Even when it makes absolutely no sense, as happens when films are made in an east coast U.S. city, including one which is (or was once) actually considered to be \"Medieval\" in by Urban Planners and Geographers. So if cycling were to become as normal on the streets of Los Angeles as it is in Copenhagen, then, perhaps, one day, some of those movie people might get the idea to portray it as such in one or many of their films.\nAnd imagine what that might lead to.\ntags: bike history, erik griswold, history repeating itself, los angeles, urban planning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corcudec.cl/double-masterclass-of-violin-and-cello/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XEGWE5P7ZDIZ274T4A75JYI7KCL5AL34", "length": 1721, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.corcudec.cl", "title": "Double Masterclass of Violin and Cello \u2013 Corcudec", "raw_content": "Double Masterclass of Violin and Cello\nViolinist James Buswell (USA) and cellist Leonardo Altino (Brazil/USA) will give a double masterclass for intermediate and advanced students, on Thursday 25 May, starting at 15:00, at the Pinacoteca UdeC (UdeC Campus art gallery).\nBoth musicians will be in Concepci\u00f3n as soloists in the 3rd Concert of the Concepci\u00f3n Symphony\u2019s 2017 Season (Saturday 27 May at 19:00 in the UdeC Theater). Admission to the masterclass is free, with required registration.\nFor intermediate or advanced violin students: places are limited to 15 participants.\nFor intermediate or advanced cello students: places are limited to 10 participants.\nBoth groups must register sending an email to prensa@corcudec.cl until Monday 22 May, including number of years studied.\nThis masterclass is also open to beginners and passive students, who can attend as audience. Places are limited to 15 participants per instrument, and they must register using the aforementioned email address.\nViolinist James Buswell taught at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1987 through 2014. He has performed as a solo violinist with virtually all of the major orchestras in North America, and throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia as well. In this capacity, he has appeared in over one hundred solo works for violin and orchestra.\nLeonardo Altino has taught in numerous festivals, including the String Intensive Study Program at the Masterworks Festival in Indiana, the Festival de Inverno Campos do Jord\u00e3o in Brazil, and the Academia y Festival del Nuevo Mundo in Venezuela. He also served as professor of cello at the University of Memphis from 2002 to 2015.\nWell-deserved ovation for 2th Symphony Concert", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 210.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corporatecontent.co.za/terms-and-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7FKX7NCVFQOCEWXUBTFWRKZVB5AWP6YV", "length": 4331, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.corporatecontent.co.za", "title": "Terms and Conditions - Corporate Content", "raw_content": "These terms and conditions govern your (\u201cthe User\u201d) use of the CorporateContent website located at the domain name www.corporatecontent.co.za. 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These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between the Provider and the User with regard to the use of the Content and this Website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 4628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cosmoparty.biz/know_everything_about_promotion_384153a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IB3RHLHPTQBNHJTXGN3AJS7G7JPPI5AT", "length": 4079, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cosmoparty.biz", "title": "Know everything About Promotion", "raw_content": "Know everything About Promotion\nIs the present state of your career leaving you frustrated? Would you like to make a career forward move at work? If the answer to these questions is yes, you might consider trying career advancement by asking for a promotion. Whether you should ask for a promotion is a tricky issue for your career. You need to consider various factors carefully before you ask your boss for one. It is not something you do on a whim. A request for promotion can do many things.\nIt may work in your favour, no doubt about that. But it might also do nothing for your career development; worse, it could do more harm than good to your career planning. An important factor in deciding whether you should ask for a promotion or not is whether there is an opening.\nDo you really know the human resource requirement of your employers, now or in the near future? Timing, as they say, is everything. If an open position does exist, it will greatly enhance your chances of getting a promotion. It is imperative that you are aware of the relevant career information at all times. You need to know if there are any open positions in the company, whether from inside sources, online recruitment portals, or even the local newspaper.\nAs soon as you hear of one, you may consider asking your boss for a promotion. How long you have been with your current employers is another big factor you need to take into account before you make that career forward move. Although a short period with your present employer does not necessarily rule you out, your chances of career advancement would be significantly higher with a longer period of employment. Many employers like to reward with promotions people who have been with them for a longer period of time. So you should always keep your tenure in the present concern in mind when deciding whether to ask for a promotion.\nYour career planning goals are another important element that you should keep in mind when you make the decision whether you should ask for a promotion or not. Would you be willing to make a career transition in search of a job that offers better pay, better benefits or better prospects of career advancement? If you are inclined to do that, you might as well consider asking for a promotion. The fact that you are considering moving on to greener pastures itself means that you have nothing to lose by asking for a promotion.\nThe answer that you hear may in fact surprise you. Many companies will be ready to give out promotions or better terms to retain employees they do not want to lose. When you are trying to decide whether you should ask for career advancement or not, you need to know the history of such attempts in the company.\nGetting that information from the office grapevine could be tricky business; you could yourself end up being the subject of workplace gossip. However, it is important for you to know if any other employees have in fact sought a promotion in the past. Did they succeed in their efforts? If not, were there any negative repercussions? Again, rather than gossiping around to get the information, you need to keep your eyes and ears open to get the answers. A lot of tact and caution is necessary if you were to decide that you would ask your supervisor for a promotion. Your supervisors may not be fully aware of your achievements as an employee or your contribution to the company's cause.\nPerhaps you have not worked personally with the decision makers either. You need to try and get an appointment with those who matter in your quest for career development. Treat this meeting like a job interview and try to sell yourself. Point out delicately your contribution to the company's success; also mention how important career advancement is for you. The above factors are important when you finally decide if you are ready to step onto the next level of your career. Should you decide to do so, you need to be tactful and delicate and also confident enough to sell yourself.\nThe bottomline is, do not get upset or feel insulted if your request for a promotion is rejected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.covenantrelationships.org/2013/01/honey-were-having-baby-how-to-keep-your.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AJPS5QA4KHOTTDENRJXUCED7HKZHNC3V", "length": 3777, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.covenantrelationships.org", "title": "Covenant Relationships: Honey, we're having a baby - How To Keep your Pregnant Wife Happy", "raw_content": "Honey, we're having a baby - How To Keep your Pregnant Wife Happy\nFor many men this is fantastic news, despite the obvious reality of more responsibilities the news of a pregnancy is usually a reminder that truly \"You are the man\". And if you've been waiting a long time you're ecstatic and there is good news for the in-laws, they can start hassling you about other things.\nI must warn you the emotions of a pregnant woman are fragile, for the duration of the 9 months she might not exactly be the same sweet, smiley, sexy woman you married; calm down, this too will pass.\nNot only is it hard for her emotionally, being pregnant is also physically draining. Do you know how how many calories she burns while lying on the couch?\nSome of you will tell me that our grandmothers were going to the farm whilst pregnant and even delivering with a hoe and a machete by the side. I don't know how they did it. But if your wife has not been into farming before, then don't expect her to act like a farmer now.\nPray together often, declaring your desires for the pregnancy and the child on the way (\"Supernatural Childbirth\" by Jackie Mize and Terri Mize is a really good book).\nThis one should be obvious, but just in case: Never tell a pregnant woman she\u2019s fat. She knows this. Also, her feet (and maybe even her legs) will inevitably swell with water due to the added weight of a baby. Avoid the \"F word\" at all costs\nPlease guys, we know you want her back to her pre-pregnancy shape after the pregnancy but don't talk about that right now especially when she says she is craving doughnuts. You can suggest a salad instead, but if you know what's good for you don't tell her she has to go back to a size 8 after the pregnancy she has enough on her mind right now\nPray together often, declaring your desires for the pregnancy and the child on the way (Supernatural childbirth is a really good book).\nTry to accompany her to as many appointments as possible, it helps her to have her husband there with her in the waiting room and you get to support her in the event of unexpected news or celebrate in the event of good news.\nRandomly clean up something in the house, anything. Especially if you have other children who always seem to derive joy in scattering things. You\u2019d be amazed what 15 minutes of cleaning up can do.Offer to clean up or do the dishes so that she will be able to rest. As the pregnancy progresses, things will be much harder for her to do-that tummy will always get in the way.\nDo not expect her to be happy all of the time. Even if you get her everything she wants and take care of everything around the house, she will still be going through a lot of emotions and physical pain so understand if she is not happy. Try not to argue with her about things because it is not good for a pregnant woman to get upset. Try to settle problems before they turn into fights.\nRub her lower back. I don't know why, but this was so soothing and an extreme pleasure during labour also. Most women have testified to enjoying a lower back rub during pregnancy.\nTell her how beautiful she is *straight face*. Her self esteem is probably low, so try to show her that you still think that she is pretty. There is a good chance that she thinks that you aren't attracted to her anymore because of her growing stomach (which I hope isn't true) , I have a friend who insisted on always making love in the dark because she was self-conscious about the size of her tummy and stretch marks. When she does her makeup or hair, comment on it. Positively, that is. Don't mention that her nose is twice the size\nLadies, did I leave anything out.? Keeping your pregnant wife happy isn't always easy, but these tips, should help you keep both of you smiling.\nLabels: Christian marriage, Pregnancy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 8538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/32587-Will-Allen-Andrew-Zimmern-to-Headline-Kickapoo-Country-Fair-Saturday-July-30-in-La-Farge-Wis-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7PKWUUGZVLZCMEPQRNUMHB3NZRJ5ABJ7", "length": 7395, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.csrwire.com", "title": "Will Allen, Andrew Zimmern to Headline Kickapoo Country Fair, Saturday, July 30 in La Farge, Wis. \u2013 Press Releases on CSRwire.com", "raw_content": "Will Allen, Andrew Zimmern to Headline Kickapoo Country Fair, Saturday, July 30 in La Farge, Wis.\nOrganic Valley-hosted event will explore all things food - from culture and cooking to access and advocacy - through dynamic speakers, hands-on workshops, artistic performances and more\nCategories: Events, Community Development\nLA FARGE, Wis., Jul. 12 /CSRwire/ - The Midwest's largest celebration of organic food just got a little tastier! The Kickapoo Country Fair, taking place on Saturday, July 30 in La Farge, Wis., today announced its keynote speakers are to be nationally renowned food leaders Will Allen and Andrew Zimmern. Allen, an urban agriculture pioneer and founder of Growing Power, a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, and Zimmern, chef and star of the Travel Channel's hit series, \"Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern,\" both hail from the Midwest and have helped establish the region as a center for food culture and advocacy. Rounding out the day-long celebration will be country music headliner The Kentucky Headhunters.\nOrganic Valley, a farmer-owned cooperative with 1,636 organic farmers nationwide - dozens of which are located just miles from the fair grounds - created the Kickapoo Country Fair eight years ago as a healthy alternative to the traditional deep-fried fair. Nestled amid the steep hills and coulees of southwestern Wisconsin\u2019s Driftless region, this year's Kickapoo Country Fair will attract thousands of attendees for a day-long exploration of all things food, including hands-on workshops, craft and cooking classes, issues-based seminars, poetry and theater performances, farm tours, live music and more - all offered at an affordable price for families. Passes providing access to all activities are only $5 for adults, $2 for kids 12 and under, and free for kids five and under.\n\"We're excited to spice up this year's event with two food leaders who, similar to our co-op, have been instrumental in helping establish the Midwest's prominent role in the changing food movement,\" said Theresa Marquez, chief marketing officer for Organic Valley. \"The opportunity to hear from such renowned personalities, chefs, farmers and advocates, all while eating delicious local and organic food in the beautiful Kickapoo region, is truly a unique food experience only a dedicated community like ours could cook up.\"\nAllen, Zimmern Take Center Stage\nWill Allen, named one of TIME Magazine's \"World's Most Influential People\" in 2010 and recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation's \"genius\" grant, will take center stage at 11:30 a.m. Allen is among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy and systems and is the founder of Growing Power. Based in Milwaukee, Growing Power serves as a \"living museum\" or \"idea factory\" on sustainable food systems for the young, the elderly, farmers, producers, and other professionals ranging from USDA personnel to urban planners. Training areas include everything from urban agriculture, permaculture and food distribution, to community engagement and participatory leadership.\nAt 1:30 p.m., Andrew Zimmern will address fair-goers with a keynote speech and cooking demonstration. Zimmern is a Twin Cities native, James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, food writer, teacher, and is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable personalities in the food world. As the co-creator and host of the Travel Channel's hit series \"Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern\" and \"Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Food World,\" he travels the world exploring food unique to various communities. From world-class restaurants to jungle carts to Kickapoo Country Fair booths, Zimmern is all about discovering and sharing authentic, local food experiences.\nMore Food, Featured Attractions\nThe heart of the fair is the \"Organic Valley Kitchen,\" which this year will feature Chef Michel Nischan, sustainable food pioneer, author and Illinois native. As executive director of the Wholesome Wave Foundation and a long-time proponent of sustainable farming, heritage recipes, and local and regional food systems, Nischan has long been a leader in the movement to honor local, pure, simple and delicious cooking. In the Organic Valley Kitchen, fair-goers can participate in hands-on workshops, learn cooking techniques, meet Organic Valley farmers and sample free food all day long, such as fresh salads, homemade ice cream, kombucha, and beer and cheese pairings.\nIn the morning, go direct to the food source by touring a local, Organic Valley family farm. Those looking to get more creative with food can take delight in a food poetry slam or food theater performance in the afternoon. Various seminars on food-related issues and topics will be held throughout the day, including a presentation and food foraging adventure through the woods led by local Sam Thayer, author of \"Foragers Harvest.\" Keep the kids entertained all day with activities such as after-school snack cooking classes, puppet shows and more.\nWhile fair-goers get their food fix, they'll also have the opportunity to enjoy live music from The Kentucky Headhunters, country rock legends who, to date, have won three Country Music Association awards and are flat-out fantastic live. Also taking the stage will be The Squeezettes, an all-women polka band from Milwaukee, and the Driftless Region's very own Bad Axe Blues Band, an electric \"Chicago-style\" blues band playing a mix of traditional and contemporary tunes.\nFor those interested in making it a weekend affair, camp or stay the night at one of the local bed & breakfasts or country cabins, then return to the fair grounds for an all you can eat breakfast at Organic Valley's Milky Way Caf\u00e9 Sunday, July 31 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for kids 12 and under and free for kids three and under. After breakfast, explore all the beautiful Driftless region has to offer, including kayaking the Kickapoo River, hiking and biking through the lush green hills of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, and more.\nOrganic Valley created and hosts the Kickapoo Country Fair with support from more than 75 local businesses and organizations, including the Wisconsin Farmers Union\u2019s Kamp Kenwood and the Kickapoo Valley Reserve.\nFor more information about the event, including the official schedule and area lodging information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.kickapoocountryfair.org, or find the fair on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KickapooCountryFair.\nOrganic Valley is America's largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation's leading organic brands. Organized in 1988, it represents 1,636 farmers in 34 states and three Canadian provinces, and achieved $619 million in 2010 sales. Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a variety of organic foods, including organic milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, creams, eggs, produce and juice, which are sold in supermarkets, natural foods stores and food cooperatives nationwide. The same farmers who produce for Organic Valley also produce a full range of delicious organic meat under the Organic Prairie label. For further information, call 1-888-444-MILK or visit www.organicvalley.coop, www.organicprairie.coop and the cooperative's farmer website, www.farmers.coop. Organic Valley is also on Twitter @OrganicValley and Facebook www.facebook.com/OrganicValley.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 9497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cswap.com/2003/Onmyoji", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LZKO373H2FAWKMXE6WQ53L2RZJEDKSHI", "length": 475, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cswap.com", "title": "Onmyoji", "raw_content": "links reviews onmyoji\n\"Onmyoji\" torrent\nA movie was released in 2001 and brought to the US in 2004. Directed by Yojiro Takita, it tells of the exploits of Abe no Seimei, the Onmyoji from the court of the Mikado. He was befriended by bungling swordsman Hiromasa, who enlists his aid to defend the Heian emperor. Meanwhile, the Onmyoji Doson is plotting the downfall of the emperor, attempting to frame Seimei in the process while unleasing a horde of youkai to do his bidding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.customers.com/forum/watching-southwest-airlines-behind-the-scenes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:AWRTYJNQL2V7XZKUHO6ZNHIUFSGP56UA", "length": 1488, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.customers.com", "title": "Watching Southwest Airlines Behind the Scenes | Forum | Customers.com - Trusted Advisors to Customer Centric Executives", "raw_content": "Watching Southwest Airlines Behind the Scenes\nPosted Saturday, May 26, 2012 in Customer Culture by Patricia Seybold\nA couple of years ago, Ronni Marshak and I had a unique opportunity to watch the inner workings at Southwest Airlines during one of its busiest and most stressful times. What I found truly amazing was the degree to which customer-centricity permeated ALL the operations of this organization. Everyone understood what mattered to customers and why. Very complex decisions were being made to optimize difficult and challenging choices in real time. Yet everyone was completely grounded in the same ethos: We don't disrupt our customers' lives, unless it's absolutely unavoidable. And we don't have to charge a premium to make money. We just have to optimize around what matters most to customers and keeps sales volume and execution quality high.\nI am often asked whether it's possible to change an inwardly focused company culture to a customer-centric culture. I still don\u2019t know the answer to that question for sure. But I now know what such a culture looks and acts like. It's really very simple. You optimize decisions and operations to deliver what you promised to customers. You think about anything that might adversely impact the customer experience and try to mitigate it before it does. When something unavoidable gets in the way, you do what it takes to make it right. You apologize and you explain what happened and why. You make amends. And you remain friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-books/hardwired/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YP4EPIGXJQB3KQ4CCMX7GYZ344K2IKLH", "length": 3928, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cyberpunkreview.com", "title": "Hardwired - CyberPunkReview", "raw_content": "Book Review By: David Gentle\nCategory:\tCyberpunk Books\nHardwired was born in the aftermath of Neuromancer and shares that novels idea of a central relationship between a man and a woman in which the man is a techie and the woman the hardass. Fortunately it doesn\u2019t share much else, it\u2019s tone being less film noir and more dime store western. That\u2019s not necessarily a criticism because Cowboy, the central male, clearly sees himself as a product of the dream of the American west. He used to be a pilot flying home-built deltas to make sure the mail got through but when that business got destroyed by the orbital Soviet he and others like him switched over to driving tricked out hovercraft called \u201cPanzers\u201d with which they try to smuggle cargo across \u201cthe line\u201d, the border between the real west and the midwest.\nYou\u2019ll notice the reference to an \u201cOrbital Soviet\u201d, the idea being that the communist Soviet block survives into the middle of the 21st century and prospers in space leaving the foolish and impoverished capitalist nations to wallow in the mud at the bottom of the gravity well. We forget just how unassailable the soviets looked up until the end of the \u201980s and it\u2019s not uncommon in CP literature of the time to find a depiction of a futuristic Communist state because everyone in the world of Cyberpunk literature just assumed they\u2019d keep on being an important Superpower forever and that therefore they had to be depicted.\nAt one point Cowboy, flying in a delta (a kind of futuristic jet fighter built in a garage out of carbon fibre and epoxy resins) shoots down an unarmed private jet because one of the people on it has been trying to kill him. At no point does he try to find out who else is on the \u2018plane. He has no moral qualms about it either, he just wishes it had been a more satisfying fight, yet elsewhere we find him worrying about the welfare of children who live (apparently as sex slaves) with his benefactor Rune.\nWhile Cowboy sees himself as a man of principle (despite his unacknowledged lapses) \u201cin it for the ride, not the cargo\u201d Sarah is a prostitute and assassin (tricked out with a bizarre throat mounted cyberweapon) willing to do pretty much anything (undergo extensive plastic surgery to get close enough to an aging man who\u2019s been cloned into a young Asian woman\u2019s body to kill him/her) to get herself and her appalling brother Daud off of Earth and into orbit where everyone important seems to live. She strikes me as more of a cipher than Cowboy. I don\u2019t believe that anyone in her position would be quite as resolute as she is.\nThe two protagonists come together in the context of a botched delivery, go on the run together and then separately until there appears to be a way to to fight against the particular block of the orbital Soviet that is trying to kill them. There is no commitment romance and economics and a perverted/happy ending. Like a lot of other \u201980s Cyberpunk it\u2019s an extrapolation of then current morals into the future. There\u2019s almost moral vacuum where the novel\u2019s soul would normally be.\nWhile it\u2019s hard to get excited about the tech on display in the novel at our point in the 21st century The handling of Cowboys enhanced sensorium (as when he plugs himself into the Panzer and Delta) are well handled and the idea of people prolonging their \u201clives\u201d by downloading recordings of their brains into clones of themselves was newish at the time. Also the way economics is used as the most dangerous weapon in the endgame is clever.\nHardwired is several notches above journeyman cyberpunk. Walter Jon Williams may have written space opera and an earthquake novel since he wrote Hardwired but he seems to have grasped most of the essential elements of \u201980s CP.\nIt may be coat-tail riding but it\u2019s a really good ride.\nThis post has been filed under Cyberpunk Books by David Gentle.\nVoice of the Whirlwind \u00bb\nhttp://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-books/hardwired\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.da-voda.com/en/news/_2025/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3YM24ZS6PTLS2MDTIKHX6ABYZPEI25SP", "length": 959, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.da-voda.com", "title": "Geologists Mapped Water Reserves on Moon", "raw_content": "Specialists of the University of Brown (USA) compiled a detailed map of the water reserves in the lunar soil based on data obtained from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper spectrometer. The spectrometer was equipped with a space probe Chandrayaan-1, which went to the satellite of the Earth in 2008.\nIf you look at the map, you can see that most of the water is situated in the circumpolar regions of the Moon. But \"more\" does not mean much: the concentration of H2O at the poles is 500-750 ppm (millionths of a share). Nevertheless, traces of moisture are present throughout the surface.\nIt is noteworthy that the water content in the soil is not constant and depends on the time of day. The difference can reach 200 particles per million. Thus, in the \"daytime\" period, the humidity in certain regions falls.\nGeologists believe that the map they compiled will be useful for assessing the prospects for extracting water from the lunar soil to ensure future missions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 166.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.daftdrop.com/ireland/antrim/houses/458-crumlin-road-belfast-city-centre-belfastantrim-206224", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:E2YWBTDVNOVOUMUW2HTKHZ64K4B6IQZX", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.daftdrop.com", "title": "458 Crumlin Road, Belfast City Centre, Belfast, Co. Antrim - Semi-Detached House / 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom / \u00a3124,950 & Price History - DaftDrop IE", "raw_content": "458 Crumlin Road, Belfast City Centre, Belfast, Co. Antrim - 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom\n458 Crumlin Road, Belfast City Centre, Belfast, Co. Antrim", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 162.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailyreportingsuite.com/securities/news/cert_petition_seeks_to_resolve_questions_left_open_by_morrison", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TK3RMSRWDF2ISPT5LAFO7UXKDGQHFXRV", "length": 5792, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.dailyreportingsuite.com", "title": "Cert petition seeks to resolve questions left open by Morri", "raw_content": "Cert petition seeks to resolve questions left open by Morrison\nA petition for certiorari has been filed asking the Supreme Court to consider the issue of jurisdiction over cases involving foreign securities businesses. The petitioners argue that the Second Circuit's finding that the foreign transactions at issue were domestic is inconsistent with Morrison and ignores the Congressional directive against the extraterritorial application of the securities laws (Amerindo Investment Advisors, Inc. v. SEC, March 29, 2016).\nQuestions presented. Exchange Act Section 30(b) specifies that the Exchange Act does not apply to any person transacting business in securities without the jurisdiction of the United States. The petitioners ask whether Section 30(b) should bar an action for securities fraud where defendants issued and sold private securities through their company domiciled and conducted abroad, or Section 30(b) is inapplicable because there are domestic transactions when purchasers who chose to invest offshore committed to purchase while on U.S. soil. A second question concerns whether the physical presence in the United States of a purchaser of a foreign security from a foreign company, fortuitous or purposeful \u2013 even one who created offshore entities to purchase and hold such securities \u2013 renders the transaction \"domestic\" and subjects the seller to enforcement of disclosure standards and remedies under United States laws.\nDomestic transactions. The petitioners, Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar, were convicted of fraud in a criminal action in connection with the sale of Panamanian-issued securities via a London-based business. The sales were made through their Panamanian-incorporated business. On appeal, a Second Circuit panel, finding that Morrison applied to criminal cases, held that there was no plain error in the convictions with respect to the territoriality of their conduct, explaining in a footnote that the domestic nature of a transaction is determined by the physical location of the purchaser or seller when they commit themselves to the investment decision.\nFollowing the Second Circuit\u2019s decision in the criminal action, the SEC moved for reconsideration in the parallel civil action. Reversing its previous decision, the district court determined that the conduct fell within the scope of the federal securities laws, concluding that the fraudulent sales did involve a domestic transaction and granting summary judgment in favor of the Commission. In this case, the court found that the purchaser lived in Puerto Rico at all relevant times, that she received information about the fraudulent securities by mail in Puerto Rico, and that her agreement to purchase the securities was faxed from a Puerto Rican phone number.\nThe Second Circuit then affirmed by summary order the district court's judgment, agreeing that the transactions at issue fell under the federal securities laws. The court rejected an argument based on Section 30(b), and based on Absolute Activist and Vilar concluded that the transactions were domestic in character because some of the purchasers had committed to buy while on U.S. soil, so irrevocable liability was incurred in the United States.\nSection 30(b). The petition argued that the Second Circuit's finding that the foreign transactions at issue were domestic is inconsistent with Morrison and ignores the congressional directive against the extraterritorial application of the securities laws. The petition maintains that the factors \u201cguiding\u201d litigation in subsequent Second Circuit decisions mean one thing in one case, and the opposite in the next. This situation is reminiscent of the \"conduct\" and \"effects\" test, the petition says.\nContinuing, the petitioners note that other circuits have adopted the Second Circuit's test, opening the door to extensive litigation about the facts that focus on irrevocable liability rather than Morrison's transactional analysis. Further, the Absolute Activist irrevocable liability test is inconsistent with the test applied in the Eleventh Circuit in Quail Cruises Ship Management Ltd. v. Agencia de Viagens CVC Tur Limitada which, the petition says, adopted a standard focusing on the terms of the parties' agreement to determine when and where a securities transaction closes. In other words, liability should be determined by the location of the charged sale, not simply by the location of the buyer, the petitioners argue. According to the petition, the Second Circuit ignores not only where the underlying securities were traded but also, in this case, that the private securities at issue were neither marketed nor traded on the secondary market.\nFinally, the petitioners assert that six years after Morrison was decided, there is still no uniform or workable standard to determine which securities transactions are domestic and which are foreign. As a result, participants in the international securities industry cannot reliably ascertain whether their transactions are domestic or foreign. The petitioners believe that this case is the perfect opportunity to resolve the questions left open in Morrison: when is a securities transaction involving a private security created and sold by a foreign entity subject to SEC enforcement, and whether U.S. resources should be spent in the service of offshore investors by way of criminal and civil enforcement proceedings.\nThe petition is No. 15-1320.\nAttorneys: Jane Simkin Smith (Jane Simkin Smith, Attorney at Law) for Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc., Amerindo Advisors UK Ltd. and Amerindo Management Inc. Donald B. Verrilli Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, for the SEC.\nCompanies: Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc.; Amerindo Advisors UK Ltd.; Amerindo Management Inc.\nMainStory: TopStory Enforcement FraudManipulation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 7929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailyrepublicannews.com/opinion/editorials/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Z42NO4COIHTUIIUA7ANI2NITW4Y4B327", "length": 1040, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dailyrepublicannews.com", "title": "Editorials - Daily Republican - Marion, IL", "raw_content": "Aisin celebrates 15 years in business\nHopefully, you have read with great interest Chanda Green's three-part series on Aisin beginning last Friday and finishing on Tuesday. Chanda touched on the origins of the company and how a Williamson County group known as REDCO (Regional Economic Development Corporation) worked together to lure the Japanese-owned car parts manufacturer to the region. She then detailed the growth of the company over the last 15 years. What started out as one plant employing 200 has blossomed into three plants and nearly 2,500 employees.\nJohn D. Homan Apr 19, 2017 5:00 AM\nIt's well past the annoying stage. Just last month, Johnston City High School students were forced to exit the building when a threatening note was left inside one of the bathrooms at the school. That's on the heels of two additional threats this past September in Johnston City. And then Tuesday, it was Marion's turn. Only in this case, students were sent home while the premises were thoroughly searched.\nJohn D. Homan Apr 5, 2017 4:31 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.danceyourhartout.com/dance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4FDTNLYIDLGJTBHTMH2HBJZFZBIJDZNN", "length": 135, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.danceyourhartout.com", "title": "Dance Your Hart Out", "raw_content": "See REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE here\nWednesdays from 3pm to 7pm\nSaturdays from 9:30am to 2pm\nFront Page Photographs Courtesy of Lorne Clark", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.darkejournal.com/2019/01/edison-state-and-hobart-institute.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YQQNEM3GZV3CMSF5WXEWFQJXAXM5XF43", "length": 3244, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.darkejournal.com", "title": "DarkeJournal.com: Edison State and Hobart Institute Partner to Offer Welding Technology Degree", "raw_content": "Edison State and Hobart Institute Partner to Offer Welding Technology Degree\nCharlie Carpenter (L), Director of Skill Education at Hobart Institute\nof Welding Technology, and Dr. Tony Human (R), Dean of Professional and\nTechnical Programs at Edison State meet on behalf of the two\ninstitutions entering a consortium agreement\nEdison State Community College and Hobart Institute of Welding Technology (Hobart Institute) have entered a consortium agreement, making it easier than ever before for students enrolled in Hobart Institute Accredited Welding Programs to continue on the path to an associate degree at Edison State.\nBuilding upon a twenty-year partnership, the institutions\u2019 latest agreement facilitates the transfer of credit from the Hobart Institute to Edison State for students who wish to pursue an Associate of Technical Studies (A.T.S.) in Welding Technology.\n\u201cWe are pleased to bolster our partnership with Hobart Institute in which we provide educational opportunities to students from both institutions and strengthen their future work-based learning and employment opportunities,\u201d said Dr. Tony Human, Dean of Professional and Technical Programs at Edison State.\nDependent upon the students\u2019 career goals, the institutions support three pathways of completion. Students have the option to work toward an A.T.S. in Welding Technology, with a focus on Management, Manufacturing, or Quality.\nStudents enrolled in the program may apply up to 30 credit hours from Hobart Institute toward one of the ATS degrees now offered at Edison State. The remaining balance of coursework required at Edison State may be completed online or in person in as little as one year.\n\u201cWe feel it is important to provide our students with a multitude of opportunities once they graduate,\u201d said Charlie Carpenter, Director of Skill Education at the Hobart Institute. \u201cOur team does a great job with career assistance, and we believe partnering with Edison State can help expand the opportunities for our graduates interested in further education. We are excited about the partnership and believe Edison State is a great option for our graduates seeking further education.\u201d\nAccording to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics, employment of professionals in the welding career field is projected to experience a 6-percent growth from 2016 to 2026. Welders will be sought to aid in the nation\u2019s aging infrastructure which will require the expertise of welders to help rebuild bridges, highways, and buildings. In 2017, professionals in this career field earned an average of $19.35 per hour or $40,240 per year.\nThe Associate of Technical Studies in Welding Technology degrees is approved by the Higher Learning Commission and the Ohio Department of Higher Education.\nEdison State Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is recognized with the highest order attainable by the Ohio Board of Regents.\nThe Hobart Institute of Welding Technology is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges and is approved by The Ohio State Board of Career Colleges.\nFor more information about the degree pathways offered, call 937.778.8600 and ask to speak with a resource specialist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 506, "original_length": 16309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.darkhorizons.com/ioan-sought-for-chariots-sequel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RUVFG2SWYYGSAQ4B6HZGTVHA5S634LOL", "length": 1578, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.darkhorizons.com", "title": "Ioan Sought For Chariots Sequel - Dark Horizons", "raw_content": "Ioan Sought For Chariots Sequel\nJust over a quarter of a century ago, the British film \u201cChariots of Fire\u201d swept the 1981 Oscars. The iconic image of athletes in white running along the beach to Vangelis\u2019 most famous theme remains to this day one of the true iconic moments of cinema reports The Guardian.\nNow, plans are underway for a sequel picking up a year after the original, which dramatised Harold Abrahams\u2019s and Eric Liddell\u2019s sprints to glory at the 1924 Olympics. It also covered the religious convictions of the pair, notably Liddell\u2019s which prevented him from running.\nThe sequel will likely follow Liddell\u2019s return to his birthplace in China,to serve as a missionary. When World War II broke out, he sent his family to safety in Canada, but insisted on staying and was interned by the Japanese in 1943, He taught and organised sport for children in a camp before dying from a brain tumour.\nProducers hope to persuade \u201cHornblower\u201d and \u201cFantastic Four\u201d star Ioan Gruffudd to play Liddell. Unlike the very British original however, \u201cWith Wings as Eagles\u201d will be an American production and this has raised concerns that it will \u201cstress religion at the expense of historical accuracy.\u201d\nActor/writer Rich Swingle penned the script and has familiarity with the subject matter \u2013 creating the one-man stage show, Beyond the Chariots, which he performed at the Edinburgh Festival. He admits though he\u2019s had to use \u201ca bit of dramatic licence\u201d to link up the two characters again.\nPrevious articleDunst Does Marla Ruzicka Biopic\nNext articleTrade Breaks: Knight, Call, Arsonist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathbyramen.com/2009/08/11/anchored/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SVX4PX7LNM6QDLKYX7DEQFRYZDWNU6SQ", "length": 397, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.deathbyramen.com", "title": "Anchored | Death By Ramen", "raw_content": "Senior thesis film made at Ringling College of Art and Design for Lindsey Olivares.\nDog versus Butcher Student final thesis produced at Ringling College of Art and Design by......\nPost-It Stop Motion: Deadline (+ Making Of Footage) Senior project by Bang-yao Liu at Savannah College of Art and Design.......\nPigeon Pilfer Senior film project by San Francisco State student Michael Stevenson.......", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.depressionbracelets.com/face-depression-project", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TSXBDV5XB2HVNOI5DB7UYECIFSFFUJP3", "length": 551, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.depressionbracelets.com", "title": "FACE Depression Project \u2014 Depression Awareness Bracelets", "raw_content": "When Marlo sent me this quote, I immediately connected to it. Often when people experience some sort of trauma, loss or illness... or depression for no reasonat all- we feel broken...however this quote shows respect and honor for what we go through. It makes us stronger and empowered and this quote shows beauty in it too. IMAGE PROVIDED\nMeet my brother-in-law, Reid. He is one creative dude. Check out his band Assembly of Dust. Here are the lyrics to his song Unvarnished. To hear the full song check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRVYTCBDKo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/seasia/doc/duterte1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NW3GQTZ5FGHAZKYWCENSFBWXOO3UFSEN", "length": 8093, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.derechos.org", "title": "Equipo Nizkor - Duterte's First Year: A Strategic Roller Coaster.", "raw_content": "Duterte's First Year: A Strategic Roller Coaster\nThe Philippines' tough-talking president Rodrigo Duterte has entered his second year in office with a heavy dose of sobriety and more mature strategic outlook. In many ways, it has been a tough, yet enlightening learning curve for the former provincial mayor, who had little experience in global affairs and rarely left his bailiwick in Mindanao throughout decades of public service.\nDuring his first year in office, Duterte, who ran on an anti-establishment platform, tried to shake up the whole political system by reorienting his country's domestic and foreign policy traditions. At home, he launched a direct assault on the Philippines' liberal democratic tenets - particularly human rights - by conducting a brutal campaign against illegal drugs, which has been heavily criticized by Western nations, liberal media and human rights groups. Externally, he painfully sought to reorient the Philippines' strategic compass, lashing out at the West with sound and fury, while praising Beijing and Moscow as friendly nations.\nDespite his age and concerns over his health, Duterte fast became the Philippines 'most travelled president', visiting 17 countries throughout 21 foreign trips, piling up over 77,542 miles within less than 12 months. He has visited China twice, in October and May, and became the first Filipino president in recent memory to conduct a state visit to Moscow, where he met Vladimir Putin. Conspicuously though, Duterte has yet to visit any major Western nation, including the United States, which has been the top and usually first major foreign destination for Filipino presidents.\nJust to put things into perspective, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2001-2010), Duterte's major ally, visited the United States as many as eighteen times during her tenure, followed by Benigno S. Aquino III (2010-2016) and Fidel V. Ramos (1992-1998), who visited the country's sole treaty ally seven times in six years. Duterte's hyperactive diplomacy, and his choice of foreign destinations, clearly signaled the Filipino president's strategic preference, namely reduction of the Philippines' reliance on Washington in favor of warmer and less deferential ties with alternative poles of power. There were five reasons behind his strategic re-orientation.\nFirst is his personal antipathy towards America, especially in light of some dark experiences during his tenure as mayor of Davao, in addition to the rumored (albeit unverified) rejection of his visa by American authorities. Beyond personal beef, Duterte's 'socialist' tendencies, and long-term friendship with far-left and revolutionary leaders, including Communist Party of the Philippines' ideologue and former professor Jose Maria Sison, came along with some ideological enmity towards the West, particularly America.\nThird, Duterte rightly put into question the utility of his predecessor's overreliance on Washington, which repeatedly equivocated on the extent of its security commitments to the Philippines, particularly in the South China Sea. In short, Duterte realized that the Philippines was being taken for granted by Washington. Fourth, there is a direct correlation, if not causation, between Duterte's personal insults and tirades against America, on one hand, and the Obama administration's open criticism of his signature policies, particular the war on drugs, on the other. Finally, Duterte was not only interested in avoiding war with China over disputed land features and maritime resources, but also sought Beijing's capital and technology to revamp the Philippines' decrepit public infrastructure. As for Russia, Duterte sought more affordable sources of arms supply to modernize the Philippines' military.\nYet, despite his best efforts, Duterte has arrived at three key realizations after his first year in office. First and foremost, it has become increasingly clear that Duterte, despite his popularity and strongman aura, doesn't have the power to unilaterally shape his country's defense policy. Time and again, not only has he been openly contradicted by senior defense officials, but he also had to appease the defense establishment by revisiting his earlier policies. Crucially, Duterte has had to ramp up the appointment of former and current military men to senior offices as a way to appease the men in uniform, who remain largely suspicious of China, have a long history of interoperability with America, and who have opposed Duterte's outreach to communist rebels.\nSix former and current Armed Forces of the Philippines chiefs of staff have been appointed to cabinet positions, with as many as fifty-nine former military and police officials currently occupying key positions in the Duterte administration. Duterte's (reluctant) deference to the military was clearly on display during the recent crisis in Mindanao, when the Philippine military seemingly sought American military assistance without consulting the president. At one point, he half-jokingly admitted, \"the military would oust me,\" if he didn't take their views on sensitive issues, particularly peace negotiations with communist rebels, into consideration.\nDuterte's second major realization is the limit to which he can distance from America. Amid the specter of Islamic State terror in Mindanao, the Philippines has become increasingly dependent on American military assistance. Not only has the Pentagon provided weapons, training, intelligence via drones, and deployed a unit of Special Forces to Marawi, but it has also ramped up its joint maritime exercises with the Philippine military. At this point, much of the focus is on counter-terrorism, but the Pentagon seeks increased access to Philippine bases and expands its footprint on Philippine soil as its military ramps up its assistance to its Southeast Asian ally.\nFinally, and related to the two previous factors, robust and expanding cooperation between the Philippine military and the Pentagon will constrain Duterte's outreach to China, which has consistently opposed growing American military presence in the region. In an effort to reverse this trend, China has offered counter-terror assistance, including $16 million in ammunitions and weapons, as well as humanitarian assistance. There are also discussions of joint-exercises and intelligence-sharing between the two neighbors.\nDespite China's best efforts, however, the country remains deeply unpopular among the Filipino people and, perhaps even more so, among the Philippine military, which sees China as a major strategic threat in the South China Sea. China's expanding military footprint in the Spratly chain of islands - particularly in the Fiery Cross, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef - where the Manila claims nine land features, is bound to rattle the Philippine defense establishment, which sees America as the best insurance policy in an event of conflict in the region. Not to mention, the Scarborough Shoal could also serve as another major flashpoint if and when China decides to build military structures on the Philippine-claimed land feature. In short, there are major constraints on how far China and the Philippines can upgrade their current relations.\nWith Philippines marking the first year anniversary of its landmark arbitration case against China, Duterte is bound to come under public pressure for not raising the verdict in his bilateral engagements with China as well as in multilateral fora such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is currently chaired by the Philippines. As former U.S. President Barack Obama warned in his farewell speech, \"[R]eality has a way of catching up.\" This is exactly what Duterte has to content with as he enters his second year in office. At this point, he can still try to maintain a dynamic equilateral balancing strategy towards the two major powers without necessary aligning with or disaligning from any of them. 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If the seal is round it may not be more than 2 inches in diameter. If the seal is rectangular it may not be any larger than 1 inch by 2 1/2 inches. The border of the notary seal may only be a milled edge, (Like the edge of a quarter), or have a serrated appearance like that of a steak knife.\nWhat About An Embosser As A Notary Seal?\nAn embosser gives a very professional appearance to a notarized document. If a rubber inked seal, (the most common form of notary seal), is used to notarize a document, an embosser in not needed by California law. However, if an embosser is used as the only seal then you need to remember that the seal also has to be photographically reproducible or it my be rejected. You can accomplish this by either purchasing an ink stamp or some notaries have had success by shading the impression made by the embosser with a lead pencil.\nFor more information on notary seals or notary law you can call Develop Point Education toll free at 855 Pro Notary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/1323", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:IUTIBRSSSL4DUTQOSFWN56ZIE5AYLU27", "length": 65, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dieselsweeties.com", "title": "Now I'll Never Dance With Another Since I Soyuz Standing There. : diesel sweeties by @rstevens robot webcomic & geeky t-shirts", "raw_content": "\"Now I'll Never Dance With Another Since I Soyuz Standing There.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digitalfactorynetwork.com/who-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:47Z", "digest": "sha1:P5XGUDI5IYNSMQXVKWZQHEAPXCBWZF7K", "length": 1513, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.digitalfactorynetwork.com", "title": "Who we are @ Digital Factory Network... Providing Rural Americans with jobs", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb We Are Digital Factory Network\nDigital Factory Network \u2013 Who We Are\nDigital Factory Network was founded in 2012 by President and CEO, Michael Dumont. We provide telemarketing and internet marketing services. Our strategy to provide jobs to highly motivated and committed rural Americans provides us with an economies of scale. Rural Americans do not always have the same immediate economic opportunities such as those available in metropolitan areas. We utilizes the latest cloud based technologies. Our distributed workforce allows us to be competitive with those firms in metropolitan areas. In simple terms we offer the same custom services for a fraction of the cost. Our employees have an appreciation and commitment to Digital Factory Network\u2019s Mission, Vision, and Philosophy. Rural Americans are proud to be part of the revitalization of America!\nOur Mission is to provide jobs for rural Americans (who are committed to excellence), and to increase your company\u2019s sales via our Contact Center Services. We provide these services at a significantly lower price point than our domestic competitors.\nOur vision is to return jobs to America that were outsourced to foreign companies during the digital revolution. Our vision is to provide a competitive solution to your company\u2019s sales and marketing needs; Right here on U.S. soil using the latest technologies.\nOur Philosophy is to provide the highest quality telemarketing solutions at a competitive price point while putting Rural Americans to work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digitalreviews.net/news/news-from-the-web/nokia-lumia-2520-tablet-reaches-at-t-on-november-22nd-for-$400-on-contract-video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5GGXCY3LH2IC7B3GR7VEZJBNOEIGIRQD", "length": 1054, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.digitalreviews.net", "title": "Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet reaches AT T on November 22nd for $400 on contract (video) | News from the Web | News | Digital Reviews Network", "raw_content": "Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet reaches AT T on November 22nd for $400 on contract (video)\nIf you've been jonesing for that otherflagship Windows RT tablet, you won't have long to wait. AT&T has just announced that it will release the Nokia Lumia 2520 on November 22nd for $400 when paired with a two-year data contract. It will launch only in black, unfortunately, rather than the vibrant colors you see above. However, there is a perk if you're going all-in on Nokia hardware -- buy a Lumia 925, 1020 or 1520 at the same time and the carrier will drop the 2520's price down to $200 with a two-year agreement. If you're eager to learn more about the LTE slate, you can check out AT&T's quick tour video after the break.\nUpdate: We've since confirmed with AT&T that the Lumia 2520 will be available for $500 contract-free, as Nokia originally promised.\nFiled under: Tablets, Mobile, Nokia, AT&T\nRead more http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/15/nokia-lumia-2520-reaches-att-on-november-22nd/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dignitas.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=115&Itemid=211&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OE7IDSPO5FL4UUNC3T5DU6XS5ZURYED2", "length": 2610, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dignitas.ch", "title": "Newsletter 2019-1-3-e", "raw_content": "Swiss voters acknowledge importance of international human rights safeguards\nOn 25 November 2018, Swiss voters clearly rejected the popular initiative with the misleading title \"self-determination initiative\". The initiative, launched by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), had threatened to tear down international legal safeguards necessary to rectify court judgments that do not sufficiently consider citizens\u2018 basic human rights.\nIf the initiative had been adopted, the Swiss government would have had to terminate its membership of the Council of Europe and thus its adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The possibilities for citizens to enforce their human rights, and thus also their freedom to decide on their own life and life\u2019s end, would have been considerably restricted.\nDIGNITAS supported the \"Allianz der Zivilgesellschaft / Schutzfaktor M\", a conglomerate of various groups which conducted a campaign against the initiative. Following a letter by DIGNITAS to its members, the campaigners received a number of donations. DIGNITAS would like to thank all of the donators among its members for supporting this important campaign. The initiative was rejected by the population in the November 25 vote (66.2% of votes against); pre-voting polls had been much less clear. It seems that the strong mobilization in the weeks prior to the vote by the campaigning groups was fruitful.\nSince its founding, DIGNITAS has always been committed to the protection and enforcement of human rights \u2013 also in Switzerland. It has repeatedly achieved important progress in the struggle for the enforcement of self-determination at life\u2019s end by means of court proceedings \u2013 including such proceedings in Switzerland and Germany, which ultimately resulted in favour of self-determination in life and at life\u2019s end due to decisions by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.\nMeasured against the total number of deaths, assisted dying remains a marginal phenomenon even after more than 30 years of this being a practice in Switzerland. Nevertheless, conservative political circles, often tied to religious institutions, parts of the medical profession \u2013 especially their professional organisations \u2013 and health institutions still do not accept it for what it is: a self-chosen way of ending one\u2019s suffering and life based on the free will of a responsible citizen. At the moment, there are no signs that current conditions will be limited in Switzerland but DIGNITAS keeps monitoring the situation and will do its utmost to safeguard self-determination in end-of-life matters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 148.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diraimondoschroeder.com/alex", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:KXVTUSAVT5SBHOKRAVATRP6YR6ENHKAR", "length": 1461, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.diraimondoschroeder.com", "title": "Alex \u2014 DiRaimondo & Schroeder LLP", "raw_content": "Alexandra Byelyakova joined D&S in November 2018, where she prepares and monitors a variety of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petition and applications for clients in numerous industries including finance, business, the arts, engineering, and technology.\nOriginally from Ukraine, Alexandra earned her first law degree from the Ukrainian State University of Finance and International Trade. In the United States, she continued her legal career working as an immigration paralegal where she assisted with various immigration case types. Through the extensive experience she gained during this time, Alexandra developed a strong interest in immigration law and ultimately decided to pursue a career as an immigration attorney in the United States.\nAlexandra attended an L.L.M. program at Brooklyn Law School in New York where she graduated magna cum laude. During her studies, she further expanded her knowledge of immigration law, taking immigration-related courses, participating in several immigration pro bono projects, and interning at a large business immigration law firm in New York.\nWith a strong appreciation for the value of professional immigration advice, Alexandra strives to deliver excellent legal service to her clients.\nNew York (exam passed, admission pending)\nBrooklyn Law School, LLM magna cum laude\nUkrainian State University of Finance and International Trade, Master of Laws & Bachelor of Laws\nAlexandra is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 167.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dirosaart.org/tt_sept2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PFV4BPSOCV46KONLAYCKYO7PGHINQ5Z2", "length": 1226, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dirosaart.org", "title": "Third Thursdays at di Rosadi Rosa Center for Contemporary Art | di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art", "raw_content": "Clockwise from Left: Joe Shoemaker, Magnanimous, No Nostalgia\nJoin us on the Third Thursday of the month for drinks, music, and art-related activities. Drop-ins welcome.\nThis month, we\u2019re hosting three exciting local acts:\nNo Nostalgia, a queer indie/emo music band from three best friends who grew up in Cloverdale, California together and one piece of videogame hardware from 1989. After playing in various projects together for ten years, No Nostalgia has been the group\u2019s most focused project to date. They are in the midst of recording their first full-length and released a demo in 2016.\nMagnanimous is a solo keyboardist/singer from Napa. He takes inspiration from David Bowie, Rush, and MGMT. He\u2019s played all over the Bay Area at book stores, movie theaters, art venues, and everywhere in-between. His music sounds like the soundtrack of a Unicorns dream.\nJoe Shoemaker is an electronic musician from Lawrence Kansas. He now resides in Napa, where he works as a music therapist and produces electronic music that focuses on playful textural soundscapes. His music blends natural and synthesized sounds together to create harmonious textures that satisfy the senses. Follow him on Instagram to see his latest creations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/wonders-of-the-universe-destiny", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:38Z", "digest": "sha1:G6BQZNEQPXE4SWAVJHFA6XPKSTLXNKGT", "length": 906, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.documentarytube.com", "title": "Wonders of the Universe: Destiny | DocumentaryTube", "raw_content": "Science, Social, Philosophy\nEnglish physicist Brian Cox serves as a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is known as the presenter of the \u201cWonders of \u2026\u201d series, but also for popular science books \u201cWhy does E=mc2?\u201d\nBrian has also been the co-author of more than 950 scientific publications. He is the natural successor for BBC\u2019s scientific programing, and in this episode, he explores the universe.\nPart of the \u201cWonders of \u2026\u201d series, in this episode we see Brian ask and try to answer questions like who are we, where do we come from and similar philosophic and scientific questions.\nHumanity has turned to myth and religion for years to these questions. However, there is a scientific answer to them as well. Brian tries to show the answers provided by science by exploring the cycles of time which define our experience of life on Earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 122.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.doe.virginia.gov/news/news_releases/2013/oct15_boe.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:03Z", "digest": "sha1:XZKXUVKW2P224MKRI33RMFSHVR7MZCKC", "length": 2758, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.doe.virginia.gov", "title": "VDOE :: News: October 15, Harrisonburg Next Stop on Board President\u2019s Listening Tour", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb 2013 News Releases \u00bb October 15, 2013 \u2013 Harrisonburg Next Stop on Board President\u2019s Listening Tour\nHarrisonburg Next Stop on Board President\u2019s Listening Tour\nItinerary Includes Tours of Two Schools\nVirginia Board of Education President David M. Foster continues his listening tour of state educational regions October 17-18 with a visit to Region 5, which comprises 19 school divisions in the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains and Piedmont. The tour is designed to provide an opportunity for parents, teachers, local school board members, administrators and interested citizens across the state to express their views on issues facing the commonwealth\u2019s public schools.\nFoster and fellow board member Diane Atkinson will host an education issues forum on Thursday beginning at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Skyline Middle School in Harrisonburg. The forum, scheduled to last two hours, will begin with a brief presentation by Foster on the Board of Education\u2019s constitutional and statutory responsibilities and its goals for the commonwealth's public schools.\n\u201cAs with past visits across the state, I look forward to hearing citizens\u2019 thoughts on reforms the board has made to the SOL testing program in recent years, the shift to college- and career-ready standards for those graduating from our public schools, and other major issues before us,\u201d Foster said. \u201cI am also interested in hearing views and concerns related to the A-F grading system that the board will be considering later this month as a result of the legislation approved by the 2013 General Assembly.\u201d\nOn Friday morning, Harrisonburg Superintendent Scott Kizner will accompany Foster and Atkinson on an 8 a.m. tour of Skyline Middle School led by Principal Joe Glick and a 9:30 a.m. visit to Smithland Elementary School led by Principal Gary Painter.\nRegion 5 includes Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Campbell, Fluvanna, Greene, Highland, Louisa, Nelson, Rockbridge and Rockingham counties as well as Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Staunton and Waynesboro.\nFoster intends to visit all eight of Virginia\u2019s educational administrative regions by the end of the year. 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Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dragoncon.org/?q=guest_details_page/4686", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:18Z", "digest": "sha1:P5LDZT5JUHT2DQJH7KGGX6INZSII7XAF", "length": 1500, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dragoncon.org", "title": "Dragoncon", "raw_content": "2017 saw Dominique Tipper\u2019s return for a second season as the lead role of Naomi Nagata in Syfy\u2019s flagship and critically-acclaimed series The Expanse, based on the popular science fiction series by James S. A. Corey. 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I'm a musician as well, so I know what's important to you when building or redesigning your website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drinkdrank1.com/2013/05/albany-ale-fall-into-gap.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GOPUIV2GX4B537JLET5XDBX4LT5OUTVZ", "length": 14751, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.drinkdrank1.com", "title": "drinkdrank: Albany Ale: Fall Into the Gap", "raw_content": "I added the \"Albany Ale\" tag to the headline of this post, but \"technically\", this one's not about Albany Ale, directly. It's about hops, early-American hops\u2014specifically\u2014so the title isn't that divergent. Besides, it I haven't written about Albany Ale in a while, and I didn't want you guys to forget about it.\nAlan and I have been inspired by Martyn's recent post about American hops and early 19th-century British beer. His find of a newspaper report of the 1817 arrival in England of the ship Golconda with\u2014 among other things on-board\u2014two bags of hops, has opened up a floodgate of questions about those early-American hops.\nWe do have a slight problem though\u2014a gap, if you will\u2014and I think Alan sums it up best in the first line of the second paragraph of one of his comment on Martyn's post:\n\"Not yet clear what was going on from 1670 or so to 1770, except there was a hell of a lot of brewing under English rule\u2026\"\nWhy in the world would an 18th-century\nAlbany watch-maker need hops?\nAlan expresses my sentiment, as well, about our research of the 100 years-or-so of New York beer history between the Dutch control of New York and the American Revolution. Not clear, indeed. In fact it's down right foggy. We know that beer was being made, and at a pretty good clip\u2014in both Albany and New York City, as well as up and down the Hudson Valley\u2014but we don't know much about that industry, or if you could even call it an industry. Let's look at the raw materials needed for beer. We have a pretty good understanding where the mid-19th century Albany Ale brewers sourced their ingredients\u2014central and western New York. Both barley and hops farms were plentiful throughout that region. Rewind one hundred years and it's nowhere near a clear. This isn't just a New York issue either\u2014where did Philadelphia or Boston or Williamsburg get their ingredients?\nSo, hops are a good jumping off point. Simply asking where they came from gets the ball rolling on this gap in our research. Where was\u2014or more to the point was there\u2014a hoppy center of the early-American and colonial brewing world in what would become the United States?\nLet's start out with what we do know.\nWe know that by the mid-19th century, New York State had a well established hops industry, and Central New York would eventually produce 90 percent of the United States hop crop. We know that twenty-five years earlier eleven counties in Central New York would be growing and processing hops. Thanks to Martyn, we know that by 1817 the somewhere in United States had the capacity to produce enough hops that could be exported to England\u2014a country, by the way, which had burned the White House and U.S. Capitol just four years earlier. We know that James Coolidge emigrated to Madison County, New York, from Massachusetts, bringing with him rootstock from that area in order to open the first \"commercial\" hop farm in the state\u2014which he did in 1808. That year is exactly twenty-five years after the end of the American Revolutionary War\u2014just enough time for the state to recover, economically and figuratively, from the war and a nasty infestation of the Hessian Fly which decimated the areas grain crop, after the war.\nNewspaper adverts during the late 1780s, and well into 1790s show an increased demand for hops\u2014to the level that non-brewers and non-hop growers were getting in on the act (see the above ad from the Albany Gazette, in 1789). They also show English hops being imported into and sold in New York City in the late 1770s and early 1780s, which makes sense, as the city was occupied British territory during the war. In the 1760s, a Committee for Agriculture was formed concerning a mode or proof for premiums on Agriculture. This committee set prerequisites on the quality of crops and agricultural goods, including flax, hemp, cheese and of course, hops. Prior to that these, admittedly New York-based newspapers, also show a pre-Revolution, thriving hops trade, albeit one that may have been bit un-organized. Throughout the 1740s and 50s, adverts appear for hops arriving through, what looks like inter-colonial trade, particularly Boston, Philadelphia and New York City\u2014the earliest one found, advertising \"Boston Hops by the Bale\" in a 1749 ad in the New York Evening Post. Hops seem to be moving between these cites fairly regularly. There is almost no evidence that hops were being imported from outside the colonies\u2014with one exception.\nIn the March 17, 1760 edition of the New York Mercury, a Hanover Square import merchant in New York City advertised \"To be sold, a choice parcel of NEW-HOPS\u2026\" the ad does not specifically note that these are English hops, but it continues, \"\u2026likewise a parcel of Cheshire and Gloustershire Cheese, and Calvert's best Porter.\" I am assuming that all of these products were British-shipborne.\nThat leads me to a totally unsubstantiated and evidence-less theory (My personal, favorite kind of theory.) Could it be at all possible for the Crown to have viewed hops as they did tea\u2014a required import that was also to be taxed? Granted, tea was used to support the trade form another British colony, and then heavily taxed to pay for it's standing Army\u2014I don't think that's the case for hops. My theory is that because England had and existing and thriving hops industry, the Crown may have imposed an importation of hops into the colonies in order to regulate the amount of hops grown in North America. The Dutch appear to have done this, during their control of New Netherlands, so why not the Brits?\nI'm not saying hops were not grown in the colonies, they obviously were, but think about this\u2014hops grow wild and do particularly well across almost all of the Continental United States. On the East Coast alone hops can grow from North Carolina to Maine\u2014an area several times larger than the hop growing regions of England\u2014If England had supported a hops industry, as they did with cotton and tobacco, it would have killed the English hop industry\u2014simply by the colonies ability to produce them in vastly greater numbers. Why not force an importation which, in case of an emergency\u2014such as the English hops glut of the 1760s, that plummeted the price of hops in England\u2014could be shipped to America and taxed to relieve offset any loss?\nAgain, no proof\u2014just an idea.\nTheory or not, and even knowing what we know, we still don't have a very clear picture of where these hops came from. We know where they were traded or shipped from and how they were sold and inspected when the arrived. But, where they were grown\u2014be it in colonies or not\u2014no. As it sits now, it looks like there wasn't an \"industry\" per say, more like a loose collective\u2014substance farms growing a variety of crops like flax, corn, hemp and hops, then selling that harvest at market. Enough farms do that, and hop supplies can sustain themselves. While Alan's statement that \"there was a hell of a lot of brewing under English rule\u2026\" is true, it's also relative to population. Looking at New York specifically, the population of the state of New York in 1850 was a tad over 3 million, one hundred years earlier, the colony of New York in 1750, it was just under 77,000. 77,000 people don't need an industry.\nWhere does that leave us? About where we started. If anybody has any ideas about the pre-19th century hoppy America\u2014theories or otherwise\u2014I'd love to hear them.\nMaybe we can close this gap.\nLabels: Albany Ale, Blogs and Bloggers, hops\nI think we also need to be governed by where the population was. This is a handy 1771 map of what is now upstate. Any NY hops pre-Revolution would have to be in the Hudson or R'wijk if only because what is now CNY and WNY were forests only populated by the Iroquois. That plus the surprisingly sparce overall state population (1770 - 162,900 overall for the state; 1750 - 76,700) could well mean that hops were being imported into the colony / province.\nExactly, the three major population centers in pre-Rev\u2014actually pre-Erie Canal NY\u2014were NYC, Albany and Kingston.\nPS - you do know I am the acquaintance of the current NY Commissioner of Agriculture, right? Could be that they have a departmental archive.\nMy guess that would all be stashed in the State Archives, which is three or floors above me.\nMartyn Cornell May 29, 2013 at 12:57 PM\nCalvert's, of course, was the name of two big London porter breweries, one of which was right by the Thames.\nThe Thames? That's in New Jersey, right?\nBrianW May 29, 2013 at 2:03 PM\nI just posted this link on Martyn's blog:\nhttp://resources.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=730\nLots of great material in there.\nWell, that answers that...\nFor anybody who want to read what Brian \"The Brain\" W hunted down, here's the bit relevant to this post...\nThe culture of Hops in England had become common before the close of the sixteenth century and hop roots were among the list of articles to be brought to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. It has not been established that hops were an important New England crop during the Colonial period, although in some instances they may have been raised in small quantities for home-brewed beer. During the last quarter of the eighteenth century hop raising began to assume commercial importance in New England. In addition to consumption of hops by American breweries, the exact quantity of which is unkown, a significant export trade began. The 2250 pounds of hops exported from the United States in 1792 are believed to have been raised entirely in Massachusetts where their culture was confined to a small number of towns in northern Middlesex County. Until about 1800 hops were grown mainly in the towns of Wilmington, Tewksbury, Billerica and a few adjacent towns at which time some of the successful growers in Wilmington moved to Bedford, New Hampshire, introducing hop culture to that area. The success of the hop growers in Bedford led to a wide adoption of the crop in Hillsborough County. These two neighboring counties, Hillsborough in New Hampshire and Middlesex in Massachusetts remained the greatest hop producing region in the United States until after 1840. Yet the center of production was clearly shifting westward by that date. About 1825 individuals from Bedford and Amherst, New Hampshire removed to Bethel, Vermont taking with them hop roots and introducing hop culture to that vicinity. Hop production in Vermont grew steadily and by 1850 exceeded that of both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. At approximately the same date that hop growers emigrated to Bethel, Vermont, others removed from Bedford to New York State where hops also became an important crop. There hop culture became heavily concentrated in Madison, Oneida and Otsego counties. By 1840 New York hop production was still slightly less than that of New England as a whole and although New England production continued to rise slowly during the following decade, the 1850 federal census reveals that hop raising grew far more rapidly in New York, increasing to over three and one half times that of New England.\nEarly New England Farm Crops: Hops, Darwin P. Kelsey, 1980, OSV Research Paper\nNot sure that answers the riddle as we know hops were abundant in the woods in Dutch era pre-1660s Hudson Valley. We know the Dutch stayed. We can assume the hops did not migrate. Who imports hops when haops are abundant in the woods? BUT, it does confirm my suspicion that hops moved with the expansion west. First NE to NY. After NY, the generations move to Wisconsin and Minn. Then on to the PNW.\nThe more I think about this, the more I think Massachusetts presumptive lead in the hops industry may have less to do with the availability of hops\u2014wild or cultivated\u2014and more to do with population density and location. I looked at U.S. Census data from 1790\u2014around the same time the the Kelsey paper claims the hops industry becomes important to New England, and noticed some interesting numbers.\nAssuming the bulk of late 18th-century Massachusetts population was seated within a 60 mile long, 50 mile wide semi-circle surrounding Boston\u2014its biggest towns being Lexington and Concord to the west, Plymouth to the south, Salem to the north, and Boston and Quincy situated near the center. Estimating that half of the state's population\u2014189,000* people according to the 1790 U.S. census\u2014were living within this 3,000 square mile area, that works out to about 60 people per square mile\nLooking at New York in 1790, the bulk of New York's population lay in a 170 mile long, 60 mile wide block spanning the width and length of the Hudson River from just above Schenectady to Manhattan. New York's major population centers, at that time were Albany, Kingston and New York City. Again, estimating half of the state's population\u2014170,000** people according to the 1790 U.S. Census\u2014were living within this 10,000 square mile area, that works out to 17 people per square mile.\nFast forward to 1825\u2014the year the Canal opens and 17 years after Coolidge arrives in Madison County\u2014and New York's population has risen to 1.3 million, while Massachusetts tops out at 566,000.\nI think, if the Kelsey paper is correct, Northeast Massachusetts success with hops in the late 18th and early 19th century was due more to its population and proximity to Boston harbor, than anything else. Not only were there more people demanding hops, there were more people to farm and harvest them as well. New York, 45 years later, finally had the population, and a way to get the hops the 250 miles from CNY to the port of New York.\nMore people means more hops.\nBut we don't really know if hops were abundant in the woods. Wild yes, but wild and abundant aren't mutually exclusive. Hop still grow wild in New York, but I wouldn't say they are abundant.\nWild and abundant are not mutually exclusive but they are not the same either. The Dutch record indicates plenty. There is no reason for that to change. But, yes, it would be good to have some population numbers for Hudson Valley / R'wijk from 1620 to 1775. Also, remember that there were those counties in SW VT that later become NY as part of the shaming of the Green Mountain boys playing both sides in the Revolution and for a decade after.\nCraig May 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM\nHow about the City and County of Albany\u2014including Schenectady\u2014in 1697? 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Neither is the butcher\u2019s wife or the little boy who sees dead people. Even Stephen King has had to share some of the pie when you talk about this topic. What is it? Psychic Phenomena.\nIn the last 30 years, the interest in the paranormal, extrasensory perception (ESP) and the use of psychic powers has escalated. Beyond your basic Stephen King novel, the idea of being psychic or having psychic abilities has penetrated deeply into genre of mainstream television and movies. In 1990, the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg as Oda May Brown was the first blockbuster film to portray psychic phenomena in a positive light. The following year, The Butcher\u2019s Wife was released where Demi Moore portrays a clairvoyant woman who is married to a butcher in Greenwich Village. This speaks nothing of the impact Haley Joel Osment had on viewers as he portrayed Cole Sear, the young boy who could see dead people, in The Sixth Sense.\nOn television, this interest is not diminished. We are bombarded with commercials for the Psychic Friends Network, Miss Cleo and other psychic advice lines. Unfortunately, these shows do not promote the credibility of this once-coveted art. Fortunately, there are a number of shows emerging that explore this phenomena in a more serious light. Dramatically speaking, we have shows such as the Outer Limits, the X-Files, Profiler and even Star Trek. Sylvia Brown, Caroline Myss and James van Praagh are frequent guests on shows such as Oprah, Maury and Montel. In fact, stations such as the Learning Channel, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel have also jumped onto this bandwagon, setting aside a large number of viewing hours each month to cover this and other paranormal topics.\nWith all of the attention being given to psychic phenomena, its true nature still lies deeply shrouded in mystery. Mass media has significantly improved the sinister and evil stigma once associate with this ability, but in doing so it has inadvertently misrepresented the essence of the psychic experience.\nThe truth is that we all have psychic experiences daily. Some people describe these experiences having a moment of intuition, as an impression or even a gut feeling. Others write them off as a weird happenstance or coincidence. When we have a psychic experience, we are receiving information on non-verbal levels. It is as if we each act as radio transmitters, sending out our thoughts, feelings and emotions. In turn, we also possess finely tuned reception equipment built into us that allows us to receive this information from others.\nWhen we receive psychic information, it can be experienced in a number of different ways \u2013 a thought, a feeling or even knowingness. By paying attention to sensations in our physical bodies, to changes in our emotions or to what we are thinking, we can \"tune in\" on psychic levels. This is the experience.\nThe simple truth regarding psychic abilities is this: We all have access to this form of non-verbal communication. In fact, many of us recognize it when we receive it, even if we don\u2019t have the correct word to associate with it. In the end, regardless of the amount of information being received, it does us no good at all if we do not use it. So if you are getting bad vibes from somebody, trust it! If your inner knowing is working to guide you in one direction or another, listen to it. If you find that you just know something, believe in its worth. And for God\u2019s sake, if you find that a friend or loved one has a headache \u2013 get them an aspirin.\n\"THE MYSTERIES OF PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES UNVEILED\" with DR. RITA LOUISE \u2013 2:00-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, Room 101B, tickets $10 now, $15 at door \u2013 Rita Louise, Ph.D., became fascinated with the concept of extrasensory perception at the age of 12, a passion which has lasted a lifetime. After years of intense study and in-depth research into the fields of health and wellness, psychology, philosophy and the esoteric arts and sciences, she has emerged as a leading voice in the fields of holistic health and mind/body healing. Founder of the Institute of Applied Energetics and the host of Just Energy Radio, Dr. Louise is a Naturopathic Physician and a 20-year veteran in the Human Potential Field. She is the author of the books Avoiding The Cosmic 2\u00d74 and The Power Within. It is her unique gift as a medical intuitive and gifted clairvoyant that illuminates and enlivens her work. Visit www.soulhealer.com\nhttp://www.soulhealer.com\nRita Louise, Ph.D., is a bestselling author and medical intuitive. She is the host of Just Energy Radio and the Founder of the Institute of Applied Energetics. She is the author of Man-Made: The Chronicles Of Our Extraterrestrial Gods, Avoiding The Cosmic 2X4, Dark Angels: An Insider's Guide To Ghosts, Spirits & Attached Entities and The Power Within, as well as hundreds of articles that have been published worldwide. She has appeared on radio and television and has spoken at conferences on health and healing, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal. For more information, visit www.soulhealer.com or listen to her live at www.justenergyradio.com. Contact her by email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 12118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.edgemagazine.net/2015/03/time-is-perfect-for-awakening/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:22Z", "digest": "sha1:P4MCCLUWGQG7I3HUE3PN7NCD5F5BQPCI", "length": 3828, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.edgemagazine.net", "title": "The Time is Perfect for Awakening Now | The Edge Magazine", "raw_content": "The Time is Perfect for Awakening Now\nKyra Mesich, Psy.D.\nIt is time for you, particularly those of you who are sensitive, to realize that you are more than meets the eye. Each one of you is a complex system of many lives, many experiences. Awakening from your spiritual slumber is easy if you just allow yourself to peek into the realms of who you are.\nEach person is a soul, with a multitude of experiences, living on the earth to raise the vibration of the world at this time. Dr. Kyra specializes in working with sensitive people. All of you sensitive people are the lighthouses, the compassionate sensitives, who will lead the world into this awareness of change. Now, that does not mean you have to stand up and lead. What it does mean is that you need to take care of yourself, do what feels right to you, acknowledge the vastness of your soul, and be comfortable with your power as a strong human on the Earth at this time.\nYes, if you are sensitive, you are among the strongest souls on the Earth at this time. That is why Dr. Kyra calls her podcast and blog this: \u201cThe Strength of Sensitivity.\u201d Sensitive people are those who are most in touch with their true selves, and understand that they are more than just a corporeal body with a brain. A sensitive person knows, intuitively, that the world is filled with benevolent forces and that working in cooperation with spirit and other humans is the only way to peace and advancement. Sensitive people are the link between the basics of life on Earth and the limitless possibilities of spirit. If you are sensitive and aware, you live with a foot in both worlds. It is time to at least make them equal in your life experience.\nThe point of this article is to let you know that it isn\u2019t that hard to awaken from your spiritual slumber. You\u2019ve been raised in a limited world, with limited beliefs, but you can choose at any time to expand that and to follow your heart\u2019s curiosity.\nThere are tools to help you and many skilled practitioners with open hearts right here in these pages. If you have any inkling that you are vast and that there is more to life that the four walls that surround you, then you are almost there already. All you have to do is reach out to a friendly helping hand and say, \u201cI\u2019m willing to explore the possibility that I am more than what I\u2019ve been taught.\u201d You can always step back again and pace yourself. But the rewards that await you are spiritual freedom, inner peace and compassion that are mysteries to those who reside within the four walls.\nThis is a channeled message. Don\u2019t let that scare you. All it means is that Dr. Kyra opened herself up to hear more than the chatter of her brain. She listened to her spirit and transcribed the words that were appropriate for this time. You can do it, too \u2014 for everyone can, much more easily than you may think.\nTo awaken from spiritual slumber this spring, use the momentum of the Earth\u2019s changing seasons to follow your blossoming hunches and gut feelings. Allow yourself to peek into the places and meet the people who will entertain and enlighten your soul. This year, 2015, can be an amazing year of transformation if you simply go along with the gut feelings that are already inside you. Trust your inner hunches. You are far wiser than you think.\nNamast\u00e9 \u2014 and remember to have fun!\nhttp://www.drkyra.com\nKyra Mesich, Psy.D., is an innovative holistic health practitioner, the creator of Empathic Awareness Psychology, and author of The Strength of Sensitivity. Her passion is helping sensitive people find their power and happiness in life. Dr. Kyra\u2019s practice incorporates ancient wisdom with leading edge holistic thought. She works with clients in Minneapolis and Woodbury, MN, and by phone. To learn more, visit www.drkyra.com. Contact Kyra at hello@drkyra.com or call 612.568.3538.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 10658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.edmundcase.com/tag/mark-zuckerberg/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DA7ZMMUFOZABPLAK75UULU6CC2RFQVGK", "length": 13022, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.edmundcase.com", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Archives - Edmund Case", "raw_content": "Positive Outlooks Greet the New Year\nEdmund Case Attitudes About Intermarriage, Celebrities, Engaging Interfaith Families Jewishly, Inclusion and Welcoming attitudes towards intermarriage, efforts to engage interfaith families, intermarriage and Israel, Mark Zuckerberg, raising children\t0 Comments\nThe discussion about Conservative rabbis officiating for interfaith couples has quieted, other than a terrible piece by one of the Cohen Center\u2019s own researchers, that I blogged about separately. I\u2019d rather focus on the positive responses to intermarriage as the High Holidays approach, and fortunately there is are five of them!\nBack when Mark Zuckerberg was marrying Priscilla Chan, there were all sorts of derogatory comments from critics of intermarriage to the effect that his children would not be Jewish. So I was very pleased to see Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook posts showing him with his daughter in front of lit Shabbat candles, what looked like a home-baked Challah, and a message that he had given her his great-great-grandfather\u2019s Kiddush cup. The fact that such a super-influential couple clearly are making Jewish choices for their family is the best news with which to start the new year. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan could really change the course of Jewish history if they got involved in efforts to engage interfaith families in Jewish life.\nSecond, Steven M. Cohen, in a new piece about declining number of Conservative and Reform Jews, says that arresting the decline \u201cmeans encouraging more non-Jewish partners and spouses to convert to Judaism.\u201d That\u2019s not the positive news \u2013 the positive news is a much different response: the \u201cradical welcoming\u201d recommended by Rabbi Aaron Lerner, the UCLA Hillel executive director \u2013 a modern Orthodox rabbi, who grew up in an interfaith family himself. Rabbi Lerner writes that on college campuses, the intermarriage debate is already over \u2013 meaning that they regularly serve students who come from intermarried households, and sometimes those with only one Jewish grandparent, who they serve as long as they want to become part of their community in some way. Cohen could learn a thing or two from Rabbi Lerner:\nHillel and our Jewish community benefit enormously from that diversity.\nNobody can know for sure whether someone will grow into Judaism and Jewish life just because of their birth parents.\nA Jewish student in an interfaith relationship may be inspired by our Shabbat dinners to keep that tradition for his entire life, no matter who he marries.\nIf these young students feel intrigued by Jewish learning, choose to identify with their Jewish lives and take on leadership roles in our community, they will be the ones shaping the future of Jewish life in America. But none of that happens if we don\u2019t make them welcome and included members of our campus community\u2026 I understand the communal sensitivities to intermarriage. But it happens whether we like it or not. If we don\u2019t give these young men and women a right to be part of our community, we risk losing them forever.\nA third inclusive response is reported by Susan Katz Miller in a piece about PJ Library. She notes that PJ is inclusive \u2013 when it asked in its recent survey about Jewish engagement of subscribers, it asked if children were being raised Jewish or Jewish and something else; it also asked how important it was to parents that their children identify as all or partly Jewish. She reports being told that 50% of interfaith families in the survey said they were raising children Jewish and something else, and 45% Jewish only. She quotes Winnie Sandler Grinspoon, president of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, as saying \u201c\u201cThis entire program is for interfaith families, and non-interfaith families, whether it\u2019s the exclusive religion in the home or not\u201d she says. \u201cIf your family is looking for tools, and you\u2019re going to present Judaism to your children, whether it\u2019s the only thing you teach them or part of what you teach them, then this is a very easy tool.\u201d\n(There were other brief news items that are consistent with the value of an inclusive approach. The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent had a nice piece about interfaith families celebrating the High Holidays (featuring Rabbi Robyn Frisch, director of InterfaithFamily/Philadelphia), and the secular paper in Norfolk, Virginia had a nice article about Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill\u2019s work with an interfaith couple. The national past president of the Reform movement\u2019s youth group wrote an inspiring piece about how she discovered the Jew she is meant to be \u2013 revealing incidentally that she comes from an interfaith family. Batya Ungar-Sargon, the Forward opinion editor, notes the element of coercion in the Orthodox approach to continuity, with disavowal of coercion and embrace of freedom the point of being liberal. There\u2019s also an interesting article in America, a Jesuit publication, When a Jew and a Catholic Marry. The author interviews four couples to illustrate different ways they engage with their religious traditions.)\nIn the fourth important item, Allison Darcy, a graduate student, asks Are Your Jewish Views on Intermarriage Racist? She had decided not to date people who weren\u2019t Jewish because there was \u201ctoo much pushback from the Jewish communities\u201d in which she felt at home. A seminar on race theory prompted her to examine the implications of Jews\u2019 prioritizing of in-marriage. For religious Jews who want to share their religion, it stems from a religious source; otherwise some amount of the conviction that Jews should marry Jews is based on ideas of racial purity.\nIt\u2019s not a religious argument. It\u2019s a racial one. It\u2019s about keeping a people undiluted and preventing the adoption of other cultural traditions, which are clearly evil and out to usurp us. It\u2019s a belief that it\u2019s our duty to keep everyone else away, rather than to strengthen our own traditions so that they can stand equally and simultaneously with others. In my mind, it\u2019s the easy way out.\nDarcy acknowledges that the difference in Jewish engagement between children of in-married vs. intermarried parents \u2013 but aptly points to the Cohen Center\u2019s study on millennials to say tha \u201cby encouraging engagement with the community, we can near even this out.\u201d Her conclusion: aside from religious-based objections,\nThis idea that intermarriage is dangerous is a judgment, pure and simple. It implies that other lifestyles are inferior, and that we ourselves aren\u2019t strong enough to uphold our own. And at the end of the day, it\u2019s racist to insist on marrying within your own race for no other reason than they are the same as you.\nThe fifth item \u2013 I was startled by this, given past pronouncements by the Jerusalem Post \u2013 is an editorial that takes the position that Israel should allow everyone the right to marry as they chose, not subject to the control of the Chief Rabbinate.\nIf at one time it was believed the State of Israel could be a vehicle for promoting Jewish continuity and discouraging intermarriage, this is no longer the case. We live in an era in which old conceptions of hierarchy and authority no longer apply. People demand personal autonomy, whether it be the right of a homosexual couple to affirm their love for one another through marriage or the right of a Jew to marry a non-Jew. Dragging the State of Israel into the intricacies of halacha is bad for personal freedom and bad for religion\u2026.\n\u2026 Instead of investing time and energy in policing the boundaries of religious adherence, religious leaders should be thinking of creative ways to reach the hearts and minds of the unaffiliated.\n\u2026 Those who care about adhering to the intricacies of halacha should, of course, have the right to investigate the Jewishness of their prospective spouse.\nBut for many Israelis, love \u2013 the sharing of common goals and values, including living a Jewish life as defined by the couple, and a mutual willingness to support and cherish \u2013 is enough.\nThe Jerusalem Post endorsing interfaith couples living Jewish lives as defined by the couples \u2013 now that is another great start to the new year. I hope yours is a sweet and meaningful one.\nMazel Tov, Mark and Priscilla\nEdmund Case Celebrities Mark Zuckerberg\t0 Comments\nAs our friend Jason Miller reported earlier today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan were married yesterday.\nA year and a half ago I expressed concern that the Jewish world was about to \u201cblow it\u201d again with a celebrity interfaith couple. At the time, a columnist had speculated that Zuckerberg was in love with Chan because she was not Jewish. I said that was ridiculous and offensive, and worried that we were going to see the same kinds of negative reactions to Zuckerberg\u2019s relationship with Chan as we saw from Jewish leaders about the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky.\nSure enough, Dr. Aliza Lavie, from Bar Ilan University in Israel, reportedly spoke out against Zuckerberg\u2019s marriage and pronounced that \u201cThe children of another successful Jewish man will not be counted as Jews.\u201d\nDr. Lavie, we beg to differ. There are thousands and thousands of children of Jewish men who count themselves and Jews, and who are counted in significant parts of the Jewish community as Jews. It is tiresome but necessary to keep on repeating this to Israelis \u2013 and to many American Jews too who haven\u2019t yet got the message.\nWe send a hearty mazel tov to Mark and Priscilla and we hope they will find welcome and support and encouragement whenever and however they may choose to engage in Jewish life and community.\nMark Zuckerberg Is Not In Love With A Stereotype\nEdmund Case Attitudes About Intermarriage, Celebrities, Inclusion and Welcoming attitudes towards intermarriage, inclusion, Mark Zuckerberg, welcoming\t0 Comments\nI\u2019m afraid that the Jewish world is about to blow it again with interfaith couples and families, as happened just two months ago with negative reactions to the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. This time, it\u2019s about Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook.\nApparently the soon-to-be-released movie, The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin, suggests that Zuckerberg created Facebook so he could meet non-Jewish girls. This according to a piece by Danielle Berrin in the Huffington Post yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg Created Facebook To Get Non-Jewish Girls, that is disturbing on many levels.\nBerrin writes that the movie assumes that \u201cfor some Jewish men, and perhaps Mark Zuckerberg, being a Jewish woman is a turn-off.\u201d Apparently there is a scene in the movie where Zuckerberg and his friends are looking at a group of Asian women dancing and one comments that Jewish guys connect with Asian girls because they are not Jewish.\nI don\u2019t deny that there are stereotypes in culture of Jewish women. As Berrin says, young Jewish women are depicted as Jewish American Princesses and adult Jewish women are depicted as the Overbearing Jewish Mother. To her credit, Berrin says that these stereotypes \u201cobviously, are egregiously unfair.\u201d\nBut Berrin offends when she suggests that it is not \u201cpure fiction\u201d when Sorkin suggests that in Zuckerberg\u2019s eyes \u201cone of the best things about being an Asian woman is that she isn\u2019t a Jewish woman\u201d on the basis of the fact that Zuckerberg is in a serious relationship with Priscilla Chan, a Chinese-American medical student, whom he started dating in college. She also ends her piece by saying that Jewish women aren\u2019t the problem, the problem is that Jewish men like Zuckerberg are hanging out with the wrong ones.\nThe notion that Mark Zuckerberg is in love with Priscilla Chan because she is not Jewish, and that he wouldn\u2019t be with her if he had hung out with the \u201cright\u201d Jewish women, is, with all respect, ridiculous. And offensive.\nDo you know anyone who is in love with a stereotype as opposed to a real person? Do you know anyone who fell in love with a person because he or she was a stereotype \u2013 or was not a person who fit some negative stereotype?\nThere\u2019s no explaining why Mark Zuckerberg or anyone else is in love with who they are in love with. But I\u2019m pretty confident that people don\u2019t fall in love based on whether a person they are attracted to fits one stereotype or doesn\u2019t fit another.\nBerrin offends for another reason: She says a profile of Zuckerberg in the New Yorker gave \u201cthe Jewish world yet another reason to fret over the its future by suggesting Zuckerberg is on the road to intermarriage.\u201d Can I ask why that is a reason for the Jewish world to fret? This is the same kind of backward thinking that recently led Jewish leaders to declare the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky \u201cnot a Jewish event.\u201d\nIt\u2019s too bad that this movie, judging from Berrin\u2019s comments, is probably going to generate many more comments complaining that Jewish men aren\u2019t interested in Jewish women and are on the road to intermarriage. It would be a lot smarter if the Jewish reaction to Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan would be a great big \u201cmazel tov, welcome to our community.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 23252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.electronicpaymentscoalition.org/resource/electronic-payments-coalition-applauds-congressman-luetkemeyer-for-supporting-common-sense-security-standards-for-all/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:T53NNIONFOGWUZTP5VZAQFHUFP6UVOCP", "length": 1336, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.electronicpaymentscoalition.org", "title": "Electronic Payments Coalition Applauds Congressman Luetkemeyer for Supporting Common Sense Security Standards for All | Electronic Payments Coalition", "raw_content": "Consumer data protection is a major concern for Americans, particularly given the recent spate of large scale retailer data breaches. As such, it is increasingly important that Congress identify common sense security solutions to protect consumers\u2019 personal and financial information. In an effort to advance this cause, Congressman Luetkemeyer announced his support today for the Data Security Act of 2015.\n\u201cConsumers deserve to know that their information is safe in the hands of retailers,\u201d said Sam Fabens, spokesperson for the Electronic Payments Coalition. \u201cWe applaud Congressman Luetkemeyer for supporting this important piece of legislation and hope that it will encourage others in Congress to follow suit.\u201d\nFinancial institutions of all sizes are already required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to develop and maintain robust internal protections to combat and address network intrusions and data theft. Despite millions of consumers having their data exposed in retailer data breaches, the retail industry has actively opposed adopting similar standards.\n\u201cData security should be a shared responsibility by all participants in the payments ecosystem,\u201d said Fabens. \u201cWe urge Congress to support H.R. 2205, \u2018The Data Security Act of 2015,\u2019 to help ensure that consumers\u2019 personal and financial information is protected.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.equinoxtattoo.com/jersey-booking-instructions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EQESWKILHJMJ7SJFPB6HIAAV2J3EESXR", "length": 119, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.equinoxtattoo.com", "title": "Jersey Booking Instructions - Equinox Tattoo Collective", "raw_content": "If you want to hold a specific date and time for a tattoo, a $100.00 deposit will be required to hold your appointment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 92.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.equwell.org.uk/health-and-wellbeing-policy-updates/2018-q3-july-september/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GQ6OGVAEZSUJ2V5TPXYULBQVP6NO3YMH", "length": 2225, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.equwell.org.uk", "title": "2018 Q3 July-September \u2013 Equwell Strategies", "raw_content": "The NHS still has nearly 9,000 fax machines in use, the Royal College of Surgeons has found, based on freedom of information request responses from 95 trusts, three quarters of trusts in England.\nAn association between pollution levels and hospital visits has been found in research by the University of Dundee comparing the medical records of 450 with bronchiectasis against 15 years of pollution data. The research was published in the European Respiratory Journal.\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/10/air-pollution-linked-to-spikes-in-hospital-and-gp-visits\nThe transition from child to adult mental health support should be more flexible, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has recommended. 25,000 people make this transition each year. Services can be interrupted and reduced during the transition. One of the recommendations is to move from age-based to a needs-based criteria for transition\n(\u00a3) https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/young-people-stuck-in-mental-health-services-void-says-hsib/7022868.article\nMatt Hancock is appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, replacing Jeremy Hunt who becomes Foreign Secretary. Jeremy Hunt was the longest serving health secretary.\n(\u00a3) https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/new-health-secretary-named-as-hunt-goes-to-foreign-office/7022890.article?\n(10/07/18) https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/07/10/new-health-social-care-secretary-announced/\nOne in four junior doctors suffers from burnout, according to the GMC\u2019s annual national trainee survey of 70,000 doctors. Almost a half said they regularly worked more than their rostered hours and nearly a third said they are exhausted in the morning at the thought of another shift.\n(\u00a3) https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/revealed-one-in-four-junior-doctors-report-burn-out/7022873.article\nSpending per head on public health will have fallen by 23.5% over five years by next year, according to analysis by the Health Foundation. The health grant given by the government to local councils was \u00a32.86bn in 2014-15, is \u00a32.44bn this year and is due to fall to \u00a32.27bn in 2019-20.\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/08/fears-of-future-strain-on-nhs-as-councils-slash-health-programmes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 6011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2010/10/protect-assets-from-irs-seizure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EJNU4H4MB2AJZLRXSFGPMIJGYGVRGG23", "length": 10294, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.escapefromamerica.com", "title": "I Learned Asset Protection the Hard Way... -", "raw_content": "Home Asset Protection\tI Learned Asset Protection the Hard Way\u2026\n\u201cIf They Bust Your Doors Today, Seize All Your Assets, Are You Prepared Thoroughly To Start Over Clean \u2013 Somewhere Else? (If not, read this)\nEveryone wants a piece of your ass_ets!\nYears ago, I learned about asset protection the hard way. I became embroiled in a minor dispute with a US government agency. They were wrong. I was right. No question about it.\nBack in those days, I had a sizeable business to run. Crack teams of accountants and lawyers were at my disposal\u2026 They would settle it, I thought. I wasn\u2019t worried, so I didn\u2019t give the matter much attention. One day I refused to take a phone call, and had my secretary refer some squeaky-voiced government guy to our accountants.\nSoon after that, I found all my bank accounts frozen and my checks started bouncing, left, right and center. Business came to an end, just like that. I had to fire my employees. With my income cut off, I ended up in jail because I couldn\u2019t make court-mandated maintenance payments to my 3 ex-wives.\nYears later\u2026 yes. But that\u2019s another story. I learned that when your property is seized in litigation (especially when the government is the plaintiff) even if you win \u2013 it can be years before you get back any part of it. And I learned another, even more important thing: you must be prepared.\nAfter that, I vowed always to be \u2018Prepared Thoroughly.\u2019 Never again to be at the mercy of a petty bureaucrat who was upset because I didn\u2019t take him seriously. And I have never again had a problem. This article is about some unconventional but completely legal asset protection strategies that are guaranteed to work!\nThe Rich Don\u2019t Own Great Wealth \u2013 They Control It!\nIngvar Kamprad, founder of the IKEA furniture stores, is by some calculations the richest man in the world \u2013 but IKEA\u2019s \u2018unconventional\u2019 ownership structure makes this the subject of debate. Frankly, nobody knows. You can be sure he can afford anything he wants. Yet he owns very little.\nThe super rich don\u2019t own great wealth \u2013 they simply control it. Ownership implies risk and liability. Control simply means you get to enjoy it!\nLooking back over history, the rich have always used asset protection structures like trusts and family foundations to protect their assets. IKEA\u2019s complex and opaque holding structure, with Foundations in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Caribbean, is one example of a successful entrepreneur\u2019s asset protection strategy. But you can be sure it costs a small fortune in attorney\u2019s fees just to keep it up.\nHowever, too often, people who have been successful in business do the craziest things. Things that really make you wonder how they were so successful in the first place. Like handing over assets to supposed \u2018trusted professionals\u2019 who at best manage the assets badly, churning and burning accounts to generate high fees \u2013 and at worst simply run off with the money. Over the years I\u2019ve seen it all\u2026 again and again.\nHow, then, can someone new to asset protection planning deal with this dilemma? When so-called specialists tell you that the only way to protect your assets from greedy contingency fee lawyers, ex-spouses and creditors is to give away your assets once and for all (to them) what should you do? I say: run, as fast as you can!\nAre there ways to keep control of your assets while keeping them out of harm\u2019s way, without giving up control? Most certainly! That is the subject of my new 37-page Asset Protection Manual (valued at $150.00) that I am offering free of charge to Escape Artist readers who send me an email at escapeartist@getresponse.com.\nThe Threats to You and Your Assets are Multiplying\nToday, threats to your assets are greater than ever. There\u2019s the government, for one. They don\u2019t even need to bother about seizing your accounts. They are taking everybody\u2019s money through devaluation. You may have the same amount of dollars left next year, but you can bet them all you won\u2019t be able to buy as much with them next year!\nThen there are creditors. The court system is out of control. Even a burglar who hurts himself while robbing you can sue you and get a million dollar judgment against you! Property rights and traditional freedoms have been eroded beyond the point where they can ever be fixed \u2013 at least in my lifetime. Identity thieves on the other side of the world can access your bank and brokerage accounts. Worst of all, selective prosecution means the most highly paid, successful people with visible assets run a much bigger risk of criminal indictment.\nHere\u2019s Something Lawyers Won\u2019t Tell You!\nOne of the main reasons for all this, in my opinion, is how transparent most people\u2019s lives are. If your assets are visible, they are in temptation\u2019s way. It is easy for people to research on Facebook, and gain access to credit records, property transactions and the like showing how much you are worth. If you have assets, you are a target!\nHere\u2019s something lawyers won\u2019t tell you, because there\u2019s no way they can make money out of it. Keeping a low profile is the best way to stay out of harm\u2019s way. Don\u2019t own properties in your name. Keep your savings in foreign banks where hungry lawyers can\u2019t see it. Don\u2019t brag. All these things vastly reduce your chances of being targeted.\nPut simply: there are far more options open to the investor whose capital is invested from a base or headquarters outside his home country. The government wants you to believe that anything offshore is dangerous and risky. The offshore industry lawyers want you to believe it is easy, and secure\u2026 but very expensive\u2026 to set up trusts, foundations, three-tier holding companies and the like.\nThe truth is that taking the decision to go offshore is much more straightforward and economical than many might have you believe. Opening an offshore bank account, for example, costs almost nothing and still provides you with strong asset protection.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. Foundations, trusts and the like can be good, but they are subject to many limitations. If you would like to know more about this, read Chapter 4 in the free report Asset Protection Secrets Big Brother Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know. You will get your copy of this amazing report when you send me an email at escapeartist@getresponse.com\nAsset protection is harder for Americans than for most others. But again, there\u2019s a huge industry of lawyers and accountants peddling domestic asset protection strategies. You can easily spend thousands setting up complex trusts and LLCs. Trust me: it\u2019s not worth it!\nHowever well drawn up your \u2018structure\u2019 the government or the plaintiff will challenge it in court. Even if they know they can\u2019t win in the end, they will try to wear you down. And they are hoping to get a judge with socialist tendencies, so they can present you as an exploiter and themselves as victims. With the right judge on their side, the law doesn\u2019t really matter anymore.\nChapter 5 of Asset Protection Secrets Big Brother Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know is especially for US citizens. There\u2019s something even more important that Americans need to know, too\u2026 it\u2019s a loophole that could save high net worth individuals hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars, in taxes\u2026 all perfectly legally. It\u2019s quite a sensitive matter, and it\u2019s a loophole that might be closed soon.\nHow to Hide Foreign Assets Completely Legally\nAs you are probably aware, foreign bank accounts have to be reported these days. Americans must report any foreign accounts totaling over $10,000 to the IRS. Similar regulations exist in most other countries.\nIf you follow my advice, however, you will keep your overseas assets non-reportable. This doesn\u2019t mean you just don\u2019t declare them \u2013 many people who did just that are now regretting it big time, as the veil of bank secrecy is being lifted around the world.\nWhat it means is that you keep your money in more sophisticated assets. Physical gold is one for example. While gold certificates, or electronic gold, would be reportable, hard gold coins are physical things that don\u2019t generate any dividends and don\u2019t have to be reported on your tax return. You can keep gold coins in a safe deposit box overseas and no one needs to know about them. There is no way any lawyer or money-grabbing government official can know about them. And what they don\u2019t know about is safely there for you and your family when you need it.\nThis is completely legal. There are five other non-reportable assets that are also easy to get into. Each is described in detail in Chapter 7 of Asset Protection Secrets Big Brother Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know. You can download your copy of this guide free \u2013 right now \u2013 by sending an email at escapeartist@getresponse.com.\nAt the end of the day, we live in a complicated world and protecting your assets is no easy matter. But neither is it as difficult as it seems. There are lots of people out there who have a vested interest in making things complicated. If you want to keep what is rightfully yours, you need to rise up to the challenge!\nI won\u2019t be popular for saying this, but you should trust nobody but yourself. Don\u2019t trust asset protection lawyers or accountants. Don\u2019t trust peddlers of offshore corporate structures. Only by taking the time to study the concepts and learn from an independent source will you be in a position to know how you can best protect yourself and your family. To get you started, I am very happy to offer you the benefits of my experience. Your future is in your hands!\nI Learned Asset Protection the Hard Way\u2026 was last modified: October 27th, 2010 by Escape From America\nMarketing Mexico to the World\nUnique Investment Strategies Used by Rich and...\nBill Smith October 28, 2010 at 10:23 pm\nAsset protection strategies are focused heavily upon bankruptcy and tax laws.\nMany strategies have blown up in people\u2019s faces \u2013 especially offshore trusts in US courts.\nHow are you qualified to write about this subject?\nMuller November 10, 2010 at 1:10 pm\nCompliments for your excellent, precise, logic article about asset protection! Would you please send me Asset Protection Secrets and How to Move\u2026? Thank you.\nDanyl October 25, 2012 at 4:49 pm\nThe asset protection secrets link is dead. I just goes to a website that is up for sale. Please send me the report or a live link.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 15882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2012/06/resources-turning-your-desire-ultimate-freedom-location-work-reality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TVUCLFBTJBMBTAYXQ27T4OEX7TFGGBEB", "length": 7363, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.escapefromamerica.com", "title": "Resources for Turning Your Desire for Ultimate Freedom in Location and Work into a Reality - EFAM | Escape From America Magazine", "raw_content": "Home Living Overseas\tResources for Turning Your Desire for Ultimate Freedom in Location and Work into a Reality\nResources for Turning Your Desire for Ultimate Freedom in Location and Work into a Reality\nI will make a pledge to you, my dear readers. I will not bombard you with all sorts of useless crap I think you should buy. If I personally write an article suggesting a product or a service, it is only because I am sincerely and ridiculously excited about it or it is something that has truly helped me in the past. These courses I am now about to show you\u2026well, they are pure brilliance to me and I wish that I could be a fairy and go give one copy of each to everyone I know. Instead, I will do the next best thing and at least open your eyes to the fact that they exist. You can thank me later when you are sitting on the beach somewhere, financially independent, loving life and remembering back to the days when everything seemed so much more difficult.\nThere are two authors in this world who really rocked my world when it came to helping me define the lifestyle that I wanted to create for myself. One is Timothy Ferriss from the legendary book The Four Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)\nTim showed me how I was actually complicating way too many things that did not have to be complicated, and that I was wasting so much of my life doing pointless, non-productive things that I didn\u2019t need to be doing, and that I certainly did not enjoy.\nThe second author is Chris Guillebeau who wrote The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules and Live the Life You Want. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World\nAs one reader said, and I happen to agree, \u2018This book is like a lightning bolt to the head. Read it and your brain will spark and sizzle\u2019. Chris taught me to embrace life as a constant adventure, to never settle for anything less than extraordinary, and he armed me with tools to actually go out and do so. Lots of people out there will tell you how to lead a better life, and it\u2019s all great in theory, but where does one actually begin?\nWhat I love about Chris is that he will never tell you how to do something that he hasn\u2019t already mastered himself. He studied in Seattle, worked for a medical charity, saw himself getting into the rat race\u2026and decided that he would be no one\u2019s little monkey. He has since traveled to over 150 countries, and challenges the status quo everywhere he goes. He really is a great example of someone who lives their life unapologetically on their own terms, and can offer step-by-step advice that will have you not only believing that you too can create a life so far beyond your current wildest dreams, but before you know it, he will have you well on your way there!\nWell, in true Chris fashion, he goes big. He has since come out with a bunch of specific courses. Here are a couple of my favorites for people wanting to bust out of their rut and get on their way to living more fully, wherever in the world that they wish:\nEmpire Building Kit: Unconventional Guides Product Page To me, this kit is quintessentially Chris. He will never tell you that you will get overnight results, or that things happen by magic. Instead he will help you to dream big, then he will show you the step-by-step, VERY clear path to get yourself there. This course is meant to be followed over a year\u2019s time. He will give you one simple thing to do every day for a year, to get you on your way to build an empire. Without the daily steps, the end result seems like an enticingly good idea, but usually no one knows where or how to start. He is very up front and honest about mistakes he has made so you don\u2019t have to repeat them, and he opens up all of the nitty-gritty details on how he has created a very sustainable business for himself that has allowed how to travel the world full-time. Just think of where you could be this time next year if you started today!\nFrequent Flyer Master: Unconventional Guides Product Page This one always makes me smile. Here is a man who knows how to work the system to his advantage, and he wants to show you how to do the same thing. Chris wants to democratize travel and make it so that you can very easily earn a plane ticket or two a year without doing much. He can show you how to earn over 200,000 miles without ever stepping foot on a plane. He will show you the big opportunities that give you 30,000 miles at a pop. You know how it is, you see things all over the place that tell you that they will give you airline miles, but how do you streamline the process? How do you know that you are taking advantage of every opportunity? And trust me, this man has been to over 150 countries, and flies mostly for free\u2026he knows a thing or two about this topic.\nFreelancing 301: Unconventional Guides Product Page This is for all of you who want to give up the boss and the 9-5 life to become a freelancer. He is very realistic that while it may be easy to start a freelance business, it is not so easy to maintain or run one successfully. He will never tell you how to do your craft, but he will tell you how to monetize it to the fullest while still freeing yourself up to have a lot of time to enjoy other things in life. This course will get you thinking like a strategist, not someone crossing their fingers and hoping that things will work out.\nThe Unconventional Guide to Art and Money: Unconventional Guides Product Page As someone who went to college for fine art photography, (one step up from poetry or philosophy for a career choice, no?), I have a special place in my heart for this course. I hear all the time about people who want to leave their corporate job\u2026to go move abroad and support themselves by making art. Before this course, my gut reaction was always \u2018Yeah, um, good luck with that\u2019. Chris shows that you do not have to sell out to make money with art, that you do not have to live in a major city, and that YES, you can realistically support yourself as an artist.\nChris Guillebeau enjoying life in Bhutan, one of the more than 150 countries he has traveled to\nSo, if you know what it is that you want (whether that be to work less, travel more, work for yourself as opposed to for a boss), yet you are still unsure of exactly how to make it a reality, I can honestly recommend that the corresponding course would be a great place to start. You may agree wholeheartedly with EFAM\u2019s slogan, \u2018Live where you want to live\u2026 Live how you want to live\u2026 And make money doing it!\u2019, but what are you actually doing to make it happen for YOU? Take the first step forward to get you down a path that you know you want to be heading down by going to the site HERE. Unconventional Guides Product Page\nDrop me a line at cathy@escapeartist.com or @LatinAmerExpats on Twitter and let me know how the courses work out for you. It will make me so happy to have an inbox full of success stories that began right here, today.\nResources for Turning Your Desire for Ultimate Freedom in Location and Work into a Reality was last modified: June 4th, 2012 by Escape From America\nexpat adviceFreedomOverseas JobsRetirementTravelWorking Overseas\n10 Things I Will Not Miss About...\nSight Seeing in Nicaragua \u2013 Top Ten...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 12834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.essentialsofrecovery.com/2018/10/daily-zen_30.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:27AQ5Q3YH5NF55WE7LUWFKEUXY7OGH5P", "length": 977, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.essentialsofrecovery.com", "title": "Essentials Of Recovery #essentialsofrec: Daily Zen", "raw_content": "When we realize that we are forced to change positions because of pain, we should question further to find out if there are other reasons. If the answer is that we change because we want to be comfortable, this is incorrect. It is incorrect because it is a distortion of happiness. The correct answer is that we change in order to \"cure\" the pain. We do not change to acquire happiness. The wrong answer comes from misunderstanding, and if we do not have the right comprehension when we change positions, defilements can and will spring up.\nChanging positions to \"cure\" pain indicates that we have to remedy the situation at all times. We should not misjudge and think that the reason is to attain happiness, since the curing of pain all the time is the same as having to take medicines constantly. It is like nursing a continuous sickness. 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Shaheen, Steven L. Foley and Rajesh Nayak\nSince the early 1990s, there has been a substantial increase in the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in foodborne and zoonotic pathogens, such as Campylobacter, Salmonella and Escherichia coli causing human infections in several developed countries. This increase has been attributed to the potential use of antimicrobials for prophylactic treatment of food animals and humans. While these drugs were successful in the treatment of most diseases in animals and humans, they have contributed to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Several studies have addressed the public health significance of antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens. Attention has been particularly focused on the pros and cons of short term and long term use of antimicrobial agents in food of animals for growth promotion and disease prevention. The public health risk of emergence, spread and transmission of drug-resistant foodborne pathogens in the farm-to-the-fork continuum warrants appropriate actions by both the scientific community and the regulatory agencies in advocating restrictions on the approval and use of new and existing drugs. In this chapter, we have described the prevalence, specific mechanisms (based on the class of drugs) and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter, Salmonella and E. coli. These three pathogens were selected because they constitute the bulk of bacterial illnesses worldwide. The review will highlight the importance of addressing the issue of conventional and emerging drug-resistant foodborne bacteria in foods, animals and humans so that steps can be taken to minimize their spread in the environment.\nSalmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, antimicrobial resistance, foodborne pathogens\nUnited States Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research, Division of Microbiology, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 158.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.extratime.ie/player/1234570/bobby_tier/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CSK4OJLH7HSMVCOVN4VYZAEE2SPGOJYF", "length": 539, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.extratime.ie", "title": "Extratime.ie - Bobby Tier", "raw_content": "Bobby Tier\nMar 2011 Aug 2011 Athlone Town\nMar 2009 Jan 2010 Limerick\nBobby previously played league football with Limerick 37, joining them from local Junior side Fairview Rangers in August 2008, making his debut as a substitute in a 3-0 win over Athlone Town at Lisseywoollen on 25 August. He also played with Limerick FC in 2009 before returning to Fairview once more. He then signed for Mike Kerley at Athlone Town prior to the start of the 2011 season. Bobby made 12 league appearances before leaving Athlone at the end of August 2011.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 5946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fallscitynebraska.org/falls-city/city-codes/article-8-elections", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EAAFLPCPAF3JTAAXJAG72V7HXF4Y7RRC", "length": 20383, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.fallscitynebraska.org", "title": "Falls City, NE Article 8 Elections", "raw_content": "\u00a71-801 ELECTIONS, GENERALLY. The Municipal primary and general election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Chapter thirty-two (32) Revised Statutes of Nebraska. Said elections shall be held in conjunction with the State Primary and General Election. Prior to February One (1) of the year in which the first (1st) such joint election takes place, the Governing Body shall receive the consent in writing of the County Board to so hold the election and such authorization shall be prescribed according to state law. The County Clerk shall have charge of the election and shall have the authority to deputize the Municipal Clerk for Municipal election purposes.\nCommencing with the Statewide Primary Election in 1976, and every two (2) years thereafter, those candidates for Mayor and for positions on the City Council whose terms will be expiring shall be nominated at the Statewide Primary Election and elected at the Statewide General Election. Charges shall be paid to the County Clerk as set forth in section 32-4,147 RS Neb. (Ref. 17-107.02(1), 32-4, 147, 32-505 RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-802 ELECTIONS; TERM OF OFFICE. All elected officers of the Municipality shall serve a term of four (4) years. (Ref. 17-107.02 (2) RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-803 ELECTIONS; PRIMARY ELECTION NUMBER OF CANDIDATES FILING. If the number of candidates properly filed for nomination at the primary election does not exceed two (2) for each vacancy to be filled, all candidates properly filed shall be considered nominated, and no primary election for their nomination shall be required. (Ref. 17-107.02(3) RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-804 ELECTIONS; TIE VOTES. In the case of a tie vote of any of the candidates in either the primary or general election, the County Clerk shall notify such candidates to appear at his office on a given day and hour to determine the same by lot before the canvassing board, and the certificate of nomination or election shall be given accordingly. Notice to appear shall be given by certified mail. (Ref. 17-107.02(5) RS Neb.) (Ord. No. 940, 12/5/77)\n\u00a71-805 ELECTIONS; GENERAL ELECTION; PREPARATION OF BALLOT. When more than one person becomes a candidate by filing, petition, or write-in procedures for the same position in the primary, the County Clerk, in preparing the official ballot for the general election shall place thereon the names of the persons who received the greatest number of votes in the primary, but in no event shall the names on the general election ballot be more than twice the number of vacancies to be filled at the general election.\nThe County Clerk shall place the names of the candidates on the general election ballot in the direct order according to the number of votes received at the primary election. If no primary election was held, the name of the candidates shall be placed upon the general election ballot in the order of their filing. (Ref. 17-107.02(6)&(7) RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-806 ELECTIONS; FILING FEE. Prior to the filing of any nomination papers, there shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer a filing fee which shall amount to one percent (1%) of the annual salary for the office for which the candidate will file; Provided, there shall be no filing fee for any candidate filing for an office in which a per diem is paid rather than a salary, or an office for which there is a salary of less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year. No nominating papers shall be filed until the proper Municipal Treasurer's receipt, showing the payment of the filing fee, shall be presented to the election officer with whom the nomination papers are to be filed. (Ref. 32-513 RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-807 ELECTIONS; SPECIAL, JOINT. (1) Any issue to be submitted to the registered voters at a special election by the Municipality shall be certified by the Municipal Clerk to the Election Commissioner or County Clerk at least fifty (50) days prior to the election. A special election may be held by mail as provided in sections 32-952 through 32-959 RS Neb. No special election to be conducted by the Election Commissioner or County Clerk shall be held within thirty (30) days prior to or sixty (60) days after the statewide primary election, and no special election to be conducted by the Election Commissioner or County Clerk shall be held within thirty (30) days prior to or sixty (60) days after the statewide general election.\n(2) In lieu of submitting the issue at a special election, the Municipality may submit the issue at a statewide primary or general election or at any scheduled county election, except that no such issue shall be submitted at a statewide election or scheduled county election unless the issue to be submitted has been certified by the municipal Clerk to the Election Commissioner or County Clerk by March 1 for the primary election and by September 1 for the general election.\n(3) After the Election Commissioner or County Clerk has received the certification of the issue to be submitted, he or she shall be responsible for all matters relating to the submission of the issue to the registered voters, except that the Municipal Clerk shall be responsible for the publication or posting of any required special notice of the submission of such issue other than the notice required to be given of the statewide election issues. The Election Commissioner or County Clerk shall prepare the ballots and issue absentee ballots and shall also conduct the submission of the issue, including the receiving and counting of the ballots on the issue. The election returns shall be made to the Election Commissioner or County Clerk. The ballots, including absentee ballots, shall be counted and canvassed at the same time and in the same manner as the other ballots. Upon completion of the canvass of the vote by the County Canvassing Board, the Election Commissioner or County Clerk shall certify the election results to the Governing Body. The canvass by the County Canvassing Board shall have the same force and effect as if made by the Governing Body. (Ref. 32-559 RS Neb.) (Amended: Ord. #97-114)\n\u00a71-808 ELECTIONS; SPECIAL MUNICIPAL. A Special Municipal Election may be held upon notice of such election being prepared and published by the Municipal Clerk, except as otherwise provided by law, not less than five (5) days, nor more than ten (10) days prior to any special election. Such elections shall be conducted in accordance with the Municipal Election Code, section 19-3001, et. seq. RS Neb. (Ref. 19-3003, 19-3006 RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-809 ELECTIONS; VOTER QUALIFICATIONS. Electors shall mean every person of the constitutionally prescribed age or upwards, who shall have the right to vote for all officers to be elected to public office, and upon all questions and proposals, lawfully submitted to the voters at any and all elections authorized or provided for by the Constitution or the laws of the State of Nebraska; Provided, no person shall be qualified to vote at any election unless such person shall be a resident of the State and shall have been properly registered with the election official of the county. (Ref. 17-602, 32-102 RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-810 ELECTIONS; OFFICERS ELECTED. At the general Municipal election in every even-numbered year, there shall be elected one (1) Council member from each ward and two (2) members of the Municipal Airport Authority Board; Provided, that each third (3rd) election year, one (1) member only shall be elected to the Board. There shall be elected a Mayor every other election year. Members of the Airport Authority Board shall be elected to a six (6) year term of office, members of the City Council shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office, and the Mayor shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office.\n\u00a71-811 ELECTIONS; WARDS. The following areas shall constitute the wards of the Municipality:\nFIRST WARD. All that part of the Municipality lying north of the centerline of 23rd Street extended to the west boundary of the Municipality and extended east to the centerline of Morton Street; then south on Morton Street to the centerline of 22nd Street; then east along the centerline of 22nd Street to Fulton Street; then south on Fulton Street to the centerline of 21st Street then to the east boundary of the Municipality, constitutes the First Ward.\nSECOND WARD. All that portion of the Municipality lying south of the First Ward as described above, and lying north of the centerline of 18th Street extending west to the west boundary line of the Municipality and extending east on the centerline of 18th Street to the centerline of Valley Avenue; then extending north on Valley Avenue to the centerline of 21st Street which constitutes the Second Ward.\nTHIRD WARD. All that portion of the Municipality lying south of the First Ward from the centerline of 21st Street and Valley Avenue extending east on the centerline of 21st Street to the east boundary of the Municipality and all that portion of the Municipality lying South of the Second Ward as described above, and lying north of the centerline of 14th Street extending to the west boundary of the municipality and extending east to the centerline of Barada Street; then south along the centerline of Barada Street to the center line of 13th Street; then east along the centerline of 13th Street to the centerline of Fulton Street; then north along the centerline of Fulton Street to the centerline 14th Street; then east along the centerline of 14th Street to the east boundary of the Municipality which constitutes the Third Ward.\nFOURTH WARD. All that portion of the Municipality lying south of the Third Ward as described above, constitutes the Fourth Ward. (Amended: Ord. #2005-102; Ord. #2011-109)\n\u00a71-812 ELECTIONS; WARDS, ELECTION DISTRICTS. The Mayor and City Council shall divide the City into not less than two (2) Wards, as compact in form and equal in population as possible, the boundaries of which are defined above. Each ward shall constitute an election district; Provided, when any Ward shall contain greater than five hundred (500) legal voters, the Mayor and City Council may divide such Ward into two (2) or more election districts.\n\u00a71-813 ELECTIONS; PETITION CANDIDATES; PROCEDURE. (1) (a) Any registered voter who was not a candidate in the primary election may have his or her name placed on the general election ballot for a partisan office by filing petitions as prescribed in this section and section 32-621 RS Neb. or by nomination by political party convention or committee.\n(b) Any candidate who was defeated in the primary election and any registered voter who was not a candidate in the primary election may have his or her name placed on the general election ballot if a vacancy exists on the ballot under subsection (1) of section 32-626 RS Neb. and the candidate files for the office by petition as prescribed in this section.\n(2) (a) The number of signatures of registered voters needed to place the name of a candidate upon the nonpartisan ballot for the general election shall be at least ten percent (10%) of the total number of registered voters voting for Governor or President of the United States of the immediately preceding general election in the Municipality.\n(b) The number of signatures of registered voters needed to place the name of a candidate upon the partisan ballot for the general election shall be at least twenty percent (20%) of the total vote for Governor or President of the United States at the immediately preceding general election within the Municipality, not to exceed two thousand (2000).\n(3) Petitions for nomination shall conform to the requirements of section 32-628 RS Neb. Petitions shall state the office to be filled and the name and address of the candidate. Petitions for partisan office shall also indicate the party affiliation of the candidate. Petitions shall be signed by registered voters residing in the Municipality and shall be filed with the filing officer in the same manner as provided for candidate filing forms in section 32-607 RS Neb. Petition signers and circulators shall conform to the requirements of sections 32-629 and 32-630 RS Neb. No petition for nomination shall be filed unless there is attached thereto a receipt showing payment of the required filing fee. The petitions shall be filed by September 1 in the year of the general election. (Ref. 32-616 through 32-618 RS Neb.) (Ord. #99-106)\n\u00a71-814 ELECTIONS; RECALL PROCEDURE. (1) Any or all of the elected officials of the municipality may be removed from office by recall pursuant to Neb. RS 32-1301 to 32-1309.\n(2) Petition circulators shall conform to the requirements of the Election Act. The petition papers shall be procured from the Municipal Clerk. Each petition paper shall conform to the requirements of Neb. RS 32-1304. Prior to the issuance of such petition papers, an affidavit shall be signed and filed with the Municipal Clerk by at least one registered voter. Such voter or voters shall be deemed to be the principal circulator or circulators of the recall petition. The affidavit shall state the name and office of the official sought to be removed and shall request that the Municipal Clerk issue initial petition papers to the principal circulator for circulation. The Municipal Clerk shall notify the principal circulator or circulators that the necessary signatures must be gathered within thirty (30) days from the date of issuing the petitions.\n(3) The Municipal Clerk, upon issuing the initial petition papers or any subsequent petition papers, shall enter in a record, to be kept in his or her office, the name of the principal circulator or circulators to whom the papers were issued, the date of issuance, and the number of papers issued. The Municipal Clerk shall certify on the papers the name of the principal circulator or Circulators to whom the papers were issued and the date they were issued. No petition paper shall be accepted as part of the petition unless it bears such certificate. The principal circulator or circulators who check out petitions from the Municipal Clerk may distribute such petitions to registered voters residing in the municipality who may act as circulators of such petitions.\n(4) Petition signers shall conform to the requirements of the Election Act. Each signer of a recall petition shall be a registered voter and qualified by his or her place of residence to vote for the office in question on the date of the issuance of the initial petition papers.\n(5) A petition demanding that the question of removing an elected official be submitted to the registered voters shall be signed by registered voters equal in number to at least thirty-five percent (35%) of the total vote cast for that office in the last general election, except that for an office for which more than one candidate is chosen, the petition shall be signed by registered voters equal in number to at least thirty-five percent (35%) of the number of votes cast for the person receiving the most votes for that office in the last general election.\n(6) The principal circulator or circulators shall file, as one instrument, all petition papers comprising a recall petition for a signature verification with the Municipal Clerk within thirty (30) days after the Municipal Clerk issues the initial petition papers to the principal circulator or circulators. Within fifteen (15) days after the filing of the petition, the Municipal Clerk shall ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of registered voters. No new signatures may be added after the initial filing of the petition papers. No signatures may be removed unless the Municipal Clerk receives an affidavit signed by the person requesting his or her signature be removed before the petitions are filed with the Municipal Clerk for signature verification. If the petition is found to be sufficient, the Municipal Clerk shall attach to the petition a certificate showing the result of such examination. If the requisite number of signatures has not been gathered, the Municipal Clerk shall file the petition in his or her office without prejudice to the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.\n(7) If the recall petition is found to be sufficient, the Municipal Clerk shall notify the official whose removal is sought and the Governing Body that sufficient signatures have been gathered. If the official does not resign within five (5) days after receiving the notice, the Governing Body shall order an election to be held not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty-five (45) days after the expiration of the five-day period, except that if any other election is to be held in the municipality within ninety (90) days of the expiration of the five-day period, the Governing Body shall provide for the holding of the removal election on the same day. After the Governing Body sets the date for the recall election, the recall election shall be held regardless of whether the official whose removal is sought resigns before the recall election is held.\n(8) If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election are against the removal of the official named on the ballot or the election results in a tie, the official shall continue in office for the remainder of his or her term but may be subject to further recall attempts as provided in subsection (10) of this section. If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election are for the removal of the official named on the ballot, he or she shall, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition, be deemed removed from office unless a recount is ordered. If the official is deemed removed, the removal shall result in a vacancy in the office which shall be filled as otherwise provided in this Code and state law. If the election results show a margin of votes equal to one percent (1%) or less between the removal or retention of the official in question, the Secretary of State, Election Commissioner, or County Clerk shall order a recount of the votes cast unless the official named on the ballot files a written statement with the Municipal Clerk that he or she does not want a recount. If there are vacancies in the offices of a majority or more of the members of the Governing Body at one time due to the recall of such members, a special election to fill such vacancies shall be conducted as expeditiously as possible by the Secretary of State, Election Commissioner, or County Clerk.\n(9) No official who is removed at a recall election or who resigns after the initiation of the recall process shall be appointed to fill the vacancy resulting from his or her removal or the removal of any other member of the same Governing Body during the remainder of his or her term of office.\n(10) No recall petition shall be filed against an elected official within twelve (12) months after a recall election has failed to remove him or her from office or within six (6) months after the beginning of his or her term of office or within six (6) months prior to the incumbent filing deadline for the office. (Ref. 31-1301 through 32-1309 RS Neb.) (Ord. #99-107)\n\u00a71-815 ELECTIONS; CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS. Any person seeking elected office in the Municipality shall be a registered voter prior to holding such office and in addition shall have reached the age of majority. The Mayor and members of the Council shall be residents and qualified electors of the City. (Ref. 17-108.02, 32-4,157 RS Neb.)\n\u00a71-816 ELECTIONS; INABILITY TO ASSUME OFFICE. In any general election, where the person who received the highest number of votes is ineligible, disqualified, deceased, or for any other reason is unable to assume the office for which he was a candidate, and the electorate had reasonable notice of such disability at the time of the election, the candidate in such election who received the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected, and shall be entitled to the certificate of election; Provided, that any candidate so declared elected received not less than thirty-five (35%) percent of the total number of votes cast for such office in the election. If any of the qualifications of this section are not met by the candidate to be declared elected, or reasonable notice of the winners ineligibility is not available to the voters, a vacancy in such office shall be declared to exist at the time of commencement of the term and shall be filled as prescribed by law. 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Come and visit this beautiful place to regroup, refocus and replenish your mind.\nWatch well known TV presenter Mike Whitney from Sydney Weekender visiting Nan Tien Temple:\nhttp://www.sydneyweekender.com.au/swe-stories/hostings-nan-tien-temple", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filgiftshop.com/3-dozen-roses/habibi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ULWZPH7KGCBN5AEQFRC4VENLSBY5XP2X", "length": 148, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.filgiftshop.com", "title": "FilGiftShop | Habibi | FilGiftShop", "raw_content": "A beautiful arrangement by our florist with 36 pink roses in a box. A nice gift when you fall in love with someone but don't know what to offer her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fillmymoneybox.com/tag/phone-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PP5346R5C7DWOJ6KXGK6G7V6MOFOPCNU", "length": 208, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fillmymoneybox.com", "title": "phone insurance | Fill My Money Box", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Posts Tagged \"phone insurance\"\nWhen you buy a new iPhone, Galaxy or other popular mobile device, there is usually an offer of insurance that comes with it. 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Beverly Dr., Suite 220, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.\nwith Robert Chartoff\n(And with Judd Bernard) Point Blank, 1967\n(And with Bernard) Double Trouble, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967\n(And with Bernard) Blue, Paramount, 1968\n(And with Sydney Pollack) They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, ABC-Cinerama, 1969\nThe Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (also known as The Gang That Couldn't Shoot), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971\n(And with Louis John Carlino) The Mechanic (also known as Killer of Killers), United Artists, 1972\nThumb Tripping, Avco Embassy, 1972\nS*P*Y*S* (also known as Spies), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974\nBreakout, 1975\nAuthor! 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Women request this surgery for a variety of reasons including discomfort, visibility of the labia in tight clothing (such as gym gear), or because they dislike the appearance. It is a procedure that has increased in popularity in recent years \u2013 probably because of an increased awareness of its existence.\nPlease note that a GP referral is required for this procedure.\nLABIAPLASTY/ LABIA MINORA REDUCTION\nInner aspect of labia\n6 weeks strenuous exercise/ intercourse\nIt is important for any woman considering this surgery that there is a wide variety in the appearance of normal labia, including larger labia. Appearance, however, is not the only consideration. The physical and psychological effects are very important, and this both these aspects will be discussed at the time of your consultation. I realise that this can be a difficult problem for patients to talk about, and you can be assured of my absolute discretion and sensitivity.\nThis operation is usually performed under general anaesthetic as a day case. Either one or both labia are operated upon, depending on the individual. I use a variety of techniques, depending on each woman\u2019s individual anatomy: most commonly I employ a modified wedge incision. The incisions are placed on both the inner and outer aspect of the labia, thereby preserving the natural \u201cwaviness\u201d of the edge of the labia. All stitches used are dissolving, and scars in this area tend to fade very well in time. The technique I use is designed to preserve sensation in the area.\nSome swelling and discomfort is normal following surgery. As with any surgical wound, infection can occur, and some areas may take longer to heal than others. A small amount of bleeding is expected during surgery, and occasionally there will be some bleeding/ spotting afterwards. Numbness in the area is usually temporary, but there is a small risk of permanent areas of numbness. Under- or over-correction can occur, and complete symmetry between the two sides cannot be guaranteed (although complete symmetry rarely occurs naturally in any case!). The scars may occasionally be oversensitive, and in the majority of cases, this will settle over time. The incision may partially or completely open following surgery, and the area can heal with a \u201cstep\u201d in the edge of the labia, or rarely with a split in the labia. If this does occur, and once the area has healed and the scar softened, a surgical revision may be required if the patient wishes. This is rare. Sexual function may be impaired, at least initially, although this is most often due to a natural hesitation following surgery, which resolves in time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fordinvestments.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2HYQBQUBH6XIZJMLZJKPIXW5AEFU427U", "length": 259, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.fordinvestments.net", "title": "Ford Investments Russellville, Arkansas", "raw_content": "If you are looking to lease a commercial property, house, or apartment in the Russellville, Arkansas area, please check out our listings.\nWe have over 45 years experience and provide you with personal and friendly management. We are located at:\n*Realtor owned", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fortthomasmatters.com/2016/09/fort-thomas-fire-fighters-retire-with.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OF3VHUDU6U7K7JMVKN5465LGBPJO34BJ", "length": 4968, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.fortthomasmatters.com", "title": "FORT THOMAS MATTERS: Fort Thomas Fire Fighters Retire with 47 Years Service", "raw_content": "Fort Thomas Fire Fighters Retire with 47 Years Service\nMembers of the Fort Thomas Fire Department at the Grilling for Tim event at Tower Park in July.\nIn July Fort Thomas quietly lost two of its longest serving public servants, as Captain Jeff Parker and Lieutenant Steve Rath retired from Fort Thomas Fire Department, after nearly 50 years of combined service.\nCaptain Parker retired with 25 years of service to FTFD, 17 as an officer, while Lieutenant Rath had 22 years, with the last 3 as an officer. Fire Chief Mark Bailey said the department has lost: \u201cTwo wonderful gentleman and they\u2019ll be sorely missed. They\u2019re both welcome back at the station any time.\u201d\nJeff Parker was a shift commander as well as being in charge of Fort Thomas\u2019 Emergency Medical Service. Chief Bailey points out that this was no small task:\n\u201cMost people don\u2019t realise that we respond to more EMS calls than anything, it\u2019s around 90% EMS to 10% anything else. Jeff was instrumental in keeping our EMS service on the right path, I can speak highly enough about Jeff and the job he did.\u201d\nJeff also teaches the next generation of first responders at the University of Cincinnati on their bachelors in fire protection program and he\u2019ll continue to teach there, as well as getting involved in training at local departments, now that he\u2019s retired\nAs well as his emergency duties, Lieutenant Steve Rath carried out fire inspections in Fort Thomas and assisted his captain in running his shift. Lieutenant Rath has also served on the executive board of the Kentucky Fireman\u2019s Association, currently serving as secretary. Chief Bailey said having someone with Steve\u2019s background in the station was invaluable:\n\u201cA lot of regulations come from our senators in Frankfort and Steve did a great job of keeping us apprised. He was instrumental in letting us know what was passed there and what was happening in other parts of the state.\u201d\nBoth men spent time in fire stations from an early age, as both of their fathers were volunteer fire fighters. After serving for so long together the men are great friends. Captain Parker says of Steve: \u201cHe\u2019s a hell of a guy, a hell of a firefighter and a hell of a medic. He made so many runs and did a lot of good. Everybody loved working with Steve.\u201d\nHaving served for so long, the men have seen many changes over their long careers. Captain Parker says there is so much specialization now, and so much training involved that makes fighting fires easier, although it also makes it harder for members of the public to volunteer as fire fighters, as there\u2019s so much time involved.\nAlthough Captain Parker says the Fire Department is a lot more \u201corganized\u201d now, he does have concerns about staffing levels. \u201cIf we have 4 people on shift and two go on a call, there\u2019s only two left in the station should another call come in.\u201d He believes that this is primarily a funding issue but is worse since historically there were many volunteer fire fighters and now it\u2019s so hard for people to spend the time required.\nAnother unwelcome change has been an increase in the number of overdoses paramedics must deal with: \u201cIn the 80s and 90s we used Narcan (a drug which can block the effects of opiates and prevent an overdose) very rarely, now it happens quite often.\u201d\nHaving gone on thousands of runs, it\u2019s impossible to overestimate the positive effect that these two men have had on Fort Thomas. Captain Parker remembers being called to help a man in his fifties. He needed defibrillated, the medics did CPR, ran IVs and cleared his airways. They managed to get a pulse and got him to the hospital. When they got to the fire station for their next shift, the man\u2019s son was waiting with giftsto thank them personally. \u201cThose are the ones that stay with you.\u201d\nA lot of the things Captain Parker is proud of doing during his time in FTFD happened behind the scenes, such as applying for a grant that allowed the department to purchase a new cot with hydraulic lifts. Small things that could possibly go unnoticed but make things better for the guys who come after him, as well as the citizens of Fort Thomas.\nCaptain Parker says serving Fort Thomas for so many years was an honor: \u201cThe people who live here were good to us. They appreciated us. You never want anything bad to happen to anyone, but I always enjoyed helping people when I could.\u201d\nChief Bailey is grateful to both men: \u201cI thank them both for their service to our citizens and wish them nothing but the best in their retirement.\u201d\nDespite having big shoes to fill, Chief Bailey is confident that the newly pinned fire fighters and newly promoted officers will be up to the job of keeping Fort Thomas safe:\n\u201cI look forward to working with the new personnel and newly promoted officers and it\u2019s all positive things for FTFD in the future.\u201d\nCaptain Parker agrees:\n\u201cThe city can count on these guys. They are great paramedics and great firefighters.\u201d\nPosted by Colin Moore at 9:12 AM\nLabels: Fort Thomas Fire Department", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 419, "original_length": 16385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freebooknotes.com/summaries-analysis/a-g-mans-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OMSDXDTIGQ3CDUUPERHFRBTOAEQ44ZSM", "length": 1456, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.freebooknotes.com", "title": "A G Man's Life Summary and Analysis (like SparkNotes) | Free Book Notes", "raw_content": "A G Man's Life Summary and Analysis\nFreeBookNotes found 1 site with book summaries or analysis of A G Man's Life. If there is a A G Man's Life SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below.\nAmong the summaries and analysis available for A G Man's Life, there is 1 Full Study Guide.\nDepending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc.), the resources below will generally offer A G Man's Life chapter summaries, quotes, and analysis of themes, characters, and symbols.\nA G Man's Life\nby Mark Felt and John D. O'Connor\nSites like SparkNotes with a A G Man's Life study guide or cliff notes. Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Mark Felt and John D. O'Connor\u2019s A G Man's Life.\ngetAbstract - A G Man's Life\nOur Summary of A G Man's Life by Mark Felt and John D. O'Connor\nWhile many people may not recognize the name of Mark Felt, most will recognize him by his code name, 'Deep Throat'. Felt, as an FBI agent for many years, saw a lot of things happening. It was President Nixon's administration that finally gave him reason to speak out. After observing many illegal shortcomings in the Nixon officials, Felt decided to become an informant on the Watergate scandal. A G-Man's Life is a partly autobiographical work by Felt explaining his career and why he chose the path he did. Other parts of the book were filled in by attorney John O'Connor many years later.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/founders/arianekirkpatrick081513.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6G3RETAB44S26W2W2RRUQZSZT33JHDOG", "length": 3585, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.freshwatercleveland.com", "title": "ariane kirkpatrick", "raw_content": "www.akateam.com\nMeet Ariane Kirkpatrick, founder of AKA Construction Management Team, Inc., a construction company and commercial cleaning company that focuses on providing labor, site maintenance and construction management with 47 employees.\nEntrepreneurship was ingrained in me at an early age. I vividly remember being five years old in 1969 and boycotting the neighborhood McDonald's with my family because African-Americans were banned from owning franchises.\nI attempted several businesses, from a copy and printing business to a restaurant to a residential rehab business. In between time as a business owner I was chief of housing for the City of Warrensville Heights building department, where I received several accolades.\nIn 2009, I made the decision to start AKA. My first job was a $6,000 contract to conduct post-construction cleaning for the Cleveland Museum of Art.\nSince then we have worked on several projects such as the Global Center for Health and Innovation and Convention Center, Flats East Bank and the CMHA administration building.\nI had the opportunity to sit with President Obama at the Winning the Future Forum in Cleveland in February 2011 and discussed obstacles that affect small businesses. With the advice of the President, I\u2019ve found ways to increase business.\nBy taking advantage of economic development programs -- in addition to a lot of hard work -- my firm has generated over $1 million in the past two years.\nCash flow, cash flow, cash flow. Banks sometimes require seven years in business before they give you a line of credit. You have to be creative in running your jobs. You can\u2019t outgrow your pocketbook. But you sometimes have to wait 90 days for payment when you have completely financed the job. The only way you can do this is complete and absolute faith. My faith wins out all the time.\nWhat are the advantages of running a company like AKA in Cleveland?\nBeing involved in the rebuilding of Cleveland. Every project has a historical story behind it for me. I grew up on E. 100th Street and Cedar Avenue and my sister and I went every weekend to the art museum with my mother. I used to think the Cleveland Clinic was my own personal hospital. Growing up, it was one building. I enjoyed watching it grow. Now, I am enjoying being part of the continuing growth.\nWhat struggles have you had as a female/minority business owner?\nBeing a female/minority owner obviously has a lot of benefits as it relates to the diversity and inclusion initiatives available. But many times you are approached simply because of those acronyms and not the experience that you bring to the table as it relates to your trade.\nI have walked into meetings with my team and, literally, the client will walk up to the men that work for me and presume I\u2019m the secretary. But we all get a real kick out of it.\nWhat advice would you give to someone starting a company in Cleveland?\nBricks and mortar is not just for building new businesses, but for building new relationships. Being well connected and networking is important. Be diverse in the type of events you go to. Marketing and brand recognition is important. You want people to hear your name and know exactly who you are and what you do.\nWhat do you do to blow off steam or relax?\nI love to read. Family events are important to me. I recently started flower and vegetable gardens, which has helped me relax.\nI got married last year and my husband is totally my prescription for relaxation. While I am always moving, running and thinking, he brings me back to reality and is definitely the calm in my storm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 6761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frizbee.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5QGO6MCEPGOPM3GR2YARWZ6GDEEH3FPM", "length": 444, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.frizbee.net", "title": "Frizbee Films - A boutique film production company", "raw_content": "We were asked by Kate Dawkins Studio and CT London to create a film for each of them on their part in the Passchendaele Centenary celebrations for the DCMS and BBC. Kate\u2019s team designed the visuals whilst CT put in the tech to project them across the enormous Cloth Hall in Ypres. The ceremony was broadcast on the BBC, watched by thousands in the main square as well as Royalty, Presidents and Prime Ministers and was an amazing project to [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 187.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frogmangallery.org/contemporary-romance.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HYQM6RKYHCPSY3O77KDGTRJONVAQMBGP", "length": 4519, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.frogmangallery.org", "title": "Contemporary Romance - Frogman Gallery", "raw_content": "Amanda Brown,\nStephanie Del Carpio,\nOpening: Nov. 7th, 5-8pm.\nHours: Wednesday-Friday, noon to 6pm.\n23 E. Madison St., Chicago, IL.\nYou won\u2019t find romance in an artist statement. But you might find it wandering the walls of Frogman Gallery. Simone Chagoya, Amanda Brown, and Stephanie Del Carpio offer their work as examples of art freed from the shabby conceptual frameworks that imperil both artist and viewer alike. Rather than provide a space for shocking political statements or hermetic swaths of postmodern abstraction, their work highlights the simple pleasures of urban isolation. Like the early 19th century Romantics, Chagoya, Brown, and Del Carpio suggest that loneliness is a necessary\u2014and increasingly endangered\u2014part of daily life.\nSimone Chagoya\u2019s paintings are immediately charming. Her paintings feature bodiless clothes floating on blank backgrounds splayed out like preserved butterflies offering themselves for inspection. Sugary whites and lacy blacks greet the viewer like frosting on a cake. Chagoya invites viewers to populate the vacant clothing with their own stories and memories, urging us to find beauty and dignity in a humble pair of underpants.\nAmanda Brown\u2019s paintings chronicle the unpeopled urban landscapes that can yield moments of sublime loneliness. Morning on Paulina shows a winter street scene dominated by a barren tree whose shadow appears like cracks upon the fa\u00e7ade of an unwelcoming building. It\u2019s a building you might stare at every morning while waiting for the bus without even realizing it. Paulina Sideyard and Shell on York find claustrophobic parallel lines juxtaposed with small patches of organic forms\u2014tiny moments of public solitude that let the mind wander.\nThe first thing you notice when looking at Del Carpio\u2019s paintings is that she renders the eyes of her subjects warmly and with care. Self-Portrait with Braid shows the artist expressionless and staring away from the viewer with her head slightly tilted as if in deep contemplation. The artist is alone with herself reminding us of the necessary solitude of artistic production. In Devon with Masks the subject stares directly at the viewer while standing next to a shelf bearing drama masks. These are the thoughtful women and men who people the desolate urban landscapes of Amanda Brown and the modest clothing of Simone Chagoya. We can\u2019t know what they\u2019re thinking or feeling, but the masks lay there daring us to try.\n--Tyler Jagel\nRaised in Miami, Florida, Chicago based artist Stephanie Del Carpio began her figurative art practice at the Art Center/South Florida in 2003 under the tutelage of Argentinean artist Pablo Contriciani. Moving to Seattle she continued studying representational oil painting at the Gage Fine Arts Academy before completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Most recently, Stephanie has participated in various group shows in Chicago and Boston and completed a residency with the South Logan Arts Coalition. Stephanie is in the private collection of James Cuno, the President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and is currently working at the Art Institute of Chicago as Assistant to the Chair and Curator of Ancient and Byzantine Art, Karen Manchester. She continues her studio practice in Chicago at the Fulton Street Collective. http://stephaniedelcarpio.com/\nAmanda Brown, a Chicago based artist, began her academic career as painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she graduated with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Studio Art. With a focus in perceptual painting, Amanda also studied painting and art history at the International School for Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy where she spent a summer painting landscape from observation. Since graduating, Amanda has participated in shows both in the Fine Arts building, the Cornelia Arts Building and the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. She currently maintains her studio practice out of the Fulton Street Collective. http://amandacbrown.com/\nIn 2011, Simone Chagoya graduated from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in painting. She works in oils and sometimes in collage and found materials. Simone lives and works in Chicago Illinois. http://simonechagoya.com/\nFrogman Gallery is part of Chicago Artists Month 2013, the 18th annual celebration of Chicago\u2019s vibrant art community presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. For more information, visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2015/08/from-the-distant-liberal-consensus-a-defiant-conservative-yelp/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XMZYWUAB3MOBZBF2F4VTEJHNSVEDUUQC", "length": 21469, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.frontporchrepublic.com", "title": "From the Distant Liberal Consensus, a Defiant Conservative Yelp | Front Porch Republic", "raw_content": "Home Articles Culture, High & Low From the Distant Liberal Consensus, a Defiant Conservative Yelp\nFrom the Distant Liberal Consensus, a Defiant Conservative Yelp\nAs I write this review, I keep hearing about Jeb Bush, campaigning for president, talking about how the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein was a \u201cpretty good deal\u201d and castigating the Obama administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to maintain (much less expand) America\u2019s involvement in Iraq and Syria. The ghosts of neoconservatism remain, I suppose\u2013perhaps in part because their roots in a certain type of conservative thinking go so far back. This summer, I learned a little bit more about that.\nBack in late May, a large group of local readers here in Wichita, KS\u2013nearly all of whom very likely would identify themselves as \u201cconservatives,\u201d though of a great variety of hues; only a couple of us were generally outsides to that identification, looking in\u2013gathered (under the aegis of the Eighth Day Institute; many thanks!) to read and discuss James Burnham\u2019s last major writing, the rambling, revealing, often fascinating, sometimes frightening, and (I think, anyway) fundamentally mixed-up Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism. Published in 1964 (the same year that Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cDr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb\u201d came out, a coincidence which at least one of our members thought almost too good to be true), it is a frustrated and worried manifesto which insists on presenting itself as a clinical diagnosis of the liberal ideology, which Burnham believed not only dominated the Western world but would, unless reversed, result in its destruction. It is, in short, the sort of book which I suppose could only have been written in a world where the postwar liberal consensus seemed both utterly monolithic and utterly oblivious to the cultural and socio-economic and global consequences of its own beliefs (and who is to say that it really didn\u2019t seem so to an East Coast Trostkyist-turned-conservative academic in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s?). Unless you\u2019ve never read anything except, perhaps, Chronicles magazine (and only the back issues at that), then you probably can\u2019t honestly see liberalism as such an intellectually elite and self-inclosed ideological position any longer\u2013that accusation is made against it, of course, but anyone who has honestly considered the ideas of such liberal suspects as Lyndon Johnson, William Sloane Coffin, Martin Luther King, and Betty Friedan (just to pick some names which Burnham never mentions, despite all of them regularly making news as this book was published) can\u2019t believe that \u201cliberalism\u201d is a seamless, relentless unity. So reading the book was, among other things, an entrance for me into an old, mostly lost, and perhaps never really entirely real, slightly paranoid world.\nA word about James Burnham. I\u2019ve never made a study of the man\u2019s writings, but reading this book made clear to me the truth of the commentary on the man\u2013both complimentary and critical\u2013which points out that the common theme throughout all his writings over the decades was the place of \u201cpower\u201d in any given system of thought. The man was more than a \u201crealist\u201d as they are commonly labeled in discussions of foreign policy and international relations; for him, it seems as though power\u2013the wielding of it, the psychological comfort or discomfort with it, the moral appraisal of it\u2013is utterly inseparable from any kind of political understanding, or perhaps any conception of social life whatsoever. Liberalism is a great many things for Burnham, nearly all of them bad, but the common denominator among all these bad things is that liberalism is weak. It lacks firmness. It fails to do and say and believe the hard and practical and disciplined and necessary things for civilization\u2019s survival. The fact that this kind of relentless focus on strength occasionally makes it difficult for Burnham to account for liberal successes, or makes a little disconcerting the way he deals with aspects of individuality which are not reducible to a Darwinian struggle, doesn\u2019t slow him down. Towards the very end of the book he lays it out flat: the most important thing is \u201cmilitary bases, strategic posts, and soldiers\u201d; beyond or without them, \u201cthere can be no civilization, there is nothing\u201d (pg. 344). I can only assume that John Derbyshire, Victor Davis Hanson, and other traditionalist conservatives of a particularly martial stripe are fans.\nThis isn\u2019t Porcher conservatism, that\u2019s for sure. The Cold War was a bad time for ideologies (thought really, are there ever good times?), particularly one that includes within it strands of thought dealing such humble topics and virtues as local knowledge and affection, community attachment, and so forth. Burnham saw liberalism as a world-historical force, and attempting to understand it obliged him, on my reading, to constantly reach for the civilizational, the global. He\u2013and surely he wasn\u2019t alone\u2013looked for some kind of systematized resistance to what he considered the essential weakness and irresponsibility of liberalism, and as a result turned (despite his protestation in the book that such was not his aim) varied particular elements of conservative thought into universal, logical necessities, the rejection of which can only be attributed to Western liberals \u201cwho hate their own civilization\u201d (pg. 14). The result certainly included elements of traditional conservatism\u2013Burnham unapologetically defends aristocracy and natural hierarchies, and is dismissive of broad academic freedoms and democracy, particularly when \u201cuneducated or propertyless persons\u201d are allowed to vote (pgs. 112, 137-140)\u2013but while Burnham occasionally name-drops various Aristotelian or Hegelian or Christian philosophies that might ground and give contrasting meaning to those traditions, overall the feeling of the book is very programmatic, and intentionally so: there is the way things are, and then there are liberals, and figuring what why they believe the irrational things they do is a problem for him.\nWho are these Western liberals? Burnham employs only a little sociology and less philosophy in constructing what he refers to as the \u201cliberal syndrome,\u201d instead choosing to carefully build a constellation of liberal positions by examining people and institutions that \u201cplain common-sense\u201d tells you are liberal: Elanor Roosevelt, Eugene McCarthy, John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Republic, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the League of Women Voters, etc., etc. (pgs. 19-20). From this array of liberals and liberal doings, Burnham artfully constructs his case. I won\u2019t deny that his analysis often results in correct observations about liberalism generally: \u201cliberalism rejects the essentially tragic view of man\u2019s fate,\u201d \u201cmost liberals\u2026do not feel\u2026.that considerations of experience, habit, custom and traditions have any appreciable weight,\u201d \u201cliberalism is logically committed to the doctrine\u2026of epistemological relativism, \u201d etc. (see pgs. 44, 57, 72). But because he does not really look seriously at liberalism as a philosophy with its own history (Locke appears only to have Burnham surprisingly express doubt in his liberal bona-fides, and the authors of the U.S. Constitution show up to be complimented for having apparently kept them mostly uninfluenced by liberal Europe\u2019s Englightenment\u2013pgs. 41-42, 148), all these observations become reductive. Even when he recognizes the individualistic ontology that all varieties of liberal thought share, he cannot take those varieties seriously, instead insisting that shared assumptions about human nature automatically bring all liberals to much the same point on practically every possible question. He makes, in other words, the whole range of liberal ideas (incorporating all sorts of perspectives probably better described as socialism or progressivism or populism or egalitarianism) into a support structure for the mainstream Democratic party\u2019s postwar apotheosis. You can\u2019t fault Burnham for not knowing his own thesis, that\u2019s for certain.\nSome chapters are better than others. When Burnham attempts to organize liberalism\u2019s \u201corder of values\u201d he gets, I presume unknowingly, all mixed up on the matter of \u201cpositive liberty,\u201d on the one hand denying that \u201cimproving the security and mobility\u201d of persons can ever involve any benefit to \u201cgenuine individual freedom,\u201d while at the same time admitting his belief that becoming \u201cmore complexly and intimately related\u201d to (and thus constricted by) bodies larger than oneself actually is an increase in one\u2019s individuality (pgs. 185, 198). Then again, his chapter on \u201cThe Guilt of the Liberal,\u201d though including a rather cheap swipe at \u201cthe abusive writings of a disoriented Negro homosexual\u201d (clearly James Baldwin), includes some first-rate psychological investigation, very aptly pointing out how liberalism\u2019s \u201catomistic and quantitative\u201d approach logically shouldn\u2019t be capable of attributing obligations to successful or rich individuals on behalf of poorer or suffering ones, thus suggesting that, when it comes to matters of racial justice or economic equality, liberals\u2013secular ones anyway\u2013are motivated essentially by a contorted and parasitic feelings of guilt, and not much else, so much so that they find themselves \u201cmorally disarmed before those whom the liberal regards as less well off than himself\u201d (pgs. 218-221, 224-227). It\u2019s a strong enough piece of argument that I wonder if John Rawls, who famously attempted to create an entirely rational (and thus self-interested) scheme of liberal justice, ever read it and perhaps was influenced by it. So, while his effort overall is filled with missteps and a kind of defiantly unexamined obliviousness to the actual genealogy of belief of those liberals which so disturb him, there are plenty of sharp insights to be found throughout the book all the same.\nTowards the end of the book, Burnham\u2019s near apocalyptic Cold War focus become pretty relentless. There is hardly a single postwar retreat from Western colonialism which he doesn\u2019t decry as a failure of liberal nerve in the face of communist expansion, and hardly a single example of the U.S. employing its power to shape political outcomes beyond its borders which he does not applaud. (The Spanish-American War in particular comes in for praise\u2013pg. 293.) America\u2019s unwillingness to initiate some roll-back of international communism during the Hungarian uprising against Soviet domination especially troubles him, given that, in his view, \u201cno better circumstances for some sort of move along the perspective could be imagined than those existing in November 1956\u201d (pg. 306). (To Burnham, Eisenhower\u2019s weakness was clearly the fault of liberalism and not at all the fact that the Soviet Union was by then a nuclear power, since \u201cchanges in military, technical and other material factors are never able of themselves to account, causally, for policy\u201d\u2013pg. 313.) Ultimately, Burnham is convinced: those who subscribe to liberal ideas will spell the defeat of Western civilization because of their weakness in the face of multiple challenges, either \u201cthe drive of the communist enterprise for a monopoly of world power,\u201d or by \u201cthe explosive population growth and political activization within\u2026equatorial and sub-equatorial latitudes occupied by non-white masses,\u201d or simply by \u201cthe jungle now spreading within our own society, in particular in our cities\u201d (pg. 325). He gestures at the possibility of avoiding these fates by the West separating itself from liberal ideas, but doesn\u2019t seem to have much hope.\nHis arrival at this rather determined prognosis as a conclusion, after spending so much time attempting to develop an entirely clinical account of the liberal mindset in his book, gets me thinking: if those end points he comes to did not, in fact, occur, what does that mean? Complete aside from all the philosophically unsubstantiated and the many overly broad claims about liberalism in the book, can we say that, technically, he got liberals wrong? It would be interesting to consider the range of possible answers. Perhaps liberalism was overcome in time to bring about the Soviet Union (but then, would that mean liberalism made a comeback in America, and if so when)? Or perhaps liberalism got lucky and the USSR and international communism imploded, but Burnham\u2019s other two predictions continue to unfold? It is an interesting exercise in the sort of perennially improvable ideological debates we are all familiar with, only from the other direction: maybe liberalism can never exhibit sufficient strength to defeat its challengers, and we know this because challenges to the liberal way of life are still there. Fifty years ago is was the USSR, and today it is ISIS; the endurance of such challenges is, perhaps, all a Burnhamite conservative needs.\nIn the end, I think the mature Burnham, while certainly no liberal (much less a socialist of any stripe), was a poor conservative. His analytical but also anecdotal approach to ideology was fixated on broad categories of state, civilization, and race, leading him into seeing connections that simply aren\u2019t there, and by so doing moving his own often correct observations into a global framework that take conservative virtues and twist them\u2013as the neoconservatives of the last 20 years have also done, flailing about to find some way to make sense of their diagnosis of liberalism after the Soviet Union\u2019s collapsed, and fixating on the \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d But conservatism, whatever it has to offer our pluralistic and secular world, loses its virtues (left-leaning ones included!) when it is turned into martial struggle against an ideological foe. Burham quotes Michael Oakeshott repeatedly on the epistemological dangers of \u201crationalism\u201d; he and his descendants ought to be cognizant of how in attempting to undermine what they see as a comprehensive threat to the way things ought to be, they make the same thing out of themselves.\nPrevious articleI\u2019m\u2026Waiting for My Manuscript\nNext articleAgainst Open-mindedness\nDavid Naas August 17, 2015 at 12:24 pm\nAs you note, Burhnam was into \u2018power\u2019 and \u2018efficiency\u2019. From what I have read, he really liked the sort of State wherein competent and powerful managers would run things and the stockholders votes be manipulated or ignored.\nThe problem with Old Bolsheviks is they hardly ever lose their faith in the \u2018vanguard\u2019 leading the peasants into Utopia. They can swap sides, having been \u2018mugged by reality\u2019, but not their character.\nMy personal abhorrence for Top-Down solutions in political, social, and economic matters shows through here. (Religion is another matter.)\nSo far as Burnham\u2019s insights, my old Daddy used to say, \u201cEven a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.\u201d\nI find this article to be surpassingly strange. You should be old enough to remember the Cold War, so why the apparent complete unfamiliarity with Cold War thinking, even if it is from the early part of that era? Have you never read Witness, by Whittaker Chambers? It was written more than a decade before this book, and it is filled with a certainty that liberalism or communism or whatever is on the brink of inevitable victory and conservatism and basically all things Christian and decent are doomed. Of course, the strong case for conservatives of all sorts is that Chambers and Burnham were wrong in the particular sense by right in the general.\nRussell Arben Fox August 17, 2015 at 10:07 pm\nI\u2019ll simply have to confess my ignorance then, Brian. I was born in 1968, have read parts of Chambers\u2019s Witness, and thought I had a fairly decent grasp of the historical position and divisions experienced by those who identified as conservatives in the early days of National Review\u2026.but still, I confess I found it difficult to understand the supposed power of Burnham\u2019s analysis, completely aside from the fact that I thought he got so much (not all! but much) about liberalism philosophically and historically simply wrong. Perhaps part of the problem is that he employed a way of writing about \u201cideology\u201d as if he wasn\u2019t describing his own position, indeed any political position. Perhaps back in the thick of the elite liberal consensus of the 1950s, it really did make sense for the folks who didn\u2019t like liberalism (didn\u2019t like all this talk of equality, didn\u2019t like Western states giving up their colonial possessions, didn\u2019t like the rise of an elite, university-educated bunch of talkers and atomic scientists and internationalists who claimed the diplomatic high ground during the Cold War) to think, because it was an \u201cism,\u201d it must be related to Soviet communism in some conceptual way that Burham\u2019s own conservative ideology entirely escaped. From our perspective today (or at least from my perspective) that escape was mostly fictitious; mainstream postwar liberals and conservatives alike were equally ideologically committed, I think, to building a powerful state to effectively carry American markets around the world, and it wasn\u2019t until the late 60s and 1970s that you began to see, at the margins of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S., genuine alternatives to the welfare and warfare state liberalism which had won WWII. Burnham certain wrote often like a genuine old school traditionalist in this book; as I said, I suspect the book would have been better if he\u2019s just compiled all his observations and condemnations (Nasser is a bozo! Baldwin is deluded! Eisenhower is a quisling!) and left it at that. Instead, he constructed it like a clinical diagnosis, completely overlooking the fact that, in leveling his Cold War charges against his fellow Americans, he was making himself as much a part of liberal state as all the Democrats he had contempt for.\nPlease enlighten me with your knowledge of Chronicles Magazine back issues and their supposed monolithic presentation of liberalism.\nI recall Chronicles publishing essays and reviews by Gore Vidal, Kirkpatrick Sale, Alexander Cockburn, Eugene Genovese, and Bill Kauffman. Kauffman\u2019s writings, in particular, attempt to restore depth and variety to the respective histories of liberalism and conservatism.\nI would also mention the libertarian contributors to Chronicles from Murray Rothbard to Justin Raimando, but something tells me you cringe at the thought that libertarians might actually be part of the liberal tradition.\nRussell Arben Fox August 19, 2015 at 5:19 pm\nChronicles used to publish Vidal and Cockburn? Okay, I must confess that my knowledge is obviously limited on this regard; I never would have imagined that. My apologies to all the magazine\u2019s old fans.\nJordan Smith August 23, 2015 at 5:37 pm\nTough crowd!\nI quite enjoyed your critique.\nBurnham suffered from the typical conservative malady \u2014 he couldn\u2019t begin to imagine that anyone who didn\u2019t look like him was even human. Thus, his prescription that everyone with slightly darker skin than he had, and every woman, should just lump it and exist in misery. The Third World existed for First World exploitation. The poor exist to serve the rich. Women exist to serve men. African-Americans shouldn\u2019t exist at all.\nConservatives are really good at complaining. Full Stop. That said, progressives and liberals are quite often wrong, from their efforts to eliminate academic subjects deemed irrelevant such as Latin in favor of comic book studies to prickly complaints about patriarchal good manners, and the worst progressive idea, that all cultures are equal and therefore it\u2019s okay for students to ignore Shakespeare in favor of Toni Morrison. I note that Ms. Morrison herself does not share that opinion. Conservatives had a chance to make their case that Shakespeare and Latin are important for everyone, that religion serves a purpose beyond some of the more oppressive claims, and to welcome people who aren\u2019t white male landowners. They did not do that, and therefore they are losing.\n\u2026filled with a certainty that liberalism or communism or whatever is on the brink of inevitable victory\u2026\nAnyone who can\u2019t tell the difference between liberalism and communism should not be pontificating on either subject, much less on the fate of the world. The Cold War was by origin a liberal project. American conservatives, as is their wont, picked up the banner when it had pretty much run its course, and proceeded to wave it for another forty years. One should not, however, expect a former Trotskyite turned conservative to be particularly coherent on anything EXCEPT the fact that early in life, and late, they despised liberalism.\nAs to Whittaker Chambers, he was a tortured soul with a good deal of mental instability and narcissism. He found a snug, warm home in the Communist Party, which should have known better than to take him in, but communist parties out of power don\u2019t have the pick of the greatest brains in society when it comes to recruitment drives. When Chambers own demons drove him out of the communist party, he found himself even more accepted, lionized, and presented with an artificial sense of purpose, as a lionized ex-communist who emerged to tell the \u201ctruth\u201d about it all, that is, whatever \u201ctruth\u201d his new interlocutors wanted to hear.\nA stopped clock is right twice a day. A Former Trotskyite turned conservative who despises liberals may be right four times a day. 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Already a well-established project, this has been successfully implemented in countries across North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\nThe project was adapted locally with slight alterations to the regional project to better suit the needs of the Sri Lankan context. HSBC fully-funded the project and British Council acted as the delivery partners. Seven schools across the island were selected and they worked closely with the British Council between July 2015 and March 2016.\nThe success of this project led to HSBC funding it for a second year, and based on recommendations made in March 2016, some significant changes were made. Recommendations included giving more children and teachers access to the project, the training and the books, and equipping local Regional English Support Centres (RESCs) with the skills to support the teachers, leading to greater sustainability and localisation of the project.\nThese changes were made possible through the selecting of schools across five regions (five schools in each region, called \u2018clusters\u2019) and employing two Regional English Support Centre trainers to deliver training, monitoring and evaluation visits, and a book box rotation system within each cluster. The RESC trainers and Kids Read teachers took on a large role in the community events including storytelling at the event. The 2016-2017 project was extended from seven to 25 schools, 13 to 43 teachers, 1,500 to over 4,500 children and four to five community events. It also covered five provinces: Northern, Eastern, Western, Southern and Central.\n\u201cWe are delighted to witness how Kids Read has created such a positive impact on so many children and teachers alike. This project is based on the assumption that reading opens up a world of opportunities for children, exposing them to other cultures, attitudes and issues. We have been part of Sri Lanka\u2019s growth story for the last 125 years and we see Kids Read as a project where we invest in the future of this country,\u201d commented Sri Lanka and Maldives HSBC CEO Mark Prothero.\nResearch shows that good reading habits, established early, improve later performance in a range of life skills as well as developing language and critical thinking skills. However, teachers and parents often struggle to find ways to motivate children to read and this is especially the case when dealing with reading in a foreign language like English.\nThe project has two key objectives. The primary aim is to work with local primary schools across Sri Lanka to improve access to and use of storybooks in the classroom. This includes working with the schools to transform their awareness of the value of children reading in English and developing reading and literacy skills in all children in grades three to five; providing access to 220 of the best UK children\u2019s fiction, non-fiction and big books in their schools and homes; training all English teachers to use stories effectively in order to develop English language skills and to be able to evaluate progress in reading skills development; and training and supporting the local RESC trainers to assist with delivery and monitoring and evaluation of the project.\nSecondly, the project aims to promote reading by reaching out to the local community through five community events in five cities across the country. This involved delivery of community storytelling events in schools and/or public venues by Kids Read teachers, supported by HSBC volunteers and British Council Teachers and Training Consultants, reaching children in grades three to five from non-Kids Read schools and generally promoting the joys and benefits of reading books.\nAll head teachers responded very positively to the project. They praised their teachers\u2019 efforts, the project itself, and in some instances offered whole rooms for the teachers to convert into HSBC Kids Read activity and reading rooms. Teachers reported positively on the project.\nDula Liyanage, a teacher from Trincomalee, commented: \u201cKids Read came to my school just like an aura which enlightened student\u2019s reading skills. I\u2019m so glad to proclaim the beginning and the ongoing project \u2026 though we had a library, children used to read and borrow only Sinhala story books, but Kids Read changed their minds to read English story books too. 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Only we, the new generation, are the ones that can fight for change. And this is also what GEYC does.\nHappy 20th anniversary European Youth Centre Budapest\nDuring the evening, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the European Youth Centre Budapest, which turned out to be the high time for networking, as many officials from Europe were invited.\nSecond day started with labs on different themes: Education, Communication, Economic sphere and working life and Democracy, where concrete examples of good practices from different countries were presented and discussed. There is no doubt that we are what we share, and if every person could apply this motto in his/hers life, without being self-oriented, we could grow more beautiful and evolve as human beings.\nThe day ended with an NGO fair, in which we, the youth workers, presented our work in the communities where we belong.\nRefugees - how to act properly and get involved?\nDuring the Symposium event we dedicated a little time to the major theme of refugees and asyl-seekers, problem that has impact on entire Europe at the moment. 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I found one a few minutes ago.\nFor the last few weeks\u2026ok, if I\u2019m honest the last few months\u2026I have been Distracted, and haven\u2019t gotten near enough writing/editing done.\nWhat has me so Distracted? Let\u2019s see how many I can list\u2026\nbooks, mostly good \u2013 I do LOVE to read (see my 2013 Reading Journal if you have a doubt)\nchildren \u2013 yes, well\u2026I chose to have them LOL\neating \u2013 enough said\nrewiring the underground electric dog fence\nselling my horses\nproduce from the garden \u2013 someone has to freeze and/or can it\na rejection early in the summer, and the most distracting of them all\u2026\nmy self-made pity party\nYep, I\u2019ll be honest. I spent most of the summer feeling sorry for myself, or feeling like I wasn\u2019t meant to write. While the rejection letter was one of the \u201cgood\u201d ones, it still sent me reeling. Sure I can compose a few well-written sentences, but if my plot is unbelievable and my characters are shallow, and repetitive, how good is my writing?\nSo that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been Dwelling on all summer. It Devastated me more than I realized at the time. I don\u2019t know HOW to fix my problems, and to be honest all the books in the world aren\u2019t really going to help me, despite my attempts to read a few of the good ones. I don\u2019t learn well that way\u2013never have.\nBUT\u2026well, I\u2019m tired of Dwelling on it. I\u2019m attempting to rewrite a different manuscript that was requested at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer Conference. When that\u2019s done, I\u2019ll find someone to help me work through whatever problems it has. That prospect is Daunting, but, with God\u2019s Divine help, I can and will prevail against the lies the devil has been speaking to me all summer.\nSo, enough about me. What types of things Distract you when you have something to do that seems Daunting?\nDistractions \u2014 8 Comments\nTom Threadgill on August 16, 2013 at 12:34 pm said:\nOh my gosh. I have the attention span of a gnat. Everything distracts me, especially when I\u2019m stuck on a tricky plot point. You\u2019re not alone!\nI didn\u2019t know you were at Blue Ridge. This was my first year there. Loved it!\nGinger Solomon on August 16, 2013 at 12:45 pm said:\nRe: BRMCWC \u2013 I was the rose on the wall (aka the wallflower).\nI am a TRUE introvert. It was my first year as well, and I tend to stand back and watch A LOT in new situations. \ud83d\ude42\nI loved it as well. God really spoke to me through the classes I took and the keynote speakers. It was an awesome experience. I will definitely be going back next year (as the Lord wills).\nDora Hiers on August 16, 2013 at 3:11 pm said:\nI know where you\u2019re coming from, Ginger. When I received rejection letters for my first ms, I\u2019d toss everything into a closet. Then, a few months later I\u2019d pull it all back out, look at the letter with fresh vision, and roll up my sleeves and get back to work. Don\u2019t give up, Ginger! Take that rejection letter and make a short list of what items were mentioned, then you\u2019ll see how close you really are. Hang in there!\nThanks for the advice, Dora. When I finish editing this current MS and get it out to the agent who requested it, I will go back to that other MS and see if I can work on the things pointed out to me.\nKarla Akins on August 16, 2013 at 7:32 pm said:\nD is for DON\u2019T quit. That\u2019s what the DEVIL wants. Just put it away for awhile and get it out later and you will see it with fresh eyes and heart and hear God\u2019s voice for it. I agree with Dora. Make a list and give the devil a black eye!\nI\u2019m all about giving the devil a black eye. I like that analogy. It\u2019s a fight to the finish, and I know I\u2019ve already won. \ud83d\ude42\nDigging for Pearls on August 18, 2013 at 1:31 pm said:\nPraying for you, Ginger and like Karla said, don\u2019t quit. \ud83d\ude42\nI\u2019m the introvert too, so I can relate. A lot of times those rejections are more painful then we first realize. I\u2019m so thankful that God knows and understands, even when we don\u2019t.\nAs for distractions\u2026 I guess for me, it\u2019s the many things that pull at me throughout the day. It can be my \u2018to do\u2019 list, or spending too much time on social media and email. You name it, the list seems to mount from time to time. I guess the key is asking our Heavenly Father each morning \u2013 \u201cWhat and where should I focus my priorities today?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gkfirstaidtraining.co.uk/blog/role-of-a-fire-marshal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FLAVUE3Q2GTWCWTHYGWJT3TX5WFMVWCP", "length": 4289, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.gkfirstaidtraining.co.uk", "title": "The role of a fire marshal", "raw_content": "The role of a Fire Marshal / Warden\nPrincipal Duties and role of a Fire Marshal / Warden in the Workplace\nThe role of a Fire Marshal / Warden \u2013 The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO) came into force in October 2006 and with it the requirement to have a strategy to evacuate all occupants within a building. The fire service cannot be relied upon to assist with evacuation. As such, businesses are recognising the importance of having fully-trained Fire Marshal/Wardens as part of their emergency evacuation strategy. Having fire wardens has shown to be the quickest, most effective, way to evacuate a building. It is also seen as a proactive approach \u2013 fire wardens can be used to identify fire hazards and dangers before a fire occurs.\nThe principal duties of the fire warden are to;\nTake appropriate and effective action if a fire occurs\nEnsure that escape routes are available for use\nRecord and report their observations,\nIf a fire is discovered, the fire warden should:\nEnsure that the alarm has been raised\nCheck that manufacturing processes have been made safe\nEvacuate staff from the building or area involved\nCheck that any staff or visitors with disabilities are assisted as planned\nCall the reporting centre and give details of the location, severity and cause of the fire, if known\nFight the fire if it is safe to do so.\nThe Role of a Fire Marshal / Warden \u2013 When the evacuation signal is heard, the fire wardens should ensure that everyone leaves the area as quickly and orderly as possible, ensuring that security measures, such as closing fire-resistant safes, are undertaken, if this can be done without causing a significant delay in the evacuation procedure. Electrical equipment should also be turned off and windows shut if possible.\nWhen the area for which the warden is responsible has been evacuated, a rapid, methodical search should be undertaken to ensure that on-one remains in storerooms, toilets and similar areas.\nThe warden should then go to the assembly point and take part in the roll call procedure there. It may be the fire warden\u2019s or security officer\u2019s tasks to ensure that no-one re-enters before the fire brigade officer gives permission.\nAll fire wardens have an important role to play in the fire risk assessment. Any changes to work practices or modifications to existing processes may introduce unforeseen problems. Similarly, changes in procedures may result in the introduction of additional sources of ignition or different types of combustible materials. Any hazards that may be perceived should be reported to the fire safety manager who should consider them, in the light of the fire risk assessment, at the earliest opportunity.\nFire and Bomb Drills\nFire drills should be held at least once, and preferably, twice, each year. Following the fire drills the fire safety manager should hold a short debriefing session with the fire wardens in order to learn of any problems or difficulties that were encountered. The problems and any remedial action taken to reduce their occurrence in the future should be recorded. Fire drills are important exercises and provide an opportunity for plans and procedures to be developed and modified if necessary.\nIn some premises where there is a risk of terrorist action directed towards the premises or to others in the vicinity, it is also valuable to carry out a bomb drill occasionally, with the purpose of reminding staff of the actions that they should take. Again, a record of the exercise should be kept and procedures modified if necessary.\nParticular consideration should be given to the actions taken in respect of a device thought to be in the street outside as well as those to be taken if a bomb were to be placed inside the building.\nDid you know? we offer full Course details on our Fire Marshal / Warden Training please visit our Fire Marshal / Warden Training Page. The Fire Warden / Marshal Training training course is aimed to enable staff to manage a fire or other similar emergency efficiently and effectively to meet the legal requirements to train staff. This course has been designed with the core aim of creating a confident person to take charge in an emergency.\nCost for Fire Warden / Marshal Training\nThese courses can be delivered directly in your place of work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalpapermoney.com/cascades-announces-substantial-investments-cms-6368", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JXI32YSGQBVF53ALSAQXUBWI7UGOTJ62", "length": 1989, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.globalpapermoney.com", "title": "Cascades Announces Substantial Investments - Global Paper Money", "raw_content": "Cascades Announces Substantial Investments\nKingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada 06 August 2012 \u2013 Cascades (TSX: CAS), a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, is pleased to announce that substantial investments, up to $750000, will be made in its Cascades Enviropac HPM, LLC plant, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By the end of 2012 and beginning 2013, new equipment will be added to modernize the plant and optimize its overall efficiency, from the competitiveness, quality and service standpoints. These investments will also allow us to retain jobs in the plant and its offices.\nThis is a great opportunity for Cascades to strengthen its market shares in the Central and Midwest Regions, while increasing its industrial product offering such as Technicomb\u2122 protective packaging systems, Flexicomb\u00ae flexible protective packaging, and ThermaFresh\u2122 recyclable therma-insulator containers for fresh food conservation. These products are the perfect alternatives to traditional packaging, since they are made of honeycomb paperboard and fibre composites which are recyclable. As Mr. Simon Gosselin, General Manager for the Industrial Packaging sector of Cascades Specialty Products Group, mentioned: \u201cThese investments are directly in line with Cascades' key strategic axes to further support the operations, with the ultimate goal of assuring the commercial success of our innovative, eco-designed products.\u201d\nFounded in 1964, Cascades produces, converts and markets packaging and tissue products that are composed mainly of recycled fibres. The Company employs more than 12,000 employees, who work in over 100 units located in North America and Europe. With its management philosophy, half a century of experience in recycling, and continuous efforts in research and development as driving forces, Cascades continues to serve its clients with innovative products. Cascades' shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol CAS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globenewscenter.us/2017/08", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YOKAJDF4CO2FZGZVYW4GIBVAJNMJHAMP", "length": 839, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.globenewscenter.us", "title": "August 2017 \u2013 Global News Centre", "raw_content": "Interpreters in Minnesota: Don\u2019t Lose Out on Business Due to a Language Barrier August 17, 2017 WgeeLinks\nYou have prepared for almost all the emergencies your business may face. However, having a language barrier problem is one of those surprises that seem to come out of nowhere. Suddenly, you are facing a customer that you are not able to communicate with. The conversation is only a collection of phrases that do not [\u2026]\nTraining Discipline: A Key to Success in Extreme Sports August 11, 2017 WgeeLinks\nExtreme sports continue to evolve and there seems to be no shortage of things to do on the extreme side of sport. There are classics like snowboarding and skateboarding, skiing and rock climbing, skydiving and scuba diving. There are also rather new introductions like free flying and free diving. All of these sports share one [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gofishbc.com/Blog/Science-and-Research/Should-I-Go-or-Should-I-Stay-Why-Some-Steelhead-an.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:23Z", "digest": "sha1:NC2BMGQCFUKF23ZDESNK6W3PEXORLANK", "length": 5733, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gofishbc.com", "title": "Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC - Blog", "raw_content": "What motivates a trout to migrate to the ocean or stay put in its stream has been a question that has perplexed fish scientists for decades. Fish migrate to the sea for one main reason \u2013 the groceries. Marine environments provide a much richer food source than freshwater, and fish grow big. As with most animals, size matters. Body size equates to selective advantage in terms of reproductive potential and contributing to the next generation. Large males may be more successful in seeking mates and fending off other males. Large females produce more eggs.\nSame Species \u2013 Different Life Strategies\nPacific salmon tend to be \u201cfixed\u201d in their life strategy. In the majority of cases, chum, pink, sockeye, coho, and chinook migrate to the ocean, where they grow to adults before returning to fresh water to spawn; they spawn only once. Coastal streams also contain searun populations of trout, including steelhead, coastal cutthroat, Dolly Varden, and even bull trout. However, not all trout migrate, even where they can access the ocean, and many spawn multiple times over their lives. For example, some individuals (predominantly males) retain juvenile features as parr that never leave fresh water, and still manage to breed with females. \u201cSneaky males\u201d is a term commonly used to refer to these individuals because they dart in around the large males to get access to the females. In other cases, where trout can access large rivers or lakes, they may migrate to these locations to feed and mature rather than to the ocean.\nA resident male sneaks in beside spawning Steelhead. Video: @rainforest_steel\nScientists have been aware of different life strategies for decades, and sometimes identified them as different species. For example, searun steelhead trout were thought to be a different species from freshwater rainbow trout (which they are not). Furthermore, it was generally believed that offspring followed the same life strategy as their parents. In other words, if your parent was a steelhead, then you would be too.\nTo Stay or Go \u2013 Why Some Fish Migrate\nHowever, recent research indicates that the \u201cdecision\u201d to stay or go is more complicated than simply doing what your parents did. It appears that in many streams containing both steelhead and rainbow trout, offspring may be capable of adopting either a migratory or a resident lifestyle. This \u201cchoice\u201d appears to be influenced by the environment (e.g. water temperature) and individual physical condition (e.g. growth). Genetics (i.e. inherited traits) also has a role, but how much is thought to depend on the population.\nSearching for steelhead on the Upper Chehalis River\nThe term \u201chedge betting\u201d is commonly used in the financial world meaning to protect against loss by supporting more than one possible outcome. In recent years, this same term has been applied to trout populations that may follow different life strategies in response to different conditions. Compared to naturally prolific salmon species that hedge their bets on survival with the production of large numbers of adults (ranging from thousands to millions), trout populations are relatively small (ranging only from hundreds to thousands). Trout hedge their bets instead by employing a diversity of life-strategy options to ensure that some individuals make it to the next generation. If ocean conditions are good, sea migration (anadromy) is a good bet. When ocean conditions are poor, staying put in fresh water (residency) means trout stand a better chance of surviving, even if they don\u2019t grow as large or produce as many eggs. While an individual fish can\u2019t predict what\u2019s happening in the ocean or make a choice based on that, maintaining different options ensures that some individuals in a population should always survive to reproduce. This has been an effective strategy over the millennia to ensure the survival of the species even in the face of variable and often adverse conditions.\n\"Sneaky Males\" retain juvenile features as parr that never leave fresh water\nIs Resiliency Enough To Maintain Trout Populations Now?\nThis begs the question: is this strategy enough to maintain populations in light of the dramatic environmental shifts we are now experiencing, in addition to the cumulative impacts of resource extraction and development on the landscape? Fewer fish migrating to sea does not necessarily equate to an increase in the production of resident fish. The freshwater habitat has limitations on how many fish it can support, and these limitations will be affected by impacts such as water withdrawal, droughts, rising temperatures, as well as habitat degradation.\nUnderstanding what influences migration is fundamental to managing partially migrating trout populations, particularly in the face of climate change and the massive declines in searun trout numbers like that witnessed for the high-profile Thompson River steelhead. Trout have proven to be highly resilient, with unexpected recoveries occasionally reported where a population was thought to have gone extinct or close to it. However, resiliency can only go so far.\nKendall, N.W., J.R. McMillan, M.R. Sloat, T.W. Beuhrens, T.P. Quinn, G.R. Pess, K.V. Kuzishchin, M.M. McClure and R.W. Zabel. 2015. Anadromy and residency in steelhead and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): a review of the processes and patterns. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 72:391-242.\nSloat, M.R. and G.H. Reeves. 2014. Individual condition, standard metabolic rate, and rearing temperature in\ufb02uence steelhead and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) life histories. Can. J. Fish.Aquat. Sci. 71:1-11.\nVideographer: John McMillan - @rainforest_steel\nPhotos: Ron Ptolemy, Brad Marriott - @fishermanbrad, Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC Staff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gopusa.com/more-than-700000-foreigners-overstayed-visas-last-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MI2HLNHYKWK7TUMTNMBUCAVIGUFXL533", "length": 4725, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.gopusa.com", "title": "More than 700,000 foreigners overstayed visas last year \u2013 GOPUSA", "raw_content": "Associated Press Posted On 11:35 am August 8, 2018\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 More than 700,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the United States during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas, the Homeland Security Department said Tuesday.\nPresident Donald Trump has focused border security efforts on erecting a multibillion-dollar wall with Mexico. But the latest annual figures underscore how visa overstays are a big driver of illegal immigration. An estimated 40 percent of the roughly 11 million people in the country illegally stayed past their visas.\nThere were 701,900 visa overstays from October 2016 through September 2017 among visitors who arrived by plane or ship \u2014 more than the population of Vermont or Wyoming.\nThe total number of overstays is much larger but has not been quantified because it doesn\u2019t include how many people leave by land.\nThe cost and technological hurdles to develop a checkout system at congested land crossings are enormous. Last year, authorities occasionally captured fingerprints from people in vehicles at three crossings with Mexico and plan to test facial recognition technology on pedestrians at two Arizona crossings with Mexico.\nIn 2016, Homeland Security published the number of overstays for the first time in at least two decades. From October 2015 through September 2016, there were 739,478 overstays among visitors who arrived by plane or ship.\nMore than 700,000 foreigners overstayed visas last year, 2.0 out of 10 based on 3 ratings\nThe penalty for over-staying a visa is for the federal government to send them home. So, what is the incentive for anyone to leave on their own accord before their visa expires? If there was a real penalty attached, such as denying a future visa; and a reduction of visitor, student, & work visas issued to the top-ten offending countries, I\u2019m willing to bet that the home countries would be willing to work with the US and assist in the process of having their citizens leave BEFORE their visa expires; and, help the US track foreign citizens departing the US.\nNot just that, but i\u2019ve known and heard of other countries, where THEIR immigration control people, CALL/VISIT YOU within 24hrs of when your visa is up, to ENSURE you are going to be leaving..\nSO WHAT the hell is the issue, with us doing the same?\nreality99r\nIf we had 700,000 overstays last year, it stands to reason our country has 25 to 30 million (or more) folks ILLEGALLY in the country.\nANd if that\u2019s just Last year. THink of how many millions have overstayed in just the past decade alone..\nAt this rate, even with an effective wall, we\u2019ll need thousands more ICE agents just to track down & deport these illegal aliens. I\u2019d expect a large number of them came here to attend schools, and then found jobs, even though they have no valid permit to work, and then just stayed. There needs to be a fine of $100/day of overstay, collected when deported, and if the illegal alien hasn\u2019t sufficient funds to pay the fine; they are FOREVER forbidden entry to the US. After we round up the first couple of thousand, and banish them forever penniless, a bunch of them will start \u201cgetting out of Dodge\u201d.\nBTW, $100/day for 365 days for 739,400 illegals is ~ $27 BILLION, enough to pay for that wall.\nWell, if we get the wall, we won\u2019t NEED so many agents patroling the border. So those freed up from doing so, can then be re-assigned to find and deport these scofflaws..\nNot only do we need a wall, ICE needs to keep rounding up the illegal aliens, visa overstayers, border jumpers, ALL illegal aliens, and get them deported. There are millions of people wandering our streets that don\u2019t want to be discovered. We can still make it happen!\nAnd a great way to start, would be to stop issuing student visas, for fraudulent colleges!!!!\nAs the saying goes: Surprise, surprise, surprise. No surprises with this. And we do NOTHING to send them back home at the end of the visa. Hell, we don\u2019t even care if we are overrun with illegal crossers \u2014 right? You know I\u2019m right. Nobody has the balls or guts to enforce the laws on our books.\nThere\u2019s been times, i\u2019ve gotten SO sick of hearing about illegal aliens, their rights etc, that i have day dreamed of creating a border \u2018death field\u2019 fully around the country, and a wall of energy that would start at the northern border, and move south at 35mph..\nANYONE illegally in the country, whether a border jumper, faux asylum seeker, person smuggled into the country, ALONG WITH all those who work to give them rights they don\u2019t deserve, that the wall hits \u2013 gets turned into a garden gnome. THEN WE would have no reason to say \u201cBUT we don\u2019t know who they are\u201d. JUST find all the new garden gnomes, and put them in a shipping container!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 9616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gravitydsn.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OPF6GZ2JL75CDIQ2D7B6WA35VDMJFJF7", "length": 560, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gravitydsn.com", "title": "Gravity DSN - Matt Bellisle", "raw_content": "Gravity DSN is a creative-centric design, illustration and publishing studio based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Run by award-winning Creative Director & illustrator, Matt Bellisle, his focus is to create the most visually dynamic and emotionally charged advertising and marketing possible. Whether it's for a national consumer brand or a local small business, the process is the same... Create kick-ass work that makes a statement and resonates with the audience.\nDESIGN // COMICS // FINE ARTS // CONTACT\n\u00a9 2018 Gravity DSN & Matthew Bellisle. All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gubta.com/andy-murray-former-british-number-one-has-resurfacing-surgery-on-hip/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VZYGXTNRTN4AMHKX3W2TN6DR3DSJISQ7", "length": 3563, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.gubta.com", "title": "Andy Murray: Former British number one has resurfacing surgery on hip - Latest News Updates", "raw_content": "Britain\u2019s former world number one Andy Murray had hip resurfacing surgery in London on Monday.\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion, 31, announced in January he would retire this year , preferably after Wimbledon.\nBut he admitted the Australian Open, where he lost to Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round, could be the final tournament of his career.\nHe said: \u201cI have a metal hip. Feeling a bit battered and bruised but hopefully that will be the end of my hip pain.\u201d\nThe Scot\u2019s post on Instagram featured an X-ray picture of his hip.\nProfessor Max Fehily, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and clinical director at the Manchester Hip Clinic, says the operation involves \u201csmoothing down the ball, then covering it with a metal cap\u201d.\n\u201cThen a layer of metal is placed within the pelvic socket in which it sits,\u201d he added.\nAmerican doubles legend Bob Bryan had a similar operation in 2018. The 40-year-old was on court within five months of his operation and competed with twin brother Mike at the Australian Open.\nProf Fehily added that \u201c90 to 95% of patients who have this surgery are delighted and live a pain-free life\u201d, although none of his patients try to play professional tennis.\nDoubles specialist Bryan made it back from resurfacing op \u2013 can Murray?\nHow Murray helped create golden period for British sport\nWhat will Andy Murray be worth in retirement?\nThe moment Murray knew the game was up\nMurray initially had surgery on his right hip in January 2018 and has played 15 matches since returning to the sport last June.\nHe was due to play in February\u2019s Marseille Open but withdrew from the tournament earlier in January.\nMurray ended his 2018 season in September to spend time working with rehabilitation expert Bill Knowles.\nBut he was in tears at a news conference in Melbourne when he announced before the first Grand Slam of 2019 that it may be the final one of his career.\nMurray then said following his five-set exit to Bautista Agut that he would need \u201ca big operation\u201d if he was to play again, but added: \u201cI\u2019ll give it my best shot.\u201d\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, the two-time Olympic champion said surgery was the only option if he wanted to play beyond Wimbledon.\n\u201cHowever, there is a strong possibility I won\u2019t come back and play after an operation. I want to play tennis, but not with the hip I have right now,\u201d he added.\nMurray said surgery on his hip would mean \u201cmy quality of life would be better\u201d.\n\u201cJust going to walk my dogs, playing football with my friends, is the worst thing I can think of doing,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI hate it because it\u2019s so sore and it\u2019s uncomfortable. Waiting another five or six months to do something like that is just another period where I\u2019m really uncomfortable.\u201d\n\u201cAthletes have had operations like that done and come back to play, but certainly not in singles,\u201d Murray told me in Melbourne after that very emotional news conference.\nI am sure there is a small part of him that has not abandoned all hope of continuing his career, but this operation is first and foremost about improving his quality of life.\nIf the operation proves successful, Murray might be able to make a farewell appearance at Wimbledon \u2013 although there can be no guarantee he will ever be able to compete again.\nBob Bryan played again five months after having the same operation, and reached the last eight of the Australian Open with his twin brother Mike.\nWimbledon just happens to be five months away; and Andy also has a brother who is one of the best doubles players in the world.\nWe can but speculate for the moment. Time will tell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hamptonu.edu/cpp/polls/20171024_va_governor_poll/exec_summ.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:QL3K2V7KRAHF6P3YXKFMAJEGOI2TY5RY", "length": 7564, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.hamptonu.edu", "title": "A Survey of 750 Likely Voters - Virginia, Statewide - October 18-22, 2017", "raw_content": "A Survey of 750 Likely Voters - VA Governor's Election Poll - Virginia, Statewide - October 18-22, 2017\nWith less than two weeks to go before voters head to the polls to elect the next Governor of Virginia, Republican Ed Gillespie has an eight point lead ahead of Democrat Ralph Northam, according to a poll released today by the Hampton University Center for Public Policy (CPP). When asked if the General Election were held today for whom would you vote, 41% of likely voters surveyed chose Ed Gillespie, while 33% picked Ralph Northam. The key (as in last year's presidential election) are the 27% of the likely voters who remain Undecided. Even though Gillespie has a sizeable lead over Northam, the 27% of Undecided voters may mean that the race is tighter than the survey revealed.\nImproving the economy and creating jobs remains the number one priority among likely voters. Likely voters also oppose having the designation of a sanctuary city in Virginia, but an overwhelming majority would not mind having their hometown designated as one. Plus, 56% of Virginians surveyed disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as President of the United States.\nThe poll was conducted from October 18 -22, 2017 and included 750 live interviews of likely voters in Virginia who are registered to vote and said they are likely to vote in this presidential election. The margin of error is +/- 4.2%. For more details and the complete survey and Topline results, please click here.\nRepublican Ed Gillespie has the clear edge (41%) over Democrat Ralph Northam (33%) among likely voters who have made a decision about a candidate. What stands out in the CPP poll results is the 27% of likely voters who are undecided. The data shows that among those who are undecided (165 undecided; 36 refused to answer), 24% lean Democrat, while only 19% lean Republican, and a full 28% identify as a true Independent.\nEd Gillespie (R) 304 41%\nRalph Northam (D) 245 33%\nDon't Know/Refused 201 27%\nAmong those surveyed who support Republican Ed Gillespie, 48% are white, and 57% of those who support Democrat Ralph Northam are Black. Most of Gillespie's support comes from men (Men 47%, Women 34%), while more women favor Northam (Women 35%, Men 30%) (Don't Know/Refused \u2013 Men 23%, Women 30%). The majority of those who remain Undecided are Women (Women 30%, Men 23%)\nEd Gillespie (R) 12% 48% 47% 34%\nRalph Northam (D) 57% 27% 30% 35%\nDK/Refused 30% 25% 23% 30%\nBoth candidates are well known by those surveyed, and exactly half of Virginia's likely voters have a favorable opinion of Ed Gillespie (50%) while 46% feel favorably about Ralph Northam.\nPriority For Next Governor\nConsistent with prior CPP polls, Virginia's likely voters rank improving the economy and creating jobs as the top priority for their Governor (34%). Healthcare remains solid as the second priority (23%) and Education (18%) remains number three on the list. Improving transportation infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels and road surfaces was fourth on the priority list at 13% and Gun control was once again at the bottom of the list with 9% but up six percentage points from the CPP poll conducted in June.\nHealthcare 175 23%\nImproving transportation infrastructure\n(such as bridges, tunnels and road surfaces) 95 13%\nFor those surveyed, Healthcare remains an important issue. Of the 93% with health insurance, 43% are covered through their employer and 20% are covered through Medicare. While there are many reasons people do not have health insurance, of the likely voters surveyed, 7% are not covered and rank the expensive cost of health insurance as the number one reason for being uninsured (click here to see Topline Results).\nWhile there is no campaign season without campaign ads, likely voters are evenly split regarding the level of attention they pay to political advertisements. Exactly 50% of those surveyed report they pay little to no attention and 50% reported they pay attention somewhat to very closely.\nA clear majority (68%) of voters believe that most political advertising focuses on attacking the opponent rather than promoting the preferred candidate directly (18%), while 14% replied they don't know or they refused to answer. Negative ads make 58% or those surveyed \"Less Likely\" to vote for the candidate who sponsored the ad and 30% of those survey said political ads had \"No Impact\" for them. Only 8% reported that negative ads would make them \"More Likely\" to support the sponsor of the ad (4% Don't Know or Refused to answer).\nA clear majority (62%) of likely Virginia voters oppose the removal of statues and memorials of Confederate leaders from public spaces.\nQ11. Do you favor or oppose removing statues and memorials of Confederate leaders from public spaces?\nJust over one-half (53%) of likely Virginia voters oppose the concept of Sanctuary Cities (36% Favor Sanctuary Cities, 10% Don't Know/Refused) and over half of those surveyed (56%) are opposed to establishing one in the Commonwealth of Virginia (36% Favor a Sanctuary City in VA, 8% Don't Know). However, of the 267 likely Virginia voters who favor establishing a Sanctuary City within Virginia, 256 of them (96%) would be comfortable with their own hometowns becoming Sanctuary Cities, as opposed to only 2% who would oppose it. (Click here to see Topline Results).\nApproval Ratings of the Current VA Governor and POTUS\nMore than one-half (56%) of likely Virginia voters disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing as President of the United States. A number slightly higher than the national average.\nEven though he is on the way out, current Governor Terry McAuliff continues to have high approval ratings with 52% of likely Virginia voters surveyed approving of the job he has done in the Commonwealth of Virginia.\nThe statewide survey was conducted by a professional call center (SSRS - Social Science Research Solutions) for the Hampton University Center for Public Policy under the general direction of Kelly Harvey-Viney, J.D.\nLive interviews were conducted by telephone from October 18-22, 2017. SSRS fielded a survey of likely voters in Virginia (persons living in the State who are registered to vote and said they are almost certain or very likely to vote in the next election).\nThe sample was Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Landline and Cell, drawn in geographic proportion to the registered voter population of Virginia ages 18 years or age and older. These data were weighted to reflect the voter registration population of Virginia ages 18 years of age and older. This weighting combined with rounding is responsible for percentages not always equaling exactly 100%; this phenomenon is most obvious in the allocation by county as the very large number of response categories provided a multitude of opportunities for rounding and resulted in totals of significantly less than 100% (89%) overall.\nThe weighting process takes into account the disproportionate probabilities of household and respondent selection due to the number of landlines or cellphones answered by respondents and their households.\nFollowing application of the above weights, the sample is post-stratified and balanced by key demographics such as age, race, sex, education, marital status, and party affiliation.\nThe sample is also weighted to reflect the distribution of phone usage in Virginia, meaning the proportion of those who are cell phone only, landline only, and mixed users. A total of 750 interviews were conducted between October 18th and October 22nd, 2017; 400 using Landline sample and 350 using Cell sample.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 10641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.headsinthecloudpod.com/007-chaos-is-a-ladder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SMYN2WQOAYOU4J67GIQGZWXJMO6EEAAF", "length": 1114, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.headsinthecloudpod.com", "title": "007: Chaos Is A Ladder | Heads In The Cloud", "raw_content": "Oct 3 2017 \u00b7 Season 1 \u00b7 Episode 7\n007: Chaos Is A Ladder\nIn this episode, we talk shop with one of our very own--a first for the Heads In The Cloud podcast. As our first ever in-studio guest, John Roth, VP of Established Channel Sales at Star2Star, discusses what we do and how we do it. John\u2019s career has focused exclusively on the channel, from selling door-to-door in the 80s to when he first heard about our one-of-a-kind Hybrid Architecture in 2009. Industry developments and the exciting dynamics of a 100% Channel Partner sales model await in this installment!\nJohn Roth\u2019s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothjohn\nStar2Star Website: http://www.star2star.com/\nStar2Star Partners: http://www.star2star.com/partners\nStar2Star Partner Programs: http://www.star2star.com/partners/partner-programs\nStar2Star Partner Training: http://www.star2star.com/partners/training-accreditation\nBecome A Star2Star Partner: http://www.star2star.com/partners/become-a-star2star-partner\nThe Benefits Of A Hybrid Architecture: http://www.star2star.com/insights/whitepapers-case-studies/the-benefits-of-a-hybrid-architecture", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.herbsmagic.com/magic-in-new-york-blog/lecture-by-magic-in-new-york-editor-at-queens-museum", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4EIKMCDVHR52YIKBULHTY3F2IWSJK5O6", "length": 1359, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.herbsmagic.com", "title": "Magic in New York blog - HERB'S MAGIC", "raw_content": "LecTure by \"Magic In New York\" Editor at Queens Museum\nA note from your Editor: Folks, I will be giving a short lecture on Saturday, November 8 at 1:00 p.m. at the Queens Museum, as part of The Magic of World's Fair Collecting, an afternoon event presented in conjunction with the museum's current exhibition, Behind the Curtain: Collecting the New York Fairs. My talk will have to do with materials relating to magic and the world's fairs. One of the topics I will discuss is the General Cigar Pavilion's Hall of Magic, a feature of the 1964 Fair. The attraction was developed in collaboration with magician Mark Wilson who helped create what amounted to nearly an automated magic show. Although it featured a live magician, the show was performed to Wilson's pre-recorded narration and was structured so that it would fit into a precisely timed format. Numerous conjurors and actors appeared as the magician in the piece, including James Randi and Coe Norton. Since many of the items on display relate to the Society of American Magicians, I will touch on information relating to one of the founders of the organization, Dr. Saram Ellison, who was himself an avid collector of magic-related materials. The lecture is included in the regular museum admission. Although an $8 fee is suggested, visitors may pay what they wish. For more information click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 154.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hirosimanagasaki.is/hirosima_event/one-of-japans-foremost-master-in-the-japanese-art-of-flower-arrangement-gives-a-lecture-and-hosts-a-workshop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:USLG37VMUS36L2IQHTXLJ5F2YRIJWDSR", "length": 2251, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hirosimanagasaki.is", "title": "One of Japan\u2019s foremost master in the Japanese art of flower arrangement gives a lecture and hosts a workshop - H\u00edr\u00f3s\u00edma/Nagasaki", "raw_content": "One of Japan\u2019s foremost master in the Japanese art of flower arrangement gives a lecture and hosts a workshop\nOn Saturday 8th of September at 13:00, Yuki Ikenobo, one of Japan\u2019s foremost master in flower arrangement, will be giving a lecture on Ikenobo, a 550 years old variant of Ikebana which is the ancient Japanese art of arranging flowers in accordance to season.\n(www.ikebanabyjunko.co.uk / history.htm).\nAt 14:00 starts a two-hour-long workshop with Yuki Ikenobo where she will teach the basics of Ikenobo, of which only 20 can apply. Both the lecture and the workshop are free of charge and available due to the generous sponsorship of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society (www.ikenobo.jp / english) and the Japan Foundation (www.jpf.go.jp). Update: The workshop is full but there will be a demonstration at the lecture as well. Registration for the lecture is unnecessary.\nLecture and workshop are held as a part of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki exhibition at the Reykjav\u00edk City Library at Tryggvagata 15. They will be at the same location, but in the hall on the sixth floor at the Reykjav\u00edk Museum of Photography.\nYuki Ikenobo is a 46th-generation Ikenobo artist. Her family has for 550 years practiced this art form and is today the Headmaster Designate of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society, which runs about one hundred Ikenobo societies and academic groups around the world. Yuki Ikenobo is also the elected consul of Iceland in Kyoto.\nFrom the lecturer:\n\u201cIkebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging. It is a refined culture that nurtures a gentle spirit responsive to nature, develops self-awareness, and elevates human character. Ikebana is also a spiritual culture. It is said, \u201cIn small numbers there is deep meaning.\u201d Rather than flowers in full bloom, Ikebana is a culture of the heart that can appreciate the will to bloom of a single, tiny blossom.In ancient times Japanese people thought that deities resided in all the elements of nature, such as trees or stones. Further, in the 6th century, together with Buddhism, the custom of Buddhist floral offering was introduced into Japan. These two ideas integrated and developed as the display of flowers that has become \u201cIkebana.\u201d Ikebana has come to be appreciated today by people around the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hisstank.com/forum/2795583-post53564.html?s=f88e7cd4f42efe0864bcd53cfadf49c1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7GLANYEAOFUL6IJCGQTOZQLP33GWMYD4", "length": 155, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hisstank.com", "title": "HissTank.com - G.I. Joe - View Single Post - Official Cobra Command Recruitment Thread!!!!", "raw_content": "What does reset mean?\nreset is the term used to start the next day of the game. we are only allowed to post once a day so we wait to \"reset\" to post again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/courtenay-sir-hugh-1358-1425", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XVAGF2HTYBVSNXSDKKNGWFBE5LMASH26", "length": 8479, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.historyofparliamentonline.org", "title": "COURTENAY, Sir Hugh (aft.1358-1425), of Haccombe and Bampton, Devon. | History of Parliament Online", "raw_content": "Home Research > Members > 1386-1421 > COURTENAY, Sir Hugh (1425)\nCOURTENAY, Sir Hugh (aft.1358-1425), of Haccombe and Bampton, Devon.\nb. aft. 1358, yr. s. of Edward Courtenay of Goodrington, Devon (3rd s. of Hugh, earl of Devon) by Emmeline (d.1372), da. and h. of Sir John Dauney of Mudford Terry and Hinton, Som. m. (1) 1387, Elizabeth (d.c.1392), wid. of Sir Thomas Audley; (2) by Feb. 1393, Elizabeth (c.1373-29 Oct. 1397), da. and h. of Sir William Cogan of Bampton by his 2nd w. Isabel, er. da. and coh. of Sir Nigel Loring of Chalgrave, Beds., wid. of Sir Fulk Fitzwaryn (d.1391) of Whittington, Salop, 1ch. d.v.p.; (3) by 1407, Philippa, da. and coh. of Sir Warin Archdeacon\u2020 of Haccombe, 2da.; (4) lic. 16 Oct. 1417, Maud (d. 3 July 1467), da. of Sir William Beaumont of Heanton Punchardon, Devon, 2s. 1da. Kntd. by 1387.1\nCommr. to survey the estates of the Lords Appellant of 1388, Devon, Cornw. Oct. 1397; of array, Devon Dec. 1399, July 1402, Aug., Sept., Oct. 1403, Mar. 1404, July 1405, Apr. 1418, June 1421; oyer and terminer Feb. 1400; inquiry, Devon, Cornw. Aug. 1400 (wastes), Devon, Som., Dorset, Wilts., Bristol, Hants Dec. 1400 (concealment of possessions of Richard II\u2019s adherents), Devon July 1401 (concealment of alnage), Cornw. Jan. 1406 (unlawful assemblies); to proclaim the King\u2019s intention to govern well, Devon May 1402; treat for royal loans Nov. 1419; take musters June 1421; enforce statutes relating to salmon Feb. 1425.\nJ.p. Devon 16 Feb. 1400-7, 12 Feb. 1422-d.\nTax collector, Devon Mar. 1404.\nSheriff, Devon 4 Nov. 1418-23 Nov. 1419.\nThe death of Hugh, earl of Devon, in 1377 brought the title to his grandson, Edward, elder brother of this Member. Both the new earl and Hugh were somewhat overshadowed by their prominent uncles, Sir Philip*, Sir Peter\u2020 and William Courtenay, the archbishop of Canterbury, and took little part in national affairs. Hugh apparently accompanied his uncles Peter and Philip on the naval expedition of 1378 which was all but destroyed by Spaniards. He was retrospectively referred to by Thomas Walsingham (the chronicler) as \u2018miles egregius\u2019, although he was not by then a knight and probably still a minor. At all events, he was taken prisoner in the struggle, only to be quickly ransomed. By 1384 he was receiving livery as one of his brother the earl\u2019s esquires, and he served at sea as a member of his retinue from March 1387, under the admiral, Richard, earl of Arundel. Few other traces of his activities are found before he went to Ireland with Richard II. On that occasion, in April 1399, he received royal letters of protection as accompanying Edward, duke of Aum\u00e2le (elder son of the duke of York), with whom he had been connected since 1397 when Aum\u00e2le had been granted custody of the estates of Courtenay\u2019s stepson, Fulk Fitzwaryn.2\nMost of Courtenay\u2019s recorded activities, however, had to do with the acquisition of land. At his death he held some 14 manors and other properties, mostly in Devon but also in Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Essex and Herefordshire. The provenance of this estate varied: Corston (Somerset) and the advowson of the chantry there came from his grandmother, the Countess Margaret, and like Hinton and Mudford in the same county, which had been his mother\u2019s, were held, along with lands in Dorset, by grant of his brother, Earl Edward. Goodrington, Allington and Stancombe, Devon, were settled on Courtenay and his first wife in September 1387, within three months of their marriage. Courtenay laid claim to half the manor of Kingston (?near Plymouth) as part of his first wife\u2019s dower from the Audley estates, but failed to proved his case against Sir Fulk Fitzwaryn. His second marriage, not licenced by the King, to Elizabeth Fitzwaryn, his opponent\u2019s widow, brought him not only her substantial dower lands in Staffordshire and Shropshire but also the estates which had belonged to her father, Sir William Cogan, in Devon and Somerset. Courtenay thus acquired the manor and hundred of Bampton and at least six more manors and other property including Ilfracombe, Nymet Tracey and Up Exe. He evidently had issue by his second wife, for he was able to retain her estates (\u2018by the courtesy\u2019) after her death in 1397 and until his own 28 years later. By 1407 Courtenay had married one of the coheirs of Sir Warin Archdeacon, and acquired in her right properties in Essex and Herefordshire, including part of the manor of Woodham Mortimer and land at Richards Castle. His property was not completely assessed in 1412, but lands in Devon, Dorset and Somerset alone were valued at over \u00a3135 a year.3\nThe tendency towards doubtfully legal acquisition of land was a characteristics of the Courtenays. The example, in particular, of his uncle Sir Philip must have prompted Hugh to attempt similar actions. In 1397 Simon Brit, holder of two-thirds of the manor of Huish Champflower (Somerset) was accused of novel disseisin by Alice Colne who entered \u2018by maintenance and counsel of Hugh Courtenay, knight\u2019. Brit declared that he dared not sue at common law against Hugh and therefore petitioned Chancery. A more complicated situation arose over the manor of West Ogwell, Devon, which Courtenay acquired in contravention of the provisions of an entail. A petition to Chancery alleged that he \u2018imagines and hath imagined from day to day\u2019 to obtain a release from the heir, and had \u2018perceived certain strifes to be raised and moved\u2019 between his tenant and the claimant. In order to ruin the latter, Courtenay bribed one of his servants to sue for the appointment of a commission of oyer and terminer against him.4\nThe chronology of Courtenay\u2019s political service is curious, and cannot be explained in terms of sympathy with Richard II, for his appointment on several early commissions of Henry IV, particularly concerned with inquiry into the possession of the late King\u2019s supporters and with providing men and supplies for the army deployed in suppressing the Welsh rebellion, were positions of trust where suspicion of loyalty was out of the question. And yet a gap of nearly 25 years in parliamentary service and another of more than 15 on the commission of the peace need some explanation. Perhaps Courtenay\u2019s own personal preference for obscurity, country life and local business transactions accounts for it. The death of his brother in 1419 and the accession to the earldom of his nephew, Hugh who spent much time abroad in royal service, would have made him the senior member of the family at home; and this may well account for his renewed activity. As sheriff of Devon, Courtenay held the elections at Exeter to the Parliament of 1419, and he made an appearance at those held in the autumn of 1422, by which time, after the death of his nephew, Earl Hugh, and during the minority of the heir, he had become the effective head of the family.5\nCourtenay died on 5 or 6 Mar. 1425, leaving as his heir Edward, his elder son by his fourth marriage, who was then about eight years old. That part of his lands which had belonged to his third wife, Philippa (next to whose body he was buried at Haccombe), were divided between their two daughters, Joan and Eleanor. Courtenay\u2019s other son, Sir Hugh Courtenay (d.1471) of Boconnoc, was the father of Edward, who became earl of Devon in 1485. Courtenay\u2019s widow survived him by more than 40 years, dying in 1467.6\n1. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 245; Sel. Cases in Chancery (Selden Soc. x), 26; CP, iii. 358-60; iv. 325-6; v. 502-3; CCR, 1389-92, p. 442; CAD, iii. B3889, D494; CIPM, viii. 648; xiii. 99; xv. 731-5; xvi. 664, 1075-6; Reg. Stafford ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 72. Vivian errs in stating that Courtenay\u2019s last wife was the da. of Sir John Beaumont.\n2. Chron. Angliae 1328-88 ed. Thompson, 197; T. Walsingham, Hist. Ang. ed. Riley, 368; Add. Ch. 64320; CFR, xi. 239, 301; CPR, 1396-9, p. 523; E101/40/33 m. 2.\n3. CCR, 1389-92, p. 442; 1392-6, pp. 46, 73; 1409-13, p. 159; 1422-9, pp. 179, 215; CAD, iii. B3889, D494; CPR, 1391-6, p. 225; CFR, xiii. 86; Yr. Bk. 1387-8 ed. Thornley, 158-63; 1389-90 ed. Plucknett, 52; Feudal Aids, vi. 416, 427, 504; C136/98/23; C139/17/30.\n4. Sel. Cases in Chancery, 26; C1/6/183; Procs. Chancery Eliz. ed. Caley and Bayley, ii. pp. viii-ix; Add. Ch. 64314; E28/37.\n5. CCR, 1422-9, p. 39; CPR, 1399-1401, p. 492; 1405-8, p. 337; 1422-9, pp. 108, 292; CFR, xiv. 330; C219/12/3, 13/1.\n6. CFR, xv. 83, 109, 148; CPR, 1422-9, p. 334; C139/17/30; C140/25/41; Trans. Devon Assoc. lxxxiii. 227; CP, iv. 328-9.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 9747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.honestactors.com/series-2-episode-10-alicia-davies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:41Z", "digest": "sha1:E3YIC3QTZWKVHDZEQ43GNNX6BQUHJXGT", "length": 2249, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.honestactors.com", "title": "The Honest Actors' Podcast & Blog - Series 2: Episode 10 \u2013 Alicia Davies", "raw_content": "This is undoubtedly one of my favourites. I enjoyed listening back in the edit, and I could have happily left in another ten minutes. This is no doubt at least partially down to the fact that this is the only interview for which there has been any sort of rehearsal. I first recorded an interview with Alicia over a year ago, but a few months ago, when I went to find the files to start putting an episode together, they were nowhere to be found. And while letting Alicia know that I had effectively lost her interview was unbelievably awkward, I am extremely glad I asked if she\u2019d be willing to do it all again (and delighted that she was good enough to agree).\nA couple of things combine, I think, to make this such a good ep. Long enough had passed between the first and second attempts, that I had forgotten almost all of what Alicia had said. Alicia, on the other hand, had a better sense of what to expect than any previous interviewee, having been through it all before. Consequently, I think she was totally relaxed from the off, saving me at least ten minutes where I normally have to work hard to achieve this. The other main contributing factor is that I am really starting to feel at ease and in control of the interview process. My notes are no longer a necessity and I\u2019m happy to just chat. I know that this makes the most recently recorded interviews feel very different when compared to the earlier ones, particularly much of series 1, but I am very much enjoying the evolution. The gentler, more conversational tone will be future of the podcast I feel, and as a result, so will the increased average episode length.\nOne final note on differences and developments: I tried something new with the intro this time, pushing the portable recording equipment to its limits, strapping it to my body as I went on a run. Why? Well, have a listen. Then, if you feel like it and are able, you can donate here.\nAnd if you want to send some audio promoting your own marathon fundraising (please don\u2019t record it when you\u2019re running!), send a file \u2013 less than 30 seconds in length \u2013 to honestactors@gmail.com\nHopefully I\u2019ll hear from some of you soon!\nRecorded at Spotlight on 19th December 2016. Running Time \u2013 1:01:01.\nTweet to @Thealiciadavies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=37", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OQVDR53EBDDBFCVMHNFUC4FIT4FM7ZRG", "length": 7619, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.hrresource.com", "title": "Reviewing Your Interviewing: A Refresher : HR Article by Amy Jacobs Esq.", "raw_content": "HOME \u00bb NEWS \u00bb ARTICLES \u00bb Reviewing Your Interviewing: A Refresher\nReviewing Your Interviewing: A Refresher\nAmy Jacobs Esq.\nLet\u2019s face it. Hiring decisions are some of the most critical decisions that an employer makes. Even under the best circumstances, the costs of training and orienting a new employee are significant. A poor hiring decision increases those costs dramatically. Nonetheless, in many organizations the selection process is haphazard, with time crunched managers squeezing interviews into an already crowded schedule. The stakes are too high. Take the time to review the hiring process and give guidance to those who will interview the candidates \u2013 it will yield a better hiring decision and facilitate an easier transition for the organization and the new employee.\nThe best place to start is at the beginning \u2013 the job description. Every position should have a current and accurate job description. Notwithstanding compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the job description helps to focus the hiring process and decision as well as provide a standard for later performance evaluations.\nHow can a job description help? A proper job description identifies the essential functions of the position. In other words, it clearly explains why the position exists and what is expected of the person who performs it. It also identifies necessary qualifications. With clearly stated qualifications and expectations, the recruiting, screening and interviewing process progresses more smoothly.\nBe careful, though. The job description should not include qualifications that are not relevant to the essential functions of the position. Certainly, nothing that relates to a protected classification should be included. For example, it would unwise to include \u201csingle\u201d or \u201cunmarried\u201d as a qualification. Similarly, be careful about terms such as \u201cfresh\u201d or \u201cenergetic\u201d that imply youth.\nAdditionally, be sure that the employment application is up to date and in compliance with state and local laws. The overriding principle for applications is to solicit only information relevant to the hiring process. Do not seek general information that does not (or should not) enter into the hiring decision. Some states do not allow hiring or employment decisions to be made on the basis of legal, off duty conduct. Off duty cigarette smoking would fall into this category. Political affiliation is also a protected classification in many jurisdictions, so it is prudent to remove any questions concerning memberships and associations, other than professional or industry related groups.\nOnce applicants have been selected for an interview, it is time to return once again to the trusty job description. Using the job description as a guide, create a list of questions to ask of all applicants. It is helpful to compare each applicant\u2019s answer to the same question. More importantly, an outline of questions will ensure that an important question is not forgotten.\nInclude some open-ended or behavior based questions, not just those that can be satisfied with a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d answer. Use behavior based questions that relate to the organization\u2019s culture. For example, if unexpected deadlines are a possibility in the position, consider asking the applicant about any examples of experience she or he has had with an unexpected deadline and how it was managed.\nA review of the job description clarifies the type of applicant needed for the job. Now, turn to the applicant\u2019s resume and application. Supplement the interview outline with specific questions about the resume. Sadly, many applicants lie, distort the truth, or conceal information on their resumes. Review the resume, and prepare to ask for specifics about past employment and education.\nGood rules of thumb about interview questions:\nDo ask questions related to the applicant\u2019s ability to perform the job, but\ndo not ask questions that relate to a protected status or classification.\nDo ask questions about work history and experience.\nDo inquire about job related skills, training and knowledge.\nDo not ask questions pertaining to age (except if over 18), pregnancy, marital status, race/national origin, religion, disability or medical history.\nDo not ask about childbearing plans or child care issues.\nWhy should an interviewer avoid these types of questions? Because if this information is sought out, and the applicant is rejected, an argument might be made that the information about the protected classification (i.e. pregnant) was the reason for rejection.\nWhen scheduling the interview(s), allow plenty of time. It is much easier to cut an interview short (and find some unexpected extra time in the day!) than to reshuffle remaining appointments and/or keep other applicants waiting. Remember, an amazing applicant may choose to take her amazing and highly sought after qualifications elsewhere if she is kept waiting for 45 minutes. Accordingly, be considerate of everyone\u2019s time, including your own, and formulate a realistic schedule.\nFind an appropriate location for the interview. The most important thing is to conduct an interview in a place where interruptions are minimized.\nDocument the interview. Notes will be helpful during the final selection process. Bear in mind, however, that if a legal dispute results from the hiring decision, the notes may be discoverable or turned over to the EEOC or the applicant\u2019s attorney. Therefore, just like the interview questions, the notes should be reflective of job related concerns. Jot down information (positive and negative) concerning the employee\u2019s work history and/or qualifications. Note how responsive the applicant is to the questions.\nLeave some time for the applicant to ask questions. This is important both so his or her questions can be answered, but also to see if the applicant is truly interested in this particular employer.\nClose the interview in a professional and cordial manner. Thank the candidate and give a time frame for the decision making process. Do not promise a candidate the job, no matter how fabulous he or she may appear.\nSpend some time preparing and conducting considered interviews, and you will be that much closer to a solid new hire. Then, with any luck, it will be quite some time before you have to interview for that position again.\nAmy Nickell Jacobs, Esq., Senior Consultant, has a thorough knowledge of employment law from eight years of practice, first with Bracewell & Patterson in Houston, Texas and then with Haynes & Boone in Fort Worth, Texas. She has advised and defended organizations on a variety of employment law issues, including harassment. Her experience includes investigating allegations of harassment, advising employers on resolution strategies and defending employers in litigation relating to harassment.\nAmy has worked with small and large employers in both the public and private sector. Her experience with public sector employers gives her sensitivity to the scrutiny under which governmental entities must handle workplace issues. Amy is also a frequent speaker on a wide range of employment topics and has worked as a consulting expert on investigation issues. She is an energetic and effective trainer, and has significant experience training all levels of employees from entry level up to executive management.\nAmy graduated from Virginia Tech and received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. She is a co-author of Prevent Workplace Harassment: Proven Policies that Keep Your Company Out of Court (Aspen Publishing, 2002). Amy joined EPS in 1997. Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas office of EPS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 9123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.huffenglish.com/extraordinary-comebacks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FVXPINDBUFBWDAR75G3B7TXI6PDK5TJE", "length": 1299, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.huffenglish.com", "title": "Extraordinary Comebacks | huffenglish.com", "raw_content": "Extraordinary Comebacks\nSome time ago, the publishers of John A. Sarkett\u2019s book Extraordinary Comebacks, asked me if I would like an advance copy of the book. I haven\u2019t had a chance to read it, embroiled as I was in the end-of-the-year chaos. The book contains 201 vignettes \u2014 \u201cstories of courage, triumph, and success\u201d \u2014 from a variety of fields. Whatever your background, at least one of these stories will speak to you and encourage you to keep going.\nThe vignettes are arranged according to background \u2014 for example, Walt Whitman\u2019s story is included in the Literature section. This construction makes it easy to focus on particular areas of interest. The book can be read cover-to-cover, but the vignettes are also short, requiring perhaps five minutes of your time each, which makes the book easy to pick up during a few free moments, but just as easily put down for later; the reader can skip around according to interest.\nI would think that this book might be a good addition to the teacher\u2019s classroom library. Our students struggle with difficulties, and I believe the vignettes might inspire our students to keep going.\n[tags]John A. Sarkett, Extraordinary Comebacks, book review[/tags]\nMore on Homework\nPrevious PostUbD UpdateNext PostUnderstanding by Design: Gaining Clarity on Our Goals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 8493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hughhewitt.com/congressman-tim-ryans-pitch-replace-nancy-pelosi-democrat-leader-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MYINI4XSJ3ASHWNRKRWZTHFDTBJT6YBQ", "length": 5637, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.hughhewitt.com", "title": "Congressman Tim Ryan's Pitch to Replace Nancy Pelosi as Democrat Leader in the House \u00ab The Hugh Hewitt Show", "raw_content": "Thu, Nov 17, 2016 | By Duane Patterson\nCongressman Tim Ryan\u2019s Pitch to Replace Nancy Pelosi as Democrat Leader in the House\nHH: Democratic Party at an historic crossroads this week. Will they name Keith Ellison to the DNC chair and take the party further left? Will they retire Nancy Pelosi and put in my next guest, Congressman Tim Ryan of the Ohio\u2019s 13th Congressional District? He\u2019s a longtime friend, and as a friend, I hope he is in fact successful. But as a Republican, I hope he fails, because Nancy Pelosi is who I want to continue to represent the Democratic Party.\nTR: (laughing)\nHH: I just talked about this with Chuck Todd, and Tim, he said the Democrats ought to put you in the leader\u2019s position, but he doubts they will. They\u2019re kind of stuck.\nTR: Oh, Chuck Todd, I wish you could vote in our caucus.\nHH: (laughing) So what is your pitch? When you get up and talk to them today, I could do it for you. I could ghost write your speech, which is do you ever want to win again? That\u2019s it.\nTR: Yeah, well, the election\u2019s not until, for two weeks, so there\u2019s no speeches or anything at this point. But you know, we are at a point where we saw that the great blue firewall that we thought was Michigan, Wisconsin, even Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, collapse, because we failed to talk to working-class people about working-class issues. And you know, I think sometimes, we can get very heady, and we talk about job retraining, and workforce development and this kind of thing. People don\u2019t want to learn how to run a computer. They want to run a backhoe, you know? They want to build things. They want to move dirt, you know, and then we\u2019ve got to talk to those folks. And I do think I have a unique ability to do that, because I grew up where you grew up. I mean, my friends work in steel mills, friends I went to high school with. They work in the building and construction trades. You know, they build things. They work at factories. And if you don\u2019t understand how to talk to those people, you\u2019re never going to get them to vote for you. And really, over the course of the last few years, we lost touch with them, and that\u2019s what happened.\nHH: You know, Congressman Tim Ryan, I spent yesterday with James Carville, who\u2019s a friend, and the day before with Juan Williams, who\u2019s a friend. And with Juan, I was talking to the Restaurant Association group. Our buddy, our mutual friend, Sam Covelli, employs a whole bunch of people. And those people are in a part of the world where they need to get a first job. And there are a lot of obstacles to getting that first job and expanding those kinds of opportunities for them, that I don\u2019t know that coastal elites understand how important it is to get jobs back into Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.\nTR: Yeah, well, you know, it is interesting that a lot of the money comes from the coasts. And with that, I think, and because money dominates the process, I think a lot of time is spent in those areas raising money, and that\u2019s less time you have to really be with and understand. You know, 90% of life is showing up and being there. And if you\u2019re not there, you don\u2019t quite get it. You can get it intellectually, but you don\u2019t get it, and you\u2019re got. And you know, you\u2019ve just got to drive, I tell people, drive down Route 7 in Ohio. You know, go south on Route 7 and go down the Ohio River and see how these communities have been just hollowed out. and there\u2019s been no strategy. I don\u2019t think, certainly don\u2019t think supply side economics is the strategy, and you know, huge government isn\u2019t the strategy. What we\u2019ve got to sit down and figure out is what\u2019s the sweet spot? What\u2019s that public-private partnership and those kind of big ideas to help drive investment into these communities that can be both helpful to Silicon Valley, you know, the back operations? How do we get those kind of jobs to communities like ours? Yeah, it\u2019s going to take a little bit of government. I don\u2019t apologize for that at all. But it\u2019s going to take smart government, innovative government, and a new version of government.\nHH: And here\u2019s what scares me. Secretary Clinton, I believe, had she done my radio show once or twice, where I\u2019m courteous to people I disagree with, would have won the election. She was insulated. She didn\u2019t do what you\u2019re doing right now, which is talk to all media. I\u2019ve never had Nancy Pelosi on this show. Is part of your pitch that you\u2019ll go anywhere and talk to anyone, and you\u2019re a quarterback, you get knocked down sometimes? You\u2019re not worried about it?\nTR: Get one of your big linemen to pick you back up and go back in the huddle and call another play.\nTR: Absolutely. I mean, I think you know, when you look, we need a leader, if we\u2019re going to take the House back, just strategically, you need a leader who in the next two years can go into red Congressional districts in red states and talk to people about a Democratic message that resonates with them. And you\u2019ve got to go on Fox News. And you\u2019ve got to go on Hugh Hewitt. I mean, there\u2019s some that maybe you shouldn\u2019t go on, just because they\u2019re not going to give you a fair shot, but you certainly aren\u2019t that, and get your message out, because if you believe in the message, and if the message is a uniting message, and if the message is an economic message, most people want to listen to you.\nHH: Yeah, wish I could wish you luck, Congressman Ryan.\nHH: I want Nancy Pelosi back, but we\u2019ll keep talking to him. Tim Ryan from Ohio\u2019s 13th Congressional District, thank you, Tim.\nChuck Todd on Trump Transition\nDr. Larry Arnn Continues His Totalitarianism Study of That Hideous Strength by C.S. 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The president of the Human Rights Association of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Nicole Sylvester has condemned this incident as an act of police brutality.\nSt Vincent and the Grenadines: On 29 April 2009 the IBA Human Rights Institute wrote to Mr Cerio Lewis, St Vincent & the Grenadines High Commissioner, concerning harassment of Nicole Sylvester from the St Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association, who have been representing a female police officer in a case involving St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves.\nSt Vincent and the Grenadines: On 14 January 2009 'Caribbean Net News' reported that 'Reporters Without Borders' an international NGO has joined the 'Association of Caribbean Media Workers' in demanding a full investigation into the arrest and detention of a photo-journalist who was taking pictures of a building on fire in Kingston.\nSt Vincent and the Grenadines: On 12 March \"Caribbean Net News\" reported that an application for judicial review of a case of alleged sexual assault and rape against Prime Minister Gonsalves has been dismissed. The lawyers of the plaintiff, a police officer who claims to have been raped by the PM when standing guard at his residence on 3 January, will appeal against the decision. 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The third-ranked Blue Dragons (28-1, 14-1 Jayhawk West) have won the Jayhawk West for a third straight season. They also will be the top seed from the Jayhawk West when the Region 6 Tournament starts Saturday.\nWin or lose today against Seward County, that won't change.\nStill, the Blue Dragons insist they are not going to coast in this game. They don't plan on taking it easy, and they definitely anticipate a stronger showing from Seward County than in the previous meeting, when the Blue Dragons dominated in a 64-36 win.\n\"It is a big game,\" HCC coach John Ontjes said. \"We want to continue our momentum into the postseason. If we don't have any effort of intensity, we could come away disappointed, and that doesn't help leading into the playoffs.\"\nThe Blue Dragons wrapped up the Jayhawk West title Sunday with a 64-54 win at Pratt. The sixth-place Beavers led by as many as 10 points in the first half before the Blue Dragons took a one-point lead at halftime and pulled away midway through the second half.\nOntjes wasn't satisfied with his team's effort throughout the game, however. He even pulled sophomore forward Jasmine Patterson from the game early in the first half, even though she wasn't in foul trouble, and didn't put Patterson back in the game until early in the second half.\n\"Each individual on this team brings something,\" Ontjes said. \"I think everyone can bring effort and intensity. There's no excuse not to have that every night.\"\nThe Blue Dragons expect Seward County (19-8, 10-4) to give them a test in the regular-season finale. The Saints entered Tuesday's make-up game with second-place Garden City having won five of their last six, with the only loss coming in the final 30 seconds at third-place Butler.\n\"It's a good game to have as our last regular-season game, heading to postseason,\" sophomore guard Jade Herl said. \"A lot of teams like this are the kind of teams we're going to be playing later on.\"\nThe Blue Dragons have won their last two games against Seward County at The Green House. Last year, Hutchinson won 80-53 in one of the most lopsided home losses Seward County has ever suffered.\nThe rematch at the Sports Arena was much closer, with the Saints leading for most of the first half and into the second half. Hutchinson went on a late run and posted a 58-49 win.\nThe Blue Dragons expect this rematch to be similar, only this time in Seward County's gym.\n\"I think on the back side, the last eight games, Seward has played extremely well,\" Ontjes said. \"They've won some important games and kept themselves in the race. If they can beat Garden City and then us, they will have had a heck of a second half of the season.\"\nNo. 3 Hutchinson women (28-1, 14-1 Jayhawk West) at Seward County (19-8, 10-4)\nWhere: The Green House, Liberal\nInternet: Live audio and video at www.bluedragonsports.com\nLast time: Seward County didn't attempt a single free throw, while Hutchinson hit 14 of 23, and the Blue Dragons rolled to a comfortable 64-36 win. Sophomore forward Jasmine Patterson flirted with a triple-double, finishing with 16 points, 12 rebounds and seven steals. 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The second phase of this project will be implemented in 2013, in order to complement the network described above with a wireless sensor network able to serve innovative services, such as smart parking, citizens\u2019 rescue services and other added value services, which will be provided by third parties that will use such bearer.\nThe City of Velletri will use the area of the so-called \u201cCiammellone\u201d, a mall which is very close to the Court offices, where there are many public offices, including the Chamber of Commerce, in order to host their pilot. 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Also, scientific research associations, societies and foundations that aim at promoting the academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from the entire world are welcome to have an opportunity to participate in the exhibition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 121.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iconvsicon.com/2016/10/12/to-live-and-die-in-l-a-nighthawks-and-death-of-a-salesman-to-get-blu-ray-release-from-shout-select/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:03Z", "digest": "sha1:GCZFCFRNAD2NNYWOBNXQJNYHEBQCTM5H", "length": 5558, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.iconvsicon.com", "title": "'To Live and Die in L.A.,' 'Nighthawks' and 'Death of A Salesman' To Get Blu-ray Release From Shout Select - Icon Vs. Icon", "raw_content": "\u2018To Live and Die in L.A.,\u2019 \u2018Nighthawks\u2019 and \u2018Death of A Salesman\u2019 To Get Blu-ray Release From Shout Select\nShout! Factory is proud to present three additions to their new line of Shout Select films! This new home entertainment series features titles that are handpicked by the film buffs at Shout! Factory ranging from acknowledged classics to cult favorites, all of which deserve a spot on your shelf. Shout Select serves to celebrate the best in filmmaking, giving these movies the love and attention they deserve.\n\u2018To Live and Die In L.A.\u2019\nTo Live and Die in L.A. (Collector\u2019s Edition)\nFrom the Oscar\u00ae-winning director William Friedkin (The French Connection) comes the thrilling action/thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (Collector\u2019s Edition) to be released on Blu-ray\u2122 by Shout! Factory on November 22, 2016. Fans can pre-order their copy now at https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/action-adventure/to-live-and-die-in-l-a-collector-s-edition.\nFeaturing one of the most harrowing car chases ever caught on film, and a shockingly explosive ending, this raw tale of corruption and revenge stars William L. Petersen (Manhunter) and Willem Defoe (John Wick) as the two face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse.\nFederal agent Richard Chance (Petersen) has a score to settle, and he\u2019s through playing by the rules. Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter (Dafoe) by any means necessary.\n* Special Offer: Order from ShoutFactory.com and get a FREE 18\u2033 X 24\u2033 POSTER featuring our brand new artwork, available while supplies last! Also get it shipped TWO WEEKS EARLY!\nNEW 4K scan of the negative \u2013 supervised and approved by William Friedkin\nNEW Taking a Chance \u2013 an interview with William Petersen\nNEW Wrong Way: The Stunts of To Live & Die In L.A. \u2013 an interview with stunt coordinator Buddy Joe Hooker\nNEW So In Phase: Scoring To Live & Die in L.A. \u2013 an interview with the band Wang Chung (Jack Hues and Nick Feldman)\nNEW Renaissance Woman in L.A. \u2013 an interview with actress Debra Feuer\nNEW Doctor for A Day \u2013 an interview with actor Dwier Brown\nAudio Commentary with director William Friedkin\nDeleted scene and alternate ending\nCounterfeit World: The Making of To Live and Die in L.A.\n\u2018Death of a Salesman\u2019\nDeath of a Salesman Blu-ray\u2122\nIts Passion Cannot Be Overstated. Its Power Must Not Be Overlooked. For the first time on Blu-ray comes the 1985 adaption of Arthur Miller\u2019s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award\u00ae winning drama Death of a Salesman, available from Shout! Factory on November 15, 2016. This Emmy award winning film is available for pre-order now at https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-drama/death-of-a-salesman.\nDustin Hoffman (Tootsie) delivers a Golden Globe\u00ae-winning performance as he leads a stellar cast, including John Malkovich (Places In The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and Charles Durning (Dog Day Afternoon).\nSet during the post-war boom period of the late \u201840s, the film captures the life of an unstable man on the verge of being incapable of providing for his family, many of whom have failed to live up to their own potential, Death of a Salesman is \u201ca rarity in its quality\u201d (BBCi)!\nPrivate Conversations: A Candid Look behind the scenes at the filming of this powerful and compelling, award-winning production of Death Of A Salesman\n\u2018Night Hawks\u2019\nNighthawks (Collector\u2019s Edition) Blu-ray\u2122\nPacked with brand new bonus features and available for the first time on Blu-ray comes the Bruce Malmuth (Hard to Kill) directed film Nighthawks (Collector\u2019s Edition) to be released by Shout! Factory on October 18, 2016. Fans can pre-order this edge-of-your-seat thriller now at https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/action-adventure/nighthawks-collector-s-edition.\nSylvester Stallone (Rocky, Creed) stars alongside Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher, Blade Runner) in this riveting story of suspense and intrigue that starts in London, continues in Paris and reaches its chilling conclusion on the streets of New York.\nStallone and Billy Dee Williams (The Empire Strikes Back, Batman) shine as elite undercover cops who get assigned to stop Europe\u2019s most feared terrorist (Hauer) as he explosively announces his presence in Manhattan. The film also stars Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), Persis Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), Nigel Davenport (The Island of Dr. Moreau) and Joe Spinell (Maniac).\nNEW Lights, Camera, Action! \u2013 An Audio Interview With Producer Herb Nanas\nNEW Nighthawks: The First Draft \u2013 An Interview With Writer Paul Sylbert\nNEW We Gotta Shoot This! \u2013 An Interview With Director Of Photography James A. 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We did not have a reservation so it was good that we went early as the place got packed later! I do not think that it is because it was Restaurant Week, although I am sure it attracted some additional crowd. Of course, we followed the rule of not getting the Restaurant Week's menu in a Steakhouse. I did the test once at Dino & Harry's and it was disappointing (to learn more, click here).\nHere is an interesting story about this restaurant in Hoboken: it opened in 1991 in a 1800's building, under the name Frankie and Johnnie's, a family owned venture that was created in New York during the prohibition by two waiters from Philadelphia. But in 2008, a legal battle between Dino Panopoulos, Harry Panopoulos' son and their cousins forced them to rename the restaurant to be able to have the sole control. This is how Dino & Harry's (re)started.\nThere is definitely a certain atmosphere in this restaurant, probably thanks to the decor: tin high ceiling, tiled floor (similar to the logo of the restaurant), warm red color of the walls, cherry bar and a more than a century clock. There is also a piano near the entrance, used on Fridays and Saturdays. I regret that they only serve dinner (at the time of publishing): they would open for brunch, I am sure they would have a great burger...\nEach time I went there, the service has been efficient and courteous. Concerning the food, I always had great meat there (except in the Restaurant Week's menu)! The meat is usually tender, juicy and cooked to perfection (I typically ask for medium, sometimes medium rare).\nI think I have tried most of the pieces of meat they propose:\nMy favorite is the porterhouse, a piece of meat taken from the short loin, with a T-shape bone that has on one side strip steak (usually the larger piece of meat) and tenderloin on the other side. They serve it with butter, so they always tilt the plate with a smaller plate when serving at the table. This is big piece of meat (for 2) and they cut it into slices so you do not have to fight with the person you ordered it with.\nThen they have the filet mignon (filet de boeuf in French) that is the smaller part of the tenderloin. This is also a very tender piece. They prepare it with mushrooms that are a nice addition. I hate to order a steak and discover that it is swimming in a disgusting sauce that overpowers the taste of the meat (yes The Palm, you know what I am talking about)! Be aware that in France, Filet Mignon will refer to pork, so you might be disappointed when they bring the plate...\nThe ribeye is more fattier, still juicy and they served it with a nice char.\nIf you do not like beef, you can have lamb: their lamb chops are huge! You can get 2,3 or 4 of them. The first time I tried, I went with 3...2 was enough! They are so juicy, that when you cut them the knife will make all this delicious juice go on the plate.\nYou can add a sauce for an additional cost: bearnaise, poivre (pepper) or roasted garlic aioli. The bearnaise sauce is very good and homemade. One serving is ok for two.\nTo go with the meat, you can order sides. This is in this restaurant that I had the Italian Mac & Cheese that I tried to recreate (recipe here)! But this time, they did not have it! What a shame! I have noticed that it comes and goes, so do not desperate if you go there: they might serve it!\nOtherwise they have the classics: mash potatoes, fries, onion rings... Yesterday, they had three cheese gnocchi: it was an amazing dish! The gnocchi were very light and the cheese sauce delicious! It was so good that we should have ordered another one!\nLast is of course desserts: the menu changes regularly. Their creme brulee is perfect. They also have the Snowboken that is vanilla ice cream, chocolate fudge, and chocolate cake and coconut. The presentation is great: they use a glass of wine that will be completely black thanks to the fudge.\nSo it was definitely a great dinner! I should probably buy a pair of pajama jeans and wear them next time I go there!\nLet me know what you think about Dino & Harry's by posting a comment!\nWhere is my lunch??? 10th and Willow Bar and Grill in Hoboken, NJ\nNY ChiliFest this Sunday at Chelsea Market!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impactinsurance.org/about/fellows/past-fellows", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ZU5XLNQ3GO4OWF32WOY2V3EV4PXCYQRG", "length": 28067, "nlines": 145, "source_domain": "www.impactinsurance.org", "title": "Fellow alumni | The ILO\u2019s Impact Insurance Facility", "raw_content": "Are you curious to learn more about the Fellowship Programme? Have a look at the below testimonials to see what previous fellows have to say about it!\nFellow alumni: 2015 - current\nShilpi Nanda\nNational Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana\nShilpi was hosted by the National Health Insurance Authority, a public sector entity in Ghana seeking to achieve universal healthcare in the country. Her project dealt with the application of technology and public-private partnerships in improving the registration and renewals processes for the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana.\n\"Working with a public sector entity at the forefront of healthcare policy in Ghana is a great opportunity to learn about the challenges of government healthcare schemes and the innovative ways in which countries seek to overcome them on a daily basis. My project highlights the need for developing user-centric policy implementation strategies to overcome developmental challenges in low and medium-income countries\"\nMarieme Ba\nAXA Mansard Insurance, Lagos, Nigeria\nMarieme was hosted by AXA Mansard Insurance (Lagos, Nigeria) where she provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation and change management project with the partner.\n\"The Fellowship is for me a great opportunity to work in the field with a committed organization to develop relevant and innovative approaches in providing inclusive solutions for low-income population. An opportunity to learn from experienced practitioner, improve my skills and practice under the mentorship of this unique centre of expertise, is extremely unique and valuable!\"\nNBC Mo\u00e7ambique Companhia de Micro Seguros, Maputo, Mozambique\nAdriana was hosted by NBC Mo\u00e7ambique Companhia de Micro Seguros (Maputo, Mozambique) where she supported a project to design and deliver a variety of microinsurance products.\n\"The Impact Insurance Fellowship is a unique learning platform for those who are willing to work at the forefront of development and financial inclusion; it is offering me the opportunity to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and experiences. To bring adequate options to low income families and contribute to improve their resilience is part of my commitment and this fellowship is offering me the tools and context to use my skills.\"\nBritam General Insurance, Nairobi, Kenya\nSaurabh was hosted by Britam General Insurance where he provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation and change management project with the partner.\n\u201cIt is the unique blend of learning and execution that excited me about the Fellowship Programme. Working with my host organization, I have the opportunity to apply my existing skills, while learning how traditional insurers are reaching out to vulnerable communities. Further, the extensive experience of the Impact Insurance Facility, and its resources in this space will add a lot to my knowledge and abilities.\"\nSarfraz Shah\nAPA Insurance Limited, Nairobi, Kenya\nSarfraz was hosted by APA Insurance Limited where he provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation project with the partner.\n\"The Fellowship Programme is an inimitable way for the person passionate about bringing positive change on the lives of low-income people through insurance. It is an international stage to explore the different markets, products and upgrading own skills. Working in a different continent and organizations with freedom of applying your thoughts is what the fellowship has offered me. Having previous experience in distribution I am looking forward to create an impact on the low-income household through affordable insurance. The exchange of ideas with host organization and capability of the Facility mentor is giving new dimension to my thoughts. The tools and trainings designed by Facility over the period of years excite me and help me in my daily tasks.\"\nMicroEnsure, Nairobi, Kenya\nQueenie was hosted by MicroEnsure (Nairobi, Kenya) where she provided technical inputs and project management support.\n\u201cI cannot describe the sense of fulfilment and reward one receives working as an actuary in global development. Working as an Impact Insurance Fellow opens up new doors to the boundless world of micro-insurance and managing risk for the underserved. I am thrilled at how the skill-set of an actuary and data scientist can be applied in developing innovative insurance solutions and make a positive impact in the lives of the low-income population!\"\nOlisa Gravney\nNyala Insurance, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia\nOlisa was hosted by Nyala Insurance where she provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation and change management project with the partner.\n\"I first became interested in the possibility of a career in financial exclusion while volunteering at an Entrepreneurship Training Program. I am excited about this opportunity to learn how adapt my experience and skills to improve access and to better serve the low-income market.\"\nEnock Kipkemboi Sing'oei\nKifiya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia\nEnock was hosted by Kifiya where he provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation project with the partner.\n\"The greatest joy is to continuously provide, learn and gain more experience in designing range of microinsurance products and distribution solutions tailored to the needs of millions of low-income people in sub Saharan Africa.\"\nCedric Roux\nSUNU Assurances Vie, Abidjan, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire\nCedric was hosted by SUNU Assurances Vie C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire where he provided technical inputs and project management support for the Facility's innovation and change management project with the partner.\n\"I believe this fellowship is an invaluable opportunity to be part of a unique community of experts, built around people with diverse and complementary cultural and professional backgrounds, all sharing the same passion and purpose: fostering financial inclusion, while promoting reverse innovation in our old insurance industry. This project drives me into corners each and every day. I face challenges and issues I never had to face before, and most importantly issues I could not have been prepared for. This forces me to think outside-the-box, challenge the status quo and most importantly pick my battles. In a nutshell I\u2019m learning new things everyday, and it\u2019s extremely rewarding.\"\nNuno Meira\nCNAAS, Dakar, Senegal\nNuno was hosted by CNAAS where he provided technical inputs and project management support.\nNuno is currently an Agricultural Finance Specialist with the International Finance Corporation.\n\"I consider this opportunity to be hosted by CNAAS and work with the low-income market in West Africa as something that meets my expectations as a professional and a human being. An intellectual challenge, doing real things in field, \"hands-on\" on areas that matter for the people and the economy of my host country. After so many years working in mainly transactional activities this is a great opportunity to immerse myself in a new culture, bridge my natural curiosity with people and new learnings. At the end of this project, I hope to have helped my host and my host country in a substantive way. I feel extremely grateful to the Facility and the Fellowship Programme for the opportunity given to allow me to, once more, get out of my comfort zone and expand my personal and professional horizons. \"The World is a village, if we want it to be\".\"\nFellow alumni: 2009 - 2014\nAgrotosh Mokerjee\nSajida Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh\nAgrotosh completed an extensive pricing review of a comprehensive microinsurance product, focusing on health and education benefits. He incorporated actuarial and other technical tools, which the organisation could use for a range of purposes, including pricing, product design, monitoring and evaluation of both insurance and other programs. He also trained both management and field staff on actuarial, technical and operational aspects of running a microinsurance program.\nAgrotosh is currently the Principal Actuary of MicroEnsure and co-leads the Agriculture division of MicroEnsure.\n\"The fellowship helped immensely in giving me a taste of what its like to be a professional working in microinsurance in a developing country. It helped me decide how exactly I wanted to structure my career in microinsurance and enabled me to specialise in this field. Taking up the fellowship was perhaps the best decision of my career.\"\nKenya Orient Insurance Limited (KOIL) (Nairobi, Kenya)\nWilliam delivered a concept paper to a major sugar miller for them to present the benefits of supporting a bundled insurance program for their stakeholders. He redesigned policy and claims forms for use with microinsurance products. He also conducted training on microinsurance key financial and social performance indicators for his host organization.\nWilliam is a Manager of Customer Experience and Retention Analytics at Esurance.\n\u201cThe fellowship gave me great hands-on experience working on microinsurance. I'm now advocating to raise awareness and interest to the field of microinsurance and the building of actuarial capacity in developing countries. I also learned a strong customer-centric view of the insurance process, and I decided that I wanted my future work to have a strong impact on customers.\u201d\nAMUCSS (Mexico City, Mexico)\nJoshua designed a savings linked insurance product. He created and introduced a dashboard of key performance indicators over the organization's microinsurance portfolio. He also developed a proposal to pilot parametric agricultural insurance against frost in a coffee growing\nJoshua is a Microinsurance Consultant and Actuary, based in Bogota, Colombia and currently working with national governments, World Bank, Mercy Corps and MiCRO.\n\"Coming from a consulting actuary and insurance background, through the fellowship I had the chance to develop a number of key skills that will be highly useful in my future career in microinsurance. These include field experience (visiting rural bank branches and meeting clients), understanding the risks of low income households, familiarity of the Mexican and Latin American financial markets, understanding the role of the microinsurance intermediary and gaining skills negotiating with the underwriting insurance company and also the distributing field organisations, networking and meeting people in the industry, particularly in the Americas, and Spanish language skills.\"\nAyham Esmaiel\nStar Microinsurance Service Limited (Accra, Ghana)\nAyham conducted a process mapping exercise that helped in organizing and restructuring each function and allow for comprehensive revision for the overall work practices. He developed three manuals during his fellowship, which include Back office comprehensive Operational Manual, Bancassurance Operational Manual and Operational Manual for Ghana post officers. He also contributed to the microinsurance partnership development between Star Micro and Ghana Post.\nAyham is currently a microinsurance consultant.\n\"The fellowship has enhanced my project managemetn skills and and knowledge, as I have been involved in different projects with Star Micro. The most important project was the partnership with Ghana Post Company to distribute Star Micro\u2019s MI products. I practiced the different project phases; pre-implementing, planning (develop a project management plan, collect project requirements), time management, planning project budget, communications and executing a project (direct and manage project work, acquire project team, develop project team, manage a project team, manage communications, conduct procurements, manage stakeholder engagement). The different hands on experiences with the various projects of Star Micro have strengthened my understanding of each phase of a project preparation, execution and evaluation, in line with developing my personal skills to adapt to the changing nature of the projects\u2019 demands.\"\nBenedicte Ya Menan\nUNACOOPEC (Cote d'Ivoire)\nBenedict conducted the segmentation of premiums to make them more inclusive and all strata of society. She improved the processes and data recording medium of the information system and established the dashboard that assesses the social, commercial and technical performance indicators.\nBenedicte is an independent consultant working on actuarial evaluation and insurance consulting.\n\"Excelent working methodology, and a unique possibility to collect additional lessons. It also gave me the capacity to manage real and valuable objectives.\"\nINFUSE (East Timor)\nCarol conducted market research among microfinance clients to determine the types of microinsurance products that may be viable in the near to medium term and benchmark customer willingness to pay for these products. Together with National Insurance Timor Leste and 2 microfinance institutions, she designed and launched 2 enhanced credit life products and tailored slightly for each of the MFIs. In partnership with the Fellows based in Fiji and PNG and with support from the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program and the Asian Development Bank, she conducted multiple regional training events.\nCarol is consulting for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as the Timor Leste Coordinator for the Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI).\n\"The fellowship provided an excellent opportunity to drive microinsurance product implementation from start to finish: market research all the way to launch and evaluation. The support from the ILO Microinsurance Facility and the fellowship mentors was excellent providing relevant input, resources, and training as needed. This Fellowship is well suited to the self motivated, curious, aspiring development practitioner, offering opportunities to learn practical and widely applicable skills including: engaging and establishing buy in from local partners from Central Bankers to local businesses to MFI clients, building inter organizational teams capable of delivering results, and learning first hand the day to day challenges of living and doing business in some of the world's more challenging contexts.\"\nClemence Tatin-Jaleran\nCIRM, IFMR (Chennai, India)\nClemence set up pricing and monitoring guidelines for a HMI project and conducted a feasibility study on index based product development for catastrophic floods mesoinsurance. Throughout her fellowship, she not only actively drove ANED\u2019s microinsurance activities, but also ensured management participation in decision making and the transfer of knowledge to designated ANED staff. In parallel, she also researched the possibility of ANED\u2019s providing an agricultural product in the future\nClemence is a tri-lingual French actuary and microinsurance consultant.\n\"Living in India for two years and being in the field was the greatest learning lesson from the fellowship; it enabled me to understand better the country context, its complexity, and the economic reality of the population targeted by microinsurance. Working within the IFMR ecosystem was also a great exposure to development topics, cutting edge microfinance and knowledge, from research to implementation. Meeting Indian and international microinsurance and development experts during the fellowship lead me to remain in the sector. The fellowship was overall a fast track.\"\nDerek Poulton\nSeguros Futuro (San Salvador, El Salvador)\nDerek provided the design that was the foundation of Seguros Futuro\u2019s successfully introduced new repatriation and remittance product with multiple life coverage.\nBased on his design based on focus groups with clients, Seguros Futuro successfully introduced a new repatriation and remittance product with multiple life coverage. He helped Seguros Futuro integrate financial education in risk management and also helped design a women's health microinsurance prototype based on the results of a study of women's health practices and financing for Aseguradora Rural in Guatemala, which he implemented as well.\nDerek is a Project Manager at EA Consultants and also an Independent Consultant in Financial Services at the Base of the Pyramid.\n\"The fellowship gave me both deep and broad exposure to microinsurance, and introduced me to the most important players in the sector, who continue to be my clients, mentors, colleagues and friends.\"\nHeidi McGowan\nMicroinsurance Academy (New Dehli, India)\nHeidi conceptualized, coordinated, partially wrote, edited and fundraised for \u201cThe Practical Guide to Impact Assessments of Microinsurance\u201d, a forthcoming 14 chapter handbook that teaches practitioners to design, implement and analyze data from rigorous evaluations of microinsurance programs. She also reviewed the evaluations for the second volume of the Microinsurance Compendium. She managed the activities of the Microinsurance Network\u2019s Impact Working Group\nHeidi is an independent researcher and consultant.\n\"The fellowship gave me the opportunity to work with multiple impact assessment methodologies and studies of microinsurance plans from around the world, through which I strengthened my capacity as an evaluator and knowledge of what policy elements work (or don\u2019t) under different circumstances. With these skills and knowledge, I look forward to providing research and consulting services in the microinsurance and overall access to finance fields, for example to facilitate the design, implementation, administration and assessment of high quality financial products and services.\"\nJob Harms\nSwedish Cooperative Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)\nJob conducted a baseline survey for randomized evaluation on composite health insurance in Kenya (CIC & NHIF). He coordinated marketing interventions and also conducted a study on consumer preferences for rebates & deductibles.\nJob is a PhD candidate in Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.\n\"The fellowship contributed to my understanding of conducting experimental research in the field of development economics.\"\nJosephine Mukibi\nCIDR (Uganda)\nJosephine was involved in product design for weather indexed based insurance products. She coordinated with the different stakeholders that led to the successful launch of agriculture insurance products.\nJosephine is a Manager of Kungula Agrinsurance, the first agriculture insurance scheme in Uganda.\n\"The fellowship gave me the foundation and the background knowledge I needed to confidently start a career in agriculture insurance in Uganda and Africa as a whole. My confident levels soared and I was able to educate different people form all backgrounds about insurance in general and agriculture insurance specifically.\"\nLeticia Goncalves\nAseguradora Rural (Guatemala City, Guatemala)\nLeticia conducted qualitative and quantitative product research that included design, implementation and evaluation. She was involved and managed multiple projects.\nLeticia is a PhD Candidate in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies and an Independent consultant in different projects for GIZ and A2ii.\n\"After completing my masters degree in peace, conflict and development I was looking in pursuing a career which could match development and my previous insurance experience. The fellowship gave me the opportunity to learn and research a lot on microinsurance products and development projects and today I can say I am very happy working on this field.\"\nMangesh Patankar\nPCIC (Philippines)\nMangesh assisted in compiling information on microinsurance and credit product offerings in the project area. He planned and executed technical and non-technical trainings for the insurance company, distributors, government agencies and farmers. He also assessed feasibility and designed pilot weather index based insuranceproducts for the project area.\nMangesh is an Assistant Vice President of Agriculture with Swiss Re Services India Private Limited.\n\"The fellowship has given an excellent exposure to the environment involving transitioning of an insurer from the traditional product base to non traditional products. Further, as the fellowship demanded a prolonged stay at the field site, it also helped understanding the implementation aspects from vicinity. Mentorship is an important aspect of the fellowship programme and the mentor did provide extremely valuable technical inputs (particularly regarding the designing of the weather index products) and also made sure that the 'learning' happens simultaneously with the actual implementation.\"\nYasiru Mutual Provident Society (Colombo, Sri Lanka)\nCooperative Insurance Company (Nairobi, Kenya)\nManoj designed a staff training and client education template and conducted a business performance analysis and costing exercise for Yasiru Mutual Provident Society. He completed a business performance analysis and KPI analysis of CIC\u2019s microinsurance business.\nManoj is the Microinsurance Knowledge Coordinator at the Microinsurance Network.\n\"The fellowship exposed me to microinsurance sector outside of India and expanded my understanding of Microinsurance in general. It helped me develop a network of likeminded professionals in the sector and that helped me upgrade my skills and also helped me identify new career opportunities within the sector. The skill development support from the Facility during the fellowship and also getting access to the International Microinsurance Conference in 2010 was also very helpful.\"\nMonica De Gyves Barradas\nREDSOL-AMUCCS (Mexico City, Mexico)\nMonica organized market industry interviews within insurance companies to gauge their interest in microinsurance. The results were used by REDSOL to determine the possibilities of implementing product strategies in the short and medium run.She participated in defining contractual schemes with insurance companies in order to obtain the best terms for the organization and its members.\nMonica is the Global Director Alternative Channels, Insurance & Prevision at BBVA Retail Banking.\n\"Almost my entire career has been developed in the for- profit areas, insurance companies and financial Institutions. The opportunity to be part of the Facility's work, opened my eyes to fully understand that there are ways to extend the insurance benefits to the low income families. I think that is precisely the most important lesson I learned during my fellowship. After doing a fellowship things never will be the same. Nowadays I always think on providing really good benefits for the people and not only in terms of profits. I grew personal and professionally speaking. Thank you for the opportunity.\"\nOliver Ulrich\nPFIP (Papua New Guinea)\nOliver designed and managed qualitative and quantitative market research on financial risk management of low income households, which was the first conducted in the country. He then developed and launched the first mobile microinsurance product in the South Pacific.\nOliver is an independent consultant specializing in mobile microinsurance and mobile health.\n\"Through this fellowship I have been given freedom and responsibility to work along the entire value chain of developing and implementing demand driven, innovative financial solutions in a greenfield environment. An amazing opportunity to strengthen stakeholder management skills by working with everyone from grass roots organisations to the CEO of a listed international bank.\"\nPaola Romera Marquez\nIniser (Managua, Nicaragua)\nShe implemented a complex product development process that the institution had never undergone before. At the end of the fellowship products were already designed, and complete strategic and business plans were delivered to the institution. She developed new tools and methods for a national level market study that she also coordinated and managed.\nPaolo is working in traditional insurance (environmental and asset) and risk management.\n\"The programme definitively helped me reinforce my professional credibility and visibility.\"\nSaima Tabassum Zafar\nHygeia Community Health Plan Limited (Lagos, Nigeria)\nSaima conducted a comparative analysis of HCHC using PACE analysis to assess client value and suggest improvements for urban & rural health microinsurance programmes. She assisted in channelizing and creating dialogues between largest MFI in Nigeria and HCHC and also in capacity building activities.\nSaima is part of the Microinsurance department of Jubilee General Insurance.\n\"The fellowship helped me be part of a platform where the knowledge & experience sharing of various innovative models, lessons, peer exchanges, meetings keep me motivated to bring about improvement in the microinsurance sector. The opportunity to pursue technical assistance fellowship in Hygeia Community Health Care Programme in Nigeria has made me identify challenges specially whilst working in urban areas, the need to create access to health care and creating client value for people living in both rural and urban areas to sustain the programme with or without subsidy and value of regular evaluation and monitoring.\"\nSarahjane Phelan\nUAB Vie (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)\nSarahjane designed and implemented an automated claims process, which increased accuracy and control over the manual system. She was planned and implemented market research of over 300 participants across 30 markets in Ouagadougou. She was also involved in advancing product design and partnership opportunities, improving the distribution strategy, putting in place a process for calculating and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and capacity building activities.\nSarahjane is a Business Analyst at GRM International.\n\"The fellowship has given me an insight into the everyday challenges and opportunities facing players who serve the working poor with financial services, and how the skillset and knowledge of insurance professionals can be applied to help them. I now understand more about the organizations working in the space and their various roles, and have had the opportunity to meet many representatives from these organisations during my fellowship.\"\nSoro Defergouo\nCIDR (Guinea, Benin)\nMay 2009 \u2013 July 2009; September 2009 \u2013 November 2009\nSoro conducted the capitalization of health microinsurance programs in different contexts. He conducted a feasibility study of a reinsurance program which aimed to reinsure microinsurance products in the different programs through a mechanism of social reinsurance and another feasibility study of a microinsurance product aimed to cover \"Moto-taxis\" in a rural area of Guinea.\nSoro is a West Africa Regional Technical Advisor in health and social protection with CIDR, which was his former host organization.\n\"The fellowship was an opportunity to get knowledge on microassurance as it was the first time a got in touch with that sector. The fellowship was very exciting as I had the opportunity to appreciate three microinsurance programs in three different contexts and to make a benchmark. At the end of the fellowship I had a job opportunity with the host organization as Technical Advisor in Comoros. This first job was a real experience of managing a microinsurance program and to transfer the program to the local association set up during project phase. I have to say that my current job is the fruit of the ILO fellowship program.\"\nTyler Tappendorf\nCenfri Innovation Lab (Cape Town, South Africa)\nTyler helped formalize the concept within Cenfri of a Microinsurance Innovation Lab, which connects industry research with private companies looking to launch new microinsurance products. He designed a unique health MI concept that incentivizes mobile money agent networks. He also conducted in-depth studies on mobile microinsurance initiatives.\nTyler is a Research Associate at Cenfri, which was his former host organization.\n\"The fellowship gave me the opportunity to broaden my thinking around microinsurance and financial inclusion in general. It allowed me to explore new business models and to challenge existing approaches. It also helped me identify and establish a pathway towards more long-term personal and professional goals.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 305, "original_length": 34661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.independent.com/news/2015/jan/21/no-love-lost-over-illegal-headlines/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:17Z", "digest": "sha1:WBP34PKXUNNK3OB5OOOTQKNS4DRCIHQB", "length": 33305, "nlines": 109, "source_domain": "www.independent.com", "title": "No Love Lost over 'Illegal' Headlines", "raw_content": "News-Press supporter Mona Hansen spars with protestors\nNo Love Lost over \u2018Illegal\u2019 Headlines\nDueling Rallies Descend on Santa Barbara News-Press\nA few hours after the city came together Monday in De la Guerra Plaza to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s messages of unity and compassion, police erected a barrier in front of the Santa Barbara News-Press. On one side, supporters of the paper \u2014 which has invited widespread backlash over its repeated use of the word \u201cillegals\u201d to describe immigrants in the U.S. without permission \u2014 carried signs, bullhorns, and American flags to promote free speech and decry abuses of the country\u2019s immigration system. They were rallied by a Claremont group called We the People Rising and accompanied by members of the Santa Barbara Tea Party.\nOn the other side, a diverse crowd of community activists spoke against what they\u2019ve described as blatant racism on the part of News-Press management. The activists said they respect the paper\u2019s First Amendment rights and editorial prerogative, but take issue with its dehumanizing word choice that intentionally offends Latinos, who account for 44 percent of Santa Barbara County\u2019s population. \u201cSupport free speech, not hate speech!\u201d they chanted and circulated a petition to boycott the paper and its advertisers after it refused to run a retraction.\nMembers of We the People Rising and the Santa Barbara Tea Party rally together\nWhile the two camps stayed away from each other for most of the day, confrontations did take place. Some of the interactions were civil. Most were not. Between shouts of \u201cProtect our borders!\u201d \u201cDefeat censorship!\u201d and \u201cWe love the News-Press!\u201d paper supporters hurled derogatory, epithet-filled insults across the plastic fencing, the least offensive of which were, \u201cSpeak English, you morons!\u201d and \u201cGo back to where you came from!\u201d They also demanded to see documentation proving citizenship and held signs that read \u201cStop the Invasion\u201d and \u201cDeport Illegal Alien Gangbangers.\u201d One News-Press demonstrator threatened to light an opposing protestor on fire. Another repeatedly asked where others lived so he could \u201cfind them later.\u201d\nThe dueling demonstrators blasted bullhorns in each other\u2019s faces and tried to out-yell one another. Some News-Press detractors called the supporters white supremacists and argued how their forebearers were also immigrants. One repeatedly stomped on an American flag. About a dozen police officers were on hand for the event, which drew several hundred people. No arrests were made.\nDemonstrators blared bullhorns at each other\nThe paper\u2019s editors have repeatedly defended their word choice, saying it\u2019s accurate to describe someone living in the country illegally as an \u201cillegal\u201d and comparing the spray-paint vandalism that hit their office to the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The vandalism and an earlier protest took place after the paper published the headline \u201cIllegals line up for driver\u2019s licenses\u201d above a January 3 news story about a new California law (AB 60) that allows state residents to apply for a driver\u2019s licenses without proving U.S. citizenship. Last Friday, the News-Press ran another article on the same topic with the headline \u201cDriving legal opens door to illegals\u2019 past.\u201d\n\u201cWe will not give in to the thugs who are attempting to use political correctness as a tool of censorship and a weapon to shut down this newspaper,\u201d News-Press copublisher Arthur von Wiesenberger recently wrote to the Minuteman Project, an activist group against illegal immigration. We the People Rising members came from all over Southern California to attend the rally. Its executive director, Robin Hvidston, said beforehand, \u201cFreedom of speech is not about pleasantries. It can generate opposition, but that\u2019s what it means to live in this great country.\u201d\nNews-Press supporters chant \u201cDefeat censorship!\u201d\nOn Monday, group leader Mike McGetrick from Orange County pointed to the News-Press critics across the plaza and said, \u201cSee what\u2019s going on there? That\u2019s what happens when you have open borders.\u201d He said he wants to see immigration laws enforced more effectively and worries about how \u201cMexican is being taught in school instead of English.\u201d He accused the other demonstrators of \u201cgetting more militant and angry. \u2026 They shout and call us names.\u201d\nMcGetrick said a continued influx of unauthorized immigrants would spell financial ruin for the state, but liberals and Latinos are blind to such issues. \u201cThat\u2019s what these idiots don\u2019t understand,\u201d he went on, also describing Sacramento\u2019s Hispanic caucus as \u201ca bunch of rat finks.\u201d If the media would only shine an investigative light on them, he said, \u201cthey\u2019d scatter like cockroaches.\u201d Marilyn Schneider from San Bernardino County said the activists had \u201can entitlement aspect. They think, \u2018I\u2019m entitled to live here as an illegal.\u2019 We say, \u2018No, you\u2019re not.\u2019\u201d\nProtestors march toward the News-Press offices\nMany of Monday\u2019s attendees were rallied together by PODER (People Organizing for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara Youth), which has voiced loud and consistent criticism of the News-Press. City councilmember Cathy Murillo, former News-Press staffers, and area religious leaders accompanied them. Some wore cardboard butterfly wings to symbolize migration, in this case of monarchs from Mexico up California\u2019s coast. \u201cThey\u2019re beautiful and peaceful, just like our people,\u201d said PODER member Savanah Maya. \u201cMigration is natural to beings of all kinds.\u201d\nMaya said she was heartened by the crowd\u2019s size and diversity and was glad for the relatively peaceful proceedings considering \u201chow much antagonizing\u201d her group endured. \u201cWe did exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King was asking for,\u201d she said of the civil rights leader\u2019s insistence on nonviolence. In coming days, Maya said, PODER members and volunteers will make door-to-door calls on businesses, asking them not to advertise with the News-Press or distribute the paper in their stores. \u201cThis has sparked so much energy in us,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d\nPastor David Moore addresses the crowd\nRalph Armbruster-Sandoval, a professor of Chicano-Chicana studies at UCSB talked about how the News-Press ignores standard journalism guidelines, called it a \u201csilly\u201d publication, and declared, \u201cThey\u2019re fighting so hard because we\u2019re winning.\u201d The crowd later chanted \u201cUndocumented, unafraid,\u201d \u201cWe are beautiful, My nation is beautiful,\u201d and \u201cLove, not hate.\u201d Listening nearby, Alvarado Jimenez equated \u201cillegals\u201d to the \u201cN-word.\u201d\nInvoking the messages of King\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, Pastor David Moore called on the News-Press and its owner, Wendy McCaw, to practice decency and compassion toward all, regardless of race or status, and to recognize basic human rights. He also appealed to the religious sensibilities of those embroiled in debates over immigration. \u201cMany of you listening are Christians. I hope to reason with you: As a young child, Jesus\u2019s parents, Joseph and Mary, fled violence in their homeland into Egypt. What if they had been turned away at the border? Don\u2019t forget that Jesus was human.\u201d\nMoore, who recently penned an op-ed for the Huffington Post and helped lead Santa Barbara demonstrations in the wake of the Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings, spoke through a PA system over the blaring bullhorns of News-Press supporters. \u201cTo our brothers and sisters who are outraged that we are even gathered here to make a statement,\u201d said Moore, \u201cI am willing to find out why you are so afraid, and I hope that we share an eagerness for immigration reform.\u201d He also spoke of love for all, explaining, \u201cOh, yes! I prayed for Wendy McCaw this morning. When you love somebody, you want them to do the right thing.\u201d\nPost by Santa Barbara Independent.\nDueling News-Press Rallies Planned for MLK Day\nProtestors Blast News-Press Headline\nNews-Press Vandalized for 'Illegals' Headline\nPODER Demands Records of Councilmembers\nProtest Planned over News-Press Headline\nSounds like bad behavior from both sides.I will admit that a very few of these News-Press supporters that are taking the bait from the other side and making this issue about race aren't doing the cause any favors. This isn't about race. Never has been, never will be.\nAgreed on all points. As long as people keep lying and attempting to make race the point this issue will continue to bring out wing nuts from the Left and the Right.\nI find it \"not\" funny that the Latino Movement has hijacked MLK day to push its own agenda and use the Black Lives Matter moniker and make mentions of Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings by cops as the greatest threat by far to a young black man is a Latino Gangbanger looking to earn his stripes.\ngarfish (anonymous profile)\nOn the contrary I think the the term \"illegals\" was being nice about it. Not often I would side up with the SBNP or the Cops, but this would be that time. Now since some haven't bothered to work on their english, they are trying to tell us how to use ours? Whoa.\nSounds like some people are afraid that their parents will be repatriated. For the Tea people, residency status ought to be a side-issue to border security. No new \"informal\" residents (who happen to be illegal) means no escalation of word wars. Right?\n(part 1 of 2) The core of the problem is that there is a general acceptance that Mexico and several other countries in Central America cannot fix their problems. As a result, the U.S. has become an A.T.M. machine/lifeboat to prop up the Ivy League-educated Billionaire Boys Club that runs Mexico. This elite group--in bed with vested interests in the U.S.--wants to dump its poor/unwanted/undereducated folks up here so that no revolution takes place down there. Meanwhile, vested interests up here want to make the people come up here remain helpless by telling them that they don't need to learn the language, or that it's too difficult for them to do so. All services in Spanish+human nature=people living here for years/decades and not acquiring the power of literacy resulting in these people remaining in poverty, being exploited, and their American-raised kids having no cultural identity as in \"neither being fish, nor fowl\" and resulting in little self-esteem greatly raising their odds of being \"at-risk\" youth. A look at history shows that the best weapon against racism/exploitation is literacy and education: Just ask the Jews and Asians who in spite of terrible injustice and far greater language barriers, not only overcame those obstacles, but excelled in American life.\nThe problem (for the vested interests) is that if those coming up from Mexico, El Salvador, et al, were to assimilate as Jews, Asians, and other have, those who benefit from the unlimited supply of cheap labor would actually have to pay a fair wage. While some will argue--whether out of protecting their interests or out of guilty feelings, or out of feeling that they (Self-described \"Latinos\") are being personally attacked that this cheap labor force is needed to run the economy, they fail to even question if those doing the hiring are actually passing the savings unto us, or simply pocketing the money for themselves. One thing for sure, the labor reformers of the early 20th century did not sacrifice for better work conditions so that we could arrive at this. Moreover, slaveowners made the same argument that \"The economy will collapse without the labor slaves provide\". When slavery ended, we survived, and survived quite well without either slavery, or mass importation of cheap immigrant labor.\nbill clausen, yes, slaveowners did make that case, but not slaves.\nWe tend not to listen to the voice of the suffering, especially if they are despised.\n\"Just ask the Jews and Asians who in spite of terrible injustice and far greater language barriers, not only overcame those obstacles, but excelled in American life.\" A fine point that misses several historical facts too lengthy to go into here.\nWe must be careful how we translate history. For a look into the histories of both ethnicities cited reveal quite a contrast to the African American entrance into North America. Jews and Asians, neither slave nor indentured servant, came with unbroken histories and cultures intact. In fact, in reference to the Jews, I suspect that the only silk stocking ethnic groups coming to these shores were Iberian and German Jews.\nIn fact, \"The Mikv\u00e9 Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, in Willemstad, Cura\u00e7ao, is one of the oldest synagogues in the Americas.\" Not only that but the same is said to be the oldest European edifice in the New World.\nAnd for a comprehensive look at dynamic Jewish history, please refer to \"Jews, God, and History,\" by Max Dimant in which you'll notice a striking dissimilarity between the African Slave Diaspora and the Jewish Diaspora, both literally being horses of another color.\nAnd for a comprehensive look into the history of the African American slave descended population, may I submit this link:\nhttp://www.ushistory.org/us/historian...\nFrom readings on American history written by Professor Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, or Professor Ron Chernow, Yale University, I can't say who is the better historian. Both are superb.\nsalsipuedes (anonymous profile)\nThe main problem is summarized here, :...its dehumanizing word choice that intentionally offends Latinos, who account for 44 percent of Santa Barbara County\u2019s population.\" Both sides have accepted the ridiculous and inaccurate idea the \"Illegal\" = \"Latino.\" If those supporting the Newspress had confined their reasoning to freedom of speech, that would be worth discussing. Instead, they made it clear that that freedom of speech was merely a pretext for the true purpose of the protest as illustrated by \"hur(ling) derogatory, epithet-filled insults across the plastic fencing, the least offensive of which were, \u201cSpeak English, you morons!\u201d and \u201cGo back to where you came from!\u201d They also demanded to see documentation proving citizenship and held signs that read \u201cStop the Invasion\u201d and \u201cDeport Illegal Alien Gangbangers.\u201d Clearly, the issue for Newspress supporters was not whether the Newspress should use the word \"illegal.\"\nAs far as the other side goes, there is not actually any problem with the word \"illegal\" except that it has morphed into meaning \"Latino.\" Words change, and the word \"illegal\" has been ruined. that is the reason the Newspress should either avoid it, or take pains to make sure its meaning is clearly understood to mean people from anywhere in the US illegally.\nI have prepared tax returns for \"illegals,\" some of them from China, one from Scotland, one from India, and one from Sweden. The main problem was that both sides accepted the same unexamined assumption.\nlucas (anonymous profile)\n\"Both sides have accepted the ridiculous and inaccurate idea the \"Illegal\" = \"Latino.\"\"\nThat's absolutely ridiculous. It's not an issue of race. It's an issue of who has legal authorization to be here and who doesn't.\nIt's clear that you are on the left side, yet you insist on putting words in the mouths of others that don't agree with you.\nAs you pointed out, illegals can be of any race, yet you threw the race card in. Why? To make a point?\nThose who are part of the dominant white culture have an exclusive luxury to pretend race plays no part here. When your group is dominant you can take race for granted. But being able to take race for granted is not common to all races in the U.S. and as such we white folk must make efforts to understand what it means to be permanently excluded from dominant culture, lest we lapse into reasoning reflected abundantly in posts prior to this one. If you look at who attempts to dispel race as a factor, it is by and large those who have the privilege to take their identified race for granted. To those who assert so confidently that this is not about race: what amount of your social network is made up of people who make less than $20k/year and are people of color? Don't bother answering--I already know the answer.\nwatermillvillage (anonymous profile)\nArticle description of, \u201cwidespread backlash\u201d is misleading. The reference given by the Independent simply point out that there is a partisan divide on who gets or doesn\u2019t get offended by the term, illegal alien. The Independent is clearly taking a stand. Who knew, right?\nDefinition of \u201cimmigrant\u201d. The article use of the term \u201cimmigrant\u201d is misleading. Every country has the right to protect its borders and consequently the right to establish immigration laws. Those foreigners who are in compliance with immigration laws are \u201cimmigrants\u201d but those that are not in compliance with immigration laws are not immigrants. Foreigners who are not immigrants but that are no illegally present include \u201ctourists\u201d, for example. \u201cAlien\u201d is term used by the U.S. Justice Department. On the other hand, If the aliens are here illegally, they are illegally present or illegal aliens or illegals for short.\nThe Independent also takes a stand on which option of standards they which to recognize as legitimate. The Associated Press has their standards which lean in the direction of political correctness and Charlie Hebdo has a different standard, a standard that appeals to those who believe in protected freedom\u2019s sovereignty over political correctness or the dictatorship of the majority over individual rights. These standards, whether the AP standard or the Hebdo standard is irrelevant. The only standard that matters is the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and America\u2019s First Principles that we are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Natural Rights and that among those rights are freedom of speech and of the press.\nThe First Amendment is the dividing line between those who defend the Santa Barbara News-Press right to their free exercise of expression; and the protesters threats to silence free speech that they do not approve of. The Independent, rather than reporting on the event to celebrate freedom of speech and of the press, something that Martin Luther King would have approved of, launched into an opinion piece mascarading as news.\nLong live the Santa Barbara News-Press, Charlie Hebdo and the U.S. Constitution.\nTJefferson (anonymous profile)\nWater - That's kind of the point. Illegal aliens deserve to be excluded from any culture in the USA, white or not. Whether whites are the \"dominant\" culture or not is irrelevant. Illegal aliens don't deserve to belong to any culture here no matter what color they are.\n*Bimbo*teskie - aptly named\nLaFleur (anonymous profile)\nFirst, Look at the quote again. \" :...its dehumanizing word choice that intentionally offends Latinos, who account for 44 percent of Santa Barbara County\u2019s population.\" The reason 44% of the population may be intentionally offended is only if the word \"illegal\" is made synonymous with \"Latino.\" It is clear that neither side in the rally actually confronted this ridiculous idea.\nSecond, I am not on any side. Some people think that everyone must choose a side. That is not true. Just because I say something YOU characterize as left does not make me left, sorry. Besides, when you hurl the word \"left\" as it were were an epithet, you commit ad hominem. Doing so is illogical and leaves you open to being discredited for being \"right.\"\nThird, the rally was ostensibly about the use of a word. Yet group leader Mike McGetrick made it clear the rally was really protest against Latinos in general. \"He said he ... worries about how \u201cMexican is being taught in school instead of English.\u201d That is a tell. Spanish (not Mexican) has been taught in school for more than six decades, and there has never been a risk of it supplanting English. \"McGetrick said a continued influx of unauthorized immigrants would spell financial ruin for the state, but liberals and Latinos are blind to such issues,\"equating \"illegals\" to Latinos, and ignoring data showing that since 2007, there has been a net outflux of unauthorized immigrants. And explain on what basis \"they also demanded to see documentation proving citizenship\" especially without authorization. Do you think they would have made such a demand of my Swedish client?\nFourth, sorry, I did not throw the race card in. Sadly, it was already there from the beginning.\nIt\u2019s striking how the News-Press displays no maturity when challenged over its use of possibly of offensive language. Instead the paper but immediately sinks to the level of vituperative attacks. But of course, we all know they gave up the ghost of civic responsibility many a year ago. In this sense, the comparison to Charlie Hebdo is apt. The Charlies were provocateurs. Sure that's their right, but not really what we'd hope from the main institution of journalism in our community.\nLeeKaplan (anonymous profile)\n\"The reason 44% of the population may be intentionally offended is only if the word \"illegal\" is made synonymous with \"Latino.\"\"\nI think you need a vocubulary lesson.\nOr maybe you have just been smoking \"Latino\" substances. I got a ticket last week for \"Latino\" parking.\nAnd I guess you think that calling people with documentation \"undocumented\" is the best semantic choice.\nYou're one of these people that gets their jollies by playing semantic word games at the expense of the truth.\nAll brought to you by open borders, One World Government billionaires.\nWithout their millions spent on lobbying there would not be any illegal aliens in the USA. One of them is CKE in Carpenteria, parent company of Carl's Jr.\nUSAmerican (anonymous profile)\nWhat are you rambling about? Also please lose the ad hominen and the projection, or you risk damaging your credibility.\nWhat are you rambling about? I answered your objection with direct quotes from the article. Kindly address the substance of my comments, and avoid the ad hominen and the projection, or you risk damaging your credibility.\nThat's IT!! I've had it...I am officially canceling my Independent subscription.\nwcunningham (anonymous profile)\nAnyone who says that \"Latino\" is synonymous with \"Illegal\" has already lost their credibility as well as their objectivity. How can anyone have a rational discussion based on that assumption?\nLots of good thoughtful comments on this thread. It's upsetting to me that the News Press' choice of words, which accurately describes the majority of those newly eligible for driver's licenses, is being used as a pretext by activists for promoting a new political correctness movement that advocates an open border with Mexico. We find ourselves in the middle of a tug of war between unqualified amnesty supporters who essentially want an open border, and a renewed push to secure the border and maintain an effective policy of deportation. I am in favor of the latter. Even without a single new Mexican immigrant, their high birth rate insures that they, combined with first-generation Mexicans, will become the overwhelming majority of residents in the near future. I can tolerate the presence of some numbers of illegals and I usually respect and like many of the hard-working and mostly genial Mexican Nationals residing in Santa Barbara (while being put off by many others)), but I don't want their numbers to increase.\nI believe the majority of Americans are racist to some degree. It is only natural. Being somewhat racist is nothing to be ashamed of. The emotions stirred by the News Press headline brings out blatant and latent racism on both sides, though we (I) somewhat latent racists prefer not to see it that way. I would ordinarily say it's not about racism. In other words, it is and it isn't. Only the threat and tactic of deportation will keep illegals from creating hostile battlegrounds throughout the county, such as they have begun doing with the News Press. I'd like to insure that illegals maintain a low profile while we as a nation continue to work on a reasonable plan of immigration reform, the cornerstone of which must be standing up to Mexico and securing our borders against further illegal immigration.\nHearme (anonymous profile)\nThe core of the problem is that there is a general acceptance that Mexico and several other countries in Central America cannot fix their problems. As a result, the U.S. has become an A.T.M. machine/lifeboat to prop up the Ivy League-educated Billionaire Boys Club that runs Mexico. This elite group--in bed with vested interests in the U.S.--wants to dump its poor/unwanted/undereducated folks up here so that no revolution takes place down there. Meanwhile, vested interests up here want to make the people come up here remain helpless by telling them that they don't need to learn the language, or that it's too difficult for them to do so. All services in Spanish+human nature=people living here for years/decades and not acquiring the power of literacy resulting in these people remaining in poverty, being exploited, and their American-raised kids having no cultural identity as in \"neither being fish, nor fowl\" and resulting in little self-esteem greatly raising their odds of being \"at-risk\" youth. A look at history shows that the best weapon against racism/exploitation is literacy and education: Just ask the Jews and Asians who in spite of terrible injustice and far greater language barriers, not only overcame those obstacles, but excelled in American life.\n\"Even without a single new Mexican immigrant, their high birth rate insures that they, combined with first-generation Mexicans, will become the overwhelming majority of residents in the near future.\" And remember, their children will be U.S. citizens, just like the children of every Ellis Island immigrant. It is always good to put ourselves in others' shoes. If we choose to object to Latinos becoming the overwhelming majority, we need to confront the fact that (most of us) Europeans also became the overwhelming majority not too long ago, and this after Latinos started out as the overwhelming majority in the earlier history of California. If we do not like current citizenship policies, we need to use legal means to change it,mindful of the fact that any change will apply to everyone, not just Latinos.\n\"Anyone who says that \"Latino\" is synonymous with \"Illegal\" has already lost their credibility as well as their objectivity. How can anyone have a rational discussion based on that assumption?\" I did not make that assumption. As I show from the article, that is the assumption already inherent in the rally. If you disagree, then discuss that. Using ad hominem at every turn is ineffective.\nPeople can make any assumptions they want, but it doesn't make it fact. I don't rely on others with an agenda to define words for me. A dictionary is more suitable for that purpose. If we all use our own definitions for words, then rational discussion is impossible.\nPeople are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Word definitions are facts.\nIn response to Lucas, the tipping point has already occurred. Hispanics will comprise the majority of the population in Santa Barbara and all of California in the very near future. There comes a point when Anglos will be marginalized - a kind of reversal of how things are now. None of the European migrations of Germans, Irish, Jews, and Italians changed the demographics of this country as much as the Hispanic migration will, especially in California. The large number of Catholic immigrants altered the ratio of Protestants to Catholics, but they were previously almost all Caucasian as opposed to the mixed or pure Indian race of most Mexican Nationals who take up residence here. What is one to do? I think we need to make every effort to stem the tide, to put off the inevitable for as long as possible.\n\"Word definitions are facts.\" True enough, but word definitions are in flux. The word, \"suffer\" for example, used to include the idea of permit. No one uses the word like that anymore. Newly coined words are not even in the dictionary. So maybe you and I would like to stick to the dictionary definition of \"illegal,\" but clearly those on both sides participating in the rally had no such scruples.\nIn response to Lucas, the tipping point has already occurred. Hispanics will comprise the majority of the population in Santa Barbara and all of California in the very near future. There comes a point when Anglos will be marginalized - a kind of reversal of how things are now. None of the European migrations of Germans, Irish, Jews, and Italians changed the demographics of this country as much as the Hispanic migration will. The large number of Catholic immigrants altered the ratio of Protestants to Catholics, but they were previously almost all Caucasian as opposed to the mixed or pure Indian race of most Mexican Nationals who take up residence here. What is one to do? I think we need to make every effort to stem the tide, to put off the inevitable for as long as possible. In the meantime of course, we have to make the best of the situation.\nWord definitions are the basis for rational discussion. Fortunately, I hold myself to a higher standard than most of those you are referencing. So should everyone that wants to participate in intelligent dialogue.\nSorting through the posted comments, it's difficult to refrain from trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, chaff being those which tend to the hysterical and indulge more in name calling than in rational dialogue. As \"lucas\" says, \"ad hominem attacks\" don't help to advance the conversation; polarization is never useful if one would like to have a civil society. \"lucas\" is also right in taking the long view in the immigration conversation: Anglos were non-existent here when Spanish and Portuguese became the original invaders displacing the \"original\" peoples (and who might they have displaced?) and ultimately the region's majorities, in language at least - until displaced by \"whiter\" Europeans. Now the tide is turning once again, and those in position of becoming \"displaced\" don't like it - and some, like some of the NP Plaza demonstrators, are reacting fearfully and not very kindly. What gets lost in this dust-up is the crux of the matter - ALL countries have the right to protect their borders and their internal interests for the benefit of their citizens. America, a country built on and by immigrants, has this right no less than any other. Surely those advocating for immigrant rights would agree with this - as would those on the other side of the yellow tape. The objections of immigrant advocates seem to revolve over the use of the word \"illegal\" as being too strong or insulting to those here without official sanction or permission. But it's not an incorrect word. Should \"documented\" Americans care about the sensitivities of \"undocumented\" - and vice-versa? Since we're all living together, one way or another, I think the answer is 'yes' - for both. To the News Press and its defenders, why inflame a situation when a little compassion would go a long way? To the immigrant advocates, why confuse an already complicated situation over a semantic problem? Why should it be so difficult for both sides to agree that being here without sanction is, at its heart, \"illegal.\" Once we can agree on that, then let's move forward with the next question: how do we resolve this compassionately and humanely?\nPagurus (anonymous profile)\nBotany, word definitions are word definitions, not facts. There are contradictory word definitions--facts can't contradict each other. Things to consider with regard to words are context, connotation, etc.\njamerson (anonymous profile)\nHere is a way to ease the US legal residents concerns about illegal immigration and over-taking of the state's demographics and budget as a result. What model of governance and economy do illegals propose to introduce to this state as the new state majority. What will Brown privilege look like?\nWe Anglos look at Mexico and Central America and find those governance models thoroughly wanting.\nWe see gangs, crime, corruption, violence, drugs, cars parked on front lawns, over-crowding, failing schools due to english-learners, increasing public debt for services to illegals, bi-lingual everything, loud music, fast cars, fake documents, stolen identities, and little pride of ownership in property occupied by illegals.\nFair observations or not? Is this what we will be getting more of or less of as the numbers of illegals continue to increase within in our state. Do you appreciate these concerns of those here in this state as legal citizens?\nYes, we do know there are many other positive latino models of good conduct too among the latino population, that are highly compatible with the previously dominant Anglo culture.\nBut please do not ignore the whole package comes with the negatives latinos have brought to this state as well - do we get more or less of that in the new latino majority California. That is the question I am proposing.\nMainly I wonder what economic model the new latino majority will be imposing upon this state, since currently we lose $25 billion a year on services and benefits for illegals. How will the new latino majority pay off that annual debt?\nTell us more what this new latino majority state of California will look like.\nFebruary 2, 2015 at 7 p.m. (Suggest removal)\nSure Jamerson. That all depends on what the definition of \"is\" is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 38990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?action=printpage;topic=33123.0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:53Z", "digest": "sha1:N42VSUUOLO5MFZ66HDKELIMHLJDWC4D3", "length": 676, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.indie-rpgs.com", "title": "Print Page - The 'neutral GM' myth", "raw_content": "General Forge Forums => Actual Play => Topic started by: fodazd on May 31, 2012, 11:24:44 AM\nTitle: The 'neutral GM' myth\nTitle: Re: The 'neutral GM' myth\nPost by: JoyWriter on May 31, 2012, 04:12:43 PM\nI think this is a perfectly reasonable position! There's been a few discussions on this (http://story-games.com/forums/?CommentID=371264) in various (http://lumpley.com/anycomment.php?entry=234) places (http://springfieldroleplayers.org/2011/12/why-impartial-gms-are-essential-to-fun/).\nPost by: fodazd on May 31, 2012, 07:21:24 PM\nPost by: Abkajud on June 01, 2012, 05:55:06 AM\nPost by: Callan S. on June 01, 2012, 03:28:15 PM\nPost by: fodazd on June 01, 2012, 04:01:49 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 8455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ingenweb.org/ingibson/CountyHistories/EARLY%20HAZLETON.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:56Z", "digest": "sha1:TQ3LXLJ3SQOQCPX5C3OMRQRG4MMXMOH7", "length": 119800, "nlines": 349, "source_domain": "www.ingenweb.org", "title": "EARLY HAZLETON, INDIANA", "raw_content": "EARLY HAZLETON, INDIANA\nLELAND S. CUNNINGHAM\nIn 1948 Leland S. Cunningham submitted these articles on the early history of Hazleton and the surrounding area to the White River News for serial publication. They are really reminiscences drawn from a lifetime of contact with pioneers in his own family background and from conversations with old timers in the area. These he augmented with extensive research through old family records, Gibson County records, old newspapers, the minutes of early meetings, old cemetery records, etc. In addition, he visited the places he describes, accumulating bit by bit the wealth of material from which he wrote these stories.\nHis own purpose is not known. Perhaps in sharing them with us he satisfied his need to teach, and in so doing has made his contribution to the students of history. Whatever his reason, the people of Hazleton are indebted to him for giving to them these glimpses of the past.\nFor me, the task of getting the material from a collection of yellowed, fading newspaper clippings has been a joy. More and more I realize how much I owe to this man whose great knowledge of his story and literature and his orderly sense of things past he shared with me and with many others who spent their teen-age years in Hazleton High School.\nI am indebted to Miss Hallie Cunningham, who graciously loaned me her treasured clippings.\nMadge M. Steelman\nI Early Pioneers\n1. Andrew Cunningham----------------------------- Page 1\n2. Stewart and Georgiana Cunningham------------- Page 5\n3. David Hazleton----------------------------------- Page 9\n4. John Reel and Richard Sloan------------------- Page 12\nII Hazleton\n1. Platting the Town------------------------------- Page 15\n2. Additions---------------------------------------- Page 17\n3. Hazleton in the 1850's-------------------------------- Page 19\nIII Early Schools\n1. The Hazleton School of 1846----------------------- Page 21\n2. The Barnett School----------------------------- Page 23\n3. The Main Street and Octagon Schools---------- Page 25\nIV Railroads\n1. Early Railroads in Indiana--------------------- Page 27\n2. The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad- Page 29\n3. The Hazleton Railroad Wreck------------------ Page 34\nV River Traffic\n1. Flatboats---------------------------------------- Page 37\n2. Steamboating on White River------------------ Page 43\n3. Life on the River I------------------------------- Page 46\n4. Life on the River II------------------------------ Page 48\n5. Life on the River III----------------------------- Page 49\n6. Life on the River IV----------------------------- Page 50\nVI Business\n1. Robb's Mills------------------------------------ Page 52\n2. The Atlanta Flour Mill-------------------------- Page 54\nVI Business (Cont.)\n3. The Hazleton Milling Company------------------------ Page 54\n4. Hazleton's First Grain Elevator------------------------ Page 57\n5. The First Cooper Shop---------------------------------- Page 59\n6. The Klein Stave and Reading Factory----------------- Page 60\n7. The Hazleton and Williams Saw Mill----------------- Page 62\n8. The Depauw Mill--------------------------------------- Page 63\n9. Hazleton's Early Portable Saw Mills------------------ Page 65\n10. Gervase Hazleton's Cypress Swamp Mill------------ Page 67\n11. The White River Distillery---------------------------- Page 69\nVII Addenda---------------------------------------------------- Page 71\nAndrew Cunningham was the pioneer of that family in the Indiana Territory, and the ancestor of most of the families of that name who live (or have lived) in White River and Washington Townships, Gibson County. Of Scotch-Irish parentage, he was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1776. He grew to manhood at the old home place, and at the age of twenty-one years married Miss Nancy Shields, born in Ireland in 1778. She, too was probably Scotch-Irish, although folk tales say that she was almost or full-blooded Irish, and that her people were of the well-to-do middle class living at St. Johnston's, County Donegal.\nSoon after his marriage the subject of this sketch joined a colony of Scottish and Scotch-Irish folk bound for Georgia. Since most of the immigrants of the above races settled along the Atlamaha River, it is presumed they landed at the port of New Inverness, now Darien, located at the mouth of that river. He remained in Georgia several years, but disliking slavery and the economic system of the south, he decided to emigrate to Indiana Territory. Accordingly, he moved from Georgia in 1803, transporting his family and possessions on horse back and pack mules. When he left the south, two old colored house servants begged to stay with \"Marse Andy\" and accompany him to a free country, so yielding to their pleas, he brought them along. Quite probably they were the first colored people to reside in Gibson County, and they remained there until their deaths. They lie buried side by side in the NE corner of Marse Andy's lot, and until a few years ago slabs of rough stone marked their graves.\nAndrew Cunningham settled in Militia Donation #79, in what is now Washington Township, Gibson County, being one of the first settlers in the Shiloh neighborhood. He cleared away the heavy timber, built a small cabin, developed a good farm, and added to his holdings until they consisted of several hundred acres. His cabin stood beside the old trail\nleading from Decker's Ferry, (Giro) on White River to Severn's Ferry on the Patoka. He lived in the cabin several years, then built a larger and more commodius dwelling. Some hewn logs taken from the latter building can still be seen in a hog and sheep shelter across the road from the home of his granddaughter, Louisa J. Elliott.\nAndrew Cunningham was proud of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and spoke the Irish brogue, a peculiar dialogue of the English Language which any\u00adone unused to him could hardy understand. He and the relatives that came after him were Protestants, and firm believers in education. For many years his vacated cabin was used for school and church purposes, Probably the last term there was it 1840, taught by John L. Key, great-great grandfather of John Earl and Margaret Ann Key. It was a subscription school and Andrew Cunningham paid $1.93 \u00be tuition for his youngest daughter, Nancy. A Methodist Church, said to have been the first regularly organized church of that denomiation in Indiana was instituted at Shiloh in 1815, and the first Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the state, first called Hopewell and later Mt. Zion, was organized there in 1817 by the Rev. William Barnett. Mrs. Cunningham and son Green were active church members, and took active part in the great camp meetings held at Shiloh during the early part of the last century.\nThe plantation farm of Andrew Cunningham was nearly self-sufficient. The clearings yielded fire-wood for the big fire-places and the house was lit with home-made tallow candies. Food stuffs and raw materials were produced on the farm, and most articles in common use were made in the home or in the workshop. His sheer produced wool which was processed by his wife and daughters and woven into blankets and cloth for winter clothing, Flax raised on the farm furnished fibers for thread and linen cloth used for underwear, shirts, collars, table cloths, sheets, and other household uses.\nBeef hides and other tannable skins were sent to the Robert Falls tannery which stood near Seth Hill's home, to be turned into leather for shoes, boots, and other purposes. There was a shoe bench and cobbler's\ntools in the workshop, and in case none of the family could cobble an itinerant or a local cobbler was hired to make shoes for the entire family. When everything was furnished then the cobblers charged 25\u00a2 for making children's shoes, and 50\u00a2 for making adult shoes or boots. Shoes of that day bore little resemblance to the comfortable footwear of today, but there was one advantage --- you could wear them interchangeably on the feet without discomfort. A blacksmith shop was maintained in connection with the workshop.\nDuring his lifetime Andrew Cunningham followed the peaceful occupation of the farmer and never aspired to political office. However, on the formation of the townships and county in 1813 he and William Price were appointed Overseers of the Poor in White River Twp, which at that time included the present township, Washington Township, and that part of Pike County west of Congress Creek. There was no red tape or work connected with relief work then, for the overseer aided the needy at his own expense and filed a statement with the court for reimbursement.\nMr. and Mrs. Cunningham raised a family of eight children, and as they were born pioneers in this county, their names and order of birth are given here, Joseph (1807-1877), Sarah (1809-1846), Samuel (1811-1865), Green (1813-1844), Stewart Clark (1815-1867), Eleanor (1818-1865), John (1820-1860), and Nancy (1822-1871). These children reached maturity, married, and raised families.\nMrs. Cunningham died August 29, 1840 and was buried in the family plot near her home. John Thompson was paid $3.00 for making her coffin. Her burial shroud consisted of five yards of cambrick muslin costing $1.50 was purchased at the David Robb store at Robb's Mill. Mr. Cunningham died October 20th, 1840, having survived his wife lose than two months. His coffin was made by John Throm at a cost of $5.00, and his shroud was bought at Columbia (Patoka) of Hannah and Kurtz. The day\nbefore his death he called in Jonathan Gullick and his son Samuel Cunningham to witness his last will and testament. The will provided that the eldest son, Joseph should administer the estate, and the family doctor, V. T. West, who had treated both Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham through several months of declining health filed a bill for his services amounting to $45.50 with the administrator.\nOn Dec. 1, 1840, Andrew Phillips and John Thompson were each paid $1.00 for appraising his personal estate. Total appraisal was $1615.78 3/4 which added to the $1020.25 which he had divided among his children shortly before his death, totaled $2636.03 3/4. This was no mean sum when common labor was paid 50\u00a2 per day, and skilled labor 75\u00a2 to 1.00. The sale was held Dec. 4th and 5th, and James Milburn, crier, was paid $1.00 per day. The clerk, Thomas J. Decker, was paid 50\u00a2 per day.\nA perusal of inventory and bill of sale shows many interesting things about living conditions and the customs of that time. Stored in his barn were hay, fodder, corn, wheat, wool, flax, potatoes (2\u00a2 per bushel), and tobacco. To utilize the flax and wool there was a flax brake, a flax hatchel, spinning wheel and loom. Domestic animals included horses, oxen ($35 per yoke), sheep, cattle, hogs, geese (25\u00a2 each),\nand chickens ($1.00 per dozen). There was a rifle and accoutrements for hunting, a trot line, hook and gig for taking fish, and three saddles, (one a side-saddle) for travel on horseback. To maintain the \"lighting plant\" there were candles, tallow, candle wicks, candle molds, candle sticks and snuffers.\nIn addition to the usual earthen and wooden kitchenware this family was the proud possessor of a set each of pewter plates and Liverpool teas, brought from Ireland and used only on state occasions. Another prized possession was a brass clock. Although the yearly tax on one hundred acres of land was only 40\u00a2, this brass clock, considered\na luxury, was taxed 75\u00a2 annually. The entire tax on the estate, real and personal, for the year 1840 was $8.05.\nSTEWART AND GEORGIANA CUNNINGHAM\nThe century-old residence of the late Stewart Cunningham, located about three miles south of Hazleton in the Steelman Chapel neighborhood, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning, Dec. 19, 1948. This marked the passing of an old landmark, and recalled to memory the pioneer couple who built it and who lived there so many years.\nStewart Cunningham was born in Edwards County Illinois Aug. 15, 1818, the year that Illinois was admitted to statehood in the Union, and died at his home Jan. 18, 1903, in his eighty-fifth year. His grandfather was John Cunningham, born in Ireland in 1768, and his father was \"Buck\" William Cunningham, born in Georgia in 1794. His mother died when he was a small boy and his father remarried. Things didn't go well for the lad, and at the age of fifteen he ran away from home, coatless and barefooted. He crossed the Wabash at Mt. Camel and found shelter with a farmer in Gordon hills, where he spent about a year clearing land, plowing now ground, and hunting. He became a crack shot with the rifle and the most successful deer hunter in al the country. He killed his last deer in Know County in 1873. When he left the Gordon Hills he went to the home of Smith Miller at Miller's Station and lived there seven years. At the age of twenty- three he married Mrs. Miller's sister, Georgiana Robb, who was three days his senior.\nGeorgiana Robb was born in White River Township in 1818, and spent her long life of nearly a century within a mile and a half of where she was born. Her grandfather was James Robb, born in County Down, Ireland and her father was James Robb Jr., said to have been born on the ocean while his parents were enroute to this country. Her Grandfather Robb served in the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution, and her father was twice wounded in battles with the Indians. The house in which she was born was built by her father about 1807. It was built of hewed logs, and according to the stories, it was the first two-storey log house built in what is now Gibson County. Mr. Robb threw open his house\nto ministers of all faiths. Political meetings and Territorial elections were held there, and it was a rendevous for the Territorial Militia. A part of this old building, weatherboarded over and with additions added to it is still standing on the original site and in owned by Clarence and Othniel Hitch, great grandsons of James Robb Jr.\nStewart Cunningham and Georgiana Robb were married Feb. 1, 1842 by Samuel A. Stewart, a Methodist minister and a former Judge of Gibson County. At the time of their marriage the groom had $100 and the bride had $300 which she had inherited from her father's estate. Their cash, however, was not sufficient to buy the place they wanted and set up housekeeping, so Stewart went to see John Brown about a loan of $300. He took his brother-in-law, James Barr Robb Sr. along to \"go on his note\". John Brown was a good judge of men and sized up his prospective borrower carefully. He had a liking for men dressed in pioneer garb and this young man in buckskin breeches and fur cap impressed him greatly. As he handed the note over to be signed, fire Brown said, \"Stewart, you don't need any one to sign with you. Your signature is enough.\" This unexpected boost made a deep impression on the young man, and from that time on his fixed policy was to help anyone in need, especially those struggling to got a start in life.\nWith Mr. Brown's loan, the young couple had enough to meet their requirements. They purchased Militia Donation #39 in White River Twp. It was 100 acres at $3.50 per acre. They set up housekeeping in a small log house near the north end of the tract. He spent a few years improving his land and getting together the timbers for his now home. When all was ready m house raising was held and the two storey house in which they were to spend the rest of their lives was erected.\nUncle Stewart and Aunt Georgie, as they were called by a host of relatives and friends, were noted for their hospitality and generosity. They reared several orphans along with their own children and took in many adults until he or she could find a home or employment. Every year\non August 12th they celebrated their birthdays together by providing a dinner for family and friends. Indeed, anybody who wished to coma was welcome. They came in buggies, wagons, and on horseback. Same old friends without transportation came a-foot the day before and stayed all night in order to be there. Their son, \"Doc\" B. F. Cunningham always brought several dozen water melons for the children. Many of them, now past middle age, can vouch for the good food and good cheer.\nStewart and Georgiana lived at a time when the price of existence was hard work, and social security was found only in well-provisioned cellars and smoke houses. By thrift they saved a little each year, and later bought a part of Militia Donation 36, which adjoined their land. This gave them 150 acres, which was about all one man could manage when the work was done with scythes and flails. Later, Stewart purchased lard in Knox County, set up a saw mill and launched flatboats along his river front. He sent cargoes of farm products to the New Orleans market. He established what was known as Cunningham's ferry, which operated far into this century until automobiles and the White River bridge made ferries on that river obsolete.\nGeorgiana Cunningham was a religious woman and rode long distances on horseback to attend services. Her favorite meeting place was Shiloh, a place of worship established in Washington Twp. in the early part of the last century. She rode a side saddle and a long riding skirt which almost touched the ground. The church she attended was on the old Decker Ferry road about a half mile north of the present church. Services often lasted all day and churchgoers took food with them. Georgiana would fill a large pocket of her riding skirt with molasses cookies, baked in a brick oven, or on a flat stone before the fire. She often took some boy or girl with her, riding a pillow behind the saddle. Often the pillow rider was her nephew, \"Bud\" Edwin Robb, who enjoyed the ride, but didn't relish the cakes. He said they were always dark colored, sometimes charred, and never very palatable.\nThe writer has Mrs. Cunningham's old hymn book, which was used as a reader in the early schools. It is dated 1828, and its thumb-worn pages show the effect of perspiration, rain and time. The book is 5\"x3\"x1\u00bd\", bound in leather, and containing about 350 hymns, most of which are no longer sung. The words were not to music, but the metrical structure of each song is indicated. The singing master of that day knew little of the rudiments of music, but it was his practice to \"make up\" or improvise a tune. Attuning his voice with a tuning fork, he led the singers to pour forth torrents of melody.\nGeorgiana Cunningham died Dec. 23, 1915 in her 98th year. Funeral services were held at her home on Christmas Day, the Rev. A. C. Sisson officiating. She was buried beside her husband in the old James Robb cemetery, where as a child she had witnessed the burial of her father eighty-seven years before.\nDANIEL HAZLETON\nWhen Jarvis Hazleton came here to settle he was accompanied by his father, his mother, Betsy (Elisabeth), and his sister, Deborah. The father purchased Militia Donation #17 from Captain Toussainte Dubois, the noted scout and Indian fighter of Vincennes, for whom Dubois County is named. This Militia Donation included the Grisemer farm, Buck Catt Hill, the Hudson place, and all that part of town west of Robb Creek. Old timers have said that the land was covered with the finest black walnut and poplar trees in this part of the country.\nDaniel Hazleton and his wife assisted their son in operating a tavern and a ferry. Most of the early ferries were nothing more than rafts of logs with puncheon floors, and this ferry was probably no exception. They were propelled with long poles in shallow water, and in deep water with oars pivoted to the ends. When carpenters were available, good boats of hewn or whipsawed lumber were constructed. Carpenters in the area were paid 50\u00a2 per day, and common laborers $7 per month, with one ration per day in each case. A ration consisted of 1\u00bd lbs. of corn bread, 1 lb. of wild meat, vegetables, and one gill of whiskey. The old Jarvis Hazleton ferry was in operation here until 1826, at which time the County Board of Justice ordered it vacated.\nBetsy Hazleton was a well known pioneer woman, noted for her courage and self reliance. She had great strength. She could easily perform a man's work with an axe, and often operated the ferry when they were away.\nIt was late in the month of March 1800 when David Robb arrived with his wife at the Hazleton Ferry. They had come down the old Red Banks Trail from Vincennes to newly purchased land south of White River. Betsy was acting ferryman that day, and went to set them over. She ruffled the feathers of the young man by demanding\nthat he pay for the crossing in advance. Being a well bred gentleman, he showed no sign of anger, but jingled the coins in his saddle-bag and assured her that he was able to pay the ferriage. But Betsy was inflexible, and Mr. Robb saw that he must give in or swim the river. In conversation with Betsy on the way over he discovered that she had ferried several over the river, only to find that they had no money, or refused to pay. She had been cheated by others who had offered her undersized pieces of cut money. There was no fractional money minted at that time and silver dollars were cut into halves, quarters (2 bits), eights (1 bit) and sixteenths (6\u00bc\u00a2). A few dishonest persons cut the dollar into five pieces to start with, thus realizing $1.25 for each dollar.\nA warm friendship developed between the two families, and in later years Deborah Hazleton and David Robb's daughters took many trips together on horseback, visiting friends or going to Princeton or Vincennes.\nIn 1820, realizing that the end was near, Daniel Hazleton had Samuel Hazleton of Palmyra, Ill, to write his last will and testament. It was drawn up on June 23, 1820, and was witnessed by Jacob Jacobus and William H. Sisco. Mr. Hazleton died a few months later, and the will was probated on Jan. 23, 1822. It contained some queer provisions, including one which prevented his wife from cutting any timber except that needed for fire wood or for making Maple sugar. He probably had in mind her skill in using the axe. He left all movable property to his wife until her death or remarriage. In that case the property was to be divided between Deborah Boles, widow, and her brother, Jarvis Hazleton. Mrs. Hazleton died soon after, and the land was divided by a line running east and west through the center of it. This old line can be seen to this day, running over the Buck Catt Hill between the Griesemer and Hudson properties.\nJarvis Hazleton sold his part at the property to his son Daniel W. in 1830. The latter was married in Illinois in 1828 and came have to live on the old Hazleton property. It was probably his rooster that cheered the pilot of the first steamboat on White River. Daniel sold this farm to John Brown in 1834 and moved to Richland County, Illinois. Brown's second addition to the town of Hazleton was part of this property.\nThe south part of the property went to Mrs. Boles, who later married Joseph Payne. At her death in January 1861 she left it to her daughters, one of whom was Mrs. Robert Fullerton, mother of Mrs. Carrie Fullerton McGinnis, an aged lady now living in California. The census of 1860 shows that Deborah Payne, born in New York in 1787 was then living in Patoka. She was the last survivor of the Hazleton family who settled here in the 1790's.\nDaniel and Betsy Hazleton lie in unmarked graves in the old Hazleton cemetery.\nJOHN REEL AND RICHARD SLOAN\nEarly in the last century John Reel and his family came on horseback and pack horses from near Charleston, S. C. to Kentucky. Sometime prior to 1810 Mr. Reel came to Indiana Territory and obtained titles to Militia Donations 14 and 19, located about 1\u00bd miles south of Hazleton. These farms are now included in the land owned by Mrs. Florence Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis, and Nile Weitzel.\nJohn Reel cleared the land on the south end of Militia Donation #10 and built his house there. He built a dam across the south fork of Robb Creek which flowed through his land and erected a water powered sawmill there about 1820. This mill stood about one eighth of a mile from and almost due east of Brown's Railroad Crossing, and traces of the old dam can still be seen. This and the David Robb Mill (1814) were the first and for a long time the only mills in this part of the country. Mr. Reel died in 1826, and for many years one of his sons and a son-in-law operated the mill. By 1813 John Brown had bought all the land from the heirs, and the improvements thereon.\nJohn Reel reared a family of four sons and three daughters, and it is said that some of the Knox County Reels are his descendants. The father and two sons were in the Battle of Tippecanoe, serving in Captain Robb's company.\nMarriages of the Reels were among the first to be performed in Gibson County. Frederick Reel married Rebecca Cole and remained in the old neighborhood, lumbering and sawmilling until his death in 1831. Henry Reel married Katherine Neely, daughter of the Revolutionary soldier, Joseph Neely. He took to steamboating and ran regularly between Evansville and New Orleans. He always promised Katy before he left not to drink a \"drap\", a promise hard to keep when men used liquor as a beverage and a cure-all.\nThe old Reel mill proved quite a convenience fen the early settlers, providing them with lumber for buildings and flatboats. John Brown operated the mill until his death in 1852, after which it was abandoned.\nSeveral years later, Samuel Milburn, son-in-law of John Brown, built a mill a few yards south of the old site and installed a steam engine. The mill was in use until the 1880's, sad at different times Albert McNeece was the head sawyer. In rebuilding the town after the great fire in 1881. Theodore Wheeler built the Shorty Peppers store building from lumber supplied by this mill.\nSometime after the arrival of the Reels, Richard Sloan, great-great-grandfather of the Sloans (merchants) in Patoka came on horseback from South Carolina. The fact that he went directly to the Reel settlement would indicate that they had come from the same area of the Palmetto State. Having decided to stay here, he built a cabin and married Nancy Reel, daughter of John Reel. He engaged in farming and long distance hauling. An outfit for hauling was composed of two yokes of oxen and a high wheeled wagon. The high wheels enabled the wagon to pass over stumps and hog-backs in the road. Also, the high wheels would rotate in deep and where low wheels would slide. In the days before the railroad he hauled goods from Evansville to Vincennes over the Red Banks Road, formerly Red Banks Trail, which had been opened to traffic by the court of Knox County several years before the creation of Gibson County. The goods were brought to Evansville from New Orleans by keelboats and steamboats.\nMr. Sloan eventually located in Patoka Township and in 1841 took part in the organized deer hunt or drive in the bottoms along the Patoka River. While conversing with other hunters he laid his rifle across a stump. When ready to resume the chase, he grabbed his rifle by the muzzle and in some way the gun was discharged,\nthe bullet passing under the right arm and out through the shoulder. Such a wound, today would sees like a minor one, but these were the days before antiseptic surgery.\nAt an early age both of these men passed from the stage, but while they were here they did their share to overcome the wilderness and the pitiless Indian. John Reel and his sons helped repel the Indian so that settlers no longer feared to come to Indiana Territory, and in a few years the State of Indiana was organized and admitted to the Union December 11, 1816.\nJohn Reel, his wife, and other members of their family are buried in the Brown cemetery on the Nile Weitzel place.\nHAZLETON PLATTING THE TOWN\nJarvis Hazleton died in Illinois in 1844, leaving three sons as his heirs. Daniel W., the eldest son, was born here about 1807, several years before the family moved to Illinois. Gervase and David, full brothers were born in Illinois in 1827 and 1832, and were half brothers to Daniel.\nIn 1840 Daniel W. sold his one third interest in the Hazleton Ferry farm to John Brown. The survey line was not run until the death of Mr. Brown in 1852, which event made the survey necessary to settle the estate. The next year Joseph Kimmel set a heavy post on the bank of the river on what is now the White River Sand and Gravel lot, from which a line was run southward through the farm, the Brown heirs taking all the land west of the line and David and Gervase Hazleton the land east of it. From that day to this the old Brown-Hazleton line which runs down the center of Mill Street has been a line from which surveyors often start in locating other boundary lines.\nDavid and Gervase Hazleton were closely associated in business throughout life, and continued to hold their inheritance jointly. David never married, and when living in this part of the country he made his home with his brother's family. During the 1850's David lived in Dldordo and Nevada Counties in California, probably drawn there by the gold rush of 1849. In his absence he granted power of attorney to his brother to sell their holdings in Indiana and Illinois. On July 25, 1855, papers were drawn up to plat the town in the names of Gervase and David Hazleton. The town was named, of course, in honor of the Hazleton family.\nLucius B. French, of Patoka, who had helped to build the railroad, was employed to plat the town. Main Street was to be 2\u00bd poles\nwide, all other streets two poles wide. A pole is one rod. Main Street began at the river a little over 400 ft. east of the Kimmons pole, and ran southward parallel to the Brown Hazleton line. There were three full blocks east of Main St. and three west of it, all south of First St. Two fractional blocks lay north of First St. All that is left of the fractional blocks is the land on which the Town Hall is located, and the adjoining Selfe property. Running east and west were First, Second, Third and South St.\nThe survey of the original town, containg 32 acres, was completed early in 1856, and lots sold readily. The writer has an original deed, written in longhand, signed and sealed by Gervase and Lucinda Hazleton Apr. 1, 1856. It conveys to one Levi Breazentine Lots 5 and 6 in Block 6 in the town of Hazleton, for the sum of $32. Although these lands have been sold many times, they have never been divided or sold separately, and are now the property of Wood Sprinkle. Lots east of Mill St. between the filling station and the elevator sold for $30 each and were bought in March, 1856 by pioneer Alexander Bennett, who built on lot #2 what is still known as the Pap Johnson home. Lots on Main St. were higher. The Thorne home, first owned by Jacob Curtis, sold for $200. In the 1860's Peter Ehlers built a cobbler shop there.\nPLATTING THE TOWN--ADDITIONS\nHazleton's addition was a small one on the north side of town, with nine lots between the railroad and the river and seven lots east of the railroad. Four residences and two grain elevators once stood on the lots west of the railroad, but only one is there today, the Milburn Manning home.\nBrown's first addition, recorded July 19, 1865, lay west of Mill St. and extended to the low lands along Robb Creek. Many of the town's early industries were located on this land. There were two sawmills, the distillery, the Atlanta Flour Mill, a packing house and a stave and heading factory.\nBrown's secondition lay went of Robb Creek, and was known for years as Arkansas. This addition had two full blocks and two fractional blocks. It grow rapidly for a while, but now only a few families live there.\nThe Eastern Enlargement, platted by Lunsford J. Thorne and others, was by far the largest addition made to the town. It lay east of the original town and the Hazleton addition and contained 123 lots. Hazleton was growing fast at that time and many non-residents bought lots for speculation.\nThorne's addition, platted by members of that family was quite a large addition, but much of it was never laid out in town lots. It is the extreme eastern part of town and includes both of the Odd Fellow Cemeteries. This addition gave the town an area of 1142 acres.\nBrown's second addition was for many years not connected with the town, since it lay across Robb Creek. The people came to town along the old Warth road which forded the creek near the old Cumberland Presbyterian Church. There was also a footlog crossing\nfor pedestrians. About the year 1881 Second Street was connected with what was called Cuba Island by a wooden covered bridge. The bridge was built by Cunningham Allen, who had emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland. The bridge was condemned in 1896 and a street was opened from Brown Street to Miss Rose Thorne's place. A steel bridge was erected over the creek. When US 41 was made to run through Arkansas another bridge was built over the creek and South Street was opened to the highway.\nHAZLETON IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES\nThis decade was probably the most important in the history of Indiana. A new constitution of the state became a law Nov. 1, 1851. This, together with a law enacted by the General Assembly in 1852 ushered in a new era in education and provided for the first tire free public schools in Indiana. Improved farm machinery was taking the place of the saw and flail, the steam engine was supplanting water power in saw mills and grist mills, and cable ferries were coming into general use.\nThe Wabash and Erie Canal and the railroad provided cheaper transportation for Gibson County. Hazleton was platted in the midst of these stirring times, and set going with a bright and promising future. Her transportation facilities -- the stage line, steam boats and the railroad gave her many advantages over towns without these facilities.\nIn 1850 there were only a few cabins here, and except for the small clearings around them Hazleton was an unbroken woodland. The old Red Bank Trail wound its way southward from the ferry to the hill behind the T. T. Thorne home, thence along the hill to the railroad crossing in the south part of town, and from there it followed just about its present course to the Robb Mill and Stage Station. The railroad was built in the early fifties and just about every man in the area worked on this project. Many were engaged in cutting ties and stringers used in building the track and timbers for bridging White River. James Ellis, progenitor of that family here, cut fuel for the old wood burning locomotives and delivered it to the wood lot at Robb's Villa.\nWages were high during the project and all kinds of produce brought good prices. This made good times, and many a house was built and farm paid for with these earnings. New businesses were started\nand old ones expanded, which caused, numerous immigrants to locate in Hazleton and the surrounding country.\nBy the year 1852 nearly all of the original settlers and early leaders had passed as and a new generation was taking over. Gervase Hazleton founder of the town, was born in Illinois in 1827, married Lucinda Wardell in 1849, and brought his family here in 1851. It is said that he lived in the old Hazleton tavern built by his father, Jarvis Hazleton, until he could build his own house. This was a large frame house which was razed to build the school building a few years ago. Gervase Hazleton was brought up in the sawmilling and ferrying business, and soon after coming here he started building a saw mill and a ferry boat.\nOthers locating in Hazleton during the fifties were James Robb, P. S. Fuller, Thomas Johnson and David Wardord, merchants; John Breedlove and Warren Hudspedth, blacksmiths; William Mc Kinley and Cunningham Allen, carpenters; Ellridge C. Gardner and Daniel Knight, mill managers; Henry Clay Young and John F. Scherer, physicians; Fleming Miller, sawmiller; Ed Sweetland, head sawyer; Jacob Curtis and LaFayette Johnson, teachers; Abraham Westfall, ferryman; Charles Cox, engineer, Elizabeth Phillips, milliner, and Stephen Durkee, grist miller. The Paula came from Virginia via Tennessee and many laborers came from the Eastern and Southern states along with a few from foreign countries.\nTHE HAZLETON SCHOOL OF 1846\nOne other building was used for school purposes at Robb's Mills. This community was called Robb's Mills until the platting of the town in 1856. The building was a log house similar to the first school building but was a little better constructed. It had been used for flax storage, but sometime around 1840 it was fitted for a school room. It had a puncheon floor and the fireplace was of stone. A few glass windows were installed, and writing shelves were made of sawed boards instead of riven slabs. The school stood across the creek from the home of Noel Krug, where the road crossed the creek. A large beech tree stood on the bank, and from its base flowed a spring of clear water which never went dry. The \"drinking fountain\" consisted of this spring and a gourd dipper. The trunk of the tree was covered with names, initials, hearts etc. carved with pupils jack knives.\nIn the year 1846 a young man came to Robb's Mills and decided to stay for a few days. He had a good education for his time, and was endowed with good judgment and understanding, and possessed a lot of good common sense. He was of jolly disposition, was fond of music, and played skillfully upon the flute and fife.\nA teacher was needed at that time and he was encouraged to set up a school. Although all schools were on a subscription basis then, he soon had sixty pupils enrolled, ranging in age from six to thirty years. This was probably the largest enrollment up to that time in Robb school. Geography and History were taught in addition to the three R's and Spelling. There was a feeling of friendship between the teacher and his pupils and the year was a very successful one.\nThe teacher boarded around among the patrons, but stayed at\nthe Robb Inn most of the time. The attraction was a young lady who, with her mother, was living there. She became the bride of the young school master, Robert T. Henderson, and the mother of Cash Henderson who will be remembered by most of our citizens.\nNear the close of the gay nineties, over fifty years after the closing of the school, the writer was engaged in plowing on the site of the old school building. Upturned brick bate and rocks showed where the old school building had stood. The venerable and beloved Uncle Bobby Henderson came slowly up the road. He was nearly eighty years old. He approached the boy and the plow and said, \"I taught a subscription school here in 1846, the year the Mexican War began.\" He related the story of the school as it is related here, but with many things omitted because they are forgotten.\nThere are no landmarks left of the old school. Only the creek remains. The spring flowed slower and slower and finally dried up. The beech tree was felled by lightning in 1900. The building was used as a residence until the great flood of 1875 washed it away.\nUncle Bobby Henderson served as musician in Company H, 130th Illinois Regiment during the Civil War, and with his fife, aided by the drummer, cheered the soldiers on their matches.\nTHE BARNETT SCHOOL\nThe Robb School was abandoned about 1850. It was relocated in a log building owned by John Brown near the location of the O. K. Spafford home. Vincent Barnett was active in the organization of the school and it was named for him. It was the usual log construction with one exception -- there were two doors, one on each side of the building.\nIn many communities the boys and girls were not allowed to attend the same school, Princeton, Indiana did not allow boys and girls to be educated together until 1854. In most rural schools there was no discrimination of this kind, but even there they were segregated. The two doors in Barnett School proved to be useful in enforcing this custom. The girls sat on the east side and used the East door. The boys sat on the west side and used the west door. The propriety of having both boys and girls in the same school was discussed at the Gibson County Teacher's Meeting in 1870. A majority of the teachers favored grouping the children together in classes and doing away with segregation.\nGreat strides were made during the 1850's toward the betterment of the schools. In the Barnett School new and better textbooks, including the McGuffy Readers and Ray's Arithmetic were introduced. The course of study was enlarged until it included what was later called the \"Eight Common branches.\" This old log school was the community center for church and public meetings and remained so until 1863 when the people south of town moved into their new frame school\u00adhouse. This was the 36 or Spain School.\nThe last year of the Barnett school was one of strife and turmoil. For some reason the teacher was very unpopular with the pupils and patrons. The pupils took advantage of this state of affairs by annoying the teacher in every way possible. They played truant,\nlocked him out of the building, tried to smoke him out by putting boards over the chimney, but the teacher refused to leave. The larger boys decided to give him a good thrashing. He took them on one at a time and licked the lot of them. The parents finally stopped the teacher's pay, which meant, of course, that he had to leave. The late Robert Fuller finished out the term.\nJohn Will Brown and George V. Curtis attended this school. When they met in later years they used to talk over old times at the Barnett School.\nAccording to Dr. Howard's diary the school burned in 1866.\nTHE MAIN STREET AND OCTAGON SCHOOLS\nFollowing its founding in 1856 Hazleton began to grow rapidly, so the citizens began to plan a school for their town. The first building was north of the odd Fellows building and had formerly been occupied by a shoemaker and a cobbler. There were about thirty pupils under the tutelage of Prof. LaFayette Johnson. He was a small man, sinewy and quick-motioned, with very black eyes and hair. He was a well qualified instructor, well thought of, and a fairly good fiddler.\nThe citizens raised money by popular subscription to build a building for school and church purposes. The site was on the hill a little to the northwest of the old P. C. Brice home. The lumber was furnished by the Hazleton-Williams Mill on Mill St. and the Daniel Knight Mill which stood on the Hazleton Flour Mill lot. The late Newton F. Knight, then a boy in his teens, helped haul the lumber to the building site.\nRobert F. Fullerton was the architect. The building was eight aided and for that reason was called the Octagon School. The door was in the west wall and there was a window in each of the other seven. The roof formed an octagonal pyramid, the belfry built at the apex, supported by a strong center pole. Wide planed boards were used for a writing shelf along the inner wall. Larger children sat at these \"desks\" and the smaller children sat on benches in the center of the room. From time to time a few factory made seats were installed, so that eventually the seating in the school was as good as any to be found at that time.\nThe building was completed during the school year 1860-61. Prof. Johnson led his pupils two by two to the new building. For the first time the Eight Common Branches were taught. Professor Johnson kept his violin at school and often played for the\nchildren at recess. Sometimes when the weather was too bad to go outside the benches were pushed back and the children danced to the music of his fiddle.\nThe next teacher was a Mr. Jones. He was followed by Mrs. Elmira Williams, wife of Fleming Williams who was Gervase Hazleton's partner in the saw mill. She was the first woman to teach in the community, and was a member of the first Class of Methodists organized by Josiah Kightly in 1864.\nThe Octagon School was in use from 1860 to 1870.\nEARLY RAILROADS IN INDIANA\nThe internal improvement craze struck Indiana about 1835, at which time they began building roads, canals and railroads. They attempted to make even small streams navigable by removing snags and drifts from the channel, by felling trees which leaned over the water and by lopping off overhanging branches. Commissioners were appointed to oversee the work on the Patoka River in 1833.\nThis article treats briefly of the railroad construction and equipment in Indiana down to the time of the construction of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad through Hazleton. They experimented first with horse drawn cars on wooden rails. In 1834 the Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg Railway had completed a mile or two of this track and were running excursions at 25\u00a2 a round trip so that people could try out the new transportation. On one of these trips the horse made the unheard of speed of 19 miles an hour (going down hill) which caused several ladies to swoon and strong men to reel giddily.\nThe early branch railroads were laid with wooden rails with long flat strips of iron spiked to their bearing surfaces. Until the late 1840's the usual locomotives weighed about 15 tons. The tender was a small flat-car carrying two or more water barrels and the wood for fuel. Fuel wood could be bought for 900 a cord stacked along the track. There were no regular water stations and leather bags were carried to dip water from ditches along the track. Hence the term \"Jerk-water Railroad.\" Passengers were expected to \"water-up\" and \"wood-up\" the tender.\nThe first steam Railroad of any importance in Indiana was the Indianapolis and Madison Railroad opened in 1838. It was laid with fifty pound iron T-Rails brought all the way by boat from England\nvia the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Freight cars were small box-like structures mounted on four wheels and carrying three tons. The average length of a freight train was fifteen cars, and twelve miles an hour was considered a good rate of speed. Passenger cars were also very small, mounted on four wheels and carrying twelve to fifteen passengers. Twenty miles an hour was a good speed for a passenger train with four care.\nBy the year 1850 great improvement was made in equipment. In that year the largest locomotive west of the Alleghenys arrived by boat from the Atlantic Coast for the Indianapolis and Madison. All the newspapers announced the arrival of this \"Giant of the rails.\" It weighed 43 tons, with 300 horse-power. Cars were made larger and mounted on eight wheels. Improvement in track, rails, and road bed did not keep pace with the larger equipment, with the result that in the 1850's and 60's there were many wrecks due to the heavy equipment and increased speeds.\nBy the time the Railroad was built through Hazleton the engineers had learned much about track building. Tracks were laid on wooden stringers. Cross ties and stringers were made of white or burr oak. Grading, bridging and track building made the railroad cost about $100,000 per mile.\nTHE EVANSVILLE AND CRAWFORDSVILLE RAILROAD\nIn the beginning the railroad which eventually passed through Hazleton was called the Evansville and Illinois Railroad. It was to be the interstate line connecting Evansville with Olney, Ill. It was to run northward to Princeton and westward to cross the Wabash at Mt. Carmel. The charter was granted in 1849 and the Evansville and Illinois Railroad was organized that same year.\nThe citizens of north Gibson County bestirred themselves and petitioned the railroad to extend the line north to Columbia, now Patoka. The directors investigated and found that quite a lot of farm produce, especially pork, was produced in this region. There were several sawmills and packing houses along the Patoka River. The annual kill of hogs amounted to 18,000, and all the produce was transported by flatboat on the river. The directors decided that to extend the line into the Patoka and White River basins was a better proposition than extending the line into Illinois. They announced extension of the line from Princeton to Vincennes via Columbia, and the engineers began surveys of the two proposed routes early in 1851.\nThen began the rivalry between Hazleton and Buena Vista (Giro) to see which town would get the railroad. Buena Vista was a thriving town, platted in 1848, as large as any to be found between Princeton and Vincennes. They had two packing houses and John L. Key and sons operated a large sawmill there. It was the largest flatboat port on White River. The business men offered to buy stock and grant free right-of-way.\nMeanwhile, the Hazleton citizens has not been idle. John Brown gave free right-of-way and offered to buy stock. He had two saw mills and moved more produce on the river than any other exporter. James Robb carried a large amount of merchandise in his tavern-store and P. S. Fuller had opened a store on the Brown property. Gervase\nHazleton had arrived that year and built a saw mill and a ferry. The Washington-DePauw mill was under construction. These mills were strong factors in our favor because of the large amount of lumber needed to build the railroad. The deciding factor was Gervase Hazleton's decision to plat a town here. After deciding on the Hazleton route the company announced a decision to extend the line to Terre Haute and Crawfordsville.\nTo expedite the building the right-of-way was laid off in reaches. These reaches were long or short, depending upon the amount of work to be done. A contractor could take as many reaches as he could supply men to do the work. The flat country north of Evansville was not difficult and the road was completed to Princeton in 1852. A celebration was held there with the arrival of the first train. When the \"jubilee special\" arrived there people had gathered from all over the country to witness the celebration and to see their first train. The little train, bedecked with flags, came whizzing into town whistling and blowing off steam. The president of the railroad stool on the tender and addressed the crowd.\nA little old lady in Fort Branch flagged one of the first trains with a red table cloth. She said she just wanted to see the cussed thing.\nThe cut through the Miller hill was one of the heaviest works on the line and required a great amount of excavation. At this point a large group of men worked a number of months. The dirt was loosened with a heavy plow drawn by several yokes of oxen. It was then shoveled into carts and dumped on the right-of-way south of the cut where large embankments were required. The spade work was done by Irish workers who lived, in shanties west of the railroad. Most of the shanties were small, but the larger sleeping houses contained twenty bunks for lodgers. These workmen were contentious fighters. Feuds sprang up between persons, families,\nand groups which came from different parts of Ireland. They fought to a finish with clubs or tools, and sometimes were so badly hurt they could not work for days. Most Americans of that time settled their differences with their fists, and when the battle was over, shook hands and drank to each other's good health. The railroad officials, engineers, contractors and foremen lived in tents east of the railroad and boarded with Mrs. Miller, who at that time earned most of the money to build the \"Miller Brick.\"\nThe heaviest work was between Hazleton and Decker -- the high embankment and the White River Bridge. These works would require a long period of time and one of the largest camps was set up near Robb's Mills. It was an ideal site for a camp. The ground was high and there was an abundance of water at the dam. The old Vincennes stage line passed the camp, facilitating travel to cities to cities and locations where work projects were located. The Irish were camped along Robb Creek and the other workers located north of town near Thorne's Eddy. The Irish had many strange customs. Often after working all day they would dance all night to the music of the Irish harp and bagpipe. They held wakes over the bodies of their dead, at one time weeping and wailing and at another time it was a festive occasion, eating, drinking and merry-making, all at the expense of the dead.\nThe track was laid as fast as the grading was completed, mudsills were used over the marshy places, but on most of the road ties were set on dirt ballast. Strong stringers were used, requiring no support other than the ties. Rails were 50 pound iron T-rails imported from England. Specimens of these rails can still be seen in the old Fields graveyard near Steelman Crossing, where they were used as head and foot stones.\nThe road was completed to Robb's Mills about 1854. A depot was built there, a turntable installed, and provision made to water-up and wood-up. Most of the track between Vincennes and Terre Haute had been laid. Passengers were transported by stage coach from Robb's Mills to Vincennes and there boarded trains for points farther north. Freight was hauled in heavy ox-drawn wagons. Old records show that that Joshua Manning and John B. Dildy hauled freight to Buena Vista for $1.50 a load.\nAll business was conducted at Robb station until the depot was built within the town limits. The wood yard remained at Robb's Mills until the locomotives changed to coal burning about 1880.\nThe station remained at Robb's Mills for many years. Freight was taken there for shipment and passengers entrained at the depot. Many of the \"Boys in Blue\" departed from there. Uncle Ike Westfall remembered walking out there to board the train, but on returning from the war they detrained at the new station in Hazleton.\nThe railroad bridge at Hazleton was a fine example of the old covered wooden bridge. Massive wooden arches supported the structure, made of the finest yellow poplar. Most of the timber was supplied by local mills and by John L. Key and sons at Buena Vista. In the latter case the timber was floated down river to the site. Bridge building was slow because there were few labor saving devices. Most hoisting had to be done with ropes and oxen. It took as long to build the trestle work and scaffolding as to build the bridge itself. By the middle of 1855 the bridge was finished, the gap was closed and preparations were made to initiate through service. This bridge was in use until 1892, when heavier trains made it necessary to replace it.\nA schedule for through trains was drawn up in July 1855. There were to be four trains a day. A passenger and mail train left Evansville each morning. One departed from Terre Haute about\nthe same time. The passengers were expected to make 20 miles an hour, the freights 11, but they were seldom on time because of derailments, broken couplings, and hot journal-boxes. There were no night runs, and it is doubtful whether trains were lighted at that time.\nGreat improvements had been made in the rolling stock and the company bought the best available. It was crude, however, compared with that in use today. The engines were small wood burners with two pairs of driving wheels, enormous cowcatchers and smoke stacks. The latter were inverted cones about three feet across and covered with heavy screen. Wood burners were notorious for scattering fire-brands along the track and causing destructive fires. Passenger and freight cars were small, made mostly of wood and coupled with link, and pin. The brakes were hand brakes. Cars were heated with wood stoves, and after 1860 lighted with coal oil lamps. Double windows and vestibules were unheard of, so cars were always filled with smoke and dust and wood ash. Freight cars carried 20 tons, and 25 cars was considered a heavy haul for even the best engines.\nRailroading was a far more hazardous occupation than it is today. Many brakemen were maimed or killed in setting brakes or couplings. George Kelte, a brakeman was decapitated in front of the depot here July 12, 1876. While setting a brake some part of it broke and caused him to fall beneath the train.\nIn March 1877 the name was changed to the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad. About 1913 it became the Chicago and Eastern Illinois.\nTHE HAZLETON RAILROAD WRECK\nAt eight o'clock on the morning of March 10th, 1897, fast train #5 was wrecked on the high embankment half way between Hazleton and Decker.\nThe White River flood of that year was the highest ever known at that time, and the bridge and trestle span at Decker was too narrow to let the waters maintain a level on both the east and west sides of the embankment. As a result, the water piled up seven feet higher on the upper side and exerted a powerful pressure against the embankment. In some way the water trickled through, probably through the burrow of some small animal, and weakened the embankment so that it gave way under the heavy engine. The train buckled and the engine turned over on its side on the east side of the levee. The engineer was running on slow orders, but still running fast enough to telescope the baggage and smoking cars. The old wooden cars completely telescoped except for small spaces at the ends of each car. Each of these spaces saved the life of one man. All who died in the wreck, except for the fireman, were killed in these two cars, and the bodies washed away before they could be removed from the wreckage. The ladies ear and the sleeper remained on the track and none of their occupants was injured. An engine from Vincennes pulled the ladies car back to Vincennes, but was unable to separate the sleeping car from the smoker.\nThe breach beneath the wrecked cars was rapidly widened by the current and in the course of a few hours the wreckage broke loose and plunged into the yawning gap. Few people realize the power of impounded water when it breaks its leashes. It tossed the demolished care about like feathers. When the wreckage washed away and was torn apart by the current, a limp arm in a blue sleeve, supposed to be that of the conductor, George H. Sears, was seen hanging from one of the windows.\nWhen the engine turned over it is supposed to have fallen on the fireman, but the engineer was thrown clear of the wreck and into the deep water beyond. John McCutchan had been an engineer nineteen years and this was his first wreck. He first realized what had happened when he found himself submerged in deep water. The current carried him against the engine. His call to the fireman brought no response. He could see the outline of the embankment and leaped for it, landing on dry ground. Before him lay the mass of wreckage. He called loudly, and this time a voice answered him.\nHarry Hill was baggage man on the ill-fated train. There was a large shipment of empty mail sacks in transit and he had piled them in the end of the car. He was dozing in a chair when the crash came, and was thrown against the pile of mail sacks. This probably saved his life. He found himself enclosed in a small space surrounded by broken timbers and twisted iron. He found an opening at the top and had crawled out when McCuchan called. John told him he was on solid ground and told him to jump, but Harry told him there was something between him and the bank. John found a protruding timber and worked it loose until Harry was able to leap to safety. There were no other sounds from the wreck, so the men assumed they were all dead. They walked to Hazleton to report the wreck.\nThe most harrowing experience was that of \"Dutch\" Schoultz, the flag man. He was sitting in the seat of the smoking car and the car was smashed to within a few feet of where he sat. He was unhurt, except that one foot was caught between the timbers at the bottom of the car, and could not be pulled loose. The space was too small for rescuers to chop or pry him loose. Rinkey Kinman, Herb Trickett, and several other young men risked their lives to try to rescue this young man. As a last resort,\nDr. Royce Davis was brought from Decker to amputate the foot, but as Dr. Davis and Herb Trickett entered the car the front end began to sink, and both men hurried back into the smoking car. Herb turned to bid the flagman goodby, and almost collapsed when he saw the flagman coming out behind him. The movement of the wreckage had released his foot. Those who heard him said the young man had prayed beautifully and earnestly for deliverance, and his prayers were answered. A few seconds later, the car tore loose and was swept down the river.\nThe number killed was a matter of conjecture. Some estimates were as high as twelve. Only one body, that of W. H. Lange, a sales-man from Fort Wayne, Indiana was ever recovered. For several years after people came on Memorial Day to place wreaths at the scene for relatives who were supposed to have perished there.\nThe Mississippi, the Ohio and the Wabash formed the trunk line of our navigation system, and the early history of Indiana is closely connected with the Wabash. Its principal tributary, the White River, was the outlet for the products of the Hazleton area until superceded by the railroad. Our early imports were brought here in keelboats, and our light exports carried away in keelboats, canoes, and other light trading vessels. By the year 1820 the farmers were producing corn and pork, and during the following decade wheat and lumber in exportable quantities. These heavy commodities required stronger boats and in the 1820's numerous flatboats appeared on the river. These were the most colorful of all the modes of transportation.\nThe early boats were made of sawed or whipsawed lumber, and as iron nails were not available they were held together with \"tree nails\", wooden pegs made of white oak. They were square, flat-bottomed barge-like vessels, about sixteen feet wide and eighty feet long. Flatboats were made on heavy sills strengthened sleepers, with sides extending two or three feet above the water line. Usually a roof was built over all or part of the boat, or canvas streched on stanchions to protect the cargo. A square, shallow box provided a place for a fire when filled with sand. Some boats were equipped with wooden pumps. The rudder was made by tree-nailing a wide board pivoted to the stern. Oars were pivoted to the side and were used to keep to the channel and to make landings. There was no propulsion. Flatboats simply drifted with the current.\nFew men made flatboating a regular occupation. Crews were made up of men from all walks of life. Men who did devote their lives to the river were much in demand an pilots because of their\nknowledge of the river. A crew consisted of six or seven men, one of whom acted as pilot or captain.\nNew Orleans was the great commercial capital of the Mississippi, but cargoes could often be sold in Memphis. Vicksburg, and other river ports. Flatboats made a one way journey, and so were sold with the cargoes. Some were set adrift, others broken up for lumber to build sidewalks and houses.\nThe following is taken from the diary of John Cunningham's pilot of Buena Vista, who sold a boat and cargo to his brother Sam, and then signed on as pilot for the trip.\n\"Jan. 1, AD 1845. Sold to Samuel Cunningham one flatboat $85, 368 bu. corn @ 18\u00a2 $66.24, Total $151.24. Received, Cash $80.12\u00bd, 5 lb beef 75\u00a2. Bal. Due, $70.36\u00bd.\nFeb. 1845 Landed one flatboat at Memphis and sold it to Charles Beeler. Corn and boat $600, pork $200. Cargo 2400 bu. corn and 10,000 lbs. pork.\nPaid Capt, George Canada $40, Wm. McCallister, Henry Miller, Jacob Elliott, John Cunningham each $25.\"\nIn the early days the flatboats carried only corn and pork. Later, the cargoes included wheat, lumber, staves, and shingles. Flatboats reached their peak in 1846-47, when 2,792 boats arrived in New Orleans. In 1850 Indiana accounted for 32% of the boats.\nPrior to his death in 1852 John Brown was the largest shipper in the area. He owned much of the land on this side of the river between Hazleton and Cunningham's Ferry and a large acreage do Knox County. His boat yard was on the big bend west of Hazleton on land which is now part of the McFetridge farm. Mr. Brown operated his boats throughout the year, carrying farm goods in season and lumber from his own mill. He bought farm products and shipped them in his boats.\nHazleton became an important port during the flatboat ere. Abraham Fields, who lived near Steelman chapel, was an excellent boat builder and supervised the building of many of the boats. Boats were leaving Hazleton every week.\nJohn Sullivan lived East of Hazleton on what is still called the Nancy Sullivan farm. In 1840 he loaded a flatboat with pork and employed Caleb Trippett, an experienced pilot to pilot it to New Orleans. They arrived at Natches late in the evening, and as a storm was threatening, they tied up for the night. Next morning there were signs of a terrible storm approaching. The crew, except for Sullivan, went to shore and took refuge behind a stone wall. The storm broke, tearing the boat from its moorings and out into the river. As it scudded away, Mr. Sullivan was seen clinging to a stanchion. When the storm abated, the wind drove the boat back to the bank, but John Sullivan was not on board, and he was never seen again. The salvaged cargo was sold at Natches, and the proceeds turned over to his family. Rhoda Phillips was a member of the crew, and the writer remembers hearing him tell of this ill-fated voyage.\nAfter the Civil War loads of horses, cattle, and poultry were floated down river. \"Did\" Darius Horrall bought these and other products and transported them. He also ran the Hazleton Ferry, and after the flatboat era continued to ply the river in his own steamboat, the Piankeshaw.\nBoats owned by the Bingham Brothers, James Cunningham and others left from Cunningham's Ferry piloted by David Hoy. Hoy left his home in Ireland at thirteen and went to sea. He traveled all over the world, and once when in New Orleans, he boarded a steamboat and came to Evansville. He finally settled in White River Township. His stories of far-away places, his songs and\ntales of the sea, all told in a rivh Irish brogue, were indeed something to hear.\nJames Cunningham, called\" Old Sutterfield\" by his friends, was born near Steelman Chapel and began boating when he was a boy. Once he piloted a boatload of miners from the diggings in Montana and Idaho down the Missouri to Omaha, where he stayed for a time sawing timbers for the Union Pacific Railroad. Later, he owned and operated a steamboat between Hazleton and Petersburg.\nAlthough flatboats first appeared on the White River during the nineteenth century, they had been operating on the Ohio and the Wabash since before the Revolution. The government needed them to transport troops and supplies along the river to Western outposts. In 1787 Col. Josiah Harmer brought a detachment of these troops to Red Banks, (Henderson, Ky.) and led them over the Redbanks Trail to Vincennes. There was not a white man living in Gibson County at that time. Flatboats, sometimes whole fleets of them, carried produce to New Orleans to be shipped to Eastern ports. They also carried thousands of settlers, but because of the hostility of the Indians north of the Ohio, nearly all of them settled south of the river, so that Kentucky had sufficient pop\u00adulation to be admitted to the Union in 1792, long before settlers began coming to Indiana in appreciable numbers. But the Battle of Tippecanoe changed all that. (1811) The Indians were completely routed and settlers began pouring into the country north of the Ohio.\nMany early families came as passengers, but some came in their own boats, constructed especially for that purpose, strongly made and fitted for family living, sometimes even with brick fireplaces and chimneys. The boats were loaded with household goods, tools, and even cattle, pigs and poultry. From the East they came down the Ohio from Pittsburg, and from the South via the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.\nIf a settler wished to locate on one of the streams the boat was towed to the chosen place and moored to be used for a home until enough land had been cleared for building a house. Then the boat was taken apart and the lumber used for the building.\nWhen Joseph Neely decided to leave Pennsylvania he took his family to Pittsburg and embarked on a flatboat bound for New Orleans. They disembarked at Marysville, Ky. and lived fifteen years at different places in Kentucky. Again they boarded a flatboat and came to the landing where Evansville now stands. (1805) They went on foot to where Princeton is now and after a stay with a settler there went on to Decker's Ferry. (Giro) Neely built his home three miles east of Hazleton. His nearest neighbors were James and David Robb. Their father, James Robb, had come from Ireland in 1773. He served with the Pennsylvania Militia, and after the Revolution moved to Kentucky. From there he brought his family to Indiana Territory. His sons David, John and James, and son-in-law, David Waller, were in the battle of Tippecanoe.\nWaitman Trippett, founder of that family in Gibson County, came down the Ohio from Pennsylvania and settled in Vincennes. Stories say he had a hand in building some of the Territorial buildings there. He later located in Gibson County on land adjoining the farm of James Robb, and reared a family of four sons and one daughter. His descendants, many of them in the learned professions, are scattered throughout the United States.\nHis son, Caleb Trippett, was a noted river pilot and flat-boatman. He was interested financially in many of the packing houses on the White and Patoka Rivers. Caleb Trippett made a fortune in the flatboating business, carrying his own and other merchandise to New Orleans Market.\nEdward H. Hitch, a minor and an orphan, left his home in Delaware and came West to seek his fortune. He bought a boat\nand went down the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, where he operated a wood yard to wood up steamers. After nearly losing a round with yellow fever, he came north by steamboat and took up land near killer's Station. He spent the rest of his life there, and is the ancestor of the Hitch family in Gibson County. His grandson, William Hitch, died in Hazleton at the age of 101\u00bd years.\nJohn C. Sisson piloted his flatboat down the Ohio and settled with his family in Crawford County. He remained there many years, and then moved to Gibson County by covered wagon. Four of his sons enlisted in the Union Army, and six of his sons qualified for the teaching profession.\nMuch has been written about the importance in settlement growth, and in the development of the country. Coming down the Ohio, they brought manufactured goods along with new settlers. When the Hoosier Land was a going concern, their own flatboats brought them prosperity.\nA flatboat trip south during the ante-bellum days was a trip to a foreign country, and nearly everyone made one or more trips. It has been estimated that 10,000 young men of the upper Mississippi valley made the trip to New Orleans yearly, and as a result of these trips the lives of millions of people were affected. These young men, of whom Abraham Lincoln is an example, saw the evils of the economic system of the old south; they saw the hard lot of slaves, as well as the plight of the poor whites, and many of them, including Lincoln, had seen slaves cruelly beaten. All of this tended to make Unionists and Emancipationists of them. When the struggle came between the North and the South, these men of the middle west decided in favor of the Unionists and human freedom.\nSTEAMBOATING ON WHITE RIVER\nWhite River was called Wah-pe-co-me-ka by the Indians and by the early white men, Shining River Steamboats on White River? Sounds absurd, doesn't it? Any one who has not seen and heard their shrill whistles will be hard to convince that steamboats ever navigated the stream. Great floods that sweep down the river now and the extremely low water at times make navigation impossible now. White River was once a beautiful and well-behaved river, with clean gravel beds and shining bars. The river basin was filled with forest trees and other vegetation extending to the water's edge, Before deforesration the thick, porous topsoil absorbed the rain as it fell and the snow as it melted. Before our drainage system was constructed there were numerous ponds and swampy land that held the surplus rainfall. These waters seeped into the ground and welled up as flowing springs from which flowed small streams and creeks, most of which flowed all summer long. Thus the flow of water was more equable throughout the year, and deep enough for steamboat navigation. Steamboats gradually replaced the rafts and flatboats by which produce had been transported.\nThe first steamboat was \"The Traveler\" in 1829, piloted by Capt. William Sanders. His route was on the Ohio down to New Orleans. On arriving there he found that the yellow fever was raging. He hastily unloaded his boat and steamed away without cargo. On arrival at shipping port he found a cargo of salt for shipment to Spencer, Indiana on White River. White River was narrow and winding, but since it was at flood, stage, he had no fear of trouble. When he reached Spencer, however, the river had started to fall, which caused the Captain much anxiety. He proposed to the pilots that they make the return trip at night. At first the two pilots refused, but finally agreed to attempt the trip,\nalternating each hour at the wheel With cargo and several passengers aboard, they started down stream. After several hours of blind travel on the swift river, the pilot said he heard the most welcome sound he had ever heard ---the sound of a rooster crowing. He knew that the dawn was breaking. About an hour and a half later they glided out upon the Wabash. Where was that rooster? Rinky Kinman, one of the last pilots on the river, says that it was an hour and a half trip from Hazleton to the Wabash, so that must have been a Hazleton rooster.\nThe steamboat \"Cleopatra\" was the first to stop at Hazleton. She tied up at the ferry landing in 1834 and people came long distances to-see her. For many it was their first sight of a steam engine.\nThere were three or four boats each year until 1850, when steamboats became more common. It is hard to imagine the rush of steamboats and the jam of shipping which crowded the river before and after the Civil War.\nPetersburg had no railroad until 1884, and most of her commerce was carried by steamboat. Regular packets plied the river between Petersburg and Hazleton, carrying mail, freight and passengers. Stops were made at Decker, Buena Vista and Oliphant's Bend. During the 1880's the Petersburg, nicknamed the Summer Coon, owned by W. C. Davenport ran regularly between Hazleton and Petersburg.\nAt that time James W. Cunningham piloted the Hunter on the river here. Then there was the Trias, owned by Hazleton people one of whom was Edward Jones, engineer.\nIn 1880 Hugh Ghormely leased the Emma and hired Albert McNeece, Robert Fraker and Rinkey Kinman as crew. This was Rinky's first venture on-the river, and Ghormely had to get his mother's permission to take him. He followed steamboating several years as engineer or cook.\nPacket service discontinued about 1886, but boats continued to ply the river, gathering up grain or other cargo. Tow boats came here and towed great rafts of logs to the mills at Mt. Carmel and Grayville, Illinois. Henry F. Thorne leased the Belleville and operated it for many years.\nThe following is an incomplete list of the steamboats on White River during the last twenty-five years of their service: Hugh Barr, Garrett Williams, Rosa Belle, Irene, Idlewild, Eugene, Diana, Bernice, Piankeshaw, George T. Frank, and the Betty Gilbert.\nOther steamboat men not mentioned before are: Harvey Phillips, Joe A. Davidson, Charles Pearson, Napoleon Gobble, engineers, Charles Knight and Charles McNeece, firemen, George Cain, roustabout, and Charles Ehlers, cook.\nLIFE ON THE RIVER.\nThe life on the river, whether flatboater, keeler, steamboatman, or raftsman was full of danger and excitement. They lived a hard, rough life, and were exposed to injury and death at all times. It was a common thing to lose one or two crewmen out of six. Drowning was a constant peril.\nDiseases lurked everywhere, and the boatmen suffered not only the usual ailments, but were exposed to yellow fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and small pox. There would be times when so many rivermen were sick that the hospitals would be crowded, and the government built marine hospitals in the port cities to relieve the situation. The old Marine Hospital in Evansville was discontinued just recently.\nThe flatboat season was during the flood stages of the river. Drinking muddy river water and the change from the cold in the north to the warm, damp south caused intestinal problems, colds and pneumonia. For this the cure was onion syrup and whiskey. Much suffering was caused by aguem for which early doctors prescribed sassafras tea. The boatman's remedy was whiskey mixed with salt and pepper. If they had known that many of there problems were caused by the mosquitoes they might have accomplished more by spraying the mixture on the mosquitoes.\nThe winters of pioneer days were much more severe than those of the present, and there were weeks of winter during which the rivermen suffered exceedingly from the cold. In an early day during an especially cold winter, (probably the one the Indiana referred to as The Great Cold) several flatboats were found adrift in the Ohio with ghastly crews of frozen corpses.\nIce was one of the most destructive agents encountered. Ice often blocked the Ohio and its tributaries for eight or ten weeks\nin winter. Often the streams would be frozen so solid that teams, wagons, horse-drawn sleighs and cattle could be driven over them. Spring thaws resulted in break-up of the ice, accompanied by flood waters. The power of great masses of ice carried on the swift current was very great, and did much damage to shipping. Boats, rafts, and other craft were torn from their moorings, crushed, sunk, or carried away. During an ice-flood a boatman would often tie his boat in a sheltered place and fell a tree to protect it from the ice floes. If he allowed his boat to became frozen in the ice and the river fell, leaving it suspended, there was no way to save it.\nIn anticipation of an ice flood, all' boats were taken to the Knox County side away from the swift current, ice floes and drift wood that swept past the Hazleton side of the river. In 1884, Wm. L. Bobbins was operating the sawmill at the foot of Mill St. The thaw came earlier than expected that year, and swept away his logs, boats, rafts, and other equipment, leaving him bankrupt. But him high business standards, acquired through honesty and fair dealing, enabled his to keep right on and recoup his losses.\nMany years ago, during an ice flood, the Hazleton ferry was tied up on the Knox County landing, attended by Enoch Selfe, veteran riverman, called \"Noels\" by his friends and the traveling public. A large sheet of ice drifted close enough to touch the boat. If it had been moored against a steep bank it would have been crushed, but the impact merely pushed the boat up the eloping bank undamaged. The river was so full of floating ice that it couldn't even be crossed in a skiff, so the ferryman walked home to get help by way of the railroad bridges at Decker. With each man carrying a screw-Jack, Noah led them back the way he had come, and with much time and effort they refloated the ferry boat.\nLIFE ON THE RIVER II\nA storm was one of most dreaded perils on the river. Flatboats and rafts could weather a rather rough gale from any direction except upstream. A storm blowing against the current whipped up waves called white-caps by the rivermen, high enough to run clear over a raft or flood a low-gunneled flatboat. In this case a pilot was compelled to tie up some place, sometimes for a week or more. Some men would pass the time by hunting in the woods, and others would look for a family nearby to get up a dance.\nCaving or sliding of the river bank was another danger. The swift current would under cut the bank and undermine it by erosion. Then, too, the banks were soaked and softened by water, and would slide into the river carrying trees with the slide. Any boat moored there was destroyed, and seldom was a crewman left to tell the tale. Cave-ins, while the greatest danger in themselves, were responsible for that great danger to the rivermen, snags.\nWhen a large tree drifted out into the river the trunk, or bole of the tree floated so low that the tree was almost upright in the water. The bole imbedded in the mud, and the alanting limbs became snags. A sunken tree was known as a planter, and if the free end bobbed up and down with the current it was called a \"sawyer. A sleeping sawyer was one so deep in the water that it never broke the surface. Snags were a problem in all the rivers, and were sometimes so thick that navigation was impossible. Snags near Hazleton were once such a a menace that the government sent two snag boats, the Richard Ford and the Osceo to remove them.\nEddies, ranging from small to great whirlpools whirled in the pockets of the winding river. A whirlpool has a tendency to draw all things into its center, and the stronger the current the greater the force. A boat which, allowed itself to get caught in one of these eddies must spend a great amount of effort and time to get out.\nLIFE ON THE RIVER III\nIslands or season of driftwood often separated the channel into two or more channels or chutes. A good many years ago there was such a place a mile or so below Hazleton called the \"towhead,\" a riverman's term for a slight obstruction in the stream. There was a projection of land into the river on the Gibson County side, and below it an island made two channels of the stream. A pilot going down stream had to round the point to shoot the chute safely, and going upstream had to stem the current to avoid being thrown against the bank. No trace of the towhead is there now.\nRapids and riffles were other dangers of navigation, the former being more dangerous because the river was filled with obstructions. Kelly's riffles were about a mile below Cunningham's Ferry and was a great hindrance to navigation. The river ran swiftly over rough bottom shallow water, ruffling and fretting the surface. The government succedded in blasting a channel to minimize the danger, but it was too late to help the steamboat pilots, for soon after, the river ceased to be used for navigation.\nBetween Cunningham's Ferry and Kelly's Ripples was a dangerous course known as \"nine tucks.\" Here the river ran in serpentine manner throwing the channel first on one side and then on the other. These dangerous caused many boats to stop at Hazleton and hire an experienced pilot to steer them to the Wabash. A steamboat pilot entering the river for the first time usually turned his boat over to a Hazleton pilot for the whole time he was on the river. The Dorcas Bowman, the last steamboat on the river, was piloted by the veteran pilot, Henry Thorne.\nRivermen gave odd and unusual names to things they saw on the river. A sharp point of land was called a \"paddy nose\" and Muscle Shoals was so called because of the amount of effort it took to put the boat over the shallows. Dangerous and difficult\nplaces were often named far His Satanic Majesty -- The Devil's Hake Oven, The Devil's Teapot, The Devil's Elbow, etc.\nThe Indians gave the boatmen plenty of trouble along the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, but there are no records of raids on White River due to the fact that few boats were on the river prior to 1811, the year the power of the Indians was broken at Tippecanoe. In the early days the Indians waylaid the boats, killed the men, looted the cargo and carried off the women and children into captivity.\nRiver pirates infested the area during the flatboat and rafting area. They hid in the forest, on rock bluffs, and on the islands. Many were Tories driven from their homes during the Revolution, some were criminals who had fled the Eastern States to escape punish\u00adment. They murdered the crew, took the cargo, and sank the boat. The loot they disposed of by selling it to allies in the river ports.\nLIFE ON THE RIVER IV\nRivermen referred to homeward journeys as \"Up-river walks.\" In the early days they walked the entire distance, carrying their own supplies and camping out at night. Each man carried his own emergency ration of a pint of finely ground parched corn, two tablespoons of which was supposed to sustain a man one day. Sometimes two of them would buy a mule and stagger their way home. One would ride ahead ten miles and tie the mule near the trail, then the other would come up and ride the same distance. If they took passage on a keelboat, they actually walked the distance in poling or towing the boat. On all steamboats the passengers were expected to help wood-up the boat.\nBecause of his skill and reliability Paddy Hoy was paid better than most pilots on the White River-New Orleans run. Consequently, he always came home by steamboat, and could tell many interesting stories of steamboating. Swarms of pick-pockets followed the river,\nknowing that all the passengers carried more or less cash. When returning flatboatmen were helping wood up a steamer, they put their valuables under a barrel and took turns sitting on the barrel head armed with a six-shooter. The Missouri boatmen were said to be tough. Whenever they discovered a light fingered gentleman on board they threw him overboard without ceremony.\nThe life of a boatman was not all hardship and toil, for they had many pleasures and amusements. In down-river floats they often lashed two or more boats together for protection and sociability. In groupings of this kind there were boats loaded with wheat, pork, and sometimes one carrying apple cider and whiskey. The inference is that they ate, drank, and made merry.\nIn a group of this kind there were always some good fiddlers, singers, dancers, and story-tellers. No crew was complete without a fiddler, who often was accorded privileges not enjoyed by other boatmen. Sometimes he \"rozumed\" up his bow and sawed a tune while the others danced, sang, set poles, or beat out time with the oars. Hazleton had many old time fiddlers, and three especially good ones. They were Phil Coonce, Gip Phillips, and Bill Lee. These men played by ear, but could play a tune after hearing it. In New Orleans they would hang around the dance halls to hear and pick up the latest music. Their services were in demand for boat dances, private homes and dance halls. The boatmen were fond of dancing and when the boat was tied up for any reason would think first of getting up a dance. The best dances were in New Orleans or Natchez, where there were girls available for partners.\nIt was said that the Hoosiers and Kentuckians were the best boatmen and the French Canadians the best singers and rowers. The river songs were famous, a popular one being \"Floating Down the Ohio\". They made the air ring with their singing. The French sang the Canadian songs and songs from their native France. There was a tradition that John Cunningham was the best singer among the White River boatmen.\nROBB'S MILLS\nAbout the year 1814 David Robb impounded the waters of the creek that flowed through his land about a half mile south of Hazleton and built a water-powered saw mill. In addition to this mill he later built a small grist mill with one run of stone. This business proving quite profitable, he put in another run of stone making a commercial mill with a large daily output. Before this mill was built the settlers carried their grain to the Kalt mill on the River Du Chien (De Shee) in Knox County. By the year 1817, Robb had both his mills in operation, and from that time until the town was platted in 1856 this community was called Robb's Mills. These were the best mills in the locality until they were supplanted by the steam powered saw and gristmills in the 1850's.\nDuring the 1830's the mills were operated by Mr. Robb's son-in-law, William McClure. He devoted most of his time to sawmilling and specialized in yellow poplar lumber, the finest to be found anywhere. His home, the first frame house to be built here, was built where the Roscoe Cunningham house now stands.\nIn 1850 John Brown leased the mills from the Commissioners of the David Robb estate for $200 annually. The lease included the mills, a log lot, and a log house formerly used as a school. Mr. Brown transported most of the lumber from the mill down the river in flatboats. His last river trip before his death was in 1852.\nWe have reason to believe that the grist miller was Stephen Durkee, who, with his wife, Sally, came to this neighborhood in 1851. The late John Will Brown told of watching the Miller grind the burrs with chisel and mallet. An old burr stone from this mill is now in the yard of the Eagle's Home in Princeton.\nFollowing the death of John Brown the mills were taken over\nby John L. Key, who operated a mill at Buena Vista. He sawed a great amount of the lumber used in building the railroad. Mr. Key was an expert sawyer, and supervised the cutting of the slightly rounded timbers used in the arches of the river bridge.\nThere was quite a settlement at Robb's Mills. The large brick house served as an inn and a stage station. There was a carpenter shop. blacksmith shop, store and distillery. East of the inn was a race track where horse races were held, with stables for race horses and stage horses.\nBusiness began declining at Robb's Mills as business in the new town increased. After the railroad depot was moved to Hazleton and the Atlanta Flour Mill was built, Robb's Mills ceased to be a community center and trade center. The old dam, much of which is still standing, marks the site of Robb's Mills.\nTHE ATLANTA FLOUR MILL\nDuring the years between the founding of the town and 1870 the population of Hazleton increased greatly and the village expanded into an industrial town.\nAbout 1863 the Atlanta switch was laid along Mill Street to the Hazleton Mill lot on the river. A turntable was installed so that tracks could be laid in different directions. One spur led to the flour mill, one to the distillery, and another to the river bank near the Gervase Hazleton Sawmill. A yoke of gigantic black oxen served as a switch engine. These shipping facilities caused most of the industry to be located on Mill Street. Gervase Hazleton was, of course, the leading industrialist, for after founding the town he set up several industries to attract new citizens.\nBingham Brothers ranked next to Hazleton in promoting industrial growth. Gordon and Sylvester Bingham came from Baltimore to Princeton. About the time the railroad was completed to Patoka, the Binghams located there, built a flour mill and a distillery.\nThe Atlanta Flour Mill was a three storey building completely equipped with the finest machinery for making high grade flour, meal, and other products. The mill did a lucrative business, supplying the local demand and shipping by rail and steamboat great distances.\nBy the middle 1870's both the Binghams were dead and their businesses came to a standstill. The mill changed ownership several times but with little success until it was purchased by Kightly and West. Alex West was a hustling young business man who soon had the flour mill going full blast. He operated\nthe mill until 1888 when it was destroyed by fire along with 30,000 bushels of wheat. The town was slow to recover from this blow, because it was six years until the mill was replaced by another.\nThe Atlanta Flour Mill brought a lot of trade and money to Hazleton. Many men and boys were employed and the payrolls were heavy.\nHAZLETON MILLING COMPANY\nAfter the destruction of the Atlanta Mill the Hazleton people had to depend on other places for breadstuffs. These were the days of custom milling, when, grain was taken to the mill and exchanged for flour. The exchange rate was 1-6 for wheat and 1-8 for corn, and the miller gave you the bran. Most farmers were in the habit of depositing their wheat or corn at the mill and taking the flour or meal as needed. The people sorely missed this service. During the years we were without a mill our citizens patronized the mills in Princeton and Patoka, a long and tiresome journey in a two-horse wagon. Most of them went to the old water mill at Patoka, which with its roaring water, tumbling machinery and jooy old Dutch miller, Mr. Weber was an interesting place to visit.\nA meeting of interested persons was held here June 28, 1887 to see what could be done about a new mill. The Hazleton Milling Company was organized with five directors. These were Franklin White, Edward Jones, A. B. De Priest, Moses Reedy and Byron Spain, the last named president of the board. They decided to raise $10,000 by selling stock at $50 each to build the mill. Over half of the shares were sold at this meeting.\nOn July 23, 1887 Ella S. McIntosh sold the Depauw Mill lot to the Hazleton Milling Company, and work was started getting out the heavy timber needed to build the mill. Most were brought from the heavy woods that lay beyond the Hazleton farm, and from the swamps around Goose Pond. Peter H. Ehlers, with his heavy wagon drawn by two teams of horses, hauled the sills to the building site and the logs to the saw mills.\nHazleton had several good carpenters at this time and most of them worked on the building, under the direction of Peter M. Snyder, who, it was said, expertly read the carpenter's square and knew more about its uses than any other man in the area.\nThe mill opened for business in 1888 on the site now occupied by the Lowell Armstrong business. Charles T. Meehan was manager, H. G. Claypool, miller, and Jefferson Camp, engineer. The mill produced high quality products, and the demand for \"Cream Loaf\" flour couldn't be supplied.\nMr. Meehan quit because of ill health and Herb Brown was in charge until it was taken over by Alonso J. Murray. The mill and its contents burned in 1985, and Hazleton was again without a mill until A. C. Heise came to town.\nHAZLETON\"S FIRST GRAIN ELEVATOR\nThe first grain elevator was located north of town near the section house where the railroad runs close to the river. Although it was called an elevator, it was merely a makeshift arrangement to transfer grain from river barges to railroad cars. A large building with grain bins was beside the track, so two cars could be loaded at once.\nThe power driven sheller was set on a barge. An inclined tram way led to the bins. The tram car holding about 30 bushels of grain was operated by a power windlass. Wheat was trammed directly into the bins, but corn was shelled on the barge, the cobs dropped into the river. In the storage bins grain was shoveled by hand into the cars.\nDuring the 1870's steamboats ran almost the year round boating grain to this mill. Uncle Bill De Priest and a Mr. Wills took over this mill and did a thriving business until the works were lost by fire in 1887. The fire bankrupted the firm, as well as many farmers who were unable to collect on their grain. The farmers in the river bottoms were hard hit, since they had lost the crops the year before in the August flood. Many of them had to sell all or part of their land.\nOnce an out of town grain buyer, wearing store clothes and a business air had a close call at the sheller barge. There was a strip of dead water between the barge and the bank, so the cobs, corn silks, husks, and grain settled there giving the appearance of solid ground. The young man attempted to board the barge by walking over this accumulation instead of using the gang plank. Of course he went under, and was rescued by a bargeman with a spike pole before he went under the barge.\nWhen pulled from the water he was shivering with cold and fright, his teeth chattering, his dripping garments covered with grain dust and slime clung to his body, giving him the appearance of a rained-on fowl. He was a comical eight, but nobody laughed openly. A bystander pulled a flank of the universal elixir from his pocket and administered first aid on the spot. Then he led him to the warmth of the boiler fire, wrapped him in gunny sacks, wrung out his clothes and domed him so regularly with the elixir that the soused man was soon re-soused.\nThe second Hazleton elevator was also built on this spot, and they also operated a steam boat which carried grain on the river. This elevator was also destroyed by fire in 1883.\nTHE HAZLETON COOPER SHOP\nThe building of the Atlanta Flour Hill, the Distillery, and the Packing House in Hazleton created a need for kegs and barrels here, and Gervase Hazleton built a Cooper Shop on Main Street. For a long time it was the busiest and most interesting shop in town. It was a long rectangular building lighted with many windows. On one side was a fireplace so large that two sets of dog irons were placed side by side. Barrels intended for the storage of liquor were placed on these dog irons to char the inside, for it was the custom at that time to age liquor in charred barrels. In making the barrels any staves that refused to bend to the hoop were placed over the fire until they could be bent.\nAlong the north side of the building work space was assigned to each cooper, who was provided with work bench, shaving horse, and keg trestle, but was required to provide his own tools. The management furnished all the materials and the floor was piled high with rough heading and stave tomber, hooppoles and stacks of tattail flag. Most of the materials were brought in from the local farms, but large quantities of hooppoles tied in bundles were cut and shipped from Pike and Martin Counties.\nSome of the coopers were local men, but many of them came from distant states. James T. Gardner, born in New York State, came to Princeton and then to Hazleton about the time the Cooper Shop was built. He proved to be such a skilled worker that he was made Master cooper and foreman of the shop. Other coopers were James Smith, John Mc Bride, Jefferson Raymond, Eli Woodward, Hart Fellows, Wm. Pickrill and Charles Masterson. It was interesting to see them start with rough lumber and finish with a leak proof barrel. Dick Jones and Rinky Kinman remembered hanging around to watch the coopers work.\nAfter the Atlanta Mill burned and the Distillery closed the Cooper Shop was closed in 1885.\nTHE KLEIN STAVE AND HEADING FACTORY\nThe early cooper had to fashion his hoops, staves and heading out of rough lumber. By the time the cooperage in Hazleton closed its doors machinery for making these barrel parts were on the market.\nEarly in 1882 Philip Klein of Evansville proposed to locate a stave and heading factory if the businessmen of Hazleton would furnish the building site, interest the people who would have timber to sell, and promote the sale of the finished product. On Feb. 22, 1882 a large number of interested citizens not at the home of Theodore Wheeler to discuss this proposition. After discussing the matter fully, it was decided to accept Mr. Klein's offer, and a committee was appointed to purchase the land. They secured the land East of Robb Creek from the river south to Arkansas St. and East to Brown Street.\nA factory building large enough to house the boilers and machinery was built along the river. The dry kiln, steam boxes and drying sheds wore located on the Brown St. side of the lot. Mr. Ed Gaddis came here about the time the factory was built, and acted as business manager. Mr. and Mrs. Gaddis were quiet, unassuming, and well-liked people. She was a piano teacher, and the old square piano in Miss Rose Thorn's room on the hill was, donated to the school from their home. Mr. Gaddis was the writer's first Sunday School teacher in the old Baptist church on the hill. He was superintendent of the stave factory about twelve years, until Mr. Klein, because of ill health, decided to turn the factory over to others.\nBy the time the factory was in operation there was little demand for its products here, but during the, twenty years it was in operation it produced an immense amount of hoops, staves, and barrel heads which were shipped to all parts of the country. The cooper's work was simplified. All he had to do was assemble the parts.\nDuring the 1890's Mr. William Rich came here, leased the plant and installed the latest improved stave cutter, which he had invented and patented. He received financial aid from several local men. This cutter turned out a stave in one operation, cut, trimmed and grooved for the barrel head. The firm flourished for quite awhile, when for some unknown reason, it became insolvent and paid out 50\u00a2 on the dollar. Mr. Ed Gaddis and Mr. Jack Haefele took over the lease and operated the factory until it closed in 1908 for lack of timber.\nCharles Mc Guire has \"an old painting painted from a photograph by Oliver \"Pat\" Phillips. The names of those who appear in the photograph, all workers and bosses at the stave factory, are as follows: James Bogard, John McKinley, John Heacock, Bert Reynolds, Ed. Wilson, Harve Raring, John Lane, Eth Curtner, Fiddler Bill Snyder, Bill Spain, Bona Tramper, Al Warrington, Bill Moore, Carl Meehan, Herb Trickett, Bill Masterson, Bill Rich, Bill Higgons, Pat Phillips, Joe Davidson, Charles Kneir, Tom Brown, Fred Hambarger, Bud Hayes, Jim Brice, Jay Robb, Austin Snyder, Pop Thorne, Brude Cox, Azzie Briner, Sam Felts, Charles Mc Guire and George Knight,\nHAZLETON AND WILLIAMS SAWMILL\nFleming Williams, partner of Gervase Hazleton in the sawmill, was born in New York in 1825 but had resided in Illinois several years before coming to Hazleton in 1865. In addition to the sawmill he kept a boarding house and was Justice of the Peace for White River Township. His wife was Elmira Wardell, sister of Mrs. Hazleton. Mrs. William was a charter member of the Methodist Class organized by Josiah Kightly in 1864. She was a faithful member of church and Sunday School, and taught one or more terms at the Octagon School. Mr. Williams sold his business interest here and moved to Wabash County Illinois, where he died in 1893.\nTheir son Sammy was a boon companion of the unstudious Billy Hazleton, who, at the Barnett School was picked up, laid on a shelf, and covered with wraps because he wouldn't study his lesson. The teacher evidently thought this was an improvement on the dunce-cap performance. But Sammy Williams, In spite of poor educational opportunities, became the Honorable Samuel Williams, lawyer, legislator, and vice-presidential candidate. Bill didn't do badly, either. He grew up, learned the carpenter trade, and moved to Poplar Bluff, Missouri.\nDavid Hazleton, co-founder of the town, was a silent partner in the milling business. He owned a half interest in the real estate and had several thousand dollars invested in the mill proper. The census of 1860 shows that he had returned from California and was working as a mill hand. He died somewhere in the south in 1861, but the circumstances of his death are unknown. He left $500 to a friend in Missouri. The rest of his estate went to the minor children of his brother, Gervase. These were Almarine R., Emma S. and Albert Gervase Hazleton.\nThe Hazleton-Williams Mill stood at the foot of Mill Street on the river bank. It was a two storey building of heavy hewn timbers, covered with yellow poplar and roofed with hand made Cypress shingles. The engine and boiler were on the ground floor, with sawyer machinery on the second floor. A tramway ran from this floor to the river, and logs were hauld on a tram pulled by a long rope and a power windlass. The lumber went by chute to the mill yard. The scaler stood at the foot of the chute and measured each piece as it came from the mill. Push cars on wooden tracks took it to be stacked in the dry yard.\nMr. Hazleton ran the mill until 1882, then leased it to Wm. Robbins, who conducted business there about eighteen years. Then the old mill was abandoned, the building razed, and the machinery junked.\nThe whistle from the Hazleton Mill called and dismissed workmen for more than fifty years, and it would be impossible to estimate the worth of this mill to the community.\nTHE DEPAUW MILL\nWashington C. DePauw built a saw mill here in 1850. It was located on the river on the Hazleton Milling Co. lot. The building was similar in structure to the Hazleton-Williams Mill. The lower floor was set against the bank, so that from the front it gave the impression of being a one storey building. A tramway brought the logs from the river, and push carts on tracks carried the lumber to the dry-yard.\nIn so far as the writer knows, Mr. DePauw never lived here. He conducted his business through an agent, Mr. Ellbridge Gardner of Vincennes. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner lived here five or six years,\nand their daughter, Hannah Elizabeth was the first child born in Hazleton after the platting of the town. Their son, Willis Gardner, lived to great age with memory unimpared and he could tell many interesting stories of early days in Hazleton. He said that when the Gardner family came here there were only log houses in Hazleton, but after the saw mills were in operation new houses were of frame construction. The homes of Gervase Hazleton, Alex West, Abraham Westfall and Elizabeth Martin were all built at the same time, but the Westfall home was the first to be finished. It still stands on the river at the foot of Main Street, and was owned for many years by the Andrew Sisson family.\nEldridge Gardner was the son of Andrew Gardner, founder of the Gardner funeral home in Vincennes. He left here about 1899 to assist his father in the family business. Handed down from father to son, the Gardner funeral home has been in operation about 160 years, involving seven generations of the Gardner family.\nDaniel Knight succeeded Mr. Gardner as manager of the DePauw mills. He was in charge fifteen years, or until Mr. DePauw leased his mill to out of town sawmillers. These were Moredock and Son of Vincennes, and later Kinsey and Butler, also of Vincennes. This firm trained T. J. Ellis in the milling business and put him in charge of the mill. For several years the mill was humming day and night with two shifts of workmen. An old picture owned by Mrs. Aurelia Steelman shows the following citizens of bygone days who worked at the DePauw Mill: T. J. Ellis, Newton F. Knight, Frank Hunter, Craig Blythe, Sam Ellis, Boone Reed, Dave Hawkins, Peter LaFair, George Byrd, Tommy McNeece, Albert McNeece, and Lewis Arnold.\nThe mill was destroyed by fire in 1884 and was never rebuilt.\nHAZLETON'S EARLY PORTABLE SAWMILLS\nThe neck of land between the river and the railroad in the north part of town, called the strip, has been the site of several homes, several portable sawmills, and two grain elevators, The river at that time ran closer to the railroad than at present, so that the strip about 300 feet wild ran from the Peter Snyder home to Bridge Street. This street ran east and west under the trestle north of town. The main channel of the river forty feet deep ran close to the Hazleton side, affording good landing for rafts, steamboats, and other craft.\nThe strip was a handy place for transfering cargoes from boats to railroad cars, and a switch was built along the track for this purpose. Water Street, now washed away, ran from the ferry landing north to Bridge Street, and provided for boat landing along the river front. Washington Avenue, which runs north from the Corner Store to Bridge Street was not opened until 1880. The people used Bridge St. and Water St. for access to the town and to the strip.\nFrom 1865 to 1890 there was usually a portable sawmill or two on the strip. Little is known of these mills, except that they produced a great amount of lumber and the payrolls strengthened the town's economy. Hazleton reached its zenith as a river port and enjoyed its greatest prosperity during the sawmilling era.\nThe portable saw mill had very little equipment other than the necessary steam emgine, log deck, saw and saw carriage, which were set of the ground and covered with slap shelters. Logs were delivered by wagons or by the river. There was no special handling equipment and logs were moved to the mill by oxen.\nCaptain David M. Lewis and Jasper Phillips, after returning from the Civil War, operated a saw mill here for several years.\nPhillips sold out to Samuel Cobb, and the firm operated under the name of Lewis and Cobb.\nHenry P. Borders brought a mill here from Petersburg and operated it for several years before moving back to Petersburg.\nThe best known of these sawmillers was John Drennon, who, with his broad rimmed black hat, black silk neck kerchief, and black boots polished to the tops and pulled over his trousers, was a colorful character. He was a brother of Ben Drennon, who built the Elza Byrd home and reared his family there. Miss Stella Drennon was the last survivor.\nGERVASE HAZLETON'S CYPRESS SWAMP SAWMILL\nThis saw mill wasn't located in Hazleton at all, but all the profits went to the Hazleton family and a large part of the payroll to Hazleton workmen, so mention of it here will not be entirely out of place.\nThe River Du Chien (De Shee or Du Shee) ran in a westerly direction and passed under the railroad about half way between Decker and Vincennes. Throughout its lower course it had a very shallow channel and during the rainy season the flood waters spilled out over thousands of acres of land, forming the great swamps that lay in Johnson and Decker Townships. Most of the water had its outlet in the Wabash, the rest found its way into the White River.\nThe level land lying along Route 41 from Dicksburg Hill several miles northward was once a swamp timbered with great Cypress trees. A lone Cypress, its top torn out by storm or lightning, stands near the intersection of 41 and Decker Road. This swamp was the fowlers paradise, for during the migrating season it was the refuge for thousands of water fowl, and the ridges teemed with wild turkey throughout the year.\nGervase Hazleton owned about 300 acres of this land. In 1882, in order to devote all of his time to cutting, milling and shipping the timber from this land, he leased his Hazleton mill to Wm. Robbins. He arranged to cut the timber from adjacent swamp lands, and the Railroad built a switch and a station called Cypress to accommodate this venture.\nMr. Hazleton then proceeded to established a loggong-lumbering camp on his property. There was a primitive road\nthrough his swamp running northward west of Decker. Eastward from this road a road was built to the railroad. Along this new road was the Hazleton camp, with small box houses for the married men and bunk houses for the unmarried. The soft road of the swamp made it impossible to use log wagons, so a sort of sled was used to move logs over the spongy ground.\nMany Hazleton men worked at the sawmill. George Knaub, Mr. Hazleton's son-in-law, was the first overseer. After Mr. Hazleton's death his wife and son David finished the job. The cypress lumber was fine and long lasting. Some of the Hazleton lumber may still be seen in old buildings, but most of it was shipped east to be used in ship building.\nAfter the swamp was de-forested, a levee and new drainage ditch were built, the River Du Chien now running south to carry the water into White River. Thus was claimed some of the finest farm land in Indiana.\nTHE WHITE RIVER DISTILLERY\nThe White River Distillery, a three storey building much larger than the Atlanta Flour Mill, stood just west of the mill site and was completed in 1865. It was equipped with steam power and the latest approved machinery, and a 90 foot brick chimney conducted the smoke from the boiler fires to the outer air. This old smoke stack was left standing until recently, the only reminder of early Hazleton industry. The old distillery did a thriving business for many years, paid top grain prices to farmers for their grain, and provided employment for many workmen.\nAuxiliary buildings erected in connection with the distillery were a liquor house, a bonded ware house, and a pork packing plant. All of these except the packing plant were two storey buildings, sealed inside to keep an even temperature. The rectifying house was located across from the elevator, and was blown down in a wind storm. The liquor house was near the distillery and was consumed by fire at the same time the Atlanta Flour Mill and the Distillery burned. The bonded warehouse was moved to the present Elevator site, where it became the seat of learning known as Hogan's Alley School. The late Lawrence Sullivan learned the rule of three and Roscoe Cunningham perfected his left-handed penmanship there.\nIn distillation, after the grain is fermented and the alcohol removed, the mash contains considerable nutriment. To utilize this by-product, stock pens were built and the mash piped to the pens. A packing house disposed of the porkers. There was still a demand in the south for our pork products during the time the Binghams operated the packing house, and the lard and processed meats were shipped by rail and flatboat or steamboat.\nKightly and West purchased the Bingham property in 1879, and the distillery was never operated again. The building, neglected and unused, was broken into a number of times and valuable copper utensils and machine parts carried away. Mr. West installed Mr. Lewis Vinyard as night watchman, and in no time he marched two culprits into Justice Knight's court at the end of a shotgun.\nWith the distillery not operating there was no reason to keep hogs there, but Mr. West operated the packing house in season and farmers often drove their hogs there for butchering. They shared the work, each man to the task for which he was best fitted, Edwin Robb did the shooting, Ben Hayes and Ike Mauck were usually in charge of the lard kettles, and William Collins was known as the fastest meat dresser in the country.\nThe Bingham enterprises also included a general store and a shipping business to the New Orleans Market. Sylvester Bingham was in charge here. A bachelor, he made his home with the Pap Johnson family. He died in 1871 and is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Patoka.\nMr. Cunningham's stories are mostly concerned with the early settlers of the area and with the business and Education of early Hazleton. This collection should also include an account of the cultural activities of the people. In an isolated community the entertainment and the cultural growth of its people were dependent upon their creative abilities and impelled by their need for social communication. Men, women and children who work hard must also have things to do in their leisure time.\nThe farmers, lumbermen and construction workers, store-keepers and rivermen came from all sections of the country and from Europe. They brought with them the music from their own culture, along with the smaller musical instruments that could be carried in a back-pack. A newcomer who had a knowledge of music or the ability to play a musical instrument was a welcome addition. Soon there were dances, play-parties, concerts and singing schools attended by people of all ages. Music had moved out of the tavern, the work camps, and the river boats to the homes, schools, churches and meeting halls of the people.\nThe singing school was a serious effort to learn to read music and to sing four-part harmony by note instead of by ear. Most of the teachers taught music reading by the so-fa- syllable method, but there are a few old singing school books around which have the shaped note system in which each syllable had a different shape. The people attended singing school because of their hunger for music and for the pleasure of singing with a group. The benefits they received carried over into the church, the school, and into their daily lives.\nAmong the blessings of that early day was the reed organ. The organ was inexpensive and light in weight, so it could be shipped\nby boat or rail. Families scrimped and saved to add the organ to the treasured horse-hair furniture in the parlor and young ladies began to take music lessons. A Mrs. Gaddis owned a square rosewood piano and gave lessons at her home at the west end of Second St. The Gaddis family left here about the time the school on the hill was built and she gave the piano to the school. It was installed in Miss Rose Thorne's room and many children were taught to sing with it without realizing how much this old instrument and its owner had contributed to music in Hazleton.\nBoth men and women were interested in singing and there were some fine quartets in the area. A Mr. Babcock came to Hazleton after having been a member of a professional quartet in New York. He continued to get professional copies of new music from the publishers and the singers worked out their own arrangements of new popular songs. Visiting professional singers were surprised to hear the current melodies being sung in a little Hoosier town.\nThe \"Opera House\" over Thorne's Store never saw an opera, but it provided a place for concerts and plays for years. There was a small stags lighted by oil lamps with tin reflectors. The slanted floor made seating uncomfortable until someone thought of sawing off the back legs of the chairs to accommodate the floor slant. Traveling troupes of players and musicians always played to packed houses in Hazleton.\nThe Lyceum Course brought more sophisticated entertainment by presenting a good quality of music and some fine lectures during the winter. Families bought season tickets to guarantee the success of the program and the events were selected by a booking company in the East. The fact that a small town could support such a venture was a 'tribute to the cultural interests of its people.\nTHE HAZLETON CONCERT BAND\nMany people will remember the Hazleton Concert Band. Albert Trippett remembers a reorganization of that band about 1910, but there must have been an older organization, since Will Sweetland left Hazleton around 1900 to play tuba in professional organizations including the Concert Band of John Philip Sousa. Mr. Sweetland was one of the first to play the Sousaphone. Sousa had designed the wrap-around instrument with the bell facing his audience to replace the upright tuba in concerts.\nIn the 1910 reorganization the director is believed to have been a Mr. Evans who came from Illinois. When he left, the band was conducted by the first cornetist, Nettleton Johnson. Later the Johnsons moved to Vincennes and they were able to get Walter T. Lee to come to Hazleton to edit the White River News, teach the young replacements in the band and conduct the band in rehearsals and concerts. Mr. Lee was an accomplished musician and his band ranked well in Southern Indiana Music. They played weekly summer concerts, as well as out of town parades and the County Fairs in Knox, Gibson and Pike Counties.\nMrs. Lee was also a musician and her Methodist Church Choir will be remembered as one of the finest around.\nSome of the members of that early band are as follows: Dr. Harry Gudgel, Salvan Pearson, Carl Snyder, Fred Steelman, Gardiner Briner, Albert Trippett, Everett Trippett, Herschel Trippett, H. A. Thorne, Hovey Edwards, Overton Decker, John Thomas, Theo Thomas, Frank Cassidy, Louis Ferguson, Frank Ferguson, and Walter Ferguson. Albert Trippett left to play with show bands and the army band in World War I. He later organized bands in Oklahoma. Pascal Hayes, a later bandman, traveled with circus bands in summer and a minstrel show in winter.\nThe Hazleton Concert Band was one more bit of evidence of the interest in cultural growth shown by the people of a little town so long ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 429, "original_length": 120147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.injibscosmets.com/438710957", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WF2OBD4OKU7TX4Z53S4STNFYUZHCGNRD", "length": 1730, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.injibscosmets.com", "title": "SEPARATION - www.injibscosmets.com", "raw_content": "Separation-Wife Material\nIn marriage there are always ups and downs and when these challenges come across, what are the best ways to handle the situation? Be ready at all times. It is foolish to get carried away and enjoy the first moments in a marriage and forget the phase that actually grows the marriage stronger. Rocks will always be thrown into your way but it is entirely up to you to whether build a wall in front of you or a bridge and use it to cross over to the other side.\nSeparation is actually a very important phase in marriage as long as it is used to the advantage of the growth of your marriage. Have you ever broken up with someone then after a while you start missing them so desperately, realizing that it was actually a wrong idea to separate? Giving each other space is usually a way to let each one take a breath and avoid saying things that they wouldn\u2019t be able to take back. When a couple gets back together after a separation, their love for each other usually becomes even stronger, realizing how important this person is in their life.\nWhen a separation is indefinite or final, I would advice taking at least a year before jumping into another commitment. Many people take very long to move on after separating with the person they have been with for a long time, finding themselves in new relationships trying to rebound, meanwhile consoling themselves of the real one. What do you do when you don\u2019t love the new relationship but still holding onto the previous one? Keep yourself occupied by either a job, studies, getting a new hobby, shave your hair (lol) or change location. Do whatever it takes to heal first before making someone else pay fron how the previous one treated you in the marriage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 896, "original_length": 15838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inreads.com/3-essential-soccer-accessories-for-your-kid/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UCUVSYXLX4D3MWYHZAXGTTFJWQ6QW5EX", "length": 2982, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.inreads.com", "title": "3 essential soccer accessories for your kid | inreads", "raw_content": "If your toddler has recently taken up soccer, we congratulate you! Compared to other types of sports, soccer is harmful as long as your kid wears protective equipment all of the time. There are certain body areas that are more sensitive than others, and that is why we recommend getting the right gear right off the bat.\nWhether you decide to go for comfort, choosing the right size, or finding out the perfect balance, the fact is that some types of protective equipment are more important than others. While adults, for example, also have to wear athletic cups, this aspect might not be essential with toddlers as all you have to do is get them a good pair of compression tights.\nMany people tend to think of cleats as something that\u2019s necessary in order to ensure that the soccer\u2019s player movability is up to par. While this is true, the fact is that quality cleats also make it possible for the player to be protected from accidents. Let\u2019s face it, all sports are dangerous to some extent or the other, which is to say that mishaps can occur rather frequently.\nIn soccer, one of the common flukes that can happen is the kid not paying attention to anything other than the ball, which makes him or her vulnerable. Besides, playing soccer while it\u2019s raining is another risk you need to consider. Cleats are, therefore, extremely important depending on the weather, the type of field that one plays on, and your preferences in terms of whether you need them to be replaceable or not.\nWhere player safety and protection are concerned, toddler shin guards are crucial. Besides, they are compulsive equipment, which is to say that your kid is not allowed on the field if he or she doesn\u2019t wear this type of protective gear. Statistically, the number of injuries in soccer is lower compared to that in other contact sports. However, since the shins aren\u2019t covered with enough muscle and tissue, the use of guards and pads has become a priority.\nMetal-plates guards are not to be preferred because they can injure other players. Cardboard strips are useless especially as they don\u2019t put up with the abuse of the elements and therefore, don\u2019t do a good job at protecting the shin area. The materials that are highly recommended for shin pads and guards are rubber, plastic, and a variety of others that have been approved by the coach.\nWhile in other sports like rugby and boxing they are mandatory, head guards are, perhaps, less popular when it comes to soccer. This kind of protection isn\u2019t utilized by many adults, but it wouldn\u2019t hurt if it were for kids. It goes without saying that the weight of the soccer ball isn\u2019t all that important, but the speed at which it can travel is a risk. Of course, when the player kicks the ball using his or her forehead, perhaps the likelihood of an injury is minimum. Apparently, the right gear can protect soccer players from concussions, so why not just use it?\nPrevious 6 Tips to Improve Your Putting\nNext Prix De l\u2019Arc De Triomphe: A Preview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insideoutcayman.com/2012/10/08/help-make-tails-wag/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:VPDVQ3XGRV3ALWRDFISHEOQ52B243N6P", "length": 3382, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.insideoutcayman.com", "title": "Help make tails wag | Inside Out", "raw_content": "Help make tails wag\nBookworms and anyone who enjoys CDs, DVDs, games,\ntoys and puzzles can find something at a great price at this\nsecond-hand bookstore. Many books are just $2 or less and the shop also sells various types of gifts, photo albums and other knickknacks.\nOpen Mon 12.30pm-4pm, Tues-Fri 9am-4pm, Thurs evenings 5.30pm-7.30pm and Sat 9am-3pm.\nClaws It Thrift Shop\nIf you are looking for lovely clothes and other goodies, you can be sure to find a bargain at this stylish boutique.\nOpen Mon to Fri, 10am-5pm and Sat 8am-4pm.\nThe big-hearted people of the Cayman Islands Humane Society help dogs and cats desperately in need of loving homes.\nAnd there are many ways that everyone can get involved to assist these adorable animals.\nThe non-profit organisation\u2019s mission is to find loving homes for homeless animals in the Cayman Islands and it promotes responsible pet ownership through a spay and neuter programme.\nOn average there are around 200 animals in the society\u2019s shelter, with monthly operating costs of around $50,000.\n\u201cA large portion of this is our staff costs and veterinary bills,\u201d explains Humane Society president Carolyn Parker.\n\u201cYou can help by donating newspapers, clothing, books, or any household items, support our shops by picking up some great bargains, volunteer to walk the animals or simply give some company to those who are in our shelter, as well as adopting a dog or cat.\u201d\nThe Cayman Islands Humane Society, which was founded more than 30 years ago, is financed through donations from the general public and fundraisers such as the annual Furball and Petapalooza events.\nProceeds from the Claws It thrift shop and the Book Loft second-hand bookstore are also ploughed back into the shelter.\nVolunteers can help in many ways such as staffing the bookstore and the thrift shop, walking the dogs, socialising with the shelter dogs, puppies, cats and kittens, assisting with events, doing home checks on potential adoptions and lots more.\n\u201cThe Cayman Islands Humane Society needs lots of volunteers,\u201d says Twila Escalante, who has volunteered for 25 years and is on the society\u2019s board. \u201cCayman is a transient community and volunteers come and go, so there is always a need for more. Whether you are working full-time, part-time, retired or not working, your help is always welcomed.\n\u201cYou\u2019ll never find a more grateful and accepting friend than an animal you\u2019ve comforted. A wagging tail and a friendly purr will keep you coming back over and over again and you will have made a best friend forever.\u201d\nVisitors to the Cayman Islands can also help, so if you have friends or family coming to stay you can tell them about the animals at the shelter.\nSome visitors have even offered homes to dogs they\u2019ve met at the Humane Society.\nLast year, for example, honeymoon couple Dawn and Claudio De Santis fell in love all over again with Nelson, a dog they took back to Connecticut.\nSince then, and thanks to the pet-friendly policies of Cayman Airways, Dawn has helped find homes in the US for other lucky animals.\n\u201cMy gratitude to the many wonderful supporters of Cayman Islands Humane Society both here and abroad,\u201d says Twila.\n\u201cAnd a special thanks to Cayman Airways for their pet-friendly policies, we truly love them.\u201d\nThe Humane Society is located at 153 North Sound Road. Call (345) 949 1461 or visit www.caymanhumanesociety.com to find out more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insiderouttravel.com/2009/06/glbt-travel-professionals-gather-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2GSWDBX5YW2Y5AOBZYDKEDZPPFIZCTO2", "length": 1932, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.insiderouttravel.com", "title": "Insider Out Travel: GLBT Travel Professionals Gather In Buenos Aires", "raw_content": "With only one month to go, the excitement is building towards the GNETWORK360, 2nd International Forum of Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs focused on the GLBT Market. This gathering will take place in Buenos Aires on July 15 and 16, 2009 at the Axel Hotel (Venezuela 649 San Telmo) and Chueca (Alsina 975). It is anticipated that more than three hundred attendees will join together to share information and learn about business opportunities within the GLBT niche market.\nThe forum producers---GMAPS360---are proud to organize \u201cGNETWORK360\u201d the second of these Forums. The event is targeting the 250 most outstanding companies that are currently dedicating part of their communications strategy to the GLBT community. By joining together once again, these businesses will work towards the common goal of promoting Buenos Aires as a gay-friendly destination. Conference attendees will also learn about the unique GLBT m arket from distinguished guest speakers, workshops, presentations and panel discussions.\nIn Argentina this conference affords an unprecedented opportunity to learn about one of the most lucrative and loyal global market segments. It will also provide an excellent opportunity for networking and connecting with other travel professionals and businesspeople from different travel-related genres.\nIncluded below is the speakers list and the preliminary agenda options for attendees can be checked online at www.Gnetwork360.com\nSome of the conference topics include: Marketing via the Internet, Market Research, GLBT Market Trends, GLBT Tourism Development in Latin America, IGLTA's approach to different issues about the tourism industry, Gay and Lesbian Chambers of Commerce services (NGLCC and IGLCC).\nOnce again this shows that our city is positioned as one of the most gay friendly and accepting of the GLBT community.\nLabels: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Gmaps, GNetwork360, South America, Travel Industry Members", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 435, "original_length": 9450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ipglossary.com/glossary/reasonable-and-non-discriminatory-rand-terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TDU23WWKV5CYM7CUIJ4XRBZM53HR45FO", "length": 1953, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ipglossary.com", "title": "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) Terms | Technology and IP Law Glossary", "raw_content": "Terms used with respect to essential facilities and in standards that refers to the terms under which licenses should be granted subsequent to the adoption of the standard, guidelines, exemption, etc. For example in a European Competition Directorate \u2018comfort letter\u2019 on a standards agreement, parties may be required to license \u2018all comers\u2019 on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Similarly, IEEE in its patent policy with respect to standards policy requires essential patents to practice a standard to be made available to participants:\n\u201cThat a license will be made available to all applicants \u2026 under reasonable rates, with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination.\u201d\nHowever, the term \u2018reasonable\u2019 is in legal terms somewhat of a nightmare, since reasonableness is very much \u201cin the eye of the beholder\u201d; i.e., an offeror\u2019s reasonable may often be an offeree\u2019s unreasonable. When the alternate term FRAND (Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Terms) is used, the word \u201cFair\u201d raises many of the same issues as \u201cReasonable.\u201d Non-discriminatory is an easier term. It essentially means that the offer should be available to all on terms, conditions and at a cost that does not vary substantially. It does not usually mean that the terms have to be identical, though identical terms are perforce non-discriminatory. Thus for example, a license scheme that steps royalty rates with volume might be non-discriminatory if the steps are reasonably accessible to most similarly situated licensees and do not significantly disadvantage new market entrants. However, if they were written in such a targeted way that only one (or tiny proportion) of potential licensee(s) might benefit, or they are exclusionary of a class of new entrants, they might be discriminatory.\nTerm posted by Origin on 14 June 2013 in Antitrust Law, Commercial Law, Competition, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Litigation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iranmeatex.com/en/content/announcement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:W4HQXIF63HFMDO64UY2TSHJV4WYQWUEO", "length": 616, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.iranmeatex.com", "title": "Announcement | MeatEx", "raw_content": "In view of the current economic situation in Iran, the 3rd edition of Iran International Meat Exhibition \u2013 MeatEx planned for November 12 to 15, 2018 has been cancelled.\nAfter many considerations, we concluded that organizing this exhibition in the current conditions of Iran would be detrimental to the exhibitors. Nevertheless, given the situation prevailing here at present, it is impossible to hold the fair at this time.\nWe are very sorry to have to cancel MeatEx 2018. However, the interests of the exhibitors are of paramount importance to us. We will keep you updated regarding the exact date of MeatEx 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2017/09/13/news/2017-all-ireland-sfc-final-dublin-v-mayo-the-numbers-game-1134898/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:I26EWCEVYKZMA6MDDPPD5QYWJ66PHRCA", "length": 10491, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.irishnews.com", "title": "'); 2017 All-Ireland SFC final: Dublin v Mayo: The Numbers Game - The Irish News", "raw_content": "2017 All-Ireland SFC final: Dublin v Mayo: The Numbers Game\nMayo Numbers\nSUNDAY'S final will be Mayo's 10th championship game of the season. The run began with their Connacht Championship opener against Sligo, and, after a provincial semi-final loss to Galway included their close shaves against Derry and Cork in the qualifiers.\nMAYO have had six unsuccessful attempts at beating Dublin in the All-Ireland series since 2012. That run of defeats has included two replays, firstly in the 2015 semi-final and last year in the decider. The biggest winning margin for the Dubs was the seven-point win in the 2015 replay.\nTHE Westerners beat Kerry to reach this stage, and in claiming that five-point replay win, they were bridging a 21-year gap since the last time they had put the Kingdom to the sword. That victory came in the 1996 semi-final.\nTHESE two sides played out a draw in the 1985 semi-final, with Dublin easily winning the replay. Taking to the field that day as a sub for Mayo was 42-year-old selector Billy Fitzpatrick, who also kicked a point for his side.\nTHE total number of meetings between these two rivals in the All-Ireland SFC to date. The Metropolitans have enjoyed eight wins, while Mayo have registered just two triumphs, and there have been four draws. The first encounter was a one point win for Dublin in 1906, as was the most recent clash, in last year's final replay.\nA YEAR that is burned into the consciousness of every Mayo football supporter. This was the last time that a victorious Mayo captain took the Sam Maguire cup west. That win completed a two-in-a-row. Just the one would slake their thirst now.\nMAYO coughed up two bizarre own goals in last year's drawn final. Stephen Rochford's men would surely have won handsomely but for the concession of those goals \u2013 deflected in off the unfortunate Kevin McLoughlin and Kevin Boyle.\n22 points separated Mayo and Roscommon in the replayed quarter-final on August 7. Just a week previously, the Rossies had led 2-2 to 0-1 inside 12 minutes. But Mayo are nothing if not a resilient crew, and they demolished their opponents at the second attempt.\nANDY Moran, at 33-years-old, typifies the never-say-die spirit of this Mayo team. The Ballaghaderreen man is having another superb season, and as a member of five beaten teams in All-Ireland finals, no-one would begrudge him a Celtic cross tomorrow.\nCROAGH Patrick is 764 metres high, and should Mayo end their 66-year wait for another All-Ireland senior title by denying Dublin a three-in-a-row, Fianna Fail Councillor Brendan Mulroy has promised to climb the iconic mountain backwards.\nDUBLIN have had five championship outings to reach the decider, and have won those games by a combined total of 74 points. Kildare have got closest to the imperious reigning champions, beaten by nine in the Leinster final, while Westmeath were 31-point losers in the round before.\nOFFICIAL statistics revealed that Dublin enjoyed 63 percent possession of the ball in their semi-final defeat of Tyrone. There is no more patient team in the country than Jim Gavin's side, who are content to probe and prod, thus this frightening stat, until an opportunity presents itself.\nDUBLIN goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton has made 90 appearances for Dublin in the championship and is the national record holder in that regard. The Parnells clubman has been credited with revolutionising the role of the modern custodian, if not even how Gaelic football is played full stop.\nTHE Dubs are seeking three titles in-a-row, and will join an exclusive club if they manage the feat. Kerry are the last county to have achieved a treble between 1984 and 1986, whilst Dublin have a trio of three in-a rows to their name. Galway did the same between '64 and '66, while Wexford brought up a four-in-a-row between 1915 and 1918.\nDUBLIN's latest attacking sensation is Con O'Callaghan, and the Cuala player kicked 12 points in the Leinster final this year, six from frees and six from play. The 21-year-old is so good that he is keeping a player like Bernard Brogan on the bench.\nDUBLIN have made it to 39 All-Ireland SFC finals, winning 26 times. The biggest gap between victories was between the years 1923 and 1942, although when they won it in 2011, they had not lifted the cup or been in a final since the 1995 triumph.\nSUCH is the potency for Dublin of Hill 16 that opposing counties, such as Mayo in 2006 and Tyrone in this year's semi-final, have at times tried to upset the Dubs by either commandeering it for a warm-up or refusing to walk past it in the pre-match parade. It worked for Mayo, but not for Tyrone.\nDIARMUID Connolly was introduced for Dublin in the 69th minute of the semi-final win against Tyrone. The St Vincent's star received the expected rapturous welcome, after returning from a 12-week suspension. That a player like Connolly may not make the starting 15 tomorrow says it all about Dublin's strength.\nTHE utter dominance of Dublin at provincial level is evidenced by their capture of a seventh consecutive Leinster title in the summer. In fact the Metropolitans have collected 13 Delaney Cups since the turn of the century, and 56 in all.\nDEAN Rock has helped himself to that handsome total over five games to comfortably be Dublin's top scorer. The Ballymun Kickhams man has become perhaps the most reliable dead ball kicker in the game.\nDUBLIN QUOTES\n\u201cI HAVEN'T come across Mayo since March I think it was, National League game. We have been on our own journey, that's where my focus has been on, that path that we are on.\u201d\nDublin manager Jim Gavin, speaking about Mayo, after the All-Ireland semi-final.\n\u201cFor the current team it's about being present in 2017 and provincial titles mean a lot to us.\n\u201cWe'll certainly celebrate it tonight with our family and friends, that's for sure, and then move on to the next challenge ahead.\u201d\n\u201cI think the guys will look back on their careers, and Pat Gilroy too who came before me and his group of players who are no longer with us, they'll take some satisfaction from today as well.\u201d\nJim Gavin speaking after Dublin clinched a record breaking seventh consecutive Leinster title.\n\u201cDiarmuid accepts that he made a mistake, and he accepted the suspension.\n\u201cFor my part, what concerned me, was the way his good name was attacked before we even saw the referee's report.\n\u201cFreedom of expression is one of our rights in the Republic, but it's not absolute, each individual has his own rights, and I believe that his good name was affected by that.\u201d\nJim Gavin speaking about Diarmuid Connolly's perceived ill-treatment by certain sections of the media after the Leinster SFC semi-final.\n\u201cWe hadn't really been talking about that at all, seven in a row. That's some achievement.\n\u201cI think it's a mark of this team, over the last number of years. We're absolutely thrilled.\n\u201cWe know how fortunate and lucky we are to play football with Dublin with this crop of players and in this era.\n\u201cIt doesn't come around too often. We're very aware this could all end very shortly, so it's about trying to enjoy it as much as we can while we have this great opportunity in front of us and grasping as much silverware as we can.\u201d\nCian O'Sullivan speaking after the Leinster final.\n\u201cIt depends on what team you're playing against. Sometimes you just have to be patient and wait for the right opportunity and if it does open up then fair enough you go for it but you just have to be patient with the ball and my philosophy is to get the ball to the best man in the best position every time.\n\u201cThere's no point in me running down and three lads surrounding me, dispossessing me and getting a turnover. If I see someone else in a better position I think it's very important to get them on the ball and if that's going indirect then that's fair enough.\u201d\nCiaran Kilkenny on criticism of his lateral playing style, speaking at the launch of the All-Ireland Football Championships in Loughmacrory.\nMAYO QUOTES\n\u201cA GOOD chunk of us have been here before going down this home straight in the last few weeks of the season. But that experience has to be used and harnessed properly. It's not just a thing that because we've been here before, it'll be easy.\u201d\nMayo's top scorer Cillian O'Connor speaking after the All-Ireland semi-final.\n\u201cOur preferred route was to get to the Connacht final. That doesn't exist for us anymore. What exists for us right now is a qualifier route - and who that will be we'll know next Monday.\n\u201cYou can't look long beyond your next game. We didn't look beyond Galway and certainly didn't look beyond Sligo.\n\u201cThat's exactly the approach we will take in the qualifier route.\u201d\nTom Parsons, interviewed in the days after the Connacht SFC semi-final loss to Roscommon\n\u201cThey didn't bow their heads when they were two points down going into that closing stages and they kicked numerous wides, there was a bit of nervousness there, a bit of frustration, not as much composure as we'd have liked to have seen but, man, when their backs are against the wall, they are a really, really tight bunch and I was really proud of the way they just kept coming at it and we kept creating chances.\u201d\nStephen Rochford speaking after Mayo advanced past Derry in round two of the qualifiers.\n\u201cWhen you are coming through the qualifiers, there is a certain amount of relief.\n\u201cWe weren't anywhere near where we wanted to be in the first half, but thankfully we only went in at half-time two points down and we were probably lucky to be only two points down.\n\u201cI think you saw more of what we're about in the second half. I don't think we were at our best but I think we are moving in the right direction.\u201d\nStephen Rochford interviewed after the third round qualifier win against Clare\n\u201cPossibly it was (Mayo's best) because it's an All-Ireland semi-final and there's only one bigger game than that,\u201d he said.\n\u201cMaybe it was, I'm just very proud of the way the boys went about it \u2013 it was very important that the boys went out and showed that we didn't leave it behind us last week. It's a satisfying win.\u201d\nStephen Rochford felt that Mayo's display against Kerry in the semi-final replay was perhaps the best of his tenure.\n\u201cRoscommon won Connacht and were probably fresh\u2026and nobody gave them a chance and in fairness to them they started really quickly out of the blocks last week. We know what we're capable of, everybody has written us off as per usual and we'll just keep going.\u201d\nAidan O'Shea interviewed after the defeat of Roscommon in the All-Ireland quarter-final.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 384, "original_length": 15527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isd361.k12.mn.us/pie/bylaws", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QVQBYCYPAH32DSLH7B3EI6RGNJ7D475T", "length": 56, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.isd361.k12.mn.us", "title": "PIE Bylaws | Partners In Education (PIE)", "raw_content": "Bylaws, 09/13/2013\nArticles of Incorporation, 09/13/2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 106.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itchinsince87.com/skin-info/why-we-need-to-talk-about-eczema-dazeddigital-com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:03Z", "digest": "sha1:P5XQP6E3RFNCS5VNFLFT5EHXPYAPQHMO", "length": 2038, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.itchinsince87.com", "title": "WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ECZEMA - Dazeddigital.com", "raw_content": "Dazed Digital is a online magazine I recently discovered after an article was published by Amanda Ng on her eczema.\nIn this article, Amanda mentions celebrities highlighting their skin conditions. At the forefront is one of the most common skin conditions, acne as this is a staple in most teenagers lives.\nSince acne has such a stronghold in the media, she questions where the open dialogue is for eczema and less talked about skin conditions.\nBeyond the physical discomfort, AD can have huge impacts on one\u2019s social life, psychological health and general wellbeing. Despite existing charities and helplines such as the National Eczema Society, a 2018 study found that people with eczema are 36% more likely to attempt suicide.\nThere\u2019s a huge mental health aspect of eczema that isn\u2019t really talked about, only the latest ways to physically treat it.\nEczema sufferers are affected every single day, from avoiding irritants, allergens, to the physical pain of our skin cracked, oozing, and blistering. Not to mention the costly prescriptions and medications to the sleep deprivation.\nThen there\u2019s a general perception that you can never be beautiful if you have these patches of dry, crumbling skin all over your face and body. All this needs to change. How? Through education, awareness, people speaking out about it and visibility given to people who have it so as to normalise eczema within mainstream culture. We need to challenge the perception that those who have less than perfect skin can never equate to what society deems as \u201cbeautiful\u201d.\nShe calls for those in the eczema community to have a body positive movement to shine light on people with eczema.\nPersonally, I do think there have been some great campaigns that have highlighted eczema such as the Dove DermaSeries Campaign. But I do agree, about showcasing eczema more body positive way.\nSource: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/body/article/43241/1/why-we-need-to-talk-about-eczema\nPrevious Previous post: Johnson and Johnson 1st Company to List Drug Prices in TV Ads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itechwhiz.com/2011/04/ovarian-cancer-symptoms-and-20.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:54Z", "digest": "sha1:O3Y36K2FB5OX3WVGGEYTQ5CJFRUQALQH", "length": 3295, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.itechwhiz.com", "title": "Ovarian Cancer Symptoms and \u00a320 Diagnostic Blood Test", "raw_content": "Ovarian Cancer Symptoms and \u00a320 Diagnostic Blood Test\nCancer, Health, Medical, ovarian cancer, ovarian Cancer Diagnosis, ovarian Cancer Symptoms, Ovarian Cancer Tests, ovarian cyst symptoms, symptoms ovarian cancer\nAbout 7,000 women develop Ovarian Cancer every year and two thirds of those diagnosed with it, die within Five Years. However through research, experts claim a Simple Blood Test could save hundreds of lives.\nFigures published in The Lancet show that about 82 per cent of British women with breast cancer survive to at least five years after Breast Cancer Diagnosis, but for Ovarian Cancer the figure is just 36 per cent due to Late Diagnosis.\nOvarian cancer is the fourth most common cancer in females and campaigners are urging GPs to offer women over 50 the Blood Test, which could spot Ovarian Cancer Symptoms at an earlier stage.\nDr. Fergus Macbeth, of Nice emphasises the importance of early diagnosis:\nThe outcomes for ovarian cancer are not as good as for other cancers in women. It\u2019s symptoms are considered vague and so can be confused with other conditions. While the symptoms are non-specific, their persistence can be an important indicator of the disease.\nThe \u00a320 blood test is already available on the NHS but offering it sooner could give women a greater chance of survival by speeding up Early Diagnosis and therefore treatment.\nCharles Redman, a Consultant Gynaecologist Oncologist, says the length of time from a woman experiencing symptoms to being diagnosed is about 18 months: Far too many women are being referred to hospitals for suspected ovarian cancer once their disease is already at an advanced stage.\nFrances Reid, from Target Ovarian Cancer says:\nPoor early diagnosis in Britain is strongly linked to poor survival rates. Up to 500 women\u2019s lives a year could be saved if only we matched the average survival rates in other European countries.\nOlder women are often misdiagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome when they are experiencing the early stages of Ovarian Cancer. Other symptoms include feeling full quickly and the need to urinate urgently. Here under are the Sign and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer to look for:\nOvarian Cancer Symptoms and Signs\nOvarian cancer symptoms are not specific to the disease, and they often mimic those of many other more-common conditions, including digestive and bladder problems. When ovarian cancer symptoms are present, they tend to be persistent and worsen with time. Signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer may include:\nAbdominal pressure, fullness, swelling or bloating\nPersistent indigestion, gas or nausea\nChanges in bladder habits, including a frequent need to urinate\nLoss of appetite or quickly feeling full\nIf you have signs and symptoms that worry you make an appointment with your doctor, especially if you have a family history of ovarian cancer or breast cancer. In some cases, your doctor may refer you to a genetic counselor to discuss testing for certain gene mutations that increase your risk of breast and ovarian cancers.\nOvarian Cancer Symptoms and \u00a320 Diagnostic Blood Test Reviewed by Adnan Malik on 5:47 PM Rating: 5\nCancer Health Medical ovarian cancer ovarian Cancer Diagnosis ovarian Cancer Symptoms Ovarian Cancer Tests ovarian cyst symptoms symptoms ovarian cancer\nsymptoms ovarian cancer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 365, "original_length": 36696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jacquelineuy.com/2006/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5IVNLDXCGNN7L7FROQI5AAK4ABZUJ5IY", "length": 1091, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.jacquelineuy.com", "title": "August 2006 - Seasons of Life", "raw_content": "Thank You, I'm over with it.\nI love you Papa God.\nWhenever He gives you huge problems, He will make a way to help you out.\nSmile is painted again all over my face, with an indelible ink!\nI'll be going home (to Cagayan) on Friday, and I'll be distributing my invites when I come back.\nHave a great term break Lasalyanos!\nI never thought it would lead to a situation like this. It's breaking my heart, my soul shattered into pieces.\nLet me find myself, let me gather up my thoughts, let me search my own peace of mind.\nI was hurt, you became unreasonable. I did not felt loved nor wanted, nor supported.\nBut then I know it's just temporary. SoonI'll have it back. I dont know when. I dont know when the shattered pieces will be put together. I dont know when my wounded heart would be free of pain.\nWhen everything seems oh so perfect, that very moment is taken away from you. I was cast adrift in an obscure state of damnation.\nSomeday... you will realize, everything is worth it. Every thing. You just can't tell. I'll prove.\nEverything shall be back to normal. In God's will. In God's time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 6913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jamesislandsc.us/short-term-rentals", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QJ73Q54CW6MQRG65FCAUJ4BS7SCCO6NY", "length": 2438, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.jamesislandsc.us", "title": "Short Term Rentals - Town of James Island, SC", "raw_content": "Home > FAQ > Short Term Rentals\nCommon questions and answers regarding short-term rentals in the Town of James Island:\nDoes the Town of James Island allow property owners to rent their home out as a short-term rental, which is less than 30 days that can be rented on a nightly, weekend, or weekly basis on Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway, etc. if the home is not owner-occupied?\nNo, in order to have a legal Bed & Breakfast or short-term rental for less than 30 days, the home must be full-time owner-occupied and go through the correct application process (see below).\nIs there a minimum night requirement for a home that is not full-time owner occupied to be rented out in a single-family residential district?\nYes, a home must be rented out for a minimum of 30 days if it is not full-time owner occupied.\nWhat are the application requirements to become a legal Bed & Breakfast in the Town?\nYou must apply for a Home Occupation permit for a Bed and Breakfast (again, only if full-time owner-occupied), Business License and Safety Inspection (fire sprinklers, emergency exits, etc.) with the applications available on our website here: http://www.jamesislandsc.us/forms-and-documents\nIf you have any additional questions regarding short-term rentals, please contact the Town of James Island Planning/Zoning Department at 843-795-4141 or planning@jamesislandsc.us\nThe Town of James Island\u2019s regulations on short-term rentals in the Low-Density Suburban Residential (RSL) zoned neighborhoods, from the Zoning and Land Development Regulations Ordinance (ZLDR) are below:\n\u00a7 153.013 DEFINITIONS\nHOTEL-MOTEL. A building or portion thereof, or a group of buildings, which provides sleeping accommodations, with or without meal service, for transients on a daily or weekly basis, whether such establishment is designated as a hotel, inn, automobile court, motel, motor inn, motor ledge, tourist cabin, tourist court, or tourist home.\n\u00a7 153.110 USE TABLE\nHotels or Motels, and Rooming or Boarding Houses, are not allowed in an RSL (Low-Density Suburban Residential) zoning district according to the Use Table that can be found in Section 153.110.\n\u201cBed and Breakfast\u201d is allowed in an RSL zoning district with Conditions, with a Home Occupation Permit (must be full-time owner-occupied), Business License, and additional safety requirements. The Conditions are in Section 153.124 and Home Occupations in Section 153.210.\nMonth-to-month rentals are allowed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=21&Itemid=17", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CS2VF2VTKM722JEIHFNS4NKPPLGDMEUZ", "length": 1777, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.janeclarkepoetry.ie", "title": "Interviews", "raw_content": "As part of a series of Bailey & Blake films about the Liffey, Jane talks about and reads her poem, 'Swim', a tribute to her friend, Shirley McClure. The poem will be published in her next Bloodaxe collection, When the Tree Falls.\nOlivia O'Leary interviewed Jane about All the Way Home in The Poetry Programme, RTE Radio 1, 4 November 2018. You can hear the interview here, (21 mins.) including 3 poems from the sequence.\nSe\u00e1n Rocks interviewed Jane about the poetry of World War I on Arena, RTE Radio 1, 2 October 2018. Listen to the full interview here or watch a YouTube clip from the interview here.\nJane discusses poetry of landscape, nature and place with poets, Geraldine Mitchell and Nessa O'Mahony in the Attic Sessions, May 2018.\nJane reads a new poem, \"Birthing the Lamb\" and discusses her work in this podcast from Near FM's Poem of the Week, broadcast February 2018.\nIn this extract from the documentary film, \"Along by the River; Discover the River Suck\", Jane reads a poem from her first collection and speaks about how the river influenced her writing.\nJane is interviewed on RTE ONE about winning the Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year 2016 at the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Year Awards.\nJane reads three poems from The River and speaks about her work in this interview on RTE Radio 1's Poetry Programme, November 2016.\nJane is invited to speak about creativity for a National Council for Curriculum & Assessment conference, May 2011.\nJane reflects on her writing in these interviews:\nWriters Chat Series with Shauna Gilligan, June 2018\nIsland's Edge, Poets on Poetry, February 2018.\nElementum Journal of Nature & Story, Edition 1 2016.\nPoetry Spotlight, 19 March 2016.\nShauna Gilligan Writing.ie, 12 October 2015.\nWriting.ie, 2 October 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.janetmansfield.com/statement.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:21Z", "digest": "sha1:B4GJN6WQVESQQBE4AW5UMJALA7LYI4WF", "length": 7309, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.janetmansfield.com", "title": "Statement - Janet Mansfield", "raw_content": "Several years ago I was asked to write a statement to accompany an image of my work that was to be included in Peter Dormer\u2019s book ##The New Ceramics: Trends and Traditions##, (Thames and Hudson, 1986). As part of this statement I wrote, 'I am happiest making pots, working alone for weeks in the country.\u2019 My apprentice at the time, Karen Wells, laughed at this, saying that I was incapable of saying 'no' to all the invitations that came my way \u2014 invitations that took me around the world, took up much of my time, and involved meeting many people. This was true, of course, and since that time I have been engaged in judging ceramics, conducting workshops, giving lectures including keynote addresses in nearly every country in the world. When I tried to make a list, the count was more than 40 countries, and some countries I visited several times for different projects. From the excited welcome of the rural potters in Kwa Zulu Natal and drinking homemade gin with a group of potters in the Pusta of Hungary, to the formality of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Kunstmuseum in Munich, Germany, where I gave lectures, are just some of the memories I value \u2013 ones that are unforgettable.\nFrom being faced with more than 2000 objects in Mino in Japan, ranging from 15 x 15 mm tiles to room-sized installations, and having to choose a possible winner, to exhibiting my work on a promontory overlooking the sea at Lubenice, Croatia \u2013 a village where the exhibitors outnumbered the population, to trying to explain to non-English- speaking Italian engineers that it would be difficult to achieve reduction and salt-glaze in a computer-controlled kiln set for oxidation that needed to be switched off at 3.30 pm, to pouring new wine for the local authorities from my jugs at the Torgiano New Wine Festival in Italy, only to see someone turn over a jug to examine the base and flood the table with red wine, all became part of my learning of cultures around the world. From Portugal to Canada, across Scandinavia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, across France and many other countries \u2013 at the start of my career I never dreamed that pottery could be so enlivening.\nImagine trying to demonstrate making large pots in a hot-house tent with water spraying down on everything turning the clay into a soggy mess; it was 45 degree heat in Sacramento outside that day. Another tent, this time on a cold mid-summer\u2019s day, wet to the knees from the wet grass in Ringebu, Norway, while greater names (like Peter Voulkos) repaired to the school house to make their work. We all needed the aquavit to dry us from the inside out. Imagine being at an international workshop at Archie Bray in Montana, US, with a Ukranian artist in the studio to my left, two women from Ecuador to my right then a Thai and and a much esteemed Frenchman; then on the other side of the pottery shed the studios were occupied by a Taiwanese, a Chinese, A Korean and a potter from Mali; what a privilege those weeks were.\nIt has been a most fulfilling time because I believe in the power of ceramics to spread knowledge and goodwill among nations. We learn about civilisations, past and present, and gain an insight into our contemporary situation. My interest in ceramics began at the same time as the crafts revival occurred worldwide, and I was keen to participate in all those groups that promoted ceramics at the highest level. My efforts were rewarded by my becoming president of various groups, thus I was able to help steer some progress in the awareness of the importance of ceramic art. This of course included an international perspective. In my work as a writer and the editor of ##Pottery in Australia## I endeavoured to include articles on international artists, and this finally resulted in the international magazines I established, ##Ceramics: Art & Perception## and ##Ceramics TECHNICAL##, which both met with success.\nIt was always the people that provided the most stimulating experience \u2013 fellow ceramists that I met, came to know and made friends with, people with similar interests and values who were positive and hardworking. Meeting such people led to further opportunities for me, and I was able to work together with them planning articles for the magazine and for exhibitions in the gallery that I ran in conjunction with the magazines in Paddington, NSW.\nDuring those years, we hosted shows from the UK, (curated by Marta Donaghey), from France (curated by Renate Wunderle) and from Holland (curated by Pauline Ploeger). The Gallery also represented countries such as Serbia and New Zealand, and work from the Tiwi Islands. Special event shows such as the ##Millennium Platter Exhibition##, an international show curated by Gudrun Klix, were also held. I felt I was offering Australian potters a broad look at what was happening in the wider world, at the same time as learning more about the art of ceramics and the cultures of diverse places.\nThe Gulgong events that I organised, eight in all so far, had a similar philosophy. The first one, Fire-Up Gulgong, brought 120 people to camp on the family farm, watch master potters at work, interact in demonstrations, and fire kilns. Over these Gulgong events, 100 master potters (80 from overseas and 20 from Australia) acted as workshop leaders, and were able to share their knowledge and experience and exhibit their work.\nThe numbers and the event\u2019s reputation grew and at the 2010 event, Clay Energy: Hungarian, Israeli, Finnish, US, UK, Australian and NZ master ceramists offered their skills to the 500 participants. All these events and exhibitions gave me good material for the publication of books and magazines, thereby extending the value of these experiences even further.\nIn between all these happenings, my own ceramics practice continued. During a 1975 residency in the US working with Paul Soldner, I had hoped to explore some raku ceramics techniques, but, instead, came home inspired to build a salt-glaze kiln.\nThere is a physical aspect to salt-glazing: one becomes totally involved in the process, testing different clays and decorative techniques and the colours and textures that reflected the Australian countryside. There was much to learn, a lifetime of research to undertake.\nWith these experimental pots I entered every ceramics competition available in Australia and abroad. Perhaps because the work looked fresh and different I was awarded various prizes and invited to give workshops to ceramics groups. My philosophy of making pots has always tended towards useful wares. I enjoy using other potters\u2019 work and feel in touch with them, literally and figuratively, when I do so. And, of course, it is the best way to test new ideas by using my pots in my own kitchen.\nThe land around me on the farm is productive, offering me not only sustenance but also all the materials I need for making pottery. Since the early 1980s, I have combined the firing of salt-glaze with woodfired kilns. This involves more physical work, more research, and more rewards. Woodfiring is a growing interest for ceramic artists throughout the world, but is just one of the many interesting avenues a potter can take. I enjoy them all but find the greatest challenge is to make useful work that is relevant and has meaning for our contemporary life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 7590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jihadica.com/primer-on-jihadi-players-in-algeria-and-mali-pt-3-movement-for-tawhid-and-jihad-in-west-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOS42MYQGMDEJ2GTMVNHVYSIDMKYNWVU", "length": 5212, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.jihadica.com", "title": "Primer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 3: Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa", "raw_content": "Primer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 3: Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa\nJanuary 22, 2013 by Andrew Lebovich 7 Comments\nThe Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO, in French) is an AQIM splinter group that publicly appeared in December 2011, when they claimed the kidnapping of three European aid workers in Tindouf, Algeria. Led by the Mauritanian Hamada Ould Kheiru*, an explosives expert, preacher, and longtime GSPC/AQIM member close to Belmokhtar, the group\u2019s stated reason for leaving AQIM was the latter\u2019s purported lack of devotion to jihad and failure to promote non-Algerians to leadership positions.\nOstensibly dedicated to propagating jihad in West Africa, the group\u2019s leadership was originally believed to be largely composed of Mauritanians and Arabs from the Gao region, though recent announcements indicate that the leadership has diversified to include a Saudi, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian, as well as other \u201cforeign fighters\u201d. The group has also reportedly recruited from local populations and some sub-Saharan Africans.\nMUJAO, which controls the Malian city of Gao, benefits from a close relationship with Mokhtar Belmokhtar, whose forces fought with and may have led MUJAO\u2019s successful military attacks against the Tuareg nationalist group the MNLA in Gao in June, and in M\u00e9naka in November. MUJAO and Belmokhtar\u2019s Katibat al-Mulathimeen (Battalion of the Veiled Men) seized the infamous smuggling town of In Khalil (sometimes written as al-Khalil) in late December, and are reportedly involved in the current Islamist offensive in central Mali.\nOne of the MUJAO\u2019s key military leaders, spokesmen, and favorite quote machine for Western journalists, Omar Ould Hamaha, was a commander under Belmokhtar and was identified for a time as the military commander of Ansar al-Din. Hamaha is also, according to some reports, Belmokhtar\u2019s father-in-law.\nWhile rumors abound that MUJAO receives support from local businessmen and known traffickers, in addition to foreign governments, MUJAO has also made an extensive effort to portray itself as a \u201ctrue\u201d jihadist organization by instituting hudud punishments in and around Gao, conducting attacks against foreign targets, and adopting a media strategy that includes a web forum, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and battalion names recalling past Muslim leaders, famous jihadist figures, and also a local Muslim organization.\nDespite its stated focus on West Africa, MUJAO has conducted 4 operations (including two suicide bombings) in Algeria or against Algerian targets, in addition to the kidnapping of 7 Algerian diplomats from the Algerian consulate in the northern Malian city of Gao. MUJAO currently holds 3 of the 7\u2013after releasing three and killing one\u2013and one French-Portuguese hostage kidnapped in November.\n* While some sources indicate that Kheiru founded MUJAO in cooperation with other \u201cdissident\u201d AQIM members, this explanation is not universal. For instance, Mauritanian journalist Mohamed Mahmoud Abu al-Ma\u2019ali, who published a lengthy analysis in May of the various jihadist groups occupying northern Mali, says that the group was founded by the businessman, smuggler, and AQIM member Sultan Ould Bady, with Kheiru subsequently joining the group. Regardless, both were represented as key leaders of the group until recently, when Ould Bady purportedly left MUJAO to join Ansar al-Din. In December the United States Department of State referred to Kheiru (written as Khairy) as a \u201cfounding leader\u201d of MUJAO alongside Ahmed el-Tilemsi, when the State Department designated MUJAO a terrorist organization and applied sanctions to Kheiru and Tilemsi (but no other MUJAO leaders).\nFiled Under: Algeria, AQIM Tagged With: Mali\nAbout Andrew Lebovich\n\u00ab What\u2019s Old is New Again: The Legacy of Algeria\u2019s Civil War in Today\u2019s Jihad\nPrimer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 4 (Final): Ansar al-Din \u00bb\nPrimer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 3: Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa \u00ab Mali Sources says:\n[\u2026] 22nd January 2013 on jihadica.com by Andrew [\u2026]\nPrimer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 2: Belmokhtar & Those Who Sign with Blood \u00ab Mali Sources says:\n[\u2026] 20th January 2013 on jihadica.com by Andrew [\u2026]\nPrimer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 1: AQIM \u00ab Mali Sources says:\nNot-so-Ideological, al Qaeda-linked, Islamist Narco-terrorists on the run in Mali | Selected Wisdom says:\n[\u2026] an excellent breakdown of the groups in Mali at Jihadica see: AQIM, old GIA/GSPC, Blood Signers, MUJWA, Ansar [\u2026]\nFran\u00e7ois Hollande, \u201ca close friend of Mali\u201d | elcidharth says:\n[\u2026] Islamists who do operate in northern Mali are a disparate group with diffuse goals, as this series of posts by Sahel expert Andrew Lebovich make clear. Ansar Dine just split, and it is likely that the [\u2026]\nDrones Assassinations: More the Merrier | elcidharth says:\n[\u2026] Primer on Jihadi Players in Algeria and Mali, Pt. 3: Movement for \u2026 http://www.jihadica.com/primer-on-jihadi-players-in-algeria-and-ma… [\u2026]\nOn Gao, MUJWA, and the ICRC | Sahel Blog says:\n[\u2026] swept the jihadists out of power \u2013 though not entirely out of Mali \u2013 in 2013. MUJWA was a dominant player in Gao during [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 7752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnharveyphoto.com/Life/12_2016/NaraInstallingFaceFeatures.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:C633BBZYXC6OILXIWJUDXVSH2ILQ5NHO", "length": 74, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.johnharveyphoto.com", "title": "Nara Installing Face Features", "raw_content": "Nara Installing Face Features\nDate: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 at 1:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 166.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnpedroza.com/blog1/dantespeak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7HX72FSD5Z3DNZMQDLWNOOGMDAQPBT3T", "length": 3592, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.johnpedroza.com", "title": "Hiking to Dante\u2019s Peak and Visiting the Griffith Park Observatory \u2013 Pedroza Place", "raw_content": "Home\u2192AJ\u2192Hiking to Dante\u2019s Peak and Visiting the Griffith Park Observatory\n\u2190 150 Generations Later\u2026\nThe Last Day of Summer \u2192\nThe bridge up the Dante\u2019s Peak trail.\nLast Saturday Denise\u2019s family decided to get together and have a picnic. Deciding we wanted to do a little bit more than a picnic we decided to go and do a little hike together. The original plan was to go all the way to the top of the Hollywood sign, but after research showed that it was going to be 6 miles round trip we opted for a shorter 3.5 mile trip up to Dante\u2019s Peak.\nThe hike up to Dante\u2019s Peak wasn\u2019t too bad. We got there at 9 AMwhich was good for two reasons. One, it wasn\u2019t too hot and two, there was still parking at the observatory. I think if we had gotten there 5 mins. later we would have been out of luck. The trail up to Dante\u2019s peak is well defined and offers beautiful views over Los Angeles and all the way to the ocean. Just before Dante\u2019s Peak is Dante\u2019s View. At Dante\u2019s view there are some benches and a water fountain.\nUncle Bob carries Madison up at Dante\u2019s View.\nThe family on the way up to Dante\u2019s Peak.\nJohn, Madison, and AJ taking a break to look at the Hollywood sign.\nFrom the Dante\u2019s Peak trail you can see all the way to the ocean.\nThe Wrights, Aunt Judy, and AJ looking at the \u201cHollywoo\u201d sign (when you get up there you will get it).\nBerlin Forrest picnic area offers some great views of LA.\nAJ saw these guys exercising on top of Dante\u2019s peak.\nOnce AJ saw people exercising up on Dante\u2019s Peak he had to do it as well.\nAfter going taking in the views at Dante\u2019s peak we went had a little picnic back at the trailhead in a little campsite called the Berlin Forrest (LA and Berlin apparently are sister cities). We also went to go and see the Griffith Park Observatory. The planetarium shows cost about $7 dollars, but everything else is free. AJ was really enthusiastic about the lecture on how to build a comet. I on the other hand enjoyed a nap in an air conditioned room.\nWe saw a Tesla Coil. Which was interesting but I didn\u2019t get it\u2019s usefulness other than it sparked.\nThe telescope inside the dome was big.\nThis solar telescope focuses in light and provides really detailed pictures of the mountain range.\nA view from the roof of the observatory.\nThis was the first US rocket to make orbit. It is full scale. As you can see, it wasn\u2019t very big.\nThis is a view of the planets exhibit from the view of Pluto (which is still considered a planet in New Mexico).\nThe Griffith Park Observatory is a great place to learn new things.\nThe murals from the 1930s show in pictograph man\u2019s progress in science.\nA moon rock.\nAJ enjoyed the lecture, John enjoyed a nap.\nWhen we finally left Griffith park at about 2:00 PM. The place was packed! There was no parking at the observatory and the park rangers were diverting all cars off the road to the observatory. For us it was a great time, we were going the opposite way of traffic by that time and except for some minor stop and go on the freeway got home great.\nWe got a quick view of the Centennial Aqueduct up on the way to the observatory.\nPosted in AJ, Weekend Travel\tTagged california, Dante's Peak, family weekend trip, Griffith Park Observatory, Hiking Trails, Hollywood sign, la, LA Hiking Trails, los angeles\tpermalink\nHiking to Dante\u2019s Peak and Visiting the Griffith Park Observatory \u2014 3 Comments\nRobert Cannon on August 20, 2014 at 4:30 pm said:\nFun hike and great company.\nDoris Jackman on August 21, 2014 at 4:24 am said:\nwow! Wish we had come along. Looks like fun.\nPingback: Other people\u2019s photos of my vacation.com \u2013 Agent of Chaos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 6535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jojoebi-designs.com/2011/10/246-before-and-after-shots.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DWZFUJHXXR3HWBXOFWKDNOCD7WKOXUXB", "length": 308, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jojoebi-designs.com", "title": "jojoebi designs: 2:46 before and after shots...", "raw_content": "2:46 before and after shots...\nA friend posted this link on FB, there are a lot of photos taken just after the quake/tsunami, 3 months and 6 months on. It is amazing how much work has been done already but it is going to be such a long time before anything is back to 'normal', if ever.\nKesennuma, Miyagi-ken", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jp-balances.com/news/the-9th-china-international-fluid-machinery-ex-18654894.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YVYU7QBLSDRPMHSD4CURLKXOLPXRYSJB", "length": 2871, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jp-balances.com", "title": "The 9th China International Fluid Machinery Exhibition - Products\u2018 news - News - Shanghai Jianping Dynamic Balancing Machine Manufacturing Co.,Ltd", "raw_content": "In order to display the latest reform and innovation achievements in the fluid machinery industry, develop domestic and overseas markets, effectively promote exchanges and cooperation in the fluid machinery industry at home and abroad, between supply and demand, and among industries, universities and research institutes, enhance publicity of excellent enterprises and high quality products, with the experience of holding 8 China International Fluid Machinery Exhibitions successfully, China General Machinery Industry Association will hold 2018 the 9th China (Shanghai) International Fluid Machinery Exhibition (IFME) from 26 to 28 October, 2018 in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center.\nThe exhibiting instrument carried by Shanghai Jianping is a universal joint dynamic balancing machine. There are three models, PHW-160H, 300H, 500H, JP680B and 580B. It can balance rotors from 50kg to 30,000kg and 2800mm in diameter. It can support up to 10 kinds of bearings. It can be flexibly customized components and can be balanced with rotating body parts such as large and medium-sized motor rotors, blowers, centrifugal impellers, dryer cylinders and rollers. It has the characteristics of large driving power, high precision and convenient operation.\nThanks to the excellent performance of the universal joint balancing machine, during the exhibition, Shanghai Jianping attracted many fans and the practitioners of the pump industry. They stopped to visit and asked about the characteristics of the universal balancing machine. And usage. In this regard, the Shanghai Jianping staff on the side made a patient answer, and then through the form of video, showed the specific operation method and effective use of the universal balancing machine, and the audience greeted each other for a time.\nIt is understood that Shanghai Jianping has been involved in the dynamic balancing machine industry for several decades. In the past few decades, Shanghai Jianping has been involved in the development, design and production of balancing machines. It is a high-tech industrial entity. The various balancing machine equipments produced by the company are well received and trusted by customers. They are not only well received in China, but also exported to Europe, America, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and other countries.\nIt is believed that with the successful convening of the 2018 China International Fluid Machinery Exhibition, the influence of Shanghai Jianping will continue to expand. For the majority of wind turbines and pump industry practitioners, the powerful universal joint balancing machine is a boon. With the support of high technology, I believe that the level of China's manufacturing industry will be even higher!\nPrevious: Jianping Pump Impeller Automatic Balancing Machine\nNext: Enshi 3 Days Tour Warm Start-JP Balancing Machines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 5982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.julianjaynes.org/jjsforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=214&p=462", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:28Z", "digest": "sha1:XVFNTY2LBZ7L5NT3P6YVHTASCKSN2CQY", "length": 2194, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.julianjaynes.org", "title": "Julian Jaynes Society Discussion Forum: Exploring Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind Theory since 1997 \u2022 View topic - New Evidence of Hearing Voices Created by One's Brain?", "raw_content": "New Evidence of Hearing Voices Created by One's Brain?\nPost subject: New Evidence of Hearing Voices Created by One's Brain?\nThe Lancet (Vol. 370, p.538) has an interesting piece about hearing voices created in one's brain. The recent issue of the New Scientist (#2617, 18 August 2007, page 16) summarizes it thus:\nA SWISS woman who fell off her bicycle has yielded a unique insight into how auditory hallucinations are generated.\nThe woman suffered damage to the part of the brain where speech is generated and could speak only in short, stunted words and sentences. Five months later, when she suddenly developed epilepsy, she began \"hearing\" voices with the same speech impediments as herself.\n\"She initially heard her own voice speaking aloud, then the voices of hospital staff,\" says Daniela Hubl at the University Hospital of Psychiatry in Bern, Switzerland, a member of the team that treated her. \"They had the same speech impediments as she did. It proves that the voices were generated in the language areas of the patient's own brain.\" The hallucinations disappeared when the woman received drugs to control her epilepsy (The Lancet, Vol. 370, p 538).\nHubl believes the case is unique and supports more strongly than ever the scientific consensus that \"voices\" and other hallucinations experienced by people with conditions like schizophrenia are generated within their own brains.\n[From issue 2617 of New Scientist magazine, 18 August 2007, page 16\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/channel/bei ... iment.html]\nThanks for posting this. It's interesting to see all of these new studies coming out that support Jaynes's neurological model.\nI found the last line of that article a little surprising. It's hard for me to believe there are still people that believe voices would come from anywhere other than one's own brain but I guess there are (other than the people that hear the voices themselves of course \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they often interpret their voices as coming from outside themselves).\nI think this just shows the incredible psychological power of the religious impulse and the societal conditioning to believe in otherwordly entities \u00e2\u20ac\u201d vestiges of the bicameral mind still acting on us today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.junkcarman.com/nj/Grassy%20Sound_New%20Jersey.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AGHY5HSZKZKCU5FID3HYU5KVWTKXOABW", "length": 1244, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.junkcarman.com", "title": "Grassy Sound, NJ - Salvage Car | Junk a Car | Scrap a Car", "raw_content": "in Grassy Sound, NJ\nAnywhere in Grassy Sound\nJunk a Car Grassy Sound, NJ\nI\u2019m Jim the Junkman and I'm right here in Grassy Sound. I\u2019ve been called many things over the years. Some people call me crazy Jim, crackpot, quack, and just nuts. My friends just call me Jimmy. In my mind, I\u2019m just a car buying Junkman. I need to buy lots of cars everyday. I\u2019ve got cash and tow trucks in Grassy Sound, ready to pick-up your car and pay you cash\nCall me anytime, anywhere, if you live anywhere near Grassy Sound and I\u2019ll make you the highest cash offer I can, for your car. The towing is FREE and I\u2019ll pick-up your car within 24 hours. I'm available everyday - 7 days a week and I\u2019ve got to buy at least 10 cars a day. Any year, make, model, or condition. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it runs or drives. I\u2019ve bought cars with a tree through the roof, with the engine in the trunk, vehicles with no doors & windows, some sitting in driveways and garages \u2013 some didn't even start for years.\nIf your car is broken down anywhere near Grassy Sound, sitting at the mechanic's shop, too expensive to fix, or the engine or transmission is gone\u2026give me a call at 1-877-445-0780 & ask for crazy Jim... 'cause I've got cash to spend and I'm ready to buy your car now!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.just1step.com/2011/03/how-to-pray-for-enemies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CJFNT6X57TN7FWP6LUOE2O4VBEH4ZUYX", "length": 785, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.just1step.com", "title": "Just 1 Step: How to pray for \"enemies\"?", "raw_content": "Yesterday I found myself in a situation where I felt called to pray for an \"enemy.\" But as I went to pray, I found that I had no idea what to pray for. I didn't want to pray for that person to realize that he/she was wrong...because that seemed like a selfish prayer. Likewise, praying for that person to think more rationally, be nicer, etc. also all seemed selfish. I don't know much about this person's personal life, so I couldn't pray for anything specific there. So I found myself praying that this person would know Jesus...but then isn't that also making the assumption that the mentioned person doesn't know Jesus? And isn't that judging where I'm not fit to judge?\nAny thoughts? Any scripture references? I know we're supposed to pray for our enemies, but how do we do that??", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 455, "original_length": 11555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 176.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kakaakoluxurycondos.com/honolulu/oahu/hawaii/luxury/real/estate/realtor/jack-tyrrell/blog/2017/7/25/honolulu-ranks-among-top-15-cities-to-live-wallethub-study-finds", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4SB7KOV7H6FQ37PPHQYIRI4LUANXER7Z", "length": 1893, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.kakaakoluxurycondos.com", "title": "Honolulu ranks among top 15 cities to live, WalletHub study finds \u2014 Jack Tyrrell & Company Jack Tyrrell specializes in Kakaako, Honolulu, Hawaii luxury condo projects.", "raw_content": "Honolulu ranks among top 15 cities to live, WalletHub study finds\nPhoto: Waikiki Beach\nThe annual Best Big Cities to Live study by Wallethub rated Honolulu as the Number 13 overall in its 2017 list! The study ranks the 62 largest U.S. cities based on 50 key indicators of attractiveness. Honolulu ranked 2nd overall in \"Economy\", which factors in indicators such as unemployment rate and job opportunities, and 8th overall in \"Education & Health\" which looks at the quality of individual health and life expectancy. By contrast, Honolulu was placed 56th in terms of affordability, probably due to the high cost of living. High rankings in Economy, Education & Health, Quality of Life reflect the aspirational lifestyle Honolulu provides for its citizens. Whether it is being able to take a beach swim after work or the culture embracing time spent with family and friends, we really are #luckytolivehawaii.\nHonolulu ranks among the top 15 best cities to live, despite a low rank for affordability, according to a new WalletHub study.\nHawaii\u2019s largest city is ranked No. 13 overall with a score of 58.46 on the analysis, which ranked that Virginia Beach, Virginia, No. 1 among the top 62 cities studied.\nThe study ranked the cities according to 50 metrics, including income growth \u2014 Honolulu was 11th \u2014 and job opportunities \u2014 Honolulu was 30th.\nWhile Honolulu was ranked second for the economy, it had the fourth-highest housing costs, after New York, Los Angeles and Miami, which was ranked 62nd.\nHonolulu had the third-lowest percentage of population living below poverty level \u2014 only San Jose, California, and Virginia Beach had lower percentages. And Honolulu was also ranked third, behind Boston and Washington, D.C., for the highest percentage of insured population.\ntagged with honolulu, oahu, hawaii, best cities to live, united states, real estate, quality of life, economy, wallethub", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kathrinenorsk.com/travelblog/petrified-national-forest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:MEGPGSLK6GV7OVMHCM5APTJHUBNCX7VC", "length": 513, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kathrinenorsk.com", "title": "Blog - KathrineNorsk Projects - Petrified Forest National Park", "raw_content": "As we were making our way to the Grand Canyon, we stumbled upon Petrified Forest National Park. We decided to make a trip out of it, and I can\u2019t express enough how happy I am that we did. After days of driving, this was the first natural wonder that we experienced. I was amazed by all the variety of color, not only in the landscape but also hidden in the petrified trees, that resembled huge mineral stones rather than tree blocks. We were unaware that this was just the beginning of incredible natural sights\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kexplorer.com/artist/64098", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5VS5IVPO2UH3JYTR4DQGKGYZ54VAE64S", "length": 5138, "nlines": 118, "source_domain": "www.kexplorer.com", "title": "Frightened Rabbit - KEXP Playlist Explorer", "raw_content": "It's Christmas So We'll Stop\nTriple Door live performance ...\nLIVE from Austin for SXSW\nThe Midnight Oragan\nThe Mightnight Organ Fight\nLiver! Lung! FR!\nHow It Gets In (Feat. 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Photo By Dallas Wilcox\nFreshman Ozzie Adams takes a mighty swing against DMACC on April 14. Photo By Dallas Wilcox\nThe Kirkwood Community College baseball team proved that it can compete with the top teams in NJCAA Division II baseball.\nKirkwood upset no. 2 in the nation Des Moines Area Community College in two games. Since then, Kirkwood has dropped six of its last eight games to move to 21-11 overall.\nOn April 13 the Eagles defeated DMACC in both games of a double-header. In the first game, the Eagles fell behind 0-2 in the first inning. In the bottom of the seventh, facing a 1-3 deficit, Kirkwood scored two runs to send the game into extra-innings.\nThe Eagles got the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth to win 4-3.\nPitcher Colin Belk remained undefeated for the season after improving his record to 6-0. He is tied for ninth in the nation for most wins.\nDairo Gonzalez and Dennis Colon each recorded an RBI in the Eagles' 3-1 victory in the second game. Jean Carlos Rosario notched the victory as pitcher.\nDMACC rebounded from its losses by defeating Kirkwood twice on April 14. Dairo Gonzalez hit a homerun for Kirkwood's only score in a 7-1 loss that went 10 innings. The Eagles fell short in the second game, 1-3, after the score was tied at one until the fifth inning.\nThe Eagles slid to 7-9 in the ICCAC after falling to Iowa Central Community College in four games on April 20 and 21.\nIn 4-0 and 3-2 losses on April 20, Kirkwood recorded two errors in each game. The Eagles lost 1-2 the next day after giving up two runs in the third inning. The Eagles lost the final contest 0-3.\nKirkwood won two games on April 23 against Dakota County Technical College.\nThe Eagles play their final home games this season on May 4 and 5 against Southwestern Community College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 8282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.koanadvisory.com/union-budget-15-16-hopes-for-a-market-driven-rebalance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BJKSCGRBUQC665W5RBF66NBNGLPNICLX", "length": 6962, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.koanadvisory.com", "title": "Koan Advisory", "raw_content": "Finance Minister Arun Jaitley read out his Budget speech on Saturday (February 28) amidst great expectations from his government to signal a progressive, non-populist agenda. With 800 million living at less than two dollars a day and one million entering the job market every month, India\u2019s myriad socio-economic challenges seem to have converged \u2013 and can prove to be overwhelming for a state which is not able to achieve targets.\nIn the final few years of the erstwhile UPA Government, it had become fairly apparent that a complete revision in the government\u2019s approach to the Indian economy would be required \u2014 to build the requisite capacities to address the scale of incumbent challenges. This revision of approach is precisely what has been attempted in the 2015-16 Budget. One of the key challenges of policymaking in India is no doubt the requirement to cater two vastly different constituencies. The first is the burgeoning numbers of rural and urban poor, who also form a large part of the political base. And the second is the business elite and rating agencies that are ever watchful of the balancing act of successive Finance Ministers between populist spending and prudent management.\nAs a result of the shriller and louder voice of the latter constituency in the political and financial capitals of the country, much is often made of India\u2019s fiscal deficit targets in contemporary intellectual discourse. This overlooks the fact that India\u2019s public debt is largely manageable, particularly since only a small proportion is in the form of external debt. Of course less emphasis on prudent fiscal policy requires growth to be on track \u2013 which seems to be the case if the revised GDP numbers are to be believed. In fact the Economic Survey has been bold enough to proclaim that double digit GDP growth is now achievable, despite the fact that industrial production is near stagnant.\nMr. Jaitely has promised to stick to a fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent of GDP. This seems to be a distinct feature of his government \u2013 its actions in recent days seem to suggest that it is heavily influenced by the need to maintain positive perceptions.\nWhat Mr. Jaitley seems to have overlooked, is the fact that the fiscal health of India\u2019s states is in fact very good \u2013 which means the government could have looked to dilute the rhetoric on prudent fiscal management and looked to jump start growth through aggressive capital expenditure in key sectors such as infrastructure. In 2013-14 the states\u2019 gross fiscal deficit was only 2.2 per cent of GDP. The average debt to GDP ratio over 2010-2014 was 22.2 per cent, a full eight percentage points lower than in the period 2000-2005 when India first began to experience rapid economic growth.\nThis is not to say that Mr. Jaitley has not emphasised the right issues in his speech. One of the key developments in the thinking of the government seems to be on the area of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The government seems to have correctly realised that the PPP model of infrastructure investments has not worked, largely because the private sector has thus far been taking the risk of such investments, which are almost never properly assessed. Mr. Jaitley has admitted, in what is a positive sign for things to come, that the sovereign will have to take on a larger share of the risk in PPP investments. After all, private sector cannot simply gloss over the investment risks that are tied to the relative unease of doing business in this country. Furthermore, low global oil prices have given the government fiscal room to manoeuvre and therefore convert excise duty on petrol and diesel to a cess of four rupees per litre towards road projects.\nAnother promising development is the recalibration of tax policy in the country. The government earns the largest proportion of its tax revenue from direct tax on corporates, accounting for 3.56 per cent of GDP as per 2014-15 Budget Estimates (as compared to 2.25 per cent of GDP in the case of income tax). Mr. Jaitley has rightly stated that this has made \u201cdomestic industry uncompetitive\u201d. A sustainable and resilient Indian economy would have to rest on the pillar of strong corporate performance. Given that the effective collection of corporate tax is around a lowly 23 per cent, the proposal to reduce the rate of corporate tax to 25 per cent over the next four years has been a long time coming. Likewise, so has the abolition of the Wealth Tax and the substitution of this with the surcharge of two per cent on the tax liabilities of the super-rich (who earn over one crore per annum).\nWhile other positives include the reemphasis of the adverse impacts of retrospective taxation, liberalisation of some of the framework rules for foreign funding including \u201ctax pass through\u201d on \u2018Alternative Investment Funds\u2019, and recognition of the \u201ctransformative\u201d role that the Goods and Services Tax can play in tax administration, a lot rests on implementation capacity of the government, which has not yet been proven.\nAlthough Mr. Jaitley has promised a \u201cnon-adversarial tax administration\u201d, it is not quite clear how the government will deliver on this front. Indeed if the experience of Nokia or e-commerce companies is anything to go by, the day when the central government will have better policy oversight over state tax administration is still very far. Moreover, the Rail Budget, which has put additional stress on coal freight, is indicative of the fact that the government has not been able to think through some structural challenges of the Indian economy. Thermal power generation is already stressed because of the lack of coal evacuation capacity. More taxes on the coal supply chain means that the burden will eventually have to be passed on downstream.\nIndeed it is unfair to expect the government to have a fool-proof budget framework \u2013 there will always be losers. However, significant implementation challenges can be reduced in the social sector in particular, if the government\u2019s vision of the \u201cJAM trinity\u201d \u2014 of Jan Dhan, Aadhar and Mobile is realised in the context of Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT). Subsidies account for around two per cent of GDP,which is larger than the share of capital expenditure. If the efficiency of social spending can be improved upon in a substantive way through DBT, it may prove to be a real game-changer.\nThe premise of this Budget seems to have been a market oriented growth strategy \u2013 wholly fair given that the government will struggle to fund the growth needs of the country otherwise. This has already been evidenced in the slow delivery on the Smart Cities agenda \u2013 compromised because of a lack of both funding availability and more importantly,viable ideas. A lot therefore rests upon the leadership and institutional capacity of the government to deliver. One should hope that this budget has set the controls for a larger shift in the government\u2019s approach towards administration and efficacy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 7222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kryptonianwarrior.com/2016/03/disneys-zootropolis-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IMUSNPKSLHYVYESY4YNO4BW3PMWXQ6NV", "length": 2992, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.kryptonianwarrior.com", "title": "Kryptonian Warrior: Disney's Zootropolis review", "raw_content": "Disney's new film about a bunny called Judy Hopps, who moves to the city of Zootropolis to become the first bunny police officer, is one of the best!\nFirstly, I love animals so when I heard Disney was making a film about animals, I kind of knew I had to go and see it! I was very surprised and enlightened.\nThe two main characters; Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde (con artist fox) are in opposition to their ambitions. Judy is full of hope and optimism whilst Nick has abandoned his after a childhood trauma.\nAdditionally, the plot isn't as simple as Judy moving to the city and discovering it's not what she thought it was. Her perseverance and determination to prove to her boss-Chief Bogo that she deserves to be a cop is where the plot begins to unravel.\nJudy has to take on the case of a missing otter and finds that Nick knew of him and blackmails him into helping her or she'll arrest him for tax evasion. She is a bright, kind and inspiring lead character for younger audiences and the plot is actually more of a crime thriller but within the animal kingdom.\nThis duo discover that the fourteen missing mammals that the other police officers were assigned to find have turned savage. Judy is quizzed by Nick to whether she thinks that it's in the predators DNA to resort back to their wild aggression, which reveals that she has insecurities about predators and maybe is even small-minded about them.\nHowever, this could be to do with her upbringing as her father had given her sprays and other forms of protection against foxes. I think it shows that even the kindest and brightest characters have flaws and weaknesses but doesn't mean they are any less of an individual.\nThere are many sub-texts to the story such as the discrimination of the predators and how a group of individuals can become separated from society and viewed as something that doesn't fit into what society has created.\nAlso, there are some parallels to who you can really trust within the government as the mayor, who is a lion, and his assistant- a sheep, are revealed to be the saboteurs who have been deliberately infecting predators with a certain flower- Night Howlers, that can cause an animal to become savage.\nJudy cleverly learns this when her parents tell her of one of their relatives who ate one of the night howlers and turned savage. Adorably, she races back to find Nick and together they find the evidence they need to solve the case.\nThere is even an uplifting and intelligent speech towards the conclusion which invokes spirit into what it's like to move somewhere new and the discovery that life is messy and complicated, which is something every generation can relate too.\nMore so, the supporting characters such as the hilarious sloths and Clawhauser bring injections of humor into the plot.\nWith this, stunning and detailed animation, a flawless soundtrack, three-dimensional characters and a plot that is layered and thrilling, this is one of Disney's best films and I look forward to a sequel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.latinoinfo.co.vu/2012/09/argentina.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TGRRQNMXXVZHY6KG4AEFMLF2KEDSVWZX", "length": 4515, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.latinoinfo.co.vu", "title": "Latino Info: Argentina", "raw_content": "Rep\u00fablica Argentina is a country in South America, bordered by Chile to the west and south, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, and Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast. The country is a federation of 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, its capital and largest city. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations. Argentina became the first country in Latin America and the second in the Americas to allow same-sex marriage nationwide. In 2012, Argentina became the first nation in the world to enact a \"Law of Gender Identity\" providing for full rights and protections for transgender individuals.\nArgentine Map\nClick Image to Enlange\nGovernment Federal representative presidential republic\nPresident Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner\nCurrency Peso ($) (ARS)\nTime zone ART (UTC\u22123)\nInternet TLD .ar\nArgentina is composed of twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. The administrative divisions of the Provinces are the departments, and the municipalities, except for Buenos Aires Province, which is divided into partidos. The City of Buenos Aires is divided into communes. The provinces are organized as a federation, each one with a local constitution\nBuenos Airesa City\nTourist Attractions in Argentina\nTourist attractions in Argentina are spread all across the country, and every province has something special to offer to its visitors. The following sites of Argentine tourist attractions only aims to give some ideas about all that Argentina has to offer.\nOffers elegant architecture, exquisite cuisine, a legendary nightlife, and fashionable shopping. The most popular tourist sites are found in the historic city core, comprising Montserrat and San Telmo. The city was originally constructed around the Plaza de Mayo.\nIguazu Falls Iguazu, meaning 'great waters' is surrounded by national parks on both the Argentina and the Brazil sides. The falls themselves are divided into 275 separate falls, the highest being the Devil's Throat, higher than Niagara Falls at 70 m.\nLake Nahuel Huapi\nNahuel Huapi is a glacial lake located along the eastern slope of Southern Andean\nThe lake offers one of the nicest landscapes in South America, The international city of San Carlos de Bariloche, growing up very fast on the southeastern margin of the lake, attracts every year lots of tourists with pleasant summer weather and winter sports.\nBariloche is a tourist orientated town in Argentina's Patagonia. If you're looking for cheap accommodation, stay in the town itself, but it's far more pleasant if you can afford to stay at a lakeside hotel or rental property just outside of Bariloche itself. Local tour operators offer various boat and catamaran trips, the Puerto Blest tour being one of the best. Other tours in Bariloche include trips to glaciers, railway journey trips, scenic drives, in addition to the many excellent nearby hikes. As for luxury hotels in Bariloche, the Llao Llao hotel is the most famous - it has a spectacularly beautiful lakeside location, but it is a large resort (the Llao Llao is one of Argentina's most famous hotels). Other hotels in Bariloche include Pire-Hue (more of a ski resort hotel), the boutique style Aldebaran, Edelwiss Hotel and the Tunquelen which feels more secluded than the neighbouring Lla Llao. The Design Suites is an alternative small boutique hotel in Bariloche.\nNestled on the shores of the Argentinean Lake is the small village of El Calafate. From here you can see the wildlife of the Nimes Lagoon, hike to the Perito Moreno Glacier (a UNESCO world heritage site) and the border of Chile, see the rock paintings of the Gualicho Caves and swim or fish in the Roca Lake. There are also plenty of rural tourism activities to see such as sheep shearing.\nMendoza located in Western of Argentina. It is the center of the Argentinian wine industry, for which it is world renowned. It is also near the Aconcagua, Rosario Explore the mountains or go to Aconcagua on the Chilean border to take in the view of South America\u2019s highest mountain, the Cerro Aconcagua. Mendoza is a city in western Argentina, in the desert Cuyo region.\nOffers museums of modern art, a blend of Spanish and Italian architecture, parks home to beautiful statues and monuments, beaches along the river front, restaurants with international cuisine and steakhouses where you can get the best and biggest Argentine beef steaks you have ever seen, or taste the local gourmet specialty - fresh river fish.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 7096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 187.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lawschoolcasebriefs.net/2014/01/wyo-stat-ann-1-21-1202-2001-duties-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BOPDVZ7VEHJR4LWJXV5626NWLYUT4WJN", "length": 1179, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lawschoolcasebriefs.net", "title": "Law School Case Briefs | Legal Outlines | Study Materials: Wyo. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 1-21-1202 (2001). Duties of owners and renters; generally.", "raw_content": "Wyo. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 1-21-1202 (2001). Duties of owners and renters; generally.\nWyo. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 1-21-1202 (2001) - Wyoming\nARTICLE 12 - RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY\n1-21-1202. Duties of owners and renters; generally.\n(a) Each owner and his agent renting or leasing a residential rental unit shall maintain that unit in a safe and sanitary condition fit for human habitation. Each residential rental unit shall have operational electrical, heating and plumbing, with hot and cold running water unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by both parties. Provided, however, this section shall not prevent the rental of seasonal rental units such as summer cabins which are not intended to have such amenities.\n(b) Each renter shall cooperate in maintaining his residential rental unit in accordance with this article.\n(c) This article does not apply to breakage, malfunctions or other conditions which do not materially affect the physical health or safety of the ordinary renter.\n(d) Any duty or obligation in this article may be assigned to a different party or modified by explicit written agreement signed by the parties.\nCases: Merrill v. Jansma, 86 P.3d 270 (2004)\nLabels: Statute", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2008/10/mine-is-bigger-than-yours.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:46Z", "digest": "sha1:O4WZ4SUTPSN6HCMEJ6IFEH6JMUZXDGKW", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.leftbankofthecharles.com", "title": "Left Bank of the Charles: Mine is Bigger than Yours", "raw_content": "Barack Obama says his tax cut is 3 times bigger than John McCain's:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 8208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2008/10/second-thoughts-about-sarah-palin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3MKEIBQRAAWD3NLFZROOWDE2KCO7AD5L", "length": 7099, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.leftbankofthecharles.com", "title": "Left Bank of the Charles: Second Thoughts about Sarah Palin", "raw_content": "I remember when I was first introduced to Sarah Palin. I had just watched Barack Obama\u2019s convention acceptance speech tuned to Fox on my parent\u2019s TV while visiting in Southwest Iowa. \u201cHe\u2019s clearly very well educated, where did he go to school?\u201d my father asked. Looking at the words on all the Obama signs in the Denver stadium crowd, my mother remarked, \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of change.\u201d Then John McCain came on, congratulated Barack, and said he had a surprise for us.\nThe next morning on Fox, the news was all about a plane from Alaska that had landed the previous night in Ohio, where John McCain was to announce his running mate. So we met Sarah. And then we went to visit my 96-year-old grandmother. She had been watching Fox on her new wide-screen TV. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cIt looks like the political parties are going to fool around and get a woman in as President. I don\u2019t think I like that. I can\u2019t explain why.\u201d\n70 million people tuned in last Thursday to watch the VP candidate debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, and they didn\u2019t tune in to watch Joe. The debate audience was second only to the 80 million who tuned in back in 1980 to watch Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter debate. That was back when the debates were on all the channels, and you couldn\u2019t switch to watch a movie on AMC. Just 52 million tuned in to watch John McCain and Barack Obama debate the week before last. So, for now at least, Sarah seems to be the star of the show.\nWho won the debate? David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register says that Sarah failed to prove her qualifications and shed her image as a lightweight. But he said the same thing about Barack Obama in the first debate. I don\u2019t agree. Here\u2019s how I scored it:\nFirst, I give Sarah and Joe 5 points each for substance. That\u2019s what these debates are supposed to be about, right?\nSarah proved she could handle the pressure. If you tuned in expecting Joe Biden to make her cry, you were disappointed. Well, Joe did choke up at one point, when talking about the car accident that put his two boys in the hospital and took the lives of his daughter and first wife. So does that count as Sarah making Joe cry? Not quite, but I still have to take a point away from Joe.\nCNN calculated that Joe was talking at an 8th grade level, while Sarah was talking at a 10th grade level. Note to Obama: you can\u2019t talk much higher than that and expect to get elected in this country, but don\u2019t talk down to us or the country won\u2019t elect you either. In any case, that\u2019s a point for Sarah.\nThe regional accent, syntax, and vocabulary of Sarah\u2019s sentences would make your high school English teacher dizzy and the Queen of England cringe. Hey, this is America and it\u2019s not the Queen\u2019s English anymore. We Americans are revolutionaries and innovators. That\u2019s another point for Sarah.\nFor using 10th grade words like \u201check\u201d and \u201cdoggone\u201d I\u2019ll give Sarah another point.\nFor telling the African-American moderator Gwen Ifill that she wasn\u2019t going to answer her questions without that sounding the least bit racist or otherwise condescending (see how far we\u2019ve come, I\u2019m guessing that how racist that was never even occurred to you), Sarah gets another point.\nSarah gets a point for best delivery of a pre-planned zinger. At the very beginning of the debate, Sarah turned to Senator Biden and asked, \u201cHey, can I call you Joe?\u201d And so how many times did she call him Joe? Exactly once, about an hour later, when she turned to Biden and said: \u201cSay it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again.\u201d\nJoe loses a point for beating the drum too hard on John McCain\u2019s statement two weeks ago that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are strong. Joe, we\u2019re in a banking crisis, you can\u2019t be badmouthing the broader economy. The foreign investors are listening.\nSarah gets a point for most emphatic statement on the financial mess:\n\u201cI think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars. We need to make sure that we demand from the federal government strict oversight of those entities in charge of our investments and our savings and we need also to not get ourselves in debt. Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don't live outside of our means.\u201d\nI don\u2019t have the credit cards records, but I\u2019m guessing I may now know why Sarah had to change colleges so many times:\nHawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii \u2013 one semester\nNorth Idaho College, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - two semesters\nUniversity of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho - two semesters\nMatanuska-Susitna College, Palmer, Alaska - one semester\nUniversity of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho - three semesters\nActually, here\u2019s what I suspect: Sarah enrolled in a private school in Hawaii she couldn\u2019t afford and had to drop out, then moved in with her grandparents or some aunt or uncle in Idaho to establish state residency and get cheap credits at the nearby community college (best educational value in America), transferred to the flagship state university in Idaho on the in-state tuition plan (that was the plan when she started the community college), went home to Alaska for a another semester of cheap community college credits and to keep her high school boyfriend Todd on the hook, and then went back to Idaho to finish her BS degree in communications-journalism at the big university.\nBut I digress. For not even being asked to explain her college career and putting her BS degree to good use, I give Sarah another point.\nOn the question about same-sex marriages, Joe uttered the word \u201csame-sex\u201d 4 times while Sarah avoided saying it at all. That\u2019s another point for Sarah, and Joe loses a point.\nOveruse of the word maverick? According to the official transcript, Sarah said the word maverick 6 times but Joe said it 9 times. OK, maybe he said \u201cnot maverick\u201d. Still, we have to take the point away from Joe.\nJoe also loses a point for getting confused about the U.S. Constitution. Joe, the executive branch is defined in Article II not Article I and the Vice President gets to preside over the Senate all the time, not just when there is a tie.\nJoe Biden smiled a lot, but he didn\u2019t have the best smile, so Sarah gets the point for flirting without getting caught. Ok, maybe she did get caught winking at us, but I\u2019m giving her the point anyway. I know she was really winking at me. Heck, make that a doggone two points.\nFinal score: 15 points for Sarah and 0 points for Joe. SNL is moving to primetime on Thursdays and I have suspected from the beginning that Tina Fey is rooting for Sarah. Too bad for the Republicans she\u2019s only running for Vice President. I\u2019m coming to the conclusion that win or lose in 2008 we\u2019ll see her again at the top of the ticket in 2012 and 2016.\nMeanwhile, the financial crisis has sunken John McCain\u2019s chances. He trails 7 points in nationwide polls and even further in electoral vote counts. One projection shows McCain losing to Obama 164 to 364. Another projection shows him losing 194 to 329 with North Carolina tied.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 15414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legacychurchga.com/blog---legacy-kids/does-your-child-have-a-passport-ready", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EJ6BKGGRBW67L3FWV54NUGXWSJID2NXA", "length": 2056, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.legacychurchga.com", "title": "Does Your Child Have A Passport Ready? - Legacy Church GA", "raw_content": "Does Your Child Have A Passport Ready?\nPassport to Purity\nI am the mother of two young girls actually they are young women, currently 13 and 16 years old now. I have committed my life to preparing them for all the different stages they will go through. I taught them how to call home, self defense, anti-bullying, teamwork, phone courtesy, and on and on and on. I also have taught them to love themselves, respect themselves and honor themselves. I also have had MANY discussions about sex, yep sex. None of these discussions went poorly and I'm so glad that I had them when I did. The best sex talk I ever had was on our \"Passport to Purity\" weekend. I was really excited and pleased when Pastor Tammy recommended this material to myself and my husband. I jumped in with both feet and never looked back.I highly recommend you check this life changing material out for your pre-teen boy or girl.\n\u200b-Cindi\n\u200bA life-changing getaway with your preteen. Your child begins the journey into adolescence in a world of sexting, bullying, online stalking and moral defiance. Innocence is under attack, and you cannot win the battle with a single awkward talk or a strict set of rules. The primary defense for your child is a strong relationship with you and with God.\nFamilyLife has developed Passport2Purity\u00ae (P2P) to assist you in building heart-to-heart communication with your preteen while laying a foundation of purity that will prepare them for the turbulent years ahead. Through the shared listening experience, object lessons and guided conversations of a P2P weekend getaway, you can set your son or daughter on a journey of moral integrity\u2014and strengthen the bond between you.\nPassport2Purity\u00ae is designed to be used by a mother and daughter or a father and son when the child is a preteen. It is suggested that the materials be completed over a weekend away from home, as the child may be more open to discussing the topics away from his or her normal environment. If this isn\u2019t possible, the material can be completed over a period of four or five weeks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legendarymusic.net/terms-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4CWYIBXZ66UXVFMFDPY72ULBTAFOZBZ3", "length": 2500, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.legendarymusic.net", "title": "Terms & Conditions \u2014 Living Legends", "raw_content": "This website is operated by Legendary Music, LLC. Throughout the site, the terms \u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d and \u201cour\u201d refer to Legendary Music, LLC. 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Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, our liability shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.\nYou agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Legendary Music, LLC and our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers, interns and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys\u2019 fees, made by any third-party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third-party.\nThese Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of 16430 Ventura Blvd, Suite 305 Encino US 91436.\nQuestions about the Terms of Service should be sent to us at legendaryinfo@gmail.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 19344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.letallcreationpraise.org/the-third-sunday-of-easter-in-year-c", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:30Z", "digest": "sha1:FSQOXIQI66ISC4S72TICFILQP6NOG7NV", "length": 6889, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.letallcreationpraise.org", "title": "The Third Sunday of Easter in Year C - Let All Creation Praise", "raw_content": "The Third Sunday of Easter in Year C\nWe are called to care for all creatures who join the hymn of God\u2019s creation.\nActs 9: 1-6 (7-20)\nLiving out the New Exodus brings more than celebration; it also exposes the old ways of death and division still to be overcome. Just as the author of Psalm 30 gives thanks for being healed from serious illness, so our readings fix attention on what must be avoided if we are to engage in what Wendell Berry calls \u201cpracticing resurrection\u201d (Berry, The Country of Marriage, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, p. 62).\nPaul\u2019s call as an apostle of the Risen One exposes the weakness of a religious stance based on absolute distinctions between \u201cinsiders\u201d and \u201coutsiders.\u201d At the beginning of our text, we meet a Saul \u201cbreathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord\u201d (Acts 9: 1). As he travels toward Damascus to carry out his mission to arrest Jesus\u2019 followers and bring them back for trial, he encounters the Risen One. This dramatic epiphany not only provides light that literally blinds, but also Saul hears a voice demanding, \u201cSaul, Saul why do you persecute me.\u201d When the answer makes clear that it is Jesus, whose followers are being pursued, Saul finds himself suddenly blinded and dependent upon others to lead him into Damascus, where \u201cfor three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank\u201d (Acts 9:9).\nAfter three days of what we could call something analogous to \u201cdeath,\u201d the reluctant but willing Jewish follower of the Risen One, Ananias, enters the house where Saul is staying, lays his hands on Saul, and greets him as \u201cBrother Saul\u201d (9: 17). Suddenly the three days\u2014reminiscent of Jesus\u2019 time in the grave\u2014are over, and Saul\u2019s sight is restored. Immediately, he is baptized and eats. This cannot but remind us of the experience of the Emmaus disciples whose eyes are \u201copened\u201d in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24: 31). Just as they threw themselves into a new life of action, so Saul will soon be immersed in seemingly endless travel as the one called to be \u201can instrument I have chosen to bring my name before Gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel\u201d (Acts 9 :15), an assignment certainly shocking to Ananias Ernst Haenchen, The Acts of the Apostles, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971, p. 328).\nOnce more we see the cascading \u201copenings\u201d that begin in Luke\u2019s resurrection chapter (Ch. 24), where the movement goes from \u201copening the eyes\u201d (v. 31), \u201cthe scriptures\u201d (v. 32, 44), \u201cthe minds\u201d necessary to comprehend (v. 45), and out to the whole earth (v. 47). Since this movement precedes the encounter between Peter and Cornelius which we considered last week, it is an even earlier and necessary step to understanding that all of creation\u2014all that relates to the food system\u2014is implicated in the new creation begun in resurrection. The movement begun in the resurrection event exposes all that divides and opens people of faith to see endless connections.\nBut even more is \u201cexposed\u201d by our reading from the Apocalypse of John. In fact, the very name apocalypse can be interpreted as \u201cexposing\u201d or \u201cuncovering.\u201d As he records his \u2018visions\u2019 on behalf of the faithful under pressure, John is acutely aware of the need to provide hope sufficient for the situation. That hope is dramatized by the wounded Lamb who is finally able to open the seals and unveil a new future for God\u2019s creation. While many would expect this as a task assigned to a \u201clion,\u201d \u201clamb power\u201d subverts the audience\u2019s all-too-real experience with the Roman Empire in Asia Minor, where special attention was paid to ensuring loyalty (Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed, Westview, p. 117.\nLike Toto in \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d John is \u2018pulling back the curtain\u2019 to expose the brutal reality of Roman rule. While the results of compliance are not nearly as gratifying as colonial peoples would expect, resistance is much more dangerous. Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza suggests that those who resist \u201care not able to buy or sell. Not only threat to life, imprisonment, and execution but also economic deprivation and destitution are to be suffered by those who refuse to take the mark of the beast . . . .\u201d (The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985, p. 193). Barbara Rossing documents the extraction economy carried on by Roman overlords, especially deforestation. Timber clear-cutting, apparently, is nothing new. The Romans were able to make of this once lush landscape \u201ca wasteland.\u201d (Rossing, \u201cRiver of Life in God\u2019s New Jerusalem: An Ecological Vision for Earth\u2019s Future,\u201d Currents in Theology and Mission, Dec. 1998, p. 492)\nNo wonder that \u201call living creatures\u201d rejoice at the appearance of the Lamb, the Risen One with \u201cfull voice!\u201d (Revelation 5: 11-12). As John of Patmos continues, \u201cThen I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing\u2026.\u201d For all living creatures anticipate that the \u201crule of the Lamb\u201d will provide a welcome contrast to the destruction\u2014social and environmental\u2014wrought by Roman imperial power. It is no wonder that \u201cthe four living creatures, representing humankind and all animals, said, \u201cAmen!\u201d (Revelation 4: 14)\nWe add our \u201cAmen\u201d each time we sing the \u201cHymn of Praise\u201d on Sundays during this season of celebration. The text comes straight from today\u2019s reading. But perhaps nothing is stronger than the verse:\nSing with all the people of God, and join in the hymn of all creation: blessing and honor, glory and might be to God and the Lamb forever. Amen (Evangelical Lutheran Worship p. 101).\nPerhaps we cannot completely understand the Revelation to John of Patmos, but we certainly are able to join with all creation in our song! And this is a song that provides just as much resistance to our own earth-destroying culture, as it did for the earliest faithful who voiced it.\nThe contrast between the scarcity produced in what is now Turkey by Roman \u201cresource mining\u201d and John\u2019s tale of an immense catch of fish could not be greater. Peter has been \u201cexposed\u201d as less than reliable by his three-fold denial of Jesus prior to the crucifixion. Much better than a simple return to Galilee to pick up the old life is the opportunity for rehabilitation. So, just as Peter denied Jesus three times by the light of a warming fire, here he is nourished by three opportunities to declare his deep allegiance (agape love) for the Risen One.\nBut in this resurrection world, each confession that erases a prior denial is accompanied by a call to service. Peter is enjoined to \u201cfeed the sheep\u201d (John 21: 15-17). Even though the fish seem to pay a steep price in this narrative, the command to care for the sheep must surely extend even beyond care for the human community. That care extends to all who \u201cjoin in the hymn of all creation.\u201d\nTom Mundahl Lutheran Church of the Reformation St. Louis Park, MN tmundahl@gmail.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 8889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lgbthiddenvoices.org.uk/the-start-of-the-rainbow-history-of-pride/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VLE7W6IEKK4UPCEBZ4LOXXPMKSH3DG2T", "length": 2807, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lgbthiddenvoices.org.uk", "title": "The Start of the Rainbow: History of Pride. | Hidden Voices", "raw_content": "Pride. What started some 46 years ago as a march in remembrance of the Stonewall Riots has now become a global tradition celebrated with parades, brightly coloured floats and notable individuals. Today\u2019s annual events have become a key and pivotal global celebration of LGBT diversity and history, which attracts millions of people from a wide variety of backgrounds.\nOn June 28th 1969, members of New York\u2019s LGBT Community took to the streets in protests\u2019 against police raids on the Stonewall Inn, an event which later became known as the Stonewall Riots. In response to the Riot\u2019s in June; Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes proposed the first Pride March in New York City. This was to act as an annual reminder to the rest of the city and the country of the inequality in civil rights that LGBT people face. The first march took place on June 28th 1970 to mark the first anniversary of the stonewall riots, with similar marches taking place in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. It only took a couple of years before the Gay Pride March became a global event as by the end of 1972, there were marches across Europe and across America. Over the years Pride has developed and changed but the Parade has remained a constant part attracting many to this colourful spectacle. They often play host to many openly LGBT or LGBT allied celebrities who come and show their support.\nThe Pride Parade in San Francisco, London, Sao Paolo and Tokyo\nThe month of June has become internationally recognised by many including President Obama and Clinton as Pride Month which looks to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. As a result many Pride events are held around the world during June to recognise the impact that LGBT people have had in the world. What makes Pride such an interesting and unique celebration is there no two events and the differences are mainly attributed to cultural differences. In the historical home of Pride \u2013 New York, they look to focus on the family aspect of LGBT life by organising family film nights which look to get the whole family involved with Pride. Whilst in Sydney they host a Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, where one of the main attractions is the Fair Day in which more than 80,000 people visit Victoria Park in the centre of the city. However in Tokyo, they use Pride or \u2018Rainbow Week\u2019 to educate through a series of public lectures and workshops. However the message remains the same, one of togetherness, acceptance and love.\nPride has become more than a commemoration of Stonewall, but a celebration of all things LGBT. Regardless of how Pride is celebrated around the world the message has always been the same. One of: Togetherness, Acceptance and Love.\nTo find a pride event near you, check out: http://www.gaypridecalendar.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 172.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.libraryaware.com/1070/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/0f4d0564-82e0-4721-8d04-ff698cd3dade?postId=01702ac1-058e-4f44-b741-11d727632688", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VUU6L6YNYI2XWRYQO7XJ3M3GXBS4X2FD", "length": 4631, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.libraryaware.com", "title": "LibraryAware February 2018", "raw_content": "Busted : An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada\nby Susan C. Boyd\nWhat it's about: an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Susan Boyd shows how Canada\u2019s drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by race, class and gender discrimination.\nWhy you'll want to read it: As Canada heads towards the government regulation of cannabis products, Canadians can learn more about our history of prohibition and its effects.\nAlso by this author: Killer Weed : Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice\nYa Ha Tinda : A Home Place. Celebrating 100 Years of the Canadian Government's Only Working Horse Ranch\nby Kathy Calvert\nWhat it's about: An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies.\nWhy you'll want to read it: Ya Ha Tinda is the only continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada. This is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution, with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people\u2019s use of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape.\nJune Mickle: One Woman's Life in the Foothills and Mountains of Western Canada; Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains\nWhat it's about: Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.\nAlso about this author: The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century; Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power\nWhat it is: a dual biography of two different yet equally important world leaders -- Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson -- and how their actions at the outset of World War I had long-lasting geopolitical effects.\nWhy you might like it: Historian Arthur Herman\u2019s unusual pairing provides a fresh look at a pivotal moment in world history.\nFurther reading: Check out March 1917 by Will England for another study of this critical period, or try Herman\u2019s Gandhi and Churchill for another dual biography of world leaders.\nby Elaine Tyler May\nWhat it's about: Author Elaine Tyler May argues that the current American political climate can be traced back to fearful citizens who have embraced personal security (gun ownership, gated communities, and socially isolated lifestyles) \u2013 despite the fact that crime rates continue to trend downward.\nWhy you should read it: This thought-provoking and sobering book not only attempts to explain our polarized world but also warns of the potentially lasting effects of these divisions on American society.\nOne Hundred Years of Struggle : The History of Women and the Vote in Canada\nby Joan Sangster\nWhat it's about: Historian Joan Sangster shows that the struggle for equality included gains and losses, inclusions and exclusions, depending on a woman\u2019s race, class, and location in Canada. One Hundred Years of Struggle begins with Mary Shadd Cary\u2019s demands for rights for women and blacks in the 1850s and ends with Indigenous women\u2019s achievement of the vote in the 1960s.\nThis book is for: Canadians who want to know more about our history, the history of women, and the state of our democratic traditions.\nWhat it's about: In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan. They pursued the Taliban on horseback, over the stark and mountainous Afghanistan terrain. After a series of intense battles, they captured the strategically essential city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. The Horse Soldiers were ambushed. If the soldiers perished or were captured, the entire effort to outmaneuver the Taliban was likely doomed.\nWhy you'll want to read it: 12 Strong is a thrilling, inspiring tale of a group of men on horses who did the impossible and an incredible account of real life bravery and heroism in the face of insurmountable odds.\nWhat it is: a sweeping, behind-the-scenes history of American improv comedy, which was born during the McCarthy era and counts Tina Fey and Steve Carell among its current stars.\nWhy you might like it: As you might expect, this is a funny and fast-moving read that will delight and entertain as it informs.\nReviewers say: \u201cA remarkable story, magnificently told\u201d (Booklist).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.libraryaware.com/2171/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/9761999a-890d-4c68-8466-9e54c6461c51?postId=2028d1ef-140d-4264-8f18-61426d9980db", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:35Z", "digest": "sha1:7MXKTKQEF5G5DJCPGJ2LTE5TOWZQK36D", "length": 9795, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.libraryaware.com", "title": "LibraryAware March and April 2018! (1) (1)", "raw_content": "Coming Soon-Adult Fiction\nComing in March...\nThe Rising Sea: a Novel from the NUMA Files\nDetective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in England. The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizens--Ian Druitt, the local deacon--is accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered?\nJina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolness factor--and it was very cool, even for Washington, DC. She liked being able to kick terrorist butts without ever leaving the climate-controlled comfort of the control room. But when Jina displays a really high aptitude for spatial awareness and action, she's reassigned to work as an on-site drone operator in the field with one of the GO-teams, an elite paramilitary unit. The only problem is she isn't particularly athletic, to put it mildly, and in order to be fit for the field, she has to learn how to run and swim for miles, jump out of a plane, shoot a gun...or else be out of a job.\nAfter taking down the man responsible for his best friend's death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate bid by Frigg, a rogue A.I. program created by the killer, to keep itself from being fully deactivated. To sort out his situation and take Frigg down for good, Stu enlists the help of Ali Reynolds and the rest of his cyber security colleagues at High Noon Enterprises. But they are not the only ones who know about Frigg's existence.\n\"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery. Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim \"Zig\" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig's daughter and someone who once saved his daughter's life. So when Zig realizes Nola is still alive, he's determined to find her.\nTessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But on one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned due to a technicality, and she's released on bail to await a new trial. Hounded by the press, Tessa retreats to the small tropical island owned by her late husband's pharmaceutical company. There, she begins to gather knowledge about her case. For the first time since her nightmare began, Tessa feels a sense of purpose in working to finally expose the truth and avenge her lost family.\nAfter Joe Espinosa and his dog, Cyrus, discover three scared children alone in the woods off an isolated country road, the Men of the Sisterhood launch an investigation that will shock them beyond belief.\nThe richest of New York's rich gather at the Pierre's Cotillion Room to raise money for those less fortunate. The mayor-with Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald of the elite NYPD Red task force providing security--is on hand to applaud the Silver Bullet Foundation's new plan for public housing. 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A dedicated TSA agent.The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous--perhaps ominous--message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious.\nDuring the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie's investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future--and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality.\nVisiting a friend's family home in an economically troubled western Pennsylvania community, Amos Decker, a detective with an uncanny eidetic memory, spots suspicious lights and discovers two dead bodies with no clear indication of how either victim died before corrupt local authorities and other mysterious roadblocks challenge his investigation.\nWhen an 18-year-old woman is found murdered at the bottom of her family's pool, her older sister, a guidance counselor, rules out the chief suspects and teams up with the Prosecutor's Office to uncover the truth, unaware that doing so is putting her own life at risk.\nWhen several major political figures who are linked to sophisticated drone assassinations die under mysterious circumstances, the Covert Eyes team follows leads to a wealthy cybersecurity genius and descendant of Vlad the Impaler who is desperate to unlock the secret of curing his severely ill twin brother's blood disorder.\nReturning to New York City from their honeymoon to learn that a serial killer has been targeting couples in the process of buying engagement rings, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs discover that their target has a larger agenda than originally realized and that there is something unusual about the ring that Rhyme gave Sachs.\nFan-favorite Eve Duncan is embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue after receiving a skull and instructions for its reconstruction, a project that reveals the story of a beautiful woman whose identical twin's life is in danger.\nThe Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel\nA heartwarming tale of hope and friendship is set during World War II and traces the intersection of a British farm girl, an American pilot and a German soldier who are brought together by an adorable border collie.\nSet in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the towns people but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.\nA series of shootings in San Francisco and a tip from a reluctant confidential informant lead Sergeant Lindsay Boxer to uncover disturbing activities within the police department itself, a situation that is further complicated by Lindsay's worsening medical problems.\nFederal marshal Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis in U.S. senator Taryn Grant, a rich psychopath who he has resolved to bring to justice for her role in three murders that he cannot prove, a situation that is further complicated by her new position on the Senate intelligence committee.\nMarrying a wonderful woman after years of loneliness and single fatherhood, John finds his newfound happiness turned upside-down by the arrival of his beautiful sociopath teen daughter, whose campaign to destroy their family and untimely murder force John to prove his innocence in the face of malevolent discoveries.\nShoot First: (Think Later)\nStone Barrington is enjoying a round of golf in Key West when the game is violently interrupted--and it seems as if the target of the disturbance may have been one of his playing companions, the brilliant businesswoman behind a software startup on the cutting edge of technology. Soon, it becomes clear that this incident is only the first thrust in a deadly scheme to push the beautiful young woman out of the way and put her company's valuable secrets up for grabs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 11487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.liftstueberl.com/en/guestbook.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HLLC2F2A6A45BQSWA4IUIK6BJMYHQF2T", "length": 98, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.liftstueberl.com", "title": "Guestbook \u00bb Restaurant Liftst\u00fcberl - Kastelruth", "raw_content": "Pages: [2] 1 \u00bb Alle anzeigen\n5. July 2017 @ 11:41\n14. January 2017 @ 16:09\n9. January 2014 @ 06:59", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.limblab.com/portfolio/melissa-kleinschmidt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BILRX7KY3J5P3WUQL7XAU7BVU3KY3HLJ", "length": 988, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.limblab.com", "title": "Meet Melissa - Limb Lab, LLC.", "raw_content": "\u201cI love meeting new people, hearing their stories and seeing them happy with their devices.\u201d\nMelissa@LimbLab.com\nHello, my name is Melissa Kleinschmidt.\nI\u2019ve been working in the medical field for over 12 years as a Personal Care Attendant and Assistant. I\u2019ve always loved working with people and assisting individuals with disabilities to meet their goals and live as independently as possible. Maybe it was because my mother worked in a nursing home and brought me along at a young age or that my own father was disabled that I grew a love for helping people.\nNow, I get to help people from all walks of life, doing things behind the scenes and at the front desk. I love meeting new people, hearing their stories and seeing them happy with their devices. Whether it\u2019s greeting them at the desk, assisting with paperwork, or making those reminder calls about appointments, I know our patients appreciate the work that we do here at Limb Lab and I am happy to assist in any way that I can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.listenlearnlove.com/2011/09/quote-notebook.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:57Z", "digest": "sha1:D3FIIYBAOXOGOYV3BKIKTJ6V65H4RXGJ", "length": 291, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.listenlearnlove.com", "title": "Quote (The Notebook) - Listen. Learn. Love...", "raw_content": "Home / Quotes / Quote (The Notebook)\nQuote (The Notebook)\n\u200e\"I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.\"\nQuote (The Notebook) Reviewed by Shane Burch on Monday, September 19, 2011 Rating: 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 7561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.littlepeople.id.au/category/family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HY7KOXLDZ6DXXQNLYG2LFONCD7FV52ZY", "length": 14283, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "www.littlepeople.id.au", "title": "Family | Oops", "raw_content": "Lord\u2019s prayer: family devotions\nBelieve it or not, this is the Lord\u2019s prayer \u2013 the form for prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. In this image, it kind of looks familiar and kind of draws attention but we kind of don\u2019t really get what it\u2019s about.\nAnd perhaps that\u2019s just like prayer: as easy as speaking to our Father, mentioned in so many Christian conversations, but not something in which we ever feel mastery.\nI decided we\u2019d look at prayer in our family Bible reading. Using the Lord\u2019s prayer, as recorded by Matthew. Here\u2019s how we did it.\nEach evening, after dinner (that\u2019s our usual time), I read Matthew 6:9-13. We then discussed one line of the prayer. Then we prayed it together by reading the Bible passage. The next night the pattern was repeated as we moved to the next line of the prayer. By the end, even our youngest non-reader was making a stab at saying the words of this prayer.\nTo finish the sequence of prayer devotions, we read Matthew 6:5-8 to hear Jesus\u2019 warning about using prayer as a pathway to pride. By this stage we knew the words of the prayer \u2026 well, perhaps our five and seven year olds had less accurate recitation!\nHere, as far as I can recall, is what I highlighted for each line of the Lord\u2019s prayer. It\u2019s not written in the conversational dinner-time style, but the points are what we talked about.\nPrayer starts with God, the Father. We speak to him \u2013 we don\u2019t send him a memo or an invoice. He\u2019s Father! What\u2019s more, all who trust him do this, God is our Father. Prayer, then, is a kind of family activity in which the children seek out the Father who is the giver of life. This is very worthwhile, because he is our Father in heaven, the place of real authority \u2013 he is the power above all.\nWhat\u2019s in a name? A person\u2019s character and reputation, that\u2019s what. The name is the whole message and expression of God. And because it\u2019s a word, it is communication. God\u2019s name is spoken to people and received by people. When God\u2019s name is spoken truly, people know God properly. God\u2019s name, in a sense, is all of creation rightly listening to him. That is, God is hallowed, known as holy. That\u2019s exactly what we want to see. So we ask for it.\nGod\u2019s kingdom is not a space on a map. It is God\u2019s rule, unchallenged and right. This line reminds us that God is the only ruler \u2013 I am not the king! It\u2019s important to see that these two requests follow on from \u2018Our Father in heaven.\u2019 The Father, in the Bible, is responsible for the family. Sometimes even kings are called \u2018father\u2019 of their nation. And the kind of king/father we have is holy, because he\u2019s in heaven.\nIn other words, to pray \u2018Our Father in heaven\u2019 is automatically to pray \u2018Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.\u2019\nThere\u2019s a third prayer request for something about God. What should we pray for as of first priority? For God\u2019s rule and will and ways. The first good thing about prayer is that it rejoices in God\u2019s name, kingdom and will.\nYet there\u2019s a shadow in this prayer. To make these three requests is a reminder: God\u2019s name is treated as mud, his king is ignored, and his will is flouted. This world is not right. So sad! What can be done!? Major news: Jesus shows that God uses prayer as he fixes this world. It\u2019s a mystery how God does this. But we know what we need to know \u2013 that prayer, like the Lord\u2019s prayer, is good in a world that does not yet do God\u2019s will.\nWe can be confident in all these prayers, because Jesus prayed the same thing \u2013 three times! (Matthew 26:36-45) And God answered this prayer, through the cross of Jesus. God\u2019s will was that the death of Jesus forgive us of sin. Certainly now God will hear our prayers, for we are his children.\nGod loves us, because he\u2019s our Father. No detail is beneath him. Our bread is a day by day need. Our bread is also a day by day prayer point. At the same time, this is a prayer that skewers greed. Instead of asking to own 1000s of bakeries, we ask for the day\u2019s food. That\u2019s plenty, for we will let tomorrow worry about itself.\nForgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors\nDebts are what we owe. They\u2019re expensive, and it\u2019s right to pay. The trouble is, we cannot pay our debt to God because our wrongs are so many. All we can do is ask for God to wipe away the debt.\nBut there\u2019s more! We ask for forgiveness as we also forgive. Forgiveness, we see, is central to God\u2019s kingdom. Everyone in God\u2019s kingdom is a person of forgiveness: we love it. We love forgiveness from God, we love to show forgiveness to people, we love to encourage forgiveness between others. Everyone who loves God\u2019s kingdom loves forgiveness.\nNow look at when we ask for forgiveness: it\u2019s after we speak to God as Father. We were already God\u2019s children, as disciples of Jesus. We do not flip-flop into God\u2019s family and out of it depending on \u2018sins.\u2019 When we trust Jesus, we are always in God\u2019s family \u2013 always \u2013 though we will have to keep coming to God for help with our debts.\nLead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one\nAfter prayer, we keep living. As we live, we face temptation. It\u2019s not bad to be tempted \u2013 what are some of your temptations or tests? The bad comes from within us, as we follow temptation and take pleasure in evil (or in the evil one). Since we do not want to dishonour God like this, we ask for his help. \u2018Please don\u2019t lead me that dangerous way, but help me go this good way.\u2019\nWe see that prayer for the whole world is also prayer for me and for us. We will be changed by God, as we pray in the manner Jesus taught us.\nThis entry was posted in Bible, Family, Ministry and tagged Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:9-13, Prayer on 4 February, 2013 by Chris.\nFamily fun: old & new\nOn holidays up north and I have a couple of photos that include a contrast in age. I could collect more\u2026 nah, I\u2019ll share them right away.\nA five year old Joash mixes it with All Saints church building, North Parramatta. All Saints was built on land bequeathed by Samuel Marsden. If I remember the sign correctly, it was completed in 1845.\nAt the Sydney Cricket Ground for the final test of the summer, we are all greeted with a new gaping hole. There is a definite absence of Noble and Bradman Stands. The temporary gap allows a fascinating contrast: the old Members\u2019 Stand and the much newer Sydney Football Stadium. I think they provide a pleasing, and surprising, complementary image.\nThis entry was posted in Family on 3 January, 2013 by Chris.\nA Saturday, 20 June 1992.\nWith the family of the bride\nA Wednesday, 20 June 2012\nAt Tetsuya\u2019s\nThis entry was posted in Family and tagged Anniversary on 21 June, 2012 by Chris.\nHume freeway construction\nThere\u2019s a freeway through Albury!\nThat\u2019s old news. But it\u2019s a good road. Especially, I\u2019m sure, for the 4000+ truckies who go through everyday on the road between Melbourne an Sydney.\nI have an affection for the road. Not only is it good, but it helped us buy a house. With construction close to commencement, there was not one competing offer on the house we live in. If there was, we would have been out-offered.\nWhile building went on, we took some photos. Attempting roughly the same shot about once per month, still photos were taken from September 2005 to January 2007. I\u2019ve put them into a morph video.\nThis entry was posted in Family and tagged Albury on 10 June, 2011 by Chris.\nMy ministry aim, PS\nIn this post, I put in writing my personal aim in ministry.\nWith the help of my wife, to pass on the gospel to my children\nThis \u2018PS\u2019 to the original post is to mention a couple of indirectly-relevant matters. They would have over-lengthened the original piece.\nIs this aim too result-driven?\nSpecifically, does it depend upon each of my children becoming model Christians? I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve met fine Christians whose children have chosen not to trust Christ. Does that mean they failed in ministry? And if a parent has believing children, do we simply say, \u2018They must be good at ministry \u2013 see their kids\u2019?\nI definitely do not want to inflexibly bind children\u2019s response to the parents\u2019 ministry\nFor a start, my aim is to pass on the message. To pass on a gift is different from receiving the gift. I avoided saying \u2018to make my children believe\u2019, for example.\nAnd yet, there is some connection between parent and children. It\u2019s not a 1:1 ratio, it\u2019s not inflexible. Consider Titus 1:5-6\nThis is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you\u2014 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination\nI think that the words in bold would be better translated \u2018his children are faithful\u2019. Meaning, \u2018faithful to him\u2019 and therefore not rebellious against his right authority. Hence, they\u2019re not to be uncontrolled (debauched) or anti-authority (insubordinate).\nIn any case, it\u2019s clear that Paul says: when appointing an elder, include a look at his relationship to his kids.\nIs this an excuse to neglect other church people?\nIn other words, can I now use my ministry aim as a crafty excuse not to visit the new-comer, or to prepare well for Bible study?\nTo truly pass on the gospel of Jesus, I have to show that the kids are not \u2018gods\u2019, or idols. I need to show where they are in the world: created, God\u2019s image, amongst many neighbours whom God loves, fallen, urged to repent, called to serve, etc.\nDoing this makes it necessary to say, \u2018I can\u2019t read that book now, because I need to do regular preparation/respond to this urgent call.\u2019 It makes it necessary to show what it is to be generous and give, to even bear a cost in following Jesus. It means I want to help the whole church grow in Christ, with them blessed by being part of it.\nSo, no, I don\u2019t believe this ministry aim provides excuses for poor care for the church.\nThis entry was posted in Family, Ministry on 7 May, 2011 by Chris.\nMy ministry aim\nIt was the usual question from another \u2019employed ministry\u2019 person. \u201cHow is church going?\u201d\nI don\u2019t know how many times I have heard the question. I also don\u2019t know how to give an answer that is useful or helpful. It\u2019s not the aim to deceive \u2013 merely that I am in the wrong position to give a considered answer. I\u2019m too close to it all.\nBut I can, at last, say something: my ministry aim.\nIt\u2019s taken a long time, but I finally can express it. And I think it\u2019s unexpected.\nIt\u2019s unexpected because my aim is not obviously tied to the employment in ministry. My aim is not to grow Albury Bible Fellowship Church (though I do work to that end). Nor is it to plant more FIEC churches (though, again, I do work for that outcome). It\u2019s not even to have lots of MTS ministry apprentices (though I sure love working with such trainees).\nRather, my Christian ministry aim is: With the help of my wife, to pass on the gospel to my children.\nThis involves teaching, prayer, discipline, time, comfort, training, \u2026 Everything usual in biblical gospel ministry. My desire is that they are better informed about God\u2019s word than I am. That they are more faithful and self-disciplined in living out this word. That they are more amazed at God\u2019s love than I am, and love their neighbour better than I do.\nHere\u2019s some of the thinking behind this.\nThe ministry clich\u00e9 \u2013 which I don\u2019t buy \u2013 is \u2018family first, then church.\u2019 The reason for this clich\u00e9 is to avoid the family breakdown caused by minister putting church demands first, so I get it. The problem: it assumes, and therefore perpetuates, the model of inherent conflict between church and family.\nInstead, I say to myself that I am to care for God\u2019s church. In other words, church over all. That\u2019s it. Then, under the umbrella of this responsibility, I have levels of contact and care. The highest level is Catherine and the kids. The first aspect of church ministry is spiritual care for my household. So if I have an extra night off, or make the most of my regular day off, it\u2019s not conflict with church. It is church. (The conflicts come when, inevitably, competing responsibilities require a difficult decision.)\nConsider also how the Bible insists that appointing leaders requires a look at the family and household. In 1 Timothy 3:1-7, the overseer must:\nbe the husband of one wife\nmanage his own household well\nRemember also that God is our Father. So if I totally mess up fatherhood, I will be so much less able to teach people about God.\nI feel as if I\u2019ve put myself on the line a little bit here. But that\u2019s good! I can already think of the follow-up post I will write. I also know I will prayerfully need to keep thinking through this whole matter all my life. But it\u2019s where I stand, and what I currently think.\nWhat are your thoughts? What suggestions do you have, what problems do you see? I\u2019m interested to know.\nThis entry was posted in Family, Ministry and tagged Church, Family, Ministry on 6 May, 2011 by Chris.\nBut because child care, when uttered in Australia at least, means \u2018professional/paid care for young ones.\u2019 It does not mean non-professional care: mums, dads, grandparents, uncles & aunts, neighbours helping out \u2026\nThis is not in any way to disparage those who do the job. I regularly tell people that teaching and looking after children are fantastic jobs for Christians: loving input into little lives at most influential stages. What a joy and responsibility! It\u2019s simply that this is a role for all, paid or unpaid.\nI\u2019ve seen a similar idea inside churches, too.\nSomeone mentioned that home school families \u2013 of which we are one! \u2013 are not available for church events. Notice the assumption? Input by parents/family into the lives of their children is not contributing to church. To do real church work I need to run youth group, or something.\nThis entry was posted in Family, Ministry on 23 August, 2010 by Chris.\nHere\u2019s a very rough map (we did the Weir Wall Waddle, noted here in green):\nThere\u2019s a better map, and a profile of the ride, on this page.\nAnd here\u2019s the team, pre-ride:\nGreat work! They did well, well enough to be tired. Being tired helped the memories \u2013 they both fell over once (Ruth not noticing us slowing down at give way sign, Nahum while we were standing still at traffic lights 15m from the finish). Next challenge \u2013 50km plus.\nThis entry was posted in Cycling, Family on 3 November, 2009 by Chris.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 20788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.livesparkly.com/project/more-time-with-the-family", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EASA4V5ISN2N2WE2S2BE2LEPXFRZCOV7", "length": 4621, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.livesparkly.com", "title": "MORE TIME WITH THE FAMILY - #LiveSparkly", "raw_content": "It was the day Sylvia Gordon couldn\u2019t take her daughter\u2019s calls that she knew she had to make a change. Kennedy, her oldest of three girls, was heartbroken, having just said good-bye to her boyfriend, Dylan, who was sworn into the Army that morning. Sylvia had been tied up with her at-home sales job and couldn\u2019t take the calls, which in turn broke her \u201cmama heart.\u201d With her girls getting older (Kennedy is 19, Reagan 13 and Madison 12), she wanted more time with the family. After receiving a call from Vera at the Nest \u2013 who was just check on her (a call she had never gotten from any previous \u201cjob\u201d) \u2013 she decided right then to quit the call center and focus on her Origami Owl business full-time.\nMORE TO LIFE?\n\u201cI just said to myself, \u2018There\u2019s got to be more to life than this, more to working from home and being successful \u2013 but my children are still without me, even though I\u2019m right here.\u2019 I could hear the song, \u2018Cats in the Cradle\u2019 running through my mind,\u201d said Sylvia.\nThe title of the song, which always had special meaning for Sylvia and her dad, was actually inscribed in one of the Living Lockets in the Over-the-Heart Necklace around Sylvia\u2019s neck. She said it rang true at that moment, \u201cThe song itself is about parents never spending time with the family, then the kids grow up and they don\u2019t have time for the parents. I realized that\u2019s where my life was headed with my three daughters. But if I could do something that could empower me to spend time with them, it would be worth it.\u201d\nSylvia wasn\u2019t the only one who decided to focus on Origami Owl \u2013 her daughters jumped in right in alongside her. \u201cMy youngest two daughters, Reagan and Madison, have worked with me from day one. My oldest, Kennedy, is thinking of starting her own biz with Origami Owl.\u201d\nTHE O2 EFFECT\nAs Owlettes (Origami Owl\u2019s program for youth ages 12 \u2013 17 to work alongside a Designer parent), Reagan and Madison have transformed from typical middle schoolers to poised business professionals, and Sylvia couldn\u2019t be more proud.\nShe said, \u201cReagan was always shy. It used to be that she\u2019d walk down the hallway with her books tucked in, her head watching the floor. Through interacting with our Origami Owl customers and building a business, she has something to be proud of. This last year at school, she was on the yearbook committee. Now she speaks to everyone and walks with her head held high.\n\u201cMadison has always been outspoken like I am, but she talks a hundred miles a minute and has a speech impediment. When she talks about Origami Owl, though, she enunciates. It\u2019s taught her to slow down, and the speech impediment isn\u2019t there when she does. To see such a turnaround in my daughters, to have that self-confidence, it\u2019s very touching for me as a mom.\u201d\nSPECIAL LOCKETS, SPECIAL STORIES\nAlong with loving more time with the family through their Origami Owl business, all of the Gordon girls love wearing their special Origami Owl pieces. For Sylvia, it\u2019s her Over-the-Heart Necklace with the first locket bearing the \u201cCats in the Cradle\u201d Inscription. \u201cIt also includes a December birthstone for my husband and Kennedy and an October birthstone for Reagan and Madison. There\u2019s the I Do Charm (symbolizing when my husband and I renewed our vows in 2009). My bottom locket is all about the bling, which I love. It has my January birthstone (I just turned 40 this year, so I\u2019m psyching myself up a bit) and the Wedding Ring Charm (I love being married). I have the To Go Coffee Cup Charm (because I don\u2019t do anything without my coffee); the Wine Glass Charm (that\u2019s an evening taste); and the Bright Eyed Owl Charm (because I love Origami Owl). I show it to everyone!\u201d\nKennedy\u2019s favorite Living Locket and Wrap tell the story of her love for her boyfriend, Dylan, including their birthstones, the US Army Charm, the American Flag Charm and more. Reagan\u2019s go-to locket includes the Pi Symbol Charm (she\u2019s a science and math whiz) and black crystals (because she\u2019s not as \u201cblingy\u201d as her mom, according to Sylvia). Madison\u2019s special Living Locket is dedicated to their family dog, Harley, who recently passed away. It includes the Double Angel Wings Charm, an H for Harley, and a plate that reads: Pray.\nFor Sylvia, Origami Owl has helped her celebrate not only her love for all things sparkly, but her \u201clive sparkly\u201d joy, which comes more time with the family. And for her daughters, it\u2019s been a blessing to have more time with their mom, their biggest cheerleader in life. 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She will be onsite this morning between 10:00-11:00am and available to answer questions, renew memberships and so much more. Come see the new warm inviting space that parents and preschoolers can access throughout the week and in the evening on Wednesdays. Please remember to sign in at the school office before heading to the library.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 2869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lodge76.co.uk/lectures/history%20and%20meaning%20of%20the%20apron.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RLF6GHE76Q7MEG2JTQXEMAEV7GB6SELO", "length": 14733, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.lodge76.co.uk", "title": "history and meaning of the apron", "raw_content": "The History and Meaning of the Apron\nBy J. S. M. WARD, B.A., F.S.S., F.R.Econ.S.\nThe apron has had a sacerdotal and religious use quite distinct from Freemasonry as we now use that name. On the monuments of Ancient Egypt a garment, which can best be described as a triangular apron with the point upward, is depicted, in circumstances indicating that the wearer is taking part in some kind of ceremony of initiation. A good example is shown in \u201cFreemasonry and the Ancient Gods,\u201d page 50, but many others could be quoted. In connection with which fact it is interesting to note that in Egypt it was customary to bestow a \u201ccollar of office\u201d on those whom Pharaoh desired to honour. Such collars were circular in shape, and in the picture shown here Pharaoh is shown wearing one.\nIn China, some of the ancient figures of the gods wear semicircular aprons, very similar in general appearance to some Scottish aprons, and I have a photo of one of these \u201cgods\u201d wearing such an apron and making the sign of a well known Higher Degree.\u201d\nIn Central America the Ancient Gods are constantly sculptured wearing aprons, and a good example is shown on p.238 in \u201cFreemasonry and the Ancient Gods.\u201d Tepoxtecatl, the Preserver, is depicted wearing an apron with a triangular flap, and on his head a conical cap on which is \u201cembroidered a skull and crossbones,\u201d and finally he holds in his right hand a hammer or gavel.\nIn Peru, also, we find figures adorned with veritable aprons, and before leaving this point it is well to bear in mind that among certain primitive tribes in Central Africa it is customary to invest a candidate with an apron of leaves at his initiation into Manhood.\nFinally, it is not without interest to note that the modern Anglican Bishop wears an apron, although it appears to have developed from a long flowing robe somewhat the shape of a cassock.\nThe Masonic Apron\nAlthough aprons have throughout the ages possessed a religious and symbolic meaning, a fact which was not without influence on the evolution of our aprons, there is little doubt that the masonic apron evolved from those worn by operatives to protect their clothes from becoming soiled.\nIn medieval days all masons, whether they were Freemasons or Guild Masons, used aprons when at work, and the former also wore white leather gloves to protect their hands from the lime.\nEven down to the middle of the 18th century the aprons in use among speculatives differed but little from those used by their operative brethren. These were long, coming down to below the knees, and with a flap or bib to protect the chest. Often they consisted of a hide with legs and tail cut off, the head being retained to form the flap or bib.\nTowards 1750, brethren began to decorate these aprons with designs, usually painted by hand and probably at first done by the owner. Examples of these are to be seen in the Library of Grand Lodge, but the important fact we must bear in mind is that there was as yet no definite scheme; each brother, apparently, was a law unto himself, and chose some suitable design with which to adorn his own apron.\nIn course of time, however, certain designs became popular and tended to become standardised. Among these one group contained the two pillars with the letters which represent them, and in some cases their names were even given in full. In addition, various other emblems, such as squares, ladders and so forth, were mingled with the central motif.\nThe other main type contained scenes and incidents from the ceremonies, and a fine example of 1790 which is in my possession is illustrated in \u201cThe M.M. Book,\u201d published by the Baskerville Press, to whom I must express my indebtedness for permission to include in this article a large part of the interpretation of the meaning of the M.M.\u2019s apron which I wrote therein.\nAbout the time of the Union it was felt that the aprons should be standardised, and the resulting effort is that which we now use, and it is this apron whose inner meaning we shall now proceed to consider. Before doing so, however, it is as well to point out that on the Continent the general style and shape is not always the same as that worn in England; for example, the Dutch wear an apron bordered with black and with a square and compass on the flap, while Scottish lodges each have the right to use different aprons, some employ a tartan, while many have a circular instead of a triangular flap.\nWhen considering the meaning of the English M.M. apron we must recollect that some masons seem to think that its final form was the result of an accident and that there was no deliberate attempt at symbolism. For my part I cannot agree with this view, but on the contrary believe that those responsible for the present design knew quite well what they meant to symbolise, although it is likely enough that among those who \u201cpassed it\u201d there were many who had not the slightest idea that it meant anything at all and merely agreed to it because \u201cit was pretty.\u201d But that in no way destroys the fact that the apron, judged by the usual and well established laws of symbolism, does mean certain things, and that the things it implies are most appropriate to the 3rd degree.\nHaving thus considered briefly the history of the evolution of the apron, let us turn to its symbolic meaning and we shall, I feel sure, be convinced that those who designed it had a much deeper knowledge of symbolism than some modern critics are apt to believe.\nFirstly, the colour, which is that of Cambridge University, and likewise that used by Parliament when fighting King Charles, has a much deeper significance than is generally known. It is closely related to the colour of the Virgin Mary, which itself had been brought forward from Isis and the other Mother Goddesses of the ancient world. It is possible that the designers were also influenced by the existence of certain Orders of Knighthood which had their appropriate colours, for the aprons of Grand Lodge Officers have Garter blue, but this blue is also the colour of Oxford, and the colour associated with the Royalist cause at the time of the Civil War. At any rate, it is appropriate that our aprons should thus employ the colours of the two great Universities of England. There is, of course, an exception in the case of the red aprons allocated to Grand Stewards, for which there are historical reasons into which we need not now enter. We may, however, point out that the dark blue aprons of Grand Lodge are often, though erroneously, spoken of as the Purple, indicating a Royal colour, and thereby implying no doubt that Brethren entitled to wear this colour are rulers in the Craft, and represent the masculine element. Light blue, on the other hand, represents the feminine or passive aspect, and most appropriate for the ordinary M.M., whose duty it is to obey and not to command. Indeed, the M.M.\u2019s apron contains other emblems which indicate this feminine aspect. These are the three rosettes, which symbolise the rose, itself a substitute for the Vesica Piscis, and they are arranged so as to form a triangle with the point upwards, interpenetrating the triangle formed by the flap of the apron. The two triangles only interpenetrate half way, therein differing from the double triangles seen on the jewels worn by R. A. Masons, which completely overlap. These two triangles deserve a little careful study. The lower triangle with its point upwards is the triangle of fire, the emblem of Shiva, and the symbol of the Divine Spark. The triangle made by the flap of the apron, which has its point directed downwards, is the triangle of water, and is thus to some extent representative of the Soul. These two triangles are within a sq., the emblem of matter, and therefore of the body, and so we see that the M.M.\u2019s apron symbolically represents the triune nature of man, whereas the R.A. jewel (the only high degree jewel which may be worn in a Craft Lodge) has these two triangles within a circle, which is the emblem of the Infinite. In this case the triangle of water presents the preservative aspect, the triangle of fire the destructive aspect, the point or eye at the centre the creative aspect, and the circle the everlasting nature of the Supreme Being. There is therefore a curious correspondence, and also a marked difference, between the jewel of the R.A. Mason and the apron of the M.M.\nViewed from another standpoint the apron has another set of meanings. The triangle represents Spirit, and the Sq matter. The flap forms a triangle entering into the sq., and so depicts the entry of Spirit into matter, and there foreman. The E.A.\u2019s apron should have the flap pointing upward, indicating that the divine wisdom has not yet truly penetrated the gross matter of our bodies. This custom is unfortunately going out of use in modern Masonry, which is a great pity, as undoubtedly a valuable lesson is thus lost. The F.C. has the flap pointing downward for several reasons. Firstly, to indicate that wisdom has begun to enter and therefore to control matter; secondly, to represent the triangle of water and thus indicate that Soul and Body are acting in unison; thirdly, because this triangle is the emblem of Vishnu the Preserver, and so emphasises the fact that the aspect of God taught in this degree is the preservative aspect, whereas the addition of the three rosettes in the third degree shows, not only the union of Body, Soul and Spirit but also that the great lesson of this degree is the importance of the Destructive side of the Deity, or, as we may prefer to call it, the Transformative side.\nWhat, however, of the two rosettes worn by the F.C.? Firstly, they stress the dual nature of man, and have a very clear reference to the two pillars. Similarly, no doubt, they indicate that the F.C. is not yet a complete and united being; Body and Soul are in union, but unlike the M.M., these two are not in complete accord with the Spirit. Thus we obtain correspondence between the knocks of the F.C. and the two rosettes. Furthermore, the triangle is incomplete, showing that the F.C. is not yet a complete F.M., and this correlates with the position of the Square and Compasses when taking the obligation in the F.C. Degree.\nTwo other features of the apron must also be considered. Firstly, the tassels, which appear originally to have been the ends of the string with which the apron was bound round the waist. There is little doubt that in the 18th century the aprons had not the present symbolic tassels, but were fastened round the body in a very similar way to that in which the E.A. and F.C\u2019s aprons are to this day. It is interesting to note in this connection that the actual aprons worn by the officers of Grand Lodge for the year, as distinct from the Past Grand Officers\u2019 aprons, have no tassels at all.\nIn the course of years, no doubt, the ends of the strings were ornamented by tassels, and to this day the aprons of the Royal Order of Scotland are bound round the body by an ornamental cord with tassels, which are tied in front in such a way that the two tassels stick out from underneath the flap. These tassels, when the final form of our aprons was fixed, were separated from itself, becoming as we now see simply strips of ribbon on which are fastened seven chains. When this change took place it is clear that those who made the alteration deliberately chose the number 7; and intended thereby to convey a symbolic meaning. There are, of course, numerous symbolic meanings of the number 7; for example, it represents God and Man, Spirit and Matter, etc.\nNaturally they had to have two tassels to balance, and it would have been very inartistic to have had four chains on one tassel and three on the other, and so it would be unwise to lay too much stress on the number 14, which is the sum total. We may regard it merely as a curious and interesting coincidence that the body of Osiris was stated to have been set into 14 pieces. But in addition to these details as to the historical development of the tassels, we must not forget that in many of the 18th century aprons the two pillars are depicted.\nThese aprons were usually decorated by paintings on the leather, and varied considerably from Lodge to Lodge, but one of the most usual kinds of decoration, as previously indicated, included the two pillars, and the remembrance of these may very probably have influenced those who designed our present apron, in which case the two ribbons would represent them.\nThe modern arrangement by which the apron is fastened, namely, a piece of webbing with a hook and eye attachment, gave a fine opportunity for some really profound symbolism; and I feel certain that it was not accident which led to the universal adoption of the snake to serve this purpose.\nThere are two kinds of symbolism attached to the snake in all ancient religions. Firstly, the snake as the enemy of man, and therefore as the representative of the powers of evil; and secondly, the snake as emblem of the Divine Wisdom. \"Be ye wise as serpents\u201d does not refer to the craftiness of the Devil, but to the Divine Wisdom itself. In Ancient Egypt, the Soul, as he passed through the underworld, met with serpents of evil, and also with serpents of good. In India, legend tells us of a whole order of beings, the Serpent Folk, who were of a Spiritual nature different from man, possessed their own rulers, and were endowed with superhuman wisdom. Some of these are considered to be friendly to man, while others are hostile. The Sacred Cobra is well known to every student of Hindoo religions, and is essentially good. Actual worship is paid to the Serpent throughout the whole of India and in many other parts of the world, and in the Kabala we get clear traces of the fact that under certain circumstances the serpent is regarded as \" The Shining One \"\u2014the Holy Wisdom Itself. Thus we see that the serpent on our apron denotes that we are encircled by the Holy Wisdom.\nFinally, the serpent biting its tail, and thus forming a circle, has always been regarded as the emblem of eternity, and more especially of the Eternal Wisdom of God. Nor must we forget that the snake is peculiarly associated with Shiva, the Destroyer, whose close symbolic association with the third degree is obvious for many reasons, and in numerous statues He is depicted making the penal sign of a M.M.\nMuch more might be written on the meaning of the Apron, but we cannot devote more space to it. But in conclusion we must remember that in other degrees there are also aprons, with an appropriate meaning sometimes explained in the ritual, as for example, in the R.A. and in the Rose Croix.\nSourced from the book, \u2018The Treasury of Masonic Thought\u2019 compiled by Martin and Callaghan \u2013 1924.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 14835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lpcno.org/grow-connect/montreat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:75WWEZT3G3ZAZP6ATL4PVXJLQVPCFXQX", "length": 931, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lpcno.org", "title": "Montreat - Lakeview Presbyterian ChurchLakeview Presbyterian Church", "raw_content": "http://www.lpcno.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Montreat.m4v\n\u201c1I lift up my eyes to the hills \u2013 from where will my help come? 2My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\u201d \u2013 Psalm 121\nThe hills, and the mountains, are where we go to relax, to pray, to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life, to focus on ourselves, to focus on our friends, and to focus on our God. The hills of Montreat, during the early weeks of June, truly are alive with the sound of music, as we gather together for the annual Music and Worship Conference, put on by the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM www.presbymusic.org). We hope you\u2019ll consider joining us for this conference for the whole family.\nIf you decide not to participate in the conference offerings, you can still come along and enjoy hiking, paddle boating, pottery, swimming, playing in the creek, as well as attending the daily worship service. (www.montreat.org)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mackbrady.com/category/macks_mom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5X4MIA7D3VTP3PYSB5XJBFTI74KTMQ46", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mackbrady.com", "title": "Mack\u2019s Mom \u2013 Mack Brady", "raw_content": "Reflections on loss by Mack\u2019s Mom, Elizabeth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 7315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.managetrainlearn.com/page/indirect-influence", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CGLNKPLVSM4AN5EMUG2WFPOJJTCIWP44", "length": 3858, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.managetrainlearn.com", "title": "Indirect Influence - Influencing Skills", "raw_content": "Influencing Skills: Indirect Influenc\nOne of the principles of working successfully with your boss is to make sure that you don't outshine him or her. This is simple boss-subordinate pyschology: you are there to find solutions and your boss is there to take the credit. Understanding this key aspect of the relationship is the secret to both of you getting on. That means that when you want your boss to do something you care about, you must find subtle ways to put your case. One of the most important techniques of doing this is Indirect Influence and here is a story that shows you how to do it.\nIndirect Influence: The Prince's Gift\nThe Prince of Chi was at war with the Prince of Chu. He decided he needed the support of a neighbouring prince and so asked his son-in-law, Chun-Yu, to go and plead on his behalf. Chun-Yu asked what gift he was to take and his father-in-law gave him the derisory amount of a hundred pounds of silver. Chun-Yu knew that this would be insulting to the neighbour and, not wishing to insult his father-in-law, he began to chuckle.\n\"Why are you laughing?\" asked his father-in-law.\n\"Well, this morning, I saw a farmer sacrificing a pig's foot and a single cup of wine and asking the gods for an abundant crop, a full garden and bursting barns and I couldn't help thinking that a man who asked so much should offer so little.\"\nThe Prince of Chi at once saw the point and increased the value of his gift.\nIndirect Influence: 7 Techniques\nWhat Chun-Yu in this story knew was that approaching his father-in-law directly would amount to disagreeing with him, criticising his choice, and setting himself up in opposition to him. When power is with the other person, none of these approaches is likely to succeed. So here are 7 other techniques to use to indirectly influence your boss.\n1. What if?: a \"What if...?\" question is a hypothetical way of gently suggesting your solution to a problem. \"What if we computerised...?\n2. 2nd person quote: by talking about your solution as if it were happening to someone else, your boss will relate the story to his or her own situation. \"I know Accounts had the same problem and used consultants...\"\n3. softeners: softeners put proposals in ways that give the boss room to think...\"Do you think it might help if...? \"I wonder whether...? \"Maybe...\"\n4. visual metaphor: the visual metaphor helps the boss to see things in a different way. \"This problem's like untangling spaghetti...\"\n5. repeated \"yes\": several repeated \"yeses\" from the boss put them in a favourable frame of mind for your solution.\n\"We do need more business, don't we?\"\n\"We need more revenue, wouldn't you agree?\"\n\"A computer would be more efficient, wouldn't it?\"\n6. presupposition: a presupposition gets your boss to mentally accept your solution. \"What software would we need for a computer like this?\"\n7. modest diffidence: modest diffidence is a way to put forward a view to your boss without arguing it with certainty, eg \"If I'm not mistaken...\"; \"I'm fairly sure it will work...\".\nIndirect Influence: Don't Outshine the Master\nIndirect Influence is good management and good common sense. It allows you to put your ideas across in a way that is acceptable to the other person. As Baltasar Gracian said, \"Avoid outshining the master. The superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us. They may be related to the sun and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.\"\nOther Resources on Indirect Influence\nHere is an article on Control, Direct Influence and Indirect Influence from Luc Reid.\nGet Judith Tingley's book on \"The Power of Indirect Influence\" on Amazon .\nIndirect influence is one of the skills you'll learn with Influencing and Negotiating Skills products from ManageTrainLearn. See our wide range of products here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/Novadaq-to-Hold-Second-Quarter-2005-Conference-Call-and-Webcast-922216.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6NW45ZAJPMWG45OQVBCBOIGYLYD765EJ", "length": 1846, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "Novadaq to Hold Second Quarter 2005 Conference Call and Webcast", "raw_content": "Novadaq to Hold Second Quarter 2005 Conference Call and Webcast\nTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 5, 2005) - Novadaq\u2122 Technologies Inc. (TSX:NDQ) today announced that that it intends to host a conference call on Friday August 12, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. E.T. to discuss its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005. The Company intends to disclose its financial results via news release on August 12, 2005 before market open.\nTo access the conference call by telephone, dial 1-800-240-5318. Please connect approximately ten minutes prior to the beginning of the call to ensure participation. The conference call will be archived for replay until August 19, 2005 at midnight. To access the archived conference call, dial 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525 enter the reservation number 21132810 followed by the number sign.\nA live audio webcast of the conference call will be available at www.novadaq.com. Please connect at least ten minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be required to join the webcast. The webcast will be archived at the above website for 90 days.\nNovadaq\u2122 Technologies (TSX:NDQ) develops and commercializes medical devices based on its proprietary imaging platform for the diagnosis and treatment of human vascular and ophthalmic diseases and conditions. Novadaq's SPY\u2122 Intra-operative System enables surgeons to visually assess coronary vasculature and bypass graft functionality during the course of CABG surgery. Novadaq's ophthalmic product, OPTTX\u2122 System, is aimed at the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of Wet Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) by using the same core imaging technology that is used in the SPY. The OPTTX System is currently being evaluated in clinical trials.\nArun Menawat\nChristina Bessant\nEmail: cbessant@equicomgroup.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.merchantsofair.com/reviews/until-the-uprising-out-of-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2NJYR4UEQVRBCBNW7JWL6ZDDDYSF7BTI", "length": 2264, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.merchantsofair.com", "title": "Until The Uprising - Out Of Time", "raw_content": "Until The Uprising - Out Of Time\nWe're still in France, in the coastal city of Nice this time. We're also still engaged in some ferocious metal but this time a bit more extreme. With a mix of progressive metal, death metal and metalcore, Until The Uprising tries to force themselves a breakthrough in the world of extreme metal. As far as I'm concerned, they may since, this is a more than decent album with a flair for quality and some brutal controlled aggression. \"More than decent\", that doesn't sound very good, I know. But give me a moment to explain myself.\nSome of our returning readers might already know that I'm not really a fan of metalcore and that vague genre named \"djent\". For me, it's all metalcore mixed with progressive and death metal. However, I often give these bands a chance. Why? Well, first of all, most of them are hardworking and talented artists and it's not their fault that they play a genre I don't really like. Furthermore, I've listened to a lot of albums that made me change my mind about a certain genre. That's how I discovered Sepultura. I hated it the first time, became a massive fan the second time. So what couldn't that happen again?\nWell, after listening to 'Out Of Time' I can say that I'm still not a fan of the genre, but I do respect and appreciate the hard work and talent that go into writing these songs. Besides, there are some awesome passages to be found on this album, passages that are perfectly capable of getting every metalhead headbang himself into a coma. Especially the younger generation of fans will adore this album, since it's loaded with heavily distorted guitars, breaks, growls, screams and pounding drums. I can easily imagine the moshpits and walls-of-death being formed on songs like 'Invisible Cages' and 'Nothingness'.\nIn that, I see no reason not to recommend this album. The song structures are complex but immersive as hell. The use of electornics is simply great and some of these riffs could almost literally crush your skull. Fans of bands like Vildhjarta or Animals As Leaders can easily trust this effort to be a solid addition to their collection. The production quality is crystal clear and there is some obvious talent behind these songs. Yes, this is a must have for djent-fans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 4038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mesachamber.org/list/member/falcon-field-airport-mesa-28161", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QVNAXL5NQJXBXQLSNNJKULEH5E5APLAC", "length": 1967, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mesachamber.org", "title": "Falcon Field Airport-City of Mesa | Airport - Mesa Chamber of Commerce, AZ", "raw_content": "Falcon Field Airport-City of Mesa\nOpen daily 24 hours to aircraft traffic. Administration office hours 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday.\nFalcon Field Airport is a municipal general aviation airport that is owned and operated by the City of Mesa, Arizona. Located in northeast Mesa with convenient access to the Loop 202 Red\u2026 read more\nFalcon Field Airport is a municipal general aviation airport that is owned and operated by the City of Mesa, Arizona. Located in northeast Mesa with convenient access to the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway, Falcon Field is minutes from hotels & luxury resorts, spring training baseball, entertainment, shopping, Arizona State University, and other metro area cities.\nThe airport is home to more than 700 based aircraft. Two active runways of 5,800 and 3,100 feet accommodate a wide variety of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On-airport businesses offer aviation services - fueling, maintenance and repairs, inspections, avionics, aircraft painting and aircraft interiors - to support aircraft operations, manufacturing, or research & development activities. Aircraft charters, recreational, sight-seeing and photography flights, and flight training are offered by multiple on-airport businesses.\nOn-airport parcels with runway/taxiway access are available for immediate development. A variety of unique hangar facilities are available to fit business needs. The surrounding 7,000-acre business district also offers a range of affordable options. Available properties can accommodate the smallest start-up to an industry leader requiring thousands of square feet. Six industrial parks are located throughout the district, creating an ideal environment for small to large manufacturing and commercial enterprises.\nAirport Business Directory\nConvenient to 3 major freeways: Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway, 101 Freeway, and Highway 60 Superstition Freeway. From the Loop 202, use Greenfield Exit 20, Higley Exit 21, or McKellips Exit 12.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.midlandsresidentiallettings.co.uk/articles/capital-gains-tax-explained", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:UTOMDNSLTXRGOW7ARE4VZCMFMSVQ5YGY", "length": 1363, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.midlandsresidentiallettings.co.uk", "title": "Capital Gains Tax explained | Howland Jones", "raw_content": "Andrew Stant, Senior Partner at Johnson Murkett & Hurst of Ashby de la Zouch provides advice on all aspects of property tax and here, explains the basics about Capital Gains Tax:\n\"Following a period of letting, thoughts may turn to selling, so what is the tax position?\nCapital Gains Tax is chargeable on the difference between the sale price (after deducting legal and agent\u2019s fees) and the original cost. There is then a further deduction of the annual exemption, (currently \u00a311,300; joint owners each have an exemption) and the remaining gain is taxed at either 18% or 28% depending upon what rate of income tax is paid by the taxpayer.\nThe exemption is offset against all gains in a year, so if you are planning to dispose of a property and shares, for example, you may wish to consider the timing of those sales to make the most efficient use of the exemption.\nFurther reliefs are available if the property was originally the principal private residence (PPR) of the taxpayer. The years of ownership are split between those occupied as the PPR and those when the house was rented out, so that only the proportion of the gain arising during the rented period is taxable.\nThe tax free proportion is also increased for tax purposes by 18 months and another relief known as \u2018lettings relief\u2019 may further extend the non chargeable private proportion of the gain.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 9878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.milsatmagazine.com/story.php?number=650301286", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:F6S2OWZXIUXKVZBEMUXTB4AWNGWQRFXV", "length": 5711, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.milsatmagazine.com", "title": "MilsatMagazine", "raw_content": "Home >> September 2012 Edition >> Trusted Communications\u0097A Priority For The Military\nTrusted Communications\u0097A Priority For The Military\nBy Wesley B. Covell, Vice President and General Manager, Growth Markets, Harris Government Communication Systems\nTrusted communications and information sharing play a critical role in the operations and effectiveness of the U.S. Military. This year, the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) will focus on this important issue as MILCOM 2012 celebrates more than 30 years of gathering the best of military, industry and academia.\nThe conference and exposition, October 29-November 1 at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Orlando, will feature six tracks of technical expertise and a line-up of top military, government, and industry speakers for the estimated 4,500 communicators from over 25 countries who are expected to attend the conference.\nMILCOM\u0092s theme\u0097Trusted Communications...Awareness to Action...highlights the critical role communications play in providing actionable situational awareness to the warfighter. Decision makers rely on accurate, timely information to execute their missions, and the challenges are enormous: maintaining assured connectivity in harsh and rugged environments, frequently without the benefit of a fixed infrastructure; managing the flood of data from a multitude of sensors and sources and transforming that data into actionable intelligence; and maintaining security and trust in the face of sophisticated and pervasive threats.\nTo address these challenges, the MILCOM Executive Committee has developed a comprehensive program with a mix of relevant speakers, panels and tutorials to create a collaborative environment that will extend well beyond the walls of the Gaylord Palms Convention Center.\nLeading the conversation will be several top U.S. military and government leaders with world-class experience in the network realm. Among those confirmed to speak at MILCOM 2012 are:\n\ufffd Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence, U.S. Army Chief Information Officer/G-6\n\ufffd Mr. Chris Inglis, Deputy Director, National Security Agency\n\ufffd Capt. Mark Kelly, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Commander of Space Shuttle Endeavour\u0092s Final Mission\n\ufffd Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush\n\ufffd Bill Brown, President and CEO, Harris Corporation\nIn addition to keynote addresses, government and industry leaders will share their perspectives during daily plenary panel discussions focusing on land forces communications, commercial satellite services, DISA and enterprise services, cyber operations, and protected SATCOM communications.\nThe cornerstone of MILCOM 2012 is the strong technical program, and the planning committee has created a broad array of topics in response to feedback from the military, industry and academia. More than 400 papers will be presented in the unclassified and classified technical program based on six technical tracks:\n\ufffd Waveforms and Signals Processing\n\ufffd Network Protocols and Performance\n\ufffd Cyber Security and Trusted Computing\n\ufffd System Perspectives\n\ufffd Services and Applications\n\ufffd Selected Topics in Communications\nRounding out the technical program are technical panels and tutorials for both unclassified and classified program participants. Technical panel topics include: working with non-traditional partners, cyber mission assurance, tactical edge networks, cognitive technology in radios, networks and sensors, the DirecNet Task Force, science and technology efforts to improve DoD spectrum effectiveness, coalition interoperability test and evaluation, tactical data link, mobile applications, combating satellite interference, policy based management, and network analysis for secure/assured communications. Continuing education credits for technical sessions will be available.\nThe conference will also feature a Small Business Workshop which offers an opportunity to participate in real-time interaction with Harris Corporation and other prime contractors. In addition, conference attendees will be able to visit 250 exhibitor booths throughout the three-day conference, as many of the world\u0092s leading providers of information, communications and defense technologies will be on hand. Exhibitors include Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and government organizations.\nJust as important as the network is networking, and MILCOM 2012\u0097with its Orlando location\u0097lends itself to several opportunities for attendee mingling. Tuesday evening, October 30, will feature an all-attendee event with three distinctive onsite venues. The annual Chairman\u0092s Banquet returns on Wednesday, October 31, where distinguished military representatives will join the much anticipated celebration that recognizes this year\u0092s award recipients for lifetime technical achievement and best unclassified and classified papers. A Halloween-themed dessert reception will follow. All conference sessions, meals and special events will be held onsite at the Gaylord Palms.\nMILCOM is co-sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society. Harris Corporation is serving as the conference\u0092s 2012 corporate host.\nAll proceeds from the conference will benefit AFCEA and IEEE educational programs, as well as The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization that reaches out to post-9/11 veterans, empowering them to transform their lives by serving others and directly impacting their communities.\nFull conference details and registration are available at www.milcom.org.\nWesley Covell is the executive chairman of MILCOM 2012 as well as the vice president and general manager of Growth Programs, Harris Government Communications Systems", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mindjack.com/books/tis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:30Z", "digest": "sha1:I55254ET5SB6XL7B5KP5TEFKGKKPIRNX", "length": 2265, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mindjack.com", "title": "Mindjack Magazine /books", "raw_content": "Frank McCourt's new book, 'Tis, isn't as good as its predecesor, Angela's Ashes, but it is still a moving and impressive work. McCourt's wit and memories remain amusing and touching. This needs to be stated because there has been quite the backlash against the book and the author, partially by other authors probably jealous about the attention and acclaim McClourt received for Angela's Ashes.\nAshes ended with McCourt, as a young Irish man, moved to America. There is no way for the stories of his 20s and 30s to compare to the appalling tales he shares of his earlier years.\nAnd this book overall does indeed fall short in comparison. Whereas in Ashes he tells tales of sleeping in mattresses with fleas and ticks, in 'Tis he complains about girlfriends angry at him for getting drunk. Some of the stories in Ashes make readers laugh and cry simultaneously but some of the personal excesses described in 'Tis just aren't too side-splitting.\nHe also irks this reviewer by using some personal descriptions repeatedly. He describes his diseased eyes as \"two piss holes in the snow\" on at least five occasions, for example. But there are parts of the book that almost make up for those shortfalls.\nAnyone who felt inferior to others while in college will be touched by his memories of those days. He tries to avoid speaking in class because people will laugh at his accent or pay more attention to his Irish brogue than to his words. When a teacher is moved by a story he writes about his poor life in Ireland he worries that everyone will find him depressing.\nUltimately, about half-way through the book, he gets a job as a teacher and has to grapple with the age-old question of how to educate a group of teenagers more interested in having fun than having intellectual discourse. This is where the book truly sings and entertains.\nOne of the moving parts of Angela's Ashes is that the reader is left feeling like their problems and life's tragedies pale in comparison to McCourt's. The problems described in 'Tis, racism, poverty, an alcoholic father, are less shocking.\nIt is still an interesting, well-written book but it's less enjoyable and not the excellent work Angela's Ashes was.\nScott Butki covers local government for the Herald-Mail in Hagerstown, Md.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mindsmattersf.org/stanford-university-math-camp-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QGBTG66KF2PHPRID647REGCIFF3ZPFO7", "length": 764, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mindsmattersf.org", "title": "Berkeley Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research \u2014 Minds Matter San Francisco", "raw_content": "We provide advanced classes for high achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. We offer several workshops \u2013 Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Immunology, Medical and Translational Bioinformatics and Biomedical Research \u2013 that are taught by PhD-level instructors with years of research and teaching experience. Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are disrupted or distorted during the development of disease.\nProgram Website: https://www.rosettainstitute.org/\nLocation: UC Berkeley or UC San Diego", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mltdirectcanada.com/montblanc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:50Z", "digest": "sha1:AP2PMKSEK5SORVJWY7WCLNAX5MJF77PB", "length": 175, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mltdirectcanada.com", "title": "Montblanc - Binding, Shrink Wrap, Paper Rolls, Ink, Toner, Computer Peripherals", "raw_content": "Home/Montblanc\nMontblanc International GmbH is a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches, jewellery and leather goods, often identified by their \"White Star\" logo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 1778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 140.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mmg.pitt.edu/news-events/50-year-old-flu-virus-model-revamped-revealing-pandemic-prediction-possibilities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:49Z", "digest": "sha1:U2U74HQEET5ANK4WOAZFMXEORSJWREVY", "length": 4556, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mmg.pitt.edu", "title": "50-Year-Old Flu Virus Model Revamped, Revealing Pandemic Prediction Possibilities | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | University of Pittsburgh", "raw_content": "The scientific textbook depiction of the flu virus is about to get a facelift, due to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine team\u2019s discovery that a model of the influenza genome architecture untouched since the 1970s isn\u2019t so perfect after all.\nThe discovery, reported online and in a coming print issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research, reveals loopholes in the way the virus packages its genetic material. When one strain of flu co-mingles with another strain inside a cell, these loopholes allow the viruses to swap genetic material and give rise to new strains of flu. Knowing these loopholes and how they interact with each other could give scientists the opportunity to better predict pandemics and find new ways to disrupt the flu virus.\n\u201cAlthough influenza has plagued mankind for hundreds of years and poses a substantial public health threat every winter, we know surprisingly little about flu pandemics,\u201d said senior author Seema S. Lakdawala, Ph.D., assistant professor in Pitt\u2019s Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. \u201cOur discovery may give insight into how the flu virus continually evolves, opening the door to better vaccines and antivirals.\u201d\nInfluenza is a type of virus that uses single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) to replicate, instead of double-stranded DNA. Influenza viruses are made up of eight RNA segments bound by a protective nucleoprotein. All eight RNA segments must come together inside a virus particle to be fully infectious.\nThe classic model of the flu virus has these proteins coating the RNA like beads evenly spaced along a string. However, limitations of techniques used in the 1970s when the model was developed meant that unique features\u2014like exposed RNA loops\u2014were lost. Consequently, the universal depiction of influenza in textbooks is of a uniform random binding of proteins along the entire length of each RNA segment.\nLakdawala, who researches how the viruses emerge and spread, teamed up with lead author Nara Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor in Pitt\u2019s Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, who specializes in RNA interactions. The two were curious if there might be any areas along the influenza RNA strand that are more \u201copen\u201d and, therefore, more able to associate with other RNA segments in order to arrive at a package of all eight segments. They used a process called \u201chigh-throughput sequencing of RNA by crosslinking immunoprecipitation\u201d (HITS-CLIP) on two strains of influenza A, including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain, to get a better understanding for where the proteins bind to the RNA and to see if there were any areas of \u201cnaked\u201d RNA.\n\u201cHonestly, we didn\u2019t expect to find any since we had all learned the \u2018beads on a string\u2019 depiction of viral RNA,\u201d said Lakdawala. \u201cBut, amazingly, there are several stretches where the RNA was not bound by the nucleoprotein. This discovery opens up a whole new area of research.\u201d\nContrary to the classic model, Lakdawala and Lee found there are areas of RNA rich with protein coating and others that are exposed and presumably ripe for binding to other viral RNA during reassortment, or the swapping of genomic material between flu viruses. Evolutionary biology expert Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D., associate professor in Pitt\u2019s Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, guided the all-Pitt team to explore how these loops shape virus evolution in nature and during normal flu seasons.\nThe team is pursuing several potential research opportunities, including predicting the ways different influenza viruses could share genetic material to make new viruses. Knowing this could point scientists to the reassortments most likely to spark a flu pandemic and give public health agencies a leg-up on creating targeted vaccines. There also could be ways to exploit the exposed RNA to make the virus less transmissible and deadly.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to suddenly have all these research possibilities open up based on this one discovery,\u201d said Lakdawala. \u201cThe reason no one\u2019s uncovered this yet is because we all took for granted that 50-year-old research on the genome architecture, which looked really nice and had an easy explanation, was the full story. It shows that if we don\u2019t constantly resample and question scientific dogma, we could miss a big opportunity.\u201d\nAdditional authors on this publication are Valerie Le Sage, Ph.D., Adalena V. Nanni, B.S., and Dan J. Snyder, M.S., all of Pitt\u2019s School of Medicine.\nThis research was funded by the University of Pittsburgh and National Institutes of Health grant U01AI124302.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 5698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mnchurches.org/refugee/healing/?page_id=2729", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:38Z", "digest": "sha1:VVTF4QQCHAGEK7J3UIRKGRNN3SIL6YW5", "length": 257, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mnchurches.org", "title": "Health Resources Directory for Diverse Cultural Communities | Healing Resources for Refugees", "raw_content": "Click here for the link through the MDH Website.\nFrom the MDH: This resource directory of low-cost and immigrant-friendly services covers Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Stearns, and Washington counties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moabart.com/buy/silt-happens-no-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5PBYHBTR4O25GNMGU4TOLU42A5RDYLH", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.moabart.com", "title": "Seep No. 7 (Date Night) \u2014 Moab Art", "raw_content": "Origin: Created on-site in a side canyon of the Escalante River during a 3-day packrafting loop, Spring 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/topic,7833.msg166639.html?PHPSESSID=tjptcp8pjlj4h05t13d3s6vem3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:11Z", "digest": "sha1:VQLSHXC624QALLLB4X5C2ZWZDEO7R53I", "length": 1404, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.modelenginemaker.com", "title": "Goods Wagons for gauge1", "raw_content": "Goods Wagons for gauge1\nAuthor Topic: Goods Wagons for gauge1 (Read 4878 times)\nWe're having fun now --- or so I've been told.\nRe: Goods Wagons for gauge1\nAs long as they don't have to move in any way, the fact that the parts are brittle shouldn't make any difference. If they are breaking off, something is probably hitting/moving them.\nI don't see anything to limit the upwards travel of your axles, other than the cast springs. It looks like the axle bearing box will hit the bottom of the cast springs if they move far enough. Any way you could put in a bump stop to limit the axle travel? That way you'd still have your suspension for the bumps in the track, and you could still use your cast springs for their good looks.\nQuote from: Zephyrin on February 07, 2018, 04:57:17 PM\nI\u2019m not so happy with the result, they doesn\u2019t fit well with my \"all mechanical\" frames, but I don\u2019t have no other solution for making these parts\nI'm not sure what you mean by 'all mechanical' unless you mean 'working'. I think they look great and would like to learn more about the process you used to make them.\nKeep in mind too...at that scale...even if they 'moved', I doubt anyone would think they did.\n\"all mechanical\" stands for fully machined; therefore the casts parts differ from that...\nI hope that nobody will notice that the actual suspension is hidden behind a fake one !\nMany thanks for the appreciations!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moneyclassicresearch.in/do-not-purchase-share-just-because-your-friend-has-bought/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DPUJSLCZ3NX2Y6WPS3SINFMJL6UEOGHJ", "length": 1694, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.moneyclassicresearch.in", "title": "Do Not Purchase Share Just Because Your Friend Has Bought It", "raw_content": "Not just traders, but everyone else believes that the share market is a place to make good money in just a few days. However, remember that to win the market, deep understanding of the market is also necessary. It is better to know an overview of Indian stock market before you trade. It is the most attractive way to make money by investing in the stock market. Following are some common mistakes that every one of us commits while buying or selling stocks. Thus here are some good tips for buying good stock.\nUsually, it is seen that people purchase shares just because some friend purchased it or have recommended it. All though this news may be true but it is not necessarily it is a next big thing, and you accumulate the shares in huge quantity. You might get influenced by some commercial TV channels that express their views about some stocks of a particular company. You may never know that these channels are paid to break such news so that prices rise / fall. When you buy /sell such shares, there is a possibility that the prices will fall/rise. So you need to keep in mind that you are not the only one watching that particular channel, but thousands out there viewing the same channel as yours. Things like this are nothing more than tentative talks.\nThese days, it is certainly worth considering that whether or not, you should invest your money in the trading market. At the moment you invest in the stock market, you put yourself in a position to earn good returns in a very short time. However, you are suggested to take stock market advice before taking any harsh decision of buying and selling the stock.\nTagged buy today sell tomorrow tips investment tips stock market tips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.monidesign.com/?p=105", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:34Z", "digest": "sha1:TEWOLZJEYFDZ7IZIHYDJIPXOUZUP3UZK", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.monidesign.com", "title": "MoniDesign \u2013 United States 1776 -1867", "raw_content": "United States 1776 -1867", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mooreonrunning.com/2009/05/tempo-run-5-20-09.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SB3T6FXRHL73J6IB4HFALADNW3E5NZK6", "length": 788, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mooreonrunning.com", "title": "Moore On Running: Tempo Run - 5-20-09", "raw_content": "Met at MUSC at 6:00am for a five mile Tempo Run. There were about 10 of us. The temperature was nice and cool.\nWe started with a slow mile then ran three fast and cooled down for the last mile.\nThe first mile (10:45) we ran as a large group. As we hit the second mile I ran with another runner for the rest of the route. Miles two to four (7:45). It really did not feel too hard, but I could tell we were moving. I was surprised at how fast we were going after the third mile mark. We cooled down on mile five (9:30), but we did do a sprint at the end (maybe 400 m).\nThis was a great run again. You really need someone to push you to get the speed up in the middle of a run. I felt great and any stiffness I had from the PFT is gone. This workout is going to really help me on my next 5k.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mooreonrunning.com/2012/11/how-i-write-about-my-friends.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XORDBSWQJ3O5XEJUPTFFJSBIU2WNXQ5M", "length": 3483, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mooreonrunning.com", "title": "Moore On Running: How I write about my friends", "raw_content": "How I write about my friends\nIts day eight of my attempt to write thirty posts in thirty days. Today's topic is one that I actually do think about when I am writing, \"How I choose to write about others in my blog\".\nLike I said in an earlier post, I started this blog as a running journal. I was not even thinking about anyone else when I started writing it. Then one day I started to mention one of my running partners in a post.\nI stopped and thought about it for a few minutes. Do they want to be in my blog? Do they want their name out their for the world (okay, two people that read my blog) to see? Do they know what a blog is?\nSo after much thought (about two seconds) I decided that I would use nicknames as much as possible.\nMy coach was easy: \"Coach Greg\". Occasionally I call him other names, but its usually to myself while running one of his track workouts.\nMy running \"team\" name: \"Say Something!\" came from a Marine (Emde) who yelled it all the time at our Boot Camp workouts. It just seemed to fit us.\nMy running partners' nicknames just kind of happened:\n\"CSR\" - We have been running together for a few years and she's running the R2R2R with me in April. How did I come up with her nickname? Well, we run by trains and trucks all the time and I see the company logo CSX. One day I realized that her initials were really close to that and just starting referring to her as CSR. How creative is that?\n\"LA\" - This one came about because there was more than one Annie in our running circle (although, I call the other Annie \"Amy\" now because after running a twenty miler and having all my sugar depleted from my brain that's what I called her). LA was twenty three at the time and she is pretty small so Little Annie or \"LA\" seemed to fit. She started dating a guy named Christopher a while ago and I tagged him as \"OC\". Why? Mostly because I thought OC and LA (Orange County - Los Angeles) kind of went together :)\n\"Ninja Stuntman\" - Oh, this was a good one. We were all running one morning and NSM tripped and fell. But it was not the trip or the fall that landed him this nickname. It was the way he did a ninja roll as he fell and jumped back up that made this name stick. I even wrote a blog post about that one!\n\"WTF\" - One of my favorite nicknames has been my wife's. Last year when she decided she wanted to not only train for her first half marathon, but her first full marathon she said some pretty funny stuff. You really have to read the post to get the full understanding of this one...\nThere are plenty of others that I talk about in my blog. \"Little P\" is my son. He is a big part of everything I do and even does a few guest blogging posts for me.\nAnother person I talk about is \"Joe No L\". He was on our first Palmetto 200 team and when he introduced himself he said \"Hi, I'm Joe No L\". I heard \"Hi, I'm Joe Noel\" (with a lot of emphasis on his last name). He walked around and I heard him say it several times. As we ran, I kept thinking about it and wondering why he made such a big deal about his last name. After a few weeks I realized what he was saying, but by that time the name had stuck \"Joe No L\". Be careful what you say around me...\nI really do try to keep people's privacy in mind when I write. People who are calling in sick to run with me might not want it broadcast over the internet that they were running in the mud that day.\nSome people just don't want their name all over a blog (whether people read it or not).\nNHBPM running partners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891415.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BDZITAWU6S6YUIUUGOTRFGKN3GKGSZHW", "length": 11005, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.mosquitonet.com", "title": "From................ National Catholic Reporter May 5, 1989", "raw_content": "By- [the late] Penny Lernoux\nWHO'S WHO ? - KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW\nCENTURIES-OLD CATHOLIC ORDER\nCOMBINES CHARITY, RIGHT-WING POLITICS\n3 of 3 Page 14\nAn aggressive businessman and master of deception, Casey was a vain man who made a fortune as a New York City lawyer. He skirted the law on several occasions, as in his controversial dealings with fugitive financier Robert Vesco when Case was head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.\nBut this did not hurt his standing in Republican circles, and in 1980 he became Reagan's campaign manager. He received the CIA directorship as a reward for his services.\nBoth before and after Reagan nominated him to head the CIA, he was part of a small inner circle that chose cabinet appointees, and he continued to influence policy through \"The Group,\" a select gathering of influential conservatives that also included James L. Buckley, the brother of William Buckley and a former New York senator, and Frank Shakespeare, chairman of the New Right's Heritage Foundation. Both Buckley and Shakespeare are Knights.\nGeneral Alexander Haig [Retired]. Best known for his role in Watergate, Haig was also involved in White House plotting to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende. [Another party to the plot was McCone, who, on leaving the CIA, joined the board of ITT, which offered the CIA $1 million for its anti-Allende activities.]\nCommander of NATO under Carter and Reagan's first secretary of state, Haig set the tone for the Reagan administration by announcing that international terrorism would replace human rights as Washington's key concern. The mercurial secretary frequently fought with other members of Reagan's cabinet, including Jeane Kirkpatrick, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and also a right-wing Catholic.\nWilliam and James Buckley. A protege of Spellman, William Buckley Jr. gained the cardinal's support in launching his conservative Christian journal of opinion, National Review. William Casey was the lawyer who incorporated the publication in 1955. The sixth of 10 children born to an Irish-American oil tycoon, Buckley grew from a precocious child into a precocious adult \u00d1 a man who gloried in being a \"professional and recreational snob,\" in the words of one critic.\nBut the enfant terrible of the 'National Review' and the television talk show \"Firing Line\" is more than an amusing gadfly. He was an apologist for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy [a position that endeared him to Spellman], and in the 1950s he worked as a CIA covert agent in Mexico City under E. Howard Hunt of Watergate fame. [Buckley, who became Hunt's lifelong friend, solicited funds to pay for his legal defense.] Like Haig and McCone, he supported the CIA's destabilization campaign against Allende's government, chiefly through disinformation.\nOne of the most influential men in the back corridors of Republican power, Buckley served as a political consultant to the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. His brother James, a former New York senator, was undersecretary of state for security affairs and president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, both with a history of employing Nazi collaborators. Under Buckley, they were accused of broadcasting anti-Semitic material and of providing positive descriptions of a Nazi unit involved in the murder of thousands of Jews in the western Ukraine.\nClare Boothe Luce. The grand dame of the Cold War and a Dame of Malta, Luce was a popular playwright and the wife of the publishing tycoon Henry R Luce, who cofounded 'Time' magazine.\n[ Henry Luce, like Donovan, was very close to Cardinal Spellman, ....... see LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE by W.A. Swanberg,.... has a great picture of Luce, Spellman, and \"the Vietnamese they both backed, Ngo Dihn Diem \" ]\nAlthough she originally supported Franklin Roosevelt, she switched to the Republicans, serving two terms in Congress, and in the 1950s became ambassador to Italy. She was prominent in the notorious China Lobby, the intellectual force behind Senator McCarthy's witch-hunts.\nThe lobby was so named because of its strong support for Chiang Kai-shek's regime, loyalty to which became a test of loyalty to the United States. Not only did the lobby succeed in smearing State Department dissenters as \"Reds,\" including some of its leading China experts, it also set the stage for U.S. involvement in Vietnam by persuading the American public that the fall of any Asian territory to the communists was a sellout to communism. Fear of the domestic repercussions of such a charge was so great that both Democratic and Republican governments allowed themselves to be sucked into the quagmire of Southeast Asia.\nLuce, who converted to Catholicism in mid-life, became a symbol of conservatism, giving her support to a multitude of right-wing causes. These included the contras' Nicaraguan Freedom Fund and the American Catholic Committee, in which William Simon was active. She also served on Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Luce died in 1987 at 84.\nWilliam Simon, treasury secretary under Nixon and Ford and a Republican millionaire. He became a deal-maker on leaving government, using his privately held Wesray Corp. to buy up undervalued companies. Tense and impatient with subordinates, he was nevertheless regarded as a \"smooth\" operator by his peers in the boardroom.\nSimon was a lavish contributor to Catholic institutions, ................. [ Simon reminds me of Charles Keating, of S & L bankruptcy fame ] .... particularly the Paterson, NJ., diocese, where he grew up in a middle-class family, and to his alma mater, Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. He also gave considerable support to conservative causes and institutions as head of the board of trustees of the John M. Olin Foundation, set up by the chemical and weapons manufacturer Olin Corp.\nUnder Simon's tutelage, and with the help of three other conservative foundations \u00d1 Sarah Scaife, Smith Richardson and J.M. \u00d1 the Olin Foundation in 1978 established a \"clearinghouse\" for corporate donations called the Institute for Educational Affairs [IEA]. The idea was to give business a stable of intellectuals financed by the corporations. IEA grantees were soon churning out books on subjects dear to the heart of corporate America, and some 50 conservative and neoconservative publications, including student newspapers, also received substantial funding.\nBut the major emphasis of the foundations, which increasingly worked together, was to establish university chairs in economics, law and other social sciences and to provide grants to colleges and think tanks to support the agenda.\nSimon himself wrote two books in praise of private enterprise. He also found time to head the lay commission of the American Catholic Committee that attacked the bishops' letter on the economy and was prominent in the contra private aid network.\nFrank Shakespeare. A broadcasting executive and personal friend of Reagan, Shakespeare served as executive vice president of CBS-TV, vice chairman of RKO General Inc., director of the U.S. Information Agency and \u00d1 what seemed a requisite position for American Knights \u00d1 director of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.\n[It was, and may still be, illegal in America, to publish transcripts of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcasting ........ JP ]\nHe was also chairman of the New Right's Heritage Foundation, which played an important role in setting policy for Reagan's administration.\nHe was ambassador to Portugal from 1985 to 1987, when he replaced William Wilson, also a Knight of Malta, as ambassador to the Vatican following Wilson's fall from favor. Like Grace and Luce, he belonged to the Simon-Novak commission of the American Catholic Committee that tried to undercut the U.S. bishops' pastoral on the economy.\nCardinal Bernard Law, one of the highest-ranking conservatives in the American church and widely regarded as the pope's man in the United States.\nThomas Bolan, a partner in Saxe, Bacon and Bolan, the law firm of Senator McCarthy's deceased aide Roy Cohn. Among the firm's clients is the New York archdiocese. Bolan was chosen by Reagan to greet the pope on behalf of the U.S. government when John Paul stopped in Alaska en route from the Philippines.\nPatrick J. Frawley Jr. Heir to the Schick razor fortune, Frawley is a well-known funder of right-wing Catholic causes, such as the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. His wife, Geraldine, is publisher of the conservative 'National Catholic Register' and a Dame of Malta.\nLewis E. Lehrman, a convert. Lehrman's $60 million drugstore-chain fortune made him the moneybag of the New York Republican party after Nelson Rockefeller's death. In 1982 he made a bid for the governor's seat against Mario Cuumo in which he was unsuccessful, though supported by a cabal of Knights, including William Buckley, Grace and Bolan. Lehrman served the necessary time at Radio Free Europe and was also on the board of the Heritage Foundation. His Citizens for America lobbied extensively for the Nicaraguan contras.\nOther prominent American Knights include:\nFormer Senator Jeremiah Denton [R-Ala.], who lost his seat in the 1986 election. Denton gained notoriety during his hearings on terrorism when prominent Catholic religious orders were attacked for preaching \"violent Marxist revolution.\"\nSenator Peter Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico since 1972.\nWalter J. Hickel, former governor of Alaska and former secretary of the interior. [re-elected gov. of AK in 1990 or so]\nAdmiral James D. Watkins, Reagan's hard-line chief of naval operations.\nFrank V. Ortiz, U.S. ambassador to Argentina. He was removed from his post as ambassador to Guatemala by President Carter because he was considered \"too conciliatory\" to the military regime, according to the 'Washington Post.'\nChrysler chief Lee Iacocca.\nRalph Abplanalp, the aerosol magnate.\nBaron Hilton of the hotel chain.\nWilliam S. Schreyer, chairman of Merrill Lynch.\nFrancis X Stankard, chief executive officer of the international division of Chase Manhattan. [i.e. billions of dollars loaned down South American Roman Catholic rat-holes ........ JP ]\nMartin F. Shea, executive vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust.\nJoseph Brennan, former chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York. Brennan was a member of an independent commission appointed by the pope to study the relationship between the Vatican Bank and Italy's P-2 Masonic Lodge.\nRichard R. Shinn, chairman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.\nThe international membership list also reads like a Who's Who of wealth and power; it includes King Juan Carlos of Spain; Spiros S. Skouras, president of Prudential Lines; and Paul-Louis Weiller, a close friend of Richard Nixon, a member of the board of directors of Renault, and the former head of Air France.\nPicture caption- Clare Boothe Luce in 1953 when she served as U.S. ambassador to Italy. [Pictures of Simon and Shakespeare]\n-END QUOTE- [end article]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 11081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.motorcyclephilosophy.org/2009/11/harley-still-seems-to-think-its-brand.html?showComment=1258594659264", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:06Z", "digest": "sha1:CAXFCJS3W5DERZGS65J5ZZ4RKUMBNVHV", "length": 4444, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.motorcyclephilosophy.org", "title": "Harley Still Seems to Think it's Brand is Golden ~ Motorcycle Philosophy", "raw_content": "It's hard to find a good pair cold weather riding gloves I've discovered. Well actually, there are a lot of good ones out there, but finding a pair that I really like is another matter.\nYesterday, I visited three different metric dealers, a Harley dealer, and two different motorcycle accessories stores. I ultimately settled on a pair of Alpinestars Drystar ST-1 Gloves (pictured here).\nI found them at Cycle Gear, listed at $39.99.\nActually, I already have a pair of cold weather riding gloves which I bought a year ago from the local Harley dealer. And I really liked the look and feel, they're soft leather, and fairly plain looking (which is unlike Harley gear). And they were reasonably priced, at $39.99. But I made the mistake of buying them too large, and as a result it's rather clumsy working the controls on my motorcycle.\nSo back into the process of finding cold weather gloves I went.\nThe metric motorcycle dealers mostly carried \"sport bike gloves\", the stuff with all the armored knuckles, the bling and multiple colors. They also carried winter riding gloves, but they were all extremely thick, and quite long, coming half-way up my arms.\nIn addition, those metric dealers all carry the same line of cheapo gloves. The leather on this stuff is stiff, and almost feeling like plastic. As it turned out, half of their inventory is this cheapo stuff.\nI went back to the Harley dealer, Biggs H-D in San Marcos, to see if they have the same gloves, but in a smaller size. They did not.\nBut they did have something similar, and something that I also liked. But nothing in my size. And it turns out they wanted $75.00 for them! These were very similar to the Harley gloves I bought last winter, but for whatever reason they tacked an extra $35.00 to the price tag.\nA girl there asked if she could search nearby dealers to see if they had one in my size. I said \"ok\", and she said she found a pair in San Diego, which was another hour's drive further away from my home. I said \"forget it, I'm not driving all the way down there just to pay $75.00 for a pair of gloves that are already overpriced!\". She said, \"Yeah, I know.\"\nThen she offered to have the San Diego dealer ship them up to her store, and then I could pick them up. But I would have to pay for them now. \"Nah\", I said. It was that $75.00 price tag that made me sick.\nAnd that brings me to a thought. This dealership, Biggs H-D, is the dealership where I bought my Electra Glide a few years ago. Back then, they were hoppin'. They had so many bikes on the showroom floor, and so many clothes and accessories, you could kill a couple hours going through it all. But yesterday, they had only 1/4th the inventory they used to have.\nHarley is still trying to capitalize on its brand, at a time when people aren't willing to pay a premium for the brand.\nI looked at their leather jackets. Some of them go for $500.00 or more. And on top of that, all of their jackets have that \"Harley-Davidson\" logo in extra large letters on the back. \"Why the Hell would I pay $500.00 for a giant Harley logo on my back?\" I kept thinking. \"If they want me to advertise for them, they should give me the jacket for free.\"\nThat's why I'm really liking Cycle Gear these days. They sell good stuff, at good prices. And as a result, Cycle Gear stores always have customers in them. The Biggs H-D dealership I went to yesterday, had no customers except for me (at least not when I was there).\nI think the recession put us into a new era of thinking. We're looking past the brand and evaluating the value we get from our money. Meanwhile Harley-Davidson still seems to think it's brand is golden. Yet, I'm no longer buying stuff because it has a Harley logo on it, rather I'm buying stuff because I need it, and because it fits just right, and because it's priced cheap.\nAnd I think Harley may be getting the message. I just read this article about the Motor Company installing an upgraded version of its customer relations management software at most of its dealers. It's supposed to help them collect more information about each customer, and leverage it to increase sales.\nAnd that's a start, though they still need to design bikes that last, instead of bikes that beg for upgrades.\nWilly D November 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM\nHarley riding gear golden? Most of it is garbage. I have three of their bikes but none of their gear. In fact I only have one tee shirt with their logo and that was given to me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 9267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mrzchuck.com/2018/02/iceland-expedition-day1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UTV2ZJX6AKUZ6WXQSN732ADZJV2R4IYA", "length": 6229, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.mrzchuck.com", "title": "The Adventures of MrZchuck: Iceland Expedition: Day #1", "raw_content": "Well, as the saying goes, there\u2019s good news and there\u2019s bad news. The good news is, the statement Steven makes in today\u2019s video holds true. \u201cNo one\u2019s dead yet.\u201d The bad news is, we did have to (temporarily) leave a man behind. More on that in a little bit.\nToday was mainly a travel day. We met at the local Park and Ride around 9:30 AM to consolidate vehicles and luggage. Most of us decided to just take a personal item (17 x 13 x 10 inches) and split the cost of a single large bag, mainly for liquids, food, and extra shoes. This worked out pretty well, but we knew we were pushing the 44 pound bag weight limit.\nThe other decision we had to make was how many vehicles to take (accounting for the cost of fuel and parking for each). Steven was driving, but doesn\u2019t plan to return from NoVA at the same time as the rest of us, so, although we could easily fit everyone into two vehicles on the way up, the question became how tightly we wanted to squeeze in on the way back. My Jeep can carry seven (with a pretty uncomfortable third row), and we eventually settled on squeezing someone into one of those seats in the back with the luggage on the way home.\nWe made it about a quarter of a mile out of the parking lot before stopping at Hardee\u2019s (bathroom and breakfast), and then we were on our way (for real).\nThe trip to the airport (BWI) was fairly uneventful, filled with some napping by the self loading ballast (passengers), and occasional radio chatter to keep things interesting. Steven told jokes such as, \u201cWhat do you call a pastor who runs a marathon? A reveRUNd.\u201d Our pastor, Jeff, would be so proud. After that joke, I told Steven, \u201cYou\u2019re fired. Give the radio to Katy.\u201d\nWe made a pit stop for lunch at a Chick-fil-A in Winchester and gas at Sheetz and arrived in the parking lot at the airport around 4:30 PM.\nThe moment of truth came when we had to drop off our single checked bag. I set it on the scale and the agent told me, \u201cYour bag is one kg over the limit.\u201d We moved out of the way of everyone else and cracked it open to see what we could shift around. As it turned out, we moved a few things to the carry on/personal items and I swapped out my trail runners for the boots that I had packed in the bag. That was enough to drop us 1.4 kgs below the limit.\nSecurity screening was uneventful, despite a grumpy TSA agent. From there, we made our way to the gate and everyone split off in different directions to grab food or a forgotten item.\nI was pretty relieved at this point. We had made it to the airport with plenty of time, handled the overweight bag issue quickly, and everyone had made it through security without incident. We were home free! Or so I thought.\nAbout thirty minutes before takeoff, one of the gate agents made the following announcement. \u201cPassengers, please check your boarding pass to make sure the name on your ticket matches the name on your passport exactly, including your middle name. This is an international flight, and if the names do not match, you won\u2019t be able to fly today. We\u2019re about to close the flight, and, after that time, no changes can be made.\u201d\nI immediately checked mine, although I was almost positive it was correct (it was). The few people from our group that were still at the gate checked theirs as well. No issues. The other half of our group, however, was elsewhere, and most of them had left their phones with me, charging. As people began to filter back in, I passed the message along and received affirmatives. Then Tanner said, \u201cI think Mike said his name was different on his ticket.\u201d\nAs soon as I heard this, I went to the gate agent and told her we had a possible mismatch. She asked if he had checked in already, and when I said that he had, she said, \u201cI probably would have caught any difference when he checked in, but let\u2019s double check.\u201d\nWhen Mike return, we looked at his ticket and passport together. Mike\u2019s actual name, as you\u2019ve probably guessed by now, is Michael. Mike on the ticket, Michael in the passport. My heart dropped.\nWe went to see the agent, and she just shook her head and told us that the flight was closed at that point, and that they could no longer make any changes. Our only option, she told us, was to call customer service, in the off chance they might be able to change the name on the ticket before we took off, but she wasn\u2019t hopeful that would happen.\nMike started dialing and I started to work through contingency plans in my head. My first thought was that I would stay behind with Mike until we could get it all sorted out, and send the rest of the group on to Iceland. None of our reservations were tied solely to my name, so the group wouldn\u2019t have issue continuing on without me. My main line of reasoning there was that Mike didn\u2019t have a vehicle, although there was also a part of me that felt some responsibility not to leave a group member behind.\nAs Tanner and I discussed, he pointed out that, since there was no issue with my ticket, WOW wouldn\u2019t do anything for me if I decided to stay, so I would essentially be buying a second ticket.\nThat reasoning, combined with the fact that, in reality, I wouldn\u2019t be much help stateside, helped me resolve to continue on. I handed my Jeep key to Mike, still hoping that wouldn\u2019t be the outcome.\nWe waited until the last minute, but the plane was almost done boarding and we had to go. We stalled for a little bit longer, then sadly waved goodbye to Mike. Our whole group was pretty despondent (although the sight of the purple airplane cheered us up a little).\nDespite that setback, we have been in communication with Mike since then, and it looks like he will be joining us early Monday morning! He has a place to stay tonight, and will fly out of BWI at the same time tomorrow. Please pray for a smooth flight and no further issues for him. We\u2019re bummed he won\u2019t be with us the first day, but look forward to him joining us!\nI\u2019m writing this post as we hurtle through the air at 500 MPH over Greenland, heading towards Kevflavik, Iceland. We should be touching down around 5:30 AM local time. Our plans for tomorrow (today?) include exploring Reykjav\u00edk and attending a service at Loftstofan Church! More updates to come!\nPosted by Ezra Richards at 3:58 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 7599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mta.info/news-chief-safety-officer-safety-david-mayer/2014/10/27/mta-hires-new-chief-safety-officer-david-l", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MXGPR7TSOKCWASUNV3UKPLWG46EGL4OL", "length": 2506, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mta.info", "title": "MTA | news | MTA Hires New Chief Safety Officer, David L. Mayer, Former NTSB Managing Director", "raw_content": "MTA Hires New Chief Safety Officer, David L. Mayer, Former NTSB Managing Director\nDavid L. Mayer\nThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that it has named David L. Mayer as the agency\u2019s new Chief Safety Officer. The new position was created to reinforce safety as the top priority for all MTA agencies as they continue to improve work practices and invest in new technology and equipment.\n\u201cHaving someone to oversee and lead safety initiatives throughout the system can only enhance and improve our efforts,\u201d said MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast. \u201cDavid\u2019s experience with the National Transportation Safety Board, and exceptional work on safety projects in all modes of transportation, makes him the best person for the job.\u201d\nMayer will begin at the MTA on December 1. He will report directly to the Chairman and CEO. He will work closely with Metro-North Railroad Chief Safety Officer Anne Kirsch, Long Island Rail Road Chief Safety Officer Loretta Ebbighausen, New York City Transit VP System Safety Cheryl Kennedy, VP Safety Programs and Initiatives at MTA Bridges and Tunnels James Foley, and MTA Capital Construction VP of Safety Peter Kohner. They will continue to monitor the condition of crews and equipment at their respective agencies, reporting to their agency\u2019s president.\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to join a transportation network that is focused on promoting a safety culture while constantly looking for ways to improve its practices. I look forward to the challenge of proactively serving a population of over 15 million people,\u201d said Mayer.\nMayer began his career at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 1991 in the Office of Research and Engineering. In 2001, he was named Assistant Managing Director and then promoted to Managing Director in 2009, the highest career-level position at the agency.\nDuring that time, Mayer personally reviewed and led more than 50 major investigations including the 2009 Metrorail train collision in Washington D.C. and the 2010 airplane crash near Aleknagik, Alaska, that killed Senator Ted Stevens along with four others.\nIn addition to his strategic and technical expertise, Mayer also has extensive experience in employee relations, leading the NTSB\u2019s labor relations activities. He was trained in experimental psychology as a human factors specialist and holds a doctorate from Rice University. He received a Bachelor degree with honors in Psychology from Centenary College. He also holds a private pilot\u2019s license.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mullins-world.com/2009/10/gay-is-not-catching-gay-is-not.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LMJRL5V2XBCO35KMRLG2G3H5A64MLWPT", "length": 7402, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.mullins-world.com", "title": "Mullin's World: the GOP, the Gay Old Party", "raw_content": "\"House Republican Leader John Boehner objected to House passage of a bill that would expand hate crime laws and make it a federal crime to assault people on the basis of their sexual orientation.\" -Unknown\nGay is not catching, gay is not contagious. But according to the new book by Dr. James Dobson, a powerful and politically influential voice in the evangelical movement and far Right, Marriage Under Fire, gay marriage is responsible for the decline of western civilization. \"The culture war will be over, and I fear, the world may soon become \"as it was in the days of Noah\" (Matthew 24:37, NIV). This is the climactic moment in the battle to preserve the family, and future generations hang in the balance.\" According to Dobson it is the gay lifestyle that will destroy America, the family and the evangelical Christian movement. \"Perhaps most important, the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be severely curtailed. The family has been God's primary vehicle for evangelism since the beginning. \" It is a lot to attribute to the gay community but Dobson asserts that they are the vehicle for destruction of democracy. Non- the-less gay marriage remains a civil rights issue. Although there are many who will dispute this, the fact is they, the gay community are being discriminated against and deserve the same protection that their detractors claim for themselves.\nWhen one considers how many male Republicans in and out of congress have had illicit affairs with other men, boys and male prostitutes we should be be referring to the GOP as the Gay Old Party. The vehemence from the Right against gays and gay marriage make one think that many of the more vociferous opponents of gay marriage and gay rights are coming from those in the GOP, the Gay Old Party, who are still in the closet or just sneaking around airport bathrooms trying to have sex with male strangers are afraid to admit the truth, they are gay.\nNot only the GOP but the evangelical movement, which supports the Gay Old Party, has had it's share of shame about their homosexual activities, especially in light of their steadfast opposition to gays and gay marriage. Such as \"Rev. Ted Haggard, then the president of the National Association of Evangelicals and the pastor of a Colorado Springs megachurch, after a male prostitute said Mr. Haggard had had a relationship with him for three years.\nThough he did not publicly admit to the relationship, in a letter to his congregation, Mr. Haggard said that he was \u201cguilty of sexual immorality\u201d and that he had struggled all his life with impulses he called \u201crepulsive and dark.\u201d NYT.com\nHaggard has to get over it and admit he's gay. It takes great courage to do that, and while not popular in evangelical churches gays will not disappear. The rights for gay people will continue to be a hard fought battle that will eventually be won while it may have to go to the supreme court, even that will be a battle with five Catholics sitting on the bench.\nMost enlightened countries in the western world have a more tolerant policy toward gay marriage. America is still looking backward on this issue. It is time that Americans open their hearts and know that these gay Americans are people who have dreams and hopes and sorrows that all Americans share and their choice of partner is no ones business but their own. It may be that America has an intellectual void and that unless America can raise its intellectual IQ and correct it's moral compass, discrimination, bigotry, intolerance and racism will continue to be American characteristics.\nThe Daily Show. The Secret Gay Agenda, EXPOSED!\nGay army and secret weapon\nQueer and Loathing in D.C. - Radical Gay Agenda\nPLANETARY BOUNDARIES: THE CO2 <350>\n\"THE RISE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ABOVE 350 PPM AT THE CURRENT RATE OF 2 PPM/YEAR IS TRANSCENDING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS WHICH ALLOWED THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND, WITH LAG EFFECTS, IS LEADING TOWARD AN ICE-FREE EARTH AND A MASS EXTINCTION OF SPECIES\"\n\"Climate change is tracking toward levels which transcend the planetary boundaries which allowed the development of humans over the last 3 million years [1]. These limits have already been crossed in terms of the rise in greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, Nitric oxide) and extensive loss of species [1]. Given lag effects, looming threats include (A) ocean acidification and phosphorous flux, collapse of coral reefs and the marine food chain; (B) availability of freshwater; (C) conversion of natural forests to cropland, i.e. the Amazon; (D) ozone depletion; (E) atmospheric aerosol loading and (F) chemical pollution by metals, plastics, radioactive nuclei etc.\"\nBlog Alert! Blog Alert! Stuff you don't see on Fox White Man News Blog Alert! Blog Alert!\nFox and other media conservatives still in denial about cost and popularity of public option\nSurprise! Health Insurers Come Out In The Open To Preserve Their Immoral and Obscene Profits\n\u201cRodeo Clown\u201d Glenn Beck Says He Wants To Engage In Serious Dialogue With The White House\nWhy do conservatives hate America?\nReader's Comment;\nThank you, John for showing me how to do this. Okay--you say gay is not catching--but neither is it inherent. There is no \"gay gene\" despite all the misconceptions generated by those who want to convince us otherwise (Hamer, LeVay, who happens to be gay, et al.).\nSo if it is not inherent, it is then behavioral, which means that one can be influenced to act out on homosexual urges.\nSurely you remember that there is an early stage when one may develop \"crushes\" on those of the same sex. This happens typically in the early teens. So believing that it is inborn, this individual would believe that this must mean he in fact is gay.\nAnd the stronger the homosexual presence in America becomes (aided by well-meaning people such as yourself and the media, many of whose members are homosexual/bisexual) the more it adds to this person's confusion.\nThe young person may have a problem with masculinity/feminity, difficulty making friends, etc. and now believes all these problems will be solved with his newfound \"community.\"\nSo I object to having gay marriage institutionalized b/c it is a bad influence over our youth. I am not even going to get into the fact that gay couples are adopting more and more defenseless children.\nThis is a very unwholesome way of life as shown by the early age at which practicing homosexuals die. They get many more diseases than heterosexuals. Spiritually, it is very bad because most of them are unable to form attachments and are extremely promiscuous and are sex-addicted.\nThis is something we do not want to encourage in our society if it is to protect its youth as well as everyone else. The family is the building block of society. The stronger it is the less govt. has a role in butting into our lives.\nFurthermore, consider this: the more animals get legal \"rights\" the more your rights as a human being are weakened. So, yes, this does take away from the uniqueness that married couples get in our society.\nIf someone wants to act on homosexual urges, that is one thing. But that should not be granted protected status (as is now the case).\nAnd don't look for a politician to say any of this.\nLabels: evangelical Christians, gay marriage, Gay Old Party, gay rights, gays, GOP, GOP bigotry, homophobia, human extinction, intolerance, James Dobson, Republican gays, Ted Haggard, the family", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 403, "original_length": 19462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mycoachbook.com/videos/6223/1590/the-coach-s-insight-featuring-chris-martin-head-coach-loras-college", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLMTWKIQ2R7UUJ7TBRW3PMCPRY5QPUZO", "length": 271, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mycoachbook.com", "title": "The Coach's Insight, featuring Chris Martin (Head Coach, Loras College) - Video View Page - CoachBook", "raw_content": "The Coach's Insight, featuring Chris Martin (Head Coach, Loras College)\nEpisode #21 - In this episode of 'The Coach's Insight', Coach Chris Martin, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Loras College, discusses his keys to turning a program around in your 1st season on the job.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 206.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mylifeasasemicolon.com/2017/06/damaged-goods.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ILNBYSHZXRIQJUT5FW5RWX2QSNXDQLVB", "length": 3894, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mylifeasasemicolon.com", "title": "My Life as a Semicolon ; ): Damaged Goods", "raw_content": "I started this last February, offline, but wanted to pick it up again...\nI\u2019ve written about this before, but nothing is a harsher reminder of the burden I place on my family than a snowbound, power-out day. No electricity means no heat and no water (the wonders of being on a well).\nThe screams of frustration from Jamie and the boys, who are trying to at least clear the snow from the walkway, the top of the drive, and the edges of the roof (ice dams are laying in wait to pry under the shingles and leak come spring) rattle around my echo chamber of a brain, reminding me that it\u2019s my place to be suffering out there with them, instead of sitting in my pajamas, stoking the wood stove and lamenting my fate (that too feels like a luxury).\nOn a similar note, out of the blue I received a letter from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles requiring me to have my doctor sign off on my ability to drive, despite the fact that I\u2019ve had my license back for four years without incident and nearly five since my last seizure. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s all standard protocol, but nevertheless screams that I can\u2019t escape the perception that there\u2019s something \u201cwrong\u201d with me.\nInteresting, too, that this all comes as I embrace myself as a person with a disability and try to advocate for and support other disabled employees at work. One of the biggest challenges there is finding people who will self-identify that way, either because of the stigma they feel is associated with the label or an unwillingness to let go of their \u201cnormal\u201d identity. I understand both of those perspectives: Becoming disabled can happen in seconds. Living with a disability is a learning process that takes years, not unlike mourning the loss of a loved one, except the loved one is you. Even though I\u2019ve grieved and moved on in many ways, I can\u2019t fully escape that other guy, nor can the people who love him/me.\nOh, and have I mentioned that the lice outbreak in our house a couple weeks ago has suddenly reared its ugly head (pun intended) again this weekend? One more barrage of things for Jamie to deal with (buzzing hair, washing and drying every piece of cloth in the house) and blame herself for (obviously, she isn\u2019t responsible for their existence but is responsible for their extermination, because I\u2019m of no use in the process). Lice is a lot like disability, in terms of that inaccurate social stigma (lice=dirty; disability=weak and looking for special treatment).\nAnd it just happens to be my birthday. I thought I\u2019d had my mid-life crisis at 40 by having a stroke but have actually found 47 harder in many ways. It\u2019s the confluence of getting older, feeling like I still have a lot I want to accomplish, and having little energy to commit to any of it.\nJumping ahead to the lovely springtime of early June, I'm happy to report that we survived the power outage, the lice are gone, and I'm well on my way to empowering more employees to embrace their differently-abled side (gotta find a better turn of phrase for that -- re-abled? abilified? super-compensatory?).\nOne of the perks of working at a disability insurance company is that they recognize the value in disability perspectives. Jamie and I had the opportunity to take a trip to Florida at the end of April for a disability conference, May was very actively recognized as Disability Insurance Awareness Month with a panel discussion about life as a claimant and an experiential learning event filled with disability simulations, I flew solo to Tennessee (first time since the stroke) to tell my story and plans to the Board of Directors, and I drove solo to and from Providence to celebrate my 25th college reunion. We're no spring chickens, but we partied like it was 1989 (except that in 1989 I didn't party).\nNeedless to say, the year so far has nicely emphasized what I can do and what I've gained from the past seven years, not what I can't do or what I've lost.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 17363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myowlbarn.com/2012/01/story-wooden-blocks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:18Z", "digest": "sha1:SB3UHO7OCPZQ7MWICSQUVG7K34MMCSMG", "length": 690, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.myowlbarn.com", "title": "My Owl Barn: Story Wooden Blocks", "raw_content": "I recently stumbled across Matt Bray's website and instantly fell in love with his work. My favorite from his creations was this vintage-feel toy that consists of wooden blocks illustrated with characters from the classic story 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'. It's a three-in-one piece which works as a toy, a story and a puzzle. I adored it so much that I sent an email to Matt asking if he was selling the toy online. He informed that he is working on the process to make it available for purchase for his fans and I'll be one of the first one to know. Yay! I promise to share the release of the toy with you all. Because I have a feeling that many of you would like to get your hands on it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 583, "original_length": 10694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 160.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myowlbarn.com/2012/07/peagreen-owls-things.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:MIH7S63EO7H37UIPC2OBUVDNKHYCJJG5", "length": 524, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.myowlbarn.com", "title": "My Owl Barn: Peagreen: Owls & Things", "raw_content": "I blogged about Peagreen previously here. While going through their website recently I came across the above shown products that they designed for a project. I adore these owl tins and boxes but couldn't find any details on them. Do you know if they are available online?\nI love them too! Please let us know where to buy them.\nPlease tell me where I can find them-I love them too!\nSuch fun canisters. The owl one is the most striking. Hmmm...it seems like they should be available, but if you can't find anything, maybe not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 591, "original_length": 10613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.namastemovie.com/service-portfolio/release-planning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WMJQPKD2SDUTZZVNT2UH5PMKT4HZLJBO", "length": 2667, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.namastemovie.com", "title": "Release Planning - Namaste Movie", "raw_content": "Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete work.The editing process often begins with the author's idea for the work itself, continuing as a collaboration between the author and the editor as the work is created. As such, editing can involve creative skills, human relations, and a precise set of methods.\nCorporate / Business Release\nThese releases are usually focused on building corporate image to make the company acceptable and real to the industry as well as attract investment or buy out opportunities. These releases are the ones announcing new executives and positional changes, quantity of shipments, large orders and other Business Wow\u2019s!\nCustomer Story/Success Release\nThis is the Real Success story and has significant importance in proving the value of the technology, service or solution that you provide. These types of releases should include quotes from the customer or consultants and focus on the problems that the sale has solved. If this release focuses on just the dollar amount or only on the important customer, then this slips back into the Corporate release category.\nThe essential value of this type of release is that it must include technical information about the technology or release and expound on the types of problems that this can solve or that it is in response to your customer\u2019s requests. This type of release can be dangerous as one must send out this type of release on a regular basis to show that the technology is growing and that the company is following the road map to technical success and being responsible to its current customer base by adding value to previously purchased solutions.\nThis type can also include involvement in organizations that add credibility to the company and or to certain employees like someone becomes a Senior Member of the IEEE or granted a patent. This type of release is usually in a minimum of 2 parts. First explain that the company or person is going to attend, participate in, speak about or accept an award at the show/event. This should include what the corporate focus will be, like a new product or a technology focus. The second part is after the event one presents the value and success of the event or relevance to the company and market value. One can collect quotes at an event and use them to express the emotion of those who attended and what they felt about your participation, product, award or speech/training.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nananatravels.com/my-travel-philosphy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DHU5NWPIXZR4ZHCDBZXPLTTDUJSYDWEQ", "length": 2078, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nananatravels.com", "title": "Blog: My Travel Philosophy | NananaTravels", "raw_content": "15 November 2012 by nananatravels in Blog - No Comments\nLike I mentioned in my \u2018About\u2018 section, experience is a priority of mine. If it means new experiences, I won\u2019t hesitate to try, even if I don\u2019t know the outcome of it. It may be an awful experience, it could be an amazing experience but we will never find out unless we try. I also agree that no experience is ever wasted. All experiences, whether good, bad, or ugly, teaches me something and shapes me into who I am today.\nVerb [in-duhlj]\n1. Allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of\n2. Become involved in\nWhether it\u2019s food, music, performance, dance, love, relationships, or a simple walk around the city, I\u2019ll indulge. I\u2019ll take in as much as I can. I want the full experience.\nWe all have our differences. Every culture is different. This is why we travel. We travel to learn about these types of differences and experience different mindsets. That being said, to think that different is wrong is the most harmful thing to you and your community. Traveling is all about being open minded and accepting things for the way they are. If you have the same expectations as you do when you are on the road and constantly complain about a place because it\u2019s not what you are used to, then stay home. There are going to be cuisines you disagree with, there are going to be customs you don\u2019t understand but please.. don\u2019t be rude. Accept that things are different. Treat people the way you wish to be treated. If you don\u2019t respect the fact that they are different, you can\u2019t expect that they would have respect for your ways.\nAppreciate each day and every moment. It\u2019s easy to get caught up in our day to day and forget to sit down and reflect on our surroundings. Appreciate the little things in life. If you don\u2019t, it\u2019s easy to miss out on life, which is a combination of those moments.\nI like to believe that I am practicing to be a conscious traveler. Someone who is always aware of her surroundings, respects different cultures and is sensitive to each moment. I\u2019ve explained the term \u2018Conscious Traveler\u2019 on my travel diary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.narcissisticabuse.com/victim-of-narcissist-abuse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EC3XJH4DJPSP6DQLUS2IW7KCRQ6T5GEP", "length": 8424, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.narcissisticabuse.com", "title": "Get Happy, You Are Worth It. | NarcissisticAbuse.com", "raw_content": "This is a true story of failure and success and what happened in-between. It\u2019s a story of why a goal can make you happier and how failure is not your enemy. Losing your confidence is not the end of the world. Why? Because you can get it back, even if you have been victimized by choice or chance.\nThe 14 year old boy stood poised and prepared on the edge of the pool ready to dive in and swim. But he didn\u2019t. Instead he tumbled and fell. It wasn\u2019t just any edge but the edge of a pool during the Olympics and he fell into the water in front of thousands of people and TV audiences around the world. Humiliated at being disqualified before the starting gun had gone off, Park hid in the locker room for hours. Having trained for years for this moment, in a heartbeat it was over. Not just over, but over before it began. Not even a loss, just over.\nHe thought he could never show his face again. But over time something changed in him. He decided that his goal was unfulfilled and he would have to try again. Four years later he found himself not only competing again in the Olympics but the winner of a Gold medal in swimming. Park was the first Korean to ever win the Gold in swimming.\nBetween failure and success is a journey. It is a journey of power \u2013 the power to get things done which lies within each and every one of us.\nPeople all over the world love spectator sports, including the Olympics. Nothing wrong with that unless we act as if life is one also. The most dangerous mindset is, \u201cNot me, I can\u2019t do that.\u201d There is an old saying, \u201cWhether you think you can or you think you can\u2019t, you are right.\u201d\nSome Quick and Easy Tactics for Change\nSuccess begins with the language you use. Whether you are talking to yourself, the kids, or the boss, the words you choose are a reflection of how you see the world and your place in it. Are you always apologizing? Do you begin sentences with, \u201cI\u2019m sorry to bother you, but\u2026\u201d or suppose someone bumps into you, do you apologize? There is a time and place for apologies, but that time isn\u2019t \u2018all the time\u2019.\nDo you do a bang up job pulling together a project of some sort and when praised, you reply, \u201cIt was nothing.\u201d Just as an apology has a place, so does modesty, and there is a time and place for it, but again it isn\u2019t \u2018all the time.\u2019 If you always say, \u201cit was nothing.\u201d then people will think you do \u201cnothing\u201d type of things. Or you will get paid less. Certainly you will get less respect than if you answered, \u201cThank you.\u201d Simple wasn\u2019t it? Someone said something nice and you responded with a thanks \u2013 not a put down of yourself.\nWomen get depressed more often than men. It\u2019s complex why that happens (and men, although they don\u2019t get depressed as often, when they do, it is a deeper depression than women\u2019s.) We can analyze it from a psycho-social-cultural-genetic viewpoint, but this isn\u2019t the time or place. What is an important take-away from the research is this: by becoming more confident, women become happier. Confidence can begin by changing your mindset of either \u201cI can change\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t do anything about who I am.\u201d\nI coach women for divorce court. We play the \u201cas if\u201d game, I instruct them in all the ways for them to act \u201cas if\u201d they are calm, powerful, able to respond to hurtful questions, and in control. What we are doing is changing the mindset. By the time they are out of court they have become the change we programmed them for. You can do the same thing.\nBegin with language. Watch what you say. Begin with calm because calm is always stronger than anger. Don\u2019t be hostile. Hostility is not powerful. Do not say, \u201cThat is a stupid, stupid idea.\u201d instead, say, \u201cUnder the circumstances that plan is not a solution for us right now.\u201d If asked a hostile question, respond with calm, \u201cThat\u2019s an interesting point of view. No, it isn\u2019t mine.\u201d\nWhat kind of self talk do you use: happy talk or catastrophizing? If everything is always bad in the way you talk to yourself you can\u2019t get the growth mindset you need to change the behavior which changes the story. No life is always perfect. Are you saying, \u201cI lost my job, this is the end of my life.\u201d? STOP! That\u2019s catastrophizing. It isn\u2019t productive and it is always weak. Immediately begin to think, \u201cOne door closes, another opens.\u201d and then take it from there. People who make every event all about them are trying to put themselves center stage. Don\u2019t people pay a lot more attention to people who thrive and take life storms as they come without despair.\nLearn to define yourself practically. By that I mean instead of, \u201cI am a devoted wife and mother and church goer.\u201d, which is fine and dandy, but really, who cares? Your spouse and kids do, but not many others. Find something you do that sets you apart \u2013 department manager that everyone likes, bond raiser for the county library system, wrote legislation, fixed the budget of something, organized the mayor\u2019s campaign, got thrown out of the space program (yes, that\u2019s good \u2013 how many even get in?). You get the message. How you reframe or define yourself is very important. Appearing to be wise and or practical is rewarded.\nIf you don\u2019t start, you can\u2019t finish. If you don\u2019t dream, you can\u2019t reach the dream. Words, language, mindset, it\u2019s all about communication whether that means self talk or cocktail party talk. Begin there \u2013 they are tools to build your confidence and your happiness will follow.\nDon\u2019t sabotage yourself. Don\u2019t be your own worst enemy. Learn the secrets of women just like yourself \u2013 ordinary women who want to live extraordinary lives. You deserve to know how to reach a goal, bounce back from failure, talk to men (a different species!) and flourish. Life is short. C\u2019mon over to http://www.powerguideforwomen.com if you need a boost.\nAbuse, General, Healing, Road to Recovery, Victims after narc abuse, coping, exit strategy, healing, narcissism, recovery, stress, verbal abuse\nThank you for this uplifting blessing. I thought I was losing it. I felt I was reading my story.\nTracy \u2013 yes, all of our journeys have bumps in them. Big ones, little ones..We can\u2019t escape them. But we don\u2019t have to label them insurmountable. I loved this story of the kid who failed in front of the world and came back a winner. Not all of our failures or comebacks will be so dramatic, but we can label each one so it doesn\u2019t destroy us. Perception is reality. Best to you on the road ahead, bumps and rainbows alike, Ann\nClaire Holdsworth\nAnn I lived with a narcissist for 30yrs I met him when I was 16yrs old he was 29yrs old..(I\u2019ve only just realised that this is what he is) I knew he was slightly insane but he was everything that a narcissist is including violent .. I have 5 beautiful children that\u2019s the best thing to come out of this relationship . I have written some poems about living my life like this and how it was would you like to see them? Could you use them to help others ?\nSure. Send them on. Glad you got 5 wonderful kids out of this! Thats great, not all so lucky. Best, Ann\nI was married to narcissist for 15 years and been divorced 10 years .. he has turned my kids that I raised against me so bad to the point of my 18 year old daughter hates me she doesn\u2019t want anything to do with me she blames me for everything. When she turned to drugs and tried to commit suicide crashed her car 4 times and went to jail I put her in Harper Oak Hospital, her dad told her I put her in a mental hospital because I\u2019m vindictive like that , she will never forgive me she said.. my 14 year old son thinks I hate him and his sister and dad use and put him in that middle and teach him to lie to me about everything.. he is so sad and depressed it breaks my heart. They have sucked the life out of him\u2026 if I don\u2019t save him soon he will end up just like his sister and dad.. My heart breaking family is damaged\nI am so sorry to hear this. Please don\u2019t give up hope. I have seen familie damages that have repaired and healed with time. How about a therapist for our son? Counselor? As to your daughter \u2013 you know, kids say a lot of things at 18 that change dramatically as the brain changes and they meet the wider world and get more input. How about taking your son out for some fun activities that he likes to do \u2013 movies, pizza, waterpark? Get him a google cardboard virtual reality headset and let him have fun (if he has a phone). Bond over fun with him. It might bring him back into a better place. Best to you, Ann", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 10777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=C-12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:5QW66PMOTLAX45WFARS6JMMTTGHPYCJA", "length": 2033, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ncmarkers.com", "title": "Marker: C-12", "raw_content": "Here stood one of the forts built around New Bern by Union forces after they took the town in March, 1862.\nFort Totten was built on the western edge of New Bern in 1862, after occupation of the city by Union forces and prior to the Battle of New Bern. The military installation was named for Joseph Gilbert Totten, a Union general born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1788. Totten played an active role in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. By March 1863 he had been promoted to brigadier general in the regular army. In order to honor Totten for his sixty-two years of service, he was awarded with a brevet promotion to major general by the War Department before he died in April 1864.\nThe Union mounted the campaign to gain control of New Bern because it would help them gain control of North Carolina\u2019s sounds, coast, and the Neuse River. The strategy gave the Union a strong base to launch further attacks into the state. The plan proved successful and the Union held control of the sounds and coast until the end of the War. Four artillery companies with a total of 251 enlisted men were stationed at Fort Totten. Five companies of infantry on provost-guard duty were stationed in the rear of Fort Totten with a total of 454 men.\nThe armament included four thirty-two pound howitzers, two thirty-two pound rifles, nine thirty-two pound carronades, one eight inch columbiad, and two eight inch mortars. The fort had lines of entrenchments that were extended on either side leading to the Neuse and Trent Rivers.\nToday Fort Totten is a family park that on a five and one-half acre site. The park includes a lighted softball field, playground set, several picnic shelters, grills, picnic tables, restroom facilities and a small parking lot.\nDavid Heidler and Jeanne Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (2000)\nOfficial Records of the War of the Rebellion (1880-1900)\nCity of New Bern website: http://www.ci.new-bern.nc.us/RP/parks.php\nSR 1278 (Trent Boulevard) at Second Street in New Bern", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 146.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/else/101ev.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UYGPFYVTGTD4WJ5MRAGBGP33LMYSCBE7", "length": 286, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.neighborhoodvalues.com", "title": "1974 Paula Figurine Bank Someday your Ship will come In\u2026. | Neighborhood Values Everything Else", "raw_content": "1974 Paula Figurine Bank Someday your Ship will come In\u2026.\nThis is a 1974 bank designed by Paula a 1970's artist it says \"Someday your ship will come in and with your luck\u2026 You'll probably be at the Airport!\"\nIt's 5\" tall x 3 1/2 w x 3 1/2\" deep at the base. It's in excellent condition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.netraclassical.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NABBYJB43XDOIZ24LCV4M7FQQARYSU5N", "length": 3892, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.netraclassical.com", "title": "Netra Arts", "raw_content": "Now offering certified courses In - Bharathanatyam and Kuchipudi\nNetra Center for Arts and Culture is a unique Arts Center, based in Foster City, that specializes in offering best in class training in various forms of Indian Classical dance and music. We offer weekly classes in Traditional dance forms: Kuchipudi, Bharathanatyam and Mohiniattam and Bollywood dance\nNetra Center for Arts Won the YELP 2016 award for Excellence\n\"It's a great place\"\nNetra Center for Arts and Culture is a wonderful place to learn and nurture/foster one's interest in dance. It's an honor to learn Kuchipudi from such an accomplished, patient, and hardworking teacher like Deepa. It's a great place for beginners and for more advanced students - you will be challenged either way but that will only make you a better dancer! :)\n- Devi N.\n\"Netra's kids are better than the adult professionals I see performing.... both in India and here\n- Shobha Ravikumar\nClassical dance classes offered at Nerta Studios\nKuchipudi classes are offered for kids (from age 4) and adults on Saturdays at all levels\n9:00 am - 10:00 am - Intermediate\n10:00 am - 11:00 am - Beginner\nBharathnatyam classes are offered for kids (from age 4) and adults on Saturdays at all levels\n11:00 am - 12:00 noon - Beginner\n12:00 noon - 1:00 pm - Intermediate\n1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Senior\nWeekday Classes - Foster City\nBody conditioning and Bharathnatyam\nKids - 5:30 pm\nAdults - 6:30 pm\n* One time registration fee - $20.00\n* Classical Dance - Beginner: $80; Intermediates: $100; Advanced : $100 (flat fees for the month)\n* Family and sibling discount - 10%\n* Referral - 10% off the first month\nNETRA ART STUDIO HAS ITS MAIN BRANCH IN FOSTER CITY & Mountain view\nFoster City Temp location\nSunfish room, Recreation center\nNETRA_ARtS@YAHOO.COM\nKuchipudi is a dance-drama performance art, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of Natya Shastra. It originated in a village of Krishna district in modern era Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. The drama-dance involves extensive stage movements and exacting footwork, wherein the underlying drama is mimed by expressive gestures of hand (mudras), eye and face movements. Just like the Carnatic music style, Kuchipudi shares many postures and expressive gestures with Bharatanatyam, such as the Ardhamandali (half seating position or a partial squat, legs bent or knees flexed out). However, there are important differences, such as Bharatanatyam as a Hindu temple tradition trending towards geometric perfection and the spiritual, while Kuchipudi as a Hindu festival tradition trending towards more sensual supple and the folksy.\nBharatanatyam is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temples of Tamil Nadu and neighboring regions. Originally Bharatanatyam was a solo dance that was performed exclusively by women, and expressed Hindu religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of Shaivism, but also of Vaishnavism and Shaktism. Bharatanatyam style is noted for its fixed upper torso, legs bent or knees flexed out combined with spectacular footwork, a sophisticated vocabulary of sign language based on gestures of hands, eyes and face muscles.\nMohiniattam is a traditional South Indian dance from Kerala. It is a very graceful dance meant to be performed as a solo recital by women. The term Mohiniattam comes from the words \"Mohini\" meaning a woman who enchants onlookers and \"aattam\" meaning graceful and sensuous body movements.The lyrics are in Manipravalam, a mixture of Sanskrit and Malayalam. The Mohiniyattam dance is performed to this accompaniment by the subtle gestures and footwork of the danseuse. The performer uses the eyes in a very coy yet sensual manner, the purpose being to enchant the mind without enticing the senses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10759a.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4NN7FJXZZHUKCMS2HAIJOCYPX7OF7O6A", "length": 37359, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.newadvent.org", "title": "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Netherlands", "raw_content": "Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > N > The Netherlands\n(German Niederlande; French Pays Bas).\nThe Netherlands, or Low Countries, as organized by Charles V, under whom the Burgundian era ended, comprised practically the territory now included in Holland and Belgium, thenceforth known as the Spanish Netherlands. For the previous history of this country see BURGUNDY and CHARLES V. Shorn of the northern provinces by the secession of Holland as the Commonwealth of the United Provinces (1579), the Spanish Netherlands, on their cession to Austria (1713-14) were reduced to the provinces now embraced in Belgium, subsequently called the Austrian Netherlands.\nWhen Philip II by the abdication of his father, Charles V, became sovereign of the Low Countries and took up the government of the Seventeen Provinces, he found them at the zenith of their prosperity, as is evident from the description given in 1567 by Luigi Guicciardini in his \"Descrittione di tutti i Pacsi Bassi\" (Totius Bolgiidescriptio, Amsterdam, 1613).\nFew countries were so well governed; none was richer. Antwerp had taken the place of Bruges as commercial metropolis; every day saw a fleet of 500 sea-going craft enter or leave its port. Of Ghent (Gand), his native town, Charles V used to say jocosely: Je mettrais Paris dans mon Gand [I could put Paris in my glove (gant)]. Luxury, however, corrupted the earlier good morals of the people, and humanism gradually undermined the faith of some in the upper classes. Protestantism too had already effected an entrance, Lutheranism through Antwerp and Calvinism from the French border. The Anabaptists also had adherents. In addition the more powerful of the nobility now hoped to play a more influential part in the government than they had done under Charles V, and were already planning for the realization of this ambition. The situation presented many difficulties, and unfortunately Philip II was not the man to cope with them. He had little in common with his Low-Country subjects. Their language was not his; and he was a stranger to their customs. From the day he quitted the Netherlands in 1559, he never set foot in them again, but governed from far-off Spain. He was despotic, severe, crafty, and desirous of keeping in his own hands all the reins of government, in minor details as well as in matters of more importance, thereby causing many unfortunate delays in affairs that demanded rapid transaction. He was on the whole a most unsuitable ruler in spite of his sincere desire to fulfil the duties of his royal office and the time and pains he consecrated to them.\nIt must be said in justice that from a religious point of view, he brought about one of the most important events in the history of the Netherlands when he caused the establishment of fourteen new dioceses. The want had long been recognized and the sovereigns, particularly Philip the Good and Charles V, had often thought of this measure. In all the seventeen provinces there were but four dioceses: Utrecht in the north; Tournai, Arras, and Cambrai in the West; and all of them were subject to foreign metropolitans, Utrecht to Cologne and the others to Reims. Moreover the greater part of the country was under the direct jurisdiction of foreign bishops: those of Li\u00e8ge, Trier, Metz, Verdun, etc. Hence arose great difficulties and endless conflicts. The Bull of Pope Paul IV (12 May, 1559) put an end to this situation by raising Utrecht and Cambrai to archiepiscopal rank, and by creating fourteen new sees, one of them, Mechlin, an archbishopric. The others were Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ypres, St-Omer, Namur, Bois-le-Duc (Hertogenbosch), Roermond, Haarlem, Deventer, Leeuwarden, Groningen, and Middelburg. This act, excellent from a religious point of view, gave rise to many complaints. To endow the new sees it was found necessary to incorporate with them the richest abbeys in the country, and in certain provinces these carried the right of voting in the States-General. And this right being for the future exercised through the bishops, the result was that the king who nominated them gained a considerable influence in the Parliament, which had hitherto always acted as a check on the royal power. To aggravate matters, the Protestant faction spread a rumour that the erection of the new bishoprics was but a step towards introducing the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands. Lastly the abbeys began to complain of their lost autonomy-the place of the abbot being now occupied by the bishop.\nThe opposition of the nobles was led by two men, remarkable in different ways. On one hand was the Count of Egmont, the victor at St-Quentin and Gravelines, a brave man, frank and honest, a lover of popularity but weak in character and lacking in political shrewdness. On the other hand stood William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, surnamed \"the Silent\", a politician and diplomat of the first rank, filled with ambition which he well knew how to conceal, having no religious scruples, being Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist as it suited him, a man who had made the downfall of Spanish rule the one aim of his life. Grouped around these two chiefs were a number of nobles irritated with the Government, many of them deeply involved financially or morally corrupt like the too well-known Brederode. They kept up the agitation and demanded fresh concessions day by day. They insisted upon the recall of the Spanish soldiers, and the king yielded (1561). They demanded more moderate language in the public placard against heresy, and even sent the Count of Egmont to Spain to obtain it (1565); and Egmont, having been flattered and feted at the Spanish Court, came back convinced that his mission had been successful. Soon, however, royal letters dated from the Forest of Segovia, 17 and 20 October, 1565, brought the king's formal refusal to abate one jot in the repression of heresy.\nThe irreconcilable attitude of the king created a situation of increasing difficulty for the government of Margaret of Parma. Heresy was spreading every day, and it was no longer confined to the cities but was obtaining a foothold in the smaller towns and even in country places. Protestant preachers, for the most part renegade monks or priests, like the famous Dathenus, assembled the people at \"sermons\" in which they were exhorted to open war on the Catholic religion. Calvinism, a sect better organized than Lutheranism, became the popular heresy in the Low Countries. It had supporters in every grade of society; and although its members continued to be a small minority, their daring and clever propaganda made them a most dangerous force in presence of the inaction and sluggishness of the Catholics. Stirred up by these Calvinist preachers, Catholic and Protestant nobles formed an alliance which was called Le Compromis des Nobles, with the object of obtaining the suppression of the Inquisition. A body of them numbering several hundred came to present a petition to that effect to the regent (5 April, 1566). It is related that as she showed signs of alarm at this demonstration Count de Berlaymont, member of the Council of State and a loyal supporter of the Government, said to her: \"Rassurez-vous, Madame, ce ne sont que des gueux\" (Courage, Madam, they are only beggars). The confederates at once took up the word as a party name, and thus this famous name made its entry into history.\nUp to that time the Gueux meant to remain faithful to the king, jusqu'\u00e2 la besace (to beggary), as one of their mottoes had it. They seemed to have been made up of Catholics and Protestants, indiscriminately, who were partisans of religious tolerance; and Vive les Gueux was originally the rally-cry of a sort of national party. This, however, was a delusion soon apparent. The Calvinist leaders held the movement in their hands, and did not hesitate when sure of their own strength to disclose its real fanatical opposition to the Catholic Church. Roused and excited by the impassioned appeals of the preachers, the rowdy element of the people perpetrated unheard-of excesses. In the latter part of August, 1566, bands of iconoclasts scoured the country, wrecking and pillaging churches, and in a few days they had plundered four hundred, among them the magnificent cathedral of Antwerp. These crimes opened the eyes of many who up to that time had been too lenient with the sectarians. Public opinion condemned the iconoclastic outrages and sided with the Government, which thus suddenly found its position greatly strengthened. Once more, unfortunately, Philip II was not equal to the occasion. Instead of skilfully profiting by this turn of events to win back those who were shocked by the violence of the heretics, he looked on all his subjects in the Netherlands as equally guilty, and he swore by his father's soul that he would make an example of them. Against the advice of the regent, despite faithful Granvelle, in spite of the pope, who exhorted him to clemency, he dispatched the Duke of Alva to the Low Countries on a punitive expedition (1567). Straightway William of Orange and the more compromised nobles went into exile. Recklessly and trusting to his past services, the Count of Egmont had refused to follow them, His mistake cost him dear, for Alva caused him and Count de Hornes to be arrested and brought before a sort of court martial which he called the Conseil des Troubles, but known more more popularly as the Conseil du Sang (Blood Tribunal). The accused men, being members of the Golden Fleece, could be punished only by their order; but in spite of this privilege they were judged, condemned, and executed (1568).\nWhen the two counts were arrested, Margaret of Parma resigned her office, and the Duke of Alva was appointed her successor; with him began a System of merciless repression. Blood flowed freely, and all the traditional rights of the people were discarded; the Spaniards Juan Vargas, chief-justice of the Council of Troubles, replied to complaint of the University of Louvain that its privileges had been violated: non curamus privilegios vestros. (We are not concerned with your privileges.) Besides this, heavy taxes, 10 per cent on the sales of chattels, 5 per cent on the sale of real estate, and l per cent on all property, completed the popular discontent, and turned even a number of good Catholics against the Government. The Protestants, encouraged by these events, began military operations by land and sea, and the gueux des bois (Land-Beggars) and the gueux de mer (Water-Beggars) started a guerilla warfare and a campaign of pillage which were soon followed by the more serious attack of the Prince of Orange and his brother, Louis of Nassau. But the Duke of Alva frustrated all their efforts, and when he had repulsed Louis at Jemmingen, and prevented William from crossing the Geete, he caused a statue of himself to be set up at Antwerp representing him crushing under foot the hydra of anarchy. Then just as he thought he had mastered the rebellion, news was brought that on l April, 1572, the Water-Beggars had taken the port of Briel. Henceforth in the very heart of the Low Countries they had a point for rally or retreat, and their progress was rapid. In quick succession they captured many towns in Holland and Zealand. These Water-Beggars, under their leader, William de la Marck, Lord of Lummen, were for the most part ruffians devoid of ail human feeling. When they took the town of Gorkum they put to death in a most barbarous manner nineteen priests and monks who refused to abjure their Catholic Faith. The Church venerates these brave victims on 9 July, under the title of the Martyrs of Gorkum. About the same time Louis of Nassau took Mons in Hainault, and William of Orange made a second descent on the country with an army of hirelings that committed frightful excesses. But he failed before the superior forces of the Duke of Alva, Mons was recaptured and William once more driven out. Alva then turned his arms against the provinces of the north; Z\u00fctphcn, Naarden, and Haarlem fell successively into his hands and were treated most shamefully, but contrary to his hopes the rest of the rebel country did not submit.\nAt last Philip II realized that the duke's mission had failed. Yielding to the entreaty of his most faithful subjects-the bishops and the University of Louvain \u0097 he recalled Alva and appointed as his successor Don Luis of Requesens. During his brief regency (1573-75) Don Luis did not succeed in restoring royal authority in the revolted districts, although he showed greater humanity and an inclination to conciliate the disaffected. Nor was he more successful in capturing the town of Leyden which withstood one of the most heroic sieges in history. His death left the country in a state of anarchy.\nThe Council of State took over the reins of government pending the arrival of the new regent. Don John of Austria, brother of Philip II. It was a favourable moment for the ambitious schemes of William of Orange. Thanks to the intrigues of his agents, the members of the Council of State were arrested and did not regain their freedom till those most attached to the king's interests had been removed and others appointed in their places. This packed council was but a tool of the Prince of Orange, and its first act was to convene the States-General to deal with the affairs of the country, without any reference to the king. On the motion of the Prince of Orange the delegates met at Ghent the representatives of the rebel provinces of Holland and Zealand, where the authority of the prince was still unquestioned, and together they debated a scheme for securing tolerance for all forms of worship until such time as the States-General should have finally decided the matter, also for obtaining the removal of the Spanish troops. During the course of these deliberations an event happened which filled the whole country with fear and horror. The Spanish soldiers, who for a long time had received no pay, mutinied, seized the city of Antwerp, and pillaged it ruthlessly, seven thousand persons perishing during these disorders, which are usually referred to as the Spanish Fury. The provinces no longer hesitated, and their delegates signed the famous Pacification of Ghent on 8 November, 1576.\nThus triumphed the crafty and artful diplomacy of the Prince of Orange. He had succeeded in causing the loyal provinces to vote toleration of worship, while the provinces of Holland and Zealand of which he was master, formally refused to allow within their limits the practice of the Catholic religion. No doubt it was stipulated that this refusal was only provisional, and that the States-General of the seventeen provinces would finally settle the question; but meanwhile Protestantism gained an immense advantage in the Catholic provinces without giving anything in return. Furthermore the prince had taken the precaution to have it stipulated that he should remain admiral and regent of Holland and Zealand, and all these measures were passed in the name of the king whose authority they completely defied.\nSuch was the situation when the new regent arrived. On the advice of his best friends he ratified by his \"Edit perp\u00e9tuel de Marche en Famenne\" (1577) the main clauses of the Pacification of Ghent, which rallied to him a majority of the people. Then he set about establishing his authority, no easy task in face of the unwearying effort of the Prince of Orange to prevent it. When, in order to obtain a reliable stronghold, he seized the citadel of Namur, the States-General, prompted by William of Orange, declared him an enemy of the State and called in as regent Archduke Matthias of Austria, to whom William succeeded in being made lieutenant-general. Don John defeated the army of the States-General at Gembloux, and William made a fresh appeal to foreign Protestants. From all the neighbouring countries adventurers flocked in to fight the Catholic Government. The Calvinists took some of the large cities, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, and held them in a state of terror. In the last named town two of the leaders, Hembyze and Ryhove, gave themselves up to every excess, persecuted the Catholics, and endeavoured to set up a sort of Protestant republic as Calvin had done at Geneva. To crown all these misfortunes, the young regent was carried off by illness in 1578, and all seemed lost for the Catholic religion and the royal authority.\nBut the eyes of the Catholics were at last opened. Seeing that under pretext of freeing them from Spanish tyranny they were being enslaved under Protestantism, they turned from William's party and sought once more their lawful king, in spite of the just complaints they had against his government. This reactionary movement was most marked in the Walloon provinces: Artois, Hainault, and French Flanders in the van; Namur and Luxemburg joining them later. It began as a league among the nobles of these provinces, who styled themselves the Malcontents, and who broke with the States-General to recognize anew the authority of Philip II. It was they who prevented the realization of the great scheme of William of Orange to federate the seventeen provinces in a league of which he was to be the head, and which would ultimately cast off all allegiance to the king. When he saw his great ambition foiled, William contented himself with uniting the northern provinces in the Union of Utrecht (1579), under the name of the United Provinces, and with proclaiming the deposition of Philip II at least within these provinces. To the Malcontents, therefore, is due the credit of saving the royal authority and the Catholic religion in the Belgian provinces.\nThe new regent, Alessandro Farnese, son of the former regent, Margaret of Parma, grasped the situation admirably. He entered into negotiations with the Malcontents, and reconciled them with the king's government by redressing their grievances ; then with their support he set about recovering by force of arms the towns that had fallen into the hands of the Protestants. One after the other they were recaptured, some, like Tournai and Antwerp, only after memorable sieges, till at last Ostend alone of all Belgium remained in Protestant hands. And now the popular regent was preparing for a campaign against the northern provinces, demoralized by the assassination of William of Orange in 1584, when once more Philip II's ill-advised policy ruined everything. Instead of allowing Farnese to continue his military success in the Netherlands, Philip used him as an instrument of wild projects against France and England. At one moment obliged to take part in maritime preparations against England, and at another to cross the frontier in support of the League against Henry IV, Farnese had to leave his task unfinished, and he died in 1592 of a wound received in one of his French expeditions. His death was the greater misfortune for Belgium because Maurice of Nassau, son of William of Orange, and one of the greatest war-captains of the age, was just then coming to the front.\nPhilip finally saw that a new policy must be tried. He bethought him of separating the Catholic Netherlands from Spain, and of giving the sovereignty to his daughter Isabella and her husband the Archduke Albert of Austria; in the event of their being childless the country was to revert to Spain (1598). This was one of the most important events in the history of Belgium, which thus became once more an independent nation, acquired a national dynasty, and might now hope for the return of former prosperity; that this hope was frustrated was the result of events which defeated the plans of statecraft and the wishes of the new sovereigns.\nDuring the short space of their united reign (1598-1621) Albert and Isabella lavished benefits on the country. Ostend was recaptured from Holland after a three-years' siege which claimed the attention of all Europe, and a truce of twelve years (1609-21) made with the United Provinces was employed to the greatest advantage. The damage done by the religious wars was repaired; more than three hundred churches and religious houses were founded or restored; local customs were codified by the Perpetual Edict of 1611, which has been called the most splendid monument of Belgian law; public education was fostered in every way, and the new sovereigns brought about the founding of many colleges by the protection they extended to the religious teaching orders. More over they showed themselves generous patrons of science, literature, and art, and protected the interests of commerce and agriculture. Blameless in their private life and deeply pious, they gave an example of virtue on the throne not always to be found there. Unfortunately they died childless, Albert in 1621, Isabella in 1633, and their death put an end to the reviving prosperity of Belgium. Once more the country was drawn into endless wars by Spain, principally against France, and became the battle-field of numerous international conflicts. It was repeatedly despoiled of some of its provinces by Louis XIV, and cruelly plundered by all armies, friendly and hostile, that marched across its plains. The seventeenth century was the most calamitous of its history. Such then was the condition of Belgium until the peace of Utrecht (1713), which followed by that of Rastatt, put an end to the long and bloody wars of the Spanish Succession which gave Spain to the Bourbons and handed over the Catholic Low Countries to the Hapsburgs of Austria.\nIt would be a mistake to suppose that all these calamities, domestic and foreign, had left Belgium entirely unfruitful from the point of view of civilization, Nothing could be more false; though it is a charge often made even in Belgium by writers whose prejudices would fain discover in Catholicism a retarding force for Belgium's progress. The University of Louvain with its forty-two colleges, where Erasmus, Bellarmine, and Justus Lipsius had taught, had always been the centre of orthodoxy, and did not cease even during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to manifest great activity, chiefly in the domains of theology and law, which were expounded there by a large number of eminent scholars. Side by side with Louvain stood the University of Douai founded in 1562 by Philip II as a breakwater against heresy, and it also sent forth many famous men. Among the new bishops were men whose fame for learning was only equalled by their well-known piety. It is no doubt true that the controversies of the day have left. their mark on the religious life of that period. Thus, Michael Baius, a professor at Louvain, was condemned by Rome for his theories on free will, predestination, and justification, but he retracted in all humility. His teaching came up again in a more pronounced form in a pupil of one of his pupils, Cornlius Jansen, Bishop of Ypres, and it is well known how the \"Augustinus\", a posthumous work of this prelate, which appeared in 1640, gave rise to what is called Jansenism. Another manifestation of the intellectual and scientific activity of Belgium was the beginning of the celebrated collection known as the \"Acta Sanctorum\" by the Belgian Jesuits. H\u00e9ribert Rosweyde drew up the plans for the undertaking and Father Jan van Bolland began to carry them out, leaving the continuation to his successors, the Bolhindists. Amongst these Henschen and Papebroch in the seventeenth century contributed brilliantly to the work which has not yet reached its conclusion.\nIf, apart altogether from the religious aspect, we would complete the picture of Belgium's culture in the seventeenth century, we have but to recall that art reached its apogee in the Flemish School, of which Rubens was the head, and Van Dyck, Teniers, and Jord\u00e6ns the greatest masters after him. It would thus be easy to prove that the Catholic Low Countries, though caught as in a vise between powerful neighbours and ever in the throes of war, did not give way to despair, but in the days of direst calamity drew from their own bosom works of art and beauty which have served to adorn even our present day civilization.\nThe Treaty of Utrecht opened an era of comparative peace and prosperity for the Catholic Netherlands, but did not bring contentment. The Austrian r\u00e9gime under which the country was now to exist was that of an absolute monarchy, which by continued encroachments on the traditional privileges of the people, drove them at length to rebellion. It was not merely its absolutism, it was the anti-religious atmosphere of the Government which really aroused the people. The actuating principle of the Government in its dealings with the Catholic Church was that the civil power was supreme and could make rules for the Church, even in purely religions matters. This policy, which is known as Josephinism, from Joseph II, its most thoroughgoing exponent, had prevailed at the Austrian Court from the beginning. It found a theorist of great authority in the famous canonist Van Espen (1646-1728), a professor at the University of Louvain, who justified beforehand all attacks on the liberty of the Church. The opposition between the tendencies of the Government, which threatened alike the national liberties and the rights of the Church, and the aspirations of the Belgian people, devoted alike to religion and liberty, gave rise during the Austrian occupation of the country to endless misunderstandings and unrest. The situation was not, however, uniformly the same. It varied under different reigns, each of which had its own peculiar characteristics.\nUnder the reign of Charles VI (1713-1740) Belgium quickly learned that she had gained nothing by the changing of her rulers. One of the clauses of the Peace of Utrecht obliged Austria to sign a treaty with the United Provinces, called the Treaty de la Barriere (the Frontier Treaty) entitling the United Provinces to garrison a number of Belgian towns on the French frontier as a protection against attacks from that quarter. This was a humiliation for the Belgians, and it was aggravated by the fact that these garrison troops, who were all Protestants and enjoyed the free exercise of their religion, had many religious quarrels with the Catholic people. Moreover, the United Provinces, controlling the estuary of the Scheldt, had closed the sea against the port of Antwerp since 1585; so that this port which had at one time been the foremost commercial city of the north was now depleted of its trade. This was a fresh injustice to the Catholic Low Countries. To all this must be added the oppressive and ill-advised policy of the Marquess de Pri\u00e9, deputy for the absent governor-general, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Pri\u00e9, like another Alva, treated the country with the utmost severity. When the labour guilds of Brussels protested vigorously against the government taxes and tried to assert their ancient privileges, Pri\u00e9 caused the aged Franois Anneessens, syndic or chairman of one of these guilds, to be arrested and put to death (1719). The citizens of Brussels have never forgotten to venerate the memory of their fellow-townsman as a martyr for public liberty. The Government compensated the nation by founding the East and West Indian Trading Company of Ostend in 1722. This company, which was enthusiastically hailed by the public, was of immense benefit in the beginning, and promised an era of commercial prosperity. Unfortunately the jealousy of England and of the United Provinces sealed its fate. To win the consent of these two powers to his Pragmatic Sanction, by which he hoped to secure the undisputed succession of his daughter Maria Theresa, the emperor agreed to suppress the Ostend company and once more to close the sea against Belgian trade. His cowardly concessions were of no avail, and at his death in 1740 his daughter was obliged to undertake a long and costly war to maintain her inheritance and Belgium, invaded and conquered by France in 1745, was not restored to the empress till the Peace of Aachen in 1748.\nUnder the reign of Maria Theresa (1740-80) the Government was in a position to occupy itself peacefully with the organization of the Belgian provinces. On the whole it fostered the material interests of the country, but the principles underlying its religious policy revealed themselves in measures more and more hostile to the Church. The empress herself was of the opinion that the Church ought to be subject to the State even in religious matters. \"The authority of the priesthood\", she wrote, \"is by no means arbitrary and independent in matters of dogma, worship, and ecclesiastical discipline\". The statesmen in her service, imbued as they were with the Voltairean spirit, were zealous in applying those principles. The more famous among them were the Prince of Kaunitz, the Count of Cobenzl, and Mac Neny. On the slightest pretext they constantly stirred up petty and at times ridiculous conflicts with the ecclesiastical authorities, such as forbidding assemblies of the bishops; trying to insist on the relaxing of the Lenten Fast; claiming censorship over breviaries and missals, and going so far as to mutilate copies of them containing the Office of St. Gregory VII; calling in question the jurisdiction of the Church in matrimonial affairs; hindering and interfering in every conceivable way with the work of the religious orders, even busying themselves with the dress worn by the clerics; in a word pursuing a most irritating and malicious policy wherever the Church was concerned. If in spite of all this the name of Maria Theresa is of kindly memory in Belgium, it is because her subjects knew the sincerity of her piety, and her undoubted good-will. They were grateful for this, and believing that for the most part she was unaware of most of the actions of her representatives, they did not place the blame at her door. Moreover the Governor-General of the Austrian Low Countries, Prince Charles of Lorraine, brother-in-law of the empress, was a man of infinite tact, who knew how to moderate what was unpopular in the action of the Government, and even cause it to be forgotten. It was personal esteem for these two royal personages which caused the policy of the Government to be tolerated as long as they lived.\nBut there came a great change as soon as Joseph II mounted the throne (1780). He was the son of Maria Theresa, a pupil of the philosophers, and, inspired by their teachings, was ever ready to defy and disregard the Church. As was not unusual in his day he held the opinion that the State was the source of all authority, and the source of all civilizing progress. He set himself without delay to apply his policy of \"enlightened despotism\". Forgetful of his coronation oath to observe the constitutions of the several Belgian provinces he began a career of reform which ended by overturning the existing state of affairs. His first act was to publish in 1781 an edict of toleration, by which Protestants were freed from all civil disabilities, a just measure in itself, and one that might well be praiseworthy, if it were not that, in the light of his subsequent actions it betrayed the dominant idea of his whole reign, namely, hostility to the Catholic Church. The Church, he thought, ought to be a creature of the State, subject to the control and supervision of the civil power. He undertook to realize this ideal by substituting for the Catholic Church governed by the pope a national Church subject to the State, along the lines laid down by Febronius, who had met with many supporters even within the ranks of the clergy. The measures he adopted to enslave the Church were endless. He forbade religious orders to correspond with superiors outside the country; he forbade the bishops to ask Rome for dispensations in matrimonial cases. He tried to gain control of the education of the clergy by erecting a central seminary to which he endeavoured to force the bishops to send their future priests. He interfered with the professors and the teaching of the University of Louvain because he considered them too orthodox. He suppressed as useless all convents of contemplative orders and all pious confraternities, and replaced them by one of his own invention which he grandiloquently called \"The Confraternity of the Active Love of our Nieghbour\". He prohibited all pilgrimages and the exposition of relics. He limited the number of processions and ordered that all parish festivals (kermesses) be kept on the same day. He interfered with the garb of religious and in liturgical questions, and even went so far as to forbid the making of coffins, so as to economize the wood supply. The dead, he thought, ought to be buried in sackcloth. At last his interference in and wanton meddling with ecclesiastical matters won for him the well-deserved sneer of Frederick II, King of Prussia, who called him \"My brother, the sacristan\".\nAll these measures had been carried into effect without meeting other opposition than the calm respectful protest of the clergy. But it was quite otherwise when Joseph II was so imprudent as to interfere with civil institutions and, in violation of the most solemn oaths, to lay hands on the liberties of the people. Then the country was thoroughly aroused, there were demonstrations in the public streets, and protests reached the Government from all parts (1787); but Joseph II was stiff-necked, and would not listen to reason. Convinced that force would overcome all opposition, he hurried Count d'Alton with an army into the Low Countries, with orders to restore authority by bloodshed if necessary. Then as a protest against the violence of d'Alton, the provincial states, availing themselves of the rights granted them by the Constitution, refused to vote subsidies for the expenses of the Government, and d'Alton was so ill-advised as to declare the proceedings null and the Constitution abolished. This was a signal for revolution, the only resource left to Belgian liberty. Two committees directed the movement along widely differing lines. The one, under the leadership of a lawyer named Van der Noot, had its headquarters at Breda in the United Provinces, the other under another lawyer, Vonck, at Hasselt in the neighbourhood of Liege. That under Van der Noot, a man of great popularity, looked to the foreign powers for help; the other relied on the Belgians to help themselves, and began recruiting a volunteer army. The one was conservative, almost reactionary, and aimed merely at restoring the status quo; the other was eager for reforms such as France was asking, but was faithful to the religion of its fathers and took as its motto Pro aris et focis. In their union lay their strength. The volunteer army defeated the Austrians at Turnhout (1789) and forced them step by step to evacuate the country. The bitterness of this defeat killed Joseph II.\nThe States-General of the country were convened at Brussels and voted that Belgium should be an independent federated republic under the name of the United States of Belgium. Unfortunately the heads of the new Government were novices in statecraft, and differences arose between the Van der Noot party and the followers of Vonck. So that in the following year Leopold II, who had succeeded his father, Joseph II, had the country once more under his authority. He was, however, wise enough to restore it all the privileges it enjoyed prior to the senseless reforms of Joseph II. The Belgians were therefore to all intents once more a free people, and they rejoiced in their freedom until the day when the French invaded their country under the pretext of emancipating them.\nFor the later history of this territory see BELGIUM\nThe Spanish Netherlands.-Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic (3 vols., New York, 1856); Juste, Histoire de la r\u00e9volution des Pays Bas sous Philippe II (2 vols., Brussels, 1863-67); Nuyens, Geschiedenis des nederlandsche beroerten in de XVI\u00b0 leeuw. (6 vols., Amsterdam, 1865-68); de Lettenhove, Les Huguenots et les Gueux (6 vols., Brussels, 1882-85); Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, III (2nd ed., Brussels, 1907); Blok, Geschiedenis van het nederlandsche volk, III, IV, V (Groningen, 1896-1902); Gossart, L'\u00e9tablissement du r\u00e9gime espanno dans les Pays Bas et l'insurrection (Brussels, 1905) ; Idem, La domination espagnole dans les Pays Bas \u00e2 la fin du regne de Philippe II (Brussels, 1906). The Austrian Netherlands-Gachard, Histoire de la Belgique au commencement du XVIIe siecle. (Brussels, 1880); Van Ruckelingen (L. Mathot), Geschiedenis der oostenrijksche Nederlanden (5 vols., Antwerp, 1876-80); Piot, Le regne de Marie-Th\u00e9rse dans les Pays Bas autrichiens (Louvain, 1874); Discailles, Les Pays Bas sous le regne de Marie-Th\u00e9rese (Brussels, 1872); Delplace, Joseph II et la r\u00e9volution brabanconne (Bruges, 1891); Hubert, Les garnisons de la Baviere dans les Pays Bas autrichiens (Brussels, 1902): Idem, Le voyage de Joseph II au Pays Bas (1781) (Brussels, 1800).\nAPA citation. Kurth, G. (1911). The Netherlands. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10759a.htm\nMLA citation. Kurth, Godefroid. \"The Netherlands.\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. .\nTranscription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph McIntyre.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 38330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 220.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newiprogressive.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8118:roys-backs-midwest-paper-groups-investment-in-the-fox-valley&catid=41:the-opinion&Itemid=58", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:S4RSFKWGBCWDZ6BIMNEUKFRQZBZ6SBHR", "length": 2050, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.newiprogressive.com", "title": "Roys Backs Midwest Paper Group\u2019s Investment in the Fox Valley", "raw_content": "Roys Backs Midwest Paper Group\u2019s Investment in the Fox Valley\nWritten by Kelda for Governor, Brian Evans\nDemocratic candidate for Governor thanks the United Steelworkers who led the fight to keep the mill open.\nMADISON, WI - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys released the following statement on the Midwest Paper Group\u2019s investment in the Fox Valley and creation of over 300 jobs at the former Appleton Coated facility in Combined Locks:\n\u201cI thank the Midwest Paper Group - I'm thrilled to see them double-down on their investment in the Fox Valley. I would also like to commend the workers and a community that fought back against difficult odds and saved this 129-year-old mill.\n\u201cIt's important to recognize that Governor Walker and his administration did almost nothing to help and were nowhere to be found when the chips were down and Appleton Coated was fighting to stay alive. It took an election year and bad poll numbers for the governor to suddenly take interest in Appleton Coated, Kimberly Clark, and the paper industry. That's not leadership.\n\"I want to thank - from the bottom of my heart - the United Steelworkers (USW) who led the fight to keep the mill open. Without their leadership, perseverance and commitment to community, Governor Walker and a room full of politicians up for re-election would not be able to bask in unearned limelight and take undeserved credit.\"\nKelda Roys, 39, is a small business owner, attorney, former state representative, and past head of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin who has been standing up for women and families throughout her career. In the Assembly, she stood out as an influential and effective lawmaker, delivering results for working families and helping lead the opposition to Governor Scott Walker\u2019s divisive agenda. As a parent and step-parent of four girls, Roys will fight for paid family leave, affordable childcare, great schools, and quality healthcare for all. In a year in which Wisconsin voters are ready for change, Kelda Roys provides the clearest contrast to Scott Walker.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.news24lk.com/parkland-shooters-rifle-magazines-were-etched-with-swastikas-reports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IIBQBH5WCOPC3TNJEMDIBW5UU7ELIAEC", "length": 1929, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.news24lk.com", "title": "Parkland Shooter\u2019s Rifle Magazines Were Etched With Swastikas: Reports \u2013 News Blog", "raw_content": "Officials say they found swastikas etched into the Florida high school shooter\u2019s rifle magazines, CNN and CBS News reported.\nIt\u2019s unclear whether Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who police say confessed to opening fire Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has any connections to white supremacist groups.\nFlorida\u2019s Department of Children and Family Services investigated Cruz in 2016 after video on Snapchat showed the teen cutting his arms. During the investigation, Cruz\u2019s mother told officials her son had drawn \u201chate signs,\u201d including a Nazi symbol and the words \u201cI hate N*****s,\u201d on his backpack at some point, reported the Sun-Sentinel.\nInitial media reports of the massacre connected Cruz to the Florida-based white supremacist group Republic of Florida. But there later proved little evidence of such a link.\nSources tell CBS News the accused gunman left 180 rounds of ammunition inside the school. Officials also say they found swastikas on the magazines for his bullets. @BojorquezCBS is hearing from one of the last people to see the suspect before the massacre https://t.co/ypTVtrXUeA pic.twitter.com/w4qgxoKbKl\nThe accused gunman fired 150 rounds in roughly seven minutes, killing 17 people, before trying to escape by dropping his rifle and his backpack in an attempt to blend in with other students, investigators have said.\nCruz left behind 180 rounds of ammunition, which suggests the death toll could have been higher if the gunman continued shooting instead of attempting to flee, according to CNN and CBS News.\nA Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson told HuffPost the investigation was \u201cactive and ongoing,\u201d and would not confirm reports regarding swastikas and ammunition found in the school. A representative for the Coral Springs Police Department directed questions to the sheriff\u2019s office.\nThis article has been updated to include comment from the sheriff\u2019s office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 6467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newyork-visit.com/summer-restaurant-week-new-york-city/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EFKUHQQ6ED6VTP675ZQ7CGTI7QQPIOXS", "length": 1351, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.newyork-visit.com", "title": "Summer Restaurant Week in New York City \u2013 New York Visit", "raw_content": "Summer Restaurant Week in New York City\nHome \u00bb Events calendar \u00bb Summer Restaurant Week in New York City \u00bb info\nSummer Restaurant Week in New York City 2013\nNew York City is blessed with thousands of fantastic restaurants. French, Italian, Japanese, Indian, Chinese and American, it\u2019s all here and during Summer Restaurant Week (which actually stretches over two weeks) some of the very best offer three-course prix-fixe lunches and dinners at a fraction of the normal cost.\nThe prices are US$25 for a three-course lunch and US$38 for dinner.\nAnd when we say top restaurants, we really mean it. Notable participating restaurants include Nobu, Blue Water Grill, Robert De Niro\u2019s Tribeca Grill, Megu and Spice Market to mention just a few.\nThe only thing we can say is, don\u2019t wait until the last minute. Both locals and visitors clamour to get a table at some of the city\u2019s best dining rooms, which normally charge at least quadruple the price. The full list of restaurants can be accessed at the New York Tourist Office website and tables can be booked one month in advance.\nThree-course Lunch $25\nThree-course Dinner $38\nDo keep in mind that the discounts are not good on Saturdays and are optional on Sundays.\nWebsite : http://www.restaurantweek.com\nTags: ActivitiesEvents\nSkating Club of New York Showcase Competition 2008\nGen Art Film Festival 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 9443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nigerianeye.com/2018/10/new-minimum-wage-nlc-reveals-what.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7IHWDEZR5KAPTHM6MS4NYGHACEVTF45P", "length": 4402, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.nigerianeye.com", "title": "New minimum wage: NLC reveals what increment of workers salary will do to economy | Nigerian News. Latest Nigeria News. Your online Nigerian Newspaper. f ';-1!=b.indexOf(\"img.youtube.com\")&&(a=' ');d=a+''+p+''+titlex+\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Latest News in Nigeria \u00bb New minimum wage: NLC reveals what increment of workers salary will do to economy\nNew minimum wage: NLC reveals what increment of workers salary will do to economy\nThe President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, has said that the proposed upward review of workers\u2019 minimum wage will boost the country\u2019s economy rather than trigger inflation.\nHe stated this in Delta State while addressing newsmen on Thursday.\nHe was in the state as a Special Guest at the 6th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the National Union of Hotels and Personal Services Workers.\nHe said that the assertion that an increase in workers\u2019 salary would lead to inflation was not true.\n\u201cIt is not true and has no empirical bases that an upward review of minimum wage would trigger inflation in the country.\n\u201cThis is because when the minimum wage was increased in 2011, in fact, the inflation rates went down.\n\u201cGo and look at the records and the data, it would rather boost the economy because it would increase the people\u2019s disposable income.\n\u201cYou remember that in the midst of recession in the U.S., one of the strategies President Barrack Obama used to boost the economy of the country was to increase the minimum wage.\n\u201cThis, because as at that time, production was going on; people didn\u2019t have money to purchase and what he (Obama) did was to increase the minimum wage and there was money; General Motors started to produce and people were able to buy.\n\u201cIn the World Bank report of recent, it has been proven that when there are money in the hands of many it is a means to addressing poverty.\n\u201cTherefore, in the context of Nigeria, it is very clear and proven that once you are able to remove many of our people out of poverty, their will be a boost in our economy.\n\u201cThis is because those at the lower echelon that are receiving N18,000 cannot afford good meals, that is the reality and truth.\n\u201cOn cost of governance, if you remember, the first engagement NLC had in 2016 was a national rally for good governance and the fight against corruption.\n\u201cMinimum wage has international dimension, and that is why it is a convention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).\n\u201cThe ILO convention 131 is the law about minimum wage and that is why even in the most capitalist economy, you have the minimum wage law.\n\u201cMinimum wage is to protect the vulnerable group from exploitation, because if you have the minimum wage, you can pay higher but you are not allowed to pay below.\n\u201cThere are lots of evidence-based approach to look at the positive side of the minimum wage increase in Nigeria.\n\u201cWhy many states, including the Federal Government, are complaining on the issues of ability to pay is due to high cost of governance.\n\u201cIn a particular state recently when we were arguing on the ability to pay the minimum wage, N10 billion was used to charter flight in that particular state, so we must look at it from diverse ways the challenges we are having,\u201d he said.\nHe said that if it was true that Nigeria belonged to the third world country and as such, its people would continue to be impoverished, \u201chow come that members of the National Assembly receive the best salaries in the world ?\n\u201cIf the minimum wage of a local government councillor is N200,000, we must be on the same page and we must argue on the bases that all of us are Nigerians and we go to the same market.\n\u201cThese are the realities, nobody says that there is no challenge but we need to put the challenge on the table side by side.\n\u201cWhen the earnings of political elites were reviewed in 2008, it was reviewed by 900 per cent but what was the minimum wage in 2010, put it side by side and then you will have answers for what will justify what the minimum wage stands for,\u201d he said.\nOn the ongoing wage negotiation, Wabba called on government and employers of labour to respect the will of the workers. He said that Organised Labour had initially proposed N65,000 based on reality and empirical data but that at the negotiating table, the parties presented their arguments and had arrived at a minimum wage of N30,000.\n\u201cIn fact the employers proposed the N30,000 as minimum wage on Oct. 5, that is the truth and truth exalts the nation.\n\u201cWe have put the government on notice that come Oct. 30, we shall sensitise the people and if nothing happens on Nov. 6, we shall declare a nationwide strike,\u201d Wabba said", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 28274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?pageid=590", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6KHU47EHENPTPM357NSOOWE6ZIULAI6W", "length": 5767, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.nonnativespecies.org", "title": "Marine Pathways Project (2012 - 2015) - GB non-native species secretariat", "raw_content": "The marine pathways project wasundertaken by organisations within the UK and Ireland and contributing to the delivery of the Non-Indigenous species descriptor of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The overall aim of the project was to protect marine biodiversity in the UK and Ireland by managing key pathways by which marine invasive non native species (NNS) are introduced and spread. The project ended in April 2015.\nCommercial shipping, recreational boating, aquaculture and natural dispersal have been highlighted as potential pathways by which invasive NNS may be introduced. The project therefore aimed to understand the risk associated with each of these pathways. In addition, the project investigated biosecurity measures which may be implemented to reduce the risk of introduction and spread of NNS, as well as conducting research into eradication, control and management strategies which will play a role in elimination or reducing spread of NNS in the event of an introduction.\nProject reports and other documents produced by the Marine Pathways Project are available here: Reports, documents and links\nMarine NNS are an increasing problem and can have huge environmental, economic and social impacts. Environmental impacts include loss of biodiversity through displacement of native species, loss of genetic diversity and introduction of pathogens into native populations. Social impacts are the consequence of disruption to industries such as recreational boating, commercial shipping and aquaculture. It is thought that the cost of marine NNS to marine industries in Great Britain alone is in the region of \u00a340 million per year.\nThe Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is an EU directive, formally adopted in July 2008, which aims to manage and protect the marine environment across Europe. The central goal of the directive is to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) in marine waters of EU Member States by 2020. The framework promotes an ecosystem based approach to manage the sustainable use of marine waters for both economic and social benefit. The MSFD is compiled of a list of descriptors on which GES will be assessed. In accordance with the understanding that NNS may have negative impacts on the marine environment and the need for their management and control, one of the eleven MSFD descriptors refers to NNS, stating:\n\u201cNon- indigenous species introduced by human activities are at levels that do not adversely alter the ecosystems\u201d.\nFor more information on specific NNS, their identification, impact and distribution please see the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat species information pages.\nThe aim of the marine pathways project was to:\n\u2018protect marine biodiversity in the UK and Ireland by managing key pathways by which marine invasive non-native species are introduced and spread.\u2019\nThe key pathways include commercial shipping, recreational boating, aquaculture and natural dispersal. For example, marine NNS can be introduced and spread via ships ballast water, hull fouling and aquaculture stock imports and movements.\nThe main objectives of the marine pathways project were:\nDevelopment of protocols and methodology for the detection of NNS both inshore and offshore\nIdentification of locations at high risk of the introduction of NNS to facilitate risk based monitoring and management\nRaising awareness of marine NNS with stakeholders\nWork with stakeholders developing codes of practice to reduce the risk of introduction and spread\nResearch strategies for the control and eradication of marine NNS\nThe project supported the implementation of International and European policy drivers including:\nMarine Strategy Framework Directive descriptor 2 (Non Indigenous Species)\nWater Framework Directive Good Ecological Status\nBiodiversity 2020 Target 5 Invasive Alien Species\nKey organisations involved in the management and implementation of the project included: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Irish Sea Fisheries Board, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Government, Welsh Government.\nWork was also carried out by leading universities and research centres including the Marine Biological Association, The University of Bangor, Firth of Clyde Forum, The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Wales Wildlife Trust and Cornwall Wildlife Trust.\nMonitoring for NNS\nNNS introduction pathway assessment\nBiosecurity guidelines and awareness raising\nControl and eradication of NNS\nIf you have any questions about the project please contact\nThe Marine Pathways Project Conference was held on 25th February at the Mercure House Hotel in Cardiff. The aim of the conference was to bring together those involved in the delivery and organisation of the project and stakeholders and industry representatives for which marine non-native species are of importance. The day focused on three key areas: biosecurity, monitoring and management and involved both presentations and group discussions. The day was a huge success and the project team would like to thank everyone for attending and sharing their expertise and experience.\nPlease find links below to conference presentations and discussion session outputs. If you would like any more information please contact Maggie Hatton-Ellis at NRW (\nPolicy landscape for NNS in the UK\nMarine NNS risk reduction guidance\nPredicting and monitoring introduction of NNS\nIn-shore and off-shore UK monitoring trials\nControl and management of marine INNS \"Dee Chinese mitten crab project\" and \"Control and management of Didemnum vexillum in Ireland\"\nGaps and next steps\nConference discussion session questions\nConference discussion session notes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.northernstars.ca/zegers_kevin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:06Z", "digest": "sha1:CF34TO75U22AEPCQH6M3WPBPXC7IRZ3B", "length": 1130, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.northernstars.ca", "title": "Kevin Zegers - Northernstars.ca", "raw_content": "Home Actors Kevin Zegers\nB: September 19, 1984 in St.Mary's, Ontario.\nKevin Zegers has been acting professionally since the age of six or seven when he was cast in a number of television commercials. His first film role came when he landed the part of a younger version of Michael J. Fox\u2018s character in Life With Mikey. A lifelong athlete, he played on his school\u2019s football and basketball teams.\nThicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (TV-1994)\nThe Silence of Adultery (TV-1995)\nMurder on the Iditarod Trail (TV-1995)\nRose Hill (TV-1996)\nA Call to Remember (TV-1997)\nIt Came From The Sky (TV-1999)\nTreasure Island (VR-1999)\nTimeshare (2000)\nAir Bud 3: World Pup (VR-2000)\nSex Lies & Obsession (TV-2001)\nVirginia\u2019s Run (2002)\nAir Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (VR-2002)\nThe Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2002)\nFelicity: An American Girl Adventure (TV-2005)\nWalk Two Moons (2007)\nThe Perfect Age of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll (2009)\nSomeone Else\u2019s Wedding (2017)\nTraders (1996-1997)\nGracepoint (2014, mini-series)\nThe Magic School Bus (1994-1996)\nGossip Girl (2009, 2010)\nPrevious articleKarelle Tremblay\nNext articleimagineNATIVE Announces Lineup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 390, "original_length": 7530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nslifestyles.com/2015/11/book-club-monday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KN2KUDN7Y3QWZZ7YNZV4Z6H6377GIIK6", "length": 436, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nslifestyles.com", "title": "NS Lifestyles: Book Club Monday", "raw_content": "Even though I love the great American novel but I cannot resist anything to do with Pop Culture. That is why I am dying to read Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. Leah Remini is supposed to dish on her 30 plus years in the Church of Scientology. All the stories are in there Tom, Nicole, Katie, Suri and so many more. The book is released tomorrow and I cannot wait to get my hands on it!! To order the book, click HERE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 3594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nwavic.com/2012/04/blessed-good-friday-lesson-in-sacrifice.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BAWVVGTW5CGV2WT5AB43YIOM6UTL76XM", "length": 2396, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.nwavic.com", "title": "NwaVic: Blessed Good Friday~ A Lesson in Sacrifice & Salvation", "raw_content": "Blessed Good Friday~ A Lesson in Sacrifice & Salvation\nIf you're a Christian, you know what today is....Good Friday. More so, you'd know its an incredibly important day for the Christian faith. It marks the start of what will become the lynchpin foundation upon which our faith is built.\nToday is the anniversary of Christ's death. Its a sad day but it prepared us for the celebration we'd witness on Easter because without it, God's display of His immense power won't have happened. It also marks the end of the Lenten season.\nThere are a two lessons we can take from today.\nFirst, it signifies the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus made on our behalf. It reminds us that Christian life is not only about what God has done in our lives. It is also about what we can do for Him in return, even when its not convenient for us. It was not convenient for Christ to die for us. Heck, its not convenient for any one to die, at all. In fact, it would have been more convenient for God to say the word and Jesus would have dropped dead while He was preaching. Rather, He made it so that He was captured, falsely testified against, persecuted, crucified, and made to die amongst thieves. That I can be sure was not convenient for God or for Jesus. Its a wake-up call to not only seek to receive favors and blessings from Him but to give...our time, our dedication and our praise.\nSecond, its a life lesson to all that before the celebration, always comes the darkness. At various times in our lives, we feel like our darkness will never go away. Like whatever it is we are going through will kill us...like there's no way we could dig ourselves out of the hole. Hard times fall upon everyone at some point...and some of us, at many times in our lives.\nIf you look closely at the pattern...{Good Friday=Darkness/Suffering/Death.....then Easter=Salvation/Joy/Life....}, God made clear centuries ago what He intended the lives of His followers to be....That darkness has to come before life....that suffering has to come before joy.....Most importantly, that no matter what we are going through, He will bring us out of it...just like He did His son. After all, its only through adversity that prosperity is born. Hang in there, He'll resurrect you too.\nAlso, say a special prayer today...Its a special day for answered prayers ;-)\n...Have a blessed Good Friday!\nLabels: Easter, Good Friday, religion, Religious", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 7877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nwavic.com/2017/09/red-carpet-fashion-complete-list-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:VFV7UEWOXUUHCCJ6EZBOQ3XIOHEY3TZI", "length": 7912, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.nwavic.com", "title": "NwaVic: Red Carpet Fashion + Complete List of Winners: The 69th PrimeTime Emmy Awards", "raw_content": "Red Carpet Fashion + Complete List of Winners: The 69th PrimeTime Emmy Awards\nIt's that time of the year again. The Emmy Awards! aka the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards. This is my favorite award show because I love TV shows. Every year, I sit at the edge of my seat to see which of my beloved TV shows gets recognized. But as you know, there are the award winners, AND then, there are the red carpet winners! I bring you both. Enjoy!\nSupporting Actor in a Drama Series Winner: John Lithgow (The Crown)\nNominees: Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul), Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), Michael Kelly (House of Cards), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld)\nSupporting Actress in a Comedy Series/ Winner: Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live)\nNominees: Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live), Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live), Anna Chlumsky (Veep), Judith Light (Transparent), Kathryn Hahn (Transparent)\nSupporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie/ Winner: Laura Dern (Big Little Lies)\nNominees: Jackie Hoffman (Feud: Bette and Joan), Regina King (American Crime), Michelle Pfeiffer (The Wizard of Lies), Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Judy Davis (Feud: Bette and Joan)\nDirecting for a Comedy Series Winner: Donald Glover (Atlanta)\nNominees: Jamie Babbit (Silicon Valley), Mike Judge (Silicon Valley), Morgan Sackett (Veep), David Mandel (Veep), Dale Stern (Veep)\nVariety Sketch Series Winner: Saturday Night Live\nNominees: Billy On The Street, Documentary Now!, Drunk History, Portlandia, Tracey Ullman\u2019s Show\nWriting for a Drama Series Winner: Bruce Miller (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale)\nNominees: Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans), Gordon Smith (Better Call Saul), Peter Morgan (The Crown), The Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (Westworld)\nSupporting Actor in a Comedy Series Winner: Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live)\nNominees: Louie Anderson (Baskets), Ty Burrell (Modern Family), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Tony Hale (Veep), Matt Walsh (Veep)\nDirecting for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special Winner: Jean-Marc Vallee (Big Little Lies)\nNominees: Noah Hawley (Fargo), Ryan Murphy (Feud: Bette & Joan), Ron Howard (Genius), James Marsh (The Night Of), Steve Zaillian (The Night Of)\nSupporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Winner: Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd (Big Little Lies)\nNominees: Bill Camp (The Night Of), Alfred Molina (Feud: Bette and Joan), David Thewlis (Fargo), Stanley Tucci (Feud: Bette and Joan), Michael K. Williams (The Night Of)\nWriting for a Variety Series Winner: Kevin Avery, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss & Juli Weiner (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)\n- Jo Miller, Samantha Bee, Ashley Nicole Black, Pat Cassels, Eric Drysdae, Mathan Erhardt, Travon Free, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn, Melinda Taub & Jason Reich (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee)\n- Jermaine Affonso, Alex Baze, Bryan Donaldson, Sal Gentile, Matt Goldich, Dina Gusovky, Jenny Hagel, Allison Hord, Mike Karnell, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Ian Morgan, Seth Reiss, Amber Ruffin, Mike Scollins, Mike Shoemaker & Ben Warheit (Late Night with Seth Meyers)\n- Barry Julien, Jay Katsir, Opus Moreschi, Stephen Colbert, Tom Purcell, Matt Lappin, Michael Brumm, Nate Charny, Aaron Cohen, Cullen Crawford, Paul Dinello, Ariel Dumas, Glenn Eichler, Django Gold, Gabe Gronli, Daniel Kibblesmith, Michael Pielocik, Kate Sidley, Jen Spyra, Brian Stack & John Thibodeaux (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)\n- Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Kent Sublette, Bryan Tucker, Pete Schultz, James Anderson, Kristen Bartlett, Jeremy Beiler, Zach Bornstein, Joanna Bradley, Megan Callahan, Michael Che, Anna Drezen, Fran Gillespie, Sudi Green, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, Nick Kocher, Dave McCary, Brian McElhaney, Dennis McNicholas, Drew Michael, Lorne Michaels, Josh Patten, Katie Rich, Streeter Seidell, Will Stephen & Julio Torres (Saturday Night Live)\nSupporting Actress in a Drama Series Winner: Ann Dowd (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale)\nNominees: Samira Wiley (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Chrissy Metz (This Is Us), Thandie Newton (Westworld)\nWriting for a Comedy Series Winner: Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe (Master of None)\nNominee: Donald Glover (Atlanta), Stephen Glover (Atlanta), Alec Berg (Silicon Valley), Billy Kimball (Veep), David Mandel (Veep)\nReality Competition Winner: The Voice (NBC)\nNominees: The Amazing Race (CBS), American Ninja Warrior (NBC), Project Runway (Lifetime), RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race (vh1), Top Chef (Bravo)\nDirecting for a Drama Series Winner: Reed Morano (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale)\nNominees: Vince Gilligan (Better Call Saul), Stephen Daldry (The Crown), Kate Dennis (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale), Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland), The Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), Jonathan Nolan (Westworld)\nWriting for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama Winner: Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror: San Junipero)\nNominees: David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), Noah Hawley (Fargo), Ryan Murphy (Feud: Bette and Joan), Jaffe Cohen, Michael Zam and Ryan Murphy (Feud: Bette and Joan), Richard Price and Steven Zaillian (The Night Of)\nDirecting for a Variety Series Winner: Don Roy King (Saturday Night Live)\nNominees: Derek Waters & Jeremy Konner (Drunk History), Andy Fisher (Jimmy Kimmel Live), Paul Pennolino (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), Jim Hoskinson (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)\nVariety Talk Series Winner: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)\nNominees: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC), The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS), Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)\nComedy Actor Winner: Donald Glover (Atlanta)\nNominees: Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Aziz Ansari (Master of None), Zach Galifianakis (Baskets), William H. Macy (Shameless), Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)\nComedy Actress Winner: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)\nNominees: Pamela Adlon (Better Things), Tracee Ellis-Ross (black-ish), Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie), Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie), Allison Janney (Mom), Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)\nComedy Series Winner: Veep (HBO)\nNominees: Atlanta (FX), Black-ish (ABC), Master of None (Netflix), Modern Family (ABC), Silicon Valley (HBO), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)\nLimited Series Actor Winner: Riz Ahmed (The Night Of)\nNominees: Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock: The Lying Detectivek), Robert De Niro (The Wizard of Lies), Ewan McGregor (Fargo), Geoffrey Rush (Genius), John Turturro (The Night Of)\nLimited Series Actress Winner: Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies)\nNominees: Carrie Coon (Fargo), Felicity Huffman (American Crime), Jessica Lange (Feud), Susan Sarandon (Feud), Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies)\nTV Movie Winner: Black Mirror (Netflix)\nNominees: Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (NBC), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO), Sherlock: The Lying Detective (PBS), Wizard of Lies (HBO)\nLimited Series Winner: Big Little Lies (HBO)\nNominees: Fargo (FX), Feud: Bette and Joan (FX), The Night Of (HBO), Genius (National Geographic)\nDrama Actor Winner: Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us)\nNominees: Anthony Hopkins (Westworld), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us)\nDrama Actress Winner: Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale)\nNominees: Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Claire Foy (The Crown), Keri Russell (The Americans), Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld), Robin Wright (House of Cards)\nDrama Series Winner: The Handmaid\u2019s Tale (Hulu)\nNominees: Better Call Saul (AMC), The Crown (Netflix), House of Cards (Netflix), Stranger Things (Netflix), This Is Us (NBC), Westworld (HBO)\nSources: Vanity Fair and Forbes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 13649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oasis-mag.com/bursting-at-the-seams-with-originality/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6V5XWC4MXOLPYBLA4BKNJVW3R75SBSU3", "length": 1659, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.oasis-mag.com", "title": "Oasis \u00bb Bursting at the Seams with Originality", "raw_content": "The influx of fashion designers to the regional market continues to reach dramatic new heights. While a lot manage to make the cut, another lot do not \u2013 not due to lack of talent but oftentimes because they fail to present any competitive edge over their peers. Few designers have mastered the art of competitive edge \u2013 and cutting edge \u2013 like Milia Maroun has, boldly going against the grain at a time when the haute couture mania was sweeping across the Middle East.\nThe Paris schooled, Beirut born Maroun led the charge in ready-to-wear clothing, launching her eponymous label Milia M in 2000.\nFree spirited, intelligent and understated, the brand flaunted accessibility, comfort and feminine confidence over the prevalent \u201cfashion is pain\u201d attitude, ushering a new wave of female empowerment to the individual, sophisticated and contemporary woman. With her signature androgynous cuts, fluid silhouettes and smart details, Maroun has altered outlooks on both women\u2019s wear and the female body in the region.\nThirteen plus years after hitting the fashion scene, much has changed and much has remained the same at Milia M. The brand has amassed a global client base, has participated in international fashion weeks and has garnered massive media attention. Yet avant-garde elegance and edgy functionality remain unwavering qualities in every collection Maroun comes out with.\nMaroun today embarks on a new chapter in her career and her life, setting out to establish her London studio just as she experiences the joys of motherhood for the first time. The designer takes a moment out of her especially busy schedule to answer our who, what, where, why, when\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oliverheld.net/project-gone-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QNQUICONYLXPI5JXDJ2TXU3VKIGXQBNH", "length": 732, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oliverheld.net", "title": "Oliver Held \u2014 gone-1", "raw_content": "Title: gone-1\nWith \u201cGone\u201d I re-enact a scene of Antonioni\u00b4s movie \u201cBlow up\u201d (with Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings) in which the photographer unsuccessfully searches for the dead body. We took the same camera angles, the same shots and tried to create the same expression like in Antonioni`s movie. But we didn\u2019t shoot the scene just once or so often until we had the perfect takes. We shoot it chronological - again and again - the whole day. This way we got 13 complete scenes in which the sun rises and sets again. The actor has been made up only once before the shooting. In the course of the day his outer appearance transformed back into his own ego while his behaviour changed more and more into the one of David Hemmings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onchanting.com/2006/02/282-very-very-short-break.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PTQVQECROTOBOLU43DADIAK7AY2GWUDX", "length": 796, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.onchanting.com", "title": "on chanting: 282. Very, very short break", "raw_content": "I'm going to take a short blogging break because my brain is only able to write on one topic at a time, and I need to finish my little d'var Torah on Parashat Tetzaveh. Since I'm a champion procrastinator, even when it comes to good, fun things, I seem to be posting here as a way to avoid finishing that other page of thoughts. Only one page, I keep telling myself; over the past year I've written the equivalent of a whole book! But I'm very slow, have limited free time, and the deadline is somewhat sooner then a year. (Well, it was last week.) (And I did have three months.) (But we won't talk about that.)\nBe back shortly.\nOK, aa... I can so relate to what you are going through... see you in a little bit.\nYes!--and thank you so, so much for that kind and generous decription on your blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 5508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onlinesource.site/wocjm8kf/gfkboi7jx.php?ghmvdg=geometry-formulas-pdf-file-download", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:76OSSSQJKNY2WR23C7PUVALQXM5TZKKZ", "length": 554, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.onlinesource.site", "title": "Salt Lamps Produce Negative Ions 2018 Salt Lamps Work 2018 | List Of Benefits Of Salt Lamps 2018 Ion Salt Lamps 2018", "raw_content": "As discussed above, \u201cboundless amounts\u201d of negative ions would be a bit of a stretch, given the total and complete lack of any ions generated by our lamp. Ignoring that fact, however, brings us to the claim that positive ions make us feel bad and negative ions make us feel great. In terms of effects on mood, there is some research that suggests that negative ions can play a role in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder. A 1998 study in JAMA psychiatry found, for example, that: https://www.shopkro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SALT-LAMPS.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 13410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 157.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.openarch.com/people", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JFWDHCJEMW2GKPDLGMEEJATNP4HGN2LD", "length": 4538, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.openarch.com", "title": "People | OPEN Architecture", "raw_content": "LI Hu, Founding Partner\nLI Hu, founding partner of OPEN Architecture, visiting professor at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture, former partner of Steven Holl Architects, and director of Columbia University GSAPP\u2019s Studio-X Beijing. LI received his B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1996 and his M. Arch. from Rice University in 1998.\nLI Hu has been the recipient of \u201c50 under 50: Innovators of the 21st Century\u201d, ICON Magazine\u2019s \u201cFuture 50\u201d, GQ Magazine\u2019s \u201cArchitect of the Year 2014\u201d, and OUTLOOK Magazine\u2019s \u201cCreative Icons of the Year\u201d. He has also been the curator of the first China Design Exhibition, a jury member committed by the Ministry of Culture for the Chinese pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and, most recently, a jury member for the International Velux Awards. Besides teaching at Tsinghua University, LI is also a frequent speaker at academic conferences and a critic at universities worldwide.\nLed by LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing, some built and ongoing projects by OPEN include: the Gehua Youth and Cultural Center, Garden School/Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus, Tsinghua Ocean Center, Pingshan Performing Arts Center, Tank Shanghai, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Chapel of Sound, and Qingpu Pinghe International School.\nOPEN's work has been widely recognized, with recent awards including the 2018 AIA Education Facility Design Award of Excellence (USA), 2018 Civic Trust Awards (UK), 2017 Iconic Awards Best of Best (Germany), 2016 Interior Design\u2019s Best of Year (USA), 2015 AIANY Design Award (USA), 2015 London Design Museum\u2019s Design of the Year Nomination (UK), and the Winning Prize of the WA Awards for Chinese Architecture, among many others.\nDuring his tenure at Steven Holl Architects, LI Hu was responsible for some of the firm\u2019s most influential urban projects in Asia, including the Linked Hybrid building in Beijing, Vanke Center in Shenzhen, Raffles City in Chengdu, and Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing. LI left SHA at the end of 2010 to focus on practice at OPEN with partner HUANG Wenjing.\nOPEN has been invited to participate in many important international exhibitions, such as the 2018 CHINA HOUSE VISION, the \u201cSoul of the City\u201d in Verona Italy in 2017, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015, and the Chinese pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2014. Recently, LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing co-authored two books titled OPEN ReAction and Towards Openness.\nHUANG Wenjing, Founding Partner\nHUANG Wenjing, AIA. Founding partner of OPEN Architecture, visiting professor at Tsinghua University. Ms. Huang received her B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in 1996, and her M. Arch. from Princeton University in 1999. She is a licensed architect in New York State and a member of the AIA. Prior to OPEN, HUANG was an associate at the New York-based firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.\nHUANG Wenjing and LI Hu co-founded OPEN in New York City in 2003 and established the studio\u2019s Beijing office in 2008. Some built and ongoing projects by OPEN include: the Gehua Youth and Cultural Center, Garden School/Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus, Tsinghua Ocean Center, Pingshan Performing Arts Center, Tank Shanghai, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Chapel of Sound, and Qingpu Pinghe International School.\nOPEN\u2019s work has been widely recognized, with recent awards including the 2018 AIA Education Facility Design Award of Excellence (USA), 2018 Civic Trust Awards (UK), 2017 Iconic Awards Best of Best (Germany), 2016 Interior Design\u2019s Best of Year (USA), 2015 AIANY Design Award (USA), 2015 London Design Museum\u2019s Design of the Year Nomination (UK), and the Winning Prize of the WA Awards for Chinese Architecture, among many others.\nHUANG has been named one of the \u201c50 under 50: Innovators of the 21st Century\u201d. Besides practicing at OPEN, HUANG has also been a visiting assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. Recently, HUANG Wenjing and LI Hu co-authored two books titled OPEN ReAction and Towards Openness.\nYE Qing, Senior Associate\nYE Qing, Master of Architecture, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Joined OPEN in 2011. YE has worked as the Project Architect on the Pingshan Performing Arts Center, Tank Shanghai, Pudong Art Museum, and Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe School, among others.\nZHOU Tingting, Senior Associate\nZHOU Tingting, Bachelor of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University. Joined OPEN in 2009. ZHOU has worked as the Project Architect on OPEN's Stepped Courtyards, UCCA Dune Art Museum, and Chapel of Sound, among other projects.\nCHEN Cheng, Associate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oswegocounty.com/info/news/2007/072307-5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OOYW2I2KMZ6HLMFW7SDTGSILD4UDYPWM", "length": 1212, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.oswegocounty.com", "title": "Oswego County News Release", "raw_content": "Oswego County Office for Aging Will Distribute Farm Market Coupon Books\nThe Oswego County Office for the Aging will distribute $20 coupon booklets that can be used at farmers' markets beginning Wednesday, Aug. 1.\nIn order to be eligible, an individual must be age 60 or older and have a maximum monthly income of $1,574 for a single person or $2,111 for a married couple.\nBooklets may be picked up at the Office for the Aging, 70 Bunner St., Oswego, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. beginning Wednesday, Aug. 1. Depending on availability, the staff of the Office for the Aging is scheduled to distribute booklets on the following dates between 10:30 a.m. and noon:\nMonday, Aug. 6: Hannibal Community Center, Hannibal.\nTuesday, Aug. 7: Pontiac Terrace Apartments, Oswego; and Fulton Municipal Building, Fulton.\nWednesday, Aug. 8: Congregational Church, Phoenix, and Presbyterian Church, Mexico.\nThursday, Aug. 9: Ringgold Fire Department, Pulaski; and Parish Fire Hall, Parish.\nThe supply is limited and booklets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call the Oswego County Office for the Aging, weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., phone 349-3484 or 1-800-596-3200, ext. 3484.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 166.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ovationincentives.com/blog-and-news-home/motivating-staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XWFYLFK5L6KIKGW6DPOFIRTWAY2542WI", "length": 2924, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ovationincentives.com", "title": "Ovation Blog | Motivating Staff", "raw_content": "Employee motivation is often at an all-time low in December and January. In the run up to Christmas, all staff can think about is time off, Christmas parties and finishing their Christmas shopping. Post-holidays, thoughts turn to lack of money and having little to look forward to. If you pay out a Christmas bonus to your staff, then it is also hard to keep them motivated once this has been and gone.\nMeasuring staff morale isn\u2019t always easy either. While you can see how sales are doing through a quick glance at the figures, spotting a decline in staff motivation isn\u2019t always instantly obvious. Yet a lack of motivation among your workforce can directly affect sales figures, with poor productivity and a high staff turnover being just two of the main culprits. Here are some ways in which you can increase staff motivation this winter.\nPraise As Well As Point Out Mistakes\nToo often we tend to focus purely on the things that a person has done wrong. Quick to complain, we should make sure we are equally quick to thank and praise on a good job well done. While you are paying staff to come in and carry out a particular role, this doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t thank them on a regular basis. Even if you can\u2019t afford to hand out bonuses or other staff rewards, a simple \u2018thank you\u2019 or \u2018well done\u2019 still goes a long way.\nTalk to Staff Regularly\nFeedback shouldn\u2019t just go in one direction. Have regular discussions with your staff or introduce more frequent appraisals in order to find out how happy they are \u2013 or not, as the case may be. Anonymous feedback may give you the opportunity to find out the real roots of any problems, but make sure you act appropriately on anything you find out, as otherwise staff will quickly become discouraged from sharing their concerns.\nDon\u2019t Overwork Employees\nIf staff are having to regularly work over their set hours, they will soon become disgruntled, stressed and tired. This may lead to invaluable staff leaving for a better role elsewhere, or result in employees having to take time off sick through stress or exhaustion. Everyone needs time off, so make sure staff aren\u2019t overdoing it and are making the most of the annual leave on offer to them.\nEmployee Rewards and benefits are a fantastic way of increasing motivation and boosting morale. Everyone likes to receive presents and you don\u2019t have to dish out fat bonuses to keep your team on side. However, what you should consider is ensuring that any incentives or rewards you offer are tailored to the interests of your workforce. Offering a selection of different high street vouchers is a popular choice because it allows staff to choose something that meets their tastes or allows them to change what they receive to match something they want at that time. Vouchers are often more of a treat than cash too because they can feel more like a gift, rather than something you should use to pay off debts or save for a rainy day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/african-american-studies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:H76ITDAGPLNZ7KHMBJORYJM542SXDRQ5", "length": 5068, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "www.oxfordbibliographies.com", "title": "African American Studies - Authoritative Research Guide - Oxford Bibliographies - obo", "raw_content": "Oxford Bibliographies Update Program\nDid you know that each Oxford Bibliographies article is reviewed annually and updated with the latest scholarship available?\nLearn about how Oxford Bibliographies are updated on the Update Program Page.\nEditor in Chief | Editorial Board | Articles and Contributors\nAfrican American Studies has gained a deep foothold in higher education. Ever since the national rise of \u201cBlack Studies\u201d during the second half of the twentieth century, this field has focused on the distinctive individuals, places, events, concepts, and circumstances of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present\u2014from the early national period, when New World Africans first reckoned with Enlightenment preconceptions of race, to the new millennium, when African Americans continue to negotiate the conditions of their lives in the United States. African American Studies is now a vibrant, complex, and growing field for the intellectual and curricular mission of centers, institutes, programs, and departments at colleges and universities across the country. Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies represents another step in the field\u2019s institutional progress. Regularly updated and expanded with new content, the module will provide bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies\u2014culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics. Academic researchers and students interested in authoritative references to African American Studies should turn to Oxford Bibliographies first.\nFor more information in this field, visit the Oxford African American Studies Center, the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture.\nGene Andrew Jarrett is the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science at New York University. Previously, he was Associate Dean of the Faculty, Humanities, and Professor of English and African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University and Chair of the Department of English and Acting Director of the African American Studies Program at BU; he was also elected Chair of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association of America. His scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (New York University Press, 2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). He is the editor of the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2014), A Companion to African American Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010), Claude McKay\u2019s 1937 autobiography A Long Way from Home (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader (New York University Press, 2006). He is also the co-editor of, with Herbert Woodward Martin and Ronald Primeau, The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio University Press, 2009); with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (Princeton University Press, 2007); and, with Thomas Lewis Morgan, The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio University Press, 2005). He is currently writing a biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar.\nSTANDING EDITORIAL BOARD\nThadious Davis\nEvelynn M. Hammonds\nFrank Benjamin Wilderson, III\nFOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD\nOberlin Theological School, Vanderbilt University\nBarrymore Bogues\nRichard A. Yarborough\nARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS\n* = recently published\nArt, Music, Drama, and Culture\nPatrice Douglass\nSelamawit D. Terrefe\nJaye Austin Williams\nFangfang Zhu\nSteven Carl Tracy\nDavarian L. Baldwin\nJerrilyn McGregory\nThe Anglo-African Newspaper\nMarina Bilbija\nThe Black Press in the United States\nVisual Representations of Slavery\nAdministration of Woodrow Wilson\nEric S. Yellin\nAlan M. Wald\nAnnexation of Dominican Republic\nLuis Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez\nErin D. Chapman\nBlacks in the American Military\nChristine Knauer\n*Lynching\nThomas Alan Dichter\nChristopher Metress\nThe Revolutionary War and African Americans\nJohn Szwed\nJames Edward Ford III\nMagdalena J. Zaborowska\nNoelle Morrissette\nEsther L. Jones\nKerri Greenidge\nGene Andrew Jarrett\nHeike Raphael-Hernandez\nUniversity of Maryland University College, Europe and University of W\u00fcrzburg, Germany\nAfrican Americans in the United States House of Representatives\nMenna Demessie\nCongressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF)\nStuart Greene\nRaymond Winbush\nSegregation in Federal Government\nSamory Rashid\nMichael Brandon McCormack\nPetra R. Rivera-Rideau\nDaylanne K. English\nAdam M. Geary\nCarlos E. Monteiro\nNatasha A. Frost\nKendra Field", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 10335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.patriciaartphotography.ca/2015/06/17/evening-drink/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:A5LKS5LA6PF57H2XPWUJ2OOVHI4GVOUM", "length": 351, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.patriciaartphotography.ca", "title": "Evening Drink | Patricia Haugen Art Photography", "raw_content": "On a recent trip to Banff it was amazing to be in the right place at the right time to watch a female Grizzly make a determined trek to a small water hole. It was a dream come true and to have the reflection of the bear gazing in the water before taking a drink was a bonus.\nThis entry was posted in Animals by Patricia Haugen. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paulhemmings.com/store/myars7luywwxscu3nyy8wnyhrbf8ky", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:39Z", "digest": "sha1:DU2LGUGKG2KS4M5LNHYS7ZFHTYJPJLBJ", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.paulhemmings.com", "title": "\"Waltz For Debby\" (Bill Evans) \u2014 Arranged for Solo Ukulele \u2014 www.paulhemmings.com", "raw_content": "Waltz For Debby by Bill Evans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 112.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.payvand.com/news/10/feb/1183.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:V5R7XMEA2LJDY4FMITIZFT5IRYPSLTOQ", "length": 10278, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.payvand.com", "title": "Why Iran's Green Movement Objects To President's Economic Style", "raw_content": "Why Iran's Green Movement Objects To President's Economic Style\nBy Charles Recknagel, RFE/RL\nThe chants of \"death to the dictator\" have been temporarily stilled since Iran's Green Movement was muscled off the streets during the 31st anniversary celebrations of the Islamic Revolution on February 11. But political slogans and charges of stolen presidential elections are just part of the explosive mix that keeps the Green Movement alive.\nHis critics accuse President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of ''ignoring the basic principles of economics.''\nEqually important is frustration over Iran's double-digit unemployment rate and the usually double-digit inflation rate. It is this frustration that ultimately may be more dangerous for the regime than electoral grievances.\nThe anger over the economy pits Iran's modernists, who believe growth comes with capital investments and a strong private sector, against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's more idiosyncratic vision of economics. That vision puts a priority on handouts to the impoverished while the state-dominated economy creates few jobs and survives mostly thanks to Iran's oil income.\nThe controversy over the president's economic policies is rarely heard outside Iran, but rages inside the country itself. It can often be heard on the talk shows of foreign stations broadcasting to Iran in Persian, as both Ahmadinejad's supporters and opponents weigh in.\nAhmadinejad likes to distribute aid to local people personally.\nOne caller to RFE/RL's Radio Farda's weekly \"Your Voice\" program recently praised Ahmadinejad profusely. He identified himself as Mohammad, living in a village \"far from Tehran.\"\nMohammad said that when Mohammad Khatami was president from 1997 to 2005, \"he did nothing for us, we had nothing, but since President Ahmadinejad took power he delivered all kinds of wealth and facilities to our village.\nDistributing Alms To The Poor\n\"The money that comes from oil exports is spent here in our villages. The government spends these monies to make asphalt roads for our village. We really see a very good development plan in our country.\"\nAhmadinejad has made it a hallmark of his presidency to visit some of Iran's poorest village and directly hand out money for local projects.\nDuring his first term, he successively visited each of Iran's provinces, taking along his entire cabinet. He met local leaders and approved hundreds of projects on the spot. Inviting people to submit requests directly to the highest authority, he and his aides also accepted hundreds of petitions, most of them reported to be personal pleas for money to buy a house, pay debts, or make a pilgrimage.\nAhmadinejad's public tours, which remind critics of Persian shahs and Ottoman sultans of the past, has helped him put out local fires of discontent and to buy the loyalty of targeted constituencies. They also have enabled him to claim he is fulfilling his oft-repeated campaign pledges to \"bring the country's oil wealth to the people's dinner table.\"\nBut the president's direct action approach has also attracted much criticism for its unbridled spontaneity. In 2007, 57 professors of economics from universities around the Islamic republic signed an open letter accusing Ahmadinejad of \"ignoring the basic principles of economics.\"\nNo public tally is kept of how many millions of dollars Ahmadinejad directly pumps into the economy this way. But the amounts are large enough that they are widely considered to stoke the inflation rate even as they do almost nothing to create new jobs or increase productivity.\nA recurring problem is the fact that the national budget, which is always in balance when it is approved at the start of a year, invariably ends up in deficit at year's end due to unaffordable public-welfare expenditures and losses from state enterprises.\nJust as routinely, shortages of funds for the expenditures portion of the state budget are made up by transferring over money from the development, or capital-investment portion of the budget. As a result, thousands of development projects remain unfinished.\nMany development projects in Iran lack funding.\nAccording to another report by ISNA, some statistics put the number of unfinished projects\nacross Iran at about 50,000.\nAll this helped make the economy a major focus of the 2009 presidential election. During the campaign, some of Ahmadinejad's rival candidates -- now leaders of the Green Movement -- openly questioned whether the incumbent had any understanding of economics at all.\nAnother caller to Radio Farda's \"Your Voice\" raised that same question recently. Identifying himself as Bahram and a law student at Tehran University, he faulted Ahmadinejad and his supporters for talking only in terms of local projects, but almost never about macroeconomic issues.\n\"Talking about one's performance, it is better to talk in terms of economical indices, let's not talk like some of Ahmadinejad's advisers who always say, 'We built roads, we constructed stadiums,' and so on,\" Bahram said.\n\"To evaluate economical issues we should talk according to economic indices, we need to look at rates of unemployment, inflation, poverty, and prostitution. In a recent international study, Iran rated 186th for corruption among the countries in the world. Is that our standing after 32 years of the Islamic Revolution?\"\nDismay over Ahmadinejad's disregard for the usual institutional approaches to economic management is occasionally voiced in Iran's conservative-dominated parliament.\nMany deputies expressed anger last month when the president presented them a national budget proposal worth $368 billion but distributed only a handful of copies on CDs for the parliamentary review process. That appeared to show little respect for Iran's own procedures of budgetary oversight between the legislative and executive branches.\nWaiting For The Imam\nAfter this year's budget proposal became public, critics were quick to note that Ahmadinejad had directed substantial amounts of money to projects dear to his heart. Among them: increasing the funding for hard-line think tanks by 143 percent over last year's level.\nThe think tanks, 58 in all, are ideological institutes whose goal is to prepare the country for the imminent return of the Hidden Imam, a revered Shi'ite figure who went into hiding in the ninth century.\nShi'ite faithful believe the imam's eventual return will inaugurate an era of perfect governance and peace. But Ahmadinejad has made it a cornerstone of his presidency to raise popular expectations that the Imam's return is immediate. That, in turn, say critics, has become a ready excuse for disregarding more mundane concerns such as expanding the economy sufficient to reduce unemployment and underemployment.\nOne of the beneficiaries is the Imam Khomeini think tank, run by Ahmadinejad's spiritual adviser, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi. It is to receive $10 million.\nAnother is the Ayandeh Rooshan Organization, led by Ahmadinejad's brother-in-law, Sfandiyar Rahim Mashayee, who also is the head of Ahmadinejad's presidential office. It is to receive $120 million.\nBy comparison, the amount of money proposed for the Rooyan Institute, a leading scientific and medical research center, is just $12 million.\nDomination Of The State\nThe Green Movement's anger over Ahmadinejad comes as Iran's economy reels from three decades of state domination that began with the Islamic Revolution's hostility to private enterprise. The result is an economy mired in bureaucracy, vested interests, official corruption, and cost/price distortions.\nMany members of Ahmadinejad's cabinets have had backgrounds in the Revolutionary Guards, as does he\nJahangir Amuzegar, a minister of finance under Iran's prerevolution government, estimates that 70 percent of Iran's economy today is controlled by the central government and parastatal organizations.\nReviewing Iran's economy recently in \"Middle East Policy\" (October 2009), he writes that \"almost all key managers in state-owned enterprises, including oil and gas, heavy industry, commerce, transport, communications, and charitable foundations, are government appointees.\"\n\"As a result, he concludes, \"the lean and struggling private sector, involving mostly domestic trade and services, does not play a significant role in the economy's direction.\"\nEven when state enterprises are privatized under various efforts to make the economy more efficient, they still remain controlled by state-tied players, he says.\n\"Of an estimated $120 billion in assets owned by state enterprises, some $40 billion have so far been disinvested,\" Amuzegar notes. \"In all cases the majority ownership and management of the 'privatized' enterprises have remained in state hands.\"\nOne of the most notable of the parastatal players is the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which reportedly controls a third of Iran's economy. Its interests are believed to be actively promoted by Ahmadinejad, who is a former guard member himself. Currently more than half of the president's cabinet is made up of ex-guard members.\nHave They Had Enough?\nThose enterprises that do operate entirely outside the state's orbit do so against heavy odds, including the high costs of conducting business, widespread official corruption, arbitrary courts, and uncertainties regarding the state-set foreign-exchange rate. The World Bank's 2009 international ranking of hospitable environments placed Iran at a dismal 142nd among 180 countries.\nAs Ahmadinejad maintains Iran's state-heavy economy and puts out fires with direct handouts to the poor, he can -- and does -- claim to be true to the Islamic Revolution's goal of \"Islamic social justice.\"\nThat doctrine, enshrined in the Islamic republic's constitution has never been clearly defined but prioritizes the needs of the poor while denigrating the Western-style capitalism the revolution overturned.\nHow long Ahmadinejad can hope to use that ideology to keep the Islamic Revolution vigorous as the economy chronically fails to create enough jobs is an open question.\nBut the Green Movement has clearly had enough. And it may have as much reason to believe the poor will eventually join the protest as Ahmadinejad does to hope they won't.\nRFE/RL's Radio Farda correspondent Mazyar Mokfi contributed to this report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 11109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.payvand.com/news/18/jul/1002.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:GIYQEHHV22EN22BXWZRNCV6ONYNBXNJP", "length": 1800, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.payvand.com", "title": "Iran's President Rohani Due In Switzerland, Austria Amid Nuclear-Deal Dispute", "raw_content": "Iran's President Rohani Due In Switzerland, Austria Amid Nuclear-Deal Dispute\nIranian President Hassan Rohani is traveling to Western Europe this week, amid continued uncertainty over the future of the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.\nIranian President Hassan Rohani departing Tehran for Switzerland on Monday\nRohani's trip to Switzerland and Austria, which took over the rotating European Union presidency on July 1, comes after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal and moved to reinstate economic sanctions against Tehran.\nThe other parties to the agreement -- Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany -- say they remain committed to the deal so long as Iran is honoring it.\nRohani was scheduled to stay in Switzerland on July 2-3 and have talks with President Alain Berset and other officials, the Swiss government has said.\nThe sides will look at \"ways of preserving the progress made as a result of the [Iran nuclear] agreement and of ensuring the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region,\" a statement said.\nIt added that the discussions will also touch upon the situation in the Middle East.\nOn July 4, Rohani is to meet with his Austrian counterpart, President Alexander Van der Bellen, and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Vienna.\nAustria would \"support EU efforts to save the nuclear agreement with Iran,\" a source in the presidential office in Vienna was quoted as saying.\nThe Iranian president will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.\nRohani's planned trip comes as demonstrators protesting against shortages of drinking water in southwestern Iran clashed with police for a second night. Demonstrations have been held recently in Tehran over the country's troubled economy.\nWith reporting by dpa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peik.gr/component/content/article/1558-regulation-on-the-free-movement-of-non-personal-data-within-the-eu.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7PB67I627FGJVGYL2R45WQQ5ZYDQUFAS", "length": 939, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.peik.gr", "title": "Regulation on the free movement of non-personal data within the EU", "raw_content": "Regulation on the free movement of non-personal data within the EU\nI would like to draw your attention on the fact that yesterday, during the Plenary Session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament approved the proposal for a regulation on the free movement of non-personal data within the EU, for companies and public authorities. Non-personal data such as datasets used for big data analysis, data on agriculture or industrial machinery maintenance will be stored and processed across the EU without any unjustified restrictions. The text (approved with 520 in favor, 81 against, 6 abstensions) is due to be approved by the EU Council of Ministers on 6 November. It will apply six months after its publication in the EU Official Journal.\nYou can find more information, as well as the text adopted here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180926IPR14403/free-flow-of-non-personal-data-parliament-approves-eu-s-fifth-freedom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pensionrights.org/publications/report/pension-plan-de-risking-it-bad-it-legal-can-it-be-stopped-slowed-or-moderated", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:24Z", "digest": "sha1:PPAMG3UJP36NGU32YKGXYH75JYGW4VN5", "length": 1651, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.pensionrights.org", "title": "Pension Plan De-risking: Is It Bad, Is It Legal, Can It Be Stopped, Slowed, or Moderated? | Pension Rights Center", "raw_content": "Home / Get the Facts / Reports / Defined Benefit Pension Plans\nPension Plan De-risking: Is It Bad, Is It Legal, Can It Be Stopped, Slowed, or Moderated?\nPension Rights Center (March 2015)\nNorman Stein, the Pension Rights Center's senior policy advisor, authored this policy paper [PDF] on pension plan de-risking. The paper discusses pension transfers and lump-sum buyout offers, and outlines steps that regulatory agencies can take to protect consumers and stop some of the most serious abuses.\nCompanies that are offering lump-sum pension buyouts.\nShould you take a lump sum?\nCompanies that have transferred pensions to insurance companies\nCompanies that have made changes to their defined benefit plans (mostly freezes)\nCompanies that have reduced or eliminated their matching contributions to employees' 401(k) plans\nOur testimony to the ERISA Advisory Council on protecting workers and retirees when employers offload their pension risk (August 29, 2013)\nA letter from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and then-Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to several federal agencies, requesting that the federal government establish clear and specific rules to protect the interests of employees and retirees in defined benefit pension plans (October 22, 2014)\nStatement by the Pension Rights Center in support of a Connecticut bill that would protect retirees from de-risking (February 26, 2013)\nOur press release calling for a moratorium on de-risking (October 18, 2012)\nOur blog entry critical of GM's de-risking moves (June 6, 2012)\nTags: Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Annuities, De-risking, Lump sum, Pension Rights Center, Traditional (defined benefit) pensions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petebrookshaw.com/2014/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:24Z", "digest": "sha1:WAMZHSIEOGN2SOUQKXTXCCY3EDCHNIZ2", "length": 8740, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.petebrookshaw.com", "title": "petebrookshaw.com: February 2014", "raw_content": "How to Keep Growing as a Leader\nI'm no expert in leadership, far from it. I never write a blog for that matter, attempting to be the authoritative voice on any particular topic. Though I do believe I have learnt some lessons along the way, in terms of leadership, that I'd love to share with you right now.\nHow do you continue to grow as a leader?\nGood leaders read good leadership books. Keep reading. Read books on leadership. Read magazines on leadership. Further to that, challenge yourself to synthesise your thoughts after you have read something. How often have you read something, thought you understood what you read, and then when you tried to relay what you learnt to someone else, you went blank? Synthesising your thoughts and your learnings is important. Information is not beneficial in and of itself, but how you work through the information and the teaching and apply it to your situation. So read and process.\nGood leaders learn from mistakes. Good leadership is not expressed in the absence of mistakes, but rather, leadership is expressed in the willingness to 'give it another shot' and step up and try again. Leaders need to understand that at times, the most important thing to do, is to step up again, straighten the back and try again. Thomas Edison didn't build the lightbulb the first try.\nGood leaders challenge themselves. You can grow as a leader as you take on bigger and grander tasks. Quite often you feel ill-prepared and ill-equipped, but by throwing yourself in the deeper end, you are challenged to grow. The founder of SEEK, Andrew Bassat, took on the likes of Fairfax by starting an online classifieds website for the unemployed back in the late 90s. He threw himself in the deep end, and now SEEK has a market value of $4.4 billion, compared with Fairfax of $1.4 billion. Bassat knew little about how to run an online site, but grew as a leader because he took on a challenge.Trying something difficult, will not necessarily ensure you grow as a leader, but it will provide a context in which growth can happen.\nGood Christian leaders grow in their faith. If you are a Christian leader, then growing as a leader is about not only your skill-sets, but your relationship with God. Some call it, 'Growing in God', and others say we need to, 'Mature in Christ'. Followers of Jesus generally comprehend the importance of such things and it should really go without saying. Growing as a leader and maturing in Christ go hand-in-hand.\nMentors and Coaches can help you grow as a leader. The right mentor will be someone who can help you understand why you think and act the way you do! They can stretch you, inspire you or point you in the right direction. They can be invaluable in their capacity to lift you to 'another level' so to speak.\nThe opportunity to lead is a given for many (as a parent, a minister, a teacher, a manager, a school captain, etc). Growing as a leader is not a given. Growing as a leader is optional and requires work. Be intentional if you are leader. Choose to grow.\nLabels: andrew bassat, christian leadership, coach, Faith, grow, grow as a leader, How to, Leadership, leadership books, Mentor, seek\nWalking in the Light - Preaching from Japhet Ncube - African style!\nJaphet Ncube preaches it up at Salvos 3064 in early January 2014, and speaks of walking in the light.\nWatch it now, and be encouraged!\nLabels: japhet ncube, Preach, Preaching, Salvation Army, Sermon, walking in the light\nWill someone who has never heard about Jesus go to Hell?\nNow here's a question for you: \"Can someone who has never heard about Jesus go to heaven or will they go to hell...?\"\nA big thank you to Jack Sparrow (No doubt 'anonymous'), who asked the following question recently:\n'Do pirates who sail the seven seas and never get to hear the gospel go to hell if they die?'\nFirstly, I'm glad you are so concerned about pirates, that you would be interested in their eternity.\nJohn Piper writes that he believes people who have never heard the gospel cannot be saved and then he challenged his readers to pray for missionaries to take the Word of God to the ends of the earth.\nI don't agree with John Piper here. Followers of Jesus are challenged by Jesus himself to go into all of the world and make disciples, though God is surely gracious enough and sovereign enough to orchestrate salvation for someone on a deserted island or a pirate ship.\nNow, there's some ideas to seriously consider here.\nIt is only through Jesus Christ that salvation occurs (John 14:6), that's the main point. The salvation for a pirate on the seven seas would only be through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, irrespective of whether the salvation comes from a verbal proclamation of hearing the message of Jesus or not. I have heard stories of people having encounters with Christ through visions and dreams, without the work of an evangelist!\nI believe, that God is more than capable of testing people's hearts and their response to the general revelation of creation around them and make a decision on someone's eternity.\nWe are not in a position to make a judgment call here. We are called to 'go into all the world,' and be faithful in expressing the gospel of Jesus in word and deed. While evangelicals will strive to reach the corners of the earth with the gospel message, I trust God's prevailing grace in situations where people have not experienced the amazing hope found in Jesus Christ. This being said, if I had to choose between hoping that someone would merely respond to the general revelation of God and having the awesome privelege of communicating the truth found in Jesus, I would choose the latter.\nFeel free to comment. What do you think:\nCan someone who has never heard about Jesus go to Hell?\nCan someone who has never heard about Jesus go to Heaven?\nLabels: gospel, Heaven, Hell, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 14:6, John Piper, never heard about Jesus, never heard the gospel, Salvation\nOnward March with the Blood and Fire... Perhaps\nOnward march with the blood and fire!\nThe word 'onward' is a little old.\nAnd marching? We don't march anymore. We barely do open-air meetings.\nBlood? Why do speak of something that is so quaint to the secular world around us?\nAnd fire? Serious? Does anyone believe that anymore. If we really believed that, Salvation Army ministry would be very different.\nI'm being facetious. Yet there's truth in what I'm saying. While we may not understand the complexities of salvation in Christ, we still call people to it. While we may not grasp the significance of the blood of Jesus, we still understand it transforms lives. While we look around and do not always see Salvation Army ministry characterised by 'Fire', we nonetheless believe in the 'Fire of the Holy Ghost!'.\nIt's time to onward march with the blood and fire. Or let me say, it's time to move forward in unity with the blood of Jesus and the power and presence of Jesus amongst us!\nWhile our expression of Salvation Army ministry gradually shifts over time, the passion and foundations of our faith do not. A problem I sense, is that while The Salvation Army have grappled with contextualising Salvation Army ministry in today's world, we've lost the grit, the passion and the bold, world-changing kind of faith in the process. While we've discussed our theology, our methods, our uniforms, our quasi-military structure and the like, we have thrown out a radical desire to witness the world be transformed through this evangelical branch of the universal Christian Church.\nWilliam Booth, in an address entitled, 'The Salvation Army', said passionately, 'Push forward, never heed the number or position of your foes, or the impossibility of overcoming them. Your Salvation Army has been made to accomplish the impossible and conquer that which to human calculations cannot be overcome. Forward!'\nHas this changed? For some it has. We no longer 'onward march with the blood and fire', we simply 'wake up and be, and hope for the best.' I'm being a little provocative, because it's time we let the embers in our bellies flare up and the power, grace and forgiveness of Christ to permeate inside and outside this movement in which we serve.\nWe must move forward.\nThere is so much more to say. There always is. Feel free to make a comment and add to the discussion.\n(My wife has kindly told me that I have mixed up, 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and 'On ye march with the blood and fire' - but I'm sure you are cluey enough to have noticed that, and still grasped the point of what I was saying).\nLabels: blood and fire, contextualization, fire of the Holy Ghost, onward march, The Salvation Army\nWalking in the Light - Preaching from Japhet Ncube...\nWill someone who has never heard about Jesus go to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 14046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phonezoneuk.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=390", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BA7LTGBBBXNXCMIDUVMKEMDLIWKQQR6W", "length": 1542, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.phonezoneuk.co.uk", "title": "IPad Pro 12.9 UA-22048688-1", "raw_content": "IPad Pro 12.9 5 1\nProduct Code: IPad Pro 12.9\nThe iPad Pro is a line of iPad tablet computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc., that runs the iOS mobile operating system. It is currently available in two screen sizes, 10.5-inch (27 cm) and 12.9-inch (33 cm),[7] each with three options for internal storage capacities: 64, 256, or 512 GB; the 512 GB configuration making the iPad Pro the first iOS device to offer that storage size. The first iPad Pro, the 12.9-inch version, was announced on September 9, 2015,[8] and released on November 11.[9] It is larger than all previous iPad models and the first iPad tablet to feature LPDDR4 RAM.[1] The 12.9-inch tablet was later followed by the smaller 9.7-inch version, which was announced on March 21, 2016, and released on March 31 that same year.[10] On June 5, 2017, a second generation of iPad Pro was announced, which features A10X Fusion processors, with basic storage of 64 GB, and optional 512 GB. Upgraded displays include a new 10.5-inch version to replace the 9.7-inch model, while the 12.9-inch version was refreshed.[11] Following this announcement, the first generation iPad Pros, both 9.7 and 12.9 inch, were discontinued. We also specialise in selling the latest mobile phones in Coventry such as iPhone X, iPhone 8, Samsung s9 Plus as well as tablet repairs in coventry. Vvphones Coventry repairs tablets like iPad Air 2, iPad, Samsung tablet, kindle tablet repairs, iPhone repairs and Samsung Galaxy repairs for screen replacement and cracked screens in Coventry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pinchercreekvoice.com/2015/09/my-summer-caleb-evans.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:IJ74EF5SIFLKELSJ3EXL2BNTFHLBU52I", "length": 2579, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.pinchercreekvoice.com", "title": "Pincher Creek Voice: My summer - Caleb Evans", "raw_content": "My summer - Caleb Evans\nQuadding with my sister and Papa\nEditor's note: Did you have an interesting summer? We're paying $20 to the first 5 publishable contributions received before the end of September 30, 2015. Send your contributions (words/photos/videos) to pinchercreekvoice@gmail.com. The following, by our community reporter Caleb Evans, is a good example.\nWhat I did throughout the summer\nThis summer passed quite fast for me, to be honest but I still did manage to do some pretty fun activities. Many of my friends think that summer vacation is too short and there\u2019s not enough time to do anything during summer vacation. I beg to differ. Here\u2019s what I did this summer.\nCamping. This summer, I camped a grand total of 18 days! This included many trips closer to home, like Daisy May Campground, Cottonwood Campground and my Grandma\u2019s piece of land or the \u201cShack\u201d. A few of my trips though, were quite far, including Edson, Alberta and Goodsoil, Saskatchewan.\nSwimming at the Pincher Creek with my family\nI also did a lot of swimming, whether I would go down to the creek with friends and family or to Open Swim at the Pincher Creek Pool with friends. It is one of my favorite activities on hot summer days, which this year we had many. After swimming, I might have gone around biking or on my scooter.\nPlaying 3-on-3 basketball at the Southern Alberta Summer Games\nIn July, I participated in the Southern Alberta Summer Games (SASG) in July. I was on the U-12 soccer team and I participated in 3 on 3 basketball with some of my friends.\nThe M.D. of Pincher Creek in the SASG Athlete\u2019s Parade\nAs for my job as a reporter, I went to many public events and fun things that were happening in and around Pincher Creek. I reported on the Southern Alberta Summer Games, beach volleyball at Juan Teran Park, the street dance at Central School during rodeo weekend and also the Pincher Creek Parade.\nDuring the end of my summer, I also took a trip to Calgary and a couple trips to Lethbridge. There, I did, yes, back to school shopping. The thing no one ever wants to talk about during the summer. Those back to school commercials, they depress many children they show the reality that summer is soon going to be over.\nThis backpack may not be the life-changer it claims to be - Editor\nEven though summer is over, school is coming back and I\u2019m sure all students had a great stretch of summer holidays. I sure did. Summer\u2019s really all just about friends, family and fun. 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Seems power and maintaining it are the problem. . Hand ...\nYet where the Arab Spring started it isn't the same. Seems power and maintaining it are the problem.\n.Hand of Egypt's military rulers grows heavier\nBy HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press 1 hr 16 mins ago. 1 Nov. 2011\nCAIRO (AP) \u2014 Growing in confidence after eight months in power, Egypt's military generals appear more determined than ever to crush the protest movement that ousted Hosni Mubarak and has turned critical of their rule.\nThis week, they detained Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a blogger whose activism made him an icon of the anti-Mubarak uprising, and \u2014 in an accusation that was derided by fellow activists \u2014 said he was to blame for stirring up violence at an October protest where 27 people were killed when soldiers cracked down.\nAt the same time, the military leadership has been drumming up an image of itself as the nation's foremost patriots, even as it steps up moves to silence critics, leaning on managers of media outlets to tone down commentary on the army or ban particularly vocal critics from appearing on political talk shows.\nActivists worry the military aims to hold power for as long as possible to give itself time to create favorable conditions for one of its own or a civilian with military background to run for president in elections. In what many saw as a trial balloon, posters went up briefly last week in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria voicing support for the head of the military, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, as a presidential candidate.\nTantawi and other generals on the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces insist the military has no wish to stay in power and will not field a candidate in the presidential election, slated for late next year or early 2013. But activists doubt it will willingly give up the domination it has enjoyed over the nation for decades.\n\"I have serious doubts that the military will hand over power to civilians,\" said activist Ahmed Imam. \"They will most likely choreograph a scenario in which they will appear to hand over power but will in fact hold on to power.\"\nThe arrest of Abdel-Fattah has fueled accusations that the military is trying to sweep away the taint its reputation suffered from the bloodshed at the Oct. 9 protest that turned into Egypt's worst violence since Mubarak's fall in February.\nIn the violence, 27 people \u2014 mostly Christians \u2014 were killed when troops stormed their protest outside the state television building. Video from the scene showed military armored vehicles barreling through crowds and soldiers heavily beating and firing on protesters. The military later blamed the Christians and \"hidden hands\" for instigating the violence, denying its soldiers had live ammunition.\nOn Sunday, the military ordered Abdel-Fattah held for questioning for 15 days on suspicion of inciting the rioting, damaging military property and assaulting on-duty troops. If charged, he could face trial before a military court, where thousands of protesters and other civilians have been prosecuted in recent months. Human rights groups have pressed for such trials to stop because of the tribunal's swift and harsh verdicts.\nAt least 3,000 people marched through downtown Cairo on Monday to protest Abdel-Fattah's arrest, chanting \"Down, down with military rule\" and \"Alaa, we're behind you, don't stop.\" Abdel-Fattah, who turns 30 in November, was Egypt's first blogger activist, launching a blog years ago organizing opposition to Mubarak. He has been a vocal critic of the military's rule since Mubarak's ouster. His wife, who is due this month to give birth to their first child, a boy, was among the marchers.\n\"They want to hide the actual criminals,\" rights lawyer and activist Gamal Eid said of the military's allegations against Abdel-Fattah.\nOne of the protesters Monday, Ibrahim Zakaria, said the military wants Abdel-Fattah to take the blame. \"But they won't be able to. We were there ... and we saw thugs and the military do it,\" said the 25-year-old.\n................................................. Continued ..............................................\nHand of Egypt's military rulers grows heavier - Yahoo! News\nThen we have the situation in which Israel might again consider a attack on Iran over it's nuclear programs.\nPoll shows Israelis divided over attacking Iran\nBy AMY TEIBEL - Associated Press | AP \u2013 26 mins ago. 3 Nov. 2011\nJERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 Israelis are evenly divided over whether their country should carry out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, according to a poll published Thursday.\nThe poll was released following reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to persuade Cabinet ministers to authorize such a strike and after Israel successfully tested a missile said capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to Iran.\nIf Israel thinks it has problems now with their neighbors sending a nuke to Iran\nwill for sure make matters much worst IMHO.\nIsrael insists Iran is working on nuclear weapons, despite Iranian denials. It was unclear whether Netanyahu actually favors a military strike or is trying to prod the international community into taking a tougher line on Iran. Ordering an attack is not a decision he would take alone, but rather he would need the approval of his Cabinet ministers.\nAs does many others in high places, yet if Iran attacks Israel things would be much different as for the Western Nations.\nForty-one percent of those questioned by the Dialog polling institute said they would back an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, which many Israelis believe were built to produce bombs.\nA similar number \u2014 39 percent \u2014 oppose such an attack, which would be fraught with logistical difficulties and risk a deadly Iranian counterstrike and regional mayhem. Twenty percent were undecided.\nThe survey, published and commissioned by the Israeli Haaretz daily, surveyed 495 people on Wednesday and quoted a margin of error of 4.6 percentage points. The Dialog agency said its random sample represented Israeli adults.\nAlthough the poll appeared to reflect a divided nation, the fact that four out of 10 Israelis would support a strike is noteworthy, given the implications. On Wednesday, Iran's military chief threatened a fierce retaliation against Israel should it attack Iranian nuclear installations.\nIranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News that Israeli threats were nothing new.\n\"We have been hearing threats from Israel for eight years,\" he said on the sidelines of the Istanbul Conference for Afghanistan, \"We are very confident of ourselves. We can defend our country.\"\n................................................ Continued ................................................\nPoll shows Israelis divided over attacking Iran - Yahoo! News\n153 Comments at the site. I doubt Israel would strike alone.\nAlso there is other news at: Middle East News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nAnd in Yemen we have this good news.\n.Yemen army 'kills 5 Qaeda suspects'\nAFP \u2013 18 hrs ago. 5 Nov. 2011\nFive Al-Qaeda suspects have been killed in artillery shelling by Yemen's army in the country's restive southern city of Zinjibar, officials said on Saturday.\n\"The army's 25th Mechanised Brigade fired artillery shells late Friday at an area in Zinjibar's east killing five Al-Qaeda militants,\" an army official told AFP.\nA local official in the nearby town of Jaar, an Al-Qaeda stronghold, confirmed the bodies of \"five Al-Qaeda militants\" were brought to the town from Zinjibar.\nTribesmen and Yemen's army have been battling militants from the \"Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law)\" who are believed to be close to Al-Qaeda in the country's southern and eastern regions.\nYemen has been gripped by violence as the government in Sanaa has become weakened by anti-regime protests that have rocked the country since January.\nThe international community has expressed fears the power vacuum in the impoverished country could play into the hands of Al-Qaeda.\nHundreds have died in battles between security forces and protesters, and security forces and Al-Qaeda fighters, amid growing fears the extremists will exploit the fragile political situation to seize Yemen's restive regions.\nYemen army 'kills 5 Qaeda suspects' - Yahoo! News\nMore news here: http://news.yahoo.com/middle-east/\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/asia/\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/africa/\nThis kills me not one Arab nation which fears Irans approach to nuclear weapons can do squat so now they are relying on their most hated enemy Israel to solve the problem.\nBut will they control their own people if Israel does use their nuke missles?\n.Israel's warnings on Iran get quiet nods in Gulf\nBy BRIAN MURPHY - Associated Press | AP \u2013 4 hrs ago. 6 Nov. 2011\nDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Among the many alliances of convenience in the Middle East, one is so unusual that the partners can barely hint about it publicly: Israel and the Gulf Arab states linked by shared fears over Iran's nuclear program.\nWhile their deeper disputes on the Palestinians effectively block any strategic breakthroughs, the recent warnings from Israel and the West about military options against Iran invariably draw in the Gulf and its rare meeting of minds with Jerusalem.\nThe Gulf states \u2014 a cornerstone for U.S. diplomatic and military pressure on Iran \u2014 are indispensable parts of any effort to confront Tehran's nuclear ambitions. And even Israel, which has no direct diplomatic outreach to the Gulf, is likely brought into the Gulf-centric policymaking with U.S. envoys acting as go-betweens, experts say.\n\"I would be surprised if there is no knowledge about the Saudi positions (in Israel) or knowledge in Saudi of the Israeli positions,\" said David Menashri, director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University.\nIt's part of a complicated mix of mutual worries and divergent risks \u2014 the Gulf, unlike Israel, has critical commercial and diplomatic ties with Iran \u2014 that puts Washington in the middle as the common ally and chief Western architect of pressure tactics on Iran.\nThe next moves are expected after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency releases an intelligence report Tuesday to its 35 board members.\nEarly leaks from diplomats suggest the document will indicate Iran has made computer models of a nuclear warhead and conducted other weapons-related work, which would strongly reinforce suspicions that Iran is working toward atomic weapons. Iran denies it seeks to develop nuclear arms and claims its program, including uranium enrichment labs, is only for energy and research.\nOf course they deny it, as they have lied about so much else. And their Muslim Brothers all across the area fear them.\nIsrael's warnings on Iran get quiet nods in Gulf - Yahoo! News\nDang what is up with our Military and it's need to create more problems & expenses for our Nation?\nIke warned us about the MIC and we need to wake up and slow them down A.S.A.P.\nWe keep saying we want peace yet our Military seems to know only war. With our problems on our southern boarder these troops could be the answer in solving it.\nYet even as we start withdrawing from combat zones the Military wants to keep them overseas.\n.Kuwait: No plans to host more US troops\nAP \u2013 5 hrs ago. 7 Nov. 2011\nKUWAIT CITY (AP) \u2014 A top Kuwaiti official has thrown doubt on American proposals to station at least 4,000 additional soldiers in the Gulf nation following the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq at the end of the year.\nSheik Jaber Al Mubarak Al Sabah, who is also defense minister, was quoted Sunday as saying there is no plan to increase U.S. troop levels in the country.\nIt was not immediately clear whether this was Kuwait's final word to the Pentagon or a suggestion that nothing is yet resolved and negotiations are in progress. The reference to the issue of U.S. troops was mentioned as part of a lengthy statement on a variety of issues.\nA rebuff from Kuwait would be a significant blow to U.S. efforts to boost the numbers of forces in the Gulf, where the U.S. and its Arab allies fear Iran's expanding military reach. Earlier this month, U.S. officials said the Pentagon hoped to shift at least 4,000 soldiers from Iraq to Kuwait at the end of the year, pending a final decision by military planners and Kuwaiti leaders.\nThe Pentagon said Monday that officials are still working on the issue of where troops will be arrayed in the region after the U.S. departure from Iraq.\nKuwait: No plans to host more US troops - Yahoo! News\nYet I posted an updated version of our response in the Current News plus you can find it and more International news here:\nMiddle East News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nAnd here: Asia News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nAfter 4+ year here at PW I need a break, for the upcoming battles with the Progressive left & Liberals as the election gains pace. So I am leaving you the links and making a suggestion to help you in your searchs.\nI would use a second browser and copy & paste these links into the the subject bar on the top of your browser. I will bumb this and the other two threads so they don't get lost into the pages behind page one.\nThis way you can keep PW and select different news stories on days when there are more than one on the topic your interested in.\nAsia News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nAfrica News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nAnd once there you will see you have choices to select other countries. I will kep bumbing it forward so it doesn't get buried as other members post items.\nI hope you reader have been keeping pace, using the links above this post. I do see the numbers have been dropping off some. But that is each of your choice.\n.New Libyan government sworn in\nBy VANESSA GERA | AP \u2013 58 mins ago. 24 Nov. 2011\nTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) \u2014 Libya's transitional government has been sworn in before the country's interim leader, another step along to the oil-rich country's roadmap to elections next year.\nThe new government read the oath of office before its leader, Abdel-Jalil Mustafa, on Thursday. The lineup of relative unknowns will confront daunting challenges, like establishing control over the fractured nation after the ousting of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year regime.\nPrime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib said the government's first task is to formulate plans to build state institutions. Gadhafi left few institutions behind, preferring one-man rule.\nThe formation of the Cabinet clears the way for the next key step on the timeline \u2014 election of a 200-member national congress by the end of June.\nTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) \u2014 Libya's transitional leaders have vowed to work with the International Criminal Court and with the United Nations in investigating alleged crimes committed by Moammar Gadhafi's recently captured son and one-time heir apparent, the court's prosecutor said Thursday.\nICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told The Associated Press that the court received the formal pledge in a letter from National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. He gave the AP a copy of the letter in an English translation.\nMoreno-Ocampo said he was satisfied with that move, which appears to settle a dispute between the international court and Libyan authorities over which body should try Seif al-Islam Gadhafi with crimes against humanity.\nLibya is obliged by a UN Security Council resolution to work with the ICC, but that does not necessarily preclude a trial in Libya. If the court determines that the country has a functioning legal system that will give Seif al-Islam a fair trial on substantially the same charges as were filed before it, it can leave the case with Libya.\nMoreno-Ocampo said the most important thing is for Seif al-Islam, whom he called the \"face of the old regime,\" to face justice.\nIt \"is very important for the world and for Libya to understand what happened here, how they attacked these people, how they killed these people,\" Moreno-Ocampo said.\nNew Libyan government sworn in - Yahoo! News\nThere are plenty more very interesting news at each site I listed above.\nWell this Arab Spring isn't going so well is it?\n.Latest developments in Arab world's unrest\nBy The Associated Press | AP \u2013 4 hrs ago. 26 Nov. 2011\nEgyptian security forces clash with protesters camped outside the Cabinet building, leaving one man dead, as tensions rise two days ahead of parliamentary elections being held despite mass demonstrations against military rule.\nAlso, Egyptian state TV says Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council that took over the government after Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February, meets separately with opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei and presidential hopeful Amr Moussa, who was the former head of the Arab League.\nSyria buries 22 members of the armed forces, including six elite pilots, as the government reinforces its message that the 8-month-old revolt against President Bashar Assad is the work of terrorists and foreign agents, not patriotic Syrians seeking reform.\nAlso, an Arab League committee agrees on a draft of recommended sanctions against Syria, including halting cooperation with the nation's central bank and halting flights to the country. The 22-nation body will vote on the recommendations Sunday in Cairo.\nActivists say at least 13 civilians are killed, 12 of them in the flashpoint Homs province. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 10 soldiers were killed in overnight clashes with defectors in the country's east.\nAn Islamist party is set to get first crack at forming the next government after winning the largest bloc of seats in parliamentary elections.\nWith about two-thirds of all results in, the Justice and Development Party has taken 80 seats out of 282 so far announced. A total of 395 seats were up for grabs in the nationwide vote a day earlier.\nBarring a massive upset, the PJD \u2014 known by its French initials \u2014 will be the largest party in the new parliament and charged with forming a new government \u2014 making another Islamist victory in an election brought about by the Arab Spring.\nThe second place finisher, Istiqlal, was far behind with 45 seats.\nYemen's vice president calls for a presidential vote to be held on Feb. 21 in line with a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the country's nine-month political crisis.\nYemen's SABA state news agency says Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has issued a decree setting the date for the vote after Saleh authorized \"the vice president the constitutional authorities to carry out dialogue with the parties that signed the Gulf initiative.\"\nIt says no party has the right to annul or change this decree.\nLatest developments in Arab world's unrest - Yahoo! News\n490 Comments at the site. Plus one can view news from around the world if they use the links near the top.\nSpencer nice to know you stop in and read some of my posts. As the same goes for those that just come to read and pick up a link. My Thanks to all of you.\nSeeing I can't seem to unlighten the other members to use one space to keep theior post going, to hell with them. I won't allow this and my other thread to get buried.\nAnd I said it, mine, my thread. As that seems to be what I opened to all members which they seem to see as mlurps threads... Got that from the boss man..\n.Gulf Sunni monarchies fear 'Shiite Spring'\nBy Faisal Baatout | AFP \u2013 6 hrs ago. 2 Dec. 2011\nThe Sunni Muslim monarchies of the Gulf fear that Shiites on the Arabian peninsula will rise up against their rule, inspired by the Arab Spring, community leaders in the region say.\n\"They want to transform the Arab Spring into a 'Shiite Spring',\" said Abdellatif al-Mahmud, a Sunni cleric in Bahrain, where a protest movement led by the Shiite majority was crushed in March.\nThe Arab Spring, which has swept the region and toppled three autocratic leaders, \"has whetted the appetite of Shiites in our region,\" Mahmud told AFP on the sidelines of a Doha seminar on the role of religious diversity in the Gulf.\nWalid Tabtabai, a Kuwaiti Sunni, was even more virulent.\n\"Since the Shiites are the majority, they are attacking Sunnis,\" he said, citing the case of Iran, as well as Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime in 2003.\nBut Sheikh Ali Salman, the head of Bahrain's leading Shiite opposition formation, Al-Wefaq, rejected \"this inappropriate approach.\"\n\"The Arab Spring involves all faiths and all communities, including the Amazigh,\" or Libya's Berbers, who helped to overthrow Moamer Kadhafi's regime, he said.\nBahrain's crackdown on Shiite protests, carried out with the help of other Gulf monarchies, raised tensions in countries with Shiite minorities, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, where four people were killed last month in clashes with security forces.\n\"The problem is political, and not confessional,\" said Ali Salman, whose group calls for democratic reforms to ensure equality and eliminate discrimination among Bahrainis.\nHis analysis is shared by Kuwaiti intellectual Mohammed al-Rumaihi, said it is necessary \"to promote the sense of citizenship\" in order to get rid of religious and tribal communalism.\nFawzia Hani, a Saudi Shiite human rights activist, agreed.\n\"A weak sense of citizenship promotes sectarianism and creates a gap between the state and people,\" she told the seminar.\nHowever, the proximity of predominantly Shiite Iran raises concerns and suspicion in its Arab neighbours who fear their own Shiite communities are being influenced by Tehran, which has clear ambitions to establish itself as a regional power.\nShiism was born as a result of theological differences about the succession of the Prophet Mohammed.\nThe Sunni majority define themselves as the ones who maintain and apply the doctrines, standards, practices and traditions established by the prophet.\n\"We must disconnect from this historical inheritance which blocks us all,\" said Said Hareb, an academic from the United Arab Emirates.\n\"We cannot change the past, but we can help build the future.\"\nBut the reality on the ground is more difficult.\n\"We do not know how things are going to end up next week in Qatif,\" in Saudi Arabi's Eastern Province, during the Shiite Ashura commemoration, said Hani, referring to deadly clashes in late November.\nEastern Province is home to the majority of the conservative Sunni kingdom's Shiite population of around two million, who represent around 10 percent of Saudis.\nThe ceremony marks the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and third Imam of Shiism, by armies of the Umayyad caliph Yazid in 680 AD.\nGulf Sunni monarchies fear 'Shiite Spring' - Yahoo! News\nGot this from HERE: which has plenty of other news to go with this and other issues. Middle East News Headlines - Yahoo! News\nThere is a 3 page thread on this issue just under this one. I believe this is the latest news on this topic. It goes by the title about the same as this title.\n.Egypt Islamists sweep early election results\nBy Adam Plowright | AFP \u2013 2 hrs 20 mins ago. 3 Dec. 2011\nEarly results from Egypt's first post-revolution election showed Islamist parties sweeping to victory, including hardline Salafists, with secular parties trounced in many areas.\nPartial figures trickled in for the areas of the country that voted in record numbers on Monday and Tuesday, confirming earlier predictions that Islamist parties would win at least two thirds of the ballots cast.\nIn northern Port Said, the moderate Islamist alliance led by the previously banned Muslim Brotherhood triumphed with 32.5 percent of votes for parties, while the hardline Al-Nur party gained 20.7 percent, the Al-Ahram daily said.\nThe liberal Wafd party won 14 percent, while another Islamist party, Al-Wassat which advocates a strict interpretation of Islamic law, recorded 12.9 percent, according to the state-run newspaper.\nIn the southern Red Sea district, the Brotherhood's alliance won 30 percent, while secular coalition the Egyptian Bloc came in second with 15 percent, it said.\nFull results after the first voting -- which saw 62 percent turnout -- were initially meant to have been published on Wednesday but have been delayed several times.\nThere appeared few bright spots for the liberal secular movement which played a key role in the overthrow of the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak in February after an 18-day uprising.\nIt has since splintered and been outgunned by the more organised Brotherhood, well known to Egyptians because of its decades of opposition to the Mubarak regime and its extensive charitable and social work.\n................... Please read the entire news story as it continues ........................\nEgypt Islamists sweep early election results - Yahoo! 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(Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com)\nA new study reviews the worst-reviewed actors in Hollywood.\nWebsite GoCompare.com recently put a survey to see who had the worst record of movies among movie stars by analyzing Metacritic scores for each actor\u2019s films over the last 20 years. As a result, Jessica Alba and Mike Epps were at the top of the list of the worst-reviewed actors of the previous 20 years.\nAlba had an average Metacritic score of 39 out of 100, with 59% of her movies received a negative review to just 5% of positive reviews. The actress, who has starred in films such as Fantastic Four, Sin City, and Machete had a worse track record than other famous actresses including Jessica Biel, Heather Graham, and Radha Mitchell, who placed right behind her.\nGiffoni Valle Piana, Sa, Italy \u2013 July 14, 2012 : Jessica Alba at Giffoni Film Festival 2012 \u2013 on July 14, 2012 in Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy (GIO_LE / Shutterstock.com)\nMeanwhile, Mike Epps topped the list of actors with a 38.3 average Metacritic score out of 100. Epps, who starred in hit movies such as Next Friday, Uncle Drew and Resident Evil: Extinction, was right ahead of Kevin Pollack, Josh Duhamel and surprisingly Robin Williams.\nGoCompare gathered data from IMDb and to be eligible to appear not the list; the actor had to have appeared in at least 20 movies in the last 20 years. They also had to have a lead role in the film. An average calculated Metacritic grade based on the scores for each film.\nLOS ANGELES \u2013 AUG 16: Mike Epps at the Los Angeles Premiere of \u2018Sparkle\u2019 at Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater on August 16, 2012 in Los Angeles, California (Phil Stafford / Shutterstock.com)\nThe analysis of actors is not the first time GoCompare analyzed actors. The website previously completed a study of actors from the last ten years and tracked the highest ranking actors and actresses, with Adam Driver and Carey Mulligan topping the list. Vincent Pastore topped the list of lowest ranking actors in the last ten years.\nJessica Alba\u2019s Honest Company Sued for $5 Million Dollars\nMike Epps, Katt Williams\u2019 \u2018The House Next Door\u2019 Atlanta Open Casting Call\nT.I.\u2019s New Movie \u2018The Trap\u2019 is Now Casting New Talent\nPrevious articleMeet the First Dark-Skinned Only Modeling Agency\nNext articleNBC\u2019s \u2018Chicago Fire\u2019 Season 7 Chicago Casting Call for a Hip Club Scene", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 233.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.projectq.us/atlanta/georgia_school_chief_loses_job_over_grindr?gid=16908", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GGZS57MDRAOPTSMGC4N6DXTD4AH37Z47", "length": 1902, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.projectq.us", "title": "Georgia school chief loses job over Grindr \u2014 Project Q Atlanta", "raw_content": "The married middle Georgia school superintendent who came out as gay after being outed on Grindr is now out of a job.\nAnthony Pack, the Monroe County school superintendent, agreed to a $172,000 severance package as he was ushered out on Saturday, about 10 weeks after his Grindr pics were distributed to media outlets. That prompted Pack, a married father of two, to come out as gay, go on an extended medical leave, navigate through a divorce and now lose his job.\nVia the Macon Telegraph:\nBoth Pack and the school board had a hand in the agreement, and Pack was not fired, Assistant Superintendent Jackson Daniel said Monday.\n\u201cThis was an agreement that was mutually arrived at by Mr. Pack and the board,\u201d Daniel said, noting that he wasn\u2019t certain who initiated discussions about the eventual pact.\nThe board voted Saturday to accept the deal, with the financial terms amounting to a one-year \u201csalary package\u201d for Pack, whose base salary for the 2015-16 school year would have been $136,700.\nPack says he wanted to return to the job, which he left in March during the medical leave. The school board had other plans though both sides had nice things to say about one another publicly as Pack's ouster was orchestrated.\nSchool board Chairman J. Ray Grant mentioned the quality of Pack\u2019s leadership in a statement on the district\u2019s website.\n\u201cMr. Pack has always placed the best interest of the students at the forefront of the school system,\u201d Grant said. \u201cHis efforts have been reflected in the success of our students and our schools. For that we are and will continue to be most appreciative.\u201d\nPack still faces an ongoing investigation from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office into whether he violated school system policies concerning his system-issued electronics devices.\nPack says he wants to run another school system. Maybe he can add that to his Grindr profile. It happens.\n[h/t Georgia Voice]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.proteachersvideo.com/Programme/17829/managing-a-pfi-contract", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HCJST57TVG43T6KAPFIFUYGNSOBN26A2", "length": 656, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.proteachersvideo.com", "title": "Managing a PFI Contract | ProTeachersVideo", "raw_content": "Managing a PFI Contract\nBridgid Nzekwu and DfES procurement expert Claire Dicks visit Hornsey School for Girls in north London to see if they can get better value for money from their PFI contract.\nHornsey is a specialist performing arts college which has a stylish new building and refurbished classrooms all thanks to a local authority contract under the PFI.\nHowever, there's a downside, there are a number of irritating minor problems all of which can be traced to the way the PFI contract operates.\nThe school is tied into 25 year contracts for most major expenditures: contracts for cleaning, grounds maintenance, property maintenance and management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prunejuicejournal.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QVQDSV6EF3UFGLRUTPSXITG67HKBP6YF", "length": 6228, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.prunejuicejournal.com", "title": "Prune's Juicy Journal", "raw_content": "Prune's Juicy Journal\nBuilding the Right of the Grid House in the Woods\nDecember 13, 2018 by Jerry Gonzales\nThere are many potential reasons which make building shelter in an area out of the limelight. One of these places is in the woods. However, there are many considerations which should be kept in mind before embarking upon such an endeavor.\nThe first thing you must do is to carefully study the portion of the woods you are considering building a house in. Heavy research on the area must be conducted, preferably physically, or failing that, through internet searches and book reading. You must also take into account the type of climate the area usually experiences.\nIf your chosen location is mostly hot and dry, there is an increased risk of forest fires, which means you may have to reconsider your chosen area. You must also assess nearby sources of water. This is extremely important. If this isn\u2019t available in good supply and quality, this makes the prospect of building your house in that area untenable. You must also consider if there is a driveway nearby should you either need more supplies or for any reason need to make an escape from the area.\nThe next question is of resources. It is preferable to use logs which are in the immediate vicinity, as this will save you having to transport logs to the site, and thus risking the \u2018right of the grid\u2019 status of your planned house. If you are planning to do this, you will need the correct tools, including: a chainsaw; an axe; a sledgehammer; a ladder; a tape measure; pliers and a wheelbarrow. In terms of building materials, you will need: foundation materials; logs; insulation materials; doors and windows and roofing materials.\nNow to the actual building of the house. Firstly, you will want to lay the foundations of the building. For this, you will likely need a strip or a raft. Once you have laid the foundations, you will need to fell your logs, debark them and then notch and raise them. The best way to notch and raise the logs is through making vertical cuts to the logs through using a chainsaw, and then knock out wood chunks using a hammer. You then fit the logs. Next, you will need to create two gable walls for the roof joists to rest upon. These should form a triangular shape to create your roof.\nOnce you have the house built up, another very important consideration is that of generators. You will need either a whole house or a solar generator. Whole house generators are available on the market for prices of around $5,000. These are robust, effective and durable and are created for the purpose of emergencies, so will fit perfectly into your \u2018off the grid\u2019 house in the woods. Solar panels can also be fitted upon the roof of your new house. This will probably be a much more reliable bet in the event of a long-term, universal power cut, as energy from the sun can be used for the power needed to run your \u2018off the grid\u2019 house.\nAfter you have then fitted the doors and windows and have decided the room allocation of each internal enclosure, you now have your very own \u2018off the grid\u2019 house in the woods, ready should the relevant situation arise.\nBest gangster movies\nSeptember 28, 2018 by Jerry Gonzales\nWith the vast variety of movie genres out there today, people still seem to flock to those that are \u201cgangster\u201d themed. Many of the most memorable movies of all time could be categorized as gangster movies. From the Godfather trilogy to Goodfellas and Casino, we all seem to have our personal favorites. They are packed with action, intrigue, thrills, drama that keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat throughout the entire film. Though confident that most of us do not need to be reminded, here are some of the best gangster movies.\nGoodfellas (1990) No one can forget this movie starring Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesce. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the wonderful performances, intriguing storyline and memorable characters makes this one of the best gangster movies ever made.\nGodfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) This is one of the most popular gangster. They joined the acting abilities of such symbols as Marlon Brand, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, James Caan and a host of other talented actors. The movies included a memorable storyline, outstanding acting, drama, thrills, and every other emotion it could render up. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola the movies garnered 9 Oscars. Without a doubt, these are one of the top gangster movies.\nScarface (1983) Who can forget Al Pacino\u2019s line \u201cSay hello to my little friend\u201d in this gory yet thrill seeking gangster movie. Also starring Michelle Pfeiffer, this gangster movie kept us on the edge of our seat. Not only a great gangster movie but also one of the best thriller movies as well.\nPulp Fiction (1994) A deep, dark gangster movie not for the faint of heart, but an outstanding film directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring such icons as John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, this gangster movie kept us thinking. Excellent acting, intriguing storyline, unforgettable characters, makes this movie a two thumbs up for one of the top gangster movies ever made.\nDonnie Brasco (1997) A top-notch gangster movie that starred Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. The chemistry between these two actors made this movie an unforgettable one. Great storyline, roller coaster of emotions and a wonderful supporting cast puts this movie as a top-notch gangster movie.\nCasino (1995) Not much to say about this gangster movie, it speaks for itself. Starring a list of top actors including Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesce, and Sharon Stone and directed by Martin Scorsese. This movie combines an unforgettable cast, great chemistry, and an amazing storyline. It definitely deserves a spot on the list of top gangster movies ever made.\nThough there are many more that are on this list, these are just a few that have been extremely memorable. The genre of gangster movies reaches way back to 1912 and they have just become better with time. They draw us in and keep us under their spell. We will remember many of them for their fantastic actors, intriguing storylines and twists, and turns. 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Stem Cell Study Indicates Maybe So\nScientists report in the current issue of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine that they are close to developing a new and effective way to treat tooth decay that fully restores the tooth rather than requires it to be filled, capped or extracted. The method, which uses stem cells, could prove especially useful in treating the kinds of cavities leading to that most dreaded and painful procedure \u2014 the root canal.\nDurham, NC (PRWEB) June 12, 2013\n\u201cDental cavities and inflammation of the surrounding pulp is a challenging public health issue, as tooth decay not only can cause a patient great pain but it also can lead to other serious health issues including heart disease,\u201d explained Misako Nakashima, DDS, Ph.D., of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Obu, Japan. \u201cGenerally we treat deep cavities by capping the tooth and removing any inflamed pulp surrounding it. But this has limited success and the problem frequently progresses until the tooth must be removed.\u201d\nIn this newest study, conducted by Dr. Nakashima and several of her NCGG colleagues along with scientists from Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories in Kagoshima and from the School of Dentistry at Aichi-gakuin University in Nagoya, the goal was to test a stem cell-based therapy that would regenerate the dentin-pulp complex and, consequently, totally restore the tooth\u2019s structure and function. At the same time, they wanted to assess the safety of pulp stem cell transplantation in humans as a prelude to upcoming clinical trials.\nThey began by performing root canals on a group of 18 dogs, collecting the pulp stem cells and then treating them in the lab with a growth factor called granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF). They then transplanted the treated cells back in the dogs, with each animal receiving its own cells to reduce the chance of rejection.\n\u201cOther studies demonstrated the therapeutic effects and safety of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for various diseases. There have been no preclinical reports, however, to support the use of pulp stem cells as a potential treatment for pulpitis in clinical trials,\u201d Dr. Nakashima said. \u201cWe also knew that previous studies involving the spinal cord show that combining G-CSF with stem cells derived from other types of tissues, bone marrow stromal cells, neuronal stem cells and amniotic fluid stem cells had several benefits. So we reasoned that G-CSF might positively impact the pulp stem cells, too.\u201d\nWhen they examined the results, which included comparing the G-CSF treated cells to a control group of non-treated cells, they found the cells did indeed regenerate the pulp tissue and completely filled in the dogs\u2019 root canals.\n\u201cWe also noted that the pulp stem cells treated with G-CSF yielded a significantly larger amount of regenerated dentin-pulp complex than those without it,\u201d Dr. Nakashima observed. \u201cAlso noteworthy was the reduced number of inflammatory cells, the decrease in cell death and the significant increase in neurite outgrowth (the projections that transfer a cell\u2019s impulses compared to those without G-CSF). Furthermore, there was no evidence of toxicity or adverse events.\u201d\nBased on these preclinical results of efficacy and safety, a clinical trial of pulp regeneration has already been initiated with the permission of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, she added.\n\u201cThis first preclinical demonstration of the efficacy and safety after transplantation of clinical-grade pulp stem cells together with G-CSF for dentin-pulp regeneration is very encouraging,\u201d said Anthony Atala, M.D., Editor of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine and director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.\nThe full article, \u201cA novel combinatorial therapy with pulp stem cells and G-CSF for total pulp regeneration,\u201d can be accessed at http://www.stemcellstm.com.\nAbout AlphaMed Press: Established in 1983, AlphaMed Press with offices in Durham, NC, San Francisco, CA, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, publishes two other internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals: STEM CELLS\u00ae (http://www.StemCells.com), celebrating its 31th anniversary in 2013, is the world's first journal devoted to this fast paced field of research. The Oncologist\u00ae (http://www.TheOncologist.com), also a monthly peer-reviewed publication, entering its 18th year, is devoted to community and hospital-based oncologists and physicians entrusted with cancer patient care. All three journals are premier periodicals with globally recognized editorial boards dedicated to advancing knowledge and education in their focused disciplines.\nAlphaMed Press/Stem Cells Translational Medicine\nSchematic diagrams demonstrating the mechanism of pulp regeneration after transplantation of pulp stem cells with G-CSF in acanine pulpitis model in permanent mature teeth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 7033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pxdrive.com/album/ASHLEE+SIMPSON_pictures_zcpic/5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:14Z", "digest": "sha1:PJHRBR45AGQDALEKNSFREAEWRL2CH2YG", "length": 1519, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pxdrive.com", "title": "ASHLEE SIMPSON in pictures and photos, There are 543 pictures in this album", "raw_content": "Lucy Pinder : together with Ashley simpson\nLucy Pinder : large photo with Ashlee simpson\nAshlee Simpson : at Dream Bigger Studios to record a message for President-Elect Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California on January 13th, 2009\nAshlee Simpson : entering Dream Bigger Studios to record a message for President-Elect Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California on January 13th, 2009\nAshlee Simpson : spotted at Dream Bigger Studios to record a message for President-Elect Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California on January 13th, 2009\nAshlee Simpson : about to enter the Dream Bigger Studios to record a message for President-Elect Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California on January 13th, 2009\nAshlee Simpson : at the Dream Bigger Studios to record a message for President-Elect Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California on January 13th, 2009\nAshlee Simpson celebrated her 25th birthday with her sister Jessica Simpson at Wet Republic at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on October 3rd 2009 1\nAshlee Simpson celebrated her 25th birthday with her husband Pete Wentz and her sister Jessica Simpson at Wet Republic at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on October 3rd 2009 4\nThere are 543 pictures of ASHLEE SIMPSON, on 55 pages (you are on page 5), use the numbers at the top for more ASHLEE SIMPSON pictures and photos, If you have more pics for this album, Please add them and mention ASHLEE SIMPSON anywhere in the title of the picture or in its description so we can pick it up and put it in this album", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 18426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.qatarbusinessstandard.com/vancouver-immigration-consultants-discuss-age-of-dependency/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:30Z", "digest": "sha1:DMLIAPAAS6JAVP2YFIOKKSBHWHCQLBT5", "length": 2300, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.qatarbusinessstandard.com", "title": "Vancouver Immigration Consultants Discuss Age of Dependency | Qatar Business Standard", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Education and Training \u00bb Vancouver Immigration Consultants Discuss Age of Dependency\nVancouver Immigration Consultants Discuss Age of Dependency\nVANCOUVER, BC\u2014(Marketwired \u2013 March 15, 2018) \u2013 As Canadian Immigration Consultants, the team members at Racer Immigration understand that age is a major factor when applying for permanent residence, particularly if children are involved. For more, go to: http://racerimmigration.com/canadian\u2013immigration\u2013consultants\u2013discuss\u2013age\u2013of\u2013dependency/\nWhen the Conservative Government was in power in 2014, the age for dependent children was lowered to 18. However, the Liberal Government restored the age of dependency to less than 22 as of October 24, 2017. What this means is that children less than 22 years old. If you are 22 years old, you no longer qualify. But if you are 21 years old, 11 months, you still qualify. could once again be included in their parent's applications for permanent residence in Canada.\nThis was one of the Liberal Government's major campaign promises. Previously, children over 18 had to apply for permanent residence based on their own merits. And the potential for being separated discouraged many families from considering a future in Canada.\nIn fact, the Regulatory Impact Assessment Statement (RIAS) noted that \u201cwhen families are able to remain together as an economic household unit, their integration into Canada and their ability to work and contribute to their communities improves.\u201d\nThe reasoning behind the rule reversal was that the Liberal Government felt that encouraging families to come to Canada would potentially boost the economic and social enhancement of many communities.\nIncreasing the age of dependency was welcome news for many immigrant families. Although the law does not work retroactively, humanitarian and compassionate claims may offer some flexibility for family members who have been left behind.\nFor families with adult children which were previously exempt from an application to come to Canada, contact Racer Immigration. As a team of certified immigration consultants, Racer Immigrations can help families stay together. Through expert consulting, they can make Canada a viable destination for people around the world. For more, contact Racer Immigration at (778) 688\u20134848.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_thomas_sowell/voting_at_a_crossroads", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:44YZFUQLVUPT4NGO2LQBOXOSNCUY5ZNU", "length": 4500, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.rasmussenreports.com", "title": "Voting at a Crossroads - Rasmussen Reports\u00ae", "raw_content": "Voting at a Crossroads\nIt is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.\nThat is because the front-runners in both political parties are not merely inadequate but appalling -- and the vote in this Tuesday's primaries may be the last chance for the voters to unite behind someone else.\nThe trends that brought us to this crucial day go back for years. But whatever the paths that led to this crossroads, we are in fact at a crossroads and our future, and our children's futures, depend on whether we can come up with some presidential candidate better than either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.\nIn other times and in other conditions, one bad president could not ruin a great nation. We survived Jimmy Carter and we may survive Barack Obama, but there is no guarantee that we can survive an unlimited amount of reckless decisions in a dangerous world.\nThe dangers are both internal and external. Two of our bitterest enemies -- Iran and North Korea -- are openly declaring their desire to destroy us. And both are developing intercontinental missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.\nThese and other mortal dangers are a product of the feckless foreign policies carried out by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as the Obama administration weakened our military forces while our adversaries around the world have been rapidly strengthening theirs.\nWe will be lucky to survive the damage that has been done already. A third consecutive term of such policies, with Hillary Clinton in the White House, can be suicidal.\nInternally, Hillary Clinton's whole political career has been based on polarizing the American population by race, sex, class and any other way that will serve her political interests. This kind of cynical political exploitation can take the \"United\" out of the United States, and Balkanize us into an internal war of each against all. That is a war in which we can all lose.\nAs for the Republicans' front-runner, what is there left to say about Donald Trump? Almost daily he demonstrates that he lacks the maturity, the depth and the character required to lead a nation facing a complex range of dangers.\nIt is not a question of his having flaws, which we all have. But what kind of warped character does someone have at his core who can mock a prisoner of war who was tortured for years by our enemies, mock someone else with a physical defect, reply to questions with gutter-level insults, and offer childish boasts about what he is going to do, instead of specifics about how?\nThese are not subtle nuances. They are blatant revelations about something fundamentally wrong. Too many people missed similar revelations about Barack Obama. For that we have already paid a price, and we will continue to pay a price, even after he is gone. So will generations yet unborn.\nThere is a reason why polls repeatedly show Donald Trump producing the highest negative reactions of any candidate of either party. Yet the small hard core of Trump supporters seem oblivious to his antics, his recklessness and his all-consuming ego.\nSome of these supporters may simply not be paying careful attention. But there have also been some very knowledgeable and intellectually talented people who have backed Trump. Sometimes it takes a high IQ to evade the obvious.\nWhat does Trump offer his supporters that makes them so willing to overlook so much? He boldly articulates the resentment and anger they feel at having been betrayed by smug elites in general and the Republican establishment in particular.\nCharismatic leaders who articulated the just grievances of the people have often risen to power on the basis of that talent alone. And those who put them in power have often paid a catastrophic price afterwards. That story was repeated in countries around the world in the 20th century.\nWill that story be repeated in America in the 21st century? The vote on March 15, 2016 may give us a clue.\nThe only candidate who has any real chance to stop Donald Trump at the ballot box is Ted Cruz. But the Republican elite, who have never liked Senator Cruz, may prefer to stop Trump with chicanery at the convention. That can cost Republicans the votes of Trump's followers, putting Hillary Clinton in the White House -- and the country on the ruinous road to a point of no return.\nViews expressed in this column are those of the author, not those of Rasmussen Reports .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 7060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.razarumi.com/tag/tour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:C4F2UONP3STYFVUFKZOKVEJ5IGUTLZBQ", "length": 160, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.razarumi.com", "title": "Jahane Rumi | tour Archives - Jahane Rumi", "raw_content": "Is it just cricket? Indian team should have come to Pakistan\n\u201cThe tour\u2019s cancellation means that terrorists have won; this is what they wanted to achieve.\u201d I...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 6104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rcseagles.org/page/rcs.whychoose", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:M4NTKFEVEF3TYB7NTQQ6OJ6ZPDIJ7OWJ", "length": 6789, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.rcseagles.org", "title": "Rosehill Christian School", "raw_content": "1. In what way does the school combine Christianity and Learning?\nRosehill Christian School integrates God\u2019s Word through every subject. RCS hires teachers that are not only highly qualified as instructors but also are committed to the Lord. This atmosphere is complemented through a variety of methods, including weekly chapel services and Bible classes, regular prayer time, teacher-led devotionals, leadership challenges, service hours in community, Pinnacle (our annual spiritual retreat), and mission trips in conjunction with the ministry of Living Water International.\n2. Must all children come from Christian homes or are some non-Christian homes represented?\nRCS\u2019s mission is to provide excellence in Christ-centered education as an extension of the Christian home. At the outset, we covenant with families who are like-minded spiritually. One parent will need to declare that he or she is a believer and can share about his/her relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior.\n3. Is there a denominational emphasis in the school?\nRCS is an inter-denominational school. Scripture is taught as the infallible and inerrant Word of God. Denominational and controversial differences that detract from Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross are referred back to the student\u2019s parents and Pastor to address. However, our statement of faith defines what is emphasized and taught to students at RCS. A \u201cStatement of Faith\u201d must be signed as a requirement for admissions.\n4. What are the qualifications of your faculty?\nWhile many of our teachers hold a Master\u2019s degree and have years of experience, our minimum qualifications are that Elementary teachers hold a Bachelor\u2019s Degree with Teaching Certification and all Middle and High School teachers hold a minimum of a Bachelor\u2019s Degree with an emphasis in the subject that they teach.\n5. What is the teacher-student ratio?\nClass size is determined upon the available classroom space for instruction as well as the level of the students. From year to year this may change depending on the size of the assigned classrooms and square footage. Maximum class size ratios per teacher are; Preschool 12 or 14 to 1 depending on age, Kindergarten 16 to 1 ratio, Elementary is either 16 to 1 for smaller classrooms or 18 to 1 for the larger classrooms, and MS and HS are 20 to 1 ratio maximum unless it is a dual-credit course which sometimes exceeds this total. Usually most class sizes are smaller than the maximum ratio as it is our intention to keep class sizes small for greater teacher/student interaction and relationships.\n6. What percentage of last years\u2018 students returned for the current year?\nIn K-12th grade the school experienced a 92% retention rate of current students.\n7. What rules will my child be expected to follow?\nRules for students will vary depending on the grade level of the student. The best way to review rules, policies, and/or guidelines is to see a copy of our Parent/Student Handbook which you can find on our website or by clicking here.\n8. How do you challenge students academically?\nRCS offers a rigorous college preparatory education designed to meet the needs of the average to above average student. Beginning in elementary with Guided Reading and specialized math groups, student\u2019s individual needs are assessed and the curriculum is adapted to provide challenge. Continuing through junior high and high school, honors, AP and dual-credit classes are taught on campus, with both challenging content and personalized attention in order to maximize individual student achievement.\n9. Are there any honors and/or advanced placement courses offered?\nYes, we offer AP courses as well as 16 different dual - credit classes taught on our campus for juniors and seniors. This gives an RCS graduate the opportunity to enter college well into their sophomore year. Students entering 8th - 10th grade may also be qualified to take honors classes and receive honors credit.\n10. What are some of the extra-curricular activities?\nRCS offers fine arts including choir, music, and visual arts, athletics, yearbook, technology courses, Life Skills, and foreign languages.\n11. What about your athletic program?\nRosehill offers an athletic program that is first class in every way, with facilities second to none. The coaching staff is highly qualified with an emphasis on both competitive excellence and Christian leadership development of the student athlete. We have won district championships in football, and our boys\u2019 soccer and basketball teams are regional finalists. Girls\u2019 volleyball is perennially playoff bound, and our girls\u2019 basketball team is the reigning TAPPS 3-A state champs. Our spring sports are baseball, golf, and track. Our track team has several qualifiers, both boys and girls, for the state meet with state champions in boys\u2019 high jump and shot putt in recent years. Cheerleading runs through winter and they have been recognized as National champs in the past. Greater things are on the horizon, as we are Rosehill Christian and \u201cEAGLE STRONG.\u201d\n12. What textbooks would my child be using?\nRosehill Christian School utilizes a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum incorporating the best of Christian and secular materials, in accordance with current educational research and standards. This includes curriculum materials developed by leading educational institutions including Houghton Mifflin, Holt, McDougal-Littel, Scott Foresman and Bob Jones University to list just a few.\n13. Is the school a member of a national association or accredited?\nYes, RCS is accredited through AdvancED (formally known as SACS-CASI), and ICAA (International Christian Accrediting Association). We are also members of HAIS, ACSI, and TAPPS. Our students usually compete through these latter organizations in academics, athletics and fine arts.\n14. How much involvement are the parents expected to have in the life of the school?\nRCS is blessed to have many parents involved in the life of our school. There are regular volunteer opportunities within the elementary school as well as parent organizations throughout the school. The most prominent parent organizations are PTO, RCS Athletic Booster Club, and Mom's in Prayer.\n15. What are your admission\u2019s requirements?\nAlong with requiring a parent to be a believer and like-minded in faith, student academic testing is done to make sure students can be academically successful at RCS. We accept students who are average to above average in ability level and have no prior discipline issues. The last step of Admissions involves a family interview with the appropriate administrator. In the process, it\u2019s the school\u2019s goal to determine if it can meet the needs of the student and move him or her forward spiritually, academically, physically, and emotionally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redbullsacademy.com/red-bulls-and-nj-youth-soccer-commence-boys-young-olympians-tryouts-2004-and-club-njys-training-2005/?print=y&F_All=y&print=y", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:OAKM4E6KDXIRDE5Y4P6ZNK7L2Z3254DX", "length": 3282, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.redbullsacademy.com", "title": "Red Bulls and NJ Youth Soccer Commence Boys Young Olympians Tryouts (2004) and Club NJYS Training (2005) - Training News - News | Redbulls Academy", "raw_content": "Home>News>Red Bulls and NJ Youth Soccer Commence Boys Young Olympians Tryouts (2004) and Club NJYS Training (2005)\nRed Bulls and NJ Youth Soccer Commence Boys Young Olympians Tryouts (2004) and Club NJYS Training (2005)\nHARRISON, N.J. (December 1, 2015) \u2013 The New York Red Bulls and NJ Youth Soccer opened the winter season with tryouts for its Young Olympians Program (birth year 2004) and training for Club NJYS (birth year 2005). Red Bulls youth trainers led the sessions in four NJ regional areas, connecting with hundreds of today\u2019s young players across the state.\n\u201cBoth of these programs provide a fantastic opportunity for young players to participate in a professionally structured youth soccer program,\u201d Director of Red Bulls Training Programs Dave Jervis said. \u201cWorking with NJYS on these initiatives helps connect us to the grassroots youth soccer community, one of the key priorities for our club. We are hopeful that these programs continue to be a scouting pathway for talented players to progress into the Red Bulls Academy system.\u201d\nBoth programs are designed to introduce young players to the NJ Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP) training curriculum. The program also provides players with a potential pathway into the Red Bulls Regional Development School (RDS). This is the second season that these programs are collaborating and, already, there are examples of players being identified into the Red Bulls Academy, an opportunity for the most talented players. Both programs are led by Red Bulls\u2019 professional youth coaches.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s great because the ODP\u2019s a great program and now Red Bull is one of the best development programs in the country,\u201d New York Red Bulls defender and former ODP player Matt Miazga said. \u201c[The ODP] was good because you were playing with the best players in the state of New Jersey and then you move on to the region. It was good when you were training with those guys and the coaches were top tier so it was good to get that level of competition.\u201d\nThe second of two regional tryouts dates for Young Olympians boys (2004 birth year) will be held at the dates, times and locations below:\nCentral (Pennington): December 5, 10:30 am \u2013 12:00 pm (The Pennington School)\nSouth (Glassboro): December 5, 2:30 pm \u2013 4:00 pm (Rowan University)\nNorth (Hanover): December 12, 9:00 am \u2013 10:30 am (Red Bulls Training Facility)\nShore (Marlboro): December 12, 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (Marlboro Middle School)\nThe second regional training session for Club NJYS boys (2005 birth year) will be held at the dates, times and locations below:\nCentral (Pennington): December 5, 9:00 am \u2013 10:30 am (The Pennington School)\nNorth (Hanover): December 5, 9:00 am \u2013 10:30 am (Red Bulls Training Facility)\nShore (Marlboro): December 5, 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (Marlboro Middle School)\nThese programs will consist of a variety of regional training sessions focused on improving the player\u2019s technical ability and tactical awareness while exposing players and parents to a US Youth Soccer and NJYS ODP environment. The program will also include a small-sided festival for all players. Pre-registration is required for all participants. Click here to register, see schedules and complete program information that is posted on the ODP page of www.njyouthsoccer.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.regionalcommissions.org/escwa-award-for-gender-equality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QGZTUVFKFT5M2SXQMNOSXCR2NKE7JWLW", "length": 1602, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.regionalcommissions.org", "title": "ESCWA Award for Gender Equality | The UN Regional Commissions", "raw_content": "The first ESCWA Award on Advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women was presented by Ms. Rima Khalaf, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), to three staff members. The award is delivered for the first time and constitutes a milestone for ESCWA, which is integrating gender perspectives in its plans, policies and programmes.\nAt a ceremony held on Friday 12 December 2014 at the United Nations House in Beirut, Ms. Khalaf handed out gold, silver and bronze awards to Ms. Nouhad Hayek of the Conference Services Section, Ms. Neda Jaafar of the Statistics Division and Mr. Raydan Al-Saqqaf of the Social Development Division respectively, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to advancing gender equality and for playing an instrumental role in shaping the recent gender equality approach adopted by ESCWA.\nMs. Khalaf said that ESCWA must lead by example when working to shape regional policy in this priority area. She highlighted the pioneering role ESCWA is playing in piloting and implementing the strategic road map on gender equality and the empowerment of women, known as UN-SWAP (United Nations System-Wide Action Plan).\nAs ESCWA Senior UN-SWAP Coordinator, Ms. Mehrinaz El-Awady explained that the aim was to enable staff to better balance their work-life needs. She noted that this award was among several progressive steps recently taken, including the implementation of flexible working arrangements, mandatory gender training and systems to close the gender parity gap at ESCWA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2014/10/16/taking-witchcraft-and-possessions-seriously-with-philip-almond-by-david-mcconeghy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TA3UBKOEUB4G5HV37Q7EBLQGO6ZP24WJ", "length": 6886, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.religiousstudiesproject.com", "title": "Taking Witchcraft and Possessions Seriously with Philip Almond \u2013 The Religious Studies Project", "raw_content": "October 16, 2014 /0 Comments/in Features /by Kevin Whitesides\nIn this interview with Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Queensland and Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, listeners are treated to a wide-ranging survey of the past decade of Almond\u2019s work on witchcraft and demonic possession in early modern England. Beginning with Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Almond was among those that refocused discussions of this material to de-emphasize narratives and methods that had been located too centrally in the twentieth and not the sixteenth century. Witchcraft and possession were not medical phenomenon in any modern sense. They could not be written off as simple psychological episodes. Nor was it appropriate to bring modern tropes of mental health, rationalism, or religion as a private belief into the discussion of what people in the 16th to 18th centuries experienced.\nPerhaps this discourse is largely a boon following Stuart Clark\u2019s seminal Thinking With Demons (Oxford University Press, 1999). This included not just Almond\u2019s Demonic Possession, but also Moshe Sluhovosky\u2019s Believe Not Every Spirit (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Sarah Ferber\u2019s Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France (Routlege, 2004) among many other fine volumes. As a body of scholarship, these works have increasingly sought to excise the present from its intrusive role in the analysis of the past. Can we discuss our historical subjects without seeing them as moderns who are simply living in the past? If this is familiar, you might be remembering some version of the steady drumbeat of David Lowenthal\u2019s now clich\u00e9d dictate that the past is a foreign country.\nAmong historians (and anthropologists) this over-commitment to context may feel weatherworn, but for those in religious studies today it should be axiomatic. If a physician\u2019s first pledge is to \u201cdo no harm,\u201d then the scholar of religion must vow to \u201ctake religion seriously.\u201d Almond\u2019s reluctance to reduce witchcraft or possession to mere psychology is not on its face a rejection of reductionism writ large. He suggests early in the interview that he believes the root cause of the rise of possessions is millennialism or apocalypticism. Though we might be inclined to see witchcraft as a religious rebuttal to modernism, Almond appears unconvinced that the phenomenon can be a clear response to our contemporary understanding of this distinctive period of European history. \u201cIt\u2019s too big a story,\u201d he says, especially when a more obvious alternative is the specific consequences of the Reformation for individual branches of Christianity. If you\u2019ll forgive the pun, the Devil is most certainly in the details.\nWhat is striking about Almond\u2019s consistent efforts to see the immediate and local contexts for witchcraft is the way it suggests that even our modern debates about the definition of religion are secondary to the challenges of historically-situated scholarship. To those who may have earlier leapt to ask, \u2018what is the \u201creligion\u201d that we are taking seriously in the case of Almond\u2019s subjects?\u2019, the response is two-fold.\nFirst, recognize how thoroughly such an inquiry is situated in the present. Such a modern scholarly category imposes an unwarranted discourse on our beleaguered subjects. It cannot possibly matter to long-gone early modern Europeans. Such inquiries benefit only us. If some version of the category advances our understanding of the relevance and significance of our subjects, it does not change the facts of our subjects\u2019 experiences. After all, if we read the cultural guides about our \u201cforeign country,\u201d we haven\u2019t changed the country\u2019s citizens. Indeed, the danger is that in reading such a guide, we will change the citizens to appear to us as our guidebooks say they are. When the past has provided us as many truly excellent documents as early modern Europe has on witchcraft and possessions, what need have we to inject ourselves into their discussions? We have the details we need to compose a full picture of the era, its subjects, and much of the discourse surrounding demonic possession.\nSecond, Almond explains that it is the disconnects and differences between past and present that fuel his curiosity. Why is the past different? The efforts one must expend to answer such a question are wasted if we rush hurriedly to the present for some payoff about today\u2019s society. While one duty of the scholar is to articulate the value of their work for the community that receives it, the receiving community must do the accompanying work of explaining why the present is different. This is a difference that matters to those of us today. It is also a disjuncture in scholarly products. When we fail to cleanly separate the line between past and present, as some works discussing demonic possession have done, the end result is a work that is likely to say more about how our modern ideas about religion or psychology succeed or fail in being persuasive in telling stories about the past for those in the present. A good story is not necessarily the same thing as excellent scholarship. In the former, readers are entertained and may find new ways to appreciate the differences of the present from the past. Only in the latter, however, are we likely to get a sense of what our subjects thought about witchcraft and possession. And then, if we so choose, we might ask, how central such ideas were to those things we would today describe as religious. I suspect, however, that even this mild extension is largely an exercise in anachronism.\nI like to ask myself the following question of historically situated works. Are they tied so tightly to the moment when they were written that in the future they are likelier to be studied as representations of the scholarly moment of their production rather than for what they had to say about their subjects? I would like to think many of us strive to put the history of our subjects forward and not to become mere historiographical bywords for future scholars. I recommend Almond\u2019s recent works as excellent models of being serious about the history of witchcraft and possession so that we might better understand that past on its own terms.\nTags: David Lowenthal, David McConeghy, Historical Approaches, Locality, modernity, Philip Almond, Possession, Religious Studies, Witchcraft\nhttps://i0.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/7838319270_6a40861929_o.jpg?fit=540%2C435&ssl=1 435 540 Kevin Whitesides https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Kevin Whitesides2014-10-16 16:07:322018-08-20 09:01:09Taking Witchcraft and Possessions Seriously with Philip Almond\nDavid McConeghy\nWitchcraft and Demonic Possession in Early Modern England", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 9718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.remotecentral.com/dvd/xmen.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AHXEC4GQE5JD6GQHJ5KT4ZGKARZD3RMB", "length": 6666, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.remotecentral.com", "title": "RC DVD Review: X-Men", "raw_content": "A 20th Century Fox Home Video Release\n2000, 104 Minutes, Color, Rated PG13 (PG in Canada)\nStarring: Ian McKellen, Tyler Mane, Ray Park, Bruce Davison, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, James Marsden, Hugh Jackman\nPackaging: Custom Box, Region 1 NTSC\nDisc Format: Single Sided, Dual Layered (DVD-9)\nAudio Formats: English DD 5.1, English 2.0 Surround, French 2.0 Surround\nFeatures: Featurette, deleted scenes, interviews, screen test, art galleries, theatrical trailers, animatics, scene selection.\nIt seems that when a studio runs out of creative plot lines they head back to the old standards to work from \u2013 television shows or comic books. With X-Men being a well-developed example of both, they certainly had a lot of source material to extrapolate from. But trying to incorporate it all in a single film that\u2019s logical to both seasoned veterans and the complete layman can be, well, a bit challenging. X-Men does actually succeed at being an enjoyable experience, though it seems that this is almost a setup for things to come. There are so many characters introduced that it\u2019s difficult for most of them to develop much of a personality. So much history and back story is hinted at that it can be a little confusing as to who does what, when, and why.\nThe plot: the world is beginning to experience a \"mutant\" phenomenon \u2013 people who have unusual talents, such as the ability to control magnetism, shoot lasers out their eyes, move objects by mere thought or control nature. A group of political \"normals\", fearing for the safety of normal mankind, are trying to start up a registry of all mutants \u2013 but one mutant in particular, Magneto, will do anything to prevent this from happening. Another more peaceful mutant, Xavier, has instead started up a secret specialized school where mutant children can come and both learn to control their abilities and live a life free from discrimination. They soon discover that Magneto has developed a machine that generates a particular type of radiation that would speed up the mutation process in all humans. But the process is flawed \u2013 since the changes are artificial, the subject\u2019s body rejects them and dies. After enlisting two new recruits, Wolverine and Rogue, Xavier and his superhero X-Men team head out to put a stop to the powerful Magneto and his own evil superhuman crew.\nAlthough I rarely ever watched the cartoon, I was told by a friend who did that it\u2019s best to go into the film and absorb it as a separate work, without expectations based on previous material. I will say that the film felt too short \u2013 I still wanted to see and learn more when the credits started to roll. Hopefully Fox will see fit to complement X-Men with a sequel or two \u2013 at least then the original\u2019s story should be completed.\nX-Men\u2019s DVD video quality is up there with the best. Although the original film was quite dark in the theater, like many others it comes out much brighter on the small screen. Most of X-Men takes place at night or in dark conditions, and while the DVD provides the ability to see greater shadow detail, this doesn\u2019t detract from the film\u2019s moody ambiance. With all of this darkness a well calibrated black level is important, so I was pleased to see that X-Men featured rock solid levels. The transfer contains bright, saturated colors with accurate skin tones. Detail levels are perfect in the widescreen anamorphic transfer with no visible film grain or chroma noise. A small amount of artifacting is evidenced during some high-activity scenes, but you have to look hard to find it. The dual-layered disc contains 7.8 gigabytes of data and is divided into 28 chapters, complete with animated scene selection screens. The layer change occurs at an appropriate point at 2.44 into chapter 9, or 0:32.36 into the entire film.\nThe Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track on X-Men is, put simply, fantastic. Pleasingly excessive and attention-getting use of the rear channels is combined with an impressive amount of bass to create a particularly active mix that really shows off a well calibrated system. The dialogue track is loud and easy to understand at all times, without unwanted hiss or other background sounds. Trebles are well constrained and won\u2019t grate on your ears, while the soundtrack on the whole is mixed very evenly \u2013 this is one movie you\u2019ll be able to crank up without fear of sudden acoustically detrimental surprises. The disc also includes English and French Dolby 2.0 Surround soundtracks plus English and Spanish subtitles.\nX-Men\u2019s extras all lead off of snazzy animated menus \u2013 unfortunately they can take quite a while to complete their gyrations. After viewing them several times you\u2019ll wish for a faster form of navigation. Despite being labeled on the box as a \"Special Edition\", this DVD only seems to contain a small sampling of what extra features you\u2019d imagine could have been available \u2013 perhaps they are saving them for a deluxe edition. First, there\u2019s \"The Mutant Watch\", a 22-minute mockumentary that Fox used to promote the movie on television. Next is an interview with director Bryan Singer, divided into five sections. Hugh Jackman\u2019s (Wolverine) screen test is available, although only a few minutes of it. Two theatrical trailers are included in non-anamorphic 1.85:1 video and 2.0 audio, plus three TV spots and a CD album ad in full-screen video.\nAn art gallery includes still shots of character and production design, while an \"Animatics\" section includes 3D computer rendered storyboards for two action sequences. Although the package announces 10 additional unseen minutes of footage, this is not rolled into the actual film. You can enable a branching version of the movie from the Special Features menu, however all it does is let you press a button at specific times to access a separate insert. If you prefer, you can watch the six additional unfinished \u2013 and non-anamorphic \u2013 scenes individually. X-Men, although only on a single disc, is presented in its own customized package. Why studios feel the need to create a brand new DVD box style every few weeks is beyond me. THX OptiMode system calibration tests are also included.\nFox has had a turbulent ride when it comes to DVDs \u2013 but X-Men only goes to strengthen their new-found support of the format and all that it has to offer. With rumors of an astounding 45 minutes cut from the movie before its theatrical release, I do hope that Fox sees fit to restore the footage into a future edition \u2013 but for now, this disc is where it\u2019s at.\n- Reviewed by Daniel Tonks on November 24, 2000.\nSony 32\" XBR250 WEGA TV using Component\nNuance Spatial Baby Grand 3E & StarSat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 7558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.renew-reuse-recycle.com/showarticle.pl?id=2568", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KYHCSAREDKR3PLNZ5FBQ766XZYMGHWON", "length": 3978, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.renew-reuse-recycle.com", "title": "Renew-Reuse-Recycle | Smart grid and innovative energy-storage device enter service", "raw_content": "E.ON and Schleswig-Holstein Netz have worked together to install a special energy-storage system and to establish data links between customers\u2019 electricity meters and the island\u2019s wind and solar power plants, making it possible to harness as much locally produced energy as possible. If surplus electricity is generated on windy, sunny days, it is feed into large-scale batteries and into small-scale storage devices at customers\u2019 homes. On cloudy or windless days, the batteries supply power for the island\u2019s residents.\nThe purpose of the SmartRegion Pellworm project is to address several challenges of the energy transformation at the same time. It aims to balance the intermittent output of renewables and to use more of this output locally. The technology already deployed on Pellworm could \u2013 in the future and on a larger scale \u2013 help reduce the need for transporting large quantities of bulk power across Germany and Europe and, consequently, reduce the need for network expansion. The nearly \u20ac10 million project is being conducted by a broad-based innovation alliance consisting of partners from industry and science. SmartRegion Pellworm, which received funding from several federal ministries as part of the Federal Energy Storage Initiative, is now entering its decisive operational phase.\nPremier Torsten Albig praised the project\u2019s exemplary nature: \u201cToday the focus of attention in Schleswig-Holstein is on the island of Pellworm, where distributed generation is being combined with innovative storage technology and smart grid management. The island generates its own electricity, stores surplus output in large-scale batteries, and draws on this power when it needs it. SmartRegion Pellworm is the result of an innovative public-private partnership between companies, research institutes, and universities in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.\u201d\nLeonhard Birnbaum, whose responsibilities on the E.ON SE Board of Management include technology and innovation, emphasized that \u201cthe expansion of renewables in Germany has created a situation where on particularly windy or sunny days the supply of power exceeds demand ever more frequently and by an ever wider margin. Consequently, the power system is increasingly pushed to the limits of its capacity. That\u2019s why E.ON is investing in the development of smart grids and large-scale energy-storage technology. We need to learn more about, and gain much more experience with, these technologies. SmartRegion Pellworm showcases promising solutions for the energy supply system of the future.\u201d\n\u201cThis project is a great opportunity to hone our innovative edge and to enhance our expertise in smart-grid and energy-storage technologies here in Schleswig-Holstein,\u201d says Matthias Boxberger, member of the Schleswig-Holstein Netz Board of Management. \u201cWe want to balance electricity production and consumption, thereby making better use of the energy system and at the same time keeping it robust and affordable. This project is about harnessing as much locally produced energy as possible, which will reduce the need for transporting power across great distances. In this sense, Pellworm is a test platform for the entire spectrum of energy solutions for Schleswig-Holstein.\u201d\nAs part of the SmartRegion Pellworm project, the island\u2019s existing power infrastructure was supplemented by a variety of components that make it possible to better control energy flows and to achieve an optimal balance between power output and usage. The integration of large-scale batteries into the regional power grid is one of the new approaches taken by the project. Another is the design of the large-scale storage system, which combines two state-of-the-art battery technologies: lithium ion and redox flow. Other key components of the island\u2019s innovative power system included two automated distribution substations, special converter technology, and an energy management system.\n<< E.ON starts work on Helgoland ... The 'Waste Hierarchy' >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rescuerooms.com/gig-guide/1525/drenge", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RWLLRSPTSKCBNQZZKYQ4LGBCAJFRUL7Q", "length": 1166, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rescuerooms.com", "title": "Drenge Live At Rescue Rooms", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Gig Guide / Archive: 2015 / Drenge\nDrenge, Drenge Live At Rescue Rooms\nDrenge announce their eagerly anticipated second album Undertow, due for release on Infectious Music on 6 April. The first single from the record, We Can Do What We Want, is premiered today online and as the Hottest Record In The World on Zane Lowe\u2019s BBC Radio 1 show. The band will make their US TV debut performing the song live on the Late Show with David Letterman this evening. We Can Do What We Want is available to buy from today via iTunes and it is also an instant grat track for those pre-ordering the album via http://smarturl.it/undertowitunes\nListen to We Can Do What We Want: https://soundcloud.com/drenge/we-can-do-what-we-want/s-pzdsY\nDrenge are Rory Loveless and Eoin Loveless. Undertow is the follow up to their acclaimed self-titled debut album, released in summer 2013. Written and recorded on tour last year, and between their hometown of Castleton and Sheffield, where the band now live, Undertow was produced by Ross Orton and, for the first time, features a third member, Rob Graham, playing bass on three songs; Graham joins the band for live shows.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 171.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.resharable.org/the-15-biggest-hollywood-flops-of-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:PES5WAA3QQLAGHZP2EK7BMX5WOWPBYOE", "length": 692, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.resharable.org", "title": "The 15 Biggest Hollywood Flops of 2015 - Resharable.org", "raw_content": "Not every movie will be a home run. Even the projects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, can lay theatrical eggs in the box office. Or sometimes box office hits can be critical failures. Out of this year\u2019s lot of Hollywood motion pictures, which projects have stood out as being exceptionally awful? Let\u2019s break down a few of the worst.\nAn Academy Award winning cast with a Hawaiian background, what went wrong? Well, the movie was doomed several months before it even opened. During the Sony hack, former chairman of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal, had emailed colleagues regarding her thoughts on Aloha. 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In the case of the Idaho 1st House District, where Republican incumbent Bill Sali is being pressed by Democrat Walt Minnick, polls are all over the place.\nBut one out today in that race, from SurveyUSA, has some especially interesting crosstab information - if it pans out. (The poll was conducted last weekend; 4-point margin of error). From the descriptive sheet:\nFor Sali, the problems are acute, and assailing him from several directions, with the numbers suggesting that the freshman Congressman is his own worst enemy.\nDespite the fact that Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) led Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Idaho\u2019s 1st district, 57 percent to 37 percent, Sali not only trailed Minnick in the horse race, his net favorable rating was the same as Obama\u2019s: minus-14. The survey found Sali\u2019s favorable/unfavorable rating to be 33 percent/47 percent, and revealed Obama\u2019s to be 37 percent/51 percent.\nConversely, Minnick\u2019s net favorable rating was a solid plus-22 \u2014 the same as McCain\u2019s. The poll showed Minnick\u2019s favorable/unfavorable rating to be 45 percent/ 23 percent, and McCain\u2019s to be 53 percent/ 31 percent.\nFurthering the narrative that Minnick\u2019s position in the lead might be more a function of Sali\u2019s negatives than the Republican Party\u2019s problems nationally, the GOP was still seen as \u201cbest equipped to handle the economy\u201d in this poll by a margin of 54 percent to 37 percent.\nAmong the survey\u2019s additional findings: Bush\u2019s approval rating in the district was 35 percent, with 56 percent disapproving; Congress\u2019 approval rating is an abysmal 9 percent, with 78 disapproving \u2014 the lowest in any poll conducted for Roll Call this year.\nSarah Palin, the College Years\nWe raised the question a while back having to do with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's main link to Idaho, her time at North Idaho College and the University of Idaho. The question concerned her frequent changes of venue during her college years, involving thoe institutions and others in Alaska and Hawaii.\nA piece in the Los Angeles Times today, looking into Palin's college years, clears up some of that, and some more; it's a good read for anyone interested in the connection. It isn't especially either positive or negative, but it does fill in some curious gaps.\nHer near-invisibility at the University of Idaho does remain a curiosity, though. Turns out that Jim Fisher, now editorial page editor at the Lewiston Tribune, once taught her in a 15-student upper-level class, but doesn't recall her at all. 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The company has always strived to maintain transparency & ethical business practices, due to which today it is recognized as one of the pioneers offering products like Marine Propellers Castings, Industrial Casting, and Valve Casting along with Pump & Chemical Industry Spares, Grinding & Crusher Parts, and Cement Plants Machinery Spares.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rockypointcentre.com/tenant-handbook/building-operations/tenant-alterations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HLSLXUHERHSU4BHMJZGHDIO2DV4GOUR6", "length": 275, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rockypointcentre.com", "title": "Rocky Point Centre :: Tenant Alterations", "raw_content": "All vendors hired for construction, service work, carpet cleaning, extra window cleaning, or the like must be approved in advance by the Management Office prior to any work performed. 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Frequent hand hygiene can cause some people\u2019s skin to become damaged (known as dermatitis) and allow germs to enter the body (Based on material provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council).\nThe most common form of dermatitis is irritant contact dermatitis. This is mainly due to frequent and repeated use of hand hygiene products, especially soaps and other detergents, and paper towels which cause the skin to dry out. Symptoms may include dryness, irritation, itching, cracking and bleeding, and can range from mild to severe (Based on material provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council).\nAllergic contact dermatitis is rare and is caused by an allergy to one or more ingredients in a hand hygiene product (Source: Australian National Health and Medical Research Council).\nHand care products containing soothing ingredients (emollients) are readily available and can reduce irritant contact dermatitis. Regularly moisturising hands can also help reduce dryness and irritation (Based on material provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council).\nFactors that may contribute to dermatitis include:\nusing products containing fragrances and preservatives\u2014these should be kept to a minimum or eliminated\nnot wetting hands before applying soap\nwashing hands with soap and water immediately before or after using an alcohol-based hand rub\nputting on gloves while hands are still wet from either hand washing or using an alcohol-based hand rub\nusing hot water for hand washing\nallowing skin to dry out\nusing rough paper towels.\n(Based on material provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Council).\nWhen buying hand sanitisers, soaps and moisturising lotions, make sure they are chemically compatible, this will minimise skin reactions and make sure that the hand hygiene products work effectively together. It is advisable to buy hand hygiene and hand care products from a range made by a single manufacturer, as this may help to make sure that the products are compatible. 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When you head out to shop for your new sofa or living room set, you\u2019ll be in need of something that will last you a long time and won\u2019t let you down on style. You want your furniture to be comfortable and livable, but stylish, and in some cases, the centerpiece of the room. And when you\u2019re going for a complete look that will last for many years to come, here are the top four things you should know about how the different types of sofa fabric fit in to making your dreams come true.\nThere are more types of sofa fabric than you think there are. Many manufacturers and sellers of sofas have reported as many as 900 different types of sofa fabric.\nYou can choose from natural fibers (like cotton, linen, wool, silk, rayon) and synthetic fibers (like acrylic, polyester, nylon, polypropylene). And it\u2019s important to note that synthetic fibers will always be more durable and stain resistant than natural fibers, this is a consideration that you should make when you are choosing one of the many different types of sofa fabric for your home.\nThere are many different ways that the types of sofa fabric can be created, including woven, knit, velvet, non-woven, and print. Woven fabrics may have simple or complex designs depending on the type of loom used to weave the fabric. Knit fabrics typically refer to those types of fabric that are adhered to a knit backing in order to increase their stability. Non-woven fabric types, like microsuede are created by the piling of fibers together.\nThere is a right way and a wrong way to pair the different types of sofa fabric. Coordinating patterns, colors, and fabrics is critical in ensuring that the look and feel of your living room is as strong as the fabric you select. Make sure that you pair complementary colors and don\u2019t overdo it when selecting your main sofa cloth.\nIf you remember nothing but these four things when you shop for your next sofa, you\u2019ll come out better than you thought possible. Any of our knowledgable sales representatives can help explain these differences and help you pick the perfect sofa fabric for your lifestyle needs.\nPREV: What You Should Know About Knit Fabric NEXT: Choose Suitable Curtain Fabric", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.safetyalerts.com/p/00/0107c.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3DGVKZVLOLSV73HILGWIQJK724WPW7G", "length": 1170, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.safetyalerts.com", "title": "ATICO Int'l USA Inc. Recalls Lighthouse Candle Holders", "raw_content": "ATICO Int'l USA Inc. Recalls Lighthouse Candle Holders\nFt. Lauderdale, FL (SafetyAlerts) - ATICO International USA Inc. is recalling about 14,000 lighthouse-shaped candle holders. The wooden top of the candle holder can ignite, presenting fire and burn hazards to consumers.\nATICO International USA Inc. has received three reports of candle holders igniting. No injuries have been reported.\nThe recalled products are made of wood (painted white or natural) with a glass and metal top. They measure about 11 inches high and 5 inches wide. A tealight candle is placed in the top of the lighthouse and can be seen burning through the glass windows. There is no identifying information on the product. A sticker on the bottom of the candleholder reads, \"Made in China.\" Rite Aid stores nationwide sold the candle holders from January through March 2000 for about $10.\nConsumers should stop using the candle holders immediately and return the product to the nearest Rite Aid for a full refund.\nFor questions, consumers should call ATICO International USA Inc. at (800) 645-3867 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. 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Our Youth Nights are held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, starting at 5:30 pm with a meal in the PLC, and conclude by 7 p.m. In addition to the Sunday night programs, a variety of events and activities are held throughout the year including a mission trip, sponsoring a Christmas Party for area foster children, a day at Cedar Point, Spaghetti Dinner, a Mother\u2019s Day plant sale, and much more! The youth are the future of our church, but also the church of today! Come join us and have some fun! All are welcome!\nClick HERE for the 2018-19 HS Youth Ministry schedule\nCheck out our Facebook page:Saint Richard Parish High School Youth Ministry https://www.facebook.com/Saint-Richard-Parish-High-School-Youth-Ministry-617221698318666/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\nAdult Core Team\nIncludes trained youth ministers and adults (training provided) who plan the Youth Nights and lead the teens to be affirmed, educated and challenged to live the Gospel. The adults also assist the youth minister where needed in various youth events and activities throughout the year. This team meets two Wednesdays a month.\nAdult Support Team-Adults within the parish who provide food, beverages and/or materials needed for the youth nights and various activities.\nYoung Adult Ministry is a fairly new idea in the Catholic Church and has only in recent years begun to take root in Dioceses and parishes.\nYoung Adult Ministry is designed to help those between the ages 18 and 39 find fellowship within their church community. Through Young Adult Ministry we hope to give voice to the concerns of young adults in our parish, get young adults more involved and active in the on goings of parish life and ministry, and to create an environment that is friendly toward young adults who are questioning, exploring, and looking to learn more about their faith. We are very excited to begin this journey with the young adult community within our parish.\nYoung Adult Core Team\nA group of young adult volunteers who are committed to promoting and uplifting young adults in the parish. These young adults help plan, lead, and provide for various young adult and parish wide events. The Young Adult Core Team meets twice a month.\nYoung Adults and Adults with in the parish who provide food, beverages, materials, and resources needed for various events and activities for Young Adult Ministry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.salaattime.com/ayaat-71-72-at-taubah-the-repentance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:06Z", "digest": "sha1:L6LU5DUDNOF63CHMEA5P2O75OLC7QZSL", "length": 745, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.salaattime.com", "title": "Ayaat 71-72 ~ At-Taubah (The Repentance) \u2013 Salaat Time", "raw_content": "71. The believers, men and women, are Auliy\u00e2\u2019 (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another, they enjoin (on the people) Al-Ma\u2019r\u00fbf (i.e. Isl\u00e2mic Monotheism and all that Isl\u00e2m orders one to do), and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar (i.e. polytheism and disbelief of all kinds, and all that Isl\u00e2m has forbidden); they perform As-Sal\u00e2t (Iq\u00e2mat-as-Sal\u00e2t) and give the Zak\u00e2t, and obey All\u00e2h and His Messenger. All\u00e2h will have His Mercy on them. Surely All\u00e2h is All-Mighty, All-Wise.\n72. All\u00e2h has promised to the believers -men and women, \u2013 Gardens under which rivers flow to dwell therein forever, and beautiful mansions in Gardens of \u2018Adn (Eden Paradise). But the greatest bliss is the Good Pleasure of All\u00e2h. That is the supreme success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sanfranciscoreviewofbooks.com/2017/12/book-review-ryker-by-cheryl-douglas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:M2EE52MCZVIAPEPGX6ONLCLQCF5GOUPK", "length": 2253, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sanfranciscoreviewofbooks.com", "title": "San Francisco Review of Books: Book Review: 'Ryker' by Cheryl Douglas", "raw_content": "Book Review: 'Ryker' by Cheryl Douglas\nCertainly realistic and maybe a little close to home for those of us who\u2019ve been married for a very long time, the conflicts in Ryker are largely internal, and based on what happens when a couple stops making an effort to keep their relationship fresh and new.\nMac realizes her marriage isn\u2019t working, not like it was, so she decides to separate. Honestly, it was a little tough to read about, and also tough to sympathize with her. I\u2019m a big believer that divorce is a last resort and usually reserved for things like abuse or infidelity, not for \u201cI don\u2019t know if I love you enough any more\u201d or \u201cI need to find myself.\u201d So, Mac wasn\u2019t my favorite person at first and she felt a little selfish, which I couldn\u2019t really identify with. Yeah, they had problems, but a separation seemed a little extreme. She was pretty \u201cme\u201d focused at first, and that may appeal to some folks, and yes it was good to see her find some satisfaction out of her life again, but I still kept thinking she could have done it without sacrificing her marriage. Still, as I watched Ryker get his wake up call, it may have been required to really make him see that things needed fixing. Both she and Ryker were completely devoted to family, though, and that link helped keep them working toward a way to rebuild their relationship.\nThankfully, over time, I grew a bit more attached to Mac and enjoyed reading about her and Ryker. Sometimes the plot was a little draggy, and there honestly wasn\u2019t a ton of conflict, but I never wanted to stop reading. I needed to make sure this couple was going to make it! There are sexy parts, which were hot but not over the top erotic. It was, I think, just the right amount of spice to add to the story, was never gratuitous and served to keep movement going forward (especially since lack of intimacy was one of the issues in their marriage).\nAll-in-all a solid, later in life story. Sort of refreshing, honestly, in a world full of twenty-something romance. The author has a solid grasp on the subject and I certainly enjoyed reading it. I understand there will be more stories about Ryker\u2019s family, so I\u2019m betting I\u2019ll see Ryker and Mac again. It\u2019ll be fun to see how they progress as more time passes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sanyubabies.com/volunteer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Q66NKMK3GWMWG5HQDP4NWWRTNEOWGF7Z", "length": 677, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sanyubabies.com", "title": "SBH | Volunteer", "raw_content": "There are plenty of volunteering opportunities at SBH, all depending on your skills base.\nThere are plenty of volunteer opportunities here, all depending on your skills base. We welcome people who are trained in the fields of medicine, social work, construction and accounting, as well as general volunteers who can help within different departments in the home.\nMorning: 7:30am-12:00pm or 9:00am-1:00pm\nMixed shift: 7:30am-9:00am\nGuesthouse: Atleast one night a week with the 5:00am feed or mid night feed\nPlease download, fill the volunteer application form and send it to us.\nProspective volunteer letter\nWe almost entirely relies on the support of volunteers like yourself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scoreit.online/2019/02/08/public-transportation-across-argentina-can-now-be-paid-with-btc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6L6DXMXXSR3PIUYV47U23Y2LNQQJCWPY", "length": 5131, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.scoreit.online", "title": "Public Transportation Across Argentina Can Now Be Paid With BTC \u2013 scoreit.online", "raw_content": "The national contactless smart card that is used to pay for public transportation throughout Argentina can now be loaded with BTC. These cards are valid for rides on buses, trains, subways, and motorboats in 37 cities, including the capital city of Buenos Aires, according to the Argentine government\u2019s website.\nTop Up Sube Cards With BTC\nUsers of rechargeable contactless smart card Sube (Sistema \u00danico de Boleto Electr\u00f3nico) can start funding it with BTC for use in 37 cities in Argentina starting on Thursday, according to local news outlet cripto247.\nThese cards are promoted by the Argentine Secretary of Transportation and used to pay for public transportation services throughout Argentina. They are valid on \u201cbuses, trains, subways and motorboats,\u201d the government website details. \u201cTo travel by bus or subte (underground metro) in Buenos Aires, you\u2019ll need to get a rechargeable Sube travel card,\u201d the Buenos Aires tourism website notes.\nBTC top up of these cards is possible due to the integration of online card funding platform Alto Viaje and fintech startup Bitex. Alto Viaje is listed on the official government\u2019s Sube website as one of the vendors that cardholders can use to fund their accounts. Alto Viaje explains on its website:\nSube is the only card that allows you to pay for public transport throughout Argentina.\nAlto Viaje and Bitex\nAlto Viaje now offers two funding methods for Sube cards: Paypal and BTC. Soon, the platform will also add funding through Rapipago, according to its website. \u201cAlto Viaje decided to use Bitex\u2019s infrastructure for the technology and liquidity it has, a necessary condition to face a project of this magnitude.\u201d\nBitex CMO Manuel Beaudroit was quoted by the news outlet as saying, \u201cWe believe that this type of project is of great importance since it brings technology as disruptive as bitcoin to the common people, demonstrating the true value and the applications it has in everyday life.\u201d He added that the minimum funding amount in BTC is 50 Argentine pesos (~$1.32), the publication conveyed.\nCiting that his company wants to \u201coffer safe and innovative services,\u201d Luciano Verardo, Director of Alto Viaje, said that \u201cthe alliance with Bitex allows us to integrate the payment with bitcoins and new possibilities of financial inclusion for people and companies.\u201d\nIn addition to the metropolitan area of the capital city of Buenos Aires, Sube cards can be used in the cities of Bah\u00eda Blanca, Catamarca, Cipolletti, Comodoro Rivadavia, Corrientes, Formosa, General Pico, General Pueyrred\u00f3n, Gualeguaych\u00fa, Jujuy, Necochea, Neuqu\u00e9n, Olavarr\u00eda, Palpal\u00e1, Paran\u00e1, Partido de la Costa, Pergamino, Pinamar, Rafaela, Rawson, Resistencia, R\u00edo Gallegos, R\u00edo Grande, Roque S\u00e1enz Pe\u00f1a, San Carlos de Bariloche, San Juan, San Luis, San Mart\u00edn de los Andes, San Nicol\u00e1s de los Arroyos, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Santa Rosa, Trelew, Ushuaia, Venado Tuerto, Viedma and Villa Allende.\nDo you think many people will load their Sube cards with BTC? Let us know in the comments section below.\nImages courtesy of Shutterstock and Sube.\nArgentina, Bitcoin, Bitex, BTC, buses, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Funding, loading, N-Economy, payment, public transportation, sube card, subte, Subway, topup, trains, Underground, Virtual Currency \n \nKevin Helms \nA student of Austrian Economics, Kevin found Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests lie in Bitcoin security, open-source systems, network effects and the intersection between economics and cryptography.
\nPrevious Article WSJ: Expert Claims QuadrigaCX Funds Not Stuck, But Missing Altogether\nNext Article Tesla\u2019s Model 3 delivery challenges in Europe are growing pains for a global ramp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 56300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.seansstories.com/2015/01/15/happy-easter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:10Z", "digest": "sha1:DHQF45ZPFGGCPUMDY4JB54RCNA43OH7D", "length": 89, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.seansstories.com", "title": "Happy Easter \u00ab Sean's Stories", "raw_content": "\u2026 yes, I know it\u2019s only January. However, if shops can sell these, I can blog about them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 5021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public4/1942-Willys-Americar.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XUGPIU7BRSNZTXUFMZSICYKFKKVH2OV3", "length": 4308, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.secondchancegarage.com", "title": "1942 and 1942 Willys Americar Brochure", "raw_content": "The People's Car \u2014 The 1941 & 1942 Willys Americar\nIn 1941 and 1942, purchasing a car was an investment in the future. The winds of war were in the air and buyers had to choose a vehicle that was reliable enough to last an unknown number of years and economical enough to operate through possible rationing and resource conservation. For buyers in the low cost field, Willys was a leading option after a successful end to the 1930s. Joseph Frazer's arrival in late 1939 would lead to the company's introduction of the Willys Americar in 1941, and, according to the sales literature for 1941 and 1942, the Americar was the perfect car at the perfect time.\nThe 1941 Americar brochure \"Willys Americar\" presents the Americar as the \"answer to nation-wide demand for pride of appearance, pride of performance and pocketbook satisfaction.\" Measuring 11\" X 8-1/2\", the 8-page, full-color catalog does indeed present the car as a wonderful vehicle. Illustrations show the interior, dash, and exterior body with descriptions proclaiming the \"large, roomy interior\", \"clear-vision safety windshield\" and \"immense storage capacity.\" The chassis is also illustrated and we read that the car's \"virile, zestful performance\" is a result of the 4-cylinder, 63HP engine, \"giving smooth, fast acceleration and quiet top-speed performance.\" Optional accessories shown included a heater, grille guard, fog lamps, radio and wheel trim rings and discs.\n1941 Willys Americar Catalog.\nWhile the formal 1941 brochure made no mention of the Americar's economical friendliness, it was extensively discussed in a 16-page, 8-1/8\" X 10-7/8\" booklet titled \"It's the Truth!\" The brochure begins by highlighting the Americar's model offerings \u2014 the lower cost Speedway and Deluxe models. Features of the car were shown including all-steel bodies, column shifter, hypoid rear axle and XK girder frame.\n1941 Willys Americar brochure..\nThe heart of the booklet comes in the form of customer testimonials and research & development tests.\nHere we learn that the Americar can see up to 35mpg but still has enough power to \"getaway to better than 75 miles an hour.\" Operational cost comparison between the Willys and \"other cars\" are shown that prove the Americar is cheaper in terms of oil changes, tire wear and general maintenance. With this savings, after six years of ownership \"the Willys will have paid for itself.\" The booklet closes with an examination of interior room and chassis specifications. After reading this booklet, the Americar is the obvious choice for anyone looking to spend their dollars wisely.\nThere were 30,100 Americars sold in 1941 and Willys did very little restyling for 1942. In fact, the only real changes came in the form of a longer wheelbase (now 104\"), a vertical chrome divider on the front grille and an improved engine with improved bearings. The engine also saw a switch to cast-iron pistons as a result of the military's growing need for aluminum.\nBy 1942, Willys took Volkswagen's term, \"The People's Car\" and applied it to the Americar, making it their own. In a 16-page brochure titled \"The People's Car\", value and economy are again emphasized, as was Willys' association with the new military Jeep they were producing for the Army. While early 1942 was too early for Willys to really take advantage of what would become an American icon, they still dedicated a page demonstrating that the same engine that was good enough for the U.S. Army could be found inside the Americar.\n1942 \"The People's Car\" brochure..\nThe rest of \"The People's Car\" pages is a mix of what we saw in 1941 \u2014 an emphasis on value and economy mixed with comfort, convenience and safety. In these pages will also get a glimpse of the Americar station wagon, pick-up and delivery truck. It's also worth noting that overdrive and a \"high-altitude head\" was offered on 1942 Plainsman models, increasing compression from the standard 6.5:1 to 6.9:1.\nThe military Jeep was also emphasized.\n1942 production would end in January of that year but, in total, there were 11,910 Americars built in that abbreviated term. While some plans were put in place to resurrect the Americar after World War II, those plans never became a reality and buyers in the low-priced field only had the opportunity to buy the Americar for two brief years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 5196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.securitypology.com/towards-the-impossible-apple-patents-an-ultra-compact-sensor-for-the-iphones-camera/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HEBDQ2P3ZGSW3R6VCSZPIJRX2JMWLLRF", "length": 1507, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.securitypology.com", "title": "Towards The Impossible: Apple Patents an Ultra-Compact Sensor for The IPhone\u2019s Camera \u2013 Securitypology", "raw_content": "Towards The Impossible: Apple Patents an Ultra-Compact Sensor for The IPhone\u2019s Camera\nApple learned from the press whenever the camera would be the great protagonist in a smartphone, and so bet strong from the outset by worry about the iPhone to take good pictures. As well, in the quest to improve this section of Cupertino they have registered the patent of a curved sensor to kill two birds with one stone: the quality by reducing the size of the sensor is improved.\nThe patent has been registered as a \u201csmall size and high resolution camera\u201d, and includes a curved lens to facilitate the entry of light from the outside, Although the total is composed of three lenses (a convex and a concave and convex, type \u2018meniscus\u2019 located at the end of the sensor). Now well what this display of optical translates into the sensor?\nMore compact camera\nAs you have pointed out, one of its main advantages is that you it\u2019s a camera extremely compact, reaching a thickness of just 2 mm, So Apple can follow in their fight for increasingly finer designs on their iPhones and iPads. However, as Appleinsider stands out, this combination of lenses pay a price: Optics tends to generate small distortions in the image, to the firm corrected through software.\nAs it happens in the countless patents registered by the team of Tim Cook, we don\u2019t know if at the end it shall state in a new camera that we would see in future iPhone models. If it is a reference in the calendar of Keynotes, This patent was registered in 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 4286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.selfpublishing411.com/topics/videos/design-videos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:IJUJLIR6UIXT3P6OJFRT3KNZAZZKQBEU", "length": 3704, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.selfpublishing411.com", "title": "Design Archives - Self Publishing 411", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for Videos / Design\nWhat is a Page?\nWhat is a page? Probably the most common question that I\u2019ve been asked over the course of the 30, 40 years I\u2019ve been doing this. See, it\u2019s pretty easy to me, I guess because I\u2019ve been doing it so long but it has, you know, so\u2026people so confused sometimes. A page is simply\u2026OK, if I hold up a sheet of paper, OK, and I look on the front, OK, what\u2019s that? That\u2019s page one. If I flip it over, that\u2019s \u2026 [Read more...]\nFiled Under: Design, Videos\nWhat typeface should I use?\nBasically, there\u2019s two different typefaces, right, or types of typefaces, OK? And they\u2019re either Serif type or they\u2019re non-Serif type, OK. For your Serif type, it\u2019s your Times New Roman, OK, which is your standard type that you see in Microsoft Word. Your standard non-Serif type is Helvetica which you can see is used a lot, you know, for headlines. Everything else is like a variation of that. I \u2026 [Read more...]\nWhat trim size should I use for my self-published book?\nQuestion I\u2019m often asked is, \u201cWhat trim size should I use?\u201d And I\u2026the answer is, you know, standard trim sizes are standard by definition. They\u2019re standard, OK? They all\u2026you know, their sizes, it fit the printing equipment, OK? That was all dictated. Again, it\u2019s got a history, goes, you know, way back. Five by eight, OK, is, you know, the smallest size that you normally see for a trade book and \u2026 [Read more...]\nAre trim sizes standard internationally?\nYeah, I was telling you about trim sizes for trade books and children\u2019s books and I forgot to mention, you know, we throw around trim sizes, like I say 5 x 8. What\u2019s that mean? OK, well, in the US, 5 x 8 means it\u2019s\u2026book is 5 inches across and 8 inches on the bind, OK? If I say the same thing to a European and I say it\u2019s 5 x 8, guess what\u2019s going to happen? The binding\u2019s going to be on the other \u2026 [Read more...]\nDo I need to have my book formatted professionally?\nFive, six years ago, I probably would\u2019ve told you, you know, that trying to do it yourself in the layout department is like, you know, an absolute waste of time. Don\u2019t do it. What\u2019s happened is the program, primarily Microsoft Word, you know, has evolved a little bit. I find more and more and more of the do-it-yourselfers coming in and actually doing a pretty good job, OK, and again, remember, I \u2026 [Read more...]\nDo I need a professional cover designer to design my book cover?\nQuestion I get a lot is, you know, \u201cShould I\u2026\u201d You know, \u201cDo I need a professional designer to design my book, book cover?\u201d And I use the example I\u2026you know, I\u2019m like a\u2026I consider myself like a half of a designer. I mean I know how to use word art and I\u2019ve got a son who is a graphic artist and over the years, even, you know, when he was little, I would spend hours and hours and hours working on my \u2026 [Read more...]\nHow much does a book cover design cost?\nQuestion, \u201cHow much\u2026\u201d You know, \u201cYou\u2019ve talked me into getting a professional cover design. Now, the question is like how much should I pay?\u201d That\u2019s something that\u2019s like all over the place, OK? You can, you know, research and you can get a cover designer that charges $100.00. You can get one that charges $1,000. You can get one that charges $3,000. How much should you pay? Personally, I would not \u2026 [Read more...]\nQuestion, \u201cWhat\u2019s a bleed?\u201d Alright, who knows\u2026I\u2019ve been in the printing business for 40 years. Who knows where that term came from but what it is, if the printing goes off the edge of the sheet of paper, right? The image goes off the edge of sheet of paper, that\u2019s called \u201cbleed\u201d, OK? And they talk about\u2026you know, \u201cWe need an 1/8-inch bleed.\u201d What that is, it\u2019s to compensate for the equipment, OK, \u2026 [Read more...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sfstats.net/soccer/team/4634_Sliven", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DSH25DT3IPTEOUXHETP3IIGX736N77BC", "length": 279, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sfstats.net", "title": "Sliven", "raw_content": "On this page you find all the competetitions Sliven has played in. You can reach The searchable list of soccer/football competitions, including the main stats of leagues and cups and the archived soccer competitions. You can also check the team's standings in these competitions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sgm.org.my/en/?cur=page/page&id=137&title=SGM_Co-organises_Exhibition_Showcasing_World_Religions_and_Global_Ethics", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LTFTA74NHYCXJ2JHVTHYTQ6CABZCE2NH", "length": 3571, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sgm.org.my", "title": "SGM Co-organises Exhibition Showcasing World Religions and Global Ethics | Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM)", "raw_content": "SGM Co-organises Exhibition Showcasing World Religions and Global Ethics\nSoka Gakkai Malaysia and the Konrad-Adenaeur-Foundation co-organised 'World Religions -Universal Peace - Global Ethic' exhibition at Wisma Kebudayaan SGM, Kuala Lumpur to promote better understanding, respect and appreciation of the world religions from July 27 to August 5, 2003.\nThe exhibition was opened by HE JQrgen A.R. Staks, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Malaysia on July 27, 2003. Among those attending the opening were leaders of religious organisations, analysts and scholars from research and academic institutions, and senior journalists. Among the dignitaries who attended the opening ceremony were the Ambassadors of Switzerland, Morocco, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovak Republic, High Commissioners of South Africa, Republic of Fiji, New Zealand and Ghana.\nFollowing the opening ceremony, there was a 60-minute film projection on Buddhism. The film was part of the acclaimed film series 'On the Trail of World Religions' produced by Professor Hans KQng of the Global Ethic Foundation, Germany. The speakers for the panel discussion were Venerable Dr K. Sri Dhammananda, Chief Monk from the Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple and Dr Christopher Boey from SGM with Peter Schier from Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation as the chairman.\nThe 'World Religions-Universal Peace-Global Ethic' exhibition shown in Kuala Lumpur here is an enlarged version of an exhibition created by the Global Ethic Foundation. The original exhibition has been shown at the UN Headquarters in New York, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and United Kingdom. Prof Hans Kting, president of the Global Ethic Foundation writes: \"People of all religions know far too little about one another; above all they know far too little about what all the religious and ethical traditions have in common. This exhibition tries to contribute towards changing that ... it aims to provide orientation and to challenge you to think again about the importance of the great religions for humankind.\"\nThe exhibition introduces six world religions: Buddhism, Chinese Religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. New panels introducing Sikhism, Bahai Faith, Nichiren Buddhism were included. Also highlighted were six core ethical standards which all religions have in common (1) Treat others as you would like to be treated; (2) Every human being must be treated humanely; (3) Have respect for life; (4) Deal honestly and fairly; (5) Speak and act truthfully and (6) Respect and love one another, and be responsible for your partner's happiness. These six basic principles for a global ethic have been accepted by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993.\nIn addition to the panels on World Religions, SGM also put up several exhibition panels introducing its objectives and activities on the first floor of the exhibition hall. SGM publications as well as those from other SGI organisations were also put on display. In addition, photographs of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's meetings with prominent figures including Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Nelson Mandela were displayed.\nFilm shows on all the religions that were exhibited were shown each day from July 28 to August 5. After each film show, there was a panel discussion followed by a question-and-answer session. For the session on Nichiren Buddhism, the documentary \u2018Embattled Buddhist: Under the Rising Sun\u2019 was shown. In total, more than 2,000 people from various faiths attended the entire series of discussions lasting 10 days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shuspectrum.com/news/are-you-autism-aware-promotes-acceptance-with-puzzle-a-thon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MQEF2W36AAMJKQ2J4XZWC7YKGM5S3N7Q", "length": 2720, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.shuspectrum.com", "title": "Are You Autism Aware? Promotes Acceptance With \u201cPuzzle-a-thon\u201d \u2013 The Spectrum Newspaper", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbNews\u00bbAre You Autism Aware? Promotes Acceptance With \u201cPuzzle-a-thon\u201d\nAre You Autism Aware? Promotes Acceptance With \u201cPuzzle-a-thon\u201d\nOn Sept. 12, the Are You Autism Aware? Club gathered on the 63\u2019s patio for a \u201cPuzzle-a-thon\u201d to raise awareness and promote acceptance for those affected by autism.\nAccording to autismspeaks.org, \u201cautism refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication, as well as unique strengths and differences.\u201d\nIt is estimated that one in 68 children in the United States is affected by the disorder.\nDuring the event, club members along with other Sacred Heart students created large puzzle pieces with unique designs to demonstrate the diverse community that supports the club\u2019s mission. The puzzle pieces are meant to signify the complexity of the disorder and how every person affected by autism is different.\nBy the end of the event, the 70-piece puzzle was completed.\nDavid Bordonaro, a junior and member of the club, has learned a lot about autism by being involved.\n\u201cThis club has shown me how autism is a much larger issue than people realize. It impacts families on so many levels,\u201d he said. \u201cOur events help people learn about the diverse symptoms and the effects autism has on people. This makes them more aware and sensitive to the issue as a whole.\u201d\nSenior and club president Julianna Fetherman is deeply devoted to raising awareness for autism, as the cause is very personal to her.\n\u201cMy brother is autistic. I live it. I know the good, the bad and the ugly,\u201d she said. \u201cI just hope people can find it in their hearts to accept others who may be different than them because they didn\u2019t choose to be that way.\u201d\nFetherman says that the Puzzle-a-thon is the first of other great events that the club plans to hold throughout the year.\n\u201cOur biggest event of the semester will be a walk hosted at the football field in early November,\u201d she said. \u201cNext semester we will host a colloquium to further educate people on the cause, as well as a charity kickball tournament and a golf outing.\u201d\nThe club members hope that their message of acceptance and anti-bullying will have an impact on the Sacred Heart community.\n\u201cOur club affects the Sacred Heart community by bringing people together from all walks of life to appreciate something beautiful rather than discriminating the people who suffer from autism,\u201d said Bordonaro.\u201cThe new ideas we bring to campus bring attention to the fact that we are all human and walk on the same green earth. Let\u2019s live together without social division.\u201d\nPrevious ArticleSacred Heart Remembers 9/11\nNext Article Freshman Class Breaks Enrollment Records", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sice.com/en/business-areas", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PT7JXZFU53ZWZUVL5JFDVS36VTBV5B3U", "length": 1057, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sice.com", "title": "Business Areas | SICE", "raw_content": "Sociedad Ib\u00e9rica de Construcciones El\u00e9ctricas (SICE) is a technology company that focuses its activity on providing added value services through the integration of a range of in-house and third party technologies and systems, always with the aim of offering the best solution tailored to each customer.\nDue to this commitment to provide the highest standard of service, during the course of its long existence SICE has successfully delivered and maintained thousands of projects for public and private customers in a wide range of sectors and business areas, from intelligent traffic and transport systems (ITS) to smart cities, as well as environmental and energy efficiency services, communications infrastructure and safety and process control systems.\nIn all cases, SICE does not only contribute its extensive experience and expert knowledge, but also its capability to work on all project phases, from conception (advice, consultancy, design and engineering) to integration (installation and commissioning) and exploitation (maintenance and operation).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 149.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.silkroadgazette.com/eu-warns-of-hundreds-of-chinese-and-russian-spies-in-brussels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PVTIZ5MIA6E2AMBWWTMWD4FYVTLTYYLR", "length": 4090, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.silkroadgazette.com", "title": "EU warns of hundreds of Chinese and Russian spies in Brussels | silkroadgazette.com", "raw_content": "Home All Articles EU warns of hundreds of Chinese and Russian spies in Brussels\nThe \u2018European capital\u2019 Brussels is apparently full of spies. Hundreds of Russian and Chinese agents are reported to be operating in the city, with diplomats warned against entering certain eateries.\nThe European External Action Service (EEAS) has warned EU diplomats and military officials to avoid certain restaurants and cafes in the European Quarter of Brussels.\nMore than 250 Chinese and 200 Russian spies are believed to operate in Brussels, mostly working in consulates and the cultural embassies of their respective countries.\nAccording to the German newspaper Die Welt, it is an open secret that the attaches who accompany diplomats from non-EU countries at embassy receptions are often undercover agents. In addition to Russian and Chinese agents, American and Moroccan agents are also said to be active in Brussels.\nThe Berlaymont is an office building in Brussels, Belgium, that houses the headquarters of the European Commission, which is the executive of the European Union. (Reuters)\nBrussels: A hub for spies?\nBrussels hosts several EU institutions, the NATO headquarters and dozens of embassies, Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and international company representatives.\nThe EU branch of the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International estimatesthat the number of lobbyists in Brussels is more than 25,000, with an additional 10,000 to 15,000 EU lobbyists affecting EU decisions without being based in Brussels.\nBrussels has been at the centre of various espionage claims. Former Guardianreporter Richard Norton-Taylor wrote that the British secret services were spying on their European counterparts to have more advantageous negotiations on EU affairs.\nA European Union flag is seen outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Nov. 14, 2018. (Reuters)\nIt was a fear also felt more recently by EU representatives, who were suspicious of espionage after the UK Brexit delegation obtained a \u2018sensitive document\u2019 within hours of an internal EU negotiators delegation meeting.\nA spectacular espionage case also took place more than 15 years ago. In 2003, at the seat of the European Council, where the heads of government and their respective ministers met, small spy boxes were found in the translator\u2019s booths.\nThese boxes could be activated from outside the building and at a distance. The aim was to intercept conversations of the German, British, Spanish and French delegations. The US and Israel came under suspicion, and a Belgian Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee report in 2010 pointed to Israel.\nChinese spies overflowing Europe\nRecently, the Lithuanian intelligence service recorded in their annual report:\n\u201cWith China\u2019s increasing economic and political ambitions in Lithuania and other NATO and EU countries, the activities of the Chinese secret and security services are becoming increasingly aggressive.\u201d\nAs reported by Lithuania, Chinese secret services tried to recruit Lithuanian citizens for espionage activities and to influence Lithuania\u2019s positions on the independence of Tibet and Taiwan.\nHuawei is playing a leading role as the telecom industry gears up for 5G. (Reuters)\nThe head of the Lithuanian Security Agency added that it is analysing possible espionage \u2018threats\u2019 posed by the Chinese company Huawei.\nChina has denied the claims.\nA similar case occurred in Poland, where a Chinese Huawei employee named Weijing W was arrested and later fired by the company due to espionage allegations.\nPoland is considering a possible ban of Huawei products as a result of the claims. A \u201cpotential ban is still open\u201d, Karol Okonski, the Polish Secretary of State for the Ministry of Digital Affairs, told London-based news website Euractiv.\nPrevious articleChina refutes reports of Uighur artist\u2019s death\nNext articleEU announces plans to keep Channel Tunnel rail link open after no-deal Brexit\nChina says reforms have made military more nimble\nPoliceman stabbed in UK parliament \u2018terror\u2019 attack\nTurkish official slams Europe\u2019s support to PKK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.silverfishbooks.com/hrh-sultan-ismail-s-1957-collection", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:MZQ34HGS6NJPFBH5R4U4UYEZ33T6OGR4", "length": 1371, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.silverfishbooks.com", "title": "HRH Sultan Ismail's 1957 collection", "raw_content": "HRH Sultan Ismail's photographs are famous all over the world except in Malaysia, where we are stuck in protocol. (Singapore would love to grab his portfolio if they had a chance). Most buyers so far have been foreigners. (Japanese top the list.)\nHRH Sultan Ismail\u2019s (yes, the same person the famous road in Kl is named after) collection is a gentle reminder of a gentler, kinder, happier time. An absolutely priceless piece of history.\nAlmarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (1907-1979) was the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, and the fifteenth Sultan of Terengganu. Known for his exceptional ability as a photographer, he was a patron of the Photographic Society of Malaysia, the Camera Club of Selangor, and the founder of the Camera Club of Trengganu. In 1959, he was made an honourable member of the Photographic Society of Singapore and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (United Kingdom). In 1965 he was awarded the EFIAP (Excellence, Federation Internationale de l\u2019Art Photographique) in Switzerland. He is acknowledged as the pioneer of modern Malaysian photography.\nHis photographs are famous all over the world except in Malaysia, where we are stuck in protocol. (Singapore would love to grab his portfolio if they had a chance). Most buyers so far have been foreigners. (Japanese top the list.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 3908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 124.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.silverlakevoice.com/news/into-the-woods-ellie-davies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IHC76HVXXJIWE6AAXY467UISUOZE3RYT", "length": 3571, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.silverlakevoice.com", "title": "Into The Woods - Ellie Davies - Silverlake Voice", "raw_content": "Into The Woods \u2013 Ellie Davies\nNews, Photography June 1, 2016\nFrom the series \"Half Light\" by Ellie Davies\nEllie Davies, the incredible photographer we spoke to last year, is preparing her solo exhibition in London! Opening on July 21st at Kalman Gallery, \u201cInto The Woods\u201d will showcase her new series Half Light.Ellie\u2019s new work explores the dark waters of the riverbank, the work is full of symbolism and the personal relationship between the landscape and herself.\nIn addition to Half Light, Into The Woods will include previous bodies of work in Davies\u2019s woodland series\u2019 including Stars, Between The Trees, Smoke & Mirrors, Come With Me and The Gloaming.\n\u201cWe have no choice but to impose our own preconceptions onto the land, each of us bringing with us the personal experiences and understanding that inform and skew the way we view the world around us\u201d\nThe waters are dark and very still, bordered by riverbanks, rich traceries of ferns and vegetation, textured and colorful. They dissect the space with a false horizon, a barrier that separates us from the twilight forests beyond. From this remote viewpoint we are forced to consider the land from a distance, separate, adrift in the deep and murky waters.\nThis body of work explores the notion of landscape as constructed; imbued with symbolism and layers of meaning. We have no choice but to impose our own preconceptions onto the land, each of us bringing with us the personal experiences and understanding that inform and skew the way we view the world around us. Living out our lives in vast cities, we are alienated from that which is natural, unable to have a truly immersive relationship with it and at best, only able to view it remotely, seeing it as an idealization, constructed and distant.\nGrowing up in the New Forest in the south of England, I spent my childhood exploring and playing in the woods with my twin sister. In Half Light, I consider my relationship with these places, my ongoing attempt to reconnect with the wilder landscapes of my youth and to discover if those remembered and imagined places can be found and captured again, or if, like my childhood they too are out of reach.\nEllie Davies: Into The Woods\nWill run from 21st July to 20th August 2016 at the Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton Road, London SW1 1HQ.\nFor more information, please contact the gallery on 01273 697096 or email enquiries@cranekalmanbrighton.com or visit www.cranekalmanbrighton.com\nABOUT ELLIE DAVIES\nEllie Davies (1976) was born in London and graduated from the MA Photographic Degree Course at the London College of Communication (2008). She has been shortlisted the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 and is the recipient of numerous awards including Kontinent Award (2014), Art Gemini (2014), the Professional Women Photographers International Juried Exhibition (2012), Lens Culture International Exposure Awards (2011) and the PX3 Paris Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards (2010). Her work has been included The Arles Photo Festival in France and is held in private collections in the UK, the US, Central and Eastern Europe, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia and The United Arab Emirates. Her work has been published in several books including WUD: Four Fictional Walks in the in solo and group shows in The Netherlands, London, Paris, Budapest, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg and at the Woods, a limited edition hardcover photobook published by Tangerine Press, and Behind the Image By Natasha Caruana and Anna Fox published in 2012.\nFOLLOW ELLIE ON WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER\nread our the interview with Ellie HERE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sir-robertatkins.org/press-releases/save-tourism/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JO5TGTO7IKVO6LEQBPWW3GH6UI7MHI2I", "length": 1173, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sir-robertatkins.org", "title": "The RT. Hon. Sir Robert Atkins MEP \u2014 representing The North West of England", "raw_content": "Save our Tourist Industry\nRt. Hon. Sir Robert Atkins, MEP for the North West and Conservative Spokesman on Tourism in the European Parliament, today called on the Government to put together an urgent compensation package for rural tourism in Britain.\n\"It is bad enough for the farmers to be suffering as a result of the scourge of Foot-and-Mouth Disease but the tourism industry is being hit very hard as well\" he commented. \"In my own region (North West), the Lake District would normally be preparing for the Easter influx but there is little or no chance of that this year.\"\n\"I am making urgent representations to Commissioner Liikanen, on behalf of my Constituents and the rest of Britain, to seek any assistance that he can give, but this matter is a subsidiary one and largely under the control of individual Member States\" continued Sir Robert. \"The British Government cannot stand idly by and let the good name of Britain abroad be sullied to the huge detriment of tourism, which is losing \u00a3100 million per week as a result of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and other concerns. Chris Smith must negotiate a compensation package for rural tourism with Chancellor Brown NOW.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.solearabiantree.net/reedinglessons/post/abscam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ODIAINPOIQ5VW3N7GC6ZCVMW3CDIEINV", "length": 2845, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.solearabiantree.net", "title": "Reeding Lessons: Abscam", "raw_content": "\u00ab Abscam \u00bb\nWhat else should I call the tale of how Henry Reed almost became a scriptwriter for a 1970s biopic on King Abdul Aziz Al Saud? It's a strange story of anonymous sheikhs, the clash of egos in the film industry, disappearing money, and mistaken identity.\nIn 1975, the director Joseph Losey was approached with an offer to make a feature film about the life of Ibn Sa'ud, the first ruler of Saudi Arabia. Funding for the project was to come from an anonymous source, negotiating through a firm of London solicitors.\nLosey hired Barbara Bray to perform research, and to translate. The Algerian writer, Kateb Yacine, provided a script in French, but his efforts proved disappointing. Negotiations were made with writers Ring Lardner, Jr., and Robert Bolt, but Lardner wanted too much money, and Bolt was \"too indoctrinated with Lawrence.\" Finally, a script was ordered from Franco Solinas, who had previously worked on Losey's Mr. Klein. By now, several years have transpired, and it is at this point in the story that Reed makes his appearance. From David Caute's 1994 biography, Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life (p. 455):\nNow a fatal row blew up. Patricia Losey had been translating Solinas's pages from the Italian as they arrived. Barbara Bray, who didn't appreciate Losey's habit of 'smuggling' his wife in to the work she herself was engaged on, suggested that the script should be translated into English by the poet and radio playwright (Prix Italia, 1951) Henry Reed, who was also the translator of Leopardi and Ugo Betti. The solicitor Peter Stone duly informed Losey that his clients wished to engage 'a first-class literary translator...' Losey was furious: 'I was amazed and appalled at the brutality of your libel by implication of Patricia's work...' To make matters worse Losey persistently referred to Henry Reed as 'Herbert Reed', i.e. the art critic, Sir Herbert Read. Having read 'Herbert Reed's' translation, he declared it inferior to Patricia's: 'I cannot begin to describe to you my rage and perplexity... [your] insensitivity and discourtesy... after Don Giovanni I am quite sure that Patricia's name will be far more known to the mass audiences that Herbert Reed's [sic].' Worse was to come: the principals put the entire project, plus finance, in the hands of London-based Palestinian entrepreneur Naim Atallah, who promptly dropped Losey.\nI was unsure how Barbara Bray might have known Reed, apart from his translations. Then I came across this Wikipedia stub. Bray had been a script editor at the BBC in the 1950s, until she became involved with the playwright Samuel Beckett and moved to Paris in 1961, where she became a well-respected translator, herself.\nIbn Saud was never made, and Solinas's script remained unpublished until after his death in 1982.\n\u00ab Translations Biography Film \u00bb\nNotation for \"Abscam\":", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 7156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sphinxfineart.com/Thomas-Sidney-Cooper-Canterbury-1803-Vernon-Holme-1902-Bingley-Gate-Canterbury-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=6&tabindex=5&objectid=122425&categoryid=12199", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VUY7SZMIIBZNKP6MOP3HG6KAKADCQCJL", "length": 3549, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sphinxfineart.com", "title": "Thomas Sidney Cooper (Canterbury 1803 - Vernon Holme 1902) - Bingley Gate, Canterbury -...", "raw_content": "Cooper - Bingley Gate\nsigned and dated 'T S Cooper/jan 1834' (lower centre)\nLiterature: Kenneth J. Westwood, Thomas Sidney Cooper C.V.O., R.A.: His Life and Work, (David Leathers Publishing, Somerset, 2011), vol.1, p.181, no. O.1834.26.\nA tranquil scene epitomises the harmony of rural England. A little boy rides on a donkey as he herds his cattle unhurriedly through a ford. Thomas Sidney Cooper\u2019s brushstrokes and use of colour perfectly evoke a cloudless summer day.\nBingley Gate, Canterbury is one of four versions of a composition which depicts a bull and cattle being herded by a rustic on a donkey through water, and towards a lane in the direction of Canterbury. The major work, Landscape and Cattle, View of Bingley Gate, Suburbs of Canterbury (Private Collection) dated 1834, was exhibited at the Society of British Artists, Winter Exhibition, 1833-34, no.8. Another slightly smaller version, which omits the youth (herding the cattle) and dated 1833, is titled The Watering Place (formerly in the collection of the late Henry H. Walrond of Somerset). A third smaller oil on panel, entitled Bingley Gate, Near Canterbury, in Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent, has a notice from the Metropolitan Magazine pasted on the reverse suggesting that it is the picture exhibited at Suffolk Street in 1836. It is more likely, however, that it is an early compositional study for the 1834 exhibited work.\nBingley Gate is not identified on any maps or plans of the vicinity of Canterbury. However, the towers of the west gate seen in the distance provide a visual aid to the location. From the evidence provided by the landscape in the four very similar views, the \u2018gate\u2019 appears to have been a local designation for the fording place from Bingley\u2019s Island, south west of the city wall, and formed by tributaries of the River Stour.\nThe study for the bull in the centre foreground of Bingley Gate, Canterbury was also the model for the similarly placed bull in Returning to the Farm of 1832 and appears in a watercolour dated 1849.\nA label on the reverse of the painting refers to an inscription on the back of the canvas, and states that the painting was exhibited at the Society of British Artist\u2019s Winter Exhibition 1834. However, the Winter Exhibition of 1833-1834 at Suffolk Street was already in progress by the date of this painting. A picture titled Bingley Gate was exhibited at Suffolk Street in 1836 (no. 381), but it is very unlikely that Cooper would have sent a painting dated 1834 for exhibition two years later. The 1836 work has not been located and therefore the composition is not known. A review of the exhibition in The Times, 21 March 1836, noted, \u2018this picture contains some excellently painted cattle.\u2019\nHaving shown great artistic promise as a child, Cooper enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy in 1824. In his early years he gave art lessons to private individuals, though his financial situation was made more secure on his appointment to a formal post as an art teacher in Brussels.\nThe prevailing Victorian taste for works by Dutch artists undoubtedly contributed to Cooper\u2019s contemporary popularity: he returned to England in 1831 and cemented his reputation as one of the most distinguished Victorian painters of sheep and cattle. The majority of Cooper's works were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London: from 1833 to 1902, he displayed 266 works without interruption and to this day he remains the longest continuous exhibitor in the Academy\u2019s history. Cooper was elected A.R.A. in 1845 and R.A. in 1867.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 153.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sprinklertalk.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=18075&s=45f46af1f804baed8365bd745f9b383119ddbd79", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MYSOPKTCKL43WKEJFDDEH3YYQTBF5PIU", "length": 2679, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sprinklertalk.com", "title": "Blowing out needed or not? - Questions About Winterizing - SPRINKLER TALK FORUM - You Got Questions, We've Got Answers", "raw_content": "Saturday, September 23rd 2017, 2:32pm\nI have a few questions regarding irrigation systems, as I know nothing about them. I will post each of them individually. Here is the background:\nWe inherited a sprinkler system 7 years ago, when we bought a house built in 1972 in Portland, OR. Supposedly (according to the person who maintained it but didn\u2019t install it for the prior owner) the system was installed in parts over time, as it has both galvanized steel and PVC pipes. A few heads were replaced, some were shut down during the past few years. The system is functional but some of the heads no longer go down, some spray erratically and water the side walk and fences, etc. The maintenance guy tells us that \"removing a sprinkler head is a major challenge; put a wrench to it and the pipe below may crack. One day soon you either see your water bill going high up or a muddy sink hole in your garden.\u201c. The current system has 6 zones, an Orbit controller, a mixture of head types and 3 valve boxes. The house is on a slope so the ground is relatively flat in the front and back but sloping on the 2 sides. We have grass on all sides and some flower/bush areas.\nI asked for proposals from the current maintenance guy and 2 more companies in this business and asked them for their professional opinion about potentially \u201cupgrading\" the existing system. All 3 only wanted to bid only on a new system, stating that probably I would end up paying almost the same for upgrading the old system with no guarantee for its reliability.\nI got the 3 proposals, all of them quoted for a much higher price than expected and with contradicting recommendations and comments, which really confused me. I have no idea whom I can trust (or not).\nThe current maintenance guy has been winterizing the system by draining it (without blowing it) and covering the valves in the 3 valve boxes with isolating pillows. One of the other contractors stated that he doesn\u2019t blow out pipes when he winterizes the system because blowing them out can damage the system and because supposedly there is no need to that where we live. 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Danforth, Artistic Director) has announced the ten artists and theater ensembles chosen to develop new plays and musicals as part of the 2014 Artist Residency Program. The development of these works, which include two 2014 Artists In Residence, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time and Jeremy Bloom/Rady&Bloom, will be held at The Drama League Theater Center (32 Avenue of the Americas) in Tribeca from March-July 2014.\nThe Resident Artists Program, made possible in part by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, offers director/collaborator teams and/or ensembles an opportunity to comfortably develop a new theatre piece as artists-in-residence at the Drama League Theater Center in Tribeca. A residency stipend, significant hours of rehearsal space, professional mentorship, administrative support, and community engagement allow selected artists to fully inhabit an extended, process-oriented residency experience.\nAll artists in the program will also offer insight into their creative process at public events on dates from March-April. To reserve seats, please visit http://www.dramaleague.org or call (212) 244-9494.\nThe Drama League Directors Project has grown to become the preeminent development program for theatre directors \u2013 providing talented artists with career-changing experiences in the professional theatre.\nThe 2014 Drama League Artist Residency Program Recipients\nArtist/Collaborator Team: Rachel Dickstein / Ripe Time\nadapted from Gertrude Stein\nWritten, Conceived, and Directed by Rachel Dickstein\nMusic and Lyrics by Heather Christian\nPublic Event: \u201cEyes A Surprise,\u201d Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.\nPremiering at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in April, The World is Round transforms Gertrude Stein\u2019s modernist children\u2019s novel into a contemporary folk opera fable for adults and children. Written, conceived, and directed by Rachel Dickstein (Septimus and Clarissa) in collaboration with composer and lyricist Heather Christian (Mission Drift), the piece tells a cautionary tale about a young girl who embarks on a personal quest to reach the top of a mountain and experiences firsthand how ambition can both shape and erode a woman\u2019s sense of self\nOn March 25, Rachel Dickstein will offer \u201cEyes A Surprise,\u201d a workshop exploring the methods used to devise the new music-dance-theater work The World is Round. Participants will transform Stein\u2019s text into visual, physical and compositional ideas. The World is Round will have its world premiere at BAM Fisher Space in April.\nRachel Dickstein devised, choreographed, and directed the world premieres of the critically acclaimed Septimus and Clarissa (adapted by Ellen McLaughlin from Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway) at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, Fire Throws at 3LD ART & Technology Center, Innocents at the Ohio Theatre (based on Edith Wharton\u2019s The House Of Mirth), and Betrothed (based on stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Chekhov and S. Ansky) at the Ohio Theatre. Rachel has created and directed other new works for New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, HERE Arts Center, The Ohio Theatre, SUNY-Purchase, NYSF/Joe\u2019s Pub, Lincoln Center Theatre Director\u02bcs Lab, Drama League Directors Project and Seattle\u02bcs Annex Theatre. She has served as a resident director at New Dramatists and Assistant Director to dance-theatre luminary Martha Clarke nationally and internationally. Rachel is developing Sylvan Wood, a site specific collaboration with designer Susan Zeeman Rogers commissioned by People\u2019s Light and Theatre Company.\nArtist/Collaborator Team: Jeremy Bloom / Rady&Bloom\nA Devotional Music-Theater Work\nPublic Event: \u201cEnvironmentalism and Theater,\u201d Saturday, June 14, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.\nThe Upper Room is a devotional music-theater work incorporating play, choral concert, and congregation. Sunday by Sunday, we witness the miraculous human-to-sea-creature-humanoid transformation of a small religious cult on a remote Maine island that is being submerged by sea-level rise. Quirky small-town characters and zany supernatural tales resonate sharply in contrast with an earnest \u201cbootstrap\u201d American spirituality, and the very real dangers of climate change and sea-level rise.\nWith The Upper Room, Rady&Bloom tackles extreme devotion and the very real dangers of global warming and sea-level rise. On June 14, the company will host an environmentalist panel discussion and perform brief selections from the play.\nBased in New York, Jeremy Bloom is the Artistic Director of Rady&Bloom. New work with Brian Rady includes The Orange Person, The Girl of The Golden West and currently The Upper Room; the company has appeared at Ars Nova and The Ice Factory at New Ohio Theatre, among other venues. In opera, Jeremy has directed the world premieres of Oration with Center for Contemporary Opera, Loose, Wet, and Perforated with Guerrilla Opera of Boston and the New York premiere of Aperghis\u2019 Sextuour: l\u2019origine des especes. He is an artist in residence at The Cell and Artistic Executive with Evenstar Films. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow, an EST Resident Director, Soho Rep Lab Director, a TS Eliot director at The Old Vic, and an alumnus of Northwestern University.\nDEVELOPMENTAL RESIDENCIES\nArtist: Anna Brenner\nWon\u2019t Be A Ghost\nA Play by Francis Weiss Rabkin\nPublic Event: \u201cTransgender Representation on Stage,\u201d Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.\nWon\u2019t Be A Ghost, by Frances Weiss Rabkin, weaves together the stories of St. Sebastian and Army Intelligence Analyst/WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning. The script uses AIM chats between Manning and Adrian Lamo, the hacker informant who turned her in to the FBI. Immediately following her sentencing to 35 years in prison at Fort Leavenworth, Manning, in a letter read by her lawyer as her last opportunity to communicate directly with the press, came out as transgender. Ft. Leavenworth, an all-male military prison, seems like a death sentence for a 5\u20192\u201d, transgendered woman. No American citizen has ever been so severely punished under the Espionage Act.\nOn May 8, Ms. Brenner will invite the audience to view excerpts from the piece in development, and participate in a discussion of contemporary political issues and transgender representation onstage.\nAnna Brenner\u2018s directing credits include The Hotel Colors (Bushwick Starr); The Glass Menagerie (Theatreworks, Colorado Springs); Crime and Punishment and The Idiot (Classic Stage Company); Peter Gil-Sheridan\u2019s Cockfight (PlayPenn and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab); Stone Open House (with Laurie Anderson), and The Misanthrope (PS 122; undergroundzero Audience Award). Anna adapted and directed Robert Altman\u2019s 3 Women (Columbia Stages), Anton Chekhov\u2019s Anyuta (Philadelphia Shakespeare), and devised Terra Incognita (CPR), Disquiet (Living Theatre), Are We Here Yet? (PS122). She directs and teaches at SUNY Purchase and is Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company.\nArtist: Michael Goldfried\nAn Innovative New Play with Puppets, Music, and Dance\nPublic Event: \u201cLGBT Generations Workshop,\u201d Date TBA\nMr. Goldfried will work with co-writer, puppet designer and director Stefano Brancato to develop The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron, an innovative new play that uses puppets, actors, original music and dance to tell a powerful story. Based on real historical figures, that follows failed set-designer Edward Barron \u2013 handsome, brilliant, and terrified of people \u2013 who retreats from New York City\u2019s high-pressure theater world in the late 1950\u2019s to hide in his parents\u2019 attic and obsess over the minutiae of his elaborately constructed, lavish toy theater operettas.\nThe creators of The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron will offer a community engagement event that connects at-risk LGBT youth with LGBT seniors for a creative workshop on the subject of the struggles and strengths derived from coming of age as a gay person.\nMichael Goldfried has directed at The Summer Play Festival, Ars Nova, Joe\u2019s Pub, A.R.T., Trinity Rep, HERE, The Barrow Group, EST, and more. He is co-writer of Icarus, a new play with music and puppets. A graduate of the MFA Program at Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium, Mr. Goldfried was a 2009-11 participant in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors and was the 2007 Directing Fellow at the Geva Theatre Center. He is a 2005 alumnus of The Drama League Directors Project.\nArtist/Collaborator Team: Daniel Nelson / Woof Nova Collective\nGive Back My Beast\nAdapted from multiple sources\nPublic Event: \u201cHijacking Nostalgia,\u201d Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.\nGive Back My Beast is a new devised theater piece that explores the struggle to maintain connection to the present moment in the face of overwhelming nostalgia for the past and future. Utilizing oral narratives by the Swampy Cree Indians of North America, Jose Ramon Jimenez classic portrait of a remote town Platero and I, and the work of 19th Century theorist Francoise Delsarte, the piece will feature Woof Nova\u2019s unique style of combining handcrafted/found objects and scenic elements.\nOn May 4, Nelson and Woof Nova will explore the structure of their upcoming devised theater piece Give Back My Beast, along a wavering line between fact and fiction. A present-time demonstration of objects, slide shows, and intermittent Q & A sessions will get hijacked by nostalgic images that have the power to take hold of and possess the performers.\nDaniel Nelson is a New York based performer, writer, director, designer and founding member of Woof Nova Collective (www.woofnova.org). His original works include The Vanishing Play (Incubator Arts Project), Don\u2019t Peek (LaMama ETC), Hearts & Tongues (LaMama ETC, LOF/T Space- Baltimore, & Ko Festival), Spoleum (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Baltimore Theater Project ), Sedimentary (Ontological Theater, Galapagos Art Space), and Veils/Vestiges (Ontological Theater). Performance credits include Richard Foreman\u2019s Idiot Savant (Public Theater); Marie-Christine Katz\u2019s Unraveling (The Kitchen); Jeff McMahon\u2019s Straight Talk (Dixon Place); Object Collection\u2019s: No Hotel (Incubator Arts), Actua (Invisible Dog) and Famous Actors (Ontological Theater); Joshua Gelb\u2019s Blind Alley Guy (IAP); Pioneers Go East\u2019s: 7AM di Mattina,\u201d and Charles Mee\u2019s Fire Island (3-Legged Dog). Directorial credits include Tom Breidenbach\u2019s Pharmacose, and Bleat, both staged at Ontological Theater & Galapagos Art Space; Chris Tanner\u2019s Footballhead (Dixon Place); and the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley\u2019s Veronica (Hudson Guild). His scenic and puppet designs have been seen at various venues in NYC including St. Ann\u2019s Warehouse, Mabou Mines, and Poet\u2019s Den.\nEARLY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS\nArtist: Kevin Doyle\nThe A\u042fTS\nAn Original Work in Progress based on Congressional Transcripts\nPublic Event: \u201c1960\u2019s: Pell and Arts Funding,\u201d Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 8:00 p.m.\nThe A\u042fTS is original work of interdisciplinary theater that investigates the history of public funding for the arts in the United States. Based upon transcripts from Congressional hearings from 1963-1965 which led to the creation of the National Endowment and transcripts from 1989-1994, when a series of \u201cculture war\u201d controversies initiated by a new generation of Congressional leaders led to the largest budget cuts in the history of the Endowment, the piece also includes interviews with contemporary European and American arts leaders about their thoughts and approaches to arts funding.\nOn March 13, a work-in-progress excerpt of The A\u042fTS will focus on the 1960s and Congressional hearings on arts funding chaired by the late Senator Pell (D-RI). A short presentation and discussion about the company\u2019s findings will follow, led by director Kevin Doyle.\nKevin Doyle works as a playwright, director, designer, and artistic director of Sponsored By Nobody, an international theatre company based in Brooklyn. Recent works include ATM or this is [not] new york at the Monty Arts Center (Antwerp); Behind The Bullseye at the Ontological Theater (New York); Les ann\u00e9es amput\u00e9es at Les nuages en pantalon (Qu\u00e9bec City); The Position in a Romanian translation at Theatru Godot (Bucharest); these images are written on my body, a collaboration with choreographer Kajsa Sandstr\u00f6m at MDT (Stockholm); and the premiere of W.M.D. (just the low points) at The Game Is Up! Festival at the Vooruit Arts Centre (Ghent), which received a national tour of Belgium and The Netherlands. Doyle is a recipient of a Thornton Wilder Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony; residencies in Performance & Media at the Corporation of Yaddo (2010/2013); and Playwriting residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation (NY), the Brush Creek Arts Foundation (WY), Playa (OR), Escape To Create (FL), Willapa Bay (WA) and Fundaci\u00f3n Valparaiso in Moj\u00e1car, Spain. In 2012, Doyle received a Cultural Exchange Fund Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and was as a 2013 Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.\nArtist: Jesse Jou\nOne Hundred Hungry Ghosts\nA play based on the Japanese ghost story tradition of Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-Kai\nPublic Event: \u201cImagining Spirits,\u201d Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.\nOne Hundred Hungry Ghosts investigates the ways unresolved grief shapes, distorts, and transforms how one lives in and perceives the world. A personal family tragedy is filtered through the inspirations provided by Japanese/Chinese ghost stories and the urban legends of New Jersey. The title of the play comes from the Japanese ghost story tradition of Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-Kai, a game in which 100 candles are lit and extinguished one by one as each participant tells a ghost story, until the last story is told in a room lit by only one candle, an exquisite turning of a screw.\nOn June 3, in an evening of selected readings and audience participation, One Hundred Hungry Ghosts invites you to imagine an invisible world of spirits to aid the development of this new theater piece.\nJesse Jou is based in New York City where he works as a freelance theater director primarily of contemporary and new plays. Favorite projects include Say You Heard My Echo (HERE); The Betrothed by Dipika Guha and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Cape Cod, MA); The Netflix Plays (Ars Nova). His directing work has also been seen at the Lark Play Development Center, the New York International Fringe Festival, The Kitchen Theatre Co. (Ithaca, NY), and the Yale Cabaret. Jesse was the Artistic Director of the 2010 Yale Summer Cabaret and served as the Staff Repertory Director of The Acting Company. He was the 2012 Classical Fellow of the Drama League\u2019s Directors Project, a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a member of The Civilians R&D Group. MFA, Yale School of Drama.\nPROJECT ENCOURAGEMENT SPACE GRANTS\nArtist/Collaborator Team: Christopher and Justin Swader\nAdapted from the supernatural novel by Richard Marsh\nRichard Marsh\u2019s supernatural novel The Beetle was published in 1897, within days of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. The Beetle dramatically outsold Stoker\u2019s novel, and its immediate success made it a staple among the Victorian horror genre. Oddly, it fell into obscurity and was essentially forgotten once the novel went out of print in the 1960s. With the exception of a lost silent film, the material has questionably remained untouched. This residency will unearth the novel\u2019s ambitious creative potential as a stage adaptation, inviting the company to take risks, and responsibility, with artistic experimentation.\nChristopher and Justin Swader are New York-based directors and scenic designers. Most recently, they directed an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s The Oval Portrait for The Dark Festival at The Tank Theatre. Directing credits include The Receptionist (dir. Christopher Swader) and The Thugs (dir. Justin Swader), and Oliver Lansley\u2019s Ernest and the Pale Moon. Selected co-design credits include If [or when] the Roof Falls In (Rescue Agreement/Cap 21), God\u2019s Ear, and the world premiere of the original musical The Circus in Winter. They have recently worked on projects with Mabou Mines, Beth Morrison Projects, HERE Arts Center, Basil Twist, Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre Center, Theatre for a New Audience, and Julian Crouch. In the spring, they will be assisting director Arin Arbus on King Lear at Theatre for a New Audience.\nROUGH DRAFT NEW PLAY SERIES\nFriday February 28, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.\nA new play by Harrison David Rivers\nDirected by David Mendizabal\nIn this riveting, fabulous new play, \u201cThe Trojan Women\u201d meets \u201cParis is Burning,\u201d Jennie Livingston\u2019s seminal documentary on Harlem ball culture. Set in a hospital waiting room in the midst of a mysterious plague, the play explores the complicated issues of gender, sexuality, health, family and motherhood.\nExcerpts from an Epic Play\nBy Tadeusz Slobodzianek\nSpanning 80 years and moving between Poland and America, Tadeusz Slobodzianek\u2019s epic play Our Class follows ten classmates \u2013 five Catholic, five Jewish \u2013 as their lives take dramatically unexpected turns in a country torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet, then German, then Soviet again. Director Cosmin Chivu will mine themes and ideas for a future production in this revealing evening of exploration.\nFor additional information, please visit the website at www.dramaleague.org.\n\u2190 Previous Story ALADDIN: NEW CHARACTER PORTRAITS & VIDEO\nNext Story \u2192 Smash Comedy Gay Camp Starts Weekly Run at Duplex Feb 28th", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 19546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.standercpa.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QWCGLOFDEMNXGMHE6GYNZIGDBVBZZACF", "length": 959, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.standercpa.com", "title": "Stander LLC in Bala Cynwyd, PA", "raw_content": "Stander LLC\nBala Cynwyd PA 19004 US\nEmail: roy@standercpa.com\nWeb: http://standercpa.com\nStander LLC is a Certified Public Accounting firm located in Bala Cynwyd, PA, primarily serving clients in Philadelphia and its surrounding areas including Southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, as well as the metropolitan areas of New York and Washington, DC. 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We also have considerable experience in real estate, estate planning, executorships, fiduciary accounting and taxes, and often work hand-in-hand with other investment and legal professionals to best serve the needs of clients.\nPrimarily the metropolitan areas of Philadelphia, New York & Washington, DC\nMember of: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stardetox.org/blog/psychological-effects-of-drug-detox/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:38Z", "digest": "sha1:B4K5JQYVXIZNHJMVS5NTV3MJFXKYNO7R", "length": 3265, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.stardetox.org", "title": "Psychological Effects of Drug Detox \u2013 Your Drug Detox Guide", "raw_content": "Home > Blog > Psychological Effects of Drug Detox\nDrug detox is the first step towards successful recovery, but it may become one of the most challenging stages of it, too. While its physical effects themselves are far from being easily bearable, it is psychological ones that are able to endanger the whole process and become the most serious obstacle on one\u2019s way to living drug-free life.\nIt is important to know and bear in mind the fact that as addiction is even more a mental thing than a physical one, psychological withdrawal is a whole big separate issue and process to go through. After all, it is emotional and mental stages that occur in relapse process first. So ensuring proper, responsible approach towards psychological withdrawal and all kinds of support is a vital measure for success.\nSeverity of psychological symptoms during and after drug detox depends on a number of factors. Those are kind of substance one abuses and how long it\u2019s been done, co-existing physical or/and mental conditions, family history of abuse, if any, and genetic peculiarities, as well as dosage of a drug/drugs in question and way of abuse (for instance, swallowing, smoking, snorting or injecting).\nAmong frequently occurring symptoms are:\nTroubles concentrating or inability to focus on things\nDifficulties in orientation and understanding of things that happen around up to extreme confusion\nInsomnia or/and nightmares\nBut while these symptoms are quite well-known to those who have gone through drug detox, there is also a number of things that are not exactly referred to as psychological effects of it. But nevertheless, they are also widely experienced by people who intend to live \u2018clean\u2019 life further on.\nFeeling extremely vulnerable and exposed to painful experiences of everyday life. As people often use drug as self-medication, being deprived of or completely cut off it leaves open a black hole that they were trying to close with drugs in the first place.\nFear of relapse. Going through detox always creates a danger of giving up to one\u2019s addiction once more. Still, it is vital to remember that relapse doesn\u2019t mean failure.\nRealization one has to rebuild individual\u2019s entire life. Drugs are known for occupying terrifying amount of space in person\u2019s mind and activities. Having to start all over again is another serious challenge towards full recovery.\nFortunately, is it perfectly possible to help oneself in overcoming all these effects and obstacles. Measures one can undertake to ease psychological symptoms of drug detox are:\nIndividual or group therapy that will help one understand that they are ones of many to go through it and there is still help available at any moment they might need it.\nCreating a supportive environment that will strengthen a person\u2019s connections and also help them to stay sober.\nLearning some life skills to occupy one\u2019s time and involve into productive processes that will give individual\u2019s life another, positive meaning and better purpose.\nEducating oneself about drug abuse, its influence on our mind and body, as well as the process of drug detox in order to better understand what is/was going on with them. 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Nye on Wednesday granted the stay at the request of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands and Idaho officials.\nPlanned Parenthood filed the lawsuit in July against the Abortion Complications Reporting Act contending the reporting rules are unconstitutional and intended to stigmatize women seeking medical care. The lawsuit contends that Idaho's law arbitrarily singles out just one medical procedure for the reporting requirement and that the law doesn't do enough to protect women's private medical information from being released to the public.\nSupporters, which include Idaho Choose Life and Family Policy Alliance of Idaho, say the measure is necessary to ensure abortions are provided safely. The law requires details such as woman's age, race, how many children she has, if any of their children have died and how many abortions they've had in the past. The abortion provider and facility where the abortion was performed must also be disclosed.\nThe state would aggregate the information for an annual report and make it available to the Legislature and the public, but individual identifying information would not be disclosed.\nPlanned Parenthood in August asked the court to prevent the enforcement of the Idaho law. Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden later in August responded that the state needed the information to get an \"understanding about the frequency and nature of abortion complications in Idaho.\"\nWasden's spokesman, Scott Graf, in an email on Friday said the office had no comment. Planned Parenthood didn't respond to inquiries from The Associated Press on Friday.\nIdaho's reporting law aligns with a national trend among Republican-dominant statehouses seeking new ways to test the legal ability to restrict a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. At least 20 states have reporting laws on the books, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which opposes abortion restrictions.\nIt's not clear when the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will make a ruling about Nye's decision rejecting Planned Parenthood's request for the preliminary injunction on Idaho's abortion reporting law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 10407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startribune.com/yemeni-officials-un-envoy-in-front-line-city-of-hodeida/501120351/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EGR44HCJHWLFGDHUNDJU5NQWRAFDNM5K", "length": 2502, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.startribune.com", "title": "Yemeni officials: UN envoy in front-line city of Hodeida - StarTribune.com", "raw_content": "Yemeni officials: UN envoy in front-line city of Hodeida\nSANAA, Yemen \u2014 The U.N. special envoy to Yemen visited on Friday the Red Sea port city of Hodeida in efforts to halt hostilities between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's Shiite rebels there and lay the groundwork for restarting peace talks, officials said.\nMartin Griffiths met with several rebel officials during his short visit to Hodeida, a vital access point for aid to Yemen' population. The coalition backing Yemen's internationally recognized government has been pushing to retake the city from the rebels since the summer. Its offensive has drawn wide criticism from international aid groups who fear a protracted fight could force a shutdown of the port and potentially tip millions into starvation.\nIn a Friday statement, Griffiths hailed calls to end the fighting in Hodeida and said it's an essential step to protect the lives of civilians and build confidence among the parties. Western countries including the U.S. and U.K., major arms suppliers to the Saudi coalition, have recently called for a cease-fire in Yemen and the launch of U.N.-led political talks to end the Saudi-Iran proxy war.\nThe U.N. envoy also said his Thursday meeting with rebel leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, tackled possible U.N. contribution to keeping peace in Hodeida and managing the port.\n\"I am here to tell you today that we have agreed that the UN should now pursue actively and urgently detailed negotiations for a leading UN role in the Port and more broadly,\" he said in the statement.\nGriffiths, who was accompanied by U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Lise Grande and the WFP chief for Yemen, Stephen Anderson, concluded the visit in a few hours before heading back to Sanaa, the officials said. The spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to brief reporters.\nTalks to end Yemen's three-year war pitting the Saudi-led coalition and rival Iran-aligned rebels, known as Houthis, are expected in December in Sweden. Griffiths has said both sides have agreed to attend peace talks. His latest effort to revive peace talks in September fell through after the Houthis didn't attend.\nYemen's ruinous civil war has killed over 10,000 people, badly damaging Yemen's infrastructure and crippling its health system. International aid group Save The Children has said that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of five may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the war in 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 10091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sterlingtravel.co.uk/Eastern_boosts_capacity_on_Southampton_and_Aberdeen_routes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FP35N2M2POJ3JEIICQBWAANKWNYVRGRH", "length": 1249, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sterlingtravel.co.uk", "title": "Eastern boosts capacity on Southampton and Aberdeen routes", "raw_content": "Sterling Travel : News : Eastern boosts capacity on Southampton and Aberdeen routes\nEastern boosts capacity on Southampton and Aberdeen routes\nUK regional carrier Eastern Airways has added extra capacity on its Leeds Bradford to Southampton and Aberdeen routes.\nA 37-seater Embraer 135 regional aircraft will now operate daily on selected peak services to both Southampton and Aberdeen, providing an additional 900 seats a month.\nThe airline has also confirmed that from today there will be new timings for the service aimed at making it more attractive to business travellers.\nWeekday flights from Leeds Bradford will see new 06:40, 10:35 and 17:15 departures arriving in Southampton at 07:25, 11:45 and 18:00 respectively.\nServices leave Southampton at 07:50, 16:30 and 18:30 landing at Leeds Bradford at 08:35, 17:45 and 19:15 respectively. Sunday services leave Leeds Bradford at 17:55 and depart Southampton at 19:15.\nFlights to Aberdeen on weekdays will depart Leeds Bradford at 07:00, 08:55 and 18:05, arriving at 08:10, 09:45 and 19:20.\nServices take off from Aberdeen at 08:45, 16:10 and 19:55 arriving in Leeds Bradford at 10:05, 16:55 and 21:05 respectively. Sunday flights depart from Leeds Bradford at 20:20 and leave Aberdeen at 16:45.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stocktradersdaily.com/stock-quotes/kendle-internat-KNDL.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2EAGTOCMTLDCX6MATUUH4WRXZ2AJRJVT", "length": 2247, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.stocktradersdaily.com", "title": "KNDL Stock Price Today - Kendle Internat Technical Analysis, Quote, Trading & Investment Advice", "raw_content": "Kendle Internat (KNDL)\nTrading Advice for KNDL\nReport: Trading Plans for KNDL\nBasis: Technical Analysis (KNDL)\nKendle Internat (KNDL) Stock Quote Price Graph\nKendle Internat (KNDL) Stock Quote Information\nKendle International Inc., a clinical research organization, provides Phase I-IV clinical development services on a contract basis to the biopharmaceutical industry worldwide. The company operates through two segments: Early Stage and Late Stage. The Early Stage segment focuses on the high-end scientific exploratory medicine area, from first-in-human studies to proof-of-concept stages. This segment also supports Phase I studies in established compounds, including bioequivalence and pharmacokinetics studies. The Late Stage segment conducts Phase II to IV clinical trials, as well as provides a range of services, including clinical monitoring, investigator recruitment, patient recruitment, data management, and study reports to assist customers with their drug development process. This segment also oversees various steps of a study, from award to close out of a study; designs and conducts Phase IIIB and IV studies; focuses on health economics and outcomes research, observational studies, scientific events, and medical education services; and provides services to the federal government and health care foundation oriented organizations. In addition, it offers regulatory and consulting services at every stage of drug and device development, as well as designs clinical programs and clinical trial protocols, reviews programs, and provides gap analysis to assist sponsors in achieving their clinical development strategies; offers consulting services for nonclinical development for small molecules, biologicals, vaccines, and devices; assists with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration application process; and assists customers with the collection, analysis, and reporting of drug safety data. Further, this segment offers statistical support for Phase I to IV clinical trials and submissions. Kendle International Inc. operates in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.\nBuy signals for KNDL\nSell Signals for KNDL\nMake money trading KNDL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stonetable.org/2002/11/11/windycon-2002-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3JOHBB6POFUODLCSGRWEK5XJXBWA27MH", "length": 4057, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.stonetable.org", "title": "WindyCon 2002 Report | stonetable.org", "raw_content": "WindyCon 2002 Report\nI attended my first WindyCon this weekend. I went to nine panels over two days. For the most part I enjoyed the panels. One trend I noticed, however, was that several panelists were not prepared for discussion, or didn\u2019t even know what they were signed up for (although as I understand it, they weren\u2019t entirely to blame for that).\nThe Heisenberg Principle and Suspension of Disbelief\nWhile this panel mainly focused on its theme as applied to movies, it was still an interesting discussion. Noise in space and buckets of blood were pointed out and laughed at.\nThis was a lively discussion and the panel members were well-versed in the topic. They discussed the changes in the portrayed image of elves (and elfin creatures) in ancient and modern literature. This was one of the more enjoyable panels and was useful in working through some blocks on my current work in progress (WIP), since elfin creatures are at the heart of the story.\nWriting Modern Myths\nAs I recall, this discussion was about what makes a modern myth. Defining what a myth is, in comparsion to a legend, took up a good part of the hour. It was agreed upon that a myth, as opposed to a legend, involves some form of spirituality or belief structure. One common misconception that was dispelled was the fact that something may be considered a myth may be true or ficticious. From Dictionary.com, a myth is a popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal\nModern Legends Across the World\nPanelists discussed their favorite legend or mythology, new or old. Interesting, but not enough to hold my attention apparently. I can\u2019t recall a single specific example cited that was new to me.\nWhat You Should Have Read\nI\u2019m always interested in adding to my reading list. Sadly, most of the panels were unprepared and were scrounging to come up with titles. I kept a list of what was recommended, and I\u2019ll include that later when I compile my own list of recommended works.\nReligion and Fantasy\nThis was one panel I was looking forward to, and I wasn\u2019t disappointed. The lack of organized religion in science fiction was discussed, and how heavily its used in fantasy. One of the interesting points I came away with was that while many fantasy works may be full of Gods running around causing chaos, what\u2019s more important is a solid, consistent, and believable belief system. Even with the absence of a visible deity in a story, the belief structure will still be apparent in the daily lives of the people. Holidays, ritual practice, phrases and sayings are among the things that would commonly be present.\nUnique Elements in Fantasy\nSlightly humorous panel (Roland Green cracked me up; I\u2019m not sure why) but no fantastic revelations for me.\nCreating a Series\nThis was one of the more educational panels. A poll was taken, and out of a good-sized audience, only two of us (including myself) were writers. The panel was extremely knowledgeable about the topic at hand. Bill Fawcett is a professional creator of series (with over 200 titles to his credit), and the rest of the authors have published one or more series of fiction. Particularly interesting was the business behind the series. The craft of writing a series was discussed, such as the story arch, but more importantly (and something I feel strongly about) that each individual story must sustain itself. Having a story arch that stretches for two or more books is strongly desirable for a series, but each volume should still be able to stand by itself and resolve something in the end.\nOverall, I had a good time. The Con itself wasn\u2019t as well organized as I would have liked. For example, I couldn\u2019t get a schedule of panels until I registered. I missed at least one panel on friday that I would have enjoyed. Besides that, everything else was fine. I even was able to meet up with Linda, Liz, and Jenn from the group for lunch on saturday. Time to start saving pennies so I can attend some of the larger Cons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stpeterskenosha.com/event/christmas-no-mass-700pm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MQ7SYHVO26264FOOKFL4FFFZK5NKDEL6", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stpeterskenosha.com", "title": "Christmas No Mass @ 7:00pm \u2013 St. Peter's Parish", "raw_content": "Christmas No Mass @ 7:00pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stpeterskenosha.com/parish-council/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2GUJZW462V6SDAPNSKPEOCZ4ITPGFLVD", "length": 236, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stpeterskenosha.com", "title": "Parish Council \u2013 St. Peter's Parish", "raw_content": "St. Peter Parish Council\nThe Council is composed of 16 individuals: Our Pastor, Associate Pastor, 2 Trustees and 12\nparishioners. The Council usually meets on the first Monday of the month at 7pm. All parishioners are welcome to attend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 2501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 146.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stpeterskenosha.com/sacraments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3V552BLUWWZRJL54FB5PH75DB7HLORNA", "length": 607, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stpeterskenosha.com", "title": "Sacraments \u2013 St. Peter's Parish", "raw_content": "A pre-baptismal class for parents is required prior to the baby\u2019s baptism. Arrangements should be made prior to the baby\u2019s birth. Classes are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month, 9:30 am, room 108. Baptisms are held during the regular scheduled weekend Masses. Regular Church attendance is required before the sacrament is shared.\nWeekdays: 7:30 am \u2013 7:50 am Saturdays 3-4 pm or by appointment.\nThose in a state of grace may receive the Holy Eucharist.\nOur confirmation coordinator is Kurt Baumann, 886-2229.\nContact the Pastor at least six months prior to the date you wish to request.\nCall usfor more info", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stumblingeveryday.com/2013/02/lets-be-honest.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XOSDMOVOH35F7N67KC52ZNURE2GRYMVC", "length": 3382, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.stumblingeveryday.com", "title": "Stumbling Every Day: Let's Be Honest", "raw_content": "If I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I\u2019m not going to help you move. Or clean. Or paint. Seriously, no. I will NEVER help you paint.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I have always struggled with being a good friend. Each friendship that I have lost is due in large part to my own negligence.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I\u2019m a little bit self-centered. Okay, maybe a lot.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I\u2019d rather sit inside all day than go outside to do anything, even lounge on the beach, climb a mountain, or go for a swim.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I littered today.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I hate to exert myself during physical activity. When I start to sweat, I dial it back a little.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I\u2019m way too critical of everything around me. I often look at myself as a cause of the problem only after I\u2019ve blamed everything \u2013 or everyone \u2013 else to some extent.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I look less like this on a regular basis:\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that in the first picture up there I\u2019m holding a glass of wine in my hand at 10 o\u2019clock in the morning.\nIn the other picture I had had several glasses of wine.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I look forward to when my kids go to bed every night.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I feel like being a wife and a parent is exhausting and I think of what my life would be like if I hadn\u2019t been married or had children. I let those thoughts settle in and I don\u2019t feel bad about them.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I think that is a horrible thing to think about.\nIf I\u2019m being honest, I should say that I regret moving away from home, even though when I moved away I said that I couldn\u2019t wait to leave and never return.\nBut I\u2019m often not as honest as I should be. I present my more photogenic side to the camera, the nicest and most nurturing side of my personality to whoever I\u2019m talking to and the calm side to the world when inside my heart is beating like a squirrel hopped up on caffeine.\nOften, the real side of me, the ugly, mean one, is prominently featured when dealing with my family, those who love me the most, and who I love the most too.\nI am flawed. Human. I make mistakes. Big ones.\nBut I have learned to apologize, to confront the wrongs I have done. Knowing God and nurturing a relationship with him has taught me this. I have learned to ask God for forgiveness when I cringe about the nasty side that escaped for just a minute when I let my guard down.\nAnd he has forgiven me, and he gives me the strength I need to face the consequences. And I learn how to do better, to lean on him for wisdom and to wait for the right moment to try and repair the damage I\u2019ve done. I pray for him to heal the wounds I have inflicted. I pray for him to change my heart, my mind, my actions. And he does, ever so slowly, so as not to give me whiplash.\nBut I still will probably NOT help you paint. Not anytime soon, anyway.\nOh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight! Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty! When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. Psalm 32:1-3 (NLT)\nLabels: feelings, flaws, forgiven, God, human, life, praise, prayers, struggle, thankfulness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sumdrishti.org/the-services/health-hygiene-measures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QLJG5HILOFCVVV7TPGR5FDVH22FYSIY3", "length": 1121, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sumdrishti.org", "title": "Health & Hygiene Measures \u2013 Sumdrishti", "raw_content": "Facilitating Health Services And Proper Hygiene\nAny society is formed on a basic thing; the right for all humans to have a good life. One of the biggest requirements for it is proper health and hygiene. Unfortunately, in our country it is a struggle for a large amount of population to still access the right form of health services and proper hygiene is still an issue for them.\nSum Drishti is participating in the vision of a healthy and well educated community. Our efforts are focused on helping them through productive measures. For this, we have undertaken various steps.\nWe help perform medical check-ups of children and women, poor and vulnerable population. We are also offering the counselling for social safeguards of children and women and the underprivileged. We are involved in preventive health check-ups and distribution of medicines along with the organisation of camps for health awareness. Another step we have taken is the installation of vending machine for distributing Sanitary napkins and Construction of more than 370 toilets in schools. We also campaign for composting and better waste disposal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/306456", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ARILYQSCGUUSYIK4XQHFSLBWPQRE6XGJ", "length": 1646, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sussex.ac.uk", "title": "Donald Mcgillivray : University of Sussex", "raw_content": "Prof Donald Mcgillivray\nPost: Professor of Environmental Law (Law, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme)\nOther posts: Professor Of Environmental Law (School of Law, Politics and Sociology)\nLocation: FREEMAN CENTRE F53\nEmail: D.McGillivray@sussex.ac.uk\nclimate change law, Environmental law, Land law, Land Use, nature conservation law, Water Resources\nI am a Professor of Environmental Law at Sussex Law School.\nMy background is in law (LLB) and socio-legal studies (MA). I have over 25 years experience teaching and researching environmental law at the University of Kent and at Birkbeck, University of London before joining Sussex in 2013.\nI am a co-author of Bell, McGillivray, Pedersen, Lees and Stokes, Environmental Law (9th ed OUP 2017). My most recent publication is a chapter on case study research methods in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks (eds) Research Methods in Environmental Law: A Handbook (2017).\nI am Head of Sussex Law School, having been Deputy Head (2015-2019) with particular responsibilities for teaching and learning. I was previously Director of Student Experience for Law, Politics and Sociology (2013-16).\nI am Head of Sussex Law School and Professor of Environmental Law.\nI am an active member of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA) with a particular interest in building its support for students (through bursaries, student competitions and achievement awards, see http://www.ukela.org/rte.asp?id=20) and building stronger links with the University sector. I am also a member of the Academic Panel of Francis Taylor Buildings, a leading Barristers Chambers in London.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 4685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taranakivista.co.nz/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=190&cntnt01returnid=67", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Y47QBUDEXFEA3TGMHMBPGZLCRGCLDR4T", "length": 515, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.taranakivista.co.nz", "title": "Mount Taranaki views, web cam and stills image gallery, live art - Taranaki Vista \u2013 Rhyton Project. - News Mount Taranaki views, Mount Taranaki, web cam and stills image gallery, live art - Taranaki Vista \u2013 Rhyton Project.", "raw_content": "Celebrate M\u0101ori Language Week Te Wiki o te Reo M\u0101ori: 4 July - 10 July 2016\nThe theme for this year is \u0101kina te reo - behind you all the way which is about using te reo M\u0101ori to support people, to inspire and to cheer on.\nM\u0101ori Language Week is an annual campaign, led by the M\u0101ori Language Commission, to promote the language to New Zealand. The campaign is about raising awareness that New Zealand has its very own language and encouraging the use of it, with simple phrases every day, week and month of the year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tatar.info/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:H7ZTHSQ3S2X37RWVLDBP7OHXLLTJ3IBC", "length": 5565, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.tatar.info", "title": "The tatars - Learn More about the Tatar people", "raw_content": "Learn More about the Tatar people\nTatar.info\nAstrakhan Tatars\nHistory of the Lipka Tatars\nThe Tatars of Finland\nVolga Tatar subgroups\nVolga Tatar cuisine\nHistorically, the term Tatar was used for anyone native to Tartary; a vast tract of land in Northern and Central Asia. Tartary was home to various semi-nomadic kingdoms, mostly of Turco-Mongol ethnicity.\nThe oldest surviving mentioning of the name Tatar is from the 8th century AD, when the name Tatar was recorded on the Orkhon inscriptions \u201cKul Tigin\u201d (dated to the year 732 AD) and \u201cBilge Khagan\u201d (dated to the year 735 AD). The Orkhon inscriptions are two memorial installations erected by the G\u00f6kt\u00fcrks in Mongolia\u2019s Orkhon Valley to honor the Turkic princes Kul Tigin and his brother Bilge Khagan. The text is written using the Old Turkic alphabet.\nToday, the term Tatar is usually only utilized for certain groups of Turkic-speaking people, of which a majority lives in Russia or some of the other former Soviet Republics.\nIn the Russian Empire, all Turkic-speaking peoples were referred to as Tatars, and some of these population still use the term as a self-designation, while others have dropped it.\n2.1 Tartar\n3.1 Are Tatars and Mongols the same thing?\n3.2 Is Ice Hockey Player Tomas Tatar a Tatar?\n3.3 Is Poker Player Marek Tatar a Tatar?\nThere are roughly 7 million Tatars in the world, but the exact figure will of course vary depending on how you define Tatar, and if you count everyone with a high amount of Tatar ancestry or only self-identifying Tatars.\nA vast majority (over 5.3 million) of the known Tatars live in the Russian Federation. In the Republic of Tatarstan, roughly half the 3.8 million citizens are Tatars, and Tatar is one of the two official languages (the other is Russian). The Republic of Tatarstan is not a sovereign country; it is a federal subject of the Russian Federation.\nOther examples of places with notable Tartar populations are Uzbekistan (circa 475,000 Tatars), Ukraine (circa 320,000 Tatars), Kazakhstan (circa 240,000 Tatars) and Turkey (circa 175,000 Tatars).\nHere are a few current examples of Tatar groups and branches:\nKipchak groups\nKipchak\u2013Bulgar branch\nKipchak\u2013Cuman branch\nKarachays and Balkars (\u201cMountain Tatars\u201d)\nKipchak\u2013Nogai branch\nNogais, including the Kudrov Tatars\nAltay people, including the Tubalars\nOghuz branch\nAs mentioned above, the oldest known inscriptions where the term Tatar is included are found in Mongolia and were made in the 8th century AD using the Old Turkic alphabet.\nFrom China\u2019s Tang period (618\u2013907 AD), the term Dada was used in Chinese for various Mongolian-speaking peoples from the northern steppes.\nIn the Persian language, the word Tatar is first recorded in the 1200s AD, where it is used in reference to the hordes of Genghis Khan. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Mongols at the time referred to themselves as Tata.\nIn many parts of Europe, the term Tatar (or Tartar) has historically been used to denote both the Mongols themselves and various Turkic peoples that are under Mongol rule, especially during the Golden Horde era. In Russia, ethnic Russians typically used the term Tatar for any Turkic-speaking or Mongolic-speaking person that they encountered in or near Russia.\nOver time, the usage shifted a bit, and the term Tatar became more strongly associated specificially with Turkic Muslims living in the Soviet Empire, especially the descendants of Muslim Volga Bulgars, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Turkicized Mongols or Turko-Mongols (Nogais), as well as certain other Turkic-speaking peoples such as the Siberian Tatars, Qasim Tatars, and Mishar Tatar.\nThe spelling variation Tartar is believed to come from either Latin or French. It is used in many European languages. The extra r was probably added due to some association with Tartarus (also known as Tartaros) from Greek mythology; the deep abyss where the Titants are imprisoned.\nBelow we will answer some of the most common question we get sent to us.\nAre Tatars and Mongols the same thing?\nNo. They are two different peoples that often have been in conflict with each other. The Tatars were conquered by the Mongols and included in the horde.\nIs Ice Hockey Player Tomas Tatar a Tatar?\nTomas Tatar is a well know hockey player that was drafted to the Detroit red wings in 2009. He know plays in the Vegas golden Knights. He can now enjoy life in fabulous Las Vegas. A city that is filled with casinos and other entertainment. We do not know it Tomas Tatar enjoy gambling in Casinos but we are sure he will be able to to find other things to do in the casinos if he do not like gambling. Hopefully he do like gambling as we have heard rumors that William Hill online casino wants to sign Tomas Tatar as a brand ambassador. But this might just be a rumor. A move to Las Vegas is bound to create rumors involving Casinos and gambling.\nThe name Tomas Tatar suggest that he would be a Tatar but is he? The truth is that we do not know. He is from Slovakia, an eastern European country and the name Tatar is a Tatar name meaning Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian. It is likely that he is of Tatar decent but we can not confirm this 100%.\nIs Poker Player Marek Tatar a Tatar?\nMarek Tatar is a very good poker player and is regularly seen in different casinos around Europe. He is regularly seen at different poker events. He has been moderately successful and the Hendom Mob has his total live tournament winnings at $216,808. He has won a lot more than that online. We can not confirm his ancestry but he is likely a Tatar just like Tomas above.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tcnjsignal.net/2011/11/01/lions-around-the-dorm-week-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7PAUAGRPBJHSCT47JRACBH44VJBHHCPS", "length": 8407, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.tcnjsignal.net", "title": "Lions Around the Dorm- Week 9 \u2013 The Signal", "raw_content": "November 1, 2011 Signal Editorial Staff Around The Dorm, Sports 0\nIn this week\u2019s Around the Dorm, the \u201cRef,\u201d Brandon Gould, challenges Sports Editor Alex Wolfe, Staff Writer Chris Molicki and Correspondent Johnny Sisto to answer questions about whether T.O. will be playing exclusively indoors this year, the most surprising moment of the NHL season and the MVP of the College\u2019s playmaking defense.\n1. Terrell Owens recently held a workout in hopes of getting an offer to play professional football. He got an offer, but it was from the Arena Football League\u2019s Chicago Rush. Should T.O. take the offer if no NFL teams show an interest?\nAW: T.O. should hold out for a little longer for a better offer than the AFL. I realize that he tore his ACL last year and he is almost 38 years old (ancient by wide receiver standards), but the man still has something to offer to an NFL team. When everyone thought that he was washed up and useless last year, he took over the Bengals\u2019 wide receiving corps and put up one of his best seasons in the last few years (983 yards and nine TDs). Not to mention that T.O.\u2019s work ethic is well documented, and he definitely showed during his workout that even if his running stamina isn\u2019t quite there yet, he has absolutely kept himself in shape. I would think that a team short on receivers that has a shot at competing this year might take a flyer on him, especially the Raiders, where Owens could be reunited with his QB from last year, Carson Palmer. However, if it gets past week 10 or so in the NFL, I say he should take the AFL contract, but work in a clause that if an NFL team offers him a roster spot, he is allowed to leave (\u00e0 la the NBA players\u2019 overseas contracts).\nCM: I don\u2019t see why not. Although he has been a headache for many teams, T.O. has always been a competitor. He always wants to win and the fact that he held a workout shows that he just wants to play football. If he truly loves the game, he will play it wherever he can, and the arena football fans will surely love him. While I think that there are many NFL teams that he can definitely help (Chicago, Tampa Bay, San Francisco and Tennessee among others), if no one decides to take him up on the offer, he should take what he can get. They say it\u2019s all about the love of the game, and if T. O. truly lives by that, it may be time for the Chicago Rush fans to get their popcorn ready.\nJS: Absolutely not. Terrell Owens has had an amazing NFL career consisting of almost 16,000 receiving yards and over 150 touchdowns. He is now 37 years old, which makes him overdue to retire from football. If Owens joins the Arena Football League, he\u2019ll be ending his extremely successful career at rock bottom. I believe the best thing for T.O. to do right now is to continue to wait for an NFL team to offer him a deal. There are several teams who could be interested in him in the near future, such as the Oakland Raiders or the Tennessee Titans. Overall, Owens should be thinking NFL or bust for the ending years of his successful career.\nBG: Johnny gets 3 for stating that T.O. shouldn\u2019t disgrace himself by playing in an inferior league (\u00e0 la Ricky Henderson playing for the Newark Bears). Alex gets 2 for citing Owens\u2019 work ethic. Chris gets 1 for saying T.O. should play for love of the game.\n2. We\u2019re about a month into the NHL season. What\u2019s been the biggest surprise up to this point?\nAW: The fact that Sidney Crosby still hasn\u2019t suited up yet. I understand that the Penguins want to be careful and that concussions are kind of a hot-button issue in sports now, but the man hasn\u2019t played since January. Yes, January. I\u2019m all about keeping athletes safe and everything, but keeping a player out for nine-plus months for a concussion is just absurd. Worse yet, Crosby isn\u2019t just any player, but one of the faces of the NHL. This doesn\u2019t do him any favors in the image department (considering he\u2019s fought a label of being \u201csoft\u201d for most of his career), it doesn\u2019t help his team, and it certainly doesn\u2019t help the NHL. He\u2019s expected to finally suit up by Nov. 11, but to this point I\u2019ve been extremely surprised that he hasn\u2019t returned, especially after an entire offseason in rehab.\nCM: Surprises usually come from up-and-coming teams that you don\u2019t expect to do well, but I think the biggest surprise is the dominance of the Pittsburgh Penguins without Sidney Crosby. Sure, they were expected to be a good team, but the Penguins are 8-2-2 and are seven points ahead of the Flyers. James Neal and Jordan Staal have done an excellent job so far with nine points each. Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has a 1.87 goals against average. They have a plus-12 goal differential, better than everyone in the NHL except for the Capitals. And Pittsburgh has just been playing overall great hockey. I give them a lot of credit and their hot start doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s going to stop any time soon.\nJS: The Toronto Maple Leafs are currently 7-2-1 and lead the north in the Eastern Conference. Leading the Leafs\u2019 quick start to the season is the right winger Phil Kessel. The third-year Leaf is currently leading the league in both goals and points with 10 and 18, respectively, in each category. Although it is unlikely that Kessel will be able to keep this pace for the entire NHL season, his amazing start and the Leafs\u2019 success has been the most surprising thing in the NHL so far this season.\nBG: Chris gets 3 for pointing out that the Penguins are getting things done without the face of the franchise, Sidney Crosby. Alex gets 2 for addressing the fact that it\u2019s insane that Crosby still hasn\u2019t been cleared to play yet. Johnny gets 1 for listing the Leafs\u2019 success.\n3. The College\u2019s football team is having quite a season with the help of a very productive defense. Who is the MVP of the Lions\u2019 defense so far?\nAW: A case can be made for sophomore linebacker Nick Bricker (who won NJAC defensive player of the week this past week), but I have to go with senior safety Shawn Brown. Brown has impressed all year with his crazy playmaking abilities, securing key interceptions and always getting the College the ball when it needs it. He has four interceptions on the year, has won defensive player of the week in the NJAC, and has forced two fumbles and recovered three. In addition to that, he is also third on the team in tackles, which is not normally becoming of a safety. Arguably more important than that, though, is his leadership. He is one of the team\u2019s captains and has helped lead the team both on the field and off. Without Shawn Brown, the College\u2019s defense would not be nearly the same game-changing unit that it is.\nCourtesy of the Sports Information Desk\nCM: The stingy Lions defense is a product of all the players working well together. They have a great pass rush and are tough in the secondary. If I had to pick one player who has had the biggest impact, it would definitely be senior defensive back Shawn Brown. Brown leads the team in interceptions this year with four, but he also comes up with big plays in big moments. In the Homecoming game against Montclair State University, Brown got a huge stop on a third down against the NJAC\u2019s leading rusher, Chris D\u2019Andrea. After that, the Lions regained the lead, that time for good. I was covering the game and got to go on the field afterward and talk to Brown. He was so ecstatic and emotionally excited after the win, and you can tell he puts his heart and soul into the game. He is a leader on and off the field and the biggest cog in the College\u2019s defense.\nJS: Sophomore linebacker Nick Bricker is the most valuable player for the Lion\u2019s defense so far this season. He has 92 tackles and currently leads the conference in forced fumbles, with five. What makes him so valuable is his ability to stop potentially game-changing plays. In the Lions\u2019 big Homecoming win against Montclair, Bricker played a huge role in stopping Montclair State\u2019s dangerous running game with six solo tackles.\nBG: Alex gets 3 for showing Brown\u2019s versatility as well as revealing that it is his leadership that truly makes him great. Chris gets 2 for supplying first-hand experience of Brown\u2019s intensity. Johnny gets 1 for giving Bricker\u2019s stats.\nAlex wins this week\u2019s AtD, 7-6-5.\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 515dd606ca5deae7ceeb87604cb6db66", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 11406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tcnjsignal.net/2012/10/24/late-surge-comes-up-short-for-lions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DTBATJUONJEGCFFDF6F6BAQ5HQMOLYZY", "length": 3131, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.tcnjsignal.net", "title": "Late surge comes up short for Lions \u2013 The Signal", "raw_content": "HomeFeaturedLate surge comes up short for Lions\nLate surge comes up short for Lions\nOctober 24, 2012 Brandon Gould Featured, Field Hockey, Sports 0\nDespite a second-half rally, the College\u2019s field hockey team suffered their third loss of the season against Messiah College in a tightly knit 3-2 finish.\nComing out of the locker room for the second half, the Lions (13-3) were staring at a 2-0 deficit, but chipped away to tie the score at two-all with 16 minutes left.\n\u201cWe went down right before halftime and I think really used it to get it together and make adjustments,\u201d senior forward Jillian Nealon said. \u201cWhenever we go down, we know that we always have the ability to fight back and we knew that\u2019s what we had to do.\u201d\nThe Lions first goal of the game came a little over five minutes into the second half when sophomore midfielder Erin Waller drove a ball into the middle of the circle and watched as it deflected off a Falcon and came to a stop in the back of the cage.\nAs time continued to tick away, the Lions pressed to put more pressure offensively and after 20 minutes, they succeeded. In the 55th minute of the contest, Waller sent another shot into the middle of the circle, where sophomore midfielder Victoria Martin slammed it home.\n\u201cIt\u2019s unlike us to go into the second half of a game down by two,\u201d senior forward Caitlyn Jenkins said. \u201cIt was extremely hard-fought and we had that fight and killer instinct in us all along \u2014 it just came out a little late.\u201d\nField hockey has struggled as of late.\nAfter keeping the game scoreless for the first 24 minutes of play, the Lions fell behind 1-0 when Emily Bower scored her sixth goal of the season for Messiah. Ten minutes later, Natalie Ziegler would take a cross to the left side of the field and direct it right into the cage.\nThe Lions would hold the Falcons for a span of nearly 32 minutes before allowing another goal. That score would prove to be the game-winner.\nWith a couple of ticks under four minutes left to play, another cross to the left side of the circle was pushed past the Lions\u2019 defense and into the cage by Celina Nissley. Jenkins said that although it can be viewed that the Lions lost, she believes they just ran out of time.\n\u201cTheir offense was just able to finish putting the ball in the cage before the final whistle was blown,\u201d Jenkins explained. \u201cIf we had a couple more minutes, I know our team would have put more points up on the board.\u201d\nAfter starting the season 10-0, the Lions have dropped one game in each of the last three weeks. However, Jenkins said that these losses will hopefully only be mere blips in the radar on the way back to another National Championship.\n\u201cIt\u2019s always good to get a reality check during your season,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cI feel like these last couple games made us realize what we need to improve upon and what we need from each other in order to achieve our ultimate goals of being happy and winning another championship.\u201d\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 10bbf35bf45b1e6fd3d71fb4854a4265", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.telemachusleaps.com/2018/02/30-million-jobs-have-been-created-since.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OLWLKLMUETXPD5EMLSRUJ2KDHJPRMELO", "length": 3974, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.telemachusleaps.com", "title": "Telemachus: '30 Million Jobs Have Been Created Since President Trump Took Office!'", "raw_content": "'30 Million Jobs Have Been Created Since President Trump Took Office!'\n(first published in the North State Journal 2/7/18)\nThe headline above could have been written with a straight-face by any media outlet and been technically 'true' about the American economy in the last year since President Trump took office.\nThe only problem is that the following sub-headline would have to have been published below it stating this other \u2018inconvenient truth' about the dynamic American economy:\n'27.8 Million Jobs Also Have Been Destroyed Under President Trump, Too!'\nThe net difference though is a solid increase of over 2.2 million in 'net new jobs' created since Election Day, November 8, 2016. The key to any understanding of employment numbers under any US President or political party controlling Congress and the US Senate is to look at the net difference in jobs created versus jobs lost during any particular term in office.\nPresidents get way too much credit for economic job growth when it is good and way too much blame when the numbers are bad. Except for Presidents Herbert Hoover and Martin van Buren, both of whom made perhaps the exact wrong policy decisions at the exact wrong time when faced with economic downturns and only made bad situations devastatingly worse.\nThe American economy is a thoroughly dynamic jobs machine that sees roughly 10% of all jobs change during any particular quarter of the year. 5% of total employed positions are created and 5% of existing jobs are eliminated.\nThe potency of the American economy would make the author of the 'creative destruction' theory of employment in 1942, Joseph Schumpeter, blush with pride.\nBusinesses are either hiring people for new companies or expanding older ones to meet business demand or they are shedding workers because of loss of business and revenue regardless of who is sitting in the White House or on Capitol Hill every day.\nEconomic cycles come and go. Political leaders, however, can make decisions and set policies that allow recessions to go away rather quickly and enter into another round of growth and economic expansion. Or they can throw wet blankets on the economy such as we saw under President Obama where super excessive numbers of federal regulations were loaded up on business and higher taxes imposed on individuals that essentially forced much of the American business community to go \u2018on strike\u2019 for most of his 8 years in office.\nThe fact that President Obama is the first, and only, President in recorded modern history to have never presided over a single year where GDP annual growth rates exceeded 3% should tell everyone something about his economic policies. The average annual GDP growth rate during his entire 8 years as President was only about 1.6%.\nThe key thing to remember whenever you see news reports about 'unemployment rates' is that the only true barometer of such things is the absolute number of people who are currently working in a full-time job, not the unemployment rate.\nThe \u2018unemployment rate\u2019 is an easily manipulated and misunderstood statistic that should be retired forever. It is based on the number of people who are \u2018actively looking\u2019 for a job which can distort the unemployment rate if people get discouraged and leave the workforce altogether.\nThe much more meaningful statistic is the absolute number of people who are working full-time which at the end of 2017 was 153,337,000 people as indicated in the chart below. If you follow the monthly reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and chart it like you would do a baseball game, you would very clearly see the relative health or sickness of the US economy due to the total number of people working full-time.\nIf the US economy is allowed to function without excessive regulation and taxation, 200,000 or more Americans each month might be able to find that great job that has eluded them for the past decade.\nLabels: #economicgrowth, #employment, #Obama, #Trump, #unemployment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1401, "original_length": 28944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.teo-education.com/teo/?p=25534", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IBQCL6K6IU3I7TKGOK4MUSBZJP7QA2XW", "length": 1989, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.teo-education.com", "title": "www.Teo-Education.Com \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Free lifelong learning platform for all ages", "raw_content": "\u00ab Latest in touch computing\nBrick-by-brick initiative \u00bb\nFree lifelong learning platform for all ages\nLTT Global, a pioneer in mobile learning, has launched the MyMobileUni.com, a free online learning platform. The fast and easy platform, designed for all age groups, claims to provide access to some of the world\u2019s best professors and study materials.\nIn its first phase, the MyMobileUni.com has 12 channels, which include a wide range of university and professional courses; preschool, primary, high school and college programmes; life skills, lifestyle and lifelong learning; how-to guide, video talks, study tools and e-books; and news, music, motivation and informational resources.\nThe site\u2019s next phase of development will include free content from universities, companies and non-governmental organisations to power human capital development. MyMobileUni.com is developed in partnership with Open University Malaysia, Multimedia Development Corporation and Mobile Monday.\nLAPTOP DESIGNED FOR SCHOOLS\nDell has launched the Latitude 3330 to help educators teach and personalise learning opportunities in the classroom. According to Dell, the easy-to-use laptop can be integrated into a school\u2019s existing IT infrastructure without hassle.\nThe lightweight laptop has a 13.3-inch anti-glare screen that minimises the scrolling required of smaller screens, an HD 720 webcam and WiDi support for virtual classroom collaboration.\nIt supports Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7 and Linux Ubuntu. Storage technology options range from the standard hard drives to high-performance SSD.\nRead more @: Free lifelong learning platform for all ages \u2013 General \u2013 New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/free-lifelong-learning-platform-for-all-ages-1.291575#ixzz2V53YX0f6\nThis entry was posted on Monday, June 3rd, 2013 at 1:21 am\tand is filed under Educational Technologies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.teo-education.com/teo/?p=47116", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AU4FZQIQ6INJBRX6J4UBTRTTGMFEDFMW", "length": 2194, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.teo-education.com", "title": "www.Teo-Education.Com \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Not enough budget for education infrastructure projects in Sabah", "raw_content": "\u00ab GAMSIS Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2018 Celebration\nTeachers urged to take own initiative to deliver their best performance \u00bb\nNot enough budget for education infrastructure projects in Sabah\nDatuk Dr Yusof Yacob\nKOTA KINABALU: The budget to implement education infrastructure projects in Sabah is not enough.\nAccording to Education and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Yusof Yacob, they have already identified the education infrastructure for Sabah and the Federal Government has already given the budget for them.\n\u201cBut it is not enough. We need extra allocation,\u201d he told press members at the State Education Department Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration held at its headquarters near here yesterday.\nYusof however said that they will continue to implement projects that have already been given allocation for.\n\u201cWe will resolve the emergency ones first. Next year, we will continue to address critical infrastructure problems and hope to resolve them in a year,\u201d he said.\nHe added that RM36 million had been allocated by the Federal Government to address emergency developments in the sector.\nAdditionally, it has also allocated half billion Ringgit for dilapidated schools in Sabah.\n\u201cIt is not enough. I hope they will increase it by another half billion Ringgit to address the dilapidated schools issue,\u201d he said.\nConcerning the infrastructure, Yusof said that these were to do with water, electricity as well as internet supply to schools.\nHe also commented on the recognition of the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).\nHe said that it was already being studied.\nYusof also mentioned the placement of Sabahan teachers in Sabah was now at 86 percent.\nHe stated that as it was now the month of July, they did not want to disrupt the students\u2019 learning prior to their major examinations and they will achieve 90 percent of the teachers placement in Sabah next year.\nRead more @ http://www.theborneopost.com/2018/07/11/not-enough-budget-for-education-infrastructure-projects-in-sabah/\nThis entry was posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 at 6:38 pm\tand is filed under Educational Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebrassherald.com/ny-staff-band-to-visit-ireland/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HZA7WMYKGR7XSN6OUL2PTPCOCBQSDU3R", "length": 1709, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thebrassherald.com", "title": "NY Staff Band to visit Ireland | The Brass Herald", "raw_content": "NY Staff Band to visit Ireland\nThe New York Staff Band (Bandmaster Ronald Waiksnoris), which is regarded as one of the foremost brass bands in The Salvation Army across the world, will be making a six -day visit to Ireland this May and June (2011).\nTickets are now on sale for three public concerts as follows:\nBelfast: Saturday 28th May, Carnmoney Presbyterian Church, (tickets \u00a310 each)\nDublin: Tuesday 31st May, The Round Room, (tickets \u20ac15 each)\nLondonderry: Wednesday 1st May, The Guildhall, (tickets \u00a38 each)\nThe New York Staff Band combines musical excellence with a very special gospel ministry. Originally established in 1887, the band has risen from relatively humble musical beginnings, to international stature and now features in over 60 musical recordings. Its repertoire is both broad in scope and innovative, ranging from classical transcripts to jazz and the band has premiered works penned by renounced composers such as Eric Ball, Erik Leidzen, James Curnow, Emil Soderstrom, Peter Graham and Ray Steadman-Allen.\nThe New York Staff band has toured extensively throughout the world performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Buckingham Palace and the Sydney Opera House. They have also shared the concert platform with among others, the New York Philharmonic, Elton John, Joseph Alessi and Harvey Phillips.\nThe band\u2019s visit to Ireland precedes the largest gathering of eight Salvation Army Staff Bands in London, to mark the 120th anniversary celebration of The International Staff Band of The Salvation Army in The Royal Albert Hall, London.\nBook your tickets early to experience a memorable evening with The New York Staff Band in Ireland by visiting www.salvationarmy.org.uk/ireland/nysb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2009/03/27/abc-is-up-week-to-week-in-viewers-and-young-adults-30818/20090327abc01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CB6TRAVEJZXHKYB4NUHHDZZWFIOKWMZZ", "length": 4869, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.thefutoncritic.com", "title": "Ratings - ABC Is Up Week to Week in Viewers and Young Adults | TheFutonCritic.com", "raw_content": "Quick Take for Thursday, March 26, 2009 (Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings)\nAgainst a Special \"Idol\" on the Night, ABC is Up Week to Week In Viewers and Young Adults, with its Strongest Thursday in 5 Weeks\nABC Delivers Substantial Increases Over the Same Thursday Last Year\nImproving its Time Period for ABC Opposite \"Idol,\" the Series Debut of \"In the Motherhood\" Upsets NBC's Veteran Comedy \"My Name is Earl\" at 8pm\nShowing Strong Compatibility for ABC at 8:30pm, Against Stiff Competition, Slot Premiere of \"Samantha Who?\" Marks Impressive Retention of its Lead-in\nThursday's No. 1 Scripted TV Show, ABC's \"Grey's Anatomy\" Grows its Audience For the 2nd Straight Week, Generating its Most-Watched Telecast in 4 Months\nUp Week to Week with Highest Non-Crossover Numbers This Season, ABC's \"Private Practice\" Beats NBC's \"ER\" in Viewers and Adults 18-49\nABC placed No. 2 to an \"Idol\"-led Fox on Thursday night in Total Viewers (11.0 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.8/10), outpacing CBS' NCAA Basketball Tournament coverage (Regional Semi-Finals) on both counts.\n\ufffd\tAlthough facing increased competition on the night from Fox's special Thursday edition of \"American Idol,\" ABC grew week to week by +4% in Total Viewers and by +9% in Adults 18-49 (10.6 million and 3.5/10 on 3/19/09). In fact the Net grew its overall Thursday audience for the 2nd consecutive week, delivering its best Thursday in 5 week in viewers and young adults \ufffd since 2/19/09.\n\ufffd\tThe Net's numbers shot up over the same night last year by 5.1 million viewers and by 100% in Adults 18-49 (5.9 million and 1.9/5 on 3/27/08).\n\"In the Motherhood\" (8:00-8:30 p.m.)\nABC's series debut of \"In the Motherhood\" upset \"My Name is Earl\" at 8:00 p.m., defeating NBC's veteran comedy in both Total Viewers (6.7 million vs. 5.9 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.1/6 vs. 2.0/6). The new ABC comedy's biggest advantage over \"Earl\" came among Women 18-34, where it nearly doubled its NBC comedy competitor with an 86% winning margin (2.6/8 vs. 1.4/4).\n\ufffd\tDespite facing \"Idol\" in the time period this year, with the opener of \"Motherhood\" ABC was up in the half-hour over the year-ago night (with original programming) by 14% in Total Viewers (6.7 million vs. 5.9 million) and by 5% in Adults 18-49 (2.1/6 vs. 2.0/6). In fact among Adults 18-49, \"Motherhood\" generated ABC's highest rating in the time slot in 6 weeks \ufffd since 2/12/09.\n\"Samantha Who?\" (8:30-9:00 p.m.)\nDespite facing \"Idol\" and \"March Madness\" on its premiere in the half-hour, ABC's \"Samantha Who?\" proved itself a compatible companion for \"In the Motherhood\" with impressive retention of its lead-in among Total Viewers (97%) and Adults 18-49 (100%). In fact \"Samantha\" built on \"Motherhood\" at 8:30pm to finish as the No. 1 scripted TV program in the half hour in Women 18-49 (3.0/7) and Women 25-54 (3.6/8).\nThursday's No. 1 scripted TV program in Total Viewers (15.8 million) and Adults 18-49 (5.5/13), ABC's \"Grey's Anatomy\" dominated the 9 o'clock hour, beating Fox's \"Idol\"-driven \"Hell's Kitchen.\" \"Grey's\" tallied its 13th time in its last 14 original telecasts to stand as Thursday's No. 1 regular entertainment show with Adults 18-49, and the 14th time in as many original airings with Adults 18-34.\n\ufffd\tSurging week to week by 1.2 million viewers and by 10% in Adults 18-49, \"Grey's\" turned in its most-watched telecast in 4 months (11/20/08) and its 3rd-biggest audience this season.\n\"Private Practice\" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)\nABC's \"Private Practice\" ranked No. 1 in the 10 o'clock hour, topping NBC's veteran \"ER\" in Total Viewers (10.5 million vs. 10.2 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.8/10 vs. 3.5/9). In fact the ABC sophomore drama has topped \"ER\" in both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 on 8 of 9 head-to-head original telecasts in the time period. \"Private Practice\" finished as the No. 1 entertainment program in the hour in Adults 18-49 for the 5th time in its last 6 originals, while standing as the top entertainment broadcast with Adults 18-34 on all 10 original airings in slot.\n\ufffd\tGrowing its overall audience for the 2nd straight week and increasing week to week in young adults, \"Private Practice\" turned in its highest non-crossover numbers this season.\nA note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating comparisons based on the Live + Same Day data stream are distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to over 30% currently, from 23% at the same point in 2008. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.\nSource: Nielsen Media Research (Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings), 3/26/09.\n\u00b7 HELL'S KITCHEN (FOX)\n\u00b7 IN THE MOTHERHOOD (ABC)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2017/06/27/spike-tv-finds-strong-ratings-in-the-mist-912410/20170627spiketv01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:TDGNQDEBJ6YMX2GTEOBR2IAZDK52RRSJ", "length": 2003, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thefutoncritic.com", "title": "Ratings - Spike TV Finds Strong Ratings in \"The Mist\" | TheFutonCritic.com", "raw_content": "Spike TV Finds Strong Ratings in \"The Mist\"\nSpike TV further spins the numbers for Thursday, June 22.\nNew York, NY, June, 27, 2017 - Spike TV's first scripted dramatic series in over a decade, \"The Mist,\" has gotten off to a promising start.\nPremiering on Thursday, June 22 at 10pm ET/PT, \"The Mist\" delivered significant increases in Adults 18-49 (+98%) and total viewers (+137%) in its timeslot compared to the previous 4-week average.\nThe solid numbers are encouraging as the network rebrands to Paramount Network in January with an emphasis on premium scripted programming.\nOverall, \"The Mist\" drew 1.3 million viewers with 0.6 Adults 18-49.\nBased on a story by Stephen King, Spike's THE MIST has been re-imagined for television by Executive Producer and Writer Christian Torpe and produced by TWC-Dimension Television. The story centers around a small town family that is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other. Family, friends and adversaries become strange bedfellows, battling the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain morality and sanity as the rules of society break down.\nChristian Torpe and Amanda Segel are Executive Producers of \"The Mist.\"\nBob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein and David Glasser are Executive Producers for TWC-Dimension Television with Megan Spanjian, Matthew Signer and Keith Levine as Producers.\nTed Gold, Senior Vice President, Scripted Original Series; and Lauren Ruggiero, Vice President, Scripted Programming are the executives in charge of production for Spike with Vlad Wolynetz serving as Co-Executive Producer.\nSpike TV is available in 91.4 million homes and is a division of Viacom Media Networks. A unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), Viacom Media Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com.\n\u00b7 MIST, THE (SPIKE TV)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theheartofmassachusetts.com/Articles-c-2012-03-29-155989.113119-Selectmen-oppose-310-Main-purchase.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ56NPDUPYXSLXWGD5B5PKES4W4OCUOV", "length": 904, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.theheartofmassachusetts.com", "title": "Selectmen oppose 310 Main purchase", "raw_content": "Selectmen oppose 310 Main purchase\nSTURBRIDGE \u2014 At its meeting on Monday, March 26, the Board of Selectmen expressed opposition to a citizen petition calling for the transfer from free cash the sum of $315,000 to purchase the property and buildings located at 310 Main Street.\nThe article was placed on the Annual Town Meeting warrant, but selectmen feel that purchasing the property next to Town Hall is a mistake, voting 4-0-1 to not support the purchase (Mary Blanchard abstained from voting). In addition, the board voted to release the executive session minutes associated with its discussions pertaining to the property over the last 15 months.\n\"It would be a good deal if the price was right, but that building is nowhere close to being worth $315,000,\" said Selectman Priscilla Gimas. \"And that is just the amount needed to purchase the building. It would require even more money to renovate it.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theindependents.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/en/hotel/location/united_kingdom/cambridgeshire/st_ives/olivers_lodge/1197/view.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AV3FT37DE5P4BEEIYXP34FSMJY3ULFUF", "length": 525, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.theindependents.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com", "title": "The Independents Hotel Association", "raw_content": "Olivers Lodge St Ives\nWeb: http://www.oliverslodge.co.uk\nThe Olivers Lodge is ideally located in St. Ives, historic market town, and is situated on the River Great Ouse, which was, for thousands of years, one of the main highways of England.\nAttractions nearby include:\nImperial War Museum at Duxford, Newmarket, The American Cemetery at Madingley, Grafham Water - One of the largest man-made lakes in Britain, Ely Cathedral, Anglesey Abbey, Burghley House, Kimbolton Castle, The RSPB Wildfowl Centres - at Peakirk and Welney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 165.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/culture-news/stars-ccbcs-harriets-army-attend-7448488", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BTMYQEHWN3LLXA3VKNNREOJ67AJZJKQE", "length": 9004, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.thejournal.co.uk", "title": "Stars of CCBC's Harriet's Army attend North East premiere at BALTIC - The Journal", "raw_content": "Young stars of new CCBC show attend North East premiere\nA new drama series called Harriet's Army was shot in the North East as part of the First World War centenary\nYoung actors Elliot Baxter and Ciara Baxendale, who are appearing in the film Harriot's Army which was screened at the Baltic\nThe latest children\u2019s drama series shot in the North East focuses on a little-known aspect of life on the home front during the First World War. DAVID WHETSTONE met some of those involved at a preview screening on Tyneside\nCiara Baxendale and Elliot Baxter were all smiles at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art this week. It was nice to see, especially since Ciara recently punched Elliot pretty hard in the face.\nBut some explanation is required here. The eye-watering punch comes early in Harriet\u2019s Army, a new CBBC drama shot in the North East, and it is delivered by feisty young Harriet Grange (played by Ciara) to the nose of Thomas Brown (Elliot Baxter).\nThe two young stars of the series were at Baltic for a couple of preview screenings and took time to talk about the fun they had during the shoot.\n\u201cWe had a stunt man,\u201d said Ciara, then added hastily: \u201cNot to teach us how to punch someone in the face but how not to.\u201d\nThe punch looks as authentic on screen as all the costumes and sets in this beautifully filmed series and that\u2019s just as well because it\u2019s a vital, plot-driving moment.\nHarriet gets kicked out of the Girl Guides for her act of aggression, despite her protest that the punch was in retaliation and intended for someone else.\nConsequently she is unable to help in the war effort, the First World War having just broken out, and has to channel her considerable energy into mustering her own independent army to smooth the path to victory.\nCiara Baxendale as feisty Harriet Grange in Harriet's Army\nCiara, who will be 19 on Saturday, comes from Rawtenstall in Lancashire\u2019s Rossendale Valley.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been acting since I was 15,\u201d she said.\n\u201cMy first role was in Sky One\u2019s Little Crackers series playing Jane Horrocks\u2019 young friend, Patsy (this was a series with flashback moments). Funnily enough, the girl playing the Jane Horrocks character as a girl is playing Violet in Harriet\u2019s Army.\n\u201cShe was also in My Mad Fat Diary so we\u2019ve had three jobs together.\u201d\nThis is Sophie Wright, from Doncaster, who plays Girl Guide Violet Croft in the new series.\nCiara played Izzy in My Mad Fat Diary, the Bafta-nominated comedy drama that started on E4 at the beginning of last year. It earned her quite a following. In fact Elliot, who is from Kendal, said he was momentarily taken aback to encounter his co-star in the flesh having previously watched her on TV.\nCiara, with her striking red hair and acting experience, must have been quite an easy choice for the part of Harriet. She is also petite which makes her a believable 14-year-old.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know how much the Guides and Scouts did in the war,\u201d she said. \u201cI was in the Guides. I remember being told off for dropping litter in a field. I think I left after that.\u201d\nElliot is a newcomer by comparison. The affable 17-year-old said: \u201cI\u2019ve just finished my first year at Kendal College, studying drama.\n\u201cI joined a drama group and got an agent through that but I haven\u2019t done much other stuff professionally. I got my first part in Silent Witness although it was a very small part, playing one of the characters in flashback.\n\u201cI come from a family of tradesmen so there are no actors in the family, although my sister, who\u2019s two years older, is on the same course as me. Us choosing acting was a bit of a shock for my dad because he\u2019s a builder.\u201d\nElliot said of his character, Thomas Brown: \u201cHe keeps himself to himself because he gets bullied a lot. People think he\u2019s German because his sister married a German bloke.\n\u201cHe is pretty much the exact opposite of Harriet. She\u2019s very \u2018out there\u2019 but she helps his family and he follows her, even though the first time they meet he punches her in the face by accident.\u201d\nJames Baxter as Stephen Croft in Harriet's Army\nElliot said: \u201cI\u2019m very into history. It made me think how useful children were during the First World War.\u201d\nHe said he had enjoyed the night shooting best of all although some other cast members hadn\u2019t been looking forward to it.\nCiara said: \u201cMy shoes were really thin. My feet were so cold.\u201d\nThe series was shot earlier in the year, at locations incluiding Beamish, because the plot demanded dark skies.\nCiara, whose younger sister is training to be a ballet dancer, said: \u201cI loved playing Harriet. I think she\u2019s great. She\u2019s really feisty and follows her own instincts.\n\u201cShe doesn\u2019t have a mum. Her mum died so she has had no female role models. Her father is a headmaster and also the Scout leader.\u201d\nCiara said of the shoot: \u201cThere are some great locations here and I loved coming to Newcastle. It\u2019s a great city.\u201d\nHarriet\u2019s Army is the latest children\u2019s TV drama series to be made in the North East as the BBC strives to increase its involvement in the region.\nChildren\u2019s programming has been identified as one specialist area ripe for development here following the trail-blazing Byker Grove and more recent successes such as Wolfblood and the Tracy Beaker spin-off, The Dumping Ground.\nAlso at Baltic this week, at screenings facilitiated by Northern Fim & Media, were Helen Bullough, head of CBBC Production, and Jo Ward, executive producer of Harriet\u2019s Army.\nJo said the series came out of the discussions that took place ahead of this year\u2019s First World War centenary events.\n\u201cIt was decided our contribution would be a drama for children that would show what happened to the children left at home.\n\u201cWhile that was being researched a development assistant came across the fact that the Scouts and Guides played a very big part in the war, forming a second line of defence.\n\u201cWhat they did was a bit like what Dad\u2019s Army did in the Second World War. That was the starting point.\nCiara Baxendale as Harriet Grange and Sophie Wright as Violet Croft in CBBC drama Harriet's Army\n\u201cVarious writers were approached and Guy Burt latched onto the Scouts and Guides thing and came up with this girl, Harriet, who gets ejected from the Guides just before the outbreak of war for fighting too much.\n\u201cHe came up with this rather nice story about Harriet putting together a band of misfits and going off to find spies... the sort of thing the Scouts were supposed to be doing.\n\u201cHarriet is quite a modern girl for her time and this is really her story. But what starts off as a game becomes real when she helps a family (the family of Thomas Brown) who are accused of being German spies.\u201d\nJo said they didn\u2019t want to do a series set in the trenches for CBBC\u2019s audience of children aged six to 12 but said the important issues were still dealt with.\n\u201cThe brother of Harriet\u2019s friend is shell-shocked so you get a feeling of what it was like to be in the trenches but without us showing it \u2013 there\u2019s enough of that going on elsewhere. This is how it was for this small community back in England.\u201d\nIt is not specifically a North East community, as the accents reveal. \u201cWe wanted to keep it fairly loose because we knew we wouldn\u2019t get everyone with the same accent,\u201d said Jo. \u201cWe maybe had a Yorkshire mill community in mind.\n\u201cBut we wanted to shoot at Beamish. That was our starting point because Beamish offers so much... but then to look for things around there.\n\u201cWe had to look for streets which didn\u2019t have double glazing and in some places we put up our own windows.\u201d\nJo said of Harriet\u2019s Army: \u201cI was a bit afraid that it might come across as The Famous Five meets The Railway Children but it\u2019s not as simple as that. There are quite a lot of interesting relationships in it and I think it won\u2019t necessarily appeal only to children.\u201d\nHelen Bullough, still basking in the success of CBBC Live which brought 36,000 visitors to the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides a few weeks ago, was clearly pleased with the way Harriet\u2019s Army has turned out.\nBut she revealed it had originally been called Emily\u2019s Army. The name had to be changed because there\u2019s an American rock band of the same name.\nCiara Baxendale said that was fine with her because she preferred the name Harriet.\nHarriet\u2019s Army was screened twice at Baltic this week and was well received by children and adults. It is a very classy piece of drama, well acted and good-looking, which should appeal to a family audience.\nIt is due to be shown on CBBC in three half-hour episodes, the first in early August to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of war. All three parts will then be shown together in a feature-length broadcast near Remembrance Day.\nNew Baltic exhibition creates a real buzz\nFrench artist Marine Hugonnier demonstrates a new approach to wildlife documentary film-making at Baltic\nNorth East artists invited to submit entries for Baltic 39 exhibition\nArtists are invited to submit entries for this year's open submissions exhibition at Baltic 39\nPort of Tyne sponsors EAT! NewcastleGateshead festival", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 15801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelastleafgardener.com/2017/01/oh-oh-star-of-wonder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:58Z", "digest": "sha1:RK5XWPPLH4RS3T5DEGYICYCABRXZLKVD", "length": 4708, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thelastleafgardener.com", "title": "The Last Leaf Gardener: \"Oh, Oh, Star of Wonder....\"", "raw_content": "I took the photo atop today's entry from the vantage point of a NYC street, after seeing the fireworks display in Central Park this past on New Year's Eve which was last Saturday!\nYou might recognize this star as I referenced it in a prior entries here on in 2011 as well as in 2012. These posts included the following pictures of this same star.\nThe images above feature images taken from the vantage point of the dearly departed Peggy Wood,\nwho edited the iBook version of Cam's book, Words In Our Beak, which is dedicated to her. She died seven months before the book was placed in Apple's iTunes and iBook's stores. Now it's also available in ePub format on Amazon.\nBut I digress! Getting back to the star that can be seen from the street, as well as from the window of Peggy Wood's apartment; here's what I wrote about it in 2011: \"My neighbor (Peggy Wood or PW) lives in a studio apartment on the top floor of a building that is a few doors west of me and her window (where she has a small indoor garden of succulents) faces south. It looks directly into a window where someone has hung a star. The star, we once speculated, was hung in honor of the Epiphany...\"\nHowever, in 2012, PW shared a story with me that was related to the star that she observed from her window every New Year's Eve; and I included it within a post on Blogger:\nPW described it this way, \"on New Year's Eve, guests enter the apartment (with the star in the window); and (they) immediately take of their clothes. Then close to midnight, they put their clothes back on, place lights on their head and go out to Central Park [which is near by] to watch the celebration of (the annual) fireworks; and after the fireworks are over, they return to the apartment and take off their clothes again . . . \"\nIn the entry I've just referenced I also stated: \"The aforementioned fireworks occur in conjunction with the Midnight Run every New Year's Eve. I usually attend the event in Central Park with friends and ... I know nothing about the New Year's Eve comings and goings of the tenants who live in the apartment that has the window with the star, but I will say, it sounds like PW's succulents have a much more exciting view from her front window than mine have from my rear window!\"\nI ultimately encountered the folks who attended this party on New Year's Eve 2014. PW had died that morning; so I had made a dinner for her brother and his wife to enjoy before they headed off to the fireworks. They live in California and had never seen the annual extravaganza. After our dinner and viewing the fireworks, we parted ways for the night. However, I was very sad re PW's passing and wanted to reach out and talk with others, but it was late; and as I walked home, I tried to recall someone who might be awake and able to talk with me. I looked up in the sky and saw the star in the window, and thought of these lyrics:\n\" . . . O Star of wonder, star of night\nGuide us to thy Perfect Light . . . \"\nI followed the direction of it, and entered the building that had a star in the window! That is when I encountered the folks who attended this party. I wanted to do the reverse look into PW's window and imagine her, reading manuscripts and taking in the folks of the apartment that had a star in their window. One of the guests ushered me out. The following year, New Year's Eve of 2015; there was no star in their window! Therefore, I was glad to see the star on this past New Year's Eve of 2016. I gazed at that star and took the photo which is at the top of this entry as well as directly below.\nNotice that the man who put up the star has now covered the surrounding area of the window, this is something that he did not do in bygone years, as evidenced in the second photo of this entry. And, dear reader, if you are wondering why I've chosen today to write about this NYC star, it is because, January 8th 2017, is when The Feast of the Epiphany is being celebrated. It is also the day when the aforementioned hymn will be sung among those who celebrate this feast.\nI'll end these musings by sharing what Micheal Sean Winters writes re this matter: \"The star of Epiphany is a light, and light reveals what has been dark. But, in the hymn we all sing this feast day, the star is first pronounced a \"star of wonder.\" Before we Christians look to human nature, before we shine the light of the Gospel onto human nature to see what it discloses about our ethical demands, stop and inculcate a sense of wonder and awe. That, for me, is what Epiphany is all about and I wish you all a, literally, wonderful feast. \"\nLabels: \"Words In Our Beak\", Bird Books, Central Park, Epiphany, Fireworks, Michael Sean Winters, New Year's, NYC, Peggy Wood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 656, "original_length": 19393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themoviebit.com/2015/06/stephen-kings-stand-is-returning-to-our.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CCOJZVMUJL6EKERKG7XTI47RCITB6TKJ", "length": 1896, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.themoviebit.com", "title": "Stephen King's The Stand Is Returning To Our Screens At Last!! | The Movie Bit", "raw_content": "Stephen King's The Stand Is Returning To Our Screens At Last!!\nDave Higgins Saturday, June 6, 2015\nBack in 1978 Stephen King first published what would go on to become one of his most beloved stories; a complex and intricate tale about the end of the world, the survival of humanity, and an epic battle between good and evil. The Stand has been a fan favourite since it first hit shelves, and for a long time studio execs have been scratching their heads as to how to return it to our screens.\nIn 1994 it was given life as a 4 episode mini-series starring Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald and Jamey Sheridan as the demonic Randall Flagg. Now, more than 20 years later, it's returning to our screens, set to be given fresh life on both TV and on the big screen.\nJosh Boone, the man who directed The Fault In Our Stars, will step behind the camera to bring us an 8 part miniseries event before a full length feature film to wrap up the epic story. Great news for fans of the book, as the amount of characters and detail will surely require significant running time to do the book justice.\nOne rumour that's doing the round is that Matthew McConaughey is circling the project, possibly to play the villainous Flagg, a piece of casting that would mark this as one of the must-see shows for the next few years. With the resurgence in his career and some simply magnificent performances over the last few years, we can't think of a better piece of casting to start this project off on the right footing.\nStay tuned for more info on the show as we get it.\nThe Movie Bit: Stephen King's The Stand Is Returning To Our Screens At Last!!\nhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TBpg9m07yAg/VXKjnuTHaWI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/lh2ad8SB7aM/s640/IMG_0527.JPG\nhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TBpg9m07yAg/VXKjnuTHaWI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/lh2ad8SB7aM/s72-c/IMG_0527.JPG\nhttp://www.themoviebit.com/2015/06/stephen-kings-stand-is-returning-to-our.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themusingsofabookaddict.com/2012/02/fever-lauren-destefano.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SEGNTCBTGMQEEVNNFBR35LS6OT56SITV", "length": 2894, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.themusingsofabookaddict.com", "title": "The Musings of a Book Addict: Fever \u2013 Lauren DeStefano", "raw_content": "Source: Received a copy from publisher for review\nJust One More Day! February 21st this book becomes available!\nWarning: This book is for the more mature reader as it contains sexual content in the form of forced prostitution (human trafficking) some violence and profanity.\nRunning away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.\nThe two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine\u2019s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can\u2019t seem to elude Rhine\u2019s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary.\nIn the sequel to Lauren DeStefano\u2019s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.\nI wondered if I would like this book as much as the first. It did not disappoint. It continues Rhine and Gabriel\u2019s story where the first book left off. Rhine is on her way to New York City to try to find her brother Rowan. Along the way we meet many new and interesting characters and it seems as if Rhine\u2019s problems increase. Lauren DeStefano has created a dystopian world in which she brings up topics many authors are afraid to touch. We get a look at human trafficking and prostitution. We see Rhine doubt her decision to flee. Back with Linden she had everything she could have wanted from him, except freedom. Out in the world she must once again face the real world full of evil people who helped imprison her in the first place. Just because she escaped Linden doesn\u2019t mean she can or will escape his father Vaughn. Vaughn is another one who is after her.\nOne thing I was disappointed in was Gabriel. In Wither I felt he took very limited risks. Between the two of them he came across as the weak one. I personally didn\u2019t see a lot of growth in him throughout this second book. Maybe with the introduction of some of the other characters like Silas, there was a reason for this. I can\u2019 wait to see what the third and final book will hold for us. I will definitely recommend this book to everyone who really loves dystopian fiction, as well as those who read Wither. This is a must read book. The twists and turns are awesome. You think you\u2019ve figured something out and suddenly you turn around and it wasn\u2019t at all the way you thought it should have been. The wait for the third book in this series is going to seem to be a long one. It is one for which I will try to be patient.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thenewcovenantchristiancenter.org/site/page.asp?id=29&t=pastor_pen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DASNBP4J2BXZV642PCWUJDBYETAWAMVY", "length": 1001, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thenewcovenantchristiancenter.org", "title": "New Covenant Evangelistic Christian Center, Union City, CA. - pastor pen", "raw_content": "2019 will be a year of Exceptional Things!\nThe Bible says by 2 or 3 let every word be established.\nAt the end of 2018 my message was \"5779\"\nSeveral of the ancient Hebrew text state that the deadline by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation. According to tradition, the Hebrew calendar started at the time of Creation, placed at 3761 BC.\nThe current (2018/2019) Hebrew year is (5779)\n5 represents God's goodness and grace upon humanity..( Eph 2:8-9)\n7 is one of the most important numbers in the Bible, it symbolizes completion, perfection and rest (Phillippians1:6); Heb 4\n9 a multiple of three, symbolizes the finality of faith or divine completeness (Heb 11:1,6 & Mark 11:24)\n\"Christ died in the 9th hour (3PM). Yom Kippur occurs on the 9th day of the 7th month (Lev.23:32). The fruit of the Spirit consists of nine qualities (love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control - Gal 5:22-23)\nI focused on Grace, Completion, Rest and Faith!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 16106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 193.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/11/republicans-earn-bonuses-for-exceeding-islamic-state-isis-2015-recruiting-goals-trump-best.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:49Z", "digest": "sha1:62CLZPHEAGBIKOZM6E6VAEOJYTMGUIIV", "length": 2820, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.theniladmirari.com", "title": "TNA: Republicans Earn Bonuses for Exceeding ISIS Recruiting Goals", "raw_content": "Republicans Earn Bonuses for Exceeding ISIS Recruiting Goals\nThe Republican Party earns hundreds of thousands of dollars recruiting for ISIS.\nWASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Today, the Islamic State (ISIS) announced many prominent Republican politicians - including many GOP presidential candidates - will receive cash bonuses for exceeding ISIS's recruiting goals. The Islamic State explained Republican opposition to Syrian refugees being allowed into the United States was \"a wonderful way\" to help the religious-extremist organization recruit even more Syrian civilians, who were essentially being held hostage inside their own country.\n\"The Republican Party is doing an amazing job beating our 2015 recruiting goals. Speaker Paul Ryan and his Teabagger allies in the House are actually threatening to shut down the American government if Republicans aren't allowed to sink a program that allows Syrian refugees to enter the United States,\" stated a man wearing all black, who claimed to be the Islamic State's Director of Recruiting.\nRELATED: Islamic State Sends U.S. Letter of Thanks for Weapons\nThe ISIS official added, \"Speaker Ryan is getting a $150,000 bonus for his efforts, and many Republicans in Congress will be receiving a $15,000 or $30,000 bonus. They'll get the higher amount if they are also urging more direct American military action in Syria while they tell Syrian civilians to stay where they are in the kill zone.\"\nDonald Trump speaking at CPAC in Maryland on 2.27.2015. He received the highest bonus.\n\"Of course, their bonuses all pale in comparison to the one Donald Trump will be receiving. Trump not only wants to keep Syrian refugees out of the United States, but he wants to deport them back to Syria and into the Islamic State's arms. For that, he is receiving a $500,000 bonus,\" explained the ISIS recruiting director.\nRELATED: U.S. Vows to Bomb More Civilian Targets After Paris Attacks\nTNA learned Republican presidential candidates who want to keep Syrian refugees from entering the United States will receive a $25,000 bonus, but GOP candidates only welcoming Syrian refugees who are Christians will receive a $75,000 bonus for reinforcing the narrative that Muslim lives are less valuable.\n\"The Islamic State can relate to Republicans who say they are Christians and confess Muslim lives are less valuable to them than Christian lives. We think in much the same way, just in reverse,\" explained the Islamic State recruiting source.\nAt the close of the interview, TNA was informed every Republican governor opposed to taking Syrian refugees will be receiving a $5,000 bonus for standing against basic human rights and decency.\nTopics: Christianity, Congress, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Islam, Islamic State, Muslims, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Syria, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Teabaggers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theniladmirari.com/2016/03/wall-street-projects-democratic-presidential-candidate-former-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-will-be-the-next-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-potus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6HLPRYDO2KNLO6TSPV6AETVU4DVL4VPL", "length": 1795, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theniladmirari.com", "title": "TNA: Wall Street Projects Hillary Clinton Will Be Next U.S. President", "raw_content": "Wall Street Projects Hillary Clinton Will Be Next U.S. President\nWall Street projects former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic presidential nomination and be the next President of the United States of America.\nNEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (The Nil Admirari) - Earlier today, Wall Street projected former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would defeat U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the Democratic presidential nomination, and eventually be the next President of the United States. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein made the projection official with a wire transfer of hundreds of millions of dark money dollars from Wall Street financial institutions to Hillary Clinton's super PAC Correct the Record.\n\"Wall Street projects Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic presidential nomination, and the White House in November. The people at Goldman Sachs and other highly reputable financial organizations are pretty good at manipulating numbers,\" declared a smirking Lloyd Blankfein.\nBlankfein continued, \"But just to make sure, the other banksters and I may have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the super PAC Hillary is definitely not coordinating with on a daily basis. The law is pretty clear that I don't have to tell you anything about the money.\"\n\"No. I will not confirm receiving a transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from Wall Street institutions this morning,\" replied David Brock, Chief Henchman of Hillary Clinton at Correct the Record.\nClinton used the same one-word answer for both TNA's request for comment and TNA's inquiry about whether she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street institutions.\n\"No,\" replied Clinton.\nTopics: Corruption, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Trickle-down Economics, Wall Street", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thenorthernlight.org/why-uaa-why-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DS2DJQL32PUZFRBKSBJMUFHSAYKA6UJ7", "length": 3703, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thenorthernlight.org", "title": "Why UAA? Why now? | The Northern Light", "raw_content": "Why UAA? Why now?\nI was in the homestretch of completing high school. I was filled with a mix of excitement for the future and stress over having to make big life decisions \u2014 decisions like what to do next.\nMy more grounded parents wanted me to plan for college, evaluate options and discuss choices. During those talks I never \u2014 not even once \u2014 considered the University of Alaska Anchorage as a destination. My head was telling me, \u201cI need to get out.\u201d\nMy entire life had been centered in Anchorage, Alaska. My best friend and I were united in our mission to leave. Our senior year included a tour of public and private universities throughout the Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado areas. Both of us had applied and been accepted elsewhere.\nDuring that tour I was schooled on varying state university tuition rates, fees, scholarships and loans that were available to me and the general financial picture of how my future educational choices now were going to affect me and my family. I clearly remember being okay with the knowledge that my parents and I would be assuming debt of approximately $30,000 per year to attend one of these schools.\nAll of this information about financing and loans vs. scholarships vs. grants was all mixed up, and the realities of those choices took awhile to solidify in my head.\nBy the time high school graduation came, I began to take notice of others\u2019 choices and the repercussions those choices had on their future and families. After more thoughtful discussions with my parents, I decided on a whole new direction and enlisted in the Army Reserve. My dad is in the Alaska Army National Guard, and I had thoughts about serving in the military too. At this time, the reserve\u2019s had a significant enlistment bonus and a tuition assistance program available after the initial training. This took huge pressure off. I returned from a winter of training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., in the spring of 2010, financially and personally prepared to attend college.\nUAA was the obvious best choice. I was shocked that I\u2019d completely dismissed it earlier. After a year outside, my feelings about life in Anchorage had changed \u2014 I knew this is where I wanted to be, and I could get a bachelor\u2019s degree at home in Alaska.\nI had also missed the things I took for granted: immediate access to the fishing, hunting, hiking, snowboarding and skate skiing.\nEven more importantly, I discovered that UAA was affordable. I could imagine, because of my situation, getting through college debt-free. With the military tuition assistance and a CIRI Foundation scholarship, I was in good shape. These two funding sources almost completely covered the cost of my full-time tuition for these last three years.\nThere is a very strong culture at UAA of students who work while attending college. Along with fulfilling my obligations to the Army Reserve, I was also employed. I started working at a car rental counter, moved to working at the CIRI Foundation and finally got an internship with Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. The experience gained by working has been just as beneficial for my future as going to school itself. I would encourage every student to pursue internships early and often to obtain the invaluable work experience employers are looking for.\nAlthough it wasn\u2019t clear in the beginning, UAA was the perfect choice for me. I\u2019m a career-focused individual that values an affordable, quality and no-nonsense education. Choosing UAA has allowed me to live in the state I love, earn a bachelor\u2019s degree and graduate debt-free.\nEric Francisco,\nEconomics Senior\nPrevious articleThoughts on financial aid\nNext articleDigging into the volleyball team\u2019s weekend opponents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 15039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theurbanpolitico.com/2010/08/this-just-in-michelle-obama-takes-vaca.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DZMQ2KBXJPBFWTL2GBDKLAHROXPKPX6U", "length": 1901, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.theurbanpolitico.com", "title": "The Urban Politico: This Just In: Michelle Obama Takes Vaca - World To End Soon", "raw_content": "This Just In: Michelle Obama Takes Vaca - World To End Soon\nOK, so what's all the hub bub, Bub? This is one of those over dramatic stories that just begs you to say \"really?\" The First Lady is taking a vacation in Spain and...this is newsworthy? Look, I know that media feels it must cover all things Presidential but this story might have jumped slightly outside the realm of the irrelevant and officially crossed over into the land of the petty. The spin on this thing has been Shirley Sherrod-esque, ranging from an entourage of 40 of Michelle's closest friends taking an all-expense paid trip on the American tax payer's dime, to Michelle deserving the trip as reparations for slavery. The Daily News even went so far as to call her the \"modern-day Marie Antoinette\" opining that \"while most of the country is pinching pennies...the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice.\" As with most fake outrage, a quick look at the facts goes a long way to stop the madness:\nFirst and foremost, Michelle is paying for this vacation with her own money, including her own hotel room, food and transportation.\nMichelle brought one (1) daughter (Sasha) and two (2) friends.\nThe two friends paid for their own rooms, food and their own commercial flights as well.\nEvery first lady for the past 50 years has flown on government planes.\nPer official White House policy, Michelle must reimburse the air fare at market rate for a commercial airline ticket for herself and Sasha.\nThe government pays for the Secret Service security detail for the first lady no matter if she goes on a vacation to Spain or sits in her living room eating ice cream and watching soaps.\nThe Secret Service, not the first lady, determines how much security is needed.\nLaura Bush took vacation (usually with President Bush) for each of the 8 years during Bush's two terms in office.\nSo again I ask, What's all the hub bub.....Bub?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 23662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theviewfromhemingwaysattic.com/2013/12/the-things-writers-do.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YTZVTMFAVCF3E6FWCVWJ3OWQ6O3X2UZK", "length": 1962, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.theviewfromhemingwaysattic.com", "title": "The View from Hemingway's Attic: The Things Writers Do", "raw_content": "The Things Writers Do\nSome of the things I have done make me cringe. Take the time I barged into the winner of the National Book Awards home on a cold day in November with a copy of my small press novel to have him give me a blurb. Where did I get that kind of nerve? He came to the door after his wife stared at the guy in cowboy boots and a long coat and I told him I seen him in the Chicago Tribune and that I was a writer and I wondered if he would give me some pointers or comment on my book.\nYeeeesh. I cringe thinking about what he must have thought. But he invited me in and we sat in his study while he told me the plot of his second novel for the next hour. I sat there with a half smile and listened to him talk about literature and about reading the bible and then it was time to go. I left him my book and I think he said he would look at it. I think I even called him back and he said something like good luck with the book and that was that.\nFast forward three years later after my second book and a good bit of publicity and a three book deal with Random House. I am sitting in the basement of a library at a kids table in a kids chair with my knees up and and there is another man sitting there. He does not recognize me. We both took the hundred dollar stipend for talking to children about our process of writing. After a few moments he picked up my book and stared at the name and then turned to me.\nI owe you an apology he said. I shook my head. No you don't. I owe you one for barging in like that. We talked a little and then after the library thing ended he shook my hand. I hope you make a million dollars he said. And that was that. I saw him one more time on the streets of Chicago outside Columbia University where I was teaching. He walked by and stared at me...but my name had escaped him by then.\nLabels: authors, book promotion, fiction writing, literary, literature, national book award, rocket man, the pitcher, writers, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thewordheardroundtheworld.com/2010/12/no-vacancy-still.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RXFYCH55MFPMEIZZT7KMATQL4ILV6A7L", "length": 1520, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thewordheardroundtheworld.com", "title": "On Wings of Eagles: No Vacancy Still", "raw_content": "The year was 1964 and there I was as a 2 year old the \u201cInn Keeper\u201d in the church Christmas program. My big line was \u201cThere is no room in the Inn\u201d Those words, \"There was no room for them in the inn,\" reminds me of a story of an experience a family had several years ago. They had been traveling all day, and were trying to find a motel where they could spend the night. It was getting late, and the children were tired and fidgety. As they drove along the highway, their hopes were dashed time and again by the sight of NO VACANCY signs. As the father, responsible for the well- being of his family, he was frustrated and discouraged. But then he thought of Mary and Joseph. How much worse it must have been when they arrived in Bethlehem and found no rooms available! He could imagine Joseph pleading with the manager of the inn, telling him of Mary's condition and their desperate need for a suitable place where she could give birth to her child. Luke tells us that \"there was no room for them in the inn,\" and that when Mary gave birth to Jesus she \"wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger.\"\nToday, nearly 20 centuries later, millions of people have no room for Jesus. Although they participate enthusiastically in the festivities of the Christmas season, they keep Him out of their lives. The \"No Vacancy\" sign is there. .\n-Luke 2:7 (King James Version)\nDear Lord we pray that we will always have room for you in our live and our heart. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen\nLabels: no room in the Inn, No Vacancy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 201.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=7607", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VYR6KPSBD6XLVI76C7POLTG6ZBM5YHRO", "length": 2100, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thiel-a-vision.com", "title": "Thiel-a-Vision \u00bb 31 Classic Doctor Who Monsters #15: The Ogrons", "raw_content": "Home > Doctor Who\t> 31 Classic Doctor Who Monsters #15: The Ogrons\n31 Classic Doctor Who Monsters #15: The Ogrons\nThe modern Doctor Who series has done much to rehabilitate the once-damaged reputation of the Daleks. These days, few make jokes about the their inability to climb stairs. And if they do, the Daleks float up and exterminate their asses.\nHowever, as much as nu-Who has tried to sell us on the idea that the Daleks\u2019 traditional plunger arms are terrifying murder devices, the fact remains that after millions of fictional years in which to refine their design, the Daleks have never built themselves a proper hand.\nSo, when nothing but an opposable thumb will do, they must turn to other, less-supreme species. Such as today\u2019s entry\u2026\nThe Ogrons!\nHulking brutes from a rocky, unnamed planet, the Ogrons were (barely) smart enough to serve as hired muscle. They could operate complex equipment and even spacecraft, but the mind boggles at the number of diagrams and Post-It Notes that must have been involved in their training.\nFrom an alternate timeline in which the Daleks were the masters of 22nd Century Earth, Ogrons were sent back to the 20th Century to thwart a group of future human rebels who themselves had traveled back in time to prevent the events that would lead to World War III. In one of classic Who\u2018s few examples of \u201ctimey-wimey\u201d plotting, the humans were actually the ones responsible for creating the Dalek-controlled future in which they lived. (If it all sounds a little like the Terminator films, keep in mind that this episode predated them by more than a decade.)\nThe following year, the Ogrons made a second appearance as minions of the Master, who in turn was working for the Daleks. It was all part of a complicated plot to pit 26th Century Earth against the Draconian Empire, leaving both sides too weak to fend off a Dalek invasion. Surely the Ogrons themselves didn\u2019t understand it, but were happy to play along nonetheless.\nTomorrow: Eldrad must live!\n31 Classic Doctor Who Monsters #16: Eldrad A Spotter\u2019s Guide To \u201cThe Cabin In The Woods\u201d Monsters, Part 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomfulmer.com/thom-fulmer-2/experiencing-the-love-of-christ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:J4SKHKKSAQPXDSA5BN36XWJBGMX4GD32", "length": 2484, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thomfulmer.com", "title": "Experiencing the Love of Christ \u2014 Thom Fulmer", "raw_content": "\"And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. (Ephesians 3:18, 19 NLT) May you experience the love of Christ! We start meeting as a church community next month and my prayer for my wife, my kids, you, me and everyone Jesus will draw to Himself through our community is that we would experience the love of Christ. I just finished reading Bob Goff's book Love Does (which I absolutely recommend for you), then read these verses this morning and feel compelled to share this message with you.\nGod's love is our answer. Though we may not understand it fully, it makes us complete. It is what we need, and what gives us fullness of life. For me, fullness of life means significance and purpose. The next verse talks about how He is at work in us and accomplishes more than we can ask or think. His love fills us up and causes us to do things that He uses to change the lives of those in close proximity to us.\nHis love is not meant to be a great answer at a Bible study that makes me look smart. It is not meant to help me live in some impressive way that makes others wish they had it all together. It is not just for me to hold on to like a lucky charm, leading me to a safe, happy life.\nInstead, it should fill up in me and begin to spill out on all of those around me. It should be leaking and splashing out on them in a way that they encounter the love of Christ that was meant for them. Are you picturing a mess? I am. I am praying for one, right in the middle of our community. A dumpster fire that tips over, becoming an uncontainable, uncontrollable fire that reaches the unreachable.\nThe love of Jesus Christ is not meant to be studied, it is meant to be experienced. Experiencing His love is what pierces hearts and changes lives. When we are so filled with His love that we begin to act, move and share it with our neighbors, then the untouchable begin to be touched.\nOkay, great - so now what do you do? Ask God. Be still and ask Him what He would have you do. It may seem like a little thing to you, to walk across the street to pick up someone's trash can, visit with a neighbor or to help someone unload groceries. I have no idea. But, I am sure He wants us to experience His love in a way that we cannot contain it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.timessquaregossip.com/2015/05/reese-witherspoon-visits-david.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKM2M5KZ4536GMTJTTUXYNLCE2N4CM3X", "length": 254, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.timessquaregossip.com", "title": "REESE WITHERSPOON VISITS DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW", "raw_content": "REESE WITHERSPOON VISITS DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW\nReese Witherspoon was all smiles on the streets of New York City as she was photographed heading into The Late Show With David Letterman Studios.\nLATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN NEW YORK CITY REESE WITHERSPOON", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 12983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tips4running.com/running-with-uc.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:GTEANTPMAU3UWXHXCXWEM2673GRQE3OC", "length": 11909, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.tips4running.com", "title": "Running With UC - An Interview with Adam from I Have UC.com", "raw_content": "Running With UC - An Interview with Adam from I Have UC.com\nTips4Running presents an interview with Adam from I Have UC.com. He has been living and even been running with UC for years. UC stands for ulcerative colitis, which is a disease that affects the colon. Through his website, Adam shares his successes and struggles with this disease.\nDavid Tiefenthaler - Hello Adam. Thanks for the interview. You were recommended to me by Joe Walczak. He ran a half marathon with you and mentioned you have a very nice website called, I Have UC. I have been there and read your story, but to be honest I still don\u2019t understand ulcerative colitis that well. Can you explain what this disease is and how it affects people who have it?\nAdam - Sure thing David. Ulcerative Colitis is a gastro-intestinal disease that is considered an \"auto-immune\" disease. It directly affects the colon and it indirectly affects other parts of the body as well. The main idea in basic terms is that the immune system is triggering the white blood cells to attack the inner lining of the colon, often creating ulcerations that can cause internal bleeding, cramping, diarrhea, and other unpleasant symptoms. Probably, the constant feeling of needing to have a bowel movement is what many UC sufferers hate the most. And unfortunately, most people don't find ways to turn this auto-immune response off.\nMany people who are living with ulcerative colitis experience constant symptoms for days, months, and unfortunately years and years. The symptoms can lead to rapid weight loss, anemia, and in some severe cases colon removal surgery. What is really unfortunate is that ulcerative colitis is most commonly diagnosed in young people between the ages of 15-30\nDave - Does running help you manage UC or does running and or exercise sometimes cause flare-ups.\nAdam - That's a great question. I am not sure quite yet how to answer that. Last year for example, I raced the half marathon in Las Vegas, NV in December. Shortly before and afterwards, I was experiencing some worse than usual symptoms and eventually in January I was in a moderate flare up that I quickly got under control. I'll be racing again this December, and I'll have a better idea for you. But what I believe may have happened is over the holidays last year, I started eating some foods that simply don't agree with me and my disease, and I believe that the Thanksgiving and other Holidays can really test my will power and also my colitis.\nDave - When you run races like the half marathon, are you doing this to raise money for UC?\nAdam - Last year, I was trying to raise money for UC. I actually was a part of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America's Team Challenge program. I was able to raise over $3,400 which was donated to the CCFA on behalf of my sponsors.\n[Related - Use The 100 Day Marathon Plan To Run Your Best Marathon or Half Marathon Time]\nDave - You also have gone on some pretty cool biking trips. You\u2019ve been down to Argentina to do a seven-week bike tour. Your wife is from the Czech Republic and you have been biking with her there too. How were these trips?\nAdam - Those trips were incredible. I have always enjoyed going on long range bike trips with my sleeping bag and tent, and somehow I found a way to get down to Argentina and then later with my wife in the Czech and Slovak Republics for a month long bike journey. For me, being out in the outskirts of villages and towns in foreign countries is the best thing I've discovered on planet earth. Not only can this type of travel be very fun and physically challenging, but it is also a great way to learn about local people in their native lands.\nWhat's really excellent is staying in touch with people you meet overseas on trips like the bike trips I've taken. Several people I still keep in contact today, and I hope to meet up with them again in the future.\nBut back to the physical challenge of biking with 50 pounds of gear strapped to your bike, it is usually tough the first few days of any trip. There can be big time changes depending on where you travel to. And quite possibly you might not get the best sleep the first night or two. But soon enough, you'll be on a good schedule and super excited to wake up in the morning and pack your bike up and shove off for another 50 mile day. I can't say enough about this type of activity.\nDave - Do you bike at all now?\nAdam - I do still bike ride, however, for the past two years, it has been very limited. My biking is mostly around town biking. You know, going to the grocery story, or other places locally. I live in Berkeley, California, which is a very biker friendly environment, so that's great. There are tons of hills and places to get a great workout in either before or after work or on weekends. But for the record, I'm starting to get things in line for a long range bike trip again in the future. It's going to take some convincing of my wife, but after the first few days of her first trip, she did say she was having fun...\nDave - I have a friend with Crohn\u2019s Disease, and ulcerative colitis sounds similar to his condition. What are the differences or similarites to these two diseases?\nAdam - I hope your friend is doing alright and has his Crohn's under control. I'm by no means an expert on Crohn's, but there are some similarities, especially with the treatments that many physicians use. My understanding is that Crohn's is another Inflammatory Bowel Disease which can affect anywhere on a person body between the mouth and the anus. That's pretty much the whole pipe. It is similar to UC in that it's considered an auto-immune disease too.\nMany of the medicines that are prescribed are similar and even identical to what a UC patient might receive if you use the western medicine approaches. For example, my uncle had Crohn's disease, and he eventually had his colon removed and lived with a bag at his side for 35 years. I like to think of the main difference as a locational difference. Crohn's can be inflammation anywhere within the whole GI tract. And UC is limited to the Colon.\nDave - You seem like a big advocate for a specific diet called the \u201cSpecific Carbohydrate Diet\u201d or SDC. Can you explain this diet and how is it working for you?\nAdam - Sure, this diet is what I use to treat my UC. I'm medication free as well for about 8 months now. This diet is based on the idea that the symptoms are caused by an imbalance in gut bacteria within the colon. By eating certain foods and eliminating other foods, the idea is to make changes to the balance of gut bacteria. When this happens, the immune system becomes happy and does not want to continue attacking the walls of the colon. You could almost think of UC as a bacterial infection if you buy into this theory(as I do). And once the infection or bad bacteria is corrected, meaning reduced in volume or nearly eliminated, a much better state of happiness can come to the colon and the patient as a whole.\nDave - To manage UC, do you have to take any medications?\nAdam - Many people take medications to try and manage their UC. Probably the overwhelming majority of patients that I've come across use medications. But to answer your question, No, you don't have to. I think I'm living proof that a diet change can be all that you need to do.\nDave - Is ulcerative colitis something you are born with, or does it develop later in life? Is it hereditary?\nAdam - I was not born with ulcerative colitis. I did develop symptoms though later in life. Whether or not it is hereditary is always under heavy discussion in the medical world. Neither my brother or sister have UC, but my uncle and grandpa on my father's side both had GI issues. I believe there must be a genetic link or at least genetics might be playing some role in the chances of developing UC.\nDave - How do doctor\u2019s typically treat UC? Do they usually just prescribe medication, tell you to go on a diet, or do you have to have surgery in some cases?\nAdam - Yes, medications are by far the most common type of treatment doctors go to first. In my opinion, diet is very low on the priority list as far as treatment options that doctors recommend. I was not once told about diet as a treatment. This advice came from another UC'er I luckily met.\nDave - You have some job history working with the internet. What exactly did you do, and did your experience here lead you to make your own website, I Have UC?\nAdam - Yes indeed. I worked for a website hosting company in the Silicon Valley for several years, and that is where I learned how easy it is to create a website. One day in December of 2009, while my wife was back in her native Czech Republic I became very bored. Since I found a solution to my UC through diet, I wanted to share the idea with others, and that is how the website I HAVE UC all began.\nDave - You write some of the posts for the website, but a lot of stories are from readers. Is your goal to help people by sharing how other people deal with ulcerative colitis?\nAdam - That's a great question. And yes indeed, one of the major goals is for people living with UC not to feel so alone, and to know they can share their story with others that are going through the same tough times. So many of the stories have such similar themes about colitis symptoms, that I am pretty sure people all over the world realize they are for sure not alone once they do a little reading on the site.\nDave - Many of the stories are quite depressing. Is it rough reading and sharing all these stories with readers?\nAdam - Yes it is. But if you live with ulcerative colitis and you've been to hell and back like I have, you just learn that horrible, bloody, all day all night symptoms are part of the disease. That doesn't change. But what often does change is that people do find ways to get better and heal. And because of that, along with emails I receive from others living with UC who say they have benefited from the site, the site makes me really happy.\nDave - One post I found very interesting was how stress management can help you with UC. You read a book called Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School that talked about how stress affects the body. Can you explain why stress management is very important for you?\nAdam - You bet, the book Brain Rules is something everyone should buy and read right away. I was lucky enough to meet the author before he was presenting a few months ago. Within a few minutes I knew I could learn all sorts of things from Dr. John Medina. He's a genius and his book breaks things down in simple terms.\nHe explains how stress can be a great thing. And he also explains how it can really hurt your body. The negative part has to do with cortisol being released into our bodies from stress, and too much of that causes blood vessel problems among other things. So, the long story short is, now that I know the scientific side of why too much stress is bad for me, I can focus even better on finding ways to eliminate stressful situations that are simply unnecessary to life.\nBut to tie this all together to my UC, stress also triggers the immune system response. And that is definitely something I want to keep turned off if its not necessary. That's also why I'm big into stress management and why I talk about it quite often on I Have UC.\nDave - I also enjoyed your bathroom talks. Do you do these videos to show people they don\u2019t have to be embarrassed about this disease?\nAdam - That's right. NO need to be embarrassed by UC. Tons of people have it, and living with it is definitely not the end of the world.\nDave - Thanks for your time Adam. You have an excellent website. I am sure your willingness to share and your honesty has helped many people with UC more than you can imagine.\n- Joe Walczak Interview\n- Tina Haupert Interview\n- Sarah Moore Interview\nReturn from Running With UC to the Running Tips Homepage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 13100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=97142", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LK4V5NRHRXSTNBZWPMYYWM4JGLQ737XQ", "length": 1471, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tnledger.com", "title": "The Nashville Ledger Tennessee state park outsourcing push draws no bidders - The Nashville Ledger - Business, Government, Politics, News, Public Records, Public Notices, Crime Report, Neighborhood Report, Marketing Lists, Research", "raw_content": "Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation spokeswoman Kim Schofinski told The Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2r5WzL9 ) on Wednesday that no one bid on the proposal at Fall Creek Falls State Park, located on the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Van Buren and Bledsoe counties.\nSchofinski said the department is thankful Haslam and state lawmakers \"allocated funding to enhance the user experience at Fall Creek Falls, and we will evaluate how to best manage those resources as we move forward.\"\nTDEC planned to award the winning bidder $20 million in public money to raze the park's inn and build a new one.\nThe Tennessee State Employees Association, park workers and some lawmakers opposed the idea. Architects and engineers also grew concerned that the vendor would short-change them or opt to use professionals from other states.\nIn 2015, similar plans to outsource hospitality services at 11 state parks likewise yielded no interest from private vendors.\nThe administration pointed at the shoddy shape of state park facilities, and put $55 million in capital improvements into the parks in 2015.\nHaslam has set aside $52 million for various parks in the new state budget that kicks in July 1, sparking concerns from critics that the money may mean further outsourcing attempts.\nHaslam has contended that park services, including restaurants, golf courses, inns and marinas, could be better run at a cheaper price by private groups instead of government workers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=4105&osCsid=50b43df5407f5432d1a4afbc9be00e96", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WXQYNVXVTKIXNRZIBTFAGRLXM7NAARZT", "length": 3871, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.tochnit-aleph.com", "title": "Guerilla Art Action Group - Action Interview LP 28036,", "raw_content": "\u00bb \u00bb Fluxus & Associates \u00bb Primary Information\nGuerilla Art Action Group - Action Interview LP 28036\n[Primary Information]\nThe Guerrilla Art Action Group\u2019s Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y. documents a live performance by the group on January 5, 1970 on the progressive radio station WBAI.\nThe participants making up The Guerrilla Art Action Group on this recording were Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, and Jean Toche. They were also joined by Laurin Raiken, a member of the New York Free Theater and Art Workers Coalition.\nThe LP consists of a series of spoken statements that describe the problematic relationship between art and business, art and the military, art and class, art and community, and art and race. Some of these statements are directed to the general public, but others are questions addressed specifically to artists, forcing them to question their role in a dehumanizing, repressive, and corrupt system:\n\u201cHow long will you accept being the repressed lackey of society\u2019s manipulations?\u201d\n\u201cAre you guilty of being a repressor?\u201d\n\u201cIs it more important to you? To sell your painting, or help human beings?\u201d\n\u201cWhat is more important to you? To exhibit in a museum, or to fight for the human rights of the oppressed?\u201d\nThese questions, like many of the group\u2019s activities, undermine the notion that there is a separation between art and life or that art can enjoy an exemption from the systemic discrimination and corruption that permeates all aspects of American society. The group sought an artist model that could enact political and social change and they encouraged their fellow artists to follow suit by focusing less on aesthetic abstractions and more on direct personal experiences and expression. They believed that artists had become dehumanized through their willingness to operate inside a racist and sexist cultural system that relied on corporate money while aiding and abetting a military that used art to distract people from wartime atrocities.\n\u201cAs long as we have business values, we will have racism and poverty.\u201d\n\u201cAs long as art is business, it will be racist and repressive.\u201d\n\u201cAre you guilty of supporting racist and repressive cultural institutions?\u201d\nThe context of this conversation\u2014along with many of The Guerrilla Art Action Group\u2019s other actions\u2014was the Vietnam War, the ongoing struggles for civil rights, and artists\u2019 radical questioning of the role of cultural institutions. The group engaged in guerrilla performances, creating spectacles that drew attention to the moral failures of cultural institutions and the U.S. government.\nThis recording was made just a few months into their activities, but already the group had exercised a series of actions to accompany demands that the Museum of Modern Art sell one million dollars\u2019 worth of art and distribute the money to poor communities (of all races), to close (along with all other museums) for the remainder of the war in Vietnam, and to remove the Rockefellers (who profited from the production of weapons being used in the war) from their Board of Directors.\nAction-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y. was first published in 1983 by Edizioni Lotta Poetica and Studio Morra as part of their Radio Taxi series. The gatefold sleeve contains the complete text of the performance.\nThe Guerrilla Art Action Group was formed in 1969 by Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche as a platform for social struggle. They believed that the art world had been corrupted by private interest (oftentimes with suspect ties to the war machine in Vietnam). The group carried out public actions and performances against museums and other cultural institutions, as well as the U.S. government, to expose the moral failures of our political and cultural institutions. For more information on The Guerrilla Art Action Group, please see Printed Matter\u2019s publication GAAG: The Guerrilla Art Action Group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 7557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.topbuzz.in/internet-and-technology-increasingly-affect-our-personal-life.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:16Z", "digest": "sha1:FVSHRW55NHGATXIRI6JXP2K2ZPJXVTCA", "length": 3779, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.topbuzz.in", "title": "Internet and technology increasingly affect our personal life - Top Buzz", "raw_content": "In 2005, only 16% of the interviewed couples claimed that the Internet affected their relations. In 2013, this number reached 27%. At the same time, 74% of respondents characterized the influence of the Internet as positive and 20% \u2013 asnegative.\n2,252 US residents aged 18 and over were involved in the survey.\nMost of all, the Internet has affected the personal lives of young people: 45% surveyed subjects aged between 18 and 29 noted that the Web somehow changed their relationship compared to 10% of respondents aged 65 and older. The Internet and smartphones are one of the constant sources of anxiety and tension in many couples, say analysts. Every fourth interviewed user living with a partner or spouse complained that their partner gets distracted by theirgadgets when they spend time together, and 8% quarreled because one of them spends too much time online.\nIn addition, thanks to social networks, everyone can get access to a huge amount of personal information about their current or potential partner, which can easily become a reason for jealousy or doubt. You and your partner see what each of you publishes, as if you live a different life, and for some relationships, it becomes a kind of test. If you don\u2019t trust the person completely, you\u2019ll have paranoia against the background of that personal information that looms in front of your eyesday after day. Smartphones and the Internet bring people together, but they distract them from each other mentally. These are artificial means of communication, and they allow people to hide from live communication and each other.\nThrough text messages, it\u2019s easier to hide your emotions, lie, or embellish some qualities. Often, people texteach other, being in the same room: they find it difficult to express emotions, tell the truth to each other, sotext messagesare a way to find a safe space for communication.\nAt the same time, communication at a distance has its advantages. 21% of the interviewed users admitted that messages made them feel closer to their partners, and 9% were able to resolve a conflict that was too difficult to resolve, using text messages. The older users are, the more they \u2018share\u2019 the Internet with their mates. 27% of the users in the relationship said they shared their email address with the partner, and 67% told at least one password to their partners. First of all, this applies to elderly couples: a common mailbox is a thing for 47% of couples aged 65 and only 12% for couples aged 18 to 29 years.\nIn 2013, sexting became even more common. In particular, among people aged from 18 to 24, but there are also users aged from 25 to 30 years that send such messages to their loved ones frequently. According to the research, every fifth smartphone owner received such messages from someone from their circle of friends (in 2012, this number was 15%), and 9% actually send them (in 2012, there were only 6%). Experts note that this is significant growth.\nContrary to stereotypes, people, who are in a permanent relationship, send erotic messages at least to those, who are actively searching for a partner, but this applies only to persons, who are in relationships for less than ten years: 32% compared to only 6% of those, whose relationships last ten years or more.\nThe main danger of sexting is that the person receiving the message can send it to anyone or publish it on the Internet. The ability to protect against such incidents is one of the main reasons for the success of instant messengers like Snapchat, that delete photos and messages shortly after you see them.\nYou can meet beautiful girls on a dating site https://natalydate.com/, photos of which are not less interesting.\n5 Latest & Best 16GB Pen Drives to buy in India 2017\nSantosh \u2022 November 25, 2015 \u2022 Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.torontoprosupershow.com/celeb/scott-herman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DYGKW4JUHNTJ57V3WLRCMPFDNGLX7A4A", "length": 1219, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.torontoprosupershow.com", "title": "Scott Herman | Toronto Pro SuperShow", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Scott Herman\nDon\u2019t miss meeting Scott Herman, a top fitness YouTuber with over 1.8M subscribers. Scott will be at the Iron Bull Strength Booth. (Booths 1420/1422/1424)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/ScottHermanFitness\nScott Herman is a fitness model, entrepreneur and social media celebrity. He is a well-known face on YouTube, who has dedicated his life to building an enviable physique and helping others build theirs. Scott began to work out at the early age of 12 years and continued throughout his teenage years.\nWhen Scott entered his final year of college, he had built an enviable physique and decided to make a name for himself in the fitness world. He entered the Men\u2019s Health \u2018Iron Abs\u201d competition and succeeded in winning.\nScott was selected from a pool of approximately 50,000 to 70,000 applicants and landed a place on a show called \u2018The Real World\u2019 \u2013 a reality TV show. He was chosen to his toned physique and \u201csurfer look\u201d. He enjoyed the role greatly.\nWith the confidence he gained in his acting role and Iron Abs victory, Scott decided to start a You Tube channel to help other people reach their fitness goals. He managed to build this page into one of the most popular channels on the website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.totalflanker.co.uk/2011/03/england-where-did-it-all-go-right.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:16Z", "digest": "sha1:WQK2BHFDV7G6CRV5B4RGG3REWN6XJESJ", "length": 1709, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.totalflanker.co.uk", "title": "TOTAL FLANKER...a rugby blog: England: Where did it all go right?", "raw_content": "OK, before anyone else says it, I realise that it is somewhat precipitous to be singing the praises of the current England team after a less than convincing effort today against the Sweaties and when there's still every chance that the team will come unstuck against Ireland on Saturday.\nNevertheless, and despite today's error-ridden performance, I have to say that the difference between this England team and the rabble who were wearing the red rose some 12 short months ago is still nothing short of phenomenal.\nMake no mistake, 12 months ago England would have lost this match.\nOn Tuesday March 16th 2010 I blogged that \u201cWe Can\u2019t Go On Like This,\u201d a post in which I lambasted England\u2019s performance at Murrayfield as being \u201cjoyless and so bereft of ideas\u201d and in which I moaned \u201cI can\u2019t for the life of me see the \u201cprogress\u201d that the England management assure us is happening.\u201d\nHow things have changed. While still a long way short of perfect (still way too many errors committed and penalties and turnovers conceded for my liking), there is certainly no lack of attacking intent in this England team and, win or lose in Dublin, I don't think there's much doubt that England\u2019s fortunes are finally back on an upward trajectory.\nSo, what can we now expect from this England team? 6 Nations Champions? Probable (unless, of course, they are mullered in Dublin). Grand Slam Winners? Possible, although failure wouldn\u2019t exactly be the end of the world.\nAs for the Rugby World Cup, whatever happens next week it'd still be a brave man to bet on the men in white. 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The $4.9 billion transaction follows approval from regulatory authorities in the European Union and China. The acquisition was f\nCoca-Cola Company to acquire Costa for $5.1bn\nThe Coca-Cola Company has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Costa Limited, a major global coffee brand founded in London, UK, in 1971 from parent company Whitbread PLC for $5.1 billion. The acquisition will give Coca-Cola\nCoca-Cola returns 1.75bn litres of water in Mena\nThe Coca-Cola Company revealed that it has returned 1.75 billion litres of water to nature and communities across the Middle East North Africa (Mena) region in 2017. This achievement represents a critical contribution to Coca-Cola\nCoca-Cola opens new bottling plant in Gaza\nThe Coca-Cola Company on Wednesday (November 30) officially inaugurated its new $20 million bottling facility in the Gaza region of Palestine. The launch was held in co-ordination with its Palestinian franchisee National Beverage\nCoca-Cola launches new 'low-calorie' drink\nCoca-Cola has announced the launch of Coca-Cola Life in the United Arab Emirates, a low-calorie cola sweetened from a blend of stevia and sugar. Stevia, a zero-calorie sweetener from natural origins, comes from the best-tasting pa\nCoca-Cola named sponsor of Saudi Football Federation\nCoca-Cola has announced its sponsorship of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation. The agreement includes full support to the Saudi national football team, and the three main events happening in the kingdom during the year --\nCoca-Cola replenishes all water used globally\nThe Coca-Cola Company and its global bottling partners, the Coca-Cola system, have announced that they have met their goal to replenish the equivalent amount of water used in their global sales volume back to nature and communities.\nCoca-Cola plans to expand Bahrain products range\nCoca-Cola, one of the world\u2019s most recognisable brands that has a bottling plant in Bahrain plans to expand its portfolio in the kingdom by producing juices and energy drinks, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.\nCoca-Cola buys into Nigerian juice maker Chi\nCoca-Cola has bought a 40 per cent stake in Nigerian juice and snack producer Chi Ltd, it said on Saturday, as it continues to expand in Africa to tap a young and fast-growing population. The US drinks giant bought the stake from\nTop Fifa sponsors demand Blatter resignation\nMajor soccer sponsors have issued co-ordinated calls for the immediate resignation of Fifa president Sepp Blatter in the most significant move by companies supporting the sport since a bribery and corruption scandal erupted at world football'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.translationdirectory.com/sense_of_life/article_en_0352.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EWZF7R2ZCCURZ275DFYFGW47KVY24IHP", "length": 17850, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.translationdirectory.com", "title": "The Church and Homosexualism (Part One)", "raw_content": "The Church and Homosexualism (Part One)\nAuthor: ks. Dariusz Oko,\n\"Love One Another!\" 15/2010 \u2192 Questions and Answers\nRead also: The Church and Homosexualism (Part Two)\nShortly before Benedict XVI\u2019s pilgrimage to Bavaria in September of 2006, it became clear that the former Cardinal of Munich and now the reigning Pope had no chance of being named honorary citizen of this city. Despite renewed efforts, the Socialist and Green parties presiding over city hall would not agree to it. The reason? His unshakeable refusal to bow to the demands of homosexualist groups.\nJust four weeks before the Pontiff\u2019s arrival, gay activists organized a march in Munich displaying vulgar and obscene photomontages and an effigy of the Holy Father dressed as a drag queen. Such profanations directed against the Catholic faithful are the norm in the \u201cpride parades\u201d of western countries.\nDuring the Fifth World Congress of Families held in Valencia in July of 2006, Spanish television covered the event in the same mendacious way that our communist-run media covered John Paul II\u2019s first pilgrimage to Poland in 1979. Communist television tried to show only the Pope and a few elderly nuns, while screening out the millions of pilgrims in attendance. To cite just one example, the Spanish media screened out the faces of that beautiful family of twelve children from Munich, which stood right beside the Pope. By contrast, the day before his arrival, they presented a highly favorable coverage of the gay demonstration against him. Polish television used to manipulate our communist Mayday parades in the same way.\nThese three instances involving one city \u2014 Munich (I was able to be present there during the papal visit) \u2014 show just how aptly the issue of homosexualism epitomizes the conflict between the Church and the modern world.\nWe witnessed even more dramatic events. The president of the Italian Conference of Bishops, Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, received a letter containing a swastika\u2019d photograph of himself and an unspent bullet. In the language of the mafia, the bullet spelled death. This, along with several other threats, resulted from the bishop\u2019s courageous opposition to the demands of the homosexualist lobby. Italian authorities took these terror threats seriously enough to provide him with round-the-clock police protection. Both Pope Benedict and the people of Genoa rallied in his defense, the latter even taking to the streets in a show of solidarity with their bishop. The Pope and the Italian episcopate continue to unite their efforts in thwarting the legalization of pseudomarriages in that country.\nWhy does Mother Church, with all her mercy and her respect for the human person, so clearly, categorically, and resolutely oppose the demands of the powerful and hostile homosexual lobby? She does this because of her very nature. Quite simply, it is a matter of elementary truth \u2014 of elementary intellectual and moral honesty. Jesus Christ revealed the whole truth about man and continues to proclaim it tirelessly through His Church, which stands in defense of marriage, the family, and the dignity of the human person.\nHoly Scripture condemns homosexualism unequivocally \u2014 and this right from the very beginning. In the Book of Genesis we read, \u201cAnd the Lord said: \u2018The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave\u2019\u201d (Gen 18: 20). Their \u201csin\u201d is the sin of homosexualism. Evidently, God considers this sin to be especially grave and repugnant. While Lot entertains the two strangers at his house, the young and old citizens of Sodom say to him, \u201cWhere are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them\u201d (Gen 19: 5). They respond to Lot\u2019s entreaties with threats and acts of violence. The cup of bitterness overflowed. The following day the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah lay waste and incinerated. Only one righteous man was saved \u2014 Lot and his family. It is from here that we take the expression \u201cSodom and Gomorrah\u201d to mean extreme depravity and moral blindness.\nWe find a similar story in chapter nineteen of the Book of Judges. There too the male inhabitants of the town are ready to sodomize a guest. They commit a terrible crime and, as a consequence, the Benjamite tribe is wiped out almost to a man.\nThe New Testament censures homosexualism even more forcefully. Saint Paul clearly tells us that, like other sinners, practicing homosexuals who refuse to convert, risk eternal annihilation. \u201cDo not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God\u201d (1 Cor 6: 9 et inf.). St. Paul saw homosexualism as a sign of the nadir of man\u2019s moral degeneration \u2014 a sign of man\u2019s self-contradiction and estrangement from God (Rom 1: 18-32). Like us, he knew homosexualist propaganda, which mocks God openly. He writes: \u201cAlthough they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them\u201d (Rom 1: 32). We read similar words in the Letter to Timothy (1: 3-11) and the Book of Leviticus (18: 19-23). Such manifest abuse of God\u2019s plan, such a rejection of the natural complementarity between a man and a women, must profoundly wound and destroy a human being in a multiplicity of areas. It must eventually lead to catastrophic results \u2014 and must, therefore, incur divine condemnation.\nTheological reasons \u2014 from Tradition\nWhat the Church has always and universally taught she considers irrevocable. Such is her condemnation of homosexual practice, which she never ceases to proclaim. We find the teaching, among other places, in sections 2357-2359 and 2396 of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. What is clearly stated there is that same-sex tendencies in themselves are not sinful, but rather a trial, a hardship against which the person must strive, just as we all must struggle daily with our evil predispositions. We sin only when we give in to our disordered tendencies. The Church calls upon us to help those who suffer same-sex attractions and to treat them with \u201crespect, compassion, and sensitivity.\u201d\nPope John Paul II was always clear on the matter; for example, in March of 1999, he characterized homosexual marriages as \u201ca lamentable perversion.\u201d In 1994, he took a direct stand against the European Parliament, which was calling for the legalization of such unions. \u201cThe European Parliament,\u201d he stated, \u201cis wrongly according legal recognition to deviant behaviors that are incompatible with God\u2019s design\u2026.Man cannot falsify moral norms.\u201d In a special document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2003, the reigning Pope, John Paul II, and the future one, then still Cardinal Ratzinger, jointly declared: \u201cIf all the faithful have the duty to oppose the legalization of homosexual marriages, then Catholic politicians are bound to do likewise in a special way, at the level appropriate to their area of competence.\u201d Here then is the directive of two popes \u2014 John Paul II and Benedict XVI: To the extent that we consider ourselves Christians, we \u2014 and especially the politicians among us \u2014 must oppose the legalization of the homosexualist lobby\u2019s demands.\nBlessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, our best-known and most recognized modern saint, stated: \u201cWe must live in accordance with the plan by which we were created. Homosexual practice is unnatural.\u201d\nOn this subject we have a rich literature, including hundreds of articles and books. Worthy of special recommendation is the book Homosexuality and Hope published by the American Catholic Medical Association. Here are a few facts, most of which are taken from a report drafted by a group of Canadian doctors (John Shea, John K. Wilson et al.) entitled, \u201cGay Marriage\u201d and Homosexuality: Some Medical Comments.\nFrom this report we learn that active homosexuals are statistically 4 times more likely to suffer depression, 5 times more likely to be addicted to nicotine, and 6 times more likely to commit suicide. On the average, depending on the kind and intensity of their sexual activity, they live 8 to 20 years shorter than other men.\nGays in Germany and Canada comprise, respectively, 60 and 70% percent of AIDS cases. By the same token, the likelihood of contracting this incurable disease is 73-85 times higher among homosexuals. The same is true of other infectious diseases; for example, in Scotland the majority of syphilis cases are found among homo- and bisexual men. This means that in the rest of the population, including sex-trade workers and their clients, there are about half as many AIDS and STD cases as among homosexuals, who according to the best estimates in Canada and the United States comprise less than 2% of the general population.\nNaturally, this epidemic condition, especially in the gay communes, does not come from just anywhere; it is the simple and terrible consequence of the homosexual lifestyle: \u201cBy their fruits you will know them\u201d (Mt 7: 20). It comes from the unimaginable promiscuity practiced. 75% of the most famous self-declared gays in the USA admitted to having had over 100 partners in their lifetime. 28% admitted to more than 1000! In Canada, as many as 43% of gays suffering from AIDS continue to have sex without scruple, cheerfully spreading the seeds of death among their partners. Homosexual unions last 1.5 years on the average. Even while remaining in such a union the \u201cspouses\u201d have an average of 12 other partners. They speak of \u201cmonogamy without fidelity\u201d \u2014 a notion that makes as much sense as a square circle. What is more, a homosexual union is 2-3 times more likely to experience domestic violence than a normal marriage. Thus the homosexual partners constitute their own greatest threat, far greater than anyone outside the homosexual milieu. How often their lives are a physical, psychological, and social catastrophe \u2014 an out-and-out nightmare! The testimonies of those who manage to break free from this enchanted circle are truly shocking.\nTo this we must add that pedophilia is also more widespread among homosexual circles. There is a 40% likelihood that all the pedophilia cases reported by the Polish press in 2004 were of a homosexual nature. Here the Church has her own tragic experience. Everyone knows of the child abuse scandals that have rocked the Church in America. Yet despite all the publicity, the media scrupulously conceals the fact that 80% of these abuses were of a homosexual nature. All this was the result of too lax a selection process in the seminaries. Church authorities placed too much faith in certain psychologists, with the result that for decades candidates with same-sex attractions were allowed to be ordained and then entrusted with too much responsibility. The Church\u2019s response has been the Vatican Instruction of November, 2006, which calls for a much stricter screening process of seminarians with same-sex tendencies. They must now provide adequate proof of self-control before even being considered for ordination. The fact that these restrictions are being implemented at a time when there is such a dearth of vocations underscores the gravity of the rationale underlying the restrictions.\nThe homosexualist ideology\nWhat to say of those people, especially the physicians and psychologists, who refuse to accept such stark and incontrovertible medical and sociomedical facts? What to say of those who put the sexual conduct of this group on a par with that of others, even when it results in epidemic conditions; when, as among our German neighbors, for example, homosexuals are 73 times more likely to contract AIDS than other groups? What to say of the doctors who claim that the same-sex orientation is irreversible; that they have never cured anyone with this orientation, when in fact many of their colleagues have proven by their therapeutic successes that they are mistaken; that the very opposite is true? For, we do know that this is a disorder that can be corrected. All one needs is the right knowledge and the will to act on it. What to say, finally, of the journalists and politicians who ignore these catastrophic data and tirelessly peddle the propaganda of homosexual success?\nTo a greater or lesser degree, they are simply promoting and spreading the homosexualist ideology; for, both cursory examination and deeper analysis demand that we characterize in this way the homo-image dominating the media. It is an ideology \u2014 a collection of truths, half-truths, illusions, falsehoods, and myths. A collection of ideas aimed not at achieving knowledge for the common good, but at securing immediate advantages for the group espousing it. It is ideology in its purest form; a weapon in the war for social consciousness. Authentic learning and philosophy strive for the truth for everyone\u2019s benefit. Homosexualism seeks to win undeserved privileges for the homosexual lobby. It uses the methods of modern marketing, whose task consists in skillfully and professionally changing the image of homosexuality and promoting it like an article of merchandise. The program drawn up by leading gay activists at their meeting in Virginia in 1988 included four main objectives in their campaign to change social consciousness and, eventually, the laws of the land. These are: desensitization, manipulation, conversion, and elimination.\n1. Desensitization\nFirst you have to bury society under an avalanche of pro-gay publicity. You have to gain such a clear advantage in the mass media that, after the initial show of resistance, stupefaction or at least weariness set in. In the process, the homosexualist cause becomes acknowledged as something normal and acceptable. The publicity campaign must be like an opening artillery barrage. It has to be of such deafening power that the shell-shocked opposition fears to rear its head. In Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza is currently leading the pack in realizing this objective. Last year, there appeared in its various editions an average of three pro-gay articles a day.\nYou must portray gays in an exclusively positive light \u2014 as a particularly sensitive, noble-minded, meritorious, and successful group of people; you also portray them as a poor, underprivileged minority. Persuading people that many great figures of the past were homosexuals serves the same purpose \u2014 a task made all the easier by the fact that dead men do not talk. At the same time, you conceal and deny even the most incontrovertible facts about the dark and darkest sides of homosexuality \u2014 the very data, which I have enumerated above; for example, you obscure the truth about the overrepresentation of homosexuals among the Nazi elite.\n3. Conversion \u2014 the Nietzschean \u201creversal of values\u201d\nWhat used to be relegated to the pathological peripheries of social life, you now present as its center, as a thing worthy of the highest respect. By the same token, you marginalize the critics of homosexualism; exclude them from the public discourse. You portray them as eminently repugnant people. Without any discussion, you label them \u201chomophobes\u201d and lump them along with the hidebound, the hateful, the bigoted, and so cow them into shameful silence. You also inflate the percentage of homosexuals in society: 10\u201325%, as some activists claim.\n4. Elimination of opponents\nWhen those who cry out loudly for tolerance achieve a certain level of influence, they often deny it to others. This is why the noted philosopher and humanist, Dr. Rocco Buttiglione, a close friend of John Paul II, could not become commissioner of the European Union. This is why the prosecutor demanded a six-month jail term for Swedish pastor Ake Green for delivering a sermon (the trial court eventually sentenced him to a month in prison). I have already mentioned the fate of Archbishop Bagnasco of Genoa. What homosexual person ever receives such treatment? After publishing my article Ten Arguments Against, which became the most talked-about anti-homosexualist article in Poland, I myself had to endure both a public smear campaign and a spate of revolting anonymous threats of every description. Gazeta Wyborcza ran a whole series of articles directed against me, while denying me the elementary courtesy and legal right to respond. What was most significant, however, was that it was the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny which led the pack of smear campaigners with its unbelievably aggressive article by Fr. Jacek Prusak entitled Others Think Differently \u2014 an article in which he categorically rejects the teachings of the Church. On the other hand, I did receive support from the Church, from cardinals, bishops, priests, and many of the faithful, including university professors. Clearly, opponents of homosexualism have to be cowed and forced into silence, be it by destroying professional careers or by threat of imprisonment or death. The demand for tolerance and equality very quickly turns into the persecution of Christians. Homosexualism resorts to slogans and vituperation rather than rational discourse. It avoids meritorious discussion so as not to reveal the intellectual poverty of its reasoning. Small wonder; for, something that is inherently evil is unable to produce anything but a specious rationale.\nHomosexualism is simply another essentially atheistic ideology that is taking the place of its severely compromised predecessor, communism. Since this utopia cannot be sustained on the level of economics, the atheist left has in the last decades engaged its energies at the level of sexual freedom, where it seeks its reason for being. Thus homosexual and communist ideologies have a great deal in common; they share many analogous features. (To be continued).\nFr. 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In their last 10 games\u2014they are 7-3. And on the heels of Ted Leonsis\u2019s edict to the world that \u201cthe team will never, ever tank,\u201d Washington is convincing themselves (and others?) that this season is not a lost cause.\nThe Wizards picked up their first win since being across the pond, dominating Detroit from start to finish. After beating the Knicks in London in a back-and-forth affair, Washington was able to hold the Pistons to just 87 points, their lowest allowed point total of the season and used a balanced scoring attack to control the pace of the game. With this win the Wizards not only tied their season series with the Pistons, but also closed the gap in overall record with Detroit and find themselves just two games back of the eighth and final playoff spot. Washington is now 21-26, while Detroit is 22-26 after picking up a win later in the week.\nThere were seven Wizards who finished the game with double-figures and did not have to rely on Bradley Beal to shoulder the offensive load. After the game, Beal commented on how the balances scoring attack is a sign of growth for the team:\nBeal on the balanced scoring from tonight\u2019s game: pic.twitter.com/rYsWHWq8oO\n\u2014 WizardsXTRA (@WizardsXTRA) January 21, 2019\nTimely, since Beal did not shoot the ball particularly well (4-12) from the field, but what he did was initiate the ball movement on the offense by making the extra pass when the Pistons defense would send multiple defenders his way. In years past, Beal may have been more inclined to force the issue, and take some bad shots, but he is showing the growth as a player by incorporating his teammates.\nScott Brooks took notice of how Beal was not playing selfish and commended his All-Star player after the game:\n\u201cIf you\u2019re hunting for shots and if you\u2019re all about shots, you\u2019re going to have a lot of bad nights and you\u2019re going to get frustrated, your teammates are going to get frustrated with you. But Brad plays the right way. He competes and he gives us a chance every night. It\u2019s not about him getting shots\u2013there are going to be some nights he gets 12 and a lot of nights he gets 25. It all kind of balances its way out. He knows when he steps on the court he\u2019s one of the best players on the floor.\u201d\nThe teammate that took the most advantage of the extra shot opportunities was Otto Porter, who led the team in shot attempts with 15. Porter has been as aggressive he has ever been since coming back from a knee injury that caused him to miss 10 games earlier in the season. Part of the reason why Porter is getting so many open looks is because he has come off the bench since his return from injury and it gives him an opportunity to take advantage of lesser caliber players. Within the Wizards team construct, Porter is normally an ancillary option who primarily scores as a spot-up shooter, but in his new role, Otto is asked to be the focal point of the offense on the second unit. Not only is Porter having more confidence in himself, but his teammates have more confidence in him as well.\n\u201cWith his firepower coming off the bench, the advantage goes to us,\u201d fellow Georgetown Hoya teammate Jeff Green says. \u201cHe\u2019s been shooting the ball very, very well. We need that from him night in and night out, and he\u2019s been giving us that. We\u2019re going to look to him when he comes in the game and we\u2019re going to continue to use him to our advantage coming off the bench.\u201d\nThe Wizards have to be the first team in NBA history to have a player on a $100-plus million contract coming off the bench and regardless of how they got here, it behooves them to take advantage of the mismatches that it can cause. Porter was going to work on smaller defenders in the post, while also rising up and shooting on late closeouts on the perimeter. There were multiple situations where Porter found himself backing down the much smaller Reggie Jackson and used his size new newfound turnaround jumper to his advantage. At this point, with the Wizards playing their best basketball of the season, there is no reason for the team to make any lineup changes and Otto Porter will continue to come off the bench for the foreseeable future.\nThe Wizards now have a 57% chance of making the playoffs according to FiveThirtyEight and at those odds, it would behoove the team to stay on the course that they are on.\nHonoring the Late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr\nThe Wizards relish the opportunity to play on Martin Luther King Day, and head coach Scott Brooks and players were all happy to celebrate the man who led the way in the Civil Rights movement:\nScott Brooks on #MLK day and the honor of playing basketball for this city. #DCFamily #WizPistons #LockedonWizards pic.twitter.com/4oCFYnj0eb\n\u2014 Locked On Wizards (@lockedonwizards) January 21, 2019\nBeal on teaching MLK\u2019s values to his son: pic.twitter.com/CH7qKDrUlY\nJeff Green on playing on #MLKDay: \"It\u2019s not about the game. It\u2019s more about his message, continuing to learn his message & grow from his message. That\u2019s what this game of basketball does. It brings people together of all races & ethnicities in one building to celebrate one thing\" pic.twitter.com/T7wnaLFcro\n\u2014 Hoop District (@HoopDistrictDC) January 21, 2019\nWelcome Gary Payton II\nThe Wizards made an official announcement before the Pistons game about the signing of G-League player, Gary Payton II, to a 10-day contract. Payton is the son of basketball Hall-of-Famer Gary Payton and not to be confused with Gary Payton, Jr., who is his brother. The Oregon State product has spent a lot of time bouncing back and forth between the G-League and the NBA over the last few seasons, and will use this 10-day stint to try and earn a permanent roster spot with the Wizards. Smart money says that Payton may not be around long, as the team was obliged to add a 14th player to the roster due to mandated league rules.\nAnd, uh, Payton received a not-so-ringing endorsement from Scott Brooks before the game when he was asked why they ended up signing him: \u201cWe had to add a 14th player and he fit a position of need.\u201d\nWIZARDS TRADE ROUNDTABLE: Sending Oubre Down the River, Welcome Back Ariza\nBrad BealGary Payton IIjeff greenotto porterscott brooks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 16989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.u2tourfans.com/u2-daily-tour-news/71c490ad-bc6c-4920-af56-f85a623a71cd", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:P6SZ3IQQ6MYFJSJMOS4SZ6HSKSWGLZLS", "length": 161, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.u2tourfans.com", "title": "%i U2TOURFANS", "raw_content": "singing\" All is quiet on New Year's Day,\nA world in white gets underway,And I want to be with you, Be with you night and day.\nNothing changes on New Year's Day.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 142.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ultrasoundtechnician-training.com/ultrasound-technician-schools-in-charlestown-ri-sonography-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:04Z", "digest": "sha1:X655TIUFHTKLAY2P3ZOSWD7LRKO5RGNA", "length": 7799, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.ultrasoundtechnician-training.com", "title": "Ultrasound Technician Schools in Charlestown RI \u2013 Sonography Programs", "raw_content": "Ultrasound Technician Schools in Charlestown RI \u2013 Sonography Programs\nHave you decided that you might want to get started in a fresh career as an ultrasound technician in Charlestown RI? If you have, you are going to begin one of the more satisfying jobs in the healthcare field. However, you\u2019re going to need the proper training and you can find a number of excellent ultrasound technician schools near Charlestown RI. This training and education is going to be the cornerstone to your success as a diagnostic medical sonographer.There are many different colleges and training programs out there for ultrasound technicians. But how can you know which one is going to be the right one for you? As with any other career, you will find several significant things you must take into consideration prior to enrolling in any nursing training and sonography training is no different.\nRecommended Ultrasound Technician Schools Near Charlestown RI\nListed below are five things you should think about before selecting any ultrasound technician school.\nThe primary thing you should look at is the institution\u2019s accreditation. This is important as you need to make certain you are receiving the very best training . Every single ultrasound technician training program really needs to be accredited by the CAAHEP or a similar accrediting body in your State.\nThe next detail to consider about your ultrasound technician training program is the focus. many schools put their focus on how to be employed in a clinical setting, yet others focus more on mastering the actual technology of sonography.\nAnother really important thing that you have to consider is your practical education experience. This is your hands-on training , and this is where you can expect to actually be instructed how to use your ultrasound equipment. Some academic institutions spend much more time on the clinical experience when compared to others. In the event that your school is not spending a considerable amount of time with clinical teaching, you really should find out why. Generally in most States you need to obtain a minimum amount of clinical hours documented prior to being qualified to apply for licensing.\nSomething else you must consider is your class size. The size of your school will differ from school to school . It is advisable to find out how large the classes are at the institution you may be attending classes at since this will provide you with a good idea of how much one-on-one training you can expect.\nThe last matter you should evaluate before choosing an ultrasound technician program is the success rate of the school you\u2019re considering. Be sure to find out how many people graduate from the program, what their experience was like, and exactly how many of them have gone on to become ultrasound techs.\nReviewing these important steps before you choose any ultrasound technician school is going to make your selection more solid and make it easier to become the highest quality sonographer you can possibly be. After your choice is made its time to get ready for the journey that lies ahead, exactly what should you be expecting during your sonography training?\nUltrasound technician training consists of teaching future sonographers the right way to recognize and identify many different health conditions by using sound wave technology to capture images of bodily organs and human tissue. There are a lot of accredited colleges which offer this type of instruction, which involves clinical, laboratory and class instruction.\nTechnicians devote the majority of their time in school working on the techniques required to operate and take care of ultrasound machinery . Making it possible for them to create medical images through the use of ultrasound procedures. Generally, employers want techs to have gotten training from accredited training programs and to have taken and passed the examination prepared by the ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers).\nThose working in this field should be proficient in human anatomy, medical jargon and patient examination. Outstanding communication skills are generally necessary in order to alleviate any anxieties or nervousness a patient might have as they undergo technical procedures. An eye for high quality images in addition to skills in choosing and analyzing images are likewise normally necessary.\nFormal education can be received by signing up for a program offered by diagnostic sonography programs, universities and colleges. The majority of would-be ultrasound technicians choose to register for 2-year associate\u2019s programs, although bachelor degree programs are also offered. Candidates need to possess a high school diploma with coursework having been completed in math, basic sciences and health.\nAn Associate of Science in Ultrasound Technology training program specializes in training students how to use medical imaging technology, as a way to determine all sorts of health problems and the treatments which should be applied . This type of diagnostic medical sonography training degree will involve lots of time spent in nearby health care facilities, hands-on training in classroom labs and in-class lectures . Typically , the areas of patient care techniques, medical ethics, anatomy, basic physics and acoustic physics, are taught. Further courses in abdominal scanning, vascular technology and obstetrics , can also be offered.\nGenerally, this option takes four years to complete, and delivers an in-depth study of a variety of ultrasound specialties which are necessary for graduates to work as researchers, administrators or managers. Practical experience in gynecological, obstetrics and abdominal ultrasound procedures is acquired through clinical internships and classroom teaching. With a B.S. degree you will be in the upper half of all sonographers in terms of education and according to the United States Department of Labor\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers is over $65,000.\nWhile the completion of an ultrasound technician training program is enough to obtain entry-level jobs in the field, up to five years of ultrasound working experience is necessary for higher salaried assignments that come with additional responsibility, such as administration and management positions.\nUltrasound Technicians do not have to be licensed ; however, the majority of companies would rather hire sonographers that possess credentials from a certifying organization, such as the ARMDS. This is because certification provides confirmation that an individual has the skills and knowledge necessary to work effectively and efficiently.\nStudents seeking to obtain a RDMS certificate are required to pass the certifying exam set by the ARDMS . Once the exam is successfully completed, a specific amount of credits in continuing education has to be completed, so that you can maintain your certification. This type of ultrasound technician training will cover a variety of specialties, like abdominal, nervous system or breast imaging.\nUltrasound Technician Training in Charlestown, RI reviewed by Jace LONG on June 16.\nThank You for creating such a useful web page. I was able to locate info about the various schools in my area and found one that is perfect for my situation. I\u2019ve now started my training and can\u2019t wait to become an Ultrasound Technician.\ndiagnostic medical sonography schools in Charlestown RIsonography schools in Charlestown RIultrasound tech schoolsultrasound technician salary in Charlestown RIultrasound technician schoolsultrasound technician schools in Charlestown RIultrasound technician training in Charlestown RI\nUltrasound Technician Schools in Lynbrook NY \u2013 Sonography Training\nUltrasound Technician Schools in Middletown NJ \u2013 Sonography Training", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 11710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.umass.edu/complit/events?mini=2018-08", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TJK3IXC2MPVEMG7AETWBOVKEIWLKZ57U", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.umass.edu", "title": "Events | Comparative Literature | UMass Amherst | UMass Amherst", "raw_content": "Medical Interpreting - Gaps and Opportunities for Collaborations...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 1286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.umass.edu/music/member/erica-wilson-perkins", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QXY3RBYCILVDIRHDAND6MGINZXTK2LXJ", "length": 3159, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.umass.edu", "title": "Erica Wilson-Perkins | Department of Music & Dance | UMass Amherst", "raw_content": "Erica Wilson-Perkins\newilsonperki@umass.edu\n11 Totman Building\nErica Wilson-Perkins received a BFA in Dance from Columbia College, Columbia, SC and a MFA in Dance from Florida State University. Erica has served as full time faculty at top ranked universities and colleges including the University of Illinois, Wayne State University and Columbia College-Chicago.\nHer most recent position was as the unit head for the Palo Alto College Dance Department in San Antonio, TX. At each institution Erica played a vital role in program development, including community outreach, establishment of jazz and Pilates coursework and new performance concepts.\nErica founded and directed the Detroit based CounterGroove Dance Company which spawned notable choreographers/dancers, Sonya Teyah (So You Think You Can Dance) and William B. McClellan (Dayton Contemporary Dance Co). CounterGroove featured Erica\u2019s HouseJazz technique, a blend of house footwork with classical jazz forms. The Real Detroiter declared CounterGroove as \u201cDetroit\u2019s most impressive dance machine.\u201d Erica\u2019s interest in all artistic disciplines lead her to create the innovative performance collective, FightWaterPros (FWPros). The FWPros continue state-to-state collaborative projects, presenting projects throughout the U.S.\nWilson-Perkins\u2019 choreography has won numerous merits including, Sand People of The, which was recognition by the American Dance Festival (ACDFA) Midwest regional and the National Conference. The Chicago Bank & Trust in association with the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MCA) selected Erica to received the prestigious Chicago DanceMaker Award for her work, FightWater: Past, Future-Never Present (A Dancumentary). Most recently, Erica won a commission from the National Association of Latinos and Cultural Arts (NALAC) to create \"Revolucion into the Third Century,\" celebrating the bicentennial of the Mexican revolution of 1810/1910. She has been commissioned to new create work for notable professional dance companies and universities throughout the nation including Chicago, Colorado, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin.\nHer remarkable work in the Southcentral region of the nation has made impacted many of the area\u2019s arts organizations and dance companies including the Office of Cultural Affairs, Erison Dancers, Luminaria Arts Festival, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, Contemporary Arts Month (CAM), Jumpstart Theater\u2019s WIP performance series, Alamo Colleges and City of San Antonio\u2019s Parks and Recreation Special Programs. Erica also served on the San Antonio Dance Umbrella executive and creative advisory board.\nAs a visual artist, Erica\u2019s has exhibited her artwork in solo and group shows. Venues include the Bolivar Museum Hall, Radius Art gallery and the Alba Deleon Studio 106B in the Blue Star Complex.\nErica continues to offer HouseJazz master classes and produce work throughout the US. She is currently conducting research on creative community initiatives, economy and development. Erica is thrilled to now join the fine University of Massachusetts Music and Dance Department and looks forward to engaging with faculty, students and staff.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unit10.com/jh/news/archive/2015-2016/February/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:L6HLTRDBLPQCO6P6UGXNFOMUT6S5QH44", "length": 525, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.unit10.com", "title": "www.unit10.com - /jh/news/archive/2015-2016/February/", "raw_content": "Tuesday, February 2, 2016 9:19 AM 476665 news20160202.pdf\nWednesday, February 3, 2016 10:08 AM 475455 news20160203.pdf\nThursday, February 4, 2016 9:30 AM 566600 news20160204.pdf\nFriday, February 5, 2016 9:24 AM 565617 news20160205.pdf\nMonday, February 8, 2016 9:31 AM 496878 news20160208.pdf\nWednesday, February 10, 2016 9:23 AM 563549 news20160210.pdf\nThursday, February 11, 2016 9:15 AM 560966 news20160211.pdf\nFriday, February 12, 2016 9:16 AM 564354 news20160212.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unitedhealthdirectory.com/diseases-and-conditions/pheochromocytoma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MBK77XC3B6VCG6KTO3V236LXECVPQW7T", "length": 2775, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.unitedhealthdirectory.com", "title": "Pheochromocytoma: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment", "raw_content": "\u00ab Addison\u2019s Disease (Adrenacortical Insufficiency)\nBone Marrow Examination (Biopsy & Aspiration) \u00bb\nPheochromocytoma is a tumor that originates from adrenal glands\u2019 chromaffin cell, resulting in powerful hormones \u2013 catecholamine overproduction that cause high blood pressure and other symptoms. Approximately. in about 20% of Pheochromocytoma cases, the chromaffin cells grow outside their normal adrenal gland location. Only 5% of Pheochromocytomas that grow within the adrenal gland are cancerous, but 30% of those outside the adrenal gland are cancerous. The tumor occurs in about 1 in 1000 individuals.\nPheochromocytoma (tumor) can occur in males and females at any age, but it is most likely to appear between ages thirty and sixty. Pheochromocytoma is generally very small and it rarely result in symptoms from obstruction or pressure, and commonly can not be felt by doctors. The main Pheochromocytoma symptom is high blood pressure, which can be extremely severe. In roughly 50% of the individuals with this disease, the persistant high blood pressure occurs. In the remaining, the high blood pressure comes and goes; in some cases triggered by emotional trauma, pressure on tumor, medications, massage, and on rare ocasion-the urination simple act.\nOther symptoms of Pheochromocytoma may include all or any of the following: constipation, pounding and fast heart rate, impending doom odd sense, excessive sweating, finger tingling, light headedness when standing, visual disturbance, rapid breathing, vomiting, flushing, nausea, stomach and chest pain, and severe headaches. A doctor may suspect a Pheochromocytomas because about 50% of individuals experience no symptoms other than high blood pressure. However, the doctor can order specific laboratory tests, if high blood pressure exist in a young individuals, comes and goes, or is accompanied with other Pheochromocytoma\u2019s symptoms. For instance, specific catecholamines level can be measured in a urine sample. MRI(magnetic resonance imaging) and CT(computed tomography) scans may help find Pheochromocytoma. The best treatment of Pheochromocytomas is the removal of tumor surgically. Surgery is frequently delayed, however, until a surgeon may bring the secretion of tumor under control with drug, because having high catecholamines level, may be dangerous during operation. Prescription drugs such as Propranolol and Phenoxybenzamine are usually given together, and medication Metyrosine or other drugs are frequently prescribed to keep blood pressure under control. If the Pheochromocytoma is a cancer that had spread, Dacarbazine, Vincristine, and Cyclophosphamide can help slow the growth of tumor.\nRelated Video to Pheochromocytoma:\nTags: diagnosis, pheochromocytoma, picture, surgery, symptoms, treatment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 223.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uwyo.edu/atsc/research/climate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:V452ZFEW2TGRPLZLZO4GOOCYVGFMC6H3", "length": 1511, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.uwyo.edu", "title": "Climate | Research | Atmospheric Science | University of Wyoming", "raw_content": "Observations of ice and liquid clouds from the HIPPO field campaign, which are currently being used to improve the representation of ice in climate models and better understand the role of these clouds on climate\nClimate research in the department covers a broad range of topics using both modeling and experimental approaches. Global and regional climate models are used to investigate the effects of aerosols (e.g., mineral dust, wildfire aerosols, pollution aerosols) on clouds and the hydrological cycle (Liu). Moreover, numerical techniques are applied to understand how precipitation efficiency will change in a future climate and what factors (i.e., microphysical and/or dynamical) are responsible (Lebo). Regional climate modeling focused on orographic precipitation and snowpack dynamics is utilized to improve observational areal estimates of precipitation and snowpack and in order to estimate changes to these variables in a changing global climate (Geerts). Another focus area is the evaluation and improvement of mixed-phase cloud parameterization in climate models (Liu). After carbon dioxide, methane and absorbing aerosol, which are both being observed using state-of-the-art observation platforms, are the two species with the largest positive radiative forcing and understanding their sources is critical to quantifying the anthropogenic influence on climate (Murphy and Caulton). Currently, UW is working to quantify emissions from oil and gas extraction, wildfires, and other major sources.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vintagepulps.com/store/p7633/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_-_August%2C_1948.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KFVTCMCW2VMIJ2XLUXPWP2IOQP74XXY2", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.vintagepulps.com", "title": "Famous Fantastic Mysteries - August, 1948", "raw_content": "Famous Fantastic Mysteries - August, 1948", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vinylflooringpenang.com/ee8/news/budget-2018-and-historic-shifts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:MPBMVWLGP5OZRHUUSQ2I2N2LDQ45LLJN", "length": 4018, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.vinylflooringpenang.com", "title": "\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e23\u0e4c_\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e15\u0e23\u0e1a\u0e32\u0e04\u0e32\u0e23\u0e48\u0e32 4 \u0e41\u0e16\u0e27_\u0e04\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e42\u0e19 \u0e21\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e16\u0e37\u0e2d", "raw_content": "\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e23\u0e4c_\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e15\u0e23\u0e1a\u0e32\u0e04\u0e32\u0e23\u0e48\u0e32 4 \u0e41\u0e16\u0e27_\u0e04\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e42\u0e19 \u0e21\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e16\u0e37\u0e2d\nAfter much anticipation, the Canadian scientific community has much to celebrate about the Federal Budget 2018 for two historic shifts; first a record investment in science, and second a new level of engagement and active participation of the scientific community in society and policy.\nThe budget 2018 provided hope for the future of science in Canada. In a five-year projection, the budget 2018 proposed $3.5 billion additional funding for science, of which $1,431M $950M is directed to the granting councils. Among the many other science-focused elements are incremental funding for indirect costs, substantial funding for CFI, a significant investment in the National Research Council and important provisions and funding for equity and diversity in science.\nThe budget 2018 investment, accounts for an almost 35% increase (7% annually) of the Federal government investment in science, currently of the order of $10-11 billion per year. Canada\u2019s R&D investment as a percentage of GDP is 1.6%, well below the average in OECD nations (2.5%). While a large part of this is due to insufficient business investment in R&D, government investment in R&D remains below the average OECD nations. The much-anticipated report by the Council of Canadian Academies on the state of S&T and IR&D in Canada will be released soon and provide an accurate picture and clarity on the matter.\nBudget 2018 sends a strong signal that the trend has changed, and that science, and in general R&D, are seen as central forces in building a knowledge driven economy and society. This entails sustained commitment to our science establishment.\nThe second historic shift, has been the growing maturity and engagement of the science community in the social and political process. This did not happened over a few months of just one year. The growing desire as well as capacity of the science community in more active engagement in societal issues, is a decade long process.\nIn fact, one of the early signs of this process was the creation of the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), and later on, the Canadian Science Policy Centre. Since its inception in 2009, as a grass-roots initiative driven mainly by younger researchers and policymakers, CSPC has provided a national and impactful forum for inclusive discussions on science and innovation policy. It has catalyzed discussion on the links between science and society and the role of evidence in policymaking. CSPC has played a central role in growing the capacity of the science community to engage in the larger national dialogue on science, technology, and innovation that has led up to this striking step function in public support for science.\nThere have been other pivotal events in the political maturity of the science community, including the 2015 federal election, massive expansion of social medial and connectivity of the community, the March for Science, to name a few examples. Last year, in response to the Fundamental Science Review Panel report and recommendations, we observed a culmination of these activities reflected in a concerted response from the community. The community spoke loudly and with one united voice; across all generations, regions, and domains of activity there was support for the central themes of the report.\nIf we come up with one solid lesson and experience to repeat and build upon is this bold participation of the scientific community in societal efforts. This means more than calls for additional funding; we need a focus on how we can ensure that scientific evidence and its essential role in policy making remains strong, and a deeper appreciation of why this is crucial for a healthy democracy and betterment of our citizens. Demonstrating the role of science in economic development and social well-being is a task that needs to be continued.\nYes, there is much to celebrate, not because of what we have accomplished in the budget, but also what we can and should accomplish in future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 6287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/filter-tag/5474", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:K2AEONU7YGUTKP6QXLOXZ7C2TZHITXOP", "length": 437, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.virginislandsnewsonline.com", "title": "News | Virgin Islands News Online", "raw_content": "Ralph O\u2019Neal responds to Hubert O\u2019Neal's \"bribery\" claims!\nROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI \u2013 Following allegations of bribery made by 9th District Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) at this year's General Elections Dr. Hubert O\u2019Neal against incumbent representative, now opposition leader Hon. Ralph T. O\u2019Neal, the district representative says he does not know what the fuss is about and that the opponent should accept the results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 161.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wbspenguins.com/2018/12/01/penguins-fall-in-high-flying-affair-with-marlies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GXO32ZBZQZVPV5BFFPXCTXGNEMGPFV5M", "length": 2892, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wbspenguins.com", "title": "PENGUINS FALL IN HIGH-FLYING AFFAIR WITH MARLIES", "raw_content": "TORONTO, Ont. \u2013 The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins engaged in a high-flying, goal-filled Saturday matin\u00e9e with the Toronto Marlies and suffered a 7-4 loss at Coca-Cola Coliseum.\nWilkes-Barre/Scranton (9-10-3-1) erupted with two swift strikes early in the first period, but the Marlies\u2019 power play quickly stole the show and gave the home team a lead it never relinquished. The Penguins pressed hard after finding a spark in the third period, but time ran out before they could bring a magical comeback to reality.\nThe Penguins came out swinging when Jean-S\u00e9bastien Dea found Adam Johnson wide open in the slot and Johnson slammed it in just 51 seconds into the contest. Less than three minutes later Anthony Angello buried on a breakaway for his team-leading eighth goal of the season and creating a 2-0 lead for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton\nToronto\u2019s special teams shifted momentum with two back-to-back, five-on-three man advantage tallies and then a go-ahead goal during the run-off power play time from the previous two-man advantage. The Marlies suddenly were ahead, 3-2, and the two clubs had combined for five goals in the first 7:21 of the game.\nThe second period was far less eventful than the first. However, Toronto broke through when Jeremy Bracco redirected a puck past Anthony Peters for a 4-2 Marlies lead midway through the frame.\nJosh Jooris carried the Marlies\u2019 energy into the final stage, scoring a shorthanded goal 16 seconds into the third period. Bracco found another goal with 13:02 left in regulation, making it a 6-2 Toronto advantage.\nUndeterred, Ethan Prow played with a purpose during a Penguins mid-period power play and unloaded a slap shot that went sailing into the net. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton proceeded to follow Prow\u2019s lead and pepper Marlies goalie Kasimir Kaskisuo with shot after shot. Linus \u00d6lund tucked in a rebound and cut the deficit down to 6-4 at 14:04 of the third period.\nWilkes-Barre/Scranton continued to furiously test Kaskisuo after \u00d6lund\u2019s tally, mustering 20 shots on goal in the third period. Despite the effort to comeback, Morgan Klimchuk netted the empty netter and sealed the 7-4 victory for the Marlies.\nPeters made 24 saves for the Penguins, while Kaskisuo finished the contest with 36 stops on 40 shots faced.\nWilkes-Barre/Scranton returns home on Friday, Dec. 7 to play the Cleveland Monsters. 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Many economic and ecological challenges of the 21st century can only be solved on a global scale. Chemical engineering and related sciences will play a key role in meeting future societal needs\nTo ensure a high standard of chemical engineering and related science and technology, a World Chemical Engineering Council (WCEC) was founded at the World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Melbourne 2006, Australia. Involving all regional confederation of chemical engineering and the main chemical engineering Societies around the world the WCEC aims:\nTo project global image of the profession increasing public knowledge and awareness of the contributions of chemical engineers and the industries served by the profession.\nTo facilitate global dissemination of chemical engineering technical knowledge and industrial best practices.\nBecome a resource to international organisations in providing position statements\nTo promote conservation and care of global resources, health, safety, and the environment.\nTo promote a high standard of professional ethics and conduct for chemical engineers worldwide.\nServe as a vehicle/forum for communication, collaboration and linkage between national and regional chemical engineering societies.\nTo promote international standards and accreditation for chemical engineering educational programmes and work towards engineers right to practice globally.\nwww.chemengworld.org\nEuropean Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)\nEFCE is a non-profit organization whose objectives are to serve the European Chemical Engineering community through support of the activities of its member societies in areas of education and training of chemical engineers; through promotion of collaboration in support of common goals and for the advancement of science and technology in general and chemical engineering in particular; through influence of the decision makers and opinion leaders on matters of importance to the chemical engineering community.\nIt was founded in 1953 and currently there are 20 Working Parties (WPs) and 5 Sections whose delegates and representatives come from 39 member societies representing 33 member countries. Today the EFCE represents more than 100,000 chemical engineers in Europe.\nwww.efce.info\nEUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES (ESBES)\nAs a society, ESBES stimulates scientific advances in the field of biochemical engineering and provides a platform for communication, education and interdisciplinary exchange in this important scientific discipline.\nESBES provides an important channel between industry and academia and fosters the cooperation of bioengineers from all over Europe and overseas.\nESBES organizes ECAB conferences in collaboration with the ECCE conferences which are organised by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. This joint venture extends the traditional topics of Chemical Engineering to include Biorefineries, Bioprocess Engineering, Bioseparations, Biofuels, Biomaterials, Algae biotechnology, Bio-based products and nanobiotechnology. Thus, ECAB brings innovative topics and activities to ECCE in bioengineering and industrial biotechnology to respond to major societal challenges.\nESBES mission is to promote co-operation in Europe between non-profit-professional scientific and technical societies for the general advancement of biochemical engineering sciences and foster the development of biochemical engineering sciences. ESBES gathers members from Academia and Industry in active collaboration in different fields of applied BioSciences, Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnology, and Bioengineering enforcing advances in the several related engineering topics. It covers several highly dynamic fields of innovation in the industry, among them new reactor designs, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, downstream processing, process and pathway modeling and enzyme development.\nwww.esbesweb.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weddingsongsden.com/its-your-love-tim-mcgraw.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BHW7QCNASLTX2H4SNEVLSVFVMGITE7XP", "length": 982, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.weddingsongsden.com", "title": "It's Your Love Wedding Song Lyrics", "raw_content": "Sung By Tim McGraw & Faith Hill\nOoh....Ummm\nDancing in the dark, middle of the night,\nTaking your heart and holding it tight\nEmotional touch, touching my skin\nAnd asking you to do,\nWhat you've been doing all over again\nOh its a beautiful thing,\nDon't think I can keep it all in\nWhat it is that won't let me go\nIt's your love, it just does something to me\nIt sends a shock right through me\nI can't get enough, and if you wonder\nAbout the spell I'm under\nOoh...It's your love\nBetter than I was, more than I am\nAnd all of this happened, by taking your hand\nAnd who I am now, is who I wanted to be\nAnd now that were together\nI'm stronger than ever, I'm happy and free\nOoh... Its a beautiful thing\nOoh, but if you ask me why I've changed\nAll I gotta do is say your sweet name\nOoh....Baby....Ohh\nI just gotta let you know what it is that won't let me go\nIt sends a shock right through me, I can't get enough\nAnd if you wonder about the spell I'm under\nOoh.. It's your love\nIt's your love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wednesdayintheword.com/romans13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKUNJDLK2FP2CN25VC6QM5PIMIP7GM3B", "length": 1592, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wednesdayintheword.com", "title": "13 Romans 8:26-39 Confidence in Christ \u2014 Wednesday in the Word", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Passages / 13 Romans 8:26-39 Confidence in Christ\nIn Romans 8:1-11, the Apostle Paul claimed faith in Jesus solves the problem of our sin.\nHis goal in this section is to explain how salvation can come about through Christ when it couldn\u2019t come through the law. The law could not make us righteous, because the law didn\u2019t solve the problem of our sinfulness. But because of God\u2019s grace, He gives us His Spirit and it is through the Spirit of God we are actually made righteous.\nRomans 8:12-39 is an exhortation against legalism, Paul is encouraging the Romans to give up the mentality of seeking to be sanctified through our own resources. The point of the section is that we should seek holiness through trusting in God, not through trusting in our own resources, self-reliance, legalism.\nRomans 8 :12-14 is the summary statement: Trusting yourself to gain holiness (legalism) leads to death in our present experience; Trusting in the Spirit of God to gain holiness leads to life in our present experience.\nRomans 8:15-30 discusses two things that are true about those who trust the Spirit of God to make them righteous.\nThe Spirit of God produces within believers an agonizing grief over sinfulness and a longing for righteousness. This grief over sin and longing for righteousness is tangible evidence of belief (Romans 8:15-25).\nWe can have confidence that everything that happens to us is in our own best interests because of the work of the Spirit (Romans 8:26-30).\nNext: 14 Romans 9:1-13 Is the Gospel too Good to be True?\nPrevious: 12 Romans 8:12-25 Grief over Sin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whitedovesofpittsboro.com/white-dove-symbolism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:54Z", "digest": "sha1:RRMXKQUFGVPV2YOT7OA2ZSNFODESTQRR", "length": 1317, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.whitedovesofpittsboro.com", "title": "White Doves Of Pittsboro - North Carolina White Dove Release - White Dove Symbolism", "raw_content": "Symbol of the Holy Spirit\nWhen he had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water and behold, the heavens were opened up to Him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, \"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\nAnd immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove.\nAnd the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven which said, \"You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.\"\nAnd John bore witness, saying, \"I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon him.\nBehold, thou art fair, my love! 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It is not designed for people that enjoy the nightlife to a large degree, or those that are simply looking for amusement parks. Florida is primarily known as a tourist trap, but you can actually see a different side of Florida when you visit the beautiful, city of Tallahassee.\nVisit Florida State University\nThere is always something fun filled about going to different universities that are related to each individual state. You can see how they design the architecture, the layout of the facility, and even take guided tours of each location. This is a wonderful university, one that will definitely impress you, and you should take an hour just to look at how much work has gone into this beautiful university. Once you are done looking at the architecture that has been created by mankind, you can look at what mother nature has made instead. There is a wildlife refuge not too far away that you can also enjoy during your stay.\nVisit St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge\nAnybody that loves nature will absolutely love this wildlife refuge. Although many people do not visit this beautiful location, it\u2019s something that you won\u2019t forget. It is recommended that you take the time to walk through it on your way to the lighthouse which is actually the primary reason people come through this area. You can see tiny crabs running along, beautiful birds, and waterways that are exquisite. Be sure to bring your camera so that you can capture some of the wildlife that naturally lives in the area. Once you are done there, definitely head down to the lighthouse to see the Gulf of Mexico.\nThese locations in Tallahassee are just a few of many that you can enjoy while you are visiting. If you are thinking about moving there, going to school there, or if it is just going to be a vacation, you are still going to have a good time. Once you have arrived, you will definitely sense that this is not like other cities throughout Florida. It is designed to be something of a throwback to a much more relaxed time, very different from the other major cities that you can also visit in the Sunshine State.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 171.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wildriverreview.com/2016/07/suzanne-kavanagh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:56Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6A5W6FFCV7O5XQZL7SVUEBQMX7BJNBA", "length": 716, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wildriverreview.com", "title": "Suzanne Kavanagh | Wild River Review", "raw_content": "Contributors, Suzanne Kavanagh\nSuzanne Kavanagh lives in London and works as a publishing consultant. She graduated back in 1993 with a degree in Art History, after which she carved a path through the London book industry via bookselling, marketing, and sales. In 2005, after achieving her dream of becoming UK Sales and Marketing Director at Continuum Books, she broke her back in a paragliding accident. Now fully recovered, she has decided to experience the publishing world from a freelance perspective. She set up the Publishing Results consultancy earlier in 2006 and when not working with one of her clients, Suzanne takes time out to develop her creative writing and pilates skills.\nWorks by Suzanne Kavanagh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.willbroker.co.uk/2013/12/why-do-i-need-probate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:OTBB472PBXD3IHVTHF7KNPZUDOMR54RV", "length": 1640, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.willbroker.co.uk", "title": "Will and Probate: Why Do I need Probate?", "raw_content": "Why Do I need Probate?\nOne of the most common misconceptions that we come across is that if you have a Will nothing needs to be done after you die and one of the most common questions we are asked is\nA Will is the document that sets out a person\u2019s wishes for after their death, it will appoint people to deal with their affairs \u2013 Executors and will set out how the want their Estate (the things that they owned when they died) distributed. But if the Estate is worth more than \u00a35,000 it is highly likely that you will need to do more.\nOn the face of it, having a Will makes everything straightforward but if you have been appointed as an Executor for someone who has died you will need to carry out the Estate Administration and the most important part of this is Obtaining the Grant of Probate which will give you the legal authority to distribute the estate according to the instructions in the will.\nIf a Will has any sort of Trust in it, for example money left to a child or a nil rate band trust then there is yet more to do to ensure that the trust is correctly set up. Inevitably this needs to be done properly to keep the beneficiaries and the Tax man happy, so you will need professional help and advice.\nAs an executor you answer to the beneficiaries and the potential beneficiaries of the deceased and you are personally liable for any action that you take. The worst thing you can do is \u2013 do nothing.\nIf you need help or advice with an Estate, or if you have suffered a bereavement and want to know what you should be doing call Will & Probate Services on 01778 382723 and we will help you.\nVisit our site www.will-probate.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wittekind-events.de/che-guevara-essay/index.php?id=17", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2PFVZULYVOBSTHISIPQ4RDZPJR22GXBX", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wittekind-events.de", "title": "Firmen-VA | Wittekind Events", "raw_content": "http://www.wittekind-events.de/statistics-projects-for-high-school-students/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 156.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wixfilters.com/Resources/article.aspx?NewsID=4271", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DZJJ2D34GVUK2DMDAB5QDJTKXJE4ZEBA", "length": 2029, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wixfilters.com", "title": "WIX Filters - New Article", "raw_content": "Global Filtration Brand Commemorates Eight Decades of Innovation\nWIX\u00ae Filters, a global manufacturer of filtration products, is celebrating 80 years of innovation, expert engineering and commitment to high quality filtration. To recognize the milestone, WIX has unveiled a commemorative logo and will activate in various locations throughout the year.\n\u201cWIX still boasts the same mission in 2019 as it did eight decades ago; to provide customers with premium-quality filters designed to exceed their performance demands,\u201d said Jeff Blocher, director of sales for WIX Filters. \u201cTo our customers, WIX Filters means a product they can trust every day. It\u2019s a product that they can sell with integrity and believe in.\u201d\nWIX first opened its doors in 1939 in Gastonia, North Carolina, where its headquarters are still located. The company is now part of the MANN + HUMMEL brand of innovative filtration technology, housing 11 facilities in eight countries and manufactures more than 210 million filters annually for customers spanning 80 countries. WIX is a proud member of the Gastonia community and continues to support the community there through donations and charity work.\n\u201cIt took people working with people, generation after generation, doing the right thing for our customers that then helped us do the right things for ourselves, our employees and our families,\u201d continued Blocher.\nIn addition to housing more than 20,000 unique product numbers among domestic, foreign, industrial, light and heavy-duty and synthetic industries, WIX\u2019s innovation and chief engineering was on full display with the launch of Senzit in 2018, the new digital smart filter monitor. WIX also celebrated 50 years in motorsports in 2017 which began when racing legend Richard Petty began using WIX filters to protect his stock car engines in 1967.\nWIX will be celebrating its anniversary all year long with giveaways on its social media channels and an anniversary event slated for summer. 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Although I may never be able to master their techniques, there is at least a chance I can mimic them with practice quite well. I can say for sure that despite all the practices in the world, I can never do what Ryan Kelly does.\nKelly, a make-up artist from Maryland, has been practicing and perfecting lip art for four years and has won over 75,000 Instagram followers. Kelly uses her lips as an unusual canvas to interpret familiar images with breathtaking accuracy. \u201cMy technique has certainly evolved, I really think about my previous appearance and crawl a bit,\u201d she told Allure. \u201cThe content is pretty consistent, I like to play with trends and references to pop culture.\u201d\nOne of these references: Kelly\u2019s last tribute to Bird Box, the horror film Netflix. Earlier this month, blindfolded and with a foggy background, she blindfolded Sandra Sandra Bullock as if someone had used a projector to play the movie on her face. Kelly even blindfolds the nails; She often adds an element of nail art to intelligently add even more dimension to the photos she publishes with her results. (And this is not the first time Bullock has turned up.) Last October, she created Practical Magic Lip Pencil, which was completed with a midnight margarita nail.)\nFirst | Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next | Last", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 129.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.woodbridgect.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=255", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5N4W76WKFOG2W4S7QB4CD6BDVF5TS5QV", "length": 356, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.woodbridgect.org", "title": "Woodbridge, CT", "raw_content": "The Transfer Station on Acorn Hill Road, will be WILL BE OPEN for regular hours of operation, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, the week before New Year's: Tuesday, December 26th through Saturday, December 30th\nYou can view more information about the Transfer Station and its hours of operation on the Town Website.\n\u21d0Previous Can I Prepay My Taxes?Next\u21d2 Holiday Closings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 8795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldofvince.com/archives/2005/09/jasons_outofoff.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZSIDHD35KKGYUFSZBAF7S7EV4ATVJFJ", "length": 1494, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.worldofvince.com", "title": "Jason's out-of-office messages - World of Vince", "raw_content": "Jason is currently in training for the Worlds Highest Gig, but he still finds time to send through some cracking jokes. Recently he sent this one round about out-of-office messages and I thought would be very appropriate to share them here. Hope you like them and cheers Jason (and good luck!).\nI am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.\nYou are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.\nI will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from holiday on 4 April. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.\nThank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged \u00a35.99 for the first ten words and \u00a31.99 for each additional word in your message.\nThe e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.'(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over).\nThank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system.. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.\nI've run away to join a different circus.\nI will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons.. When I return, please refer to me as 'Margaret' instead of 'Steve'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worthyofpublishing.com/top_lists.asp?group=&s=11&genre=Fiction", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:7SKMP3DF73KMBZQJBPJUE5OL7H3QJ4KR", "length": 1484, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.worthyofpublishing.com", "title": "Worthy of Publishing -", "raw_content": "Faith No More by JAD Beitzel\nWhen Abel runs from home to escape his abusive parents he finds out that it was all set up. It seems he's been reincarnated, his best friend is an angel, and this isn't the first time they've met...\nRiver Bay by Louisa Rowe\nAlexis and her twin brother Ashley havent seen each other since they were ten. Now he has to come back to River Bay and things are far from smooth.\nAfter the Waterfall (COMPLETE) by Neal O'D\nNadine starts with the idea of being a chef, but when she is drawn into Cavin's world of photography her life takes a serious turn. But things aren't all that rosy despite her passion for the man.\nDazzle Me by Brown Eyes\nDazzling music....the lights shining in my eyes....a microphone in my hand....the air escaping my lips....the screams all around me....I know that this is only a dream.....but dazzle me.\nEccentricity 2 by Ella\nShe was the one discriminated by society's cruel eyes. The child that was labelled weird and retarded. But she had her own world, and she wanted to share it but no one would let her.\n30 Letters by silent surrender\nAll those words left unspoken, all those thoughts left unvoiced...gone are the regrets, the 'what ifs.' 30 letters for 30 days, to make up for lost time, and fix what has been broken.\nMagnets by C Lawson\nSkylar, Granger, Reese, Journey, Cara, and Angel all have the same secret. From controlling people's emotions to aging objects to flying, they can do it all. And they're all about to find out", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/39472439/zoo-atlanta-welcomes-new-female-giant-otter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GVVNNQUR5O7AFD2DVLRHGPIYRI2RXR5Q", "length": 3020, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.wrcbtv.com", "title": "Zoo Atlanta welcomes new female giant otter - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports", "raw_content": "Zoo Atlanta welcomes new female giant otter\nTocantins is an ambassador for one of the Amazon\u2019s most endangered mammals\nTuesday, November 13th 2018, 11:40 AM EST by WRCB Staff\nATLANTA \u2013 Zoo Atlanta welcomes a new ambassador for an endangered species: Tocantins, a 10-year-old female giant otter.\nA recent arrival from the Jacksonville Zoo, Tocantins was recommended by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums\u2019 (AZA) Giant Otter Species Survival Plan\u00ae (SSP) as a companion for Bakairi, the 7-year-old male giant otter at Zoo Atlanta.\nTocantins, named for a state and river in Brazil, is one of the countries where her species is found.\nThe largest of the world\u2019s otters, giant otters are found only in South American river systems, mainly in the Amazon River basin and Pantanal. They are also referred to as \u201criver wolves\u201d for their roles as some of their ecosystem\u2019s most tenacious top predators. Giant otters reach lengths of 6 feet, and males may weigh up to 70 pounds.\n\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Tocantins to the Zoo Atlanta family. Giant otters are very dynamic and engaging animals, but they also have an important conservation story to tell,\u201d said Hayley Murphy, DVM, Vice President of Animal Divisions.\n\u201cThis species helps us share the need to protect the natural-heritage treasures of places like the Amazon River basin, an ecosystem which must be preserved for the countless other mammals, fishes, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and plants that need its resources for their survival,\" said Murphy.\nCurrently classified as endangered, giant otters are among the most threatened mammals in the Neotropics.\nTheir primary threats include habitat degradation, habitat loss, population fragmentation, pollution and disease.\nThe otters are also illegally hunted for their pelts, which are dark and dense with white or yellow patches on the throat and chin.\nEach giant otter has an individual throat-patch pattern, much like human fingerprints.\nZoo Atlanta is an active member of many SSP programs, which exist to protect the long-term viability of animal populations housed in accredited North American zoos by working to ensure that zoological populations remain healthy, genetically diverse and self-sustaining for future generations. In addition to breeding recommendations, another important role of SSPs is to recommend social companions for social species, as is the case with Tocantins and Bakairi.\nGiant otters are highly social, and Zoo Atlanta has been actively working with the Giant Otter SSP on identifying a social partner for Bakairi since the passing of his companion, Yzma, in summer 2018.\nTocantins and Bakairi are relatives, so theirs is not a breeding recommendation.\nMembers and guests may enjoy sightings of Tocantins and Bakairi in the giant otter habitat near the entrance of the Zoo\u2019s Asian Forest.\nAs giant otters are also highly vocal, visitors may also hear the pair\u2019s distinctive vocalizations.\nVisit Zoo Atlanta's website to learn more about giant otters or to plan a visit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wsre.org/blogs/press-room-blog/media-alert-wsre-public-square-and-pensacola-state-college-present-dr-mary-mcleod-bethune-comes-to-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:52Z", "digest": "sha1:TV7FMD2QOU6JSTX5IRKWW6AD3UNU76UP", "length": 1667, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wsre.org", "title": "MEDIA ALERT: WSRE Public Square and Pensacola State College Present \"Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune comes to life\" | WSRE", "raw_content": "MEDIA ALERT: WSRE Public Square and Pensacola State College Present \"Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune comes to life\"\nWHO: Ersula Knox Odom, an author, motivational speaker and Florida Humanities Council La Florida performer, portrays legendary educator, civil rights leader and government official Mary McLeod Bethune in 1954.\nWHAT: Free WSRE Public Square event: \u201cDr. Mary McLeod Bethune Comes to Life.\u201d In costume and character, Ersula Knox Odom will share stories of Bethune\u2019s contributions to democracy as a New Deal government official in one of the 20 highest-level offices held by women in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and the highest held by an African American woman. Bethune was founder of Bethune-Cookman University, founder of FDR\u2019s \u201cblack cabinet,\u201d served as president of the National Association of Colored Women, and founded and served as president of the National Council of Negro Women.\nWHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 5. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.\nWHY: WSRE Public Square presents public talks on topics related to the arts, science, education and media. This presentation is funded in part by a Florida Humanities Speakers Series grant awarded to Pensacola State College, WSRE\u2019s licensee. The Florida Humanities Council partners with community organizations around the state. Support is provided by the Florida Humanities Council with funds from the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs.\nPhoto Note: Ersula Knox Odom will portray legendary educator, civil rights leader and government official Mary McLeod Bethune at the WSRE Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio on March 5.\nWSRE Seeks questions for local legislative delegation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1367", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VIOAVYRXSE4CS37KK62WQDNWEXP6RMJ3", "length": 2302, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wvencyclopedia.org", "title": "e-WV | Virgil A. Lewis", "raw_content": "Share Virgil A. Lewis\nHistorian Virgil Anson Lewis (July 6, 1848-December 5, 1912) was born in Mason County, the son of George W. and Lucie Edwards Lewis. Though he would be remembered for his work in education and history, Lewis\u2019s ancestors were noted for their military service on the frontier. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Lewis, was wounded in the Battle of Point Pleasant and, in 1792 after the end of the Revolution and Indian conflict on the Virginia frontier, settled in what became Mason County.\nLewis was educated in the \u2018\u2018old field\u2019\u2019 schools of Mason County. He taught for several years in Mason County and then in 1878 became the principal of the Buffalo Academy in Putnam County. He decided to read law and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He was not happy with the law as a career and soon returned to Mason County and to teaching.\nHistory was Lewis\u2019s great passion. He was one of the organizers of the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society in 1890, and he was awarded an M.A. in history from West Virginia University in 1893. In the early 1890s, he became noted for his educational and historical writing. Between 1890 and 1910, he wrote Manual and Graded Course of Study for County and Village Schools of West Virginia; General History of West Virginia; History and Government of West Virginia; Life and Times of Ann Bailey; The Story of the Louisiana Purchase; Hand Book of West Virginia; How West Virginia Was Made; and three biennial reports of the State Department of Archives and History.\nHe was elected as the state superintendent of schools in 1892. In 1905, Governor Dawson appointed Lewis as the first director of the Bureau of Archives and History, a post which he held at the time of his death. Virgil Lewis\u2019s home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Lewis\u2019s contribution to West Virginia\u2019s heritage lives on in the West Virginia Historical Society\u2019s Virgil A. Lewis Award.\nAtkinson, George W. & Alvaro F. Gibbins. Prominent Men of West Virginia. Wheeling: W. L. Callin, 1890.\nShawkey, Morris. West Virginia: In History, Life, Literature and Industry 5 vols. Chicago: Lewis Pub., 1928.\nCharleston Gazette, 12/6/1912.\nBailey, Kenneth R. \"Virgil A. Lewis.\" e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 07 December 2015. Web. 15 February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 108.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1565", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XYKJNQI2KFXBBUSV6Z7PK52U6QVXM3LU", "length": 2096, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wvencyclopedia.org", "title": "e-WV | Mason-Dixon Line", "raw_content": "Share Mason-Dixon Line\nIn 1761, the proprietors of the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, to settle a long dispute, asked the Royal Astronomer at Greenwich to recommend surveyors to fix their common boundary. In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived from England at an agreed spot, south of Philadelphia, to begin their work using the latest equipment. After meticulous preliminaries, they began the east-west line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland and (West) Virginia in 1765. By 1767, Mason and Dixon had marked about 233 miles when hostile Indians halted their work in present Monongalia County. What they marked was the first scientifically accurate boundary in the colonies, ratified in 1769.\nAbout 15 years later, astronomer David Rittenhouse of Philadelphia and surveyor Andrew Ellicott of Maryland extended Mason and Dixon\u2019s line to the southwest corner of Pennsylvania. Later, they extended this boundary due north from that corner to a stake on the north side of the Ohio River, just west of the mouth of Little Beaver Creek. In 1786, this stake provided the starting point for dividing the western United States into rectangular townships.\nThe work of Mason, Dixon, Rittenhouse, and Ellicott provides the northern border of West Virginia along Preston, Monongalia, and Wetzel counties, and the eastern border of the Northern Panhandle. The Mason-Dixon Line, originally marking the northern boundary of the southern states of Virginia and Maryland, soon entered the popular consciousness as the dividing line between North and South, and it remains so today.\nThis Article was written by Peter Silitch\nWiley, Samuel T. History of Monongalia County, West Virginia, from its First Settlements to the Present Time. Kingwood: Preston Pub. Co., 1883.\nWilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.\nEncyclopaedia Brittanica. CD, 1997. .\nUnited States Geological Survey Maps, 7.5 Minute Series, West Virginia quadrangle: East Liverpool North.\nSilitch, Peter \"Mason-Dixon Line.\" e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 06 October 2016. Web. 15 February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 176.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.your-krav-maga-expert.com/Interview-Yuriko-Tadanobu.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ALIOVFI5XT2KMLRZVSGFV3L6Y7TZZ472", "length": 5628, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.your-krav-maga-expert.com", "title": "You are a Special people", "raw_content": "You are a Special People\nInterview with Yuriko Tadanobu\nby Dalit Mor, Maaleh Adumim, June 26, 2013\nA week has passed since the Krav Maga course with Moshe Katz began in Mitzpe Nevo, the group consisting of 22 people from 13 different countries has unified into one and has begun to accumulate stories and experiences. I promised to follow the group and collect experiences of those who have never visited Israel before.\nThis week they were exposed to the Israel martial art, Krav Maga, and met Jewish bravery and heroism through the spellbinding and fascinating instruction of Moshe Katz; at Masada, Yad Va Shem Holocaust Memorial, Ammunition Hill, and more.\nFor most of them, knowledge of Judaism, life in The Land, (Israel) and Israelism has come from the world media, which as we know is on the whole, highly biased, very unfriendly towards us, and of course stereotyped. All of them have fascinating stories and each one has his/her own impressions. From the group I selected one young woman who has her own unique perspective of Israel and the Jewish nation, and described them in a particularly moving and emotional way. Yuriko Tadanobu, law student, Japanese on her father's side, Chilean on her mothers' side, lives in Chile.\nShe and her partner arrived for the two week course after hearing positive feedback about the course and the nature of the instruction. They first met Moshe at a course he taught in Argentina. They spent 14 hours on a bus from their home town to Tucuman, and then another 2 hours driving up the mountains with the Argentinian Krav Maga club. A week ago they told me that ten minutes after the course with Moshe began they realized that the long and difficult journey was worth the effort and that they would also make it to Israel for Tour and Train. \"I trained in Asian martial arts, there smiling is not allowed, we were always told to wipe that smile off your face, there is no place for smiles here. With Moshe it is different, even with tough training and Krav Maga there is always room for a smile and some laughter. We prefer it this way. \"\nYuriko: \" Israel is amazing. Until I came here I was certain that this is a place with tension and constant warfare, that is the common belief in Chile. Everyone believes that. I thought Israelis live in tents. I am very surprised. Maaleh Adumim is a beautiful city, so quiet and peaceful, the exact opposite of what I thought. Everyone here is so pleasant, so kind and warm. The residents of the neighborhood approach us and bless us and welcome us; they show a great deal of interest in us. This week for example, where we were in the local Makolet (Grocery store, Reuveni), the owner gave us bananas free of charge\", she tells with glowing eyes and a huge beautiful smile. And she adds: \"When we went for pizza at Pizza Nevo, the manager changed the TV station to the Spanish channel, just for us, in our honor.\"\nShe relates to the sites they visited and says: \"Perhaps some see these sites just as tourist sites but I saw something else there, something much more powerful.\"\n\"The places we toured with Moshe made me see the Jewish people in a totally different light. I never understood how much pain the Jewish people suffered.\"\nShe cites for example the group trip to Masada, the last Jewish stronghold against the Romans in the year 73. \"I toured there and I dove into the period as if through a time tunnel. I felt the battle. I felt the struggle for life, to fight for liberty, I cried there and connected to the stories Moshe told us.\"\nYad Va Shem, the Holocaust Memorial also left a deep impression on her and she saw it from a very surprising and interesting point of view. \"I felt very connected at Yad Va Shem, it was very emotional and I was shocked by the enormity of the outrage and the tragedy. But in particular I was impressed and favorably surprised by you, the Jewish nation, who knows how to say Thank you. After all these tragedies, you are a people who knows how to stop and say thank you to the few, who despite everything, did something to help the Jewish people, you thank the Righteous among the Gentiles. At the entrance to the museum before the actual museum who honors the dead, you see the Thank You that honors the living. Despite the pain the first thing you see is the Thank You by the Jewish people to the world. This says so much about you. Yad Va Shem is not only a memorial to the Jews killed but also to the Gentiles who helped save a few Jews.\nAlthough she is not Jewish, she told that the place that inspired and moved her in particular was the Kotel, the last remaining wall of the Second Temple of the Jews, destroyed by the Romans in the year 70. This, she said, contrasted strongly with her feelings about the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. \"As a Christian I thought I would be inspired and emotional from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the holy site of the Christians. I saw there a group of hypocrites kissing the tomb because that is what is expected. It did not appear to be from the heart, it did not look real to me, I had this feeling that they were doing this so that others would see. When we reached the Kotel oh the other hand, I saw people standing at the Wall/Kotel, putting a hand on the Wall and praying; they were connecting to the place from their hearts. It appeared to me as coming from a place that is very real and true.\n\"I will return home to Chile and I can tell people, with confidence, that Israel is a country that is good to live in, that there is no fear here. There is a very strong feeling of people who want to live in a better world and struggle to achieve that end", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.your-krav-maga-expert.com/Krav-Maga-Imagine.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7XCDCPSZQJG2OB3A5GUYDT4QRPOORO7T", "length": 5512, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.your-krav-maga-expert.com", "title": "Krav Maga Imagine", "raw_content": "Krav Maga Imagine\nManchester airport, England, December 17, 2013\nWaiting for my flight to Heathrow\nCandy store, Alberts Dock, Liverpool; Beatles Sergent Pepper image made out of candies.\nTo believe, to imagine, to dream, to think of the things that might seem impossible to another person.\nI had never been to the cavern before, where \"it\" all began. The Beatles, the \"British Invasion\", the cultural changes. John said \"We were four guys... just a band who made it very, very big. That's all.\"\nWith all due respect, and I have great respect for John Lennon, I disagree. They may have started out just as a band but they became more than a band, and they became more than just music. They changed the world, in a way they helped crumble the Soviet union, with peace and love and music.\nAnd John dreamed of more than music.\nWho has not heard of Imagine, Give Peace a Chance, Come Together?\nWe all have, we have all been affected by his works.\nI was in the cavern, yes it was demolished and then rebuilt 8 feet lower than it had been but with the same stones the same exact architecture, and the same feeling, the same soul. (Just without the smoking).\nIt is tiny, the roof is low, the space is small and crowded. In the old days it was filled with smoke and the smell of beer, and the Beatles played there 3 times a day. and dreamed, they dreamed of bigger things to come\nthe topest top\nFrom the cavern, from the cellar, they dreamed and worked hard, they played all the time, under difficult conditions, they were poor.\nThey were discovered by the brilliant Brian Epstein, and it was a match made in heaven.\nBut still, they were turned down by every major record label in England, but Brian refused to give up, he believed, he believed in the magic.\nLegendary producer George Martin too was not terribly impressed at first, but he was captivated by the magic, the charm, the sweetness, and he too believed..\nThey started small, very small, there was never before a hit band from Liverpool, never a hit single, everyone said only bands from London can make it. Brian Epstein felt he could do it.\nThe stars were aligned against them but they believed that they could change their fate, they could change their stars, they Imagined and believed and it came to be a reality.\nHalf a century has passed and their songs only grow in popularity, Strawberry Fields Forever.\nAt IKI Krav Maga we believe; we believe that we have something special to offer the world, a user friendly Krav a Krav Maga that is for everyone.\nWe too started in a small cellar with little ventilation, we are now in 30 countries world wide and when people see our Krav Maga it is ....I never knew it could be so simple, I never knew I could do something like that. I never knew it could be that easy.\nWe have countless success stories of victories on the street.\nWell the Beatles started with only a few chords, no musical education, no training, and no money; only hopes and dreams, big dreams. They set the path, the path that al others would follow,\nToday few realize how many innovations came from the Beatles, how they were true path finders. They set the stage for others.\nTheir only assets were their hopes and dreams and their belief in themselves, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. We can defy the fate if we dream hard enough.\nWe Dream that we can spread peace by teaching the best and most efficient form of Krav Maga in the world. I believe we can reach people who otherwise would have no chance to defend themselves, both physically and emotionally\nI have already seen it happen, I have already seen countless lives transformed, countless people empowered to lift themselves up and change their lives, because of IKI Krav Maga, because of our training.\nNever let the odds take you out of the game, never let people tell you that you can not succeed. David beat the giant Goliath, Israel defended itself and defeated all its enemies time and time again. The odds do not matter, only our dream, our willpower, our ability to dream and see the top of the mountain.\nWe start in a small training hall, a basement, perhaps dark and dingy, but we dream of bigger things, of conquering the world with our ideas. The Beatles began in the Cavern, all odds were against them and today you would be hard pressed to find any country in the world, any aspect of our culture that was not touched by the Beatles, the Fab Four.\nThe USSR could not stop the Beatles, even Israel tried to ban the Beatles, Japan did not want them, but with their love they brought the world together.\nThere is no such thing as impossible.\nDream , and work hard. never give up.\nBrian Samuel Epstein, the genius behind the Beatles.Known by all as a sweet and gentle man.\nEpstein was key to the success of The Beatles - Paul McCartney later said: \"If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian\".\nThe Story of the Cavern, at the Beatles museum, Liverpool.\nOriginal program from early 1960's.\nThe Cavern today\nThe bar a the Cavern\nBass Guitar played by Paul\nLocal artists performing Beatle songs in the tiny Cavern.\nThe Cavern is really a tiny place but it is here that it all began.\nWith Tony Preston at the Beatles Museum, Liverpool. We are greeted in many languages including Hebrew and Arabic side by side.\nBegin your Krav Maga Journey today\nBegin your training today, on line with our proven distance training program. Be on the cutting edge of Krav Maga. Why teach yesterday's Krav?\nFor more details please see, Krav Maga On Line.\nIKI Membership details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-5974.html?s=37df63b5fbcb6b634bfc3115fda746bb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3NM3ZSMVQDZPJQRT2X3RLC3WZLBIYC3T", "length": 15935, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "www.yourbbsucks.com", "title": "Chavez-Bush Rivalry Threatens To Overshadow Americas Summit [Archive] - The YBBS", "raw_content": "The YBBS > The New News > Chavez-Bush Rivalry Threatens To Overshadow Americas Summit\nView Full Version : Chavez-Bush Rivalry Threatens To Overshadow Americas Summit\nChavez-Bush rivalry threatens to overshadow Americas summit\nhttp://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/11/04/afx2318307.html\nMAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AFX) - US-Venezuelan tensions and protests against US President George Bush Friday threaten to overshadow trade and anti-poverty agendas at a summit of hemispheric leaders in this Argentine resort.\nSome 8,000 security forces were deployed to Mar del Plata for the Summit of the Americas, as several thousand people were expected to march Friday in an anti-Bush rally led by Argentine football legend Diego Maradona.\nVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a frequent critic of US policies, is expected to speak at a counter-summit, called the People's Summit, organized by the protestors.\nThe leftist Chavez and Bush are not expected to hold one-on-one talks at the fourth Summit of the Americas, but their rivalry risks stealing the spotlight from the its agenda.\nNelson Cunningham, who was former president Bill Clinton Latin America adviser, said he feared the summit would be limited to 'a confrontation between president Bush and president Chavez, which is likely to dominate the headlines, with the US having far fewer allies in that confrontation that we should.'\nWhile Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, insisted that the summit was 'not about Hugo Chavez,' other US officials have underscored the two nations' differences.\n'Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere,' said Tom Shannon, the chief US diplomat for the Western Hemisphere.\n'It's thus hard to imagine a productive dialogue when the Venezuelan government has repeatedly made clear its negative intentions with respect to the summit and its personal animosity toward the president,' he said.\nShannon said Bush would work at the summit on a 'positive agenda' to create jobs and 'help the poor and traditionally marginalized group fully join the economic life of their countries.'\nArgentine officials want leaders Friday and Saturday to concentrate on ways of eradicating poverty and creating jobs, but free trade will also figure prominently in the meetings.\nThe United States hopes to revive the stalled Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) talks, which it proposed at the first summit in 1994.\nBut Latin American countries are divided over the FTAA.\n'Every country or group of countries is standing by their positions and no one is ready to budge,' said a source close to Argentine negotiators.\nA US-led group that includes Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Caribbean nations wants the summit's final declaration to schedule a new round of FTAA negotiations in 2006.\nBut the Mercosur trade bloc, which includes regional powerhouse Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, refuses to set a date and instead proposes general wording on economic integration.\nSetting a date 'is more rhetoric than concrete, because no one expects that a paragraph can relaunch negotiations,' said a Brazilian negotiator.\nFor his part, Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, has vowed to 'bury' the FTAA. Castro will not attend the summit.\nThe summit participants will announce Saturday a series of commitments to combat poverty and unemployment in the Americas.\nThe vast Western Hemisphere is a tale of two regions, with Canada and the United States living in prosperity while their southern neighbors struggle to lift their citizens out of poverty.\nLast year, Latin America reported record growth of around 5.5 pct, but poverty affects some 220 million of the region's 512 million residents.\nWorse, some 96 million people in the region survive on less than one dollar per day, according to the United Nations.\nThe Partridge remix\n(Those opposed to the Bush/US Govt/ruling class 'vision' of an entirely subserviant Latin America threathen to expose US double standards in the region, and might highlight a vision based on mutual co-operation and respect, social and economic justice. Of course, it goes without saying that if a few anarchists have a little riot, that will be the focus of our next bulletin)\n(Cops are being sent in to crack skulls)\n(Mr Chavez, who isn't willing to be cowed by US imperialism, will speak to those who represent the majority of the Latin American peoples - the poor, the working class and the peasants)\n(Chavez might hit Senor Arbusto with a few home truths, and Mr. Prez doesn't like that.)\n(It's not fair!!! Why is Chavez so popular? Waaaaggghhh! Waaaagh!)\n(Chavez is the intransigent one, not us, right? We KNOW whats best for Latin America, and thats whatever we say. So Chavez can go fuck himself and his vision for the region)\n(Just like we've done since the late 1800s. Just look at the historical record, from the Brazilian dictatorship, to Pinochet to the Contra war. It's been an unmitigated success!)\n(US corporations want to get their grubby little mits on the public sector and agriculutral industries of the region.)\n(Some countries leaders don't want to be arse raped by US capitalism, and are standing up, to some extent, for the mandate they were elected on)\n(Castro will not attend, because to the best of my knowledge, he wasn't invited. Cuba is not a part of the OAS, and therefore not welcome)\n(Some stuff will be 'committed to', but nothing will be done. And those, like Venezulea, who take active steps to use public resources to actually help the public will be vilified by the corporate media and the 'free trade' fetishists)\n(Thanks to 140 years of imperialist exploitation. Go imperialism!)\n(And FTAA will solve everything! And if you don't think so, then you're probably either a communist, a terrorist, an islamic fundamentalist or worse still, all three - and we'l have to 'take steps'!)\nFox: Dissenters unneeded for trade zone\nAP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AMERICAS_SUMMIT_FTAA?SITE=CTNHR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)\nMexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that a majority of nations in the Western Hemisphere will consider moving forward with negotiations to create a free trade zone without the participation of dissenting countries like Venezuela.\nSpeaking to reporters at the fourth Summit of the Americas, Fox said 29 of the 34 countries participating in the event support such a move. Aside from Venezuela, the dissenting countries include Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, Fox said. The latter four countries are all members of the Mercosur trade bloc.\nTop-level negotiators at the summit have failed to agree on key language aimed at renewing talks next April for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would stretch from Alaska to the tip of South America. The trade zone would eclipse the European Union as the world's largest, but its creation has been stalled for years.\nFox came to this south Atlantic seaside resort planning to push the FTAA negotiations forward, but told reporters that a bilateral meeting that was scheduled between him and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner for Friday was canceled.\nHe said Kirchner \"must do more to save this conference.\"\nAnalysts said the results of this summit could crush the hopes of creating a trade zone spanning the Americas, but might nonetheless lead to a large free-trade zone that dissenting countries would be forced to join later. The idea of the FTAA was proposed at the first Americas summit in 1994.\nIt could also push forward U.S. moves to create bilateral free trade agreements with some South American countries, said Gary Hufbauer, an economist and senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.\n\"The practical outcome of Fox's statement is to give a green light to U.S. pacts with Colombia and Peru, and perhaps to create a 'small' FTAA: North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Peru and perhaps Bolivia and Ecuador later on - but leaving out Mercosur and Venezuela,\" Hufbauer said.\nNeither Kirchner nor U.S. President George W. Bush specifically mentioned the free trade zone in a brief appearance for reporters after holding a bilateral meeting Friday morning.\nVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez bitterly opposes the idea of the 34-nation FTAA and has vowed to \"bury\" it at the Americas Summit.\nThe dissenting Mercosur countries do not oppose the FTAA but have been reluctant to set a date at the summit for high-level talks to move forward on negotiations.\nBush has said the FTAA would generate wealth, create jobs and help lift tens of millions of Latin Americans out of misery.\nAbout 10,000 protesters who have gathered in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata to protest the summit insist the zone would enslave workers and benefit big American companies.\nThe effort to create an FTAA involving every country in the Western Hemisphere except Cuba has made halting progress for years, with Brazil and the United States far apart on key issues - including U.S. protections for American farmers and Brazil's laws covering the protection of intellectual property rights and market access.\nNegotiators missed an original January 2005 deadline for wrapping up the talks even under a scaled-down two-tier approach that has been dubbed \"FTAA lite\" by critics.\nFox's declaration on the FTAA also had political significance, Hufbauer said.\n\"This is a move by Fox to heal past differences with the United States,\" he said.\nBolivian Leader Slams US Campaign\nCaracas, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina (http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B800AF5C8-3ABA-48FE-83DE-11C24931DB84%7D%29&language=EN)) Bolivian Presidential candidate Evo Morales stated the US is spearheading a campaign in Bolivia to damage the reputation of social movements, according to an interview published by Venezuelan Pax Magazine on Friday.\nMorales, leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement toward Socialism, MAS), asserted that power groups present farmers\u00c2\u00b4 organizations as drug dealers and terrorists.\nThese are tactics to discredit social movements, noted Morales, who is favored by surveys to win the December presidential elections.\nThe MAS leader said Spanish landowners accounted for most coca growers in colonial times, and it was the US that promoted its cultivation among miners.\nNow they penalize the coca plant when it has become a cultural force that is part of the national identity and economy, he added.\nIt is legal for Coca-Cola but illegal for the indigenous population, replied Morales, saying the World Health Organization has proven that coca leaves cause no damage to human beings.\nThe indigenous leader also asked why agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency \"wear uniforms, carry weapons and suppress demonstrators in Bolivia with impunity.\"\nHe called to re-found the nation to seek justice and equity for an honourable, sovereign and productive country where all people can live, and defended his proposal for a Constitutive Assembly that represents all Bolivians.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/americas_enl_1131115781/img/1.jpg\nhttp://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20051104/i/r601050994.jpg\nWell put Diego!\nhttp://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051104/capt.dlmx11511041751.argentina_americas_summit_dlm x115.jpg\nThe 'Hand of God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_God_goal)' and Hugo Chavez.\nBush feels hand of God as poll ratings slump\nThe Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1635037,00.html?gusrc=rss)\n\u00c2\u00b7 President's popularity in US reaches all-time low\n\u00c2\u00b7 Maradona leads angry protests in Argentina\nAmerica's faith in George Bush and in his decision to go to war in Iraq has plummeted in the wake of a White House intelligence scandal that went to court this week, according to a new poll.As the president encountered violent protests in Argentina at the start of his Latin America tour yesterday, a survey published by the Washington Post and ABC News showed that public confidence was eroding rapidly back home.\nNearly six in 10 Americans, 58%, said they had doubts about the president's honesty, a 13% rise in 18 months. Only 32% believed Mr Bush was handling ethical issues well, a significantly worse score than Bill Clinton achieved in his last scandal-besmirched year in office. His overall popularity has plunged to 39%, a new low for the Washington Post/ABC survey.Mr Bush is no more popular in Argentina, where a protest by several thousand demonstrators turned ugly. In the coastal city of Mar del Plata, where he is attending a regional summit, protesters set fire to a bank, looted stores and battled riot police.\nEarlier, the tone was struck by the former football star Diego Maradona, who wore a \"Stop Bush\" T-shirt to an anti-Bush \"counter-summit\" that drew some 4,000 protesters from around the world and easily eclipsed the official summit in the public's attention. \"I'm proud as an Argentine to repudiate the presence of this human trash, George Bush,\" said Maradona.\nMaradona's anti-Bush sentiment was replicated across a country driven to a near standstill by tens of thousands of people angry at the Iraq war and the US president's push for a region-wide free trade deal. Hospital and subway workers went on strike in Buenos Aires.\nThe latest popularity poll was published after Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby became the first White House aide for 130 years to be indicted in office. He appeared in court on Thursday to plead not guilty to five charges of lying to investigators.\nAt its core, the case concerns the evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction assembled by Mr Libby - at the time the vice-president's chief of staff - and other White House officials to justify the war in Iraq. The president's top political adviser, Karl Rove, is still under investigation for his role in the case, which has refocused attention on the WMD debacle.\nAccording to yesterday's poll, 55% of Americans think the president \"intentionally misled the American public\" in making the case for war, and 60% now believe it was not worth fighting. Yesterday, Mr Bush was asked whether Mr Rove would keep his job. He refused to discuss the issue on the grounds that the investigation was ongoing.\n\"I understand the preoccupation with polls,\" he said. \"The way you build credibility with the American people is to set a clear agenda ... and get the job done. And the agenda I am working now is important to the American people.\"\nHe pointed to the growth of the US economy, but the poll suggested he was facing scepticism there too. Despite a 3.8% growth rate over the past three months, nearly two-thirds of respondents believed the economy was performing poorly.\nMr Bush is hoping to revive a plan for free trade across the Americas. Yet his economic ideas find few fans in South America, where growing poverty and unemployment are blamed squarely on the free trade policies applied during the past 15 years by regional governments under pressure from the US and the International Monetary Fund.\n\"We are marching against the creation of a free trade region in the Americas, against the repayment of the foreign debt and against the militarisation of Latin America,\" said the Argentinian economist Julio Gambina as he arrived with the marchers at the Mar del Plata sports stadium, where Venezuela's president, Hugo Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez, addressed the \"counter-summit\". Mr Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez, possibly Mr Bush's most vociferous detractor in the western hemisphere, left the American president in no doubt about the opposition to his free trade pact, saying: \"Every one of us has brought an a shovel, an undertaker's shovel, because here in Mar del Plata is the tomb of [the pact].\"\nThe 15,000-strong crowd broke out in a roar as Maradona, riding high on his rebirth as Argentina's leading television personality with his own weekly talkshow, embraced Mr Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez at the microphone and roared: \"Argentina has its dignity! Let's throw Bush out of here!\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 19919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yourcpf.org/expert-videos/the-arts-disabilities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6Q3KF5SI5V2G55D7PBRCC5NIUIIR4UJL", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yourcpf.org", "title": "The Arts & Disabilities - Cerebral Palsy Foundation", "raw_content": "The Arts & Disabilities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 2929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www1.m.businessinsider.in/jlf-gandhi-vs-modi-bjp-vs-congress-dont-understand-indian-voters/articleshow/67685811.cms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IOEXISEFTENDLQ5C6CQFBBMRHJPDFNW5", "length": 5499, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www1.m.businessinsider.in", "title": "Presidential ego or a dynast\u2019s charm \u2014 what Indian voters like is still a mystery to the country\u2019s politicians - Business Insider India Mobile", "raw_content": "Prabhjote Gill | Jan 25, 2019, 01.41PM IST\nIndia\u2019s two leading political parties have distinctly different approaches to the election.But India\u2019s diverse democracy may be tougher to crack than what politicians think.The media coverage of the upcoming elections in India is focussed on a sensational standoff between Rahul Gandhi, the President of the Indian National Congress, and the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). What makes this a logical fallacy is the fact that India has parliamentary government. Voters elect local leaders to the Parliament, who then elect the prime minister.BJP is betting on Modi\u2019s charm to repeat the sweeping victory it managed in 2014. Recently, Amit Shah, the President of the BJP, said that the fight in 2019 will be a case of \u201cModi versus all\u201d describing Modi as the \u201cmost popular leader in the world.\u201dCongress has been relentless in calling out BJP\u2019s obsession with Modi. \u201cThe issue shouldn\u2019t be about who is going to be the Prime Minister, but who is going to be representing your interests to the government as a member of Parliament. To try and reduce our parliamentary system to a presidential one by saying that its Modi versus \u2018x\u2019 or \u2018y\u2019 is actually an injustice to the system,\u201d professed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor at the Jaipur Literature Fest on Thursday.\u201cI will come with a deep and experience bench of qualified people to work with me and help me solve your problems,\u201d Tharoor said explaining how Congress looks at political leadership. 67685919 Dynasty politicsWhat Tharoor deftly downplayed was the fact that Congress has been circling around dynastic leaders \u2014 the Gandhis more than any other, for decades now. Rahul Gandhi, the current president of the party, is a striking picture of privilege. His father, his grandmother and his great grandfather have been prime ministers of the country. And now, he is in the race to be the next head of the Indian state. Just this week, Congress appointed Rahul\u2019s sister Priyanka Gandhi as the general secretary of Uttar Pradesh East, which is a politically significant region home to constituencies represented by heavyweights in BJP including Modi and the current state chief minister, Yogi Adityanath.The dynastic flavour of the Congress extends beyond the Gandhi family. Some of the other big leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot, who hold high positions within the party, come from political families that have been strong party loyalists for generations.'Kaamdar' versus the 'naamdar'\u201cIt was said today that I cannot see eye to eye with them. Who am I to see eye to eye? I am from a poor family. You are naamdar (of a legacy name), I am kaamdar (an ordinary worker).\u201d Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an election rally in Rajasthan two months ago.Modi\u2019s attacks on the entitled Congress top brass yielded great results in 2014. The BJP earned a full majority and decimated the incumbent United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to just 44 seats. Five years since, Modi has cultivated a personality cult around him within the BJP. He campaigns for every election in every state \u2014 big or small \u2014 even if it is at the cost of time that he would have spent thinking through some policy decisions more deeply.Every party spokesperson showers praises on Modi for every policy decision as if the government has no other minister working. This can be a double-edged sword in a complicated democracy like India.The coming electionsAs the next election comes closer, the BJP and its allies have lost a lot of ground with the voters. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Modi is likely to lose nearly one third of its seats in the lower house of the parliament \u2014 the Lok Sabha, according to a survey. As Modi took all the praise for the victories hitherto, he will have to take the blame for the fall, if any.\nBut the rejection of Modi\u2019s presidential aura does not reflect a revival in the appeal for the Congress\u2019 franchised leadership. The votes that BJP may lose in the coming elections, are likely to get divided between many regional parties, other than Congress. No one party is expected to secure a clear majority in 2019, according to the same survey.If BJP wins the election, the narrative will skewed toward blaming Congress for its corrupt past and obsession with political dynasties. If the Congress wins the election, the BJP will be blamed for its high-handed approach to policy making and disdain for communal politics.It is difficult to disagree when Sachin Pilot says, \u201cNationalism is trying to be equated the Hinduism. And people are needing certificates for how nationalist you are. And people who are reading the contract are deciding how good of a Indian you are\u2026 It\u2019s outside the Constitution. We must stand against that.\u201dHowever, the same people of India voted Modi and BJP to power despite its shortcomings. The same way Congress, which has been tainted by a slew of corruption scandals in not so distant past, is now a party that won three out of the five state polls held in November 2018, just months before the next general elections.While the media can keep asking voters if they like Gandhi or Modi, the answers will never reflect the true depth of the Indian democracy.See also:If India goes to vote today, the result will be a cacophony: SurveyHere's how global tech giants are tackling 'fake news' ahead of elections in the world's largest democracyIndia's elections are rigged, claims an American 'expert'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://x-fin.com/us/IRDM/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5437TQ7XHK7WEFP4YTFJAO74BCW6ZXTW", "length": 6824, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "x-fin.com", "title": "Iridium Communications (IRDM)", "raw_content": "Intrinsic value of Iridium Communications - IRDM\nWe calculate the intrinsic value of IRDM stock by summing up the current values of future distributable cash flows generated by the company and dividing the sum by the number of outstanding shares. As such, the intrinsic value calculation depends entirely on projections. The more accurate your projections of the company's performance are - the more reliable is the intrinsic value calculation result. Please make sure to check the stock valuation input data below and adjust it if necessary. The quality of the output (intrinsic valuation result) is only as good as the quality of the input. See also DISCLAIMERS.\nIridium Communications Inc. is engaged in providing global satellite communications services and products. The Company offers mobile voice and data communications services through satellite, and provides communications services offering true global coverage. It provides services to businesses, the United States and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and consumers through its satellite network, which has over 70 in-orbit satellites with in orbit spares and related ground infrastructure. As of December 31, 2016, the Company sold its products and services to customers through a wholesale distribution network of approximately 65 service providers, approximately 195 value-added resellers (VARs) and approximately 80 value-added manufacturers (VAMs). The Company's commercial end user base includes markets, such as emergency services, maritime, aviation, government, utilities, oil and gas, mining, recreation, forestry, heavy equipment, construction and transportation.\nFINANCIAL RATIOS of Iridium Communications (IRDM)\nIRDM stock valuation input parameters\nRevenue. Company's revenue (or sales) is always the starting point of any cash flow forecast. In the IRDM stock intrinsic value calculation we used $448.046 million for the last fiscal year's total revenue generated by Iridium Communications. The default revenue input number comes from 0001 income statement of Iridium Communications. You may change it if you feel that it should be adjusted for some unusual circumstances that are not expected to be repeated in the future or if you already know (from interim financial statements, for example) that this year's revenue is going to be quite different.\nWe use three input parameters to forecast the revenue growth rate in our IRDM stock valuation model: a) initial revenue growth rate of 20.9% whose default value is the revenue growth rate in the most recent quarter compared to the quarterly revenue a year ago; b) terminal revenue growth rate of 5% whose default value is chosen to be close to the average nominal (i.e. not adjusted for inflation) GDP growth rate; and c) revenue decline factor of 0.9, which stipulates that revenue growth rate in each forecasted year will be equal to the difference of the revenue growth rate in the preceding year and the terminal revenue growth rate multiplied by this revenue decline factor (with the passage of time the revenue growth rate will be approaching the terminal revenue growth rate, but not quite reaching it - though the difference could be infinitesimally small).\nThe initial discount rate of 6.9%, whose default value for IRDM is calculated based on our internal credit rating of Iridium Communications, is applied to the cash flow expected to be received a year from now (well, actually, to be precise, in the financial year following the base year - the last year for which we have financial statements). For each consecutive year the discount rate is multiplied by the discount rate multiplier of 1.05, e.i. each year it increases by 5%. Feel free to change this number to correspond to your level of risk assessment of Iridium Communications.\nVariable cost ratio is the ratio of variable costs (i.e. costs that fluctuate with fluctuation of the volume of production) to the revenue expressed as a percentage. In the calculation of intrinsic value of IRDM stock the variable cost ratio is equal to 59.4%.\nFixed operating expenses is just that - expenses that are not dependant on the volume of production. They are set to $0 million in the base year in the intrinsic value calculation for IRDM stock. These expenses increase with the level of inflation in subsequent years.\nInterest rate on debt is the average all-in rate of interest paid by the company on its debt. It is set at 5.4% for Iridium Communications.\nCorporate tax rate of 27% is the nominal tax rate for Iridium Communications. In reality, companies find ways to pay much less taxes than that or not to pay them at all.\nCash flow adjustment could be used for any adjustment the investor deems necessary. Most commonly we use this field to account for stock options-related effects in excess of what is reported on the company's income statement. The cash flow adjustment is expressed as a percentage of the revenue, and in the current valuation of the IRDM stock is equal to 0%.\nProduction assets are the company's assets used for manufacturing products or provision of services. In the valuation model input table they are expressed as a percentage of revenue and for IRDM are equal to 677.6%.\nLife of production assets of 25 years is the average useful life of capital assets used in Iridium Communications operations. It is used to calculate yearly capital expenditures needed to keep these assets in good order - we call it the maintenance CAPEX.\nWorking capital is the difference between the company's current assets and liabilities. In the model we use the ratio of working capital to revenue, which for IRDM is equal to -26.3%. A negative number means that the company is apt at using financial resources of its suppliers and customers; a large positive number, on the other hand, means that it either provides in-kind financing to others or is not good at managing its inventories.\nBook value of equity - $1596.469 million for Iridium Communications - is used in calculation of the \"floor\" for intrinsic valuation based on the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Even if the prospects are very bad for a company, its assets could always be sold now for their current fair market value.\nShares outstanding of 110.753 million for Iridium Communications is needed to calculate the intrinsic value of one share.\nMarket capitalization is used here only for reference purposes and as a quick check that the share price and the number of shares outstanding numbers are correct - something especially to be cognizant about at stock splits. So, the market capitalization of Iridium Communications at the current share price and the inputted number of shares is $2.1 billion.\nGSAT Globalstar 0.690 0.05 str.sell\nGOGO Gogo 4.02 1.00 str.sell\nI Intelsat 22.42 9.02 str.sell\nMSI Motorola Solut 116.18 95.80 sell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1496, "original_length": 18327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://xintrix.com/industry-4-0/why-industry-4-0/broader-implication-of-industry-40", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VYNLOTNXN7HHGO7T5R666HRZ4EHM7LY2", "length": 1390, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "xintrix.com", "title": "Industry 4.0 Implications", "raw_content": "A revolution is under way in manufacturing. The effects are not confined to manufacturing but are spreading to other industries that use, or could use, smart, connected processes, products, and services. Those product and services reshape competition, and the very nature of companies, their way of work, and how they are organized, creating many changes.\nThe challenge is that there are no playbooks on organizational issues who are dealing with the transition into the Industry 4.0 / smart factory / Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), world. The organizational processes, that has been in place for decades are currently being rewritten. While for many companies this transition may be unsettling, destabilizing and raise real competitive challenges and security concerns, it is important to see smart, connected processes, products, and services as a chance to improve economies and society. Industry 4.0 will create rapid progress in sustainability, increase the efficiency of land, water, and materials use, as well as energy and the productivity of organizations.\nSmart, connected processes, products, and services of industry 4.0 will help you achieve major advances in efficiency, quality, profitability, sustainability, to name a few. Xintrix has been part of this evolution for many years. Our solutions are the tools that empower you to achieve your short and long term goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 5037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yoga.helenroscoe.com/approach.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5KPNWWNZ7KFLPJH2VYYFWKUW2X6HHNXA", "length": 982, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "yoga.helenroscoe.com", "title": "Yoga in Broadbottom with Helen Roscoe at the Broadbottom Community Centre.", "raw_content": "Yoga brings about focus that is practical and effective in creating a positive shift to our state of mind.\nViniyoga refers to an application of yoga, the origins of which are transmitted through the spirit of Pata\u00f1jali\u2019s Yoga S\u016btras. This particular approach to teaching yoga has been informed by Sri T. Krishnamacharya and his son, T.K.V Desikichar, who have inspired Viniyoga as an adaptation of practice. An application of yoga which aims to suit the different needs and situations of the individual, so that the essence of yoga can be made available to us all.\nI teach classes in small groups or in a one to one capacity and explore key yoga postures along with the concept of linking breath with movement. The idea is to move and breathe mindfully so that we can achieve a certain level of focus, removing us from the distractions of the mind. Sometimes I may introduce sound and teach seated breathing practices. It is important to me that sessions are enjoyable and relaxing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://123movie.be/episode/midnight-texas-season-2-episode-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VBJIWHKQQJHCPQZU76AVGSFR2AYR2RSR", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "123movie.be", "title": "Watch Midnight, Texas Season 2 Episode 2 Online Free on 123MOvies", "raw_content": "Episode Title: The Monster of the Week Is Patriarchy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 5013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2016.epicpeople.org/keynotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TECFYMI5Y6ZUB66W7WZFFGGQEGPW45P3", "length": 3464, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "2016.epicpeople.org", "title": "Keynote Speakers \u00ab Keynote Speakers \u2013 EPIC2016", "raw_content": "John F. Sherry, Jr.\nTuesday, August 30, 9:30\u201310:30 am\n\u201cWe\u2019re learning that branded products are not just solutions to needs or problems. Brands are psycho-culturally alive, and every brand tells a story.\u201d\nJohn F. Sherry, Jr. is Herrick Professor of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame. He has researched, lectured, and consulted around the globe on issues of brand strategy, experiential consumption, and retail atmospherics. He is widely published and a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. He is a past President of both the Association for Consumer Research and the Consumer Culture Theory Consortium, and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. His most recent book is Resurgence: The Four Stages of Market-Focused Reinvention (with Gregory S. Carpenter & Gary F. Gebhardt).\nRead more about John, his take on the future of ethnography in business, and why he thinks pathmaking is more like bushwhacking for academics and practitioners alike.\nJohn W. Sherry\n\u201cThe real art of this work is engaging our colleagues early in the process of invention and exploration, where the social scientists and the technologists are willing to genuinely engage in dialogue and find something truly new.\u201d\nJohn W. Sherry is director of the Experience Innovation Lab at Intel Corporation. He has been at Intel for the past 20 years, except for a short hiatus with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2009/10. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona.\nRead the profile of John\u2019s remarkable career \u201cWhat Anthropology Brings to Innovation.\u201d\nWednesday, August 31, 1:30\u20132:30 pm\n\u201c[N]o innovation is entirely new; if it were, we\u2019d find it incomprehensible\u2026 Silicon Valley needs to treat tradition as a collaborator\u2014not an enemy\u2014in the creative process.\u201d\nEric Weiner is a veteran foreign correspondent who has worked on several award-winning teams for National Public Radio and been a business reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Geography of Genius, in which he explores the history of places from ancient Athens to Renaissance Florence to modern day Silicon Valley to answer the question of how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. Also check out his recent articles \u201cRenaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is\u201d (Harvard Business Review) and \u201c10 Ways for Silicon Valley to Delay its Decline and Fall\u201d (Wall Street Journal).\nRead about Eric and why he believes \u201cculture matters more than we think\u201d.\n\u201cWhat would it mean for anthropology to resist top-down categories, distinctions, and definitions of what \u2018markets,\u2019 \u2018capitalism\u2019, and \u2018globalization\u2019 are or should be?\u201d\nKaren Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research centers on understanding and analyzing the culture of finance and financial institutions, its impact on corporate America as well as on broader norms of work, employment, and insecurity. Her widely acclaimed book Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street\u2014based on three years of fieldwork among investment bankers and major financial institutions\u2014\u201dpunctures many of the assumptions about how markets work\u201d (Times Literary Supplement).\nRead more about Karen, her research on Wall Street and the culture of risk, and what anthropology contributes to our understanding of finance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2820press.com/focus/performance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BUKAMYQ7HBMJLABIHLGNWQXGWGLAPCAG", "length": 1645, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "2820press.com", "title": "How can scammers, hackers, and competitors ruin your SEO?", "raw_content": "The best communications campaigns begin with the end in mind. Whether you want to sell a product, grow a brand, or just change someone's opinion, you'll only know if you're hitting the target if you measure performance from the start. Analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools shouldn't drive your message, but they can help you discover when you're on the right track.\nIt\u2019s time to go beyond vanity metrics\u2014your millions of followers don\u2019t help your business if none of them are actually interested in what you\u2019ve got to say! We\u2019ll help you uncover which data points fit best with your goals so you can focus on what really matters.\nYou may have the perfect solution for your audience, but if they don\u2019t realize they have a problem, your solution won\u2019t mean much to them. Our audience awareness assessments identify where your communications can focus on educating your audience on the problem and where you can position yourself as the solution they need.\nEffective communications means better results without feeling overwhelmed. When we assess your communications process, we\u2019ll rank you on a scale from \u201cReactive\u201d to \u201cStrategic.\u201d When you\u2019re operating at a truly strategic level, you\u2019re working more efficiently, eliminating much of the stress of your daily outreach and engagement tasks.\nLead generation tops the list of goals for content marketing programs, according to IDG Enterprise. Researchers talked to over 700 professional marketers on LinkedIn, finding that two out of three want their investment in original content to pay off in the form of new prospects, requests for proposals, and closed deals. Even though IDG\u2019s survey [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://3hac.com/about-orlando/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:17Z", "digest": "sha1:TVC5TLIUXXLBLP4KRESGBTA4VJWKDWUY", "length": 1177, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "3hac.com", "title": "3H AC of Orlando - Trusted HVAC service, repair and installation", "raw_content": "3H AC of Orlando\nAbout 3H AC of Orlando\nThe main office in Tampa, FL has been in business for over 46 years providing HVAC service to that area. The company has been built on providing honest, fair service too all it\u2019s customers.\nIn 2017, the owner of 3H noticed that the Orlando area could benefit from the same great heating and cooling services. So\u2026. that\u2019s when the Orlando division opened. Like the home office, we provide the same great ac and heat services.\nScheduling HVAC repairs with 3H AC of Orlando will get you the highest quality service. We employ only the best heating and cooling technicians. Our technicians have been well trained to handle all heating and cooling issues.\nWe inspect the system before offering suggestions, so we can deliver quick results to get you back to life quickly!\nGetting the right Air Conditioning system takes strategy. It\u2019s not always an easy fix and should be thoroughly considered by doing it correctly. Doing it right requires some pre-installation work. You don\u2019t want to end up with a system that under or over performs. In the AC world \u2013 Bigger is not always better!\nThat\u2019s where we come in..\nhttps://3hac.com/about-orlando\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://420potdelivery.com/industrial-hemp-future-in-wv-threatened-by-civil-suit-wvva-tv/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ42U4XBIQ3KY67OZNR4YXWPXGFTI35O", "length": 1908, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "420potdelivery.com", "title": "\u00bb Industrial hemp future in WV threatened by civil suit \u2013 WVVA TV420potdelivery Industrial hemp future in WV threatened by civil suit \u2013 WVVA TV \u2013 420potdelivery", "raw_content": "Industrial hemp future in WV threatened by civil suit \u2013 WVVA TV\n(White Sulphur Springs) The West Virginia Department of Agriculture says industrial hemp is on the rise, but excitement for the new crop is tempered by a civil suit making it\u2019s way through the courts.\nA spokesperson for the West Virginia Department of Agriculture says there\u2019s been a 300 percent increase in hemp farming applications for the 2019 growing season. Lynell Braught, PHD is one of those industrial hemp farmers. He said, \u201cI, actually, this last year grew three hundred plants here in my backyard.\u201d\nA rise in the popularity of CBD oil, which is made from hemp and used as a natural remedy, is fueling the craze. Dr. Lynell explained saying, \u201cBig expansion that\u2019s happening with this because you cannot get high on it but it\u2019s taking care of a lot of the pain. We have a lot of people that were on opioids that are looking to this to control the pain.\u201d Even with all the three hundred plants grown last year Dr. Lynell says he could still produce more hemp to meet the demand.\nBut in this state excitement for the crop is marred by uncertainty due to a civil suit filed by the US Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. The civil suit claims a violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act, asserting a farmer in Mason County carried hemp seeds across state lines.\nThe West Virginia Department of Agriculture regulates industrial hemp in the state. A spokesperson said the agency is following the intent of the state legislature and doesn\u2019t see any violation of state law. For now investment in the industry is stalled with uncertainty awaiting a judge\u2019s ruling.\nSource: https://wvva.com/news/2018/12/05/industrial-hemp-future-in-wv-threatened-by-civil-suit/\n\u00ab CBD products don\u2019t need a marketing push from journalists \u2013 HealthNewsReview.org 25 Under $50: Your Guide to Holiday Shopping in Atlanta \u2013 StyleBlueprint \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1176271/saudi-russian-agreements-result-two-nuclear-reactors-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OD6QWVPT2XKXPE4TPLGQSANDTT5YLTPV", "length": 4011, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "aawsat.com", "title": "Saudi-Russian Agreements Result with Two Nuclear Reactors in 2018 | Asharq AL-awsat", "raw_content": "Saudi-Russian Agreements Result with Two Nuclear Reactors in 2018\nRiyadh - Fatah al-Rahman Youssef\nhttps://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1176271/saudi-russian-agreements-result-two-nuclear-reactors-2018\nMinister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid al-Falih and Russian counterpart Alexander Novak at the joint press conference (Asharq Al-Awsat / Iqbal Hussein)\nSaudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stressed his keenness to develop bilateral relations between Riyadh and Moscow, reiterating the need to bolster cooperation between the two countries in the field of energy. This came during the meeting between King Salman and Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak.\nMinister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid al-Falih said at a press conference with his counterpart Alexander Novak in Riyadh that the leaderships in the Kingdom and the Russian Federation agree on the importance of economic cooperation between the two countries.\nFalih disclosed his talks with his Russian counterpart, focusing on investment cooperation between the two countries. He pointed out that the Public Investment Fund and the Russian Direct Investment Fund are working to encourage Saudi investment within Russia and also attract Russian investments to the Kingdom.\n\"The energy fields in the Kingdom are open to Russian investments, as well as renewable energy. But the biggest and most important field currently being discussed with the Russian side is the investment in nuclear energy and the Nuclear Program of Saudi Arabia,\" Faleh said.\nHe pointed out that Russian company Rosatom is participating in the competition that will start in 2018. Two nuclear reactors will be established to produce electricity at a competitive cost in the country using the best technologies and harnessing nuclear energy for peaceful uses in the Kingdom.\nFaleh announced that within two months, a Russian delegation will arrive in Saudi Arabia to hold several meetings. He also confirmed that both countries will continue to meet and discuss related matters to lead the world in the energy markets, especially oil sector.\n\"For the first time in more than 10 years, we see many regions of the world and centers of the economy, whether in developed or developing countries, growing at very healthy rates,\" he indicated, adding the global growth rate is expected to rise to 4 per cent in 2018, which gives a strong boost to economic growth and the prosperity of the entire global community.\nFor his part, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak indicated that Russia's participation in Riyadh at the World Energy Council, in cooperation with the World Organization for Energy and OPEC, presented an opportunity to meet King Salman.\n\"We discussed with King Salman the development of relations between the two countries, the development of economic and trade relations and our joint cooperation in coordinating oil and other fields. We have received a good incentive to develop relations between our two countries and economies,\" said Novak.\nThe Russian minister added that Riyadh talks discussed all areas of cooperation, and most importantly in the field of oil and energy, indicating that Saudi Aramco will discuss several projects with major Russian oil companies.\nNovak also said that the state-owned nuclear company Rosatom had applied for a tender to construct two power plants in Saudi Arabia.\n\"We also discussed the issue of climate change and signed a joint statement between our two countries. We support the agreement. We believe there is a need to develop technology, use clean technology and hydrocarbons essential for this energy, and we have discussed the development of renewable energy and new technologies,\" he told the press.\nNovak concluded that implementation of agreements between OPEC and other organizations have also been discussed, as well as creating balance in the market. He confirmed the meeting with Saudi Arabia's energy minister in April which will discuss market's situation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 10324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7.com/archive/7477085/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSJ4SG27EMVGU3SYAHBLI2GEZIIS5U55", "length": 1537, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "abc7.com", "title": "Gary Coleman's voice heard in 911 call | abc7.com", "raw_content": "Gary Coleman's voice heard in 911 call\nSALT LAKE CITY --\nGary Coleman's ex-wife, Shannon Price, had the authority to take the actor off of life support, according to a hospital spokeswoman on Thursday. Price, 24, was named in an advanced health care directive that allowed her to make health care decisions for Coleman when he couldn't make them for himself, according to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank.\nOn the 911 call from May 26, the day Coleman apparently had a seizure or hit his head and fell, Price refers to Coleman as her husband.\nOn the tape Price can be heard frantically asking the emergency dispatcher to send help. Coleman was bleeding from the back of his head and \"bubbling at the mouth\" after falling.\n\"I just don't want him to die,\" said Price. \"I'm freaking out like really bad. Send someone quick because I don't know if he's like gonna be alive cause there's a lot of blood on the floor.\"\nHealth was always an issue for Coleman, who suffered from kidney disease from the time he was a toddler. He had at least two transplants.\nColeman's health problems went beyond kidney failure. Last fall, he had heart surgery complicated by pneumonia, said his Utah attorney Randy Kester. In February, he suffered a seizure on the set of \"The Insider.\"\nColeman died from a brain hemorrhage Friday at age 42.\nThe actor starred for eight seasons on the sitcom \"Diff'rent Strokes,\" starting in 1978.\nYour feedback is important to us! Please complete a brief survey so we may continue to improve abc7.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7.com/archive/7738984/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ILH3M7MT7W6CADNMJ4V3JLQVOVUYK4KL", "length": 407, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "abc7.com", "title": "Johnny Depp wants to remake 'The Thin Man' | abc7.com", "raw_content": "Johnny Depp wants to remake 'The Thin Man'\nJohnny Depp is ready to team up again with the director of the fourth \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" movie, Rob Marshall.Depp and Marshall are working to develop a re-make of the classic private-eye film, \"The Thin Man.\"\n\"The Hollywood Reporter\" says they want to give it a contemporary feel while retaining its period setting.\nThe original movie was released in 1934.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7.com/archive/7748785/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6VP4FISC4EOK6M5KHCSVAS6GVJL6PZMR", "length": 1898, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "abc7.com", "title": "Marbles used to hit Van Nuys car dealerships | abc7.com", "raw_content": "Marbles used to hit Van Nuys car dealerships\nVandals struck Tuesday night and shattered large plate glass windows at several car dealerships in Van Nuys.The Sherman Oaks Kia dealership on Van Nuys Boulevard was one of the many businesses hit by vandals around 9:45 p.m.\nMiller Honda, Center BMW, Keys Audi, Car Factory and Keyes Toyota also suffered structure damage. A beauty salon and an adult store in the area were also vandalized.\nSome didn't hear about the damage until they turned on the morning news.\n\"When I saw Keyes, I said, 'Uh oh, I'm right next door,' Then I saw my sign, and I said, 'Oh no, they got my store,'\" said car dealer Michael Koudsi. \"Well, it looks like it's just the glass. I did jump out of bed and rushed over here though.\"\nAll the businesses hit were on the west side of the street, leading authorities to believe that those responsible were most likely in a car.\nPolice said the vandalism appears to be fairly random\nAuthorities initially suspected that the vandals used a pellet gun or an actual firearm, but now they think marbles fired by slingshots caused the damage.\n\"It sounds like some kids just wanted to have some fun, but it didn't seem like they hit the vacant buildings, so I don't know if they were targeting certain people or just having fun,\" Koudsi said.\nSo far, the damage appears to be confined to broken glass windows.\n\"I'm really happy that they didn't get the cars, because that costs a lot more than a glass,\" Koudsi said.\nThe broken glass will get replaced and the mess will get cleaned up, and everybody will go back to work knowing that it could have been worse.\nThere were people inside the dealerships at the time of the attacks, but no injuries were reported.\nPolice have yet to find any witnesses who saw the vandalism take place. If you have any information about these attacks, you're urged to contact Van Nuys police at (818) 374-9500.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7chicago.com/politics/cook-county-clerks-office-offering-students-chance-to-work-election-day/1479835/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:AQLPEQA4FWSL2HPXTVR2HAY4OO2HIQ7F", "length": 1069, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "abc7chicago.com", "title": "Cook County Clerk's Office offering high school, college students chance to work on Election Day | abc7chicago.com", "raw_content": "Cook County Clerk's Office offering high school, college students chance to work on Election Day\nCOOK COUNTY (WLS) --\nThe Cook County Clerk's Office is offering high school and college students the chance to earn some cash on Election Day.\nStudents can make $175 working as an election judge and $325 as an equipment manager on Election Day in suburban Cook County.\nOnce training is completed, poll workers get assigned to a nearby polling place on Election Day, Nov. 8, where they register eligible citizens, verify voter registrations and aid suburban Cook County voters in casting their ballots. Equipment managers make more money because they are responsible for setting up and maintaining voting equipment.\n\"Working at a polling place on Election Day is a valuable experience for young adults,\" said Cook County Clerk David Orr. \"Students get an up-close view of what democracy in action looks like and they get paid to do it.\"\nFor more information on how to apply, visit www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/electionjudges.\npoliticscook countyelection dayCook County", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7chicago.com/society/city-says-playground-renovation-project-will-finish-ahead-of-schedule/1460256/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IZ26WJT2KMNKNUJDT2O56KRLZGHGCKS3", "length": 463, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "abc7chicago.com", "title": "City says playground renovation project will finish ahead of schedule | abc7chicago.com", "raw_content": "City says playground renovation project will finish ahead of schedule\nA playground in Chicago.\nChicago communities are getting more places to play.\nMayor Rahm Emanuel says the \"Chicago Plays\" playground renovation program will be completed by the end of this year. That's a year ahead of schedule.\nThe final 88 playgrounds are under construction this year. They are part of a total of 327 playgrounds built or re-furbished through Chicago plays.\nsocietyplayground", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abmasfarm.com/chicks-and-bunnies-event-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZL6HHOHSHHPJEWJ5NV3WTNYP5VPNIO6U", "length": 142, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "abmasfarm.com", "title": "Chicks and Bunnies Event Information - | Abmas Farm Wyckoff, NJ", "raw_content": "Each time slot has a limited amount of tickets available to ensure the safety of our animals and for our patron\u2019s participation and enjoyment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 283, "original_length": 7146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 205.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://academy.trulyheal.com/lessons/welcome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SW4VWAJF4L7KM4Z2ICP7CKDD2E7MHZJL", "length": 2966, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "academy.trulyheal.com", "title": "Welcome - TrulyHeal Academy", "raw_content": "Welcome to \u201cTRULY HEAL from cancer\u201d and welcome to this whole video series that takes you from A to Z on everything you need to know in order to prevent and reverse cancer.\nThe big issue with cancer is that when people get diagnosed, they either choose the conventional path of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, and in case that doesn't work then they try to find solutions in the alternative field.\nSome people explore the alternative field straight away, but it\u2019s not very common, because most of us have that tendency to search for a cure that is cheap (insurance paid), quick and does not interfere with our life too much. We're trained to buy a pill, to pop a pill, and that's it. We don't want to know about lifestyle changes, diet restrictions, exercise, daily detox programs and so on.\nAnd so products like B17 or laetrile, vitamin C infusions, artemesia, Chinese wormwood, mistletoe, Rigvir, oxygen, ozone, hyperthermia become the focal point. They are well known and they're perceived as a solution or a cure. Just take it and everything will be fine.\nUnfortunately this conclusion is not quite true and we all know that. It's actually the reason why alternative medicine has such a bad reputation, because everybody tries these \u201ccures\u201d and we still see people pass away in a slow and painful death.\nThe same happens with all the different cancer diets. Many people would recommend with total conviction \"Just go on a Ketogenic diet and that will resolve it!\" But does it? I know people who did just that with no success. I knew people on the Gerson diet that died in a very short time. Others were on a low sugar diet which they didn't really respond to because their cancer still grew. Even the whole hype about alkalinity can be quite dangerous because it will interfere with your gut digestion, with your absorption rates and your bacteria load in the gut.\nIn order to TRULY HEAL cancer we start a quest to find all contributing factors that suppress the immune system, burden the body and lead to cancer in the first place and then we resolve them one by one. This may take a little while but the results are so much more rewarding. And to do just that I'm going to take you through this whole course where we look at every possible cause that may prevent you from healing.\nJust take a pen and paper and work through with me. You can write down everything we talk about where you would say \"Oh! That resonates! I have that too!\" or \"I should be looking at that!\"\nThat is why it's important not to miss any of the sequences where you mark what is relevant to you and what needs to be done in order to truly heal.\nWe don\u2019t just say \"truly heal your body,\" we add \"your mind, your life, and your environment.\" Because once you get on this journey you will realize that everything around you changes, and usually you have a massive impact on your environment, your friends and your family as well, which helps them to prevent cancer in the first place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adamondemand.com/AODHome/AODProductDetails/UnderstandingNarcolepsy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BTZ3TRBTKN6YTGP2ZEXVMLHFTW5DE7XZ", "length": 1406, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "adamondemand.com", "title": "Understanding Narcolepsy-A.D.A.M. 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The program will conclude with an explanation of the pathophysiology underlying this condition.\nDefine narcolepsy.\nDiscuss the incidence, prevalence, and demographics of narcolepsy.\nIdentify and describe the signs and symptoms of narcolepsy.\nDescribe the functioning of the sleep-wake switch and how it is altered with narcolepsy.\nExplain the autoimmune hypothesis underlying narcolepsy pathophysiology.\nThe Impact Of Narcolepsy\nClinical Definition Of Narcolepsy\nPopup: Polysomnography\nPopup: Sleep Latency Tests\nPopup: Csf Hypocretin Measurement\nThe Sleep\u2013wake Switch\nThe Sleep\u2013wake Switch And Narcolepsy\nHypocretin Or Orexin Deficiency\nThe Autoimmune Hypothesis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afreebird.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:BGYT3EXFXLIPGDIXWBFJS643O22BQYWL", "length": 788, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "afreebird.org", "title": "A Free Bird", "raw_content": "A Free Bird supports and inspires children fighting cancer through the power of the arts.\nWe support young artists through three programs:\nProvides young patients with free access to artistic events and in-hospital programming.\nConnects patients ages 4 \u2013 18 with volunteer artists for one-on-one tutoring sessions.\nLaunches patients ages 4 \u2013 18 who are in remission into the artistic community through a special event.\nIf you are a parent interested in involving your child in any of A Free Bird\u2019s programs, please apply here.\nWe are always looking for visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers, performers, designers, chefs, and artists of all sorts to join our family of tutors, as well as donors and sponsors to provide art supplies, instruments, tickets, and other forms of support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/news/1727/corrections-to-the-perinatal-guidelines", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NYUB3WDKGTM2GJCQQCOQZI5XXTUGWXHQ", "length": 398, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aidsinfo.nih.gov", "title": "Corrections to the Perinatal Guidelines | News | AIDSinfo", "raw_content": "Corrections to the Perinatal Guidelines\nOn January 4, 2017, the Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1-Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States were updated. Efavirenz and Table 8 Antiretroviral Drug Use in Pregnant HIV-Infected Women were updated to be consistent with the sections of the guidelines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://airows.com/adventure-and-sport/chris-burkard-surf-film-arctic", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:07Z", "digest": "sha1:OQXMBWMYZDF5VP7YPELVAIV54TVEXBII", "length": 1136, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "airows.com", "title": "The Trailer for Chris Burkard\u2019s Surf Film Is the Prettiest Thing You'll See Today - Airows", "raw_content": "The Trailer for Chris Burkard\u2019s Surf Film Is the Prettiest Thing You'll See Today\nThe master lensman isn't one for disappointing.\nChances are, you're well familiar with the work of Chris Burkard, the photography wonderkid known for his adventurous shoots around the world. For the last year, he's been working on a 40-minute documentary titled Under an Arctic Sky, a story of six surfers who go on a life-threating ride to the frozen shores of Iceland as the worst storm in 25 years arrives.\nHere's the trailer, which looks more dreamy than a Terrance Malick movie:\nTo help fund the final bit of production, Burkard has set up a Kickstarter campaign that will surely reach its goal at lightspeed. Ranging from a $15 pledge that gets you a digital copy of the film to an $8,000 package which includes a six-day photography journey with the man himself, there's plenty of ways to get involved and support such a talented creative.\nThis Big Wave Surfing Video Is the Coolest Thing You'll See Today\nWatching This Dude Surf Waves On A Motorcycle Is The Coolest Thing You'll See Today\nThis Is (Probably) The Craziest Ski Video You'll Ever See", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alamosanews.com/article/lt-colonel-randy-velasquez-49", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3G2MSEFYGITO74IDISBQPEH5ZAIVBRET", "length": 2759, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "alamosanews.com", "title": "Alamosa News | Lt. Colonel Randy Velasquez, 49", "raw_content": "Alamosa resident Lt. Colonel Randy Velasquez, 49, passed away December 17, 2017 in Germany. Randy was born on November 7,1968 in Alamosa, Colorado, the son of Jim Velasquez and Dorothy Valdez. Randy lived an extraordinary life and achieved many honorable accomplishments. Randy graduated from Centennial High School in 1987, after graduation he enlisted in the United States Army and attended college at Norwich University in Vermont. Randy received his Bachelors degree in Biology from Adams State University in 1992. Randy also enlisted and served in the United States Marines, where he received commission as a Second Lieutenant in August of 1992. Randy went on to pilot training on T-34 airplane and CH-53E in Florida and Texas. Randy got his wings on May 5, 1995.\nOver the next 18 years , Randy attained progressively responsible positions at a variety of duty stations throughout the United States, Japan and Germany. He reached his most current Rank of Lt. Colonel in 2015. Throughout his career he was involved in many exercises, and projects with focuses worldwide. He was most honored to work with, mentor, and learn from fellow Marines. He retired from the Marine Corps n 2016 and resided in Houston, Alaska. Randy was a member of the American Legion in Wasilla, Alaska and the V.F,W. He enjoyed going hunting, fishing, outdoor sports and spending time with his family and friends. Randy made sure he never came upon a stranger. Randy will be dearly missed by all who knew him, but made sure he lived to the fullest.\nSurvivors include his mother Dorothy Valdez of Pueblo, CO; father Jim Velasquez of San Acacio, CO; mother of his children Jill Reay of Germany; daughter Ellie Velasquez of Colorado Springs, CO; son Jonathon (Amanda) Velasquez of Honolulu, HI; two grandchildren Zyden Banister and Kyzyn Velasquez both of Honolulu, HI; sister Jamee Velasquez of Pueblo, CO; half brothers Kyle Herring and Eric Herring both of Grand Junction, CO; maternal grandparents Mary and Frank Valdez of San Acacio, CO. He is also survived by many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.\nRandy is preceded in death by paternal grandparents Margarito and Eulalia Velasquez.\nA Mass of the Resurrection will be held on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 1:00 PM at the Sangre De Cristo Catholic Church in San Luis. Interment will follow at the San Acacio Cemetery with full military honors. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Caden Daniel C/O Bree Daniel American Legion Post #35, 5050 Tweed Court, Wasilla, AK. 99654. The care of arrangements have been entrusted to Romero Funeral Home of San Luis.\nRobert \"Bobby\" Lee Duran, 68\nHenry \u201cHonke\u201d Medina, 58\nAlamosa resident Lt. Colonel Randy Velasquez, 49, passed away December 17, 2017 in Germany.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alanblackwood.com/2017/04/06/revelation-101-11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GYRVIJS465JCIUWEMRMJMEUSRRMQRXJG", "length": 339, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "alanblackwood.com", "title": "Revelation 10:1-11 | Rev. Alan Blackwood", "raw_content": "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:\n10 And I took the little book out of the angel\u2019s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alcazar.nomadgarden.org/garden/real-alcazar/species/reeves-spirea/?filter=all", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AWJYIYPIL5AJPDXWZD4HGKMVOEHLOG2A", "length": 1185, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "alcazar.nomadgarden.org", "title": "Real Alc\u00e1zar de Sevilla", "raw_content": "Deciduous shrub that blooms in April and May dramatically, forming numerous clusters of white flowers that completely cover the ground to the point that branches and foliage can not be observed. Native to China and Japan, the specific name cantoniensis refers to one of their original locations, Guangzhou, China port that was a Portuguese colony during the sixteenth century and later from other European nations such as the Netherlands, where until the mid-nineteenth century was one of the largest and most cosmopolitan commercial ports in the world. The Reeves Spirea was ultimately first described by a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and naturalist, Jo\u00e3o de Loureiro, in the late eighteenth century. The Jesuits played a major role in European botanical exploration of the Far East. Their representatives, who entered because of their missionary work in China and Japan and were here welcome for their expertise, were in fact virtually the only Westerners who had permission to enter these territories, as was the case of San Francisco Javier narrated at the entrance of the Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) and ended with the arrival of samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga to Sevilla.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 140.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alwaysbejobhunting.com/2017/09/20/keeping-up-with-competition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:V6WYVYFYJ3DNLFHHC6G575NOKOL2CQVA", "length": 3261, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "alwaysbejobhunting.com", "title": "Keeping Up With Competition | Always Be Job Hunting", "raw_content": "\u2190 6 Ways To Change Your Career Direction\nThe Jobs That Will Still Be Around In 30 Years \u2192\nBusiness is just one constant competition, it\u2019s no wonder why so many business\u2019 fail. But for those that succeed, the struggle never stops. Business giants such as Facebook or Amazon have worked hard, and have constantly adapted to the ever-changing world of business to ensure they stay on top, let\u2019s see how you can do the same.\nTo know how to beat your competitors, you must first know what they\u2019re doing to be ahead of you. Whether you conduct your own research, or have a research specific company do it for you, you\u2019ve got to get your head around what they\u2019re doing differently to you. It could be better marketing, better website design, or better interaction with their customers. Don\u2019t aim too high though.\nIf your company is one that sells gifts for children, don\u2019t try comparing your website to the likes of Argos or Toys R Us. Take a look at competitors closer to you, conquer them, then work your way up.\nSet Achievable Milestones\nAs said in the previous paragraph, it\u2019s important to stick to your own level, and not reach for the stars too early. Whilst being ambitious is good, it\u2019s hard to achieve unrealistic goals, which in turn could knock your confidence quite a bit.\nTry setting manageable ones such as reach 100 sales, hire one staff member. Little growth spurts in business help keep things manageable, and it\u2019s easier to track progression when you\u2019re always succeeding.\nThe perfect way to keep up with your competition is design. Whether that be of a logo, or your website. It HAS to be eye-catching. You\u2019re most likely competing with big brands, so try tactics such as a snappy slogan, a bright bold logo, and a snazzy website that customers can use with ease.\nOne thing some smaller companies lack is a good working website. There\u2019s generally lots of usability errors during the order process, or the site crashes every 5 minutes. If you haven\u2019t looked into user experience yet, it might be worth using a UX agency to improve the ease of use of your website so you don\u2019t lose customers.\nThis may be an obvious one, but marketing your business is essential. Try utilising social media to get your name about, as well as things such as TV and radio marketing. Granted, in the beginning money probably won\u2019t allow a worthwhile TV advert.\nWhich is why you should use the power of social media. When you\u2019re finally able to create an advert, make sure it has a catchy song to it, some sort of slogan to your business, and really represents what your business is about. Think about what you\u2019d like people to know about your business, and get it out there.\nBut please watch out for the cringe factor. An example of an annoying advert would be Go Compare. It sticks in people\u2019s minds, but most people find themselves changing the channel when it comes on!\nThose are just 4 ways to keep up with competition in the business world. There are that many different things to explore and tactics to use, that before you know it you could be top of your niche. Take ideas from other companies, and make them your own if you\u2019re struggling. Watching a successful company can help aid your ideas.\nThis entry was posted in working conditions. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 7494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amcn.com.au/editorial/grid-talk-ron-hogg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BOFYNG6TAU7TUDBGEUTS2H3QEW7DJUJK", "length": 3614, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "amcn.com.au", "title": "Grid talk - Ron Hogg - Australian Motorcycle News", "raw_content": "Grid talk \u2013 Ron Hogg\nGrid talk \u2013 Ron Hogg | Columns | Gassit Garage\nThe mastermind behind the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship explains why it\u2019s one of the world\u2019s most successful series \u2013 and Australia\u2019s future role in it\nWelcome to Australia. It\u2019s been a few years in the planning I hear?\nYes. We\u2019d been considering coming here for 10 years and now we\u2019ve committed for three years. It\u2019s important for our series to race at top-level circuits, as we see ourselves as a MotoGP feeder class. Until we came to The Bend, the farthest we\u2019d gone outside our Asia support base was Qatar. We\u2019ve worked closely with Motorcycling Australia to make this happen.\nHow different is your championship to ASBK?\nWhat most people don\u2019t realise is that all our riders are paid to race. The top guys in our Underbone 150 class earn $US10,000 ($A13,300), while the top riders in our Super Sports 600 get up to $US60,000 ($A79,800). This is because there are two types of teams competing \u2013 factory teams run from Japan and national teams supported by local distributors \u2013 and all are equally competitive. There is a big talent pool in Asia, and at junior national level a potentially good rider can get a small contract after just three or four races.\nThe championship has been going for two decades. How has it managed to survive the global ups and downs?\nWe\u2019ve been going since 1996 and are into our fourth generation of riders. I have been involved from the start, and I\u2019d say sustainability has been the key to our success. A lot of championships start aggressively but can\u2019t maintain the momentum and fall away. We\u2019ve worked slowly and carefully to reach out to more countries, while keeping our operations at a size we can sustain.\nWhat\u2019s the biggest challenge in running a series that visits five countries over six rounds (this year Japan, Thailand, India, Indonesia and Australia)?\nCustoms. Each country has its own procedure. It would be so good if there was one system that applied to all. It\u2019s become such an issue that we now have our own shipping agent who works full-time for us.\nHow has your championship changed over the years?\nIn the beginning a lot of riders used it as a passage to the world stage. Now it\u2019s such a strong series that riders are staying longer. We have factory teams from Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha, with Suzuki returning next year.\nAnd you are bringing in a Superbike class for 2019?\nYes, but we will be keeping Super Sport 600. The 600 class will probably go back to production tyres rather than slicks. We use slicks because our format is long races that help prepare riders for MotoGP, so there will be some readjustment there. We aim to have a minimum of 16 riders on the grid in the Superbike class. We also want non-factory teams to enter, as well as European manufacturers such as BMW and Ducati, which are gaining a presence in the luxury end of the Asian motorcycle market.\nSuperbike also might make your championship more relevant to Australians.\nWe are working at a cross-pollination with Australia through MA. We are in the same part of the world and have already had a number of Australians competing successfully, the most notable being Chris Vermeulen in 1999 and now Anthony West. Superbikes are big in Australia, but our open-make 250 class, the first in the world and running since 2015, is big for us. Honda designed a CBR250RR just for this series and it is only sold in Indonesia and Japan. Superbikes are a way of building on the solid base we already have and bringing another motorcycle passion to our series.\nLeft. MA\u2019s Peter Doyle, The Bend owner Sam Shahin, and Ron Hogg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 8434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/arnold-bennett/short-story/the-supreme-illusion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:64QOSZY6CBW6644VA5RSAJO7ABTPVI77", "length": 12317, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "The Supreme Illusion", "raw_content": "Perhaps it was because I was in a state of excited annoyance that I did not recognize him until he came right across the large hall of the hotel and put his hand on my shoulder.\nI had arrived in Paris that afternoon, and driven to that nice, reasonable little hotel which we all know, and whose name we all give in confidence to all our friends; and there was no room in that hotel. Nor in seven other haughtily-managed hotels that I visited! A kind of archduke, who guarded the last of the seven against possible customers, deigned to inform me that the season was at its fullest, half London being as usual in Paris, and that the only central hotels where I had a chance of reception were those monstrosities the Grand and the Hotel Terminus at the Gare St Lazare. I chose the latter, and was accorded room 973 in the roof.\nI thought my exasperations were over. But no! A magnificent porter within the gate had just consented to get my luggage off the cab, and was in the act of beginning to do so, when a savagely-dressed, ugly and ageing woman, followed by a maid, rushed neurotically down the steps and called him away to hold a parcel. He obeyed! At the same instant the barbaric and repulsive creature's automobile, about as large as a railway carriage, drove up and forced my frail cab down the street. I had to wait, humiliated and helpless, the taximeter of my cab industriously adding penny to penny, while that offensive hag installed herself, with the help of the maid, the porter and two page-boys, in her enormous vehicle. I should not have minded had she been young and pretty. If she had been young and pretty she would have had the right to be rude and domineering. But she was neither young nor pretty. Conceivably she had once been young; pretty she could never have been. And her eyes were hard--hard.\nHence my state of excited annoyance.\n\"Hullo! How goes it?\" The perfect colloquial English was gently murmured at me with a French accent as the gentle hand patted my shoulder.\n\"Why,\" I said, cast violently out of a disagreeable excitement into an agreeable one, \"I do believe you are Boissy Minor!\"\nI had not seen him for nearly twenty years, but I recognized in that soft and melancholy Jewish face, with the soft moustache and the soft beard, the wistful features of the boy of fifteen who had been my companion at an \"international\" school (a clever invention for inflicting exile upon patriots) with branches at Hastings, Dresden and Versailles.\nSoon I was telling him, not without satisfaction, that, being a dramatic critic, and attached to a London daily paper which had decided to flatter its readers by giving special criticisms of the more important new French plays, I had come to Paris for the production of Notre Dame de la Lune at the Vaudeville.\nAnd as I told him the idea occurred to me for positively the first time:\n\"By the way, I suppose you aren't any relation of Octave Boissy?\"\nI rather hoped he was; for after all, say what you like, there is a certain pleasure in feeling that you have been to school with even a relative of so tremendous a European celebrity as Octave Boissy--the man who made a million and a half francs with his second play, which was nevertheless quite a good play. All the walls of Paris were shouting his name.\n\"I'm the johnny himself,\" he replied with timidity, naively proud of his Saxon slang.\nI did not give an astounded No! An astounded No! would have been rude. Still, my fear is that I failed to conceal entirely my amazement. I had to fight desperately against the natural human tendency to assume that no boy with whom one has been to school can have developed into a great man.\n\"Really!\" I remarked, as calmly as I could, and added a shocking lie: \"Well, I'm not surprised!\" And at the same time I could hear myself saying a few days later at the office of my paper: \"I met Octave Boissy in Paris. Went to school with him, you know.\"\n\"You'd forgotten my Christian name, probably,\" he said.\n\"No, I hadn't,\" I answered. \"Your Christian name was Minor. You never had any other!\" He smiled kindly. \"But what on earth are you doing here?\"\nOctave Boissy was a very wealthy man. He even looked a very wealthy man. He was one of the darlings of success and of an absurdly luxurious civilization. And he seemed singularly out of place in the vast, banal foyer of the Hotel Terminus, among the shifting, bustling crowd of utterly ordinary, bourgeois, moderately well-off tourists and travellers and needy touts. He ought at least to have been in a very select private room at the Meurice or the Bristol, if in any hotel at all!\n\"The fact is, I'm neurasthenic,\" he said simply, just as if he had been saying, \"The fact is, I've got a wooden leg.\"\n\"Oh!\" I laughed, determined to treat him as Boissy Minor, and not as Octave Boissy.\n\"I have a morbid horror of walking in the open air. And yet I cannot bear being in a small enclosed space, especially when it's moving. This is extremely inconvenient. Mais que veux-tu?... Suis comme ca!\"\n\"Je te plains\" I put in, so as to return his familiar and flattering \"thou\" immediately.\n\"I was strongly advised to go and stay in the country,\" he went on, with the same serious, wistful simplicity, \"and so I ordered a special saloon carriage on the railway, so as to have as much breathing room as possible; and I ventured from my house to this station in an auto. I thought I could surely manage that. But I couldn't! I had a terrible crisis on arriving at the station, and I had to sit on a luggage-truck for four hours. I couldn't have persuaded myself to get into the saloon carriage for a fortune! I couldn't go back home in the auto! I couldn't walk! So I stepped into the hotel. I've been here ever since.\"\n\"But when was this?\"\n\"Three months ago. My doctors say that in another six weeks I shall be sufficiently recovered to leave. It is a most distressing malady. Mais que veux-tu? I have a suite in the hotel and my own servants. I walk out here into the hall because it's so large. The hotel people do the best they can, but of course--\" He threw up his hands. His resigned, gentle smile was at once comic and tragic to me.\n\"But do you mean to say you couldn't walk out of that door and go home?\" I questioned.\n\"Daren't!\" he said, with finality. \"Come to my rooms, will you, and have some tea.\"\nA little later his own valet served us with tea in a large private drawing-room on the sixth or seventh floor, to reach which we had climbed a thousand and one stairs; it was impossible for Octave Boissy to use the lift, as he was convinced that he would die in it if he took such a liberty with himself. The room was hung with modern pictures, such as had certainly never been seen in any hotel before. Many knick-knacks and embroideries were also obviously foreign to the hotel.\n\"But how have you managed to attend the rehearsals of the new play?\" I demanded.\n\"Oh!\" said he, languidly, \"I never attend any rehearsals of my plays. Mademoiselle Lemonnier sees to all that.\"\n\"She takes the leading part in this play, doesn't she, according to the posters?\"\n\"She takes the leading part in all my plays,\" said he.\n\"A first-class artiste, no doubt? I've never seen her act.\"\n\"Neither have I!\" said Octave Boissy. And as I now yielded frankly to my astonishment, he added: \"You see, I am not interested in the theatre. Not only have I never attended a rehearsal, but I have never seen a performance of any of my plays. Don't you remember that it was engineering, above all else, that attracted me? I have a truly wonderful engineering shop in the basement of my house in the Avenue du Bois. I should very much have liked you to see it; but you comprehend, don't you, that I'm just as much cut off from the Avenue du Bois as I am from Timbuctoo. My malady is the most exasperating of all maladies.\"\n\"Well, Boissy Minor,\" I observed, \"I suppose it has occurred to you that your case is calculated to excite wonder in the simple breast of a brutal Englishman.\"\nHe laughed, and I was glad that I had had the courage to reduce him definitely to the rank of Boissy Minor.\n\"And not only in the breast of an Englishman!\" he said. \"Mais que veux-tu? One must live.\"\n\"But I should have thought you could have made a comfortable living out of engineering. In England consulting engineers are princes.\"\n\"And engineering might have cured your neurasthenia, if you had taken it in sufficiently large quantities.\"\n\"It would,\" he agreed quietly.\n\"Then why the theatre, seeing that the theatre doesn't interest you?\"\n\"In order to live,\" he replied. \"And when I say 'live,' I mean live. It is not a question of money, it is a question of living.\"\n\"But as you never go near the theatre--\"\n\"I write solely for Blanche Lemonnier,\" he said. I was at a loss. Perceiving this, he continued intimately: \"Surely you know of my admiration for Blanche Lemonnier?\"\n\"I have never even heard of Blanche Lemonnier, save in connection with your plays,\" I said.\n\"She is only known in connection with my plays,\" he answered. \"When I met her, a dozen years ago, she was touring the provinces, playing small parts in third-rate companies. I asked her what was her greatest ambition, and she said that it was to be applauded as a star on the Paris stage. I told her that I would satisfy her ambition, and that when I had done so I hoped she would satisfy mine. That was how I began to write plays. That was my sole reason. It is the sole reason why I keep on writing them. If she had desired to be a figure in Society I should have gone into politics.\"\n\"I am getting very anxious to see this lady,\" I said. \"I feel as if I can scarcely wait till to-night.\"\n\"She will probably be here in a few minutes,\" said he.\n\"But how did you do it?\" I asked. \"What was your plan of campaign?\"\n\"After the success of my first play I wrote the second specially for her, and I imposed her on the management. I made her a condition. The management kicked, but I was in a position to insist. I insisted.\"\n\"It sounds simple.\" I laughed uneasily.\n\"If you are a dramatic critic,\" he said, \"you will guess that it was not at first quite so simple as it sounds. Of course it is simple enough now. Blanche Lemonnier is now completely identified with my plays. She is as well known as nearly any actress in Paris. She has the glory she desired.\" He smiled curiously. \"Her ambition is satisfied--so is mine.\" He stopped.\n\"Well,\" I said, \"I've never been so interested in any play before. And I shall expect Mademoiselle Lemonnier to be magnificent.\"\n\"Don't expect too much,\" he returned calmly. \"Blanche's acting is not admired by everybody. And I cannot answer for her powers, as I've never seen her at work.\"\n\"It's that that's so extraordinary!\"\n\"Not a bit! I could not bear to see her on the stage. I hate the idea of her acting in public. But it is her wish. And after all, it is not the actress that concerns me. It is the woman. It is the woman alone who makes my life worth living. So long as she exists and is kind to me my neurasthenia is a matter of indifference, and I do not even trouble about engineering.\"\nHe tried to laugh away the seriousness of his tone, but he did not quite succeed. Hitherto I had been amused at his singular plight and his fatalistic acceptance of it. But now I was touched.\n\"I'm talking very freely to you,\" he said.\n\"My dear fellow,\" I burst out, \"do let me see her portrait.\"\n\"Unfortunately her portrait is all over Paris. She likes it so. But I prefer to have no portrait myself. My feeling is--\"\nAt that moment the valet opened the door and we heard vivacious voices in the corridor.\n\"She is here,\" said Octave Boissy, in a whisper suddenly dramatic. He stood up; I also. His expression had profoundly changed. He controlled his gestures and his attitude, but he could not control his eye. And when I saw that glance I understood what he meant by \"living.\" I understood that, for him, neither fame nor artistic achievement nor wealth had any value in his life. His life consisted in one thing only.\n\"Eh bien, Blanche!\" he murmured amorously.\nBlanche Lemonnier invaded the room with arrogance. She was the odious creature whose departure in her automobile had so upset my arrival.\nAdd The Supreme Illusion to your own personal library.\nReturn to the Arnold Bennett Home Page, or . . . Read the next short story; The Tiger and the Baby", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 15561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ancient-ways.org/programs-page/sustainability/hardship-aid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UPJEUXZP4DPK52VJVOXQTQYDIOUNVQUP", "length": 2269, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ancient-ways.org", "title": "Hardship Aid \u2013 Ancient Ways", "raw_content": "HomeProgramsSustainabilityHardship Aid\nHardship Aid Loans\nSometimes we ask for donations specifically for villagers or staff because we hear about their plight. This has made it possible for people\u2019s lives to return to normal quite a bit sooner after a crisis. For example:\nWhen our Educational Manager developed cancer requiring treatment in Harare, we assisted his family with many medical bills. When he passed on, his surviving widow and 5 children were not left with these bills and she was able to begin a life focused on raising the children, thanks to many people here who donated on their behalf.\nOne of the carver\u2019s in the Muriritirwa village had a child needing surgery but the parents could not afford to take him to the hospital. A donor came through for this family and provided the $50. It\u2019s hard to imagine that such a small amount of funding can go such a long way. The child is doing well!\nOne of the health staff was having problems with her heel, making it difficult to walk. She went to the hospital and was initially diagnosed with an abnormal growth on the heel. The Dr. suggested she needed an x-ray done to ascertain the extent of the condition. She was given medical assistance of $50 which includes $35 X-ray and $15 consultation fee. At that point, she made $50 per month as a stipend for volunteering, and so the cost was prohibitive.\nA staff assistant was obligated to pay her late mother\u2019s hospital bills, as she was one of the two remaining adults in the family. Her sister had already contributed to a majority of the bill. Without paying this bill, the hospital would not provide her or her child with any medical care if the need arose. She owed over $500 and had paid a minimal amount each month to show good faith, but was doing so on a salary that was not enough to live on to begin with. We asked for any donation possible to help go towards her loan reduction, and our donors came through.\nIt is with the generosity of many of you that the Ancient Ways programs are able to function. And then, when the unforeseen happens, it's your large heart that changes everything. We all know how difficulties can arise out of nowhere and challenge an otherwise drama-free life. Thank you for all of the ways you have helped over the years!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andreamiddleton.blog/2015/07/30/all-the-lonely-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:44Z", "digest": "sha1:V3SV3T4H2TIHJ42FM7OJCXZGUNEKH7ZT", "length": 277, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "andreamiddleton.blog", "title": "All the lonely people \u2013 The Thing With The Stuff", "raw_content": "Mama, I will look for you if you are lonely, ok?\nIf I\u2019m lonely you\u2019ll look for me with your binoculars?\nYes, anyone with bi-nah-clee-ars can look for people who are lonely, so I will look for you.\nDo you think I\u2019m lonely when you\u2019re at school?\nUm yeah, because I can\u2019t see you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anmj.org.au/tag/acute-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WLN6N552H334OGUFPCGN22XDCCYINPO7", "length": 546, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "anmj.org.au", "title": "Acute Care Archives - ANMJ", "raw_content": "ED staff need more training to prepare for disasters\nAcute Care, All Nurses And Midwives, Research|\nNew research examining the experiences of emergency department (ED) staff who worked during South Australia\u2019s disastrous power blackout in 2016 has revealed frontline hospital workers [...]\nAustralian Medicine\u2019s Handbook App\nAcute Care, Aged Care, All Nurses And Midwives, community care|\nAustralian Medicine\u2019s Handbook (AMH) is now available as an App for Desktop. The App includes the AMH prescribing guides and can be downloaded for free [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 685, "original_length": 19011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://app.collegerecon.com/southwestern-university/2995", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GF4I5LTF33ZUHH6Y6QSQKBQA3EHKZD3N", "length": 1237, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "app.collegerecon.com", "title": "Southwestern University - Military, Veterans, GI Bill | CollegeRecon", "raw_content": "1001 University Ave Georgetown, TX 78626\nCommitted to \u032bFostering a liberal arts community whose values and actions encourage contributions toward the well-being of humanity,\u0326 Southwestern is unique in many ways.Our location in the heart of Central Texas allows our 1,536 students to enjoy the warm, small-town feel of historic Georgetown as well as the close proximity of Austin with its vibrant, innovative and creative culture.Southwestern\u0320s residential campus offers a true liberal arts education with small classes and numerous collaborative undergraduate research opportunities. Outside the classroom, students are civically engaged and volunteer in the community at more than twice the national average! Half of all students study abroad and most take advantage of leadership, service and activism opportunities in Southwestern\u0320s 90+ student organizations. Our scholar-athletes compete on one of 20 NCAA Division III varsity teams. Go Pirates!More than half of all Southwestern students complete at least one internship experience and 91 percent have found employment or have been accepted to graduate/professional school within 10 months of graduation. All of this (and more!) combine to create a lifelong Southwestern Experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/31/apple-again-shatters-record-for-services-revenue-with-95-billion-in-fiscal-q3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GKGJDSBJNP46GE3R67JEA62VQEDT7A74", "length": 2162, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "appleinsider.com", "title": "Apple again shatters record for services revenue with $9.5 billion in fiscal Q3", "raw_content": "Apple's services financial category jumped 31 percent year-over-year in the third fiscal quarter of 2018, its best performance ever.\nIn its third quarter earnings release Tuesday, Apple announced that took in $9.5 billion in services revenue in the three-month period, a new record for the company. The previous record was $9.19 billion put in during the second quarter of this year.\nThe performance beat estimates, as analyst consensus had predicted $9.15 billion in services revenue.\nApple's services category includes a variety of different businesses: Digital Content and Services, Apple Pay, AppleCare, licensing and other services, including iTunes, the App Store, AppleMusic and iCloud. Apple did not break out the exact revenue numbers of each division in its earnings release.\nIn an earnings conference call, CEO Tim Cook attributed the strong performance to double-digit growth in Apple's overall active install base, and said the company is on track to double its services revenue by 2020.\nApple, Cook said, is up to 300 million paid subscriptions \u2014 a 60 percent gain over the last year \u2014 as he described subscription revenue as \"a significant and increasing percentage of services business.\" The App Store now boasts some 30,000 subscription apps, and Cook.\nCook also said on the earnings call that Apple Music grew 50 percent year over year, while AppleCare grew by its highest rate in 18 quarters. Cloud services also grew more than 50 percent year over year.\nThe CEO added that Apple Pay is now in 24 markets worldwide, and will soon arrive in Germany.\nWhen asked by an analyst what Apple's plans for services category are in the future, Cook was optimistic but vague.\n\"We couldn't be happier with how things are going, but in terms of the next leg-given the momentum that we're seeing across the board, we feel great about our current services, but obviously we feel great about our pipeline, with our new services as well. With the combination of these, we feel good,\" he said.\nWhile iPhone remains Apple's most important product category, the surging services sector is emerging as another key to the company's financial performance.\nAppleCare,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 8316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/final-four-finally-gives-butler-reason-to-party/Content?mode=print&oid=2133309", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6GACLVGMM2JQGX5QIGHIMHKBY53J2DNQ", "length": 3304, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "archives.sfexaminer.com", "title": "Final Four finally gives Butler reason to party | Other Sports | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner", "raw_content": "March 28, 2010 Sports \u00bb Other Sports\n\u00ab Moore scores 25 to lead UConn to 75\u2026 | Gingrich to announce whether he\u2019s r\u2026 \u00bb\nFinal Four finally gives Butler reason to party\nThe school that never celebrates midnight madness to kick off the basketball season finally held a late-night campus party.\nSunday morning's March Madness bash was even better.\nAbout eight hours after Butler beat second-seeded Kansas State 63-56 to reach the first Final Four in school history, the Bulldogs returned home to a large crowd and loud cheers.\n\"We've never had midnight madness here,\" coach Brad Stevens said with a smile. \"So I guess this is it for us.\"\nAs the team arrived shortly before 3 a.m., two hours later than anticipated, fans who stood patiently in chilly temperatures and sporadic rain showers began chanting \"Are you a Bulldog?\" and swarmed the team buses.\nPlayers were astounded by the welcome.\n\"It's sort of nuts,\" junior center Matt Howard said. \"You know when we came back from the Sweet 16, there were about 20 people here. Look at it now.\"\nSophomore point guard Ronald Nored agreed that celebration was \"awesome.\"\n\"There is nothing like coming home and being able to play the Final Four in front of the people who have been watching you all year,\" he said. \"Everyone was texting me, telling me there were a ton of people here. But I didn't believe it.\"\nThe Hinkle Fieldhouse parking lot looked like a modern-day scene from the movie \"Hoosiers.\"\nCar horns started blaring at about 12:30 a.m., camera phones lit up the night sky and the sound of drums kept fans entertained as they waited for hours for the team to arrive.\nWhat started out as a crowd of college students soon included fans ranging in age from toddlers to grandparents, turning a quiet Indianapolis residential neighborhood into a giant pep rally.\nOne fan who joined the party was 52-year-old Brian Clouse, a Butler alum and Indy resident who watched the final 66 seconds during a layover at the Dallas Fort-Worth airport. He's not normally a late-night guy, but the Bulldogs' success turned him into one Sunday morning.\n\"For Butler wins, like this I do stay up,\" he said. \"I remember when we had 200 or 300 people after we beat Purdue. Now we've graduated to this.\"\nThose who showed up Sunday morning hoped this was only the prelude to something much bigger.\nThe Bulldogs will face Michigan State or Tennessee in a national semifinal Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium. That's only five miles from campus, making the Bulldogs the first team to play a Final Four in their hometown since UCLA in 1972.\nAs the upsets and Top 25 rankings have piled up over the last decade, celebrations have been reserved for the biggest accomplishments. Students didn't even rush the floor when Butler won the Horizon League tourney title, wrapping up a perfect 20-0 season against conference foes. And few talk about the school's new record winning streak, which hit 24 games Saturday and earned the team its first Final Four berth.\nThose who know the Bulldogs best believe the team won't get caught up in the hype.\n\"All I can say is that this team and my grandson did one heck of a job,\" said Gordon Hayward, the grandfather of the Bulldogs star forward with the same name. \"It's hard to realize what they've done. But they've got more work to do, more work to do.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 7568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ariseletusbegoing.com/2017/01/26/st-paul-conversion-or-veil-lifting/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3EN456EUFDZ4EV7SWX66OEPEHXK7ICIZ", "length": 1606, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ariseletusbegoing.com", "title": "St Paul: \u201cconversion\u201d or \u201cveil lifting\u201d? | ARISE! LET US BE GOING!", "raw_content": "\u2190 Hey, Madeleine Albright. You are not a Muslim. You are a Catholic. Get with it.\nHolocaust Remembrance Day\u2026 but\u2026 \u2192\nSt Paul: \u201cconversion\u201d or \u201cveil lifting\u201d?\nThe citation from Acts 9:20 above is the end of my opening salvo (intro and thanksgiving) to the thesis on the reception of enmity (Genesis 3:15) in its context (Genesis 2:4a to 3:24), which was handed over in final form on January 25, 2007, ten years ago. It was defended a few months later. Doing up a popular version is a necessity.\nIt is a project which is every in front of me, but which I never quite seem to get to accomplish. However, I must say that if I am reckoning correctly about a certain recent event in the life of this priest, I may just be able to get to work on this work in honor of the Immaculate Conception and have the hope of getting it published. That would be very cool altogether.\nFor a thousand historical reasons, it is the first time a serious study of historical philology has been made of these chapters with a most pleasing and far-reaching result about the unity of Jewish-Catholic faith, about the why and wherefore of the physical propagation of original sin and therefore the why and wherefore of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of the Redeemer in Genesis 3:15, rightly called the proto-Evangelium, the very first Gospel, Good News, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.\nFiled under Genesis 2-4 to 3-24, Jewish-Catholic dialogue\nTagged as Genesis 2-4 to 3-24, Jewish-Catholic Dialogue\nOne response to \u201cSt Paul: \u201cconversion\u201d or \u201cveil lifting\u201d?\u201d\nSplendid! May God\u2019s Will be done on earth as it is in heaven.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ariseletusbegoing.com/2018/05/15/homily-2018-05-14-everything-i-heard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BA5N5RJOKLRR6UI72AETPAMZDSC2ZYG7", "length": 1417, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ariseletusbegoing.com", "title": "Homily 2018 05 14 \u2013 Everything I heard | ARISE! LET US BE GOING!", "raw_content": "\u2190 Homily 2018 05 13 \u2013 Looooong homily\nGina Haspel and Cardinal Ratzinger \u2192\nHomily 2018 05 14 \u2013 Everything I heard\nWhen I listen to my own homilies I feel embarrassed, slow-witted. I think: \u201cJust spit it out!\u201d When in Rome recently, perusing the Catholic bookstores, the usual books of homilies were to be seen, excitedly proclaiming in their titles that this is finally the volume we\u2019ve all been waiting for, the homilies that are \u201cunedited,\u201d you know, because no one in their right mind just publishes their homilies without being edited first, not even Pope Francis. And who would record their homilies and put the audio online? That\u2019s just embarrassing. It is. But it is what it is. It\u2019s what I said, not well thought out, disconnected, un-understandable, missing premises, missing the conclusions to which I was leading. That\u2019s always the case.\nBut here\u2019s the deal, the angels take even such homilies as this and, because they are given in the context of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and sincerely presented as a help to eternal salvation (imagine that)\u2026 the angels take such words and help people to get something that will be of help anyway. I don\u2019t know how many times people have come up to me after Mass and thanked me for saying something, which they then \u201crepeat\u201d, though I never said anything remotely like that, though I wish I had, because it was really good! Angels are so cool. So, having said that:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arrowheadcenter.nmsu.edu/event/craftbox-design-hours-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MZ5N3AJ32U4JJEUH3JTGBF6OEHM6XG3C", "length": 1259, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "arrowheadcenter.nmsu.edu", "title": "Craftbox Design Hours - Arrowhead Center", "raw_content": "First Friday Lunch and Learn \u2013 Facebook For Your Business \u00bb\nCraftbox Design welcomes Terry Lombard, Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer for Arrowhead Center.\nJoin us as we learn how to protect our artwork and create a strong contract.\nTerry Lombard serves as the Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer for the Arrowhead Center. Her primary responsibilities include Intellectual property protection and management of a portfolio of early stage University developed technology, research and intellectual property; screening invention disclosures; assessing commercial potential and marketability; formulating intellectual property protection strategies; evaluation of invention and marketing to industry; and preparing, negotiating, administrating intellectual property licensing agreements and direction and management of the commercialization accelerator program LAUNCH. She earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics at NMSU and a Master\u2019s of Business Administration with specializations in Quantitative Decision Modeling and Strategic Management from Chapman University in Orange, California. She also holds minors in Psychology and Human Resource Management and Development.\nFor more information: Contact Peter Knapp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/23/aspartame-in-less-sugar-sodas.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SN5JC2YYTWUV2E4BW3AWGOXRPE3OXAWT", "length": 15052, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "articles.mercola.com", "title": "Pepsi Next May Be WORSE than High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda", "raw_content": "Pepsi Next: The Beverage that is Even WORSE than High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda\nSaunas Can Burn Heavy Metals and Toxic Chemicals Out of Your Body\nDietary Supplements: Over 60 Billion Doses a Year and Not ONE Death, But Still Not Safe?\nPepsi Next claims to have 60 percent less sugar without sacrificing taste. The secret to keeping its sweet taste comes from the use of THREE artificial sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose.\nAspartame (Nutrasweet and Equal) is believed to be carcinogenic and accounts for more reports of adverse reactions than all other foods and food additives combined.\nAcesulfame potassium (Acesulfame-K) has been linked to kidney problems, and sucralose (Splenda) has been found to reduce the amount of beneficial microflora in your gut by 50 percent\u2014in addition to being associated with many of the same adverse reactions as aspartame.\nContrary to popular belief, research has shown that artificial sweeteners can stimulate your appetite; increase carbohydrate cravings; stimulate fat storage and weight gain. Diet sodas may actually double your risk of obesity.\nWhen a new beverage comes out advertising \"60% less sugar\u2014drink it to believe it\"\u2014the challenge is on. Same taste; fewer calories to your waist? Sounds good, doesn't it?\nBut before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.comi suggests you complete the challenge by reading the ingredient label.\nThere you'll find that, indeed, the sugar content has been reduced.\nBut it's still the second ingredient after water\u2014four teaspoons of it, in fact, in the form of high fructose corn syrup. The secret to keeping this beverage sweet-tasting, however, comes further on down, in the form of aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose.\nSo, really, all that's changed with this new beverage is that 6 teaspoons of sugar have been substituted with three sweeteners that are even worse. Yes, although I strongly recommend avoiding all soda, you would be far better off with the strictly high fructose corn syrup sweetened version.\nArtificial Sweeteners have No Place in a Healthful Diet...\nArtificial sweeteners are frequently recommended as a practical way of replacing sugar found in the modern diet. But the research on nonnutritive sweeteners such as these three shows they're far from healthful alternatives to sugar. (A recent article on HealthyFellow.com lists a few of them as a hand referenceii .First of all, contrary to popular belief, research has shown that artificial sweeteners can:\nStimulate fat storage and weight gain. In fact, diet sodas, which are well-known sources of artificial sweeteners, may actually double your risk of obesity!\nSo much for being a dieter's best friend... Furthermore, aspartame (rebranded AminoSweet two years ago)\u2014best known under the names of Nutrasweet and Equal\u2014is believed to be carcinogenic and accounts for more reports of adverse reactions than all other foods and food additives combined.\nThe artificial sweetener acesulfame potassium (Acesulfame-K) has been linked to kidney problems, and sucralose\u2014best known as Splenda\u2014has been found to wreak havoc with the healthful bacteria in your gut... All in all, I believe ALL artificial sweeteners are bad news for your health.\nWhy Aspartame is FAR Worse than Sugar\nWhile many of the artificial sweeteners have reportedly similar side effects, aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious, including seizures and death. About 90 different adverse effects have been linked to aspartame, including:\nRecent research also suggests diet sodas may increase stroke risk, and according to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame:\nAspartame\u2014\"A Chemical Poison\"?\nThe book \"Prescription for Nutritional Healing\" by James and Phyllis Balch lists aspartame under the category of \"chemical poison.\" While many still refuse to believe that toxic or otherwise health-harming ingredients would be allowed to be used in food manufacturing, the evidence against aspartame and other artificial sweeteners is, in my opinion, overwhelming...\nAspartame is made up of three chemicals:\nPhenylalanine (50 percent)\u2014Phenylalanine is an amino acid normally found in your brain. Persons with the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) cannot metabolize phenylalanine and must avoid it at all costs to prevent the accumulation of phenylalanine in their brain, which can be lethal. It has been shown that ingesting aspartame, especially along with carbohydrates, can lead to excess levels of phenylalanine in the brain even in persons who do not have PKU. Excessive levels of phenylalanine in your brain can decrease your serotonin levels, which in turn can provoke emotional disorders such as depression.\nAspartic acid (40 percent)\u2014According to the work of Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, there are about 500 scientific references showing that excess free excitatory amino acids such as aspartic acid and glutamic acid (about 99 percent of monosodium glutamate (MSG) is glutamic acid) in our food supply are causing serious chronic neurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.\nAspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in your brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Excess aspartate or glutamate in your brain can kill off neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into your cells. This influx triggers excessive amounts of free radicals, which kill the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused by excessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as \"excitotoxins.\" They literally \"excite\" or stimulate your neural cells to death. It is important not to confuse this with the amino acid glutamic acid, which is a normal part of foods and an important nutrient.\nMethanol (10 percent)\u2014Methanol, also known as wood alcohol, is a deadly poison. It is gradually released in your small intestine once the methyl group of aspartame encounters the digestive enzyme chymotrypsin. Inside your body, methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde, the latter of which is another lethal neurotoxin and a known carcinogen, which passes freely through your blood brain barrier to cause brain damage.\nAccording to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), methanol is considered \"a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic.\" The EPA recommends limiting consumption of methanol to 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing products can consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily, or 32 times the EPA limit. Signs and symptoms of methanol poisoning include:\nHeadaches Tinnitus Dizziness / vertigo Nausea Gastrointestinal disturbances\nWeakness Chills Memory lapses Numbness Behavioral disturbances\nNeuritis Vision problems: misty/blurry vision, contraction of visual field Retinal damage Blindness Shooting pain in extremities (arms and legs)\nDo Your Own Research, and Know what Side Effects to Look for...\nThose who defend aspartame argue that phenylalanine and aspartic acid are a harmless and natural part of your diet. Indeed, both of these amino acids can be found in most of the protein foods you eat. However, phenylalanine and aspartic acid can only be considered natural and harmless when they are consumed in combination with other amino acids in the correct ratios\u2014NOT when consumed as isolated amino acids... When they're consumed as free amino acids not part of food, they enter your central nervous system in abnormally high concentrations that can cause your neurons to fire excessively, and potentially lead to cell death as explained above.\nUnfortunately, adverse effects are severely under-reported, which makes it far more difficult to get dangerous ingredients like aspartame off the market. When it comes to side effects from drugs and vaccines, a mere 1 to 4 percent of all adverse events are ever reported, which leads me to believe that adverse reactions from other FDA-regulated products, such as aspartame, is likely even lower...\nIt's important to realize that in order to truly alert the FDA to a problem with a product they've approved, they must be notified by as many people who experience a problem as possible. I strongly recommend learning everything you can about the potential side effects of artificial sweeteners and keep a watchful eye out for adverse signs and symptoms (if you consume them). And if you experience side effects from aspartame or any other artificial sweetener, report it to the FDA.\nThe FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator page lists the phone number for each state where you can report adverse reactions to any FDA-regulated product.\nThe following video will familiarize you with some of the side-effects you could encounter if you consume products containing this artificial sweetener. For more in-depth information about the chemical makeup of aspartame and its adverse health effects, please see this previous special report on aspartame. I also highly recommend Cori Brackett's documentary film Sweet Misery.\nHow Sucralose Can Decimate Your Health\nSucralose (Splenda) is associated with many of the same adverse effects as aspartame, including:\nRespiratory difficulties Migraines/headaches Seizures\nGastrointestinal problems Heart palpitations Weight gain\nThis site also contains a long list of personal testimonials from readers who have suffered side effects from Splenda. In fact, we have more people on our site that have reported adverse reactions to Splenda than were formally studied in the research submitted for FDA approval! Additionally, and most notably, research published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health in 2008iii found that Splenda:\nreduces the amount of good bacteria in your intestines by 50 percent\nincreases the pH level in your intestines\naffects a glycoprotein in your body that can have crucial health effects, particularly if you're on certain medications as it can cause the rejection of drugs such as chemotherapy, AIDS treatments, and treatments for heart conditions\nis absorbed by fat (contrary to previous claims)\nIt's really a toss-up as to which artificial sweetener might be better or worse than the other, but the fact that sucralose can destroy up to HALF of your beneficial gut flora is truly alarming, as these bacteria are a vital part of your immune system and help support your general health\u2014both physical and mental. Many people are already deficient in healthy bacteria due to excessive consumption of highly processed foods (which is why a high quality probiotic is one of the few supplements I recommend for nearly everyone), so just imagine the overall harm that can be inflicted by consuming an artificial sweetener that decimates your gut flora at such a high rate!\nLet me make it abundantly clear that even though you may not show immediate signs of any noticeable reaction after consuming artificial sweeteners, please don't make the mistake of telling yourself \"they must be OK for me\". I strongly urge you to avoid them at all costs. They are toxic to all humans and will not help you in any way shape or form. If you would like to sweeten your food or beverages please use a natural artificial sweetener like stevia, Lo Han or xylitol.\nAre there ANY Healthy Alternatives to Sugar?\nThere is enough evidence showing the dangers of consuming artificial sweeteners to fill an entire book -- which is exactly why I wrote Sweet Deception. If you or your loved ones drink diet beverages or eat diet foods, this book will explain how you've been deceived about the truth behind artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose -- for greed, for profits ... at the expense of your health.\nWhile excessive sugar consumption (primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, which is added to virtually all processed foods these days) is at the root of our skyrocketing obesity and chronic disease rates, swapping sugar/fructose for non-caloric artificial sweeteners is clearly NOT the answer...\nSo what other alternatives are there? And are any of them safer than sugar/fructose or artificial sweeteners?\nOne of the best alternatives is stevia; a highly sweet herb derived from the leaf of the South American stevia plant. It is completely safe in its natural form and can be used to sweeten most dishes and drinks. Keep in mind though that if you have insulin issues, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or if you're overweight, you'd be best to avoid all sweeteners, including stevia, since any sweetener can decrease your insulin sensitivity. Also avoid stevia-based sweeteners like Truvia and PureVia as they've been highly processed and contain only the active ingredient in the stevia plant, which may have unforeseen biochemical ramifications.\nLo han (or luo han guo) is another natural sweetener similar to Stevia. It's an African sweet herb that can also be used, but it's a bit more expensive and harder to find.\nI do not recommend using agave syrup. This sweetener, which is falsely advertised as \"natural,\" is typically HIGHLY processed and is usually 80 percent fructose. Likewise, honey is also very high in fructose (about 53 percent fructose), but contrary to agave it is completely natural in its raw form, and has many health benefits when used in moderation.\nAnother safer alternative to sugar is to use pure glucose. You can buy pure glucose (dextrose) as a sweetener for about $1 a pound. It is only 70 percent as sweet as sucrose, so you'll end up using a bit more of it for the same amount of sweetness, making it slightly more expensive than sucrose\u2014but still well worth it for your health as it does not contain any fructose whatsoever. Glucose can be used directly by every cell in your body and as such is far safer than the metabolic poison fructose.\nRemember, if you struggle with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or extra weight, then you have insulin sensitivity issues and would benefit from avoiding ALL sweeteners. But for everyone else, if you are going to sweeten your foods and beverages anyway, I strongly encourage you to consider using regular Stevia, Lo han, or dextrose (pure glucose), and toss out ALL artificial sweeteners and any products that contain them.\ni Fooducate.com Blog April 4, 2012\nii Healthyfellow.com April 13, 2012\niii Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A 2008;71(21):1415-29\nFooducate.com Blog April 4, 2012\nPrevious Article Saunas Can Burn Heavy Metals and Toxic Chemicals Out of Your Body\nNext Article Dietary Supplements: Over 60 Billion Doses a Year and Not ONE Death, But Still Not Safe?\nAbsurd New Ways Splenda is Deceiving You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 24397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artpeople.net/2016/12/schoony-urban-artist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:QJWDIRCBOWYCVUJIQ24AKEGQEBKN2MUG", "length": 1331, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "artpeople.net", "title": "Schoony \u2013 An Urban Artist \u2013 ArtPeople.Net", "raw_content": "He IS A MULTI-TALENTED URBAN ARTIST WHOSE UNIQUE AESTHETIC AND TECHNICAL BRILLIANCE HAS BROUGHT THE ART WORLD BY STORM.\nHis Hyperrealist sculptures question war, mortality and contemporary society.\nHe took the plunge into a new career as an artist to share his passion for life cast sculpture. 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Chaudhary said BCCI officials, past and present, recognise that and have been relentlessly persuading it with the government.\nHe added that the ICC threat to relocate the Champions Trophy might help the board\u2019s efforts in the end.\nHe also said the ICC management has decided to study the kind of concession the government in the United Kingdom offers to European soccer\u2019s governing body UEFA for hosting events such as the Champions League final and \u201csee if a parallel can be drawn\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asiansecrets.my/shop/en/garden-herbs/1066-all-natural-asian-herbal-tea-butterfly-pea-flower-by-rahsia-herbal-30g.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LRG6LXS2HOOXK2JR7QPCCUY4VJP5DAHR", "length": 875, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "asiansecrets.my", "title": "RH Butterfly Pea Flower Tea [30g]", "raw_content": "Butterfly-pea flower tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or tisane, beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the leaves of the Clitoria ternatea plant and dried Lemongrass.\nButterfly-pea flower tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or tisane, beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the leaves of the Clitoria ternatea plant and dried Lemongrass. The ternatea is also known as butterfly-pea, blue-pea, Aprajita, Cordofan pea or Asian pigeonwings.\nDerived from a plant that is common to most South East Asian countries butterfly pea flower tea has been brewed for centuries but only recently been introduced to tea drinkers outside the indigenous area. 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Venue for all actions or proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement will be exclusively in provincial or federal court in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You hereby irrevocably consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of said courts for all such purposes.\nWe expressly exclude the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and the International Sale of Goods Act Ontario as amended, replaced or re-enacted from time to time. You agree to waive any right you may have to: (i) a trial by jury; and (ii) commence or participate in any class action against Asthma Canada related to this Site, the Content, the Services, products of Asthma Canada, or this Agreement and, where, applicable, you also agree to opt out of any class proceedings against Asthma Canada, its agents, or its licensors. We have required that this Agreement and all documents relating thereto be drawn-up in English. 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In this Agreement, words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa; words importing gender include all genders; and words importing persons include individuals, sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations, trusts and unincorporated associations.\nEntire Agreement: This Agreement as it may be amended from time to time in accordance the relevant provisions herein, and any and all other legal notices and policies on this Site, constitute the entire agreement between you and Asthma Canada with respect to the use of this Site and the Content.\nEnurement: This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each of Asthma Canada and you, and Asthma Canada\u2019s and your respective successors and permitted assigns. You acknowledge having read this Agreement before accepting it, having the authority to accept this Agreement and having received a copy of this Agreement.\nAll trademarks in the Site are the trademarks of Asthma Canada, or are used by Asthma Canada under license.\nContact Us: If you have any questions about this Site or this Agreement, please contact us at our email address: info@asthma.ca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 29221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astroleb.me/aries", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:B2QVU3P42PUQBGRG6I64DAAWURESAG7T", "length": 1316, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "astroleb.me", "title": "Aries Horoscope - Astrology Predictions Lebanon | Astroleb | Astroleb", "raw_content": "According to the horoscope 2019, the health of people with Aries zodiac sign will remain unstable. In this year, you will receive mixed results. Since you will remain sensitive about your health, there are chances of receiving health benefits in the beginning of the year.\nDuring this period, if you leave minor stress then your health will remain in a good condition. In this year, you will get mixed results in terms of your career. You will succeed due to your excellent efforts. There is a possibility of promotion in your job.\nLuck will favor you in terms of taking your career to the next level. From the beginning of the year, you will work hard in your projects, which will benefit you in the future. The scenario of volatility in the economic situation will be witnessed. At the beginning of the year, your financial situation will be strong but your expenses will increase at this time. Suddenly, the number of unnecessary expenses will increase. If this is not controlled, it can lead you towards financial crisis.\nIn the middle of the year (June-July), your business will gain momentum, which will give you an economic advantage. Love life will not change much. In order to keep your relationship special, you will be required to introduce transparency in your love.\nAries Horoscope | March 21 - April 20", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astroleb.me/sagittarius", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:22Z", "digest": "sha1:XP36RE2OIYKKX5Q4S7BEZCTA3CZUU2UA", "length": 1149, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "astroleb.me", "title": "Sagittarius Horoscope - Astrology Predictions Lebanon | Astroleb | Astroleb", "raw_content": "The annual horoscope 2019 of Sagittarius zodiac sign indicates that in the first month of this year you may have to face health-related problems.\nYou may feel tired during a trip. Drive a vehicle carefully in this year. In terms of career, this year will bring you mixed results. In this year, you may have to face several ups and downs in your career. You will get the result of your hard work. At this time, you may get promotion in your job or there might be a hike in your current salary. On the other hand, the conditions related to the financial sector will be favorable for you. You will get financial help from different sources. Ancestral property will increase.\nYour family will help you strengthen your economic condition. If you do any business or have established a firm then you will have financial profits. You will be a little more serious about your love life during this year. If there is a dispute with the partner, do not exaggerate the same, rather deal with it through a discussion. The health of the family members will remain commendable. Parents may suffer from minor health problems.\nSagittarius Horoscope | Nov 22 - Dec 21", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ats-birminghamchildrenstrust.jobsgopublic.com/vacancies/view/81422", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BGBF5D75E6V4LFXTMFDQQV2YMQS2NYIB", "length": 2200, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ats-birminghamchildrenstrust.jobsgopublic.com", "title": "Social Worker Vacancies within Our Children's Safeguarding Teams in 1 Lancaster Circus, Birmingham, \u00a326,470 - \u00a333,136 (Plus a relocation package up... | Birmingham Children's Trust", "raw_content": "Social Worker Vacancies within Our Children's Safeguarding Teams\n\u00a326,470 - \u00a333,136 (Plus a relocation package up to \u00a38,000 & possible Incentive Payment of \u00a33,000 T&C apply)\nWe are looking for Social Workers like you who have completed their Assisted Year in Employment and are looking for their next challenge to develop their careers.\nOur safeguarding teams work with children and families whose needs are complex or significant and result in intervention to prevent risk of harm. They build up a family\u2019s strengths to bring about change; supporting children so they can stay with their families wherever possible. The team helps the family provide good and safe parenting, firm boundaries and emotional warmth.\nAs one of our social workers, accredited to undertake child protection, you will work cohesively with your colleagues and other agencies in promoting relationship based practice to protect the welfare of the City\u2019s most vulnerable children and young people. You must be able to understand, undertake and articulate comprehensive and analytical assessments; whilst working from a strength based model approach.\nYou will also receive support and timely advice from our more experienced members of our teams; who will help and coach you through some of your more complex or significant cases, thus developing your understanding and expertise.\nYour understanding of the public law outline coupled with your ability to support and challenge change autonomously will be paramount in this role.\nYour ability to put the wellbeing and safety of the child at the forefront of all that you do enables you to ensure their needs, wishes and feelings inform your decisions just as much as legislative guidance would do.\nYou must be a qualified social worker registered with the Health Care Professional Council, to apply for this role.\nIf you have three years or more practice experience, you may be eligible for an Incentive Payment of \u00a33,000. Stay with us for 27 months or more then you will qualify for a retention payment of \u00a32,400 per year.\nIf you are relocating from outside Birmingham City's boundaries, we may be able to assist you with your move with one of our lucrative relocation packages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://attspecial.com/overland-park-kansas/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GI7MFSU5CYQDCT3HPD75HN4LR2Z7AYEG", "length": 4859, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "attspecial.com", "title": "AT&T Internet | High-Speed Internet deals from AT&T.", "raw_content": "Moving to overland park, kansas?\nCity Descripition and Facts for overland park, kansas\nAbout: overland park, kansas\nOverland Park is the second largest city in Kansas and is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri despite its location in Kansas. It was also the site of the first airplane flight west of the Mississippi River by the Wright brothers. The city is the setting for the Showtime original series The United States of Tara. Notable residents have included actor Paul Rudd (Knocked Up, Anchorman, I Love You, Man), psychologist Phil McGraw (\"Dr. Phil\"), actor Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock), and professional golfer Tom Watson.\nLocal Newspapers: Johnson County Sun Kansas City Kansan Record\nLocal Sports Teams: Kansas City Royals and Chiefs\nLocal Colleges: Emporia State University Ottawa University University of Kansas-Edwards Campus Baker University-Overland Park Campus\nQuick Links and info for overland park, kansas\nLocal: (913) (913) 895-6300\nOverland Park City Hall\n9974 W. 87th Street, Overland Park, KS 66212\n9001 W 110th St # 150, Overland Park, KS 66210\n10500 Quivira Road, Overland Park, KS 66215\n601 Brasilia Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64153\nYMCA Youth Development Services\n8205 W 108th Terrace #120, Overland Park, KS 66210\n1 Arrowhead Dr, Kansas City, MO 64129\nZip Codes and nearby towns and cities for overland park, kansas\nZip Codes associated with overland park, kansas: 66062 66085 66202 66203 66204 66206 66207 66208 66209 66210 66211 66212 66213 66214 66215 66221 66223 66224\nTowns/Cities near overland park, kansas : Prairie Village Leawood Lenexa Shawnee Merriam\noverland park, kansas News\noverland park, kansas Map\nDigital services in overland park, kansas, with AT&T\nAT&T Bundles are available in Overland Park, Kansas. You can now bundle your digital TV, high speed Internet and Home Phone services into one package, and enjoy great discounts and the convenience of just one monthly bill. AT&T offers residents of Overland Park, Kansas the chance to save big while enjoying the latest digital home service technology. If you're in the market for Internet, TV and Phone and live in Overland Park, you can take advantage of AT&T deals. Search and compare AT&T offers in Overland Park and start saving on digital home services today. With AT&T TV, residents of Overland Park, Kansas can access all the latest entertainment, including an extensive On Demand service with thousands of programming options. Catch up on reality TV shows, movie classics and all the latest family-friendly TV entertainment. AT&T Internet lets you surf and stream the way you want to. Residents of Overland Park can enjoy buffer-free Internet access and even watch live TV. There are a number of high speed internet packages available. Plus, AT&T Internet is reliable and secure. AT&T Home Phone service is a great addition to AT&T TV and Internet bundles, allowing Overland Park residents to talk more for less. What's more, AT&T Home Phone comes with unlimited nationwide text, a feature that saves you money on cell phone messaging. When you bundle all three digital home services, you enjoy bigger savings and all the benefits of AT&T TV, Internet and Phone.\nAT&T High Speed Internet service is available in Overland Park, Kansas. With AT&T Internet it's more affordable than ever before to stay connected, surf, stream and game without breaking the bank or worrying about Internet Security. Residents of Overland Park, Kansas can sign up for AT&T Internet and enjoy fast speeds, big savings and the comfort of Internet Security software. What's more, AT&T High Speed Internet service enables Overland Park residents to select the Internet Package that best suits their needs. Whether you and your family simply require a basic connection to surf the web and check email, or you like to stream, game and watch TV online, AT&T Internet service has the package for you. Plus, With the freedom to choose a great Internet package and the peace of mind of knowing that your connection is secure, AT&T Internet offers Overland Park a great Internet product, for less.\nEntertainment for less from AT&T TV is available in Overland Park, Kansas. AT&T TV packages bring Overland Park residents all the latest shows, sports and hit movies, directly to their own home. Gone are the days when you wait weeks if you miss an episode of your favorite series, or you can't find anything to watch - AT&T TV has a wide selection of programming for the whole family, as well as an extensive On Demand service with thousands of entertainment options. Whether you enjoy classics, reality TV, blockbuster movies or just want to keep your kids entertained, AT&T TV service has something for you. Residents of Overland Park, Kansas can now pick the AT&T TV package that meets their entertainment needs, and enjoy advanced technology including TV apps, while saving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 643, "original_length": 43376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://auspwn.com/2016/03/29/no-forced-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GFO7QPN66U75IM3WSTFF6EIRXZJABBHS", "length": 1776, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "auspwn.com", "title": "No Forced Treatment | Australian Peer Workers Network", "raw_content": "No Forced Treatment\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1547415402251317/Details\nThe CRPD overturns the old paradigm not only for legal capacity (Article 12) but also for liberty and security of the person (Article 14). We have gone from an acceptance of detention and forced treatment in mental health facilities and similar institutional settings, to an absolute prohibition of these practices, which amount to arbitrary detention and torture or other ill-treatment.\nNot surprisingly, the new paradigm is encountering resistance and misunderstanding. For some time I have been thinking about the need to do something to show a broad spectrum of civil society support for the CRPD standards in this area. Now with the CRPD Guidelines on Article 14 adopted, as well as the Basic Principles and Guidelines of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which supports the CRPD standards, contrasting with the stance of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and the Human Rights Committee which adhere to the old paradigm, it is a good time to act.\nThe Campaign to Support the CRPD Absolute Prohibition is open to everyone \u2013 survivors, service users, researchers, lawyers, service providers, academics, journalists, allies.\nParticipants are asked to write from their own hearts and minds, what does this absolute prohibition mean to you? To people you love? Why do you fight for it, why are you supporting this campaign in solidarity with people who are or have been locked up and forcibly treated? Artists are also welcome to express themselves in their chosen medium.\nSee website https://absoluteprohibition.wordpress.com for more details and ongoing updates. Updated info will also be posted here.\n\u2190 2016 Team Marbles Challenge in getting ready to come to town\nHealing Voices \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://austinfilmfestival.com/news/2013/10/23/aff20th-4-days-and-nights-of-retrospectives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VNMC2ZKGFMCWEVANLXFE737GDI36QHMB", "length": 4719, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "austinfilmfestival.com", "title": "#AFF20th 4 Days and Nights of Retrospectives - Austin Film Festival", "raw_content": "#AFF20th 4 Days and Nights of Retrospectives\n10.23.13 | Rebecca Jones\nI know that making sure you get into Inside Llewyn Davis or checking out that indie film you were an extra in may seem like the most important factors when it comes to planning out your schedule for the festival. However, if you ever feel like mixing it up and taking a look back at some great films of the past with the help of some great filmmakers, AFF\u2019s many fantastic retrospectives have got you covered. Furthermore, I have got you even more covered, as I have taken the liberty to pick out a couple retrospectives from each day that I think would go especially well together. Kind of like each day is themed. If that\u2019s the sort of thing you\u2019re into.\nGiven that there is only one Retrospective playing on Thursday, I do not have much of a choice when it comes to my first pick, but that does not make it any less worth your time. Playing at 7:05 at the Texas Spirit Theater in the Bob Bullock is Citizen Ruth, a satire about abortion and the pro-life/pro-choice political debate. Citizen Ruth follows deadbeat mom Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern), who is thrown into a pro-choice/pro-life struggle when she is threatened with a felony charge if she doesn\u2019t have an abortion. Co-writer Jim Taylor (Sideways, Election) will be present to provide insight into the film. The retrospective is followed by a screening of Political Bodies, a documentary about the pro-life/pro-choice debate that occurred over several abortion bills that were introduced in Virginia in 2012. I would recommend attending both events, as the satirical nature of Citizen Ruth will surely have an interesting impact on how you view the documentary.\nIf a night of the abortion debate isn\u2019t your thing, that\u2019s okay, because Friday\u2019s retrospectives are dedicated to comedy. Screening at 12:30 PM at the Rollins Theatre is the cult classic A New Leaf, a dark comedy about a man who comes up with a plan to marry rich after spending all of his inheritance. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the writer, director, star, and comedy legend Elaine May. The perfect companion to this retrospective is the screening of the classic satire Blazing Saddles and subsequent conversation with co-writer Norman Steinberg, occurring at 6:30 PM at the Texas Spirit Theater. I consider both retrospectives essential for comedy nerds, especially those younger fans of the genre who are interested in learning about the roots of what we currently consider funny. I shouldn\u2019t have to do anything to convince you older folks, you guys were actually alive when these films were made.\nIf Friday leaves you feeling nostalgic, Saturday\u2019s line-up contains retrospectives of several classic dramas that will act as a great chaser. Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) will present the classic prison drama Cool Hand Luke, featuring cinema legend Paul Newman in one of his many iconic roles, at 11:30 AM at the Rollins Theater. The only natural way to follow this up is with man of the hour Vince Gilligan\u2019s retrospective of the classic police drama The French Connection at 4:00 PM at the Paramount. Join our 2013 Outstanding Television Writer Honoree as he shares his thoughts on the film as moderated by AFF\u2019s co-founder and Executive Director Barbara Morgan. Just screenings of these great films alone would be worth going to see, but their combination with discussions by these masters of contemporary TV and film fully guarantees that these events will be memorable, informative and wholly unique experiences.\nFinish out your retrospective experience by dedicating your Sunday to Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married). Sunday contains all of the films included in Demme\u2019s retrospective series, \u201cOut of the Vault with Jonathan Demme,\u201d but I want to take this time to talk about two in particular. The first is Enzo Avitabile Music Life, which plays at 12:00 PM at the Rollins Theater. This documentary, directed by Demme himself, is a fantastic alternative to the mob scene that will inevitably be Vince Gilligan Presents: Breaking Bad. The documentary follows Demme as he travels to Naples to document an extraordinary gathering of musicians led by acclaimed saxophonist Enzo Avitabile. Demme\u2019s conversation about this passion project will surely be a profound and moving experience, given his deep connection to Avitabile\u2019s music. If you leave the screening wanting even more Demme, head over to the State Theater at 5:30 PM for his retrospective of cult-western Greaser\u2019s Palace, where he will be joined by the one and only Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights) to discuss the film. 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We look forward to helping you make that a reality.\nTake the first step towards life altering travel today by downloading my free pre-travel guide The Traveler\u2019s Mindset: How to Mentally Prepare for Journeys of Adventure and Growth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://averdo.com/de/product/73613109/frankl-viktor-e-mans-search-for-meaning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TCOOKFFVUVX7AMPEDGYXECUUOV2URY3Z", "length": 904, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "averdo.com", "title": "Frankl, Viktor E.: Man's Search for Meaning - averdo", "raw_content": "Taschenbuch von Viktor E. Frankl\nPsychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for... weiterlesen\nViktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. His twenty-nine books have been translated into twenty-one languages. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps.\nHarold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of bestselling books including When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life That Matters, and When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough.\nWilliam J. 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Moscow is concerned that following the agreement cheap European products may flock to the Customs Union marked as if they had been produced in Ukraine.\nAfter Kazakhstan and Belarus rejected to sign the resolution, Russia, in line with the Customs Union regulations, got the right to act unilaterally.\n\u201cThis decision involves three parties \u2013 Ukraine, Russia and the latter\u2019s partners within the Eurasian Economic Space (\u2026) some protective measures are needed, and we will keep on the dialogue to decide on concerted measures\u201d, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of Russia\u2019s President, said.\nAccording to the source in the Russian Administration, both Belarus and Kazakhstan have valid reasons for abstaining from signing the resolution. \u201cWe do understand our colleagues from Kazakhstan and Belarus. Kazakhstan is seeking to enter the WTO and there\u2019s a risk of Ukraine trying to block its accession. 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Nowadays, Kazakhstan has a nourish idea with China.\nAccording to Alik Aydarbayev, governor of Manystau region, Chinese oil mining companies see prospective future in this particular region. China has refinery constructions in Iran, Persian Gulf states and in Africa. Now, they tend to work close with Kazakh oil industry.\nThe delegates of Chinese companies told me that if there is a modern oil refinery, not with old backward technology, we will be able to sell ready oil products to developed countries.\nAccording to him, the project is at the level of an idea at a present time.\nMr. Aydarbayev also noted that the Chinese companies have the competent policy in cooperation with local authorities. 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This program provides a book a month to children under five to keep for their very own. Parents or guardians may sign a child up at birth or anytime up to 5 years. The sooner the child joins the imagination Library is the more books he or she will receive. Books will be mailed to the child\u2019s Buchanan County address every month until the child has his or her fifth birthday. There is no cost to the parent or guardian. The Friends raise funds and ask for grants to cover the cost of $30 per child per year. To sign up, come by the Circulation Desk at the library or fill out this form and mail it to the library.\nWould you like to join the Friends?\nDues are $5.00 annually and prospective members may attend our next meeting on the second Tuesday of the month at 1 pm or print and fill out this form and mail with payment.\nDonate to the Friends of the BCPL\nClick here to find out about the Friends of the Library Sale!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beautifulanswers.com/2017/01/16/camus-a-stranger-life-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:40Z", "digest": "sha1:57QEZCIVDYIH3JQW6UYA6ABJZUD4VRBW", "length": 1700, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "beautifulanswers.com", "title": "Camus : A stranger life-1 \u2013 Beautiful Answers", "raw_content": "Camus : A stranger life-1\nInterviewer: The opening line of this novel (the stranger) has become one of the most widely known quotes in literature. What is your response to this and what were your original intents for the line?\nCamus: When I was writing this novel, I did not intend for this line to become so well known. I did not even intend for this line to be spectacular or even important. But after the readers have read this novel, they believe that this line is very important to the novel. After sixty-something years, I have begun to agree with my readers. I think this is a very important line, and I have even begun to consider it worthy of its fame. I am a strong proponent of the Theory of the Absurd, and this line sums up the Theory very well. The Theory discusses the lack of coherence in a brief and painful human existence. In the first line of The Stranger, the reader gets their first glimpse of the Absurd in the character Meursault and the telegraph he just received. Meursault is essentially saying that the loss of his mother means nothing to him. Most people would argue that their mother\u2019s death is a big deal, but Meursault, an indirect proponent of the Absurd, dismisses his mother\u2019s death as a trivial event. Given the basis behind the line, I am glad that it has become so popular and widely known. I feel very strongly about the Theory of the Absurd, and I am glad I can spread my wisdom to others. After seeing the success of this single line, I feel very positive about what has happened to it and my novel.\ncamusexistentialismlegendsstrangerwriterwriting\n\u2039 PreviousWerner Herzog and movies as a corporate product\nNext \u203aCreate from your own experience: Michael Haneke", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://belenen.livejournal.com/636869.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FWLF367OAACCEUYCDMCKQXLVOY7INFYX", "length": 9702, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "belenen.livejournal.com", "title": "feeling undesirable/unimportant due to lack of friends (except odd squad) & lack of group connection - the eclectic ecstasy of an ecphorizing eccentric", "raw_content": "feeling undesirable/unimportant due to lack of friends (except odd squad) & lack of group connection\nYesterday was so terrible. I cried at work, multiple times, then cried when I got home and cried more later when I went to Topaz'. My eyes hurt and I cried so hard I was hyperventilating.\nI got so overwhelmed with sadness after it hit me that all these people who I had been counting on (because they said yes) to come to my graduation party hadn't. I counted them up: 15. 4 biofamily and 11 friends. I felt so undesirable and unimportant. No one wants to spend time with me, even if I give advance notice and offer alcohol. Even if they have the pressure of having already said they would. And I know that some people had family stuff come up. But it is completely illogical to think that all 11 actually couldn't make it. I felt embarrassed and bad for the one person besides Odd Squad (Topaz, Heather, Kylei) who did show up because no one else was there. I have a birthday party planned (my birthday is a week away) but I am pretty sure it will be just odd squad... I'm so tempted to delete the event to spare myself the embarrassment. I don't know why I haven't yet.\nI feel like I have become unlikeable and unimportant, someone who is not worth time or effort. I haven't made a new friend (at least not one who is actually available) in more than three years. People haven't been coming to my gatherings for at least a year. I don't know what the fuck happened to me to make me so unappealing (I suspect that it is at least partly because I have lost social capital due to being more outspoken and militant about justice as well as more fat and with boring hair) but I'm in a pit of despair about it.\nI have been telling myself that my luck has to change soon - I have been telling myself this for more than two years. I value those already in my life but the idea of never making a new friend and never having the possibility of a new lover just crushes my soul. And the friends I have may be wonderful but they are not available and it takes so much work to get their time. They don't initiate plans and they are hard to get an answer from when I initiate plans, and often when we do actually manage to spend time together they are too exhausted or stressed to actually be emotionally and mentally present. I feel totally understanding and don't judge them for this (usually the cause is beyond their control), but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. That doesn't mean that it doesn't take energy from me to do it.\nOn the one hand I feel like such a shithead for not being content with what I have. It is so rare to find friends who are actually good people, who care about growth and justice and openness and honesty and respect and consent. And I have those kind of friends. I am lucky. But on the other hand, I have a need for more people in my life. Despite being stereotyped as an introvert all my life, I need at least 8 casual friends besides the people I am very close to feel like I have a satisfying social web. I need to have group interactions (and if there aren't at least 5 people besides myself it doesn't count as a group). I need bustle and boisterousness, and enough unknown elements that unexpected conversations and interactions can happen.\nCrafty parties used to satisfy this for me. A group of 5-13 people (usually around 8) would come and be busy and creative and talkative and I would get to be in that energy for about 6 hours every month. It would make me feel able to explore and create and be outside my comfort zone. But either people got sick of the drive (as I now live farther away from the city than before) or they got sick of me or both, because the last few times I made an event I ended up cancelling it the day before or day of because no one said they were attending. I haven't had the courage to try again in months.\nHannah asked me what I most felt in need of in my life and I said magic - connections with people who value, create, and actively seek magic. I think that's true, overall, but it is not what I feel in most urgent need of. The need that feels most urgent is for new connections that don't require a shitton of work to survive -- that don't require me to do all the watering and weeding.\nIf you pray or do magic or energy work and you feel like you have the extra time & effort and are willing to spend it on me, please do. Please pray/wish/send energy for me to find local friends who have the desire, energy, and ability to spend joyful nourishing time with me, and for opportunities for group connectedness at least once a month.\nI am not looking for advice so please do not give me any. I'm not really looking for comfort, either, so please don't offer hugs. If you have similar feelings or experiences, sharing those is welcome.\nconnecting: connections, fear / insecurity, friendship, gathers, pain\nI feel like the older I get the harder it is to make new friends and maintain a solid connection with my current friends. They seem to be so preoccupied with their relationships and other life responsibilities that I no longer feel like I am as important as I use to be. This bothers me a great deal.\nI occasionally search for Meet-ups online and have found a few I want to go to with the intent to meet new people, but I haven't found the courage yet. Being shy has always been a factor for me when making new friends.\n*deep sigh* I feel ya. If we lived close we could go together! having someone to go with always makes it so much easier for me.\nI relate very much to this entry and experience similar feelings. Having a social web with meaningful interactions and different combinations of said interactions is very important to me, also. From my perspective looking in, you appear to have the friendships in person and social gatherings I could only dream of but I know as well, it's about we feel about it for ourselves and our personal needs. I'd love an \"odd squad\" group of friends (love the nickname) and I'm not sure if I really have any friend who I could rely on to definitely come to an important event in my life, although I think one would value the connection and importance of it and try. Another might but hard to tell when there haven't been any events to put it to the test. As you mentioned, I think distance makes it harder at times. I would have the social opportunities if my friends online all lived in my area. I too cry a lot about the situation and grieve for the people I'll probably never know even exist in this world, if many of them even do. I often find with all my needs and non conforming ways, it puts me too much at the end of a spectrum of sorts to truly be able to meet many people to bond with.\n*offers hugs* I feel you so much on that. Why are all the great people so damn scattered across the globe?? I also feel too different to easily find people. If only we could all teleport.\nI hope some new people find their way to you soon. People with whom you can build the type of relationships you're seeking.\nsoundofsunlight ══╣down╠══\nSomething similar happened to me some years ago. For a short time I had half a dozen local friends; we weren't very close, but we would get together on a regular basis. They seemed to like me, and seemed to like coming to the various social events, but after a while they just stopped coming. I have no idea why; nothing had changed. If it was just a few individuals...but it was nearly all of them. And I know at least some of them kept in touch with each other, so it was apparently just me they weren't interested in any more. For a while I kept trying but nothing I did made a difference, and it was upsetting me more than I could deal with. Eventually I stopped trying, and stopped considering them friends, because they weren't any more. I never understood what happened, though.\nThe idea of never making a new friend...that's something I think about sometimes, and it's very painful and distressing, and I don't know what to do about it. I try to focus on what I have, and sometimes that's enough, but sometimes it's not. I especially struggle with wanting a romantic relationship with someone local, and I'm reluctant to even admit that because people always say \"you shouldn't feel like you need a relationship to be happy\" and I get where they're coming from, but I do need that.\nbtw, I like that you say what kind of comments are welcome. When I was first reading your entry, I thought of sharing my experience, but I wasn't sure if that would be welcome; I don't want to make it about me, I was just reminded of this, and I tend to say whatever comes to mind. But I know some people don't appreciate that, and I never know when it's okay, so it's very helpful to have some guideline.\nI also do energy work, and have time to give now. I'm not sure if I can help with something like this, but I will give it a try.\nThank you for sharing your story <3 I feel you. And I am pretty much always up for hearing a story in response to something I share, so you know ;-)\nThank you, the energy work on my behalf means the absolute WORLD to me.\nbluehorizon7 ══╣╠══\nI have friends I used to go out with all the time but recently it seems like they all have an issue with me but refuse to tell me anything, or tell me a reason why they can't and when I go out by myself, there they are acting like I never talked to them.\nIt feels awful feeling so alone in this world, it hurts even more when two of those people are people you had feelings for and they knew it and drew upon those feelings. Nothing makes you feel more alone and not wanting to be a part of this mortal coil than these situations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 15611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://belenen.livejournal.com/650047.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XMDKACCO2TV2RS4IQFA4GZI6V2X5DGEK", "length": 13821, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "belenen.livejournal.com", "title": "relationships: Topaz, Kylei, Heather, Hannah, Allison, Sande, Roger, Cass, Rocky, Arizona, Tinder - the eclectic ecstasy of an ecphorizing eccentric", "raw_content": "relationships: Topaz, Kylei, Heather, Hannah, Allison, Sande, Roger, Cass, Rocky, Arizona, Tinder\nSo I have a goal of examining all of my connections every 2-3 months, to help me stay aware and keep from getting into any ruts. I'm a bit late but I think that's because March was muddy for me with literally everyone, and I couldn't have explained much of anything.\nMy relationship with Topaz is still quite muddy. Today our break ends and we're going to see each other for the first time in three weeks. I'm quite nervous actually. I feel like I've realized ways I can change to make our connection more healthy for both of us. One of the main things is that I go a bit too far in trying not to pressure them; if I think they may want something and be afraid to ask for it, I offer it as if I have no preference one way or the other. Often this is upsetting for them because it makes them feel like I don't care about something that I do care about, which is confusing and sometimes hurtful. I talked about it vaguely with Heather last week, and then today I did it out of habit and it hurt Topaz' feelings, and we talked about this habit and I told Topaz I would work on being more frank with them and practice trusting them to assert their needs and desires. Last week I also told Topaz, \"I want to be able to trust that if I say 'I have a need' you will react by reflecting on what you can possibly do to meet that need, and then telling me what steps you will try and what you think the likely outcome will be.\" They said they can do that. I think these two things will help me to not get stuck in a pattern of subverting my needs.\nI had a clash with Kylei that lasted way longer than usual (more than 2 weeks), because I kept trying to arrange time to talk about it and it kept not happening, which was the very thing I was upset about. We finally did talk about it -- I told them that usually when plans don't work out it is disappointing but not hurtful because it's true for everyone, but lately I have seen them prioritize other things but not me. And that it feels impossible to believe that I am important to them when with other things that are important to them, they find a way and make it happen but with me they don't. They agreed that they hadn't been prioritizing time with me and that they were sorry about it but didn't know why it was happening. We talked about making plans but this month is too full, so we have a maybe plan for the first week of May. I feel better, not angry or frustrated any more, but I still feel in limbo and I feel sad and a bit hopeless about the idea of ever being reliably close again. If there isn't a cause that can be found, there isn't a cure that can be found.\nHeather and I have spent time together recently that was very nourishing for me (and hopefully for them). A few months ago at their birthday party I had the urge to kiss them, and asked -- they said yes and we kissed very briefly. Then about a week after that I asked to kiss them again and it was brief again and I felt some hesitation (at least this is how I remember it but my memory is not great) so I asked them if there was hesitation and why, and they said it was emotionally complicated and we should talk about it later. When we did get time to talk about it, they explained that they feel we are not compatible for a romantic relationship, because of what they see me wanting from a romantic connection. I talked with them a bit about it because I felt like they were going on outdated information, but the sum of it was that anything romantic is not desired for now, at least. I feel a little weird that there is this \"off limits\" bit just because I'm not used to it existing, but it doesn't reduce anything.\nThe next time we hung out we talked about how we process things, and Heather mentioned that the main thing they give is not a thing I value (validating people's feelings), but I don't consider that the main thing they offer me at all! I think the thing they give to me the most, which I value so intensely, is a new perspective on things. Almost every time (I don't have the memory to be able to say for sure every time) we have a significant conversation they tell me something that makes me go \"oh wow I hadn't realized / didn't know that\" and that is literally my favorite thing a person can do. Realizing or learning something new, especially about the way people work or the way I work, is the most nourishing thing for me. More than eye contact, more than cuddles, more than people showing curiosity about me. And this in itself is a new realization which I had because of this conversation with Heather. I feel very nourished by our friendship.\nSpeaking of the realizing/learning something new thing, I've most often experienced this with Hannah. Partly because they were close with me during the most intense learning period of my life so far, and partly because they are very good at asking prying questions. Most recently they made me realize that art is more vital to my life than I have acknowledged, even to myself. I remember when we used to spend hours looking through deviantart, sharing links back and forth and explaining what we loved about the pieces. I went to an art festival yesterday with a person I had just met, and they were interested in the art but weren't passionately analytical about percieving and assigning meaning. That is something I think I have only experienced to any length with Hannah, though I think I could also experience it with others and I want to try that at the next opportunity. Anyway, that realization I had through talking with Hannah led to me starting a facebook group and communitydata, places for describing and transcribing art. I'm hoping that they can eventually become full enough that people with visual and auditory disabilities can come experience the art.\nAllison and I have not spent much time together so far this year, but we have each reached out to each other in crisis, and that is new for us. I felt comforted merely by the realization that I could reach out to Allison if I was in need, that I wasn't afraid of them being bothered or anything, and then when we actually talked I felt really cared for. They have been in the process of moving so things have been unsettled for a while, but I think soon we will be able to spend more time together and I am looking forward to it.\nSande and I have spent a good bit of time together so far this year and it was all lovely. I was most impressed by the way Kanika interacted with them when Sande came over to my house. Kanika allowed Sande to pet them at the door which is usually a place of high stress for Kanika where they are more likely to be snappish. Then when Sande and I were sitting on the couch, Kanika sat between us and put a paw on Sande (this is Kanika's equivalent of holding hands). All this even though Kanika was feeling very jealous of my attention (I hadn't been home much for 2 weeks before then). Then Kanika was in a squirrely mood and Sande played with them, and was good at it! Very patient and they moved things in the way that makes a cat curious. I've never had someone click so well with Kanika on first meeting them. We also had some great conversations in the times we met up before but unfortunately that was long enough ago that I have forgotten them.\nI was feeling really down and posted about it on twitter a few weeks ago, and Roger texted and offered to come to my house and bring pizza. I was flabbergasted and deeply touched, because that was such a generous and perfect offer (as in, it actually sounded like a thing that would be nourishing without also being draining). I had something else happening that night so I said no thank you, but it meant a lot and when I was feeling bad a week later I reached out to see if they were up for cuddles. They were out of town, but they liked the idea, and we've texted back and forth some since then. It's all very theoretical at the moment but I feel hopeful about connecting.\nCass has been dealing with a lot of stuff and now that I am thinking about it, I haven't reached out to them much if at all. I think I subconsciously assumed that they were too busy and I would be bothering them? I don't think that's true because they reach out to me, and I don't know where I got the impression that they were just being dutiful and did not desire my company but somehow that was my subconscious idea. Now that I have realized it I can undo it. Cass made a special effort to read my journal and expressed regret for missing something that I had friends-locked because they hadn't logged in, which showed me they know how important my LJ is to me and that made me feel understood and valued. They also reached out to me about what they saw as a potential for me feeling left out, which I appreciated very much because there are definitely circumstances where that is how I would have felt. (it made me realize how much better my anxiety is now because had the same circumstances happened last fall I would have been an absolute wreck over it.)\nI hung out with Rocky one-on-one for the first time, and we had a really nourishing conversation though I was a bit thrown by how difficult I found it to read them. We made another plan for hanging out but ended up deciding to reschedule because they felt iffy about it the day before and I was invited to an event happening that same time. I think we could be great friends though, so I'm hoping we don't get lost in the land of scheduling mishaps.\nI've actually been communicating with Arizona fairly regularly via snapchat, and we had a videochat last week! I miss them a lot and hate that they live so far away, but it is lovely to be in touch again and we have a tentative plan to meet up when they come up for APW (Atlanta Poly Weekend). Sydney had also been in the middle of moving and changing jobs so we haven't talked much. Kat I haven't been reaching out to, which I just realized (sorry Kat!).\nI have a new relationship with a social media app, Tinder. I got curious about it after like 4 different friends mentioned using it (including using it to find friends) within the span of a week, so I made an account. It's basically like OKcupid, but apparently less racist? At least that is how it seems to me, because on OKC my matches are like 98% white, but on Tinder it's probably more like 45% white. Atlanta has a good mix of people and I appreciate how that is actually reflected on Tinder. I met up with a new person yesterday (which was fun, a little awkward but overall definitely worth it), and I have plans to meet with two other people. I had a long conversation with another person but it just stopped, and we didn't talk about meeting up? it might have been that they realized I live outside the city proper (a dealbreaker for a lot of people), or maybe they thought I lost interest. I will follow up and see.\nconnecting: allison, arizona, cass, cyber citizen, friendship, hannah, heather, kanika, kylei, race, relationships, roger, sande, those passing through, topaz, turning points\nI like this reflecting and analyzing on your friendships.\nI've been on the receiving end of this \"whatever you like\" habit. It can really feel like indifference towards what you do with someone, and it can also be dishonest (if you actually do have a preference). Plus, it means that the other person has to make all the decisions. I remember that while the other person wanted to accommodate me as much as possible, it was stressful for me at times. And I really want to be able to trust the other person that they are taking care of their own needs and will voice them when necessary.\nI hope now that Kylei is aware of what they were doing, they will pay more attention to it and either stop that behavior or, better yet, find out what was causing it. If it isn't about you or your friendship, it could also be because they're overwhelmed and you're generally more understanding than others?\nHeather sounds great!\nI love it when people click with Salem. I think how a person reacts to an animal says a lot about their personality. And if I want that person to spend more time at my place, they have to get along well with Salem, or it would get awkward.\nIs the OKC algorhythm really racist? Or are there more white people matching your criteria on it?\nI've only heard of Tinder in the context of hooking up for sex; using it to find new friends is new to me. Hope it will work out well for you!\nI really want to be able to trust the other person that they are taking care of their own needs and will voice them when necessary.\nEither it is racist in the algorithm or most of the people who use OKC are white, which would also indicate a system-level racism. Of course, I am using 'racist' in the sociological meaning of the term, not the common use as a reference to racial prejudice.\nYou remind me so much of myself the way you reflect on and analyse your friendships. I too feel moved by the joyful moments you described like someone offering to bring food on Twitter or someone doing something to show they see and understand us.\nI love it when people teach me something new about myself and the way people work as well. I also love a curious nature and interest in world sharing/learning everything about each other and their connections, too.\nIt's interesting how we can imagine what people enjoy our friendship for but in reality, they may place value on something completely different we don't necessarily notice in ourselves. I've posted on this in the past in years gone by.\nIt's interesting how we can imagine what people enjoy our friendship for but in reality, they may place value on something completely different we don't necessarily notice in ourselves\nI know! I wish I could observe myself though other people sometimes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 19318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bentrubewriter.com/2015/08/27/getting-out-of-a-stall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2HVOCUEWOPVDTNB6WLFEU7ALEWZOI62W", "length": 2775, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "bentrubewriter.com", "title": "Getting out of a stall | [BTW] : Ben Trube, Writer", "raw_content": "\u2190 Changing a character\u2019s name\nGiving Scouting Another Look \u2192\nGetting out of a stall\nThe last couple of days have not been the most productive. On the one hand I did manage to make some decisions about final changes to Surreality and have even started the formatting for both the eBook and print editions. On the other I haven\u2019t managed to write more than a couple hundreds words a day on the new book.\nI\u2019m enjoying the work but I\u2019m used to the more open sky country of 800-1000 words a day (or more). I\u2019d like to blame some of this on my dogs: Murphy who would probably explode if he wasn\u2019t sitting in someone\u2019s lap for more than half an hour, and Riley who seems determined to bark at every perceived threat. But the truth is, I just haven\u2019t gotten a groove going yet. And if anything, my dogs are a restoring force, enforcing calm and simpler thinking when I rile myself up. I tend to frustrate myself by thinking I should be at a certain word count by now, that a chapter isn\u2019t long enough, or that maybe I should wake up early and give my first energies to the project.\nThese are not the most productive impulses.\nSo how do you pull yourself out of a situation like this?\nWrite what you\u2019re thinking about, not what you should be writing \u2013 Writing doesn\u2019t have to be a linear activity. My problem usually isn\u2019t a shortage of ideas, it\u2019s making them wait. If your brain wants to go in a certain direction, maybe you should let it.\nRemove barriers to entry \u2013 Part of my problem is my computer. I\u2019m frustrated with AbiWord in Linux and the problem\u2019s it\u2019s having with formatting and catching up to changes. I chose this method because I wanted to get some use out of my old netbook, and because it\u2019s lighter and less distracting than my other machines. But maybe I just need to go with what works and stick to Word.\nWrite something \u2013 Forward progress is still progress. That can be word count or revision. Making the text better will always help in the long run. The rewards of more words will come soon enough.\nGet some sleep \u2013 Part of my problem is that I\u2019m tired and a little frustrated. Sleep and taking care of yourself solves most of those problems.\nHave a little fun \u2013 Give yourself a reward for a hard day\u2019s work. Don\u2019t just write and go to bed. You need something to help you cool down and decompress. Catch up on some reading.\nI know these feelings come and go, that writing can be a very week to week activity even for those of us who keep a regular schedule. When you\u2019re in a slump, it can feel like you\u2019ll never write another word again, but those feelings go away. They always do as long as you keep writing.\nTagged as Advice, Blocks, sleep, Technology, Writing\nOne response to \u201cGetting out of a stall\u201d\nTo paraphrase Dory: \u201cJust keep writing, just keep writing\u2026\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://betanews.com/2018/01/30/snoopers-charter-is-illegal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:58Z", "digest": "sha1:AZM7D6ZSWAHXN4AQTMMRNHAKY6ZSDRFN", "length": 2964, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "betanews.com", "title": "Privacy: Judges say the UK's Snooper's Charter is illegal", "raw_content": "Privacy: Judges say the UK's Snooper's Charter is illegal\nJudges have ruled that the UK government's digital surveillance program -- known variously as the Snooper's Charter and the Investigatory Powers Act -- is illegal.\nIn the case brought by human rights group Liberty, appeal judges found that the preceding Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA) -- which ultimately became the Snooper's Charter -- failed to offer adequate protection to people's data. Of particular concern was the fact that private data could be shared between different agencies without sufficient oversight.\nPrivacy: UK government to tweak Snooper's Charter after conceding it is illegal in its current form\nAhead of GDPR laws, Facebook publishes privacy principles and promises to educate users\nPrivacy: WhatsApp's group messages might not be as secure as you think\nThree judges looking at the case brought by Liberty on behalf of MP Tom Watson said that DRIPA's lack of safeguards meant that it was \"inconsistent with EU law.\" Watson welcomed the ruling, saying: \"This legislation was flawed from the start. It was rushed through parliament just before recess without proper parliamentary scrutiny.\"\n\"The government must now bring forward changes to the Investigatory Powers Act to ensure that hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom are innocent victims or witnesses to crime, are protected by a system of independent approval for access to communications data. I'm proud to have played my part in safeguarding citizens' fundamental rights.\"\nCommenting on the case, Lee Munson, a security researcher at Comparitech.com, said:\nThe Appeal court ruling on the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is extremely good news for every law-abiding and privacy-conscious citizen in the UK. The common-sense approach taken by the judges will ensure that the most contentious part of the \"snooper's charter\" -- the carte blanche ability to collect data with neither a warrant nor oversight -- will have to be swiftly removed.\nWhile no-one in their right mind would argue against surveillance of legitimate terrorist and criminal targets, this Act went way too far in casting a dragnet over ordinary citizens while failing to address the fact that the bad guys are actually quite adept at using technology, such as encryption, that the Bill simply cannot legislate against.\nTalking of which, it will be interesting to see how a rewrite of the Investigatory Powers Act affects the government's views on technology and its obsession with backdoors, not to mention its lack of understanding of either.\nLiberty says that the ruling shows, once again, that the UK government's mass surveillance program is unlawful. Group director Martha Spurrier said: \"This judgment tells ministers in crystal clear terms that they are breaching the public's human rights.\"\nThe government has not yet indicated how it intends to respond to the ruling.\nImage credit: Luciano Mortula - LGM / Shutterstock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bethbridges.com.au/about-beth-bridges-naturopath/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XOO45CTRWXQU6HEQKKXQ27RWF35CL2QK", "length": 2604, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "bethbridges.com.au", "title": "About Beth | Beth Bridges", "raw_content": "Hi there! I\u2019m Beth Bridges.\nMany years back, I set out to learn how to heal my own chronic case of burnout, exhaustion, adrenal fatigue and hormonal imbalance.\nIt worked, and along the way, I learnt a thing or two about \u2018The Art of Saying No\u2019, setting gentle boundaries, prioritising my own self-care above anything (or anyone) else, and living life on my own terms.\nIt\u2019s to help you, dear lady, to do the same.\nYou see, as women, I believe we are programmed to want to save the world.\nDesperately, and with all our hearts, we want to fix what seems wrong, and be everybody\u2019s answer to everything.\nThe problem is, we\u2019re trying to do more than we\u2019ve ever done before, all at once.\nChildren. Families. Careers. Bustling social lives. Perfect homes.\nAll this, on top of being \u2018superwoman\u2019 for all our loved ones.\nTruly, this is the first time in history that we, as women, have taken on so many roles at once.\nThe effect that this is having on our wellbeing, is huge.\nAnd I know, from personal experience, that this is not a sustainable way to live.\nI used to be the ultimate \u2018people pleaser\u2019, and I was constantly drained and depleted.\nWhen I finally started to prioritise my own health, wellness + fulfillment above anything else, my life completely changed.\nMy journey to breaking free of expectation and creating the foundations of a life I love, on my terms, hasn\u2019t been easy.\nBut, it\u2019s been amazingly worth it. And above all, it\u2019s translated into a career that I adore, one that I\u2019m absolutely inspired about, that I love working on, that I can\u2019t imagine myself not doing.\nI am healthier and more content than I\u2019ve ever been, and it\u2019s for this one reason:\nI learnt to care for myself as though I was my number one priority.\nThis has transformed every part of my life. I have so much more to give. This is what I want to share with you.\nAs women, we\u2019re often infiltrated with ideas of \u2018how we have to operate in the world\u2019.\nThis doesn\u2019t have to be true for you.\nYou can be true to yourself and still exist within all your other \u2018roles\u2019, whatever they may be.\nYou must come first.\nI studied for over 7 years full-time in the realms of university science, naturopathic medicine, personal development and life coaching.\nI\u2019ve gratefully been able to apply all that I\u2019ve learnt, to transform my own life. Now, I get to help other people do the same.\nIt\u2019s an inspiring and fulfilling journey.\nIf my words resonate with you, I\u2019d LOVE for you to get in touch and see what we could do together.\nWhat I truly wish for you, and for all women, is that you may thrive. Every day.\nAll my love, one woman to another \u2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bettertopia.panasonic.com/global/detail/smartphone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ETSR7VKWCVCWBLCKNKUE5SVMD4UHCLKK", "length": 2367, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bettertopia.panasonic.com", "title": "Graphite Sheet | Bettertopia | Panasonic", "raw_content": "The Hero for\nSmartphone Manufacturer\nWow, what a coincidence to bump into each other in this crowd. Are you meeting up with your family? I\u2019m waiting for my friend to come. My work? Well, I\u2019ve been working hard as usual. I\u2019m designing smartphones that you can find in the hands of many people who are waiting for somebody. The latest one? The thinnest model that has just been released. It does not become hot while holding it in your hand. That\u2019s one of the features of this new product.\nIn fact, smartphones and tablet devices generate quite a lot of heat. When electricity runs through an electronic circuit, it generates heat. Products like smartphones need to be small, light and compact, and they can generate a lot of heat. If that heat isn't blocked and allowed to properly escape, the smartphone won't continue to operate correctly. People around here do not seem to be bothered by the heat of their smartphones. That\u2019s because we have taken measures against the heat in our design process. What have we been doing? We\u2019ve been using a thin and light thermal protection material called PGS(R) Graphite Sheet by Panasonic. And, yes, your smartphone is also using that.\nPGS(R) Graphite Sheet\nTo put it simply, the advantage of the PGS(R) Graphite Sheet is that it has a structure to move heat across a large surface. It\u2019s heat conduction rate is 2-5 times more than copper and 3-8 times more than aluminum. It can conduct heat quickly across a large surface. That also means that it can quickly dissipate the accumulated heat. It is also light. Its weight is 1/10\uff5e1/4 of copper and 1/3\uff5e1/1.3 of aluminum. The graphite sheets are also easy to fabricate as it\u2019s flexible and soft. We can create thermal protection by just attaching a sheet like a sticker.\nIt\u2019s been used in devices like digital cameras and laptop computers. This sheet could even be used in automobiles to deliver warmth in heated seats and steering wheels, utilizing the high thermal conduction rate the other way around.\nIt is expected to play an important role in outer space where temperatures change radically. Are you asking if I will be designing spaceships? Well, in fact... Oh, my friend has come. Sorry, maybe I\u2019ll tell you about that later!\nPGS Graphite Sheets | Breakthrough Technology\nReducing Energy Consumption and Improving Reliability by Controlling Heat | Breakthrough Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bfc4u.org/series/special-topic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:H3RJPUWNNNTKLZAEZIXDHXQZMIXZ6M54", "length": 400, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "bfc4u.org", "title": "Special Topic \u2013 Bible Fellowship Church", "raw_content": "Series: Special Topic\nTHE HOW-TO-MAKE-IT-WORK-FOR-YOU RESURRECTION\u2026.\nWhat are the BENEFITS and HELPS for those who embrace the RESURRECTION of CHRIST as a LIFE PRINCIPLE...\nCrucifixion Countdown:\nDo you know what happened on the FIFTH DAY and FOURTH DAY before the day CHRIST DIED? Why is this im...\nPastor Don explains the three gifts that God gave by sending His son to free us from our sin. Mus...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bgmps.org/news/news-and-notes-week-of-12-4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VJZ6R3PEDREY3BPD4N54T3IABCHYU33S", "length": 252, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bgmps.org", "title": "News and notes week of 12/4 - Bishop Garriga Middle Preparatory School - Corpus Christi, TX", "raw_content": "SJPII will present its annual Live Nativity this Monday to Wednesday 6:00-8:00 p.m. The entrance will be at the BG front gate.\nMass this week will be on Friday at 9:15 a.m. in the SJPII Cafetorium as we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 150.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bharatstories.in/about-balaram-jayanti/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLZ52C75Y4TIF7LOE5BUA3EONAEYJY2C", "length": 2043, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bharatstories.in", "title": "About Balaram Jayanti \u2013 All About India \u2013 Bharat Stories", "raw_content": "Source: iskconpandharpur.com\nIn Hindu mythology, Lord Balaram was the older brother of popular Hindu deity Lord Krishna, and thus, Balaram Jayanti is celebrated in different parts of India to celebrate the birth anniversary of Lord Balaram. In some parts of India, it is observed on the day of Akshay Tritiya, while in other parts of the country, it is celebrated on the day of Shravan Poornima. On the other hand, some regions in India choose to celebrate it in the month of Baisakh, which as per the English calendar falls either in the month of April or May. In northern India, Balaram Jayanti is commonly known as Lalahi Chhath or Hal Shashti. While in the state of Gujarat, in Braj region to be precise, the festival is celebrated by the name of Randhan Chhath or Baladeva Chhath.\nIt is mainly the followers of Lord Vishnu, the Vaishnavas who celebrate this festival with immense joy and enthusiasm. According to Hindu mythology, it is also believed by devotees that Lord Balaram happens to be the incarnation of the snake that Lord Krishna used to sleep on. Devotees pray wholeheartedly on this day and offer their tribute to Lord Balaram as well as Lord Krishna, in order to gain a healthy life and physical strength.\nThe puja observed on this day takes place the usual way, wherein devotees wake up early in the morning, take a bath, observe a fast till afternoon without eating anything at all. Temples in the house as well as outside, especially those with an idol of Lord Krishna are decorated beautifully with flowers and lamps. Idols of Lord Krishna and Lord Balaram are given holy baths by the saints as well as devotees. Bhog is prepared by them to offer to the gods and once devotees break their fast, they have this bhog alongside other Prasad items including fruits. Many cultural programmes take place, such as bhajans, satsangs, and some devotional dances, to celebrate this day in full spirits.\nFeatured Image Source: iskconpandharpur.com\nAbout Balaram JayantiBalaram Jayanti\nBe aware to fight the ill effects of Rotavirus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 7380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackmosspress.com/john-wing-title-reveal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MY5GPS3S5PN5CJV3NYTGCQ7UDYCDAYAP", "length": 2151, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blackmosspress.com", "title": "John Wing Title Reveal \u2013 Black Moss Press", "raw_content": "John Wing Title Reveal\nI\u2019ll Have a Title Soon\nBy The Winglings\nHow do you pinpoint the essence of a book in just a few words? How do you find a quick and catchy way to draw the reader in and keep them interested? The contents of a book are important, but it\u2019s the title that makes the first impression. First impressions\u2013as we all know\u2013are lasting impressions. With John Wing\u2019s manuscript, we wanted to capture the strong themes of life, aging, and the universal journey of growing up. John takes us on a tour of some of his most intimate experiences and how they\u2019ve made him the man he is today, capturing readers\u2019 attention with witty commentary and an almost morbid sense of humour. The book is all at once nostalgic and intuitive, and anyone who picks up the book will undoubtedly relate to its contents. With such an intrinsic book, we knew that the title had to come from within the manuscript.\nFirst, we made a list of all the eye-catching phrases we came across. Anything that stirred some kind of emotion, we wrote down. Every curious line, every odd phrase, was added to our ever-growing list of potential titles. Seventy-six manuscript pages and a page and a half full of ideas later, we had to start the process of elimination. Which of these titles actually embodied John\u2019s book? There were some amazing potentials, including \u201cLike Angry Jesus,\u201d \u201d Comedy, Marijuana, and Rejection\u201d and the tantalizing, \u201cMaybe it was a Sex Dream.\u201d But did these titles adequately sum up the contents of the manuscript? A consensus was reached: the answer was no.\nWhat makes a good title? We knew that one to five words was the optimal title length, and the list was shortened. We knew that the title ultimately had to reflect the work, and the list was shortened yet again (goodbye, \u201cLike Angry Jesus\u201d). A good title draws readers in by posing a question. It gives a hint at the contents and leaves them hungry for more. And so we decided: \u201cI\u2019ll Be There Soon.\u201d Where is there? When is soon? You\u2019d have to read the book to find out.\nPosted in Guest Post and tagged john wing, New Book, Spring 2016, Title Reveal.\n\u2190 Roger Nash Interview\nAnna Yin Readings \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackyouthproject.com/trump-proposes-budget-cut-npr-pbs-nea-among-public-works-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IFTTUFZO3DSASWH2MZDC6VE3D4KTW63B", "length": 2364, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blackyouthproject.com", "title": "Trump proposes budget that would cut NPR, PBS and NEA, among other public works programs - The Black Youth Project", "raw_content": "Trump proposes budget that would cut NPR, PBS and NEA, among other public works programs\nDonald Trump speaking at CPAC in 2011 Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore Photo Source: Flickr\nIn a spending bill which proposes 300 billion dollars in new government spending, the programs being targeted for elimination is notable. Donald J. Trumplestilskin and his administration continue attempts to gut the arts and democratized public works programs, attempts he began shortly after his campaign run in 2016. The bill contains a proposal to end funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds entities like the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.\nThe proposal states: \u201cCPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations\u2026 To conduct an orderly transition away from Federal funding, the Budget requests $15.5 million in 2019 and $15 million in 2020, which would include funding for personnel costs of $16.2 million, rental costs of $8.9 million; and other costs totaling $5.4 million.\u201d\nCPB President Patricia Harrison released a statement which positions herself and her organization in direct opposition to President Flappy Hair\u2019s agenda: \u201cThere is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media\u2019s educational and informational programming and services\u2026 The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media\u2019s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions \u2014 all for Americans in both rural and urban communities.\u201d\nPBS CEO Paula Kerger said during a TV critics meeting last July that a number of PBS stations across the country depend on federal funding to stay alive. Kerger also said that there is no Plan B for what happens when federal funding for PBS is eliminated. Congress does have to approve the President of Bad Wigs\u2019 budget before it comes into effect, and it is worth noting that the Public Broadcasting System has survived threats from Presidents not named Donald Trump, so there is a bit of hope that these programs will survive.\nNEA, npr, PBS, Politics, Programming, Public broadcasting, radio, Television", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.abnersenires.com/2010/08/get-out-of-way_24.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:53Z", "digest": "sha1:Y55Z2ZJEQ23FOCQWREJATIETSJ5JAVGR", "length": 848, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.abnersenires.com", "title": "ABNER SENIRES. Hack sci-fi pulp writer: Get Out of The Way", "raw_content": "\"Get out of the way.\"\nAs I mentioned before, I'm a Plotser (Plotter-Pantser). In a typical story, I'm Plotter for about 70% and Pantser for the remaining 30%.\nSometimes, though, I can be too much Plotter and not enough Pantser. When that happens, I inevitably stall the story.\nWhich is what happened to Episode #110.\nI was stuck in Plotter mode and kept trying to manipulate the story. The story didn't like it and fought back.\nResult: stalled story.\nWhat I needed to do was step back and let the story unfold instead of forcing it.\nAs my esteemed Story Editor put it: \"Get out of your own way.\"\nWhen I finally did, the story resolved itself and I was able to finish.\nSo remember: if your story seems to be stuck, you might be the one causing it to get stuck.\nResident Evil Afterlife Sneak Peek\nFantasy Tropes and the Inevitable Death of Literat...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.allstream.com/dont-let-engineers-near-your-emergency-off-buttons-and-other-data-centre-disaster-lessons/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:24Z", "digest": "sha1:K5INK33EVKOQ7HBLH3Y5MTR4W4QBG4DZ", "length": 1160, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.allstream.com", "title": "Don\u2019t Let Engineers Near Your Emergency \u201cOff\u201d Buttons \u2026 and Other Data Centre Disaster Lessons | expertIP", "raw_content": "Computing recently surveyed 140 IT professionals to learn about the risks \u2013 both real and perceived \u2013 that can cause downtime and/or data loss in medium to large enterprise data centres. While the majority of organizations plan for disasters such as fire (75%), extreme weather (62%) and loss of access to the data centre (57%), many are unprepared for the random acts that can lead to downtime.\nAccording to the EMC2 white paper (registration is required to view the white paper), survey respondents have dealt with everything from critters that chew through cables to bees nesting in the power supply of a critical server. \u201cOne respondent reported an incident where a cleaner disconnected a server in order to plug in a vacuum cleaner and another a bath left to run in a flat directly above the server room. A terrorist who tuned out to have sausages strapped to his body rather than a suicide vest caused real problems for another along with numerous freak accidents including an engineer who sat on the emergency off button.\u201d\nThe white paper also contains a number of interesting statistics on how well IT professionals feel they can handle the unexpected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.brilliance.com/jewelry/modern-wedding-rings-could-be-as-smart-as-your-phone", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LBZWF5TJTZRZ376SB4O276ZVMJP4F3YU", "length": 2991, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.brilliance.com", "title": "Modern Wedding Rings Could be As \"Smart\" As Your Phone!", "raw_content": "Modern Wedding Rings Could be As \u201cSmart\u201d As Your Phone!\nWhat are industry experts predicting to be one of the next big trends to hit the world of wedding rings? No, it won\u2019t be modern wedding rings with a new gemstone or unique design. Instead, it could be the integration of technology with your ring!\nThat\u2019s right, the rise of wearable technology and smart jewelry is making its way into the designs of modern wedding rings.\nBut, what exactly are these smart rings and what do they do?\nAfter witnessing the rise of wearable fitness trackers over the last few years, jewelry brands began to jump in on the technology trend. A number of different brands started to create unique and beautiful pieces that were not only fashionable, but also functional. The majority of these rings are designed to connect via Bluetooth to smartphones and notify the wearer with a slight vibration or colored light when email, text, or phone call notifications come through.\nDepending on the model, some designs even allow you to filter what notifications you\u2019re alerted to and which should be ignored. One style even has the power to connect to PowerPoint presentations and allow the wearer to navigate through each slide by swiping across the face of the ring.\nWhy are smart rings so popular?\nThe jewelry industry has adapted to fit the needs of today\u2019s customers. Many customers want the look of modern wedding rings, but with some functionality that makes the jewelry piece more practical in their everyday lives. For example, men\u2019s wedding rings that clamp on and off fit the lifestyle of an active man while still appearing to be a traditional band to others.\nWomen love that smart rings allow them to detach from their smartphone while still keeping them discreetly connected. Going to a business dinner is much easier without a smartphone glued to the table beside you, and a smart ring gives people the power to leave their phones in their bags.\nWhen will this trend take over wedding ring design?\nIt\u2019s hard to say how much this trend will impact modern wedding rings. As wearable technology increased in popularity, smart rings did not take off as fast as fitness tracker bracelets. Many brands faced predictable challenges such as designing rings that did not appear too clunky and creating a screen large enough for the wearer to navigate through different options. Despite these challenges, there have been a few smart ring success stories that have managed to gain popularity and shake up the world of jewelry design.\nWhen smart technology does begin to integrate with wedding rings, rest assured that the quality of the ring will not be affected. The same metals and gemstones can be paired with smart jewelry, so you won\u2019t have to sacrifice your dream ring in order to reap the benefits of wearable technology.\nLooking for more traditional modern wedding rings? Visit the leading online diamond retailer, Brilliance, for a wide variety of metals, settings and designs that will fit any budget!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.cpanel.com/hi-im-megan-how-can-i-help/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:UMQORJJH3VPE6HQMSQFDGPDUXGPTSNA7", "length": 3322, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.cpanel.com", "title": "Hi, I'm Megan! How can I help? | cPanel Blog", "raw_content": "Megan Liken / May 3rd, 2018 / cPeople\nHi, I\u2019m Megan! How can I help?\nHello everyone! My name is Megan and I\u2019m the newest Community Manager to join the team at cPanel. I\u2019m really excited to join the team and ready to hit the ground running. I have a background in community outreach and digital marketing. Over the last year and a half, I became involved in the startup and tech community by participating in hackathons, organizing events, and learning to code. I am also one of the curators for Houston Startup Digest. My hobbies include yoga, podcasts, cooking, and playing fetch with my cat. My goal in life is never paying full price for anything. Cashback, points, promos, and BOGO are music to my ears. I pride myself on being a lifelong student who excels in both the analytical and creative spaces.\nLast year, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and participate in a coding bootcamp. Although I was really excited to learn how to build cool applications and I was impressed with my new coding skills, I knew I wasn\u2019t going to be satisfied solely as a developer. I wanted to marry my skillsets and I wanted to utilize my new technology skills in a way that I could sit in between product development and the end- user. I wanted to help give a voice for users. Community Management was a perfect fit. I find it very serendipitous that I discovered the Community Manager opportunity through an online community, but then again, part of me understood that I was only going to find a job that was a perfect fit by networking and connecting in a community.\nI strongly believe that good community management is all about personal touch. It\u2019s how a brand can show it cares and can create relationships with its audience through thoughtful interaction. In our case at cPanel, our developers should hear from you and you should hear from our developers. Community Management sits within the Product Development team, so we\u2019ll be keeping track of our Feature Requests, sending out release notes, and keeping you all informed on the rest of development activities.\nCommunity management is a relatively new position in the industry and I am really excited to be able to play a role in how it evolves. In the context of cPanel, we have some really great visions for our community. In the physical space, we\u2019d like to see cPanel increase its visibility and become a cornerstone of the tech community here in Houston. Internally, we are knocking down silos and facilitating opportunities for knowledge sharing and collaboration. To our stakeholders, users, partners, and online community; we\u2019d are always finding new ways to provide a space for clear, transparent communication, an outlet for feedback, and a place to exchange ideas.\nAs benny envisioned in the beginning, we have an open line of communication here at cPanel. We encourage you all to keep asking questions, keep filling out Feature Requests and keep having thoughtful conversations on our forums. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect with our audience.\nThe best way to connect is in person, which you can do at this year\u2019s cPanel Conference in October! We\u2019re still accepting speaker submissions, and we know you want to visit us in Houston. If you can\u2019t make it to Houston, stay tuned because we will soon be opening up Slack and Discord channels!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.euromonitor.com/the-eurozone-crisis-and-its-impact-on-tourism/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HUNLOVUEJCG676CBAOKYKJZCX7LNWF44", "length": 12042, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "blog.euromonitor.com", "title": "The EuroZone Crisis and its Impact on Tourism", "raw_content": "Articles / The EuroZone Crisis and its Impact on Tourism\nThe EuroZone Crisis and its Impact on Tourism\nEuromonitor International has evaluated the potential impact of the EuroZone crisis on the region\u2019s travel and tourism industry based on a review of previous economic downturns in times of macroeconomic instability. A correlation between arrivals performance and GDP means economic growth has a direct impact on tourism demand. Working within this framework gives us an insight into possible market scenarios for tourism demand over the short term in the Euro-Zone.\nSpectre of a double-dip becomes a reality\nIn 2012, Europe continued to struggle its way through downgrades, bank bailouts and fear. The result has been many countries, especially those on the periphery, sliding into technical recession once again as confidence in the region falls. The increasing danger of default, weak labour markets and creaking banking industries are leading to a new period of uncertainty in Europe. As Germany continues to grow, the European slowdown is moving eastward towards transition countries.\nAccording to Euromonitor International\u2019s estimates, 13 of the 27 European Union (EU) countries are predicted to fall into recession (defined as two consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth) in 2012 as demand remains subdued.\nThe recent double-dip recessions are the culmination of a four-and-a-half-year economic downturn in the EU following the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. Between 2008 and 2011, average annual real GDP growth was -0.2% in the EU. The EuroZone has suffered the most, plagued by problems stemming from its overleveraged banking industry, weak consumer demand and government austerity measures aimed to tackle high public debt.\nGreece\u2019s crisis is continuing, with anti-austerity parties threatening to renege on the country\u2019s austerity targets after the June 2012 election, which may force the country out of the euro. However, Spain is increasingly becoming the focal point of the economic turmoil as its banking industry sinks into insolvency and more large state bail-outs are required to capitalise it, leading to an EU bailout of EUR1 billion for Spanish banks.\nTo best illustrate the potential impact of the EuroZone crisis on the region\u2019s travel and tourism industry, Euromonitor International has modelled three different outcomes for 2012 \u2013 one best case scenario and two worst case scenarios, the latter two being a Greek exit and the complete break-up of the Economic Monetary Union.\nEven in the best case scenario, the prospects for Europe remain weak in 2012. The EuroZone crisis is unlikely to be resolved this year as the precariousness of Spain\u2019s economy and Greek membership become more apparent. Based on the assumption that the EuroZone crisis is not exacerbated further, the EuroZone is expected to experience a 0.7% contraction in real GDP in 2012 due to recessions in its Mediterranean members, followed by a mild expansion of 0.8% in 2013.\nWorst case scenario 1 \u2013 Greek exit\nThe 17 June 2012 second election in Greece marks a major event for the EuroZone project and the European Union as a whole. Increasingly seen as a referendum on EuroZone membership, there is a significant danger that Greece will default on its government loans, forcing the country out of the euro. The resultant cost of a Greek exit from the EuroZone would be heavy, albeit not marking the outright end of the euro, with GDP expected to decline by 2.5% for the EuroZone as a whole. However, there would be significant differences between the Member States. While economies in the north of the euro area would experience small declines, the remaining PIIGS would experience significant GDP contractions, aggravated by austerity measures.\nWorst case scenario 2 \u2013 EuroZone break-up\nThe potential collapse of the EuroZone is also a possibility, and it cannot be ruled out that several Member States would be forced to leave the euro, which in turn could cause a chain reaction, ending with a complete break-up.\nA complete break-up of the EuroZone would see the region\u2019s economies shrink by as much as 9.8% in the first year, followed by a further decline of 2.8% in 2013. A recession would be experienced across the entire EuroZone, dragging down the global economy into a potential global double dip.\nEuroZone % Real GDP Growth 2012\nSource: Euromonitor International from national statistics, Eurostat, OECD, UN, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Economic Outlook (WEO), ING\nInbound tourism \u2013 best and worst case scenarios\nAmid growing uncertainty about the future of the EuroZone in 2012, travel and tourism in the region remains depressed. The austerity measures implemented in several European countries are expected to result in lower disposable incomes and rising unemployment, thus reducing intra-regional travel and spending.\nThe EuroZone saw strong growth in arrivals from emerging economies in 2011, particularly Russia, China and Brazil. It is hoped that this trend will continue throughout 2012, but it is unlikely to compensate for the decline in intra-regional visitors. The EuroZone is anticipated to continue to struggle, posting an expected decline in arrivals of 0.7% in 2012, down from 4.3% in 2011. However, it should be noted that the continued weakening of the euro against major currencies may have a more positive impact on the tourism industry than expected, attracting high spending North American visitors, for example.\nIn the event of a Greek exit or a disorderly break-up of the EuroZone, tourism arrivals in the EuroZone could drop by as much as 2.8% or 11%, respectively, due to the resulting sharp European recession and negative global economic consequences.\nAs unemployment rates rise, consumers start to cut unnecessary costs. In general, those related to leisure activities, which include travel and tourism spending, are viewed as discretionary and are scaled back. Consumers become more cautious and less likely to travel abroad. Incoming tourism receipts in the EuroZone are forecast to decline by 1.2% in 2012 or by as much as 4.4% or 17.3%, respectively, in the above-mentioned worst case scenarios. Pressure on prices, combined with falling or stagnating incomes, would limit spending on travel. In the Great Recession, business travel fell sharply in response and is likely to mirror this trend. Domestic tourism tends to be more resilient in a crisis as a weak currency encourages tourists to travel domestically instead of internationally. Domestic tourism volume in the EuroZone is expected to remain stagnant in 2012 but would slow in the case of a Greek exit or a EuroZone break-up by 0.1% or 0.2%, respectively.\nEuroZone Tourism Demand Indicators % Growth 2012\nNote: % growth in volume of trips for arrivals and domestic tourism, constant value growth at 2011 prices for incoming spending\nHotels \u2013 best and worst case scenarios\nGDP continues to have a huge impact on how well the hotel industry performs. According to STR, 12 of 26 European countries experienced a decline in the early part of 2012, and quite a few Western European destinations posted declines in hotel occupancy in the first two months of the year, including Greece, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK. Overall, a slowdown is evident in hotel occupancy rates in most EuroZone countries. Hotel value performance is expected to decline by 1% in 2012 compared to growth of 2.4% in 2011.\nIn the event of Greece exiting the EuroZone, Euromonitor International estimates that hotel performance in value terms would decline by as much as 3.6% in 2012. Value sales would slump as overall travel falls and those who do travel seek out the best possible deals. Growth in supply would also slow due to a lack of credit and the cancellation of pipeline projects in the EuroZone.\nThe macroeconomic impact of a EuroZone disintegration would be catastrophic. Euromonitor International predicts a decline in value sales of 15% in 2012, with hotel demand and RevPar figures falling into negative territory over the short to medium term. Hotels would be particularly hit by the lack of bank lending, which would restrain hotel supply, particularly in Europe. The industry would focus on renovation rather than development and industry consolidation would be inevitable. Independent hotels would be particularly susceptible to volatile market conditions as credit became harder to obtain, and they would become potential acquisition targets for budget chains.\nThe next two years would be challenging for the hotel industry in Europe, especially as hotels is a lag industry and trails the economy and transportation by at least 6 months. As seen during the last global recession, consumers would start trading down to less expensive budget hotel options as well as resorting to camping and self-catering. Budget hotels would continue to benefit from domestic and short-haul tourism and large chains from placing special emphasis on developing economy brands.\nWith the current economic uncertainty bargain hunting will remain popular among consumers. European hotels may start to discount prices heavily during the summer season if bookings appear too weak. Aggressive offers, such as spa credits and free nights, are expected to continue.\nCost-conscious travellers will also continue to use online sites to find the best deals. Hotel flash sales, (discounts available for a limited period of time, often through a member-only site, run by a third party, destination or travel provider) will feature strongly to help hotels fill unbooked space at discounted rates, along with the continued exploration of new technology business models to seek ever-decreasing operating costs.\nEuroZone Hotel Value % Growth 2012\nAir transportation \u2013 best and worst case scenarios\nStarting with the best case scenario, in 2012 air transportation value growth for the EuroZone is expected to decline by 1.4% following a strong increase of 10.7% in 2009. This drop will be the result of increased discounting to drive demand for air transportation as tourists decide to stay closer to home to reduce their travel costs.\nIf Greece exits the EuroZone air transportation is expected to fall by 5%, while a decline of 19.7% is anticipated in the worst case scenario of a EuroZone break-up in 2012. Economic uncertainty would lead tourists to cancel travel or trade down to cheaper transportation alternatives such as trains and buses or coaches, while a decline in the number of business travellers would also be expected as a result of tight travel budgets.\nAirlines would cut capacity significantly on scheduled flights to maintain profitability. Long-haul routes would be the worst affected as airlines responded to the slowdown in demand from European markets.\nLow-cost carriers (LCCs) such as Ryanair and easyJet would be expected to capitalise on the fact that travellers become increasingly cost-conscious during periods of economic crisis by offering discounts and enhancing route networks by carefully adding and cutting capacity to markets as needed. easyJet recently launched a flexi-fare product aimed at corporate travellers. LCCs value growth is expected to decline by 2% or 8%, respectively, in these worst case scenarios, with scheduled carriers hit much harder, experiencing falling sales of 4.1% or 20.7%, respectively.\nMergers and acquisitions have been key during periods of economic downturn for airlines as they create space for increased global consolidation in what remains a highly fragmented industry. So far in 2012, the industry has witnessed the collapse of nine small European carriers, including Skyways Express, City Airline, Cimber Sterling, Pinnacle Airlines Corp, Mal\u00e9v Hungarian Airlines, Air Alps, Spanair, Czech Connect Airlines and Cirrus Airlines. Mergers between major airlines are set to continue whilst weaker airlines face being taken over or going under.\nEuroZone Air Transportation and by Category Value % Growth 2012\nEU, Eurozone, recession, travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 837, "original_length": 22170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.letteddywin.com/tag/texas-rangers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WPMGG5LDHVYNH4MERHJ3MG675RUCQAUU", "length": 1264, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.letteddywin.com", "title": "Texas Rangers | Let Teddy Win!", "raw_content": "14-inning game features two presidents races (and two wins for George)\nFriday night\u2019s 14-inning affair between the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres featured a treat reserved only for the truest of die-hard Nationals fans \u2014 a second unofficial presidents race, run only at home games that stretch past the 13th inning.\nFive hours, 30 hits, and 18 pitchers into the game, as midnight approached, the Washington Nationals\u2019 racing presidents returned to the field for presidents race #2. It was only the second 14-inning game in the short history of Nationals Park (the other being June 20 against the Texas Rangers). The late hour took its toll on most of the racing presidents, who simply gave up and let George run uncontested to the finish line.\nFor this final homestand of the season, it appears that George, Tom, and Teddy have had enough of Abe Lincoln, and have been pulling out all the stops to block him from the finish line. The result has been a mini-streak of his own for George, who won both races tonight and will be looking to lock up second place for the season this weekend.\nFiled under: Presidents Race | Tagged: 14 innings, Abe Lincoln, Extra innings, George Washington, Presidents Race, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers |\tLeave a comment \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.linkedin.com/2015/06/17/introducing-the-new-linkedin-pulse-your-daily-news-powered-by-your-professional-world", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EL2237XZHDF72M5EXHMLKOPV742FHEEL", "length": 4452, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blog.linkedin.com", "title": "Introducing the New LinkedIn Pulse: Your Daily News, Powered By Your Professional World | Official LinkedIn Blog", "raw_content": "Introducing the New LinkedIn Pulse: Your Daily News, Powered By Your Professional World\nA lot of people don\u2019t realize this, but the Pulse app was built as a class project at Stanford University in 2010. My cofounder, Ankit, and I designed, built and launched the first version of the app on the App Store in 6 short weeks. In the next three years as an independent company, we had an incredible ride, growing the Pulse user base to 30 million users and the team to 25 people.\nIn 2013, as we started thinking about the future of Pulse, we realized that to truly become the authoritative source of daily news, we\u2019d have to get significantly better with our content recommendations. We had done an amazing job giving our users the ability to visually see news from hundreds of sources in one place. But users were increasingly getting lost in this stream of information. Pulse needed to sift through the millions of articles published every day and pick the ones that are essential for each user.\nIn this whole puzzle, we missed one key component: Identity. We knew 30 million users had used the Pulse app, but we didn\u2019t know who they were or who they knew. That is precisely why we joined LinkedIn, the largest professional network. In the past two years, we\u2019ve been hard at work to marry the best content that Pulse has with the deep identity and network data that LinkedIn has, to create the world\u2019s first personalized business news digest.\nPulse today powers a lot of content you see on LinkedIn\u2019s homepage feed. Pulse content is also delivered to millions of users every week via the email digest. And perhaps most interestingly, Pulse now has its own organic content. Thanks to the publishing platform, over 130,000 unique original articles are now published every week in the LinkedIn Pulse ecosystem. Through this work, Pulse has emerged as one of the fastest growing products on LinkedIn.\nToday, I\u2019m very excited to announce the launch of fully redesigned Pulse mobile apps for iOS and Android. Instead of slapping features on to the old reader app, we decided to completely redesign the new Pulse experience from the ground up. The new Pulse app focuses on delivering you personalized news\u2014news that is powered by your professional world.\nWhen you start the new app, you\u2019ll experience an effortless onboarding process. You don\u2019t need to follow publishers or topics or anything to get started\u2014just log in with your LinkedIn account, and Pulse instantly gives you today\u2019s news based on the industry you work in, who you\u2019re connected to and what you follow on LinkedIn,\nThe new cards-based interface has been designed to enable users to skim through lots of content quickly. Don\u2019t like a story? Dismiss it. Want to read a story later? Save it. Like the author of the article? Follow them. All these interactions will continuously refine your content recommendations. The recommendations come from a variety of sources\u2014so let me take you through a couple examples:\nThe first story I see when I log in is a post written by the LinkedIn editor Isabelle Roughol. Her daily post brings me up to speed with all the business news I need to know to get started. Next, the Pulse app knows I work in the Internet industry, so it surfaces a story that is trending in my field. Pulse also know that I currently work as a product manager at LinkedIn \u2014so it recommends a story that\u2019s popular among my fellow coworkers.\nNext, it alerts me that my connection (and friend) Shervin Pishevar was mentioned in the news. By clicking on that story, I discovered that he\u2019s hosting President Obama and other business leaders at his home this week. (Woah!) Thanks to the Newsle product that LinkedIn acquired last year, I can set up notifications in Pulse so that I get notified every time a connection makes the news.\nAs you can see, without any input on my side, Pulse was able to recommend very relevant, targeted news stories to me, based on my professional identity and my connections. And that\u2019s what we hope to do for 360+ million professionals around the world.\nThe new app, now available on iOS App store and Android play store, will replace the old app in both stores. The old apps will continue working for existing users till the end of year.\nGet ahead of the day with the reimagined Pulse app that is all new and all news. Now you\u2019ll always have something sharp to talk about, every day!\nCelebrating LinkedIn\u2019s Women in Tech and Mentorship at Grace Hopper 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/10/04/protecting-the-brilliant-psychedelic-rock-gecko/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RMC6IVJYGNGBJU7KUDJAFO4CL43SA2CS", "length": 2190, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.nationalgeographic.org", "title": "Protecting the Brilliant Psychedelic Rock Gecko \u2013 National Geographic Society Newsroom", "raw_content": "Protecting the Brilliant Psychedelic Rock Gecko\nIt\u2019s got orange feet and an orange tail; a blue-grey body; and a lime green head. The psychedelic rock gecko, a small reptile native to only one island smalls off the coast of southern Vietnam, is endangered.\nIt was only described for the first time in scientific literature in 2010, but it has already made a splash in the pet trade. Online offers of live psychedelic rock geckoes and their eggs have driven these animals close to extinction. From 2013 to 2015, there were at least 21 different online ads for the colorful creature\u2014mostly from Russia, but also a few from Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, and the United States, according to a study earlier this year by Mark Auliya at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Auliya says he\u2019s also seen young geckos being offered for sale as captive-bred, even though there are no known captive breeding facilities of these geckos.\nTo make matters worse, psychedelic rock geckos are really picky about where they live. They prefer granite outcrops surrounded by dense forest and a leaf-covered floor. But many of these granite formations are now being literally blasted away to make room for the construction of roads. Plus, they\u2019re really slow to reproduce. All these factors combine to make them extra-sensitive to overcollection.\n\u201cThe bright colors and endemicity of this species trigger international demand,\u201d Auyliya says. \u201cAny collecting must be considered detrimental to the long-term survival of the species.\u201d\nThere are only about 500 to 700 left.\nToday at the CITES conference, the geckos got some much needed help. It was added to CITES Appendix I, meaning that all international, commercial trade in the species is banned. The European Union and Vietnam put forward the proposal, which says, \u201c the discovery and description of the species could lead to its extinction due to potential over-collection for the international pet trade.\u201d The proposal passed by a two-thirds majority and was approved by the plenary on Tuesday.\nTags Rachael Bale, Voices for Wildlife\nQ&A: Bushmeat Trade Threatens Wildlife and People\nCITES CoP17 Concludes on the Side of Wildlife", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.noticebored.com/2006/02/win-rebecca-herolds-book.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZBETYNVDOBMZ3JM5KBPV2AZHCASC4EO", "length": 447, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.noticebored.com", "title": "NBlog - the NoticeBored blog: Win Rebecca Herold's book", "raw_content": "In conjunction with other volunteers on the Global Security Week initiative, we are running a competition to find a new logo for Global Security Week 2006. Rebecca Herold's excellent book \"Managing an information security and privacy awareness and training program\" is one of the prizes on offer. So, if you have some creative ideas to help promote a global security awareness campaign, you have until March 10th to submit your entries. Good luck!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 4588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.pixelatedviews.com/2007/05/03/mix-07-session-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:48Z", "digest": "sha1:J7REO4CSZUKCOCUJJJV5T3JIB3KS3QJ5", "length": 1030, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.pixelatedviews.com", "title": "Mix 07 Session 6 | Pixelated Views Blog", "raw_content": "The Emotion of Customer Experience seemed like a companion session to the futures of design session. The speaker was very dynamic. Its not about the brand, its not about the product, its about the Experience. Its not just about what the customer feels about us, but how we make the customer feel. Sensing and reacting, not making and selling is what wins. Efficiency versus effectiveness. The little things\u2026 The clues\u2026 Those are the things that change the experience. The experiences that our customers have can be architected by us.\nDr. Jerry Zaltman wrote a book called \u201cHow Customers Think\u201d that sounds like a great book. I will have to check it out on Amazon.\nThe speaker, Lewis Carbone, has written a book called \u201cClued In\u201d.\nOne of the other things I have noticed about the conference is that there are folks coming here from all over the world \u2013 England, France, Switzerland, China, Korea, and they add a whole new perspective on the topics, and by the questions they ask.\n\u2190 Mix 07 Session 5 Mix 07 Session 7 and Keynote 2 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.rocketsoftware.com/2018/01/happy-birthday-git-z-os/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MILGD22NAL7YUN37NHSF4OJ3HN4RGI4W", "length": 4550, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.rocketsoftware.com", "title": "Happy Birthday, Git for z/OS! | The Rocket Software Blog", "raw_content": "Happy Birthday, Git for z/OS!\nIt\u2019s been just over a year since the release of our Git for z/OS ported open source tool. At the time of its debut, customers and mainframers were already excited following the addition of other modern tools and languages to the mainframe\u2014languages like Python, JavaScript, and PHP. Rocket has always been invested in open source technology, and we were thrilled with the response of the mainframe community.\nNo one needs another blog post convincing them of Git\u2019s usefulness. Most programmers will agree that the introduction of Git in 2005 set a new standard in version control entirely. Being one of the most widely taught version control systems (VCS) by computer science programs all over the world, it\u2019s more universal than most others on the market\u2014 open or otherwise. Alright, so no question about it: Git is a superior SCM. But let me tell you how Git is changing mainframe source code management from the inside-out.\nMainframe source code management has traditionally been very laborious; subject to rigorous, inflexible processes made more complicated by mainframe SCM\u2019s centralized nature. Though more and more languages have been made available to the mainframe (see our open source languages here), modern version control tools had evaded notice. We\u2019re happy to have changed that last year with the release of Git for z/OS.\nWhat exactly makes Git so exceptional on the mainframe, though? I\u2019m glad you asked. Here are some of our favorite reasons:\nGit is distributed version control, meaning your project\u2019s complete codebase\u2014including its full history\u2014is mirrored on every developer\u2019s computer. This peer-to-peer approach, as opposed to the client-server approach, synchronizes repositories by exchanging patches between users. Every user has a working copy of the codebase, and the detailed history therein. Developers can be productive without being connected to the network, and can code privately in their own isolated environments. Communication only becomes necessary when sharing changes among their peers. These numerous working copies among machines effectively function as remote backups\u2014which eliminates the risk of a single point of failure.\nOf all the benefits of using Git for z/OS, this should be the most persuasive. Being decentralized changes the game. Continuous development allows for quicker publishing of releases, features, and bug fixes. It considerably lowers the risk of development, enabling high performing teams to produce and publish much faster. Customers receive releases sooner, and the gears of innovation never stop turning behind the scenes. Seriously, this should be all the reason you need to use Git.\nIt\u2019s been said a million times before, but Git is the preferred VCS by student and entry-level programmers. You can\u2019t throw a proverbial rock without hitting a 20-something software developer who will tell you as much. Many use Github as a programming portfolio of their best projects. I won\u2019t go so far as to say it\u2019s the best version control system out there\u2014we don\u2019t have enough time for that debate\u2014but it is without a doubt one of the most widely known. New hires are productive much sooner when starting on this familiar tool.\nOpen Source, Open Innovation\nYou might be surprised to learn that over 65% of businesses leverage open source software to speed application development, and more than 78% incorporate OSS in their daily operations. There\u2019s a good chance your company is one of the many. We have a lot of respect for open source software and their communities of dedicated contributors. Mass collaboration evidently pays off for everyone involved. Rocket Software, like 65% of companies, contribute to open source projects. Git for z/OS is basically open source2\u2014 an open source port of an open source tool. The port supports automatic tagging, and conversion of text files between ISO8859-1 (ASCII) and IBM-1047 (EBCDIC) character encodings.\nGit for z/OS is our most popular free tool with over 500 downloads in 2017. You can find it, and our other open source tools, here.\nCalvin Fudge 5 Posts\nCalvin Fudge spends an inordinate amount of time focused on the challenges companies face with data integration. In the last decade he has worked extensively on data services and data virtualization, and is part of a team that helped launch Rocket's mainframe data virtualization solution. He currently serves as director of product marketing for Rocket's Data Lab, where he is helping customers increase business insight with real-time mainframe analytics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 14928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/projects/off-gride-solar-electrification-in-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:42Z", "digest": "sha1:YSQVL7ODIM56LA6ZRRHGN3NTRIAMOLOA", "length": 1544, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blumcenter.berkeley.edu", "title": "Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa with Mobile Phone Interface (UC Berkeley) - Blum Center", "raw_content": "This project seeks to provide a feasible and sustainable solution for growing energy demand in Africa. Its core innovation is in the village-scale solar power system that is currently being prototyped at UC Berkeley. One team member\u2019s extensive contacts in renewable energy organizations in Ghana gives this team a platform and local access to start implementing pilot systems. Ghana\u2019s growth rates for energy need, population, and development approximate Sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s on a whole, and therefore can be used as a suitable benchmark for testing. This team utilizes an array of inexpensive solar panels to provide remote generation. A predictive back-end will provide energy generation forecasts up to three-days ahead, and will convey expected generation shortfalls through SMS to end-users. Electricity sales will be on-demand and sold via mobile credits, expecting to generate USD $50 per month for a 2kw system.\nMaji Yaja Kwanza (UC Berkeley)\nVision 2030 is Kenya\u2019s national planning strategy for \u201cbecoming a middle-income country by 2030.\u201d Despite economic advancements, roughly 17 million of Kenya\u2019s 41 million people\nEarth energy is a technology that produces electrical energy from the change in the rate of chemical reactions produced by microorganisms that can be found\nData in the First Mile: The case for Shreddr and paper-based data collection (UC Berkeley)\nLocal, community-based service agencies in developing countries are increasingly attempting to collect data in order to measure the social impact of their work in areas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 227.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookstore.ams.org/gsm-134/35", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GUFHDQZEMUEQW6MLUSLAPMSEOZN4EV4W", "length": 1243, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "bookstore.ams.org", "title": "Analytic Number Theory: Exploring the Anatomy of Integers page 16", "raw_content": "Problem 1.7. Let f : [a, b] \u2192 R be a function continuous at the point\nc \u2208 (a, b). Consider the function g : [a, b] \u2192 R defined by\n0 if a \u2264 x \u2264 c,\n1 if c x \u2264 b.\nf dg = f(c).\nProblem 1.8. Let a c1 c2 c3 b and let f : [a, b] \u2192 R be a\nfunction which is continuous at the points ci (i = 1, 2, 3). Moreover, let\n\u03b21,\u03b22,\u03b23,\u03b24 \u2208 R and let g : [a, b] \u2192 R be defined by\n\u23aa\u03b21\n\u23a8\u03b22\n\u23a9\u03b24\nif a \u2264 x \u2264 c1,\nif c1 x \u2264 c2,\nif c3 x \u2264 b.\nf dg = (\u03b22 \u2212 \u03b21)f(c1) + (\u03b23 \u2212 \u03b22)f(c2) + (\u03b24 \u2212 \u03b23)f(c3).\nProblem 1.9. (a) Using definition ( 1.7) or ( 1.8), prove that the following\nfunctions belong to the set of slowly oscillating functions L:\nlog x,\nx, e\nlog x.\n(b) Prove that the following functions do not belong to L:\n, sin x.\n(c) Prove that the following functions are regularly varying:\nlog x\nx1+1/x.\nProblem 1.10. Consider the function f : N \u2192 {0, 1} defined by f(1) = 1\nand, for each integer n \u2265 2, by\n22m+1,\n22m+1\n22m+2.\nShow that the set A = {n \u2208 N : f(n) = 1} does not have a density.\nProblem 1.11. Let A \u2282 N be a set of zero density and let a1 be its smallest\nelement. Also, let L : [a1, +\u221e) \u2192 R+ be an increasing function which is\ncontinuous and differentiable on [a1, +\u221e). Assume moreover that L (x) =\nO(1). Prove that the following two statements are equivalent:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bouillie.us/2010/08/05/register-now-for-the-southern-foodways-alliance-symposium/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WUP4QU3ULO5K4PWUZFEPS2K6GXFNKIZQ", "length": 1787, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bouillie.us", "title": "Register now for the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium | Bouillie", "raw_content": "Register now for the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium\nRegistration opened this week for the Southern Foodways Alliance annual symposium, a food-filled weekend of deep thoughts, fun, and interesting people. This year\u2019s program, scheduled for October 22-24, 2010, in Oxford, MS, will celebrate \u201cThe Global South\u201d, paying attention to the diverse and evolving cultural influences on Southern foodways. Check out the weekend\u2019s detailed program here. If you\u2019re interested in attending, register soon; the event is always a sell-out.\nUpdate: I\u2019ll be there\u2026will you?\n8 thoughts on \u201cRegister now for the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium\u201d\nAre you going, Celeste? I hope so!\nI\u2019m on the fence, still thinking about it. I saw that you\u2019re on the program\u2026\nI\u2019m just going to be interviewing a couple of chefs, including Adolfo Garcia. I think the programming looks promising. Plus, it\u2019s always one of the better weekends of the year for me. It\u2019s a financial commitment, though, so I understand the fence-sitting.\nIt\u2019s more about potential vacation conflicts! I think I\u2019m off the fence, I just re-read the brochure & noticed Andrea Nguyen & Francis Lam, and the final breakfast features pho. I\u2019m there\u2026.\nSounds like fun but we are going to the Eggtoberfest the weekend before that and I\u2019m not allowed to have too much fun in one month;)\nSounds like they have some interesting topics, like the Cuban influence on Southern food. If you do go, I can\u2019t wait to read about the event on your blog.\nI attended a couple of SFA symposia in the early 00s; lots of good food & interesting people.\nI seriously considered it for about six seconds, but that\u2019s right smack in the middle of our benefits open enrollment period, so no chance.\nAw, Sarah, you\u2019d love the event. Oxford is fun, too. Maybe next year\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bowdoinorient.com/2017/04/14/faludi-pulitzer-prize-bowdoin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HZS5NYGSPEZK6FGUN2TMADCOST2MB5K6", "length": 583, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bowdoinorient.com", "title": "Faludi named Pulitzer Prize finalist for memoir \u2013 The Bowdoin Orient", "raw_content": "\u201cIn the Darkroom\u201d won the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction last November. In February, Faludi spoke about the book and read excerpts at Bowdoin.\n\u201cI\u2019m a writer and that\u2019s how I come to terms with things I don\u2019t understand,\u201d she told the Orient in February. \u201cWhether it got published or not, [I wrote it] to figure it out in my own life, [to] figure out my relationship with my father.\u201d\nFaludi previously won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 in explanatory reporting for an article she wrote for the Wall Street Journal about layoffs in the wake of a buyout of the supermarket chain Safeway stores.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brainsnorts.com/the-return-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GXO3JYADJQP75V6NA56VZI6TRYEMCFSZ", "length": 11493, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "brainsnorts.com", "title": "The Return of \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Me\u201d | brainsnorts inc.", "raw_content": "The Return of \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Me\u201d\nI know many of you have seen this already. If so, calm down. No need to get angry. I apologize for giving you what you have already seen. For the rest of you, sharpen your pencils and have a seat. You\u2019ve got some learning to do, but at least you\u2019ve got a fun teacher for the next semester.\nA year ago, nearly exactly to the minute when I turned 50, I began a 18-part series called \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Me\u201d in response to someone who asked me to write about my college years. It was very well received. The series, not college. In the past couple of months I have been focusing on fiction \u2013 novels and short stories. I have barely written any film reviews, which I love doing because I think I\u2019m great at it.\nIn the year since, I have been Freshly Pressed and tripled my followers, and I somehow continue to pick up about 100 new followers a week, now closing in on 2,000 even while writing less than at any point in this blog that could be in kindergarten by now. So, for those people, you should know who you\u2019re getting involved with because you might want to re-think who you follow. Keep in mind though that some very smart people have called this series the best stuff I have ever written. I sure hope not.\nAlso, about the original series, I never exactly finished it and left myself hanging with school and career issues. I plan to include two more chapters this time, but I am still thinking about it Just saying.\nInspired by true events based on things that may or may not have happened.\nThe Rise and Fall of Me \u2013 Part 1:\nHow President Jimmy Carter Crushed My Dreams\nI grew up wanting to do one thing: fix cars. My uncle owned an automotive garage right in the middle of the main street in town, right across from the biggest church and the best bakery, Mazur\u2019s Bakery, and a decent fast food place. That garage was where I spent many childhood Saturdays because my father often picked up some extra money helping out on weekends, and me, being the oldest boy, naturally followed Dad when possible. My father and his brother were fun to watch. Two Italians arguing over what\u2019s wrong with the car as if two brothers were debating over provolone and mozzarella while a kid with red hair and freckles tried to stay out of the way. And I did. I was good at staying out of the way, and it paid off well because staying out of the way meant two things: 1. I didn\u2019t get yelled at, and 2. I found the mother lode of Playboy magazines, but that\u2019s a story and an addiction for another day.\nStaying out of the way meant I would usually wander around the two main parts of the auto shop. The front was a supply store, where gruff men with greasy hands would ask for fan belts and gaskets and things which I knew nothing about other than I wished that I could one day know the name and function of every shiny metal whatever or black rubber something that sat on the hundreds of shelves or hung on nails around the dusty shop. My cousin, only a year older than me, was trusted with selling parts and minding the store while his father and mine butted heads and wrenches out in the garage.\nAbove the shop were several apartments, one of which was where my cousin and uncle lived kind of a bachelor life. They rented out the other apartments, and that, combined with being one of two main places to get your car fixed in town and having an excellent location by the church and bakery, and also being connected to most every cop in town, helped them make a pretty good living up there. Of course I didn\u2019t know about that stuff. I just wanted to know enough to help fix cars, and I thought about my cousin and I taking over and replacing his father and mine when they would sit in lawn chairs out front, watch traffic go by, and argue about whether that blue Ford was a \u201998 or \u201999. Out back, in the garage, Cousin and I would argue over suspension and brake calipers. That was my dream, but it was all ruined by President Jimmy Carter.\nBack in the 70\u2019s, there wasn\u2019t as much attention paid to career-planning in school as there is now, or maybe there was and I just didn\u2019t pay attention. I mean, maybe they tried to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and maybe they even tried to steer me towards things, but I must have been out that year. The only thing I remember about high school and career was that I liked to draw stuff, mainly the different spacecraft from Star Wars and Evel Knievel on a motorcycle jumping over stuff. Oh, and I could reproduce NFL football helmets perfectly. As senior year of high school approached, there was a nuclear arms race that was stirring up a second Cold War with Russia. In a move to send a \u201cpeaceful\u201d message, Pres. Carter let it be known he was going to sign a Proclamation 4771, a Selective Service Bill that would require all males born on or after January 1, 1960, to register at their local post office for a possible military draft.\nFirst and foremost, I\u2019m a pussy. It did not take long for me to research how to avoid the military. I had no plans to flee to Canada, but I had been playing hockey since I was about 8, so I quickly washed my Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. I learned that males in college were taken after those not in college, and I made sure I applied right away for higher (and non-violent) education. My sister was in college, so I was sure she would put in a good word for me. I immediately apologized for hooking up a secret telephone extension and listening in on her boring phone calls that weren\u2019t really worth listening to as well as the time I hit her in the head with a rock in 8th grade. I also promised not to tell about the time she was smoking pot in her bedroom, although I tried it too. I think. Not sure.\nRegardless, I had a choice. Automotive repair dreams with the risk of being drafted into a nuclear war with Russia or bullied into college to stave off the army for at least round one of the draft. I had to suck it up and go to college. I had no clue what classes to take at William Paterson College, now touting itself as a university. All I knew about myself besides cars was that I like to draw stuff, so I started with an art class with Professor Wollock. I didn\u2019t do well in art class because, although I liked to draw stuff, I never had an art class before.\nIn high school I signed up for art freshman year, and they said only upper classmen get into art. Instead, they gave me drafting. It involved pencils and paper, so it was close. We spent a year drawing 3D boxes, making up plays for the high school football team, and not making fun of Mr. Burns\u2019 toupee. The only cool thing about that class was that both my older cousin, from the auto garage, and my older sister were also in the class. Taking attendance was fun, and it was the only class in which we were allowed to play the radio and sing along.\nSophomore year I tried for art again but I ended up in metal shop with some of the largest guys I\u2019ve ever seen. One was Timmy Marrone, the heavyweight on the high school wrestling team. Look up the song \u201cTelephone Line\u201d by ELO. You\u2019ll never hear anyone sing it as well as Timmy, then he\u2019d kick ass on the wrestling mat as if the pain from that song were driving him to revenge. Tried again for art class junior year and ended up back in drafting. Senior year I didn\u2019t even bother.\nSo, college art class, first day, people are unloading all kinds of supplies and things, and I\u2019m sitting there with a sketchbook full of Star Wars scenes and motorcycles. The teacher said to take out our \u201cpastels.\u201d I saw other students with things that looked like crayons without the paper around them and thought something was strange, and it was. Me. I didn\u2019t belong in an art class, and I did not do well, but I was up front on nude model days. Well, most of them.\nI had a literature class called Methods of Critical Analysis. There were some really smart geeks in that class, and the geekiest of teachers who looked like the Stay Puff Marshmallow man, that is until the third class when I realized it was the Stay Puff Marshmallow woman. I had no clue what was happening, so I sat in the back, against the wall, and kept a paperback of the Lord of the Rings trilogy inside the text book. Of the very few things I learned in that class was that I was actually capable of getting an F. That was new to me because I was voted Most Likely to Succeed only a few years earlier. Go figure.\nI had a math class, statistics, and I failed that too, but it wasn\u2019t fair because I was a victim of technology. What I mean is that it was 1980, and I had one of the first calculators that could also play Blackjack. I didn\u2019t get much work done, but I ate through lots of batteries on that calculator. Another F, by the way.\nAt the end of my first year of college, my grades were two F\u2019s, two D\u2019s, and a handful of C\u2019s for a grade point average of 1.25, which is barely a D in regular grade terms. Go me. My second year didn\u2019t begin any better, and after three semesters I still had a 1.25. Not only that, I received a special letter letting me know that my grades were so low that if I didn\u2019t increase significantly, they were kicking me out. I had visions of marching through Europe behind trucks carrying ICBM\u2019s. Sure enough, my grades were not much better in the fourth semester, and I finished up my first two years of college with a 1.44 grade point average, or a D+.\nBelieve it or not, there was a bright spot because I had my first ever creative writing class. It was called Creative Writing. No shit. It was with Dr. Cioffari, nice Italian guy who looked a lot like Hugh Hefner but back before Hef became a vampire. It was what I have come to learn was a typical writing workshop. Each week a few people would have enough copies of their writing for everyone. We would take home their work to read and critique, and the following week the writer would read it aloud to the class, the rest of the class would give their two cents, and then the teacher would give his comments. I specifically remember a guy writing a story that seemed like a Springsteen song, a guy pursuing a girl that he can\u2019t seem to win over. I remember a woman writing about going through divorce counseling. I\u2019d listen to what others had written and think about how good it was while thinking that my writing was nowhere near what they\u2019d done.\nUntil recently, and certainly back then, I never thought much of what I wrote. I had the beginnings of a medieval story in which there was one knight who had the title of something like \u201cLord of Knights.\u201d Can\u2019t really remember what he was called. The concept was that the \u201cLord of Knights\u201d possessed a powerful sword, lighter and sharper than anything anyone had ever seen. The only way for anyone to become the Lord of Knights was to kill the current Lord and take his sword. But whoever was the current Lord was always being challenged to a fight because everyone wanted to kill him and become the new Lord, not realizing that each time a new Lord is named, he is immediately a marked man. I was greatly surprised at the praise I received for the story, which I never really finished, but I think I will in the very near future.\nIt was the greatest class I could have imagined, and it was the highest grade I had ever gotten \u2013 a proud B. Lot of good it did me though, because I was no longer welcome at WPC, and they kicked my ass out immediately after that semester.\n(pictures by Roy Wright, except those that aren\u2019t)\n\u201cHow an Idiot Accidentally Became a Teacher\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 18012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/amazon-is-busy-stitching-content-deals-for-possible-diwali-launch-of-prime-video/54557911", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QQH7NRUT4TIB5DHV6X3HE7QT7TWC5N2Z", "length": 3497, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com", "title": "Amazon: Amazon is busy stitching content deals for possible Diwali launch of Prime Video, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity", "raw_content": "Amazon is busy stitching content deals for possible Diwali launch of Prime Video\nSources have confirmed to ET that Amazon is in final lap of negotiations with Yash Raj Films and Salman Khan FilmsGaurav Laghate | ET Bureau | September 28, 2016, 10:19 IST\nSeveral Amazon India executives are busy stitching content deals with various production houses and studios as the e-commerce giant readies to make a big splash in the digital video market with Amazon Prime Video. While the launch date hasn't been announced, a Diwali launch is the most likely possibility.\nHighly placed sources have confirmed to ET that Amazon is in final lap of negotiations with Yash Raj Films, Mukesh Bhatt-owned Vishesh Films, and Salman Khan Films for the digital rights of their libraries, and with TSeries for music rights. The company has already announced a deal with Dharma Productions.\nImportantly, in the film deals it's pitching for pre-satellite rights, that is, before television premiere of the films. Media reports suggest that the Seattle-based company is ready to spend up to $300 million, or close to Rs 2,000 crore, for content in India, a figure higher than annual programming budgets of the top three Hindi general entertainment channels put together.\nWhen contacted, an Amazon spokesperson said, \"We are very excited about our plans for India and will look to partner with among the best content partners. We have not yet announced date for India launch and do not comment on future plans.\"\nGlobally, Amazon's content strategy is based on the two pillars \u2014 originals and films, but this model will be tweaked in India to suit the local preferences. Multiple sources in the industry said that Amazon is looking at deals valued on the basis of box office performance of the films.\nFor example, if the entire catalogue of films collected a certain amount at the domestic box office, Amazon will pay out in low-teens of that amount to have a specific window of streaming. In India, Amazon is also keen on sports, specially the Indian Premier League (IPL) rights, for which it has bought the tender document, hinting its appetite to go after live sporting events, something arch-rival Netflix has avoided in all markets.\nThe third largest piece of Amazon's content strategy is the originals, for which it is busy signing content makers. ET had earlier reported Amazon has tied up with Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's production house Excel Entertainment for its first original show, Power Play. Prime will have to deal with local as well international competition, including Hotstar, Voot, Eros Now, Netflix and the upcoming Alt (Balaji Telefilms).\nExecutives of rival companies said that while Amazon's entry will have a \"significant\" impact on the overall digital over-the-top (OTT) ecosystem, it will not affect their business model as Prime Video will be an add-on service for Amazon's Prime customers.\n\"One has to understand that content is not the core business, but an add-on service for Amazon. Yes, its business is expanding and in time that will drive content usage as well, provided the content is good. But it will not be a threat to others,\" a top executive of an OTT player said on condition of anonymity.\nAnother executive from a broadcasting company with an OTT presence added that even if Amazon goes after the rights for the popular twenty20 tournament Indian Premier League, it will be from 2018 only.\nTags : Digital, Amazon, Salman Khan, Netflix, ritesh sidhwani, preferences, video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 8141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://breadalone.smugmug.com/Other/Nicaragua-2011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:RDBUXHA54PELDXDE5FQFLJ6M7RF7XDSG", "length": 936, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "breadalone.smugmug.com", "title": "Nicaragua 2011 - breadalone", "raw_content": "Sharon traveled to Nicaragua in order to understand the way that coffee is not only grown and processed but imported into America for use by our Roaster, Counter Culture Coffee. The trip was led by Kim Eleni Bullock and Peter Giuliano of CCC. We traveled from Managua into the mountains to an organic farm that is owned by two Americans from North Carolina. The farm, La Finca Esperanza, is an organic ecotour lodge just outside of San Remon.\nI have tried to organize the photo in order of the coffee production, however, we were not present for much of the grunt work of planting, pruning and fertilizing.\nNicaragua is a physically beautiful coffee growing country, but it is very poor with unemployment around 53%\nLa Finca Esperanza is a lovely ecolodge located outside of the town of San Ramon. It is quite rural, but the accommodations here are comfortable and way above camping! I stayed in the little cabin at the top of the hill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bringmethenews.com/life/beloved-kid-show-favorite-carmen-the-nurse-dies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WKATATSGSD3CMCBFZHZ2MLWAR7ZSWRV2", "length": 2260, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bringmethenews.com", "title": "Beloved kid show favorite Carmen the Nurse dies - Bring Me The News", "raw_content": "Beloved kid show favorite Carmen the Nurse dies\nAn obituary for Mary Davies Orfield, 88, appeared in the Sunday Star Tribune. Orfield, known professionally as Mary Davies, portrayed Carmen the Nurse on local television programs for children for more than two decades. She was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2004.\nHer obituary said that died peacefully on February 7. \"Mary was known and loved for her singing and television careers that spanned over 50 years. Her gift for bringing joy to a generation of baby boomers as Carmen the Nurse on WCCO TV still resonates today,\" it reads.\nMnKidVid website notes that Davies played Carmen from October of 1954 to March of 1977, making the character one of the longest-running in Twin Cities television. The Carmen character began as a featured part of the \"Axel and His Dog\" program. As Carmen, Davies later became the host of \"The Treehouse.\" Her final show, \"Carmen's Cottage\" was cancelled by WCCO in 1977 to make way for the Phil Donahue Show.\nAccording to the website for the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, Davies began her career at age four in a production of Madame Butterfly. As an adult performer, she sang on the \u201cDayton Soda Set Show\u201d with a local orchestra and won a local \u201cStairway to Stardom\u201d contest. She went on to appear on WCCO Radio and began appearing on WCCO-TV in 1950. The site said that she was featured on \u201cCountry Holiday,\u201d the first locally produced color television broadcast.\n\"A mother of six children, she was able to combine her many talents as an entertainer with the love and understanding that set the standard for children's programming,\" her biography on the website reads.\nMARY DAVIES from Pavek Museum on Vimeo.\nnewsMinnesota Celebrities/PersonalitiesStar TribuneLifeMinnesota Celebrities/Personalitiesentertainment & artstv\nLongtime Duluth weatherman, kid show host dies at 91\nThe Twin Cities' favorite foodie Andrew Zimmern gets another TV show\nReport: Morning show anchor, meteorologist out at KSTP\nRave previews rolling in for new 'Fargo' TV show\nFan guide to follow Minnesota's (few) Academy Award connections\nFrom friendship to romance? 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Early on, he saw that he would not be able to keep up with the mounting need for advanced communication services in rural locations.\nIn 1991, Bill\u2019s son, Brody Benson, hired on and they decided to take the company into marketing in addition to contracting with telecommunications giant, AT&T. Now, BTS has positioned itself as a full-service communications company specializing in new system sales, ISP, maintenance and support and cabling.\nIn 2000, BTS installed its first internet tower in Reno County, Kansas and began supplying internet with wireless technology to local farmers and ranchers. Since that time, BTS has expanded to 9 more new towers and communities bringing the internet to where, before, there had been none.\n\u201cI believe in our communities and working together with people that share the same vision as I do.\u201d says Brody Benson, CEO. \u201cSo, it wasn\u2019t a difficult decision to partner with local companies and help grow our business and theirs. Working with local business owners has brought new opportunities that will ensure the growth of our communities by keeping our money local and insuring jobs for our communities.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buildinghopeinthecity.org/cleveland/hope-works/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NJPZVBP7EKWE5MXOKRLOHQVPTCO4N64U", "length": 943, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "buildinghopeinthecity.org", "title": "HopeWorks \u2013 Building Hope in the City", "raw_content": "HopeWorks is the social enterprise \u2013 businesses whose primary purpose is the common good of the city and the advancement of God\u2019s Kingdom \u2013 arm of the organization.\nUsing the disciplines of business and the power of the marketplace, BHITC offers the people it serves opportunities for employment, as well as other means of improving the quality of their lives and security of their loved ones and community. Since it launched in 2015, HopeWorks continues to yield surprising and God-honoring results, much like the mustard seed in Jesus\u2019 parable.\nSocial enterprises also create an important roadmap for BHITC to achieve greater sustainability. Our businesses yield net profits that are returned to BHITC so that its mission can be extended.\nBHITC\u2019s first social business, Common Threads \u2013 a high-quality resale shop in Cleveland\u2019s Fairview Park neighborhood, has had an incredible first two years in operations. Read more about the store here!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://burnaccidentattorneys.com/burn-injuries-skin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7CYL4FBBGOQLNMTSUA4K5VYL63NRWINR", "length": 2898, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "burnaccidentattorneys.com", "title": "Burn Injuries and Your Skin", "raw_content": "What is the body\u2019s largest organ? It\u2019s not the liver, or the stomach\u2026it\u2019s the skin. The entire outer layer of the human body is skin, designed to regulate body temperature, maintain fluid balance, ward off dirt and germs, protect internal organs and thwart infection. Our five senses are also regulated largely by our skin as it sends messages to the brain about movement and touch. Nerves and blood vessels feed the skin as it releases oils from its glands and body fluid (sweat) to cool our bodies.\nThink of your skin as armor. When the armor develops a crack, a crisis develops that demands our attention. Underneath the skin are layers of fat, muscle and bone. If the body should experience a burn injury, we are at immediate risk.\nSome burns are minor and heal well with little intervention. Other burns are critical, requiring urgent medical assistance. If you or a loved one suffers a serious burn, seek medical help immediately. Specially trained medical personnel will assess the burn to determine the best course of action.\nSome burn injuries are deep enough to require skin grafting, although the need for grafting may not be immediately evident. Skin grafting is a surgical operation in which a piece of healthy skin is transplanted to the damaged area of the body.\nCommon reasons for performing a skin graft include:\ndeep burns\nlarge, open wounds\nbed sores or other skin ulcers not healing well\nTwo types of grafts exist:\nThe Split-Level Thickness Graft removes the top two layers of skin from a donor site (healthy area of the patient\u2019s skin). Split-level thickness grafts are used when large areas of skin need to be covered. Additional grafts may be needed at a later date, especially in children as they grow.\nThe Full Thickness Grafts removes the top two layers of skin along with muscle and blood vessels when smaller wounds need protection and coverage on visible body areas. This type of graft blends well with surrounding skin and offers the added benefit of growing with a young patient.\nThe graft is stapled to the burn area, then covered with a thin dressing and covered with bulky bandages moistened with antibiotic fluids. As the graft grows with the skin, it begins to stick to the wound. This is a delicate process wherein the grafted area must remain protected and largely immobile for up to two weeks. For some patients, on grafting surgery is enough; for others, more surgeries are needed. As the wounds heal, scarring may take place. The patient will feel quite sore at the grafted areas.\nSevere burn injuries require long periods of healing and many treatments, and can become very costly. If you believe your injury was caused by someone else\u2019s carelessness or negligence, a defective product or an accident, consult with a knowledgeable personal injury attorney who can explain your rights and discuss the compensation to which you may be entitled under the law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/people/callie-brownson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:IKQ2WMTDU3NSTJEJKYRK6ZDJCL3Q4C5D", "length": 1174, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu", "title": "Callie Brownson - Wharton Business Radio", "raw_content": "Offensive Quality Control Coach, Dartmouth Football\nHailing from Alexandria, Virginia, Brownson has quite the football background as a player on the D.C. Divas from 2010-17 in the Women\u2019s Football Alliance. She was a five-time team captain and four-time All-American as a free safety and a running back, helping the Divas win national titles in 2015 and \u201916. Brownson is also a two-time gold medalist (Finland in 2013, Vancouver in 2017) with Team USA Women\u2019s Football. Her coaching background extends to the high school level as she spent three falls with Mount Vernon High (where she went to school) as an assistant coach, and last summer was a college/professional personnel scouting intern with the New York Jets. She is currently the Offensive Quality Control Coach with Dartmouth Football, a position she received after a two week training camp internship.\nHailing from Alexandria, Virginia, Brownson has quite the football background as a player on the D.C. Divas from 2010-17 in the Women\u2019s Football Alliance. She was a five-time team captain and four-time All-American as a free safety and a running back, helping the Divas win national titles in 2015 and\u2026Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 135.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cadactive.com/2017/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:40Z", "digest": "sha1:53L2JDXR2LB63OBMYFXBRUYOPWE5SQNR", "length": 306, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cadactive.com", "title": "December 2017 - CadActive", "raw_content": "This is going to be our final release of 2017. The next six weeks (which also include the holidays) are going to be entirely dedicated to the major updates we\u2019ll be rolling out in January. Global We slimmed down the data being sent for Piping Specs by 95% (talk about a complete overhaul!) Improved our [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calebandlindapirtle.com/daily-review-broken-donna-siggers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OUDM2UOFXYBGB2YYC6BISMXOQACZEO5H", "length": 4771, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "calebandlindapirtle.com", "title": "Daily Review: Broken by Donna Siggers - Caleb and Linda Pirtle", "raw_content": "A bone-chilling thriller in which the reader is never sure what\u2019s going to happen. The author kept me on the edge of my seat.\nBroken is the first in a series of thrillers featuring Katie-Ann Warwick and Sam Cooper. We join this dynamic duo as their relationship heats up and they have reason to work together once again.\nDrawing on Sam\u2019s undercover experience to trace a kidnapped woman, Kate\u2019s friend and old colleague, they have every reason to suspect she\u2019s at the mercy of a prisoner who has just escaped \u2013 Carl Ashbeck\nBy Jennifer K. Irwin\nThe story is about one evil man and three friends whose lives change because of him. The plot is well laid out and I truly wanted everything to be okay.\nThen, at the very end, there is an unexpected twist!\nBy Leonard Tillerman\nA common dictionary definition of \u201ctrust\u201d is being able to predict what other people will do, and having confidence in the eventual outcome. What a wonderful concept! However, trust is a tricky business which takes a long time to build, and an instant to lose.\nSo what happens when you are not really sure of who to trust? You find yourself being unable to trust your friends, family, colleagues, institutions\u2026anyone. What would you do? Now let\u2019s add the chilling and riveting elements of a top-notch thriller into this scenario. What you are left with is all the ingredients for one awesome story! If this all intrigues you, then Broken, by author Donna Siggers is a novel which will ensnare you with its complex web of intrigue and action.\nThe story is Part One in a series of thrillers which follow the escapades of Katie-Ann Warwick and Sam Cooper. Sparks are about to fly in more ways than one! Due to a series of unforeseen events, they are teamed up together to find a kidnapped woman and solve a series of apparently related crimes.\nTo make this even more interesting, they believe this has all the earmarks of a demented escaped prisoner by the name of Carl Ashbeck.\nHe has a serious grudge against Katie-Ann and will stop at nothing to inflict his own particular brand of justice. What follows is a race against time as Katie-Ann and Sam battle Ashbeck\u2019s criminal network and the corruption in the police department which seems to go all the way to the top. Will they find Ashbeck before it is too late? Or will he continue upon his path of evil destruction and ultimately claim Katie-Ann as another hapless victim?\nThe plot of this story is extremely fast-moving, intricate and nail-biting! The theme of \u201ctrust nobody\u201d is conspicuous and permeates throughout the entire novel. This motif serves to make the story even more captivating and engrossing as it keeps the reader guessing during the course of events.\nThe reader will be truly engaged as they attempt to predict what will happen next. However, there are so many twists and turns in this thriller that any educated guess in regards to plot development will likely fall flat on its face. Indeed, that is one of the contributing factors which make this story so captivating in the first place! Also, all of the main elements needed in thrillers, such as suspense, excitement, and anticipation, are used exceedingly well in Broken. There can be little doubt that this is one of those books which you simply do not want to put down!\nWhile the plot is thoroughly developed and engrossing, so are the various characters in the story. Their development throughout the book is smooth and steady. We have the cunningly demented Ashbeck, to the strong and somewhat stubborn Sam. While the pure evilness of Ashbeck depicts him as a loathsome individual, it also makes him somewhat mesmerizing. A perfect villain.\nSam, on the other hand, is very likable and steady throughout the tale. Nevertheless, our understanding and familiarity with him grow with each passing page. All that being said, we are able to identify and learn the most about Katie-Ann as the story is told mainly through her eyes and perspective.\nShe grows a great deal and transforms from an apprehensive and fearful character to a strong and steady woman. The birth of a capable leader occurs before our very eyes. Naturally, there are a host of other characters within the novel, and the author provides more than sufficient information and details so that we are able to identify with them. A true lesson in character development.\nDue to some very violent scenes and sexual incidents, this book is recommended for an adult audience. There are a few very graphic scenes so be forewarned. It is not for the squeamish! Nevertheless, it is a wonderful thriller and is given the highest recommendation by this reviewer.\nPlease click HERE to find Broken on Amazon.\nauthor, broken, crime, Donna Siggers, evil, kidnapping, Linda Pirtle, relationships, Thriller, trust, undercover", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 7543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://camstl.org/exhibitions/great-rivers-biennial-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UU5I2CNGEZME42KUMUQVWNAC7Z5PJBTU", "length": 2920, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "camstl.org", "title": "Great Rivers Biennial: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis", "raw_content": "Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Of Color, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 6\u2013August 21, 2016. Photo: David Johnson.\nNanette Boileau: Dakota Territory, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 6\u2013August 21, 2016. Photo: David Johnson.\nTate Foley: Post No Bills, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 6\u2013August 21, 2016. Photo: David Johnson.\nLyndon Barrois Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley\nCAM presents the seventh edition of the Great Rivers Biennial featuring new work by St. Louis-based artists Lyndon Barrois Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley. The Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award Program, a collaborative initiative between CAM and Gateway Foundation, identifies talented emerging and mid-career artists working in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area, providing them with a $20,000 honorarium and a major exhibition at CAM. Three distinguished jurors\u2014Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum; Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and Paul Pfeiffer, sculptor, photographer, and video artist\u2014selected the 2016 winners from more than 80 submissions.\nThrough a multi-disciplinary practice including installation, painting, and sculpture, Lyndon Barrois Jr. examines questions of aesthetic value, race and representation, and the creation of meaning through imagery in popular culture. Of Color situates eight life-size assemblages\u2014composed of cropped images of athletes, fashion models, and domestic objects culled from magazines\u2014on an asphalt basketball court. By repositioning this outdoor setting within the protected space of the Museum, the artist asks viewers to consider how people, cultures, and lifestyles typically sited on the periphery can gain visibility in a new context.\nNanette Boileau bases her practice on the vast territory of the Louisiana Purchase, creating nuanced portraits of the contemporary American West through writing, painting, and video. Filmed over the course of several months, Dakota Territory, a three-channel video installation, consists of a series of scenes\u2014or \u201cfield notes\u201d\u2014examining the quotidian life of ranchers in southeastern Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota.\nTate Foley\u2019s work revolves around printing and bookmaking, often examining connections between language and social issues. In Post No Bills, an installation of large-scale sculptures and twelve single-channel videos, Foley reframes the language of protest by presenting a series of words spelled phonetically. Viewers are asked to interrogate the impact of prescribed definitions and construct their own nuanced meanings of often essentializing terms.\nThe 2016 Great Rivers Biennial is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Jeffrey Uslip, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs / Chief Curator.\nThe Great Rivers Biennial is generously supported by the Gateway Foundation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://capitalwineschool.com/events/wset-level-iv-diploma-unit-6-fortified-wines/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FIURAKFCD72MMZJ5NJ2R5SAQR4YD5BHE", "length": 1204, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "capitalwineschool.com", "title": "WSET Level IV Diploma, Unit #6: Fortified Wines - Capital Wine School", "raw_content": "Please note that the course registration deadline for those students wishing to sit for the June 12 exam is March 30, 2019 and there are no refunds or rescheduling after that date. Students who wish to enroll in the course between March 31 \u2013 May 6 will be registered for the next available WSET Unit 6 exam.\nThis 4-class course will be held at Capital Wine School on the following dates: May 7, May 14, May 21, and May 28 and the WSET exam on June 12, 2019 Each class meets from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The WSET exam be at 2:30 p.m.\nThe WSET Level 4 Diploma, Unit #6: Fortified Wines Course is taught over four sessions. The exam takes one hour and five minutes, usually from 2:30 to 3:35. It includes a tasting assessment of three wines and several essay questions related to material covered in the Unit. You must have taken the WSET Level 4 Diploma, Unit #2 exam before registering for this, or any other, Diploma unit.\nThe course fee includes the 4 classes at the Capital Wine School (including a practice exam) the WSET Level 4 Diploma Unit #6 study materials, and the exam at the Capital Wine School.\nUNIT6 Series beginning May 7, 2019show details +hide details - $699.00 (USD) Select this ticket", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://carbondaletourism.org/events/bike-ride-to-murdale/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:38Z", "digest": "sha1:3DG7PXKT23XOXPIBLBXRUL3YQSYR6L6G", "length": 299, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "carbondaletourism.org", "title": "Bike Ride to Murdale \u2013 Carbondale Tourism", "raw_content": "Bike Ride to Murdale\nJoin SIU Sustainability and Saluki Spokes for a group ride to Murdale Shopping Center! Meet at the south end of the Student Center. 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The Executive Branch implements and enforces Montgomery County's laws and provides executive direction to the government. Its chief executive officer is the County Executive. There are over 30 executive branch departments and agencies that help to deliver services to over 1 million county residents. Montgomery County is proud of the services it offers. These include some of the best in the nation, which we strive to deliver in keeping with our Vision Statement and Guiding Principles.\nMontgomery County\u2019s newly elected County Executive has outlined seven Priority Outcomes for the County\u2019s future. These include:\nPriority Outcomes:\nThriving Youth and Families \u2013 Children need great schools, supportive families, and caring communities to help them succeed in life. We can give them the start they need by providing adequate funding for public schools, access to affordable early childhood education and expanded high school options, and support for programs that relieve stress on families through increased access to affordable housing and better-paying jobs.\nA Growing Economy \u2013 A healthy business community is essential to our success. We will reinvigorate the county\u2019s direct involvement in economic activities by re-examining our regulations to make sure they are sensible, fair, and efficient; opening support centers that help both new and existing businesses; and developing an incubator and innovation climate to help local entrepreneurs bring their ideas into the world.\nA Greener County \u2013 We recognize the urgency of global warming and will take concrete steps to address climate change. County government has committed to zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2035, an ambitious \u2013 but achievable \u2013 target. We will reduce our footprint by pursuing clean energy, energy efficiency, enhanced building design, reduction of waste, and developing a better transit system for our residents.\nEasier Commutes \u2013 Moving people and goods more efficiently is an economic imperative and is essential to our quality of life. We will reduce traffic congestion by improving transit options, supporting Metro, encouraging telecommuting and implementing common-sense road improvements.\nA More Affordable and Welcoming County \u2013 We will focus on initiatives that make Montgomery County a place where all residents can pursue their dreams regardless of race, ethnicity, age or economic circumstances.\nSafe Neighborhoods \u2013 We will address crime and pedestrian safety issues and seek input from communities across the county on ways to address these issues. We plan to enhance opportunities for walking, biking, and creating neighborhood gathering places.\nEffective, Sustainable Government \u2013 We will partner with county employees to make County Government more cost-effective and to deliver services more efficiently and responsively.\nMontgomery County is seeking to fill the Director for the Department of Health & Human Services. The position is appointed by the County Executive and confirmed by the County Council. This position is accountable to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO).\nMontgomery County\u2019s newly elected County Executive has outlined seven Priority Outcomes: Thriving Youth and Families, A Growing Economy, A Greener County, Easier Commutes, A More Affordable and Welcoming County, Safe Neighborhoods, and Effective, Sustainable Government.\nThe Director of the Department of Health & Human Services plans, develops, implements, and evaluates all County health and human service policies and programs by directing subordinate managers to: improve the health, social and economic conditions of the County's low income families, individuals, and elderly residents; coordinate public and private services for children and youth, and provide technical assistance to agencies serving this population; ensure the coordination of public and private services to persons with disabilities and their families, as well as the County's deinstitutionalization and shelter programs; ensure the delivery of emergency, crisis prevention, and mental health/adult addiction services, and services to victims of assault/abuse/neglect and their families; and provide for the development and implementation of new health and human service program initiatives. The complexity of the work is reflected in the need for planning, directing and integrating a broad range of health and human services functions and programs. The work requires consideration of the needs of various targeted groups in the population as well as societal and community issues and impacts, and development of solutions that accommodate conflicting objectives from a variety of organizations, groups and individuals.\nThe candidate will have high expectations of himself/herself and other staff, pay attention to detail after understanding the big picture, and will take care of day-to-day issues before they are referred to the CAO. The ideal candidate will bring a strategic perspective, be able to see beyond the immediate pressures, stay focused on the important long-term objectives and have passion for public service and a strong commitment to effectiveness and efficiency of Government programs, processes and services.\nThe ideal candidate will be ethical, approachable, trustworthy, apolitical and committed to excellence and delivery of meaningful results for tax payers in Montgomery County. S/he will communicate openly, honestly and collaboratively with a diverse group people, expertly promulgate and implement a long-term mission, vision and strategy and provide new ideas and innovation through change management processes that improve the efficiency and delivery of effective county programs and services.\nHighlighted Qualifications:\nDevelops new and innovative approaches to health and human services policies and programs, and oversees development of coordinated, comprehensive, and strategic health and human services.\nDevelops Departmental State legislative agenda annually and coordinates County positions on State legislation and policies affecting health and human services.\nExtensive knowledge of the philosophy, objectives, practices and procedures of public health and human service programs to meet the needs of all age groups and varied community interests.\nExtensive knowledge, or the ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge, of the Federal, State and County laws, statutes and ordinances pertaining to public health and human service programs.\nEffective team builder and collaborator, strategic -partner working to build relationships with elected and appointed officials of the county, bi-county, State, and Federal agencies in an advisory capacity and with officials of any groups and organizations interested in Montgomery County government and its operations;\nExpert ability to work with diverse groups of people;\nCourageous and motivating ability to supervise, train, evaluate and support professional, technical, and clerical staff;\nTransformative ability to innovatively develop, implement and manage county policies, procedures, and processes.\nMaster\u2019s degree in Public Health Administration, Human Service Administration, Social Services or a related field, with at least seven years\u2019 experience in public health, mental health or human services planning and implementation, social work, or related field with at least four (4) years in a managerial or supervisory capacity which included responsibility for fund and budget administration, program planning, implementation and administration.\nAn equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.\nMontgomery County government is committed to attracting and retaining a highly- skilled, quality, and diverse workforce. We want people who aspire to make a difference in our community. We offer quality compensation and a generous benefits package. Learn more at: Montgomery County Benefits. Interested applicants should forward a cover letter and resume to Gregg A. Moser at gmoser@kapartners.com.\nAbout Montgomery County, Maryland\nLocated adjacent to the nation\u2019s capital, Montgomery County is the most populous county in the state of Maryland and one of the most diverse counties in the nation. The County Government is composed of the Executive and Legislative branches. The Executive Branch implements and enforces Montgomery County's laws and provides executive direction to the government. Its chief executive officer is the County Executive. There are over 30 executive branch departments and agencies that help to deliver services to over 1 million county residents. Montgomery County is proud of the services it offers. These include some of the best in the nation, which we strive to deliver in keeping with our Vision Statement and Guiding Principles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 13126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 179.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.cvm.umn.edu/jobs/11987132/equine-veterinarian-internship", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QR7ECJLYIW7X4P4XO6THDB53V6FCNWFE", "length": 2012, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "careers.cvm.umn.edu", "title": "Equine Veterinarian Internship, Employment | UMCVM", "raw_content": "Marks Ewen & Associates is a fully equipped equine referral and first-opinion practice located on 5 acres on the outskirts of Matamata. It is a growing practice with 7 veterinarians and 7 support personnel including qualified nurses and experienced administration staff. It has a predominantly thoroughbred client base but also a significant and growing sport horse sector. Full surgical and diagnostic services include: digital radiography, ultrasound, video and dynamic endoscopy, arthroscopy and shared gamma scintigraphy. The practice also has a modern purpose built Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.\nThe internship is intended for new or recent graduates with an interest in equine medicine and surgery. The role is structured over a 12 \u2013 18 month period and will start in July 2019. It is designed to prepare the individual for advanced equine practice or used as a stepping stone towards a residency program elsewhere. The first six months is predominantly hospital based and includes primary responsibility for all routine anesthesia and care of in patients with the nursing staff. Thereafter the intern will be expected to undertake an increasing amount of routine ambulatory work under the guidance of more senior veterinarians within the practice.\nThere will be plenty of opportunities to develop skills in elective and emergency anaesthesia, reproduction and medicine including expanding skill sets in neonatal care. Similarly there is an ample opportunity to develop skills in lameness diagnosis, radiography, ultrasound scanning, performance and sports medicine and endoscopy. Within the practice there is scope to tailor the internship to develop skills in individual areas of interest and continuing education is well supported.\nWe are looking for an enthusiastic team player who will share our goal of providing top level veterinary care. If this sounds like you, please apply with a covering letter, current CV and include two references to:\nwww.marksewen.co.nz\n*applications close 15th March 2019*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1626398/professor-in-operations-and-information-management-operations-research-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BU3U2VPQBCAYOP7X6UCXFS7B6SDO4GYX", "length": 3533, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "careers.insidehighered.com", "title": "PROFESSOR IN OPERATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (OPERATIONS RESEARCH) job with University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1626398", "raw_content": "PROFESSOR IN OPERATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (OPERATIONS RESEARCH)\nDepartment:SCH OF BUSINESS OP&INF MGT\nA122040-SCHOOL OF BUSINESS/SCH OF BUSINESS OP&INF MGT\nPh.D. in Operations Management, or related field required by start date.\nWell qualified applicants will have demonstrated high quality research with publications in top tier journals, and will have demonstrated evidence of excellence in teaching.\nCandidate with new or anticipated Ph.D. degrees will have research under way that is likely to result in one or more publications in top tier journals, and will have presentation skills that suggest future excellence in teaching.\nCandidates for tenure rank will possess academic credentials to qualify for a tenured faculty appointment at UW-Madison.\nLicense or Certificate: Position Summary:\nThe Operations and Information Management (Operations Research) Department in the Wisconsin School of Business seeks an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in the field of Operations Research. The position would be responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate students in Operations and Information Management (Operations Research) or related field at the Wisconsin School of Business, conducting scholarly research and performing university service.\nThe OIM department offers a PhD program, a day-time MBA and an undergraduate major in Operations and Technology Management, and an undergraduate major in Information Systems. We also have a presence in the Evening and Executive MBA programs. Our faculty members specialize in operations & supply chain management, sustainability, healthcare operations management, operations research, managerial economics, and information systems. The department administers the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management (http://www.bus.wisc.edu/erdman/) and has close connections with the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management (http://www.bus.wisc.edu/grainger/), both of which are founded on the principles of cross-functional perspectives and industry relations. Faculty members also maintain links with units outside the School, including the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing, the Industrial and Systems Engineering department, the Manufacturing Systems Engineering program, and the UW E-Business Consortium.\nThe Department and School of Business are committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community and curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to these goals are encouraged to identify their strengths and experiences in these areas.\nAmber Reierson\nTo ensure full consideration, complete applications must be received by no later than 11:55 p.m. CDT, November 1, 2017. Please complete the online application: You will be asked to include (a) statement of interest, (b) full curriculum vitae, (c) one PDF file to include a brief statement of current and future research interests, at least one working paper, and evidence of excellence in teaching (e.g., teaching evaluations, letters). You will also be asked to provide the names and contact information for three references. References will be contacted and asked to provide a letter of recommendation.\n- Unless confidentiality is requested in your online application, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality\n- Electronic submissions are required\nEngineering & Mathematics, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Professional Fields, Business & Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 11272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 199.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.purdue.edu/content/WhyPurdue/?locale=en_US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XIKHXSGJX4TG2XHCGK7EXEGCZI6BBRAU", "length": 631, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "careers.purdue.edu", "title": "WhyPurdue", "raw_content": "Do you want to be a part of something that moves the world forward? Purdue University is a place of innovation and discovery with incredible faculty, staff, and students, but we also think of Purdue as a rare gem; here it\u2019s possible to combine both your work and interests and be passionate about both.\nAdvantages of a Purdue Career\nThe perks of a Purdue career are numerous, offering everything from the satisfaction of working for a nationally renowned university, to the arts and intellectual stimulation, to just living in a great community. What appeals most to you?\nLife at Purdue\nFascinating people, stimulating things to do", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casper.fandom.com/wiki/Paramount_Pictures", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JAK2E7LZUT52P2UN7DTK7SDEZYECH4XY", "length": 1027, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "casper.fandom.com", "title": "Paramount Pictures | Casper the Friendly Ghost Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Casper's Mother Casper's Father Little Audrey\nParamount is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the worldm the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the \"Big Six\" film studios still located in the Los Angelesneighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first \"movie stars. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.\nIn Casper franchise Paramount is known for being the first owner of the franchise who produced the classic Casper noveltoons.\nRetrieved from \"https://casper.fandom.com/wiki/Paramount_Pictures?oldid=10252\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 132.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catappy.com/low-ash-cat-food", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PGYYIINCXQWFWT7DHB6ZU6ISY3QKNQS2", "length": 3622, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "catappy.com", "title": "Low Ash Cat Food", "raw_content": "Feeding low ash cat food is prescribed to minimize the incidences of urinary tract problems in felines. Carefully select cat food with low ash content and high nutritional value to keep your pet healthy and cheerful.\nWhen it comes to rearing a cat, you want the best for your pet, in terms of training, grooming, shelter, and most importantly, food. Taking the help of a qualified trainer and maintaining a clean shelter are somewhat easy to manage, as compared to feeding the cat a balanced diet. You should have a thorough knowledge about the nutritional requirements of a cat, with respect to its age, size, and others factors. After all, it is the question of keeping your pet joyful, healthy, and disease free.\nMaking cat food at home is a good idea. However, it is not always possible to try out homemade recipes. So, a practical solution is to feed both market sold foods and homemade versions in an appropriate ratio. You can seek advice from a qualified veterinarian regarding the ingredients that are healthy for your pet. Also, it is imperative to feed food with a low-ash content, containing correct amounts of magnesium and other trace minerals for minimizing the risk of urinary tract problems in your pet.\nFirst, let's try to know 'what is ash' and 'why it is incorporated in commercial cat foods'. Ash is the inorganic remains collected after incinerating organic materials. It contains trace minerals that make up complete nutrition for the cat's health. Nevertheless, excess amount of this inorganic material causes abnormal fluctuations in the pH range of urine. And the ultimate result is problem of the urinary system, especially amongst male felines.\nPrecisely speaking, the risk factors of urinary tract blockages and disorders are increased with consumption of high amounts of ash. This is the main reason why, it is recommended to feed less ash and more proteins. Also, do not neglect high magnesium content, as it is one of the leading factors for causing uremic disorders. In general, it is of utmost importance to check the label of commercial products. That way, you can ensure that you are providing adequate nutrients required by your pet.\nWith the raising concerns of feline urinary tract disorders (FLUTD), most pet owners are opting for low magnesium and low ash content in the food. No doubt, you can find a plethora of types and brands in the pet stores. How can you determine the best brand for your pet? Indeed, selecting a healthy product is quite a challenging task. Some brands are Sensible Choice Chicken Meal & Rice Adult Cat Food (5.5 percent ash), Purina Cat Chow Special Care Formula (6.2 percent ash), and Nutrience Kitten Food (6.3 percent ash).\nAs you now know the importance of maintaining a low ash content in the diet, make a point to go through the nutritional label of the products and reviews before purchasing. Products having an ash content of about 5.5 - 6.5 percent are claimed to be healthy. It is understandable that even the best dry cat food contains a higher amount of ash than wet ones. So, in order to have optimal urine pH range, you should feed dry, moist, and wet foods in adequate proportions. Also, provide lots of water and go for regular veterinarian checkups.\nBesides offering low ash cat food, there are certain aspects that should be taken into consideration while taking care of your pet's health. Keep a keen eye over your cat's behavior and changes in health conditions (if any). By doing so, you can identify weakness, fatigue, and disease conditions in the early stages and get them addressed by a veterinarian at the earliest possible date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catappy.com/tapeworms-in-cats-treatment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:7R4PJVLEGJRPIY7MDLSIGDZGLBUBRXTE", "length": 4134, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "catappy.com", "title": "Treatment for Tapeworms in Cats", "raw_content": "Treatment for Tapeworms in Cats\nTapeworms are intestinal parasites which affect cats that have ingested fleas or other infected rodents. Read on to know more about the health problem, its treatment, causes, and symptoms.\nBeing a cat owner, I can assure you that there is nothing as repulsive as finding a white slimy worm stuck on the chair as soon as the cat gets off it. Tapeworms are intestinal parasites in cats that affect their digestive system. Classified as cestodes, these flat segmented cat worms use their hook-like mouth parts to latch on to the small intestine of your feline friends. They are whitish in color with a ribbon-like appearance, and can grow up to 60 cm in length.\nTapeworms require two hosts to complete their life cycle. While the intermediate host passes the cysticercoid around, it is in the final host, your cat, where the tapeworm develops into an adult and lays its eggs. Although there are several types of tapeworms that infect cats, the Dipylidium caninum is by far the most common tapeworm to be found in cats, followed by Taenia taeniaeformis.\nDipylidium caninum: The intermediate hosts of this tapeworm are the cat fleas. The eggs are passed in the feces which are eaten by flea larvae. This is where the egg hatches and becomes a cysticercoid. When the cat ingests these parasitic fleas from its body while grooming, the tapeworm is released. This parasite then hooks on to the intestinal wall and develops into an adult. Once it reaches maturity, segments of the worm break off and leave the body via the anus.\nTaenia taeniaeformis: Taenia taeniaeformis infects cats who eat rodents containing the tapeworm larvae.\nTapeworms do not cause any major health problems. The common symptoms of tapeworm in cats include presence of rice-like segments around your cat's anus and in the immediate environment of your pet, which may qualify as a sign of tapeworm infestation. Other symptoms of a tapeworm infestation include: unthriftiness, depression, irritability, an unpredictable appetite, and poor coat condition. In certain rare cases, the tapeworms may cause debilitation, weight loss, and diarrhea. You might also find the cats scooting or dragging its anus along carpets. This is due to anal irritation caused by the tapeworms.\nAre These Tapeworms Contagious?\nTapeworms infecting the cats are contagious to humans. However, it is quite difficult to contract the parasitic worms from cats. In fact, the only way to get a tapeworm from your cat is if you eat a flea.\nOnce the veterinarian has diagnosed the problem, there are a range of treatment and preventive measures that can be used. For treating tapeworms, drugs and medications for de-worming are primarily used.\nMedications: Praziquantel and Epsiprantel are frequently-used medications for treating a tapeworm infestation. However, it is vital to note that Epsiprantel cannot be given to kittens and even Praziquantel should not be administered to kittens less than 6 weeks old. The appropriate dosage is based on the weight of the animal. Other medications for providing relief include bunamidine, niclosamiden, and mebendazole.\nControlling Fleas: Controlling fleas is the cornerstone of the treatment of tapeworms. There are a range of flea control products available in the market. You need to consult the veterinarian for the type of product and whether you need to treat your yard or home for fleas. Look for the \"flea growth hormone\" which prevents flea larvae in your carpet from maturing into adults. While the normal flea control sprays eliminate the adult fleas, they do not kill the eggs or flea larvae. Wash your cat's bedding in hot water and make sure to spray the couch and other furniture where a flea infestation is possible.\nIn addition to keeping your cats free of fleas and lice, you may also need to prevent them from hunting rodents. Dispose of the cat feces immediately and appropriately. Since children are at risk of ingesting fleas when they are outdoors, it is important that strict hygiene be practiced. Remember that for dosage and treatment, pills and drugs need to be taken as per the veterinarian's advice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ce.mayo.edu/sports-medicine/content/2nd-annual-mayo-clinic-sports-medicine-primary-care-clinician-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SVBCJCGDLUCUQTDWUI3EYZYONICVRQ6K", "length": 4142, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "ce.mayo.edu", "title": "2nd Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Clinician 2018 | Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sports Medicine \u00bb 2nd Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for...\n2nd Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Clinician 2018\nCo-Course Directors: Kristina F. DeMatas, D.O., C.A.Q.S.M. and Sara E. Filmalter, M.D., C.A.Q.S.M.\nThis conference will supplement skills learned in residency and allow participants to fill in gaps in their training and reinforce existing knowledge of musculoskeletal conditions diagnosis and treatment. Topics discussed include musculoskeletal conditions and procedural techniques primary care clinicians can utilize for athletes and active individuals.\n$75.00/$90/$100.00 each\nSubmit an abstract or work in the area of Sports Medicine: case series, case-control studies, randomized trials, outcome studies, quality improvement projects, practice innovations, and interesting case reports, to be included in poster sessions. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Accepted abstract recipients will be notified by email after the deadline, Saturday, December 23, 2017. For further information email FLA CME Abstracts.\u200b\nDisney Yacht & Beach Club Resort\nRooms are reserved for attendees and their guests at the group rate starting at $269 per night plus applicable taxes. In order to receive the special rate, reservations must be made before the room block sells out or before the expiration date of January 23, 2018, whichever comes first. The resort has extended the group rate three days prior and three days after the course based on availability.\nCheck-in time is after 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is before 11:00 a.m. To receive a discounted rate call (407) 939-4686 and identify yourself as a participant of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Course or book online.\nGuests receive complimentary in-room internet service. Complimentary self-parking is available at the Hotel and Disney theme parks for all guests staying at the Hotel. Rooms are limited so we do encourage early booking.\nThe group\u2019s online booking site will only be available through February 16th. Should attendees visit the website to book a new reservation or make modifications after this date, you will see a message directing you to call our Disney Group Reservations Office at (407) 939-4686.\nLimited Overflow Option Once the Extended Block is Full:\nGuests should continue to call the Group Reservations Phones Team at 407-939-4686. The hotel agents will be able to check availability at both Disney\u2019s Yacht Club Resort and Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom Lodge at the time of the call.\nGuests can also book Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom Lodge by using the group\u2019s custom online booking website above The website will also check availability at both resorts. IF both hotels have a room in the room block available, Disney\u2019s Yacht Club Resort will show as the first option, as it is the host hotel.\nDisney's Magical Express:\nContact the Hotel regarding \"Disney's Magical Express\" service option for attendees staying overnight at the Hotel who are traveling through Orlando International Airport. Subject to the terms in effect for this service at the time of the course.\nThis Live activity, 2nd Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Clinician 2018, with a beginning date of 02/23/2018, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 14.75 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nSports Medicine for the Primary Care Clinician 2018 - General Session\nWorkshops Friday, February 23, 2018- Additional Fee Required\nThe Upper Extremity Exam of Athletes and Active Individuals 2018 (1:30-2:30 pm)\nThe Evaluation, Physical Examination and Treatment Options of the Concussed Athlete 2018 (2:30-3:30 pm)\nBasic Osteopathic Manipulation Therapy for Primary Care 2018 (1:30-2:30 pm)\nThe Physical Exam of the Knee, Ankle and Foot 2018 (2:30-3:30 pm)\nWorkshops Saturday, February 24, 2018- Additional Fee Required\nMusculoskeletal Injections Hands-On 2018 (1:00-3:00 pm)\nThe Lower Back Exam of Athletes and Active Individuals 2018 (1:00-2:00 pm)\nBasic MSK Ultrasound for Primary Care 2018 (1:00-3:00 pm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 11908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/127331/security-guard-still-duty-hours-graduates-cum-laude-saint-saint-theresas-college-cebu?ref=syn_article_candy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:CFJAD5GX7AQ2WSBCMTZVV7VUH4KUG7E6", "length": 5107, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "cebudailynews.inquirer.net", "title": "Security guard is still on duty hours before he graduates, cum laude, at Saint Theresa's College in Cebu", "raw_content": "Security guard is still on duty hours before he graduates, cum laude, at Saint Theresa\u2019s College in Cebu\nBy Michelle Joy L. Padayhag |March 25,2017 - 01:19 AM\nErwin Valmoria Macua (PHOTO GRABBED Roel Racho)\nIt is just hours before he graduates, and with honors at that, but Erwin Valmoria Macua. 38, is still on duty \u2013 working the night shift \u2013 as a security guard at the Catholic-run St. Theresa\u2019s College (STC) in Cebu City.\nMacua, who is assigned at the entrance gate of STC, could not keep down his excitement that finally his dream to finish college will happen today, Saturday.\n\u201cDili ko katuo nga makaabot ko ani nga point. Nag lutaw pako karon,\u201d he told Cebu Daily News.\n(I could not believe that I would reach this point. I am stlll on cloud nine.)\nSeventeen years after serving the school as one of its security guards, the 38-year old father of three will walk up the stage at 3 p.m. today at the STC Theatre to receive a diploma for a baccalaureate degree in Elementary Education (BeEd), cum laude.\nDespite working a shift of from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., Macua maintained a full load \u2013 attending classes from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. \u2013 and was a consistent Dean\u2019s Lister since his first year college in 2013.\nAnd just like how he had not been skipping a day\u2019s work since he started college, today is no difference. He will remain on duty until 7 a.m. today.\nHis reason is simple: He does not want a salary deduction.\n\u201cIt\u2019s no work, no pay. My salary here has been helping support not just my studies but as well as my family,\u201d he added.\nGiving himself the monicker \u2018For the love of family,\u2019 Macua, a native of Trinidad, Bohol, is not the only one in school. His eldest son, 17, is in college, taking up Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at the University of Cebu, as a Cebu City scholar; the second, John Clifford, 16, is Grade 10 student at the Ramon Duterte Memorial National High School in Cebu City; and the youngest, a girl, Cherise May, is only ten-months-old.\nHis wife, Irenea, runs a sari-sari store at their home in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City to help augment the family income.\nBefore he was married, Macua was a college drop out; a civil engineering student at the Divine Word College of Tagbiliran (now called as Holy Name University). He dropped out of college in 1997 after only a semester since his farmer-parents, who tilled a field in Trinidad, Bohol, could no longer afford to send him to school.\nMacua, the eldest of six children, decided to leave for Cebu City to find a job. He was hired as a security guard in STC in 2000. It was his uncle, also a security guard, who helped him get the needed three-week training that allowed him to land the STC job.\nHe had always dreamed of finishing college even after he got married shortly after he got a job and started raising a family. But it was not until 2013, when STC, which used to be an all girls school, began accepting male college students that he had an opportunity to get a degree.\nMacua decided to take up BeEd since he wants to inspire the young people to study and change their lives. In particular, he wants to inspire the youth to give back to their parents who work hard to provide them education.\n\u201cI want to inspire them; that they need to give back to their parents. That will be the best reward to them,\u201d he added.\nIt was also a blessing when he was informed by the school\u2019s management that he could avail of the 50 percent tuition discount.\n\u201cWho could refuse such offer? This is a dream come true for me to get a degree,\u201d he said.\nWith a tuition that ranged from P20,000 to P36,000 per semester, the 50 percent discount was heaven sent. He said his burden was further lessened when son Jean Vincent got a scholarship from the Cebu city government.\nMacua said while he had very little time to sleep, he managed to fulfill both his work and school duties. It was all about time management, he stressed.\nBut he is just as thankful to his classmates for being good to him; helping him get through study periods.\nMost of all he said, he was most grateful to his family, his wife in particular, for the understanding and support.\nHe said there were many instances when he could not go home and see his family since he had projects and school works to be done in between his duty hours. But he tried his best to finish all his school projects at school since he wanted to spend his rest day, Sunday, with his family.\n\u201cI am very happy that my family, my wife is very understanding,\u201d he added.\nHe recalled that there were many instances when he had to bring home his school projects but his wife and kids, instead of resenting him, turned it into a family bonding time by helping him finish his homework.\nHe especially recalled the time when he had to do his bulletin board projects and decorations: \u201cMy wife and son helped me a lot,\u201d he added.\nToday, as he receives a recognition for his years of hard work, it will not only be his wife and children who will be there to share this happy moment.\nMacua said his mother and five siblings will all be coming from Bohol to attend his graduation rites at 3 p.m. today.\nNO SETTLEMENT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cespedesfamilybarbecue.com/tag/tampa-bay-rays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EDFREMLHPINZ6KHUXYBSIYUQBNFZIEJH", "length": 170, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cespedesfamilybarbecue.com", "title": "Tampa Bay Rays \u00ab CESPEDES FAMILY BARBECUE", "raw_content": "Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Free Agency, Michel Bourn, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, The Wire, Toronto Blue Jays", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cfrc.com/alabama-45-clemson-40-in-classic-championship-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SFZ7TVOQZYEQC5UOHLF6A3OECJCIWZ5M", "length": 653, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cfrc.com", "title": "College Football Research Center", "raw_content": "Alabama Tames Tigers in Classic Championship Game\nThe Crimson Tide won the College Football National Championship Monday night with a hard fought 45-40 win over a tough Clemson team. The undefeated Tigers refused to give in to the favored Alabama squad, even after the Tide stole momentum after a gutsy onside kick play and jumped to an 11 point lead in the middle of the 4th quarter. Clemson fought back and had a chance to win the game, but time, and big plays by Alabama on offense and defense finally sealed Clemson\u2019s fate.\nAlabama has now won 4 National Championships in the last 7 years, a feat unmatched in the history of Modern College Football.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://changethecycle.com/blog/2013/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FPTE7FAYIADW247P2NKJKGSE4XC2GM5L", "length": 2245, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "changethecycle.com", "title": "March 2013 - Change The Cycle", "raw_content": "\u2018I realized I couldn\u2019t work and deal with this at the same time. I knew something had to be done.\u2019\nName: Mary F. Age: 43 Occupation: Insurance agent My favorite hobby is snowboarding. I would be up on the mountain, and it\u2019s not like I would carry pads and tampons everywhere. I had white snowboard pants and it was just embarrassing. I had heavy periods for 10 years, but they got really bad the last [\u2026]\nNo more bathroom dashes\nMost people leave desperate rushes to the bathroom behind them when they exit childhood, but for Diane they re-appeared when she was in her mid-forties and heavy periods struck. When discussing her period with her physician, it was dismissed and explained as \u201csomething that just happens\u201d. With no guidance other than knowing her bleeding wasn\u2019t [\u2026]\nFYI on the YI\nWe have all seen the commercials\u2026 about that itchy, burning, uncomfortable feeling between your legs \u2013 the dreaded yeast infection. At some point or another, almost every woman has experienced one of these and if not, consider yourself very lucky. 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The footage has been poorly stored for 50 years and recently digitized. It is low resolution, dirty and shaky. There are also some stills of members of Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) included. There is no blood and guts, nor any political statements. It\u2019s mostly aircraft, artillery, some Sky Trooper at work, and dialog via title/text. But for those who were there, it\u2019s not a movie or reenactment, it is real footage taken in Vietnam. I appreciate all those who made this humble home movie possible.\n\u2190 -uck You Lizard and ReUp Bird in Vietnam\nTHREE DRAFTEES \u2013 FROM BASICS TO VIETNAM \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 7692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charliemcculloughphotography.com/product/j-n-ding-darlings-lab-on-captiva/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TOC422GGNF6WR6GMAM7HYFCWK2HZC5QB", "length": 261, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "charliemcculloughphotography.com", "title": "J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling\u2019s Lab on Captiva - Charlie Mc Cullough Photography.com", "raw_content": "Home / Photographs / J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling\u2019s Lab on Captiva\nDing Darling built this home, but it took so long that he and his wife ended up living at \u201cTween Waters Inn, and he used this fish house as a studio. It now belongs to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 174.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlierclaywellwriter.com/2015/07/27/president-warren-harding-a-ladys-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:26Z", "digest": "sha1:52ONFPSUSCZHIR6LLQXVMS2LYXJAR3DM", "length": 6754, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "charlierclaywellwriter.com", "title": "President Warren Harding \u2014 A Lady\u2019s Man? | Charlie R. Claywell", "raw_content": "President Warren Harding \u2014 A Lady\u2019s Man?\nPosted on July 27, 2015 by CharlieClaywell\nI don\u2019t know much about Americanism, but it\u2019s a damn good word with which to carry an election \u2013 Warren Harding\nThere is a reason few people can recall anything Ohio native and 29th president of the United States, Warren Harding did \u2014 he didn\u2019t do much.\nOne of his greatest accomplishment came after he died \u2014 landing at the top of the Worst U.S. presidents list.\nHe has remained near the top ever since.\nThe son of two doctors, Warren Gamaliel Harding, born in Corsica, Ohio, served as president from 1921-1923. At the age of 14 Harding was admitted to Ohio Central College and upon graduation his first business ventures were teacher and insurance salesman. In 1882, he and a couple of friends bought a small newspaper in Marion, Ohio and he spent the next decade or so managing and growing the paper.\nIt would be nine years later, when he married Florence Kling de Wolfe, a wealthy divorc\u00e9e five years his senior \u2014 that Harding\u2019s success would rally take off. De Wolfe, who had a keen business sense and plenty of money \u2014 started by helping the paper continue its successful run.\nIn 1898, seven years after marrying de Wolfe, Harding entered politics at her bidding. He was elected twice to the Ohio legislature and became lieutenant governor in 1903, Even though two years later he returned home to his newspaper business, his political career had launched because, \u201cHarding did favors for city bosses who, in turn, helped him advance in Ohio politics.\u201d\nIn 1914 Harding became a member of Congress \u2014 elected as the Senator from Ohio. It is here we first get a hint of his work ethic with regards to the legislative process. Although he held strong views while in Congress, he didn\u2019t back those views up with action since he \u201cmissed two-thirds of the votes held during his tenure as senator.\u201d\nRegardless, in 1920, political insider and close friend Harry Daugherty started pushing the idea of Harding for the Republican nomination for president. According to Daugherty, Harding was a great candidate because Harding had no significant political enemies, held the \u2018right\u2019 position on all the issues \u2014 and what may be the first instance in the 21st century of image over substance for a candidate \u2014 Harding \u2018looked like a president,\u2019 Daugherty said.\nHarding\u2019s campaign slogan, \u201creturn to normalcy,\u201d hardly seems capable of inspiring voters to put him in office \u2014 but they did by an overwhelming majority. He carried 37 states and 60 percent of the vote.\nHe pulled this off despite the fact that he was not the first choice for the Republican Party that year \u2014 former president Theodore Roosevelt was. But when Roosevelt\u2019s health declined drastically in 1918 (he died in 1919), the party made a strategic move \u2014 similar in design to the Democrats \u2014 by backing the little-known dark horse candidate from the electoral-vote-rich state of Ohio. The Democrats ran Ohio governor James Cox and Vice President candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nBut the 1920 election, like today, was about spending power and getting the message out. With a 4-1 spending advantage over the Democrat candidate, Harding easily won.\nSo What Did He Do\nOne would think if elected and chosen by that many Americans, Harding would settle down and get to work on an agenda to bolster the post-war America. But that wasn\u2019t the case. Aside from promoting political cronies to high-level positions, his only other accomplishments were cutting the income tax for the wealthy and raising tariffs \u2014 both high up on the Republican \u2018to do list\u2019 at the time.\nWhile president, Harding deferred most decisions to Congress and confided to close friends and political allies that he wasn\u2019t prepared for the role of president. Taking a page from his senatorial past \u2014 when his inactivity was reflected in his voting record \u2014 Harding assigned \u2018the best man\u2019 to the various roles of government. It would lead to several scandals including the Tea Dome scandal where government contracts were doled out to friends in return for guaranteed loans. His friend Daugherty would be indicted twice and eventually forced to resign his appointment of Attorney General during Calvin Coolidge\u2019s administration.\nBut He Loves The Ladies\nHarding was a ladies\u2019 man. His first extra-marital affair began in his hometown of Marion when a local department store owner and wife lost a child. It was 1904 \u2014 the department store owner was a close friend of Harding, and Harding felt compelled to comfort the man\u2019s strawberry-blonde wife during their time of grief. Harding would comfort Carrie Phillips, nine years his junior, for the next 15 years.\nThen, in 1917, Harding discovered Nan Briton another Marion resident. Briton, who was 31 years younger than Harding, was infatuated with the good-looking politician. After her graduation from secretary school she requested a letter of reference from Harding. After the pair\u2019s cordial meeting in May, Harding and Briton took it to the next level and by July were intimate.\nBriton\u2019s relationship with Harding would continue while he was Senator and they allegedly conceived a child inside a closet of the Capitol building. In 1919, Briton gave birth to a girl which she claimed was Harding\u2019s child. (the official record says Harding has no children).\nBoth affairs proved expensive to Harding.\nHarding reportedly paid the Phillips (Carrie\u2019s husband learned of the 15-year affair when it ended in 1919) $20,000, plus $2,000 a month while he was president and a free trip to the Orient. But, the jilted lover, Carrie, had the last laugh. When she died in 1963, love letters from Harding were found in her estate. The often bawdy letters were released to the public in 2014.\nHarding\u2019s Anti-Climatic Death\nAllegations of an illegitimate child coupled with the pressures from the Tea Dome scandal is probably what did him in. Harding died in a San Francisco hotel in 1923 where, most historians believe, he died of a heart attack. But even his death was tainted. Some theorize the heart attack was caused by a doctor\u2019s faulty use of purgatives and after his death a book surfaced saying Harding was murdered.\nDuring a poker game, Harding once gambled away a White House china set dating back to Benjamin Harrison\u2019s presidency.\n\u201cI have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they\u2019re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!\u201d \u2014 Warren G. Harding.\nOhio\u2019s Presidential Legacy\nWilliam Harrison \u2014 America\u2019s One-Month President\nUlysses S. Grant \u2014 Good Guy \u2014 Bad Crowd\nRutherford B. Hayes: Election Gone Bad\nCategories: American History, Ohio History\t| Tags: ohio presidents, united state presidents, warren g. harding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 10053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cheneybrothersbuilding.com/custom-built-homes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MRUB7RX3T6F2CSCQNJAFF55USF5Y4KZK", "length": 2375, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "cheneybrothersbuilding.com", "title": "New Home Construction | Nantucket, MA | Cheney Brothers Building and Renovation", "raw_content": "Trust Us for Your New Home Construction in Nantucket, MA\nBuilding your dream home is a very exciting time. It is something you\u2019ve planned and talked about and considered for years. Now, the time has come for a major step. You are choosing a partner for your new home construction in Nantucket, MA.\nIt\u2019s not a choice to be made lightly; it requires a lot of thought. Whoever you select is going to be with you on this pivotal part of your momentous life journey. So choose wisely.\nWe Work For You and With You\nThe professional relationship you develop with your home builders is a close one. You trust us with making your dreams into a reality, and it\u2019s not a responsibility that we take lightly. Your new home receives all the care and craftsmanship that we have. We treat each new home we build as if we were constructing it for ourselves.\nYou are the boss when it comes to the building of your new home. We are working for you, but we are also working with you. Together, we go over the plans and discuss the best ways to fulfill them. Any special features you want are incorporated into the plan at this point. When you are building a house in Massachusetts, this is the care and consideration you receive from Cheney Brothers Building & Renovation.\nYour \u2018dream team\u2019 is made up of you, our project management staff, and our builders. Architects, designers, and sub-contractors, each play a role as well. Together, we work to have you in your new home on time and on budget.\nHave you ever been in a house and saw a feature that just blew you away? It made you think \u201cWow. I would love to have that in my house.\u201d Well, now you can.\nWe specialize in custom home design and have the experience to create the home you have pictured in your mind. If you can envision it, we can build it for you. The only limit is your imagination. Big or small, it\u2019s doable. The beauty of our work speaks for itself in prestige homes across the region.\nPerhaps your current home needs just a few minor upgrades or renovations to meet your ideal. As a general contractor, we can do the work for you. If you have an older home or historic property you are eager to maintain, that\u2019s the type of building restoration, we are happy to take on.\nContact our team and make an appointment to discuss how we can craft your dream home. We proudly serve Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chiefexecutive.net/rhode-island-boasts-biggest-climb-best-states-worst-states-rankings/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OSECP5U7WOE25W5HA3CTTEFPN36ZS3IB", "length": 4829, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "chiefexecutive.net", "title": "Rhode Island Boasts The Biggest Climb In \u2018Best States / Worst States\u2019 Rankings | ChiefExecutive.net", "raw_content": "Dale Buss in Best & Worst StatesBest & Worst States for Business\nRhode Island engineered the most dramatic leap of any state in the 2018 Chief Executive \u201cBest States / Worst States for Business\u201d survey with an approach that is almost always guaranteed to be effective with CEOs: making it much easier to do business.\nAmerica\u2019s tiniest state jumped 10 spots, to No. 32 from No. 42, after Gov. Gina Raimondo and the state\u2019s legislature, economic development team and business community worked together to enact significant cuts and other reforms in various taxes and overhauled expensive government pensions.\n\u201cThere\u2019s been a series of deliberate and proactive steps that we\u2019ve taken to change the perception of Rhode Island,\u201d Stefan Pryor, the state\u2019s secretary of commerce, told Chief Executive.\n\u201cWhen our administration took office three years ago, the responses we would get from CEOs and site selectors and brokers wasn\u2019t positive. Sometimes the professionals would be puzzled as to why we were even inquiring. They had perceptions of Rhode Island based on past experience or outdated understandings.\u201d\nBut now, Pryor said, \u201cThey respond more frequently, and in fact we\u2019re on the receiving end of outreach from companies inquiring regarding making things happen in Rhode Island.\u201d\nDavid Osborne would attest. The CEO of Virgin Pulse, a global software company, recently moved its headquarters to downtown Providence from Framingham, Mass., after buying a smaller, Providence-based concern called Shape Up. Osborne had aggressive growth plans and wanted to leave Virgin Pulse\u2019s suburban office environs for a vital downtown teeming with the kind of millennials he needed to hire by the dozens.\n\u201cone key to leveraging a more business-friendly approach was to ensure that it targeted industries where Rhode Island enjoyed advantages over other locales.\u201d\n\u201cWe looked at Boston, but the CEO of Shape Up said that we should look at Providence, too,\u201d said Osborne, whose company was started by U.K.\u2019s Virgin Group, which now has a minority interest. \u201cSo we did. Then we met with Gov. Raimondo and her staff and made a quick decision for Providence.\u201d\nWhy? Osborne cited the city\u2019s \u201copen, hip culture, great restaurants, and great vibe\u201d as well as four to five \u201cgreat universities\u201d and other infrastructure elements, including a jobs program launched by Gov. Raimondo. The cost of doing business and the cost of living also are materially lower than in Boston. \u201cWe can also borrow from the Boston talent base,\u201d he said.\nWexford Science & Technology is partnering with Brown University to create a \u201cknowledge community\u201d around the school\u2019s $220-million redevelopment of an old power station on the Providence River, plus student housing and a parking garage. The idea of these \u201cinnovation districts\u201d is to establish a university-centric, mixed-use development that is built on a foundation of research and entrepreneurism.\n\u201cThe governor\u2019s engagement and her economic-development programs were a key to making this happen,\u201d James Berens, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Wexford, Wexford Science and Technology, told Chief Executive. \u201cThey were necessary to making this project economic from the beginning.\u201d\nLaurie White, president of the Providence Chamber of Commerce, said that one key to leveraging a more business-friendly approach was to ensure that it targeted industries where Rhode Island enjoyed advantages over other locales, mainly those driven by its esteemed higher-educational institutions.\nThose areas included manufacturing, design, ocean expertise, tourism and hospitality, cyber-security, data science and advanced analytics. Plus, she said, \u201cWe know how to deliver talent into the pipeline. And that\u2019s the first preference that businesses express when it comes to deciding where they want to invest.\u201d\nWhite said that another key to more CEOs noticing Rhode Island is that the state has begun talking itself up more in significant ways outside its borders, including at trade shows, site-selection forums and even a \u201csocial-innovation summit\u201d outside Chicago. Rhode Island has taken out a flurry of advertising in prominent print publications as well.\nStill, Rhode Island first needed to write a new story worth telling, Pryor noted. \u201cGovernor Raimondo had the courage to tell it like it is: The future of our state was on the line, and she laid out the facts, and ensured that the public had an understanding of what it would take to put us on a strong fiscal footing. In partnership with the [legislature] we\u2019ve done so, and thanks to them, we\u2019ve been able to place important new tools in the economic-development tool box.\u201d\nNext Read: States At The Bottom: Illinois And California \u00bb\nElection Will Decide Future Direction For Illinois\nIllinois ranked No. 48 in the 2018 Chief Executive \u201cBest States / Worst States for\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://choosecornwall.ca/news-english/year-in-review-meeting-set-for-december-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6ICJXT36M62ASNJZRP5YYLRUCLXBIIQ", "length": 1585, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "choosecornwall.ca", "title": "Year in Review Meeting Set for December 16 - Choose Cornwall : Choose Cornwall", "raw_content": "By Julie Donkers\nCornwall Ontario \u2013 In what has become a Cornwall tradition for over 15 years, Team Cornwall will host its popular Year in Review meeting on Wednesday December 16th.\n\u201cWe present information on all of the investments, expansions and notable developments in one relatively short but powerful presentation,\u201d said Bob Peters, Senior Development Officer. \u201cThe goal is to showcase the overall positive impact that results from individual decisions to invest.\u201d\n\u201cWe all have our own circles of influence, people that we interact with on a regular basis,\u201d said Mr. Gault. \u201cThe Year in Review report allows us to get the big picture of what is happening in Cornwall, yet also provides enough details on specific projects that we can share within our own networks.\u201d\nThe meeting is open to all \u2013 regardless of Team Cornwall membership. A light breakfast will be served at 7:00 am, followed by the regular meeting.\nTickets to the Team Cornwall Year-In-Review meeting are $15 each and can be purchased by calling Julie Donkers at 613-933-0074, via email to jdonkers@cornwall.ca or dropping by Cornwall Economic Development at the Civic Complex (100 Water St.). Space is limited to the first 300 people, so organizers strongly encourage people to pick up their tickets in advance.\nPrevious Year in Review reports prepared by Cornwall Economic Development can be downloaded from the Resources section of this website.\nFor more information about the meeting and about Team Cornwall, please visit:\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamCornwall\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/TeamCornwall", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clubdesmediateurs.fr/en/category/documents-en/other/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5LKXBFCH5JWRYRO22THMZSXHKSVGID65", "length": 13357, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "clubdesmediateurs.fr", "title": "Other Archives - Club of Public services Mediators", "raw_content": "The \u201cconsumer\u201d bill submitted in May 2013 by the Government, has already been examined by the National Assembly and the Senate on first reading. This text contains two references to a possible recourse to mediation: \u2013 In[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +2 December 2016\nOn 18 March, the Consumer Law was published in the Official Journal. It aims to re-balance powers between consumers and traders. The various provisions in the text represent real advances in terms of consumer protection. This law covers 3 major[\u2026..]\nThe Decree of 30 October 2015 on the mediation of consumer disputes was published in the Official Journal \u201cLaws and Decrees\u201d. It follows the order on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes which was published in the Official Journal \u201cLaws[\u2026..]\nThe Charter of the Club de M\u00e9diateurs de Services au Public (Club of Public services Mediators), an inclusive text affirming the shared values and defended by its members, states that \u201crecourse to mediation is available to applicants on a no-fee[\u2026..]\nDirective and regulation of May 21st, 2013 : A new European advance for mediation to the advantage of the consumers\nThe Club of the Mediators of services to the public congratulates itself on the adoption by the European Parliament, on March 12th , 2013, of the Directive relative to the extrajudicial regulation of the disputes of consumption and the regulation concerning[\u2026..]\nContribution of the Club of the Mediators of Services to the Public in the consultation organized by the Ministry of Justice for the transposition of the directive \u201cMediation\u201d\nThe Club of the Mediators of Services to the Public invites you to read its contribution to the consultation organized by the Ministry of Justice for the transposition of the directive \u201cMediation\u201d. Transposition de la Directive Contribution of the Club[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +2 May 2014\nConference of the Commission of the Consumption Mediation\nThe Commission of the Mediation of Consumption organized a colloquium on September 27th, 2011 in Paris entitled : \u201d The Mediation to the service of consumers: the found confidence \u201c. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lefebvre, Secretary of State in charge of Consumption intervened[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +2 January 2014\nNovember 16th, 2012: the mediation in the AUTUMN MEETING\nThe conference \u00ab The Mediation : a political will \u00bb organized by the National Association of the Mediators (A.N.M) under the patronage of Madam Christiane TAUBIRA, Minister of Justice, was held on 16th, 2012 in the Seat of the French National Assembly. You[\u2026..]\nThe intervention of the Mediator of GDF Suez and the Mediator with BNP Paribas in the days of the francophone Mediation in Bucharest\nOn September 12th and 13th, Michel Astruc, the Mediator of GDF Suez and Dominique Chevaillier Boisseau, the Mediator with BNP Paribas, participated in the Days of the francophone Mediation in Bucharest, whose objective was to share the practices of mediation[\u2026..]\nTHE INTERVENTIONS OF THE MEMBERS OF the CLUB OF THE MEDIATORS DURING THE CONFERENCE : \u201d MEDIATION : TEXTS TO PRACTICE \u201c\nOn October 10th, several members of the Club of the Mediators of Servicesto the Public participated in the conference \u201d Mediation: from the texts to the practice \u201c, organized by the University of Maine, in partnership with the Gazette du[\u2026..]\nThe mediation of GDF Suez presented by Michel ASTRUC to the readers of Gas Today\nThe Mediator of GDF Suez published an article in the review \u201d Gas today \u201c, of July-August, 2013. Michel Astruc details his role and his implication in the development of the mediation in Europe and in France, evoking the current[\u2026..]\nCommission for Consumer Mediation\nWithin the framework of the publication of its annual report for 2012, the CMC has just published a press release \u201d The development of the mediation in the consumer sector : the missions of the Mediation Commission of the Mediation[\u2026..]\nConference : \u00ab Mediation, the Confidence at first \u00bb\nFind the conference \u201d Mediation, the confidence at first \u201d of January 17th in videos Programme 17 janvier 2013 Communiqu\u00e9 de Presse -Club des m\u00e9diateurs Colloque du 17 01 13 Les Actes du colloque-17 janvier 2013 \u00ab Mediation, confidence at first \u00bb[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +26 March 2013\nThe Conference Proceedings \u201cMediation and Equity\u201d\nSpeakers Debate under the direction of Emmanuel CONSTANS, Mediator of the economic and financial ministries B\u00e9atrice MAJDA, Associate Lawyer, GB2A ( Caen ) cabinet, Lecturer in public law at the faculty of law of CAEN \u2013 University of Basse-Normandie. Michel[\u2026..]\nADOPTION OF THE DIRECTIVE AND REGULATION OF 12 MARCH 2013\nPress Release by the Club de M\u00e9diateurs de Services au Public (Club of Public services Mediators) A new European advance in mediation for the benefit of consumers The Club de M\u00e9diateurs de Services au Public (Club of Public services Mediators)[\u2026..]\nVote of the European Parliament\nA new advance for the mediation to the advantage of consumers: the Directive relative to the extrajudicial regulation of the disputes of consumption was adopted. The directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and the Regulation on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)[\u2026..]\nAppointment of the Mediator of the electronic communications\nAfter consultation by the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud (DGCCRF), the associations of consumers, the ARCEP (the French national electronic communications and postal regulation authority and on proposal of the operators of the Association Mediation of[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +27 February 2013\n5th Citizens \u2018 Energy Forum ( CEF) on November 13th and 14th, 2012 in London\nThe Forum of London is the annual meeting which gather the European actors of the protection of consumers of the energy sector. Every year, it is the opportunity to assess the progress of the various works led to European level,[\u2026..]\nThe position of the Commission of the mediation of the consumption concerning the proposal of directive (ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution)\nFollowing the proposal of theDirective of the Parliament and the Council relative to the Alternative Dispute resolution (ADR) , the Commission of the M\u00e9diation of Consumption made its position known. It can be consulted at the following internet address :[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +5 June 2012\nProject of report concerning the strengthening of the rights of vulnerable consumers\nWe suggest you consult this project report which approaches the rights of the vulnerable consumers and suggests assuring them of higher level of protection. Please find the attached document PDF. REPORT PROJECT ABOUT VULNERABLE CONSUMERS\nEn savoir +11 May 2012\n\u201cLes Annonces de la seine\u201d : 10th Anniversary of the Mediation of the Ministries of the Economy and the Budget\nPlease find an extract in the newspaper \u201d Les Annonces de la Seine\u201d. It is a resume of the event concerning the tenth birthday of the Mediation, celebrated on March 13th of this year in Bercy Les Annonces de la[\u2026..]\nMeeting with the associations of consumers\nThe Club of the Mediators held its annual meeting with consumer\u2019s Associations on march 22nd of this year. The event concerned essentially the evolution of the national and European legal frameworks concerning the mediation and the current events of the[\u2026..]\nThe first referencing made by the Commission of the Mediation of the Consumption\nThe Commission of the Mediation of the Consumption has just proceeded to the first referencing of systems of mediation, according to the law which created it in 2010, in the missions which it has received from public authorities, and in[\u2026..]\nIntervention of Mister Fran\u00e7ois Baroin, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry for the 10th Anniversary of the Mediation of Bercy\nOn the occasion of the annual meeting of the Correspondants of the Mediator of the Ministries of the Economy and the Budget and the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the mediaion of Bercy, on Tuesday, march 13th, the Minister[\u2026..]\nPosition of the Club of the Mediators concerning the proposal of directive (RELC)\nFollowing the proposal of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes (RELC), the Club of the Mediators makes known \u200b\u200bits position and its wish to bring some changes concerning important[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +1 March 2012\nSynthesis of the survey on the quality of life in the Parisian social housing \u2013 Espacit\u00e9 2011\nThe Mediator of the City of Paris invites you to read the summary of the survey on the quality of life in the Parisian social housing \u2013 Espacit\u00e9 on 2011. Please consult the attached document this joined. Synthe\u0300se rapport Espacite\u0301[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +2 February 2012\nDay of study on the Mediation\nMediation today This study day on mediation is the opportunity to review the practices of mediation in various domains of social life where it is relevant : in international relations, health, sustainable development or the interpersonal mediation with the aim[\u2026..]\nStudy: sociological looks on the Mediation\nWithin the framework of the seminar \u201d justice in action \u201c, Anne REVILLARD (Lecturer in sociology, responsible for the Master\u2019s degree \u201d Politics and action \u201d at the University Paris-Nord-Villataneuse) with Beno\u00eet BASTARD and Thomas RIBEMONT, organized on February 15th,[\u2026..]\nTransposition of the directive Mediation of May 21st, 2008\nBy order n\u00b02011-1540 of November 16th, 2011, published to the gazette of November 17th, 2011, the directive of the European Parliament and the Council of May 21st, 2008 concerning the mediation and establishing a common regulation to all the mediations[\u2026..]\nAutumn meeting : and now what I the future for the Mediation?\nCalendar of the events 2011 to come The Autumn meeting was organized by The National Association of the Mediators on Friday, November 4th, 2011 in Paris. The event entitled : \u201d and now, what future for the mediation? \u201d concerned[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +4 November 2011\n4th Citizens\u2019 Energy Forum\nOn October 26th and 27th of this year took place 4 \u00b0 CEF (Citizens \u2018 Energy Forum) in London The CEF is the annual meeting which gathers the European actors of the protection of consumers in the energy sector. Every[\u2026..]\nResolution of the European Parliament of September 13th, 2011 on the implementation of the directive relative to the Mediation in the States Members\nRe\u0301solution du Parlement europe\u0301en du 13 septembre 2011 sur la mise en \u0153uvre de la directive relative a\u0300 la me\u0301diation dans les E\u0301tats membres\nThe Club of the mediators of services to the public suggests you to consult the CIVIC study Consulting for the European Parliament concerning the alternative mode of regulation of cross-border disputes. CIVIC study for the European Parliament about cross-border Alternative[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +12 July 2011\nThe Club of the mediators of services to the public suggests you to consult the study of CIVIC Consulting for the European Parliament concerning the alternative mode of regulation of cross-border disputes. Presentation of this study by CIVIC Consulting\nReport project of the European Parliament concerning the alternative modes of disputes in the civil, commercial and family affairs\nThe club of the mediators of services to the public suggests you to consult the notice project and the report project of the European Parliament concerning the alternative modes of disputes resolution in civil, commercial and family affairs. Projet de[\u2026..]\nConference of the Council of State\nThe Conference of the Council of State of May 4th, 2011. http://www.conseil-etat.fr/cde/media/document/COLLOQUE/4mai2011_invitation_colloque.pdf\nIntervention of Elyane Zarine, President of the Commission of the Mediation of Consumption\nDuring the conference \u201d The Developments of Mediation \u201d organized by the State Council on May 4th, 2011, Elyane Zarine, President of the Commission of Mediation of Consumption intervened to present the missions of her Commission. We invite you to[\u2026..]\nEmmanuel Constans\u2019s press release, President of the Club of the Mediators of Services to the Public\nThe Club of the Mediators of Services Departments to the Public met on May 3rd, 2011. To promote the launch of their web site, a press release was broadcasted. Communication du Club des Me\u0301diateurs \u2013 3 mai 2011 Press release[\u2026..]\nEuropean Consumer summit in Brussels\nThe site of the European Consumer Summit. http://www.european-consumer-summit.eu/\nEn savoir +11 April 2011\nConsumer day in Budapest\nThe information relative to Consumer Day on 2011 of Budapest.\nPublic consultation on the ADR systems\nFind the document concerning this public consultation on the systems ADR.\nPublic consultation on the amicable settlements of disputes\nFind the document concerning this public consultation on the amicable settlements of disputes http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/dgs_consultations/ca/docs/adr_consultation_paper_18012011_en.pdf\nPress conference of the Club of the Mediators\nPlease find hereafter the report of the press conference of the Club of the Mediators of November 17th, 2009. Communique presse Me\u0301diateurs Service Public 17-11-09\nCreation of the Club of the Mediators\nInstitutions and French companies the objective of which is to offer a better sound quality(listening skill) and of service(department) to the public took the initiative to set up for the last ten years the mediators. These mediators are persons who[\u2026..]\nEn savoir +1 April 2002", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 16562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/some-quotes-from-popes-speech-to-queen-elizabeth-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:DIDGHCDBOF6V2DUZSZHTUX3HNLI2QS4D", "length": 1854, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cnsblog.wordpress.com", "title": "Some quotes from pope\u2019s speech to Queen Elizabeth II | CNS Blog", "raw_content": "\u2190 The pope\u2019s remarks enroute to Scotland\nKey section of queen\u2019s speech to pope \u2192\nSome quotes from pope\u2019s speech to Queen Elizabeth II\nEDINBURGH, Scotland \u2014 Here are some highlights from Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s speech this morning to Queen Elizabeth II at Holyroodhouse Palace:\nThe name of Holyroodhouse, Your Majesty\u2019s official residence in Scotland, recalls the \u201cHoly Cross\u201d and points to the deep Christian roots that are still present in every layer of British life. The monarchs of England and Scotland have been Christians from very early times and include outstanding saints like Edward the Confessor and Margaret of Scotland. As you know, many of them consciously exercised their sovereign duty in the light of the Gospel, and in this way shaped the nation for good at the deepest level. As a result, the Christian message has been an integral part of the language, thought and culture of the peoples of these islands for more than a thousand years. Your forefathers\u2019 respect for truth and justice, for mercy and charity come to you from a faith that remains a mighty force for good in your kingdom, to the great benefit of Christians and non-Christians alike.\nAnd, Pope Benedict said:\nToday, the United Kingdom strives to be a modern and multicultural society. In this challenging enterprise, may it always maintain its respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more aggressive forms of secularism no longer value or even tolerate. Let it not obscure the Christian foundation that underpins its freedoms; and may that patrimony, which has always served the nation well, constantly inform the example your Government and people set before the two billion members of the Commonwealth and the great family of English-speaking nations throughout the world.\nThis entry was posted in CNS, papal trip, texts. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cockecountyecd.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:LDYSUHBJUNX4VERYHRETW2QXR3GHJGOU", "length": 1132, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cockecountyecd.com", "title": "About | Cocke County, Tennessee, Economic & Community Development", "raw_content": "An Outdoor Paradise. A Place to Thrive.\nSurrounded by the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains and other state and national recreation areas, Cocke County is a paradise for those who love the outdoors. With a mild climate, a welcoming residential atmosphere and a central location, the county is easily accessible to 76 percent of the U.S. population, located immediately on Interstate 40, within easy driving distance of Interstates 81, 26, and 75 North and South.\nCocke County's community involvement and the sense of pride that residents feel contribute to making the county the place to stay and play in East Tennessee. Built on a heritage of craftsmanship, the county boasts a skilled workforce and businesses that come here to stay, some for more than 100 years. With an affordable cost of living and nationally recognized outdoor recreation and scenery, Cocke County is the place to bring your business to thrive.\nMoore-Murrell Field (Morristown)\nCocke County Partnership President (423) 623-3008 Email\nGary Human\nTNECD East Tennessee Regional Director (865) 210-1333 Email\nCocke County Government\nCocke County Tourist Development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coed.com/coeds/miss-coed-sammi-maben/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:08Z", "digest": "sha1:F4QSWSEHFLK3RBH7L5QKCOA3RSHCLBWV", "length": 376, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "coed.com", "title": "Miss COED: Sammi Maben", "raw_content": "COED Staff | Mar 12, 2009 1:30 pm | Jan 16, 2015 1:33 pm\nMiss COED: Sammi Maben\nBlond super-cutie Sammi Maben is a 21-year-old Hollywood, California bikini model. The half-Irish, half-Japanese hotties has been featured in a ton of magazines, like Men\u2019s Fitness and on Sites like UGO.com and Bullz-eye.com. And now she\u2019s in the running to become March\u2019s Miss COED of the month!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commandart.ru/catalog/spetsialnye_predlozheniya_/cypher_/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AJFQMUKSUQKTILBDHZPYG6XHIMFJ456Y", "length": 1173, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "commandart.ru", "title": "Cypher", "raw_content": "There is one whom the Masters of the Dark Angels seek above all others. He is a being wrapped in shadow, an entity whose motives and methods are an enigma; even the name by which he is known alludes to concealment \u2013 though whether it is a metaphor or yet another conundrum is unknown. He is Cypher, and to the Dark Angels, he is nothing less than their most hated foe.\nThis multi-part plastic kit contains the components necessary to assemble Cypher, Lord of the Fallen. He is bedecked in archaic, makeshift gear \u2013 as a renegade, with no Chapter to call his own, Cypher makes the best of whatever gear he can gather together. His backpack has been refitted countless times over the centuries, and his armour is a mix of various patterns. He\u2019s armed with a bolt pistol, and a plasma pistol incorporating an external heat dissipator. His cowl and cloak are certainly well-used, with holes and tears everywhere \u2013 but the standout is the enormous sword he carries on his back. This may or may not be the fabled Lion Sword, and if it is, Cypher\u2019s unknowable intentions become even more interesting\u2026\nThis kit comes as 8 components, and is supplied with a Citadel 32mm Round base.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-manual-or-user-guide/10959", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:FGSYRA7TNAHYSZTMV676PCPPDSGF64XT", "length": 811, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "community.monzo.com", "title": "Monzo 'Manual' or User Guide - Help - Monzo Community", "raw_content": "Monzo 'Manual' or User Guide\nAzide (Mike Brennan) 2017-06-19 16:45:11 UTC #1\nHi is there a user guide for new users or those who are keen to learn new tricks anywhere?\nFor example I\u2019ve picked up a few things off the forum, for example \u2018tagging\u2019 a spend with am emoji so I can search for all spends with that emoji ( for bike parts!)\nI know that the whole point of Monzo is to be simple and intuitive, which it is, but some of us are info hungry and love to know every little detail\u2026\nIt\u2019s early days for this series so far but the How To Monzo videos are a good place to get tips -\naside from that, I usually point users to the blog posts, which has a pretty comprehensive list of features -\nthere\u2019s no comprehensive list of tips, as far as I know\u2026I\u2019d be tempted to make a wiki with them but it\u2019d be pretty huge!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://compassrealestateinvestments.com/properties/san-isidro-ranch-tract-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GK6S26KAIZK3XWX5SFB4RVERQIBBKPB4", "length": 1345, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "compassrealestateinvestments.com", "title": "San Isidro Ranch Tract 8 \u2013 Compass", "raw_content": "Size: 90.39 +/- Acres in Webb County Location: 9 Miles South of Laredo on HWY 83 South, 3 Miles West on private easement. Description: This property is being offered exclusively by Compass Real Estate Investments. The property has rolling terrain that offers great views of the property as well as the Rio Grande. At its [\u2026]\nSize: 90.39 +/- Acres in Webb County Location: 9 Miles South of Laredo on HWY 83 South, 3 Miles West on private easement. Description: This property is being offered exclusively by Compass Real Estate Investments. The property has rolling terrain that offers great views of the property as well as the Rio Grande. At its highest points, you are sure to have your choice of home sites that will have breath taking views like no other in the County. The property is a \u201cclean slate\u201d with tremendous potential for a weekend get-a-way and recreational activities. Through visual inspection, the property has construction material presently on location. Only minutes away from Laredo, this property is perfect for exploring, wildlife observing, and ATV riding.\nHabitat: The property has dense brush throughout the property that provide cover for various species of wildlife. The property has a nice creek system that should allow sufficient drainage to construct a medium to large surface lake.\nProperty Size : 90.39 +/- Acres", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/catalog/author/1582/mazdak-arabi", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2G65AB775GEWCOVVOP53ARGWZBT2DLYF", "length": 1076, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "content.ces.ncsu.edu", "title": "NC State Extension Publications | Browse by Author: Mazdak Arabi", "raw_content": "Browse by Author: Mazdak Arabi\nSimulation Modeling for the Watershed-scale Assessment of Conservation Practices\nBy: Mazdak Arabi, Donald Meals, Dana Hoag 2012 Watershed Assessment Series\nThirteen agricultural watershed projects were funded jointly by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to evaluate the effects of cropland and pastureland conservation practices on spatial and temporal trends in water quality at the watershed scale. In some projects, participants also investigated how social and economic factors influence implementation and maintenance of practices. The 13 projects were conducted from 2004 to 2011 as part of the overall Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP). By synthesizing the results of all these NIFA-CEAP projects, this publication explores lessons learned about selecting and applying simulation models as evaluation and planning tools for watershed conservation projects and the relationship between monitoring data and modeling in conservation practice evaluation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://converge.org/news/culture-evangelism-training", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UYYDONWYCHEG4RLRK2BEVGB2QSS2XWUB", "length": 2025, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "converge.org", "title": "Culture of evangelism: training | Converge", "raw_content": "We know that in the battle of dark versus light, light always wins. However, Satan is smart in that he knows he has a chance as long as the light isn\u2019t shining; otherwise, there is no chance. Pastors, if we want to see our churches push back the darkness in our communities, we have to teach people to \u201clet their light shine.\u201d If we want people to shine the light by sharing the good news of Jesus, then we must train them.\nIn the previous blogs on evangelism, we have talked about the need to reach the nations and your neighbors. However, we have to do more than just talk about the need. At some point, we have to train our people to do some evangelism. If we don\u2019t take the responsibility of evangelism training seriously, who will? Training people is an essential step in removing some of the fear that paralyzes people from sharing the gospel.\nWhere do we start? Here are a couple of ideas:\nJust do it! When it comes to training people in evangelism, I promise you something is always better than nothing. I recognize that there are some outdated methodologies in existence. Obsolete or uncool approaches pale in comparison to the need for the gospel to be shared.\nBudget for evangelism. Jesus said that our hearts always follow our money. If evangelism matters, then you will budget for it. Consider setting aside money each year to train people how to share Jesus.\nBe flexible. There is no magic formula for evangelism, and not everyone will be comfortable with every method. Consider finding unique ways to mix it up and be creative in the training provided. Consider bringing someone in to lead the training. Many times, the expert is the person who comes from the outside. Being flexible might mean that you have pieces of training at different times or in different ways. Try inserting evangelism training in small group curriculum or through video. There are many options of how you can do this.\nLet there be no excuse to shine the light. What are you doing when it comes to training others to share their faith?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://convertingcolors.com/rgbpercent-color-34_47_39.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EQEV3ZK37IFOEQSUDDF7K3UFRBPH4JVJ", "length": 941, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "convertingcolors.com", "title": "Converting Colors - RGBPercent - 34%, 47%, 39% - (hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, ...)", "raw_content": "The RGBPercent color 34%, 47%, 39% is a dark color, and the websafe version is hex 336666. A complement of this color would be 47%, 34%, 42%, and the grayscale version is 42%, 42%, 42%.\nA 20% lighter version of the original color is 54%, 67%, 59%, and 16%, 28%, 21% is the 20% darker color. 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The committee selected three persons to be advanced in the search along with an alternate, all of whom were deemed qualified for the position. After consultation with candidates, three persons have been invited to the campus for open interviews, with campus constituencies, during the last week of January. These visits will be communicated to the campus and there will be opportunities for campus personnel, students, alumni, faculty, and trustees to meet with the candidates. An electronic survey will be provided for those wishing to share their comments on the candidates with the committee. Background checks and further referencing was initiated on the finalist. The Search Committee hopes to have a recommendation for the Board of Trustees in early February. The Search Committee seeks the cooperation of all campus persons to welcome the candidates and assist them as they evaluate their commitment to the position as well as to share evaluation comments with the committee.\nDecember 2018 Presidential Search Update\nThe Search Committee met Wednesday, December 5, 2018 to screen the pool of applicants for the next president of the university. More than 60 persons with a variety of backgrounds and experiences met the application deadline for first review and the Committee chose 7 candidates from the group for confidential interviews in the next several weeks. Committee members will be making reference calls to supplement information already available and following the confidential interviews, three persons will be selected for On Campus interviews to meet the many constituents of the University. All persons that meet candidates will be able to complete an electronic survey to share their comments about those that participate in the interviews. The committee hopes to make a recommendation to the Board by the end of January or early February.\nNovember 2018 Presidential Search Update\nThe Presidential Search Committee met on November 9, 2018 from 2:00 PM until 3:45 PM in the Board Room. The meeting was preceded by a meeting with the Committee C0-Chair Trustee Reverend Dr. Tom Shafer and newly appointed faculty and staff committee members to orient them to the work of the Search Committee.\nThe meeting was called to order with all members, including those engaged by conference call at 2:10 PM. Dr. Shafer led the Committee in Opening Prayer, the reading of the Bethune-Cookman Mission, and the recitation of the Covenant developed for the Presidential Search Committee.\nDr. Carlton Brown, Executive Search Consultant for AGB, discussed the placement of the Presidential Search within the B-CU website. He asserted the necessity to place a link very prominently on the home page so that any inquirer would be able to access the search pages immediately. Staff and administrators present committed to make adjustments.\nIssues of font consistency and text correctness were raised about the published Presidential Profile. AGB committed that its staff would review the comments and recommendations and make appropriate corrections ASAP.\nDr. Brown then led Committee members in instructions to access the Search Committee\u2019s confidential AGB search location to begin their review of applications and nominations. He shared with them an informal search tool that committee members may choose to use to facilitate their individual review of applications and beginning assessments of candidacy. Together, the committee selected several applications to review together to enable appropriate review and to learn how to look at various aspects of an applicant\u2019s file.\nBoth Dr. Brown and Co-Chair Shafer, stressed the critical importance of strict confidentiality in all work and deliberations of the Presidential Search Committee.\nOctober 2018 Presidential Search Update\nThe Search Committee met on October 11, 2018, for two and a half hours to finalize a draft of the Presidential Search Profile and Ad for the position. The AGB consultants had spent two days on campus in September and used campus documents, publications, and extensive interviews to formulate a draft document for the Committee members to revise and edit. The work was completed on the documents and the B-CU Public relations office agreed to arrange for the layout and design of the Profile consistent with university standards. The document will be shared electronically throughout the campus and to all constituencies. The ad will be placed in the Chronicle of Higher Education and numerous publications and electronic sites.\nThe committee started with prayer and recitation of the purpose and covenant that will guide their work. The schedule of future meetings was reviewed and members were reminded that attendance is very important and necessary to achieve our goal of getting the best leader possible for the 7th president of the university.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 8257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://copperleafsong.com/blog/2017/5/10/quote-of-the-day-time-is-a-companion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DKBBWN4T7EGWP3VPPS5PAFDYGAW6HQI6", "length": 503, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "copperleafsong.com", "title": "Quote of the Day: Time Is A Companion \u2014 A Song of Copperleaves", "raw_content": "\u0093Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we\u2019ve lived.\u0094\n\u2014 Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek Generations (1994)\nMay 10, 2017 in Quotes\nTags: Star Trek, time, Generations, Picard, living, Jean-Luc Picard, enemy, companion, 1994, Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corporatejetinvestor.com/articles/elitavia-co-owner-self-publishes-own-novel-457/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HEWLOLTRISOK5J36K4255LXZ2XP3KFZT", "length": 1148, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "corporatejetinvestor.com", "title": "Elit\u2019Avia co-owner self-publishes own novel | Corporate Jet Investor", "raw_content": "Elit\u2019Avia co-owner self-publishes own novel\nNick Houseman, founder of Zenith Jet and co-owner of Elit\u2019Avia, has self-published his first novel.\nHouseman says that he found the time to write the novel during many long-haul flights between the US and Asia & Europe.\nOld Country Wounds tells the story of a young man who leaves Scotland in the 1960s to find his fortune in Canada.\nAfter successfully striking it rich in oil, the lead character sells his company and returns to his native Scotland, where he uncovers a dark family secret.\nWith his mind set on revenge, the lead character then plots the downfall of an influential family, whom he blames for his own family\u2019s death.\nHaving grown up in Scotland and then moved to Canada himself, the first act of the book would naturally draw comparisons with Houseman\u2019s own life.\n\u201cMy mother\u2019s side of the family is Scottish, and I left Scotland for Canada as a young man but that\u2019s where the similarities end \u2013 the rest of the book is pure fiction,\u201d said Houseman.\nThe book is currently available as a hard copy or Kindle download from Amazon.\nTAGS: Elit'AviaNick HousemanOJetsOld Country WoundsZenithJet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coxmedia.uberflip.com/programming-hub/history-ice-road-truckers-returning-series", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UEM7I3BZFNVKRBKRFMGUJ5DQIXNR3YBY", "length": 695, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "coxmedia.uberflip.com", "title": "HISTORY: Ice Road Truckers [Returning Series]", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Programming Hub \u00bb HISTORY: Ice Road Truckers [Returning Series]\nOver the years, the Ice Road Truckers have battled ferocious storms, freezing temperatures and bitter rivalries, but have always managed to overcome these challenges to deliver supplies to the remote communities they serve. The new season brings the ice road truckers more challenges as road authorities have warned that the rising temperatures will cause the roads to open late and close early. Each trucking company, regardless of their size, is impacted by this race against the elements.\nPREMIERES: Thursday, August 24th, 10:00pm - 11:00pm E/P\nBRAVO: Don't Be Tardy... 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The final Early Steps system components of Family Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development and Training, and Data and Record keeping were also addressed. Lastly, information on the Florida child abuse and neglect reporting procedures were presented. You are now ready to complete the Lesson Three Self-assessment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://create-editable-pdf.com/create-editable-terms-of-use-agreement-pdf", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MW26MZ6UFRVA7DOSPK7IP6Z3XLSWMGWO", "length": 727, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "create-editable-pdf.com", "title": "Create Editable Terms of Use Agreement PDF - Fill Online and Download", "raw_content": "How to Create Editable Terms of Use Agreement PDF\nHints on How to Create Editable Terms of Use Agreement PDF\nPDF format is widely popular in the business world. PDFs are easily shareable and, what\u2019s most important, editable. With our web app, it is now possible to make changes to any document and create editable Terms of Use Agreement PDF without installing another app on your device.\nSo how do you create an editable Terms of Use Agreement PDF? To start with, browse for a file that you wish to edit on your computer, tablet or phone. You can also import it from an online location by specifying its URL path. Finally, there\u2019s a possibility to add a file from a cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.) or email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creativecriticality.net/2017/08/02/timestamp-122-earthshock/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:W7452D4O3ZM5NPR3Y23CD5E4NNUIYXRN", "length": 10337, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "creativecriticality.net", "title": "Timestamp #122: Earthshock \u2013 Creative Criticality", "raw_content": "Timestamp #122: Earthshock\nAugust 2, 2017 May 16, 2018 Michael Falkner6 Comments\nIt wasn\u2019t seeing him blown to bits. It was the silence at the end.\nOn Earth, a squad of soldiers led by Lieutenant Scott climb a hillside in a search for a missing science team. Professor Kyle, the lone survivor, accompanies them. The team descends into a cave system to continue the search. During the search, they are stalked by two shadowy figures and communications jamming.\nIn the TARDIS, the Doctor is reading Black Orchid (which has to be more exciting than the actual episode) and consoles a depressed Adric. The boy feels that he is not a valuable member of the team, and he asks to return to his home in E-Space. One might say that some of Adric\u2019s woes are self-induced, but the Doctor avoids that minor detail by proclaiming that he cannot calculate the coordinates. After a heated exchange, Adric begins to make the calculations himself. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS to the cave system so he can take a break from Adric, who in turn has a few choice insults for the Time Lord.\nThe Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan examine the fossils in the cave walls and wax philosophically about the fate of the dinosaurs. Above ground, the squad\u2019s scanner technician guides the search team to the Doctor\u2019s position. Below ground, the shadowy figures pick off members of the team one by one, reducing them to steaming piles of goo. The figures do not appear on the scanner, probably because they aren\u2019t alive.\nWhen the soldiers intercept the Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan, Lieutenant Scott accuses the Doctor of killing the squad members. After they uncover a metal hatch, the figures attack, and the Doctor identifies them as androids. The professor recognizes them as the beings that killed the science team. One of the androids identifies the Doctor, and its leader, a Cyberman, orders it to destroy everyone.\nWe haven\u2019t seen the Cybermen since the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane faced them. This is a way different Cyberman than we\u2019ve seen before. They\u2019re a bit bulkier, have actual moving mouths, and are more verbose, emotional, and evolved.\nThe Doctor deduces that the androids are guarding the hatch, and working with Adric (who has left the TARDIS to look for the other travelers), the soldiers destroy the androids. The Doctor opens the hatch to reveal a bomb, which he disarms after taking everyone to the TARDIS and jamming the countdown signal. Through the remains of the androids, the Cybermen spot the TARDIS and understand who they are facing through a tour of previous encounters.\nThe Doctor pilots the TARDIS to the source of the bomb\u2019s arming transmission, taking the soldiers because the ask to finish the job. En route, Adric and the Doctor make amends, and the boy decides to remain with his friends. The TARDIS arrives on a freighter in space, and the Doctor and Adric take a tour. The freighter is being inspected and replenished, and even though they are due for a bonus after they finish delivery, the crew\u2019s morale is low since several of their number have gone missing.\nThe Doctor deliberately exposes himself to the security cameras, and the Cyber-Leader reveals to the audience that he has agents on the ship. All combined, the travelers are discovered and Captain Briggs sounds the alarm. A crewman named Ringway and two security guards pursue the intruders, but the guards are killed. Their screams draw the Doctor and Adric, who are confronted by Ringway at gunpoint and taken before the captain. The pair is interrogated by Captain Briggs before helping them to trap down a sudden power loss, which is related to the Cyber-Leader and his personal guard taking control of the ship, which is where they\u2019ve been all along. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Scott, Tegan, and the soldiers search for the Doctor.\nThe Cybermen massacre the security teams, and the Doctor finally sees who he\u2019s up against. The situation is exacerbated by Ringway\u2019s revelation that he is working for the Cybermen. Ringway takes the bridge team hostage, but Adric, Briggs, and the Doctor incapacitate the traitor. Adric and the captain conclude that all 15,000 cargo containers likely carry Cybermen, which is bad since the cargo ship is heading for Earth. Meanwhile, the Cybermen use a thermal lance to penetrate the bridge security doors. Just as the door gives way, the Doctor reinforces it with antimatter, and the invading Cyberman is fused with.\nLieutenant Scott\u2019s team destroys a Cyberman and critically damages a second. The damaged unit crawls to the Cyber-Leader just as the remaining bridge hatch is blown open. The Doctor meets the Cyber-Leader face to face, and Ringway is executed for not accounting for the soldiers on the TARDIS. The Cyber-Leader activates his army, filling the ship with Cybermen ready to invade Earth.\nThe Cyber-Leader turns the freighter into a missile aimed at Earth, intending to stop an interplanetary conference that plans to unite several civilizations against the Cybermen. Meanwhile, Tegan continues her reign of Ripley-like badassery by stalking through the cargo hold, armed with a Cyberman cannon, but is soon captured and taken to the bridge. The rest of Scott\u2019s team make it back to the TARDIS, disabling a pursuing Cyberman patrol in the console room. Professor Kyle is killed in the crossfire.\nThe Cyber-Leader provokes the Doctor by threatening Tegan\u2019s life to manipulate the Time Lord\u2019s emotions. He leaves two Cybermen on the bridge with the crew and Adric to observe their emotions on impact, and then takes Tegan and the Doctor to the TARDIS to observe the impact from space. Scott and his team leave the TARDIS to search for the missing travelers and end up liberating the bridge. The captain suggests abandoning ship, but Adric sets to work on the unlocking the helm controls. Instead of stopping the ship, he inadvertently pushes it into time-warp. As the freighter barrels back through time, the Cyber-Leader orders the Doctor to land the TARDIS on the ship, but the Doctor cannot do so.\nThe captain orders the bridge crew to abandon the ship, but Adric slips out of the escape pod at the last second and breaks the final encryption code. On the TARDIS, our heroes realize that they\u2019ve traveled back 65 million years and that the freighter is about to be the extinction event that kills the dinosaurs and paves the way for human evolution.\nAs Tegan distracts the Cyber-Leader, the Doctor grinds Adric\u2019s badge for mathematical excellence into the Cyber-Leader\u2019s chest unit. As he dies, the leader fires on the TARDIS control console, but falls to the floor as the Doctor fires the killing shot into the Cyberman\u2019s chest. The damage to the console prevents the Doctor from rescuing Adric, and one critically damaged Cyberman destroys the freighter\u2019s helm console.\nAdric rides the freighter to the surface, ending his journey with the Doctor in a blaze of glory.\nAnd even though I didn\u2019t like him much, I shed a tear for his heroic exit.\nWith that powerful ending, it\u2019s actually a little difficult to figure out where to go from here.\nOverall, I enjoyed this story. It was well-written, even though it was slow in the beginning episode. The characters continue their ascent in the Fifth Doctor\u2019s era, with Tegan stepping up with a touch of recklessness and the Doctor continuing his fatherly approach. Unfortunately, Nyssa was sidelined for a considerable portion of the story. And then there\u2019s Adric.\nAdric was far less annoying in this story, which is a good way to go out. He had his temper tantrum at the beginning which drove the plot, but he acquiesced and apologized before being the key that literally saved the world. He joins the small list of companions to die while traveling with the Doctor \u2013 the other two are Katarina and Sara Kingdom, both from The Daleks\u2019 Master Plan \u2013 and his death was just as chilling but, in my opinion, more heroic. His arrogance was his downfall since nothing changed between him leaping out of the elevator and crashing into Earth, but his drive and motivation are something I admired.\nEven though I knew it was coming \u2013 it\u2019s very difficult to avoid spoilers around critical touchstones like this thirty-five years after the fact \u2013 the ending was still very emotional. Mind you, it doesn\u2019t erase the problems I had with the character, but it does put a positive cap on his journey and growth.\nUP NEXT \u2013 Doctor Who: Time-Flight\nAdric, Cybermen, Doctor Who, Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka\nTimestamp #123: Time-Flight\n6 thoughts on \u201cTimestamp #122: Earthshock\u201d\nTo me this is one of the highlights of the fifth Doctor\u2019s era, and really shows how the series will go now that they have a new script editor (who wrote this one as well) to stabilize things. Saward is much more interested in an Aliensesque approach to futuristic stories. He seems obsessed with mercenaries and loves a future that\u2019s run down and dirty rather than polished and sparkling. Combined with the star power that John-Nathan Turner was able to hire to the series and Davison\u2019s wonderful acting, the ratings and the popularity of the program worldwide actually continued to go up during the fifth Doctor\u2019s era, even if Davison isn\u2019t as fondly remembered as Tom Baker.\nTimestamp #123: Time-Flight | Creative Criticality says:\n[\u2026] it disappears without a trace. On the TARDIS, the travelers have wrapped up the loose ends from Earthshock but not the grief from Adric\u2019s sacrifice. Tegan asks the Doctor to go back and save him, but [\u2026]\n[\u2026] tried to vault it, but face-planted on approach. There were two high points \u2013 The Visitation and Earthshock \u2013 and one that only appeared high because of the regeneration handicap. In reality, Castrovalva [\u2026]\n[\u2026] Picking up right where we left off, Turlough is wandering the corridors of the TARDIS, sabotaging the time capsule at the Black Guardian\u2019s guidance. A skeptical Tegan stumbles across him and resists his charms while escorting him to his quarters. Coincidentally, they once were Adric\u2019s. [\u2026]\n[\u2026] the Second Doctor and the Brigadier tangle with Cybermen and the Third Doctor reunites with Sarah Jane as he rescues her from a terrible fall. As the First [\u2026]\n[\u2026] ties back to the Doctor\u2019s history \u2013 the memory download highlighted Turlough, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric, both Romanas, K9, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Jo Grant, the Brigadier, Liz Shaw, Zoe Heriot, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 15182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creinhardt19.weebly.com/link.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:MUBHFFZGMQGWUY2EZ272QOWGUZFQABC6", "length": 3977, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "creinhardt19.weebly.com", "title": "LINK - Corbin Reinhardt", "raw_content": "Link is a 3 week long internship at the end of the year where all juniors are out of there classes and out in the community to do whatever internship they choose. The purpose of link is to start giving juniors real world experience and also help give them a taste of a potential career idea.\nBelong Designs\nBelong Designs is a Lifestyle Apparel company that was founded in 2013 in Denver Colorado to help spread the message of following your passions and doing what you love.\nWhen we first started to look at potential internships I was very fortunate because I ended up getting mine with one of the first companies I reached out to. I sent one email to one company before reaching out to Belong and I never heard back. I had known about Belong before we started looking for internships and I thought they were really cool and the company was founded on a lot of the same beliefs that I have so I sent an email to one of the owners. A few days passed and I had not heard back from him so I sent another email. Within a couple of hours I got a response. After a couple of emails back and fourth and a phone call, I had the internship and we kept in contact until it got closer to Link. Going into the internship I didn't have any expectations and I just wanted to go in and help out with as much as I can for the 3 weeks and take in as much information as I could. I was hoping that I would be able to make things a little bit easier for them for a few weeks and that I would learn a lot in the process.\nProspecting Spreadsheet\nFor my project I was prospecting for places in other countries. Prospecting is looking for stores to reach out to about potentially carrying your products. I created a spreadsheet with over a hundred different stores in several different countries so later on my mentor could start reaching out to them.\nGoing into my internship, one of the things that I felt like helped me the most was my communication and avocation skills because they helped me build good relationships with my mentor and coworkers from the beginning which i'm sure made things a lot easier because we were all able to effectively communicate to get things done the best and most efficient way we could. One tip I would give to students going into link would be to stay open-minded and try and do whatever you can to help out because your internship isn't going to be exactly what you expect. For the majority of my link I was doing fairly tedious and repetitive tasks that helped out a lot, but nobody wanted to do them so as the intern, that's what I was doing a lot of. Even though I spend most of my time completing these tasks, my mentor would take time every day to show me more about different products and show me different little things that he was working on. I really feel like just being there taught me a lot because I got to see what everyone was doing and they would tell me about it so I learned so much about business and marketing, and the backside of things like what it takes to start a business from scratch. These are skills that I think are very valuable and can be implemented into a lot of different situations. Overall I didn't have any major challenges during the course of my link but whenever little things came up I would ask my mentor or someone around that would know the answer to my question and they would usually be able to help me figure it out. I got a lot of things done during the 3 weeks I was with them and tried my best to get as much done as I could and I definitely think they saw that and saw the value in the extra help I was giving them because I would constantly get a lot of positive feedback about how helpful what I was doing was to them. I thought it was really cool to learn about business and marketing because that's something I have thought about a little bit for a potential career option. If I decide to pursue a career in business or marketing I think the skills I learned during my link will give me a good kick start.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 258.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cryptocurrencyfare.com/no-etfs-until-2019-the-sec-has-been-taking-its-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3PGSB7WIGBYA5GLBDXS7SYZJNSLPA232", "length": 1287, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cryptocurrencyfare.com", "title": "No ETFs Until 2019? The SEC Has Been Taking Its Time | Crypto Currency Fare", "raw_content": "Now, their collaborative ETF is generally viewed as one of the most promising ones. The fund is tied to VanEck's subsidiary index MVIS, which will calculate the real-time price of BTC based on executable bids and asks derived from U.S.-based crypto over-the-counter (OTC) markets instead of more conventional crypto exchanges, while SolidX will sponsor the project. It is expected to be listed on the Chicago Board of Exchange (CBOE) BZX Equities Exchange. The fund\u2019s bid with the SECwas filed on June 6.\nIn particular, the SEC is seeking comments on 18 key issues, among them are commenters\u2019 views on BZX\u2019s assertions that BTC \u201cis arguably less susceptible to manipulation than other commodities that underlie exchange-traded products (ETPs),\u201d as well as SolidX\u2019s assertion that \u201cthe OTC desks have a better measure of the market than any exchange-specific reference price,\u201d among others. The note further reads:\nThus, the SEC\u2019s relationship with crypto-related ETFs has been rocky so far. For instance, when it rejected nine applications to list and trade various BTC ETFs in August, the regulator made a U-turnas soon as on the following day and stated that it would review its decision of all those ETFs in the future \u2014 the agency has still not released a deadline for that, however.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 10806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curealz.org/giving/ways-to-donate/planned-giving/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TPUGVTLT3W4BZSEEJ4KCLW4TGLRXE5KX", "length": 6711, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "curealz.org", "title": "Planned Giving \u2013 Cure Alzheimer's Fund", "raw_content": "You may wish to provide support for Alzheimer\u2019s disease research as part of the plan for your estate. Planned Giving offers donors both the satisfaction of supporting the research of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and certain financial benefits.\nWe have many Planned Giving options available, some of which may also have tax benefits. In all circumstances, before you make any commitments, you should first consult with your financial advisor and/or your attorney to determine whether Planned Giving is appropriate for you and your family.\nThe information that follows is intended to provide a high-level overview of some of the Planned Giving options. At any time, should you want to reach out to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund, please contact Laurel Lyle, Vice President of Development Operations and Fundraising Programs at LLyle@CureAlz.org or 781-237-3800.\nCure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund Legacy Society\nThe Legacy Society was created to honor those who have made a bequest or a planned gift to our organization. By becoming a member of the Legacy Society, you will join others who have committed to ending Alzheimer\u2019s disease through continued scientific research.\nAll members of the Legacy Society will remain anonymous to the public. This list remains exclusive to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund and is never made available to outside entities.\nThere are a number of Planned Giving strategies that you can utilize. Here you will find summaries of some of the available options.\nThe most common and easily implemented form of planned gift is a bequest that includes a provision for Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund in the estate plan. The language will usually include a specific dollar amount or a percentage of the value of the estate. The following is sample language:\nI give ($ amount) (X percent of the residue of my estate) to the Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research Foundation dba Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts (or its successor organization, if any), for its general purposes.\nTo specify us, you can simply make your gift to:\n\u201cAlzheimer\u2019s Disease Research Foundation, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, a non-profit corporation doing business as Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund.\u201d\nYour gift can be a specific dollar amount or a percentage of assets.\nGIFT OF RETIREMENT ASSETS OR LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES\nRetirement assets such as IRA\u2019s, 401K\u2019s, and life insurance proceeds can be donated to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund in accordance with beneficiary designations that have been placed on file with the account custodian or life insurance company, not under the donor\u2019s will.\nCHARITABLE LEAD TRUSTS (CLT\u2019S)\nA Charitable Lead Trust (CLT) is an irrevocable trust with two distinct interests: a charitable \u201clead interest\u201d for a period of years, and a noncharitable \u201cremainder interest.\u201d\nDuring the charitable lead period, the CLT would make payments to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund as chosen by the donor or trustees. In a charitable lead annuity trust (CLAT) the payments are fixed at the creation of the trust. In a charitable lead unitrust (CLUT) the payments vary from year to year.\nThe donor is subject to gift/estate tax upon funding the CLT, but only on the present value of the remainder interest, which could be low or even an amount of $0.\nAt the expiration of the charitable lead period, the CLT distributes the remaining trust property to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund, free of gift or estate tax.\nCHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS (CRT\u2019S)\nA Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) is an irrevocable trust with two distinct interests: a noncharitable interest for a period of years or for one or more lives, and a charitable \u201cremainder interest.\u201d\nDuring the noncharitable period, the CRT makes annual payments to the donor or a family member. In a charitable remainder unitrust (CRUT) the annuity payments vary year-to-year and different types of CRUT\u2019s are possible. In a charitable remainder annuity trust (CRAT) the annuity payments are fixed at the creation of the trust.\nAfter the initial period ends, the remaining CRT property passes to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund.\nThe donor is entitled to a charitable income tax deduction in the year the CRT is funded, equal to the present value of the remainder interest passing on to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund. The donor will not be subject to gift tax on funding the CRT if the noncharitable payments are made to the donor or spouse. The CRT itself is not subject to income taxes (including capital gains taxes). The donor may contribute highly appreciated securities to the CRT, and the CRT may sell those securities without incurring any present gains taxes. This makes a CRT a useful device for diversification. However, the noncharitable beneficiary will pay the capital gains taxes over time, as annual distributions are made.\nIn summary, CRT\u2019s may provide an income stream for the donors remaining lifetime and provide the remainder balance to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund, while also resulting in savings to income tax.\nWith a Charitable Gift Annuity, the donor makes an outright gift directly to Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund (CureAlz) and enters into an annuity contract with that CureAlz.\nDuring the lifetime of the donor and/or spouse, Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund will make annual payments to the named donors. The amount of the annuity payment is fixed at the creation of the annuity based on the donor\u2019s age(s), and is typically calculated using rates published by the American Council on Gift Annuities. The annuity can begin immediately, or can be deferred to a future date. At the end of the annuity period, Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund retains any remaining funds.\nDue to differences in state law, it is very important to consult with a lawyer before entering into a Charitable Gift Annuity.\nONLINE TOOL FOR PLANNED GIVING\nFor those who want to support Cure Alzheimer\u2019s Fund as part of their legacy but do not have a will in place, online tools are available to help you through the process. One such tool is available through FREEWILL. Their purpose is to facilitate the planning process and their service is completely free.\nTo begin the process you can access their site through this link: www.freewill.com/curealz. The site also includes a section of frequently asked questions found through this link: /www.freewill.com/faq\nIf you have any questions regarding our Planned Giving options, or if you would like to make a gift, please contact Laurel Lyle, Vice President of Development Operations and Fundraising Programs at LLyle@CureAlz.org or 781-237-3800.\nThe information contained in this section on Planned Giving is intended for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide legal, tax, or other professional advice. We encourage you to consult with your attorney, tax advisor, or accountant before making any commitments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 8544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cweb.canon.jp/eng/ir/disclaimer/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:AUHICK7R4RKMODTEKBXADC2YO7AKA4YI", "length": 1380, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cweb.canon.jp", "title": "Canon Marketing Japan Inc. : Investor Relations Disclaimer", "raw_content": "Canon Marketing Japan Inc. Investor RelationsDisclaimer\nContent on this website contains forward-looking statements with respect to future results, performance and achievements that are subject to risk and uncertainties and reflect management's views and assumptions formed by available information. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be considered forward-looking statements. When used in this document, words such as \"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"estimate,\" \"expect,\" \"intend,\" \"may,\" \"plan,\" \"project\" or \"should\" and similar expressions, as they relate to Canon Marketing Japan, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.\nMany factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Canon Marketing Japan to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products by other companies, lack of acceptance of new products or services by Canon Marketing Japan's targeted customers, inability to meet efficiency and cost reduction objectives, changes in business strategy and various other factors, both referenced and not referenced in this presentation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cwfuture.org/about-us/our-mission/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FJHM2H2BZNVW5D7VCBUSBXSRML66NL2B", "length": 5524, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "cwfuture.org", "title": "Our Mission - Commonwealth Future", "raw_content": "To drive positive development in all 53 Commonwealth Nations, helping the 2.4 billion citizens worldwide, to recognise their dreams and inspire them to a better future. We recognise that through collaboration and inclusivity, a more optimistic future is available for all.\nWe connect people and organisations in one of 53 Commonwealth nations to work together and enhance their future prospects. This is achieved through a variety of events, projects and networking across several key themes.\nOur mission is to see a Commonwealth thriving on the excellence of our Communities, celebrating our cultural differences whilst working together for a more optimistic future for all.\nThrough a dedicated taskforce of members, our organisation is committed to delivering standards of excellence in all areas of society. Through collaboration, we aim to deliver on education, healthcare, business growth, international relations, social development and international trade.\nWe are strong advocates of the International Declaration of Human Rights and follow this declaration outlined by the United Nations, campaigning for the rights of all Commonwealth Citizens and encourage unity amongst members.\nWe will act as thought leaders, and drive initiatives through Governments, International Bodies and Commonwealth Associations; and we will deliver information and awareness of key, Commonwealth developments, encouraging knowledge share and participation.\nProviding an avenue for our people to share news and promote events, we will strive for the future of our members and the 53 nations within the Commonwealth.\nWe will also offer opportunities for the young people of all Commonwealth Countries to develop to their greatest potential; these people are the future of our Commonwealth, and our desire to support them and deliver a sustainable path of progression is at the heart of everything we do.\nCommonwealth Future represents a positive future for all, inspiration for our members, deeper thinking for our partners and optimistic prospects for all Communities.\nCommonwealth Future has been inaugurated not to duplicate, undermine or discredit existing work carried out by other associations and the Commonwealth.\nThe organisation has not been formed to become the sole rallying call but endeavours to promote unity and harmony throughout the community and coordinate work where necessary.\nIt is built on the consultation, co-operation and coordination amongst members and groups related to the Commonwealth and is fully democratic.\nCommonwealth Future is an inclusive body that works with and actively promotes all races, religions, schools of thoughts and traditions represented. Its members come from all social and cultural backgrounds, professional and political persuasions.\nWould you like to learn more? Get in touch with us.\nTransforming the world through ideas and action\nCommonwealth Future is an organisation dedicated to growing a network of highly skilled, highly talented and especially inspired citizens throughout the 53 nations of the Commonwealth, with the aim centred on developing a progressive and inclusive society for all 2.4 billion members of the Commonwealth population.\nAs a committed group of members, Commonwealth Future wishes to promote standards of excellence across the Commonwealth Community and will seek to achieve these aims by empowering and transforming the lives of Commonwealth Citizens through education, healthcare, business enterprise, trade, community engagement and offering support to young people.\nOur focus is on bringing people together through collaboration and knowledge sharing, between people and organisations, from all 53 nations of the Commonwealth. The emphasis will be very much about teamwork, partnerships and building relationships that work for all.\nBy engaging with Governments, Associations and International Bodies across the Commonwealth, our emphasis will be on inspiring positive values and facilitating the International Commonwealth Community to come together with shared goals; realising a common purpose of improving lives, educating societies and enriching people throughout the Commonwealth, and the International Communities beyond.\nFurthermore, we encourage members of our organisation to be advocates of social change for the greater good of all Commonwealth Communities, across all populations and for people of all backgrounds. We will do this by working collectively with you and sharing the belief, that together, we can overcome the challenges and obstacles we jointly face.\nWould you like to join us? Become a member.\nCommonwealth Future is a coordinating organisation with a vibrant coalition of members and groups who have a connection with the Commonwealth and the future of its people.\nOur work revolves around a number of key themes that build upon the power of people and projects across the world and the Commonwealth\u2019s 53 nation states. This work spans a diverse but powerful range of areas including:\nEducation and young people\nLaw and the role of trust\nPromoting equality of all backgrounds\nProviding a source of networking and knowledge sharing\nThis work is supported by a highly engaged and diverse coalition of people and organisations that support our mission and values. It is also recognised through the Commonwealth Future Awards and regular engagement activities that aim to connect, engage and inspire whilst providing a positive impact for the Commonwealth.\nWould you like to learn more? Have a look at our membership options.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 6033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cyber-misfits.com/2019/01/11/do-you-have-a-question-for-me-well-i-have-the-answers/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IYDOONWCMJ7RRYH4FSUAZEYT6WWLVK7H", "length": 1330, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cyber-misfits.com", "title": "Do you have a question for me? Well, I have the answers. - Lee Signore", "raw_content": "on January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 by Lee SignoreLeave a Comment on Do you have a question for me? Well, I have the answers.\nHow did you get into tech/cybersec and what keeps you motivated?\nWhat are some watch outs being a career changer into IT from a marketing background I should know of?\nI\u2019d like to get into a cybersecurity bootcamp in early Spring and be \u2018all-in\u2019 but I don\u2019t know what I can expect. What would you recommend is the most effective way to stay focused and motivated since this would require significant time?\nDo you have a question that you would like for me to address? Send me an email at contact@cyber-misfits.comand I will answer your questions.\n-Lee Signore\nCybersecurity Q/A\nAbout Lee Signore\nFifteen years ago, Lee Signore joined the military as an Information System Analyst and honorably serving her country for eight years. During her tenure as a soldier she was able to learn and embrace the Army Values (Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage). She went on to earn her Masters degree in Cyber Security from the University of Maryland University College and several security certifications. She also served as an Information Security Office for the Federal Government managing the information security program and preparing Federal facilities for audits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/22/deported-illegal-migrants-caravan-return-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5YP7ZPINWDDVPZSTPGOLJHYJMO6ATQ2Y", "length": 3030, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dailycaller.com", "title": "Previously Deported Illegal Immigrants Using Caravan To Sneak Back Into US | The Daily Caller", "raw_content": "Previously Deported Illegal Immigrants Using Caravan To Sneak Back Into US\nMany of the thousands of migrants streaming north through Mexico in a so-called \u201ccaravan\u201d have been deported from the U.S. before, and they have joined the group in hopes of slipping back into America undetected by authorities at the southwest border.\nThe caravan formed in northern Honduras earlier in October, swelling from a few hundred migrants to more than 5,000 as it passed through Guatemala and into Mexico over the weekend. For some of the participants, the mass march is an opportunity to return to the U.S. amid chaos caused by large numbers of people arriving at the U.S-Mexico border at the same time. (RELATED: Trump Alerts Border Patrol Of \u2018National Emergency\u2019 As Caravan Progresses)\n\u201cWhen I heard about the caravan, I knew it was my chance,\u201d Guatemalan national Job Reyes, 36, told The Washington Post in Mexico.\nReyes said he had returned to Guatemala 14 year ago and found work at a call center for Metro PCS, a cellular service provider. But the low pay and lack of opportunity for advancement had him pining for a return to the U.S., where he spent his teenage years.\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for me to go back to the United States. It\u2019s a country where I can live my life, unlike Guatemala,\u201d Reyes told WaPo.\nPresident Donald Trump has warned that caravan migrants must apply for asylum in Mexico before trying to come to the U.S. Those who don\u2019t will be turned away, he said Sunday.\n\u201cFull efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther Border. People have to apply for asylum in Mexico first, and if they fail to do that, the U.S. will turn them away,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter. \u201cThe courts are asking the U.S. to do things that are not doable!\u201d\nImmigrants wade across the Suchiate River while crossing the border from Guatemala into Mexico as part of the immigrant caravan on October 20, 2018 in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. The caravan of thousands of Central Americans, mostly from Honduras, hopes to eventually reach the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel the recent trade deal with Mexico and withhold aid to Central American countries if the caravan isn\u2019t stopped before reaching the U.S. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)\nThe Mexican government has offered to grant temporary humanitarian visas to caravan members in an effort to break up the mass of migrants into smaller groups. But the vast majority have refused to apply for asylum in Mexico, and Mexican authorities have largely allowed the migrants to continue their journey without proper documentation.\nAs they continue to trek northward, previously deported migrants make no secret of their intentions to cross the southwest border illegally.\n\u201cThat\u2019s just how it is,\u201d caravan migrant Imner Anthony Fuentes told WaPo.\nFuentes said he had been deported six times, most recently five months ago from Birmingham, Alabama.\n\u201cThey catch you, and you try to get back,\u201d he said.\nTags : donald trump mexico migrant caravan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailytimes.ng/chartered-institute-public-resources-management-politics-honours-dr-babatope-agbeyo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CVVP3MKL56Y3OQFX6AZZSKWC3HOZYM3S", "length": 2822, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "dailytimes.ng", "title": "Chartered Institute of Public Resources, Management and Politics Honours Dr. Babatope Agbeyo", "raw_content": "Chartered Institute of Public Resources, Management and Politics Honours Dr. Babatope Agbeyo\nBy: Isaac Oguntoye\nOn Tuesday 19th of June, 2018, the amiable entrepreneur, Dr. Babatope Agbeyo, the chairman of Confield Group, a world class business conglomerate with unique and excellent brands played host to, Mr. Babatunde Akinsanya, the Vice President of Chartered Institute of Public Resources, Management and Politics (Ghana), Dr. Richard Ikpada-Poku, Executive director and Mr. Olanrewaju Sadiq who is the Head of Administration at the Lagos, Headquarters of Cornfield Group, where he was formally inducted into the 2018 Fellowship Hall of Fame following his impressive and enviable track records of promoting national and international economic productivity.\nThe Convener, Dr. Richards Ikpada-Poku, the Executive Director, described the honour conferred on Agbeyo as well-deserving owing to his exploits in leadership and youth empowerment.\nAlso speaking at the event, Vice President of the institute, Mr. Babatunde Akinsanya said Agbeyo has a record that young people can emulate to restore Africa back to its rightful position in the global circle.\nIn his words, he said \u201cDr. Babatope was recognised for the vital role he has played in leadership, innovation and his deep personal commitment to helping citizens of the world and his outstanding contribution to an entrepreneur in West Africa.\u201d\n\u201cHave unanimously selected you as one of the five awardees for the 2018 roll call of honors, this is a result of your phenomenal and exemplary statesmanship contributions to enhance Africa economic growth, we are very proud to celebrate with one of your renown establishments, Botosoft Technologies Ltd, the recent historic approval and acceptability of her I.C.T. services in Republic of Kenya, this is another ground breaking attestation of your professional competence.\u201d\nWith the honour, Agbeyo will be joining the league of renowned global leaders and eminent personality like; Alhaji. Dr. Mohammed Hassan Koguna, Alhaji. Barr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema, Dr Mrs. Nana Konadu Rawlings, Barr. Mrs. Uju Catherine Ifejika and others as council of fellows.\nIn his response, the Usi-Ekiti, Ekiti State-born businessman, who holds a master\u2019s degree in Media and Communications from Birmingham City University, United Kingdom, thanked the visiting team for the recognition and honour while pledging not to disappoint the institute and millions around Africa continent that draw inspiration from him.\nMeanwhile, Babatope\u2019s apt and ingenuity has won him many awards and recognition locally and internationally, particularly in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and United States of America. His network of partners and influence spans across many countries including the USA, UK, Germany, South Korea, China and many other African countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 411, "original_length": 17219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dappered.com/2017/05/suit-tie-sprinting-macys-new-strategy-extra-boozy-bombay/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BDC4MNHQLDYIF5DVXMV2VBYAUXABEIRT", "length": 3719, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "dappered.com", "title": "Suit & Tie Sprinting, Macy\u2019s New Strategy, & Extra Boozy Bombay", "raw_content": "Suit & Tie Sprinting, Macy\u2019s New Strategy, & Extra Boozy Bombay\nRUN CARY, RUN:\nSPEAKING OF CARY GRANT: That is a LOT of LSD.\nTHE END OF AN ERA? Is the Department Store going extinct? Not click-bait. More of a sad statement on the changing face of retail.\nOH THAT\u2019S NASTY: I probably could have gone my whole life without having discovered this.\nONCE UPON A TIME\u2026there was the most ridiculously fabulous airline terminal you never heard of. This is quite the story.\nFREE WI-FI: It\u2019s not just for mobile phones and laptops anymore.\nINSTAGRAM FOLLOW OF THE WEEK: I don\u2019t know why I like stuff like this, but I do.\nFOR THE CREATORS AMONG US: Anytime you share something with the world, basically. But I guess it could be worse.\nWARNING: This is an item about President Trump. Normally I wouldn\u2019t even get anywhere near this topic here. But this is just not normal. So, this. I\u2019m pretty sure most of us know someone or have a relative like this. For all I know, I\u2019m headed in that direction myself.\nLET\u2019S HEAR IT FOR\u2026defying the odds. There is so much to appreciate about this story. Go ahead, grab a tissue, it\u2019s all good.\nPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Yes, there is such a thing as too much caffeine.\nWELCOME BACK GIRLS!\nLADYBUG LADYBUG FLY AWAY\u2026whoa!\nFROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NOT KNOWING HOW GOOD YOU HAVE IT: When you\u2019re a kid, you tend not to noticed how spectacular the background of your favorite cartoon is. Or, actually, you did without thinking about it.\nTHE AWESOME POWER OF A FULLY OPERATIONAL\u2026roller coaster. For reals.\nNOT SURE IF THIS IS\u2026funny or sad.\nLORD OF THE FYRE: The saga continues. And it never disappoints.\nThere\u2019s a cache of previously unseen photos from the set of \u201cGoldfinger\u201d that have been unleashed over here. And for the record, I\u2019m not sure I would have wanted to be atop that particular platform which appears to be rather precariously perched.\nNOT GONNA LIE: I might have squealed a little bit. Little bit. #thewaitingisthehardestpart\nPROGRAMMING NOTE: The Dossier\u2019s 2nd in command, Eric H, will return next week. Thank you for your patience.\nFOR YOUR HEALTH! 4:20 for your grey matter.\nMAKING THE GRADE: I am almost able to bury my shame about the fact that this kid is totally smarter than me.\nDISCLAIMER: The views expressed here are entirely my own and do not represent the opinions of Dappered.com. Maybe. Anyway, no. Editor\u2019s Note: This has been everywhere. I honestly have no idea how to address it, other than the fact that it\u2019s terrible and seems to be another signal that our time as a society is quickly coming to an end.\nCURVES. FOR. DAYS.\nDON\u2019T GO IN THE WATER: Let\u2019s talk about sharks, shall we? Because there\u2019s a whole school of stories to share with you guys. We start with something mildly unnerving with a story about a helicopter that saves the day for a bunch of paddle boarders. It gets far worse from there. The Apex predator of the deep might not be the one you\u2019re thinking of. Goodness. Apparently it wasn\u2019t exactly the first time this has happened. Shudders. And finally, more details about just how surgically accurate these beasties are. This would be a good time to remind people that Orcas aren\u2019t really interested in us (in the wild at least).\nWAIT, WHAT? So this is a bad thing?\nDECISIONS DECISIONS: There are three directions I could go in terms of discussing this particular Dossier entry. I could make some jokes about Scotland but that would be low hanging fruit. I could choose to wax rhapsodic about the wonders of science. Or, I could simply say holy shit would you look at this.\nBLOODY HELL: It would seem that our friends in the UK can\u2019t quite get a handle on America\u2019s latest favorite fruit. Also, they should know about this. (Editor\u2019s Note II: This.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davidr3deitrick.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/james-albert-smith-1933-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:E6E7XT2EXBOT3DCBYQPL3AVDEDACEJNC", "length": 111, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "davidr3deitrick.wordpress.com", "title": "James Albert Smith (1933-2018) | David R. Deitrick, Designer", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in 2018, Aging, Alaska, Art, Faith, Passing by David R. Deitrick. 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Continuing this legacy is the world-class Mondavi Performing Arts Center, the Davis Mural team, and top-notch art venues such as the Richard Nelson Gallery, the Pence Gallery, and John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, along with the Artery, one of the most enduring of artist cooperatives. Neighboring UC Davis also has one of the biggest art programs in the country.\nExplore the art. The self-guided tour is available at any time\u2014many of the murals and sculptures are lit up for evening viewing. To pick up a copy of the Davis Transmedia Art Walk map, visit the Yolo County Visitors Bureau (132 E St., Suite 200; (530) 297-1900) or the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts (521 1st St.; (530) 756-3938).\nShare the joy of art with loved ones. We offer artist and curator-lead group and family tours. The guided tour ends with a private tour of the John Natsoulas Center of the Arts with the curator and/or one of the artists. The guided tour is available for a minimal fee and lasts 1 to 2 hours. 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She holds a degree in behavioral science from the University of San Francisco. Her career includes twenty years with the United States Postal Service and twenty years of service with the San Francisco Unified School District as a teacher. A proud matron, Betty is a mother of five and a grandmother of four. Currently, Betty writes and lives in both Richmond, California, and Montgomery, Alabama.\nE-mail: btjoejoe@aol.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/betty.tucker.948\nhttps://twitter.com/btjoejoe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 133.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://delaware.okcounties.org/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BBGKTZQ4OWOKADS2S3VC4VH6NUHMGWEF", "length": 11462, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "delaware.okcounties.org", "title": "About", "raw_content": "Located in northeastern Oklahoma, Delaware County is bordered on the east by McDonald County, Missouri, and Benton County, Arkansas, on the south by Adair and Cherokee counties, on the west by Mayes and Craig counties, and on the north by Ottawa County. U.S. Highway 59 crosses the region north and south. The Cherokee Turnpike, also U.S. Highway 412, crosses the southern end of Delaware County. Other important routes include State Highways 10, 20, 28, 85, 116, 125, and 127.\nThe county lies on the western slopes of the Ozark Plateau, an area of forests, prairies, and farmland. The Grand River and Elk River are the major watercourses in the county's northern portion, and Flint Creek and the Illinois River drain in the southern part. The Ozark limestone holds no oil or minerals but provides an abundant supply of water. The county's total land and water area is 792.33 square miles.\nAt least three different periods of prehistoric peoples have been documented in Delaware County. By 2004 twenty-three Archaic, seventeen Woodland, and sixty-three Eastern Villager archaeological sites had been tested. In 1939, before Grand Lake filled, University of Oklahoma archaeologists excavated along Grand River and Honey Creek, uncovering many artifacts. The sites, similar to the Hopewell Culture that resided in the Kansas City, Missouri area 2,000 to 1,400 years ago, are now under the lake. In more modern times, few American Indians lived in the present county until the federal government began relocating tribes.\nBeginning in 1828 the Western Cherokee were relocated from Arkansas, settling mainly outside future Delaware County, in the southern part of the region that later became the Cherokee Nation. One of the chiefs, Thomas Chisholm (grandfather of Sen. Robert L. Owen), settled just west of Maysville, Arkansas. He was buried there in 1834 in the oldest-known marked grave in the county. In 1832 the Seneca from Ohio were removed to Indian Territory into lands that extended into present northeastern Delaware County. Some of the Eastern Cherokee arrived in 1836 and 1837, but the main body came late 1838 into 1839. About 1820 a group of Delaware who had befriended the Cherokee against the Osage settled Delaware Town, located approximately two miles south of present Eucha on Spavinaw Creek; that site now lies under Lake Eucha. The Cherokee named the surrounding area Delaware District.\nDelaware County was created at statehood in November 1907. Cherokee John H. Gibson, mayor of Grove, swore in the first county judge and clerk. As the only incorporated town in the county at statehood, Grove was designated the seat of government. However, a movement soon emerged to relocate it. Those who it in the county's center banded together, found a place on Jay Washbourne's allotment, platted a town, won a vote to make Jay the county seat, and built a wooden courthouse. Meanwhile, an entrepreneur built a concrete courthouse just outside of the Jay plat. The wooden courthouse mysteriously burned, tempers flared, guns appeared, and the governor called out the military. A judge ruled in favor of the Jay plat, and in 1912 the records went into the Jay courthouse. Nevertheless, Grove citizens complained that poor roads and insufficient accommodations made it difficult to hold court at Jay.\nAt the turn of the twentieth century subsistence farming served as the principal occupation. Much changed in the century's first two decades. Better transportation, refrigerated railroad cars, new farm equipment, and agricultural education brought improvements. The value of dairy products rose from $127,389 in 1919 to $186,499 ten years later. Egg production increased from 390,006 dozen in 1919 to 636,835 in 1929. Over time, labor-intensive row crops and grains gave way to cattle. In 1920 the county had 2,176 farms with 257,671 acres. This held steady until the 1960s when the number began decreasing. In the 1970s poultry, mainly broilers, became a key product. In 1997 there were 1,303 farms covering 364,620 acres. The value of agricultural products sold that year was $94 million, approximately two-thirds of which were poultry products.\nThree lakes changed the face and the economy of Delaware County. In 1924 the city of Tulsa, completed a water-supply dam at Spavinaw on Spavinaw Creek in Mayes County. Lake Spavinaw impounds water into Delaware County. Although small, the lake began to attract weekenders and day-trippers. In 1940 a dam on Grand River was completed, and Grand Lake O' the Cherokees was filled. Grand Lake sprawls north across Delaware County into Ottawa County. Creation of the lake also displaced hundreds of people, covered roads, and necessitated relocation of a number of cemeteries. Sailboat Bridge on Grand Lake is the second-longest bridge over water in Oklahoma.\nTulsa's growing need for water caused it to revisit Spavinaw Creek, and in 1952 an upstream dam was completed, creating Lake Eucha. It became a popular fishing and recreation area. The lake inundated the Cherokee town of Eucha, the home of Cherokee Chief Charles Thompson, or Oochalata, who was buried there. The town and the cemetery were relocated. The chief is buried just inside the gate of the new cemetery, the grave marked by a military stone for his Civil War service to the Union.\nAfter World War II a boom began. Tourism and retirement became big business. In 1965 Green Country, Incorporated, formed to coordinate promotion and development of sixteen northeast Oklahoma counties. In 2000 the three largest occupation groups, each at 23.4 percent of the labor force, were management, professional, and related occupations; production, transportation and material moving occupations; and sales and office jobs. Service occupations involved 15.9 percent, and farming and related jobs involved only 1.8 percent.\nRail access assisted in community growth over the years. In 1896 Congress authorized the Arkansas Northwestern Railway to build a line from Southwest City, Missouri, northwest to the Kansas line between Baxter Springs and Chetopa. Under the name of the Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad, a line was built from Rogers, Arkansas, to Grove, reaching there in 1900. The next year the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway bought the line, which never extended beyond Grove and was abandoned in 1940. In 1912\u201313 the Kansas, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railroad built tracks through the region to connect Kansas and Texas. Upon entering Delaware County, the line looped west and then southwest, following the west bank of Grand River and exiting into Craig County. In 1912 the town of Bernice was platted on both sides of the railroad near the crossing of Horse Creek. Many businesses in Needmore, two miles east, moved to Bernice. Further east, Rabbit, a small community north of Grove later renamed Copeland Switch, developed. When Grand Lake was built, Bernice relocated to higher ground on the west side of Horse Creek, and some of the railway grade was moved. The line was abandoned in 1966, and the railway grade, including the Horse Creek Bridge, became State Highway 85A.\nIn 1910 Delaware County had a population of 11,469; only five counties had fewer people. This did not change appreciably until 1970 when the population surged from 13,198 in 1960 to 17,767 in 1970, 23,946 in 1980, and 28,070 in 1990. The 2000 census recorded 37,077, more than fifty-nine other counties. In 2004 the census revealed that while rural counties were losing population, Delaware County was the fifth-fastest-growing in the state. In addition to tourism, a tight labor market, aggressive action to attract employers, and a growing economy in adjacent northwest Arkansas contributed to these changes.\nSince the surge of whites into Indian Territory in the nineteenth century's last decades, they have outnumbered other groups. In 1900 the census of Indian Territory recorded whites at 77.2 percent and American Indians at 13.4. The 2010 census tallied whites at 67.0 percent, American Indians at 22.4 percent, Asians at 1.3 percent, and African Americans at 0.2 percent. Hispanic ethnicity was identified as 3.0 percent. The incorporated towns are Bernice, Colcord, Grove, Jay, Kansas, Oaks, and West Siloam.\nThe county offers several recreation areas and historic sites. Just south of Lake Eucha is the 14,316-acre Spavinaw Wildlife Management Area. State parks include Honey Creek at Grove and Bernice at Bernice, Lake Eucha south of Jay, and Natural Falls near West Siloam Springs. Har-Ber Village, a large museum, is west of Grove. Near present Oaks is Moravian Springplace Mission. Southwest of Maysville, Arkansas, is the site of Fort Wayne. Six properties have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Polson Cemetery (NR 77001092), west of Southwest City, Missouri, is the burial place of Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Stand Watie. Northwest of Grove in the Seneca-Cayuga area is the still-active Splitlog (Cayuga Mission) Church (NR 72001061) built by Mathias Spitlog. The Hildebrand-Beck Mill (NR 72001062) stands on Flint Creek just north of U.S. Highway 412 east of Kansas, Oklahoma. The Talbot Library and Museum in Colcord displays artifacts and provides genealogy resources.\nNotable natives of Delaware County include Lee B. Smith (1844\u20131917), an adopted Cherokee who served on the Cherokee Nation Council and was the county's first state legislator. John H. Gibson (1861\u20131940) owned the Grove Sun and served in local and state offices.\nCounty Statistic\n1907 founded in\nJay, OK Seat\n41,377 Population /2013/\n792sq/mi total area\nCounties are one of America's oldest forms of government, dating back to 1634 when the first county governments were established in Virginia. Ever since, county governments continue to evolve and adapt to changing responsibilities, environments and populations. Today, America's 3,069 county governments invest nearly $500 billion each year in local services and infrastructure and employ more than 3.3 million people. Most importantly, county governments are focused on the fundamental building blocks for healthy, safe, resilient and vibrant communities:\nMaintain public records and coordinate elections\nSupport and maintain public infrastructure, transportation and economic development assets\nProvide vital justice, law enforcement and public safety services\nProtect the public's health and well-being, and\nImplement a broad array of federal, state and local programs\nNo two counties are exactly the same. County governments are diverse in the ways we are structured and how we deliver services to our communities. The basic roles and responsibilities of our county governments are established by the states, including our legal, financial, program and policy authorities. Under \"Dillon\" rules, counties can only carry out duties and services specifically authorized by the state. Meanwhile, home rule or charter counties have more flexibility and authority.\nIn general, county governments are governed by a policy board of elected officials (often called county board, commission or council). Nationally, more than 19,300 individuals serve as elected county board members and elected executives. In addition, most counties also have a series of row officers or constitutional officers that are elected to serve, such as sheriffs, clerks, treasurers, auditors, public defenders, district attorneys and coroners.\nWith permission. 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More than half of the people with hearing loss are younger than age 65 and hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the United States. To help raise awareness about this critical issue the mayors of the City of Delray Beach and the City of Boynton Beach are issuing proclamations in May for our annual public information campaign. The following are excerpts from the proclamations. The proclamation recognizes and values the efforts of all who work to eliminate or minimize the isolating effects of communication disorders in the one in five families affected by them. Citizens who have overcome communication disabilities through the services of Audiologists are now able to lead independent, productive, and fulfilling lives. All citizens are encouraged to recognize the achievements of Audiologists in improving the quality of life for people with communication disorders. The Doctors of Audiologist at Hearing Partners are proud and honored to offer quality education and health care services. With proper treatment, most people with communication disorders can lead full and productive lives. Unfortunately, many people with communication disorders are unaware that there are available treatments to remedy or minimize the impact of their condition. As part of Hearing Partner\u2019s commitment to our community, during the month of May, we are offer a complimentary hearing screening and full consultation in our Delray Beach and Boynton Beach Offices. 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The exciting, inspiring tale follows the hero's journey of Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young boy who befriends a wolf while trying to return home after a tragic accident.\nWe meet Keda as he's preparing to participate in his tribe's annual bison hunt for the very first time \u2014 expectations are high as his father, Tau (Johannes Haukur Johannesson), is the tribal chief.\nTo find the herd, Keda and his father's hunting party must travel for days, following ancient stone markers that offer testament to the tribe's value of ancestral tradition. The journey to the hunt itself is perilous, as evidenced when one of their party is snatched away in the night by a shadowy predator.\nThings take an even more dramatic turn when, during the hunt itself, a bison knocks Keda off a cliff. Believing his son is dead, a shattered Tau is finally persuaded to leave, but Keda survives the fall and commences an epic journey home.\nThanks to a broken ankle, the onset of winter and a host of other complications, Keda's journey is much more imposing and lengthy than the one that brought him to his test. But along the way, Keda makes an unlikely friend when he encounters a pack of wolves and wounds one of its leaders.\nAt its heart, \"Alpha\" is a compelling coming-of-age story, following Keda as he learns to fend for himself in the harsh wilderness of life. The boy is timid and unsure at first \u2014 we see him falter when his father asks him to kill a boar the tribe has captured for food. But over the course of the film, Keda is asked to grow at an accelerated rate.\nNaturally, \"Alpha\" also explores the relationship between humans and dogs, sneaking in subtle allusions to modern dynamics, such as when Keda throws a stick at the wolf to ward him off, only to see the animal return it to him. Hughes' film explores a powerful theme of family as well, both in Keda's connections to his ancestors and his immediate tribe.\n\"Alpha's\" inspirational story and family values make it a strong candidate for parents on the lookout for family-friendly movie options, but the film should probably be reserved for older children. While never gratuitous, \"Alpha\" is frightening and violent enough to justify its PG-13 rating. On a more practical note, \"Alpha's\" comparatively sparse dialogue is subtitled and would pose a challenge for inexperienced readers.\nThose who do check out \"Alpha,\" though, are in for a visual treat regardless of age. The film is shot against a vast and dramatic landscape and packed with enough striking compositions to practically justify the price of an IMAX ticket on its own (the 3D option we enjoyed at the press screening didn't feel near as essential). CGI effects have enhanced \"Alpha,\" but not in a way that's distracting, and the visuals never take away from the film's story.\nAltogether, dog lover or no, \"Alpha\" is a late summer gem that should appeal to audiences young and old.\n\"Alpha\" is rated PG-13 for some intense peril; running time: 96 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://desertrose.blog/category/stories/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:63XMVZULMZVXYEXO56A6B2NM446ST3P7", "length": 333, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "desertrose.blog", "title": "Stories \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Jordy\u2019s Streamings", "raw_content": "You have probably never heard of him. He was an engineer by training. He was the primary inventor and developer of the Bell helicopter, which made the promise of point to point flight a reality \u2013 though it had been discussed for centuries beforehand. This inventor, engineer and scientist was\u2026\nRead More The Rotating Blade of Meaning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 146.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dexterridingclub.com/dyk_horseslaughter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:40Z", "digest": "sha1:YSR4KEUD3XJ6CX64ESWYZEEMJWLFJKKT", "length": 932, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dexterridingclub.com", "title": "Did You Know", "raw_content": "Is horse slaughter humane?\nEvery year an estimated 60,000+ horses are slaughtered in the United States alone. That is around 160 horses being brutally slaughtered EVERY DAY! Another 20,000+ horses are shipped live for slaughter to other countries. Many of these horses are healthy, young, and viral.\nIs horse slaughter humane? You decide: There are two predominant slaughter plants in the country. Most slaughter-bound horses have to travel hundreds of miles in crowded trailers. Many are severely injured before they reach the slaughter plant while others suffer a gruesome death on the trailer.\nUSDA rules for horses being slaughtered for human consumption states the horses must be bled to death. Therefore, they do not die instantly. They are hit in the head with a bolt gun to stun them, hung upside down and their throats slit while the blood slowly drains out of their bodies.\nInformation provided by Spring Hill Horse Rescue", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dfarq.homeip.net/song-lyrics-on-the-web-will-be-the-death-of-the-music-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EG7UVQIMZ75GKZD6JI7MMXP4DNYQFP5R", "length": 3537, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "dfarq.homeip.net", "title": "Song lyrics on the web will be the death of the music industry? - The Silicon Underground", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Music \u00bb Song lyrics on the web will be the death of the music industry?\nSong lyrics on the web will be the death of the music industry?\nDave Farquhar Music December 9, 2005 April 17, 2017 DJ, Fair Use, musician, RIAA, search engines\nHow many times did you hear a song on the radio, like it, then eagerly wait for the DJ to come on and announce what the song was, only to hear the next song? (Which inevitably is something worse, of course.)\nIt happens to me a lot. So I don\u2019t even wait for the disappointment. I grab a scrap of paper, listen for a few words that sound distinctive (or that get repeated a lot), then when I get home or somewhere that I can mooch a little Internet access, I hit the search engines.\nI\u2019ll bet I ended up buying half my CD collection that way.I guess I should apply for a patent on this method of investigation though, because obviously I must be the only one who does this, because posting this stuff online is killing the industry.\nNow that I think about it, posting song lyrics might be difficult to justify under the fair use doctrine, especially if your web site is just one big database of song lyrics that somebody else wrote. It\u2019s one thing to quote a few lines of a song\u2013which has always been permitted, even if what you\u2019re writing isn\u2019t a music review\u2013but song after song, in its entirety does cross a line.\nThe question is whether it does more good than harm. I\u2019m not convinced that online postings of song lyrics and guitar tablatures necessarily harms the sheet music industry all that much. In the past, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time hanging out with musicians, and most of the musicians I knew sat down with a tape or a CD with a pencil and paper and wore out the fast-forward and reverse buttons playing snippets of songs over and over again, taking notes, until they\u2019d figured out what was being played.\nToday it\u2019s faster to search the Internet for that kind of information. But if you couldn\u2019t, you\u2019d probably go do it the old-fashioned way.\nAnd the sheet-music industry doesn\u2019t make any money either way.\nWhy not just go down to the record store and buy the music? Oh. Well, because you probably can\u2019t. And even when you can, the selection is limited. If you want something other than current hits and staples of a particular popular genre, you probably won\u2019t find it, because sheet music takes up a lot more space than CDs do. So you can order it online, but in the time it takes for the thing to arrive in the mail, you could have transcribed the artist\u2019s entire catalog yourself.\nAnd besides, most musicians don\u2019t have any money. And the musicians I know who do have money didn\u2019t make their money making music.\nSo I suppose the Music Publisher\u2019s Association is probably justified\u2013from a legal standpoint\u2013in going after web sites that are just a cache of lyrics. But when they do, expect CD sales to take another hit\u2013especially sales of back-catalog discs and acts who haven\u2019t quite hit the big time yet. Of course the RIAA will just blame downloading and CD burners.\nThere\u2019s a way around this, of course. The songwriter can do whatever he or she wants with the words.\nAnd if the songwriter wants to make more money than the average substitute teacher, I suggest posting those lyrics online, so that when the song manages to get played on some station on the far left side of the dial and 12 people hear it, the four people who like it can do a search and buy it. They might sell less sheet music. But they\u2019ll sell a whole lot more records.\n\u2190 Why I\\\u2019m Lutheran\nOK, U2\\\u2019s still got it \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dianedarling.typepad.com/blog/wheres-diane.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AIAFZYSA3DG6HXPZ6KXDTZNITDXQINQC", "length": 717, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "dianedarling.typepad.com", "title": "Diane Darling's Blog: Where's Diane?", "raw_content": "Here's a list of upcoming presentations and cities - links and details added when available.\n(Please note - some events are private and others are open to the public. Please check with the host organization.)\nTuesday, August 18 - Brookline, MA\nWednesday, August 19th - Asian American Journalists Association\nTuesday, September 8 - Gotham City Networking\nThursday, September 10 - MA Women's Political Caucus, Boston\nThursday, September 17 - Women's Club, Rhode Island\nThursday & Friday, October 8 & 9 - Ann Arbor, MI\nThursday, October 16 - Denver\nThursday, October 22 - Bahamas\nThursday, October 29 - New Hampshire\nWednesday, November 11 - Akron, OH\nTuesday, November 17 - Boston\nWednesday, November 18 - New Hampshire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/arctic-environment/polar-climate-change-courses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MZ3FYGGMEXDLR5DG2CH7N6TCLYYZDCYR", "length": 1118, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dickey.dartmouth.edu", "title": "Polar & Climate Change Courses | The John Sloan Dickey Center", "raw_content": "Polar & Climate Change Courses\nDartmouth offers many undergraduate and graduate courses on the environment, polar science, and the consequences of rapid environmental change. Courses in anthropology, engineering, Native American studies, earth sciences, environmental studies, ecology and evolutionary biology, and Russian provide indepth courses on the scientific, political, social and cultural challenges emerging from climate change. The Dickey Center supports two courses taught by faculty and fellows of the Institute of Arctic Studies, and a study abroad in Antarctica in collaboration with the State University of New York in Brockport.\nThe Practice of Science Policy & Diplomacy\nENVS 80.08 introduces students to the global landscape, emerging ideas, and the art and practice of science policy and diplomacy in the U.S. and internationally. Melody Brown Burkins, Spring 2019.\nFrom Pole to Pole: Environmental Issues of the Earth\u2019s Cold Regions\nENVS 15 examines the major physical, ecological and human systems of high latitudes including the Northern Arctic regions and Antarctica. Ross Virginia, Spring 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 7798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/archway/904/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NMFHUQSSRRBYYBNN7A3TL2H36NP77HAU", "length": 99, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.bryant.edu", "title": "\"v. 31, no. 6, October 16, 1970\"", "raw_content": "v. 31, no. 6, October 16, 1970\n\"v. 31, no. 6, October 16, 1970\" (1970). Archway (1946-). Paper 904.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 60.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalrewards.ihg.com/pt/terms-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3X2QXXQBGUSTBGZREXCZGC2DN3XHQZLY", "length": 32249, "nlines": 112, "source_domain": "digitalrewards.ihg.com", "title": "IHG\u00ae Rewards Club - Terms & conditions of use", "raw_content": "PRIORITY CLUB\u00ae REWARD DIGITAL REWARDS\nThe Priority Club\u00ae Rewards program (\"Program\") membership and its benefits are offered at the sole discretion of Six Continents Hotels, Inc. (SCH) and its subsidiaries and affiliates that are members of the InterContinental Hotels Group (collectively IHG). Hotel brands currently participating in the Program include InterContinental\u00ae, Crowne Plaza\u00ae, Hotel Indigo\u00ae, Holiday Inn\u00ae, Holiday Inn Express\u00ae, Express by Holiday Inn\", Holiday Inn Select\u00ae, Holiday Inn SunSpree\u00ae Resorts, Holiday Inn Resort, Holiday Inn Garden Court\u00ae, Holiday Inn Club Vacations\", Staybridge Suites\u00ae, and Candlewood Suites\u00ae (collectively, IHG Hotels). Brands may be added or deleted at the sole discretion of SCH. The Digital Rewards benefit is solely for Priority Club Rewards members who log in to the Digital Rewards web site.\nSCH has engaged TFC International Limited (\"TFC\"), a third party provider, to host this private label web site (the \"Site\"). SCH and TFC, together with their subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, and licensors, shall be referred to collectively herein as the \"Covered Parties\".\nThese terms and conditions (the \"Digital Rewards Terms and Conditions\") govern your redemption of Priority Club points (or points and currency) for downloadable items through this Site and describe your responsibilities regarding such redemption.\nAs amended 1st May 2011.\nThis service is provided by TFC International Limited (\u201cTFC\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d or \u201cus\u201d).\nTFC is committed to providing an excellent user experience. In order to provide this website and our digital content services to you, you must agree to be bound by the following terms which form a legally binding contract between TFC and you.\n1.1 Access to our Sites. Your access to and use of any TFC websites and any other site powered by TFC for third parties (collectively the \u201cWebsite\u201d) and any Services referred to in Section 2, is subject to these Terms and Conditions. Your use of the Website may also be subject to:\n(a) terms relating to your membership of any customer loyalty programme, through which access to the Website is made available to you; and\n(b) any additional terms and conditions (including licence terms) which apply specifically to particular items of content available via the Website, which will be made known to you by the relevant licensor at the time of your accessing that content (please see Section 8.4 for more detail).\nBoth of these are referred to as \u201cAdditional Terms\u201d.\nPlease ensure that you have read and understand these Terms and Conditions and any Additional Terms that apply to your use of the Websites and Services.\n1.2 Acceptance. You agree to not use the Website or Services for any purpose that is unlawful or that is prohibited by these Terms and Conditions or any Additional Terms. By using the Website or Services you are fully accepting these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions you must immediately stop using the Website and Services.\n1.3 Right to Amend Terms. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms and Conditions at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms and Conditions on this page and will indicate the effective date at the top, but will not notify you directly of any change. If you do not agree to (or cannot comply with) the Terms and Conditions as amended, you should immediately stop using the Website and Services. TFC shall not be obliged to make any other remedy available to you. You should regularly review these Terms and Conditions so that you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website or Services after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms and Conditions. Any Content which you have accessed previously will be subject to the provisions of the Terms and Conditions as they were at the date you accessed that Content.\n2.1 Services. The Website provides digital media download and streaming services (the \u201cServices\u201d) designed to enable you to access and purchase or redeem legal digital content (the \u201cContent\u201d). The Content may be transferred to you from third party websites, by third party content suppliers acting on TFC\u2019s instructions. The Services are for your own personal and non-commercial use and you are not authorized to make any copies of any downloads or streams other than for personal use.\n2.2 You may access the Services by redeeming points or vouchers issued to you by TFC or by another customer loyalty programme operator on whose behalf we operate the Website you wish to access. Points or vouchers issued by TFC (which may be called \u201cClubCoins\u201d) are subject to an expiry date (which will have been made known to you at the time they were issued). You cannot use any TFC points or vouchers after their expiry date, and we will be under no obligation to honour them or to provide any cash equivalent if they are not redeemed before their expiry date. Points or vouchers issued by any third party for whom we operate a Website will be subject to the terms and conditions governing the loyalty programme under which they were issued, and may also be valid for a limited period of time only. You should check with the operator of that scheme for when you must use any such vouchers or points by.\n2.3 Vouchers or points accepted on our Websites may be used for accessing the Services and redeemed for purchasing the Content only. We will not provide any cash equivalent or any other services or products in exchange for vouchers or points.\n3 OBJECTIONABLE MATERIAL\n3.1 Objectionable Material. You understand that by using the Services, you may encounter Content that may be deemed offensive, indecent, or objectionable, which content may or may not be identified as having explicit language. TFC will endeavour to label any such Content with age ratings, but you agree to use the Service at your sole risk and TFC will not be liable to you for Content that may be found to be offensive, indecent, or objectionable. TFC does not guarantee the accuracy of any descriptions provided on our Website.\n4.1 Accessing the Website. We are concerned about the safety and privacy of our users, particularly children. Parents who wish to allow their children access to and use of the Website should supervise such access and use. It is your responsibility to determine which if any portions of the Website are suitable for your child to access.\n5 AGE RESTRICTION TO REGISTER FOR SERVICES\n5.1 Registering for the Services. You must be at least 18 years of age to agree to and enter into a contract on your own behalf and to register for use of the Services. If you are under 18 but at least 13 years of age, you must present these Terms and Conditions to your parent or legal guardian, and he or she may consent on your behalf.\n5.2 Minimum Age. Children under the age of 13 may not register for the Services, and parents or legal guardians may not register on their behalf. By registering for the Services, you represent that:\n(a) you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions; and\n(b) you are at least 18 years old, either entering into this contract for yourself or entering on behalf of your child or a child in your legal care aged 13 or over.\n5.3 Full Access. If you are a parent or guardian allowing your child access to the Services you are allowing your child access to all of the Services and Content. It is therefore your responsibility to determine which Services and Content are appropriate for your child. Always use caution when revealing personally identifiable information about yourself or your children via any of the Services. You are fully responsible for your child\u2019s use of the Website and Services, including all financial charges and legal liability that he or she may incur. If you do not agree to (or cannot comply with) any of these Terms and Conditions, do not register and do not attempt to access the Service.\n6.1 Personal Information. We recognize that the importance of your privacy and your right to control your personal information. We know that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that trust seriously. We obtain information about you from the following sources:\n(a) If you register for any of the Services you will be asked to provide basic personal information, including yourself, including your name, email address, [insert other information which users are asked to provide].\n(b) You may also supply us with additional information about yourself if you contact us with a query or complaint about the Services or Content.\n(c) We may hold competitions in connection with the Service, or in partnership with one or more of our partners or sponsors, as part of which, we may request contact information from you when you enter. We will use the information you provide to conduct the competitions and for other purposes to which you consent. If we offer competitions with third parties, we may share the information we obtain from you with them. If that is the case, then we will notify you that we are sharing your personal information with such partner at the point where we collect it and you will be able to choose whether to participate in the applicable competition.\n(d) If you pay TFC for the Services, your payment information will only be used to check that it is a valid method of payment and to process your payment. We will also store your payment card information (eg your credit card details) to speed up transactions if you return to our sites. This information is stored in compliance with applicable industry security standards (PCI-DSS)\n(e) If you redeem a voucher which has been issued by TFC, its partners or sponsors to pay for Services, you may be required to provide additional personal information which may be shared with a third party. If that is the case, then we will notify you that we are sharing your personal information with such partner at the point where we collect it and you will be able to choose whether to use the voucher.\n6.2 Use of your personal information. Because TFC operates a number of different versions of the Website, this may change depending on which version of the Website you are accessing, so please read the relevant sections below.\nIf you are accessing www.thefirstclub.com:\n(a) TFC will be the data controller of your information, and will be responsible for ensuring that it is used in accordance with applicable laws and these Terms and Conditions.\n(b) The information is used for the following purposes:\n(i) facilitating provision of the Services to you, including the processing of any payment information or personal information associated with vouchers you use. This may involve sharing your personal information with our third party Content suppliers and our technology providers. We take steps to ensure that use of your personal information by those third parties is in compliance with these Terms and Conditions.\n(ii) notifying you of changes or updates to the Website and Services;\n(iii) keeping you informed about our Website and Services, or those of our selected partners, in accordance with section 6.2(d) below;\n(iv) communicating with you regarding any query or complaint you raise; and\n(v) if TFC or all or part of its business is acquired by a third party, information about you may be disclosed to a third party in the course of such acquisition.\n(c) TFC will never sell, rent or otherwise disclose any of your personal information, to any third party other than those described above without your consent. In certain circumstances however, we may be required by applicable laws to disclose information about you to investigatory, regulatory or law enforcement bodies.\n(a) Communications from Us and Mailing Lists. In order to keep our users informed about the operation of our Website and Services, we may send e-mails and announcements to your personal email address that you have provided to us upon registration. We may also offer options for you to sign up for our mailing lists without having to use any product or service. For additional information and offers, we give you the option of joining our mailing lists. We may also allow you to choose whether to receive mailings from record labels and other promotional partners that we think will be of interest to you. Any promotional e-mail from us will come with instructions for how to unsubscribe from the mailing list.\n(b) Location of your information. Your information will be stored on secure servers located in the United States. TFC is an international company, and so that information may be accessible to TFC employees and contractors located in other countries outside the European Economic Area.\nFor all our other Websites:\nYour personal information will be held by the entity described in, and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. The entity named in that Privacy Policy will be responsible for ensuring that your personal information is used in accordance with applicable laws and these Terms and Conditions.\n6.3 Your Rights. You have the right to see a copy of the information we hold about you, and to make any corrections. Should you wish to exercise that right, or if you have any questions concerning the TFC privacy policy, please write to: clubhouse@thefirstclub.com.\n6.4 Cookies. We use a technology called \u201ccookies\u201d as part of our normal business procedure to enhance the user experience and to track patterns of behaviour of visitors to the Website. A cookie is an element of data that the Website sends to your browser that is then stored on your system. You can set your browser to prevent this happening. Any information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you change your browser settings. To learn more about cookies, including how to disable them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.\n6.5 Aggregated Information. To monitor and improve the performance of our technology, we capture other data such as search criteria, results, downloads and purchases. We only share this data on an aggregate basis for instance to chart reporting companies for compilation of sales charts. We also gather information such as date, time, connection speed and IP address of all service users. We keep this information for our internal security audit log, aggregate trend analysis and system administration. We sometimes use third party service providers to help us track the activity and user flows within our service. These third parties may use temporary cookies and/or web beaconing technology to facilitate such tracking. Such tracking would track an individual user\u2019s movements but the data would not be tracked in a personally identifiable way. Such data would be stored and analyzed on an aggregated basis solely for the purpose of internal analysis by TFC to improve the Service.\n6.6 Security. TFC has implemented technology and security features, as well as strict internal guidelines, to safeguard the privacy of your personal information from unauthorised access or improper use. We employ SSL encryption to secure your personal data and payment information. We will continue to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available. While we make every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.\n7.1 Password Security. If a particular Service requires you to open an account you will be required to complete the registration process by providing certain information and registering a username and password for use with that Service. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password. You are fully responsible for any use of the Website and Services using your username and password, including all financial charges and legal liability that are incurred. We recommend that you change your password from time to time for additional security. If you believe someone has accessed any Service using your user name and password without your authorization, it is your responsibility to notify us and set up a new password.\n7.2 Unauthorised Access. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security. In no event will TFC be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever resulting from the disclosure of your username and/or password. You may not use another person\u2019s account at any time, without the express permission of the account holder. You agree that we will be entitled to assume that any person logging into the Website using your username and password is either you or someone doing so with your permission.\n8 USAGE RULES\n8.1 Use of Content. You acknowledge that all information, text, graphics, logos, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and other materials (\u201cthe Content\u201d), whether posted publicly or transmitted privately, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. We do not control or endorse the Content and cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content and you acknowledge that by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that is offensive and/or indecent. TFC will not be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from the use of any Content transmitted via the Services and you agree to bear all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy or completeness of such Content.\n8.2 Digital Rights Management. You understand that some of the Content includes a security framework using technology that protects digital information and limits your usage of the Content to certain usage rules established by TFC and its licensors (\u201cUsage Rules\u201d). You agree to comply with such Usage Rules, as further outlined below, and you agree not to violate or attempt to violate any security components. You agree not to attempt to, or assist another person to, circumvent reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise tamper with any of the security components related to such Usage Rules for any reason whatsoever.\n8.3 Previews. A \u201cPreview\u201d is a portion of the available Content, or in some cases, an entire song or video or other item of Content that you can play (and, if applicable, view) directly from and while you are logged on to the Service on a promotional basis at no cost to you. You may play as many Previews as you like. You may not attempt (or support others\u2019 attempts) to capture, copy, or download a Preview.\n8.4 Content Usage Rules.\nCertain Content available using our Website is subject to additional licensing terms and Usage Rules, as set forth by the relevant owner or licensor of that Content (\u201cLicensor Terms\u201d). For example, if you wish to download software via the Services, your use of that software will be subject to an End User Licence Agreement which you will be asked to accept when you first install the software on your computer or device. You agree that, where that is the case, your use of the Content is subject to both: (a) these Terms and Conditions; and (b) any applicable Licensor Terms. In the event of any inconsistency between the two, the applicable Licensor Terms shall prevail.\n(a) Ownership of any Content accessed by you remains with the relevant owner or licensor. You do not own any Content which you download or access, and your rights are limited to a licence to use the Content only for personal, non-commercial use, and not for redistribution, transfer, assignment, public play-back, or sublicense, to the extent permitted by law, and strictly subject to these Terms and Conditions and any Licensor Terms.\n(b) Additional usage rules are set out in the Annex to these Terms and Conditions.\n(c) You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service or used to administer the Usage Rules, or interfere with, remove or alter any rights management information on the Content.\n(d) The delivery of Content does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Content.\n8.5 You agree that your redemption of Content constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to use such Content solely in accordance with the Usage Rules and any Licensor Terms, and that any other use of the Content may constitute a copyright infringement. Any security technology, if applicable, is an inseparable part of the Content. The Usage Rules and any Licensor Terms shall govern your rights with respect to the Content. TFC reserves the right to modify the Usage Rules at any time.\n8.6 Use of the Website/Services. You agree not to:\n(a) use the Services to send junk email, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other unsolicited messages, commercial or otherwise;\n(b) post, publish, distribute or disseminate material or information that is defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, threatening, abusive, harassing or unlawful;\n(c) post, publish, distribute or disseminate material or information that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards any person or group on account of their race, religion, disability, nationality or otherwise;\n(d) threaten, abuse, disrupt, stalk or otherwise violate the legal rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;\n(e) use any information or material in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary right of any party;\n(f) make available or upload files that contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data that may damage the operation of the computer or property of another;\n(g) collect or store personal information about others, including email addresses;\n(h) advertise or offer to buy or sell goods or services for any commercial purpose, unless such communication facility specifically allows such messages;\n(i) impersonate any person or entity for the purpose of misleading others;\n(j) violate any applicable laws or regulations;\n(k) use the Website/Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Website/Services or interfere with any other party\\s use and enjoyment of the Website/Services;\n(l) post, publish, distribute or disseminate material or information that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information or confidential information disclosed in the course of employment or under a confidentiality agreement);\n(m) attempt to gain unauthorised access to any of the Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Website/Services through hacking, password mining or any other means.\n8.7 Monitoring. We have no obligation to monitor the Services but shall be entitled to review materials posted to a communications facility and, at our sole discretion, to remove any material that breaches these terms and conditions or is otherwise objectionable.\n9.1 Termination by us. We have the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Services at any time, without notice, for any reason, including without limitation, breach of these Terms and Conditions. We may also at any time, at our sole discretion, discontinue the Website and/or Services or any part thereof without prior notice and you agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Website and/or Services.\n9.2 Termination by you. If you wish to discontinue your use of the Website and/or Services, you may do so at any time by no longer accessing the Website. 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The woman, Plaintiff Kathleen A. Clement, filed her lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese and two of its parishes in DuBois back in May 2016.\nThe priest, Defendant Rev. Daniel Kresinski, who is in his 70s, served at St. Michael the Archangel Church and St. Joseph Church, both in DuBois, Pennsylvania. Clement, who is in her 60s, was employed by the Diocese as a facilitator of religious programs for three parishes. In her complaint, Clement claims that she was sexually harassed by Kresinski and that he repeatedly touched himself in her presence. She also claimed in the suit that his superiors within the Diocese did not stop his behavior despite her numerous complaints. Such inaction created additional liability for the Diocese and parishes involved.\nAccording to the lawsuit, Kresinski\u2019s actions created an \u201coffensive, sexually hostile work environment\u201d from March 2013 until Clement eventually resigned in October 2013. Her complaint states that she was \u201cforced to resign from her employment due to Defendants\u2019 failure to address or remedy the offensive sexually hostile work environment in which [she] was forced to work.\u201d\nThe two parishes, St. Michael the Archangel and St. Joseph, claim that Clement only created the allegations in \u201cretaliation against Fr. Kresinski\u2019s demand for greater accountability for Plaintiff\u2019s job performance and as a result of a salary dispute,\u201d and that, she later \u201cresigned from her position on her own accord.\u201d\nWhile the details of the settlement cannot be discussed by the parties, Diocese\u2019s Bishop Lawrence T. Persico accepted the recommendation of the Clergy Review Board that the priest in question cease from public ministry \u201cuntil further notice for the good order of the church.\u201d Before that time, he had been on paid administrative leave after the federal suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Erie in May 2016.\nThe church likely felt the pressure to settle after U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter ruled against the diocese and the parishes motions to dismiss. Defendants claimed that Clement did not qualify as an employee subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which applies to employers with 15 or more employees.\nIf you feel you have suffered sexual harassment on the job contact one of our Philadelphia sexual harassment attorneys at the Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC today for a free consultation. Our attorneys have years of experience litigating claims of gender discrimination. Working together with our New York City sexual harassment attorneys, we have recovered millions on behalf of our clients who were discriminated against because of their gender. If you feel you have been discriminated against because of your gender, please give our attorneys a call, toll-free, at 1877 4NYLAWS, for your free consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 12532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/year-old-need-nap-middle-day-need-park-hopper-go-park-127018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IROSPBOHETTHY4KZHZSDGHADGW2VHD4O", "length": 461, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com", "title": "We are going with a 2 year old who will need ... | Disney Parks Moms Panel", "raw_content": "Emily from LA Asked \u201c\nWe are going with a 2 year old who will need a nap in the middle of the day. Do we need to get a park hopper if we want to go to a park, then back to our hotel to rest, then back to the same park?\u201d\nNo, you do not need a Park Hopper to return to the same park on the same day. You only need that option if you will be returning to a different park after your break. 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This Agreement will not be governed by the Unites Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 13094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://domesticpreparedness.com/resilience/page6", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5RTPTBPWEBATLADNONL72M4QSYQOLKG2", "length": 4907, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "domesticpreparedness.com", "title": "Resilience | Domestic Preparedness", "raw_content": "Time Value of Capability: Expenditures vs. Savings\nby Charles Eaneff - Wed, January 18, 2017\nThe business of domestic preparedness seems to be a likely priority in 2017, and the relationship between the time value of state and local capabilities and federal disaster relief policies are sure to evolve. For public safety professionals \u2013 including police, fire, emergency medical, and emergency management services \u2013 the time value of capability is fundamentally the same as the time value of money.\nLocal Role in Preparedness & Resilience to Natural Disasters\nby Roland Temah - Tue, January 17, 2017\nNatural disasters begin locally and may affect one or more communities simultaneously. However, a community approach to preparedness and resilience \u2013 with local government officials identifying the different natural disasters that make their communities vulnerable \u2013 can greatly influence response and sustainability efforts to counteract potential challenges. To achieve effective resilience, preparedness should be systematic.\nSailing Toward Port Resilience\nby Yuri Graves - Wed, January 11, 2017\nA sturdy boat and a knowledgeable crew increase the odds for a safe voyage. To build a sailboat with a strong, sturdy foundation, the keel is laid and the hull is made to balance and support the entire boat while at sea. Similarly, community preparedness also needs a strong foundation on which to build.\nUnmanned Aircraft Systems for Emergency Management\nby Darren E. Price - Wed, December 21, 2016\nResponding to disasters is a critical function for first responders and the emergency management community. Rotary and fixed-winged aircraft have traditionally performed disaster response missions, such as overhead damage assessments, reconnaissance, and missing person searches. However, with the advancement of unmanned aircraft systems, there is an opportunity to perform conventional aerial missions in a safer, expeditious, and cost-effective manner.\nMaking the Grid Great Again\nby J. Michael Barrett - Wed, December 14, 2016\nAs the dust from the recent election settles, one of the first orders of business for the incoming Trump administration is a massive public infrastructure investment plan. Although the economic benefits associated with improved infrastructure are popular with many citizens and both sides of the political aisle, the real-world practicalities of ensuring positive economic return from such investments are nonetheless daunting.\nSummer Air Traffic Delays \u2013 Warnings vs. Reality\nThe aviation system remains a prime target for terrorists. The traveling public, airlines, and airports grew impatient in the face of long security lines. As a result, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was often in the news, until its leaders undertook a systematic process of transformation to both enhance security and minimize inconvenience for the traveling public.\nThe Human Factors in Leadership Decision Making\nby Eric J. McNulty - Tue, November 01, 2016\nPreparedness and response organizations have realized many benefits from adopting the Incident Command System (ICS) and similar formal management structures. Performance, however, depends on how people behave as humans within that system \u2013 particularly in stressful, fast-moving environments. Integrating behavioral training into ICS training may help improve performance and outcomes.\nPreparedness Perspective \u2013 Active Shooters & Lone Wolves\nby Thomas J. Lockwood & Peter LaPorte - Wed, October 26, 2016\nVarious drills and exercises highlight efforts to protect communities against various types of attacks involving transportation, buildings, historic sites, sporting events, and so on. Attacks and hostage-taking incidents around the world expose vulnerabilities that need to be assessed in all communities to determine: what they need to drill, who they need to train, and how they will collaborate across jurisdictions.\nThe \u201cNot If, But When\u201d Fallacy: Active Shooter Preparedness\nby Research Group at University of Maryland - Wed, October 12, 2016\nThe phrase \u201cIt\u2019s not if, but when\u201d may distort how certain organizations perceive emergency preparedness, especially in cases such as active shooter threats. This common expression leads to inaccurate threat perceptions and can result in leaders becoming complacent. Emergency managers should be aware of this potential odd pairing of a sense of inevitability with complacency, and be prepared to counter it.\nHazard Detection: \u201cBring Your Own Protection\u201d\nby Kathryn Laskey - Tue, September 20, 2016\nCurrent approaches for ensuring public safety rely on expensive and obtrusive equipment and procedures having limited availability and inadequate performance. Newly emerging wearable sensors have the potential to spark a fundamental change in this equation. Researchers at George Mason University are investigating a new concept called \u201cBring Your Own Protection\u201d (BYOP).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dooneyscafe.com/whats-happening-andys/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LR3UNGEA544O7IPJTC5JUCHIPSFELUWU", "length": 18522, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "dooneyscafe.com", "title": "What's Happening At Andy's | dooneyscafe.com", "raw_content": "What\u2019s Happening At Andy\u2019s\nThe \u201cAndy\u201d in the title of Vancouver poet George Stanley\u2019s new collection, At Andy\u2019s (New Star, 79 pages, $16) is psychologist Andy Klingner, a longtime resident of the northwest town of Terrace, British Columbia. It\u2019s a place of about 10,000 or so people on the banks of the winding and powerful Skeena River (which flows out to sea at Prince Rupert, about 150 km. Beyond this bend). I\u2019d be tempted to call Terrace, with its unlovely malls and former sawmills, \u201cnondescript,\u201d but for the fact that Stanley\u2013who lived and taught college English there for about 15 years\u2013has described it at length, in a series of poetic prose pieces (\u201cTerrace Landscapes,\u201d in Gentle Northern Summer, 1995), as well as in occasional poems and the title piece of his current book.\nSo, what\u2019s happening at Andy\u2019s? And what\u2019s going on in Terrace? Well, quite a bit. The first thing that\u2019s happening in \u201cAt Andy\u2019s,\u201d the poem, is writing or, rather, the interferences of writing. It makes sense, then, to talk briefly about how George Stanley writes before getting to what he writes about.\nAfter arriving on the bus for one of his periodic visits to Terrace, and being picked up by Andy and his wife, Martina, Stanley is at a desk in Andy\u2019s basement, on a hot Sunday in August, pen and notebook in hand, thinking about Terrace and writing.\n\u201c(While I\u2019m writing,\u201d he writes parenthetically, \u201cI\u2019ll try to ignore undercurrents of the brain, personal worthiness, outcome or \u2018point\u2019 of this writing,\u201d but a minute later asks, \u201cor should I include them?\u201d Then he adds, \u201cA pointless paragraph. I can\u2019t write.\u201d The parenthesis remains unclosed, and the undercurrents of his brain constitute one of the strata not only of \u201cAt Andy\u2019s,\u201d but of a good many other poems in his work.\nOne of the notable features of Stanley\u2019s poetry is that his mind\u2019s processing (if that\u2019s the right word) of the phenomena he encounters in the world, a world that of course includes himself, is always a possible partial subject matter for any given poem. The events in his mind frequently interrupt, short-circuit, or, as they say these days, destabilize whatever he\u2019s writing about. While such self-reflexive strategies appear regularly in post-modern writing, in Stanley\u2019s poems, the interruptive self brings a particular, unheroic, anxiety to disturb the placid social reality in which he locates himself (small towns, malls, airplanes, busses, or in front of a television).\nThe salutory effect of this mode of poetic investigation is to give readers a sense of edginess, risk, and simultaneity of meaning, a sense of the poem being an action in language and the world, a sense that almost anything can happen and that there\u2019s something life-or-death-like at stake, namely, what we make of that world.\nOr, more specifically, what we make of Terrace: \u201c\u2013strip mall on Keith\u2013we stop at Safeway for groceries\u2013obesity\u2013almost everyone too big, I think\u2013is the weight of all the food that gets here, by truck (less waste, and, Andy reminds me, heat loss) added to the bodies of those living here, Terraceites?\u201d\nTerrace, or its strip mall Safeway, shares the features of anywhere in North America, and the poem is, oddly enough, \u201cabout obesity, cheerful obesity, all the big people at the mall\u2013one lifestyle\u2013nothing but the economy\u2013the drinking water sour\u2013\u201d That is, it\u2019s a poem about the social shape of capitalism\u2013grossly overweight these days, or as one waggish friend puts it, about 5,000 donuts over the limit.\n#While part of the scene in Terrace is equally available in any cosmopolitan centre, the local panorama includes the particularities of a declining resource town: \u201ctruckloads of log corpses from farther & farther away, up the Nass\u2013operate the mill at lower cost, develop the mining sector, truckloads of food\u2013this is a site of conversion, realization of surplus value, how else to conceive of it.\u201d In fact, \u201cNo way to conceive of it, no understanding. And I\u2019ll never know if it\u2019s really understanding that\u2019s disappearing or am I just moaning the loss of a sharper mind.\u201d\nStanley is one of the few poets I know of who consistently takes capitalism\u2013its social effects and the difficulty of comprehending its dual character of blatent obviousness and invisible workings\u2013as a necessary feature of his subject matter. If there\u2019s a Samuel Beckett-like sense of finality to Stanley\u2019s subjectivity, unlike Beckett\u2019s landscape of abstracted gloom (say, in The Unnamable), Stanley\u2019s world is realistic, ordinary, and informed by an understanding of macro-economic causality.\nSubject matter isn\u2019t just a coincidental issue in his work. Of late, Stanley has been half-jokingly touting the notion of \u201caboutness\u201d or \u201caboutism,\u201d the idea that poems should be about something, rather than being mere personal expression or ironic linguistic commentary. In AT ANDY\u2019S, the poems are about hockey pucks, movies, dogs, Moscow (!), monasteries, aging, sex, death, Vancouver, Calgary, capitalism, and, of course, Terrace. But the idea of aboutness turns out to be a radical simplification of what Stanley\u2019s poems are actually about.\nFor instance, a poem called \u201cThe Puck\u201d is nominally about watching hockey on TV and following the puck, \u201cthe black dot. On the replays, of near goals, sometimes I lose it, in the collision of bodies, the goalie spreadeagled, the glare. Then it reappears. Is it in or out?\u201d\nBut if watching the puck is a straightforward enough parable about paying attention to what\u2019s really going on, the poem is also about the boozy, stoned minds of the viewers, as well as about advertising (\u201c& then you truly can\u2019t fend off the commercials, the car drives into your head & is wedged there, & the beer pours through your veins\u201d), words themselves, and finally, \u201cthe huge surrounding fucked reality.\u201d One of the many things I like about Stanley\u2019s poetry is that what often starts out as a familiar, if slightly tense, mundane scene of reality, recurrently breaks into jagged considerations of everything, of everything-going-on-at-once.\nMeanwhile, in Terrace, \u201ccars moving slowly up Lakelse\u2013cumbersome-in & out of parking spaces\u2013slow\u2013because so heavy & so dangerous\u2013& there is food, in bags, in carts, lifted into trunks & back seats of cars, backs of pickups, in mall lot\u2026 inside all this, inside the cars (the objective poem sees) there are people, placid, cheerful\u2013\u201c. \u201cWhat a vision!\u201d Stanley exclaims, and then wonders \u201cis there behind this some animus-is it deep dislike of these people, misanthropy, or just objective\u2013 is this a phenomenon anyone could observe or the twisted vision of a fucked-up old man\u201d?\n\u201cIn this slow moving jumble of steel carapaces & Safeway carts & fat pleasant faces with the log trucks an undertone in the background,\u201d Stanley asks, \u201cWho can see the inner Terrace?\u201d At the edge of many of Stanley\u2019s poems, including this one, is the issue of \u201ccare,\u201d of whether one can care for all this\u2013the world, Terrace, one\u2019s self, the obese shoppers. \u201cThere\u2019s no way to know except by knowing them, which here I don\u2019t, except my old friends,\u201d Stanley says, and then shrewdly adds, \u201c& their knowledge of each other, seen in faces & heard in tones of voice more than in words\u2013knowledge of what is not said, out of kindness\u2013life a condition of unsaying, of waiting for the unsaid to fade, of waiting for forgetfulness while preserving shards of memory, of avoiding laying it all on each other, out of forbearance.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s interesting here, is that amid the fretting about writing and one\u2019s decentred place in the scheme of things, amid the realistic and ordinary daily events of a summer day in Terrace\u2013heat, lawnmowers, kids, and the casual cameo appearances of Andy himself\u2013there\u2019s a metaphysical storm. As Stanley writes in a translation of Roger Meunier\u2019s \u201cOctober,\u201d \u201cThe world, outside, inside, is a violent contradiction. Only split in two can one live with urgency.\u201d\nAgainst the political malevolence that envelops the highway/mall of Terrace or stoned TV hockey viewers, Stanley counterposes the innocence of words (not language, or poetry). He represents words as \u201cinnocent, like the child,\u201d or \u201cthe butterfly\u2026 in the ambience\u2013winged\u2013when it is set free, from the lips.\u201d Here, rather tenderly, the poet locates the human connection: while our minds are on the word, he says, \u201cour hearts go out to the speaker\u2013she\u2013who put herself on the line.\u201d In \u201cThe Puck,\u201d Stanley concludes: \u201cthe child the word the bird the butterfly the puck. They have no need of us\u2026 But where our care does go, where it is wanted with a chemical hunger, is the willing, dying, speaker.\u201d\nAt Andy\u2019s moves out from the cool command of ostensibly lyric poetry in Stanley\u2019s earlier books to an increasingly ragged-edged prose poem. It\u2019s almost as if he\u2019s saying that the conventional poem itself can be an obstacle to what he\u2019s getting at. Still, there are a half dozen or so memorable poems which appear in recognizable form: \u201cVeracruz,\u201d \u201cThe Dying Cow\u201d (that\u2019s the name of a pub in Wicklow, Ireland), \u201cThe Power of the Unhappy People,\u201d \u201cNaked In New York,\u201d \u201cSex at 62,\u201d and two or three poems from a semi-comic series in which the poet imagines his communal living circumstances as life in a monastery, with abbots, young monks, dogs, and himself as \u201cthe old fox.\u201d\nIn \u201cSex at 62,\u201d Stanley\u2019s handling of homosexual desire in a poem that\u2019s primarily about aging is instructive:\nI knew him, then all through the morning\nas we sucked & kissed & caressed\nthat it was him, got ahead of\nthis jerky demanding need to do\nsex, when it was him there was no choice,\nonly a face, his rough chin, tousled hair\u2013\nThe fear & the demand, to MAKE love,\nare still here, but the mythology is gone\u2013\nthe fear & the demand weaker, & desire\nWhat I like about the homosexual context here is its under-statement, which is to say that it\u2019s stated accurately. The proportionality of the subject\u2013and certainly homosexuality is a topic of our time\u2013is just about right, too, forming but a small, but necessary, portion of how the poet sees the world. The poem takes the circumstances of desire as given; what the poem is about is the social compulsion in our culture to engage in sexuality (do sex, make love) against the condition of aging. His point is that recognizing the other person as an actual person (and not a mythologized image) is under the pressure of a cultural demand to engage in sex in order to be \u201cnormal.\u201d\nSimilarly, in \u201cNaked In New York,\u201d a poem about a film of that name in which there\u2019s an impulsive homosexual kiss, what Stanley registers is the social effect of queerness: \u201cIn the audience loud gasps, / as-if-sickened groans\u201d of the \u201cguys in the seats,\u201d beneath the \u201ctwo giant heads soft as flags / or luminous clouds above us negotiating / a moment of intimacy.\u201d Their straight disapprobation of homosexuality (treated metaphorically in the poem as \u201cthe rotten apple\u201d in the barrel) invokes \u201chomophobia high school, / hoping none of us were rotten, no bad apple, no queer / certain we were all unwanted, none wanted by any of the others.\u201d That is, the fear of being undesired, the poem argues, is what drives the false sense, in the young male audience, of being offended by the sight of homosexual desire.\nStanley eschews rhetoric, in favour of a demonstration of \u201cdesire all over the place.\u201d\nThe poems to which I find myself returning are the ones in which not only the content, but the form itself, is troubled, forced to unsyntactical prose, punctuated by dashes, barely able to contain itself, anything but a poetry of reflections recollected in tranquillity. While poems like \u201cRipple + 26\u201d and the beginning of a long William Carlos Williams-esque poem about Vancouver equally represent this condition, \u201cHow Was Calgary?\u201d is perhaps the poem that most urgently embodies what Stanley is doing in At Andy\u2019s..\nAs people in Vancouver occasionally do, Stanley makes a trip (characteristically, by bus) to Calgary, and when he gets back, people ask him the question that becomes the title of the poem, \u201cHow Was Calgary?\u201d \u201cHard to tell,\u201d Stanley says.\nHe reports the phenomenological appearance of Calgary\u2013\u201clots of golden lights, like golden marbles, on a glass tray\u2013but rising & falling\u2013though some of that apparent motion was due to the bus, & the rising & falling of the land over which it was approaching\u2013& then the subject was in among the golden lights & saw they were\u2013street lights (aw, you guessed!)\u2013\u201d\nThe bi-focal consciousness in the poem moves between an autobiographical \u201cI\u201d and the third-person \u201csubject\u201d (or \u201cS.\u201d), as that term is used in psychology experiments. As often happens in Stanley\u2019s poems, the subject matter (what the poem is about) arises from an unexpected angle of vision\u2013a recreation vehicle lot, Woody\u2019s RV World, and a restaurant curiously named Ristorante Ristorante, seen from a passing bus. If Woody\u2019s RV World coincides with the \u201csubject\u201d thinking about \u201cwhat might count as \u2018world\u2019 for an AI system,\u201d the flashing by of the double-name (is it a restaurant named \u201cRestaurant,\u201d a \u201cristorante\u201d called Ristorante\u201d? and why is an Italian restaurant in Calgary called a \u201cristorante\u201d?) opens a deeper vein:\n\u201cTook him back to his youth, when even the best Italian restaurant was called a restaurant, & that took him back to all his talks with Stan, their never-ending conversation, about how things had changed since their youth-one youth?\u201d\nThe \u201cStan\u201d is me, I\u2019m happy to note, and indeed I\u2019ve been involved in what seems like a never-ending conversation, usually about language, philosophy, politics, the world, with George Stanley for most of my life. Stanley, by the way, is one of the few poets around who is well-read enough in philosophy and economics, as well as literature, to permit the conversation to be never-ending. Equally happily, though I\u2019m in it, the poem is not about me.\nRather, it\u2019s about \u201cA consciousness\u2013something\u2013stretched out between the past (seen as a kind of paradisal, happy-go-lucky place\u2013a REAL place, where you could eat spaghetti (& not linguini)\u2026 while level on level, at the same time, other voices (other persons?) from this time & that, mumbled, muttered, half-started phrases, the beginning of arguments you had to pay attention to\u2026\nThis is what S. argued with Stan about, whether plain, uncomplicated reality was disappearing or were they just getting older\u2013but why should getting older have that effect?\n& it happening inside the head\u2013\nA man on a bus sees a sign from the window, Woody\u2019s RV World,\n& can\u2019t understand it, because he\u2019s passing by it\u2013\nAnd then\u2026? And then, we\u2019re in it. In the poem, in Calgary, in S.\u2019s head, in the world. \u2018Cause there\u2019s no way out of it. The poem/S. goes on to drinks in an Irish pub, a Cannons-Las Vegas baseball game at Burns Stadium, the Econo Court motel, a zoo of the mind (with a sleeping Siberian tiger), whatever.\nThe notion of simple aboutness is really shredded if this is, as S. indirectly avers, a poem about the nature of reality, about the claim that \u201cconsciousness is an illusion,\u201d counterposed to Stephen Leacock\u2019s counter-claim (Stephen Leacock! what\u2019s he doing here?!\u2013anything can happen!)\u2026 Stephen Leacock\u2019s counter-claim that \u201cThe illusion is the real reality.\u201d\nNear the end, Stanley cites Oscar Wilde\u2019s remark to Andre Gide, \u201cThere is no first person in literature,\u201d and replies that \u201cThere is too much first person\u2013and yet I know, just beyond this (blank) of words is a country without reflection\u2013a river (like the Bow) that flows from the past to the present & makes them one\u2026 S. snaps back into the landscape\u2013ristorante-scape\u2013& the landscape knows its being\u2013the less he knows the more it is aware.\u201d\nAnd that\u2019s how Calgary was. \u201cHow was Calgary?\u201d is a question that Stanley reads, \u201cHow was life?\u201d\nWhen I was in Terrace long ago, I had a friend (now deceased) named Jeff Marvin, and when we got to the Zen-point of something, we\u2019d quote to each other the tag-line of a then current TV detective show, featuring a character named Baretta, who always punctuated the conclusion of climactic events by saying, \u201cAnd dat\u2019s da name of dat tune.\u201d At Andy\u2019s, which proposes programmatic uncertainty, frequently stops me in my tracks with exactly that sort of definitiveness, echoed by self-mockery. As in:\nWhy should a sign:\nOwn a New\nremind me that I\u2019m going to die?\nWhat is this \u2018reminding\u2019?\n*Given that I\u2019ve been a friend and reader of George Stanley for some 40 years, this essay is meant simply as a set of reflections on his current work, rather than offering any pretense to being an \u201cobjective\u201d critical review.\n(1) I should mention that I also lived in Terrace for several years, but with only a fraction of the sense of engagement that Stanley brings to it.\n(2) The technical term for this method of working is called \u201cparataxis,\u201d meaning that the poet/poem registers one authentic perception after another, without worrying too much about syntax or the connections between subject matter. In Stanley\u2019s later poetry, the work becomes increasing fragmentary, using dashes,\nragged-edged prose, announcements of being \u201cstuck,\u201d and any other device at hand. As in early television, the picture is always threatening to break up. Deciding on the authenticity of a given perception (including perceptions of mental interference) is a further problem, one to be left to revision (in both senses of\nthat word).\n(3) As is almost always the case, there\u2019s a longer story to tell than the one I\u2019ll tell here. These days, any serious discussion of a book of poems carries as a subtext the entire problem of poetry and its near-invisibility in our culture. In the case of\nStanley\u2019s writing, the exposed stance of the poet is to be distinguished from either the abstract riffs of \u201clanguage poetry\u201d (in which the authorial subject is seemingly effaced) or the anecdotal expressiveness of much contemporary poetry (in which\nthe poet\u2019s feelings are often the real subject matter of the poem). Naturally, that isn\u2019t peculiar to Stanley but, rather, it\u2019s the story of Modernism and its successors. Stanley\u2019s poems\u2013which are an existential variant on the modernist tradition we\nassociate with Pound, Williams, Olson, Creeley, and others-have a quality akin to scientific research, in which the poet attempts to make objective discoveries about the world, discoveries which necessarily must appear via the poet\u2019s subjectivity.\nStan Persky teaches philosophy at Capilano College in North Vancouver, B.C., and is a literary columnist for the Vancouver Sun. 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We also offer complimentary reviews on your existing fixed annuity and life insurance contracts.**\n**Insurance Products and Services are offered through Karen Prescia Dowling, Independent Agent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dperry.com/2004/09/05/breaking_into_t/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RC4LPRMFCISDX2DVXP5RHBZVIYBSNA44", "length": 277, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dperry.com", "title": "Breaking Into the Game Industry \u00ab David Perry's Blog", "raw_content": "Breaking Into the Game Industry\nThe IGDA is holding a panel discussion on August 25th at The Art Institute of California \u2013 San Francisco. This event is free and open to those interested in pursuing careers in the video game development field, particularly students and newbies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 97.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dragracerv3game.com/2019/02/09/gass-skeptical-of-dual-vw-brand-representation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:N3HQXBJQUTOV3ORKLXCUCUCJF6TYRQR6", "length": 90, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dragracerv3game.com", "title": "Gass \u201cSkeptical\u201d of Dual VW Brand Representation - Racer Game News", "raw_content": "\u201cI\u2019m really skeptical if it\u2019s affordable for the group to do that on a long term [basis].\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 191.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drconason.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-controversy-the-difference-between-abuse-and-bdsm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YIY23BIATTZSVR53AOROZCPH556QRITH", "length": 959, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "drconason.com", "title": "Fifty Shades of Grey' Controversy: The Difference Between Abuse and BDSM - Dr. Alexis Conason", "raw_content": "Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 Controversy: The Difference Between Abuse and BDSM\nNew York-based psychologist Alexis Conason, PsyD, a researcher at St. Luke\u2019s-Roosevelt Hospital who is also has a private practice specializing in treatment of body image and sexual issues, said it is crucial to differentiate between the BDSM relationship and emotional or physical abuse.\u201cBDSM is characterized by a safe and playful arrangement between two consenting adult partners,\u201d Conason explained. \u201cBefore entering into a BDSM relationship, partners should clearly define the boundaries of what they and their partner want and are willing to engage in. BDSM does not involve emotional or physical abuse. Emotional and/or physical abuse is no more common in BDSM relationships than in \u2018vanilla\u2019 or any other type of relationships. Most people who engage in BDSM do so because they enjoy it and it is fun and pleasurable for them, not because they are acting out a pattern of abuse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 25154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drshortt.com/dont-supersize-my-breasts/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:57Z", "digest": "sha1:4KQQAGGMVFIXWN52I6T23ZA2SUQW2MNW", "length": 5663, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "drshortt.com", "title": "Don\u2019t SUPERSIZE My Breasts! by Dr. Shortt", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t SUPERSIZE My Breasts!\nby Dr. Rodger Shortt, MD, FRCSC | Breast Augmentation\nOver the years, things have continued to get bigger\u2026 The \u201cfamily bucket\u201d. The Big Gulp. Supersized fries. For many people, this same philosophy has applied to the size of the implants that they choose. Some people special-order their implants if they want them even larger. Presumably, people think that these super-sized breasts look good? And obviously surgeons either agree or are at least willing to acquiesce and put them into people. The question is WHY? Do they really look that good? Will patients be happy if they have giant breasts? If bigger is good, is gigantic better? Many people may think so, but I disagree.\nI have always believed that beauty is the ultimate goal in plastic surgery.\nIt is no different if we are talking about breast enlargement, tummy tucks, facial surgery or injectables. I want my patients to look beautiful. In order to achieve that, I really think it is important to maintain a natural looking result. I want people to look at my patients and think, \u201cHmm, I wonder if they did anything, they just look so good\u201d but never know for sure. When I counsel people on breast augmentation and how to choose implants, I want them to look amazing. I want them to be the person that turns heads at the beach for looking fantastic, but I don\u2019t want anyone on the beach to know they have had surgery.\nSo how do we attain this goal of the perfect breast augmentation?\nI spend a lot of time going over implant sizing with patients. We talk about the type of \u201clook\u201d they like and the type they don\u2019t. I do a full consultation and take measurements. I have patients do several things that help them decide the perfect breast implant and also have them do things to help me understand their goal as well as possible. I then take all of that information and select a few implant choices and bring them to the operating room. Along with those I bring sizers (which are exact replicas of the implants) so that I can trial different breast implants. Quite often, there are a few that may look good. Many surgeons only have one option at the time of surgery. And hopefully it looks good. However, I prefer to take extra time and try out a few different breast implants in every patient. There is usually one that is perfect for you. It just looks better than the other ones, even if the size is similar. It fits your body and your breast in a natural harmonious way, giving a fuller breast but not looking fake. The extra time it takes me in the operating room is well worth it. I have never had to change a patient\u2019s implants. Not once! That is a bold statement that I am very proud to be able to make. I think the reason for that is the time taken before and during surgery to make sure that we get the best breast augmentation result.\nBEFORE & AFTER (Breast implants/augmentation)\nBut let\u2019s get back to the SUPERSIZE issue for a second\u2026\nIs it possible to get a beautiful result with a large implant? Sure, but not if it is too big for your body. There are really two things that can \u201cgive-away\u201d a breast augmentation surgery. The first is really large breasts on a small women\u2026 although some women are blessed with that naturally, it raises people\u2019s suspicions when they see it. The other is a very clear demarcation of the implant at the top of the breast; that fake circular appearance from overstuffing the breast with a large implant, particularly a large round implant. And while some people may think that is a nice look at first, it doesn\u2019t mean that your breasts will look nice in years to come. The tissue is not meant to be stretched to over-capacity and then asked to hold a heavy implant up. As expected, the tissue will thin and the implant will become more noticeable. On top of that, the implant will start to drop. As the say \u201cthe bigger they are, the harder they fall\u201d. Large breasts that become droopy are not sexy! It is not the look you sign-up for.\nMy goal is to give my patients beautiful, natural looking breasts immediately after surgery and for years to come.\nBy choosing the correct implant, by selecting the appropriate pocket position (even if it takes a bit more time in the case of subfascial placement), and by using an implant designed to let tissue \u201cvelcro\u201d to it, I believe my patients have the best chance of that result.\nIn my practice, I have never exchanged an implant that I have put in. I do, however, do so regularly for patients that had surgery done elsewhere. Yet in all the times that I have cared for patients from other offices, I have never put a larger implant into anyone. Every single time someone comes to my office looking for revision surgery, it is to make their breasts smaller and to make them perky again. Often these patients say that were told by the surgeon or their friends, \u201cdon\u2019t go too small or you will be disappointed\u201d. I heard the same teaching when I was a plastic surgery resident. However, having been in practice for years and with a significant portion of my work focussed on breast surgery, I couldn\u2019t disagree more!\nPick an implant that will give you a fuller, perky breast. However, pick one that will look natural and beautiful, now and in the future. It will be the best decision you will make for yourself. Here\u2019s to the end of SUPERSIZED breasts!\nTo learn more about breast augmentation click here.\nIf you are interested in learning more about any of these procedures, or having a private consultation please click here or telephone 905-849-4282.\n\u2190 Recovery Series Vol. 3: What to Expect Following Laser Resurfacing Treatment Breast Implants vs Fat Transfer for Breast Augmentation \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 15583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drtrott.com/before-after-photos/liposuction/liposuction/beverly-hills-ca/42947/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:43KEUL7OMBELWFXM426WHT2NCEK5WHEH", "length": 1202, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "drtrott.com", "title": "Full Body Liposuction", "raw_content": "This forty-five year-old Beverly Hills woman had gained weight after multiple fertility treatments and pregnancy with twins had a complete change in her body after her children were born. She was in her regular routine of exercising and eating well, but none of the weight that she had put on after all of the hormone treatments would come off. On the right she is three months after a liposuction of her arms, back, flanks, inner and outer thighs and she has been keeping in shape with her regular diet and exercise. She is thrilled with the new contour of her body. She has basically undergone a full-body contouring procedure.\nThis forty-five year-old Beverly Hills woman had gained weight after multiple fertility treatments and pregnancy with twins had a complete change in her body after her children were born. She was in her regular routine of exercising and eating well, but none of the weight that she had put on after all of the hormone treatments would come off. On the right she is three months after a liposuction of her arms, back, flanks, inner and outer thighs and she has been keeping in shape with her regular diet and exercise. She is thrilled with the new contour of her body. More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dwssecure.autotrader.co.uk/finance-iframe?dealerId=10008923", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5PH4FX7IUVVDDXQGL6IJVDSUN7H46OQC", "length": 400, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dwssecure.autotrader.co.uk", "title": "Great Car finance deals in Buckingham - Used Car loans | Jacobs motors Ltd", "raw_content": "We are trading as a credit broker and not a lender, and are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We can introduce you to a limited number of carefully selected finance partners and may receive a commission from them for the introduction. Jacobs motors Ltd, UNIT 15-16, CAPITOL WORKS STATION ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, STATION ROAD, WINSLOW, BUCKINGHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, MK18 3RQ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eahn.org/2015/04/conference-piero-della-francesca-disegno-courtauld-institute-london-19-20-june-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4M36RSTKW5ORJPEMNT4QXPX7FKMJ5U7V", "length": 4272, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "eahn.org", "title": "Conference: Piero della Francesca & disegno (Courtauld Institute London \u2013 19 & 20 June 2015) \u2013 EAHN", "raw_content": "Conference: Piero della Francesca & disegno (Courtauld Institute London \u2013 19 & 20 June 2015)\nHome 2015 April Conference: Piero della Francesca & disegno (Courtauld Institute London \u2013 19 & 20 June 2015)\nPIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND DISEGNO\nResearch Forum, Summer 2015\nFriday, 19 June and Saturday, 20 June 2015\ntimings to be confirmed, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Sainsbury Wing Theatre, National Gallery, London.\nKeynote Speaker: Professor Emeritus James R. Banker (North Caroline State University)\nConfirmed Speakers: Carmen Bambach (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Roberto Bellucci (Opificio delle Pietre Dure), Ciro Castelli (Opificio delle Pietre Dure), Frank Dabell (Temple University, Rome), Francesco P. Di Teodoro (Politecnico di Torino and Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare \u201cB. Segre\u201d, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), David Franklin (Archive of Modern Conflict, Toronto and London), Cecilia Frosinini (Opificio delle Pietre Dure), Giacomo Guazzini (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Amanda Lillie (University of York), Rocco Sinisgalli (University of Rome, La Sapienza), Elena Squillantini (Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell\u2019Arte Roberto Longhi)\nTicket/entry details: \u00a326 (\u00a316 students, Courtauld staff/students and concessions)\nOrganised by: Professor Emeritus James R. Banker (North Caroline State University), Professor Tom Henry (University of Kent), Dr Machtelt Br\u00fcggen Isra\u00ebls (University of Amsterdam), Dr Scott Nethersole (The Courtauld), Dr Nathaniel Silver (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), and Dr Caroline Campbell (National Gallery, London)\nThe role of design (disegno) is fundamental to understanding the working practice of Piero della Francesca. While none of his works on paper survive, research conducted in the past decade by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed Piero\u2019s obsessive working and reworking of compositions. Disegno, in the period sense of the term, was also a problem-solving tool, a catalyst for invention, and an effective means of communication.\nProblems raised by Piero\u2019s earliest known work, the Baptism (National Gallery, London) which was part of the San Giovanni d\u2019Afra triptych (Museo Civico, Sansepolcro), introduce the practical and conceptual implications of Piero\u2019s approach to disegno and will serve to open this conference. The following sessions will be dedicated to the composition of his frescoes, the role of underdrawings in his paintings, the use of geometrical figures in his mathematical treatises, and the transmission of his style.\nJames R. Banker is Professor Emeritus of Italian history at North Carolina State University, and lives for most of the year in Florence and Sansepolcro. An expert on the life and works of Piero della Francesca and Sassetta, two artists closely associated with San Sepolcro, his research has emphasized the role of lay religion in the lives of early Renaissance Italians, and the role of patrons, lay and clerical, in the paintings of both Sassetta and Piero. Author of numerous articles on Renaissance themes, his books include Death in the Community: Memorialization and Confraternities in an Italian Commune and The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero della Francesca (2003). His most recent books are both dedicated to Piero della Francesca: Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man (2014) and Documenti fondamentalli per la conoscenza della vita e dell\u2019arte di Piero della Francesca (2013).\nSee website: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/summer/PierodellaFrancesca.shtml\nCONF: Mythos Orient (Oberhofen, 12 June 2015)\nMythos Orient. Architektur und Ornament im Zeitalter des Orientalismus 12 June 2015 \u2014 Schloss Oberhofen (Schweiz) Registration deadline: Jun...\nCFP: AAH2015 \u2013 From Distaste to Mockery: The city and its architectures ridiculed\nOffice, 17 September 2014 17 September 2014 , All Listings, Call for Papers, Conferences, AAH, 0\nAAH2015 \u2013 41st Annual Conference & Bookfair Sainsbury Institute for Art, UEA, Norwich 9 \u2013 11 April 2015 Paper...\nProdukt Altstadt \u2013 The Making of the Old Town (Bamberg, 7 - 9 May 2015)57th Palladio Course: Palladio vs Scamozzi (Vicenza, 31 August - 5 September 2015)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 8937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/the-economics-of-big-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QEIVMP53EIQUACAXCKY5WVXKFOROHFUF", "length": 4351, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "economix.blogs.nytimes.com", "title": "Nancy Folbre: The Economics of Big Love - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Economix | The Economics of Big Love\nThe Economics of Big Love\nThe laws of marriage emerge from a process of collective negotiation, informed (though certainly not determined) by consideration of their social and economic impact. Advocates for gay marriage, like my University of Massachusetts Amherst colleague Lee Badgett, argue that it has positive consequences for society as a whole.\nFive of the 50 states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont) plus the District of Columbia now grant same-sex couples the right to wed.\nOther rules of marriage are subject to contention. A law prohibiting polygamy in Canada is now under review by the British Columbia Supreme Court for possible violation of religious rights guaranteed under the Canadian constitution. While the case originated in controversies regarding the community of Bountiful, founded by a breakaway Mormon sect that advocates plural marriage, it also has implications for Canada\u2019s many immigrants from Muslim countries.\nWhile there is little support for legalization of polygamy, or, more specifically, polygyny (one husband, more than one wife) in the United States, the HBO television series \u201cBig Love\u201d (now its fifth and final season) has modernized its cultural image.\nMany reactions to the possible legalization of polygyny ride on its implications for women. Some economists, including the Nobel Prize-winner Gary Becker in his \u201cTreatise on the Family,\u201d have argued that polygyny should increase the demand for women and enhance the efficiency of the marriage market.\nGovernment restriction of marriage contracts limits individual choice. In principle, the prospect of enjoying more than one wife could spur men to greater competitive efforts with one another. Some women might prefer to share a rich husband than to have a poor or unemployed husband all their own. Indeed, as income inequality among men increases, the potential benefits of polygyny for young and beautiful husband-seekers probably go up as well.\nIntense economic stress, like that typical in many areas of Russia, can also lead some women to wish they had the option of officially sharing a husband.\nBut polygyny is strongly associated with policies and practices that have distinctly ugly consequences for women as a group and as individuals, too. Shoshana Grossbard of San Diego State University, who completed her graduate work under Professor Becker\u2019s direction and once shared her mentor\u2019s views, recently made headlines with expert testimony opposing legalization of polygyny in Canada.\nAs she points out, polygynous marriage often gives elder men the right to coerce young women into submissive relationships and to control them and their offspring. Indeed, polygyny is more attractive to men the greater the benefits they can derive from it; the desire to maintain control over younger wives motivates efforts to reinforce patriarchal authority.\nStill, the possibility that polygyny could be extracted from its patriarchal matrix lingers, demanding serious consideration. Status of Women Canada, a government agency, has published a fascinating series of research reports on polygamy\u2019s implications for women and children, concluding that its effects vary enormously according to context.\nThe controversy connects to a larger debate concerning the co-evolution of legal institutions and economic growth. The psychologist Kevin MacDonald mobilizes considerable evidence suggesting that the social imposition of monogamy in Europe in the early Middle Ages reduced inequality among both men and women, reducing social conflict and contributing to successful economic development.\nGay marriage also fits into an economic-demographic narrative. Strong cultural and religious sanctions against homosexuality emerged in a context in which rapid population growth was economically advantageous and gradually weakened as both actual and desired fertility rates declined.\nNo one fully understands these complex social dynamics. But the historical links among polygyny, patriarchy and inequality seem very strong. And monogamy \u2014 whether heterosexual or homosexual \u2014 probably has some equalizing effects for both families and communities.\nWe may want to regulate Big Love for the same reason we want to regulate Big Money \u2014 to hold ourselves together better.\nReader Response: \u2018Dumb\u2019 Regulations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eddataexpress.ed.gov/data-element-explorer.cfm/tab/map/deid/3343/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2C5GNLVOI3SDWOTMKNLGKBBMFBNDDF5R", "length": 1244, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "eddataexpress.ed.gov", "title": "Number of Students Served by Title I, Part A Public SWP - Grades 4-5: 2011-12 - ED Data Express", "raw_content": "You are here: Data Elements \u00bb Title I, Part A Program \u00bb Title I, Part A Participation by Program \u00bb Title I, Part A Participation in Public SWP: 2011-12 \u00bb\nNumber of Students Served by Title I, Part A Public SWP - Grades 4-5: 2011-12 1\nThe number of students in grades 4 to 5 served in public Title I, Part A school wide programs. [More about...]\nData Mapping Number of Students Served by Title I, Part A Public SWP - Grades 4-5: 2011-12\n77,197 \u221a\n7,503 \u221a\n547,222 \u221a\n1 Description: The number of students in grades 4 to 5 served in public Title I, Part A school wide programs.; Academic Year: 2011-12; Grade: N/A; Note: The unduplicated number of students in Grades 4 to 5 served in public Title I, Part A school wide programs. Title I schools with percentages of students from low-income families of at least 40 percent may use Title I funds, along with other Federal, State, and local funds, to operate a \"schoolwide program\" to upgrade the instructional program for the whole school. A dash (-) indicates that the data are not available. An \"n<\" means that the value has been suppressed.; Source: EDFacts/Consolidated State Performance Report, 2011-12: http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/consolidated/index.html; Data Uploaded On: 07/22/2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 4253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eighteeneight.com/blog/tag/empanada-recipe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BFU5PSKCUPWIE7AAHV4XL5HEIO73HTKG", "length": 358, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eighteeneight.com", "title": "empanada recipe \u2013 18|8 FINE MEN'S SALONS", "raw_content": "The Original Empanada\nSEPARATED FROM THE REST of Spain by high mountains, Galicia was, until a few decades ago, entirely isolated and the country\u2019s poorest region. The only way out of poverty was emigration. That is why Galician empanadas\u2014square pieces cut from a large, crusty pie\u2014are among the most widespread snacks all over Spain and as far away as [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 187.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eisenmanarchitects.com/State-Farm-Stadium-2006", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NCA4CFXJ3DXI3OQ5XEKOJQLPYDVPV7KH", "length": 1705, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "eisenmanarchitects.com", "title": "EISENMAN ARCHITECTS", "raw_content": "In an era when theme parks and the media typically package their activities and productions to create a controlled, universal experience, sport has surged in value as a source of the unexpected and unpredictable. The public desire for uncertainty is evident in the phenomenal success of \u201creality\u201d television programs, which essentially stage confrontations and conflicts that amount of a sport with an unpredictable outcome. As the primary locus of the unexpected, the sports stadium has emerged as the new civic icon and attained a symbolic resonance that was historically once held in America only by town halls, libraries and museums.\nState Farm Stadium, formerly known as University of Phoenix Stadium, is a 68,000-seat National Football League stadium for the Arizona Cardinals, which expands to accommodate 73,000 spectators for the Super Bowl and other extravaganzas. By integrating the stadium with the facilities required for a convention center, this multipurpose venue is equally effective for hosting exhibitions and sporting events. In addition to providing innovative suites and concourse accommodations, the stadium features a retractable roof and a movable field of natural grass that is rolled into the arena on game days.\nThe stadium is clad in alternating sections of metal panels and recessed vertical glass bands that allow views out from the circulation concourse. The shiny, metallic panels will reflect shifting desert light patterns to mimic the ever-changing colors of the Arizona sky, as well as throw off the desert heat. The translucent fabric roof admits daylight and creates the feeling of being outdoors, yet protects spectators and players from the direct heat of the sun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/jewish-peoplehood-the-greatest-story-ever-told/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HMZ755RXIXA5KAYG2R2XI55JMEOZ3T5G", "length": 3819, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ejewishphilanthropy.com", "title": "Jewish Peoplehood: The Greatest Story Ever Told", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Peoplehood Papers / Jewish Peoplehood: The Greatest Story Ever Told\nJewish Peoplehood: The Greatest Story Ever Told\n[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 13 \u2013 Jewish Peoplehood: What does it mean? Why is it important? How do we nurture it? \u2013 published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.]\nBy Shauna Waltman\nHelen Keller famously said: \u201cthe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched \u2013 they must be felt with the heart.\u201d Within that statement lies the essence of Jewish Peoplehood. It is that overwhelming sense of belonging to something bigger, something greater than yourself. Human beings crave that feeling. We search for it desperately. I have found it while staring into the vast starry sky of the Negev desert while contemplating the existence of thousands of years of Jewish history. I have found it amidst Shabbat dinner with complete strangers from four different continents half way around the world. I have found it in the moment of silence as a congregation holds its breath waiting for the shofar to blow ending Yom Kippur. Peoplehood is feeling a part of something \u2013 for me that something is a collective history, a shared tradition and culture, a nation held together by timeless values.\nIn my line of work, Peoplehood has been the key for so many to unlock the door to discovering their Jewish identity. In many ways, Peoplehood is the great equalizer \u2013 it does not require a certain amount of knowledge, or religious practice, or minimum financial contribution to feel a part of the Jewish legacy. You just need to feel it and believe it for yourself. That sense of ownership launches people on a journey of self- discovery that can lead to endless expressions of Jewish identity, whether that comes in the form of learning, culture, spiritual practice, volunteering or leadership. Jewish Peoplehood is the catalyst \u2013 that spark \u2013 from which action, can, and needs, to grow.\nMy role as an engagement professional, therefore, lies in nurturing people to translate their sense of Jewish Peoplehood into meaningful action based on their personal passions. Everyone has the capacity to contribute in his or her own unique way \u2013 my mission is to find and nurture that capacity. I impart this agency to young adults through three central values:\nCommunity/Kehillah \u2013 bringing people together to celebrate our common history, heritage and tradition as well as take care of each other in times of need.\nResponsibility/Achrayut \u2013 not waiting for other people to create something for us, but rather taking the initiative to build it for ourselves.\nAuthenticity/Amitut \u2013 being true to ourselves in order to contribute meaningfully to the community we build.\nThe Jewish story is the greatest story ever told. It is a story that stretches across time and space \u2013 over millennia and across the earth. In being part of the Jewish people we not only have the opportunity to be a part of that story, but to author it as well. That is what Jewish Peoplehood is all about: that boundless sense of pride and possibility that comes from the idea that you belong to something great\u2026. and the courage to stand up and make it even greater. How will you enhance the story of the Jewish people?\nShauna Waltman is the Executive Director of UJA\u2019s Community Connect, an organization dedicated to building Jewish community with and for young adults in Toronto, Canada and a graduate of both Yeshiva University\u2019s Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education as well as Spertus Institute for Jewish Life and Learning Masters in Jewish Professional Studies.\nThis essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 13 \u2013 Jewish Peoplehood: What does it mean? Why is it important? How do we nurture it? \u2013 published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 10026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elanaspantry.com/are-cell-phones-dangerous/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MH3MJUDQ2ZLMDG4Q2ZUPUSH67L4JGUTT", "length": 11415, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "elanaspantry.com", "title": "Are Cell Phones Dangerous | Elana's Pantry", "raw_content": "Are Cell Phones Dangerous? Or, more to the point, is the radiation emitted from a cell phone a hazard to your health and well being? Last fall I didn\u2019t know much, if anything, about the risks of cell phones and wireless devices.\nSince then I\u2019ve spent hundreds of hours researching the effects of the radio frequency radiation that our smart devices emit. The results of my inquiry are somewhat frightening. Why? Because a growing body of evidence shows that wireless radiation, even at low levels, can be harmful to our health in many ways.\nCell phones are listed as a Class 2B carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO). This category is defined as \u201cpossibly carcinogenic to humans,\u201d putting cell phones and other smart devices in the same category as lead, DDT, and jet fuel.1\nAccording to a study in the journal Pathophysiology, heavy cell phone use triples the risk of brain cancer.2 This study also demonstrated that individuals who began using cell phones as teenagers more than quadrupled their risk of brain cancer.3\nResearchers at the National Toxicology Program (NTP), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducted a study exposing rodents to radio-frequency radiation levels emulating those that humans experience with heavy cell phone use. The findings concluded that such exposure is associated with the formation of cancer in the brains of rats.4\nIn 2008, Dr. Ronald Herberman, an oncologist, as well as Founder and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Care Center, issued a memo stating:5\nRecently I have become aware of the growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer. Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell phone use.\nDr. Herberman recommended that children should not be \u201callowed to use cell phones other than for emergencies,\u201d and also warned, \u201cAvoid using your cell phone in places like a bus where you can expose others to your phone\u2019s EMFs.\u201d He further stated that people should, \u201cAvoid carrying your cell phone on your body at all times.\u201d\nThe Powerful Telecom Lobby\nDid you know that the telecommunications lobby spends more than $87 million per year convincing our elected officials that cell phones are safe?6\nThe telecommunications industry is fighting an ordinance in Berkeley, California requiring cell phone retailers to post warnings for customers regarding the radiation exposure from mobile devices.7 These warnings are found in fine print, buried deep in cell phone user manuals. Lobbyists claim that posting these warnings will cause undue panic.8 For the iPhone this reads:\nTo be sure that human exposure to RF energy does not exceed FCC, IC, and EU guidelines always follow these instructions and precautions. When using iPhone near your body for voice calls or wireless data transmission over a cellular network, keep iPhone at least 5/8 inch away from the body.9\nIn 1977, Berkeley became the first American city to ban smoking in restaurants. Who have the cell phone companies enlisted to fight this battle? The same lawyer that defended Big Tobacco for decades.\nOther Sources of Wireless Radiation\nIn addition to cell phones, there are many other sources of wireless radiation including:\nComputers Using Wi-Fi\nSmart Home Devices Including:\nTV\u2019s and Remotes\nAppliances (Dishwashers, Washers, Dryers)\nSmart Watches and Fitness Trackers\nAirport Scanners\nMy Personal Experience with Wireless Radiation\nI was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006. After that initial MS attack, I was highly functional until 2014. That was around one year after we moved into our new house.\nI was involved in every aspect of building the house, other than the electronics. Our contractor recommended a smart house. I did not research the implications, let alone the potential impacts that hundreds of wireless access points in one\u2019s living space could have.\nAs time passed in our new home I became sicker. I also spent more time at home, which I later learned made me even sicker. Finally, I hired two building biologists (Riun Ashlie and Risa Suzuki) to investigate the complex systems we installed. What did we find? Something rather frightening.\nSmart meters contain a device that communicates wirelessly using radio frequency radiation. This is called a zigbee chip. We had more than 200 zigbee chips in our new home and it\u2019s taken months to remove all of the smart technology. If you look at the list above, we had a large portion of the devices on it.\nWe removed the last smart technology from our house in February. For three and a half years I lived in a home that contained radio frequency radiation levels well over 1,000 times those recommended by the Building Biology Association. It\u2019s now been eight weeks since we removed the last of the smart lighting system and other devices.\nI\u2019m starting to feel better, but I know it may take more than a few weeks to get well after sleeping with 3 zigbee chips within a meter of my head as well as all around my living space. I\u2019ll keep you posted on my progress and will continue to discuss the health ramifications of wireless technology and the radio frequency radiation that accompanies it. For more information on steps you can take to reduce your exposure to radio frequency radiation see my post called, Simple Steps to Reduce EMFs.\n124 responses to \u201cAre Cell Phones Dangerous?\u201d\nElana \u2013 my son has MS \u2013 was diagnosed 18 months ago. He is a communications/media major and spends a lot of time at a computer. His MS is worsening and I am trying to educate myself about the EMFs. I remember reading about a meter you suggested to measure the radiation but I cannot seem to find the info when I search your site. Can you recommend a meter I should purchase to be able to assess how we are doing as we work on modifying our house as you did. Thank you! I am glad you found the reason for your MS exacerbation and are feeling better!\nMargaret, I\u2019m so sorry to hear about your son. Here is the meter that I use in our house:\nhttp://amzn.to/2rc3rWA\nIt has been super helpful in measuring radio frequency radiation!\nElana \u2013 I\u2019m interested in the device to measure microwaves but that link seems to just take me to Amazon but not a specific product\u2026 Am I doing something wrong?\nJan, I just checked the link and for me it opens to a page on amazon with the device that I use to measure RFR. Here it is again:\nThank you so much for your website! I wonder how you deal with your kids and their phones. I have a college student and a high school student at home and it\u2019s very hard not to be overwhelmed by the dangers of their addiction to their phones. Do you have any advice for how to handle this. They don\u2019t believe they are harmful.\nKeri, it\u2019s such a challenge! Our family doctor believes that it is not safe to sleep with your phone near your head so he has spoken about this with them. But when they get to this age they\u2019re too old to be checked on :-)\nI didn\u2019t read all of the above comments, only some, so I don\u2019t know if anyone else has a similar issue and you already addressed it.\nI know that I am effected by EMF. I can feel it. But I also know how food effects my body, and I do my best to take care of myself, but I am married to a computer programmer who is obsessed with smart homing. He does it himself. Luckily, he has to research each thing thoroughly, so he is still working on it. He loves computers and all things related. I have tried to address the issue, but I don\u2019t really know what to do. He is very stubborn, and as he is the computer expert = I am not. He pretty much rolls his eyes at the mention of negative frequencies. He won\u2019t believe me, and honestly, he won\u2019t believe any source unless it\u2019s one of his approved sources. Is there anything economically reasonable that I can do without removing all of the smart sensors, and light bulbs, etc? Nutrition is in a similar conundrum for us, but at least with that I can eat what I eat, and be a good example hoping he\u2019ll recognize the benefits. Radio wave? Not so much.\nEmily, thanks for your comment. This is such a challenging situation and I\u2019ve experienced it myself. No one was happy with me when I took all of their smart toys away, but they were willing to do it for my health :-)\nhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/neurosurgeon-your-cell-phone-is-not-necessarily-a-safe-device\nKeith Black M.D. is a brain surgeon at Cedars Sinai here in Lo Angeles \u2026 he does not think they are safe.\nEd Friedman says:\nSorry for your troubles but glad you are starting to feel better. Thanks so much for publicizing this important issue. As someone who has done environmental work for near 50 years I consider wireless proliferation the most important toxics issue of our time. Not only does it harm people but wildlife and plants as well.\nWe litigated the smart meter issue in Maine for over 4 years and lost despite overwhelming evidence in our favor . One thing that came out in a survey we conducted in an international survey was that 42% of our more than 200 respondents began suffering radiofrequency radiation symptoms for the first time or, if previously sensitive had their symptoms worsen AFTER smart meters were installed but BEFORE they knew their electromechanical meters had been replaced.\nPeople have had to sell their homes of many years because even though they were able to opt out they were impacted by a neighbor\u2019s meter. Thousands have lost their jobs and relationships have suffered when one or both partners become electrically sensitive. This is a tragedy and for those who care about their privacy, smart meters census your electrical activities generally at 15 minute intervals [although they can transmit microbursts up to 190,000 times/day.\nAll of our expert testimony as well as many good resources on health effects are available to anyone needing more information at our Maine website: http://www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org . Thanks again for getting the news out there!\nEd, I\u2019m so grateful to hear from an expert like you. Thanks for your comment and for all you are doing to raise awareness of this important issue!\nOn the topic, here\u2019s a good background on the dangers of the growing new 5G technology and Silicon Valley\u2019s attempt to create a state of constant connectivity of everything (Internet of things). Where do we run away to? We either somehow find latent superhuman powers that allow us to defend ourselves, or we must create our own communities. I honestly see no other solutions to the proliferation of these ever-expanding powerful technologies.\nAnna, I agree it\u2019s very frightening.\nDid you know that having heavy metals in the body, whether in dental amalgams or accumulated in the organs from past amalgams or other form of intake, amplifies the effect of radio radiation on the body as the metals have antenna-like properties that amplify electro-magnetic & radio frequencies . Did you also look into dirty electricity in the home? This is a different type of radiation (electro-magnetic) but also disruptive to the nervous system, cellular transport, immunity, etc.\nAnna, yes I did know that. The same can happen with braces. And yes, we had a severe dirty electricity problem that we have only partially remediated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 14100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elearning.scranton.edu/resource/health-human-services/hippa-protection-of-health-information", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GFH527YGQDWINLCOLYGRHPAIDAYWWR3D", "length": 6222, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "elearning.scranton.edu", "title": "HIPAA & Protection of Health Info | The Univ. of Scranton", "raw_content": "Home > The University of Scranton\u2019s Online Resource Center > Resources > HIPAA and the Protection of Health Information\nData breaches in health care organizations placing patient information at risk are increasingly common and have an estimated cost of over $2.2 million per occurrence.1In an effort to combat digital information from slipping through the cracks, the federal government crafted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)2 to protect patient privacy through enforcement of how health care organizations use, store and disclose information.\nFor health and human services students committed to comprehensive quality in patient care, health and safety, it\u2019s important to understand the purpose of HIPAA laws and how they affect the operations of organizations. Qualified professionals, who have a clear understanding of the HIPPA privacy laws, are vital to improving HIPAA workflows and mitigating risks of data breaches.\nThe Basics of HIPAA\nPatients have often encountered HIPAA whether they realize it or not; when they go to their health care provider\u2019s office prior to an appointment and fill out their health history, they\u2019ll be asked to read and sign several pages of forms. These forms may include HIPAA paperwork that outlines how their information may be shared within the organization.\nHIPAA regulations include the Privacy Rule3 and the Security Rule.4 The Privacy Rule establishes protections that set parameters on how providers use patient information and who they share it with. This rule also enables patients to request health record copies or make corrections to them in case of errors. The Security Rule outlines actual procedures on how to safeguard patient information. Procedures may include details on how or where information can be housed as well technological specifications for software protection.\nHealth care providers such as physicians, registered nurses, emergency medical technicians, and patient care coordinators must abide by HIPAA regulations2 to ensure quality patient care and privacy. Health plans and third party organizations that process patient health information are also bound to compliance.\nHIPAA\u2019s Influence on the Health Care Industry\nHIPAA regulations create a unique ripple effect in health care and public health. These federal rules are in place to harmonize privacy with access to quality care; the regulations protect patient privacy, but sharing information between providers from different organizations requires increased coordination with patients and facilities to ensure consent. For clinicians, students, scientists and other professionals involved in health care, research is vital as a cornerstone to improving patient care outcomes and the effective use of technology.\nHIPAA\u2019s impact on research can present obstacles to participant recruitment, diversity in study participants, access to data and the completion of studies. These challenges may directly increase the amount of funding needed for research.5\nIn many cases, HIPAA can work to directly benefit the workplace by boosting the responsibility and transparency of health information management. Digital paper trails can determine who views patient records, tracks changes, or updates information.\nHIPAA also enhances integrity of a health care facility\u2019s business practices by enforcing data access restrictions, which limits liability. Strong password enforcement is another key feature of HIPAA\u2019s security measures, which can cut back on sensitive data access from inside and outside of a health care organization.\nRegulations require the implementation of data backup strategies and malware protection parameters. Cyber breaches cost the industry up to $6.2 billion in losses, 1 so protection augmented by HIPAA can reduce a facility\u2019s overall cost of operation, and prevent loss or tampering of patient records.\nHIPAA\u2019s physical security requirements, which include details regarding camera surveillance, securely locked doors, identification badges and power loss contingency help organizations implement the extra layers of protection they need to ward off data breaches.\nThe Role of HIPAA for Health Informatics Jobs\nWhile the HIPPA privacy rules protect sensitive information regarding patient health and care, rules do permit certain authorities to disclose protected information without authorization to protect the health of individuals and populations.6 Examples of situations where disclosing information may be critical include child abuse or neglect, persons at risk of contracting or spreading disease and medical surveillance related to workplace injuries.\nCultivate Solutions for the Health of Your Community with an Online MSHI Degree\nThe University of Scranton\u2019s Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) program offers a curriculum developed to teach students the skills to protect the health of individuals and communities through prevention and health education. The online MSHI program offers a flexible class schedule to accommodate working professionals who demonstrate leadership skills and to wish to advance their education and career. To learn more about The University of Scranton\u2019s Online MS in Health Informatics, request more information today.\n1 Ponemon Institute. (2016). The sixth annual benchmark study on privacy & security of health care data. Retrieved from http://www.cahiim.org/hi/aparprocess.html\n2 U. S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n. d.). Health information privacy. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/index.html\n3 U. S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). The HIPAA Privacy Rule. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/index.html\n4 U. S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). The Security Rule. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/index.html\n5 U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services National Institutes of Health. (2007). Clinical Research and the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Retrieved from https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/clin_research.asp\n6 U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n. d.). Public health. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/public-health/index.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 9517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emailhelpr.com/category/apps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VMSKFA4HSMW6TU32OOYSG2S7KACIVAU2", "length": 2368, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "emailhelpr.com", "title": "Apps Archives - Gmail Login and Gmail Sign in Information", "raw_content": "Phone Security California judge has ruled that federal authorities can\u2019t force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition\u2014even\u2026\nThe Gmail Go app is available on Google Play Store now. It is good news for all the Gmail users whose phones are not very fast or\u2026\nWhat\u2019s the Best Free Gmail Desktop App?\nDesktop apps are an essential part of increasing your productivity. Either you are working with a client or just keeping your family and friends up to date,\u2026\nGoogle Duo is the new, simple video calling app that brings you face-to-face with all the people that matter most. Google Duo is a really great video\u2026\nSpotify Mobile App is More Than Just a Streaming App\nThe Spotify mobile app is much more than meets the eye. It\u2019s available on Android and iOS and is mostly used by people to stream their favorite\u2026\nThe Snapchat universal chat is yet another exciting addition to the popular messaging app Snapchat. The app is known for always being one step in introducing exciting\u2026\n10 Best Android Apps of The Year\nFor every one of us, there would be a different list of the best android apps of the year, which can include figures of 15 or 20.\u2026\nPreventing Malware: Top Five Antivirus Programs Available Today\nRevealed-New Malware Hits Twitter Accounts Security researchers have discovered malware that retrieves commands from memes posted on a Twitter account controlled by the attackers. The hackers uses\u2026\nHow to use a Pre-Built Website to start your Business\nHow to use a Pre-Built Website to start your Business Did you know that there are many pre-built website options available? You can take advantage of what\u2026\nInstalling Microsoft PowerShell on MAC OS-X and Linux\nDo you like the functionalities of Microsoft PowerShell on Windows? Do you want to use them on your MAC or your Linux installation? Are you planning to\u2026\niMessage is a fantastic service. People who use iPhones get very used to having almost all of their communications on iMessage. These days, our iMessage usage has\u2026\nFacebook Login | Secrets Every User MUST Learn Facebook Login lets you create accounts and log into your apps quickly and safely across multiple platforms. Facebook Login\u2026\nPokemon Go Login Tips and Tricks Pok\u00e9mon Go is a massive success \u2013 there\u2019s no doubt about that. People all over the world are discovering new places\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://employerschoicescreening.com/news/legal-alerts/hb-1298-fair-chance-act-washington/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:04Z", "digest": "sha1:W4FZ3E6YLQFSHKBTKEFWGS7CCYAS5VJU", "length": 3617, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "employerschoicescreening.com", "title": "HB 1298 Fair Chance Act Passed in Washington | Employers Choice", "raw_content": "HB 1298 Fair Chance Act Passed in Washington\nThe trend is now complete on the West Coast with Washington joining both California and Oregon with implementing a statewide \u201cban the box\u201d statute on behalf of the Fair Chance Act. On March 13, 2018, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the Fair Chance Act for the state of Washington. The new HB 1298 law will prohibit covered employers from asking job applicants about their previous criminal convictions and/or arrests before they deem them \u201cotherwise qualified.\u201d\nEmployers covered under the new law includes \u201cpublic agencies, private individuals, businesses and corporations, contractors, temporary staffing agencies, training and apprenticeship programs, and job placement, referral, and employment agencies.\u201d\nThe new law will not apply to:\nCertain law enforcement or criminal justice agencies\nAny employer, including a financial institution, who is expressly permitted or required under any federal or state law to inquire into, consider, or rely on information about an applicant\u2019s or employee\u2019s criminal record for employment purposes\nAny entity required to comply with the rules and regulations of a self-regulatory organization, as defined in section 3(a) (26) of the Securities and Exchange Act\nEmployers seeking non-employee volunteers\nAny employer hiring a person who will or may have unsupervised access to children under the age of 18 or a vulnerable adult or person as defined elsewhere in state law\nThe HB 1298 statute will make it unlawful for an employer to:\nAsk on an employment application about previous criminal convictions and/or arrests\nRequest about previous criminal convictions and/or arrests made either written or orally\nConduct and receive information on an employment background check about previous criminal convictions and/or arrests\nAcquire information about an applicant\u2019s criminal arrest and/or conviction record until after the employer deems the applicant \u201cotherwise qualified\u201d for the job\n\u201cOtherwise qualified\u201d means that the applicant has met the essential criteria documented in the job posting or description without any concern regarding a criminal record. The employer must determine that the applicant has met the minimum qualifications. At that point, they may ask about previous criminal activity and conduct the employment screening. If the employer\u2019s background screening or hiring policy states that applicants with a criminal record will be excluded from employment before being coded as \u201cOtherwise Qualified,\u201d they are guilty of unlawful hiring practices.\nEmployers should not feel that they are obligated to hire a felon based on this new HB 1298 law. Employers are also not required \u201cto provide accommodations or job modifications in order to facilitate the employment or continued employment of an applicant or employee with a criminal record or who is facing pending criminal charges.\u201d\nThe law will be enforced in a \u201cstepped enforcement approach.\u201d This means any claims brought against employers for violating the law will require education first on complaining with the law. If the misconduct continues, then the employer will be warned. The next step would be monetary penalties up to $750.00 for a second violation and up to $1,000.00 for each subsequent violation.\nEmployers in the state of Washington need to determine if they are covered under the new HB 1298 law and update their employment applicant to remove any questions that may be related to previous criminal convictions and/or arrests.\nAdditionally, employers that operate nationwide should update policies and applications to comply with the new law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/business/pakistan-becomes-oecd-signatory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:M2ERCLWK7GZ455SM63WD46IUQKC6QX5C", "length": 1036, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "en.dailypakistan.com.pk", "title": "Pakistan becomes OECD signatory - Daily Pakistan Global", "raw_content": "Pakistan becomes OECD signatory\nPARIS \u2013 Pakistan has formally become the signatory to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar signed the Convention in Paris on Wednesday. Secretary General\nPARIS \u2013 Pakistan has formally become the signatory to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.\nFederal Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar signed the Convention in Paris on Wednesday. Secretary General of the Organization Angel Gurria was also present in the ceremony.\nThe Convention will facilitate international cooperation on national tax laws and provide administrative cooperation among member countries to combat tax evasion.\nThe Finance Minister also held a bilateral meeting with the Secretary General of OECD to discuss ways and means to further strengthen the existing ties between Pakistan and the OECD.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.dpm.org.cn/EXPLORE/ming-qing/2015-03-24/35.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:O7DIW46HDMSAEP5IKNWPHHX6XRJRT4PL", "length": 12171, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "en.dpm.org.cn", "title": "Jiajing Reign|The Palace Museum", "raw_content": "The Reign of the Jiajing Emperor (approx. 1522\u20131566)\nJiajing Reign, 1st Year\nThe emperor recognizes his uncle, the late Hongzhi Emperor (Zhu Youtang), as Deceased Imperial Father, and honors his aunt, Empress Dowager Cishou (lit. \u201cbenevolent longevity\u201d), as Divine Mother (shengmu). His biological parents, the late Prince Xian of Xing and his consort, are honored as Emperor Xian of Xing and Empress of Xing.\nLady Chen is appointed as empress.\nJiajing Reign, 2nd Year\nThe status of the biological parents of the Jiajing Emperor is elevated. His father, the late Prince Xian of Xing, is honored as the Late Biological Imperial Father, while his living mother is named Empress Dowager Zhangsheng, the Divine Biological Mother.\nJiajing Reign, 7th Year\nThe empress, n\u00e9e Chen, dies.\nConsort Shun (Shun fei, lit. \u201cComplaisant Consort\u201d), n\u00e9e Zhang, is appointed as empress.\nIt is stipulated that the offerings to heaven and earth are to be separately conducted at the southern and northern border altars, respectively. Two other sacrificial altars, the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon, are built outside the capital city near the eastern and western borders, respectively.\nImperial orders are issued to arrange consort and concubine selections.\nNine ladies are appointed as concubines (pin, palace women ranking below the principal wife and consorts).\nJiajing Reign, 10th Year\nThe ritual of praying for male heirs is held at the Hall of Imperial Peace (Qin\u2019an dian), a Taoist temple in the imperial palace.\nThe Classics Colloquium lectures commence.\nZhang Heling\u2014the Duke of the State of Chang\u2014and his younger brother Zhang Yanling, both younger brothers of Empress Dowager Cishou, are arrested and imprisoned.\nZhang Yanling is sentenced to death, and Zhang Heling is stripped of his noble title.\nThe empress, n\u00e9e Zhang, is deposed. Lady Fang, also known as Consort De (De fei, lit. \u201cVirtuous Consort\u201d), is named empress.\nImperial orders are issued for additional consorts and concubines to be selected for the emperor.\nThe late biological father of the Jiajing Emperor who was posthumously named Emperor Xian is included in the imperial lineage.\nThe deposed empress, n\u00e9e Zhang, dies.\nZhu Zaihou, the third imperial son, is born.\nIn order to legitimize the imperial position of the emperor\u2019s biological father (the late Emperor Xian of Xing) into imperial lineage, the temple name of the late Yongle Emperor (Zhu Di, r. 1403-1424) is changed from Taizong (lit. \u201cGrand Ancestor\u201d) to Chengzu (lit. \u201cAccomplished Progenitor\u201d), while the late Emperor Xian receives Ruizong (lit. \u201cInsightful Ancestor\u201d) as his temple name.\nThe imperial son Zhu Zaihe is installed as the heir apparent. His brothers Zhu Zaihou and Zhu Zaizhen are named as Prince of Yu and Prince of Jing.\nApproximately a hundred women are selected for roles in the palace.\nEmpress Dowager Cishou dies.\nJiajing Reign, 21st Year\nThe construction of the Hall of High Heaven (Dagao xuandian), for the worship of Taoist deities, is completed outside the northwest corner of the imperial palace.\nUpset by the tortuous treatment from their zealous Taoist ruler, about a dozen young maidens try to strangle the emperor in his sleep but fail. All of them suffer horrific executions. Due to this incident, the emperor permanently moves to live in the Palace of Myriad Longevity (Wanshou gong) in the West Gardens far from the imperial palace. This event is later known as the Renyin Year Palace Incident (Renyin gongbian).\nJiajing Reign, 23rd Year\nMongols, under Altan Khan's dominion, harass the Ming in the empire\u2019s northern territory. Assuming a defensive posture, the capital establishes martial law.\nThree hundred women are selected to serve in the imperial palace.\nThe empress, n\u00e9e Fang, dies. She is posthumously named Xiaolie (lit. \u201cFilial and Exemplary\u201d).\nSenior Grand Secretary Yan Song (1480-1567) begins to amass power.\nThe emperor\u2019s imperial tomb is named the Yong Tomb and is chosen for Empress Xiaolie's burial.\nThe capping ceremony (guanli) is held for the heir apparent. He dies a mere two days after the ritual.\nMongolian troops led by Altan Khan breach the northern defense line and invade the region around the capital. Surrounding the capital, they demand rights to submit tribute in exchange of Chinese products (e.g., iron, grain, and textiles) and threaten to attack the city. The Mongolian forces eventually withdraw to north, and the imperial court is overwhelmed with scandal due to the mishandling of the siege. (This series of events is known as the Incident of the Gengxu Year.)\nConsort Kang (Kang fei, lit. \u201cComposed Consort\u201d), n\u00e9e Du, the biological mother of the future Longqing Emperor, dies.\nOne hundred and sixty young women are selected to serve in the imperial palace.\nThe Hall of Venerating Heaven (Fengtian dian), Hall of Splendid Canopy (Huagai dian), and Hall of Scrupulous Behavior (Jinshen dian)\u2014the three main halls in the outer court of the imperial city\u2014are destroyed by fire.\nThe Hall of Myriad Longevity (Wanshou gong) in the West Gardens where the emperor resides is destroyed by fire. He moves to the Palace of Jade Luster (Yuxi gong). The military general Qi Jiguang successfully quells the increasingly frequent raids of Japanese pirates along the coast.\nThe reconstruction of the Hall of Myriad Longevity (Wanshou gong) is completed.\nThe emperor begins to reside in the newly built Hall of Myriad Longevity.\nJiajing Reign, 42nd Year\nThe third son of the Prince of Yu is born and named Zhu Yijun.\nHarassed and raided by the Altan Khan, the capital again establishes military rule as a defensive measure.\nThe former Senior Grand Secretary Yan Song is deposed, and his property is confiscated. His son Yan Shifan (1513-1565) is executed on the charge of treason.\nThe official Hai Rui bitterly criticizes the emperor in his memorial and is consequently imprisoned.\nThe emperor is seriously ill.\nOn the fourteenth day, the emperor returns from the West Gardens to the Hall of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing gong) in the imperial palace and dies at the age of sixty (in sui). According to his final orders, the Prince of Yu is eligible for succession, in spite of the fact that the prince has not been appointed as the heir apparent. On the twenty-sixth day, Zhu Zaihou, the Prince of Yu, succeeds the throne, and the following year is designated as the first year of the Longqing reign.\nThe Jiajing Emperor (r. 1522-1566)\nThe Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong (temple name Emperor Shizong) was born in 1507 (on the tenth day of the eighth lunar month in the second year of the Zhengde reign) on his father Prince Xian of Xing\u2019s fief in Anlu (today\u2019s Zhongxiang county in Hubei province). His father Zhu Youyuan was the fourth son of the Chenghua Emperor (r. 1465-1487). His mother, n\u00e9e Jiang, was the daughter of an officer in the capital garrison. Since he died without heir, the Zhengde Emperor (r. 1506-1521), on his death bed, told the eunuchs to report to Empress Dowager Zhang that she and Chief Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe should arrange the matter of succession. Based on a provision in the ancestral injunctions stating that \u201cwhen the elder brother dies, the younger brother should succeed him\u201d, the Empress Dowager and the Grand Secretary issued an edict to summon Zhu Houcong, the late emperor\u2019s cousin, as the new emperor. In 1521 (on the twenty-second day of the fourth month), Zhu Houcong was enthroned at the age of fifteen sui. The new emperor promulgated his own calendar and declared the following year the first year of the Jiajing reign (1522).\nZhu Houcong was the only son of the Prince Xian of Xing. In his boyhood, the child was considered remarkably smart. His father tutored him personally, teaching him Confucian classics and all the customary court rituals and ceremonials. He proved to be a diligent student who knew his own mind. Before his accession, Zhu Houcong and his mother had had a series of disputes with officials from the Ministry of Rites over his position in the imperial line. After his succession, court discussions began between the emperor and officials concerning the terminology and rites appropriate in honoring his natural parents (could they be called \u201cemperor\u201d and \u201cempress\u201d even though they had not reigned?). At stake was the legitimate succession of the dynastic line. The Great Rites Controversy, as it was called, dominated court politics for two years. In the end the emperor had his way; by imperial fiat he overrode the officials. This incident gives a glimpse into the obstinate and imperious personality of the adolescent Jiajing Emperor.\nIn the first year of his rule, the Jiajing Emperor made impressive accomplishments in terms of state affairs. Aside from the protocol policies routinely adopted by new emperors such as granting amnesty, tax exemption, tribute reduction, and disaster relief, he succeeded in curbing the influence and power of the eunuchs who had controlled many aspects of the court administration. He also made an attempt to return to the tax registers those properties seized as imperial estates during the previous reigns. However, the honeymoon period did not last long. One year later, he was shaken to the core by a palace incident in which a group of palace women conspired to strangle him while he was asleep. Then he chose to hide in a palace west to the Forbidden City and focused on Daoist rituals and practices. A Daoist adept introduced him to the so-called \u201celixir of immortality\u201d. Under the advice of some Daoist sorcerers, he secluded himself for more than twenty years without once returning to the Forbidden City, and on many occasions relied on divinations to decide matters of state. The resourceful and astute Minister of Rites Yan Song played on the emperor\u2019s preoccupation with Daoist rituals and elixirs and gained control of the court. Subsequently, after a series of power struggles and political purges, Yan dominated the court for twenty years. Many dissenting officials were forced out of office or killed, and recurring Mongol invasions were never properly rebuffed or tackled. Further, the emperor ordered the construction of many palaces, temples and monasteries outside the Forbidden City, which further burdened the people and precipitated a severe fiscal crisis.\nIn 1566 (on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month in the forty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign), the emperor died in the Palace of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing gong) at the age of about sixty. With the temple name Emperor Shizong, he was buried in Ever-lasting Mausoleum (Yong ling) in Changping, on the northern outskirts of Beijing.\nLady Fang, Empress Xiaolie of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1522-1566)\nIntroduction: Lady Fang saved the Jiajing Emperor\u2019s life during an attempted assassination. After her death, the emperor insisted on putting her spirit tablet in the imperial ancestral shrine against court regulations.\nLady Fang (? - 1547), a native of Nanjing in east China, was the third primary consort of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1522-1566).\nIn 1531, the tenth year of the Jiajing reign, the emperor still did not have a son to succeed him to the throne. Some officials advised the emperor to select more young women across the country in order to increase the birth rate of the imperial family. In the same year, the emperor conferred the title of concubine on nine new palace ladies, including Lady Fang. In 1534, the emperor using the excuse of \u201cthe crime of disrespect\u201d demoted the empress Zhang and gave Lady Fang the title of empress.\nIn 1542, the emperor was sleeping with concubine Duan. Ladies-in-waiting, unable to bear the cruel emperor, tried to assassinate him by strangling him with a rope in his sleep, but they were caught in the act. As soon as Lady Fang was informed by a servant, she rushed to the emperor and loosened the rope that was tied around his neck, saving his life.\nLady Fang died in 1547 in a conflagration in the Forbidden City. Three years after her death, the Jiajing emperor insisted on putting her spirit tablet in the imperial ancestral shrine despite officials\u2019 disapproval. 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Rabb\nDaniel Meron\nAlex Michael Azar II\nJohnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.\nDartmouth College (BA)\nYale University (JD)\nAlex Michael Azar II (/\u02c8e\u026az\u0259r/ born June 17, 1967) is an American politician, lawyer, pharmaceutical lobbyist and former drug company executive who is the current United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar was nominated by President Donald Trump on November 13, 2017 and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018. He was formerly the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007.[2][3]\nFrom 2012 to 2017, Azar was President of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly and Company, a major pharmaceutical drug company, and was a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby.\n2.1 Law career\n2.2 Health and Human Services\n2.3 Eli Lilly & Co.\n3 Secretary of Health and Human Services\nAzar was born on June 17, 1967, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Lynda (Zarisky) and Alex Azar.[4][5] His father is of Lebanese descent. He attended Parkside High School in Salisbury, Maryland, from 1981 to 1985. He received a B.A. degree summa cum laude with highest honors in government and economics from Dartmouth College in 1988, where he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He earned a J.D. degree at the Yale Law School in 1991, where he served as a member of the executive committee of the Yale Law Journal.[6][7] His father, also named Alex Azar, is a retired doctor of ophthalmology and teacher at Johns Hopkins Hospital; he practiced ophthalmology in Salisbury, Maryland, for more than 30 years. His grandfather emigrated from Lebanon in the early 20th century.[8]\nLaw career[edit]\nAzar with Ken Starr and Brett Kavanaugh in the 1990s\nAfter law school, from 1991 to 1992, Azar served as a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Azar was fired after six weeks, and was replaced in Kozinski's chambers by Brett Kavanaugh.[9] Azar subsequently clerked for the remainder of the term for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1992 to 1993, he served as a law clerk for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.[8]\nFrom 1994 to 1996, he served as an Associate Independent Counsel for Kenneth W. Starr in the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, where he worked on the first two years of the investigation into the Whitewater controversy.[10][11] At the time of Azar's appointment, he was working as an associate in Starr's law firm.[10]\nBetween 1996 and 2001, Azar worked for Wiley Rein, a Washington, D.C., law firm, where he achieved partner status.[12]\nHealth and Human Services[edit]\nOfficial Deputy Secretary portrait\nOn August 3, 2001, Azar was confirmed to be the General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.[13][14] Azar played an important role in responding to the 2001 anthrax attacks, making sure there was a vaccine ready for smallpox, and dealing with outbreaks of SARS and influenza.[8] On July 22, 2005, Azar was confirmed as the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.[15][16] He was twice confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.\nWorking under Secretary Mike Leavitt, Azar supervised all operations of HHS with an annual budget of over $1 trillion. Azar led the development and approval of all HHS regulations, led U.S. government efforts to encourage worldwide pharmaceutical and medical device innovation, and was in charge of the HHS response to an initiative implemented by President George W. Bush to improve government performance.[8]\nAzar resigned in January 2007.[17]\nEli Lilly & Co.[edit]\nIn June 2007, Azar was hired by Eli Lilly and Company chief executive officer Sidney Taurel to be the company's top lobbyist and spokesman as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications.[8][18] Azar left the position after Barack Obama was elected and the company wanted a member of the Democratic Party to have the position.[8]\nIn April 2009, Azar became Vice President of Lilly's U.S. Managed Healthcare Services organization and its Puerto Rico affiliate.[19] In 2009, the company paid $1.415 billion to settle criminal charges regarding its promotion of antipsychotic drug Zyprexa (olanzapine) for off-label uses between 1999 and 2005.[18]\nEffective January 1, 2012, Azar became President of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest division of Eli Lilly and Company, and was responsible for the company's entire operations in the United States.[19] Prices for drugs rose substantially under Azar's leadership.[20] In connection with the position, Azar served on the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby.[21]\nIn January 2017, Azar resigned from Eli Lilly.[22] He also resigned from the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.\nSecretary of Health and Human Services[edit]\nAzar and his family with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence shortly after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services\nNomination[edit]\nOn November 13, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that he would nominate Azar to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.[21][23][24] Azar was confirmed on January 24, 2018, with a vote of 55\u201343.[25]\nHe was sworn in by Vice President Pence on January 29, 2018.\nAzar has been a critic of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and predicted in 2017 that \"There will be a piece of legislation passes this year that is called the repeal of Obamacare. I don't know what's going to be in the substance of it, but there will be a piece of legislation that says that.\"[23] Also regarding the ACA, Azar said that the Department of Health and Human Services has latitude to \"make it work a little better.\"[20]\nAzar opposes abortion rights. In a written response to Senator Patty Murray regarding future HHS policy, he said that, \"The mission of HHS is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, and this includes the unborn.\u201d[26]\nAccording to The New York Times, Azar differed with his predecessor Tom Price in terms of their approach to regulations. Writing in May 2018, The Times said, \"in a sharp break from his predecessor \u2014 and from most Trump cabinet secretaries \u2014 he seems to be relishing the chance to write new regulations, rather than just crossing out Obama-era ones.\"[27]\nAzar lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two children.[28]\nAzar served for two years on the board of HMS Holdings.[29] He is currently on the board of the American Council on Germany, where he is Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee; and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.[12]\nHe has previously served on the board of directors of the Healthcare Leadership Council, where he was Treasurer; the National Association of Manufacturers; and the Indianapolis International Airport Authority, where he was Chairman of the Human Resources Committee.[12]\nAzar is a Republican and has contributed to the campaigns of Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander, Jeb Bush, and Donald Trump according to the Center for Responsive Politics.[8]\nAzar is a member of the Worldwide Speakers Group and gives speeches on healthcare public policy and how it fosters technology innovation. He is a notable speaker on pandemic influenza preparedness.[30]\nAn open letter from Azar is printed as the opening in the book by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling, The Four Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals (2012).\n^ Dixon, Kim (November 20, 2017). \"HHS nominee Azar made millions working for drugmaker Lilly\". Retrieved January 24, 2018.\n^ \"PN430 - Nomination of Alex Azar II for Department of Health and Human Services, 109th Congress (2005-2006)\". U.S. Congress. July 22, 2005.\n^ Delkic, Melina (November 13, 2017). \"Who is Alex Azar? Trump's New HHS Secretary Pick Lobbied for Big Pharma\". Newsweek. Retrieved January 25, 2018. In a press release announcing his departure in 2007, Azar said of his time in the administration....\n^ \"'Only in America': Trump nominates Salisbury's Azar for top Cabinet post\". Retrieved February 3, 2018.\n^ \"Obituary of ZARISKY, Sarah L. (Lamb), Cambria County, PA\". www.camgenpa.com. Retrieved February 3, 2018.\n^ \"Biography of Alex Michael Azar II, Deputy Secretary\". United States Department of Health & Human Services. June 19, 2006. Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2018.\n^ Aviv, Diana (October 21, 2005). \"Faculty Biographies - 3rd Annual Washington Healthcare Summit\" (PDF). American Bar Association. Retrieved December 31, 2018.\n^ a b c d e f g Groppe, Maureen (November 13, 2017). \"Who is Alex Azar? Former drugmaker CEO and HHS official nominated to head agency\". USA Today. Retrieved January 25, 2018.\n^ Mystal, Elie. \"Could HHS Secretary Alex Azar Derail Brett Kavanaugh?\". Above The Law. Retrieved 25 September 2018.\n^ a b Risen, James (September 13, 1994). \"Starr Names His First Whitewater Aides: Investigation: Independent counsel announces appointments to fill out prosecution team. He names a Fiske holdover as a top deputy\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 25, 2018.\n^ Schmidt, Susan (September 13, 1994). \"Whitewater Counsel Assembles Team\". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2018.\n^ a b c \"Alex M. Azar II - Biography\". World Congress.\n^ \"PN492 - Nomination of Alex Azar II for Department of Health and Human Services, 107th Congress (2001-2002)\". United States Congress. August 3, 2001.\n^ \"Presidential Nomination: Alex Michael Azar\". November 2, 2002. Archived from the original on November 2, 2002. Retrieved July 7, 2018.\n^ \"PN430 - Nomination of Alex Azar II for Department of Health and Human Services, 109th Congress (2005-2006)\". United States Congress. July 22, 2005.\n^ \"Presidential Nomination: Alex Michael Azar\". November 22, 2006. Archived from the original on November 22, 2006. Retrieved February 3, 2018.\n^ \"Azar resigns as HHS deputy secretary\". BioCentury. January 17, 2007. (subscription required)\n^ a b Mathis-Lilley, Ben (November 13, 2017). \"Trump Health Secretary Nominee Left Job Overseeing Eli Lilly Investigation to Become Eli Lilly's Top Lobbyist\". Slate.\n^ a b \"Lilly Announces Changes in Senior Management\" (Press release). PRNewswire. October 11, 2011.\n^ a b Nisen, Max (November 13, 2017). \"Alex Azar Is a Friend to Health-Care Companies\". Bloomberg L.P.\n^ a b Vazquez, Maegan (November 13, 2017). \"Trump picks former pharma exec, ex-Bush official to lead HHS department\". CNN.\n^ \"Lilly to Adjust Organization and Leadership Structure to Better Align with Growth Opportunities\" (Press release). PRNewswire. January 5, 2017.\n^ a b Mangan, Dan (November 13, 2017). \"Trump nominates former drug company executive Alex Azar as next Health and Human Services secretary\". CNBC.\n^ \"What people are saying about Trump's pick of former Lilly exec Alex Azar to lead HHS\". USA Today. November 13, 2017.\n^ \"Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Alex Azar as Health Secretary\". January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2018.\n^ \"There's a New Health Secretary. What Will He Mean for Women's Health?\". Time. Retrieved January 25, 2018.\n^ \"Trump's New Health and Human Services Secretary Is a Joyful Regulator\". The New York Times. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2018-05-19.\n^ Delkic, Melina (November 13, 2017). \"Who is Alex Azar? Trump's New HHS Secretary Pick Lobbied for Big Pharma\". Newsweek.\n^ Braun, Stephen (November 20, 2017). \"Health secretary nominee reaped big earnings from drug industry tenure\". Stat News. Associated Press. Retrieved January 24, 2018.\n^ \"Alex M. Azar II - Worldwide Speakers Group\". Worldwide Speakers Group. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2017.\nHarriet S. Rabb General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services\nClaude Allen United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services\nTom Price United States Secretary of Health and Human Services\nas Secretary of Labor Order of Precedence of the United States\nas Secretary of Health and Human Services Succeeded by\nas Secretary of Housing and Urban Development\nas Secretary of Labor 12th in line\nMembers of the Cabinet of the United States\nBernhardta\nCoatsc\nHaspelc\nLighthizerc\nMcMahonc\nMulvaneyac\nShanahana\nWheelerac\na acting; c cabinet-level\nCabinet of President Donald Trump (2017\u2013present)\nRex Tillerson (2017\u20132018)\nMike Pompeo (2018\u2013present)\nSteven Mnuchin (2017\u2013present)\nJim Mattis (2017\u20132019)\nJeff Sessions (2017\u20132018)\nWilliam Barr (2019\u2013present)\nRyan Zinke (2017\u20132019)\nSonny Perdue (2017\u2013present)\nWilbur Ross (2017\u2013present)\nAlexander Acosta (2017\u2013present)\nTom Price (2017)\nAlex Azar (2018\u2013present)\nBen Carson (2017\u2013present)\nElaine Chao (2017\u2013present)\nRick Perry (2017\u2013present)\nBetsy DeVos (2017\u2013present)\nDavid Shulkin (2017\u20132018)\nRobert Wilkie (2018\u2013present)\nJohn F. 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Williams, vegan bodybuilder\nKenneth Williams (1926\u20131988), British actor\nKen Williams (composer) (born 1952), Canadian composer for film and television\nKen Williams (game developer) (born 1954), computer game developer and founder of Sierra On-Line\nKenneth L. Williams (born 1934), American herpetologist\nKenneth P. Williams (1887\u20131958), professor of mathematics at Indiana University\nKenneth Williams (politician) (1870\u20131935), Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand\nKenny Williams (disambiguation)\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Williams&oldid=786526354\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 42.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_Poland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7KGJEKDSGJ64WEQBBBIYNT6537YJJWAA", "length": 79683, "nlines": 318, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Occupation of Poland (1939\u20131945) - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Occupation of Poland (1939\u20131945)\n(Redirected from Occupied Poland)\n\"Occupation of Poland\" redirects here. For other uses, see Occupation of Poland (disambiguation).\nFor general history of Poland during that period, see History of Poland (1939\u20131945).\nOccupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union\nBeginning of Lebensraum, the German expulsion of Poles from central Poland, 1939\nOperation Tannenberg, October 1939, mass murder of Polish townsmen in western Poland\nFourth Partition of Poland \u2013 aftermath of the German\u2013Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939\u20131941 prior to the German attack on the Soviet positions in Poland\nChanges in administration of occupied Polish territories following the German attack on the Soviet positions in 1941. The map shows district divisions in 1944\nThe occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War (1939\u20131945) began with the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945. Throughout the entire course of the foreign occupation, the territory of Poland was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR) with the intention of eradicating Polish culture and subjugating its people by occupying German and Soviet powers.[1] In summer-autumn of 1941 the lands annexed by the Soviets were overrun by Germany in the course of the initially successful German attack on the USSR. After a few years of fighting, the Red Army drove the German forces out of the USSR and across Poland from the rest of Central and Eastern Europe.\nBoth occupying powers were equally hostile to the existence of sovereign Poland, Polish people, and the Polish culture aiming at their destruction.[2] Before Operation Barbarossa, Germany and the Soviet Union coordinated their Poland-related policies, most visibly in the four Gestapo-NKVD Conferences, where the occupants discussed plans for dealing with the Polish resistance movement and future destruction of Poland.[3]\nAbout 6 million Polish citizens\u2014nearly 21.4% of Poland's population\u2014died between 1939 and 1945 as a result of the occupation,[4][5][6] half of whom were Polish Jews. Over 90% of the death toll came through non-military losses, as most of the civilians were targeted by various deliberate actions by Germans and the Soviets.[4] Overall, during German occupation of pre-war Polish territory, 1939\u20131945, the Germans murdered 5,470,000\u20135,670,000 Poles, including nearly 3,000,000 Jews.[5][6]\n2 Treatment of Polish citizens under German occupation\n2.1 Generalplan Ost, Lebensraum and expulsion of Poles\n2.1.1 German People's List\n2.2 Encouraging ethnic strife\n2.3 Forced labour\n2.4 Concentration and extermination camps\n2.6 Cultural genocide\n2.6.1 Extermination of elites\n2.6.2 Germanization\n2.8 Effect on the Polish population\n3 Treatment of Polish citizens under Soviet occupation\n3.1 Land reform and collectivisation\n3.2 Removal of Polish governmental and social institutions\n3.3 Rule of Terror\n3.5 Exploitation of ethnic tensions\n3.6 Restoration of Soviet control\nMain article: Administrative division of Polish territories during World War II\nIn September 1939 Poland was invaded and occupied by two powers: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, acting in accordance with the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop Pact.[7] Germany acquired 48.4% of the former Polish territory.[8] Under the terms of two decrees by Hitler, with Stalin's agreement (8 and 12 October 1939), large areas of western Poland were annexed by Germany.[9] The size of these annexed territories was approximately 92,500 square kilometres (35,700 sq mi) with approximately 10.5 million inhabitants.[8] The remaining block of territory was placed under a German administration, of about the same size and inhabited by about 11.5 millions,[8] were called the General Government (in German: Generalgouvernement f\u00fcr die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), with its capital at Krak\u00f3w. A German lawyer and prominent Nazi, Hans Frank, was appointed Governor-General of this occupied area on 12 October 1939.[10][11] Most of the administration outside strictly local level was replaced by German officials.[11][12] Non-German population on the occupied lands were subject to forced resettlement, Germanization, economic exploitation, and slow but progressive extermination.[11][12][13]\nA small strip of land, about 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi) with 200,000 inhabitants[8] that was part of Czechoslovakia before 1938 was also returned by Germany to its ally, Slovakia.[14]\nAfter Germany and the Soviet Union had partitioned Poland in 1939, most of the ethnically Polish territory ended up under the control of Germany, while the areas annexed by the Soviet Union contained ethnically diverse peoples, with the territory split into bilingual provinces, some of which had large ethnic Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities.[15] Many of them welcomed the Soviets due in part to communist agitation by Soviet emissaries. Nonetheless Poles comprised the largest single ethnic group in all territories annexed by the Soviet Union.[16]\nGerman and Soviet soldiers stroll around Sambir after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. Their joint victory parade took place in Brze\u015b\u0107.[17]\nBy the end of the invasion the Soviet Union had taken over 51.6% of the territory of Poland (about 201,000 square kilometres (78,000 sq mi)), with over 13,200,000 people.[8] The ethnic composition of these areas were as follows: 38% Poles (~5.1 million people), 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans. There were also 336,000 refugees who fled from areas occupied by Germany, most of them Jews (198,000).[16] All territory invaded by the Red Army was annexed to the Soviet Union (after a rigged election),[18][19] and split between the Belarusian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR, with the exception of the Wilno area taken from Poland, which was transferred to sovereign Lithuania for several months and subsequently annexed by the Soviet Union in the form of the Lithuanian SSR on August 3, 1940.[8][20] Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, most of the Polish territories annexed by the Soviets were attached to the enlarged General Government.[21] Following the end of the war, the borders of Poland were significantly shifted westwards.[22]\nTreatment of Polish citizens under German occupation[edit]\nGeneralplan Ost, Lebensraum and expulsion of Poles[edit]\nSee also: Nazi crimes against the Polish nation and The Holocaust in Poland\nFor months prior to the beginning of World War II in 1939, German newspapers and leaders had carried out a national and international propaganda campaign accusing Polish authorities of organizing or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans living in Poland.[23] British ambassador Sir H. Kennard sent four statements in August 1939 to Viscount Halifax regarding Hitler's claims about the treatment Germans were receiving in Poland; he came to the conclusion all the claims by Hitler and the Nazis were exaggerations or false claims.[24]\nEthnic cleansing of western Poland, with Poles led to the trains under German army escort, 1939.\nFrom the beginning, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany was intended as fulfilment of the future plan of the German Reich described by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf as Lebensraum (\"living space\") for the Germans in Central and Eastern Europe.[10] The occupation goal was to turn former Poland into ethnically German \"living space\", by deporting and exterminating the non-German populace, or relegating it to the position of slave labour.[25][26][27] The goal of the German state under Nazi leadership during the war was to destroy the Polish peoples and nation completely[28] and their fate, as well as many other Slavs, was outlined in genocidal[29][30] Generalplan Ost (General Plan for the East) and a closely related Generalsiedlungsplan (General Plan for Settlement).[31] Over 30 years, approximately 12.5 million Germans were to be resettled into the Slavic areas, including Poland; with some versions planning for a movement of at least 100 million Germans over a century.[31] The Slavic inhabitants of those lands were to be eliminated by genocidal policies;[29][30] and the survivors resettled further east, into less hospitable parts of Eurasia beyond the Ural Mountains, such as Siberia.[31] At the plan's fulfillment, there would be no Slavs or Jews remaining in Central and Eastern Europe.[31] Generalplan Ost, essentially a grand plan for ethnic cleansing, was divided into two parts, the Kleine Planung (\"Small Plan\"), which covered actions which were to be taken during the war, and the Grosse Planung (\"Big Plan\"), which covered actions to be undertaken after the war was won.[32][33][34] The plan envisaged differing percentages of the various conquered nations undergoing Germanisation, expulsion into the depths of Russia, and other gruesome fates, including purposeful starvation and murder, the net effect of which would be to ensure that the conquered territories would take on an irrevocably German character.[34][35] Over a longer period, only about 3\u20134 million Poles, suitable for Germanization, were supposed to be left residing in the former Poland.[36]\nPublic execution of Polish civilians randomly caught in a street roundup in German-occupied Bydgoszcz, September 1939\nThose plans began to be implemented almost immediately after the German troops took control of Poland. As early as October 1939, many Poles were expelled from the annexed lands to make room for German colonizers.[10][37] Only those Poles selected for Germanization, approximately 1.7 million including thousands of children who had been taken from their parents, were permitted to remain,[38] and if they resisted it, they were to be sent to concentration camps, because \"German blood must not be utilized in the interest of a foreign nation\".[39] By the end of 1940, at least 325,000 Poles from annexed lands were forcibly resettled in the General Government, forced to abandon most of their property.[10] There were numerous fatalities among the very young and elderly, who perished en route or in makeshift transit camps such as those in the towns of Potulice, Smukal, and Toru\u0144.[10] The expulsions continued in 1941, with another 45,000 Poles forced to move eastwards, but following German invasion of the Soviet Union, the expulsions slowed down, as more and more trains were diverted for military logistics, rather than being made available for population transfers.[10] Nonetheless, in late 1942 and in 1943, large-scale expulsions also took place in the General Government, affecting at least 110,000 Poles in the Zamo\u015b\u0107\u2013Lublin region.[10] Tens of thousands of the expelled, with no place to go, were simply imprisoned in the Auschwitz (O\u015bwi\u0119cim) and Majdanek concentration camps.[10] By 1942, the number of new German arrivals in pre-war Poland had already reached two million.[40]\nThe Nazi plans also called for the Poland's 3.3 million Jews to be exterminated, the non-Jewish majority's extermination was planned in the long term and initiated through the mass murder of its political, religious, and intellectual elites at first, which was meant to make the formation of any organized top-down resistance more difficult. Further, the populace of occupied territories was to be relegated to the role of an unskilled labor-force for German-controlled industry and agriculture.[10][41] This was in spite of racial theory that falsely regarded most Polish leaders as actually being of \"German blood\",[42] and partly because of it, on the grounds that German blood must not be used in the service of a foreign nation.[41]\nGerman People's List[edit]\nNur f\u00fcr Deutsche (\"For Germans only\") sign, on Krak\u00f3w line-8 streetcar\nMain article: Deutsche Volksliste\nThe German People's List (Deutsche Volksliste) classified the willing Polish citizens into four groups of people with ethnic Germanic heritage.[43] Group 1 included so-called ethnic Germans who had taken an active part in the struggle for the Germanization of Poland. Group 2 included those ethnic Germans who had not taken such an active part, but had \"preserved\" their German characteristics. Group 3 included individuals of alleged German stock who had become \"Polonized\", but whom it was believed, could be won back to Germany. This group also included persons of non-German descent married to Germans or members of non-Polish groups who were considered desirable for their political attitude and racial characteristics. Group 4 consisted of persons of German stock who had become politically merged with the Poles.\nAfter registration in the List, individuals from Groups 1 and 2 automatically became German citizens. Those from Group 3 acquired German citizenship subject to revocation. Those from Group 4 received German citizenship through naturalization proceedings; resistance to Germanization constituted treason because \"German blood must not be utilized in the interest of a foreign nation,\" and such people were sent to concentration camps.[43] Persons ineligible for the List were classified as stateless, and all Poles from the occupied territory, that is from the Government General of Poland, as distinct from the incorporated territory, were classified as non-protected.[43]\nEncouraging ethnic strife[edit]\nAccording to the 1931 Polish census, out of a prewar population of 35 million, 66% spoke the Polish language as their mother tongue, and most of the Polish native speakers were Roman Catholics. With regards to the remainder, 15% were Ukrainians, 8.5% Jews, 4.7% Belarusians, and 2.2% Germans.[10][44] Germans intended to exploit the fact that the Second Polish Republic was an ethnically diverse territory, and their policy aimed to \"divide and conquer\" the ethnically diverse population of the occupied Polish territory, to prevent any unified resistance from forming.[10] One of the attempts to divide the Polish nation was a creation of a new ethnicity called \"Goralenvolk\".[10] Some minorities, like Kashubians, were forcefully enrolled of into the Deutsche Volksliste, as a measure to compensate for the losses in the Wehrmacht (unlike Poles, Deutsche Volksliste members were eligible for military conscription).[10][45]\nPolish teachers guarded by members of ethnic German Selbstschutz battalion before execution\nIn a top-secret memorandum, \"The Treatment of Racial Aliens in the East\", dated 25 May 1940, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, wrote: \"We need to divide the East's different ethnic groups up into as many parts and splinter groups as possible\".[46] Historians, J. Grabowski and Z.R. Grabowski wrote in 2004:\nThe Germanisation of Polish territories occurred by deporting and exterminating the Jews and Poles, depriving Poles and Jews of their rights and supporting the local Germans and the ethnic Germans resettled from the East. The German minority living in this ethnically mixed region was required to adhere to strict codes of behaviour and was held accountable for all unauthorised contacts with their Polish and, even more so, their Jewish neighbours. The system of control and repression strove to isolate the various ethnic ('racial') groups, encouraging denunciations and thus instilling fear in the populace.[47]\nForced labour[edit]\nFurther information: Forced labor in Germany during World War II\nAlmost immediately after the invasion, Germans began forcibly conscripting laborers. Jews were drafted to repair war damage as early as October, with women and children 12 or older required to work; shifts could take half a day and with little compensation.[48] The labourers, Jews, Poles and others, were employed in SS-owned enterprises (such as the German Armament Works, Deutsche Ausrustungswerke, DAW), but also in many private German firms \u2013 such as Messerschmitt, Junkers, Siemens, and IG Farben.[48][49]\nForced labourers were subject to harsh discriminatory measures. Announced on the 8 March 1940 was the Polish decrees which were used as a legal basis for foreign labourers in Germany.[50] The decrees required Poles to wear identifying purple P's on their clothing, made them subject to a curfew, and banned them from using public transportation as well as many German \"cultural life\" centres and \"places of amusement\" (this included churches and restaurants).[10][50] Sexual relations between Germans and Poles were forbidden as Rassenschande (race defilement) under penalty of death.[10][50] To keep them segregated from the German population, they were often housed in segregated barracks behind barbed wire.[10]\nPolish-forced-workers' badge\nPoster in German and Polish listing decrees of labour obligations\nIdentity card for a Polish forced worker in Germany\nNotice of death penalty for Poles refusing to work during harvest\nLabor shortages in the German war economy became critical especially after German defeat in the battle of Stalingrad in 1942\u20131943. This led to the increased use of prisoners as forced labourers in German industries.[51] Following the German invasion and occupation of Polish territory, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens, including teenagers, became labourers in Germany, few by choice.[10] Historian Jan Gross estimates that \"no more than 15 per cent\" of Polish workers volunteered to go to work in Germany.[52] A total of 2.3 million Polish citizens, including 300,000 POWs, were deported to Germany as forced laborers.[53] They tended to have to work longer hours for lower wages than their German counterparts.[10]\nConcentration and extermination camps[edit]\nPolish Franciscan, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, at Auschwitz, volunteered to die in place of another prisoner.\nFurther information: German camps in occupied Poland during World War II\nA network of Nazi concentration camps were established on German-controlled territories, many of them in occupied Poland, including one of the largest and most infamous, Auschwitz (O\u015bwi\u0119cim).[54] Those camps were officially designed as labor camps, and many displayed the motto Arbeit macht frei (\"Work brings freedom\").[49][54] Only high-ranking officials knew that one of the purposes of some of the camps, known as extermination camps (or death camps), was mass murder of the undesirable minorities;[54][55][56] officially the prisoners were used in enterprises such as production of synthetic rubber, as was the case of a plant owned by IG Farben, whose laborers came from Auschwitz III camp, or Monowitz.[48] Laborers from concentration camps were literally worked to death. in what was known as extermination through labor.[48][57]\nAuschwitz received the first contingent of 728 Poles on 14 June 1940, transferred from an overcrowded prison at Tarn\u00f3w. Within a year the Polish inmate population was in thousands, and begun to be exterminated, including in the first gassing experiment in September 1941.[10] According to Polish historian Franciszek Piper, approximately 140,000\u2013150,000 Poles went through Auschwitz, with about half of them perishing there due to executions, medical experiments, or due to starvation and disease.[10] About 100,000 Poles were imprisoned in Majdanek camp, with similar fatality rate. About 30,000 Poles died at Mauthausen, 20,000 at Sachsenhausen and Gross-Rosen each, 17,000 at Neuengamme and Ravensbrueck each, 10,000 at Dachau, and tens of thousands perished in other camps and prisons.[10]\n1941 announcement of death penalty for Jews caught outside the Ghetto, and for Poles helping Jews\nFurther information: Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland and The Holocaust in Poland\nFollowing the invasion of Poland in 1939 most of the approximately 3.5 million Polish Jews were rounded up and put into newly established ghettos by Nazi Germany. The ghetto system was unsustainable, as by the end of 1941 the Jews had no savings left to pay the SS for food deliveries and no chance to earn their own keep.[58] At the 20 January 1942 Wannsee Conference, held near Berlin, new plans were outlined for the total genocide of the Jews, known as the \"Final Solution of the Jewish Question\".[59] The extermination program was codenamed Operation Reinhard.[60] Three secret extermination camps set up specifically for Operation Reinhard; Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.[61] In addition to the Reinhard camps, mass killing facilities such as gas chambers using Zyklon B were added to the Majdanek concentration camp in March 1942[61] and at Auschwitz and Che\u0142mno.[56]\nCultural genocide[edit]\nMain article: Polish culture during World War II\nNazi Germany engaged in a concentrated effort to destroy Polish culture. To that end, numerous cultural and educational institutions were closed or destroyed, from schools and universities, through monuments and libraries, to laboratories and museums. Many employees of said institutions were arrested and executed as part wider persecutions of Polish intellectual elite. Schooling of Polish children was curtailed to a few years of elementary education, as outlined by Himmler's May 1940 memorandum: \"The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one's name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans. ... I do not think that reading is desirable\".[10]\nExtermination of elites[edit]\nPhotos from The Black Book of Poland, published in London in 1942 by Polish government-in-exile.\nProscription lists (Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), prepared before the war started, identified more than 61,000 Polish elite and intelligentsia leaders deemed as unfriendly towards Germany.[62] Already during the 1939 German invasion, dedicated units of SS and police (the Einsatzgruppen) were tasked with arresting or outright killing of those resisting the Germans.[10][63] They were aided by some regular German army units and \"self-defense\" forces composed of members of German minority in Poland, the Volksdeutsche.[10] The Nazi regime's policy of murdering or suppressing the ethnic Polish elites was known as Operation Tannenberg\".[64] This included not only those resisting actively, but also those simply capable of doing so by the virtue of their social status.[10] As a result, tens of thousands of people found \"guilty\" of being educated (members of the intelligentsia, from clergymen to government officials, doctors, teachers and journalists) or wealthy (landowners, business owners, and so on) were either executed on spot, sometimes in mass executions, or imprisoned, some destined for the concentration camps.[10] Some of the mass executions were reprisal actions for actions of the Polish resistance, with German officials adhering to the collective guilt principle and holding entire communities responsible for the actions of unidentified perpetrators.[10]\nOne of the most infamous German operations was the Au\u00dferordentliche Befriedungsaktion (AB-Aktion in short, German for Special Pacification), a German campaign during World War II aimed at Polish leaders and the intelligentsia, including many university professors, teachers and priests.[65][66] In the spring and summer of 1940, more than 30,000 Poles were arrested by the German authorities of German-occupied Poland.[10][65] Several thousands were executed outside Warsaw, in the Kampinos forest near Palmiry, and inside the city at the Pawiak prison.[10][66] Most of the remainder were sent to various German concentration camps.[65]\nPublic execution of Polish priests and civilians in Bydgoszcz's Old Market Square on 9 September 1939.\nThe Nazis also persecuted the Catholic Church in Poland and other, smaller religions.\nNazi policy towards the Church was at its most severe in the territories it annexed to Greater Germany, where they set about systematically dismantling the Church \u2013 arresting its leaders, exiling its clergymen, closing its churches, monasteries and convents. Many clergymen and nuns were murdered or sent to concentration and labor camps.[10][67] Already in 1939, 80% of the Catholic clergy of the Warthegau region had been deported to concentration camps.[68] Primate of Poland, Cardinal August Hlond, submitted an official account of the persecutions of the Polish Church to the Vatican.[69] In his final observations for Pope Pius XII, Hlond wrote: \"Hitlerism aims at the systematic and total destruction of the Catholic Church in the... territories of Poland which have been incorporated into the Reich...\".[68][69] The smaller Evangelical churches of Poland also suffered. The entirety of the Protestant clergy of the Cieszyn region of Silesia were arrested and deported to concentration camps at Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Oranienburg.[68] Protestant clergy leaders who perished in those purges included charity activist Karol Kulisz, theology professor Edmund Bursche, and Bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, Juliusz Bursche.[68]\nBoys' roll call at main children's concentration camp in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt). A sub-camp was KZ Dzier\u017c\u0105zna, for Polish girls as young as eight.\nGermanization[edit]\nMain articles: Germanisation in Poland (1939\u20131945), Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, and Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany (1939\u20131944)\nSee also: Germanization, Kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany, and Kinder KZ\nIn the territories annexed to Nazi Germany, in particular with regards to the westernmost incorporated territories\u2014the so-called Wartheland\u2014 the Nazis aimed for a complete \"Germanization\", i.e. full cultural, political, economic and social assimilation.[10] Polish language was prohibited to be taught even in elementary schools; landmarks from streets to cities were renamed en masse (\u0141\u00f3d\u017a became Litzmannstadt, and so on).[10] All manner of Polish enterprises, up to small shops, were taken over, with prior owners rarely compensated.[10] Signs posted in public places prohibited non-Germans from entering these places warning: \"Entrance is forbidden to Poles, Jews, and dogs.\", or Nur f\u00fcr Deutsche (\"Only for Germans\"), commonly found on many public utilities and places such as trams, parks, cafes, cinemas, theaters, and others.[10][70][71]\nThe Nazis kept an eye out for Polish children who possessed Nordic racial characteristics.[72] An estimated total of 50,000 children, majority taken from orphanages and foster homes in the annexed lands, but some separated from their parents, were taken into a special Germanization program.[10][43] Polish women deported to Germany as forced laborers and who bore children were a common victim of this policy, with their infants regularly taken.[10][73] If the child passed the battery of racial, physical and psychological tests, they were sent on to Germany for \"Germanization\".[74]\nAt least 4,454 children were given new German names,[75] forbidden to use Polish language,[76] and reeducated in Nazi institutions.[10] Few were ever reunited with their original families.[10] Those deemed as unsuitable for Germanization for being \"not Aryan enough\" were sent to orphanages or even to concentration camps like Auschwitz, where many perished, often killed by intercardiac injections of phenol.[10] For Polish forced laborers, in some cases if an examination of the parents suggested that the child might not be \"racially valuable\", the mother was compelled to have an abortion.[10][73] Infants who did not pass muster would be removed to a state orphanage (Ausl\u00e4nderkinder-Pflegest\u00e4tte), where many died from the lack of food.[77]\nResistance[edit]\nEarliest World War II partisan unit, commanded by Henryk \"Hubal\" Dobrza\u0144ski, winter 1939\nMain article: Polish resistance movement in World War II\nDespite the military defeat of the Polish Army in September 1939, the Polish government itself never surrendered, instead evacuating West, where it formed the Polish government in Exile.[10] The government in exile was represented in the occupied Poland by the Government Delegation for Poland, headed by the Government Delegate for Poland.[78] The main role of the civilian branch of the Underground State was to preserve the continuity of the Polish state as a whole, including its institutions. These institutions included the police, the courts, and schools.[79] By the final years of the war, the civilian structure of the Underground State included an underground parliament, administration, judiciary (courts and police), secondary and higher level education, and supported various cultural activities such as publishing of newspapers and books, underground theatres, lectures, exhibitions, concerts and safeguarded various works of art.[78][80] It also dealt with providing social services, including to the destitute Jewish population (through the Council to Aid Jews, or \u017begota).[78] Through the Directorate of Civil Resistance (1941\u20131943) the civil arm was also involved in lesser acts of resistance, such as minor sabotage, although in 1943 this department was merged with the Directorate of Covert Resistance, forming the Directorate of Underground Resistance, subordinate to Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa).[80]\nGerman Panther tank captured by the Poles during 1944 Warsaw Uprising, with Batalion Zo\u015bka armored platoon commanded by Wac\u0142aw Micuta\nIn response to the occupation, Poles formed one of the largest underground movements in Europe.[10][81] Resistance to the Nazi German occupation began almost at once. The Home Army (in Polish Armia Krajowa or AK), loyal to the Polish government in exile in London and a military arm of the Polish Underground State, was formed from a number of smaller groups in 1942.[82] There was also the People's Army (Polish Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and controlled by the Polish Workers' Party (Polish Polska Partia Robotnicza or PPR), though significantly less numerous than the Home Army.[10][83] In February 1942, when AK was formed, it numbered about 100,000 members.[84] In the beginning of 1943, it had reached a strength of about 200,000.[84] In the summer of 1944 when Operation Tempest begun AK reached its highest membership numbers.[84] Estimates of AK membership in the first half of 1944 and summer that year vary, with about 400,000 being common.[84] With the imminent arrival of the Soviet army, the AK launched an uprising in Warsaw against the German army on 1 August 1944. The uprising, receiving little assistance from the nearby Soviet forces, eventually failed, significantly reducing the Home Army's power and position.[10] About 200,000 Poles, most of them civilians, lost their lives in the Uprising.[85]\nEffect on the Polish population[edit]\nThe Polish civilian population suffered under German occupation in many ways. Large numbers were expelled from land intended for German colonisation, and forced to resettle in the General-Government area. Hundreds of thousands of Poles were deported to Germany for forced labour in industry and agriculture, where many thousands died. Poles were also conscripted for labour in Poland, and were held in labour camps all over the country, again with a high death rate. There was a general shortage of food, fuel for heating and medical supplies, and there was a high death rate among the Polish population as a result. Finally, thousands of Poles were killed as reprisals for resistance attacks on German forces or for other reasons. In all, about 3 million Poles died as a result of the German occupation, more than 10% of the pre-war population. When this is added to the 3 million Polish Jews who were killed as a matter of policy by the Germans, Poland lost about 22% of its population, the highest proportion of any European country in World War II.[86][87]\nWalling-off \u015awi\u0119tokrzyska Street seen from Marsza\u0142kowska Street on the 'Aryan side' of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940\nPoland had a large Jewish population, and according to Davies, more Jews were both killed and rescued in Poland, than in any other nation, the rescue figure usually being put at between 100,000 and 150,000.[88] Thousands of Poles have been honoured as Righteous Among the Nations \u2013 constituting the largest national contingent.[89] When AK Home Army Intelligence discovered the true fate of transports leaving the Jewish Ghetto, the Council to Aid Jews (Zegota) was established in late 1942, in cooperation with church groups. The organisation saved thousands. Emphasis was placed on protecting children, as it was nearly impossible to intervene directly against the heavily guarded transports. The Germans implemented several different laws to separate Poles and Jews in the ghettos with Poles living on the \"Aryan Side\" and the Jews living on the \"Jewish Side\", despite the risk of death many Poles risked their lives by forging \"Aryan Papers\" for Jews to make them appear as non-Jewish Poles so they could live on the Aryan side and avoid Nazi persecution.[90] Another law implemented by the Germans was that Poles were forbidden from buying from Jewish shops in which, if they did, they were subject to execution.[91] Jewish children were also distributed among safe houses and church networks.[92] Jewish children were often placed in church orphanages and convents.[93]\nSome three million Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, over two million of whom were ethnic Poles (the remainder being mostly Ukrainians and Belarusians). The vast majority of those killed were civilians, mostly killed by the actions of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.[94][95]\nAside from being sent to Nazi concentration camps, most ethnic Poles died through shelling and bombing campaigns, mass executions, forced starvation, revenge murder, ill health, and slave labour. Along with Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the main six extermination camps in occupied Poland were used predominantly to exterminate Jews. Stutthof concentration camp was used for mass extermination of Poles. A number of civilian labour camps (Gemeinschaftslager) for Poles (Polenlager) were established inside Polish territory. Many Poles died in German camps. The first non-German prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles who were the majority of inmates there until 1942 when the systematic killing of the Jews began. The first killing by poison gas at Auschwitz involved 300 Poles and 700 Soviet prisoners of war. Many Poles and other Central and Eastern Europeans were also sent to concentration camps in Germany: over 35,000 to Dachau, 33,000 to the camp for women at Ravensbr\u00fcck, 30,000 to Mauthausen and 20,000 to Sachsenhausen.[96]\nThe population in the General Government's territory was initially about 12 million in an area of 94,000 square kilometres, but this increased as about 860,000 Poles and Jews were expelled from the German-annexed areas and \"resettled\" in the General Government. Offsetting this was the German campaign of extermination of the Polish intelligentsia and other elements thought likely to resist (e.g. Operation Tannenberg). From 1941, disease and hunger also began to reduce the population. Poles were deported in large numbers to work as forced labour in Germany: eventually about a million were deported, and many died in Germany.\nTreatment of Polish citizens under Soviet occupation[edit]\nIdentifying prisoners massacred by the Soviet NKVD, Tarnopol, 1941\nMain article: Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939\u20131946)\nFurther information: Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia, Volhynia and Northern Bukovina\nBy the end of the Polish Defensive War, the Soviet Union took over 52.1% of Poland's territory (~200,000 km\u00b2), with over 13,700,000 people. The estimates vary; Prof. El\u017cbieta Trela-Mazur gives the following numbers in regards to the ethnic composition of these areas: 38% Poles (ca. 5.1 million people), 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans. There were also 336,000 refugees from areas occupied by Germany, most of them Jews (198,000).[16] Areas occupied by the USSR were annexed to Soviet territory, with the exception of the Wilno area, which was transferred to Lithuania, although it was soon attached to the USSR once Lithuania became a Soviet republic.\nInitially the Soviet occupation gained support among some members of the linguistic minorities who had chafed under the nationalist policies of the Second Polish Republic. Much of the Ukrainian population initially welcomed the unification with the Soviet Ukraine because twenty years earlier their attempt at self-determination failed during both the Polish\u2013Ukrainian War and the Ukrainian\u2013Soviet War.[97]\nThere were large groups of prewar Polish citizens, notably Jewish youth and, to a lesser extent, the Ukrainian peasants, who saw the Soviet power as an opportunity to start political or social activity outside their traditional ethnic or cultural groups. Their enthusiasm however faded with time as it became clear that the Soviet repressions were aimed at all groups equally, regardless of their political stance.[98]\nBritish historian Simon Sebag Montefiore states that Soviet terror in the occupied eastern Polish lands was as cruel and tragic as the Nazis' in the west. Soviet authorities brutally treated those who might oppose their rule, deporting by 10 November 1940 around 10% of total population of Kresy, with 30% of those deported dead by 1941.[99] They arrested and imprisoned about 500,000 Poles during 1939\u20131941, including former officials, officers, and natural \"enemies of the people\" like the clergy, but also noblemen and intellectuals. The Soviets also executed about 65,000 Poles. Soldiers of the Red Army and their officers behaved like conquerors, looting and stealing Polish treasures. When Stalin was told about it, he answered: \"If there is no ill will, they [the soldiers] can be pardoned\".[100]\nIn one notorious massacre, the NKVD-the Soviet secret police\u2014systematically executed 21,768 Poles, among them 14,471 former Polish officers, including political leaders, government officials, and intellectuals. Some 4,254 of these were uncovered in mass graves in Katyn Forest by the Nazis in 1943, who then invited an international group of neutral representatives and doctors to study the corpses and confirm Soviet guilt, but the findings from the study were denounced by the Allies as \"Nazi propaganda\".\nSovietization propaganda poster addressed to the Polish Ukrainian population. The text reads \"Electors of the working people! Vote for joining of Western Ukraine into the Soviet Ukraine\"\nThe Soviet Union had ceased to recognize the Polish state at the start of the invasion.[101][102] As a result, the two governments never officially declared war on each other. The Soviets therefore did not classify Polish military prisoners as prisoners of war but as rebels against the new legal government of Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia.[n] The Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war. Some, like General J\u00f3zef Olszyna-Wilczy\u0144ski, who was captured, interrogated and shot on 22 September, were executed during the campaign itself.[103][104] On 24 September, the Soviets killed 42 staff and patients of a Polish military hospital in the village of Grabowiec, near Zamo\u015b\u0107.[105] The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September.[106] Over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.[107][108]\nThe Poles and the Soviets re-established diplomatic relations in 1941, following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement; but the Soviets broke them off again in 1943 after the Polish government demanded an independent examination of the recently discovered Katyn burial pits.[109] The Soviets then lobbied the Western Allies to recognize the pro-Soviet Polish puppet government of Wanda Wasilewska in Moscow.[110]\nOn 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany had changed the secret terms of the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop Pact. They moved Lithuania into the Soviet sphere of influence and shifted the border in Poland to the east, giving Germany more territory.[111] By this arrangement, often described as a fourth partition of Poland,[108] the Soviet Union secured almost all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Western Bug and San. This amounted to about 200,000 square kilometres of land, inhabited by 13.5 million Polish citizens.[112]\nThe Red Army had originally sowed confusion among the locals by claiming that they were arriving to save Poland from the Nazis.[113] Their advance surprised Polish communities and their leaders, who had not been advised how to respond to a Bolshevik invasion. Polish and Jewish citizens may at first have preferred a Soviet regime to a German one,[114] but the Soviets soon proved as hostile and destructive towards the Polish people and their culture as the Nazis.[115][116] They began confiscating, nationalising and redistributing all private and state-owned Polish property.[117] During the two years following the annexation, they arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens[118] and deported between 350,000 and 1,500,000, of whom between 150,000 and 1,000,000 died, mostly civilians.[b][5][6][119]\nLand reform and collectivisation[edit]\nThe Soviet base of support was strengthened by a land reform program initiated by the Soviets in which most of the owners of large lots of land were labeled \"kulaks\" and dispossessed of their land, which was then divided among poorer peasants.\nHowever, the Soviet authorities then started a campaign of forced collectivisation, which largely nullified the earlier gains from the land reform as the peasants generally did not want to join the Kolkhoz farms, nor to give away their crops for free to fulfill the state-imposed quotas.\nRemoval of Polish governmental and social institutions[edit]\nWhile Germans enforced their policies based on racism, the Soviet administration justified their Stalinist policies by appealing to the Soviet ideology,[120] which in reality meant the thorough Sovietization of the area. Immediately after their conquest of eastern Poland, the Soviet authorities started a campaign of Sovietization[121][122] of the newly acquired areas. No later than several weeks after the last Polish units surrendered, on 22 October 1939, the Soviets organized staged elections to the Moscow-controlled Supreme Soviets (legislative body) of Western Byelorussia and Western Ukraine.[123] The result of the staged voting was to become a legitimization of Soviet annexation of eastern Poland.[124]\nResidents of a town in Eastern Poland (now West Belarus) assembled to greet the arrival of the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. The Russian text reads \"Long Live the great theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin-Stalin\" and contains a spelling error. Such welcomings were organized by the activists of the Communist Party of West Belarus affiliated with the Communist Party of Poland, delegalized in both countries by 1938.[125]\nSubsequently, all institutions of the dismantled Polish state were closed down and reopened under the Soviet appointed supervisors. Lwow University and many other schools were reopened soon but they were restarted anew as Soviet institutions rather than continuing their old legacy. Lwow University was reorganized in accordance with the Statute Books for Soviet Higher Schools. The tuition, that along with the institution's Polonophile traditions, kept the university inaccessible to most of the rural Ukrainophone population, was abolished and several new chairs were opened, particularly the chairs of Russian language and literature. The chairs of Marxism-Leninism, Dialectical and Historical Materialism aimed at strengthening of the Soviet ideology were opened as well.[16] Polish literature and language studies ware dissolved by Soviet authorities. Forty-five new faculty members were assigned to it and transferred from other institutions of Soviet Ukraine, mainly the Kharkiv and Kiev universities. On 15 January 1940 the Lviv University was reopened and started to teach in accordance with Soviet curricula.[126]\nSimultaneously, Soviet authorities attempted to remove the traces of Polish history of the area by eliminating much of what had any connection to the Polish state or even Polish culture in general.[16] On 21 December 1939, the Polish currency was withdrawn from circulation without any exchange to the newly introduced rouble, which meant that the entire population of the area lost all of their life savings overnight.[127]\nAll the media became controlled by Moscow. Soviet authorities implemented a political regime similar to a police state,[128][129][130][131] based on terror. All Polish parties and organizations were disbanded. Only the Communist Party was allowed to exist along with organizations subordinated to it.\nAll organized religions were persecuted. All enterprises were taken over by the state, while agriculture was made collective.[132]\nRule of Terror[edit]\nAn inherent part of the Sovietization was a rule of terror started by the NKVD and other Soviet agencies. The first victims of the new order were approximately 250,000 Polish prisoners of war captured by the USSR during and after the Polish Defensive War (see Polish prisoners of war in Soviet Union (after 1939)).[133] As the Soviet Union did not sign any international convention on rules of war, they were denied the status of prisoners of war and instead almost all of the captured officers and a large number of ordinary soldiers[134] were then murdered (see Katyn massacre) or sent to Gulag.[135] Thousands of others would fall victim to NKVD massacres of prisoners in mid-1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.\nSimilar policies were applied to the civilian population as well. The Soviet authorities regarded service for the pre-war Polish state as a \"crime against revolution\"[136] and \"counter-revolutionary activity\",[137] and subsequently started arresting large numbers of Polish intelligentsia, politicians, civil servants and scientists, but also ordinary people suspected of posing a threat to the Soviet rule. Among the arrested members of the Polish intelligentsia were former prime ministers Leon Koz\u0142owski and Aleksander Prystor, as well as Stanis\u0142aw Grabski, Stanis\u0142aw G\u0142\u0105bi\u0144ski and the Baczewski family. Initially aimed primarily at possible political opponents, by January 1940 the NKVD aimed its campaign also at its potential allies, including the Polish communists and socialists. Among the arrested were W\u0142adys\u0142aw Broniewski, Aleksander Wat, Tadeusz Peiper, Leopold Lewin, Anatol Stern, Teodor Parnicki, Marian Czuchnowski and many others.[138]\nDuring 1942\u20131945, nearly 30,000 Poles were deported by the Soviet Union to Karachi (then under British rule). This photo shows a memorial to the refugees who died in Karachi and were buried at the Karachi graveyard.\nIn 1940 and the first half of 1941, the Soviets deported more than 1,200,000 Poles, most in four mass deportations. The first deportation took place 10 February 1940, with more than 220,000 sent to northern European Russia; the second on 13 April 1940, sending 320,000 primarily to Kazakhstan; a third wave in June\u2013July 1940 totaled more than 240,000; the fourth occurred in June 1941, deporting 300,000. Upon resumption of Polish-Soviet diplomatic relations in 1941, it was determined based on Soviet information that more than 760,000 of the deportees had died \u2013 a large part of those dead being children, who had comprised about a third of deportees.[139]\nApproximately 100,000 former Polish citizens were arrested during the two years of Soviet occupation.[140] The prisons soon got severely overcrowded.[98] with detainees suspected of anti-Soviet activities and the NKVD had to open dozens of ad-hoc prison sites in almost all towns of the region.[124] The wave of arrests led to forced resettlement of large categories of people (kulaks, Polish civil servants, forest workers, university professors or osadniks, for instance) to the Gulag labour camps and exile settlements in remote areas of the Soviet Union.[122] Altogether roughly a million people were sent to the east in four major waves of deportations.[141] According to Norman Davies,[142] almost half of them were dead by the time the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement had been signed in 1941.[143]\nAccording to the Soviet law, all residents of the annexed area, dubbed by the Soviets as citizens of former Poland,[144] automatically acquired Soviet citizenship. However, actual conferral of citizenship still required the individual's consent and the residents were strongly pressured for such consent.[145] The refugees who opted out were threatened with repatriation to Nazi controlled territories of Poland.[4][146][147]\nExploitation of ethnic tensions[edit]\nIn addition, the Soviets exploited past ethnic tension between Poles and other ethnic groups, inciting and encouraging violence against Poles calling the minorities to \"rectify the wrongs they had suffered during twenty years of Polish rule\".[148] Pre-war Poland was portrayed as a capitalist state based on exploitation of the working people and ethnic minorities. Soviet propaganda claimed that unfair treatment of non-Poles by the Second Polish Republic was a justification of its dismemberment. Soviet officials openly incited mobs to perform killings and robberies[149] The death toll of the initial Soviet-inspired terror campaign remains unknown.\nRestoration of Soviet control[edit]\nWhile formal Polish sovereignty was almost immediately restored when the forces of Nazi Germany were expelled in 1945, in reality the country remained under firm Soviet control as it remained occupied by the Soviet Army Northern Group of Forces until 1956. To this day the events of those and the following years are one of the stumbling blocks in Polish-Russian foreign relations.\nMain article: World War II casualties of Poland\nMonument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East, Warsaw\nOver 6 million Polish citizens \u2013 nearly 21.4% of the pre-war population of the Second Polish Republic \u2014 died between 1939 and 1945.[150] Over 90% of the death toll involved non-military losses, as most civilians were targets of various deliberate actions by the Germans and Soviets.[150]\nBoth occupiers wanted not only to gain Polish territory, but also to destroy Polish culture and the Polish nation as a whole.[2]\nTadeusz Piotrowski, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire has provided a reassessment of Poland's losses in World War II. Polish war dead include 5,150,000 victims of Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles and the Holocaust, the treatment of Polish citizens by occupiers included 350,000 deaths during the Soviet occupation in 1940\u201341 and about 100,000 Poles killed in 1943\u201344 in the Ukraine. Of the 100,000 Poles killed in the Ukraine, 80,000 perished during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Losses by ethnic group were 3,100,000 Jews; 2,000,000 ethnic Poles; 500,000 Ukrainians and Belarusians.[94]\nIn August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead (including Polish Jews) at between 5.47 and 5.67 million (due to German actions) and 150,000 (due to Soviet), or around 5.62 and 5.82 million total.[151]\nThe official Polish government report prepared in 1947 listed 6,028,000 war deaths out of a population of 27,007,000 ethnic Poles and Jews; this report excluded ethnic Ukrainian and Belarusian losses. However some historians in Poland now believe that Polish war losses were at least 2 million ethnic Poles and 3 million Jews as a result of the war.[152]\nAnother assessment, Poles as Victims of the Nazi Era, prepared by USHMM, lists 1.8 to 1.9 million ethnic Polish dead in addition to 3 million Polish Jews.[10]\nPOW deaths totaled 250,000; in Germany (120,000) and in the USSR (130,000).[153]\nThe genocide of Romani people (porajmos) was 35,000 persons.[154] Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 3,000,000.[155]\nPolish resistance movement in World War II\nExpulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany (1939\u20131944)\nSoviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939-1946)\nThe Holocaust in Poland\nPolish areas annexed by the Soviet Union\nPolish minority in Germany\nPolish minority in the Soviet Union\nWorld War II crimes in Poland\n^ Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014). The German Occupation of Poland. Washington, D.C.: Dale Street Books. pp. 10\u201328. 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Dzieje Najnowsze (1994/2).\n^ Jewish Virtual Library (2 August 2015). \"Full Listing of Camps in occupied Poland\". Source: \"Atlas of the Holocaust\" by Martin Gilbert (1982).\n\u2014\u2014. \"Stutthof: History & Overview\". With archival photos.\n^ Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1988). \"Ukrainian Collaborators\". Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918\u20131947. McFarland. pp. 177\u2013259. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3. How are we ... to explain the phenomenon of Ukrainians rejoicing and collaborating with the Soviets? Who were these Ukrainians? That they were Ukrainians is certain, but were they communists, Nationalists, unattached peasants? The Answer is \"yes\" \u2013 they were all three\n^ a b Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt; Gottfried Schramm (1997). Bernd Wegner, ed. From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia and the World, 1939\u20131941. Berghahn Books. pp. 47\u201379. 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ISBN 0-88738-756-X.\n^ (in Polish) Encyklopedia PWN, \"Okupacja Sowiecka w Polsce 1939\u201341\", last accessed on 1 March 2006, online Archived 20 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine, Polish language\n^ Encyklopedia PWN 'Kampania Wrze\u015bniowa 1939' Archived 9 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine, last retrieved on 10 December 2005, Polish language\n^ Out of the original group of Polish prisoners of war sent in large number to the labour camps were some 25,000 ordinary soldiers separated from the rest of their colleagues and imprisoned in a work camp in R\u00f3wne, where they were forced to build a road. See: \"Decision to commence investigation into Katyn Massacre\". Institute of National Remembrance website. Institute of National Remembrance. 2004. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2006.\n^ Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (2004). Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939\u20131947. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0484-5.\n^ Gustaw Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski (1996). A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II. Penguin Books. p. 284. ISBN 0-14-025184-7.\n^ W\u0142adys\u0142aw Anders (1995). Bez ostatniego rozdzia\u0142u (in Polish). Lublin: Test. p. 540. ISBN 83-7038-168-5.\n^ Jerzy Gizella (10 November 2001). \"Lwowskie okupacje\". Przegl\u0105d polski (in Polish). Archived from the original on 27 April 2006.\n^ Assembly of Captive European Nations, First Session\n^ (in Polish)Represje 1939\u201341 Aresztowani na Kresach Wschodnich Archived 21 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine (Repressions 1939\u201341. Arrested on the Eastern Borderlands.) O\u015brodek Karta. Last accessed on 15 November 2006.\n^ The actual number of deported in the period of 1939\u20131941 remains unknown and various estimates vary from 350,000 ((in Polish) Encyklopedia PWN 'Okupacja Sowiecka w Polsce 1939\u201341' Archived 20 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine, last retrieved on 14 March 2006, Polish language) to over 2 millions (mostly World War II estimates by the underground). The earlier number is based on records made by the NKVD and does not include roughly 180,000 prisoners of war, also in Soviet captivity. Most modern historians estimate the number of all people deported from areas taken by Soviet Union during this period at between 800,000 and 1,500,000; for example R. J. Rummel gives the number of 1,200,000 million; Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox give 1,500,000 in their Refugees in an Age of Genocide, p.219; in his Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917, p.132. See also: Marek Wierzbicki; Tadeusz M. P\u0142u\u017ca\u0144ski (March 2001). \"Wybi\u00f3rcze traktowanie \u017ar\u00f3de\u0142\". Tygodnik Solidarno\u015b\u0107 (2 March 2001). and Albin G\u0142owacki (September 2003). \"Formy, skala i konsekwencje sowieckich represji wobec Polak\u00f3w w latach 1939\u20131941\". In Piotr Chmielowiec. Okupacja sowiecka ziem polskich 1939\u20131941 (in Polish). Rzesz\u00f3w-Warsaw: Instytut Pami\u0119ci Narodowej. ISBN 83-89078-78-3. Archived from the original on 2003-10-03.\n^ Norman Davies (1982). God's Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 449\u2013455. ISBN 0-19-925340-4.\n^ Bernd Wegner, From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939\u20131941, Bernd Wegner, 1997, ISBN 1-57181-882-0. Google Print, p.78\n^ Stanis\u0142aw Ciesielski; Wojciech Materski; Andrzej Paczkowski (2002). \"Represje 1939\u20131941\". Indeks represjonowanych (in Polish) (2nd ed.). Warsaw: O\u015brodek KARTA. ISBN 83-88288-31-8. Archived from the original on 22 February 2006. Retrieved March 2006. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)\n^ Jan Tomasz Gross (2003). Revolution from Abroad. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 396. ISBN 0-691-09603-1. [2]\n^ Jan T. Gross, op.cit., p.188\n^ Zvi Gitelman (2001). A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present. Indiana University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-253-21418-1.\n^ Jan Tomasz Gross, Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-691-09603-1, p. 35\n^ Gross, op.cit., page 36\n^ a b Jessica Jager, Review of Piotrowski's Poland's Holocaust, UC Santa Barbara\n^ Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota (eds.).Polska 1939\u20131945. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.Institute of National Remembrance(IPN) Warszawa 2009 ISBN 978-83-7629-067-6 (Introduction reproduced here Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine)\n^ This revision of estimated war losses was the topic of articles in the Polish academic journal Dzieje Najnowsze # 2-1994 by Czes\u0142aw \u0141uczak and Krystyna Kersten.\n^ Vadim Erlikman (2004). Poteri narodonaseleniia v XX veke : spravochnik. Moscow. ISBN 5-93165-107-1\n^ Donald Kendrick, The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies. Basic Books 1972 ISBN 0-465-01611-1\n^ Martin Gilbert. 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Lieb, AIEE President, 1904 - 1905, experimented with the Brush arc light system in the fall of 1877, which led him to work at the Brush Electric Company and later the Edison Electric Company. Lieb also worked in Italy, where he directed the completion of Milan\u2019s first electric trolley line in 1893.\nJohn William Lieb was born 12 February 1860, in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John William Lieb, a leather worker, and Christina Zens. He acquired his formal education in the local public school and at the Newark Academy, a private high school, from which he graduated in 1875. Perhaps influenced by his father's interest in chemistry and mechanical technology, Lieb entered the preparatory high school connected with Stevens Institute of Technology in nearby Hoboken, New Jersey, in September 1875. A year later, Lieb became a student in mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Tehnology.\nWhile at Stevens Institute of Technology Lieb became interested in the newly emerging electrical industry. Among his class assignments he assisted with tests of the Brush arc light system in fall 1877 at the Coney Island pier. In early 1880 he and his classmates also visited Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory to see the newly invented incandescent electric lighting system. Lieb's practical experience with the Brush arc light led to his joining the Brush Electric Company in Cleveland after graduation. Hired as a draftsman, Lieb was soon being trained as a central station constructor and manager. However, while visiting his family over the Christmas holidays, he met with Edison to ask for a job and in January 1881 began his long association with the Edison electric light interests.\nLieb joined the staff of the Edison Electric Light Company at its 65 Fifth Avenue headquarters in New York City. He initially worked as a draftsman in the company's engineering department but was soon transferred to the Edison Machine Works on Goerck Street, where he assisted in the development of generators and other equipment for the Pearl Street central generating station. When this station opened in September 1882, Lieb was placed in charge.\nLieb's knowledge of central station technology as well as his facility with French impressed Italian professor Giuseppe Colombo during the latter's visit to the Edison Machine Works to observe tests of dynamos for the central station his Italian Edison Company was building in Milan. As a result, Colombo requested that Lieb be sent to Milan to supervise the installation of the Milan station. He became chief electrician of the plant, which was put into service in March 1883. Lieb, who soon became fluent in Italian, was appointed chief electrician of the Italian Edison Company when it was reorganized later in the year as the Societa Generale Italiana di Elettricita Sistema Edison. As the company began to erect other central power stations in the second half of the decade, Lieb took on increasing technical responsibilities, supervising both the company's power plant business and its manufacturing facilities.\nDuring his years in Italy Lieb was an innovative leader of the electrical industry. The Milan station was among the first to install an alternating current distribution system in 1886, and in connection with this he conducted some of the earliest experiments with direct-driven alternators connected in parallel. The same year he also introduced the Thomson-Houston arc light system for street lighting in the city. In 1892-1893 Lieb directed the installation of Milan's first electric trolley line and one of the earliest in Italy.\nLieb continued to maintain close ties to the United States and married Minnie F. Engler while visiting New York in 1886, with whom he had three children. In 1894 he returned permanently to the United States when he became assistant to R. R. Bowker, vice-president of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York (later New York Edison). As general manager, and later vice president, Lieb was in charge of all the company's technical operations, including the installation and operation of its central stations and electrical distribution system and supervision of all research and development efforts. At the time of his death, Lieb was senior vice president of New York Edison and president of the Electrical Testing Laboratories, which he had helped to found.\nLieb led an active professional life as a member and officer of several technical and scientific societies and congresses in the United States and Europe. He also served on many industry associations and public commissions related to the energy industry. He was president of the AIEE from 1904 to 1905. Honored for his work by both the Italian and French governments, Lieb also received the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1923 \"For the development and operation of electric central stations for illumination and power.\" After becoming a member of the Raccolta Vinciana of Milan during his stay in Italy, Lieb retained a lifelong interest in Leonardo da Vinci, collecting a large library of Vinciana. Lieb died at his home in New Rochelle, New York, 1 November 1929.\nPapers of J. W. 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Those interested may stop by the Recycling Center between 7 a.m. and dusk, 7 days a week with their own containers, shovels, or pitchforks to haul away the mulch. The center is located at 217 Gordon Road, Falls Church, VA 22046.\nLeaf Mulch Processing\nSelf loading starts each year in late February or early March and is available until the supply runs out, typically May or June.\nLeaf mulch is also available in Fairfax County at the transfer station, and Arlington County.\nThe leaf mulch is the end-product of 5,000 cubic yards of leaves vacuumed from city streets in the autumn. Removing and recycling the leaves into mulch provides a far more cost-effective solution than hauling and disposing of them. This practice also benefits the environment; leaf mulch naturally:\nTurns clay-rich soil into nutrient-rich soil, making it healthier for trees and plants\nReleases water into the soil at a slow rate\nCreates zero waste in the process\nLeaf Mulch Loading Assistance\nThe City of Falls Church Operations staff uses heavy equipment to load open bed vehicles with our high quality leaf mulch. Participants must sign a waiver prior to loading. New for 2018, weekday loading assistance will be available in lieu of an event. Loading will be provided first come, first served from 7 a.m. - 8 a.m., 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Loading assistance will begin in the Spring of 2019 when leaf mulch becomes available.\nSelf-Haul & Contracted Services\nEvery year, free double-ground leaf mulch is available for pickup at the Recycling Center, starting in late March, near the Don Beyer Volvo at the intersection of Shreve Road and Route 7. 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I revisited the design in 2015 as the cover art for my 1st book, called \"Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality\". Also, it serves as the masthead for the Facebook Group \"Kidney Transplants Donors and Recipients\" which proudly represents over 13K worldwide members.\nfigurative recovery\nThere are no comments for Recovery '15. Click here to post the first comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 511, "original_length": 7394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 147.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fivewalls.com/tos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:TZ6BGTIBM4ISDY4VAT2L5A2GE3TZBK7E", "length": 34407, "nlines": 117, "source_domain": "fivewalls.com", "title": "Terms of Service | Fivewalls", "raw_content": "These Terms and Conditions of Use (the \u201cTerms of Use\u201d), together with any documents referred to herein, govern your use of our product and its related sites, services, applications, and tools (collectively, the \u201cServices\u201d), at support@fivewalls.com (the \u201cWebsite\u201d).\nPART A \u2013 INFORMATION ABOUT US\nThe Services are operated by Fivewalls Inc. opa Fivewalls Realty (the \u201cCompany\u201d), a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada. Contact details for the Company can be found at fivewalls.com/contact.\nPART B \u2013 ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF USE\nBy using the Services you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. The word \u201cyou\u201d in these Terms of Use refers to the individual accessing any of the Services offered by the Company. Should you access the Services on the behalf of another legal entity, you hereby warrant that you have the authority, actual or implied, to bind that entity to the Terms of Use.\nIn using the Services you represent and warrant that: (i) you have the capacity to enter into a legal agreement in the province, state, territory or country in which you reside; and (ii) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation in the province, state, territory or country in which you reside.\nIf you do not have the capacity to enter into a legal agreement in the province, state, territory or country in which you reside, you may not use the Services unless a parent or legal guardian agrees and consents to these Terms of Use on your behalf. 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The contract between us will consist of your registration details, these Terms and Conditions, Agent Code of Conduct and our Privacy Policy.\n2. Provision of the Services to Agents\nFollowing registration, the Company will make certain Services available to you. The Services include the ability to have a searchable and viewable public Profile (each, a \u201cProfile\u201d), the ability to communicate with a Consumer through a your email provided to Fivewalls and other messaging systems as deemed appropriate by Fivewalls (each, a \u201cMessage\u201d), and the ability to view Feedback and post a response to any Feedback received as a result of your use of the Services (each, a \u201cResponse\u201d). From time to time, Fivewalls may develop or partner with new technologies as a part of our Services that connects you with Consumers.\nYou must ensure that any information you post to or transmit via the Services including, without limitation, any content contained in the Profile and Messages, complies with the provisions of our \u201c_Acceptable Use Policy_\u201d as set out in Part E below.\nFull details of the services available to Agents will be published on the Website from time to time.\n3. Membership and Payment Terms\nIn order to have your Profile published in the Services and in order to transmit Messages and post a Response, Agents must become a member by purchasing a membership and paying the applicable subscription fees (the \u201cSubscription Fees\u201c). Information about our Subscription Fees will be posted on the Website from time to time.\nBy creating a viewable and searchable Profile or by transmitting Messages to a Consumer, you are entering into a legally binding contract to pay the notified Referral fee (the \u201cReferral Fee\u201d) in the event that you or your business are retained by the Consumer to perform Work. Full details of the applicable Referral Fee will be shown to you prior to [purchasing a membership]. You agree to pay the applicable Referral Fee if you or your business are retained to perform Work regardless of any subsequent interaction with the Consumer.\nUnless otherwise stated, all currency amounts are quoted in the currency of country in which the Work was performed. You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes with a valid payment method by the applicable payment due date. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, the Company may collect the fees owed using other collection mechanisms including, but not limited to, charging other payment methods on file, utilizing collection agencies and retaining legal counsel. You agree to reimburse the Company for any reasonable costs and expenses incurred in the course of collecting accounts past due. Any amount not paid when due shall be subject to late fees at a rate of 2% per month (or the maximum amount allowable by applicable law, whichever is less). Additionally, overdue accounts may be subject to suspension or restrictions from some or all aspects of the Services until payment is made in full.\nIn order to pay for your membership and/or to authorise us to deduct any Subscription and/or Referral Fees, you are required to register a valid form of payment. You hereby accept responsibility for checking the details of your registration and payment methods carefully and for identifying any errors before submitting your registration. The Company is not obligated to provide you with the Services in the event that your payment information is incorrect.\nBy becoming a member you agree that your membership will renew automatically every subscription period and that the Subscription Fee will be automatically charged to your preferred payment method. You are responsible to notify us in writing at least thirty (30) days before the renewal date if you do not wish to wish to renew your membership. You can cancel your subscription at any point by contacting us at support@fivewalls.com\nThe Company will provide the Services to you using reasonable skill and care and in accordance with these Terms of Use.\nBy using the Service, you hereby acknowledge and agree to terms and conditions set forth in the Network Agreement found in Schedule A.\nFurther, if you use the Services as an Agent you acknowledge and agree that the Services the Company provides are subject to the following limitations and disclaimers:\nYou acknowledge and agree that the Company will invite or enable Agents to create Profile on criteria which the Company (in its absolute discretion) may determine from time to time. In addition you acknowledge that the number of Messages which may be transmitted to or from a Consumer in relation to your Profile or Feedback may be limited in number. Accordingly, the Company unless otherwise noted does not provide any guarantee that registering as an Agent will result in Messages or Work even if you have purchased a membership. Nor can the Company guarantee that your use of the Services will result in you receiving any work.\nYou acknowledge and agree that the Company does not check or verify authenticity of a Consumer\u2019s identity, details any Messages that are transmitted or Feedback that is posted. The Company cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of Consumer information, Messages, or Feedback or other Material (as defined below) which is posted by third parties.\nBy registering as an Agent you also understand and agree that Consumers who have used your services will be able to provide Feedback and that the Company may give you a rating based on the Feedback submitted.\nThe Company does not actively monitor, check or verify the Feedback posted. Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that the Company will not under any circumstances be held responsible or liable to you for any Feedback which is posted by any Consumer. Additionally, you acknowledge and agree that the Company is not obliged to become involved or intervene in complaints or disputes concerning Feedback or otherwise, although the Company reserves the right to do so.\nYou may, if you feel that Feedback is misleading or libelous, contact us through the information under the \u201c_Breach of Terms of Use_\u201d provision as set out in Part E below.\nYou agree to abide by the Terms of Use when using the Services.\nYou agree to and accept full and sole responsibility for checking and verifying information about a Consumer that you communicate or otherwise come in contact with through the Services, including any information provided to you by Consumer through a Message, before you agree to undertake any Work for a Consumer. You agree and acknowledge that the Company accepts no responsibility for any terms agreed upon by you and any Consumers that you communicate with or otherwise come in contact with through the Services.\nYou hereby accept responsibility for complying with all applicable laws and regulations in your dealings with Consumers and for the performance and quality of any work which you agree to undertake.\nBy registering as an Agent and by using the Services, you are agreeing to indemnify the Company and hold us harmless from any costs, losses or claims which may result from any information you submit or transmit via the Services or from any work which you agree to perform for any Consumer.\n6. Definitions \u2013 Qualified Lead\nA buyer or seller who engages with Fivewalls via the Fivewalls Application, by phone or some other method of communication with Fivewalls with the intention of buying or selling a property.\nThe above buyer or seller is connected to the Agent by Fivewalls via the Application, by phone or some other method of communication used by Fivewalls.\nFor clarification purposes:\nA Qualified Lead provides no certainty that the buyer or seller will search or buy a property nor, list, or sell their property. The buyer or seller may change their mind at any time.\nA Qualified Lead is not exclusive to one Agent. A buyer or seller may also contact more than one agent who is part of Fivewalls or completely independent. Frequently the buyer or seller does contact more than agent. Therefore a Qualified Lead does not mean only one Agent received it.\nPART E \u2013 GENERAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO ALL USERS\nPart E of these Terms of Use sets out those terms and conditions applicable to all users of the Services including, without limitation, Consumers and Agents.\nIf you register to use the Services, you will have a username (email address) and password (together, \u201cID\u201d). You hereby agree to keep your ID confidential and to refrain from disclosing or sharing it with anyone. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for preventing the unauthorised use of your ID.\nIf you believe there has been a breach of security including, without limitation, the disclosure, theft or unauthorised use of your ID, you must notify us immediately. If the Company reasonably believes that your ID is being used in a manner not permitted by these Terms of Use, the Company reserves the right to suspend and/or block access from your ID until the issue has been resolved.\n2. Contacting Users\nThe Company reserves the right to contact Consumers and Agents through their provided contact information for the purpose of requesting feedback for the Services.\nThe Company will not use the contact information provided by users for any reason other than those set out in the Terms of Use and in the Privacy Policy.\nThe Services allow users to create, edit and submit material for inclusion on or transmission through the Services, including, without limitation, creating Profile, transmitting Messages, posting Feedback and posting Response (collectively, \u201cMaterial\u201d). Although the Company does not seek to monitor or control the submission of Material, the Company does reserve the right to delete, move and edit any Material submitted where, in our sole and absolute discretion, it is considered prudent or necessary to do so.\nYou hereby agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations when using the Services. You also acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Material that you submit for inclusion on or transmission through the Services.\nYou hereby ensure that all Material you transmit through the Services is lawful and honest. In particular, but without limitation, you agree that you will refrain from posting or transmitting through the Services any Material that:\n* is fraudulent, dishonest or misleading;\n* is unlawful, harassing, libellous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, or is otherwise objectionable or breaches any laws;\n* encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise breaches any applicable laws, regulations or code of practice;\n* infringes the copyright or other rights of any third party; or\n* is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses or other malicious software or harmful data).\nAny unauthorized use of the Services is expressly prohibited. The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to immediately suspend or terminate access to the Services should your conduct fail or appear to fail to strictly conform to any of the provisions within the Terms of Use.\nAlthough the Company endeavours to ensure that the information available on or through the Services is correct, up to date and accurate, the Company does not in any way warrant the accuracy and completeness of such material. In particular, but without limitation, please note that the Services permit you to access and receive information supplied by third parties. The third parties submitting this information are responsible for ensuring that any Material submitted is accurate and complies with relevant laws and codes. The Company will not be responsible to you for the conduct of any such third party or for any error or inaccuracy in any Material they supply.\nAlthough the Company aims to offer you the best service possible, the Company makes no promise that the Services will meet your requirements. The Services are offered on an as-is and as available basis. The Company cannot guarantee that the Services will be fault- or virus-free or continuously available. Further, the Company cannot guarantee the timeliness of the Services or the costs of fees associated with their use. Your access to the Services may occasionally be restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. The Company may modify or discontinue the Services, or any part thereof, at any time.\nUNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPANY, OUR REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES WITH WHICH WE DO BUSINESS (OUR \u201cBUSINESS PARTNERS\u201d), BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SERVICES. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, EARNINGS, ANTICIPATED EARNINGS, INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES, PROBLEMS, OR FAULT HOWSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SERVICES.\nUNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPANY, OUR REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY PERSON WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF ANY SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH, ADVERTISED ON, OR PROVIDED BY THE SERVICES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPANY, OUR REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY USERS OF THE SERVICES, ANY AGENTS, CONSUMERS, ADVERTISERS OR SPONSORS OF THE SERVICES.\nWITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING IN THIS SECTION ENTITLED \u201c_LIABILITY_\u201d THE LIMIT ON THE COMPANY\u2019S (INCLUDING OUR REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS) TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY PERSON FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES WILL BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF $10 CANADIAN DOLLARS.\nSHOULD A JURISDICTION THAT DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES APPLY TO THESE TERMS OF USE, THE TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY PERSON IN CONNECTION WITH ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WILL BE LIMITED BY THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH OF THIS SECTION ENTITLED \u201c_LIABILITY._\u201d\nYOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT REGARDLESS OF ANY STATUTE OR LAW TO THE CONTRARY ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES MUST BE FILED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER SUCH A CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISES OR BE PERMANENTLY BARRED.\nTHE FOREGOING SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW.\nYou hereby agree to indemnify the Company, our representatives, affiliates, suppliers and Business Partners, and hold all of us harmless from any and all claims and expenses including, without limitation, attorney\u2019s fees, arising from or relating to: (i) any User-generated content that is contributed to our Website and Services; (ii) any misuse of our Website, the Services, or any content; (iii) any person\u2019s use of any ID provided to you in relation to the Services, regardless of whether such use is authorized by you; (iv) any breach by you of any of these Terms of Use; (v) any breach of contract between you and any other user of the Services, including Consumers and Agents; and (vi) any breach by you of any law or regulation or any rights of any third party.\n8. Term and Termination of Services\nThe Terms of Use will continue to be in effect as long as the Services continue to be provided and/or used by you, unless specifically terminated earlier by us or by you.\nYou may cancel your registration for the Services at any time. In order to cancel your registration and terminate your agreement pursuant to these Terms of Use you must instruct the Company to do so in writing, and send your notice of cancellation to the address set out below under the section \u201cBreach of Terms of Use\u201d.\nThe Company reserves to right to terminate the Services in their entirety at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice. Additionally, the Company may suspend or cancel your registration and/ or terminate your access to the Services at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice. By using the Services you agree that we may terminate or suspend your access to the Services for reasons including, without limitation: (i) notification of any breach of the Terms of Use, or any indication of a clear intent to do so; (ii) any requirement to terminate access under applicable law; or (iii) any such time when the Company ceases to provide or otherwise discontinues the Services in the jurisdiction where you have access to it.\nUpon the cancelling, termination, or expiration of these Terms of Use, you will stop using the Services and shall promptly pay any Subscription and/or Referral Fees that are due or become due on or prior to the date of such cancellation, termination or expiration.\nThe Sections that will survive termination or expiration include but are not limited to the sections entitled: \u201c_Accepting the Terms of Use_\u201d, \u201c_Breach of Terms of Use_\u201d, \u201c_Intellectual Property_\u201d, \u201c_Acceptable Use Policy_\u201d, \u201c_Liability_\u201d, \u201c_Indemnity_\u201d, \u201c_Term and Termination of Services_\u201d (last paragraph), \u201c_General_\u201d, and any provisions related to then unpaid Subscription and/or Success Fees until such time as all such fees have been paid in full.\nThe Company reserves the right to change the Terms of Use from time to time, at any time. The most current version will always be viewable at\nfivewalls.com/tos. If the revision, in our sole discretion, is deemed to be material we will notify you in the application or via e-mail.\nThe Company may, but is not required to, ask you to confirm your consent to any revisions to the Terms of Use. If we do not do so, any continued use of the Services after the changes have been posted and have come into effect will be deemed consent and agreement to abide by the revised Terms of Use. If you do not agree to any revisions made to the Terms of Use you must immediately discontinue the use of the Services and instruct us to disable your ID.\nThe Company reserves the right to change or modify the functionality, features, appearance, or name of any aspect of the Services, including but not limited to the Website and any applications.\n10. Breach of Terms of Use\nIt is the policy of the Company to investigate and respond to any claims or perceived instances of breach of the Terms of Use, including without limitation any intellectual property infringement.\nNotices of alleged breaches should be directed to:\nFivewalls Inc.\nAttention:\tCorporate Secretary\nEmail: support@fivewalls.com\nYou should indicate \"Notice of Breach\" in the subject line of all such notifications and include in each such notice a reasonably detailed description of the action allegedly in breach of the Terms of Use.\nThe content of the Services, including without limitation any and all information, content, links, reports, data, databases, tools, e-mail, code, photographs, pictures, video, postings, graphics, interfaces, web pages, text, files, software, product names, company names, trade-marks, logos, trade names, or other materials contained on or in the Services is the \u201cContent\u201d. The Content includes materials contributed to the Services by or on behalf of the Company and its affiliates, licensors, or Business Partners, and materials contributed to the Services by users (\u201cUser-generated Content\u201d).\nThe Services and all Content, materials, data and other information created by the Company and its affiliates, licensors, or Business Partners, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets and/or other proprietary rights and laws. The Company owns and retains all rights, title, license and interest therein and thereto. Unless expressly authorized by the Company or otherwise permitted in accordance with applicable law, you hereby agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works of any part of the Services or Content. Any access or use of the Services or Content for commercial purposes other than those expressly permitted by the Company is prohibited.\nYou hereby accept that the Company is not liable for any User-Generated Content found on the Services or in the Content. Any content submitted to the Services must be in keeping with the \u201cAcceptable Use Policy\u201d as set out in this Part E. By virtue of submitting User-Generated Content to the Company including, without limitation, any Feedback provided, or otherwise making it available for display through the Services, you are hereby granting the Company a royalty-free, unrestricted, non-exclusive license to utilize, modify, reproduce, distribute, publish, and incorporate the User-Generated Content into any part of our Content or Services.\n12. Privacy and Automatic Information\nOur Services includes areas where you are requested to input personal information. Any information you submit to us shall be subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy. While the Company will make all reasonable efforts to protect the security and privacy of the user data and information collected, the Company does not guarantee the security of any user data.\nThe Company uses \u201ccookies\u201d and other forms of automatic information collection throughout the Services. Further material about automatic information and how the Company uses them can be found in our Privacy Policy. By registering you are consenting to our use of cookies and other forms of automatic information in the ways described in our Privacy Policy.\n13. Anonymized User Data\nIn using the Services you hereby grant the Company full rights to anonymize your data and information so that it does not identify you as a user, identify specific transactions carried out by you, or contain any other confidential user information (\u201cAnonymous Data\u201d). You agree that the Company: (i) has full ownership over Anonymous Data; (ii) has full license to create derivative works and extract information from Anonymous Data; (iii) has full license to combine Anonymous Data (hereafter \u201cAggregate Data\u201d); (iv) has the right to use the Aggregate Data on an Aggregate Basis (as defined below) only in the furtherance of the Company\u2019s business; and (v) may disclose, sell and publish Aggregate Data on an Aggregate Basis to any party through any means.\nThe Company is prohibited from disclosing user information other than on an Aggregate Basis (as defined below), except in accordance with the Privacy Policy or with your express consent.\n\u201cAggregate Basis\u201d refers to the combination of parts of information collected or processed from the user, not containing the user\u2019s name, with other information from any or all other users of the Services including, without limitation, Consumers and Agents. The Company asserts that user information used on an Aggregate Basis will not be used in a manner that discloses any individually identifiable information about the user or any specific transactions in which the user has engaged.\n14. International Data Use\nIn agreeing to these Terms of Use and otherwise utilizing the Services you hereby expressly consent to the transmission, collection, storage, processing and use of your User Data, User Content and Analytics within, from and to the United States, Canada, and to the country where you are located (if not in the United States or Canada).\nThese Terms of Use serve as the complete and exclusive agreement between you and the Company. These Terms of Use supersede and replace any and all previous discussions, negotiations, understandings and agreements, written or oral, regarding any or all of the subject matter herein. No term of this Terms of Use will be deemed waived by reason of any previous failure to enforce it. No term may be waived except in writing, signed by the party waiving enforcement.\nAny provision deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be enforced to the extent permissible. No provision deemed invalid either in part or whole shall affect the validity of the remaining provisions within the Terms of Use.\nExcept as otherwise expressly provided by these Terms of Use the Company will not be held liable for failure or delay in performance under these Terms of Use due to any cause beyond our reasonable control.\nThe Company may assign these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, without notice to you at any time. Your rights under these Terms of Use are in no way transferrable, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent.\nAll notices regarding the Terms of Use and the Services will be provided in writing by e-mail or by post using the contact information provided by you upon registration. Notice will be deemed given one (1) business day after e-mail transmission from the Company to you, or two (2) business days after the date of posting.\nThe headings used in the Terms of Use are for reference purposes only and have no legal or contractual significance. No provision of the Terms of Use shall be interpreted against a party merely because that party or its legal representative drafted said provision.\nIf a discrepancy is found in any translation of these Terms of Use then the English language version shall prevail.\nThese Terms and Conditions will be subject to the laws of the Province of Ontario, and the laws of Canada applicable in connection therewith, and you hereby irrevocably agree to the jurisdiction of the Ontario courts to resolve any disputes between us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 34982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://floathouse.ca/blog-archive/how-we-create-false-and-true-beliefs", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GLKJF2BZSAXJPEPWYYRIGFWKB5HOVMEZ", "length": 11554, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "floathouse.ca", "title": "How We Create False and True Beliefs - Float House", "raw_content": "How We Create False and True Beliefs\nAs anyone who floats, meditates, or practices yoga knows, our perception apparatus is imperfect. While it seems like we directly perceive reality, the truth is that we have second-hand perception (at best). This allows room for much error.\nThere is objective truth. But we only see tiny slices of it. Then we layer on complexities like our personal story and our emotions. Our initial limitations combined with the complexity we add means that our sense-making systems often fail to provide accurate pictures of reality.\nThis is a problem, because the more accurately we perceive reality the more likely we are to find success in whatever endeavor we pursue. More importantly, we'll just be happier. For example, can you imagine how hard it would be to have a healthy romantic relationship if you believed you were unloveable?\nBut how do we get better at perceiving reality itself? Well, there are several approaches. In fact, it could be argued that any personal development, self-care, or therapeutic program should help us do this. No doubt, you've had direct perceptions of reality while 'in the tank.'\nSo, to perceive reality more accurately, continue to float and/or do whatever other modality you're already doing.\nBut in this article, we'll discuss some ways to clean up our thinking, focusing on an approach made popular by one of the most legendary inventors and entrepreneur's of all time -- Elon Musk.\nIt's called 'first principles thinking.' But before we can dive into Elon's approach, we must first consider the normal mode of thinking, perception, and sense-making that we use.\nWhat Do We Usually Do?\nMost of us reason by analogy most of the time. This is a mental shortcut that saves us energy and works most of the time. But relying too much on analogous thinking can also lead to trouble.\nPerhaps the best way to describe this typical approach is through an example:\nImagine an 8-year-old girl who loves to sing. After singing along with every song from the moment she could talk, this little girl eventually asks her parents if she can take singing lessons. Her parents are thrilled and oblige her, of course.\nShe starts lessons and excels. Near the end of her first semester, her teacher informs her of an upcoming recital. The little girl doesn't really know what that means. She's small and hasn't experienced it before. But the teacher and her parents tell her that it means she's going to sing her song in front of an audience.\nShe's excited, because she loves singing and wants to show everyone her lovely voice. She starts practicing for her performance and as she practices makes mistakes. But she still enjoys the process because she loves to sing.\nOne night while laying in her bed, she starts thinking about her upcoming performance. She then remembers the mistakes she made during practice. For the first time it dawns on her that she might make a mistake during her recital.\nShe gets nervous and comes to her parents' room distraught. They let her know that yes it's possible, but that it wouldn't be the end of the world if it happened. They also tell her that the best way to make sure it doesn't happen is to practice.\nShe practices diligently and when the big moment comes, she does very well. She feels a sense of relief and happiness. The next semester rolls around and she goes through the same roller coaster of emotions. She continues to sing. But as each recital approaches she feels anxiety about the performance.\nIn her third year (6th semester) of singing she takes her parents aside one day and says: \"Mom, Dad, I don't want to do singing lessons anymore.\"\nThey are puzzled. They know how much she loves singing and they are so proud about how far her voice has developed. They tell her they love her and that they support her no matter what.\nThen the parents go away, have a private conversation, and try to understand. They're genuinely puzzled, so they start asking each other questions. They soon piece together a pattern and realize that it's not the singing but the performance anxiety that the little girl wants to avoid.\nSo they have a talk with their daughter and ask her: \"Are you sure you want to quit singing. Or, are you just nervous about the recital?\"\nShe smiles sheepishly, realizing that her parents saw the truth directly, and she answers, \"Yes.\"\nThe parents reassure the little girl of two things, a) that she can continue singing lessons without performing if it causes too much stress, and that b) the fear of performance is temporary but that she'll feel better by overcoming it and doing her best.\nThe little girl feels enormous relief and starts asking her parents how to overcome the fear. They work on some strategies. She realizes that the performance isn't so bad. And that if she's going to learn to sing so beautifully she should share it with the world.\nThe little girl was about to make a life-altering decision based on an inaccurate picture of reality. She took it as fact that she'd necessarily feel discomfort and pain from singing. She had a false belief based on an analogy that said, \"Singing is painful, so I want to stop.\"\nAn Iconic Example of Analogy vs. First Principles\nReasoning by analogy works in general, which is why it persists. For the little girl, her false belief would have created temporary relief from pain. But seeing the truth more accurately helped her progress as a strong, independent person.\nAnalogous reasoning generally allows us to build a workable business or maintain a good job through incremental growth. Anyone old enough will remember that Nokia and Motorola were once the world's top cell phone manufacturers. Reasoning by analogy allowed them to compete with each other and earn increasing market share. They made phones sleeker, sexier, or smaller and we all loved them.\nThen along came a series of people and companies, most notably Steve Jobs and Apple. Instead of reasoning by analogy to make a slightly better cell phone, they went back to first principles.\nAnd, in doing so, these new innovators invented a new type of device, the smartphone. They didn't ask themselves how they could make a better cell phone. Instead, they asked what was possible in place of a cell phone. Yes, making phone calls and beautiful design were both included. But those old functions and goals were a mere component of this altogether new device.\nThis is exponential growth. And it never could have happened by reasoning from analogy.\nUnderstanding First Principles' Thinking\nSwitching from reasoning by analogy to reasoning from first principles changes what's possible. The lens of possibility for analogous thinking is what's been done before but better. But the lens of possibility for first principles thinking is what's physically possible.\nReality itself is the only limitation.\nThe man who brought this term to popular attention is none other than the 'real life Tony Stark.'\nAt age 46, Musk has done, invented, innovated, and created more incredible things than practically anyone in history. He's right up there with Thomas Edison and the other greats. Calling him 'the real life Tony Stark' seems fitting. His abilities are almost fictional, beyond the abilities of normal people.\nStories have emerged about just how he does it, too. As mentioned in a previous FloatHouse article, Elon has incredible ability to think deeply about problems.\nBut the best description of his success comes from his own words. In an interview with Kevin Rose, Musk said:\n\"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So the normal way we conduct our lives is, we reason by analogy. We are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing\u2026 with slight iterations on a theme. And it's \u2026 mentally easier to reason by analogy rather than from first principles. First principles is kind of a physics way of looking at the world, and what that really means is, you \u2026 boil things down to the most fundamental truths and say, \u201cokay, what are we sure is true?\u201d \u2026 and then reason up from there. That takes a lot more mental energy.\"\nIn the example of the little girl above, she started with an assumption that singing was the cause of her emotional suffering. Of course, first principles' thinking is difficult. We wouldn't expect a small child to understand this.\nBut, with the help of her parents, she was able to break it down to what she knew to be true. And what she knew was that she loved singing. She learned that her anxiety was coming from the recital, not from singing. This empowered her to make a different decision about her life.\nNow imagine solving an Elon Musk level problem using the same first principles mechanism.\nA Real Life Example of Elon Musk's First Principles' Thinking\nOne of the reasons we all know Elon is because of his work trying to make humans an interplanetary species. His vision is to build a one million person strong colony on Mars that will become self-sustaining.\nHe didn't ask himself what was possible based on what already exists. Instead he asked himself what he wanted to accomplish then sought to understand what was possible based on reality itself.\nPlease understand how different this is than starting from an existing belief or assumption.\nStarting from his goal, Elon then sought to identify the roadblocks to achieving that goal. So, he began to research the cost of rocket flights and dove headfirst into the study of rocketry.\nThe first thing that became obvious to him was that it was expensive -- way too expensive. At the existing cost of space flight, he'd never reach his goal. To get a million people on Mars, he'd have to create a path for Mars colonists to self-fund their trip, which would be impossible with the existing cost of space travel.\nThe current cost of a single trip to space was in the range of $100 million dollars.\nSo Elon went all the way back to first principles and broke down the very components of rockets. He asked himself how these things are actually made. And he discovered that the cost was nowhere near $100 million dollars.\nAs it turns out, what cost so much money was the fact that rockets were single use. Before him, rockets were never reused! Imagine if Boeing 747s were thrown away after every flight. Not many people could afford to fly.\nElon soon realized that he'd have to build reusable rockets. So, he returned to first principles. Is there anything in physics that would make it impossible to reuse rockets? No. If the laws of physics don't prevent it, then the technology can either be found, innovated, or invented.\nToday, SpaceX is consistently reusing rockets. No doubt the technology still has a long way to go, but he's already brought down the cost of space travel significantly and you have to believe he will soon reach his goal of a 10x reduction in the cost of space travel.\nWhen Should We Use First Principles Thinking\nIs there anywhere you could reason from first principles instead of analogy?\nYour own life might not be as dramatic as that of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. But might it not be as dramatic as the little singing girl?\nWhere do perceive reality through a cloudy lens? And what analogies are you using that aren't serving you or are keeping you stuck in an incremental growth pattern? Ask yourself these difficult questions and you will be on your way to a more accurate picture of reality.\nNewer PostThe Greatest Basketball Coach of All-Time (and Non-Attachment)\nOlder PostThe Possibilities and Limitations of Intuition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 13128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/28/patriot-missiles-are-made-in-america-and-fail-everywhere/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DLFQKWS4SZAOQKLNIIPOPGMQFAEWVS7Y", "length": 7263, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "foreignpolicy.com", "title": "Patriot Missiles Are Made in America and Fail Everywhere \u2013 Foreign Policy", "raw_content": "Voice: Patriot Missiles Are Made in America and Fail Everywhere Patriot Missiles Are Made in America and Fail...\nThe evidence is in: the missile defense system that the United States and its allies rely on is a lemon.\nA Patriot Surface-to Air missile system displayed at the US airbase in Osan, south of Seoul on Oct. 12, 2008. (KIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nOn March 25, Houthi forces in Yemen fired seven missiles at Riyadh. Saudi Arabia confirmed the launches and asserted that it successfully intercepted all seven.\nThis wasn\u2019t true. It\u2019s not just that falling debris in Riyadh killed at least one person and sent two more to the hospital. There\u2019s no evidence that Saudi Arabia intercepted any missiles at all. And that raises uncomfortable questions not just about the Saudis, but about the United States, which seems to have sold them \u2014 and its own public \u2014 a lemon of a missile defense system.\nSocial media images do appear to show that Saudi Patriot batteries firing interceptors. But what these videos show are not successes. One interceptor explodes catastrophically just after launch, while another makes a U-turn in midair and then comes screaming back at Riyadh, where it explodes on the ground.\nIt is possible, of course, that one of the other interceptors did the job, but I\u2019m doubtful. That is because my colleagues at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and I closely examined two different missile attacks on Saudi Arabia from November and December 2017.\nIn both cases, we found that it is very unlikely the missiles were shot down, despite officials\u2019 statements to the contrary. Our approach was simple: We mapped where the debris, including the missile airframe and warhead, fell and where the interceptors were located. In both cases, a clear pattern emerged. The missile itself falls in Riyadh, while the warhead separates and flies over the defense and lands near its target. One warhead fell within a few hundred meters of Terminal 5 at Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid International Airport. The second warhead, fired a few weeks later, nearly demolished a Honda dealership. In both cases, it was clear to us that, despite official Saudi claims, neither missile was shot down. I am not even sure that Saudi Arabia even tried to intercept the first missile in November.\nThe point is there is no evidence that Saudi Arabia has intercepted any Houthi missiles during the Yemen conflict. And that raises a disquieting thought: Is there any reason to think the Patriot system even works?\nIn fairness, the system deployed in Saudi Arabia \u2014 the Patriot Advanced Capability-2 or PAC-2 \u2014 is not well designed to intercept the Burkan-2 missiles that the Houthis are firing at Riyadh. The Burkan-2 flies around 600 miles and appears to have a warhead that separates from the missile itself.\nBut I am deeply skeptical that Patriot has ever intercepted a long-range ballistic missile in combat \u2014 at the least, I have yet to see convincing unclassified evidence of a successful Patriot intercept. During the 1991 Gulf War, the public was led to believe the that the Patriot had near-perfect performance, intercepting 45 of 47 Scud missiles. The U.S. Army later revised that estimate down to about 50 percent \u2014 and even then, it expressed \u201chigher\u201d confidence in only about one-quarter of the cases. A pesky Congressional Research Service employee noted that if the Army had correctly applied its own assessment methodology consistently, the number would be far lower. (Reportedly that number was one \u2014 as in one lousy Scud missile downed.)\nAccording to a House Committee on Government Operations investigation, there was not enough evidence to conclude that there had been any intercepts. \u201cThere is little evidence to prove that the Patriot hit more than a few Scud missiles launched by Iraq during the Gulf War,\u201d a summary of the investigations concluded dryly, \u201cand there are some doubts about even these engagements.\u201d\nThis report \u2014 which called on the Pentagon to declassify more information about the performance of the Patriot and request an independent evaluation of the program \u2014 never saw the light of day. A fierce lobbying campaign by the Army and Raytheon spiked it, save for a summary.\nAgainst that background, you can imagine that I was pretty skeptical of the Pentagon\u2019s claims that the Patriot shot down Iraqi ballistic missiles in 2003 \u2014 claims that have generally been accepted uncritically. And when I heard that missile defenses were protecting Riyadh, I wanted to see for myself \u2014 and, unfortunately, I wasn\u2019t surprised by what I found.\nBut if the Patriot system doesn\u2019t work, why would the United States or the Saudi government claim otherwise?\nAt some level, we should be sympathetic. The basic function of a government is to provide security for its citizens. There is enormous pressure on the Saudi government to show that it is taking steps to defend its citizens. By asserting successful intercepts \u2014 assertions that are uncritically spread in headlines \u2014 the Saudi government is able to present itself as fulfilling its obligations to protect its population. And, like in 1991, the perception that a defense is working helps keep a lid on regional tensions. Just as false claims about missile defenses helped keep Israel from retaliating against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, perhaps the fable that Riyadh is defended makes it easier to ignore the fact that Iranian proxies are firing Iranian missiles into Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital.\nBut my colleagues and I are independent analysts, not government functionaries. Our obligation is to the truth \u2014 and in this case, the truth seems to be that these systems are not working. The danger here is that leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United States will come to believe their own nonsense. Consider this: Despite that the fact that anonymous U.S. officials have confirmed that there was no successful intercept in November 2017, President Donald Trump had a very different impression: \u201cOur system knocked the missile out of the air,\u201d Trump told reporters the following day. \u201cThat\u2019s how good we are. Nobody makes what we make, and now we\u2019re selling it all over the world.\u201d This is a theme Trump has returned to again and again. When asked about the threat from North Korea\u2019s nuclear-armed missiles, Trump said, \u201cWe have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air 97 percent of the time, and if you send two of them, it\u2019s going to get knocked down.\u201d Trump has repeatedly given every indication that he believes missile defenses will protect the United States.\nThat\u2019s dangerous, particularly at a moment when the Trump administration seems poised to collapse the nuclear deal with Iran and send Tehran down the same path that North Korea followed to a nuclear capability that can strike U.S. partners in the region and ultimately the United States itself. And so we need to tell the truth: Missile defense systems do not represent a solution to the challenge posed by growing missile capabilities or an escape from vulnerability in the nuclear age. There is no magic wand that can \u201cknock down\u201d all the missiles aimed at the United States or its allies. The only solution is to persuade countries not to build these weapons in the first place. If we fail, defenses won\u2019t save us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 12784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forensicstats.org/blog/2018/01/10/look-inside-csi-effect/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:08Z", "digest": "sha1:K7WIRMGABMYALDF2FKWAZCQKGOTOLX3X", "length": 3764, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "forensicstats.org", "title": "A Look Inside the CSI Effect - Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence", "raw_content": "A Look Inside the CSI Effect2018-01-102018-01-12https://forensicstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/csafe-logo-90.pngCenter for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidencehttps://forensicstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/csi-effect.jpg200px200px\nAre crime scene dramas to blame for unrealistic perceptions of forensic science in the general public?\nCBS launched the first episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the year 2000, and suddenly forensic science was the latest craze. What was once a foreign field to many Americans was now at the forefront of our nation\u2019s curiosity. Nearly 20 years later, viewers are still on the edge of their seats, captivated by stories of crime.\nTwo important questions to consider:\nHow are crime dramas influencing real life investigations?\nWhile it may come as a surprise to the everyday citizen, the forensic science community wants you to know that the answers are Hollywood is usually wrong, and television influences public perception more than you might think.\nForensic Science: Silver Screen vs. Real World\nCSI, Law and Order and Bones\u2019 investigators solve murders, robberies and more in merely 60 minutes. Evidence collection proceeds without difficulty. Flashy technology analyzes evidence with ease. Suspects inevitably incriminate themselves. Juries seem to understand expert witness testimony. The evidence positively does or does not match a suspect. The court swiftly reaches a verdict. Justice always prevails.\nActual cases are drastically different from fictional portrayals. Determining specific events leading up to a crime and bringing the correct person to justice is not nearly as simple as on CSI.\nReal crime scenes are messy and evidence can be hard to come by. In reality, DNA is not always present as crime dramas would have you believe. Many crime dramas highlight sophisticated analysis techniques, but resources may not be available or it may not even be appropriate for certain types of evidence. In the courtroom, expert witnesses can struggle to convey evidence analysis results in ways that make sense to a non-expert audience, leaving jurors confused and unsure how to proceed. Often lawyers have to work extra hard to explain that conclusions about suspect identification are not always definitive.\nImpacts in the courtroom: The CSI Effect\nExaggerated portrayals of forensic science on television may lead to what is known as The CSI Effect. First reported by USA Today in 2004, it refers to the effect forensic science television programs potentially have on jurors.\nWhile research has not definitively proven the CSI Effect, trends show that today\u2019s jurors are seeking more unmistakable proof. Many jurors are looking for sophisticated science to play a role in every trial, and find circumstantial evidence and eyewitness testimony less reliable.\nCrime dramas like CSI suggest that deciding if evidence matches a suspect or not is always conclusive. In reality, probability forms the basis of evidence analysis. This can be hard for jurors to understand.\nMany feel that the CSI Effect may be increasing the burden of proof in the courtroom. However, the forensic science community has a unique opportunity to turn public fascination of the criminal justice system into opportunities for training and education.\nForensic scientists, lawyers and judges are looking to researchers like the CSAFE team and NIST to find the best tools for explaining the weight of evidence to non-expert audiences. Together, we can help the public recognize fact from fiction and bring the right person to justice.\nLearn more about how CSAFE research is increasing the scientific foundations of forensic evidence.\nOpen Source Software: Applications in Forensics and The CourtroomForensic Science, Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 351, "original_length": 28564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fourfourmag.com/alcohol-soon-banned-flights-ibiza/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:08Z", "digest": "sha1:X4BUUB5QR5DGN3M22R4EF37W5KNUOTTV", "length": 1452, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "fourfourmag.com", "title": "Alcohol could soon be banned on flights to Ibiza - Four/Four Magazine", "raw_content": "Alcohol could soon be banned on flights to Ibiza\nChecking yourself in online while in the airport drinking a pint could soon be a thing of the past. Authorities have announced that an alcohol ban could soon be enforced in order to tackle \u201canti-social tourism\u201d.\n\u201cWe ask the central government and the European commission to ban the consumption of alcoholic drinks on flights and in airports,\u201d said Pilar Carbonell, in charge of tourism for the local government of the Balearic Islands.\nThis all comes after the Manchester Evening News reported that Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil police force had to board a Ryanair flight in Palma to drag away three drunk men who had brawled all the way from Manchester.\nThe Guardian reported that the statement did not say if the local authorities were asking for alcohol to be banned on all EU flights, or only those going to the Balearic Islands.\nRyanair has banned bringing alcohol on flights since June 2015 in bid to increase safety for both the staff and passengers of the airline.\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it backed attempts to deal with drink-related problems on flights.\n\u201cIt is actually a specific criminal offence to be drunk on board an aircraft, and also to refuse to comply with instructions from the captain,\u201d a CAA statement said.\n\u201cWe support UK airlines\u2019 efforts to deal with disruptive passengers to ensure the safety of all those on board, and welcome criminal prosecutions where appropriate.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fourwindstours.com/student-group-tours/international-student-travel/latin-america-trips/argentina-and-brazil-trips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7AKH5LBCV64ZRFPFTEBIAJJOOGHBMAKK", "length": 2174, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "fourwindstours.com", "title": "School Trips to Argentina & Brazil | Tours of Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro & More", "raw_content": "School Trips to Argentina and Brazil\nThere are many reasons to visit Argentina, the most populous country in South America and largest Spanish-speaking country on earth. World famous Buenos Aires is a beautiful city filled with beautiful people. In the San Telmo neighborhood, where the Tango was born, students can see the Plaza de Mayo and the \u201cCasa Rosada\u201d Government House. Drive along Avenida 9 Julio, the widest avenue in the world. Visit the Recolleta Cemetery where Eva Peron is buried. School groups can visit museums and the famous Colon Opera House. Outside of the capital, take an excursion to an Argentine Estancia to enjoy a traditional barbeque with folklore music. You may even want to include a visit Uruguay by hydrofoil boat. If you do, don\u2019t miss an excursion to the reknowned Iguaz\u00fa Falls.\nBrazil is the largest country in Latin America, spanning remote Amazonian rain forests and boisterous cities on the Atlantic Ocean. Home to the Summer Olympics in 2016, Rio de Janeiro is nothing if not exhilarating. Flanked by gorgeous mountains, white sandy beaches and verdant rainforest, Rio occupies one of the most spectacular settings of any metropolis in the world. No school trip to Rio would be complete without visiting the huge, iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks the city. Sao Paolo is the largest city in Brazil and the financial hub of the country. Most of the wealthiest people live in Sao Paolo, and their patronage has fostered impressive cultural and art scenes.\n5 nights in Buenos Aires\n1 night at Iguaz\u00fa Falls\nCity tour of Buenos Aires, crossing the 9th of July Avenue, Santa Fe Avenue, Government House, National Congress, Col\u00f3n Theatre, Puerto Madero, San Telmo's Neighborhood and La Boca's Neighborhood\nVisit the Iguaz\u00fa Falls National Park and observe the Argentine Iguaz\u00fa Falls\nTour to Fiesta Faucha Estancia to learn about gaucho traditions and take part in them\nTransportation and professional guides\nTour Brazil & Argentina\n9 nights in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro\nSee sights in San Telmo such as Plaza de Mayo, Colon Opera House, visit to Argentine Estancia..and much more\nExcursion to San Telmo, Colonia in Uruguay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 374, "original_length": 9395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gbkcc.com/2018/12/have-we-forgotten-anyone-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JKKU34O7IRFCKT4C2UZBSIUVH7LZ6YOX", "length": 2814, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "gbkcc.com", "title": "Have we forgotten anyone? - Christian Concepts", "raw_content": "Photo by Walter Chavez\nAnother holiday season is upon us and many are absorbed with Christmas shopping and looking for that gift that is just right for each one on our list. As one grows older the list seems to grow longer.\nIt is easy to allow our focus to shift from the real meaning of Christmas.\nEach year I am reminded of how the hustle and bustle of shopping can cause our attention to focus more on things than on people. It is very easy to allow our focus to shift from what the real meaning of Christmas is to things that are far less important.\nMost of you probably do not know who Hugh Haynie is, or should I say was; he died in 1999. Hugh was a political cartoonist. His cartoons could be seen in the Louisville Courier-Journal on the editorial page. But his work was often published in the newspapers of America because Hugh had a way of making his point very clearly in the cartoons he drew.\nI grew up in Jacksonville, FL reading the Florida Times-Union. Every year at Christmas time one of Hugh\u2019s cartoons ran in the Florida Times-Union that even as a boy touched my heart with its simple truth. I think it was published in the Christmas Eve edition, but I began to look for it every year.\nA Christmas cartoon\nThe cartoon pictures a man going over what must be his Christmas list sitting at the bottom of a small hill of wrapped presents. In the top left portion of the cartoon is an artistic rendering of the face of Christ superimposed on the scene. The caption reads, \u201cNow let\u2019s see. Have I forgotten anyone?\u201d\nIt is a poignant reminder that during this time of the year that we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, our busy shopping schedule and hectic preparations for the big day can cause us to lose sight of the \u201cReason for the season.\u201d\nThat first Christmas was not celebrated then as it is now, nor attended with the same attention it receives today. In the grand scheme of things the birth of Christ went relatively unnoticed. The nature of Christ has not changed in over two millennia, He did not force His way into the inn then and He does not force His way into our thoughts and hearts today.\nWill His birth go unnoticed?\nIf we are not careful His birth and its significance will go, even amid the lights and festivities, as unnoticed today as it did then. Now let\u2019s see. Have we forgotten anyone?\n\u201cJoseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child.\n\u201cWhile they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn,\u201d Luke 2:4-7.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://germanna.org/2014/04/10/1942-book-fisher-genealogical-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5KWXYZRGQDJN3TSZVC4G2DRZAMSKTAKZ", "length": 123771, "nlines": 2155, "source_domain": "germanna.org", "title": "1942 Book: Fisher Genealogical History", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Books / 1942 Book: Fisher Genealogical History\nA reader who is a direct descendant of Ludwig Fisher sent the Germanna Foundation a link to an online 1942 book by Gertrude Fisher Harding called, \u201cFisher Genealogical History.\u201d\nYou can read the book in various format by clicking on this link or view it here.\nBelow is the text format to help with keyword searching when you are doing genealogical research.\nFisher Genealogical History\nCompiled by Gertrude Fisher Harding\nThis short genealogical history of the Fisher family was under- taken primarily for my children. It has been the intention to bring together genealogical material not already assembled, although much valuable work has been done previously in separate lines. However, diligent research was required, and numerous historical accounts of immigration, settlements of frontiers, and county histories have been carefully read, many court records deciphered, and hundreds of letters written.\nMost sincere thanks are expressed to those members of other branches of the family who have lent aid so generously.\nNumbers placed before names of individuals are for convenience and do not indicate the number of descendants, many of whom have not been included. A page number placed in parentheses at the left margin before a name indicates where the short biographical sketch of that individual may be found.\nG. F. H.\nSEBASTIAN FISHER, a native of Germany, with his wife Susanna and their two small children, embarked for England at Rotterdam, Holland, on July 28, 1708. Just how long they had been in Holland is uncertain, but they embarked with a group of emigrants from devastated regions of Germany, mostly from the Palatinate which suffered even more than other regions from the terrible scourges of wars that Germany had been engaged in for a long time. Queen Anne of England invited these people to go to England, and promised that they should be sent later to America to settle in new homes. It was in one of the boatloads of these Germans that Sebastian left for England.\nThe case of Sebastian Fisher was different from the majority\nof these emigrants, although some were similar. He was a refugee,\naccording to tradition that seems to have some foundation in fact,\nwho was obliged to leave Germany, losing his title and estate, because\nhe had become involved in the poaching laws. However, there was\nmore to it all than a mere infringement of poaching laws. He was\nheir to a vast estate on which the more modern part of Hannover has\nsince been built. His family was important enough in political affairs\nfor him to incur the displeasure of those in power with whom he\nhad disagreed politically. Hence, the necessity for leaving his home-\nland with only what means he could carry with him.\nSebastian Fisher was a man of good intellect, and he had received\na good education from the standpoint of those days, probably at a\nGerman University. He possessed a great amount of courage and\ntenacity of purpose. Hardships and misery visited all the emigrants\nalike, for there was inadequate provision made for them in England,\nand it was almost as bad after they arrived in America a year later.\nOn the 13th or 14th of June. 1709, Sebastian and Susanna Fisher\nreached New York with only one of their children surviving. It was\nnecessary for all these immigrants to have shelter provided and\nrations of food and clothing until they could get established and\nprovide these things for themselves. There were others among them\nbeside Sebastian Fisher who had money with them, but supplies\ncould not be bought in those days. Many were given work on a pro-\nject established for them, but trouble came almost at once between the\nGermans and the English Colonists. Small villages were built along\nthe Hudson River on the Livingston Manor in which to house the\nGerman immigrants, and in 1711 Sebastian Fisher lived at Annsburg,\none of the villages. Later he was at Berne, N. Y. He was one of the\nmen who engaged in trying to get justice for his countrymen. Sev-\neral excellent accounts of the German immigrants have been con-\nsulted by the compiler, among them, Early Eighteenth Century\nPalatine Emigration by W. A. Knittle, and Oscar Rutins\u2019 The Ger-\nman and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania : A Study of\nthe So-called Pennsylvania Dutch.\nBefore 1717 Sebastian Fisher and others purchased and paid for\nland in the Schoharie Valley and removed to Gerlachsdorf, which\nwas at first called Neu Cassell. Cassell in Germany was at that time\nthe seat of one branch of this Fisher family to which Sebastian\nFisher belonged. \u201cDeutches Geschlecter Buch,\u201d a compilation of\nmany volumes, states that members of this family were emigrants at an\nearly date to North America, it being the only Fisher family of which\nthis fact was recorded. They bore the same Christian names as did\nthe early American branch, Sebastian and Adam, for instance, and\nwere men of higher learning, holding responsible positions. It may\nbe of interest to note here that at the beginning of this century a\nwell-to-do descendant of Sebastian Fisher sent a lawyer to Hannover,\nGermany, to look into a supposed fortune due the American branch.\nNeedless to say the trip bore no results except to verify some of the\nThe German immigrants who purchased land in the Schoharie\nValley in New York state could get no title to their land for the\nreason that the English had no title from the Indians. Since the\nimmigrants had paid their money in good faith they were angry and\ndisgusted when this became known to them.\nIn the spring of 1723 fifteen families, including Sebastian Fisher,\ndecided to go to Pennsylvania, hoping for better treatment than they\nhad received in New York. They traveled across the Schoharie Valley\nto the Susquehanna River. There they built boats and rafts, and with\ntheir families proceeded down the Susquehanna to the mouth of\nSwatara creek, a distance of about 150 miles. Ascending the Swatara\nthey crossed over the watershed into Tulpehocken Valley which is\nabout seventeen miles northwest of the present city of Reading, Pa.\nHere they prospered and others joined them, from New York and\nfrom Germany. At first there was trouble in procuring title to their\nland, and a petition is recorded in Pennsylvania Archives regarding\nthe matter. To this petition Sebastian Fisher signed his name in\nLatin. Although he was taxed in 1725, it is doubtful if Sebastian\nFisher ever received title to any land in Pennsylvania. Dr. Charles A.\nFisher, Selinsgrove, Pa., genealogist for the Fisher and many other\nPennsylvania families, states that he has searched thoroughlv and has\nfound no record of title.\nSebastian Fisher helped to found two of the oldest Lutheran\nchurches in Pennsylvania. Reeds, or Reids, Lutheran Church situated\nabout two miles east of the present town of Stouchsburg. and the\nTulpehocken Lutheran Church, now Christ Church, about a mile\nsouthwest of Stouchsburg. Reeds Church was founded in 1727, (and\nin 1730 they built a log schoolhouse near the church and hired a\nschoolmaster). When the Reeds, who were of the fifteen families\nwho came from N. Y. began to lean toward the Moravian doctrine,\nSebastian Fisher headed a list of 150 members who withdrew from\nReeds Church in 1743 and founded the Tulpehocken Church. Se-\nbastian\u2019s name was signed to many petitions \u2014 for roads, and for\nother improvements. Sometimes he signed as \u201cSebastine Piscator.\u201d\nHis name has not been found in the Pennsylvania records since\n1743. Dr. Charles A. Fisher who has so kindly furnished so much\nmaterial on the Pennsylvania history of the family thinks that he\nmay have migrated with one of his sons or perhaps returned to New\nYork state. The compiler offers the suggestion that he may have gone\nto Virginia. The opportunity has not come during any one of the\ncompiler\u2019s several trips east to search the o\u2019.d Fisher graveyards in\nVirginia, but there is some likelihood that his grave may be found\nNo record of Susanna Fisher seems to have been found, but she\nbore one child after the removal to Tulpehocken, Pa.\n(7)2. Ludwig (Lewis or Lawrence) Fisher, b. probably ca. 1706;\nd. Jul. 1773; m. Barbara Blankenbaker ;\n3. George Ulrich Fisher, b. ca. 1712; d. 1770; m.\n4. Peter Fisher, b. Oct. 4, 1714; d. ; m. Dorothea Ball;\n(10) 5. John Jacob Fisher, b. ca. 1720; d. 1803; m. Mary Elizabeth\nFrederick ;\n(11)6. Ann Elizabeth Fisher, b. ca. 1722 ; d. 1777 ; m. John Anspach ;\n(11)7. John Adam Fisher, b. ca. 1724; d. March, 1783.\nLudwig (Lewis) Fisher (Sebastian) whose name seems to have\nbeen erroneously translated Lawrence in some instances, was, ac-\ncording to evidence from widely separated sources, the one surviving\nchild of Sebastian and Susanna Fisher when they arrived in America.\nMr. Charles B. Heinemann who furnished a very substantial portion\nto the compiler of the material on this branch, states that he hasn\u2019t\nthe slightest doubt that Ludwig Fisher and Adam Fisher of Hamp-\nshire County, Va. (proven to have been a son of Sebastian) were\nof the same family, but that he has no proof that they were. Mem-\nbers of the compiler\u2019s family, which is that of Adam of Hampshire\nCounty. Va., have been closely associated with proven descendants\nof Ludwig, or Lewis, Fisher in Missouri for more than one hun-\ndred years, and there has never been a doubt that they were all de-\nscended from the same immigrant ancestor.\nLawrence Fisher appears on the tax list in Tulpehocken, Pa. in\n1732 with Sebastian Fisher, but in no published history has the com-\npiler found the German equivalent, Lorenz. Lawrence and Ludwig\nmust have been the same person ; it cannot be otherwise, for on the\nSubsistance List in New York state in 1717, Sebastian and Susanna\nFisher are credited with only three children, who were \u2014 the eldest,\nborn in Germany; George Ulrich Fisher, born in N. Y. in 1712, died\nin Berks Co.. Pa. 1770; Peter Fisher, born Oct. 4, 1714, near Berne,\nN. Y. Furthermore, from Morton L. Montgomery\u2019s Historical and\nBiographical Annals of Berks County, Pa. is quoted: \u201cIt is traditional\nthat this branch of the Fisher family had its origin in Sebastian\nFisher who in 1723 * * * came from Schoharie Valley, N. Y. and\nsettled in Tulpehocken and Heidelberg townships. In 1759 these\nFishers were taxables in Heidelberg township ; Jacob who paid\ntwenty pounds, Ulrich who paid five pounds, and Adam and Ludwig\nwho paid one pound each; and from one of these ancestors * * *.\u201d\nLudwig Fisher was then a resident of Virginia, and may have been\na non-resident land owner.\nShortly before 1736 Ludwig Fisher was married to Anna Barbara\nBlankenbaker, daughter of Balthaser Blankenbaker. The Blanken-\nbakers were recent arrivals from Germany. They, with the Garrs\nand others, migrated to Spottsylvania Co., Va., and settled on ad-\njoining lands at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and between\nthe Robinson and Rapidan Rivers, in what is now Madison Co., Va.\nRecords in Spottsylvania, Orange, and Culpeper Counties con-\ntain many entries concerning Ludwig Fisher. Often he is called\nLewis Fisher. At least once the name is spelled Lodowick. Lewis\nFisher was often in court to sue for debt. Once he was charged with\nassault and battery. On the 29th of October, 1753, Ludwig Fisher\nwitnessed the will of Lorenz (written Larence) Garr.\nIn Henning\u2019s Statutes, Vol. VII, p. 22-23, Lewis Fisher is men-\ntioned as a foot soldier in the Culpeper Militia in March, 1756.\nLewis Fisher\u2019s will was proved Julv 19, 1773, and is given here\nin full :\n\u201cIn the name of God, Amen. I, Lewis Fisher of Culpeper County,\nbeing in a low state of health, but sound and perfect memory, thanks\nbe to Almighty God for it, and calling to mind the uncertainty of\nthis-worldly affairs, have thought fit to make and ordain this my\nlast will and testament, in manner and form following:\n\u201cI desire my body may be buried in such decent and Christian-like\nmanner as my Executors shall think fit. and as to those worldly goods\nwherewith it hath pleased God to bless me. I will and bestow in man-\nner and form following, viz. :\n\u201cI give and bequeath to my loving wife, Barbara Fisher, all my\npersonal estate, to dispose of as she shall think proper. Likewise I lend\nto my loving wife the plantation and land whereon I now do live,\nduring her life ; after her decease I give it to my son, Barnet Fisher.\nIt is my will that Barnet Fisher and Adam Fisher shall pay my son\nStephen Fisher twenty pounds, as the land I gave them was of more\nvalue than Stephen\u2019s. Barnet must pay fifteen pounds and Adam\nfive pounds, which is the difference of their lands.\n\u201cAlso my will is if my Germany estate should be recovered it\nshould be equally divided among all my children. And I do hereby\nconstitute and appoint my sons, Stephen Fisher and Adam Fisher,\njoint Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking\nand disannulling all other will or wills, testament or testaments, be-\nfore made by me. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand\nand seal, this fourth day of February, One Thousand Seven Hundred\nand Seventy-three.\u201d\nSealed and delivered in the presence of John Tompkins, Jacob\nWilhoit, Mark Finks.\nLewis Fisher was buried on his plantation a few miles from Crig-\nlersville, Madison Co., Va. No one of his descendants by the name\nof Fisher remained in Virginia, all his sons having removed to\nKentucky after the close of the Revolutionary War. A daughter and\nher husband were at one time living on the old Lewis Fisher place,\nbut nothing further is known of these Virginia descendants.\n(13) 8. Stephen Fisher, b. 1736; d. 1817 ; m. Mary Magdalene Garr ;\n(14) 9. Adam Fisher, b. 1740; d. July 5, 1812; m. Elizabeth Garr;\n(15) 10. Eve Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Mark Fink;\n(15)11. Elizabeth Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Nicholas Wilhoit;\n(15) 12. Nicholas Fisher, b. ; d. ;\n(16) 13 Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Michael Souther;\n(16) 14. Barnett Fisher, b. 1752; d. Jan. 29, 1824; m. Eve Wilhoit.\nGeorge Ulrich Fisher (Sebastian) was born in New York state\nabout 1712, and died in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pa.,\nabout 1770. He was a farmer and in 1765 was a trustee of the Alta-\nlaha Lutheran Church at Rehersburg, Pa. His wife\u2019s name has not\n14. Martin Fisher ;\n15. Paul Fisher;\n16. Catherine Fisher;\n17. Magdalene Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Daniel Angst;\n18. Barbara Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Adam Redenbach.\nPeter Fisher (Sebastian) was born in the vicinity of Berne, X. Y..\nOct. 4, 1714. according to records in the Schoharie Lutheran Church.\nTradition says that Peter Fisher was married to Dorothea Ball either\nin Albany or Schoharie, N. Y. She may have been his second wife.\nFurther information regarding this son of Sebastian Fisher is lack-\ning, except that he had the following children :\n19. Elizabeth Fisher ;\n20. Anna Margaret Fisher ;\n21 Dorothea Fisher.\nJohn Jacob Fisher (Sebastian) was born in the Schoharie Valley.\nN. Y., about 1720. He was very small when his family brought him\nto the wild, Indian inhabited Tulpehocken Valley in what is now\nBerks County, Pa.\nOn December 9, 1743, John Jacob Fisher was married to Mary\nElizabeth Frederick, daughter of John Frederick. In the spring of\nthe same year Jacob and his father were among the founders of\nTulpehocken (Christ) Lutheran Church near Stouchsburg. Pa. In\n1747, he and his wife deeded five acres of land to this church. He\nwas an elder in this church for many years.\nIn 1771, the Rev. Frederick A. Muhlenberg wrote in his diary\nthat he met \u201cold man Fisher\u201d at the home of \u201cJ. F.\u201d The latter was\nprobably Jacob\u2019s son John who lived at this time six miles east of\nthe Susquehanna River in what is now Jordon Township. Northum-\nberland County, Pa. Dr. Charles A. Fisher, a descendant of John\nJacob Fisher, who has furnished so much information on this branch,\nbelieves that it was on this visit to his son that John Jacob Fisher\nexamined the Isle of Que land which he bought in 1773 from the\nmissionary\u2019s father and mother.\nJacob, as he was known, was too old for active duty in the Revolu-\ntionary War. but he served on a relief committee in Tulpehocken\nTownship. Reference to this patriotic service is mentioned in Amer-\nican Archives.\nJacob Fisher and his wife are buried in the cemetery of the church\nwhich they helped to found. His will was recorded\u2019 at Reading in\n1803. and it mentions the following children:\n(17)22. John Adam Fisher, b. Oct. 7, 1744; d. 1825; m. Mary\nElizabeth Ried ;\n23. J\u00ab.hn Fisher, b. 1746; d. ; m. Magdalene, probably daughter of Peter Meffert ;\n24. Anna Catherine Fisher, b. 1747; d. 1837; m. Christian\nNoecker ;\n25. Magdalene Fisher, b. 1749; d. ; m. Jacob Reed;\n26. Christian Fisher, b. 1751 ; d. ; m. Maria Breitenbaugh.\nAnn Elizabeth Fisher (Sebastian) was born in Schoharie Valley,\nN. Y., about 1722, and was brought to Pennsylvania when one year of\nage or less. In 1744 she was married to John Anspach, son of Balthaser\nAnspach, who also came from N. Y. John Anspach was born about\n1720 and died in 1777. His will mentions their children:\n27. John Adam Anspach ;\n28. John Jacob Anspach ;\n29. Eva Christina Anspach ;\n30. John Peter Anspach ;\n31. Mary Elizabeth Anspach.\nJohn Adam Fisher (Sebastian) founder of the West Virginia\nbranch, was the youngest child of Sebastian and Susanna Fisher,\nand was born after they removed to Pennsylvania. No birth record\nhas been found, but proof of his place of birth and of his parentage\nhas been established. In the old Christ Church near Stouchsburg,\nPa., it is recorded that John Adam Fisher was sponsor for the son\nof his brother, John Jacob and wife, Mary Elizabeth, on Dec. 13,\n1747; and on Sept. 17, 1749, Adam Fisher and Christina Burkstoler\nwere sponsors for a child of Peter Wagner. On Aug. 29, 1757,\nJacob and his wife were sponsors for a daughter of Adam and\nChristina Fisher, named Mary Elizabeth; then on Oct. 29, 1758,\nJacob and his wife were again sponsors for a child of Adam and\nChristina \u2014 a son named John Jacob. The birth of Adam Fisher\u2019s\nfourth child, John, is also recorded at Christ Church.\nChristina, wife of Adam Fisher, is believed to have been Christina\nBurkstoler, but there is no proof. Nor is there a record found of the\nbirth of their eldest son, Adam Fisher. It is clear, however, that\nwhen Adam and Christina set out for Virginia to establish a home,\nthey were the parents of four little children.\nThe land on which Adam Fisher settled was a part of the Lord\nFairfax Manor, and records and maps show that this was part of the\nland surveyed by the young George Washington. Land on which no\nwhite man had ever lived, and to the present day it has remained in\nthe Fisher family. Hampshire County, Va., where Adam Fisher\nsettled was afterward divided, and the Fisher lands were then a\npart of Hardy County. Still later when West Virginia was created.\nHardv County became a county in the new state. In his will, how-\never. Adam called himself Adam Fisher, County of Hampshire,\nwhich distinguishes him from the other Adam Fishers then living\nin Virginia, among whom were Adam Fisher son of Lewis, in\nMadison County, and in Augusta County. Va.. Adam Fisher, one\nof four brothers who were sons of another Adam Fisher who\ndied of small pox near Philadelphia. Pa., in 1757. This father of\nfour sons is said to have been a younger son of a nobleman who\ncame to America in the 1740s. He may well have been a brother of\nSebastian, but no effort has been made here to run this branch to\nits source, although the compiler has a lifelong friend, now a resi-\ndent of St. Louis, who is descended from this Fisher line. Mention\nhas been made here only because of the proximity of the two dis-\ntinct families in Virginia. Kentucky and later in Missouri.\nAt the time that Adam and Christina Fisher left Pennsylvania\nmany Indian raids were being experienced in the Tulpehocken Val-\nley, and some feared that the entire country would be laid waste.\nConrad Weiser wrote in 1755 that another raid would be the destruc-\ntion of the settlers, but this did not come to pass as he predicted.\nIndian raids occurred in western Virginia too, and there are vivid\ndescriptions of them, written by eyewitnesses. With due allow-\nance made for exaggeration, the facts could have been nothing but\nterrifying to all the settlers. It is believed by some of the family that\nCatherine Fisher, youngest daughter of Adam and Christina, met her\ndeath in an Indian raid, but it was a subject which her brother. Dr.\nJacob Fisher would never talk about, but there is no doubt that he\nknew the facts.\nAdam Fisher, too frail and along in years, could not serve in the\nArmy during the Revolutionary War, but provided flour and other\nsupplies to the Army. Records in Romney. Hampshire Co. in the\nform of a receipt signed by Abel Randall, show that at one date, two\nyears before his death Adam Fisher. Senior, furnished six hundred\nand sixty-nine pounds of flour. There are other records, earlier. Three\nof Adam\u2019s sons served in the Army.\nAdam Fisher\u2019s will was recorded March 11, 1783. The inventory\nof his movable property is a history of the lives of these hardy pio-\nneer families. It lists no luxuries, but there was an abundance of the\nnecessities. Even in this wilderness they had their books and slates, for\nthe education of their children was never neglected.\nChildren of Adam and Christina Fisher:\n(18)32. Adam Fisher. 1>. ; d. 1816; m. Jemima Mace;\n33. Mary Elizabeth Fisher. 1\u00bb. fchr.) Aug. 20. 1757: d. ;\nm. Ebenezer Petty:\n(19)34. (John) Jacob Fisher, b. (chr.) Oct. 29, 1758; d. 1839; m.\nSusannah Burns ;\n(21)35. John Fisher, b. (chr.) Sept. 29, 1761 ; d. ; m. 1st., Mary\nBaylor ; 2nd., Levens ;\n(22)36. George Fisher, b. March 1. 1765; d. 1820.\n(23)37. Michael Fisher, b. Sept. 15, 1767; d. Jan. 15, 1824; m.\nSarah Petty ;\n38. Catherine Fisher, b. ca. 1771; d. 1780s;\n(24)39. Solomon Fisher, b. Feb. 6. 1773; d. May 28, 1841; m.\nMary Ann Petty.\nStephen Fisher (Lewis. Sebastian) was the eldest of the children\nof Lewis, or Ludwig, and Anna Barbara Fisher. He was born in\nCulpeper County, Va., in 1736, and remained a resident of that state\nuntil after the close of the Revolution. During that war he served\nas pack horse master under Col. Bowman, and was wounded in the\nright shoulder during an engagement with the Indians. As soon as\nhe recovered he returned and served to the end of the war. He was\nassigned during his service to duty in Kentucky, and after the war he\nbegan to acquire land in that country ; some was in grants for military\nservice, but he sold his lands in Virginia and bought vast holdings\nin Kentucky. His home was in Mercer County, now Boyle County,\nKy. where he died about May 20. 1817.\nStephen Fisher\u2019s wife, before her marriage was Mary Magdalene\nGarr, and all their descendants have been carefully traced and re-\ncorded in The Garr Genealogy, bv John C. Garr, and published in\n1894. Therefore, Stephen\u2019s family and his brother (9) Adam\nFisher\u2019s family will not be included here, after this generation.\nChildren of Stephen and Mary Magdalene Garr Fisher:\n40. Elizabeth Fisher, b. Dec. 25, 1759; d. 1825; m. Cornelius\nYeager ; ten children ;\n41. Elias Fisher, b. 1760; d. March 23, 1845; m. Nellie Butler;\ntwelve children ;\n42. Mary Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. John Davis; nine children;\n43. Benjamin Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Nellie Slaughter; seven\n44. Jemima Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. William Souther, five\n45. Agnes Fisher, b. March 21, 1776; d. ; m. John Bigler,\nsix children ;\n46. Stephen Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Sarah Bryant; ten\n47. Susannah Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Austin S. Slaughter;\nseven children ;\n48. Rosannah Fisher, b. Nov. 25. 1781; d. Nov. 24. 1876; m.\nCol. Martin Hardin ; ten children ;\n40. Elijah Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Elizabeth Wycliffe ; ten\n50. Ann Fisher, b. ; d. 1871 ; m. Strother Gaines ; five children.\nAdam Fisher (Lewis. Sebastian) was born in Virginia in 1740.\nHe married Elizabeth Garr, daughter of John Adam Garr and sister\nof (8) Stephen Fisher\u2019s wife. He served as a private in the First\nVirginia Line Regt. from Culpeper County. Many of his descendants\nhave entered the Daughters of the American Revolution through\nthis record of service.\nAdam Fisher\u2019s activities following the Revolution are very closely\nassociated with those of his brother, (8) Stephen, and like him\nAdam went to Kentucky, acquiring a great amount of land and mak-\ning his home in Mercer County.\nIn 1787 Adam Fisher signed a petition in Kentucky with his\nyounger brother (13) Barnett and his nephew (41) Elias Fisher\nasking for a right to establish a new state. He died July 5, 1812.\n( hildren :\n51. Simeon Fisher, who lost his life in Cuba on his way to\nGermany in 1810;\n52. Margaret Fisher, b. July 25. 1760; d. Sept. 3. 1824; m.\nPeter Watts ; seven children ;\n53. Susannah Fisher, b. ; d. : m. Joseph Schooling: ten\n54. Ann Fisher, b. Nov. 12. 1769; d. Nov. 1, 1825; m. Henry\nF. Kalfus ; nine children ;\n55. Elizabeth Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Daniel Crump; six\n56. Jeremiah Fisher, b. Sept. 25, 1777; d. Dec. 5. 1852; m. Mary\n1\u2032.. Slaughter; eight children;\n57. Adam Fisher, b. June 14. 1782; d. Feb. 22, 1860; m. Nancy\nE. Slaughter; four children.\nEve Fisher (Lewis, Sebastian) married Mark Fink, and seems to\nhave remained in Virginia. There are undoubtedly many records of\nthis family in Culj)eper County, Va., and in the present County of\nMadison, but nothing is at hand except the following list of their\n58. John Fink, b. ; d. ; m. Nancy Wilhoit ; went to Mis-\nsouri; eleven children;\n59. Elias Fink ;\n60. James Fink ;\n61. Joel Fink, b. ; d. ; m. Francis Wilhoit; went to Ralls\nCounty, Mo. ; four children ;\n62. Mark Fink;\n63. Lewis Fink, b. Nov. 1, 1788; d. Nov. 2, 1873; m. Juriah\nBerry ; ten children.\nElizabeth Fisher (Lewis, Sebastian) married Nicholas Wilhoit of\nDanville, Ky., son of John and Peggy Weaver Wilhoit, -whose\ndaughter, Eve, became the wife of Elizabeth Fisher\u2019s brother Barnett\nChildren of Elizabeth and Nicholas Wilhoit :\n64. Lewis Wilhoit, b. June, 1764; d. May 21, 1840; m. Rosannah\nBlankenbaker ; eight children;\n65. Barnett Wilhoit, m. Nancy Broiles;\n66. Nicholas Wilhoit, m Smith ;\n67. James Wilhoit, unmar. ; killed by lightning ;\n68. Margaret Wilhoit, m. John W. Yeager (one record says\nJoseph) ;\n69. Nancy Wilhoit, m. Elisha Emery ;\n70. Agnes Wilhoit, unmar.\n71. Sampson Wilhoit, m Jackman.\nNicholas Fisher (Ixwis, Sebastian) has not been properly searched\nfor. There is a record in Culpeper County, Va. that would indicate\nthat his wife\u2019s Christian name was Sylvania. He undoubtedly went to\nMissouri, and probably to the vicinity of Boonville.\nFisher (Lewis. Sebastian) a daughter of Lewis and Anna\nBarbara Fisher married Michael Souther and lived in Virginia. Her\ngiven name is so. uncertain that it seems best to omit it altogether.\nHer children were born and grew up in Madison County. Va., and\ntheir marriages are recorded there. The information given here is\nfrom The Garr Genealogy.\n72. Elizabeth Souther, b. Dec. 2, 1774; d. Oct. 24, 1854; m.\nJulius Christler ; ten children ;\n73. Abraham Souther, b. Aug. 8, 1776; d. Sept. 10, 1843; m.\nElizabeth Wilhoit ; nine children ;\n74. Anna Souther, b. Sept. 27, 1778 ; d. May 8, 1853 ; m. Absolom\nChristler ; nine children ;\n75. Julia Souther, b. March. 1782; d. Feb. 28. 1874; m. Felix\nGarr ; eight children ;\n76. Mary Souther, b. Oct. 13, 1786; d. April 20, 1883; m. David\nWilhoit ; seven children.\nBarnett Fisher (Lewis, Sebastian) was born in 1752, and was mar-\nried to Eve Wilhoit, daughter of John Wilhoit who was one of four\nbrothers who came from Germany. Mr. Charles B. Heinemann, com-\npiler of \u201cFisher Families of Virginia\u201d has personally furnished the\nmaterial given here, except for such of the more recent generations\nwho lived in Missouri, some of whom have been closely associated\nwith the present compiler\u2019s family.\nOn Nov. 19, 1781, Barnett Fisher was given a warrant in Cul-\npeper County, Va., for two hundred pounds of grass beef for the\nArmy. He also supplied brandy for the troops, as is recorded on page\n27 of the order book of Culpeper County.\nFollowing the example of his brothers, Barnett Fisher began ac-\nquiring land in Kentucky. As early as Oct. 15, 1779, he received a\ngrant of 500 acres in Jefferson County ; and on March 5, 1782, he re-\nceived by pre-emption warrant 1000 acres in Mercer County. Other\ngrants and patents between 1780 and 1783 amounted to 3,253 acres.\nOn April 29, 1786. Bernard Fisher (the English version being\nBarnett), Eve his wife, and Barbara his mother, sold land in Cul-\nI>eper County. Va.. to Leonard Christler and Solomon Carpenter, as\nrecorded in deed book N.p. 439 and 444. He first appeared on the\nMercer County, Ky. tax list in 1789.\nBarnett Fisher died intestate in what was then Mercer County, now\nBoyle County. Ky. and his estate was appraised on Feb. 12, 1824, and\nrecorded in will book 8, p. 127. He and his wife, who died Sept. 28,\n1823, are buried in the family burying ground.\n(28)77. John Fisher, b. ca. 1770; d. 1834; m. Anne , in Virginia;\n(29)78. Joseph Fisher, b. 1771 ; d. after 1850; m. Milly ;\n(29)79. Margaret Fisher, m. James Smith;\n(30)80. Caleb Fisher, b. June 3, 1776; d. ; m. Peggy Anderson;\n(30)81. Sarah Fisher, b. April 2, 1778; d. 1842 ; m. William Randolph\nMock;\n(31)82. Fzekial Fisher, b. ; d. May 15, 1848; m. Ann Watts.\nJohn Adam Fisher (John Jacob, Sebastian) was the eldest son\nof John Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Frederick Fisher. His is the only\nfamily of this Pennsylvania branch of the Fishers that will be car-\nried further than the second generation in America, since all the\ndescendants of John Jacob Fisher have been traced and included in\nthe work that Dr. Charles Fisher of Selinsgrove, Pa. has done.\nJohn Adam Fisher was named for his uncle, John Adam Fisher,\nfounder of the West Virginia branch. He was born Oct. 7, 1744, in\nTulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pa., and was married on\nApril 26. 1768, to Mary Elizabeth Ried whose family came to\nPennsylvania at the time of the Fishers\u2019 migration.\nIn 1774 John Adam removed to the land on the Isle of Que that\nhis father had bought from Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenburg and\nhis wife Mary, daughter of Conrad Weiser. In 1784 Adam pur-\nchased his father\u2019s share of this land, and in 1787 he bought at\nsheriff\u2019s sale the farm of Benjamin Weiser which joined his land\non the north.\nFrom 1779 to 1781 Adam Fisher was road supervisor in Penn\nTownship, Snyder County, Pa., and in 1791 he established a ferry\nacross the Susquehanna River, the eastern end of which was at the\nvillage of Fisher\u2019s Ferry, and the western end at the present home\nof Michael Oliver and Frank Fisher on the Isle of Que. This ferry\nwas the direct route from Berks County and the whole southeastern\nsection of the state into the Middle Creek and Penns Valleys which\nwere rapidly filling up with settlers from the lower part of the com-\nmonwealth. In 1794 he was taxed with a ferry and a store besides\nhis land holdings.\nIn 1801. he and his sons, Christian and John, contributed heavily\nfor the First Lutheran Church in Selinsgrove. In 1807 he bought\n144 acres along the banks of Middle Creek, later owned by his son\nJohn. In 1811 Adam sold the upper half of the Isle of Que to his\nson, John George, and the lower half to his son. Christian. To the\npresent time the lower part remains in the Fisher family in direct\nline of descent.\nAdam Fisher received depreciation pay for Revolutionary service\nin Berks County Militia, and in 1780 he was a private in Lieut. Jacob\nSpeece\u2019s Company of Rangers from Northumberland County, Pa.\nJohn Adam Fisher died in Penn Township. Snyder Co.. Pa. on\nNov. 24. 1825. He and his wife are buried in the old Lutheran ceme-\ntery at Selinsgrove.\n83. John Adam Fisher, b. 1769; d. Dec. 12, 1798; m ;\n84. Christian Fisher, b. June 21. 1771; d. 1844; m. 1. Hannah\nSnyder, 2. Elizabeth Snyder Yocum ;\n85. John Fisher, b. April 28. 1773; d. Aug. 19, 1826; m. Cath-\nerine Hosterman ;\n86. Benjamin Fisher, b. 1775; d. ; unmarried;\n87. John George Fisher, b. 1777; d. 1832; m. Mary Magdalene\nRhoads ;\n88. Peter Fisher, b. 1781;\n(31)90. John Jacob Fisher, b. Jan. 15. 1786; d. July 23. 1846; m.\n90. John Jacob Fisher, b. Jan. 15, 1786; d. July 23. 1846; m.\n1. Philipina Schrantz. 2. Rebecca Speece;\n91. John Michael Fisher, b. Aug. 29, 1789; d. July 23. 1820; m.\nCatherine Elizabeth Morr ;\n92. David Fisher, b. 1791 ; d. 1827 ; m. Polly Yocum.\nAdam Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was undoubtedly the eldest son\nof Adam and Christina Fisher, although thus far his birth record has\nnot been found. Adam Fisher. Sr.. in his will was careful to name\nhis six sons in order of age and Adam, Jr. is named first.\nAdam Fisher. Jr. was married to Jemima Mace, who survived him.\nIt is worth mentioning that Jemima\u2019s surname is spelled with a \u201cc\u201d\nas was originally correct in England, although the members of the\nMissouri branch use the \u201cs\u201d.\nAdam. Jr. served in the Revolution, and there is a record also of\nhis receiving a warrant for supplies of flour for the Army. He also\nserved two sessions in the General Assembly. Nov. 10. 1795 to Dec. 29,\n1795 and Nov. 8. 1796 to Dec. 27, 1796.\nHenning\u2019s Statutes. Vol. XVI. p. 51 states that on Jan. 16. 1804.\nAdam Fisher was authorized to raise by lotteries the sum of $2,000\nfor improving a wagon road from the South Fork, of the County of\nHardy, over North Mountain into Brock\u2019s Gap into Rockingham\nAdam Fisher died about 1816, and was buried in the Fisher family\nburying ground. Jemima Fisher died in 1829. Adam left his entire\nestate to her during her lifetime, and as a consequence the final set-\ntlement could not be made until after her death. It is recorded in Will\nbook 6, p. 64, that final settlement was accomplished in 1835. In the\nmeantime Adam\u2019s brother, Solomon Fisher, had contributed trouble\nfor Adam\u2019s executors by gaining a favorable decision in 1826 to a\nlawsuit, begun in 1809, asking for a new appraisement of their\nfather\u2019s estate and for a redistribution of it. The property due Solomon\nthrough this turn of affairs was bought from Solomon by Adam\u2019s\nson (93) William Fisher, in 1829.\nChildren of Adam and Jemima Mace Fisher:\n(32)93. William Fisher, b. Feb. 14, 1786; d. March 11, 1858; m.\n(106) Elizabeth Fisher, his cousin;\n94. Elizabeth Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Jonathan Hornbeck ;\nwent to Indiana ;\n95. Sarah Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Abraham Shobe ; went to\nMissouri ;\n(32)96. Michael Fisher, b. Jan. 31, 1796; d. 1835 ; m. Eliza Welton;\nwent to Franklin County, Mo.\n97. Nicholas Fisher, b. April 29, 1798; d. ; m. Mary Shobe;\nwent to Missouri ;\n98. Adam Fisher, b. Feb. 6, 1801 ; d. ; m. ; buried in\nHardy County, W. Va.\n99. Mary Fisher, b. July 4, 1803; d. ; m. John D. Miles;\nburied Hardy County, W. Va.\n100. Kate Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. John O\u2019Banion (O\u2019Bannon) ;\n101. Lena Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Henry Shobe ; buried in Hardy\nCounty, W. Va.\n102. Hannah Fisher, b. Jan. 4, 1809; d. ; m. James Miles;\nwent to Missouri.\nDr. Jacob Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was the second son of Adam\nand Christina Fisher. He was born in Tulpehocken Valley in Penn-\nsylvania and his christening is recorded in the old Christ Lutheran\nChurch near Stouchsburg.\nJacob Fisher was married to Susanna Burns, after the close of\nthe Revolution. He served in all the sessions of the General Assembly\nfrom November, 1798, through the session ending February 6, 1806.\nHe was a physician of considerable ability.\nA copy of Jacob\u2019s application for pension as a Revolutionary\nsoldier is given here, since this and the record of his brother, (35)\nJohn Fisher\u2019s application for pension constitute the proof that their\nfather, Adam Fisher, was the Adam Fisher, born in Tulpehocken\nValley. Pa., the son of Sebastian and Susanna Fisher.\n\u201cI, this 21st day of May. personally appeared in open court before\nthe Justices of the Court of Hardy County now sitting, Jacob Fisher,\na resident of said County and State, aged 75 years on the 24th day\nof October, next, he being first duly sworn according to law, etc.,\non his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the\nbenefit of the Act of Congress, June 7. 1832. That he entered the\nservice of the United States under the following named officers as\nherein stated \u2014 that he was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania in\nthe year 1758 and the 24th of October.\nThat he has a record of his age. now at his place in Hardy Countv \u2014\nthat he was living when cabled into service in the County of Hardy\nand still resides and ever since resided in that County.\nThat he was drafted for a six months\u2019 term and continued for\nanother term of three months.\nThat he was drafted in the company under the command of Captain\nMoses Hutton, Lieutenants Heath and West, Hardy.\nThat he volunteered in the company commanded by Capt. Daniel\nThat he was acquainted with General Hand and Captain Berry,\nofficers in the local service while on his six months\u2019 tour during his\nservice of months as volunteer these were regular officers with him.\nThat he was drafted in March. 1778, and marched from Hamp-\nshire County, Virginia to Morgantown and from there to Pittsburg,\nwhere he was taken with smallpox, from thence he proceeded to\nW heeling. Virginia, at which place thev were joined bv the companv\ncommanded by Captain M. Cresap. there he. the said Jacob, remained\nas guard at Wheeling until September. 1778, which period ended his\nsix months\u2019 tour.\nThat he volunteered in light horse corps in April. 1781. and\nmarched against the Tories in the Western part of Hampshire, which\ntour ended in July. 1781. making it three months.\nThat he was engaged in no battle except a skirmish with the Tories\nnear the Brakes in said County of Hampshire (now Hardy).\nThat he never received a discharge from said service, that he is\nacquainted with William Heath. Jacob Hutton. Jacob Yoakum and\nJacob Pandal! and Isaac Van Meter who can testifv as to his char-\nacter for veracity and their belief of his service as\u2019 a Revolutionary\nHe hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or amity\nas to the penalty and declaration that his name is not on the roll of\nthe agency of any state.\nAnd the said deponent further sayeth that he is not acquainted\nwith anv clergyman who can give the affidavit as required by the\nSworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.\n(Signed) Jacob Fisher.\u201d\nThe above copy was made by Miss Flossie Cloyd from the old\nhandwritten record in the offices of the Veterans\u2019 Administration,\nJacob Fisher became the owner of. and resided on the original\nFisher land in Hampshire (now Hardy) County, and this land has\never since remained in the Jacob Fisher family down to the present\nday. The original home was burned and has been replaced.\nJacob Fisher died in Hardy County at his home in 1839, and his\nwill is recorded there.\n(35)103. Mary Ann Fisher, b. Oct. 20. 1786; d. Sept. 4, 1864; m.\nJames Johnson ;\n(36)104. George Fisher, b. Aug. 1. 1788; d. Nov. 27, 1864; m. Mary\nAnn Harness ;\n105. Michael Fisher, b. 1790; d. young;\n(37)106. Elizabeth Fisher, b. Feb. 9. 1792; d. Sept. 23, 1861; m.\n(93) William Fisher.\nJohn Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was the youngest of the four\nchildren who came from Tulpehocken, Berks County, Pa., to Virginia\nwith Adam and Christina Fisher. John Fisher was a soldier in the\nRevolution, and his application for pension is on file at the Offices\nof Veterans\u2019 Administration at Washington, D. C. This application\nwhich states that he was born on Tulpehocken Creek, Berks County,\nPennsylvania is of equal value with his elder brother, Jacob\u2019s appli-\ncation as proof of their father\u2019s descent from Sebastian Fisher.\nJohn Fisher served three months in the Virginia Troops in 1781\nunder Captain Michael Stump and Major McPherson ; later he\nserved three months under Captain Sylvester Ward in the Virginia\nTroops. He was allowed pension on the application executed August\n10. 1832. while a resident of Picqua County, Ohio.\nAfter the war John Fisher was married to Mary Baylor, daughter\nof Jacob Baylor. John was a lawyer, and represented Hardy County,\nVa.. in General Assembly. Later, he moved to Pendleton County, Va.,\nwhere he was a member of the General Assembly in 1810-11. He\nthen removed to Picqua (now Pickaway) County, Ohio. After the\ndeath of his first wife he married a Miss Levens. John Fisher was\nliving in 1840, according,\u201d to the U. S. Census of Pickaway County.\n107. Elizabeth Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. Reubin Dice; son.\nPleasant Dice ;\n108 Fisher ; b. ; d. ;m Brett:\n109. John Fisher, b. ca. 1811, in Virginia; d. ; m. Mary ;\nres. Ohio; six children in 1850;\n110. Louisa Fisher, b. ; d. ; m. John Fluke; children, John.\nGeorge. Elizabeth Fluke ;\n1 12. Julia Fisher, d. young ;\n1 13. William Fisher, d. young ;\n1 14. George Fisher, d. young ;\n115. Jacob Fisher, d. young.\nGeorge Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was the fourth son of Adam\nand Christina Fisher of Hampshire County, Va., and the eldest of the\nthree minor sons named in Adam\u2019s will. He came of age about three\nyears after his father\u2019s death, and a court record shows that he re-\nceived the portion of his inheritance on March 1, 1786. The tax\nlist of 1787 gives his name with three in his family, with four slaves.\nIt is traditional that he went to Germany to study medicine, but\nnothing to show it to have been a fact has been found.\nGeorge Fisher removed to Randolph County, in the Territory of\nIllinois about 1798, and became a prominent citizen of Kaskaskia.\nMoses\u201d History of Illinois states that he was sheriff of Randolph\nCounty in 1801. George IV. Smith\u2019s History of Illinois and her\nPeople, says that he was a member of the Indiana legislature, and\nwas a member of the first Territorial legislature of Illinois. Another\nauthority states that the convention that framed the first Illinois\nConstitution was held at the home of George Fisher, and it is, of\ncourse, a fact that it met at Kaskaskia, in 1812, and George Fisher\nwas chosen Speaker. He was Speaker of the House at the sessions\nof 1816-17 and of 1817-18.\nDr. George Fisher, according to another reliable History of Ran-\ndo\u2019ph County removed from the village in 1808 and bought a farm\n\u201cat the ford of the bluff six miles above Kaskaskia on the Prairie du\nRoche road.\u201d A short time after he moved to his farm, smallpox broke\nout in the vicinity of Kaskaskia. and Dr. Fisher built a hospital on\nhis farm, and there the greater part of the French population passed\nthrough the dangerous malady under his skillful treatment. The\nAmerican settlement escaped the epidemic due to the fact that guards\nwere placed on the outskirts of all the villages, and that Dr. Fisher\nreceived and cared for all that were afflicted with the disease.\nDr. George Fisher served in the War of 1812 as surgeon in Stephen-\nson\u2019s Brigade. He was an active Mason and helped to organize a\nLodge at Kaskaskia. He died in 1820. His estate was large, and litiga-\ntion lasted for years. His son Jacoh was Executor of his will.\nSo much confusion exists as to whether or not he was the George\nFisher who married Elizabeth Conrad, and went first to Pendleton\nCounty, Va., that the compiler has decided to omit any attempt to\nname his children.\nMichael Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was born on Sept. 15, 1767,\non the Fisher lands which were at first leased by Adam Fisher from\nLord Fairfax, and later deeded to him. It would seem, so the story\ngoes, that Lord Fairfax did not wish to sell any part of his grant, but\ndesired to establish a tenanted Manor such as was common in England.\nFinally, the Courts decided against him, and Adam Fisher and other\nsettlers were given title to their lands.\nMichael Fisher went to Bourbon County, Ky., after he grew up,\nand was married there to Sarah Petty, daughter of Joseph and Mary\nAnn Petty, who had previously migrated from Hampshire County, Va.\nMichael bought land in Kentucky, but about 1798 he removed to\nOhio, and purchased a military claim consisting of 800 acres of land\nin Franklin County, west of the Scioto River, opposite the present\ncity of Columbus, Ohio. This was new country, and it was declared\nthat there were one hundred Indians to one white man when Michael\nFisher settled there ; but there were only two white men besides\nAfter a few years, Michael Fisher sold part of his tract, and bought\nabout 600 acres across the Scioto, and on higher ground. On the bank\nof the river he built a home and a sawmill, about four miles south of\nthe present court house, on the Chillicothe Road. This sawmill re-\nmained in operation until a canal which was put through necessitated\nthe removal of the mill.\nMaxamilla Fisher, the fourth child of Michael and Sarah Fisher,\nwas the first white child born in Hamilton Township, where Columbus\nMichael Fisher was an early Justice of the Peace in Hamilton Twp.\nHe died January 15, 1824, and Sarah, his wife, died January 2, 1843.\nSome of their descendants still reside in Columbus. In 1901, William\nM. Fisher, a lineal descendant of Michael\u2019s son Jacob and Mary\nBriggs Fisher, was a well known wholesale produce merchant in\nColumbus, and the father of six children. His wife was the former\nKatherine Monheny.\nMichael and Sarah Fisher are buried in the old Franklinton ceme-\ntery in Columbus.\n1 16. Christina Fisher, m. William Miller ;\n117. Elizabeth Fisher, m. William Stewart;\n1 18. Sarah Fisher, m. William Cramer ;\n1 19. Maxamilla Fisher, m. Arthur O\u2019Hara ;\n120. Jacob Fisher, b. June 7. 1808 ; d. ; m. Mary Briggs ;\n121. Milton Fisher;\n122. Joseph Fisher, m. Sarah Landis.\nSolomon Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) founder of the Frankford, Mo.\nbranch, was born February 6, 1773, at the Adam Fisher homestead on\nthe South Branch of the Potomac in Hampshire County, Va. (now\nHardy County, W. Va.). In the Autumn of 1792 he was married to\nMary Ann Petty, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann Petty, of the\nsame district in Hampshire County. Within two or three years he\nwent to Bourbon County, Kentucky, with his wife and one small\nson, Adam.\nIn 1795 Solomon Fisher appeared on the Bourbon County Tax Lists,\nand on August 22, 1796, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the 14th\nRegiment. 2nd Battalion. Bourbon County Militia, by Gov. Garrard.\nSolomon Fisher, dissatisfied with the way in which his father\u2019s\nwill had been interpreted in tbe matter of his own inheritance, sued\nin 1806 before \u201cthe Honorable John Brown, Judge of the Superior\nChancery Court held at Staunton\u201d in Virginia. The case dragged on\nuntil 1826. when Solomon finally won the decision. On January 3,\n1829, he sold to (93) William Fisher his interest in the estate of (32)\nAdam Fisher, Jr. \u201cincluding lands, slaves, and personal property of all\ndescriptions\u201d for $1200.00, this being the property given him by\nthe decree. Solomon had already, in 1820 soM for $2700.00, his\nshare of the undivided third of his father\u2019s estate held by his mother\nuntil her death. Thus, Solomon seems to have severed all connection\nwith his family in Virginia.\nThe History of St. Charles, Warren and Montgomery Counties,\nMissouri, states that Solomon Fisher was a Captain in a Kentuckv\nRegiment in the War of 1812. The same is recorded in Bryan and\nRose\u2019s \u201cMississippi Valley Pioneers.\u201d\nSolomon was a Mason, serving as both Junior and Senior Deacon\nin the Lodge in Paris. Bourbon County. Ky.. from which he demitted\nat the time of his removal to Missouri, Sept. 13, 1817.\nTwo hundred acres of land on Green Creek, Bourbon County, Ky.,\npurchased on Sept. 16, 1807. from his father-in-law. Joseph Pettv.\nfor $2000.00 was sold to Robert Cunningham, March 11. 1818, for\n$6000.00. The description of this land in the deed is included here\nbecause it is so typical of the times, and shows why disputes often\ncame up in later years regarding boundaries of land thus described.\n\u201cBeginning at a buckeye, hickory and elm in a line of James\nParberry. corner to Parberry\u2019s settlement; thence south thirty-four\ndegrees west two hundred and twelve poles to two sugar trees and\nash; thence north fifty-six degrees west one hundred and fifty-two\npoles to a stake buckeye and iron wood ; thence north thirty-four\ndegrees east two hundred and twelve ]x>les to a stake and two buck-\neyes ; thence south fifty-six degrees east one hundred and fifty-two\npoles to the beginning.\u201d\nWhen it became known that Congress had passed several Acts\nproviding for the sale of Public Lands in that part of the northwest\nthat later, in 1821. became the State of Missouri, Solomon Fisher\nand others, in the spring of 1818, provided themselves with keel\nboats, loaded all their movable property and their families on them,\nand made their way down the Ohio River into the great Mississippi,\nand fought their way against that huge stream up to St. Louis and\nbeyond for many miles to the mouth of the Salt River. Turning into\nthis small river they proceeded until they came to the mouth of\nPeno Creek. L T p this creek some miles they discovered a large cave\ncontaining a cool spring, and here Solomon Fisher remained. \u201cHe\npitched his tent in the heavy timber land.\u201d and lived in tents until\nhe had cut logs and built a home \u2014 a two-story house where he dwelt\nfor many years. His home until his death was on this farm. Only a\nfew miles distant the town of Frank ford was laid out in 1819. The\npreliminary work of founding this new town was done by Solomon\u2019s\nson. Adam Fisher, but after the untimely death of Adam Fisher in\n1825. Solomon continued the undertaking. In 1831 he had the town\nplotted and filed for record. He donated and deeded the streets,\nand a public square to be used for the erection of public buildings.\nHe also gave land for a church and a park.\nSolomon Fisher always resided on his farm, although his interest\nin Frank ford continued until his death. Many of his descendants\nreside in and about Frankford. to the eighth generation. Frankford\nis most picturesque, and is a thriving agricultural town.\nMary Ann Fisher was accidentally shot by one of her sons. Her\ndeath occurred about 1826. Solomon Fisher was married a second\ntime, to Susan Thompson Stark from whom he was divorced. He\nwas married the third time, to Flizabeth Hostetter. known as Aunt\nBetsey Hostetter. who survived until after 1850.\nSolomon, late in life, received a gunshot wound in the leg which\nnecessitated an amputation.\nHis death occurred on May 28, 1841, after a protracted illness.\nHe was buried on the farm, but many years later his remains were\nremoved to the cemetery in Frank ford Park \u2014 the Park that he gave\nto the Public. A large boulder from the Fisher farm has been placed,\nappropriately inscribed, as a monument to Solomon Fisher by the\n(37)123. Adam Fisher, b. Feb. 12. 1794; d. June. 1825; m. Dulcenia\nPower ;\n(38)124. Eunice Fisher, b. Dec. 4, 1796; m. Tyre Haden ;\n(38)125. George Fisher, b. Dec. 4, 1798; d. Oct. 4, 1849; m. Eurania\nPorter ;\n(39)126. Maxamilla Fisher, b. July 6, 1801 ; d. after 1850; m. Adam\nMase ;\n(39)127. William Fisher, b. Jan. 5, 1804; d. after 1855; m. Eliza\nHostetter ;\n(40)128. Parthenia Fisher, b. Oct. 20, 1806; m. William Haden;\n(40)129. John King Fisher, b. Sept. 11. 1810; d. before 1850; m.\nAmerica Gil\u2019espie ;\n(40)130. Selina Fisher, b. March 10. 1814; m. Turner Haden;\n(41)131. Solomon Fisher, b. Sept. 10, 1816; m. Caroline Matilda\nPayne ;\n(42)132. Emmarilla Fisher, b. Dec. 31, 1819; m. E. C. Turnbull.\nJohn Fisher (Harnett. Lewis. Sebastian) was the eldest son of\nBarnett and Eve Wilhoit Fisher. He was born in what is now Madi-\nson County. Va.. about 1770. His death occurred in 1834.\nJohn Fisher was in Mercer County. Ky.. in 1807; in Garrard\nCounty, Ky.. in 1808. and again in Mercer County in 1809. From\nthat time he seems to have lived in Breckenridge County. Ky.. where\nhis will was proved on January 15, 1834.\n133. Jacob Fisher, b. Jan. 1, 1790;\n134. Sarah Fisher, b. Jan. 1, 1790;\nCensus records show that these people had four other children.\nJoseph Fisher (Barnett. Lewis, Sebastian) was born in the Lewis\nFisher neighborhood in Virginia in 1771. His name appeared on the\nTax lists of Mercer County, Ky.. in 1795. He was married to Milly\n, whose surname is not known to the compiler. He re-\nmained in Kentucky until 1829, and on May 3, 1827. he deeded\nslaves, as Executor of his father\u2019s will in Mercer County.\nJoseph Fisher, his wife, Milly, and those of his children then un-\nmarried, as well as his daughter, Malissa and her husband Nicholas\nTaylor, emigrated to Ra\u2019ls County. Missouri in 1829 where they\nresided for about twenty years. They were neighbors there of mem-\nbers of (7) Adam Fisher\u2019s son. (39) Solomon Fisher\u2019s family. All\nthese Fishers were as one family, in fact their descendants have al-\nways believed Joseph and Solomon to have been brothers.\nIn 1848 Joseph Fisher moved to Pike County. Mo., where he was\nnear others of the Solomon Fisher branch. In 1850 he was in Cuivre\nTownship. Pike County, Mo., where he and his wife were listed in\nthe U. S. Census in the household of their son (138) William W.\nFisher, remembered as \u201cold William\u201d to the Fishers of Solomon\u2019s\nChildren of Joseph and Milly Fisher :\n135. Sarah Fisher, m Robinson ;\n136. Malissa Fisher, b. 1795 ; m. Nicholas Taylor ;\n(42)137. James Lewis Fisher, d. after 1850; m. Lucinda ; went\nto Lewis County, Mo. ;\n(42)138. William W. Fisher, b. May 28. 1808; d. Jan. 9, 1882; m.\n1 . Sarah , 2. Electa Watson ;\n139. Mary Fisher, m Henderson ; six children ;\n140. Sidney Fisher ;\n141. Abraham Fisher, b. 1812; m. Marv E. ; in Pike\nCounty, Mo v 1850;\n142. Barnett Fisher;\n143. Angeline Fisher ;\n144. Nancy Fisher. The order of age is uncertain.\nMargaret Fisher (Barnett, Lewis, Sebastian) was born in Vir-\nginia, but went to Mercer County. Ky. and was married there to\nJames Smith. There is no further information regarding this family\navailable, except the list of their seven children.\n145. Eve Ann Smith ;\n146. Sarah Smith ;\n147. Mary Ann Smith ;\n148. Joanna Smith ;\n149. Jeremiah Smith ;\n150. Felix Smith.\nCaleb Fisher (Barnett, Lewis, Sebastian) was born June 3, 1776.\nOn February 27, 1817 he was married in Mercer County, Ky., to\nPeggy Anderson. This may have been a second marriage, since the\ncensus of 1810 lists him in Mercer County, with four males under\nten years of age. one between ten and sixteen, and one female under\nsixteen. There was no woman of the age to have been his wife listed,\nbut an older woman was listed in his family.\nCaleb Fisher\u2019s estate was appraised in Mercer County, Ky., on\nOctober 9. 1827.\nOnly the names of three minor children were given in his will :\n151. Betsey Ann Fisher ;\n152. Polly Ann Fisher ;\n153. Ellen Fisher.\nSarah Fisher (Barnett, Lewis. Sebastian) was born on April 21.\n1778, in what is now Madison County, Va.. and was christened on\nMay 3, 1778; sponsors, Andreas Garr, Nicholas Wilhoit, Elizabeth\nFisher, and Eve Fisher. Sarah Fisher was the direct ancestor of\nMrs. Walter C. Anderson who furnished the information on this\nline, so generously shared by Mr. Charles B. Heinemann.\nSarah Fisher was married on March 31, 1799, to William Randolph\n154. William Randolph Mock, Jr.;\n156. John J. Mock;\n157. Rosanna Mock ;\n158. Matthew L. Mock;\n159. Louisa M. Mock;\n160. Robert A. Mock ;\n161. Thomas J. Mock;\n162. Eveann O. Mock ;\n163. Ezekiel Mock ;\n164. Sarah A. Mock.\nEzekiel Fisher (Barnett, Lewis, Sebastian) was born in Virginia\nas were all the children of Barnett and Eve Fisher. The compiler is\nindebted to Mr. Charles B. Heinemann for the earlier data on this\nbranch of Lewis Fisher\u2019s descendants. The later material has been\nobtained from court records, U. S. Census records, and other sources.\nEzekiel Fisher was married on Dec. 12, 1815, to Ann Watts, his\ncousin, eldest daughter of Peter Watts; and his wife (52) Margaret\nFisher Watts. He remained in Mercer County. Ky.\n165. Margaret Fisher, m Dent;\n166. John Mock Fisher, b. April 1, 1820;\n167. Mary Fisher, d. Feb.. 1890;\n168. Rose Fisher, m Co\u2019eman ;\n169. Clayton Fisher, m. Elizabeth Garrett.\nJohn Jacob Fisher (John Adam, John Jacob, Sebastian) was born\nin what is now Penn Township, Snyder County, Pa., on June 15,\n1786. He died in the same community on March 8, 1846. He was a\nfarmer and a leading member of the Lutheran Church. His first wife\nwas Philipina Schrantz. She died in 1820, and Jacob Fisher married\nhis second wife, Rebecca Speece who was born on March 19, 1799,\nand died on August 16, 1862.\nChildren of the first wife, Philipina Schrantz Fisher:\n170. Leah Fisher, b. Oct. 13. 1818; d. Nov. 22, 1887; m. George\nB. Garman, 1842 ;\n171. David Fisher, b. Feb. 10. 1820; d. March 18. 1887; m. Abi-\ngail Shipman, Nov. 24. 1844;\n172. Henry Fisher, b. Feb. 10. 1820; d. April 17. 1894; m. Cath-\nerine Hiltebidle.\nChildren of second wife. Rebecca Speece Fisher :\n173. Levi Fisher, b. May 9, 1821 ; d. Sept. 19. 1863, effect of\nCivil War ; m. Alizabeth Aigler ;\n(43)174. Adam J. Fisher, b. May 7, 1826; d. Oct. 13, 1901 ; m. Bar-\nbara Woodling. Jan. 10, 1847 ;\n175. Elizabeth Fisher, b. March 24. 1840; d. Mav 30, 1882; m.\nSamuel Woodling. Feb. 2. 1860.\nWilliam Fisher (Adam, Adam, Sebastian) eldest son of Adam and\nJemima Mace Fisher, was born February 14, 1786 in Hampshire\nCounty, Va. He was married to his cousin, (106) Elizabeth Fisher,\ndaughter of Dr. Jacob and Susannah Burns Fisher.\nIn his father\u2019s will in 1816, William Fisher was named Executor.\nIn 1827 he went to Braxton County, Va. (now W. Va.). This was the\nfirst visit to the county which afterward became his home, and where\nmany of his descendants now reside. In 1825 he had \u201clost money on\nan Englishman in Philadelphia\u201d and in 1827 he took three tracts of\nland, of 1000 acres each, in Braxton County in compromise of his\nclaim. When he inspected the land he was so pleased with the beau-\ntiful country that he decided to locate on one of the tracts. In 1834\nhe took his family to live there, in what was then sparsely settled\nWilliam Fisher was the last one of his father\u2019s family to leave the\nSouth Branch. He was not interested in politics, but devoted him-\nself to the culture of fine cattle and horses. He bought the best breeds\nof live stock, and was credited with having not only the best stock,\nbut also the best pasturage.\nElizabeth Fisher was also a lover of fine horses and possessed a\nriding animal which she allowed no one to ride, not even her husband.\nMr. Fisher was a strong promoter of civic virtues and Christian\nreligion among his neighbors.\nThe Honorable Jake Fisher of Sutton, Braxton County, has kindly\nfurnished much information on this line, and has also provided the\nillustration on page 33.\nWilliam Fisher died March 11, 1858. His wife died Sept. 23, 1861.\n176. William Fisher, b. April 16, 1821 ; d. July 24, 1839 ;\n(43)177. Susanna Martha Fisher, b. Sept. 18, 1823; d. 1867; m.\n1. Dr. Wm. O. Newby, 2. Michael Lancaster;\n(43)178. Jemima Fisher, b. July 13, 1828; d. Nov. 19, 1903; m.\nJonathan Koiner ;\n179. George Burns Fisher, b. May 17, 1830 ; d. in infancy ;\n(44)180. Benjamin Franklin Fisher, b. Aug. 17, 1831; d. Aug. 3,\n1902; m. 1. Margaret Sutton; 2. Sarah Susan Hopkins;\n181. Adam Fisher, b. Jan. 26, 1834 ; d. May 29, 1837.\nMichael Fisher (Adam, Adam. Sebastian) was born in Hardy\nCounty, Va. (now W. Va.) Jan. 31, 1796. He was married to Eliza\nWelton, and removed to Franklin County, Missouri, when a young\nman. Several of his sisters likewise went to Franklin County.\nInventory of Michael Fisher\u2019s estate filed at Union, Franklin\nCounty, Mo., on March 8, 1835, descrihes two tracts of land along\nthe Missouri River, purchased from the United States, and in all\nthree hundred and thirty-eight acres. An affidavit filed with bond was\ngiven by John O\u2019Banion. brother-in-law of Michael Fisher, and hus-\nband of (100) Kate Fisher, as Executor of the estate. John O\u2019Banion\nalso swore on Jan. 17, 1835, that the following were the legal heirs\nof Michael Fisher, deceased :\n182. Ann Jemima Fisher, m. William M. Simmons ;\n183. Solomon W. Fisher ;\n184. John Clark Fisher ;\n185. Adam Fisher;\n186. Rachel Fisher ;\n187. Job Fisher;\n188. Michael Fisher. Some of these heirs were residents of Frank-\nlin County in 1850, but it is believed that all removed to Oregon later.\nMary Ann Fisher (Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian) the eldest child\nof Jacob and Susannah Burns Fisher was born Oct. 20, 1786. About\n1808 she was married to James Johnson, son of Joseph Johnson of\nPendleton County, Va. They resided in Pendleton County, and their\nold home is now called the Buck Horn Mill place. The old \u201cwalled\nup\u201d well, picturesque with overgrowth of ferns and mosses, and the\nold iron-bound bucket, still remains.\nJames Johnson was a lawyer, farmer, and stock-raiser. He rep-\nresented Pendleton County in the Assembly for several terms.\nMary Ann Fisher as a girl was her father\u2019s companion and read\nmedicine with him. As an older woman she was philanthropic, using\nher acquaintance with medicine among the negroes on the plantation\nand in caring for those of her neighbors who were in need. And\nlike most women of her time she taught her daughters to be good\nhomemakers.\nMary Ann Johnson, after the death of her husband, in her later\nyears, became blind, and assisted by her son, George Johnson, broke\nup housekeeping, divided her property, and went to live with her\neldest son. Jacob Johnson. Her death came Sept. 4, 1864.\n189. Jacob Fisher Johnson, b. July 4. 1809; m. 1. Felicia Griner,\n2. Clarissa Maupin ; fifteen children ;\n190. Martha House Johnson, b. May 10, 1811 ; m. John Cunning-\nham ; two children ;\n191. Susan Elizabeth Johnson, b. Jan. 17, 1814; m. Cyrus Hop-\nkins, three children ;\n192. William B. Johnson, b. Sept. 28, 1816; m. Margaret Kee;\nseveral children ;\n193. Margaret McCoy Johnson, b. Dec. 31, 1818; d. June 30,\n1884; m. Wm. H. Dyer; six children;\n194. George Fisher Johnson, b. Nov. 30, 1821 ; m. Sarah Snod-\ngrass ; six children ;\n195. Caroline Moomau Johnson, b. May 21, 1824; m. Josiah\nWright ; no children ;\n196. Jehu Blucher Johnson, b. June 28, 1827; m. Ann Jane Card-\nwell ; no children ;\n(45)197. Mary Ann Harness Johnson; b. Jan. 9. 1830: d. Nov. 28,\n1886; m. A. J. Rankin.\nGeorge Fisher (Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian) the second child of\nJacob and Susannah Burns Fisher was born August 1, 1788, and\nwas married to Mary Ann Harness of Hardy County, on January\n2, 1809. Mary Ann Harness was born May 5, 1790 and died Dec.\n28, 1881. George Fisher\u2019s death occurred in Hardy County, Va. on\n197. Jacob Harness Fisher, b. 1809; d. 1865; m. Jemima Shobe;\n198. Michael Fisher, b. 1811; d. 1907; m. 1. Rebecca Cunning-\nham, 2 Shobe, 3 Wilfong, 4 Wilfong;\n199. Eunice Petty Fisher, b. 1813; m. Benjamin Cunningham;\n200. George Morgan Fisher, b. 1816; d. 1896; m. Mary Moore;\nwent to Kansas ;\n201. Adam Fisher, b. 1818; d. 1898; m. Katherine Moore; went\nto Washington, D. C. ;\n202. James Johnson Fisher, b. 1820 ; d. 1822 ;\n(45)203. William Fisher, b. 1823; d. 1886; m. Mary Jane Schultz ;\n204. Susannah Burns Fisher, b. 1825 ; m. Otho Williams ;\n205. Andrew Jackson Fisher, b. 1827; m. Hannah Cunningham;\n206. Solomon Fisher, d. 1862, Malvern Hill ;\n207. Mary Ann Fisher, b. 1832 ; d. 1832 ;\n(46)208. Jesse Fisher, b. 1834; d. V)\\7 ; m. 1. Jane K. Welton. 2.\nBetty Paxton ;\n209. Sarah Elizabeth Fisher, b. 1837; d. 1906; m, John Tucker;\nElizabeth Fisher ( Dr. Jacob, Adam. Sebastian) was the youngest\nchild of Jacob and Susannah Burns Fisher. She was born February\n9, 1792, and died September 23, 1861. She was married to her first\ncousin (93) William Fisher, son of Adam and Jemima Mace Fisher.\nThe names of their children have been given under her husband\u2019s\nAdam Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) of Frankford, Mo.,\nwas born in Virginia on February 12. 1794, and was taken with his\nparents to Bourbon County, Ky. when he was about one year of age.\nHe was a private in his father\u2019s company in the War of 1812. He\nand his wife in the spring of 1818 migrated to Missouri.\nPrior to the year 1818 Adam Fisher was married to Dulcenia\nPower in Kentucky. Dulcenia Power was a native of Virginia,\ndaughter of William Power, and was born in 1792. She was residing\nin Bourbon County, Ky. with her sister, Sarah, wife of Joseph\nSettle, at the time of her marriage.\nOn October 16. 1818, Adam purchased a quarter section of land,\nthe site of Frankford. Pike County. Mo. There is a record that states\nthat he hired a surveyor to lay out the town, and during the next few\nyears Mr. Dabney Jones was Justice of the Peace, and John Layne\nwas Constable. Adam was first sheriff of Pike County.\nAdam Fisher built his home in Frankford, a log structure as all\nthe houses were, and situated in the east part of town at the foot\nof Main Street on the south side of the street.\nAbout the middle of June, 1825. Adam Fisher died, leaving no\nwill, and no record has been found to indicate the cause of his un-\ntimely death. Letters of Administration were granted on June 18,\n1825, to \u201cSeney\u201d Fisher and Tyre A. Haden, her brother-in-law.\nBefore Adam\u2019s death Main Street had been graded, and gutter and\ncurb were in. A bond issue of $1000.00 had been voted to pay for it.\nA tan yard had been built by Adam\u2019s father, Solomon Fisher. Jerry\nStark had established a general store ; Caleb Mefford owned a black-\nsmith shop, and Reason Vermilion was postmaster, carrying the\nletters around in his hat until he could deliver them ; he was also a\ncarpenter and cabinet maker. Tyre Haden, who had been married to\nEunice Fisher was mill-wright. A log school house had been built,\nwith a huge fireplace at one end and furnished with puncheon seats\nand desks. Pens, of course, were made of goose quills.\nChildren of Adam and Dulcenia Fisher :\n(46)210. Mary Ann Fisher, b. 1819; m. John Sitton ;\n(46)211. William Power Fisher, b. April 11, 1821 ; d. 1888; m. Sarah\nSettle ;\n(50)212. Sarah Fisher, m. John Shipp;\n(50)213. Joseph Fisher, b. 1824; m. Eliza Bryant.\nEunice Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) eldest daughter of\nSolomon and Mary Petty Fisher was born in Bourbon County, Ky.,\nsoon after her parents went there from the South Branch of the\nPotomac in Virginia where both had lived as children.\nOn December 31, 1818, about six months after Solomon and his\nfamily settled in Missouri, Eunice Fisher was married to Tyre A.\nHaden. This was the first marriage performed at Frankford, Mo.\nEunice and Tyre Haden long ago migrated to other parts. After re-\npeated efforts the compiler has not been able to find any record of them.\nGeorge Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was born on his sister\nEunice\u2019s birthday, if records are correct, in the year 1798. In 1821 he\nwas married to Eurania Porter who was born in Harrison County,\nKy., May 27, 1803. They lived on the county line between Ralls and\nPike Counties. It was this one of Solomon Fisher\u2019s sons who lived\nnear to (78) Joseph Fisher of the Lewis Fisher line.\nIn the spring of 1849 George Fisher, accompanied by his son\nAdam, started to California in the gold rush. They went overland\nwith five yoke of oxen, and were four months on the journey. Oxen\nwere used on these long journeys because of their great endurance\nand their ability to feed off the country better than horses.\nGeorge Fisher died in California on October 4, 1849.\nEurania Porter Fisher died at the home of her son Adam on No-\n(211) William Power Fisher\n(425) Gkrtrude Fisher Harding (1879- )\nPeno Creek, looking toward Fisher\u2019s\nCave and Spring, near Frankford, Mo.\nG.F.H.\n(307) George William Fisher\n(341) Lt. Col. William Loren Fisher (1877-1938)\n(440) Pauline Fishback Cash (1897- )\nLower, Lt. Col. William Loren Fisher at Tientsin, China.\n(93) William Fisher\n(50)214. John Porter Fisher, b. July 13. 1822; d. Nov. 25, 1903; m.\n1. Emmaline Early, 2. Loucilah Thompson;\n(51)215. Solomon Fisher, b. Nov. 1, 1824; d. May 27, 1863, after\nwounds at Vicksburg;\n(51)216. Adam Fisher, b. 1827; d. ca. 1906; m. Sarah Brown;\nAlso, three daughters.\nMaxamilla Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was born in\nBourbon County, Ky., as were all her parents\u2019 children except the\neldest (123) Adam, born in Virginia and the youngest, (132) Em-\nmarilla, born after they settled in Missouri.\nShe was married in 1821 to Adam Mase, who served as a Captain\nin the Black Hawk War in 1831 and 32. The Black Hawk War put an\nend to the dispute over lands along the Mississippi River, which had\nraged for many years between the Sac and Fox Indians and the white\nsettlers. The surname, Mase, was originally spelled Mace, and is\nrecorded so in both Missouri and Virginia. In Virginia the family\ncontinued the old spelling, a cousin of Solomon Fisher having mar-\nried Jemima Mace.\nMaxamilla Mase signed as a witness the Inventory of her brother,\nAdam Fisher\u2019s estate in 1825. She was the mother of nine children,\nbut after search of Census and inquiry sent to relatives in Frank-\nford names of only six children have been found. She died in 1892.\n217. Elizabeth Mase, b. 1834 ;\n218. Sarah Mase, b. 1836 ;\n219. John Mase, b. 1839;\n220. James M. Mase, b. 1842; m. Josephine Hickland of Wis-\nconsin ; children, Frederic, Cora ;\n221: William F. Mase, b. 1845; m. Susan Adams; children,\nJohn, Martha.\n222. Maxamilla Mase, b., after 1850.\nWilliam Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was born January\n5, 1804. He was married in Frankford, Mo. to Eliza Hostetter. This\nfamily remained in Frankford and descendants now reside there.\nIn U. S. Census of 1850 he is listed with wife, Eliza aged 36, and\nseven children. Two children were born after 1850:\n223. John Fisher, b. 1842; m. Kate Pritchett; children, Lewis,\nJames, Virginia ;\n224. Mary Fisher, b. 1834 ;\n225. Ann Fisher, b. 1836;\n226. Isaac Fisher, b. 1838 ;\n227. Matilda Fisher, b. 1843 ;\n228. Edward Fisher, b. 1845; m Gerry; one son, three\ndaughters ; went to California ;\n229. James Fisher, b. 1848; d. after 1928; m. Armelda Cash;\nchildren, Leta, Stella ;\n(52)230. Eunice Fisher, b. 1851 ; d. August 30, 1935 ; m. 1. G. Benton\nBrown, 2. Samuel Archambeau, 3. Thomas Beaver;\n231. Eliza Fisher, b. 1855.\nParthenia Fisher (Solomon. Adam. Sebastian) born in Kentucky,\naccompanied her parents to Missouri at the age of about eleven years.\nShe was married on September 9. 1827 to William Haden, brother\nof Tyre Haden, husband of Parthenia\u2019s older sister, Eunice.\n232. Edward Haden, m. Harriet Hostetter ; children, Cora, Homer.\n233. Mary Jane Haden ;\n234. Green Haden, living ; m Keithley ; one child ;\n235. Woodson Haden, m. Louisa Holman.\nJohn King Fisher (Solomon. Adam, Sebastian) was born in\nBourbon County. Ky. ; and in Frankford. Mo., on May 18, 1837, he\nwas married to America Gillespie. He was administrator of his\nfather\u2019s estate in 1841, but died before 1850.\n236. Nancy Fisher, b. 1839; m. Gabriel Meffort ; children. Fannie,\nMollie. John M., A. M.. and Louisa;\n237. Louisa Fisher, b. 1841 ; m. Newt Hostetter, children, Ida A.,\nprobably others.\nSelina Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) came to Missouri\nwith her parents when she was about four years of age. On Sep-\ntember 24. 1831. Selina was married at Frankford. Mo. to Turner\nHaden, brother of Tyre Haden and William Haden who had mar-\nried sisters of Selina Fisher at earlier dates. These Haden brothers\nwere born in Kentucky, but there are many records of this family in\nthat part of Virginia from which Solomon Fisher originally came.\n238. Fisher Haden, m. Evelina Griffith, sister of Nancy Jane Grif-\nfith, wife of (247) George W. Fisher.\n239. Thilda Haden;\n240. Elvira, or Elbira Haden.\nSolomon Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was an infant when\nhis father and mother migrated to Missouri. He was the only one\nof his immediate family too young to remember the long journey by\nway of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. He must have remembered\nthe excitement and sometimes tragedy of the early years of this\nfamily in Missouri. For instance, he was still a young boy when his\nmother was accidentally shot by one of his brothers. Hunting was a\npart of everyday life then, and such accidents occurred in many\nhomes, sometimes more than once. Solomon\u2019s father received a gun-\nshot wound in the leg in his later years. It does not follow that they\nwere either inexpert or careless. They were skilled in the use of fire-\narms from childhood, many times their very life depending on their\nSolomon Fisher\u2019s wife was Caroline Matilda Payne. The date of\nhis marriage is not at hand. Their large family has for the most part\nremained in Frankford, and there are many substantial citizens among\nthe descendants of Solomon and Matilda Fisher living in and around\nFrankford. The compiler can testify to their friendly hospitality,\nenjoyed during a visit to Frankford in 1928, and is indebted to\nthis branch particularly for most of the genealogical data given here.\nMrs. Robert L. Fishback a granddaughter of Solomon Fisher has\nbeen tireless in answering repeated requests for more.\n(53)241. Mary lone Fisher, b. 1842; m. Lewis R. Fields;\n(53)242. Emmarilla Fisher, b. 1844; m. Mason Benn;\n243. Julia Beatrice Fisher, m. Edward Jackson ; children, Bertha,\nMatilda ;\n244. Alice Fisher, (243 and 244 may have been younger than 247) ;\n245. Columbus Fisher, b. 1846;\n246. Ruf us Fisher, b. 1848 ;\n(53)247. George Washington Fisher, b. 1850; d. 1902; m. Nancy\nJane Griffith ;\n248. Henry Clay Fisher, m. Elizabeth Waltzlager ;\n249. Edward Fisher, m. Maggie Jeffries; children, Leonard and\nand Beatrice. Reside in Ogden, Utah.\nEmmarilla Fisher (Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) youngest of the\nchildren of Solomon and Mary Ann Fisher, was born in Missouri.\nShe was married to E. C. Turnbull, and to them was born one child :\n250. Elbira Turnbull, m. Samuel Dunkum ; children, James, died\nyoung, and Leta.\nJames Lewis Fisher (Joseph, Barnett, Lewis, Sebastian) was a\nson of (78) Joseph Fisher who migrated to Ralls County Mo. James\nFisher also went to Missouri, but followed the Mississippi River\nfarther to the north and settled in Lewis County, Mo. where he died\nafter 1850. His wife was Lucinda , to whom he was married in\nKentucky. He was on the Kentucky Tax Lists of 1827.\n251. Amanda F. Fisher, b. 1832;\n252. Nancy E. Fisher, b. 1834 ;\n253. Barnett Fisher, b. 18& ;\n254. Ann Mary Fisher, b. 1839 ;\n255. Martha Ellen Fisher, b. 1844 ;\n256. John Fisher.\nWilliam W. Fisher (Joseph, Barnett, Lewis, Sebastian) went to\nRalls County, Mo. with his parents in 1829 from Mercer County, Ky.\nOn Nov. 18, 1837 he was married to Sarah , who died about\n1851. He moved to Pike County. Mo. in 1848. In 1853 William W.\nFisher was married to Electa Watson daughter of Capt. Watson\nwho was a very early settler of that section of Missouri. Electa\nWatson Fisher survived her husband a few years. She was quite an\ninteresting elderly lady, and could remember the first steamboat that\narrived at Hannibal, Mo. Also she could give accounts of early\nIndian warfare, according to a sketch of her life in Pike County\nHistory, published in 1883. William W. Fisher died January 9, 1882.\nChildren of William W. and Sarah Fisher:\n257. Elizabeth Jane Fisher, b. 1839 ; d. 1876 ;\n258. James L. Fisher, b. 1841 ;\n259. Barnett W. Fisher, b. 1844 ; deaf and dumb ;\n260. Sarah E. Fisher, b. 1847 ;\n261. John D. Fisher ;\n262. Joseph A. Fisher ; went to Texas in 1889.\nAdam J. Fisher (John Jacob, John Adam, John Jacob, Sebastian)\nwas born in Penn Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, on April\n7, 1826. He was a farmer, teacher, and served the public as Road\nSupervisor, Tax Collector, School Director, and as a member of\nthe Snyder County Board of Commissioners. He was an Odd Fellow,\nRepublican and a Lutheran. In his youth he served in the local militia.\nMr. Fisher was self-educated, read and spoke both English and Ger-\nman with equal facility. As a man of exceptionally sound judgment\nhe was often consulted on various subjects by his neighbors.\nAdam J. Fisher was married on January 10, 1847 to Barbara\nWoodling, daughter of William and Ann Maria Gilbert Woodling,\nwho was born October 15, 1828, and died December 24, 1910. Mr.\nFisher died October 13, 1901.\n(54)263. Jacob Adam Fisher, b. Oct. 7, 1863; d. June3, 1940; m.\nClara Ella Herrold.\nSusanna Martha Fisher (William, Adam, Adam, Sebastian) eldest\ndaughter of William and Elizabeth Fisher was born September 18,\n1823. On January 24, 1844, she was married to Dr. William Oswald\nNewby of Culpeper County, Va. After the death of Dr. Newby she\nwas married in 1850 to Michael Lancaster. She died in 1867.\nChildren of first marriage :\n264. Elizabeth Ann Newby, b. Aug. 21, 1845; m. Capt. E. D.\nCamden ;\n265. William Oswald Newby, b. March 4, 1848; d. in infancy.\nChildren of second marriage :\n266. Sarah Jemima Lancaster, b. July 25, 1852 ; resided in Graf-\nton, W. Va.\n267. John McKendrie Lancaster, b. Dec. 1, 1853; d. in infancy;\n268. Lucy Euphrates Lancaster, b. Sept. 25, 1856; d. in infancy;\n269. Susanna Lancaster, b. July 31, 1859; m. Robert Stewart.\nJemima Fisher (William, Adam, Adam, Sebastian) was born\nJuly 13, 1828, and was married on August 29, 1848 to Jonathan\nKoiner, who was born on May 10, 1820, and died on June 8, 1889.\nHe was a lawyer, and practiced in Sutton, Braxton County, Va., now\nCXCVII.\nMary Ann Johnson (Mary Ann, Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian) was\nthe youngest of the children of Mary Ann Fisher and her husband,\nJames Johnson. She was born in Pendleton County, now W. Va., on\nJanuary 9, 1830, and was married on February 14, 1854 to Andrew\nJackson Rankin. For a time they lived with her husband\u2019s parents\nat Spring Hill, Augusta County, Va. Afterward Mr. Rankin owned\na flour mill near Franklin, W. Va. This old mill is still standing.\nDuring the Civil War the Confederate forces detained Mr. Rankin\nat home to run the mill, not allowing him to enter the service. Later\nwhen the Union forces took over the mill they forced him to run the\nmill for them. All during these times Mary Ann was safe with her\nhusband\u2019s parents across the Alleghenies at Spring Hill.\nAfter the war Andrew Jackson Rankin took his family to Mexico.\nMissouri, but soon removed to Pilot Point, Texas in the hope of\nfinding a more suitable climate. Mr. Rankin went into the milling\nbusiness in Sherman, Texas, where Mrs. Rankin died on November\n28, 1886. Mr. Rankin married a second time. He died June 25, 1901.\n(57)283. Lucie Ann Rankin, b. Jan. 29, 1855; d. Dec. 15, 1927; m.\nHenry James Cloyd ;\n284. Ida Cardwell Rankin, b. 1851 ; d. aged four years;\n285. Edgar Johnson Rankin, b. 1859; d. 1862;\n286. Susan Clara Rankin, b. June 11, 1861 ; d. July 7, 1933; m.\nO. F. Johnson ;\n287. Walter Temple Rankin, b. Sept. 14, 1864; d. ; m. 1.\nBirtie Brawner, 2. Annie Chafin ;\n288. Carolyn Wright Rankin, b. Oct. 18, 1867 ; d. March 25, 1915 ;\n289. Johnnie James Rankin, b. June 3, 1870; d. Oct., 1873.\nCCIII.\nWilliam Fisher (George, Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian) was born\nin Hardy County, now in West Virginia. His is the branch of the\nfamily that has to the present day resided on the original Adam Fisher\nland on the South Branch of the Potomac River.\nWilliam Fisher was married in the late 1840\u2019s to Mary Jane\nShultz, and to them were born the following children :\n290. Ann H. Fisher, b. 1849; d. 1851, drowned;\n291. John C. Fisher, b. 1851 ; d. 1915 ;\n292. George Otto Fisher, b. 1854; d. 1855;\n293. Emily Susan Fisher, b. 1856; d. 1939; m. Matthias Henkel ;\n(58)294. Clarence Fisher, b. 1859; d. 1939; m. Mary Eberly;\n(59)295. William Solomon Fisher, b. 1865 ; d. 1921 ; m. (297) Mary\nFisher ;\n296. Otto Shultz Fisher, b. 1868; living; m. Lillie Baker.\nCCVIII.\nJesse Fisher (George, Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian) was born on\nthe South Branch of the Potomac, in Hardy County, Va. in 1834 and\ndied there in 1917. He was first married to Jane Welton, and after\nher death he was married to Betty Paxton.\nChildren of Jesse and Jane Welton Fisher :\n(59)297. Mary Fisher, b. 1871; living; m. (295) William Solomon\n298. George Welton Fisher, b. 1872; d. 1928; m. Myrtle D.\nMiller ;\n(59)299. Eunice Virginia Fisher, b. 1874; living; m. Rev. A. M.\nEarle ;\n300. Annie Kate Fisher, b. 1876; d. 1884;\n(60)301. Adam Seymour Fisher, b. 1879; living; m. Virginia Van\nMary Ann Fisher (Adam, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was the\neldest of the children of Adam and Dulcenia Power Fisher of Frank-\nford, Mo. She was married about 1843 to John Sitton, and almost\nat once they took up their residence across the Mississippi River in\nPleasant Hill township. Pike County, Illinois, where they spent their\nlives. Mary Ann Sitton died prior to 1885.\n302. William Sitton. b. 1844; d. ; m. ;\n303. Fisher Sitton. b. 1849 ; d. ; m. ;\n304. Emma Sitton. b. 1852; d. ; m. ;\n305. Martha Fisher, b. 1856; d. ; m. ;\nCCXI.\nWilliam Power Fisher (Adam. Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was\nborn at Frankford, Mo. on April 11. 1821. When he was four years\nold his father met an untimely death, leaving his widow and four\nsmall children, of whom William P. was the second.\nWilliam\u2019s mother, Dulcenia, or Seney as she was called, lived in\nLincoln Co., Mo. for a time after her husband\u2019s death. Family\ntradition claims that she then went to Virginia, presumably to the\nhome of her father, William Power (s) in Lewis County, now in\nWest Virginia. Later the widow was married to Thomas Buchanan,\na widower, and they reared a family of four children by this second\nAt the age of twenty-two William P. Fisher was married in Lin-\ncoln Co., Mo. to his cousin, Sarah Settle(s). They resided in Pleasant\nHill township. Pike County. Illinois, until 1845 when they returned to\nLincoln Co.. Mo. In 1847 they removed to Prairie Township, Mont-\ngomery Co., Mo. where Mr. Fisher bought land, surveyed and laid\nout a beautiful farm of two hundred sixty-six acres. Much of the\nland surrounding his property was also surveyed by Mr. Fisher.\nA substantial log house was built first, but some years later a large\nframe house was erected. The original log structure was still in good\ncondition and occupied by renters in the year 1890. In early days\nWilliam and Sarah Fisher, while roaming through the woods in\nsummer came upon a wild rose bush bearing large blooms with a\ndouble row of petals. William tore the hem from the tail of his shirt\nand tied it on the bush. Early the next spring they transplanted the\nbush to their door-yard where it grew and bloomed for many years.\nWilliam P. Fisher enlisted in the Union Cause at Louisiana. Mo. on\nSeptember 3, 1861, as Second Lieutenant in Company \u201cC,\u201d Colonel\nFagg\u2019s Regiment of Missouri Militia.\nBy an Act of the Legislature of this border State of Missouri, ap-\nproved by the Governor on February 10, 1865, all male inhabitants\nbetween the ages of 18 and 45 years of age. with certain exceptions,\nwere required to enroll for military duty. There was a full enrollment\nin Montgomery County, and on July 18, 1865 Governor Fletcher\ncommissioned L. A. Thompson, Colonel, and William P. Fisher,\nLieut. Colonel of the Seventy-third Regiment, Missouri Militia.\nHowever, the regiment was never mustered in.\nIn 1866, Mr. Fisher was elected County Assessor in which service\nhe served four vears. He possessed considerab\u2019e skill as a physician,\nbut never practiced outside his family. It is a fact, however, that his\nskill saved the life of one member of his family, and relieved suf-\nferers many times.\nHe died at his home in the early spring of 1888. His wife died in\n1870, after a long illness. Mr. Fisher did not marry again, but\nreared his younger children with great affection and strict discipline.\n(60)306. Joseph Warren Fisher, b. June 2. 1844; d. Feb. 7. 1907: m.\nPollie Kizer ;\n(61)307. George William Fisher, b. Oct. 29. 1845; d. Aug. 15, 1925;\nm. Virginia Alta Muns ;\n308. Daughter, died in in fane v ;\n309. Mary Ann Fisher, b. Dec. 31, 1849; d. May 14. 1917; m. 1.\nWilliam Moore. 2. John Caldwell ;\n(62)310. Martha Fisher, b. Dec. 31, 1851; d. Feb. 11, 1926; m.\nGeorge A. Bohrer ;\n311. Child, died.\n312. Emily Fisher, b. Dec. 27, 1856; d. Sept. 24, 1923. unmarried.\n(65)313. Sally Fisher, b. Dec. 11, 1858; d. Dec. 22, 1924; m. Alex-\nander Jackson Henton ;\n314. Adam Fisher, b. d. aged four years;\n(65)315. Toba Fisher, b. Feb. 8, 1865; d. Sept. 14, 1940; m. James\nLawrence Feike.\nCCXII.\nSarah Fisher (Adam, Solomon, Adam. Sebastian) third child of\nAdam Fisher of Frankford, Mo., was married to John Shipp. and\nlived in Lincoln County, Mo. where she was known as a woman of\nfine Christian character and great sympathies. The compiler has no\nrecord of her except that above, which was the comment of a verv\nold lady who had known her. Sarah Shipp\u2019s husband was a southern\nsympathizer.\n316. Fisher Shipp, b. ; d. ; m. ;\nNames of other children not known.\nCCXIII.\nJoseph Fisher (Adam, Solomon. Adam. Sebastian) was scarcely\nmore than a year old when his father died at Frankford. Mo. Joseph\nwas married to Eliza Bryant about 1848. In the U. S. Census of 1850\nhe is listed as a saddler, living in Lincoln Countv, Mo. with his wife\nand one child :\n317. Mary Ann Fisher, b. 1849; d. ; m.\nThere may have been other children.\nCCXIV.\nJohn Porter Fisher (George. Solomon. Adam. Sebastian) was born\nJanuary 13. 1822 in RaUs Co.. Mo., and died on November 25. 1903.\nHe was married twice. His first wife was Emmeline Earlv to whom\nhe was married on October 5. 1848. In 1853 they moved to\u2019 Louisiana.\nMo. where Emmeline Fisher died in April. 1861.\nJohn Porter Fisher was married second to a young widow with\ntwo children, Loucilah Thompson Jones, daughter of William and\nSusan Hildreth Thompson. They resided at Saverton, Mo. where\nMr. Fisher engaged in farming:. Loucilah Thompson was born Mav\n28. 1841 and died March 5, 1923.\nChildren of first wife :\n318. George H. Fisher, b. July 19, 1849; d. Oct. 28, 1850;\n319. Cicero Early Fisher, b. March 16, 1851 ; d. Feb. 16, 1852.\n320. Laura Jane Fisher, b. Nov. 30, 1852; d. Dec. 9, 1852;\n321. Adeline Fisher, b. March 26, 1854; d. June 23, 1921; m.\nMarch 28, 1875 ; res. Meredosia, 111. ;\n322. John T. Fisher, b. Dec. 18, 1856; d. Oct. 18, 1916; m. ;\nres. Hannibal, Mo. ;\n323. Solomon A. Fisher, b. April 21, 1859; d. Jan. 29, 1928;\nm. March 5, 1923 ; res. Patagonia, Arizona ;\n324. Adam L. Fisher, b. April 28, 1861; d. Feb. 14, 1873; res.\nwith grandmother, Frankford, Mo. ;\nChildren of second wife :\n325. Fluella Fisher, b. Oct. 22. 1865 ; d. Feb. 1, 1927; m. Nov. 25,\n1884; res. Marshfield, Ore.;\n326. Viola B. Fisher, b. Feb. 23, 1867; living; m. Nov. 1, 1888;\nres. Chicago, 111. ;\n327. Samuel Jackson Fisher, b. Feb. 8, 1869; d. April 4, 1869;\n328. Ellen McLane Fisher, b. Feb. 8, 1870; d. Feb. 26, 1870;\n329. Fannie Shaw Fisher, b. Feb. 8, 1871 ; d. Sept. 18. 1877;\n330. Jessie M. Fisher, b. Nov. 10, 1872; living; m. W. W. Reid,\nAug. 1, 1897; res. Columbia, Mo.;\n331. Bertha H. Fisher, b. July 13, 1874; living; m. Nov. 1, 1894;\nres. Saverton, Mo. ;\n332. Porter H. Fisher, b. Feb. 11. 1876; d. April 16, 1912; res.\nSaverton, Mo. ;\n333. Virgil D. Fisher, b. Jan. 24, 1878; living; res. Saverton, Mo.;\n334. Russell H. Fisher, b. July 19, 1880; d. July 30, 1932; m.\nthree times ; res. Wilmington, N. C.\nCCXV.\nSolomon Fisher (George. Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was born\nNovember 1. 1824. He enlisted in the United States Army early in the\nCivil War, and was wounded on May 22, 1863, at the Seige of\nVicksburg. He died from the effects of his wounds on May 27, 1863.\nCCXVI.\nAdam Fisher (George. Solomon. Adam, Sebastian) was born in\nJanuary, 1827 in Ralls Co.. Mo. He was the third child of George\nand Eurania Porter Fisher. His early years were spent on his father\u2019s\n0101497 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE\nfarm. In 1847 he went to Hannibal, Mo. and engaged in cabinet\nmaking until the spring of 1849, when he accompanied his father to\nCalifornia. They went overland with five teams of oxen, taking five\nmonths to complete the journey. His father died on October 4th of\nthe same year, and was buried in California. Adam Fisher remained\nin California nearlv two vears. then returned bv water, arriving home\nDecember 1, 1850\u2032\nOn March 4, 1851 Adam Fisher was married to Sarah Brown,\ndaughter of George and Irene Brown of Pike Countv. They moved\nto Montgomery County. Mo. soon after and on Sept. 20, 1851 Mr.\nFisher entered original land near Middletown, located in section 16,\ntwp. 50, range 5, which he improved, and where the family lived for\neight years. Some of their children were born in Montgomery County,\none of whom was their son. George Fisher. When they returned to\nPike County the family resided on a farm near Frankford, Mo. In\n1881 Adam Fisher went into the hotel business in Frankford and\nwas a successful hotel man. He was a Mason and a member of the\nChristian Church. He died in Frankford in 1907.\nChildren : (Exact order of their ages is not known.)\n335. George Fisher, b. : d. 1908; m. Willie Ford; res. Calif.;\na son and a daughter ;\n336. Louisa Fisher, b. ; d. ; m Sutton ;\n337. Virginia Fisher, b. : d. ; m. John Layne ;\n338. Leila Fisher, b. d. ; m Blanton ;\n339. Eurania Bell Fisher, b. ; d. Dec. 26, 1931 ; m. W. E.\nJones ;\n340. John P. Fisher, b. ; living; m. Zora Jameson; res. New\nLondon, Mo. ; son and daughter ;\n(66)341. William Loren Fisher, b. June 4. 1877; d. Dec. 29, 1938;\ncexxx.\nEunice Fisher (William. Solomon. Adam. Sebastian) was one of\nthe younger children of the family of William and Eliza Hostetter\nFisher, and the only one of whom the compiler has sufficient material\nfor a sketch. Eunice Fisher was a resident of Frankford, Mo.\nthroughout her entire life. She was first married to G. Benton Brown,\nwho was the father of all her family. Second, she was married to\nSamuel Archambeau. Third, she was married to Thomas Beaver.\nShe survived all three husbands. She was a high spirited woman,\npossessed a strong sense of humor, and had the ability to tell a good\nstory. The compiler was fortunate enough to visit with her when she\nwas seventy-six. Her health was good except for deafness, and her\ncallers were delighted with her accounts of some of her experiences.\nShe was badly scalded, and died from the effects on August 30,\n1935, at the age of eighty-three years.\nChildren of Eunice and G. Benton Brown :\n342. Efhe Brown, b. July 17, 1872; living; m. J. Clay Donovan;\nson, John Clay Donovan ;\n343. John Brooks Brown, b. Nov. 11, 1876; living; m. Zella Benn ;\n344. Homer Brown, b. Nov. 18, 1887; living; m. Edna Eeith ;\ndaughter, Zella Mae.\nCCXLI.\nMary lone Fisher (Solomon, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was the\neldest of the children of Solomon and Matilda Payne Fisher. She\nspent her life in or near Frankford, Mo., living to be well past eighty\nyears of age. Her descendants are among the substantial citizens of\nFrankford.\nlone Fisher was married to Lewis R. Fields, and their children\n345. Ada Fields, b. Sept. 11, 1864; d. Sept. 20, 1894; m. Guil-\nford Harris;\n(66)346. Edgar Anderson Fields, b. Sept. 20, 1868; d. Jan. 14, 1934;\nm. Mary Stanford Weatherf ord ;\n347. George Fields, b. July 21, 1871 ; d. June 7, 1937; m. Kath-\nerine Ruffin ;\n348. Ferdinan(d) Fields, b. Dec. 8, 1876; living; m. Maud\nCCXLII.\nEmmarilla Fisher (Solomon, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) second\ndaughter of Solomon and Matilda Fisher was a resident of Frank-\nford all her life. She was married to Mason Benn and had the fol-\nlowing children :\n349. Maud Benn, b. Oct. 30, 1870; d. Oct. 30, 1933; m\n350. Ruth Lucinda Benn, b. Jan. 14, 1876; living; m\nShotwell ; res. Mercedes, Tex. ;\n(69)351. Hiram David Benn, b. April 11, 1881; living; m. Lura\nMaud Cash.\nCCXLVII.\nGeorge Washington Fisher (Solomon, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian)\nwas born in Pike County, Mo., in 1850. His name appears in the\nU. S. Census of 1850 as an infant of less than one year.\nHis wife was, before her marriage, Nancy Jane Griffith. About\n1887 Mr. Fisher removed to Nevada, Mo., where Mrs. Fisher died\nAugust 31, 1892. In 1895 Mr. Fisher returned to Pike County,\nMo. where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in 1920.\n(69)352. Hattie O\u2019Kane Fisher, b. Nov. 29, 1875; living; m. Robert\nLee Fishback ;\n353. Sallie Bell Fisher, b. June 15, 1881; living; m\nMantiply.\nCCLXIII.\nJacob A. Fisher (Adam J., John Jacob, John Adam, John Jacob,\nSebastian) seems to have been the only child of Adam J. Fisher\nof Snyder County, Pa. He was born near Selinsgrove, in Snyder\nCo., on Oct. 7, 1863, and died in Selinsgrove June 6, 1940. He was\na man of great industry. He was a farmer, market gardener, business\nman, and public servant. He was a member of the Lutheran church,\nthe Republican Party, and of the Odd Fellows Lodge. He served as\nTax Assessor for the town of Selinsgrove for thirteen years, and\nwas the founder of the Pennsylvania Colony at Vero Beach, Florida,\nwhere he spent his winters during the last twenty years of his life.\nHe had the advantage of the rural school but was widely read, and\nhad knowledge far beyond his formal schooling.\nJacob A. Fisher was married on December 25, 1884 to Clara Ella\nHerrold, daughter of John George and Rosalina Roush Herrold, who\nwas born in Chapman township, Snyder Co., Pa. on Sept. 17, 1865.\nShe is still living.\n(70)354. Charles A. Fisher, b. April 20, 1886; living; m. Vera\nHummel ;\n355. George A. Fisher, b. Oct. 4, 1890; living; m. Mary Keiser;\n356. Eva May Fisher, b. Nov. 7, 1893; d. March 11, 1937; m.\nArthur H. Charles.\n357. Luther A. Fisher, b. July 10, 1901; living; m. Bernice\nCCLXXV.\nFelix Rush Fisher (Benjamin F., William. Adam, Adam, Sebas-\ntian) was the second son of Benjamin and Margaret Sutton Fisher,\nthe first son, William, having died in infancy. Felix Fisher was\nmarried to Nancv Virginia Hyer on Deceml)er 4. 1877. Mr. Fisher\ndied Dec. 19, 1938; his wife died October 27, 1 ( X)5. They were the\nparents of these children :\n358. John Luther Fisher, b. Dec. 1, 1878; living ;\n359. Frank Fisher, h. Dec. 20, 1880 ; living ;\n360. James Byrl Fisher, b. April 17, 1885 ; living.\nCCLXXVI.\nJohn Luther Fisher (Benjamin F., William. Adam, Adam, Sebas-\ntian) was born May 4, 1860. On May 20, 1886 he was married to\nSarah C. Squires who was born January 27, 1865. Mr. Fisher died\nOcty5, 1932. He was a most esteemed Christian gentleman.\n361. Margaret Fisher, b. Jan. 20, 1891 ; living;\n362. George Prince Fisher, b. Dec. 9, 1894; living;\n363. Ruth Fisher, b. May 1. 1899; living;\n364. Susan Fisher, b. Aug. 25, 1903; living; soprano, (Susanne\nFisher) graduated from Cincinnati Conservatory; studied\nat Juilliard Graduate School, N. Y. ; sang in Berlin and\nParis; debut. Metropolitan Opera Company, N. Y., 1935.\nCCLXXVII.\nSusan Elizabeth Fisher (Benjamin F., William, Adam, Adam, Se-\nbastian), daughter of Benjamin and Margaret Sutton Fisher was\nborn April 29. 1864. On November 19, 1885 she was married to\nJohn Lloyd who was born February 14, 1859 and died October 6,\n1920. Mrs. Lloyd is living.\n365. Victor Fisher Lloyd, b. Feb. 10, 1887; living;\n366. Gertrude Margaret Lloyd, b. March 7, 1889; living;\n367. Bruce W. Lloyd, b. Oct. 8, 1892; living;\n368. Mary C. Lloyd, b. April 3, 1895 ; living ;\n369. Benjamin Franklin Lloyd, b. Feb. 28. 1899; living;\n370. Annie M. Lloyd, b. April 27, 1901 ; living;\n371. Florence Sue\u201d Lloyd, b. March 18, 1903; living;\n372. Caroline Lloyd, b. May 8, 1905 ; d. May 25, 1905 ;\n373. John Luther Lloyd, b. Sept. 9, 1908; d. 1926.\nCCLXXVIII.\nGeorge Bailey Fisher (Benjamin F.. William. Adam, Adam. Se-\nbastian) was born to Benjamin and Margaret Sutton Fisher on\nMay 27. 1867. He was married to Flla Glenn on March 1, 1897\nMrs. Fisher was born October 10, 1869.\n374. William Glenn Fisher, b. Jan. 6. 1898; d. Jan. 4. 1934;\n375. Mary Bailey Fisher, b. May 5. 1900; living:\n376. Helen Frances Fisher, b. Sept. 18. 1902; living;\n377. Rush Fisher, b. Oct. 28. 1907 ; living.\nJake Fisher (Benjamin F.. William. Adam, Adam. Sebastian) was\nborn at Sutton. W. Va. May 26, 1871. On August 5. 1897 he was\nmarried to Ella Byrd Corbett. who was born July 16, 1871. He\nbraved the strong disapproval of his father and others of his family\nwhen he studied law. but he has had a most eminent career in his\nchosen profession.\nFrom 1899 to 190$ the Honorable Jake Fisher was a member of\nthe West Virginia House nf Delegates, and in 1904 he was a mem-\nber of the Senate. He took his present position, that of Judge of the\nFourteenth Circuit, on January 1. 1913. He very modestly states that\ndue to good health he has been permitted to make something of a\nrecord on the bench, \u2014 he has been neither absent nor late at a session\nof Court which it was his duty to attend, although he has presided\nover four Counties and there is but the one court in these counties.\nHe states that he has had the remarkable experience of having less\nthan two hundred persons in his circuit who were other than native\nborn white. Judge Fisher\u2019s term of office is due to expire in 1944. and\nhe says that he will regret to take leave of his people for they have\nbeen so very good to him. He has been a member of the State\nJudicial Council since its institution in 1934. In 1924. Judge Fisher\nwas the Democratic nominee for Governor of West Virginia.\nThe few words with which Judge Fisher has complied with the\ncompiler\u2019s request for something about his work have expressed his\ntrue greatness; they have given us a glimpse of his deep feeling of\nresponsibility, and of affection for those who have come under his\ncare. While a more detailed account of his work would be desirable,\nit would of necessity have been furnished by someone other than\n378. Frank Corbett Fisber. 1\u00bb. June 25. 1808; living;\n379. William Holt Fisher, b. Aug. 3. 1000; d. May 28. 1902;\n380. Mary Jake Fishery May 26, 1903; living;\n381. V irgin j^ j ffi^oth lMsher, b. May 13, 1905; living;\n382. BaSgfiyisher, b. March 17, 1909; living.\nWilliam Fisher (Benjamin F., William, Adam, Adam, Sebastian)\nyoungest son of Benjamin and Margaret Sutton Fisher was born\nOctober 30, 1873. He was married to Fanny B. Berry on November\n17, 1897. Mrs. Fisher was born December 31, 1875.\n383. Mary Elizabeth Fisher, b. Nov. 17, 1898; living;\n384. Edna May Fisher, b. Sept. 28, 1903 ; living ;\n385. Frances Gertrude Fisher, b. July 14, 1910; living.\nAnnie Fisher (Benjamin F., William, Adam, Adam, Sebastian)\nwas born April 6, 1876. She was married to Alpheus L. Morrison on\n386. Helena Morrison, b. Nov. 9, 1900; living;\n387. Clarence Fisher Morrison, b. Oct. 2, 1902; living;\n388. Martha Tyree Morrison, b. Feb. 11, 1904; living;\n389. Herman Rush Morrison, b. Jan. 23, 1906; living;\n390. Ruth Morrison, b. July 9, 1908 ; living ;\n391. Mabel Morrison, b. Feb. 8, 1911 ; living;\n391. James Wilbur Morrison, b. June 29, 1913; living;\n393. William Bailey Morrison, b. Sept. 27, 1919; living;\n394. Robert Jake Morrison, b. Oct. 25, 1924.\nLucie Ann Rankin (Mary Ann, Mary Ann, Dr. Jacob, Adam. Se-\nbastian) was born January 29, 1855 at Spring Hill, Augusta County,\nVa. At the age of about twelve years she went with her parents\nto Mexico, Missouri, where they resided for a while and then re-\nmoved to Pilot Point, Texas where Lucie Ann met her future husband,\nHenry James Cloyd of Cumberland County, Kentucky. They were\nmarried on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1876, at Sherman,\nTexas, and went immediately to reside in Kentucky.\nMr. Cloyd became very ill, supposedly of \u201cBright\u2019s disease\u201d and\nwas taken to Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, for treatment. His\nhealth was greatly improved after a time, but wishing to remain at\nRed Boiling Springs, he joined the mercantile business of Capt.\nJames Bennett. Later Mr. Cloyd and his brothers formed a stock\ncompany and bought the Upper Red Boiling Springs and built a\nsummer hotel which he ran for several years. Difficulties arose be-\ntween the Cloyds and the owner of another hotel, leading to heavy\nlawsuits, and although the settlement was in Cloyd\u2019s favor, the de-\npression of 1893. and the death of one of the partners led Lucie Ann\u2019s\nhusband to sell out and go to Oklahoma where he bought farm-\ning land.\nThe family, however, moved once again, this time to Madison,\nTennessee, near Nashville, where Lucie Ann Rankin Cloyd died on\nDecember 15. 1927, survived bv her husband.\n395. Lelia Ethel Cloyd, b. Sept. 22, 1877; living; unmarried;\nformer teacher ;\n396. Flossie Cloyd, b. Dec. 6, 1879; living, unmarried; taught;\nwith Pub. House of M. E. Church, South, since July,\n1922; now on Editorial Staff of The Christian Advocate,\n397. Marvin Kavanaugh Cloyd, b. July 3, 1882; living; m. 1.\nInez Russell. 2. Eulalia ; daughter, Lorene Cloyd ;\nPrinting business, San Francisco, Cal. ;\n398. Otis McTiere Cloyd. b. April 29, 1886; living; m. Jean Bus-\ncomb; four years in Navy; res. Yreka, Calif.; Children:\nThomas, William, Eugene ;\n399. Georgia Pierce Cloyd, b. Oct. 31, 1888; living; m. Clarence\nMalone ; res. Apache, Okla. ; Stock raiser and automobile\nbusiness ; children : Mary Ellen. Claude ;\n400. Richard Haynes Cloyd, b. Aug. 9, 1891; living; m. Agnes\nChase; served in Air Squadron, American Expeditionary\nForces, 1917-8; lawyer; res. Norman, Okla.; daughters:\nDorothy, Agnes ;\n401. Ruth Cloyd. b. Aug. 9, 1894; living; m. Rev. Edgar U. Rob-\ninson ; res. Tenn.. son, Clovd Andrew Robinson.\nCCXCIV.\nClarence Fisher (William. George. Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebastian)\nwas born at the old Fisher homestead near Moorefield, on the South\nBranch of the Potomac River, in Hardv Countv, now W. Va. in\n1859. He resided there all his life. In the 1890\u2019s Clarence Fisher\nwas married to May Eberly. He died in 1939.\n402. William Eberly Fisher, b. 1896; living; m. Janie Dahmer;\n403. Eleanor Barnard Fisher, b. 1898; living; m. Aaron Welton ;\nChildren: Kleanor, Aaron, Mary. Clarence;\n404. Martha Virginia Fisher, b. 1899; in. Joseph Chipley; son:\n405. Mary Shultz Fisher, b. 1901 ; living ; m. William Grafton ;\ndaughter: Patricia Jane;\n406. Emily Rehecca Fisher, b. 1903 ; living ;\n407. Jacob Clarence Fisher, b. 1906; living;\n408. Laura Cunningham Fisher, b. 1910; living; m. Thomas Ran-\nkin ; son : John Lawrence :\n409. Clarence C. Fisher, h. 1913.\nCCXCV.\nWilliam Solomon Fisher (William, George. Dr. Jacoh, Adam. Se-\nbastian) was born at the old Fisher homestead in 1865, and lived\nin the same neighborhood throughout his life. He was married in\nto his cousin (297) Mary Fisher, daughter of (208) Jesse\nFisher. William S. Fisher died in 1921 ; his wife is living and has\nbeen of great assistance to the compiler in securing genealogical\nmaterial on the family of her husband, and on her own family.\nCCXCVII.\nMary Fisher (Jesse. George, Dr. Jacob. Adam. Sebastian) was\nborn in 1871. She was married to her cousin (295) William Solomon\nFisher and the names of their children have been given under her\nhusband\u2019s name. Mrs. Fisher has been of great service in gathering\nmaterial on this West Virginia branch of the Fisher family, and the\ncompiler wishes to express her appreciation.\nCCXCIX.\nEunice Virginia Fisher (Jesse. George. Dr. Jacob. Adam. Sebas-\ntian) was born in 1874. She was married to Rev. A. M. Farle, and\nthey served as missionaries at Kunsan, Korea, under the Southern\nPresbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. They returned to the\nUnited States in 1911. Mrs. Earle is living, but her husband has been\ndead for a number of years.\n414. Jesse Burns Earle, b. 1908; living; m. Christine Pleasants;\ndaughter, Linda ;\n415. Elizabeth Fisher, b. 1910; living; m. Rowland Fisher; chil-\ndren : John A., Virginia ;\n416. Alexander Earle, b. 1911 ; living; m. Archer Coke;\n417. Eunice Virginia Earle, b. 1914; living; unmarried.\nCCCI.\nAdam Seymour Fisher (Jesse, George, Dr. Jacob, Adam, Sebas-\ntian) was born in 1879. He was the youngest child of Jesse and Jane\nWelton Fisher. He was married to Virginia Van Meter, and they\nhave the following children :\n418. Van Meter Fisher, b. 1903; living;\n419. Margaret Fisher, b. 1905; living;\n420. Adam Seymour Fisher, b. 1907; living;\n421. William Fisher, b. 1909; d. 1909;\n422. George E. Fisher, b. ; living; m. Hilda Puettebaugh ;\nChildren : George, Nellie, William Welton, and Anne Doug-\nlas Fisher ;\n423. Virginia Lee Fisher, b. 1917.\nCCCVI.\nJoseph Warren Fisher (William P., Adam. Solomon. Adam. Se-\nbastian) was the eldest son of William Power Fisher and Sarah\nSettle Fisher. He was born on June 2, 1844 in Pleasant Hill town-\nship. Pike County. Illinois. His parents returned to Missouri in\n1845 and lived in Lincoln County until 1847 when they went to Mont-\ngomery County, Mo. and remained there.\nJoseph Fisher enlisted in the First Provisional Enrolled Missouri\nMilitia as a private in Company B. 1st Regiment. July 26. 1863, and\nwas discharged November 14, 1863; he again enlisted in the early\nsummer of 1864 as a private in Company C. 67th Regiment, and\nwas discharged December 6, 1864. He was pensioned June 27, 1890.\nOn February 18, 1869 Joseph Fisher was married to Pollie Kizer.\ndaughter of John Kizer, at Price\u2019s Branch, Missouri. They lived in\nMontgomery County. Mo. until 1880 when they went to Salida,\nColorado. Mr. Fisher was employed in grocery business for many\nyears, but he was afflicted with a heart ailment and was finally un-\nable to work. On the morning of February 7, 1907, Joseph was found\nto have died in his sleep. He was a quiet mannered, pleasant gentle-\nman. He was very fond of reading good literature.\nDaughter :\n424. Leona Fisher, b. Feb. 15, 1871 ; living; m. 1. Frank Martenis,\n2. Wilse S. Brewster.\nCCCVII.\nGeorge William Fisher (William P., Adam, Solomon, Adam, Se-\nbastian) was the second son of William Power Fisher and his wife\nSarah Settle Fisher. He was born at Clarksville, Mo., where his\nparents had put up for the night after crossing the Mississippi on\ntheir return from Illinois where they had resided since their mar-\nriage. George\u2019s boyhood was spent in Prairie Township, Mont-\ngomery County. Mo., on his father\u2019s farm where deer and wild turkey\nabounded, and hunting was a daily pastime. When the Wabash rail-\nroad was built through Montgomery Co., about 1856, George walked\nto New Florence, a distance of twelve miles to see the first train\npass through.\nGeorge was encouraged to get all the schooling obtainable, and his\nfather lent a hand for he knew what could be done for one\u2019s self\nin the matter of education.\nOn February 29, at the age of eighteen, George enrolled, with his\nfather\u2019s consent, so the record states, arid was mustered into service\nat St. Charles, Mo., as a private in Company I, 31st Regiment Mis-\nsouri Volunteer Infantry. He was transferred to Company C, Con-\nsolidated Battalion, 31st and 32nd Regiments; was again transferred\nto Company F., 32nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He\nwas honorably discharged as a private on July 18, 1865 by reason\nof the muster out of his company on that date. However, George\nFisher was not with his company at the time of his discharge. On\nJune 3, 1865 he was critically injured in a railroad accident at Cum-\nberland, Maryland, and was admitted to the U. S. A. General Hospi-\ntal at Cumberland on the same day. He remained unconscious and in\nextremely critical condition due to fracture of the skull, multiple\ncompound fracture of the left arm, and compound fracture of the\nhip. After several weeks he regained consciousness and his father\nwho had arrived at Cumberland, was allowed to remove his son to\nMissouri, doubting that he would survive the trip, but George thought\nhe could live if he could be at home. It seemed hopeless, but there\nmight be a chance. After many months under his father\u2019s care,\nGeorge regained a fair state of general health, although his hip,\nwhich had been infected \u2018from the first had not healed. He pursued\nhis ambition to become a lawyer, a profession for which he seemed\nto be naturally endowed. He attended Pritchett Institute at Glasgow,\nand also read law with a practitioner.\nLater, it became evident that George\u2019s frail physical condition\nwould prevent his becoming a lawyer, and he took up teaching in\nthorough fashion. His interest was in his older pupils, who were\ntaught Latin, Greek, trigonometry, astronomy, and other subjects.\nHe tried to arouse an ambition in them for the professions of law\nor medicine. He was successful in several instances.\nOn March 11, 1879, George W. Fisher was married to Virginia\nAlta Muns, daughter of George and Alta Doolittle Muns, natives of\nNew York State. Virginia was born on March 11, 1863, and was, at\nthe time of their marriage, only half the age of her husband. In\n1882. George Fisher went to the Territory of New Mexico seeking\nmore robust health. His wife did not go with him and in a few years,\nwas granted a divorce, with the custody of the one child. In October,\n1892 Mrs. Fisher went to New Mexico, and they were remarried.\nIn 1896, they again separated quietly, Mrs. Fisher returning to Mis-\nsouri, accompanied by the daughter, and in a few years Mr. Fisher\nentered the Soldiers\u2019 Home at Sawtelle. near Los Angeles, Calif.\nHe was engaged in the culture of roses during his residence at Saw-\ntelle. About 1911. he transferred east and spent his last years at\nHampton. Virginia, where he died at the Hospital of the Soldiers\u2019\nHome on August 15, 1925.\nMr. Fisher was a devout Mason, a Republican, and a member of\nthe Albuquerque, N. Mex., school board almost from the beginning\nof its existence, and took a lively interest in politics in the Territory.\nHe was at one time the owner of a large amount of real estate there.\n(73)425. Gertrude Fisher, b. Dec. 29. 1879; living; m. Maynard\nCaldwell Harding. M.D.\nMartha Fisher (William P., Adam, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian)\nwas born in Prairie Township. Montgomery County, Mo.. December\n31. 1859. She spent her entire life in that community with the ex-\nception of a few years lived in Idaho, where she removed with her\nchildren when an elderly widow.\nOn April 3. 1879 she was married to George Asher Bohrer. son\nof Henrv and Sinia Wycoff Bohrer of Williamsburg, Ohio. Mr.\nBohrer died of pneumonia on March 2, 1894. He was a Civil War\nMartha Fisher Bohrer died at Bellvue. Idaho, February 11, 1926.\n426. Sina Elizabeth Bohrer. m. March 18. 1880; living; m. Oscar\nE. Sailor; son. Buel Sailor, b. March 28. 1901 ;\n427. Edith Bell Bohrer, b. April 6, 1883 ; d. Aug. 24, 1898 ;\n428. William Henry Bohrer, b. Nov. 16, 18X5; d. July 7, 1933;\nunmarried ;\n429. Georgia Fisher Bohrer, b. July 7, 1889; living; m. ( ary\nBowles; children: llarrv Merritt, b. Nov. 2, 1 ( X)8; Win-\nfred Kmil. b. July 22. 1916; James Asher. b. Feb. 14, 1919.\nSallie Fisher (William P., Adam, Solomon, Adam. Sebastian)\nwas born at the Fisher home in Montgomery Co.. Mo. on December\n11. 1858. She was the most typical Fisher in appearance of all the\nchildren of William P. Fisher, resembling the old Fishers more than\nher father did. Her entire life was spent in Montgomery County, Mo.\nOn February 21. 1884. Sallie Fisher was married to Alexander\nJackson Henton who was born June 25. 1860. and died Feb. ( ). 1930,\nat the home of his daughter. Sallie Fisher Henton died December\n430. Lelia Henton. b. April 11. 1892; living; m. George Elmer\nBowlby ; adopted son. Donald Sailor Bowlby.\nToba Fisher (William P., Adam, Solomon. Adam. Sebastian) was\nthe youngest child of William P. and Sarah Settle Fisher. At the age\nof about six years she had the great misfortune of losing her mother.\nHer older sisters and her father gave her most affectionate care,\nand she was taught to be industrious and willing. She lead a very\nactive and useful life, devoted to her home and family. She was\nmarried to James Lawrence Feike on October 7, 1888. They lived\nin Las Vegas Hot Springs, and Albuquerque. New Mexico, and in\nKansas City, Missouri. Mr. Feike was for many years an express\nmessenger for Wells Fargo, and later was in charge of a Fred Harvey\nSupp\u2019y car between Kansas City and Los Angeles. Calif. Mrs. Feike\nand her husband lived on a farm in Missouri for a few years after\nhis retirement, but returned to Kansas City after Mrs. Feike had\nbroken her hip. Her death occurred September 14, 1940.\n431. Wilhelmina Feike. b. Oct. 16. 1889; living: unmarried;\nNurses\u2019 training. Wesley Hospital. Kansas City, did pri-\nvate duty, then Public Health nursing \u2014 five years with\nChildren\u2019s Mercy Hospital, and since with Visiting Nurse\nAssociation, of which she is a Supervisor.\n432. Hazel Feike. b. June 2<). 1895; d. Oct. 25. 1938; m. W. C. Cochrum; daughter: Lucille, b. May 5. 1915; m. W. W. Morgan, divorced. 65 CCCXLI. Lieutenant Colonel William Loren Fisher (Adam, George, Adam, Solomon, Adam, Sebastian) was born on a farm west of Frankford, Pike County, Mo., June 4, 1877. He died on December 29, 1938 at Letterman Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco, California, two days after he had suffered a heart attack at the Presidio. He was never married. William Loren Fisher was a brilliant student. After his graduation from high school he attended Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va., from which he was graduated, and was ordained to the ministry of the Christian Church. Continuing his studies at Yale, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and won a Rhoades Scholarship at Oxford. After his return to the United States he held pastorates in New York City, Somerset, Pa., Bellaire, O., and Seattle, Wash. He joined the United States Army in 1917 and was assigned to Chaplain service at Camp Lewis, Wash. Later, he was chaplain at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and at Honolulu, T. H. He was after- ward made acting chief of the service and was located at Washing- ton, D. C. for two years, then assigned to duty at Tientsin, China, with the outpost of the 30th Infantry. Returning to the United States in 1935 with the rank of Major he was advanced to Lieutenant Colonel and stationed at the Presidio, San Francisco. Interested in the problems of his fellow men he was a personal friend to the soldier as well as spiritual advisor. Having traveled in many parts of the world he was keenly interested in the history and customs of other countries, which gave him a wealth of knowledge of international affairs. While on duty in China he and a sergeant were captured by Chinese bandits and held for ransom. He was released without ransom after several days. When on a visit to Frankford after his return to Amer- ica he was asked how he obtained his release, and he replied, \u201cI ta\u2019ked them out of it.\u201d CCCXLVI. Edgar Anderson Fields (Mary lone, Solomon, Solomon, Adam. Sebastian) was born at Frankford, Pike Co., Mo. on September 20, 1868. He was married on March 27, 1889 to Mary Stanford Weath- er ford, of the Leland Stanford family, who was born at Frankford on March 19, 1867. \u201d At the age of sixteen Edgar Fields began work as a stone cutter at the Monument Works and his natural skill very soon became evi- dent. The variety and scope of his interests increased as the years went by, and he became owner of the monument works, a general store, and undertaking establishment. 66 He was a member of the school board of Frankford, a trustee in his church. He was a very highly esteemed citizen, much loved for his genial i>ersonality as well as high integrity. At his death on Janu-\nary 14, 1934, Frankford lost one of her most valuable citizens.\nMrs. Fields resides in Frankford as do four of their children :\n433. Goldie Nadine Fields, b. June 11, 1890; living; m. Farle\nHulse ; res. New London. Mo. ;\n434. Guilford Leon Fields, b. July 24, 1893; living; unmarried;\nres. New York City ;\n435. Leland Stanford Fields, b. Jan. 11, 1896; living; m. Mary\nSanderson ; res. Frankford ;\n436. Dorsey lone Fields, b. Aug. 8, 1898; living; m. Edward\nMegowan ; res. Frankford ;\n437. Charles Edward Fields, b. Jan. 1, 1900; living; unmarried;\nres. Frankford;\n438. Howard Weatherford Fields, b. Sept. 25, 1903; living; m.\nMary Una La Motte ; res. Frankford.\nCCCLI.\nHiram David Benn (Emmarilla. Solomon, Solomon, Adam, Sebas-\ntian) was the youngest of three children in the family of Emmarilla\nand Mason Benn. He was born in Pike County, Mo. on April 11,\n1881. On April 17, 1907 he was married to Lura Maud Cash, who\nwas born December 9. 1882. Mr. Benn is engaged in farming. He is\na most substantial citizen.\n439. Mason Cash Benn, b. May 6, 1908; living, m. Kathryn Hol-\nman ; one son.\nCCCLII.\nHattie O\u2019Kane Fisher (George Washington, Solomon, Solomon,\nAdam. Sebastian) eldest of two daughters of George Washington\nand Nancy Jane Griffith Fisher, was born in Pike County, Mo., No-\nvember 29. 1875. Her childhood was spent there until she was about\ntwelve years old, when she went with her parents to Nevada, Mo.\nShe was graduated from the Nevada High School. Her mother died\nat Nevada. Mo. on August 31. 1892. Mr. Fisher returned to Frank-\nford, Mo. in 1895. and it was there that Hattie Fisher was married\non August 12. 1896 to Robert Lee Fishback. born December 13, 1863\nin Pike County. Mo. He is the son of Samuel A. and Rebecca Davis\nFishback.\nHattie Fisher Fishback has always been interested in her people,\nand the compiler is deeply indebted to her for much of the informa-\ntion concerning the descendants of Solomon Fisher at Frankford,\n1 Mo. She has been tireless in answering the inquiries sent her, and it\nwas a great pleasure to be her guest in 1928. The Fishbacks live in a\nmost comfortable farmhouse and are genial hosts.\n440. Pauline Beatrice Fishback, b. June 4, 1897 ; living ; m. Wirt\nMefford Cash; res. St. Louis, Mo.\nCCCLIV.\nCharles Adam Fisher (Jacob A., Adam J., John Jacob, John Adam,\nJohn Jacob, Sebastian) was born near Selinsgrove, Snyder County,\nPa., April 20, 1886. He attended rural schools, graduated from\nKeller\u2019s Business College, from Lebanon University, from Yale\nwith A.B., from Susquehanna University with A.M., and from\nChristian College, Iowa, with Ph.D. In 1923 Thiel College conferred\nthe honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration on him.\nDr. Fisher served as supervising principal at Sugar Grove, Russell,\nand Littletown, Pa., and principal of the high school at Lewiston.\nPa. In 1920 he became head of the Department of Business Admin-\nistration at Susquehanna University at Selinsgrove. In 1930 he ac-\ncepted a similar position at John B. Stetson University, DeLand,\nF\u2019a. He is a 32 Degree Mason, a Lutheran, Republican, Fellow of\nthe Institute of American Genealogy, and a member of many other\nlearned societies, Vice-President of the Florida State Society of the\nSons of the American Revolution, and is historian for a score of\ncentral Pennsylvania pioneer families. He is compiler of the Wood-\nling Family History, of Descendants of Michael Fisher (1724- 1776),\nof The Snyder County Pioneers, and of The Abstracts of the Snyder\nCounty Probate and Orphans Court Records.\nIn 1908 Dr. Fisher was married to Vera A. Hummel, a teacher,\ndaughter of Simon and Margaret Sassaman Hummel.\n441. Grace Arline Fisher, b. Oct. 17, 1908; A.M., Pennsylvania\nState ; m. Claude Bedeaux ;\n442. Bernice Fisher, b. Aug. 20, 1912; A.B., Stetson University;\nA.M., Bucknell University; a teacher; unmarried;\n443. Harold J. Fisher, b. Dec. 23, 1914; three years at Stetson\nUniversity ; m. Marian Weeks ;\n444. Charles A. Fisher, b. Feb. 5, 1919; mechanic; m. Lois\nRainey ;\n445. Mary Elizabeth Fisher, b. May 28, 1920; Class of \u201942,\nStetson University;\n446. Paul H. Fisher, b. Dec. 11, 1921 ; Class of \u201943, Stetson Univ. ;\n447. James F. Fisher, b. July 5, 1928 ; high school student.\nCCCCXXV.\nGertrude Fisher (George W., William P., Adam, Solomon, Adam,\nSebastian) was born in Bear Creek Twp., Montgomery County, Mo.,\nDecember 29, 1879. Her early childhood was spent in Missouri, New\nYork, and Ohio. From 1892 to 1896 she lived in Albuquerque, New\nMexico. Her early education was received in several grade schools,\nall quite good ones, and at the time of her graduation from high\nschool she had been in attendance at ten entirely different schools.\nThis proved to be of no disadvantage, but instead, it laid a founda-\ntion for broader interests and education in a child who was a natural\nstudent. The early habit of individual study, because of the many\nchanges, has been a source of much pleasure.\nGertrude Fisher prepared herself for teaching, and taught in ac-\ncredited public schools for five years before her marriage to Dr.\nMaynard C. Harding, a former schoolmate, at Denver, Colo., June\n30, 1908. They resided at Ault, Colo., until 1911, when they went\nto Mokpo, Korea, Dr. Harding as a medical missionary, under the\nSouthern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. While in Korea\nMrs. Harding studied the Korean language intensively. They re-\nturned to the States in 1913, and resided for five months in Berkeley,\nCalif., while Dr. Harding took post-graduate work. Since August.\n1913, they have resided in San Diego, Calif. Dr. Harding, one of\nthe leading Orthopedic Surgeons on the Pacific Coast, has now\nDuring the first World War Mrs. Harding remained in San Diego\nwhen her husband was in service in the Army Medical Corps, ex-\ncept for three months when she and the children lived at American\nLake, Wash., near Camp Lewis where Maj. Harding was first chief\nof Orthopedic Service and later chief of Surgical Service.\nAlthough Mrs. Harding is a home woman she enjoys membership\nin several clubs, literary and patriotic, has served as State Secretary\nof the Women\u2019s Auxiliary to the California Medical Association,\nand as chairman of Parent Teachers\u2019 Association. She is a student\nof American pioneer history, is genealogist for a dozen or more\nallied families of her own and her husband\u2019s ancestry.\nHer chief hobby is amateur photography, begun with a small box\nkodak in 1892 when finishing had to be done by one\u2019s self. The\nmotion picture camera has for four years been used to record in\ncolor the wild flowers of California, and of course many other\n448. Mabel Virginia Harding, b. April 14, 1909; A.B., Archae-\nology, University of New Mexico ; graduate study in\nbiologic sciences ; laboratory technician with pediatrician ;\nKappa Kappa Gamma ; residence, San Diego ;\n449. Maynard William Harding, b. March 19, 1910 ; A.B., Chem-\nistry, San Diego State College; A.M., Oceanography,\nUniversity of California ; Graduate work toward Ph.D. ;\nFellow of The American Society for the Advancement of\nScience, member Geophysical Union, member Seismo-\nlogical Society of America, Active member of The So-\nciety of Exploration Geophysicists ; with United Geo-\nphysical Co., in charge of project; m. Aug. 22, 1931, to\nBertha Gillis ; son, Maynard C. Harding, b. Aug. 25,\n1938; residence, Bakersfield, Calif.\n450. John Gordon Harding, b. March 22, 1916; B.S., Electrical\nEngineering, University of California ; graduate student\nfor M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Cali-\nfornia ; accepted position with Pacific Gas and Electric\nCompany at San Francisco in 1940; m. July 5, 1940 to\nRuth Rayburn ; daughter, Jacqueline Beatrice Harding,\nb. March 5, 1942; residence, Berkeley, Calif.\n451. Gertrude Elizabeth Harding, b. April 8, 1920; B.S. Ge-\nography, University of Oregon, 1942 ; Delta Delta\nDelta; m. August 26, 1942, to Dean Howard Sandin ; resi-\ndence, Monterey Heights, San Diego, Calif.\nWilliam Solomon and Mary Fisher\n1. Jesse William Fisher, b. Oct. 22, 1896; d. Feb. 8, 1932; M. Nov. 20,\n1920; Annie Laurene Cunningham; b. May 31, 1895; d. Jan.22, 1973\nJesse William Fisher, Jr., b. May 1, 1922; m. Sept. 3, 1947; Susan\nParsons Welton; b. Dec. 21, 1922\nWilliam Paxton Fisher, b. Dec. 6, 1949; m. June 29, 1974; Donna\nJean Rudy; b. June 3, 1952\nElizabeth Fisher, b. July 17, 1978\nJessica Jo Fisher, b. April 21, 1981\nJoseph Alexander Fisher, b. Feb. 27, 1953; m. May 10, 1975;\nMarcia Lertaine Hardy; b. June 18, 1955\nJames William Fisher, b. Dec. 26, 1979\n2. Paxton Shultz Fisher, b. 1900; d. 1946\n3. John Welton Fisher, b. Jan. 10, 1903; d. April 1, 1977; m. April 19,\n1935; Orrie Shobe; b. May 26, 1907\nMary Jane Fisher, b. May 26, 1936; m. June 14, 1960; James Dyer\nWilkins;b. April 1, 1935\nJames Dyer Wilkins, II, b. Sept. 30, 1961\nJacquelin Ann Wilkins, b. Nov. 11, 1962\nJohn Andrew Wilkins, b. June 10, 1964\nJoseph Fisher Wilkins, b. Nov. 25, 1968\nLucy Lee Fisher, b. May 23, 1938; m. Dec. 27, 1969; Stephen Demas\nWest;b. May 6, 1934\nJohn Welton Fisher, II, b. Dec. 11, 1942; m. June 6, 1964; Susan\nCarrol Vass; b. Jan. 26, 1944\nJohn Welton Fisher, III, b. May 2, 1968\nJennifer Lynn Fisher, b. Sept. 15, 1970\n4. Mary Va. Fisher, b. Nov. 24, 1906; m. 1934; George Henry Zimmerman;\nMarian Eliz. Zimmerman, b. April 22, 1938; m. March 1959; Archie\nOliver Jenkins, II; b. Oct. 31, 1936\nArchie Oliver Jenkins, III, b. Jan. 21, 1962\nVirginia Lynn Jenkins, b. Dec. 28, 1966\n5. Clarence Henkel Fisher, b. Dec. 15, 1910; m. 1945; June Dolon; b. June\nBarbara Fisher, b. July 26, 1946; m. Robert Rader\nStephanie Allayna Rader, b. 1974\nEmily Henkel Rader, b. 1979\nCherie Fisher, b. Feb. 28, 1949; m.; Mitchell Boswell\nTyler Mitchell Boswell, b. 1981", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2566, "original_length": 132390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://giftsforangels.co.uk/business/charity-ball-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FNEDDOIOHL4HM7SDIYWPW5US6UIFN24J", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "giftsforangels.co.uk", "title": "Charity Ball 2018 - Gifts for Angels", "raw_content": "Michelle Rice May 17, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://giveitaspin.net/2019/02/14/science-based-secrets-to-be-a-charismatic-leader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:II65O2TUY5OQWLEZJLJCWB5QDTXMNFGO", "length": 5157, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "giveitaspin.net", "title": "Science-based Secrets to be a Charismatic Leader \u2014 Give it a Spin", "raw_content": "https://giveitaspin.net/2019/02/14/science-based-secrets-to-be-a-charismatic-leader/\nBiotechnologist training, for years, for personal reasons, Pau Forner Navarro began to be interested in social and emotional skills. He researched thoroughly and was trained in these areas. From this arose social skill, a blog that today has more than 40,000 subscribers and has 400,000 page views per month. It explains in a simple way, but always based on scientific studies, the importance of developing social skills not only to relate them and connect well with others but also to be happier.\nHow to get it speaks this expert in social psychology in his book \u2018Direct your life: learn the social skills that will lead to personal success\u2019, whose main theme revolves around the aspects that shape the charismatic personalities and how to develop them.\nWhy have charisma is something especially recommended for an entrepreneur? \u201cFirst, because it is scientifically proven that people with charisma earn more money thanks to persistence and self-confidence and secondly because, in whatever field, there are few leaders who are not charismatic\u201d, is Pau Navarro\u2019s response.\nThere are three legs that, in his opinion, are capable of making a person charismatic: competition, trust and closeness. He himself explains what each of them consists of.\nMore than the one we awaken in others, it refers to self-confidence at this point, which could also be called self-esteem. \u201cWe can hardly relate well with others if we do not relate well with ourselves,\u201d he says. To conquer self-confidence, he also insists on demystifying a generalized belief that it is better not to undertake something if we are not previously convinced that we will achieve it successfully. This would be a limiting thought that paralyzes us before the fear of failure. \u201cThat you have to feel confident before you start something is not like that. The order is the inverse. First are the acts and trust comes with them, \u201che says and illustrates with the example of when we started learning to ride the bicycle. \u201cAs we go pedaling and check that we can with that we gain confidence.\u201d\nThe same formula would serve to eradicate another of the emotions that lead to passivity: the lack of motivation. \u201cMany times we think, I\u2019m not going to do this because I do not feel motivated enough. To do something, you just have to start doing it because acting and motivation are filmed. If we keep the first belief, we will be slaves to our emotions, \u201che warns.\nIt speaks of a person being competent when he meets two fundamental requirements. The first is to be especially good in some field. Have some skills and abilities that make others contemplate them as an authority in the matter. But knowledge is not enough. The other requirement that will make the sight of others to a charismatic person is closeness. That is to say that, in addition to being good at something, you have to be a close person. The one without the other does not exist, but to explain the first one effectively the vehicle is the word.\nFrom the closeness will derive the confidence you generate and the ability to connect with the people you are addressing. This is where the art of communication comes into play. \u201cBeing good at something depends on oneself, but the way to transfer that competence to the whole is the word and to use it effectively requires assertiveness.\u201d The RAE defines assertiveness as the quality of a person \u201cwho expresses his opinion firmly\u201d. However, for Pau Navarro it is a simple way of expressing oneself that sticks step by step to the path that people follow in making decisions. This process summarizes it in four steps: first we inform ourselves, then we think, that thought generates an emotion and it drives an action. The sooner we incorporate communication in this process, the more likely we are to be assertive, without waiting for emotions to dictate our actions. People with the ability to express their convictions and defend their rights without violating others is another characteristic that makes them more charismatic.\nAnother contributing factor is emotional communication. According to Pau Navarro, most of us are used to presenting ourselves following the guidelines of factual communication. That is to say, presenting only the facts, of the type my name is\u2026, I work as in the company that is. Much more effective would be to accompany that information from some emoci\u00f3n as work as because I love the world of and I would love to help. With this second message, loaded with the occasional emotional verb, you get that the person who receives it believes that he knows you better and facilitates the connection.\n\u201cCharismatic people use positive emotional communication \u2013 not those who express negative emotions all the time \u2013 because they know that it is easier to empathize, useful not only to gain the trust of others, but also to get the other person open also by the mirror phenomenon and by reciprocity\u201d, explains Navarro.\nTags: Charismatic Leader, leadership, Management\nPrevious Business Ideas to Start Without Partners\nNext Airbus will no Longer Manufacture its Giant A380 Aircraft", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 9270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://giveitaspin.net/category/technology/artificial-intelligence/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SAUFK2COYMLWM5EK5YEKUEK3QBTXXMPV", "length": 2243, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "giveitaspin.net", "title": "Artificial Intelligence \u2014 Page 4 of 5 \u2014 Give it a Spin", "raw_content": "The Art of Merging with Artificial Intelligence\nImagine being able to exchange ideas on creative concepts of advertising overcoming the skill of an average man, or develop a campaign with which you can transmit emotions and sensations directly to the minds of your target audience.\nArtificial Empathy: The New Frontier of Digital Transformation\nThe world is changing and marketing too. Know everything about artificial empathy and how it applies to the reality of companies.\nChatbots: What you Need to Know to Include Them in your Content Strategy\nA chatbot is a technology that allows a user to have a conversation with a computer program, usually within a messaging app, such as Facebook Messenger, Slack or Telegram.\nCapacitive Screen: Screens for the 21st Century\nA capacitive screen is a type of capacitive sensor that is made up of an electrical insulation layer and is covered with a transparent conductor.\nSmart Warehouses, State-of-the-art Logistics\nSmart warehouses are, nowadays, the future. Beyond the conventional warehouses that we all know, companies have been able to adapt them to the new times to turn them into distribution points, without losing that storage system profile that characterizes them.\nTechnology in Sports, Big Changes and Improvements for the Sector\nTechnology does not discriminate any sector and the world of sports is greatly benefited by the progress of it.\nThe Future of Artificial Intelligence in Tablets and Smartphones\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is gaining more weight in tablets and smartphones. The rise of virtual assistants, visual and facial recognition systems or text and audio recognition systems are just some of the advances.\nYou may have heard about wearables lately but you still do not know what it means.\nCognitive Intelligence: the Predictive Power of Words\nThe symbiosis between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning is what is known as Cognitive Intelligence.\nDeep Learning, also known as deep neural networks, is an aspect of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with emulating the learning approach that human beings use to obtain certain types of knowledge.\nWhat is the Google RankBrain?\nThe Google RankBrain is the Artificial Intelligence system that Google uses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 5702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2018/11/18/glasgow-graduate-wins-prestigious-undergraduate-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WSHT6CGDLVJ3Q7JZX73T2OBEA7G2HBYV", "length": 2951, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "glasgowguardian.co.uk", "title": "Glasgow graduate wins prestigious Undergraduate Award \u2039 Glasgow Guardian", "raw_content": "Glasgow graduate wins prestigious Undergraduate Award\nCredit: Global Undergraduate Awards\nUniversity of Glasgow graduate Izzy Howlett has been named the 2018 Global Winner of the Undergraduate Award in Sociology and Social Policy. She received the award for her essay \u201cA Descriptive Study of The Documents Presented to Patients Following Down Syndrome Screening\u201d, which examined the conditions that affected the decision on whether pregnancies in which the fetus was diagnosed with Down Syndrome were terminated.\nThe Undergraduate Awards program is a world-leading organisation which recognises top undergraduate work. They receive 4,887 submissions per year, and give awards to approximately 300 students annually, with awards in each subject ranging from the Commended Entrant award up to the Global Winner award.\nBesides Howlett, two other Glasgow students \u2013 College of Arts Literature student Denis Topalovi\u0107 and College of Social Sciences Business student Olivia Carlin \u2013 received the award of Highly Commended Entrant, meaning that their essays were in the top ten per cent of submissions.\nHowlett is a first-generation university graduate who currently works in the Civil Service. Howlett said: \u201cI was inspired to write about prenatal testing after watching a documentary called \u2018A world without Down\u2019s\u2019, in which it is stated that 100% of Down syndrome pregnancies are terminated in Iceland. As a Sociologist, I was curious to study the social factors which may be influencing this very personal decision. This research was incredibly difficult at times due to the sensitive nature of its content, however, I found it deeply rewarding and will continue researching health informatics.\u201d\nHowlett also described her time at the University as a \u201cgreat motivation\u201d and said that the skills that she had obtained from her sociology degree were of great use to her in her working life.\nThe Undergraduate Awards are open to submission from all institutions of higher education in the world. Awards will be officially presented at the Global Summit on 12-14 November in Dublin, at which Howlett will be receiving a gold medal and Certificate of Recognition. Howlett\u2019s essay will also be published on The Undergraduate Library and a profile of her work published in the Undergraduate Journal.\nEx-Glasgow Guardian writer wins DuPont award\nHow to get published as an undergraduate\nGlasgow student wins Amnesty media award\nGraduate wins \u00a315,000 award\nUniversity of Glasgow alumnus, Jen Hadfield, has become the youngest ever recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize for her second collection of poems, Nigh-No-Place. The prize is awarded annually to the best collection of new verse\u2026\nGlasgow student nominated for helpline volunteer award\nA Glasgow student has made it to the final stages of a competition that rewards the efforts of helpline workers. Morven Boyd was nominated by Chris Buckland, the Student Volunteer Support Service Coordinator, for the BT/THA\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glenn-brown.co.uk/artworks/550/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2RRNYR6B7336DXMPHAQVBA3NIG3MNADQ", "length": 127, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "glenn-brown.co.uk", "title": "Glenn Brown, The Baptist, 2018", "raw_content": "The Baptist, 2018\nOil paint on acrylic and steel armature, vitrine\n45 x 36 x 33 cm (sculpture), 53.5 x 44.4 x 40.2 cm (vitrine)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glennathletics.com/2017/10/17/fall-sports-awards-night-102417/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MOT6FWKS4JTPRU3Z5JDVNTGKQNHNWSIB", "length": 336, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "glennathletics.com", "title": "John Glenn - Team Home John Glenn Falcons Sports", "raw_content": "The Athletic Department\u2019s Fall Sports Awards Night will be held on October 24th, 2017, at 6:00pm. All sports will start off in the auditorium. We will have a brief overview of each sporting season before breaking off into individual teams to distribute awards. Locations will be revealed on a future date. We hope to see you all there!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 4100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 135.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/albania/usresources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2ORUL6XR5KGULCTSXIQ5VUSGU6HHQTU5", "length": 229, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "globaledge.msu.edu", "title": "Albania: U.S. Trade Resources >> globalEDGE: Your source for Global Business Knowledge", "raw_content": "Albanian professionals definitely like to be addressed with their title, especially doctors, engineers, economists, etc.\nThere isn't a legally enforced drinking age. Wine is commonly served at meals.\nAlbania: U.S. Trade Resources", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://good-celebrities.com/3672/prep-hiv-drug-everything-you-need-to-know-about-taking-prep/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7VKNHOP553IT7A7LRPUTLUJXRZAOARRG", "length": 3750, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "good-celebrities.com", "title": "PrEP HIV drug \u2013 Everything you need to know about taking PrEP \u2013 Good celebrities", "raw_content": "PrEP HIV drug \u2013 Everything you need to know about taking PrEP\nHIV \u2013 or human immunodeficiency virus \u2013 is a virus that still contains a lot of stigma and misunderstanding, despite the amazing medical advances that have been made in recent years, meaning more people than ever live well with a positive diagnosis. In addition to taking regular HIV tests (which you can also do at home, For information), it is also very important for women and people of all gender identities to know about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).\nPrEP is a medicine that is taken by HIV-negative people of all gender identities before and after sex. It reduces the risk of HIV and if taken correctlySo you do not have to worry about the HIV status of a partner. \"PrEP works for everyone \u2013 no matter what your sexual orientation or gender identity, PrEP offers nearly 100 percent protection against HIV every day,\" says iWantPrEPNow co-founder, Greg Owen. This was supported by numerous clinical studies.\nGetty ImagesNina Sinitskaya\nHow does PrEP work?\nIf you take PrEP before you are exposed to the HIV virus, it means that there is enough of the medicine in you to block HIV if it gets into your body. The medication used for PrEP is a tablet known as Truvada (or its generic equivalent), which contains two medicines that are often used to treat HIV \u2013 tenofovir and emtricitabine.\n\"You will still need to use condoms or teeth.\"\nWomen and people with vaginas need to take it daily at least seven days before sex, and then daily during the time they have sex. It only protects against HIV, so you will still need to use condoms or dental mothers to reduce the risk of contracting STIs.\nDo you need to use PrEP?\nConsider using PrEP if you think you may be at risk of contracting HIV and / or:\nHIV-negative, and\nhave sex in a \"variety of situations where condoms are not easily used or are not always used.\"\nGetty Imagesproud_natalia\nThe PrEP assessment tool is anonymous, free to use and offers you all the information you need to make the best choice for yourself and the sex you have. The questions in the tool are meant to help you find out if PrEP can be suitable for you or someone you know. You have to give some information about yourself and with whom you usually have sex.\nSeveral studies have shown that PrEP is effective for women and people with vagina when it is taken as prescribed. \"PrEP does not interact with hormonal contraception,\" explains Greg Owen, \"and it is safe to use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.\" Where can you get PrEP? Generic and unbranded PrEP can be purchased from online pharmacies. And you can qualify for the Mags Portman PrEP Access Fund from Terrence Higgins Trust for free access to the drug. But there are alternative ways to get it:If you live in EnglandPrEP is made available to 13,000 people at high risk in the UK as part of the IMPACT study, which started in September 2017. Visit PrEP Impact Trial to learn more about the test. If you live in ScotlandPrEP has been available through sexual health clinics across the country through NHS Scotland since July 2017. Go to PrEPScot for more information about access.If you live in WalesA three-year pilot project started in July 2017. This is open to all Welsh residents through GUM clinics and there is no limit to the number of people who have access to it. Visit Public Health Wales for more information.If you live in Northern IrelandA centralized service in Belfast currently offers initial consultation and assessment agreements for a pilot study. This project takes two years and there is currently no limit on the number of people who have access to the service.\nFor more information or advice, please contact Terrence Higgins Trust Direct on 0808 802 1221.\ndrug, HIV, PrEP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://goteda.com/tag/crypto/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:52R3PVI5RB7OWN6J6QSIMN5JCC2OYTUZ", "length": 303, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "goteda.com", "title": "Crypto - Goteda", "raw_content": "According to GDAX, there are a lot(~12K) of people betting on bitcoin to crash down to $2,500, and ~4K who are betting it will go above...\nAccording to GDAX, there are a lot(~12K) of people betting on bitcoin to crash down to $2,500, and ~4K who are betting it will go above $10,000https://www.gdax.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grballet.com/dancers/adriana-wagenveld/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TK5T6HY7T55SOACOYUK7AHWTKUXFSBBI", "length": 1757, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "grballet.com", "title": "Grand Rapids Ballet | Dancer Adriana Wagenveld | Grand Rapids, MI", "raw_content": "Trainee 2015-16\nAdriana is from Puerto Rico and began dancing in Crete, Illinois at the age of three. Since then, she has trained at Dance in the Light in Bourbonnais, Illinois. She has attended both Oklahoma City Ballet and Grand Rapids Ballet\u2019s Summer Intensive on scholarship. Adriana has competed regionally at Youth America Grand Prix and placed in the Top 12 in classical and contemporary.\nSomeone who has been inspirational to me is Liz Murphy. She is a principal at Pacific Northwest Ballet and has come back to Grand Rapids the past couple of summers to teach. As soon as you see her dance, you know she is incredible. Her personality though, is the most beautiful thing about her. That level of humility and thoughtfulness can be hard to find in someone so talented and valuable in the dance world.\nIt has become so important for me to understand the intention behind what I\u2019m doing and creating with my body. I\u2019ve been blessed to work with choreographers who are so precisely spoken and clear about the thought process behind their movement. It helps connect the dancer to the audience in such a subtle, but influential and moving way.\nFor as long as I can remember, anything connected with psychology and how the mind works has intrigued me. I would love to go to school to become a therapist of some sort or work with those who have mental disabilities and disorders.\nIt\u2019s going to be ugly before it gets pretty, so you might as well do it to the fullest.\n\u2022 Linnet, The Happy Prince & Other Wilde Tales, Penny Saunders (2018)\n\u2022 Gleam, choreography by Robyn Mineko Williams (2017)\n\u2022 Amazed in Burning Dreams, choreography by Kirk Peterson (2016)\n\u2022 Dangerous Liaisons, choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (2016)\nBenjamin Waldvogel Fiona Staczek", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grddlaw.com/abandoned-property", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:15Z", "digest": "sha1:K6JAVQQRHPU3LODPW5P6LMAFTOPWWXG7", "length": 1628, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "grddlaw.com", "title": "Abandoned Property | Fairfax, Virginia | Gross, Romanick, Dean & DeSimone, P.C.", "raw_content": "Commercial landlords must often deal with property that is seemingly \u201cabandoned\u201d by a former tenant. Some of the landlord\u2019s options include keeping the property, selling or leasing the property to third parties, transferring the property to a new tenant or trashing the property. Before any decision can be made, the Landlord must determine whether the property is truly abandoned by the former tenant, and if it is, whether any third parties have legal claims to the property.\nIn residential cases, landlords are required by law to send a letter to the former tenant giving a 10 day notice that unless the property is retrieved it will be considered abandoned and disposed of by the landlord. Commercial landlords are not subject to the same requirement. However, we recommend that commercial landlords provide a similar notice to their former tenants when property is left at the premises.\nIn cases where the tenant does not retrieve the property within the 10 day notice period, we generally advise the landlord to do the following:\n(1) complete a full inventory of the abandoned property in front of an independent witness;\n(2) take pictures of the abandoned property;\n(3) examine the property for evidence of ownership; and\n(4) complete a UCC search to see if the property is subject to any recorded liens or leases. If the property is subject to any liens or leases, we recommend that landlord provide an abandonment notice to the secured party. If the property is not retrieved by the secured party, then we generally advise the landlord that the property is abandoned and can be disposed of at the landlord\u2019s discretion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grddlaw.com/application-security-deposit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BS7POODXPTE2BZV42F2MQU5NDMPM2QNF", "length": 1616, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "grddlaw.com", "title": "Application of Security Deposit | Fairfax, Virginia | Gross, Romanick, Dean & DeSimone, P.C.", "raw_content": "Most every commercial lease has (or should have!) provisions regarding the management and application of the tenant\u2019s security deposit.\nSince the Virginia Code does not specifically address security deposits for commercial leases, the applicable lease provisions will control in the event of any dispute between the landlord and the tenant. Ideally, the lease should: specify the amount of the security deposit; permit the landlord to make deductions from the security deposit in the event the tenant fails to pay rent, damages the property or otherwise violates the lease; require the tenant to restore the full balance of the security deposit in the event deductions are made by the landlord during the term of the lease; permit the landlord to transfer the security deposit to a successor landlord; and set forth a time table pursuant to which any remaining balance of the security deposit will be refunded following the termination of the lease. It is quite common for landlords and tenants to dispute the application of the security deposit at the end of the lease term. A well-written lease will give the landlord substantial power to make deductions from the security deposit to repair damage to the property and to compensate the landlord for any other losses incurred as a result of the tenant\u2019s actions or defaults. It will also shift the legal burden to the tenant to contest the landlord\u2019s deductions. Of course, landlords should endeavor to be reasonable with respect to deductions and should meticulously account for any deductions by documentation of charges and communicating clearly with the tenant.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greenandblackcross.org/guides/friend-arrested/1-what-will-happen-to-my-friend-in-custody/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:49Z", "digest": "sha1:O35QHWWFF6RSZKDH4N3XHSPZSG6P44SD", "length": 1225, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "greenandblackcross.org", "title": "1. What will Happen to my Friend in Custody? | Green and Black Cross", "raw_content": "Custody can be a slow process. Your friend has the right to a phone call to inform someone of their arrest. They are also likely to be interviewed, for which they are entitled to a solicitor.\nIt may take a long time \u2013 many hours \u2013 for an arrestee to arrive at a police station, especially if there has been a mass arrest. On arrival at the station, they will be \u2018booked in\u2019. This means their photograph, fingerprints & DNA will be taken, and their personal belongings taken from them. They will then be put in a cell.\nThey are likely to be interviewed by the police, and they have the right to free legal advice from a solicitor for this. We strongly advise using a solicitor experienced in protest law.\nThey also have the right to a phone call to inform someone of their arrest, to food, and to medical attention if needed.\nIf they are under 18, they must have an \u2018appropriate adult\u2019 present at their interview. If you are the parent or guardian of a young person who has been arrested, please call us and we can talk you through what this role involves.\nFor a more detailed description of your friend\u2019s rights in custody, please read this guide.\nPrevious My Friend has been Arrested!\nNext 2. How can I get more Information?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://group.softbank/en/corp/news/press/sb/2003/20031128_01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BYQAJIUJEXQS5G7HKTZYQ4KCLFALRLTH", "length": 7548, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "group.softbank", "title": "SOFTBANK announces allotment of stock options (stock acquisition rights) | Press Releases | News | SoftBank Group Corp. | SoftBank Group", "raw_content": "SOFTBANK announces allotment of stock options (stock acquisition rights)\nSOFTBANK CORP. (the \u201cCompany\u201d) announces that the Board of Directors today decided the details of stock acquisition rights to be issued as stock options (the \u201cStock Acquisition Right(s)\u201d) pursuant to Article 280-20, 280-21 of the Commercial Code of Japan and the special resolution at the 23rd ordinary annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company on June 24, 2003.\n1. Class and number of shares to be issued upon exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights\n1,400,000 shares of common stock of the Company\n2. Total number of Stock Acquisition Rights\nThe number of shares to be allotted to each Stock Acquisition Right (the \u201cnumber of shares to be allotted\u201d) shall be 100 shares. In the case that the Company splits or consolidates outstanding shares, the number of shares to be allotted shall be adjusted in accordance with the following formula with any amount less than one share arising out of such adjustment to be discarded.\nIn the case that the Company merges with another company, performs a division or makes a reduction of paid-in capital or in other similar cases where the number of shares to be allotted needs to be adjusted, the number of shares to be allotted shall be appropriately adjusted.\n3. Issue price and issue date of Stock Acquisition Rights\n4. Amount to be paid upon the exercise of each Stock Acquisition Right\nTo be determined on December 9, 2003\nThe amount to be paid upon the exercise of each Stock Acquisition Right shall be the amount to be paid per share, which is issued upon the exercise of the Stock Acquisition Rights (the \u201cExercise Price\u201d) multiplied by the number of shares to be allotted.\nThe Exercise Price shall be (1) or (2), whichever is higher, multiplied by 1.03 with any amount less than one Japanese yen arising out of such calculation to be rounded upward to the nearest yen.\n(1) The amount which is the average of the closing prices of the Company\u2019s shares of common stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on each day (other than any day on which no sale is reported) of the month immediately preceding the month in which the date of the issue of the Stock Acquisition Rights falls.\n(2) The closing price reported on the issue date of the Stock Acquisition Rights (the closing price of the immediately preceding day, in case no sale is reported on the day of the issue).\n5. Adjustment of Exercise Price\n(1) In case that the Company shall make a stock split or stock consolidation of its outstanding shares, the Exercise Price shall be adjusted in accordance with the following formula with any amount less than one Japanese yen arising out of such calculation to be rounded upward to the nearest yen.\n(2) In case that the Company makes a reduction of paid-in capital, merges with another company, or performs a division or in other similar cases where the Exercise Price for the Stock Acquisition Rights needs to be adjusted, the Exercise Price for the Stock Acquisition Rights shall be appropriately adjusted.\n(3) In case that the Company issues new shares or disposes of its treasury stock at a price less than the current market price (other than shares issued upon exercise of stock acquisition rights or subscription rights pursuant to the provisions of the pre-Commercial Code Revision), the Exercise Price shall be adjusted in accordance with the following formula (the \"adjustment formula for the Exercise Price\") with any amount less than one Japanese yen arising out of such calculation to be rounded upward to the nearest yen.\nThe \u201cnumber of shares issued\u201d used in the adjustment formula for the Exercise Price shall be the number of issued shares of the Company after deducting the number of its treasury stock at that time. In the event that the Company disposes of its treasury stock, the \u201cnumber of shares newly issued\u201d used in the adjustment formula for the Exercise Price shall be read as meaning the \u201cnumber of shares disposed of\u201d.\n6. Exercise Period of the Stock Acquisition Rights\nFrom July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2009\n7. Conditions for exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights\n(1) In case individuals who are allotted the Stock Acquisition Rights (the \"holders of the Stock Acquisition Rights\") are the directors, executive officers or those who are scheduled to be employed as executive officers of the Company or the subsidiaries of the Company at the issue date, the Stock Acquisition Rights may be exercised according to the following conditions. Any amount less than one share of the exercisable number of the Stock Acquisition Rights to be discarded.\n[1] None of the Stock Acquisition Rights may be exercised from July 1, 2004 to November 28, 2004.\n[2] 25% of the Stock Acquisition Rights may be exercised from November 29, 2004 to November 28, 2005.\n[5] All the Stock Acquisition Rights may be exercised from November 29, 2007 to June 30, 2009.\n(2) In case the holders of the Stock Acquisition Rights are the employees or those who are scheduled to be employed of the Company or the subsidiaries of the Company at the issue date, the Stock Acquisition Rights may be exercised according to the following conditions.\n(3) Other conditions are under the provision of the year 2003 incentive program.\n8. Events and conditions of cancellation of Stock Acquisition Rights\n(1) In case an agenda for approval of a merger agreement, under which the Company is dissolved, is approved at a general meeting of shareholders of the Company, or in case an agenda for approval of a stock exchange agreement or an agenda for share transfer is approved at a general meeting of shareholders of the Company, the Company may cancel the Stock Acquisition Rights without compensation.\n(2) In case holders of the Stock Acquisition Rights no longer fulfill the conditions for exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights, or holders of the Stock Acquisition Rights renounce a part of or all the Stock Acquisition Rights, the Company may cancel the Stock Acquisition Rights without compensation.\n(3) Furthermore, the Company may, at any time, acquire and cancel the Stock Acquisition Rights without compensation.\n9. Transfer restrictions on Stock Acquisition Rights\nAny transfer of the Stock Acquisition Rights shall be subject to approval of the Board of Directors of the Company.\n10. Issuance of certificates of Stock Acquisition Rights\nCertificates of Stock Acquisition Rights shall be issued only upon the request from the holders of the Stock Acquisition Rights.\n11. Total paid-in value of the shares of the common stock of the Company to be issued or transferred upon exercise of all the Stock Acquisition Rights\n12. Amount that is transferred into paid-in capital from the issue price of shares, in case new shares of common stock of the Company are issued upon exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights\nThe amount transferred to paid-in capital shall be the Exercise Price or the Exercise Price after adjustment in case the Exercise Price adjusted, multiplied by 0.5, and any amount less than one Japanese yen arising out of such calculation shall be rounded upward to the nearest yen.\n13. 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Whether it\u2019s a personal favor, work you don\u2019t have \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hackaday.com/tag/som/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IHWOSGS6RSQIY4SYH6ZXHDO4DYAEKCZD", "length": 8278, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "hackaday.com", "title": "som | Hackaday", "raw_content": "Microchip Introduces Tiny Cheap Linux Modules\nLinux is in everything these days, and that means designers and engineers are crying out for a simple, easy-to-use module that simplifies the design of building a product to do something with Linux. The best example of this product category would probably be the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, followed by the C.H.I.P. Pro and its GR8 module. There are dozens of boards with Allwinner and Mali chips stuffed inside that can be used to build a Linux product, and the \u2018BeagleBone on a Chip\u2019 is a fantastic product if you need Linux and want to poke pins really, really fast.\nNow Microchip is rolling out with their answer to the Linux System on Module. The SAMA5D2 is a single chip in a BGA package with a small footprint that runs Linux. It\u2019s capable, it\u2019s cheap, and if you want to put Linux in a project, this is your newest option.\nThe core product in this new Microchip lineup is the SAMA5D2 SIP, a system in package that puts an ARM Cortex-A5 CPU and DDR2 memory in a single BGA package that, with a cursory examination, looks easy enough to design a PCB around and reflow. There are four chips in this lineup, with 128 Mbit, 512 Mbit, and 1 Gbit of DDR2 memory. The 128 Mbit chip is meant for bare metal and RTOS applications, with the higher memory chips capable of running Linux at least as well as a repurposed router.\nThis chip is at the core of Microchip\u2019s ATSAMA5D2 SOM, a system on module that adds power management (that only requires a single 3.3V supply), an Ethernet PHY, and boot memory into a single package that\u2019s effectively as hand-solderable as a QFN package. It\u2019s Linux on a Chip, or at least as close as we\u2019ve gotten to such a concept.\nAdding Linux to a project is hard, and while there are modules and systems that can do it, we\u2019re always welcoming more options given to designers. While these modules and systems aren\u2019t exactly cheap compared to a beefy ARM microcontroller \u2014 the SIP starts at around $9, the SOM is available for $39 in 100-unit quantities \u2014 this price is quite low compared to other Linux-on-Modules available.\nPosted in MicrocontrollersTagged linux, microchip, SAMA5, SIP, som, system on chip\nVery, Very Tiny X86 Systems\nSeptember 30, 2016 by Brian Benchoff 104 Comments\nThe most interesting market for Intel in recent years has been very, very small form factor PCs. ARM is eating them alive, of course, but there are still places where very small and very low power x86 boards make sense. The latest release from SolidRun is the smallest we\u2019ve seen yet. The SolidPC Q4 is one of the smallest x86 implementation you can find. It\u2019s based around the MicroSoM, a module even smaller than a Raspberry Pi, and built around a carrier board that has all the ports you could ever want from the tiniest PC ever.\nThe SolidPC Q4 is technically only a carrier board featuring a microSD slot, Displayport, HDMI 1.4B, two RJ45 ports with the option for PoE, three USB 3.0 Host ports, jacks for mic and stereo sound, and an M.2 2230 connector for a wireless module. The interesting part of this launch is the MicroSoM, a System on Module based on Intel\u2019s Braswell architecture. Two models are offered, based on the quad-core Atom E8000 and the Pentium N3710. Both modules feature up to 8GB of DDR3L RAM and 4GB of eMMC Flash.\nThe interesting part of this launch is the MicroSoM, a System on Module based on Intel\u2019s Braswell architecture. Two models are offered, based on the quad-core Atom E8000 and the Pentium N3710. Both modules feature up to 8GB of DDR3L RAM and 4GB of eMMC Flash. The size of these modules is 52.8mm by 40mm, or just a shade larger than the stick-of-gum-sized Raspberry Pi Zero.\nThe SolidPC isn\u2019t intended to be a Raspberry Pi competitor. While those cheap ARM boards are finding a lot of great uses in industry, they\u2019re no replacement for a small, x86 single board computer. The pricing for this module starts at $157 according to the product literature, with a topped out configuration running somewhere between $300 and $350, depending on options like a heatsink, enclosure, or power adapter. If you want a small single board computer with drivers for everything, there aren\u2019t many other options: you certainly wouldn\u2019t pick a no-name Allwinner board.\nPosted in News, SliderTagged atom, Braswell, SBC, single board computer, SolidRun, som, x86\nHow a Muslim Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America\u2019s Master Builder\nFebruary 9, 2016 by Alex Weinberg 113 Comments\nIf the United States has a national architectural form, it is the skyscraper. The notion of building a tower to the heavens is as old as Genesis, but it took some brash 19th century Americans to develop that fanciful idea into tangible, profitable buildings. Although we dressed up our early skyscrapers in Old World styles (the Met Life Tower as an Italian campanile, the Woolworth Building as a French Gothic cathedral), most foreigners agreed that the skyscraper suited only our misfit nation. For decades, Americans were alone in building them. Even those European modernists who dreamed of gleaming towers along Friedrichstra\u00dfe and Boulevard de S\u00e9bastopol had to cross the Atlantic for a chance to act on their ambitions. By the start of World War II, 147 of the 150 tallest habitable buildings on the planet were located in the United States.\nNo building style better represented America\u2019s industriousness, monomaniacal greed, disregard of tradition, and eagerness to attempt feats that more established cultures considered obscene. And while those indelicate traits prompted Americans to develop the skyscraper, it was our openness and multiculturalism that brought us our greatest skyscraper builder: a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant named Fazlur Rahman Khan.\nKhan was born on April 3rd, 1929 in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Dacca, British India at the time). His father, a mathematics instructor, cultivated young Fazlur\u2019s interest in technical subjects and encouraged him to pursue a degree at Calcutta\u2019s Bengal Engineering College. He excelled in his studies there and, after graduating, won a Fulbright Scholarship that brought him to the University of Illinois. In the United States, Khan studied structural engineering and engineering mechanics, earning two master\u2019s degrees and a PhD in just three years. After a detour in Pakistan, Khan returned to the United States and was hired as an engineer in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), one of the most prominent architecture and engineering firms in the world.\nThough he was born in a nation with no history of highrise construction, Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan had worked his way to a position where he would revolutionize the field of structural engineering and build America\u2019s proudest landmarks.\nContinue reading \u201cHow a Muslim Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America\u2019s Master Builder\u201d \u2192\nPosted in FeaturedTagged architecture, chicago, Fazlur Khan, John Hancock Tower, Sears Tower, skyscraper, som, Supertall\nTransparent Alarm Clock Runs Linux\n[Benoit] was using an extremely old alarm clock which normally ran on mains power, and he plugged it in to his computer\u2019s UPS to keep it operational during power outages. He noticed that when the UPS switched on that the clock would run fast, though, and apparently it was keeping time by watching the power system frequency. To solve this problem he created his own feature-dense clock which runs Linux.\nThis alarm clock has everything: seven-segment displays housed in clear epoxy, a touch interface, battery backup, the ability to retrieve the time from an NTP server, and a web interface to change the clock\u2019s settings over the network. That was a large part of [Benoit]\u2019s decision to have the clock run Linux; the network capabilities add a lot of functionality to the clock like the ability to send commands to other devices at particular times. The clock runs on an Aria G25 SOM and has a custom case that looks very professional.\nWe\u2019re suckers for a high-quality clock builds here, and [Benoit]\u2019s most recent project hits all of our buttons. Even though it doesn\u2019t currently drive people insane or tell confusing time, the Linux and networking capabilities could certainly open up options!\nPosted in clock hacksTagged alarm clock, aria, aria g25, battery backup, clock, epoxy, linux, ntp, som", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 13926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Installation/5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5LIDOELDTLTXXTYD3YPLHUJNLIYA4J4E", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hankwillisthomas.com", "title": "Hank Willis Thomas | Installation | 5", "raw_content": "Blind Memory (Tobacco), 2017 installed at Savannah College of Art and Design", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 86.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://harrybateslaw.com/Auto-Accidents/Hit-and-Run-Accidents.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PPFP2BXYPNQ42IJ4WDCHB6Q2ENQ6Y33E", "length": 2818, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "harrybateslaw.com", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "Harry Bates will develop a strategy in an effort to resolve a claim for injuries and damages for injured victims\nAn auto accident is always a traumatic event, but when the other driver leaves the scene of the accident - leaving the victim alone and suffering - it can be emotionally devastating. With The Bates Law Firm in San Antonio, you never have to face the aftermath of an auto accident alone. We are dedicated to guiding clients through each aspect of a hit-and-run accident claim, providing personal attention and diligently following through until a final resolution is achieved.\nTexas hit-and-run laws\nUnder Texas law, a hit-and-run is a crime that involves leaving the scene of an accident without providing identification and automobile insurance information and without rendering aid to anyone who was injured in the accident. Many hit-and-run accidents only cause property damage, allowing the victim to record the license plate number of the other vehicle and identify the negligent driver if he or she is later caught by police. However, when a hit-and-run accident causes serious injuries, it can be nearly impossible to identify the other driver.\nEven if the hit-and-run driver cannot be identified, our experienced personal injury attorney may still be able to help you recover compensation from your own insurance company. Under Texas law, all liability insurers must offer uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage. You should have this coverage unless you specifically rejected the coverage in writing. There are two types of UM/UIM coverage that may cover the driver, family members and passengers in the car:\nBodily injury - Coverage for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, disfigurement and partial or permanent disability\nProperty damage - Coverage for repairs to your car, damage to personal possessions in your car, and a rental car\nIn addition to assisting drivers and passengers with injuries, our firm has extensive experience providing compassionate support after pedestrian accidents and may be able to provide assistance recovering compensation if you are an injured pedestrian who was struck by a hit-and-run driver.\nA Texas law firm you can depend on to see you through an accident claim\nWhen a negligent driver cannot be identified and insurance companies are not on your side, it is easy for injured victims and surviving family members to feel hopeless and alone after a hit-and-run accident. But with The Bates Law Firm on your side, you are never alone. From our office in San Antonio, we use skill developed over more than 25 years to help the injured recover fair compensation. To schedule a free initial consultation with board-certified Texas Super Lawyer Harry Bates, contact us online or call 210-226-3777, toll free at 877-716-3777 today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/first-look-at-new-research-and-ideas-june-20", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:OXYABPXCWCFPO25ZSTX4WHBGBKHX2EIV", "length": 8411, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "hbswk.hbs.edu", "title": "First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20 - HBS Working Knowledge - Harvard Business School", "raw_content": "Should governments nudge?\nTo motivate citizens to comply with laws and regulations, governments often turn to such incentives as tax benefits or fines. The paper Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? suggests adding another approach: psychological \u201cnudges.\u201d Written by John Beshears with eight colleagues, the paper is scheduled for publication in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science.\nA new model for describing bubbles\nA forthcoming paper in the Journal of Financial Economics offers a new model for describing the start and collapse of bubbles. Extrapolation and Bubbles was written by Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer.\nExceptional management practices in India\nA recent book looks at \u201cwin-win corporations\u201d in India to learn from their successes. Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies discusses the strategies used by companies including Taj Hotels, HDFC Bank, and Hindustan Unilever Limited. It was written in 2016 by Shashank Shah.\nA complete list of new research and publications from Harvard Business School faculty follows.\nGurgaon, India: Penguin Random House\nWin-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies\nBy: Shah, Shashank\nAbstract\u2014Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or anywhere else? Why did HDFC\u2019s Aditya Puri insist that employees leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do Taj Hotels, HDFC, HUL, L&T, and BPCL have in common? They are the win-win corporations! Based on over a decade of research, Shashank Shah takes these truly outstanding Indian companies and studies how they do business. Each of these companies has exceptional practices when it comes to stakeholder management. Whether the stakeholder is an employee, customer, investor, vendor, or even society at large, these companies reveal how looking at everyone else\u2019s interests doesn\u2019t really mean compromising on your own. Often, the two complement each other and that is what makes a win-win solution for everyone. This book gives an inside look into what motivates exceptional companies and how they are a cut above the rest. Full of fascinating anecdotes, leadership philosophy, and background stories of organizations, Win-Win Corporations is an inspiring read into what makes companies great.\nBy: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer\nAbstract\u2014We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset\u2019s past price changes and the asset\u2019s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors \u201cwaver\u201d over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why bubbles collapse, and the frequency with which they occur. The model also predicts that bubbles will be accompanied by high trading volume and that volume increases with past asset returns. We present empirical evidence that bears on some of the model\u2019s distinctive predictions.\nShould Governments Invest More in Nudging?\nBy: Benartzi, Shlomo, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker-Ray, William J. Congdon, and Steven Galing\nAbstract\u2014Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of \u201cnudge\u201d interventions that governments are now adopting alter people\u2019s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We calculated ratios of impact to cost for nudge interventions and for traditional policy tools, such as tax incentives and other financial inducements, and we found that nudge interventions often compare favorably with traditional interventions. We conclude that nudging is a valuable approach that should be used more often in conjunction with traditional policies, but more calculations are needed to determine the relative effectiveness of nudging.\nThe Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age\nBy: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas\nAbstract\u2014We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the micro- and macro-level stylized facts we uncover in the data. We show that inventors were highly educated and that father\u2019s income and education were important intergenerational transmission channels. Inventors tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation, and they were positively selected through exit early in their careers. New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify a strong relationship between patented inventions and long-run economic growth and use an instrumental variables approach exploiting an historical shift in innovation activity during World War II to show that this relationship could be causal. Finally, we document a U-shaped relationship between top income inequality and innovation, yet innovative places tended to be more socially mobile. Our new data help to address important questions related to innovation and long-run growth dynamics.\nTequila Patr\u00f3n was one of the most successful tequila marketers in the United States. Patr\u00f3n needed to grow, and in Mexico, the second largest market for tequila, the brand was perceived as American. What portfolio and branding strategy would best serve Patr\u00f3n to conquer the Mexican market? Furthermore, what would expanding in Mexico imply for the company\u2019s marketing operations?\nThe Electronic Product Code: Future Impact on the Global Food System\nThe Electronic Product Code (EPC) is a successor to the Uniform Product Code and will improve the efficiency and traceability of the global food system. This case focuses on how best to implement this new system and respect the privacy of the ultimate consumer, and the teaching purpose is to analyze the impact of EPC on the global food system.\nThe Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A)\nResponsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers and an area of debate. Much of the debate approaches the challenge from the perspective of large global apparel brands. This case helps students take the perspective of a Bangladeshi contract factory that is part of the brands' supply chain but must also deal with challenges in its own supply chain. The case leads up to the Tazreen factory fire of 2012, in which over 100 people died, and covers subsequent developments in Bangladesh and the apparel industry.\nThe Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (B)\nThe Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (C)\nPharmAccess and the M-TIBA Platform: Leveraging Digital Technology in the Developing World\nPharmAccess is an Amsterdam-based NGO working to support the development of the private health care market in Africa. This work is critical as over 50% of care is delivered through the private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the public sector have the unintended consequence of crowding out capital formation in the private sector. PharmaAccess is working to crowd-in funding instead through the development of a three-pronged effort in Kenya. They are working to address supply through efforts to improve the quality of health care facilities through education and through a micro-lending program. At the same time, they are working to address demand through the development of the M-TIBA mobile health wallet. The critical question for this case is whether these efforts, in essence the development of a novel platform simultaneously addressing supply and demand, will be enough to change the dynamics of the private health care market.\nTerrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 11690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heavy.com/news/2015/06/mayor-joseph-riley-jr-mayor-long-serving-popular-dead-shooting-nine-9-dead/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JZ2LPHEODYWIAWKSBN4P2JXTHHCEJT6X", "length": 5024, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "heavy.com", "title": "Mayor Joseph Riley Jr.: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com", "raw_content": "Mayor Joseph Riley Jr.: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know\nBy\tDavid Gardner\n(CNN)gunman\nCharleston\u2019s longtime Major Joseph P Riley Jr. was calling for the support of the community in the nightmare aftermath of Wednesday\u2019s racially motivated church shooting that left nine members of the congregation dead.\nThe massacre happened at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.\nChurchgoers were at a Bible study session when the killer, described as a clean-shaven while male wearing a grey hoodie, blue jeans and Timberland boots, burst in and sprayed bullets at his victims.\nCharleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said the shooting was being treated as a hate crime, but he wouldn\u2019t elaborate and said he was not yet planning to release the shooter\u2019s name.\n\u201cThis is a tragedy that no community should have to experience\u2026 It is senseless, unfathomable\u2026\u201d Mullen said at a press conference on Thursday night.\n\u201cWe are going to do everything in our power to find this individual, to lock him up, to make sure he does not hurt anyone else,\u201d he added.\nAmong the dead was said to be the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the 150-year-old Emmanuel AME Church and a South Carolina state senator.\nEight of the victims died at the scene, and one later in a hospital. At least one injured person is being treated in a hospital. Officials would not say how many churchgoers were in the room at the time.\nSoon after the shooting a bomb threat was made at the church. Police were also seen taking a man matching the description into custody soon after the attack. However, the man was released and the Charleston Police Department tweeted that the gunman was still at large.\nLocal pastor Thomas Dixon told CNN: \u2018Apparently the person just entered the church and opened fire. That part has not been fully articulated on what happened yet \u2026 they are still looking for the suspect,\u2019 he added.\nDixon also told said a Wednesday evening bible study session was likely to have been going on at the time of the shooting.\nA heavy police presence remained outside the church and a helicopter was assisting law enforcement on the scene in the hours following the shooting.\nAt least six ambulances were seen in the area of the shooting.\nThe Emanuel AME Church \u2013 often referred to as \u2018Mother Emanuel\u2019 \u2013 is the oldest AME church in the south and has one of the largest black congregations south of Baltimore, Maryland.\nThe church played an important role in the state\u2019s history, including the slavery era and the Civil Rights movement. It traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston\u2019s Methodist Episcopal church.\nOne of its founders, Denmark Vesey, tried to organize a slave revolt in 1822. He was caught, and white landowners had his church burned in revenge. Parishioners worshipped underground until after the Civil War.\nPolice have not yet released the names of the victims.\nCharleston Church Shooting: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know\nHere\u2019s what you need to know about Mayor Riley:\n1. He is One of The Longest Serving Majors in the United States\nBorn on January 19, 1943, he is the one of the longest serving mayors that is still living and in office,[1] having served 10 terms starting on December 15, 1975.\nHe was born in Charleston, and graduated from The Citadel in 1964, and the University of South Carolina Law School in 1967.\n2. He\u2019s a Democrat\nAndy Roddick and Vladimir Voltchkov pose with Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. before Roddick wins the opening match in the 2004 David Cup semifinal September 24, 2004 at Daniel Island, South Carolina. (Getty)\n3. He Says It\u2019s a Hate Crime\n\u201cThe only reason that someone could walk into a church and shoot people praying is out of hate,\u201d said Mayor Riley. \u201cIt is the most dastardly act that one could possibly imagine, and we will bring that person to justice. This is one hateful person.\u201d\n4. He\u2019s a Member of The Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition\nMayor Joseph P. Riley (C) and Charleston, South Carolina Chief Russell Thomas, Jr. (R) embrace during a memorial service for nine Charleston firefighters at the North Charleston Coliseum June 22, 2007 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The nine where killed when fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing its roof and killing all the firefighters inside. (Photo by Stephen Morton/Getty Images)\nHe\u2019s a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,a bipartisan group with a stated goal of \u201cmaking the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets.\u201d\nThe Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Mayor Michael Bloomburg.\n5. He Met With The Victims\u2019 Families\nRiley called the Wednesday night shooting \u201can unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy.\nClementa Pinckney Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know\n5 Fast Facts, Breaking News, Dead, Shooting\nCharleston's longtime Major Joseph P Riley Jr. was calling for the support of the community in the nightmare aftermath of Wednesday's racially motivated church shooting that left nine members of the congregation dead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hekint.org/tag/history-essays/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EFV2G5DU2WKGRXGZPYIM3JNZAWAUGDWR", "length": 4208, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "hekint.org", "title": "History Essays \u2013 Hektoen International", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: History Essays\nThomas Bartholin\u2019s consolation on the burning of his library\nTimo Hannu Helsinki, Finland \u2018Thomas Bartholin. Line engraving by G. Appelmans, 1671, after H. Ditmer.\u2019 by Heinrich Ditmer. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was a Danish physician known for his discoveries on aspects of the human lymphatic system. Like his father, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, he was a professor of medicine, and so [\u2026]\nMithridates, \u201cdeadly poison\u201d in history, and a classic misdiagnosis\nHugh Tunstall-Pedoe Dundee, Scotland Mithridates VI of Pontus (136-63BC), the Poison King Mithridates VI of Pontus (136-63 BC), a formidable enemy of the Roman Empire, was vanquished after several wars. Intrigue and treachery in pursuit of power were then commonplace. Following the poisoning of his uncle, he usurped, imprisoned, or murdered his mother [\u2026]\nThe Monros: a medical dynasty\nJMS Pearce Hull, England, United Kingdom Figure 1. John Monro In medieval times Celtic life was based on a clan system of lineage in certain territories. Each clan had a chief, kinsmen, and families who worked and lived on their lands. The treatment of illness within the entire clan was the responsibility of a [\u2026]\nPart I: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s\nSarah Riedlinger, Dean Giustini, Brenden Hursh Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Introduction The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1929. Photo credit: Toronto Public Library, Accession # tspa_0113248f Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world.1 In 2009 Canada alone had 2.35 million people with diabetes.2 Some 10% of sufferers [\u2026]\nPart II: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s\nSarah Riedlinger Dean Giustini Brenden Hursh Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Progress in diabetes care between 1922 and 1929 Figure 2. Mortality of Diabetic Coma in the Hospital for Sick Children.7 In 1923 Banting joined the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children and was placed in charge of diabetes care. He and physician Gladys [\u2026]\nThe history of diabetes and insulin\nAnabelle S. Slingerland Leiden, the Netherlands Figure 1. The Toronto Daily, the Nobel Laureates on track of diabetes cure The discovery of insulin in 1921 by Banting, Best, Collip, and McLeod was heralded as the cure of diabetes (Figure 1). Press reports consigned earlier research to oblivion, suggesting that previous investigators had merely been [\u2026]\nFinding a \u201cNew Orientation\u201d in Mexican Public Health: the Servicio M\u00e9dico-Social\nSteve Server Chicago, Illinois, USA The Palace of the Inquisition, the site of the old National Medical School, Plaza Santo Domingo, Mexico City In the 1935-1936 issue of the Mexican Public Health Department\u2019s newsletter, Salubridad, the newly-minted Chief of the Department, Doctor and General Jos\u00e9 Siurob, offered a vision for the \u201cnew orientation for [\u2026]\nMedical history on the silver screen: Hollywood\u2019s ten-minute films about medical heroes\nBert Hansen New York, New York, USA Figure 1. Frame of Christiaan Eijkman in Java considering the dietary difference between polished and unpolished rice, from The Magic Alphabet \u00a9 MGM 1942. All rights reserved. Some of us are old enough to remember long Saturday afternoons in neighborhood movie theaters, where we were entertained not [\u2026]\nThe battle of the vivisected dog\nJack Effron Bagmara, Bangladesh The original 1906 statue that caused all the trouble. Medical education has not always been left to the professionals. In the past, and especially in London in the first decade of the twentieth century, it has become a political issue and caused rioting in the streets. On February 2, 1903, [\u2026]\n\u201cMarvailous Cures\u201d: sympathetic medicine connecting Europe and China\nRichard de Grijs Sydney, Australia Daniel Vuillermin Beijing, China Application of a powder of sympathy. Source: Tentzel A (ed) 1662 Theatrum Sympatheticum Auctum (Nuremberg: Johann Andreas Endter & the Heirs of Wolfgang Endter Jr), p 125 (Reproduced with permission, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbu\u0308ttel, 30.4 Med.: VD17 23:290712A.) In Renaissance Europe the concept of curing illnesses [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://help.thecallcenterschool.com/uploading-content-and-creating-exams/supported-file-video-and-audio-formats", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:43Z", "digest": "sha1:2X3ZC62GQZVATRVVAOARGKPUKCQH3BFD", "length": 408, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "help.thecallcenterschool.com", "title": "Supported File, Video and Audio Formats | The Call Center School Help Center", "raw_content": "In the Content Manager, you can upload custom training content using file formats such as PowerPoint, Video, Word, PDF, etc.\nWe currently support the following HTML5 video media types or formats: MP4, WebM & Ogg.\nSimilarly, we support audio file types such as MP3, Wav & Ogg.\nSee also http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp for more information about supported file formats and corresponding browsers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://henryjacksonsociety.org/event/trump-and-trade-deficits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DC7AGARHCRKEDBZ4DV6MMJJ3EWBSE4OM", "length": 3295, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "henryjacksonsociety.org", "title": "TRUMP AND TRADE DEFICITS - Henry Jackson Society", "raw_content": "\u00ab BY MORE THAN PROVIDENCE: GRAND STRATEGY AND AMERICAN POWER IN THE ASIA PACIFIC SINCE 1783\nPESHMERGA: \u2018THOSE WHO FACE DEATH\u2019 \u00bb\nSPEAKER: Dr Linda Yueh, economist and author\nAs we anticipate the visit of President Donald Trump to the UK, many are wondering (and worrying) that his brand of America First will see increasing pressure on the UK, particularly in the form of tariffs.\nAs always, the US leader will most likely focus on trade deficit between the US and UK to justify his measures. But is this reasonable? Like the US, the UK has a longstanding trade deficit. This issue has prompted the US President to take a series of protectionist measures. When should trade deficits matter? Should Britain be worried about its trade deficit with the US?\nBy kind invitation of The Rt Hon. The Lord Risby, The Henry Jackson Society is proud to welcome Dr. Linda Yueh who will talk about the troubles of globalisation and what we can learn from Brexit and Trumpism.\nDr Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School as well as Visiting Senior Fellow at the IDEAS research centre, the foreign policy think tank at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.\nOn the 9th of July the Henry Jackson Society was please to host Dr Linda Yueh, a fellow in economics at St Edumund Hall, University of Oxford and adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, she sat alongside Jason Pearlman, Deputy Director of the Henry Jackson Society.\nBy kind invitation of the Rt Hon. Lord Risby, Dr Yueh led an insightful discussion about when trade deficits matter and when they do not.\nDr Yueh opened the discussion by speaking about an opinion poll she conducted on Twitter. She posed to question: Do trade deficits matter? 36% of respondents said \u2018Yes\u2019, 25% said \u2018No\u2019, and 39% said it depends. The poll showed just how spread out opinions on trade deficits are.\nDr Yueh agreed with the plurality of respondents because \u2018it depends\u2019. If the trade deficit reflects an underlying problem within an economy, then the trade deficit matters. If the trade deficit is the result of services, then it matters very little. The thing about services is that they are rarely tradeable. For example, a haircut is a service and very few people travel to another country to get their hair cut.\nThis means that the most efficient way for a country to reduce a trade deficit is to open their markets. When a country opens their markets it does two things: It first, allows an easier flow of services between more countries. Second, it then makes that country become a hub for trade and goods flow into their country. A perfect example is Sweden becoming a hub after negotiating a free trade agreement with China.\nThe main problem now is that President Trump is focussed on goods rather than services. A majority of the American economy is dependent upon services, not goods. When the United States enacts tariffs it actually hurts the trade deficit rather than helping the deficit because it restricts the free flow of services.\nThe event closed by Lord Risby thanking Dr Linda Yueh for a wonderful talk.\nUnited States, trade, Economics\nDr Linda Yueh, economist and author", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 20027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://henryjacksonsociety.org/media-centre/the-west-must-learn-from-ukraines-experience-of-dealing-with-russian-provocateurs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:10Z", "digest": "sha1:USGPGCJEH3BNLJST4KYVU4NPZ7EAXLD7", "length": 1143, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "henryjacksonsociety.org", "title": "The West must learn from Ukraine\u2019s experience of dealing with Russian provocateurs - Henry Jackson Society", "raw_content": "By\tJamila Mammadova\n\u201cOnly a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others\u201d, goes a famous line from Otto von Bismarck.\nAs the Paris protests have recently exposed, European societies currently face a twin threat \u2013 the inability of their own elites to deal with internal crises and external agents using those same crises to stoke unrest.\nUkraine\u2019s Security Service (SBU) has claimed that the Russian secret service has trained the \u201cradicals\u201d involved in disturbances not only in France, but Germany, Belgium, Spain and Bulgaria. What does this mean for Britain, being at the crossroads of its own history as it prepares to leave the European Union?\nClearly, the UK does not face the same level of interference as Ukraine, which for five years has been dealing with sabotage and disinformation efforts backed by the Russian state, while simultaneously engaged in a military conflict with Kremlin-backed separatists. Western Europe is nowhere close \u2013 yet. Things may change though, if those in power do not start learning from the experiences of their not-so-distant-neighbours.\nRead the full article in CapX", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hh-today.com/whats-next-for-the-st-francis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:44YLO4XB7DB62IKXSSXJA4KKOYL66DN2", "length": 4877, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "hh-today.com", "title": "\u00bb What\u2019s next for the St. Francis?", "raw_content": "What\u2019s next for the St. Francis?\nWritten October 14th, 2013 by\nThe St. Francis, at the corner of First and Ferry in downtown Albany.\nThe former St. Francis Hotel in downtown Albany was 101 years old this year. The question now is whether there\u2019s a chance of restoring the vacant upper floors of this four-story landmark \u2014 and the adjacent Rhodes block built in 1907 \u2014 as apartments or partly as a so-called \u201cboutique hotel.\u201d\nA team of architects and historic preservation specialists, supported by the Historic Preservation League of Oregon, looked at the place in April and completed a 49-page report during the summer. Kate Porsche, the Albany economic development director and urban renewal manager, will submit it to the advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area on Wednesday. (The board meets at 5:15 p.m. at City Hall.)\n\u201cWe began with a broader survey of potential uses,\u201d the consultants say in their report, \u201cbut concluded that the most viable uses include commercial suites on the ground floors, with hotel and/or market rate housing on the upper floors.\u201d\nThe building is in \u201cfair to good condition for its age,\u201d the consultants say. But fixing it up for new uses would not be cheap. Rough estimates by Greenberry Construction put the cost at upward of $10 million.\nThe report assumes that buying the building from the owners of Pride Printing, which operates out of the ground floor, would cost $500,000, and the different development concepts all assume an $800,000 loan from CARA. (The agency has made no such decision.)\nAs for what happens next, if anything, stay tuned. (hh)\nFrom Councilman Ray Kopczynski: You may recall that CARA/ARA had the opportunity to \u201cdo something\u201d with it a couple of years ago. I came out on the very short end of that vote and it was left as you currently see it. By now, it could have been up & fully functioning along the lines of what ostensibly is being proposed \u2013 although I haven\u2019t seen the consultant material yet. It will be interesting reading and discussion!\nTo be clear, no one has actually proposed anything. The St. Francis consultants evaluated what they thought could be done, but as far as I can tell, they\u2019re not proposing to do it. In February 2011, CARA turned down a request by Innovative Housing Inc. of Portland for $800,000 toward a $10 million project to turn the St. Francis into apartments for \u201cworkforce housing.\u201d (hh)\nJim Clausen, on Facebook: Yup, that\u2019s what Albany needs, another vacant building CARA can claim as it\u2019s own\u2026 These multipurpose (commercial suites below \u2013 housing above) have been tried a throughout Oregon and have failed miserably. Salem has 3 (yes 3) of these types of units and the are virtually vacant (\u2018cept for the units rented by Salem). These types of units are pushed by these corporate entities (especially the LEEDS approved) as viable \u201cinvestments.\u201d I have yet to see one that has actually panned out as planned. CARA is looking to waste more tax dollars, and it probably will do just that.\nGood ol\u2019 Jim. Always looking on the bright side. (hh)\nFrom Tom Cordier: Please recall that Measure 22-119 (requiring an election to authorize certain city borrowing \u2013 ed.) passed by an 80% yes vote. The message sent is that voters do not like the spending habits of the political class in Albany.\nCity Hall to the old hotel is ground zero for past CARA spending. Voting precinct 003 voted in favor of 22-119 but only by 53% and precinct 001 voted in favor but by only 62%. The farther away from that core area the higher the yes vote %. There are eight precincts with 80-84%yes votes and 9 precincts with 85-89% yes votes.\nHave the seven appointed CARA members and seven elected CARA members failed to understand the will of the people? They should recognize people outside the CARA core have other priorities than propping-up an old hotel.\nWe could have been under-levying CARA siphoning and preparing for the expense of new police/fire buildings. The current push for $20+M bond is a failure in setting priorities. To continue to prop-up the core areas around city hall continues to displace fundamental governmental responsibilities.\nJim Clausen, on Facebook: Hasso, on his blog site, has a tendency to comment on almost all of my replies. To this one he commented, \u201cGood ol\u2019 Jim. Always looking on the bright side. (hh)\u201d It is a typical liberal tactic to attempt to diminish any contrary views or opinions by ridicule and without any proposed facts. Going liberal on us Hasso?\nSpeaking of no facts: Nobody, least of all any \u201ccorporate entity,\u201d is pushing to develop the St. Francis. The report was just that, an assessment of what it would take and what could be done. The costs are overwhelming and the payoff tentative. And as for empty buildings, that\u2019s what three of the four St. Francis floors are now. (hh)\nTags: Albany's CARA, historic preservation, St. Francis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hk.vpbank.com/en/news/2019/ceo-alfred-w-moeckli-to-leave-vp-bank-group", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DJOABXZO6UJAUXMW7LBC3RGXZVGXHB5Q", "length": 1782, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hk.vpbank.com", "title": "CEO Alfred W. Moeckli to leave VP Bank Group on 31 January 2019", "raw_content": "The Board of Directors of VP Bank Group and CEO Alfred W. Moeckli have decided to not continue their collaboration. Alfred W. Moeckli will relinquish all his functions as of the end of January 2019 and leave the bank to devote himself to new assignments. Dr Urs Monstein assumes the position of CEO on ad interim basis.\nAlfred W. Moeckli has presided over the Group Executive Management of VP Bank Group since 2013 and has developed VP Bank substantially as Chief Executive Officer in the last approximately six years. Especially in the time following the financial crisis, Alfred W. Moeckli has made a key contribution to leading the banking institute back onto a growth path.\nThe dissolution of the employment relationship between VP Bank and Alfred W. Moeckli takes place by mutual consent as part of an early age-related succession planning. The Board of Directors thanks Alfred W. Moeckli for his services and his major commitment. Fredy Vogt, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VP Bank Group, takes stock: \u201cAlfred W. Moeckli has contributed significantly to a successful positioning of VP Bank in the changed environment of the financial services industry and has increased profitability. Additionally, in his time as CEO, the market capitalisation of our bank has approximately doubled\u201d.\nDr Urs Monstein, who has been Chief Operating Officer of VP Bank since May 2018, will assume leadership of the Group Executive Management on an interim basis with immediate effect. The search process for a successor to the departing Chief Executive Officer has already been launched. Both internal and external candidates are being evaluated.\nMedia release \u2013 CEO Alfred W. Moeckli to leave VP Bank Group on 31 January 2019 (29.01.2019, 77 kb)\nCV \u2013 Dr Urs Monstein (29.01.2019, 134 kb)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hnmunpress.org/2017/02/17/commission-on-the-status-of-women-tackles-gender-violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RJDD56OQGS4MML4NKL7LWCHVWXDJBKXZ", "length": 3126, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hnmunpress.org", "title": "Commission on the Status of Women Tackles Gender Violence | HNMUN Press Corps", "raw_content": "During the first session of the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference, member nations of the Commission on the Status of Women met to discuss gender violence around the world.\nWith the 2010 creation of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, more commonly referred to as UN Women, the international community has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving gender equality and eradicating violence and discrimination against women. At the founding of UN Women, former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that the body would \u201csignificantly boost UN efforts to promote gender equality, expand opportunity, and tackle discrimination around the globe.\u201d The Commission on the Status of Women works collaboratively with UN Women to empower women and to promote gender equality.\nThe topic of violence against women is especially prominent today, with the World Health Organization reporting that approximately 1 in 3 women around the world have experienced physical or sexual violence. This violence can be attributed to power and economic inequalities, as well as cultural and religious environments.\nAt HNMUN, the member nations of the Commission on the Status of Women were divided over tackling the causes of gender violence and dealing with the resulting consequences of gender violence. Many of the nations seemed to emphasize one or the other in their speeches.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve dealt too long with the consequences of violence,\u201d the delegate representing Iran said. \u201cWe need to look at the root causes of the issue, rather than trying to play catch-up.\u201d\nHowever, several nations noted that a comprehensive approach would tackle both the consequences and contributing causes to gender violence, and would also work on multiple levels.\n\u201cAny approach we take would not necessarily mean we breach the sovereignty of countries,\u201d the delegate from Canada said. \u201cWe need to work with multiple levels, cultures and organizations to fully address the issue.\u201d\nOther issues that were raised targeted the different environments around the world in which gender violence is found. Although several nations supported public relations, social media and marketing campaigns to eliminate stereotypes, other delegates argued that such efforts would not be feasible in some areas of the world.\n\u201cNot all states have freedom of press and freedom of speech that can aid in these public relations and social media efforts,\u201d the delegate from Belarus said. \u201cWe must look at other options and work with local communities in these regions.\u201d\nThe speech that garnered the most support and interest was from China, who stressed the importance of intersectionality in any approach.\n\u201cOur feminism must be intersectional,\u201d the delegate from China said. \u201cThere is violence against women of color and women of lower income, and we have to learn to address multiple factors when dealing with violence against women.\u201d\nThe delegate from Iran in the Commission on the Status of Women emphasizes the need to look at underlying causes of violence against women.\nHistorical Security Council Struggles with Role of Intervention", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://home-brew-stuff.myshopify.com/collections/adjuncts/products/a-campden-100", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WJPOVZ57FOVUR7BRKMNENDCVECCECAJQ", "length": 644, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "home-brew-stuff.myshopify.com", "title": "Campden Tablets - 50 grams (approx 100 tablets) \u2013 Home Brew Stuff", "raw_content": "Campden tablets (potassium or sodium metabisulfite) are a sulfur based product that is used primarily in wine, cider and beer making to kill certain bacteria and to inhibit the growth of most wild yeast: this product is also used to eliminate both free chlorine, and the more stable form, chloramine, from water solutions (i.e., drinking water from municipal sources). Campden tablets allow the amateur brewer to easily measure small quantities of sodium metabisulfite, so it can be used to protect against wild yeast and bacteria without affecting flavor. Measured by weight, tablet count is approximate due to variations in the actual tablets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 21.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://honorablefixati48.page.tl/Leg-Length-Discrepancy-Shoe-Lift.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SQFTBNZGJPYETQOA5ZLJ4UHFY3YP4PDS", "length": 3075, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "honorablefixati48.page.tl", "title": "honorablefixati48 - Leg Length Discrepancy Shoe Lift", "raw_content": "There are many causes of leg length discrepancy. Some include, A broken leg bone may lead to a leg length discrepancy if it heals in a shortened position. This is more likely if the bone was broken in many pieces. It also is more likely if skin and muscle tissue around the bone were severely injured and exposed, as in an open fracture. Broken bones in children sometimes grow faster for several years after healing, causing the injured bone to become longer. A break in a child's bone through the growth center near the end of the bone may cause slower growth, resulting in a shorter leg. Bone infections that occur in children while they are growing may cause a significant leg length discrepancy. This is especially true if the infection happens in infancy. Inflammation of joints during growth may cause unequal leg length. One example is juvenile arthritis. Bone diseases may cause leg length discrepancy, as well. Examples are, Neurofibromatosis, Multiple hereditary exostoses, Ollier disease. Other causes include inflammation (arthritis) and neurologic conditions. Sometimes the cause of leg length discrepancy is unknown, particularly in cases involving underdevelopment of the inner or outer side of the leg, or partial overgrowth of one side of the body. These conditions are usually present at birth, but the leg length difference may be too small to be detected. As the child grows, the leg length discrepancy increases and becomes more noticeable. In underdevelopment, one of the two bones between the knee and the ankle is abnormally short. There also may be related foot or knee problems. Hemihypertrophy (one side too big) or hemiatrophy (one side too small) are rare leg length discrepancy conditions. In these conditions, the arm and leg on one side of the body are either longer or shorter than the arm and leg on the other side of the body. There may also be a difference between the two sides of the face. Sometimes no cause can be found. This is known as an \"idiopathic\" difference.\nInfants, children or adolescents suspected of having a limb-length condition should receive an evaluation at the first sign of difficulty in using their arms or legs. In many cases, signs are subtle and only noticeable in certain situations, such as when buying clothing or playing sports. Proper initial assessments by qualified pediatric orthopedic providers can reduce the likelihood of long-term complications and increase the likelihood that less invasive management will be effective. In most cases, very mild limb length discrepancies require no formal treatment at all.\nHeel lifts Raise the heel on the shorter leg. It is applied either to the heel of the custom orthotic or to the inside of the shoe under the insole at the heel. Generally if the discrepancy is greater than 3/8 of an inch, the modification is applied externally on the footwear. Custom made orthotics help to provide proper support and alignment to the foot, controlling conditions such as over pronation. Orthopedic Footwear, properly fitted, to which a lift might be applied inside or out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 5381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 178.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horticultural.com.sg/risks-diy-tree-pruning/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:RBICXWAYEXRJEJ3HKVYUA3AAPVBB7WHX", "length": 3985, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "horticultural.com.sg", "title": "The Risks of DIY Tree Pruning - Horticultural Services Pte Ltd", "raw_content": "Trees are a highly desirable softscape element in landscape design but are susceptible to many risks when left unattended to for extended periods of time. This includes the loss of structural integrity, branch falling, infectious diseases and tree growth into hazardous areas. Such risks pose serious hazards to both your landscape and users of your space. Just as the old saying goes, prevention is better than cure, hence constant landscape maintenance in Singapore is required.\nAt this point, you would probably have recognised the importance of tree pruning and may be keen to start attempting to do it yourself. Unfortunately, several dangers exist in tree pruning, ranging from risks of further tree damage, to health hazards to yourself. To aid you, this article gives an overview of such risks and recommends actions to take to avoid them.\nOver Pruning\nAt the very top of our list is over pruning. Generally, it is recommended that only 5-10% of a tree\u2019s foliage should be cut off at any one time. Bearing in mind that a tree\u2019s leaves are required for it to photosynthesize and produce food for itself, by over pruning, you would be literally starving the tree.\nIn their enthusiasm for keeping their tree healthy, many amateurs perform gutting, which involves excessively large cuts to thin their tree. However, they forget that a tree is a living thing, and in performing gutting, they actually cause long term permanent damage to the tree. In fact, during gutting, the branch collar is removed, hence the tree loses specialised cells required for healing. Furthermore, the wound is vulnerable to both pests and disease, thus putting the entire tree at risk.\nIn an attempt to stifle the vertical growth of a tree\u2019s foliage and avoid its intrusion into buildings or telephone lines, many people turn to topping. A form of gutting, topping is the practice of cutting away large sections of the top of a tree\u2019s crown and its branches. Consequently, what is left is a very ugly, deformed and weakened tree that in all likelihood will die in the short run.\nIt Can Make Your Landscape Less Beautiful\nOne of the purposes of having a tree is for the improvement of the landscape\u2019s aesthetics. However, if you fail to prune the tree properly, the tree may become an eyesore. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to envision the difference between the before and after of cutting a tree\u2019s branches. For example, the tree\u2019s branches may originally be obscuring an area that you may not wish to reveal to outsiders, but cutting off a particular branch might expose it.\nTree Pruning Involves Sharp Tools & Heights\nTree pruning has been listed as a high risk job owing to the required use of chainsaws, ladders and handsaws, and the height which work is done at. Even the smallest lapse in concentration, misjudgement or entrance unfavourable environmental conditions can cause severe injury.\nFurthermore, unlike professions who employ special safety precautions and equipment such as bucket trucks and harnesses, DIY amateurs may solely use ladders to access tree branches. In doing so, some attempt to step on top of branches, which may break under their weight, causing a possibly fatal fall.\nLack of Experience in Identifying which Branches to Cut\nA lack of experience makes it difficult for amateurs to visually distinguish between healthy and dead branches. For example, you may believe that you have successfully cut the dead branches on your tree only to find out the next morning that you removed the wrong one. When this happens, the real dead branch may fall on the roof or even a parked car. As a result, it can lead to additional expenses on your part for the subsequent repairs.\nThe Benefits of Hiring Professionals\nHaving covered the possible risks of DIY tree pruning, it is evident that this task requires expertise in horticulture and risk management. As such, it is highly recommended that you engage a professional tree pruning service if you do not have prior experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://htareit.com/about-hta/overview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:DO5OCMCWP4HYSAHUNXG5CBXBJ7GCUN45", "length": 4865, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "htareit.com", "title": "Overview - Dedication to Medical Office HTA \u2013 Healthcare Trust of America, Inc.", "raw_content": "Dedication to Medical Office\nHTA is dedicated to the medical office sector, which allows the company to create dedicated, long-term relationships with healthcare systems, academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, key physician groups, developers and other industry participants in this space. The portfolio consists of medical office properties that will continue to be core-critical real estate to the delivery of healthcare as demand grows and as the integration of the macroeconomic tailwinds shape the delivery of care.\nInstitutional Asset Management Platform Drives Efficiency in Key Markets\nHTA\u2019s business strategy is underlined by establishing critical mass in key markets where HTA\u2019s institutional property management and in-house leasing platform can generate scale, maximize expense efficiencies and build lasting tenant relationships. To meet the specialized needs of healthcare providers, HTA has developed one of the industry\u2019s most comprehensive asset management platforms that includes dedicated professionals in property management, leasing, engineering, accounting, construction and facilities management. Over 23 million square feet of space is currently managed by HTA\u2019s national platform which is directed from HTA\u2019s corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona and executed through several regional offices across 32 states.\nView Growth and Returns\nConsistent Shareholder Returns\nHTA believes medical office buildings provide stable cash flows with relatively low vacancy risk, while still allowing for potentially higher returns through exposure to the fast growing healthcare sector. With dedication to this sector, HTA has generated shareholder returns that average 10 percent per annum since its founding through December 31, 2017. HTA pays a consistent dividend of $1.22 per annum, paid quarterly, that is supported by recurring and stable cash flows.\nMedical Office is benefiting from several significant macroeconomic drivers, such as an aging population, millennials beginning to form families, and an increase in the insured population. These trends are driving growth in healthcare spending at a rate significantly faster than the broader U.S. economy. The U.S. population is experiencing significant aging of its population, as advancements in medical technology and changes in treatment methods enable people to live longer. This is expected to drive healthcare utilization higher as individuals consume more healthcare as they get older. Between 2016 and 2026, the U.S. population over 65 years of age is projected to increase by more than 37 percent and total over 19 percent of the U.S. population as the baby boomer generation enters retirement. Individuals of this age spend the highest amounts on healthcare, averaging over $5,800 per individual over the age of 65 according to 2014 Consumer Expenditure Survey. This compares to healthcare expenditures of less than $1,600 per year for individuals under the age of 30. The older population group will increasingly require treatment and management of chronic and acute health ailments. Much of this increased care is taking place in lower cost outpatient settings, which we believe will continue to support MOB demand in the long term.\nIn addition, the large millennial generation is just now starting to reach their thirties and form families, which should result in average healthcare expenditures for this age group doubling. As this large generation utilizes additional healthcare services, it is expected they will choose more convenient outpatient settings. The number of insured individuals in the U.S. continues to increase, as the population grows and as a result of the impact of U.S. government actions, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the \u201cAffordable Care Act\u201d). Since 1999, the number of individuals covered by healthcare insurance in the U.S. has increased over 20 percent. Although government policies may change under different administrations, the emphasis on providing affordable healthcare insurance for individuals is expected to remain a priority for government officials.\nAt the same time, technological advances are pushing healthcare into more cost efficient and integrated outpatient settings. As a result, hospitals are reevaluating their business models to capture gains in efficiency. This push is driving medical procedures and other healthcare delivery, which has historically been conducted at a hospital, into outpatient settings via medical offices. Similarly, physicians and health systems are grouping together to increase their overhead efficiency and invest in new technology. Healthcare is increasingly being provided in part by nurses, physician assistants, and allied health providers \u2013 a key reason that healthcare is expected to be the fastest growing employment sector of this decade.\nWhy HTA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 7639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://human-knowledge.online/en/persons/197-ge-r-248-nning-7187624/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4AGWCCWKFS36YK3VLYSTVMHYCYQG5GGT", "length": 1425, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "human-knowledge.online", "title": "\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning | Human Knowledge", "raw_content": "\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning (4 October 1925 \u201331 January 1991) was a Norwegian writer and journalist. \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning was born in Oslo, Norway. He had a career in journalism working for Verdens Gang 1945\u201347, Norsk Telegrambyr\u00e5 1947\u201354 and Morgenbladet until 1964. His debut novel Fotfeste for elskere was published in 1954. His writings often reflected his Roman Catholic faith and focused on related religious issues. R\u00f8nning was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1982 for the novel Kolbes reise. from 1968 to 1969, R\u00f8nning was a deputy and from 1978 board member of the Norwegian Authors' Union. He was affected by multiple sclerosis starting in 1967 and was from 1980 depending on a wheelchair. In 1986 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award. He received the Dobloug Prize in 1989.\nHow would \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning be described?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning would be described as Norwegian writer.\nWhat is the gender of \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning is male.\nWhen died \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning died 01.01.1991.\nWhen was \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning born?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning was born on 01.01.1925.\nWhat is the citizenship or nationality of \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning is Norway.\nWhat is \u00c5ge R\u00f8nning subject of?\n\u00c5ge R\u00f8nning is subject of Dobloug Prize winners, 20th-century Norwegian writers, 1925 births, 1991 deaths, 20th-century Norwegian novelists, Male novelists, Norwegian male writers, People from Oslo, 20th-century Norwegian poets and Norwegian male poets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://humboldtgov.org/266/Headwaters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:06Z", "digest": "sha1:MGB4KUPF7W4NNQG7AWI6BRO634V7EK5C", "length": 1262, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "humboldtgov.org", "title": "Headwaters Fund | Humboldt County, CA - Official Website", "raw_content": "To support the growth of industry clusters\nTo increase the number of sustainable jobs that pay at or above the median income\nTo enhance the quality of life for residents of Humboldt County through projects that promote healthy communities and protect and enhance the natural environment\nHEADWATERS 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT\nHEADWATERS 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT Opens a New Window.\nACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS FEBRUARY 1, 2019\nWe offer loans and grants in the five programs detailed below. All programs require matching funds ranging from 25% to 75% of the project budget. See specific program guidelines for details.\nProjects that relate to a key strategy in the current Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy will be given priority.\nThe Headwaters Fund fund invests in projects through grants and loans to help the citizens of Humboldt County achieve increased economic opportunity, prosperity, and quality of life.\nLearn about the events leading up to the creation of the Headwaters Fund.\nHeadwaters Fund Governance\nThe Headwaters Fund maintains four different grant programs through the Grant Fund, the Community Investment Fund and Mini-Grants.\nThere are two Headwaters Fund loan programs: the Community Investment Fund Loans and Revolving Loan Fund loans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iae.univ-larochelle.fr/Bachelor-s-Degree", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7WTRKCLTYAAVHESEQAKM5TY5URGMELI5", "length": 97, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "iae.univ-larochelle.fr", "title": "(Bachelor\u2019s) Degree - IAE La Rochelle", "raw_content": "The Management Degree is intended to give a solid basic training in management. The courses (...)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 125.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://idealinnovations.com/services/contracts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HNLDUCUYQKAUZ6EGVRN6RDB44FVVNO6O", "length": 5562, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "idealinnovations.com", "title": "Contracts", "raw_content": "Prime Contract Vehicles:\nGSA Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS)\nI3 offers expertise on improving the performance of Federal agencies and other organizations through acquisition management support and program and project management.\nGSA Professional Engineering Services (PES)\nI3 offers professional chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering expertise in the areas of strategic planning for technological development, concept development and requirements analysis, systems engineering, design and integration, test and evaluation, and acquisition and life cycle management.\nGSA Professional Law Enforcement Services\nI3 offers professional law enforcement services and personnel in program management, latent fingerprint services and forensic photography, as well as biometric and forensic subject matter experts and specialists to Federal, state and local government.\nIntegrated Base Defense (IBD) ID/IQ\nI3 provides force protection capabilities to protect Soldiers through the use of security, surveillance and reconnaissance systems for integrated defense of military bases in the U.S. and overseas. These systems include the application of electronic detection, alarm assessment, access control, communications, and command, control, and display capabilities in order to significantly reduce the time required to detect, assess, neutralize or mitigate anticipated threats.\nSeaPort-e is the Navy's electronic platform for acquiring support services for the Navy Systems Commands, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. I3\u2019s SeaPort-e portal provides a standardized, efficient means of soliciting offers from a diverse population of large and small businesses and their approved team members. All task orders are competitively solicited, awarded and managed using the SeaPort-e platform.\nAfghanistan Automated Biometrics Identification System (A-ABIS)\nClient: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)\nI3 provides the design, procurement, certification, enrollment, management, technical support, FBI- Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) integration, training, testing, installation, maintenance, administration, reporting and operational support for the development of the ABIS for the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF). Our personnel currently manage the operation and maintenance of the A-ABIS including management, training, testing, installation, administration, and reporting as needed.\nSpace and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Biometric Support Services (BSS)\nI3 provides support to SPAWAR, to develop initiatives that encompass research and development, investigation, analysis, test and evaluation and reporting support for Counter Terrorism technology needs, intelligence-gathering technology, identity intelligence exploitation, and the overall development of biometric technology that can be utilized and shared throughout the government to aid in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Biometric and other technological solutions, management, coordination, and execution of counter terrorism technologies shall be evaluated for both Military and Law Enforcement operational environments.\nAdvanced Expeditionary Warfare Development (AEWD)\nI3 provides technical support services to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under the AEWD and the Concept Development, Fabrication, Prototyping, and Testing of Advanced Research and Development Efforts programs. The ARL provides scientific research, engineering support, technology development, and analysis to the U.S. Army, and supports the development of highly-technical, cutting-edge military Research and Development (R&D) products.\nArmy Research Lab Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (ARL SEDD)\nI3 provides Concept Development, Fabrication, Prototyping, and Testing of Advanced Research and Development Efforts provides support to SEDD as well as Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD). ARL SEDD\u2019s mission is to execute basic and applied research in sensors, signal and image processing, electronic devices, and power and energy. The CISD provides the Warfighter with knowledge superiority and to ensure U.S. military superiority through modeling and simulation, design, prototype development and experimentation.\nWe are a team member on the following Contract Vehicles:\nData Science Operations Requirements and Exploitation (DORE)\nEnhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise Basic Ordering Agreement (EAGLE BOA)\nEnhanced Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (E-SITE)\nFBI Information Technology Services Contract (ITSC)\nGlobal Intelligence Support Services (GISS)\nHomeland Defense and Security Technical Area Tasks (HD TATS)\nInformation Technology Services Small Business (ITS-SB)\nInformation Technology Supplies and Support Services (IT Triple S)\nNaval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technogym (NAVEODTECH) Omnibus\nProtective Under Garment (PUG)\nRapid Response 3rd Generation (R2-3G)\nSoftware and Systems Engineering Services Next Generation (SSES-NexGen)\nSolutions for Intelligence Analysis II (SIA II)\nTACOM Omnibus\nTACOM Strategic Service Solutions (TS3)\nTargeted Requirement Execution (T-REX)\nTechnical Acquisition and Business Support Services (TABSS)\nTechnical Information Engineering Services (TIES)\nTerrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center Forensic Science Support (TEDAC FSS)\nU.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services (AMCOM EXPRESS)\nWarrior Enabling Broad Sensor Services (WEBS)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://idn.web.ox.ac.uk/microsoft-azure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:08Z", "digest": "sha1:WEYGGMXGZK2HVE6JM7P56XSYBN6GKT7F", "length": 816, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "idn.web.ox.ac.uk", "title": "Microsoft Azure | Interactive Data Network", "raw_content": "The researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk team in IT Services is able to give support and advice on storing data or databases in Microsoft Azure.\nMicrosoft Azure is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft for the creation, implementation, and management of virtual machines, databases, and many other applications and services stored in Microsoft's international data centres. It can provide software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.\nIt provides easy setup of MS SQL databases but if using this as a source for interactive data visualizations then it is recommended that you contact researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk for further advice and support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://idrh.ku.edu/tools-resources", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LI6RMO4DW3GUP52KHBO4I4CWI6LGWTYW", "length": 4614, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "idrh.ku.edu", "title": "Uses of video in Digital Humanities | Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities", "raw_content": "Uses of video in Digital Humanities\nVideo and sound are extensively used in the Digital Humanities. Some use are the capturing of data using video or sound recording, sound analysis, interviewing, transcription, collections publications or visualization. The next is a presentation of some of these uses.\nDigital Oral History\nUsing video in the collection of Oral History brings the opportunity of collect valuable information about the story tellers and characters of the history, beyond the story it self that can be told in written form. To listen to the characters voice brings the original language, the accent, the feminine or masculine characters and the video brings the facial and body gestures. The possibility of on-line production open the possibility that people tell their own stories, communities tell their own oral histories, so it support the participatory and collaborative research.\nThe next are resources about Oral History in the Digital Age and projects created by scholar researchers and for communities by themselves.\nHigh school students at the Urban School of San Francisco conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. This is an ongoing, ever-changing, and constantly evolving project involving dozens of students, teachers, and community volunteers. The majority of efforts thus far have been applied to the actual interview process as well as posting interviews on this website. http://www.tellingstories.org/mccomb/index.html\nOHDA (http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu) connects you to the latest information on digital technologies pertaining to all phases of the oral history process. Browse the current essays about collecting, curating and disseminating oral history in the digital age. For more information on the development and organization of the project, please visit the OHDA Project Site. http://www.oralhistory.org/oral-history-in-the-digital-age/\nStoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews from more than 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our weekly broadcasts on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition and on StoryCorps\u2019 Listen Page. Learn more about StoryCorps here.\nFeatured Stories: http://storycorps.org/locations/\nVideo for Ethnography\nArchive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors. The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative effort to establish a repository of ethnographic video recordings and an infrastructure of tools and systems supporting scholars in the ethnographic disciplines. Indiana University. http://www.eviada.org/\nSearch the site. Registration needed. https://media.eviada.org/eviadasb/browse.html\nEthnographic research is not consumer research\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNflPx3ZsHs\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54AXk3HIA0o\nVideo in multimodal research\nVideo has become a primary data collection tool for those researching multimodal environments. http://multimodalblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/digital-video-and-data-collection/\nResearch in Video collections and visualization\nSoftware Studies have developed a number software tools for working with big image and video collections, including preparing image data, automatically analyzing it, and using visualization for the exploration of the collections. All tools are free and provided as open source. http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/software-for-digital-humanities.html\nVideo for outreach\nThe next research centers use video to reach the main audiences. Each of them use a different narrative strategy.\nInterviewing experts by conducted interview style. http://www.youtube.com/user/SmithsonianAmHistory\nVoice over narration. The voice of the experts interviewed is used to tell the story. Note also the use of field research photo archives in the narration.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ekq7mYXqM&list=PL0F177D7D57B2D698&feature=c4-overview-vl\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaaQeJ-GUP8\nFor a growing list of digital humanities resources, including introductions, blogs, tools and tutorials, grant opportunities, teaching resources, and other digital humanities links, see our LibGuide for Digital Humanities Tools and Resources.\nVideos of many of our seminar and conference speakers can be viewed on the IDRH YouTube Channel.\nMatthew Menzenski - Introduction to Text Analysis with the Natural Language Toolkit\nManipulating your videos for research and Teaching, PDF guide. Jump Start Workshops 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 15165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilio.com/products/vienna-instruments/winds/historicwinds2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:A5JMWUKP6C6STDF7HSPC7RZXDC7JWGFL", "length": 3271, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ilio.com", "title": "Vienna Instruments Collections : Winds : Historic Winds II", "raw_content": "Requires the ViennaKey\nCornett (zink)\n5 Crumhorns (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, double bass)\n3 Natural Trumpets (in Bb, C and D)\nThe cornett (or cornetto, or zink \u2013 not to be confused with the trumpet-like Cornet included in Vienna\u2019s Special Brass Collection) was a popular wind instrument of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Its conical wooden pipe is about 61 centimeters (24 inches) long and covered in leather. There are no valves but seven front finger holes as well as a thumb hole on the back, as on the recorder. The cup mouthpiece is usually made of horn, ivory or bone and it takes a lot of practice to achieve pure intonation. The cornett is a very agile instrument covering the soprano and sopranino registers with a key range of almost three octaves. Especially in the high register the timbre is reminiscent of a blend of a soft piccolo trumpet playing mezzoforte and a female voice. Famous composers who wrote for the cornett were Giovanni Gabrieli and his student Heinrich Sch\u00fctz, whose sacral works for choirs usually feature an extensive instrumental accompaniment.\nThe Crumhorn\u2019s name is derived from the German \u201cKrummhorn\u201d, which means \u201cbent horn\u201d. The lower part of the instrument is bent upwards in a curve like the letter \u201cJ\u201d and the cylindrical shaped pipe has seven finger holes on the front and one on the back. Unlike recorders Crumhorns have a double-reed mouthpiece like the bassoon; it produces the typically bright and \u201cnasal\u201d timbre that music of the Renaissance period is often associated with. As a typical woodwind instrument of the Renaissance period the Crumhorn disappeared later in the Baroque era but was rediscovered in the 20th century in Folk, Medieval and contemporary music. As an example, composer Mauricio Kagel (1931\u20132008) used four Crumhorns in his \u201cMusic for Renaissance Instruments\u201d (in memoriam Claudio Monteverdi). Crumhorns are available in various sizes, as the instrument\u2019s range covers just one octave. Historic Winds II contains recordings of five different crumhorns, covering the soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and double bass register.\nNatural trumpets were originally used as military instruments for acoustic signals. Although used in Venetian ceremonial music of the 16th century, the natural trumpets experienced their heyday in the Baroque period, when composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi or Telemann created works for the instrument. Natural trumpets continued to be used throughout the Classical era and even into the early Romantic period. As they have no valves the instruments are characterized by their long tubing compared to modern trumpets. They can only produce notes of the natural harmonic series, from the 3rd to the 16th, of the corresponding key. Impure harmonics, such as the 7th, 11th, 13th and 14th note of the harmonic series, and even chromatic notes can be achieved with advanced \u201clipping\u201d techniques (i.e., flattening or sharpening the tuning with changes in embouchure). Playing in the very high register is also known as the clarion technique (Latin: clarus = bright). The majority of Baroque trumpet parts were written for natural instruments pitched in Bb, C or D. The Vienna team has recorded three different instruments in these keys to provide you with utmost flexibility.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 12735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://illustrate.digital/blog/wordpress-agency-a-to-z", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FY4DYOQV7NOYRI4K4AZZEFCELCGL7KFR", "length": 12357, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "illustrate.digital", "title": "The A to Z Of A Wordpress Agency", "raw_content": "Since working here at Illustrate, I love hearing the question \u2018So what is it that you do?\u2019. It gives me a great opportunity to share what a WordPress Specialist does, and to get across how passionate we are as a web design agency, about being the best in our field.\nWe have an ethos here when talking about what we do, to make it as clear and understandable as possible. When you buy a new car, unless you\u2019re an enthusiast, you don\u2019t want the salesman to be talking about hydrocarbons and alternators \u2013 you want terms you can understand. That\u2019s exactly how we approach talking with our new and existing clients.\nLike any industry though, there are a whole host of jargon terms that we use on a day-to-day basis as a WordPress Agency. Below, I have put together an A-Z guide of just some of these terms. Some you may know already, some you may not. Hopefully there\u2019s something helpful there for everyone!\nThis term actually comes from the newspaper industry, where the space on the top half of the front page is far more valuable than the space below it. On the web, content that is visible without scrolling down is referred to as above the fold, and is the space in which you should be looking to engage your audience and get across the most important information. For example, you can see with the homepage of HDM Tubes, that we concentrated the most eye-catching and important information above the fold.\nThis refers to anything going on \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d of a website, such as uploading new content and keeping it performing as it should. Think of your car; you like to keep it clean and look nice on the outside, but if it started performing badly, you\u2019d take it to a mechanic and get them to look under the bonnet and make changes. Likewise, if you wanted new components fitting to upgrade performance, you\u2019d get these done internally, by a professional.\nThat\u2019s what we do with the sites we build and with clients that come to us for website maintenance. We work daily in the backend of sites, and we\u2019re really comfortable with what we\u2019re doing there.\nUploading new products for e-commerce sites, adding new blog posts, or even building sites from a blank canvas \u2013 these are just a few of the things we do in the back end.\nThe cache is a segment of your computer\u2019s memory, used to store information downloaded from the internet. This means that parts of the site can be retrieved from the cache and don\u2019t need to be downloaded each time. For example, background graphics and company logos that appear on each web page are downloaded once to the cache then retrieved each time from there. This means the site can run much faster.\nDNS stands for Domain Name Server. It basically translates between IP addresses that people have difficulty remembering, and domain names which are much easier to recall. For example, a DNS translates the IP address of 72.21.211.176 to www.amazon.com.\nAs you would expect, this is just short for \u2018Electronic Commerce\u2019 \u2013 online shops. At Illustrate we\u2019ve been really lucky to have worked with some great businesses in developing their ecommerce presence. Check out charlotteexpresspackaging.co.uk for a practical example of one of our most recent ecommerce sites.\nThe part of a webpage that people visiting the site in a browser see. Essentially the \u201cwebsite\u201d part of a website. This is the designer\u2019s playground, and where we work with you in order to get across your business identity through colour, layout, and content.[/vc_column_text]\nGIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. They\u2019re a bit 90s, and it\u2019s highly unlikely we\u2019d ever use them for a client\u2019s site. That\u2019s not to say we don\u2019t enjoy them from time to time though \u2013 I mean, who couldn\u2019t love this?\nWithout hosting, people across the world wouldn\u2019t be able to see your website. It\u2019s quite literal actually\u2026 It\u2019s simply a server (which is a computer setup specifically for websites) \u2018hosting\u2019 your website, storing its information ready to be shown to one of your viewers.\nWhen someone, somewhere in the world, asks their computer to show your website, the server kicks in and sends your website\u2019s data to them.\nAt Illustrate we trust our web hosting to WP Engine, who offer the world\u2019s best hosting for WordPress. They look after our server to make sure it\u2019s really well optimised and also very secure, making sure your WordPress website runs as quickly as possible.\nIP stands for \u2018Internet Protocol\u2019, and is essentially an electronic serial number. Every computer, mobile phone, basically any device that accesses the internet, is assigned at least one IP address for tracking purposes. Wherever you browse, whenever you send an email or instant message, and whenever you download a file, your IP address acts like a kind of licence plate to enforce accountability and traceability.\nNot referring to coffee (although we do get through an awful lot of that). Java is a programming language designed to be able to run on different operating systems. Your web browser for example is able to run Java programs regardless of whether you are using Windows, Mac or Linux. With Java and it\u2019s \u2018child languages\u2019 (such as Javascript), you can create websites with better graphic effects as well as providing a very high level of interactivity.\nA keyword is a word or series of words that potential customers will enter into a search engine to find your products or services. In looking after the technical side of your website\u2019s SEO, we spend time making sure your keywords get the best traffic for your sector and we target those keywords while building the site, in order to achieve higher search rankings for your business.\nLorem Ipsum, also sometimes referred to as \u2018dummy text\u2019 is the industry standard for design mockups and helps the team to visualise how a page will look once text is added in. Often, we will build a page and fill the text areas with Lorem Ipsum, ready for it to be replaced at a later date with the actual intended copy.\nWith the increased popularity and functionality of mobile devices, more and more people use the internet through their phones or tablets. This means that web agencies have had to catch up in recent years and ensure that the sites they build are \u2018Mobile Optimised\u2019, i.e. they still look good and function as well on a mobile or tablet as they would on a computer. WordPress has some great built in functionality for this, but our developers also use their expertise to ensure that any new sites we build run as smoothly as possible on all devices.\nAgain, quite a simple one \u2013 navigation is how a user \u2018travels\u2019 around your site. This can be through areas such as the main menu, linked text, interactive sliders or by building a \u2018Call to Action\u2019. See ibrolly.co.uk below. We incorporated a bold slider into the header of the site to capture attention and encourage users to click straight away; just one example of how navigation can be implemented.\nOpen source refers to the source code of a computer program being made available to the general public. It includes both web-based and desktop applications which are generally free or very low cost and are developed by teams of people, usually comprised of volunteers. The fact that WordPress is Open Source software is a huge contributor to it\u2019s success as the market leader in content management, and also why we love it so much. The WordPress community is just that \u2013 a community. A community of like-minded individuals coming together to share ideas and knowledge in order to develop this amazing web platform.\nA plugin is a bit of third party code that extends the functionality of a website without having to redo the core coding of the site. We\u2019ll never bloat a site with plugins; too many plugins make sites sluggish and where we can, we\u2019ll write custom code instead of relying on a plugin. Having said that, there are a number of plugins that we love, and you can read about a couple of them a little further below.\nAn important part of any business is the concept of quality control. Being a successful web agency means that we have to be passionate and caring in our craft. In such a highly competitive market, the need to maintain a set of standards, do what\u2019s in the clients\u2019 best interests and ensure what we produce meets requirements is vital. Whenever we build a website, we have a whole set of checklists and requirements that it needs to meet before the project is given the final \u2018all clear\u2019. We also believe it\u2019s important to continue to evolve and refine our processes, and it\u2019s this that has built us a solid reputation as quality WordPress Specialists in Cardiff.\nResponsive web design enables a website to respond and adjust for mobile, tablet and laptop screen size. The website images, text, navigation and layout all adjust for best viewing and interaction on each specific platform. Every site we build here at Illustrate is built to be responsive, as we recognise how important this is in today\u2019s technology.\nSearch Engine Optimisation is the process of optimising your website for search engines such as Google. SEO techniques make it easy for search engines to find a website and identify its contents, such as images, text, blog posts and individual web pages. The more SEO optimised the website and its content, the higher a website should rank in Google\u2019s results.\nThis is basically that last bit of your web address after the dot; .com, .net, .org \u2026 there are a lot of them.\nIt\u2019s important to consider what type of TLD would best fit for your business. For example, if you run a company selling goods or services online, you\u2019d probably want to go for a .co.uk or .com, rather than a .org for example. On the flip side, a charity might want to go for a .org over a .com for the same reasons.\nUsability refers to how easy it is for a visitor to your site to use it in its intended way. In other words, are the navigation, content, images, and any interactive elements easy to use? Are they functioning the way they were intended, and are you sure your intended target visitor will not need any special training in order to use your site? These are all questions we check over when building new sites as we want your website to be a window into what your business does, and for you to succeed through that. No one wants dirty Windows (sorry) windows.\nVisual Composer is awesome. Built by WPBakery, Visual Composer is a WordPress plugin that allows for basic users to easily add content to the backend of their site, as well as opening up expert capabilities for us, such as custom coding and layout changes. It\u2019s great for an agency like ours because in certain situations we can build a site as normal and then all it takes is a quick tutorial to the client in how to add content, meaning they can take full control of how their content is managed going forward.\nThis is our favourite thing ever! WordPress is a website creation tool that helps us to create incredible websites. It\u2019s the easiest and most widely used content management system (CMS) on the planet.\nIt\u2019s our thing, it\u2019s what we do, we are WordPress developers and don\u2019t work with any other tool for creating websites.\nThousands of developers in the UK and across the world use this software. In fact it powers over 75 million websites!\nSurprisingly, we are still one of very few web development agencies in the UK who concentrate on WordPress 100%. In fact we\u2019re the only WordPress specialist in Cardiff and South Wales.\nYou can read more about the difference between a WordPress developer and WordPress specialist here.\nOr read about why we love WordPress here.\nXML is a file format designed to create files that are easy to share and understand. A good example of this file type in practice is in an XML Sitemap. This file lists all your web pages, making it easier for Google to crawl your website. The XML sitemap enables you to suggest how often your website should be crawled for new content and updates.\nAnother of our favourite plugins, Yoast is great for boosting SEO. Similar to Visual Composer in terms of it\u2019s joint basic and expert capabilities, Yoast uses a traffic lighting system in order to show in real time how well your content is marked-up in relation to the keywords you\u2019re wanting to target. You can read more about Yoast here.\nDespite thinking long and hard, I couldn\u2019t think of anything for Z\u2026\nSo here\u2019s one of my favourite clips from Zoolander.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 14355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilovewalkinginfrance.com/nantes-brest-canal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:14Z", "digest": "sha1:XRCNE3MR7LSL2AXJBKNCGVZNEOYQERDQ", "length": 5496, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "ilovewalkinginfrance.com", "title": "Walking the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal | I Love Walking In France", "raw_content": "Walking the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal\nMeandering over 350 kilometres (220 miles) across northern France, the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal transforms the natural river network linking the two towns into a navigable body of water. Halfway along, at Pontivy, the Blavet Canal peels away and continues south for 70 kilometres (44 miles) to Lorient on the southern coast of Brittany.\nThe towpath stops some way short of the coast at both ends, so I started my west-to-east journey in Port-Launay (inland from Brest), followed the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal east for 150 kilometres (94 miles) to Pontivy and then headed south along the Blavet Canal for 60 kilometres (38 miles) to Hennebont (inland from Lorient).\nI confess I have mixed feelings about this walk. There\u2019s no doubt that much of it is exceptionally pretty as you\u2019ll see in the photos below, but it also felt quite monotonous for a lot of the way \u2013 hemmed in by tall trees and with little variety to break up the scenery.\nThere were many highlights \u2013 the Abbaye de Bon-Repos and the chapels of Piti\u00e9 and Gohaz\u00e9, all on the canal! Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez, a lovingly restored example of a nineteenth-century hunting lodge proved a worthwhile detour (located 4 kilometres from the canal near Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du Faou) for an afternoon.\nThere had been a lot of rain in the weeks prior to my arrival and the vegetation along the towpath was lush and green. Yellow irises were blooming and the sunlight dancing off the rain-splattered trees was magical.\nI walked in May which is outside of the peak summer season. Most of the caf\u00e9s and visitor centres close to the canal were closed (not opening until June) and the canal was incredibly quiet. I passed one boat in almost two weeks of walking and began to wonder if the locks still functioned. It was not until I reached Lochrist and saw a group of school children taking their kayaks through a lock that I was convinced this was a working canal.\nIf you\u2019re considering the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal as a long-distance walk, I recommend going during the summer months when the caf\u00e9s and visitor centres are open and the holiday crowds and boat traffic will add a much-needed sense of life. And if I could ride a bike, I would cycle instead of walking.\nFrom a logistical perspective, the best place to start a west-to-east walk along the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal is at Ch\u00e2teaulin \u2013 a town large enough to have all services and daily train and bus services providing connections all over France. It\u2019s also the first section where l\u2019Aulne river is canalised (who knew that was a word!).\nWhat will you see along the way?\nLet\u2019s get started on the first section from Port-Launay to Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou \u2013 45.7 kms (28.6 mi).\nPort-Launay is a few kilometres back towards Brest from Ch\u00e2teaulin, but well worth a visit and maybe a stop for lunch or coffee.\nBack to Ch\u00e2teaulin and the start of the walk along the Nantes \u00e0 Brest Canal.\nWar memorial in Ch\u00e2teaulin on Victory in Europe Day (8 May 2015). Newly laid wreaths honour those who lost their lives during World War II\nLeaving Ch\u00e2teaulin and heading east towards Pontivy.\nSomewhere between \u00c9cluse 236 Ch\u00e2teaulin and \u00c9cluse 235 Coatigrac\u2019h.\nLock house at \u00c9cluse 235 Coatigrac\u2019h.\nTwo fishermen try their luck at \u00c9cluse 235 Coatigrac\u2019h.\nHeading towards \u00c9cluse 234 Toularodo\nAt \u00c9cluse 232 l\u2019Aulne, a memorial honours twelve members of the local resistance which formed here in October 1943.\nResistance members met in caves on this section of the canal, but in April 1944, twelve were captured and held prisoner nearby after being betrayed by one of their own. Less than one month later, seven of the twelve were executed \u2013 the other five according to the memorial ont disparu (which can mean they had disappeared or had died).\nTwenty-four kilometres (15.3 miles) on from Port Launay is the tiny port of Pont-Coblant. There is a hotel here and several caf\u00e9s, making it a good place to stop for the night after the first day of walking.\nTwenty-one kilometres (13.3 miles) past Pont-Coblant is the town of Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou. You\u2019ll find all services here \u2013 a supermarket, pharmacy, ATM and lots of options for a meal or an overnight stay.\nChapel in Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou\nA 40-minute walk (or a 10-minute taxi ride) from Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou is Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez.\nOpen most afternoons throughout the year (hours vary), the ch\u00e2teau is packed with interactive exhibits and photos highlighting its history as a hunting lodge. Audio guides are available in several languages or you can wander through the rooms at leisure.\n(I don\u2019t know the significance of the silver ribbons\u2014that was a conversation well beyond my limited French unfortunately.)\nTerracotta pots hung from the trees at Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez hide speakers which broadcast a story about the history of the ch\u00e2teau.\nReflecting pond in the gardens of Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez.\nThe reception room in Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez, where guests would gather for drinks before dinner, enjoys beautiful views over the fields. In summer time, the French doors would be open and guests would spill out on to the terrace.\nView from the terrace of Ch\u00e2teau de Tr\u00e9varez.\nWhere to next along the canals of Brittany?\nSection 2: Ch\u00e2teaneuf-du-Faou to Abbaye de Bon-Repos\nSection 3: Abbaye de Bon-Repos to Pontivy\nSection 4: Pontivy to Hennebont\nFor something equally flat and easy to walk\u2026\nYou might also enjoy the Burgundy Canal or the Midi Canal\nFor truly spectacular scenery right here in Brittany\u2026\nFollow the GR 34 along the coast from Camaret-sur-Mer to Audierne", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 6825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/10-valuable-quotes-pepsicos-indra-slideshow-wp-125518498/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:07Z", "digest": "sha1:C7YPAJAELT5LME7BCURZ5I3HVB4S7K6L", "length": 702, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "in.finance.yahoo.com", "title": "10 valuable quotes by PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi", "raw_content": "10 valuable quotes by PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi\nHere\u2019s a lady whose might and ability never seize to inspire. The Donald Trump led US government has nominated former PepsiCo chief executive officer (CEO) Indra Nooyi as a candidate for the position of new World Bank president, according to recent reports. Nooyi, 63, had stepped down as PepsiCo\u2019s chief last August after leading the company for 12 years.\nWhile for several years, 62 year old Nooyi has been a role model for women entrepreneurs across the world, people from other fields and across ages can also draw valuable life lessons from her style of management and decision-making.\nHere are 10 of the most valuable statements she has ever made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://in.mobile.reuters.com/video/2016/06/26/orlando-massacre-casts-shadow-over-us-ga?videoId=369074401", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPTTTHIMUBHEDPMW266JH7EYPDBITVIQ", "length": 3816, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "in.mobile.reuters.com", "title": "Orlando massacre casts shadow over U.S. gay pride events | Reuters.com", "raw_content": "Orlando massacre casts shadow over U.S. gay pride events\nNew York's Governor, along with leaders of the New York and Florida LGBT community, says this year's gay pride parades take on new meaning in the wake of the Orlando massacre at a gay nightl cub earlier in June. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).\nROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) New York Governor Mario Cuomo, along with leaders of the New York and Florida LGBT community, on Sunday (June 26) said this year's gay pride parade take on new meaning in the wake of the Orlando massacre at a gay night club earlier this month. Pride parades in New York, San Francisco and other U.S. cities are expected to draw millions of revelers on Sunday, two weeks after a mass shooting at a Florida nightclub galvanized the LGBT community, and rekindled outrage over American gun violence. An estimated 1.6 million spectators could turn out at the annual gay pride march through Lower Manhattan, according to its organizers. The world's largest celebration of pride among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people was first held in 1970. Following the June 12 shooting at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub, police departments across the country have ramped up security for this year's parades, authorities said. A gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. In a special tribute to the massacre victims, the lead float in New York's parade will carry Pulse owner Barbara Poma and the club's entertainment manager, Neema Bahrami. All told, the parade will feature some 2,000 marchers and 85 floats that will wind their way downtown from the Empire State Building to Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay rights movement. President Barack Obama on Friday designated the bar a national monument, the first to specifically honor the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The bar was the scene of a 1969 police raid that triggered riots and an impromptu rally that ignited a long struggle to bring LGBT people into the American mainstream and guarantee their rights. Gun control and the prevention of gun violence have emerged as prominent themes in pride events this year, with the Orlando slayings putting them near the top of the national political agenda. Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups. Orange, the unofficial color of the city of Orlando, has been ubiquitous at this year's events, too. In New York, the weekend's festivities began on Friday with a PrideFest street fair at which orange bandannas were handed out to the thousands of participants. On Sunday, many parade marchers planned to hold orange flags bearing the rainbow stripes that symbolize LGBT pride. New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said last week that the city had known of no specific threats against the weekend's events. Even so, the New York Police Department was beefing up security. It was assigning additional police officers, some of them equipped with radiation-detection devices and explosive-detecting dogs. The area is being monitored by cameras, helicopters and officers posted on rooftops, stationed in the subway system and on vessels patrolling the Hudson River. In San Francisco, people attending events will have to go through security checks and metal detectors, and organizers were discouraging them from bringing bags. Other U.S. cities with pride events scheduled this weekend include Oklahoma City; Minneapolis; Cincinnati, Ohio; Lexington, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Orange County, California; and Omaha, Nebraska.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://independentadvisoralliance.com/who-we-are/about-lpl/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BBETBTTVGXVCDUKGIKPUWF37S2J6MES7", "length": 1187, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "independentadvisoralliance.com", "title": "About LPL Financial | Independent Advisor Alliance", "raw_content": "Independent Advisor Alliance is powered by the resources of LPL Financial LLC, the nation\u2019s largest independent broker-dealer*, a custodian for registered investment advisors (RIAs), and a wholly owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LPLA). As a result, IAA can offer clients increased strength, stability and the vast resources of an industry leader. IAA\u2019s proximity to the LPL Charlotte office allows for the development of relationships with key LPL personnel. These relationships are instrumental in providing exceptional service, advocacy and value to our clients.\n*LPL Financial provided service to approximately $615 billion in brokerage and advisory assets as of December 31, 2017. LPL is the nation's largest independent broker-dealer (based on total revenues, Financial Planning magazine June 1996-2017). The Company provides proprietary technology, comprehensive clearing services, practice management programs and training, and independent research to more than 15,000 financial advisors and over 700 financial institutions. LPL Financial and its affiliates have primary offices in Boston, Fort Mill, and San Diego. For more information, visit www.lpl.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 145.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://infodirweb.com/your-source-for-your-favorite-black-mild/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DULG75PHOZEEY7NYSZS6TR736XZRQYRR", "length": 2099, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "infodirweb.com", "title": "Your Source for Your Favorite Black & MildInfo Dir Web | Info Dir Web", "raw_content": "Your Source for Your Favorite Black & Mild\nadmin September, 2014 Shopping No Comments\nTired of looking all over town for your favorite flavor and size of Black & Mild cigars? Come to BnB Tobacco. We\u2019ve got a huge selection, not to mention some of the best service you\u2019ll find in the smoke industry today.\nBlack & Mild tobacco products are machine made and wrapped in homogenized pipe tobacco. Plastic and wooden tipped varieties are available, as are untipped and short variations. This brand is very popular among those who enjoy a quality smoke, but perhaps aren\u2019t looking to spend on actual Cuban cigars or other such brands.\nOne of the most loved things about Black & Mild is the wide selection when it comes to flavor. People also tend to like the predictability of a machine made cigar. If you\u2019re someone who likes choice, but a good understanding of what you\u2019re going to get, Black & Mild might be the brand for you. Some of the flavors available are Apple, Cream, Wine, Vanilla and others. Natural flavoring is also an option.\nThe BnB Culture\nAt BnB Tobacco, we are dedicated to continuing the wonderful smoking culture in this country. While there might be all kinds of stuff out there to smoke, and a vast range of quality, flavor and reliability, you need to know that there\u2019s a place you can find the best of it in one location. Our website features numerous brands, and countless varieties within those brands. You could spend hours learning about the most preferred cigars on the market, or quickly order your old standby. Whichever it is, you\u2019ll enjoy unparalleled service.\nWe\u2019re a family owned and operated company, and love cigars as much as you do. Of course, to keep up with the times, we\u2019ve expanded to include e-smoke products, as well as a wealth of accessories like lighters, ashtrays, cutters and more. Whether you\u2019re looking for a premium Cuban cigar, a particular flavor of Black & Mild or a new ashtray to gift someone, you\u2019ll find it here.\nLearn How to Choose the Best Cigar for Y...\nHow to Find the Most Realistic Glock Air...\nWhere to Find a Good Custom T Shirts Des...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 11694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insideflyer.co.uk/2018/11/grab-slice-christmas-cheer-worth-1820-norwegian-reward-advent-calendar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PD7SDH6GUC6SGUBUZ7KSARP7KNC4H3Z4", "length": 3559, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "insideflyer.co.uk", "title": "Grab a Slice of Christmas Cheer (Worth Up to \u00a31,820!!!) with the Norwegian Reward Advent Calendar - InsideFlyer UK", "raw_content": "Grab a Slice of Christmas Cheer (Worth Up to \u00a31,820!!!) with the Norwegian Reward Advent Calendar\nNorwegian is counting down the days to Christmas by offering members of its loyalty programme 24 consecutive days of fantastic savings on flights, special partner offers and chances to win ~\u00a31,820 worth of points that can be used to redeem for any Norwegian flight, including taxes.\nFrom 1 December \u2013 24 December 2018, Norwegian Reward will launch its Christmas Countdown Advent Calendar filled with daily opportunities to make travel more affordable and boost CashPoint earnings for members.\nOnce signed up, members will receive a daily email to guess what Santa is dreaming about. Upon completion of each day\u2019s game, members will receive offers ranging from discounted flights to bonus CashPoint offers. Members will also receive an entry into a prize draw, after each day\u2019s game, for 20,000 CashPoints \u2013 worth approximately \u00a31,820.\nMembers who sign up to the calendar before 22:59 GMT on Friday 30 November 2018 will also have an additional chance to win 20,000 CashPoints \u2013 so it makes sense to do so now!\nIt\u2019s great to see the Norwegian Reward Advent Calendar make a return (and don\u2019t forget to keep an eye out for news about our very own InsideFlyer Advent Calendar too! Rumour has it that it\u2019s bigger and better than ever\u2026)\nAdvent Calendar Terms and Rules\nWinners of advent calendar prizes are drawn daily and published on the calendar website. No purchase is necessary to participate.\nSign-up Prize Draw Terms and Rules\nNorwegian Air Shuttle ASA, P.O. Box 115, NO-1330 Fornebu, Norway, registered VAT number NO 965 920 358 MVA is the organiser and the entity responsible for the full draw process according to the below terms and conditions.\nBy participating in this competition, you accept the following terms and conditions. Norwegian Reward reserves the right to modify or discontinue the competition and/or the terms and conditions at any time.\nTo enter the sign-up draw for 20,000 CashPoints, participants must sign up to the advent calendar by entering their email address and completing the sign-up process by 23:59 CET on 30 November 2018. Participants who sign up after this date and time will not be entered into the draw.\nOne randomly selected winner will receive the prize in the form of a Norwegian travel gift card with a value equivalent to 20,000 CashPoints. General Terms and Conditions for Norwegian gift cards apply, including expiry dates.\nThe winner will be contacted by email by 07.12.2018. The gift card will be sent to the recipient via their registered email address up to 10 working days after contact has been made and the prize accepted.\nIf the winner does not confirm his or her prize within 5 days of receipt of the email, Norwegian Air Shuttle reserves the right to select a different winner.\nWinners must be aged 18 years or older and registered as a traveller on the trip obtained from the winnings.\nThe prize cannot be transferred to another person.\nThe prize cannot be redeemed in cash.\nThe winner shall pay any state taxes due on the prize if they exist.\nThe winner must contact Norwegian Reward immediately if he or she is unable to use the prize due to illness or other obligations.\nNorwegian Reward reserves the right to revoke the prize if the winner attempts to use the winnings for commercial purposes.\nWe refer you to the general rules and conditions for travellers of Norwegian Air Shuttle, and the general Terms and Conditions for Norwegian Reward.\nLooks like you don\u2019t have to have a Norwegian account, too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 11551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://institutes.kpmg.us/content/global/bios/h/heckler-brian.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JTA3TLYJVSXC6U43YLYKM26KAOP5Q2HU", "length": 847, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "institutes.kpmg.us", "title": "Brian Heckler", "raw_content": "National Sector Leader, Industrial Manufacturing\nBrian is KPMG\u2019s Industrial Markets Line of Business Leader and the National Sector Leader for the Industrial Manufacturing Sector which includes Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Engineering & Industrial Products, Conglomerates, Transportation and Metals. He possesses over 30 years of experience providing accounting and reporting consultation to clients on mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings, restatements, joint ventures, and divestitures, principally with public companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Brian has provided technical support and project assistance on accounting issues in acquisitions, bankruptcy, carve-out, IPO/spin-off, or sales transactions and adoption and application of accounting standards to strategic or private equity buyers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 9071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 200.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://intentionalluck.com/2013/04/04/vocabulary-of-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q3WLMXSXNDTDSRRB7FRT4WGBCNXVBTF", "length": 3338, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "intentionalluck.com", "title": "Vocabulary of Love | Intentional LUCK", "raw_content": "Vocabulary of Love\nOne of the exercises for my Anthropedia training included developing a list all of feelings that I link to the expression of love and kindness. It seemed like such an easy task, and who doesn\u2019t love to make out lists? Ha! But when I sat down to write the list, I realized a sudden limitation of my own vocabulary. What feelings do I think about when I feel love or kindness towards someone? I mean, it seems so obvious, you love someone so you feel love, right? I mean, I guess \u201cwarm and fuzzy\u201d don\u2019t really qualify as formal definitions. Needless to say, I had some work to do in this area.\nI finally came up with this list, and no\u2026it\u2019s not my exhaustive list. But it\u2019s a start. I associate all of these things, in various forms, to the idea of love and kindness: Gratitude, kindness, compassion, joy, warmth, forgiveness, generosity, understanding, patience, thoughtfulness, happiness, adoration, helpfulness, meaningful, a sense of belonging, frankness, tolerance, comfortable, trusting, acceptance, modesty, and inspiration.\nThe second part of this exercise was to spontaneously define each of those words and then compare it to the formal definition in a dictionary and decide which definition I wanted to go with. Then I needed to think of a specific time when I experienced that particular word. My initial thought was \u2018holy cow, that\u2019s going to take some time\u2019. But I knew that it would be worth it to complete this exercise and see how evident love and kindness are in my life. So I did it, and going through each word, figuring out what I thought it meant and comparing to a formal definition really helped me understand how I use the words in my daily life. The best part was writing one sentence about a time I experienced each of the words in an interaction with someone. Boy, talk about a fun task\u2026.yes, it took me a little longer than I would like to admit when it came to some of the words, such as \u2018tolerance\u2019! I tend to be pretty passionate about my views so it was a good practice to think about the last time I truly experienced tolerance with someone. It also made me super aware of how many opportunities I miss to experience more love and kindness through some of these actions.\nOverall, I realized that I can easily identify moments when I feel love or kindness from a family member or close friend but I often overlook those times when every day people opt to show kindness or spread love and I am the lucky recipient. Whether it\u2019s experiencing gratitude from the lady at the DMV who helped me clear up a mistake on a traffic ticket, or understanding from a coworker who simply lets me vent about a crappy day, or the unknown driver who patiently let me merge on the highway instead of speeding to pass me up (and therefore is practicing tolerance)! All of the opportunities are times when I can choose to experience love and kindness exactly as they are and store the goodness to help me through those days when it may not be so abundant. My hope is that after reviewing my sharpened vocabulary related to expression of love and kindness; it makes me more aware of how I can promote it within my own interactions each day as well.\nThis entry was posted in Love, Uncategorized and tagged gratitude, Kindness, Love, opportunity, patience, Understanding by R. Whittington. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/dear-god-this-triceratops-is-made-of-pumpkins-1454081144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ABYS5M2CTNT46UUQPCULJWZXNC4YRJJT", "length": 1060, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "io9.gizmodo.com", "title": "Dear god. This triceratops is made of pumpkins.", "raw_content": "Dear god. This triceratops is made of pumpkins.\nAttention overly ambitious pumpkin carvers of the Internet: Can you top this ceratopsid? No. No you cannot.\nThis three-horned installation is one of the many incredible pumpkin arrangements featured at 2013's Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze. This year's epic jack-o-lantern festival (it's held annually in upstate New York) features over five-thousand hand-carved pumpkins arranged into sea monsters, human skeletons, dinosaurs and spooky-ass spider-people like this one:\nVia Instagram:\nAlthough only associated with Halloween as we know it today since the late 1800s, the tradition of gourd carving dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries in rural Ireland and England. People created jack o'lanterns for the old holidays of Samhain and All Souls' Night when spirits were thought to be the most active. Grotesque faces carved into the objects were meant to frighten away any ghouls seeking to do harm.\nSuper badass. For many, many more photos of the festival, check out flickr and Facebook.\n[Instagram via COLOSSAL]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/1818.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CCJMTMYIHV6IX4IDNPLNT7Q7CQFLWQK7", "length": 8487, "nlines": 92, "source_domain": "ipfs.io", "title": "1818", "raw_content": "Chinese calendar \u4e01\u4e11\u5e74 (Fire Ox)\n\u620a\u5bc5\u5e74 (Earth Tiger)\nJapanese calendar Bunka 15 / Bunsei 1\n(\u6587\u653f\u5143\u5e74)\n1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1818th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1818, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.\nBattle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Empire.\nJanuary 3 (21:52 UTC) \u2013 Venus occults Jupiter. It is the last occultation of one planet by another before November 22, 2065.\nJanuary 6 \u2013 Treaty of Mandeswar brings an end to the Third Anglo-Maratha War, ending the dominance of Marathas, and enhancing the power of the British East India Company, which controls territory occupied by 180 million Indians.\nJanuary 11 \u2013 Percy Bysshe Shelley's \"Ozymandias\" is published pseudonymously in London.\nFebruary 5 \u2013 Upon his death, King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) is succeeded on both thrones by his adoptive son Charles XIV/III John, starting the Royal House of Bernadotte.\nFebruary 12 \u2013 Chile proclaims its independence from Spain.\nMarch 11 \u2013 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published anonymously in London.\nMarch 15 \u2013 First Seminole War: General Andrew Jackson and his American army invade Florida.\nMarch 22 \u2013 Easter Day in Western Christianity falls on its earliest possible date. In Western Christianity, it will not occur on this date again until 2285.\nApril \u2013 John Ross sets sail in search of the Northwest Passage.\nApril 1 \u2013 First Seminole War: Battle of Miccosukee, Florida: General Andrew Jackson defeats chief Kinhagee.\nApril 4 \u2013 The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having thirteen red and white stripes and one star for each state (twenty) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.\nApril 5 \u2013 Battle of Maip\u00fa in the Chilean War of Independence: Patriot rebels led by Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn decisively defeat the Spanish Royalists.\nApril 7 \u2013 Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the later South Street Seaport stands.\nApril 14\u2013August 9 \u2013 United States Survey of the Coast operations suspended.\nMay 11 \u2013 Charles XIV of Sweden\u2013Norway is crowned king of Sweden.\nThe Westmorland Gazette is first published at Kendal in the Lake District of England; in July, Thomas De Quincey will begin a 16-month term as editor.\nAugust 1 \u2013 Separate Topographical Bureau of the United States Department of War established.\nSeptember \u2013 Sir Stamford Raffles sets out to visit Lord Hastings, the Governor-General of India, to gain his approval to establish a trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore).\nSeptember 7 \u2013 Carl III of Sweden\u2013Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.\nSeptember 23 \u2013 Border markers are formally installed for the European territory of Moresnet.\nOctober 5 \u2013 Claudine Th\u00e9venet (known as 'Mary of St. Ignatius') founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de J\u00e9sus-Marie (\"Religious of Jesus And Mary\") in Lyon, France.\nOctober 20 \u2013 Treaty between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the boundary between the U.S. and British North America as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.\nNovember 11 \u2013 Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College).\nNovember 16 \u2013 The Saint Louis Academy, which later becomes Saint Louis University, is founded by Reverend Louis William Valentine Dubourg.\nDecember 3 \u2013 Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.\nDecember 13 \u2013 Cyril VI of Constantinople quits his place as an Ecumenical Pariarch.\nDecember 24 \u2013 The Christmas carol \"Silent Night\" (Stille Nacht) with words by the priest Josef Mohr set to music by organist Franz Xaver Gruber is first performed at St. Nikolaus parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria.\nThe Afghans defeat a Persian invasion at the Battle of Kafir Qala.\nThe Old Vic theatre founded (as the Royal Coburg Hall) in London.\nThe first edition of the Farmers' Almanac is published in the United States.\nFirst Serbian dictionary, made by Vuk Karad\u017ei\u0107.\nBesses o' th' Barn brass band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester, by this date.\nJanuary 30 \u2013 Art\u00far G\u00f6rgey, Hungarian military general and politician (d. 1916)\nFebruary 14 \u2013 Frederick Douglass (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author and statesman (d. 1895)\nFebruary 18 \u2013 Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom writer (d. 1870)\nMarch 11 \u2013 Henri \u00c9tienne Sainte-Claire Deville, French chemist (d. 1881)\nMarch 15 \u2013 Mariano \u00c1lvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)\nMarch 22 \u2013 John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)\nMarch 24 \u2013 William E. Le Roy, American admiral (d. 1888)\nApril 4 \u2013 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)\nKing Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)\nAugust Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)\nApril 17 \u2013 Emperor Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)\nApril 19 \u2013 Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician (d. 1883)\nMay 5 \u2013 Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)\nSophie of W\u00fcrttemberg, Dutch queen (d. 1877)\nCharles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)\nJune 18 \u2013 Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)\nJuly 1 \u2013 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (d. 1865)\nJuly 18 \u2013 Celadon Leeds Daboll, American merchant and inventor (d. 1866)\nJuly 22 \u2013 J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (d. 1891)\nJuly 27 \u2013 Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata (d. 1902)\nJuly 30 \u2013 Emily Bront\u00eb, British novelist (d. 1848)\nAugust 11 \u2013 M\u00e9ry von Bruiningk, Estonian democrat (d. 1853)\nSeptember 1 \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)\nSeptember 12 \u2013 Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor and gunsmith (d. 1903)\nSeptember 27 \u2013 Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)\nOctober 8 \u2013 John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (d. 1905)\nOctober 15 \u2013 Irvin McDowell, American general (d. 1885)\nOctober 18 \u2013 Edward Ord, U.S. Army officer (d. 1883)\nNovember 5 \u2013 Benjamin Franklin Butler, American lawyer, politician, and general (d. 1893)\nNovember 9 (October 28 (O.S.)) \u2013 Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)\nNovember 29 \u2013 George Brown, Canadian politician (d. 1880)\nDecember 13 \u2013 Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)\nDecember 24 \u2013 James Prescott Joule, English physicist (d. 1889)\nDecember 29 \u2013 King Charles Richard, English Lord (d. 1878)\nFrancis Dutton, Germany-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)\nJanuary 2 \u2013 Martha Christina Tiahahu, Moluccan freedom fighter and National Heroine of Indonesia (b. 1800)\nJanuary 11 \u2013 Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (b. 1743)\nFebruary 5 \u2013 Charles XIII/Charles II, King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1748)\nFebruary 13 \u2013 George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary leader (b. 1752)\nFebruary 15 \u2013 Friedrich Ludwig, F\u00fcrst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)\nMay 2 \u2013 Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1762)\nMay 10 \u2013 Paul Revere, American patriot and silversmith (b. 1735)\nMay 26 \u2013 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)\nJune 12 \u2013 Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia\nAugust 12 \u2013 Nikolay Novikov, Russian writer (b. 1744)\nAugust 22 \u2013 Warren Hastings, English Governor-General of India (b. 1732)\nAugust 24 \u2013 James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)\nAugust 31 \u2013 Arthur St. Clair, American soldier and politician (b. 1737)\nSeptember 1 \u2013 Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)\nOctober 5 \u2013 Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1784)\nOctober 28 \u2013 Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)\nOctober 28 \u2013 Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (b. 1765)\nNovember 17 \u2013 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)\nDecember 25 \u2013 Catherine-Dominique de P\u00e9rignon, Marshal of France (b. 1754)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 10793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 144.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipolitics.ca/2018/07/12/dnp-indigenous-women-over-represented-in-vancouver-street-checks-new-data-shows/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RIBKKG76CNCEPCCQLQTDGJP7772D7AUF", "length": 3860, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ipolitics.ca", "title": "Indigenous women over-represented in Vancouver street checks, new data shows - iPolitics", "raw_content": "Indigenous women over-represented in Vancouver street checks, new data shows\nBy Anna Desmarais. Published on Jul 12, 2018 5:45pm\nIndigenous women in Vancouver are being stopped on the street by police in numbers many times their percentage of the population, data obtained by the B.C Civil Liberties Association from the city\u2019s police department shows.\nThe freedom of information request, which lists the number of street checks by the police department for men and women between 2008-2017, says Indigenous women made up 21 per cent of all women stopped by police in 2017 even though they make up less than two per cent of the city\u2019s female population. Indigenous men made up 16 per cent of all street checks on men in the city.\nPolice checks, also known as carding, happen when officers stop a person, record their personal informatoin and check their ID \u2014 even though no criminal offence occurred.\nAs a result of this release of data on the treatment of Indigenous women, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association along with the Union of B.C Indian Chiefs have filed initial joint complaint to B.C\u2019s police commissioner against the Vancouver Police Department. This follows similar complaint made more than a year ago after receiving data showing racial disparity in street checks.\n\u201cTo us it raises the question of systemic discrimination,\u201d Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C civil Liberties Association, told iPolitics in an interview. \u201cWe see the over-representation of Indigenous peoples at all stages of the criminal system.\u201d\nUnder the province\u2019s Police Act, the police complaint commissioner refers the complaint to the Vancouver Police Department. The force will then decide whether a study or an inquiry should be launched.\nA spokesperson from the provincial government confirmed the police commissioner received the complaint and look forward to hearing from the Vancouver Police Department about their next course of action.\nPaterson said the department is expected to decide on a course of action at a meeting next week.\nAfter the original claim was filed in June, Chief Bob Chamberlin of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs called the rate of carding on Indigenous people in Vancouver \u201cstaggering.\u201d\n\u201cWe will not accept this example of institutionalized racism and we demand an immediate independent investigation,\u201d Chamberlain said in the press release.\nThis is not the first time the Vancouver Police Department has been under the microscope. In 2010, the province commissioned the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, better known the Oppal Inquiry, to investigate how Vancouver police and other departments responded to reports of missing women in the city\u2019s east side.\nOut of that report, commissioner Wally Oppal recommended a host of changes to policing in the Greater Vancouver area, including the creation of a regional force, mandatory training on the status of Indigenous peoples and making the prevention of violence against women a \u201cgenuine priority.\u201d\n\u201cHow can we speak about true reconciliation when Indigenous peoples, and particularly women, are being targeted by the police on a daily basis?, \u201d Chamberlain continued in the press release.\nThe Vancouver Police Department could not be reached for comment.\nEven though the focus is on Vancouver, Paterson said he believes carding of Indigenous people is a systemic problem that reaches far beyond the city.\n\u201cThis is a much-wider problem,\u201d he said. \u201cTo us it feels like this is all part of a continuum, and so we think it really requires investigation.\u201d\nDonna Sitter, a spokesperson for the policing and community safety branch of the provincial government says officials will \u201ccontinue to examine minimum standards for biased free policing, which includes street checks,\u201d in the next year. They are hoping to establish a standard which will govern all police forces in the province.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/21832", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TS6NFZCLHMSCYH46GW54IXM4YK7W3EFJ", "length": 1560, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ir.cwi.nl", "title": "Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica: An empirical study of PHP feature usage", "raw_content": "M.A. Hills (Mark), P. Klint (Paul) and J.J. Vinju (Jurgen)\nAn empirical study of PHP feature usage\nPresented at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Lugano, Switserland\nPHP is one of the most popular languages for server-side application development. The language is highly dynamic, providing programmers with a large amount of flexibility. However, these dynamic features also have a cost, making it difficult to apply traditional static analysis techniques used in standard code analysis and transformation tools. As part of our work on creating analysis tools for PHP, we have conducted a study over a significant corpus of open-source PHP systems, looking at the sizes of actual PHP programs, which features of PHP are actually used, how often dynamic features appear, and how distributed these features are across the files that make up a PHP website. We have also looked at whether uses of these dynamic features are truly dynamic or are, in some cases, statically understandable, allowing us to identify specific patterns of use which can then be taken into account to build more precise tools. We believe this work will be of interest to creators of analysis tools for PHP, and that the methodology we present can be leveraged for other dynamic languages with similar features.\nACM Automatic Programming (acm I.2.2)\nEditor M. Pezze , M Harman\nConference International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis\nHills, M.A, Klint, P, & Vinju, J.J. (2013). An empirical study of PHP feature usage. In M Pezze & M Harman (Eds.), .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/23614", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:23YIFQOM4O26IPQOEXYBIXPJOAO3YAV7", "length": 232, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ir.cwi.nl", "title": "Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica: A theoretical and computational study of generalized aliquot sequences", "raw_content": "H.J.J. te Riele (Herman)\nA theoretical and computational study of generalized aliquot sequences\nPromotor A. van Wijngaarden\nte Riele, H.J.J. (1976, January 21). A theoretical and computational study of generalized aliquot sequences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irishamerica.com/2007/08/donald-f-donahue/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4EKICRCFIOYDOSEVKRPI4QS7EI4EWBA2", "length": 1040, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "irishamerica.com", "title": "Donald F. Donahue | Irish America", "raw_content": "Donald F. Donahue/The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation\nDonald F. Donahue is Chairman-elect and Chief Executive Officer of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and its core subsidiaries, National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC). Having served as President and CEO of DTCC since August 2006, his new position is effective August 1, 2007.\nA 21-year veteran of DTCC and previously, DTC, Donahue served as Chief Operating Officer from May 2003 until August 2006.\nBorn in New York City, Donald is a second-generation Irish American who traces his roots to Kerry on his father\u2019s side and Cavan on his mother\u2019s. On what his Irish heritage means to him he says, \u201cThe Irish courage, spirit, and humor so clearly shown by our immigrant forebears are going to be even more crucial to meet the challenges of the financial markets of the 21st century.\u201d\nDonald is a graduate of Columbia University where he received his BA. He is married with one child.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 3119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 96.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://istepvn.weebly.com/whats-new-in-hanoi/events-in-december", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IES2WQTU5Y22VNZUNHO2J4X4C4OV3GZX", "length": 3808, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "istepvn.weebly.com", "title": "EVENTS IN DECEMBER - Improving Students Exchange Program", "raw_content": "For those who might not know, December is a spectacular month in Vietnam with various special events and activities. Let\u2019s us review several upcoming events and some places to come in this December!\nThere is only 1 month left to one of the greatest celebration over the world, Christmas Eve. Although Christmas is not a public holiday in Vietnam, it has been received much recognition from the local residents, especially, the capital of Vietnam - Hanoi. Streets, cathedrals, hotels and shopping mall is all well-decorated as a big festival. If you were in Hanoi during the Christmas period, you could go to the following destinations to enjoy the Christmas atmosphere.\n\u200bThe Big Cathedral\nThis is a well-known church with a specific architecture and history - the center of Christian activity in Hanoi and some surrounding areas. On Christmas Day, it was decorated splendidly, attracting many visitors as well as Christians.\n\u200bAs introduced before, Hoan Kiem Lake is an attractive destination for who living in Hanoi. On each special occasion, Hoan Kiem Lake was decorated with confetti, brilliant lanterns, and sparkling lights. It might seem to be more glistening and beautiful.\nThe Shopping Malls\nThe Mall Center with Christmas decorations are very early, sometimes from which reminds people that the coming Christmas holidays. Several big centers in Hanoi as Times city, Royal City, are Long Bien Aeon Mallare decorated with huge pine trees with stunning lights, Santa Claus, colorful rickshaw. Christmas Eve is a good chance to pick up the most trendy fashion from shopping malls with shocking sale off and hundreds of new arrivals. Don\u2019t miss the golden opportunity to buy what you want.\n2. Hoan Kiem Lake Walking Street\n\u200bIt has been over two months since its opening, the walking street has become familiar with Hanoians. This is a model of MyHanoi which aims to build up, maintain and promote a community space, where demands the needs of the locals and foreigners about exploring the cultural activities and entertainments. From 7 p.m on Friday to 12 p.m on Sunday in every week, Hoan Kiem Lake area \u2013 the heart of Hanoi and some streets in the Old Quarter, namely Hang Buom, Hang Giay, Ta Hien, Luong Ngoc Quyen and Ma May, open the pedestrian street. Moreover, the transportation is not allowed to move as daily days, and the flow of people have chances to experience many trading activities include foods, clothes, souvenirs and consumer goods. This program is applying from 01.09.2016 to 31.12.2016. At the end of the December, the pilot project is possible to continue or not.\n\u200bTime: 07:00 p.m to 12:00 p.m on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.\n3. Photography exhibition by Daniel Friedman\n\u200bThis exhibition is a gift for someone who wants to explore more about the daily life of the Vietnamese people. The photographs are implemented by the photographer Daniel Friedman captured during the 10 years he lived in Hanoi and Da Nang, recording his memorable imprint about the locals in there. Especially these images are printed on the traditional material - Do\u0301 paper, make the pictures more exquisite, showing the depth and color of the photo.\n\u200bTime: 08:00 a.m to 04:00 p.m, 19.11.2016 \u2013 19.12.2016\nLocation: 46, Hang Vai, Hanoi\nTicket: Free.\n4. Art Exhibition typography\n\u200bAs one of the Type Directors Club Exhibit towards lovers graphics and text, exhibition includes the world's best outline this year for both graphic design and writing. Also in the framework of the exhibition, a workshop will be held in December in Hanoi with the guidance of graphic designers, Prof. Andreas Uebele - a Visual Communication expertise.\nTime: 09:00 to 19:00, 08 - 18/12/2016\nLocation: Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.\nSource: https://hanoigrapevine.com/vi/tag/whats-on-hanoi/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ivyoptions.com/initial-consultation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6YDGSM27ZN2PH5Y7WSARTPASE5C44RMA", "length": 825, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ivyoptions.com", "title": "Ivy Options \u00bb !\u2013Initial Consultation University Consultants in Dubai - Ivy Options", "raw_content": "The initial consultation is 60 minutes and consists of an in-depth interview with the student and the student\u2019s family, preferably in person, but also available by telephone, or via Skype. During the meeting, we will review the student\u2019s transcripts, test scores, extracurricular activities, and life experiences and discuss how each of these components will be evaluated by college admissions officers and how students can build on their strengths and interests in order to put their best foot forward \u2014 in completing college applications, in and out of the classroom, and in life.\nThe consultation includes a report identifying the student\u2019s strengths and goals, a strategic plan for the admissions process, and recommendations for follow-up as appropriate.\n-Year By Year Overview-\nFreshmen | Sophomores | Juniors | Seniors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 187.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jalopnik.com/red-bull-teammates-collide-causing-chaos-at-baku-1825635738", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PZSRVMHILDKDJBAHGOLYP7PUHBYGRMT4", "length": 3266, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "jalopnik.com", "title": "Red Bull Teammates Collide Causing Chaos At Baku (Updated)", "raw_content": "Red Bull Teammates Collide Causing Chaos At Baku (Updated)\nWin it or bin it. That\u2019s apparently the Red Bull Formula One team\u2019s motto, as Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen have scored their second double-DNF in the first four races of the season. Ricciardo won two weeks ago in China, and was on a path toward a very nicely placed finish in Azerbaijan until he rear-ended his teammate on a deep-dive pass into the first turn that ended with both of them skidding up the escape road into retirement.\nThe Red Bull pair had spent the entire Grand Prix leading up to their crash entangled in a battle for position, even reaching the point of banging wheels at the exit of the first turn. Ricciardo was visibly quicker than Verstappen at a few points on the track, but it took several laps for him to move ahead. Verstappen then re-took the point with a well-timed pit stop. Shortly, Ricciardo was back on the grind, getting within attack distance of Max. Then this happened.\nWith a jink to the right, Ricciardo was setting up the inside pass on the left. Verstappen covered the right hand side, then came back right in front of Daniel. As he\u2019d already committed to the deep-braking maneuver, there was no way for him to prevent the crash. Harder on the brakes in a panic, and his front wheels locked up, sliding him deep under Verstappen\u2019s rear wing. This incident pretty much opened the door for Mercedes\u2019 first win of the season, as Valtteri Bottas was promoted to the top spot.\nA lengthy caution period lasted eight laps of circulation for the rest of the field. The Red Bull incident was cleaned up relatively quickly, but the caution was extended when Romain Grosjean\u2019s Haas Ferrari skidded into the wall after turn 13 while he was swerving to warm his tires. Unlucky.\nWhen the race got back to green, Bottas was in the lead and quickly opened up a gap to teammate Lewis Hamilton behind. At the end of that first lap following the safety car period, Bottas looked like he had everything in the bag, and only needed to run three more laps at the front to take the victory. As luck would have it, he struck debris on the main straight, presumably Red Bull debris, which punctured his right rear tire and scuppered any chance he might have had. World Champion Hamilton was promoted to his first win of the 2018 season, Kimi Raikkonnen to second, and Force India\u2019s Checo Perez scored third to add 15 points to the team\u2019s total (now 16 points).\nThis was a good race from start to finish, and it might have been all the more exciting if Red Bull hadn\u2019t thrown everything in the trash. This just proves our thesis from the most recent race, that you should definitely be watching F1 again.\nUpdate 12:15 p.m. Sunday: According to a report by Motorsport.com, both Red Bull drivers have been given team orders of sorts; to return directly to the Red Bull in Milton Keynes to personally deliver an apology to the staff for their incident that cost both team cars a finish of any kind. Team principal Christian Horner was not pleased, saying both drivers are in \u201cthe dog house\u201d after ignoring mid-race orders to calm down.\nNeed To Know If Max Verstappen Crashed Today? Check This Website\nThis Giant Wing Is Your First Peek At The New Supercar From The Famous Brabham F1 Family", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeffrossblog.com/tag/giving/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UFUYILSBE4XDXVAQPFNU32HBIKKJGEYW", "length": 11555, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "jeffrossblog.com", "title": "Giving | Next Practices | Page 2", "raw_content": "Posted: March 6, 2013 in Learning\nTags: American Idol, Attitude, Giving, Learning, Preparedness, Priorities, Relationships, Social Skills, Success, Talent, Work Ethic, Work-Life Balance\nMy wife and I have enjoyed watching American Idol for years. I missed the first season, but have been a big fan since then. Now that we\u2019re into the phase where America votes weekly on who remains, I thought it might be nice to reflect on some of the many lessons that can come from watching this show. Feel free to add your own in the comments.\n1. People aren\u2019t always as talented as they think they are. The early episodes of every season are proof of this. Some are just painful to hear. William Hung, anyone?\n2. Talent can be found in unexpected places. I\u2019m not talking geography here since people travel all over the country to these auditions. I\u2019m referring to the fact that a booming voice might come out of a soft-spoken, unkempt, homeless person nobody would ever suspect as a good singer. File this one under \u201ccan\u2019t judge a book by its cover.\u201d\n3. You need social skills in addition to talent. The contestant who has a great voice but who can\u2019t get along with others, also fails to connect with the voting public, and eventually loses. It\u2019s not just about you and your talent; it\u2019s about living in the context of a community and relationships, and that\u2019s a whole different ballgame.\n4. Only the strong survive. I feel for the singers who get matched up in group week with people they can\u2019t relate to or with people who don\u2019t want to do their fair share. That week requires everyone to work hard \u2013 all night if needed, and those who slack off tend not to progress to the next round.\n5. Never assume you\u2019re safe. How many singers through the years have been surprisingly eliminated early in the voting, most likely because people didn\u2019t bother to vote for them since they considered them safe? Assume nothing.\n6. Your vote counts. Or, more accurately this season, your 50 votes count. If you don\u2019t vote, don\u2019t gripe about the results. Do your duty and vote if you care about an outcome.\n7. Not everyone who judges you is worthy of doing so. While the four judges this year had sole authority to determine the top twenty, they may or may not have made the right calls. They may not be representative of what America wants. They may have hidden agendas and criteria we never hear about that impacts their decisions. Do I personally really care about anything Nicki Minaj ever thinks or says? No. But she\u2019s paid the big bucks to sit there looking dumb and sounding dumber, so whether she is worthy or not isn\u2019t the point now. Contestants will still be impacted by her comments for good or bad.\n8. Give it your all. When singers play it safe and just blend in with other so-so performances, that doesn\u2019t cut it. You need to give it your heart and soul and know that you left it all on the stage. The final results may be in others\u2019 hands, but you can at least know you did your best. There is great satisfaction in that.\n9. Always keep learning and improving. Whatever your current skill level, there is room for improvement, so do what it takes to learn and grow and reach your goals.\n10. Make friends along the way. Nobody wants to be around others whom they fear would willingly stab them in the back to get ahead. Don\u2019t be such a person. Be the one who takes the time to notice and befriend others as you go. Praise the members of the band.\n11. Climbing a ladder isn\u2019t a lifestyle. There is more to life than just trying to get somewhere else in the future. It\u2019s about experiencing the present, too. You climb ladders for a short while so you can do something else at the end of that ladder. Know when to step off the ladder and do other things.\n12. It\u2019s OK not to get the most votes. If there are 10,000 people trying out and only one can win, does that mean 9,999 are losers? No! It just means that the system is set up to give a greater reward to one person. Many contestants go on to very successful careers without winning the competition. You get to define success in your life. Don\u2019t let others do that for you.\n13. Fame and fortune comes at a cost. Some have the personal character, wisdom and right people nearby to handle fame and fortune. Some give in to its temptations and flame out early. If you think you\u2019ll be the one making all the calls about what happens with your life at the level of stardom these singers seek, you\u2019re wrong. There are trade-offs your dreams didn\u2019t envision.\n14. Enjoy the ride. We know that some things can\u2019t last forever. That\u2019s OK. Be thankful that it happened as long as it did.\n15. Give back. You didn\u2019t get where you are completely by yourself. Parents, friends, teachers, even bitter enemies all worked to help shape you into the person you are, as did your own dogged determination. Others are invested in you with their lives. Give back to them.\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed some obvious lessons that my fellow American Idol fans can think of. What are they? Tell me in a comment.\np.s. \u2013 If you haven\u2019t figured it out by now, the lessons above don\u2019t apply just to a singing competition.\nPosted: February 22, 2013 in Relationships\nTags: Communication, Dog Training, Eric Letendre, Expectations, Giving, Pets, Relationships\nimage from chalkboardquotes.wordpress.com\nToday\u2019s blog post is about dog training, but about much more than that. I\u2019ve been a fan of the dog trainer Eric Letendre for several years, reading his books, watching his videos, and eagerly reading his daily emails about the subject. (If you\u2019re curious, check out his book The Amazing Dog Training Man\u2019s Ultimate Guide to Dogs or his website or YouTube channel.)\nHis email from a few days ago rang true as good advice not just for dog training, but for relationships in general, so I want to share it with you. The email recalls a chapter in his book where he wrote about \u201chow the relationship is like a checking account. Every time you do something positive with your dog, you are making a deposit into the account. Every time you do something negative to your dog, you are making a withdrawal. In order for the relationship to stay positive, happy and healthy, you have to be making more deposits into the account. Too many withdrawals without enough deposits will result in a relationship that will go negative.\u201d\nBeyond the relationship you have with your pets, think about the relationships you have with key people in your life \u2013 spouse, family members, coworkers, neighbors, friends, acquaintances. Think about the best of those relationships. Aren\u2019t they the ones where there is more thought to giving than taking? Don\u2019t you get tired of being around people who always want something from you, but never give in return? Don\u2019t you want to free yourself from being around those who inject nothing but negativity into your life? Don\u2019t you want to be with those who give and who are positive? I do.\nIf a relationship with someone has soured in your life, try to analyze it from the deposit/withdrawal perspective. If you are making more positive deposits in the lives of others, chances are good they will not think twice about the occasional withdrawal you need to make. But be careful about always being the one to withdraw, or you may just find others wanting to withdraw from the relationship.\nMake more deposits than withdrawals, and as the image above says, know when to close the account.\nLeap Year Lesson #362: Put Others First in 2013\nTags: Attitude, Giving, Goals\nAs I read many goals others are setting for 2013, I am struck by the number of them that relate to people loving themselves more, putting themselves first, focusing on \u201cme\u201d time, etc. I have very mixed emotions about such goals.\nOn the one hand, I can certainly see the importance of taking care of oneself, of engaging in healthy behaviors and setting a variety of personal goals that address some aspect of one\u2019s body, mind or spirit. I will set goals in each of those areas myself, and share them with you in a few days. But where I wonder about the health of a goal is in actually making the goal putting oneself first. I realize most may do that whether it\u2019s a stated goal or not, but I can\u2019t get past the apparent self-centeredness of it.\nPerhaps for people who have been repeatedly taken advantage of by others for years, a focus on taking control of their lives is appropriate. In other circumstances, though, is it appropriate to say that your goal for 2013 is to put yourself first?\nWhen I look around me at the people I admire, at the ones who have impacted my life the most, at those whose example is worth imitating, none of them are people I would describe as putting themselves first. They always seem to be giving to others sacrificially, thinking less often of themselves than of those around them, doing without material things and experiences in this life so that others can benefit. Aren\u2019t such people greater examples of what the best of humanity looks like compared to those who think primarily of themselves?\nWe live in a selfish world with no shortage of a \u201cme first\u201d attitude. As we suffer the consequences of societal deterioration through crime, violence, failed relationships and more, do we need more people committed to putting themselves first, ahead of all others? I don\u2019t think so. Yes, we must take care of ourselves, of course, but not to the exclusion of intentionally taking care of others as well.\nLeap year lesson #362 is Put others first in 2013.\nLeap Year Lesson #345: Make People Want to Give\nPosted: December 11, 2012 in Giving\nTags: Attitude, Christianity, Giving\nDriver Oriol Servia, Jeff Ross & Humana CEO Mike McCallister\nI participated in an unusual and enjoyable charitable event today. Indianapolis 500 race car driver Oriol Servia spent time at our company headquarters raising funds for the organization Racing for Kids.\nThere were two ways to participate and contribute. One was to donate $15 in order to have your photo taken while standing by one of the two Indy cars there with Servia on one side of you and our company CEO on the other. That\u2019s the route I took (pictured here). The other option was to donate $100 in exchange for a very fast but once-in-a-lifetime ride around our block in downtown Louisville in the other Indy car driven by Servia. There was no shortage of men and women waiting in line to pay $100 for that one-minute experience.\nPeople ask you and me for donations all the time, from homeless people on the street to unsolicited phone calls, mail, email, churches, plus a host of others on TV and various media. Today\u2019s experience made me think about the approach solicitors take to request donations.\nHow often has someone tried to get you to give by making you feel guilty? How often has some story (of questionable authenticity) been told to tug at your heart and drain your wallet? How many times have you heard the same old tired sermons trying to use a few verses out of context to guilt you into giving a certain percentage of your income only to that church? How effective are the above methods with you?\nContrast that with today\u2019s example where people were lining up to pay $15 for a 15-second photo or $100 for a ride around the block. People wanted to give today and even signed up in advance to do so, myself included.\nThink about that the next time you solicit funds. I\u2019ll give a pass to the homeless person on style and wow-factor points. As for the rest of us, it looks like we can still learn a thing or two about effective fund-raising.\nLeap year lesson #345 is Make people want to give.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 19539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jhmarlin.com/second-passport-residency/greece-residency/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MD6DIATAKOR3O7SLD5HZFGISKFUDMHZP", "length": 1930, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "jhmarlin.com", "title": "Greece Residency | Second Passport | JH Marlin Attorneys at Law", "raw_content": "Greece Residency\nGreece introduced law 4146/2013 for non-EU citizens and their family members to obtain residency in Greece through investing in real estate. Non-EU citizens who own or purchase real estate in Greece at a value of which exceeds 250,000 EU will be entitled to a residence permit for 5 years which can be renewed indefinitely. Greek residency offers the lowest cost option for residency in Europe. There is no minimum stay requirement for applicants to retain or renew the residence permits. Greece Residency.\nPermanent Residency Timeline\nCitizenship timeline\nResidency program is open to all non-EU nationalities\nInvestment Type: Real Estate (The investment may consist of more than one property, residential or commercial)\nEUR 250,000 in Real Estate\nEstablish businesses\nRental income available on property\nEuropean residency in 2-4 months\nNo requirement to stay or reside in country\nPath to obtain second citizenship after 7 years\nTravel within Schengen area\nGreek Residency permit available for spouse and children below the age of 21\nRights to education in Greece\nExcellent health care system\nEuropean Lifestyle in safe country\nGreece is located in Europe and is made up of thousands of small islands. The capital city is Athens and the largest greek island is Crete. The official language is Greek and the currency is the Euro.\nGreece has been a part of the Euro Zone for a number of years and is a member of the United Nations. Greece is a member of many international institutions such as the Council of Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, (OSCE), and the Organisation internatiale de la Francophonie (OIF).\nThere are a number of historical sites and the country is considered one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 165.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jimandlarra.com/tag/south-dakota/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5AJ5U4AKU4KQHIBKK6CDZMM4FBR24FHZ", "length": 1452, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jimandlarra.com", "title": "south dakota | Mutual Manifesting", "raw_content": "Elk Creek Steak House, Piedmont, South Dakota\nAug. 24, 2016 \u2013 Larra: For the life of me, I don\u2019t know how Jim does it. Let me back up. After we left Mount Rushmore I went looking online for hotels. I found a deal at the Ramada Inn in Piedmont, about 15 miles NW of Rapid City and on our path home. We [\u2026]\nPost Tagged with #WonderfulLife, elk creek steak house and lounge, piedmont, south dakota\nAug 24, 2016 \u2013 The highlight and end of our trip across South Dakota came with our afternoon visit to Mount Rushmore. As you come driving up the highway from Keystone there\u2019s a great view of the monument without having to pay for parking. With my senior\u2019s pass we get into US National Parks for [\u2026]\nPost Tagged with #WonderfulLife, Mount Rushmore, south dakota\n1880 Town, South Dakota\nAugust 24, 2016 \u2013 A few dozen miles past Wall, SD we found another town making itself famous with lots of billboards. Since there hadn\u2019t been an exit with services for miles, we stopped for a bite of lunch. They had an old train, so that was cool.\nPost Tagged with 1800's town, south dakota\nWall Drug, South Dakota\nAugust 24, 2016 \u2013 After seeing hundreds of Wall Drug billboards as we traveled Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota, we thought we\u2019d stop for lunch and see why Wall Drug is so famous. It turns out that they\u2019re famous for\u2026 being famous. They started the billboards in 1931 to bring customers in, and [\u2026]\nPost Tagged with south dakota, Wall Drugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joanneberthelsen.wordpress.com/2014/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KDG2URHETGTAJFPBJ4QCADDCYW3WHJOE", "length": 6386, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "joanneberthelsen.wordpress.com", "title": "April | 2014 | Jo-Anne Berthelsen's Blog", "raw_content": "Posted in Devotions, Reflections, tagged Annas, Calvary, Easter celebrations, Easter celebrations in Australia, Easter eggs, Easter Sunday, Good Friday, John 3:16, John\u2019s Gospel, Judas Iscariot, living as a Christian in a Muslim country, Pontius Pilate, salvation, the crucifixion, the high priest Caiaphas, the resurrection of Jesus on April 22, 2014| 2 Comments \u00bb\nI love Easter. To me, it\u2019s as if God is extra close all around. It\u2019s as if Jesus is reaching down through the centuries since he hung on that cross, looking straight at me, willing me to see the love and forgiveness in his own soul as he looks deep into mine. And it\u2019s also as if God is crying out to a world that is rushing on, heedless, \u2018Listen\u2014all of you! Remember what my Son did for you. And remember and celebrate that death could not hold him down. Remember the price that bought your freedom!\nOn Easter Sunday, I received an email from a friend who lives in a country where most of the population do not celebrate Easter. She shared with me how, when life is continuing as usual around her, it feels a little surreal to be celebrating events that others do not acknowledge. Yet, the true meaning of Easter is so much a part of her that she still goes ahead and celebrates it with great joy. Meanwhile, here in Australia, I was free to attend any number of church services, as well as see family members and delight in buying those Easter eggs for our grandchildren (with a few stray ones making their way into grown-up hands too!). But best of all for me are those moments of quiet reflection, alone in the presence of God.\nThis year, I decided to read the account of the crucifixion from John\u2019s Gospel. I read how Judas betrayed his Lord in that olive grove, how Jesus was brought before Annas, how Peter denied him for the first time, how Jesus was bound and sent to appear before the high priest Caiaphas and how Peter then denied him twice more. I read with increasing horror how Pilate, despite believing Jesus to be innocent and wanting to set him free, had him flogged, then caved into pressure and handed him over to the people to be crucified. I read how Jesus was nailed to that cross, with a mocking sign above his head, and how he died\u2014for you and me.\nAnd on Good Friday night, as I went to bed, the result of all this struck me with almost overwhelming force and simplicity all over again. This means I\u2019m saved\u2014completely and forever! The realisation was so strong that I almost shouted the words out loud, until I realised my husband might not be impressed with this revelation as he lay there, trying to get to sleep! \u2018I\u2019m saved\u2019 is such a hackneyed phrase\u2014one that is even ridiculed at times. But this to me is the bottom line of our Easter celebrations\u2014we are indeed saved from the consequences of our desire to go our own way by Jesus\u2019 death on that cross. We have a whole new start in life and our relationship with God is restored. And one day, because Jesus conquered death and rose again, we too will rise and be with him in heaven forever.\nNow that\u2019s a bottom line I find absolutely mind-blowing and well worth celebrating\u2014not only at Easter but all the time. How about you?\nLooking past those mistakes\nPosted in Devotions, Reflections, Writing, tagged Australian Christian author, baby jumpers, belief in Jesus, forgiveness, hand-me-downs, knitwear for babies, law versus grace, Maxine, perfectionism, pram blanket, Psalm 103:13-14, recovering from an anaesthetic, Size 000 baby clothes, Size 0000 baby clothes, the hide of an elephant, vulnerability as an author on April 1, 2014| 4 Comments \u00bb\nOur new granddaughter is the best dressed little lady in town right now. As well as being given so many gorgeous new clothes and cute accessories, she has inherited a veritable wardrobe of amazing outfits from her cousins. Some have never been worn\u2014after all, how many Size 0000 suits can a girl wear before she graduates to Size 000? So \u2026 does our little Maxine really need the jumper I am knitting her? Of course she doesn\u2019t\u2014yet her mother still wants me to finish it. It\u2019s nice to have some things that have been made with love, I am told. Besides, it matches the little pram blanket I have already knitted for her.\nYes, these items have been created with love\u2014but that does not mean they are without mistakes! Having finished the blanket while lying on my back recuperating from an operation, I can see I must have still been recovering from that anaesthetic as well, judging by all those glaring mistakes! However, our daughter assures me she can\u2019t see them and doesn\u2019t care anyway. That is comforting\u2014but I still know those mistakes are there.\nAs for the little jumper, what excuse can I give for sewing up the side seam inside out?! Could that anaesthetic still be lurking around?? And is there any need for me, with an ample supply of little white buttons at my disposal, to sew on three the same and one that is slightly different? Again, I am assured no one will notice and, if they do, will not care. But again, I will see it.\nThis whole experience has caused me to reflect not only on my silliness and lack of dexterity but also on my failures in general. As a child, I hated to own up to having made a mistake. I was far too proud and too much of a perfectionist for that. And this mindset was slow to leave me in my adult years\u2014and possibly one of the reasons God, I am sure with a wry smile, called me to be a writer. Once a book has been released, an author is in such a vulnerable position. Some readers are going to love our little offering, while others will hate it. Some are going to look past those inevitable mistakes, while others will point out every single one, which can be handy so these can be rectified in the next print run but also just a tad deflating. With seven books published now, I am fast learning those two indispensable qualities for any author\u2014a sensitive heart and the hide of an elephant! And I know God has worked miracles in my life in this regard, enabling me not to be devastated when I mess things up.\nBut I\u2019m so glad God looks past my mistakes and, even more importantly, forgives me when I deliberately choose the wrong path. I\u2019m so glad that, as far as God\u2019s concerned, it\u2019s not about performance but about belief in Jesus\u2014that it\u2019s not about law but all about grace. I\u2019m so glad God sees and knows the real me and accepts me, flaws and all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 19752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobmarketmonitor.com/2016/06/26/immigrants-in-us-and-europe-19-of-of-all-international-migrants-vs-23/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:03Z", "digest": "sha1:FHHIG7ZQSWQ46YLY7Y6NJSGFEA2KPWQ5", "length": 1410, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jobmarketmonitor.com", "title": "Immigrants in US and Europe \u2013 19% of all international migrants vs 23% | Job Market Monitor", "raw_content": "Immigrants in US and Europe \u2013 19% of all international migrants vs 23%\nFiled Under Europe, Immigration, United States, US\nThe United States has long been the top destination country for migrants worldwide, though if the European Union, Norway and Switzerland were a single country it would outrank the U.S. as a destination for international migrants. But the U.S. and Europe are quite different when it comes to their migrant populations\u2019 origin countries.\nIn 2015, almost one-in-five (19%) of all international migrants \u2013 people living in a country other than the one they were born in \u2013 lived in the U.S., and 23% were in the EU, Norway and Switzerland. Together, some 43% of all the world\u2019s international migrants live in the U.S. or Europe, according to the United Nations Population Division. (The UN counts citizens born abroad or in their native country\u2019s territories as international migrants. For the U.S., this means international migrants include U.S. citizens at birth who were born abroad, in Puerto Rico or in other U.S. territories.)\nChosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at About four-in-ten of the world\u2019s migrants live in the U.S. or Europe | Pew Research Center\n\u00ab Latin America \u2013 Active labour market policies are needed to protect social achievements and address productivity gaps\nThe decline in prime-age male labor force participation in US \u2013 A White House report \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 140.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.dell.com/job/berwyn/sr-software-quality-engineer-manual-automation/375/6195488", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:RCXFSYH3QVPXGXGABFQLUMSA3CEXSFNA", "length": 640, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "jobs.dell.com", "title": "Sr. Software Quality Engineer - Manual/Automation at Dell Careers", "raw_content": "Sr. Software Quality Engineer - Manual/Automation\nBerwyn, Pennsylvania 03/16/2018\nAs a market and technology leader in integration platform as a service (iPaaS), Dell Boomi is one of the hottest tech companies in the SaaS/Cloud industry, named a Leader for the fourth year in a row in the Gartner Enterprise iPaaS Magic Quadrant. Our award-winning, patented technology is transforming the world of integration by making enterprise-class integration technology accessible and affordable to companies of all sizes.\nLearn what it's like to work in the Berwyn Office. Explore this location\nEngineering, Berwyn, Pennsylvania, United StatesRemove", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 12570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joshbyrne.com.au/jba-international-peer-reviewed-energy-storage-paper-published/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SFKPAA23ZUBT7ZDTOPRGCYLYA35ULFNW", "length": 1923, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "joshbyrne.com.au", "title": "JBA has International Peer Reviewed Energy Storage Paper Published - Josh Byrne & Associates", "raw_content": "An academic paper co-authored by Dr Josh Byrne (Curtin University and CRC for Low Carbon Living), Mark Taylor (Josh Byrne & Associates), and Dr Jemma Green (Curtin University) has been accepted for publication by the respected Journal of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability.\nTitled Josh\u2019s House \u2013 A More Even Relationship with the Grid the paper is a revealing analysis of the distributed energy storage system (DESS) that was installed at Josh\u2019s House in 2015 \u2013 one of the first on the WA grid and certainly the most comprehensively monitored.\nJosh\u2019s House is a well-established and highly successful \u2018Living Laboratory\u2019 research project delivered through the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low Carbon Living and Curtin University.\nThe DESS was connected to the house\u2019s monitoring system to enable in-depth analysis of performance in the context of a functioning family home. The paper showed that the DESS, in combination with the relatively modest 3 kilowatt photovoltaic system, enabled the home to meet 81% of its energy needs without input from the grid. However, it also showed a much higher reduction in PV exports than expected after the DESS was installed, leading to an examination of the way efficiency is defined and measured for these systems.\nThe paper was delivered by JBA\u2019s Mark Taylor in February 2017 at the World Renewable Energy Congress. The paper raised considerable interest and JBA intend to follow up with further real-world analysis of energy storage systems and the practicalities of optimizing performance. Our hope is to support these systems to realise the promise of enabling continued growth of renewable energy and de-carbonising of the energy system.\nThe team are very pleased to have met the high standards required for publication in this internationally circulated, peer reviewed academic Journal.\nPublication: Josh\u2019s House \u2013 A More Even Relationship with the Grid", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 179.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journals.viamedica.pl/advances_in_respiratory_medicine/article/view/39222", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DEKJKVFYG6P4V2RRNCR2KPWUEGMDCNXN", "length": 1866, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "journals.viamedica.pl", "title": "Ventilator-associated pneumonia and other infections | Bobik | Advances in Respiratory Medicine", "raw_content": "Ventilator-associated pneumonia and other infections\nPiotr Bobik, Andrzej Siemi\u0105tkowski\nOne of the fundamental elements of therapy in patients hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is mechanical ventilation (MV). MV enables sufficient gas exchange in patients with severe respiratory insufficiency, thus preserving the proper functioning of organs and systems. However, clinical and experimental studies show that mechanical ventilation may cause severe complications, e.g. lung injury (VALI, VILI), systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and, on rare occasions, multiple organ failure (MOF). Mechanical ventilation and especially endotracheal intubation are associated also with higher risk of infectious complications of the respiratory system: ventilator-associated respiratory infection (VARI) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The complications of the MV listed above have a significant influence on the length of treatment and also on the increase of the costs of therapy and mortality of patients who stay in an ICU. These negative effects of supported breathing are the reasons for intensive research to find new biological markers of inflammation and lung injury, more sensitive and specific diagnostic instruments, more effective methods of therapy, and programs of prevention. The purpose of this article is the presentation of current knowledge concerning VAP-related infections, to allow pulmonologists and general practitioners to become more familiar with the problem. Basic and the most important data concerning the definition, epidemiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of VAP have been included. Additionally, ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT) was discussed.\nmechanical ventilation, pneumonia, endotracheal intubation, drug-resistance\nPiotr Bobik\nAndrzej Siemi\u0105tkowski", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journeystomotherlove.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/walking-my-father-home-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5C4LJR2RCUN2QWGYL7JQMYJLLJP65WG6", "length": 3279, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "journeystomotherlove.wordpress.com", "title": "Walking My Father Home, Part 2 | Journeys To Mother Love", "raw_content": "aging parents, saying good-bye\nArdis\u2019s dad and mom in New York years ago\nHours after sending my final approval on the author proof for \u201cWalking My Mother Home,\u201d I was rushing to my father\u2019s side in a hospital 150 miles away. A year before, I had hoped I could be by my mother\u2019s side when she passed away, but it hadn\u2019t happened that way. Now I prayed that my father would last until I arrived and sought the words to speak to him this last time.\nHis first words to me when I arrived at 2 a.m. were about the story and how good he thought it was. I was able to thank him for his help with the edits too. His breathing was very labored, but he wanted to talk.\nInstead of my interviewing him more about his life, my father asked me more questions about the story. He wanted to know more about mom\u2019s feeding tube and the end of life decisions we made for her. He already had a DNR (\u201cDo Not Resuscitate\u201d) on file and the doctors had suggested a feeding tube. He had turned it down. I told him how Mom\u2019s feeding tube had given me a second chance to restore my relationship with her, but I understood his desire.\nAnd then I made the final request that the Lord put on my heart during the 3-hour drive from my home in Seattle. \u201cWhen you get to heaven,\u201d I began, trying not to fumble over my words or become emotional. \u201cYah?\u201d he queried. \u201cI want you to tell mom I\u2019m OK.\u201d The Lord was urging me to connect with both of my parents in an amazing way.\n\u201cI hope to see her,\u201d he replied. What relief to hear we were on the same page. It seemed he was ready and willing to go, so I ventured further. I asked him to tell her that I loved her. He went on to tell me that she had a tough life and was a good person and a good mother.\nMy father spent his last few hours on hospice care at my brother John\u2019s house. Glen was flown in from Illinois and had one final conversation with Dad as well. My father passed away with family around him on July 9, 2012. The peacefulness of his passing was healing for the entire family.\nThe healing I received with the passing of my mother gave me the courage and strength to walk through this pain again. I can\u2019t say it was easier, but it was familiar. God\u2019s love surrounded and comforted me and my family during those final days and gave us strength to honor him and his legacy.\nIt\u2019s been very gratifying to have no regrets or lingering questions about the relationships I had with my parents. I wasn\u2019t particularly close with either of them, but in God\u2019s mysterious way, I believe he allowed each of them to leave this world feeling my love for them. I think in some small way it allowed them to finish well. I know it made a difference for me.\nHas the Lord given you healing in the passing of one or both of your parents? Are you holding on to wounds of the past? It\u2019s not too late to step into healing. I encourage you to seek the spiritual or emotional guidance you need to free yourself from those burdens. We can do all things through Him who gives us strength (Philippians 4:13).\n3 thoughts on \u201cWalking My Father Home, Part 2\u201d\nDenise Hisey said:\nHow fortunate for you all to be able to say your goodbyes\u2026and how healing it must have been individually and corporately, too.\nYes, it was a beautiful time of family bonding and gave me great closure. Thanks!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 10454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://justbeerapp.com/event/heritage-park-interpretive-brew-july-26-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:17Z", "digest": "sha1:55RV4WETIGWQMASK23O5TLIOJT4EPVML", "length": 900, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "justbeerapp.com", "title": "Heritage Park Interpretive Brew July 26", "raw_content": "Heritage Park Interpretive Brew July 26\nWed July 26, 2017 at 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm\nhttp://bigrockbeer.com/events/heritage-park-interpretive-brew-8\nEnroll in one of our Big Rock Craft Beer Calgary Brewing Courses! This workshop is a must for the Calgary beer lover. It\u2019s a chance to learn how to make beer and participate in the brewing process from start to finish. You\u2019ll be guided by no less than the best, professional brewmasters Alan Yule and Neil Bamford. During this hands-on, 2\u00bd-hour session, you\u2019ll earn amateur brewmaster status as you mill, mash, sparge, boil, cool, pitch, ferment and package your way to hand-crafted beer greatness with the expertise of a Calgary brewery. A small snack and samples of the type of beer that you are brewing will be provided at the event. Eight weeks later, you\u2019re invited to return to Heritage Park and pick up a bottle of your very own craft beer creation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keithmccafferty.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:X4BIXFRXXKZEWUHBIQTV2QCWEHNFAITL", "length": 12269, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "keithmccafferty.com", "title": "Keith McCafferty | The Official Website of Keith McCafferty", "raw_content": "Welcome to the official website of Spur Award winner Keith McCafferty, author of Viking/Penguin\u2019s Sean Stranahan mystery series, which includes The Royal Wulff Murders, The Gray Ghost Murders, Dead Man\u2019s Fancy, Crazy Mountain Kiss, Buffalo Jump Blues, Cold Hearted River and A Death in Eden. Here you will find information about the books, as well as reviews, excerpts, contests to win flies and books, a sneak peek at the preface of A Death in Eden, and links to my articles. Contact me for free postcards and check out the The Deadwater Blog, which explores subjects ranging from the art of fly-tying to the art of writing about murder.\nMy next events are at the Ennis Fly Fishing Festival in Ennis, Montana. I will be presenting on Friday, August 31st, at 1 p.m. and again on Saturday, September 1st, at 5 p.m. I probably also will be speaking at the Ennis Public Library within the next month, so keep checking my Events page for new dates and times. Hope to see you there, and I\u2019ll bring the cookies.\nA Death in Eden, the 7th novel in the Sean Stranahan series, is available in bookstores and online now:\n\u201cThe decision to give Harold a more prominent role this time out is a good one, affording McCafferty an opportunity to probe the inner life of a robust, thoroughly fascinating character who could easily lead his own series. Another satisfying western mystery from this talented author.\u201d \u2014Booklist\n\u201cIf you\u2019re not reading Keith McCafferty because you don\u2019t fly fish or because you don\u2019t like mysteries or westerns, you need to get started because he\u2019s just flat-out terrific.\u201d \u2014Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire novels, the basis for the Netflix drama Longmire\n\u201cWith wry humor, Montana PI Sean Stranahan negotiates the territory between tradition and public interest with native rights in a mystery filled with characters we city folks don\u2019t meet often enough.\u201d \u2014Carole E. Barrowman, Minneapolis Star-Tribune\nIn A Death in Eden, state investigator Harold Little Feather is enlisted to find a mystery man known as the Scarecrow God, who has been erecting frightening effigies in the cliffs above Montana\u2019s Smith River. On the surface, the incidents appear related to a copper mining project that threatens the purity of the river, but Harold\u2019s investigation takes an ominous turn when a decapitated body is found in the river.\nAt the same time, Sean Stranahan and \u201cRainbow\u201d Sam Meslik have been contracted as guides to float a party down the Smith that includes the manager of the mine project, Clint McCaine, and Bart Trueblood, the president of \u201cSave The Smith,\u201d a grassroots organization devoted to stopping the project, and the documentarian filming their arguments. Both men grew up on the river on neighboring ranches, and as they travel further downstream, it\u2019s revealed that the two share a past that runs much deeper and darker than their opposing viewpoints.\nWaters will rise, Sean\u2019s long-time love Martha Ettinger will enter the fray, and all will hurtle downriver together toward a date with danger at a place called Table Rock.\nTo see photographs that follow the action, check out my Smith River Travelogue as you read.\nMy next events include Herringbone Books in Redmond, OR July 6, Sunriver books in Sunriver, OR July 7, the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ July 8, Orange, CA on July 9, and Country Bookshelf in Bozeman July 12. Check out the Events page for details and other upcoming events. Hope to see you and I\u2019ll bring cookies.\nIf you would like to have me speak at a function you are involved in, such as a fishing club, book club, public library event, convention, bookstore reading, or environmental advocacy meeting, I would love to accommodate you.\nSigned and personally dedicated books are available for order from the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT. Call (406) 587-0166.\nPostcards and bookmarks are free. To receive a signed card, contact me at keith@keithmccafferty.com and please include a street address.\nPART ONE: Hard Rock Heaven\nPrologue: A Loo With A View\nAwakened by the child\u2019s voice, the woman rolled over in the double-wide sleeping bag she shared with her husband. She spooned back against him.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t hear that,\u201d he murmured.\nThe voiced was smothered. It came from the far side of the tent, where a small girl lay curled like a snail, her head buried in her sleeping bag.\n\u201cCan you wait until morning, darling?\u201d the woman said. \u201cIt will be light in just a little while.\u201d\n\u201cI have to pee now.\u201d The head was out of the bag, the girl\u2019s indignation registering.\nThe woman let out a sigh and fumbled for the zipper of the bag.\n\u201cI\u2019ll go,\u201d the man said.\n\u201cNo, I\u2019ll do it. She\u2019s seven, Larry. She\u2019s getting sensitive about that.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m seven and a half on the next full moon.\u201d\nNow where did she hear that? the woman thought.\n\u201cIt\u2019s all right, darling,\u201d she said. \u201cI just have to find the flashlight.\u201d\n\u201cTake the bear spray,\u201d the man said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s packed in the boat bag. We\u2019ll be okay.\u201d\n\u201cSure,\u201d the man said. \u201cI paid the premium on your life insurance. If you get eaten, I\u2019ll trade up to a pair of C cups.\u201d\nThe woman swatted him with her pillow.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s a C cup, Mommy?\n\u201cNothing, sweetie. Daddy\u2019s making a joke.\u201d\n\u201cI have to pee bad.\u201d\n\u201cI know. We\u2019re going.\u201d The woman had found the flashlight and twisted the barrel to turn it on. She got out of the bag and crawled on her knees to the tent flap and worked the zipper.\n\u201cDon\u2019t step on snakes,\u201d the man said. \u201cWe\u2019re only a hundred miles from anywhere.\u201d\n\u201cFifty-three,\u201d the woman said. \u201cWe floated six miles after we put the raft in and we take out at Eden Bridge at mile fifty-nine.\u201d\n\u201cYou and your arithmetic.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re going, Mary Louise. Do you want to hold the flashlight?\u201d\n\u201cNo. You hold it.\u201d\nSo there was no reason to get lost. There was a path and no excuse for it, except that the woods were a skeleton of branches that stood like bones against the milk spilled by the moon, and the abstract shadows they cast made you step faster than you should, before you were sure of the way.\nThe woman swore under her breath.\n\u201cYou said a bad word,\u201d the girl said.\n\u201cWhere are we, Mommy?\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re in back of the camp . . . I think.\u201d The last two words more to herself than to her daughter.\nThat\u2019s what her husband had called it. \u201cA loo with a view.\u201d\nAll the designated camp sites along the Smith River had pit toilets with hinged seats and \u201cBEAR AWARE\u201d stenciled on the lid. Some were situated on benches of land above the camp sites, so that, sitting, one might contemplate the river that glinted between the walls of the canyon.\n\u201cI found it,\u201d the woman said.\nHer voice was matter-of-fact. Still, she felt relief flood through her body. It was silly to have been afraid, even when the path seemed to be taking them too far from camp. They were on the river, after all. They might make a wrong turn to find a toilet, but they weren\u2019t lost. She could even hear the cascade of Indian Spring across the river.\n\u201cYou go first, Mommy.\u201d\n\u201cI did earlier, darling.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to sit down until you have.\u201d\n\u201cWhat do you think\u2019s down there, a bogey man? Okay, I\u2019ll go first and warm it up for you. You can hold the flashlight and keep watch.\u201d\nKeep watch. She recalled the signboards they\u2019d seen along the river yesterday, before they\u2019d entered the roadless area. A yellow circle with a diagonal line slashed through the words \u201cSMITH MINE.\u201d And underneath, \u201c#NOT ON MY WATCH.\u201d\nThe Smith River was a crown jewel among Rocky Mountain trout streams. For sixty miles it flowed through a near-wilderness canyon of incomparable grandeur, with towering limestone cliffs that glowed gold and pink in the sunrise, and that were shot through with caves where Indians had painted thousands of ochre-colored pictographs. A proposed copper mine in the headwaters threatened the purity of its water, or so she\u2019d learned from her husband, who had made a charitable donation to a grassroots organization called \u201cSave The Smith .\u201d He\u2019d done a lot of research before filling out the application for the lottery. Had insisted she kiss it before he put it into the mail. With odds of drawing a permit ten to one against, you needed all the luck a kiss could give you. On the day that the results were posted on-line, he\u2019d called her into their computer room, and she\u2019d sat on his lap as he tapped the keys.\nFor a few seconds they just stared at the screen. \u201cI knew you had lucky lips,\u201d he\u2019d whispered, and their daughter had appeared at the doorway as he was exploring them.\n\u201cYou two do too much kissing. You should get a room,\u201d she said.\nIt was true. They did a lot of kissing, and the kissing that night had led to a positive pregnancy test six days later. One they\u2019d been trying to get for three long years. She thought of that as she sat on the loo with a view. She rubbed the just noticeable swelling of her abdomen and felt the tenderness in her breasts. Another few weeks, she thought, and he wouldn\u2019t have to reach very far to find C cups. She smiled to herself as she watched the moonlight play across the pool below camp. The first weeks of pregnancy had been hard, with almost daily morning sickness. But the nausea wasn\u2019t as bad now, and life, well . . . Life, like the river, was wonderful.\n\u201cWhat dear?\u201d\n\u201cWhy is that man watching us?\u201d\nThe woman jumped from the seat and yanked her camp pajamas back over her hips.\n\u201cGive me the light.\u201d Trying to keep her voice calm.\nThe cone of light flashed through the bushes and trees that surrounding them.\n\u201cIt\u2019s nothing, darling.\u201d But then \u2014 she swept the light up the hillside \u2014 there was something. Just for a second. A silhouette? Like a man on a cross, she thought, his arms outstretched. It looked huge. The light wavered and the silhouette was gone. She saw only trees. Had it been there at all?\nShe gripped the girl\u2019s hand. The girl was crying now. It had taken a few moments for the fear to register.\n\u201cLarry!\u201d the woman shouted.\n\u201cYou\u2019re hurting my hand,\u201d the girl said. She was crying as she was tugged back down the trail.\nThe woman again shouted for her husband, waited a beat. No answer.\nThey fled through the trees, the branches whipping at them.\n\u201cMommy stop!\u201d\nThe girl yanked her hand away. Stumbling, the woman turned and put her hands on the girl\u2019s shoulders.\n\u201cI lost my shoe, Mommy.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s okay, we\u2019ll get you some more. Come on now.\u201d She grabbed the small hand and started off, not running now but walking briskly, the girl hobbling.\nIt\u2019s nothing, she told herself. Nothing.\nAnd to her daughter, \u201cCome on, you can do it. Just a little faster.\u201d\nIn the darkness, the firefly of a headlamp.\nHis voice. \u201cIt\u2019s me. Over here.\u201d\nShe ran the last yards and flung her arms around him.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong? Did you see a bear?\u201d He had the pepper spray gripped in one fist, a hatchet in the other.\n\u201cIt was like a ghost.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t know. Mary Louise saw it first. What did you see, darling? What did you see?\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d She was still crying. \u201cIt had b . . . branches. It was walking.\u201d\n\u201cMaybe it was a tree blowing.\u201d the man\u2019s said.\n\u201cThere wasn\u2019t any wind,\u201d the woman said.\n\u201cIt had arms. Like a scarecrow.\u201d\n\u201cYou mean like in \u2018The Wizard of Oz?'\u201d the woman said.\n\u201cTigers and lions and bears, oh my,\u201d the girl said.\n\u201cThat\u2019s backwards,\u201d the man said.\n\u201cLarry, your daughter is frightened. Be serious.\u201d\n\u201cTigers and lions and bears, oh my,\u201d the girl said again.\n\u201cThat\u2019s right darling. And we\u2019re all together now, like Dorothy and her friends. We\u2019re all safe if we\u2019re together.\u201d\n\u201cWho am I, Mommy?\u201d\nIt was a game they played when they watched movies. What character do you want to be?\n\u201cI want to be Dorothy,\u201d the girl said.\n\u201cThen you\u2019re Dorothy, darling. And nothing can hurt you, not even the Wicked Witch.\u201d\n\u201cBut I lost one of my ruby slippers.\u201d And she had. The tennis shoes she\u2019d got on her birthday pulsed red LED lights with every step.\n\u201cThat\u2019s all right. You only need one to protect you.\u201d\nThe girl looked down at her remaining tennis shoe. The battery was starting to draw down, but the lights still flickered when she pumped her foot.\n\u201cTigers and lions and bears, oh my,\u201d she sang.\nAnd the words strung out behind them as they walked the path back to camp, the girl hand in hand with her father and the stars losing their sparkle, but the forest holding fast to the terrors of the night, and with every other step a pulsing of the lights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 13861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kevin.brsluxuryhomes.com/blog/264554/ESTIMATING+FIRST+YEAR+TAXES++How+Can+A+New+Home+Buyer+Estimate+First+Year+Taxes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TJBZSTQKVCTE65SGPWMZZCEGQLY3PAVI", "length": 938, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kevin.brsluxuryhomes.com", "title": "ESTIMATING FIRST YEAR TAXES How Can A New Home Buyer Estimate First Year Taxes", "raw_content": "ESTIMATING FIRST YEAR TAXES How Can A New Home Buyer Estimate First Year Taxes\nWhen you purchased your home this year, you inherited the seller's exemption status for the current tax year. Please review your closing statement, as the seller likely gave you a deduction for the seller's pro rata share of the current year taxes. Because of that, you will be responsible for payment of the entire tax when it arrives in November. Next year, your home will be reassessed based upon your purchase price (and the sale prices this year of other qualified market sales in your neighborhood). Finally, remember that you will need to file for a homestead exemption on the property for next year as the seller's exemptions will automatically be removed at the end of this year.\nNote: The Home-Buyer's Tax Estimator on our website will give you a rough estimate of the property taxes on your home for the tax year immediately AFTER you purchased it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 12340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kiddipedia.com.au/directory/booby-trapper/?cat-slug=clothing-shoes-accessories", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:38Z", "digest": "sha1:PPUZTKOF2ZEFWZRKAFRWJ6YCM43Q7MTA", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kiddipedia.com.au", "title": "Booby Trapper | Kiddipedia", "raw_content": "Website: http://www.boobytrapper.com.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 63.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kingwoodfirst.org/podcast?page=9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:15Z", "digest": "sha1:K6TEJ2VDHMCR3PBOWO7BNUPZX7BX5ZPM", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kingwoodfirst.org", "title": "Sermon Podcasts | Kingwood First Baptist", "raw_content": "The Bread of Life - Table Matters & Table Manners; An Easter Study of The Lord's Supper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kitchensolversfranchise.com/research-kitchen-solvers/who-makes-a-good-kitchen-solvers-franchisee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OSAAEDFPTCNRPSTFF5IEM6643U3NUTT4", "length": 3235, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "kitchensolversfranchise.com", "title": "Cabinet Refacing Business Opportunity- Kitchen Solvers Franchisee | Kitchen Solvers Franchise", "raw_content": "Kitchen Solvers Franchisee, Sara Baumann\nKitchen Solvers: Cabinet Refacing Business Opportunity\nWhile a lot of people with construction experience have found great success by becoming Kitchen Solvers franchisees, you don\u2019t have to be an experienced craftsman to be a successful Kitchen Solvers owner.\nMany of our most recent franchisees, like Sara Baumann of Eau Claire, Wisc., don\u2019t have construction backgrounds. What she does have is a passion for kitchen design, a desire to help people improve their homes and a talent for putting customers at ease and earning their trust.\nBaumann thinks that being a woman helps put her customers at ease.\n\u201cPeople are more likely to trust a woman to have good design skills and to understand the best way to redo a kitchen,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m still working on the craftsman skill end of things, but I gain a little knowledge from each job that I go on.\u201d\n\u201cIf you had told me two years ago that I\u2019d be doing this, I would have told said, you were crazy. I didn\u2019t have a particular passion for cabinets,\u201d Baumann said. \u201cI had been staying at home with my kids, and I had been talking to a gal at the Y about her business. She\u2019s a meeting planner. My degree is in marketing and I asked if she wanted a part-time person to work from home. Then a neighbor told me about this opportunity and said he thought it could be a really good thing.\u201d\nShe bought the Eau Claire franchise in June 2011, and says it took her a little time to get up to speed \u2014 but she had booked $80,000 worth of jobs through the first 2\u00bd months of 2012.\nContact Us for cabinet business opportunity\nSuzie Crowley and husband Brian, by contrast, has been running the Kitchen Solvers franchise in La Crosse, Wisc., for since 1998. Suzie does sales consultations and office work while Brian handles installations.\nKitchen Solvers Franchise Owner John Boynton\nCrowley said that she thinks the keys to success are having strong people skills, being willing to follow the system, being creative, having a passion for design, being driven to succeed, having strong organizational skills, and being willing to market and network. She thinks interior designers and real estate agents would be ideal Kitchen Solvers franchisees.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a carpenter,\u201d Suzie Crowley said. \u201cThe training is wonderful. Many franchisees have come on board that didn\u2019t have a lot of carpentry skills, or experience with kitchen design. The most important thing is if you\u2019ve got a flair for color or good taste in design and you want to help people.\u201d\nOthers, such as Larry Schaffert in Frederick County, Maryland, came to Kitchen Solvers after having years of construction experience. Schaffert owns his own construction company, and values the simplicity and buying power that he gets from Kitchen Solvers. \u201cIf I had it to do all over again, getting into construction \u2026 I would start with Kitchen Solvers,\u201d he said.\nJohn Boynton of Springfield, Va., is another recent addition to the team. Boynton\u2019s construction business had been doing about $800,000 a year in revenue, and 60 to 70 percent of that was from kitchens. He joined Kitchen Solvers after learning that he could save about 20 percent on his materials by being part of the nationwide system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://korean-machinery.com/2016/05/19/root-industry-the-starting-point-of-future-new-growth-engine-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:38Z", "digest": "sha1:AI75ZK3E62D7MZJZHPTC576R7QNCLVZK", "length": 2494, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "korean-machinery.com", "title": "Root Industry, the Starting Point of Future New Growth Engine Industry \u2013 Korean-Machinery.com", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Main Issues / Root Industry, the Starting Point of Future New Growth Engine Industry\nRoot Industry, the Starting Point of Future New Growth Engine Industry\n\u201cRoot industry is all about making materials into components, and then components into finished products through various process technologies, which is the core of the manufacturing industry. Despite its importance, however, root industry has been recognized as a so-called 3D (Dangerous, Dirty and Difficult) industry, so its competitiveness has been gradually weakening. Now, root industry has to be promoted as\nan ACE (Automatic, Clean and Easy) industry.\u201d\nMr. Sang-mok Lee, manager of the Korea National Ppuri Industry Center, strenuously insists that without strengthening the competitiveness of the root industry, the roots of Korean manufacturing cannot become compacted tightly, while emphasizing the importance of root industry.\nAccording to the definition provided in Article 2 of \u2018The Law on the Root Industry Promotion and Modernization\u2019 enacted in 2011, root industry means the industry which leads the business sector by utilizing such process technologies as molding, casting, welding, plastic working, surface treatment, heat treatment, et al.\nManager Lee explains, \u201cRoot industry, which is the basic process industry, is not shown up to the surface like the root of the tree, but remains embedded in the finished product, thus forming the basis of the competitiveness of the product.\u201d\nAlso, according to his explanation, \u201cThe importance of the root industry is great to the extent that when a car is manufactured, the ratio related to root industry is about 90% based on the number of components, and the cost of welding per ship accounts for about 35% of the total shipbuilding cost, while the automobile industry also has a framework for growth on the basis of solid root industry.\u201d\nConsidering that the Korean economy has been growing based on the manufacturing industry until now, we can say that the role and function of root industry forming the backbone of the manufacturing industry is very important for strengthening Korea\u2019s global competitiveness. On this account, the government is practicing various policies for enhancing root industry and, thereby developing it as a high value-added industry.\nFiled Under: Main Issues Tagged With: Root Industry, the Starting Point of Future New Growth Engine Industry\n\u00ab Marine equipment\nEnergy-saving & environmentally friendly screw air compressor \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://korean-machinery.com/2017/05/12/scrapping-fta-to-damage-u-s-more-than-korea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XPXWKQVJPSX463WEMGU6T72DJ6RSIU66", "length": 3133, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "korean-machinery.com", "title": "Scrapping FTA to Damage U.S. more than Korea \u2013 Korean-Machinery.com", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Trade News / Scrapping FTA to Damage U.S. more than Korea\nScrapping FTA to Damage U.S. more than Korea\nScrapping the free trade agreement (FTA) between Korea and the United States will damage the U.S. more than Korea as the drop in U.S. exports to Korea will be steeper than the fall in Korea\u2019s exports to the U.S. Instead, the U.S. is likely to demand a partial revision, including reintroduction of a merchandise processing fee (MPF), a think tank said recently.\nThe Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade prepared the report on how changes in the Korea-U.S. FTA (KORUS FTA) will affect exports and imports. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy requested the report earlier this year following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.\nTrump has been criticizing trade deals, including the one with Korea, as \u201cjob killers\u201d since he was campaigning for the election, prompting speculation the U.S. will push for the deal\u2019s renegotiation.\nThe institute said there are three possible scenarios for the KORUS FTA: the U.S may demand a total scrapping or partial revision or maintain it.\nIf the bilateral deal is scrapped, the two countries will apply tariffs according to the most favored nation (MFN) treatment of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a result, Korea will apply tariffs between 4 and 9 percent and the U.S. 1.5 to 4 percent. Both now apply near-zero tariffs under the KORUS FTA.\nIf tariffs rise because the deal is scrapped, Korea\u2019s exports to the U.S. are expected to decrease by $1.3 billion while U.S. exports to Korea will plunge $1.5 billion. Since it means the U.S. trade deficit with Korea will increase by $200 million, the institute said it is unlikely the bilateral deal will be dropped.\nThe U.S. may choose to maintain the KORUS FTA and resort to other measures to restrict Korea\u2019s exports. For instance, it may strictly apply a country-of-origin clause in the deal. The institute expected small and medium enterprises to be hit hardest because it is costly for them to meet this clause.\nIf the U.S. strictly applies the clause, it is likely to decrease Korea\u2019s exports by $400 million. But the report notes that the Trump administration would have no political gain if it leaves the deal as is.\nThe institute expected the deal\u2019s revision is the most likely scenario. In that case, the U.S. may want to revise the MPF exemption clause. U.S. Customs charges MPF on imports, but the KORUS FTA exempts Korean goods. If the U.S. levies MPF on Korean goods, it will increase their price. Korea\u2019s exports to the U.S. are then expected to decrease by $200 million, according to the institute.\nHowever, some experts doubt the MPF will be the target since the U.S. exempts it in most of the FTAs it has signed. And it hasn\u2019t mentioned the MPF.\nThe United States Trade Representative (USTR) noted in a report that \u201cIncreased access to Korea\u2019s automotive market for U.S. automakers remains a key priority for the United States.\u201d\nFiled Under: Trade News\n\u00ab The First Appearance of Ultra-compact Electric Car Model in Korea for Road Driving\nCOD Automatic Measurement Equipment \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kristinwoldennitz.com/2010/12/10/typing-the-end-on-calyns-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KLYFH75QXBAXIED5RKE6S4Y7J3JCQQK4", "length": 950, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kristinwoldennitz.com", "title": "Typing \u201cThe End\u201d on Calyn\u2019s Story \u2013 Kristin Wolden Nitz", "raw_content": "I have a ritual for finishing books. I don\u2019t type \u201cThe End\u201d until I reach the end. While I was really, really close to having a complete draft of Calyn\u2019s story, I just spent a goodly chunk of the morning editing the last 44 pages by hand and then getting those changes into the computer. In the process, I came up with a last line. Perhaps it will be a placeholder. I have a sneaking suspician that some people might demand another chapter at the end. And I\u2019d have to take them seriously since one of the complaints on SUSPECT was that it ended too quickly.\nNow I still have a lot of polishing to do. There\u2019s more than one spot with the words TRANSISTION NEEDED HERE. But I should be able to get this printed up for one of my local groups next week for a January evaluation. I also want to get this to my kids for Christmas reading. Ho, ho, ho!\nI will be doing a bit more sanding and varnishing before sending this to some of my other readers though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://krjf.org/?shows=world-in-progress-global-development-issues", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:E4RWXPWPS6IWAMUN3THWZFIF2KCIORJJ", "length": 687, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "krjf.org", "title": "World in Progress: Global Development Issues", "raw_content": "Fridays, 5pm to 5:30pm (PST)\nWorld in Progress is a 30-minute radio show that connects the dots in a globalized era.\nAs our world continues to grow, it changes. Often in ways that are neither immediately perceptible nor logical.\nWorld in Progress offers insights and context. Through in-depth interviews and features, their team explores the far-reaching and interconnected consequences of a globalized economy.\nFrom human rights to freedom of speech, movements that swim against the tide to the myriad interpretations of sustainable development, World in Progress shines a light on uncomfortable and often underreported issues that the global community cannot afford to ignore.\nFrom DW.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kroonandmitchell.com/thank-you-to-michigan-realtors-the-convention/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:I7AMQ3QDE63XU4OA7X66VC6QYKRBOOQH", "length": 316, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kroonandmitchell.com", "title": "Thank you to Michigan Realtors \"The Convention\" | Kroon & Mitchell", "raw_content": "Thanks to the Michigan Realtors organization for inviting us to their annual \u201cThe Convention\u201d in September for 2018. We were invited in to talk about how the largest tax code change in history affects Realtors, their clients and potential clients. We turned that presentation into a blog post that you can read HERE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kstp.com/news/more-homeowners-file-complaints-seek-justice-concerning-crossroads-remodeling-in-albertville/5040479/?cat=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UGRPPUERRPNUHVC62G3XGU67Z3ZLQRTZ", "length": 2794, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "kstp.com", "title": "More Homeowners File Complaints, Seek Justice Concerning Crossroads Remodeling in Albertville | KSTP.com", "raw_content": "More Homeowners File Complaints, Seek Justice Concerning Crossroads Remodeling in Albertville\nMore homeowners have come forward claiming Crossroads Remodeling, run by Richard Wooton, took their money and either didn't start or finish projects.\nThe running total is around $500,000 over the past year.\nThe total is now up to 45 families living in Rogers, Albertville, St. Michael, Maple Grove, Otsego, Nowthen and other communities in Wright and Stearns counties.\nThis week, many customers like Benjamin Anaya, Jr., received a letter from the legal firm representing Crossroads. On the company's website, state documents and in-person to customers, Wooton allegedly posed as the owner, even though the business license was in his wife's name, Debbie Larson-Wooton and a friend's, Mike Sohre.\nRELATED: Homeowners Take Action Against Crossroads Remodeling for Not Finishing Products\nThe construction company voluntarily surrendered its license, according to the Department of Labor and Industry, which oversees the construction industry licensing.\n\"Basically they don't plan to continue to operate,\" according to Charlie Durenberger.\nThe company's website has been taken down and voicemail on the company's phone states it's no longer doing business.\nThe notice signed by Pat O'Donnell states:\nWe regret to inform you that Crossroads is no longer able to perform any further work on your project. While this firm does not represent you, it is our understanding you may be owed funds for work that Crossroads cannot complete. Please understand that it is the desire of Crossroads that you be made as whole as possible.\nThe letter also encouraged folks to submit a claim to the state-run 'Contractor Recovery Fund,' and/or be paid through other available options.\n\"Since a judgment is required to submit a claim to the CRF, Crossroads Remodeling, LLC is offering a Confession of Judgment to support valid claims,\" said O'Donnell.\nThe CRF is a fee that contractors pay when they apply for a new license or renewal. The money is meant to compensate homeowners who suffer a loss because of other contractors misconduct. The total of $300,000 would be distributed evenly among homeowner victims.\nAnaya, Jr. shook his head in disbelief.\n\"Based on all the money owed, no one is going to be made whole, we get pennies on the dollar,\" he said.\nAnaya Jr. is out $16,000 and a deck that still doesn't exist.\nWooton is a convicted felon, who has served prison time for financial crimes. He already owes the state $90,000 in fines for previous violations.\nThe Department of L & I said Crossroads was only granted a license, based on the condition that Wooton does not have a supervisory or financial role. 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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka began expanding his political operation last summer with a super PAC for the purposes of funding multi-cycle, issue advocacy as well as get-out-the-vote efforts. The new super PAC, \u201cWorkers\u2019 Voices\u201d, has announced its small, yet respectable haul with $3.7 million raised, and $3 million cash on hand.\nThe battle may be coming to a head in California, where labor organizations are fighting tooth and nail to protect their source of revenue. If a new ballot initiative passes this November, unions would need to get written permission from their members each year to use dues for political purposes.\n\u201cThis could change the balance of power long after the governor\u2019s taxes are expired,\u201d said Thad Kousser, a political-science professor at UC San Diego. \u201cDefeating this has got to be the top goal of labor. If they don\u2019t, they could become almost extinct in California politics.\u201d\nAt this point, unions are desperately looking for a win. Today, as thousands of protesters packed hallways and shouted their disapproval, the Indiana Senate voted 28-22 to pass a right to work bill. The bill will now go to Gov. Mitch Daniels for his signature.\nOn a national level, there is legislation with a similar provision. The Employee Rights Act, sponsored by U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and U.S. Representative Tim Scott (R-SC) contains a measure that would give employees the right to require unions to get their approval before dues money is spent on behalf of political parties or political candidates.\nIt should be noted; exit polling from 2010 by shows that 42 percent of union households voted for Republican candidates, yet more than 93 percent of union political support went to Democratic candidates. 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A kind of pain most people don\u2019t know anything about.\nBarton Fink - \"Barton Fink\", the movie\nThe year 2016 was rather calm \u2013 I didn\u2019t have too many of opportunities to trot the globe and was bored with local parties. So I finally got some time to start.\nWell then, multilingual site. Where to begin?\nPhoto: Baad Image\nLet\u2019s start from the website. Of course, as any newbie, at first I visited all the links to websites with templates like WIX. After spending the whole day, I realized that it was not exactly what I looked for. I didn\u2019t want to edit the existing template, especially when it is almost impossible to add some elements not presented in the library\u2026 With the same question coming over and over again: do I really want to continue? Hmm\u2026 Ok, let\u2019s put it aside for a while.\nI\u2019d better try to write some texts: introduction and description. The beginning was promising! I was full of inspiration, enthusiasm and proud of myself. Settling down all the mayhem of thoughts, the \u201cabout me\u201d section was written in a short time. My brain was happy, looking for the quotes, refreshing some books in mind (as a bonus, I made a list of books that might be interesting to read in future). So the day was really efficient.\nAnd here comes the showstopper: I\u2019ve got completely lost in translation. The two other languages required to rewrite all from the beginning, since the phrase-composing didn\u2019t want to become a textual unity. I am fluent in all the three languages, I even think in all of them (depends on the situation and the environment), but surprisingly it becomes a real challenge when I need to make a translation. So it coasted me some linguistic convulsions and a lot of hesitations to quit. But then, while writing \u201cmain lines\u201d page, I\u2019ve developed a strategy: to write in any language which is in my head at the moment, and add some more in others later. Finally, it all came up together even though sometimes I feel like after the translation the article may lose its original charm. Let\u2019s hope that in the course of time it will all work out.\nTexts are written, some projects started, so I couldn\u2019t postpone the creation of the website anymore. My throes of composition began. It seems that nowadays anyone can \u201cdraw\u201d a website, even my cat, as they say \u201cwhere there is a will, there is a way\u201d. (I assure you, Melifaro doesn\u2019t have such a will, and this is the only reason he doesn\u2019t have his own website). I decided to do everything by myself, not using the ready templates. I have a university degree, I speak 5 languages, why wouldn\u2019t I be able to learn how to code? I searched the forums, articles, downloaded tones of the trial versions of different programs, and finally started. 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Resuming, making a website was much harder than I could ever imagine, but I am really proud of myself because I DID IT!\nI am aware, there is still a lot of work to do, but in general I am happy with the result.\nMedieval Tale \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 4487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lasvegassun.com/news/2018/dec/19/signing-day-one-play-helps-show-this-unlv-recruits/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:D6WBCNR3XWHSYQ66GC7RELIMO63RVUTB", "length": 3263, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "lasvegassun.com", "title": "Signing Day: One play helps show this UNLV recruit's athleticism -", "raw_content": "rebels football:\nSigning Day: One play helps show this UNLV recruit\u2019s athleticism\nThe UNLV football team takes the field for their game against the Air Force Falcons Friday, October 19, 2018, at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Air Force won the game 41-35.\nOn this play, you can\u2019t help but notice Ryan Tantum\u2019s raw athletic ability.\nThe offensive tackle pulls to the opposite side of the line and bulldozes a defender in his path, clearing the way for the running back to gain significant yards. In the background, Tantum\u2019s Sierra College teammates on the sideline jump up and down in excitement.\nPlays like this are what makes the 6-foot-4, 310-pound Tantum appealing to college recruiters. Plays like this could be common for UNLV next fall.\nTantum, a three-star recruit by 247Sports, is one of about 17 players expected today to sign letters of intent with the Rebels. The class, which includes 11 three-star recruits, is considered the third best in the Mountain West.\n\u201cUNLV has a lot to offer to develop me into the best player I can be,\u201d said Tantum, who also had scholarship offers from New Mexico, New Mexico State, San Jose State and University of Texas at San Antonio.\nTantum credits his athleticism from being a multisport athlete growing up. He competed in volleyball, water polo, swimming, basketball and soccer. He didn\u2019t start playing football until the eighth grade.\nBy time he was a junior in high school, around when he started dedicating himself to becoming a college player, others started to take notice. He said he was recruited out of high school, but had to attend junior college to become an academic qualifier.\n\u201cPeople have told me along the way that I have the potential. It took awhile, but here I am,\u201d he said.\nTantum was born in South Africa and moved to the United States at age 3. 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It\u2019s always wise to look out for opportunities to resolve a dispute on commercial terms, rather than going to court. If you\u2019re involved in a dispute, try to work with a lawyer who understands that litigation isn\u2019t necessarily the best option.\nLegalVision\u2019s specialist disputes/litigation lawyers work online, providing timely, high quality and cost-effective advice for all types of business disputes including:\nLegalVision\u2019s disputes team can help resolve your dispute at the early stages, so that you can focus on what\u2019s most important for your business. We have assisted clients in Adelaide and South Australia to resolve their disputes in a timely and cost-effective manner.\nCall us today or fill out the form on this page to get in touch.\nTell us about your dispute. 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(Police supplied photo)\nThree people face charges after police seized nearly $400,000 of drugs during a series of raids in London and St. Thomas.\nLondon police, the RCMP and the OPP searched a home on Raleigh Crescent, another on Dundas Street and a nail salon on Talbot Street in St. Thomas on Friday.\nInvestigators seized two kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of hash, 30 grams of crack, 1.7 kilograms of marijuana, three grams of magic mushrooms and 1.7 kilograms of phenacetin, said police, who pegged the total value of the drugs at $396,260. Police also seized $50,000 in cash.\nA London man and woman, 31 and 32, and a Toronto man, 41, are charged drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and possession of proceeds obtained by crime. The London pair also faces additional drug charges.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 5459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.boisestate.edu/2019/02/08/publishing-in-the-rockies-the-history-of-caxton-printers-of-caldwell-idaho-exhibit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FEWILLNKY3JQTDCJYXIRKSPG6I5W7GBL", "length": 2181, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "library.boisestate.edu", "title": "Publishing in the Rockies: The History of Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho exhibit - Albertsons Library", "raw_content": "/ Publishing in the Rockies: The History of Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho exhibit\nCaxton 1915 Group Photo\nThere are two Special Collections exhibits currently in the Library: author Ruth Gipson Plowhead (first floor of the library), and of her brother James Gipson, who founded Caxton Printers and published all of Plowhead\u2019s books (this exhibit is located at Special Collections & Archives, second floor of the library). Founded in 1907, Caxton Printers became one of the most important regional book publishers in the U.S. Located in Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton entered the book publishing business in\nearnest in 1925.\nOver the following decades, Caxton produced hundreds of books in numerous genres\u2013\u2013Americana, fiction, children\u2019s stories, history, and essays, among others\u2013\u2013primarily about the American West. Caxton\u2019s philosophy was to help writers from the West get published, regardless of the commercial success of their books.\nThe person who established that philosophy, James H. Gipson, directed the company from its founding until his death in 1965. He took the company\u2019s name and colophon from William Caxton, the fifteenth-century printer believed to be the first in England. During his tenure, Gipson personally approved every book the company published\u2013\u2013over eight hundred titles. His efforts turned Caxton into an important regional publisher, an accomplishment that proved the West took book publishing seriously.\nCaxton is still owned and managed by the Gipson family, and they continue to publish regional nonfiction books. Using books housed in Boise State\u2019s Special Collections as well as materials from its manuscript collections, the exhibit tells the story of Caxton Printers from its founding to the present, while also showing the transformation of how Caxton produced their books. Some of their earliest books were bound in suede leather, while later books were hand bound in Moroccan leather as \u201cdeluxe editions,\u201d while still others were \u201cperfect bound\u201d paperbacks.\nThis entry was posted in At The Library and tagged Caxton Printers, James H. Gipson. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Caxton Exhibits at the Library\nAlbertsons Library Supports TRIO Food Drive \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 6270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.boisestate.edu/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:C3HK2K4YRS6MKMUHLO44XCDELOMPNBEF", "length": 1415, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "library.boisestate.edu", "title": "About Albertsons Library", "raw_content": "Albertsons Library \u2013 Connect. Create. 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Albertsons Library supports teaching, learning, and research at Boise State by facilitating use of information resources and services.\nAlbertsons Library\u2019s mission, vision, and strategic plan.\nAlbertsons Library Spring 2016\nImage map of the first floor of Albertsons Library\nImage map of the second floor of Albertsons Library\nImage map of the third floor of Albertsons Library\nImage map of the fourth floor of Albertsons Library", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 5110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 248.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/1471239", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:39Z", "digest": "sha1:IA3ZXY4Y67TKOBGZEFJWLAGWSYOJICAH", "length": 1655, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "library.villanova.edu", "title": "Holdings: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 992) to amend provisions in section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to federal assistance for swaps entities, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2374) to amend the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes :", "raw_content": "Providing for consideration of...\nProviding for consideration of the bill (H.R. 992) to amend provisions in section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to federal assistance for swaps entities, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2374) to amend the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes : report (to accompany H. 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Res. 237).\nProviding for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2021) to amend the Clean Air Act regarding air pollution from Outer Continental Shelf activities, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1249) to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for patent reform (to accompany H. Res. 316).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 104.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://life.spartan.com/post/author/jeff-csatari", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:EP7UBI5GB26DM3SUNQ4QZUJZT6REGMNX", "length": 236, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "life.spartan.com", "title": "Jeff Csatari", "raw_content": "Get Off the Crack: 8 Ways to Cut Sugar from Your Diet\nAre You a Sugar Cookie Away from Pre-Diabetes? 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This is the easy way to juice a lemon when you don't have any special utensils on hand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 126.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1111&L=CODE4LIB&P=43219", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NIQH6Y6UDJEWOOS4EJI3IVRD5O3QZ5SQ", "length": 1125, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "lists.clir.org", "title": "LISTSERV 16.5 - CODE4LIB Archives", "raw_content": "Re: Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?\nAlso, may I recommend that going forward, we document the registration\namounts on the wiki, both conference and pre-conference, including what\nmeals were included as part of the registration fee. After the conference,\nthis information vanishes with the registration form. It would be of\nbenefit to conference planners and attendees alike.\nOn Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Tom Keays <[log in to unmask]> wrote:\n> There is the conference, for which, we have been told, registration is\n> There is the pre-conference, for which, we have been told, there will be\n> no additional charge.\n> In the past, we have charged for the pre-conference. No one has said what\n> this charge was, but I sort of remember it being $25. I can't recall if\n> that is for both morning and afternoon or if it was $25 each (total of\n> $50). \n> Also, at least in 2009, lunch was on our own.\n> I'm content to pay $0, $25, $50, or some other reasonable amount for the\n> pre-conference. 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Detailed explanations on the back of the works declare that her hand was guided by various spirits, including several Renaissance artists, as well as higher angelic beings.\nIn 1871 Houghton rented a prestigious gallery space in Bond Street and presented 155 of her spirit drawings to a perplexed London audience. The Critic from The Era newspaper pronounced it to be \u201cThe most astonishing exhibition in London at the present moment.\u201d The Daily News likened the works to \u201ctangled threads of coloured wool\u201d and concluded that \u201cThey deserve to be seen as the most extraordinary and instructive example of artistic aberration.\u201d The exhibition proved to be a commercial failure and nearly bankrupted Houghton. Although she continued to make spirit drawings after the exhibition, her ambition of popularising the practice was not realised. 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Burns Supper is one of the most outspoken annual Scottish traditions that brings together people around the world for more than 200 years. This year, British Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (BritCham) in honor of Burns Day will organize the 22nd annual charity ball \"Burns Supper\" on January 26 at 18:00 in the hotel Radisson Blu Daugava.\nBurns Supper is a festive event full of traditions, which is organised according to a special program and is celebrated by Scots all over the world. Event scenario has remained unchanged for 250 years. Accompanied with the music of Scottish bagpipes, guests will be invited to a dinner, during which in the jolly atmosphere will be read Burns\u2019s poetry and said Scottish humor and irony permeated speeches. The culmination of the event is a traditional Scottish dish - haggis - procession and degustation. The event is open to anyone interested, more information about participation opportunities can be obtained by contacting BritCham.\nBurns Supper is traditionally designed as a charity event where cultural and entertaining activities are interspersed with donations for BritCham\u2019s Charity Fund selected projects or organizations. Charity funds are collected from both the ticket fee and the revenue produced by the lottery and donations collected during the evening. The BritCham Charity Fund\u2019s prime focus is to support orphanages and crisis centres for children - youngsters from age 0 to 20 who have lost their parents or supporters, have suffered from physical and emotional violence in Latvia \u2013 especially those in the regions of Latvia which are financially distressed.\nAbout Burns Supper\nOn 21 July 1796, Robert Burns (1759-1796) died at the age of 37 and the world lost one of the greatest poets. At his death anniversary day Burns's friends gathered for the first holiday dinner to commemorate the poet's life and influence. Since then, Burns Supper has become a national festival and is celebrated at his birthday \u2013 on 25 January or in the nearest date. Robert Burns undoubtedly is one of the most significant personalities not only in Scottish culture, but also in the world. His poems had been translated in countless languages. In Latvia Burns's poetry had been translated by \u0112riks \u0100damsons, Ausma Aumale and others. R. Burns is the lyrics author of popular U.Stabulnieks's song \"Walking through the rye\u201d.\nInitially, the charity theme was not included in the poet's memorial dinner, but nowadays it has become an integral part of the event. 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Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Borie has restored it to greatness and preserved its spirit.\nGrand-Puy-Lacoste does not belong to a large corporation; it remains family-owned. Jean-Eug\u00e8ne Borie, who loved the M\u00e9doc and its vines, bought the property in 1978. He entrusted it to his eldest son, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier, who gradually renovated the ch\u00e2teau and its winemaking facilities. Today, his eldest daughter, Emeline, works at his side.\nSince the end of the 19th century\nA M\u00e9doc dynasty\nThe Borie name has long been associated with skilled winemaking of the highest quality.\nEug\u00e8ne and Emile Borie, the family's founders.\nThe story begins in the center of France, in the Limousin region. Eug\u00e8ne Borie (1862-1911) and his brother Emile (1865-1940), were born in the Correze town of Meymac. At the end of the 19th century the region was essentially rural and lacked a well-developed economy; ambitious and hard-working, Eug\u00e8ne and Emile saw greater opportunities in Bordeaux. There they created a n\u00e9gociant firm, which their wives managed from Meymac, whilst they travelled to find and develop their markets.\nIn 1886 they rented cellars in Pauillac and began specializing in shipping wine to Normandy, northern France and especially Belgium, while other Bordeaux n\u00e9gociants concentrated on the British market. The brothers' commercial acumen was rewarded as their reputation and prosperity grew.\nIn 1901, in an effort to guarantee higher quality, Eug\u00e8ne and Emile decided to build their own cellars and age their wines themselves. During this time they also bought Ch\u00e2teau Saint-Gemme, a Cru Bourgeois in Saint-Laurent, just southwest of Saint-Julien. With this step the two brothers became winemakers in the M\u00e9doc, the terroir at the heart of the family business.\n\"Borie Fr\u00e8res\u201d, Francis Borie\nEug\u00e8ne Borie and his wife Annette had four children: Eug\u00e9nie, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Francis and Marcel. When Eug\u00e8ne died in 1911, his eldest son Francis (1890-1953), who had studied law in Bordeaux, went to work with his uncle Emile.\nHe was later joined by his brother Marcel (1892-1958), and together they created the firm of \"Borie Fr\u00e8res\u201d. The two brothers enlisted at the start of the First World War and suspended their business activities. Upon their return from the front Francis and Marcel further committed to winemaking with the purchase of Ch\u00e2teau Batailley, a fifth-classed growth in Pauillac.\nOn June 8, 1920 Francis married Marguerite Borderie, from another family of Correzien n\u00e9gociants. She owned Ch\u00e2teau Bel-Air in Quinsac, northeast of Bordeaux, and together they had two children, Jean-Eug\u00e8ne and Fran\u00e7oise.\nNow firmly anchored in the world of M\u00e9doc winemaking, Borie Fr\u00e8res prospered. In 1939 Francis and Marcel decided to spilt the business in two: each brother formed his own company and each took one-half of Ch\u00e2teau Batailley. Francis' part became Ch\u00e2teau Haut-Batailley, which today belongs to his daughter Fran\u00e7oise Des Brest Borie and is managed by Domaines Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Borie. Two years later Francis bought Ch\u00e2teau Ducru-Beaucaillou, a second growth in the 1855 classification. He fell in love with the property, deciding to live there and give it his complete attention.\nDucru-Beaucaillou fully benefitted from Francis Borie's commitment to excellence and his ability to achieve it. His son Jean-Eug\u00e8ne worked at his side with an equal passion, and took over the estate after Francis' death in 1953. In 1950, Jean-Eug\u00e8ne Borie married Monique Rochette and had three children: Sabine, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier and Bruno.\nThe family's history took a decisive turn in 1978 when the owner of Grand-Puy-Lacoste \"chose\u201d Jean-Eug\u00e8ne to buy the property. After acquiring the estate he turned to his son Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier to manage it; his challenge was to awaken this \"sleeping beauty\u201d.\nFran\u00e7ois-Xavier and Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Borie\nFrom the time of their marriage in 1979, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier and Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Borie decided to live in the ch\u00e2teau. Together, they undertook the major work of renovating the production buildings as well as the residence, seeking to give full expression to their vision of quality and their approach to life on this remarkable terroir.\nFran\u00e7ois-Xavier supervised the renovation of the operational side of the property taking into account priorities, such as the renovation of the vat house, nothing was taken as a given and no detail was too small. Work continued nonstop to achieve greater control over every element of the winemaking. Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne turned to the chateau's renovation: practically uninhabited since the 1930s, she gave the residence its elegant and welcoming style. Outbuildings were also completely renovated to provide accommodation for the grape-pickers during harvest time. The couple's love of nature also led them to develop the parks and woodlands around the ch\u00e2teau to create a serene and harmonious environment.\nOver time, the ch\u00e2teau became a true family home, with its traditions and celebrations, and ceremonies in its chapel. Emeline (1982), Laurence (1983) and Pierre-Antoine (1986) were born here, grew up at the property, attended school in Pauillac, and participated in the village's daily life. As adults, when studies and careers carried them far from home, they were always delighted to return to Grand-Puy-Lacoste.\nToday, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier and Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne's eldest daughter Emeline is in charge of communication and public relations at Grand-Puy-Lacoste. She travelled widely as a student and received valuable international experience during two years with an importer of wines in Vietnam.\nSo far three generations of Bories have shared their destiny with that of Grand-Puy-Lacoste. 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This is one of the highlights of my fandom calendar, so please check it out and join in the summergen fun \u2665\nSign-ups May 1 \u2013 May 19 - Click the banner for details!\nTags: playtime, summergen\nmarciaelena on May 17th, 2018 03:46 pm (UTC)\nHey! Good to see you posting something. I heard about your car accident and I've been worried, I hope you've been getting better. Lots of love. <3\nThank you - you're so sweet. I'm still bruised and sore but I'm healing and back to work now which is good.\nI'm so far behind with LJ and show though, and I can't believe I nearly missed out on summergen!!! I'm not sure I'll be able to catch up either, so I hope I haven't missed anything else \u2665\nI'm glad you didn't miss Summergen. I'm playing for the first time this year and I'm excited about it.\nYou'll catch up with show and everything else, don't worry about it. Just be careful to stay away from spoilers, as the finale is airing tonight.\nThat's so exciting!!! I hope you enjoy the experience. It's one of favs and there's always a treasure trove of fanworks created too.\nI know spoilers, spoilers everywhere! I went on Instagram this morning and I'm pretty sure a saw something. But I'm going to Marathon the last 3 eps all in one go.x\ntifaching on May 18th, 2018 10:19 am (UTC)\nMe too! I'm going to sit down this morning and bang out some prompts. My fandom activity has been practically non-existent but I do miss it and I don't want to miss Summergen. Glad you got some prompts in and someone will get a story fron you too!\nYay!!! I can't believe I almost missed it!!! I've recyled some old prompts,just need to get everything copy/pasted into the form. Yay for summergen and I'm thrilled you're joining in too :)\namberdreams on May 20th, 2018 06:25 am (UTC)\nI've missed you hanging around here, it'll be good to have you back!\nfridayblues on May 19th, 2018 04:06 pm (UTC)\nI signed up in time! Phewwwwww\n\\o/ That's wonderful news!!! Wouldn't it be awesome if we got each other for assignments!?! One day we must do something together.\nyay for summergen and getting back into the swing of things! *smooches you gently*\nI mean, I couldn't miss summergen now could I?! But I'm so behind on everything else and I still haven't watched the last 3 eps *hugs you hard, bruises are fading now*\namberdreams on May 21st, 2018 08:31 pm (UTC)\nGlad to hear it! (The fading bruises - not the being behind, a feeling I know well!)\nmadebyme_x on May 22nd, 2018 12:38 pm (UTC)\nI know, I don't think there's any way to catch up either!!! Or if there is, let me in on your secret!!!\namberdreams on May 22nd, 2018 12:46 pm (UTC)\nI think it can only be done with a time machine!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madmuslims.com/2017/12/07/al-shabab-issues-statement-following-trump-declaration-on-jerusalem-we-urge-all-muslims-to-take-up-arms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RQXSW5FJP7YARHA63TN2XLEE7EI3NXJJ", "length": 432, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "madmuslims.com", "title": "Al-Shabab Issues Statement Following Trump Declaration On Jerusalem: \u2018 We Urge All Muslims To Take Up Arms\u2019 | Mad Muslims", "raw_content": "Al-Shabab Issues Statement Following Trump Declaration On Jerusalem: \u2018 We Urge All Muslims To Take Up Arms\u2019\nPosted on December 7, 2017 by bens_52002\nOn December 6, 2017, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem (Al-Quds in Arabic) as the capital of Israel, the spokesman of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, Ali Dhiri, issued a statement to its news agency Shahada News c...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 196.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madmyst.blogspot.com/p/q1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:EPXKIMPLOQVMW4U7ZSVLBPQXELKINSPG", "length": 23314, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "madmyst.blogspot.com", "title": "Madeleine etc .: 08 - SEP 03 - Sondage Focus magazine", "raw_content": "Ce sondage international indique clairement que la majorit\u00e9 des gens consid\u00e8rent que les MC sont responsables de la disparition de leur fille. N\u00e9anmoins, cette responsabilit\u00e9 est principalement associ\u00e9e \u00e0 la n\u00e9gligence, pour ce qui est du public britannique.\nMaddie McCann case: International poll by Focus\nThe first international poll about the Maddie case, done by Focus, reveals that both Portuguese and British are certain that Kate and Gerry McCann are guilty over their daughter's disappearance. Concerning the little girl's destiny, the numbers are even colder: She is dead.\nThe number is crushing: more than two thirds of the British and the Portuguese population blame the McCann couple for the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, aged three, on the 3rd of May 2008 [sic], from an apartment in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve. An opinion poll that was commended to Eurosondagem by Portuguese Focus, and carried out in Portugal, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland leaves no margin for doubts. Despite the behavioural and cultural differences, the majority of populations replies affirmatively to two of the most direct questions of this inedited poll.\nNevertheless, when the numbers are evaluated according to nationalities, it becomes clear that in Portugal the blame that is popularly attributed to the McCanns rises to 77.5 percent. This means that only 22% of the population still believes that the Scottish couple has no responsibility in the disappearance of their eldest daughter.\nThe British, on the other hand, are divided, although the majority agrees with the Portuguese. The majority, 44.6 percent, states without a doubt that doctors Kate and Gerry are guilty over the disappearance of little Maddie.\nThe first question of the poll is unequivocal. In both countries, all the persons say that they know what happened on the 3rd of May. This means that it is not necessary to explain the McCann couple\u2019s drama to anyone. Everyone, really everyone knows.\nWhat divides the Portuguese and the British is the belief in Maddie's destiny. While in Portugal it is believed that the child is dead, far away there is a hope that she is well. The abduction theory collects the sympathy of 72.9 percent of the British, against only 11 percent that sustain the death theory. But it is significant that 15 percent of the British wish to reply \"I don\u2019t know\" to the question concerning the cause of the disappearance.\nQ1. Did you hear about the disappearance of an English child, on holidays in the Algarve, during the summer of 2007?\nPortugal Yes: 100%\nUnited Kingdom Yes: 100%\nYes: 100%*\nThe disappearance of Madeleine McCann is the most covered event by the entire media in 2007 and 2008. There is no disaster, no attack or political subject that surpasses the media treatment that was given to the case of the little British girl in the media. As an example, there are one and a half million internet pages that are dedicated to the disappearance of the little British child. Sky News, an English television station, broadcast more than one thousand hours, dedicated to the case. In the four Portuguese channels, the number attains almost three thousand hours, with news, debates and special programmes. All the national newspapers, both in Portugal and in the UK, placed the case on their front cover hundreds of times. During the first few days, no element of the media in the whole world ignored the case, with news being published from Germany to Zimbabwe. It is even more interesting to know that for the same news item, like the possible sighting of the girl in Amsterdam, there are 1553 different texts in English, ranging from the BBC to the Public Australian Radio.\nMore than news, there are already four books about the Madeleine case, three essays and one work of fiction, which together sold, and only in Portugal, almost 200 thousand copies. The champion of sales is the book by Gon\u00e7alo Amaral, the policeman who coordinated the investigation of the case during the first few months and who is now retired from the Pol\u00edcia Judici\u00e1ria. Due to him, editor Guerra e Paz has already sold more than 140 thousand books and prepares editions in Spain and in the United Kingdom.\nNo: 0%*\nNews became a soap opera\nSeveral voices were raised against the apparatus that surrounded the case's coverage. If Kelvin MacKenzie, an editor with 'The Sun', classified the news piece as the story of a lifetime, others underlined the danger of turning Maddie's disappearance into a pure soap opera. Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC correspondent and presently the McCann couple's spokesman, has issued hard criticism against the media coverage, classifying it as \"soft\" and unprofessional.\nQ2. Do you consider Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, guilty over their daughter's disappearance?\nPortugal Yes: 77.5%\nDon\u2019t know/No reply: 0.2%\nUnited Kingdom Yes: 44.6%\nDon\u2019t know/No reply: 17%\nYes: 61%*\nMcCanns guilty\nThe fact that they left three children alone in an apartment in a foreign location leads to most replies to this question being affirmative. Here, what is asked is whether or not Madeleine's parents could have avoided the disappearance, if they were in their children's company. Much was speculated about the possibility of the couple being accused of neglecting the children's guard, while they were still in Portugal. Gon\u00e7alo Amaral, the man who conducted the case investigation during the first few months, sustains in a statement to Focus that there is an indicium that the parents did not take care of their three children. \"But the Public Ministry did not consider the possibility of accusing them over that issue\", the inspector says.\nThe law foresees that the couple can still be held responsible over abandonment or mistreatment, according to article 152, number 1, item a) of the Penal Code of 95, and presently according to article 152-A, item a) of the Penal Code in the redaction that was introduced by Law nr. 59/2007, of 04/09. But for that to be true, facts that are not sufficiently sustained by indicia or evidence would have to be proved, according to the Public Ministry. So it is common sense that prevails over this answer, given the fact that for the Latin culture, leaving children alone at home is something that completely contradicts a custom of permanent surveillance over children. The British accept this type of behaviour more easily, and give their children more freedom, leading to the McCanns' behaviour being less penalised in the British poll.\nNo: 30%*\nThey are not guilty\nIf it is true that little Maddie disappeared from the room where she was sleeping with her siblings and without the supervision of an adult, it is also true, if the testimonies from the couple, from their friends and even from the employees of the Tapas Bar, the restaurant where they had dinner, are to be believed, that a system had been set into place that ensured checking on the children every ten minutes. Kate, Gerry and Matt were only some of the adults that went to the apartment on the night that the little girl disappeared, to verify that everything was quiet.\nQ3. Do you think that Maddie was abducted?\nDon\u2019t know/No reply: 15.8%\nShe was abducted\nThe British continue to believe that Maddie was abducted and is missing. The Portuguese, on the other hand, believe that the little girl is dead. The abduction theory is sustained on several testimonies, like that from the couple's friend, Jane Taylor [sic], who asserts that she saw a man on the street that led to the McCanns' apartment, only a few minutes after the consensual hour at which Maddie supposedly disappeared. There is also the issue of the window to the three siblings' bedroom. It was supposedly closed until Kate made her last visit to the bedroom \u2013 when the mother noticed her daughter's disappearance. Another important testimony in the process comes from an Irish couple that asserts they saw, on the same night, a man carrying a child on the same street where the McCanns' apartment is located. But this couple, apart from assuring \"to 80 percent\" that the man was Gerry McCann carrying a child, also places his march in the contrary direction of Jane Taylor's [sic]. Summarising: There are two more or less credible, but contradictory statements about a man carrying a child in his arms on the night of the 3rd of May, in Praia da Luz. Apart from this point, the Pol\u00edcia Judici\u00e1ria and the media received hundreds of testimonies about sightings of Madeleine at various points of the planet. More: Scotland Yard, the British investigation police, even sent information to Portugal about the possibility of Maddie being involved in an abduction by a Belgian paedophile network.\nShe was not abducted\nThe dogs that specialise in finding cadaver and blood odour found both in the McCanns' holiday apartment and a vehicle that was rented by them, two weeks after their daughter's disappearance. The collected blood, according to analyses that were carried out both in England and in Portugal, belongs to one of the McCanns' children, although only 14 out of 19 alleles are detected. But it is also certain that it does not belong to any of the younger twin siblings. Therefore, those who sustain the death theory, defend that if it belongs to one of the children, but not to the twins, and if the couple has no other children, then the blood belongs to Madeleine. There is also the cadaver odour and the fluids that were found in a rental car, which supposedly belong to Maddie. If DNA that could belong to the little girl is present in a car that was rented days after her disappearance, there are indicia that she may have been transported inside it. But once more, the scientific police was not able to obtain evidence.\nQ4. Do you think the child is alive or dead?\nPortugal Alive: 12.2%\nDead: 77.0%\nUnited Kingdom Alive: 36.7%\nYes: 24.5%*\nThose who believe that Madeleine is still alive are a small minority, both in Portugal and in England. The police knows that, even if the little girl was abducted, the possibilities of remaining alive one and a half year after her disappearance are few. Kate McCann said, weeks ago, in despair: \"I'd rather know that she is dead than to remain in this uncertainty\", the mother said. The cases where a missing person that attained such a high media exposure remains alive are rare. The case of Mari Luz, the Spanish girl that disappeared after Maddie, ended badly because her abductor killed her in fear of the media pressure. The cases of missing children have rare happy endings, but it is still possible that Maddie was delivered to a paedophile network for sexual slavery \u2013 and due to the fact that she is blond with greenish eyes, she has a higher \"market value\" \u2013 or even that Maddie was kidnapped and kept as a hostage to this day. The best known case of a hostage that survived captivity is that of Natalia Kampush, the young Austrian who was kept imprisoned in a basement for 14 years.\nDead: Out of the three main theories that were joined in the investigation \u2013 abduction, homicide and voluntary disappearance \u2013 none leaves major opportunities for Madeleine McCann to remain alive. The first one, which is explained above in greater detail, leads to any abductor, due to the girl's media exposure, wanting to get rid of the most searched child in the world. The homicide theory contains the solution in itself: If Maddie was killed inside the apartment in Praia da Luz, there is no hope that she could resist. The third hypothesis, that the girl could have left the house on her own and fell off a ravine, into a hole or into the sea, leads to the belief that, one and a half year later, there is no possibility that the human body could survive such an ordeal. In one word, Maddie is dead.\nQ5. In your opinion, even if they were not directly involved in their daughter's death, do you think that Kate and Gerry are responsible for her death, or not?\nHere, the opinion is the same in both countries. Above all, there is an important piece of data: This question was only answered by those who previously considered that Maddie is dead. Gerry and Kate McCann are held responsible over their daughter's death even if they had nothing to do with that possible homicide. During the first few months, analysts like Francisco Moita Flores or Barra da Costa underlined the \"cold\" behaviour of the parents, mainly of the little girl's mother. Gon\u00e7alo Amaral, on the other hand, pointed at the \"atypical\" behaviour of the couple. The PJ inspector says that the mother, after noticing her daughter's disappearance, abandoned the twins in the bedroom and ran to the restaurant where her husband was. If Maddie had disappeared, Gon\u00e7alo Amaral questions, wouldn't it be logical to at least protect the twins, phoning her husband and, above all, not leaving them alone?\nThere is more. The police was only called almost 40 minutes after the little girl's disappearance. If the phone call had been made earlier, the cited former policemen say, the case might have taken another direction. Another aspect of the guilt that is pointed at the McCanns is the \"contamination\" of the crime scene: the apartment where they spent their holidays. At the moment when they noticed Maddie's absence, all the friends went to the location, mixing fingerprints, footprints and DNA traces with those of the possible abductor. This means: Apart from leaving the child to death, the parents did not defend the crime scene, both Portuguese and British believe.\nNo: 20.5%*\nThey are not responsible\nContradicting the numbers, there is the simple fact that the disappearance of a child is something unusual and to which no father or mother is certainly prepared. It has been widely speculated that if Madeleine's parents were Portuguese, today they would be imprisoned over their behaviour. But there are some who believe that despite thinking that the child is dead, the parents are not responsible for the case. Namely: At the moment when the mother noticed the disappearance, she ran towards the restaurant, located only 50 metres as the crow flies, from the apartment, to call her husband in a moment of despair. All the testimonies coincide on the fact that Kate was very upset when she reached the restaurant. The friends immediately got up to attend to the situation and it is more than natural that they searched for the little girl, inside the apartment and in its surroundings, shouting out her name and even walking the streets, looking for her. The hard number of minutes that ranges from the discovery of the disappearance until the GNR was called may also be explained by the fact that the McCanns asked their friends to call the police from the resort's reception. Furthermore, the process that Focus was given access to reports that the receptionist first notified the resort's management before she dialed 112. The result: While the friends helped the couple to search for their daughter, the resort delayed calling the authorities.\nQ6. In your opinion, is the McCann couple hiding something?\nThey are hiding\nThe biggest doubt concerning the participation of the parents in the solution of the case resides in the 48 questions that Kate McCann, after being made an arguida in her daughter's disappearance, refused to answer. Therefore, the Portuguese majority says that the McCanns are hiding something. These replies do not allow concluding that the McCanns are hiding something that could lead to the discovery of truth about the case. Merely that the perception of the public is that the parents' behaviour is suspicious and that their media exposure, repeating the same message, asking everyone to do everything to find their daughter, while at the same time refusing to cooperate with the police, leaves the impression that they are withholding information. Kate McCann entered the Judici\u00e1ria in Portim\u00e3o as a witness, and after hours of questioning, the authorities decided to make her an arguida. At that point in time, being officially a suspect over the disappearance, Kate defended herself as the law permits. Another doubt that is left to those who answered 'yes' is the refusal to return to Portugal for a reconstitution of the evening of the crime, and the leaving of the Algarve on the morning after the couple was constituted arguidos, in a trip that contradicted what the couple had always stated: \"We will never leave Portugal until we find our little girl\".\nThey don't hide anything\nContrary to the Portuguese, the British do not believe that the McCann couple is hiding anything. The British press, which has always questioned the Portuguese police's methods, was quick to point out the failures of the investigation. More than the McCanns hiding something, what the British public opinion seems to believe in is that the right questions weren't asked. Therefore, when the McCanns are made arguidos, it is better for them to return home with their children, than to stay in Portugal, risking ending up in prison. It is also conceded that the presence of Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC journalist and then an aide to the British prime minister, as the McCanns' spokesman, contributed to raise their prestige with the population.\nQ7. Do you think that Madeleine's parents should be penalised or not?\nOnce again, the public opinion in both countries is divided. In Portugal, the clear notion is that the couple of doctors should be held responsible and penalised over losing a daughter. Maybe that was why the couple, understanding how important it would be to have a good defence in the Country, hired one of the most renowned lawyers, Rog\u00e9rio Alves, a former head of the Portuguese Bar. The punishment that is expressed in this reply does not specify a form, therefore the only thing that can be concluded is that the Portuguese would at least like to see the McCanns punished over the lack of attention that they gave their children. The law, as previously seen, both in Portugal and in England, foresees that leaving minor children unaccompanied may be a crime, although with very different penalties under both jurisdictions. But the McCann couple continues to fight for their image to pass in a clean manner to the public opinion. For once, the parents of an abducted child have also the onus of proving that they are not guilty over the disappearance, although no evidence was found and validated against them.\nNot penalised\nThe British public opinion considers that Maddie's parents should not pay for what happened. Far from the Latin behaviour of keeping one eye on the beach and the other eye on the child, the British generally accept easily that small children stay home asleep while they leave for moments. In the United Kingdom it is also common to educate the children under less pressure, allowing for individuals to become responsible earlier and less, in a popular language, \"mother's children\". Those who believe that the McCanns should not pay for what happened still believe that the couple is far from being guilty in the case, and even, according to the British press, that they were mistreated in Portugal. An article from prestigious 'The Times' should be referred, in which the newspaper stated that the couple has been ignored by the police and that they don't get replies whenever they asked them from the Portuguese authorities.\n* Indicative values of the average of replies, when summing the partials of both countries and dividing by two: POR + UK / 2 = Result.\nThe analysed universes are constituted by: Continental Portuguese population, from both sexes, of ages comprised between 18 and 64, residing in housing with a fixed network telephone; English population, from both sexes, of ages comprised between 18 and 64, residing in housing with a fixed network telephone. In both countries, the technique of telephone interview was used (CATI) with a structured questionnaire. The same questionnaire was used in both countries. 1221 interviews were carried out; 609 in Portugal and 612 in the United Kingdom. The interviews were distributed by sex and age in a proportional manner towards the universe. The collection of information on national territory was carried out between the 14th and the 17th of August 2008, having been secured by 22 interviewers that were selected and trained by Euroexpans\u00e3o. In the United Kingdom, the collection was carried out between the 20th and the 22nd of August 2008, with the cooperation of nine interviewers. The collection of information was controlled in two forms: direct control \u2013 accompaniment of the execution of the interviews; Telephonic supervision \u2013 new contact with the interviewees, in order to confer the execution of the interviews and the conditions under which it was performed.\nAmid fraudulent detectives, bombshell books being edited in London and new reports, the drama is far from over\nOver the last few weeks, the Madeleine case has seen new developments, although they are not as publicised as before. The case tires some of the public that wants to rest during the summer. But the truth is that during the summer, editors Guerra&Paz managed to sell the rights to Gon\u00e7alo Amaral\u2019s book, 'The Truth of the Lie', into Spain, and is close to sealing a deal for the United Kingdom. But this was not the only novelty. A group of private detectives that was working on the case, desisted, cashing in on almost 600 thousand euros without yielding any result from their work. Oakley International left without results.\nThe money came from the fund for the search of Maddie, which is increasingly slimmer. The case of the detectives that abandon the investigation is a film that the McCanns had already seen before, when the Spanish detectives from Metodo3 also kept their money and failed to produce any results.\nMeanwhile, Focus knows that during the first weeks of September, the couple's Portuguese lawyers are going to make a statement concerning the book by former inspector Gon\u00e7alo Amaral and announce which are the next steps that are to be made. On the other hand, Gon\u00e7alo Amaral is also waiting for September in order to decide whether he advances a process against the McCanns' spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, or writes a new book.\nMeanwhile, Focus was also able to establish that there are reports about the case, written by criminal scientists, that may shed a new light on the case, namely concerning the certification of the DNA that was found in the apartment where the McCanns spent their holidays in Portugal. Meanwhile, the case remains archived. When the judicial holidays are over, and if none of the parties requests the opening of the instruction phase, the reopening of the inquiry or of the process until then, the McCanns will definitely lose their arguido status. This is due to the fact that the Portuguese law foresees that, after the archiving, one of the interested persons may request the reopening of the process or the passing into the instruction phase, and in that case the former arguidos would recover their status. But it is unlikely that this will happen.\nThus the coming weeks will certainly bring news to the most media exposed disappearance of a child in the world, which took place on the 3rd of May 2007, in the Algarve, Portugal. Madeleine McCann, aged three. From that day onwards, with one single known destiny: missing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 692, "original_length": 44883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mail.phoenixdentistnearme.com/19-ave-location.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BJMWO7B22HCTDXCYIPXKT7VPLNYZRHSP", "length": 664, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mail.phoenixdentistnearme.com", "title": "Central Phoenix Dental Office | Dentistry For You | Phoenix, AZ", "raw_content": "Kristina Wilson, DMD\nDr. Kristina Wilson completed her undergraduate Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Arizona State University. Dr Wilson chose to stay in the Phoenix Area after her studies at Arizona State University and continued her studies locally at the presitigious Doctor of Dental Medicine Program from Midwestern University in Glendale, earning her DMD Degree.\nDr. Wilson is committed to every patient by striving to provide quality, comfortable dentistry and by being respectful and responsive to each individual\u2019s needs. When Dr. Wilson is away from the office, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son while swimming, hiking, and biking.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/lake-clark-national-park-ak/nature/mount-iliamna", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RPG3PJJ7S44QQX63UDMQCYKXPNQS2BDG", "length": 704, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "maps.roadtrippers.com", "title": "Mount Iliamna, Anchorage | Roadtrippers", "raw_content": "\u201cglaciated stratovolcano\u201d\nMount Iliamna is a glacier-covered stratovolcano located approximately 215 km (134 mi) southwest of Anchorage on the west side of lower Cook Inlet. Holocene eruptive activity from Iliamna is little known, but radiocarbon dating seems to indicate at least a few eruptions, all before the European settlement of Alaska. However, fumaroles located at about 2,740 m (8,990 ft) elevation on the eastern flank produce nearly constant plumes of condensate and minor amounts of sulfurous gases. These plumes are quite vigorous and have resulted in numerous pilot reports and early historical accounts of \"eruptions\" at Iliamna Volcano.\nBe the first to add a review to the Mount Iliamna.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 175.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marcellusdrilling.com/2018/06/green-oh-wont-allow-nov-6-vote-to-nix-nexus-pipeline-deal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XIGZBJXBPECX6ICJFW7UTDVI4SB25666", "length": 1636, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "marcellusdrilling.com", "title": "Green, OH Won't Allow Nov. 6 Vote to Nix NEXUS Pipeline Deal | | Marcellus Drilling News", "raw_content": "June 15, 2018 Energy Services, Industrywide Issues, NEXUS Pipeline, Ohio, Pipelines, Regulation, Summit County\nIn February the City of Green, OH (Summit County), finally faced the reality that NEXUS Pipeline\u2013a $2 billion, 255-mile interstate pipeline that will run from Ohio through Michigan and eventually to the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada\u2013will come through their paradise (see Antis of Green, OH Finally Face Reality \u2013 Will Allow NEXUS Pipe). Green hired a high-priced Cleveland law firm to try and scuttle the NEXUS project (see Green, OH Paying Lawyers $100K to Fund Stop NEXUS Crusade). In the end, everyone has their price. For Green, the price was $7.5 million and 20 acres of land that sit next to an existing city park. While Green antis in city government hate the idea of the pipeline getting built at all (especially Green\u2019s anti-pipeline mayor), the writing was on the wall. They would lose and they knew it. To save face, the mayor negotiated a deal with NEXUS that city council voted to accept. However, the mayor and city council\u2019s actions didn\u2019t sit well with some of the more radical elements in Green. The rads launched a petition campaign to put a referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot on whether or not the city should settle with NEXUS. The city says the signed settlement is an administrative action, not subject to a popular vote. The rads say otherwise. In a bold move, even though the rads have enough signatures to put the referendum on the ballot, the city has refused to allow the it to appear on the ballot. Which will surely send the radicals into orbit. It\u2019s shaping up to be a battle between left and lefter\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marckayetoday.wordpress.com/category/communication/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:49Z", "digest": "sha1:FCZADMUA7D44QR7TQT2UBKK4HMHPUWLL", "length": 3108, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "marckayetoday.wordpress.com", "title": "communication | Marc Kaye Today", "raw_content": "I Never Asked for the Anal Probe\nWell, if nothing else, I am guessing the title of today\u2019s blog post will at least peak your interest.\n\u201cI never asked for the anal probe\u201d is a line from a comedic scene from an older movie called Passion Fish. Honestly, I can\u2019t even recall what the movie was about (though I do recall Alfre Woodard in it) but I have always remembered this scene where, if I recall correctly, there was an actress (playing an actress) who was saying that she had only one line and she kept practicing it, emphasizing a different word each time:\nI didn\u2019t ask for the anal probe. (As if someone did, but it sure as hell wasn\u2019t me.)\nI DIDN\u2019T ask for the anal probe. (This one makes the most sense because well, yeah\u2026you get it.)\nI didn\u2019t ASK for the anal probe. (I just may have insinuated it a little.)\nI didn\u2019t ask FOR the anal probe. (I asked about the anal probe \u2013 there\u2019s a big difference dude!)\nI didn\u2019t ask for THE anal probe. (Because there isn\u2019t just one\u2026there\u2019s a variety as we all know.)\nI didn\u2019t ask for the ANAL probe. (I asked for the nasal probe, for example.)\nI didn\u2019t ask for the anal PROBE. (But I did ask for the anal\u2026well, never mind.)\nSo, \u201cMarc \u2013 what the hell is the point of all of this?\u201d you may ask. Great question.\nWell\u2026a couple of things. One \u2013 this is yet another example of my exemplary ability to retain incredibly useless facts that will, in no way every help me in a job nor in a hostage situation.\nTwo \u2013 words are incredibly important but how you emphasize words can mean everything. I have learned this the very, very, very hard way \u2013 being married\u2026and by being a comic. It has been a much easier lesson the latter.\nIt is such an easy thing to simply say to \u201cchoose your words\u201d wisely but it is so much more difficult to choose them and then think about how they are going to be received. Even more difficult is the fact that non-verbal communication has an even larger impact.\nYou may be familiar with the popular statistic that nonverbal communication accounts for 93% of all daily communication, commonly quoted in science and media outlets. Dr. Albert Mehrabian conducted several studies on nonverbal communication and found that 7% of any message is conveyed through words, 38% through certain vocal elements, and 55% through nonverbal elements (facial expressions, gestures, posture, etc). What?!!!\nThis reminds me of a time a couple of years ago when a high ranking person explained that even though I appropriately did not respond during a meeting, my face gave me away and I should \u201cwork on that\u201d. It\u2019s my face, yo!\nSo, next time you\u2019re taking the stand-up stage, giving a presentation, making your case to your significant other or faced with an alien abduction, remember \u2013 words and non-verbal cues can make all the difference between getting information or becoming part of the experience.\nTags: alfre woodard, aliens, anal probe, Comedy, communication, cues, emphasis, Freedom of expression, marriage, mehrabian, non-verbal communication, passion fish, stand-up, words\nCategories : Comedy, communication, marriage, non-verbal communication, stand-up", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 392, "original_length": 7922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marijuanacannabisdispensary.com/canadian-cannabis-corp-makes-historic-investment-in-jamaica/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6D5QIHMCEVJC2XZRW2ZRFIUQFGKY6YHO", "length": 998, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "marijuanacannabisdispensary.com", "title": "Canadian Cannabis Corp Makes Historic Investment in Jamaica - Nationwide Dispensaries", "raw_content": "\u00ab Almost three million Wisconsin voters to consider legalization questions on Election Day\nJoin MPP at the Second Annual Cannabis Law Institute September 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C. \u00bb\nCanadian Cannabis Corp Makes Historic Investment in Jamaica\nThe Jamaica Medical Cannabis Corporation Ltd. (JMCC), a Canadian-Jamaican medical cannabis exporter, signed an agreement to invest $2 million USD over ten years to identify analyze, and preserve Jamaica\u2019s indigenous cannabis strains.\n\u201cJMCC is fully committed to supporting the Jamaican medical cannabis industry every way we can and ensuring there are lasting benefits for the country and its people,\u201d said Diane Scott, JMCC\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. \u201cAs Jamaican medical cannabis grows in popularity, there is a real threat that the country\u2019s unique strains will be lost or irrevocably contaminated by hybridization, and it was important for us to be able to help to preserve what we believe are some of the best medical cannabis strains in the world.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mariners.splitseasontickets.com/home/refundPolicy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:09Z", "digest": "sha1:P6TCTOBWEWLBCTTN62NCJZ2WZTQOXOBM", "length": 854, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mariners.splitseasontickets.com", "title": "Refund Policy: Mariners SplitSeasonTickets", "raw_content": "SplitSeasonTickets, LLC provides services to professional sports and entertainment companies who, in turn, provide those services to their customers. Many of our services are free. Some of our services require fees for use.\nIf you feel you require a refund (e.g. problem with the service, the order was made by mistake, etc) you may request the refund by contacting us. We review all refund requests on a case-by-case basis and reserve the right to decline any refund for any reason.\nIf a refund is approved, depending upon how you made the original payment, your refund will be credited to your your credit/debit card.\nUnder almost any circumstances, we will not provide a refund after 7 days have passed from the order date.\nTo request a refund, or ask a question, please open a support case by clicking on the blue HELP button at the top of this page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marketingwit.com/how-to-market-product", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TURJDYVHWGXXZ2MHOJ7B7D4PKWC23S75", "length": 4011, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "marketingwit.com", "title": "7 Explicit Steps That Explain How to Market a Product", "raw_content": "7 Explicit Steps That Explain How to Market a Product\nMarketing is an art or a skill to promote your product. Here we will discuss the best marketing strategies for the same.\nMarketing is making available the new commodities, which would fulfill the demands of the customers. However, if you have invented something new and want to sell it, then that's where you have to use your marketing strategies and tactics. We often face difficulties in marketing because we lack good techniques.\nSince the main aim of every small or big organization is to be successful, well planned sales and marketing strategies can help organizations flourish.\nIt is essential to know and understand the commodity and the right ways in which it could be introduced in the market. Hence, it is important for an organization to do a thorough research on the market situation and the types of customers who are likely to buy the product.\nIf you have created a new item and want to sell it, then implementing the following marketing techniques will make the commodity a success. Let's take a close look at a few successful marketing techniques.\nSelling the commodity is a big task. Hence, an enterprise must conduct market research. Analyze the new trends, competitors, and needs of the customers while conducting this research. This will help you to market your product better.\nPricing strategies for the product must be ready before bringing the goods into the market. After a careful market research and analysis, set up a decent price, which would be convenient for the buyer and the seller.\nA firm must try to reach out to the maximum number of buyers and make a good profit.\nThis a good tool to promote your commodity. Advertising becomes much better if the brand of the product is recognized by the masses, as it will create an identity for the commodity. It is a form of communication where one can convince the targeted customers to purchase a commodity. One can use mediums like the Internet or the tele-media for the same.\nThese days, advertising on Internet proves beneficial for marketing. It helps in making goods popular, and can attract many potential customers for an organization.\nAnalyzing the Customers\nSuccess or failure of a commodity lies in the hands of the common man. A firm must know as to whom they must target before selling their goods.\nThere are many types of customers and it is important to know their tastes, likes, and dislikes. This will help the firm to determine as to how the commodity must be sold.\nReaching Out to the Retailers\nThis is another way through which an organization can establish their commodities. Create enough awareness among the retailers and try to convince them to buy your goods. Retailers can prove to be of great help as they act like a link between the customers and the organizations.\nPackaging is the first attribute of the commodity that creates an impression on the customers. Packaging should be attractive so that the customer feels like buying the product.\nMaintaining and Managing Quality\nOnce the commodity is in the market, the next step is to maintain its quality. It is important for the seller to make sure that the product is meeting the requirement of the buyer and must work towards maintaining its quality.\nUsually, buyers tend to compare the commodity across different brands, hence, it becomes necessary to keep a check on quality. Higher the quality, higher the sales.\nMarketing plays an important role in selling goods. If the organizations have to meet the demands of the ever-increasing wants, they need to possess creative marketing ideas. Market research, advertising, and packaging are the tools for maximizing profits and gaining sales.\nWe can conclude that marketing is not only introducing the commodity but also maintaining the quality of the same. Every enterprise which introduces a new commodity must keep a check on the new market trends and keep improving their goods. It should be the aim of every firm to serve the best to their clients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Rotation.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:V4SKRI2VWQITIFQOVCBTPQJO4FVFGW6O", "length": 3010, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "martinfowler.com", "title": "Rotation", "raw_content": "We practice rotation in lots of ways. One of the most notable is rotating around countries. We've put in a deliberate program to encourage people to spend 6-18 months in a different country. Living a good length of time in a different country does a huge amount to widen people's perspective of the world. I've benefitted personally from living both in the UK and USA, even though they are very similar cultures. This mental expansion is even greater for those that spend time in somewhere like India, where the cultural differences are greater.\nGeographic rotation presents lots of challanges, particular for older people with familes. One of the things we need to figure out is how to make geographic rotation easier for people, so more people do it. Already there's a notion growing that to prosper in the company you need to spend a spell or two in a foreign office. But I wouldn't want this to be compulsory, because there often are genuine reasons why people can't do it.\nMy sense is that geographic rotation will be one of our key techniques to avoid the company dividing into national fiefs. We are very much of the lean belief that local optimization often gets in the way of global performance. So we need people to think of the company's success as a whole rather than the success of the office they work for.\nAs well as geographic rotation, we're also increasingly pushing project rotation. Time and time again I've listened to project teams talk about how bringing in new people with fresh ideas has invigorated the team. For those who rotate, there's also the benefit of more varied work.\nOne of the biggest difficulties in project rotation is that clients often don't like to lose known able people and get someone new and unproven. I quite understand this. With most consulting companies I would argue hard against allowing the consulting company to rotate - my mantra was \"pick the people not the company\". I came to this view when working for a Big 8 (as it was in those days) consultancy. The typical tactic was to send in a strong team for the proposal and then swap them out with a distinctly inferior team once the contracts were signed. (In one case a project manager was sold to a client when the company already had that PM allocated to another project in another continent. What's worse they pretended to the client that the PM was still working on the project even when he was thousands of miles away. Oddly they were suprised when the client was annoyed.) One of ThoughtWorks's difference is that there's no second rate team - but it takes time to clients to learn that this isn't just a marketing slogan.\nProject rotation is particularly vital to help in propagation of techniques and skills. It's long been my view that knowledge management and reuse are primarily human issues - not a matter to technology or process. Rotation is a practice which we've seen to promote knowledge transfer and reuse, and I think its efficacy is due to the fact that it addresses the human element.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maryknollogc.org/article/journey-hope-advent-guide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ERNHUBMUQFOIMSSTAHRL7CE6U7WAHGVP", "length": 3547, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "maryknollogc.org", "title": "Journey of Hope Advent Guide | Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns", "raw_content": "Sunday, December 2 marks the beginning of the Season of Advent. It is a time of hope and yearning for peace, as we anticipate the coming of Christ into our troubled history. It is a time, also, of joy and love, as we remember the birth of Jesus at Christmas.\nPray with the Journey of Hope Advent Guide\nThis prayer companion for the lighting of the Advent wreath in preparation for the Synod on the Amazon in 2019 is produced by members of the Inter-religious Working Group on Extractive Industries in Washington, D.C.\nEach week the guide offers some of the Scripture readings for that week of Advent, an excerpt from the preparatory document for the Synod on the Amazon released by the Vatican and a closing prayer.\nThis year, we take this journey as the worldwide Catholic Church prepares for next year\u2019s Synod on the Amazon that seeks to examine and reimagine the Church\u2019s way of being present in the Amazon and how to accompany and stand in solidarity with indigenous and campesino communities in the region that face many threats to their people, environment and way of life. Those of us concerned about the impacts of extractive industries on humanity and our common home also commemorate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948).\nListen to the peoples of Amazonia\nDuring this Season of Advent, the members of the Inter-religious Working Group on Extractive Industries invite you to join us on this journey of hope, particularly as we are attentive to the challenges that indigenous communities and environmental human rights defenders face throughout the world, including in the Amazon region of South America. They are the \u201cfirst responders\u201d and \u201cprotectors of creation,\u201d like John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness, and for their courageous defense of their ancestral lands, waters and territories, they have been the targets of repression by international mining companies and governments eager to make a profit.\n\u201cToday the cry of the Amazonia to the Creator is similar to the cry of God\u2019s People in Egypt,\u201d according to the Synod preparatory document released by the Vatican.\n\u201cIt is a cry of slavery and abandonment, which clamors for freedom and God\u2019s care. It is a cry that yearns for the presence of God, especially when the Amazonian peoples, in order to defend their lands, stumble upon the criminalization of protest \u2013 both by the authorities and public opinion \u2013 or when they witness the destruction of the rainforest, which serves as their ancient habitat; or when the waters of their rivers are filled with deadly substances instead of life.\u201d\nThe significance of this Pan-Amazonian Synod extends beyond the Amazon region and has implications for the whole Church and all people concerned about the future of our planet. We hear and see the suffering due to an extractive model of development in many parts of the world including the Congo Basin, the biological corridor of Central America, the tropical forest of Asia in the Pacific, and the Guarani water system.\nThis Pan-Amazonian Synod asks each of us to consider: How can we move away from an economy of exclusion and help answer the call in Laudato Si\u2019 to build an integral ecology?\nThe Season of Advent reminds us that, even amidst this reality, we are people of hope, and we worship a God of hope.\nIn that spirit, we invite you each week to reflect on an excerpt from the Sunday readings and an excerpt from the preparatory document for the Amazon synod, and then light the appropriate candle(s) while offering a simple prayer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://members.youngmarines.com/inthenews/122", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7GK6Q7J3ZBHGN6J6BTQUS4XTGNNEUGV4", "length": 2311, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "members.youngmarines.com", "title": "Good Evening: Guest", "raw_content": "Ten youth members of the Young Marines traveled to Guam and Iwo Jima for the annual \u201cReunion of Honor\u201d which took place Saturday, March 24, 2018.\nThe year 2018 is the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima and the 74th for Guam. Each year, American and Japanese veterans come together for remembrances of their fallen brothers and to recall the fierce battles that took place on the two islands during World War II.\n\u201cEvery Young Marine who makes this annual trip treasures the experience,\u201d said Col William P. Davis USMC (Ret), national executive director and CEO of the Young Marines. \u201cThey learned history from those who made history. Truly it was a once-in-a-lifetime event.\u201d\nThe island of Iwo Jima is open just one day a year - for the Reunion of Honor. Young Marines, veterans, and families gathered near the landing beaches to conduct the memorial service at the Anniversary Monument. The service, conducted by dignitaries and veterans of the United States and Japan, remember and memorialize the young men who gave their lives during the savage campaign for the island.\nIn addition, the Young Marines visit Mt. Suribachi and the scene of the famed flag raising captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 1945. The Young Marines also walked on the Black Sands of the landing beaches.\nAbout Iwo Jima\nIwo Jima, 750 miles south of Tokyo, is the middle island of the three tiny specks of the Volcano Islands. Five miles long, the island is honeycombed with volcanic vents. In addition, there are hundreds of natural caves, deep sulphur-exuding tunnels and steep gulleys across the surface. Ragged sea cliffs surround the island. Only to the south is there level sand, but it is shifting black pumice dust making the beaches like quicksand and making it impossible to dig a fox-hole.\nThe island was riddled with pillboxes, gun-pits, trenches and mortar sites. A three-day naval bombardment on February 16, 1945, was intended to rid the island of much of its defense. Unfortunately, the bombardment had minimal effect.\nA 36-day assault resulted in an American victory but at great cost. There were more than 26,000 American casualties including 6,800 dead. Of the 20,000 Japanese defenders, only 1,083 survived. The Marines' efforts, however, provided a vital link in the U.S. chain of bomber bases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mepospower.com/index.php/about-us/k2-portfolio/itemlist/category/70-r", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:50Z", "digest": "sha1:O6QF2ZCFF5JMJEC54C3ODLUYDS2GOPX7", "length": 2782, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mepospower.com", "title": "R - MEPOS ELECTRONICS", "raw_content": "RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is a technology through which several physical storage disks are grouped into an array that appears to an operating system as one or more physical devices. RAID technology, when applied to storage disks, allows the RAID array drives to be configured into a variety of data configurations, which provide varying levels of data integrity protection and storage capacity.\nRated Output Current The maximum load current that a power supply can provide at a specified ambient temperature.\nRegulation The ability of a power supply to maintain an output voltage within a specified tolerance as referenced to changing conditions of input voltage and/or load.\nRegulation Band The total error band allowable for an output voltage. This includes the effects of all of the types of regulation: line, load, and cross.\nReinforced Insulation An improved basic insulation with such mechanical and electrical properties that, in itself, the insulation provides the same degree of protection against electrical shock as double insulation. 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RMS is also called the effective value.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mercurypress.photoshelter.com/image/I0000sbIswM60bMQ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:URCUJKI4ROFCIUUXLUQE2Q2XD2WKF3SV", "length": 422, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mercurypress.photoshelter.com", "title": "IsaacHH-100527-9985.jpg | Mercury Press / Isaac Hernandez", "raw_content": "Dana Robbins Schneider, Sustainability Services (Northeast Maket Lead) Jones Lang Lasalle Company, at the model office made with cradle-to-cradle philosophy in the Empire State Building, New York, NY. May 27, 2010. The building is being retrofitted with new windows and other technology to reduce energy consumption by 40%. Photo: \u00a92010 Isaac Hernandez/IsaacHernandez.com, All Rights Reserved.\nDana Robbins Schneider woman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metamole.myportfolio.com/contact-me", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:B5RALRKVLOWG74FK6AHJIVZ5TJDCCBRZ", "length": 350, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "metamole.myportfolio.com", "title": "Life through a lens - Contact Me", "raw_content": "I hope that you have enjoyed viewing my photographs. I certainly enjoyed making them :-). If you'd like to leave me feedback, please do so either by posting a comment on my 500px or Behance portfolio sites.\nAlternatively, you can send me a message directly using the form below.\nThank you for taking the time to send me feedback. Have a great day :-)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2013/08/05/ben-ryan-to-step-down-as-england-rugby-sevens-coach-3912119/?ito=article.desktop.share.top.link", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VCESUC7RPJBRNX3C27PGHAQ22CNJJSK5", "length": 2142, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "metro.co.uk", "title": "Ben Ryan to step down as England rugby sevens coach | Metro News", "raw_content": "Ben Ryan to step down as England rugby sevens coach\nRichard Hookham for MetroMonday 5 Aug 2013 2:11 pm\nMoving on: Ben Ryan is leaving his position as England sevens coach (Picture: Getty Images)\nBen Ryan is to stand down as England Sevens head coach after six years in the post.\nRyan led the side at 56 HSBC Sevens World Series tournaments, winning five titles and seeing England to third at this year\u2019s World Cup.\nThe 41-year-old will help the Rugby Football Union find his successor during the build-up to the HSBC Sevens World Series, which begins in Australia this October.\nEngland will also need a new assistant coach as Russell Earnshaw is leaving to take up a teaching career in Economics at Eastbourne College next month.\n\u2018I\u2019ve loved working as England Sevens head coach and enjoyed every minute in a time of dramatic change for the sport and the squad,\u2019 Ryan told the official RFU website.\nMORE: England have no fear for World Cup, says Ryan\n\u2018In 2007 I met one player for the first time at the airport heading for a tournament; six years later we have a full-time England squad operating to the highest professional standards.\n\u2018We\u2019ve been the leading northern hemisphere side throughout that period and we\u2019ve recorded some great tournament victories \u2013 including eight individual wins over New Zealand \u2013 as well as reaching a World Cup final for the first time in 20 years.\n\u2018Eleven of our players have gone on to play for England at senior level in that time.\n\u2018As a coach your goal is always to leave something in better shape to pass on to the next generation and I believe that\u2019s been achieved.\u2019\nEngland coach Stuart Lancaster believes Ryan will go on to achieve plenty more in the game.\n\u2018Ben\u2019s made a major impact on and off the field in developing our sevens programme and making sure the team achieves high standards in international competition,\u2019 he said.\n\u2018He\u2019s a first-class coach who has helped his players fulfil their potential and many of them have benefited from his guidance on the way to senior international honours.\n\u2018I\u2019m sure he will go on to achieve more great things and wish him all the best for his future career.\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mha-uk.co.uk/tag/construction-real-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2OBLFEIXSWWEOA6V7ZK5Z4MRZHBWENZN", "length": 18406, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "mha-uk.co.uk", "title": "Construction & Real Estate Archives - MHA", "raw_content": "Tag: Construction & Real Estate\nMaking Tax Digital for Landlords\nPosted on January 12, 2017 February 8, 2017 by mhauk\nMuch has been said about HM Revenue & Customs\u2019 (HMRC) plans to bring the way they collect tax information up to date by embracing technology. The changes, referred to as Making Tax Digital, are being billed by HMRC as a \u201cdigital revolution\u201d that will \u201ctransform the experience of millions of taxpayers\u201d.\nThe changes will come into force for many from April 2018, and those affected should be taking action now. The difficulty is that HMRC have yet to announce exactly what will be required under the new regime.\nWhat HMRC have been doing is consulting with taxpayers and the accounting industry on how Making Tax Digital will operate. We have engaged in this process by responding to the HMRC consultations, which raised over 100 questions on the subject.\nOne thing that has become clear from this process is that landlords in particular will need to be prepared for big changes.\nFor years, HMRC have been telling landlords that the letting of property does not qualify as a \u201cbusiness\u201d, thereby preventing them from claiming certain types of tax reliefs. For the purposes of Making Tax Digital however, not only will owning a rental property be seen as a \u201cbusiness\u201d, but it will most likely place landlords among the first people required to comply with the new rules.\nThis will come as a surprise to many, particularly those who let their property through an agent and have little involvement in the day-to-day management.\nSpecialist software may also be required to make submissions and purchasing this may be an unjustifiable expense for those with smaller lettings. Free software may become available nearer the time.\nThese points formed a part of our substantial response to HMRC and we hope they take on board the message we, and the industry as a whole, have made.\nIf you have any concerns or would like to discuss any of the issues raised in more detail, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147 to be put in contact with a member of our Construction & Real Estate team.\nThis article originally appeared on the blog of our member firm, Larking Gowen.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Making Tax Digital for Landlords\nATED \u2013 The 1 April 2017 Property Revaluation is Coming Up\nPosted on January 12, 2017 January 12, 2017 by mhauk\nThe Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) was introduced by the Finance Act 2013. The ATED is an annual charge, which was originally applied to residential properties with a market value in excess of \u00a32m on 1 April 2012 (or date acquired if later), that was held by a company, collective investment scheme, or partnership where at least one of the partners is a company or collective investment scheme. Since its introduction we have seen the limit drop, reaching its current level of \u00a3500,000 on 1 April 2016.\nWhile there are a number of reliefs that eliminate the ATED charge, such as where the property is exploited as part of a property rental business or properties held for charitable purposes, those that do not qualify for a relief or have been exempt from ATED on the grounds that the property was of low value, may need to concern themselves with the revaluation due to take place on 1 April 2017.\nTo date, the value of the interest in the property which is taken into account is generally its market value at the later of 1 April 2012 and the date on which the owner acquired the interest. However, the rules dictate that the 1 April 2012 values would need to be revalued every five years. The first revaluation for properties which have not been sold in the interim will therefore be on 1 April 2017.\nWhile the new valuation does not need to be inserted onto the return until the period beginning on 1 April 2018, it is easier to consider the 1 April 2017 valuation at that point rather than at the later date where the valuation is used.\nYou can work out the value yourself or you can use a professional such as an estate agent, surveyor or other professional. Valuations must be on an open-market willing buyer, willing seller basis and be a specific amount. An undervaluation resulting in an underpayment of tax may result in interest and penalties, as well as a demand for the tax shortfall.\nWhen considering if the ATED charge is going to be an issue for you, or dismissing it immediately, consider:\nThat where your property was previously outside the scope of ATED due to the value being too low, could a revaluation cause you to breach the threshold?\nWhile there is no indication that the threshold could reduce further, be aware that based on past trends, it is a possibility and could leave you further in the scope of an ATED charge if you do not qualify for a relief.\nFor advice on investing in or disposing of residential property or assistance with filing your ATED return, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147 to be put in contact with a member of our Construction & Real Estate team.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on ATED \u2013 The 1 April 2017 Property Revaluation is Coming Up\nBuy-to-Let \u2013 Some Good News for a Change\nThe recent taxation changes regarding buy-to-let property have not been favourable. There has been the introduction of the additional 3% Stamp Duty Land Tax on acquiring a second property and the significant reduction in capital gains tax rates announced in the 2016 Budget did not apply to residential property which make both buying and selling a buy-to-let more expensive. In addition, the change over the next four years which will result in mortgage interest relief as an expense being abolished and replaced with a 20% tax credit will start to make the annual return on buy-to-let properties that little bit lower for many and may in some circumstances, mean that the tax liability on that source of income outweigh the net income itself.\nHowever, it seems that the buy-to-let market continues to be a competitive one and many are still favouring investing in bricks and mortar. Lenders have worked to keep the market alive following the former Chancellor\u2019s changes. Five years ago, the average rate for a two year fixed was just over 5%, but now there are deals available that provide the same term length but with a rate that is less than 2%. With the recent reduction in Bank of England Base rate to 0.25%, these rates may reduce even further. The rates for Companies are not so competitive or products readily available, but with this becoming a vehicle that some investors are considering, this may change too in time.\nIf you have any queries about anything raised in this article or to be put in contact with a member of our Construction & Real Estate team, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Buy-to-Let \u2013 Some Good News for a Change\nChanges to the Taxation of Let Properties\nInterest Relief on Let Properties\nAs you may be aware from 6 April 2017 HMRC are making changes to the relief you can receive for any finance costs you incur in the letting of your property. Finance costs include mortgage interest, interest on loans to buy furnishings and fees incurred when taking out or repaying mortgages or loans. As previously, no relief is available for capital repayments of a mortgage or a loan.\nPlease note these rules only relate to residential properties held in personal ownership and not commercial properties. Although no indication has been given by HMRC, we anticipate that the changes will also apply to properties held in trust.\nCurrently you are able to deduct all of your finance costs from your property income when calculating the taxable profits. Higher rate taxpayers therefore receive 40% tax relief on any finance costs incurred.\nFrom 6 April 2017 you will not be able to deduct the finance costs from your property income in calculating the taxable profits. You will instead receive a reduction against your overall tax liability of 20% of the lower of:\nthe finance costs,\nprofits of the let property in the year, or\ntotal income (excluding savings and dividends) that exceed the personal allowance.\nIf you are a basic rate taxpayer this should not affect your tax position, however if you are a higher rate taxpayer the amount of tax relief you now receive on these costs will be halved. This restriction will be introduced gradually over the next four years.\nThere is over a year before these rules are introduced, this gives us plenty of time to look at any planning opportunities for you.\nIf you will be re-mortgaging in 2017, perhaps this could be looked at prior to the changes to ensure maximum relief is obtained on the arrangement fees;\nIf you have a number of loans on various properties let or not, ensuring these are restructured in the most tax efficient manner; or\nReviewing the way in which you own the property/ properties.\nOther Changes to Property Taxation\nFrom 6 April 2016 there are also a number of other changes which may affect your taxable profits. If you rent a room in your house as long as this does not exceed \u00a34,250 before expenses this will not be taxable. From 6 April 2016 this is being increased to \u00a37,500 per annum.\nIf you let a fully furnished property you are currently allowed to claim a 10% wear and tear allowance but not the original cost or the actual cost of replacing the furniture. From 6 April 2016 wear and tear allowance will be abolished and you will be allowed to claim a deduction for the actual cost of replacing furnishings, this applies whether the property is let furnished, part furnished or unfurnished. No deduction will still be allowed for the original cost of the furnishings.\nRelief will be available on the replacement of items, such as:\nMovable furniture or furnishings, such as beds or sofas,\nCarpets and floor coverings,\nCrockery or cutlery.\nIf you feel that you could benefit from some planning advice on your rental property/properties prior to these changes being introduced, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147 to be put in contact with your local representative.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Changes to the Taxation of Let Properties\nSolid start to 2016 for the construction industry\nWith the announcement that the UK construction\u2019s purchasing manager\u2019s index (PMI) increased to an unanticipated 57.8 in December 2015, the sector begins 2016 on an encouraging note.\nThe figure shook off the seven month low of 55.3, exceeding the forecast of 56 expected by market analysts and now sits more comfortably above the 50 mark which represents sector expansion. Growth was attributed to a rise in commercial construction activity as a result of improvements in economic conditions with housing activity also seeing a rebound after a 29 month low in November.\nIn contrast to the strong performances in commercial and housing activity, civil engineering has seen a marginal drop after seven months of sustained growth. However, Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit adds that \u2018\u201dcivil engineering activity looks set to experience a near-term spike at the turn of 2016 from spending related to flood relief and additional capital budgets.\u201d\nOverall the results indicate that the sector is set for a positive year with continued growth which is reflected in the industry\u2019s optimistic outlook. The Markit/CIPS survey revealed that just over half of firms anticipate a rise in business activity during 2016 with only seven per cent expecting a decline. A part of the sector confidence is expected to be as a result of the devastating damage caused to thousands of homes, infrastructure and other buildings due to recent UK flooding. Larger client budgets, economic growth and a healthy pipeline of new projects are also providing optimism among builders.\nMark Robinson, chief executive of public sector procurement organisation Scape, comments that the government commitment in the Autumn Statement to provide a \u00a312 billion fund to infrastructure and build new homes provides a positive boost. He adds \u201cthe stage has been set for a strong year in the construction sector, with confidence and robust new business volumes forming the bedrock for continued growth in 2016.\u201d\nIf you would like to speak with a member of our Construction & Real Estate team, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147 to be put in contact with your local representative.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Solid start to 2016 for the construction industry\nChanges to ATED deadlines \u2013 ensure you remain compliant\nPosted on August 17, 2015 November 9, 2015 by mhauk\nAlthough in recent years we have been used to the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) cycle being in April, this year property owners have more than one deadline to contend with to remain ATED compliant.\nProperties between \u00a31,000,000 and \u00a32,000,000\nProperties in the \u00a31-\u00a32m price bracket held by an envelope (owned by a company, a partnership with a corporate member or other collective investment vehicle) will have to file their ATED return by the 1 October 2015. Any ATED tax liabilities will be due to be paid by 31 October 2015. This extended deadline for this price bracket is strictly for transitional purposes and for this year. For all future years, the deadline for both the annual return and any tax due will be 30 April.\nFor the avoidance of doubt, properties worth over \u00a32m would have needed to file their ATED return by 30 April 2015.\nRelief Declaration Return (RDR)\nAs highlighted in April, if you qualify for an ATED relief (for example you hold the property in an envelope and rent it out to a third party) there are changes to the way the compliance will operate. This has also led to a transitional deadline (1 October 2015) for filing the new RDR. Once again, the new deadline is for this year only and \u2018normal service\u2019 will resume next year with the ATED return dates being 30 April 2016.\nWhilst the deadline is looming, HMRC have still not released the RDR form that needs to be submitted so currently this Return still cannot be made.\nWhilst the timescales are short, it is important to remember that missing any of the deadlines will lead to automatic penalties being levied, even if you qualify for a relief!\nFrom the 1 April 2016, enveloped properties worth \u00a3500,000 or more will fall within the ATED regime. Although we have no confirmation yet whether there will be similar transitional dates (1 October) for this bracket, if you have a property which is worth circa \u00a3500,000, it is important to consider your position under ATED.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Changes to ATED deadlines \u2013 ensure you remain compliant\nBuy To Let Property Owners \u2013 The 2015 Summer Budget Tax Relief Changes that Will Affect You\nPosted on July 10, 2015 November 5, 2015 by mhauk\nIn a budget that took most by surprise, there were significant changes for the Buy to Let (BTL) market in George Osborne\u2019s first Conservative only budget.\nWear and Tear Allowance Abolished\nFrom 06 April 2016, furnished residential property owners will no longer be able to claim wear and tear allowance on their properties which has been a useful deduction for property owners that was not based on whether any investment had been put into the property. This allowance will now be replaced with a renewals system where relief is given only when furnishings are replaced in the premises.\nAlthough final details have not been released (and it is unlikely we will have any finality before the Autumn Statement at the earliest) it does look likely from HMRC\u2019s consultation that they will do away with worrying about how much or little a property needs to be furnished and instead will focus on straight relief relating to the replacement of furnishings, irrespective of whether the property is furnished.\nIf there is any intention to give a rented property a face lift with furnishings being bought, it is potentially sensible to consider deferring the expenditure until after 6 April 2016, as this will have no impact in the wear and tear relief you will be due for the year to 5 April 2016.\nInterest Rates Set to Rise\nPerhaps the biggest announcement in the budget which affected the BTL market were the restrictions on mortgage interest relief. Currently individual landlords receive tax relief at their highest rate of income tax on all of the interest they pay to finance their letting business.\nFrom April 2017 the amount of interest that will be eligible for tax relief at the higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) will be restricted to the following:\n\u2022 75% of the interest paid in 2017/18\nThe balance of the interest will be eligible for 20% tax relief in each case and these new rules will only affect 40%/45% tax payers. From 6 April 2020, only basic rate tax relief will be available for interest for higher or additional rate tax payers. Property partnerships and members of Limited Liability Partnerships (\u2018LLPs\u2019) are also caught by the new rules on a just and reasonable apportionment basis.\nOn the basis that you need the finance to continue, you may wish to ensure you have the most competitive rates available by remortgaging before the tax relief is reduced. You may also wish to consider the ownership of the property by putting it into joint names in order to maximise basic rate band relief.\nInterestingly, there is no comparative restriction on interest deductions for companies which own investment assets. Although careful planning is essential to ensure no undue capital gains tax (CGT) or stamp duty land tax (SDLT) liabilities arise. If the rules currently remain, operating property rental business from companies will look ever more enticing.\nIf you would like to discuss this issue in more detail or you would like to speak with a member of our team, please contact Hannah Farmborough or call on 0207 429 4147 to be put in contact with your local representative.\nPosted in Construction & Real Estate, NewsTagged Construction & Real EstateLeave a Comment on Buy To Let Property Owners \u2013 The 2015 Summer Budget Tax Relief Changes that Will Affect You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 21146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mic.com/articles/153901/miss-washington-says-she-supports-colin-kaepernick-but-that-all-lives-matter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:03Z", "digest": "sha1:MA4R4H4HW3LEYZYSZLE6ZB6YCOMCIBJA", "length": 1550, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mic.com", "title": "Miss Washington says she supports Colin Kaepernick, but that \"all lives matter\"", "raw_content": "Miss Washington says she supports Colin Kaepernick, but that \"all lives matter\"\nDuring the question portion of the Miss America pageant, Miss Washington Alicia Cooper was asked whether or not she stood with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, to which she said \"all lives matter\" in her answer.\nKaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem on Aug. 26 as he protested police brutality and systemic oppression, and has said he will continue to sit for the anthem.\n\"We need to focus on how important the Black Lives Matter issue really is,\" Cooper said in the 20 seconds allotted for her response. \"We need to realize that all lives matter in this situation. 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Artists as diverse as Justin Bieber and Coldplay were covered by the acts, but both halves of the evening also featured a large number of student-written songs, many of which were revealed to be inspired by real-life subjects. Most performers kept things simple with guitar or piano accompaniment to let their voices shine through.\nHighlights included Millfield\u2019s two regular bands, Imperious and The Croziers, with their own miniature sets ending each half, and one student\u2019s own composition that utilised a loop pedal and other different guitar-playing techniques. A large and enthusiastic audience demonstrated the popularity of these sessions, and the support for each performer was wonderful to see.\n\u2190 Open Musician\u2019s Platform, 7th November 2016\nWhat\u2019s been happening over the last few weeks\u2026 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missionbibleclass.org/old-testament/part2/judges-and-ruth/god-answers-hannahs-prayer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3AWKZYLSS3SI3DVSFQO5CLIEVIUNMLE4", "length": 9949, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "missionbibleclass.org", "title": "God Answers Hannah\u2019s Prayer \u2013 Mission Bible Class", "raw_content": "Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 1:1-20\nSuggested Emphasis: Pray because the Lord hears your prayers.\nMemory Verse: \u201cPray continually.\u201d 1 Thessalonians 5:17\nElkanah had two wives, Peninnah and Hannah. Peninnah taunted Hannah because Hannah had no children. When Hannah accompanied Elkanah to the tabernacle, she prayed and wept near the entrance. In her prayer she promised the Lord that if He would give her a son then she would give that son to Him all the days of her life. Hannah\u2019s prayer was so intense that the High Priest, Eli, saw her and thought she was drunk. Hannah\u2019s prayer was answered and she gave birth to a son. His name was Samuel.\nRefer to information about the time of the judges. Samuel came on the scene at the end of this time period. He was the last judge.\nSamuel\u2019s story begins in the hill country of Ephraim (EE-fray-m) at a place called Ranathaim (RAY-mah-THAY-m), near Shiloh. A man named Elkanah had two wives, which was a common practice in early Bible times. In those days polygamy was tolerated under the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy 21:15-17). However, it was not God\u2019s original intention, for as Jesus taught, it could cause great misery (Matthew 19:3-8).\nIn the case of Elkanah\u2019s two wives, things were indeed miserable. Their names were Hannah and Peninnah. Only Peninnah had children.\u201d Penning provoked Hannah because of her childlessness. Perhaps Peninnah was jealous of the special attention that Elkanah lavished on Hannah.\nThis was the cause of much trouble and rivalry between the two women. Because children are a blessing from God, the absence of children was sometimes considered a punishment for sin. Peninnah may have suggested this possibility and used it to hurt Hannah since she was jealous of Hannah.\nThree times a year every Israelite male was required to appear before the Lord at the central sanctuary (Deuteronomy 16:16-17). They were supposed to offer sacrifices to the Lord. Once each year, it seems as if the whole family attended. At those times Elkanah always gave a portion of meat to Penning and her children to offer in sacrifice. Because of his love for Hannah, Elkanah gave her a double portion.\nWhile attending a feast in Shiloh, the religious centre of the nation at that time, Hannah left the feasting to pray at the tabernacle. Her prayers were honest, and she told God of her anguish over her childlessness. The desire of her heart was stated simply, but her distress was evident.\nHannah vowed that, if the Lord would give her a son, she would dedicate him to the Lord\u2019s service (1 Samuel 1:11). Then she prayed, \u201cMay your servant find favour in your eyes\u201d (verse 18). Hannah was so intense in prayer and so focused on the Lord, that she was oblivious to those around her.\nThe priest, Eli, observed Hannah moving her lips without sound and jumped to the incorrect conclusion that she was drunk. He immediately reprimanded her for being drunk at the tabernacle. Hannah explained that she was not drunk but was praying in this manner because of her sorrow. When Hannah told him of the longing in her heart, she received his blessing.\nAfter she and her husband returned home, Hannah conceived and a son was born. Hannah named her son Samuel, to mean \u201casked of God\u201d (verse 20).\nFor more about Samuel see Samuel Becomes a Helper in the Tabernacle\nand The Lord Speaks to Samuel.\nDiscuss any aspect of prayer. The times that you have prayed. Specific requests you or someone you know has made. If you have a church bulletin, see if there are any prayer requests in it. Discuss prayer posture (you can pray lying down, standing up, kneeling, etc. Ask the children what they pray for. \u201cIn today\u2019s story we are going to learn about a woman that prayed for something she wanted very much!\u201d\nEach year Elkanah and his family travelled to the city of Shiloh to offer sacrifices to the Lord. Elkanah always offered sacrifices and then gave his family meat to offer as sacrifices too. Elkanah had two wives. He would always give his first wife, Peninnah, enough portions of the sacrifice meat for her and her children. Then Elkanah would give twice as much sacrifice meat to his other wife, Hannah. That was because he loved Hannah very much and he knew that she was sad because she did not have any children.\nHannah really was sad. She had wanted to have a baby for a long time. Peninnah sometimes teased her and made her feel even sadder. Once, when she was in Shiloh with Elkanah, Hannah wanted to be alone to pray to the Lord. She went to the entrance of the tabernacle tent. She didn\u2019t see anyone around, so she began to pray. She just talked to God and told Him how she was feeling. Hannah told Him all about how sad she was. She told him how bad she felt when Peninnah picked on her. Then she told the Lord how much she wanted a baby.\n\u201cLord, if you will give me a son then I will promise to give him back to you so he can be a helper to you.\u201d\nHannah was praying so hard that she was crying. Her lips were moving but no one could hear her because she was not praying out loud.\nHannah thought she was all alone but she was not. The High Priest, Eli, was sitting beside one of the poles of the tabernacle tent. When Eli saw her crying and moving her lips, he did not know she was praying. He thought she was drunk!\n\u201cHow long will you keep getting drunk? You need to stop drinking wine!\u201d Eli said to Hannah.\n\u201cOh, no. I am not drunk! I was just praying to the Lord. Maybe I looked drunk because I am so upset,\u201d replied Hannah.\nEli saw what she said was true. \u201cI am sorry, I did not know you were praying,\u201d Eli apologized. \u201cI am the High Priest. I know that the Lord will listen to your prayers. I will pray too. May the Lord give you whatever you are asking for.\u201d\nAfter this Hannah felt better. She and Elkanah travelled back home. Later that year, Hannah had a beautiful little baby boy. Hannah knew that the Lord had heard her prayer. Hannah and Elkanah named their little baby Samuel, which means \u201casked of the Lord.\u201d Hannah also remembered the promise she had made to the Lord. She knew that when Samuel was old enough, she would have to make sure that he became a helper to the Lord.\nWhat were the names of Elkanah\u2019s two wives? Peninnah and Hannah\nWhy was Hannah sad? Hannah had no children but Peninnah did. Peninnah teased Hannah.\nWhen Hannah was crying and praying quietly, what did Eli think? He thought she was drunk\nWhat did Hannah promise the Lord? If she had a son, she would give him back to the Lord as a helper.\nSee Prayer in Bible Class for Ideas\nWrite the word \u201cPrayer\u201d on the chalk/white board. Then write \u201cwho? what? when? where? why?\u201d As you call out a word (who? what? when? \u2026) gently throw a bean bag (or any soft object) to a child. When the child catches the bag then they need to give an example of the word you called out. Example: say \u201cwhere?\u201d and throw the bag. Child catches and answers: \u201cat home.\u201d That child says \u201cwhen?\u201d and throws the bag. The next child catches it and the game continues. Encourage the children to throw to children who haven\u2019t had a turn.\nHave a chain prayer.\nUse a puppet to tell the story from Hannah\u2019s point of view.\nYou could use a cloth to make a head covering and tell the story as if you were Hannah. You could do the same thing as any of the characters in the story.\nSing: Read Your Bible-Pray Every Day\nMake a shoebox diorama. Samuel Box- (Covering 3 Samuel lessons) Picture of mum and baby, baby items, sewing items, little coat, tabernacle pictures or model, picture of sleeping boy, pillow and blanket . . .\nClick here for \u201cGod Answers Hannah\u2019s Prayer\u201d printables to print (A4 paper)\nClick here for \u201cGod Answers Hannah\u2019s Prayer\u201d to print (Letter size-USA)\nColouring page and puzzle worksheets (Hannah) at http://calvarycurriculum.org/\nColouring page and puzzle worksheets (Samuel\u2019s Birth) at http://calvarycurriculum.org/\nCraft: Printable puppets and furniture to use to tell the story at http://www.sermons4kids.com/\nCraft: Prayer reminder pocket made from a paper plate at http://www.create-kids-crafts.com/\nCraft: Praying hand silhouettes at http://www.dltk-bible.com/\nCrossword puzzle at http://www.sermons4kids.com/\nActivity: \u201cFive finger prayer\u201d to teach children to pray at http://ministry-to-children.com/\nLesson on prayer for children at http://ministry-to-children.com/\nExplaining how to teach children to pray at http://ministry-to-children.com/\nA good selection of both online and printable puzzles, activities and story words covering the stories of Samuel\u2019s birth and being a helper in the temple) at http://gardenofpraise.com/\nCraft: Prayer chains at http://www.sundayschoolcrafts.com/\nCraft: \u201cPray for one another\u201d magnet at http://www.sundayschoolcrafts.com/\nCraft: Prayer pail with popsicle/craft sticks at http://www.lubirdbaby.com/\nFive finger prayer activity at http://www.sermons4kids.com/\nRecipe for praying pretzels at http://www.dltk-bible.com/\n2 thoughts on \u201cGod Answers Hannah\u2019s Prayer\u201d\nHere is another hands-on idea that works well for very young children: Make a play dough pancake and bring plastic bottle lids with facial features drawn on them in permanent marker (or anything that won\u2019t rub off). You will need two sets of eyes (one open and one closed), one nose, one sad open mouth, and one smiling mouth. As you tell the story, arrange Hannah\u2019s facial expressions on the play dough pancake. First use the closed eyes and open mouth. Then replace them with the open eyes and happy mouth. Let the children manipulate the bottle lids and retell the story. You can also add tears made out of play dough, hair, etc. You can create as many of the story characters with as many expressions as you want. Eli could have a disgruntled expression then a surprised or kind face.\nWhat a great idea that could be adapted for any story! The bottle lid idea is a great way to recycle. Thanks for sharing your ideas with the rest of us.\nI\u2019ve also done something similar using fruits and veges for the facial features.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 520, "original_length": 23125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://modern-family.tv/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:5AM3AVBHENGHLCXGZNIPE7SUWGI7G3YD", "length": 3050, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "modern-family.tv", "title": "Modern Family About The Show", "raw_content": "Modern Family is an award winning sitcom from ABC that tells the story of a very modern extended family. A unique reworking of the traditional family sitcom, Modern Family is a single-camera show shot in a mockumentary style. The show centers around the extended Pritchett family and its three family groups. 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While former-wild child Claire desperately wants to keep discipline in the house and stop her kids making the same mistakes she did, Phil is more interested in being their \"cool dad\" and more of a friend than a parent.\nMitchell and his partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), recently adopted a Vietnamese baby, Lily, into their family. Mitchell and Cameron are quite different: Mitchell is more reserved and does not like public displays of affection, while Cameron has an outgoing personality and is much more comfortable in his own skin. Together they are figuring out how to be the best fathers for Lily.\nSince its premiere in 2009, Modern Family has won numerous awards and the plaudits of critics. The show has been the recipient of a Peabody Award, Writers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards and has won six Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series. The show has also been a success with viewers. After only three episodes had aired, ABC picked it up for a full first season on October 8, 2009. The show was then renewed for a second season on January 12, 2010. A third season of the show was ordered by ABC on January 10, 2011. ABC renewed Modern Family for a fourth season in May 2012. In May 2013, the show was renewed by ABC for a fifth season in 2013/14.\nThe show was renewed for a sixth season in May 2014. ABC renewed Modern Family for a seventh season in May 2015. In May 2016, Modern Family was renewed for an eighth season, which coincided with the end of the actors' contracts.\nIn May 2017, ABC announced a two season renewal deal for Modern Family, which guarantees the show a ninth in 2017/18 and tenth season in 2018/19.\nABC announced in February 2019 that it had renewed Modern Family for an eleventh and final season to air in 2019/20.\nWant to learn more about Modern Family?\nView our Episode Guide for information on episodes.\nFind more information on the DVD releases of Modern Family.\nBrowse our news archives for our past stories.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 146.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mohawkcomputers.com/living-forever-you-might-get-your-chance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3RS4PYCHZHXDN6S3ZNQXCPXYXNYSCSOO", "length": 1687, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mohawkcomputers.com", "title": "Living Forever: You Might Get Your Chance - Mohawk Computers - Managed IT Services Provider", "raw_content": "Living Forever: You Might Get Your Chance\nHave you ever seriously considered the implications of living forever? Would you want to if it were feasible? Well, according to scientist and author Ray Kurzweil, these questions may become more relevant in the near future. He predicts that we may identify the key to immortality in the next 20 years. This may have everything to do with nanobots replacing our blood cells.\nYes, that does seem like sci-fi. It sounds spooky, too, but Kurzweil is enthusiastic about this, and he boasts some very smart people as fans. According to Business Insider two famous and powerful Bills \u2013 Clinton and Gates \u2013 are big Kurzweil fans.\nRise of the nanobots?\nRegardless of how \u201cout-there\u201d Kurzweil\u2019s ideas are, they may be a very real possibility. In about 20 years, scientists believe they\u2019ll have found a way to halt andreverse the aging process. Kurzweil then thinks that nanotechnology will come into play, replacing human blood cells, and carrying out the work much more efficiently.\nAgain, this soundsastounding, but Kurzweil is basing his predictions on one fact that can\u2019t be disputed: Technology has been advancing at an exponential rate. And this, Kurzweil argues, signifies that immortality is just a few technological leaps away.\nThat doesn\u2019t, though, answer the bigger question: Should humans live forever? What\u2019s going to happen to the earth? Will overpopulation destroy our natural resources? And, of course, is living forever even something people want? Won\u2019t those people who believe in an afterlife want to ultimately pass from this life? 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This scene is from The Mikado, which was staged in March.\tGraham Hughes / Graham Hughes/The Gazette\nThe Kirkland Library, 17100 Hymus Blvd., presents an exhibit of paintings by Andrea Lavoie until Sept. 29. Vernissage on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 514-630-2726, local 3216.\nThe Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire, presents the exhibition Trajectoires. Continues until Oct. 14. Call 514-630-1220.\nQuebec Writers Out Loud presents author Claire Holden Rothman on Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Baie-D\u2019Urf\u00e9 Library, 20551 Lakeshore Rd. She will read from her new book Lear\u2019s Shadow. Call 514-457-3274.\nLoving Vincent. Cin\u00e9-Art film presentation on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire. Free, passes required. Call 514-630-1254.\nThe Artists Circle of the West Island holds their first meeting of the season on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Pierrefonds Cultural Centre, 13850 Gouin Blvd. W. in Pierrefonds. Yearly membership: $45. Visit artistscirclewestisland.ca.\nHudson Studio Tour \u2013 15th Edition on Saturday and Sunday and Sept 22 and 23 \u2014 featuring 20 studios in Hudson, St-Lazare, Rigaud and Vaudreuil-Dorion. Free. Visit hudsonstudiotour.com.\nDemystifying Art: Catherine Barnab\u00e9, Exhibition Curation as a Field of Research on Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire. Free, passes required. Call 514-630-1254.\nSelf-Portrait Painting soir\u00e9e in support of the West Island Cancer Wellness Centre on Sept. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. at 115 du Barry St. in Kirkland. Cost $35. Call 514-942-5926 or https://wicwc.com/events.\nSilver Donald Cameron and Green Rights at Greenwood\u2019s StoryFest 2018 on Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Hudson Village Theatre, 28 Wharf Rd. in Hudson. Visit greenwoodstoryfest.com or call 450-458-5396.\nTrofanov-Sidorov World Music concert on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at the Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre, 176 Lakeshore Rd. Free, but passes required. Call 514-630-1220.\nThe Philomela Singers, directed by Margo Keenan, are a bilingual West Island community choir with a varied and entertaining repertoire. They are especially looking for higher-register sopranos (Soprano 1). Rehearsals on Wednesday evenings in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue from 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. Candidates must have a good ear and preferably some choral experience. Email chorale.philomela@gmail.com or call 514-946-4160 for an audition.\nCantabile Chorale, under the direction of Peter Willsher, in preparation for the fall concert featuring Oratorio de No\u00ebl de St-Sa\u00ebns, are holding auditions for sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, until Sept. 28. Rehearsals begin on Monday at St-John-the-Baptist-Church, 233 Ste-Claire Ave. in Pointe-Claire. Call 514-694-4689 or email cantabilepublic@gmail.com. For more information visit cantabilechorale.com.\nMelodia Choir, under new director Marjolaine Daneault, is looking for singers, sopranos, altos, tenors and basses for its upcoming fall session. Varied repertoire ranging from folk, pop, Broadway musicals, gospel and contemporary selections. Rehearsals on Saturday mornings from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Church of the Resurrection, 865 Lakeshore Drive in Dorval, starting Sept. 15. Call 514-631-6533.\nLakeshore Light Opera will hold its annual open house on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, 233 Ste-Claire Ave. in Pointe-Claire. This year they will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s Thespis for the first time. Visit llo.org.\nFlute and violin lessons: registration ongoing at Stewart Hall, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire. Information on the Suzuki Music Program (ages 4+). Call 514-630-2726, Local 1749.\nFriends for Mental Health presents a free conference on Drugs, Prevention and Mental Health on Sept. 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Beaconsfield Library, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd. You can also webinar live online: asmfmh.org/conferences/\nCommunicaid for Hearing Impaired Persons offer a 10-week course in lip-reading (speech reading) to be held this fall at Chartwell Manoir Kirkland, 2 Canvin St. in Kirkland. Places are limited. Call 514-488-5552, Local 4500 or visit hearhear.org.\nWest Island Palliative Care Residence bereavement group sessions for the fall are taking registration. Groups offered include an afternoon adult group (French) on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. (Sept. 12-Nov. 7); evening adult group (English) on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. and an afternoon adult group on Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. (Sept. 13-Nov. 8). Call 514-693-1718, Local 231 or Email kbouchard@wipcr.ca.\nArthritis West Island Self Help (AWISH) offers programs of support and exercise to help individuals deal with arthritis and chronic pain. Day and evening classes available to help you manage your disease. Visit awishmontreal.org or call 514-631-3288.\nEmbracing Grief workshops, designed by Vivianne LaRivi\u00e8re, of the Art of Soul Care, is being offered in partnership with ORA Loss and Living Program to help people develop coping skills for grieving through meditation, creative art activities and group discussions. A series of five Saturday sessions in St-Lazare or a series of eight Tuesday evening sessions at Ste-Genevi\u00e9ve United Church in Dollard are offered. Cost $250 includes 30 hours or workshop time and all art supplies. Call 514-626-4795 or visit www.ora-mtl.org.\nLGBTQ2+ Adult & Seniors supper open to adult and seniors who are questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation every Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at Beaconsfield United Church, 202 Woodside Ave. Visit lgbtq2centre.com/meetups.htlml.\nThe Low Vision Self-Help Association meets on Wednesday from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. at the Church of St. John the Baptist, 233 Ste. Claire Ave. in Pointe-Claire. Dr. Martin Spiro will speak on the vital role of optometry at the Low Vision Clinic. Free. Call 514-694-2965.\nThe Montreal Lakeshore University Women\u2019s Club holds its annual fall meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Beaconsfield Golf Club, 49 Golf Ave. in Pointe-Claire. The 2018/2019 program will be presented. Visit mlwuc.com.\nMontreal Chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society meets on Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Pointe-Claire Legion, 365 St. Louis St. Dick Pickering will give a presentation on The Romance of Flying \u2014 a fascinating insight into his father\u2019s career as a pilot. Cost: $5 includes a light lunch. Call 450-463-1998.\nHudson Garden Club meets on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Saint James Church Hall, 642 Main Rd. in Hudson. Denis Bernard will speak on All About Hydrangea. Guest fee: $5. Visit hgc.fsheq.org.\nParkinson SuperWalk organized by Parkinson Canada in Quebec on Sunday at noon at John Abbott and MacDonald College campuses in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. To register visit parkinsonsuperwalk.ca.\nHero Run for the West Island Cancer Wellness Centre \u2014 a 5 km fundraising family walk/run for cancer wellness on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. in Kirkland. Children, and adults, are invited to dress up as their favourite super hero. To register \u2013 $25 per adult, children under 12 are free \u2013 visit wicwc.org.\nSquare Dancing Party held by Circles and Squares Club on Wednesday and on Sept. 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. at St. Columba-by-the-Lake Church, 11 Rodney Ave. in Pointe-Claire. Admission: $7 includes dessert and refreshments. Call 514-631-3679.\nLakeshore Weavers Guild meets on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Stewart Hall, 176 Lakeshore Rd. in Pointe-Claire. Guest fee: $5. Call 514-695-3388.\nCirque nez \u00e0 nez. Children\u2019s show (ages 2+) presented by Odette Carpentier and Ren\u00e9 H\u00e9bert on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre. Free, passes required. Call 514-630-1220.\nThe Small, Furry, Playful and Colourful World of Gizmos! An exhibition for kids by C\u00e9line Mal\u00e9part at Stewart Hall in the Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre, 176 Lakeshore Rd. Continues until Sept. 30. Free admission. Call 514-630-1220 or visit pointe-claire.ca.\nThe Teapot 50+ Centre holds an open house today and tomorrow at 2901 St-Joseph Blvd., Lachine. They offer activities, trips, events, workshop and more to the 50+ community. Call 514-637-5627 or visit theteapot.org.\nCummings West fall registration is ongoing, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 96 Roger Pilon Blvd. in Dollard. A wide selection of programs offered exclusively to the 55+ community. For course listing or to register, call 514-683-3761 or visit cummingscentre.org.\nUsed book sale collection date on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Beaconsfield Library, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd. Please bring your good quality used books (French and English) for their fall book sale.\nRummage sale on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at St. John\u2019s United Church, 98 Aurora Ave. in Pointe-Claire.\nTreasures in the Attic sale on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. James Church, 642 Main Rd. in Hudson. You can bring your own treasures for an expert appraisal. Cost: $5 per appraisal.\nBoutique 24 Thrift Shop offers clothing, household articles, jewellery and books every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Adair Hall, 24 Maple Ave. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Donations welcome. Call 514-453-2902.\nMultiple Myeloma March \u2013 Montreal: Bilingual volunteers are needed to help with site set-up as well as take down after event, and route marshal/security. Sunday, September 30th from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Minimum age: 16+\nProjet Communautaire de Pierrefonds (in St. Barnabas Church) is moving and they need help sorting and packing on Thursday and/or Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.\nThe Canadian Transverse Myelitis Association is hosting a 5km run and walk and a 1km kids run. They need volunteers to help with this charity event on Sept. 30 from 8 a.m. to noon in Dorval. Tasks include: be road marshals during the run/walk; give out medals; give out race kits; give out snacks to participants.\nVolunteer PR Committee Members are needed to raise awareness and publicize the \u201cFoie de Vivre\u201d Gala Soiree to benefit the Canadian Liver Foundation. This year\u2019s event will be held at the Rialto Theatre, featuring a Marionette Dinner Theatre entertainment with Tapas Style dinner serving. Weekly meetings to be held from early September until the Gala on Nov. 17. Minimum age: 18+\nAn 85-year-old Pointe-Claire woman is looking for a female volunteer to offer her social and emotional support by accompanying her on social outings and offering friendly home visits.\nAn English-speaking Pierrefonds resident in his 80s is experiencing problems with his memory and would benefit from a kind male volunteer who can help him break his isolation.\nA 78-year-old Pointe-Claire woman would greatly benefit from a female volunteer who could take her out for coffee on Sundays or accompany her to her occasional Wednesday appointment.\nThreat that closed Beaconsfield High was aimed at U.S. school Naqvi-Mohamed: Bereavement camp helps children move forward from loss", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 359, "original_length": 22670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moodsmusic.net/shop/music/reggae/bob-marley-the-wailers-catch-a-fire-detail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7WLC24U2SPPFBMJHOQHCY534C44VMV3Q", "length": 140, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "moodsmusic.net", "title": "Reggae: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire", "raw_content": "Bob_Marley___The_49c01c7c04822.jpg\n*Their first Island Records release from 1973. 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She will receive the award at Zonta\u2019s gala celebration on April 16.\nBette Simmons\n\u201dThis is an honor truly befitting of Dr. Simmons, who works tirelessly both in her professional life and through her extensive volunteer activities to provide others with opportunities to succeed and reach their potential,\u201d said Anthony J. Iacono, president of CCM. \u201cWe are honored and pleased to see her recognized by such an esteemed organization.\u201d\nAn international organization, Zonta consists of professionals focused on empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy so every woman can achieve her full potential.\n\u201cWe selected Bette Simmons for her long-standing presence in the local community, her contributions to the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey and her achievements at County College of Morris,\u201d said Barbara J. Woodhull, president of the Zonta Club of Morristown Area.\nSimmons began working in higher education in 1980 when she became the Assistant to the Dean of Students at CCM. She steadily advanced professionally as she held positions as Counselor, Assistant to the President and Affirmative Action Officer, Assistant Dean of Student Development, Dean of Student Development and er current position as Vice President of Student Development and Enrollment Management.\nAs the senior student affairs administrator on campus, Simmons supervises staff and programs in Academic Advisement, Admissions, Athletics, Campus Life, Career Services and Cooperative Education, Counseling Services, Enrollment Services, Financial Aid, Health Services, Records and Registration, and the Women\u2019s Center.\nShe also is active in the Morris County community and currently is involved with the Morristown Neighborhood House, the Morris County Human Relations Commission, the Calvary Baptist Church Community Development Corporation, the Morristown Juvenile Conference Committee, the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey, Community Hope and the Morris County Sexual Assault Advisory Board. In addition, she provides training for the Volunteers for Morris County as well as the Seton Hall University Board Leadership Institute.\nAdditionally, Simmons represents CCM and her profession nationally. She has sat on the board \u2013 nationally and regionally \u2013 of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), of which she has been a member for 20 years. Other associations she belongs to include the National Council for Student Development, the National Council of Black American Affairs, the National Association of Women in Education and the New Jersey Deans of Students Association. She also serves as a college evaluator for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.\nShe is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including the Morristown Neighborhood House Distinguished Volunteer Award, Morris County Phenomenal Woman of the Year Award, and Thiel College Distinguished Alumni Award. She also has been recognized by the NASPA Latino/a Knowledge Community for outstanding support and encouragement of Latinos in higher education, the New Jersey College Health Association in support of the promotion of college health, and the Displaced Homemaker Network of New Jersey, Inc. for outstanding contributions to women and families.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mortongrovedentalassociates.com/website_library/dental-x-rays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:23HFZJPPMVGNETCQ7ZQPGH542LODRYOT", "length": 1556, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mortongrovedentalassociates.com", "title": "Dental X-Rays - Morton Grove Dental Associates, dentist in Morton Grove, IL", "raw_content": "Dental X-rays\u2014also called radiographs\u2014are a widely-used preventive and diagnostic tool that your dentist uses to locate damage and disease that isn\u2019t visible to the naked eye. X-ray procedures are typically performed yearly during your annual cleaning appointments. Receiving regular x-rays helps your dentist monitor and track the progress of your oral health.\nThere are several types of dental x-rays, each capturing a slightly different view or angle of the affected area. The two most common forms of dental x-rays include intraoral\u2014meaning the x-ray is filmed inside the mouth\u2014and extraoral\u2014meaning the x-ray is filmed outside the mouth. The most common form of digital radiography in dentistry is intraoral x-rays. Some examples of this technology include:\nBitewing: This type of x-ray offers a visual of both the lower and upper teeth. They are used to help you dentist locate decay between teeth.\nOcclusal: These x-rays create a clear view of the floor of the mouth, which shows your dentist the bite of the upper and lower jaw.\nPeriapical: This detailed x-ray provides a view of the entire tooth, from the crown to the bone that supports it.\nPanoramic: Showing an image of the teeth, jaws, nasal area, sinuses and joints, this type of x-ray is one of the most advanced imaging options available.\nThese x-rays are typically performed in the office of a dentist or dental specialist. Special precautions are taken\u2014such as wearing a lead-vest to protect against low-levels of radiation\u2014and your entire procedure is monitored by a dental professional.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mtkenyatimes.co.ke/24th-africa-oil-week-programme-cutting-edge-industry-evolution/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:42Z", "digest": "sha1:P6TVLYO2XZBOD4XSXYBANNSRVDFXLB5H", "length": 6915, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "mtkenyatimes.co.ke", "title": "24th Africa Oil Week Programme at the Cutting Edge of Industry Evolution \u2013 Mt.KenyaTimes", "raw_content": "Acting President (Vice President) Osinbajo Inaugurates 1.5 Billion USD Fertilizer Plant in Nigeria\nUganda Court clears Bidco of deforestation\nJapan Water Forum Fund 2016: Supporting Grassroots Organizations in Developing Countries\nUnderstanding the usage of VPN services\nDJIBOUTI AND THE CHINA QUESTION\nAfrican Union to hold debate for candidates for the post of Chairperson of the African Union Commission\nITE (APO.af/1d7VY7), organiser of leading international oil and gas events, is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming 24th edition of its internationally renowned Africa Oil Week, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 23-27 October.\nThe restrained business climate that has reigned over the industry for the past few years demanded that all operators review and adapt their business models and the way they operate. By the same token, the organisers of Africa Oil Week (www.Africa-OilWeek.com) had to radically rethink the content for this year\u2019s edition to meet the needs of delegates in search of solutions for tackling new challenges.\nITE\u2019s Vice President for Africa, Sonika Greyvenstein, says, \u201cWe pride ourselves on being recognised as the world\u2019s leading Africa-focused oil and gas event. To retain this title, we really had to think outside the box to design a programme that offers something over and above our renowned networking and deal-making opportunities \u2013 we want to give delegates access to revolutionary new ways of working, so they go away with knowledge, tools and methods to help them face a fast-evolving industry\u201d.\nThe result is a programme (http://APO.af/QMPc7H) strong on skills, solutions and strategies and infused with talks and debates of an ethical, political and motivational nature.\nWith the aim of providing the most current status of African and international policy, ITE has ramped up the presence of top ranking government officials. Rick Perry, US Energy Secretary, has been invited to speak as guest of honour at a session on global energy policy as well as during his department\u2019s presentation of its LNG Handbook, designed to facilitate LNG projects in Sub-Saharan African nations.\nIn terms of African oil and gas ministers, participants will be able to engage directly with them on issues crucial to their investment plans and projects at the Ministerial Panel (http://apo.af/jgQX3A) on African government strategies for \u201cAttracting Operators and Investment\u201d. It includes presentations covering fiscal reforms and investment opportunities from the oil and gas ministers of Egypt, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo and Namibia. South African Minister of Energy, H.E. Mmamoloko Kubayi, will open proceedings on Tuesday 24th October with a talk on the right energy mix for meeting environmental and development goals.\nThe C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Roadshow (http://APO.af/jgQX3A), presided over by Minister Thierry Tanoh, will promote the country\u2019s hydrocarbons code and introduce its energy strategy 2020 along with available blocks coming up for licensing, thereby providing further opportunities for showcasing its investment environment as well as its petroleum code and legal and fiscal framework.\nWe pride ourselves on being recognised as the world\u2019s leading Africa-focused oil and gas event\nMali (http://APO.af/jgQX3A), ranked one of the most dynamic countries in the region by the World Bank\u2019s \u201cDoing Business\u201d report and winner of the AIM \u201cInvestment Award\u201d for its incentive-strengthening reforms, is promoting its five oil-rich basins. Mr. Hamed Ag Mohamed, Director-General of the Authority for the Promotion of Oil Research, will present the investment framework and its Public-Private Partnership policy.\nA not-to-be-missed event is the debate (http://APO.af/jgQX3A) \u201cPhasing Out Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case\u201d. Alex Epstein, Founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of the New York Times bestseller, \u201cThe Moral Case for Fossil Fuels\u201d will pitch his pro-fossil fuels argument against that of renewable energy development and investment pioneer Charlotte Aubin-Kalaidjian, co-Founder and CEO of GreenWish Partners. Later in the day, Mr. Epstein is the guest speaker at the invitation-only VIP & CEO Luncheon, to be held in the Exhibition Ballroom.\nContributing to the cutting edge content is the AAPG Science Seminar (http://APO.af/jgQX3A), comprising three half-day forums focusing on energising the growing world through knowledge and technology. This is especially important considering that the new wave of exploration is spearheaded by digital technology which, in turn, paves the way for new careers.\nThis digital aspect of the industry is of special interest to the students and graduates attending the Young Professional Roundtable (http://APO.af/jgQX3A) discussions, during which they will be looking at the capabilities and skills that will secure their future in a constrained job market.\nWith the evolution of the industry requiring operators and stakeholders to be more resourceful and inventive, Africa Oil Week is bringing out some big guns in terms of analysis, inspiration and motivation. Daniel Silke, South African futurist and leading political economy analyst, kicks off the third day of the conference with a keynote on Africa\u2019s resilience. Mr. Silke is renowned for his insights into issues surrounding global change, volatility and the future of the world. Then there\u2019s Gilan Gork, renowned mentalist and master of influence. As a guest speaker at the SA Rugby Museum Cocktail Reception, Gilan will challenge delegates thinking while intelligently entertaining and motivating them.\nAlong with these exciting and innovative additions to this year\u2019s Africa Oil Week programme, each session now includes an interactive Q&A (http://APO.af/jgQX3A), during which delegates can engage on a wide range of issues. In addition, there is an official Africa Oil Week App for IOS & Android devices to give delegates up-to-date information about the event, speakers, programme, networking sessions and venues and enabling them to post questions, participate in polls and contact other delegates.\nDelegates who register (APO.af/PQ6Q7F) by 30th September qualify for the \u00a3300 Early Bird Discount while companies registering three or more delegates benefit from an additional 10% discount.\nAll registration (APO.af/znQL9v) fees include access to the 17th Africa Independents Forum and the 24th Africa Upstream Conference and Exhibition but exclude the 80th PetroAfricanus Dinner and 9th Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club Luncheon, which must be booked separately. Companies registering three or more delegates benefit from an additional 10% discount.\nFor more information: www.Africa-OilWeek.com.\nPrevious Techne Summit: The Mediterranean Leading Technology Conference\nNext Karen Hospital\nCrowding the private sector into Africa\u2019s climate action\nHUSTLER ECONOMY NEEDS RETHINKING", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 12853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mumbaidutyfree.net/wine-spirits/whisky/vat-69-1l", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQVKO73A7NIFQCQW52W5UKKRI2BTYFNF", "length": 325, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mumbaidutyfree.net", "title": "Buy Vat 69 1L at Best duty free Prices online", "raw_content": "VAT 69 is one of the most famous brand names in Scotch whisky. It is the proud creation of William Sanderson & Sons, a highly respected Scotch whisky house established in the 19th Century. Blended using forty different malt and grain whiskies, VAT 69 is a smooth, balanced spirit and a perennial favorite with blend drinkers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 524, "original_length": 15847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 191.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musicofmymind14.com/2014/05/19/snl-digital-short-when-will-the-bass-drop-ft-lil-jon-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:51Z", "digest": "sha1:P6325RCGCSN5VQYALXSQDYXWWFGGVXJT", "length": 850, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "musicofmymind14.com", "title": "SNL Digital Short: \u201cWhen Will The Bass Drop\u201d (ft. Lil Jon) [VIDEO] \u2013 MUSICOFMYMIND14", "raw_content": "For the most part, I am not a fan of EDM music. When I want to see \u201clive\u201d music, I want to see people playing instruments, not punching buttons. When I saw the Saturday Night Live, Digital Short, Lonely Island clip, \u201cWhen Will The Bass Drop\u201d that aired over the weekend, I nearly had the soup I was eating for lunch come out my nose. It is HILARIOUS (especially all of the one-liners the \u201cfans\u201d spout, since I\u2019ve heard those exact words from other people I\u2019ve been around). I\u2019ve always wondered what EDM DJs did behind their consoles. Now, I have an idea. Enjoy!\nPosted in UncategorizedTagged Andy Samberg, EDM, Electronic Dance Music, Ft. Lil Jon, Lil Jon, Lonely Island, Saturday Night Live, SNG, video, When Will The Bass Drop\nCinquanta: Celebrating 50 Years Of Maynard James Keenan | Failure, A Perfect Circle & Puscifer | Greek Theatre | 5/10/14", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mussarinstitute.org/about/the-mussar-institute/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:K27FFNT6J52OKEPNUDSGUXLBVJNRQ4QH", "length": 1783, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mussarinstitute.org", "title": "About The Mussar Institute - The Mussar Institute | The Mussar Institute Menu", "raw_content": "About The Mussar Institute\nThe Mussar Institute (TMI) advances the study and practice of Mussar, a Jewish path of character development and spiritual growth leading to awareness, wisdom, and transformation. Through experiential online and in-person courses based on classic and contemporary sources, The Mussar Institute inspires individuals, organizations, and communities around the world, regardless of affiliation, to align heart and mind with the highest ideals of the Jewish tradition.\nThe Mussar Institute was founded in 2004, by Dr. Alan Morinis, to organize a response for requests for courses and facilitator training in Mussar teachings and practices. Over the years, courses have been developed by Mussar experts to support the spiritual paths of everyday people and those who were able to and interested in facilitating Mussar va\u2019adim or small groups, which are at the heart of Mussar practice.\nToday, TMI offers courses at all levels of Mussar expertise and knowledge; training for facilitators, rabbis, and clergy in Mussar facilitation; programs and curricula for organizations and congregations; as well as resources and community for all.\nIn 14 years, The Mussar Institute has grown from a group of volunteers to a growing, non-profit organization, directed by professionals who work closely with a community of volunteers. The goal they share is to provide the highest-quality Mussar instruction, support, and experience to Mussar practitioners worldwide, so that souls who desire to participate in a va\u2019ad and learn can do so, wherever in the world they may live.\nThe Mussar Institute is led by:\nSteven Kraus, Executive Director\nAvi Fertig, Director of Mussar\nJeff Agron, Director of Operations\nRuth Schapira, Director of Leadership and Training\nContact TMI here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://my.tradingview.com/chart/BCHUSDT/2EoSmL0K-bch-the-parabola-continues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XML5CYRSPXIM47XXNIAWG65PE2BW3LJQ", "length": 396, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "my.tradingview.com", "title": "bch the parabola continues ! :) untuk POLONIEX:BCHUSDT oleh comanderrich61 \u2014 TradingView", "raw_content": "bch the parabola continues ! :)\nKomen: hope you didn't get flushed out !\nI'm with you. It seems to be a good dip to grab some more before it runs back up higher. I wouldn't be surprised to see it move up to new ATHs (All Time Highs) towards the 5k range by the end of the year, if not sooner. Bithumb sill has BCH at $3,880. All the best of luck to everyone!\nhart-mo\nwhere do you think it will go", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 7720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mybtrn.com/2017/09/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-nephilim-the-untold-story-of-fallen-angels-giants-on-the-earth-and-their-extraterrestrial-origins-by-roberts-scott-alan/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XWW4QYZYH6VNKILSTAAVEEVSDM4Y2COT", "length": 646, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mybtrn.com", "title": "The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim The Untold Story of Fallen Angels, Giants on the Earth, and Their Extraterrestrial Origins by Roberts, Scott Alan", "raw_content": "The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim: The Untold Story of Fallen Angels, Giants on the Earth, and Their Extraterrestrial Origins. 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The book is loaded with the latest research and documentation about ET visitations, a hybrid race on early and alien-human meetings\u2013\u2013a must have on the bookshelf of every reader curious about the legends of the Nephilim as mentioned in the Bible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 127.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mydramalist.com/profile/Sabr/reviews", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HMPJXE22CJNWMY3JUXIZVNN342B6Z6CH", "length": 2140, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mydramalist.com", "title": "loiu's Reviews - MyDramaList", "raw_content": "loiu's List\nby loiu\nThis movie is just awesome.\nThe story is not an outstanding one, without any action scene and a plot-twist. It is a brilliant coming-of-age movie and shows perfectly which impact the disappearance of a guy, named Kirishima, on people has, directly and implicitly. The character development was the center of the movie .\nI like the cast , these are the most talented young actors I've seen over the last years, especially Kimiki Ryunosuke and Higashide Masahiro. These two stood out. Kimiki Ryunosuke did such an outstanding performance.\nHigashide Masahiro did a wonderful job too. His character Hiroki was for me the personification of the movie, he had the biggest development, and the way how Masahiro portrayed this was distinguished . These two young actors have a bright future..\nBut the rest of the cast was awesome too.\nI think it is the best cast in a high-school movie.\nThe music. I loved the music, the combination of classic music and \"alternative\"-music was just great. The credit-song \"The Sun also Rises\" by Takahashi Yu, is very beautiful and the musical interpretation of the movie,\nIt's not a movie which you can't watch it a second time because you will know what will happen.I think you have to watch the movie many times , it will help you to understand the meaning of the movie and you will discover every time something new .\nOverall this movie is just a masterpiece in the Japanese movie industry. Many people don't like it, because it is a bit hard to understand and not everybody's favorite kind of movie.\nAlthough the movie was put in a high school-setting, I think this movie is about life, about the changes in your life and what it means to grow up. Even if you're a adult you can relate to this. If you're having a hard time, this movie is a great help.\nAnd another topic is the social hierarchy in school which is easily found in our society too.\nAnother reason why I love the movie was the ending scene , when everybody was on the roof. The ending was just awesome and one of the greatest scene I've ever seen.\nGreat cinematography, screenplay and editing. And the director was brilliant.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mypromisefm.com/events/2018-12-08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:G7IP5RPYJVC76GYESSBK2LQXZBKQ5RYK", "length": 276, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mypromisefm.com", "title": "Events Archive - MyPromiseFM", "raw_content": "\u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d \u2013 a One-Man Show of the Classic Christmas Tale\nMain St Theater, 307 E Main St\nThe Enchanted Playhouse Theatre presents \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d \u2013 a one man drama performed by (more)\nImmanuel Christian Reformed Church, 517 Orange Ave., Ripon, CA, 517 Orange Ave.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myrtle-beachgolf.com/blog/tilghman-rhymer-returning-strand/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WKPSW3BQG5ZRV65ZYF6C2BPFBLPGBOVZ", "length": 1910, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "myrtle-beachgolf.com", "title": "Tilghman and Rymer Returning to Strand", "raw_content": "Tilghman and Rymer Returning to Strand\nJunior golf in the Myrtle Beach area will receive a boost when Golf Channel\u2019s Kelly Tilghman and Charlie Rymer return again this year to offer their support and some publicity.\nThey are returning to participate in The First Tee of the Grand Strand\u2019s Future Generations Tournament at Caledonia Golf & Fish Club on July 30, and intend to film live segments that day on the Golf Channel\u2019s Morning Drive program for a second year.\n\u201cAs it stands right now we\u2019ll be broadcasting there on Morning Drive,\u201d said Tighlman, who added that unforeseen breaking news is the only thing she envisions bumping the planned live segments. \u201cWe hope to have a stronger Morning Drive presence, hope to get more local business involved, and we\u2019re looking forward to having Myrtle Beach mayor John Rhodes come out and support us.\u201d\nTilghman also expressed that they are still in the formative stages and that they are brainstorming about how they want to make this bigger, better and different.\nThe First Tee of the Grand Strand provides golf instruction and character building, stressing nine core values to the youth in Horry and Georgetown counties, and is operated through a foundation that also oversees the highly successful First Tee of Brunswick County.\nThis summer\u2019s event will also serve as a tribute to Todd Welden, who was Caledonia\u2019s head professional from its opening in 1994 until his death in October at the age of 50 after a short battle with cancer.\nThe fundraising Future Generations tournament has a 10 a.m. shotgun start and costs $2000 per foursome, which includes breakfast and dinner at Caledonia, commemorative group pictures with Rymer and Tilghman, and a gift bag including gift cards from PGA Tour Superstore.\nThis should be a great event for a great cause. Thanks to the Golf Channel, Kelly Tilghman, Charlie Rymer, Caledonia Golf & Fish Club and the many volunteers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myskincarerecipe.com/2018/05/19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:22Z", "digest": "sha1:SO5PUWPH6NDM6MUWOHAMBGQ7AAZ4KPZP", "length": 110, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "myskincarerecipe.com", "title": "May 19, 2018 \u00bb My Skincare Recipes", "raw_content": "Soap Mold Basics What is a mold? A mold can be defined as a substance that is used to give shape to another ..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 10135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mysolutions-group.com/en/software/mde-bde.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:23B33NHDWXZ5MF4O2DHD7HL6GCT52VU3", "length": 1307, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mysolutions-group.com", "title": "Data collection (MDE/BDE) - MySolutions GmbH", "raw_content": "In the first level, it is possible to attach a wide variety of objects or systems to one or more activities. The performed work is supported by unlimited detail information. This guarantees full access in all situations. An activity can take place once or cyclically. The technician with the appropriate expertise get continually informed about upcoming activities, and can automatically generate a maintenance plan for a certain period of time.\nOnce an activity has been done, the responsible operator confirm this by a signature. As an alternative to traditional signature on paper, it is possible to confirm by e-signature. This method is superior to the traditional paper document, since the date of the signature is captured and sealed stored. The personal and unique writing characteristic of the signatory is also stored in the document. Biometrics is an essential part of the signature and is stored highly encrypted in the document and automatically entered into the database.\nLegal certainty assumes a increasing importance in today's corporate governance. Insurance companies have to keep their costs and outputs low. They do not hesitate to go to court, when it comes to larger sums. In such a situation, the systematic recording of all activities and their complete documentation is invaluable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mystictourist.com/tag/faith/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GV3BYX4YZZBQEPQUMKEE63BYVOXNQZYT", "length": 4241, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mystictourist.com", "title": "Faith | Mystic Tourist's Blog", "raw_content": "Death of a Seminarian\nI continue to maintain resentment that spiritual wisdom is my only interest. I first chose resentment by virtue my eighth grade epiphany that women are considered less than men. I had long thought that I would graduate eighth grade, go on to seminary and eventually be ordained a Catholic priest. By the time I reached eighth grade I realized that the church was teaching that if a man took a wife, that condition would so defame him so as to make the man unfit as a priest. Was this a rule I was taught? No, but it implication is unmistakable. The silly rules I knew of and that were imposed on women, by the church, took on a new meaning and a new urgency to make sense of it all troubled me.\nThere were rules designed for women only. Women could not be priests. They had to cover their head in church, men could not. What is that supposed to mean? At the time the church taught that it was a sin for women to wear pants. It was also a sin for a woman to use a tampon. I think the list was a bit longer, but being a man I am ignorant, these rules did not apply to me. It was not hard to notice that women did not make these rules, men did. I could not abide by this shaming of women. It made no sense to me and I began to question my expectation to become a Catholic priest. I never went to seminary and I resented the lies I had been told by the church. If I could not trust the church, how do I reconcile my life with God? This was when I first realized that I would have to find my own way. That men did not speak for God.\nI would like to trust the church. I could have made a career out of that. How about the sense of community, of belonging? None of that for me. If you are a part of a church you are part of a network that enriches life in many ways. The God Club supplies support in countless ways. It can be a powerful tool for wealth. People in turn claim that their prosperity, and good fortune, is due to their faith in God. Without the church, a like-minded support group, I think things might be a little different. There is a vested interest in seeing the members of your church succeed. The success can be pointed to and the claim made that it is due to God. What about the network of support, could that have anything to do with it? You need to raise funds for a charitable enterprise and you turn to your church. It is not hard to see that it is the network of like-minded people gathered together for a common purpose that deserves the credit given to God. Churches do wonderful things and it is good to have support but the notion that God favors one above the other is insulting. Not to God of course. What insult could God possibly suffer? It is an insult to ourselves.\nReading that last paragraph it is easy to see that the vein of resentment, my resentment, runs deep. Before sitting to write this post I had long believed resentment of my spiritual drive was rooted in my high school years. I had always thought of this eighth grade epiphany as a turning point but never as the onset of my spiritual resentment. I have learned a great deal by finding my own path. My determination that no man, no book, reveals God has left me to trust God. I believe that wherever I am God makes God available. Providence. I do not seek the false shelter of religion to shepherd God.\nI like to think that my pursuit of God, on Gods terms, reveals a secret that is itself success. Well that is a nice thought, maybe it does. And there is that resentment jumping out like the boogeyman. I am writing about this to unravel the physical sensation that is caused by this resentment. I can feel it and it is uncomfortable. In looking to understand what it is, this is what I find. The words I am writing.\nOne of the things I have long associated my spiritual resentment to is the belief that I would have to make public my spiritual curiosity and its product. That was a realization I became aware of in high school. Now that I am actively doing that it has forced me to deal with the resentment and so this post. I need to find a way not to feel this way about it, to grow past it. My curiosity is a good thing as is whatever it reveals.\nPosted in Grist\t| Tagged Appointment, Faith, Spirituality\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 31835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nathanieltapley.com/tag/stand-up-comedy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OZLU2SPPQENVHRTHCN7ARHXP3LXZQL43", "length": 9891, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "nathanieltapley.com", "title": "Stand-up comedy | Nathaniel Tapley", "raw_content": "You are currently browsing the tag archive for the \u2018Stand-up comedy\u2019 tag.\nFamous Alumni of Nathaniel Tapley\u2019s School Of Comedy\nMarch 9, 2011 in comedy theory, self-promotion | Tags: BBC Surrey, comic relief, crccisc, Emma Freud, Hugh Dennis, Jo Brand, Jon Culshaw, Komedia, Reigate, Stand-up comedy | 3 comments\nWell, famous alumnus. And, in all fairness, he was reasonably famous before we started.\nI\u2019ve been teaching Nick Wallis, Breakfast presenter for BBC Surrey, how to do standup comedy, in aid of Comic Relief for the last few weeks. Summaries of bits of our lessons can be found here, here, here, here, & here.\nHaving exposed himself to the hecklers and monsters of Reigate a couple of Fridays ago, last week Nick had to go and perform for a minute in front of Jo Brand, Jon Culshaw, Hugh Dennis and Emma Freud last week. He had to do actual standup in front of actual standups. You can read all the details, including how Nick felt he was going to be \u2018sick on the spot,\u2019 and watch a video of his performance here.\nTeaching standup is an odd thing. One week you may be fearing for your students\u2019 safety, the next wiping a tear from your eye as the knob gag that you helped them work up from a weak pun is rapturously received by an audience of\u2026 tens, usually.\nStill, doing this with Nick has been especially gratifying. Not only has it been heartening to see him take to comedy so easily, but it\u2019s also been a way of raising money for Comic Relief. It\u2019s rare that a a profession so mired in (and fuelled by) cynicism and bitterness gives you an opportunity to do something so utterly wholesome.\nWhat was particularly encouraging was the way in which the judges said that Nick was \u201cmost like an actual standup\u201d, \u201ccomfortable\u201d, and \u201cso good looking\u201d. I am going to take credit for all of those things\u2026\nMy notes would be: if you\u2019re going to do an improvised bit, Nick, make sure you\u2019ve got a punchline to end it with, and a way of getting back to the material you\u2019ve prepared. And, stop putting in extra words again, you\u2019re swamping your punchlines with verbiage! But I shall berate you thoroughly for all that next time I see you.\nWell done. Next stop: the Komedia on March 17th!\nIf you\u2019d like the same sort of comedy tuition that Nick Wallis has been receiving, why not drop me an email about one-to-one lessons, or look at the Courses page?\nThe Comic Relief Crash Course In Standup Comedy Lesson #4: Relax (nathanieltapley.com)\nWax On, Whacks Off\u2026 (nathanieltapley.com)\nThe Comic Relief Crash Course In Standup Comedy Lesson #5: Own The Stage (nathanieltapley.com)\nBrian Logan on novelty standups (guardian.co.uk)\nBBC radio stars attempt standup for Comic Relief (guardian.co.uk)\nThe Comic Relief Crash Course In Standup Comedy Lesson #5: Own The Stage\nMarch 3, 2011 in comedy theory, Uncategorized | Tags: Arts, Comedian, comedy, crccisc, dealing with heckles, hecklers, JFK, New York, nick wallis, Performing Arts, Stand-up comedy | 2 comments\nThe most important thing to remember when you are on stage is that it is you who is on stage.\nYou may find it difficult to forget, of course. You might find yourself gazing out over patient rows of expectant faces, your bowels curdling under the lights as the gags you expected would bring the house down drift aimlessly across the room only to sputter against the far wall like disappointed farts in a week-old balloon. At that point you might find it quite difficult to forget that it is you who is on stage.\nNo matter what happens, remember that you have a right to be there, people have come to see you, you have the microphone. From the moment you walk on the stage \u2013 even if you are playing a meek and nervous character \u2013 you must own the space. It\u2019s yours. Look at home in it. Try not to apologise for your presence.\nNothing is more uncomfortable for an audience than watching an act who isn\u2019t convinced that they should be up onstage. From the apologetic way in which they handle the microphone, to the sympathetic ear they lend hecklers, to the self-pitying murmurs of \u201cThis isn\u2019t going well\u201d when it isn\u2019t going well, if the audience don\u2019t feel that the person on the stage is in control of the situation it panics them.\nAnd rightly so. It would be like sitting down before your long-haul flight to hear across the tannoy: \u201cGood afternoon, everyone, this is your 1430 hours departure for New York. The temperature at JFK is a balmy\u2026 I\u2019m not sure I can do this. I practised for ages, but it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s going very well. Is it going very well? Don\u2019t know why I\u2019m asking you lot, you don\u2019t cre, you vultures. Now, which of these buttons makes it go up?\u201d\nThe only difference is that the fear your audience will feel will not be that of a fiery, ocean-bound death, but rather of an excruciating five minutes of comedy. All right, so it\u2019s not really the same at all.\nBut, still, it\u2019s your responsibility to be in charge of the stage. To look like you know what you\u2019re doing, even when you have know idea what you\u2019re going to say next. Like Prince Philip.\nWhen we watched the video back you noticed that your body language changed when you were dealing with the heckler. You physically tried to move away from him and avoid eye contact to defuse the situation. However, comedy is occasionally quite territorial and mammalian. You have to assert your authority over the group using your wit. And the fact that they don\u2019t have a microphone.\nYou must become a silverback gorilla, throwing the weight of your enormous barrel-chest around, and grunting and hooting your authority to all challengers. Like Prince Philip.\nYou are the one who is meant to be there. You are the one people are there to see. Bear that in mind and straddle the stage like a smug giant, untroubled by doubt, secure in the knowledge that, undeserved or not, you are in charge of everything you cast your gaze upon.\nExactly like Prince Philip.\nThe Comic Relief Crash Course In Standup Comedy Lesson #4: Relax\nMarch 2, 2011 in comedy theory | Tags: Arts, BBC Surrey, comedy, comic relief, crccisc, nick wallis, Performing Arts, Stand-up comedy | 2 comments\nWhat you are about to do is not important.\nIt may feel like a nerve-wracking ordeal devised especially to torment you, but it isn\u2019t. Your every waking moment might be filled with the dread of imminently having to stand on a stage whilst people watch you and laugh at you. Or, even worse, watch you and not laugh at you. But, in the grand scheme of things, it\u2019s not that important.\nIt is five minutes. In the middle of other people doing their five minutes. Even if it all goes horribly wrong, if the only reactions from the audience are yawns, gasps of horror, or wheezes of despair, it\u2019s not that important.\nYou won\u2019t be ruining anyone\u2019s life. You probably won\u2019t even be ruining anyone\u2019s evening as there will be lots of other comedy to watch. To you, this is an experience that can consume your every waking moment. To the audience, you\u2019re a brief distraction from the problems in their lives and their own ever-present dread of mortality.\nSo, relax. Take it easy. I\u2019d suggest that you take a chill pill if it didn\u2019t sound highly illegal, and exactly the sort of thing that caused all that trouble for that nice Dr Shipman.\nRelax. Drink the experience in. You don\u2019t get to spend much of your life being silly in front of people. Even if they don\u2019t like it, so what? It\u2019s not like they don\u2019t like you. Unless they do.\nAnd, even then, so what? What does it signify, at the end of the day? That you and some other people met for five minutes, discussed some ideas, and didn\u2019t come to any mutually satisfying conclusions.\nRelax. It\u2019s not that important. No one\u2019s life depends on it.\nExcept in your case, of course, as you\u2019re doing it for charity. The fundees of the Comic Relief charities are directly dependent on your success for life-saving treatments, in some cases.\nSo don\u2019t relax too much.\nFebruary 11, 2011 in comedy theory | Tags: BBC Surrey, brevity, crccisc, nick wallis, Stand-up comedy, syllables | 1 comment\nFebruary 8, 2011 in comedy theory | Tags: Arts, BBC Surrey, Chortle Awards, comedy, comedy course, comedy tuition, comic relief, crccisc, Grumpy Old Men, Komedia, Rick Wakeman, Stand-up comedy | 4 comments\nThe CRCCISC posts are a series of tips to help Nick Wallis, breakfast presenter for BBC Surrey, prepare for his first standup gig, at The Komedia, on March 17th. There are more details in this post.\nThe second lesson is even easier than the first. It\u2019s simple: be forgiving. Be understanding. When you look at the world and notice its absurdities and ridiculousness, pause for a minute to try and understand why it might have got itself into such an absurd state, before condemning it out of hand.\nAdmittedly, condemning things out of hand is funny. Anger is funny. Your frustrations are funny. But they\u2019ll only take you so far. About as far as being Rick Wakeman in an episode of Grumpy Old Men. And no one wants that.\nComedy has enough middle-class white men sneering at a world that doesn\u2019t quiet defer to them in the way they\u2019d like. You\u2019ll get laughs pointing out everyone else\u2019s deficiencies, but you may well lose your soul in the process.\nKeep your bitterness, your ire, your condemnation as arrows in your comic quiver; they\u2019re all easy ones to fall back on. Spend a day trying to find the other kinds of comedy in world. Glory in silliness; see humankind\u2019s foibles as symptoms of what we\u2019re trying to get right, rather than evidence of all we get wrong; meet the world with an open and generous heart.\nAbove all, if you go to meet someone to talk about standup and you find they may have been out at the Chortle Awards until incredibly late, doing unmentionable things to the free bar, and that they\u2019re now in no real state to see their own feet, never mind tutor anyone in comedy, be forgiving. Be understanding. Be quiet.\nAnd maybe bring them some paracetamols.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 18009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/n-b-town-reclaims-title-of-having-what-it-says-is-worlds-longest-lobster-roll", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KNGYNBF67YWBNMAMD22RXYSXOIOZM6C4", "length": 3518, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "nationalpost.com", "title": "N.B. town reclaims title of having what it says is world\u2019s longest lobster roll | National Post", "raw_content": "N.B. town reclaims title of having what it says is world's longest lobster roll\nChef Alain Bosse stands next to a lobster roll measuring measured just over 67 metres in Shediac, N.B., in this Wednesday, July 4, 2018 handout photo. It took the will and work of dozens of people, buckets of seasoned meat and a room big enough to accommodate what is being heralded as the world's longest lobster roll.HO / THE CANADIAN PRESS\nSHEDIAC, N.B. \u2014 Residents of a small New Brunswick community that prides itself on its renowned lobster catches was basking in the glow of a restored, distinctly Maritime honour \u2014 creating what it says is the longest lobster roll in the world.\nPeople in Shediac, N.B., turned out in droves Wednesday evening to watch as a chef and volunteers stuffed the succulent meat into a lengthy loaf of bread in a bid to take back the longest-roll title from the town\u2019s neighbour to the east.\nEdgar LeBlanc, president of the Shediac Lobster Festival, said the roll spanned the length of the local arena and measured about 68 metres \u2014 besting Charlottetown, P.E.I.\u2019s record-breaking length of more than 61 metres last year.\nLeBlanc said he was pretty chuffed by the size of the roll, saying it would ramp up the \u201cfriendly rivalry\u201d with Island chefs that has been going on for several years.\n\u201cWell P.E.I., good luck,\u201d he said with a laugh when asked if he had anything to say to his competitors.\n\u201cThe challenge is on and we\u2019re now in the driver\u2019s seat. We got the biggest lobster roll, so I give them a friendly competition to see if they\u2019re going to beat Shediac again, and hopefully if they do we\u2019ll see them again next year.\u201d\nThe roll took about two days to prepare and included hundreds of the red crustaceans that were mixed up into 180 pounds of savoury lobster meat.\nChef Alain Bosse was responsible for baking the bread and whipping up the meat mixture, which included celery, green onion, chives, salt, pepper and mayonnaise.\nThe Nova Scotia-based chef said it took 12.5 hours and 40 volunteers to cook the long loaf that snaked along tables set up in the arena and had to be connected without separations, under the Guinness Book of World Records rules.\nThe bread lay on about five tables prior to going into the oven for 20 minutes per section. It then took about a half hour to stuff the meat into the roll.\nWhen it was all prepared, about 400 people were allowed in to watch as the roll was measured by the mayor, LeBlanc and Bosse, who sported a red cap bearing lobster claws.\n\u201cThey gathered in the arena and everybody cheered us on as we counted it out foot by foot,\u201d Bosse said. \u201cIt was fun! And it was very rewarding after you\u2019ve finished those 48 hours of long work.\u201d\nThe roll was then cut into about 450 pieces, to be eaten by people who had bought tickets. In an hour, it was completely gone.\nLeBlanc said the roll was delicious and that it was the talk of the town Thursday.\n\u201cIt was amazing!\u201d he said. \u201cEverywhere we go in Shediac, everybody\u2019s talking about it\u2026. Lobster is very important to the community.\u201d\nBosse said the event takes about six months of planning and was a lot of work, but represents a \u201cfriendly competition between the two cities\u201d that involves the whole New Brunswick community.\n\u201cIt really is good clean fun \u2014 there\u2019s no animosity here,\u201d he said, laughing when he added that \u201cwe feel confident that with 20 extra feet, P.E.I. will need a longer building to (beat) it!\u201d\nNo one from the Island\u2019s shellfish festival was available for comment.\n\u2013 By Alison Auld in Halifax", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nawindpower.com/nj-assembly-oks-offshore-wind-amendment-in-support-of-fishermans-energy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:39:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WDMABQOGEWPCVT35WICX42ETFV2QSYWV", "length": 2805, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nawindpower.com", "title": "N.J. Assembly OKs Offshore Wind Amendment In Support Of Fisherman's Energy - North American Windpower", "raw_content": "Home Wind News Policy N.J. Assembly OKs Offshore Wind Amendment In Support Of Fisherman\u2019s Energy\nN.J. Assembly OKs Offshore Wind Amendment In Support Of Fisherman\u2019s Energy\nThe New Jersey Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee has approved an amendment to offshore wind legislation to require the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to open a window for soliciting new proposals for Fishermen's Energy's 25 MW pilot project off the coast of Atlantic City.\nThe amendment was made to Section 4 of the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act (OWEDA). It is expected that the full Assembly and Senate will pass the bill by year-end.\nAccording to Fishermen's Energy, its proposed $200 million demonstration project will create almost 500 jobs and inject more than $150 million into New Jersey's economy. However, the BPU has raised a number of objections with the project since the developer submitted the application in 2011.\nLast year, the BPU rejected the application for several reasons, including concerns about the project's economic and technological viability, the cost of the electricity it would produce, and whether the project would produce a net benefit under the OWEDA statute.\nMost recently, the BPU noted Fishermen's frequent switching of wind turbine suppliers. Last month, in an effort to appease the regulators, Fishermen's announced that it would be using only Siemens' 4 MW towers.\nPaul Gallagher, chief operating officer of of Fishermen's Energy, says, \"We are pleased to have continued legislative support for offshore wind.\u00c2 In light of today's federal government auction for offshore wind development rights, it is clear that offshore wind will be coming to New Jersey sooner or later. With this legislation, New Jersey is again positioned to take advantage of its leadership role in offshore wind and garner the economic development benefits of being a leader.\"\nHe continues, \"Some may ask, \"Why proceed with a demonstration-scale project if the development of commercial projects is finally getting started?' To many of us in the industry, it is clear that these commercial-scale projects are several years away from completion. That leaves ample time to learn from a small project and save a lot on the commercial-scale projects. In fact, with large projects moving forward, it is all the more important that New Jersey and its stakeholders have the opportunity to learn from a demonstration project.\"\nChris Wissemann, CEO of Fishermen's Energy, adds, \"We look forward to working constructively with the BPU to successfully launch offshore wind in New Jersey. The Atlantic City project has been reconfigured to utilize proven Siemens turbines and traditional project financing specifically to address the issues raised by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nawindpower.com/poll-shows-strong-support-for-offshore-wind-in-maryland", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:NTSTVV4ILVZ4CTUMOB6TQWVEG6X45XLI", "length": 1773, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nawindpower.com", "title": "Poll Shows Strong Support For Offshore Wind In Maryland - North American Windpower", "raw_content": "Home Recent New & Noteworthy Poll Shows Strong Support For Offshore Wind In Maryland\nPoll Shows Strong Support For Offshore Wind In Maryland\nA new poll shows that 72% of Maryland voters support offshore wind energy development, which represents an 8% increase over the results of a similar poll conducted in December 2011.\nThe survey results were released as Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to renew his push for offshore wind energy legislation, which failed to make it out of the state's General Assembly the past two years.\nThe offshore wind bill would have established an offshore wind renewable energy credit carve-out of at least 450 MW within Maryland's existing renewable portfolio standard, which is 20% by 2022.\nThe poll, conducted by research firm Opinion Works and commissioned by the Marylanders for Offshore Wind Coalition, interviewed 800 randomly selected registered Maryland voters about their specific beliefs on the cost and benefits of developing offshore wind power.\nSupport was highest for offshore wind in Baltimore and Montgomery County, where 79% and 76% of those polled supported offshore wind, respectively. In addition, a majority of western Maryland (69%) and Eastern Shore (70%) voters said they support offshore wind.\nFurthermore, the poll results showed that a growing number of Marylanders are willing to pay $2 more per month on their electric bill for offshore wind development.\nAdditionally, the poll showed that Marylanders expect that the price of fossil fuels will continue to rise, and 80% agree that they would \"prefer that we invest in wind power, rather than build another power plant that burns fossil fuels.\"\nMore than two-thirds of voters cited health benefits as a strong reason to support offshore wind development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nch-spb.com/eng/about-company/common-info/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CNUQ45JN37G5RK37ZWROBSMVO3HLJU3A", "length": 2612, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "nch-spb.com", "title": "PPP Agreement", "raw_content": "The project of WHSD construction is being implemented on the basis of Public Private Partnership (PPP) principles in accordance with Saint Petersburg Law No 627-100 of 12-Dec-06 \u201cRegarding participation by City of Saint Petersburg in Public Private Partnerships\u201d.\nNCH won the competitive contract and was empowered to make a contract for the Construction and Operation of Western High Speed Diameter Highway on the Basis of Public-Private Partnership.\n23 December, 2011 the PPPA of 30-years duration is concluded between the Partner, the City and WHSD, OJSC\nParties of the Agreement\nOn 20 December, 2012 in Moscow the Act of financial close and the update edition of Construction and Operation of Western High Speed Diameter Highway on the Basis of Public-Private Partnership Agreement were signed as well as the EPC Contract with ICA Astaldi-IC I\u00e7ta\u015f WHSD In\u015faat Anonim \u015eirketi (association of Astaldi, IC I\u00e7ta\u015f In\u015faat and Mega Yapi Companies) (hereafter \u2013 General Subcontractor) and a number of documents necessary for funding receipt including an updated edition of the Facility Agreement, Direct Agreement between the City, Partner, WHSD, OJSC, and General Subcontractor, other financial documents.\nProject of Construction and Operation of Western High Speed Diameter is the greatest PPP Road Deal in the World.\nThe Project is honored with the outstanding international economic publications awards.\nSee in detail: Awards\n- is a mutually beneficial cooperation of the City of St.Petersburg and Russian or foreign Legal entity, Natural person or Legal entities operating jointly as a general partnership in execution of socially significant Projects aimed at development of Education, Public Health, Social Services, Physical training, Sport, Culture, Tourism, Transport and Engineering Infrastructures, Communication Services and telecommunication Infrastructure in St.Petersburg which is being implemented by means of signing and executing Agreements inter alia concessions. Definition from St.Petersburg Law \u201cAbout the City of St.Petersburg cooperation in Public-Private Partnerships\u201d.\nRead more about PPP (in russian).\nIn accordance with the PPPA NCH attracts funding for the Construction of the Central Part of Western High Speed Diameter Highway and acquires the right of Operation of the complete WHSD under the 30 years Concession.\nThe Terms of the Agreement contain a minimal operation income guarantee by the Government of Saint-Petersburg in amount of 9,67 milliard rubles per year. If the annual receipts exceed this sum NCH will pay out to the Government of Saint-Petersburg 90% of the remainder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neacac.memberclicks.net/contact-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6X4D7CE5Y5HXZ2DITTW2FE47VGNYMRDU", "length": 123, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "neacac.memberclicks.net", "title": "Contact Us", "raw_content": "If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please contact us.\nNew England Association for College Admission Counseling", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nerdist.com/article/the-shape-of-water-funko-pops/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XVPR4QLQCZNB5DNBGSMADZWQHXDMX6HL", "length": 2123, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "nerdist.com", "title": "THE SHAPE OF WATER Characters (and Director) Emerge as Funko Pops - Nerdist", "raw_content": "THE SHAPE OF WATER Characters (and Director) Emerge as Funko Pops\nMar 3 2018 -- 2:17 PM\nHow much proof do we need that we are currently living in a geek golden age? Here's all the proof you need -- Director Guillermo del Toro's latest film, The Shape of Water, a movie about an underwater, humanoid monster who falls in love with a mute young woman, is currently up for a whopping 13 nominations at this year's Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. There was a time when the Academy would have shied away from a film that was such a throwback to sci-fi monster movies of the past, but now, they are embracing it. Better late than never!\nIf you're one of the millions of fans around the world who has embraced The Shape of Water as one of our best ever modern cinematic fairy tales, then you'll definitely want to grab these new Funko Pop! vinyls based on the film. The first wave will have three vinyl figures in total -- the Amphibian Man, played by the great Doug Jones in the film, and his rescuer and romantic love Elisa, played by Best Actress nominee Sally Hawkins. Also included in the first wave is a vinyl figure of the man himself, director Guillermo del Toro, and all of these Pop! toys are worthy of a hallowed place in his collectible-filled home, Bleak House.\nHopefully, fans will get a second wave of the Pop! figures from The Shape of Water before too long, because I am pretty sure we all need a glow-in-the-dark version of the Amphibian Man, and maybe a toy of other characters in the film, like the horrible Colonel Richard Strickland, the Amphibian Man's keeper and tormentor, played by the great Michael Shannon; and Elisa's best friend Zelda, played by Octavia Spencer. The first wave of The Shape of Water Pop! vinyls are set to hit stores this summer.\nWhat do you think of these latest Pop!s coming from Funko? And which characters from the film would you like to see next? Let us know down below in the comments.\nImages: Funko /Fox Searchlight Pictures\nPop! go the toy stories.\nOooh, ahhh...it's sexy Ian Malcolm.\nRick and Morty and Mad Max and Funko.\nMinecraft Pops go low-res.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 6117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newint.org/node/20631", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUJX2QCW4KOVEE5HYCEFGKZFGXHNE3E5", "length": 14789, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "newint.org", "title": "Desperate journey | New Internationalist", "raw_content": "In hiding and fearful for his future, *Emmanuel Njoya*\u2019s story of his family\u2019s deportation from Britain reveals the lie of the \u2018safe return\u2019 that rarely gets told.\nEmmanuel Njoya is reluctant to talk. After a day\u2019s wait, I receive a text.\n\u2018Sorry not been able to text due to phone battery failure. No electricity where we are. I really don\u2019t want to recall my/our horrible experience of the UK removal process again. We are struggling to blank it out in faith\u2026 We have nightmares. \u2026 It\u2019s painful and negatively provocative.\u2019\nI\u2019m a bit nonplussed. Mick Fryer, the priest of the church Emmanuel had attended in Britain and a pillar of his support, had told me Emmanuel was eager to talk about the injustice of his family\u2019s deportation to Cameroon, where he is a wanted man. Maybe, suggests Mick, Emmanuel is feeling depressed again; the family is hiding out in a remote area and their year-old daughter, Tracey, is seriously ill. I should try to phone and check.\nWhen I do, he has changed his mind and says what happened to his family should not be \u2018brushed under the carpet\u2019. He wants to expose a merciless system which throws people seeking sanctuary back into the situations they have been trying to escape.\nBut he is whispering. I ask if it is ok to talk. It\u2019s not \u2013 he is outside and feels watched, plus he doesn\u2019t want people in this Francophone part of Cameroon to hear him speaking English. It may raise suspicions. We agree to talk another time.\nIn the meantime, a flood of documentation arrives down the wire from Mick Fryer and anti-deportation campaigner Jackie Fearnley. Some of it is stomach-turning.\nAccounts of torture made by asylum seekers must be recounted as mere allegations rather than lived experience\nEmmanuel Njoya, a one-time press officer for the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a political grouping dedicated to the cause of autonomy for the region, was detained at London Heathrow airport on 9 November 2002, en route to Mexico from Cameroon. Prevented from reaching his destination, he claimed asylum in Britain which was quickly turned down. Until his final removal on 19 September 2009, there would be appeals against this decision and a total of 16 further representations, which would all be refused; 11 recorded instances of Members of Parliament writing in support of his case; and a total of eight removal directions, with the ensuing panic they cause \u2013 before his final desperate journey back to a place where he feels hunted.\nCatalogue of terror\nWhen Emmanuel claimed asylum in Britain, he outlined the torture he had undergone in Cameroon, a country that is effectively a dictatorship (see box above). He belonged to a family which supported opposition politics. When he was 16, he had been picked up with his sister and they had been tortured by having Guinness bottles pushed into their anuses and being beaten on the soles of their feet (a technique called falaka). Earlier in 2002, the year he was detained at Heathrow, he had already undergone two bouts of torture and had his home destroyed.\nThis is where we are supposed to enter the territory of the journalistic \u2018allegedly\u2019. Accounts of torture made by asylum seekers must be recounted as mere allegations rather than lived experience. The authorities routinely dismiss them as made up and fraudulent.\nA week before Emmanuel\u2019s removal, Charmian Goldwyn, a doctor for the charity Medical Justice, made a detailed assessment of his injuries (nearly seven years after he had left Cameroon) and submitted numerous photographs along with her report. Here is a short extract:\n\u2018Photo 313 shows damage to the soles of feet, consistent with falaka.\n\u2018Photo 315 shows a mottling of the skin over the right thigh, typical of being dragged along the ground, when the skin is torn and heals up slowly and in patches.\n\u2018Photo 318 shows two round scars, both around 3 cms diameter on the knee, and a scar down the right foreleg. These are all consistent with being kicked.\n\u2018Photo 319 shows the left knee, with another round scar medially, about 3 cms across, as above. All these scars on the knee appear not have been sutured, which is typical of injuries made during torture or on the battlefield where there is no-one to suture. Torturers keep wounds open to prolong the pain.\n\u2018Photos 316 and 317 both show the long fine scar across the right thigh\u2026 20 cms long. Mr Njoya describes the threat of castration which was then turned into a wide cut along his thigh. This cut is diagnostic of Mr Njoya\u2019s account. Accidental wounds do not appear in this position, as the natural response to damage is to pull your knees into your chest. In Mr Njoya\u2019s case he could not do this as he was held down.\u2019\nThere are a further seven entries in this catalogue of terror printed on the body. A document which was an open arrest warrant for Emmanuel by the Cameroonian authorities had also been supplied. None of it was considered compelling evidence by the British Home Office. When it comes to Cameroon, if documentation is procured \u2013 usually at great expense \u2013 it is rejected anyway, the argument being that rampant corruption in the country makes it unreliable.\nEmmanuel\u2019s case was due for inspection by another charity \u2013 the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture \u2013 whose word might have held more weight. But he had already been strong-armed out of the country.\nConscience and coercion\nAn uncertain future: Emmanuel on his wedding day in 2009.\nJohn Hallaway\nIn January 2009, Emmanuel married fellow Cameroonian asylum seeker Efrasye, who had recently given birth to their daughter. A month later he was in detention, separated from his wife and daughter (who were also incarcerated), and resisting deportation attempts. He alleges he was assaulted by a guard at one of the detention centres \u2013 investigation of which would never run its course. When Jackie Fearnley travelled halfway across the country to talk with him and offer succour the guards turned her away, saying he didn\u2019t want to meet anyone. This turned out to be a blatant lie.\nMembers of his church congregation in Hull, St Aidan\u2019s, rushed to his aid (and continue to do so). When Emmanuel was forced onto a 6.40 am flight to Paris (en route to Cameroon) on 11 May 2009, his wrists bleeding from the handcuffs, two women from his church were at the airport leafleting passengers, asking them to request politely that he be removed from the plane. The passengers rose to the occasion, alerting the cabin crew, who told the captain. The captain then spoke with Emmanuel and seeing his condition and hearing that he was being removed against his will, refused to transport him. This triumph of conscience was but a momentary reprieve.\nEventually Emmanuel was pushed into compliance, through brute force, with Efrasye and Tracey deported a day later, despite assurances that the family would be removed together. His latest removal notice had run out making his removal technically illegal, but this was a rule the UK Border Agency was willing to break.\nWhen at the appointed time I get Emanuel on the telephone again, this is what he tells me: \u2018There were about seven of them who came to escort me at the airport. But on the flight there were five. My arms were handcuffed, my legs were tied. They just treated me like a criminal. But I said: \u201cWell, this is what they have to do to control the immigration of their country. So be it.\u201d I know that God has planned everything. Christ was beaten so many times. You know, he had thorns on his head. Tortured like no-one can imagine. That\u2019s what he went through. Why not me? I said: \u201cWell, God, this is probably what you wanted for me.\u201d\u2019\nTalking further it becomes evident that Emmanuel\u2019s strong faith is what has kept him going so far.\nWhen Emmanuel landed, he says the British escorts bribed the immigration authorities so he wouldn\u2019t be checked, feeding the very corruption they are quick to condemn. As for paperwork: \u2018I don\u2019t have a passport. Efrasye doesn\u2019t have a passport because she was a refugee and an asylum seeker as well. They just returned us with an EU travel document. They left it with the guards at the airport.\u2019\nAs for the much-vaunted claim that \u2018failed\u2019 asylum seekers get help with resettlement: \u2018We were abandoned at the airport! They promised my wife that when we\u2019d get to the airport they would give transportation, so that she would be able to travel to her own region of the country. [Southern Cameroons has no international airport and travelling there from the capital Yaound\u00e9 is risky without ID as there are numerous checkpoints.] Nothing was given. They promised all promises there in England. They give money for deported people to re-establish themselves, to re-integrate\u2026 Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Not a penny.\n\u2018When she arrived I saw her standing, her alone with a baby in a baby cot. It was so painful, seeing her there like that on the other side of the glass.\n\u2018She had come with a bag. The police were keeping the bag from her in a room. Now standing in the open yard with my wife and daughter, two police officers came to me and told us: \u201cWe have come for identification.\u201d I told them: \u201cYes, I am a Cameroonian, I was born here, I grew up here.\u201d But I didn\u2019t reveal the political part.\u2019\nOutside the airport Emmanuel managed to persuade a woman who had come to drop off someone to take them to a nearby village so they could figure out what to do next. \u2018When we got to that lady\u2019s car there were two army officers who came after us. They were trying to hold my wife back. They claimed she was an Ivoirian, not a Cameroonian. She had not been able to answer the questions they had been asking her, very difficult questions about politics in this country. They said I should present documentation, ID, passport. I said: \u201cI don\u2019t have it, I lost it: this is who I am. If you believe me, that\u2019s alright. If you don\u2019t believe me, I don\u2019t have any other way I can identify myself.\u201d\u2019 Emmanuel was terrified they would fingerprint him and discover his political past through prints kept on file.\n\u2018They probably just wanted to take our money. They got us out of the car, searched our bags, searched everything: they took every last penny. Then they told me they would take my wife. They would separate us until I had proof that she was my wife. I had my marriage certificate and my child\u2019s birth certificate. They took them away. They pretended throughout that we hadn\u2019t any things like that.\u2019\nEfrasye was then locked up with baby Tracey for 24 hours. The helpful woman who had agreed to transport them was too frightened to do so on their release. \u2018We didn\u2019t know any place here. There are no facilities where we could go and ask around. We went to a grassland [a sort of park]. That\u2019s where we passed the night.\u2019\nFinding a place to stay was proving difficult, a year\u2019s deposit being required. One prospective landlady was so suspicious of her tenants-to-be that she went to the police. \u2018The police took my fingerprints, they took my wife\u2019s fingerprints. Two commissioners came back to tell me they had discovered who I was.\u2019 They then began angling for a bribe to issue him with ID. Emmanuel ended up paying the money sent for rent by parishioners of St Aidan\u2019s via an intermediary. But that was not the end of the story. He was further interrogated and told to report every week. The first time he went to report, another official was in post and demanding another fat payment. With the threat of a prison term looming if he didn\u2019t cough up, Emmanuel took his family into hiding.\nTrying to disappear\nHe is too frightened to reveal where they are now, but says this: \u2018When I came here, I came into a very backward community, with witchcraft and witch- hunting. I spoke to the few people who lived around here. We started having a prayer meeting. I suggested we re-establish the church [which had fallen into disuse]. We support each other through the church. I serve them like a lay preacher.\n\u2018I have been visiting a local orphanage. We have some stuff that was sent to us from England from our local church there. Most of it is baby stuff. So we went there and handed it to them. This is how we gain favour from them. In return they come with coco yam, with peas. That\u2019s how we manage where we are.\n\u2018The people here are very remote. They don\u2019t have television. Radio reception is not good. But believe me, the people here shouldn\u2019t discover who I am. By the time they discover this, I hope I will have won their trust. Then they won\u2019t react so hostile.\u2019\nI ask after the baby. \u2018She is now with an exorcist; I took her this morning to a Catholic priest. She has been having diarrhoea, she\u2019s been coughing and vomiting. Yesterday I discovered that she was very pale. Her eyes were going greenish. Early in the morning, at 6 o\u2019clock, my wife suggested I take her to an exorcist. We\u2019ve done all sorts of medication; we don\u2019t have the money to buy more medication. We\u2019ve gone to get medication from the roadside. It is not helpful at all. It\u2019s a very difficult time.\u2019 There are heaving sobs at the other end of the line.\nLater Mick informs me that Tracey hadn\u2019t received any inoculations before she was deported. He says detainees hear through the grapevine that children who haven\u2019t had their shots won\u2019t be removed, and so, in a desperate gamble, refuse to have them inoculated. He wonders if this is what Efrasye did.\nFrom their hideaway, Emmanuel\u2019s struggles to get some form of ID continue. He rarely ventures out, except to his church group, for fear of being challenged. ID is essential in order to get work and to be able to travel across checkpoints back to the South. Without it he can do neither.\n\u2018We are surviving through Saint Aidan\u2019s. If Saint Aidan\u2019s was not there, I would have committed suicide. As a Christian it is very hard for me to say this, but it was what I had on my mind. But if I did it, what about my wife? I said: \u201cGod, take control. This is who I am. I have never hurt anybody. I have used all my conscience to try and change the community for the good of everyone, so that everyone can live in peace, justice and democracy.\u201d And actually, Christ hasn\u2019t left me alone. Even though we are here, we are not alone. I received text messages from Saint Aidan\u2019s. All day I\u2019ve been sitting here, praying. I know somebody, somewhere will hear my cry. Somebody somewhere will know the pain we are going through. Somebody somewhere will change things, so that people who come after us will not go through what I\u2019m going through.\u2019\nSince the interview, the parishioners of St Aidan\u2019s have again come to the family\u2019s support and paid for proper medical treatment for Tracey. She is now well again.\nView from Africa: Cameroon\nHere today, here tomorrow - Nanjala Nyabola questions Cameroon's never-ending presidential terms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 22794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newint.org/node/23304", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PO3WKC343TLQX4I7356H34YP2KCBVMCU", "length": 12195, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "newint.org", "title": "Crime And Civilization | New Internationalist", "raw_content": "Crime And Civilization\nFor Nils Christie the way in which a society delivers pain to its wrongdoers is the measure of civilization.\nHe is a long-time critic of the \u2018lock-\u2019em-up-and-throw-away-the-key\u2019 approach to law and order\nthat is now filling up prisons on both sides of the Atlantic. Christie has been an important\ninfluence on both Scandinavian prison policy and on prison reformers around the world.\nHe spoke to Richard Swift.\nRS: Why do you claim there is little connection between the crime rate and the number of people being sent to prison?\nNC: I hesitate to use the word \u2018crime\u2019, because in a way \u2018crime\u2019 does not exist, it is just a social definition of certain unwanted acts. Sometimes there is no official action at all following such acts. Look at family matters \u2013 teenagers often act in ways that, if it were outside the family, would be labelled as \u2018crime\u2019, but because it is inside it\u2019s just your son, who takes some money from the kitchen table or is hitting his brother. You don\u2019t call that \u2018theft\u2019 or \u2018violence\u2019 because you know reasons for his behaviour; but if it were a new neighbour\u2019s son you might assume he had a tendency for stealing.\nWhere people do not know each other they feel a need for having officials fix matters. They don\u2019t know a person well enough to say: \u2018Sometimes he gets drunk, but he is no real danger.\u2019 The most obvious case of something becoming a crime is hemp, which was a very useful drug for both Europeans and Americans. The whole drug arena is responsible for the most fantastical growth of prison populations in the US and now in Europe. There is a clear influence from the US which has unhealthy consequences for the rest of the globe. It\u2019s not just drugs but a general tendency at work in the industrial world.\nWe feel it very acutely in the so-called welfare states of Scandinavia. With the economy running free the difference between those with means and those without is constantly growing. A majority of Norwegians is doing better but a substantial minority is doing much worse. So the control of this poor minority is becoming a major preoccupation. In the old days you could see that people who owned something were tied down by their property \u2013 they had to live in communities and relate to people who didn\u2019t have that much material wealth. It would have been very silly for them not to have shown a minimum of decency. Now people can move their capital and themselves just by pushing buttons. You don\u2019t have to be so concerned about your local communities.\nWhat other factors are behind the development of what you call the \u2018prison-industrial complex\u2019?\nIt\u2019s the same as when US President Dwight Eisenhower, back in the 1950s, warned against the military establishment fuelled by a military industry\u2019s need for profits and jobs. Today it\u2019s the same with the penal establishment. In California the prison guards\u2019 association gives millions to those politicians who are for the expansion of the prison industry, and tries to block those who are opposed. This same organization gave over $100,000 to the committee that pushed through the \u2018three-strikes-and-you-are-out\u2019 legislation.\nThe same thing happened here in New Brunswick where the prison guards\u2019 union opposed the closing of four prisons by saying that it would take away the discretionary power of judges and courts to make well-founded decisions.\nIt is quite a fantastic situation when those who administer the pain-delivery in our society have such a great say. It\u2019s as if the hangman\u2019s association got together to work for more hanging. We might feel a bit uneasy about this. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a trend in the military industry to turn to law-and-order production. There has been a series of meetings between defence contractors and penal authorities. The US Secretary of Defence addressed them saying: \u2018You won the war abroad, now help us win the war at home.\u2019 It is the electronics industry that is most heavily involved wiring prisons, producing electronic bracelets, electric monitoring both inside and outside prisons. It involves lots of industries \u2013 construction, food-catering, even telephone companies. The journal of the American Corrections Association is filled with ads to tap this billion-dollar market.\nAre there similar trends in Europe?\nIn Europe this trend is not so developed but it is coming, with more pressure to jail drug-users and deal with the \u2018dangerous\u2019 underclass. The shake-up in Eastern European societies has enormously increased pressure on the prison system. I got the Russian figures just the other day. In 1993 they had about 573 prisoners per 100,000 population; in 1994 it went up to 611 per 100,000 and now, in 1995, it is 687 per 100,000.\nIs that the highest rate in the world?\nProbably China is much higher but we have no reliable statistics. This Russian trend is so dramatic because the figures went down after the Second World War and reached the bottom after Gorbachev. Now Russia and the United States are the two biggest incarcerators in the industrial world.\nIn Western Europe there is a different tradition, with less willingness to build prisons and more emphasis on alternative corrections. Is this changing?\nIt differs. We are only a tenth of the Russian and American rates. In Scandinavia we are at 66 per 100,000. Some European countries have been able to resist the pressure \u2013 Finland has done this with a conscious effort from its civil service. But Britain, for example, is going up dramatically and will soon be at the Canadian standard. In Britain it is exceptionally clear that this is a product of Conservative policy \u2013 the Home Office has made it part of a \u2018get-tough-on-crime\u2019 campaign. This is a real betrayal of the British Conservative tradition represented by Winston Churchill, who said it wasn\u2019t decent to have so many poor people in prison. Between the wars Britain brought its prison figures down to a fantastic extent.\nYou have to ask, what are the consequences of this repressive penal policy? In some US cities it\u2019s like a war situation where the young males are simply not there. We send young people to schools or universities with a reason \u2013 we have some hope that they will learn something. What do we think of the kind of citizens we will meet when so many of them have been through the type of \u2018universities\u2019 we call prisons? In the US today there are one-and-a-half million in prison and another three-and-a-half under penal control outside prison. Nearly five per cent of adult males are under penal control: it\u2019s not crime control but a kind of war situation.\nYou take an abolitionist position in terms of prisons, but what do you do with the truly dangerous criminal?\nIf you pushed me I would say that there is probably a small minority of offenders that you have to lock up for a relatively long period of time. If they have done something extraordinary, usually killed people, they would usually go to prison for ten to fifteen years and when they are released very few offend again. Then you have the concept of the truly dangerous criminal \u2013 the problem here is, how do you know who is truly dangerous? We are not good at predicting. When a person has done a truly terrible act it is easy to look back and say we could have predicted it, but that is when it has happened. There are so many people around us about whom we say \u2018aren\u2019t they really dangerous?\u2019, but nothing ever happens. How many should we take in on the suspicion that they might be dangerous? There are risks in life and this is one of them. The most dangerous place for your life is in your home, as you probably know. Most people are killed by family or those they are relatively close to. Refuges for women are important to deal with this. But in the end there are certain risks you take \u2013 when you walk in the streets you might be hit by a car. We cannot build up a system of sanction on supposed danger, in my view.\nWhat do you say to women who say that the criminal-justice system should be more widely used to combat violence against women?\nI find so few of them in my circles. It is enormously interesting that most women go another way and say: \u2018If we are to punish people then we have to deal with a penal law apparatus where we have to stand witness as victims and the man must have advocates to defend him. It is close to certain that this will result in a degrading and terrible situation in court. Why don\u2019t we use a more civil system, rather, where he must make compensation \u2013 make good the damage?\u2019 There is a lot of response amongst women to a system that offers an alternative to just delivering pain to the offender.\nThere is really an interesting development these days in Norway \u2013 a new law has set up a body to handle conflicts. It provides a way to take cases away from the criminal-law system and gets people to talk to each other and try to come up with a kind of contract, whereby the person who has done something silly is given a chance to make it good again. There is a war between civil society and crime-control society \u2013 the state in its most primitive, punitive form.\nCivil society is building up alternative ways of handling conflict. We need to find ideas from the native cultures and our own past, when the state was not so strong. In Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia they have gone a long way in dealing with young offenders in such ways. Norway is the only European society that created such bodies and last year they handled four to five thousand cases. I feel great optimism about this alternative to penal approaches. It does not ignore the crime or unwanted acts \u2013 too often the liberal position. That is very wrong. These acts must be reacted to, otherwise your society is not alive. But who said you should react with pain delivery? Who said you shouldn\u2019t try to make it good again? Don\u2019t forget the victim. Lawyers steal other people\u2019s conflicts: we need to give them back to the people directly concerned.\nWhy is our culture fascinated with crime?\nThis is so natural. As human beings we are interested in conflicts, it\u2019s the theme for great authors and for ordinary people. But people no longer participate in such conflicts. If we become victims we leave it all up to professionals who are basically fed up. Conflict ought to be participated in by ordinary people, but we are just spectators of crime who now and again cry out for more severe punishment.\nBut if we come close to the people in prison for punishment we become more doubtful. We become more open to new ways of integrating that person into everyday life. It is very easy to create a monster of a stranger, seen only through the media. Now they are going to have video trials: the prisoner can be in the prison, the judge in the courthouse, the defender and the prosecutor in their offices, all connected by electronics. They don\u2019t have to meet. You don\u2019t meet the accused in smell and despair, only their picture.\nIt seems it is easier for us to concentrate on the brutality of the individual criminal than the brutality of the system. Why is this so?\nIt\u2019s easier to think in terms of bad people: make monsters of the concentration-camp guards. I know many, many concentration-camp guards who mass-killed in the Nazi extermination camps. Some of them are nice and kind people. I wonder myself what I would have done as a young man if I had worked as a guard in one of those camps. I find mostly nice people doing these things with the best of intentions.\nBut I still have this feeling of the \u2018last days of the Weimar Republic\u2019 when I visit countries with high incarceration rates that are taken for granted as a trend that must continue. Then I ask myself: when is enough enough? How many people can you execute? How large a prison population can you have before you change the kind of country you live in? It is the same kind of question as to whether you want a national theatre or libraries. What kind of country would it be without them? How many prison camps can we have before my Norway isn\u2019t Norway any more, or your Canada isn\u2019t Canada?\nNils Christie teaches criminology at the University of Oslo. His book The Crime Control Industry was published in 1995 by Routledge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 19534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neworleansretreats.org/events/the-jesus-i-never-knew-rev-dan-dorsey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YJEEEH5WXMZNDGWA76H2LG3764ZYZPGS", "length": 766, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "neworleansretreats.org", "title": "The Jesus I Never Knew | Rev. Dan Dorsey - Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center - Metairie, LA", "raw_content": "This retreat is based on Philip Yancey\u2019s book with the same name. In a prayerful and reflective manner, we will examine the Biblical Jesus and his motivations and in doing so we will come to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.\nRev. Dan Dorsey, a native of St. Louis, has served as president of Glenmary Home Missioners, dedicated to establishing a Catholic presence in rural areas where the Catholic Church is not yet effectively present. He holds a master of arts degree in theology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and a licentiate in sacred theology from Gregorian University in Rome.\nTo register, please call a Retreat Captain or call Susan Halligan at 504-267-9604\nTraci Barrientos\n228-365-4879 Traci Barrientos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 134.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/article/112478/anne-hathaway-and-les-miserables-does-she-deserve-oscar", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GNOEUGV7DGH5SYRR4BML2HSHL7YPLANI", "length": 7624, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Anne Hathaway and Les Miserables: Does She Deserve an Oscar? | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Jemal Countess/Getty Images Entertainment\nThe Most Divisive Issue in Film: Anne Hathaway\nMovie buffs can't decide whether she's a good actress\nAt 31, Anne Hathaway has been appearing in movies for over a decade. That's usually time enough for people to make up their minds about an actress, even though this one is better known for adding charm to trifles like The Devil Wears Prada and playing Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises than for her rare forays into emotional depth\u2014chiefly, as the sister in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, which earned Hathaway her first Academy Award nomination in 2008. Yet one sure way to start a fight among movie reviewers and other serious film buffs is to wonder aloud\u2014well, online, since most of us have the social skills of shellfish\u2014whether she's got any talent.\nThe churls among us didn't have this problem with Julia Roberts in her heyday. (Answer: not a Maxwell House drop. Sorry, America.) For opposite reasons, we don't have it with Meryl Streep, even if we wish Dame Meryl hadn't waited so long to take her own brilliance for granted and loosen up some. Hathaway is in another category\u2014and in that category, the old-fashioned magic of movies, such as it is in 2013, may reside.\nIf she doesn't win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar on Sunday night for her performance as Fantine in Les Mis\u00e9rables, bookies worldwide will lose their shirts. Yet that only begs the question of whether her maddeningly indeterminate acting chops are relevant to her appeal. Some of the reasons for that are built into Hollywood's nature; ask Sir Alfred Hitchcock's stately, plump ghost what a reliable certification of genius the Academy Awards are. But some are case-specific. Whatever you think of either Les Mis as a musical or the movie version as a movie\u2014\"abomination\" and \"endless\" would do it for me\u2014Hathaway owes her nomination to the essentially athletic feat of singing \"I Dreamed A Dream\" in one uninterrupted, undeniably affecting live take.\nSince Bruce Willis has recorded more tunes than she has, and so did Robert Mitchum, this caters to the industry's penchant for rewarding people doing something they're not already famous for. Cf. Kevin Costner, recipient for 1990's Dances With Wolves of the Best Director Oscar that Hitchcock, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles, among others, never nabbed.\nA part like Fantine also caters to the industry's weakness\u2014shared by most actors, male or female\u2014for flagrantly masochistic martyrdom. Since Hollywood's definition of \"winning ugly\" is different from the NFL's, it doesn't hurt that Hathaway starved herself silly to play Victor Hugo's tramp with a heart of lead. Then she consented to having her hair done by the guy from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She may shill for Lancome in \"real\" life, but in Les Mis, she looks and carries on like the spokesmodel for a pricey but pungent new fragrance named Nostalgie de la Boue.\nThat only calls more attention to the real issue. At least in movieland, though not only in movieland, nothing makes skill harder to judge than beauty. With one fabled exception\u2014Greta Garbo\u2014the most beautiful women in movies generally haven't been ranked among the medium's greatest actresses. Which may just go to show that straight men, who have traditionally done most of the judging, are unnerved by what we unconsciously (yes, I'm being kind to my peeps here) see as a confusion of realms.\nA lot depends on whether beauty is what the actress in question is renowned for. As attractive as Joanne Woodward or Shirley MacLaine could be, that never got in the way of recognizing their gifts. As for Judi Dench, she must have days when her mantel of trophies makes her bless providence for not giving her a pinup's distracting physique. But silver-screen peaches like Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Charlize Theron, Halle Berry? We know we've been seduced into awe of some sort. We'll just never be sure of our motive's unimpeachable nobility.\nIncidentally, what every woman mentioned in the previous paragraph has in common is that they've all won an Oscar. Or, in Taylor's case, two. Yet as far as the final half dozen are concerned, \"talent\" isn't the first encomium to spring to mind. You remember how the great Liz's obituarists dwelt on her acting ability.\nLike her predecessors, Hathaway expresses her time's ideal of beauty by departing from the classical version. In the '40s and '50s, she'd have been tagged as too equine to play more than the heroine's best friend. In most other eras, she'd have been too unclassifiable or just too brunette to qualify in the screen-goddess sweepstakes. Even her gaucheries, which would have appalled Grace Kelly\u2014the day Hathaway finally makes up her mind whether she'd rather be poised or insouciant in public is bound to be a disappointment either way\u2014reflect an incoherence about what anyone's standing is good for that's peculiar to the age of meta.\nThen again, stars who provocatively or even haplessly crystallize a cultural moment\u2014something key to the appeal of Marilyn Monroe, for instance, and talent be damned\u2014are rarities in today's unresonant, perfunctory Hollywood. All this makes Hathaway's brand of stardom seem at once ultra-contemporary and nostalgia-inducing, a volatile combo that, I dunno, Reese Witherspoon\u2014a far more accomplished technician, and not exactly an affront to ye olde male gaze\u2014has never quite pulled off.\nThe silver lining for Witherspoon, like a dozen or two others, is that a) she's more easily cast, and b) now that she's capital-R Reliable, in that seasoned-pro way, she needs to worry a tad less than Hathaway about staying in fashion. Even Monroe was teetering on the edge of being pass\u00e9 when dying rescued her from that indignity, and there was a time in movies when nobody seemed more \"contemporary\" than Ali MacGraw. Or Elliott Gould.\nThough she's awfully unlikely to ever cost Marilyn's ghost any sleep, Hathaway is an improvement on MacGraw, just as her onetime Oscars co-host James Franco is an improvement (trust me) on Gould. By my lights, she's given at least one extraordinary performance\u2014in Rachel Getting Married, a movie I otherwise didn't much care for\u2014and she's never been dull in lighter fare.\nShe's also willing to take chances, even if the results have been as muddled as Love and Other Drugs. As effed-up Hollywood morality goes, not much tops allowing a female character to have a forthright sex drive only because she's got Parkinson's disease. Even in fluff as forgettable\u2014and forgotten\u2014as 2011's gimmicky One Day, which I confess I kind of liked, Hathaway was touching and vivid enough that her woefully erratic English accent ended up seeming like one of the character's ineptitudes, not the actress's.\nA career like hers is a throwback in the sense that it reminds us of the unfathomability of movie charm in a way that Meryl Streep's c.v. doesn't. Hathaway's performances never seem planned or settled in her own mind, and if that's because of faulty tutelage, what difference does it make? The lurking sense of instability and potential wrong guesses in her screen persona could as easily be the result of a self-devised, instinctive grammar at work, and that's the mystery of stardom.\nWe could also tire of her tomorrow, but that makes no difference either. The difference between movie history and most other kinds is that it isn't about battles or elections set in stone for all time. It's about the curious, ineffable moments that, for better and worse, once did their bit to help define the audience's present tense.\nHollywood, Celebrity, Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 8111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/article/78223/why-msnbc-isnt-and-cant-beat-fox-news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:XBHM7HL6C3ZIXGLQ6ZLNRHNOXQSCSGJ6", "length": 4954, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Why MSNBC Isn't Like, And Can't Beat, Fox News | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Why MSNBC Isn't Like, And Can't Beat, Fox News\nMy favorite moment in Gabe Sherman's account of the cable news network wars is a return to the days when MSNBC was terrified of allowing any liberals on the air:\nAnd with the surge in patriotism following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, NBC CEO Bob Wright told Shapiro that MSNBC should try and outflank Fox on the right. \u201cWe have to be more conservative then they are,\u201d Wright told Shapiro pointedly. Swirling graphics of the American flag soon became a fixture on the network along with the tagline \u201cAmerica\u2019s News Channel.\u201d\nDespite the network\u2019s emphasis on flag waving, MSNBC showed how little it understood the Fox model when, with Griffin as MSNBC\u2019s prime time head, it hired the liberal Phil Donahue, who\u2019d been Griffin\u2019s childhood idol, out of retirement in April 2002 to anchor an 8 p.m. prime-time talk show that would challenge O\u2019Reilly. The show debuted with the highest ratings ever for an MSNBC program, attracting more than a million viewers in its first night. But within a month, the audience was cut in half. At the same time, executives expressed increasing unease about his vocal opposition to the looming war in Iraq. At a time when red-meat patriotism prevailed, Donahue booked antiwar guests like Michael Moore, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins. Soon the Donahue problem threatened Griffin\u2019s job. In a tense phone conversation, Shapiro told MSNBC president Erik Sorenson to fire Griffin, but Sorenson pushed back.\n\u201cI\u2019m not going to do that,\u201d he told Shapiro. \u201cNo. 1: Phil\u2019s been loyal to me for a long time. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right. And No. 2: We\u2019re short-handed. We have all this talent, and he\u2019s the one who\u2019s managing it.\u201d\nAs a compromise, Griffin\u2019s job was spared but he was stripped of responsibility for the show. The new producer insisted on a precise numerical balance between liberals and conservatives. Donahue\u2019s problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former G.E. CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright (the two summered together on Nantucket). Matthews saw himself as MSNBC\u2019s biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahue\u2019s show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.\nThat really was the dominant attitude of the time. You could have two kinds of cable news shows: scrupulously down the middle, or partisan Republican.\nMSNBC, as Sherman reports, is now courting a liberal audience. But (my opinion) you'll never have a liberal equivalent to Fox News that has anything like the same level of success. Conservatives believe that the mainstream news is fundamentally corrupt and untrustworthy. They want a fully closed information ecosystem in which every piece of data they consume is filtered through the perspective of the conservative movement. Very, very few liberals want that. They want their liberal opinion, but they also want straight news, or at the very least news that isn't overtly propagandistic like on Fox. MSNBC has slightly right-of-center programming in the morning with Joe Scarborough, straight news throughout the day, then liberal opinion at night.\nWill that work? Sherman implicitly suggests it won't. The beauty of Fox News is that the \"straight\" news seamlessly meshes with the straight opinion ranters. The daytime shows endlessly pump up the Black Panther intimidation story, and then the opinion hosts flog the story more. The whole product works together:\nFox\u2019s secret is that viewers stay. That\u2019s because Fox\u2019s rightward flanking maneuver, capturing a disenfranchised part of the audience, was only part of its strategy. The news, especially political news, wasn\u2019t something that happened. It was something that you shaped out of the raw data, brought out of the clay of zhlubby, boring politics, reborn with heroes and villains, triumphs and reverses, never-ending story lines\u2014what TV executives call \u201cflow.\u201d And the beauty of it was that the viewers\u2014the voters\u2014were the protagonists, victims of evil Kenyan socialist overlords, or rebels, coming to take the government back. There was none of the on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand relativity crossfire that mirrors the journalism-school ideal of objectivity. All the fire went one way. The viewers, on their couches, were flattered as the most important participants, the foot soldiers in Fox\u2019s army; some of them even voted.\nThe MSNBC formula might work, but I don't see them catching Fox news, or coming close.\nUpdate: Here\u2019s a great Daily Show video illustrating the hand-in-glove relationship between the \u201cnews\u201d and opinion side of Fox News.\nJonathan Chait, MSNBC, Gabe Sherman, Bob Wright, Phil Donahue, Shapiro", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.psu.edu/topic/campus-life?type=top&page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:18Z", "digest": "sha1:EXLXWHC2VO5G6BMM52QJ6UFCWYV7BQWC", "length": 2991, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "news.psu.edu", "title": "Topics: Campus Life | Penn State University", "raw_content": "Penn State Shenango will continue its 2018-19 Lecture Series with a talk on \u201cLocal Engineering\u201d presented by Matthew Caputo, assistant teaching professor of engineering, at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in Lecture Hall 223. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.\nAshley Traini, class of 2005 and Dewey Traini, class of 2006, first met in 2003 during a student leadership conference at Penn State New Kensington.\nClasses, activities canceled at University Park for Feb. 12\nEffective immediately, continued snow, which is expected to transition to ice in Centre County around mid-day, has caused Penn State to cancel all activities its University Park on campus, including classes and exams, until 5 p.m. Feb. 12. The University's normal course schedule will resume at 6 p.m.\n'Midnight Clear' in effect through Wednesday morning\nThe Office of Physical Plant has declared a \"Midnight Clear\" for snow removal through Wednesday morning between midnight and 7 a.m. each day.\nAthletics Spirit Weekend draws prospective students from across the country\nProspective student athletes from nearly half the states in the country arrived at Penn State Beaver Friday for the campus\u2019 annual Athletics Spirit Weekend.\nWinter storm warning issued for Centre County\nFaculty, staff and students can stay informed about the status of classes and activities at University Park by using any of Penn State's official weather sources: PSUAlert; the University\u2019s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts; the Penn State News website, and WPSU TV and radio.\nComic-book artist Jiba Molei Anderson offered the keynote presentation at Penn State Altoona's annual African American Read-In Chain held Feb. 11.\nInsuring the future through sustainable practices today\nWith its hiring of Paul Shrivastava in spring 2017, Penn State became the first Big 10 institution to have a chief sustainability officer. Here, Shrivastava discusses the university's commitment to sustainability and some of the programs and initiatives aimed at reducing waste and using our resources wisely.\nAn anaerobic digester being constructed as part of the Department of Animal Science\u2019s renovation project at its farms is a part of its total nutrient management program that will also support Penn State\u2019s sustainability goals.\nSculptor of 'Ridge and Valley' in The Arboretum at Penn State to speak Feb 12\nStacy Levy, an award-winning environmental sculptor, will discuss how her work combines science and art at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus.\nPenn State Harrisburg to welcome Yiddish folk artist Susan Leviton\nThe Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will present an afternoon of music and storytelling by Yiddish folk artist Susan Leviton at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge (Room W107). Leviton will perform historical and contemporary Yiddish songs interwoven with folk tales.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 7854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.totabc.org/category/tota-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XTADIHNUQ5TCVUHH76T4UCBYC47VD7R4", "length": 12988, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "news.totabc.org", "title": "TOTA News Archives - TOTA Regional Tourism News Centre", "raw_content": "TOTA News Archives\nManic Monday \u2013 Be thankful, be gracious and be patient\nIt was unbelievable to see so much rock came down on Highway 97 north of Summerland over the past 10 days and even more incredible that no one was injured. The magnitude of the fault running 50 meters in both directions of the original slide location can hardly be fathomed. As someone who travels this route [\u2026]\nLast Chance \u2013 2019 Route 97 Guide\nFebruary 8, 2019, 5:17 pm \u2022 Thompson Okanagan Tourism\nWelcome to Route 97! Where the freedom of the open road meets the North Central Washington and the Thompson Okanagan of British Columbia regions.. Be curious, explore Route 97 and all it has to offer 2019 Route 97 Road Trip Guide & Map Advertising still available now Book Your Ad Now Deadline for booking is February [\u2026]\nOne-of-a-Kind Course on Inclusive Customer Service Launches Today\nFebruary 6, 2019, 3:23 pm \u2022 go2HR\nService For All is a unique course around customer service in today\u2019s diverse environment, teaching the concepts of accommodating those with different needs and interacting with customers of all identities. Students will learn about best practices around customers from various backgrounds and identities, including but not limited to: Different generations (e.g. boomers, Gen X, millennials, [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 Can you really afford to not attend\u2026\nFebruary 4, 2019, 12:02 am \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nIt\u2019s almost unbelievable that it has already been a year since the TIABC annual conference was hosted here in our region. This year the conference is being held in Vancouver from February 27 \u2013 March 1st and there is still plenty of time to register. While there is always a multitude of excuses as to [\u2026]\nTourism Jobs in the TV Spotlight \u2013 Take Advantage of this Promotion!\nFebruary 1, 2019, 11:54 am \u2022 go2HR\nTourism jobs will be front and centre on TV! go2HR has secured advertising spots on Global TV to promote jobs in BC\u2019s tourism industry. From February 11 \u2013 March 3, these ads will be on Global BC and BC 1 and the campaign is estimated to earn at least 620,000 impressions across BC! How do [\u2026]\nBreaking News | TOTA Repeats as North America\u2019s Responsible Tourism Leader at the World Travel Awards\nJanuary 30, 2019, 9:13 am \u2022 Thompson Okanagan Tourism\nIn a repeat of last year\u2019s win, the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) was recognized by the World Travel Awards (WTA) as the 2019 North America\u2019s Responsible Tourism Award. \u201cThis recognition is such an honour as it comes from tourism industry leaders from around the globe and reinforces the Association\u2019s commitment to advancing the Region as a [\u2026]\nTOTA Signs Collaboration Agreement with Aldeias Hist\u00f3ricas de Portugal\nJanuary 30, 2019, 8:43 am \u2022 Biosphere\nAldeias Hist\u00f3ricas de Portugal used its presence at the Biosphere stand to share their best practices, resources, experiences and researches. The Executive Director of Aldeias Hist\u00f3ricas, Dalila Marisa Dias and her team, signed with the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, represented by its CEO and President Glenn Mandziuk, the Board Chair, Frank Antoine and the Vice President Ellen [\u2026]\nGlenn Mandziuk Appointed as President of the Global Biosphere Destination Community\nTOTA\u2019s CEO Glenn Mandziuk has been appointed as the next President of the Global Biosphere Destination Community shortly after the Thompson Okanagan region received Gold Certification from Biosphere, the first region in the Americas to do so. \u201cIt is a tremendous honour to be appointed as next President of the Global Biosphere Destination Community. I [\u2026]\nTOTA Achieves Biosphere Certified Destination Gold Status\nJanuary 25, 2019, 2:49 pm \u2022 Biosphere\nThe Thompson Okanagan was awarded Biosphere Certified Destination GOLD status by the Responsible Tourism Institute this week. This distinction recognizes not only tourism sustainability developed from the Biosphere certification but the work made to extend this commitment to the tourism companies and services of the destination. The Thompson Okanagan becomes the third destination in the [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 What\u2019s your IMPACT?\nJanuary 21, 2019, 12:02 am \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nBy definition, the word IMPACT means \u201cto have a strong effect on someone or something\u201d. Without question, Tourism does just that. It has a major impact on our residents, communities, wildlife, watershed, lands, and ecosystems. Developed well, it can provide visitors and locals alike with a lifetime of memories, heightened knowledge of history and culture, unleash great [\u2026]\nInvestment supports Indigenous art and culture\nJanuary 17, 2019, 8:31 am \u2022 Western Economic Diversification Canada\nPromoting authentic Indigenous art and culture contributes to the vitality of Indigenous communities and builds a more inclusive economy. As Indigenous tourism increases in popularity, connecting Indigenous artisans with new and growing markets helps foster economic growth and entrepreneurship in communities, while preserving Indigenous culture for future generations. That is why the Honourable Navdeep Bains, [\u2026]\nTOTA recognized by United Nations body\nJanuary 16, 2019, 3:23 pm \u2022 Infotel\nThe year just past has been a good one for the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association. The tourism association is a finalist in the 15th United Nations World Tourism Awards, recognized for the organization\u2019s drive toward tourism sustainability in its Embracing our Potential strategy. \u201cWe were honoured to receive notice and recognition in World Tourism\u2019s non-governmental category,\u201d president [\u2026]\nAllan Brooks Nature Centre is looking for a Communications & Events Coordinator\nJanuary 15, 2019, 8:25 am \u2022 Allan Brooks Nature Centre\nAllan Brooks Nature Centre\u2019s (ABNC) Communications & Events Coordinator is responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of all ABNC events, marketing and the communications for the organization. This position reports directly to the Board of Directors and works closely with the Communications & Fundraising Board Committee. The Communications & Events Coordinator is responsible for the organization\u2019s communications strategy [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 New Look, New Feel, New Year!\nTwo weeks into this new year and we already have a number of exciting changes lined up. The first, which you can see here, is a brand new look for Manic Monday. Of course, I will still be sending out my weekly musings along with a few highlights from the News Centre, but we wanted [\u2026]\nAre You an Outstanding Employer? Get the Recognition You Deserve.\nJanuary 11, 2019, 4:22 pm \u2022 go2HR\nYour employees love coming to work. You support their wellness and professional growth. You make sure they work safely. You celebrate your achievements together, and everyone works toward the success of your company. Not every employer can make these claims\u2026so why not get recognized for all your efforts in fostering a terrific workplace culture? Nominations [\u2026]\nNorth Okanagan-Shuswap Employment and Business Fair\nJanuary 7, 2019, 11:56 am \u2022 go2HR\nCalling all employers! In the first event of its kind, Enderby, Armstrong, Spallumcheen and the Splatsin First Nation will be bringing together employers and job-seekers from across the region at the North Okanagan-Shuswap Employment and Business Fair on March 11, 2019, at the new Splatsin Centre in Enderby. This is a great opportunity for employers [\u2026]\nOnly 5 Spots Left to Access 410 Tourism Students at go2HR\u2019s Student Industry Rendezvous!\nStart 2019 on the right foot by gearing up the recruitment conversation early! go2HR\u2019s Student Industry Rendezvous, the biggest student/employer networking event in BC\u2019s tourism industry, is just around the corner on Jan. 25 \u2013 and there are only 5 spots left for employers to join in! Time: Friday, January 25, 2019, 12:00 \u2013 4:00pm [\u2026]\nJanuary 7, 2019, 11:46 am \u2022 UN World Tourism Organization\nThe World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has announced the finalists to win the 15th UNWTO Awards, which recognize inspirational projects having made an invaluable contribution to advance sustainable tourism. The nominees are praised for contributing to advance the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Initiatives from Canada, Colombia, India, Italy, Spain, Switzerland [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 Eleven Years to Turn our World Around\nJanuary 7, 2019, 12:01 am \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nSome of the smartest minds have made it very clear; \u201cWe have 11 years in which we must make dramatic changes to our behaviors in order to keep our world alive\u201d; literally. As the earth heats up, glaciers melt and the oceans temperature increase the scientific world has stated that warming must be capped at [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 Self Driving Hotel\u2026.anything is possible\nDecember 30, 2018, 10:00 pm \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nAnyone who knows me has heard this before; a New Year means a New Blank page upon which to write new stories. Tomorrow, January 1st, 2019, is another new beginning and with it the unveiling of exciting opportunities, more changes, and challenges in how we will live, travel and experience the world. I thought I [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 Take Time to Find the Joy in the Season\nDecember 23, 2018, 9:00 pm \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nIf you are reading this today December 24th, you are either likely very organized for the holidays and enjoying some well-deserved \u201crelaxation\u201d or are ignoring the fact that you have so much to do before the events of tonight and tomorrow that you don\u2019t know where to start. For many of us, this is the [\u2026]\nConnect with Tourism Management Students at this Speed Networking event\nDecember 18, 2018, 7:56 am \u2022 go2HR\nThis event is designed to connect students with industry professionals to learn about working in various tourism sectors. Either in-person or via video-call, mentors would share their personal experience and career path stories in small group discussions with eager and inquisitive students. Event Details: 60 minutes in length \u2013 students will be coached beforehand Conversations [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 This doesn\u2019t even take 15 minutes!\nDecember 17, 2018, 12:01 am \u2022 Glenn Mandziuk\nParks Canada last week released a survey, available to all Canadians, enabling them to provide input into the National Park Reserve planned for an area in the South Okanagan-Similkameen region. In a meeting in our region this past August, Federal Minister Catherine McKenna was very clear that that Park development would be moving forward, however, [\u2026]\nOnly a few spots left for Student Industry Rendezvous!\nDecember 10, 2018, 3:15 pm \u2022 go2HR\ngo2HR\u2019s annual Student Industry Rendezvous is the biggest, not-to-be-missed event that connects over 400 enthusiastic tourism and hospitality students to 35+ employers in the BC tourism and hospitality industry. If you\u2019re looking to fill openings and bring on board talented young students and graduates, this is the chance to kick-start the recruitment conversation! The 2019 [\u2026]\nManic Monday \u2013 A Year of Highs and Lows\nIt has certainly proven to be an interesting year for the Thompson Okanagan and as with all years, I suppose, it has had some good and bad moments. One cannot reflect on the past year without recognizing the many challenges our stakeholders have coped with as a result of many natural occurrences ranging from severe [\u2026]\nThe Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) \u2014 a not-for-profit society which represents business and community tourism interests throughout the region \u2014 was declared winner of the highly prestigious World\u2019s Responsible Tourism Award at the 25th annual World Travel Awards (WTA), held this past Saturday (Dec. 1) in Lisbon, Portugal. The award was accepted by Glenn Mandziuk, President [\u2026]\nIt has been a tremendous year for our region and Association, not only being nominated for but shortlisted and even winning several prestigious awards around the world, against some very strong and, quite frankly, much larger in terms of budgets competition. Our region \u201cThompson Okanagan\u201d is being recognized as a leader in strategic vision in [\u2026]\nWell, maybe winter isn\u2019t quite here yet, but it is definitely coming and our ski resorts in this region are ready! With ski runs opening around the region it was great to see Sun Peaks open to record crowds, November 17 while Big White Resort opened last Thursday with a nod to American Thanksgiving. Silver [\u2026]\nRecreational cannabis is now legalized, leaving many organizations concerned about their workplace obligations, particularly where impairment is suspected. go2HR is pleased to offer this webinar on Dec. 6, which will provide business owners, managers, supervisors and HR professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to the use of recreational cannabis by employees. This [\u2026]\nThe impact of all the summer smoke on the tourism sector in the Southern Interior was every bit as bad as you might have guessed. Overall it\u2019s believed to have accounted for a 30 or 40 percent drop which is about half a million tourism visits. So the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association is doing what [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 15622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.worldcasinodirectory.com/gli-earns-accreditation-as-first-testing-agency-for-czech-republic-39693", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AQT4SRBAVCQTZ7TBTMY53PQYYJ3KEEH6", "length": 3016, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "news.worldcasinodirectory.com", "title": "GLI earns accreditation as first testing agency for Czech Republic", "raw_content": "RomanBoed [CC]\nLatest Casino and Gambling News, Online gambling regulation, Czech Republic, Online Gambling News\nOn January 1, the Czech Republic will begin a regulated online gambling market. Because of this, operators are showing an interest in gaining licenses. Testing agencies have been encouraged to seek accreditation and the first to do so in the Czech Republic is Gaming Laboratories International, otherwise known as GLI.\nOn Saturday, GLI announced they had received accreditation from the Ministry of Finance and Gaming Board of the Czech Republic. GLI says they are the first international gaming laboratory to be able to earn accreditation, based on information provided by Dennis Byram, the European Compliance and Quality Assurance head.\nMartin Britton, the Managing Director for GLI Europe and Africa commented on the accreditation by stating that they will now be able to allow their valued clients to move forward in the regulated market of the Czech Republic and be happy for suppliers and operators to contact GLI as they have up-to-the-minute information about the current regulation as well as various certification and audit requirements.\nLicensing, as well as regulation, will begin in the Czech Republic by January 1, 2017, after being approved by the government and Cabinet earlier this year. The process for this legislation actually began in 2014 when the finance minister, Andrej Babis introduced a proposal to raise tax revenues via licensing and regulation.\nThe population of the country is quite large, with over 10 million people so the market could be quite significant. However, the proposed gross gaming revenue (GGR) tax rate of 40% was causing little interest. The final bill saw the GGR reduced to 35% for random number generated casino and poker gaming with 23% set for online sports betting, however, the percentages are still high when considering the standard of Europe.\nIn addition to the GGR, operators will have to pay a corporate tax rate of 19%. The restrictions have caused criticism from the online poker gaming industry due to player stakes being restricted at 1,000 Czech Koruna, which is equal to $50 in US currency. Winnings are restricted at the equivalent of US$2,000, which will make it hard for operators to earn a profit combined with the GGR and corporate tax rate.\nOperators must also have their servers located in the Czech Republic and players have to register at a land based betting venue that has been licensed before being able to go online and take part in online gaming. On a positive note, the proposals include shared liquidity with international gaming pools, based on the restrictions of the country. This will help to bring in more players to take part in gaming options.\nOnline Casinoonline pokersports bettingCzech Republicgaming laboratories internationalGLIMinistry of Finance and Gaming Board\nLost casino tickets bring in big bucks for Nevada\nNSoft Corporation bringing its wares to ICE London\nNew Genesis Casino player earns jackpot win", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 453, "original_length": 12099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news3lv.com/news/local/raiders-las-vegas-stadium-construction-taking-shape", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ENYZJGA7DTEQXOIB6NZIJUBMKJWCI45L", "length": 1005, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "news3lv.com", "title": "Raiders\u2019 Las Vegas stadium construction taking shape | KSNV", "raw_content": "Story Uuid: 414690b5-d63f-4512-bc12-ebc37b5c4414\nStory Link: /#story/414690b5-d63f-4512-bc12-ebc37b5c4414\nStory Slug: raiders-las-vegas-stadium-construction-taking-shape\nRaiders’ Las Vegas stadium construction taking shape\nCredit: Tom Hawley, KSNV\nThe Las Vegas stadium that will be the new home of the NFL Oakland Raiders appears to be on track with its construction schedule.\nThe Las Vegas Sun reports that the steel skeleton of the future $1.8 billion venue is taking shape behind the Strip.\nThe 65,000-seat stadium is scheduled to be completed by July 31, 2020.\nIt will be where the Raiders as well as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas football team will play.\nAccording to paperwork submitted to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, about $450 million has been spent on the project so far.\nThe Raiders and a construction subsidiary have contributed more than $328 million to the project.\nAnother $120 million has come from a less-than-1 percentage-point increase in Clark County\u2019s hotel room tax.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 486, "original_length": 9032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsletter.sweetland.lsa.umich.edu/science-writing-leaps-forward/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3X4HFKWKL4VEF5K5ZSC6DD24QY2FN355", "length": 3173, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "newsletter.sweetland.lsa.umich.edu", "title": "Science Writing Leaps Forward \u2013 Sweetland Center for Writing Newsletter", "raw_content": "For several years Sweetland has been working with subgroups of students from large-enrollment introductory chemistry and physics courses to make writing-to-learn pedagogies part of instruction. The goal of this work is to enhance student learning and increase retention in STEM courses. Last year we began using an automated peer review system where students submit essays, respond to those of others, and then revise based on the feedback they receive. We found that student evaluations parallel those of expert readers, and the automation feature makes it possible to incorporate writing into large courses where instructors would not be able to read several hundred papers.\nA large grant from the National Science Foundation recently received by Ginger Shultz of the Chemistry Department and Anne Gere, Director of Sweetland, will make it possible for us to begin implementing writing-to-learn pedagogies in introductory biology, chemistry, physics, and statistics classes. This five-year project will enable us to work with colleagues from Duke University and the University of Minnesota, where similar implementations will be carried out. We will meet regularly with Duke and U of MN colleagues to discuss methods, share data, and learn from one another\u2019s experiences. Our collaborative project will begin with surveying STEM faculty across the country to learn more about how writing is currently being incorporated into instruction.\nPhoto credit: Natalie Condon\nIn addition, Gere and Shultz have received a large grant from the University\u2019s \u201cTransforming Learning for A Third Century\u201d initiative which will enable Sweetland to lay the groundwork for a sustainable program that integrates writing into multiple large-enrollment introductory courses in LSA and Engineering. We look forward to establishing a Writing Fellows Program, developing systematics ways of employing automated peer review, and using the technologies of natural language processing to provide instructors and students with useful information drawn from student writing.\nThanks to the intercessions of John Sweetland, the Center\u2019s benefactor, we have also received a grant from Robert Day of the Keck Foundation to collaborate with the University of Southern California on using writing-to-learn pedagogies in organic chemistry. The goal here will be to develop and test the efficacy of these pedagogies in two different contexts to find out how variation in the specific curriculum as well as in instructors and students influences implementation of similar writing-to-learn pedagogies.\nThese opportunities to incorporate writing into a number of STEM courses are made more exciting by the fact that Larissa Sano has joined the Sweetland faculty. With her background as a scientist, Larissa will be very helpful in providing resources to faculty interested in including more writing in their classes, and she will also be able to work with students so that our Peer Writing Consultants can provide greater support to undergraduates in STEM courses.\nScience Writing Leaps Forward\nNext: Meet Our New Science Writing Specialist\nPrevious: New Resources for International Students & Their Instructors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-can-you-prevent-breast-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:24QU4XXH3TBGG6TQHF2RUTQQSXSE7VNU", "length": 1488, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org", "title": "Mayo Clinic Minute: Can you prevent breast cancer? \u2013 Mayo Clinic News Network", "raw_content": "Mayo Clinic Minute: Can you prevent breast cancer?\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Karthik Ghosh says, no matter what your personal risk is, there are ways that may help lower your chances of getting the disease.\nExercise and healthy eating can help prevent heart disease, but how can you prevent breast cancer?\n\"We always say that there are some things we can't control,\" says Dr. Ghosh. \"Age and family history you can't control, but there's a lot that is in our control.\"\nDr. Ghosh says lifestyle choices can help lower your risk of breast cancer. Maintain a healthy weight, get regular exercise, don't smoke and limit alcohol. Screening for early detection is also key.\n\"We are still recommending to start screening mammography at age 40 for our general-risk population. So if you don't have a family history or no other known risk factors, that's reasonable,\" says Dr. Ghosh.\nWomen at higher risk or who have dense breasts may benefit from 3D mammography, MRI or molecular breast imaging. And all women should continue to perform breast self-exams to look for changes.\n\"In terms of identifying risk factors and preventive efforts and early diagnosis, we have hope ... \" says Dr. Ghosh.\n\u2026 Hope for winning the battle against breast cancer.\n#breast cancer prevention\n#Dr. Karthik Ghosh\nPretty Parasites With Dr. Pritt, part 1: The skinny on...\nMayo Clinic Q and A: Protecting yourself from Lyme disease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 3554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsroom.hyatt.com/122214-Hyatt-to-Launch-Free-Wi-Fi-Access-in-All-Lobbies-and-Guest-Rooms-Worldwide", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:17Z", "digest": "sha1:E5KJLL6BB5W6JNARYQ4L4U7KJJJKCNFQ", "length": 2313, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "newsroom.hyatt.com", "title": "Hyatt to Launch Free Wi-Fi Access Worldwide", "raw_content": "Hyatt to Launch Free Wi-Fi Access in All Lobbies and Guest Rooms Worldwide\nResponding to Guests\u2019 Feedback, Hyatt Hotels To Offer Free Wi-Fi to All Guests\n\u201cTravelers shouldn\u2019t have to remember which brands or locations offer it for free or the strings attached to get it,\u201d Rose said.\nCHICAGO (December 22, 2014) \u2013 As part of the company\u2019s continued efforts to evolve the guest experience by listening and responding to guest needs, Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today announced plans to offer free Wi-Fi at all Hyatt hotels worldwide, providing connectivity and convenience regardless of booking method or loyalty program participation.\nFree Wi-Fi will become available to Hyatt guests around the world in February 2015. Travelers will be able to access free Wi-Fi on an unlimited number of mobile devices or laptops in Hyatt-branded hotel guest rooms and social spaces.\n\u201cInternet connectivity is no longer an amenity. It has become an integral part of travelers\u2019 daily lives and a basic expectation,\u201d said Kristine Rose, vice president of brands for Hyatt. \u201cTravelers shouldn\u2019t have to remember which brands or locations offer it for free or the strings attached to get it.\u201d\nHyatt hotels across many brands have long offered Wi-Fi at no charge to guests in several of its brands and to elite members of the Hyatt Gold Passport loyalty program. Expanding free Wi-Fi is part of Hyatt\u2019s ongoing focus to make the guest experience more seamless.\n\u201cOur colleagues are committed to not just listening to what our guests say, but understanding their real needs. This practice has already brought us new ways to make a guest\u2019s stay more personal and seamless, from expedited check-in methods to easier ways for guests to make requests,\u201d Rose said. \u201cToday, people consider smartphones just as important as their car, and more important than television or coffee.* Travelers feel out of sync with their lives when they can\u2019t freely connect. Giving free Wi-Fi without a catch will enable us to continue innovating the guest experience to help people be more productive and stay better connected to colleagues, friends and family.\u201d\nWhere available, Hyatt Gold Passport Diamond and Platinum tier members will receive a complimentary upgrade to premium Wi-Fi service.\n*Braun Research on behalf of Bank of America, June 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 13976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ngss.nsta.org/Resource.aspx?ResourceID=154", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:4WYCBKFYWBV5CVWUQZB7OHK52QKMRQ4F", "length": 4080, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ngss.nsta.org", "title": "Modeling Particles of Matter", "raw_content": "Modeling Particles of Matter\nTraverse Bay Area Intermediate School District Lifetime Learning\nThis is the first instructional sequence in a teacher's guide built with the purpose of helping students build a deeper understanding of the Structures and Properties of Matter standard.Students have the opportunity to engage with interactive simulations, create poetry, drawing scientific diagrams, read complex text, develop evidence based explanations and design a model . The instructional sequence described in the lesson uses the 5 E learning model and includes a variety of online simulations, polls and model drawings.\n5-PS1-1 Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.\nThere needs to be stronger connection between the \"explain\" section of the learning cycle and the performance expectation.The instructional sequence might include an additional, more explicit learning experience where students are designing/developing their own model of gases to demonstrate their understanding matter is made of particles, some too small to be seen. Consider having a student developing a model to answer the question.\nAlthough the use of models was very explicit, the developing/designing of a model to meet this practice should be stronger. Before students are given the baggies , they might be asked to work with a partner and develop a collaborative model of their thinking before actually doing the investigations. Students could go back and revise their model after the investigation. Maybe as an assessment,ask students to think about all the models they have seen,identified and/or used about matter being made up of particles too small to be seen. Ask students to design/develop a model that they might use to explain this concept to a friend.\nMatter of any type can be subdivided into particles that are too small to see, but even then the matter still exists and can be detected by other means. A model showing that gases are made from matter particles that are too small to see and are moving freely around in space can explain many observations, including the inflation and shape of a balloon and the effects of air on larger particles or objects.\nStudents are provided multiple opportunities to engage with the content of the Disciplinary Core Ideas.\nIn the lesson description, the author includes the following statement but I didn't feel it was made explicit. The Crosscutting Concept for this lesson is \u201cNatural objects exist from the very small to the immensely large\u201d so a focus will be placed on matter in the gaseous state and how it is detected.The Crosscutting Concept needs to be pointed out explicitly to students. For example, when students are using the interactive simulations of models, the teacher should point out the relationship between the small particles of matter and a rock ( or the size of the particles that make up a rock), that is the arrangement of the particles that explains the observable properties of the rock. The student should be able to use the cross-cutting concept as part of their explanation of the science concept. Student should be confident in their understanding that matter can be very large or very small, visible and invisible.\nAlignment to the Dimensions of the NGSS: The disciplinary core ideas and the practices are addressed significantly in the lesson sequence. There is not a strong connection to the cross-cutting-concept although there are opportunities.\nInstructional Supports: Background and prior knowledge is described as well as a section on student preconceptions.Provides supports to help students engage in the practices as needed and gradually adjusts supports over time so that students are increasingly responsible for making sense of phenomena and/or designing solutions to problems.\nMonitoring Student Progress: Contains a brief list of potential assessment strategies but none explicitly linked to instruction\nQuality of Technological Interactivity: Impressive use of quality Internet resources provides equitable access for the majority of the learning experiences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 6569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nicolagriffith.com/2011/11/30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MQK6XE3A63UAMEQOPHJND3BLO3H3VHGG", "length": 129, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nicolagriffith.com", "title": "30 | Nov | 2011 | Nicola Griffith", "raw_content": "Acquisitions list\nThis 15-inch high chunk of elephant just sold for $8,547,979. It\u2019s 750 years old, give or take. I wish I had a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 167.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nilskurbis.weebly.com/cartesian-dualism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DS35NIRD6EC34TAD623SBPFWRMJLZ5PK", "length": 10834, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "nilskurbis.weebly.com", "title": "Study Guide Philosophy of Mind: Cartesian Dualism - NILS' PHILOSOPHY PAGE", "raw_content": "2. Cartesian Dualism\nA philosophical (or other) theory is called dualist or a dualism if it posits two different kinds of fundamental things, neither of which can be reduced to or explained in terms of the other or anything else. In this section, we\u2019ll look at Substance Dualism, the most elaborate development of which has been put forward by Descartes. It is also called Cartesian Dualism. Its basic tenet is that there are mental as well as physical things.\nDualism can be contrasted with monism, according to which there is only one fundamental kind of thing. An example is materialism: the only fundamental kind of thing is matter. A materialist might follow Newton and agree that there are also space and forces such as gravity, which are not material things in any plausible sense. Some materialists may thus not be monists. Others may argue that space and forces are not things in their own right, but dependent on matter. Another monism is idealism, argued for by Berkeley, according to whom the concept of matter is inconsistent and to be, for unthinking things, is to be perceived: there are only minds and the ideas in them.\nThe impression that mental phenomena are very different from physical ones indicates that we tend to endorse dualist intuitions. Not many people nowadays are substance dualists, but it is worth discussing the position in some detail to illustrate problems that any philosophy of mind has to address.\nThe word \u2018substance\u2019 is derived from Latin sub, which means \u2018underneath\u2019, and stans, which means \u2018standing\u2019. Substances are contrasted with properties or attributes: properties can be predicated of things, but it makes no sense to predicate a substance of something. Substances exemplify or instantiate properties. A substance is that which has properties. The properties of a thing can change, the substance is what remains the same throughout the change: it stands underneath the changing properties and holds them together.\nDescartes defines what a substance is in the Replies to the Fourth Set of Objections to his Meditations: \u2018The notion of a substance is just this: that it can exist by itself, that it is without the aid of any other substance.\u2019 (Descartes (1984): 159)\n2.3 Descartes\u2019s Meditations\nIn his Meditations, Descartes asks the reader to follow him in his search for safe foundations of knowledge. In the Second Meditation, he establishes the first and most basic certainty: I think, therefore I am. Descartes\u2019s reflections lead him to further insights about what he is. Descartes draws the conclusion that he is a thinking thing. He can exist by himself, as it is possible that everything else does not exist, i.e. his existence does not need the aid of anything else. Given Descartes\u2019s concept of substance, it follows that thinking things are substances. In the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes puts his argument for substance dualism very succinctly: \u2018from the mere fact that each of us understands himself to be a thinking thing and is capable, in thought, of excluding from himself every other substance, whether thinking or extended, it is certain that each of us, regarded this way, is really distinct from every other thinking substance and from every corporeal substance.\u2019 (Descartes (1985): Part I, \u00a760, p.213) This establishes the first part of Descartes\u2019s dualism: there are thinking substances.\nIn the Sixth Meditation, Descartes finally establishes that his perceptions of the physical world are not all illusions created by an evil demon, but largely veridical. It follows that there are things besides thinking things which \u2018can exist by themselves\u2019. These are extended things. Thus there are thinking and extended substances. It does not follow quite yet that it is not the same substance that is extended and thinking. Descartes clarifies how he draws this conclusion in the Replies to the Second Set of Objections by adducing a definition: `Two substances are said to be really distinct when each of them can exist apart from the other.\u2019 (Descartes (1984): 114) Extended things can exist without thinking, and, argues Descartes, thinking things can exist without extension, so they can exist apart from each other. It follows that the mind and the body are really distinct substances.\n2.4 A Modal Argument\nVarious arguments for dualism can be extracted from Descartes\u2019s writings. For instance, I can suppose my body to be nothing, but for all that I am still something. It is not a contradiction to suppose that I exist but my body does not. The strongest argument results if we couch it entirely in logical and metaphysical terms.\nThe Indiscernibility of Identicals is the logical principle that if two things are identical, they have all properties in common. It follows that if two things do not have all properties in common, they are different. The Identity of Indiscernibles, also called Leibniz\u2019s Law, is the converse principle that if two things have all properties in common, they are identical. We won\u2019t appeal to it.\nWe can show that if two things are identical, then this is necessarily so. Assume that a is identical to b. Evidently, a is identical to itself, and this is necessarily so. Hence a has the property of being necessarily identical to a. But then, by the indiscernibility of identicals, b, too, has the property of being necessarily identical to a, as b is identical to a and identical things have all properties in common. Hence it is necessary that a is identical to b. Furthermore, if something is necessary, then it is true. So \u2018a is identical to b\u2019 is equivalent to \u2018It is necessary that a is identical to b\u2019.\nWe can also show that if two things are different, then they are necessarily different, if we make a plausible assumption: if it is possible that a proposition is necessary, then it is necessary. Why is this plausible? A necessary proposition is true in any circumstances whatsoever, or, in Leibniz\u2019s terminology, it is true in all possible worlds. A possible proposition is true in some circumstances, or, in Leibniz\u2019s terminology, it is true in some possible worlds. So if it is possible that a proposition is necessary, then there are possible worlds in which it is necessary. In any such possible world, the proposition is true in all possible worlds, and any such possible world forms part of the totality of possible worlds. So the proposition must be true in all possible worlds, i.e. necessary. Hence if it is possible that a proposition is necessary, it is necessary. Now suppose that a and b are different, i.e. not identical, but assume that it is possible that they are identical. By the first result, a and b are identical if and only if it is necessary that a and b are identical. So if it is possible that a and b are identical, then it is possible that it is necessary that a and b are identical. Then by the plausible assumption, it follows that it is necessary that a and b are identical. What is necessary is true, so a and b are identical. As we assumed that a and b are different, we reached a contradiction. Hence, if a and b are different it is not possible that a and b are identical, i.e. it is necessary that they are different.\nWe can reformulate Descartes\u2019s argument in these terms. It is possible that I exist without my body, but it is not possible that I exist without my mind, hence by the Indiscernibility of Identicals, my mind and my body are not identical. If my mind and my body are different, then, under a plausible assumption, this is necessarily so. This sounds like as good a basis as anything for substance dualism: if mind and body are necessarily different, then under any circumstances whatsoever could they exist without each other. Necessary difference captures the idea behind Descartes\u2019 definition of substance very well.\nDualism is often dismissed as implausible. This is a mistake. It is true that very few philosophers nowadays are substance dualists. Nonetheless, as we will see, many accept that there must be mental properties over and above physical properties. Many philosophers of mind are property dualists, even though they are not substance dualists. Many philosophers accept, for instance, that a mental property such as being in pain or knowing where the keys are can be exemplified in various ways by physical properties of creatures, so they cannot be identical to any particular physical properties. It may well be that you and your dog are both in pain or you both know where the keys are, but there are no physical properties you both have in common. The physiology of humans and dogs are very different. Maybe you yourself could have the same mental states exemplified in different physical states. All kinds of things may go on in your body or your brain, but for you the result is just the same feeling of pain. Arguments for property dualism are not so different from Descartes\u2019s, who was of course also a property dualist in addition to being a substance dualist.\nIf we want to reject substance dualism, we need to work out where Descartes\u2019s argument goes wrong. If Descartes is wrong, then his argument for substance dualism is either invalid or based on a false premise. It is difficult to see what could have gone wrong in the inferences and axioms of the argument. It\u2019s a tough call to contend that the argument is invalid. The fault should lie in the premise it is based on: my mind might have existed without my body. For Descartes\u2019s argument to go through, it suffices that my mind could exist without that particular body or brain it is in fact connected to. This sounds plausible, but maybe we are deluded in thinking that this is a genuine possibility. Maybe we are confused. If the premise is false and our mind is identical to our brain, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, then we have to bite the bullet that our dualist intuitions are radically misleading about what are genuine possibilities.\nDescartes, R. \u2018Meditations\u2019 in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol II, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)\nDescartes, R. \u2018The Principles of Philosophy\u2019 in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol I, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)\nCarriero, J. \u2018The Second Meditation and the Essence of the Mind\u2019 in Rorty, A. (ed.) Essays on Descartes\u2019 Meditations (University of California, 1986)\nCottingham, J. \u2019Cartesian Dualism: Theology, Metaphysics and Science\u2019 in Cottingham, J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Descartes\nCottingham, J. Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986)\nKenny, A. Descartes. A Study of his Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1968)\nStrawson, P.F. \u2018Self, Mind and Body\u2019 in Freedom and resentment and other essays (London: Routledge, 2008)\nSection 3: Mental Causation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 11255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nolimitwebdesign.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JELGWHYIYEFBH6ZPXZMPP5RPPQ3433CO", "length": 305, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nolimitwebdesign.com", "title": "Contact (Get A FREE Quote) - No-Limit Web Design", "raw_content": "Need a website service or have questions?\nThen fill out the form below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.\nYou can also follow No-Limit Web Design on Facebook by clicking the image below or\nby clicking on the link at the bottom of the page!!!\nThank you and I look forward to working with you!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nycsocialist.org/public-study-group-black-liberation-socialism/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3ONWIY5VUNRO3D4Q3SSZCEOY4ZR6JNEA", "length": 899, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nycsocialist.org", "title": "Public Study Group: Black Liberation & Socialism", "raw_content": "Public Study Group: Black Liberation & Socialism\nThe movement against police violence in communities of color has exploded across the country, from Ferguson to New York City. A new generation of activists is on the move, full of energy and determination\nBut in order to make our movement bigger and stronger, we need ideas as well. Ideas about what to do next, about what the Civil Rights and Black Power movements did before us. And we need a larger vision of emancipation and liberation.\nJoin a public study group on the history of Socialism and the Black liberation movements of the past, so we can deepen our understanding and develop ourselves as activists.\nBook copies will also be available at Meet Ups in Harlem, Queens and Brooklyn.\nIf you are interested in participating email us and a Meet Up will be announced by email to those who .\nSponsored by the International Socialist Organization", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/01/15/money-launderer-in-chief-trump-the-capitalist-media-and-socialism-a-timeline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CENRZSGRBK3DNFN77NCVSCWVS6VL5BCO", "length": 10696, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "oaklandsocialist.com", "title": "Money-Launderer-in-Chief Trump, the capitalist media and socialism: A timeline \u2013 oaklandsocialist", "raw_content": "Here is a timeline of how the mainstream US capitalist media has covered the issue of Trump\u2019s financial ties with the Russian mafia capitalist class. This timeline is significant, because it provides a clue to the thinking of the mainstream of the US capitalist class as well as how that thinking is now changing.\nIn April of 2017, the online web site whowhatwhy.org published the first report (that Oaklandsocialist knows of) on Trump\u2019s role as a money launderer. Oaklandsocialist reported on it, but obviously, if we were able to find and report on this story, then so were not only others on the socialist left, but also the capitalist media in general.\nIn July of 2017, the left liberal New Republic published an article by contributing writer Craig Unger, author of \u201cHouse of Trump, House of Putin\u201d, on which he was apparently working at that time.\nLater that same month, Unger was interviewed on MSNBC\nAlso in July of 2017, the New Yorker did a piece in relation to Trump\u2019s financing of his golf club in Scotland.\nOn January 9, 2018, Tom Adams and Dennis Aftergut published a memorandum outlining the major evidence for Trump\u2019s money laundering role. Aftergut is a former top federal prosecutor. The memorandum was sent to US Representative Jackie Speier (D CA). This writer also sent that memorandum to US Representative Barbara Lee, who did not respond.\nOn December 2018, the SF Chronicle published an article by Adams and Aftergut summarizing their memo.\nAround August of 2018, Craig Unger\u2019s book, \u201cHouse of Trump House of Putin\u201d was published. See oaklandsocialist\u2019s book review and summary here.\nOn December 15, 2018, Speier authored an article in the SF Chronicle which summarized the Adams/Aftergut memo.\nOn January 12, 2018, Vox.com had a story on the issue.\nTrump with key player in his money laundering schemes, Felix Saper.\nIt is unfortunate that so few socialists have taken up the issue of Trump\u2019s mobster related past as a money launderer.\nThese stories focused on Trump\u2019s role as a money launderer for the Russian mafia capitalist class. To our knowledge, nobody else in the capitalist media \u2013 nor on the left \u2013 commented or picked up this story at that time.\nIn July of 2017, Trump had a private conversation with Putin outside of the G20 meeting. Nobody else was present except for Putin\u2019s interpreter. Not even Trump\u2019s interpreter was present. There was a mild flurry of comment in the capitalist media on this, but it soon died down.\nPutin-Trump Meetings\nThe next major event in this unfolding scandal was the July, 2018 Helsinki meeting between Trump and Putin. This provoked a storm of criticism, especially when Trump sided with the representative of a rival capitalist power \u2013 Putin \u2013 vs. his own intelligence sources. However, none of the major media touched the underlying issue \u2013 Trump\u2019s role in his previous life.\nIn late November, when it seemed that the Mueller investigation might be killed, the Washington Post had a few articles that hinted at the issue. For example, on Nov. 29, the Post published an editorial and an opinion piece stemming from some of the testimony of Michael Cohen. But what these dealt with was Trump\u2019s interest in investing in Russia, not his getting investments from Russia.\nTrump Troop Withdrawal announcement\nThen, the dam broke.\nOn December 18, 2018, Trump announced he was going to withdraw all troops from Syria \u201cnow.\u201d The announcement came within days of his having had a private phone conversation with Putin\u2019s ally, Turkish President Recip Erdogan. This prompted the resignations of three of the most direct representatives of the mainstream of the US capitalist class \u2013 Defense Secretary James Mattis, Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Brett McGurk, and sped up the resignation of Chief of Staff John Kelly, all of whom left the Trump administration within a matter of days after the announcement. (Oaklandsocialist commented on the event here.)\nOn January 11 of 2019 \u2013 almost immediately after the holiday season had ended and everybody was back to \u201cnormal\u201d and paying attention \u2013 the New York Times published an article that opened the floodgates. \u201cFBI Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly working on Behalf of Russia\u201d their headline read. That Trump was financially linked with the Russian mafia capitalist class was already known (although not really discussed) by the US capitalist class as we have shown. It seems highly, highly unlikely that they hadn\u2019t known that the FBI had been investigating Trump as a \u201csecurity\u201d risk prior to this date. The article focused on Trump\u2019s interest in investing in Russia, not his role as a money launderer for the Russian capitalists.\nThe very next day, the Washington Post exposed a potentially even more explosive story. \u201cTrump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration\u201d trumpeted the headline. The article explained that Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide what he and Putin discussed in several meetings. This includes confiscating the notes of his interpreter in his Helsinki meeting. In the case of his meeting with Putin in Hamburg in July of 2017, as we pointed out, Trump couldn\u2019t confiscate his interpreter\u2019s notes because he had no interpreter there.\nThe same day, the Post published an opinion piece by Max Boot. The piece was entitled \u201c18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset.\u201d For those unfamiliar with him, Boot is a central figure on the Council on Foreign Relations, which is probably the most influential US capitalist think tank. He was a lifelong Republican until about a year ago, when he split from that party over its takeover by Trump. Again, it is not credible that Boot \u2013 who has strongly condemned Trump in the past \u2013 was not aware of Trump\u2019s connections with the Russian mafia capitalist class prior to this date.\nAlso on that date, the Post published another opinion piece by Anne Applebaum. \u201cThe Trump-Putin revelations tell us what we knew all along\u201d, was the title. The piece concluded, \u201cso, yes, bring on more evidence, which will reveal more of what we already knew.\u201d In other words, from its headline to its conclusion, this was an admission that they had known of these connections for a long time.\nWhat do these revelations amount to and why have they only come out now?\nMoney laundering still untouched\nSerious as they are, all these articles discuss is his interest in investing in Russia, not his money laundering past. As we have said many times (see this article.), the main reason the US capitalist class does not want to discuss the money laundering issue is that money laundering for the drug cartels is rampant in the real estate industry. Any revelation of Trump\u2019s money laundering would threaten to reveal this fact.\nThe dangers (to them) are shown by their reluctance to start down that slippery slope by discussing his interest in investing in Russia. But once they do so, it will be difficult to prevent a fuller discussion of the money laundering issue. Consider one political implication:\nOakland Mayor Libby \u201cYuppie\u201d Schaaf.\nHer main campaign donors come from the real estate industry.\nThe City of Oakland is basically run by the real estate developers. They compose the main donors to the campaigns of its mayor, Libby \u201cYuppie\u201d Schaaf, for example. Oakland is probably no exception. The question is how many of these donors have been involved in this money laundering, meaning how many city politicians (and those politicians who arose from city politics) have been getting money from money launderers for the drug cartels? Today, being linked with the drug cartels is \u201cworse\u201d than being linked with the Commies in the 1950s! Image the scandal that would erupt. Maybe it won\u2019t be fully revealed, but maybe it will.\nMore generally, such a scandal would vastly accelerate the discrediting of capitalism, especially among millions of younger people, who are already showing increased support for socialism.\nThis extreme political risk was only undertaken by the mainstream of the US capitalist class because Trump\u2019s unilateral decision to remove the US troops from Syria (tiny in number as they may be) convinced them that they cannot restrain this Russian capitalist class linked president, nor can they tolerate him in office for another two years. Something must be done now, however risky.\nThere is another issue: Why has nearly the entire socialist movement (such as it is) been silent on this issue? Why has none of the socialist groups nor any prominent individual socialists raised the issue? In fact, why have such prominent \u201cleft\u201d figures like Noam Chomsky, Glen Greenwald, or Chris Hedges also been silent? How about Jacobin or Counterpunch? None of them knew? Please. If Oaklandsocialist, with its minute resources, could get this information, then they all could. Some of the left journalists, like Hedges, actually works for the Russian mafia capitalists (through his show on RT). Others more or less support them. But that doesn\u2019t explain it all. The only explanation is two-fold:\nFirst, they are all terrified to being linked with anything that remotely sounds like US patriotism. But this has nothing to do with patriotism; it\u2019s a revelation of the deep crisis for the US capitalist class, the fact that they\u2019ve largely lost control over the executive branch of their own government. It also shows the deep divisions within that class.\nAnd that gets to the second aspect of the issue. It is not enough to simply simply raise the issues that arise from the direct class struggle \u2013 the injustices of capitalism, the struggle of workers, etc. What also has to be raised is the relations inside of the capitalist class. Simply looking at the injustices and exploitation by the capitalist class always leaves the working class looking upwards at the rulers over society. Considering what is happening within the capitalist class means regarding society with a bird\u2019s eye view, regarding it from above. From that perspective, the working class starts to see itself as the potential ruling class, instead of the class that is in perpetual struggle against the ruling class.\nIn other words, this is the difference between reformism, or social democracy, and revolutionary socialism. The fact that the overwhelming majority of socialists have ignored this issue does not speak well for them.\nThat is why it is important for socialists to take up this sort of issue and shout it from the rooftops.\nCategories: Marxist theory, socialist movement, Trump, Uncategorized, United States, world relations\nPingback: Money-Launderer-in-Chief Trump, the capitalist media and socialism: A timeline \u2013 1848: The End(s) of History", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 13966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obits.staradvertiser.com/2018/07/11/richard-m-rodrigues-jr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YXNURLEX3FQHQ4WYCFRRIOQI65MM7VKG", "length": 993, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "obits.staradvertiser.com", "title": "Richard M. Rodrigues, Jr. | Honolulu Hawaii Obituaries - Hawaii Newspaper Obituaries", "raw_content": "Richard M. Rodrigues, Jr.\nRichard M. Rodrigues, Jr., 58, of Honolulu, HI died May 29, 2018. He was born the first of four children on March 10, 1960. Richard attended Damien Memorial School Class '78. He earned a Master's degree in Human Services and Community Development. Richard was a Docent and Community Relations Specialist and Manager at Hawaii State Capitol Tours. He was formerly a Grant Writer Coordinator, and a Actor at ABC. He's a member of the SAG-AFTRA, The Hawaii Independent Puerto Rican Club, and DeMolay. Richard is survived by his parents, Richard M. Rodrigues, Sr. (Jane Miguel) and Norma Jean Kovaloff Shackley (Daniel Morris), his partner Mark Maguire, his sisters, Beverly Sermersheim (Henry), Denise Delgado (Juan), and Jodie Mendes (Nicholas), and his nieces and nephews. Visitation will be 5:30 p.m. with a service at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary Chapel. No flowers. Arrangements Provided By: Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 157.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obituariesus.com/massachusetts/sherman-rivolla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:21Z", "digest": "sha1:AWBLHJKLKY4DKCI6E7M23KIGA6MH6TJP", "length": 513, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "obituariesus.com", "title": "Sherman Rivolla - Obituary", "raw_content": "Sherman Rivolla\nDENNIS \u2013 In the quiet morning hours of September 13, 2018 Sherman Rivolla peacefully passed away. 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The war is now being fought among several factions: the Syrian Government, a loose alliance of Syrian Arab rebel groups, the Syrian Democratic Forces, Salafi jihadist groups (including al-Nusra Front) who often co-operate with the rebels, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The factions receive substantial support from foreign actors, leading many to label the conflict a proxy war waged by both regional and global powers.\nRussia and Turkey:-On 24 November 2015, Turkish F-16 combat aircraft shot down a Russian Su-24 during an airspace dispute close to the Turkish-Syrian border. In response, Russia imposed a number of economic sanctions on Turkey. These included the suspension of visa-free travel to Russia for Turkish citizens, limits on Turkish residents and companies doing business in Russia and restrictions on imports of Turkish products", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 7228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 162.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://odishatv.in/entertainment/the-singer-on-stage-was-different-from-rafi-9623", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XOF5HZHQAQWH2VVQVUF7QOLS7JV5WFM4", "length": 795, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "odishatv.in", "title": "The singer on stage was different from Rafi | OTV", "raw_content": "The singer on stage was different from Rafi\nBhopal: Fauzia, daughter in-law of legendary playback singer, Mohammad Rafi remembers him as man of few words, who changed into a young boy while performing on stage.\nMarried to one of Rafi`s four sons, Fauzia said it was very tough for her to recognise the singer on the stage as the same man who was a part of her family.\nRafi saab did not have a very large social circle, she said adding that the veteran loved to spend his time playing carrom with his family members.\nFauzia, who is settled in London, was here to attend a wedding, where she shared her memories of the singer with reporters.\nShe said the late singer was a foodie who enjoyed eating but when he came to her house in London, he would ask for her macaroni cheese and roasted chicken.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1983, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://odishatv.in/science/nasas-insight-sends-back-first-selfie-on-mars-339195", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DXXQH3CM3OKVKXTFGQ2UEZIFZ7BP6RAM", "length": 1554, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "odishatv.in", "title": "NASA's InSight sends back first selfie on Mars | OTV", "raw_content": "NASA\u2019s InSight sends back first selfie on Mars\nWashington: Barely two weeks after touching down on Mars, NASA\u2019s InSight lander has taken its first selfie using the spacecraft\u2019s robotic arm, the US space agency has said.\nOn December 6, the InSight lander used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie \u2014 a mosaic made up of 11 images. The image includes the lander\u2019s solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday.\nIn addition, InSight sent another set of mosaic composed of 52 individual photos.\nIt showcases the first complete look of \u201cworkspace\u201d \u2014 the approximately 14-by-7-foot (4-by-2-metre) crescent of terrain directly in front of the spacecraft \u2013, where the spacecraft\u2019s instruments such as seismometer (called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS) and heat-flow probe (known as the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP3) can be placed.\n\u201cThe near-absence of rocks, hills and holes means it\u2019ll be extremely safe for our instruments,\u201d said InSight\u2019s principal investigator Bruce Banerdt of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.\n\u201cThis might seem like a pretty plain piece of ground if it weren\u2019t on Mars, but we\u2019re glad to see that,\u201d Banerdt added.\nInSight\u2019s landing team deliberately chose a landing region in Elysium Planitia that is relatively free of rocks.\nThe spacecraft sits in what appears to be a nearly rock-free \u201chollow\u201d \u2014 a depression created by a meteor impact that later filled with sand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ogarras.com/animal-welfare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7F2NXM274FAGQF2CXN3VMKTCMUSVKGTO", "length": 1430, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ogarras.com", "title": "Animal Welfare Act Specialists - O'Garra's Solicitors", "raw_content": "Animal Welfare Act Specialist Solicitors\nO\u2019Garra\u2019s is one of the few firms nationally that have the expertise to deal with prosecutions brought against individuals, charities and rescue centres who deal with the issue of animal welfare, suitable living conditions and the needs of animals generally.\nWe have experience in dealing all types of cases involving cats, dogs, equines, monkeys, crocodiles, parrots and greyhounds. The Animal Welfare Act and the relatively new law it imposes is still developing. The legislation requires owners to do all that is reasonable to provide for the welfare of animals in their care.\nWe can advise at an early stage in a case, perhaps at the stage of a visit from the RSPCA or the police. We can attend at short notice and advise and assist with the interviews and subsequent investigation. In most cases the RSPCA seek a Banning Order of Deprivation Order in relation to an animal together with costs of the investigation and boarding. We have experience in fighting these cases on behalf of many satisfied clients. Throughout the years of conducting this specialist type of work we have developed contacts with different animal experts to assist in all such cases. We will advise on costs and funding your case.\nFree representation may be available at the police station and Legal Aid by way of Representation Order may cover the costs of any subsequent Court proceedings.\nNumber of Animals*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/608/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:PDO3H7ZZYATCMCEJUZDJ7MTOJC55DPQ3", "length": 1658, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "opencommons.uconn.edu", "title": "\"The Prevalence of Burnout and Depressive Symptoms in Medical School\" by Alexander J. Ocampo", "raw_content": "The Prevalence of Burnout and Depressive Symptoms in Medical School\nAlexander J. Ocampo, University of Connecticut School of Public HealthFollow\nDr. David Henderson, Dr. Howard Tennen\nIntroduction: Different studies have shown that rates of depression and burnout are higher in medical students than in the general population. The American Association of Medical Colleges has recommended US medical schools to create wellness programs that decrease mental health issues in medical students (Greenburg, 2013).\nStudy Objectives: This project assesses a baseline point prevalence of depression and burnout among University of Connecticut (UCONN) medical students to determine needs for services and to provide a baseline to measure the impact of future interventions to improve student mental well-being.\nResults: Forty-two percent of respondents had a positive screen for depression, compared with 26% of the general population. Approximately forty percent had high levels of burnout, compared with 27% of the general population. The response rate was 59.1%. In addition, 148 suggestions were collected from the student body about interventions to improve medical student mental health.\nDiscussion: Hopefully, this data can feed a longitudinal quality-improvement project at this particular medical school to see if student-suggested interventions have the potential to decrease the rates of depression and burnout in the student body. This may set the foundation for an innovative wellness program that is built from student suggestions.\nOcampo, Alexander J., \"The Prevalence of Burnout and Depressive Symptoms in Medical School\" (2014). 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The objective of this research was to determine the effects of returning grass clippings in combination with varying N rates on growth, N utilization, and quality of turfgrass managed as a residential lawn. Two field experiments using a cool-season turfgrass mixture were arranged as a 2 x 4 factorial in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. Treatments included two clipping management practices (returned or removed) and four N rates (equivalent to 0, 98, 196, and 392 kg N ha(-1)). Soils at the two sites were a Paxton fine sandy loam (coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts) and a variant of a Hinckley gravelly sandy loam (sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents). Returning clippings was found to increase clipping dry matter yields (DMYs) from 30 to 72%, total N uptake (NUP) from 48 to 60%, N recovery by 62%, and N use efficiency (NUE) from 52 to 71%. Returning grass clippings did not decrease turfgrass quality, and improved it in some plots. We found that N fertilization rates could be reduced 50% or more without decreasing turfgrass quality when clippings were returned. Overall, returning grass clippings was found to improve growth and quality of turfgrass while reducing N fertilization needs.\nPublished in Crop Science, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1225-1231 (July/August 2002) at\nhttp://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/4/1225\nKopp, Kelly and Guillard, Karl, \"Clipping Management and Nitrogen Fertilization of Turfgrass: Growth, Nitrogen Utilization, and Quality\" (2002). 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Students may present a paper presentation, an art work, or a poster presentation.\nThe Universi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 190.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ourpastimes.com/play-never-have-ever-4450702.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:02Z", "digest": "sha1:QET3LTQEK4NR4ZLTBHWPHHIJ3BCGTTKG", "length": 2747, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ourpastimes.com", "title": "How to Play Never Have I Ever | Our Pastimes", "raw_content": "How to Play Never Have I Ever\nBy C. Taylor ; Updated April 12, 2017\nThe social exploration game Never Have I Ever provides a great opportunity to learn about your peers and have fun in the process. The game also breaks the ice with new acquaintances and helps you make new friends. No equipment is necessary to play the game, so it's ideally suited for road trips and parties.\nYou can play Never Have I Ever with as few as two people, but it's best suited for larger groups of 10 to 15 players. Participants sit in a circle and hold up 10 fingers each. Moving clockwise, each player takes turns declaring an activity that they've never done, beginning with the phrase, \"Never have I ever.\" Anyone who has done the activity must visibly and truthfully lower a finger. When a player lowers his last finger, he's out of the game. The winner of the game is the last remaining player with a finger raised.\nThe primary goal of Never Have I Ever is to learn about your friends and have a few laughs, so explore topics that don't typically come up in normal conversations. As an example, ask questions like, \"Never have I ever sneaked out of the house at night.\" If your goal is to win, choose questions that keep you safe and penalize many other players, such as a girl declaring, \"Never have I ever shaved my face,\" during a game with several boys.\nThe game should be fun, but certain lines of questioning can make others feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. For this reason, participants should agree to any topic limits before beginning the game. Some topics you might consider forbidding are sex, intimate details, personal attacks, legalities and other sensitive subjects. As an example, stating, \"Never have I ever been dumped by John Smith,\" could take the game in a bad direction. All players should help keep the questioning within the agreed limits of the game.\nFor shorter games, reduce the number of fingers used to just five. 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It was a mistake: saying something useful (or even engaging) in three minutes to camera is not a skill I possess. My estimation of local TV reporters and documentary presenters grew as I struggled for air in the medium through which they glide so effortlessly. So, returning to my own medium, here\u2019s what I was trying to say.\nMany things changed in the 1960s. Among the most important was that young people from working class families started to get the chance to do something with their creativity. It was then that people like Ridley Scott, David Puttnam, Mary Quant and countless others got their first chance in fashion, advertising, music and the media. They established a meritocratic path that bright, imaginative, hungry young people have followed ever since into the arts.\nBritish\u2014indeed Western\u2014culture benefited immensely from this injection of new energy and the different ways of seeing that it brought. But very little of this change was brought about by government. Though politicians have always sought glamour by association (as Tony Blair did when he invited Noel Gallagher to Downing Street at the height of Cool Britannia) their understanding of and commitment to culture remains weak and partial.\nIndeed, the closure of Creative Partnerships by the present government is particularly sad because it was, while not perfect, a genuinely radical commitment to creative learning that was opening new doors to children in some of this country\u2019s poorest areas. El Sistema, Venezuala\u2019s inspirational youth music programme, has been lauded and imitated by British politicians. Creative Partnerships, invented here, is now being taken up only abroad, in the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania and Qatar through the work of its parent, CCE.\nThis autumn, British universities are welcoming a new cohort of first year students, young people on the threshold of adulthood, many of them hoping to establish themselves in the arts and creative industries. But there are already fewer than there were. In 2012, as annual tuition fees rose to \u00a39,000, numbers fell by 12%.\nAnd this year\u2019s arts graduates, so full of hope and promise in their gowns and mortarboards this summer, are settling down to the hard task of finding work. Most of them are under 24. This summer, just under a million 16-24 year olds were unemployed\u2014a rate of 20.5% compared to 7.9 % for the working population as a whole (ONS Labour Market Statistics).\nGraduates with resources behind them might get an unpaid internship, that blend of exploitation and condescension so characteristic of contemporary economic culture. Some, having proved their face fits, will get taken on. For the rest, the future is uncertain, as arts budgets are cut by local and national government, and the consumer economy\u2014on which so much of the creative industries depends\u2014contracts.\nToday, Arts Council England will announce its plans for delivery of the Creative Employment Programme, which is intended to support up to 6,500 apprenticeships and paid internships across the arts and cultural sectors over the next 30 months. Made possible by National Lottery funds, it is exactly the sort of ambitious programme a national arts agency ought to put in place at a time like this. Like Creative Partnerships, it will have its teething problems and its flaws, but it remains a courageous effort to help thousands of young people to fulfil their creative potential. They will benefit but so will the country as a whole in 15 or 30 years time, when they are the Scotts, Puttnams and Quants of their day.\nBut one programme is not enough to prevent the waste of talent that always happens in times like these. Nor should we expect any single response to deal with every aspect of what is happening. The Creative Employment Programme is likely to help those who want to go into arts and cultural management more than the actors, writers, musicians and artists on whose work everything depends.\nMany arts organisations are finding things hard. They have lost financial support and audiences may be harder to attract. Running the business is an increasingly demanding daily struggle. But that should not be a reason to turn away from the young people who come to the door\u2014or more likely send an email\u2014looking for a chance, a start, a hand up. They deserve a break. They deserve to be met with optimism and an open door. 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My toolchain for those first few sites was extremely basic: Notepad.exe and lots of trial and error. I was just a nerdy kid playing with nerdy virtual toys, but something about programming really stuck with me. It was the first time I ever felt truly empowered to create anything I could dream up, without any limitations. I never thought I would be smart enough to be a \"real\" programmer, but making websites seemed like something anyone could do. Little did I know those first few goofy sites would eventually blossom into my career over the next decade.\nI still carry that feeling of empowerment with me to this day. Sometimes it's expressed in different ways now, like creating silly robots, a podcast, or even sometimes overly-complex circuits in Minecraft. No matter what, the bottom line always remains: With enough effort, computers let me create anything I can dream up.\nLast year, Sean and I started Does Not Compute with an unspoken mission. 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After weeks of talks between Drexel and the Powelton Village Civic Association, a deal was struck, allowing the sale to move forward.\n\u201cEverything worked out,\u201d said Blackwell. \u201cAs they say, all\u2019s well that ends well.\u201d\nMichael Jones, president of the civic group, agreed.\n\u201cI am very relieved that it\u2019s done,\u201d he said today. \u201cWe both got some of what we wanted.\u201d\nBut Drexel must now decide whether to go closing next Monday, four days before Council gives final passage to the zoning changes, expected to come next Thursday.\nBlackwell believes the university will move ahead with the closing.\n\u201cI think that will be fine. They (the district) will get their 25.5 million dollars from Drexel,\u201d Blackwell says.\nMayor Nutter, for his part, just wants it done.\n\u201cOne way or the other, it needs to get resolved. The district needs the money. The school children need the money,\u201d the mayor said.\nMeantime, Council has given final approval to a bill that helps the district next school year: it authorized the use of city sales tax revenues to give the district up to $120 million.\nThere was no immediate comment from Drexel University whether the school will go to closing on the shuttered high school as planned next Monday. 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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806074116\nUsing a familiar tool in a way it was never intended to be used opens up a whole new method to explore materials, report UConn researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Their specific findings could someday create much more energy-efficient computer chips, but the new technique itself could open up new discoveries in a broad range of stuffs.\nAtomic force microscopes (AFM) drag an ultra sharp tip across materials, ever so close but never touching the surface. The tip can feel where the surface is, detecting electric and magnetic forces produced by the material. By methodically passing it back and forth, a researcher can map out the surface properties of a material in the same way a surveyor methodically paces across a piece of land to map the territory. AFMs can give a map of a material's holes, protrusions, and properties at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt.\nAFMs are designed to investigate surfaces. Most of the time, the user tries very hard not to actually bump the material with the tip, as that could damage the surface of the material. But sometimes it happens. A few years ago, graduate student Yasemin Kutes and Justin Luria, a postdoc, studying solar cells in materials science and engineering professor Brian Huey's lab, accidentally dug into their sample. At first thinking it was an irritating mistake, they did notice that the properties of the material looked different when Kutes stuck the tip of the AFM deep into the ditch she'd accidentally dug.\nKutes and Luria didn't pursue it. But another graduate student, James Steffes, was inspired to look more closely at the idea. What would happen if you intentionally used the tip of an AFM like a chisel, and dug into a material, he wondered? Would it be able to map out the electrical and magnetic properties layer by layer, building up a 3-D picture of the material's properties the same way it mapped the surface in 2-D? And would the properties look any different deep inside a material?\nThe answers, Steffes, Huey, and their colleagues report in PNAS, are yes and yes. They dug into a sample of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), which is a room temperature multiferroic. Multiferroics are materials that can have multiple electric or magnetic properties at the same time. For example, bismuth ferrite is both antiferromagnetic\u2014it responds to magnetic fields, but overall doesn't exhibit a North or South magnetic pole\u2014and ferroelectric, meaning it has switchable electric polarization. Such ferroelectric materials are usually composed of tiny sections, called domains. Each domain is like a cluster of batteries that all have their positive terminals aligned in the same direction. The clusters on either side of that domain will be pointed in another direction. They are very valuable for computer memory, because the computer can flip the domains, 'writing' on the material, using magnetic or electric fields.\nWhen a materials scientist reads or writes information on a piece of bismuth ferrite, they can normally only see what happens on the surface. But they would love to know what happens below the surface\u2014if that was understood, it might be possible to engineer the material into more efficient computer chips that run faster and use less energy than the ones available today. That could make a big difference in society's overall energy consumption\u2014already, 5 percent of all electricity consumed in the US goes to running computers.\nTo find out, Steffes, Huey, and the rest of the team used an AFM tip to meticulously dig through a film of bismuth ferrite and map out the interior, piece by piece. They found they could map the individual domains all the way down, exposing patterns and properties that weren't always apparent at the surface. Sometimes a domain narrowed until it vanished or split into a y-shape, or merged with another domain. No one had ever been able to see inside the material in this way before. It was revelatory, like looking at a 3-D CT scan of a bone when you'd only been able to read 2-D X-rays before.\n\"Worldwide, there are something like 30,000 AFMs already installed. A big fraction of those are going to try [3-D mapping with] AFM in 2019, as our community realizes they have just been scratching the surface this whole time,\" Huey predicts. He also thinks more labs will buy AFMs now if 3-D mapping is demonstrated to work for their materials, and some microscope manufacturers will start designing AFMs specifically for 3-D scanning.\nSteffes has subsequently graduated from UConn with his Ph.D. and now works at GlobalFoundries, a computer chip maker. Researchers at Intel, muRata, and elsewhere are also intrigued with what the group found out about bismuth ferrite, as they seek new materials to make the next generation of computer chips. Huey's team, meanwhile, is now using AFMs to dig into all kinds of materials, from concrete to bone to a host of computer components.\n\"Working with academic and corporate partners, we can use our new insight to understand how to better engineer these materials to use less energy, optimize their performance, and improve their reliability and lifetime\u2014those are examples of what materials scientists strive to do every day,\" Huey says.\nExplore further: Correlation between the structure and magnetic properties of ceramics\nMore information: James J. Steffes et al, Thickness scaling of ferroelectricity in BiFeO3 by tomographic atomic force microscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806074116\nCorrelation between the structure and magnetic properties of ceramics\nA team of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (BFU) together with an international scientific group has studied a correlation between the structure of ceramic materials based on bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) and their magnetic ...\nPhysicists observe new magnetic state of bismuth ferrite\n(Phys.org) \u2014Using computer models, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas has collaborated with scientists in the United States and Europe to observe a new magnetic state of bismuth ferrite.\nResearch on bismuth ferrite could lead to new types of electrical devices\nElectrical devices in use today use conductive materials to guide electrons where they are needed. These materials must be fastened in place and insulated in order to keep the electricity on the right path. New research from ...\nA step towards energy-efficient voltage control of magnetic devices\n(Phys.org) \u2014Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a way to create simultaneous images of both the magnetic and the electric domain ...\nTopological material shows superconductivity\u2014and not just at its surface\nThe special properties of topological materials typically occur at their surface. These materials, for example insulators that do conduct current at their surface, are expected to play a major role in future quantum computers. ...\nElectronics you can wrap around your finger\nElectronic devices have shrunk rapidly in the past decades, but most remain as stiff as the same sort of devices were in the 1950s\u2014a drawback if you want to wrap your phone around your wrist when you go for a jog or fold ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 12460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pioneerpowersolutions.com/investors/newsroom/152-pioneer-power-announces-service-agreement-renewal-and-expansion/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7VTSAD4JP4H4LDSOSDXKCJSYBDOPLPQ6", "length": 1636, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pioneerpowersolutions.com", "title": "152-Pioneer Power Announces Service Agreement Renewal and Expansion \u2022 Pioneer Power Solutions", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Investors \u00bb Newsroom \u00bb 152-Pioneer Power Announces Service Agreement Renewal and Expansion\nPioneer Power Announces Service Agreement Renewal and Expansion with Global Digital Communications Provider\nFort Lee, NJ, March 31, 2016 / PRNewswire / \u2013 Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPSI) (\u201cPioneer\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d), a company engaged in the manufacture, sale and service of electrical transmission, distribution and on-site power generation equipment, today announced the Company has extended and expanded its relationship with a global technology and digital communications provider, one of the largest mobile operators, signing a three-year service agreement. Pioneer will service and provide preventative maintenance for the backup generators at the customer\u2019s cell phone tower sites in an additional two states. Pioneer now is the exclusive service provider in nine states. Annual billings for the extension are expected to be approximately $3.0 million per year.\nNathan Mazurek, Pioneer\u2019s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, \u201cThis agreement extends and expands our relationship with one of the country\u2019s premier, global telecommunications providers and represents incremental growth of our higher margin services business. The additional 430 site locations over two states significantly expands our relationship with this important client, and we are poised to effectively leverage the service and support teams already in place to increase our efficiency. We are pleased this customer recognizes the value we add to their operations and entrusts us with additional scope of work to support their power systems.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 6030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pir.org/worldwide-philanthropic-giving-trends-from-largest-online-survey-of-individual-donors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GPAQBCK7MOEFKERIDXPG23PVHJK7IDNG", "length": 10719, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "pir.org", "title": "\ufeff Worldwide Philanthropic Giving Trends from Largest Online Survey of Individual Donors | Your Public Interest Registry", "raw_content": "Home / Press Release / Worldwide Philanthropic Giving Trends from Largest Online Survey of Individual Donors\nRESTON, Va., September 17, 2018 \u2013 Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, and Nonprofit Tech for Good today revealed the results of the second annual \u201cGlobal Trends in Giving Report.\u201d The report analyzes global giving through cultural, technological and geographical filters to understand how and why donors worldwide are giving to and engaging with non-governmental organisations (NGOs), nonprofits and charities.\nThe 2018 report reflects findings from a survey of more than 6,000 donors in 119 countries. It also includes sentiment from more than 1,000 non-donors on why they do not provide financial support to organisations around the world. New to the report this year is a breakdown of giving by monetary amount and what motivates the people within these donor level groups, including micro-donors (contributing $100 USD or less), small donors (donating up to $1,000 USD), mid-sized donors (giving up to $10,000 USD) and major donors (making contributions of more than $10,000 USD).\nThe following are key findings of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report.\nWho is the global community of donors and what do they support?\nThe global donor community skews female (65 percent). Of these donors, 53 percent report holding a liberal ideology (53 percent) and 72 percent report religious affiliations\nThirty-one percent of donors worldwide give to organisations outside of their country of residence, supported by the ease of global connectivity through digital mediums and underscoring the worldwide preference toward online giving.\nNinety-two percent of donors around the world indicate that they recycle, and many are civic-minded through regular voting (91 percent) and signing online petitions (72 percent). Seventy-two percent have even included charitable giving in their last will and testament.\nWhen global donors were asked about the 2017 #GivingTuesday campaign, 46 percent of donors had never heard of the initiative, signaling that there is further opportunity for the U.S.-based digital philanthropy initiative to gain traction and unite the worldwide donor community around a singular day of action.\nHow do people prefer to give?\nFifty-four percent of the global donor community prefers to give online via credit or debit cards.\nFacebook remains the platform that most inspires global donors to give (56 percent), followed by Facebook-owned Instagram (20 percent) and Twitter (13 percent). What\u2019s more, 18 percent of donors have given through Facebook Fundraising Tools and 88 percent indicate they\u2019ll continue to do so in the future, despite recent platform issues and security concerns.\nNew to this year\u2019s report are findings about crowdfunding campaigns. Forty-one percent of donors to charitable organisations also donate to online crowdfunding campaigns that support individuals.\nIn support of online donation preference, 68 percent of global donors trust websites and email addresses from the .org domain the most.\nNinety-two percent of donors believe organisations should prioritize data security and encryption technology to keep their contact and financial information safe.\nOnly 20 percent of donors indicated being more likely to give if offered a free gift, indicating they would likely donate regardless.\nWhy do people refrain from making financial donations to organisations around the world?\nForty-three percent of non-donors cite financial hardship for the reason they do not give money to non-governmental, non-profit or charitable-based organisations.\nMore than half of non-donors say they are unlikely to make a financial donation within the following 12 months.\nInstead of giving money, 20 percent of non-donors volunteer their time and 17 percent donate goods and/or services.\nTwelve percent claim a lack of trust in organisations to spend their financial donation \u201cwell.\u201d\n\u201cAdvancements in and increased availability of technology, especially in emerging regions around the world, are helping to fuel both the propensity for philanthropy and the preference to give through online channels,\u201d said James LeFevre, senior director of marketing for Public Interest Registry. \u201cWe hope that the 2018 Giving Report continues to be a valuable resource for mission-based organisations around the world, underscoring the decisions on how and when to reach donors who are critical to their organisation\u2019s success.\u201d\nThe following are regional findings of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report.\nNorth America \u2013 Donor Insights:\nNorth American donors are predominately female (70 percent), represent the highest rate of Baby Boomer donors (41 percent) in the world, and skew toward small (45 percent) and mid-size donations (35 percent).\nFifty percent of donors are likely to make donations following natural disasters.\nThirty-one percent of donors in the region are most inspired to give by email, followed by social media (25 percent), and have the highest likelihood to trust websites and email addresses from the .org domain (73 percent).\nNorth American donors prefer to give online with a credit or debit card (60 percent), which is the highest regional rate around the world; only 6 percent of North Americans prefer to give cash, which is the lowest rate of any region.\nTwenty percent of donors in this region have charitable giving in their last will and testament (20 percent).\nAfrica \u2013 Donor Insights:\nThe majority of donors in Africa are female (63 percent) and Millennials (58 percent). 70 percent of donors in the region identify as Christian and prefer to support children and youth-related causes (22 percent).\nThirty-two percent of donors in Africa prefer to give cash, which is the highest of any region and may explain why 61 percent self-identify as micro-donors.\nWith crowdfunding services gaining traction in the region, African donors have the highest rate of donating to personal crowdfunding campaigns (50 percent).\nAsia \u2013 Donor Insights:\nThe gender split of Asian donors is about even, with 51 percent female and 49 percent male. Thirty-five percent are Gen Xers and 34 percent are Millennials.\nForty-two percent of Asian donors identify as small donors.\nDigital tools are driving donor behavior in Asia, with 51 percent of donors preferring to give online, 41 percent enrolling in a reoccurring monthly giving program, and only slight differences in email (29 percent), social media (26 percent) and organisational websites (21 percent) serving as the most inspiring channels for donors to give through.\nAustralia & Oceania \u2013 Donor Insights:\nDonors throughout Australia and Oceania skew female (76 percent) and identify as small donors (60 percent). Thirty-seven percent are Millennials and 48 percent say they do not have a religious affiliation.\nDonors in this region are the least likely to give through Facebook or its tools, yet attend fundraising events at a higher rate than donors in any other region (75 percent).\nCauses that support children and youth are the top preference for donors in Australia and Oceania.\nEurope \u2013 Donor Insights:\nEurope has more Gen X donors than any other region; 61 percent of donors are female, 47 percent are non-religious and 51 percent identify as small donors.\nTied with Asian donors, 44 percent of European donors are most likely of global donors to give to organisations located outside their country of residence. Donors in Europe are also most likely to volunteer internationally.\nThirty-two percent of donors are inspired to give via social media, followed by email (25 percent).\nSouth America \u2013 Donor Insights:\nSouth American donors are predominantly female (71 percent), Christian (63 percent) and micro-donors (59 percent).\nDonors give most to causes pertaining to children and youth, and globally, South American donors give the most to support the cause of animals and wildlife (17 percent).\nUnique to South American region, donors indicate they are more likely to be inspired to give by Instagram (30 percent) \u2013 all other surveyed regions rank Instagram parent company Facebook higher.\n\u201cNo matter the region in question, data from the 2018 Global Trends in Giving report make clear that online giving is the future of philanthropy,\u201d said Heather Mansfield, founder of Nonprofit Tech for Good. \u201cWe\u2019re also seeing Millennials driving the next generation of giving all over the world, as in most emerging regions the first to come online are younger generations who aspire to connect with and make a difference in the world around them.\u201d\nThe 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report surveyed 6,057 donor respondents from 119 countries and 1,049 non-donors from 83 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia & Oceania, Europe, North America and South America between April 23 and June 30, 2018. The report also features analysis of donor responses broken out by gender, age, ideology, religion and donation size.\nThe Global Trends in Giving Report is supported by various global partners that encourage the participation of donors from around the world \u2013 particularly those located in emerging nations \u2013 to ensure a diverse, balanced understanding of preferred donor needs. Partners include #GivingTuesday, BackaBuddy, Blackbaud Institute, CanadaHelps, Doare, Donadora, East Africa Philanthropy Network, everydayhero, Fundaci\u00f3n Goteo, GIVE.asia, Givergy, Giving.sg, HelpArgentina, iDonate, IsraelGives, M-Changa, memboGo, Philanthropy Circuit, Vakinha, and YoDono. For more information on the findings and survey methodology, and to download the full report and graphics, please visit: http://www.givingreport.ngo. The report is also available in the following languages:\nFrench \u2013 https://givingreport.ngo/fr\nPortuguese \u2013 https://givingreport.ngo/pt-br/\nSpanish \u2013 https://givingreport.ngo/es\nPublic Interest Registry is a nonprofit organisation that operates the .org top-level domain \u2014 the world\u2019s third largest \u201cgeneric\u201d top-level domain with more than 10.3 million domain names registered worldwide. Public Interest Registry also operates four Internationalized Domain Names (.\u041e\u0420\u0413 (xn--c1avg), .\u673a\u6784 (xn--nqv7f), .\u0938\u0902\u0917\u0920\u0928 (xn--i1b6b1a6a2e), .\u7ec4\u7ec7\u673a\u6784 (xn--nqv7fs00ema)) to support and encourage local language use of the Internet. As an advocate for collaboration, safety and security on the internet, Public Interest Registry\u2019s mission is to educate and enable the global noncommercial community to use the internet more effectively, and to take a leadership position among internet stakeholders on policy and other issues relating to the domain naming system. Public Interest Registry was founded by the Internet Society (internetsociety.org) in 2002 and is based in Reston, Virginia, USA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 17099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://piu.org.pl/en/a-stable-half-year-for-the-insurance-market/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:36Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6VSAKU4ETBBFJHG66TILTDKXSESTGYH", "length": 3972, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "piu.org.pl", "title": "Polska Izba Ubezpiecze\u0144 A stable half year for the insurance market | Polska Izba Ubezpiecze\u0144", "raw_content": "A stable half year for the insurance market\nData collected by PIU suggests that in the first half of this year non-life insurers paid out just under PLN 7 billion to their clients. Life insurance benefits reached PLN 12.3 billion. As compared to 2010, which was a very difficult year, one may describe the present situation on the insurance market as stable.\nMotor insurance market\nMTPL insurance premiums exceeded PLN 4.1 billion, while the total amount for motor hull insurance reached almost PLN 2.9 million. In both cases a year-on-year increase of ca. 15 percent was noted, stemming from the adjustment of rates to difficult market conditions, which had been already been visible in the preceding quarters. The indemnity values, which have been on the rise for several years, combined with stable insurance prices, resulted in losses which companies could no longer accept. \u2014 The basic duty of an insurer is to guarantee to the clients the security of money that is disbursed and deposited. This is made possible by adjusting prices to the risk level. We should remember that the group which is always most affected by price increases is the irresponsible drivers who cause accidents. That is why it pays off to drive safely \u2014 says Jan Grzegorz Pr\u0105dzy\u0144ski, President of PIU Management Board.\nAs part of the motor insurance segment, companies paid out PLN 2.7 billion-worth of compensation under MTPL and almost PLN 2 billion under motor hull insurance.\nNon-life insurance market (excluding motor insurance)\nApart from the motor segment, another segment with the biggest share in section II was that of policies against fire and natural disasters. In this class, too, an increase in the collected premiums was visible \u2013 from PLN 1.4 to 1.69 billion. This increase might, too, have been a result of the necessity to adjust rates to market conditions, especially in the context of last year\u2019s floods, in the wake of which insurers had to pay out indemnities amounting to ca. PLN 1.7 billion.\nAs regards the life insurance market, the decrease in premiums was halted within class I (protection products, short-term bank policies, structures). The premium for these types of products amounted to PLN 9.2 billion and exceeded the previous year\u2019s sum by 1.2 percent. A significant increase was also observed in class III (unit-linked products). The premium in class III came to PLN 5.2 billion, which means an increase by as much as 40 percent as compared to the previous year. \u2013 I would like to see these figures as evidence that more and more people are thinking not only about security, but also about making savings towards their pensions. It is worth remembering that investment policies are long-term products. They work best if given a dozen or so years or even several decades \u2013 says Jan Grzegorz Pr\u0105dzy\u0144ski.\nAt the same time, there is still a large group of clients who choose to close their savings and investments policies, as evidenced by the substantial, 30-percent increase in the value of benefits under such products.\nThe technical result and profit\nBoth life insurance companies and non-life insurers achieved a positive technical result (it is the result from their core business). The net profit from life insurance amounted to PLN 1.7 billion, representing a decrease by 7.9 percent as compared to the previous year. The profit recorded by non-life insurers came to PLN 2.6 billion, that is almost 15 percent less than the previous year\u2019s figure. It should be pointed out that the actual picture of profits on the non-life market is heavily influenced by the dividend paid on a yearly basis to the biggest Polish insurance company by its subsidiary \u2013 a life insurer. This dividend not included, the profit recorded by the non-life market at the end of the first half year would come to PLN 666.17 billion.\nDetailed numerical data concerning the insurance market after Q2 2011 can be found in the table attached to this release.\nTable: results for Q2 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pivot.today/2019/02/dnb-first-participates-in-weather-the-weather-food-drive-for-benefit-of-local-seniors-students/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:SKAZM6PIRWNHDNGBSOTME43AD7YCYRCB", "length": 2081, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pivot.today", "title": "DNB First Participates in \u2018Weather the Weather\u2019 Food Drive for Benefit of Local Seniors, Students", "raw_content": "Home Commerce Banking & Finance DNB First Participates in \u2018Weather the Weather\u2019 Food Drive for Benefit of Local Seniors, Students\nDNB First recently teamed up with the West Chester Area Senior Center (WCASC) to pack hundreds of bags of food for the \u201cWeather the Weather\u201d Emergency Food Drive.\nMany seniors rely on the center for warm meals; however, it can be difficult for them to make it there on days when there is inclement weather. The bags of food will be provided to seniors during these times to help them \u201cweather the weather\u201d until they are able to make it back to the senior center.\n\u201cDuring the cold winter months, we have a lot of seniors that turn to us for a warm meal, and the purpose of this food drive is to ensure that they still have access to that, even when they can\u2019t make it into the center,\u201d said Kathy Sullivan, Executive Director of WCASC. \u201cWe are very thankful for the DNB First employees that took the time to come out and support.\u201d\nBill McGrath, DNB First\u2019s Chief Credit and Risk Officer, serves on the West Chester Senior Center Board of Directors and helped to connect the DNB First team with this initiative. Employees from across the bank showed up to lend a hand.\nJames Malloy, DNB First\u2019s new Chief Lending Officer, and Dave Connor, DNB First AVP, Senior Credit Analyst and WCASC board member, were also on-site to support the cause and efforts of the team.\nIn addition to the bags of food packed for seniors, a number of bags will also be donated to the Chester County Family Academy Charter School, where many of the students come from households facing financial challenges. The school is adjacent to the senior center, and the organizations frequently partner to expand their reach and impact with their \u201cGrand Friends\u201d program.\n\u201cAs a community bank, we are always looking for ways to support our neighbors,\u201d said McGrath. \u201cThese two organizations provide great resources to the members of our community, so it was a natural fit for us to partner with them on this initiative.\u201d\nTags: Bill McGrathDave ConnorDNB FirstJames MalloyKathy Sullivan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 13170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pixelpioneers.co/blog/2018/speaker-spotlight-gerry-mcgovern", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UNXVRDH7JMYTBBXAQPVX2I2QHRMLBMF5", "length": 5491, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "pixelpioneers.co", "title": "Pixel Pioneers Belfast 2018 speaker spotlight: Gerry McGovern on creating a better customer experience", "raw_content": "Why have so many companies lost touch with (and the trust of) their customers?\nIn general trust has declined in society. In the early sixties something like 70 percent of people trusted government, certainly in the US and many other Western societies, and after the Vietnam War it had dropped to about 30 percent!\nIt has been declining ever since. As people got better educated, they realised that the trust they placed in many institutions was misplaced. I think there's a general societal disconnect between people and their institutions, maybe in some countries not as much as in others. In Scandinavia, China or India you still see strong figures but broadly speaking there's just a big shift. People are becoming more skeptical, and the web is a vehicle of verification. You can check and compare things.\nIn another area, however, trust has not disappeared at all. It has just shifted. Business models like Uber's or Airbnb's are totally dependent on trusting strangers. We're trusting our peers much more because we now have mechanisms to amalgamate the opinions and the expertise of our peers. But we're trusting experts less, and I think justifiably so, because experts in so many areas have got it wrong and it's not that they don't have a role \u2014 a core stable role, but they're not nearly as all-knowing as they might have pretended to be.\nWhat's the Top Tasks methodology?\nA few years ago we worked on a project for Norwegian hospitals and there was a big debate. All the hospitals had different websites and approaches to content, and we really want to understand the purpose of a hospital. You'd think you should know the purpose but what's the difference between a hospital and a health centre, for example? So we asked Norwegian citizens to look at a big list of 70 or 80 things around health and decide what really mattered to them. There was this overwhelming sense that it's about treatment, and there were three sub tasks: before, during and after treatment.\nThat's what Top Tasks is about. What's absolutely critical? What's the essence of buying a car or choosing a university? It's really about cutting to the absolute chase of a particular problem, but also about identifying what\u2019s not the essence, what I call the \"tiny tasks\". Often the digital team spends most time on these because they reflect the ego of the organisation and the desire to have puff pieces and all sorts of propaganda that are often disrupt the journey of the top tasks.\nWho is the method most suitable for?\nMany smaller organisations have used it, but it's more suited for complex, political environments with a whole range of competing interests that need to create an absolute clarity of what matters. If you've got a very small business, your top task should be clear. You should have that clarity of the essential product or service you deliver and the core stuff that the customer wants or needs to know.\nHow do you select the customers to help identify and test the top tasks?\nThat's a crucial conversation. For the top task identification you need around 400 people, who actually use the site you're analysing, to vote to get statistical reliable data. You'll typically end up with about 10 to 12 top tasks, and to actually measure their performance, you need a hell of a lot fewer people. In traditional usability thinking the consensus is somewhere between five to eight. That'll work to identify core problems. But to really start getting reliable data, we found you don't need to go out all that much more, just to about 15 to 20 people. The core thing is that you repeat this, for example, every six months, not with the same people but the same profile of people. So you're measuring the evolution of the customer experience on an ongoing basis.\nWhy do you think organisations should delete up to 90 per cent of the content on their sites?\nBecause 90 percent of almost everything is crap! We have an existential challenge in modern organisations. The way we manage and measure is creating far more problems than it is solving. It comes from the old world of manufacturing. A hundred years ago, if you as a manager could deliver 200 finished cars a week instead of a hundred, that was great. But we've taken that industrial concept of measuring success and brought it into a digital world. When something is right, it can't be left right. It has to be changed because you've got to show that you're doing something, and the way you show your value in most organisations is you produce stuff. It creates a culture of production and glutton.\nCan you give us an example of how your methodology made a difference to an organisation?\nThe Norwegian Cancer Society deleted 80 percent of their website content, including calls to donate money that the front page was covered with. They stripped all of that away and just focused on the core top tasks. The next year their donations doubled, and they have gone up 50 percent plus every year since they launched a new environment that was radically simplified and just focused on helping people in really getting what they need.\nApart from Gerry's talk on designing an intuitive navigation, Pixel Pioneers Belfast on 23 November also covers ecommerce design, new web technologies such as CSS Grid, Web Components, Custom Properties and the Web Animation API, CSS for the next billion users, and more. There will also be workshops on Smart Responsive UX Design Patterns (save \u00a345 on a conference and workshop bundle) and an Adobe XD deep dive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 6377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/hidden-costs-of-complex-language/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:POC3NCPSHKBFAGMJ75M5F5WPHCYW56M6", "length": 1471, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "plainlanguage.gov", "title": "The Hidden Costs of Complex Language | plainlanguage.gov", "raw_content": "The Hidden Costs of Complex Language\nA workers\u2019 compensation claims-administration firm recently required all its claims administrators to attend seminars to help them write clearly. The reason? According to the director of claims, \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand what we\u2019re trying to say.\u201d\nJargon, regulatory language, abbreviations \u2014 the flood of complex language was making employees\u2019 jobs harder because they had to send multiple requests for information. Plus, the use of legalese created more reliance on attorneys, leading to more time and expense wasted on a file. As a result, the company owner made the business decision to train everyone in clear writing. Now the project continues with company form letters being rewritten in plain language.\nThe director of claims was equally frank about the impact of government documents: \u201cWe can\u2019t understand them.\u201d Her immediate concern is the new Medicare rules. According to her, nothing makes sense. They have asked their attorneys to figure out the rules to avoid legal problems. In the meantime, she says, \u201cWhen we can\u2019t understand and can\u2019t communicate, we do nothing.\u201d The result: all forward motion on implementing the new rules stalls.\nBoth as users and as receivers of complex medical claims language, this company testifies that writing so users understand is critically important.\nU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A Plain English Handbook: How to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents . Washington D.C.,1998.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plasticboards.com/3-expert-tips-for-choosing-a-playground-equipment-provider/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7HCR3AAQAZN4HVKGIB5NJUADKBADWO2H", "length": 2314, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "plasticboards.com", "title": "3 Expert Tips For Choosing a Playground Equipment Provider | Bedford Technology", "raw_content": "Between 2004 and 2014, the global production of plastics grew from 225 million tons to 311 million tons. That being said, recycled plastic lumber for playground equipment and fencing has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years. But before you invest in any type of playground equipment, it\u2019s vital to know that you\u2019re choosing a reliable provider. Here are just a few expert tips to help you choose the best and most reliable provider for recycled plastic fencing and playground equipment.\nConduct a playground audit and needs assessment.\nFirst, take some time to evaluate the anticipated needs for your playground. A professional audit is normally the best way to go about this. An audit can provide insight into the project, such as the size of the playground, the layout, the number of children who will be able to use the playground at one time, the ages of the children, and more. There are more factors than you realize when selecting the right equipment, and a professional can ensure that your investment is worthwhile.\nConsider the condition of any equipment you already have.\nIt\u2019s also important to consider any equipment you may already have in your possession for the playground. This can be factored into the audit and help you select the equipment that provides the widest range of activities. Of course, if the equipment is exceptionally old or broken down, it will almost definitely need to be replaced. After all, safety is a number-one priority when it comes to selecting the right equipment.\nReview materials and qualities carefully.\nFinally, it\u2019s vital to take the time to review all of your selected equipment carefully before committing to your final purchase. As mentioned, safety needs to be the first priority, and unsafe or improperly constructed playground equipment can be a serious hazard to children. Work together with a professional to determine the most reliable materials and suppliers based on construction methods, price, and more. Don\u2019t rush this process, either \u2014 each and every piece of equipment needs to be purchased with care and properly maintained.\nUltimately, these tips can help you choose reliable and sturdy plastic playground equipment that\u2019s built to last. For more information about recycled plastic fencing and playground equipment, contact Bedford Technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pocketnow.com/sony-ericsson-mt27i-pepper-pictured-as-xperia-neo-successor", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:D6TEZUZ7OYZ6XMESJ7HFIOWRNYIRRSQ5", "length": 667, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pocketnow.com", "title": "Sony Ericsson MT27i Pepper Pictured As Xperia neo Successor? - Pocketnow", "raw_content": "Sony Ericsson MT27i Pepper Pictured As Xperia neo Successor?\nby Anton D. NagyJanuary 7, 2012 9:20 am\nDespite getting the Xperia neo V as its refresh last year in Berlin, the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo is rumroed to get a successor and we sure hope it will be soon, if not at CES then definitely at MWC.\nThe phone\u2019s model number is MT27i and is also referred to as \u201cPepper\u201d. You can see it in the leaked image above accompanied by rumored specs that include a 1GHz dual-core processor (probably made by ST-Ericsson, the NovaThor U8500 according to reports), 3.7-inch FWVGA display, five-megapixel camera with 720p video recording capability.\nAndroid, News, Sony Ericsson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://politicalprisonersofthailand.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/local-elections-this-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TONI6NO3TDGZYFWDVNC5YI5FC6TLGOZL", "length": 2910, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "politicalprisonersofthailand.wordpress.com", "title": "Local elections \u201cthis year\u201d? | Political Prisoners of Thailand", "raw_content": "Local elections \u201cthis year\u201d?\nAfter essentially telling the nation that the military junta\u2019s \u201celection\u201d was off the much-touted \u201croad map,\u201d the Bangkok Post reports that an unnamed source says the junta was \u201cpreparing to hold local elections this year as it wants to \u2018test the waters\u2019 ahead of the national election expected next February\u2026\u201d.\nWe have doubts about this \u201csource\u201d and the claims. For one thing, almost no-one expects an election in February. For another, talks about local elections are not new, but have gone missing for several months. It was back in November that Wissanu Krea-ngam said local elections would be held within 45 days of bills to amend six laws relating to regional governing bodies being enacted.\nWe have heard little about those bills and laws. This report states that \u201cthe Council of State, which is the government\u2019s legal advisory body, has finished scrutinising six legislative bills relating to local elections.\u201d They would then go to the junta\u2019s cabinet and then to the National Legislative Assembly before going through the formal approval process.\nIf that is true, it would mean that local elections could probably be held \u2013 if the junta so decrees \u2013 by very late this year or early next year. And, that could easily delay national elections even further.\nThe most recent mumbling about local elections \u201ccomes as the government [junta] is likely to reinstate several more local leaders put on suspension pending corruption probes in what is seen by critics as a ploy to achieve political aims at the general election.\u201d\nAnother unnamed source, this one at the Election Commission, said the junta has ordered the Local Administration Department, which is under the authority of Gen Anupong Paojinda, \u201cto prepare local elections as the government [junta] wanted to assess local support for the government [junta] and parties.\u201d\nAs it was several months ago, local polls are seen as a way to \u201cease public calls for a speedy return to democracy.\u201d According to this source, \u201cthe results of local elections will be factored in when the government [junta] makes a decision to hold the general election\u2026\u201d.\nGiven that most political parties are unable to do much at all at present, local elections would be easy for the regime to control and manipulate and would be a chance for it to promote pro-junta parties ahead of the national election it plans for them to \u201cwin.\u201d It would also be an opportunity for the junta to ensure it has its people in administrative place for controlling national elections at the local level.\nIn this context, should local elections be held, the real fight will be to prevent the junta from expanding its bootprint even further at the local level.\nTags: Anupong Paojinda, Election Commission, elections, local elections, National Legislative Assembly, Wissanu Krea-ngam\n\u2190 Snoozing snaps beget screams for media \u201creform\u201d\nThe junta\u2019s Election Commission \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://portal.wire-net.org/membership/directory/details/fecc989a-cffc-e511-80e7-a45d36fcffdc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ5EUOIMVWZUKAZPIWKDCPKYIVKDHY5Y", "length": 437, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "portal.wire-net.org", "title": "ArcAlloy Custom Metal Fab & Welding \u00b7 WIRE-Net Portal", "raw_content": "ArcAlloy Custom Metal Fab & Welding\n724 Lowell Street Elyria, OH 44035\nhttps://www.arcalloy.com/\nCustom Engineered Metal Fabrication and Welding Almost any metal fabricated or machined components for a wide variety of industries and markets served: Sheet, Plate and Structural processing of most metals, including Carbon Steels, HSLA Steels, Stainless Steels, High Temperature & Corrosion Resistant Alloys (e.g. Inconels and Hastelloys).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prescottartsbeat.podbean.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RE4XF3BJFVB4KEOQXS23G72GLA46RG3Q", "length": 2776, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "prescottartsbeat.podbean.com", "title": "PrescottArtsBeat", "raw_content": "\u2022 October 19th, 2008\nNeil Singh, captain of the Phoenix Senators - a baseball team recreating the vintage baseball experience, finishes up his interview, including taking on Andrew 5 Big Questions, in which we learn what modern baseball rule makes him throw down his hat in disgust, who he wishes he had on his side in a tourney and the shame that inhabits his kitchen.\nOct. 26, 1pm, you can see Neil and his side (pictured above) take on the Bisbee Bees at Prescott's historic Ken Lindley Field in a game set in 1928. Entrance to the game is by donation and benefits Sharlot Hall Museum which was founded in 1928. This is the first time the Senators and Bees have met on the field of dreams, so spectators have a chance to be there at the very beginning of an historic rivalry.\nWill Bisbee tear up the pea-patch? Will Neal be sitting in the catbird seat? Join supporters of the Sharlot Hall Museum and vintage baseball on Oct. 26!\nOct. 26, 1pm, you can see Neil and his side take on the Bisbee Bees (pictured above) at Prescott's historic Ken Lindley Field in a game set in 1928. Entrance to the game is by donation and benefits Sharlot Hall Museum which was founded in 1928. This is the first time the Senators and Bees have met on the field of dreams, so spectators have a chance to be there at the very beginning of an historic rivalry.\nProbably the best band in America you can't easily describe, DMT hails from Vermont, by way of Cali and sounds like a band playing The Senior Prom in Tom Wait's sleeping brain (just so you know.)\nWe caught Pete from the band as they are out on tour and he answered our questions, including a memorable Andrew's 5 Big Questions involving dead singers, aversions to crew cuts and the one thing we could do without at the next live concert.\nDMT plays Oct 21st at Prescott College in the Crossroads Center and yes, it is a fundraiser for Food Not Bombs and the Catalyst InfoShop - you might want to check out the fundraiser Pete says DMT TURNED DOWN to come play this show. They'll also be playing Oct 23rd at The Green Room in nearby-ish Flagstaff. 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Keynes appreciated that jobs, savings, and growth are all relative.\nOne of the most intriguing and little-noted facts about John Maynard Keynes's masterwork, The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, concerns the first three words of its title. These are evidently cribbed from Albert Einstein.* Alone that would be only a curiosum; but there is more. The parallels between Keynes's economics and Einstein's relativity theory are deep enough, and evidently intentional enough, to provide a useful framework for thinking about what Keynes meant to do with his scientific revolution.\nKeynes and Einstein had met. Keynes traveled to Berlin in 1926 to lecture; Einstein attended. Keynes's impressions were not published until 1972:\nWordsworth, who had not seen him, wrote of Newton's statue: \"The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.\" I, who have seen Einstein, have to record something apparently--perhaps not really different-- that he is \"a naughty boy,\" a naughty Jew-boy, covered with ink, pulling a long nose as the world kicks his bottom; a sweet imp, pure and giggling. (Collected Writings, Vol. X, p. 382.)\nA second reference appears in The New Statesman and Nation of October 21, 1933. For this issue, Keynes prepared a short commentary to accompany a sketch of Albert Einstein by the artist David Low. The playful imagery is now gone, and by this time Keynes has become concerned about Jewish refugees. Now, to Keynes's eye, Low's drawing evokes an Einstein under attack. Keynes quotes Einstein in the German:\n\"Assuredly you too, dear reader, made acquaintance as boy or girl with the proud edifice of Euclid's geometry\"--thus begins the \"Essay on the Special and General Theory of Relativity\"--\"assuredly by force of this bit of your past you would beat with contempt anyone who casts doubts on even the most out of the way fragment of any of its propositions.\" It is so indeed. The boys, who cannot grow up to adult human nature, are beating the prophets of the ancient race--Marx, Freud, Einstein. (Collected Writings, Vol. XXVIII, p. 21)\nThe first extant complete table of contents of Keynes's next book, then titled simply The General Theory of Employment, was found in a bundle of papers dated December 1933. (Collected Writings, Vol. XIII, p. 421). In the first proofs of that book there is a sentence, deleted from later proofs, that occurs exactly at the point where Keynes declares that the classical theory cannot be applied to the problem of unemployment, and just before this passage:\nThe classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight--as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry. Something similar is required in economics. (Collected Writings, Vol XIV, p. 366)\nThe deleted sentence reads, \"We require, therefore, to work out a more general theory than the classical theory\" (italics added).\nMark Twain writes somewhere that \"some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.\" But what, if anything, does it mean?\nNewtonian Physics and Classical Economics\nAlbert Einstein came of age in a world where the classical physics of Sir Isaac Newton still reigned. Two features of Newton's worldview are pertinent to understanding the classical economics that Keynes meant to attack.\nThe first is that Newton's physics presupposes an absolute separation of space and time. Space is Euclidean: a three- dimensional void stretching infinitely in all directions. The position of any particle in space can be defined, by means of a system of coordinates, with respect to any observer or any fixed reference point. Motion is the displacement of the particle from one position to another. Velocity is motion, divided by the number of ticks on a clock that it takes for the motion to occur. The clock that is used to measure velocity lies, in a conceptual sense, outside the universe itself. In other words, all observers of an event, provided they were equipped with accurate timepieces, no matter where they might be, would always agree on the exact time that the event occurred. Newton imagined time as an absolutely regular phenomenon that could not depend on the location of the clock or be affected by its movement or any other physical force.\nThe second feature is reductionism: Newton's universe was neither more nor less than the sum of its component particles. Gravity in Newton's system is the basic force exerted by one massive body on any other. Gravity produces the acceleration of a particle in space, according to the position and mass of all other particles in the universe that exert gravitational force. And, in Newton's view, this interaction of each particle on every other is all there is. Once you knew the position, mass, direction, and velocity of every particle in the universe, you would not need to know anything else. Every future event would be fully determined by the laws of motion.\nWithout going into great detail, it is possible to trace out the role of each of the above features in the classical economics of Keynes's time and in modern neoclassical economics. The analog of space is the market. Look at any supply and demand diagram. The graph itself is a two-dimensional space. Every point on the graph is a position defined uniquely with respect to the origin. The relationships between variables are presented as forces in this space: in the labor market, demand aligns wages and employment in a downward sloping relation; supply aligns them along an upward slope. If two curves cross in that space, their point of intersection is an equilibrium position, where the forces balance and the market clears.\nThe analog of Newtonian time, in the classical economics, is money. Just as time is absolutely separate from space, money is absolutely separate from the market. Prices and wages may be measured in money terms, but this is only a convenience. The prices that count are relative prices--prices in relation to the prices of other goods. The wages measured in a proper labor market are real wages--an hour's work in terms of the commodities that an hour of work can purchase. Like time, money is an invariable standard. And just as it does not matter whether one measures time in seconds or in hours, or from Andromeda or Cassiopeia, it does not matter whether one measures prices in dollars or dimes, in pesos or yen, or in dollars of 1958 or dollars of 1993. The quantity of money has no effect on the equilibrium of the market; nothing real depends on money in any important way.\nThe reductionism of Newton's system is equally fundamental to classical economics and remains so today. Economists are taught that societies, like Newton's universe, are nothing more than the sum of their individual components. Macroeconomic expressions, though they purport to describe the behavior of society as a whole, are only a shorthand for the mass of individual human actions. In principle, therefore, the best macroeconomics would be built strictly and rigidly from the theory of individual behavior, or microfoundations. If there are operational difficulties with this, they must lie mainly in the difficulty of acquiring all the information that is necessary about all of the individuals whose preferences and behavior must be considered. Fundamental difficulties of theory do not arise.\nEinstein and Newton's Mechanics\nBy the time Keynes came along, the Newtonian view of the physical universe had crumbled. Einstein's theories of relativity had done it in. The absolute separation of time and space collapsed with Einstein's introduction of a new universal constant, the speed of light. If light traveled through empty space, everywhere and always and irrespective of the direction and velocity of the observer (as Einstein argued and experiments have confirmed) at the same identical speed (186,000 miles per second), then the absolute simultaneity of two or more very distant events could no longer be defined. Clocks in different places will record these events at different times, and none is more correct than any other. Moreover, Einstein showed that space and time are interrelated--time itself advances more slowly near massive bodies than it does in empty space.\nFurthermore, this newly unified concept, space-time, also destroyed the Euclidean concept of emptiness extending forever in all directions. Space-time is curved, and Einstein's relativity is the extension of the Riemannian geometry of curved spaces to the physical universe. Near any massive body, the shortest distance between two points curves around, as does the path of a ray of light. For this reason, parallel lines may meet if extended far enough. (Keynes's reference to overthrowing Euclid's axiom of parallels is an unmistakable allusion to this feature of Einstein's theory.)\nBut if space-time is curved by the presence of matter, then the shortest distance between two points is no longer defined independently of the distribution of matter in space. And then the system is no longer reducible to its elements; you can no longer get to the whole merely by adding up the parts. The universe is, instead, more easily and more correctly understood by looking at the whole and placing the parts within it. The whole can impose rules on the parts: in a famous phrase, \"Space tells matter how to move; matter tells space how to curve.\"\nRelativity Theory and Monetary Production Economics\nWhen Keynes wrote his General Theory, he had in his gunsights--I shall argue--both Newton's reductionism and his space-time dichotomy, as both were reflected in the classical economics. First, Keynes sought to disestablish the \"absolute space\" of classical markets and to end the separation of markets from the world of money. Keynes characterized his theory as a monetary theory of production, giving lectures on this subject in the fall of 1933 as the General Theory of Employment (the preliminary title) was taking shape. Keynes contrasted monetary-production economics with what he called the real-exchange economics of the classical view. In so doing, he broke down the traditional non-monetary concepts of a \"labor market\" and a \"capital market,\" suffusing both subjects with ideas--\"effective demand\" and \"liquidity preference\"--that cannot be conceived of properly except in monetary terms.\nMonetary-production is Keynes's space- time: the marriage of conceptual domains previously held to be distinct. In the classical theory of the labor market, for example, Keynes found a first postulate that held that the demand for labor would rise when real wages fell, and vice versa. This was a consequence of the principle of diminishing returns, an idea that Keynes did not choose (at that time) to dispute. But the idea that demand for labor rises as wages fall cannot, by itself, establish the actual level of employment or the value of the real wage.\nThe classics had closed their model with a second postulate, which held that work-time offered would increase when real wages rose. This second postulate was precisely that part of the classical vision that reduced unemployment to a matter of individual decision. If a person was apparently unemployed, it should always be possible for him or her either to find work or to eliminate the desire to work and therefore the appearance of unemployment, by sufficiently cutting the wage.\nFor Keynes, this second postulate, the upward-sloping supply curve of labor, was akin to the axiom of parallels in Euclid's geometry. It should likewise be rejected. In doing so, Keynes threw over not only the supply curve of labor but also the whole idea of a self-contained labor market in the normal supply-and-demand sense, a construct in which real wages and employment could be modeled together as though one depended directly on the other. In its place, Keynes offered the now-familiar, but then revolutionary, idea that employment was determined by effective monetary demand for output. Since there was no reason why the total demand for output would necessarily correspond to high or full employment, involuntary unemployment in the strict sense would now be possible in economics.\nBut what would determine effective demand? Such demand could be divided into two major elements: the consumption demand of households and the investment demands of business. Here Keynes's reasoning led him to dismantle the second metaphorical classical, supply-and-demand market, namely the capital market. In the classical theory, the supply of and demand for capital jointly determined a quantity, namely the total volume of savings and investment, and a price, namely the rate of interest. Investment was demanded by firms, with more being demanded at low interest rates than at high. Savings was supplied by individuals, with more being supplied at high interest than at low. Thus a market for capital determined how much of current output would be consumed and how much saved and invested. This market, it should be noted, operated wholly apart from the determination of output. Investment and savings did not affect employment and output, only the division of output between current consumption and capital formation.\nHere again, Keynes attacked the supply curve. Savings, he proposed, had nothing to do with the interest rate. They were, instead, merely the leftovers after consumption out of income. Investment, he believed, did depend on the interest rate. But a curve of investment demand alone could not determine both the volume of investment and the rate of interest. Keynes now needed an independent theory of the interest rate.\nTo get an interest rate, Keynes brought in a new market, up to that point largely ignored in economics: the market for debt instruments and, in particular, for money. Interest, he proposed, was not a reward for saving but the reward for giving up the liquidity, the easy access to immediate purchasing power, that could be had by holding money. As anyone who has bought a bond or a certificate of deposit knows, the longer the term (the greater the liquidity forgone), the higher the rate of interest. Keynes argued that the interest rate thus reconciled the supply of liquidity (quantity of money) with the demand for it. And in Keynes's new sequence, the interest rate determined in the money market in turn determined the volume of investment.\nTo complete his theory, Keynes tied these elements together. The market for money determined interest. Interest (and the state of business confidence) determined investment. Investment, alongside consumption, determined effective demand for output. Demand for output determined output and employment. Consumption out of incomes determined savings. Employment determined the real wage.\nIn this world, a change in monetary policy, such as a cut in interest rates leading to an increase in bank credit, now had fundamental real consequences. The classical dichotomy, in economics as in physics, had been broken. And with the deconstruction of labor and capital markets, the reductionist idea of microfoundations had also to be abandoned. Workers, Keynes pointed out, bargain for money wages, not real wages. The act of dropping money wages would generate feedbacks through previously unrecognized--monetary--channels in the system. In particular, prices would fall, and real wages (the ratio of wages to prices) would therefore not necessarily change. Falling prices might, however, depress business profit expectations and so cut into demand for investment. This would actually reduce the demand for workers and prevent total employment from rising. The system interacts with itself, and a full employment equilibrium cannot be achieved within the labor market. Economic space-time is curved.\nIn the long run, Keynes did not achieve what he hoped. His parallel to Einstein went virtually unnoticed. Lawrence Klein, writing an early interpretation in his 1947 work, The Keynesian Revolution, did emphasize Keynes's attacks on microeconomic supply curves. But in the United States, the prevailing view became that of Paul Samuelson, who transposed Keynes's unemployment theory into the proposition that wages are \"sticky.\" In this interpretation, unemployment occurs simply because labor markets, characterized by supply and demand curves just as in the good old days, do not clear. What Samuelson did--and he is, I think, too good a student of physics not to have known it--was to push the daemon of Keynesian relativity back into its box. And modern American Keynesians, even down to the New Keynesians currently in fashion around Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and the Council of Economic Advisers, are Newtonian and Samuelsonian to the core, perhaps with a touch of Von Neumann thrown in nowadays. As such, they have denied themselves the high ground of principle Keynes sought to claim, conceding an enormous advantage to classical free market conservatives on every important policy matter.\nToo bad. For one cannot say, as one can with Newtonian physics, that Newtonian economics is good enough for practical situations. The scale of the whole, in the economic case, is not that of the universe or the solar system; it is merely that of the nation-state or the global region. Interdependence afflicts us all. The global irrationality of wage cutting, American budget balancing, zero-inflation Federal Reserve targets, and Third World austerity programs is an everyday occurrence. The failure of Keynesian macroeconomics to establish full theoretical independence from the classical labor market and the classical neutrality of money means that we are, in effect, now denied fair discussion of Keynesian solutions to policy problems. The end result is that we cannot cope now, any more than could the classics in their day, with stagnation and involuntary unemployment.\n* This point was first made to me in private conversation by Robert Skidelsky. The economists Ching-Yao Hsieh and Meng-Hua Ye devote a short chapter in their book, Economics, Philosophy and Physics, stating it would not be an exaggeration to assert that Keynes's theory of involuntary unemployment was inspired by Einstein. They do not, however, explore the parallelism between space-time and monetary production. Nor does Skidelsky, who discusses the Einstein link in his second volume on Keynes. Philip Mirowski, whose 1989 book More Heat than Light is a fundamental treatment of the relationship between physics and economics, also leaves out the Keynes-Einstein tale. (Back to Text)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 21265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://protectivediet.com/testimonial/liz-r", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3BQ2JVRANFI7DSK4UKRR6FFYDFLHNOE", "length": 386, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "protectivediet.com", "title": "Liz R - Protective Diet", "raw_content": "https://protectivediet.com/testimonial/liz-r\nI was just going to reach out to you as I just received my blood test results\u2026\u2026total cholesterol is 170 (down from 245)!!!!!!! Everything that was off last time (Vitamin D & Iron ) is all normal as well. I seriously wanted to have a party, I was so excited! My parents are so proud and I have you to thank for changing my life! I feel Great!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 414, "original_length": 46090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prsuperstar.co.uk/powerful-pr-stunts-october/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:N26SYT5WQ546FIT35XD446ZLER5JSIDX", "length": 4898, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "prsuperstar.co.uk", "title": "Three Powerful PR Stunts from October - PR Superstar", "raw_content": "Posted at 14:31 07 Nov in Industry Insight\tby Sarah Turner\nThis month\u2019s review of three PR stunts from three global brands shows that, when done well, PR can make a huge impact. Nike did wonders for its reputation by surprising a runner with cerebral palsy with a three-year contract, HSBC bank tackled the issue of gender pay equality with its book of alternative fairy tales, and Hellmann\u2019s fed leftovers to a hungry stadium of sports fans to highlight the issue of food waste.\nNike makes history with first cerebral palsy athlete\nA 20-year-old student known as Justin \u2018Magic\u2019 Gallegos made history last month, after he was unveiled as the first ever Nike Athlete with cerebral palsy; a condition that affects body movement and muscle co-ordination.\nNike\u2019s insights director, John Douglass surprised the unsuspecting American amateur runner at the end of his first ever half marathon in Oregon, USA, which he completed in an impressive time of two hours, three minutes, and 49 seconds. As he crossed the finish line, Douglass handed him a three-year contract, making him one of the brand\u2019s official athletes.\nCameras were there to capture the historic moment, and the footage was broadcast on World Cerebral Palsy Day. The heart-warming scene saw a shocked Gallegos burst into tears and drop to his knees as the emotion took over.\nGallegos used a walker as a child but after physical therapy, he improved his gait enough to walk without one. He began competing in long-distance running in high school and caught the attention of Nike, who worked with him to develop a shoe for runners with disabilities.\nThis feel-good PR stunt has resulted in some great PR for Nike, which was needed after the PR disaster they suffered in August, following the launch of their NikeLab NRG Beryllium Balaclava x MMW.\nHSBC Publishes Book of \u2018Fairer\u2019 Fairy Tales\nWould you read your child a bedtime story from your bank? Well now you can, as HSBC published a \u2018fairer\u2019 book of fairy tales last month, to prepare children for financial independence. The book, called \u2018Fairer Tales: Princesses doing it for themselves,\u2019 is a twist on the traditional fairy tales of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel, whereby the princesses no longer rely on Prince Charming to save them. Instead, it\u2019s their financial acumen that gets them through. Rather than attending the ball in uncomfortable glass slippers, Cinderella designs and makes her own trainers before going on to launch her own sportswear company. Rapunzel cuts off her hair to use it as a rope and escapes the castle herself, which she then rents out to Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.\nThe book was launched after research by HSBC found that the financial gender gap is already well in place by the age of 10. It looks to tackle the issue by showing girls that women can achieve their goals independently. And the story made all the national papers.\nAs well being distributed to primary schools, Fairer Tales: Princesses doing it for themselves, can also be downloaded.\nHellmann\u2019s feeds soccer fans leftovers\nFood waste is a global problem. We waste about a third of all food\u202fproduced each year. After America, Canada is the second worst country worldwide when it comes to food waste. A reported 396 kilograms of food is thrown away annually per capita, which equates to $30 billion a year.\nIn an effort to show Canadians that food is too precious to waste, mayonnaise brand Hellmann\u2019s carried out an immersive PR stunt at a soccer match.\nHellmann\u2019s brand ambassadors handed out free hot meals to delighted fans at a sold-out game at Scotiabank Arena, which is North America\u2019s third busiest arena. Hidden cameras caught the delighted faces of fans as they enjoyed their free food and settled down to watch the main event.\nAt half-time, a video appeared on the big screen, catching everyone\u2019s attention. It began with some shocking facts about food waste, including the fact that four million Canadians go hungry every year. The video then informed them that, before the event, Hellmann\u2019s had collected food that would have been thrown out from local supermarkets and used it to create the hot food that everyone was eating.\nThe video went on to tell people about the Hellmann\u2019s Real Food Rescue programme. In partnership with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, who own most of the major sports teams and stadiums in Canada, Hellmann\u2019s pledged to donate 50,000 meals to people who need them. They will recruit companies to recover excess food that\u2019s still perfectly edible after stadium events and deliver it to local food banks, to feed people in need.\nWe\u2019ve seen many brands raise awareness of their own Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals while educating consumers on important social and environmental issues, but this PR stunt was particularly clever and impactful.\nStand out with a PR stunt\nIf you want your brand to stand out, give me a call now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2012/06/10/why-is-there-no-shame-in-seeking-therapy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Q65CQ26L32Z6I62WZOPI75NBSRAVDVLR", "length": 3127, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "psychcentral.com", "title": "Why is There No Shame in Seeking Therapy? - Ask the Therapist", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Why is There No Shame in Seeking Therapy?\nWhy is There No Shame in Seeking Therapy?\nI have often heard or read that \u201cThere is no shame in seeking therapy.\u201d (or any kind of help), but I have never been told why.\nBeing unable to cope with something on my own is weakness, there is no other way of seeing it. There really is not. Inability to do something theoretically possible is the same as being too weak to do it and -assuming I have free will- controlling my actions is not just theoretically possible but should even be extremely easy.\nAnd there definitely is shame weakness and definitely no strength in admitting weakness, especially considering that the act of admitting it is really the moment I am no longer strong enough.\n(Yes, I have heard that the meak shall inherit the earth but we all know that is not true so please don\u2019t try to deny these facts.)\nIs there some reasonable, rational explanation for the \u201cno shame\u201d statement or is just supposed to make people feel better?\nIn the public at large, there are many beliefs that are held which are simply not true. Perhaps they are stubborn remnants of prejudice, ignorance, bigotry, hubris, misogyny or other psychological ill health. Many people erroneously believe that they should be able to solve all of their own problems. If they can\u2019t do so they feel weak, embarrassed or maybe even \u201cless of a person.\u201d\nSome erroneous beliefs about therapy still exist, to a lessening degree, despite the commendable efforts of professional and advocacy organizations.\nThere is less of a stigma associated with receiving medical treatment, though many people see medical treatment as a weakness. Generally, most people do not feel weak or embarrassed if they seek help for a medical problem. Most people understand that medical problems require the assistance of highly trained professionals who spent years advancing their knowledge in their field. The same logic should apply to psychological problems. Just like medical doctors, therapists receive many years of training.\nIf there\u2019s no shame in seeking help for medical problems then there should be no shame in seeking help for psychological problems.\nJust as the layperson lacks training in medicine, the layperson lacks the specialized knowledge of a mental health professional.\nCan you clean your fuel injectors; change the burners in your furnace; straighten your teeth? Did you instinctively know trigonometry, calculus, or even how to read? Did you need someone to teach you these things? Did you feel like less of a person because you needed someone to teach you?\nWe aren\u2019t born knowing everything. There is much we have to learn from others, whether from books written by others or from others making videos or teaching us in person.\nThere is no shame in not knowing. When we don\u2019t know, we look for those answers. Maybe from a book, a class, or a person: who also once did not know but now does.\nRandle, K. (2018). Why is There No Shame in Seeking Therapy?. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 15, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2012/06/10/why-is-there-no-shame-in-seeking-therapy/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychicrevolution.com/ghost-stories/ghost-adventures-seasons/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FADX5MYNO5NBVPNT5Y3LGPH7PX4XGN5O", "length": 7625, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "psychicrevolution.com", "title": "Ghost Adventures Seasons, Ghost Adventurers, Ghostly", "raw_content": "Ghost Adventures or Imaginings?\nThe following paranormal phenomena statements are ghost adventures seasons extracts from the first spontaneous paranormal survey conducted by Psychic Revolution. These accounts have not been edited but any information that may identify the original contributor has been removed.\nphoto credit: MEDIANAVE\n614. GHOST ADVENTURES SEASONS, GHOST SIGHTINGS\n\u2013 end of ghost adventures seasons extract \u2013\n607. GHOST ADVENTURES SEASONS, POLTERGEIST\ni was visiting family with my partner we were stood in the kitchen chatting out of the corner of my eye i saw i man dressed in a dark blue boiler suit sat on the floor fixing the cooker i thought nothing of this a few minutes later the man stood up and came over to us nobody seemed to notice him but me they all seemed to carry on chatting like he was\u2019nt there.\ni thought it was a little strange but said nothing then the man went back to the cooker. when we left the house i asked my partner who was fixing the cooker and why nobody spoke to him when he stood by us he looked puzzled and said he never saw anyone in the kitchen. when we asked the family member who we had visited about this he said there has been nobody in to fix the cooker theres nothing wrong with it. and he also saw nobody in the kitchen he asked me what he looked like i told him he then went white as a sheet and said you have just descibed one of my friends on the fishing boat i work on who died 2 weeks prevously.\nafter this he experienced endless problems with the cooker and had to buy a new one. he also had a photo on the wall of the boat he and his friend were on before his friend passed away and any dog that entered the house would refuse to go into the room where the picture was hung it would start whimpering and the fur would stand on end then it would bolt towards the front door.\n473. GHOST ADVENTURES, GHOSTLY APPARITIONS\nI was leaving my grandmother\u2019s house with the rest o my family, it was about 12:30 at night. I looked up the street and a woman dressed in black and white was coming down the road, when I called my mother to look at her, the woman completely disappeared before my eyes. A few days later i sat on a table in my house, doing homework, my mom sat oppostie to me. I looked up to speak to my mom, and there sat the same woman, right next to my mother. She once again disappeared.\n459. GHOST ADVENTURES SEASONS, GHOSTLY APPARITIONS\nA group of us (4) were walking along an old country road (at night) when we saw what we thought was a drunk driver, swerving back and forth in the field across from us. It was dark, so we could see the headlights swerving back and forth. We ran into an adjacent field and hid in the corn stalks; the car drove past us, in the field\u2026but then vanished just as quickly. No corn stalks were destroyed, and there was no damage to the other field either. The car was a 1950\u2019s style vehicle and completely vanished.\n428. GHOST ADVENTURES, POLTERGEIST\nalthough I was alone in this instance I witnessed my brother seeing the exact same thing. I was facing a different way but saw the blood run from his face. I had not told him of my experience but he witnessed the same thing.\nI was in our kitchen making lunch when I heard footsteps up the stairs. I thought gee my brother\u2019s home early, and looked up to greet him. Instead at the top of the stairs about 2 \u2013 3 meters away was a short young woman with straight blonde hair and a black and white shirt on (sort of 1980s style) She stood there for a minute staring into a mirror at the top of the stairs. I could see her so clearly but I knew she was \u2018different\u2019 and not a live person. I had enough time to think \u201cdon\u2019t convince yourself that you were just imagining things later\u201d i also had time to look at her features to try and remember what she looked like.\nShe very quickly vanished. She used to move things in the house, rattle doorknobs and i had seen flashes of her climbing the stairs a number of times but only told my brother when I knew he had seen the same thing. When a friend of my parents stayed the night and was scared out of his witts because she opened his door and walked in the room, it all came out. My sister and Mother had also seen the women but we had all been to embarrased to tell anyone thinking we were crazy.\n332. GHOST ADVENTURES SEASONS, CLAIRAUDIENCE I have had a ton of experiences, but this one really shook me up. I was 10 or 11 years old. I was sleeping alone in my bedroom at my dad\u2019s house. It was a big double bed with a window to the left and a window at the foot of the bed. I heard whispering and I woke up because I thought my prankster brothers might be in my room putting frogs in my dresser or something. But when I looked there was a woman standing at the foot of my bed. I thought it was my stepmom at first, but then I realized it was way too tall.\nThen I realized there were six more women, three on each side of the bed. The six on either side were whispering and laughing. It sounded like friendly laughter and I could catch them saying things like, \u201cYes, she is\u2026\u201d or \u201cYes, she will\u2026\u201d They all were solid like people, only they were pretty much black figures because of the lighting from the moon. They also all had long, black, see through veils over their heads that went down past their waists. The one at the end never moved, but it was like she raised her hands to tell the other ones to be quiet, which they did. Like they came to attention. Then she walked around to my right side and started to lean over towards me like she was going to tell me something. At that point I dove under the covers. I was trying to scream, but nothing would come out. I had also, when I was sitting way up in bed with fright, clawed at the wallpaper over the head board and pinched myself on the arm to see if I was dreaming.\nThe next day there was shredded wallpaper, and I was starting to develop a nice little patch of bruises on my arm. When I got home that fall, by best friend who also has gifts asked me what happened that summer. And I asked what she meant. She said, \u201cYou had something happen that was scary and weird and you aren\u2019t telling me about it.\u201d then she said, \u201cThere is something you need to know. Like someone wants to tell you something. You need to go back there and find out.\u201d But my dad moved and I haven\u2019t been back there since. It was a old house when we moved in and no one has lived there since. My brother went and checked it out. \u2013 end of ghost adventures extract \u2013 16. GHOST ADVENTURES SEASONS, GHOSTLY APPARITIONS I worked nights in a new-build Nursing Home and had been on holiday abroad for a week and a half. On my first night back in work, on the 1am rounds to check and \u2018turn\u2019 patients with 3 other colleagues, I left the person I was paired with to finish off in one room while I carried on to the room next door. As I exited the room, still talking to my colleague, I saw a woman in a long white dress enter the room I was heading for. I assumed it was a resident in a long nightdress wandering around and walked into the room about 2 foot behind her, still talking to my colleague in the previous room. As I entered the room, and before I had confirmed this visually, I just knew that there was nobody in the room, aside from the male resident who was entirely paralysed from several strokes and had been bed-bound for some years. I felt my stomach turn with shock but did not feel threatend. I felt that someone was looking after the male resident along with us. 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This site is a third-party commercial entity that is neither authorized by nor affiliated with the Idaho Judiciary or the Idaho Administrative Office of State Courts in any way. The Idaho Judiciary and the Idaho Administrative Office of State Courts have not endorsed, warranted, or otherwise validated any of Idaho court records information available on this site.\nANDREW BARRERA-FLORES\nLast Name: BARRERA-FLORES\nOffense Description: DRUG TRAFFICKING\nSource State: ID\nDISCLAIMER: Court records of Andrew Barrera-flores are public documents sourced from records made freely available by state and local offices, agencies, or departments, and are for informational purposes only. Because these records are sourced from third parties outside of our control, we cannot and do not guarantee that the information presented is current or accurate. For further information about Andrew Barrera-flores's legal status, or to confirm or correct this record, contact the relevant state or local office, agency, court, or department. All individuals are considered innocent until proven guilty, and publication of these records does not indicate that Andrew Barrera-flores has committed or been convinced of a criminal offense. The existence of these records and the information contained within them may not be used to determine Andrew Barrera-flores's eligibility for credit, employment, housing or other business transactions. If you believe any part of this record is incorrect, please review our Opt-Out/Data Removal Policy to learn how you can correct and/or remove that information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri014007", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4MQAB565CUQU44O27CTW6ORVDHEBL4UK", "length": 2152, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pubs.er.usgs.gov", "title": "Simulations of flooding on Tchoutacabouffa River at State Highways 15 and 67 at D'Iberville, Mississippi USGS Publications Warehouse", "raw_content": "Simulations of flooding on Tchoutacabouffa River at State Highways 15 and 67 at D'Iberville, Mississippi\nBy: Karl E. Winters\nA two-dimensional finite-element surface-water model was used to simulate the effects of the proposed State Highways 15 and 67 relocation on water-surface elevations and flow distributions for the 100-year flood on the Tchoutacabouffa River at D?Iberville, Mississippi. The Mississippi Department of Transportation plans to relocate State Highways 15 and 67 by removing a portion of the existing four-lane highway and constructing a four-lane facility upstream of the existing alignment. The proposed alignment is located on the northern floodplain and will tie into the existing highway about 1,000 feet north of the dual State Highways 15 and 67 bridges. The proposed alignment will intercept flows that cross the existing highway during large floods. Seven scenarios were simulated for the 100-year flood, including four proposed alternative configurations for drainage structures. The model grid was developed by using surveyed floodplain cross sections and channel bathymetry data obtained by using an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, in combination with a global positioning system. The model was calibrated and verified by using surveyed flood profiles through the study reach and flood discharge measurements obtained at the State Highways 15 and 67 crossing. Model parameters were adjusted so that the computed water-surface profiles agreed closely with the surveyed flood profiles. Computed water-surface differentials across the proposed alignment near the northern edge of the floodplain for the four alternatives proposed by the Mississippi Department of Transportation ranged from 1.4 to 2.6 feet. Much lower differentials were computed in the vicinity of the main-channel bridge. The computed water-surface elevation at McCully Drive, upstream of the proposed alignment, was 17.3 feet for existing conditions. Computed water-surface elevations at McCully Drive for the proposed alternatives ranged from 17.3 to 17.8 feet.\nU.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Information Services [distributor],", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article-abstract/151/5/879/93632/tectonomagmatic-evolution-of-the-kenya-rift-valley?redirectedFrom=fulltext", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PQOA2MIZSSEF2CX2MMTLHDBISIQAKZ62", "length": 2285, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "pubs.geoscienceworld.org", "title": "Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Kenya rift valley: some geological perspectives | Journal of the Geological Society | GeoScienceWorld", "raw_content": "Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Kenya rift valley: some geological perspectives\n1Environmental Science Division, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK\nL. A. J. WILLIAMS\n2Earth Sciences Department, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK\nR. MACDONALD, L. A. J. WILLIAMS, I. G. GASS; Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Kenya rift valley: some geological perspectives. Journal of the Geological Society ; 151 (5): 879\u2013888. doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.151.5.0879\nThe Cenozoic Kenya rift valley has developed in an area of great lithospheric complexity, partly related to late Proterozoic orogenic events, which has strongly influenced the regional patterns of faulting, subsidence, uplift and magmatism. The mantle sources of the magmas are poorly understood, but seem to be heterogeneous as regards trace elements and isotopes, and to have undergone one or more depletion-enrichment events. Mafic magmas erupted in the rift zone may have both asthenospheric and lithospheric components, but the evidence is equivocal. Uncertainties about geothermal gradients and the abundances and speciation of volatiles in the melting zone make it difficult to constrain the depths and degrees of partial melting. Partial fusion may, however, have taken place over the depth range 100+ to 23 km. The largest volumes of basalt last equilibrated at pressures [K+] > [Pb2+]\n(B) [NO3\u2212] > [Pb2+] > [K+]\n(C) [K+] > [Pb2+] > [NO3\u2212]\n(D) [K+] > [NO3\u2212] > [Pb2+]\n19. The solubility of PbS in water is 3 \u00d7 10\u221214 molar. What is the solubility product constant, Ksp, for PbS?\n(B) 3 \u00d7 10\u221214\n(C) 3 \u00d7 10\u221228\n(D) 9 \u00d7 10\u221228\n20. 2HI(g)+Cl2(g) 2HCl(g)+I2(g)+energy\nA gaseous reaction occurs and comes to equilibrium as shown above. Which of the following changes to the system will serve to increase the number of moles of I2 present at equilibrium?\n(A) Increasing the volume at constant temperature\n(B) Decreasing the volume at constant temperature\n(C) Increasing the temperature at constant volume\n(D) Decreasing the temperature at constant volume\n21. A sealed isothermal container initially contained 2 moles of CO gas and 3 moles of H2 gas. The following reversible reaction occurred:\nCO(g)+2H2(g) CH3OH(g)\nAt equilibrium, there was 1 mole of CH3OH in the container. What was the total number of moles of gas present in the container at equilibrium?\n22. A sample of solid potassium nitrate is placed in water. The solid potassium nitrate comes to equilibrium with its dissolved ions by the endothermic process shown below.\nKNO3(s)+energy K+(aq)+NO3\u2212(aq)\nWhich of the following changes to the system would increase the concentration of K+ ions at equilibrium?\n(A) The volume of the solution is increased.\n(B) The volume of the solution is decreased.\n(C) Additional solid KNO3 is added to the solution.\n(D) The temperature of the solution is increased.\n23. A 1 M solution of SbCl5 in organic solvent shows no noticeable reactivity at room temperature. The sample is heated to 350\u00b0C and the following equilibrium reaction is found to occur:\nSbCl5 sSbCl3+Cl2\nIf the equilibrium concentration of Cl2 was found to be 0.1 M, which of the following best approximated the value of Keq at 350\u00b0C?\n24. 2NOBr(g) 2NO(g)+Br2(g)\nThe reaction above came to equilibrium at a temperature of 100\u00b0C. At equilibrium the partial pressure due to NOBr was 4 atmospheres, the partial pressure due to NO was 4 atmospheres, and the partial pressure due to Br2 was 2 atmospheres. What is the equilibrium constant, Kp, for this reaction at 100\u00b0C?\n25. Br2(g)+I2(g)\u21942IBr(g)\nAt 150\u00b0C, the equilibrium constant, Kc, for the reaction shown above has a value of 300. This reaction was allowed to reach equilibrium in a sealed container and the partial pressure due to IBr(g) was found to be 3 atm. Which of the following could be the partial pressures due to Br2(g) and I2(g) in the container?\nBr2(g) I2(g)\n(A) 0.1 atm 0.3 atm\n(B) 0.3 atm 1 atm\n(C) 1 atm 1 atm\n(D) 1 atm 3 atm\n26. H2(g)+CO2(g)\u2194H2O(g)+CO(g)\nInitially, a sealed vessel contained only H2(g) with a partial pressure of 6 atm and CO2(g) with a partial pressure of 4 atm. The reaction above was allowed to come to equilibrium at a temperature of 700 K. At equilibrium, the partial pressure due to CO(g) was found to be 2 atm. What is the value of the equilibrium constant Kp, for the reaction?\n27. What is the volume of 0.05 M HCl that is required to neutralize 50 mL of 0.10 M Sr(OH)2 solution?\n(A) 100 mL\n(B) 200 mL\n(C) 300 mL\n(D) 400 mL\n28. Which of the following best describes the pH of a 0.01-molar solution of HBrO? (For HBrO, Ka=2 \u00d7 10\u22129)\n(A) Less than or equal to 2\n(B) Between 2 and 7\n(D) Between 7 and 11\n29. A laboratory technician wishes to create a buffered solution with a pH of 5. Which of the following acids would be the best choice for the buffer?\n(A) H2C2O4 Ka =5.9 \u00d7 10\u22122\n(B) H3AsO4 Ka =5.6 \u00d7 10\u22123\n(C) H2C2H3O2 Ka =1.8 \u00d7 10\u22125\n(D) HOCl Ka =3.0 \u00d7 10\u22128\n30. Which of the following species is amphoteric?\n(A) H+\n(C) HCO3\u2212\n31. How many liters of distilled water must be added to 1 liter of an aqueous solution of HCl with a pH of 1 to create a solution with a pH of 2?\n(C) 2 L\n(D) 9 L\n32. A 1-molar solution of a very weak monoprotic acid has a pH of 5. What is the value of Ka for the acid?\n(A) Ka=1 \u00d7 10\u221210\n(B) Ka=1 \u00d7 10\u22127\n(C) Ka=1 \u00d7 10\u22125\n(D) Ka=1 \u00d7 10\u22122\n33. The value of Ka for is 1 \u00d7 10\u22122. What is the value of Kb for ?\n(A) Kb=1 \u00d7 10\u221212\n(B) Kb=1 \u00d7 10\u22128\n(C) Kb=1 \u00d7 10\u22122\n(D) Kb=1 \u00d7 102\n34. How much 0.1-molar NaOH solution must be added to 100 milliliters of a 0.2-molar H2SO3 solution to neutralize all of the hydrogen ions in H2SO3?\n35. If 0.630 grams of HNO3 (molecular weight 63.0) are placed in 1 liter of distilled water at 25oC, what will be the pH of the solution? (Assume that the volume of the solution is unchanged by the addition of the HNO3.)\nThe following curve is obtained during the titration of 30.0 mL of 1.0 M NH3, a weak base, with a strong acid:\n36. Why is the solution acidic at equilibrium?\n(A) The strong acid dissociates fully, leaving excess [H+] in solution\n(B) The conjugate acid of NH3 is the only ion present at equilibrium\n(C) The water which is being created during the titration acts as an acid\n(D) The acid is diprotic, donating two protons for every unit dissociated\n37. What it the concentration of the acid?\n(A) 0.5 M\n(B) 1.0 M\n(C) 1.5 M\n(D) 2.0 M\n38. What is the pKb of the base?\n39. What ions are present in significant amounts during the first buffer region?\n(A) NH3 and NH4+\n(B) NH3 and H+\n(C) NH4+ and OH\u2212\n(D) H3O+ and NH3\n1. The value of the solubility product, Ksp, for calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, is 5.5 \u00d7 10\u22126, at 25\u00b0C.\n(a) Write the Ksp expression for calcium hydroxide.\n(b) What is the mass of Ca(OH)2 in 500 mL of a saturated solution at 25\u00b0C?\n(c) What is the pH of the solution in (b)?\n(d) If 1.0 mole of OH\u2212 is added to the solution in (b), what will be the resulting Ca2+ concentration? Assume that the volume of the solution does not change.\n2. For sodium chloride, the solution process with water is endothermic.\n(a) Describe the change in entropy when sodium chloride dissociates into aqueous particles.\n(b) Two saturated aqueous NaCl solutions, one at 20\u00b0C and one at 50\u00b0C, are compared. Which one will have higher concentration? Justify your answer.\n(c) Which way will the solubility reaction shift if the temperature is increased?\n(d) If a saturated solution of NaCl is left out overnight and some of the solution evaporates, how will that affect the amount of solid NaCl present?\n3. H2CO3 H++ K1=4.3 \u00d7 10\u22127\nHCO3\u2212 H++CO32\u2212 K2=5.6 \u00d7 10\u221211\nThe acid dissociation constants for the reactions above are given at 25\u00b0C.\n(a) What is the pH of a 0.050-molar solution of H2CO3 at 25\u00b0C?\n(b) What is the concentration of CO32\u2212 ions in the solution in (a)?\n(c) How would the addition of each of the following substances affect the pH of the solution in (a)?\n(i) HCl\n(ii) NaHCO3\n(iii) NaOH\n(iv) NaCl\n4. N2(g)+3H2(g) 2NH3(g) \u2206H=\u221292.4 kJ\nWhen the reaction above took place at a temperature of 570 K, the following equilibrium concentrations were measured:\n[NH3]=0.20 mol/L\n[N2]=0.50 mol/L\n[H2]=0.20 mol/L\n(a) Write the expression for Kc and calculate its value.\n(b) Calculate \u2206G for this reaction.\n(c) Describe how the concentration of H2 at equilibrium will be affected by each of the following changes to the system at equilibrium:\n(i) The temperature is increased.\n(ii) The volume of the reaction chamber is increased.\n(iii) N2 gas is added to the reaction chamber.\n(iv) Helium gas is added to the reaction chamber.\n5. A vessel contains 500 milliliters of a 0.100-molar H2S solution. For H2S, K1=1.0 \u00d7 10\u22127 and K2=1.3 \u00d7 10\u221213.\n(a) What is the pH of the solution?\n(b) How many milliliters of 0.100-molar NaOH solution must be added to the solution to create a solution with a pH of 7?\n(c) What will be the pH when 800 milliliters of 0.100-molar NaOH has been added?\n6. A 100 milliliter sample of 0.100-molar NH4Cl solution was added to 80 milliliters of a 0.200-molar solution of NH3. The value of Kb for ammonia is 1.79 \u00d7 10\u22125.\n(a) What is the value of pKb for ammonia?\n(b) What is the pH of the solution described in the question?\n(c) If 0.200 grams of NaOH were added to the solution, what would be the new pH of the solution? (Assume that the volume of the solution does not change.)\n(d) If equal molar quantities of NH3 and NH4+ were mixed in solution, what would be the pH of the solution?\n7. A student performs an experiment to determine the concentration of a solution of hypochlorous acid, HOCl (Ka=3.5 \u00d7 10\u22128). The student starts with 25.00 mL of the acid in a flask and titrates it against a standardized solution of sodium hydroxide with a concentration of 1.47 M. The equivalence point is reached after the addition of 34.23 mL of NaOH.\n(a) Write the net ionic equation for the reaction that occurs in the flask.\n(b) What is the concentration of the HOCl?\n(c) What would the pH of the solution in the flask be after the addition of 28.55 mL of NaOH?\n(d) The actual concentration of the HOCl is found to be 2.25 M. Quantitatively discuss whether or not each of the following errors could have caused the error in the student\u2019s results.\n(i) The student added additional NaOH past the equivalence point.\n(ii) The student rinsed the buret with distilled water but not with the NaOH solution before filling it with NaOH.\n(iii) The student measured the volume of acid incorrectly; instead of adding 25.00 mL of HOCl, only 24.00 mL was present in the flask prior to titration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 14729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scorum.com/en-us/wintersports/@jogobonito/eddie-the-eagle-the-worst-jumper-in-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2CWG5F6EO3YTBUYZPTUF3X3PZRFGOWRC", "length": 3668, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "scorum.com", "title": "Eddie \"The Eagle\": the worst jumper in history \u2014 jogobonito on Scorum", "raw_content": "jogobonito 3 months ago\nEddie \"The Eagle\": the worst jumper in history\nWhen we talk about the Olympic Games, the elite sports world comes to mind. And this is the sporting event par excellence that, as its motto says, brings together those who are \"faster, higher, stronger\". However, every 4 years and away from the podiums we also see moving stories of overcoming that win the hearts of millions. This was the case of the British Michael \"Eddie\" Edwards, who won millions in the 1988 Winter Olympics. This is the story of the worst jumper in history.\nEddie was a decent and short-sighted skier since childhood, however in 1985 he decided that he wanted to be one of those bird men who jumped dozens of meters from the ground at the Olympic Games. He had not really achieved something important in his life, however his obstinacy was the engine that led him to achieve his dreams.\nBut his way would not be easy. After attending a training center in Switzerland and learning the basics of jumping, Edwards applied for a license to the British Olympic Committee. The leaders established the 70 meters, which was the British record dating back to the 1920s, to get their Olympic passport and represent Britain at the Games.\nIn 1987, only 2 years after starting, he participated in the World Championship which did not require minimum distances to participate. Eddie for obvious reasons was last, but what really matters to him is that he managed to jump 69.5 meters, just enough to fulfill his dream of participating in the Olympic Games.\nBut the obstacles did not end there. He was invited to Finland by the Finnish team to train with them, as it was the only place where he could do it for free. There he suffered a spectacular accident that forced him to be hospitalized for a month.\nAnother problem for Eddie was the money for the transfer and the equipment necessary to practice the sport. He had to babysit, cut grass or wash dishes in a hotel to be able to afford the trip to Calgary (Canada), the city where the 1988 Winter Olympics would take place. He also had to assemble his equipment based on borrowed material: Austrian team lent him the skis, the Italians the helmet and for the borrowed boots he had left he had to put on 6 pairs of socks.\nFinally everything was ready to start his Olympic adventure. Thanks to his participation in the World Jumping Championship in 1987, his story had already been known. As soon as he landed in Calgary, Canadian television was waiting for him with a banner reading \"Welcome Eddie The Eagle.\"\nMany labeled him a \"clown\" or a dishonor, but Eddie defended his philosophy that \"the Games were not just for winners.\" When it was time for his debut and appeared on the exit ramp, the audience began to chant like crazy his name. That is undoubtedly the most memorable moment of those 1988 Games.\nThe truth is that Eddie was already a star and nobody could stop his dream. Participated in the short ramp and the long ramp; and despite not having any experience in the latter, managed to take a jump of 71 meters, breaking the British record. In both categories was relegated to the last positions, only ahead of those who did not show up and 15 meters below the worst jump of their rivals. But none of this mattered, because he had already left his mark in Olympism as a nice loser who managed to fulfill his dreams.\nThe rules changed and the International Olympic Committee started asking for a minimum distance to qualify, so Eddie never participated again. However, he won the hearts of millions of people and managed to write a funny and curious chapter in the history of sports.\nWinter Sportsski jumpingwintersportssking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 194.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/feature/Cybersecurity-market-The-costs-of-building-an-IT-security-practice", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CJSDQG2UCNRNJTTNAJIUUMWJTK5MGPDT", "length": 8294, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "searchitchannel.techtarget.com", "title": "IT security market: The cost of building a cybersecurity practice", "raw_content": "Expanding into IT security services can be a costly endeavor for channel firms, requiring investment in new processes, talent and partnerships.\nSecurity was a passion of Ron Culler's long before he transitioned his business from offering standard managed services to solely offering managed network security in 2000.\nCuller, co-founder and CTO of Secure Designs, learned some valuable lessons along the way, not the least of which has been about the nuances that come with selling products versus selling services in the cybersecurity market.\n\"From a product-sales perspective, you are going to need competencies, hire experts to be able to configure systems and build out systems, and to do the types of things you're going to offer as part of that sales offering,\" he noted.\nSecure Designs delivers both firewall products and services. As a result, it built a data center complete with redundancies and internet connectivity -- everything needed to support its customers' data, Culler said. Secure Designs also offers compliance assessment services for audits, something the typical managed security service providers may not have, he added.\nWhy add security products and services?\nThe main drivers for partners to begin a cybersecurity practice are the shift away from securing the perimeter, the need to focus on prevention and detection, and an increased focus on proactive security activities, according to the CompTIA report Security in the IT Channel.\nThe digital transformation organizations are undergoing has made data a critical asset, and better data security is a big part of better data handling, the report noted. Data in flight and data privacy concerns are prompting the need for better monitoring and analysis.\n\"Extensive changes in IT operations, increased reliance on technology, and heightened awareness around breaches have all led to an evolution in the corporate security approach,'' the report stated. \"What was once an isolated function within the IT department is now a broader initiative.\"\nIf you're looking at using third-party services or cloud-based services, you have to do your due diligence to actually vet those organizations.\nRon Cullerco-founder and CTO, Secure Designs\nWhile many channel firms claim to have robust security portfolios that include a wide mix of technologies and services, CompTIA believes that having broad vendor features could lead companies to claim \"a specific technology or service without necessarily having the wherewithal for immediate implementation.\"\nIn the cybersecurity market, among the technologies and services that generate the most volume or revenue overall, 38% of companies reported that firewalls are their biggest seller, followed by 20% that place antivirus at the top. The next highest item was security information and event management, at just 9%.\nThe necessary elements of a cybersecurity practice\nAs Secure Designs learned, when building a cybersecurity practice, incorporating products alone won't suffice. \"New processes -- risk analysis, compliance management and cloud provider evaluation -- must be part of the security mix. Education of end users -- the weakest link in the security chain -- also requires greater emphasis,\" said Seth Robinson, senior director of technology analysis at CompTIA, in a statement.\nDepending on your specialty, it's critical to offer 24/7 response, which requires appropriate staffing with people trained and certified to handle issues that arise, such as those involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or financial services compliances, Culler said. They must also understand the ins and outs of the physical infrastructure. If the firm doesn't have its own data center, it needs to partner with one that does.\n\"If you're looking at using third-party services or cloud-based services, you have to do your due diligence to actually vet those organizations \u2026 and understand where their data is stored and how it's stored,'' he said. For example, if a partner decides to focus on clients in healthcare, \"you have to have assurances that data at rest at a cloud provider, used as part of your offering, is encrypted,'' Culler said.\n\"Never assume anything with cloud or really anything you don't do yourself or don't know of yourself. Cloud is just somebody else's computer, and all the same security requirements, system requirements and design requirements that you'd implement in your own environment need to be implemented in a cloud environment -- and they may not be.\"\nWhen Culler decided to transition into a managed security service provider, he \"got rid of everything else.\" He also opted to focus on the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, which he defines as companies with five computers up to 100.\nWhile cybersecurity was a hard sell in the early 2000s when the SMB market didn't believe security was an issue, the company today manages over 8,000 firewalls across the U.S. and deploys about 200 new firewall instances a month, he said.\nFinding security talent\nThere is a well-documented supply-demand imbalance for security positions right now, so companies are seeking to fill roles while skilled security professionals can have multiple offers and opportunities, said John Reed, senior executive director of Robert Half Technology. Healthcare, high-tech and finance areas are especially in need, he said.\nIf you are lucky enough to find security professionals, be prepared to pay for that expertise. Network security engineers are particularly in high demand right now and had a projected 6.7% increase in salaries for 2016, Reed noted. Data security analysts saw a projected 7.1% increase in salaries for the year. Network security engineers' salaries can range from $110,250 to $152,750 as a starting point, while data security analysts can see average salaries starting anywhere from $113,500 to $160,000, he said.\nFinding skilled staff can be difficult, Culler said, \"because they don't necessarily come out of a university with a computer science degree and cybersecurity expertise,\" and if they do, they tend to be \"fairly broad and not very deep.\"\nSecure Designs looks for individuals with some security experience, solid networking and infrastructure knowledge, \"and the eagerness and aptitude to learn, so we're able to bring them in, build on their knowledge, and get them credentialed in the appliances and technologies we use. They go through the education process internally.\"\nIn North Carolina, where Secure Designs is based, salaries for cybersecurity professionals run between $60,000 and $100,000, he said.\n\"Seek out candidates who will be an asset to your security efforts, bringing a broad range of experiences that will allow them to identify vulnerabilities in your network, and pay attention to relevant certifications and skills that will enhance your security efforts,\" Reed advised. And don't overlook soft skills like communication abilities, he said.\nThe right approach to the cybersecurity market\nThere is a huge opportunity for solution providers and managed service providers to offer security as part of their business, Culler said, but echoing CompTIA, he emphasized that you have to do more than merely say you offer security services and products. \"The larger you are as an organization, the more resources you obviously have, but the vast majority of solution providers and MSPs have a lot of things on their plate. 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Just how much of an impact? In 2011, Time magazine readers voted her as the second-most influential person of the past ten years. Much of that influence has been imparted in the form of activism. In 2011, Lady Gaga founded the Born This Way Foundation, a non-profit that seeks to empower youths to create a better, more positive world. It\u2019s also, in part, an extension of the LGBT advocacy that she has unapologetically engaged in since the beginning of her career. She is also, it bears mentioning, a style icon. In a career full of memorable outfits, a dress made out of raw meat at the 2010 VMAs was particularly unforgettable.\nGaga\u2019s debut studio album, The Fame, combined with its deluxe edition, The Fame Monster, sold over 15 million copies worldwide behind a seemingly endless supply of smash singles, including \u201cJust Dance,\u201d \u201cPoker Face\u201d and \u201cBad Romance.\u201d In 2011, her follow-up Born This Way launched its title track into the pantheon of American individuality anthems, selling six million copies along the way. After 2013\u2019s Artpop, it would be three years before she would release another album. That album finally came in October 2016 in the form of Joanne, a back-to-basics project that earned critical acclaim for her emphasis on thoughtful songwriting and her powerful, stripped-down vocals.\nLady Gaga followed the Joanne release with a memorable Super Bowl halftime performance on February 5, 2017. She went on to headline Coachella the following summer, and then embarked on the Joanne World Tour. In what is known to be one of the most enthralling concert experiences available in music right now, Gaga's setlist has been reported to include songs off the new album -- including \"Million Reasons\" and \"Perfect Illusion\" -- along with some of her greatest hits.\nSee below for a list of Lady Gaga tour dates and locations. For all available tickets and to find shows in your city, scroll to the listings at the top of this page.\nLady Gaga Announces More Dates for Las Vegas Residency\nEnter code GAGA20 at checkout to save $20 off your purchase of $100 or more! Due to popular demand, five more Jazz and Piano engagements have been added to Lady Gaga's Park Theater residency. Tickets to the additional shows go on sale December 14, and will bring her total Vegas performance number to 32. 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It is natural, foreign companies are active in several markets, have greater resilience to possible economic shocks, and can call on the parent company for funding and support. The stability and predictability of the tax environment are very important in the coming period,\" EY Romania head of fiscal and legal aid department Alex Milcev said.\nSome 47% of respondents are pessimistic or very pessimistic about the development of the Romanian economy in the next 12 months.\nThe percentage of those who are optimistic about the Romanian economy dropped to 18% from 31% in the previous survey, showing increased concern, fueled by fiscal and legislative uncertainties, the unsustainable nature of consumer-led economic growth and inflationary pressures.\nThe most important bottlenecks in business development for managers and entrepreneurs in Romania in 2019 continue to be the public policies and factors controlled by state institutions such as fiscal uncertainty (72%), lack of political stability (58% ) and bureaucracy (53%).\nThe latter, together with the state of the national economy and the level of taxation, are of concern to many of the Romanian executives, registering an increase of 4-7% compared to the previous year.\nAt the same time, the lack of entrepreneurial education and difficult access to finance are obstacles facing the Romanian business environment, the survey showed.\nEY's resurvey port, in partnership with Business Mark, is based on an online survey of 301 leaders of organizations from different sectors of the Romanian economy from October 25 to December 10, 2018.\nEY is a professional consultancy services provider with 260,000 employees in over 700 offices in 150 countries.\nIn Romania, EY is present since 1992 and provides integrated audit, tax assistance, transaction assistance and business assistance services to multinational companies and local. 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He and pro wrestling go way back.\nBy Chris Kelly and Brandon Wetherbee\nFrom center, Vince McMahon has his head shaved by Donald Trump and Bobby Lashley in April 2007 after losing a bet at the Battle of the Billionaires.\nLinda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to head the Small Business Administration, will carry several distinctions should she be confirmed. McMahon, the former president and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, who has also appeared at pro wrestling events as a fictionalized version of herself, will be the first Cabinet-level official who has received the Stone Cold Stunner from Steve Austin. She will be the first to have been Tombstone Piledriven by the Demon Kane. And she will be the first to have kicked WWE announcer Jim Ross in the crotch.\nIt may be surreal to see Trump offer a professional wrestling magnate a role in his administration, but it\u2019s not surprising. After all, the president-elect is in the WWE Hall of Fame, has hosted two WrestleManias at Trump properties, and even headlined one in 2007, resulting in that photo you may have seen of Trump helping to shave the head of Vince McMahon, Linda\u2019s husband and the WWE founder, in the middle of the ring.\nLike Linda McMahon, Donald Trump played an exaggerated version of himself in WWE programming. You could argue he\u2019s played a character for much of his professional life, particularly during (and since) the 2016 presidential campaign\u2014with no regard for the consequences. Specifically, Trump has acted like what\u2019s known in wrestling as the \u201cheel\u201d: the villain who breaks the rules and insults his opponents to get \u201cheat\u201d\u2014a reaction\u2014from the audience. The best heels make their wrestling promotions money: The audience pays to see them eventually get their comeuppance at the hands of the baby-faced hero (or simply \u201cface\u201d).\nTrump is a textbook heel. In fact, almost everything he\u2019s done since announcing his candidacy in June 2015 has a pro-wrestling analogue, from his attacks on Mexicans and women to his Islamophobic attitude toward Muslims. Like a heel, he\u2019s broken rules of political discourse and conduct, then accused his opponents of doing the same thing. Most notably, he complained of a system that was rigged against him until he won the ultimate prize, like a heel that complains about a referee\u2019s bias until the same referee doesn\u2019t catch him cheating. At no time during the campaign or the transition has Trump been playing by the rules of politics: He\u2019s been playing\u2014and winning\u2014by the rules of pro wrestling.\nTrump\u2019s entrance into the world of wrestling, and his acquaintance with the McMahons, began as the type of low-risk, high-reward business opportunity that he\u2019s relied on throughout his business career: Hosting 1988\u2019s WrestleMania IV at Trump Plaza was an easy, flashy way to get not-quite-high rollers to bring their wives and kids to Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the weekend and drop cash at the casino. The event returned to Trump Plaza in 1989.\nWhat kept Trump coming back\u2014being interviewed by wrestler-turned-politician Jesse Ventura at WrestleMania in 2004, participating in a \u201cBattle of the Billionaires\u201d against McMahon in 2007, \u201cbuying\u201d the WWE\u2019s Monday Night Raw in 2009? It\u2019s arguably his relationship with Vince McMahon, to whom he\u2019s led an uncannily similar life. Both were born to successful regional businessmen who made millions in their fields: Fred Trump built properties in the outer boroughs of New York while Vince McMahon Sr. promoted wrestling in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.\nWhen Donald and Vince Jr. took over their family businesses, they moved beyond their parochial origins (Trump set his sights on Manhattan, while Vince Jr. outmaneuvered competitors across the country) to turn their companies into national powerhouses and make their brands iconic: Donald Trump became a symbol of \u201980s wealth, while McMahon\u2019s greatest creation, Hulk Hogan, became a symbol of Reagan-era pop culture.\nThe \u201990s weren\u2019t kind to either Trump or McMahon. The former had a very public divorce and saw his casino business collapse, while the latter survived a federal steroid trial only to be nearly put out of business by Ted Turner\u2019s WCW promotion. But despite the dips in their respective fortunes, both Trump and McMahon would be on top\u2014and on the Forbes list\u2014by the end of the decade. In the new millennium, they had matched or exceeded their \u201980s business successes, and even shared a catchphrase: Trump issued a terse \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d to contestants on The Apprentice while an in-character McMahon growled \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d at his wrestlers.\nLinda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, speaks to reporters at Trump Tower on Nov. 30 in New York City.\nThe similarities don\u2019t end there\u2014they both worked with Mike Tyson (in the wrestling ring and the boxing ring, respectively) and tried to compete with the NFL\u2014and it\u2019s clear that Donald Trump and Vince McMahon have worldviews and business approaches shaped by similar experiences. They understand how pro wrestling and its carny traditions can make money off of \u201cmarks,\u201d the unsuspecting fans who don\u2019t know (or don\u2019t care) that it\u2019s a con. And more than money, they\u2019ve paradoxically used a staple of low culture\u2014pro wrestling\u2014to find mainstream credibility.\nSince going public in 1999, the WWE has become increasingly family (and shareholder-) friendly. After decades in which wrestlers died early deaths due to steroids and drugs, the WWE instituted a stringent wellness policy. They\u2019ve become the picture of a charitable corporate actor, sponsoring an anti-bullying initiative and working with Susan G. Komen, Make-A-Wish, and the Ad Council on a variety of campaigns. WWE programs constantly trumpet how well they\u2019re doing in the ratings and on social media metrics compared to \u201creal\u201d sports, while describing their product as \u201csports entertainment,\u201d not low-budget, low-culture \u201cpro wrestling.\u201d\nSimilarly, there\u2019s the theory that the seed of Donald Trump\u2019s decision to finally (actually) run for president in 2016 was planted at the 2011 White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, where Trump was roasted by President Obama. \u201cThat evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world,\u201d wrote Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns in the New York Times, noting his \u201cdeep yearning \u2026 to be taken seriously.\u201d With just over a month until his inauguration, people laughing at Donald Trump are coming to grips with the fact that he\u2019s going to have the most powerful job in the world. Just as McMahon sought legitimacy by re-casting his fake sport as a global entertainment brand, Trump entered presidential politics to prove that he had to be taken seriously as a public figure.\nCoincidentally, Trump\u2019s ascendance will finally give the McMahons the political legitimacy they have not been able to obtain on their own: Linda McMahon unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2010 and 2012, spending nearly $100 million of her own money. In both elections, she stressed her credentials as a job creator and political outsider willing to spend her own money and reject political action committee donations, an approach with which Trump would find much more success.\nIt\u2019s worth noting that McMahon ran away from pro wrestling in her campaign: she hand-waved the hyperviolent, oversexed product WWE had pushed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as \u201cscripted television entertainment\u201d and called on WWE fans to \u201ccorrect biased and inaccurate media reports.\u201dMeanwhile, Trump spent the entire campaign in full-on heel mode.\nNow it turns out that Linda McMahon didn\u2019t need to spend $100 million to gain some power: She and Vince may have just needed to give $5 million to the Trump Foundation (and another $6 million to a super PAC supporting Trump\u2019s run): $4 million in 2007, the year of the Battle of the Billionaires, and $1 million in 2009, when Trump\u2014in storyline\u2014bought and sold WWE\u2019s Monday Night Raw. In the end, Trump and the McMahons did what wrestling promoters have done for a century: counted the money in the back while the marks in the audience watched the spectacle in the ring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 69583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://slowalks.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/galaxy-tab-takes-the-stage-to-go-head-to-head-against-the-ipad/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XI7EBOT7B56NRYLXSSR7VATHMJRVSA3M", "length": 1322, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "slowalks.wordpress.com", "title": "Galaxy Tab takes the stage to go head to head against the iPad | Neat Technology Stuff", "raw_content": "Home > Uncategorized\t> Galaxy Tab takes the stage to go head to head against the iPad\nGalaxy Tab takes the stage to go head to head against the iPad\nWord has leaked that T-mobile will be selling the long anticipated Galaxy for $399 with a 2 year contract, the comparison with the iPad is truly starting to heat up. You can also get the Tab for $649 without a contract. That compares with the iPad 3G starting at $629 for the 16 GB model. Most people would say that the Galaxy Tab with the smaller screen (7 inches) versus the iPad\u2019s larger 9.7 inch and lower battery life does not compare well. However, if you are interested in Flash, a front/rear cameras and memory expansion, the Tab is a worthy contender. With the unlocked Galaxy Tab, you have the option to use a pre-paid data carrier. If you use the iPad you will be charged $15 or $25 dollars every month you use the data plan. But with a plan like the one Walmart just announced, you can pay $40 for 1 GB of data which never expire. So if you use less than 200 megs of data per month the Walmart plan (which uses T-mobile) would cost you only $40 for 5 months. But the iPad and AT&T would cost $70 for those same 5 months. The $20 price difference between the Galaxy Tab and Apple iPad does not look so bad.\nSarah Pompei likes K-On! Fuwa Fuwa The Google Blacklist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socalchristianvoice.com/lost-700-year-old-bible-returns-to-uk-cathedral/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:73ZIHW7MU2UCNVNNQQCQMLBSVUZJKA6R", "length": 2397, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "socalchristianvoice.com", "title": "Lost 700-Year-Old Bible Returns to UK Cathedral | Southern California Christian Voice", "raw_content": "Home News World Lost 700-Year-Old Bible Returns to UK Cathedral\nLost 700-Year-Old Bible Returns to UK Cathedral\nA rare medieval Bible has been returned to its shelf in Canterbury Cathedral after it was removed from the cathedral\u2019s library at the time of Reformation, some 500 years ago.\nThe Lyghfield Bible\u2014named after the 16th Century monk who once owned it\u2014was among the books scattered when Henry VIII raided the monastery community. It is the \u201conly complete bible and the finest illuminated book known to have survived from the medieval collection,\u201d reports The Guardian.\nIt is of the utmost significance to us to have here in our collections a copy of the core Christian text which was owned by one of the last monks of the medieval monastic community. \u2014Cressida Williams, Head of cathedral archives\nThe cathedral bought the Lyghfield Bible from a private collector for $129,000 (\u00a3100,000). The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) donated almost $124,000 (\u00a396,000) and the cathedral raised the rest to buy the 13th century bible.\nThe Canterbury Cathedral plans to organize an exhibition featuring the 690-page Bible. The beautiful manuscript is pocket-sized and written on high-quality, expensive vellum. Experts believed that the book was made in Paris and its small size probably saved it from the book-ripping incidents during the Reformation.\n\u201cThe Bible is pocket-sized and as such was designed for personal use, possibly whilst travelling. The volume formed part of the collection of the medieval monastery of the Cathedral in the 16th century, but may well have been in Canterbury well before that time,\u201d said the Cathedral in a statement.\nCressida Williams, head of the cathedral archives, said, \u201cIt is of the utmost significance to us to have here in our collections a copy of the core Christian text which was owned by one of the last monks of the medieval monastic community.\u201d She added that the bible has so much history in it, from the tumultuous time of Reformation to the shaping of what the cathedral is today, and it will play a vital role in sharing the story to visitors.\nSir Peter Luff, chairman of the NHMF, said, \u201cNot only an incredibly rare book directly linked to one the most turbulent periods of British history, the Lyghfield bible is also exquisitely beautiful.\u201d\nChristianity is \u201cOver\u201d in Iraq \u2014 Vicar of Baghdad\nChristmas is a Celebration of Diversity\u2013UK Survey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socratesinthecity.com/guests/gerald-schroeder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CEHADON2D6QJQ3ZOVFEEM7PCW5AS5NZR", "length": 3424, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "socratesinthecity.com", "title": "Gerald Schroeder | Socrates in the City", "raw_content": "Gerald Schroeder is a scientist, author, and lecturer, with over thirty years of experience in research and teaching. In addition to his current work in radiation control, he teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies, and writes and lectures on the extraordinary confluence of modern science and ancient biblical commentary.\nSchroeder received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nuclear physics and earth and planetary sciences, with his doctorate thesis being under the supervision of physics professor Robley D. Evans. This was followed by five years on the staff of the MIT physics department prior to moving to Israel from the United States in 1971, where he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science, and then the Volcani Research Institute, while also having a laboratory at The Hebrew University.\nSchroeder\u2019s formal theological training in biblical, talmudic and kabalistic interpretation includes fifteen years of study under the late Rabbi Herman Pollack, Rabbi Chaim Brovender and Rabbi Noah Weinberg, of blessed memory.\nThe scientific career that Schroeder chose has given him varied and often unusual experiences. In his work with nuclear disarmament, he has been present at the detonation of a long series of nuclear weapons [atomic bombs]. Work in control of radioactivity has put him hundreds of meters below ground in U.S. and foreign uranium mines. Within this research, he invented and had patented the first real time monitor for airborne alpha beta gamma emitters. The government of the People\u2019s Republic of China, during the decade before it established direct contacts with Israel, was willing to overlook his Jerusalem address and had him as a frequent advisor. He also has consulted for agencies of the governments of Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, USA. Invitations for him to lecture have come from around the world. He has over 60 publications in the world\u2019s leading scientific journals on topics ranging from the radon atmosphere of the moon (in Science) to the metabolism of mother\u2019s milk (in Nutrition Reports International). The results of Schroeder\u2019s work have been reported in Time, Newsweek, Scientific American and in newspapers as far apart as Boston and Adelaide. His formal training in chemistry, physics and the Earth and planetary sciences provides the basis for the broad scientific perspective he brings to his books and lectures.\nFor over twenty-five years, Schroeder has also pursued a study of ancient biblical interpretation. An ability to handle the biblical material in the original languages allows him to tap the subtle depths contained in the original texts. These nuances are often missed when working with translations. The uniqueness and success of Schroeder\u2019s approach integrating biblical and scientific knowledge is demonstrated by the success of his first book, Genesis and the Big Bang, and the wide acclaim for his second book The Science of God, which was on the Barnes & Noble list of non-fiction best-sellers and was Amazon.com\u2019s best-selling book in the field of physics/cosmology for all of 1998. This was followed by The Hidden Face of God, discovering the unity that binds all existence. His book, God According to God, A scientist proves we\u2019ve been wrong about God all along, was published in 2009 and has enthusiastic endorsements by leading theologians, both Jewish and Christian, and a Noble Laureate scientist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 127.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socratesinthecity.com/socrates-picks/the-space-trilogy-perelandra-book-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TWAH4DAUCMU4XZUUGCP4HLPYYNEC5XZ4", "length": 466, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "socratesinthecity.com", "title": "Perelandra | Socrates in the City", "raw_content": "\u201cThe second book in Lewis\u2019s \u2018Space Trilogy\u2019 and genuinely one of the best books ever written by anyone. There are passages in it that are more beautiful than anything in Proust or Marquez. This book should be taught alongside \u2018Paradise Lost\u2019 in every college survey course of English literature. That it is not is proof that the academy is badly broken. So you must do it yourself. Be sure to skip Jack Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, and Zora Neale Hurston and READ THIS!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/01/30/macedonias-gruevski-fails-to-form-government-by-january-29-deadline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PKPZB7LIO4UFLVNUSXIOJ7BQI3B3Y57A", "length": 1142, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sofiaglobe.com", "title": "Macedonia\u2019s Gruevski fails to form government by January 29 deadline | The Sofia Globe", "raw_content": "Macedonia\u2019s Gruevski fails to form government by January 29 deadline\nWritten by Independent Balkan News Agency on January 30, 2017 in Europe - Comments Off on Macedonia\u2019s Gruevski fails to form government by January 29 deadline\nThe leader of the Republic of Macedonia\u2019s VMRO-DPMNE party, Nikola Gruevski, could not manage to form a new government by the January 29 deadline, after being mandated 20 days earlier to form an administration.\nA little before the expiry of the deadline at midnight on Sunday, the BDI (Democratic Union for Integration), which is led by Ali Ahmeti, said that it has not found common points for a coalition with VMRO-DPMNE. Based on the seats that they had earned in parliament in Macedonia\u2019s December 11 elections (51+10), these two parties could form a new majority of 61 MPs.\n\u201cUnanimously we have concluded that we don\u2019t have the necessary arguments to decide on the five options that we have on the table, thus the debates and the consultations will continue in the days to come,\u201d said the spokesman of this party, Bujar Osmani, without issuing any details as to what was accepted and what wasn\u2019t by VMRO-DPMNE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soleops.lapinamk.fi/opsnet/disp/fi/ops_OpetTapTeks/tab/tab/sea?opettap_id=13928970&stack=push", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:33Z", "digest": "sha1:IBP4Z4BEIS2Y2UVBUTPEMTCAAIHAKUPP", "length": 3056, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "soleops.lapinamk.fi", "title": "SoleOPS 3.13.0 / Opintojakson toteutussuunnitelma", "raw_content": "R801DL21 Tourism Business-Related Legislation, 5.00 op, 133 h\nPerustoteutus, yhteisty\u00f6ss\u00e4 IB ryhm\u00e4n kanssa/18001\nMultidimensional Tourism Industry\nBusiness Models and Processes (project)\nThe student knows the basics of business and tourism related legislation and is able to apply it in practice.\nThe student knows the basics of contract and corporate law and has an understanding how legislation affects different business models and earning logics. He/she gets an overview of Finnish legislation and the courts of justice. The student understands the meaning and contents of agreements and understands the main principles of compensation for damage. He/she gets an overview of corporation legislation and is able to distinguish different types of companies and their special features. In addition, he/she is able to utilise basic principles of corporate law. The student also knows the main tourism-related legislation and is able to search and apply judicial knowledge into practice.\nThe student shows excellent critical, analytical and reflective thinking and practical skills in his/her studies and work-related tasks. He/she has excellent knowledge of business and tourism related legislation. He/she can efficiently and independently retrieve and apply up-to-date legal information in business problem solving. The student can foresee legal challenges in business in the field of contract and corporate law. All the assignments are performed according to the instructions.\nThe student shows good critical, analytical and reflective thinking and practical skills in his/her studies and work-related tasks. He/she has good knowledge of business and tourism related legislation. He/she is able to find and use this legal information and apply it. The student understands the meaning of legal issues in tourism business. All the assignments are performed according to the instructions.\nThe student shows critical, analytical and reflective thinking and practical skills in his/her studies and work-related tasks. The student has understanding of basics of business and tourism related law. He/she can retrieve and apply relevant and up-to-date legal information by leaning to the study material/given instructions. Student has an understanding of main legal challenges in business. 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Holden, by using a screwdriver.\nA host of patrol officers responded to the incident. Officers observed the suspects in the process of forcing the door. Both suspects were placed under arrest without incident.\nThe suspects were subsequently booked into King County Jail for Investigation of Burglary.\n\u00bb \u00bb Vehicle/bicycle collision with injuries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://speckyboy.com/gutenbergs-bad-reviews-sign-failure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:45Z", "digest": "sha1:L2SB5Y2CXBOX7HEEYX7ZFVHYXQTKBIIP", "length": 4940, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "speckyboy.com", "title": "Are Gutenberg\u2019s Bad Reviews a Sign of Failure? Are Gutenberg\u2019s Bad Reviews a Sign of Failure?", "raw_content": "Are Gutenberg\u2019s Bad Reviews a Sign of Failure?\nBy Eric Karkovack on August 9th, 2018 WordPress\nPerception is everything. And when the perception of your product or service isn\u2019t very positive, it can really throw a monkey-wrench into your plans for success (just ask Windows 8). Frankly, it can be very difficult to shake free from this kind of negativity.\nAt the moment, that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing with the WordPress Gutenberg editor. As of this writing, the new editing experience hasn\u2019t been merged into WordPress core, but is available in the form of a beta plugin. WordPress 4.9.8 included a call to test the plugin, which led to a huge leap in usage. With that came a flood of reviews \u2013 many of them negative.\nBut how big of a deal are those reviews? This is, after all, a piece of software that is still technically in beta form. Still, it seems like there is pent up frustration when it comes to Gutenberg. One wonders how this bodes for its future.\nSince the editor\u2019s first beta plugin release back in June 2017, it seems the whole idea of the Gutenberg project has garnered controversy. Some developers have been miffed by the process for building out the new feature. Others have expressed concern about the effects it will have on existing websites \u2013 especially in relation to how it works with plugins and themes.\nSo, perhaps it\u2019s not much of a surprise that a lot of negativity has come out for all to see. But, as I write this, over 56% of the plugin\u2019s reviews in the official repository are just 1-star \u2013 the lowest rating possible. Could things really be this bad?\nAs someone who has come around on the idea of Gutenberg, I think the jury is still out as far as implementation goes. We don\u2019t fully know what the final product that ships with WordPress 5.0 will be, although certainly we\u2019ve seen the plugin version evolve over time. That\u2019s the only thing we have to go on at the moment.\nBeyond the steady stream of existential debates, there are legitimate gripes regarding how the UI is set up. Plus, all of the sheer unknowns regarding how well Gutenberg will work with the tens of millions of existing WordPress sites can cause at least some level of anxiety amongst designers and developers.\nBut, and this is just my opinion, I also feel like there are a vocal group who will oppose the move regardless of its quality (or lack thereof). I get the sense that, even if Gutenberg ran flawlessly and printed out a free slice of pizza as a bonus, there would still be resistance to the idea itself.\nWhile everyone has a right to their opinion, this also indicates that perhaps at least some reviews should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. Still, the negative perception is there and needs to be addressed.\nHow Can WordPress Right the Ship?\nThere is a lot that the Gutenberg team can do to change the perception of the editor. In fact, we\u2019ve already seen some evidence that they are doing one very important thing: Engaging with reviewers.\nDotted throughout those plugin repository reviews are responses from team members. They\u2019re attempting to gather more information from users regarding issues they\u2019ve encountered. This can not only help in squashing bugs, but the empathy they\u2019re showing also brings more of a human element to the project. For some, it can be much easier to scream at an object than a real person who\u2019s trying to help.\nBut I also think that WordPress should be providing the community with more specifics \u2013 while also realizing that it may be harder than it sounds. From the very beginnings of the project, it has felt like so much of this is just up in the air without a firm landing date. Whether you\u2019re a freelance designer or a big-time plugin developer, the uncertainty of when things will happen can be very frustrating. It also makes preparing for Gutenberg all the more difficult.\nBeyond that, a lot of smart people who aren\u2019t officially involved with Gutenberg\u2019s development have weighed in on the subject. I think it behooves the team to seriously consider what these folks have to say, as well as any other well-meaning suggestions. For all I know, they may already be taking these steps. If not, better late than never.\nDon\u2019t Touch That Panic Button\u2026Yet\nIn this moment, I don\u2019t think that the level of negativity Gutenberg has faced makes the project anything near a failure. We\u2019re still so early on in the game and, to be fair, the amount of reviews we\u2019ve seen so far are but a tiny fraction of the WordPress user base. Sure, they are representative. But it doesn\u2019t necessarily doom the editor to the dustbin of history before it sees a proper release.\nThat doesn\u2019t mean, however, that some of the criticisms aren\u2019t spot-on. There are issues that need to be resolved and, just as importantly, hearts to win. 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Our Five Stage Player Development Model is an adaptation of the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model created by Dr. Istvan Balyi, which illustrates that developing athletes to their full potential is a process that can take eight to twelve years.\nThe WDM player development model is designed to provide a seamless transition from one stage to the other. It is a framework for age and developmentally appropriate instruction as well as systematic planning for optimal enjoyment, development, and performance in each stage of the developmental process. As illustrated above, WDMSC provides a natural pathway for players to develop from childhood until they graduate from our program. We offer various programs (i.e. Recreational, Academy, Select) with curriculum specifically designed to meet the developmental needs (physical, psychological, emotional, social, and ability) of the players.\nAge Group Guide\nEffective Fall 2016 statewide in Iowa, players will now be placed in age groups depending on their birth year, i.e. 2009- U9 player, 2008- U10 player, etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 5395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spwise.com/2012/12/13/masters-degree/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:25Z", "digest": "sha1:BUSFBUA7ZRZQLAXYX2SUNV4BXECU5TVH", "length": 2063, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "spwise.com", "title": "Master\u2019s Degree | Home Thoughts From Abroad", "raw_content": "I had SAT scores in the high nineties coming out of high school. With some proper support and encouragement I could well have had scholarships to the university of my choice. But life is what happens while you are looking for other things; and other things in the late sixties were not conducive to education. When the dust settled from my misspent youth I did finally get my B.A. and B.Ed., but always had a hankering to do more.\nBut marriage and kids came along, and the years we took on sabbatical were spent serving Another more important than myself. To cut a forty year long story short, here I am at what could be charitably described as the autumn of my years with no more education than what at the time was the bare essentials to secure a decent career.\nNow that our kids\u2019 education has been paid for, and two of the three are married and living in their own homes, and we have not only some disposable income for the first time in our marriage, but even some disposable time, would it be alright Lord if I got myself that long sought for higher education? Apparently so; for I merely had to apply for the doors to fly open in my favour. To cut a much briefer story short, I am as of today a candidate for my Master\u2019s Degree; courses enrolled and paid for.\nI am not sure whether I am an old fool or not. At my age I could be dead before I graduate. On the other hand I could, like my dear departed mother, live for another 30 years. That would be time for far more than a Master\u2019s! At any rate, fool or no, I am registered for two online courses starting in early January, and I am looking forward to the challenge.\nI am also looking forward to seeing New Zealand. We leave on Sunday, and hotel internets being what they are, blogs might be thin on the ground for the next couple of weeks. No matter, you have Christmas puddings to eat and Christmas nieces, nephews and kids to hug. We\u2019ll post some pics if we can. If not, we wish all of our readers the Merriest Christmas ever and the Happiest New Year. May the God of Love and Comfort be your portion!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://standingstrongwellness.com/2016/04/13/things-leaders-do/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:46DTSE2QBL56A3A7LZ5BS2UWHNWJVTUP", "length": 2373, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "standingstrongwellness.com", "title": "Things Leaders Do", "raw_content": "Things Leaders Do\nJen Standingmotivationhow to be a good leader, how to be successful, leadership, yyc2 Comments\nI have acknowledged many leaders in my 27 years on this planet. Professors, bosses, mentors \u2013 for better or worse I marched along to the beat of their drum. Some were good, some were awful (we\u2019ve all been there). But I\u2019m not here to complain about the literal \u2018man\u2019 in charge.\nThis post is about what makes a good leader. It isn\u2019t a title, it isn\u2019t a dollar amount, and it isn\u2019t being the best at something. True leaders are the people we look up to. And this is what they\u2019re like\u2026\nTrue leaders lead by example. They don\u2019t delegate from behind the desk, they are out there doing the work. Leaders shouldn\u2019t ask you do to anything they couldn\u2019t, or wouldn\u2019t, do themselves. Leaders should know what it means to do the task; they\u2019ve got to be able to show you how it\u2019s done.\nTrue leaders also lead from the back. They encourage you, support you, and integrate themselves as a part of the team. They are not ahead of you, or above you, or beyond you.\nTrue leaders use their skills and energy to attract people to them. Leaders are approachable and open. Leaders listen to their people actively, thereby letting them know that they are genuinely interested in their success.\nTrue leaders know that their success is dependent on the success of the team. They identify the strengths of their people and use them to the team\u2019s advantage. Leaders are able to see and get the best out of people. Leaders empower. Leaders create leaders.\nTrue leaders inspire. They attack the day with enthusiasm and make the day worth something. They effect change with strategic ease. Leaders make things happen.\nI see so many people out there trying to be in charge by looking down on others, bullying, shutting people out, and making other people do all the work. I aspire to be the kind of leader one day I have written about here, I want to effect change with people \u2013 empowered people \u2013 and make this world a better place.\n2 thoughts on \u201cThings Leaders Do\u201d\nThis is a great POST. You already are a leader. When you write you inspire, support and encourage change in others. Thank you for writing this and as usual your post is spot on for for what I needed to read today !!\nThank you for saying all those wonderful things! I guess it is not yet something I have accepted in myself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://startupoverseas.com/starting-a-business-in-italy/healthcare.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7UD2XP2ADMGQPGDOCW2CUCDHSVTVUZZH", "length": 1191, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "startupoverseas.com", "title": "Healthcare in Italy : Startup Overseas", "raw_content": "Italy ranks number two on the World Health Organisation's list of top countries for quality health care services. However, although medical facilities are considered to be sufficient for any emergencies, many public hospitals are overcrowded and under-funded.\nItaly has a national health plan that provides for hospital assistance and medical benefits. You can legally apply to join the plan. Eligibility for the plan, however, depends on certain criteria, such as your nationality, work permit, etc.\nIf you are a citizen of Italy and covered by the national health plan, hospital services will be provided to you and your dependents free of charge. Visitors, or persons not legally covered by the plan, are expected to pay full hospital charges and then claim a reimbursement from their insurance provider. If you do find yourself in an emergency, head for the nearest hospital. Most general and regional hospitals have emergency rooms that are open 24-hours-a-day.\nTo call an ambulance, dial 118 from any telephone. Assistance can also be found by calling the police on 113. Both of these are equivalent to the 999 number here in the .\nClick here to Ask an Expert about Healthcare in Italy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://statistics.suttong.com/2018/02/independent-samples-t-test.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:48Z", "digest": "sha1:T3G22PPMY3J6X2IKVSDHW2R4DHEPYO4U", "length": 2638, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "statistics.suttong.com", "title": "Assessment Statistics Research: Independent Samples t-test", "raw_content": "Researchers use the independent samples t-test to find out if there is a significant difference between two sets of data. In the behavioral sciences, the data are often two sets of scores on tests or survey items.\nSignificance can mean a lot of different things. In behavioral science, it is common to think of significance as a frequently occurring, and thus reliable, difference. Sometimes the language of statistics can be confusing. The independent sample t-test evaluates the differences between the arithmetic means of the two groups of scores, and assumes the scores are normally distributed.\nUsually, a difference needs to be at least large enough that a score difference as large, or larger than the one obtained, occurs only 5% of the time by chance.\nThe calculations are usually done in spreadsheets like Excel or Google Sheets or in a program like SPSS.\nYou will find the following text in Chapter 16 of Creating Surveys. I also cover t-tests in Statistics for Counselors.\nThe statistical procedure results in a t-value and a p value. The larger the t-value, the more likely it is that the difference between the group means is significant. The p-value represents the probability that the t-value of the size obtained did not occur by chance. As in many cases, the p-value is reported based on a 95% probability that the t-value did not occur by chance. The p-value is usually reported by considering the likelihood that it occurs by chance greater or less than 5% of the time where 5% is written as .05. If the probability is less than .05 that a t-value as large or larger than the one obtained did not occur by chance, the researcher would report the results as p < .05. If the t-value was too small to meet the level needed for significance, the researcher would just report the finding as not significant (p > .05).\nI and my colleagues have studied forgiveness. Suppose we found that people who attended a forgiveness seminar obtained higher forgiveness scores compared to those who did not attend.\nHere\u2019s how we might write the results (Chapter 16, Creating Surveys).\nWe found that people who did attended the forgiveness seminar were significantly more forgiving (M = 39, SD = 5) than were people who did not attend the seminar (M = 30, SD = 5), t (98) = 6.75, p < .05.\nYou can calculate the independent samples t-test by hand. If you are interested, here's a link to an example at UC Davis.\nAlso, here is an online calculator where you can enter two sets of values and obtain a t-test result.\nLabels: independent samples t-test, statistical differences, t-tests for surveys, t-tests in counseling, t-tests in education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 7628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/10/22/is-it-meaningful-to-talk-about-a-probability-of-65-7-that-obama-will-win-the-election/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BEV2HKAUN7Y7PVBEMWVOGUTYBBZGXYRJ", "length": 56521, "nlines": 167, "source_domain": "statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu", "title": "Is it meaningful to talk about a probability of \u201c65.7%\u201d that Obama will win the election? \u00ab Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science", "raw_content": "\u00ab Model complexity as a function of sample size\nTwo postdoc opportunities to work with our research group!! (apply by 15 Nov 2012) \u00bb\nIs it meaningful to talk about a probability of \u201c65.7%\u201d that Obama will win the election?\nThe other day we had a fun little discussion in the comments section of the sister blog about the appropriateness of stating forecast probabilities to the nearest tenth of a percentage point.\nIt started when Josh Tucker posted this graph from Nate Silver:\nMy first reaction was: this looks pretty but it\u2019s hyper-precise. I\u2019m a big fan of Nate\u2019s work, but all those little wiggles on the graph can\u2019t really mean anything. And what could it possibly mean to compute this probability to that level of precision?\nIn the comments, people came at me from two directions. From one side, Jeffrey Friedman expressed a hard core attitude that it\u2019s meaningless to give a probability forecast of a unique event:\nWhat could it possibly mean, period, given that this election will never be repeated? . . . I know there\u2019s a vast literature on this, but I\u2019m still curious, as a non-statistician, what it could mean for there to be a meaningful 65% probability (as opposed to a non-quantifiable likelihood) that a one-time outcome will occur. If 65.7 is too precise, why isn\u2019t 65? My [Friedman] hypothesis is that we\u2019re trying to homogenize inherently heterogenous political events to make them tractable to statistical analysis. But presidential elections are not identical balls drawn randomly from an urn, and they are not lottery numbers randomly picked by a computer.\nThis one was in my wheelhouse, and I responded:\nProbabilities can have a lot of meaning, even for an event that will never be repeated. For example, suppose you want to make a decision where the outcome is contingent on who wins the election. It can make sense to quantify your uncertainty using probability. Neumann and Morgenstern wrote a book about this! But at some point the quantification becomes meaningless. \u201c60%,\u201d sure. \u201c65%,\u201d maybe. \u201c65.7%,\u201d no way. . . . The different events being analyzed (in this case, elections) are not modeled as identical balls drawn from an urn. A better analogy you might keep in your mind is business forecasting. You might have some uncertainty about the price of oil next year, or whether the price will exceed $X a barrel. It\u2019s an uncertain event but you know something about it. Then you get some information, for example a new oil field is discovered or a new refinery somewhere is built. This changes your probability. A number such as 65% could express this. Similarly, I might describe someone as being 5 feet 8 inches tall, or even 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall, but it would be silly to call him 5 feet 8.34 inches tall, given that his height changes by a large fraction of an inch during the day.\nFrom the other direction, commenter Paul wrote:\nI disagree with Andrew that 65.7% is too precise. One reason is that intrade prices are quoted to 3 digit precision \u2014 viz., ranging from $0.00 to $10.00, with bid-ask spreads as low as 1 cent. So, for example, if I believed Nate\u2019s formula was more accurate than Intrade, and the current quote was $6.56 bid, $6.57 ask, I would like Nate to provide more precision in order to determine whether or not to buy \u2018Barack Obama to be re-elected on 2012\u2032. Even with today\u2019s low interest rates, I would still need Nate to forecast at least a 65.74% probability in order to believe purchasing \u2018Obama 2012\u2032 at $6.57 would outperform a 0.90% money market rate over the next 18 days.\nPaul makes a good point about market pricing. I can see why Intrade would want that precision. But I can\u2019t see the point of Nate giving probabilities to that level of precision, given that he\u2019s not working for Intrade or for a trader. Or, to put it another way, I can can see why Nate might want to report fractional percentage-point probabilities on the New York Times website: more detail means more fluctuations which means more news. (In the above image, that 65.7% was listed as \u201c-2.2 since Oct 10.\u201d I don\u2019t think this \u201c-2.2\u201d means very much but it represents a change, i.e. news.) But from a statistical standpoint I don\u2019t see the value.\nLet\u2019s do a quick calibration. Currently Nate gives Obama a 67.6% change of winning, with a 50.0% to 48.9% lead in the popular vote. That\u2019s a 50.55% share of the 2-party vote. Nate\u2019s page doesn\u2019t give a standard error, but let\u2019s suppose that his forecast for Obama\u2019s popular vote share is a normal distribution with mean 50.55% and standard deviation 1.5%. That is, there\u2019s a 95% chance that Obama will get within 47.5% and 53.5% of the 2-party vote. That seems in the right ballpark to me. Then the probability Obama will win the popular vote is pnorm((50.55-50)/1.5) = 0.643. Not quite Nate\u2019s 65.7%; I can attribute the difference to the electoral college.\nThis is getting interesting. A big lead in the probability (65%-35%) corresponds to a liny lead in the vote (50.5%-49.5%). Now suppose that our popular vote forecast is off by one-tenth of a percentage point. Given all our uncertainties, it would seem pretty ridiculous to claim we could forecast to that precision anyway, right? If we bump Obama\u2019s predicted 2-party vote share up to 50.65%, we get a probability Obama wins of pnorm((50.65-50)/1.5) = 0.668. If we ratchet Obama\u2019s expected vote share down to 50.45%, his probability of winning goes down to pnorm((50.45-50)/1.5) = 0.618.\nThus, a shift of 0.1% in Obama\u2019s expected vote share corresponds to a change of 2.5 percentage points in his probability of winning.\nNow let\u2019s do it the other way. If Obama\u2019s expected vote share is 50.65%, his probability of winning is 0.6676 (keeping that extra digit to avoid roundoff issues). If his probability of winning goes up by 0.1 percentage points, then his expected percentage of the two-party vote must be qnorm(0.6686,50,1.5) = 50.654. That\u2019s right: a change in 0.1 of win probability corresponds to a 0.004 percentage point share of the two-party vote. I can\u2019t see that it can possibly make sense to imagine an election forecast with that level of precision. Even multiplying everything by ten\u2014specifying win probabilities to the nearest percentage point\u2014corresponds to specifying expected vote shares to within 0.04% of the vote, which remains ridiculous.\nReally, I think it would be just fine to specify win probabilities to the nearest 10%, which will register shifts of 0.4% in expected vote share. Probabilities to the nearest 10%: if it\u2019s good enough for the National Weather Service, it\u2019s good enough for me.\nP.S. Just to emphasize: I think Nate\u2019s great, and I can understand the reasons (in terms of generating news and getting eyeballs on the webpage) that he gives probabilities such as \u201c65.7%.\u201d I just don\u2019t think they make sense from a statistical point of view, any more than it would make sense to describe a person as 5 feet 8.34 inches tall. Nate\u2019s in a tough position: on one hand, once you have a national and state-level forecast, there\u2019s not much you can say, day-to-day or week-to-week. On the other hand, people want news, hence the pressure to report essentially meaningless statistics such as a change in probability from 65.7% to 67.6%, etc.\nP.P.S. I think the above calculations are essentially valid even though Nate\u2019s forecast is at a state-by-state level. See my comment here.\nTo see this in another way, imagine that your forecast uncertainty about the election is summarized by 1000 simulations of the election outcome, that is, a 1000 x 51 matrix of simulated vote shares by state. If Pr(Obama wins) = 0.657, this corresponds to 657 out of 1000 simulations adding up to an Obama win. Now suppose there is a 1% shift in win probability, then this bumps 657 up to 667. What shift in the vote would carry just 10 out of 1000 simulations over the bar? Given that vote swings are largely national, it will come to approximately 0.04% (that is, 4 hundredths of a percentage point).\nFiled under Bayesian Statistics, Decision Theory, Political Science, Sports Tagged R\nI don\u2019t think you can bootstrap the national popular vote information into an election probability. Nate\u2019s probability is based on state-by-state simulations in which the \u201cswing\u201d states play the dominant role, and there the state-by-state polls are the important ones, not the national polls.\nIt goes like this: There\u2019s a national popular vote forecast which can be broken down into state-by-state popular vote. Swings in opinion are largely happening on a national level, with all states tending to go up and down together. Indeed, the mapping of popular vote to electoral vote is deterministic, but given that (a) if either candidate wins 51% or more of the popular vote, he will very likely win in the electoral college, and (b) any reasonable uncertainty in the popular vote share is more than 1 percentage point, I think my rough mapping of national vote to probability captures the essential uncertainty. I agree that the details are only approximate (I\u2019ve asked Nate for his state-by-state simulations but haven\u2019t heard back from him) but I can\u2019t see the basic scenario changing much, and I think that any changes in win probabilities of 0.1% or even 1% necessarily arise from tiny, deep-in-the-noise changes in expected vote shares.\nI understand your point, Andrew. But the question was about what is meant by Nate\u2019s calculations.\nNate pointed out the same thing that I did in his blog today:\nhttp://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/oct-21-uncertainty-clouds-polling-but-obama-remains-electoral-college-favorite/\nSomewhat similar to what Bill said, and re: this: \u201cThat\u2019s right: a change in 0.1 of win probability corresponds to a 0.004 percentage point share of the two-party vote. I can\u2019t see that it can possibly make sense to imagine an election forecast with that level of precision.\u201d >> I get what you\u2019re trying to do, but I think it doesn\u2019t make sense when you\u2019re talking about forecasts like FiveThirtyEight\u2019s that are weighted towards the state polls. The probability of actually winning the election hinges on getting past a 50% threshold in a small number of states. If you just had national polling and had to extrapolate state vote shares (and thus who wins each state\u2019s electors) from there, then your relationship between shifts in the national vote and the electoral college outcome would make sense.\nNo, because shifts are happening in all the states. See my paper with Kari Lock for more discussion of this general point. Or, to put it another way, I don\u2019t think it makes sense to tiny fractions of a percentage point in Ohio, either.\nThere\u2019s another way of looking at the forecasts. Suppose the election is a statistically dead heat. Then, a new poll comes out that favors Romney by 1% point, what effect does that have on his probability of winning? The way the news currently treats it, people may think that Romney\u2019s chances will skyrocket. However, with Nate\u2019s forecast, it changes slightly.\nAnother way of looking at this is that suppose we forced Nate to give estimates at the 5% level. One day his forecast is 65% in favor of Obama. This does not change much from week to week. Then suddenly, his forecast shoots up to 70%. That seems like a seismic shift in the probability of winning, even though the model may only show a slight shift (i.e. moving from 67.4% to 67.5%).\nFurther, if you click on his electoral vote graph, you will see that he has what looks to be a 95% confidence band around his estimates, which seem very large (currently stands at +/- 66 electoral votes). That is quite humbling.\nThe only issue I have with these very precise probability estimates would be if Nate is claiming a very high degree of confidence and is over-fitting his model. I do not know the model, so I cannot tell you, but +/- 66 electoral votes seams reasonable to me.\nI agree. I have no problem with Nate\u2019s forecasts. It just seems silly for me to him to report meaningless precision such as \u201c65.7%,\u201d just as, for example, I would think it silly to report someone\u2019s height as \u201c5 feet 8.34 inches, plus or minus 0.3 inches.\u201d\nEvery event is just as unique as this election. The only way you can fool yourself into believing in \u2018repeated trials\u2019 is if you ignore almost the entire Universe when specifying the trial. If you take the position of the moon into consideration for example, each roll of the dice is a unique event.\nSo to answer the question \u201cWhat could it possibly mean, period, given that this election will never be repeated?\u201d how about this for an answer:\nThere are many many states of the universe compatible with the information we have about the election. 65% of those states evolve into an Obama win.\nI agree. When others confront me with this I simply say that 65 percent of the time that observable conditions have been like this before, the Obama-like character wins. Turned the other way, the Jeffrey Friedman approach means you can\u2019t predict the probability of rain tomorrow. After all, tomorrow has never occurred before and will only occur once. What we mean is that given our meteorological understanding, our current information predicts rain, and it\u2019s wrong 35 percent of the time. (This ignores the fact that weather forecasters never predict 50 percent and that an alternative explanation is rain over 65 percent of the area we\u2019re bradcasting the forecast to.)\nThat\u2019s not quite what I was saying. Since this gets at the core of the Frequentist fallacy it\u2019s worth going over in detail.\nSuppose I have knowledge \u201cK\u201d about the universe and there is a set of states \u201cS\u201d compatible with K. Saying that 65% of the states in S lead to outcome O is NOT the same as saying \u201c65% of the time that we have knowledge K we get the outcome O\u201d. The later statement requires a much stronger assumption which is only occasionally true.\nEach time we prepare a trial (i.e. each time we have knowledge \u201cK\u201d about the universe) then the universe will be in some true state s (an element of S). So the additional assumption needed is the following: Upon repeated trials s must evenly sprinkle about S. If this happens then saying \u201cOutcome O occurs for 65% of the states in S\u201d will then indeed translate into \u201cOutcome O occurs with frequency 65%\u201d.\nBut this is quite a strong assumption to make about the time evolution of the universe and in general it isn\u2019t true. Typically what happens is that there are additional constraints which we don\u2019t know about and which restrict s to a subset of S. Because of those constraints the actual frequency of outcomes O that you will observe will no longer be 65% even though 65% of the states compatible with K will lead to O.\nThat\u2019s what I get for speaking loosely in a blog comment. I agree completely.\nSorry Jonathan, I didn\u2019t mean to knickpick your comment. Just wanted to clarify for others.\nI\u2019m sorry, Entsophy, I have to nitpick your knickpicking. It\u2019s about picking nits (out of someone\u2019s hair, for example), not picking Knicks (a more doomed and Sisyphusian exercise, I am told).\nI have a copy of some standardized test results taken in middle school. There were 15 categories all total. I was in top 96-99% of the population in every category except spelling which I scored a 30%.\nI\u2019m sorry, Jacob, but I have to nitpick your knickpick nitpick. The word is \u2018sisyphean\u2019.\nI think your point is interesting, but perhaps I\u2019m lost in the abstruseness. As I interpret your assertion, the statistical claim that \u201c65 percent of the time, K leads to O\u201d only holds if we can also claim to have a sense of all states s \u2208 S. Put another way, just because 65 percent of states \u2018s\u2019 produce outcome \u2018O\u2019, this statistic is meaningless if we are only drawing \u2018s\u2019 from a subset of S. If we only observe a subset, outcome \u2018O\u2019 may occur in 65 percent of the subset, but would occur some unknown percentage of the rest of the set. Is that approaching your point?\nIf not please correct me. If it\u2019s somewhat close, can you suggest some background sources for the point. It\u2019s interesting, but my statistics training, to this point, doesn\u2019t approach this level of abstraction.\nI think you were speaking to me. Let me do the best I can at an explanation: Saying \u201c65% of the states compatible with knowledge K lead to outcome O\u201d is not meaningless. One way to probe the meaning of this is to use a repeated trial. We create a set of situations where K is true and observe O. This is not the only way to examine this claim. Indeed it may not be possible to do at all (as in the case of this election) or if possible, it may not be the best way to examine it.\nBut if we do try to use a repeated trial we are not guaranteed to get the result \u201c% of S that leads to O = % of times we get O in a repeated trial\u201d. To make the left side of this equal the right side requires an additional very very strong assumption about how the universe evolves (repeated trials are really just samples of the universe at different points in it\u2019s evolution).\nMaybe to emphasize the difference, we can think about an extreme case. Suppose that each time we know K, there is in an additional unknown constraint which forces a the state to be in a very special tiny subset of S. An example of such a constraint might be \u201cEnergy levels can only take on certain values\u201d. Or in the context of an election \u201cThere is massive voter fraud which guarantees a certain outcome\u201d. For this particular tiny subset of S outcome O always occurs. Even though S might be a very large set (especially if our knowledge K doesn\u2019t include much relevatn information), when we actually do the repeated trial O will occur 100% of the time.\nOr we could turn this around. Suppose we just assume there are no such additional constraints present (we assume no massive electoral fraud for example). Or we assume that on repeated trials \u201cs explores S\u201d completely. We predict that in repeated trials we should get 65% of the outcomes to be O. Then when we get 100% outcomes as O. The only way we could get such a wrong prediction is if our assumptions were wrong, i.e. there was some additional constraint we didn\u2019t know about. So we\u2019ve just learned something new. We can possibly use this information to update our model and get better predictions. Gelman might call this a posterior predictive check or something. This is also basically how quantum mechanics was discovered.\nJeffrey Friedman says:\nActually, no. You are extrapolating from past elections to tell us about an unknown universe of future elections. Given Hume\u2019s assumption of the uniformity of nature, that\u2019s OK in natural science: we are assuming that water molecules and other meteorological factors will keep behaving the same way forever. But my point on the other blog was that political behavior isn\u2019t like that, since it depends on each agent\u2019s interpretation of the significance of a unique constellation of current events. I gave the example of whether voters will blame the incumbent for a bad economy, as they blamed Hoover, or whether they will credit the incumbent for doing his best, as they did FDR. That will depend on what information they get and how they interpret it; the interpretations will depend on what information they\u2019ve gotten in the past and how they\u2019ve interpreted it; etc. If we were omniscient we could read each other\u2019s minds and predict each other\u2019s interpretations and thus behavior, but we aren\u2019t, so we can\u2019t.\nIn short, I am making Popper\u2019s argument in The Poverty of Historicism: human ideas are unpredictable. Only if you take the ideas out of political behavior would it become conceivable that you\u2019d have the slightest idea whether the factors that go into Silver\u2019s model will be applicable, and to the same quantitative degree, this year, let alone in a thousand years. That would be like forecasting the weather if water molecules could wake up tomorrow morning and change their minds about how to behave.\nI think were talking about two different things here. We\u2019re only talking about what the \u201c65.7% could possible mean\u201d, not whether the 65% was accurate. Gelman\u2019s point (I believe) is that the number can be meaningful at least within some model, but the chances the models themselves are error is so high it\u2019s ridiculous to give that kind of precisions. Another way to express it is \u201cthe known-unknowns may give an answer of 65.7% but the uknown-unkowns will almost certainly change this answer\u201d. If that was Gelman\u2019s point than I agree completely ( and so do most people).\nI was objecting to the notion that this number couldn\u2019t possibly be meaningful just because some Frequentist couldn\u2019t give it a meaning. Well I gave it a meaning clearly in one sentance. So Frequentists might say this meaning is misguided or useless or whatever, but at least they can stop claiming that it\u2019s meaningless.\nEntsophy\u2013I think you\u2019re right. If you go back to the MonkeyCage discussion, I was not disagreeing with Gelman, but with Silver. I didn\u2019t mean to invoke frequentism as vs. Bayesianism, although I unwisely used balls in an urn to convey my feeling that there is no way to predict political behavior (with precision).\nTo me, the interesting question is whether statisticians should be in the business of trying to predict the future, and (through the precision of their forecasts) conveying the impression that they know what they\u2019re doing. This enterprise is (in language you suggest) misguided and worse than useless.\nSure, people aren\u2019t water molecules. But they behave in reasonably regular ways, and it\u2019s much easier to predict aggregate behavior than individual behavior. (Come to think of it, we\u2019re only predicting aggregate water drop behavior, not the behavior of each individual drop.) You can complain all you like about my model, but if 65 percent of my 0.65 predictions are right, and 35 percent of my 0.35 predictions are right, ie, if functioning as a predicting machine, my error rate is what I predict it will be across a number of predictions, then it is not silly to call the metric \u201cprobability,\u201d since, as near as we can tell, it obeys all of Kolmogorov\u2019s axioms. Now we\u2019ll never prove that I have derived a probability and that I\u2019m not just a lucky guesser (and unlucky, in exactly the right proportions), but there\u2019s nothing about people, as opposed to raindrops, that factors into that all.\nFootball is played by human beings, and every game dynamically builds on the next one, but you can make an accurate betting line (which represents a probability) without reading anybody\u2019s mind.\nJonathan\u2013No oddsmaker would presume to predict next year\u2019s outcomes. The odds are constantly readjusted based on what has just happened\u2013actual behavior, every week. Moreover, the rules of engagement are strict, and the role of interpretation in action on the football field (as opposed to instinctual behavior, muscular strength, and so on) is minuscule compared to the information-and-interpretation war that is politics. When a new coach introduces a new strategy, or a new player joins a team, all bets are off.\nThus, when you claim that people behave in \u201creasonably regular ways,\u201d I would say you\u2019re begging the question by conflating different types of behavior. As Popper pointed out, people regularly innovate\u2013it\u2019s predictable. But the content of the innovations is not predictable, or one would already have to have made the innovation. To the extent that human behavior is governed by ideas in which innovation occurs, the reliability of predictions plummets.\nRecall that before the first presidential debate, it appeared certain that Obama would win. Now, not so much. Tomorrow morning, who knows? Yet the underlying weights that Silver\u2019s model assigns to different pollsters and to his list of other \u201cfactors\u201d remained the same. All that changed were people\u2019s perceptions and their interpretations. We can insist that such things are irrelevant or freakish, but until someone identifies the underlying source of regularities that would override such things, I would say that the insistence is unscientific.\nWhat we\u2019re really talking about is philosophy of the social sciences, not statistics per se.\n@Jeffrey Friedman: I agree we aren\u2019t talking statistics, but instead, philosophy. And the counterfactuals are a little difficult to posit precisely, but when we say the probability is 65 percent today, what we mean (I posit) is that if nothing changes, that would be the odds in November. Now we can be supremely confident that things will change between now and then, but that doesn\u2019t (again, IMO, philosophically) affect the meaning of the statement we\u2019re making now. And in fact, you can bet on next year\u2019s outcomes at a sports book, although of course the odds will adjust over time as more information comes in. Probabilities in this case, are an information filtration \u2014 as the information changes, so do the probabilties, but that doesn\u2019t make the previous probabilities any less probabilities. They are the collapsing of a current information set to a single number which is the ggregate of the current information in a relevant 0-1 dimension.\nSilver is calculating sentiment, including propensity to vote and the mechanical rules of alloting the electoral college. As sentiment changes, the probabilities. Philosophically, i don\u2019t see that affect the concept of a probability of an electoral college win at all.\nI\u2019m sympathetic to your argument (as you know), but I wonder if you might get a bit more traction by drawing the distinction Keynes drew between 1) the probability we assign to a conclusion, which may or may not be a numerical probability; and 2) the degree of belief we have in the premises on the basis of which we\u2019ve reached this conclusion. If the premises are weak, then we don\u2019t attach much \u201cweight\u201d to the conclusion.\nThe factors you mention, which G.L.S. Shackle also stressed, suggest the \u201cweight\u201d we should attach to precise election probabilities is not very great.\nRadarLake \u00bb The Ivory Tower says:\n[\u2026] A nice complementary discussion to this is Andrew Gelman commenting on the degree of certainty in Nate Silver\u2019s work trying to predict th\u2026. [\u2026]\nI don\u2019t personally see the problem with reporting such a precise-looking estimate if the level of uncertainty is described in an obvious way. Where it becomes more problematic is when it is a point estimate reported with nothing else, in which case we interpret 65.7% to be 65.7% +/- 0.05%, which is clearly wrong. In any case, I\u2019d rather that uncertainty be discussed explicitly than to rely on convention such as significant figures to inform the discussion.\nI understand and perhaps even agree with your cynicism about Silver\u2019s motivation in reporting probabilities to the tenth of a percentage point (i.e., generating news and getting eyeballs on the webpage). I wonder, however, if you\u2019d be okay with people attributing similar motivation to the way in which academics conduct and report their research (e.g., that they\u2019re motivated to report findings that get them noticed and generate grants) or attributing motivation to the way in which the New York Times covers the news (e.g., that they\u2019re motivated to report in ways that advance their political preferences). Once we start playing the motivation game, it\u2019s Katy bar the door.\nI was not intending to be cynical. I think that generating news and getting eyeballs on the webpage are reasonable goals, especially if you\u2019re writing for a newspaper. I don\u2019t see it as cynical to think that somebody might be doing his job! As for my academic research, Columbia University probably doesn\u2019t mind if I get more press and the university\u2019s name gets in the news; that sort of thing might get them more applicants. And the university certainly doesn\u2019t mind that I get research grants.\nTomato Addict says:\nThis morning I discovered that if you mouse-over Nate\u2019s prediction charts it displays the estimate and standard error for each day, along with a shaded band that appears to be +/- SE.\nChecking this morning\u2019s estimate (Obama +38 ECV, SE=66) with a normal distribution, I come up with a slightly higher probability of Obama winning than the estimate Nate displays (~71% vs ~66%). This is consistent, I think, with the actual simulated distribution being non-normal.\nBrendon J. Brewer says:\nOf course you can give a probability to a non-repeatable event. There\u2019s no such thing as a repeatable event. End of discussion.\nIt\u2019s also helpful if numbers given have more precision. Sure, 65.7% and 66% are similar conclusions practically, but they\u2019re not numerically equal.\nBrash Equilibrium says:\nI don\u2019t see what all the fuss is about. The precision he gives is valuable to the broadest group of people possible, from Intraders to people who look at the tens digits and go, \u201cOkay.\u201d Furthermore, You can can hover your mouse over the plots on the fivethirtyeight blog and see the width of confidence intervals visually and numerically.\nBrash:\nNo big fuss. It\u2019s just that, as a statistician, I\u2019m sensitive to this sort of thing. One thing we teach our students in all our classes is to realize that numbers come with uncertainty and not to report too many significant figures.\nI think I was misunderstanding you. After thinking about it for a while, I agree with you. I\u2019m not sure if the nearest ten percent is right, or the nearest whole number. Perhaps a compromise would be for Nate Silver to round to the nearest whole number. That way there would be more news\u2026but\u2026he wouldn\u2019t be pushing it quite as hard when it comes to the precision.\nIf the model predicted, say, a confidence interval for the popular vote, would it be meaningful to ascribe a probability based on the fraction of the confidence interval that\u2019s above the 50% mark?\nThe discussion is more about meaningful representations for probabilities, but it is still curiouis that nobody has mentioned the concepts of \u201csubjective probability\u201d or \u201cbayesian probability\u201d. So I\u2019ll do it! :)\nJeffrey F., you first referred to a frequential interpretation of probability, later to principal unpredictability of human behavior.\nObviously human (individual or aggregate) behavior is not unpredictable in the sense that there would be no information at all. You can get shot outside of your house, but that is kind of unlikely (in most places). If there is information, there is probability, for probability is not only frequencies, but also a way to express subjective knowledge. I do not see a principal reason why there would not be at least vague states of knowledge about human (political) behavior.\nA way to tie the subjective probabilities to reality is through betting of a \u201crational\u201d agent not losing money on purpose. With subjective probabilities, validation again requires repeated events, but they are not repeats of an experiment (\u201cball draws\u201d) but repeated betting of an agent that then becomes validated by not loosing all its/his/her money. (In practice this is much easier if the agent is a model that we know inside out and that is allowed to \u201cbet\u201d on a data set in our computer.)\nIt is important to undertand that different models or agents can give different probabilities and still be internally consistent, and the predictions of both can be well calibrated in the long run. Someone could always predict 50% for the democrats, and that could indeed be a valid forecast, just not very informative.\nAnother issue is the believability of markets specifically as sources of subjective probabilities. It is mostly an empirical question, and for sure there is a lot of work on how to turn bets, spreads, etc. into calibrated probabilities. But on markets there is volatility due to random fluctuation in the balance of buying and selling, and spreads, and I guess even those alone turn third decimal place meaningless.\n1. The probability of a unique (non-repeating) event. Perhaps I\u2019m missing something, but isn\u2019t this well covered by E.T. Jaynes and his theory of probability as extended logic? See his book.\n2. I agree with Andrew that giving the electoral college win probability of 65.7% does seem to convey an unwarranted precision. On the other hand, it depends on what you want to do with the number. If you are trying to duplicate Nate\u2019s calculation, then the extra precision is helpful because if you match it, then you gain confidence that you understand what he\u2019s doing. If the idea is to convey a prediction, then I think an odds ratio might be better. Nate could say we have two-to-one odds of Obama winning the electoral college vote. The odds ratio is the cost of a fair bet, and anyone who plays the horses has a real feeling for odds.\n3. On Nate\u2019s work. I think he uses an excessive amount of machinery to get his numbers. Several times now, I have gotten very close to his \u201cnow cast\u201d for an electoral college win using the method of generating functions and estimates of the state-by-state win probabilities from the RCP electoral map. I used 98% for \u201cstrong,\u201d 70% for \u201clikely,\u201d 55% for \u201cleans\u201d and 50% for \u201ctoss up.\u201d Where he gets 67% I get 70% and so forth. I can\u2019t help think that I must have been lucky, so I tried drilling into his state probabilities. I used my own little multinomial model which took me almost no time to write in Mathematica. Using the latest polls from Pollster.com, I get 70% for Romney for Florida, and he gets 75.3%. For Virginia I get 62%, he gets 58%. And so forth. My generating function code, which is one pretty simple line of code in Mathematica avoids all that simulation, and those regressions he uses. Again I might just be lucky. My stuff is simple and crude, plus I\u2019m not expert at this political polling game.\n4. Finally I have reservations about the whole game of trying to predict an elections using polls when things are close. These polls are all over the map in some cases\u2013 way beyond sampling variance. There are so many sources of error, I\u2019m skeptical we can get a reliable prediction for the current presidential election. In other words, the problem isn\u2019t the precision of the reported number, it\u2019s number itself.\nYes it is covered well in Jaynes book, but many here haven\u2019t seen it and many of the Frequentists seem to be completely ignorant of it. So I\u2019ll take the opportunity to say it again to stir up more Frequentist/Bayesian trouble: \u201cThere are many many states of the universe compatible with the information we have about the election. 65% of those states evolve into an Obama win\u201d.\nCounting up the numbers of states compatible with given information is usually difficult. But it can be done sometimes. Einstein for example got the thermodynamics of polymers by counting up the number of states (in his primitive model) compatible with a given value of energy.\nTypically though, the states are counted directly and we only deal with percentages (ratios). This is important because we can use symmetry arguments to get the values of ratios when it would be otherwise hopeless to count states directly. When we say the probability of a coin flip is .5 we are using such a symmetry argument (see Jaynes book for the glorious details). Most basic probability models are based on such symmetry arguments. This isn\u2019t just true for discrete distributions. Maxwell for example derived the normal distribution (Maxwell\u2019s distribution in kinetic theory) from a symmetry argument.\nSuch an interpretation of probability is objective, but there is also a subjective element to it. Given different states of knowledge K, you get different sets of possible states compatible with it S. On the other hand, whether the true state is in a given S is an objective fact (a given state of knowledge K can be objectively wrong in other words). Sometimes the probabilities can be related to frequencies and sometimes this is useful, but it\u2019s never a requirement. As others have said, there no such thing a true repeated trial: every probability is the probability of a unique event.\nThat should be enough to get the Frequentists to weigh in.\nAs a horse bettor and also pedant, I feel compelled to point out that Obama is 1 to 2, not 2 to 1.\nThe underlying issue was, is, and always be, the accuracy of the stratification. The numbers reported aren\u2019t uncertain, they are absolutely real (barring corruption or data entry error). What is uncertain is the accuracy of the sample which generated the numbers. While some might find this to be semantic nitpicking, it\u2019s not. The uncertainty is (likely) not measurement error, but identification error. The 1936 \u201cLiterary Digest\u201d mess is the archetype. Gallup is getting heat for the stratification it\u2019s been using. 1,000 (or thereabouts) data points for a 50 state election is just silly. The BLS\u2019s employment/unemployment surveys have tens of thousands of data points. Read the whole report for a week or month, and you\u2019ll find that the CIs are huge. Few in the media (well, none that I know of) bother to print anything but the headline number. I checked some (not all) of the pollster.com polls, and only the ABC/Post document had any information about sampling structure. \u201cResults have a margin of sampling error of 3 points, including design effect.\u201d Sample size of 1,376. That\u2019s not much, but it\u2019s more than the published difference. And not, to my mind, even closer to true.\nOh, and relating polling to odds in Vegas (or wherever); not. Bookies adjust odds on the basis of money flows, not physical facts at issue; horses, boxers, or politicians. The point is to guarantee the bookies\u2019 profits irregardless of the outcome. A horse of a different color.\nLarge exit polls are a whole different matter. I found the discrepancies in 2000 and 2004 persuasive that both elections were fiddled.\nOf course the betting pools use a different method (and a different data set) but it\u2019w just as much a probabilistic prediction as the psephological method is. Many would argue even better\u2026. You say to guarantee profit\u2026 I say eliminate arbitrage, which is an expected value maximizer.\nNo, Vegas odds are not a probability of the *outcome*. The outcome doesn\u2019t matter. Bookies manipulate the odds on horses X, Y, Z such that monies bet on each match the distribution they know is most profitable to them. Who wins the race is irrelevant. They don\u2019t care; they just watch where the money flows (hmmm, may be a bit like PACs deciding which candidates to pay for) and change the odds if the money flows diverge from what they want. If the favorite is so obvious, the bookies stop taking bets, since they can\u2019t move the money flows.\nRobert: you are right about what bookies do, wrong about whether or not they create a probability. If equal amounts of money are bet on both sides, bookies are guaranteed a profit, so that\u2019s what they do. But it\u2019s a market just like any other market. The price of IBM stock is a prediction of the present discounted cash flows for IBM, but it\u2019s created by an intersection of supply and demand by people with very diofferent views on that number. There are numerous articles showing just how well bookmakers odds predict horse races. That\u2019s a (multinomial) probability. There is of course the famous longshot bias, in which favorites are underbet to some extent (though not by anenough to overcome the parimutual spread) but these markets are prediction markets (of probabilities) and there is no evicdence that they are any less accurate than \u201cinformation-based\u201d methods. (I use the scare quotes because these are information-based \u2014 it\u2019s just not the bookies\u2019 information.)\nSuppose 100 fair coins. I win if more than 50 coins come up heads, loose otherwise.\nHow much do I have to tweak one coin to ensure I win with probability .678 say? Alternatively, how much do I have to tweak all coins to generate the same .678 probability of winning?\nThe first method is like predicting a change in one state so large it ought to be obvious. In this case the precision might be warranted. The second is like detecting a minute change across all states, and the precision might not be warranted.\nIn practice both effects are taking place. A slam dunk for partial pooling?\nAndrew wrote: \u201cSimilarly, I might describe someone as being 5 feet 8 inches tall, or even 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall, but it would be silly to call him 5 feet 8.34 inches tall, given that his height changes by a large fraction of an inch during the day.\u201d\nI think it depends on the purpose of what I\u2019m doing. In the description of a person made for ID purposes \u20185 feet 8 inches\u2019 will make sense, but \u20185 feet 8.34\u2019 won\u2019t. If, however, I\u2019m trying to justify statements like \u2018his height changes by a large fraction of an inch during the day\u2019, or study just how the pattern of height changes \u2018intraday\u2019 is, it\u2019s different.\nNate\u2019s numbers are, at least in part, a study of how his model works \u2018intra-race\u2019. In this context the precision isn\u2019t lost but necessary.\nSure . . . but I don\u2019t think that a changes of 0.004 percentage point in the expected vote has any meaning at all. We\u2019re not talking about 4 tenths of a percentage point, which is basically impossible to measure (given that polls have margins of error of +/- 3 percentage points) but could be consequential. We\u2019re not even talking about 4 hundredths of a percentage point. We\u2019re talking 4 one-thousands of a percentage point. That\u2019s 0.00004 of the vote. At this point, you might as well say someone is 5 feet 8.3437 inches. At some point you\u2019re working with pure noise. If you\u2019re setting the price in a liquid market, I can see it. As a probability forecast, though, no way.\nI agree that 65.7% is overprecise, but I disagree that Nate might as well round to the nearest 10%. Suppose he runs his model one day, and gets a 73% chance of an Obama victory. He reports this as 70%. A few days later some new poll results come in, and they are all slightly less favorable to Obama. Now his model gives him a 67% chance of an Obama victory. If he reports this as 70%, it will look like nothing has changed. But in fact, the polls are less favorable to Obama than they were before. We may not know that 73% was right, or that 67% is right now, but we know that the probability now is lower than the probability a few days ago. It makes sense that this is reflected in the numbers.\nI guess all I\u2019m really saying is that rounding to the nearest 10% is too coarse; I think the predicted probability is more accurate than that. Maybe rounding to the nearest 5% or the nearest 2% would be about right.\nI wouldn\u2019t squawk if he reported to the nearest percentage point, even though it\u2019s a bit overprecise. Nearest 0.1%, I agree, that doesn\u2019t really mean anything.\n[\u2026] Are electon probabilities meaningful? \u2013 Andrew Gelman [\u2026]\nBased on what Nate Silver said in his Daily Show appearance I surmise he\u2019d be one of the first to agree that it\u2019s completely silly to expect daily commentary on decimal-point shifts in model projections to be meaningful\u2026. yet it seems to be that his deal with NYT requires producing such commentary.\nI\u2019m a little confused about how you\u2019d even quantify any uncertainty for the \u201cchance of winning\u201d estimate; how do I distinguish \u201c90% chance of winning with very high uncertainty\u201d from \u201c60% chance of winning with very low uncertainty?\u201d The outcome is the same in either case. There\u2019s no standard deviation bars on the chance-of-winning graph. There is a standard deviation when you mouse over the electoral-college-share, but the chance-of-winning is just a summary of the electoral college simulations.\nThe win probability itself incorporates the uncertainty of the prediction. The greater the uncertainty, the closer to 1/2. You can\u2019t get more uncertain than 1/2. Contrast this with estimating the probability of \u201cheads\u201d in coin tossing from past outcomes, call it p. Here p is actually a parameter in a model, so you will see statisticians provide a confidence interval (frequentists), or a credible interval (Bayesians) for p. Now when the Bayesians do a prediction for future outcomes, they give a probability with no credible interval. This probability now incorporates the uncertainty in estimating the value of the parameter for a non-informative prior. Thus we have multiple ways of expressing the uncertainty regarding p. Give the whole posterior distribution of p, a credible interval, or make a prediction for the probability of heads in the next toss based on the posterior.\nAnyway this is how I understand the probability of a win, others might differ. A frequentist would give you a win probability and a confidence interval for it. A Bayesian would give you the win probability, and his prior. Naturally with very little data, the prior will dominate the win probability, which is why we like non-informative priors.\nThe idea that we shouldn\u2019t use precise numbers has always annoyed me. Why not? I can assure you that the reason Nate says it\u2019s 65.7% is because that\u2019s the number Nate\u2019s computer spat out.\nWhy should 70% or 68% be anymore accurate than 65.7%? In fact, it would be less accurate because you\u2019ve fudged the results by rounding, and overestimated Obama\u2019s probability of winning.\nThe only valid argument you have is that 65.7% makes it look like Nate is more sure of himself than he should be. But he does no such thing, that\u2019s you\u2019re reading of it. If the reader understands there\u2019s uncertainty, then there\u2019s no reason left not publish 65.7%, because 65.7% IS a better estimate than 80%.\nThe reason for controlling the display of digits is that the viewer\u2019s attention is finite. More digits on one number means less ability to see other numbers on the page. To put it another way, why not say the probability is 65.74326382364829790019279981238980080123%? The answer is that every number after the \u201c65\u201d is essentially meaningless. Just as it would be meaningless to say that someone\u2019s height is 5 feet 8.34376382364829790019279981238980080123 inches.\ni think you need more precision. it\u2019s not a good enough estimate.\nTo (different) Jonathan: My corner of this discussion is simply to ask what is gained by saying that, as of yesterday, Obama had a 67% chance of winning, a number derived from weights attached to this year\u2019s polls that are based on the accuracy of the models the pollsters used *four years ago,* along with a bunch of other factors that, four years ago, proved to be useful heuristics for [some unknown electorate-wide mechanism].\nMuch better, it seems to me, to say: \u201cGiven the following understanding of *this year\u2019s* dynamics [e.g., GOP voters seem more enthusiastic than Democratic voters],* I discount Ohio polls X and Y but favor poll Z. In other words, the old-fashioned journalistic analysis of polling that, for all its faults, does not claim to be scientific in any teched-up sense.\nWhat is gained by attaching a probability to such predictions\u2013when this number has to be derived from the dynamics (i.e., voter interpretations of a very different situation) in 2008? I\u2019m not disputing the logic of Bayesianism, I\u2019m asking what its value added is in cases such as this.\nI think Gelman\u2019s example, on MonkeyCage, of business forecasting is much closer to what we\u2019re dealing with in politics than the example of football games, because business forecasting entails the interpretation of what various statistics mean about economic actors\u2019 interpretations of their situations. Because those interpretations are determined by pathways of ideas that are inaccessible to the business forecaster, business forecasts are well known to be quite unreliable.\nA lesson of the financial crisis is (arguably) that when forecasters attach probabilities to their forecasts, all they gain is the spurious confidence supplied by assuming that the past is continuous with the future in the manner specified by their model. If we take unknown unknowns seriously, the problem is that we don\u2019t know *which parts* of the past are continuous with the future\u2013that is, which behaviors under given circumstances\u2013because, I maintain, people\u2019s interpretations of their circumstances are too unpredictable for that.\nI wonder what people here think of Taleb, although I assume he has been much discussed before.\nNate\u2019s model is effectively a codification of \u201cjournalistic\u201d arguments for which there is available data. Much of his commentary also revolves around the things that aren\u2019t captured or are limitations of his model. It\u2019s fine to question the time-invariance of his training data and the calibration of the estimation intervals, but I don\u2019t see how throwing around gut theories about \u201cthis year\u2019s dynamics\u201d for which there is no available data will make for more useful commentary.\nRegardless of what anyone thinks of Taleb, invoking black swans when the outcome is binary probably means that you should re-read how Taleb defines his idea of the 4th quadrant.\nI\u2019m a huge fan of Taleb. I don\u2019t see where Jeffrey was \u201cinvoking black swans\u201d whatsoever. I think he was probably thinking more along the lines of model error, which is the focus of Taleb\u2019s new (and I suspect much more important) work.\nTaleb didn\u2019t invent the idea that models can be wrong. By his own account, the model error that he rails about is in the domain where low probability events have large effects. I\u2019m pretty sure he could care less about an error where Nate\u2019s incorrectly-predicted-election tally increases by +1. Even within the model (or within any election prediction model for that matter), the probability that the unfavored candidate will win is fairly high anyway.\nPersonally, I\u2019m looking forward to his new book as well, but I\u2019m kind of tired of people invoking him when they don\u2019t seem to understand what he\u2019s talking about.\nI like Taleb because he, like me, will be speaking at the Larchmont public library.\nWell, no, actually he rails against any over-certainty in models. For instance, even in cases where the normal distribution seems safe, uncertainty about the variance (Taleb talks about the \u201cvariance of the variance of the variance\u201d) can dramatically change the probability of events that aren\u2019t even too far in the tails. Yes, he\u2019s most known for problems in the \u201c4th quadrant\u201d, but that\u2019s not so much the focus of his new book (he\u2019s been sharing drafts of chapters on his FB page).\nI\u2019m familiar with his example of the normal distribution. This isn\u2019t even a normal distribution \u2013 it\u2019s a binary outcome, which is bounded by the problem definition in a way in which things like financial modeling predictions are not. The bounded outcomes here reflects the problem statement, not the modeling assumptions.\nAnyway, how exactly is the prediction overly certain? Using a model that averages over polls here has the effect of increasing the uncertainty in the outcome here rather than decreasing it. Romney winning is about as surprising as rolling a 1 or a 2 on a 6-sided die, Obama winning is about as surprising as rolling a 3-6. That seems pretty uncertain to me. That and given how much the limitations of the model are discussed on the blog, it seems like you\u2019re projecting a claim to over-certainty when Nate never made any such claim of certainty to begin with.\nThe folks at OrgTheory think there\u2019s a divergence in electoral vs popular vote probabilities because of the south.\nThe Depression bottomed out in 1932. There was actually a pretty strong recovery that started once FDR got off gold and devalued the dollar. There were problems later including the \u201crecession within a depression\u201d, but if voters continued to judge based on how the economy had changed since his election, that would explain FDR being re-elected.\nIf attaching probabilities to forecasts just gives spurious confidence, you should go into business with a strategy of not doing that and eat the lunch of those other suckers. I don\u2019t expect you\u2019ll do very well, not that you\u2019ll care what probability I assign to that statement! Under Nassim Taleb\u2019s theories, selling insurance should be the most sure fire way to fail, yet plenty of insurance companies have been as profitable and long lived as the average in any other industry.\nAt Worthwhile Canadian Initiative they ranked presidents according to the economic performance under their administration. Hoover is dead last, FDR is in the top ten.\nThe precision point is a very old one (Aristotle?) and not extremely interesting. What stood out to me more with the 538 model was that only one State was in the 40-60% band in early July, and there are still only two in that band. Especially when we were back in July with four months to go, such calibration looked pretty odd and essentially over-confident. I mean I\u2019m sure that the calibration and parameters work with the historical data, but the July output just didn\u2019t quite seem reasonable to me.\nWith Intrade, because of capital constraints and the margining system (it takes $6 to buy at 60% but only $4 to short there) I think prices are biased towards 50%, beyond the usual fav/longshot bias near extremes. On the other hand, I feel like the 538 model is calibrated such that probabilities are pushed away from 50% towards extremes more than they ought to be. I might be persuaded otherwise though.\nAlex Reutter says:\nThat 65.7% is a point estimate, right? I think it would be useful to see a highest probability density region (assuming the estimates are Bayesian) or a confidence interval (if not) around that number.\nI suspect that probabilities are not the most quantitatively meaningful measures to work with\u2013to use some of Nate\u2019s numbers, there\u2019s a big difference between the 99.5% probability that Indiana will vote Romney and the 100% probability that Texas will vote Romney. (I suspect that Nate\u2019s model really says that the probability for Texas is something like 99.999%.)\nYes, it\u2019s a bit much to report the probabilities to three places. But if the model metric is, say, ln-odds, then there really IS a difference between a 65.5% ( = .64 in ln odds) and a 66.0% ( = .66 ln odds). Rather than attempt to communicate to the readers of the paper of record what log-odds are, maybe Nate reports probabilities.\nThe practical significance of reporting a probability to such a high precision might be meaningless in most instances, I agree. Even if another measure on the same object of interest were sensitive relative to another, and those two measures are reasonably well related the interpretative value of base percentage points are not high unless it is actually a critical component in driving the process that generates the outcome we are trying to predict. I guess this is why the debate has polarised between supporting the idea that the outcome is sensitive to changes in the current state and discounting the value of percentage points. Either way if it was the aim of Nate\u2019s analysis to build a model that gives probabilities to the nearest nth decimal point then it is probably warranted to call it silly. However I am pretty sure that calculating the probabilities to that degree of accuracy was only consistent with the analysis and trying to get a feel for the variation surrounding that number, rather than the aim of the analysis itself.\nIt (the probability) is simply an exogenous (to one\u2019s belief) measure of what the more likely event is \u2013 generated by what is known(the data) and and what the possible routes forward are. Whether you are for or against reporting at such high precision \u2013 that doesn\u2019t change the message that the analysis is trying to get across, given the data.\nPoll aggregation and election forecasting \u00ab Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science says:\n[\u2026] Having a steady supply of polls of varying quality from various sources allows poll aggregators to produce news every day (in the sense of pushing their estimates around) but it doesn\u2019t help much with a forecast of the actual election outcome. (See my P.S. here.) [\u2026]\nIn scientific papers p-values are usually reported up to three decimal numbers\nFor example, if I had 50 and 30 successes in group A and B, and 100 not-successes in both, p=0.0581.\nIf I had one more success in A, I would have p=0.0444.\nIf I had one more success in B, I would have p=0.0808.\nHere moving one unit, I could almost double the result. Nevertheless, p-values continue to be reported up to three decimal numbers.\nSome academic thoughts on the poll aggregators | Simply Statistics says:\n[\u2026] that only will happen once? I actually don\u2019t like getting into this philosophical discussion (Gelman has some thoughts worth reading) and I cut people who write for the masses some slack. 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I am particularly interested in depicting the habitat of my subjects and exploring the natural textures of fur, wood, stone and water.\" Two favorite comments about his work are that they capture the subject so well, if you look away, they'll move, and that these are the sculptures the animals themselves would collect. His sculptures have been shown in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, The National Academy of Design, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, and are in over 1000 public and private collections.\nJon works in lost-wax cast bronze and occasionally in wood, silver, ivory or stone. Most of his 75 limited edition bronzes are on a personal scale that people can easily live with. \"I love the craft as well as the art of sculpting. Command of the casting and mold-making processes allows me the freedom to tackle technically challenging pieces.\" Jon is equally involved in field study of his subjects, restoration of wild populations and habitats, and sculpting. 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It is extremely common, and can be excruciatingly painful.\nIf you suffer from tennis elbow or are seeking to prevent its occurrence it is important to follow the information in this article. In addition, adding a few simple stretches to your fitness program will also help. To get started on a safe and effective stretching routine that\u2019s just right for you, check out the Ultimate Guide to Stretching & Flexibility.\nThe first two conditions are very similar, however the first effects the outside of the elbow (lateral), and the second effects the inside of the elbow (medial). For the purpose of this newsletter we\u2019ll stick with the treatment of lateral epicondylitis, or as it is more commonly known, tennis elbow.\nBefore we can understand just what tennis elbow is, it\u2019s important to have a general understanding of the structure of the elbow joint, and how the muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones help the elbow joint to function.\nNow that we can see how the elbow functions, lets look at what exactly tennis elbow is.\nTennis elbow occurs when there is damage to the muscles, tendons and ligaments around the elbow joint and forearm. Small tears, called micro tears, form in the tendons and muscles which control the movement of the forearm. They cause a restriction of movement, inflammation and pain. These micro tears eventually lead to the formation of scar tissue and calcium deposits. If untreated, this scar tissue and calcium deposits can put so much pressure on the muscles and nerves that they can cut off the blood flow and pinch the nerves responsible for controlling the muscles in the forearm.\nBy far the most common cause of tennis elbow is overuse. Any action which places a repetitive and prolonged strain on the forearm muscles, coupled with inadequate rest, will tend to strain and overwork those muscles.\nThere are also many other causes, like a direct injury, such as a bump or fall onto the elbow. Poor technique will contribute to the condition, such as using ill-fitted equipment, like tennis racquets, golf clubs, work tools, etc. While poor levels of general fitness and conditioning will also contribute.\nPain is the most common and obvious symptom associated with tennis elbow. Pain is most often experienced on the outside of the upper forearm, but can also be experienced anywhere from the elbow joint to the wrist.\nWeakness, stiffness and a general restriction of movement are also quite common in sufferers of tennis elbow. Even tingling and numbness can be experienced.\nTennis elbow is a soft tissue injury of the muscles and tendons around the elbow joint, and therefore should be treated like any other soft tissue injury. Immediately following an injury, or at the onset of pain, the R.I.C.E.R. regimen should be employed. This involves Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, and Referral to an appropriate professional for an accurate diagnosis.\nOnce most of the pain has been reduced, it is time to move onto the rehabilitation phase of your tennis elbow treatment. The main aims of this phase is to regain and improve the strength, power, endurance and flexibility of the muscles and tendons that have been compromised.\nThere are a number of preventative techniques which will help to prevent tennis elbow, including bracing and strapping, modifying equipment, taking extended rests and even learning new routines for repetitive activities. However, there are three preventative measures that I feel are far more important, and effective, than any of these.\nSecondly, strengthening and conditioning the muscles of the forearm and wrist will also help to prevent tennis elbow. There are a number of specific strengthening exercises you can do for these muscles, but instead of me going into the details here, I have simply found another web site that has already done all the hard work. It explains a number of exercises you can do, both with and without weights, and also includes diagrams and comprehensive explanations of each exercise. Click here to see the strengthening exercises.\nAnd thirdly, flexible muscles and tendons are extremely important in the prevention of most strain or sprain injuries. When muscles and tendons are flexible and supple, they are able to move and perform without being over stretched. If however, your muscles and tendons are tight and stiff, it is quite easy for those muscles and tendons to be pushed beyond their natural range of movement. When this happens strains, sprains, and pulled muscles occur. 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Blog / FDA Panel Reconsiders Avandia Restrictions\nFDA Panel Reconsiders Avandia Restrictions\nTwo-Day Advisory Panel for the FDA Considers Lifting Restrictions on Avandia Sales in the US\nIn 2010, serious health concerns related to the use of Avandia forced the FDA to put strong warning labels on the drug. European pharmacies pulled the drug from shelves, and only about 3,000 people in the US currently take Avandia, despite concerns about stroke or heart disease.\nHowever, an advisory panel for the FDA will meet for two days to reconsider Avandia and its restrictions, as some are saying that the diabetes drug is not as dangerous as once thought.\nThe FDA will spend two days reviewing a new interpretation of a study that evaluated Avandia\u2019s heart attack and stroke risks, which suggests that the drug is actually as safe as older diabetes drugs. During the meeting this week, the FDA will take an usual step and ask a panel of experts to vote on a range of options for the drug, including lifting restrictions on use.\nThe debate about Avandia has cost manufacturer Glaxo billions of dollars and a tarnished reputation, and has raged for three years. The latest in the argument is a positive safety review from Duke University.\nOriginally, Avandia was the top-selling diabetes pill in the world. It was approved in 1999, and by 2006 its total global sales had skyrocketed to $3.4 billion. The following year, however, an analysis of dozens of studies suggested that Avandia could seriously raise the risk of heart disease and heart attack in patients.\nHowever, patients with Type 2 diabetes are already at an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and heart attack, so for three years, a definitive answer to the question has never been reached.\nSkepticism of Avandia Remains\nThe FDA panel is not without its critics. \u201cYou want to take a regulatory action because it\u2019s going to benefit patients. I don\u2019t see how patients could possibly benefit from lifting these regulatory restrictions,\u201d said Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who authored the 2007 analysis that first raised public safety concerns about Avandia.\nNissen and other critics suspect that the panel will meet simply to justify the FDA officials who struggled for years to keep Avandia on the market in the US. Because Nissen had authored one of the original analyses of Avandia, he offered to present at the meeting, but was turned down.\nThe original Avandia study, called RECORD, followed 4,400 patients and tracked their rates of heart attack, heart disease, and stroke, as well as rates of hospitalization and heart-disease related death for six years. It is so far the lone major study to focus on Avandia\u2019s side effects, and since 2009, when it was published, it raised many questions from a variety of experts.\nThe new study, however, cannot be considered independent \u2013 reportedly, Glaxo helped Duke finance the latest research.\n\u201cThe readjudication was limited because it relies largely on the original database and source documents in collaboration with GSK,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Marciniak, medical team leader of FDA\u2019s Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products.\nDespite the suspicious funding, Glaxo has said that it has no plans to market Avandia again.\nThe Strom Law Firm Can Help with Avandia Personal Injury Lawsuits\nDid you or a loved one suffer any of the following injuries?\nUndergoing treatment for Congestive Heart Failure\nCongestive Heart Failure resulting in death\nAvandia side effects can be mild or, in some cases, can even cause death. The way your body reacts to Avandia depends on a variety of factors \u2013 your overall health and medical history for instance.\nThe pharmaceutical liability lawyers at The Strom Law Firm, LLC are at the forefront of the fight to protect the public and will stand up for your rights against the big drug and insurance companies that produce dangerous drugs and products like Avandia. We will fight to ensure that you and your loved ones receive the justice you deserve. Contact our defective drug and wrongful death attorneys at the Strom Law Firm, LLC today for a free consultation to discuss the facts of your case as well as your legal rights. Contact us today. 803.252.4800.\nFiled Under: Strom Law Firm, L.L.C. 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The hydro will not impact your speed at all.\nIts depends on the size of the propeller and the speed of navigation. At 6 knots, we estimate that the average drag is 10 kg. To calculate the loss of speed for a particular boat, you need to compare the total drag of the hull at 6 knots with 10 kg of drag of the hydrogenerator at the same speed. Our immersion and lifting trials at a constant speed have not shown any significant difference on the speedometer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Katrina2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CHJXQ246TS7M7FA24E2HWKVCCMKBXLXU", "length": 6873, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "svs.gsfc.nasa.gov", "title": "Gallery: The View from Space: Data Visualizations of Hurricane Katrina", "raw_content": "The View from Space: Data Visualizations of Hurricane Katrina\nIn the last week of August 2005, what had originated as a disturbance off the western coast of Africa transformed into a devastating storm, ravaging the southern United States.\nWater consumed the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, submerging chunks of Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.\nNASA\u2019s satellites watched the devastation from overhead, sending down a deluge of data that scientists would study for years to come.\nFor more information about Hurricane Katrina:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2005/h2005_katrina.html\n27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta\nHurricane Katrina Progression\nHurricane Katrina 3D Stereoscopic Viewfinder Image\nHurricane Katrina Sea Surface Temperature\nHurricane Katrina Rain Accumulation\nHurricane Katrina GOES Clouds\nHurricane Katrina Hot Towers\nGEOS-5 Model Run Showing Hurricane Katrina\nHurricane Season 2005: Katrina\nIn Katrina's Wake\nThis visualization shows some of the actual data that NASA and NOAA satellites measured in 2005 \u2014 data used to predict the paths and intensities of hurricanes. Satellite data play a vital role in helping us understand the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems that have such dramatic effects on our lives.\nNOTE: This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.\n'27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta' played in the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival in August 2007. It was also a finalist in the 2006 NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.\nHurricane Katrina progression is observed by the Aqua and Terra satellites. Katrina hit land on August 29, 2005, near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Katrina's center was located near the mouth of the Pearl River about 40-45 miles west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi and about 30-35 miles east-northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina is the eleventh named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season.\nNASA's TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005. At the time the data was collected, Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane, the most destructive and deadly. The cloud cover data was taken by TRMM's Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS), with additional data from the GOES spacecraft. The rain structure data was taken by TRMM's Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI). This view looks underneath the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. This stereoscopic still image was created from a previous visualization and is intended for viewing through a special NASA Earth Science Viewfinder available through NASA Headquarters. Below, we include an anaglyph version, a printable viewfinder version, and the individual left eye and right eye views.\nThis visualization shows the cold water trail left by Hurricane Katrina. The data is from August 23 through 30, 2005. The colors on the ocean represent the sea surface temperatures, and satellite images of the hurricane clouds are laid over the temperatures to clearly show the hurricane positions. Orange and red depict regions that are 82 degrees F and higher, where the ocean is warm enough for hurricanes to form. Hurricane winds are sustained by the heat energy of the ocean, so the ocean is cooled as the hurricane passes and the energy is extracted to power the winds. The sea surface temperatures are 3-day moving averages based on the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite, while the cloud images were taken by the Imager on the GOES-12 satellite.\nThis animation shows rain accumulation from Hurricane Katrina from August 23 through 30, 2005 based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis. Satellite cloud data from NOAA/GOES is overlaid for context. The accumulation is shown in colors ranging from green (less than 30 mm of rain) through red (80 mm or more). The TRMM satellite, using the world's only spaceborne rain radar and other microwave instruments, measures rainfall over the ocean.\nThis animation shows Hurricane Katrina as seen by NOAA/GOES-12 infrared band from from August 23 through 30, 2005.\nNASA's TRMM spacecraft allows us to look under Hurricane Katrina's clouds to see the rain structure on August 28, 2005 at 0324Z. Spikes in the rain structure known as 'hot towers' indicate storm intensity. 'Hot Towers' refers to tall cumulonimbus clouds and has been seen as one of the mechanisms by which the intensity of a tropical cyclone is maintained. Because of the size (1-20 km) and short duration (30 minute to 2 hours) of these hot towers, studies of these events have been limited to descriptive studies from aircraft observations, although a few have attempted to use the presence of hot towers in a predictive capacity. Before TRMM, no data set existed that could show globally and definitively the presence of these hot towers in cyclone systems. Aircraft radar studies of individual storms lack global coverage. Global microwave or Infrared sensor observations do not provide the needed spatial resolution. With a ground resolution of 5 km, the TRMM Precipitation Radar provided the needed data set for examining the predictive value of hot towers in cyclone intensification.\nThis visualization shows data from a global atmospheric assimilation model for August 2005. In early August the camera looks towards the North pole showing the swirling winds caused by the Coriolis effect; then the camera moves down towards Africa which is the birthplace of many tropical storms; finally, the camera moves across the Atlantic as many of the storms form during 2005 ending with Hurricane Katrina. This visualization was created in support of demonstrations given at the Supercomputing 2007 Conference.\nA collection of Hurricane Katrina updates throughout the course of the storm and the aftermath.\nHurricane Katrina took the world by storm when it ravaged Louisiana and surrounding states in late August of 2005. Katrina's effects were far reaching, and researchers continue to uncover new areas of devastation left in her wake. Using data from NASA's Landsat and Terra satellites, along with ecological field investigations and statistical analyses, a group of researchers has quantified losses to Gulf Coast forests inflicted by Hurricane Katrina. The results, published in the 2007 November 16th issue of Science, estimate that Katrina killed or damaged 320 million large trees and affected more than 5 millions acres of forest. In this climate of warming temperatures and frequent, intensified storms, some scientists debate whether this is just the first taste of what's to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 11808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tasermiutcamp.gl/terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:APAUQQ5AYA5HRNDK3B4VHDKVR76EMYVE", "length": 506, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tasermiutcamp.gl", "title": "Terms - Tasermiut Camp", "raw_content": "Please carefully read the following terms of use and disclaimer before using tasermiutcamp.gl web site. By using our web site, you agree to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you may not use this site. Our website reserves the right, at any time, to modify, alter or update these terms of use, and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates from the time they are posted on our web site. It is your responsibility to check the terms of use periodically.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tbn.ethershaft.engineering/tag/portland-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DJY3EHHZXWMW5W2PRAM3UX5VDQFXT4WN", "length": 165, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tbn.ethershaft.engineering", "title": "Portland ME - The Beer Necessities - Beer through the lens of culture.", "raw_content": "Beer Towns\nPortland, Maine, Is an American Beer Utopia\nFrom Maine Beer to Allagash to Bissell Brothers, Portland is home to some of the top breweries in the country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teamropingjournal.com/ropers-stories/lewis-saddle-tree-co-s-kevin-johnson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T5MZMJG2QXWTD2WGXB2A6PJNAFQ6ECEY", "length": 4731, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "teamropingjournal.com", "title": "Lewis Saddle Tree Co.'s Kevin Johnson - The Team Roping Journal", "raw_content": "Lewis Saddle Tree Co.'s Kevin Johnson\nHorseshoer and craftsman Kevin Johnson took the reins at Lewis Saddle Tree Co. in 2011 and, since then, the company has found a thriving niche in the tree-making business.\nCourtesy Johnson Family\nHereford, Texas\u2019 Kevin Johnson\u2019s shoeing clientele keeps him plenty busy\u2014busy enough, in fact, that the 41-year-old flies a plane across the Panhandle and into New Mexico so he can get to all of his clients. But the Nebraska native isn\u2019t one to miss an opportunity, so when the famed Lewis family gave him a chance to buy the generations-old Lewis Saddle Tree Company seven years ago, Johnson, along with partner Cody Parks, jumped.\n\u201cWe saw room for improvement in the quality of saddle trees and in the finished product, and we saw a tremendous amount of room for growth,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHere we are. This is a full-time-and-a-half job.\u201d\nWhen Johnson and Parks bought the business, the company was producing 400 to 500 trees annually. In seven years, that number has grown to 1,200, sold to mostly small craftsman making one or two custom saddles a month. And Lewis Saddle Tree Co. has another notable fan, too: Trevor Brazile, with his line of Relentless saddles by Cactus Saddlery.\n\u201cThe evolution of the horse has changed. As they\u2019re bred for specific activities, their bodies change,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAs they change, you have to cater your saddle tree to them. There\u2019s really only a handful of the hundreds of patterns we have that we use. You can continually go back to those handful of patterns, but that may change on the type of horse\u2014younger horses, older horses, flat-backed horses. It all sort of comes down to the way the bars are jigged up, the way they go on the horse\u2019s back, the width, what a person wants to do in the saddle. In a roping saddle, you want a front that sits down on their withers. The farther away, the more leverage there is.\u201d\nJohnson found passion for building quality saddle trees early in life. He grew up in eastern Nebraska, outside of Omaha, and he learned to shoe horses and build saddles from his father, Gary Johnson, who still builds saddles and trees in Elkhorn, Nebraska. A calf roper back then, the younger Johnson college rodeoed at Western Texas College, then West Texas A&M University, and decided to stay in the Panhandle when he was done.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot worst places to live. There might be prettier places, but the people in this area are pretty good,\u201d Johnson said.\nNow, he and Parks operate a 3,500-foot shop in Hereford, the same shop the Lewis family ran for a few decades before them. Parks, a cabinet-maker with his MBA and ranch-management experience to boot, spends long hours (usually around 11) in the shop, while Johnson is barnstorming in his Piper Super Cub across the Southwest to shoeing clients. Johnson works the late shift after the horses\u2019 feet are done.\n\u201cTrees are usually crafted from whatever wood is indigenous to the area, and because we\u2019re close to Colorado and New Mexico, we use white pine,\u201d Johnson explained. \u201cFrom the start, either Cody\u2019s hands or mine are building each tree. We have a team of fiberglassers, which is a really hard job. We send it back to one of our five or six fiberglassers, who will see it from completion. Then my partner and I ship them. If there\u2019s something we miss in quality control that isn\u2019t 100-percent right, it\u2019s either me or my partner who take the blame. We\u2019re humans and humans make mistakes, but I feel like we have as good of quality control as any of the shops building 100 a year.\u201d\nLewis Saddle Tree Co. covers their trees in fiberglass instead of rawhide, and the technique Johnson and his team use provides unprecedented stability to the trees. Plus, it eliminates the need for adding nails to the tree to tack on the rawhide.\n\u201cThe fiberglassing technique has put the rawhide on the wayside,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIf they\u2019d had that process 100 years ago, they probably never would have used rawhide. With the fiberglass, there\u2019s no movement in the tree.\u201d\nEventually, Johnson would love to ease off the shoeing business and go back to building custom saddles under the Kevin Johnson Saddles name. But in the meantime, he is continuing to manage his small tree-making business alongside his wife, April Johnson, who teaches elementary school, and 3-year-old daughter Isabelle. Plus, the exposure to dozens and dozens of different horses each week allows Johnson to test out tree designs on his customers\u2019 horses\u2019 backs.\n\u201cI will throw the tree in my shoeing pickup and stick it on a horse I\u2019m doing, so I can get a baseline,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe longer I\u2019m in this business, the more I know. But man, there\u2019s so much I don\u2019t know. 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As part of your structured training programme, you'll have placements across a number of areas within Surface Transport, so you could find yourself in any of the following areas:\nHighways network team\nSponsorship and Project delivery\nBus and Traffic Infrastructure\nContract management team\nIf you have a genuine interest and enthusiasm for civil engineering and want to be involved in managing the projects essential to the maintenance and improvement of London's strategic road network, then this scheme is the perfect way to kick start your career.\nYou could be working with internal teams, local authorities or external contractors, so you'll need to have the ability to communicate with different people and learn how to positively influence and make decisions. 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A goofy slapstick comedy that also features Ricky Hui as Josephine's long ... c3f236f0ad\ndownload xap file for windows phone 7golkes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thankyounetflix.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/fantastic-mr-fox/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ICDF46RCANZPTAOLBPCX5YKQIYXCEN2P", "length": 7173, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thankyounetflix.wordpress.com", "title": "Fantastic Mr. Fox | Let's All Go to the Movies!!!!", "raw_content": "\u00ab How the West Was Won\nTransporter 3 \u00bb\nWhile raiding a squab farm, Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wife Felicity (Meryl Streep) trigger a fox trap and become caged. Felicity reveals to Fox that she is pregnant and pleads with him to find a safer job should they escape.\nTwo years later, the Foxes and their sullen son Ash (Jason Schwartzman), are living in a hole. Fox, now a newspaper columnist, decides to move the family into a better home and buys one in the base of a tree, ignoring the warnings of his lawyer Badger (Bill Murray). The tree is located very close to the enormous facilities run by farmers Walter Boggis, Nathan Bunce, and Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon). Soon after the Foxes move in, Felicity\u2019s nephew Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson) comes to live with them, as his father has become very ill. Ash finds this situation intolerable considering his soft-spoken cousin is apparently superior to him in every possible aspect and seemingly everyone, including his own father, is charmed by Kristofferson at Ash\u2019s expense.\nFox and the opossum building superintendent, Kylie (Wallace Wolodarsky), make plans to steal various types of produce and poultry from the three farms, one by one. After all three heists are a success, the farmers decide to camp out near the Fox family\u2019s tree and kill Fox. When he emerges, the farmers open fire, only managing to shoot off his tail before he retreats back into his home. The farmers then attempt to dig Fox out, first by hand and then with three excavators. After tearing the hill site of the tree into a massive crater, the farmers discover that the Foxes have dug an escape tunnel deep underground.\nReasoning that the Foxes will eventually have to surface in search of food and water, the farmers lie in wait at the tunnel mouth. Underground, Fox encounters Badger and many of the other local animal residents whose homes have also been destroyed. As the animals begin to fear starvation, Fox leads a digging expedition to the three nearby farms, robbing them clean of Boggis\u2019 chickens, Bunce\u2019s ducks and geese, and Bean\u2019s turkeys, apples, and alcoholic cider. While the other animals feast, Ash and Kristofferson, beginning to reconcile after Kristofferson defended his cousin from a bully, return to Bean\u2019s farm, intending to reclaim Fox\u2019s tail, only to find that Bean has taken to wearing it as a necktie. When they are interrupted by the arrival of Bean\u2019s wife, Ash escapes but Kristofferson is captured.\nAfter discovering that Fox has stolen all of their produce, the farmers decide to flood the animals\u2019 tunnel network by pumping it full of cider. The animals are forced to retreat into the sewers, and Fox learns that the farmers plan to use Kristofferson as bait to lure him into an ambush. They are soon confronted by Rat (Willem Dafoe), Bean\u2019s security guard. After a struggle with Fox that leaves him mortally wounded, Rat divulges Kristofferson\u2019s location.\nFox sends a message to the farmers, asking for a meeting in a town near the sewer hub wherein he will surrender in exchange for Kristofferson\u2019s freedom. The farmers set up an ambush, but Fox and the others anticipate it and launch a counterattack. Fox, Ash, and Kylie escape the scene at the town and slip into Bean\u2019s farm. In the operation, a much matured Ash frees Kristofferson and later deeply impresses his father and the gang by braving enemy fire to release a rabid beagle loose to keep the farmers at bay while the group escapes back to the sewers. The group manage to grab Fox\u2019s tail from Bean as they flee the compound.\nThe animals become accustomed to living in the sewers, and Ash and Kristofferson have completely settled their differences and have become good friends, sharing meditation time together among other activities. Fox, now taking to wearing his tail as an pin-on, leads them to a drain opening that is built into the floor of a large supermarket, which is shown to the viewing audience to be owned by the three farmers. Celebrating their abundant new food source and the news that Felicity is pregnant again, the animals dance in the aisles.\nIn this world of overused CGI, it always warms my heart to see a film that uses good old stop-motion animation. If nothing else about Fantastic Mr. Fox intrigues you, the fact that it was done using this medium should.\nCritics and I rarely see thing the same way, but this is one of those rare occasions when they actually got it right. They raved like mad over this film, and found it hard to belive that it wasn\u2019t more popular. To be truthful, until the Oscars, I had only heard about this in passing, and never really paid it any attention. That was my mistake.\nThis is a totally awesome flick, but be warned, some of the animation may appear creepy to some younger viewers, but that\u2019s the joy of stop motion.\nMr. Fox is the scheming type and George Clooney\u2019s voice and mannerisms fit him perfectly, especially when he\u2019s being more of a douche than a father to his son.\nMeryl Streep can do no wrong, even when just her voice is used, although, it would have been nice to have more than a handful of lines for her. I think that Ms. Fox isn\u2019t exactly a prominent character in the books, either, so I can forgive this little oversight.\nJason Schwartzman isn\u2019t exactly my favorite actor by any stretch of the imagination, but the timbre and inflections of his voice work for Ash, who happens to be one of those \u201cdifferent\u201d kids just searching for approval from his dad. Having said that, he was still annoying.\nMichael Gambon\u2019s deep vocals make for as good a villain as they do a wizard headmaster. I was quite impressed with how he was able to inflect the madness that was consuming Franklin Bean as he pretty much destroyed the land in his attempt to catch Mr. Fox.\nI\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all heard the term \u201ccrazy like a fox\u201d. Well, with each attempt Bean made to capture Fox, that phrase ws going through my head because he was proving it to be true.\nYes, this is a comedy, but it\u2019s more subtle comedy, rather than in your face, laugh out loud comedic stylings. This is fine, but not for me\u2026a matter of personal taste, not a criticism.\nWhat is it that makes this film so great? Well, the writing. There aren\u2019t many films today that are written as well as this one and executed to perfection. I dare you to name me 5 films in the last year that accomplish this feat. I can think of maybe 1 or 2.\nIt is a genuine shame that this film didn\u2019t garner more revenue at the box office, but that\u2019s what happens when you have an independent and limited release. To make up for that, though, I implore you all to track down this DVD and check out Fantastic Mr. Fox. It is a real treat and hands down one of the best films to be released in theaters in a long time.\nThis entry was posted on June 23, 2010 at 10:03 pm and is filed under Animation, Comedy, Family, Movie Reviews with tags Bill Murray, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Kristofferson, Meryl Streep, michael gambon, movie based on a book, Mr. Fox, rabid beagle, stop motion animation, willem dafoe.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 8624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thankyounetflix.wordpress.com/2016/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MZBZBIEKRWUC4TQMWQ5KLJM3WZGPHUQE", "length": 27723, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "thankyounetflix.wordpress.com", "title": "April | 2016 | Let's All Go to the Movies!!!!", "raw_content": "Posted in Trailer Thursday with tags \"Born to be Blue\", \"Miles Ahead\" on April 28, 2016 by Mystery Man\nAs we come to the conclusion of jazz month, I thought it would be a good time to share a couple of modern jazz trailers.\nFirst is the lesser known of the two, Born to Be Blue, based on the life of cool jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Check it out!\nSecond, is a similar film, but this one is based on the legend of jazz legend Miles Davis and is a passion project for actor and first time director, Don Cheadle. Check out the trailer for Miles Ahead.\nPosted in Classics, Drama, Movie Reviews with tags Billy Preston, Cab Calloway, Eartha Kitt, Juano Hernandez, Mahalia Jackson, Nat \"King\" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Ruby Dee, W.C. Handy on April 27, 2016 by Mystery Man\nWill Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can\u2019t stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will\u2019s music played by a symphony orchestra.\n\u201cBlack casted movies are a rarity in and of themselves, but one with such mega stars of old was so very uplifting! The movie was made by blacks for blacks and had a plot, story-line and theme that blacks can indeed relate to with pride dignity and a sense of self-esteem. The movie is one that you can watch over and over again and get something more out of it each and every time. It deals with human weaknesses and pitfalls such as are common to man; but finishes on a high note of strength and victory because of faith in and love for God and perseverance. \u201d\n\u201cI found the father-son estrangement contrived along conventional religion vs the devil lines, but moving nonetheless. I had forgotten what a good piano player Nat Cole was. Ertha Kitt is the heart of the film. She acts as she sings \u2014 biting, precise, and all-knowing. I think the great Pearl Bailey is wasted here \u2014 wonderful as the Aunt, but we only hear her singing a snippet of the title song. Cab Calloway was also much more talented than permitted to be here. I saw him as \u201cSportin\u2019 Live\u201d in the post-WW II revival of \u201cPorgy and Bess.\u201d We get a too brief taste of the great clarinet player, Barney Bigard, and an anachronistic appearance by Ella Fitzgerald singing \u201cBeale St. Blues.\u201d The film provides a good definition of the blues as an authentic American musical and poetic form. This one, almost 50 years old now, has aged well. It makes one regret that more African-American based and performed films were not made when these great stars were available.\u201d\n\u201cIn the hands of a bolder director, this could be a better-remembered film. It was Allen Reisner\u2019s second film, and he\u2019d only do one more in a career that was dominated by television work. There are a few nicely expressive shots (W.C. and his father regarding each other through the lattice of the organ\u2019s music stand) but the material often feels like it could soar higher. And it feels like someone should have tried to coax a better performance out of Cole. Still, the movie is worth checking out, especially for the music and for Eartha Kitt\u201d\n\u201cAfter several years of only seeing the last hour of this movie, I finally watched the whole thing on Netflix Streaming. Nat King Cole plays the famous composer W.C. Handy and he\u2019s not bad. I especially was touched when his character\u2019s blindness caused him to bump into things. And non-musicians Juano Hernandez as his father Reverend Charles Handy and Ruby Dee as girlfriend Elizabeth, respectively, certainly hold their own when sharing scenes with singers Pearl Bailey and Eartha Kitt. Cab Calloway also effectively conveys his role as a hustling businessman though unlike the others, he doesn\u2019t do any singing which is too bad. The actual story is probably more colorful than what was presented here but it wasn\u2019t bad for what it was. And how enjoyable to see not only Ms. Bailey and Kitt do their thing but also Ella Fitzgerald and Mahalia Jackson, too! And of course, Nat King Cole looks cool every time he\u2019s at the piano warbling Handy\u2019s tunes. It was also interesting to see Billy Preston as a young boy at the beginning as the child Handy and such musicians like Barney Bigard, Teddy Buckner, George \u201cRed\u201d Callender, Lee Young, and George Washington sitting in the band. Really, all I\u2019ll say now is St. Louis Blues is worth seeing for the number of musical icons in one film that are presented here. \u201d\n\u201cI really enjoyed this movie. And it was really nice seeing my all-time favorite singer, Mahalia Jackson, use her acting skills. Also, Pearl Bailey was very funny in this film- the protective aunt, as I would call her. Eartha Kitt was great and very believable- she really played the part! Nat \u201cKing\u201d Cole, to me, still seemed a little shy on camera, but I was told that he was a shy individual. Young Billy Preston did very well with his acting and he \u201ctore up\u201d that organ- as he is already known for doing. There just aren\u2019t any words that I can use to describe my feelings for this video, except for it\u2019s awesome, great, and fantastic!\u201d\nPosted in Comedy, Movie Reviews with tags Alan Ritchson, Chris Romano, Darin Brooks, Ed Marinaro, Frankie Shaw, goat, Goat House, James Cade, Jimmy Tatro, Page Kennedy, Rob Ramsay, Sam Jones III, Thadland on April 22, 2016 by Mystery Man\nAccording to the official website of the movie, the plot is: \u201cWith Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle (Alan Ritchson) recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off the infamous Goat House, Alex, Sammy and the boys must find a way to convince him to get involved. Despite his new fortune and fame, there is one small favor that Thad needs done before he saves the day: the biggest booze-and-sloot fest in BMS history. Welcome to Thadland!\u201d The film focuses entirely on one wild party to make an end for it all.\n\u201cIt was all the worst parts of the show strung together in a mish mash of terrible plot lines. They brought back Radon and Shiloh, but neither of them had anything to do with the plot, if you can even call it a plot.\u201d 1 star\n\u201cNowhere near as good as the show- kinda felt like the writers were just trying to fit loads of cameos and one-liners in without thinking it through. Such a shame!\u201d 3 stars\n\u201cI loved the series! When I heard they were making a movie, I was so excited, but this movie feels like Thad wrote the script for it.\u201d 2 stars\n\u201cGreatest thing out there! So glad BMS gave this to its fans. This was a series I wish would never have ended!\u201d 5 stars\n\u201cHuge fan of the show, but this movie was not good overall. There were some parts that had me laughing, but way more parts that had me wanting to turn it off. I would give it zero stars if I could.\u201d 1 star\nPosted in Trailer Thursday with tags \"St. Louis Blues\" on April 21, 2016 by Mystery Man\nThis week, we return to our theme of jazz films with the 1958 Nat King Cole film, St. Louis Blues. Have a peek at the trailer and enjoy! Be sure to notice all the major stars in this thing\u2026wow!\nPosted in Animation, Family, Movie Reviews with tags Amy Sedaris, baseball, Chicken Little, Don Knotts, fish out of water, Foxy Loxy, Garry Marshall, Joan Cusack, Runt of the Litter, sky is falling, Steve Zahn, UFO, Ugly Duckling, Zach Braff on April 17, 2016 by Mystery Man\nIn the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little rings the school bell and warns everyone to run for their lives, allowing the whole town into a frenzied panic with much damage ensuing. Eventually, the Head of the Fire Department calms down enough to ask him what\u2019s going on and Little explains that a piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big oak tree in the town square; however, he is unable to find it. His father, Buck Cluck, assumes that this \u201cpiece of sky\u201d was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head, making Little the laughing stock of the town.\nA year later, Little has become infamous in the town for being crazy. His only friends are outcasts and underdogs like himself: His literal \u201cUgly Duckling\u201d friend \u2014 the dorky and supportive Abby Mallard (who has a not-so-secret crush on him), Runt of the Litter (who ironically is extremely large), and a literal Fish Out of Water (who wears a helmet full of tap water).\nTrying to help, Abby encourages Little to talk to his father, but he really only wants to make his dad proud of him. As a result, he joins his school\u2019s baseball team in an attempt to recover his reputation and his father\u2019s pride but is made last until the ninth inning of the last game. Little is reluctantly called to bat by the coach (even though the coach is certain that he will lose the game for them).\nLittle is able to hit the ball and make it past first, second, and third bases, but is met at home plate by the outfielders. He tries sliding onto home plate, only to be touched by the ball. While it\u2019s presumed he lost the game, the umpire brushes away the dust to reveal Little\u2019s foot barely touching home plate, thus declaring Little safe and the game won; Little is hailed as a hero for winning the pennant.\nLater that night at home, Little is hit on the head by the same \u201cpiece of the sky\u201d that he had mentioned earlier at the beginning \u2014 only to find out that it is not a piece of the sky but a device designed to blend into the background (which would thereby explain why Little was unable to find it last time). He calls his friends over to help figure out what it is.\nWhen Fish pushes a button on the back of the piece, it becomes a hovercraft in which Fish rides on. It turns out to be part of the camouflage of an invisible UFO. Little manages to ring the school bell to warn everyone, but aliens who have emerged from the spaceship see everyone coming and manage to escape, leaving an orange alien child behind. No one believes the story of the alien invasion, and Little is ridiculed yet again\u2026until the next day.\nHe and his friends discover the little alien (whose named turns out be Kirby) and a few minutes later, a whole fleet of spaceships descends on the town and start what turns out to be an invasion, which is actually a misunderstanding, as the two aliens are looking for their lost child and only attack out of concern. As the aliens rampage throughout Oakey Oaks vaporizing everything in their path, Little realizes that he must return the alien to his parents to save their planet. Despite this, he first has to confront his father and regain his trust.\nAs he begins to tell his father the truth inside an abandoned cinema, Abby bursts in and says they should address the problem, as in the invasion, but because it is a phrase that she used to Little about his issues with his dad, then he begins to explain them. Little talks about what his father was doing and that he had emotionally let Little down by not being there for him and not listening to him enough. After he and his father reconcile and begin to leave to return Kirby to his parents, Little runs back down the row of seats to Abby and tells her that he always found her extremely attractive and he kisses her, only for her to act silly.\nTheir first attempt to return the child to his mom and dad is aborted when they witness town mayor Turkey Lurkey get apparently vaporized, after offering the key to the city, the key to his car and finally Tic Tacs as surrender terms.\nIn the invasion, Buck, now regaining his confidence and trust in his son, protects him from the aliens until they get vaporized. It is then discovered that the aliens weren\u2019t vaporizing people, but the ray guns had teleported them aboard the UFO. Afterwards, the aliens return everything to normal (except Foxy Loxy, whose brain got scrambled, turning her into a Southern belle, and as a result, Runt falls for her), and everyone is grateful for Chicken Little\u2019s efforts to save the town.\nOne year later, the townsfolk have made a film about the story, exaggerating it incredibly. In the film, Little is more masculine and Abby is far more beautiful in reality, and Fish can speak properly. After the film finishes, everyone begins to celebrate, Buck lifts Little onto his shoulders as he is applauded, and Abby (now his girlfriend), kisses him on the cheek\nIn our infant and/or toddler years, we are all told the story of Chicken Little, as a way to deter us from becoming big fat liars. I don\u2019t think it worked that well, look at all the lawyers, politicians, and cable tv execs in the world today! Disney took note that the story just wasn\u2019t working in its old fashioned telling and gave us their version of Chicken Little.\nNo one believes Chicken Little (who has a history of overreacting) when he tries to warn of an alien invasion. But this time it\u2019s the real thing \u2014 so it\u2019s up to him and his misfit friends to save the world!\nCreativity. When dealing with a story that is more of a passed down tale, it is important to come up with characters to keep the audience interested. These animators did just that in bringing to life other characters from similar tales like Foxy Loxy and the Ugly Duckling, as well as taking random saying and making them characters like Runt of the Litter and Fish out of Water. The characterization given to each of these side characters was interesting, as well. Who knew that Turkey Lurky was the mayor of Oakey Oaks?\nPapa can you hear me. It seems like every family film these days has some sort of family struggle. I was almost going to say this is a negative thing for this picture, but then I realized how the relationship and characters grew. Sure, Chicken Little and his dad have some issues, but when the time comes, they quickly work those issues out and are ready to work together to save the world!\nScared straight. If I were watching this as a kid, I would have been enthralled by the bright and colorful characters, but when the aliens come down and start blowing stuff up, as if it were War of the Worlds, then I would\u2019ve been scared out of my wits. Truthfully, the scenes where the aliens are vaporizing everyone and everything can be scarring for a child, until you see a little later on that the people are just vaporized to a dark limbo. It is Disney, after all, they can\u2019t go around randomly killing people and destroying things\nCome together. Is there some unwritten rule in film that says the lead character has to have a love interest, even if they are supposed to be kids? I saw no reason for Chicken Little and Ugly Duckling to hook up, unless they were forced to. It made no sense to the how the story was progressing. Sure, the tease of a childhood crush is fine, but to have them actually get together in the middle of an alien invasion?!?\nAnother widower. Think of every Disney cartoon and movie for a second. How many of them had the \u201cnuclear family\u201d? Not many that I can think of. Most of our characters were raised in one-parent households, if any at all! Ace Cluck is another in the long line of a widowed fathers raising his kid after the mother has left, for whatever reason (kidnapping, divorce, death, etc.) I appreciate telling us that at least there was a mother, but know I want to know what happened to her.\nSmall time. You may notice that Chicken Little is very small. I think this is only mentioned once or twice. Normally, I\u2019d be ok with that, but it seems that this is such a major part of his character bringing it up some more would have done wonders. Also, the short gags pretty much write themselves!\nFinal verdict on Chicken Little? This is a cute kids film about a tale we have all been told time and time again. The creators got creative with the characters and inserting the alien invasion plot was an interesting addition, to say the least. The furry alien rescue mission was a letdown after all the buildup, but I think that is more of me not thinking as a kid watching. All in all, this is a pretty solid flick and I highly recommend it.\nPosted in Trailer Thursday with tags \"The Jungle Book\" on April 14, 2016 by Mystery Man\nLet\u2019s go back to 1967 and check out the original The Jungle Book, especially since the live action remake is being released tomorrow.\nPosted in Action/Adventure, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Superhero Films with tags Amy Adams, Batman, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Doomsday, Gal Gadot, Gotham City, Henry Cavill, Holly Hunter, Jeremy Irons, Jesse Eisenberg, Kryptonite, Laurence Fishburne, Lex Luthor, Metropolis, Superman, Wonder Woman on April 7, 2016 by Mystery Man\nEighteen months after the destructive attack by General Zod in Metropolis from Man of Steel, Superman has become a controversial figure. Daily Planet journalist Clark Kent, Superman\u2019s alter ego, has moved in with Lois Lane. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a potential threat to humanity. After learning of Batman\u2019s activities, Superman also views him as a threat, and seeks to stop him via the Daily Planet articles under his disguise.\nWayne learns that weapon-trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp\u2019s mogul Lex Luthor. Meanwhile, Luthor tries to convince Senator June Finch to allow him to import Kryptonite retrieved from the Indian Ocean (results of Zod\u2019s terraforming attempt), claiming to use it as a \u201cdeterrent\u201d against Kryptonians. He also makes side dealings with Finch\u2019s subordinate and demands access to Zod\u2019s body and the Kryptonian scout ship. In the next meeting with Luthor, Finch denies his request.\nWayne attends Luthor\u2019s party at LexCorp, where he meets mysterious antiques dealer Diana Prince, and retrieves data from the company\u2019s mainframe. The data drive, however, is stolen by Prince, who later returns it to Bruce, due to her inability to decrypt the data. While decrypting the drive at the Batcave, Wayne receives a vision of a post-apocalyptic world, where he leads a group of rebels against Superman. He is snapped out of the vision by a mysterious time traveler, who warns him of Lane\u2019s crucial role in the distant future, and urges him to find \u201cthe others\u201d. Wayne later realizes that Luthor is not only experimenting with Kryptonite, but also investigating metahumans. One of them is Prince herself, who is an immortal warrior. Wayne admits to Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the Kryptonite to weaponize it, should it become necessary to fight Superman. Batman pursues the convoy carrying the Kryptonite from the White Portuguese ship to LexCorp, but Superman intercedes and orders him to cease his activities.\nLuthor orchestrates a bombing at a congressional hearing, where Finch is questioning Superman on the validity of his actions. The bomb kills dozens of people, including Finch. Frustrated with failing to save people, Superman goes into self-imposed exile. Batman breaks into LexCorp and steals the Kryptonite, in preparation to battle Superman by building a powerful exoskeleton and creating a Kryptonite grenade launcher and a Kryptonite-tipped spear. Meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and learns of its functions, as well as recorded alien worlds.\nLuthor kidnaps and holds hostage Martha Kent, Clark\u2019s adoptive mother. He reveals that he has been sending messages to Batman and Superman to heighten their animosity towards each other. Luthor forces Superman to fight and kill Batman, in exchange for Martha\u2019s life. Superman tries to reason with Batman, but Batman initiates the fight and eventually subdues him. Before Batman can kill Superman with the spear, Superman urges Batman to \u201csave Martha\u201d, whose name is also shared with Wayne\u2019s late mother. Lane arrives and explains the situation. Upon learning of Luthor\u2019s plan, Batman leaves to rescue Martha, while Superman confronts Luthor on the scout ship. Luthor unleashes a monstrous creature made from Zod\u2019s body spliced with Luthor\u2019s DNA. Superman, Batman and Diana join forces to fight the creature, but are outmatched by its ability to absorb energy. Realizing that it is vulnerable to Kryptonite, Superman retrieves the Kryptonite spear and impales the creature, while it stabs him with its bone protrusions, killing Superman.\nLuthor is arrested and imprisoned. Facing Batman in prison, he gloats that Superman\u2019s death has made the world vulnerable to powerful alien threats. A memorial is held for Superman in Metropolis. Clark is also declared dead and Wayne, Lane, Martha, and Diana attend a private funeral for him in Smallville. Martha passes an envelope to Lane, which contains an engagement ring from Clark. After the funeral, Wayne reveals to Diana that he plans to form a team of metahumans, starting from the ones from Luthor\u2019s files, to protect the world in Superman\u2019s absence. After they leave, a faint heartbeat echoes from Clark\u2019s coffin and the dirt around it begins to levitate\nLet\u2019s get ready to rumble! The fight every comic book fan and superhero nerd has been waiting on is about to go down in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The question on everyone\u2019s mind, though, is with Zack Snyder directing will this be more flash over substance? Also, would it just be better to wait for the \u201cmain event\u201d coming next month in Captain America: Civil War?\nFollowing his titanic struggle against General Zod, Metropolis has been razed to the ground and Superman is the most controversial figure in the world. While for many he is still an emblem of hope, a growing number of people consider him a threat to humanity, seeking justice for the chaos he has brought to Earth. As far as Bruce Wayne is concerned, Superman is clearly a danger to society. He fears for the future of the world with such a reckless power left ungoverned, and so he dons his mask and cape to right Superman\u2019s wrongs. The rivalry between them is furious, fueled by bitterness and vengeance, and nothing can dissuade them from waging this war. However, a dark new threat arises in the form of a third man: one who has a power greater than either of them to endanger the world and cause total destruction!\nIt\u2019s all about the game. Batman has always been a badass, even in his campier days, but in this flick, he takes it to another level. There is a scene near the end of the film where he swoops in and, like a ninja takes out a room of about 12 guys with guns. It is a sight to behold and, those of us that have played the Arkham City franchise of Batman games may recognize that the fighting style is very similar. Whether that was done on purpose or not, I cannot be sure, but I liked it!\nClash of the Titans. Say what you will about Man of Steel, it brought Superman back to the forefront of the DC cinematic universe. A place he should have stayed, but they just couldn\u2019t resist having Batman in there. So, here we go, a fight for supremacy, Superman vs. Batman. I would have preferred this be Christian Bale\u2019s Batman, though, for continuity\u2019s sake. No offense to Ben Affleck, he did perhaps the best Batman we\u2019ve seen since\u2026well, since Kevin Conroy in the animated series. The fight between these two pushes them to their limits, which is what we would expect.\nShe\u2019s a Wonder. I do not believe Wonder Woman has ever graced the big screen with her presence. We all know of the infamous TV series starring Lynda Carter, her appearance in the Justice League animated series, and various other incarnations, including her own animated film. Word just dropped that her film was moved up to next summer, which is sure to have feminists and fans of the Amazon warrior happy. For me, I\u2019m just glad we finally got to see her. Now, whether or not this is what she should look and act like is a different topic for another section.\nContrast. Batman and Superman are both heroes to their cities and whatnot but it is their methodology which causes them to butt heads often. If you expecting to see that in this film, you will be sadly disappointed. The best way I can put this is that dark needs light and vice versa, but when you have two dark characters they cancel each other out. For this to have truly effective, we needed the Superman we all know, love, and deserve. A character steeped in goodness, truth, and is a beacon for right. Instead, we have a Superman who really isn\u2019t that different from Batman, and that is why during the fight I found myself enjoying it, sure, but not really cheering for either one, because there was no clear side, save for the consequences should one or the other lose.\nRiddle me this! Perhaps I\u2019ve been spoiled by the Justice League cartoon, but when I think of Lex Luthor, I see a cold, calculating, brilliant businessman. That is not what we get here. Before I begin my rant on Lex, it should be known that none of the other films have produced one that is equal to what we got in animated form, including the original Superman franchise. None of those, however, insulted their audience with this version of Lex who might as well have been playing The Riddler, because that is what his mannerisms felt like. I kept expecting him to throw a riddle or two out at any moment. That didn\u2019t happen, so we are left with this crazed, ADHD version of Lex who seems like a kid playing with his inheritance and brilliance. Oh, and don\u2019t get me started on the casting of Jesse Eisenberg. It is well documents that any film with him is automatically starting out in the negative, but apparently the filmmakers could have cast Bryan Cranston, but instead they cast this punk and\u2026ugh\u2026let me stop before I throw my computer across the room.\nThat Gal. Give credit where it\u2019s due, Gal Gadot put in the work to bulk up for her role as Wonder Woman. It just isn\u2019t enough, as she still looks anorexically thin. I\u2019m sure that I am not the only one that thinks this, but when I envision Wonder Woman, I think of Lucy Lawless during her Xena days. Can\u2019t you just imagine her, or some equivalent, as Wonder Woman?\nAnything Marvel can do. By now, everyone knows that this is a) not the sequel Superman deserves and b) is nothing more than a setup for a Justice League movie. Here\u2019s the thing about that, Marvel meticulous took their time setting up The Avengers. It was something that had never been done before. Now everyone is trying to set up their own cinematic universe. Hell, even on television (ironically DC isn\u2019t doing too bad in that department), they\u2019re doing it. For me, I feel as if this is just something being fast tracked because they feel they are behind Marvel and need to play catch up.\nFinal verdict on Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? There are good and bad parts to this film. First, the additions of Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman work much better than what everyone who initially criticized their casting thought they would. There is a scene where Batman perches on the side of a building and it looks like it is straight off the cover of one of the graphic novels! On the other side of the coin, this is a film that should be fun, with two uber popular superheroes duking it out for superior, but that level of fun never shows. Instead, we get a film that is so dark, it almost makes you want to slit your own wrists! DC really needs to lighten up. I also question the casting of Jeremy Irons as Alfred. He just seemed to not fit. All in all, there are more faults in this film than reasons to watch, but do I recommend it? Reluctantly, yes\u2026it is still a high quality superhero movie. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be rushing to see it again, though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 31429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theaterplus.org/about-us/our-staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3EYSG7WYMH7JLIGLG6IAXVQONAMQD7SD", "length": 4035, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "theaterplus.org", "title": "Our Staff | Theater Plus!", "raw_content": "Elyse Hager\nElyse Hager is a full day kindergarten teacher in Plymouth, MA. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Stonehill College and a Masters Degree in Special Education from Bridgewater State College. She teaches and takes dance classes at Carver Dance Center and choreographs for Braintree South Middle School. Miss Elyse grew up loving musical theater and has attended many Broadway shows. She has performed in Anything Goes, Into the Woods, RENT, Chicago, and Godspell. Miss Elyse has been a part of Theater Plus! for the past five years and has thoroughly enjoyed sharing her love for theater and dance with children.\nStacey Erikson Shanahan\nStacey Erikson Shanahan grew up in Marshfield and has been involved in theater since her first show in 3rd grade at Eames Way school, where she played the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella, She holds a BA in Theater Arts from St. Michael's College and her Masters in Education from Eastern Nazarene College. She spent many years in Quincy Public Schools as a Language Arts/Reading Teacher and Drama Coach. She began her career in Marshfield Public Schools in the Fall of 2011 as a 6th grade Reading and English teacher and Drama Club Advisor. She has been involved in several local community theaters for more than 20 years as an actress, director, board member and theater teacher. She lives on the south shore with her husband, children and kitten.\nMatthew Sawtelle\nMatthew Sawtelle is the choral, band, and theater instructor at South Middle School in Braintree, Massachusetts. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s Degree and Master\u2019s Degree from Anna Maria College and Boston University, as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Education Administration from American International College. Mr. Sawtelle has been involved with Theater Plus since it\u2019s conception and has a deep admiration for all the work Mrs. Shanahan is doing to instill an arts spirit throughout the south shore. He is ecstatic to be a part of this awesome collaboration. Mr. Matt lives in Whitman, Massachusetts with his beautiful wife Michelle, handsome son Benjamin and their French bulldog Moxie. He is currently part of the South Shore Pentecostal Church worship team playing alto saxophone, and sings tenor in the church choir.\nAn award winning director, actress and designer Martha Sawyer has served as artistic director for over 70 full stage productions in the scholastic, community and regional theater venues across greater Boston and the South Shore. She has a B.A. from Manhattanville College with a minor in Musical Performance. Martha has studied acting and directing with Helena Dreyfus of the Yale University Drama School and has masters credits in Directing and Scenic Design from A.R.T./Harvard University. For the past several years she has served as artistic director for the INLY Players and Theatre Director for St. Paul School in Hingham. In the summer of 2011 Martha\u2019s dear friend Stacey invited her to join the staff at Theater Plus. Since that time Martha has directed several productions and helped with costumes and all things glittery and feathery! Martha resides in Scituate with her very talented and patient husband John.\nJim Sullivan holds a BFA in musical theatre from Emerson College, and has been directing and teaching in youth programs since 1990. Jim also directs and performs in community and professional theatre. In 2013 he joined Theater Plus to help create The Studio program for teens, and is now excited to also be working with the younger ages as well. Jim is the artistic director of Authentic Acts, a school residency program that creates original works with students around social issues in their school as well as oral interpretation of literature and team/confidence building retreats for drama clubs and community theaters. Jim also works with the Furnace Brook Middle School drama program in Marshfield helping out with technical aspects of their productions. He lives in East Bridgewater with his husband John, their son Zachary and dog Scooter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 4440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theboxhouston.com/8820662/malik-lets-go-of-his-dreams-on-the-game-recap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VC45RAE5HLFKHQ43IRKB2DIMK2EXMLOA", "length": 1650, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "theboxhouston.com", "title": "Malik Lets Go Of His Dreams On \u201cThe Game\u201d [RECAP] | 97.9 The Box", "raw_content": "Malik Lets Go Of His Dreams On \u201cThe Game\u201d\nIt looks like it\u2019s the beginning of the end for Malik as he finally let go of his dream home on last night\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Game\u201d. With the song, \u201cIt\u2019s\u2019 So Hard To Say Goodbye\u201d playing in the background, Malik and his sidekick, Tee Tee, packed up his mansion and talked about all the good times they had together there. Feeling down in the dumps, Tee Tee reminded Malik that the house he had didn\u2019t define him, and that it was just something he bought. Malik came to the realization that it was time to move on to another dream, since his dream of owning a mansion and taking care of his mother had already been fulfilled. In the words of Mr. Carter, \u201con to the next one\u201d.\nMeanwhile, Melanie and Tasha are still at each other\u2019s throats with Tasha clowning Melanie \u201cBaren-ette\u201d since she\u2019s \u201cbarren\u201d and can\u2019t have kids and Melanie clowning Tasha for not having a man. They have a staring at the bar with Melanie finally being the bigger person and leaving. Hopefully these two will get it together eventually.\nLast but not least, Jason and Chardonnay are still going strong. Jason gets the news that he\u2019s going to have a co-host on his show \u201cThe Pitts Stop\u201d and to make matters worse, shes a hot, skinny blonde, blue eyed woman. After he tells Chardonnay, she feels a little insecure, after all, you know how Jason feels about white women. But he assures her that he\u2019s with her and only her and is going to do whatever it takes to \u201cwoo\u201d her. So cute!\nWhat did you think about last night\u2019s episode?\nJason Finally Meets His Match With Chardonnay \u201cThe Game\u201d [RECAP]\nBrandy Speaks On Her Role On BET\u2019s \u201cThe Game\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 5535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecenterforcontemplativepractice.org/2018/10/14/are-you-asking-the-right-question/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XTDGQZPBRBPFWOBUSIXOMV2UWBETSX4C", "length": 11603, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "thecenterforcontemplativepractice.org", "title": "ARE YOU ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION? \u2013 THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE", "raw_content": "I love escapist movies (don\u2019t ask me why). Some movies these days stress the supremacy of the Devil over Good. I am thinking of the movie entitled The Last Witch Hunter. This is not a critique of any of these movies. I like the graphics and special effects in these movies as I overlook the preposterous assumptions they make about what is real, what evil is like, and what is actually real. Fantasy is fantasy. Science fiction is still fiction. Some friends of mine think my belief in God is a fiction of my own mind.\nOne movie I like is called Seventh Son of the Seventh Son, a fantasy movie about witches, and people who hunt them down.\nhttp://thespooksapprentice.wikia.com/wiki/Seventh_Son_(film)\nIt get complicated for this old mind, when there are good witches and bad witches. Jeff Bridges plays a character in this movie called Spook, a witch hunter and destroyer. There is a line in this movie that I have adopted as part of my spiritual awareness (remember, I don\u2019t speak for the Catholic Church, Cistercians, or any Lay Cistercians). I am a guy who casts his net out into the sea of life and pulls in the good and the bad. I decide what is good or bad, but how I decide what is good or bad (like Adam and Eve) but with a difference, Christ is my center of all reality (Philippians 2:5). When I decide what is good or bad, it is because Christ first loved us and gave us the way, the truth and the life. Christ won\u2019t sort out what is good or bad for us, but He does provide the knowledge, love and service to help us do it authentically. The question that Spook asked that I find so remarkable is \u201cWrong questions require wrong answers.\u201d My take-away from this is, I must always be careful to ask the right questions about morality, about purpose in life, about how I treat others with whom I interact.\nIt is in context that my Lectio Divina (Phil 2:5) is set. I asked myself, what is the right question? What is the wrong question? I looking at how I answer right questions, I have to use assumptions that I have accepted as true for me.\nHAVE IN YOU THE MIND OF CHRIST JESUS (Phil 2:5) This simple quote is the very core center of all my endeavours, It is the reason I try to love God with all my mind, all my heart, and all my strength and my neighbor as myself, (Deuteronomy 6:5 and Matthew 22:37) When pull in my nets, which sometimes takes the help of my faith community, I have to sort out good fishes from those who are not good for me, those who are too small from those appropriate to eat. Humility and obedience to God\u2019s will rather than my own comes from my assumption.\nDO NOT JUDGE OTHERS . I focus on what I believe and my Faith rather on what others might think of what I hold as true. Faith helps me see in the darkness of my own insuffiencies for this light is not of this world but is the Word made flesh and the light come into the world to help me ask the right question.\nSEEK MERCY FOR ALL, ESPECIALLY ME Christ came to save all of humans, especially me. I must respond by loving others as Christ loves me.\nREALIZE THAT THE DEVIL GOES ABOUT LIKE ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUER.\nLIFE MAKES NO SENSE WITHOUT LOVE. LOVE MAKES NO SENSE WITHOUT CHRIST. There is a logical progression to existence. We need a platform for life.(PHYSICAL UNIVERSE) We need mental abilities for reason and to choose what that reason reveals as meaningful(MENTAL UNIVERSE). We need the mind to access the realm of the Spirit, one of free choices available to us( SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE). Once we enter into God\u2019s playground, we need for Him to help us to know, to love, and to serve in order to live there\u2026 Forever. Life is about discovering what is true, the authentic way to being fulling human, and what the purpose for that existence.\nCISTERCIAN PRACTICES HELP ME PRACTICE LOVING AS CHRIST LOVES ME. Love can be so abstract and theoretical. It becomes such a mental process that we forget that love means doing something as a result of being something. If you have in you the mind of Christ Jesus, you don\u2019t have to do anything except wait for the Holy Spirit to work, in due time. Cistercian practices of silence, solitude, prayer, work, and community, have helped me focus on both the realm of the mind and the realm of the heart, in my question to move from self to God. I have to practice every day. I have to look on reality as God\u2019s playground, not mine. I have to keep reminding myself that it is not my will that should be done, but that I must first seek God in the world as I see it and experience it, then transform it by converting my own morals to be more like Christ and less like me. That takes work. Because of Original Sin, I must use the two gifts Christ gave each of us to be able to see what we cannot see and hear what cannot be heard, The Eucharist, and Forgiveness and Mercy.\nTHE RIGHT QUESTION IS ONE THAT HAS THE RIGHT ANSWER. Christ is the way, the truth and the life. We just need to be sure it is Christ\u2019s answer we have and not our own. The Church Universal, through its authentic teaching and practices through the ages, help save us from our own deficiencies., wanting to be God and make our own religion.\nSpirituality, to be authentic, must incorporate what is authentic about love, about service to others, about doing to others as we would like it to be done to us. Seeking God where you find Him is a lifetime adventure of discovering what is meaningful from what the World gives and what Christ gives. Our right questions will be right only if they are consistent with who God is. Not all spirituality will lead to the Spirit, but the Spirit will always lead to authentic living and loving. You get to not only choose good from evil but to discern good from evil. Animals and plants don\u2019t have this ability, only humans.\nSOME WRONG QUESTIONS THAT PARADE AS GOOD ONES.\nThe Church is corrupt and its bishops and priests do not practice what they preach, some of them are alcoholics, pedophiles, steal from the poor, and seduce young maidens. Therefore, I can\u2019t continue to abide by this behavior and must leave the Church.\nLet\u2019s look at what is really going on. Of course, the Church is corrupt and its people do not practice what they preach, but not all of them. Of course this behavior is wrong. The Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf, even as Moses brought the holy tablets of the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai. This is the template for Church. The sign of contradiction is: I am the Church, you are the Church, we are the Church. We are all sinful and do not do what we say we will do. Grace dwells in us because of Christ. We know what love is because Christ first loved us. We are called to serve others. Don\u2019t confuse the aberration for the principle, the Christ principle. That is called sin and there is no human free from its tentacles, save two. That is like saying, humans are corrupt so I will leave the human race. Tell me a religion without sin and I will gladly join it. The fact is Christ knew what he was doing by giving the rudder of the Church to Peter, who denied him three times and had wavering Faith.\nThe solution to this question is not to abandon love, but to embrace it even more fully, only in the context of what St. Benedict says in his Chapter Four of the Rule, \u201cplace your hope in God alone.\u201d My faith is not placed in pope, bishop or priests, nor any guru. My faith does not rest on what I see and hear around me in the cacophony of calumniation and detraction that pervades the politics of nations and the church itself. I do not place my trust in Princes, as the Psalmist says, but in God alone. Having done that, I can ask the right question: Do I love God with all my heart, all my mind, and all my strength and do I love my neighbor as myself? (Deuteronomy 6:5 and Matthew 22:37) For me, Lay Cistercian spirituality helps me to focus and refocus on Christ Jesus through silence, solitude, prayer and work, in communion and in union with other Lay Cistercians, and Cistercian monks and nuns. \u201cThat in all things, may God be glorified.\u201d \u2013St. Benedict\nI control my body and can do with it as I please.\nThis sounds tantalizing and for those without Faith, quite logical. What is at stake here is modern idolatry. People will defend their positions stating that it is just your opinion and all opinions are equal (they are not). The real question here is: what is God\u2019s to be done on earth as it is in Heaven (Our Father). Don\u2019t confuse the freedom to chose good and evil with whatever you choose must good.\nOur Body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit. We defile it when we don\u2019t act our nature, not just a nature that is human but one redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. God\u2019s laws are the laws of nature. The law of Christ is one: love others as I have loved you. All the teachings of the prophets and our heritage can be summed up in this one command.\nYou will have to give an accounting of your stewardship one day. If you are your own god, you are only accountable to yourself.\nBeing catholic means I go to a service every week (if I am strong) and Midnight Mass (if I am week). There are, in my mind, two types of catholics: cultural Catholics and Eucharistic Catholics.\nCultural catholics are those who go to Church, go through the motions of putting \u201cCatholic\u201d on forms that require some religion, although they don\u2019t know why they are Catholic. Being Catholic, for them, is like joining the Moose, Elks, Rotary, or Kiwanis. These types of members are probably the majority of our membership and don\u2019t believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist or Blessed Sacrament. If you ask them, they will say they don\u2019t believe in the Real Presence but consider themselves Catholic. These are seeds sown on rocky ground that have no roots (although they would disagree with that). These are the ones who first flee the Church when there are bad times or rough patches in how we behave toward one another. They are the majority of members. It is not fair to judge anyone as to their motivation. On the other hand, we will know what is in their hearts by what they say with their mouths.\nThe other type of Catholic is one that is a Universal Catholic, one who won\u2019t abandon the Church no matter what, but always seeks to make all things new. These Catholics are planted in fertile ground and will bear good fruit. They are the minority (30% of the membership). They will fight to remain Catholic by reforming and renewing first themselves in moving from self to God, then do it with others. These are Eucharistic Catholics who believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, in the Blessed Sacrament and in each other through the Holy Spirit. They can\u2019t leave the Church because there is nothing else to leave to. Will you leave the human race because Hitler was evil? These Catholics have the possibility of asking the right question: Lord, to whom shall we go, you have the words of everlasting life. These Catholics must pray daily and convert their lives to be more like Christ and less like their false self. Eucharist is core to their way of thinking about reality. Community of believers is an opportunity to experience God the Holy Spirit in each other. Practices are those of denying self to follow Christ and praying that we not enter into temptation. There is hope in the Resurrection.\nDo you ask the right questions?\nPraise be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever. The God who is, who was, and who is to come at the end of the ages. Amen and Amen. \u2013Cistercian doxology\n\u2190 WOE TO YOU POLITICIANS AND SCRIBES\nTHREE TALES OF WONDER FROM HURRICANE MICHAEL \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 13660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecoredump.org/2004/01/the-horrors-of-ie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OH7C5N4MCRIHQSTYRBF6PSSXLXPN3LY2", "length": 506, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thecoredump.org", "title": "The horrors of IE | The Core Dump", "raw_content": "The horrors of IE\nAs any web designer knows from bitter experience, Internet Explorer takes an, ahem, let\u2019s just call it \u201cunique\u201d view on how HTML is supposed to render as compared to the rest of the known universe of web browsers, but since it has such an insanely high market share, it can not be ignored.\nStopdesign has a nice write-up about the trials and tribulations of working with IE. You can almost feel the gnashing of teeth as you read it.\n\u00ab Crawling to the cross\nThe Feds on computer security \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theforumnews.com/article-3299-breast-cancer-strikes-men-too.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AXCGIJG44VHTICO7D4MZX5632RTIKL7E", "length": 3023, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "theforumnews.com", "title": "The Forum News Breast Cancer Strikes Men, Too", "raw_content": "Home / Health / Men's & Women's Health / Breast Cancer Strikes Men, Too\nBreast Cancer Strikes Men, Too\nThird in a three-part series\nBreast cancer strikes most often when men are in their 60s.\nMale breast cancer? Men do have breast cells that can become cancerous. The disease is uncommon in men. It represents only 1 percent of all breast cancers. Because of its rarity, many men aren\u2019t aware it exists. And that\u2019s a problem.\nFor unknown reasons, the incidence of male breast cancer has been increasing. About 2,000 men in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer annually.\nYoung boys and girls have a small amount of breast tissue made up of a few ducts. At puberty, female hormones in girls make breast ducts grow, milk glands form and fat increase. The male hormones in boys prevent further growth of breast tissue. Men\u2019s breast tissue contains ducts, but only a few, if any, lobules.\nThe most common symptom of male breast cancer is the same as it is for women \u2013 a lump. Other signs include skin dimpling, a new indentation of the nipple, redness or scaling of breast skin, a clear or bloody discharge from the nipple.\nSome risk factors for male breast cancer are:\nAge. The average age for a man diagnosed with breast cancer is 67.\nFamily. About 20 percent of men with breast cancer are related to someone with the disease.\nGenes. About 7 percent of breast cancers in men are inherited.\nRadiation. There\u2019s a higher risk to men who underwent chest radiation treatments when they were younger.\nKlinefelter Syndrome. Men with this syndrome make lower levels of male hormones \u2013 androgens \u2013 and more female hormones. This can cause gynecomastia, benign breast enlargement. Men with this condition may be at greater risk of breast cancer. Many medicines used to treat ulcers, high blood pressure and heart failure can cause gynecomastia, too.\nEstrogen. The risk is small for men who take estrogen\u2014the main female hormone. Estrogen drugs may be used to treat prostate cancer.\nLiver disease. This can increase your risk of gynecomastia and breast cancer.\nObesity. Fat cells convert androgens into estrogen.\nAlcohol. Drinking alcohol raises the odds that a man will develop breast cancer. The risk increases with the amount of alcohol consumed.\nIf a man has a family history of the disease, he should consult a doctor about regular testing. Diagnostic tests for men include a clinical breast exam, mammograms, ultrasound, biopsy and, if indicated, a nipple discharge exam.\nBreast cancer treatment for men is similar to that given to women. Some men may need only surgery. Others will need surgery and radiation, chemotherapy or hormone therapy.\nThere isn\u2019t much tissue to a man\u2019s breast, so removing the cancer usually means excising most of the tissue. The procedures that are used on women to save breast tissue aren\u2019t practicable for men.\nMost men with breast cancer require a modified radical mastectomy. In this procedure, a surgeon removes the entire breast and some underarm lymph nodes, but leaves chest muscles intact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theforumnews.com/article-3323-downtown-living.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:G3WYPWTMK6BVA73O2P44AE65P7AILUSN", "length": 4220, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "theforumnews.com", "title": "The Forum News Downtown Living", "raw_content": "Home / Features / Community / Downtown Living\nHome ownership expanding with Ridgeway Square\nIn the fall of 2016, John Cush was at the courthouse in downtown Shreveport getting ready to pay taxes on the house he had just flipped.\nBy the time Cush returned home, he was the owner of two commercial buildings and a parking garage.\n\u201cThe parking lot had a big \u2018For Sale\u2019 sign on it,\u201d Cush said. \u201cAbout 30-45 days later, I owned them.\u201d\nBut what to do with them? \u201cI have brothers and sisters who live all over the country and all over the world,\u201d Cush said. \u201cIn all the places I\u2019ve visited, they are revitalizing downtown. One of the cool things is they are taking all the old buildings and basically restoring them to what they used to look like, with all the modern, cool stuff somebody would want. No one has really done that in Shreveport.\u201d\nUntil now. Ridgeway Square (719 Marshall Street) is the result of Cush\u2019s construction background and vision to offer home ownership to people who want to live downtown as opposed to renting an apartment. Phase One of the project features five condos for sale (one has already been sold).\n\u201cRight now, you can rent downtown, and a lot of people are doing it, but there\u2019s very little available if you are not of the means to buy a whole building and if you want to own something to live in downtown,\u201d Cush said. \u201cFor the most part, people who have rented downtown and don\u2019t want to rent anymore but still living downtown\u2014those are the people I\u2019m looking for.\u201d\nEfforts to bring downtown to life have been centered around attracting people to live in \u201cthe heart of the city.\u201d Offering properties \u201cFor Sale\u201d as opposed to \u201cFor Rent\u201d is another step in that direction.\n\u201cThere are people who want to live downtown but will not do so unless they can purchase something,\u201d said Liz Swaine, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority. \u201cConversely, we have people who only want to rent. To have a great choice in both of those areas is only good for downtown revitalization.\u201d\nThe first units available at Ridgeway Square vary in size, from 550 to 2,850 square feet. Each features hardwood floors, a stand-alone tub and new appliances.\n\u201cThe top floor, there are four condominiums upstairs done in 1920, 1930s style,\u201d Cush said. \u201cEverything is brand new. All-access controlled. You\u2019ve got card readers, you can buzz people in and out. There\u2019s an elevator, a full sprinkler system, a fire alarm\u2014everything you can think of.\u201d\nIn short, Cush has done all the work. All you have to do is live.\n\u201cMany of the buildings downtown that we have for sale that people could rehab for residential, it\u2019s going to take a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of money,\u201d Swaine said. \u201cThere are people who are OK with doing that, and there are people who would prefer to walk into something that is turnkey.\nJohn\u2019s (development) is definitely turnkey. You walk in, everything is up to code, it\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s brand new, but in an old building\u2014and there is a lot of appeal to that.\u201d\nWhen it came to renovations, Cush received some help. Not from a person, but from the state. He took advantage of the state Commercial Tax Credit Program.\n\u201cWhat the tax credits allow you to do is take a commercial building that is considered a contributing feature, and rehab that building with the knowledge that someone is assisting you a little bit,\u201d Swaine explained. \u201cPeople who are developing buildings are doing it with the belief, certainly the hope, that they are going to be able to, if not make money, at least not lose money on the project. Commercial buildings\u2014old, especially historic buildings\u2014 are tricky because you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re getting into. What the tax credits do are give you a little bit of certainty that if you do things the right way\u2014if you follow the rules\u2014there will be a return on your investment.\u201d\n\u201cIf it weren\u2019t for that 25 percent, the numbers never would have worked,\u201d Cush said.\nWhether Cush\u2019s plan works \u2013 offering home ownership downtown \u2013 remains to be seen.\n\u201cIf downtown comes along like it has been, if it continues to grow in appeal, I might be in the catbird\u2019s seat. You never can tell.\u201d\nTo learn more about Ridgeway Square, you may visit www.ridgewaysquare.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theforumnews.com/articles.sec-1-4-features.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6YLI42GSWLWZ5ZRDZ3CRGTIJTAITRASK", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theforumnews.com", "title": "The Forum News News", "raw_content": "The November 6 Primary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thegreatmoviedebates.com/2016/11/12/hacksaw-ridge-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IXLZDFZR2TXE7V6IBKH4DT2CAQRAVJYM", "length": 3687, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thegreatmoviedebates.com", "title": "Hacksaw Ridge Review | The Great Movie Debate", "raw_content": "thegreatmoviedebates\tanalysis, analyzed, andrew garfield, film review, hacksaw ridge, mel gibson, movie, vince vaughn, war\nThe most recent film I had the pleasure of viewing was Hacksaw Ridge, which was directed by Hollywood actor Mel Gibson. A man who was forced to take a long break from directing due to multiple controversies he was involved in. Gibson has finally returned from the shadows with a film that is sure to put him back on top.\nHacksaw Ridge tells the unique story of Desmond T. Doss (played by Andrew Garfield), who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during his service in WWII in the Pacific Theater. In his service, Doss was a pacifist and refused to pick up a gun due to his Christian religious convictions. Instead, Doss wanted to be a medic and save as many lives as he could. At the Battle of Okinawa, Desmond T. Doss ended up saving the lives of over seventy men.\nWe the audience get to see a brief glimpse into Doss\u2019s life leading up to the war. We see Doss\u2019s family relationships, him falling in love, and the constant pressures from fellow soldiers and his drill Sargeant (played by Vince Vaughn) while in basic training.\nHacksaw Ridge is a war movie told through a somewhat predictable and standard plot. There were plenty of scenes that I could accurately guess what would happen next in the sequence of events. Despite this, Hacksaw Ridge is truley an amazing film. Every problem and nitpick of the film can easily be forgiven for just how great it is.\nI was completely stunned at just how moving and how beautiful this film was. Everything from the camera work, the cinematography, and the acting was spot on and could not have been any better. Hacksaw Ridge is definitely comparable in magnitude and greatness to Mel Gibson\u2019s other masterpiece work, Braveheart. Which I think really says a lot about Gibson\u2019s talent as a director.\nThe soft spoken Southern boy that Andrew Garfield encapsulates in this film is great. He really becomes the role of Desmond in Hacksaw Ridge. The religious convictions and unconditional love that Desmond felt is made known from the convincing acting job that Garfield does. I had faith from the previews that he would do great acting in this, and I was not wrong.\nJust the right amount of humor was placed in just the right spots. The film knows exactly when to make us sad, make us laugh, and make us smile. Especially when it comes to the relationship Desmond builds with his love interest Dorothy (Teresa Schutte). Garfield and Schutte had some great on screen chemistry and really had me invested in their relationship. I was more interested in their relationship after ten minutes on screen than I am with other film couples after the entire movie.\nEvery scene in this film had a point and a motive. As a viewer I did not have to sit and scratch my head for a single scene. I did not have to ask myself, \u201cWhy was this scene here?\u201d or \u201cWhy include this?\u201d. Nothing was questionable.\nThe second half of Hacksaw Ridge feels like a completely different film than the first. It kind of caught me off guard, in a good way. The film goes from being light hearted in the beginning to intense battle sequences full of grisly death towards the end. It is very effective, almost like the audience gets sucked into the battle right along with Desmond.\nHacksaw Ridge is a great return to directing for Mel Gibson. It represents everything that a war movie should and can be. Experiencing Hacksaw Ridge was probably the most moving film I have seen this year, as well as one of the best. I hope Gibson will continue to make quality films just like this in the future.\n\u2190 South Park \u2018Oh Jeez\u2019 Review\nSouth Park \u2018Members Only\u2019 Review \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehealthyhive.com/2018/02/childs-pose-stretch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QKDQTFSCFYYF2XGIBQOS232UEABA43LF", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thehealthyhive.com", "title": "Child's Pose Stretch | The Healthy Hive - The Healthy Hive", "raw_content": "Posted on February 16th, 2018 & filed in Chiropractic, Therapeutic Exercise", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-a-budget/34079-tax-cuts-to-those-who-dont-need-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CNLO77FERND5QBPPMBJOKQB7WYUVRELN", "length": 2512, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thehill.com", "title": "Tax Cuts to Those Who Don't Need It | TheHill", "raw_content": "Tax Cuts to Those Who Don't Need It\nBy Ron Christie - 06/19/07 10:37 AM EDT\nI was half-listening to the Democratic Forum broadcast live on MSNBC this morning when I heard Sen. Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaIntelligence for the days after President Trump leaves office Barack Obama sends Valentine's message to Michelle: 'She does get down to Motown' For 2020, Democrats are lookin\u2019 for somebody to love MORE (D-Ill.) say something that made me shake my head in disbelief. When discussing differences between himself and President Bush, Obama noted that the president provided \u201ctax cuts to those who don\u2019t need it.\u201d Really?\nI wonder if Sen. Obama is up to the task of being president of the United States based on this one particular statement. The last time I checked, the American economy has been fueled, rather than stifled, due to the tax cuts enacted by Congress and signed into law by the president earlier in his term. Did reducing the marginal rates and slicing capital gains rates stimulate the economy \u2014 an economy battered by 9/11 and fighting a war on terrorism? Let\u2019s see, where to start?\nLast month, the American economy created 175,000 jobs. Not sure if Obama has a fact-checker on his campaign staff, but I\u2019d helpfully point out that since August 2003, more than 8 million jobs have been created in America. In fact, nearly 2 million jobs were created over the last 12 months alone. I\u2019d also note that the American economy has added jobs for 45 straight months. Oh, and we\u2019re at a rate of nearly full employment with the nation\u2019s unemployment rate at 4.5 percent.\nOne last statistic I\u2019d share with Sen. Obama is that real after-tax per capita personal income has risen by 10.2 percent since President Bush took office. In plain English that means that Americans have $3,000 more dollars in their pocket because of, not in spite of, the fact that President Bush pushed his tax cut plan through Congress.\nSen. Obama sounds great on the stump when talking about lofty goals and painting broad strokes on his vision canvas. When the senator comes down from 30,000 feet and attempts to play the class warfare card, criticizing the president of the United States for providing \u201ctax cuts to those who don\u2019t need it,\u201d he\u2019d better have the facts to back up his assertions.\nTags Diplomatic Relations Person Career Candidate Position Quotation Person Location Barack Obama Bush Presidency of Barack Obama United States Luo people Government Tax cut Bush tax cuts State of the Union address Politics Labor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 6716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thejournal.com/articles/2006/03/01/districtvendor-partnerships.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6V27CWGOTAFFNCAKZMADXJVXEHK2ML4F", "length": 1201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thejournal.com", "title": "District-Vendor Partnerships -- THE Journal", "raw_content": "MASSACHUSETTS DOE SELECTS VIDERE\nVidere Conferencing (www.videreconferencing.com) has been awarded a blanket contract by the Massachusetts Department of Education\u2019s prime contractor, City Lights Electrical Co. Inc. (www.citylightselectrical.com), to provide videoconferencing equipment and related services for the System for Adult Basic Education Support (www.sabes.org). SABES is a comprehensive training and technical assistance initiative for educators and programs. Videre has been integral in connecting SABES\u2019 11 satellite locations to the Massachusetts Information Turnpike Initiative (MITI; www.umass-miti.net), a fiberoptic network that links the state and community college systems. A Tandberg (www.tandberg.net) gateway enables seamless integration between MITI\u2019s IP and SABES\u2019 ISDN network. SABES now has access to broadcast-quality audio and video transmissions of credit courses, workshops, and continuing-education efforts at all of its locations. A full-service organization that manages all aspects of its projects, Videre has completed conferencing projects for the University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMassOnline, the Massachusetts DoE, and Boston College High School (MA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://them0vieblog.com/tag/prison/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:V7ORJKL4BMRGHI4XW2ARI4J232HXV6AI", "length": 9369, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "them0vieblog.com", "title": "prison | the m0vie blog", "raw_content": "Non-Review Review: The Cured\nThe biggest problem with The Cured might be that the film bites off more than it can chew.\nAt least in their modern post-Romero phase, zombies have often been a tool of social allegory. They are a potent metaphor for any number of familiar anxieties; unchecked consumerism in Dawn of the Dead, the working class in The Land of the Dead, an insurgent enemy population in 28 Weeks Later. In many ways, The Cured feels like a logical extension for this. The story about society trying to claw its way back from the horrors of zombie apocalypse, The Cured is a bold and ambitious piece of horror movie social commentary.\nA population of rehabilitated zombies raises any number of obvious parallels in the modern world. The Cured plays with a number of these ideas, using zombies as a metaphor for class anxieties and for a politically subjugated (and literally dehumanised) political population. However, the most potent metaphor at the heart of the story is to do with criminal rehabilitation and social reintegration, the challenge of how society embraces or shuns those who have committed horrible acts but are also deemed to have served their time.\nWriter and director David Freyne explores these ideas in a charged and playful manner, balancing the expectations of zombie storytelling against the backdrop of a broader political allegory. Indeed, The Cured arguably suffers from a surplus of good ideas, with enough material to sustain a television miniseries crammed into a lean ninety-five minute runtime.\nFiled under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: david freyne, film, Movie, non-review review, prison, the cured, tom vaughan-lawlor, zombie |\tLeave a comment \u00bb\nStar Trek: Voyager \u2013 The Chute (Review)\nThis February and March (and a little bit of April), we\u2019re taking a look at the 1995 to 1996 season of Star Trek, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Check back daily for the latest review.\nSeason three begins. Kind of.\nThe Chute was the first episode produced for the third season. Basics, Part II and Flashback aired as the first two episodes of the season, but they had been produced towards the tail end of the second season and held back so that Star Trek: Voyager could launch its third season in early September. It was a smart strategy for the production team and UPN, but it did mean that there was a lot of holdover from the second season. Although the production team had wanted Basics, Part II to be the end of the Piller era, his ghost lingered on.\nA breakout hit.\nIn some ways, the ghost of Michael Piller still haunts The Chute. The episode was produced after Piller\u2019s departure, but writer Kenneth Biller credits the idea to the former executive producer and it feels very much in keeping with some of Piller\u2019s pet fascinations and ideas. At the same time, The Chute does signal the beginning of the third season. It marks a point at which Voyager feels a lot more comfortable in its own skin, and where it feels like the writers have a clear grasp of what they want the show to be.\nIf the second season was a collection of misfiring experimental concepts and bold new directions, the third is markedly more conservative in its style and tone. The Chute is an episode of Voyager that is aiming squarely for an archetypal science-fiction allegory, and which manages to deliver on those terms. It is not necessarily ambitious or exceptional, but it manages to accomplish what it wants to do. What it wants to do is to be a very broadly-drawn (but recognisable) piece of Star Trek.\nDagger of the not-quite mind\u2026\nFiled under: Voyager | Tagged: California, prison, star trek: voyager, the chute, voyager |\t5 Comments \u00bb\nMillennium \u2013 The Thin White Line (Review)\nThe Thin White Line is the final script from James Wong and Glen Morgan for this season of Millennium, following closely after Never Again, their final script (ever) for The X-Files.\nIndeed, there is considerable overlap between the two stories \u2013 at least thematically. Both are episodes about destructive cycles. In Never Again, Scully faces the very real possibility that she is now trapped with Mulder; that her life outside the X-files is over. In The Thin White Line, Frank Black contemplates the idea that people are trapped in perpetual cycles of violence and abuse; that the world resembles the ouroboros featured so prominently in the opening credits, a snake constantly eating its own tail.\nFrank discharge\u2026\nNever Again is relentlessly cynical. The closing image suggests that nothing will change, that something is broken than cannot be fixed. Important statements hang in the air, unresolved. The Thin White Line is perhaps slightly optimistic. Both Frank Black and Bob Bletcher try in their own way to end cycles of violence and recrimination. While Bob Bletcher responds with brutal cynicism and more violence, Frank Black responds with compassion and humanity. There is a sense of cynicism to The Thin White Line, but there is also some hope.\nThe Thin White Line is a stand out piece of work, a fantastic illustration of what Millennium can do when it sets its mind to it. Like Force Majeure before it, The Thin White Line suggests that Millennium has very clearly and definitely figured out its own voice. It is no wonder that both episodes come from future showrunners.\nCutting retort\u2026\nFiled under: Millennium | Tagged: chris carter, forgiveness, frank black, hannibal, hope, millennium, prison, reconciliation, red dragon, the thin white line, thin white line, thomas harris, vicious cycle, will graham |\t2 Comments \u00bb\nThe X-Files \u2013 F. Emasculata (Review)\nThe wonderful thing about the second season of The X-Files is the spirit of experimentation. There\u2019s a sense that the show is consciously pushing itself to try new things, to figure out what works. Watching the second season of the show, you can see the series\u2019 outline beginning to take shape, even if it\u2019s not full developed yet. The third season of The X-Files would seem a lot stronger and more cohesive, but it was building off the lessons learned during the second season.\nSometimes those experiments worked well. For example, the first stretch of the season demonstrated that the show could do an arc spanning multiple episodes. Colony and End Game established the foundations of the larger \u201ccolonisation\u201d mythology even beyond \u201cthe government knows about aliens and they sometimes abduct people.\u201d Episodes like Die Hand Die Verletzt and Humbug demonstrated that the show could do comedy stories and step outside its comfort zones.\nHas everybody caught the Ebola bug?\nOf course, there were a few narrative dead-ends as well, a few experiments that did not work as well as they might. Most notably, the tail end of the season leans rather heavily on science-fiction high-concepts. The elements introduced in Colony and End Game work well enough, but shows like Soft Light and D\u00f8d K\u00e4lm feel almost like episodes of some other science-fiction anthology show. Still, there\u2019s a sense that the show is trying to figure out what exactly it wants to be.\nF. Emasculata is a wonderful example of that spirit of experimentation, effectively tapping into nineties health scares within the framework of a conspiracy thriller.\nFiled under: The X-Files | Tagged: AIDS, big pharma, Breaking Bad, conspiracy, cover-up, dean norris, disease, ebola, epidemic, experiments, f. emasculata, infection, outbreak, panic, pharmaceuticals, prison, public health, scare, the x-files, x-files |\t2 Comments \u00bb\nNon-Review Review: Casa De Mi Padre\nThis film was seen as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012. It was the first \u201csurprise\u201d film.\nWill Ferrell\u2019s Casa De Mi Padre is perhaps the most esoterical comedy ever produced. The comedian has his legion of loyal fans, but it\u2019s difficult to imagine that there\u2019s a large crossover between those who enjoy Ferrell\u2019s work and those with an affection for Mexican telenovelas. Filmed in \u201cMexico Vision\u201d, with pretty much all of the dialogue in Spanish (rather than, as one DEA agent puts it, \u201cAmerican\u201d), the movie displays an astonishing commitment to its basic premise, which is effectively one joke sustained over its runtime. I can sense already that Ferrell\u2019s latest project will be his most divisive to date, dividing film fans into \u201clove it\u201d or \u201chate it\u201d camps. I fall strongly into the former.\nA que no me alcanzas!\nFiled under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: business, Casa de Mi Padre, Ferrell, film, Gloucestershire, Illegal drug trade, jameson dublin international film festival, lars von trier, Meta-joke, Mexican people, Mexico, Movie, non-review review, prison, review, Spanish, Spanish language, Sunglasses, Terrence Malick, United States, will ferrell |\t3 Comments \u00bb\nNon-Review Review: A Somewhat Gentle Man\nThis film was seen as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.\nA Somewhat Gentle Man was a very pleasant little surprise to catch on the last day of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. It\u2019s a delightfully dark Norwegian comedy about a man recently released from prison, trying to make his way in the world.\nHe's got snowhere to go...\nFiled under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: A Somewhat Gentle Man, film, jameson dublin international film festival, jdiff, Movie, non-review review, norway, Organized crime, prison, review, Scandinavia, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd |\tLeave a comment \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 17947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themeaningofwater.com/2015/01/19/water-commons-or-commodity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:MPYC3S7J2XDFMRCJRNOHUAWLIVF2G7E7", "length": 8827, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "themeaningofwater.com", "title": "Water: Commons or Commodity? \u2013 The Meaning of Water", "raw_content": "Water: Commons or Commodity?\nSmall battles are being won around the world, but I think people are losing. I do see the present and the future of our children as very dark. But I trust the people\u2019s capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion\u2014Oscar Olivera\nMaude Barlow, National Chair of the Council of Canadians, opens her 2013 book Blue Future with the July 28 2010 United Nations General Assembly adoption of the resolution recognizing the human right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as \u201cessential for the full enjoyment of the right to life.\u201d\n\u201cFor those of us on the balcony of the General Assembly that day,\u201d wrote Barlow, \u201cthe air was tense.\u201d A number of countries had postured themselves to oppose it. \u201cSo, it had to be put to a vote.\u201d\nAccording to Barlow:\n\u201cThe Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, introduced the resolution by reminding the assembly that humans are composed of about two-thirds water and that our blood flows like a network of rivers to transport nutrients and energy through our bodies. Water is life, he said.\u201d\n\u201cThen he laid out the story of the number of people around the world who were dying from lack of access to clean water and quoted a new World Health Organization study on diarrhea showing that, every three and a half seconds in the developing world, a child dies of waterborne disease. Ambassador Solon then quietly snapped his fingers three times and held his small finger up for a half-second. The General Assembly of the United Nations fell silent. Moments later, it voted overwhelmingly to recognize the human rights to water and sanitation. The floor erupted in cheers.\u201d\nOscar Olivera\u2019s above quote remains Germane. While the UN breakthrough represents an unprecedented victory for water justice, thanks to the tireless efforts of people like Ms. Barlow, its privatization and commodification has become all too commonplace and with serious ramifications.\nThe Global Water Grab & Nestl\u00e9\u2019s Expansion Strategy\nEleven years earlier, Barlow (and co-writer Tony Clarke) opened their book (Blue Gold) with a bold proclamation: \u201cSuddenly it is clear: the world is running out of freshwater.\u201d They predicted that as water became the oil of the twenty-first century, water cartels would emerge, looking for profit. They were right. Within a decade, cartels like Nestle, Coca Cola, PepsiCo and many others with bottled water brands such as Dasani, Evian, Fiji, Perrier, San Pellegrino, Aquafina, Pure Life, etc. have created a hugely profitable industry on bottled water. Nestl\u00e9 currently controls more than 70 of the world\u2019s bottled water brands, among them Perrier, San Pellegrino, Vittel, Pure Life, and Polar Springs, with sales of over CHF 10 billion. Bottled water a convenient commodity for the on-the-move city dude.\nWater bottling companies enter a watershed, mine its water\u2014sometimes to the watershed\u2019s ecological detriment\u2014and sell the water for profit.\nNestl\u00e9\u2019s head executive, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said in a 2005 interview:\n\u201cWater is of course the most important raw material we have today in the world. It\u2019s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter.\nThe one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the Non-Government Organizations, who bang on about declaring water being a public right. That means as a human being you should have a right to water. That\u2019s an extreme solution.\nAnd the other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value.\nPersonally, I believe it\u2019s better to give food stuff a value so we are all aware that it has its price and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water and there are many different possibilities there\u2026\u201d\nPossibilities apparently include draining the water from financially depressed regions all over the world for profit and at the expense of the local community: places like South Africa, Ethiopia and Pakistan, where Nestl\u00e9\u2019s purchases the land surrounding the water source and negotiates a lucrative proposal (for Nestl\u00e9) with the local government and community. The watershed\u2014and its community\u2014often gets shafted. Nestl\u00e9\u2019s Peter Brabeck-Letmathe developed a communications strategy whose propaganda includes noble intentions of \u201cCorporate Social Responsibility\u201d and \u201cCreating Shared Value.\u201d In truth, the company\u2019s mandate is simply to amass resource rights worldwide with the aim of dominating the global water market of the future (which it has pretty much already achieved).\nThis practice is not exclusive to third world countries. The USA provides the largest market for Nestl\u00e9 operations, where all the company needs to do is purchase land and pump water. Communities affected by Nestl\u00e9\u2019s business model include: Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Fryeburg, Maine; and Mecosta, Michigan. Swiss journalist Res Gehriger, researching the small towns of Fryeburg, Newfield and Shapleigh Maine for the Swiss film \u201cBottled Life\u201d. He witnessed how Nestl\u00e9 stifled and suppressed local opposition to its operations with an army of powerful PR consultants, lawyers and lobbyists.\n\u201cThe revenue generated by these regions natural resource by and large goes to a corporation headquartered in Lake Geneva, Switzerland,\u201d writes the Organic Prepper. \u201cAnd if the financial incentives aren\u2019t enough to assuage concerned citizens, Nestl\u00e9 is more than happy to battle it out in court.\u201d\nThe small Canadian town of Hillsburgh, Ontario became one of Nestle\u2019s most recent targets for freshwater. Nestl\u00e9 withdraws 1.13 million litres of water per day from a well in Wellington County, which they then bottle and sell. Initially, the province had set limits on the company\u2019s ability to withdraw that amount during drought conditions. After \u201cnegotiations\u201d, the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) capitulated to Nestle\u2019s demands that their water pumping not be restricted, even as usage by the town residents remained restricted.\nThe Council of Canadians, Ecojustice, and Wellington Water Watchers appealed the ministry\u2019s decision to the Ontario Review Tribunal and on August 16, 2013 the Tribunal dismissed the motion to approve a proposed deal between Nestl\u00e9 and the province that would have exempted the Swiss food giant from water restrictions during droughts. Then on September 17th Nestl\u00e9 announced that it was withdrawing its appeal of drought restrictions on its water permit in Wellington County. On October 8th the Environmental Review Tribunal accepted the withdrawal and closed the file.\n\u201cSadly, the Ministry of the Environment failed to protect our communities\u2019 water sources by negotiating a questionable settlement with Nestl\u00e9,\u201d said Mike Nagy, chair of Wellington Water Watchers. \u201cIt took action from Ecojustice lawyers representing the Council of Canadians and Wellington Water Watchers to make it clear that this appeal was unjustifiable, indefensible and not in the public interest\u2026 Community groups shouldn\u2019t have to put time and money into challenging the Ministry to do its job.\u201d\n\u201cUnder its current permit, Nestl\u00e9 pays $3.71 for every million litres of water it pumps from the local watershed, which it then packages in single-use plastic bottles and sells back to the public for as much as $2 million,\u201d the Council says.\nAround the same time, the province of BC, where Nestl\u00e9 had been withdrawing up to 265 million litres a year for free from a well in Hope, B.C., put into place a new fee structure that will charge the company 85 cents for every 1,000 cubic metres of groundwater taken.\nBarlow recently added that: \u201cCoca Cola and Pepsi Cola use city water\u2014municipal water\u2014then they put it through their secret reverse osmosis process, add their secret packet of minerals and sell it back to you at 11 or 12 hundred times more you pay for it from the tap.\u201d Next time you buy a bottle of Dasani or Aquafina or even Nestl\u00e9 Pure Life water, check the label; you\u2019re buying tap water.\nFilms & Videos on Water:\nBottled Life. 2011. A film by Urs Schnell\nWater on the Table. 2010. Liz Mars, LizMar Productions\nBlue Gold: World Water Wars. 2009. Sam Bozzo.\nWater: The Greatest Mystery. 2006. Perkul & Popova\nThis entry was posted in Choices for Water, ecology, limnology, Stewardship and tagged bottled water, Council of Canadians, Hillsburgh, Maude Barlow, Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Polar Springs, Pure Life, right to water, United Nations, Vittel, water as commodity. Bookmark the permalink.\n4 thoughts on \u201cWater: Commons or Commodity?\u201d\nPingback: The Water Crisis Is a Watershed Crisis | The Meaning of Water\nPingback: Water Injustice and the Abrahamic Faiths \u2013 Platform Online Admin\nPingback: What Watershed Do You Live In? 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Buffet, salad bar and drink for $10 (adults), $3.99 (kids 6-10), $1.99 (kids 3-5). Kids under 3 eat free.Brat Fest, sponsored by Juda Booster Club, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Juda softball field. Brats, hotdogs, beans, chips and a drink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 167.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/19/google-play-music-for-android-gets-now-playing-queue-channels-daft-punk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SY5DDZWWBIEELQJCDXBIH7PXKHH6RR7P", "length": 1288, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thenextweb.com", "title": "Google Play Music Channels Daft Punk for Update", "raw_content": "Google Play Music for Android gets \u201cNow Playing\u201d queue, channels Daft Punk\nGoogle is seemingly updating all of its apps since the announcement of Jelly Bean and the Nexus 7 tablet at its I/O conference.\nGoogle+ has been completely revamped and it\u2019s Google Play Music\u2019s turn to get some new features and UI. Today, the company introduced v 4.3.606 which means absolutely nothing to you, so lets call it the \u201cNow Playing queue\u201d release.\nWith the Android app, which is only available in the US, you\u2019ll be able to reorder and queue different songs for the music currently playing.\nIn addition, the company has made some design tweaks to navigation for its action bar and album art view under \u201cRecent.\u201d The thing that I like the most is that the Now Playing widget that you can place on any screen for your device has album art and allows you to give a song the \u201cthumbs up\u201d. Up until now, you would only see the artist, song and album information.\nApparently, the Google Play Music team are big Daft Punk fans, as one of the items under \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201d is the line: \u201cHarder, better, faster, stronger.\u201d I didn\u2019t notice this before, but the Google Play logo looks like the stage setup for Daft Punk:\n\u27a4 Google Play Music for Android\nRead next: Argentina Startup Awards: Time to vote for the nominees", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepreviewchannel.com/video/the-lovers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3P7T5XI4D6ROF56ZRNGVYBCTI5VR7WQQ", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thepreviewchannel.com", "title": "The Lovers - The Preview Channel", "raw_content": "The Lovers https://thepreviewchannel.com/video/the-lovers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1138, "original_length": 27124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theprobatedepartment.co.uk/deed-of-variation/deed-of-variation-cost/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VQI6OUHXSULD4IDSEMSQPFI3LVJI2D5F", "length": 2265, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "theprobatedepartment.co.uk", "title": "Deed of Variation Cost Will or Intestacy | Probate Department 03 300 102300", "raw_content": "Deed of Variation Cost Will or Intestacy\nDeed of Variation Cost: changing a Will or Intestacy.\nHow much does a deed of variation cost (or post-death variation of a Will or Intestacy)? Something of a piece of string job! For a reasonably straightforward deed of variation, we currently charge \u00a3350 + VAT as at February 2018. And most are straightforward. That doesn\u2019t include any conveyancing or the creation of trusts.\nProvided all of the affected beneficiaries are in agreement, and they are all over 18, the deed of variation can be in the post to you within days (in an emergency, if the 2 year limit is too close for comfort and our solicitor is available, even faster!) If IHT is involved, less than 6 months is preferable.\nThe basic fee is for a straightforward instrument of variation, where the input of our tax barrister is not crucial. But even if it is, her hourly rate is pretty modest. If there are tax issues, let us have the details and we\u2019ll be happy to give you a more accurate idea of the cost. Just don\u2019t forget that the deed of variation MUST be signed by the relevant people within two years of the persons\u2019 death.\nMany people will wish to use the deed of variation to create a Family Bank\u00ae by transferring property or assets into a special trust which can underpin future generations for as much as 125 years. The cost is significantly more than \u00a3350 + VAT, as you would expect, but the benefits range from future Inheritance Tax savings, the removal of probate costs and delays and growing financial independence for your children and grandchildren. If you would like to read more about The Family Bank\u00ae, click the link.\nDeed of variation: the cost of delay.\nIf you would like to discuss the possibility of a deed of variation, it is one thing where not delaying is absolutely crucial. There is a strict time limit after which such deeds are no longer able to save tax, so the sooner the better.\nWe can turn around simple Deeds Variation very quickly, but it can take some time to gather all the necessary information for more complex cases. In the cases where beneficiaries under the age of 18 or without full mental capacity are affected adversely, Court permission may be required which costs more and takes longer.\nDeed of Variation cost.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thereview.ca/2018/08/30/more-local-decision-making-needed-say-argenteuil-caq-candidate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZE5XTF637PIPOBPBV4ZAI2RPQE4Q742R", "length": 4262, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "thereview.ca", "title": "More local decision making-needed, says Argenteuil CAQ candidate", "raw_content": "Education Environment Health & Wellness News Politics Top Stories\nMore local decision making-needed, says Argenteuil CAQ candidate\nAugust 30, 2018 James Morgan Argenteuil, Quebec Quebec election 2018\nLocal communities are what matter to Agn\u00e8s Grondin. The Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) candidate in Argenteuil said her party wants to give regions and communities the opportunity to decide how government services should be delivered because those needs are different across Qu\u00e9bec. The environment and sustainable development are also a high priority for Grondin, who has worked for many years as the Environmental Counsellor for the Municipalit\u00e9 R\u00e9gionale de Comt\u00e9 (MRC) d\u2019Argenteuil.\nGrondin became the CAQ candidate on August 20 following the departure of Lachute notary and Harrington Township Councillor Sarah Lacasse-Dwyer who withdrew for professional and family reasons.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a challenge,\u201d Grondin said about having to become visible in the community quickly after becoming the candidate so soon before the election campaign began. She said her community-based career has made her well-known throughout the district. Grondin was born in Lachute and grew up on the West Island. She returned to Lachute 21 years ago and has a daughter and a son.\n\u201cThey want to build a strong Qu\u00e9bec in Canada,\u201d said Grondin about the CAQ. She said government decision making and planning is too centralized and focused on Montr\u00e9al and Qu\u00e9bec City and that the CAQ wants to develop policies based on regional and community needs. Grondin said decisions would be based on \u201cWhat do we want in Argenteuil?\u201d She said her approach would be bottom up and not top down.\nGrondin said the CAQ is more of a moderate, centrist organization that is a coalition of people from varying backgrounds who have the common goal of prosperity for all Quebecers. One of the issues with provincial services she identified that affects Argenteuil is that students from the region needing to attend summer school must travel to Laval to do so. The CAQ is proposing to eliminate all of Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s school boards if it wins the October 1 election. Grondin said the idea behind that is to reduce bureaucracy and allow more decisions to be made at the school level. Many anglophone groups have said English-speakers would lose identity if their school boards were gone. \u201cIt\u2019s not about language\u201d said Grondin, who explained the CAQ wants education funding to be better used locally. \u201cWe have to try it and make it work,\u201d she said. The proposal reflects the CAQ\u2019s overall plan to reduce the role of the state and give more choices to parents and families.\nGrondin said that theme of more choice would also transfer to her role as a Member of the National Assembly because the CAQ believes in giving their elected members more independence. She said the party tries to focus on what is most important for voters.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t talk about political issues\u2014English, French, sovereignty,\u201d she explained, and added that many CAQ candidates are not career politicians.\nHealth and care for the elderly is a major issue in Argenteuil. A CAQ government would create local Maisons des a\u00een\u00e9s (houses for the elderly) to provide services and care for people requiring it. Grondin said that approach would be more humane and accessible for people. About exceptionally long emergency department waiting times and insufficient hospital services, Grondin said the Liberals have concentrated too much on larger urban centres and not regional needs. She said the government has not properly estimated the current and future needs of the Argenteuil region and that has resulted in the local problems in health care.\nAgn\u00e8s Grondin is most passionate about the environment and sustainable development. Her emphasis on the need for local solutions is rooted in her years of meeting with municipal leaders, citizen groups, and property owner\u2019s associations on local lakes when she consulted with them about environmental conservation and protection projects. Grondin said she is looking forward to helping the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec develop its environmental conservation policies.\n\u2190 Champlain Library presents Thursday Talks for Seniors\nFrancis Drouin hosts another successful golf tournament for United Way Prescott-Russell \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 8054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thermo-bilt-windows.com/blog.html/page/7/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CLPQAL7SECXESTEW5YYROGDVVY7MX266", "length": 9720, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thermo-bilt-windows.com", "title": "Windows & Doors Blog - Page 7 of 7 | Thermo-Bilt", "raw_content": "Thermo-Bilt blog\nThermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, Toronto\u2019s Leading Window and Door Company, Announces Top Tips for Making Homes More Environmentally Friendly This Winter\nToronto, Canada (PRWEB), February 7, 2014 \u2013 Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors (www.Thermo-Bilt-Windows.com), the Greater Toronto Area\u2019s leading provider of custom window and door replacement, announces its top tips for making homes more environmentally friendly and cozy this winter. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to be more environmentally conscious around the house in the summertime, like opening windows instead of running the air conditioner. But during the cold, dark days of winter, it can be more difficult,\u201d says Adrian Biberberg, co-owner and founder of Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors. \u201cThis winter has been more difficult than most; the temperatures have been below average for weeks on end and the cold weather isn\u2019t expected to break until spring. On top of that, electricity prices went up three percent back in November and are expected to rise 33% over the next three years.\u201d According to Biberberg, an eco-friendly home in the Greater Toronto Area starts with the most energy-efficient windows and doors. Only windows and doors that qualify for the \u201dENERGY STAR\u201d mark have been independently tested and certified to be among the most energy-efficient on the market and are best-suited to stand up against the harsh Ontario winters. They are also the best way to reduce overall home energy costs. \u201cSophisticated thermal performance windows reduce the energy transfer between the inside and outside of the home,\u201d Biberberg explains. \u201cThey help keep rooms warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.\u201d In addition to making the front of a home more impressive, he notes, a new exterior door will often fit and insulate better than an older one. A home\u2019s front door can be a major source of both air leakage and wasted energy through conduction, especially if it is old, uninsulated, and/or improperly installed. \u201cWhether it\u2019s for an existing or newly built home, it\u2019s important to install the most energy-efficient doors and windows possible,\u201d Biberberg adds. \u201cIn addition to increasing comfort, energy-efficient windows and doors can reduce outside noise levels. On top of that, windows applied with a low-emissivity coating have been shown to reduce energy loss by as much as 30% to 50%.\u201d Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors is the leading window and door replacement provider in Toronto and the surrounding GTA. The company carries a complete line of windows, including casement windows, bow windows, bay windows, single- and double-hung windows, single and double sliders, awning windows, and vinyl windows. Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors\u2019 wide range of window and door styles are designed to suit any home and budget. Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors serves the GTA, including Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Vaughan, Scarborough, Markham, Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, and Aurora. To learn more about Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, visit the company\u2019s web site at www.Thermo-Bilt-Windows.com or call 1-877-727-2458.\nThermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, Toronto\u2019s Leading Window and Door Company, Announces New Office and Showroom in Markham That Reflect Company\u2019s Growth\nToronto, Canada (PRWEB), January 27, 2014 \u2013 Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, the Greater Toronto Area\u2019s leading provider of custom window and door replacement, is pleased to announce that, after 14 years, it has relocated its office and showroom from North York to Markham to better serve its growing customer base. Located at 16 Esna Park Drive in Markham, Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors opened its new office and showroom on Monday, January 13. The company\u2019s hours of operation will be Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment only on weekends. \u201cConveniently located south of the 407 and Highway 7, just east of Woodbine Avenue, our new location makes it easier for those in the GTA looking for the best windows and doors to find exactly what they need,\u201d says Adrian Biberberg, co-owner and founder of Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors. \u201cThe new location is both a workspace and a showroom and also allows customers the chance to explore the full range of products and services that have become the firm\u2019s trademark.\u201d Offering its clients a range of product styles suited for any budget, Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors is the leading window and door replacement provider in Toronto and the GTA. The company combines beauty,energy efficiency, durability and value; in fact, having Thermo-Bilt\u2019s custom windows and doors is the best way for homeowners to reduce their overall home energy cost, keeping customers warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. \u201cWe are excited to move to a larger, more spacious venue and look forward to using our new presence in Markham as a platform to drive growth across the entire Greater Toronto Area,\u201d Biberberg concludes. Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors is the leading windows and doors replacement provider in the GTA. The company carries a complete line of windows, including casement windows, bow windows, bay windows, single- and double-hung windows, single and double sliders, and awning and vinyl windows. Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors\u2019 wide range of window and door styles are designed to suit any home and budget. Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors serves Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Vaughan, Scarborough, Markham, Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, and Aurora. To learn more about Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, visit the company\u2019s web site or call 1-877-727-2458.\nThermo-Bilt Windows & Doors, Toronto\u2019s Leading Window and Door Company, Responds to Ontario\u2019s 33% Energy Rate Hike and Provides Top Energy Saving Tips\nToronto, Ontario (PRWEB), December 10, 2013 \u2013 Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors (https://thermo-bilt-windows.com/), the Greater Toronto Area\u2019s leading provider of custom window and door replacement, is weighing in on recent news that Ontario electricity rates will continue to rise, soaring 33% over the next three years under the Liberals\u2019 long-term energy plan. The company is also providing its top energy-savings tips to help Ontarians deal with the highest electricity rates in Canada. The Ontario government recently revealed its long-term energy plan. Most significant is the fact that Ontario homeowners are faced with a 33% hike in electricity rates over the next three years. The average monthly bill in Ontario today is around $125.00 per month, but by 2016, it will jump to $167.00, and within 20 years, Ontarians will pay an average of $210.00 per month. (Source: \u201cOntario power rates to rise under new plan,\u201d CBC web site, December 2, 2013; www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-power-rates-to-rise-under-new-plan-1.2448028.) \u201cOne of the reasons for the rate hike is the end of the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit in 2015, which takes 10% off part of a hydro bill. Instead of giving Ontarians a break on their energy bill, the provincial government is introducing programs designed to encourage ratepayers to use less power,\u201d says Adrian Biberberg, co-owner and founder of Thermo-Bilt Windows & Doors. \u201cOver the next two decades, the government expects Ontarians to increase energy conservation by 11% by making a number of changes.\u201d One of the ideas being proposed by the Ontario government is a new program to offer loans for renovations that increase energy efficiencies, including windows and doors, the cost of which will be added to the user\u2019s monthly hydro bill. Even though windows only take up 5\u201310% of the surface area exposed to outside temperatures, they can account for as much as 30% of a home\u2019s heat loss. (Source: \u201cEnergy Loss Through Windows and Doors,\u201d Newmarket Hydro web site; http://www.nmhydro.on.ca/pdf/tips/Energy%20loss%20through%20windows%20and%20doors.pdf, last accessed December 9, 2013.) \u201cHydro bills are set to rise significantly, meaning Toronto families and businesses will continue to pay the highest electricity rates in Canada. On November 1, electricity prices went up three percent alone,\u201d Biberberg adds. \u201cIn an effort to save money and make homes more energy efficient, property owners in the Greater Toronto Area should consider installing windows designed to withstand Ontario\u2019s harsh winters.\u201d The experts at Thermo-Bilt Window & Doors understand that windows and doors that qualify for the \u201cEnergy Star\u201d mark have been independently tested and certified to be among the most energy efficient on the market. As a result, installing them to homes and offices in the GTA can reduce energy consumption and save property owners money. On top of that, energy-efficient windows can increase comfort, reduce outside noise levels, and cut down on condensation in cold weather. Windows manufactured with a low-emissivity coating can also reduce energy loss by as much as 30\u201350%. (Source: \u201cEnergy Conservation and Efficiency Tips,\u201d Canadian Oil Heat Association, Ontario Chapter web site; www.coha-ontario.ca/publications/energy_conservation_and_efficiency_tips.html, last accessed December 9, 2013.) Thermo-Bilt Windows and Doors is the leading windows and doors replacement provider in Toronto and surrounding GTA. The company carries a complete line of windows, including casement windows, bow windows and bay windows, single-and double-hung windows, and single and double sliders, as well as awning and vinyl windows. Thermo-Bilt Windows and Doors\u2019 wide range of window and door styles are designed to suit any home and budget. 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No sports event in this country engages as many people over an extended period of time as the NCAA basketball tournament, better known as March Madness. This year, 68 teams of enthusiastic [\u2026]\nPoetry: A Defense? \"This book is about modern poetry.\" That's how David Orr begins his introduction to Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry. It is a fine way to begin a book. But it isn't [\u2026]\nPretty Nice I love the word pretty. 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They're cuter (and more mischievous) than ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 196.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetextilepress.com/rubelli-italy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YRJSJM5RDQUCNPWC3WBTX3ILIOBSS4TQ", "length": 78, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thetextilepress.com", "title": "Rubelli (Italy) \u2013 It started with a love of fabric\u2026", "raw_content": "Rubelli (Italy)\nhttp://www.rubelli.com/INTERnet/sito_v5/en/contacts/contact-us", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toledosattic.org/essays/culthistory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OQJYGKFD5LGMSBZSHWDEASOPOEVMFQOK", "length": 2995, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "toledosattic.org", "title": "Cultural History - Toledo's Attic", "raw_content": "You are here: Home Essays Cultural History\nFrom the beginning, Birmingham's strategic location near the mouth of the Maumee River was attractive to settlers in northwest Ohio. The locale's easy access to Lake Erie, its abundant fresh fish, and its situation under a major migratory bird route made it appealing to Native American tribal groups even before the first Europeans arrived. What was to become the Birmingham neighborhood was inhabited early on by French, German, and Irish farmers who were impressed with the setting's rich, loamy soil. Streets and park names such as Collins, Valentine, and Paine commemorate these early farming settlers.[Read the complete article]\nHungarian American Toledo: life and times in Toledo's Birmingham neighborhood, ed. by Thomas E. Barden & John Ahern (catalog record)\nJoseph Bistayi Hungarian Sound Recordings Collection, n.d., MSS-086 (Canaday Center finding aid)\nHungarian Sound Records Collection, ca. 1982, MSS-111 (Canaday Center finding aid)\nThe whole thing started in Frank and Sarah Hines' basement. By the time they built the club itself in 1957, Hines' Farm was already in full swing as a blues center. They had received a state liquor license in the late '40s when they were still operating out of the basement; in fact, they were the first African Americans in Northwest Ohio to have one. Blind Bobby Smith, a Toledo blues guitarist who did session work in the '60s for Stax Records, used to play in their basement in those days. He remembers how the party would start outside, but \"after they'd close down outdoors we'd all pile in the basement. In the wintertime he [Frank Hines] just ran it out of the house. It was, you know, everybody talkin' at the same time...passing the bottle around, and Hines wishin' everybody'd get out of there so he could go to bed.\" [Read the complete article]\nHines Farm Blues Club (slide show)\nI'll take you there: An oral and photographic history of the Hines Farm blues club, by Matthew A. Donahue (catalog record)\nToledo Topics: Life at the Top in Jazz Age Toledo\nFor Toledo industrialists, times could not have been better. For Toledo, as for the nation as a whole, the 1920s were a time of great industrial expansion. In that decade, still driven by coal and steam, Toledo was a major hub in the nation's transportation system. Its fifteen miles of riverfront loaded and unloaded over 4,000 freighters each year. Ti was an automobile center second only to Detroit. Its largest employer, Willys Overland, produced more cars in the 1920s than any other U. S. manufacturer but Ford. Glass was Toledo's other high tech industry. Its glass companies enjoyed a monopoly based on ownership of key patents on numerous production innovations. Toledo firms produced a mountain of glass of their own, but, through control of patent licensing agreements,virtually every piece of glass made in America by any manufacturer returned profits to Toledo companies. [Read the complete article]\nToledo Topics (slide show)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tomtrinidad.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/06-10-18-gods-faith-and-ours-lamentations-317-26-sermon-summary/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DKMZFU3CLRIR7SRWXXAB3JMBPQ5VH5MT", "length": 5597, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "tomtrinidad.wordpress.com", "title": "06.10.18 God\u2019s Faith and Ours Lamentations 3:17-26 Sermon Summary | Thinking Faith", "raw_content": "06.10.18 God\u2019s Faith and Ours Lamentations 3:17-26 Sermon Summary\nby faithoffice on\tJune 13, 2018\nThe book of Lamentations is like a hymn. Each chapter we can see like a verse. Lamentations is a poem, expanding the utility of words. And when poems are set to music, the words become saturated. The setting is the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem. It was like 9/11 if the attacks were followed by the deportation of our prominent citizens and the occupation of our nation.\nIn the Hebrew Bible the title of this book is simply \u201cHow?\u201d\u2014the first word of the book. \u201cHow did this happen? How could this happen? How could YOU, God, let this happen?!\u201d When religion is identified with a nation, what happens when that nation falters?\nThe people of Jerusalem were trying to make sense of it all. Lamentations is written as an acrostic poem, each line beginning with successive letters of the alphabet. It suggests that when all other structures fail, find a structure, something, anything, and begin rebuilding.\nThis summer we begin a new series: Hymns of Faith (Presbyterian Church). These are hymns chosen by you, related to the Bible, and discussed in sermon. Like no other medium, hymns encapsulate theology. Not all hymns are equal\u2014some are better than others. This is why we are grateful for trusted hymnal editors. Today we look at one of the greatest hymns in the church\u2019s repertoire.\n\u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d was inspired by Lamentations 3:22-23. \u201cThe steadfast love of the LORD never ceases. God\u2019s mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!\u201d These verses are part of the solution to the \u201chow?!\u201d question in Lamentations.\n\u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d does not arise from such a traumatic event as that giving rise to the verses that inspire it, but it offers the same assurance. In the words of Lamentations 3, \u201cIt is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.\u201d If you cannot wait quietly, you could sing \u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d.\nVerse one says, \u201cGreat is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father. There is not shadow of turning with Thee. Thou changest not, Thy compassions fail not. As Thou has been, Thou forever will be.\u201d Whatever else changes, God remains constant.\nDoes God change? The traditional answer is no. But the yes answer has gotten some traction lately. It\u2019s hard to imagine that God is not moved by the suffering of his children and creation, that God doesn\u2019t somehow change in response to our plight.\nBut God\u2019s movement with us is faithful; God ALWAYS moves with us. No matter where we move or where life moves us, God faithfully moves with us. This movement of God with us is what is unchanging.\nVerse one reminds us to \u201clook back\u201d and to remember how God has faithfully delivered us in the past. Verse two tells us to \u201clook around\u201d: \u201cSummer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness, to Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.\u201d\nAll nature manifestly witnesses to God\u2019s faithfulness, mercy, love. These characters of God affirm that God IS indeed moved by our situation. As nature changes, yet remains constant, so God changes but remains sure.\nThis is the foundation of lament: God loves us and is merciful. Lamentation cries out to God to remind God of this. \u201cDo something!\u201d lament says. Lament reveals God\u2019s faithfulness.\nAfter looking back, then around, verse three directs us to \u201clook ahead.\u201d \u201cPardon for sin and a peace that endureth, Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide. Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow\u2014blessings all mine, and ten thousand besides!\u201d When we look, we discover that God guides us. God gives us hope for tomorrow.\nLike Lamentations, \u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d calls us to look back, look around, and look ahead. It\u2019s like a river or the wind: God\u2019s faithfulness is a constant current surrounding us. We can surrender to the flow and join it for assurance, joy, and hope, even in disaster.\nLike the acrostic of Lamentations, \u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d also uses structure. It is written in triple time, which brings to mind immediately the Trinity. Triple time marches, or better waltzes, forward with a constancy suggesting the faithfulness of God.\nLikewise, there are patterns embedded in the hymn. The structure of the hymn is ABCD; EFC\u2019D. This is to say, it evolves line by line, but if you follow it through to the end, the familiar returns. We have to be patient through the changes of life to recognize again the assuring C\u2019 and D.\nAnother structural observation has to do with the second measures. Most of the second measures break the triple beat just enough to keep the tune from becoming monotonous. Given that, notice 2nd measure of E. It breaks with the pattern and in so doing emphasizes the word \u201cfaithfulness.\u201d It draws the attention of our ears to this word which is the center of the hymn.\nThen notice the second measure of F. In contrast to every other second measure, it does NOT change. Undergirding the lyrics \u201cmorning by morning new mercies I see,\u201d the rhythm does not change. It suggests that morning by morning by morning by morning God\u2019s constancy returns over and over again and again like clockwork.\n\u201cGreat is Thy Faithfulness\u201d is one of the greatest gifts to the church. It is relatively easy to memorize. Through words and music it summarizes the foundational truths of Bible\u2014that we can live in hope and faith because God is faithful.\n\u00ab 05.20.18 Galatians 6.1-10 Christ, Spirit, and Us Sermon Summary\nPrayers for Third Graders and Graduates \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 9554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toniitkin.com/neighborhoods/welcome-to-vinings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EUPOVRQ6UWC7LBMIAGLOHVLFZ4VIJHID", "length": 3193, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "toniitkin.com", "title": "Vinings | Atlanta Neighborhoods | Toni Itkin | Licensed Realtor\u00ae", "raw_content": "Welcome to Vinings\nWedged between Buckhead\u2019s West Paces Ferry neighborhood and the city of Smyrna, Vinings is an unincorporated community that boasts luxury real estate, excellent schools, and a top-notch selection of shopping and dining options. Vinings also offers lower property taxes because it\u2019s situated in Cobb County instead of Fulton County, which serves a major chunk of the city of Atlanta.\nSimilar to nearby Buckhead, the gradual development of Vinings began in the mid-19th century. Originally known as \u201cCrossroads\u201d and then later \u201cPaces,\u201d Vinings was built around railroad infrastructure and officially became a recognized community in 1904.\nWhen you live in Vinings, commuting in and out of Atlanta\u2019s perimeter is a breeze thanks to the convenient access to both I-285 and I-75.\nSunTrust Park, the new home baseball stadium of the Atlanta Braves, was opened in 2017 just north of Vinings.\nThe area\u2019s namesake comes from a civil engineer named William Vining, who worked for the Western and Atlantic Railroad.\nIn the 1970s, Vinings boasted a 780-foot ski slope made of Astroturf.\nVinings is home to several high-profile private schools, including The Lovett School, The Westminster Schools, and Pace Academy.\nBrand new Wellstar Health Park.\nVinings residents enjoy low Cobb County taxes.\nThings to do in Vinings\nLuxury amenities & cultural attractions\nVinings boasts an impressive array of top-rated restaurants \u2014 from the five-star farm-to-table experience offered by Canoe to the gourmet breakfast fare you\u2019ll find at Another Broken Egg Cafe. Vinings is home to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, as well as Cumberland Mall and Suntrust Park. There are several historic buildings and homes in the area, including the Pace House, Yarbrough House, and the Old Pavilion. The Vinings Jubilee shopping center in the historic Vinings Village offers an array of fine boutiques and specialty stores. Residents of Vining are also conveniently located near the high-end shopping and dining destinations of Buckhead.\nOn the north end of Vinings, close to I-75 and I-285, is the Paces Mill Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, which is managed by the National Park Service. With the Chattahoochee River serving as the centerpiece, this gorgeous parkland and wetland offers 3.5 miles of hiking trails, tucked away fishing spots, and shaded picnic areas that are ideal for enjoying the natural beauty of Vinings. Enjoy cycling? Not far from Vinings is the trailhead of the Silver Comet Trail, a 62-mile-long rail trail that merges with the Chief Ladiga trail at the Alabama border to form a continuous 94-mile-long trail.\nReal estate information: Vinings\nAs one of Atlanta\u2019s most affluent suburban neighborhoods inside the I-285 perimeter, Vinings features many sprawling mansion estates (some located overlooking the Chattahoochee River), gated swim/tennis communities, and upscale condominiums. While the median home value in Vinings is $323,000 (as of 2017), it\u2019s not uncommon to find homes priced above a million, if not in the multi-millions.\nView listings for Vinings below, or contact Toni Itkin today to learn more about buying or selling a home in Vinings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 7286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://topcasinosites.co.uk/news-offer/our-favourite-video-slot-provider-netent-has-a-brand-new-web-series", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5YD52V625UQJ5TA2GACYQF3NQ7EHICTR", "length": 3028, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "topcasinosites.co.uk", "title": "Our favourite video slot provider NetEnt has a brand new web series!", "raw_content": "Our favourite video slot provider NetEnt has a brand new web series!\nAs die-hard NetEnt fans, we are fully aware of the fact that they always push their limits, whether it being for a new released video slot, or upcoming ideas. We are also very aware of how they continuously aim to go above and beyond with each and every objective they have. This has now turned literal for NetEnt, I couldn\u2019t quite believe what I was reading when I came across this piece of news\u2026\nThey have managed to stun us once again, and i'm not talking about video slots, or casino, this is something extremely different. NetEnt has created the \u2018first of it\u2019s kind production\u2019 which features, and engages their staff in a challenging and adventurous web series! This marketing campaign launched on 8th May 2017 and is quite rightly named \u2018The Challenge\u2019. Over 900 NetEnt employees from all over the globe will come together challenging each other, and helping a group of 4 individuals climb one of the tallest mountains in the European Alps. The best part about this, is that we get to watch it in the comfort of our own home. The Challenge will be recorded in the style of a reality tv show where we will witness the figurative, and literal highs and lows of this mountain adventure. The web series will take place over 8 episodes, everything will be recorded, documented, and posted as their own brand web series.\nNetEnt has a \u2018Better Monday's\u2019 concept, this stands for employees not needing to feel down about going to work on Monday's, and forgetting about those Monday blues. What stems from this is that if work is stimulating, and you have a positive mind, you can develop new skills every day. This concept is a big role in the new web series because it will document the metaphorical peaks that NetEnt employees go through each and every day, along with how they deal with lows. As the CEO of NetEnt Per Eriksson said \u201c We take great pride in all we do. We want to attract people who like to influence their work, the product and their life. To work at NetEnt, you need to thrive in a fast-paced environment in an ever-changing field; to embrace opportunities to grow and to face challenges.\u201d\nI think that this is one of the most exciting pieces of news I\u2019ve heard in awhile, it\u2019s so unexpected and out of the ordinary, but I guess that is pretty much NetEnt summed up, snaps to you NetEnt! One of the main reasons that NetEnt wanted to do this was to truly show their leadership skills, their innovative, unique ideas along with excellent teamwork skills. As major NetEnt followers and fans we already know how impressive their casino slots are, each one is created with such advanced graphics, and they always tend to somehow experiment, but it constantly just works out.\nThere will be a 10 minute episode released every Monday at 12 CET across NetEnt\u2019s social channels. Now let\u2019s sit back, relax and watch NetEnt do what it does best, take the bull by the horns and plunge into the unknown.\nYou can watch the first episode right here, enjoy:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torranceoptometry.com/doctor-debra-l-alexander-od.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XETWNY4LYGTTUTDGCKS4TVNLLWA3JIVQ", "length": 1494, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "torranceoptometry.com", "title": "Debra L. Alexander, O.D. : Torrance Optometry", "raw_content": "Dr. Debra Alexander received her Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiological Optics from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara.\nDr. Alexander is a past president of the South Bay Optometric Society and was awarded Young Optometrist of the Year by the California Optometric Association. She has served on several optometric committees at both the state and local level.\nDr. Alexander has practiced in Torrance for over 20 years and has extensive experience in primary optometric care, medical management of eye diseases, contact lenses and refractive surgery co-management. Dr. Alexander takes care of patients of all ages and especially enjoys working with children.\nDr. Alexander is a native of Torrance and graduated from West High School. She currently lives in Palos Verdes with her husband, Ken, and two children, Lauren and Ryan. In her free time, Dr. Alexander is very active at local schools as well as scouting and sports activities. Dr. Alexander is also a loyal Cal fan. Go Bears!\nDr. Alexander is super friendly and relates to her patients really well. - Lea R., Torrance, CA\nShe is caring, personable, and shows a genuine interest her patients' lives. She is great working with children too. - Jackie B., Long Beach, CA\nDr. Alexander is amazing. She is great with kids - Dina M.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 148.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touroscholar.touro.edu/sjlcas/vol8/iss2/8/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2DYTH3K74AVDS4WJRCZ3ZHDYRCTADS7I", "length": 2500, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "touroscholar.touro.edu", "title": "\"Regulation of Ghrelin: A Possible Treatment Option for Obesity and Dia\" by Sarah Picciotto", "raw_content": "Regulation of Ghrelin: A Possible Treatment Option for Obesity and Diabetes\nSarah Picciotto, Touro College\nObesity is a mounting problem in America today. One major concern about obesity is that it is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, a disease that impairs insulin sensitivity and secretion. This interferes with blood glucose levels and can cause hyperglycemia, which is when there is too much circulating glucose in the blood. Ghrelin, an amino acid peptide responsible for appetite stimulation and energy balance, plays a direct role in insulin secretion and glucose metabolism. In many experiments, elevated ghrelin levels are associated with decreased insulin secretion from pancreatic islet cells. Although ghrelin concentration is decreased in obese individuals and diabetics, researchers attempt to use the ghrelin system as a treatment option for these people. It seeks to accomplish this by regulating the ghrelin produced by the body, diminishing its activity, affecting its receptor, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R1a), and by targeting ghrelin directly. Studies observed these methods\u2019 effects on insulin secretion and sensitivity as well as blood glucose concentration. The octanoylation of ghrelin, which activates it, is catalyzed by ghrelin Oacyltransferace (GOAT). Therefore GOAT inhibitors are one way of minimizing ghrelin\u2019s effects on metabolism. Additionally, cAMP concentrations decrease in islet cells of the pancreas in the presence of ghrelin. Using cAMP analogs can counter ghrelin\u2019s consequences as well. On the other hand, targeting the GHS-R1a receptor with an antagonist can also help enhance insulin secretion. Another research option entails using immunoneutralization to build antibodies against endogenous ghrelin. Lastly, studies have examined ghrelin knockout models in mice, by deleting the ghrelin gene, to examine the results that the lack of ghrelin has on insulin-glucose metabolism. Each of these methods has been proven to affect insulin and glucose metabolism. Further advances in the clinical application of these methods may lead to viable treatment options for obesity and diabetes.\nPicciotto, S. (2015). 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Hahn August 31, 2018 As the West has turned more and more to Soviet/Russian methods of the \u2018big lie\u2019 in order to advance democracy and its interests, the Russia-West propaganda war had produced a post-fact world in which disinformation comes to be believed by its purveyors. 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Travel is actually good for your health\n\u201cThese provinces are rated as \u2018do not travel\u2019 on the Smartraveller website.\u201d\nJust two weeks earlier there were a series of other bomb blasts that also went off in popular tourist area Patong Beach on the island of Phuket.\nApproximately 25,000 tourists from Australia head to Phuket each month, many of whom stay in hotels along Patong Beach.\nFollowing this bombing, Smarttraveler has warned people to steer clear of busy areas throughout the region.\n\u201cYou should avoid the affected areas and other crowded places, monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities,\u201d the department said.\nDo events like these make you rethink your travel plans? Or do they just make you more cautious when you go away? Let us know in the comments section below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://troymedia.com/2018/02/18/buildings-foundation-green-city/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:37Z", "digest": "sha1:53ZW6QM73F7WGKRRSPVZGXSGEQWSWKGL", "length": 7137, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "troymedia.com", "title": "Buildings must be the foundation of a green city | Troy Media", "raw_content": "Building standards include energy balance and water use, health and well-being of occupants, pollution, transport, materials, waste and ecology\nDensely-populated cities are good for the environment in many ways. Condominiums and apartment buildings are more efficiently and easily heated and cooled. Public transport systems move people using a smaller environmental footprint. Walking is healthy.\nYet cities also bring noise and air pollution. They create heat islands as concrete absorbs the sun\u2019s rays.\nAs cities are built or revamped with the environment in mind, much attention is now focused on buildings. A whole movement is underway to improve the environmental impact, including energy consumption, of buildings, especially large public buildings and office blocks. This is where building standards come in and the creation in many countries of green building councils, which encourage the application of these standards.\nThere are two international standards and certification systems for green buildings:\nBREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology), developed in the United Kingdom in 1990 and adapted to more than 50 other countries;\nLEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a rating system unveiled in the United States in 2000.\nThe scope of the standards includes energy balance and water use, health and well-being of occupants, pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology and even the management processes. Buildings are rated and certified on a scale of Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding.\nThe key difference between the two international standards lies much less in the content of the standards than in the process of certification. BREEAM has licensed assessors who examine the evidence against the criteria in the standard and report it to BREEAM\u2019s parent, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in the U.K. BRE then assesses the report and issues the certificate, provided requirements are met.\nLEED, in contrast, doesn\u2019t collect the evidence. That\u2019s the task of the design team, made up of architects, engineers, urban planners and other professionals retained by the builder/developer. The design team sends the data to the USGBC (United States Green Building Council), which examines them and issues the certificate of conformity if the design meets their demands.\nSince the onus of providing data to meet LEED requirements is on design teams, they often spend considerable time providing calculations and submitting plans to USGBC to prove their compliance and receive accreditation. In contrast, buildings seeking BREEAM certification don\u2019t face these onerous tasks because the process is more prescriptive, offering less freedom for the design process.\nObviously, the standards have to be adapted to a country\u2019s climate, or to the various climates found in large countries and regions such as Russia and North America. For example, windows designed for sun loads in California aren\u2019t suited for the cold in parts of Canada.\nBuilding design and operations according to these international standards is a step in the right direction, even if implementation is slow everywhere.\nOur research interest is in the Russian industrial city of Ekaterinburg and its project to create a green city. These standards can help. But the modern green building movement has been particularly slow to take root in Russia, the last major developed economy to organize a green building council. The Russian Green Building Council became a member of the World Green Building Council in 2010. The RuGBC trains and implements compliance with both the BREEAM and LEED certification systems, but on a voluntary basis.\nRussian federal law has long required buildings be designed and constructed in accordance with strict energy efficiency and environmental protection codes and regulations. In practice, however, cheap energy and abundant natural resources, along with weak enforcement of regulations, has meant poor implementation.\nThis, of course, is what RuGBC wishes to change. And it has a willing candidate in the fourth largest Russian city, Ekaterinburg.\nRuGBC has the support of the federal government. Russia is a signatory to international agreements to reduce their carbon emissions. The federal government has already made it clear that it views dramatically improved building energy efficiency as playing a leading role in helping it to fulfil its treaty obligations.\nEvery little step in energy efficiency helps in Russia. The country\u2019s per capita consumption of energy (energy intensity) is more than three times that of many countries in the European Union. It\u2019s twice that of the U.S. Yet Russia has committed to improving its energy efficiency by 40 per cent by 2020.\nIn Ekaterinburg, a business centre called Tsvety is being built according to LEED certification, possibly because of American participation.\nOf perhaps greater international impact is that fact that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, wants Russian stadia to follow BREEAM. The Ekaterinburg stadium for the World Cup later this year dates from the 1950s, but is being extended according to sustainable principles. Extra seating was needed to reach the minimum FIFA demand for at least 45,000 seats and an entire new stand has been built outside the original stadium.\nFIFA wants the construction of sports facilities meeting green building standards to minimize stadium environmental impact. That includes decreasing expenses for water and energy supply (LED lighting, for example). The standards also cover the environmental safety of construction materials, accessibility by public transport, landscaping, air quality and level of comfort. In addition to calling on resource-efficient technologies, stadiums are constructed to preserve architectural heritage and biological diversity. They are to ensure barrier-free environments for disabled people and people with limited mobility. The goal is to create comfortable public spaces.\nSome lessons may be taken from the Russian experience.\nStandards are important but need enforcing. Whether enforcement should be by law or by public and professional pressure is debatable.\nUnfortunately, people tend to get around policies and procedures made with the best of intentions. For example, the grounds of buildings may have walkways and plantings, but people still take short cuts that damage the landscape.\nAnother example is found in the use of electric heaters in summer in air-conditioned building that are simply too cold. In winter, the same building may to too hot.\nThere are quite simple solutions. But should solutions be spelled out in the standards for general acceptance or be imposed by a building inspectorate?\nThat\u2019s more of a political question than an environmental one.\nPart 4 next week: The right outdoor furniture can play a valuable role in a green city.\nBuildings must be the foundation of a green city added by Allan Bonner on February 18, 2018\nSeries Navigation << The human payoff to urban green spaceTurning streets into destinations, one bench at a time >>\nNot all city emergencies make the evening news", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 10232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tsimis.gr/website-terms-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PIJX6EFEMA4ZR4R7N5I44FD5IKP6N4AK", "length": 5535, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "tsimis.gr", "title": "Website Terms & Conditions | TSIMIS", "raw_content": "Access to and use of www.tsimis.gr (\"Website\") is provided by TSIMIS SA on the terms and conditions set out below. 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Dulcedo Management said on Facebook on Thursday (3rd August) that the death of 'Zombie Man, an \u201cicon of the art scene and of the fashion world,\u201d was \"shocking.\" Lady Gaga took to her Twitter account to mourn the passing of the colourful character saying the death was \"devastating.\"\nLady Gaga speaks against the culture of suicide\nLady Gaga called for people to \"bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can\u2019t talk about it.\" She believes that society needs to \"work harder to change the culture.\" The star also called on people to \"save each other.\" Once again a celebrity urged people to call family or friends rather than take that final step and end their lives.\nZombie Boy got his break with Lady Gaga through French fashion house Mugler\nFrench fashion house, Mugler, helped to get Rick Genest linked with Lady Gaga via Nicola Formichetti. Nicola noticed him in a fashion magazine, told Lady Gaga about him, and he ended up working with the singer. His unusual tattoos of bones and insects were a record-setting form of art in themselves.\nYet, despite looking like a fierce character you wouldn't want to mess with, he was reported by AP to be a mild and gentle person. He was perhaps the epitome of why people shouldn't judge others by their appearance.\nAP spoke to the Welcome Hall Mission's CEO who said that Zombie Man had been to their homeless shelter when he was a teen and even as a fashion icon and adult, he still supported them.\nZombie Man was born in 1982\nBorn in August 1982, his moniker of 'Zombie Man' came his way before his unusual tattoos. He would become a Canadian actor and artist and a fashion model. His website describes him as \"a chiaroscuro of both light and dark\u2014part gentle warrior, part anti-establishment artful dodger, and he has serendipitously become the \u2018it\u2019 muse for anyone who believes in a brave new world without judgment.\"\nHis early years were not full of big breaks and he worked his way up from freak shows to a small travelling group named \u201cLucifer\u2019s Blasphemous Mad Macabre Torture Carnage Carnival.\u201d Zombie Man was 23-years-old at the time.\nNine years on, when he was just building a real fan following, he is dead. He gave little indication that fame was what he was really after, and in fact, seemed disdainful of it. Perhaps that's why he was able to work with Lady Gaga so well. He said of her, \"Gaga was very approachable and has a great sense of humour with an unwavering work ethic. It was easy working with her and she knows how to put everyone at ease. She is a highly-skilled, intelligent and dedicated performer.\u201d\nTragic suicides and tragic trends\n2018 has been a year of tragic suicides by those people who are so admired by the general public. This year the world lost an 18-year-old Team GB athlete. Kate Spade and others also died by suicide. Time noted that there tends to a \"suicide contagion\" following the death of celebrities and that when actor Robin Williams died in 2014, suicides in the USA rose by 10 percent. Lady Gaga is right, mental health is not something to sweep under the carpet, or make a note for later. As she said on her Twitter account, \"Kindness and mental health aren\u2019t one time practices.\nThey aren\u2019t just to do list items.\" RIP Rick Genest, 'Zombie Boy.'\nhttps://apnews.com/e3d81dc2b751474a98adb44b03811c03?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true\nhttps://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1025171911138004992", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 8156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.dahuasecurity.com/uk/products/allProducts/4482", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VLN5AQPR6I3Z6N5HDBAV7RGJBHWA3MZ2", "length": 572, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "uk.dahuasecurity.com", "title": "Video Conferencing", "raw_content": "Video conferencing is one of Dahua\u2019s newest product lineups. It focuses on the design,\ndevelopment, and independent research into audio and video conferencing systems.\nThese systems include a full range of video conferencing products such as video conferencing hardware endpoints, software endpoints, multi-point conferencing control units, management systems, conference cloud, and peripherals. These products offer various video conferencing solutions for use across a wide range of areas, such as general industry, public security, distance education, and telemedicine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 5185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 133.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/truman-carrier-strike-group-returns-to-eastern-mediterranean-to-fight-islamic-state/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7AKA34HOKR47T6R4EH6O6POPP2A3PESK", "length": 1871, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ukdefencejournal.org.uk", "title": "Truman Carrier Strike Group returns to Eastern Mediterranean to fight Islamic State", "raw_content": "Home Sea Truman Carrier Strike Group returns to Eastern Mediterranean to fight Islamic State\nTruman Carrier Strike Group returns to Eastern Mediterranean to fight Islamic State\nThe Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group returned to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea to resume flight operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve this week.\n\u201cBringing the Harry S. Truman strike group back into the fight against ISIS sends a powerful message to our partners that we are committed to peace and security in the region, and anywhere threatened by international terrorism,\u201d said Rear Adm. Gene Black, commander of the Harry S. Truman CSG.\n\u201cOnce again we demonstrate the incredible flexibility and capabilities of a carrier strike group; we are combat-proven and ready to answer the call anytime and anywhere to carry out any mission we are directed.\u201d\nWhile in the region, aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 1\u2019s strike fighter squadrons will conduct precision strikes on Islamic State targets.\n\u201cThe crew is locked in, focused and ready to continue the fight against ISIS,\u201d said Commanding Officer of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Capt. Nicholas Dienna.\n\u201cWe will operate and maintain a presence wherever, whenever required to support our regional allies and partners in furthering stability and prosperity around the globe.\u201d\nThe Harry S. Truman CSG, which entered the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations April 18, includes multi-mission capable platforms with strike; ballistic missile defence; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.\nhmmmmmmm\u2026.. I thought the correct term was \u2018Carrier Strike Force\u2019.\nCSG is the correct term. However, the Truman Strike Group is more of a more robust Cold War era Carrier Battle Group in numbers and capabilities. The USN states it\u2019s the largest CSG to stand from Norfolk in a very long time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uncw.edu/cie/blog/2017/07/friday-feature-kidobit-creative-startups.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XIUVPJFNVVLQK5IIL7UYXJBRMRYRIRQY", "length": 3047, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "uncw.edu", "title": "Friday Feature: Interactive Game-Maker Kidobit Attends the Creative Startups Accelerator", "raw_content": "Over the next two weeks, the CIE will be featuring each of the two member startups that were chosen to compete in the Winston-Salem Creative Startups Accelerator. Hosted by the Center for Creative Economy, the Accelerator is an eight-week course for startups based in creative pursuits. The first seven weeks will be an online course dealing with \u201ceverything from customer acquisition to unit economics.\u201d The eighth is a \u201cDeep Dive\u201d where startups will travel to Winston-Salem for a week of intensive workshops, pitching, and networking with industry professionals and angel investors. The week ends with a pitch competition that splits a pool of $50,000 between the top three companies.\nThis last venture is called Kidobit. Mora isn\u2019t new to entrepreneurship; his first startup, the creative studio BrightLab LLC, ran a successful Kickstarter for a language acquisition book/journal called Spanish for Travelers that\u2019s now in production.\nKidobit, he says, grew into a separate company within the past year. Its goal? To not only innovate but disrupt the world of education using games and storytelling that will allow children to be creative, connect with their environment through exploration, and become the protagonists of their own learning experience.\nThe first project is a tabletop game that will teach children basic coding: an analog means of giving kids digital skills.\nBut it\u2019s about more than just rote memorization. Kidobit\u2019s emphasis is the storytelling, the interactivity. And Mora plans to expand Kidobit\u2019s universe to include graphic novels and video games\u2014more narrative forms of storytelling\u2014toward the same goal of education.\nMora has been a member at the CIE since he returned to Wilmington after his undergraduate study, when he decided that he wanted to educate on his own terms.\n\u201cThe CIE has been great for us in terms of helping us learn more, and they\u2019re always coming up with new workshops and programs for business owners,\u201d he says.\nMora attended the CIE\u2019s initial info session on Creative Startups and ended up applying. Kidobit, alongside Corey Chandler Productions, will go through the eight-week seminar with funding assistance from the CIE. Mora is eager for the opportunities for mentorship, networking, and a learning experience.\n\u201cI\u2019m really excited,\u201d Mora says. \u201cMore than the money I might get if I win, for me the most important part is that I will get exposure to the people who know what they\u2019re doing in terms of business.\u201d Mora has the creativity part handled; it\u2019s just the business side where he could use practice.\nKidobit has big plans for the future: a platform that promotes learning through games, literature, and digital content; a platform for resources accessed by educators and parents; a means through which kids can learn creatively, innovatively, and interactively.\n\u201cMy main goal in life\u2014it\u2019s kind of cheesy,\u201d Mora says, \u201cis to do something that transcends.\u201d\nCheck back on the website often or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to keep up with more of the CIE\u2019s events and news.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unlimitedperspectives.com/category/inspirational_quotes/richard-v-allen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YNGEVFK2EH7SVMJYTA7VC7PMH77H72BN", "length": 293, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "unlimitedperspectives.com", "title": "Richard V. Allen | Unlimited Perspectives", "raw_content": "Richard V. Allen \u2013 A Bush Administration will, I\u2026\nby | Oct 19, 2018 | Richard V. Allen\n\u201cA Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.\u201d-Richard V....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3057, "original_length": 45022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://updateodisha.com/2018/07/23/naveen-forms-ministerial-committee-for-odia-film-industry-development-59407/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4EEFLRBO4EXWUL7PPXSDUTAOUCW4ALON", "length": 1180, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "updateodisha.com", "title": "Naveen forms ministerial committee for Odia film industry development - Update Odisha", "raw_content": "Image: sitafilm.in\nNaveen forms ministerial committee for Odia film industry development\nBhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday formed a ministerial committee for the development of Odia film industry.\nThe committee will be headed by finance minister Sashi Bhusan Behera, said a statement from the Chief Minister\u2019s Office.\nIt would submit a report to the state government in one month regarding steps to be taken for development of Odia film industry.\nThe state government will prepare the Odia film policy based on the report.\nMSME minister Prafulla Samal and Industries minister Anant Das will be members of the committee. Industries secretary will be the convener.\nChief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday discussed the several issues relating to Odia film industry and Kalinga Studio.\nNotably, the Odia film industry is not getting adequate support from the state government for the promotion of the industry. Besides, the state government is yet to revive the Kalinga Stadium located on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.\nOdisha Film Development Corporation Chairman Kuna Tripathy, Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan and senior officials were present during the meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uptickdaily.com/2018/07/05/the-danger-of-using-leverage-in-your-retirement-portfolio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:AF7EFZJYVG2TG7MDYJRWQB5VC5EQCZSW", "length": 3112, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "uptickdaily.com", "title": "The Danger of Using Leverage in Your Retirement Portfolio | Uptick Daily", "raw_content": "The Danger of Using Leverage in Your Retirement Portfolio\nI was always taught that the most important words in the English language were \u201cplease,\u201d \u201cthank you\u201d and \u201cI love you.\u201d But those words don\u2019t really apply when it comes to investing.\nThat said, there\u2019s another word that does\u2026\nYou see, it\u2019s a dangerous world out there, and your hard-earned money is almost always at risk. Stocks can move higher or lower, as can bonds and mutual funds.\nBut those moves are normal and expected. If you sell during a panic, shame on you.\nHowever, my concern is not what happens normally but what happens when you ignore the most important word in investing: leverage.\nIt can make or break your portfolio depending on which way interest rates are headed. Yet leverage is often ignored because it\u2019s buried deep inside the prospectus of the investment fund you\u2019re holding.\nLeverage is associated with debt or buying stock on margin. While those are both important, I am referring to the leverage in funds that pay monthly or quarterly dividends.\nIt\u2019s critical that you examine your investments right now, especially the funds that pay you interest.\nLook at the funds\u2019 holdings and then look for the word \u201cleverage.\u201d If you see it, you need to rethink holding that fund during this period of rising interest rates.\nWhen a fund uses leverage, it is borrowing money (sometimes up to 33% of the underlying assets) and using that money to buy more income-producing securities.\nSo if you own a bond fund that has $5 billion in assets, it is borrowing another $1.65 billion to invest. That $1.65 billion can sink the fund and the dividend payments in a hurry.\nWhen interest rates are stable, fund managers are tempted to produce higher returns by using leverage. For example, they may borrow money at 2% and invest it in bonds that are paying 4%. That means they are making an extra 2% for \u201cfree.\u201d Leverage pads their returns and allows them to pay you a higher dividend every month.\nBut when rates are rising, something negative happens. The principal value of their holdings shrinks because bond prices move lower when rates move higher. This means the value of their portfolio also shrinks. That\u2019s not unpredictable \u2013 it\u2019s cyclical.\nIn a leveraged portfolio, the damage is much more pronounced. Rising short-term interest rates can have a devastating effect on fund prices and will increase the cost of leverage for funds.\nAnd if the yield curve (a graph of the interest rates of bonds of different maturities) flattens as rates rise, which it is doing right now, it can be double the trouble.\nNot only does the fund pay more to borrow, but the investments in the fund drop in value.\nThe fund won\u2019t be able to generate as much income as it has in the past, leading to a cut in the income distribution and a drop in the price of the fund.\nThis is happening right now across the board, especially in closed-end leveraged funds. So do yourself a huge favor and make sure that your investment funds are not using a ton of leverage to produce income.\nIf they are, rethink your strategy\u2026 The pain will only increase as rates move higher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://urbanmatter.com/chicago/historic-hotels-chicago/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:05Z", "digest": "sha1:A5P2VI36DW7VP5UE6KE64TCFGFWNYGAN", "length": 3375, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "urbanmatter.com", "title": "Take a Look at These Historic Hotels in Chicago", "raw_content": "HomeArts & CultureTake a Look at These Historic Hotels in Chicago\nChicago has a few historic hotels, upholding its stature through eras upon eras. Some have been built, destroyed, and built again. All have housed presidents, stars, and athletics. Never do they cease, and always do they remain a significant pillar of Chicago.\nSo, take a look at some of the most historical hotels of Chicago, and maybe even take a trip to bask in its glory.\nPalmer\u2019s House, A Hilton Hotel\nPhoto Credit: Palmer\u2019s House Hilton Instagram\nLocated in the heart of the Loop, Palmer\u2019s House Hilton is the first of many things. The hotel is noted as the Historic Hotels of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It\u2019s also recognized as the first hotel in Chicago with elevators, telephones (within the guest room), and electric light bulbs. So I guess you can say it was a novelty of its time. Besides the common appearance of celebrities and royal guest, the elegant hotel also shares a history of re-beginnings. Palmer\u2019s House Hilton has been built a total of three times. The first Palmer hotel was caught on fire, during the Great Chicago Fires that swept through the city in 1871. Luckily, its founder Potter Palmer had a 1.7 million signature loan to rebuild. Then, in the 1920s the central business district of Chicago began to flourish, allowing Palmer to expand the hotel, once more, to 25 stories.\nPhoto Credit: The Drake Hotel Facebook\nEstablished in 1920, and built to reflect the palaces of Italy, The Drake Hotel has been the dwelling spot for Chicago\u2019s most wealthy residents. Curated by the prestigious architecture firm, Marshall and Fox, the hotel is a prominent landmark, overlooking lakeside Michigan, and serves as the social house for weddings, politics, and is even known for having hidden passageways.\nPhoto Credit: The Blackstone Hotel Instagram\nNotoriously known for being the \u201cHotel of Presidents\u201d, The Blackstone Hotel is a richly elegant establishment, designed by Marshall and Fox in 1909. The 21-story hotel upholds the aesthetics of Neoclassical Beaux-Arts, and even to this day many weddings and social events are held here. Among the several celebrity guest appearances, a total of 12 presidents have also stayed here. Some are Theodore, Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and John F. Kennedy, just to name a few.\nPhoto Credit: Intercontinental Magnificent Mile Instagram\nAnother member of the Historic Hotels of America is the Intercontinental Magnificent Mile. Formerly home to the Medinah Athletic club in 1929, the hotel serves as a rich combination of various architecture fashions and has won numerous rewards for its design. The hotel definitely takes a high spot in being one of the most elegant venues, housing politicians, celebrities, and famous athletics. In fact, its indoor pool, noted as one of the highest in the world, is commonly referred to as the Johnny Weissmuller pool. Weissmuller was a famous American Olympic swimmer in the 1920s (known for being one of the fastest in the world) that often practiced in the extravagant pool.\nChicago's fancy hotelsfancy hotelHistoric HotelsHistoric Hotels in Chicagohotels in chicagoIntercontinental Magnificent MilePalmer's HouseThe Blackstone HotelThe Drake Hotel\n11 of the Best Fancy Restaurants t...\nTake the Ultimate Valentine\b...\n8 Valentine\u2019s Day Packag...\nHistoric Congress Plaza Hotel...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://us.solarpanelsnetwork.com/california/north-fork", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q2B2JVHFHCKFW7ULECQ5ASGY32UN3XN", "length": 2314, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "us.solarpanelsnetwork.com", "title": "Solar Panel Installers North Fork, CA | Solar Panels Network USA", "raw_content": "Highly Rated Solar Panel Installers in North Fork\nSolar Panels Installers in North Fork, CA\nIn simple terms, solar panels in North Fork, CA are designed so that photons from the sun knock free electrons attached to atoms. Some of the freed electrons will move to the top of the cell. They then flow into metal conductor plates placed on either side of the panel. Electrons then flow back into the cell to complete the closed loop.\nWhat Are the Benefits of Solar Panels in North Fork, CA?\nThat is only a few them. Let's take a closer look at these benefits. The cost of solar energy is one of the biggest reasons why people either want or don't want to use the panels. On one hand, solar panels cost a bit to install. Costs have become significantly cheaper over the years, but it still requires that initial investment that some people just can't justify. On the other hand, it means never paying for electricity again (if the house in North Fork, CA is completely dependent on a solar power systems) or at least lowering the electric bill dramatically.\nWhy Wait For Your North Fork, California Solar Panel Installation?\nDon't wait to be the last person taking advantage of having solar power installed. in North Fork, CA Even if you don't go completely off the grid, having solar panel installers installing a few solar panels around the home can save you money and lessen your impact on the environment.\nDeciding to go solar is something many Americans are doing these days. Renewable energy is good for the environment and it is beneficial to your budget. The money you will save and the return on your investment in solar panel installation in North Fork, California will be significant. We look forward to being your choice for installation and offer you many benefits including our expertise and services.\nWe are solar panel installers certified by the most respected solar organization around. We will also help you with the paperwork you need to prepare for submission to your utility. After the installation in North Fork, California is complete, you can be sure we will monitor it to make sure it is working perfectly. We are as invested in this as you are and will make sure your system provides you with the power and energy your whole house or company needs. Call us today.\nNorth Fork, California, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 10392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usa.tianma.com/news-information/news/2016/05/02/tianma-nlt-usa-introduces-new-lineup-of-full-hd-lcds-with-embedded-displayport-(edp)-interface-for-industrial-applications", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:77CABV464EF2RRCPC5RG4SE6ISY7DEER", "length": 2441, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "usa.tianma.com", "title": "Tianma NLT USA Introduces New Lineup of Full HD LCDs with Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Interface for Industrial Applications", "raw_content": "Chino, CA, May 2, 2016 \u2013 Tianma NLT USA has introduced a new 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixel) TFT LCD from NLT Technologies, Ltd. with Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) interface for industrial applications. Mass production is scheduled for June of this year. The company will also be introducing a family of modules equipped with eDP interfaces in sizes of 11.6-inch, 18.5-inch and 30.0-inch diagonal with Full HD resolution in 2016.\nThe new prototypes incorporate NLT\u2019s proprietary Super Fine TFT technology (SFT) for wide viewing angles and high color gamut that meet the display characteristics frequently required by the industrial equipment market. They also feature thin and lightweight design, enabling the displays to be used in a variety of embedded display applications such as in-flight entertainment, and high end portable medical equipment.\nEmbedded DisplayPort (eDP)\neDP is a high speed serial interface standard used to connect an LCD module to the graphics processing board. eDP enables connection of image source equipment (such as personal computers) directly to LCD modules, using a graphics processor that is compatible with the DisplayPort standard, resulting in a compact interface design. The smaller size of the driver board enables a more compact design for the connector due to the reduced number of signal lines. The eDP interface also enables higher transmission speed compared to the conventional LVDS interface. Furthermore, eDP is a suitable countermeasure to EMI in the interface cable since it does not require an external clock signal.\nAs industrial display applications become more compact and require smaller footprints and higher resolutions, it is predicted that the demand for eDP will increase as it enables more compact design and higher transmission speed. As major graphics processor manufacturers encourage adoption of the eDP instead of LVDS interface, acceleration of eDP usage in the market is likely to follow.\nA prototype of new 15.6-inch LCD module will be showcased by Tianma NLT USA (TNU) at Display Week 2016 (booth 905), May 24-26, in San Francisco at the Moscone center.\nTianma NLT USA will be adding more LCDs with eDP interfaces to their product portfolio. A suite of eDP prototype displays -- 11.6\u201d*, 18.5\u201d*, and 30.0\u201d* \u2013 will also be demonstrated along with the 15.6\u201d in TNU\u2019s booth at Display Week.\n*Note: the 11.6\u201d, 18.5\u201d and 30.0\u201d eDP modules are planned for production in Q4 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usgeo.org/article.php?id=352", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KU373SCJXNNXFTNGGKAW3NUNOCCOGQKH", "length": 3409, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "usgeo.org", "title": "- Adhesive Dealer in Ahmedabad", "raw_content": "Author: Indo Adhesive\nCyanoacrylate Adhesives are quick and easy to apply and do not require any mixing or heating before the use. In order to achieve higher performance, only application of contact pressure is required. The Cyanoacrylate Adhesive delivers best performance when applied as a thin film between two surfaces. Cyanoacrylate Instant Adhesives are available in different specialty grades like ethyl, methyl, etc. The different grades are available in varying cure speed, strength, viscosity, etc. This best part of these adhesive is that they can form a strong bond with any combination of similar and dissimilar surfaces including rubbers, metals, plastic and more. We also provide activators and aerosol to enhance the adhesion and cure speed to form a strong bond with plastic surfaces. Cyanoacrylate adhesives are one-part acrylate adhesives that cure instantly on contact with mated area through a reaction with area moisture. Cyanoacrylate adhesives are commonly called as Super Glues. Cyanoacrylate adhesives have high durability and excellent adhesion to a variety of substrates. Cyanoacrylate systems are offered in a variety of viscosities, curing time, gap filling, shear durability and conditions. Cyanoacrylate is the general name for a family of powerful fast-acting glues with commercial, healthcare and family uses. Cyanoacrylate adhesives have a short shelf life if not used, about one year from manufacture if unopened, one month once opened. They have some minor toxicity. Cyanoacrylate adhesives are sometimes known generically as instant glues or superglues. Cyanoacrylates are mainly used as adhesives. They require some care and knowledge for effective use: they do not bond some materials; their shelf life at room temperature is about 12 months unopened and one month once opened; they do not fill spaces, unlike epoxies, and a very thin layer bonds more effectively than a thicker one that does not cure properly; they bond many substances, including human skin and tissues, almost instantly and can cause harm to people. They have an exothermic reaction to natural fibers: cotton, wool, leather, see reaction with cotton below. Cyanoacrylate glue has a low shearing strength, which has led to its use as a temporary adhesive in cases where the piece needs to be sheared off later. Common examples include mounting a work piece to a sacrificial glue block on a lathe, and tightening pins and bolts. Most standard Cyanoacrylate adhesives do not bond well with smooth glass, although they can be used as a quick, temporary bond prior to application of an epoxy or Cyanoacrylate specifically formulated for use on glass. A mechanical adhesive bond may be formed around glass fiber mat or tissue to reinforce joints or to fabricate small parts. Cyanoacrylate adhesives have a short shelf life. Date-stamped containers help to ensure that the adhesive is still viable. If the adhesive is to be used within six months, it is not necessary to refrigerate it. Cyanoacrylates are moisture-sensitive, and moving from a cool to a hot location will create condensation; after removing from the refrigerator, it is best to let the adhesive reach room temperature before opening. After opening, it should be used within 30 days. Open containers should not be refrigerated. Another manufacturer says that the maximum shelf life of 12 months is obtained for some of their Cyanoacrylates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 4311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uttingwolffspouts.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:59Z", "digest": "sha1:U2JV5ZYNR57RNLA3IGRCRMCKEW7QFU6Q", "length": 1061, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "uttingwolffspouts.com", "title": "Utting-Wolff Spouts | Encompassing the natural and social sciences, politics and social justice issues", "raw_content": "Karina Hansen 8: The Aftermath Continues\nValerie continues to follow Karina Hansen\u2019s horrendous plight. Please have a read.\nKarina in November 2016 shortly after her return home\nRegular readers of this blog will already be familiar with Karina Hansen\u2019s horrifying story (as detailed in my series of posts) and with the often appalling treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) patients generally. For new readers, and those needing a more detailed reminder of her story, there is a full summary at the end of this post.\nKarina is a young woman from Denmark who became ill with the severe form of ME as a teenager. She was being cared for at home by her family but, in February 2013, she was forcibly removed by the state authorities and confined in an institution for three and a half years as a de facto psychiatric patient. Her family members were not allowed to visit her and she was subjected to highly inappropriate treatment.\nShe was eventually allowed to return home in\nThis entry was posted in Awareness & fundraising on June 25, 2018 by Utting Wolff.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/deadline-for-b-c-s-electoral-reform-referendum-extended-by-one-week-1.4189809", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:35Z", "digest": "sha1:E6ZT2HRXMZTQJOPNTXHHDYKTGXGEANWU", "length": 3641, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca", "title": "Deadline for B.C.'s electoral reform referendum extended by one week | CTV News", "raw_content": "Published Friday, November 23, 2018 9:21AM PST\nLast Updated Friday, November 23, 2018 11:45AM PST\nVICTORIA - The deadline for mail-in voting packages in British Columbia's electoral reform referendum has been extended by a week.\nElections BC says the added time means residents must ensure their ballots are in by Dec. 7.\nChief electoral officer Anton Boegman says the extension is to ensure that voters are not prevented from taking part because of rotating strikes at Canada Post. Voters are encouraged to return their completed ballots in the mail as soon as possible.\nThe deadline to request a voting package was not changed and remained Friday at midnight. Those needing ballots can visit a Service BC Centre or referendum service office, or request a package by phone or online.\nThe referendum asks B.C. voters if they support the current first-past-the-post electoral system or if they back a form of proportional representation for the next election, which is set for 2021.\nAs of Friday, Elections B.C. says about 30 per cent of voting packages had been returned, with the highest number from the Parksville-Qualicum riding, where 29 per cent of ballots had come back. The lowest returns were from Surrey-Green Timbers at 9.7 per cent.\nBill Tieleman of the No Proportional Representation Society of B.C. had urged Elections BC to extend the referendum because of the postal strike.\n\u201cI think that another week is long enough,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt will help ensure that every voter across the entire province gets their opportunity to vote on this referendum and make sure that we get at least a decent turnout, hopefully that would make it a legitimate process.\u201d\nIn addition to asking voters which system they support, the ballot also includes a second question that allows voters to rank their preference for three types of proportional representation.\nAny move away from the first-past-the-post system would require a vote of 50 per cent plus one in favour.\nThe three forms of proportional representation are mixed member proportional, rural-urban proportional and dual member proportional.\nThe Elections BC website says mixed member proportional is used in a number of countries, including Germany and New Zealand, and would see the election of two types of representatives, a district member and a regional member to the legislature. District legislative members would be elected using the first-past-the-post system while regional members would be elected from a party list so that each party's share of seats matches its share of the provincewide popular vote.\nDual member proportional would see all but the largest rural districts combined so each has two members. Parties running candidates for both seats would list their candidates as either first or second. The first candidate of the party with the most votes in the district would win the first seat and the second seat would be won by a party based on its share of the popular vote provincewide and in the district.\nRural-urban proportional combines two different voting systems, the single transferable vote and mixed member proportional systems with voters in urban and semi-urban districts using the single transferable vote to elect multiple members for their larger electoral district. In rural districts, voters would use the mixed member system to elect district and regional representatives.\nElections BC says provincial results in the rural-urban system are likely to be generally proportional, although it is not used by any other jurisdiction.\nFor a quick explanation on the different types of proportional representation being offered in the referendum, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 10348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vaporgalleriafrankford.com/category/vaping-blogs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:03Z", "digest": "sha1:U7ILNJKQ6EHIFTPDTQ5Q7XA43SHYZA7K", "length": 3340, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "vaporgalleriafrankford.com", "title": "Vaping Blogs Archives | Vapor Galleria Frankford", "raw_content": "Whether a newbie or an advanced experienced vaper, joining a vaping community is a way to connect with like-minded individuals who share your love of vaping. Whatever your reason for using the device, there is likely a vaping community to suit you and your character. Here are some cyberspaces to check out where you [\u2026]\nThe findings from a randomized study of British adults were published last month in the UK\u2019s New England Journal of Medicine. Conclusions drawn from the research indicate that when coupled with targeted one-on-one behavior therapy, e-cigarettes are significantly more effective in helping adults quit smoking that traditional methods like the patch or nicotine gum. [\u2026]\nVape culture is one of the biggest subcultures in America today, with an enthusiastic and loyal following from social media to real-life vape competitions where airbenders come together to perform some seriously mind-melting smoke tricks. Maybe that\u2019s even the reason why you started vaping. To master some of the same tricks as your favorite YouTuber [\u2026]\nBritain has been at the forefront of the vaping boom. Promoting it as the primary harm reducing alternative to smoking while advocating for its adoption in order to improve health of long-time smokers. Well, Britain has stepped out in front of the crowd yet again as the country is now considering allowing the use of [\u2026]\nWhether you are a newbie or an advanced and experienced vaper, joining a vaping community may be one of the things you will decide on. Whatever your reason for using the device, there is a vaping community that will suit you and your character. These groups come together to share information related to all things [\u2026]\nOne of the biggest subcultures in America today is vape culture. Particularly, communities centered around performing complex tricks. Maybe that\u2019s even the reason why you started vaping. To master some of the same tricks as your favorite YouTuber. Tackling some of the more advanced tricks obviously require time and effort. However, if you\u2019re a [\u2026]\nVapers usually have a few personality traits in common. They are a bit quirky, curious, and typically pretty unique. The type of person who instantly wants to try a new trick that nobody else knows about. Someone who wants to figure out the most efficient ways to get the biggest clouds from your vape. [\u2026]\nThe rise of a trend is inevitably followed by the rise of ambassadors for that trend. Vaping is no exception. Vaping is now one of the fastest growing subcultures in the world today with a significant market influence and cultural impact. While the internet as a whole has become a giant platform for posting hobbies, [\u2026]\nJoseph Robinson thought up the first e-cigarette in 1927. However, it wasn\u2019t until 1963 when Herbert Gilbert\u2019s \u201csmokeless non-tobacco cigarette\u201d made the concept of vaping popular. It wouldn\u2019t be until the mid-2000s when the Chinese firm Hon Lik manufactured the first modern e-cigarette. The device and resulting industry have since ballooned into a more than [\u2026]\nIt\u2019s easy to fall into a false sense of security when it comes to vaping. Particularly if you vape sans tobacco. You may think there\u2019s not even tobacco in here\u2026surely, these \u201crules\u201d don\u2019t apply to me. But you\u2019d be wrong. Very wrong. To be clear, e-cigarette law covers all e-cigarette use, not just those [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vbrotary.com/Stories/stay-tuned", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WOUTLRYPL3D7Z5PLV5BRBH3WBF4QC7KC", "length": 499, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vbrotary.com", "title": "Stay Tuned! | Rotary Club of Virginia Beach", "raw_content": "As this Rotary Year, \"Making a Difference,\" comes to a close, the next Rotary Year promises good fun, and more importantly, great service opportunities, with the theme \"Be the Inspiration\"! As we transition to new officers and new responsibilities, plans are still in the making. The calendar will be updated as soon as it becomes available. If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact us at virginiabeachrotary@gmail.com. We look forward to getting to know you this year!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vegasgirlsgonewild.com/escort/mina/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XJ7MJXAOLCKJ7RMQAKVOUO2MNWTYGVVG", "length": 481, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vegasgirlsgonewild.com", "title": "Mina - Vegas Girls Gone Wild", "raw_content": "My name is Mina, born and bred in Eastern Asia where I acquired my education up till college level, I am smart and engage in quite a couple of intellectual exercises from time to time. That\u2019s the serious side of me, the other side is the one I will bring forward when we meet. I will show you the feminine side of me, the wild and exotic part of me, the one that will keep you coming back to me.\nLet\u2019s kick it off as soon as you can reach out, the ball is in your court.\nEmail Mina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vetliva.com/tourism/what-to-see/kamenetskaya-vezha-/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:3H5QRC65BXXG6ZHFLFCKW2GLIIUUUHI6", "length": 3814, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "vetliva.com", "title": "Kamenetz Tower", "raw_content": "Kamenetz Tower\nThe impregnable fortress has been standing on the territory of Berestie Land for more than 700 years. Even the most worldly-wise architect can still hardly find a defect in it. It was built forever and will probably be standing here for a thousand years. However it can hardly be said that within its long history it has not experienced serious invasions of enemies.\nThe history of the tower in Kamyanets\nAs many other fortified medieval buildings, Kamenetz Tower was built to defense the borders; in particular we are talking about the northern borders of Berestie Land. Prince Vladimir Vasilkovich was the initiator of the construction and architect Alexa had realized such a difficult task.\nIt was important to find a place where not only the walls but also surroundings could protect the fortress. So the preference was given to the steep river banks, which would make it difficult to approach the armed building. As a result it was necessary to strengthen the fortress with the reliable wooden fortifications fr om only three directions.\nIt is interesting that people keep in mind many other names of Kamenetz Tower, for example the White Tower or the White Pillar.\nThe tower was built in the period fr om 1276 to 1288. In the XIV century the full capacity of the tower was used. That was precisely when it had successfully defended the territories against the attacks of the Teutonic Knights, Tatar forays and other enemies. Even if the neighboring lands were captured, there is no reliable data about the tower surrender.\nKamenetz Tower and historical events\nOf course the progress moved forward. Previously it was impossible to bring war engines to the walls of Kamenetz Tower at a distance of a successful firing range. But in the late XVII century with the development of technology new weapons appeared and the fortress had lost its impregnability.\nHowever, it did not prevent the White Tower from becoming a true monument of architecture. Little by little it stopped functioning as a fortified building. It had become an architectural heritage attracting many historians and architects here.\nNowadays a museum is successfully functioning here. Every visitor of the museum plunges into the atmosphere of antiquity.\nAmong the most significant museum exhibits one should mention a fairly realistic dummy of a guard looking out the window, skillfully painted picture with the image of Prince Vladimir, ancient shields and replicas of knight's armor. In short, everything that was so ordinary when the fortress was functioning as a defensive construction.\nInteresting facts about the sights of Belarus in Kamyanets\nBasically, they concern the name. Originally Kamenetz Tower was a solid brick construction. By the way, no major restorations of the tower have been conducted until now. So the bricks and the mortar have preserved since the time of the monument construction.\nWhen the Soviets came to power many scientists and historians by mistake connected the history of the tower with Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest. In the XX century the tower was repainted in white. Since that time the false name of the tower stuck. Today the tower has regained the original red brick appearance.\nYou can see Kamenetz Tower with one of our excursions\nVisiting the town of Kamenetz you will see the landmark right away, no matter wh ere in the town you are. This is not surprising, because the building is about 30 meters high. If you go up to the top level, you will get a good panorama of the town.\nThe Tower of Kamenetz is an interesting architectural monument of Belarus, which must be seen with my own eyes. You can visit it with many sightseeing tours around Belarus. You can see the grandeur of the ancient architectural monument by booking trips around Belarus with a visit to Brest and Belovezhskaya Pushcha.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vevacha.wordpress.com/2017/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UDE4LLI665RCO2URQB3QEPRUFSGZGRCN", "length": 40498, "nlines": 134, "source_domain": "vevacha.wordpress.com", "title": "November | 2017 | Vevacha", "raw_content": "I\u2019m calling it.\nI already called it, last time, but there was still about a week to go at that point. Now there\u2019s today and tomorrow, and ain\u2019t nothing happening in either of those two cases.\nI have finished Nanowrimo 2017 having written 16232 words out of 50000. And that\u2019s fine.\nWhat I think I\u2019m going to do, though, is actually look at everything I\u2019ve written during this month, even the stuff that \u201cdoesn\u2019t count\u201d. Just as an experiment. I feel that differentiating between writing that \u201ccounts\u201d and writing that doesn\u2019t is in some ways important; it\u2019s a kind of accountability, distinguishing between the writing that gets you to where you\u2019ve made plans to go, and the writing that gives you an excuse to circle the block one more time. But lately, I\u2019m starting to think that this distinction has not always done me a lot of good. Because writing is writing, and if we\u2019re just talking writing \u2013 if we\u2019re just talking about how much I\u2019ve done, regardless of what that \u201cmuch\u201d consists of, specifically \u2013 I think I\u2019ve done quite a bit.\nEvery now and then, I like to indulge in the making of games. Well, \u201cmaking\u201d is perhaps a strong word, but making notes and rules and mechanics for games that I would like to exist. Since I have recently given myself permission to write things that are not just books or essays, but also include things like screenplays and panel treatments, I\u2019ve decided to include games in this new phase of my writing career as well.\nGood thing too, because it amounts to (approximately) 26185 words.\nI say approximately because there\u2019s a lot of copy-and-pasting of words that have to do with categories of things \u2013 characters, abilities, etc. \u2013 that I have been working on and modifying over the course of this month. I went over them once briefly in each instance, and reduced my word-count in those documents by an approximate figure. Even so, I reckon that total number is somewhere closer to 24000 words \u2013 but that\u2019s still 24k words, on top of my existing 16k words. Already, I\u2019m at over 40k words written this month.\nOff to a good start, then \u2026\nThere\u2019s some stuff that I write just for myself, stuff that is not meant to be shared with anybody else. Nevertheless, these are earnest writing exercises, and I would normally count them, even if they\u2019re only ever meant to be private. Another 5257 words there.\nMy most detested writing habit, the main reason why I even bother to differentiate between what writing \u201ccounts\u201d and what doesn\u2019t. But I\u2019m going to count it now, because it takes time and energy and is, ultimately, in service of creating a story, even if it often does more harm than good. I\u2019m also counting here because I want it to do good, so perhaps if I account for it, I will shift my attitude in that direction. Add another 5687 words.\nThat alone is more than 50k words written in November. Hah!\nBut I\u2019m still not done.\nI am not going to count my academic writing, because that\u2019s writing I had to do \u2013 I\u2019m only counting writing that I elected to do. That may change in the future, but for now I\u2019m sticking to it. Also it would take forever to count.\nSo instead, let\u2019s talk co-writing \u2026\nCo-writing project\nI never counted this one towards my Nano goals because it was a co-writing venture, and I wanted to keep it separate from my own personal goals. Also, screenplays take up fewer words, generally speaking. But it\u2019s all still writing that I did, so \u2026\nMake it another 2510 right there. That\u2019s just the screenwriting itself, not the planning notes \u2013 mostly because I wrote those notes with my co-writing partner (who honestly did most of that writing anyway, as well as most of the writing that has been done full-stop on this project), and I am not prepared to try and figure out which words exactly were mine and which were hers right now. And again, I\u2019m not the only one responsible for that writing, and it seems silly to try and extract my portion of it just to add towards this total (especially since it\u2019s now past 52k words, yeeeeeeeeah boiiiiiiii)\nAnd no, I\u2019m still not done. There is one more category of writing that I must add to the tally, and I\u2019m pretty sure you know what it is.\nNo, it\u2019s not my revision notes for Tallulah, because I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s useful to count words written in the service of revision, because it\u2019s not about the number of words produced, but the purpose of those words. And that\u2019s something you can\u2019t really measure quantitatively, or if you can I don\u2019t know how.\nNo, the final category is \u2026\n11994. Not including this post. Also not including drafts I wrote but didn\u2019t complete this month.\nI\u2019ve actually written way more than 50k words this month.\nIn fact, judging by this, it\u2019s safe to say that I write way more than 50k words every month. And that\u2019s something to think about as well.\nOkay, let\u2019s be all officious and shit with this; my grand total is: 67865, holy fuck have I written more than 50k words this month. And that\u2019s cherry-picking, too. Hell, take away the game notes and that\u2019s still just over 40k words. I didn\u2019t do too badly at all.\nAnd I think I\u2019m going to use this as an exercise in rethinking my priorities in terms of what writing \u201ccounts\u201d and what doesn\u2019t. Yes, there is the point that all of this is being very generous to myself (I am totally updating my word-count to include it though because I\u2019m an adult), and that part of the reason we count words is to identify progress on one specific project. But this Nano, it was about a bunch of projects anyway. It was about getting myself to write. And again, even without the game notes, I did a lot of writing this month. A lot of writing. And it was writing with a point.\nWriters are great at undermining themselves, particularly in terms of how productive they are, how much effort they\u2019ve put in, how much of what they\u2019ve done with their time is \u201cproductive\u201d or \u201creal writing\u201d, etc. And there\u2019s good reasons for that. But just in terms of writing itself, regardless of what project it\u2019s in service of, I think it\u2019s good to keep track of that every now and again, just to remind ourselves that, actually, we writers are very goddamn productive. As in we produce vast quantities of words \u2013 and as everyone who has ever given writing advice has said, more than once: at the end of the day, the only thing that matters, and the only thing that works, is actually sitting the fuck down and writing something.\nAnd apparently, I have done that. A lot. Just this month.\nSo all in all, I think there are worse ways to end Nanowrimo.\nPosted in The V-Log, Writing about Writing.\tTagged nanowrimo 2017, perspective, productivity, writing, writing that counts\nGoddammit May\nMay, for those of you who don\u2019t know, is one of the major characters in my book, Tallulah. About 50% of my internal commentary while reading, writing and generally considering the mere existence of Tallulah is taken up with repeating this phrase to myself. May is quite possibly my greatest creation, in many ways the character of whom I am most proud out of all the characters I have invented over the years, because she is an embodiment of weaponised angst and neurosis to a level I have never experienced in fiction before. I love her, because she is the purest incarnation of the part of my writer persona that wants nothing more than to inflict pain upon his characters and readers alike \u2013 fun pain, mind you, the kind that makes you wince and squirm and enjoy it; not pain out of malice, but because it\u2019s just so validating to elicit an earnest emotional response out of people. Mind you, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve succeeded in that attempt \u2013 I just know that that\u2019s the exact effect that she has on me.\nI\u2019ve missed this.\nI am revising Tallulah again. I said I wasn\u2019t going to make notes unless I felt the need to; I felt the need to tonight, so I made some. Either taking a few months off has changed my mindset with regards to revising this book, or I misjudged the extent to which note-making was interfering with my ability to commit to this revision. Whatever the case, I have fulfilled my solemn oath to myself to return to this revision endeavour and get it moving again, and re-acquainting myself with May and the squirm-inducing suffering she still inflicts upon my psyche, I\u2019m glad that I did. But for the next revision, I might make myself a printed copy and print it on something smaller than A4 pages so that I can read it in bed rather than having to sit at my laptop. And make it feel more like a real, published book.\nAs for Nanowrimo \u2013 you know what? I got something out of it. I don\u2019t need to finish this year. I also can\u2019t be fucked finishing this year, but that\u2019s not the point. It got me moving again, and I\u2019m grateful enough for that that I feel satisfied to not try and work myself up to go on a writing sprint. Then again, I have finished marking and have nothing left to do for the rest of the year except revision \u2026\nAnd reading. Lots of reading. I have taken the opportunity to punctuate my continuing-with-increasingly-diminishing-returns Urban Fantasy kick with a detour into Historical Fantasy Fiction, with Mary Robinette Kowal\u2019s Glamourist Histories series, this being the fourth book in the series, Valour and Vanity. This series belongs to a genre and tone I would quite comfortably say is \u201cnot really my thing\u201d, and is also a series I will quite happily count among my very favourites. And it is rather a breath of fresh air after the grittiness and holier-than-thou sanctimony that pervades a fair portion of Urban Fantasy. It\u2019s part of the charm, but a part that can very quickly become grating. I highly recommend it to anybody who \u2013 actually, I just highly recommend it, full-stop. It\u2019s not my thing, and I really like it, so I encourage you to give it a go, whatever your readerly inclinations.\nBut I am glad that I made this decision to just read Tallulah without having to feel obligated to make notes, even though I\u2019ve ended up doing it anyway. These are some of the more fully-developed characters that I have, characters I\u2019ve spent years with not just in my head, but on the page. I\u2019m familiar with these characters in ways I\u2019m not with characters that I\u2019ve had for longer, far longer in some cases. I still think of Tallulah as being a new story of mine, even though the initial concept was something I came up with in 2010 and I didn\u2019t actually start writing it until 2012. I guess it\u2019s a testament to how much your relationship with a story changes once you\u2019ve actually written it, when you have something \u2026 literal to work with, something actual, instead of abstractions and hypotheticals sustained by however much memory you can devote to them. These characters exist beyond my imagination now, and that makes the relationship different. I see these characters and think of how much still need to change for this story to work, but it\u2019s no longer a matter of just changing my mind; I have to physically delve into their inner workings and rearrange them. I am actually transforming them into something that they were not before every time I decide something has to change, rather than just thinking a different set of thoughts about them, because they are no longer just my thoughts. It\u2019s more \u2026 consequential.\nI had forgotten there was this much gravity in writing.\nI\u2019ve missed it. I\u2019m glad I came back to it.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged commitment is its own reward, nanowrimo 2017, revising a novel, writing\nAlways commit absolutely\nAlways reserve the right to change your mind, at any time, for any reason, with no judgment\nAlways keep everything you write\nI said when I started this blog that I didn\u2019t want it to be an advice blog \u2013 well, that\u2019s only mostly true. There are three pieces of advice I will always give, always stress the invaluable importance of, because they\u2019re the kind of advice that I need, and I know a lot of other people do as well. And I definitely need them right now.\nI have not been following rules 1 and 2 for a very long time, and when I do that, I find that I very naturally fall into the \u201chypothetical writing\u201d trap, where all my writing is \u201cwhat if this happened\u201d or \u201cyou know, I could do this\u201c. And I even found a counter to it: turn it into a conversation instead of just a huge rant \u2013 but I haven\u2019t been doing that, either. I\u2019ve just let myself keep writing in the hypothetical, not committed, not torn myself away from my myriad distractions so that I can actually write effectively, and it\u2019s taken its toll. I need to stop.\nI wrote nothing (nothing that counted) yesterday and it didn\u2019t feel good, but mind you not much of anything yesterday felt good, it was just kind of a shitty flat day where I wrote a bunch of crap that didn\u2019t count because it was all hypothetical writing and let\u2019s just say that this is why I am Starting Today. I am pulling out that old cliche because right now \u2013 starting today, in fact \u2013 it\u2019s exactly what I need to get back on track.\nSo Starting Today, it\u2019s all for real. No hypotheticals. Aaalll the stress of \u201cgetting it right\u201d the first time, so that I have the perfect excuse to get back to actually following my own cardinal rules of writing. I tend to not write because of my stupid perfectionist streak that ruins everything in my life. One of the reasons I keep coming back to those three rules \u2013 and in particular the first two; the third one is easy enough to follow, though no less important \u2013 is because it seems to be a brain-hack of sorts, a way to trick my inner perfectionist into thinking it\u2019s getting what it wants \u2013 which is to criticise, not to make things better \u2013 while at the same time completely undermining its efforts. Rule 1 \u2013 to commit absolutely \u2013 means that whatever it is I\u2019m doing, I\u2019m doing. I am writing that shit, I am sticking to the plan, I am doing it the way I said I would do it, even if it doesn\u2019t work.\nAnd this is vitally important, because Rule 2 \u2013 to reserve the right to change your mind at any time for any reason \u2013 means that when it doesn\u2019t work, you can immediately fix it. Immediately. None of this \u201cwait for revision\u201d shit; you just get in there and make it work right now. Do these two things seem completely at odds with each other? Yes, they do. But it\u2019s much less about taking those rules literally, as instructions, than it is about taking them on as mindsets. As attitudes. Doing most things in life is about your attitude when you attempt them. Thinking \u201cI can\u2019t do this because I\u2019m not good enough for X and Y reasons\u201d will get you nowhere in a hurry. Thinking \u201cthis is the plan and I\u2019m sticking to the plan no matter what because it\u2019s the plan\u201d will give you drive, determination, a sense of purpose to your endeavour; and thinking \u201cthis is shit I can do better than this and I\u2019m going to do it now\u201d will give you a sense of mastery, of flair, of showing off how brilliant you are and basking in the afterglory. We human beings are complex, and we are capable of thinking and believing seemingly contradictory things simultaneously.\nMight as well use it to our advantage.\nPart of the commitment I\u2019ve been feeling the lack of ties back to these two principles. I have been permitting myself to just take it easy, and I did need that. I\u2019m going to keep needing that every now and again, because everyone needs a break, and in one form or another we take that break, whether it\u2019s by doing sloppy work because you resent still having to do it, procrastinating until the last minute because you\u2019re so used to working non-stop that you don\u2019t know how to regulate your time in a healthy way, or having a nervous breakdown because you\u2019ve pushed yourself too hard for too long, refusing to look at the reasons why you thought you had to prove that you could.\nI might be projecting slightly here.\nAnd that\u2019s an area where my three rules don\u2019t help me out, or not in an obvious way at least. I guess a fourth rule, which was birthed when I let \u2013 and made \u2013 myself watch Stranger Things last year because I realised I was distracting myself when I literally had nothing to distract myself from, and not even enjoying it. That rule doesn\u2019t have a name yet, but it\u2019s also about being conscientious \u2013 just not about work and work alone. I guess it\u2019s Rule 1, just applied to recreation \u2013 if you\u2019re not working, then you\u2019re not fucking working. Enjoy it, because now that\u2019s the plan. You aren\u2019t allowed to work when you\u2019re Not Working, so don\u2019t even think about it.\nAnd, of course, Rule 2 still applies, or so I would think \u2013 it didn\u2019t have to apply when I was watching Stranger Things, though, because I really enjoyed that show and am very glad, even grateful, that I made myself take the time to indulge myself in watching it.\nSo I guess maybe I\u2019ve been a bit better about following these rules than I thought \u2013 just not with writing. I applied Rule 1 very hard to reading The Dresden Files this year, for instance, and other assorted Urban Fantasy pastries (I\u2019m up to book 5 in the Kate Daniels series and have finally made myself begin the Anita Blake series), and did not let guilt stop me from said indulgence, and I genuinely feel that I\u2019ve become a slightly better human being for it. So that\u2019s good.\nBut I need to re-apply it to writing. And, I think, take something else away from this: when it\u2019s not being applied to work, Rule 1 will very easily overrule Rule 2 if you let it, because if you\u2019re doing shit you enjoy, you\u2019re not going to want to change very much.\nOr maybe I just need a Rule 4: take reasonable time off and have some fucking fun, dumbass. That seems much easier.\nBut I need the rules, whatever the number, because I actually am starting to miss writing. Yes, I did say recently that I hated writing, but sometimes you just need to say something, get it off your chest, and once you do it loses its power, because it\u2019s no longer relevant. I said back when I discovered I was Not A Writer Anymore that I still wanted to act like I was a Writer, because it worked for getting writing done, and writing \u2013 rather than Writing \u2013 was something that I still wanted to do with my life. It still is. And I see now that one of the reasons it hasn\u2019t been working so well for me is this lack of commitment, and lack of conscientiousness around my writing habits. I have some good ones. I committed to those good habits while I was working on Tallulah the first time, and again when I was working on the revision. It fought off the \u201chypothetical writing\u201d trap. I haven\u2019t been able to make myself do it for anything less \u201cserious\u201d than Tallulah yet, but I want to work out the trick to it. I think it\u2019s just commitment.\nSo, coming back to Nanowrimo commitments \u2013 they\u2019re still on. It just might not be 50k words by the end of the month, but it\u2019ll be something. And more importantly, it will be something every day. Because what I\u2019m starting to realise is that I\u2019m actually much more disciplined than I think I am \u2013 not because my habits reflect it, but because what I miss right now is the discipline. Because that\u2019s what commitment is: the foundation upon which discipline is based. Discipline, when I think of the word, is just what happens when you turn your commitment into a habit.\nWhich \u2013 I can hardly believe I\u2019m saying this \u2013 I think I\u2019ve actually done. Because I feel a distinct urge to get back to it. I\u2019ve re-wired myself to want discipline \u2013 not so that I never fall off the wagon, but so that I notice when I do.\nI want to keep doing it. If that\u2019s not a sign, I\u2019m not a writer.\nWhich I guess I am.\nBut not because I have nothing else going on. Not anymore.\nSpeaking of which look forward to a totally off-topic Justice League rant coming up next time because sometimes when you get something off your chest you realise how much more you had left to say and boy do I have some Things To Say about this movie \u2026\nPosted in The V-Log, Writing about Writing.\tTagged commitment, following through, writer's block, writing, writing habits\nOnce again: \u201cWell, that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d\nI saw Justice League, it was about as good as I thought it could have been, pretty thin but enjoyable.\nThe notable thing for me, and I\u2019m sure a lot of other people because I\u2019m a narcissist, was the change in tone. It\u2019s corny in some places. It\u2019s not ham-fisted in a good way; it\u2019s genuinely awkward because it\u2019s just kind of flat. The whole film is pretty flat, to be honest, but far from irredeemable. And I did enjoy it. Not as good as The Avengers, but I don\u2019t think anybody dared hope for that.\nMaybe Age of Ultron.\nI didn\u2019t like Age of Ultron.\nBut what I did like was the theme \u2013 or what I thought was the theme at least. It\u2019s a stark change from the previous two DC films helmed by Snyder, which are gritty (ineffectual) deconstructions of the Superman mythos, how \u201cunrelatable\u201d he is because he, I dunno, has a fucking conscience and cares about humanity, like most decent people, but unlike them has the power to do something to actually help humanity where it counts. It\u2019s about the greater good and the banality of hope and the fact that justice and goodness are for little kids or whatever. I don\u2019t mind taking the more heavy-handed elements of superhero narratives to task in general, but Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman were wanktacular to a degree that even the Nolan Batman films didn\u2019t reach.\nThis film does a complete 180 on all of that. It\u2019s about hope. It\u2019s about goodness. It\u2019s about truth, justice, and \u2013 actually \u2013 the American Way. I can\u2019t help but read into this, and the timing is interesting. Bruce Wayne has been set up as kind of a deconstruction of the post-Frank Miller characterisation, with his hardass, reactionary, and pretty damn trigger-happy ethic being taken to task. As for Superman \u2013 I won\u2019t spoil anything, but I will say that at a time when America (and subsequently the world) is going through a very dark time where a reactionary man is the leader of the free world, the message of hope and how to find it in this film seems very pointed.\nThat\u2019s not to say that the film is good. Again, it\u2019s pretty flat, and while the themes are potentially interesting, they\u2019re really not developed very much. In fact that about sums up the whole film: potential for greatness that is never realised. But I will say that at least DC is now proving that it can make its villains just as unremarkable as those churned out by Marvel. This Steppenwolf was not born to be wild.\nThis totally relates to my writing, hang on.\nThe other day, I realised that one of the main ways I\u2019ve developed bad writing habits is by writing about my stories instead of just writing the stories themselves. The word I came up with was \u201chypothetically\u201d. I wrote \u2013 and thought \u2013 about my stories \u201chypothetically\u201d. Because a hypothetical doesn\u2019t require any commitment.\nWhat I found while I was watching Justice League was that, for the first time in years, I was comparing the story to my own. I was comparing these ideas to my own. It was not a hypothetical comparison. It was direct, literal, felt consequential. And I realised that I really, really want my ideas to get out into the world.\nI haven\u2019t felt like that in a long time.\nThe \u201cfun phase\u201d \u2013 well, it\u2019s been fun. That shitty YA werewolf novel was incredibly enjoyable to write for the first half, and I don\u2019t begrudge the shitty second half, though I do think it could have been so easily avoided. But that wasn\u2019t a story I ever wanted to share with the world. I just wanted to write it to prove something to myself. And I did. Not in the way I\u2019d hoped, but all the same, I proved to myself that I can write a whole story without thinking very much about it and have it feel like a story, and that I could do it while meeting other, time-intensive obligations, such as completing my MA.\nWhat I didn\u2019t realise was that it also shifted my storytelling priorities. I haven\u2019t felt the importance of any of my ideas pretty much since I started writing that project, because it wasn\u2019t about the ideas being important. It was about getting something written. I think I definitely needed that shift in perspective, because I had forgotten how to have fun with writing. But in giving up my super-serious, eternally-suffering perfectionist artist douche bag habits (or fighting valiantly against them at least), I also lost that spark of vitality that drove my writing. Nothing was important to me anymore. I let myself rip things off, and that\u2019s a good thing to do \u2013 but it also led to me only looking to rip things off, and losing the thread of my own creative urges. I lost what made my writing personal. It had become, in a different way, hypothetical again.\nUntil, for some reason, tonight, while I was watching this decidedly mediocre film, and thinking not so much \u201cI could do that, but better\u201d, and more \u201cthis is a story that has been put out into the world for people to experience. And it\u2019s not as good as one of mine.\u201d\nThat\u2019s not arrogance. That\u2019s conviction.\nSaying that is probably arrogance, though, but you can\u2019t win them all.\nAnd this isn\u2019t about truth. This is about belief. I truly believe that my ideas are worth the effort, and I\u2019d forgotten that \u2013 I have not cared about that for about a year and a half. But it\u2019s back now.\nAnd the idea I was thinking of?\nGoddammit, I love Tallulah. I miss it. I want to be done with it. I think I\u2019ve dragged it out for too long and it\u2019s doomed to be less than everything I want it to be, but fuck it, it\u2019s there, it\u2019s real, and I need to finish it, to let it go. To move on. I have never moved on from one of my stories. That\u2019s so weird. I\u2019ve drifted away from concepts, but I\u2019ve never gotten to a point where I could be finished, because I\u2019ve never finished.\nWell, except for the shitty YA werewolf novel, sure, but that was more of a writing exercise.\nNo. You know what? It counts. I wrote it, I finished writing it, and I move on. I want to know what that feels like for something I actually care about.\nWhatever I was doing with this last round of revision notes \u2013 it wasn\u2019t working. Last time a revision attempt took this long for me, I gave up on it, and that turned out to be the correct decision. I didn\u2019t let myself give up on this one, and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s driven me away from it. But I can\u2019t leave it.\nSo I\u2019m just going to read it. I\u2019m going to read it until I don\u2019t need notes to think about everything that needs to change. I\u2019m going to read it until I\u2019m so familiar with it that it feels claustrophobic, and then I\u2019m going to read it again. I don\u2019t need notes. Or, rather, I need to not make notes right now. I will probably go back to them eventually. But right now, I just need to know the story. I think also a problem with the notes I was trying to make was the inclusion of ways to fix what was wrong, and while that\u2019s obviously a useful thing to do in a lot of ways, I was making the notes in order to make changes \u2013 which is ostensibly what revision is. But it also distracted me from the story itself, and I think that\u2019s a big part of why I got so disheartened. I got so caught up in what it wasn\u2019t, what I didn\u2019t want to wait for it to be, that I didn\u2019t pay enough attention to what it was. If I do that, I think the obvious solutions will come to me, and I may not even need to make notes at all.\nI\u2019m not saying I will not allow myself to make notes; I\u2019m saying I\u2019m going to wait until I have a compelling reason to make them, rather than looking for excuses to make them and distract me from the story as it is.\nI\u2019m saying that it\u2019s time to finish this. It\u2019s been too long already, but I can\u2019t give up on it. It\u2019s too important to me. It\u2019s the story I want to commit to, because I am already committed. I\u2019ve just been distracted.\nIf nothing else, I can say that Justice League made me appreciate my own ideas more. It really is not a spectacular movie. But it does some things quite well.\nJust not as good as I can do them \u2013 but enough talk.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged believe in your story, writing, you have to commit\nTime To Commit (14074)\nSo I\u2019ve had this blog for 5 years. Once again, thanks to everyone who\u2019s still reading, hello and welcome to all newcomers, and my god I am not going to try and summarise this blog and its history and its future because anyone who\u2019s been here for long enough knows that I have no fucking clue what I\u2019m doing, every time I make a decision about how things are going to change around here I don\u2019t follow through, and that\u2019s not the point anyway.\nThe point is that this is my rant-factory, where I try to contrive ways to relate every thought and feeling I have back to writing, and sometimes actually have things to write about writing itself\nLike tonight. I have something to say about writing tonight.\nI already had that little meltdown, though, so here\u2019s a twist: I hate writing without a clear goal in sight. And I set myself up for this; and that\u2019s fine. It\u2019s all learning, right? I committed to this task of trying to juggle multiple projects at once, because none of them actually stood out to me as being as engaging as I wanted a project to be. This, in fact, is what I wanted to happen. I wanted to hate writing so much that it makes me feel compelled to grind my teeth to dust against each other, swallow the residue and choke myself to death.\nTalk about follow-through.\nBut, kidding aside, this actually is something like what I wanted to happen: I wanted to get to the point where one of these projects broke away and told me \u201chey, asshole, fucking write me\u201d, and then I would write that one. This has not happened, however \u2013 but what has happened is the incredible frustration that I now feel for this current course of action, splitting my focus up among several different projects and trying to remain equally invested in each of them. It has not made any one of my projects stand out to me more than the others, so in that sense I haven\u2019t gotten what I wanted.\nBut what I have gotten is arguably better, because right now I just want to commit. I want to make a choice, and stick to it, and start finding shit out about that project by writing it into existence.\nIt\u2019s halfway through the month, and honestly I\u2019m kind of amazed that I\u2019ve written, on average, 1k words per day up to this point. Yes, the past few days have consisted of word-counts of generally less than 600 apiece, but that\u2019s just how long it\u2019s taken for me to identify the problem. Things will get better now.\nThey\u2019d better fucking get better anyway this is ass.\nBut I know from experience that commitment actually solves a lot of problems when it comes to writing. It\u2019s not about motivation, at all; it\u2019s about making the decision to stick to your project when you have the option to give up. Granted, it has only really worked for me once, and that was with Tallulah when I was already about halfway through it. And god that was hard. I hated being at that point. But I committed to getting it done, and now I\u2019m still putting off my second revision of the manuscript. I still have yet to equal that amount of progress with any of my other creative works. I am, techincally, a published author, and have been since age \u2026 7? 8? I sent in a short story to a radio show and they read it out loud and everything. It was great. Not the story; the story was a little bit heavy on the telling, to memory. But yeah, been chasing a dream for the last 17 years that actually came true before I even cared about it.\nOh also my MA but that doesn\u2019t have magic in it so it doesn\u2019t count.\nWhat was my oh right the reason I think it worked with Tallulah is the reason I think it hasn\u2019t worked since then: I already had a huge amount of investment put into Tallulah, so there was some considerable weight to the decision. Every other project I\u2019ve tried that same strategy with has failed, and all of those projects were very much in a state of infancy at the time. It\u2019s just not that difficult to say \u201cyou know what, fuck this\u201d when you\u2019ve barely made any headway. In order for commitment to work, you need to have gained enough ground that you would be losing something if you gave up. That, I think, must be the mechanism that\u2019s been missing.\nBut this is new, what I\u2019m experiencing right now: the frustration of being noncommittal. I want commitment. It\u2019s like when your body wants sugar; mine wants commitment right now. And all of these projects are in their infancy, so this is a new experience for me.\nCommitment comes with a whole bunch of, uh, commitments, which is why I\u2019m also hesitant to do it; I can feel the self-sabotage building like a thunderhead even as I consider this. I\u2019ve been leaving writing until very late these past few, low word-count days, and that\u2019s had an effect on things as well. I\u2019ve done something very stupid and self-sabotaging, which is to start a new save file of Hollow Knight. Which is an amazing game that everybody should play, but I have shit to do, goddammit brain. It\u2019s like fucking clockwork. I tried to make up for it today by being productive \u2013 and I was \u2013 but that\u2019s still kind of procrastinating, distracting myself from doing the thing that I\u2019m put off by because of the implications but that I nevertheless need to do and feel the need to do. I feel the lack that comes from not having done it yet.\nI need to do it.\nI need to get further. I need to make the commitment to push further. If I give up after that, then that\u2019s a different matter. But I need to get to that point first. I owe it to myself, if nothing else \u2013 every time Nanowrimo rolls around, I have something to prove, and goddammit, I want to fucking prove it this time. I want to write a motherfucking novel.\nYou know what? Yes, that is an off-putting thought, but I\u2019m going to treat it as a challenge, because it\u2019s not going away. I\u2019m going to work out how to deal with that problem. I\u2019m going to make a comprehensive plan for one of these fucking things. Hell, maybe I\u2019ll make a plan to get through the first act and no further, just to make it more manageable. The goal is still to hit 50k words (I\u2019m still including everything I\u2019ve written of whatever projects I don\u2019t decide to follow through with, because they\u2019re words I\u2019ve written) before December 1st, but that doesn\u2019t mean I have to plan that far.\nAnyway. That\u2019s for tomorrow. I can do it. So sayeth the Ubermensch!\nPosted in The V-Log.\nThe inevitable has happened.\nI have finally found that trying to simultaneously work on 3 different projects and keep up momentum for all of them is, um, hard. It\u2019s hard. It\u2019s a lot of work, guys.\nBut I think that\u2019s okay. Nothing has quite grabbed me yet: the urban fantasy project is probably the one I find hardest to apply myself to, simply because the tone is so important and I just don\u2019t seem to have it down; the Hero\u2019s Journey Deconstruction has been pretty much superseded in appeal by the story-within-a-story I made up on the spot to put in it for metaphor duty; and this story-within-a-story that I have started writing is pretty fun, but it\u2019s also just so fucking basic. And not even good basic, not yet anyway. It\u2019s basically just a straight-up Hero\u2019s Journey, because it\u2019s supposed to stand in for the fantasy of The Good Old Days that I\u2019m sure we all have \u2013 nostalgia. But I\u2019m going through it too quickly, skipping over things that I need to develop more to set the proper tone and establish the themes \u2013 it\u2019s basically The NeverEnding Story meets The Last Starfighter, or what I know of The Last Starfighter, which is not a lot. Kid lives in the normal world, gets transported to a fantastical other world because he\u2019s the Chosen One, eventually returns to the normal world and makes things better but with enough potential to return to the fantastical other world to justify sequel-bait in the last scene. An old classic. And I like the idea of telling this kind of story; it\u2019s something new for me, and like Star Wars and The NeverEnding Story, it\u2019s just a very pure kind of story, the kind that opens at maximum Joseph Campbell velocity and never lets up.\nIt\u2019s unironic, too, as opposed to the Hero\u2019s Journey Deconstruction project, which is all irony, all the time. It\u2019s self-referential, self-reflexive, self-aware and self-absorbed. And I like that, don\u2019t get me wrong, but it\u2019s just so much effort, all for the sake of being a bit of a smartass. I don\u2019t think I am that much of a smartass. And there is something so appealing about a totally earnest story, something that isn\u2019t trying to critique, deconstruct and/or subvert established tropes, but rather trying to be as strong of a story as it can possibly be.\nThe two aren\u2019t incompatible, and that, in fact, was what my Hero\u2019s Journey Deconstruction project was an effort to prove, in some ways at least. But being wry is just so \u2026 mean, in a way. There\u2019s an inherently condescending aspect to it that this new story doesn\u2019t have, and I\u201dm craving that.\nIt\u2019s just a shame that it\u2019s not that interesting.\nAnd it\u2019s not supposed to be. It\u2019s supposed to be a metaphor for, essentially, Star Wars, but also the general idea of A Simpler Time, that mythic narrative that justifies dismissing everything new because it\u2019s Not As Good as how things were Back In My Day. And most importantly, it\u2019s not supposed to be a full story in its own right. It\u2019s supposed to be a metaphor for a story.\nI\u2019ve bought into my own hype, basically. That\u2019s how I feel right now.\nThen again, good ideas can come from anywhere, and I like a lot of the ideas that I have for this thing. But I am going to make the effort to work on something else for the next few days, because this is not the kind of story that I really think has much of a future in its current state. It\u2019s got the potential for cool world-building, but as I\u2019ve said before, I\u2019m not much one for world-building as a reader, and as such I don\u2019t want to spend a huge amount of time on it as a writer.\nBut regardless, the word-count continues to climb, and that can only be a good thing.\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged buying into your own hype, nanowrimo 2017, unexpected story ideas, writing\nA very writer moment\nSo part of my 3k-word voyage this evening involved me making up a fictional film franchise, on the fly, to serve as an allegory for nostalgia for the Good Old Days, and of course a thinly-veiled criticism of how Hollywood has a history of adapting or rebooting beloved, nostalgia-real-estate IPs to disastrous effects. It\u2019s not a dig at any franchise in particular, and honestly probably doesn\u2019t quite do what I want it to do yet \u2013 that\u2019s for revision to fix.\nBut the actual fictional film franchise that I\u2019ve started making up \u2026\nI\u2019m starting to think maybe I should write it.\nI mean, it\u2019s not remotely well-developed, and the ideas are things that I\u2019m not sure how to do justice to \u2013 but that\u2019s also part of what I like about it. It feels very new, almost too new, and a lot of my ideas don\u2019t have that feeling anymore \u2013 they tend to get quite a bit of development before I start even thinking about working on them. Of course, that\u2019s also because a lot of my new ideas are intentionally based off or adapted from older projects of mine, or are ripping off existing stories that I have come across and think are cool enough to blatantly copy. There\u2019s a lot of work already done with them, whereas with this \u2026 there\u2019s almost nothing. I don\u2019t even know how it would play out; I can\u2019t even think of an ending, a middle, or a hook for the beginning.\nAnd I kind of really want that.\nI kind of want to start wading into a mess and seeing what comes out of it. I want to fill some space with ideas that I think might work because they\u2019re all I can think of, not because I have a clear and perfect vision or a moment of clarity that tells me \u201cTHIS is the thing to do\u201d. I want something clunky to grapple with, to try and manipulate and master.\nI want something original. And I\u2019m not talking about the ideas themselves not bearing any resemblance to other ideas, because they intentionally do. I\u2019m talking about the feeling that comes with setting out to write something and having no idea how it\u2019s going to turn out. Everything I\u2019ve set out to write over the past decade-ish has been at least somewhat premeditated, but this \u2013 this is pure spontaneity, and I\u2019m kind of afraid of missing this chance to see where it leads.\nFuck it. I\u2019m doing it. This Nanowrimo was all about writing a bunch of different things anyway, and I want to get into the habit of writing out my ideas when I have them, as opposed to over-thinking them and killing my momentum with perfectionism. I want this.\nGod I feel so giddy what the fuck is going on with me lately \u2026\nPosted in The V-Log.\tTagged inspiration, nanowrimo 2017, spontaneous writing, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 43604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/flir-systems-inc?publisherId=90446&releaseId=12051712", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IJSZQJYIECZKKSOFRHRUSLMWCV372JJ6", "length": 4518, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "via.ritzau.dk", "title": "FLIR Systems, Inc. | Globenewswire", "raw_content": "FLIR Releases High-Resolution Thermal Camera Development Kit for Self-Driving Cars\nAffordable Thermal Sensors Will Allow Auto Industry to Advance the Reliability and Redundancy Needed for Self-Driving Cars\nWILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) today announced the availability of a high-resolution Thermal Vision Automotive Development Kit (ADK(TM) ) featuring the high-performance FLIR Boson(TM) thermal camera for automakers, tier-one automotive parts suppliers, and innovators of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The new FLIR ADK allows developers to add an affordable, long-range thermal camera to their ADAS development vehicles to help advance reliability and redundancy required for self-driving cars.\nAs the auto industry's only automotive-qualified passive infrared sensor currently in production, FLIR\u00ae sensors are offered today on numerous vehicles from General Motors, Peugeot, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW, and as an aftermarket system. An ideal sensor technology for pedestrian and animal detection, thermal sensors can see up to four times the distance of typical headlights. Thermal imaging helps drivers and future self-driving vehicles see in challenging environments such as darkness, sun glare, fog, smoke, and haze. Given this differentiated sensing capability and intense market focus, ABI Research expects annual shipments of night vision systems, including thermal imaging sensors, to grow from 200,000 in 2017 to 4.2 million in 20211 .\nThe FLIR ADK features the high-resolution FLIR Boson, which is equipped with an Intel\u00ae Movidius(TM) Myriad(TM) 2 Vision Processing Unit, a sophisticated, low-power multi-core vision processor that fits within a compact footprint package ideal for automobiles. The ADK is also compatible with the NVIDIA\u00ae DRIVE(TM) autonomous vehicle computing platform.\n\"FLIR thermal imaging sensors have played a critical role in enhancing driver safety for more than a decade, and using them for advanced driver assistance systems in self-driving cars is a natural evolution,\" said James Cannon, President and CEO of FLIR. \"With our latest high-resolution automotive development kit, automakers can develop and integrate thermal imaging technology in self-driving cars easier, faster, and with low cost of ownership.\"\nFLIR will demonstrate the ADK on the NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 at CES 2018 in the FLIR booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall 3, #31160. The FLIR ADK is available for purchase today. To learn more, visit http://www.flir.com/adk/ .\nFounded in 1978 and headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, FLIR Systems is a world-leading maker of sensor systems that enhance perception and heighten awareness, helping to save lives, improve productivity, and protect the environment. Through its nearly 3,500 employees, FLIR's vision is to be \"The World's Sixth Sense\" by leveraging thermal imaging and adjacent technologies to provide innovative, intelligent solutions for security and surveillance, environmental and condition monitoring, outdoor recreation, machine vision, navigation, and advanced threat detection. For more information, please visit www.flir.com and follow @flir .\nThe statements of opinion in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates, and projections about FLIR's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including risks and uncertainties discussed from time to time in FLIR's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and FLIR does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, or for changes made to this document by wire services or Internet service providers.\n1 ABI Research, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Third Quarter 2017\nA photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/e9f60f49-88af-47ec-a990-3252c2b9c67d\nEmail: shane.harrison@flir.com\nWEB:http://www.flir.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vietnamnews.vn/media-outreach/505338/cuhk-business-school-research-offers-insights-on-how-the-us-china-trade-dispute-will-move-forward.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DKFATSE4LQC3RPT5RYRGXLGVY3GYAYV2", "length": 10298, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "vietnamnews.vn", "title": "CUHK Business School Research Offers Insights on How the US-China Trade Dispute Will Move Forward - Media-OutReach - Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News", "raw_content": "Why the United States went from 19th-century violator to champion of intellectual property rights may show how the trade dispute with China will move forward\nHONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 14 February 2019 - There is growing uncertainty about how recent trade disputes between the United States and China will be resolved -- and how it could affect the rest of the world.\nHowever, academics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School, City University of New York, and the University of Texas at Dallas in the United States -- who previously looked at the two countries' global trading history and relationship -- believe they can provide valuable insights into the possible outcome.\nIn November 2018, the trade dispute was halted -- at least for 90 days -- to allow for more talks. China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to the move on December 1 in Buenos Aires -- at the end of the G20 summit of leaders and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union -- in their first talks since the trade dispute started. Representatives from the two nations held two days of talks at the end of January 2019, with the United States side saying they were considering a trip to Beijing in early February, after the Lunar New Year, to resume negotiations. However, the trip was ruled out by Donald Trump.\nThe halt to the dispute came after G20 leaders agreed a joint declaration that noted international trade divisions -- including one between Beijing and Washington involving intellectual property rights (IPR).\n\"Given the scope and scale of potential IPR violations in China, the U.S. has frequently sought better IPR protection in China and has been frustrated by the lack of progress, in spite of recent improvements,\" said David Ahlstrom, Professor of Department of Management at CUHK Business School, referring to his study entitled History and the Debate Over Intellectual Property.\nProf. Ahlstrom has been named by the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers 2018 as one of the world's top researchers who has demonstrated significant influence by publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade from 2006-2016.\nHe and his co-authors of the paper, Prof. Mike W. Peng and Prof. Shawn M. Carraher, both of the University of Texas at Dallas, and Prof. Weilei (Stone) Shi of City University of New York believe the key to predicting the future development of IPR lies in a deeper understanding of the history of U.S. IPR development, which reveals interesting historical parallels with the current situation in China.\n\"Many people take for granted that the U.S. is a leading IPR champion and China a leading IPR violator,\" Prof. Ahlstrom said. \"Yet as recently as the 19th century, the U.S. was a leading IPR violator.\"\nFor more than 100 years, between the founding of the United States in 1776 and the enactment of the Chace Act in 1891 -- which gave U.S. copyright protection to citizens of other countries and a similar degree of protection to U.S. citizens -- the pirating of British and foreign publications, such as books, and entertainment, such as stage plays, was widely practiced by numerous Americans.\nThe United States, with its lower levels of literary and economic development, was slow to introduce the protection of foreign IPR because it knew the potential benefits would simply go to foreign inventors, authors and firms, such as British publishers, while domestic consumers would face higher costs for books, media products and innovative goods.\nEven U.S. author Edgar Allan Poe got involved, copying works of British authors for his coauthored 1839 textbook on molluscs. And it was the only book that Poe made much money on in his lifetime.\n\"Such plagiarism was quickly discovered,\" he said. \"Poe admitted as much in his own writings, but with no international copyright agreement, the original British publisher had no recourse.\"\nProf. Ahlstrom said China's current IPR laws were generally well-crafted and had pushed a lot of IPR violation underground. But enforcement is weak.\n\"Thousands of firms and tens of thousands of individuals have made rational decisions -- from their standpoint at least -- to engage in piracy and counterfeiting,\" he said.\nEven for proven violations, current Chinese law generally imposes a maximum fine of one million yuan (US$160,000); however, the average award is only 190,000 yuan (US$30,000) -- hardly enough to deter violations and that may not even cover legal costs.\nStronger IP protection such as criminalising all counterfeiting activities -- instead of only criminalising large-scale counterfeiting above a certain threshold -- is likely to significantly reduce counterfeiters' incentives.\nBeijing's reluctance to increase the maximum fine for IPR violations may be the result of concerns that, at this relatively early stage of China's development, satisfying U.S. IPR demands may result in foreign -- and primarily U.S. -- IP rights holders benefiting more: In short, costs may exceed benefits.\n\"An institution-based view of IPR history suggests that both the U.S. refusal to protect foreign IPR in the 19th century and the current Chinese lack of enthusiasm to meet U.S. IPR demands represent rational choices.\"\n\"However, as cost-benefit considerations change institutional transitions are possible,\" as Prof. Mike Peng has written extensively about.\nBack in late 19th century America, pressure for change came from numerous inventors, authors, and organizations, who were keen to market their products abroad, but knew they would get better IPR protection from foreign governments only if Washington offered equivalent protection to foreign IP rights holders in the U.S.\nProf. Ahlstrom said research showed that it was only when the U.S. economy was taking off, and its IP production was extensive enough, that it felt could extend IPR protection to foreigners.\nHe said since the 2000s China had actively promoted innovation and IPR -- with patent applications rising from 476,000 in 2005 to more than 1.2 million in 2010: today it is the world leader in patent applications.\nGiven the domestic and international complaints about the lack of IPR expertise among judges, China has also set up a system of specialised IP courts led by judges specifically trained in IPR enforcement.\nAs a result, IPR litigation has skyrocketed, with China now the world's most litigious IPR nation, in terms of the number of cases.\nThis change is thanks to foreign pressure, greater invention by firms and citizens, and the gradual public recognition of the wider cost benefits of stronger IPR protection; both the Chinese government and businesses realize that more sustained economic growth will increasingly need to draw on IPR.\nProf. Ahlstrom said China's economic development will help improve IPR protection, just as U.S. economic development did in the 19th century. Poor countries still have little IPR to protect.\nAs inventive capacity emerges, competition remains based on imitation, so most economic and political interests prefer weak IPR protection.\nYet when an economy develops further, additional inventive capacity and demands for high-quality products emerge, and commercial lobbies demand effective protection -- a domestic interest that coincides with the foreign interest in better IPR protection.\nHe said that U.S. businesses now complaining about IPR violations in China could also learn how British authors, composers and firms dealt with American counterfeiters over 100 years ago. For example, British composers Gilbert and Sullivan brought their entire troupe to New York to perform the comic opera The Pirates of Penzance -- wrong-footing the copycats who had paid no royalties when performing their earlier hit, HMS Pinafore.\nIn contemporary China, many multinationals had adapted to Beijing's IPR system by using a Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style pre-emptive strategy, he said.\nSpecifically, they file patents and trademarks -- including Chinese language trademarks -- as soon as possible, or set up strategic alliances with dependable Chinese partners right away, which make major patent infringement more difficult.\nProf. Ahlstrom said showing how the U.S. has transformed itself into a leading IPR champion could throw light on the current US-China debate on IPR.\n\"We predict that to the same extent that the U.S. voluntarily agreed to strengthen IPR protection when the U.S. economy became sufficiently innovation-driven, so China will similarly enhance its IPR protection,\" he said.\n\"We further predict that when Chinese IPR are significantly violated abroad, China will become more serious about IPR protection. Therefore, we suggest that China's domestic innovation policies need to be strengthened instead of discouraged by foreign IP rights holders, governments, and other stakeholders.\"\nMike W. Peng, David Ahlstrom, Shawn M. Carraher, and Weilei (Stone) Shi. 2017. History and the Debate Over Intellectual Property. Management and Organization Review 13:1, March 2017, 15--38.\nThis article was first published in the China Business Knowledge (CBK) website by CUHK Business School: https://bit.ly/2N2edKY.\nAbout CUHK Business School\nCUHK Business School comprises two schools -- Accountancy and Hotel and Tourism Management -- and four departments -- Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Finance, Management and Marketing. Established in Hong Kong in 1963, it is the first business school to offer BBA, MBA and Executive MBA programmes in the region. Today, the School offers 8 undergraduate programmes and 20 graduate programmes including MBA, EMBA, Master, MSc, MPhil and Ph.D.\nIn the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2019, CUHK MBA is ranked 57th. In FT's 2018 EMBA ranking, CUHK EMBA is ranked 29th in the world. CUHK Business School has the largest number of business alumni (35,000+) among universities/business schools in Hong Kong -- many of whom are key business leaders. The School currently has about 4,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students and Professor Kalok Chan is the Dean of CUHK Business School.\nMore information is available at www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk or by connecting with CUHK Business School on Facebook: www.facebook.com/cuhkbschool and LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/school/3923680/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 13341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://villatoscanarehab.com/skilled-nursing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:00Z", "digest": "sha1:VSJ652HYH3U2F2KEXCGOMSGB73HFOMHG", "length": 1581, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "villatoscanarehab.com", "title": "Skilled Nursing - Villa Toscana at Cypress Woods", "raw_content": "Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation in Houston\nVilla Toscana at Cypress Woods offers compassionate and personal skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services to seniors in the Houston area. 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Let us help you or your loved one heal in a warm and comforting environment.\nOur skilled nursing program is committed to empowering each resident through individualized programs to reach goals of increased independence. We provide as much autonomy as possible within an environment that nurtures and supports. Our specialized staff offers physical, speech, and occupational therapies, wound and IV care, and much more.\nOur focus is to create a warm and inviting environment in which patients will thrive and heal. 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Everything else removed around 2000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://votesmart.org/bill/10828/30588/72/jesse-jackson-voted-yea-concurrence-vote-with-amendment-hr-4213-unemployment-benefits-extension", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FVF62DS7PNXCF7KGJVXJLUCUVA4S6AC5", "length": 8812, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "votesmart.org", "title": "HR 4213 - Unemployment Benefits Extension - National Key Vote - The Voter's Self Defense System - Vote Smart", "raw_content": "July 20, 2010 Senate Cloture Invoked\nS Amdt 3353 - Payment to Social Security Recipients\nS Amdt 4326 - Requiring Reports on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt\nS Amdt 4302 -\nVote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that amends the filing deadline for an extension of unemployment benefits from June 2, 2010 to November 30, 2010, and amends the termination date of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program from November 6, 2010 to April 30, 2011.\nWould qualify for a new benefit year in which the weekly benefit amount of regular compensation is at least either $100 or 25 percent less than the weekly benefit in the aforementioned previous benefit year.\nVote to concur with House amendments and adopt additional amendments to a bill that amends the filing deadline for an extension of unemployment benefits from June 2, 2010 to November 30, 2010, and amends the termination date of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program from November 6, 2010 to April 30, 2011.\nLegislation - Cloture Invoked (Senate) (60-40) - July 20, 2010(Key vote)\nVote on a motion to invoke cloture on a bill that amends the filing deadline for an extension of unemployment benefits from June 2, 2010 to November 30, 2010, and amends the termination date of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program from November 6, 2010 to April 30, 2011.\nNOTE: INVOKING CLOTURE REQUIRES A 3/5 MAJORITY OF THE SENATE. IT IS NOT A VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, BUT LIMITS FURTHER DEBATE TO 30 HOURS. CLOTURE IS TYPICALLY USED TO END A FILIBUSTER. A FAILED CLOTURE VOTE OFTEN PREVENTS THE LEGISLATION FROM EVER COMING TO A VOTE.\nLegislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (245-171) - May 28, 2010\nNOTE: THIS IS NOT A VOTE TO CONCUR WITH THE ENTIRE BILL TEXT; THE QUESTION WAS DIVIDED INTO PORTIONS, EACH OF WHICH REQUIRES A SEPARATE VOTE. THE PORTION OF THE BILL TEXT THAT THIS CONCURRENCE VOTE APPLIES IS ENUMERATED IN THE SUMMARY.\nTitle: Unemployment Benefits Extension and Tax Law Amendments\nVote to concur with Senate amendments and adopt additional amendments to a bill that extends unemployment insurance provisions and amends tax law in various ways to extend tax credits and deductions and to offset expenses.\nExtends various unemployment compensation provisions authorized by existing law through November 30, 2010 (Sec. 501).\nExtends a provision of law that allows for the deduction of state and local sales taxes in lieu of income taxes so that it shall expire on January 1, 2011 rather than January 1, 2010 (Sec. 223).\nExtends a provision of law that allows for tax-free distributions from individual retirement plans for qualified charitable purposes so that it shall expire on January 1, 2011, rather than after January 1, 2010 (Sec. 226).\nExtends the standard deduction for state and local real property taxes so that it applies for any taxable year beginning in 2010 (rather than expiring after the taxable year that begins in 2009) (Sec. 222).\nExtends the \"above-the-line\" deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses so that it expires on January 1, 2011 rather than January 1, 2010 (Sec. 225).\nExtends the tax credit for \"increasing research activities\" so that it expires on January 1, 2011 rather than January 1, 2010 (Sec. 241).\nIncludes various revenue offset tax provisions, including, but not limited to, the following (Secs. 401, 402, and 412):\nA requirement that, in the case of a foreign tax credit splitting event, the relevant tax and credits (U.S. Code Title 26, Subpart A) shall be suspended until related income is taken into account;\nA requirement that, in the case of a covered asset acquisition, the disqualified portion of foreign income tax attributable to income from relevant foreign assets shall not be taken into account under U.S. Code Title 26, Sections 901(a), 902, or 960; and\nA requirement that, in the case of an investment partnership interest, any net income or loss with respect to such interest shall be treated as ordinary income or an ordinary loss.\nEstablishes the Trust Land Consolidation Fund in the Treasury of the United States, to be made available to the Secretary to conduct the Land Consolidation Program and for other costs specified in the Indian Money Account Litigation Settlement, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury, upon final approval (as defined in the Settlement), to deposit $2 billion in the Fund (Sec. 607).\nAppropriates to the Secretary of Agriculture $1.15 billion to carry out the terms of the Settlement Agreement regarding the Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation, if the Settlement Agreement is approved by a court order that becomes final and non-appealable (Sec. 608).\nAppropriates $1 billion for grants to States for youth activities, including summer employment for youth (Sec. 605).\nThis concurrence with amendment vote applies to the entire bill text as passed the previous chamber except for Section 523, which was voted on in a subsequent vote.\nTitle: Extending Unemployment Benefits and Certain Tax Credits\nVote to pass a bill that extends certain unemployment benefits and COBRA premium assistance payments, as well as various tax credits.\nPostpones the expiration of unemployment compensation benefits (as originally authorized in Public Laws 110-252 and 111-5) from April 5, 2010 to December 31, 2010 (Sec. 201).\nPostpones the expiration of the eligibility period for premium assistance for COBRA benefits (as originally authorized by Public Laws 111-5 and 111-144) from March 31, 2010 to December 31, 2010 (Sec. 211).\nExtends the suspension of the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for Medicare physician payments so that the update to the single conversion factor shall be 0 percent for the period ending on September 30, 2010, rather than the existing expiration date of March 31, 2010 (Sec. 601).\nExtends the expiration date from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2010 for an alternative motor vehicle tax credit for new qualified hybrid motor vehicles purchased in 2010 (Sec. 101).\nExtends the expiration date from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2010 for tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel sold or used in 2010 (Sec. 102).\nExtends the expiration date from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2010 for new energy efficient home credits for homes purchased in 2010 (Sec. 107).\nExtends the expiration date from January 1, 2010 to January 1, 2011 for deductions of certain state and local sales taxes (Sec. 113).\nAuthorizes for each state's housing credit agency, a credit equal to each state's 2010 low-income housing refundable credit election amount (Sec. 121).\nExtends from December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2010, the employer wage credit for employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services (Sec. 136).\nAppropriates an additional $7.5 million for fiscal year 2009 and $6 million for fiscal year 2010 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Program Management account (Sec. 229).\nAppropriates an additional $17.5 million for fiscal year 2009 and $14 million for fiscal year 2010 to the Administration on Aging for various programs (Sec. 229).\nAppropriates $560 million to the Small Business Administration Business Loans Program Account for the cost certain fee reductions, small business loans, and loan guarantees, to remain available through December 31, 2010 (Sec. 246).\nDecreases appropriations to the Medicare Improvement Fund for fiscal year 2013-2014 from $20.74 billion to $12.74 billion (Sec. 431).\nRequires the establishment, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this bill, a page on the official senate website entitled \"Information on the Budgetary Effects of Legislation Considered by the Senate' which should include (Sec. 616):\nLinks to appropriate pages on the Congressional Budget Office website that contain cost estimates of legislation passed by the Senate; and\nLinks to any other pages with information produced by the Congressional Budget Office that further explain budgetary effects.\nRequires the following information be posted \"prominently\" on the front page of the Senate's official website (Sec. 617):\nThe total amount of direct and discretionary spending passed by the Senate that has not been paid for;\nThe total amount of net spending authorized in legislation passed by the Senate;\nThe number of new government programs created by legislation passed by the Senate; and\nThe totals of the previous three requirements as passed by both Houses of Congress and signed into law.\nNOTE: THIS BILL WAS AMENDED BY STRIKING THE ENTIRETY OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE BILL AND REPLACING IT WITH THE TEXT OF THE AMENDMENT. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE NEW BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY; IT MAY ADDRESS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SUBJECT.\nLegislation - Bill Passed (House) (241-181) - Dec. 9, 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 17289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 186.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vucavu.com/en/artists/m/brian-macdonald", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RTWDNVPUBJ25DWSD7OL4XS6CAC3YUYDY", "length": 368, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vucavu.com", "title": "Brian MacDonald - VUCAVU", "raw_content": "Brian MacDonald graduated with a BA in English from the University of Western Ontario (1993), where he also studied film and theatre. Language, narrative, film conventions, and live performance are concepts that he explores through video. His early video projects are thematically concerned with intimacy and isolation.\nBelated Eulogy For My Father\nBlue Skies + Sunset", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://waitingforthemaster.wordpress.com/2014/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:11Z", "digest": "sha1:T2ORT32MXSLNVBOA3IBJ3QKCYJO573PO", "length": 32420, "nlines": 160, "source_domain": "waitingforthemaster.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2014 | waitingforthemaster", "raw_content": "The Sights And The Sounds Of The Season\nThis year let the sights and the sounds of the holiday season remind you of God\u2019s great plan, love and provision for mankind. Gingerbread men, candy canes, bells, snowflakes and lights all can be used to point people to Jesus Christ and to show the great love that God has for man.\nI. Jesus Spices Up My Life\nThe sacrifices in the Old Testament, when properly done, were a sweet aroma to God. Aaron and his sons needed to offer sacrifices for themselves and for the people.\n\u201cYou shall also take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram; and you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar. Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash the entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head. And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.\u201d\nLeviticus 1:9 NKJV\n\u201c\u2026And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.\u201d\nIn the Bible when we read that something is a \u201cstench\u201d it means that God hates it or rejects it. When we read that something is a \u201csweet smell\u201d it means that God is pleased or accepts it. No sacrifices (burnt offerings) were needed after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jesus left His place in heaven and came to this earth so that He could pay our penalty for our sin. Through Jesus\u2019 sacrifice we a can be a sweet aroma (smell) to God. The \u201cstench\u201d of our sin is done away with when the blood of Jesus is applied to our life. Jesus truly \u201cspices up our live\u201d and makes us acceptable to God, our Father. He paid for our salvation (made us acceptable to God) with His own life and blood.\n\u201cYet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him,\nSin stinks to God. When we have sin in our life we stink to God, and we are unacceptable. God hates sin. He does not hate the sinner, but He hates the sin! When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior we become a \u201csweet\u201d smell to God. We are accept by God only through the blood of Jesus.\nIf we have accepted salvation when God looks down upon us, he does not see the sin that we committed, all He sees is the blood of Jesus Christ.\nJesus turns our stink into a sweet aroma that God accepts. Jesus spices up our life!\nII. Jesus Is The Great Shepherd\nA shepherd is someone who takes care of and protects. Jesus is truly our shepherd. He is our guide, He directs our path, and He protects us and cares for us.\nA shepherd protects his sheep even at his own expense. Jesus laid down His physical life so that we can have eternal life. A shepherd puts the best interest of the sheep above his own.\n\u201cI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.\u201d\n1. When Jesus is my Shepherd I have no fear.\nSheep are normally very fearful animals and will not lie down to rest unless they feel secure.\nFear is a feeling that danger or evil is near; being afraid; an uneasy feeling; anxious. With Jesus we are secure. We do not have to fear. He will watch over us and protect us- He will help us overcome our fears confusion.\n\u201cBut the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.\u201d\n2. When Jesus is my Shepherd I have abundance.\nThe shepherd would lead the sheep to green pastures where there was abundance. Just as the shepherd provided for the needs of the sheep, Jesus provides everything we need. We will not be forsaken when Jesus is our shepherd.\n3. When Jesus is my Shepherd I have peace and calmness.\nSheep are afraid of streams that are flowing fast. The shepherd would find a slow moving stream (still waters) for the sheep so that they could drink without fear. God provides us with still waters also so that we will be soothed and calmed.\n\u201cFinally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.\u201d\nPeace is freedom from strife of any kind; condition of quiet, order, and security; quiet; calm; serenity; peace of mind.\nIn the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.\u201d\nWhen Jesus is our shepherd we can be confident and courageous at all times. With Him we can have peace of mind even in the midst of tribulations, trials and pressures. He overcame everything that came against Him and He will help us do the same.\n4. When Jesus is my Shepherd my soul is restored.\nRestore means bring back; establish again; bring back to a former condition or to a normal condition; give back; put back.\n\u201cHe shall pray to God, and He will delight in him,\nHe shall see His face with joy,\nFor He restores to man His righteousness.\u201d\nGod restores those who turn to Him. He refreshes those who love Him by speaking quietly to them. As Christian we know the quiet voice of God and His gentle touch.\n\u201cTo him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.\u201d\n5. When Jesus is my Shepherd He leads me through the dark places.\nLead means show the way by going with or in front of; guide; guide or direct in action, policy, opinion; influence.\n\u201cThis also comes from the Lord of hosts,\nWho is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.\u201d\nThe Lord will show us the way that we should go. He will go every step of the way with us.\n6. When Jesus is my Shepherd He is always with me.\nNo matter where we go or what is happening, Jesus is with us. He rescues, protects and guides us along every path of our life. Jesus will never ever forsake you.\n\u201cLet your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, \u2018I will never leave you nor forsake you.\u2019 \u201d\n\u201c \u2018Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.\u2019\nThen Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, \u2018Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.\nAnd the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.\u2019 \u201d\nLike the Israelites, we too, sometimes need to be reminded that the Lord will not leave us or forsake us. The Lord promises us that He will remain with us, protect us, fight for us and bless us.\n\u201cTeaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.\u201d\nJesus is truly the Immanuel (Emmanuel), \u201cGod with us.\u201d He will show us the path that we should take.\n7. When Jesus is my Shepherd I can rejoice always.\nKnowing that Jesus is by our side we can rejoice at all time, even in the presence of our enemies. Even in the midst of difficulties, in very situation, we are to rejoice.\nOur rejoicing is not based on circumstances, but on our relationship with the Lord.\nWe will always face trouble and difficult situations and circumstances as long as we are in this world. We should rejoice, knowing that the Lord is with us.\n8. When Jesus is my Shepherd I experience an abundant amount of mercy and goodness.\nGod showers us with His great love. He is kinder to us than justice requires. His kindness goes way beyond what can be claimed or expected. The Lord is kind, sympathetic and compassionate toward the hurting and the lost.\n\u201c But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.\u201d\nThere is not one problem or sorrow that we go through that the Lord is not there with us. He feels everything that we do.\n\u201cThe Lord is gracious and full of compassion,\nSlow to anger and great in mercy.\nAnd His tender mercies are over all His works.\u201d\nJust as He is compassionate, God has instructed us to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.\n9. With Jesus as my shepherd I have the promise of eternal life.\nSin results in death (separation from the presence of God), but God offers the gift of eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ.\n\u201cIn hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began\u201d\nGod is faithful to His Word (His promises). What He has promised will be fulfilled, we can count on it.\n\u201cAnd this is the promise that He has promised us \u2013 eternal life.\u201d\nIII. Jesus Puts A Jingle In My Step\n\u201c\u2026but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always, for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d\nBefore Jesus ascended to heaven (after His crucifixion and resurrection), He promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to help and comfort us.\n\u201cIf you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever \u2013 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you will know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.\u201d\n\u201cAnd being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, \u2018which,\u2019 He said \u2018you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.\u2019 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, \u2018Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?\u2019 And He said to them, \u2018It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u2019 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.\u201d\nGod desire for us to worship Him in spirit and in truth. The only way to do that is to allow the Holy Spirit to worship God through us. When we are filled with the Spirit, He will help us in our worship to God. He will put a song on our lips and a melody in our heart.\n\u201cSing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.\u201d\nSing to the Lord, bless His name:\nHis wonders among all peoples.\u201d\n\u201cI will sing a new song to You, O God;\nOn a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You\u201d\nPsalm 149:1 NKJV \u201cPraise the Lord!\nThe first thing that the people in the upper room did after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit was to praise and worship God.\nThey did so in a language that they had never learned. They praised and worshiped God in spirit and in truth through the enabling of the Holy Spirit. They were able to worship God in spirit and in truth because Jesus had sent the Holy Spirit to them, just like He had promised.\nThere is power in praise and worship, and even more power in praise and worship led and enabled by the Holy Spirit.\n\u201cBut at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone\u2019s chains were loosed.\u201d\nWe should bless the Lord at all times. In order for us to do this we must have the Promise of the Father that Jesus said that He would sent to us. It is very hard to bless the Lord when things are bad or when everything seems to go wrong unless you have been filled with the Holy Spirit, the gift that Jesus said that He would send.\nIV. God Made You Unique\nEach and every snow flake is different \u2013 each one unique. Also there are no two diamonds that are alike. Each one is cut differently. The same is true with us. You are one of a kind and special. God made you unique and He has a very special plan for your life.\nThe plan that God has for you is not the same plan that He has for someone else. It is up to each one of us to walk the path that God has laid out before us. Not someone else\u2019 path, but our path. God\u2019s plan for us is filled with hope. God\u2019s plan for you is a good plan, not an evil plan. Before you were even born, God knew you and had a plan for you. God never makes mistakes and there are no accidents with God.\nJeremiah 1:5 NKJV\nI ordained you a prophet to the nations\u201d\nGod has a call on each of our lives even before we are born, before our very conception. You were born where and when God desired (ordained). Each of us was born for such a time as this. All (every Christian) of us are to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ. God has set each one of us apart for His special purpose.\nThough he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;\nThe Lord has not left to chance anything about His unique body, the body of Christ. We (individually and as a body / church) have been chosen by God, the very creator of the entire universe, to serve Him as a royal priest.\n\u201cBut you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light\u201d\nMay everything that we do and say point people to Jesus Christ. May we be God\u2019s mouth proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. Each one of us truly are unique and has a special gift to offer the body of Christ and each of us has a special work to do in advancing the kingdom of God.\n\u201c\u2026Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?\u201d\nV. Jesus Lights Up My Life\n\u201cThere was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a w9itness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believed in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.\u201d\nEverything we do and say should point people to God. When people look at us they should not see us (fleshly man), they should see Jesus living in us. Just as salt in the natural realm will make a person thirsty, \u201csalt\u201d in the spiritual realm will make a person thirsty for the living water (the Word of God, Jesus Christ). There are people watching each and everyone of us. May what they see be the \u201csalt\u201d and the \u201clight\u201d that they need to created a hunger for God and the things of God. Jesus is the Light of the World and we are to be a reflection of Him. He preached several sermons in which He declared Himself to be the Light of the World.\n\u201cThen Jesus said to them, \u2018A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.\u2019 These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.\u201d\nWe should remember that we are the light of Jesus Christ, that we have no light outside of Jesus Christ, that the light within us is to be shared, that we should walk in the light each day, that we are to spread the light, and that the light brings New beginnings.\n1. We Are The Light Of Jesus Christ\nWe are the temple of God. As the temple of God we are the light of Jesus Christ.\nGod is interested in the temple (man) today. He has set the standards for His temple.\n\u201cSo Jesus said, \u2018Are you still without understanding?\nDo you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?\nFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.\u201d\nMan does what he thinks in his heart. Thoughts enter into our heart by what we allow to enter through our eyes and ears.\nThat I might not sin against You\u201d\nDuring Jesus\u2019 ministry the temple was the focal point. Jesus was very interested in the temple and what it reflected. He went in and cleansed the temple the first time at the beginning of His ministry. After Jesus turned the water into wine He went to the temple (the outer portion). His ministry as the Messiah began in the temple. He cleansed the outer portion of the temple.\n\u201cNow the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers\u2019 money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, \u2018Take these things away! Do not make My Father\u2019s house a house of merchandise!\u2019 \u201d\nJesus maintained the cleanliness of the temple. At the end of Jesus\u2019 ministry He went back to the temple again to cleanse it again. At this time He did not use a whip, He used the Word.\n\u201cThen Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, \u2018It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.\u2019 \u201d\nGod is a holy God. There is no evil or sin in Him. If we (man) desire to have fellowship with Him we also must be pure. God is interested in the temple (man) today and what we reflect. We must regularly cleanse our temple. Like Jesus, we must use the Word to cleanse our temple and to keep it holy.\nAre you desperate for the light of Jesus to shine in you?\nIn the beginning God said, \u201cLet there be light.\u201d\nGenesis 1:1-4 NKJV\n\u201cIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, \u2018Let there be light,\u2019 and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.\u201d\nThe ultimate goal and purpose of creation is that the divine light (the Light of the World) shine throughout the world, transforming everything. God has always divided the \u201clight\u201d from the \u201cdark\u201d. Just as the natural light was separated from the dark, one day the \u201cspiritual light\u201d will be separated from the \u201cspiritual dark.\u201d\n2. We Have No Light Outside Of Jesus Christ.\nAt creation God made two great lights, the sun and the moon.\nGenesis 1:16-1 8 \u201cThen God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the darkness. And God saw that it was good.\u201d\nIn the natural, the sun gives off light and the moon has no light except the reflected light of the sun. In the spiritual, the \u201csun\u201d is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and we are the reflected light of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the True Light and we are to be a reflection of Him.\n3. The Light Within Us Is To Be Shared\nWhen we share something we make a conscience decision to give part of what we have to another. We do not try to keep things (knowledge or possessions) to ourselves.\nLuke 11:33 \u201cNo one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.\u201d\n4. We Should Walk In The Light Each Day\n\u201cFor you were once darkness, but now you are a light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light. (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth).\nfinding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says: \u201cAwake, you who sleep,\nAnd Christ will give you light.\u2019 \u201d\nThe sun is the physical light of the world, but Jesus is the spiritual light of the world. As the Light of the World, Jesus exposes sin and sinful ways, actions and attitudes.\n\u201cThen Jesus spoke to them again, saying, \u2018I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.\u2019 \u201d\nIn the physical realm, when the light is bright we can see the path that we are on more clearly. It is the same in the spiritual realm \u2013 as we walk in the light of Jesus Christ we can see the path that we are on more clearly. Our fellowship with God depends on our walking in the light. In the light our sins are revealed, enabling us to see our sins and to bring them to Jesus to be washed away by His blood (salvation.)\n\u201cThis is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.\u201d\n5. We Are To Spread The Light\nDay means light. Our task is to spread light, to illuminate the world with the light of God\u2019s Word. As more light is produced the darkness and the night will disappear.\n\u201cDo all things without complaining and disputing,\nthat you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world.\u201d\nWherever we go the light of Christ should be shining from us, and spreading into the darkness around us. The light within us (the light of Christ) should penetrate the spiritual darkness around us. We do not have any light of our own. We are the reflective light of Jesus Christ. As we behold the glory of the Lord, we reflect it. We are the light of the world as long as we reflect Jesus Christ. We must make sure that nothing comes between us and the light of Jesus Christ.\nNot only are we to share the light with a dark world, we are to spread the light to those in the house also.\nLight indicates deliverance from darkness. Each Christian has been delivered from darkness. Each one has a testimony and they should be ready to give it. We should never hide what God has done for us. Other Christians are encouraged by our testimonies. The Bible tells us that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Just because a person is a Christian it does not mean that they will not struggle with things. What God has delivered you from can help someone else that is faced with the same thing. Your deliverance can be light to someone else.\n6. The Light Brings New Beginnings\nAt the end of a long dark night, right before daybreak, we may be tempted to fall asleep. The Holy Spirit gives us strength to be awake and aware of the approaching daylight. God\u2019s mercy is new every morning.\n\u201cThen the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five of them were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a dry was heard: \u2018Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!\u2019 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, \u2018Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.\u2019 But the wise answered, saying, \u2018No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.\u2019 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, \u2018Lord, Lord, open to us!\u2019 But he answered and said, \u2018Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.\u2019 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.\u201d\nFiled under Food For Thought and tagged 1 John 2:25, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Corinthians 13:11, 2 Timothy 1:7, Acts 16:25-26, Acts 1:4-9, Acts 2:11, bells, Bible, Bible devotional, Bible Lesson, Bible Study, candy canes, Christmas, Christmas Bible devotional, Christmas Bible lesson, Christmas Bible study, Christmas lights, Colossians 1:12, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 5:18-20, Ephesians 5:8-14, Esther 4:14, Exodus 29:15-18, Genesis 1:1-4, Genesis 1:16-18, Gingerbread men, God\u2019s great love, Hebrews 10:19-22, Hebrews 13:5, holiday season, I Corinthians 3:16-17, I John 1:5, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 53:10, Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Jesus, Jesus Is The Great Shepherd, Job 33:26, John 10:11-16, John 10:14, John 10:3-5, John 12:35-36, John 14:15-17, John 16:33, John 2:13-16, John 3:6-13, John 8:12, Leviticus 1:9, Luke 11:33, Luke 12:7, Matthew 15:16-20, Matthew 21:12-13, Matthew 25:1-13, Matthew 5:14, Matthew 5:15, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 9:36, Philippians 2:14-15, Psalm 101:3, Psalm 119:11, Psalm 144:9, Psalm 145:8-9, Psalm 149:1, Psalm 23, Psalm 32:8, Psalm 33:3, Psalm 34:1-3, Psalm 37:23-24, Psalm 37:25, Psalm 40:3, Psalm 5:8, Psalm 96:1-3, Romans 12:15, Romans 6:23, snowflakes, Titus 1:2 |\t1 Comment\n\u201cHold On You\u2019re Almost Finished\u201d\n2 Thessalonians 3:13 NKJV \u201cBut as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.\u201d\nA doctor will not start a stress test until there are others there that he can work with. These people have been trained to help him and you. They are prepared and they know what to do.\nThe Holy Spirit will not lead you through a test until He has prepared people and placed them around you. These people are people that He can work through and people that will work with Him. These people will support you and help you stand. Every person that ministers to you during a test has been hand-picked by God to help you.\nDuring the stress test you become tired and begin to weaken. When you seem to be at your weakest point, you might hear the doctor say, \u201cCan you hold on for a little longer? Just one minute and twenty seconds more.\u201d Before you can answer him you hear him say, \u201cYes, you can hold out a little longer.\u201d You become even more tired. During this time you would really like to stop. You honestly don\u2019t know how much more you can take. Quitting begins to look pretty good. But you can\u2019t because the test is not finished.\nA minute later you hear the doctor say, \u201cJust twenty more seconds. Hold on, you\u2019re almost finished. You can do it.\u201d The doctor is overseeing the test, but he is also encouraging you through the test. As the pace of the treadmill speeds up you find it hard to keep up. It seems like you are getting further and further from the handle of the treadmill \u2013 your anchor. At this point you feel the nurse\u2019s hand at your back, helping to keep you anchored. The support at you back is just what you need to keep you from slipping further back and to keep you moving forward.\nAnother nurse is at your side. She is there in case you stumble or start to fall. She knows that if you fall, you will have to go through the test again. She is prepared to help hold you up or just keep you steady, whichever is needed.\nThe church (body of Christ) is going through a test(s). Testing does not come to the body of Christ to destroy it or afflict it, but it comes to purge and refine it. The church must grow (mature) in faith. The body must learn how to stand firm under pressure and opposition. We must learn how to turn adversity into opportunities.\nSome in the body are becoming very weak. The Holy Spirit is saying, \u201cCan you hold on for a little longer? Just a little while longer? Yes, you can hold out a little longer.\u201d Some are so tired that they would like to stop. Thoughts run through their minds like, \u201cHow much more can I (we) take?\u201d Quitting begins to look good. But they can\u2019t quit because the test is not finished. The Holy Spirit is saying, \u201cJust a little while longer. Hold on, you\u2019re almost finished! You can do it!\u201d\nThe Holy Spirit is overseeing every test that the body of Christ (individually and corporately) is going through and He is encouraging the body during the test. We are not alone. The many saints that have went on before us are standing at the edge of heaven and they are calling out to us, \u201cHold on!\u201d As the pace of our test speeds up, some are finding it hard to keep up. It seems like they are getting further and further away from their anchor \u2013 Jesus Christ. Many are becoming weary. To some it seems like they are taking a step forward and sliding back two. If this is you, the Holy Spirit is placing people at your back and at your side. The people at your back will help you keep anchored. They will strengthen you. Just their presence at your back will bring you comfort. Now instead of sliding backwards, you can continue in the test while holding onto your anchor. The people placed at your side will steady you and keep you from stumbling as the pace of your test speeds up. They will do everything they can to keep you from falling.\nEvery person that the Holy Spirit places around you during a test is prepared to hold you up if necessary so you can finish the test. They will give you strength from behind. They will keep you close to the anchor. They will come alongside you to steady you so that you do not fall. And they will encourage you through love when you think that you can\u2019t go on.\nLike a doctor, the Holy Spirit is encouraging each one of us with the words, \u201cYou can do it.\u201d In heaven the saints of old are calling out, \u201cHold on brothers and sisters. You\u2019re almost finished. Just a little longer.\u201d\nHebrews 12:1-4 NKJV\n\u201cTherefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.\u201d\nWhen we become weary and feel like giving up, let us remember Jesus Christ and all that He went through for us. As we keep our eyes on Jesus we will gain new strength and be able to finish whatever test we are going through. Considering what Jesus went through and endured for us, our trials and tests pale in comparison.\nBy the power of the Holy Spirit, help us not grow weary in doing good and help us not lose heart. May we allow patience to have its perfect work in us that we may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Cause us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. We fix our eyes unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Thank-you for the assurance that we will reap in due season.\nFiled under Keep Your Eyes On God and tagged 2 Thessalonians 3:13, Bible, Bible devotion, Bible Lesson, Bible prayer, Bible Study, Galatians 6:9, Hebrews 12:1-4, James 1:2-4, look to Jesus, making it through a test or trial, prayer, praying the Bible, TESTS, the body of Christ, TRIALS |\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 415, "original_length": 41382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://walkingonair.blog/category/bali/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:43EXX47OCB6PLEPALDKDXGGAZJIBXJPF", "length": 1210, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "walkingonair.blog", "title": "BALI Archives -", "raw_content": "If you are traveling to Bali, mark the city of Ubud at the top of your list. This magical and enchanting city provides endless opportunities for fun and adventure. Beware though, you may never want to leave. Kyle and I were lucky to have spent a full thirty days in Bali in January 2018. During [\u2026]\nContinue Reading \"Bali: Top 11 Things To Do In Ubud That\u2019ll Make You Never Want To Leave\"\nAfter 30 days of riding motorbikes through emerald green rice terraces and to roaring waterfalls, we will attempt to bring Bali to you. Whether you\u2019ve been there before or you\u2019re in the process of planning a trip, our posts will help you better understand this magical island. While Morgan is currently writing about our favorite [\u2026]\nContinue Reading \"Motorbikes in Bali: The 9 Best Ways To Get Around This Beautiful Island\"\nWhen your looking online for a place to stay during your trip to Ubud, you might find the process to be quite overwhelming. There are so many villas and home-stays to choose from and just about every one of them looks perfect. Don\u2019t spend too much time stressing over where to stay. I promise you [\u2026]\nContinue Reading \"Villas and Home-stays In Bali: Best Places To Stay For That Tropical Getaway\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://walkinthemud.com/2014/10/15/transformation-and-the-moth-as-a-guide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:33Z", "digest": "sha1:OCQXL6SVPSM57MD5MFMVU7KL6F3FCNBB", "length": 4596, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "walkinthemud.com", "title": "Transformation and the Moth as a Guide | Walk in the Mud", "raw_content": "\u2190 Grief is a gift\u2026\nMostly likely, if you are reading this article, it is because you are a spiritual seeker and will likely know the inspiring analogy of becoming a butterfly. The caterpillar, having encapsulated itself in a chrysalis, undergoes the disintegration of its old self, a caterpillar, and becomes something new, a butterfly. This analogy gives us hope that upon facing our darkest hour and undergoing transformation, we will emerge as something new and beautiful.\nWe all want to be beautiful, to be seen as beautiful, especially if we\u2019ve undergone a dark period in our lives. We want to be seen as triumphant and strong after going through the darkness. We\u2019ve arrived beautifully healed and worthy of oooos and ahhhs.\nBut, I have to wonder about the butterfly\u2019s counterpart, the moth. It undergoes the same process as the butterfly and, in addition, produces some of the most beautiful silk in the world. Why do we not hear the analogy of transformation in the chrysalis being told in the perspective of becoming a moth? Is it because the moth is widely shunned and considered creepy and ugly?\nWhen I hear people speak of moths, it\u2019s usually to say that they dislike them. Moths are fuzzy, creepy and are more deserving of being squashed. They get in the way of our light. They stick to curtains and eat our woolen garments. Yuck!\nI find this extremely interesting when looking from the perspective of \u201clight\u201d and our perception of what being \u201cin the light\u201d means. Does inner transformation mean only emerging as something more beautiful and fluttery? Or does it also include emerging with the ability to find the light when living in the dark? When I searched for information regarding the \u201ctransformation of the moth\u201d, there were only a couple of references on the first page to this information. The rest of the entries were \u201ctransformation of the MONTH\u201d which included many pictures of people going from overweight to buff. I find this oversight and the automatic \u201creframing\u201d of this search FASCINATING. The moth was still being disregarded!\nButterflies prefer to come out during the day in the bright light and sunshine. At night or when the weather gets bad, they can be found sheltering under leaves or in crevices. Moths, on the other hand, come out at night and can always be found fluttering around almost any light source. This reminds me of the laws of duality\u2026that life is inclusive of both/and. There is both \u201clight\u201d and \u201cdark\u201d, \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d, \u201cpositive\u201d and \u201cnegative\u201d in our existence upon this earth plane. I put all of these words in quotes because they all derive their meaning based upon the reactive perception of the person reading them. What is considered \u201cnegative\u201d for many people may be seen as something necessarily essential for transformation and is considered neither \u201cnegative\u201d or \u201cpositive\u201d/ \u201clight\u201d or \u201cdark\u201d. The moth, unlike the butterfly, accepts the darkness as an integral part of its life and seeks to find the light within it instead of denying it or hiding until the dawn.\nThere is no doubt that we are undergoing a huge transformation as a planetary community. Collectively, we are all undergoing a metamorphosis in the chrysalis or cocoon. Our environment is transforming, our financial markets as well as our established systems and structures are all up for dismantling and rebuilding. The foundations based upon our beliefs and accepted ways of living are being excavated to allow for the rebuilding of stronger foundations based on equality and inclusion. We are being required to review our entire way of living to see if it can even survive this transformation.\nOur successful emergence and transformation will depend upon our ability to hold both \u201clight\u201d and \u201cdark\u201d in our awareness. To realize, that indeed, \u201call is one\u201d whether in \u201cgood\u201d times or \u201cbad\u201d. We are connected through our tragedy as well as our triumphs. We are connected in our shadow as well as our light. Being able to see this transformation through the eyes of both the butterfly and the moth, may well be the key to realizing the true meaning of \u201cwe are one\u201d. And, when the weather gets rough or the night becomes pitch black, you may just need a moth with its keen ability to navigate the dark to be on your side helping you see and guiding you to the light.\nThis entry was posted in awareness, change, dark night, denial, equality, guidance, humanity, Inner Peace, negativity, positivity, Self help, Spiritual, transformation and tagged awareness, change, dark night, dark times, denial, duality, negativity, positivity, transformation. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wanderlustbykelleyy.com/category/asia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6CINVMWBTPZKV57LIIFUDUDO6DTGQHSX", "length": 1094, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wanderlustbykelleyy.com", "title": "Asia \u2013 Roaming free \u2013 tales of wanderlustbykelley", "raw_content": "If you are a keen traveler and would like to experience a culture or nature trip in a [\u2026]\n31 Oct 2018 Asia, Travel\nBrunei Darussalam Brunei is a tiny country located on the northern shore of the Island of Borneo. This [\u2026]\n12 Feb 2017 Asia, Backpacking, Borneo, Brunei, Island, IslandLife, Travel\nGateway to Borneo Kota Kinabalu also referred to as KK is located on the northwest coast of Borneo, [\u2026]\n11 Feb 2017 Asia, Backpacking, Borneo, Island, IslandLife, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Sabah, South East Asia, Travel\nMuddy confluence Kuala Lumpur, also referred to as KL by the locals is the capital and largest city [\u2026]\n11 Feb 2017 Asia, Backpacking, Batu Caves, City, Malaysia, South East Asia, Travel\nNine dragon river delta The Mekong delta is located in southern Vietnam, a four hour drive (196.5km / [\u2026]\n11 Feb 2017 Asia, Backpacking, Mekong Delta, South East Asia, Travel, Vietnam\nSaigon The largest Vietnamese city by population is located in the south-eastern region of Vietnam, 1,760km (1,090miles) south [\u2026]\n11 Feb 2017 Asia, Backpacking, City, Saigon, South East Asia, Travel, Vietnam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://warwickcu.org/local-churches/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MTGIAIATKV7WQ5KWXHJAT7GIJJXKJDUI", "length": 2100, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "warwickcu.org", "title": "List of Churches \u2013 WCU", "raw_content": "church test\nBlurb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nWebsite: www.coventryvineyard.org\nService Times: 10:30am\nTransport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nContact: Nathan and Katy at students@coventryvineyard.org.uk\nThis is some text about Elim\nWebsite: www.elim-coventry.org.uk\nService Times: 9:30am, 11:30am\nContact: Student reps at students@elim-coventry.org.uk, or student director Tom Lane at tom@elim-coventry.org.uk\nThis is some text about Emmanuel\nWebsite: www.emmanuel-church.org.uk\nService Times: 10:30am at North Leamington School, 6:30pm at Heath Terrace\nTransport: Minibus leaves campus at 9:45am from the lay-by outside Cryfield Halls\nThis is some text about Jubilee\nWebsite: jubileechurchcoventry.org\nService Times: 10:30am, plus Powerhouse in the evening during term (not sure what time)\nTransport: Minibus at the main campus bus stop at 9:45am\nContact: Emma Reynolds at emma@jubileechurchcoventry.org, or Lizzie Gant at lizzie@jubileechurchcoventry.org\nThis is some text about Vineyard\nWebsite: www.leamingtonvineyard.org.uk\nService Times: 5:30pm\nThis is some text about Lower Ford Street\nWebsite: www.lfsbc.org.uk\nService Times: 10:30am, 6:30pm\nTransport: Minibus at lay-by outside Cryfield Halls at _____ (previously down as 10:40 and even their website has it as 10:35, which is impossible unless it\u2019s a time travelling bus or the service doesn\u2019t actually start at 10:30! :P)\nContact: Janet Cordle on 02476419416 or 07707352958\nThis is some text about Myton\nWebsite: mytonchurch.org.uk\nService Times: 10:30am at Myton School, 7:00 at Myton Church Centre\nTransport: Minibus at 10:00am at the main campus bus stop\nContact: students@mytonchurch.org.uk\nThis is some text about St. Pauls\nWebsite: www.stpl.org.uk\nService Times: 8:30am, 10:30am, 6:30pm\nContact: Thom Jee at thomas_jee@hotmail.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wellingtonwest.ca/business/wellington-dental-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:44Z", "digest": "sha1:666EAJ2J3XMH3VMSWXJ6VF52JPTYER32", "length": 398, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wellingtonwest.ca", "title": "Wellington Dental Care \u2022 Wellington West", "raw_content": "About Wellington Dental Care\nWe love to see you smile. Really, we do. That's because we take great pride in offering the most up-to-date dental techniques in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, served up by the most knowledgeable and experienced dentists in the field. We know that every great smile (your smile) is the sign that we've done our job to provide the highest level of care in the industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 154.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westmadison.ars.wisc.edu/2013/06/25/fungal-friends-or-fungal-foes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:39Z", "digest": "sha1:WGBSH7HR7J5JRHDSXTGVF4VC22VT4NAT", "length": 2189, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "westmadison.ars.wisc.edu", "title": "Fungal Friends or Fungal Foes? | West Madison Agricultural Research Station", "raw_content": "What do you imagine when you hear the word \u201cfungus\u201d? Do you think of the classic red-capped mushroom with white dots on its pileus (a pileus is the scientific word for a mushroom\u2019s cap)? Or, perhaps you imagine opening up your fridge to enjoy some juicy sweet strawberries, only to be let down by a white \u201cfuzz\u201d that somehow seemed to appear overnight. Either way, it\u2019s important to emphasize the plethora of ecological roles fungi take on, including decomposition (saprophytic fungi), plant and human parasitic and/or pathogenic lifestyles, fermentation of various food products, and the creation of symbiotic relationships with plants and algae. Here at West Madison Ag Research Station, we acknowledge some fungi as our friends, yet we are also cautious of particular groups of fungi that could potentially threaten our fruit and vegetable crops. As these blog posts come out, we hope that they will not only help you identify different fungal diseases on your crops, but that they increase your overall appreciation of fungi and their morphological and habitual diversity.\nNidulariaceae:\nThis week, we\u2019ve chosen to highlight a fungal family that is neither beneficial nor harmful to our plants. In fact, we found its fruiting body (a physical structure that produces spores as a means of reproduction) growing on the wood chips used to mulch our grape vines.\nThe family Nidulariaceae, commonly known as the \u201cBird\u2019s Nest Fungus\u201d are saprophytes, meaning that they consume and break down dead organic matter. When observing the basidiocarps (a specific type of fruiting body), of the Nidulariaceae, it\u2019s easy to see how this family got its name. The small spore packets at the bottom of its \u201cnest\u201d (technically known as a peridium) look like tiny eggs. Rain will eventually splash the spore packets away from the fruiting body, thus dispersing the spores.\nBelow is a picture of the fruiting bodies of a particular genus of the Nidulariaceae family (we unprofessionally identify it as the genus Cyathus). The white poofs are immature fruiting bodies. As the structure matures, the top of the basidiocarp dehisces and pulls away, revealing a few spore packets within.\nMore fruiting bodies\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 9206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whitenoise.kinja.com/otters-oddities-1600912617", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:28Z", "digest": "sha1:F3O3O7B6NYRFG74BKZHOW6O7X2TBZ4HV", "length": 3378, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "whitenoise.kinja.com", "title": "Otters Oddities", "raw_content": "I don't always start my oddities posts with gifs. But when I do, they're good.\nAh....the dreaded blue screen of death. How many adolescent porn sessions were interrupted buy the dreaded blue screen?\n*fap fap fap* Daww......\nOh, I'm sorry.....was that too NSFW for this early on a Tuesday?\nMeh....can't say that I really care. I mean, it is Tuesday, after all. The day after Monday. Which makes it the second worst day of the week. Unless you work with that damn camel. Then Wednesday is the worst. And not only that, but you have my sympathies for having to work with an annoying spit factory.\nSince I brought it up, I suppose I should get Tell The Truth Tuesday out of the way, shouldn't I? I know you're all dying to know if I was telling the truth yesterday.\nI was. It's true. The Dry Valleys in Antarctica haven't had any precipitation for 2,000,000 years. Suck on that drought California! Maybe quit your whining? The second driest place on the planet isn't too much better. That would be the Atacama Desert in Chile. On average, it gets just .004 inches of rain a year. Or, to put it another way, it gets 4 inches of rain every 1,000 years.\nAnd just in case you were wondering, Mawsynram village in India is the wettest place on Earth. Every year they get 467 inches of rain. That's over 12 meters! An inch and a 1/3 a day! Those aren't beards the men grow....it's mold.\nSo there you have it. Dry and wet. I'll skip the obvious jokes and move right along to todays subject.\nStar Trek. A beloved franchise. We could argue about which is better, the original or the next generation; Wrath of Khan or the Voyage Home. But you'd lose because I'm always right. And they're all good. (except for Enterprise.....yeech!)\nFor many people, the first thing that pops into their heads when they think of Star Trek is the theme song. That ethereal, spooky, sort of other-worldly sound that can only come from a theremin.\nGene Roddenberry approached Alexander Courage to compose the theme for a new show he was producing. Alexander read the script, and didn't think too much of it. He was sure it would never be picked up, and the pilot would be the only time the song would be heard, so he just whipped it out. (the theme, not his...you know...)\nSo when Roddenberry, a man who never looked at a chance to make a profit walk away, asked if he could write lyrics to the theme. Courage said sure. Because, who cares if there's words to the dumb theme. It's not going past pilot, right?\nSo, even though they are never sung, the opening theme to Star Trek does have lyrics. And when the network picked up the series, Courage learned another lesson. Since Roddenberry officially wrote lyrics, and was credited as a composer, Courage now had to share the royalties with him 50/50. Every time that theme is played, either in a rerun, or someplace else, half of Courages profit goes to Roddenberrys estate.\nBecause I know you're all curious, here are the lyrics to Star Trek:\nThe rim of the star-light\nIs wand'ring in star-flight\nHe'll find in star-clustered reaches\nStrange love a star woman teaches.\nHis journey ends never\nHis star trek\nWill go on forever.\nBut tell him\nWhile he wanders his starry sea\nRemember, remember me.\nHere is a link to the full version with lyrics. (note: this is how it was composed. not how it was played on the show)\nAnd you though Miley Cyrus wrote bad lyrics.....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wikihealthyeating.com/what-is-skin-lightening-surgery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:N3CD77RMQJAKBNU7ILAS7656DBT27LOS", "length": 5871, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "wikihealthyeating.com", "title": "What is skin lightening surgery", "raw_content": "Skin lightening \u2013 the phrase that only the second word is enough to know what you are talking about. It\u2019s no exaggeration that from the second half of 2012 until now, this phrase has always been a hot topic on any website, forum or even just a cackle talk of women.\nThe Asians always say that the most shape, second skin, the third was face\u201d to talk about the standard of female beauty. Having a lightening skin will help you stay young, diversify your style in colorful outfits without worrying about your skin, and do not lose your makeup every day and still keep confident with the inherent beauty.\nHence, possessing a white and smooth skin is the desire of many people. In order to change their image, many women have applied skin lightening surgery to achieve the desired skin. Whether to apply the surgery should be good or not and does it cause any side effects? Let\u2019s find out about it!\nWhat is skin lightening surgery?\nSkin lightening surgery is actually a direct form of spreading to whitening agents through intravenous that help regenerate new cells, rejuvenate the skin, boost metabolism between cells, hep sin white, smooth and bright. Direct intravenous fluid delivery also has the effect of locking melanin under the skin, preventing the production of new melanin, giving it a healthy glow from the inside.\nBefore proceeding with skin lightening surgery, you will be examined specialist to determine if your natural disposition is suitable for method. If appropriate, it will be done, inappropriate, we will refuse to do this service for guests. Because of proper dosage and administration of the medication, there are no side effects or health risks during and after the service.\nWhitening is a direct method of bringing vitamins, minerals, nutrients and glutathione into the body. This is to inhibit and suppress the production of melanin. At that, the skin becomes darker black and becomes white. Glutathione is an endogenous substance available in the body so having side effects or allergic reactions to the body is not possible.\nGlutathione is currently the strongest and best antioxidant available today, and supplementation is absolutely necessary to combat aging and help whitening. There is also the ability to detoxify the body and many other uses. If your body is getting the right amount of glutathione and vitamins then you will be whitening safely from within the body.\nBecause medication when entering the body need time to absorb and metabolize, so usually after 2-3 weeks your skin will begin to improve depending on black or white skin, mild or severe skin aging that the useful also varies differently.\nFor ages 18-28, the functions of liver, kidney also works well, metabolic rate of absorption and excretion of melanin is good so the results will be fast.\nFor ages 30 and older, the body is gradually aging, including liver and kidney functions, so the metabolism, absorption and melanin clearance will result in slowing.\nProper care for the skin after surgery\nAfter surgery, you need sunscreen well, at least 4 weeks after treatment. Whether skin is treated or not, the sun protection, moisturizing the skin is essential.\nDo not use cosmetics containing steroids to reduce redness.\nMoisturize with a gentle and mild product.\nThe diet needs enough nutrients, plenty of water to keep the skin beautiful for a long time.\nSupplement enough vitamins and minerals:\nThese are often found in many fruits and vegetables, and it is best to use fresh fruits and vegetables. You should pay attention to food hygiene and safety. Because vegetables are very easy to be poisoned by the production and storage.\nVitamin C is an antioxidant, helps to heal the incision, increases the resistance, reduces the possibility of wound infection\u2026 There are many in vegetables such as celery, celery, strawberries, spinach, oranges.\nVitamin A promotes the formation of tissue to heal wounds, so eat a lot of beta carotene red (the body will turn into vitamin A): tomatoes, spinach, papaya, \u2026\nEat enough sugar, fiber and drink plenty of water:\nSugar is a source of energy for the body, should eat in the form of processed cereal such as rice, porridge, tea, bread \u2026 Do not eat refined sugar.\nFiber is important in digestion. Because sometimes your lazy movement will lead to constipation. Provide them by eating lots of green vegetables, or bulbs.\nDrinking enough water is also important (> 2 liters / day), which will help the body quickly eliminate bad substances such as anesthetics, anesthesia \u2026 or degenerative products in the process of digestion and muscle activity, that helps to keep your body clean, especially when your skin is not dry due to lack of water.\nThe risks and controversial issues\nHowever, any success has its downside, cosmetic medicine is no exception. The first is a matter of safety. All artificial products have their shelf life, so if they are not eliminated by the body, these products will also be degraded over time. Then, you have to take alternatives, to limit the harm to the body. In addition, the bearing capacity of these products is also relatively poor.\nShould or not apply skin lightening surgery?\nExperts emphasize that skin color mainly due to genetic factors, should not expect to change the skin color from dark brown to light white. We can only make our skin healthier and brighter if we know how to preserve and care properly.\nCan follow the steps are as follows: full vitamin intake, drink plenty of water, eat plenty of green vegetables and fruits, limit the sweet and fat.\nHave appropriate rest and relaxation, avoid stress, not awake too late.\nProtect skin from sun exposure with a jacket, mask, sunglasses, sunscreen, especially from 9h to 16h.\nUse a number of products, cosmetics suitable for skin consulted by dermatologists.\nOtherwise, you can find more information about red light therapy for skin here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php?title=Literature_review:_General&diff=prev&oldid=5820", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WFTYYFNANK7PMTU2FS6PG7MUQJ46LHLR", "length": 1726, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "wikis.ala.org", "title": "Difference between revisions of \"Literature review: General\" - ACRLwiki", "raw_content": "'''Institute for Library & Information Literacy Education'''Information Literacy Links: [http://www.ilile.org/resources/informationLiteracy.html\nVaughan Memorial Library Acadia University''' Information Literacy\nGrassian, Esther S. and Kaplowitz, Joan R. (2001). \"Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice.\" Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.\nBicknell-Holmes, T. and Hoffman, P.S.. \"Elicit, Engage, Experience, Explore: Discovery Learning in Library Instruction.\" Reference Services Review 28.4 (2000): 313:322.\nExplores the different types of \"discovery learning\" in relation to library instruction to students.\nCurzon, S.C. \"Developing a Program of Information Literacy: How California State University Did It.\" College and Research Libraries News 61.6 (2000): 483-486.\nFarber, Evan. \"Faculty-Librarian Cooperation: A Personal Retrospective.\" Reference Services Review 27.3 (1999): 229-234.\nA study which discusses library instruction and the relationships between librarians and faculty.\nLichtestein, A.A. \"Informed Instruction: Learning Theory and Information Literacy.\" Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences 38.1 (2000): 22-31.\nWebber, S. and Johnston, B. \"Conceptions of Information Literacy: New Perspectives and Implications.\" Journal of Information Science 26.6 (2000): 381-398.\nThis article discusses the meaning of information literacy, as well as approaches to understanding and addressing this problem.\nOpen Directory Project: Information Literacy [2]\nInstitute for Library & Information Literacy Education Information Literacy Links: [http://www.ilile.org/resources/informationLiteracy.html\nRetrieved from \"https://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php?title=Literature_review:_General&oldid=5820\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://windsorstar.com/news/windsor-west-mpp-piruzza-named-minister-of-children-and-youth-services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:R42XUSQDH6YEME7PUVGFLO2RZMP7HR5Q", "length": 5637, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "windsorstar.com", "title": "Windsor West MPP Piruzza named Minister of Children and Youth Services | Windsor Star", "raw_content": "Windsor West MPP Piruzza named Minister of Children and Youth Services\nWindsor West MPP Teresa Piruzza is so new and innocent to the doings of a cabinet minister that she claimed not to know what her higher new salary will be or how big of a staff she'll have.\nWindsor West MPP Teresa Piruzza is shown in Windsor, Ont. in this Feb. 2 file photo. (Dax Melmer / The Windsor Star)\nWindsor West MPP Teresa Piruzza is so new and innocent to the doings of a cabinet minister that, when interviewed after a celebratory dinner with family Monday night, she claimed not to know what her higher new salary will be, how big a staff she\u2019ll now be able to boss around, nor whether a chauffeur-driven limo gets thrown into the mix of new perks.\n\u201cI haven\u2019t had any briefings yet,\u201d she told The Star. Piruzza sits down Tuesday at 9 a.m. with her deputy minister to begin her cabinet immersion.\n\u201cI\u2019ll know everything by the end of the week,\u201d she added. She has to \u2014 Queen\u2019s Park resumes sitting next week.\nFor the province\u2019s newest Minister of Children and Youth Services in the 27-member Liberal cabinet of Kathleen Wynne, Monday was reserved for the pomp and circumstance surrounding the swearing-in of Ontario\u2019s first female, and Canada\u2019s first openly gay, premier and her minority government. Piruzza, who won her seat just 16 months ago, is one of 10 rookie ministers in Wynne\u2019s cabinet.\n\u201cI think I\u2019m ready for it,\u201d said Piruzza, who was already a parliamentary assistant under just-retired Dalton McGuinty. Her new portfolio touches on many of the issues she faced as an executive director at Windsor city hall before entering the political arena after Sandra Pupatello stepped down in 2011.\nPiruzza\u2019s appointment means Windsor won\u2019t be without a presence at the cabinet table now that long-time Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Dwight Duncan is joining Pupatello in political retirement this week.\nPiruzza will be the only member of Wynne\u2019s cabinet west of London, and she has a very large constituency to represent.\n\u201cThirty per cent of our population are children and youth \u2014 over four million,\u201d she said. She might not yet be able to list the perks or know what she\u2019s paid, but Piruzza said she has a good overview of her ministry\u2019s programs and responsibilities, much of it learned while fighting for Windsor to get its fair share when she was the city\u2019s executive director of employment and social services.\n\u201cOne of the reasons I decided to run (was) I saw the progress being made, and I wanted to see that continue,\u201d said Piruzza, who holds an MBA and is the married mother of two youths.\nOther appointments made by Wynne include: Charles Sousa as new Finance Minister, who gets to tackle Ontario\u2019s $12-billion deficit; Eric Hoskins as Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Employment; Liz Sandals as Minister of Education; and Deb Matthews, who remains Minister of Health but adds her new job as Deputy Prime Minister.\nWynne herself will fulfill a double role as Minister of Agriculture. She becomes the province\u2019s 25th premier, and leads a 27-member executive council, up four bodies from McGuinty\u2019s last cabinet.\nAn enlarged cabinet is necessary for the \u201cserious work that is confronting us,\u201d Wynne said after being sworn in as the province\u2019s 25th premier.\n\u201cThe issues faced by the people of Ontario require appropriate resources and the dedicated focus of this new government,\u201d she added.\nThe Progressive Conservatives, who pressed for a smaller cabinet, said it shows Wynne can\u2019t make the tough decisions to put the province\u2019s fiscal house in order.\n\u201cShe\u2019s been the premier for 30 minutes, and already she\u2019s increased the size of government,\u201d said Tory Todd Smith.\nPiruzza\u2019s cabinet salary of almost $166,000 represents a 24-per-cent jump from her former pay as a parliamentary assistant \u2014 or a 43-per-cent premium over the almost $117,000 that a regular backbench MPP earns.\nSandals, who takes over from Laurel Broten in the education portfolio, is a former school board trustee who has the unenviable task of repairing the Liberals\u2019 damaged relationship with public school teachers.\nSousa, a former banker and leadership rival who played queenmaker at the recent leadership convention, pledged to stick to the Liberals\u2019 promise to eliminate the deficit by 2017-18.\n\u201cWe do have to reduce this deficit, we do have to mange our expenses, but we have to do it in such as way as to be cognizant and socially responsible because we don\u2019t want to leave anybody behind in doing this,\u201d he said.\n\u201cNo one\u2019s going to fall through the cracks.\u201d\nWynne added agriculture minister to her duties, a move she hopes will raise her party\u2019s profile in rural ridings, where they were virtually wiped out in the 2011 election.\nWynne, who took on the agricultural portfolio to raise her party\u2019s profile in rural ridings, acknowledged that the Liberals, already under fire by teachers furious over forced contracts and by voters for the $230-million cancellation of two gas plants, have a difficult road ahead.\n\u201cAs your premier, I will be open with you,\u201d she said in her inaugural speech.\n\u201cI know that we must acknowledge our mistakes, take responsibility for them, and work together to guarantee that they are not repeated.\u201d\nWynne promised to balance social justice and fiscal responsibility, and build a budget this spring that will gain the approval of the Tories and New Democrats.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no one who wants an election in the province as far as I can tell,\u201d she said after the ceremony.\ndschmidt@windsorstar.com or on Twitter @SchmidtCity\nFugitive ex-LA cop charged with murdering Riverside police officer Bishop Fabbro shocked by Pope's resignation announcement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 11204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wolbbaltimore.com/2025746/february-is-american-heart-month-here-are-4-things-you-should-know-to-prevent-heart-disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:7Y42MKONMFM7XNSY5EVZFIENIPLY5TC7", "length": 2695, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "wolbbaltimore.com", "title": "Here Are 4 Things You Should Know To Prevent Heart Disease | WOLB Talk 1010", "raw_content": "Because February is American Heart Month, it's only right that we highlight ways to keep your heart healthy.\nBrandi N. Williams\nWhile heart disease remains the leading cause of death in America \u2014 African-American men are at the highest risk due to high blood pressure \u2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made it their goal to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes in the U.S. by 2017.\nAnd because February is American Heart Month, it\u2019s only right that we highlight ways to keep your heart healthy.\nWe\u2019ve been taught how to recognize if we\u2019re having a heart attack: uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes, shortness of breath, cold sweats, nausea or lightheadedness; and extreme fatigue.\nWe even shared things you should do to ensure you don\u2019t have a heart attack, like making positive lifestyle changes, reducing stress, and controlling high blood pressure, which is the leading cause of heart disease and stroke.\nBut rarely do we talk about easy everyday activities that can contribute to necessary lifestyle changes that prevent heart disease.\nHere are four things you should know \u2013 and do \u2013 to keep your heart healthy:\nGet Your Rest:\nDoctorOz.com reports that people who sleep less than six hours a night are two times more likely than those who get seven to eight hours of sleep to develop heart disease. Why? Sleep helps to regulate insulin activity. A lack of sleep can cause an increase in blood sugars, which can contribute to weight gain and heart disease.\nReduce Your Belly Fat:\nAccording to the Mayo Clinic, visceral fat lives in belly fat and is linked to cardiovascular disease. Research has shown that extra fat around the waistline \u2013 even in women who are a normal weight based on standard body mass index measurements \u2013 increased the risk of dying of cardiovascular disease.\nSay No To Energy Drinks:\nResearch has shown that drinking just one energy drink can increase the risk of heart disease by increasing your blood pressure and heart rate.\nHave More Sex:\nReducing your stress can have a positive impact on decreasing your chances of getting heart disease. Sex is a stress reducing activity and having it at least twice a week has been shown to reduce the chances of heart disease in men.\nBreast Cancer Awareness: Everything You Should Know About Black Women & Breast Density\n5. Robert \"Bob\" Johnson, Founder of BET | Net Worth: $550 million\n6. 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If you want to post your content automatically to twitter, to add a tag cloud or track visitors to your site, then it is likely that a plug-in already exists for what you need to do. 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Through the lighting of a memorial candle, your thoughtful gesture will be recorded in the Book of Memories and the proceeds will go directly towards helping ensure that the family and friends of Ronald Barboza can continue to memorialize, re-visit, interact with each other and enhance this tribute for future generations.\nFull Name Ronald Clark Barboza", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 418, "original_length": 10056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wreg.com/2018/10/08/spacex-launches-rocket-over-san-diego-then-sticks-the-landing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RP5VWDEO6H2KIL2ZUGM3PD3CIKRQQJIS", "length": 1525, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "wreg.com", "title": "SpaceX launches rocket over San Diego, then sticks the landing | WREG.com", "raw_content": "LOMPOC, Ca. \u2014 SpaceX successfully launched a satellite to space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County Sunday \u2013 and then they stuck the landing.\nThe innovative company launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite SAOCOM 1A to space around 7:20 p.m. Then SpaceX successfully landed part of their rocket back on Earth for the first time on the West Coast.\nThe launch lit up the sky across San Diego and locals flooded KSWB with photos and questions about what they\u2019d just seen overhead.\nAhead of the launch, officials issued warnings to residents about the possibility of sonic booms.\n\u201cLocal residents may see the first stage of the Falcon 9 returning to Vandenberg AFB, including multiple engine burns associated with the landing,\u201d an advisory from the base explained.\n\u201cDuring the landing attempt residents from Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties may hear one or more sonic booms. A sonic boom is a sound associated with the shock waves from an aircraft or vehicle traveling faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate a sound similar to an explosion or a clap of thunder.\u201d\nElon Musk put it a little more bluntly: \u201cThis won\u2019t be subtle,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.\nThe SAOCOM 1 satellite is operated by Argentina\u2019s space agency, the National Commission on Space Activities, and will work in tandem with another satellite primarily to gather soil moisture information.\nRead more about the mission here.\nFrom #poway pic.twitter.com/s8GvtXsBi6\n\u2014 elaineorler (@elaineorler) October 8, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://writersblock.loft.org/2017/08/30/5312/reading_like_a_writer_fever_dream_and_evoking_chills%22", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DG6FLMSLJ7P4IMRNICP4HCBX7YEF2WDS", "length": 7989, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "writersblock.loft.org", "title": "Reading Like a Writer: Fever Dream and Evoking Chills - The Loft Literary Center", "raw_content": "Reading Like a Writer: Fever Dream and Evoking Chills\nPosted on Wed, Aug 30 2017 9:00 am by Allison Wyss\nThis time I'm going to try something that I might not be able to do. As a reader, I scare really easily, so I don't read a whole lot of horror. When I do read it, I usually know what I'm getting into. The fact that someone has told me \"this is a scary book,\" gets me hearing the organ music before I even start. So it's really hard to know which part of the atmosphere comes from the text and which I'm bringing to it.\nYet I do think the first page of a frightening book or story is important. Setting the tone is crucial to any story, but maybe it's more obviously so with a scary one.\nSamanta Schweblin's Fever Dream (translated by Megan McDowell) is a beautifully frightening novel. I don't want to give away the precise circumstances because the suspense is so well rendered, but I will say the dangers are psychological, chemical, and mystical\u2014all wrapped together and teased to a taut and chilling terror. The first page sets the tone.\nThey're like worms.\nWhat kind of worms?\nLike worms, all over.\nIt's the boy who's talking, murmuring into my ear. I am the one asking questions.\nWorms in the body?\nYes, in the body.\nEarthworms?\nNo, another kind of worms.\nIt's dark and I can't see. The sheets are rough, they bunch up under my body. I can't move, but I'm talking.\nThe atmosphere is eerie, but why?\nThe simplest answer (though by no means a complete one) is the italics. The decision to distinguish voices with italics instead of quotation marks is not unprecedented, but it has a particular effect.\nFirst, and this may seem silly, but italics just look sort of shimmery and ghostlike. They're normal letters and at the same time they're not, which hints at the uncanny. Quotation marks do none of that.\nMore important, when we first encounter the italicized text, we don't know its meaning, and so we consider, quickly, the typical uses for it: emphasis, foreign language words, internal dialogue, external dialogue. The first two uses of italics are related to the second two, of course. They make us experience the words slightly differently. The tone shifts even if we don't understand the emphasis. They become somewhat exotic even if the language remains the same.\nBut it's the ambiguity of internal/external that makes those first lines creepy, I think. It could be a quote or it could be a thought. That slippery space between implies madness. And that's scary as anything.\nThe italics also help make the voices seem unconnected to bodies. In the first few lines, here are no dialogue tags and no gestures, no physical description or naming of the characters\u2014just words, floating and ghostlike.\nThen we get the sentence, \"I am the one asking questions.\" The fact that this needs to be told increases the sense of disembodiment. If the narrator was easy in her body, obviously sitting there in front of us, she wouldn't feel the need to say this.\nMaybe these voices lack bodies, or maybe they're hovering outside of bodies. Or maybe it's just so dark they can't see their bodies. Each theory contributes to the eeriness and can live side-by-side in my mind until the text puts the incorrect theories to rest.\nUsually I like bodies to be explicitly rendered on the page, but in this case, the lack of them is unsettling in a good way. It feels like the room is dark. The voices are there first, but without context. So when I read, \"it's the boy who's talking, murmuring into my ear,\" it's startling. I think I jumped a bit at first encounter. Not only is there very suddenly a body in the room, but that body is very near, way too near.\nThere's something like dream logic in that revelation. A thing is not true, until it is, and then suddenly it always was. Time expands backward as well as forward, as we realize this boy\u2014and the ear that hears him\u2014must have been there all along.\nNow let's look at those worms.\nThe first line is a statement: \"They're like worms.\" However, like many great openings, it prompts a question. In the reader's mind the likely question is: \"What are like worms?\" Yet the story sidesteps that question to ask a different one: \"What kind of worms?\"\nAnswering the wrong question\u2014or asking the wrong question\u2014is such a great technique for creating suspense. It's a way to make the reader want to know something, and refuse to tell, while instead telling them something else. An answer would put away the mystery. A refusal would be frustrating. Providing the \"wrong\" response is, instead, a careful tease. In this way, the mystery can grow.\nThe same thing happens again when the \"wrong\" question is answered. We get an answer that is not. The italicized voice gives information about the worms\u2014they're \"all over\"\u2014but not the information requested. He is neither answering nor refusing to answer. We know a little more, but not yet enough. The same thing happens with the later assertion that they're not earthworms. We still don't know what they are, even as we learn a bit more about them.\nBut why are these undescribed worms scary in the first place? Of course, the one direct answer is a big part of it. They're \"in the body,\" which is not a place that worms should be!\nThe worms are also scary because the specificity of the image counters the mystery. We know what worms are. We can imagine their shape and their wriggling (there's always terror in wriggling, right?). But we still don't know what they are or how they are like worms. Is it their size, shape, squirminess? Is it because of where they live, how they eat, their lifespan, their personality? Thus we have a concrete image of worms and specific questions about them, but still no definite answers. While the author refuses to give us certainty, she carefully guides our uncertainty.\nBut it's more than that. The urgency of the repeated question and the apparent attempt to answer that question, futile as it is so far, tells us there's something very important about these worms in the body. There's reason to fear them, even if we don't yet know that reason.\nLater in the book, there's a sort of refrain when the boy tells the narrator what is and isn't \"important,\" without telling her why. This is another type of non-answer that convinces us of urgency without giving us the concrete something to release that worry onto. (It can be a relief, can't it, to finally learn what to fear?) And this happens while the narrative continues to release the strange clues of whether each detail is important or not. Thus, we try to deduce the answer from the clues, and the mystery is not frustrating but intriguing.\nAll of this is misdirection, of course, but it's a particularly smart form of it. If we got something some non sequitur, the mystery would be intact. However, our focus\u2014and thus our fascination\u2014would wane. Answering questions at a slant keeps us curious. As we learn more\u2014but not the essential bit we crave\u2014our captivation grows.\nTeasing without annoying is such a tricky game. If we're not told something about the mystery, we might just throw the book at the wall and give up. But we also want the mystery to continue. This opening, and much of the book, describes the mystery, instead of just solving it.\nSo consider this: plain old darkness is not particularly frightening, but an occupied darkness, where something unnamed is there\u2014that's scary. Schweblin creates a mystery, in Fever Dreams, but it's a mystery that is inhabited\u2014with wiggling worms, specific but unanswered questions, and teased out bits of frightening information. These are great techniques for inspiring terror.\nAllison Wyss is teaching the following class at the Loft: Eight Weeks, Four Drafts: Advanced Topics in Revision. Her stories have appeared in [PANK] Magazine, The Southeast Review, The Golden Key, Metazen, MadHat (Mad Hatters\u2019 Review), The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, and Juked. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland. 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(AP) \u2014 A former coach and a choreographer for a high school dance team in Kansas are denying allegations that they prevented a black student from performing during an event because her\u2026\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 A former coach and a choreographer for a high school dance team in Kansas are denying allegations that they prevented a black student from performing during an event because her skin was \u201ctoo dark\u201d and clashed with the costumes.\nFormer student Camille Sturdivant leveled the accusations in a lawsuit against the Blue Valley School District, saying she faced racial discrimination and was ostracized after complaining about how she was treated before graduating in 2018.\nChoreographer Kevin Murakami, who isn\u2019t named in the lawsuit, released a statement Tuesday denying the allegations, saying he treated all dancers with respect.\n\u201cI never even referenced the color of her skin. This is made up, and it\u2019s absolute nonsense,\u201d Murakami said, noting that he was gay and half Japanese, and has experienced racism. \u201cI was raised to be open and to appreciate all races, genders, sexual orientations and cultures.\u201d\nMurakami\u2019s statement didn\u2019t address allegations that he and the team\u2019s former coach, Carley Fine, exchanged racist text messages about Sturdivant after she was named to the University of Missouri dance team. Fine was fired a day after the high school\u2019s principal became aware of the messages, according to the lawsuit and the school district.\nFine released a statement to WDAF-TV calling the accusations \u201cfalse and/or misleading.\u201d She said her lawyers told her not to comment further, but said she looked forward to defending herself in court.\nMurakami did not immediately return a message from The Associated Pres seeking comment on Wednesday. The phone number to Fine\u2019s dance studio didn\u2019t accept messages Wednesday, and she has no publicly listed phone number.\nA message left with a phone number listed for Sturdivant was not returned Wednesday. Her attorney declined to answer questions.\nIn the lawsuit, Sturdivant said she saw text messages between Fine and Murakami when she was given Fine\u2019s phone to play music for the team. She alleges Fine used an expletive when saying she believed Sturdivant was chosen because she was black. 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We\u2019re experienced and energetic people with the goal of communicating with our patients and providing the best care possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.73buzz.com/future-macbook-and-iphone-may/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CLVIK36AKRZJLAZTHUDFADGAIHK33PEI", "length": 2688, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.73buzz.com", "title": "Future MacBook and iPhone May be Wirelessly Share Power | 73Buzz", "raw_content": "Future MacBook and iPhone May be Wirelessly Share Power\nAn Apple patent application that was publicly circulated on Thursday for \u201cInductive charging between electronic devices,\u201d states that two devices can have the capacity to recharge the power of each other\u2019s batteries. So a drained battery of a gadget can be powered up by another gadget which has a full battery.\nThe advantage of the proposed patent is that devices which are needed that runs out of power could be charged by gadgets that are not needed. Also if the patent\u2019s tool does materialize it would be quite convenient because there is no need for a charger or cable and would not actually need an electrical outlet.\nCredit- AppleInsider\nApple proposes that wireless charging is done through inductive coils that can be used to convey or transport power by both means. The pictures that were submitted together with the patent application suggests that charging can either be done through rear portion charging or proper stacking of the devices.\nSome photos that were likewise with the patent had images of what looks like notebook coils. Als,o the addition of several coils to a big device can permit the simultaneous charging of several smaller devices giving the benefit of having an additional charge for extra gadgets that could be powered up at the same time.\nFor wireless charging, Apple devices such as the iPhone 8, iPhone X and the Apple watch have been equipped with the said feature. Although the iPads and the MacBooks currently do not still have the said feature.\nIn the event that Apple integrates the wireless charging element in all the devices it currently has in the market, it would necessitate the company to produce something that has the large set of coils, capable to conveying and receiving power. 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He is also a licensed California Real Estate Sales professional.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSUVTPOHU3WOJ3PGED7XO67637GJRL3I", "length": 25663, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.adkinshistory.com", "title": "Newsletter 13 | Adkins History Newsletter 13 | Adkins History", "raw_content": "Welcome to the Christmas (December) 2008 issue of our occasional newsletter.\nAs you know from the previous newsletter, our latest book Jack Tar: Life in Nelson\u2019s Navy was published in hardcover in the UK at the beginning of October. As you will also have seen, the bookstores and newspapers are obsessed more than ever this year with celebrity books, an own goal with the recession. Against the celebrity odds, we have garnered some reviews here and there (see the Jack Tar page of this website), as well as some very enthusiastic feedback. The Daily Mail did a very generous extract of the book in mid-November, and in their round-up of Christmas books, we were delighted that Jack Tar was the first of their pick of six history books, which they said was \u2018an extraordinary read\u2019. What is frustrating is that Amazon and other online retailers have sold out, many bookstores can\u2019t get hold of copies, and the publisher is reprinting the book [it\u2019s now been reprinted three times, but too late for Christmas].\nLatest Expedition \u2013 Sheffield and Doctor Who\nWe were in Sheffield recently, giving a Jack Tar talk at their Off The Shelf Literary Festival. The following day we had a couple of hours free to look around before catching the train back to Devon. It was many years since we were last in Sheffield, but even then the city had lost its Victorian reputation for steel, smoky grime and dire poverty. This heritage was encapsulated in the folk song The Grinders (better known as The Sheffield Grinder), which appeared in the middle of the 19th century. With lines such as\nThe Sheffield grinder\u2019s a terrible blade.\nTally hi-o, the grinder!\nHe sets his little \u2018uns down to the trade\u2026,\nthe song describes the poor health and short lives of the people who worked in the cutlery industry. The final verse pointed out that the blame for this did not lie with the workers themselves, but with the people who exploited them:\nOn the famine-price contractor\u2019s head,\nOr the workman\u2019s, under-taught and \u2013fed,\nWho grinds his own bones and his child\u2019s for bread?\nNowadays, Sheffield is a light and airy city of the arts, wearing culture on its sleeve, or rather its modern architecture \u2013 there is even a poem by the poet laureate, Andrew Motion, emblazoned in huge letters on a tall building of Sheffield Hallam University near the railway station.\nAs we wandered around the centre of the city, we spotted a police box and were reminded of Doctor Who. For overseas readers who might not understand the cultural significance, Doctor Who is a science fiction series of television programmes for children, detailing the adventures of a super-hero called The Doctor. This person never reveals his exact identity, hence the title of the series. The Doctor travels through time and space, saving the Earth from all manner of aliens and villains, in a time machine called the Tardis.\nThe Sole Surviving Sheffield Police Box\nThe Tardis was supposed to be able to blend into any background, but (according to the story) after landing in London in the 1960\u2019s disguised as a police box, the circuitry that enabled it to blend in became broken. It therefore always looks like a London police box, even when landing on an alien planet. This is not likely to have originated as a quirky plot device by the writers, but rather a reflection of the tight budget when producing the first programmes. It was cheaper to use the same model of police box rather than run to the expense of a new form of Tardis for each new location. This was in keeping with other cost-cutting measures, such as scenes on an alien planet that looked as if they were filmed in a gravel pit (because they had been!), flimsy backdrops that wobbled when the actors breathed on them, and \u2018advanced\u2019 alien technology built from cheap spare parts. One of the most successful villains The Doctor encountered were the Daleks, who rode around in something akin to armoured wheelchairs from which various protuberances menaced mankind. One such appendage was instantly recognisable as a long-handled plunger \u2013 a wooden shaft with a rubber suction cup on the end, more commonly used by plumbers to unblock drains.\nDespite such props, which would be laughable in today\u2019s era of computer-generated special effects, such was the power of the story-telling that when the first programmes appeared in 1963 they were an instant success, and the series ran until 1989. People who had seen the programmes as children regarded them with nostalgia, and considered them as classic television: so much so that an up-dated version was relaunched in 2005 and is still running. This is not to say that the storylines were watertight. What of a super-hero, who is supposed to be a technical wizard and master of advanced technologies, who cannot even mend the circuit on his own time machine to stop it standing out like a sore thumb wherever it lands?\nWhen Doctor Who was revived in 2005, the Tardis retained its form as a London police box, since this had become an icon of the series, but even when the series began, police boxes were starting to be phased out in London and elsewhere in Britain. Originally, they functioned as a point of contact for policemen walking their beat. In a time before portable radios, let alone mobile phones, policemen could use the boxes to call for back-up, particularly if no-one responded to them blowing their whistles. They also provided shelter in bad weather and somewhere for the policemen to eat their sandwiches and write their reports. The telephones were mounted on the outside of the box, so that members of the public could phone the police.\nIn addition, the boxes acted as temporary prison cells for criminals who had just been arrested. In this respect, they were descendants of the old village lockups that held prisoners who were arrested by officers of the parish until they could be brought before whatever passed for justice in the neighbourhood. Their most common function was to keep unruly drunks out of harms way until they sobered up. Few village lockups survive and perhaps even fewer of the police boxes. If the Tardis landed in London today, it would be as out of place as if landing in the middle of a field. With reliable police radios and more particularly with the change from a single policeman walking the beat to pairs of police patrolling in cars, police boxes became redundant. The one we saw in Sheffield was the sole survivor out of 120 that were once scattered through that city alone.\nWhat struck us was that the Sheffield police box is very different in form to the Tardis used in Doctor Who, because back in the 1960\u2019s the programme makers based their design on a London box. Even then, the Tardis would have looked out of place if it had landed in Sheffield. Doubtless a London police box was chosen for reasons of costs, but the effect (as in so much of the media) was to produce a London bias. Surviving police boxes are today protected as historic monuments (and the original Doctor Who programmes are historic footage). It is only by coming across odd survivals, such as in Sheffield, that we are reminded that not all police boxes looked like London ones; that London is not Britain; and that there is all manner of life (perhaps better forms of life!) outside the metropolis.\nWickham in southern England lies just east of the port of Southampton. It is considered one of the finest historic villages in Hampshire, larger in size than many other places designated as towns. It is a picturesque spot whatever the weather, but is a perfect place for an outing during the Christmas season, because it is so beautifully traditional and festive. The heart of the village is a substantial square, dating from Medieval times, that has seen many fairs and markets over the centuries, and the architecture comprises predominantly brick buildings of the Georgian and Victorian eras. The watermill, built alongside the River Meon in 1820, is probably the most unusual building in the village. As if the name was not sufficient clue to its history, a bench beside the door has a plaque with the motto \u2018Don\u2019t give up the ship!\u2019.\nThe story of the mill began at least ten years before it was built. After the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the Royal Navy dominated the seas and paralysed the navies of France and her allies by blockading their ports. In 1806 Napoleon attempted to close European ports to British merchant ships and to neutral vessels trading with Britain. The British government retaliated by placing restrictions on neutral merchant vessels, and in turn Napoleon declared it illegal to comply with these regulations. America was caught in the middle, and trade became a major source of aggravation between the United States and Britain. Another area of contention was manpower. Short of seamen, the Royal Navy constantly resorted to impressment. American merchant ships were frequently targeted, because thousands of British seamen (including Royal Navy deserters) worked on board American merchantmen, attracted by better pay and conditions, and some even enlisted with the US Navy.\nThe Royal Navy insisted on the right to board neutral merchant ships to impress British citizens and remove deserters. To America, this was a violation of sovereignty. If British seamen had been the only ones taken, there might have been less rancour, but thousands of Americans were also mistakenly or deliberately seized. From the start of the war with France in 1793 to the outbreak of war with America in 1812, between eight and ten thousand American seamen may have been pressed into the Royal Navy, while others were volunteers.\nAmerica hastily engaged in a war with Britain on the assumption that the British would be too preoccupied with events in Europe to take effective action. This was indeed the case, and in the early stages of the war in 1812\u201313, America had the best of the war at sea. British pride was stung by the failure of the Royal Navy to swat the handful of frigates that made up the tiny American navy, and it became a matter of honour to hunt down these ships. On the American side the reverse was happening \u2013 many officers began to think their ships were unbeatable. The result was probably inevitable.\nIn April 1813 the American frigate Chesapeake reached Boston after a cruise, and many of the crew were paid off. Several officers were sick, including the captain who was replaced by James Lawrence. Although the Chesapeake was ready to put to sea again, the harbour was blockaded by British ships including HMS Shannon. This frigate was commanded by Captain Philip Bowes Broke, who had been with the ship nearly seven years. He was unusually diligent about instilling discipline and training his men. He also had a passion for gunnery, introducing many innovations and adaptations for the Shannon\u2019s guns.\nEveryone was worried that the Chesapeake would slip away in the persistent thick fog. By now Captain Broke had sent his other ships away so as to set up a fair contest between the Shannon and the Chesapeake. Although Lawrence claimed his American crew was in fine spirits, they had barely practised together and some officers remained sick. At midday on Tuesday 1st June, they left Boston in greatly improved weather, watched by crowds of people on shore, who were sure of success.\nThe battle was short-lived and bloody. Two or three broadsides were exchanged, but right from the start the training of the crew of HMS Shannon proved devastating. Lieutenant Augustus Ludlow, acting first lieutenant of USS Chesapeake, remarked that \u2018of one hundred and fifty men quartered on the upper deck, I did not see fifty on their feet after the first fire\u2019. The two ships became so entangled that the Chesapeake could no longer fire. Lawrence gave orders to board the Shannon, but he was hit by a musketball and carried below. His last words before leaving the deck were \u2018tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. Fight her till she sinks!\u2019, which became modified into a future rallying cry for the US Navy of \u2018Don\u2019t give up the ship!\u2019. Soon afterwards, the Chesapeake surrendered, having suffered great loss of life \u2013 some from \u2018friendly fire\u2019 from the ship\u2019s own inexperienced crew. It was all over in eleven minutes.\nThe people of Boston were devastated when the Chesapeake sailed away as a prize of the Shannon. The captured ship was brought to England and served in the Royal Navy until 1819, and was then sold to a Portsmouth builder. Much of the timber was used for new houses in the city, but some was sold on to John Prior, a miller of nearby Wickham, who rebuilt his watermill. It became known as Chesapeake Mill and operated until 1970. It is one of the finest surviving buildings constructed from old ships\u2019 timbers. The mill has recently been restored, and is now home to an antiques market and tea rooms, a good Christmas shopping destination. So while you are inside looking for Christmas gifts, take the opportunity to glance up at the ceilings and see some of the old ship\u2019s timbers. We give more details about this and other stories in The War for All the Oceans.\nWell, everyone likes entertainment at Christmas, especially on Boxing Day, so how about some bear-baiting? Our reaction to bear-baiting today is one of horror, but it was formerly a great attraction. Audlem in Cheshire is a small, ancient market town that originally prospered from its position at the junction of routes that were vital for regional trade. The town is built around the crossing of a north-south road (now the A529) that runs from Market Drayton in the south to Nantwich and Chester in the north, and an east-west road (now the A525) that runs from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Whitchurch and on into Wales. To the west of the town the River Weaver once took north-south traffic, but was superseded by the Shropshire Union Canal, built by Telford and opened in 1835.\nAt the centre of the town, in the fork between the roads to Nantwich and Newcastle-under-Lyme, the church stands on a slight hill and overlooks the market square. Against the church wall is a boulder with the scars of where an iron ring was once fastened, and a plaque on the wall above explains that this is the Bear Stone and that it originally stood in the centre of the market square.\nThe Bear Stone, Audlem\nBear-baiting was a Medieval blood sport dating at least as early as the 12th century in Britain and reaching its peak of popularity in Elizabethan times. The bears were either confined within an arena or pit, chained to a post or, as at Audlem, tethered to a rock. Dogs were then set to attack the bear. At the pageant at Kenilworth for the visit of Elizabeth I in 1575, thirteen bears were acquired as part of the entertainment. Robert Laneham described each event in detail, including the bear-baiting:\n\u2018The bears were brought forth into the court, the dogs were set to them \u2026 Very fierce both one and the other, and eager in argument: if the dog in pleading should pluck the bear by the throat, the bear with traverse would claw him again by the scalp \u2026 thus with fending and proving, with plucking and tugging, scratching and biting, by plain tooth and nail on one side and the other, such expense of blood and leather was there between them, as a month\u2019s licking, I ween, will not recover.\u2019\nLaneham did not feel revulsion, but enjoyed the spectacle:\n\u2018It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemies, the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid the assault. If he was bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free; that if he was taken once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them.\u2019\nAt this time rich lords employed men called \u2018bearwards\u2019 to look after the bears used for baiting, and the monarch had a \u2018master of the king\u2019s bears\u2019, but for the general population bears were kept by showmen to make money. Large towns might have a bear garden, perhaps as part of larger pleasure gardens, and the Bankside and the Paris bear gardens in London became famous. Such places became especially well known for boisterous spectators and excessive noise, with the result that expressions such as \u2018like a bear-garden\u2019 entered the language as a description of such behaviour. In the countryside, though, open spaces that could accommodate a paying, betting audience, such as a market-place, were the main venues for bear-baiting. In this respect Audlem market square was ideally suited, being overlooked by the elevated west end of the churchyard where the spectators could stand.\nIn the decades following the death of Queen Elizabeth bear-baiting was gradually suppressed because of opposition from the Church \u2013 not because of the cruelty to the animals, but because such entertainments supposedly distracted the common people from their devotions. James I prohibited baiting on a Sunday, and under Cromwell\u2019s Commonwealth (where anything that amused the masses was vigorously repressed) a ban was enforced by killing any bears involved in bear-baiting. With the restoration of the monarchy baiting of animals as an entertainment was revived, but from then on bear-baiting started to wane, although bull-baiting and cock-fighting remained popular.\nIn part the decline in bear-baiting was due to the upper and middle classes turning away from baiting to concentrate more on hunting and shooting. Successive wars on the Continent also made it more difficult and expensive to obtain bears. By 1802 the baiting of animals had fallen so far from favour with the ruling classes that a bill for abolishing bull-baiting was presented to Parliament. It was supported by such eminent politicians as William Wilberforce and the playwright Richard Sheridan. Although Britain had been at war with France for nearly a decade, parliamentary time was set aside to debate what, in modern terms, was an animal rights issue. In reply to an opposing speech from George Canning, who in later years served as Prime Minister, Sheridan was scathing:\n\"The honourable Member (Canning) alluded to the practice of bull-baiting in Spain, but would he say that it is the effect of that sport, so prevalent among them, to raise the Spanish mind to heroism? Did he think that it was bull-baiting which caused the superiority of the Spaniards in courage over the English [A general laugh]. It was contended that the sport did not brutalise those concerned in it; that it is even not inconsistent with a humane disposition. Nothing could be less founded in truth than this.\"\nDespite the efforts of Wilberforce, Sheridan and their allies, the bill was defeated, largely through fear of the public reaction. Memories of the revolutions in America and France, as well as various republican disturbances in Britain, were very fresh in the minds of MPs. In war time it was felt that particular care should be taken to avoid provoking the lower classes unduly. It was not until 1835 that an Act of Parliament outlawed the baiting of animals for entertainment and prohibited bull- and badger-baiting as well as bear-baiting. At Audlem this coincided with the opening of the Shropshire Union Canal which, with the nearby flight of a dozen locks and wharf for trans-shipment of goods, changed the economic focus from the market square at the north end of the town to the canal in the south. Less than fifty years later the Bear Stone was moved from it central position in the square, as it was no longer an attraction on market days. Instead, it survived as a monument to a more bloodthirsty era of history.\nArchaeological Monuments and Christmas\nIt is usually the case that festivities of any kind are the most difficult things to detect among archaeological remains. For example, you might be able to tell that all the food remains in a pit were put there at the same time, but is this clearing up after a party? Or clearing the floor of your dining room because years of accumulated food waste have got just too nasty to live with any more? In the northern hemisphere, Christmas falls around the same time as the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and a time for celebration since the days now began to lengthen and people started to have realistic hopes of being warm again. Some archaeological evidence is associated with ritual at this time of year. At Stonehenge, for instance, the prehistoric stones are aligned with sunset at the winter solstice, although it is more fashionable nowadays for latter-day pagans and druids to celebrate the sunrise of the summer solstice there, when it is warmer!\nInterpreting alignments of stone circles with astronomical phenomena can be tricky, particularly when, as at Stonehenge, some of the stones have been moved and some have been lifted out and concreted back into place, while others are bolted together with iron rods. At other types of prehistoric sites, most notably those known as passage graves, a connection with the midwinter solstice is more easily demonstrated. At the monument at New Grange in County Meath, Ireland, light from the sun penetrates down the underground passage of the tomb to the heart of the mound on that day, and the same is true at other places such as the passage grave of Maes Howe in Orkney. This type of alignment provides some straws at which archaeologists clutch in the hope of establishing a connection between monuments in the landscape and the rituals that were performed there.\nWe are on safer ground when dealing with later ceremonies and festivities that became connected with such monuments. There is no suggestion that such ceremonies are derived from prehistoric rituals \u2013 they merely show what is possible. An interesting example of this is also in Orkney, at the prehistoric stone circles called the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness. According to an account of the Reverend R. Henry, dating to around 1784, young people in the neighbourhood used to meet at the local church on New Year\u2019s Day, with enough food for four or five days, to conduct a marriage ceremony. The people to be married would go to the stone circle at Stenness, which they called the Temple of the Moon, where the woman prayed to the god Woden and made her vows to the man. After this they went to the Ring of Brodgar, called by them the Temple of the Sun, where the man similarly prayed. The couple then went to an outlying stone of the Stenness circle, known as the Stone of Odin and which had a large hole in it. They stood either side, clasped their right hands through the hole, and swore to be constant and faithful to each other. Presumably the feasting then began.\nAn echo of this ceremony is preserved in the folk song called The Standing Stones Ballad. There is enough detail in the song to place it firmly in the locality of the Stenness stones and the Ring of Brodgar, which lie within less than a mile of each other. The ballad refers to the stone with the hole in it as \u2018The Lover\u2019s Stone\u2019. In the song, the ceremony takes place on Christmas Eve not New Year\u2019s Day, and only two lovers are present, observed in secret by a second man who murders the first man after he has made his vows and parted from his lover. This ballad was first published in 1883 by John Mooney in a small collection called Songs of the Norse. It is not clear whether the song refers back to the overtly pagan ceremonies recorded by the Reverend Henry or whether it is based on a local form of \u2018common law marriages\u2019 that were to be found all over Britain.\nThe most frequent form of this ceremony was that the couple jumped over a broomstick or a bonfire to solemnise their marriage vows, rather than pay the cost of a church wedding. The Stone of Odin, or The Lovers\u2019 Stone in the song, was moved and destroyed along with two other stones in the winter of 1814\u201315. This was done by a local farmer who was annoyed by the number of visitors to the site, and his vandalism made him extremely unpopular \u2013 there were at least two failed attempts to burn his farm to the ground. The strength of feeling among the local people implies that the stones were still revered at this date.\nLast month the competition prize was a copy of the revised The Handbook of British Archaeology. The answer to the question \u2018what is lorica squamata?\u2019 is a type of Roman armour. It was scale armour, which consisted of rows of overlapping iron or bronze scales. The scales were 10 to 50mm long and were held in place by wire ties passed through a hole in the top of each scale and then sewn to a linen or leather backing. This armour was worn by legionary soldiers, mainly in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The publisher Constable & Robinson kindly provided an extra copy, so we were able to give away two prizes.\nThe poet Ezra Pound is reported to have once written about publishers, \u2018These vermin crawl over and beslime our literature \u2026 and nothing but the day of judgement can, I suppose, exterminate them.\u2019 Whether or not he actually wrote these words, there is no doubt that publishers and booksellers (who were often one and the same) have been unpopular with many people for many centuries. A sociologist is supposed to have stated that one mark of Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s greatness was the fact that he once had a publisher shot without a proper trial, and it is true that a German publisher was shot on his orders. To enter our competition this time, all you have to do is tell us the name of the publisher who was shot and the year of his death. Was it:\nJohann Philipp Palm in 1806\nWilhelm von Schmidt in 1807\nJohann Fuchs in 1808", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 26907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.africanamericanrhinoplasty.com/blog/rhinoplasty-overview--part-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FYVGKNG35EUAPP3ALQT5EMXJO2GLWQIL", "length": 4863, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.africanamericanrhinoplasty.com", "title": "Rhinoplasty Overview \u2013 Part 3 | African American Rhinoplasty Blog | The Aesthetic Institute", "raw_content": "In the previous chapters of this blog (click to read part 1, click to read part 2) we told you about cosmetic and functional rhinoplasty, describing the reasons for some procedures and the procedures themselves. In this last part we will describe a few more conditions and the rhinoplasty procedures that are used to correct them.\nNasal Tip Rhinoplasty\nTip rhinoplasty procedures are performed with the aim of altering the nasal tip. Some patients may complain that their nasal tip is bulbous, too wide, too narrow, or boxy. Tip rhinoplasty can be used to add definition to a weak nasal tip or refine a nasal tip that is too prominent. The nasal tip can be also set too high/low or twisted upward or downward in which case rhinoplasty can be used to adjust the angle or height of the tip.\nDepending on the specific individual concern of the patient, the tip rhinoplasty surgery can be anywhere between a simple, quick procedure meant to achieve a subtle alteration in the appearance of the nose, or a very complex process that will take hours. In this type of surgery any of a variety of techniques can be used, some of which are sculpting, suture application, and use of grafts. In cases when grafts are used, they can often be made from the patient\u2019s own cartilage. This is harvested from the nasal septum, ear or even the ribs. It takes some people aback, but the truth is that it is the most natural way to go about it, and the best way to ensure optimal healing.\nCorrection Surgery for Alar Retraction and Hanging Columella\nAlar retraction is a condition when a specific portion of the nose near the tip (known as the ala) is strongly turned upward. The result is excessive nostril show and some possible obstruction of breathing. This may be congenital or caused by damage during previous surgery. One way or another, it can be corrected using cartilage repositioning, composite grafting, or alar rim grafts.\nThe columella is the thin portion of skin at the base of the nose that separates the nostrils and connects to the upper lip. Sometimes, when too much of the columella is visible because of it protruding downward (a condition that is known as a hanging columella). A hanging columella will also result in more of the nostril showing, it is different from alar retraction and is therefore treated differently.\nA hanging columella is also accompanied by a droopy tip, a short upper lip, a long lateral cruse, and some other deformations. It is a condition that may be congenital or it may be a result of poorly performed rhinoplasty.\nCorrecting this condition may require excision of excess septum tissue that may be the source of the protrusion. If it is caused by grafts left over from previous surgery, then revision rhinoplasty can be performed in order to extricate or reshape the grafts.\nFollowing this and many other surgical procedures, and as a means to secure recovery, a splint will be placed on the nose. The splint and dressings that were applied then will normally be removed after six to seven days after surgery. If nasal packing had to be used after surgery, it will be removed on the next morning unless the surgeon has reason to decide otherwise. Some discomfort, bruising and swelling is normal after any procedure and should be expected. Those symptoms can be helped with over the counter pain medication. Bruising is also common around the eye and nose area and may persist for a period of approximately ten days. Swelling will take a bit longer to dissipate, sometimes lingering for a month or more. Patients are often able to return to work after one week but hard physical exercise is strictly advised against for a period of six months or more, depending on the progress of the recovery.\nFinesse Rhinoplasty\nSome rhinoplasty procedures may not involve or require any major changes. Many patients don\u2019t have major problems with their appearance and are merely seeking subtle changes to the shape of their nose. This is when finesse rhinoplasty is exactly what you need.\nFinesse rhinoplasty only involves the very minimum of very specific alterations which are introduced to \u201cfine tune\u201d the appearance of the nose while conserving all other features of the nose and face.\nThis can be a particularly attractive solution for models, actors and public personas, who do not want to disappear for long recovery periods or have a very noticeable or obvious change that wills spark rumors and gossip. Finesse rhinoplasty is normally only performed using local anesthesia in closed rhinoplasty technique.\nRemember, while the changes that the finesse rhinoplasty introduces may be very subtle, this procedure still does require a very skilled and meticulous surgeon, especially for ethnic patients. We hope you enjoyed this \u2013 stay tuned, or send us an email with any question that you have or want us to cover in the next blog releases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 12239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aft.org/file/7701", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:CI4BH4SSTAUHXVFX3GZCIDGVDUPRIEST", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.aft.org", "title": "promo_winning-tenure.jpg | American Federation of Teachers", "raw_content": "Original version https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/thumbnails/promo_winning-tenure.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 125.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.afternoonvoice.com/us-military-to-have-a-separate-space-force-trump.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KG2MGJBN5YFGVZSGEPKGMHAQNSC3IGN2", "length": 3077, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.afternoonvoice.com", "title": "US military to have a separate 'Space Force': Trump \u2013 Afternoon Voice", "raw_content": "Home > World > US military to have a separate \u2018Space Force\u2019: Trump\nUS military to have a separate \u2018Space Force\u2019: Trump\nPresident Donald Trump has ordered the US military to establish a \u201cspace force\u201d as the sixth branch of its armed forces to ensure \u201cAmerican dominance\u201d in space amidst competition from Russia and China.\nDetails of what a new space force would look like and what it would do were not immediately clear. But Trump said it would be \u201cseparate but equal\u201d to the Air Force.\nThe other US military branches are the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps.\nAddressing the members of the National Space Council at the White House, Trump, also the commander-in-chief of the military, said the whole world is \u201clooking up\u201d to the US and the country is being respected again.\nThe president said he has directed the Pentagon to start a process for creating a \u201cSpace Force\u201d.\n\u201cI\u2019m hereby directing the Department of Defence and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That\u2019s a big statement,\u201d Trump said.\nHe also said it would be unacceptable to let either China or Russia lead in space, and he would be directing federal agencies to \u201cimplement a state-of-the-art framework for space traffic management\u201d.\nHowever, the US Congresswould need to pass a law authorising the Trump administration to create any new branch of the military, media reports said.\n\u201cWhen it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space, he said in his address to the advisory body led by Vice President Mike Pence.\nTrump said that the US will have the Air Force and the Space Force, separate but equal.\n\u201cIt is going to be something so important\u2026But that\u2019s the importance that we give it. We\u2019re going to have the Space Force,\u201d he said.\nTrump said the American economy has become a \u201cstrong economy\u201d under his leadership and the foreign policy that he has adopted after coming to power.\n\u201cThe whole world is looking up to the US, and the US is respected again. It was a period of time, we were not so respected, not so long ago. The US is respected again,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThis is an incredible time for our country. I would say that our economy and many of you know that very well, is doing better than it ever has done,\u201d he said, adding that the employment numbers are the best- recorded history.\nHe also promised that the US would \u201creturn Americans to the Moon\u201d and would eventually send people to Mars.\n\u201cWe will establish a long-term presence, expand our economy, and build the foundation for the eventual mission to Mars, which is actually going to happen very quickly,\u201d he said.\n\u201cToday we\u2019re taking one more step to unleash the power of American ingenuity,\u201d he said as he signed a new directive to federal departments and agencies.\nThey will work together with American industry to implement a state-of-the-art framework for space traffic management, he said.\nTags: ChinaDonald TrumpMike PenceRussiaUS\nLalu Prasad admitted to Mumbai hospital", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 9101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ahig.com.au/terms-of-use", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RDFDDJGESJK2BY225IQZ4RXVRRWZKJ2B", "length": 1010, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ahig.com.au", "title": "Terms Of Use - AHIG | Australian Health Industry Group", "raw_content": "Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Australian Healthcare Industry Group\u2019s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website\nThe term \u2018Australian Healthcare Industry Group\u2019 or \u2018us\u2019 or \u2018we\u2019 refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 5/641 Mt Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039. Our company registration number is 160 399 655 and place of registration is 5/641 Mt Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039. The term \u2018you\u2019 refers to the user or viewer of our website.\nAustralian Healthcare Industry Group reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time by posting new Terms of Use at this location. You can contact Australian Healthcare Industry Group with any questions relating to these Terms of Use at our contact page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/visiting/lookingback/looking-back-at-2015/aircraft-in-the-spotlight/usaf-cv-22b-osprey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EC4GGJ4CDP2U2GC443LRJZBD3VWCJ4D6", "length": 1029, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.airtattoo.com", "title": "Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises - USAF CV-22B OSPREY", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Airshow \u00bb Visiting the Show \u00bb Looking Back \u00bb Looking back at 2015 \u00bb Aircraft in the Spotlight \u00bb USAF CV-22B OSPREY\nThe tilt-rotor Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey combines the versatility of a helicopter with the performance of a fixed-wing turboprop aircraft. Having made a vertical or short take-off, the wingtip-mounted nacelles containing the two Rolls-Royce Allison AE1107C turboshaft engines tilt forwards to allow the transition into conventional flight. The maiden flight of the V-22 prototype took place in March 1989. It is now in service in MV-22B form with the US Marine Corps as a cargo and troop transport, and in US Air Force Special Operations Command as the CV-22B for long-range infiltration, exfiltration and re-supply tasks. Three wings fly the CV-22B, the 7th Special Operations Squadron of the 352nd Special Operations Wing at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, having received its initial examples - the first to be stationed outside the USA - in June 2013. A total of 49 CV-22Bs are on order for the US Air Force.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 8467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 185.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ajc.com/blog/legal/chief-justice-calls-for-historic-shift-court-responsibilities/fFae5hxaN6g3slyVCyCGwK/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:36:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RFGOOY7FE2C3TWQ7WU42M4GPERG6Z7EB", "length": 2355, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ajc.com", "title": "Chief justice calls for 'historic shift' in court's responsibilities", "raw_content": "Chief justice calls for 'historic shift' in court's responsibilities\nThe Georgia Supreme Court should soon see a \"historic shift\" in its responsibilities by transferring jurisdiction of some of the cases it hears now to the state Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Hugh Thompson told lawmakers Wednesday.\n\"This realignment will bring the Supreme Court of Georgia in line with other state Supreme Courts, which handle only the most critical cases that potentially change the law,\" Thompson said.\nChief Justice Hugh Thompson PHIL SKINNER / AJC\nThompson appeared before a joint session of the General Assembly to give his court's annual \"State of the Judiciary\" address.\nUnder the Georgia Constitution, the Supreme Court now hears divorce and alimony cases, cases involving wills, cases involving titles to land and disputes over boundary lines.\nThompson noted that a commission formed by Gov. Nathan Deal to study jurisdictional issues involving the state's top two appellate courts has recommended those cases now be heard by the lower appeals court.\nThe appeals court, which now has 15 judges, typically hears cases with three-judge panels. This means the appeals court \"will have the capacity to consider five times as many cases as the Supreme Court,\" Thompson said.\n\"In answer to questions such as who owns a strip of land, what does a will mean, and who should prevail in a divorce settlement or an alimony dispute, most judicial systems believe that three judges are enough to provide the parties with a full and fair consideration of their appeal,\" the chief justice said. \"It no longer makes sense to have seven \u2013 or nine \u2013 justices collectively review these types of cases. There is no doubt these cases will be in good hands with the Court of Appeals.\"\nThe purpose of the shift is not to lessen the burden on the Supreme Court, the Thompson said. \"Rather, the intent is to free up the state\u2019s highest court to devote more time and energy to the most complex and the most difficult cases that have the greatest implications for the law and society at large.\"\nThe state Supreme Court will retain jurisdiction of constitutional challenges to state laws, questions from the federal courts seeking rulings on Georgia law, election contests, murder and death penalty cases and cases in which the Court of Appeals judges are equally divided, Thompson said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 6114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ajpr.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:EN3NDPH6S2AGUXYX4WUK6XOWMDOA4GH7", "length": 316, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ajpr.com", "title": "Blog - AJPR", "raw_content": "Posted at December 31, 2018 ,\tin Uncategorized\nIt\u2019s hard to believe that another year has gone, and it\u2019s time to make my New Year\u2019s Eve soba noodle dishes and prepare for the Japanese New Year\u2019s dishes. But before I shut down my computer for 2018, let\u2019s have a quick review of the popular keywords from Japan this[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 143.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/06/200841015411180710.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KF3KBHHPGEUR5JPZSKPZBA7JEMIXDWPK", "length": 3977, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Shirin Ebadi defends poll boycott decision | News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Shirin Ebadi defends poll boycott decision\nIranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has defended her decision to boycott her country's election, saying she deems the entire election illegitimate.\nShirin Ebadi: The only option is civil disobedience\nShe said it was of little difference whether hardline Tehran mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad or former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani won.\n\"I have protested from the start about the electoral law. For me the only option is civil disobedience and this is the least we can do. The votes are not just, because they are not free,\" she said.\n\"The votes that come out of the boxes are valid as long as they have been the results of a free election. Can you say Saddam Hussein's regime was legitimate or the elections fine just because he got 99% of the votes?\"\nEbadi's stance on the election, which she says is not fair as the unelected Guardians Council has the power to choose who stands in the first place, has been criticised by some liberals as an irresponsible luxury at a critical time for the country.\nNot an example\nThe diminutive 57-year-old emphasised she had taken the decision as an individual citizen and not to set an example.\n\"People have reached a level of awareness, they know what to do. They do not need to be handed a prescription given by people like me,\" Ebadi said.\n'A Rafsanjani presidency is the\ncontinuation of the old state'\nShe also scoffed at suggestions that there was a wide ideological gulf between the two candidates and that a vote for Rafsanjani was needed to prevent reforms being rolled back and liberties restricted.\n\"A Rafsanjani presidency is the continuation of the old state,\" she said.\nFor the fate of human rights cases like that of Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist who was killed while in police custody in Tehran, \"there will be no difference whoever becomes president\", she said.\nEbadi also dismissed widespread fears that a president Ahmadinejad would overturn reforms achieved during the term of outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, saying the Iranian people would ensure the changes were here to stay.\n\"Freedom is a one-way street. What has been achieved cannot be taken away. People will simply not allow it,\" she said.\n'The cultural situation of Iran will\nnot allow a Taliban-style regime'\nEbadi, awarded her Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work promoting women's and children's rights in Iran, also accused Rafsanjani's campaign team of scaremongering.\n\"The whole fear that Hashemi's campaign has spread, their scheme to earn votes has been to say that if you do not vote for him then the Taliban will come to power.\"\n\"The cultural situation of Iran is not one that will allow a Taliban-style regime to be imposed here. Sixty per cent of university students are women. The feminist movement is very strong. I am sure that the people will protect the freedom they have achieved,\" she said.\n\"No matter how much you have to pay, young Iranians have shown several times they are prepared to pay this price, this can be seen by the number of political prisoners.\"\nBest president\nThe feisty rights lawyer described Khatami, whose efforts at reform were often quashed by intransigent hardliners, as \"the best president we have ever had\".\n\"I am an Iranian, I am staying. Remember that I have been to prison and when I came out of jail I did not leave Iran\"\nShirin Ebadi,\nIranian Nobel laureate\n\"The most important achievement of Khatami was that he revealed the serial murders of intellectuals and put an end to them,\" Ebadi said, referring to a string of gruesome murders that shocked the country in 1998 and were eventually blamed on \"rogue\" intelligence agents.\nWhatever the outcome of the elections, Ebadi reaffirmed her commitment to staying in Iran to fight the cause of human rights from her small premises in the northwest of the city.\n\"I am an Iranian, I am staying. Remember that I have been to prison and when I came out of jail I did not leave Iran,\" she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 7737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2007/02/2008525134923761109.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:54Z", "digest": "sha1:5IP3U2BV6NUWP5BJ6UJ45VI7SHYUFFBV", "length": 833, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff China mine boss jailed for cover-up | News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "China mine boss jailed for cover-up\nMine owner convicted over 2006 accident that left 56 coal miners dead.\nChina's mining industry is the world's deadliest [EPA/file]\nHe was also convicted of illegal mining, bribery and falsifying testimony.\nChina has the world's deadliest coal mining industry with fatal accidents on an almost daily basis.\nLabour rights groups say safety regulations are often ignored in many mines as production is pushed beyond limits in the rush for profit.\nNearly 6,000 coal miners died in about 3,300 accidents in 2005, and the death toll for the first 10 months of 2006 stood at 3,726, according to the latest available figures.\nOfficials say small and privately run coal mines that fall short of safety standards account for most of the casualties, but large state-owned mines report the higher death tolls.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 4559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/2009245534355540.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:W3HP3O7VKNCFFOF4ZXV2Q7WSI7KTFXW7", "length": 2157, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Myanmar says UN must end sanctions | News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Myanmar says UN must end sanctions\nMilitary government tells UN envoy sanctions must end before it will consider reforms.\nMyanmar officials told Gambari, left, that sanctions must be lifted as a precondition for reform [EPA]\n\"The political situation can be stable if the economic situation is stable,\" state television quoted him as saying.\n\"We have been trying amid many kinds of difficulties, but you cannot ask us to run by tying the legs with rope. You need to release the rope.\"\nWestern governments, including the United States, have imposed economic and political sanctions on Myanmar because of its poor human rights record and failure to restore democracy.\nGambari is due to brief the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, on his visit during a stopover in New Delhi on Thursday.\nAung San Suu Kyi said she had become frustrated at delays in securing reforms [AFP]\nOn Monday Gambari met Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader who has been under house arrest for the most part of the last 19 years.\nThe Nobel peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), had outlined to Gambari several preconditions for dialogue with the military government.\nShe reportedly told him that the military government should immediately release all political detainees, recognise the NLD's landslide victory in 1990 elections and review the new constitution passed in a widely criticised referendum last May.\nGambari's last visit in August 2008 ended in a deadlock with Aung San Suu Kyi refusing to meet him on grounds that no progress had been made on five previous visits.\nMyanmar's ruling generals have shunned international calls to include the democracy leader in their plans for reform, and have instead pushed ahead with their own so-called \"Roadmap to Democracy\".\nThat plan has been dismissed as a sham by opposition groups, because it guarantees the military will hold the balance of power and excludes Aung San Suu Kyi from elections planned for 2010.\nAccording to human rights group Amnesty International more than 2,000 activists are being held in Myanmar jails by the military, which has held political power in Myanmar since 1962.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 5918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/artist/66142/Black_Milk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IWZFHMBA2AYXMT7I6GQMVKSXHENIIHCT", "length": 435, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.allgigs.co.uk", "title": "Black Milk Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk", "raw_content": "Black Milk Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk\nBlack Milk is American rapper, musician and producer, occasionally joined by Daru Jones -drums and AB - keyboards.\nHe released his debut album, \"Sound of the City\" in 2005, followed by \"Popular Demand\" (2007), \"Tronic\" (2008), \"Album of the Year\" (2010), \"No Poison No Paradise\", \"Synth or Soul\" (both 2013) and 2014's: \"If There's a Hell Below\".\nRoyce 5'9\nwww.facebook.com/blackmilk/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 2448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allmightypictures.com/portfolio/wwf-brand-film", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5BQAWDMUCEZHSGEULMAQ2URYR65TKMAS", "length": 920, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.allmightypictures.com", "title": "WWF - Our Planet - All Mighty Pictures", "raw_content": "The brief was simple; to show why our amazing planet is worth saving and that WWF are all around the planet trying to save it.\nThe idea was simple; let\u2019s go and film our amazing planet and the WWF workers who are trying to save it.\nWWF put us in contact with a number of local offices around the world who helped us with logistics and gaining access to otherwise unreachable locations. 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Though not built to rival the \u201cBig Three\u201d pickup lines prevalent in the U.S. (including Ford and Chevy\u2019s pickup truck lines), it is manufactured to be an alternative to their larger styles. Introduced in 2003, the Titan has made big waves in the southern United States \u2013 the region has accounted for almost a quarter of all Titan sales since its introduction. Unlike most pickup truck lines, the Titan comes with only one engine, a 5.6L 317hp V8 that is capable of 385 lb-ft of torque. Learn more about the Nissan Titan here.\nThe Nissan Titan comes in seven different trim levels based on two different cab configurations. Right now, the Titan comes with either a King Cab or a Crew Cab, with the King Cab having three variants and the Crew Cab with four. The Titan\u2019s base model, the King Cab S, comes in at $29,360 and features 168-degree wide-turn opening rear-doors, air conditioning and antilock brakes. 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In order to compensate for the additional weight, which lowers an auto shippers\u2019 fuel economy and takes up more space on the truck, they have to charge more to ship them. This is fairly standard, and will be reflected in your quotes when you receive them.\nBut regardless of where you need transport services to or from, or what your budget is, American Auto Shipping is here to help you. You can fill out our free online auto transport quote request form and receive an instant price immediately right on your screen. We clear all our carriers for reliability ahead of time, which means we make sure they are all fully licensed, bonded and insured before we ever send them your information. You can also call our toll-free telephone number and speak to one of our own live representatives if you have questions or concerns. So go ahead, fill out our free form, or give us a quick call, and find out what American Auto Shipping can do for you and all your auto transport needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amta.net.au/cap-home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2X7TGUQM7WHARA2ZHUKPXS55OKHOLTIC", "length": 1748, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.amta.net.au", "title": "Children's Audition Preparation Workshops - Australian Musical Theatre Academy", "raw_content": "Children's Audition Preparation Workshops\nA musical theatre intensive featuring material from Billy Elliot the Musical\nCreated by Queenie van de Zandt, one of musical theatre\u2019s best-loved stars and Australia\u2019s leading teacher of audition technique and renowned \u2018musical theatre star-maker\u2019, these workshops are designed to help children prepare for upcoming auditions.\nThese independent, highly successful workshops are open to children of all ages who want to audition for professional musicals, as the audition skills taught in the workshops are relevant to every professional musical audition.\nChildren who have participated in these workshops over the past 18 years have dominated the casting in professional musicals.\n\"I loved learning the songs and routines it was so fun. All Queenie\u2019s advice has been so helpful for me. The best part was to perform what we had learned through the day for our parents. I will take what I\u2019ve learnt with me through my journey towards a successful musical theatre career\"\nNeither the Australian Musical Theatre Academy (AMTA), nor any of our staff, are in any way connected to, or associated with, or endorsed or sponsored by any Australian production company and/or promoter and/or their productions and are not involved in any way in the casting of such productions. Through our independent, highly successful workshops we\u2019ve been teaching children and adults the skills involved in auditioning for professional musicals and preparing them to take leading roles in professional shows, for the past 18 years. Obviously, we can\u2019t, and won\u2019t ever, guarantee that anyone will be cast in a musical, however many children and adults who participate in our workshops are subsequently cast in professional musicals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anacorteswa.gov/210/Emergency-Medical-Service", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JW2VXT4YW5IHFA6OP4SJEAAAI63NVNSP", "length": 1267, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.anacorteswa.gov", "title": "Emergency Medical Service | Anacortes, WA", "raw_content": "The Anacortes Fire Department provides emergency response and ambulance services for the City of Anacortes, Fidalgo and Guemes Islands under contract with Skagit County, funded partially by the Medic One Levy. The service area encompasses 85 square miles with a full time population of 22,550.\nThese services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through 911.\nThe Emergency Medical Services Operations are managed by Division Chief Nick Walsh. The Department's 21 career Firefighters are also state certified Paramedics (16) or EMTs (5) trained to utilize the Department's four ambulances as Mobile Intensive Care Units.\nIf you have questions regarding services, please contact the Fire Department at 360-293-1925.\nBill Questions\nIf you have questions regarding billing, please contact 800-238-9398.\nPatient information is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). For a complete statement of your rights to obtain, release or amend your health information, see our Notice of Health Information Privacy Practices. If you wish to request a copy of your incident report, please contact the Privacy Officer at 360-299-4129 or email a completed Request for Access to the Privacy Officer: privacyofficer@cityofanacortes.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anderson-funeral.com/obituaries/Marjorie-Coyle-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VCMYZYWMOTO42NILWILBOPZCU4GC4WXG", "length": 508, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.anderson-funeral.com", "title": "Marjorie W. Coyle Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Marjorie W. Coyle\nMarjorie W. Coyle, age 81, Franklin, Ohio passed away on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at River Oaks Alzheimer's Special Care Center. Marjorie was born in Middletown, Ohio on December 20, 1935 to the late John and Katherine Wilkinson. She was... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Marjorie W. Coyle created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nMarjorie W. Coyle, age 81, Franklin, Ohio passed away on Saturday,...\nSend flowers to the Coyle's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anditrocks.com/new-studio-album-by-wilco-available-now-free-for-limited-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RBJGDBQQF5BX5NZVZ44G4Y67VF66AA7X", "length": 3452, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.anditrocks.com", "title": "NEW STUDIO ALBUM BY WILCO AVAILABLE NOW \u2013 FREE FOR LIMITED TIME | And it Rocks Live Music", "raw_content": "STAR WARS FEATURES 11 SONGS BY CHICAGO SEXTET\nFULL ALBUM AVAILABLE AS FREE DOWNLOAD UNTIL AUGUST 13\nEasthampton, MA \u2013 July 17, 2015 \u2014 The Chicago band Wilco has digitally released a new album, Star Wars, through its own dBpm Records. The album was made available last night after Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy revealed news of its existence during a live interview with Pitchfork at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Wilco headlines the Pitchfork Music Festival tonight in Chicago.\nStar Wars is the Grammy-award winning band\u2019s ninth studio album and its first since 2011\u2019s The Whole Love. The album is available for free download for 30 days via wilcoworld.net and anti.com. It is also available through traditional streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Rdio.\nStar Wars will be available for purchase on CD on August 21 and vinyl on November 27. Pre-order of the physical releases is available now on wilcoworld.net. Digital downloads remain free until August 13.\nWilco has been a pioneer of pre-releasing albums and making its music available for free since 2001 when the band streamed it\u2019s breakthrough release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The decision to make Star Wars available quickly and for free continues to see the band exploring new ways to release its music and reach its fans, while keeping the album release process fun and interesting to its members.\n\u201cWhy release an album this way and why make it free? Well, the biggest reason, and I\u2019m not sure we even need any others, is that it felt like it would be fun,\u201d Tweedy said. \u201cWhat\u2019s more fun than a surprise? Enough of this 20th anniversary already, here\u2019s something fresh.\u201d\nThe new album was recorded at the band\u2019s Chicago loft and features 11 original Wilco-penned tunes. Wilco is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, and its label dBpm has recently released two anniversary-related collections: Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a box set of rarities and What\u2019s Your 20?, a compilation of studio tracks from the band\u2019s first eight albums.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been feeling very fortunate lately being reminded of how long we\u2019ve been able to do this,\u201d Tweedy said. \u201cWe believe one of the primary reasons for our good fortune has been our audience\u2019s reaction to our impulse to be heard and our habit of erring on the side of that desire to override financial ambition. Not that we don\u2019t enjoy getting paid. We do. But this is a recommitment to the idea that music is more important to our lives. Art is more worthy of our striving. And fun is more sustaining than cash. It\u2019s not intended to be a comment on the music business, just one band\u2019s wish to give our fans a jolt of joy: a fun surprise. In that spirit we hope you will accept this gift and if not, well, maybe next time.\u201d\nStar Wars Track Listing:\n3. Random Name Generator\n4. The Joke Explained\n5. You Satellite\n6. Taste the Ceiling\n8. Where Do I Begin\n9. Cold Slope\n10. King Of You\nProduced by Jeff Tweedy with Tom Schick\nRecorded at The Loft in Chicago, IL\nEngineered and mixed by Tom Schick with Jeff Tweedy\nAssistant Engineer and studio manager: Mark Greenberg\nMastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME\n\u201cTaste The Ceiling\u201d features Scott McCaughey on Mellotron and Piano\nAdditional percussion by Spencer Tweedy\nAll songs written by Jeff Tweedy except \u201cTaste The Ceiling\u201d by Jeff Tweedy and Scott McCaughey, \u201cYou Satellite\u201d by Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline and \u201cMagnetized\u201d by Jeff Tweedy and Mikael Jorgensen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 7038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.andrewnadkarni.com/blog/?category=Review", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZX5I7WAJ5WMWPQFENVELUZX6LD5U6MYW", "length": 10424, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.andrewnadkarni.com", "title": "BLOG \u2014 ANDREW NADKARNI", "raw_content": "Laika is on a roll. In the past couple of years the stop-motion animation studio behind Coraline (2009) and Paranorman (2012) has created original, technically innovative, and emotionally satisfying movies with a consistency reminiscent of Pixar's heyday.\nLaika's latest movie, The Boxtrolls, continues their tradition of mixing horror with family films by using a combination of beautiful stop-motion and CGI. Based on Alan Snow's children's book, Here Be Monsters, The Boxtrolls follows a young orphaned boy raised by a group of underground, trash collecting creatures. When an exterminator tries to rid the town of boxtrolls to climb the social ladder, the boy must try to save his family and discover out his own identity.\nThe film is a moving, funny indictment of conformity. Although there are many clever visual jokes, there are also plenty of jokes aimed at the younger audience. While children will enjoy the humor, adults will appreciate the social commentary and the incredible craftsmanship that went into the character and set design. It is truly visually stunning, and is one of the few movies that benefits from the addition of 3D.\nThe titular creatures are funny and speak a cute gibberish language. The animators successfully convey their sentiments through tone, facial expressions, and body language. Unfortunately, the audience never quite forms the same emotional connection with the boxtrolls as we do with the human characters. The human characters just seem to have much more depth and personality.\nLaika used a method called \"replacement animation,\" a 3D printer created over 53,000 faces of the same characters with slightly different facial expressions.\nThe voice acting is outstanding. The film compiles an amazing cast, from Elle Fanning, to Nick Frost, to Tracy Morgan, to Jared Harris.\nThe obvious standout, however, is an incredible performance by a cockney-accented Sir Ben Kingsley, playing the villainous exterminator Archibald Snatcher. His character's desperation to move up in society is nuanced and consistently entertaining. That mixed with his many physical transformations makes every minute he is on screen a joy to watch.\nSome of the best humor in the film comes from meta and self-aware jokes told by Snatcher's group of thugs. This film, more than any previous Laika movie, offers interesting glimpses into the behind the scenes process of making a stop-motion film.\nIt took 1.5 years to film The Boxtrolls, a good day netted 2 seconds of footage.\nLaika has a remarkable record of progressiveness when it comes to social issues. Paranorman has a teenaged jock who came out as gay at the end of the movie, and the teaser trailer for The Boxtrolls offers a heartwarming message that families come in all shapes and sizes. In the film itself, there are a few jokes about a man cross dressing as a woman that seemed a little outdated. However, the jokes were not at the expense of the cross dresser, rather the film portrayed the cross dressing as advantageous to the character.\nOverall, the film is visually stunning, offering plenty of cute creatures and jokes for children, as well as social commentary from nuanced characters for the adults. A couple minor plot twists might be obvious before the surprise is revealed and explained in full, but the journey is still fun and moving. It all comes together to make one the best animated film of the year so far.\nThe Boxtrolls comes out September 26, 2014\nRating: 8.5/10 Stars\nReviewAndrew Nadkarni August 24, 2014 Stop-Motion, Advanced Review, Animation, Ben Kingsley, The Boxtrolls, LaikaComment\nBigger scope, worse dialogue, but a lot more fun than its predecessor.\n2013's The Purge had a unique and intriguing premise: an idea with potential for dark social commentary and interesting claims about human nature. Unfortunately, it never fully capitalized on its concept, and instead turned into a much more conventional home-invasion movie. One of the most common complaints was that its limited scope inside one house made it uninteresting.\nThe Purge: Anarchy attempts to correct this, expanding its scope and placing new characters into more exciting locations: the streets of LA. Now we can see how different citizens react to the purge, from hiding at home, selling their services as protection, to donning masks reminiscent of The Strangers to terrorize victims.\nThis sequel is set one year after the events of the original film: the night of the 6th Annual Purge. For one night each year, the government has sanctioned all crimes, including murder, in an apparent effort to lower the crime rate. Rebellious groups, however, argue that the real purpose is to kill off the poor. In this movie, five strangers are stranded outside in the middle of LA after the purge commences, and they must work together to survive the night.\nDirector James DeMonaco returns for the second movie, once again showing a knack for delivering intriguing premises without fleshing out interesting characters or writing realistic dialogue. The visuals are also pretty muddled, with many scenes taking place in rooms so dark it can be hard to distinguish the characters. He also doesn't capitalize on the opportunity for horror in the film, including only one or two jump scares and unrealistic CGI bloodshed.\nFrank Grillo (Brock Rumlow in Captain America 2) stars as Sergeant, the stoic and mysterious leader of the strangers. He is far and away the most interesting character of the bunch, and so it's fitting that he must ultimately make the pivotal choice. Most other actors are serviceable, but few particularly stand out.\nThe exception is a late, if expected, arrival by Michael K. Williams (The Wire). William's brief appearance as the profane, outspoken leader of an underground revolution is pretty much the highlight of the movie, and I wish we had gotten to see more him.\nWhat work best are the moments of satire, when class conflicts are magnified to extreme levels. Sure, the portrayal of the upperclass is exaggerated, but it sure as hell makes it satisfying when the elite get their due punishment. At a few points, deaths of antagonists were cheered on by the decently engaged crowd.\nWhile it's certainly entertaining, it doesn't stack up to the other recent sci-fi movie set in the future about class warfare: Snowpiercer. Snowpiercer is a much more ambitious and unique take on similar subject matter, and I recommend finding it on VOD over paying to see The Purge: Anarchy in theaters.\nUltimately The Purge: Anarchy corrects many of the mistakes of its predecessor, expanding its scope to deliver interesting satire on class disparity and warfare. While the dark visuals and unrealistic dialogue leave something to be desired, the movie is still fun and entertaining.\nReviewAndrew Nadkarni July 12, 2014 Advanced Review, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge 2, Purge, Horror, Michael K. WilliamsComment\nNot scary. A little funny.\n**Update 6/3/14: Marvel has reportedly hired the director of this film, Scott Derickson (Insidious, The Day the Earth Stood Still) to make their upcoming Doctor Strange movie.\nDeliver us from Evil is an upcoming horror movie about Ralph Sarchie, a cynical NY cop played by Eric Bana (Lone Surviver) who investigates a series of increasingly unsettling crimes. He teams up with an unconventional priest played by Edgar Ramirez (Zero Dark Thirty) to fight the paranormal possessions terrorizing the city and confront Sarchie's own demons.\nWhile the film is based on a book which is \"based on a true story\", it is not an effective horror movie, or even a good film for that matter. The plot is illogical and incoherent, with many scenes that take place for seemingly arbitrary reasons that lack satisfying payoff. It asks intriguing questions about the role of faith and doubt in shaping our views of the world. Ultimately, however, it comes off as a blatant advertisement for the Catholic church mixed with an unoriginal exorcism movie.\nBana is serviceable as the cliche cop struggling to maintain faith, make time for his family, and move on from his dark past. Ramirez is pretty unconvincing as the priest, perhaps because all of his dialogue is either clunky exposition or very direct endorsements of the Catholic church. Olivia Munn (The Newsroom) is given little to do as Sarchie's wife who is concerned with how distant her husband is acting with his daughter. Additionally, Joel McHale (Community) plays Sarchie's sarcastic partner who is good for some mildly comic relief. Ultimately, despite all around decent performances, I didn't care very much about the fate of any of the characters.\nDirector Scott Derrickson (Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, two much more effective horror films) falters here, replacing tension and suspense with constant rain and scenes taking place in the dark. You get the sense that the move got away from him, perhaps in the editing room, or possibly reshoots. The film is awkwardly paced and feels too long. I found myself hoping that a confrontation taking place two thirds of the way through the film would be the climax, and was disappointed to find out that we'd have to wait for another battle before the movie was over.\nThe first half of the film is pretty funny. However, the humor is a double edged sword which both keeps the scenes somewhat entertaining but also deflates any of the tension that's supposed to be building. Some of the fight scenes are brutal, and the film doesn't shy away from gross and violent images, yet that merely makes sequences unpleasant to watch, rather than truly scary or effective. The most effective scares come from one scene in Sarchie's daughter's room which was shown in the trailer. Other than a few jump scares and some violent or graphic images, the scares are ineffective.\nOverall, Deliver Us From Evil misses the mark much more often than it hits. It is a long, incoherently plotted advertisement for the Catholic church mixed with a very cliche exorcism film. Bana's Sarchie has some interesting backstory, but the audience doesn't care about most of the characters. While the film asks some interesting philosophical questions, it fails to deliver any satisfying resolution to those questions, and although there are a few effective scares, they are few and far between.\nDeliver Us From Evil comes out July 2nd.\nReviewAndrew Nadkarni June 3, 2014 Deliver Us From Evil, Horror, Advanced Review, Eric BanaComment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 10758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-02-13/the-legend-of-zelda-link-awakening-remake-game-announced-for-switch-in-2019/.143362", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PFGSKPFOU3B5OZCX64BZM3232JSM2V5S", "length": 396, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.animenewsnetwork.com", "title": "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake Game Announced for Switch in 2019 - News - Anime News Network", "raw_content": "Original Game Boy game debuted in 1993\nNintendo announced during its Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday that the The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Game Boy game is getting a remake for Nintendo Switch this year.\nThe original game launched for Game Boy in Japan and the West in 1993. The game then received an updated Game Boy Color release in 1998.\ncloudflare ray# 4a9bb5fe82b2c1c7-IAD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 13178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anticexlibris.ro/the-story-of-english-how-an-obscure-dialect-became-the-world-s-most-spoken-language", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:CWAVUHVW5M42D7QAKQ6LXMWG54QANU6Y", "length": 936, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.anticexlibris.ro", "title": "The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language - Antic Exlibris", "raw_content": "The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language\nIllustrating the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries, and northern Germany became the most widely spoken language in the world, this book also explores how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically ordered and divided into six sections covering pre-Roman and Latin influences, the ascent of Old English, and the succession of Middle English, Early Modern, and then Late Modern English to today's global language, this book also explores the history of the printing press, the works of Chaucer, the evolution of The American Dictionary of the English Language\u2014commonly known as Webster's\u2014and the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary, to the use of slang in today's speech and electronic messaging.\nAutor Joseph Piercy\nEditura Michael O'Mara", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 6838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anushjohnoms.com/referring-doctors/links-of-interest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LST25HY37UPGWBI3HI6GVBT5LD6LR3X3", "length": 509, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.anushjohnoms.com", "title": "Oral Surgery Links of Interest Lutherville MD", "raw_content": "The following websites are provided as a resource for our referring doctors. This page contains hyperlinks to Internet sites that are created and maintained by other organizations. We have included these links because we think that our referring doctors may find them of interest. Keep in mind that Anush A. John Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery does not necessarily endorse the views expressed on these websites. Also, we do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information presented on these sites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 164.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arindesigns.com/project/urbanfusionentertainment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SMSXWAJNCNABBG7FCRHIDRKHPV24K5QR", "length": 168, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.arindesigns.com", "title": "urban fusion entertainment | arin designs", "raw_content": "Urban Fusion Entertainment provides a fusion of music styles from all over the world, delivering only the top talent which exists.\nWebsite: urbanfusionentertainment.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/print/400881/blocked_from_china_twitter_goes_after_overseas_chinese/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5NITTIKPHXI7HWSGFZEBG6KZ7RR3MQX", "length": 2391, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.arnnet.com.au", "title": "Blocked from China, Twitter goes after overseas Chinese - social media, internet, twitter, social networking, Internet-based applications and services, Tencent, Sina - ARN", "raw_content": "Blocked from China, Twitter goes after overseas Chinese\nTwitter to offer new user interface in Chinese language in the coming weeks\nTwitter plans to offer a Chinese-language user interface in the coming weeks. But the company doesn't expect the bulk of the Chinese speaking population will be using it anytime soon.\nChina, which heavily censors the Internet, has blocked Twitter since 2009. This has denied the company a vast market of 485 million Internet users, many of whom have taken to China's own locally-developed Twitter-like services.\nTwitter's Chinese interface is meant to reach native Chinese speakers living outside the country, said Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner. The size of this market amounts to 35 million people living in 30 countries, she said.\nThe new interface will be offered in both simplified and traditional Chinese Mandarin. Simplified Chinese Mandarin is the written language predominately used in mainland China, where Twitter is blocked. Both Taiwan and Hong Kong -- where Traditional Chinese Mandarin is used -- allow users to access Twitter.\nDespite not having a native-language interface to date, Twitter had been gaining popularity in China, mainly among urban residents, as a new kind of social networking. But in July 2009, the site was blocked as part of an information clampdown following an outbreak of ethnic violence in China's western Xinjiang region.\nSince then, Chinese Internet users have flocked to domestically-operated Twitter-like sites that abide by the country's strict censorship rules. The two largest sites, operated separately by Chinese Internet firms Sina and Tencent, each have a registered user base on par with Twitter of more than 200 million. In the case of Sina, the company's social networking site has even attracted the likes of Bill Gates and actors Tom Cruise and Emma Watson, who have accounts.\nWhile Twitter's Chinese counterparts have been focused on the domestic market, that could change in the future. Sina is developing an English language version of its popular social networking service. The company has already launched an English language interface of its service through an iPhone App. Earlier this year, Sina's CEO Charles Chao said the service had 8 million users outside of mainland China.\nAlong with the Chinese language, Twitter will also release interfaces in the Hindi, Filipino and Malay languages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/print/577033/intel-invest-125-million-startups-run-by-women-minorities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FR6QH23LQ64PVKVKIWTYTKHZUPHKBVW3", "length": 2917, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.arnnet.com.au", "title": "Intel to invest US$125 million in startups run by women, minorities - business issues, intel - ARN", "raw_content": "Intel to invest US$125 million in startups run by women, minorities\nThis new Intel Capital investment fund is separate from an existing $300 million diversity plan\nThe Intel logo on display at Computex 2015 in Taipei\nTo encourage diversity in IT, Intel Capital has established a US$125 million investment program targeted at startups run by women and under-represented minorities.\nThe investment program complements a separate $300 million Intel initiative announced in January whose goal is to bring more women and under-represented minorities into its workforce by 2020.\nIntel already chose four companies, all of which have diverse work forces, for the first round of investments, totaling $16.7 million. Intel Capital has a pipeline of companies it is looking to fund, said Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich, during a webcast on Tuesday.\nIntel has talked about plans to change its capital investment program to make it more accessible for women and minorities.\nIntel wants to be clearer on funding plans and responsive to funding requests from startups run by women and minorities. The company has also established an advisory board of senior Intel employees to help make funding decisions.\nA small portion of technology companies are founded by women and minorities, and Intel Capital will provide financing and industry connections to help the chosen companies grow their businesses, said Lisa Lambert, managing director and vice president of Intel Capital.\nIntel may be fulfilling social obligations, but the capital fund is not a \"social program,\" Lambert said. Investments will go to high-quality companies whose products align with Intel's goals and have \"great outcomes,\" Lambert said.\nThe first four companies are Brit+Co, which sells hardware equipment and provides guides to makers and do-it-yourselfers; CareCloud, which provides cloud-based health care documentation services; Mark One, which makes a \"smart cup\" that recognizes beverage and nutritional content; and Venafi, a security company that provides tools to assess, fix and block keys and certificates.\nIntel Capital has invested $11.4 billion in 400 companies worldwide since 1991. Intel typically funds companies that could help improve sales of its products or help develop new technologies.\nFor example, Intel Capital in May took an undisclosed stake in Digital Specialty Chemicals, which could help develop silicon-replacement materials for its future chips.\nIntel has taken some steps to reach its diversity goals. It has increased the hiring of women and under-represented minorities like Hispanics and African Americans since the start of the year, and the company has committed to spending $1 billion cumulatively with diverse suppliers by 2020.\nIntel has also worked with the Oakland Unified School District to develop a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education program that could ultimately lead to internships and jobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arnoldbloch.com/blog/a-satisfied-mind", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YNH5DHLP6GHFO747G4HLTM524TPQ5GO7", "length": 1574, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.arnoldbloch.com", "title": "A Satisfied Mind - Mind Health Emotions Thoughts Happiness", "raw_content": "Bob Dylan in his typically insightful way writes in one of his songs of his search for a woman with \u201ca satisfied mind.\u201d Not a happy mind, not a beautiful body but a \u201csatisfied mind.\u201d He understands how difficult it is for people, men and women, to be SATISFIED.\nWhy is true satisfaction so rare and difficult to achieve? Despite material success, living comfortably and relatively \u201csecurely\u201d in one one of the richest and safest parts of the world, people are rarely satisfied-always wanting MORE, more wealth, more possessions, something other than what they already have. Surrounded by love and plenty they often seek another relationship, new love, new romance.\nWe live in a culture where the basic premise of life is that we need something else and need to be other than who we are. This is the essence of the accumulation culture we live in. Even if one is fortunate to be a relatively healthy person, free from crippling anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, unless one also is keenly conscious of the cultural influences and pressures that are designed to create chronic dissatisfaction, one can never be content. A conscious rejection of a value system that indoctrinates chronic discontent is essential to be content. The very idea that there is a better life to be lived must be questioned. Often the real solution is in taking what already exists and adding to it-enhancing the intimacy of existing relationships, developing gratitude for what is already present in our lives, increasing our capacity to notice and appreciate the existing beauty in and around.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artforum.com/print/198602/abracadabra-the-magic-space-of-supple-geometry-35084", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FFDQ74BPJ5JRIPR2JYD4SGVEPZO3ZFSD", "length": 969, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.artforum.com", "title": "Seigow Matsuoka on Abracadabra: the magic space of supple geometry. - Artforum International", "raw_content": "Abracadabra: the magic space of supple geometry.\nIT HAS BEEN TWO years now since Benoit Mandelbrot\u2019s ideas of \u201cfractal geometry\u201d swept Japan\u2019s computer-graphics circle. Interest in the field, a geometry of geometrically irregular shapes, has decreased recently, not because it has failed to perform in computer-graphics work, but because of its converts\u2019 lack of insight into the connection that must be made between the image to be presented and the meaning of Mandelbrot\u2019s concept. One of fractal geometry\u2019s main weapons is the notion of \u201cinfinite self-embeddedness,\u201d the analysis of the infinite number of structures that can be created through geometric repetition of a single form. Consequently, the idea as applied to computer graphics involves a risk of producing no more than a monotonous multiplying pattern. At least in Japan, many computer-graphics designs rendered through fractal geometry are trapped in such patterns; they are completely\n\u2014 Seigow Matsuoka", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117271/art-institute-of-chicago-ii-chicago?filters=tag_string%3AAmerican+grade_level%3A%22Middle+School%22&place_ids=Germany", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HYCMUSLJKSULOWT5A5SJW4LLHJDGWVP2", "length": 1602, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.artic.edu", "title": "Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago", "raw_content": "Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago\nNext: Woodman (Waldarbei...\nPrevious: Watchtower with Ge...\nAs a student of the renowned photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf in the 1970s, Thomas Struth absorbed their objective, methodical style of making pictures, often emphasizing the camera\u2019s single-point perspective. To his varied subject matter\u2014city streets, rainforests, family portraits\u2014Struth brings an acute awareness of the act of observation. His use of relatively great depth of field allows him to lead the viewer\u2019s eye to certain details and gloss over other ones.\nStruth\u2019s celebrated Museum Photographs series is composed of monumental images of museum visitors in various stages of observation, captivation, and even distraction. As part of this series, Art Institute of Chicago II depicts a woman pushing a stroller facing Gustave Caillebotte\u2019s famous Paris Street; Rainy Day, while another woman reads the label. The women\u2019s clothing harmonizes remarkably with the palette of the painting, and the gallery\u2019s marble floor seems transformed into a continuation of the wet cobblestones rendered so believably by Caillebotte\u2019s paintbrush. As historian Hans Belting concluded of this work, \u201cOne no longer knows what is inside the painting and what is in front of it. . . . We feel like rubbing our eyes when the space in front of the painting transforms itself into a picture that is not separated from the painting.\u201d\nChromogenic print mounted to acrylic, edition number three of ten\n184.1 \u00d7 219 cm (72 1/2 \u00d7 86 in.), framed\nRestricted gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/teneo-4-take-back-control-of-your-customers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:LBVNTXAJOR223EBS6DFOV6Z4F4N52WPU", "length": 2885, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.artificial-solutions.com", "title": "Teneo 4 - Take back control of your customers | Conversational AI Platform | Artificial Solutions", "raw_content": "Conversational AI Platform | Artificial Solutions > Blog > Customer Engagement > Teneo 4 \u2013 Take back control of your customers\nTeneo 4 \u2013 Take back control of your customers\nSeptember 29, 2015 Andy Peart Customer Engagement, Teneo\nToday we\u2019re launching version 4 of Teneo, the world\u2019s first fully integrated, holistic NLI platform. Why should you care? Because it will put your organisation back in the game against the tech-goliaths that are trying to take over the world, along with your customers and ultimately your business.\nConsumer expectations are changing rapidly. We now have connected cars, home automation, mobile everything. Even your granny understands the concept of the IoT, although she may not remember what the acronym stands for.\nThe demand to be able to control and interact with these devices using voice is growing exponentially. It is without doubt the next big thing.\nBut here\u2019s the crunch. The delivery of these natural language interfaces is mainly in the hands of the tech-goliaths \u2013 Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook. They control who has access to the platforms, the data and ultimately the customers. Your customers!\nAlready in the telco sector the network operators are being sidelined by the phone manufacturers and if they\u2019re not careful, the same thing will happen in the financial sector as services such as ApplePay take off. Banks will be left just carrying out the backend transactions with no real interaction with their customers. It\u2019s early days for Amazon Echo, but I think it\u2019s safe to say it\u2019s already causing headaches in the boardrooms of retail organizations.\nSo, if cozying up to Apple et al isn\u2019t an option, what are the alternatives?\nThe opportunity for enterprises to truly differentiate themselves and re-engage with their customers by adding natural language capabilities are immense \u2013 whether it be providing automated customer service through intelligent natural language virtual assistants or speech-enabling an application like a home automation hub. They like the idea of a natural language interface, but have the perception that it is cost prohibitive, and there\u2019s a reason for this. If you\u2019re not using the right technology it is!\nAnd it\u2019s not just the cost of setting up the initial interface. It\u2019s the investment in talent with highly specialised skills that are in short supply; lead times can be exceptionally long making it hard to justify a return on investment; there\u2019s no visibility by business users during development, any error or miscommunication in design results in costly mistakes. And so the list goes on.\nBut there is a way to bridge this gap. One that enables enterprises to uniquely own the data and obtain real value from it, while meeting consumer demands for intelligent natural language interfaces that understand them.\nIt\u2019s called Teneo and you can find out more in this two minute video.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arturakhmetzyanov.com/shows/2018/6/22/read-festival-opening", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:23Z", "digest": "sha1:REUKMTR4LTXBMQTFJF25USA7OT3UJFAS", "length": 275, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.arturakhmetzyanov.com", "title": "[Read! 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No registration is required, seating is first come, first served.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 207.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.askyourlawyer.com/ayl-practice-areas/defective-drugs/actos-lawyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UMI4GFWCXBJHEQA7ZMXADFLT5SGTJQOE", "length": 3137, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.askyourlawyer.com", "title": "Actos lawyer New York | Actos lawsuit - Askyourlawyer.com", "raw_content": "Actos lawyer New York\nHome Legal Advice Actos lawyer New York\nOtherwise known as pioglitazone, Actos is a thiazolidinedione and an agonist for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR). Actos, an oral diabetes medication, is used in tablet form to treat type 2 diabetes. However, this drug has been known to cause serious complications like cancer and other dangerous problems. Many people have filed cases against the company of this medicine and the Actos lawsuits would cause this company to pay a huge amount of money. We are here to match those Actos-affected patients with attorneys, or in other words Actos lawyers, who can help them to get the compensation they need.\nHistory and Uses of Actos\nActos was created by Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 1999 and was marketed by Eli Lilly as one of the most successful diabetes medications of all time. Before Takeda lost its patent on the drug in 2011, Actos had made the company $3.58 billion in sales the year before. The only purpose of Actos is to treat type 2 diabetes. The drug is not meant for treatment of type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis.\nAdverse Effects of Actos\nThere have been many serious and deadly side effects linked to the use of Actos. In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required that Takeda update the medication\u2019s warning label to include the increased risk of some of these potentially fatal side effects. The most common adverse effects associated with the use of this diabetes drug include:\nLiver damage and failure\nRecalls and Lawsuits Involving Actos\nThousands of patients have filed lawsuits against Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly since the discovery that Actos is linked to bladder cancer. One lawsuit against the companies for Actos resulted in a Louisiana man receiving $9 billion in punitive damages and another $1.5 billion in compensatory damages under the argument that the companies willingly hid the risks of bladder cancer associated with the medication. The verdict was later reduced by a judge to a total of $38.6 million.\nAfter that verdict, a federal multijurisdictional lawsuit was filed in Louisiana that encompassed more than 2,900 individual claims against Actos for causing bladder cancer. At the end of April this year, Takeda agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits claiming that Actos gave patients bladder cancer with a $2.37 billion settlement. If 95% of the plaintiffs agree to opt into the settlement agreement, the total award is $2.37 billion, and if 97% of plaintiffs opt in the total award will be nearly $2.7 billion. This decision came after five major lawsuits were won against the companies by individual plaintiffs totaling millions of dollars in damages per case.\nCall Our Company Today\nWhile Actos has been proven to help successfully treat type 2 diabetes, the adverse effects of this drug can be deadly. If you or a loved one has suffered from an adverse event associated with Actos, we are here to help. Call the office or contact us for a free and confidential review of your claims. We will help match you with an attorney that suits your needs and can fight for what you deserve in court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.assemblies.org.uk/sec/1285/why-study-re", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2LSSKLGIIEXIHH33CMFQP6RWPM4SMHGZ", "length": 4206, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.assemblies.org.uk", "title": "SPCK Assemblies - Why study RE?", "raw_content": "Why study RE?\nTo explore the value of RE in the curriculum.\nSee the \u2018Celebrating RE\u2019 website: http://www.celebratingre.org/\nMarch is \u2018Celebrating RE\u2019 month.\nWhen I tell people that I am an RE teacher, they often comment that I am brave. I have never queried that, just glossed over it, but it seems a good place to start this assembly about the importance of Religious Education.\nIt seems odd to talk of teaching RE as brave. Is that because some people see it as a waste of time, a subject that isn\u2019t relevant or something that has to be endured? For many of the older generation, that may well be the case. RE used to be known as RI, Religious Instruction, or RK, Religious Knowledge. By \u2018religious\u2019, in this country, was meant the sole study of Christianity, and the vast majority of that was the study of the Bible. In some schools you started at the beginning of the Bible with Genesis and didn\u2019t end until you got to Revelation, the last book of the Bible. Now, that\u2019s all very useful, and the study of the Bible has its place as a way to understanding Christianity and various moral ideas, but unless you really pin your colours to that mast, it might be hard to understand how that could be inspiring.\nI suggest you have a think about your RE lessons now, and the wealth and variety of topics, religions and issues that you study in comparison with what I have just told you about your parents\u2019 generation.\nYou will have studied something from all the six main world religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism. You may have some idea about their places of worship and where they might go on pilgrimage. You will know about their founders, and be aware of people like Abraham, Moses, the Buddha and Guru Nanak, as well as being able to explain key beliefs such as the Five Ks for Sikhs, the Five Pillars of Islam and the Ten Commandments for Jews and Christians.\nRE isn\u2019t just about being able to name and explain what someone does or believes when they belong to a particular religion either. It also encompasses subjects such as life after death, responses to evil and suffering, and ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia, prejudice and discrimination and drug use. RE is varied and rich in its subject matter, and yet people sometimes wonder what its relevance and importance is. You have only to pick up a newspaper to see an ethical issue, such as suffering or homelessness to name just two. Your RE lessons allow you to look at those issues, make a balanced judgement about them, and be aware of different points of view. Studying other religions also allows you to be more informed when you read comments that are, for example, inflammatory about Muslims or simply wrong factually about Christians or Sikhs.\nRE also allows you to build an understanding of empathy, of what it might be like to be someone else, believing in something different from yourself. It makes you question your own ideas and values, and ponder questions such as \u2018What happens to me when I die?\u2019, \u2018Was the universe created?\u2019 and many more of the big questions. Although you may not be able to answer them within your lesson, it gives you the opportunity to think and reassess or confirm what you already thought. It allows you the space to be yourself and to have a community of enquiry where it is acceptable to agree or disagree with your peers. It enables you to see what other people think, and compare your own ideas with theirs.\nAs for needing to be \u2018brave\u2019 to be an RE teacher, we learn so much from you as well as teaching you. We challenge opinions, stretch beliefs and grow in our own understanding. It isn\u2019t a case of being brave: it is a case being able to accept that views might be challenged, but that\u2019s OK \u2013 you don\u2019t always have to be right. And that is the ultimate joy. Unlike maths, there are no right or wrong answers, and even if there are specifics that have to be learned, studied and understood, we can have a great time on the journey getting to them, and everyone gains from that.\nThink about the understanding of other people that you have gained through RE.\nHow can you apply that in your relationships with them?\n\u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 (Come and Praise, 22)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.assuredpharmacy.co.uk/blog/cialis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HCDX3CCUB2OWRU7XEX5T7ZWUCOZCTFVP", "length": 3706, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.assuredpharmacy.co.uk", "title": "Cialis Archives |", "raw_content": "Does Tadalafil Make You Last Longer In Bed?\nPosted by Assured Pharmacy Cialis\nStarting with the 1980s, the inhibition of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) as a therapeutic target has received considerable attention, particularly for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular diseases, e.g., angina, hypertension, and congestive heart failure. 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As well as physical reasons for them both, quite often it can also be psychological reasons. It\u2019s estimated 1 in 10 men has a problem related [\u2026]\nIs Erectile Dysfunction Uncommon?\nIn the past 20 years, there have been a large number of epidemiological studies of men presenting erectile dysfunction. There is emerging evidence of an association between erectile dysfunction and a variety of lifestyle factors, including obesity, smoking, and exercise, that may provide a means of intervening in the prevention and even therapy of erectile [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audrajennings.com/2015/09/im-so-ready-for-dramatic-finale-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:07Z", "digest": "sha1:BTJZLG2AJYOUH7Y6FPWI5PLV2SYD452S", "length": 15041, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.audrajennings.com", "title": "Audra Jennings: I'm so ready for the dramatic finale of #bachelorinparadise", "raw_content": "I'm so ready for the dramatic finale of #bachelorinparadise\nI'm so ready for the finale of Bachelor in Paradise because it means that the new season of TV will start soon. The best part of this whole ridiculous show is \"Almost Paradise\" opening sequence.\nRecapping where we start tonight... In an effort to make sure Jared did not go out with Jaclyn, Ashley I (KardASH) begged Chris Harrison for an overnight date card to give to Jared before he has a chance to answer Jaclyn.\nKardASH thinks Jared may be the ONE. The one would be willing to go all the way with. Their date barely starts before she pulls out the fantasy suite card about foregoing their individual rooms. She's ready to get the date started. I would not be surprised if we start hearing \"Let's Get it On\" instead of this dramatic music.\nThankfully, we forego the rest of the night, and we wake up the next morning. Everyone is kind of tired of being there, I mean, they can't believe that paradise is almost over.\nMikey has a talk with some of the guys around the pool. He confesses that while Juelia is great, he needs to have a conversation with her. Mikey feels bad about it, but he doesn't see things getting outside the friend zone when they leave. He genuinely finds her to be nice and sweet, but isn't feeling the romantic spark. Juelia is wearing the most ridiculous fake eyelashes that may come off as she cries and wipes the tears away. He's on the verge of tears too.\nJuelia runs off to the house and decides to tell everyone bye. She's ready to head home now. The women comfort her, and Tenley thinks she got led on by two men. As George Strait sings, \"you can't make a heart love somebody.\" At least Mikey was honest about it.\nJaclyn is trying to figure out who to ask out. Jared got dragged off by KardASH, she thinks Nick is a sleeze, Mikey is as dumb as rocks, Dan doesn't have much personality, so Justin may be her best best since he just came off a crappy date. (Annoyingly, she has a fuzzy box following her butt around.)\nI don't know if they are a good match or not, but they are the most unattractive two there.\nBecause the show needs more drama, Cassandra from Juan Pablo's season shows up. Like Samantha, all the men find her to be gorgeous. She has a date card, so she invites the girls (minus Samantha and Jacklyn) off to talk.\nThe women ask who she is interested in talking to. She comes back and ask Justin out, but he needs to talk to her first. The problem is, he just got asked out. He's more interested in going out with Cassandra, in part because they are both parents. (You know my stance on parents and this show.)\nJustin tells Jaclyn, he doesn't want to go out with her anymore. What should she do now.\nMeanwhile, I can't follow the live feed right now because I'm over an hour behind. I wasn't ready to read some of those things yet.\nBefore we find out who is going with Jaclyn, KardASH and Jared return. Everyone wants to know what they did on their date and how it all went down. They don't say much. Jared seems over it.\nJaclyn says she would never be rejected by someone like Justin in the real world. Huh? Nick goes out to Jack to see if she will give him the date card so she can take Sam out. However, as the Taylor Swift song goes, \"now we got bad blood.\" (I hate that song so much.) Nick did Jack dirty on Bachelor Pad a few years ago and basically got $250,000 as a results. Jack makes Nick roll around in the sand for the card.\nJustin and Cassandra head off on their date. He is so turned on by Cassandra, he almost falls off of his horse. Later, they talk about their kids. She gets emotional because her ex is not as connected to her son as Justin is to his. Before long, they have a make out session on the beach because that's what you do on this show.\nSamantha tells Tanner she may go home tonight, she'll know in the moment. But then, Nick takes Samantha off and asks her on a date. Carly and Jade can't figure out with all the drama while all the men are still fawning over her.\nThat night, everyone's talking about what the last week will be like - only couples who want to explore things after paradise.\nWe find out that KardASH watched Jared sleep last night, but it seems that's as far as it went. Jared is not interested in pursuing things after the show. He needs to talk to her again, and again he says, he is just not into this. He wants to leave now, tonight. It's not ok for him to stay here when he does not want to move forward from here. Jared wanted to feel something, but he doesn't. Here comes the ugly crying. KardASH is basically bemoaning the words of Jason Derulo. \"You're the one I want to want me.\"\nJared goes to the group to tell them all that he's headed out, then KardASH tearfully tells him goodbye.\nSo much for that! On to Nick and Samantha's date. This is where I get board and multi-task and do things like look for buttons on HobbyLobby.com and think about how I really need to be crocheting.\nKirk and Carly are out alone on the beach, and she's talking about the future. She's sure that she'll be getting a rose tomorrow. She has no worries about going home.\nAs everyone is gathered that night, Amber says, \"there's a lot of single girls here. If anyone is interested in anyone, speak up.\"\nMackenzie (I forgot she was here) is going to go see if anyone might give her the time of day. She plans to make the most of the cocktail party. That is until Chris Harrison says there's not going to be one. We're going straight to the rose ceremony. \"Do you see a future with the person you are with?\"\nCarly predicts a blood bath. Will that be a predictor of anything?\nKardASH explains that the one person she is interested in is now gone, but she grew up here, and learned a lesson from Tenley (something about a whimsical something or other). Now she knows what to look for in a man, and she's going to head on home.\nSo, the rose ceremony. Get or go home.\nTo start things off, there's Kirk. Up until now, every rose he has given Carly has meant something. He calls her up, and gives her the rose.\nTanner gives his rose to Jade.\nNick gives a rose to Samantha.\nJoshua and Tenley sitting in a tree...\nJustin chooses Cassandra.\nDan is up and doesn't know what to do. The girls he was most interested in were just given roses. Then, he gives a speech. (A paraphrase...) \"Ashley, we had something for a couple of weeks, but it didn't work out. Amber, I know you came here for me, but there wasn't really anything there. I came here looking for love, but I didn't find it. I'm taking myself out of the game.\" That's when he walks off.\nThe final rose for the night belongs to Mikey. Carly thinks he should have left when Juelia did, but thinks he's going to do something stupid. He gives his rose to MacKenzie so he has a chance to get to know her better. She is caught off guard. She appreciates it, but has to go with her gut. He looks heartbroken as she tells him know. She gives Mikey a hug, then walks off. She wasn't getting a good vibe. So, it wasn't \"Good Vibrations\" of the Marky Mark or Beach Boys variety. So, since Mikey got rejected, he walks out.\nIt's time for Amber, Ashley S., Jaclyn, and Chelsie to go home.\nThen, Carly sings something a rose being just a rose until you get down and propose, and Kirk looks super uncomfortable. Super.\nThe next morning, five couples are left, and it's supposed to be time for love. Everyone comments on how quiet it is now. Chris Harrison shows up to announce that each couple is going out on a date tonight, and there is an overnight option.\nThe girls gather to chat, and Cassandra, having just arrived, is nervous about the whole fantasy suite thing. Carly and Jade feel like they have nothing to worry about. Carly is looking forward to her date.\nKirk is freaking out. He tells the guys that he is having some doubts and can't do this anymore. Kirk needs to have a real talk with Carly. He's not ready for her to have his kids. He decides it is time. There's nothing she can say to change his mind.\nKirk walks up and asks Carly to talk. As he leads her away, she jokingly asks, \"are you going to break up with me?\"\nAll the women look down from their perch at Carly and Kirk on their platform. Like watching EVERYTHING. He starts off by thanking her for the best five weeks that he's had in a really long time. At first, the thought they would all go home like after summer camp, that it was a fling. However, he fell. They've been talking about the future - her being willing to move, etc. He's taken a hard look at where things are going. Kirk says he thinks he's a little behind. He's afraid he's a lot behind. He's not where she is when she sees the look on his face. She says, \"ok, I'll go home.\" Then he tells her he doesn't want to discount what has happened, and he wants to talk more.\nCarly doesn't understand where this is coming from. She doesn't want to continue the conversation. The look on her face says, \"dumbfounded.\" She says she can't do this, can't have this conversation. She runs, and she is running. She feels tricked and wants to know how long she's been feeling this. He says, \"the last week.\" She takes off running. The women, watching this, run down to her.\nKirk goes back to the men and says he doesn't know what's going on. \"The anger in her eyes was scary. I feel like I got punched.\" Uh, ok, idiot, uh...\nKirk comes up to talk to her, and the women tell him that he shouldn't be there right now. Carly does not, repeat, not, want to talk to him. Kirk says she deserves a conversation. \"Why won't you talk to me? Why won't you let me explain?\" She says she can't even look at him. He wants to talk. Jade wants to protect her.\nI give Kirk credit for wanting to talk to Carly. He never said he didn't care about her, just that he wasn't as ready. The women think he's evil for letting her fall in love.\nIn the car, he's crying because it was his worst break-up ever.\nI really don't think he's as bad a guy as he's being made out to be. Was he supposed to fake it until he made it? Cold feet aren't the end of the world.\nAnd that's where Sunday night ends.\nFinally, the final episode of the season. The mood is somber after Kirk and Carly headed off. It\u2019s going to be hanging over everyone as they head off on their dates. Jade starts to wonder if the same thing is going to happen to her and Tanner. Joshua is ready to get his date started.\nIt\u2019s all so new for Justin and Cassandra to really know what to expect. Nick is second guessing how things might go down with Samantha who has flip-flopped. Tenley is trying to decide if she should break it off with Joshua for no real reason. She doesn't want to, but should she?\nSamantha claims to be in it 100% with Nick, especially since they have been talking for a few months. They're all in on the fantasy suite.\nCassandra tells Justin that she thinks the fantasy suite is moving too fast because she has her son to think about.\nTenley wants to be really real with Joshua. Is there a possibility of anything after the show? She doesn't want either of their hearts to be broken. She thinks she needs to give it a chance. They close the door with the \"Do Not Disturb\" tag.\nJade and Tanner talk about how they anticipate a couple of couples not being around after tomorrow. Tanner tells Jade that he loves her. She loves him too.\nThe next day means they have to decide if roses will be exchanged. Are they willing to make a commitment to trying to make things work when they get home.\nBefore it's time for the roses, Tenley is upset, wondering when they will be able to see each other again. He wants to make a go of it.\nThe first up to accept or deny a rose is Cassandra. Justin was unsure what to expect after not spending time in the fantasy suite last night. They exchange roses, hopeful of what may come of the experience.\nNext up is Nick. He came for Samantha, but is she as serious? He's been praying for a woman like her. What? Not sure that I believe that. Sam thinks Nick is her Prince Charming in all of this and gladly accepts a rose.\nJoshua is eager for Tenley to arrive. Tenley says she doesn't know what to do, but I bet she snatches the rose right up. He didn't expect to really find someone here, but he did. He would love to try whatever happens after paradise. Tenley rambles on about caring for him so much, but it not being fair to him to not be able to see him afterwards unless someone got a different job and moved. She gets in a car and leaves him standing there. Why did she even go on the show? It would have been a logistical problem regardless of who she ended up with.\nLast up is Tanner and Jade, and if all the previews are correct, and there is an engagement, then we know what is coming up. However, in all the previews at the beginning of the show there was a pregnancy scare clip. It never was shown in the actual season. Something is jacked up about that. So, maybe there's not an engagement after all, even though everyone thinks there is going to be.\nJade does her monologue to Tanner first, and she gives him the rose. However, Tanner says he can't give her a rose. She sighs deeply thinking it's over and she's made a fool of herself. He says it's worthy of more than a rose and proposes, giving her a ring instead of a rose. She accepts, the two couples no one cared about shout congrats from their perch up above the beach.\nNow, all season, I have not blogged during the After Paradise live show, but I think I am going to have to tonight.\nNot that I really want to, but I want to see if they address some things. Really, I just want to see Kirk and Carly, and probably won't waste time typing about anything else.\nTenley makes an appearance and says that she just didn't think Joshua was the one for her. She just didn't see anything long term because of differences in lifestyles. Joshua calls in and nothing interesting happens.\nAmber calls in and claims that Samantha and Nick are still together.\nCassandra stops by, and she's dating Jonathan now. Justin has nothing to say on the phone.\nCarly comes on and tells everyone that the conversation she and Kirk had the night was the reason why she was so utterly shocked when he broke up with her. He had talked about a future. He was ready to meet her family, or so he said.\nWhen Kirk sits down to talk to her for the first time since the show, he says what made him panic was that Carly had said she would be likely to run at the first red flag in a relationship. He felt like he was moving slower since he had recently gotten out of a relationship. I'm not sure that anything was really resolved, and I don't feel like we got anything out of that conversation.\nWith less than five minutes left in the show, Tanner and Jade, the still engaged couple comes on. OK, that's enough. I have things I need to do, so I sign off for the season. I can crochet instead of blogging on this drivel on Sundays and Mondays until a new season of The Bachelor starts.\nLabels: Bachelor in Paradise, Chris Harrison, George Strait, Hobby Lobby, Jason Derulo, Taylor Swift, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 21575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/film", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LLSIW2AJHFAP3SEYY2RAZRV7EVB55PVJ", "length": 3239, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.australianbookreview.com.au", "title": "ABR Arts Film", "raw_content": "ABR Arts Film\nA man sits on a chair in a field, hands clasped together. He runs into the open grass before collapsing onto the ground. Grasping a handful of earth, he holds it high above his head and lets it fall over his face. He sits up, draws a palm across his mouth, and looks at the sunset. He grins ...\nPatricia Maunder\nThere is an inordinate weight of expectation on Barry Jenkins\u2019s third feature, If Beale Street Could Talk. His previous film, Moonlight, won three Oscars in 2017, including Best Picture (after La La Land\u2019s mistaken-award chaos), and was nominated in five other categories. Furthermore, this is the first English-language film ...\nRecent years have highlighted the politicisation of appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, and how consequential these judgeships can be. Following the death in 2016 of arch-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, in his final months as US president, nominated moderate Merrick Garland ...\nGreen Book \u2605\u2605\u2605\nTo browse through an edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book in 2019 (as can be done through digital library archives) is a disquieting experience. These books, written by Victor Hugo Green in 1936 and published for thirty years, offered advice to African Americans travelling in the segregated American South ...\nLoro \u2605\u2605\u00bd\nThough it begins with an elaborate disclaimer regarding its status as a work of fiction, Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Loro (aka Them) is manifestly a portrait of Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister of Italy, media tycoon, populist, authoritarian, and playboy. Befitting its subject, the film is showy and often crude ...\nCold War \u2605\u2605\u2605\u26051/2\nPolish director Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s Cold War picked up a slew of prizes at the recent European Film Awards, and is already being talked about as a major contender for this year\u2019s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a prize he won with his previous film, Ida (2015) ... ... (read more)\nLean on Pete \u2605\u2605\u26051/2\nCharley (Charlie Plummer), the vulnerable teenage protagonist of Lean On Pete, is always on the move. We first see him jogging at dawn, past suburban streets and out towards to the local racecourse. The morning light is benevolent; the camera keeps a smooth distance: all is promise and potential in Charley\u2019s life, or should be...\nWhat I\u2019ve come to expect of a new Mike Leigh film is, above all, the unexpected. His first feature, Bleak Moments (1971), of which there were quite a few in that contemporary study of urban, lower-middle class life, made him a potent force in British film. Think of Naked (1993) and Secrets & Lies (1996) ...\nBoy Erased \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\nWe all love redemption movies. The twist in Boy Erased is that redemption comes by escaping religion rather than discovering it. Garrard Conley is a nineteen-year-old college student who grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist family in Arkansas. When his parents discover his homosexuality ...\nSuspiria \u2605\u2605\u26051/2\nThere is a sense of tension and anticipation around any film remake, especially when the original is well known and received. So is the case with Luca Guadagnino\u2019s version of his countryman, Dario Argento\u2019s cult horror, Suspiria (1977). There has been intense on-line debate about the movie from the moment the ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 680, "original_length": 15122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autonews.com/article/19980525/ANA/805250702/aama-less-clout-with-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PVU5OSJLSC6LZIIMJHVCJB5G7WYXLNFZ", "length": 2248, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.autonews.com", "title": "AAMA: LESS CLOUT WITH 2", "raw_content": "AAMA: LESS CLOUT WITH 2\nThe American Automobile Manufacturers Association would have less clout with only Ford Motor Co. and General Motors as its members, says AAMA President Andrew Card.\nEver since Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz AG announced May 7 that they plan to merge, the future, or at least the effectiveness, of the AAMA has been in doubt. DaimlerChrysler AG would not qualify for membership under the AAMA's current bylaws.\n'I don't believe that a trade association that looks like AAMA with only two members would be as effective in articulating some of the concerns as it had been with three members,' Card says.\nThe AAMA represents the interests of the Big 3 in Washington and in various state capitals. It has been that way since 1992, when the AAMA recast itself as a Big 3 organization and booted out Honda Manufacturing of America Inc. and Volvo North America Corp.\nChrysler would like to remain a member, says Card. The bylaws could be amended to admit DaimlerChrysler. But any changes would be tricky because other foreign-based manufacturers, such as Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc., would like to join.\n'There's a full range of discussions going on within GM and Ford, and I know there's a lot of discussions inside Chrysler,' says Card. 'To my knowledge, there have been no discussions between GM and Ford about this.'\nOn relatively few issues, such as international trade, union relations and health care, do the interests of the Big 3 differ from those of the so-called transplant manufacturers in the United States, he says.\nPhilip Hutchinson, president of the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, which represents the transplants and importers in Washington, has been out front, before and after the merger announcement, in calling for a single trade association in the United States.\nBut despite the announcement and the strain it places on AAMA in particular, Hutchinson says he has seen no movement so far toward bringing AAMA and AIAM together.\n'The captains of industry have to make the call,' he says, referring to the chairmen of the Big 3 and of major international companies. 'I think it's probably just a question of time.'\nStaff Reporter Harry Stoffer contributed to this report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 462, "original_length": 10340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avalongroup.org.uk/listit2staff/joanne-thompson/67.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:IMPLTCL3UGAUHZASK77XA5N7MS2CBDH5", "length": 861, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.avalongroup.org.uk", "title": "Our Team | The Avalon Group", "raw_content": "Locality Manager - Skipton\nI joined the Avalon family in January 2019 as the Locality Manager in Skipton. I have worked in the care sector since 2001, starting off as a relief worker in a children\u2019s respite unit. From there I have trained and worked hard to promote and develop outstanding services in the care sector.\nMy last role was working for the local Authority as a Deputy Manager for a short breaks service for children with disabilities. I am very passionate about my work, and strive to succeed in everything I do for our customers, families and staff I work with.\nOutside work I enjoy spending time with my daughter and husband and ensuring we have quality time together as a family. Our hobbies include walking and spending time with friends and most of all having fun!\nI am looking forward to my future at Avalon and working alongside a great team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.awanireview.com/corporate-insights/2018/08/11/news/roche-malaysia-swiss-roots-china-born-chief-catering-to-local-pharma-429/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:05Z", "digest": "sha1:35HRNJR6NMZ5Y76NS3Q5PUEE7AX5RGHW", "length": 2834, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.awanireview.com", "title": "Roche Malaysia: Swiss Roots, China-Born Chief Catering to Local Pharma - Awani Review", "raw_content": "Roche Malaysia: Swiss Roots, China-Born Chief Catering to Local Pharma\nRoche pharma products have been available in this country for over seven decades. Its GM Lance Duan takes AWANI Review\u2019s Ibrahim Sani on this pharmaceutical journey through the ages, now and into the future.\nLance Duan has been the General Manager of Roche Malaysia Sdn Bhd, the pharmaceutical division of Roche since July 2017.\nPrior to his posting, Lance, a Chinese national was based in Roche China since 2011 where he served in various roles including Head of West Region and Head of Business Unit.\n\u201cRoche is one of the leading innovative healthcare companies in the world with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system,\u201d says Lance.\nRoche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management\n\u201cRoche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Roche Malaysia is an integral part of the other Roche divisions that include Roche Diagnostics and Roche Asia Pacific Shared Service Centre, but we aim to do more here of course,\u201d he adds.\nRoche\u2019s presence in Malaysia began in the 1950s when the sales and distribution of its products were handled by a distributor, namely DKSH (M) Sdn Bhd. Roche Singapore and Malaysia was established in 1962 as a single company. A very small sales team was set up under DKSH\u2019s supervision. On 11 May 1983, Roche (Pharmaceuticals) Sdn. Bhd. changed its name to Roche (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.\nThe company has its roots in Basel, Switzerland. But the operations in Malaysia is very much an independent one.\n\u201cIn 1988, Roche Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland separated the operations of Malaysia from Singapore and became an independent subsidiary reporting directly to the Head Office,\u201d Lance explains.\n\u201cToday, Roche Malaysia is exclusively dedicated to the pharmaceutical business and has since grown into one of the leading healthcare companies in Malaysia. The Roche Operations in Malaysia are separated into two legal entities \u2013 Roche (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Roche Diagnostics (M) Sdn Bhd,\u201d he adds.\nLance\u2019s 20-year career has been an interesting one. His ability to build and lead a regional team and deliver results saw him moving up to become part of the Roche China's Pharmaceutical Leadership team.\nSince joining Roche Malaysia, Lance has been actively involved in engagement with stakeholders via the European Asean Business Association and Phama Industry Association.\nLance holds a Masters in Business Administration from China Europe International Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Clinical Medicine from China Medical University.\nWatch the full interview with Lance:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.babv.org/wedding-professionals/gardens-texas-m-university/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MCHZ3G4GYFGA27ZLT5444DKU4HU2O7EY", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.babv.org", "title": "Bridal Association of the Brazos Valley :: The Gardens at Texas A&M University", "raw_content": "Contact The Gardens at Texas A&M University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 95.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bachelorstudies.com.au/BSc-(Hons)-in-Economics-with-E-Business/United-Kingdom/London-South-Bank-University/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IR4YGZ2AYLU3JKKPYFG4VZYN4SF3RK7K", "length": 1792, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.bachelorstudies.com.au", "title": "BSc (Hons) in Economics with E-Business, London, United Kingdom 2019", "raw_content": "BSc (Hons) in Economics with E-Business\nEconomics with E-Business BSc (Hons) gives you a strong foundation in economic analysis, a fundamental part of today's global finances, especially geared towards online platforms.\nWhy Economics with E-Business at LSBU?\nAn Economics degree is versatile and can lead to many career areas. Recent graduates have gone into marketing, sales, advertising, IT, education or further studies.\nWith a focus on economic analysis and knowledge of digital solutions, the course is designed to prepare you with skills to develop business start-ups, internet-based marketing solutions or the creation of new digital business activity. This course covers:\nSocial Media in a Business Context\nPlus one module from:\nStarting an E-Business\nManaging E-Commerce for Business\nDirect engagement from employers who come into network with students\nLearning materials are available in the Virtual Learning Environment so you can access them any time. Seminars make use of group-work and discussions, workshops and computer lab work.\nAs an undergraduate Business student, you will be allocated a named tutor during your first three weeks at LSBU. The role of your tutor is to be your primary contact for academic and professional development support.\nYou will have appointments with your personal tutor at least once a semester for 30 minutes throughout your course. You can contact your tutor for additional meetings or support by email.\nStudents in their first year of an undergraduate degree will also benefit from our coaching programme. This programme is a proactive approach to student development that draws out our students' potential through a process of self-analysis, reflection, planning, and action, enabling students to discover and decide upon their required needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 9751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-07-08-1993189095-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KBQ6J3MKT26K7MLWU455UAKSG2DUQUU4", "length": 5086, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Jewelers see nature in necklaces Rare metal inspires family NORTHWEST -- Taneytown * Union Bridge * New Windsor * Uniontown - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Jewelers see nature in necklaces Rare metal inspires family NORTHWEST -- Taneytown * Union Bridge * New Windsor * Uniontown\nAny necklace, earring or bracelet created by Union Bridge jeweler John \"Sozra\" Sosnowsky is going to be more than a fashion statement.\nIt might even be a comment on life.\n\"The beauty of this jewelry and of most contemporary art is that each piece takes on a different shape or meaning to different people,\" said the former commercial photographer-turned-mixed metals jeweler, as he fingered the iridescent curves of a collar he had fashioned.\n\"This reminds me of a winding stream through the rolling hills and meadows of Carroll County, but to someone else it might be waves.\"\nThere are definitely waves being made in the jewelry world by Sozra Jewelry, the business Mr. Sosnowsky runs with his wife, Debby.\nThe couple are among a handful of artisans nationwide who work with niobium, a gray metal that becomes rainbow-colored when heat is applied to its surface.\n\"It doesn't fade, rust or tarnish, and it's very beautiful,\" said Mr. Sosnowsky, 37. \"It is a relatively new precious metal and few people are working with it.\"\nSozra Jewelry prides itself on making unique jewelry -- eye candy for people who relish odd but breathtaking accessories.\nAnd the Sosnowskys pride themselves on the fact that the business is completely a family affair.\nTheir daughter Jessica, 13, creates and updates the business mailing list on a home computer. Nine-year-old Corrie prepares tiny plastic information bags for his parents to present to customers at trade shows.\nGerri Sosnowsky, 24, Mr. Sosnowsky's niece, works as an apprentice in the couple's backyard shop.\nEven Mr. Sosnowsky's parents, Joseph and Bertha of New Windsor, pitch in. They sell Sozra jewelry at the Carroll County Farmers Market each winter at the Agricultural Center.\n\"I consider this a little family business,\" said Mr. Sosnowsky. \"We're not into big business or anything like that. We just kind of keep to ourselves.\"\nThe Sosnowskys began making jewelry part-time shortly after they were married in 1979. They used a combination of precious stones, metals, crystal and a few craft ideas to create a unique kind of jewelry.\nSome ideas worked better than others.\n\"We combined crystals and macrame for a while,\" said Mrs. Sosnowsky, 34, whose art training was in weaving. \"Some of it was very interesting.\"\n/# \"Some of it was very bad, too,\"\nMr. Sosnowsky said less enthusiastically. \"That was a very early endeavor.\"\nThe idea to work with niobium came from an English magazine article detailing how to bring out the different colors in the metal.\nMr. Sosnowsky's father, a retired district engineer and electrician for the Lehigh Portland Cement Co. in Allentown, Pa., and in Union Bridge, built a machine to do the work.\n\"My dad used the specs [specifications] from the article to design the machine, and I started producing the jewelry,\" Mr. Sosnowsky said.\nAs Mr. Sosnowsky became better acquainted with the new technique, he said, he realized he was dissatisfied with his full-time job as a commercial photographer.\n\"I told Debby if she could get us a show every weekend, then I would quit commercial photography and do the jewelry full time,\" Mr. Sosnowsky remembered. \"Well, she got us a show every weekend.\"\nThe Sosnowskys have traveled to shows throughout the Mideastern United States. They are currently in State College, Pa., participating in one of the most selective shows in the country, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.\nSozra Jewelry was one of 400 craft companies selected to participate in the show, Mrs. Sosnowsky said.\nThe couple agreed that the combination of the rare metal and imagination makes their brand of jewelry attractive to customers and trade show judges.\n\"I like to do the abstract things, but I really enjoy working with ideas from nature,\" said Mrs. Sosnowsky. \"I will look out the window sometimes and see something that catches my eye.\n\"You get ideas from everywhere,\" she said, replacing a piece she had been working on. \"You get them from pictures, books, life, dreams. . . .\"\n\"Well, I don't know about the dreaming stuff, at least with me,\" Mr. Sosnowsky said. \"I create on demand, whereas with Debby, it's more on inspiration.\"\nHe said \"streamer\" earrings, one of the couple's simplest yet most popular designs, were first a vision in his head.\n\"My inspiration must be the sun,\" said Mr. Sosnowsky, after giving the matter some thought. \"The sun is very important for stimulating creativity.\"\nSozra jewelry prices range from $20 to $2,000 depending on the piece, Mr. Sosnowsky said.\nAlthough the rare metal is worth about $9 an ounce -- three times as much as silver -- time and labor account for most of Sozra jewelry's price.\nBut for the Sosnowskys -- and most of their customers, they said -- there is more value in the art than the cost of the jewelry.\n\"Part of it is to create for your own enjoyment a vision, a journey to find the best that the art has to offer,\" Mr. Sosnowsky said. \"That's why I say that this art is an adventure of the eye.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bankrate.com/banks/community-bank/371924/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GGYHKVUUC746I4VKVQWXKX5ZBIOLOQPU", "length": 3665, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.bankrate.com", "title": "Community Bank of Carmichaels, PA Reviews and Ratings - Bankrate.com", "raw_content": "Started in 1901, Community Bank is an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Carmichaels, PA. As of December 31, 2017, the bank had equity of $90.3 million on assets of $932.5 million.\nWith 201 full-time employees in 16 offices in PA, the bank has amassed loans and leases worth $735.6 million, including real estate loans of $518.6 million. U.S. bank customers currently have $773.5 million in deposits with the bank.\nOverall, Bankrate believes that, as of December 31, 2017, Community Bank exhibited a good condition, earning 4 out of 5 stars for safety and soundness. Keep reading for a look at how the bank did on the three key criteria Bankrate used to score American banks.\nCapital acts as a buffer against losses and as protection for account holders when a bank is experiencing economic instability. Therefore, a bank's level of capital is an important measurement of an institution's financial strength. When it comes to safety and soundness, more capital is better.\nOn our test to measure capital adequacy, Community Bank received a score of 8 out of a possible 30 points, lower than the national average of 13.13.\nOne way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. Community Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio was 12.22 percent, above the 6 percent level considered adequate by regulators, but under the national average of 25.65 percent. A higher capital ratio suggests the bank will be better able to stand up to financial difficulties.\nOverall, Community Bank held equity amounting to 9.68 percent of its assets, which was lower than the national average of 12.03 percent.\nThis test is intended to try to understand how the bank's reserves set aside to cover loan losses, as well as overall capitalization, could be affected by troubled assets, such as past-due mortgages.\nHaving extensive holdings of these kinds of assets may eventually require a bank to use capital to cover losses, diminishing its equity buffer. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and no longer earning money, pushing down earnings and elevating the chances of a future failure.\nCommunity Bank scored 40 out of a possible 40 points on Bankrate's test of asset quality, beating the national average of 37.49.\nThe percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets is a useful indicator of asset quality.As of December 31, 2017, 0.55 percent of Community Bank's loans were noncurrent -- in other words, they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.\nBanks keep a reserve known as an \"allowance for loan and lease losses\" to deal with problem assets . The size of that reserve can be a widely used indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage problem assets, especially when compared to the total amount of problem loans. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on Community Bank's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.\nHow profitable a bank is affects its long-term survivability. A bank can retain its earnings, expanding its capital cushion, or use them to address problematic loans, likely making the bank better able to withstand economic shocks. However, banks that are losing money are less able to do those things.\nOn Bankrate's test of earnings, Community Bank scored 16 out of a possible 30, above the national average of 15.12.\nOne important measure of a bank's earnings is return on equity, or net income (essentially profit) divided by total equity. The most recent annualized quarterly return on equity for Community Bank was 8.00 percent, below the national average of 8.10 percent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 9583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnebys.co.uk/blog/5-must-see-art-events-for-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CGIREDKEYAA5ARCEDIWVZOGYYY4WP563", "length": 3189, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.barnebys.co.uk", "title": "5 must-see art events for 2016 \u2013 Blog \u2013 Barnebys.co.uk", "raw_content": "5 must-see art events for 2016\nWhat a vintage year it has been for art, Tracey Emin's bed went to the Tate, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was officially the most popular exhibition ever held at the V&A and Ai Weiwei has hit the headlines a few times, to say the least. Barnebys takes a sneak peek at what is instore for 2016 with the 5 events we won't be missing.\n'A new vision for Tate Modern'\nDescribed by the Tate Modern as just that, a new building will be added at the south of the existing gallery, creating more space for collections, performance and installation art.\nThe rebuild is set to ''redefine the museum for the twenty first century, integrating learning, display and social functions.''\nArchitectural concept view of the new south building Image via the Tate/\u00a9 Hayes Davidson and Herzog & de Meuron\nFirst ever major exhibition devoted to The Rolling Stones at Saatchi Gallery\nThe undisputed rock royalty, The Rolling Stones are being honoured in the first ever exhibition documenting the band's story.\nOver 500 pieces including stage wear, letters, video and audio clips from the act's personal archives will be showcased at the Saatchi Gallery.\nThe band themselves have designed Exhibitionism, which will be on display in nine galleries, each with its own theme, at the Saatchi from April 2016.\n[youtube id=\"XU83ROi4-D0\"]\nDonostia-San Sebasti\u00e1n and Wroc\u0142aw European Capitals of Culture\nDonostia-San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain and Wroc\u0142aw, Poland will share the title of European Capital of Culture in 2016. In 2015, the European Capitals of Culture celebrated its 30th anniversary as Mons, Belgium and Plze\u0148, Czech Republic were the cities elected in 2015. Over 50 European cities have held the title, which celebrates the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe as well as breathing new life into a city's culture.\nSan Sebastian, Spain Image via riberamerica.com\n800-wroclaw-shutterstock_90809816-pablo77\nTate Modern will present a retrospective of the American modernist artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a century after her New York debut. It is the first important solo institutional exhibition of the artist's work in the UK for a generation. The show will review O'Keeffe's work in depth and reassess her place in 20th century art. The exhibition will be held from 6th July to 30th October, 2016.\nGeorgia O'Keeffe Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II, 1930 Image via Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation \u00a9 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum\nAlex Katz at the Met\nAlex Katz at the Met has been on show since October, but the popularity of it proves it will still be a must-see in 2016.\nAs one of modern America's most acclaimed artists, the show explores Katz's career and includes drawings, prints, and paintings. The works were acquired through Glenn Fuhrman, Leonard A. Lauder, and Katz himself, with 8 in total in the exhibition, including two cutouts, the innovative artistic device that Katz pioneered in the late 1950s; a haunting cityscape; several portraits of Ada, Katz's wife and long-time muse; and portraits of luminaries from Katz's own social and artistic circles.\nAlex Katz, Purple Wind, 1995 Image via The Metropolitan Museum of Art", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 7299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnesjewish.org/Giving/Foundation-Publications/Giving-Magazine/Giving-Issue-1-2014/Nursing-Scholarships-Success-Stories", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4XAU43Y427ZO3MGZL5ZG2G24AO3WRLKY", "length": 6191, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.barnesjewish.org", "title": "Nursing Scholarship Success Stories - Foundation - Barnes-Jewish Hospital", "raw_content": "Home GivingFoundation PublicationsGiving MagazineGiving Issue 1 2014Nursing Scholarships Success Stories\nNursing Scholarship Success Stories\nIn 2013, generous donor support allowed The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital to provide $450,000 in scholarships to 171 students at Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College.\nGina Kitterer\nAt one time, Gina Kitterer, now a registered nurse, was afraid of blood.\nFortunately, Gina says, \u201cMy passion for helping people overcame that. Now, it doesn\u2019t bother me at all.\u201d\nWith help from a donor-supported scholarship from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Gina, 30, graduated from Goldfarb School of Nursing in April 2013 with a BSN degree. Today, she is working as a cardiac care nurse at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center\n\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to work with hearts ever since I took my anatomy and physiology prerequisites,\u201d Gina says.\nIn her fourth semester at Goldfarb, Gina spent time observing adult and pediatric heart patients. \u201cThis experience really helped me to know whether I wanted to work with adults or children,\u201d Gina says.\n\u201cAdult heart transplant patients are super neat. The Heart & Vascular Center is able to give patients two options for survival \u2014 a left ventricular assist device known as an LVAD, or a heart transplant. Working on this floor, we are able to help give patients a way to live life again.\u201d\nBeing able to relate to her patients was the most important thing Gina says she learned as a student at Goldfarb.\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t have to do with book education, but the heart and drive our teachers taught us,\u201d she says. \u201cHow to feel for patients and smile for them, even when I\u2019m having the hardest day\u2026having a warm heart and compassion matters so much to our patients.\u201d\nGina was a member of the Goldfarb Ambassador Program, the premier student leadership opportunity within the college. She spent three semesters as an ambassador, giving tours of Goldfarb, being on panels for new students, and serving as a touch point for the nursing school in various public relations capacities.\n\u201cGoldfarb worked with me to help me know exactly what I needed to get in and start my education. Plus, Goldfarb is connected to a hospital with a really good reputation,\u201d Gina says. \u201cThey had everything I needed.\u201d\nAja Sullivan\nMaking a difference through mental health policy and psychiatric nursing is how Aja Sullivan wants to use her degree in nursing. She graduated in April and today is working as a staff nurse at an eating disorder treatment center as well a staff nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in neurology.\nSince Aja, 38, graduated with a BSN degree, she is now pursuing a PhD.\n\u201cWith my interests, I saw there were a lot of political issues in mental health and I thought I could make more of an impact working in the education and policy aspect,\u201d Aja says. \u201cI think people need to understand the value of the nurse practitioner and mental health. There\u2019s a double-issue of educating the public and putting resources in this area.\u201d\nAja already had a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Washington University when she decided to go to nursing school.\nAfter completing the science prerequisites for nursing, Aja was accepted into the year-long accelerated program at Goldfarb. The intensive program combined with life at home raising her 3-year-old twin boys with her husband kept her very busy.\n\u201cThe teachers and staff at Goldfarb want you to be successful. They\u2019re doing their best to prepare you,\u201d Aja says, noting that she is thankful for scholarships she received, including a scholarship from the Norma and Jack Edlin Nursing Education Fund through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.\nAt Goldfarb, Aja was president of the Student Council, representing the interests and voice of the student body in various school committees and governance.\n\u201cI wanted to show others in my class that you can find the time to be involved,\u201d she says. \u201cFrom a job and career standpoint, it makes you more well-rounded to be involved.\u201d\nAja enjoys her work as a nurse and looks forward to her mental health advocacy role in the future. \u201cAs a nurse in an eating disorders treatment center, you can see the impact you have on a patient,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it is important to be able to address the needs of the whole person, not just the single illness.\u201d\nScott Laplant\nScott LaPlant always knew he wanted to work in health care but he couldn\u2019t afford paying for school.\nSo he started in a career as a sales representative, got married, and had two children. But as time passed, the now 38-year-old still had a dream to work in health care.\nSo he started classes toward his nursing school prerequisites, and then applied and was accepted to Goldfarb School of Nursing. He began nursing school in January 2013 and will graduate in August.\nHis nursing education might not have taken off if it hadn\u2019t been for a generous scholarship. Scott was a recipient of the Suelthaus Scholarship of Nursing Fund through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.\n\u201cWhen I saw the scholarship check I started bawling and I\u2019m not a crier,\u201d Scott says. \u201cIt made a big difference in my life.\u201d\nScott had the opportunity to meet the scholarship donors Ken and Shawn Suelthaus at a scholarship dinner last year. Ken is board chair of The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Scott said he enjoyed talking to the couple and that they were happy to get to know him and see how he fit into the nursing program.\nFitting in can be a challenge for a man in a woman-dominated field like nursing. Scott says he was one of three men in his 30-member class. For students like Scott, a group called GMEN or Goldfarb Men Excelling in Nursing, was created as a support group for men to talk about issues and offer resources to enhance their educational and professional development.\nWhat\u2019s next on his health care career list? Scott says he would like to work in a critical care unit for two to three years then enroll in a program to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.\nPlease support our future nurses through the Goldfarb School of Nursing Scholarship Fund. Make a gift online or call 314-286-0600.\nSupport Future Nurses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 9678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bassworksmd.com/matthew-boggs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DYSUBYQUN4BKZCG5XNW6NJV24526MJD7", "length": 882, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bassworksmd.com", "title": "Matthew Boggs - Bass works", "raw_content": "Matthew Boggs received his Music Education degree from Peabody Conservatory in 2006. While at Peabody he studied with Paul Johnson and previously studied with Arnold Gregorian and Hampton Childress of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Since 2006, he has been a music educator in Howard County Public Schools where he currently is the Orchestra Director at Clarksville Middle School. Outside of being a middle school orchestra teacher, he has been a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for various county, regional, and state festivals.\nMr. Boggs has been a freelance musician and having appeared with Maryland Symphony Orchestra, York Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Maryland Philharmonic, and other ensembles in the Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia area. In addition, he is actively maintaining a private studio and has been with Bass Works since it began in 2011.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bayshorelbi.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OFEOOYRV44D62EGE4FKNAFH6GNQZM2BN", "length": 1640, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bayshorelbi.com", "title": "Long Beach Island Homes and Vacation Properties. LBI Rentals and Sales. Ocean, Atlantic and Burlington County New Jersey Real Estate. Riviera Realty - License #7802095", "raw_content": "WELCOME TO COLDWELL BANKER RIVIERA REALTY!\nEight offices to serve you in Ocean County\nClick here for LBI Vacation Rentals!\nOUR PEOPLE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE\u2122\nSince 1947, we have built our company based on the belief that honesty, integrity and professional knowledge are what the consumer wants. We devote our company resources to improving the way the real estate business is conducted and are committed to the professional growth of our sales associates. We have always been at the forefront in using state of the art technology and marketing to fulfill the needs of our customers and clients.\nOur agents are constantly continuing their education and staying up to date on the issues affecting our industry. We also maintain eight strategically placed sales offices with a sales team that knows their market areas. We are committed to providing you with the most knowledgeable and experienced sales associates in the area. Thank you for the opportunity to assist you with your real estate needs.\nListing courtesy of Coldwell Banker Riviera Realty -TU\nBass River Township, NJ\nThe data relating to real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange program of Jersey Shore MLS. Detailed information about real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than the owner of this site includes the name of the listing broker. This data is updated daily. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. IDX information is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commerical use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be intrested in purchasing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/songs-of-praise-school-choir-of-the-year-2014.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:F3OJETL2UZXUQZ3VV32HYP7INIAX5FNK", "length": 2435, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.bbc.co.uk", "title": "BBC - Birmingham reverberates to sound of BBC Songs Of Praise - Media Centre", "raw_content": "Birmingham reverberates to sound of BBC Songs Of Praise: School Choir Of The Year\nIt\u2019s fantastic to welcome this iconic BBC One show to Birmingham. School Choirs from across the UK will be performing in this world class venue. It promises to be a real family treat for audiences.\u201dTommy Nagra, Head of Business Development, BBC Birmingham\nCategory: BBC One; English Regions\nBBC Songs Of Praise: School Choir Of The Year, the highly anticipated annual choir competition, is recording at The International Convention Centre in Birmingham in March, broadcasting on consecutive Sundays this spring on BBC One.\nCelebrating 12 years on BBC television, the programme showcases the very best school choirs in the UK as they attempt to win the coveted title of 'BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year'.\nTommy Nagra, Head of Business Development, BBC Birmingham, comments: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to welcome this iconic BBC One show to Birmingham. School Choirs from across the UK will be performing in this world class venue. It promises to be a real family treat for audiences.\u201d\nTwelve junior and senior school choirs, who have made it through the preliminary rounds, will go head to head to try to impress the celebrity judges in Birmingham. The judging line-up includes the classically trained musician, singer and television presenter Myleene Klass and the internationally renowned choral guru Suzi Digby.\nIn the first programme the six junior school choir semi-finalists sing a hymn of their choice before the best three chosen by the judges go forward to the final.\nThe junior semi-finalists are:\nQueen\u2019s Lower School from Chester, St Martin\u2019s Ampleforth from Yorkshire, Llangennech Junior School from Carmarthenshire, Lindley Junior School from Huddersfield, Ysgol Iolo Morganwg from Cowbridge in The Vale of Glamorgan and Blackheath Preparatory School from London.\nIn the second programme the six senior school choir semi-finalists sing their chosen hymn. The schools are:\nThe Rochester Grammar School from Kent, Lincoln Minster School, The Grey Coat Hospital School from London, \u201cCantabile\u201d from Hereford Cathedral School, Godolphin from Salisbury and Highgate School from London.\nIn the final, the best three junior and best three senior choirs come together to each sing an inspirational song to the audience and judges one more time before one choir from each category is declared the BBC Songs of Praise School Choir Of The Year 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-46959555", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XQ3KZOOFIOGQSE3JJNNDZN6DB33VKS7Z", "length": 2810, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.bbc.co.uk", "title": "Scottish unemployment rate hits record low at 3.6% - BBC News", "raw_content": "Scottish unemployment rate hits record low at 3.6%\nUnemployment in Scotland has fallen below the 100,000 mark for the first time, new figures have revealed.\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of people seeking work fell to 99,000 between September and November last year.\nThis makes the jobless rate 3.6%, a record low, with more than three quarters of working age Scots now in a job.\nThe UK unemployment rate is 4.0%, its lowest point since 1975.\nScottish Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said: \"Despite the huge and continued challenges of Brexit, the Scottish economy remains resilient and our jobs market is strengthening.\n\"Scotland's unemployment rate reached a record low again this month, down to 3.6%, lower than the UK rate of 4.0%.\nScottish Secretary David Mundell said: \"It is great news that unemployment has fallen to a new record low. I do remain concerned that in some measures there are less people active in the labour market.\"\nONS data revealed 75.3% of the Scottish working age population, those aged between 16 and 64, had some form of work between September and November last year.\nDr Stuart McIntyre, of the Fraser of Allander Institute, said: \"This latest data for Scotland shows that despite weak economic growth and heightened economic uncertainty, headline measure of labour market continue to perform well - with the unemployment rate hitting 3.6%, its lowest rate since records began in 1992.\n\"That being said, productivity growth is sluggish, and the outlook for the economy through the next few months remains highly uncertain.\"\nAcross the UK, the number of people in work in the UK has reached a record high of 32.5 million.\nAverage earnings, excluding bonuses, increased by 3.3% in the year to November, as wage rises continued to outpace inflation.\nExcluding bonuses, they went up by 3.4% - the biggest rise for a decade.\nONS head of labour market David Freeman said: \"The number of people working grew again, with the share of the population in work now the highest on record.\n\"Meanwhile, the share of the workforce looking for work and unable to find it remains at its lowest for over 40 years, helped by a record number of job vacancies.\n\"Wage growth continues to outpace inflation, which fell back slightly in the latest month.\"\nAndrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the figures were \"reassuring, showing no sign of any hit to firms' hiring ambitions due to Brexit\".\nHowever, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned that the pace of wage increases may begin to ease.\n\"We doubt that wage growth will be sustained over the next six months at November's strong rate,\" he said. \"Pay settlements likely will weaken this year, as the previous year's inflation rate usually is the starting point for negotiations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 6738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beach-fun.com/site-index/48-holiday-fun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IP755CH3E5WDMWUU3BIWBMSPV5CL6RZI", "length": 3649, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.beach-fun.com", "title": "Holiday Fun - Rehoboth Beach Resort Area", "raw_content": "Check out the resort area of Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach for holiday fun. Activities abound from tree lightings, Santa's House, Hometown Parade and holiday Farmers' Market. Don't forget, while checking off your Christmas list...your purchases are TAX-FREE in Delaware. Don't forget to support local businesses and SHOP LOCAL! Small Business Saturday is November 24, 2018!\nWhether in Downtown Rehoboth, at Dewey Beach or on Coastal Highway, there are hundreds of shops, restaurants and places to stay. Click on the the categories below for more information and specials/promotions:\nShopping \u2022 Dining \u2022 Accommodations \u2022 Services\nSanta's House on the Boardwalk - 2018\nFriday, November 23rd - 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM\nSaturday, November 24th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSunday, November 25th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSunday, December 2nd - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSunday, December 9th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSaturday, December 15th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSunday, December 16th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM\nSunday, December 23rd - 12 noon - 2:00 PM\nSunday, December 23rd - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Dogs only hour)\nSanta\u2019s House will be on the Rehoboth Boardwalk at the end of Rehoboth Avenue! Stop by and tell Santa your Christmas wish list! There is no charge to visit Santa; donations are appreciated. Remember to bring your camera!\nRehoboth Beach Holiday Tree Lighting\nThe Rehoboth Beach Tree Lighting festivities will take place on Friday, November 23, 2018. It's a hometown tradition! Holiday sing-along will begin at 6:30PM at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstan Pavilion and the annual tree lighting at 7 PM. For additional information contact the City of Rehoboth at 302-227-2772 or www.cityofrehoboth.com\nDewey Beach Sip and Shop\nDon't miss the premier holiday shopping event of the year! Friday, November 23, 2018 from 9AM-5PM and Saturday, November 24, 2018 from 10AM-5PM. Live music, complimentary beer samples and 30 vendors with handmade artwork and goods! Free event plus kid and pet-friendly! More info at DeweyArts.org\nHoliday Rehoboth Beach Farmers' Market\nThe Rehoboth Beach Farmers' Market will be holding a holiday market in Grove Park on Saturday, November 24, 2018 from Noon to 3PM. For more info, visit http://rbfarmersmarket.com/\nDewey Beach Holiday Tree Lighting\nThe Dewey Beach Tree Lighting festivities will take place on Saturday, November 24, 2018 beginning at 5:00-7:00 PM at Fifer's Orchards market. Parking is free on any street in Dewey. Attendees are encouraged to bring their family, refreshments, and their Christmas Spirit!\nThis year's Rehoboth Beach Hometown Christmas Parade is being sponsored by the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company and will be held on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 6:30PM. For more information and sponsor/registration forms, please contact them at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.\nThe Winter WonderFEST is bigger, brighter and cooler for 2018! Fun activities include: Light Spectactular at the Cape Henlopen State Park, Dashing through the Show 5K, plus Ice Rink and Christmas Village. November 17, 2018 - December 31, 2018. For tickets and info, visit www.WonderFESTDE.org.\nMore Holiday Events and Activities\nThe Rehoboth Beach & Dewey Beach has many fun events and activities ... visit the Chamber's calendar of events page for details www.beach-fun.com/events/current-events/event-category.html\nThe Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their holiday help to date: City of Rehoboth Beach, Dennis Diehl, Matt's Auto Care, Short's Marine, Murphy Electric, and of course, Mr. Claus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beautifulglobal.com/tag/palace/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:31Z", "digest": "sha1:UOU6YXVSV53WSKLUUFG33VHO2PG3B5L4", "length": 240, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.beautifulglobal.com", "title": "Palace Archives - Beautiful Global", "raw_content": "Tagged: Palace\nSultan Masoud Palace\nThis palace was built in 112 AD. It is situated in Ghazni, major historical city of Afghanistan. The Sultan masoud palace is one of the ancient history representing constructions of the country. It has...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.because-its-there.uk/gibraltar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:S2ASLIMYGDS2QCYL5A3DU34PGMNB5MOA", "length": 7557, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.because-its-there.uk", "title": "Gibraltar - Because It's There", "raw_content": "When? May 2018\nHow? Minivan, on foot\n\u2018Well, Gibraltar is a place which you either love or hate. I quite like it. It\u2019s a rock, that is essentially what it is. It\u2019s a British colony.\u2019\nNigel Short, British chess player\nI hadn\u2019t realised how huge and sheer the face of The Rock is. It\u2019s the first thing I see when I disembark the plane. It\u2019s grey and brooding and there\u2019s cloud hooked right across the two main peaks, which is a little frustrating when Spain to the north is basking in bright sunshine.\nI also hadn\u2019t realised that this is the fifth most dangerous airport in the world. It was built, out over the water, by Eisenhower, during the war, and has been extended a little further into the sea for passenger jets. Landing and take-off isn\u2019t helped by the Spanish running an embargo on entering their airspace. Some steep banking is required. The road into Gibraltar runs across the runway, so that\u2019s quite exciting too. They\u2019re building a tunnel at the moment.\nThe town is squashed between the rock and the port and is a warren of narrow streets and little alleys, surrounded by a bastion wall. It\u2019s not very easy to navigate the taxi and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not driving. The wall runs all along the coast and right over the top of the 426m-high limestone ridge, to the sea on the other side. It was built by the Spanish, as a defence against the Moors, before we forced them to hand The Rock over in 1713.\nWhitewashed walls, bright shutters, bougainvillea, tapas bars, stained glass, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, fish and chips, red phone boxes and pubs. The Mediterranean meets the UK. But its quintessentially British down to the three pin electric sockets. It\u2019s firmly fixed in the last century and a little shabby \u2013 it could use some money spending on it. But so could most of the UK at the moment. The local people are bilingual in Spanish and English, but when talking to each other use a fascinating Spanglish dialect (Llanito), which I can hardly follow at all (it makes more sense written down.)\nThe map tells me that I will see most of the town if I saunter along Main Street, which cuts right through the middle, alleys leading left and right and will take me to the cable car in one direction and the atmospheric Casemates Square in the other. I haven\u2019t gone more than ten yards before I\u2019m embroiled in a royal artillery reunion parade. There\u2019s a band playing and the men are all togged up in uniform, complete with medals and are proudly bearing flags. Its Meg and Harry\u2019s wedding today and it\u2019s playing on the TV in all the bars, so I assume this is part of the celebration. However, I\u2019m firmly assured that it isn\u2019t and I end up taking photographs of all the participants \u2013 and the lady mayor and am given instructions on where to send them on. Main Street next delivers a ceremony from The Re-enactment Society (scarlet coats and tricorn hats) rapidly followed by a parade of veteran cars. It\u2019s all excitement here. Irish Town is a subset gaggle of old streets with boutique shops and pubs (of course). A final wander through the Botanical Garden, a stroll atop the walls and along more modern quays, lined with seafood restaurants. There\u2019s a ship hotel too (nice cocktails up top).\nThe sun has come out; I did a lot of walking yesterday and The Rock is very steep, so I decide to eschew the cable car and take a taxi-van tour to the top. The vans usually wait till they are full, but it\u2019s Sunday and astonishingly quiet everywhere, with most of the shops shut. Fifteen minutes later there are still only three of us on-board. Eventually, John, the driver, sensing mutiny, agrees to cut his losses and take Julian and Jackie (holiday home in Alicante) and me.\nFirst, signs marking the Pillars of Hercules, dividing the ancient and modern worlds. I love the idea that I\u2019m at the edge of the Mediterranean and the known world (in Greek mythology Gibraltar was Calpe). We can see far out across the straits and I can make out the shadowy mountains of Morocco, only 14 kilometres away.\nIt\u2019s a perilous drive up The Rock and along the top of the ridge. Being a taxi driver in Gibraltar definitely involves some skill. John knows nearly all the \u2018apes\u2019 (Barbary macaques) by name (though I\u2019m not sure if everyone calls them the same names) and doesn\u2019t seem to mind being nibbled and swung on. They head straight for him and clamber in the taxi window. John wants us to let them climb on our heads. I\u2019m not keen on having my pictures taken with animals that bite, especially when there are signs warning tourists not to touch them, so I\u2019m watching the shenanigans from the (relative) safety of the viewing platform.\nThe views down the sheer face of the rock from my refuge, are worth the journey \u2013 there\u2019s even a sandy beach below. We\u2019re also taken to St Michael\u2019s Caves, once a home for Neolithic peoples and where there are still some impressive stalactites. There\u2019s also an ongoing light-show, which is a little too gaudy to enhance the experience.\nNext, the Siege Tunnels. Apparently: \u2018The inside of The Rock is an absolute labyrinth with secret internal roads and tunnels four times longer than those on the surface\u2019. The tunnels were blasted out during the Great Siege when the French and Spanish were determined to repossess Gibraltar and General Elliott asked his engineers to find a way to mount guns on the sheer north face of The Rock. There are cannons and information boards and statues of various military commanders inside. The uppermost part of The Rock is still a British military installation, and off-limits to the public. What with caves and tunnels, the saying \u2018As solid as the Rock of Gibraltar seems somewhat inaccurate.\nIt\u2019s developed into a glorious day and I\u2019m keen to see The Rock looming from the sea, so I sign up for a Dolphin Safari. The views are great, as we zip over the wakes of various boats \u2013 the Straits of Gibraltar is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world \u2013 and we are greeted by a large pod of dolphins too. They\u2019re chasing fish, so don\u2019t have much time for us, but they speed along, diving under the boat and putting the Olympic synchronised swimmers to shame.\nI had planned to spend my last day by the pool, but the hotel is swathed in scaffolding and the builders have returned with a vengeance after the weekend. There\u2019s little let up from the drilling and when I pull the curtains I\u2019m faced with a guy skipping up a gantry outside. Thank goodness for my noise cancelling headphones.\nThe Rock is named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim governor of Tangier who landed here in 711, to launch the Islamic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. \u2013 Jabal Tariq (Mountain of Tariq) eventually became Gibraltar.\nGibraltar, colloquially known as The Rock, (or simply \u2018Gib\u2019), is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It was ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.\nHowever, because of its close proximity to the European mainland, traffic in Gibraltar moves on the right-hand side of the road and the speed limits are in kilometres per hour\nThe official currency of Gibraltar is the Gibraltar pound (GIP), which is pegged to the British pound sterling at a 1:1 exchange rate. The British pound sterling is legal tender in Gibraltar, and is accepted everywhere, but the Gibraltar pound is not legal tender in the UK.\nMany bookmakers and online gaming operators relocated to Gibraltar in the 2000s to benefit from operating in the favourable corporate tax regime. They remained even when the regulations changed.\nTo see more of my photos of Gibraltar, visit this page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 598, "original_length": 14123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.behrenswilson.com/obituaries/jill-fay-logan/1466/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FH3LO6REHV4LGQWYRXOGBC4CHRBENQEQ", "length": 1347, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.behrenswilson.com", "title": "Behrens Wilson Funeral Home - Rapid City, SD", "raw_content": "A memorial lunch will be held at Sally\u2019s on December 1, from 1 to 3 p.m., and all are welcome.\nJill Fay Logan, 65, Rapid City, passed peacefully in her home on Thursday, November 22, 2018. She was born in Pipestone, MN on June 28, 1953 to Lloyd Dennis and Phyllis Diane Ward. She attended Lincoln Senior High School and Dakota State University. For 32 happy years, Jill was the loving and faithful wife to Gary Edward Logan who passed away 2 years ago.\nJill is survived by her son Ryan Logan, and siblings, Johnny, Julie, and Scott and step daughters Shannon Tremmel and Sue Logan. Jill was the matriarch of the family, the rock, and the glue that held it all together. She will be terribly missed.\nJill was a pillar of the Rapid City community, frequently donating to the Club for Boys, Humane Society and the The Salvation Army. Jill was selfless and kind, she put others first and was constantly putting a smile on the face of others.\nShe worked at local pub, Sally O\u2019Malley\u2019s for over a decade serving up cold ones to the locals who came by to chat with her and get their mind off of the daily grind. There was a special place in Jill\u2019s heart for animals in need. She was funny, intelligent, and social. She was constantly moving and getting things done.\nThe loss of Jill Logan is a deep one. She would have wanted folks to celebrate her life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.belfercenter.org/nuclear-issues?f%5B0%5D=subtopic%3ANuclear%20Issues--Russia%20nuclear%20program&f%5B1%5D=subtopic%3AGovernance--Law%20enforcement&f%5B2%5D=subtopic%3ANuclear%20Security%20Matters--Budgets&f%5B3%5D=region%3ASouth%20America", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RA4DSN6PXJ7AYRSG4U5YJECSN2XDH2H4", "length": 3626, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.belfercenter.org", "title": "Research | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs", "raw_content": "(-) South America (14)\nFidel Castro at Harvard: How History Might Have Changed\nRead more about Fidel Castro at Harvard: How History Might Have Changed\nFIFTY-SIX YEARS ago today, in 1959, a 32-year-old victorious revolutionary named Fidel Castro arrived at Back Bay Station to face a raucous crowd of 5,000 Bostonians.\nGraham Allison writes in the Boston Globe that Castro was headed to Harvard, his last stop on a 12-day trip along the East Coast....Castro\u2019s visit aroused so much excitement that Harvard had no auditorium large enough to host his speech. So the Harvard football stadium was converted into an amphitheater.\n\"The social sciences rarely allow for controlled experiments where we can test initiatives for cause and effect,\" Allison writes. \"But occasionally the world around us offers its own clues. Is it accidental that the two states that have persisted the longest as bastions of Stalinist authoritarianism are the two that the US has most harshly isolated and sanctioned: North Korea and Cuba?\"\nThe Nonproliferation Emperor Has No Clothes: The Gas Centrifuge, Supply-Side Controls, and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation\nRead more about The Nonproliferation Emperor Has No Clothes: The Gas Centrifuge, Supply-Side Controls, and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation\nPolicymakers have long focused on preventing nuclear weapons proliferation by controlling technology. Even developing countries, however, may now possess the technical ability to create nuclear weapons. The history of gas centrifuge development in twenty countries supports this perspective. To reduce the demand for nuclear weapons, policymakers will have look toward the cultural, normative, and political organization of the world.\nInside the Situation Room: A National Security Crisis Simulation\nRead more about Inside the Situation Room: A National Security Crisis Simulation\nHarvard Kennedy School students convened at the Kennedy School on October 27 to simulate a meeting of the National Security Council to resolve a modern-day crisis. The simulation, developed entirely by a team of HKS students, coordinated by HKS student Leon Ratz, was co-sponsored by the Belfer Center and the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. The event was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.\n*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society\nPicasso, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Malcolm Wiener\nRead more about Picasso, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Malcolm Wiener\nAs visitors step through the doors of the Kennedy Memorial Library for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they will find on display Picasso's 1963 Rape of the Sabine Women - on loan from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The connection between Picasso's painting and what is widely accepted as the most dangerous moment in human history was brought to light for many by Malcolm Wiener, a member of the Belfer Center\u2019s International Council and the person for whom Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy was named.\nThe Cuban Missile Crisis at 50\nRead more about The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50\n\"Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. Every president since John F. 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Talent comes from God and if you have it, then you have it. Even as I\u2019m chatting with you, I can get inspiration for a song and I would immediately note it in my mind. As long as life exists and things happen on earth, I will always have the inspiration to sing. Music is life and life is music. If I were to release all the songs I have ever recorded, they would scatter the whole place. I work in the studio everyday and there are many songs I have recorded that I am yet to release as singles or in albums.\u201d\nOn how he has been able to remain relevant, Olamide said,\n\u201cMost importantly the grace of God that has kept me. I don\u2019t do this by my power or might. I also go with the flow and keep my ears on the ground. I know about the new slangs that are spoken on the streets and sometimes, I turn them into songs, which resonate with people because they can identify with the content of the song.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beyondhrforum.com/speaker/jacopo-pergreffi/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EGH76HD65DFA6A377STJIAOGSRDKGCUE", "length": 1378, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.beyondhrforum.com", "title": "Jacopo Pergreffi - BEYOND", "raw_content": "Recognised throughout the world as the precursor of modern pret-\u00e0-porter fashion, the Max Mara Group is one of the largest international fashion houses and the first Italian clothing company. The company was formed in 1951 with the aim of offering \u201chaute de gamme\u201d feminine clothing, produced according to excellent industrial processes. This is a record that the Max Mara Group has consolidated over time through a meticulous, luxurious style that has always achieved rising success on a world-wide scale, demonstrated today in more than 2,300 stores. In total, the Max Mara Group operates in 105 countries, both directly and through 10,000+ multi-brand stores.\nTo support the development and growth Max Mara has chosen to invest in young people. Graduates and school leavers who come to work in the companies of the Group are its investment in the future through innovative in-company and field training. Through the Giulia Maramotti Foundation vocational training courses are organised dedicated to the different professional roles in the fashion world. 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We haven\u2019t looked back since,\u201d Zycron Executive Chairman Darrell S. Freeman said. \u201cAs a native of Chattanooga, I am personally grateful that doing business in the Tennessee Valley has allowed Zycron to create jobs and provide a positive economic impact for the community.\u201d\nThe Supplier Diversity Summit was a day of learning and networking opportunities in Memphis, Tenn., where small business participants learned the basics of contracting with TVA. And TVA executives reminded participants that they \u201cbring a variety of thought, background and experience,\u201d and their success \u201cdirectly benefits the individual communities in which you live, which in turn strengthens the whole Tennessee Valley.\u201d\nZycron is celebrating 25 years in the information technology industry, and TVA has been a major factor in its growth. When Zycron began working with TVA in 1992, Zycron had two employees. Today Zycron has more than 350 employees, is one of the largest IT services firms based in Tennessee, and has received numerous awards and recognition including: Best of Staffing Client Satisfaction National Award, No.1 Tech Services Firm by Nashville Business Journal, Business Journal Future 50 (four-time award winner) and Inner City 100 Company. TVA exposed Zycron to many cutting edge technologies, and it was able to use the experience gained at TVA to court other major customers around the country.\nThe Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power distributors serving more than 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2009/10/Double-reed-day-hosted-at-bgsu.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OL5FB2YGZBI2GKIO3BFSYI3TPOOD6KY5", "length": 1862, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bgsu.edu", "title": "Double Reed Day hosted at BGSU", "raw_content": "Double Reed Day hosted at BGSU\nBOWLING GREEN, O.\u2014On Nov. 21, Bowling Green State University\u2019s College of Musical Arts will hold its annual Double Reed Day, hosted by Dr. Jacqueline Leclair, assistant professor of oboe, and Dr. Nathaniel Zeisler, assistant professor of bassoon, along with the BGSU oboe and bassoon studios.\nProviding an opportunity for oboists and bassoonists of all ages and abilities to come together and explore new facets of their respective instruments, Double Reed Day will feature master classes and an instrument workshop, as well as performances by BGSU faculty and students. The daylong event will be held at the Moore Musical Arts Center and is free and open to the public, but participants must pre-register online by Nov. 1 to attend.\nSign-in on Nov. 21 begins at 9 a.m. in the Moore Musical Arts Center, followed at 10 a.m. by a recital given by BGSU faculty and students.\nBeginning at 11 a.m. special guests Ko Kaiden, expert woodwind repair technician, and Ken Potsic, celebrated bassoon repair technician, will lead an instrument workshop on instrument mending and reed making.\nAt 1 p.m. Leclair and Zeisler will be conduct master classes for oboe and bassoon, respectively. At 2 p.m. the group will reconvene for a Double Reed Choir rehearsal led by Dr. Kenneth Thompson, assistant professor of music education and conductor of the Toledo Youth Orchestra.\nEnding the day will be a recital by BGSU students at 3 p.m., followed by a concert by the Double Reed Choir.\nThose attending and participating should bring their instrument, reed-making equipment, and repertoire if performing in a master class. 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If So, Will.i.am & Simon Cowell Want You\nBlack Eyed Peas front man and Director of Creative Innovation for Intel Will.i.am and X-Factor producer Simon Cowell have a reality-television show in the works that will have the tech (and entertainment) world buzzing\u2013and not necessarily for all the right reasons.\nAccording to a report in the U.K.-based The Sun, Will.i.am and Cowell are creating an X-Factor-esq show aimed at finding the next big tech entrepreneur. \u201cWe\u2019re working on a project called X Factor for tech \u2013 and it\u2019s going to be out of this world,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Will.i.am told The Sun. \u201cSinging and performance create a couple of jobs. But this will create lots. It\u2019s about getting in touch with youth and giving them a platform to express themselves \u2013 whether that\u2019s in science or mathematics.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\nWill.i.am continues to add notches onto his tech belt with this latest venture. In August, the pop star debuted the song \u201cReach for the Stars,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Mars. It was the first song ever to play from the Red Planet and, when the Curiosity rover landed, Will.i.am was one of a handful of non-scientists present at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch it happen.\nWith winners of shows like X-Factor and American Idol often getting locked into rigid deals and rarely seeing long-term success, it will be interesting to see how the \u201cX-Factor for Tech\u00e2\u20ac\u009d champs will benefit from their newfound status.\nPop culture is inching to own a stake in Silicon Valley. Tech entrepreneurs, would you sign up for a chance to win in this X-Factor formatted show? What will the duo\u2019s reality show collaboration do for tech startups? Tell us what you think in the comments section.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 4907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 197.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blindsgalore.com/bedroom?category=sheer-shades&color=orange", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:OA7LOJ2AWDYPB2LVLTOJOHHEA3CO2Z4T", "length": 977, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.blindsgalore.com", "title": "Bedroom Blinds & Window Treatments with Flexible Light Control | Blindsgalore", "raw_content": "Width 12\" 13\" 14\" 15\" 16\" 17\" 18\" 19\" 20\" 21\" 22\" 23\" 24\" 25\" 26\" 27\" 28\" 29\" 30\" 31\" 32\" 33\" 34\" 35\" 36\" 37\" 38\" 39\" 40\" 41\" 42\" 43\" 44\" 45\" 46\" 47\" 48\" 49\" 50\" 51\" 52\" 53\" 54\" 55\" 56\" 57\" 58\" 59\" 60\" 61\" 62\" 63\" 64\" 65\" 66\" 67\" 68\" 69\" 70\" 71\" 72\" 73\" 74\" 75\" 76\" 77\" 78\" 79\" 80\" 81\" 82\" 83\" 84\" 85\" 86\" 87\" 88\" 89\" 90\" 91\" 92\" 93\" . 1/8\" 1/4\" 3/8\" 1/2\" 5/8\" 3/4\" 7/8\"\nHeight 12\" 13\" 14\" 15\" 16\" 17\" 18\" 19\" 20\" 21\" 22\" 23\" 24\" 25\" 26\" 27\" 28\" 29\" 30\" 31\" 32\" 33\" 34\" 35\" 36\" 37\" 38\" 39\" 40\" 41\" 42\" 43\" 44\" 45\" 46\" 47\" 48\" 49\" 50\" 51\" 52\" 53\" 54\" 55\" 56\" 57\" 58\" 59\" 60\" 61\" 62\" 63\" 64\" 65\" 66\" 67\" 68\" 69\" 70\" 71\" 72\" 73\" 74\" 75\" 76\" 77\" 78\" 79\" 80\" 81\" 82\" 83\" 84\" 85\" 86\" 87\" 88\" 89\" 90\" 91\" 92\" 93\" . 1/8\" 1/4\" 3/8\" 1/2\" 5/8\" 3/4\" 7/8\"\nBy LL from California\nEasy to install. Love the way they look and the versatility.\nBy Larry from Iowa\nI found these to be a little pricey, but well worth it! Will be buying more to continue covering our windows. Very easy to install..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 5126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 115.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bognor.co.uk/news/county-news-elderly-sussex-couple-face-losing-home-in-mortgage-shock-1-8483402", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MSQCK6FOQRP6CI2KCLNPRIWUV67GRTNT", "length": 3247, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.bognor.co.uk", "title": "COUNTY NEWS: Elderly Sussex couple face losing home in mortgage shock - Bognor Regis Observer", "raw_content": "COUNTY NEWS: Elderly Sussex couple face losing home in mortgage shock\nLen and Val Fitzgerald at their home in Brightland Road, Eastbourne (Photo by Jon Rigby)\nAn elderly couple face losing their home of 17 years due to the bank refusing to extend their mortgage.\nLen and Val Fitzgerald were forced by circumstances to take up an interest-only mortgage on their Eastbourne home in 2007.\n(Photo by Jon Rigby)\nDue to Santander rules, the couple have to pay back the mortgage in full when they reach 75. Now they are calling on the bank to extend the mortgage until they are 85.\nMr Fitzgerald, 77, said: \u201cWe hardly sleep. It\u2019s a hell of a situation to be in when you are in your late 70s, to rip up the home you have been in for 17 years. We are pushing like hell for Santander to extend it.\n\u201cI had a minor stroke which I\u2019m sure was brought on by the stress. That\u2019s the situation that can arise when you are in such a stressful situation.\u201d\nThe couple say they have been given two months to find alternative accommodation.\nThey bought the Brightland Road house back in 2003 on a 10-year repayment mortgage because they both were working and could afford to pay it.\nHowever when Val lost her job their income dropped considerably, so they took on the interest-only mortgage in 2007.\nThey now owe \u00a3180,000 on the property which is worth \u00a3250,000 \u2013 a high loan-to-value rating which rules out equity release or downsizing.\nMr Fitzgerald said: \u201cOur equity is not safe enough to think about buying somewhere else, so we\u2019d have to rent \u2013 we really don\u2019t want to do that.\n\u201cWe have been here for 17 years. We have friends and neighbours and a dog who\u2019s part of the family.\n\u201cWe are asking Santander to push their age limit up to 85. At that stage we will sell the house to repay the mortgage and probably move into an old people\u2019s accommodation.\n\u201cThey are sticking by their rules. It\u2019s not costing them anything at all but if they were to be repaid we would be in a situation where we would have no where to live.\n\u201cThere seems to be no point having to sell our house, be on the streets and Santander just lend the money to someone else.\u201d\nThe town\u2019s MP Stephen Lloyd is supporting the couple in their fight.\nHe said: \u201cThis is a frail elderly couple who always paid their mortgage interest on time every month without ever missing a payment, yet because of some arcane internal decision the bank refuses to allow anyone over the age of 75 to retain their interest-only mortgage.\n\u201cSantander are prepared to throw them out into the street which is a shocking and callous decision. I am sure there are thousands of other families potentially facing the same, desperate situation which is unacceptable.\u201d\nThe MP has arranged a meeting with the Treasury Minister to discuss the case and has submitted an Early Day Motion in Parliament.\nA spokesperson for Santander said: \u201cIt is not in the interest of either customers or the bank to lend in circumstances where we believe it will become unaffordable in the future.\n\u201cWe have been working with the Fitzgeralds to find an alternative resolution to their request to vary their original mortgage terms and have guided them towards finding appropriate financial advice. We will continue to work to help them find a solution.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/the-clash-is-keenly-awaited/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6PXEEGT5XZDHP24VJCPW4HITYG5RA3L6", "length": 547, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bollywoodhungama.com", "title": "The clash is keenly awaited: - Bollywood Hungama", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb Bollywood \u00bb The clash is keenly awaited:\nThe clash is keenly awaited:\nJune 15, 2001 saw the clash of Sunny Deol\u2018s GADAR and Aamir Khan\u2018s LAGAAN. This year, on June 7, the Deols will clash with the Devgan. 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For now.\nReese is happy to support Gabe in his fight to keep the ranch\u2014but is her support a conflict of interest?\nHis brothers seem to think so.\n\u200bGabe and Reese's growing feelings for each other are a problem, too. But maybe it's one that will be solved by the magic of Christmas!\n\u200bA heartwarming story about hard times, family loyalty, and finding the support, and love, at the unexpected places.\nI enjoyed the story. The characters are likeable, real with flaws like all of us, but charming and interesting people. The brothers are faced with a hard task, after their father left the ranch for them to deal with, all together. They haven't had a relationship with each other, and the tension is palpable in the house.\nThe brothers, and the ranch, are facing hard times, with financial difficulties after the long illness of their father, and other hardship, unexpected situations they suddenly face. Just about everything that can go wrong, does.\nBut despite the difficulties, they slowly come together, take responsibility seriously, and work together towards the same goal, instead of fighting against each other.\nAt the same time as Gabe tries to work with his brothers, mourn for his father, and trying to understand his last will, take care of his mother, and run the ranch, he goes and develops feelings for the one person he shouldn't. Reese is not only the trustee of the will, but the daughter of Gabe's dad's worst rival. But the connection between them is undeniable, noticeable, and kind of cute. The stolen kisses are burning in their mind, and the feelings get all tangled up.\nWhat I liked most about the story was the way they fought to get out of the trouble, they took their responsibility, and stood behind their actions. Nothing was easy, everything came with a price, and very few things went the way they wanted, a lot like real life. The story has spunk, the strength of the characters comes forward, and love always wins. Looking forward to more in the series!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.booksie.com/475290-project-b.-human-chapter-7", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PAJSIPMFDDVFSMHDLT7FDLG77PU4YLTJ", "length": 13792, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "www.booksie.com", "title": "Project B. Human: Chapter 7, book by July Kimono", "raw_content": "Project B. Human\nBook by: July Kimono\nStatus: Finished | Genre: Science Fiction | House: Booksie Classic\nChapter 7 (v.1) - Two Sides of a Coin. Part 7\nChapter 8 (v.1) - Synchronization. Part 1\nChapter 10 (v.1) - Synchronization. Part 3\nChapter 16 (v.1) - Sould and Fearful Biscuits. Part 1\nChapter 17 (v.1) - Soul and Fearful Biscuits. Part 2\nEma finished watering the plants in the balcony and came back inside. Soft blue light caught her eye. It was coming from under the door to Raynold's room. Everything in the room was sealed off, but she could notice the light making its way though. Ema put the watering can on the windowsill.\nShe slowly opened the door. Her whole body was instantly covered in blue light coming from all the windows and holograms in the room. Windows with rapidly changing numbers covered all the walls, ceiling, and the floor. The only furniture in the room was a double bed and the closet installed in the wall behind the bed.\nEma walked through the holograms in the room. White cubes were floating around, making sphere like shapes.\n\"Really now, don't overdo it.\" She sat down on Ray's bed and pushed away his hair from his face. She leaned down and put her head on his chest.\nThe cubes in the room shook, but Ema was deep within her own world now.\nWith the swing of Suzane's hand, the invisible force hit Ray.\n\"Oh, how energetic.\" Ray stood there without flinching. \"However, it will take more than that from now on.\"\nSuzane had frozen still. She didn't know what was going on. She was certain she just used a force strike on Ray, like she did before, over and over. Yet this time, it had no effect on him. Not just that, her body could no longer move. Suzane couldn't comprehend what was going on so quickly. She wanted to shout something out, didn't matter what, but no words left her mouth.\nThe moment Ray hit the ground for the first time, he figured out that Suzane was a moderator. That meant she had access to the system from an additional port, made specifically for them. Naturally, no one but the mods could use this port. However, this wasn't the case for Raynold. PROJECT had a defense system, that was impossible to hack from outside, but with a custom port right in front of him, he had full control of everything around.\n\"I'll have to bid you farewell this time.\" Ray slightly bowed. \"May we meet again.\" He stepped on the teleportation array. It shone with bright purple light and Ray disappeared.\nSuzane could move again. The paralysis was gone the moment Ray got teleported. With no words, she quickly walked to the teleportation array and opened it's window. Since Ray hadn't discovered any locations in the outside world prior to this, his only option was to use the random teleport. Still, there were a set amount of location to where he could be teleported. Furthermore, all the uses of the array would be recorded and accessible to moderators and even players, given the right circumstances.\nThe teleportation array had no records of use. Suzane opened her window and logged out. She had to notify the higher ups about this. Someone had access to moderator power outside the PROJECT's jurisdiction.\nMost of the people didn't know what happened. The man that the moderator was hammering into a wall was suddenly set free. Not many understood that Suzane was paralyzed with a debuff. On top of that, she just left right after the man had teleported. Of course, this was none of their business, but they were still hoping for a more fulfilling ending.\nRay opened his eyes. It was dark all around. He could feel a slight pain in his head, though he knew he couldn't have felt any pain. Up until a moment ago, he had moderator powers. With them, he had completely restored his body. He had the power to give himself items he could have used later or changed his skills to a certain extent, but he did none of those things. This world was to be taken by his own power. Using moderator power would be like cheating his way up.\nThat being said, with the Crimson Rose Adamantium Sword and Sunflower Cutting Knife by his side, it was pretty close to cheating already.\n\"What do we have here?\" A chilling voice came from somewhere in the dark. Ray drew the rose sword from his side on instinct. He didn't even know which side the voice spoke from. \"I wasn't expecting company.\"\nBy tempering with the teleportation array, Ray had to find a place to go that would not go on record. At the moment, he had no time, therefore he improvised. He opened his window. The time he had left until he would be forcefully logged out had stopped. Only now he realized what was the place he chose. He recalled it in the information given on the web too. This was without a doubt a boss room.\nLevel 4 Ray against a boss? The areas the teleportation array could bring you, even with tempering with it, still had to be somewhere in the first map zone. With that in mind, the boss could not be stronger than level 50. But what of it, a boss is nowhere near a maze golem. To take out a boss, you need a full party of people of the same level as it. Even with his blade, Ray didn't think he could stand a chance. In that case, there was only one option - run. But where to? The entire room was pitch black.\n\"Shall we have some fun then?\" The voice echoed over the tall walls. That was the only information Ray could gather. The room should be at least twenty meters tall and a couple of hundred meters in diameter. If this was the boss room, there had to be an entrance, but its location was impossible to find without any light.\nSomething on Ray's left quickly flew through the air. A yellow slash went towards Ray's head. He moved as quickly as he could. A sharp blade grazed his cheek. Ray tried slashing whatever came at him, but his sword could not reach anything.\nAnother slash came toward Ray. He tried blocking it, but it stabbed his chest and with a forceful push, send him flying back. Following that, the yellow slash came from above him.\n\"Huh?\" The voice sounded confused. The ground was covered in roses, hindering his movement and making him lose focus for a second. \"What was...\" The voice was cut off by an upper slash.\nIt caught the sword with his hand, grinding in the darkness. This was a fun surprise for him. But the smile was interrupted with vines of roses, shooting out at him from the blade he caught.\n\"Rose sword?\" His voice declared as he reached out to the vines that started to cover his body.\nIt knew what the sword was. That surprised Ray, but this was no time for that. The moment the vines flew out at it, Ray launched himself beside the wall. Before, he was pushed back to the point where he could feel the wall behind him. The exit had to be somewhere along the wall. He should be able to find it he followed it.\nA yellow slash came at Ray, followed by a joyful voice. \"You wouldn't mind if I took a look at it, would you?\"\nCold metal entered Ray's stomach. \"You seem to be enjoying yourself.\" Ray could not help himself but say.\n\"Shouldn't I?\" The two men seemed to be enjoying themselves, regardless of the situation.\n\"Indeed, ha, ha.\"\n\"Ha, ha, ha.\" The two men laughed and looked at each other smiling, though Ray could not see anything in the dark.\nIt was obvious the boss didn't mean to kill Ray for some reason. He kept attacking in ways and with speed, slow enough for Ray to dodge or counter. If it wanted Ray dead, he would have died in the first attack. Ray didn't know how strong his opponent was, but he could determine at least that much.\nThe question was why it didn't want to kill Ray. Normally, a party would enter a boss room, try to kill the boss and obtain the loot from it. This was just like any other game in that matter. Or so Ray thought.\nDuring the time he spent in the city, he had a suspicion about the NPC. They were clearly not people, however, they were not just any programs either. Ray suspected that PROJECT used android personas for NPC. This idea wasn't new, just never used on such a huge scale, since there were thousands, probably tens of thousands NPC in the whole game.\nNow the thought Ray was having was if PROJECT used android personas for bosses too. Or maybe just stronger monsters, though it was highly unlikely. Using an android persona on a monster would require too many resources. On top of that, the control on them would be a lot smaller. Even taking the NPC into account, controlling the android persona as a program wasn't as easy as doing it in the real world with androids since they had bodies build with control programs installed in each one. In PROJECT they had no physical bodies for that.\nRay wondered how PROJECT was still able to keep the personas under control, but he couldn't think of anything. It would be useless to ask an NPC itself.\n\"May I know what you want?\" Ray asked. He came to the conclusion that this boss had to be an android persona putten into the game. On top of that, it had lost the control as a system. Ray didn't know how, but somehow PROJECT had found a way to give the personas their will of thought while still keeping them under control. Such a thing was impossible in the real world. Even what was a persona was very rare knowledge.\n\"What makes you think I would want something from a petty human?\" It smiled and drew out the blade from Ray's stomach.\n\"We're having this conversation, are we not?\" The wound closed off. Ray sheathed his sword.\n\"Geez, straight to the point, huh? You seemed like to be more fun than that.\" It sounded disappointed. Ray could hear metal entering a sheath.\n\"I'm pretty sure it would be more fun if the gap between us wasn't that big.\" Ray sighed. There was no tension left between the two.\n\"It would, wouldn't it? But then again, there's always fun in crushing someone who's much weaker. You know what I mean?\" What a pitiful way of looking at it. Something like that was nothing more than bullying. Ray knew what he meant, that was probably his favorite way to have fun. These guys were too much alike. \"I wonder how someone like you entered here, though.\"\n\"I used a way I can't anymore.\" Ray shrugged. \"So, will you tell me what you want from me or not?\" Ray opened his window. Before, he only had ten minutes left. The time limit was now at zero. However, until the person leaves the boss room, he couldn't be forcefully logged out.\n\"Long story short, I want you to let me out of this room.\" The boss said.\nLet out? Ray thought. It was beyond strange. No, maybe it wasn't that odd if he truly had his freedom of will and thought. Still, a boss leaving the boss room? To where?\n\"And the long story?\" Ray needed more information. Not that he was considering the offer. As long as he doesn't get killed, he didn't really care. He wanted to leave here as well.\n\"Look, a knight locked me up here as a joke, said it's house arrest. She never came back, been here ever since. That's all there is to it.\" It obviously wasn't all, but it seemed like asking further would not get much more than that.\n\"Fine, so how do I let you out?\" Ray asked. \"It's not like I can simply open the door, right?\"\n\"Well, considering how you came in out of nowhere, I thought you could.\" It laughed. \"I'm not sure now, but we might still give it a shot, right? Come, this way.\" The boss walked further into the darkness. Ray followed.\n\"Here.\" Ray felt a hand on his shoulder. They walked around three hundred meters and got to another wall. \"This is the door.\" The boss slightly pushed Ray on the back.\nRay stretched out his hand and touched the door. It was made from some kind of wood. It was most likely a double door, large enough to fit a carriage. He tried pushing them. A window popped up in front of Ray. It asked if he wanted to leave the room. Ray pressed the 'yes' option. The window closed and the door started slowly opening.\nWas that it? That was way too easy, though it made sense once Ray thought about it more. Players can enter freely and leave as long as they aren't in combat. This meant that someone doesn't have to defeat the boss, just to leave the combat. Also, since this was most likely only available to players, the boss, who was, as Ray guessed, on the same ground as an NPC, could not use this option.\n\"That's all?\" Ray asked as he turned around. There was no one behind him. The light that came into the hall lit up empty floor. Even further, there seemed to be nothing in the room. The only thing that stood out were what seemed to be claw marks all over the floor. Almost looked like an ornament. Still, not how he imagined the boss rooms would be.\n\"I owe you.\" Came a voice from the outside. Ray looked around. There seemed to be a silhouette behind one of the trees near the entrance. When did he get there? With speed like that, there was a way bigger difference between them than Ray had imagined. \"I'll see you again.\" The boss laughed and wanted to leave for good, but stopped. \"Your name, what is it?\"\n\"Sunray. Just Ray is fine.\" Ray answered.\n\"Ray, huh.\"The silhouette walked away.\n\"And you?\" Ray shouted though he could no longer see the boss.\n\"Tanatos.\" Came the last voice from as far away as Ray could hear.\n\u00a9 Copyright 2019 July Kimono. 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While most elderly people don't want to become financially dependent on their children, some four in 10 families...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 8751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 206.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boucherrealestate.com/buyer-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PN6RJX4DVM4J24ODQPQHBTEC5MF6R6LP", "length": 371, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.boucherrealestate.com", "title": "Buyer Resources - Boucher Real Estate", "raw_content": "Our real estate agents can help guide you through each step of the buying process, offering sound advice along the way. By working with a professional agent who knows the ins and outs of the real estate industry, you\u2019ll not only end up with a great home, but you\u2019ll also walk away with a great experience.\nHere are some of the key areas that our agents can help you with:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/border/2017/04/29/mexican-nationals-arrested-sex-money-underage-girls-bust/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JSQEKXSWXQG7UHXY5VCBKSE7QKUOPLRV", "length": 2765, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.breitbart.com", "title": "Mexican Nationals Arrested in Sex-for-Money With Underage Girls Bust", "raw_content": "Mexican Nationals Arrested in Sex-for-Money With Underage Girls Bust\nMugshots: Carter County Jail\n29 Apr 2017 Knoxville, TN\nThe Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), human trafficking unit, busted two Mexican nationals for allegedly having sex with two teenage females (ages 14 and 17) in exchange for money.\nBreitbart Texas contacted the Carter County jail and verified that the men are Mexican nationals with no U.S. identification documents. Breitbart Texas also contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to determine if enforcement officers issued an immigration detainer and the immigration status of the two suspects. Officials could not immediately respond to this inquiry.\nTBI investigators arrested Robelio E. Flores-Rivera (26) and Adan O. Vasquez-Rodriguez (34) and transported them to the Carter County jail in Tennessee. Both are in the jail on a $50,000 bond, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas from TBI officials.\nAuthorities charged Flores-Rivera with aggravated statutory rape, solicitation of a minor, and patronizing prostitution of a minor.\nInvestigators also charged Vasquez-Rodriguez with statutory rape, solicitation of a minor, and patronizing prostitution of a minor.\nTBI officials responded to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas and spokesperson Leslie Earhart wrote in an email, \u201cAt this time, we do not have any information to suggest they are connected to an international trafficking organization, however, our investigation remains active and ongoing.\u201d\nThe Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Human Trafficking Unit received information from the Knoxville Police Department on Sunday about a possible human trafficking case with two young females. The unit determined the location of the alleged crime \u2013 a motel in Elizabethton on Highway 19E.\nSpecial agents from the unit worked with the Elizabethton Police Department, the First Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office headquartered in Washington County and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The District Attorney\u2019s Office serves Washington, Unicoi, Carter and Johnson counties.\nAdditional charges may be brought depending on the outcome of further investigation.\nThe arrests were part of \u201cTennessee\u2019s efforts to hold traffickers accountable,\u201d according to a TBI statement. Officials say the state \u201cleads the nation in its approach to addressing human trafficking.\u201d Their website reports that the state has \u201cproactive legislative efforts,\u201d \u201ccomprehensive research projects,\u201d and \u201can informed, multi-faceted\u201d approach that \u201ccontinues to evolve.\u201d\nThe state\u2019s website, www.ItHasToStop.com has resources, including information on how to spot human traffickers.\nBorder / Cartel ChroniclesPoliticsChild RapeCrimes by Illegal Immigrantsstatutory rape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/tag/president-moon-jae-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZALVTMSQQYPJS26DJFAXWGNY7RKIVHGQ", "length": 3314, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.breitbart.com", "title": "President Moon Jae-in Articles - Breitbart", "raw_content": "South Korea Baffled by End to U.S. Joint Military Exercises: \u2018We Need to Figure Out\u2019 Meaning\nThe government of South Korea issued a statement Tuesday expressing confusion regarding President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that he would end joint military exercises with Seoul as part of an agreement with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.\nTrump Not Happy with China Trade Talks: \u2018They\u2019re a Start\u2019\nPresident Donald Trump sat with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Tuesday as he told the press he was not happy with how trade talks with China have gone.\nWatch: Dem Rep Meeks Repeatedly Refuses to Give Trump Credit for North Korea Negotiations\nThursday on CNN\u2019s \u201cNewsroom,\u201d Rep. 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The charges carry a combined sentence of up to 45 years in prison.\nSouth Korean President Wants U.S. to \u2018Lower Bar for Dialogue\u2019 with North Korea\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday urged the United States and North Korea to lower their conditions for negotiations to take place.\nSouth Koreans Divided over Proposed Summit Between President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un\nSouth Korean politicians and analysts are divided over North Korea\u2019s proposal for a summit between dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang. 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Art often works as a mirror; it can offer the viewer a different look at his or her surroundings. This process by itself can be refreshing and eye opening.\u201d\n-\tJeanne Krabbendam, Visual Artist and Instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design\nWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome back Emily Carr University of Art + Design instructor Jeanne Krabbendam and her students who are exhibiting a wide range of artwork in the Machine Shop now until May 2.\nWith international experience from Europe and local experience in Canada, Jeanne has been making and teaching art for many years. Jeanne offers mixed media courses in the Continuing Studies Program at Emily Carr where she has taught since 2006. As a successful practicing artist, she values teaching because she \u201clove[s] to the see students grow into their own style, finding their own way of building surface and applying paint and other materials.\u201d Jeanne also finds that when it comes to her students, she learns almost as much as she teaches.\nIn 2013, Jeanne and her students exhibited at the Britannia Mine Museum and it was a success. This year Jeanne has brought a new group of students and art back to the Museum under the theme \u201cBreaking Ground\u201d which fits nicely with Britannia Beach commemorating its 110th anniversary. Celebrating 110 years of discoveries, Britannia continues to be a site of renewal and beginnings as this is the first time that many of Jeanne\u2019s students have shown their artwork other than at school or to their family. In their own way, they are \u201cbreaking ground\u201d and making a start with their art careers. Like any artist, it is important for Emily Carr students to exhibit their work. Jeanne notes that offering your art work to the larger public \u201cgives you as a student the opportunity to show 'the world' what you are doing [and] to get feedback from people who don't know you, who have never seen your work. This might also help to get your name as an artist out, which of course will bring recognition in the art world.\u201d\nThe specific environment of the Museum makes it an exciting place to exhibit. Although the platform and red walls in the Machine Shop are designated as exhibit spaces, Jeanne points out that it is not the traditional white cube that is found in most galleries where people shuffle from room to room. Jeanne finds the Museum a \u201clively\u201d place and is eager to offer people art where they don\u2019t expect it. She believes that \u201cart may open their eyes to other details hidden in the museum and beyond\u201d and that by using materials that \u201cactually are found in the mountain\u201d, people may be inspired and think more about their direct environment. Pieces in the exhibit were carefully chosen based on their links to the Museum\u2019s content, to history, geology and the theme of \u201cBreaking Ground\u201d. \u201cAs my classes are focused on mixing materials and using less traditional tools and materials, I chose pieces that represent this strongly\u201d says Jeanne.\nThe Museum is hosting a series of Artist Talks with Jeanne and her students on Saturday, April 26 from 2:00 \u2013 4:30 PM. This event is free for members or with regular admission. Museum visitors will have the opportunity to listen to these emerging artists talk about how they started, what influences them and why they created the pieces seen in the exhibit. Visitors will also have the chance to ask artists questions and will hopefully leave with some insight on the life of an artist and what is involved in creating art.\nInterested in learning more about why the Britannia Mine Museum exhibits artwork? Check out this blog post: Why Exhibit Art in an History Museum?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britanniaminemuseum.ca/Blog/whats-better-than-rusty-trackers-dinosaurs", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:O5LTXJL5W36A7Z6W5JPGLKJBFINI45VL", "length": 2482, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.britanniaminemuseum.ca", "title": "What's better than rusty trackers? Dinosaurs!", "raw_content": "What's better than rusty trackers? Dinosaurs!\nPosted on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 by Michael Wilcox - Lead Interpreter, Programming\nI love to tell this story whenever I get a chance.\nI remember when I started at the museum. It was the middle of summer, we had hundreds of visitors streaming through everyday. I barely had time to catch my breath. Inevitably, the winter comes and it slows down. This affords the museum with an opportunity to catch our bearings and tidy up lose ends. It was the middle of November and I was looking for something to do. I noticed our former Public Programmer working in one of our archives. I went in and asked if he needed a hand with anything. While moving some boxes, I exposed an old crate. On closer inspection, I discovered a stone inside. Within that stone, was a Dinosaur Footprint!\nWell, I sprinted out of the archives, searching out our Curator to inform her of my discovery. I popped my head into her office, and with a smile that could rival a child's on Christmas morning, let her know the good news. She was aware that we had it but was concerned that it did not work well with any of our current displays. My response, \"But, it's a Dinosaur Footprint\" to which she re-iterated; it just does not fit the theme. \"But, but, but... It's a Dinosaur Footprint!\". The conversation continued for awhile; I think I might have repeated my statement a dozen times.\nAlas, it was not going to happen. To be fair, it was early on in my museum career. I failed to recognize that it was not properly mounted and I did not fully understand the truly thorough planning that is required when designing an exhibit or display. It also needed to be kept in a safe, secure location. And rightfully so, an artifact as cool as this one needed to be appropriately displayed with proper interpretation. That childish boyhood exuberance had taken hold as it so often does with me.\nHappily though, last year, we re-modeled our classroom with a grant from the Canadian Geological Foundation. The classroom was designed with an Earth Science focus, and finally presented an opportunity to display the Dinosaur Footprint. It's cleverly located, rather hidden on a side wall. While conducting the school programs, I enjoy sitting back, and letting the children find it on their own. I did not believe I could replicate the joy from the discovery of that stone, until I got the pleasure to witness kids find it for themselves. Even now, it brings a smile to my face.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Winchelsea", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GXGJCXTLATXA772CJHQTY7PF64EGBVLX", "length": 2233, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Winchelsea | historic place, England, United Kingdom | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "historic place, England, United Kingdom\nWinchelsea, place in Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, with historical importance as a former English Channel port and as an example of medieval town planning. Old Winchelsea, reputed to have consisted of 700 houses, 50 inns, and numerous churches, was destroyed by the sea in 1287. New Winchelsea was then built by Edward I (reigned 1272\u20131307) on higher ground and was laid out in a grid pattern, with the Church of St. Thomas Becket at the centre. Three town gates still stand. From the 12th century Winchelsea was one of the Cinque Ports. Marshes adjoin the spur on which the new town was built. Until the 15th century these were a sea inlet that provided a good harbour, but during the 16th century the inlet became silted up, destroying the port. Only a small village remains.\nWinchelsea: church of St. Thomas BecketChurch of St. Thomas Becket, Winchelsea, East Sussex, Eng. Andrew Skudder\nRother, district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. Bexhill is the administrative seat. Rother is a mainly rural district in the easternmost part of Sussex surrounding (but not including) the borough of Hastings. It extends along the English Channel coast for\u2026\nEast Sussex, administrative and geographic county of southeastern England, bordering the English Channel. The county\u2019s administrative centre is in the town of Lewes. The administrative county is divided into the following districts: Eastbourne and Hastings (both boroughs), and Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. In addition to those\u2026\nSussex, historic county of southeastern England, covering a coastal area along the English Channel south of London. For administrative purposes, Sussex is divided into the administrative counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove.\u2026\nCinque Ports, (French: Five Ports) medieval confederation of English Channel ports in southeastern England, formed to furnish ships and men for the king\u2019s service. To the original five ports\u2014Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney, and Hastings\u2014were later added the \u201cancient towns\u201d of Winchelsea and Rye with the privileges of \u201chead ports.\u201d\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 141.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britmovie.co.uk/forum/main-forum/can-you-name-this-film/53947-ww2-movies", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ISQI4F4ASVP72QNQS36FBMVRSRE3WGKY", "length": 1663, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.britmovie.co.uk", "title": "WW2 movies - Forums", "raw_content": "WW2 movies\nI'm looking for a movie from 60s or 70s about World War 2 - Black-and-white films ? - 2 prisoners of war are brought to the German officer's house for defuse a bomb has fallen on the house they work hard with success but at the end, They blow up the bombs with German officers\nnext movie - 70s or 80s - about cold war and spy from West Germany . 20 years after war, A security officer is threatened by K.G.B that they will expose his past, if he won't disclose military secrets . in flashback shown how a German lieutenant defies the order of bridge explosion while people are still on the bridge . he kills superior for rescue people and hides this .but this is threat factor in the present .finally he chooses another way\nLast edited by Bogart; 15th February 2018, 05:52 PM.\nYour cold-war film could be one with Beau Bridges. I have searched for the title myself having only seen the film once - it was in a B&B I stayed in (in the room for in-house entertainment) and it must have been a B movie as it was one of those given away free with certain Sunday newspapers at the time. Sorry I can't be more help, but if I find the title I'll be back.\nIs the first one 'Ten Seconds to Hell' (1959)?\n\"After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.\" (IMDb summary)\nAnthony McKay commented\nNot 'Ten Seconds to Hell' - this is a post-war film with a crew of Germans employed by the Allied powers to defuse British bombs around Berlin - for the relatively good wages - the film concentrates on the rivalries that develop between the various members of the crew as their luck inevitably, starts to run out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.broaderview.org/process", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PQVWVGBXVQND4AUUPS5DQLWGWJVT2QUH", "length": 37026, "nlines": 286, "source_domain": "www.broaderview.org", "title": "Broader View: Political Process", "raw_content": "Peace: The Missing Israeli Election Issue by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 10, 2019\nProposal would split Israel from Palestinians \u2013 but don\u2019t call it a peace plan by Judah Ari Gross, The Times of Israel, October 8, 2018 (see also The INSS Plan: A Political-Security Framework for the Israeli-Palestinian Arena and rebuttal: Warmed-over withdrawal syndrome by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, October 12, 2018\nAmos Yadlin and the INSS think tank urge Israel to take independent action to remain \u2018Jewish, democratic, secure and ethical\u2019 and prevent \u2018existential threat\u2019 of binational state. \u201cThe right fell in love with the status quo. The left fell in love with an unachievable peace.\u201d\nA Silver Jubilee for False Promises by Amir Taheri, Asharq Al-Awsat, September 14, 2018\nOslo Didn\u2019t Fail by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, September 20, 2018\nThe Oslo Accords according to the Palestinian Authority \u2013 25 years in review, Palestinian Media Watch, September 13, 2018\nThe Oslo handshake, 25 years on by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, September 5, 2018\nIsrael 25 Years after the Oslo Accords: Why Did Rabin Fall for Them? by Efraim Karsh, Middle East Quarterly Volume 25: Number 4, Fall 2018\nWhy Israelis Shy from Victory by Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2018\nTaking an Axe to the \u201cPeace Process\u201d by Shoshana Bryen, Jewish Policy Center, August 29, 2018\nThe IOI \u2014 \u2018If Only Israel\u2019 \u2014 Syndrome by David Harris, The Times of Israel, July 18, 2018\nThe Key To Middle East Peace Is An Arab-Israeli Peace Process by Shoshana Bryen, The Daily Caller, March 16, 2018\nThe empty talk of two states by Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, March 6, 2018\nEndorsing the traditional formula for peace was smart politics for AIPAC, but that doesn\u2019t make it a realistic option for the foreseeable future.\nA Two-State Solution for Israel and the Palestinians Is Closer Than You Think by Ami Ayalon, Gilead Sher and Orni Petruschka, Washington Post, February 28, 2018\nIn Praise of a Dismal Status Quo by Jonathan S. Tobin, The New York Jewish Week, January 23, 2018 (see also: Israel and the Palestinians Need the Status Quo by Shalom Lipner, Foreign Policy, January 23, 2018)\nIsrael has proven that it can afford to wait for peace. Rather than being weakened, it has grown stronger and despite the hate of BDS groups and other foes, there\u2019s no reason why that won\u2019t continue. As much as those that love it would prefer that the wait not continue, for lack of better options, that\u2019s the only real choice Israel has. Hard as it may be to accept, Abbas has made it clear the status quo is still the best of all available current options.\nKhaled Abu Toameh on the Life of a Pro-Israeli Arab-Muslim, Frontpagemag.com, December 20, 2017\nAward-winning journalist reveals why the peace process is at a standstill at Restoration Weekend.\nReimagining a more realistic \u201cpeace process\u201d by Clifford D. May, The Washington Times, December 20, 2017\nA Down Payment for Peace by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, December 7, 2017\nThe Perilous Status of the Palestinian Mission in Washington by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, November 21, 2017\nThe Essential Principles for Israel in Negotiating with Saudi Arabia and the Arab World by Dr. Mordechai Kedar, November 21, 2017\nTime for a peace process paradigm change by Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, November 17, 2017\nBuilding a Better U.S. Peace Plan by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, October 26, 2017\nTrump Tries a New Tack on the Peace Process by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 25, 2017\nObama\u2019s Israel Ambassador: The Two-State Solution Remains The Best Option, But We Need To Plan In Case It Fails by Daniel Shapiro, Tablet, August 29, 2017\nAmerican interests will be worse off without two states. But it\u2019s time to consider how we might make the best of that bad situation.\nWhere is Israel? by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, August 15, 2017\nRecognizing a Palestinian State before a Peace Agreement with Israel Undermines the International Rule of Law by Peter Wertheim, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 17, No. 22, August 13, 2017\nAddressing the Paths Available to President Trump\u2019s Israel-Palestine Efforts by Anthony V. John, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, July 28, 2017\nStop Infantilizing the Palestinians by David Harris, The Times of Israel, July 25, 2017\nTrump Is In Danger of Pulling a Reverse Obama by Ilan Goldenberg, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, July 7, 2017\nConstructive ambiguity has not worked. Peace needs constructive specificity by Einat Wilf, Fathom, June 15, 2017 [see also video, Fathom Forum with Einat Wilf (23\u201903\u201d), June 19, 2017]\n50 Years of Palestinian Rejection by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 8, 2017\nWe Are on the Verge of Another Round of Final Status Negotiations\u2014And That Is Not Good News by Ilan Goldenberg, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, June 1, 2017\nThe Over-Dramatization of Israel\u2019s \u201cDilemma\u201d by Dr. Max Singer, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 479, May 28, 2017\nThe Abbas White House Meeting by Col. (Ret.) Dr. Eran Lerman, AJC.org, May 5, 2017\n[W]hen an American administration is seen as sympathetic to Israel, Jerusalem may be more likely to compromise; and Abbas, for his part, can legitimately explain to his people that in a Trump administration they need to settle for less than their most extreme demands.\nDon\u2019t Tell These Israelis That Peace Is Impossible by Daniel Gordis, Bloomberg, April 23, 2017\nIsraeli leaders Gideon Sa\u2019ar, Moshe Ya\u2019alon, and Micah Goodman each have a vision for peace with the Palestinians.\nThe Israel-Palestinian Peace Process Has Been a Massive Charade by Daniel Pipes, Mosaic, April 10, 2017\nSo long as rejectionism runs rampant, debates about one-, two-, and three-state solutions, about carving up the Temple Mount into dual sovereign areas, or about electricity grids and water supplies, are for naught. There can be no resolution so long as most Palestinians dream of obliterating the Jewish state. Indeed, this makes negotiations counterproductive.\nSquaring the Regional Solution Circle by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, April 6, 2017\nPeople who want to intelligently discuss the prospects for a wider regional peace should minimally understand what it would involve. [\u2026.] If the regional solution is to materialize, it will involve a better appreciation not only of what is possible, but what is necessary.\nThe Opposite of a Two-State Solution Is Not One State by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, March 20, 2017\nEstablishing a Culture of Peace by Joel Braunold, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, March 2, 2017\nWhile a culture of peace cannot survive in the absence of a political horizon, a political horizon cannot be created without a population who believes that peace is possible.\nInside the Black Box of Israeli-Palestinian Talks by Michael Herzog, The American Interest, February 27, 2017 (see also In politely devastating critique, Israeli negotiator skewers Kerry for dooming peace talks by Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel, March 2, 2017; Kerry\u2019s knee-capping of Israel by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, March 9, 2017)\nAll sides failed in the most recent round of negotiations\u2014but there was an opportunity for real progress. Take it from someone who was there.\nThe Arab-Israel Conflict: Back to the Future by Shoshana Bryen, Jewish Policy Center, February 16, 2017 (see also \u201cTwo-State, One-State\u201d: The Difference Matters by David Harris, The Huffington Post, February 16, 2017\nThere Never Was a Two-State Solution; It\u2019s Time to Move On by Mitchell Bard, The Algemeiner, January 19, 2017\nFor Peace in Palestine, Start from Scratch by Mario Loyola, The National Review, January 4, 2017\nIs a peace deal possible if Israelis and Palestinians simply don\u2019t trust each other? by Joel Braunold and Sarah Yerkes, Brookings Institution, January 3, 2017\nCould the \u2018Jewish State of Israel\u2019 crack one of the conflict\u2019s hardest nuts? by Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel, January 2, 2017\nFocusing on All the Wrong Issues by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, December 23, 2016\nThe Way to Peace: Israeli Victory, Palestinian Defeat by Daniel Pipes, Commentary, December 14, 2016\nThe indefatigable, well-intentioned secretary couldn\u2019t have cut a deal, but he could have made progress\nPeace Now! Israeli Rightist Style by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 17, 2016\nWill Trump Defy \u2018Experts\u2019 on Israel? by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 12, 2016\nPalestinian campaign vs Balfour shows hostility to Jewish state undimmed after 100 years by David Horovitz, The Times of Israel, October 25, 2016\nNetanyahu always claims Palestinian opposition to Jewish sovereignty anywhere, not just to occupation and settlements, lies at the root of the conflict. The PA\u2019s new battle against a century-old British declaration sadly proves his point\nThe Israeli-Palestinian Arena \u2013 what could be done short of an agreement by Michael Herzog, Fathom, Autumn 2016\nHow Obama Can Still Advance Mideast Peace by Robert Sugarman, The Jewish Week, October 19, 2016\nThe Limits of Parameters by Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, September 30, 2016\nA Candid Speech from President Abbas by Elliot Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations, September 25, 2016\nAnalysis of the speech of President Abbas to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2016\nWhy the Oslo Process Doomed Peace by Efraim Karsh, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2016\nSideline Russia from Israeli-Palestinian Peace by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, September 1, 2016\nIsraeli West Bank policy \u2013 whereto? by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, August 19, 2016\nIsrael, the Palestinian Authority, and Barriers to Peace, Congressional Testimony by David Pollock, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 6, 2016\nSunshine and Rain by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, June 30, 2016\nThe Peace Process Enabled Hate by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 23, 2016\nTrust and Partners by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, June 9, 2016\nFrench Political Gymnastics & How to Help the Palestinians by Shoshana Bryen, Gatestone Institute, May 24, 2016\n\u2018Peace\u2019: A Deceptive and Dictatorial Word by Martin Sherman, The Algemeiner, May 20, 2016\nHope and Security \u2013 Toward Two States by Rabbi Kafuman, We Are for Israel, May 20, 2016\nThe Peace Process Is an Obstacle to Peace by Michael Mandelbaum, Commentary, April 14, 2016\nIsrael\u2019s Five Policy Options Regarding Judea and Samaria by Prof. Hillel Frisch, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, March 29, 2016\nThe Perfect and the Good by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, February 11, 2016\nWhat Israel Should Do to Lay the Groundwork for Peace by Reuven Rivlin, The Washington Post, December 8, 2015\n8 steps to peaceful two-state solution by Uri Savir, Al-Monitor, November 29, 2015\nAbu Mazen\u2019s Opposition to Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State: Strategic Implications by Shmuel Even, The Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 762, November 4, 2015\nThe Middle East \u201cPeace Process\u201d \u2013 Oh No, Not Again by Shoshana Bryen, Jewish Policy Center, October 19, 2015\nDilemmas of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse by Nathan Sachs, The Brookings Institution, September 17, 2015\nThe Two-State Solution Is in Stalemate. Here\u2019s What Israel Can Do to Prevail. by Evelyn Gordon, Mosaic, September 1, 2015\nLessons from two decades of \u201cpeace process\u201d failure, and from the Cold War, and some sensible, pragmatic policy prescriptions.\nLooking Ahead at Middle East \u201cPeace\u201d by Shoshana Bryen, Gatestone Institute, August 17, 2015\nWhy Palestinians Cannot Make Peace with Israel by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, July 13, 2015\nThe Palestinian Leadership\u2019s Regression in the Peace Process by Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 15, No. 20, July 1, 2015\n\u201cThe Middle East peace process\u201d? High time for a new name by David Harris, The Times of Israel, June 21, 2015\nFormer US peace Negotiator: Obama\u2019s errors have distanced peace by Gil Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post, May 28, 2015\nEight Words from President Obama by David Harris, The Huffington Post, May 24, 2015\n[Israel-Palestine] Confederation Is the Key to Mideast Peace by Yossi Beilin, The New York Times, May 14, 2015\nSetting The Stage For Much-Needed Peace Talks by Peter A. Joseph and David A. Halperin (Israel Policy Forum), The Jewish Week, May 12, 2015\nCould Jordan-Palestine confederation be in the cards? by Uri Savir, Al-Monitor, May 10, 2015\nRethinking the Peace Process by David M. Weinberg, The Jerusalem Post, March 19, 2015\nThere is no diplomatic solution by Yoel Meltzer, Ynetnews.com, January 25, 2015\nThe time has come for Israel to throw off the constraints of adhering to politically correct policies that are clearly detrimental to its continued existence and start fighting for its survival.\nCountering punch-drunk Palestinians by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, January 8, 2015\nWhy the Diplomatic Intifada Will Fail by Aaron David Miller, Politico, January 4, 2015\n[D]iplomatic pressure by the Palestinians on the world stage isn\u2019t going to make it any easier to pursue a peace process trapped in limbo between a two-state solution too difficult to implement, on one hand, and still too important to abandon on the other.\nWhy Israeli-Palestinian Peace Failed by Roger Cohen, New York Times, December 24, 2014 (see also Tzipi Livni: Abbas Torpedoed Peace Process by David Gerstman, December 24, 2014)\nOnce Again, Palestinians Looking to Circumvent Negotiations With Israel Through U.N. by Daniel S. Mariaschin, The Algemeiner, December 23, 2014\nCan Israel, Palestine exist in one space? by Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor, December 19, 2014\nIn an interview with Al-Monitor, Dan Goldenblatt, co-CEO of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, presents his vision of two states in one space, arguing that this proposed solution could be accepted by both the Israeli right and the Palestinians.\nAbbas Shuts the Door to Negotiations with Israel by Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 14, No. 39, December 4, 2014\nLand for Death by Lee Smith, Tablet, November 19, 2014\nGaza War\u2019s Final Victim: Two-State Solution by Daniel Gordis, Bloomberg View, November 13, 2014\nIronically, those who insist on pushing for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are actually doing the Palestinians damage. [\u2026.] Strange as it may sound, in today\u2019s Middle East, those most anxious to see violence averted would be well-served to stop pressing for peace.\nKerry\u2019s three Israel-Palestinian options by Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor, October 16, 2014\nThe Obama administration objects to the Palestinian plan of turning to the UN for recognizing Palestine, thus hesitating between two options: a new outline based on former negotiations or a series of gestures and negotiations without a deadline.\nCan Israel, Palestine exist as parallel states on same land? by Arad Nir, Al-Monitor Israel Pulse, October 14, 2014\nContrary to what politicians on both sides are willing to admit, the Israeli and Palestinian people can live together side by side, and might accept an idea of having two parallel, \u201coverlapping\u201d states established on the same land.\nAbbas destroyed hopes of Israel\u2019s peace camp by Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor Israel Pulse, October 2, 2014\nIt\u2019s time to revive Netanyahu\u2019s \u2018economic peace\u2019 by Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2014\nSince Abbas is no partner, Israel should help try to produce one by David Horovitz, The Times of Israel, September 28, 2014\nRevolutionizing the peace process by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, September 12, 2014\nDid the Peace Process Cause the Gaza War? by Aaron Menenberg, The Tower Issue 17, August 2014\nThe war that Kerry and Indyk began by Gerald M. Steinberg, Israel Hayom, July 16, 2014\nThe One-State Solution Is on Our Doorstep by David P. Goldman, Tablet, July 14, 2014\nJohn Kerry\u2019s War by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, July 9, 2014\nHow Abbas Duped Kerry and Indyk by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, July 1, 2014\nIraq\u2019s Lessons for the Jordan Valley by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 27, 2014\nNobody to talk to by Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel, June 7, 2014\nWhy is Israel so bitterly opposing Abbas\u2019s new government, when it meets all of Netanyahu\u2019s long-standing demands?\nBeilin calls Obama \u2018serious disappointment\u2019 on peace talks by Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor Israel Pulse, May 29, 2014\nOpen a Middle Road to Mideast Peace by Dennis B. Ross, New York Times, May 22, 2014\nLet\u2019s Do Almost Nothing by Efraim Inbar, Israel Hayom, May 15, 2014\nThe Crisis in the Peace Talks Was Pre-Planned by the Palestinians by Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 9, April 10, 2014\nAudio: Peace Talks On Pause: What Went Wrong? (4\u201944\u201d), Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed on NPR\u2019s All Things Considered, May 7, 2014\nIn an exclusive interview, American officials directly connected to the talks reveal the real reason for the collapse of the negotiations.\nPalestinian-Israeli Talks: Time for a \u201cTime Out\u201d by Shai Feldman, National Interest, April 29, 2014\nWhat Washington Is Missing in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks by Michael Singh, Foreign Policy, April 15, 2014\nThe illusion of complacency in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by Geoffrey Aronson, Al Monitor Israel Pulse, March 26, 2014\nIt\u2019s always \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019 with the Israeli-Palestinian \u2018peace process\u2019 by Nicole Brackman and Asaf Romirowsky, Washington Examiner, March 23, 2014\nKerry\u2019s \u201cframework\u201d declaration is a bad idea by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, March 21, 2014.\nWhy Did Obama Meet With Abbas in Washington? by Lee Smith, Tablet, March 17, 2014\nArafat and the Jewish State: Setting the Record Straight by Amb. Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 14, No. 6, March 17, 2014\nThe Questions No One Asks by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, March 12, 2014\nAbbas Cannot Make Concessions on Any Core Issue by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, March 10, 2014\nThe Palestinians say that the real problem facing the peace process is the refusal of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to accept the fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not authorized to make any concessions on any of these core issues [Jerusalem, settlements, refugees and borders]. \u2026. Nabil Sha\u2019ath, a senior Palestinian official, reaffirmed the Palestinian position this week when he accused Israel of rejecting the \u201cfoundations for peace.\u201d Sha\u2019ath stressed that Israel\u2019s refusal to accept the Palestinian demands regarding the core issues would lead to the failure of the peace talks. Today it is clear that the Palestinian Authority is preparing to hold Israel responsible for the failure of the peace talks because of its refusal to comply with all of the Palestinians\u2019 demands.\nA Tale of Too Many Certainties by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2014\nOn the Eve of the Fourth Palestinian \u201cNo\u201d by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, February 6, 2014\nIs there no way out? by Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts, February 6, 2014\nWhy the Palestinians Refuse to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State by Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute, February 3, 2014\nThe peace process and the fear factor by Barry Shaw, The View from Israel, February 2, 2014\nMichael Oren misunderstands the obstacle to peace by Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2014\nWhy Kerry Is Scary by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, January 29, 2014 (see also, Kerry won\u2019t achieve much here, but it\u2019s not his fault by Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel, January 31, 2014)\nSeeing What Isn\u2019t There by Shoshana Bryen, Jewish Policy Center, January 28, 2014\nPalestinians\u2019 New Enemy: Tzipi Livni by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, January 27, 2014\nMiddle East Peace Process: America\u2019s Wishful Thinkers by Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute, January 22, 2014\nAbbas Denies His Authority to Make Cardinal Decisions for a Lasting Peace Agreement by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 13, 2014\n10 Roadblocks to Mideast Peace by Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics.com, December 31, 2013\nOne More Last Chance by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, December 30, 2013\nHamas: Abbas Does Not Represent the Palestinians in Negotiations by Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 31, 2013\nIsrael, Palestine, and Democracy by Eugene Kontorovich, Commentary, December 17, 2013\nPalestinian Red Line by Efraim Inbar, Israel Hayom, December 16, 2013\nPowerful Rivals don\u2019t disappear by Uri Resnick, Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2013\nThe Two-State Delusion by Mordechai Nisan, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2014\nPalestinians: We Want a Geneva Accord against Israel by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, December 3, 2013\nFrance\u2019s Peace Process Innovation by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 19, 2013\nSaving Kerry\u2019s Peace Plan by Yossi Beilin, New York Times, November 10, 2013\nThe nature of peacemaking according to Netanyahu by Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel, October 7, 2013\nMisunderstanding History by Rabbi Kaufman, We Are For Israel, September 30, 2013\nTwenty years after Oslo: peace now? by Toby Greene, Fathom, September 12, 2013\nPeace Talks: What Is Behind The Palestinian Message? by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, September 10, 2013\nGetting Caught Trying by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Herzl-Ner Tamid, September 5, 2013\nWhat Future for Israel? by Nathan Thrall, The New York Review of Books, August 15, 2013\nThe Peace Process\u2019s Turkey Problem by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, August 8, 2013\nA Fool\u2019s Errand Worth Pursuing by Fareed Zakaria, Time Magazine, August 5, 2013\nGetting in Touch with Our Inner Birthright by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, August 2, 2013\nSome Israelis Dread Peace Talks by Einat Wilf, Al-Monitor, August 1, 2013\nThe Five Flaws of Kerry\u2019s Mideast Peace Process by Noah Beck, The Christian Post, August 1, 2013\nRequiem for the Peace Process by Lee Smith, Weekly Standard, July 31, 2013\nVideo: US Sec State determined to broker Mid-East peace, Daniel Pipes interviewed on \u201cThe Arena\u201d with Michael Coren, Sun News Network, July 23, 2013\nStrategic Shifts in the Middle East by Yuval Steinitz, Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 13, No. 18, July 1, 2013\nIt\u2019s Time to Tell the Truth About the \u201cPeace Process\u201d by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, June 27, 2013\nTime to Change the Israel Conversation by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, June 21, 2013 [see also rebuttal, It\u2019s time for truth about the two-state solution by Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, June 24, 2013]\nPalestinians Need Tough Talk From Europe by David Makovsky, New York Times, June 14, 2013\nPerils of peace conferences by Aaron David Miller, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2013\nMore Peace, Less Process: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations by Ben Cohen, The Algemeiner, May 28, 2013\nIt\u2019s Not About the Peace Process, but About Peace as a Value by Donniel Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, April 14, 2013\nPlease\u2026 Draw Me a State by Shmuel Rosner, New York Times, April 3, 2013: \u201cObama\u2019s shift from freezing settlements to drawing borders creates new problems for Israel.\u201d\nWhen there is no peace by Zalman Shoval, Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2013\nResetting the peace process by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, March 17, 2013\nThe End of the Two-State Solution: Why the window is closing on Middle-East peace by Ben Birnbaum, New Republic, March 11, 2013\nTo Achieve Mideast Peace, Suspend Disbelief by Dennis B. Ross, New York Times, March 2, 2013: A 14-point plan to achieve incremental progress, without a comprehensive end-of-conflict agreement\nThe Peace Process After the Israeli Election by Shlomo Avineri, Foreign Affairs, January 25, 2013\nMissing Peace by Douglas Feith, Foreign Policy, January 21, 2013\nMurdered Diplomacy: How the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Has Been Transformed by Barry Rubin, PJ Media, January 16, 2013\nWe Gave Peace a Chance by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2013\nIsraelis Lose Faith In International Guarantees by Evelyn Gordon, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, January 9, 2013\nThe Window of Opportunity has closed by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden, We Are for Israel, December 22, 2012\nA Strategy for Peace with the Palestinians by Max Singer, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University. November 1, 2012 [pdf]\nNegotiations between Israel and the Palestinians up to now have been about the destruction of Israel, not a long-term peace.\nThe Truth About the Peace Process Danny Ayalon, August 2012\nRedesigning the Peace Process by Richard Landes, Tablet, September 25, 2012: \u201cIgnoring cultural difference and overestimating politics has left us without a resolution. We can do better.\u201d\nPalestinian Statehood Could Be Escape Strategy: Israel Needs a Plan Beyond Years of Stalling on Talks by J.J. Goldberg, Forward, August 14, 2012\nIs the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process Dead? by Barry Rubin, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, July 1, 2012\nIsrael at Peace by Daniel Pipes, The Dorchester Review, Spring/Summer 2012\nThe war terminates either when Arabs accept the sovereign Jewish state or when Israelis give up the Zionist project. It ultimately comes down to a raw question of which side will first crush the other\u2019s will. The alternatives are stark and dual; efforts at mitigation actually only postpone a resolution.\nThe Palestinian tragedy mustn\u2019t be used to spark a Jewish one by Ari Shavit, Haaretz, May 17, 2012\nPresent lines, not those of 1967, should be basis of negotiations by Ira Sharkansky, San Diego Jewish World, March 25, 2012\nThe End of the \u201cPeace Process\u201d? by Tal Becker, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Notes No. 10, March 2012\nA New, Realistic Peace Is Needed by Ari Shavit, Haaretz, February 9, 2012\nNo More \u2018Peace Talks,\u2019 Please by Shoshana Bryen, Pajamas Media, February 2, 2012: \u201cThe Arab-Israeli conflict has no clear parameters for resolution.\u201d\nIsrael\u2019s Cold War blues by Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2011: \u201cIsraelis won\u2019t say it, but a Cold-War paradigm is the way to fix the Palestinian conflict.\u201d\nRabin\u2019s Legacy and the Trouble with \u201cPeace\u201d by Tal Becker, Shalom Hartman Institute, November 9, 2011\nWe live in a region with powerful militant actors, dysfunctional governments, and deep, systemic problems. To speak of a \u201cpeace agreement\u201d as a kind of cure-all is to create expectations that cannot be met. [\u2026.] Even at best, an agreement does not create peace; it creates the space for peace to grow.\nThe Mideast deal that could have been by David Ignatius, Washington Post, October 26, 2011\nThe End of Land for Peace? by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 6, 2011\nA Strategy for Israel in the Changed Middle East by Efraim Halevy, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11., No. 11, August 2, 2011\nIt\u2019s time to park the peace process by Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, July 11, 2011\n\u201cLand Swaps\u201d and the 1967 Lines by Dore Gold, The Weekly Standard, June 20, 2011\nThe Virtues of Folding by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, May 30, 2011\n[President Obama] \u2014 perhaps with the best intentions and the worst analysis \u2014 has made a complex situation more complicated. But the preponderance of blame surely rests with the locals\u2019 incapacity and unwillingness to get real and serious about what it would take to reach an agreement.\nThe End of the \u201cPeace Process\u201d by Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations, May 6, 2011\nAbbas vs. Obama by Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2011 [also available as pdf file]\nIsrael\u2019s Requirements for Defensible Borders In a Rapidly Changing Middle East by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 5, 2011\nThe Palestinian UN Gamble \u2013 Irresponsible and Ill-Advised by Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 10, No. 34, April 3, 2011\nAre the Palestinians Ready for Peace? Palestinian Incitement as a Violation of International Legal Norms by Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, JCPA Issue Brief Vol. 10, No. 32, March 22, 2011\nThe Peace Plan Israel Needs by Elliot Jager, Jewish Ideas Daily, March 15, 2011\n[I]nstead of allowing Europe and the Obama administration to railroad it into concessions that will deliver neither peace nor security nor even short-term diplomatic breathing space, Israel\u2019s better course may well be to engage in a forthright internal dialogue aimed at strengthening an already existing consensus in support of a plan yielding a state for the Palestinian Arabs and real security for Israel. Toward that end, the government might present to the electorate a revised, fully detailed version of Ya\u2019alon\u2019s blueprint and seek a clear mandate for its implementation\u2014if need be, by means of new elections.\nA Plan for Peace That Still Could Be by Bernard Avishai, New York Times, February 7, 2011\nImagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky, with Sheli Chabon and Jennifer Logan, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 2011 [see also interactive map depicting various land-swap options]\nThe impossible is indeed achievable. Middle East negotiators can adjust Israel\u2019s borders to include the large majority of West Bank settlers and still meet Palestinian Authority territorial demands. This proposition \u2014 stemming from principles the two parties have repeatedly expressed as well as current realities on the ground \u2014 may guide leaders and diplomats in the coming months as they seek to advance the peace process.\nWhy Isn\u2019t Obama Pressuring the Palestinians? by Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy, January 4, 2011\nEnd the \u201cPeace Process\u201d and Move On, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), JINSA Report #1,045, December 10, 2010\nBleak House by Benny Morris, Tablet, December 2, 2010: \u201cThe prospects for a Palestinian state have rarely been more grim.\u201d\nThe Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations \u2013 A Current Overview by C. Jacob and L. Barkan, The Middle East Media Research Institute, Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No.637, September 22, 2010\nWhy the Washington process collapsed, BitterLemons.org, October 18, 2010\nDoomed to failure? by Ghassan Khatib\nPlenty of blame to spread around by Yossi Alpher\nLike a soldier without weapons: An interview with Ahmed Yousef\nWhy it can\u2019t succeed by Mordechai Kedar\nFive myths about Middle East peace by Aaron David Miller, Washington Post, October 3, 2010 [rebuttal to Miller\u2019s #3 by Yisrael Medad, My Right Word, here]\nThree Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace by Robert Satloff, Foreign Policy, September 13, 2011\nYour move, Mr. Abbas by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, September 10, 2010\nArabs vs. the Abdullah Plan by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2010\nIsrael\u2019s Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace\nMr. President, Don\u2019t Pray for Anything You Really Don\u2019t Want by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, July 28, 2010 (on the futility of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations)\nConstructive Clarity in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations by Benny Begin, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 7, 2010\nThe Palestine Peace Distraction by Richard N. Haass, Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2010\nThe Future of an Illusion: A piece of paper will not bring peace to the Middle East by Elliott Abrahams, The Weekly Standard, Vol. 15, No. 28, April 5, 2010\nThe Palestinians: Why Negotiate? The US Will Extract Concessions For You by Mark Silverberg, Hudson New York, April 1, 2010\nArmistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine by Ehud Yaari, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010\n\u201cI Will Not Back Down\u201d: Interview with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Der Speigel, February 7, 2010\nThe Process Will Resume, But Why? by Yossi Alpher, BitterLemons.org, January 18, 2010\nSobering up on Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, January 7, 2010\nThe Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 2010\nWhy Abbas Does Not Want To Resume Peace Talks by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, December 29, 2009\nThe Mideast Peace Deal You Haven\u2019t Heard About by Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy, December 18, 2009\nIsrael & Palestine: Can They Start Over? by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, No. 19, December 3, 2009\nBuilding Peace Without Obama\u2019s Interference by Tom Gross, Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2009\nStuck in Neutral? Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process by Robert Satloff, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1601: Special Forum Report, November 13, 2009\nHussein Ibish on the Fantasy World of One-Staters by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, November 3, 2009\nThe doomed Mideast \u2018peace process\u2019 by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, October 14, 2009\nPrime Minister Salam Fayyad\u2019s Two-Year Path to Palestinian Statehood: Implications for the Palestinian Authority and Israel by Dan Diker and Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 9, No. 11, October 2, 2009\nPeace Process or War Process? by Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2009\nOslo Revisited: Are the Fundamental Assumptions Still Valid? by Zaki Shalom, The Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 122, August 7, 2009\nHow Israel Hopes to Achieve Peace with the Palestinians by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister\u2019s Office, July 21, 2009\nWhy No Progress in the Peace Process for the Past Eight Years? by Rick Richman, Commentary, July 14, 2009\nA blow to the chances for peace by Yossi Alpher, BitterLemons.com, June 29, 2009\nHamas offers Israel the peace of the grave by Charles Krauthammer, Seattle Times, May 8, 2009\nDo the Palestinians Really Want a State? by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic, April 21, 2009 [Reviews and applies Jakub Grygiel\u2019s \u201cThe Power of Statelessness: the Withering Appeal of Governing\u201d (Policy Review April/May 2009).]\nChief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat: Abu Mazen Rejected the Israeli Proposal in Annapolis Like Arafat Rejected the Camp David 2000 Proposal [video clip] Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Clip No. 2074, March 27, 2009\nArab Peace Initiative: A Primer and Future Prospects\nThe Future of the Two-State Solution by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, JCPA Issue Brief Vol. 8, No. 22, February 17, 2009\nThe Farewell Tour, \u201cGo, Iraq!\u201d and Thanksgiving, Jewish Institute for National Affairs, JINSA Report #831, November 26, 2008\nWinding the \u201cPeace Process\u201d Down, or Up, JINSA Report #825, November 7, 2008 Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy by Moshe Yaalon, Azure no. 34, Autumn 2008 The One-State Solution by Sari Nusseibeh, Newsweek, September 20, 2008\nTalking to Terrorists: The Myths, Misconceptions and MIsapplication of the Northern Ireland Peace Process by John Bew and Martyn Frampton, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 566, August-September 2008\nWhat Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo can teach us by Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz, July 6, 2008\nThe Peace Test: Bush offered Palestinians a state; they said no deal. by Clifford D. May, National Review Online, July 3, 2008\nThe Unlikely Peace: Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement in 2008, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1386: Special Forum Report, July 1\nTime for Radical Pragmatism by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, June 4, 2008\nBack to the Jordanian option by Giora Eiland, Ynetnews.com, April 16, 2008\nImagined Partners by Jonathan Spyer, Haaretz, March 30, 2008\nPalestinian State: Relevancy Gaps in Israeli Policy, Re\u2019ut Institute, March 20, 2008\nAnnapolis \u2013 Road to Nowhere by Zalman Shoval, Jerusalem Viewpoints #561, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, February 1, 2008\nThe Peace Planners Strike Again by Hillel Halkin, Commentary, January 2008\nForeign Minister Livni\u2019s address to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting New York, September 24, 2007\nThe Peace Alternative by Tzipi Livni (English translation), Asharq Alawsat, June 18, 2007\nAddress by H.E. Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Israel To the United Nations 61st General Assembly, New York, September 20, 2006\nThe Prince: How the Saudi Ambassador [Prince Bandar bin Sultan] became Washington\u2019s indispensable operator, The New Yorker, March 24, 2003\nBandar believed that Arafat\u2019s failure to accept the deal in January of 2001 was a tragic mistake\u2014a crime, really. [\u2026.] \u201cSince 1948, every time we\u2019ve had something on the table we say no,\u201d Bandar said he told Arafat. \u201dThen we say yes. When we say yes, it\u2019s not on the table anymore. Then we have to deal with something less. Isn\u2019t it about time we say yes?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 41370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brookes.ac.uk/onefar/members/sarah-spain/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CLTKOABXJ3O6AKXKRVMAD4BQ64MR6J4H", "length": 2040, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.brookes.ac.uk", "title": "Sarah Spain - Oxford Brookes University", "raw_content": "Sarah Spain (formerly Baker) MA MSc\nSarah Spain\u2019s research interests include how family life and paid work are organised and managed in globalised economies; contemporary, post-modern constructions of fatherhood; and the intergenerational transmission of caring practices and parental style, with a particular interest in the language and semantics of the \u2018new\u2019 fatherhood discourse.\nIn addition to her research work on fatherhood, Sarah has an interest in the lay experience of long term health conditions and sits on the NHS England Specialised Endocrinology Clinical Reference Group, the Patient/Carer Network at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), the Joint Steering Committee on Diabetes and Endocrinology at the RCP, as well as the Patient Participation Forum at The Churchill Hospital, Oxford. She is co-founder of ELFy Apps: a reminders and alerts system for people who take daily medication.\n2013: \u2018Managing paid work and family life\u2019 a pilot study conducted at the Oxford Bus Company (funded by Oxford Brookes University)\n2010-2011 British Academy funded project (award number SG100399) \u201cMen, Work and Family Life: a study of policy and practice in the UK and Italy\u2019. A literature review written in collaboration with The Catholic University of Milan.\nBosoni, M.L., Baker, S. (2015), The intergenerational transmission of fatherhood: perspectives from the UK and Italy, Families, Relationships and Societies, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 239-251.\nBaker, S. J., Wass, J. A. H. (2009), A Patient\u2019s Journey: Addison\u2019s Disease, BMJ, 2 July 2009.\nBaker, S. (2012), Book Review: Tina Miller, Making Sense of Fatherhood: Gender, Caring and Work in I. Crespi, G. Rossi, Balancing work and family care: European experiences, Sociologia e Politiche sociali Special Issue, Volume 15, pp. 156\u2013157.\nBaker, S., Miller, T., Rossi G., Bosoni, M.L. (2011), Men, Work and Family life: a study of policy and practice in the UK and Italy: a collaborative literature review on fatherhood and paid work, published on RADAR, via Oxford Brookes University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 173.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brucepercy.co.uk/blog/2013/08/12/a-walk-through-nature/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NNPB57Y7ZVDPBZ3XCTFFA4C6VPEOAANB", "length": 5394, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.brucepercy.co.uk", "title": "A Walk through Nature \u2014 Bruce Percy", "raw_content": "As many of you know, photographic books are perhaps some of the most treasured objects I own. I really love them for many reasons, and I've always wondered why not all lovers of photography own them. They not only give us a better experience of someones work compared to viewing it on a website, but also, they allow for a more intimate setting where we can lose ourselves for half an hour or more as the photographer takes us on a journey through their own world.\nOne such book that I've had the delight of getting to know for this very reason, is Dav Thomas' 'With Trees'.\nI've just spent the past few days returning again and again to this book, because it has a wonderful way of letting my mind reconnect with what it's like to be outside, roaming through woods and remote landscapes. It is a beautiful journey where I seem to lose myself each time I pick it up and roam through its pages.\nThomas celebrates the nature of trees as they are. He does not seek to simplify or create an illusion of what is there, but instead works very much with what the trees themselves have to offer. And what they offer is a recognition that even in the middle of one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in Europe, there is always a forest not too far away, where one can gain some space and remove themselves from the existence of every day life.\nThomas mainly focusses on the forests of the Peak and Lake district, but there are occasional entries to places such as Elgin in northern Scotland. What is interesting for me to note however, is that there is a sense of uniformity to the landscapes he has photographed. He reminds me that one doesn't have to go far to find their muse, and I suspect that these locations have not been picked purely because they are within reach of where Thomas lives, but because he has had a life long relationship with the environment he has chosen to photograph.\nHis book is not simply a celebration of trees, but an empathetic understanding of the undergrowth, grasses and mosses that in his own words are a 'supporting cast for the trees they surround'. I loved this sentiment particularly, because in it, Thomas is telling me he understands that each element in a scene has a relationship to one another not just photographically, but also in nature.\nAlthough the book is a monograph, it is interspersed with Thomas' observations of how trees exist and relate to their surrounding environment. I loved the text, because for me, it echoed pretty much what I saw and felt in his work: a deep fascination for the relationship between tree, undergrowth and moss. Thomas seemed to me very much like someone who has spent time around his subjects getting to know them in all their seasons and different atmospheric environments.\nIn one such observation by Thomas, he notes that Oak and Limestone are often hard to separate, because they blend in a way where mosses covering the limestone take on an extended quality to the surrounding trees, and he uses this well in his compositions. He is comfortable to show you that both these compositional elements are intertwined, and can be interpreted as one, rather than discreet elements which have to stand apart. That I feel, is a difficult thing to execute well, because forests are difficult subjects at best to produce strong photographs from. And Thomas seems extremely comfortable with this task.\nOn a more personal note, at times I felt that I was enjoying images that would compliment the work of naturalist Eliot Porter. Whereas some photographers seek drama and mood in their work, others are more content to convey nature the way it is, and celebrate it's beauty for 'just being'. This is what I see in this book, and I think that's why I feel it should proudly sit next to my collection of Eliot Porter books: a high commendation indeed.\nOn the subject of the quality of the printing and presentation, the book is a beautiful hardbound A3 sized monograph, with a lovely introduction by David Ward. I had the great delight in noticing that even the cardboard box it comes in, is beautifully presented with the same themes as contained on the front cover of the book. It is one piece of cardboard I will not be throwing out, because for me - it is part of the book where packing and content are one concept. I'm a big believer in the collectibility of books, so if you do decide to buy this book, then hold onto the carton as well.\nThomas I feel, is just at the start of a great future. I think he has vision, not only in his photographic work, but also in his message. He knows his motivations well. This is a hard act to pull off for many and I feel that Thomas understands his own sense of aesthetics and along with it, his own vision and style. He has found his own path, and is on a journey, which I feel I understand well, because photography has been a journey for me also.\nI hope this is the first of many books by Thomas. It was been executed well, which considering this is his first book, illustrates that Thomas knows his message and has a strong sense of how to convey it.\nFor me, It will sit proudly alongside my Eliot Porter collection. As I said earlier; a high commendation indeed.\n'With Trees' is available from Beyond Words books @ \u00a340.\nAnd also available directly from the Triplekite publishing in different limited editions.\n\u2190 Micro Four ThirdsNew e-Book - 'The Digital Darkroom' \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 10281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buryfc.co.uk/news/2013/january/bury-v-sheff-united---postponed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:C4OQAEARIH2JFVIQVZS2TTUXKRLVGRTH", "length": 664, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.buryfc.co.uk", "title": "Bury v Sheff United - POSTPONED | News | Bury Football Club", "raw_content": "Bury v Sheff United - POSTPONED\nEarly inspection rules out Tuesday\u2019s game with Sheffield United\nAn earlier than planned pitch inspection has ruled out Tuesday\u2019s game and as such it has been postponed.\nThe inspection was brought forward to today as it became more and more obvious during the day that we were fighting a losing battle. Large areas of the pitch remain frozen solid and with snow falling throughout the day, as well as falling temperatures, it became evident that there was no way this game could have been played.\nWith full agreement from the Football league, Tuesdays night\u2019s game has now been postponed. A new date will be announced once confirmed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 2375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessfleet.com/133729/element-splits-into-two-companies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:F7VBUZOB77AAU4UXNEBGJRQ4YJDNDB44", "length": 3542, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.businessfleet.com", "title": "Element to Split Into Two Companies - Leasing - Business Fleet", "raw_content": "Element to Split Into Two Companies\nElement Financial Corp. is spinning off its North American commercial finance business into a separate public company to allow its fleet management business to focus on its core business and generate higher returns as a stand-alone company.\nThe company will set up Element Fleet Management as a $19.5-billion fleet management company and Element Commercial Asset Management as a $7-billion commercial finance company by the end of 2016 at two publicly-traded entities, according to an announcement.\nBrad Nullmeyer, who has served as president of Element Financial Corp., has been named vice chairman of the commercial finance company. Steve Hudson, Element's chief executive, has been named vice chairman of the fleet management company.\n\"Following the completion of a comprehensive strategic review of our operations and corporate structure, we've concluded that Element is comprised of two very different businesses that will be more effective at maximizing performance for the benefit of shareholders, lenders, customers and employees if they are structured and capitalized as separate public companies,\" Hudson said.\nElement Fleet Management will remain the largest North American fleet management company with a fleet portfolio of $17.5 billion following the move with assets in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. The company will continue its alliance with BNP-Arval. It will have 2,600 employees.\nElement Commercial Asset Management will include the company's North American commercial and vendor finance business, as well as the company's aviation and rail asset management businesses with a $3.3 billion portfolio of commercial finance assets and $2.2 billion portfolio of commercial aviation assets established in June as Element Commercial Aircraft Funds. The company manages the aviation business on behalf of 30 institutional investors.\nThe company's on-balance-sheet aviation finance business is being discontinued and the current $1.5 billion portfolio of fully-performing aviation assets will be transitioned to a future aviation fund, sold or managed to maturity.\nElement decided to split the companies because the two businesses have \"different operating profiles, growth trajectories, leverage and capital requirements,\" according to Element. A combined company \"limits their ability to achieve their full potential.\"\nElement Fleet Management will retain access to $4.8 billion raised through its Chesapeake Funding II asset-backed security funding in December that could help fuel additional acquisitions. The stand-alone fleet management company can generate higher returns with increased balance sheet ratings and higher leverage that's more comparable to other fleet management companies, according to the company.\nElement is in the process of integrating GE Capital's fleet management business it acquired in August. The acquisition came a year after it acquired PHH Corp.'s fleet management business.\nElement will provide additional details about the allocation of assets, liabilities and capital structure of the company, as well as the structure of the board and the deployment of current corporate services staff between the two new entities at a later date.\nThe separation is subject to regulatory approvals and final approval of Element's board. 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UN Women National Committee (NC) Australia hosts Australia\u2019s largest International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) celebrations in March each year. IWD is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women. It is also a day to review how far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development.\nIWD also provides an opportunity to unite, network and mobilise funds to foster meaningful change into the future.\nAs well as a tasty brekky and hundreds of like-minded people to network with, you will hear from a panel of inspirational women and have the opportunity to make a donation to enter our incredible prize draw!\nTo find out more or purchase tickets to our event follow the links below. Be sure to register early so you don\u2019t miss out | Early bird prices for corporate tables and individual tickets close 31 January\nMuniba Mazari, Pakistan\u2019s National UN Women Ambassador\nMuniba Mazari advocates for UN Women\u2019s initiative Step It Up for Gender Equality and other campaigns promoting women\u2019s empowerment.\nMazari, who has been in a wheelchair following a car accident seven years ago which left her with spinal cord injury, has represented the voice of people across Pakistan on important issues including gender inequalities and discrimination. Mazari was named as one of BBC\u2019s 100 Women for 2015.\n\u201cI am a strong supporter of UN Women and the role we have in ending gender-based discrimination, working towards gender equality and making it a lived reality by 2030. This is the time to empower women and girls because when you empower one woman, you empower the whole generation\u201d.\nAleta Miller, UN Women Representative Fiji Multi-Country Office\nAleta is UN Women Representative for 14 Pacific island countries, leading UN Women\u2019s programmes across the Pacific focused on ending violence against women, increasing women\u2019s economic empowerment, addressing gender and protection in disaster preparedness and response, and increasing women\u2019s political empowerment and leadership. She was previously Executive Director at Justice Centre Hong Kong, a human rights NGO protecting the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of trafficking and forced labor. Previously Aleta was advisor on gender and human rights for 20 countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia with UNFPA in New York. Prior to this, Aleta spent six years working in national HIV programming in Myanmar with the UN and NGOs. Aleta\u2019s career background includes: harm reduction programmes with drug users in Australia, Myanmar and China; working with young Vietnamese refugees at Hong Kong\u2019s last refugee camp in the 1990s; community development programming in Papua New Guinea and Nepal; and advising the Chinese Government on HIV initiatives with sex workers and drug users. Aleta is an Australian Registered Psychologist (non-practicing), and holds a Masters degree in International Public Health, Honors in Applied Psychology, a Bachelor of Behavioral Sciences in Applied Psychology and Occupational Health, and a post-graduate diploma is trans-cultural mental health. She is married with children aged 4 and 6, and lives in Suva, Fiji.\nTracey Spicer will be MC for the Perth breakfast\nTracey Spicer is the co-founder and national convenor of Women in Media, broadcaster on ABC TV\u2019s The Drum, columnist for Fairfax newspapers, and presentation trainer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. For more than 20 years, the journalist and anchor presented national programs on Network Ten and Sky News. The 49-year-old is a proud Ambassador for ActionAid and World Vision. During the past 30 years she\u2019s travelled to Bangladesh, Kenya, India and Papua New Guinea to produce and present documentaries on women and girls in the developing world. Her memoir, The Good Girl: Stripped Bare, will be published by HarperCollins in May, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady: Stripped Bare, has garnered almost 1.5 million views. Tracey is an outspoken feminist, and mother to 10-year-old Grace and 11-year-old Taj.\nUN Women National Committee Australia\nAdele.Armstrong@unwomen.org.au\nhttps://unwomen.org.au/take-action/events/perth-iwd-breakfast/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com/busybeeblogger/jay-z-talks-about-his-wedding-to-beyonce-aue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2HEOC7TXCABUDDPU6DLGIIAMVJD2UCHL", "length": 226, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.buzzfeed.com", "title": "Jay-Z Talks About His Wedding to Beyonce", "raw_content": "Jay-Z Talks About His Wedding to Beyonce\nThe usually coy Jay-Z is finally opening up about his wedding to Beyonce! Of course, it was Oprah that got him to talk. The big O asked him how he was able to keep his wedding a secret.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3359, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 256.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bynesroyall.com/notices/MrsKayola-McGill", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X6D5TIRQL2ES5UPWAUHSH4T7BT4TDHU6", "length": 383, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bynesroyall.com", "title": "Obituary for Mrs. Kayola McGill | Bynes-Royall Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Mrs. Kayola McGill\nMrs. Kayola McGill 84 of Savannah, Georgia entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at St. Joseph's Hospital surrounded by her loving and devoted family. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m on Saturday, July 28, 2018 at Bynes-Royall Funeral Home, Inc. located at 204 West Hall Street Savannah, Ga 31401. Please sign our guest book.\nInterment: Private", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cair.com/cair_learning_the_truth_about_islam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:NBOVWNYCS4AKY5KGFGKDECBB4S75KTC6", "length": 1754, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.cair.com", "title": "CAIR: Learning the Truth about Islam - CAIR", "raw_content": "CAIR: Learning the Truth about Islam\nBRISTOL TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS - Every year, social studies teacher Lisa Volpe conducts an informal poll in her seventh-grade class in Lower Bucks.\n\u201cBefore Sept. 11, most kids didn't know what Islam was. We would do brainstorms and most thought it was a place. Now, kids say 9/11 and terrorism. And honestly, when we watch the news, that's what it appears to be all about,\u201d said Volpe, a teacher in Bristol Township's Benjamin Franklin Middle School.\nBut each year, the stereotype fades.\nVolpe teaches an introductory unit on the Muslim faith, part of a curriculum that includes the teaching of the world's major religions.\n\u201cI thought in the beginning that Muslims were just girls with mustaches and terrorists because I saw 9/11 [on TV],\u201d said seventh-grader Steven Evens.\nAfter the three-week course that ended this month, Steven said: \u201c[Muslims] actually do a lot of stuff like we do. They like clothes, sports, high school. They've got friends.\u201d\nAnother classmate, Jennifer Hinkie, said: \u201cI thought Muslims were all terrorists ... because of the news.\u201d But after the class, she said, \u201cThey're not all terrorists. Just because they live [in Iraq] doesn't mean they're terrorists.\u201d\nVolpe's students were just learning the basics \u2014 such as who Muhammad was, the differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and the fact that most Muslims are not Arabs. . .\n\u201cUnfortunately, the way most Americans are introduced to Islam is through the lens of terrorism and the invasion of Iraq,\u201d said Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations.\n\u201cIt's very important that we educate our youth on what Islam is about and what the Islam community stands for in an objective manner,\u201d she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 5293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/ontario-launches-e-filing-for-small-claims-5882/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:54Z", "digest": "sha1:XDQSWSNEGUZDGJZ2JWBESL3IJAZILLEZ", "length": 2597, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.canadianlawyermag.com", "title": "Ontario launches e-filing for small claims | Canadian Lawyer Mag", "raw_content": "Ontario launches e-filing for small claims\nAugust 15, 2014 |Written By Jon Cook\nAbout a third of Ontario small claims disputes never see a courtroom and now filers won\u2019t even have to interact with a live person.\nOntario has launched an e-filing pilot project for Small Claims Court.\nThis week, the Ministry of the Attorney General launched an e-filing pilot project that allows small claims litigants to file their applications online and receive court-issued documents by e-mail.\nBritish Columbia was the first province to institute an e-filing system in 2008, followed by Newfoundland in 2010. According to B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Justice, 21,521 small claims documents were e-filed in the 2012-13 fiscal year, representing 21 per cent of all eligible documents (103,056).\nOntario\u2019s service is so far only available in Brampton, Oshawa, Ottawa, and Richmond Hill, but the ministry is aiming for a full province-wide rollout sometime early next year.\nLaura Craig, counsel in the civil policy and programs branch of MAG, says the e-filing service is geared to handle \u201cliquidated claims,\u201d which are ones where there is a set amount that has been agreed upon on by both parties.\n\u201cThe advantage to the online system is that the plaintiff can take steps, up to and including default judgment, without ever having to go to court.\u201d\nShe adds that default judgments are \u201csituations where claims have gone undefended and the clients received a default judgment without a court appearance.\u201d These can involve credit card charges, overdue rent, contract payments and charges for returned cheques.\nUsers must first register for an online account and there is a $75 filing fee per claim, up to a maximum of 10 a year. Beyond 10, the cost is $145 each. Submitted small claims that go undisputed for 20 days can then proceed to the next phase where an award can be issued.\nLast year, Ontario received 64,484 small claims applications, of which 19,726 resulted in default judgments.\nWith the new system in place for just a few days, ministry officials say it\u2019s too soon to estimate how many claims could be processed virtually.\n\u201cThis pilot project is the beginning of an industry modernization plan,\u201d says Zalina Sharma, who manages court services and is overseeing the online filing project. \u201cThe ministry wants to be more innovative and create a modern and more responsive system and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working towards.\u201d\nEarlier this year, the AG also launched a web site that publishes daily court lists for the Ontario Superior Court and the Ontario Court of Justice.\nChief justices push for modernization of courts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 14558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.capitalxtra.com/features/filtered/16th-november-2015/asap-rock-jhene-aiko-instagram/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6H7U7LGS2HNA7VV2AQ73YJ23POVAQVIL", "length": 179, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.capitalxtra.com", "title": "Jhene Aiko bumped into ASAP Rocky at Tyler The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw music... - Capital XTRA", "raw_content": "Jhene Aiko bumped into ASAP Rocky at Tyler The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw music festival.\n31. Jhene Aiko bumped into ASAP Rocky at Tyler The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw music festival.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carbon8.com/blog/january-2011/the-20-ish-by-6-operation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:09Z", "digest": "sha1:KPXS6DNQVMS7X4CF2Y7Z3JOXGSDMD4O7", "length": 1480, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.carbon8.com", "title": "The 20-ish by 6 operation", "raw_content": "The 20-ish by 6 operation\nMonday kicks off the biggest holiday of the year for our Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Carbon8ers. The celebration of T\u1ebft Nguy\u00ean \u00d0\u00e1n (or just \"Tet\") is the Vietnamese new year and the start of spring on the Lunar calendar. While it almost always corresponds with the Chinese new year in terms of timing, Vietnam has its own schedule and traditions. Read more about Tet here. For our team, it means a week of cooking, visiting family and generally celebrating.\nWith many of our designers and developers on holiday, I started to think about how much work we crank out on a regular basis. For much of the year, 6 pm Mountain Time is 8 am Vietnam Time. We occasionally get requests at 4 pm, meet with the development team at 6 pm and hand work back to the client at 8 o'clock the next morning. Really the only times we don't work are 4 am to 8 am and Saturdays. (And that's a lie, we often work on Saturday... just don't tell anyone.) So this week it's been a little shocking to say it'll take two weeks to do something when I usually get to say \"we'll be finished in a day or two\".\nDon't get me wrong - we really like having enough time on a project to go through several revisions with our clients, do a couple of weeks of QA and user acceptance testing, etc. But for those projects where time is of the essence, I'm thinking of coining a new slogan: \"Carbon8: Overnight web development service 51 weeks a year.\"\nCung ch\u00fac t\u00e2n xu\u00e2n --- Happy new year!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 4116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carefulparents.com/see-something-say-something-apps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Q272H4TYQYA7IL4SFLFXBNEKDNSTGV4U", "length": 993, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.carefulparents.com", "title": "See Something, Say Something Apps \u2013 Careful Parents", "raw_content": "See Something, Say Something Apps\nAs a result of the latest school shooting in Florida, the Palm Beach County Sheriff department will be releasing a mobile app that kids can use for free which is expected to provide a channel to authorities regarding a host of perceived concerns.\n\u201cThe key here is information flow and prevention,\u201d said Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. \u201cOn that app, they will be able to report mental health problems, bullying problems, social media problems, suspicious activity to the school police or their parents or the school staff and that information will be channeled to the proper people to do something about it.\u201d\nDo you have kids in public school? Would this be an app you would encourage your kids to download and use?\nCarefulParents.com encourages parents to reach out their school corporations and civil authorities and ask them if there is a mobile app available in their area.\nRead more: http://cbs12.com/news/local/new-digital-tool-to-keep-kids-safe-at-school-unveiled", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 3283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carfreewalks.org/walks/1015/caldicot_castle", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WZ2MRHS3SXIAJVOD3M66C5KIVGQYXPN6", "length": 1265, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.carfreewalks.org", "title": "Caldicot Castle - Car Free Walks", "raw_content": "A leisurely walk (city/town) in Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales, about 3.70km (2.30 mi) long with an estimated walking time of about 1:00h. It is suitable for families with children, but unsuitable for prams & pushchairs, wheelchairs.\nThis short walk explores the town of Caldicot, near the Severn Estuary, including the castle on the northern side of the village. While it's not a long walk, allow enough time to explore the castle grounds and the castle itself.\nA moderate, circular walk (coast) starting in Gloucestershire, England, about 10.30km (6.40 mi) long, duration: ~3:00h.\nCaldicot Station\nTake the train to Caldicot; there are buses too.\nWalk along Station Road then cross Newport Road to enter the village.\nWalk through the town centre, which has a few nice cafes. There is also a lovely pub, The Castle Inn, which serves food. It's on Church Road, near the Country Park: www.thecastleinncaldicot.com\nThe castle has a walk around it, including a wildlife pond which has ducks and swans on it. 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The announcement also included news of new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, California, and expansions in Pittsburgh, New York, and Boulder, Colorado. It also dashed\u2026\nFor America, it\u2019s closer to morning than midnight\nClearly, 2018 was a Democratic year, as it should have been given a Republican was in the White House. The Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House and seven governorships. The Republicans\u2019 veto-proof \u201csuper majorities\u201d were broken in both chambers of the General Assembly. It wasn\u2019t quite the \u201cblue\u2026\nTemper power with responsibility\nPart of the solution for our uncivil politics will arise from convincing current and prospect political leaders to take responsibility for the problem and start doing something about it.\nClash between economic growth, development plays out in incentives debate\nA recent change in North Carolina's targeted tax breaks highlights a divide among Republicans.\nby Mitch Kokai\nTake time to broaden the mind\nFrom 2011 to 2017, the number of degrees awarded in history, religion, literature, philosophy, liberal arts, and the humanities went down, by 20 percent or more in some cases.\nN.C. government spends two years squabbling over board only to finish where it began\nHere we are, two years later. We\u2019ve taken many, arduous, often tedious steps. Only to return to where we began, having gone nowhere. In late 2016, as Gov. Roy Cooper was preparing to take office, the General Assembly decided it would change\u2026\nWhen I reflect on the \u201cGreatest Generation,\u201d I\u2019m always amazed at the selflessness which characterized them. Men and women stood tall, rolled up their sleeves \u2014 and fought in Europe and the Pacific, saving the world from tyranny. 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Malta", "raw_content": "Meet the Team Behind CasaSoft\nIt\u2019s hard to believe that this time last year, we have more than doubled in size! It\u2019s true and we couldn\u2019t be happier with our growing team. We have experienced steady growth in the past year and we are now a team of ten, two of which are interns - one from Germany and another from Netherlands.\nTo celebrate this achievement, we have updated our About page, which now proudly shows all of our team members and explains how we achieved this success in a short video. Check out who\u2019s behind all these great ideas, and if you think you\u2019ve got what it takes to join our team, drop us a line!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-reunion-photo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RFBIPJZ2PHRF5ADEJH6YNQYTKZFAKLOK", "length": 1654, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cbr.com", "title": "Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunites in New Photo | CBR", "raw_content": "Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunited in New Photo\nThe Next Generation crew is nearly all here!\nActress Marina Sirtis, who played Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, posted to Twitter an image of some of the core cast reuniting for dinner over the weekend. Joining Sirtis is Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data) and Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf).\nRELATED: Star Trek Franchise to Receive Governor Award From Television Academy\nNoticeably absent was Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), who appears to be busy working behind the scenes on Star Trek: Discovery:\nWhere am I now? pic.twitter.com/d65YcRIxCV\n\u2014 Jonathan Frakes (@jonathansfrakes) August 24, 2018\nThe reunion, of course, comes after CBS confirmed the rumors that Stewart would be officially reprising his role as Picard in a brand-new series for the CBS All Access streaming service. Details regarding the new series remain sparse for the time being, but could a full-blown The Next Generation reunion happen? Possibly, but it's too early to assume anything, as Stewart confirmed there are currently no scripts ready for the forthcoming series.\nRELATED: Watch Patrick Stewart Get Emotional While Announcing Return to Star Trek\nStar Trek: The Next Generation, which was created by Gene Roddenberry, ran for seven seasons from 1987\u20131994. After the television series was cancelled, the Next Generation cast went on to star in 1994\u2019s Star Trek Generations, 1996\u2019s Star Trek: First Contact, 1998\u2019s Star Trek: Insurrection and 2002\u2019s Star Trek: Nemesis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbs58.com/news/formerly-homeless-hairdresser-gives-free-makeovers-to-homeless-girls", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTITJJ2B4ZTPWNPCYKF2E43DBO4PNACB", "length": 2898, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cbs58.com", "title": "Formerly homeless hairdresser gives free makeovers to homeless girls", "raw_content": "Formerly homeless hairdresser gives free makeovers to homeless girls\nTwo decades ago, Vanessa Howard was a homeless single mother of three with only $1.75 to her name.\nDuring that time, the woman from Tampa, Florida, admits she was \u2014 at one point \u2014 suicidal. A victim of domestic violence, she had first gotten pregnant as a teen and left her \"drug infested\" childhood home, not sure where to go next.\n\"I cried out one day,\" Howard told CBS News. \"I was tired of being homeless, tired of being alone and prayed for help.\"\nThe next day, Howard hopped on a city bus with her three little girls and headed to look at an apartment, hoping that this time, the landlord would take a chance on her. When she finally met the building owner, he said something she didn't expect.\n\"He was like, 'I don't know you, but I feel like you should have this place,'\" Howard described. \"It was from there that I found hope and restoration. I just wanted to pay it forward.\"\nHoward got her fresh start working in local beauty salons over the years, earning enough money to care for her children.\nFour years ago, Howard, who's now 62, did something she never dreamed was possible: she opened her own salon. She named it the Giving Hands Hair Salon because she planned to use the studio to give back to her community.\nAnd that's exactly what she's been doing.\nOnce a month, Howard comes into the salon on her Sunday off to give free haircuts to the homeless.\n\"I know the struggle. That's why I give so hard,\" Howard said. \"I'm looking to help restore women. I'm looking to help restore children, because, again, that pain is a part of my purpose.\"\nWith her now five daughters by her side and a handful of volunteers, Howard gives out free trims, facials and manicures. So far, she's helped 275 women and children.\n\"We want them to feel good about themselves,\" she added. \"We don't want them to be concerned about how they look.\"\nNow, as the school year approaches, she's reaching out to young girls.\nThis past Sunday, Howard once again opened her doors, spending about five hours pampering homeless girls ages 5 to 11 during what she called a \"Back to School Princess Party.\"\n\"We want them to feel like a princess for a day. It's important, especially during their transition,\" Howard said. \"I want them to be confident because if they're confident they excel.\"\nThe salon provided tiaras and gave the girls school supplies so they'll be ready to start fresh. They even treated their parents to free makeovers.\nHoward said it was worth it just to see those little girls' smiles, and she plans to continue the tradition for years to come.\n\"I believe everything we go through we go through for purpose. 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When it comes to managing the risks of running your own retail business, you want the best protection possible. CCI Insurance Services, Inc. will work with you to formulate an insurance package fit for your business.\nContact a representative at CCI Insurance Services, Inc. to go over these and many other insurance options for retailers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 518, "original_length": 14519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cdbt.hu/index.html?artid=18168", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VF32DJD2XNTHJLNBI6OJ44IQE6MCSI3G", "length": 2851, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.cdbt.hu", "title": "RICK NELSON CD, DVD, BLU-RAY v\u00e1s\u00e1rl\u00e1s, rendel\u00e9s, aj\u00e1nd\u00e9k t\u00e1rgyak, p\u00f3l\u00f3 - CDBT Kft.", "raw_content": "RICK NELSON CD, DVD, BLU-RAY lemez, aj\u00e1nd\u00e9k t\u00e1rgyak (p\u00f3l\u00f3, baseball sapka)\nKeres\u00e9s: RICK NELSON ( 23 tal\u00e1lat )\n20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rick Nelson\nAlbum Seven By Rick (61)/ It's Up To You (62)\nAnother Side of Rick (67) / Perspective (68)\nBest Always (65)/Love And Kisses (65)\nBright Lights (66) / Country Fever (67)\nCollectors Edition (CD+DVD)\nFor You - The Decca Years (6CD box)\nFor Your Sweet Love/Rick Nelson Sings for You\nLegacy (4CD box)\nMore Songs By Ricky (60)/Rick Is 21 (61)\nRick's Rarities 1964 - 1974\nStay Young - The Epic Recordings\nThe Best of The Later Years 1963-1975\nThe Very Thought of You (64) / Spotlight on Rick (64)\nArt of the Songwriter - The Best of Burt Bacharach: Anyone Who Had a Heart (2CD)\nBurt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, Astrud Gilberto, B.J. 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M\u00f8ller", "raw_content": "The Stockholm Globe Arena, or \"the Globe\" as it is known, is an indoor multi-arena for up to 16,200 spectators. The arena, which was inaugurated in 1989, forms part of a complex which includes a hotel, an office block and a shopping centre.\nBesides the Globe itself, C.F. M\u00f8ller Architects (formerly Berg Arkitektkontor, since 2007 a part of C.F. M\u00f8ller Architects) also played a major role in the design of these surrounding buildings. The architectural work encompassed the idea concept, the establishment of a competition group, the competition proposal, the local plan, and the construction, decor and signage planning. The arena is regarded as one of the best in the world, and has created one of the most famous skyline silhouettes in Stockholm.\nIn 2009 C.F. M\u00f8ller designed a new attraction for the Globe: two glass gondolas lifting visitors up along the outside of the building, offering a splendid view of Stockholm and the start of the archipelago.\nHovetByggarna - Siab, ByggPaul och ABV\nJ&W (numera WSP)\nSture Koinberg AB Landskapsarkitekter\nTunemalm Akustik AB\nIAKS Award, Bronze. 1993\nEuropean Award for Steel Structures. 1989\nNordiskt Pl\u00e5tpris (the Nordic Metal Prize). 1989\nSilverbalken (the Silver Beam). 1989\nSwedish Steel Design Award. 1989", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cfr.org/search?keyword=Don%20M.%20Wilson&global%5B0%5D=publication-type%3A94", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PF44CUGHLVQJEVKSYIJX4W5EXL3GCU7I", "length": 986, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cfr.org", "title": "Council on Foreign Relations", "raw_content": "To Get to Zero Botnets, Don\u2019t Wait for Governments to Lead\nContrary to what many assume, a public-private partnership to combat botnets doesn\u2019t have to be initiated or led by the U.S. federal government.\nBlog Post by Robert K. Knake Net Politics\nIn a widely discussed New York Times op-ed, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders excoriated share buybacks as \u201ccorporate self-indulgence,\u201d diverting profits away from investment and worker c\u2026\nChina, it now seems, has entered into a real slump. There were plenty of leading indicators. I should have given more weight, for example, to the slowdown in European exports to China over the cou\u2026\nJapan-South Korea Tensions Spur the Need for Courage and Creativity\nThis post is co-authored with Brad Glosserman, deputy director of and visiting professor at the Tama University Center for rule making strategies and senior advisor for Pacific Forum. Scott A. Snyder\u2026\nBlog Post by Scott A. Snyder and Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 5196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/72963-a-big-christian-victory-in-california-with-a-concern-and-a-caution", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6NIP53W5EBYW5T3A6LGQHF6RSMRNKQXA", "length": 4859, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.charismanews.com", "title": "A Big Christian Victory in California With a Concern and a Caution \u2014 Charisma News", "raw_content": "A Big Christian Victory in California With a Concern and a Caution\n(Photo by Sharon McCutcheon from Pexels)\nMake no mistake about it. The news from California is very big and very positive. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, \"California legislator shelves bill to ban paid 'gay conversion therapy' for adults.\"\nIn a somewhat unprecedented move in the history of gay activism, Assemblyman Evan Low, himself gay, has withdrawn AB2943 from a final vote.\nThe bill, which would have made it illegal for people of any age to receive professional help for unwanted same-sex attractions, was almost certain to pass the Assembly, having been approved by the Senate 25-11. But to Low's credit, he took the time to meet with faith leaders across the state, hearing their concerns.\nIn his own words, \"I knew this was an emotionally charged issue, so I spent the past few months traveling up and down the state meeting with a wide variety of faith leaders.\"\nIt appears he was sensitive enough to the concerns of these leaders that, for now, he withdrew the bill.\nThat is certainly commendable on Low's part, and he deserves our utmost appreciation. How many legislators would do what he had done?\nThere is also a massively important lesson to be learned, so let all of America (and the world) take notice: This is what can happen when the church gets mobilized, even in hyper-left California. This is what can happen when Christian leaders decide to take a moral stand on controversial social issues. This is what can happen when we seek to be the salt and the light, even when it's outside our comfort zone.\nBut that leads to a major concern. Why did it take so long? Why did we largely sit on the sidelines until now? And isn't it ironic that we are rejoicing over the withdrawal of a bill that should never have seen the light of day?\nHaving been on the front lines of these issues since 2004, this is a truth that stings deeply. We are only in this moral and cultural morass today because the church has been so silent.\nI say that with shame and with pain, not with condemnation. Surely I could have done better too.\nCalifornia has passed bill after bill mandating the celebration of LGBT history in America, with no one allowed to opt out, including both teachers and students. This is mandatory for all public schools, grades K-12.\nOne of the worst of these bills, SB777, became law in 2007. Where was the Christian outcry over this? Where was the concern for our children?\nSpeaking of our children, where was the Christian outcry in 2012, when California passed the virtual equivalent of AB 2943, barring minors from receiving professional help for unwanted same-sex attraction?\nIt's Either Really Good or Really Bad With President Trump\nAn Appeal to the Mainstream Media to Own Up to Fake News\nAnd for those throwing stones at the church of California, where were the rest of us when similar bills were passed in a dozen other states? Are we that unconcerned with the well-being of our kids?\nSo, as much as I rejoice over this major victory in California, I do so with reserve: We have been asleep in the light for far too long. Today, we are paying for the price for convenience store Christianity.\nThere's also a reason to be cautious in our celebration. AB 2943 is not going away. It's just being reshaped.\nTo quote Assemblyman Low again, \"I believe we are on the side of the angels on this issue,\" he said. \"Having said that, in order to get it right, why wouldn't we want to engage in meaningful, thoughtful, transformational relationships and conversations?\"\nWhat, exactly, does it mean to \"get it right\"? Is not the whole premise of the bill that there's nothing wrong with being gay? That all attempts to change sexual orientation are harmful and abusive? That any professional services offered to produce change are fraudulent?\nBut there's more \u2013 and be assured that the impact will be major. There are two brand-new movies that will be highly touted by Hollywood (just wait for the praises and awards to flow), and both seek to expose \"conversion therapy.\"\nOne, called Boy Erased, \"follows the son of a Baptist preacher who is forced to take part in a gay conversion program.\"\nThe other is called The Miseducation of Cameron Post, telling the story of \"a 12-year-old Montana girl who is discovering her own homosexuality\" and is subsequently sent to a \"conversion camp.\"\nIt is difficult to describe just how much anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-change sentiment will be stirred up by these films, which in no way, shape, size or form will be fair or balanced, let alone biblical.\nSo, while there is much cause for celebration in California, there remains serious cause for concern.\nMay this victory be a wake-up call and a starting point rather than a time to sit back and rest on our laurels. To do so would be to make a very serious mistake.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 19110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charitytoday.co.uk/charity-commission-chair-welcomes-new-members-of-the-regulator/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SDMRC7WFW6ZR6J5C4NDZ6EJITT6VH273", "length": 4887, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.charitytoday.co.uk", "title": "Charity Commission Chair welcomes new members of the regulator | Charity Today News", "raw_content": "Home LATEST CHARITY NEWS Charity Commission Chair welcomes new members of the regulator\nCharity Commission Chair welcomes new members of the regulator\nBARONESS Stowell MBE, Chair of the Charity Commission, has welcomed the appointment of Tony Cohen, Ian Karet and Nina Hingorani-Crain as new members to the Commission.\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport today announced the appointment of the new board members.\nThey replace Eryl Besse and Tony Leifer, whose terms of office come to an end in December 2018, and fill a current vacancy. The new members will take up their positions on 1 January 2019.\nTheir combined experience brings a wealth of knowledge and skills that will help the Commission deliver on its new 5-year strategy, published in October.\nBaroness Stowell of Beeston.\nBaroness Stowell said:\n\u201cI am delighted to welcome Nina, Tony and Ian to the Commission. They were stand-out candidates from a high-quality field, and each bring valuable skills and strong leadership. We have defined a positive new purpose and set an ambitious strategy for the next five years \u2013 I am confident each will make a hugely valuable contribution in the months and years ahead. I look forward to working with them and all members of the Commission to ensure that charity can thrive and inspire trust and deliver as much benefit as possible back to society.\n\u201cTony Leifer and Eryl have also made significant contributions in their time at the Commission. I have valued their advice immensely over the last year and they have worked tirelessly throughout their six years on the Board in order that the Commission regulates charities effectively and in the public interest.\u201d\nThese new appointments also come as the regulator publishes an updated governance framework. As part of this new framework, the Commission\u2019s Chief Executive Officer joins the Commission\u2019s Board. This change means that the CEO\u2019s role as accounting officer is more clearly represented at the highest level of corporate decision-making and brings the Commission into line with recommended governance practices of other similar bodies.\nThe updated governance framework provides further information about the roles and responsibilities of the Board and the way that the Commission is organised.\nMeet the new Commission members\nTony Cohen was chair of trustees of trustees at Barnardo\u2019s for four and a half years until May this year. He has also served on a number of other not-for-profit boards, including the Arvon Foundation, City of Westminster College and the RSA. After working as a newspaper journalist and television producer in the UK, Tony ran a television company in the US. He was then CEO of FremantleMedia, a major international television production, distribution and rights company, specialising in prime time entertainment, drama and factual programming, for over 11 years from 2001 until 2012. Tony is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and a Fellow of the RTS.\nNina has had a diverse career in the private, public and charity sectors. After almost a decade in corporate finance and consulting, she joined the Financial Services regulator. Here she spent a varied 10 years, including as the Chairman\u2019s Principal Private Secretary during the global financial crisis and subsequently as Chief of Staff leading the creation of the new Financial Conduct Authority. Nina also undertook a 6-month secondment to Age UK to inform the FCA\u2019s strategy of placing consumer needs at the heart of its regulatory mandate. In 2015 she embarked on a Non-Executive career, and is today a Director on the Boards of the Monmouthshire Building Society (the second largest building society in Wales), Achieving For Children (an award-winning provider of children\u2019s services) and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (a mental and community health trust). Nina holds an LL.B. (Hons) degree from King\u2019s College London, and a Ma\u00eetrise en Droit from the Sorbonne Paris. She has also qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and has recently completed the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma. She enjoyed a diverse upbringing with spells living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.\nIan Karet is a solicitor and a partner of Linklaters LLP. He specialises in Intellectual Property and Technology and handles a range of commercial matters and disputes. He is a Solicitor Advocate, a qualified arbitrator and trained mediator. He read Chemistry at Oxford. Ian is also a member of the Civil Justice Council and a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, appointed in 2014, where he currently chairs the Finance Committee. He has served on the board of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and writes and speaks on intellectual property issues.\nPrevious articleHotel stays for your charity fundraising\nNext articleChristmas tree bidding heats up for hospice this #UKCharityWeek", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 160.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesboyk-law.com/toledo-catastrophic-injury-lawyer/paralysis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UTBMHNWJIYCVNVQ5UNQ5NRHXDF7UKJPL", "length": 4671, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.charlesboyk-law.com", "title": "Toledo Paralysis Lawyer | Permanent Impairment Accidents", "raw_content": "Toledo Paralysis Lawyer\nHome Toledo Catastrophic Injury Lawyer Toledo Paralysis Lawyer\nParalysis is an injury that affects an individual\u2019s ability to walk, stand, or move. There can also potentially be paralysis of a vocal cord that could affect speech. However, typically the injury is most often associated with the ability to walk, stand, or move. Medical bills following a paralyzing accident could be expensive and difficult to handle alone.\nA compassionate catastrophic injury attorney understands the injury process and can give objective advice and information about the injury process. Because of the seriousness of a paralysis injury, it is crucial that the injured person retain someone with the experience necessary in order to maximize their chances of recovery. If you have been injured in a serious accident, consult a Toledo paralysis lawyer that could advocate for you.\nSteps to Take Following an Accident\nThe injured party should immediately seek medical attention at a trauma hospital in the Toledo area. The three major trauma hospitals in the area are the University of Toledo Medical Center, Saint Vincent\u2019s Hospital in Downtown Toledo, and Toledo Hospital in West Toledo. There, the person will deal with neurologists, neurosurgeons and physical medicine doctors. These individuals are best equipped to decide the courses of treatment moving forward.\nIt is important to contact a Toledo paralysis lawyer that could do a first-class investigation of the facts behind the accident that caused the trauma. Attorneys are also able to give proper referrals for medical experts to provide the necessary care.\nFollowing the accident, an individual may need to seek psychological help as well. A person is going to need strong psychological help from a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and or medication to deal with the lack of ability to use their arms and or their legs. They are going to need strong self-control and strong discipline. It is obviously an unbelievably difficult position to be in even for someone who does have those qualities.\nPreparing for a Paralysis Case\nThe first step a Toledo paralysis lawyer should take is to obtain all necessary medical documentation. Attorneys should also meet with doctors and obtain written statements from them explaining their opinions to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. They could use videographers to be able to tell a day-in-the-life story of the individual affected by the injury. Lawyers also obtain the services of other experts that are able to portray the impact of an injury on an individual\u2019s life effectively to a jury.\nAny individual seeking to prove paralysis must obtain an opinion from the orthopedic surgeon or the neurosurgeon giving a diagnosis and prognosis of the medical condition. Attorneys will often want to get a second or third opinion from similar experts. Attorneys also stay abreast of current developments in the medical field related to paralysis injuries in order to obtain the best expert witnesses that are able to explain these types of injuries to a reasonable degree of medical certainty.\nLong-Term Insurance Plans Following a Paralysis Injury\nInsurance companies typically do not like to issue life insurance policies to people with paralyzing conditions. Someone with a paralyzing injury has their life expectancy shortened to a substantial degree. If a paralyzed person is able to get an insurance policy the premium\u2019s cost is going to be so high that it outweighs the benefit.\nAnother name for a \u2018long-term life insurance plan\u2019 is an annuity. A major concern for someone who has settled a case due to paralysis is how they are going to continue to pay their living and medical expenses moving forward. These expenses are often financed through a structured settlement wherein the insurance company buys an annuity for the individual that pays them a certain amount of money over the next 30 or 40 years on a monthly or annual basis. The goal is to come up with a plan that works well and provides security for the injured person and their family.\nRole of a Toledo Paralysis Attorney\nThe role of a Toledo injury lawyer is to be your counselor, your friend, your guide, and the shoulder for you to hang your head on. It is important to show the family that they have someone on their side who has navigated this process before. The lawyer must work together with the family to look at the legal and medical options to come up with a game plan to present the case. Your lawyer could also help preserve the dignity of the injured individual while working to set up a plan to provide security for their future medical and economic situations.\nCause of Paralysis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 7736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlesponzi.com/charles-ponzi-autobiography/chapter-27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WIKPIS2F76AZRIUEVAIQPVVS4NF4NE3C", "length": 16379, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "www.charlesponzi.com", "title": "CHAPTER XXVII \u2014 Charles Ponzi", "raw_content": "However, he had gone too far to give up the fight. He spent a busy week-end, preparing for a new offensive. And recruiting some allies. Among them, one Chiaramonte. Chiaramonte knew me from Montreal. And brought to him the information that I had done time in Canada.\nMonday morning, August 2nd, that newspaper carried a huge headline, \"PONZI HOPELESSLY INSOLVENT,\" it read. Which contained many inaccurate statements. And some utterly false. That blow was a whopper! If it didn't knock me cold, it's a wonder. But it certainly raised the deuce! The run blazed out with new vigor. And for the next two or three days I paid out close to two millions.\nBut the run wasn't the only thing I had to contend with. I was being double crossed on all sides. One of my help saw his opportunity and took advantage of it. He issued notes by using straw names and managed to file the stubs with the rest of them. All my clerks could do was to compare them with the stubs. We had no means of knowing whether or not we had ever received the money. So, we paid them. How many of them? I don't know exactly. But I estimate the defalcation at about a quarter of a million.\nBeside him, other clerks robbed me of at least one hundred thousand dollars. By the simple expedient of not marking \"cancelled\" notes which had already been paid, and presenting them for payment through a confederate. I have a complete record of them. As well as of other notes issued by some clerks to themselves or their relatives and paid with interest long before maturity. They did that by juggling the date on the face of the note. A date that should have matched the cancellation date on the revenue stamps. But it didn't\nThe stealing wasn't serious from the standpoint that it diverted my attention away from other matters. Because it didn't. I was aware of the fact that I was being robbed. But it was serious on account of the inroads it was making in my bank balance. My cash resources had been reduced considerably. By about $5,000,000, I would say. And the run was still in full swing.\nIt took me the best part of the second week to restore confidence among my investors. But, by Friday, I had the situation again under control. And the Boston newspaper pursuing me the hardest, was up a tree once more. Except for the Canadian lead. I learned of it somehow. And I fully realized that I was in for the worst wallop yet.\nThe newspaper had sent one of its best men up to Montreal. It was only a question of days before the cat would be out of the bag. Exposure could not be avoided. And exposure spelled ruin. In a way. In every way, perhaps. Except in the matter of the investigation. Of proving my solvency to the satisfaction of the officials and the public. I still had confidence to come out on top at the show-down with auditor Pride. But I needed a few more days. It was vital for me to delay the exposure until after the show-down.\nIn order to do that, it was necessary for me to be posted as to the progress the reporter was making in Montreal. I had ways and means of learning what was going on in the editorial rooms of that paper. Ways which permitted me to know the Ponzi news before the paper was in the streets. But I needed more than that. I needed to know certain things even before it did. Because I didn't want it to bluff me into some damaging admission of fact. What it might know, was not really dangerous until it could prove it. And when I was sure it could prove it, I wanted to be one step ahead of it. But I did not want to take that step until and unless I had to.\nI solved the problem of learning of its progress by intercepting its telegrams. Both coming and going. A copy of every incoming telegram relating to Ponzi would be delivered to me even before it was delivered to it. Outgoing telegrams would be communicated to me almost instantly. Day or night. Its office phone was also covered. How did I arrange that? Well that would be telling. And involving others. But I can say that for each communication I paid a fancy price. Even for a millionaire. Like I was. Or supposed to be.\nWhile this was going on, one of the officials after me was showing marked hostility. In a number of ways. Getting under my skin regularly. Like a splinter. And drawing out curses from me. He got to be so cordially hated around my office that one of my help, the \"black sheep\" of the family, decided to have him \"removed\". To have him \"taken for a ride.\"\nThrough his connections with the underworld, he sent to New York for a gunman. He agreed to pay him $15,000 for the job. The killing of the official. Which was entirely too much money. For any official. But, in so far as that official in particular was concerned, he wasn't worth the powder to blow him to Hades.\nAfter he had the thing all arranged, this employee came to me and told me about it. Nonchalantly. He wanted me to watch the fireworks.\n\"What do you think I am?\" I jumped at him. \"A murderer? Do you think that I would stand for anything like that? Don't you dare to go ahead with it. Because, if you do, I'll deliver you myself to the police.\"\n\"But the gunman wants to go through with it now,\" he protested. \"He wants his money.\"\n\"A fine mess you got me into,\" I told him.\n\"I thought I was doing you a favor,\" he apologized.\n\"I don't want any of that kind of favors!\" I replied to him. \"If that official is an obstacle to me, I can take care of him. I don't have to have him killed. I can spend half a million to discredit him. You leave those things to me. No, you go and find that fellow and send him to me.\"\nThe go-between as he was known, was one of the old time \"gang lords\". He undertook to dissuade the gunman. And send him back to New York. But he charged me $4,500 for his services. For which I made him sign a regular receipt. Only, I put an arbitrary date to it. So as to cover up things.\nThat is about the worst investment I ever made. In the opinion of many. Including myself. I actually went and paid good money to save an enemy's life. The man who hounded me unremittingly for the next years. Notwithstanding his knowledge of what I had done for him. Because, on a latter occasion, when he had me by the nape of the neck and was telling me what a dangerous person I was, I didn't miss the chance of telling him what I had done.\nBut I do not regret the bad investment. Even if I paid a price far in excess of what his life was worth to the community. Forty-five cents would have been more like it. But a human life is a human life. And I wouldn't have one on my conscience for any amount.\nThe week-end found me scouting for cash. I don't believe I had $500,000. And stocks and property amounting to another million or more.\nI tried to negotiate the certificate of deposit. Everywhere. Even in New York. But I couldn't do anything with it. The big banks had passed the word around to lay off. And everybody was laying off. I thought of Tom Lawson. The only one likely to help me. He was approached. But he wouldn't handle it. Or couldn't. I don't know which.\nThings looked kind of black. I had to have money to carry me along until the auditor was ready to report. And nobody knew when he would be ready. He might have been ready in four or five days. Or in a couple of weeks. At any rate, I had to have money for the next Monday. Because the $500,000 couldn't last much over the week-end.\nI consulted with the Hanover's officials. About cashing on the certificate of deposit. It was suggested that I make out 18 demand notes for $80,000 each and one for $60,000. And that I have them signed by \"dummies\". Employees of the bank and others. Then, by endorsing the certificate over to the Hanover as collateral, the bank could have discounted the notes and credited the amount to my account. I did as it was suggested.\nOn Monday morning, August 9th, I started to draw against the proceeds from those notes. To an extent of about $450,000. Why that much? I don't remember. I probably drew against my account for much less. But some out-of-town checks, which had not been cashed as vet, might have come in. At any rate, $450,000 of the funds from the certificate of deposit were used up on Monday morning. Then, hell broke loose! From the State House. The Bank Commissioner sent down word that the transaction was in violation of the banking laws. Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn't. It surely didn't make sense. I had $1,500,000 in that bank. And the Bank Commissioner said that the law did not permit me to draw against it! If that was the law, it was strange to me! If it wasn't the law, the commissioner was decidedly wrong. No two ways about it. He ordered me to cover the overdraft immediately. Or, else \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\nI managed to cover it. By splitting the original certificate into three smaller ones. Two for $500,000 each and one for about $57,000. The difference went to cover the overdraft. That, was the best I could do. Legal or illegal.\nBut I remained without liquid cash. And I couldn't stop issuing checks. We issued some. Hoping to raise some cash in the meanwhile. Before they were presented for payment. But we couldn't make it. The Hanover Trust had to turn several down. An attorney for several investors, who for a week had been trying to round up some of my investors in order to petition for a receivership, saw his chance. He filed a petition in the bankruptcy courts. And that had the effect of stopping any further payments. Title to everything I had, automatically passed from me to the United States Courts.\nIt was the same night, I believe, that a city editor came up to my house in Lexington about midnight. Flashing a telegram from Montreal. But without allowing me to read it. Which wasn't necessary, anyway. Because I already had received my copy of it. He waved it at me and said that he had proofs of my Canadian conviction. Was going to print the story in the morning. Wanted to know whether I had anything to say.\n\"Yes, I have,\" I told him.\" You go ahead and print that story. But that will be the last issue of the paper that will ever be issued. You don't dare to print it. And you know it.\"\nHe didn't print it. He couldn't print it. The man from Montreal had wired him that, before he could be absolutely positive I was the same man who had been convicted in Canada, he would have to compare pictures. And so, I had another respite for a day or two. But the exposure was unavoidable.\nUnder the circumstances, the best I could do was to come out myself with the story. Before the newspapers did. So as to take the sting out. I sent for Joe Toye. Then with the Boston Record. Now, city editor of the Boston Traveler. I told him the facts. Gave him permission to use the story as soon as he had information that the papers were about to come out with it. He used it. On the 11th, I believe.\nMy sole hope rested now in my ability to produce sufficient assets to meet my liabilities. Auditor Pride was about ready to report. And I was all set for the show-down. I had been down to the Hanover Trust. Picked out the securities I could use. Arranged for their temporary removal. And everything. But even that last hope failed to materialize.\nWord reached me that the Bank Commissioner was up to something. I rushed down to the Hanover. And found the bank officials listening to an attorney. He was telling them that the Bank Commissioner intended to close the bank.\n\"What for?\" I asked.\n\"Because he claims the bank's conditions are not sound,\" he replied.\n\"Not sound,\" interrupted one of the bank officials. \"It's sounder now than it ever was. Our deposits have increased about 100% within the last two months.\"\n\"Well, maybe so,\" the attorney conceded, \"but the Bank Commissioner insists that the bank has some bad loans on his books.\"\n\"You can tell him he is mistaken when he says that,\" I butted in. \"This bank has not and cannot have any bad loans.\"\n\"Why?\" asked the attorney.\n\"Because,\" I replied, \"when I bought the control of this bank I went up to see the officials and told them that I would personally guarantee all loans. This bank holds a paper from me authorizing its officials to charge to my account any loan which may be deemed unsafe by the Bank Commissioner.\"\n\"That's true,\" one of the bank officials confirmed. \"We have that paper and the Bank Commissioner knows about it.\"\n\"Furthermore,\" I went on, \"the Bank Commissioner told me when I bought the control of the Hanover that the bank was in sound condition. If it was then, it is still more so now. You go up to the State House and tell them what I told you. Tell them also that I still have over a million dollars in this bank to take care of the bad loans.\"\n\"I will go and see them,\" the attorney agreed. \"After what you tell me, I am prepared to argue with him.\"\nHe went. Inside of half an hour he was back.\n\"Did you see them?\" I asked him.\n\"I did,\" he replied.\n\"What did they have to say?\" I inquired.\n\"They didn't say anything,\" the attorney stated. \"They wouldn't say anything. He told me to see the Governor.\"\n\"And did you see the Governor?\" I pressed him.\n\"I did,\" he answered. \"And this is what he said: 'The Hanover must be closed'.\"\nAnd the Hanover Trust Company was closed the same day. And then they got me.\nThe morning after, the 12th, I remained home. There was nothing I could do. But wait for things to happen. And happen they did.\nFirst, Hermann called. I received him. And he exhibited a check for $10,000,000 made out to me. The check was certified for $10,000,000 made out to me. The check was certified to by the Harriman National Bank of New York. For a moment, the sight of that check rekindled my hopes. I asked him if he had the contract with him.\n\"No,\" replied Hermann. \"I have not brought the contract. We have not changed our minds. But the latest developments have caused us to defer the matter for a couple of days.\"\n\"Oh, I see!\" I remarked, using a commonplace expression. What I really meant was that I realized perfectly well the case of cold feet he had developed. Nevertheless, I made him stay with me and we chatted for a while.\nThen, the telephone rang. I answered it. It was the United States Attorney. He asked me to go right down to his office because Pride was ready to report. I told Hermann that, if he cared to wait, he could. I had to go in town. I jumped in my car and went.\nIn the United States Attorney's office, I found, Mr. Assistant United States District Attorney, an auditor and one or two more people.\n\"Mr. Ponzi,\" said the Assistant United States District Attorney, \"the auditor reports that the total of your outstanding liabilities is about $7,000,000. Are you ready to produce sufficient assets to cover them?\"\n\"My liabilities are not $7,000,000,\" I replied. \"I don't believe they are one-half of that sum.\"\n\"But you have agreed to accept the auditor's figures,\" he reminded me.\n\"Yes,\" I admitted. \"I have agreed to accept his figures. Because I assumed, when I made the agreement, that his figures would not be more than a quarter of a million out of the way. Nevertheless, since I have agreed. I shall live up to the agreement.\"\n\"Are you ready to produce the assets?\" the Assistant United States District Attorney insisted.\n\"Yes, I am,\" I told him. \"But my total assets are of about $3,000,000.\"\n\"Then, you are $4,000,000 short,\" he remarked.\n\"I am,\" I conceded. \"On the basis of the auditor's figure. Which I am precluded by my own agreement from disputing.\"\n\"Under the circumstances, I am sorry, Mr. Ponzi, but I must do my duty,\" he announced. \"I must place you under arrest.\"\nA United States deputy marshal stepped forward.\n\"Mr. Ponzi,\" he said, \"in the name of the United States of America you are under arrest.\"\n\"O. K., marshal. I am your prisoner,\" I replied, making ready to follow him to the post-office and arrange about bail.\nMy house of cards had collapsed! The bubble had busted! I had lost! Lost everything! Millions of dollars. Credit. Happiness. And even my liberty! Everything, except my courage. I needed that to take my medicine like a man. To meet the future. Unquestionably, I was licked. For the time being. But no man is ever licked, unless he wants to be. And I didn't intend to stay licked. Not so long as there was a flickering spark of life left in me. Like there was then. And there is now. Life, hope and courage are a combination which knows no defeat. 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With her mother forced to work long hours to make ends meet, Asuna spends most of her time alone, listening to the crystal radio her father left behind. It\u2019s a curious thing, requiring neither electricity nor an amplifier, but the strange music that plays over it is an even greater mystery. Where does it come from? And what does it mean? The answers will lead Asuna into a hidden world filled with incredible dangers, where monsters and even the dead can be brought back to life. But there\u2019s a price that comes with unlocking the secrets, and it may be more than Asuna can afford to pay! Join the journey to Agartha as the adventure of a lifetime begins when acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai unleashes Children Who Chase Lost Voices!\n116 minutes (1 movie on 1 Blu-ray disc and 1 DVD)\nBlu-ray: 1080p High Definition / 16x9\nDVD: 480i/ 16x9 Anamorphic\nCommentary Dolby Digital 2.0\nCommentary DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0\n4 Disc Set, Reversible Cover, Full-Length Commentary Featuring Makoto Shinkai, Production Staff and VA, Interviews with the Staff & Cast, The Making of Children who Chase Lost Voices, Japanese Promotional Video, Japanese Teasers, A Brief Interview with Makoto Shinkai, The Works of Makoto Shinkai, Sentai Trailers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-11-04-8503160106-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DVXYCB52IC5QC6OPFG5GKO5B6OXI2VPT", "length": 3096, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "CHICAGO RANKS 3D AS HEADQUARTERS CHOICE OF TOP PRIVATE FIRMS - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "CHICAGO RANKS 3D AS HEADQUARTERS CHOICE OF TOP PRIVATE FIRMS\nChicago is third on the list of cities in the United States as a headquarters for the country`s 400 largest privately held firms, behind New York and Dallas, according to a listing of private companies by Forbes Magazine.\nForty-five of the 400 largest privately held firms call New York City home, 19 are based in Dallas and 18 have a Chicago-area address, according to Forbes.\nFifty-eight of the 400 top private companies are based in the state of New York, 49 in Texas, 40 in Caifornia, 20 in Illinois and 18 in Pennsylvania.\nThe 400 largest private U.S. companies have combined sales of $340 billion--one-seventh of the combined sales of the 400 largest public firms, Forbes reported.\nPrivate companies, defined as those that do not have widely traded common stock, represent 98 percent of all U.S. companies and account for at least one-third of U.S. production.\nThe largest privately held companies in the Chicago area:\n-- Allied Van Lines, with 1984 sales of $460 million.\n-- Arthur Andersen & Co., sales of $1.4 billion.\n-- CF Industries, $908 million.\n-- Chemcentral, $350 million.\n-- Dominick`s Finer Foods, $1.3 billion.\n-- Duchoscois Enterprises, $555 million.\n-- Encyclopaedia Brittanica, $305 million.\n-- Farley Industries, $2.2 billion.\n-- Hyatt Hotels, $1.4 billion.\n-- Imperial Clevite Inc., $500 million.\n-- Jupiter Industries, $281 million.\n-- Leo Burnett, $253 million.\n-- NES, $718 million.\n-- SFN Co., $360 million.\n-- Sealy, $482 million.\n-- Shurfine-Central grocery stores, $525 million.\n-- Signode Industries, $751 million.\n-- Tang Industries, $344 million.\nThe most recent Chicago-area newcomers to become private were Jupiter, Signode, SFN and Imperial Clevite.\nOn Oct. 4, majority shareholders of Jupiter, a diversified real estate and manufacturing firm, voted in favor of going private despite an attempt by a minority bloc to stop the transaction.\nJupiter put the wheels in motion to go private when its board approved a buyout offer of $5.8 million, or $37 a share, for majority shareholders to purchase stock not already controlled by them.\nOn Jan. 31, shareholders of SFN, the educational publishing, broadcasting and media services firm, approved a $424.4 million leveraged buyout of the firm by an investor group.\nThe SFN investor group includes E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., a financial services firm; privately held Hallmark Cards Inc.; investment baker Drexel Burnham, Lambert Inc.; and top SFN executives. The group offered $44.32 in cash and preferred stock for each SFN share.\nArthur Andersen, the largest accounting firm in the world, is among the oldest private companies. It was founded Dec. 1, 1913, in Chicago. The firm has 2,300 employees in Chicago and 26,000 worldwide.\nDominicks Finer Foods, which was founded by Italian immigrant Dominick DiMatteo Sr. on Sept. 11, 1925, on Chicago`s West Side, started as a small mom-and-pop-style store at Monticello and Grand Ave. The store now has more than 10,000 employees.\nSignode took the company from public to private control on Jan. 31, 1982.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 174.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-12-20-8503280395-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QVJR6CDVJ5YFCBGYMC6W7C27UKF2L4IV", "length": 315, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "ALGHINI HOLDS 9% STAKE - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "ALGHINI HOLDS 9% STAKE\nRonald A. Alghini, president of the investment firm Jefferies & Co., said he now controls ''almost 9 percent'' of the stock of Land of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association. Alghini said the purchases were for investment purposes, and he has no plans to seek a seat on the Land of Lincoln board.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-06-17-9606170087-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KY4ARSBXMM7ETZLT67TKWQSSJIOJHXJN", "length": 2508, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "GORDON FINISHES HIS TASK AT POCONO THIS TIME AROUND - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "GORDON FINISHES HIS TASK AT POCONO THIS TIME AROUND\nAfter it became apparent that the only driver capable of beating Jeff Gordon was Jeff Gordon, he began to think back to a bad day on the mountaintop.\n\"The thought certainly crossed my mind,\" Gordon said Sunday, recalling a missed shift last June that cost him an almost-certain victory in the UAW-GM Teamwork 500. \"I didn't know if something was going to jinx us or if (this) was going to be our day.\"\nGordon atoned for the biggest blunder of his brief career Sunday by dominating the UAW-GM Teamwork 500 at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., for his fifth victory of the season.\nAfter toying with the field a year ago, Gordon missed a shift on a restart with seven laps remaining, and watched helplessly as the leaders drove away while he battled to hang on for a 16th-place finish.\nThis year he led seven times for 94 of the 200 laps in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, and collected $96,980 from a purse totaling $1.2 million.\nGordon became the first driver this year to surpass $1 million in earnings. His total for the season is $1,069,482.\nThe victory was the 14th of Gordon's career and his second in a row. No other driver has won more than twice this year.\nThe reigning Winston Cup champion also benefited from the engine failure that ended Dale Earnhardt's run after 135 laps. Gordon, third in this year's standings, reduced his deficit from 182 points to 64.\nFinishing second Sunday was Ricky Rudd, followed by Geoff Bodine and Mark Martin, all in Fords.\nCanadian Grand Prix: Jacques Villeneuve won the support of a record crowd in Montreal, but didn't win the race. The hometown favorite finished second behind Williams-Renault teammate Damon Hill, who overpowered the field.\nHill, 35, started from the pole and led all 69 laps on the 2.741-mile Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, named after Jacques' late father. It was the Englishman's fifth victory in eight starts this season and the 15th career win for the son of two-time Formula One champion Graham Hill.\nLe Mans: After another disappointing finish at Le Mans, Mario Andretti isn't sure he'll return to the 24-hour endurance race.\nAndretti's team finished 13th, losing more than two hours in the pits for repairs that put his car 39 laps behind the winning TWR Porsche driven by American Davy Jones, Manuel Reuter of Germany and Alexander Wurz of Austria.\nAndretti, who has won almost every other major race in the world, said he doesn't know if he wants to give it another try.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/company-profile/intercontinental-hotels-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSL5NLUMTNTLIELRHD5O7W5SCSPNTIRO", "length": 653, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.chinanewswire.com", "title": "Intercontinental Hotels Group \u2013 China Newswire", "raw_content": "InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has over 180 hotels, located in more than 60 countries, with local insight that comes from over 60 years of experience. At InterContinental we believe that superior, understated service and outstanding facilities are important, but what makes us truly different, is the genuine interest we show in our guests. Our desire is to help guests make the most of their time. We connect our well-travelled guests to what's special about a destination, by sharing our knowledge so they enjoy authentic experiences that will enrich their lives and broaden their outlook.\nRecent press releases from Intercontinental Hotels Group :", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chinaspeakersbureau.info/2019/02/chinas-economy-is-strangled-by-itself-not-the-trade-war-harry-broadman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VEQVDKMISUFSR4BEXA2LYNBY7NJXFZ5R", "length": 3017, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.chinaspeakersbureau.info", "title": "China\u2019s economy is strangled by itself, not the trade war \u2013 Harry Broadman | China Speakers Bureau", "raw_content": "The noose around the neck of China\u2019s economy has been getting tighter, but hardly as a result of the tariffs imposed by the US. This is a dangerous myth celebrated by Washington and used as a scapegoat by Beijing.\nRather, the squeeze is largely self-induced. It stems from the lack of further reform \u2014 in some cases, the reversal of past reforms \u2014 in an economy still heavily dominated by the state and whose largest enterprises remain governed by the Communist party. The power to alter China\u2019s economic fortunes lies largely in Beijing\u2019s own hands.\nThe overarching symptom is a secular fall in China\u2019s real GDP growth. Except for an upward blip in 2010, the growth rate of the Chinese economy has been on a steady decline over the past 10 years.\nSuch a pattern cannot be the result of China\u2019s trade war with the US, which began in earnest only last year. And, despite the US imposition of tariffs, China\u2019s trade surplus has expanded, not contracted.\nThe trend continues. Last week, Beijing announced that its official recording of real GDP growth for 2018 was 6.6 per cent, the lowest rate China has experienced since 1990, the year following the student protests in Tiananmen Square. Beijing downplayed the news, casting it as fully in line with the government\u2019s forecast for 2018 and a sign of the maturity of the Chinese economy.\nThose of us who have worked on the ground in China for decades, however, know full well that even if one takes the country\u2019s official economic statistics at face value (which few of us do), the exercise Beijing utilises to set its growth projections lacks rigour and is tinged by political imperatives.\nWorse, the process is almost a tautology: official forecasts for a given year are not released before the year\u2019s start. Thus, only this March will Beijing unveil 2019\u2019s projection \u2014 that is, after a quarter of the year has already passed. That\u2019s a sure-fire way of improving the accuracy of any forecast.\nAs to China being a mature economy, it\u2019s highly doubtful whether the majority of the country\u2019s citizenry would agree with Beijing\u2019s characterisation.\nWhile a number of reforms put in place since 1978 \u2014 some of which have been truly ingenious \u2014 have lifted millions out of poverty, many Chinese remain poor by any standard. On a purchasingpower-parity basis, China\u2019s per capita GDP is below the global average. It is on par with countries such as Serbia, the Dominican Republic and Botswana \u2014 countries whose economies don\u2019t leap to mind as being mature.\nIf a precursor to economic maturity is sustained high growth that is widely diffused nationally \u2014 no small feat for a country that has a large population and occupies a vast geographic space \u2014 China is moving in the opposite direction. Indeed, the IMF forecasts China\u2019s growth to continue to fall, to 6.2 per cent for 2019 and 2020.\nMore in the Financial Times (reproduced with the kind permission of the author)\nAre you looking for more experts on the ongoing trade war between China and the US? Do check out this list.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christchurchschoolskipton.org.uk/skipton-childrens-centre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KUOWAIJE47QIEG33JRXVOMCNXWXECBNS", "length": 116, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.christchurchschoolskipton.org.uk", "title": "Skipton Children's Centre | Christ Church School | Skipton", "raw_content": "The Children's Centre offers a range of activities and support for families in the Skipton area.\nApril - July events", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/682-are-apostates-from-the-faith-beyond-repentance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DID4V76R7Z644WPK33T3KAKGIDDIV4QK", "length": 9264, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.christiancourier.com", "title": "Are Apostates from the Faith beyond Repentance? : Christian Courier", "raw_content": "Are Apostates from the Faith beyond Repentance?\n\u201cPlease explain Hebrews 6:6. Is it \u2018impossible\u2019 for some people to repent of their sins and be saved? This seems to be in conflict with Peter\u2019s statement that God wants all people to come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9).\u201d\nHebrews 6:6, especially the part that reads, \u201cit is impossible to renew them again unto repentance,\u201d is troubling to many sincere people.\nA correct view of the passage, however, will relieve one of needless concern. The Bible student may be assured that Hebrews 6:6 does not conflict with any teaching elsewhere in the Scriptures.\nFirst, one needs to understand something of the general theme of the book of Hebrews. This document is an inspired treatise by an anonymous author. The original design was to prevent Hebrew Christians from yielding to the influence of certain Jewish teachers, who would have them defect from the faith, and return to their original religious heritage.\nThe book of Hebrews is replete with warnings to Jewish Christians who were in danger of falling from the faith.\nFor instance, the recipients of the letter were warned against \u201cdrifting away\u201d from the truths they had learned regarding the Lord Jesus \u2014 which truths had been confirmed by miraculous phenomena (Heb. 2:1-4).\nThe \u201cHebrews\u201d were urged not to listen to those influences that denied the identity of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, and who were attempting to corrupt their faith, leaving them only with evil hearts of unbelief \u2014 should they grant these teachers a sympathetic ear (Heb. 3:12).\nThey were warned not to follow the destructive course of some of their ancestors, who succumbed to weaknesses, and so were not allowed to enter into the rest that Jehovah had prepared for them (Heb. 4:1ff).\nTheir Current Status\nA consideration of the latter portion of chapter 5, and the initial segment of chapter 6, reveals that many of these Hebrew Christians had become stagnant in the service of Christ. Note some of the traits they had developed.\nThey had become \u201cdull of hearing,\u201d i.e., they had not continued to absorb the rich teaching that they had received in the earlier days of their Christian commitment (Heb. 5:11). In fact, these Jewish Christians had regressed.\nWith the passing of time, they ought to have been stronger, yet they were at a point where they now needed instruction again in the very \u201cfirst principles\u201d of the oracles of God.\nTo say the same thing in another way, they needed to learn the \u201crudiments\u201d [their ABC\u2019s] all over again (Heb. 5:12). The Hebrews had remained in the spiritually \u201cinfantile\u201d stage (Heb. 5:12b-14), and that needed remedying.\nThese erring brethren were admonished, therefore, to advance beyond the \u201cfirst principles\u201d of Christ\u2019s teaching, and \u201cpress on\u201d to a state of spiritual maturity.The term \u201cperfection\u201d (Heb. 6:1) in this passage signifies the mature in contrast to the elementary.\nWere These People Genuine Christians?\nBecause so many within the protestant community are wedded to the Calvinistic dogma of \u201ceternal security,\u201d artful maneuvers of exegetical gymnastics are frequently employed in an attempt to establish the notion that the subjects of this rebuke are not genuine Christians. The claim is made that they were only \u201cprofessors,\u201d not real \u201cconfessors.\u201d As one writer asserts: \u201cTrue Christians do not (i.e., cannot) apostatize\u201d (Hagner, 93; cf. Hodges, 794).\nBut carefully notice the specificity with which these \u201cbrethren\u201d (cf. Heb. 3:12) are described (Heb. 6:4-5).\nThey once were enlightened, thus had left the realm of darkness (cf. Col. 1:13; cf. Acts 26:18).\nThey had tasted the heavenly gift. If the \u201cgift\u201d was not salvation (cf. Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8-9), what was it?\nSome attempt to make a play on the word \u201ctaste,\u201d suggesting that the Hebrews had merely sampled the gift, though not having \u201creceived\u201d it. Note this comment from an otherwise respected scholar.\n\u201cHebrews who had never actually obeyed the Word of God in the gospel and been saved, could taste the word and could experience the powers of a future age, without having become children of God\u201d (Vine, 56).\nAnd what of this. When Christ \u201ctasted\u201d death (Heb. 2:9), did he really die, or only get close to it? How terrible it is to be so enslaved to a theory as to have to resort to this sort of textual twisting (cf. 2 Pet. 3:16).\nThese people had been made partakers of the Holy Spirit (cf. Heb. 3:1, 14). Doesn\u2019t this mean that they belonged to Christ (cf. Acts 2:38; Rom. 8:9; Gal. 4:6)?\nAgain we cite W. E. Vine, who quibbles, suggesting that to be \u201ca partaker of the Holy Spirit is not becoming indwelt by Him through faith in Christ\u201d (56). However, this same writer equates the phrase \u201cpartakers of a heavenly calling\u201d (Heb. 3:1) with being \u201cchildren\u201d of God (32).\nThe Hebrew Christians had tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come.\" On \u201ctasted\u201d see above.\nIt is only by the most deceitful handling of the word of God (cf. 2 Cor. 4:2) that the obvious conclusion can be denied \u2014 namely that those addressed in this epistle were bona fide Christians.\nThey were children of God in spite of the fact that they had not grown to the point that was expected of them.\nThat Ominous \u201cImpossible\u201d\nWhat is the plight of one who has known and experienced the lovely blessings detailed in Heb. 6:4-5, and then he defects? What is his spiritual status should he \u201cfall away\u201d? And \u201cfall away\u201d from what? From the grace that had been bestowed upon them (see Heb. 12:15; cf. Gal. 5:4).\nThe answer to the question is this. \u201cIt is impossible to renew them again unto repentance.\u201d The phrase is frightening. It sounds so bleak. It is bleak! It is an \u201cimpossible\u201d endeavor.\nThe word \u201cimpossible\u201d derives from the Greek adunatos, literally \u201cwithout power.\u201d Note the word\u2019s use elsewhere in this letter (Heb. 6:18; 10:4; 11:6). Any attempt to weaken the term is an exercise in futility.\nBut, as our original question suggested, the passage does seem to conflict with so many other biblical texts that lavishly describe the unfathomable love and mercy of our wonderful and benevolent Maker.\nHow is one to reconcile this seeming difficulty?\nThe key to the solution is to be found in the following phrase. The American Standard Version renders it as follows:\n\u201cseeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.\u201d\nThe ASV footnote has it: \u201cthe while they crucify....\u201d The English Standard Version reads like this: \u201csince they are crucifying once again....\u201d\nThe translators are attempting to give the English reader a hint as to the force of the original text. Here are some important grammatical facts.\nThey keep on crucifying Jesus\nBoth of the expressions \u201ccrucify\u201d and \u201cput him to open shame\u201d are present tense participles. In Greek, the present tense has more to do with the type of action, rather than time (the latter being secondary). The present tense represents an action that is in progress, and generally, one that is sustained (see Wallace, 518).\nThe \u201ccrucifying\u201d and \u201cputting to open shame,\u201d therefore, represent on-going actions on the part of apostates.\nIt is also important to note that present participles normally express action that is contemporary with that of the main verb of the sentence (Wallace, 625), which, in this case is \u201crenew.\u201d\nIn other words, \u201cwhile they continue to crucify,\u201d \u201cas long as they are crucifying,\u201d etc., the Son of God, they cannot be brought to repentance.\nWhy is this the case? Because Christ is the motive for repentance! How could one possibly repent of falling away from the Christian faith, if he believes that the crucifixion of Jesus was a just sentence upon a false Messiah?\nAs F. F. Bruce expressed it: \u201cThose who repudiate the salvation procured by Christ will find none anywhere else\u201d (149).\nAnd so, it is not the case that Jewish Christians who abandon the faith cannot ever be saved. The tragic reality is this. They cannot be saved if they drift into a state of unbelief and remain that way!\nBut, as Blackwelder observes, the temporal participles imply that \u201cif persons guilty of such sin will cease it, and repent, they can be reclaimed\u201d (104).\nWhile the passage contains a fearful warning for apostates, it does not suggest a state of utter despair.\nBlackwelder, Boyce W. 1958. Light From The Greek New Testament. Anderson, IN: Warner Press.\nBruce, F. F. 1990. The Epistle to the Hebrews \u2014 Revised Edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.\nHagner, Donald. 1990. New International Biblical Commentary \u2014 Hebrews. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.\nHodges, Zane. 1983. \u201cHebrews,\u201d The Bible Knowledge Commentary, John Walvoord & Roy Zuck, Eds. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.\nWallace, Daniel B. 1996. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.\nHebrews 6:6; 2 Peter 3:9; Hebrews 2:1-4; Hebrews 3:12; Hebrews 4:1; Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 5:12; Hebrews 5:12-14; Hebrews 6:1; Hebrews 6:4-5; Colossians 1:13; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 3:1, 14; Acts 2:38; Romans 8:9; Galatians 4:6; Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 12:15; Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 6:18, 10:4, 11:6\nJackson, Wayne. \"Are Apostates from the Faith beyond Repentance?\" ChristianCourier.com. Access date: February 15, 2019. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/682-are-apostates-from-the-faith-beyond-repentance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 10348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cigionline.org/articles/global-commission-looks-offer-firm-stance-internet-governance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FAYPT6ONK4COD7NTLXXXBVSA3XWKTHTX", "length": 782, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cigionline.org", "title": "Global commission looks to offer firm stance on internet governance | Centre for International Governance Innovation", "raw_content": "Global commission looks to offer firm stance on internet governance\nA global commission has been launched with the aim of coming up with a comprehensive stance on internet governance.\nAnnounced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the commission is a two-year initiative put together by think tank the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).\nChaired by Swedish minister of foreign affairs Carl Bildt, the commission will include about 25 members drawn from various fields and from around the world, including policy and government, academia and civil society.\nThe commission\u2019s organisers claim that it will encourage globally inclusive public discussions and debates on the future of Internet...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 128.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cinemablend.com/games/2464378/nintendo-switch-had-the-most-great-games-in-2018-according-to-critics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:XTZQIP263WK7H655IMAWU4U3LBKJ7UHB", "length": 3204, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cinemablend.com", "title": "Nintendo Switch Had The Most Great Games In 2018, According To Critics", "raw_content": "Subscribe To Nintendo Switch Had The Most Great Games In 2018, According To Critics Updates\nNintendo Switch Had The Most Great Games In 2018, According To Critics\nWhen it comes to critical and commercial success, sometimes in the world of interactive entertainment there are huge discrepancies that are at odds with each other. But, for Nintendo that discrepancy didn't seem to exist throughout 2018, as the company managed to not only sell a boatload of software, but it also had some of the greatest games of 2018, according to the critics.\nMetacritic did a retrospective for 2018, detailing the best rated games, the highest rated exclusives, and the companies that had the most consistent averages amongst them all. Almost to no one's surprise, Nintendo came out on top.\nThis was mostly due to the volume of high-rated games being ported to the Switch, and not necessarily due to the amount of new exclusives launched for the console or because it had the highest rated game on any platform of the year. As noted by Metacritic...\n[...] there were over 100 more games (with enough reviews to calculate a Metascore) released for the Switch in 2018 than for any other platform. And, even with that higher volume, the Switch had the highest percentage of positively reviewed releases---not just the largest total of good games. Nearly 44% of Switch releases had green Metascores (reflecting approval from professional critics), compared to about 41% for Xbox One and less than 37% for PS4.\nSo, the Nintendo Switch edged out the competition by having more games released throughout the year that averaged higher ratings than its nearest competitors.\nThe top rated games for the Switch in 2018 included Undertale, which scored a 93, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which scored a 92 along with Celeste and Bayonetta 2.\nWhile Nintendo may have taken home the crown for having more games that scored an average of 90 or higher throughout 2018, the PS4 and Xbox One actually beat out the Switch by having the highest rated games of the year. In particular, Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 topped out 2018 as the highest-rated game on Metacritic, scoring a 97 out of 100 on both the Xbox One and the PS4.\nRed Dead Redemption 2 was followed closely by God of War on the PS4, which managed to hit a 94 out of 100, along with the Xbox One version of Celeste managed a 94. For the Xbox the third-best rated game on the list was Forza Horizon 4, sitting at a 92 out of 100. It also managed to take home a win at the 2018 Game Awards for the best sports game of the year.\nFor Sony the third-best rated game on the list was Larian Studios' Divinity: Original Sin II, which might be a surprise to some gamers considering that Marvel's Spider-Man was the far more talked about game for the platform, but it only managed an 87 out of 100.\nBut, at the end of the day it was Nintendo that took home the most spots out of the top 24 best rated games of the year. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 both managed seven out of the 24 spots, while Nintendo dominated with nine spots. There was one lone entry in the middle of the list for PC, which went to Into The Breach. But overall, Nintendo was the critics' choice for 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cinemascandinavia.com/baltasar-kormakurs-the-oath-preparing-for-us-theatrical-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RPYVVKJGFTZTD37QUHQQM6DSNT47VAEW", "length": 1320, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cinemascandinavia.com", "title": "Baltasar Kormakur\u2019s \u2018The Oath\u2019 preparing for US theatrical release \u2013 Cinema Scandinavia", "raw_content": "Baltasar Kormakur\u2019s \u2018The Oath\u2019 preparing for US theatrical release\nBaltasar Kormakur\u2019s The Oath has been picked up by Gunpowder & Sky for distribution, with plans for a U.S. theatrical release in the summer.\nThe film, which premiered as a Special Presentation in Toronto, was the number one box office film in Iceland in 2016.\nKorm\u00e1kur also stars in The Oath, the first time he has appeared in front of the camera in eight years. He plays a respected doctor living an ordinary life in a quiet suburb of Reykjav\u00edk. Things begin to spin out of control when his daughter introduces her dangerous and manipulative new boyfriend to the family. As the boyfriend\u2019s grip tightens, the doctor makes a desperate decision that will change everything.\nProduced by Kormakur\u2019s RVK Studios, the film also saw festival play in San Sebastian, Busan, Santa Barbara, Chicago, Palm Springs, and elsewhere. \u201cThe Oath was a real passion project for me and RVK,\u201d says Korm\u00e1kur. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to partner with Gunpowder & Sky who share our enthusiasm for the film. We look forward to the North American release.\u201d\nInformation from Deadline\nPrevious article\u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019 to open CPH:DOX\nNext article\u2018Sami Blood\u2019 sells in Berlin\nNext: \u2018Sami Blood\u2019 sells in Berlin\nReading: Baltasar Kormakur\u2019s \u2018The Oath\u2019 preparing for US theatrical release", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensfh.com/who-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:66QWN3SDSTR24EB3MTQ5T66VD7K5CSYY", "length": 267, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.citizensfh.com", "title": "About Us | Citizens Funeral Home - Longview, TX", "raw_content": "We invite you to discover who has made Citizens Funeral Home the ultimate provider of creating healing experiences in the community. This section contains the heritage, vision, and the people behind Citizens Funeral Home's reputation of quality, sincerity, and trust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensparking.com/management/ameripark/travis-larrison", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSXZHOOQJR2J2EVIDHRE5KW7MKHPBKHB", "length": 377, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.citizensparking.com", "title": "Citizens Parking - Management", "raw_content": "tlarrison@ameripark.com\nTravis leads many Regional Managers along the East Coast, from Florida to Massachusetts. Within his region, he leads several different verticals, including airports, malls, controlled access garages, hotels, and hospitals.\nTravis supports Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Wounded Warrior Project, and Unbound. He also is an active member of his Church.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cityofirvine.org/news-media/news-article/irvine-disaster-emergency-communications-team-participate-annual-field-day", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:NMGHWAMKYJG7ICZMQLHIMSOOW63YHDX3", "length": 1043, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cityofirvine.org", "title": "\ufeff Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications Team to Participate in Annual Field Day | City of Irvine", "raw_content": "Home \u2022 Newsroom \u2022 Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications Team to Participate in Annual Field Day\nIrvine Disaster Emergency Communications Team to Participate in Annual Field Day\nIrvine, Calif. (June 14, 2018) \u2013 See amateur radio operators in action as the Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications (IDEC) team takes part in the American Radio Relay League 2018 Field Day. This annual event includes emergency preparedness demonstrations, tours of the IDEC and City of Irvine communications vehicles, and information about radio volunteer opportunities. Attendees will also have a chance to speak to ham radio operators from around the world.\nThe free event takes place from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 23 at Las Lomas Community Park, 10 Federation Way, Irvine.\nIDEC is a volunteer organization of licensed amateur radio operators that supports the City of Irvine\u2019s emergency preparedness plan and aids in public safety efforts.\nFor more information on Field Day, email IDECFieldDay@gmail.com. To learn about IDEC, visit http://n6ipd.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citypaper.com/bob/2012/dining/bcp-cms-1-1553540-migrated-story-cp-20130918-bobdi-20130918-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:L5AUJ3XPIWIQSE7I2RP326CDD3MWVU7B", "length": 837, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.citypaper.com", "title": "Best Wings - Baltimore City Paper", "raw_content": "300 W. 30th St., (443) 869-5864, thedizzbaltimore.com\nCall this a juke right when you think we're going to go left, but hear us out. The iBar has the best wings in Baltimore. This is without question, as evidenced by their Best of Baltimore wins in 2009 and 2010. But as the Buffalo Bills paraphernalia on wall connotes, iBar prides itself on serving up an authentic upstate New York product. They have Old Bay wings, sure, but if we want the best wing covered in the beloved local seasoning, we're heading to the Dizz, where the wings are nice and meaty, plenty crispy (no soggy chicken skin, please. Get outta here with that), and have just the right amount of spice. The last variable in that equation can be a bit off now and again, but there's no question the Dizz delivers some of the best and most consistent Old Bay wings around.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.claimspages.com/news/2017/06/13/nicbs-2016-hot-spots-vehicle-theft-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IM4YIGK3OP67VTG5YBWT2UQMCSJAQ3EO", "length": 1079, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.claimspages.com", "title": "NICB\u0092s 2016 Hot Spots Vehicle Theft Report - Insurance Claims News & Stories - Claims Pages", "raw_content": "The Albuquerque, N.M. metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had the highest per capita auto theft rate in 2016 according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau\u0092s (NICB) latest Hot Spots report. Hot Spots examines vehicle theft data obtained from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) for each of the nation\u0092s MSAs. MSAs are designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and often include areas much larger than the cities for which they are named. For example, this year\u0092s number one spot, the Albuquerque, N.M. MSA, includes all thefts within the entire county of Bernalillo, not just the city of Albuquerque.\nMajor Auto Theft Ring Exposed In Jefferson Parish, Louisiana\nAutoSalvageSpecial Investigations\nNICB\u2019s 2014 Holiday Vehicle Theft Report\nVehicle Theft In The U.S. Over The Last Half-Century\nCalifornia Has Most Hot Spots for Car Theft\nNICB\u0092s Annual Holiday Vehicle Theft Report \u0097 2012\nNICB: New Report Reviews Late Model Compact and Subcompact Vehicle Thefts\nHot Spots: NICB\u0092s Annual Report on Vehicle Theft\nLouisiana Reports 4-Year Decline Vehicle Thefts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clarksdalecollegiate.org/enroll/enrollment-process/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:J55Y3IIVP4IRVISU4AYEJONPSWZKH3EC", "length": 2635, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.clarksdalecollegiate.org", "title": "Enrollment Process - Clarksdale Collegiate | Tuition Free, K-8 Public Charter School", "raw_content": "Thank you for your interest in sending your child to Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School! We are currently enrolling kindergarten, first, second, and third grade for the 2019-20 school year.\nClarksdale Collegiate does not limit admission based on ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, income level, disabling condition, proficiency in the English language, or academic or athletic ability.\nAny student residing in the geographical boundaries of a Mississippi school district that was rated \u201cC,\u201d \u201cD\u201d or \u201cF\u201d at the time the Clarksdale Collegiate was approved by the Authorizer Board including but not limited to Clarksdale Municipal School District, Coahoma County School District, and all adjacent school districts.\nClarksdale Collegiate is currently enrolling students who will enter kindergarten, first, second, or third grade in the 2019-20 school year. Students must turn five years of age on or before September 1st to enroll in kindergarten and turn 6 years of age on or before September 1st to enroll in first grade.\nParents wishing to enroll their child in Clarksdale Collegiate must submit an application online, by mail, or in person. If a lottery is necessary, all applicants will be contacted via email to be given an opportunity to apply for preference in the lottery.\nLottery (if needed)\nAdmissions Preference\nAccording to Mississippi Code \u00a7 37-28-23 (8), Clarksdale Collegiate provides admission preference to the following groups:\nCurrently enrolled students will automatically be guaranteed a seat for all subsequent grade levels, unless that students withdraws from the school.\nSiblings of current Clarksdale Collegiate students are given enrollment preference by being selected first in the lottery (if needed). Siblings are defined as a sister or brother residing in the same household or related by blood. Those students should indicate that they are a sibling of a current Clarksdale Collegiate student on the enrollment application.\nChildren of Clarksdale Collegiate full-time staff or board members will be given admissions preference. These students will be drawn second in the lottery (if needed) with the total number of seats allocated not to exceed 10% of total seats available.\nStudents who are underserved as defined by Mississippi Code \u00a7 37-28-5 (o) as students participating in the federal free lunch program who qualify for at-risk student funding under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program and students who are identified as having special education needs. Students who qualify for the underserved student preference will receive a weighted preference in the lottery (if needed).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudlinkeduk.com/2018/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:U3XRWOQ7IZFHWCP223LKIJOWBTXZABTJ", "length": 419, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cloudlinkeduk.com", "title": "Archives | Cloud Linked UK", "raw_content": "2017 was another great year for the public cloud. This year we saw many enterprises migrate into the cloud for the first time. We also saw businesses take the plunge and embrace cloud-first and cloud-only approaches to IT. In the first half of this year alone, the...\nEdge computing is a term you\u2019ll be hearing a lot about in the next few years. Here\u2019s why. Source: www.forbes.com Do you know what #EdgeComputing is?...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnet.com/news/is-qwest-still-all-talk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:37:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DU2HKCJDBTKOJPAUZZPQNMBKTXMOGPCD", "length": 7531, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.cnet.com", "title": "Is Qwest still all talk? - CNET", "raw_content": "Is Qwest still all talk?\nThe company's ads exhort customers to \"ride the light\" to a world of high-speed data and video networking, but the company still depends mostly on traditional long distance voice services.\nIn spite of its futuristic image, a key part of Qwest Communications' strategy may be rooted firmly in the past.\nThat is because the telecommunications upstart, perhaps the best-known company in a pack of young carriers deploying next-generation networks, is willing to buy older communications companies with many customers and solid revenue, rather than build a following from the ground up.\nFor all of the company's talk of building new fiber-optic networks for revolutionary data and video transmissions, Qwest's bottom line is still supported largely by its older, circuit-switched long distance voice business--the fruit of a recent acquisition.\nAnd judging by its most recent acquisition talks, Qwest seems to be continuing farther down that path.\nQwest is eyeing as takeover targets two more established telecommunications companies, US West and Frontier, which have networks that are largely relics of telecommunications' yesteryear. Qwest is embroiled in a bidding war to assimilate the companies into its envisioned world of advanced data services.\nThe strategy stands in stark contrast to the company's reputation--cheered by Wall Street--as a fast-growing telecommunications predator that, based on its technological advantages, hungrily consumes the customers of its supposedly weaker competitors that employ inferior technologies.\nQwest's perceived advantage is based on a state-of-the-art, 18,500-mile fiber optic network, which is slated to be finished any day now. Advances in fiber optics--hair-like glass strands that carry voice, video, and data as pulses of light at blazing speeds--allow companies such as Qwest to rapidly expand capacity and build a more efficient network, thereby offering cheaper service than its older brethren. With the latest technology, the company hopes to be a leader in the telecommunications industry for years to come.\nAs such, Qwest's ongoing advertising campaign suggests that businesses and consumers will sign on with the company to \"ride the light\" in order to enjoy \"the bandwidth to change everything.\"\nThose promises have led to a high-flying stock price, which helped Qwest entertain a purchase of US West and Frontier in the first place. Qwest's stock is up roughly 80 percent since this time last year.\nBut even as its customers begin to \"ride the light,\" the company continues to embrace traditional sources of communications revenue and lust after seemingly outmoded competitors.\nAccording to analysts, more than half the company's revenue comes from LCI International, one of the nation's largest long-distance voice carriers at the time Qwest acquired it last year.\nData accounted for roughly 10 percent of the company's network traffic in 1998, according to a spokeswoman. Qwest expects about 20 percent of its network traffic will handle data this year, she said.\nAnalysts say the market for Internet Protocol data services will be huge, and Qwest is well-positioned to take part in the boom. But long-distance voice traffic will continue to bring in the majority of the company's revenue for some time.\nAbout $2.5 billion--or two-thirds--of Qwest's $3.7 billion in revenue this year will come from its long-distance voice business, essentially LCI, according to Tom Friedberg, a financial analyst at Janco Partners. Friedberg expects Qwest's long distance revenue to remain flat at about $2.5 billion in the 2000 fiscal year while other sources of revenue will grow to $2 billion--about 44 percent--from $1.2 billion this year.\n\"The bulk of [its revenue] is boring, long distance voice to the small- and medium-sized business market,\" said Mark Winther, group vice president for worldwide telecommunications at International Data Corporation, a market research firm. \"But if you're on your way to the bank and there's money laying there on the way, you're going to stop and pick it up.\"\nThe long distance revenue, although not glamorous, has allowed Qwest to continue funding its ambitious construction project.\nSome analysts said Qwest's acquisition of LCI, and its proposed purchases of another long distance competitor, Frontier, as well as US West, a local phone carrier, is a sound strategy that gives the company a pool of customers to sell its advanced services to when the market is ready.\n\"You have to have customers to migrate to a next-generation network,\" said Blaik Kirby, a principal at Renaissance Worldwide, a Boston-based consulting firm. \"It's hard for a new guy to come in and gain brand recognition unless they have a large incumbent customer base to draw from.\n\"They've got to get a bigger installed base that's on a legacy system,\" Kirby said.\nAcquiring talent?\nUS West has the least-desirable geographic territory and demographics of the Baby Bells, and Frontier has aging local networks in upstate New York.\nSome analysts and investors, who are unclear of how they'll fit into the mix, have been critical of Qwest's abrupt, unsolicited takeover offers for Frontier and US West.\n\"If they buy a [Baby Bell], it's going to look a lot like a [Baby Bell],\" Janco's Friedberg said, noting the local phone giants are known more for their slow growth and predictable returns on investment than the high-flying Internet companies that abound today.\n\"I think what Qwest may be afraid of is if the telecommunications industry becomes an oligopoly, they're going to have to have last-mile connections to have other carriers keep their networks open to Qwest,\" Friedberg said.\nBut others argue that Qwest's moves give it the scale to compete.\n\"The name of the game is you've got to be big or you're not going to survive. And [Qwest chief executive Joe] Nacchio is nothing if not ambitious,\" Winther said.\nAnd US West and Frontier have huge existing customer bases, a fact that has Qwest's sales force licking its chops, analysts said.\nAlthough some parts of US West's and Frontier's businesses are unattractive, other newer divisions hold much promise, Winther said.\nMost analysts believe that US West leads all the Baby Bells in residential digital subscriber line (DSL) deployments. Coupled with Qwest's backing from BellSouth and its investments in other DSL startups, Qwest could be poised for an end-to-end local and national network over DSL lines, Winther said.\nPlus, in terms of corporate culture, US West is not necessarily a typical Baby Bell. Its enterprise data services group has an Internet-oriented culture much like Qwest's, Winther said. \"Of the [Baby Bels] US West has been the most innovative in its data services,\" he said.\nSeparately, Frontier has come a long way from its Rochester Telephone roots. The company has assembled a booming Web-hosting business, called Frontier GlobalCenter. The unit hosts Web sites for some of the Internet's largest players.\nAnalysts believe GlobalCenter is the key to Qwest's desire to nab Frontier. But Frontier is still one of the nation's largest long distance carriers and owns some profitable, if not exciting, local voice networks.\nQwest hopes its investments in new technologies, and a slew of acquisitions and alliances in the Web hosting, ISP, and digital subscriber line (DSL) markets, will soon net it huge sums of money.\nIn the meantime, voice--not the data services executives have boasted about--will continue to fill Qwest's coffers.\nDiscuss: Is Qwest still all talk?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 10117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cobrt.com/archived-blog/?category=Featured+Stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:SLHI7PY2VARJLUA7NLJSW3FEYJ3VO5LX", "length": 1750, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cobrt.com", "title": "Archived-Blog \u2014 Colorado Business Roundtable (COBRT)", "raw_content": "Connect & Collaborate - Social Media and More\nHelping businesses to do business better. That's the goal of almost any chamber of commerce. The Parker Area Chamber of Commerce does this better than most, by scheduling great events and speakers to inspire and encourage their members. Dennis Houston, President and CEO of the Parker Area Chamber joins us to discuss their efforts to serve northern Douglas county, by monitoring and influencing relevant legislation, while also building a calendar of fun events.\nOne such event is slated for May 5th, as PACC invites Marketing Strategist, Kyle Sexton to speak talk about Social Media for Business. Kyle is an expert on incorporating social media with business market, and is the author of soon to be three books. The latest title will release this summer, Social Media Mullet. Kyle joins us for a preview of the event, his thoughts on strategy and a sense of humor about the whole thing.\nYou can still register for the event on May 5th, 8:00 to 11:00 at the PACE Center. Click here for registration details.\nLater in the program, we continue our series of interviews with our state legislators, featuring Representative Rhonda Fields of District 42 in Aurora.\nRhonda tells us what led her to her work at the capitol, and which bills she working to pass, including: Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriptive Authority (SB 197) which would allow nurses in under-served areas to write prescriptions, Interactive Electronic Harassment - Cyberbullying (HB 1072) which would help eliminate loopholes to ensure that anyone harassed through social media or electronic means has recourse, and No Detention for Truancy (SB185) which would remove the juvenile court's jurisdiction over truancy, and several other bills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 307, "original_length": 56047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/star-wars-rebels-previews-and-all-new-images-for-stealth-strike/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:37EVIFCCGXPYI6MSWXKEW7VX6FIGOOIN", "length": 796, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.coffeewithkenobi.com", "title": "Star Wars Rebels: Previews and All-New Images for \"Stealth Strike\" - Coffee With Kenobi", "raw_content": "Star Wars Rebels: Previews and All-New Images for \u201cStealth Strike\u201d\nA Kanan and Rex team-up? You bet! It happens in the next episode of Star Wars Rebels, \u201cStealth Strike,\u201d when the duo (and Chopper) go on an undercover rescue mission outfitted as Stormtroopers. Think things will go smoothly for this unlikely partnership? Catch a glimpse in the previews below:\nAll-new images for \u201cStealth Strike\u201d can be found in the gallery below:\nThis episode of Star Wars Rebels airs Wednesday, November 25, on Disney XD at 9:30/8:30c.\nImages belong to Lucasfilm/Disney.\nNext article Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition - Black Friday Deals!\nPrevious article Luke Skywalker Can't Read and Other Geeky Truths Book Review\nhttps://www.coffeewithkenobi.com/star-wars-rebels-previews-and-all-new-images-for-stealth-strike\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 5713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.columbiaspy.com/2016/10/street-invasion-purge-meet-draws-crowd.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6ANYEUP66HPSPOYUHYACMCYKMCGWRFX2", "length": 3057, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.columbiaspy.com", "title": "COLUMBIA SPY: Street Invasion Purge Meet draws crowd Saturday night", "raw_content": "Street Invasion Purge Meet draws crowd Saturday night\nThe smell of burning rubber saturated the air around the AutoZone parking lot along Columbia Avenue as clouds of smoke drifted overhead. About 100 people with over three dozen vehicles, including cars, trucks, and bikes, converged on the lot Saturday night. The Street Invasion Purge Meet featured revving and burnouts, most in the nearby McDonald's parking lot. Squealing tires and roaring engines dominated the night for over an hour as drivers were urged on by spectators who recorded the action with cellphones. At one point a female employee of McDonald's approached the motorists and shouted at them to leave. Although the crowd was high-spirited, no fighting or vandalism occurred.\nShortly after 9 p.m., a line of vehicles abruptly left the lot in anticipation of police arriving. After the mass exodus, two police cruisers \u2013 one each from West Hempfield and Columbia - appeared after most of the participants had left.\nThis video was shot by Angel Rodriguez\nTo bad they don't have any thing better to do\nToo bad there's not a local, legal place for them to do this. They were having a good time.\nWe have done it there before this one and the police were in there with us and they left and never came back.. no one got in trouble just difference between this one and the other one was that some people were going to the McDonald's to do burnouts..\nWhere's the pics of the Bridge Bust, a far more worthier event and pretty sure the businesses at that shopping center weren't happy about it either.\nWorthier event? You've got to be kidding! I saw Cutco knives for sale! Every year the stands seem to get worse. Crafts you can buy anywhere. Several spots were not filled. Get some higher quality merchandise out there then we can talk about a worthier event.\nIt's a shame they all work full-time jobs and can't find nothing better to do yea...they weren't hurting anyone or damaging anything they weren't out at midnight squealing around doing it in the main roads endangering other drives instead they did it in a parking lot a big one at that. So before you piss and moan know that it could have been much worse.\nowen shirk October 16, 2016 at 5:06 PM\nBetter then doing drugs ect\nThat's a good point, Owen.\nThank you Owen and you are correct. When I was in high school kids rode through Long Park and a loop through the city. Usually we ended up at McDonald's on Columbia Avenue in Lancaster. Good kids having a good time and guess what...the powers that be put an end to it. Someone with some money to invest should create a local place where this could be done legally.\nBetter than wearing clown masks to scare people!\nLooks like everyone had a good time..............\nI believe they were out there a few weeks ago also. I think it's great that they can all get together and share a common interest without causing any trouble! Better than walking around the streets looking for trouble. Kudos to them!\nAs long as they have permission from all parties involved and are orderly, left them gather.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 9282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.columbiathreadneedle.ch/en/about-us/careers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4PLOL7CFVC5C25QPTTQ7NUZI56VEZF2M", "length": 4948, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.columbiathreadneedle.ch", "title": "Columbia Threadneedle Investment - Careers", "raw_content": "Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset management group that provides a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions for individual, institutional and corporate clients around the world. With a presence in 19 countries we believe our success is primarily the result of our ambitious and open-minded people, who work together to identify and develop the best ideas and opportunities for our clients.\nSearch open positions to begin the application process.\nView permanent and fixed-term contract vacancies\nView temporary vacancies\nWe actively recruit and develop talented individuals with outstanding skills and expertise and we seek to support their continued success. By creating an environment that values fresh ideas, demands input and rewards teamwork, we leverage the diverse and complementary skills and perspectives of our people to generate our best investment thinking and business results.\nWe have nurtured a culture of idea sharing, collaboration and debate that is an integral part of our highly successful investment process and our success as a business.\nAs we continue to grow, we know that our future success depends on our ability to attract and retain outstanding talent and engage our people in a dynamic and challenging professional environment, that both supports and inspires individual development and success.\nWe seek to recruit talented individuals that bring the best skills and expertise to a role. This is not based solely on technical ability; it involves looking at an applicant's broader capabilities which might include fluency in a local language, knowledge of a regional market, awareness of cultural differences or sensitivities, or an understanding of the client base. We also look for an ability to work as part of a team and to collaborate and communicate effectively with colleagues and other stakeholders.\nImportantly, we look for individuals who can demonstrate affinity with Columbia Threadneedle Investments' Values: Client focus, Excellence, Integrity, and Respect.\nOn this site you can find out more about Columbia Threadneedle Investments and the career opportunities we can offer you.\nThe brand promise of Columbia Threadneedle is Investments is 'Your success. Our Priority', and while this applies to our clients it also underpins our commitment to help employees succeed by providing an environment where they can grow their capabilities and career. View our videos to hear from our CEO Ted Truscott, and other employees who have discovered that this is a great place to work.\nHow we recruit & working with recruitment agencies\nColumbia Threadneedle has a commitment to sourcing the best talent directly, we also work with a defined list of preferred suppliers who support us in sourcing the best candidate for our roles. In line with our agency agreements, we will only pay agency fees if the recruitment agency has been formally instructed and fully briefed by a member of the recruitment team and we have signed commercial agreement in place for sourcing.\nWe do not pay agency fees for speculative and unsolicited CVs that are submitted to Columbia Threadneedle by any means other than through our recruitment portal. Where this is not observed we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.\nSubmission of any unsolicited CVs and proposals to Columbia Threadneedle will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of our Agency policy.\nIf you should have any questions on any of our career opportunities, or our application process, please contact: careers@columbiathreadneedle.com.\nColumbia Threadneedle Investments is pleased to be a part of Investment 20/20, an initiative by leading U.K. investment firms to offer young people from diverse backgrounds their first job in The City. The trainee program is a 12-month paid role for school leavers and graduates from all educational backgrounds.\nLearn more about this exciting programme and apply to be considered here.\nColumbia Threadneedle first asset manager to sign HM Treasury's Women in Finance Charter\nColumbia Threadneedle is proud to be the first UK asset manager to commit to the Government's Women in Finance charter. Alison Jefferis, Head of Corporate Affairs EMEA and Asia Pacific, comments: \"We believe the asset management industry has an opportunity to be a driving force for gender diversity. Many women are already thriving in asset management, enjoying long, flexible and prosperous careers. Our business serves a diverse population.\nAt a time when individual investors face increasing challenges, our industry needs a broad mix of experience, ideas and opinions to help us understand and deliver the financial outcomes our customers expect - a diverse management team is key to that.\"\nDiversity and inclusion at Columbia Threadneedle Investments\nShared parental leave at Columbia Threadneedle Investments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/3120950/financial-it/bank-of-england-wants-next-payment-system-to-be-blockchain-ready.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LYJGM5ABJNAZXIW23TKKMSLZYK2FYNK2", "length": 3053, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.computerworld.com", "title": "Bank of England wants next payment system to be blockchain-ready | Computerworld", "raw_content": "Bank of England wants next payment system to be blockchain-ready\nThe bank is inviting comments on the role of distributed ledgers in its next-generation, real-time gross settlement system.\nThe Bank of England wants to open its interbank settlement service to blockchain technologies as part of a major revamp of the system.\nThe bank is not suggesting that U.K. banks should begin processing bitcoin payments as a matter of routine. However, it does want the replacement for its aging real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system to be ready for whatever the industry is likely to throw at it when it goes into service in 2020.\nIt identified five key strategic drivers for the new RTGS system in a consultation document, \"A new RTGS service for the U.K.: safeguarding stability, enabling innovation,\" published Friday. Among them, it lists the need to interface with new technologies such as distributed ledgers. These are often referred to as blockchains, and include systems such as bitcoin and Ethereum.\nIn the bank's view, these systems -- and, indeed, the entire concept of distributed ledgers -- are still in their infancy, but if they achieve critical mass, it wants to be ready for them.\nMany things will have to change between the existing RTGS system, built in 1996, and its successor, to make this possible.\nChief among these is the introduction of longer working hours. The existing RTGS closes for 12 hours each night, but bitcoin servers run nonstop, typically approving transactions within minutes. The bank is proposing the new one have \"the capacity to operate on a true 24x7 (or near 24x7) basis,\" wisely reserving at least the possibility of a nightly nap.\nThere's also the need for enhanced security if it opens up its payment backbone to all comers.\nIt's not just about linking up with external blockchains, though: The bank will, it said, also continue to explore the use of distributed ledgers in its own systems, including through its own startup accelerator, which will shortly begin selecting a second round of participants. The first round includes a security assessment service, BitSight; a data anonymization tool, Privitar -- and a blockchain demonstration platform developed by the bank and PwC to explore the possibilities of smart contracts.\n\"The resilience characteristics of the distributed ledger in particular are potentially highly attractive from a financial stability perspective,\" the bank noted.\nBut it pretty much ruled out the possibility that the new RTGS would be blockchain-based.\n\"The technology is not sufficiently mature to provide the exceptionally high levels of robustness required for RTGS settlement. Further work is required to address privacy and system scalability in particular,\" the consultation document said.\nThe current RTGS settles \u00a3500 billion ($660 billion) between banks every day -- almost a third of the U.K.'s annual GDP. It's central to financial life in Britain -- as many found in October 2014, when part of the system had to be taken offline for a few hours due to technical problems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 6727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conserve-arm.com/news/press-releases/conserve-s-jeans-for-charity-program-makes-the-holiday-cheerful-for-those-facing-challenges", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XMCZNR7XELGPEWWJJWS72JXLVVSPP63S", "length": 5498, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.conserve-arm.com", "title": "ConServe's Jeans for Charity Program Makes the Holiday Cheerful for Those Facing Challenges | ConServe", "raw_content": "ConServe's Jeans for Charity Program Makes the Holiday Cheerful for Those Facing Challenges\nHome News Press Releases ConServe's Jeans for Charity Program Makes the Holiday Cheerful for Those Facing Challenges\nEmployees Support the Open Door Mission, the House of Mercy and the Buffalo City Mission\nRochester, N.Y. \u2013 The employees of Continental Service Group, Inc., d.b.a. ConServe, in conjunction with the company's \"Matching Gift Program\" made the holiday season brighter for the less fortunate through their Jeans for Charity philanthropic program in December. The program, in which ConServe employees can elect to participate in monthly charitable donations in exchange for the option of wearing jeans to work, provides employees with the opportunity to \"give back\" to their local communities by donating to a diverse group of organizations throughout the year. Additionally, the funds raised by the employees' generosity is supplemented by the company's \"Matching Gift Program.\" This ongoing initiative symbolizes ConServe's commitment to its corporate mission of helping to improve the human condition.\nCW Earsley, House Manager at the House of Mercy, states \"Christmas is our busiest time of year. We feed thousands of families this week. If not for the House of Mercy they would not have a Christmas dinner. Thanks to the generous support of ConServe and their employees, we will be able to reach and support even more people. Next year will be an exciting year, as we hope to be in our new, larger building and the funds donated by ConServe will certainly help make that transition possible.\"\n\"ConServe is proud to support the Open Door Mission, the House of Mercy and the Buffalo City Mission organizations as they strive to restore hope, provide support and positively change the lives of the most challenged members of our community\" said Stacy Bartl, Public Relations and Communications Manager at ConServe. She continues \"treating everyone with dignity and respect while empowering them to take control of their lives is a consistent message reinforced by ConServe and its team of talented professionals.\"\nChristopher J. Scribani, Assistant Director of Development at the Open Door Mission, Inc., adds \"the Open Door Mission is very grateful to ConServe. As an organization that is 98% funded strictly by the private sector, ConServe has helped us serve over 100,000 meals and provide in excess of 10,000 filled beds annually in our shelter while thousands of families benefit from our free clothing program.\"\n\"We are so thankful for organizations such as Conserve whose employees participate in volunteer programs such as Jeans for Charity. Through their efforts, their generous donation translates to more than 2,329 meals. It is our goal to make sure no one goes hungry any day of the year, but especially at the holidays. With a warm meal, each individual can begin the process of healing through hope,\" said Stuart Harper, Executive Director and CEO, of the Buffalo City Mission.\nConServe has been ranked as a top-performer by the federal government during specific performance periods. Representing less than 1% of collection agencies nationwide, ConServe has achieved the ACA International Professional Practices Management System (PPMS) certification, representing the collection industry's standard for quality management, and has completed the SSAE 16 Type II Engagement. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) with an A+ rating, ConServe is a recipient of the Rochester Business Ethics Award, has repeatedly appeared on Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and has been named a Rochester Top 100 company 13 times in the last 14 years. ConServe has been voted a Best Place to Work in Collections (for the last four consecutive years) and was recognized in 2015 as the #1 Top Workplace in Rochester, N.Y. Training magazine named ConServe on its Top 125 list of organizations with the most successful learning and development programs in the world, Dale Carnegie has awarded ConServe with the 2015 Enthusiasm Award for maintaining a dynamic corporate culture and the Greater Rochester Quality Council has presented ConServe with both the Customer Excellence and Operations Excellence Awards.\nAbout the Open Door Mission\nThe Open Door Mission is a Christian Rescue Mission founded to provide for the spiritual and physical needs of the impoverished and homeless men, women and children of Rochester, N.Y. by restoring hope and changing lives.\nVisit them online: www.opendoormission.com\nAbout the House of Mercy\nThe House of Mercy and our founder, Sister Grace Miller, are dedicated to serving and advocating for Rochester, N.Y.'s homeless citizens. Food, shelter, clothing, advocacy \u2014 operating 24/7, the House of Mercy never closes its doors on people in need. They strive to be a beacon of hope for the poorest of the poor, and we never give up on the thousands of people we serve each month.\nVisit them online: www.houseofmercyrochester.org\nAbout the Buffalo City Mission\nThe Buffalo City Mission Buffalo City Mission exists to meet the spiritual and practical needs of the poor by offering long-term recovery programs, counseling, work and life-skills training, education assistance and health-care services for homeless men, women and families committed to turning their lives around. They offer outreach programs to prevent homelessness for individuals and families in the low-income community.\nVisit them online: www.buffalocitymission.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 7514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.convatec.co.in/about-convatec-ostomy-care/corporate-responsibility/grants-contributions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2OMWTHEEY3TDVDDGMECJGQHIWKU6RLKY", "length": 1358, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.convatec.co.in", "title": "Grants & Contributions", "raw_content": "ConvaTec is committed to providing timely and useful educational and scientific information to healthcare providers across the globe. We support the education of healthcare providers through a grant process that ensures the education of healthcare providers in an unbiased manner.\nConvaTec also supports charitable causes through contributions of products, employee volunteer time, and monies. As members of the communities in which we work and live, we take our commitment to giving to those in need with the utmost seriousness and it is a guiding principle in the work we do.\nConvaTec is proud of its strong commitment to transparency throughout its educational grant making and charitable contribution activities. Our safeguards are among the most rigid in the industry. We work to ensure that our ongoing support of programs and activities may not be interpreted as a price concession, reward or inducement to customers to prescribe or purchase ConvaTec products. To accomplish this, an independent committee oversees requests from grant and contribution seekers. This ensures that the ConvaTec award of unrestricted educational grants and charitable giving are implemented fairly and honestly.\nAny questions regarding grant or charitable giving requests should be directed to the ConvaTec Ethics and Compliance Office at grants.charitables@convatec.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 5898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.convergemagazine.com/18137/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SP7WY47Y2SUH3ECQV4WZ45PP2KVDDSBC", "length": 3822, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.convergemagazine.com", "title": "Finding Grit and Grace in Alaska \u2013 Converge Magazine", "raw_content": "Finding Grit and Grace in Alaska\nMay 10, 2016 by Steve Austin\nWe pulled up to our new little cottage and just stared. This was it \u2014 we were actually going to live out our dream in Seward, Alaska of all places \u2014 a tiny little town in Resurrection Bay. A few blocks in one direction took us to the waterfront and a few blocks in the other led directly to the mountain path. Our little rental home withstood the tsunami from the late 1960\u2019s, but the original hardwood floors still creaked with every step. We had two weeks before I started my dream job. We soaked up every minute, acting as tourists in our new town.\nWe\u2019d always wanted to go to Alaska. We tried to plan a honeymoon there, but finances wouldn\u2019t allow it. On our fifth anniversary we looked at a cruise, but that, too, was over our budget. Then, out of nowhere, a company had recruited me. They were willing to relocate us, provide housing, and pay more money than we\u2019d ever made in our lives. It almost seemed too good to be true. After a hard season, it was exactly the break my family needed. Though the idea of being four thousand miles from everything we\u2019d ever known was overwhelming, we knew it was the right thing to do.\nThrill turned to horror three days after starting my new job. I\u2019ve heard that the wheels of change grind slowly, but when Human Resources decides you are not the right candidate after seven weeks of negotiating, selling everything you own, and moving your wife and two small children across a continent, the wheels of change actually move terrifyingly fast. I was officially terminated two days later. When I received my check, I hadn\u2019t even made enough money to fly us home.\nWe were left with a hefty rent, a year-long lease, and no job prospects. My wife sank into the couch as I delivered the gut-wrenching news that our fairy-tale was now a nightmare. We didn\u2019t know what to do next.\nI had even joined the worship team at our tiny new church\u2026 and we had a practice\u2026 that night. I decided to go. I remember how numb my fingers felt on the keyboard, how my knees threatened to go weak every time I pressed the pedals. While the worship team cried to God to remember His children through song, all I could do was move my mouth and hope words came out. My heart was broken, my spirit squeezed tight by disappointment and fear.\nFour months later, we somehow made it back to Alabama.\nMy family lives in the spare room at my parents\u2019 house right now, my children\u2019s pallets permanently stretched across the floor. We are doing the stressful work of starting our lives from scratch, again.\nI have no idea why God allowed all of this disappointment and frustration into our lives.\nEven so, I still look to God for comfort. I refuse to stop believing. The pat answers of church ring hollow for me, yet I continue to go week after week.\nFor me, trusting God after our disappointment in Alaska is a stubbornness that cries in the middle of the night. It means refusing to give up hope, one day, one minute, at a time. Sometimes trusting God isn\u2019t a praise song with the full band on a Sunday morning, but rather it\u2019s a stick\u2013to\u2013it\u2013ness that says, I know there is something deeper than my pain, so I\u2019ll give this another shot tomorrow.\nAs the weather turns cool and the leaves fall, I still think of Alaska; It was our dream, and now our dream is gone. But I refuse to give up hope in God. Sometimes, it\u2019s all we have left.\nphoto by JLS Photography \u2013 Alaska\nAbout Steve Austin\nSteve Austin is a thirty-something who scored off the charts on his ADHD test. Different foods on his plate cannot touch and he binge watches Netflix like it\u2019s his j-o-b. Aside from his quirks, Steve is a writer, professional photographer and sign language interpreter who has also been a youth pastor and worship leader off and on for the better part of a decade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corporate-cases.com/2017/11/crisis-in-refugee-education.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:05Z", "digest": "sha1:B6SBVO3RXW4XFKST6NQSP44L3LC5AKJP", "length": 4181, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.corporate-cases.com", "title": "Crisis In Refugee Education", "raw_content": "Crisis In Refugee Education\nOften, host communities place the camps for these people in the poorest and most remote parts of their countries or cities. The international community no longer harbors unrealistic expectations. Today the community is well aware of the serious and not always pleasant impacts that large groups of refugees can have on the host community\u2019s social, political, and economic life. However, this issue is often overlooked.\nIn many cases, even if the country kindly approached these groups at first, later this attitude changes and gives way to hostility due to a huge lack of resources and a large number of safety issues that appear. The relationships between these groups and their host-communities\u2019 government are often intense. This can be easily explained. The presence of such groups in a particular community brings together and increases all of the existing ecological, social, economic, and political difficulties. Besides, the problems get bigger when these groups grow, and all these issues have a negative impact on the local people. As a result, they become a big obstacle to the development of the country.\nAs a rule, the society helps these people to receive the humanitarian supplies, food, and shelter immediately, while education is less prioritized. Authorities often approach this issue as a less urgent one. This happens due to the reason that the majority of host cities lack basic resources like teachers, books, and schooling places to fit thousands of new kids who, in their turn, require more attention as they need to adjust to the new curriculum, study program, and language.\nAs a result, such emergencies deprive millions of kids a chance to finish school and gain higher education in college or university.\nWhat is the current situation with refugee crisis of education? The situation with education for refugees still remains in crisis. UNHCR highlights the importance of this problem and encourages authorities and organizations to support refugee children and help them attend schools without issues. The agency claims that over a half of teenagers and kids (3.7 out of 6 million), who are under the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency, currently still do not have the opportunity to study at school.\nThe statistical data is disappointing. In accordance with the study, 91% of kids from all parts of the globe attend primary school, while only 50% of same-aged refugees have such opportunity. This data clearly showcases the existing crisis and the ignorance of this problem. However, not all of us prefer to ignore the issue, for example, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees \u2013 Filippo Grandi approaches this problem seriously. Filippo highlights that providing educational opportunities to refugee children is one of a few possibilities that we should use to bring up the new generation that can change the destinies of millions of people who were forcibly displaced. He believes that this matter requires immediate contribution.\nThe report \"Missing Out: Refugee Education in Crisis\", provides detailed information about the refugee education and highlights the statistical data that proves that the crisis exists. The global indicator of a number of pupils who can obtain a primary education is over 90%. The same indicator for refugees is much lower \u2013 50%. It is also highlighted that this number gets lower in elder age groups and thus, only 22% of students attend secondary school, and only 1% of teenagers enroll in a university or college.\nThe report also shows certain progress that was reached in this matter. However, it is clear that the problem still exists. Today, the UN Refugee Agency works on improving the situation by means of creating individual scholarships and funding educational establishments like schools and community learning centers.\nAuthor\u2019s Bio: This post is created by Michael Stoddard \u2013 a passionate journalist, currently an academic writer at customwriting. com, and active public figure. For years, Michael has been studying issues related to education and social welfare. Now, he shares some important details, urgent problems, ideas and statistics on his blog.\nTags: Guest Authors, Refugee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 4594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/05/israels-huff-and-puff-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:50Z", "digest": "sha1:O7VXOY44L2TIRJJLENIFEY67IACZVQRS", "length": 7092, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.counterpunch.org", "title": "Israel\u2019s Huff and Puff Game", "raw_content": "Israel\u2019s Huff and Puff Game\nThe air is full of dire warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran. Prophets of doom declare themselves full of forebodings and point fearfully to the meeting in the White House between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as crucial in making the decisions that will lead to peace or war.\nMany Israeli and western commentators adopt a tone so portentous about this meeting that parody is difficult. For instance, Ari Shavit writes in Haaretz that \u201cnext Monday, in the White House, the man from Washington and the man from Jerusalem will look into each other\u2019s eyes. Each will see the abyss in the other\u2019s pupils.\u201d Mr Shavit does not reveal what lies at the bottom of this ocular cavity, but he sternly warns the American and Israeli leaders that if they don\u2019t work together \u201cthey will bring disasters on their nations.\u201d\nWars in the Middle East commonly come as a surprise aimed at catching the enemy napping or, at least, with little preliminary warning. This was true of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Saddam Hussein\u2019s invasion of Iran in 1980, and even NATO\u2019s air assault on Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s tanks as they advanced on Benghazi a year ago. Where the build-up has been slow, as in America\u2019s wars with Iraq in 1991 and 2003, it is because the US was certain of victory.\nThe highly-publicized impending Israeli air strikes on Iran are different from these previous conflicts in several respects: They are extremely unlikely to achieve their declared aim, which is to end permanently Iranian capacity to build a nuclear bomb. A bevy of former Israeli intelligence and army chiefs along with senior serving American officials are at one in saying this cannot be done. An Israeli attack is, if anything, likely to decide Iran to build a nuclear device, a decision which, it is generally admitted on all sides, it has not yet made.\nThe Israeli assault will not only come as no surprise, but it will be one of the most heavily advertized events in the world in recent years. Promoters of Hollywood blockbusters must look with envy at the pre-publicity for this war. The Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barack makes bloodcurdling threats. The US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta even put a date on the attack, saying to journalists that there is a \u201cstrong likelihood\u201d of an Israeli air assault this spring. The New York Times reverently quotes Israeli officials as saying that Israel might attack Iran without informing the US. Well-advertised Israeli air training exercises take place over the Mediterranean. The Hollywood analogy is apt because there is something very stagy about these oft-repeated threats, though the international media happily takes them at face value.\nThere is a persistent misjudgement that mars much of the commentary on the relations between Israel, Iran and the US. This is to do with the size and the military capacity of the antagonists. Taking its threats at face value, Israel is saying that it will fly its planes to Iran and destroy widely dispersed and heavily protected Iranian nuclear facilities. But this is the same air force that in 1996 and 2006, though supported by artillery and facing no anti-aircraft defenses, failed to defeat a few thousand Hezbollah guerrillas dug into bunkers a few miles from Israel\u2019s northern border. Two years later, the bombardment of tiny undefended Gaza succeeded in killing some 1,300 civilians, but failed to eliminate the Hamas leadership.\nIsrael is at its more influential when threatening war than when it is actually fighting one. The last time Israel conclusively won a war was forty years ago in 1973, and then only after serious setbacks. Its prolonged incursion into Lebanon brought only humiliation and failure.\nIsraeli leaders do very little militarily with which the US seriously disapproves or cannot live with. It is Israel\u2019s relationship with the US, not Iran, that is crucial. Israelis sense this and do not vote for leaders who get on permanently get on bad terms with Washington, as happened to Netanyahu to his cost in the election of 1999. Israeli attitudes are reflected in an opinion poll conducted on behalf of the Brookings Institution, and released last week, which shows that only 19 per cent of Israelis favor a unilateral strike on Iran without US support. This figure goes up to 42 per cent if an Israeli strike does have American backing. A third of Israelis is against a strike in any circumstances and think it will have no effect or lead to the speed up an Iranian nuclear program.\nAll these are reasons why Israel\u2019s threats of imminent war against Iran are most likely high quality bluff. It is a bluff, moreover, that has so far proved highly successful in isolating Iran politically and economically. Israeli leaders in their hearts may secretly not feel as threatened by an Iranian bomb to anything like the extent they claim (though one should not under-estimate the capacity of Israelis, and indeed everybody else, to be convinced by their own propaganda). In any case, the US National Intelligence Estimate, the collective opinion of the US intelligence agencies, confirms that Iran has not taken a decision to build a nuclear weapon, and has not had a program to do so since 2003. Even then, one US intelligence agency concludes, the Iranians were only doing so in case Saddam Hussein built a nuclear bomb to use against them. If Iran does succeed in building some nuclear devices, it will be deterred from using them by the far greater arsenals of Israel and the US. Deterrence works, as witness the stand off between the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War.\nOf course, Israel would prefer Iran to be without nuclear weapons, but they scarcely pose the threat to Israel that Netanyahu and Barak pretend. But their repeated threats to strike Iran before it strikes Israel has proved highly successful in persuading the Europeans, and much of the rest of the world, to join the US in imposing severe economic sanctions. They would scarcely have done this without them being persuaded that the alternative to harsh sanctions was a new war in the Gulf.\nThe fresh wave of sanctions is effective. Iranian oil exports are being crippled. Iran may be able to sell its crude oil, but in smaller quantities and at reduced prices. International trade links with Iran are being paralysed, domestic prices are rising swiftly and, in the long term, support for the authorities in Iran is being sapped.\nThis is a further reason for suspecting that threats of war are overblown. The US and Israel may publicly differ on how to respond to Iran\u2019s nuclear program, but they are at one in wanting to change the regime in Tehran. And here they are making much more progress than seemed likely a year ago. Syria, Iran\u2019s main ally in the Middle East, is on the ropes and, in the long term, may not survive. The number of people and parties boycotting the Iranian parliamentary election last Friday shows a divided and increasingly unpopular Iranian regime. Israel\u2019s threats of war are turning out to be more potent than war itself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 11226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.courant.com/business/hc-biz-synchrony-led-20170718-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BK5ZQSDDM7TJHTJWJ5CHWQIA57VOKWKS", "length": 5666, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.courant.com", "title": "UConn Prof's Smart Light Show System Listens To Music - Hartford Courant", "raw_content": "UConn Prof's Smart Light Show System Listens To Music\n| EAST HARTFORD\nEd Large, founder of Synchrony LED, talks about his lights that mimick how we hear music.\nEAST HARTFORD \u2014 LED strips and twinkle lights flash constantly in the office of University of Connecticut professor Ed Large, just waiting for a beat to latch onto.\nThey're controlled by a brain, an intelligent listening system designed by Large, who himself is partial to jazz and funk. He thinks his invention, Synchrony LED, which listens to music and creates real-time light shows, is too.\n\"If you play a rhythmically boring song. it'll just go with the beat and it becomes boring really fast,\" Large said of Synchrony's lighting effects. \"But if you listen to music that has an interesting rhythm, that's when it does super interesting things.\"\nLarge teaches psychological science and physics and directs UConn's music dynamics laboratory. Synchrony, his first commercial product after 25 years of research, will be available for sale to the public this winter.\nIf you listen to music that has an interesting rhythm, that\u2019s when it does super interesting things.\nUniversity of Connecticut professor Ed Large\nSynchrony works in the same way that people bounce their knees to a tune; the same way that mangroves full of fireflies in Southeast Asia blink their lights in unison; the same way that pacemaker cells all fire at once to make our hearts beat.\nPeople, organisms and even cells have a natural rate of internal vibrations, or oscillations. This back-and-forth activity tends to sync up with surrounding vibrations. In humans, this is particularly effective with music, which explains how a snappy tune can set people tapping their toes, nodding their heads and harmonizing to the beat.\nSynchrony does the same, just with patterns of light.\nAnd the more Large learns about the way the brain perceives sound, the more intricate Synchrony's effects will become, he said.\n\"At this stage of programming, we're not going to compete with a light show that somebody spent two months programming,\" he said. \"But we will.\"\nLarge began the project in October from the office he rents at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, a nonproft manufacturing innovation hub on Pitkin Street. He launched a Kickstarter campaign in June and, by July 12, raised more than $60,000 to move into final engineering and production.\nLarge says he's already seen interest from other companies interested in using his technology in their own sound-capturing products and apps, which is exactly what he was hoping for.\n\"One goal of this was to show off to them,\" Large said.\nJi Chul Kim, chief science officer, Andrea Hardy, business manager, Edward Large, founder, and Dylan Reilly, chief technology officer, of Synchrony LED at their East Hartford office on July 20. (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)\nUnlike other sound-activated light shows on the market \u2014 some of which sell for about $25 \u2014 Large's nearly $200 version does not need to be programmed and its visuals go beyond flashing in time with every note.\nUsing a built-in microphone and an advanced neural network, it synchronizes its rhythms like the human brain does, intelligently translating songs into patterns that mimic the way we process music.\n\"We're taking a flashing light and making it feel really good to watch,\" said Dylan Reilly, chief technology officer for Large's company, Oscilloscape.\nA starter kit, including a controller box and one LED strip or two LED strings, will sell for $189.\nLarge says it all started with the desire to understand how the brain predicts and hears the beat of a song.\n\"It seems like it's so easy and it's so obvious. You listen to music and there it is,\" Large said. \"But no one knew how it was done.\"\nIn the early 1990s, he decided to go to graduate school to study in the then-novel field of music cognition.\nSince then, his experiments have ranged far and wide, including finding a bonobo at the Jacksonville Zoo that was amenable to banging on a drum to a steady beat.\nLarge wanted to prove that apes could sense oscillations in music the same as humans, and the same as Snowball the dancing cockatoo, whose head-banging and high-kicking moves gained Youtube fame in the mid-2000s. The parrot was deemed the first animal capable of \"beat induction,\" or perceiving music and synchronizing body movements to it.\nLarge has moved on to another group of bonobos in Iowa, but his auditory research has also attracted the attention of the U.S. Air Force, which issued him contracts worth $2.5 million.\nThe technology behind Synchrony was developed with significant grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, Large said.\nHe went through several iterations of the product itself. The first concept, wearable pins, were bad business \u2014 too costly to manufacture for the price people would be willing to pay. A second idea, rave gloves, was a bit too complicated.\nThen he hit on LED strips.\n\"It was really captivating. When you see it happen, you just can't take your eyes off it,\" Large said . \"So we decided that's got to be the thing.\" Large says he plans to send the first round of products to his backers in time for them to string up their Christmas trees.\nAnd though holiday lighting was Large's original concept, and it remains one of his favorites, he says Synchrony works best with songs that have some funk. The more complex the music, the more interesting the visuals.\nWhen he was developing the system, Large played Stevie Wonder's \"Superstition\" on repeat.\nAnd no, he's used to saying: That didn't ruin the music.\n\"You could play that song for me every moment of the day.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.covenofthegoddess.com/spells/friendship-spell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RFTGG7Q4ET35CKNZMEWTOO2YRXWIPZOE", "length": 1722, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.covenofthegoddess.com", "title": "Friendship Spell \u2013 Coven of the Goddess", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s face it \u2014 it can be hard to make friends, especially as an adult. Even though we might go to an office to work, that might provide a group of people who we want to see when the workday is over. Or maybe you\u2019re new in town or new to a school or you want to have better friendships \u2014 the Friendship Spell can help. Not only will this spell help to attract positive people into your life, but it will also allow you to find friends who will be true to your relationship.\nCategory: Friendship and Family Spells\nMost of us have a number of acquaintances that we see and consider to be friends. But if we needed to call on these people, would they actually be there for us? That is another question. Instead, you need the Friendship Spell to help you attract positive people, people who will be there for you and who will be truthful with you.\nIf you\u2019ve always been the person who\u2019s been less than popular or who is often left behind, the Friendship Spell can turn things around for you. By allowing you to become the one that EVERYONE wants to be with, you will begin to enjoy many friendships \u2014 and ones that are genuine and supportive. Imagine what it will be like to have a social calendar that\u2019s always full and friends who are always around, wanting to be with you.\nIt\u2019s not enough to simply want to be friends with someone else, you need to attract people to you. With the Friendship Spell, you will attract just the right people into your life, and they will become lifelong allies.\nWhen you feel you need more friends or that you need better friends in your life, the Friendship Spell is here to help you. You can be surrounded by love and positive relationships \u2013 and you will more quickly than you might expect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 7151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coworkingconsulting.com/2018/12/07/making-u-s-fire-departments-more-diverse-and-inclusive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6BIKHIQAQ7A26TKTOCVLSNGZPXLJHIQU", "length": 13881, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.coworkingconsulting.com", "title": "Making U.S. Fire Departments More Diverse and Inclusive | Coworking Consulting", "raw_content": "Home Business Making U.S. Fire Departments More Diverse and Inclusive\nMaking U.S. Fire Departments More Diverse and Inclusive\nyoungvet/Getty Images\nPicture a typical firefighter. Who comes to mind? If you imagined a white man, that\u2019s understandable: 96% of U.S. career firefighters are men, and 82% are white. This homogeneity is striking, especially when you compare it to the U.S. military, which is 85% men and 60% white, and local police forces, which are 88% men and 73% white.\nMany fire departments recognize that their lack of diversity as a problem and say they\u2019re committed to increasing racial and gender diversity. \u201cWe have to diversify, because it actually improves our organization. It helps us address the needs of the public better,\u201d says Derek Alkonis, the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) assistant chief. Ralph Terrazas, chief of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD), agrees: \u201c[We] will provide a higher level of service to the communities we serve when the people of that department respect the culture, language and beliefs of the people within that community.\u201d\nBut what\u2019s the actual path for departments achieving more diversity? And if they do so, will their members embrace how it improves their organization?\nAnswering these questions requires a closer look at two factors: what firefighters\u2019 work actually consists of and what departments are currently doing to address diversity in their ranks. The answers suggest we need a new model for leaders.\nWhat firefighters actually do.\nYes, they\u2019re fighting fires, which requires climbing ladders, hauling hoses, and carrying victims from burning buildings. But this is only a small subset of the job. In 2016, only 4% of emergency calls to which U.S. fire departments responded were actually fires. The majority (64%) were medical emergencies.\nTo succeed as a firefighter, stereotypically masculine traits like brawn and courage are simply not enough. Firefighters also need the intellectual, social, and emotional skills required to deliver medical emergency aid, support each other through traumatic experiences, and engage intimately with the communities they serve. In short, successful firefighters embody a complex mix of skills and traits. And yet, in my research on reducing gender bias and my work conducting training on general diversity and inclusion with fire departments, I find that, when evaluating fit and competence, firefighters tend to default to a reductive set of traits (physical strength evaluated through strict fitness tests, for example) that serve to maintain white men\u2019s dominance in the fire service.\nThis manifests itself in several ways. A common sentiment I\u2019ve heard many times is, \u201cI don\u2019t care if you\u2019re black, white, female, male, or polka-dot. All I care about is if you can do the job.\u201d But if this performance-based meritocracy were true, getting the job done would encompass a variety of skills and talents at which both men and women and people of all races and ethnicities could potentially excel. However, as Felix Danbold and I explain in our forthcoming research in Organization Science on gender bias in the fire service, \u201cwhen the topic of female firefighters came up, the importance of physical strength was consistently and spontaneously invoked to justify the relative absence of women in the fire service, but the importance of compassion (a female-stereotyped trait) was rarely, if ever, brought up to argue for bringing more women into the profession.\u201d\nWe determined that this is because stereotypes about women\u2019s relative lack of physical strength and stamina have led to a widespread belief that departments have lowered their standards to accommodate female firefighters, thus undermining the integrity of the service and posing a threat to their colleagues and communities.\nWhile many women firefighters do have the physical abilities to succeed as firefighters, those who are or have been a part of the LAFD and LACoFD have nonetheless experienced excessive, unrelenting scrutiny and skepticism since being accepted into the ranks in 1983. We heard comments like \u201cI have to prove myself on every call, every time\u201d and \u201cEveryone expects you to fail.\u201d Women, more than men, reported being repeatedly drilled on the most physically-demanding tasks every time they were assigned to work with a new crew, no matter how many years of experience they had. One male Battalion Chief told us about a recent experience when a woman was assigned to his crew, and all five of the other men on the crew requested transfers the next day.\nBlack firefighters also have to compensate for stereotyped assumptions of inferior competence. Historically, this was especially true during departments\u2019 legally mandated affirmative action hiring periods. \u201cWhen I was hired,\u201d said Brent Burton, LACoFD Captain, Recruitment Unit and former president of the Stentorians (the recognized employee group for black firefighters), \u201cpeople essentially told me \u2018you\u2019re an affirmative action guy, you\u2019re not as good.\u2019\u201d Today, greater representation has reduced some of that performance skepticism, but black firefighters still face challenges with social exclusion and explicit racism.\nThe fire service\u2019s challenges with diversity go beyond gender and race. Openly gay men are exceedingly rare in the fire service; the few who are out of the closet face severe social exclusion. Cameron Langhans, LAFD Captain I and Paramedic explains, \u201cwhen I was married to a woman, I had the privilege of being seen as a straight, white man, and I felt the automatic inclusion that comes with those identifiers. Now that I have identified as gay, I have to prove myself all over again.\u201d\nUltimately, most firefighters who are not heterosexual white men must be extremely resilient to overcome relentless scrutiny and exclusion in their careers.\nWhat\u2019s being done to increase diversity?\nMany departments and industry groups are proactively trying to diversify and to change their culture to be more inclusive, particularly with respect to recruitment and promotion processes. In the mid-1990s, for example, the Stentorians created a promotion preparation program for its members to offset the insufficient mentoring black firefighters received in the field. \u201cThis is one reason why there is relatively equal representation of blacks throughout ranks of the LAFD\u201d compared to the population of Los Angeles County, says LAFD Assistant Chief and former Stentorians\u2019 president Kwame Cooper.\nMore recently, the LAFD and LACoFD, along with the LA Women in the Fire Service (LAWFS), the local industry group for women, have hosted events to help educate and prepare prospective female firefighters. \u201cWe identify women who passed the physical and written entrance tests and are now in the pool of qualified candidates who are waiting to be hired,\u201d says Captain Burton. \u201cThen we have our current women firefighters showing these interested women what the job is really like, and what they need to do to succeed.\u201d\nThroughout California, the departments that have most effectively leveraged these kinds of outreach efforts \u201cintegrate recruitment and mentoring of women and people of color into subsequent stages of the hiring process,\u201d explains Dave Gillotte, LACoFD Captain and President of the Firefighters IAFF Local 1014. That means, for example, targeting qualified candidates from underrepresented groups to advance through the selection process. This differs from the more traditional method of relying on a random lottery from the general candidate pool, a place where women and people of color are underrepresented and thus have lower odds of being selected.\nTogether, these important efforts expose members of underrepresented groups to careers in the fire service and gives them helpful training and mentorship opportunities. Many of those who make it on to become firefighters also find a sense of community among members of their own underrepresented groups in organizations like the LAWFS and the Stentorians.\nThe problem is that none of these programs directly address the challenge of inclusion\u2014that is, of being valued and having a sense of belonging, regardless of who you are. So how can we get more firefighters to recognize members of non-prototypical groups as being equally capable of success in the fire service?\nReframing the firefighter prototype\nIn my forthcoming research with Felix Danbold, we find that reframing the professional prototype of what it means to be a firefighter to emphasize the importance of legitimate, stereotypically feminine traits, like compassion, has promising effects on creating a more inclusive environment for women.\nWe had active-duty firefighters and member of the general public watch videos of a white, male fire captain describing the most important traits of a successful modern firefighter. When he listed compassion first, followed by team orientation and physical strength, viewers\u2019 perceptions of female firefighters\u2019 abilities and support for gender diversification policies were much more positive then they were when they watched him present those same traits in reverse order.\nThis, we believe, is a promising first step in increasing the perception of professional fit of underrepresented or undervalued groups. And we\u2019re starting to learn more about how the research can extend to practice in the form of a general diversity and inclusion training program I developed for fire department leaders that includes education on how biases and stereotypes affect the experiences of firefighters from underrepresented groups. While not revolutionary, these steps are vital. \u201cBiases impact how we think and the decisions we make; we should be aware that they exist and how we manage them,\u201d says LACoFD fire chief Daryl Osby.\nTo minimize the potential effect of biases, fire service leaders need to convey transparent, consistent expectations and evaluation processes for establishing members\u2019 competence and trustworthiness. For instance, I coach fire captains to not only pre-determine the appropriate drills that all new crew members need to perform, but also how many times each task must be done correctly to be deemed acceptable. This can reduce the risk of shifting standards being applied to people from underrepresented groups about whom there is skepticism.\nI also encourage leaders to elevate the value of skills that align with stereotypes about women and minorities through concrete actions. For example, to promote the social and emotional strengths commonly associated with women, one might look for ways to acknowledge and celebrate crew members who demonstrate what we call the \u201cheart and soul\u201d of a firefighter in the station and out in the field. Joviality \u2014 defined as \u201cmarkedly good humor\u201d and one that helps process emotional trauma \u2014 is a positive trait associated with black Americans somewhat more than with white Americans, so explaining that a jovial culture can increase enhances crew effectiveness may reduce some of the skepticism about and exclusion of black firefighters. When you hold all department members accountable to excellence along the full spectrum of traits associated with being a successful firefighter, you help firefighters that don\u2019t fit the straight, white, male archetype and create more equal opportunities and inclusion.\nTo measure the effectiveness of this approach, I surveyed 138 chief officers and 1,096 of their subordinates in the LACoFD before training the chiefs, then followed up with 93 of the chiefs and 1,347 of their subordinates two months later. I found that, after this intervention, chiefs\u2019 were spending more time mentoring team members on social and emotional skills, more strongly endorsed diversity and inclusion, and supported policies to increase representation of women. More compellingly, the subordinates evaluated their chief officers as better leaders following the training. They reported respecting their supervisors more, seeing them as better role models and mentors, and believing that they were more accepting of differences.\nHowever, as L.A. Fire Commissioner Rebecca Ninberg notes, \u201cchanging the culture requires a long-term commitment to integrate it into the DNA of the department.\u201d Thus, leadership training is only a first step; real change starts when leaders employ what they learned every single day. \u201cDiversity goal messaging from the fire chief, consistent training, engagement of key department stakeholder groups, and the use of ongoing measurements of progress\u201d are critical, says LAFD Fire Chief Terrazas. This helps the inclusive firefighter prototype spread through the ranks.\nMost firefighters are probably unaware of how their status-quo perceptions about their profession reinforce bias and create unequal opportunities for peers from underrepresented groups. My research points to a more inclusive alternative. Hopefully, the departments that have implemented my training approach with will see continued improvement in their efforts to confront the diversity challenges of the fire service, and will serve as examples to others across the country, as well as different types of organizations that would like to become more meaningfully diverse. Perhaps most importantly, it will make a difference in the careers of talented and hardworking firefighters.\nPrevious articleDon\u2019t Give Up on a Great Idea Just Because It Seems Obvious\nNext articleWhat Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa\nKosten f\u00fcr die Verpflegung auf Bali (Lebensmittel, Warung, Restaurant) Einkommen in Indonesien\nPage not found \u00bb Dallas Innovates\nCoworking u\u017e aj v Dolnom Kub\u00edne\nDie Tischlerei \u2014 barrierefreies CoWorking in Wien | Interview\nThe Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies\nPlan for historic downtown Millinocket building moves forward\nShared workspace arrives in Walpole \u2013 News \u2013 Wicked Local Walpole\nSenate on the future of work", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 19911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cp24.com/world/tesla-cuts-9-per-cent-of-workforce-in-bid-to-post-a-profit-1.3970576", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NCQTE2KJ2HEQZ6XMX2SAFLPSWJUF3JTD", "length": 3842, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.cp24.com", "title": "Tesla cuts 9 per cent of workforce in bid to post a profit | CP24.com", "raw_content": "Tesla cuts 9 per cent of workforce in bid to post a profit\nIn this April 15, 2018, file photo the sun shines off the rear deck of a roadster on a Tesla dealer's lot in the south Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. Electric car maker Tesla Inc. is laying off about 3,600 white-collar workers as it slashes costs in an effort to become profitable. CEO Elon Musk says in an e-mail to workers Tuesday, June 12, that the cuts amount to about 9 percent of the company's workforce of 40,000. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)\nDETROIT - Electric car maker Tesla Inc. is laying off about 3,600 workers mainly from its salaried ranks as it slashes costs in an effort to deliver on CEO Elon Musk's promise to turn a profit in the second half of the year.\nIn an email to workers on Tuesday, Musk said the cuts amount to about 9 per cent of the company's workforce of 40,000.\nTesla would not say how much money the layoffs would save, but said no factory workers would be affected as the company continues to ramp up production of its lower-priced Model 3 compact car.\nThe move is part of an organizational restructuring that Musk announced earlier in the year.\n\u201cTesla has grown and evolved rapidly over the past several years, which has resulted in some duplication of roles and some job functions that, while they made sense in the past, are difficult to justify today,\u201d Musk wrote in the email. He thanked departing employees for their hard work and said Tesla is providing \u201csignificant salary and stock vesting\u201d to those being let go, based on their length of service.\nTesla has not made an annual profit in its 15 years of doing business, and it has posted only two quarterly net profits.\nAt the company's annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Musk said he expected the Palo Alto, California, company to post a quarterly profit during the July-September period. For nearly all of its history, Tesla has put up losses while investing heavily in technology, manufacturing plants and an extensive car-charging network.\nIt's not the first time Tesla has laid off workers. The company let go of 400 to 700 workers last fall after completing annual performance reviews, and it laid off a small number of workers back in 2008.\nMusk wrote in the email that the company will never achieve its mission to help move the world to cleaner energy \u201cunless we eventually demonstrate that we can be sustainably profitable.\u201d\nThe company is making the move now so it never has to do it again, he wrote. Tesla still has a significant need for production workers as it tries to reach Model 3 manufacturing targets, he wrote in the email.\nThe layoffs come in engineering, sales and other front-office functions, but the company says the remaining workforce is large enough to accomplish Musk's lofty goals of rolling out a semi, pickup truck and a new SUV in the coming years.\nTesla shares rose 2.5 per cent to $340.34 in afternoon trading, after reaching as high as $354.97 around noon.\nMusk also announced that the company's solar panel unit has decided to end its agreement to sell via Home Depot stores so it can focus on sales in Tesla's company stores and online. A majority of Tesla employees working at Home Depot will get offers to work in Tesla's own stores.\nConsumer Edge Research Analyst James Albertine wrote in a note to investors that he views the moves \u201cas a positive in helping Tesla track toward profitability later this year.\u201d\nHe wrote that reaching Musk's Model 3 production goal of 5,000 vehicles per week by the end of June is still the primary driver of profitability. \u201cA focus on 'getting lean' is a positive with respect to Tesla's guidance for achieving consolidated profitability in 2018, in our view,\u201d he wrote.\nThe Model 3 starts at $35,000, but lower-priced configurations are not available yet. It can easily top $50,000 with options.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/030528", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NLGBBY5SIOFAZXWTYD24K77SJKDJ6SPP", "length": 1080, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "USS Antietam Visits Hong Kong During Regional Patrol | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet", "raw_content": "By Ensign Theresa E. Chester, USS Antietam Public Affairs\nUSS Antietam (CG 54) file photo. (U.S. Navy/MC2 Declan Barnes)\nHONG KONG - The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) arrived in Hong Kong for a port visit, April 3.\nSailors will be given the opportunity to experience the rich culture of Hong Kong with various tours of local historic locations and regional attractions provided by the ship's morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) association.\n\"MWR Hong Kong offers shopping tours, city tours, as well as many hikes and outdoor activities,\" said Ensign Netan Pruthi, Antietam\u2019s MWR officer. \"Sailors who are looking for ways to enjoy Hong Kong have many great options to choose from.\"\nThe ship and its crew recently participated in exercise Multi-Sail 2015, which was aimed to increase its combat capability across different warfare areas.\nAntietam, forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, is on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.\nBonhomme Richard ARG Supports Marine Training in Korea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpmintl.com/projects/project-types/sports-recreations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VT4Y4YATTJ5CKDCOXYNLLOVOHB5PZWIP", "length": 239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cpmintl.com", "title": "Projects \u2013 CPM: Knowledge, Ethics, Drive and Transparency", "raw_content": "Project types: Sports & Recreation\n2010 Central American & Caribbean Games Sports Facilities\nAthletic & Soccer Stadium The project comprised a soccer stadium and running track with capacity for over 11,920 people. The stadium also hous ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cr80news.com/news-item/tbt-contactless-smart-cards-101/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IHD2TBYR6K6XG3YC6M253NIPYZ4RWOAX", "length": 1751, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cr80news.com", "title": "TBT: Contactless smart cards 101 - CR80News", "raw_content": "TBT: Contactless smart cards 101\ncategory: Contactless, Smart Cards\nIn honor of Throwback Thursday, we\u2019re turning the clock back to 2011 to a story that details the need-to-know basics of contactless smart card technology.\nAt the time of our \u201cTech 101: Contactless smart cards\u201d piece, contactless smart cards had already been in use for more than two decades. And just as it was in 2011, the contactless card remains a key tool in the management of security, physical access and payments on college campuses today. Whether it\u2019s used to open doors, facilitate public transit, event ticketing or facilitating the multitude of student-facing applications, contactless technology is being used to solve a number of service challenges across a variety of environments.\nDespite being an industry mainstay, there are still a number of people who are fuzzy on the details of the technology and how it enables these various utilities all without ever touching a reader.\nThe elevator pitch is that contactless cards use radio waves of specific frequencies as carriers for communication. But that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.\nHear from representatives of Unisys and NXP about the various applications that contactless technology supports, as well as the basic contactless categories \u2014 low frequency, high frequency and ultra-high frequency \u2014 and the unique set of ideal applications for each.\nWhether you\u2019re a contactless expert or are hearing the term for the first time, our \u201cTech 101: Contactless smart cards\u201d is a great read when it comes to the contactless basics.\nTech 101: Contactless smart cards... Japanese student ID provides secure... Datastrip\u2019s DSVerify2D Become...\nTags: Campus ID, Card Issuance, Contactless Payments, Smart Cards, Technology 101", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cranfieldtrust.org/pages/25-support-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MRYNBOY2CVMD54Z22UZNLOCBV5QLBGT6", "length": 1165, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cranfieldtrust.org", "title": "Support us | Cranfield Trust", "raw_content": "We believe in building successful\nWe worked with Caxton Youth to strengthen their governance\nAt some point in their lives, most people will have been in contact with a charity, either directly or indirectly. With over 190,000 charities operating across England, Wales and Scotland, it is critical that charities have access to high quality, independent business knowledge and expertise.\nMany UK charities are now facing the most challenging operational and funding landscapes in their histories. The demand for their services has grown, which creates new management challenges. Our national network of volunteers helps to empower charities to develop effectively as organisations and operate as efficiently as possible.\nWe are deeply grateful for the generous and loyal giving of our supporters and funders. Their support for the Trust has a \u2018multiplier\u2019 effect, going a very long way to helping us to transform and sustain the impact that our charity clients have on their beneficiaries and communities.\nFor more information about making a donation, grant making or becoming a corporate partner, please contact Joanne Madders, Head of Development, on 01794 830340.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crash.net/f1/news/911588/1/sainz-no-extra-pressure-replacing-alonso-mclaren", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CEQKA2NWSKGFHTVANWJ7RZTX5DM2ZC4G", "length": 2222, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.crash.net", "title": "Carlos Sainz Jr. feels no extra pressure replacing Alonso at McLaren | News", "raw_content": "Carlos Sainz Jr. feels no extra pressure replacing Alonso at McLaren\nFlying the flag for Spain solo in 2019 as Alonso's McLaren replacement, Sainz does not feel any additional pressure heading into the new season.\nCarlos Sainz Jr. says he feels no extra pressure stepping into the shoes of two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso at McLaren in 2019, when he will become the only Spanish driver on the grid.\nSainz\u2019s desire to race in F1 was fuelled by Alonso, Spain\u2019s first and only world champion, and the ex-Renault and Toro Rosso driver will step into his hero\u2019s seat at McLaren next year.\nSainz will be the only Spaniard racing in F1 through 2019 as Alonso explores pursuits outside of F1, including returns to the Indianapolis 500 and Rolex 24 at Daytona.\nAsked by Crash.net if he felt any extra pressure stepping into Alonso\u2019s shoes at McLaren, Sainz said he saw only positives in doing so.\n\u201cThere is no extra pressure in that way, mainly because as a driver, you never feel the crowd or the expectations of your home country as pressure. You find it positive,\u201d Sainz said.\n\u201cFor me, the fact that everyone is going to watch Formula 1 next year in Spain to see me racing is actually a great thing. It\u2019s something that I look forward to.\n\u201cAnd when you jump in the car, you don\u2019t think about it. You just want to win. I want to win one day in Formula 1, and as I want to win, everything jumps on board, but don\u2019t apply me pressure because the first one that wants to win is myself.\n\u201cI think we\u2019re going to miss Fernando. I wish him the best in every category that he goes to, and I\u2019m sure wherever he goes, he will perform like he is one of the best drivers in the world.\u201d\nSainz said he was yet to speak with Alonso about what to expect at McLaren, but would look to spend some time with this compatriot over the winter.\n\u201cI haven\u2019t got the chance. He\u2019s probably the busiest man on earth!\u201d Sainz said.\n\u201cBut I really hope one day I get to sit down with him, have a bit of a briefing about McLaren also, start asking him a bit of questions, and also talk a bit more as friends and see what his plans are.\n\u201cI will obviously not tell it to you guys, but I will know it for myself.\"\nVIDEO: Top 10 moments of F1 2018!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/number-of-home-schooled-pupils-in-west-sussex-rises-1-8486126", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRDAPTO5GWFURXYOVCWULVVWIXV2D45C", "length": 5583, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.crawleyobserver.co.uk", "title": "Number of home schooled pupils in West Sussex rises - Crawley Observer", "raw_content": "Number of home schooled pupils in West Sussex rises\nThe number of home schooled pupils in West Sussex has risen sharply.\nA freedom of information request submitted to West Sussex County Council revealed that, in the last five years, the number rose by more than 90 per cent, from 477 pupils in 2013/14 to 917 in 2017/18.\nReasons for homeschooling in West Sussex\nThe biggest rise came between 2015/16 and 2016/17, when the number increased from 622 pupils to 800 \u2013 a rise of almost 30 per cent.\nA spokesman for West Sussex County Council said: \u201cThe numbers of parents/carers in West Sussex who have elected to home school their child/ren has echoed the rise nationally.\u201d\nThe number of school-aged pupils in West Sussex who are educated at home remains under one per cent.\nIn 2013/4, 0.46 per cent of statutory school age children known to West Sussex were home schooled \u2013 a number which rose to 0.74 per cent in 2016/7.\nAccording to the BBC, the national average is 0.5 per cent.\nThe figures also showed that more children of secondary school age are home schooled than those of primary school age.\nIn 2017/18, 363 primary school children were home schooled compared with 554 secondary school children.\nThe spokesman said: \u201cThere are a number of children who are home schooled early in their schooling years and remain home schooled as they go through the year groups.\n\u201cAdded to this are those becoming electively home educated during their secondary education and the numbers in secondary are bigger.\u201d\nAcross most districts in the county, the number of home schooled children has steadily increased over the last five years.\nIn Arun, Worthing, Horsham and Mid Sussex, numbers rose consecutively over the five year period.\nHowever Chichester has seen a small dip in the number of homeschooled children in the last year, from 172 in 2016/17 to 158 in 2017/18.\nHorsham is the district with the highest number of homeschooled children, at 201, while Worthing comes in second at 168.\nReasons for home education\nWest Sussex County Council also records the reasons given by parents for homeschooling their children.\nIn 2017/18, the most common reason given \u2013 excluding those who did not give a specific answer \u2013 was for philosophical reasons.\nThis reason was given for 244 pupils.\nThe spokesman explained: \u201cPhilosophical home educators are generally families who feel the school education system would not fit with their ideals and wishes for their child\u2019s education.\n\u201cThis individual philosophy may be around just education, but often encompasses wider values on how they wish to live their lives.\u201d\nThe second most common reason given was for health reasons (144) followed by disagreements with the school (81) and because of bullying (57).\nThe spokesman said: \u201cThe decision to home educate for health reasons is a complex area, it is difficult to talk in general terms as the needs of an individual child vary.\n\u201cSchools try and support the needs of all the children on their roll but for some parents they feel home educating children better meets their needs.\u201d\nOf the other reasons, 37 people said it was due to religious or cultural reasons while 35 put it down to a school admissions issue.\nThe duty of the council\nThe county council said its elective home education team followed the Department for Education\u2019s guidance on the monitoring of home education.\nThe team makes contact with home schooled families on an annual basis.\nThe spokesman said: \u201cWest Sussex County Council has a legal duty to ensure all children in West Sussex are receiving a suitable, efficient and full time education and is committed to working with home educating parents in a spirit of partnership and cooperation.\n\u201cWe encourage parents/carers to register with us to help us establish they are receiving the education they are entitled to and that it is suitable.\n\u201cHowever, home educating parents are under no legal duty to register or respond to enquiries about the provision they are making.\n\u201cWhen the council has been notified that a young person is being home educated, a member of the Pupil Entitlement Team will offer an initial home visit.\n\u201cBasic information about the child, such as his/her age and details of any special needs, as well as initial details about the intended education and learning experiences are then passed to an Advisory Teacher who will arrange an annual home visit and also work with the parents/carers to assess the provision and offer advice such as teaching aids and materials, educational and local resources etc.\u201d\nIf it appears that a suitable education is not being provided, West Sussex County Council has a duty to investigate further, the spokesman said.\n\u201cThe Advisory Teacher will offer advice as to how to improve the situation,\u201d said the spokesman.\n\u201cIf the Advisor Teacher remains dissatisfied with the education being provided, they may contact other agencies to offer advice and support in seeking a return to school.\u201d\nThe figures from the county council also revealed that significant numbers of homes chooled pupils are returning to a school roll.\nIn 2015/16, 119 home schooled pupils were returned to a school roll, while in 2016/17, the number rose to 176.\nThe number so far for 2017/18 is 52.\nA bill which would give local authorities more power to monitor the educational, physical and emotional development of children receiving elective home education, has passed through the committee stage in the House of Lords.\nDo you home school your child? Would you like to share your experience for a feature?\nGet in touch by emailing isabella.cipirska@jpress.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/category/author/early-fathers/golden-age/gregory-of-myssa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QFJT7PITHVFPMKYHFIXL7KAJBS6QYFMR", "length": 2311, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.crossroadsinitiative.com", "title": "Gregory of Nyssa Archives - Crossroads Initiative", "raw_content": "Glory of the Holy Spirit \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa here identifies the glory that Jesus speaks about in the Last Supper discourse of the Gospel of John with the Holy Spirit, the source of Christian unity. He also sees a reference to the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs...\nThis is the Day the Lord has Made \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nSaint Gregory of Nyssa here provides a moving explanation of a phrase from Psalm 118 that is a traditional refrain for the great resurrection feast known as Great Pascha or Easter: This is the Day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be...\nExamination of Conscience \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa, in the course of his treatise on Christian perfection, lays out these guidelines for the sort of examination of conscience which should be a regular feature of anyone who wants to make progress in Christian discipleship....\nChristian as another Christ \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa on St. Paul's intimate knowledge of his Lord, Jesus Christ, expressed in a multitude of descriptive titles for him that provides great food for Christian Meditation. The honor of sharing in Jesus' primary title, Christ, should impel Christians to imitate him...\nBirth and Death \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa on the famous statement of Ecclesiastes \"there is a time to be born and a time to die.\" He interprets this as a reference to the death and new birth of salvation, dying and rising with Christ through faith and baptism....\nHope of Seeing God \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa continues his reflections on the Beatitude \"blessed are the pure for they shall see God\" (Mat. 5:8) by showing how purity of heart is the key the opens the way to seeing, to the hope of the vision of God....\nBlessed are the Pure in Heart \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa, commenting on the beatitude \"blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God,\" compares God to an inaccessible rock, a mountain peak impossible to climb except to those lifted up, as Peter was, by the strong hand of Jesus....\nKeep Your Eyes on Christ \u2013 Gregory of Nyssa\nGregory of Nyssa urges us here to follow Paul's command to keep your eyes fixed on Christ rather than be preoccupied with earthly trivialities. The wise man heeds this advice. The fool preoccupies himself with things destined to pass away....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/category/saints/calendar/july/07-31-ignatius-of-loyola/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YZNGV47ENENQXWRBKNCD54G5ITDPAFSL", "length": 245, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crossroadsinitiative.com", "title": "07/31 Ignatius of Loyola Archives - Crossroads Initiative", "raw_content": "Ignatius of Loyola & Discernment of Spirits\nHere, an early biographer tells the story of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola and what it taught him about the discernment of spirits. Ignatius is remember by the Catholic Church on July 31....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 85.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crowe.com/om/industries/automotive-and-transportation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GLK4ST6OBSCKJC7ULXXYSUHID6ESTN4D", "length": 1273, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.crowe.com", "title": "Automotive And Transportation | Crowe Mak Ghazali llc", "raw_content": "home Industries Automotive And Transportation\nThe automotive industry is one of the world\u2019s most prominent revenue-generating and fastest growing industries, comprising of manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, retailers and the like. As the industry is witnessing unparalleled changes, leading to aggressive competition in all segments of manufacturing, major automotive players are seeking special ways to reduce costs. There is also the increased pressure to standardize operational procedures in lines with global standards.\nAt Horwath MAK, we have extensive knowledge in a variety of fields pertaining to financial, managerial and advisory services. We have offered services to some of the leading automotive dealers in tackling major challenges through our advanced methods, thereby securing their place in the competitive world.\nBased on extensive research, our team also deals with industry stakeholders to develop strategies specifically designed to meet the requirements of the organization. In our zest to exceed client expectations, we always provide remarkable services and most modern procedures. We can assist automotive companies/dealers with the skills required to sustain in the rigorous competitive field, while contributing to the value of the organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4314", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QBCCTO7YJAF3ECHPE3QGBE7TUFDN376N", "length": 2817, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cruz.senate.gov", "title": "Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, Leahy Introduce Bill to Enhance Cybersecurity | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) this week introduced the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act to authorize the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work with the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) to help prepare for and respond to cybersecurity risks at the national, state, and local levels.\n\u201cStrengthening and streamlining cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium will go a long way in advancing our nation\u2019s defense against cybersecurity risks and terrorist threats,\u201d Sen. Cruz said. \u201cThis bill recognizes the vital role the private sector, state, and local entities, including the University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M, serve in protecting America\u2019s critical infrastructure. Texas continues to defend America, and I am proud to introduce this bill.\u201d\n\u201cOur communities must be prepared to defend against the ever-evolving cyber threats they face,\u201d said Sen. Cornyn. \u201cTexas is fortunate to have universities like UTSA and Texas A&M to help educate governments at every level on how to prevent and respond to an impending cyberattack.\u201d\n\u201cImproving cybersecurity remains vitally important in every aspect of our lives. Whether in businesses small or large, in our personal lives, or in our government agencies, having the assurance that we know who is accessing our digital information, how they are doing it and how they are using it is important. I have long supported the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium to educate our communities on how to defend and recover from cyberattacks. The bipartisan legislation that we are reintroducing can help to ensure continued collaboration between the cybersecurity expertise developed in our educational institutions, and our state and local governments. I\u2019m proud to support this bipartisan effort,\u201d said Sen. Leahy.\nThe NCPC is comprised of university- based training entities including The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, The University of Arkansas, The University of Memphis, and Norwich University.\nUnder this bill, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be authorized to work with the NCPC to:\nProvide training to state and local first responders and officials, develop curriculums, and provide technical assistance;\nConduct cross-sector cybersecurity training and simulation exercises for state and local governments, critical infrastructure owners and operators, and private industry;\nHelp states and communities develop cybersecurity information sharing programs; and\nHelp incorporate cybersecurity risk and incident prevention and response into existing state and local emergency plans and continuity of operations plans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 146.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/br-es.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IVTX7UGBXD3WNJ77CNUUONJ5CGGRPXQ4", "length": 8352, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.crwflags.com", "title": "Esp\u00edrito Santo (Brazil)", "raw_content": "Esp\u00edrito Santo (Brazil)\nKeywords: espirito santo | brazil | trinidade | martin vaz | trabalha e confio |\nAdopted 24 April 1947\nFlag of the State of Esp\u00edrito Santo\nFormer State Flag\nVariant on Stamp\n19th Century Merchant Marine Pennant\nMunicipal Flags of Esp\u00edrito Santo\nTrinidade and Martin Vaz\nUnion of Jehovah, 1952-53\nM\u00e1rio Martins, a Brazilian writer, states that the inscription originates from the motto of the Jesuit order: \"Work as if everything depended on you, and trust as if everything depended on God.\" Despite being an unusual color in heraldry, rose was used by the creators of the flag in order to represent a shade found in the capixaba sky, which, during summer afternoons, presents changing shades of pink mixed with sky blue.\n\u017deljko Heimer, March 13, 1996\nThe Esp\u00edrito Santo flag dates from 1908 but was adopted officially on 24 April 1947 by Governor Carlos Fernando Montero Lindemberg. The blue and rose are the official colors of the state, instituted by Jer\u00f3nimo Monteiro on 7 September 1909. Apparently they were the colors of an abolitionist club, as well as those of the dress of the Virgin of the Victory, patron of the capital of the state. The blue represents smoothness and harmony, the white peace, and the rose rejoicing and happiness. The words Trabalha e Confia (Work and Trust [in God]) are attributed to Governor Monteiro. They have to have their origin in his religious training with the Association of S\u00e3o Luis do Itu (S\u00e3o Paulo), directed by the fathers of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by St. Ignatius Loyola.\nA diagram signed (apparently by the then governor and referring to the original Decree) in March 1982 indicates the flag has overall proportions 7:10, however, from the diagram we may note that the stripes are in proportions of 9-10-9 rather than even, with the motto contained within an imaginary rectangle equal to 11/20 of flag length across by 6/10 of the central stripe high. The exact colors still remain slightly conjectural, none-the-less. The flag at http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/brazil_divisions.html is based on a photo of a flag in actual use and the shades are rather brighter than we show?\nChristopher Southworth, 26 September 2010\nThat seems odd--the 1947 decree-law on the flag said \"A bandeira do Estado ter\u00e1 as dimens\u00f5es estabelecidas para a bandeira nacional, em tr\u00eas campos - azul, branco e rosa - retangulares, longitudinais e iguais...\" (The flag of the State will have the dimensions established for the national flag, in three fields - blue, white, and pink - rectangular, longitudinal, and equal.\" I wonder why they'd go from equal to unequal, other than perhaps to satisfy the Brazilian impulse to give flag dimensions in \"modules\". Having a hoist equal to 28 modules would allow stating the fly as exactly 40, but then it would seem just as easy to state the hoist as 7+7+7 with the fly equal to 30. Perhaps the math for the arc and the height of the letters ends up in fractions that way?\nJoe McMillan, 4 October 2010\nThe official diagram gives the overall proportions as 14 modules by 20 modules, then stripes in ridiculous proportions of 4.5 modules, 5 modules and 4.5 modules, with 1.5 modules at the top of bottom of the lettering and 4.5 modules at the hoist and at the fly.\nChristopher Southworth, 4 October 2010\nArthur Luponi mentions that this flag is sometimes found with a smaller but still upper case E.\nIn 1947, upon handing over the government to the elected state officials following the decade of direct rule from Rio de Janeiro, Federal Interventor Moacyr Ubirajara issued decree-law No. 16,453 of 31 January 1947, reinstating state decrees 455, 456, and 3151, which had adopted the state seal and arms in 1909 and the words of the anthem in 1931. The flag, however, was not addressed until six months later by decree No. 16,618 of 24 July 1947, which defined all the state symbols. The relevant parts of the decree say:\n\"Considering that, although not defined by express act, tradition admits of the flag and anthem, the former in the colors blue and pink . . .\nArt. 2. The State flag will have the dimensions established for the national flag, in three fields--blue, white, and pink--rectangular, longitudinal, and equal, having on the center of the second one, in an arc of blue letters, the motto \"trabalha e confia [work and trust].\"\nBut what was this traditional flag from 1937 and before? Was it the same as the one defined by decree 16,618? If so, why does the decree describe it simply as blue and pink, rather than as blue, white, and pink? [It was not; see below--Ed.]\nClovis Ribeiro, in Braz\u00f5es e Bandeiras do Brasil (1933), p. 161, says only that Esp\u00edrito Santo had not adopted a flag at the time he wrote. This is clearly true, at least legally, although Ribeiro did take note of customary flags in use in other states, such as Bahia. The sources mentioned above say the flag was created in 1908 . . .\" and attribute both the colors and the motto to Governor Jer\u00f4nimo Monteiro, who was governor in the 1908-09 period.\nFormer Flag of Esp\u00edrito Santo, 1908-1937\nArthur Luponi, \"The Flags of the States of Brazil: Esp\u00edrito Santo,\" Flag Bulletin 16:114-117 (July-August 1977) says that in 1908 a \"normal flag\" of the same design as the old 19th century merchant ship identifying pennant for Esp\u00edrito Santo was introduced, the idea being attributed to Deocleciano Oliveira, the state Secretary of Education and Culture. Luponi says it was this flag that was abolished when state symbols were outlawed in 1937. Well, the 19th century merchant ship pennant for Esp\u00edrito Santo was not a horizontal blue-white-pink tricolor, it was a vertical bicolor, blue and red. And the 1909 acts by Monteiro introducing blue and pink as the colors and Trabalha e Confia as the motto had to do with adoption of the arms and seal in the decrees noted above. While these acts probably influenced the evolution of the flag (they certainly did in the decree of July 1947), there is no firm evidence that they immediately affected whatever flag design had been adopted in 1908. Yet in 1947, people in Esp\u00edrito Santo obviously recalled that the flag they had been using ten years earlier was blue and pink.\nSo here I resort to speculation: isn't it possible that the flag introduced in 1908 (the year before blue and pink were established as state colors) was, as Luponi says, simply a version of the red-blue bicolor pennant in more normal proportions? This was what was done in Alagoas, albeit with the addition of the state coat of arms. Then gradually, perhaps under the influence of the decree on the state coat of arms, light blue and pink came to be substituted for normal blue and red. By this theory, the rearrangement of the colors, introduction of the white stripe, and addition of the motto would have come with the 1947 decree. Such a flag may have been developed before 1937, but then, it seems to me, the white stripe and words would have been mentioned in the 1947 decree describing the earlier flag.\nThis flag is confirmed by one of a set of cards, issued with bars of Eucalol soap in the 1930s, showing the state flags of Brazil. This set was reported by Falko Schmidt. The flag for Esp\u00edrito Santo is, as shown above, divided vertically blue and red.\nJoseph McMillan, 5 February 2003\nimage by Joseph McMillan and Ant\u00f3nio Martins-Tuv\u00e1lkin, 13 October 2007\nIn our page about flags on Brazilian stamps, our stamp n\u00ba 2347 (also #2347 in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue) shows many Brazilian states\u2019 flags, all forced to ~3:4. (See it also in the page about Brazil at http://www.flagsonstamps.info/Brazil.htm, Richard Mallett\u2019s Flags on\nStamps .info website.\nApart from the squarish ratio, one specific error caught my eye: the Esp\u00edrito Santo state flag is depicted with medium blue and medium red, instead of pale blue and reddish pink. This is an interesting error, and bound to be perpetrated many times, on both historical and vexillographic grounds: 1st: this flag derived from a regular red-blue flag, and 2nd: the two pale shades plus white may seem to the unknowledgeable though astute vexillologist as a case of sun bleaching or any other form of overexposure. Its presence in an officially sanctioned source such as this stamp (surely caused by the motives above) will only strengthen this impression.\nAnt\u00f3nio Martins-Tuv\u00e1lkin, 13 October 2007", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 8960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailybulletin.com/2009/01/22/phantom-detective-is-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:17Z", "digest": "sha1:VLUOPVHSKO744SKNPHBTRCHAKGUJNNDD", "length": 3725, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.dailybulletin.com", "title": "Phantom Detective is back! \u2013 Daily Bulletin", "raw_content": "Phantom Detective is back!\nWhen last we met up with the Phantom Detective, he was serving up rough justice in Redlands, Colton, San Bernardino and other locales in the Inland Empire.\nThe action unfolded in \u201cThe Phantom\u2019s Phantom,\u201d a 2007 novel by Robert Reginald, the pen name of Michael Burgess, who is librarian emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino and a longtime friend of mine.\nNow the Phantom Detective is back in a follow-up novel titled \u201cThe Nasty Gnomes.\u201d The story opens in Redlands, but the setting shifts to New York City, where our hero is summoned to deal with a wave of pint-sized troublemakers who spill out of the city\u2019s sewers.\n\u201cThis story is considerably darker, so I wanted a grittier setting,\u201d Burgess told me. \u201cYou can\u2019t get any grittier than New York.\u201d\nBurgess is one of 30 local authors who will meet and greet the public during an all-day book festival Saturday at the San Bernardino Public Library. More about that in a minute.\nBurgess is author of eight novels and more than 100 works of nonfiction, biography, bibliography and literary criticism. His latest book is a sequel to a sequel of sorts.\nThe original Phantom Detective was the fictional hero of a series of pulp mystery novels that were all the rage starting in the 1930s, before Burgess was born.\nThe Phantom Detective series (Thrilling Publications, 1933-1953) included 170 titles written by various writers, usually under the pen name Robert Wallace. The tales, with outlandish titles like \u201cServants of Satan\u201d and \u201cThe Black Ball of Death,\u201d chronicled the exploits of Richard Curtis Van Loan, a wealthy New York socialite by day and masked crimefighter by night.\nNow Burgess has revived the character, penning the first Phantom Detective novels in more than a half-century. In his first, \u201cThe Phantom\u2019s Phantom,\u201d set in the year 1953, Van Loan has retired, but he is called back to active duty when his mentor meets an untimely end in Redlands.\nVan Loan not only solves the crime but falls in love with the Inland Empire. He decides to stay and re-establish his detective agency here.\nIn the new novel, though, Van Loan is compelled to return to New York to battle the mysterious Nasty Gnomes who are terrorizing the city. The tiny bad guys even kidnap Van Loan\u2019s father-in-law, the former police commissioner.\nBurgess tells me he already is at work on a third Phantom title, \u201cThe Zero Zombies,\u201d and local readers can rejoice. The action, Burgess says, will return \u201cat least partly\u201d to the Inland Empire.\nMeanwhile, \u201cThe Nasty Gnomes\u201d (Wildside Press, $15) can be ordered at local bookstores or from online booksellers including amazon.com.\nOr you can buy the book directly from the author and have him sign it for you at Saturday\u2019s book festival.\n\u201cA Celebration of Inland Empire Authors\u201d will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Norman F. Feldheym Central Library, 555 W. Sixth St.\nThe festival, free to the public, includes panel discussions of nonfiction (11 a.m.), fiction (1 p.m.) and science fiction/fantasy (3 p.m.). The list of authors participating includes novelists Gayle Brandeis, Glen Hirshberg, Jack Lopez, Lynn Flewelling, Patricia Geary and Tim Powers; nonfiction authors James Brown, John Adams, Diana Sholley, Nick Cataldo, Fred Smith, Richard and Robin Hanks, and Diane Mierzwik; children\u2019s book authors Diane Adams, Jim Gilbert and Phil Yeh, and many others.\nI\u2019ll be there, too, signing copies of my own new book, \u201cInland Empire,\u201d a pictorial history of our region, as well as my novel \u201cThe Window Beyond the World,\u201d a supernatural thriller set in the San Bernardino Mountains.\nJohn Weeks is features editor. Read his past columns at sbsun.com/johnweeks.\nContact him at john.weeks@inlandnewspapers.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 8386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailybulletin.com/2011/02/09/our-view-in-the-stadium-bowl-roski-plan-wins-over-la/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RSJ5JP6DE5AT4UWKQNDXXHSNY5E26OBR", "length": 3876, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.dailybulletin.com", "title": "Our View: In the stadium bowl, Roski plan wins over L.A. \u2013 Daily Bulletin", "raw_content": "Our View: In the stadium bowl, Roski plan wins\u2026\nOur View: In the stadium bowl, Roski plan wins over L.A.\nAs in sports, there are two competing \u201cteams\u201d trying to build NFL stadiums in Southern California. The newest proposal announced by Anschutz Entertainment Group President and CEO Tim Leiweke calls for spending about $1.35 billion for a 64,000-72,000-seat stadium in downtown Los Angeles. The previous proposal announced three years ago is from Majestic Realty Co. CEO billionaire Ed Roski Jr. for an $800 million 75,000-seat stadium in the hills of Industry, near Walnut and Diamond Bar.\nWe\u2019ve compared the two in order to determine which proposal comes out on top.Using almost all criteria, Roski\u2019s stadium is a superior choice. Here\u2019s why:\nDesign. Roski\u2019s stadium is cheaper to build because of an innovative design concept. The Industry stadium will be carved into the hills and require less steel \u2013 that will reduce construction cost. Roski\u2019s stadium will be greener than AEG\u2019s; it\u2019ll use less energy. It would be the NFL\u2019s first LEED-certified green stadium. Advantage: Roski.\nSite/size. Roski\u2019s has clearance for a 2.7-million-square-foot stadium on 600 acres. That\u2019s huge. It will be more than just a place to play football games. It will be surrounded by two parking lots \u2013 ample room for what NFL fans call \u201ctailgating\u201d activities \u2013 as well as basketball and volleyball courts and wave pools for a total \u201cfan experience.\u201d Those in the Rowland Unified School District were excited two years ago about a sports medicine facility that students could use for classes. AEG, on the other hand, wants to build the stadium where the Los Angeles Convention Center\u2019s West Hall exists; they have only 15 acres. The fan experience will come from fans \u201ctailgating\u201d at nearby private garages, much like Ford Field in Detroit. It will be near bars and restaurants at LA Live. Advantage: Roski.\nLocation. When Ed Roski spoke to our editorial board, he said he had a hard time convincing the NFL owners that \u201cL.A.\u201d doesn\u2019t just mean beaches and Rodeo Drive.\nIn fact, using charts and slides, he told them that most of the 16 million people in Southern California, referred to as \u201cL.A.\u201d by people in New York, live in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and eastern Los Angeles County. So it makes more sense to build a stadium within an hour or less driving distance from the people\u2019s homes than in downtown L.A. or the Westside.\nIn fact, there are stadiums east of L.A. that do quite well: Angel Stadium, Honda Center, Home Depot Center. In short \u201cL.A.\u201d is a big place \u2013 more spread out than any other megalopolis. It can fill a stadium located 25 miles east of the downtown skyscrapers. Also, we would ask, Would you rather drive into downtown L.A. or drive to Industry to see a game? Advantage: Roski.\nLanding a team. Each developer needs a team. No team has committed to moving to Southern California. The advantage may go to AEG which has L.A. clout on its side, including Lakers legend Magic Johnson. But this is academic until a team commits. Advantage: Neither.\nTiming. Clearly, Roski has the jump on his former partners, Leiweke and Anschutz. He has a completed, approved Environmental Impact Report. Industry already has approval to sell $500 million in bonds, of which, $160 million will be spent on improving nearby roadways, offramps, etc.\nHe has signed deals with Diamond Bar and Walnut to improve infrastructure. And even has approval from the Legislature that blocks all other lawsuits. AEG is at least a year or two away from clearing these hurdles.\nPoint after: While we favor the Industry stadium, there\u2019s no guarantee either will materialize. No cute Hollywood ending about \u201cbuilding it and they will come\u201d works this time. This is all about business and a very fickle NFL with its own internal labor disputes to solve, first. Until then, may the best plan win.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 8546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailybulletin.com/2011/07/14/la-verne-near-top-of-water-conservation-policies-list-other-local-cities-rank-last/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FZMYEJMFZS5NCIVTZMAUG3T2THZPZXJC", "length": 3668, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.dailybulletin.com", "title": "La Verne near top of water conservation policies list; other local cities rank last \u2013 Daily Bulletin", "raw_content": "La Verne near top of water conservation\u2026\nLa Verne near top of water conservation policies list; other local cities rank last\nWhile one San Gabriel Valley city has proven itself second to best in water conservation among Southland cities, three other cities here have ranked dead last, according to a study released this week by the Sierra Club.\nThe survey studied water- related ordinances in cities across Los Angeles and Orange counties, evaluating them in 19 areas, such as whether they require water-saving toilets and appliances for new construction, if they have restrictions on lawn watering, and if they use recycled water.\nLa Verne got a thumbs up from the Sierra Club in 18 of those 19 categories, missing the mark only in a category related to water-saving dishwashers. Of the 122 cities in Los Angeles and Orange counties, only Los Angeles scored higher, a perfect 19 for 19.\nLa Puente, Baldwin Park and South El Monte did not fare as well. All three scored a zero on the survey. They were joined by only Palos Verdes Estates in that distinction.\nGeorge Watland, conservation program coordinator for the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club, which conducted the survey, said it is important for cities to have a conservation plan in place because Southern California\u2019s water supply can vary dramatically from year to year.\n\u201cIf they are facing a shortage they will have to act in an ad hoc way,\u201d he said. \u201cOur message is your neighboring cities are doing this \u2013 it can be done.\u201d\nDan Keesey, director of La Verne\u2019s Public Works Department, was happy to hear his city scored so highly, but said he didn\u2019t think La Verne was doing anything special.\n\u201cIt\u2019s nice to know that we rank high,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of that, but, in all honesty, our water conservation ordinance is our primary tool to stay in compliance with state law.\u201d\nWilliam Galvez, director of Public Works and city engineer for Baldwin Park, said the survey showed him his city has some work to do.\n\u201cWe\u2019re a little behind the curve here in Baldwin Park compared with other cities,\u201d Galvez said.\nBut he said he welcomed the survey results and hoped they would help push Baldwin Park toward being more water-conscious.\n\u201cThe information here seems to be very well organized and I think it\u2019s very helpful,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of timely for me because I have my own staff working on water conservation plans.\u201d\nGalvez said the City Council asked him to look into implementing water conservation policies several months ago. He hopes to present a plan to council members as early as next month.\n\u201cHopefully we can get off the worst list and go to the good list,\u201d Galvez said.\nSouth El Monte City Manager Tony Ybarra said he was a bit puzzled that his city ended up ranked \u201cworst.\u201d\n\u201cConservation is very important,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not as if we\u2019re negligent. We\u2019re very active.\u201d\nHe said that city doesn\u2019t have any official policies regarding water conservation on the books, but does consider water usage when approving projects.\n\u201cWhen we have developments go before the planning commission, there\u2019s conditions of approval,\u201d he said.\nHe said some of those conditions include drought tolerant landscaping and storm water collection on site, which are required by state law.\nInterim La Puente City Manager Raul Romero did not return calls requesting comment.\nAbsent from the survey were scores for the counties, which set policies for unincorporated areas. Watland said the Sierra Club may look at county policies in a future project.\nBut Watland said if they had been scored, they probably would not have ranked high.\n\u201cGenerally the county policies we saw were pretty weak,\u201d he said.\njustin.velasco@sgvn.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 8397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-61ccbbaa-c564-11e5-a06e-8f71efabce17.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:16Z", "digest": "sha1:N4PCXQDWG55PJTRUZEUYTP2CUKGFR5VD", "length": 4323, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dailyinterlake.com", "title": "Daily Inter Lake - Warren Illi: Flathead Outdoors, COLUMN: Elk lovers banding together for conservation", "raw_content": "Back to Warren Illi: Flathead Outdoors\nJanuary 27, 2016 at 5:11 pm | By Warren Illi\nHunting is Conservation!\nWhat a great motto. It is the motto of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a born-in-Montana nonprofit conservation organization with over 200,000 members. The Foundation is an action oriented, get-it-done group of hunter conservationists. RMEF illustrates the best of conservation.\nWhen I went to forestry school at the University of Minnesota, the definition of conservation was, \u201cThe wise use of our natural resources.\u201d Please note the word \u201cuse.\u201d\nMost natural resources such as wildlife are renewable. If properly husbanded, those types of natural resources can be enjoyed, harvested and used to sustain our way of life. Elk meat is tasty and 100 percent natural and organic. Wild elk populations can be managed to provide a never-ending supply of elk. Hunter conservationists have recovered a national elk population from only 41,000 in 1907 to over one million today. And along the way, hunters have harvested millions of elk.\nMany nonhunting citizens find it difficult to understand how hunters can love elk and then go out and kill them. That truly seems to be a contradiction. The answer is very simple. Elk hunters will gladly fund the perpetuation of what they love to hunt. Data indicates that over 95 percent of Elk Foundation members hunt. These hunters love elk hunting so much that they will roll up their sleeves and dig into their wallets to do whatever is necessary to perpetuate elk hunting by increasing elk populations and enhancing elk habitat. RMEF members put their money where their mouth is.\nFrom its humble beginning in tiny Troy about 32 years ago, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has expanded to over 200,000 members in all 50 states and many foreign countries. In Montana, the Foundation has over 13,000 members, making it the largest sportsman organization and conservation group in Montana. And it is not a do-nothing organization.\nOn a national basis, the RMEF has conserved over 6.7 million acres of key wildlife habitat. While elk habitat has been a key reason for those conservation efforts, hundreds of other non-game wildlife species have benefited from habitat enhancement.\nIn Montana, one of my favorite Foundation projects was in the Snowy Mountains south of Lewistown. The Snowy Mountains are almost 100 percent public land with great populations of elk. But the preponderance of ranch lands surrounding the Snowy Mountains is privately owned. Those private landowners blocked public access to public land. Some landowners wanted exclusive personal access to the great elk hunting on public land in the Snowy Mountains. Other ranchers leased their land to commercial outfitters who profited by having exclusive access to public elk on public land.\nBut as luck would have it, a local RMEF member discovered 40 acres of land for sale. That 40 acres had public road access and also bordered over 18,000 acres of Forest Service land in the Snowy Mountains. Both the Forest Service and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks have mandates to improve public access to public land. But those organizations usually move at glacial speed and are unable to quickly take advantage of public access opportunities.\nTo the rescue came the more nimble Elk Foundation. They quickly purchased the 40 acres for $190,000 for the 40 acres and re-sold it to Fish, Wildlife and Parks for $50,000. That equates to $10 per acre for permanent public access to 18,000 acres of great elk habitat.\nWhile it was the hunting members of the Foundation who paid the bill, the new public access can be enjoyed by all 320 million Americans for hiking, camping and bird watching. This is true conservation work.\nOn Feb. 20, the Flathead Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will host its annual banquet. Next to being in the mountains hunting elk, attending this annual banquet is one of my favorite activities. Each year, this banquet is probably the largest gathering of hunters in Northwest Montana. I see some hunting friends just once a year at this annual banquet. So if you love hunting, love elk and want to do some meaningful conservation work, attend this banquet.\nCall Kim Wold at 406-257-9110 for reservations or more information. I\u2019ll see you there.\nRead More Warren Illi: Flathead Outdoors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailynews.com/2018/01/08/new-candidate-for-bocanegras-assembly-seat-touts-record-of-empowering-women/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MEL3OZS4IMDLOSX7WR26F6SPE7OGY72B", "length": 3120, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.dailynews.com", "title": "New candidate for Bocanegra\u2019s Assembly seat touts record of empowering women \u2013 Daily News", "raw_content": "New candidate for Bocanegra\u2019s Assembly seat\u2026\nNew candidate for Bocanegra\u2019s Assembly seat touts record of empowering women\nLuz Rivas is a candidate for the California Assembly in District 39. (Courtesy photo)\nLuz Rivas always thought her leadership of a non-profit organization that helps to prepare girls for science and technology careers could make her a good candidate for public office \u2014 someday.\nThen the California Assembly seat in her part of the San Fernando Valley opened up because Raul Bocanegra resigned amid sexual-harassment allegations, and Rivas decided there\u2019s no time like the present.\n\u201cI think my track record in the community, especially helping to empower girls and women, is something that will resonate with voters,\u201d Rivas said in an interview.\nRivas has become the sixth candidate to file a \u201cstatement of intention\u201d to run in the April 3 special election to replace Bocanegra as representative of Assembly District 39.\nAll but one of the candidates are Democratic women: Patty Lopez, who unseated Bocanegra in the 2014 election before he avenged the defeat in 2016; Yolanda Aguiano, a local planning commissioner who reported sexual harassment by Bocanegra against another women when all three were legislative staffers; Bonnie Corwin, an activist who led a call for Bocanegra\u2019s resignation; Guadalupe Garcia Montano, and Rivas. The lone Republican is Ricardo Benitez.\nAll of the women will be hoping that voters are eager to elect more women to state offices after seeing sexual misconduct accusations prompt Bocanegra and Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, both Democrats, to resign, and state Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, to take an unpaid leave of absence pending an investigation. Women hold 18 of the 80 Assembly seats and nine of the 40 Senate seats.\n\u201cI think we need to to change the culture of Sacramento, and having more women elected will help us to make that change,\u201d Rivas said.\nRivas, 43, was born in Los Angeles, grew up in the northeast Valley communities of Pacoima, San Fernando and Arleta, and lives in North Hollywood. She served on the Los Angeles City Public Works Commission before resigning to run for the Assembly.\nWith an electrical engineering degree from MIT, Rivas worked for Motorola before earning a master\u2019s in education from Harvard and founding the Pacoima-based non-profit DIY [Do It Yourself] Girls that encourages fourth- to 12th-grade girls\u2019 interest in science and technology. Founded with $200, DIY Girls now has a half-million-dollar budget and has served more than 2,000 girls, Rivas said.\nIf elected, Rivas said, she would focus on promoting economic opportunity, starting with educational opportunity. She said she thinks state lawmakers must push back against Trump administration tax and immigration policies that she said harm Californians.\nIf endorsements are any indication, Rivas\u2019 campaign is off to a solid start. She announced endorsements from the northeast Valley\u2019s U.S. representative, Tony Cardenas, and its L.A. City Council members, Monica Rodriguez and Nury Martinez, as well as Rep. Norma Torres and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dakno.com/about.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BWJGFXOJT2AXQTMRPNSLQTW2XDGG6ZU6", "length": 4926, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dakno.com", "title": "Dakno Marketing and Website Development", "raw_content": "The Dakno Marketing Way\n\"Here\u2019s the Thing\u2026\"\nEveryone in the real estate industry agrees that in today\u2019s market, be it hot or cold, for first-time buyers or luxury vacation homes, a Realtor must have a website to be competitive. But that\u2019s about the only thing there\u2019s agreement on. The sometimes conflicting information that is available gives the impression that how to go about developing an effective web presence is open to interpretation. Do a little research and it quickly becomes evident there are as many opinions about what defines a \u201cgood\u201d website (and plenty of self-proclaimed experts to offer them) as there are pages on the Internet.\nDakno\u2019s experience developing countless fully customized websites has taught us there is only one factor that truly sets a real estate website apart: leads. When we develop a website with a client, no matter its size or scope, we evaluate every one of the hundreds of decisions made during the process by asking if it will increase the chances of capturing a lead. If the answer to this simple question is no, we\u2019ll tell you so, even if it isn\u2019t necessarily what you\u2019d like to hear.\nAn Educated Client Is a Happy Client\nWe conduct ourselves, both as individuals and as a company, in keeping with this simple truth: people don\u2019t like to be manipulated. We understand that if instead you provide them all the information they need to make an informed decision, they will appreciate your openness and reward you with their business now, and perhaps even more importantly, in the future.\nWe also understand that trust is earned, not given, which is why we take the time to explain to clients the reasons behind the things we do when designing, developing and promoting websites. Expertise is what sets a professional apart, and by sharing our understanding of the sometimes overwhelmingly complicated world of the Internet, we provide the facts you need to confidently decide which direction to take your website and business.\nBuilding Trust Builds Relationships\nToo often, in the interest of time (or because it\u2019s just that much easier), service providers will take the \u201cjust trust me\u201d route. As the buying public, we usually feel uneasy with this arrangement, but since we\u2019re in a position of need, and because we often lack the knowledge and understanding needed to represent our own best interests, we go along and take the expert's word for it. After all, they do it for a living, right?\nWell, we all know how that story ends. And maybe the most aggravating thing when this happens is that infuriating feeling you get when you eventually \u201cknow better\u201d and look back and see that you\u2019ve been had. At Dakno we will never use a client\u2019s ignorance against them. You will always be told why we make our recommendations and have the option to accept our guidance or to go your own way. At the end of the day the customer may not always be right, but they do sign the checks, so they certainly get want they want!\nWhy Should Another Realtor\u2019s Success Matters to You?\nDakno Admin, the control panel we developed that allows you to enhance, grow and manage your Dakno website, is the result of many years of using this approach to real estate website development. The custom programming of numerous top-producing Realtors from around the United States and Canada we have worked with has been distilled down and refined to include the most sought after, valued, and proven functionality that makes a website a powerful selling tool.\nAnd because our understanding of effective website design is constantly being refined, so is our product line and services. Dakno Admin, like all the best business systems, is a work in progress, and as improvements are made due to insights we gain from working with our many savvy and driven partners, the resulting enhancements are passed along to you automatically and free of charge.\nNever Being Satisfied Is What Sets Us Apart\nAt a certain point a company\u2019s record of success begins to speak for itself, but while we are proud of our accomplishments, at Dakno we tend to be more concerned with looking ahead than back. Of course evaluating what you have done is crucial in business, which is why we are big believers in constantly analyzing a website\u2019s ongoing performance, looking for ways to improve and refine it.\nBy constantly seeking to understand why an individual website succeeds at generating leads, we learn the techniques that allow us to replicate that success for all of our clients. We apply this approach to every aspect of our company in an ongoing effort to improve the quality of our work. Please take the time to browse our website to get a better understanding of the ways we strive to earn your trust first, and your business as a result. And as always, don\u2019t hesitate to contact us if you have a question that isn\u2019t addressed, would like clarification on a topic, or are ready to get started. Thank you for your valuable time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 5593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.das.edu/gainful-employment-disclosures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:47Z", "digest": "sha1:DOBF7COB7YSTDJFHGTJPGXJLIJNHCHLD", "length": 317, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.das.edu", "title": "Gainful Employment Disclosures - Downey Adult School", "raw_content": "In order to be eligible for Federal Student Aid, a student must be enrolled in an educational program that prepares them for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. Students must be enrolled in one of DAS\u2019s non-degree certificate programs in order to be eligible for Federal Student Aid at Downey Adult School.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 57.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/29/verisign-ceo-departs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BYYNFSSAYSNGSYVBDDZB5GHIIE4H4X3X", "length": 1978, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.datacenterknowledge.com", "title": "VeriSign CEO Departs | Data Center Knowledge", "raw_content": "VeriSign CEO Departs\nVeriSign Inc. (VRSN) said early Tuesday that CEO Stratton Sclavos stepped down from his positions for undisclosed reasons.\nVeriSign Inc. (VRSN) said early Tuesday that CEO Stratton Sclavos stepped down from his positions. The company named William A. Roper Jr. as president and chief executive. Roper had been the board's lead independent director and he has been a board member since November 2003. He most recently served as executive vice president of Science Applications International Corp., a diversified technology services company.\nNo explanation was provided for the executive changes. VeriSign also has postponed its 2007 analyst meeting, previously set for June 6.\nIn other changes, Edward A. Mueller was named VeriSign's chairman. He is the former head of specialty retailer Williams-Sonoma and has been a director of VeriSign since March 2005.\n\"VeriSign is a highly respected company with an attractive business model and leading positions in growing markets. The board remains committed to our strategy, and is pleased with the early results of the restructuring program we began this year,\" said Roper. \"I look forward to working with VeriSign's management team to capitalize on the company's growth opportunities while ensuring the strongest possible emphasis on managerial discipline and execution.\"\nIn February VeriSign said it would invest $100 million in infrastructure upgrades to manage explosive growth in Internet traffic. The initiative, named Project Titan, will include the construction of new data centers, upgrades to existing equipment, and leasing space in dozens of third-party facilities around the world. VeriSign said it intends to \"expand and diversify the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010.\"\nNew AWS Cloud Services Take Aim at Video, AR and VR\nIntel Data Center Group Chief Bryant One of Fortune\u2019s Most Powerful Women\nCenturyLink Sued by Minnesota Amid $12 Billion Class Action", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datarobot.com/resource/time-series-simplified/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:44Z", "digest": "sha1:EZRLLACURFBLEBS7TQP3IWIEXSKUZT52", "length": 131, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.datarobot.com", "title": "AI Simplified: Time Series - DataRobot", "raw_content": "Michael Schmidt, Chief Scientist at DataRobot, introduces us to Time Series modeling \u2013 one of the hardest problems in data science.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 212.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidbrim.com/5-ways-social-media-is-like-working-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPLHMD3QJUNYEWT2HRFWKDVWYW6QFPKB", "length": 3242, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.davidbrim.com", "title": "Five Ways Social Media is Like Working Out | David Brim", "raw_content": "Five Ways Social Media is Like Working Out\nSo recently I\u2019ve been thinking about this issue and came to the conclusion that Social Media is a lot like working out. Now before you judge that comment look at my top 5 reasons why. I\u2019m eager to hear your feedback \ud83d\ude42\n1) When you do it consistently and over time it will yield great results. You don\u2019t have to be in the gym all day to be effective. Doing 15 minutes of quality exercise is better than being at the gym for six hours messing around and not getting a lot accomplished. We all have busy lives, but if you are willing to invest time into social media & building your online presence it can lead to more clients, friends, or even job opportunities.\n2) It\u2019s always good to \u201cspot or support\u201d others. You\u2019ll have better relationships with those in the gym and in the social media realm if you show your support. In the gym this could be spotting someone as he does a tough excersise\u2026In the social media realm it can be as simple as commenting on someone\u2019s blog, writing on someones wall, or replying to someone\u2019s tweet. Anything that shows the person who initiated the conversation that you are listening and care about what they are saying.\n3) Having a Membership isn\u2019t enough. What you do at the gym is more important than the fact that you have a membership. The same is true with social media. You can be a member of every social networking site on earth, have a blog and twitter account but if you don\u2019t actually use them there\u2019s no point. Content is king and what you do at the gym and on social media sites is what really creates value.\n4) Sometimes working out can make your sore. That friend who is spotting you on on the bench press can sometimes push you a bit too hard. Just like you may go out with a friend(s) drinking and they push you to have more shots or more drinks\u2026then the next day you have a bunch of drunk tweets and photos all over facebook and flickr. Always know your limits and watch what you do, because your actions could easily be broadcasted to the world in today\u2019s digital age. In addition to this there are always going to be people at the gym who don\u2019t like you. They think your a show off, or just don\u2019t like the way you handle yourself. They could talk bad about you to the cute girl at the gym, or post something bad about you on a blog. Take this for what it\u2019s worth, address it openly if needed, but don\u2019t let it distract you from your work out or business objectives.\n5) Be Honest & Transparent About your Accomplishments/Endeavors. If you say your going to the gym everyday and look like you\u2019ve been sitting on the couch drinking beer and eating twinkies its apparent. Likewise don\u2019t take steroids and pretend like your doing everything by the books. This is the same with social media. Don\u2019t lie about yourself, your company or your accomplishments. Eventually what\u2019s done in the dark will come to light. If you don\u2019t disclose yourself properly eventually someone else will or it will be blatantly apparent.\nIf you liked this post please share it by clicking the share this link below\nGood post. I am a regular visitor of your site and appreciate you taking the time to maintain the excellent site. I\u2019ll be a frequent visitor for a really long time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/content/646511/india-china-line-up-engagements.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PXR77C6SAEZXRKASZJSTSUDA3K6GK3UG", "length": 2528, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.deccanherald.com", "title": "India, China line up engagements to mend ties | Deccan Herald", "raw_content": "India, China line up engagements to mend ties\nIndia and China have lined up back-to-back engagements to mend bilateral relations, which hit a new low during the military face-off at Doklam Plateau in western Bhutan earlier this year.\nNITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar met Li Wei, president of Development Research Council of China, in Beijing on Tuesday. The meeting comes just days before External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is set to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Russia-India-China trilateral talks in New Delhi early next week.\nThe meeting between Sushma and Wang is likely to be followed by the 20th round of boundary negotiation by the Special Representatives of India and China \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi.\nA senior official told DH in New Delhi that both India and China were keen to schedule more such engagements in the coming months to bring the ties back on track. He said that the Sushma-Wang meeting early next week might set the stage for more high-level interactions early next year.\nThe meeting between Sushma and Wang in New Delhi is going to be the first between the two after the 72-day-long face-off between the Indian Army and the People's Liberation Army of China ended on August 28.\nThe face-off further strained the bilateral ties, which were already plagued by several irritants, including China's policy of shielding terrorists based in Pakistan from United Nations sanctions and blocking India's bid to enter the Nuclear Suppliers Group.\nNew Delhi has also been opposed to Beijing's Belt-and-Road cross-continental connectivity initiative, particularly to its key component China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The corridor is proposed to pass through areas India claims as its own but accuses Pakistan of illegally occupying. Beijing has been upset over India's growing strategic convergence with US and Japan in Indo-Pacific.\nThe dialogue between NITI Ayog and DRC of China provides an important platform for both sides to discuss key macro-economic issues impacting both countries and areas of mutual interest.\nAccording to a press release issued in New Delhi, the 3rd NITI-DRC dialogue, which was held in Beijing on Tuesday, \"Enabled an in-depth interaction between the two delegations on the world economic prospects, India-China economic cooperation and practices for sustainable growth in the context of global uncertainty and weak global growth.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 6205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delawarenorth.com/boston-university-sportservice/job-opportunities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HION633OE4IKHMMAM6QNP4ZBUGIDCXPR", "length": 749, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.delawarenorth.com", "title": "Job Opportunities", "raw_content": "Be a part of the fun and excitement!\nJoin us for the 2017 - 2018 season at Agganis Arena and experience the thrill of college sports and events! Agganis Arena is dedicated to providing impeccable guest services in a safe, clean, and comfortable environment. We are only looking for responsible, dependable, and guest service-oriented people who help make Agganis Arena enjoyable for all guests.\nYou will be a part of the thrill of college hockey and more\nYou'll earn money at a job you'll love, all while working alongside great teammates\nBecome part of the excitement\nScheduling completed on line \u2013 You tell us when you are available to work!\nNo experience - no problem...as long as you have the passion and people skills, we'll teach you the rest!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/13/police-investigate-gunshots-west-26th-street-wilmington/699340002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLG4TU52HXL5I3FXHGPZBAZV2IAKOT6I", "length": 1641, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.delawareonline.com", "title": "Police investigate gunshots on West 26th Street in Wilmington", "raw_content": "Police responded to a call that at least seven shots were fired in the 100 block of West 26th Street Wednesday afternoon.\nPolice investigate after gunshots are reported on West 26th Street in Wilmington Police responded to a call that at least seven shots were fired in the 100 block of West 26th Street Wednesday afternoon. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/13/police-investigate-gunshots-west-26th-street-wilmington/699340002/\nWPD investigating shots fired on West 26th Street Jerry Habraken / The News Journal, Jerry Habraken\nWilmington Police investigate a shots fired scene on the 100 block of West 26th Street Wednesday afternoon in Wilmington. (Photo11: Jerry Habraken, The News Journal)Buy Photo\nPolice say they responded to a call that at least seven shots were fired in the 100 block of West 26th Street Wednesday afternoon.\nWilmington Police arrived on scene at about 2:30 p.m. and roped off the block between Tatnall Street and North West Street with police tape and officers. A helicopter flew above the scene as police focused their search in front of one home. The K-9 unit and forensics teams arrived to help with the investigation.\nSome residents stood out on porches and watched as police combed the area and placed evidence cones on the street. With backpacks in tow, children walked around the scene and neighbors discussed whether someone was struck. They all agreed they were going to stay in tonight.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/13/police-investigate-gunshots-west-26th-street-wilmington/699340002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delorisartist.com/10x10-flower-paintings.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2EZVLHL37NBJMYK2Z5A5LXCTTZQGQYI4", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.delorisartist.com", "title": "10x10 Flower Paintings - Deloris Griffith", "raw_content": "10x10 Acrylic or mixed media on paper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/football/derry-city/willie-curran-honoured-by-derry-city-1-8806998", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:F75Q3F2FGEJZSNCCZECCUPKGOHL74QBJ", "length": 802, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.derryjournal.com", "title": "Willie Curran honoured by Derry City - Derry Journal", "raw_content": "Derry City manager, Declan Devine congratulates Hall of Famer, Willie Curran.\nDerry City chairman, Mr Philip O\u2019Doherty presented the 88 year-old Beechwood Avenue man with the honour in front of a 300 strong attendance of Candy Stripes fans, players, management and volunteers.\nCurran, who was signed by the club as a 14 year-old in 1944, went on to win the 1954 Irish Cup Final with the club and has spent over 70 years representing the Candy Stripes both a player and dedicated volunteer.\nAnd Mr O\u2019Doherty claimed the Brandywell club owes a debt of gratitude for the work the ex-centre-half has done down through the years.\n\u201cHe\u2019s a stalwart of the club and without Willie Curran the club would not be in the position its in today,\u201d said Mr O\u2019Doherty.\n\u201cSo thanks to Willie from everyone at Derry City.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dexygames.club/mercedes.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:08Z", "digest": "sha1:HEZWNASEFEEGDN63WDWBPCUQSR4PN2U3", "length": 266, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dexygames.club", "title": "Mercedes on Dexy | Play Best Online Games | Unblocked Games", "raw_content": "You are here Home \u00bb Puzzle Games \u00bb Mercedes\nFirst thing that you need to know is that this game can be very hard or very easy. First you need to choose between five difficulties, very easy, easy, normal, hard and very hard. This is one of the best puzzle games ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 1749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dialteg.com/nice-guys-finish-first-when/20-nice-guy-tips/18-give-space/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:38Z", "digest": "sha1:R56XF56VIRO7HCBHZTNF3Q4NF3UW6TSY", "length": 30968, "nlines": 181, "source_domain": "www.dialteg.com", "title": "How & Why You Must Give The Women You Are Attracted To\u2026 Space", "raw_content": "One rule of attraction implicitly states, when we chase those we are attracted to, they will run quicker than Forest Gump on steroids.\nWe are designed as humans to do one of two things when we are being chased: Fight or Flee. One of those two things will happen because when someone or something is coming after us\u2026 it can be a real and very frightening situation.\nNot giving a woman space \u2013 smothering her \u2013 being needy and constantly seeking approval \u2013 unfortunately to a woman FEELS like she\u2019s being chased.\nHer reaction then will either be to FLEE or FIGHT. In the dating world fleeing is obvious, you\u2019ll push her away and/or you\u2019ll break up. Fight is something different but I\u2019ve found when there\u2019s little or no attraction \u2013 fighting usually means a nasty rejection because she can not take it anymore.\nThat explanation alone may not give you enough of a push to give a woman space so let\u2019s continue.\nMy guess is one of several things are happening to you which caused you to search for an answer to your \u201cspace\u201d problem. Maybe it\u2019s one of these reasons listed below:\nYou\u2019re in a relationship and she\u2019s tells you she needs her space. Now you\u2019re wondering how to get her back.\nYou\u2019ve entered a few relationships and you got too close too quick which has caused the last breakup or possibly the few before it. You\u2019re wondering how to stop this pattern from happening again.\nYou don\u2019t understand how giving a woman space can increase her feelings for you. It doesn\u2019t make logical space to step away from her and it will work out for the better.\nYou\u2019re a nice guy who tends to get a little needy with women and you\u2019re looking to erase that trait because it\u2019s ruining or stopping your dating life entirely.\nYou suffer from what is commonly called a \u201csense of urgency\u201d when you first meet or interact with a girl. It feels like if you\u2019re not constantly pushing it or doing something to be with her \u2013 she\u2019ll wind up with another guy OR if you\u2019re already involved with her, she\u2019ll cheat on you.\n(*Comment your personal reason below so we can make this a better experience for all of us.*)\nWe can start with the first one\u2026\nYou\u2019re in a relationship and she told you she needs some space.\nSorry to hear that and there are many reasons why this happens to a couple.\n#1. You can get physical too quickly. Sleeping together after a meeting or two and the sex was so great, BOTH of you couldn\u2019t get enough of it. But as always the case, one of you eventually backs away out of fear or realizing you\u2019re letting your responsibilities take a back seat and it\u2019s hurting your personal life.\nIn this case SPACE is a good (often advisable) thing because unfortunately too much chemistry and going non-stop like this is NOT a good start if you\u2019re looking for a relationship. If you\u2019re not looking for one \u2013 then space is even better because at some point it will turn into a relationship before either one of you are ready.\n#2. It can become a case of instant boyfriend and girlfriend. This happens when you meet, spend lots of time together, and suddenly you\u2019re a couple without either one of you actually saying they were committed to it. Making for an awkward situation. This differs from the first one because normally there\u2019s little or no sex.\nIn this case SPACE again is a very good thing and must happen because without any clear indication or declaration that a commitment is agreed upon, you\u2019ll soon start questioning what is happening taking away from the real fun part of being together.\nIf you\u2019re the type of guy who finds himself in this situation even one time, it\u2019s too often. If the right amount of space is not given early on OR there\u2019s no clear indication or definition of what it happening \u2013 the relationship will tend to crumble and become something else.\nNext example \u2013 very common for the nice guy and for women too\u2026\n#3. ONE of you becomes too needy and clingy after the initial spark which makes the other begin to feel smothered. Sometime soon one of you just snaps and screams at the other \u2013 \u201cYou need to give me my freaking space.\u201d\nNumber 3 is a clear indication that SPACE must happen and it\u2019s also a clear sign that you or her might be having security issues. You might become jealous easily. You might feel you\u2019re always on the edge of losing your partner.\nTake the time necessary to work on your personal issues of self-esteem and you will naturally create the right amount of space.\nDid you notice there\u2019s a few commonalities in all of them?\nIn reality they are ALL very similar and you can see one of two things are happening on your end.\n#1: You showed her quickly you\u2019re needy and/or clingy. You smothered her. You didn\u2019t give enough space or time between the interactions. You acted from a place a scarcity. You felt like you had to have her now. You imagined another guy would come along and snatch her up if you didn\u2019t act quickly.\n#2. Too much chemistry too quickly. The fire burned hot and bright and the life you had before you met took a back seat. Whether it was all sex or just lots of dating and intimacy doesn\u2019t matter. Your time together progressed so quickly you didn\u2019t have any time to think about the consequences. Almost like you didn\u2019t have any time to think about it making it feel like you lost control. Now you\u2019re worried where it\u2019s going and whether you made the right or wrong decision.\nNo matter which one happened to you there are clear solutions to this \u201cspace\u201d problem and they are not all easy but let\u2019s continue to the next one \u2013 because just like the last they are ALL connected.\nYour last relationship or past experience with women ended badly because of this space issue \u2013 and you want to stop the pattern from happening again.\nGood for you! The past is the past and now you\u2019re ready to make some changes. Giving a woman the right amount of space is a good thing for you, and even better for the attraction.\nOf course there\u2019s a balance which is needed. Disappear for too long and she could move on. Especially if there wasn\u2019t much attraction going on. Give her too little space and you\u2019re back to the same old problem.\nI\u2019m going to tell you right away so you understand. I encounter lots of women seeking advice about men and one of the most common theme is always\u2026\n\u201cWhy did he disappear? Why does he seem hot and cold? Why does he ignore me? Why does it seem like he\u2019s into me one minute and gone the next?\u201d\nYou can see that IF there\u2019s a considerable amount of attraction and interest and time invested it\u2019s highly unlikely she\u2019ll move on that quickly. Sure some will out of spite but we can not do anything about that, it\u2019s HER decision.\nThe key component here is to: Give her a real reason to miss you (attraction and a little attention) and allow the space to happen naturally and the feelings will grow.\nHere are some quick tips you can use:\nIf this is a serious problem, STOP casually dating one woman at a time. Spread out the dates. When you meet a woman you like, find another quickly like her and spread it out.\nIn your desperate times, when you feel like you have to contact her, go do something else to occupy your time. Make it a plan to stop it before it happens.\nIf you know certain times or days are your weak point, be pro-active and turn off your phone or get away from it until those feelings disappear.\nBe busy, stay busy. Always fill your time up doing things you love without her and enjoy it.\nRestrict how often you or call this one to at least half or more than you have in the past.\nWeird but worked for me \u2013 START A JOURNAL. When you feel like talking to her or seeing her write it down. Keep writing until you get it all out of your system. This one worked amazingly well for me.\nWhen it\u2019s \u201ccrunch\u201d time and you just can not resists \u2013 IMMEDIATELY imagine every needy clingy woman you want nothing to do with and how they made you feel. Let those feelings seep in and you should snap out of it very easily.\nKeep telling yourself this: Sexual tension and attraction NEED space to happen. Anticipation is a good thing. It\u2019s hard to miss something when it\u2019s available 24/7.\nThose tips work in a lot of situations. (If you came up with something on your own, help a fellow guy out and comment them below.)\nStopping the pattern from happening again can also be simply a matter of :\nDistraction. Doing other things you love which keep you busy which is physical and demanding and tires you out.\nEducation. Keeping your mind occupied by learning something new. Find something which engages and preoccupies your mind leaving less room for thinking about anything else.\nNot investing so much time and effort into one woman. Spread it out. Don\u2019t go all out on one woman. Find many to casually date.\nNext up\u2026 for those of you who don\u2019t believe giving a woman space is the smart or right thing to do\u2026 OR\u2026\nYou don\u2019t fully believe how giving a woman space can increase her feelings for you.\nImagine for a minute the most enjoyable thing you have in your life. It could be anything from food to gaming to binge watching to sadly so in some of my years \u2013 getting drunk with your family and friends.\nGot something in your head? Cool.\nNow imagine that\u2019s ALL you have and you continually do it indefinitely. Hey I understand some of you might enjoy it. It would be fun for a while. BUT sooner or later the thrill is gone. Like a drug you\u2019ll build up a tolerance for it and the enjoyment will disappear.\nSo what can you do to bring it back? Yep, you guessed it\u2026 TAKE A BREAK from it. Give it a rest. Allow some space and time between you and IT before you absolutely HATE doing it. (Because nothing sucks worse than turning something you love doing into something you hate doing.)\nYou know what ATTRACTION is, right? It\u2019s a deep emotional trigger which happens all by itself. You can convince yourself or talk yourself into FEELING something (in reality). It\u2019s an emotion which can be very addicting.\nWhich also means getting too much of it \u2013 sort of ruins it because you become used to it.\nNow I\u2019m not saying getting married or being in a relationship long-term the attraction will eventually disappear, it can happen, but you MUST ADMIT leering at a girl without ever touching her can make the attraction last a lot longer than being able to sleep with her whenever you want OR knowing you\u2019ll be with her the rest of your life.\nThe same goes for women and you.\nGiving her too much too quick can easily lessen the effect. With no room to grow it becomes stagnant. If she knows she can have it any time she wants, what\u2019s the incentive to truly DESIRE it?\nAttraction needs to build. It must gather momentum. It ebbs and flows according to where and when and how the stimulus or trigger is created.\nIf you want to create a real desire \u2013 start with attraction \u2013 give it some space and time \u2013 offer snippets or pieces as incentives \u2013 let the woman think about it a little \u2013 give her time to process the information\u2026\nAND that\u2019s just ONE of the many reasons why giving a woman the right amount of space (while other things are firmly in place) is how you grow desire and attraction into something more.\nThe other reasons will be covered below\u2026 so onward\u2026\nYou\u2019re a nice guy who has been needy with women and you\u2019re looking to erase that trait.\nBeing overly needy comes from a lot of places so we\u2019ll only cover them lightly and I\u2019ll do my best to keep it relative to giving a woman space.\nNEEDY is a general WANT or NEED of attention, affection, approval, assurance, and love.\nSince it shows up in many parts of our lives \u2013 if you\u2019re needy with women you will be needy in other parts too like your job, your parents, your friends, (yes even) your pets; or any time or place where you feel like you\u2019re missing something or could lose something.\nThe reasons why you\u2019re needy are intertwined with many things and can be explained in many ways \u2013 but for today\u2019s purpose alone, here are a few ways to show you WHERE it comes from:\nYou feel like you\u2019re not good enough so you do things to try and prove it which has the opposite effect on women.\nSome of the signs you are insecure are becoming easily jealous, the feeling you must be heard, over-confidence, bullying others, acting out loudly, demanding too much from yourself and others, and/or a general feeling that you can not or will not ever be good enough at anything. Which of course includes attracting women and being in a healthy relationship.\nYou\u2019re afraid you\u2019re going to lose something or someone so you do everything within your power to keep it up to and including power over someone or something.\nFear is a major motivator and destroyer of people whose lives are run by it. Don\u2019t let it fool you, you\u2019re not alone. EVERYONE is governed by fear unless they have a severe brain injury, the only difference is some are more controlled than others. Some channel or deal with their fears more productively than other.\nSome of the signs are: You avoid any and all confrontations. You place it safe even if there\u2019s no need to. You feel way too comfortable being complacent. You have a list of excuses which stops you from doing things.\nBeing needy is often a direct result or effect of having low self-esteem. Based on Nathaniel Branden\u2019s work (prominent leader in the field) these are his six pillars:\nLiving consciously: Paying attention to information and feedback about needs and goals\u2026 facing facts that might be uncomfortable or threatening\u2026 refusing to wander through life in a self-induced mental fog.\nSelf-acceptance: Being willing to experience whatever we truly think, feel or do, even if we don\u2019t always like it\u2026 facing our mistakes and learning from them.\nSelf-responsibility: Establishing a sense of control over our lives by realizing we are responsible for our choices and actions at every level, the achievement of our goals, our happiness, and our values.\nSelf-assertiveness: The willingness to express appropriately our thoughts, values and feelings\u2026 to stand up for ourselves\u2026 to speak and act from our deepest convictions.\nLiving purposefully: Setting goals and working to achieve them, rather than living at the mercy of chance and outside forces\u2026 developing self-discipline.\nIntegrity: The integration of our behavior with our ideals, convictions, standards and beliefs\u2026 acting in congruence with what we believe is right.\nIf you find yourself not living by those pillars to a certain extent (no one is perfect so be realistic about it) then you probably have low self-esteem.\nThe obvious solution (direction) you should be going to get past this \u201cspace\u201d problem is to:\nGet past your insecurities.\nRemove any unnecessary fears.\nBuild or develop your self-esteem.\nThese will directly affect your relationships with women BUT they don\u2019t have to be worked on with regards to women. Either way, one will take care of the other AND all three will boost the other two at the same time. They\u2019re connected in a way which can not be fully separated.\nIf you noticed confidence was not there. Good call. Although confidence is by far a major attractive trait to women, something every guy needs, it might not be directly related to giving her space as a goal. Plus confidence protects those items above. It\u2019s a barrier. It\u2019s how you handle your success and failures. It just does not fit here for the most part.\nNext one please\u2026 and it\u2019s a big one.\nYou suffer from what is commonly called a \u201csense of urgency\u201d when you first meet or interact with a girl.\nThe last one (being needy) is most certainly connected to this one. (Again these things tend to overlap. One causes another while the other affects the first one and so on.)\nHowever for \u201clearning\u201d purposes or a better understanding of these \u201cspace\u201d issues you\u2019re having with women this is separated for a few reasons but in this article, it\u2019s because this is HUGE mistake guys make unknowingly and so it must be singled out.\nAlso because this is an area I\u2019m an expert in because it was something I had to personally work so hard in my life to get past.\nThis is how it feels and tell me if you\u2019re there, been there, or find yourself doing the same.\nA sense of urgency is the feeling that if you don\u2019t do something immediately with a woman, you\u2019re going to lose her OR lose her to another guy.\nIt\u2019s a major insecurity issue mixed with fear and combined with a low self-esteem making it a tough one to get past. Topped on that it\u2019s so hard to see it\u2019s happening becomes a big reason why you might find it difficult to give a woman enough space at the right time, in the right way.\nThe strange part or (pain in the ass part of this one) is that you feel compelled to do something (anything) to keep a girl, even before you have her, and yet it does nothing to help you actually meet women. Told you it sucks.\nSo it happens \u2013 your sense of urgency \u2013 like you\u2019re going to lose her \u2013 like she\u2019s going to end up with another guy if you are not constantly with her \u2013 doesn\u2019t just magically appear for most. It\u2019s creation generally happens based on one or more past experiences where you \u201cthought\u201d a chic was into you, then the next time you see her \u2013 she\u2019s with another dude.\nAnother experience is when you feel like you\u2019re doing all the work to get a girl and it seems to be going well, then you don\u2019t see her for a short time, and she hooked up with some asshole or guy she \u201csaid\u201d she didn\u2019t want\u2026 making this a friends zone issue too.\nI\u2019m going to tell you upfront THIS reason alone could be why you\u2019re pushing women away and your incessant need to stop it from happening makes it very difficult to stop doing and the pattern repeats. So the harder you try the worse it gets.\nListen, you\u2019re going to lose some women, she\u2019s going to get with some other dude, you could create some space and she never comes back \u2013 things happen for better or worse \u2013 but when you\u2019re so focused on the outcome (trying so hard to keep her or get her) you can NOT do the necessary things to assure it\u2019s less likely to happen. That is why it\u2019s so difficult.\nThis is an area where you must understand what you have control of and do your best to only control that part. You can NOT and will NEVER fully control another persons actions or thoughts\u2026\nBUT you do have control over what YOU do and SAY which will make her going away less likely to happen. Actually do it masterfully and (again depending on who she is) you\u2019ll either end up with a clingy needy woman who does it to you OR you\u2019ll end up with a high quality woman who would NEVER cheat or leave you for another guy.\nOut of everything you feel or whatever emotions are driving you NEVER forget this:\nWomen are not inanimate objects you can keep for yourself.\nThey have feelings and experience emotions at every level in their lives. They need space and the room to live their independent existence. They also need the space to determine if you are right choice for her.\nAllow her to live her own life on her own terms.\nAllow her to make her own mistakes.\nAllow her to learn from those mistakes and if she doesn\u2019t learn from them, allow her to try again.\nYou\u2019re not here or there to FIX women. You\u2019re not here or there to control her life in any way, shape, or form.\nGiving a woman independence in every sense of that word assures you stand out above many guys who either blatantly or through passive-aggressive actions try to control her.\nThis all too common mistake lots of men make with women comes from a lack of understanding of how men and women communicate differently. It\u2019s a subject too many guys avoid but by getting at least a quick course in it, can solve so many relationship issues.\nPLUS while working up to a relationship, knowing the differences and how to communicate to women based on these differences makes a relationship more likely to happen. It paves the way while doing nothing more than learning how to listen and how to respond.\nHere\u2019s something quick I wrote for women which will give you the bare basics.\nHow Men and Women Communicate Differently\nMen talk with a purpose like solving a problem or exchanging information.\nWomen talk to share feelings, increase intimacy, sharing and to solidify her connection with her partner or those around her.\nMen (typically) have a clear idea or solution before they share which is why men go silent for periods of time as they think through the process and figure it all out on their own.\nWomen will prefer to talk it out and gather the information through the conversation rather than doing it inside their own heads. Sometimes if their partner won\u2019t or can not listen, she may go to a friend or family member first.\nHe prioritizes and prefers efficiency.\nShe prefers to explore.\nGuys will tend to think or believe that when you want to talk to him that you\u2019re seeking advice and therefore will tend to push to a conclusion in the way he communicates. Which is always head-on, tackle the problem as quickly as possible.\nHe Might Ignore You or Go Silent Because Of A Breakdown In Communication\nYou might now begin to see just by learning HOW to communicate to women you can make her at least FEEL like you\u2019re giving her all the space she\u2019ll ever need.\nCommunicating things the right way assures she feels empowered to make her own decisions thus the feelings of space.\nCommunicating to a woman which will make her feel like she has all the independence and freedom she\u2019ll ever need (a sense of space) means you must:\nLISTEN to every word she says while not backing into your mind trying to look for a solution for her.\nAFFIRM what she\u2019s saying with things like, \u201cThat sucks.\u201d, \u201cSorry it happened.\u201d and/or \u201cI hear you.\u201d\nREPEAT BACK what you hear and NOTHING more unless asked directly to do so.\nSure it\u2019s a quick course. It\u2019s not all of the skills you need to create a long-lasting relationship based on the right kind of communication skills but I guarantee doing those three things alone EVERY time \u2013 will assure you will give her every sense of space a woman might only need to never want to leave or go with some other dude.\nThis is a skill and therefore it IS something you can learn.\nRead the quote below and keep in mind this is coming from a MASTER of this dating/attraction/relationship stuff who at one point also suffered from this space problem and had to overcome his \u201csense of urgency\u201d in his life just like you and I.\n\u201cSuddenly, I felt like I couldn\u2019t get enough of being around this woman. She knew how to support and understand me\u2026 including all of my hopes and dreams\u2026 like no one else could.\nAll I wanted to do was be with her, share with her, and learn from her. Most of all, I only felt HAPPY when I was with her.\n\u2026It takes something totally different to make \u201cthe one\u201d fall for you and want a relationship\u2026 a whole NEW set of concepts, mindsets, tools, and techniques than it takes to just meet women and get dates.\nA step-by-step guide to becoming a \u201cmore evolved\u201d man\u2026 the ONLY kind of man who can effortlessly make a great woman PURSUE a relationship with him.\u201d\nLove The Final Chapter\nI\u2019ve reviewed and/or checked out tons of \u201crelationship\u201d \u201ccommunication\u201d style of help and since not many of them were related to attracting women and what not \u2013 this ONE stands mikes above the rest for guys because it IS for guys and you\u2019ll find within it EVERY skill you\u2019ll every need to get over this space problem.\nIf you\u2019re serious about it the get it NOW \u2013 Love The Final Chapter.\n(That is an affiliated link and will earn me a commission if and when you buy and keep it so it helps us both.)\nOkay back to our regularly scheduled program\u2026 give the woman you are attracted to\u2026 SPACE!\nA ton of information has been covered today. I do hope I\u2019ve covered some of your personal experiences and over-delivered what you expected AND you\u2019ve found some useful tips to give you more than every reason to give a woman the right space needed so good or better things can happen for both of you.\nMake sure you sign up below for more great stuff.\nKeep in mind these points before you go:\nNot giving her space will make it feel like she\u2019s being chased and will want to run. Chasing a woman must be done right and with care. It\u2019s good to pursue in a way \u2013 BAD to chase.\nRelationships need time and space to grow. Anticipation is a good thing. Having someone miss you can also be a good thing. Don\u2019t ever be afraid of creating it naturally. Don\u2019t ever act out of fear or a sense of urgency.\nPractice and repeat ALL the tips above to separate you from her and to stop you from contacting her when it\u2019s not necessary or could hurt things. They were DISTRACT, EDUCATE, and avoid OVER-INVESTING.\nSpace can be a good healthy thing when done the right way at the right time. Understand why it\u2019s good and WHEN it\u2019s good. Avoid dumb game playing or bullshit moves.\nUnderstand where your space issues might be coming from: Fear, insecurity, low self-esteem AND that these problems can be fixed.\nThey are internal struggles so they are in YOUR CONTROL to fix or mend them. They are connected to so working on one helps the other.\nThe two absolute BEST advancements you can make in this area are through one of these two programs designed specifically for you and your relationships with women:\nDEEP INNER GAME \u2013 \u201cAnnihilate Your Crippling Insecurity, Anxiety And Fear To Transform Into The Powerful, Confident, Attractive Man All Women Want.\u201d\nULTIMATE INNER GAME \u2013 \u201cThe Secrets to Build BULLETPROOF Self-Confidence & Emotional Self-Control\u2026\u201d\n\u201cWomen are not inanimate objects you can keep for yourself. They have feelings and experience emotions at every level in their lives. They need space and the room to live their independent existence.\nThey also need the space to determine if you are right choice for her. Allow her to live her own life on her own terms. Allow her to make her own mistakes. Allow her to learn from those mistakes and if she doesn\u2019t learn from them, allow her to try again.\nUnderstand or comes to terms with your sense of urgency issues. Do what you can to control those urges. Life will not always work out in your favor. Sometimes bad things happen. However trying to control things beyond your control will make it more likely to happen while the opposite is true.\nCommunication is a skill and communicating to women a certain way can GIVE her the sense of space and freedom and sometimes, it\u2019s all she needs to continue forward and to never step back and say, \u201cLeave me alone. I think we just take a break. I just need some space!\u201d\nA one stop guidance in this area in a direct way of learning those communication skills (related to women and life too) it all starts here in LOVE THE FINAL CHAPTER. One amazing life changing course you\u2019ll never regret picking up. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.\nThanks so much for stopping by \u2013 sign up below \u2013 leave some comments and stories \u2013 offer some personal experience advice \u2013 do whatever it takes to get the all too inherent nice guy problem of giving a woman space handled and under control.\nI met a girl a week ago and already met her mom and she claims to tell all her friends and sister about me. They supposedly all approve of her being with me. I am a 27 year old Marine and in college and she is 18 year old college student, we both stay in the same town.\nSo far things have been great, she has:\n\u2013 shown a crap ton of interest in me\n\u2013 listed what she likes about me\n\u2013 doesn\u2019t let our text convos end\n\u2013 introduced me to her mom\n\u2013 tells her friends and family about me\n\u2013 been on 1 official date and 1 coffee date with another already planned\nShe has told me about other guys approaching her, maybe to gauge my reaction, but i responded in a playful manner, not being phased. All has been well, I guess my main concern is keeping her interested. She wants to take things slow though she likes me a lot and has already expressed futuristic thoughts of cooking for me, putting on my tie, and waking up next to me. I haven\u2019t texted her today because we texted for a good few hours the night prior and even got to the point of sexting a bit until we both fell asleep. I want her to miss me and I don\u2019t want to burn our relationship out, which she has mentioned she feel is forming. She just doesn\u2019t want to rush.\nWhat do you think? My thoughts are of these other guys the are supposedly approaching she could be texting them while not talking to me. But that could be my insecurity though she has told me that no other guy has gotten her number because they haven\u2019t come close to me.\nHey Tony, I wouldn\u2019t worry about keeping her interest. Just keep her attraction up. The interest will generally take care of itself unless you\u2019re the most boring guy in the world. Which I\u2019m sure you\u2019re not. You\u2019re probably pretty cool because 1. You came here. 2. You were not afraid to ask for advice meaning you\u2019re a real guy. 3. Because instead of freaking out, you thought about it and searched for what to do. Knowledge is power especially when used correctly.\nListen, she\u2019s 18. Of course she\u2019s going to talk to others guys. She\u2019s in college, of course guys will approach her. You handled it fine. BUT you must never forget being of that age, a commitment from her might be short or come with a price. Women at that age tend to change\u2026 a lot. You could easily be out of the picture when that happens. I wouldn\u2019t worry about it though because if you start acting like you\u2019re going to lose her, you will more likely make that happen.\nAnother thing, women (lots) will always SAY they want to take things slow but it really means she wants you to decide the pace. Take your time and enjoy it as much has you can because I have bad news and good news. You want the good news first:\nShe\u2019s into you. She likes the idea of a mature guy. It\u2019s grounding her a little at a time where life is hectic and confusing. College life man, it\u2019s a ball, lots of fun, but very stressful.\nThe bad news is she might be too much into you. She\u2019s progressing so fast, she will burn the relationship out which will cause her to want to separate to gather her emotions and decide where she wants to go. It\u2019s not YOU. It\u2019s her. You will hear that. But it\u2019s true. Remember she\u2019s 18, moving too quickly and this is how women of that age tend to act.\nDon\u2019t take it personal. Don\u2019t change what you\u2019re doing because it\u2019s working.\nI do hope I\u2019m wrong but you should be prepared and enjoy it. Sounds wonderful. You don\u2019t want to know what I was doing at the age of 27 and dating an 18 year old college student was not one of them. In other words you\u2019re doing just fine.\nBest of luck, keep me informed.\nThanks for writing, I appreciate it and hope this has helped,\nRex Tyler\nHere\u2019s a tidbit to know in regards to the girl you really are interested into with space. With this woman, if you think she is meant to be with you, then there should be no fear, because she will at the end of the day. You just need infinite patience and too remember that no one girl will be more important than you, and that by worrying about literally nothing, you can be having so much more fun. Remember my dudes, life keeps happening even if you don\u2019t want it to. Just have to float and vibe with it \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 306, "original_length": 39397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.diaryofafanaticfoodie.com/best-experiences-for-students-in-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3C3ULGF4VAAUWQDDKN5LX4FJXXVAGDHY", "length": 2820, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.diaryofafanaticfoodie.com", "title": "The Most Exciting Experiences Any Student in London Should Have | Diaryofafanaticfoodie", "raw_content": "Part of the excitement that comes with studying abroad or in a new city is that there are so many new experiences to immerse in and sights to see. Apart from the university education that you\u2019re paying to get, you have the opportunity to experience a more profound life education right out of your student accommodations in Central London!\nHere are some of the best experiences that any student can enjoy in the heart of one of the oldest cities in the world\u2014in one of the few countries without an independence day:\nYou can\u2019t be plopped into the middle of a new city without being immersed in a new culture without getting a little bit curious. London certainly has a vibrant history that goes back many centuries. These are all open to be experienced in the many famous landmarks that are all over the city. Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London are perfect places to start and are, in fact, trendy tourist destinations in and of themselves.\nFind your chill\nThere are many ways to describe London, and green and tranquil aren\u2019t generally at the top of that list of adjectives. London has a quaint open secret, however, in the form of Kew Gardens. While ostensibly the Royal Botanical Gardens where plants and fungi are understood and preserved, Kew also features a wide expanse of green where one can go to escape from the ordinarily busy and hectic pace of the capital. Trees are aplenty in a range of varieties, the air is cool and fresh, and it\u2019s all open to explore and relax in.\nCatch some football\nIf you share your student accommodation in Central London with a native Londoner, then you know that football is popular in the capital. Several of the most popular clubs in the world have their home stadiums in London. These include Chelsea FC, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, West Ham United, and Crystal Palace\u2014and those are just the major clubs. Attending a home game is worth it for the sheer energy and electricity that matches generate, and it\u2019s easy to get caught up whether or not you\u2019re a fan yourself.\nBefore you do, make sure to catch that British classic\u2014fish and chips which you can find just about everywhere in London. While The O2 is widely considered one of the most popular entertainment districts in London\u2014with its arena, music club, cinema, and restaurants\u2014it\u2019s not the only one. Pub and club life is very popular in the capital, and they range in all price ranges which is perfect for students on a budget. That makes the city perfect for a night out after a busy day.\nLondon has much to offer regarding experiences and adventures. A student out and about the town will find much to whet their curiosity and need to enjoy themselves. 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There are organisations who can give you help and support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 1867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 104.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.districtresidential.com/garage-doors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:40Z", "digest": "sha1:T6BNGDQO3LP77MUNGAOWYGGGNK2MT4GB", "length": 3026, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.districtresidential.com", "title": "Garage Doors | District Residential // DC Real Estate", "raw_content": "Overhead Door Company of Washington, DC #50007897 301-605-1089\nIt\u2019s a rare homeowner who spends much time pondering his or her home\u2019s garage doors and garage door opener. That changes drastically, however, once a problem with said garage or opener creeps up. Scheduling routine maintenance and choosing not to procrastinate on making what might small repairs for what seem like innocuous issues can prevent an inconvenient or potentially dangerous situation.\nOften, the garage door is also a rather conspicuous part of a home\u2019s fa\u00e7ade. Therefore, it\u2019s important to keep in mind the door\u2019s appearance as it relates to the exterior design of your home. Color, materials and style are all factors homeowners should consider when choosing a garage door. It\u2019s also important to remember that it is not only an aesthetic commitment, it\u2019s a commitment to the maintenance. Wood doors require regular refinishing, and steel doors, if not coated with factory-finished paint, will need to be recoated occasionally.\nEnergy efficiency is also a consideration. The colder air that accumulates in an attached garage can work its way into the home, forcing the HVAC system to work harder than necessary. A well-insulated garage door will help to reduce or prevent your home\u2019s heat loss during the colder months.\nTechnology has given the homeowner safer garage door openers that utilize a rolling-code technology. A new, random code is generated each time the opener is used making it nearly impossible for anyone to open your door using their own modified opener. However, if your opener is older, security could be more of a concern. Older openers use one coded signal over the life of the device, making it possible for someone nearby to capture and copy the code.\nThere are several things homeowners can do to make extend the lives of their garage doors. Inspect the tracks to ensure that their various sections are flush and securely bolted together, as loose connections can cause the system to malfunction and reverse the direction of the mechanism. It\u2019s also best to keep the rollers, springs and hinges properly lubricated with silicon spray to keep things running as smoothly as possible.\nSpeaking of the door\u2019s springs, those should be checked periodically, as well. Your door should be easy to open and close manually. The springs may need to be adjusted by a professional if you have difficulty opening the door. If your door fails to open more than three feet when the opener is running, a broken spring may be the culprit. Replacing springs is not as easy, or safe, as it seems so always schedule a qualified technician to tackle that task. Also, if you have extension springs, safety cables should be installed to prevent a failed spring from damaging your vehicle, garage walls or even yourself.\nWhile the routine maintenance discussed above can help prevent a good number of garage door issues, always engage a professional to correct malfunctions involving broken springs, missing or broken safety cables, and frayed cables.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 40008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.doctorcpr.com/Employment/seeking-bcbe-psychiatrists-to-care-for-our-veterans-in-los-angeles-surrounding-communities-listing-5138.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:10Z", "digest": "sha1:N7IQ34J3T3E66LOXKXHUAUKNPSJZWWZW", "length": 5385, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.doctorcpr.com", "title": "Seeking BC/BE Psychiatrists To Care For Our Veterans In Los Angeles & Surrounding Communities", "raw_content": "Veterans Health Administratio\n101-129 W 1st 100 W 1st St\nSeeking Talented BC/BE Psychiatrists To Fill Various Outpatient & Specialty Positions\nVA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles CA and Surrounding Communities.\nThe VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) is recruiting to fill several Board Certified (BC) / Board Eligible (BE) Psychiatrist opportunities, to include Adult Psychiatry, Gero-Psychiatry, Psychosomatic (Emergency Department / Consult Liaison), Women's Healthcare, Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team, and Tele-Psychiatry, with possible assignment locations at West Los Angeles (WLA) Medical Center, Ambulatory Care Centers in Sepulveda and Los Angeles (Downtown) Campuses, or at our Los Angeles and Northern / Coastal Community Based Outpatient (CBOC) Clinics in Gardena, Bakersfield, Lancaster, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria and Santa Barbara. The VAGLAHS is the largest integrated healthcare organization in the Department of Veterans Affairs. It is a Joint Commission accredited, complexity level 1a facility serving Veterans throughout Kern, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. Outpatient clinics are located in Gardena, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, East Los Angeles, Lancaster, Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Santa Barbara. VAGLAHS directs the Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 largest educational enterprise and serves as a major training site for medical residencies sponsored by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and USC School of Medicine and Advanced Practice Nursing Programs sponsored by local universities. As a VA Psychiatrist, you will work on a multidisciplinary team, including primary care, to provide coordinated, integrated, rehabilitative and restorative mental health care, with the goal of helping eligible Veterans achieve and maintain the highest level of functioning and independence. Major duties and responsibilities include: Diagnoses and treat a wide variety of severe mental and substance use disorders and uses recovery-oriented principles; Teaches a variety of trainees and must be eligible for a faculty appointment; Provides clinical services in a virtual modality, including video telehealth, patient/provider secure messaging, telephone visits, and remote review of electronically forwarded medical records. Work Schedule (Tour of Duty): Multiple schedules, Full-Time and Part-Time available depending on location.\nThe Los Angeles region is renowned for abundant sunshine and beautiful year-round weather, with VAGLAHS just minutes from the scenic Pacific Ocean, historical Downtown Los Angeles, legendary Hollywood and the beautiful San Fernando Valley. Near the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Federal Building on Famous Wilshire Boulevard, and an extraordinary array of museums, movie theaters, arts and cultural activities, galleries, shopping centers, restaurants, libraries, parks, beaches, family-friendly events and activities for all age groups, VAGLAHS location offers employees and their families a wealth of cultural, social and recreational landmarks and opportunities! There are 88 incorporated cities in the Los Angeles County, with a population of the City of Los Angeles of 4.0 million, 10.2 million for the County of Los Angeles, and 18.8 million for the Los Angeles Five-County Area.\nExpected Salary range for well qualified BC Psychiatrist will range from $220,000.00 to $264,000.00 and includes industry-leading full benefits and features package to support high quality professional practice and favorable work-life-family balance. The VA supports a healthy work-life-family balance by providing Staff with a robust benefits package and fosters an environment where more time is spent on medical practice and less on business tasks. VA does this by offering: Paid Time Off in the form of 26 Days paid annual leave, 13 Days paid sick leave per year, 10 Federal holidays with pay, and 5-Day paid absence to attend approved CME courses. Insurance to include Health-Dental-Vision care insurance programs to choose from with premiums partially paid by VA; Flexible Spending Accounts; Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government; and Long-term care insurance available as an option. Federal Retirement Plan thru the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) - A three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits; 2) FERS-FRAE basic benefits (pension); and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan.\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs offers Veterans the largest, most technologically advanced integrated health care system in the United States. We operate more than 1,400 sites of care, including 153 medical centers, 909 ambulatory and community-based outpatient clinics, 135 nursing homes, 232 Veterans centers, 47 readjustment counseling centers, and 108 comprehensive home-care programs, across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories.\nTo Explore This VA Physician Assistant Opportunity Further\nEmail copy of your CV & Cover Letter to Eric Snipes, VA National Healthcare Recruitment Consultant\nMust have current, full and unrestricted license to practice as medicine in the US\nPreference for Board Certification (BC) in Psychiatry Specialty, but Board Eligible Applicants will also be considered\nEric Snipes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.document-center.com/standards/show/SS-EN-12255-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SUY6PPE7UIOFEWCOD5NTUXM2D5HHQ3J6", "length": 955, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.document-center.com", "title": "SS-EN-12255-3 | Wastewater treatment plants - Part 3: Preliminary treatment | Document Center, Inc.", "raw_content": "SS-EN-12255-3 \u203a Wastewater treatment plants - Part 3: Preliminary treatment\nThis part of this European Standard specifies the requirements for preliminary treatment of wastewater at wastewater treatment plants for over 50 PT. The primary application is for wastewater treatment plants designed for the treatment of domestic and municipal wastewater. Preliminary treatment may include one or more of the following options: - screening; - grit removal, - grease separation; - flow balancing and flow separation. NOTE Flow measurement and/or sampling provision may be included with any of the chosen options. Differences in wastewater treatment throughout Europe have led to a variety of systems being developed. This standard gives fundamental informations about the systems; this standard has not attempted to specify all available systems. 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Vision Maker Media envisions a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. Watch and share these great films!\nLake of Betrayal (Paul Lamont, 2017)\nLake of Betrayal, from director Paul Lamont, explores the history of Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and its impact on the Seneca Nation. When the US Army Corps of Engineers attempted to take their land to build Kinzua Dam, the Seneca people stood up to the government and prevailing political forces of the 1950s and \u201860s to save their culture, their sovereignty, and their way of life to preserve their future. Completed in 1965, the dam was originally proposed to help mitigate flooding in the City of Pittsburgh\u2014200 miles downriver--but the 27-mile reservoir that formed behind it inundated vast tracts of the Seneca Indians\u2019 ancestral lands, resulting in irreplaceable cultural losses.\nWatch it: Amazon Video\nOhiyesa: The Soul of an Indian (Syd Beane, 2018)\nBiography and journey come together as Kate Beane, a young Dakota woman, traces the extraordinary life of her celebrated relative, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)\u2014from traditional Dakota boyhood, through education at Dartmouth College, and in later roles as physician, author, lecturer and Native American advocate. Kate Beane\u2019s father, Syd Beane, directed the film.\nWatch it: Free on PBS Twin Cities Public Television\nThe Mayors of Shiprock (Ramona Emerson, 2017)\nIn Shiprock, New Mexico, poverty and corruption have long been a township struggle as the Navajo Nation looks for leadership. To make a change, a young group of men and women, led by 21-year-old Graham Beyale, are looking to take back their community. This story, written and directed by Ramona Emerson, tells how one can make a difference and inspire a generation of leaders to make changes in their own communities.\nWatch it: Free on PBS SoCal\nWe Breathe Again (Marsh Chamberlain, 2017)\nFor centuries, survival was difficult for Alaska Native peoples, but they lived full lives. Today survival is easier, but they are dying young. Rarely heard of 40 years ago, suicide among Alaska Native peoples is now a silent epidemic\u20143.5 times higher than the national average, affecting Alaska Native men between the ages of 15 and 24 at the highest rate in the country. We Breathe Again, directed by Marsh Chamberlain, intimately explores the lives of four Alaska Natives who are determined to break free from personal histories of trauma and suicide.\nWatch it: Amazon Video or find broadcast time on your local PBS channel with \u201cAmerica ReFramed\u201d - next dates include Nov 27-28 and Dec 1-2.\nWhat Was Ours (Mat Hames, 2016)\nAn Eastern Shoshone elder and Vietnam vet, who hasn\u2019t left the Wind River Indian Reservation in over 40 years, visits the underground archives of Chicago\u2019s Field Museum with two young Arapaho to explore ancestral objects kept in boxes for many years. Like millions of indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved and locked away by \u201coutsiders\u201d who themselves do not know what they have. Together the team tries to learn how these artifacts vanished from their tribe in the first place. 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In the hundreds of years since its foundation, the region has flourished to grow and become one of the most important centers of history and culture in the country, and a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family.\nAt Don\u2019s Moving & Storage, we\u2019re proud of our 60 years of service in the Capital District. During that time, we\u2019ve established ourselves as one of the leading relocation companies in the area, with our wide range of professional and reliable moving services.\nIn this article, we\u2019re going over some of the benefits of hiring our team to help with your move to, from, or within the Capital District area, and why you can count on one of the area\u2019s oldest and most trusted moving teams to make your relocation a success.\nOur Local Capital District Moving Company Experts\nWhen it comes to moving companies, you can\u2019t beat expert local knowledge and local relationships. At Don\u2019s Moving & Storage, our trained professional movers are natives to the area, with a natural understanding of the environment and the districts of the Capital District. With that kind of expertise, you can rest assured that your move, whether that\u2019s a residential or commercial one, goes off without a hitch.\nCustom Solutions for Commercial and Residential Relocation Services\nA great Capital District moving company should be comfortable conducting any type of custom relocation service, no matter how simple or complex it may be. Big or small, local or long distance, residential or commercial\u2014a professional moving team should provide top-quality solutions designed to address your specific needs.\nDon\u2019s Moving & Storage is a proud agent of Wheaton Worldwide Moving, which means we\u2019re connected to a global network of resources to make any move a reality\u2014whether it\u2019s local, long-distance, or international. Whether your moving project requires specialized crating services, storage options, or strategic planning\nIt\u2019s important to note that companies that provide custom moving solutions should also offer free and accurate pricing estimates. This will eliminate the possibility of unpleasant surprises for customers in terms of cost, and that the exact specifications have been established that will guarantee a smooth move.\nAward-Winning Quality and High Ratings\nIf you\u2019re thinking of hiring help to assist you with your upcoming move, make sure that the Capital District movers you choose are from a well-established and reputable company. The best sign of a good moving company is great feedback from past customers, so you should be sure to investigate your movers in terms of the reviews that they have received online.\nHere at Don\u2019s Moving & Storage, we are very happy to be a four-time winner of the Angie\u2019s List Super Service Award and a three-time winner of the AMSA\u2019s ProMover Award. We take customer service seriously, which is why we\u2019re one of the highest rated movers in the area.\nIf you are moving to or from the area, Don\u2019s Moving & Storage can help. Wherever your home or business is in the Capital District, we can provide in-home or in-office consultation with a free, no-obligation quote for your relocation followed by unsurpassed moving services. 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Loop quantum gravity performs this feat by trying to quantize space itself \u2014 in other words, treat space like it comes in small chunks.\nIn contrast, string theory starts with methods of particle physics and frequently hopes to not only provide a method of creating a quantum theory of gravity, but also explain all of particle physics, unifying gravity with the other forces at the same time. Oh, and it predicts extra dimensions, which is very cool!\nIt\u2019s no wonder that loop quantum gravity has more trouble getting press.\nThe key insight of quantum physics is that some quantities in nature come in multiples of discrete values, called quanta. This principle has successfully been applied to all of physics, except for gravity. This is the motivation for the search for quantum gravity.\nAlternately, the key insight from general relativity is that space-time is a dynamic entity, not a fixed framework. String theory is a background-dependent theory (built on a fixed framework), so it doesn\u2019t currently account for the dynamic nature of space-time at the heart of relativity.\nAccording to the LQG researchers, a theory of quantum gravity must be background-independent, a theory that explains space and time instead of being plugged into an already-existing space-time stage. No background-dependent theory can ever yield general relativity as a low-energy approximation.\nLoop quantum gravity tries to achieve this goal by looking at the smooth fabric of space-time in general relativity and contemplating the question of whether, like regular fabric, it might be made up of smaller fibers woven together. 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They now pursue a busy concert diary playing throughout England, Scotland and Wales.\nFenella has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with pianist Simone Dinnerstein and has given a solo recital at La Salle Cortot, Paris.\nRebecca is the cellist with a number of other established chamber ensembles, including the Nephele Ensemble, Chamber Music Company and Svyati Duo.\nAndrew West is Artistic Director of the Nuremberg Chamber Music Festival and professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. His long-standing collaboration with flautist Emily Beynon has led to concerts throughout Europe as well as at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh Festival.\nCall 01582 878100 to book or buy tickets on the door.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 237.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.e88bangkok.com/event/sews-asia-technical-center-new-year-party-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AXJSKFOIDA7D6W3YNAY5VHREQRZFUJSO", "length": 86, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.e88bangkok.com", "title": "SEWS - Asia Technical Center New Year Party 2019 - E88 Bangkok", "raw_content": "\u00ab Thank you party Ladies of the Year\nSEWS-Asia Technical Center Co.,Ltd. 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Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to rebuild the worst of California\u2019s ailing infrastructure with a long-term, piecemeal plan that taps tens of billions from varying bonds, partnerships with the private sector and user fees.\nDisclosures by administration officials clarified that voters won\u2019t face a stunning $50 billion bond measure next year, as originally indicated by Schwarzenegger during his trip to China.\n\u201cWe\u2019re looking at creative ways to do financing, at a lot of competing needs and at how much you can get moving all at one time,\u201d said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the governor\u2019s Finance Department.\nThough Schwarzenegger\u2019s plan is ambitious, all sides agree on one factor \u2014 it will still fall far short of addressing California\u2019s total infrastructure needs, which are estimated to be in the $100 billion range.\nPriorities include gridlocked freeways, ramshackle schools and colleges, congested ports and crumbling levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that protect Southern California drinking water.\nSome corporate stakeholders are cheering the effort, including calls for a special legislative session. Supporters are pointing out that bad roads alone cost Bay Area drivers more than\nBut critics include the state treasurer, who is a leading Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, and Republican lawmakers that ensures the issue will figure inboth the 2006 elections and next year\u2019s legislative session.\nState Treasurer Phil Angelides, who oversees bonds in California, said the governor\u2019s plan is \u201cupside down.\u201d He said, \u201cHe must first balance the state budget.\u201d\nCalifornia, though gaining a one-time revenue boost from an upbeat economy next year, still spends about $4 billion a year more than it receives.\nThe infrastructure push comes at a time when the balancing of the budget without a tax increase is already being threatened by a number of ballot initiatives from well-financed groups seeking approval for costly new government programs.\nMoreover, a Sacramento superior court judge has opened a $550 million hole in the state budget with a ruling that the governor and lawmakers don\u2019t have the authority to borrow the money needed to pay pension obligations for state retirees.\nThe treasurer also said Wall Street would rebel if faced with huge, new bonds from California. The state has a poor credit rating and voter-approved bonds are already backed up as they wait for officials to move ahead with projects.\n\u201cI\u2019m viewing this as political rhetoric from Schwarzenegger rather than reality,\u201d Angelides said of the actor-turned-politician. \u201cThe governor has just picked up a different script.\u201d\nCritics say the governor tried imitating reformist Gov. Hiram Johnson, until Schwarzenegger\u2019s Nov. 8 special election failed. Now, they say, he\u2019s trying the same with the legacy of former Gov. Pat Brown, famed for his state infrastructure building.\nThe Schwarzenegger administration, to this point, has failed to file even the legally required annual infrastructure needs report.\nThough Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, R-Irvine, agrees the state needs infrastructure improvements, he said he wants California to avoid a taxpayer-supported, general-obligation bond so big it triggers tax hikes. \u201cWe\u2019re already near our maximum,\u201d he said.\nThe nonpartisan legislative analyst, Elizabeth Hill, echoed Ackerman\u2019s warning. \u201cWe\u2019re now spending more on debt service than on the University of California,\u201d she said. \u201cAdditional spending on debt services means other dollars that aren\u2019t going, for instance, to health care and education.\u201d\nSenate leader Don Perata, D-Oakland, had already made his proposed $10 billion infrastructure bond the top priority in the upper house this coming year when Schwarzenegger began mentioning much larger efforts during a trip to China.\nPerata and the administration have begun talking about whether they can combine the two efforts, without triggering a partisan battle or a division between Northern and Southern California interests.\n\u201cThis is not simply a problem\u201d for the north or south halves of California, said Perata. \u201cIt\u2019s a problem for the whole state.\u201d\nBut Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, is preparing his own bond to introduce in January. Aides said it deals largely with education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 10326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/05/29/challengers-eye-east-oakland-school-board-seat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AUB2S2TFRTVW63OS5S4V2JK5IYN5HARS", "length": 5050, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.eastbaytimes.com", "title": "Challengers eye East Oakland school board seat \u2013 East Bay Times", "raw_content": "Challengers eye East Oakland school board seat\nBy Katy Murphy\nOAKLAND \u2014 An administrative assistant and a retired private school principal aim to unseat incumbent Alice Spearman in the race to represent District 7 on the Oakland school board.\nBeverly Williams, 59, and Doris Limbrick, 54, each say they would bring more \u201caccountability\u201d to the school board and that the public schools in the predominately low-income East Oakland district would improve under their leadership.\n\u201cWhen I looked at the schools in District 7 and saw the condition they were in, it was appalling,\u201d Limbrick said. \u201cSomebody has to be the voice for the children and their parents.\u201d\nSpearman, 56, says she has been that voice for the last 3\ufeff1/2 years. In 2004, in the midst of a state takeover that stripped the board of its powers, she ran for office at a time when, she said, \u201cnobody else wanted to run.\u201d\nFour years later, Spearman has racked up endorsements from the Alameda County Democratic Party, the Oakland teachers union and dozens of other organizations and elected officials.\nDistrict 7, which stretches from the flatlands of 98th Avenue up to the tree-lined streets of the East Oakland hills, has been at the center of a growing reform movement fueled by funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. During the last five years, its only large, comprehensive high school \u2014 Castlemont \u2014 and at least three other schools were broken down into small schools with new names.\nWhoever wins Tuesday\u2019s election will have to contend with a shrinking student population. The district\u2019s CFO last week recommended the closure or merger of 10 to 17 of Oakland\u2019s some 100 schools. As the school board continues to regain the authority stripped during the 2003 fiscal crisis and state takeover, it is poised to take a hard look at some of the reform initiatives, including small schools, charter schools and the way the central office allocates funds.\nLike the majority of the current board members, Spearman believes the infusion of more than 30 charter schools has destabilized the school district\u2019s enrollment and, by extension, its funding. She is against opening new charter schools until the district repays its loan.\nIn board meetings, Spearman also has expressed some skepticism about the small schools movement, and why it has been concentrated in Oakland\u2019s higher-poverty areas.\n\u201cWe need good, independent evaluations of the reforms,\u201d Spearman said in a recent interview. She added, \u201cA lot of our small schools are feeling a pinch because they\u2019re not able to offer a full range of academic subjects and still have a small school environment. I think it\u2019s going to be inevitable that some of them will be merged.\u201d\nLast year, Spearman supported the decision to close the small East Oakland Community High School, which had high attendance and a rich array of arts electives, but low enrollment, a poor relationship with the neighbors and among the lowest math and reading scores in the district. At an emotionally charged meeting at the school, after a teacher loudly berated the board member for her role in the process, Spearman gave him a chest bump before security escorted her to the door. She later apologized publicly.\nLimbrick and Williams have suggested that they would take a more even tone on the board than Spearman, who is known for her colorful and sometimes confrontational statements. (During a May board meeting, in a discussion about consultants, she remarked, \u201cThis educational pimping has gone to a new level.\u201d) The two challengers have not drawn many policy distinctions with the incumbent, instead focusing on their approaches to board leadership and their ideas for improving the schools.\nWilliams said she would push for smaller class sizes, greater parent involvement and the recruitment of teachers who have a long-term commitment to Oakland. \u201cI think they need to invest in people who are willing to stay for a long time,\u201d she said.\nWilliams, whose son attends Castlemont\u2019s Leadership Preparatory High School, said her involvement in the school council, as a volunteer tutor, and as a community leader for the national ACORN organization gives her a good idea of what the schools in her area need.\nLimbrick emphasized her 15 years of experience as principal of Acts Christian Academy, a K-8 school in East Oakland with about 250 students. \u201cI had to work with a budget. I had to work with the fact that we didn\u2019t have any money,\u201d she said.\nLimbrick took issue with the school board\u2019s recent decision to hire an interim superintendent \u2014 who will receive a salary of $250,000, plus benefits \u2014 while a state-appointed administrator, earning the same salary, remains in place.\nShe said the school system needs the involvement of more churches and organizations, especially in the district\u2019s after-school programs. \u201cI believe our job is to put life back into our schools,\u201d she said.\nReach Reporter Katy Murphy at 510-208-6424 or kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com. Read her Oakland schools blog and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 11319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362512796659", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SI4Y6NME43NP5WIRJFZU3A35FW2CZOLU", "length": 557, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ebay.co.uk", "title": "Yamaha YZF-R6 2018 Blue 1561 Miles One Owner FSH | eBay", "raw_content": "Details about Yamaha YZF-R6 2018 Blue 1561 Miles One Owner FSH\nYamaha YZF-R6 2018 Blue 1561 Miles One Owner FSH\nYamaha YZF-R6 2018 Blue 1561 Miles One Owner FSH Yamaha YZF-R6 2018 Blue 1561 Miles One Owner FSH\nYZF-R6 Yamaha Motorcycles & Scooters,\nLighting & Indicators for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nMotorcycle Mirrors for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nMotorcycle Batteries for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nOil Filters for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nyamaha yzf r6 exhaust,\nBrake Discs for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nMotorcycle Handlebars for Yamaha YZF-R6,\nSeats for 2006 Yamaha YZF-R6,\nMotorcycle Parts for Yamaha YZF-R6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 6002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.echinacities.com/wuhan/city-guide/Three-University-Campuses-in-Wuhan-that-Connect-You-with-Both-Nature-and-Culture", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KQ6FUDRRIWIOC45GGZTKNRKE2B7FAG7H", "length": 4968, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.echinacities.com", "title": "Three University Campuses in Wuhan that Connect You with Both Nature and Culture |\u5916\u56fd\u4eba\u7f51| eChinacities.com", "raw_content": "Three University Campuses in Wuhan that Connect You with Both Nature and Culture\n\"The most beautiful hills and lake fronts in Wuhan are all occupied by the universities\", one Wuhan taxi driver once told me. Fortunately, the campuses of the universities in Wuhan are open to the public. Wuhan has the third most universities among all the cities in China, just behind Beijing and Shanghai, and it had a long history of being a center of education. Even if you are not a student, you can escape the hustle and bustle of this city under-construction by walking into these green, serene and even poetic campuses; read a book in one of the historical buildings; take a jog through patches of green; or just sit by a lotus pond and immerse yourself in reflection. Here are three can't-miss campuses that offer the unique combination of history, landscape, architecture and intellectual resources.\n1) Wuhan University \u6b66\u6c49\u5927\u5b66 View In Map\nWuhan University is widely recognized as one of the top ten universities in China and it is one of the oldest universities in China, founded in 1913. The 196 hectare campus is located right on Luojia Hill, by the side of the East Lake.\nThe campus is peppered with laurel trees, plum trees, berry trees, maples and many other kinds of plants. The plants here are no less diverse or precious than any botanic garden; in actual fact there are more than 800 kinds of plants, among them 17 are acknowledged rare species. But what makes Wuhan University a national tourist attraction is the sakura, the Japanese cherry blossom. Every spring when the cherry trees are in full blossom, millions of tourists will come to Wuhan specifically to see the cherry blossoms here.\nThis university also takes pride in its historical buildings from the 1930s, such as the Wuhan University Library. These buildings are masterpieces of architecture that gracefully blend traditional Chinese style with Western elements. Many of these buildings from the 1930s are certified by the State Council as \"national historical treasures\"; no wonder this place is often named \"the most beautiful university campus in China\".\nAdd: Luojia Hill, Wuhan\n\u5730\u5740\uff1a\u6b66\u6c49\u5e02\u6b66\u660c\u533a\u73de\u73c8\u5c71\nGetting there: Take bus 519, 515, 810, 564 or 463, to the Luojia Hill station (\u73de\u73c8\u5c71)\nWebsite: http://www.whu.edu.cn/index.html\n2) Central China Normal University \u534e\u4e2d\u5e08\u8303\u5927\u5b66 View In Map\nFounded in 1924\uff0cthe Central China Normal University has a history as glorious as Wuhan University. Its campus is seated on the Guizi Hill(\u6842\u5b50\u5c71) and occupies a scenic area of 133 hectares. It is also blessed with a large variety of trees and flowers. The lanes in the north part of the campus are covered with camphor trees, peach trees and plum trees. At the south gate of the campus, there is a small forest of metasequoia. In the middle of the campus, you will find attractions like the Peony Garden, the Garden of Plum Blossom, and the Orchid Garden.\nGuizi Hill is particularly famous for the sweet-scented osmanthus trees that spread all over the whole hill. September is the best month to come and enjoy the view and the fragrance of these trees.\nThe Boya Square(\u535a\u96c5\u5e7f\u573a) is a landmark of this campus; the lawn and wooden benches here are a popular choice for group studying among students, romantic encounters (!), relaxed reading or for a nice afternoon nap.\nAdd: 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan\n\u5730\u5740\uff1a\u6b66\u6c49\u5e02\u73de\u55bb\u8def152\u53f7\nGetting there: Take bus 66, 518, 593, 536, 703 or 715 to the Guangbutun station (\u5e7f\u57e0\u5c6f); or take bus 601, 724 to the Hu Quan station (\u864e\u6cc9)\nWebsite: http://www.ccnu.edu.cn/\n3) Zhongnan University of Economics and Law \u4e2d\u5357\u8d22\u7ecf\u653f\u6cd5\u5927\u5b66View In Map\nZUEL has two campuses, one in the center of the city, the other by the South Lake. The South Lake campus is the one you shouldn't miss. A branch of the South Lake runs across the campus, which is called the East Xiao Lake. An elegant white bridge of traditional Chinese style hangs above the lake like a marble rainbow, which is called the Bridge of Nine Arches. The South Xiao Lake also boasts a lotus pond that looks particularly pretty in the summer when it is filled with floating blossoms. But the lakefront office building, Wenbo Tower, seems unnecessarily luxurious and lacks character. It is buildings like this that evoke discussion over whether Chinese universities are spending the too much government funding on materialistic things rather than intellectual resources.\nOne of the highlights of ZULE is the Museum of Currency and Finance. This museum is located on the second floor of the Yifu Library(\u9038\u592b\u56fe\u4e66\u9986), and it boasts one of the largest collections of ancient coins, ancient paper currencies, securities, and bronze artifacts among all the universities in China.\nAdd: No.1 South Nanhu Road, Wuhan 430073\n\u5730\u5740\uff1a\u6b66\u6c49\u5e02\u6d2a\u5c71\u533a\u5357\u6e56\u5357\u8def1\u53f7 \u90ae\u653f\u7f16\u7801\uff1a430073\nGetting there: Bus 590 or 538 to the Cha Shanliu station (\u8336\u5c71\u5218)\nWebsite: http://www.znufe.edu.cn\nKeywords: University campus Wuhan Wuhan university campus guide top Chinese University campus hills and lakes in Hubei\n10 Best Universities in China", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1392, "original_length": 20744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eitdigital.eu/newsroom/blog/article/exploiting-a-backdoor-to-the-brain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:RUOXM56QC3NJGSED2IA7ETAOHA57GTKN", "length": 2560, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.eitdigital.eu", "title": "Exploiting a backdoor to the brain // EIT Digital", "raw_content": "Exploiting a backdoor to the brain\nThe \u201cstentrode,\u201d created by the University of Melbourne\u2019s Vascular Bionics Laboratory, adapts an off-the-shelf self-expanding stent to include a recording electrode array. The device is delivered to the brain through blood vessels in the neck, thus avoiding many of the risks associated with traditional placement of neural implants through open-brain surgery. Credit: University of Melbourne\nOur brain neurones communicate with one another with chemical and electric signals. The chemical signals are influencing the reaction of neurones to electrical signals so are quite important but to decode what a brain is \"thinking\" (like let's move this finger....) electrical signals will do.\nHence the work of many researchers to find ways of intercepting and decoding these signals. There is so much electrical activity going on that the closer you are to the place where a signal is generated/received the easier it is to single it out of the millions percolating in the whole brain at any single moment.\nThe progress in signal processing is now allowing the detection of specific signals using a sort of \"hat\" (BCI) one person can wear, equipped with tens/hundreds of sensors. To get more precise data, however, one would need to insert electrodes, probes, inside the brain making a hole in the skull and positioning the electrode in the right place. This is surely not fun and besides it has great technical difficulties, as I pointed out in several innovations regarding electrodes implants in some of these posts.\nThis is why this news coming from Melbourne University is so interesting.\nResearchers have created a stent that works as an electrode (stentrode). It can be inserted inside a blood vessel in the brain (using a procedure that access the brain through an artery in the leg and pushing the stent up to the aorta and from there through the carotid artery into the brain). The stent is just 3mm wide and can be positioned in several places inside the brain, in particular reaching the motor control areas. By capturing the signals inside the brain they provide much more accurate data leading to more effective interpretation.\nThe procedure is not easy but it is feasible and has the advantage that the stent will remain in place for as long as needed monitoring the electrical activity in that specific area. Data are communicated to an external receiver that will relay them to a computer for processing.\nThe foreseen application is to control an exoskeleton enabling paralysed patients to move their limbs again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ela.law/firms/canterbury-law/articles/enforcement-foreign-judgments-bermuda", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MIYE3CSYZFLREXLJML4A2GMOLGDRJHRA", "length": 640, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ela.law", "title": "Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Bermuda", "raw_content": "Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Bermuda\nPaul A. Harshaw\nEnforcement of Foreign Judgments in Bermuda at common law\nIn general, there are two ways in Bermuda to enforce a final money judgment obtained in an overseas Court (a \"foreign judgment\") against a person in Bermuda. The method employed will depend upon the jurisdiction in which the foreign judgment was obtained and possibly the Court within that jurisdiction. This article addresses only enforcement of judgments obtained in countries which are got included in Bermuda's Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1958, in other words, judgments which are enforceable at common law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 14722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elcivics.com/state-lessons/utah-4-wheeling-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PYZ6VVSWAYU2H4VUVIP6U4QK7WMYKRUH", "length": 799, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.elcivics.com", "title": "Four Wheeling in Utah", "raw_content": "You are here: EL Civics Home > State Lessons > Utah Four-Wheeling > Page 2 > Page 3\nFour-Wheeling in Utah\nUtah is located in the western part of the United States. It has a lot of open space and is a great place to go camping and four-wheeling. This photo lesson shows a group of people having fun outdoors. They are camping, fishing, exploring caves, and driving four-wheel-drive vehicles. Four-wheel-drive vehicles can be driven on regular paved roads and they can also be driven off-road over rocky, hilly terrain. (3 pages)\nJeep Going to Utah\nThis couple is driving to a campsite in Utah.\nTheir dog is sitting in the backseat.\nAn American flag is attached to the back of the jeep.\nThis road goes under an arch.\nThe arch is carved in the side of the mountain.\nBears Take Over a Campsite Worksheet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.electroluxgroup.com/en/electrolux-divests-beam-and-sanitaire-in-north-america-25959/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZLYFTVBZ5VII4OUH76IAOGGLLYIASJF", "length": 2035, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.electroluxgroup.com", "title": "Electrolux divests BEAM and Sanitaire in North America \u2013 Electrolux Group", "raw_content": "Electrolux divests BEAM and Sanitaire in North America\nElectrolux announced today it has divested its U.S.-based commercial and central vacuum cleaner businesses in North America, including the brands Sanitaire and BEAM. The decision is in line with the strategy of the business area Home Care & SDA to focus on global brands and product categories.\nElectrolux has divested the commercial business, which provides professional customers in North America with a wide range of vacuum cleaners under the Sanitaire brand, to BISSELL Inc. The global central vacuum cleaner business based in North America, which provides products under the BEAM brand, is sold to Nuera Air. The divested operations had combined revenues in 2017 of around USD 70 million.\n\u201cThis is an important strategic step to support our profitable growth journey and further investments in innovation. We have an exciting pipeline of launches for this year and next, as we continue to build a responsive ecosystem of products for wellbeing in the home,\u201d said Ola Nilsson, Head of Electrolux Home Care & SDA. \u201cBoth BEAM and Sanitaire are strong brands with excellent products that will have better opportunities to grow with their new owners.\u201d\nAs part of the process to improve the global competitiveness of Home Care & SDA, Electrolux in late 2016 divested its main North American vacuum cleaner brand Eureka. With today\u2019s announcement, the business area is now shifting its North American headquarters to San Francisco, where an innovation hub was established last year. Working out of this hub, Electrolux earlier this year launched its award-winning robotic vacuum cleaner Pure i9 in the United States.\nThe transactions are not expected to result in any material changes to future earnings or net one-off effects on the Group income statement.\nErnst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC (EYCA) acted as exclusive financial advisor to Electrolux in conjunction with the transaction.\nPress release \u2013 Electrolux divests BEAM and Sanitaire in North America English August 8, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 9549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/spoilers-make-favorite-show-better/1524341", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OSQFTBRWBBRN4BV6SARTQITYFW6OV5ZU", "length": 2421, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.elitedaily.com", "title": "Researchers Proved Spoilers Can Actually Make Your Favorite Show Even Better", "raw_content": "Researchers Proved Spoilers Can Actually Make Your Favorite Show Even Better\nLast Sunday, I went to grab dinner and drinks with friends. It was 9:30 pm, and none of us had any intention of heading home anytime soon.\nI was also fully aware I was missing \"Game Of Thrones.\" Oh well, that's what HBO Now is for.\n\u201cDon't go on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook,\" one of my friends teased. \"In fact, just stay off social media altogether.\"\nI told her I wasn't too worried; I still planned on watching the episode later that night.\n\u201cBut spoilers!\u201d she said with a laugh that could only belong to someone who doesn't watch \"Game Of Thrones\" and still knows what happiness feels like.\nYou see, here's the thing: My friend was truly trying to protect me. Spoilers are a huge buzzkill, no matter what you're into. She and I both knew the moment I checked my Twitter feed, I'd be bombarded with #Hodor, #RIPJonSnow and whatever other bullshit GoT nerds tweet between the hours of 9 and 10 pm on Sunday nights.\nExcept \u2014 and this is a big exception \u2014 I don't really care about spoilers. The way I see it, I'm going to watch the show anyway. I still want to see exactly what happens, even if I know the outcome. Besides, a little spoiler here and there builds the hype around a show, a movie or a book. It doesn't deplete it.\nAs always, I'm right. According to a 2011 study from UC San Diego, spoilers don't actually spoil anything. Researchers performed a series of three experiments with 12 short stories: One set had no spoilers, the other had a spoiler in the beginning and the final set had a spoiler incorporated into the story.\nSurprise, surprise, the spoiled versions were ranked as more enjoyable than the ones that weren't. In fact, spoiled stories were described as \u201ceasier to read.\"\nBetter yet, UC San Diego (apparently the mecca of all things spoiler) psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld says spoilers act as \u201cenhancers\u201d of the story, as opposed to deterrents. A spoiled ending allows you to focus on the intricacies of the plot.\nChristenfeld likened it to driving down a road you already know. It allows you to sit back and enjoy the view, as opposed to focusing on the road itself.\nSo, next time your friends get pissed at you for spoiling their favorite TV show for them, tell them you only wanted them to enjoy the experience more.\nWell, unless it's \"Game Of Thrones.\" In that case, it's better to just stay silent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elitedaily.com/sports/gronk-says-chicks-are-crazy/948814", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2T7FJ6ZEYGZUHSOBJFCN7JZH4PGBAJ6R", "length": 787, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.elitedaily.com", "title": "Rob Gronkowski Perfectly Explains Why He's Single: 'Chicks Are Crazy'", "raw_content": "Rob Gronkowski Perfectly Explains Why He's Single: 'Chicks Are Crazy'\nRob Gronkowski is a Super Bowl champion, the best tight end in the NFL, a multi-millionaire and one of the most well-known personalities in sports.\nAnd yet, the New England Patriots star is single.\nSomething doesn't add up here; we need an explanation.\nSometimes chicks are crazy...I don't got a girlfriend \u2014 Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) February 26, 2015\nThere you go, straight from the horse's mouth.\nNow, I'm not going to go as far to say he's right, but... Actually, he's definitely right.\nBut, it certainly takes one to know one. If you haven't heard, Gronk has been, and probably always will be, known to do wild things.\nGuess he won't be sharing any of those moments with a girlfriend any time soon, though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elizabethi.org/contents/death/pagetwo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2ONUIJOZYCSHK2I43CVKFIEKEVK5X7YF", "length": 2823, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.elizabethi.org", "title": "Death of Queen Elizabeth I : Page 2", "raw_content": "The Dying Queen\nIt was getting late, and those in vigilance around the Queen's bed left her to the care of her ladies. The Queen fell into a deep sleep, and died in the early hours of the 24th of March, 1603. It was a Thursday, the death day of her father, and her sister. It was the eve of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, perhaps an apt day for the Virgin Queen to die. The Elizabethan calendar was also different to ours, as they still used the Julian calendar - the new year beginning on the 25th of March. Thus the last day of the year 1602 also saw the last hours of the last Tudor monarch. The new year would bring a new reign, that of King James I (James VI of Scotland), a new ruling dynasty (the Stuarts), and a new era in British history.\nIt was with sadness that the Queen's death was announced on the streets of London the following morning, and witnesses described the eerie silence of the stunned crowd. For almost 45 years they had been ruled by Elizabeth, and knew no other way of life.\nAs the Queen had wished, there was no post mortem. Her body was embalmed, and placed in a lead coffin. A few days later, the Queen began her last journey. She was taken by water to Whitehall, and laid in state, before being taken to Westminster Hall. There her body was to remain until the new King gave orders for her funeral.\nOn the 28th of April 1603, the Queen was given a magnificent funeral. Her coffin, covered in purple velvet, was drawn by four horses draped in black. An effigy of the great Queen, dressed in the robes of state with a crown on her head and a sceptre in her hands, lay on the coffin beneath a mighty canopy held by six knights. Behind the Queen came her palfrey, led by her Master of Horse. The chief mourner, the Marchioness of Northampton, led the peeresses of the realm all dressed in black, and behind them came all the important men of the realm, as well as over two hundred poor folks. The streets were full of people, all come to pay their last respects to the Queen who had ruled them so wisely and for so long as she made her way to her final resting place at Westminster Abbey. When they saw the life-like effigy of the Queen, they wept. John Stow, who attended the funeral wrote:\n\"Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man, neither doth any history mention any people, time or state to make like lamentation for the death of their sovereign\"\nThe grief of the nation was unprecedented, and was a tribute to the remarkable achievements of a remarkable woman, Queen Elizabeth I.\nQueen Elizabeth's Grave", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.embies.com/comparing-the-risk-of-adverse-pregnancy-outcomes-of-chinese-patients-with-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-with-and-without-antiandrogenic-pretreatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GE3FALZK3CTHMI2YNVRFKLNDVW5VCMRU", "length": 400, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.embies.com", "title": "Comparing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes of Chinese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with and without antiandrogenic pretreatment | Embies Infertility Information and Resources Site", "raw_content": "Comparing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes of Chinese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with and without antiandrogenic pretreatment\nTo evaluate the prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes in healthy Chinese women and to investigate whether these outcomes could be decreased in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) by ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate (EE/CPA) pretreatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 158.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.embies.com/female-age-serum-antimullerian-hormone-level-and-number-of-oocytes-affect-the-rate-and-number-of-euploid-blastocysts-in-in-vitro-fertilizationintracytoplasmic-sperm-injection-cycles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RDQRMBBQUWP7VOH6YUWREDZF7GFJ7BEL", "length": 435, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.embies.com", "title": "Female age, serum antim\u00fcllerian hormone level, and number of oocytes affect the rate and number of euploid blastocysts in in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles | Embies Infertility Information and Resources Site", "raw_content": "Female age, serum antim\u00fcllerian hormone level, and number of oocytes affect the rate and number of euploid blastocysts in in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles\nTo study the relative role of female age and ovarian reserve, measured through serum antim\u00fcllerian hormone (AMH) in determining the rate and number of euploid blastocysts in in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encompassdorset.co.uk/vacancy14.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6PSD4QIKIJU3NAWIJLEXPECW4J33YTCG", "length": 129, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.encompassdorset.co.uk", "title": "Support Worker", "raw_content": "Registered Care Home for 3 adults with learning disabilities and Supported Accommodation for 5 adults with learning disabilities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nokias-comes-with-music-subscription-service-cancel-keep/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:54Z", "digest": "sha1:E3AW35H7HL6QVGQQ4OFKHDA7CMBDGFAH", "length": 986, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.engadget.com", "title": "Nokia's \"Comes with Music\" free subscription service -- cancel, keep the music", "raw_content": "Nokia's \"Comes with Music\" free subscription service -- cancel, keep the music\nSo here's the deal. Nokia just launched a \"Comes with Music\" program. No, not software, but a deal which allows you to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited, subscription access to \"millions of tracks.\" Once the year is complete however, customers can keep all their downloaded music -- it doesn't disappear just because the subscription is over. What's the catch? Don't know yet. We know it's limited to Universal Music Group tracks for the time being but there's no mention of any fees, DRM, advertising, or other restrictions. We'll update you as soon as we get more.\nUpdate: It's free for one year! All the Universal Music tracks you can download for 12 months can be yours. The offer doesn't begin until mid 2008, just as long as the deal doesn't fall apart by then.\nIn this article: breaking news, BreakingNews, comes with music, ComesWithMusic, nokia, universal music group, UniversalMusicGroup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/26/chinese-crispr-edited-babies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5M37L55FD3AYRMUH22IWKL72Q7DUDACQ", "length": 2546, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.engadget.com", "title": "Chinese scientist claims he edited babies' genes with CRISPR", "raw_content": "Image credit: The He Lab (YouTube)\nChinese scientist claims he edited babies' genes with CRISPR\nThe technique is controversially being used to prevent HIV being passed on.\nThe He Lab (YouTube)\nA Chinese scientist claims to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies using the CRISPR/Cas9 tool. He Jiankui (pictured) told the Associated Press that twin girls, Lulu and Nana, were born earlier this month following embryo-editing using CRISPR to disable the CCR5 gene, which allows the HIV virus to infect cells. An American scientist, Michael Deem, also reportedly assisted He on the project at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China.\nAccording to He, embryos were edited for seven couples affected by HIV, with one pregnancy resulting thus far. He added that the patients refused to be identified or interviewed.\nHowever, the hospital where He reportedly conducted the work has poured cold water over his claims. \"What we can say for sure is that the gene editing process did not take place at our hospital. The babies were not born here either,\" a spokesperson for Shenzhen HarMoniCare Women's and Children's Hospital told TechCrunch.\nThe news is already causing an outcry among researchers in the US, who slammed it as \"unconscionable\" and \"immoral and unethical.\" It follows similar reactions to China's breakthrough on genetically-modified human embryos in 2015, which saw researchers remove a gene called HBB, responsible for the fatal blood disorder \u03b2-thalassaemia.\nNotably, He's work has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, meaning there's no independent confirmation of the research. In an earlier report, the MIT Technology Review linked to Chinese medical documents posted online in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry -- a primary registry of the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trial Registry. Scientists shown He's materials by the AP concluded that the tests so far are insufficient to say the editing worked or to rule out harm to the genetically-edited babies.\nBoth the UK and Japan have given the green light to edit donated human embryos to better understand developmental processes. Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences also endorsed embryonic engineering last year, but only in cases that would otherwise result in children being born with serious genetic diseases.\nSource: Associated Press, MIT Technology Review\nIn this article: china, CRISPR, CRISPRCas9, embryo, GeneticallyModified, GeneticEngineering, Genetics, medicine, science, tomorrow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/73136", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:22Z", "digest": "sha1:D2A7TYX52DQVA2KP4HG27HV4IGV27I5A", "length": 29401, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.entrepreneur.com", "title": "Entrepreneur, business - On the Road Again?", "raw_content": "Then don't forget to pack these tech essentials. We take a look at the latest and greatest mobile gadgets that will keep you connected--and keep your business one step ahead.\nNovember 1, 2004 15+ min read\nIt was the sort of moment any businessperson dreads. Walking through an airport to catch a flight, entrepreneur Brad Beckstrom glimpsed an important client-and realized he'd forgotten the client's name, although he recalled the name of the client's company.\nDreading a faux pas, Beckstrom grabbed his mobile phone. With his thumbs, he began typing the company's name into his contact application, which contains roughly 1,000 entries. Seconds later, the mystery person's identity popped up, and Beckstrom walked over to say hello. \"It rekindled the relationship,\" he recalls. \"He remembered my name, so I was really glad I remembered his.\"\nIt's just one more reason the 42-year-old co-founder and COO of Momentum Marketing Services, a $15 million creative and marketing services firm in Alexandria, Virginia, swears by his PalmOne Treo 600, one of a new generation of smartphones. A bona fide road warrior who spends at least one to two days out of the office every week, Beckstrom also uses the Treo 600's built-in camera with his Sprint voice and data service plan to send snapshots home to his family while he's traveling, a feature he thinks could become the basis of new Momentum promotional campaigns in the future.\nBeckstrom is not alone. The Treo 600 is widely considered a breakthrough for the smartphone, and almost a year into its life, the product is consistently back-ordered. It's probably a good time for me to disclose that I am a Treo 600 owner and have also used two previous generations of the device. I'm hooked. Still, at $450 to $699 (depending on whether you need a service plan), the Treo 600 isn't for everyone. Nor is it the answer to every mobile computing need. Even Beckstrom also relies heavily on his wireless-equipped Apple G4 PowerBook laptop to do his job on the go.\nThat's why Entrepreneur has dedicated this year's special report to exploring the latest trends in mobile computing. From smartphones to notebooks to wireless hot spots, this guide provides a map to what you should look for-or expect-from your next mobile gadget and how you can make managing them and keeping them secure just a bit easier.\nIt seems like everybody's out to get mobile phone users-from restaurants and fitness centers that have banned their use for privacy reasons to the myriad municipalities that have made it downright criminal to use them while driving.\nBut the buying (and talking) public has been snapping up the devices in record numbers. At least two leading market research firms project unit sales of close to 600 million worldwide this year, and year-over-year sales growth rates ranged from 30 to 34 percent for the first and second quarters of 2003 and 2004. Nokia remains the market leader, although Motorola and Samsung have been steadily eating into its share. What's more, the smartphone category, combining voice communications features with data-centric functions such as e-mail and personal information managers, has come into its own with upwards of 50 models to choose from.\n\"There aren't that many basic phones left that are limited to 2G capabilities,\" says Todd Kort, principal analyst for PDAs and smartphones for technology research and consulting firm Gartner Inc. in San Jose, California.\nConsider that more than 100,000 units of the Treo 600 were sold in the first month of its release in fall 2003, with the company projecting sales of more than 1 million units by early 2005. A next-generation edition is set to ship late this year.\nBut that's only a tiny fraction of the 17.7 million smartphones that Gartner and IT and telecom research firm IDC expect will ship this year. About half of those units will use the Symbian operating system favored by Nokia.\nIndeed, Nokia is moving aggressively into smartphones. Although it recently pared down the number of models it will offer, the ultra- high-end Nokia 9500 Communicator is due in the fourth quarter of 2004. With its feet more in the land of data communications than voice, this handset looks like a traditional cellular phone, but it unfolds clamshell-style to reveal a qwerty keyboard and a color screen. The Nokia 9500 Communicator will support three communications technologies, including EDGE, GSM and wireless LANs. It supports Bluetooth for short-range wireless communications, an increasingly common feature for mobile phones that allows them to connect to other devices such as handheld computers or printers. The Nokia 9500 Communicator comes with the requisite digital camera, support for spreadsheets and presentation files, and a whopping 80MB of built-in memory. No price had been set at press time, but some smartphones push $800, which is considered one of several downsides to the category.\n\"One of the probems with smartphones is that they're expensive phones, even though they are great as a business tool. There are issues, though, when the weekend comes around,\" says Kevin Burden, program manager for mobile devices at IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. \"Do you really want to bring a $500 phone out on a boat with you? This market has always been about preferences.\"\nThat's why analysts are eagerly awaiting this fall's release of the next-generation Motorola MPx, which will probably be priced closer to the $300 mark. The device will act as a GSM/GPRS phone and run Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which means the display can be switched between landscape and portrait modes. Other features include built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless support, a 2.8-inch 16-bit color display, up to 1GB of expanded memory, and a 1.2 megapixel digital camera with flash.\nWhat else is out there? The recently released Motorola i710, for instance, offers GPS features and includes speakerphone and walkie-talkie functions for about $125 (all prices street) before rebate. Of course, if you don't have a hankering for e-mail and all that other stuff, you could spend as little as $50 for just a basic handset.\nPDAs and Mobile PCs\nAssistant to Go\nThere's been a lot written about the certain demise of PDAs, speculation fueled by Sony's decision to forego any additional launches of its innovative Cli\u00e9 model. But the category actually began to turn around in 2004, with some projections calling for modest growth of about 2 percent after more than two years of declines. Ironically, although Sony shipped enough units earlier this year to become the third-largest provider in the U.S. market, it is focusing future R&D efforts instead on its joint smartphone venture with Ericsson.\n\"Although I believe that the smartphone will become the dominant handheld, there will always be a market for nonconnected PDAs,\" says Gerry Purdy, principal analyst with Cupertino, California-based MobileTrax, which advises clients on mobile and wireless computing. \"It's just that the PDA will be relegated to the shelf next to the low-cost calculator in the supermarket.\"\nKort estimates that roughly 11.9 million PDAs will ship by the end of 2004, with units based on Palm operating systems accounting for about half that number. The BlackBerry device from Research in Motion is becoming a contender for the No. 2 spot, with estimated shipments of 2.2 million units in 2004, about triple what it shipped the previous year. But Hewlett-Packard has been posting the strongest increases among the top five handheld vendors. Analysts have said Dell hasn't made as many waves as expected; however, its new Axim x30, priced at $249 and with integrated support for Wi-Fi, is seen as a step forward in innovation for the vendor.\nFeatures that have become basic checklist items for PDAs include color screens, preferably with transflective qualities that make them easier to use in outdoor lighting, and faster chips that let users easily access more than one application at once. GPS is also available for PalmOne and Pocket PC devices. What all this enables is the other big trend that will shape the PDA market: specialization. Says Burden, \"People want a device that is appropriate for the task, not excessive for the task.\"\nIf wireless was the word for notebooks for 2004, then ruggedness is an emerging theme for 2005. As the category matures-by some estimates, mobile PCs will account for 1 in 3 of all PCs sold by 2006-design innovation has moved inside the box. Buyers can expect 15-inch screens to become fairly standard in coming months, and the pricing threshold will continue to hover around $1,300 for entry-level products, although fully loaded models can easily cost double that. The decision by some larger notebook makers to use chips from AMD instead of Intel for some models should keep prices in check. AMD delivered a series of mobile processors in July, including a speedy 64-bit edition being incorporated into notebooks from Alienware and Epson America, not to mention the C3500 ultraportable convertible tablet/notebook models from Averatec, priced starting at $1,300. The AMD processors have been optimized for extended battery life and are compatible with many widely used wireless technologies.\n\"There isn't much difference between mainstream notebooks,\" says Ranjit Atwal, senior analyst with Gartner in London. \"The innovation is further down into the PC rather than in terms of features missing.\"\nIBM, for example, has introduced a feature that senses if the notebook is being moved and locks down the hard drive, thus reducing the chance of failures. If you do have a problem on the road, IBM introduced a feature this year called Rescue and Recovery that's embedded into some of its ThinkPad models, including the ThinkPad X40, its 2.7-pound ultraportable. The service lets you restore your system quickly if you are hit by a virus or encounter corrupted software drivers.\nIt used to be that you had to skimp on weight and functionality if you wanted a rugged notebook-and pay about a 20 percent markup over mainstream prices. But Panasonic's Toughbook W2, for example, is a 2.8-pound ultraportable outfitted with all the latest technologies, such as the Intel Centrino wireless architecture supporting 802.11b+g, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, a shock-mounted hard drive that can be removed to protect sensitive information, rubber-gasket-sealed ports to keep foreign matter out of the notebook's innards, and a 12.1-inch active-matrix display.\n\"It all comes back to usage,\" Atwal says. \"We can't generalize usage of the notebook; there will be vendors who will specialize in particular niches of the market.\"\nProtecting Tech on the Road\nWho among us doesn't hate lugging a notebook around the airport in the post-9/11 era? You could speed up your trip by registering with the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) new Registered Travel Pilot Program, which kicked off in airports in Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Washington, DC, last summer. The idea is that preapproved frequent fliers can use a designated checkpoint lane where they submit to finger or iris scans to confirm their identities. Of course, you need to give up all sorts of personal information and submit to a security assessment by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to participate. The pilot program is supposed to end late this year, and the TSA will evaluate its success at that time.\nSpeaking of security, several mobile experts interviewed for this piece recommend considering mobile management technology from Senforce Technologies if you've got a fleet of salespeople or other mobile workers out on the road. The relatively high-end software, which requires that you invest in some sort of server, locks down the computer in both wired and wireless settings by sensing what location it's in. This software is priced starting at $89.99 per user. Credant Technologies provides an offering, Mobile Guardian Group Edition, that includes a personal firewall. Starting at $49 per user, this software promises secure wireless access, policy management capabilities and device control profiles. It works across a company's notebooks, smartphones, PDAs and tablet PCs.\nUnfortunately, many mobile entrepreneurs neglect to secure their smartphones, plug-in cards and other devices-not realizing they need the same kind of protection typically extended to laptops and desktops. No matter the device, if it stores intellectual property or other confidential data, you need to protect it.\nOne extreme measure would be to invest in a notebook with a fingerprint sensor that lets only the authorized user sign on, such as the new 3.27-pound LifeBook P7000, which starts at $1,799, or one with a swappable hard drive, such as the aforementioned Panasonic Toughbook, which lets you leave sensitive data back in your office.\nWhen it comes to form factors, analysts expect notebooks sporting 17-inch screens to gain ground as replacements for desktop PCs, although they are still heavy to lug around and eat up plenty of battery life. Tablet PCs could build in popularity, for a couple of reasons: The new edition of the Microsoft operating system on which most are designed now allows them to be built in a wider variety of sizes, and the $400 to $500 price differential that currently exists between tablets and traditional notebooks will begin to ease.\nThe ultraportable category could be stimulated by the much-anticipated arrival of the OQO Model 01, slated for release in late 2004. The early versions being shown off by OQO's executive team, comprised of former designers associated with Apple's nifty PowerBook and iBook lines, are less than 5 inches long, weigh 14 ounces, and come with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. They can be docked for connections to a broader array of peripherals. Says Atwal, \"As we get more types of form factors, they will appeal to a segmented audience.\"\nIf portability is your main concern, those of you with bad backs may appreciate the APC TravelPower Backpack, which comes with an integrated power system that lets you simultaneously charge your mobile phone and handheld computer. At an estimated retail price of about $120, the backpack also contains connectors for most notebook models and adapters for airline power receptacles and cars. For the fashionably hip, the folks at ScotteVest, a company that makes clothing designed to carry electronic accessories, plan to ship $130 cargo pants this fall with 14 hidden pockets for all your smaller electronic devices. They may be more stylish than a computer bag, but emptying those pockets for an airport security checkpoint might not be all that much fun.\nThe Wireless Way\nIn some corners of the world, it's easier to find a wireless hot spot than it is to find a public telephone. Devices like the new $29.95 Wi-Fi Seeker from PCTel can help you locate them and determine their signal strength.\n\"Wi-Fi won't ever become pervasive enough to be used when traveling about, but Wi-Fi access will become as convenient as finding a gas station for your car,\" says MobileTrax's Purdy.\nThere is perhaps no better illustration than Wayport's deal this year with SBC Communications to outfit more than 6,000 McDonald's locations with FreedomLink hot spots, which can also be found in UPS Stores throughout SBC's regional territory. The IT consulting company is reportedly booked into 2005 for wireless network installations. Although this year saw the exit of the high-profile hot spot provider Cometa Networks, funded by the likes of AT&T, IBM and Intel, Gartner predicts that by 2007, more than 35 million users will use more than 160 million hot spots worldwide. The firm also predicts that by year-end 2005, 10 percent of broadband internet connections will be made through wireless means.\nFor obvious reasons, many new hot spots are cropping up in major travel centers, with airports and airline clubs offering them as perks for frequent fliers. Depending on your location, Wi-Fi access is charged by the minute, by the day, or as an add-on option for existing wireless services accounts-so it can get expensive quickly if you aren't using the payment option that's best for your particular traveling habits. And if you're in a heavily trafficked airline club, for example, service can be spotty since crowds of users can slow down the network. Costs vary, too: T-Mobile charges $19.99 per month for a 1-year contract if you're adding hot-spot access to an existing account, or $29.99 per month for new accounts; Boingo Wireless has plans starting at $21.95 per month or $7.95 for two connect days; and Wayport charges $9.95 per day for access from a hotel or $6.95 from an airport. You can also buy prepaid connection cards from Wayport starting at $25 for three connections.\nSome current experiments will see Wi-Fi introduced over the next 12 months in places where it is less common today. Amtrak and AT&T Wireless just began offering Wi-Fi access in six train stations along the Northeast corridor, for $9.99 per day. Existing AT&T Wireless Wi-Fi customers can use their existing accounts.\nBut what about wireless on the move, given that each Wi-Fi hot spot technically only covers an area of 300 square feet? In Washington state, federal grants are paying for the deployment of wireless internet service onboard three major ferry routes. Among other things, the test being run by IT services firm Mobilisa will study the unique challenges of using Wi-Fi over water. Similar projects in North America and Europe are being engineered by service providers along with PointShot Wireless.\nAnd if several airlines have their way, Wi-Fi won't be earthbound for long. Lufthansa has installed a Wi-Fi system called FlyNet on five of its planes, which offers passengers the ability to send e-mail or surf the internet in flight. The service includes a metered option costing $10 per half-hour and 25 cents per minute after that, and a flat-rate option costing $19.95 for flights 3 to 6 hours or $30 for flights longer than 6 hours. The download speed is 5Mbps, which is shared among users. Lufthansa says it plans to upgrade all 80 of its planes by the end of 2006. The ISP service, Connexion by Boeing, was tested by air-traffic authorities, which have authorized its use at cruising altitudes only. The company also has definitive contracts with Japan Airlines and Scandinavian Airline System.\nConnexion by Boeing can expect future competition from Airbus, SITA Inc. and Tenzing, which announced plans in mid-July to form a new company offering in-flight connectivity services for mobile phones, PDAs and notebooks. (That plan is subject to regulatory approval.) Tenzing already offers e-mail and text-messaging service aboard flights on Cathay Pacific Airways, Continental Airlines, Iberia, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.\nGetting Connected in Hotels\nIf you're like me, one of the first things you do when you check in to a hotel is look to see what sort of connectivity you have in your room. The prospect of downloading presentations or spreadsheets via a dial-up connection is downright horrifying for anyone who has experienced the other side.\nClearly, major chains believe providing in-room high-speed internet access is becoming de rigueur. Marriott International has pledged to offer high-speed access at all of its Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Marriott, Renaissance, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites and TownePlace Suites hotels by the end of this year. For some parts of its chain, the access is free. For the Marriott and Renaissance properties, the company charges $9.95 per day for access, plus unlimited local and long-distance calls, which can add up quickly otherwise. Elsewhere, Westin Hotels & Resorts has begun offering a similar package for $16 per day, throwing a complimentary \"technology\" concierge into the price in case you have trouble configuring your computer to work with the service.\nIf you're not sure whether your hotel has what you need in terms of connectivity, the GeekTools website may be of assistance. You may also be able to find a hotel with the services you need on your travel route by checking the hotel locator provided by STSN. STSN is the high-speed access service provider for approximately 1,900 hotels in North America, Asia-Pacific and Western Europe-with more than 265,000 guest and business-meeting rooms. Marriott is one of STSN's clients, as are the Hilton and La Quinta chains. Lately, STSN has been adding wireless services to the mix and now maintains these services for about 850 properties-another trend expected to accelerate in 2005.\nIf your hotel room makes you stir crazy, and your travel finds you spending lots of time in a certain region, like Boston, New York City or Orange County, California, you might consider looking into a service such as TechSpace, which offers drop-in space and connectivity space to telecommuters and business travelers. Its membership plans include VirtualSpace, priced at $150 per month per person, and then $15 per hour; or FlexSpace8, which lets you work two days per week in its facility for $350 per month per person. Both plans require a one-time setup fee of $75.\nThe wireless dialogue will dominate the mobile computing world over the next 12 months, according to Atwal. One of the biggest trends for road warriors to watch will be an ability to transmit data, and possibly voice, between Wi-Fi hot spots and the cellular carriers' much wider-area services. In theory, your notebook, cell phone or handheld will be able to send and receive transmissions that hop from Wi-Fi network to cellular connection transparently, depending on which provides the best signal strength, security or fees.\nAfter all, personal preference is what mobile computing is all about. \"The people who travel the most get the latest technology. Then we migrate them down,\" says Beckstrom of Momentum Marketing, describing his company's technology investment policy.\nBecause of his advance research on the road with Wi-Fi, his company now uses wireless networks extensively. But for every entrepreneur like Beckstrom, who believes the digital cameras in today's handhelds could yield a killer application, there's another who hasn't figured out how to use his yet. If you're one of the latter, it's time to join the mobile revolution and discover what you're missing.\nWeb conferencing continued to make strides this year, as companies look to host more impromptu meetings without being beholden to the transportation industry. Sales of software to facilitate cybermeetings-mainly those that allow for sharing documents while hosting a discussion-are anticipated to post annual growth of about 17 percent over the next several years, reaching $1.1 billion in annual new license revenue by 2008.\nExperts believe one big factor that will inspire adoption in 2005 is broader interest in VoIP, which lets you make telephone calls over a broadband connection. \"As companies move toward IP technology, web conferencing becomes an easy add-on from a user perspective,\" says Melanie Turek, principal research analyst with New York City-based Nemertes Research, which quantifies the business impact of technology. \"People will use it more often when it becomes part of their daily work life.\"\nResearch shows that web conferencing is used most frequently for hosting a company's internal meetings among multiple locations, Turek says. Only 1 in 5 web conference calls is focused on product demonstration or sales.\nMeanwhile, several ongoing developments are worth noting. First, AOL now lets you launch conference calls or web conferences from within an IM session. The idea is that an IM session might escalate into a discussion leading to a better solution. Lightbridge, a transaction processing company, and web conferencing market leader WebEx Communications are working with AOL on the new service.\nThe telephone call service will cost about 5 cents per person per minute, while the web conferencing feature will be priced at 33 cents per person per minute on weekdays. Microsoft-which got into the market with its acquisition of PlaceWare a year ago-has inked similar deals with AOL, MSN and Yahoo! that link their IM technologies to the next version of Live Communication Server, which won't be a factor until early next year.\nFinally, FaceTime Communications intends this fall to deliver RTShield, which extends AOL's IM technology with secure real-time communications options. The software includes an option specifically for companies with fewer than 50 employees, although pricing hadn't been set at press time.\nTech Gadgets & Goodies\nFrom utilities to security, the right software helps enable your mobile lifestyle.\nXten X-PRO SoftPhone: Take your Vonage VoIP service with you on the road with this software on a laptop. Price: $9.99 per month (in addition to your regular Vonage plan)\nGoToMyPC Personal: You'll always have access to your office computer with this web-based application that lets you use your PC remotely through a web browser. Price: $19.95 per month (basic plan)\nLapLink Everywhere 3.0: LapLink is a budget-friendly web-based application that lets you remotely access your office PC's Outlook or Outlook Express and files. Price: $89.95 annual subscription\nJP Mobile SureWave Mobile Defense: Secure your Palm or Pocket PC PDA with this software suite that includes password protection, data encryption and reset protection. Price: $29.95\nMobility Electronics iGo Quickoffice Premier: Work with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your Palm handheld. Also available for some Nokia and Symbian devices. Price: $39.95\nSalesforce.com (800-NO-SOFTWARE): This web-based CRM application is easy to access and use when you or your salespeople are on the road. Price: starts at $995 per year for five users\nThese items aren't essentials, but they can sure spice up a road trip.\nCorex Technologies CardScan Executive: Manage all those business cards you collect with this compact scanner that lets you deal with them on your computer later. Price: $200\nSmart ID Technology WFS-1 WiFi Detector: This small, battery-powered device from Singapore will locate Wi-Fi hot spots for you on the go. Price: $28\nApple iPod mini: This tiny 3.6-ounce, 4GB version of the popular iPod MP3 player will keep you company during your downtime. Available for Mac and Windows. Price: $249\nPowerhouse Technologies Migo 256MB USB 2.0: Get advanced synchronization and data management with this USB flash device, including access to your Outlook e-mail and Explorer favorites. Price: $200\nFrogPad Bluetooth iFrog: This one-handed device is a compact way to take your keyboard with you, wirelessly. Available in left- or right-handed versions. Price: $175\nBenQ M310 Optical Wireless Mouse: Portability, super-easy setup and a clever design make this a handy mouse for laptop users. Price: $40\nTake the bumps out of your ride with these handy hardware accessories.\nSanDisk Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive: This crush-resistant USB 2.0 drive comes with 512 MB of storage, password protection and backup utilities. Price: $130\nJabra FreeSpeak BT200 Bluetooth Mobile Phone Headset: Keep your hands free while driving or working with this wireless headset for Bluetooth-enabled phones. Price: $149\nElectrovaya PowerPad 120: Extend your notebook battery life for those long trips with this lightweight (under 2 pounds) power pack. Price: $299\nTargus Port 3.1 Commuter Case: More like a mobile desk, this case gives your laptop full protection and zips down into a portable workstation. Price: $99.99\nKensington MicroSaver Notebook Cable: For the price tag, you get a security cable to lock down your notebook and guaranteed notebook replacement if the lock is forced. Price: $54.99\nNetgear WG511 802.11g Wireless Adapter: Get your older laptop up-to-date with this Wi-Fi notebook adapter. Now you can take advantage of hot spots on the road or at the office. Price: $45\nCheck out our best picks for mobile gadgets sure to keep you on track.\nSamsung SPH-i500: This smartphone integrates a Palm PDA into a compact clamshell design with lots of features. Price: $399 (varies with service plan)\nToshiba Portege M205 TabletPC: This well-stocked convertible takes the best features of a laptop and combines them with the flexibility of a tablet. Price: $2,299\nIBM ThinkPad X40: At a svelte 2.7 pounds, this 12.1-inch-display ultraportable packs a wallop with 256MB RAM, built-in 802.11b and a mobile Pentium processor. Price: starts at $1,499\nTrend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security: Security is as important on the road as in the office. This software suite covers spam, spyware, firewall and anti-virus. Price: $49.95\nCanon i80: A portable printer is one thing, but throw in an optional Bluetooth interface and a car adapter, and you get the ultimate in mobile printing. Price: $250\nHewlett-Packard iPAQ hx4705: Integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are nice extras onboard this Pocket PC. Enhanced security features, lots of memory and a relatively spacious 4-inch VGA screen make this a wise choice for business use. Price: $650\nMotorola V600: Don't need all the bells and whistles of a smartphone? You can still enjoy the speakerphone, camera and Bluetooth features of this mobile. Price: $200 to $299 (depending on service provider) -Amanda C. Kooser\nHeather Clancy is editor of CRN, a weekly high-tech business newspaper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 34141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/jos-a-bank", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZZNYA6KEBI5C6WXT53MSNVBYANDG4EC", "length": 224, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.entrepreneur.com", "title": "Jos A. Bank News & Topics", "raw_content": "Jos. A. Bank Scoops Up Eddie Bauer, Putting Men's Wearhouse Deal on Ice\nJos. A. Bank says that it has been eyeing the Eddie Bauer brand for years now.\nMen's Wearhouse to Jos A. Bank: We're Suited for Each Other, and Here'...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 2667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esmadrid.com/en/whats-on/world-press-photo-madrid-lasede-coam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:54Z", "digest": "sha1:C2QVVYLS3GPZMDRRTCEHXZUYLKW4GTNX", "length": 928, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.esmadrid.com", "title": "World Press Photo Madrid LASEDE COAM World Press Photo 2019 | Turismo Madrid", "raw_content": "World Press Photo, the ninth edition of the world\u2019s oldest and most prestigious photo journalism contest arrives to Madrid. An annual journalism photography contest showing this year\u2019s work of photojournalists from all over the world.\nWorld Press Photo Foundation has had a very important role in the world\u2019s journalism and particularly in photo journalism for the last 63 years. The exhibition has been taking place since 1955 and started as a small exhibition of journalistic photographs.\nThe visitors will be able to see the most important events of the previous year together with portraits, news, sports, nature and all other often unknown, but impressive stories seen thorough the eyes of the photo journalists. The visitors will be able to enjoy amazing images that will often move their conscience and sometimes even change the public opinion.\nOctober - November (Dates to be confirmed)\nExhibitions, Photography, History", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 5112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 157.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/one-thing-to-rule-them-all-location/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QHR6663OO5VI6S75TKF5J6N4URNH37IA", "length": 6131, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.esri.com", "title": "One Thing to Rule Them All: Location", "raw_content": "The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained deep traction across the globe in all levels of government and industries. IoT is commonly considered to encompass the billions of physical devices around the world that are connected to the Internet, collecting and sharing data.\nIoT gives organizations the ability to collect, process, and analyze vast amounts of real-time data that can reveal real, actionable intelligence. Like other trends in IT, its potential is tempting, but the reality of realizing its value presents certain challenges. With all these devices constantly generating data, this not only creates a data management issue but also the necessity of getting data into a format that allows for the extraction of actionable intelligence.\nContext is a critical component that turns IoT data into actionable intelligence. IoT devices are all around us in things such as smartphones, cars, city streetlights, and thermostats. All these connected physical devices share a characteristic: location.\nUsing GIS to map the location of each device, it can be put into context with its surroundings in the physical world, so we can use spatial analytics to extract actionable intelligence from this context. We can see things that aren\u2019t clear using any other type of technology.\nSince many of these devices are in motion, location may change over time. By tracking that location over time, the GIS can analyze the historical track of a device, revealing its continually changing spatial context so we know where and when data was collected. The GIS also lets us integrate IoT data with other spatial data to place that data with what is around it.\nMany government agencies are embracing IoT to improve everything from traffic flow to public safety. IoT provides values to government agencies through\nReal-time operational awareness.\nFaster and more efficient response.\nImproved government services.\nTo realize these benefits, location must be part of the IoT solution. That means integrating the IoT systems with an enterprise GIS.\nOne example of this is the Waze Connected Citizens Program (CCP). Waze is the world\u2019s largest community-based traffic and navigation app. CCP is a free, two-way data exchange program between government agencies and Waze that can produce impressive benefits for both. By sharing live road closure data from your city directly with Waze so it can be consumed by Waze and Google users, drivers using those services can be automatically routed around road closures.\nThis is much better than posting closures on your website, because most drivers won\u2019t check it before getting in their cars. Boston, Massachusetts, realized an 18 percent reduction in traffic congestion the first month that its data sharing went live with Waze. [Read about Johns Creek, Georgia, the first city to join CCP, in \u201cAn Open Data Strategy Pays Off for Johns Creek\u201d in the Summer 2018 issue of ArcUser.]\nOther government agencies are seeing a four- to seven-minute reduction in emergency response times as emergencies are reported on Waze before witnesses report them via 9-1-1. Waze users don\u2019t just report traffic incidents\u2014they also report potholes. By monitoring the pothole reports, government agencies can more quickly respond, patching potholes before they enlarge. This saves money on the patches and saves drivers potential damage to their vehicles.\nAfter the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, first responders across the city lacked the connectivity and real-time data necessary to coordinate effectively. Without a real-time IoT and GIS platform, it was impossible to relay critical updates and orders among thousands of individual first responders, race participants, volunteers, and spectators.\nThe dashboard featured dynamic web map layers, including live weather and traffic and real-time tracking of runners and emergency vehicles. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.\nBy the 2014 Boston Marathon, things had changed significantly. Public-facing, IoT-enhanced web maps showed live event details such as the race route and the locations of medical facilities and law enforcement staging areas. Integrating data streams from thousands of sensors, devices, video feeds, and locations enabled Boston officials to better address critical aspects of the race, including tracking personnel and resources in real time and shifting public safety assets where needed.\nThe runners were outfitted with data-producing sensors. This allowed officials to keep track of how many active racers were in the field, as well as how many people were in each section of the course, enabling security and medical resources to be reallocated accordingly.\nNot only does IoT and GIS integration support marathon officials in accounting for all participants in motion, but it also serves as the foundation for information being shared quickly and easily among the public, event security, and emergency responders. This benefit proves essential on race day, where 60 different agencies use a common operating picture powered by GIS-based location technology to orchestrate an event that draws a worldwide audience and more than half a million spectators. [Read \u201cArcGIS Online Runs Security at Boston Marathon\u201d in the Spring 2016 issue of ArcNews to learn more about the use of GIS to enhance security and operations.]\nIf your organization has an IoT initiative, include plans to integrate it with your GIS. The benefits of both technologies will be much more substantial.\nThis article originally appeared in GovLoop.\nAbout\tAdam Carnow\nAdam Carnow is an account executive with Esri who manages large local government GIS customers in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. For more than 20 years, he has been applying GIS and related spatial technologies to complex, award-winning projects across the globe in the realms of planning, transportation, and environmental sciences for both the public and private sectors. He holds a bachelor's degree in geography and a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Florida, and he is a certified urban planner (AICP) and GIS Professional (GISP).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ethnologia.info/2018/01/46-people-killed-in-arab-coalition.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:G6P2UQMZ4LHDQJGNPOLTNWYSHZLE5KLU", "length": 785, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ethnologia.info", "title": "Ethnologia: 46 People killed in Arab coalition bombings in Yemen", "raw_content": "46 People killed in Arab coalition bombings in Yemen\nAt least 46 people, including 11 civilians, were killed in the last 24 hours in bombings allegedly by the Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, in western Yemen, medical sources told EFE on Thursday.\nCoalition aircraft attacked several positions by Houthi rebels in the province of al-Hudaydah, killing 35 combatants and wounding dozens, the sources said.\nIn addition, 11 civilians lost their lives Wednesday night and eight suffered wounds when coalition planes targeted a group of Houthis near a restaurant in the town of Zabid, southeast of the port of al-Hudaydah, medical sources in the area said.\nAl-Hudaydah is a strategic port on the Red Sea and is controlled by the Houthis.\n\u0395\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 airstrikes, Saudi Arabia, victims, Yemen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eucoms.net/oartners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMDBZG62YA7PSKUJBS5LN7FEJD4UDASU", "length": 181, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eucoms.net", "title": "EUCOMS | Partners", "raw_content": "At the moment the network comprises of 59 organisations from 17 countries.\nThe list below gives an overview of our partners in December 2018.\nYou can find our partner overview here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eurekadirect.co.uk/feature/52906/AED%20Automated%20External%20Defibrillator%20Landscape", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:P43EPFWVQCHUM475D6W4WC4RY7QOFMX2", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.eurekadirect.co.uk", "title": "Product Details for AED Automated External Defibrillator Landscape | Eureka Direct", "raw_content": "AED Automated External Defibrillator Landscape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/msu-mbc072015.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:HJXBKXZFJZ7XXUJ2OHHLEFPVW4YHQAFT", "length": 4589, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.eurekalert.org", "title": "MSU's BEACON Center nets $22.5 million grant to continue evolution research | EurekAlert! Science News", "raw_content": "MSU's BEACON Center nets $22.5 million grant to continue evolution research\nMichigan State University has been awarded $22.5 million by the National Science Foundation to continue the research, education and outreach activities of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.\nSince 2010, BEACON has brought together evolutionary biologists, computer scientists and engineers to explore evolution going on in today's world. BEACON researchers have provided insights into the evolution of disease, reducing the evolution of antibiotic resistance and predicting how populations of organisms respond to climate change.\nThe use of digital organisms - self-reproducing computer programs operating in a controlled computer environment - allows researchers to explore evolutionary dynamics much more rapidly than studies in the lab or field. Understanding these processes contributes to better solutions of design and engineering problems of industrial and societal importance using evolutionary computational tools, said BEACON Director Erik Goodman.\n\"BEACON's world-class faculty members, all pulling toward common goals, enable our high level of scientific innovation, attracting top-notch graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to the best place in the world to study evolution in action,\" he said. \"Researchers are drawn to BEACON because the frequent exchange of ideas makes it worthwhile for their research, energizing everyone involved. NSF's renewal of BEACON will enable continuing breakthroughs in our understanding and harnessing of evolution in action.\"\nBEACON's development of more-sophisticated evolutionary computational models to solve intractable problems in science and industry is creating new partnerships between biologists and engineers, said George Gilchrist, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.\n\"In the first five years, BEACON has changed the landscape of evolutionary computation, creating a set of multidisciplinary scientists making strong contributions in both biology and engineering,\" he said. \"The second five years promises new advances in taking inspiration from the algorithmic nature of the evolutionary process to deliver robust solutions to some of the most-difficult problems in both science and industry.\"\nFor example, Richard Lenski, MSU Hannah Distinguished Professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, continues to provide important insights about evolution and the process of natural selection. His long-term E. coli experiment distills the essence of evolution in petri dishes and has received a great deal of media attention from outlets including NPR, the New York Times, Science and New Scientist. In fact, Science referred to Lenski as \"The Man Who Bottled Evolution.\"\nKay Holekamp, University Distinguished Professor of zoology, continues to serve as one of the world's leading behavioral ecologists through her studies of spotted hyenas in Kenya. Her long-running study has accumulated more than 25 years of data, covering nearly 10 generations, of spotted hyenas. She and her students have published more than 150 scientific papers.\nBEACONITES also have made great strides toward understanding one of the major transitions in evolution - transforming from single-celled to multicellular life. Charles Ofria, director of MSU's Digital Evolution Laboratory, and fellow BEACONITE Heather Goldsby, showed how reproductive division of labor could possibly have evolved. Their research suggests that separating germ cells - sperm and eggs - from somatic cells - all other cells - preserves genetic building blocks while allowing organisms to flourish.\nOverall, BEACON researchers have published more than 565 peer-reviewed papers and written proposals that have netted nearly $47 million in external funds.\nBEACON is headquartered at MSU, and its partners include University of Idaho, North Carolina A&T State University, University of Texas at Austin and University of Washington. BEACON stands as one of 14 NSF Science and Technology Centers, an elite group of research partnerships meant to unite and transform fields across science and engineering.\nMichigan State University has been working to advance the common good in uncommon ways for more than 150 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU focuses its vast resources on creating solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.\nhttp://go.msu.edu/Bh5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 8849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 181.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/14/irans-rouhani-blames-us-israel-for-attack-on-revolutionary-guards-tv", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AIUW7RRGOS3QCENIS66AAOYEUMJWGQX3", "length": 2021, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.euronews.com", "title": "Iran's Rouhani blames U.S., Israel for attack on Revolutionary Guards - TV | Euronews", "raw_content": "Iran's Rouhani blames U.S., Israel for attack on Revolutionary Guards - TV\nUmit Bektas(Reuters)\nDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and its regional allies on Thursday for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards, Iranian state TV reported.\nThe force said on Wednesday a suicide bomber driving a vehicle laden with explosives had attacked a bus transporting members of the Guards in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan.\nA militant Sunni Muslim group, Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, has claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian media have reported.\n\"The crime will remain as a 'dirty stain' in the black record of the main supporters of terrorism in the White House, Tel Aviv and their regional agents,\" Rouhani said.\nApart from Israel, Rouhani did not name the regional states he believed were to blame. Mainly Shi'ite Muslim Iran does not recognise Israel, which is a key U.S. ally in the region and sees Tehran as posing an existential threat to its existence.\nIn the past, Tehran has accused its main regional rival Saudi Arabia of backing Sunni militia groups who have carried out bloody attacks against Iranian security forces. Riyadh has denied the charges.\nRepeating warnings made by senior commanders of the Guards, Rouhani said Iran was determined to bring justice to those responsible for one of the worst assaults ever against the Revolutionary Guards in years.\nThe assault, which wounded at least 13 people, took place in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan, which has a large, mainly Sunni Muslim, ethnic Baluchi community, which straddles the border with Pakistan.\nJaish al Adl has carried out attacks against the border guards from Pakistan since its founding in 2012.\nIran has called on neighbouring countries to crack down on separatist groups.\n(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Gareth Jones)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 6019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lexi-wolfe-presents-the-storyteller-2-love-stories-for-valentines-day-tickets-55213612401", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U33LQCGD22XWGGIKKSF5XKAP6PSJ6C7R", "length": 1434, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eventbrite.co.uk", "title": "Lexi Wolfe presents: The Storyteller 2, love stories for Valentine's Day Tickets, Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 19:30 | Eventbrite", "raw_content": "Lexi Wolfe presents: The Storyteller 2, love stories for Valentine's Day\nThursday, 14 February 2019 at 19:30 - Tuesday, 25 February 2020 at 22:30 (GMT)\nShare Lexi Wolfe presents: The Storyteller 2, love stories for Valentine's Day\nLexi Wolfe is a award-winning British actress and writer. Visit her official page here - https://www.facebook.com/LexiWolfeOfficialPage/\n****NEW FOR 2019*****\nA special Valentine's event, and a rather singular affair - a telling of Bardic stories, old and new.\nOnce again Lexi Wolfe will be returning with her own unique style of storytelling. This time she will be leading us down paths trod by our ancestors and gods old and new. Revealing their stories of love, romance and some which are not so!\nAs this is a new commission, stories have yet to be confirmed, but we will tempt you with some once they have been chosen!\nLexi achieved the Commendation for Julian Battersby Young Playwright's Award in 2014 for her One Act Play, Indiscretion, was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the Short Film Awards in New York City, 2015 and was nominated Best Female Actor at the Buxton Fringe with her debut performance of 'Mrs. Oscar Wilde'. She has sold out her last few shows at The Art House, and can't wait to return again!\nhttps://wolfe1710.eventbrite.co.uk\nDo you have questions about Lexi Wolfe presents: The Storyteller 2, love stories for Valentine's Day? Contact The Art House Gallery, Cafe & Venue", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 14897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.evergreenbible.com/meet-john-farness/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2H6XCKTYIG7VW65NA6A4GOEBXFFRU7T7", "length": 5023, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.evergreenbible.com", "title": "Meet John Farness \u2014 Evergreen Bible Church", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Blog \u203a Meet John Farness\nMeet John Farness\nEvergreen Bible Church is led by a group of men who are approved by the members to serve either as vocational pastors or lay elders. Collectively, this group is called the Leadership Team. The Nominating Committee has recently completed its work and is recommending John Farness to join this team as an elder. Evergreen members will be asked to vote on this recommendation at the annual business meeting on January 13 and that means some of you will need an introduction. John will share a bit of his story in the worship services later this month, but we asked him to provide a written version to help jump start the process of helping you all get acquainted. We hope this will prompt many to introduce themselves and have a conversation. If you have any questions about the leadership confirmation process, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact me or any of the other Nominating Committee members (John Heath, Jim Whittaker, Vicki Scheel, Linda Dowler, Denise Buckles).\nI was blessed to be born into a Christian family. My mom was faithful to teach me about the Bible and made sure that I was in church every week when I was a child. While this gave me basic Biblical knowledge and an understanding of the Christian faith, I didn\u2019t make a personal commitment to follow Christ as a young child and I didn\u2019t have a conviction of my sin. I believed in God, but thought I was okay because I believed in Jesus.\nDuring my junior year in high school, a close friend invited me to go to a youth group with her. I started going with her regularly and there I received good Bible teaching and an explanation of the Gospel that resonated with me. As I started learning more and examining my life in the light of God\u2019s Word, I was convicted of my sin.\nThere wasn\u2019t a certain day that I remember surrendering my life to Christ, but slowly my thinking changed, and I knew that I wanted and needed to follow Jesus. I began reading my Bible regularly and my life began to change. At that time, I was regularly attending church, youth group and Bible study as well as being discipled by a youth group leader.\nOver the years there have been many things that God has used to strengthen my faith and caused me to grow. He has used His Word through Bible study to change my thinking and given me an understanding of who He is and what His will is. Since I started following Christ, I have always been in fellowship at a Bible believing church, which has been fundamental in my spiritual growth.\nI am the father of four adult children and two step children. My three oldest have graduated from college and are living in Seattle and Spokane. My youngest is currently a junior at the University of Washington. Lyne\u2019s daughter is a missionary in Uganda with Africa Inland Mission and her son is a college student living with us.\nI was divorced about 8 years ago. My former wife decided that she was no longer a Christian and began a relationship with another man. After several months of trying to heal the marriage, it became clear that she was not willing to pursue reconciliation. She filed for divorce and it was finalized early in 2011. I would encourage anyone who has questions to contact me if they would like a more in depth explanation of the circumstances.\nIt was through this traumatic experience that I started coming to Evergreen. I had been in leadership at my former church and found it very difficult to stay after the divorce. I began looking for a church and was familiar with Evergreen, having lived in the neighborhood for many years. I had known Toby and Kristin for a few years and knew that Evergreen was a vibrant and healthy church! Evergreen was very significant in the healing process for me and has been my church home ever since.\nLyne and I began dating in April of 2012 and we were married in March of 2013. We feel very blessed to have found each other! We have a strong marriage and love spending time together. We enjoy hiking, camping and spending time outdoors.\nWe believe strongly in serving Evergreen with the gifts that God has given us! Together, we serve on the Missions and Worship Teams. We have found that serving is a great way to get connected with what is happening at Evergreen as well as get to know people and make new relationships.\nWe are both passionate about world missions and have a strong desire to encourage others to be involved in missions. We have both been on short term mission trips to Africa and were greatly affected by the experience. Serving on the Missions Team has been a great experience for us and we are so thankful for Evergreen\u2019s commitment to missions!\nI\u2019m humbled and honored to be asked to serve Evergreen on the Leadership Team. We have a legacy of strong leadership here and I\u2019m thankful for the opportunity to serve with men that I have great respect for. I believe that God has gifted me with the knowledge, skills and desire to serve his church and I pray that God would continue to empower me as I serve.\nJohn Farness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exratedmovies.com/episodes/2017/10/25/episode-20-heathers-and-jawbreaker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:EJFIOCKXBCVEPMYIGB6XLPKQ3ADBYNXI", "length": 270, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.exratedmovies.com", "title": "Episode 20 Heathers and Jawbreaker \u2014 Ex Rated Movies", "raw_content": "Two exes, two X\u2019s. We\u2019ve reached episode 20 and that means it\u2019s time for another double feature! Extra special guest Bettina McKelvey joins us as we delve into two harrowing high school hellscape comedies: Heathers (1988) and Jawbreaker (1999). It\u2019s going to be so very.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fanconihope.org/uk-fanconi-anaemia-registry-project-extended-to-july-2024/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIUHDG6RRNVWBBBAQSDOE5DWYA52IK2O", "length": 835, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fanconihope.org", "title": "UK Fanconi Anaemia Registry Project Extended to July 2024! - Fanconi Hope", "raw_content": "Beth Lee, our Research Coordinator\nWe are delighted to announce that thanks to your support in raising funds for Fanconi Hope, our UK FA Registry Project has now been extended to Jul 2024!\nThe project, (full title \u201cObservational study for long term health implications of individuals affected by Fanconi anaemia) , is a crucially important long term activity to track the health of FA patients over their lives, so that we can create the evidence to establish and justify the best treatments for Fanconi Anaemia across the UK and Ireland.\nFor this study to be truly effective we need the participation of as many FA patients as possible. If you are in the UK or Ireland living with FA we would therefore encourage you to register for the study here.\nBeth Lee, a highly experienced FA nurse in Manchester, is your link with the project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fdc-construction.co.uk/luxury-homes-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NC7RICEVA7OWTCHDP7IOR3U6KM64QFCA", "length": 817, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fdc-construction.co.uk", "title": "About", "raw_content": "FDC Construction is a company focused on providing construction services for luxury residences in London.\nThe management has completed luxury homes in Mayfair, Belgravia and Kensington. FDC Construction really do know how to create the most bespoke homes.\nWe are committed to providing a service which is second to none, to ensure our clients dreams can become reality.\nProviding bespoke homes for the most discerning client, we pride ourselves on delivering the most complex builds to a high standard.\nWhether it is a complex basement dig, through to the finishing touches. We have an in house team, which will always ensure the end product is a work of art.\nOur team can ensure that even the most basic concept, can be made into a workable solution, with the result of completing the build on time and within budget", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Anaconda&diff=349188&oldid=349187", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:VV6GRWSLFCEMVO67SFQ2VQXHTOCTPOIJ", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fedoraproject.org", "title": "Difference between revisions of \"Anaconda\" - Fedora Project Wiki", "raw_content": "system. It is very important and", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 10648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 185.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/healthcare-roundup-cbo-releases-new-estimate-aca-repeal-proposal-shulkin?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QLAF7W6E2SKI4XXCV65E5POARRMAP2VI", "length": 3268, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.fiercehealthcare.com", "title": "Healthcare Roundup\u2014CBO releases new estimate of ACA repeal proposal; David Shulkin gets a new gig | FierceHealthcare", "raw_content": "Healthcare Roundup\u2014CBO releases new estimate of ACA repeal proposal; David Shulkin gets a new gig\nAt Sanford Health, former VA Secretary David Shulkin, M.D., will be leading initiatives to advance the health system's work in research and precision medicine. (Whitehouse.gov)\nCBO: House measure to repeal or delay Obamacare would cost $51.6B\nA House measure to delay or replace the Affordable Care Act would cost the government $51.6 billion over the next 10 years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.\nThe report comes as lawmakers prepare to meet about the bill, known as the Save American Workers Act, on Wednesday, the Washington Examiner reported.\nAmong the estimates in the analysis: A proposed delay of the employer mandate from 2019 to 2028 would be expected to cost $25.9 billion while a change to the definition of \"full-time worker\" would cost an estimated $9.8 billion. (Washington Examiner article, Report)\nShulkin gets a new gig\nThe former secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is taking on a new role: Chief Innovation Officer at Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system Sanford Health.\nDavid Shulkin, M.D., will be leading initiatives to advance the health system's work in research, as well as its precision medicine initiative called Imaginetics and the Sanford Chip, Profile and World Clinic. He will serve as a strategic adviser on Sanford's national growth strategy.\nSanford Health is the largest rural not-for-profit healthcare system in the nation, with 45 hospitals and 289 clinics in nine states and three countries. It has more than 28,000 employees including more than 1,300 physicians and is the largest employer in the Dakotas.\n\"After completing my work in the public sector, Sanford Health was an obvious choice to continue my healthcare career,\u201d Shulkin said in a statement \u201cSanford\u2019s unique brand of innovation and clinical integration is bringing precision medicine to the bedside which is rapidly improving patient care in unprecedented ways.\" (Release)\nStudy: VA telehealth project improved antibiotic stewardship\nWeekly videoconferencing check-ins showed promise in improving antibiotic prescribing practices at rural facilities and may help improve continuity of care as well, a recently reported pilot study found.\nRising numbers of antibiotic-resistant infections have stakeholders across the healthcare industry seeking novel ways to encourage better stewardship among prescribers. Rural hospitals pose a unique difficulty in this regard since they frequently do not have consistent access to infectious disease physicians and pharmacists with expertise in good prescribing practices.\nIn a pilot study that paired infectious disease experts at VA hospitals with care teams located in rural facilities, researchers took a look at video conferencing as a viable means of training and ongoing support. The results were so positive the initial six-month study period was doubled to a year after participants requested that the program continue. (FierceHealthcare)\nHealthcare Costs Affordable Care Act (ACA) healthcare policy Antibiotic Stewardship Innovation Department of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin Sanford Health Congress Congressional Budget Office Department of Veterans Affairs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmlovr.com/films/bumblebee-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6WGTHZM3BGGCF5QM6JAQZNNFHHBGXZ4Q", "length": 78, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.filmlovr.com", "title": "Bumblebee (2018) | filmlovr.com", "raw_content": "Travis Knight \u2022 15th Dec 2018\nHailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 212.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmoria.co.uk/tag/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GYJVKXL4DL7J525INATBSRJYEEDX3CNE", "length": 383, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.filmoria.co.uk", "title": "The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Filmoria", "raw_content": "LFF 2017 \u2013 Ava Review\nReviews 24th September 2017 0\nA unique take on the \u201ccoming of age\u201d genre, Ava is a mesmerising first feature. It would be easy to make parallels with Andrea Arnold\u2019s free-spirited American Honey (2016) and Marielle Heller\u2019s controversial The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), and whilst it is very much cut from the... Read more\nHome \u00bb The Diary of a Teenage Girl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 134.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstdaysproject.org/story/my-duyen-huynh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FWSLXWVPJLKD52VMZGZ3B6G4DDZDKQZD", "length": 1489, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.firstdaysproject.org", "title": "My-Duyen Huynh's First Day | First Days Project", "raw_content": "My name is My-Duyen Huynh.\nINTERVIEWED BY Brieana Ripley\n\"Lots of people didn't have freedom, so they tried to escape. I was just a college student, I had no idea what escape looked like.\"\nMY-DUYEN HUYNH'S FIRST DAY\nMy name is My-Duyen Huynh. I came to the U.S. in 1983 when I was 24 years old from Vietnam, Saigon, Vietnam.\nAfter 1975, when the Communists came over to Saigon and took over south of Vietnam, life became very chaotic. Lots of people didn't have freedom, so they tried to escape. I was just a college student, I had no idea what escape looked like.\nI am so scared, the reason why I am scared is because I heard on the news that a lot of people died in the ocean. I had no idea what the U.S. looked like but in my head I thought, \"Here is heaven.\" So I decided to take a change, I may be alive, maybe not.\nWe saw a little house and tree and we knew that we survived.\nBut I didn't realize the weather in the wintertime in Seattle, the sky is dark. I looked outside and I thought, \"What happened? Why did the sun disappear, why is it so dark?\"\nThe first time I tried hamburger and milkshake, it was so good.\nLife and death are so close -- they both go by quickly.\nWhen I was young I was really shy and scared, but your mind keeps changing as you get older -- it gets stronger. I just move my body, relieve the tensions of my body, listen to the music, and enjoy it. It's fun.\nMusic by Beast, Please Be Still (Order of the Golden Dawn)\n(http://beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstnationsfocus.com/features/las-vegas-indian-colony-member-creates-captain-paiute-comic-book-for-native-youth/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IUCBQACJCWWLP6T3XBNRJXVOFTONA6JQ", "length": 4168, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.firstnationsfocus.com", "title": "Las Vegas Indian Colony member creates \u2018Captain Paiute\u2019 comic book for Native youth | FirstNationsFocus.com", "raw_content": "Las Vegas Indian Colony member creates \u2018Captain Paiute\u2019 comic book for Native youth\nTheodore Tso signs autographs for the first issue of \u201cCaptain Paiute\u201d during a special comic book signing event in Las Vegas on July 9.\nA look at the cover of the first issue of \u201cCaptain Paiute: Indigenous Defender of the South West.\u201d\nWriter /editor Rob Schmidt, colorist Edmilson Witchmichen and letterer Kurt Hathaway collaborated with Theodore Tso to create \u201cCaptain Paiute: Indigenous Defender of the Southwest.\u201d\n\u201cGrowing up on a reservation, Luther Pah learns the ways of his ancestors and thirsts for more. He leaves to study science so he can protect his tribe\u2019s resources, but a family tragedy calls him back,\u201d According to a press release from Tso describing the book. \u201cNoting the crime and corruption on the rez, he wonders what he can do \u2014 until Pah the water spirit shows him. As a tribal hydrologist by day and a superhero by night, Luther and his alter ego must protect their Southwestern homeland from harm.\n\u201cOnly Captain Paiute can ensure that the land, water, and indigenous way of life continue as they have for 10,000 years.\u201d\nThe 24-page color book costs $4.99. Visit http://www.warpaintstudios.net to learn more about the comic book and about Theodore Tso.\nLAS VEGAS \u2014 Theodore Tso created the superhero Captain Paiute as a role model for Native youth across the country.\nTso, 43, is a self-taught comic book creator and enrolled member of the Paiute Tribe based out of the Las Vegas Indian Colony in Las Vegas.\n\"I always read comics as a kid, but I never really saw Natives as the hero,\" Tso said during a July interview with First Nation's Focus. \"I wanted the youth to see a Native comic book superhero, and I wanted to the comic to be written by one, so I created Captain Paiute.\"\nTso started creating his book, \"Captain Paiute: Indigenous Avenger of the Southwest,\" more than 25 years ago during high school, but recently brought him back to life in the past five years.\nGrowing up, Tso said he loved to draw and bring characters to life, and after high school, he was determined to become a creator.\nHe finally worked up the courage to submit a few pencil samples to numerous publishers, thinking this was his big break. Unfortunately, all of the publications turned him away because his work needed more time and development.\nWith his dreams crushed, Tso said he became discouraged and stopped creating comics for years.\nHe went on to serve on the Paiute Tribal Council for three non-consecutive terms, and he raised four children.\nEven though he stopped creating, his passion for comics was always there. All the while, Tso continued to attend comic book conventions and that is ultimately what brought him back into creating comics.\n\"I got my lucky break from a friend who went to the San Diego Comic Con and brought back a flier from an up-and-coming writer who was looking for an artist,\" said Tso. \"I submitted my work to him, and a couple of weeks later I was drawing 'Masked Men' issue #0. I got the opportunity to draw the characters again, but this time it was published in Phil Yea's 'Winged Tiger' series.\"\nSeeing his work finally get the recognition it deserved, Tso wanted to give Captain Paiute another chance at life.\n\"Captain Paiute: Indigenous Avenger of the Southwest\" was created to tell the story of what it's like to grow up on a reservation, Tso said.\n\"Our Native youth need superheroes to look up to and to call their own,\" said Tso. \"All of the other kids have Captain America to look up to, and now all the Native kids have Captain Paiute to look up to.\"\nNow that his lifelong work has finally been published, Tso has other projects he is working on in his Las Vegas-based War Paint Studio workshop.\n\"My journey is just now starting,\" said Tso. \"I am looking forward to what it will bring.\"\nWhen asked what advice he had for other people who have had setbacks while trying to achieve their dreams, Tso urges people to never give up.\n\"Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do it,\" he Tso. \"Don't be afraid to fail. You'll learn from your mistakes but you have to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and keep thinking positive.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fleetops.net/forums/startrek/i-ve-got-a-question-565", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MMF3QC2CGKATKOU5HXP7HVPANTM6GEMH", "length": 1247, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.fleetops.net", "title": "I've Got A Question... : Star Trek - Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations", "raw_content": "I've Got A Question...\nposted on January 7th, 2004, 9:02 am\nThe question I have I don't think has ever been addressed on any Trek board or in any of the series. When did the Federation come into contact with the Cardassians, I don't know why I'm asking but it just keeps bugging me that I don't know.\nNieKnight\nposted on January 7th, 2004, 4:42 pm\ni think it was when we passed though the worm hole\n(o hang on no it't wer'nt coz ds9 was raceing the cardies to the worm hole i don't know really)\nThe Cardassians occupied Bajor in 2309 - http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/libr...icle/70571.html\nThe Cardies and Feds made first contact sometime between then and the start of TNG. O'Brien served on a ship that participated in the 'Border Wars' between the two races prior to his assignment on the Enterprise.\nYah, but u know theyl be in enterprise to kill thge timeline.\nHeh.. Phlox..\nyeah most prob ent always ruins things in the time line don't it?\nposted on January 8th, 2004, 10:59 pm\nShort awnser Yes.\nlook it's quite simple, enterprise d made made first contact, and the character of gul ducat was the negotiator(that's the first cardassian we ever see) than thay got into a war(naturaly) and o'brien was a soldier(that's why he hates them)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.football.london/queens-park-rangers-fc/portsmouth-boss-discusses-prospect-sending-15524671", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DRXGFP4ZNZU7TL3G2MYVNI6RBHZXAVI7", "length": 1453, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.football.london", "title": "Portsmouth boss discusses the prospect of sending David Wheeler back to QPR early - football.london", "raw_content": "Portsmouth boss discusses the prospect of sending David Wheeler back to QPR early\nThe forward has struggled for first team football since moving to Fratton Park on loan during the summer.\nDavid Wheeler has had a tough time since moving to the south coast.\nAfter a disjointed first season at Queens Park Rangers, the 28-year-old was shipped out on loan to Portsmouth with first team opportunities appearing limited at best under Steve McClaren.\nHowever a move which was designed to get Wheeler firing and lead him to find his confidence has resulted in anything but.\nWheeler is yet to start a league game for Pompey this term, with the forward limited to just eight cameo appearances from the substitutes bench.\nWhile a hamstring injury has undoubtedly added to the frustrations of the former Exeter City man, Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett says he's adamant that he wants Wheeler to stay at Fratton Park for the rest of the season.\nAsked about an early termination of Wheeler's loan move, Jackett said: \"It\u2019s not something we\u2019ve looked at.\nExclusive: Angel Rangel on repaying QPR's faith, Steve McClaren's impact and signing a new deal\n\"I think David is here for the season, really, and I do like him. He\u2019s fitted in well and I think he can contribute, I really do. I\u2019m looking forward to having him back.\n\"My mind is not on would he be going back, but, similarly, he\u2019s a QPR player. Anything will very much depend on them as they\u2019re the parent club.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 8679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2012/02/08/ben-martin-pga-tour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PUVFGTBVEJYZGP4VST3CXIONYOSRJXXX", "length": 14513, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.forbes.com", "title": "On the Edge: Money, Life and Loneliness on the Fringe of the PGA Tour", "raw_content": "On the Edge: Money, Life and Loneliness on the Fringe of the PGA Tour\nAll of PGA Tour rookie Ben Martin\u2019s games are away games. Photo: Brad DeCecco\nTurning into his 11th hole during the second round of the McGladrey Classic, a PGA Tour Fall Series event held every October, Ben Martin glances up at an electronic scoreboard looming over the tee box. He has to be pleased. After a dramatic 86-foot eagle putt five holes earlier and a birdie on the last hole, he is six under par for the tournament, tied for eighth place in a field of 132 players.\nIt\u2019s vital for Ben to play well here. After competing in 23 tournaments since January 2011, the 24-year-old rookie has made $284,500 in prize money, putting him at 173rd on the PGA Tour\u2019s \u201cmoney list.\u201d It\u2019s not nearly good enough.\nOnly the top 125 players, as ranked by tournament winnings, get to keep their magic \u201ctour card,\u201d which allows them to enter any of the PGA Tour\u2019s official events. This is the \u00adpreeminent men\u2019s golf tour in the U.S.\u2014and argu\u00adably the world. Running from January through October, the PGA Tour will host 45 tournaments in 2012, with purses running into the millions of dollars. In 2009 Tiger Woods earned $10.5 million in prize money on the tour, and a tour card also guarantees rich endorsement deals and access to lucrative corporate outings. For a promising rookie golfer like Ben, those off-the-course deals are worth a minimum of $200,000 a year.\nShort of an outright victory either at the McGladrey or at next week\u2019s tournament in Orlando, Ben doesn\u2019t have a prayer of making the top 125 this season. But with a pair of strong finishes he stands a decent chance of cracking the top 150, and under the tour\u2019s byzantine rules players ranked between 126 and 150 retain their cards (out of about 235 touring pros) and can compete in events when needed to fill out the field. The \u00adalternative is bleak: a return to the grueling PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, better known as Q-school, in a last-ditch effort to retain his card and then, most likely, demotion to the \u00adNationwide Tour, the PGA Tour\u2019s minor league.\nThe difference between making it back onto the tour and being demoted to the Nationwide might only be a couple of dozen golf shots over the course of a season, but the financial repercussions are huge. Prize money on the Nationwide is only about 10% of the tour\u2019s. Last year\u2019s top moneymaker on the PGA Tour, Luke Donald, made $6.7 million on the golf course; the top player on the Nationwide Tour made $414,000. Most Nationwide events are not televised, and endorsement deals are one-third as big, if not smaller. If playing on the PGA Tour is like having your product stocked at Wal-Mart, competing on the Nationwide is like selling through a regional supermarket chain.\nThe business analogy is perfectly appropriate. \u201cYou are an athlete, but you are also kind of an entrepreneur,\u201d says Ben, who stands an inch under 6 feet tall and shares the preppy, cookie-cutter good looks of many pro golfers. \u201cMost other sports you get drafted; it\u2019s up to someone else to decide your future. You sign a contract, and if you don\u2019t have a good rookie year you are still out there playing next year. Golf is different. You have to perform, man. It\u2019s all on your own ticket.\u201d\nGolfers are like entrepreneurs in other respects. Failing significant family wealth, young players are forced to find financial backers, typically in return for a share of their future winnings. And unless they have professional representation, they must also book their own travel, do their own accounting (Ben paid taxes in six states and Canada last year), negotiate endorsement deals and hire\u2014and fire\u2014caddies and coaches.\nIt costs a minimum of $110,000 to compete for a year on the PGA Tour\u2014$75,000 on the Nationwide\u2014and there are no guaranteed paydays. Each week the worst-scoring half of the field is eliminated after the second day of the four-day tournament and earns nothing. But players who fail to make the cut are still responsible for their travel expenses and must pay their caddies. (Golfers strike individual deals with caddies, but in general caddies make $1,200 a week, plus a percentage of any winnings: 5% for making the cut, 7% for a top-ten finish and 10% for a victory. Nationwide caddies get the same percentages but are paid $300 less a week.)\nBen\u2019s tour card\u2014worth hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2014is on the line at the McGladrey Classic. Photo: Brad DeCecco\nYOUNG GOLFERS JUST OUT of college typically don\u2019t even get the opportunity to play on the Nationwide Tour, much less the PGA Tour. Usually they start on one of the \u201cmini tours,\u201d privately owned affairs that pay prize money out of entry fees rather than sponsor cash. When Ben turned pro in the summer of 2010, he was planning on playing the eGolf Professional Tour and the Hooters Pro Golf Tour (now the National Golf Association Pro Golf Tour) for at least a year or two. Both had a significant number of events scheduled within driving distance of his home in Greenville, S.C.\nThe mini tours aren\u2019t cheap to play in, despite there being no caddies to pay. Each tour costs $1,500 to join, and there is an entry fee\u2014usually around $1,200\u2014for the individual tournaments. Ben\u2019s father, Jim, estimated it would cost at least $50,000 for his son to play on them for a year.\nJim set about raising the money in two ways. First he asked 100 friends of the family to contribute $300 toward Ben\u2019s living expenses. This money was not going to be spent on golf nor was it construed as an investment. It was just a $30,000 gift to pay his son\u2019s rent and keep him fed while he chased the dream.\nThen Jim drew up a list of 17 well-off friends he was going to ask to invest $3,000 annually for three years, and he began crafting his pitch. Arrangements vary widely, but investors in young players might expect to get 90% of their golfer\u2019s winnings until they are fully paid off for their upfront costs, then 50% of the prize money until a certain dollar figure\u2014say, $400,000\u2014is reached and then 10% of any further winnings. Jim chose not to structure the deal that way.\n\u201cIt was a very personalized thing,\u201d Jim remembers. \u201cThese were guys from my local country club. I knew they had a personal interest in Ben, and I knew that they had the financial resources. I sat down and over a six-month period wrote the whole proposal, constantly revising it, until I felt that it was something that those guys would be interested in doing. I never even used the word \u2018investment\u2019 or \u2018investor,\u2019\u201d he clarifies. \u201cIt was sponsor. We are going to help sponsor Ben and put him out there. They knew that if Ben didn\u2019t make a dime, they weren\u2019t getting a dime back. No one was expecting to get a dime back.\u201d\nPhoto: Brad DeCecco\nBEN IS A GOLFING PRODIGY by any standard. When he was just 3 his dad began taking him on short walks of three or four holes, with the toddler proudly toting his set of Fisher-Price clubs. \u201cI never forced him. He just wanted to come,\u201d Jim recalls. By 7, Ben was playing in tournaments.\nThroughout his career Ben has demonstrated a pattern of gradual but steady improvement. He failed to make his high school team as a freshman, but by his senior year he was a star player. He was recruited by Clemson University, a golf powerhouse, but offered just a $500 \u201cbooks\u201d scholarship. Ben initially rated himself as the 12th-best player on the 13-man team. By the time graduation rolled around five years later\u2014he spent a year benched as a redshirt freshman\u2014he was an All-American and had qualified for three majors as an amateur: the 2009 U.S. Open, the 2010 Masters and the 2010 U.S. Open.\n\u201cThere have been times when I have missed five cuts in a row on the tour,\u201d says Ben. \u201cBut then I look back at high school and college, when I was getting beaten by everyone, and realize that I\u2019ve done this before. Now I\u2019ve got to keep getting better as a professional golfer.\u201d\nHis amateur record, which also featured a second-place finish at the 2009 U.S. Amateur Championship, attracted an unusually high level of interest in a player who seemed destined, at least \u00adinitially, to play on the mini tours. Ben turned pro the day after he failed to make the cut at the 2010 U.S. Open and that very same day signed an endorsement deal with Titleist, which his father had negotiated for him.\nIt was a sweet deal for an untested pro. Although neither the company nor Ben will confirm the details, it\u2019s an open secret that he got the standard agreement the company offers young hotshots, with plenty of upside potential: $10,000 a year plus free equipment for playing on the mini tours, $50,000 for competing on the Nationwide and a minimum of $150,000 for a year on the PGA Tour. Like all such endorsement deals, there are significant sweeteners based on \u00adtelevision time, top-ten finishes and \u00advictories. In return he agreed to carry a Titleist bag, wear its hat and use its clubs, balls, shoes and gloves.\nA month later, in July 2010, he was signed by Crown Sports Management, a boutique agency situated not far from the site of the McGladrey Classic on St. Simons Island, Ga. The agency represents just 21 players, mostly top-tier competitors like Jonathan Byrd, Davis Love III, Lucas Glover, Brandt Snedeker and David Duval. They agreed to rep Ben in return for 20% of his off-the-course earnings.\n\u201cWe are only going to want to sign guys who are going to be elite PGA Tour players. That\u2019s where the money is. That\u2019s where our clientele is,\u201d says Ben\u2019s agent, Jeremy Elliott. \u201cThey have to fit into our little fraternity as well. We end up talking to these guys as much as we do to our families.\u201d\nBen did well his first year, playing in eight Hooters and eGolf tournaments between July and October 2010. He finished in the money in all but two events and won outright in his second professional tournament. That $35,000 victory meant that his dad would never have to reach out to those investors he had so carefully lined up. Overall his prize money on the mini tours totaled $49,000.\nThen in late October Ben took a shot at Q-school.\nThe PGA Tour\u2019s Qualifying Tournament is one of the most difficult golfing events in the world. Play is conducted in three stages, spread over six weeks. The first two stages consist of four rounds of 18 holes each, with roughly 25% of the field advancing. The final stage is six rounds long. Only golfers tied for 25th place or above earn a tour card.\nGetting through Q-school just six months after turning pro was a long shot. The competition is brutal\u2014not just top mini tour guys but Nationwide players and plenty of PGA Tour veterans as well. But Ben ignited. He finished the first stage tied for 11th, the second tied for third and the final stage tied for second.\nBen was going to the big leagues. And he was in for some major adjustments.\n\u201cTHE ONLY THING I WASN\u2019T really prepared for was the amount of golf and travel that you do on the PGA Tour,\u201d Ben says. \u201cIt\u2019s something I don\u2019t think you can prepare for. It\u2019s just something that you get used to.\u201d\nIn 2011 Martin would spend 27 weeks on the road, sometimes leaving his home for more than a month at a stretch. It was isolating. He mostly traveled alone, without his girlfriend or even a regular caddie (he would go through four in his rookie year). The average PGA Tour pro is 35 years old. Ben was 23 for most of his first season.\n\u201cOne of the hardest things is that I\u2019m one of the first guys my age to make it out here,\u201d he says. \u201cMost of my buddies are still playing the mini tours. And there have been some weeks where I\u2019ve thought it might be fun to go back and play tournaments with them, even though they are playing events where the winner makes $30,000.\u201d\nThe stress of a relentless travel schedule was also wearing on Ben. Even though he was visiting many of the cities on the tour for the first time, in most places he saw little more than the golf course, the hotel and the airport.\n\u201cThe worst was New Orleans. I\u2019d played three weeks in a row. I\u2019m on the road. I didn\u2019t even want to play that week. I\u2019d rather have been home,\u201d he continues. \u201cI was playing badly, and I was by myself. It can get old. But then I think, \u2018Well, what else? What could be better than doing this?\u2019\u201d\nBen is far from alone. Self-doubt, homesickness and loneliness are common symptoms of life on the PGA Tour, particularly for younger players. \u201cProfessional golf is not all glamorous and easy. I mean, it\u2019s great when you are having success out there. It really, really is. But if you are not? It\u2019s a really tough lifestyle,\u201d agent Elliott adds. \u201cNobody knows about how much time these guys spend in airports and how much time they spend away from friends, their \u00adgirlfriends and their families. It\u2019s like a traveling circus in many ways.\u201d\nIN THE END, TIED FOR EIGHTH was the highest Ben would climb on the McGladrey Classic\u2019s leaderboard. He would go on to bogey the next three holes and barely survive the cut. On the final day of play he posted a 78, eight above par, a shockingly bad score for a touring pro. It\u2019s almost as if he were un\u00adcon\u00adsciously sabotaging himself. His four-day cumulative performance was good only for 68th place and an $8,160 check.\nHe played better in Orlando the \u00adfollowing week, tying for 20th at the Children\u2019s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic and making $47,411. But the combined results tallied up to just $340,080 on the 2011 money list, 187th place. Ben failed to make it past the second stage of Q-school. He will be competing on the Nationwide Tour in 2012.\n\u201cThe PGA Tour makes it as hard as possible for you to keep your card your first year,\u201d says Elliott. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to play as many practice rounds, you aren\u2019t used to the travel, and you don\u2019t know the golf courses. It\u2019s all new. Then add to that someone like Ben, who has never even played a full year of professional golf. The whole deck is stacked against a guy who comes out of college and gets his tour card.\u201d\nBen seems almost relieved. \u201cSure, I was disappointed not to keep my tour card. But at the same time I was happy to have a month and a half away from golf. Had I made it back onto the PGA Tour, I would have been back to playing golf almost immediately. It\u2019s easy to get burned out when you are playing with guys of that caliber. I\u2019m happy to be playing on the Nationwide.\u201d\nHe will enter at least 25 tournaments this year. The goal, always, is to make it back on the big boy tour in 2013. Only the top 25 golfers on the Nationwide\u2019s money list will earn their cards. Ben\u2019s first stop is in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 17342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/collections-artifacts.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TRP572WM4DH56OLXP7E3S27W6NIOZJVN", "length": 1236, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov", "title": "\ufeff Gerald Ford Library - Museum Artifact Collections \ufeff", "raw_content": "The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits an assortment of historical artifacts that illustrate the life and times of Gerald R. Ford. The goal of the Ford Museum is to preserve this collection so that future generations might better understand the legacy of the nation's 38th President.\nThe Ford Museum in Grand Rapids holds around 19,000 artifacts, an assortment of historical artifacts that illustrate the life and times of Gerald R. Ford. These objects include gifts received by the Gerald Ford throughout his life, including head of state and American bicentennial gifts received while President. The collection also includes artifacts related to the 1976 Presidential campaign, the Whip Inflation Now (WIN) campaign, Betty Ford and the Ford children.\nFollow our progress as we continue to add more digital artifacts.\nGerald Ford's Footballs\nGerald Ford's Life and Career *new format\nHead of State Gifts to the President\nPublic Gifts to the President\nAmerica's Bicentennial\nBetty Ford and Ford Children\nBetty Ford Gowns/Dresses\nFrom time to time staff and interns write about their favorite objects from the collections. It's a great way to \"get to know\" a piece in more depth.\nView Favorite Artifacts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fowlerlaw.com/blog/2015/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:25Z", "digest": "sha1:36F76ZGJAS4FDQAQOYVXEN4OOY64XVIW", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fowlerlaw.com", "title": "November 2015 Archives | Kentucky Legal Issues Blog", "raw_content": "Continue reading This sure sounds a lot like fact finding to me......", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 2769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/653359/no-pressure-at-hoffenheim-says-szalai/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:06Z", "digest": "sha1:S4VC2JXL7AXVQUUZ5A6SVURHVNVALVNY", "length": 1887, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.foxsportsasia.com", "title": "No pressure at Hoffenheim, says Szalai", "raw_content": "No pressure at Hoffenheim, says Szalai\nTSG 1899 Hoffenheim striker Adam Szalai says the pressure will be firmly on fellow Champions League hopefuls Borussia Dortmund for Saturday\u2019s Bundesliga match at the Signal Iduna Park.\nWith five league matches to play, Hoffenheim are in third spot with 58 points, five points behind second-placed Leipzig.\nDortmund are forth, on 57 points, with Hertha a distant fifth (46 points).\nA top three finish would secure automatic qualification for the Champions League next season, and ahead of their crunch encounter with Dortmund, Szalai says the mood in the camp is very positive.\nWe are watching you. ? #training #tsg #BVBTSG pic.twitter.com/no3WHrvyOZ\n\u2014 TSG Hoffenheim EN (@achtzehn99_en) May 5, 2017\n\u201cThis will be an interesting fixture,\u201d he told the league\u2019s website. \u201cIn my opinion, the pressure is more on Dortmund than us.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had a very good season so far and met a few goals, but we want to get as many points as possible from the final games and achieve as much as possible.\n\u201cWe have developed a good sense of self-confidence this season. If you look at our games, then you can quickly recognise in our body language how we\u2019ll approach the coming games.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t need to hide away in Dortmund. We want to push through our way of playing and implement the coach\u2019s plan,\u201d the striker stated.\nSzalai, in his second spell at the club, is hoping his team have picked up a good habit of late.\n\u201cWe have also improved so that we can now turn games in our favour in the closing stages, like we\u2019ve done in the last two games with late goals,\u201d he explained.\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased that the last few weeks have gone so well for me, but I can\u2019t be happy because being happy means playing every game and helping the team every weekend with my performances. I\u2019m working on that every day,\u201d he added.\nHome Football Bundesliga No pressure at Hoffenheim, says Szalai", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freecourses.net.au/2016/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:OADX67TIJQ4FOVFFFPWMHQDLFGKHE6MP", "length": 1767, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.freecourses.net.au", "title": "January 2016 \u2013 Free Courses", "raw_content": "Conveyancing v Architecture\nI don\u2019t know why, exactly, but for some reason I thought that after my first year of uni I would have at least some idea of what I was actually going to do with the rest of my life. I thought I would just move straight through into the course I\u2019d already chosen for myself, that I would take a wide range of different subjects, and naturally fall into something that I loved. Well, a year has passed and I still have no flaming idea what I\u2019m doing with my life. More than that, I don\u2019t even know what I want to do this year. When enrollment happened I just sort of picked a whole heap of classes at random and hoped for the best. Maybe I wouldn\u2019t have to find my future. Maybe it would find me.\nLooking back at my chosen classes, I really don\u2019t know what in the world I thought I was doing. I have finance mixed in with conveyancing, agriculture with architecture. It\u2019s a mess, pure and simple. People have been telling me pretty much non-stop that I need to play to my strengths, but what do you do when you\u2019re mediocre at everything? I mean I\u2019m not stand out good or bottom of the class bad so I haven\u2019t been able to narrow down my list of options.\nMaybe, instead of thinking about strengths vs weaknesses, I should think about practicality. I mean, is there anywhere to practice conveyancing in Mentone? Probably. Are there more than ten conveyancing companies? Probably not. Even though moving closer to the city would be great for a lot of reasons, it\u2019s not something I really want to be doing right now. I love living here, I can\u2019t see myself wanting to move in the foreseeable future.\nThe whole thing is just such a guessing game \u2013 it drives me up the wall. All I can really hope for is to luck out and end up somewhere half decent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freeroamingphotography.com/bayou-sauvage/img/bayou-sauvage6289", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QI4AIJAQW2XMBQCXOI7AGGRMMRC2YEGI", "length": 153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.freeroamingphotography.com", "title": "Yellow-Crowned Night Heron in Flight - Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge", "raw_content": "Yellow-Crowned Night Heron in Flight\nA yellow-crowned night heron in flight along a grassy bayou shore. Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 191.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gamingnexus.com/Article/5471/GenCon-2017-Evolution", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UHKYENV6YTAV2EHGQEOAQGYY2VENVQ4Z", "length": 4426, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.gamingnexus.com", "title": "GenCon 2017: Evolution Article - Gaming Nexus", "raw_content": "GenCon 2017: Evolution\nWritten by Russell Archey on 9/19/2017 for PC\nMore On: Evolution\nThree years ago, North Star Games created a card-based game called Evolution. The game centers around creating new species of creatures, feeding them, adding to their population, and basically just overall survival. It\u2019s actually pretty simple to understand once you\u2019ve played a few rounds. While at GenCon this year I was able to head over to the North Star Games booth and check out an upcoming digital version of the game that they\u2019re currently working on. Me being a sucker for card games, collectible or not, I went ahead and checked it out.\nThe way Evolution works can seem a bit complex to start, but it\u2019s not too difficult to understand and one can pick up on it rather quickly. Each turn both players will play a card to determine how much plant food will go into the watering hold. Then they\u2019ll use the cards in their hands to create new species, up to four in play at a time per player; increase their population and body size; and give their species various traits, up to three per species, such as sharing their food and turning into a carnivore. Population determines how much food a species can eat, while body size determines how big that particular species is, both of which are increased by discarding cards to that stat.\nAfter that\u2019s done it\u2019s feeding time. Each species must eat if they can, i.e., food is left or they\u2019re still hungry. Normally a species will eat from the watering hole unless it\u2019s a carnivore. Carnivores must eat other species as long as it\u2019s still hungry and other species still exist, including that player\u2019s own, if need be, as long as its body size is bigger than the target\u2019s body size. Each time a species eats it gets a marker on that species counter\u2014green for food from the watering hole and red for eating other species. Any species that didn\u2019t eat will go extinct and is removed from the board. After that, all of the markers on a species will go into a food bag that will be scored once the game ends after a certain number of rounds. While there\u2019s quite a bit more that goes into the game and its strategy, that\u2019s the gist of things.\nNorth Star Games is about to take Evolution digital with an upcoming Kickstarter, and I had the opportunity to check it out with their Marketing and PR Specialist Melissa who walked me through the game. Going into this I had zero experience with Evolution. The first thing I was curious about was how easy it was to learn how to play. The first option I was presented within the game was whether I had no experience, a little experience, or a lot of experience with Evolution. Since I had Melissa explaining how to play, I chose the \u201clittle experience\u201d option, and even then the game did a good job of going through most of the basics of how to play. The interface looked fairly easy to understand and everything was done using the mouse, mainly through clicking and dragging cards to what you want to use them for, whether it's traits, population, or body size. The tutorial walked me through the various steps of the game and explained the different aspects, such as how traits work, dealing with carnivores, and even what happens when a carnivore has no opposing species to eat. This is how I learned that my carnivores could eat my own species. I will admit that there were times where I tried to get ahead of the tutorial a bit and it basically said \u201cNo, you need to do this to proceed.\u201d Som even after choosing the option that I had a little experience with the game, the game still walked me through the basics.\nI enjoyed my time with Evolution, both the game overall and the digital version. If you\u2019re familiar with the game then you\u2019ll probably like the digital version. The Kickstarter will launch on September 12, and they\u2019ve recently announced some rewards for backers, such as exclusive avatars and private tournaments, as well as physical rewards such as a new watering hole mouse pad, and even a copy of the physical board game. More info can be found at www.northstargames.com/digital, as well as their Twitter and Facebook pages, where they\u2019ll provide the link to the Kickstarter once it goes live. While I didn\u2019t pick up the physical version\u2014I try to limit my funds for GenCon or else I\u2019ll go broke\u2014I\u2019ll be keeping an eye on the Kickstarter as I enjoyed my time with the game at GenCon and wouldn\u2019t mind picking up the digital version.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 6559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.garagedoorrepairmilpitas.com/a-critical-assessment-of-clopay-and-amarr-doors", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XMPV55NJBMGU42T3AR5LCWMS5UX7FCTV", "length": 3130, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.garagedoorrepairmilpitas.com", "title": "Blog | A Critical Assessment of Clopay and Amarr Doors", "raw_content": "A Critical Assessment of Clopay and Amarr Doors\nGarage Door Repair Milpitas is a top service provider for the Clopay and Amarr brands. We are able to perform full installation and maintenance provision that are essential for any modern property. Both these brands are renowned for the quality of their output as well as their consideration of consumer requirements. Ultimately, this results in doors that are not only stylish but also practical for everyday and extraordinary use. The two brands come with a range of advantages and disadvantages which are critical when comparing value.\nThe roots of this brand are in home remodeling. Therefore, the doors that they produce are some of the easiest to handle. A range of elegant and stylistic items are readily available but consumers can also ask for the extras like insulation. You are literally spoilt for choice since delivery timescales are very reasonable with full coverage of the North American region. Moreover, the solidity of the Clopay brand means that the product will serve you for a long time without requiring major maintenance work or full replacement.\n* Features: The basic design is very flattering and compatible which means that you can put it on virtually any home. Moreover, Clopay is slowly developing a range of durable and hard working doors for commercial properties. It is notable that their designs are some of the best in the industry and they also benefit from energy efficiency. There is no better way to spruce up your home than to install a Clopay garage door.\n* Functionality: The products come with extensive installation and maintenance instructions which must be followed diligently in order to get the best out of the brand. Through careful insulation, these Clopay doors have been designed to deal with some of harshest weather on the planet. That is why they invariably comply with the local building codes.\nSome have described this brand as belonging to the niche of those that truly understand home construction in a fundamental way. It is true that the design of these doors is very practical. You get to choose fiberglass, steel, and wood as well as very many other materials. The configurations in terms of design are virtually endless. Amarr is always keen to incorporate the latest technological advancements.\n* Features: Although there is a standard specification for all Amarr garage doors, consumers are given the option of requesting customization which ensures that they are completely satisfied with the product. Apart from the upgrades, the basic construction is sufficient for most properties regardless of whether they are private residences or commercial buildings. The materials include traditional wood, steel, and fiberglass as well as some wonderful innovations such as the faux finishes. Many of the doors are compliant with energy efficiency requirements.\n* Functionality: Given the fact that many of the doors have some metal parts including hinges, brackets, knobs, and rails; rust remains one of the key areas to consider. This is not a big problem because regular cleaning and lubrication will often do the trick.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.garyshea.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3SJB7NHDHI3RUL3NJ3N3FZSAURYWYJ7U", "length": 535, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.garyshea.com", "title": "Gary Shea \u2013 Genealogy", "raw_content": "pages by nationality\nWelcome to Gary Shea\u2019s Family History Web Site. 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Protected classes for Employment Discrimination through the Seattle Office for Civil Rights include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also develops anti-discrimination programs and policies for the City of Seattle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 155.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gays.com/community/topic/11244-nothing-left-to-do-but-wait-gay-guys-lt3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3O56M6ANFSZKUZUOOB2OZQWBQMUJRMLV", "length": 5366, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.gays.com", "title": "Nothing Left To Do But Wait - Gay Guys! <3 - Lifestyle, Health & Fitness - Gays.com", "raw_content": "Nothing Left To Do But Wait - Gay Guys! <3\nwell i started thinking what if my dreams about my friend asking for my forgiveness and me rejecting is actually telling me the other way around...i don't think i could handle that...and i really didn't wanna wait for my other friends to be there...so today i went to apply for a job nearby the college...and i stopped by to see if she was anywhere around...didn't find her so i guess i wasn't meant to run into her...so on my long walk back home..i decided i was going to send her a message on facebook...even tho i don't know if she even checks it....but well i wrote a very long apologizing message...and well i can only hope she can forgive me and agree to meet up sometime so we could catch up...and if not...well i at least want to know the reason why she pushed me away...although i probably don't deserve a reply...i hope she does...i'll probably be checking my facebook a lot til i see that she replied...i just hope i get an answer soon...\nJony, I hope that she responds and that you will be able to work things out!\ni just also hope that she actually logs in to that account...for all i know it could've been one account she left behind...\njony find out where she is by talking with one of her friends, you must know some of them, and tell her in person if possible, dont just send an email, if possible.\nI agree with Allan.\ni don't know any of her friends...usually her friends were my friends too...but i'm sure she has new friends now...besides e-mail is the best i can do...my other option would be to go meet her at the college she's attending...\nGoing to her college might be a good idea. Bring money with you and tell her you are there to take her out to lunch if she has time...\nI would say the same as Tim..but how far is the college from you..\njony do as you see fit, but if she is important to you the personal touch is best, an email can be taken the wrong way, and in todays age is used for anything and everything, even telling a person that they have been sacked, and thats insulting.\nNo jony if this person is important, then you find that person,and talk to them.\nthe college isn't that far...if i walk it'll take around 45 min...maybe an hr...depending on the pace...and well i don't really have any money to be taking her out...i'm like dead broke...but well i'll see what happens...if i don't get a response by thursday...i'll go on friday to see her...\nDo you have a bike..It could be a nice ride...but I say find her anyway you can and talk to her...Good Luck...\nno...my mom had a bike...but she sold it...= (\nbut i don't mind walking...i mean yea it's been a while...and when i came home my legs were super tired...and i need new shoes...but well it's all worth it if i get to see her again...she is someone special...more special than the only guy i've loved...and i thought he was really special...but she's been the closest person to me...\nI wish I had some extra money to send you to take your friend to lunch and buy new shoes.\naww well thanks Tim...but well that's ok...my b-day is coming up in 10 days...so i'll get some new shoes...hopefully i sell more bracelets...cuz i need to get a new i.d too...so i can go clubbin with my friends...also i'm applying for jobs at both the 99 cent store and baja fresh...hopefully i get the job at the 99 cent store...cuz it's close to the college...that way i can work and go to school easily...they're only across the street...which is so convenient...but they told me they weren't hiring at the 99 cent store...and my friend told me that they desperately need cashiers at baja fresh...but it's not close to the college at all...and well driving distance it takes 13 min to get there from my house...so it's not that much of a biggie...but i'm rooting for a miracle...please call me back 99 cent store!!!...lol...\nI sure hope you get the Job you want Jony.....\nJony, I would say that I would take the job which would bring you free food! How cool would it really be to get a few 99 cent items?mgo for the food!\nOh and ditto on what Michael said...\nwell i'm not a baja fresh kind of guy...in fact i try not to eat fast food really...cuz whatever they can do...i can probably do it better at home...lol...\nYa, when I worked in a restaurant in Berlin, it wasn't fast food. It was quite good and I liked eating there. I can see why you're not into it. I've never eaten at Baja Fresh. It's probably like KFC of Mexican Food. Right?\nI hope you, ,you get that Job,Jony,and i hope that it all work`s out for you O.K.\nLatest on the left foot\nBy Brave-Heart , July 21, 2016 in Lifestyle, Health & Fitness\nR.I.P To Those Who Left Sandy Hook In That Cause - Your WRITES\nBy Deleted Member, December 21, 2012 in Lifestyle, Health & Fitness\nNishu_Sharma\ni am a 49 year old single white gay male with nothing left to lose - Gay Guys! <3\nBy Scott_Peter_Garrison , November 5, 2012 in Lifestyle, Health & Fitness\nTristram_Goncalves\nare there no nice girls left anymore? - Lesbian Ladies\nBy Alisha_Ellington , September 25, 2011 in Lifestyle, Health & Fitness\nLindsay_Slark\nNothing Left.. - Poetry Group\nBy Deleted Member, September 1, 2011 in Lifestyle, Health & Fitness\nGay Breakups | 7 Signs to Know When it's Over\nEnding a relationship is tough \u2013 but there comes the point where you can no longer ignore that it\u2019s over. Here are seven tell-tale signs that a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 9478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geekcastradio.com/podcasts/geekcastradio/gcr-episode-26-cable-tv-original-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:QGSQZIRLUTZIVIYB5IZQPVXP4JRW742Z", "length": 2105, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.geekcastradio.com", "title": "GCR - Episode 26 - Cable TV Original Series | The GeekCast Radio Network", "raw_content": "Home>Podcasts>GeekCastRadio>GCR \u2013 Episode 26 \u2013 Cable TV Original Series\nGCR \u2013 Episode 26 \u2013 Cable TV Original Series\nWowzers it\u2019s a GCR Episode!!! Join Kevin and Mike as they talk about their TV habits in the first part of Episode 26. Then they get into the bulk of the episode topic running down all the networks that have Original Series.\nHere\u2019s everything we discussed:\nA&E: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, The Glades, The Cleaner, Breakout Kings, 100 Centre Street\nBravo: The Awful Truth, Breaking News, Significant Others\nFX: Rescue Me, Sons of Anarchy, Justified, It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, Archer, Louie, The Shield, Lucky, Nip/Tuck, Over There, Damages, Dirt, The Riches, Terriers, Lights Out, Son of the Beach, Starved, Testees\nION: Ponderosa, Young Blades, Palmetto Pointe, Doc\nOxygen: Bliss, Campus Ladies, O2Be, Suburban Shootout\nSpike: Blue Mountain State, Factory, Blade: The Series, The Kill Point, The Playbook,\nSyFy: Being Human, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Haven, Andromeda, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, Black Scorpion, Caprica, The Chronicle, The Dresden Files, Farscape, First Wave, Flash Gordon, Good vs Evil, The Invisible Man, Mission Genesis, The Outer Limits, Painkiller Jane, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, Tremors, Welcome to Paradox\nTBS: Are We There Yet, Meet The Browns, Tyler Perry\u2019s House of Payne, The Catlins, Down to Earth, Glory Daze, My Boys, Neighbors from Hell, Safe at Home\nTNT: The Closer, Leverage, HawthoRNe, Men of a Certain Age, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli & Isles, Franklin and Bash, Dark Blue, Saving Grace, Raising the Bar, Wedding Day, Trust Me, Heartland, Saved, Wanted, Witchblade, Bull, Crusade, LA Heat\nUSA: Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, Fairly Legal, In Plain Sight, Psych, Royal Pains, White Collar, The 4400, Beyond Reality, The Big Easy, The Dead Zone, G vs E, The Huntress, Kojak, La Femme Nikita, The Last Ride, Lost on Earth, Monk, The Net, Pacific Blue, Peacemakers, The Starter Wife, USA High, The War Next Door, Weird Science,\nATTF v2.0 - Episode 10 - Taking A Breakdown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 6313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gemsblogstorey.com/2016/06/what-i-think-of-the-trafford-centre/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:66KDWNIOMGTIOGILNZZVL55MLSU2QCW6", "length": 4045, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gemsblogstorey.com", "title": "What I think of the Trafford Centre \u2013 Gems Blog Storey", "raw_content": "Gemma\t 11th June 2016 Lifestyle\nWhat I think of the Trafford Centre\nI recently had the opportunity to take a trip to the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and of course I jumped at the opportunity as I had always heard so many amazing things about it, and which girl doesn\u2019t love a day trip to shop?!\nMe and my boyfriend were taking a little trip up at the weekend to see my Grandma. She lives in Stoke-on-Trent which is really up North from where I live, it took about 4 hours to get there, and I drove too, which I was a bit nervous about doing, but it worked out real well. As my Grandma lives about an hour away from Manchester, we jumped at the chance to take a trip to the Trafford Centre. I was so excited as this was the furthest North I had ever been and I have always wanted to go to Manchester.\nThe drive there from Stoke was alright, mainly motorways which is fine, when we came off the motorway it was a bit more confusing (If you\u2019re thinking of driving there) There were so many different lanes going to different parking places, we just kind of followed one road which lead us up to the upper floor and outside Selfridges. I was so worried about parking, as I am the worlds worst parker ever. But (as I researched before I went as I was super worried) there are about 11,500 spaces, and we got their as it opened so I basically had the whole upper parking to choose from. I really suggest getting their for when it opens if you\u2019re worried about the parking, as when we came out, which was about 4pm, the car park was packed and cars were everywhere.\nThe main thing that impressed me with the Trafford Centre when I first walked in was the building, and the design of the centre. It is set out on two floors, and it\u2019s kind of in an up and down layout, which I actually really liked, as sometimes I go to Bluewater in Kent and get totally lost and can\u2019t find the shops I actually want. Then they had a food court in the middle, which was just amazing.\nIf you\u2019ve ever been to Vegas, you\u2019l know what I mean when I say it reminded me of the Miracle Mile Mall. In the food hall all the restaurants looked like the outside of buildings, and the ceiling looked like the sky. It was just so so pretty and I loved that it reminded me of Vegas. There were loads of different places to eat which you can choose from, they even had their own mini China Town which was really cool.\nThe shopping itself is also great. It has all the kind of main high street shops, which everyone loves, and it also has the higher end shops too which I thought make it that bit more special. I loved the fact that they had a Selfridges, as you all know the main Selfridge store is in London and is so humungous. It\u2019s a great idea that they have put a snippet of it in the Trafford Centre as Manchester is a long way from London so not everyone would be able to get there.\nThe only thing I was a little disappointed with is that there wasn\u2019t a Primark. I read on the website that there was a Primark shop so I was kind of looking for it everywhere, when I found out that it meant the small section that was inside the Selfridges.\nApart from that, I loved the Trafford Centre. If you love shopping, eating and pretty buildings you will love it there. I highly suggest visiting it if you are ever in the area. We were quite lucky my Grandma only lives about an hour away otherwise I probably would have never had a chance to go. I would love to go in the main city of Manchester next time and be a proper tourist.\nexciting, lifestlye, mall, manchester, north, review, shopping, traffordcentre, weekend\nPrevious Post 20 Snapchat Accounts You Need to Follow\nNext Post My Travel Make-Up\nAlice Rowe\nI really want to go shopping here (even though I have no money what so ever) it just looks so beautiful. I adore your blog design by the way! x\nHaha, I was so happy we went, it should definitely be on your bucket list \ud83d\ude42 Thank you lovely!! x\nI wish to go there for my event shopping. thanks for the shared my favorite place in your post. thanks again. 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Upham was also a member, and President of the Massachusetts State Senate, the 7th Mayor of Salem, M...\nThe Honorable Jabez Upham (1764 - 1811)\nUS Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1807 to 1810. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Legislat...\nCongressman Abijah Bigelow (1775 - 1860)\nWikipedia page for Abijah Abijah Bigelow (December 5, 1775 \u2013 April 5, 1860) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.\nCaptain Stephen Bullock (1735 - 1816)\nDAR# A016890 U.S. Congressman. He was school teacher and during the Revolutionary War, was Captain of the 6th Company, Massachusetts Regiment, which was in the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778. After t...\nWilliam Henry Moody, U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1853 - 1917)\nWilliam Henry Moody (December 23, 1853 \u2013 July 2, 1917) was an American politician and jurist, who held positions in all three branches of the Government of the United States. Biography Born a son...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_Massachusetts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 82.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2XVBGNFE3EAFS4VKDCMQ7J7F2RICEBQY", "length": 11205, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "www.genuki.org.uk", "title": "GENUKI: Nottinghamshire", "raw_content": "Help and advice for Nottinghamshire\nNottinghamshire Towns and Parishes\n\"Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, or Notts, north-midland county of England, bounded N. by Yorkshire, E. by Lincolnshire, S. by Leicestershire, and W. by Derbyshire; greatest length, N. to S., about 50 miles; greatest breadth, E. to W., about 25 miles; area, 527,752 acres, population 391,815. ... The soil is varied, but cannot be spoken of as being highly productive. Green crops are the principal growth, and the common cereals are cultivated. Hop plantations are numerous, while in proximity to Nottingham and Newark there are many market gardens. Magnesian limestone and old red sandstone overlying coal prevail in the W.; in the other districts are formations of marl, new red sandstone, and lias, with quartz and gravel in the Forest. In a few places coal is worked. The principal manufactures are laces of various descriptions, in recent years a great development being apparent in the production of lace curtains. Hosiery manufacturers, woollen mills, cotton mills, and iron foundries are also actively productive. Nottinghamshire comprises 6 wapentakes, 273 pars. with parts of 5 others, the parliamentary and municipal borough of Nottingham (3 members), and the municipal borough of East Retford and Newark. It is almost entirely in the diocese of Southwell.\"\nFor most archives you will need 2 passport-sized photos with you for your ID (Reader Card or Reader Ticket) and something with a signature on it, like a cheque card, credit card or passport. A Reader Ticket may be good for several years. Nottingham Archives are now using the CARN system (County Archives Research Network) for reader cards, but many do it the old-fashioned way. Once you have a CARN card, it can be used in any of the record offices that use CARN.\nYou may want to pick up the Archive booklet: \"Nottinghamshire Parish and Denominational Registers, A Finding List,\" ISBN 0 900943 97 1. The information is minimal in detail, but it is a good place to start learning about what is in the archives.\nTelephone: +44 [0]115 958 1634\nFax: +44 [0]115 941 3997\nDepartment of Manuscripts and Special Collections\nA listing of museums in Nottinghamshire.\nDue to size, this information has been moved to our Census Page.\nTed Wildy's UK Marriage witness index entries for Nottinghamshire are no longer avaialble on the internet (2015)but may be become so on Genealogy Britain\nList of the Society of Genealogists' holdings of Parish Registers for Nottinghamshire.\nThe Society of Genealogists' also have 172 out of the 220 ancient Notts parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index accessible online via the website.\nInformation of the location of Quaker Records in Nottinghamshire provided by the Quaker FHS.\nThe Nottingham Family History Society sells a CD-ROM of baptisms, marriages and burials.\nThere is also the Joiner Marriage Index for Nottinghamshire.\nCertificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrars at the various District Register Offices:\nTo determine which Register Office is appropriate for various places in the county, these pages may be of assistance\nNottinghamshire Gazetteer\nRegistration Districts in Nottinghamshire\nSee Migration\nA Gazetteer of Nottinghamshire.\nNottinghamshire Surnames List provided by Sofeminin.\nThe NOTTSGEN mailing list.\nThe Nottinghamshire Lookup Exchange.\nResearchers may find the Nottinghamshire Genweb pages of interest.\nThe Thoroton Society tells us that the county of Nottinghamshire was created around 1,000 years ago by the Anglo-Saxon monarchy as a means of stabilizing the kingdom after Viking invasions.\nRead about Nottinghamshire history.\nThe manpower shortages caused by World War One was a great boon to women who moved into factory and clerical jobs that had primarily been male-oriented in the past. The trend was noticed in the Newark Great War Bulletin of June 21st, 1915.\nThe Newark Great War Bulletin of August 23rd, 1915 notes that recent rainstorms have ruined crops. Coupled with depredations from U-Boats, the paper notes the scarcity of produce and the threat of inflation.\nA map showing Nottinghamshire Parishes.\nThe Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry was raised in the summer of 1794 as the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry, by Thomas WHITE of Wallingwells, who financed and housed the regiment at his own cost.\nThe other local \"territorial\" military unit was the Sherwood Foresters. The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms. The 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1741) and the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1823) were redesignated as the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment). The Derbyshire and Royal Sherwood Foresters (Militia regiments became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions respectively. These were joined by the 1st and 2nd (Derbyshire) and the 3rd (Robin Hood) and 4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer battalions.\nThe Sherwood Foresters saw action in Egypt during the Anglo-Egyptian War and in South Africa during the Second Boer War. In 1902, the name changing to the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). The Sherwood Foresters were early participants in World War One. Units of the Foresters were also part of the Gallipoli Campaign.\nAccording to the Newark Great War Bulletin for 14 September 1914, fear of invasion gripped the country.\nAt the beginning of World War One, the Royal Engineers picked a number of large towns and cities to be Engineering Training Centres (or ETCs). One of these was Newark-on-Trent, selected because it had a number of roads, railways and river connections. They set up their local headquarters at Coddington Hall and began collecting units to train and outfit for service in various responsibilities to support the army. At Newark, pontoon bridge building was an early task, made more serious after eight men were killed in a training accident in early 1915.\nAnd the need for more men never ceased. Newark asked its young men to enlist, as shown in this Newark Great War Bulletin for March 8th 1915.\nAnd the Newark Great War Bulletin for 22 November 1915, notes that the Sherwood Foresters have been asked to add a \"third line\" to the 8th Battalion.\nThe \"tank\" was developed in nearby Lincolnshire. The Ministry of Defense in WWI was looking for a way to pass over trenches and piles of brush, so Lincolnshire engineers took a farm tractor, added armoured plates, and called it a \"tank\" to keep the design a military secret (but the name stuck).\nThe \"Brodie Tin Hat\" was a steel helmet designed by US Engineer John Leopold Brodie and patented in London in 1915. The French had been equipping their troops with steel firemen's hats. Both the US and UK adopted versions of Brodie's design, but these did not get issued to the troops in large numbers until November, 1915.\nThis section has been moved to our Military Records page to provide more information.\nThis section has been enlarged. Please see our Personal Names page for various resources.\nThe Nottingham Post was the Nottingham Evening Post in 1881. Published by Forman and Sons on South Sherwood Street.\nOne can access the web site of Pathe News in the UK and search for Nottingham or the village or town of your choice.\nThere is also Cresswells Nottingham & Newark Journal online.\nAlways give the Public Record Office search engine a try. Enter an occupation and see what they have on file.\nA book that may define and explain some of the terminology used in various occupations is, \"The Local Historian's Encyclopedia,\" by John Richardson, ISBN 0 9503656 0 2. Last known price: \u00a34.95.\nYou might also try, \"A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations,\" by Colin Waters, ISBN 1 85306 794 6.\nFor ease of administration the county was sub-divided into Wapentakes, which subsequently became known as Hundreds. In the Middle Ages there were six Wapentakes: Newark, Bassetlaw, Thurgarton, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe, and Bingham. By the sixteenth century they ceased to have real administrative importance but remained as a useful way of discussing the geography of the county, hence Dr Robert Thoroton's use of these divisions for his 'progress' around the county: Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677).\nThe modern Nottingham County Council was formed in 1889 of fifty-one councillors and 17 aldermen. Lord BELPER was the first chairman.\nThe City of Nottingham was part of Nottinghamshire until 1998, but is now a Unitary authority.\nPoorlaw records generally break down into several categories. The term \"Poor Law Papers\" is a group title which covers various legal documents that existed to cover the parishes where expenditure on a given person may be required. All these can date from 1601 to 1834. There are many Nottinghamshire parishes that do not have poor law records archived under the parish name. One reason is that some Poor Law Records were indexed by township name, which sometimes didn't match the parish name. The Quarter Sessions poor law indexes between them cover the whole of Nottinghamshire and therefore include the parishes not covered by parish chest documents. The Petty Sessions indexes cover smaller areas but still include parishes without their own poor law docs.\nAn Enclosure is the changing of open fields, moorland and wastes into fenced areas, basically a change from the medieval three-field system with all the farms together in the village, to the later one of a farm away from the village, surrounded by its own fields. The large fields became small fields, some of the rough areas became cultivated. These enclosed plots were individually owned and common rights were extinguished. Most enclosures were done prior to 1845.\nSome Enclosures were done by agreement, when there were only a few owners of common fields and they could see the advantages of having their own fields within a small area close by, with the management under their own control, instead of in separate strips at a distance with different holdings every year, the management controlled by the set pattern of tradition.\nLaxton remains today as the only example of the old system. An Enclosure Act of Parliament was required if there were dissenting owners. The Nottingham enclosure was unlike any other. The Town was notoriously overcrowded. An Act to enclose the Fields and Wastes of Nottingham, St. Mary\u2019s Parish, was given the Royal Assent on June 30th 1845. One aspect of this Enclosure was the setting aside of 130 acres for recreation, then known as Allotted Recreation Grounds. The General Cemetery and the Rock Cemetery were part of this 130-acre parcel.\nIn 1834 the Poor Law Amendment Act established Poorlaw Unions that allowed a group of parishes to be served by a single entity that provided for the poor. A Poorlaw union could be anywhere from 2 or three parishes to 60 or more. Some parishes had formed nacient unions before 1834. Nottingham county was covered by the following Poorlaw Unions:\nThurgarton Incorporation\nThis section has been moved to a separate Probate Records page.\nMansfield & District FHS.\nNottinghamshire FHS.\nTo join (or pay dues) to the Notts FHS by Credit Card, go to the Notts FHS membership page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 16170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geteducated.com/online-schools/fort-hays-state-university/certificate-in-justice-networking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7WE4NUX35NKEXB66PSPBNF7T4PX7GNBB", "length": 437, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.geteducated.com", "title": "Certificate in Justice Networking | Fort Hays State University", "raw_content": "The certificate in Justice Networking is offered jointly by the Department of Justice Studies and the Department of Information Networking and Telecommunications. The certificate is meant to provide the criminal justice practitioner or future practitioner the ability to specialize in areas related to cyber-crime.\nA student must complete the application for admission and submit official transcripts from all previously attended schools", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.global-regulation.com/translation/el-salvador/3367509/law-regulating-the-use-of-means-of-electronic-surveillance-in-criminal-matters.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:55OT5N2CEOMNARCD2MYDRGCDVZ3K4YLG", "length": 13802, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.global-regulation.com", "title": "Machine Translation of \"Law Regulating The Use Of Means Of Electronic Surveillance In Criminal Matters.\" (El Salvador)", "raw_content": "Law Regulating The Use Of Means Of Electronic Surveillance In Criminal Matters.\nOriginal Language Title: LEY REGULADORA DEL USO DE MEDIOS DE VIGILANCIA ELECTR\u00d3NICA EN MATERIA PENAL.\nRead the untranslated law here: http://www.asamblea.gob.sv/eparlamento/indice-legislativo/buscador-de-documentos-legislativos/ley-reguladora-del-uso-de-medios-de-vigilancia-electronica-en-materia-penal/archivo_documento_legislativo\n1. Decree No. 924, the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of EL SALVADOR: I.-that in accordance with article 27, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the Republic, is the duty of the State organizing the penitentiaries, in order to correct the criminals, educate them and train them work habits, ensuring their rehabilitation and the prevention of crimes.\nII.-that the criminal justice system in our country currently has no means of electronic surveillance, which make it possible for those people that do not represent a risk to evade the action of Justice, but that must be followed under the supervision of the judiciary, not from entering prisons or remain in them unnecessarily.\nIII.-that to alarming levels of saturation of the penitentiary system, it is necessary to look for alternatives that contribute to reduce this problem, including the technological, in such a way that when deprivation of liberty is strictly necessary, this occurs in more humane and dignified conditions there are less crowded and, at the same time, allow a reduction of criminogena pollution that is generated by the coexistence between primary offenders with offenders or of greater danger.\nIV.-that in this sense, it is necessary to issue relevant legal provisions in order to regulate the use of the means of electronic surveillance which will be used for the achievement of the above end.\nTherefore, in use of his constitutional powers and at the initiative of the President of the Republic, by the Minister of Justice and public security, DECREED the following: law regulating of the use of means of surveillance electronics in matters criminal 2 Chapter I object, scope and principles guiding scope of application article 1.-the present law is to regulate the use of means of electronic surveillance as a technical mechanism of monitoring and location in the application of substitute or alternative measures of pre-trial detention, and in compliance with the rules of conduct or the benefit of parole conditions established by this law; as well as cases in which appropriate use, the requirements for granting, the authorities responsible for the authorisation and supervision, and the entity responsible for the monitoring and control of your application.\nDefinitions article 2.-for the purposes of this Act, means: to) electronic surveillance means: all that electronic device that is used to exercise monitoring automated biological aspects and location proposal of its wearer or user, such as bracelets, anklets, chips, or any other similar device;\n(b) Monitoring Center: designated to carry out the monitoring of the means of electronic surveillance;\n(c) carrier: person who uses an electronic surveillance device; and, (d) electronic surveillance: set of technological and human means of systematic surveillance.\nPrinciples governing article 3.-in the application of this law shall govern the following principles: to) principle of legality: the use of the means of electronic surveillance shall be limited to the fulfilment of the constitutional provisions, international instruments on human rights, laws and regulations;\n(b) principle of human dignity: in the implementation of this law will be respected at all times the inherent human dignity;\n(c) principle of proportionality and necessity: the use of the means of electronic surveillance should be necessary, suitable and minimum encumbrance;\n(d) principle of Jurisdiccionalidad: the application of this law to a particular case should be ordered by the judge or competent court; (and 3 e) principle of temporality: the use of electronic surveillance devices will be limited to a maximum and minimum time defined by the competent authority.\nChapter II rights and obligations of the carriers of devices of surveillance electronics rights of the carriers of the devices electronic article 4.-the carriers of electronic surveillance devices shall have, in addition to the rights provided in the Constitution and the laws, the following rights: to) to be informed in a clear and understandable of the conditions to which is fastened using the device of electronic surveillance and the consequences of non-compliance;\n(b) to enjoy their freedom of movement controlled without more limitations than those laid down in the corresponding court ruling;\n(c) to enjoy their privacy or privacy in the implementation of the measure, without more limits than those laid down in the corresponding court ruling;\nd) to have the possibility of education and employment, contributing to the rehabilitation and social reintegration; (and e) to be informed in the proper use and care of the electronic device that is assigned to it.\nObligations of the carriers of the devices electronic article 5.-the carriers of electronic surveillance devices are required: to) use at all times the means of electronic surveillance that may be assigned to it, either you are restricted in their freedom of movement to a place or not;\n(b) do not cause them to technical instruments which you are assigned, no intentional harm or neglect, which partially or totally avoid its usefulness; and, c) maintaining the means of electronic surveillance that may be assigned to it, available to be reviewed by the appropriate authorities.\nFailure to comply with the above obligations give rise to responsibilities contained in this law and others that may be applicable.\n4 chapter III monitoring of means of surveillance electronics Center of monitoring article 6.-create monitoring center of means of electronic surveillance under the General direction of Penal centers, which will be the body responsible for the technical monitoring of carriers of electronic surveillance devices, in collaboration with the competent judge or the Department of test and assisted freedom of the Judicial organ , in accordance with this law.\nIn addition, the Directorate-General of Penal centers, available in prisons that it deems appropriate, equipment and personnel capable of detecting and blocking the signal from cell phones, radios, communication or any other electronic device for the transmission, emission, reception or storage of signals of voice, image, sound or data to prisons inside whose use has not been authorized by the prison authorities, in accordance with the law, as well as to monitor the use of those for the identification of possible criminal acts.\nIn any case, the Directorate-General of penal centres shall inform the appropriate authorities on the Commission of criminal acts that are warned in accordance with this law.\nDeputy Director of the center of monitoring media monitoring electronic article 7.-the monitoring center will be headed by a Deputy Director, who shall be appointed by the Minister of Justice and public safety, on the proposal of the Director-General of criminal centres and hierarchically depend of the latter; without prejudice to report at the request of the holder of the justice and public safety industry.\nTo be appointed in office, shall comply with the following requirements: to) more than thirty-five years;\n(b) Salvadoran;\n(c) with college degree;\n(d) with knowledge on the subject;\n(e) morality and notorious competition;\n(f) not to have criminal or police record; and, g) be in the full exercise of the rights of citizens and have been in the ten years prior to the exercise of office.\n5 obligations and powers of the Deputy Director of the center of monitoring article 8.-the Deputy Director of the monitoring center will have the following duties and powers: to) technically monitor the fulfilment of the conditions imposed on carriers of means of electronic surveillance, in accordance with the provisions of this law;\nb) yield the information that is requested by the judge or Court of the cause, the Department's test and assisted freedom or the Regional criminological Council, as the case may be, upon compliance with custom or imposed rules.\n(c) immediately inform the Attorney General of the Republic, the National Civil Police and to the appropriate Judicial authority, who will be obliged to provide the necessary cooperation to the breach or Commission of criminal figure occurring during the use of the electronic medium that has knowledge.\n(d) inform the Attorney General of the Republic, the National Civil Police and the appropriate Judicial authority, the Commission of criminal offences related to the illegal use of the devices mentioned in article 6 of this law; (and e) other determined by laws related to the matter.\nChapter IV PROVENANCE of use, competent authorities and procedure cases of origin article 9.-the use of control of electronic surveillance devices will only proceed to the following cases: to) as a means of monitoring the alternative or substitute measures of provisional detention referred to in the code of criminal procedure, in cases in which is compatible with the use of media that regulates the present law;\n(b) in those cases in which exceeded the maximum period of pre-trial detention;\nc) as mechanism of inter-agency collaboration in the supervision of the conditions to which a convicted person who has been granted parole, is subjected in refraining from going to certain places or any other that was advisable according to the particular circumstances of the case; and that involves, for the Court prison monitoring and execution of the penalty, the need to monitor the places that this frequent;\n(d) this benefit may be applied to inmates referred to in article 85 and 86 of the Penal Code, pertaining to parole and early parole, beneficiaries with arrest household decreed by the judge.\n6. the use of the devices of electronic surveillance in those deprived of freedom referred to in this article shall be imposed by the Judicial Authority either ex officio or at the request of a party, at the time of enacting or reviewing the precautionary measures in criminal proceedings or agree to probation.\nAuthority competent Art.10.-the use of surveillance devices electronic will be decreed by resolution pronounced by the judge, who will keep the responsibility for control and surveillance that corresponds according to the law, which will receive the collaboration of the Department of assisted liberty and test and monitoring center, according to the provisions of this law.\nArticle 11.-the temporary use of surveillance device electronics shall not exceed the term of three years, except for cases in which the judge deemed strictly necessary.\nRevocation article 12.-the default, by carrier, obligations related to the use of electronic devices contained in article 5 of this law, will result in the revocation of the substitute or alternative measures of pre-trial detention, or the granting of probation that resulted in the implementation of these means of control.\nBefore the reversal, this may not be granted again in the three years after the same.\nCessation article 13.-the use of the monitoring device electronic ceases in the following cases: to) death of the carrier;\n(b) for compliance with the maximum period of use contemplated in this Act;\n(c) by modification or revocation of the substitute or alternative measure of pre-trial detention which gave rise to the use of the medium;\n(d) by the Commission of a new offence of intentional, or revocation, in the case of those who enjoy conditional release; (and e) for breach of the restrictions imposed by the judicial authority.\nChapter VI provisions general principle of coordination and cooperation inter-institutional 7 article 14.-for the proper application of the means of electronic surveillance, institutions, judicial and administration involved in its execution, should work in coordination and provide all the cooperation needed to meet effectively the purposes of this Act.\nAvailability article 15.-the use or allocation of means of electronic surveillance will be carried out in accordance with the availability of them, taking into consideration the maximum utility and utilization of the resources of the State.\nPolice article 16.-the police National Civil assistance is obliged to provide immediate assistance to receive the respective alert from the center of monitoring, to the location of the carrier. In the event of failure to comply with the measure, the offender shall be put to the order of the competent judge.\nManual of procedure article 17.-the address General Penal centres shall issue a manual of procedures, which will facilitate the operational implementation of this law, which shall contain all the technical aspects of media monitoring electronics and the way in which the monitoring will take place.\nThe manual referred to in the preceding subparagraph, must be subjected to the approval of the Minister of Justice and public security.\nSupletoriedad article 18.-in all matters not provided for in this law, shall apply supplementary provisions of the criminal procedure code and penitentiary law.\nArticle 19.-the entry into force this law shall enter into force sixty days after its publication in the official journal.\nGIVEN in the blue room of the Legislative Palace: San Salvador, eight days after the month of January of the year two thousand and fifteen.\n8 JOS\u00c9 FRANCISCO MERINO L\u00d3PEZ, LORRAINE GUADALUPE PENA MENDOZA, THIRD VICE PRESIDENT. FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT.\nPresidential House: San Salvador, to the two days of the month of February in the year two thousand and fifteen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 15640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-trying-to-save-brexit-by-provoking-a-deep-state-coup-against-may/5647452", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CFQDNAEQ7XKYPFNZ2TFAL6JWA72XMHSN", "length": 5217, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "Trump\u2019s Trying to Save Brexit by Provoking a \u201cDeep State\u201d Coup Against May - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "Trump\u2019s Trying to Save Brexit by Provoking a \u201cDeep State\u201d Coup Against May\nTrump\u2019s direct intervention in the domestic political affairs of the UK is as naked, obnoxious, and unavoidable as the Trump baby balloon that Sadiq Khan allowed to fly over the city to mock him, but unlike that highly publicized stunt, the President himself isn\u2019t full of hot air at all but is as serious as it gets.\nTheresa May\u2019s government is in crisis following the surprise resignations of her Brexit and Foreign Secretaries earlier in the week to protest her \u201csoft\u201d Brexit sell-out to the EU last Friday, mirroring the state of affairs in the City of London following the highly publicized crime wave that\u2019s swept the metropolis ever since EuroLiberal mayor Sadiq Khan entered into office. Trump derogatorily opined on both of these prior to his arrival to the UK for his first-ever official visit, but his latest interview to The Sun reads more like a direct intervention in the domestic political affairs of the a foreign country than his usual off-the-cuff commentary.\nAccording to his exclusive remarks to the news outlet, Trump:\nwarned May against pulling a \u201csoft\u201d Brexit;\nbelieves that last week\u2019s deal destroys the prospects for a US-UK post-Brexit trade pact;\nthink that Boris Johnson would \u201cmake a great Prime Minister\u201d;\nfears that the UK and the rest of Europe are \u201closing their culture\u201d because of mass migration;\nand condemned Sadiq Khan for his \u201cvery bad job on (fighting) terrorism\u201d.\nThere\u2019s no other way to interpret his words other than that of the unipolar hegemon\u2019s leader blowing dog whistle after dog whistle to his ideologically allied \u201chard\u201d Brexit supporters to encourage them to democratically overthrow May, sideline Sadiq, and save the real spirit of Brexit that millions of Brits voted for in summer 2016. Trump wants them and their voters to know that they aren\u2019t alone and that the US will provide full support for them if they succeed in their struggle, which contradicts the weaponized Mainstream Media narrative that\u2019s been incessantly spreading fear about the country\u2019s supposedly impending \u201cisolation\u201d and \u201cdemise\u201d if it goes through with a \u201chard\u201d Brexit.\nThe so-called \u201cTrump Effect\u201d is real, and it\u2019s led to the rise of populist visionaries in its wake and the strengthening of support that existing ones who predate his electoral victory have received from their people. \u201cThe Kraken\u201d himself understands this very well, and he\u2019s consciously seeking to use his immense soft power appeal to continue influencing events all across the world in order to guide them in the direction of his anti-globalist vision that he hopes will spark a sovereignty-supporting renaissance for nation-states, especially those in Europe. Granted, the US still intends to dominate its vassals, but they\u2019ll have comparatively more domestic decision-making freedom under Trump\u2019s tutelage than the EU\u2019s.\nPerceiving May\u2019s moves last week to be a \u201ccounter-revolutionary coup\u201d aimed at derailing the dreams that millions of Brits have for the \u201chard\u201d (true, pure) Brexit that they voted for, Trump believes that he\u2019s actually fighting for democracy and doing the UK a favor by politically intervening in its domestic affairs in the manner that he is, envisioning himself to be a beacon of liberty for inspiring a \u201cdeep state\u201d coup against May that restores the democratic will of the people. Brexit is on the rocks, and the only thing that can save it is an intra-party regime change by the \u201chard\u201d Brexiteers backed up with the support of the people, which they evidently have.\nTrump\u2019s sending the most obvious of hints that he\u2019d like his kindred spirits in the UK to initiate proceedings for replacing May with Johnson, who he implies would implement the true spirit of Brexit, which isn\u2019t all that far-fetched of an expectation given that \u201cBoJo\u201d described the Prime Minister\u2019s \u201csoft\u201d deal last week as a colonial sell-out in his resignation letter to her. Unlike Farage, who despite still being symbolic is nowadays less politically influential than before following his 2016 resignation from UKIP, Johnson is \u201cmainstream\u201d and literally part of the British \u201cdeep state\u201d (the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies) after having recently served as the Foreign Secretary, so he has the inside experience that\u2019s crucially needed for managing this task if he becomes Prime Minister.\nThe stage is therefore set for \u201cThe Kraken\u201d to remove May, thus making Trump\u2019s visit to the UK much more impactful than anyone could have imagined because of the unexpected Brexit context in which it\u2019s occurring and the President\u2019s willingness to openly flirt with inciting regime change against his nominal ally. The future of the UK is presently uncertain given the current chaos surrounding Brexit, but the US is rushing to its former colonizer\u2019s rescue for both ideological and self-interested reasons. Brexit preceded Trump and the British voters who supported it showed their American cultural cousins that populism can also prevail in their country as well, and now Trump\u2019s paying back the favor by doing the same to them by trying to save Brexit through his own soft power influence.\nFeatured image is from Sky News.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 10948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.go4travelblog.com/6-things-docklands-melbourne-48-hours/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TN6YV5CLFZR6VXBEVRWTHQYGWEVX5UN5", "length": 4392, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.go4travelblog.com", "title": "Docklands, Melbourne: 6 Things To Do in 48 Hours | Go 4 Travel Blog", "raw_content": "13 February, 2019 | by Muii Lee | No Comments\nPlanning the ideal weekend in your area or only have two days to spend in Docklands? Unfortunately, two days are never enough to explore everything this inner-western suburb of Melbourne has to offer. If you only have a bit of time to spend, don\u2019t fret. We\u2019ve put together some of the must-do things to make the most of your precious hours.\nTake a boat cruise in Docklands\nReflections in Docklands\nThe Yarra River is a vital and beautiful part of the city. The best way to explore it is to take a boat cruise. You can choose from a self-drive charter boat in Docklands, Melbourne or indulge in a luxury skippered cruise. Whatever vessel you choose, you are sure of having a completely different experience.\nVisit a Docklands museum\nDocklands has plenty of museums. They will help you uncover stories about the people that made this modern harbour development what it is. The museums are dedicated to preserving sporting triumphs, musical legacy and Melbourne\u2019s multi-cultural identity.\nOne of the museums you need to check out is the Victoria Police Museum. It\u2019s filled with relics and artifacts from more than 150 years of crime and policing in Victoria. This law enforcement museum rewards first-time visitors and repeat patrons equally.\nExpect to see Kelly Gang armour, CSI forensic evidence and wreckage from the Russel Street bombing. If you have a kid or are a kid at heart, be sure to visit the Australian Cartoon Museum. Other museums worth your time are Fox Classic Car Collection and Blender Studios.\nTulips on sale at a weekend market in Docklands\nCheck out Docklands Sunday Market\nLocated on Newquay Promenade, Docklands Sunday market reflects a multicultural Melbourne. There are French, Greek, Italian, Nepalese, Turkish, Israeli, Russian and Australian items on sale. The market has something for everyone!\nYou\u2019ll find jewellery, handmade arts and crafts, books and beauty products. There are also hats, designer clothes, model cars, sweet treats, children\u2019s wear and soy candles. Food on offer includes baked goods, fresh seasonal fruit juice, Spanish doughnuts, coffee and more. Find a treasure, have a meal and make a day of it.\nVisit Newquay Docklands\nAs a centre of entertainment, Newquay offers a wide range of adventures. Brighton Beach, located just 30 minutes from Melbourne\u2019s CBD, is perfect on a hot summer\u2019s day. It makes a relaxing escape from Melbourne\u2019s inner city bustle.\nYou can also visit the highest observation deck in the southern hemisphere at the Eureka Tower. Or you can ride the Melbourne Star for breathtaking views of the city. Shopping enthusiasts can check out Queen Victoria Market for Melbourne\u2019s freshest produce and best bargain shopping.\nCatch an event at Marvel Stadium\nIf you are planning a kid-friendly trip to Australia, Marvel Stadium is something to put on top of the list. Formerly known as Etihad Stadium, it\u2019s a multipurpose venue situated between Bourke Street, North-South Road, Latrobe Street and Harbour Esplanade.\nWith a 55,000-seat capacity, the stadium plays host to a variety of events. You can watch football, cricket, Australian football, rugby league/union and live music. Some of the world\u2019s biggest names in entertainment have played at the stadium. It has hosted Barbra Streisand, Robbie Williams, Bon Jovi and U2.\nCow up a Tree: Photo on Flickr by Niv Singer / (CC BY-SA 2.0)\nDiscover urban art sculptures\nDocklands is home to more than 36 outdoor artworks that are dotted through the parks, promenades and the area\u2019s architecture. The artworks are in the form of murals, paste-ups, stencils and installations. Each piece of art has its own theme. It can be land and sea, history and future or culture and technology.\nFor example, the \u201cPublic Purse\u201d at the Bourke Street Mall entrance symbolizes the city\u2019s vibrant shopping scene. The \u201cContinuum\u201d symbolizes a sense of community, cooperation and well being in Docklands. And the \u201cCow Up A Tree\u201d was inspired by Australian floods.\nThese six things to do in Docklands, Melbourne, will help you experience the best Docklands has to offer. You will never be disappointed.\nTags: Australia travel, Docklands, family travel, museums, sunday market, urban art, Victoria Melbourne\nMuii Lee\nAbout Muii Lee\nAside from her full-time job as a content coordinator, Muii is a lifestyle blogger and traveller who loves traveling the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 8285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gogla.org/about-us/members/solar-energy-development-association-seda-e", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:54Z", "digest": "sha1:C4DASOXUPQOPZV6TOWFIDY6F55YOVXWE", "length": 1328, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gogla.org", "title": "Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA-E) | GOGLA", "raw_content": "Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA-E)\nHome >> About us >> Members >> Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA-E)\nThe Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA-E) is an independent non-profit association dedicated to facilitating the growth and development of Solar energy business in Ethiopia.\nSEDA-E is Established in September 2010 by dedicated Solar energy market stakeholders in Ethiopia\nIts key roles are promoting the interests of members of the Solar energy industry among government, public sector, the general public and any other organizations that may impact on the development of the industry; and the creation of a forum for the dissemination and exchange of information and ideas on matters relating to Solar energy development and utilization in Ethiopia.\nSEDA-E's Objectives\nIncreased awareness levels and adoption of solar energy technologies\nIncrease in the number of qualified solar energy practitioners and increase in skill level and improvement in the quality of products and services provided\nPro-renewable energy policies and regulations and improved business environment for renewable energy\nIncreased coordination between actors and stakeholders when developing and implementing solar initiatives\nDiverse SEDA-E membership and increased collaboration/cooperation between members and partners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 185.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gordonbernell.org/apps/news/article/853196", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4NNFIRASNT6TSV7EYUIIEERT5VIVC2ES", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gordonbernell.org", "title": "Gordon Bernell Charter School", "raw_content": "Gordon Bernell Charter School announces their sixth annual art exhibit at the Special Collections Library (423 Central Ave NE in Albuquerque). The exhibit, entitled \"Telling Stories,\" will run from May 3 to June 7. The opening reception is on Thursday, May 3, from 4 PM to 6 PM. A variety of art and literary exhibits will be featured from several of our campuses. Music is featured by The Short Line Boys with Amanda Lee.\nexhibit flier.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/lee-sharpe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SZL6VADSORVOQWRPP3B75T6EH64HNJLY", "length": 1772, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.gordonpoole.com", "title": "Book Lee Sharpe | Football After Dinner Speaker | Ex. Man Utd", "raw_content": "Home | Talent | Lee Sharpe\nFormer Manchester United Footballer\nLee Sharpe is best known for his time spent at Manchester United.\nBeginning his career at Torquay United, Man Utd spotted his potential and signed Lee for a record fee of \u00a3200k.\nOnce he had secured a place in the first team, Sharpe became was an integral part in United\u2019s success in the European Cup Winners\u2019 Cup in the 90-91 season.\nDuring eight years at Old Trafford Lee Sharpe played 265 games and scored 36 goals.\nMoving to Leeds in the summer of 1996, he was the club\u2019s record signing at \u00a34.5 million.\nHis time at Leeds was plagued with injuries, making just 26 Premiership appearances in 1996\u201397.\nA knee injury ruled him out for the entire 1997\u201398 season, after which Lee was unable to secure his place in the team.\nIn the autumn of 1998, he was loaned to Italian Serie A side Sampdoria until early 1999, and then in March he went on loan to Bradford City, helping in securing the club\u2019s promotion to the Premiership after 77 years outside the top division.\nHe stayed at Bradford and helped preserve the club\u2019s Premiership status in the 1999\u20132000 season.\nFollowing a brief trial stay with Grimsby Town he signed for Exeter City, and this was followed with a short spell at Grindav\u00edk FC in Iceland.\nIn June 2003, aged just 32, Lee Sharpe announced his retirement from professional football.\nSince retiring from football, Lee has appeared on a number of reality TV shows including:\nITV\u2019s Celebrity Wrestling\nITV\u2019s Celebrity Love Island\nITV\u2019s Dancing on Ice\nC5\u2019s Superstars\nAs an after dinner speaker Lee Sharpe entertains audiences with anecdotes and numerous stories from his life in and off the pitch.\nSky Sports Presenter\nLiverpool and Scotland Football Legend\nMan Utd Legend and Wales Football Manager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 129.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gossipcop.com/jennifer-aniston-dating-google-founder-sergey-brin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GRUUC5DEGQEBQNUO5I7JFBLHRDGE6GQO", "length": 3112, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.gossipcop.com", "title": "Jennifer Aniston NOT Dating Google Founder Sergey Brin, Despite Report", "raw_content": "Jennifer Aniston NOT Dating Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, Despite Report\nJennifer Aniston is not dating Google co-founder Sergey Brin, despite a completely false and speculative tabloid report. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk this claim. The actress\u2019s rep tells us it\u2019s simply not true.\nEarlier this month, Gossip Cop corrected an Us Weekly story claiming that Aniston was dating two mystery men, one an \u201cindustry creative\u201d and the other a \u201ctech titan.\u201d There was no truth to the article. In fact, less than two weeks before the story emerged, People had reported that Aniston is \u201cvery happy being single.\u201d Unfortunately, that hasn\u2019t stopped Grazia from trying to guess who the \u201ctech titan\u201d might be.\nThe unreliable magazine begins, \u201cSpeculation reached Grazia that one of the men [dating Aniston] is rumored to be Sergey Brin, the billionaire founder of Google.\u201d Using terms such as \u201cspeculation\u201d and \u201crumored\u201d is a red flag from the start. The outlet continues, \u201cOne source suggested that the pair had been put in touch by mutual friend Gwyneth Paltrow.\u201d So we\u2019re to believe Aniston is in a relationship with Brin because an anonymous source \u201csuggested\u201d it?\nThe tabloid then quotes an alleged insider as saying that Aniston\u2019s \u201cnumber one rule\u201d following her split from Theroux \u201cwas that she wouldn\u2019t date another actor.\u201d The \u201csource\u201d adds, \u201cGwyneth is friendly with Sergey because she has worked with Google for her role at Goop. He\u2019s worth $55 billion and is one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.\u201d Real sources don\u2019t usually provide a person\u2019s exact net worth and social status in conversation. That type of exposition is used in storytelling. In fact, it\u2019s the kind of information that\u2019s more readily found through a Google search.\nDespite it already having been established that Aniston isn\u2019t dating anyone at the moment, Gossip Cop still checked in with the actress\u2019s spokesperson, who assures us this latest story is \u201cmade-up.\u201d We\u2019re further told that Aniston \u201chas never met\u201d Brin. We\u2019ve also reached out to Google\u2019s press department for comment.\nAdditionally, Grazia is hardly a reliable source when it comes to the actress\u2019s love life. In April, Gossip Cop busted the tabloid for falsely claiming that Aniston was dating Will Arnett. This latest article fails to mention what happened to her so-called \u201cromance\u201d with the actor. And earlier this week, the outlet wrongly reported that Aniston was secretly meeting up with Brad Pitt in London. It\u2019s clear the publication just switches narratives on a whim. This latest phony article about Aniston dating Google\u2019s co-founder is yet another example.\nCelebrity Rumors Jennifer Aniston\nWeiss, Shari. \u201cJennifer Aniston NOT Dating Two Men, Despite Report.\u201d Gossip Cop. 3 Jul. 2018.\nRussian, Ale. \u201cJennifer Aniston Is 'Very Happy Being Single' As She Heads Back to Work with Adam Sandler.\u201d People, 21 June 2018.\nWeiss, Shari. \u201cJennifer Aniston, Will Arnett \u201cRomance\u201d Blossoming?\u201d Gossip Cop. 12 Apr. 2018.\nWeiss, Shari. \u201cBrad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston Meeting Up In London?\u201d Gossip Cop. 17 Jul. 2018.\nStephen Huvane, Spokesperson for Jennifer Aniston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.graphic.com.gh/business/business-news/access-bank-introduces-new-payroll-processing-solution.html?template=ghananews&is_preview=on", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:48Z", "digest": "sha1:5TZ4ZXTQ52ESEXP44JAMCMVXIKVD5TAT", "length": 3216, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.graphic.com.gh", "title": "Access Bank introduces new payroll processing solution - Graphic Online", "raw_content": "Access Bank introduces new payroll processing solution\nOfficials of Access Bank and SystemSpecs after the launch of the new platform\nAccess Bank Ghana Limited has partnered SystemSpecs, a software development company, to introduce a platform to make it easier for people to process their payroll and other transactions.\nDubbed the Access Bank Remita Payroll, it provides organisations with an easy payroll processing and salary e-payment on a single platform.\nThe service also makes it possible for customers to easily process all salary-related allowances and deductions, as well as make automated remittances of funds and schedules for SSNIT contributions, tax payments and union dues, among other things.\nA release issued by the bank said the service was available to both customers and non-customers of the Access Bank Ghana Limited.\nIt added that one of the major advantages of the service, which was available online and on mobile, was its ability to fully eliminate the need for organisations to process payroll on one platform and then take the data to another platform to transfer salaries or send salary schedules to various banks.\nIt further provides added security and significantly improves operational efficiency and effectiveness.\nThe Managing Director of Access Bank, Mr Kris Ifeanyi Njoku, said the integration with the Remita Payroll System formed part of the bank\u2019s long-term objective of meeting the needs of various organisations when it came to payroll management.\n\u201cOur objective is to always give our customers a banking experience backed by need-based solutions that are powered by robust technology. Our partnership with SystemSpecs represents this desire, which also brings us closer to achieving our strategic objective of becoming Africa\u2019s gateway to the world.\u201d\n\u201cAccess Bank Remita Payroll provides customers with so much convenience to manage all their monthly payroll processes on a single platform and frees them up to focus on their core operations,\u201d he said.\nHe added that the introduction of the Remita Payroll was also in line with Access Bank\u2019s 5-year strategy, which was expected to accelerate the bank\u2019s growth and position it as a leading Bank across its various operating markets by 2022.\nThe Group Head, International Business at SystemSpecs, Demola Igbalajobi said: \u201cAs technology providers, we are convinced that this partnership provides Access Bank\u2019s customers and non-customers with new and exciting capability and flexibility for the management of payroll processing and payments at such a low cost. This aligns with our vision of becoming an institution of reference, especially in the provision of seamless technology solutions for payroll and payments management across Africa.\u201d\nThe release also added that the bank\u2019s strategy was underpinned by robust risk management together with high levels of automations to enhance the compliance and risk functions and drive customer insights.\nIt will also develop an integrated global franchise by strategically positioning itself in key African markets, enhancing collaboration in global financial gateways, including London and New York, Asia and the Middle East and strengthening its trade hubs in India, Dubai and China.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/our-work/news-events/news/boy-10-flown-to-liverpool-childrens-hospital-after-bike-crash/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7CO3BEO6HQVASILWC6BPSXCIDVEUW6II", "length": 948, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk", "title": "Boy, 10, flown to Liverpool children's hospital after bike crash - Great North Air Ambulance Service", "raw_content": "Boy, 10, flown to Liverpool children\u2019s hospital after bike crash\nThe Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to a 10-year-old boy who had crashed into a metal post while riding a bike in Flimby, Allerdale. The boy was assessed and treated by the GNAAS trauma team for potential head and chest injuries, before being flown to Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool within 30 minutes.\nThe Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to a 10-year-old boy who had crashed into a metal post while riding a bike in Flimby, Allerdale.\nThe boy was assessed and treated by the GNAAS trauma team for potential head and chest injuries, before being flown to Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool within 30 minutes. He arrived in a stable condition.\nGNAAS was called to the incident at around 5pm on Saturday 29 April.\nUPDATE: The boy\u2019s mother has since been in touch to inform us the his CT scan came back all clear. Great news.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 3639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 181.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/our-work/news-events/news/nine-year-old-girl-suffers-head-injuries-after-collision-with-car/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:O3MR2BZ6SFHWKULGY324PCHBCBUZRZEP", "length": 891, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk", "title": "Nine-year-old girl suffers head injuries after collision with car - Great North Air Ambulance Service", "raw_content": "Nine-year-old girl suffers head injuries after collision with car\nThe Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to a collision between a 9-year-old pedestrian and a car at Thornaby. The girl suffered a serious head injury and was assessed and treated by the aircrew before being taken to hospital by road, accompanied by the GNAAS doctor-led trauma team. She arrived at James Cook University Hospital in a stable condition. The incident happened at 6.45pm yesterday. .\nThe Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to a collision between a 9-year-old pedestrian and a car at Thornaby.\nThe girl suffered a serious head injury and was assessed and treated by the aircrew before being taken to hospital by road, accompanied by the GNAAS doctor-led trauma team.\nShe arrived at James Cook University Hospital in a stable condition.\nThe incident happened at 6.45pm yesterday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 3578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gregorrarebooks.com/cgi-bin/gregor/26182", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:01Z", "digest": "sha1:IORHWGXM5ONYCUW7JKCAEHBSW7DMBUOQ", "length": 745, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gregorrarebooks.com", "title": "The Great War and Modern Memory. by Paul. [World War I] Fussell : Gregor Rare Books : Rare books in Seattle.", "raw_content": "The Great War and Modern Memory.\nby [World War I] Fussell, Paul.\nOxford University Press,, New York:: 1975.\nA Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This is one of seminal books examining the shattering effects of the First World War on the English soldiers that took part in the slaughter fields of France. Fussell traces the changes in attitudes and the shattered idealism that marked the Lost Generation forever following the armistice. The effects of the carnage inflicted by the war changed the attitudes of the writers involved and created a new more \"modern\" artistic temperment and forced new images of violence into their language and art which infused the collective consciousness of their generation and those that followed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greystar.com/blog/2018/08/02/nashville", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HMWAQPOJVFN4OGEY76ZZPVP3D3IS6L4Z", "length": 7504, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.greystar.com", "title": "Summer Things To Do in Nashville, TN | Greystar", "raw_content": "City Living | Thursday, August 2, 2018\nSensational Summers: Feel the Rhythm of Nashville, and Not Just in the Music\nAlthough the heat of summer is upon us, there\u2019s no shortage of hot activities happening in Nashville, Tennessee to distract you from the rising temperatures. With endless opportunities to shop, dine and stay active, new and existing apartment residents have a long list of reasons they are proud to call the city home. Find out how Nashville has made a name for itself that extends far beyond its historic and vibrant country music scene.\nTake in Warm Tones\nNashville\u2019s \u201cMusic City\u201d nickname has roots going back two centuries. From launching the first world-tour act in the 1800s to hosting America\u2019s longest-running radio show, the Grand Ole Opry, the city is known for its sounds. While the careers of countless country stars have been sparked in Nashville, also home of the Country Music Hall of Fame, all genres are produced and celebrated in the talented town.\nMusic is written, produced and performed in Nashville every day of the year, so music lovers will never run out of places to kick back and soak in sweet sounds. From shows at the historic Ryman Auditorium to brand-new live music venues such as Blake Shelton\u2019s Ole Red restaurant and bar, performances are around every corner. To earn your badge as a local, be sure to attend Whiskey Jam at Winners Bar & Grill. Enjoy an excuse to dress up for a show at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.\nIf you see a celebrity on the street, a wave and a head nod will do. Show some Southern hospitality by respecting his or her space as you settle into Music City. Nashville is also a hub of songwriting, and The Bluebird Caf\u00e9 is a popular performance space for the songwriters behind many of your favorite radio hits.\nSavor Sizzling Selections\nWith a growing dining scene that delights foodies and barbecue lovers, Nashville has something for everyone\u2019s taste buds. Independent restaurants abound and provide exciting alternatives to the chain restaurants. Find out if you\u2019re more into the farm-to-table fare at Adele\u2019s, history of Skull\u2019s Rainbow Room or fresh seafood at Fin & Pearl \u2013 just a few of an abundance of beloved Nashville establishments. The must-try food that residents will want to share with any visitors in town is the Nashville Hot Chicken - which now even has a designated day, August 1, declared by the mayor.\nSince there are so many eateries to explore throughout the town, take advantage of resources such as Nashville Guru\u00d2, which has put together a list of the city\u2019s best patios, best brunch picks, best dinner restaurants and best happy hour hotspots. Nashville also has a Broadway of its own, boasting an array of bars featuring charming rooftop dining and drinking experiences. If your scene is more dive-bar style, check out Santa\u2019s Pub and join in karaoke any night of the week.\nSpend on Hot Trends\nNashville residents can easily rep all of their favorite brands thanks to popular shopping centers throughout the city. From expansive complexes such as The Mall at Green Hills, featuring retailers such as Dillard\u2019s and Nordstrom, to boutiques unique to Nashville, the town provides fashion lovers with endless style.\nWhether a man looking to upgrade your wardrobe at Ruckle & Rye or a woman seeking reasonably priced casual attire at Vinnie Louise, you\u2019ll have plenty of places to find your next favorite outfit. Destinations such as One Bellevue Place offer seamless outdoor shopping and dining experiences, while companies including Project 615 sell t-shirts to support local charities.\nTune to Adventures\nWhile your summer tan might eventually fade, Nashville natives know there are plenty of ways to make memories that will last forever. Brimming with lush public parks and surrounded by state and national lakes and forests, Nashville provides refreshing nature experiences. Take your pet to explore Shelby Bottoms Nature Center along the Cumberland River, or slow down with a stroll through the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. You can also adventure into the Cumberland Caverns, or switch things up with a ride with Nashville\u2019s Pedal Taverns.\nIf you\u2019d like to conquer your fear of heights, don\u2019t miss out on SOAR Adventure Tower, featuring over 110 climbing elements as well as miniature golf. Families are encouraged to spend time at vibrant destinations including the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere and Adventure Science Center.\nWhile planning your adventures, remember that Nashville is bike friendly, while also offering public transportation services in addition to ride-sharing options and Joy Rides. If you\u2019re moving to Nashville, or simply visiting on vacation, your wardrobe should last you through the different seasons as long as you have a lot of layers. The average high temperature in the summers is in the upper 80s, while winter days can range from around 40 degrees to 75 degrees in a single day.\nAttend Exciting Events\nWhile Nashville hosts spirited concerts and entertainment events throughout the year, including the Country Music Association (CMA) Festival each summer, there are other festivities to attend that are not centered around music. If you\u2019re in town for the Fourth of July, the city proves it knows how to celebrate and even made our list of the best places to see fireworks in the nation.\nFrom Division 1 athletic competitions at local schools, including Vanderbilt University, to professional football games at Nissan Stadium, there are always fans cheering on the home team. The city even hosts Thunder on the Cumberland, a powerboat racing event.\nMake Nashville Home\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if you work in fields from health care and higher education to manufacturing and music, you can thrive while living in Nashville, Tennessee. With so many unique neighborhoods, the city\u2019s reputation has evolved into one of the hottest places to call home.\nWhen you\u2019re ready to make the move, learn more about living at Greystar\u2019s Nashville communities.\nThe information presented on or through this Website is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to this Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. 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We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 9294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/idaho/boise/rn-to-bsn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:U5XPJH6QV6JZGDLGRHBUIW3M2WSHPVIJ", "length": 1324, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hackcollege.com", "title": "What are the best RN to BSN Programs in Boise, ID?", "raw_content": "RN to BSN Schools in Boise, ID\nBoise State University is the largest RN to BSN school in Boise, based on student population. In 2010, Boise State University graduated approximately 220 students with credentials in RN to BSN.\nA total of 220 students graduated with credentials in RN to BSN from RN to BSN schools in Boise in 2010. Tuition in 2009 at Boise's RN to BSN schools was $16,668 per year for instate students and $25,672 per year for out of state students.\nIn addition to tuition costs, plan on spending an average of $1,168 for RN to BSN related books and supplies each year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $5,270 per year, on average, for room and board at Boise-based RN to BSN schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $8,870.\nRN to BSN Salaries and Career Outlook in Boise\nIf you plan on staying in Boise after graduating from RN to BSN school, you should know that job prospects for nurses in Boise, which is the most popular RN to BSN profession, are good. Boise's nurse workforce is projected to increase by 27% by the year 2018. This projected change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for nurses.\nRN to BSN Degree in Boise\nRN to BSN schools in Nampa, Idaho\nRN to BSN schools in Ontario, Oregon\nRN to BSN Schools in Boise, Idaho", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.halopedia.org/Greater_Chicago_Industrial_Zone", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZRK6CWSDDDVOOEQ2YKVUF4JRDVJ6AFH", "length": 1736, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.halopedia.org", "title": "Greater Chicago Industrial Zone - Halopedia, the Halo encyclopedia", "raw_content": "...that Sergeant Johnson was the first human to kill a member of the Covenant, and a witness to the Prophet of Truth's death, making him the only human to have witnessed both the beginning and ending of the Human-Covenant War?\nThere is more information available on this subject at Greater Chicago Industrial Zone on the English Wikipedia.\nMore than 6-7 million[note 1]\nThird most populous city in the URNA[1]\nGoverned by:\nURNA, UEG\nChicago, also known as the Greater Chicago Industrial Zone or simply \"the Zone\", is a human metroplex in the country of the United Republic of North America on Earth. It is located on near Lake Michigan. Formerly a city of the United States of America, the Zone is now a vast urban sprawl covering large parts of what used to be the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.[2]\nThe Great Lakes Spaceport is located nearby. By 2558, Chicago was the third most populated city of the United Republic of North America on Earth, after New York City and Los Angeles.[3]\nWhile physically located in the URNA, the Zone is a de-facto independent city-state.\nThe Zone was the hometown of Avery Johnson and ODST Ava Lang. 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You'll get notified as soon as the course is available again in the future!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 210.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hapblog.com/2017/01/thousands-of-bikers-for-trump-ready-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:09Z", "digest": "sha1:L3QDLW6JTB6RLU7D3NIUP6AYBQYSKN2W", "length": 1140, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hapblog.com", "title": "Thousands of Bikers for Trump Ready to Stand up to Protesters at Inauguration (VIDEO)", "raw_content": "Thousands of Bikers for Trump Ready to Stand up to Protesters at Inauguration (VIDEO)\nA motorcycle group led by a South Carolina artist will ride into the nation\u2019s capital on Inauguration Day in support of the 45th President of the United States.\nBikers for Trump, a group of motorcycle enthusiasts, will likely be toeing the line with protesters, who are also expected to be at the event. \u201cThe bikers are certainly used to being outnumbered and we are prepared to form a wall of meat,\u201d Chris Cox, the founder of the organization, told the FOX Business Network.\nHowever, Cox said he doesn\u2019t foresee any problems occurring during the event, especially after the group\u2019s experience at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where police successfully maintained order between Trump\u2019s supporters and protesters.\nWe\u2019re anticipating a celebration here. We don\u2019t anticipate any problems. We have a strict code of conduct where we don\u2019t condone violence. But again in the event that we\u2019re needed, you can certainly count on the Bikers for Trump,\u201d Cox said\nWatch the founder of Bikers for Trump on Fox News\n\"We are prepared to form a wall\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hauntingdarkness.com/2010/07/no-one-dies-in-lily-dale.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HSDM3JD7KUAWEBIFPVLGHJSGWGM4DLQM", "length": 2687, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.hauntingdarkness.com", "title": "No One Dies in Lily Dale", "raw_content": "I received some information from HBO asking me to post information about their new show. The show is called No One Dies in Lily Dale. I'm not a huge television fan, but something about this show's premise caught my attention. I went to the show's site and looked at the content on it. I looked at the trailers and the pictures. The show is about a town filled with mediums who communicate with the dead. What was most interesting about this show to me was the fact that the people in Lily Dale refer to themselves as spiritualists. I have often been fascinated with the early 20th century spiritualist movement and its birth and decline and it is amazing to see that it seems to be alive and well in a small town in New York. Here is the show's press release;\nLocated just south of Buffalo, tiny Lily Dale, NY, is home to the world\u2019s largest concentration of mediums, people who claim to be able to communicate with spirits of the deceased. Every year, thousands of visitors from all over the world flock to this quaint Victorian community to have their questions answered and grief assuaged. Directed by Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Steven Cantor (HBO\u2019s \u201cDevil\u2019s Playground\u201d), NO ONE DIES IN LILY DALE follows visitors on their emotional quests, chronicling their mysterious and deeply personal interactions with the town\u2019s unusual residents.\nThe show will air on HBO on July 5th at 9pm and I think I might actually watch TV that night. This one seems interesting.\nLabels: HBO No One Dies in Lily Dale\nInteresting. That's like Cassadega, Florida--the spiritualist town. Maybe that was the influence.\nNice blog!!!!!\nAutumnforest... I didn't know about Cassadega. I'll have to find some info on it. Thanks.\nJames... Thanks!\nOh I've read a couple books on Lily Dale and it's fasinating history. I think I may like this show too. Thanks for the heads up! Have a wonderful holiday weekend too!\nthey interviewed some of the mediums the other morning on the Today Show...seemed pretty interesting but I didn't catch when the special was going to be on...thanks for the info!\nZombie Mom said\u2026\nI've been to Lily Dale twice, very calming place. I've been \"read\" by several of their mediums...some very impressive...some not so much.\nThanks for all the great comments. Now you've all go me really interested. Zombie Mom I would love to hear your stories!\nhave not watched tv in more'n three years, and this tempts me not, though i'm from the neighborhood [other side of the border, niagara area]... but hope you enjoy\nCalled the husband while out of town and requested he set the DVR. I haven't yet watched, as I just returned last night. Heard about it via one of the other para/psychic friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 6511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hauntworld.com/haunted-house-in-leesville-louisiana-tree-farm-massacre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HIOMBX5PQKYSPWVP3YIQXXSYCWFXMZ4F", "length": 1543, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hauntworld.com", "title": "hauntworld.com", "raw_content": "Select Attraction Haunted Houses\tHaunted Hayrides\tPumpkin Patch\tCorn Mazes\tGhost Tours Escape Rooms\t All State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Newfoundland Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Northwest Territories Yukon International All City BATON ROUGE HAMMOND LEESVILLE SMITHVILLE BEAUMONT SULPHUR NATCHITOCHES SHREVEPORT FORT WORTH, TX LIVINGSTON LAFAYETTE EUNICE GRAYSON LAKE CHARLES NEW ORLEANS DERIDDER ELM GROVE BOSSIER GO\nWebsite: http://www.treefarmmassacre.com\nAddress: 458 Tree Farm Rd, Leesville, Louisiana, 71446\nEmail: treefarmmassacre@gmail.com\nCONNECT WITH 'Tree Farm Massacre' SOCIAL MEDIA, VIDEO AND PHOTO PAGES\nABOUT \"Tree Farm Massacre\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egaPHncc2NY\nAdmission: The Clown House $10.00, The Trail $15.00 and Zombie Terrorist Paintball $20.00\n458 Tree Farm Rd, Leesville, Louisiana, 71446\nNot for the Faint of Heart, No one under the age of 15 will be allowed into a event unless accompanied by an adult. 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In fact, you may have some of it already growing in your garden or backyard at the present time!\nThe plant is commonly known as purslane. It also goes by the name pigweed, verdolaga, parsley, red root and moss rose. In the US and other parts of the planet, it is known as a weed. Elsewhere, it is consumed because it\u2019s a nutritious vegetable. Every part of the plant is actually edible \u2014 flowers, leaves, stem and even seeds.\nBecause of its slightly sour and salty taste, adding purslane to your vegetable salad can make your favorite healthy treat taste more flavorful. Some people prefer to pickle or blanch the nutritious plant before consuming them. No matter the case, it cannot be denied that adding purslane into your diet is a great idea. It\u2019s highly nutritious, and you can easily grow it in your garden \u2014 sometimes without even trying!\nContinue reading to know some of the reasons why you should allow this purported weed to thrive and welcomed into your life and everyday diet.\nPurslane Helps Ward Off Overeating and Unwanted Weight\nThe leaves and stems of purslane are succulent, which means they are loaded with water and fiber. It\u2019s for this reason why consuming purslane is a great idea if you wish to get rid of excess pounds. The vegetable fills up your tummy quickly and for a long period of time, saving you from overeating. This helps you lose weight especially if you opt for healthy foods and exercise on a regular basis.\nIt Helps Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke\nOmega-3 fatty acids found abundantly in purslane is good for your cardiovascular system. Those healthy fats help lower bad cholesterol and prevent their deposition along with plaque on the arterial walls. This results in lowered blood pressure which is good for your heart. Consuming purslane may actually help lower your chances of having heart disease, heart attack and stroke, thanks to its impressive amounts of omega-3 fatty acids!\nEating It Regularly May Keep You From Ending Up with Osteoporosis\nOsteoporosis is a condition characterized by bones that are prone to being fractured. Something as simple as adding purslane in your diet may help save you from battling osteoporosis and its complications in the future. That\u2019s because the healthy vegetable contains not only calcium, but also other minerals important for strong bones. They include manganese, magnesium and iron. They\u2019re also good for your teeth!\nPurslane Helps Keep Your Vision Sharp and Your Skin Healthy\nThanks to its vitamin A content, purslane helps ward off blurring of vision. That\u2019s because vitamin A is an antioxidant that protects the eye\u2019s light-sensitive retina from being damaged. What\u2019s more, purslane has plenty of vitamin C and that is why including it in your diet may help prevent or reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Vitamin C present in the vegetable also helps promote wound healing and it also improves a variety of skin diseases.\nIts Consumption May Help Lower Your Chances of Having Cancer\nAntioxidants are powerful molecules known to delay the process of aging. Did you know that they are also very good at protecting the cells from being mutated by free radicals, thus lowering your odds of ending up with cancer? There are plenty of fruits and vegetables that are packed with cancer-fighting antioxidants. One of the cheapest and easily accessible of them all is purslane!\nThese are just some of the impressive health benefits of purslane. However, you might want to reduce your consumption of it if you have kidney stones or are prone to developing them because purslane is high in oxalic acid, according to the experts. If you wish to lower the levels of oxalic acid in purslane, have them boiled before consumption.\nPrevious articleFoods to Eat and Avoid When You Have Chronic Gastritis\nNext articleHerbal Remedies for Autoimmune Disease\nHow Ashitaba Works ~ Tomorrow Leaves Health Benefits as a Super...\nTips on How to Keep Your Teeth White\nHealthy Cooking Oils you should know\nStrange Things That Pregnancy Does to Your Body\nQuick Tips on Having Natural Childbirth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthhype.com/swollen-gums-list-of-causes-of-gum-swelling.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:17Z", "digest": "sha1:K74IUOERJ724LOUSID4TNIVM5NZWLTUA", "length": 3292, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.healthhype.com", "title": "Swollen Gums \u2013 List of Causes of Gum Swelling | Healthhype.com", "raw_content": "Swelling of the gums (gingival swelling) is a common occurrence and is quite frequently accompanied by gum bleeding and/or pain and tenderness of the gums (refer to Bleeding Gums). Identifying the cause of swelling is essential for the proper treatment. If left untreated, it can progress to more severe conditions.\nNormal healthy looking gums are pink, relatively firm structures that fit comfortably around the teeth. Soft and edematous (swollen) gums, along with pain or bleeding, is a sign of gum disease.\nHyperplasia of the gums (gingival hyperplasia) is a condition where there is overgrowth of gum tissue. The triangular-shaped portions of the gums between adjacent teeth, known as papillae, may become swollen, enlarged and protrude abnormally. In extreme cases, excessive swelling of the gums may overlap the teeth and cover it completely.\nGum swelling may involve only one or two papillae or there may be generalized swelling of the gums. It may develop gradually or may have an acute onset. The history often points to the cause of gum swelling.\nCauses of Gum Swelling\nTrauma (injury) to the gums is a common cause of swelling and may be due to causes like vigorous brushing. The swelling should resolve once the inflammation settles.\nMouth and Gum\nGum disease is the most frequent cause of swollen gums. The inflammation produced in case of gingivitis and periodontitis results in swelling of the gums.\nAcute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG) may cause an acute, generalized, and rapidly progressive gum swelling.\nViral or fungal infection.\nPericoronitis \u2013 inflammation of the gum tissue surrounding an impacted or partially erupted wisdom tooth.\nGum swelling localized near one or two teeth may be caused by a tooth abscess.\nImpacted food particles between gums and the teeth.\nGingival hyperplasia may be caused by medication such as phenytoin (for seizures) and nifedipine (antihypertensive).\nMercury, lead or arsenic poisoning.\nFetal valproate syndrome is a rare congenital disorder caused by exposure of the fetus to valproic acid (used to control seizures in the treatment of epilepsy) during the first 3 months of pregnancy. Amongst other features such as spina bifida, distinctive facial appearance and mental retardation, gum hypertrophy may be an additional feature.\nDental Appliances and Products\nPoorly-fitting dentures and other mouth appliances can cause gum swelling due to constant friction with the gums, and also due to trapped food particles within them which encourages bacterial growth and infection.\nSensitivity to toothpaste or mouthwash.\nHormonal changes occurring during pregnancy and puberty.\nImmuno-compromised individuals \u2013 those suffering from AIDS or cancer.\nPeople undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy.\nInvolvement of gum tissue, causing swelling and other features, is a very common finding in leukemia.\nOral cancer.\nPyogenic granulomas or pregnancy tumors are benign vascular lesions in the mouth, often seen in the gum area during pregnancy.\nSevere malnutrition.\nProlonged and severe vitamin C deficiency (scurvy).\nExcessive smoking or tobacco chewing.\nSerious systemic illnesses may result in swollen gums. This could be due to :\nInfections like HIV\nSometimes, gingival hyperplasia may be idiopathic, meaning no cause can be identified.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthline.com/health-news/these-common-food-additives-pose-health-risk-to-kids", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZY4BEKVD3LZ5XB66Y7IVKI7P6DEAQXR5", "length": 10349, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.healthline.com", "title": "Industrial Chemicals in Food", "raw_content": "Common Industrial Chemicals May Be Making Food Unsafe for Kids\nWritten by Temma Ehrenfeld on October 3, 2018\nThere\u2019s growing evidence that common industrial chemicals in our food can harm children\u2019s health. Here\u2019s what parents need to know.\nHow safe is food that\u2019s prepared in factories? Getty Images\nAlarmed by growing evidence that common industrial chemicals in food can harm a child\u2019s health, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is asking for an overhaul of the regulatory system.\n\u201cWe\u2019re all exposed to these chemicals every day,\u201d Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana, a pediatrician and co-author of the AAP statement, told Healthline.\nBeyond the evidence that industrial chemicals may promote obesity and cancer \u2014 to list just two health issues the group highlighted \u2014 the AAP pointed to a lack of research.\nIn a review of nearly 4,000 industrial chemicals in food, 64 percent had no research showing they were safe for people to eat or drink, the group reported.\n\u201cWe are exposing our population to chemicals where we just don\u2019t know the effect,\u201d said Sathyanarayana, who is also an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.\nCurrently, risky chemicals may get into food under a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that allows manufacturers to judge the safety of chemicals, without oversight from the agency.\nAdditionally, other common chemicals that may be unsafe won FDA approval decades ago with out-of-date testing methods.\nThe lack of regulation applies both to chemicals added directly to food and those that seep into food from plastic, glues, dyes, paper, cardboard, and different types of coatings used for processing and packaging.\nBecause of the risks from plastic, for example, Laura MacCleery, Policy Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) packs sandwiches in reusable cloth bags rather than plastic wrap or baggies, and her 8-year-old daughter has a metal lunch box.\nAdditional dangers\nFast food is especially dangerous because chemicals can enter food through industrial equipment. Phthalates, used to make plastics more flexible, enter food through conveyor belts and gloves as well as packaging.\nIn 2016, ten nonprofits, which included CSPI and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), petitioned the FDA to rescind approval of 30 currently approved phthalates, and bar the use of 8 of them.\n\u201cWe expect a decision in October,\u201d petitioner Maricel Maffini, PhD, a biologist and consultant on food additives, told Healthline.\nAccording to a study reported in June, people who eat cheeseburgers that are not made at home are getting big hits of phthalates.\nThe same study concluded that teens who ate a lot of fast food and other foods purchased outside the home had 55 percent higher levels of phthalates in their urine than those who only consumed homemade food.\nAlso, DEHP (Di-Ethylhexyl Phthalate), one of the chemicals the group wants banned, has long been seen in surface layers of fatty foods like butter, cheese, and prepared meat packaged in products containing vinyl.\nStudies have linked DEHP to diabetes in adult women as well.\nIn a 2013 study, researchers concluded that exposure to DHEP can up the risk of allergies in children. In 2016, another study concluded that it can affect child behavior.\nPhthalates may also affect the growth of male genitals and promote heart disease.\nDiNP (Di-Isononyl Phthalate), also on the list of requested bans, has become more common as a substitute. DiNP is less well-researched than DEHP, but it shows similar toxicological effects on lab animals, and it shows up in bigger quantities in the urine of those who eat more fast food.\nAround the world, regulators have begun to put limits on exposure to these plastic softeners. Japan banned the use of vinyl gloves for preparing food because the gloves often contain DHEP or DiNP. The European Union is pushing manufacturers to find alternatives. The United States now bans phthalates in toys.\nAvoiding food exposed to plastic won\u2019t protect you entirely, since phthalates also show up in soaps and cosmetics among other items. You\u2019d need to steer clear of all industrial products.\nWhat about plastic wrap and containers you use at home? Plastic wrap in the United States contains a \u201cplasticizer\u201d called DEHA that is not a phthalate but is chemically similar to DEHP.\nPlastic containers present a different risk\nPlastic containers may contain bisphenols \u2014 generally bisphenol A (BPA), which is used to make very hard, shatterproof plastic. BPA also shows up in the lining of canned foods and beverages.\nIn 1963, the FDA approved BPA in a list of hundreds of chemicals to be used in can coatings. However, Maffini points out, \u201cthey most likely had limited or no toxicology data\u201d at that time.\nToday, we know bisphenols can act like estrogen, possibly changing when children go into puberty and promoting obesity. BPA is now banned in baby bottles and sippy cups.\nThe FDA and an academic group are testing the effect of BPA on animals exposed as fetuses. A report is expected by 2019. Early evidence suggests that rats exposed within pregnant mothers develop breast tumors later.\nAfrican-Americans and people with lower incomes seem to consume more BPAs, and are also more likely than other groups to suffer from obesity. The APA suggests that the extra exposure to BPA and other obesity-promoting chemicals may be partly to blame.\nWhen a plastic container is marked \u201cmicrowave-safe\u201d you can put it into the microwave without worrying that it will melt. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s safe for your health: Heat can make BPA and phthalates leak into food.\nPlastic items stamped with a recycling code 3 may indicate it contains phthalates, a 6 indicates another dangerous chemical, styrene, and 7 indicates bisphenols.\nFighting for a healthier future\nThe nonprofit coalition scored a success with a petition against perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs). These were used in grease-proof paper and cardboard food packaging until the FDA banned them in 2016. \u201cPFCs can accumulate in the body for years,\u201d Maffini said, where they may suppress immunity, promote obesity, and disrupt the endocrine system.\n\u201cThe FDA took a year, and in the end, they agreed with us,\u201d Maffini said. \u201cWe had data on some of them. Others there wasn\u2019t any data. We said that this is a class and the information on some of them is concerning enough that we will apply it to all members.\u201d\nLast year, the agency disagreed with the group\u2019s petition about perchlorate, which is added to some dry food packaging to control static electricity. The group challenged the decision, and the issue remains unsettled.\n\u201cThe FDA assumed that the exposure would be so small it won\u2019t be a problem,\u201d Maffini explained. But how much is safe? \u201cPerchlorate is an endocrine disruptor. The mother\u2019s thyroid hormone is fundamental for development of fetus brain. If you have low thyroid the child\u2019s brain will not develop as it should. You need iodine to make thyroid and perchlorate competes with the iodine,\u201d Maffini said.\nAdded colors to food may not be as safe as you think. Getty Images\nChemicals added directly to food, including colors, flavors, and preservatives, may not be safe, either\nIn 2015, the group asked the FDA to ban seven artificial flavors common in candy, ice cream, commercial baked goods, and beverages. The agency approved them in the 1970s and 1980s, but since then, the HHS has linked them to cancer.\nHowever, the FDA has yet to rule, and the petitioners sued the agency for the delay this year.\nSynthetic food colors, common in children\u2019s food products, have been linked to more severe attention problems, with some research showing that children who cut those colorings from their diets improved.\n\u201cThere are no food dyes in my home,\u201d MacCleery said. \u201cMy daughter knows that she can\u2019t eat a lot of the candy that comes through kids\u2019 lives. She\u2019s on board with it. If she has a candy, she\u2019ll tell me.\u201d\nAdditionally, nitrates and nitrites \u2014 food preservatives that are more commonly used in cured and processed meats \u2014 may interfere with thyroid hormone production and the blood\u2019s ability to deliver oxygen in the body. Nitrates and nitrites also have been linked with gastrointestinal and nervous system cancers.\nEstablishing better regulation\nThere are no automatic triggers to review previously approved chemicals, even when new evidence comes in, critics point out. The AAP and other groups are currently calling for retesting.\nIn 2016, the FDA decided to uphold its policy allowing companies to evaluate additives on their own, winning the designation \u201cGenerally Recognized as Safe (GRAS).\u201d\nBut groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest are fighting it in court. \u201cWe argued that the GRAS\u2026 rule allows companies to undermine FDA\u2019s authority,\u201d MacCleery told Healthline. \u201cI think companies should pay user fees into a system where you have a third-party institution performing the safety review with modern standards, and produce a report for the FDA to review. It would be more independent than the drug process.\u201d\n\u201cThe food industry would be the main beneficiary of a system where consumers feel confident in the ingredients,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cI\u2019m currently working on a project that invites the food industry to the table to design a new system.\u201d\nThe AAP advises parents to take these steps:\nBuy fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables.\nStay away from processed meats \u2014 especially during pregnancy.\nAvoid plastics unless they\u2019re labeled \u201cbiobased\u201d or \u201cgreenware.\u201d\nDon\u2019t microwave food or beverages (including infant formula and pumped human milk) in plastic containers. Also, avoid putting plastics in the dishwasher. Instead, use glass containers.\nWash hands thoroughly before and after touching food, and clean all fruits and vegetables that cannot be peeled.\nDo You Know What\u2019s in Your Food\u2019s Food? It May Be Harming Your Health\nIs the FDA Doing a Good Job Protecting Us from Food-Borne Illness?\nFrom antibiotics to persistent pollution, here are things to look out for the next time you're at your grocers' meat counter.\nEating the 'right' amount of carbs may lower risk of an early death, but the quality of carbs we eat could be more important than the quantity.\nA new report criticizes the FDA for its food inspection protocol. However, the agency is just starting to implement new food safety procedures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 12610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthonnet.org/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct819577", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHNAQ2YPVJNN4IDEQ7BEC3JYUL42V6MF", "length": 1952, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.healthonnet.org", "title": "HONConduct819577 - Medical Software for PDAs - HONcode certificate: The health website respects the eight HONcode principles", "raw_content": "Medical Software for PDAs\nwww.medicalsoftwareforpdas.com\tVisit website\nEdward M. 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The choice to list a product is NOT and has never been a decision made purely on the benefit we may derive from the sale of that product.\nModifications requested.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthtalkblog.com/kickboxing-5-reasons-it-is-the-best-workout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ITFSLYXJY6WKMPREIYQIJXK4WFS4UQ6K", "length": 3604, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.healthtalkblog.com", "title": "Kickboxing: 5 Reasons It Is the Best Workout |", "raw_content": "The number of people taking up kickboxing has increased dramatically in recent years. While there are many reasons people choose this effective exercise, the main ones tend to be to lose weight, improve strength and boost endurance. That\u2019s where cardio kickboxing comes in.\nIf you\u2019re thinking of starting kickboxing, but you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s right for you or not, below you\u2019ll discover 5 reasons it\u2019s considered to be the best workout.\nIt helps you to lose weight\nWeight loss is the number one reason many people take up kickboxing; particularly the cardio variety. It\u2019s renowned for its high-intensity, calorie burning benefits.\nThe Harvard Medical School revealed the average person weighing approximately 155 pounds, will burn up to 372 calories per 30-minute session. That\u2019s pretty impressive and totals nearly 800 calories if you work out for an hour.\nSo, from the calorie burning benefits alone, you can see why it\u2019s considered one of the best exercises for weight loss.\nIt helps to release stress and anger\nLife\u2019s not always kind and it can be exhausting trying to be the perfect spouse, parent and employee. Life is stressful so what better way to release the built-up stress than punching and kicking it out?\nYou get to pretend the bag is somebody you really dislike right now. You\u2019ll be surprised how much motivation this can give you to carry out a full workout!\nBy the time you\u2019ve finished your session, you\u2019ll feel a million times better than you did before you started. So, if your life is pretty stressful, kickboxing is one of the best workouts to help you fight it.\nIt\u2019s awesome for your mental health\nAs it does help to eliminate stress and anger from the body, kickboxing is a great workout to boost your mental health. Any type of exercise can help fight mental illness such as depression, but kickboxing is known to be particularly effective.\nIt won\u2019t just help combat existing mental health issues. Kickboxing can also help you to achieve increased mental toughness. If you\u2019re training at a gym, you\u2019re going to face failures when fighting opponents. This will help you to become more mentally able to deal with failure, as well as help you figure out how to improve and win the next fight.\nThere\u2019s also the fact it can really help you to face your fears. A lot of people are intimidated by kickboxing gyms. So, the very act of signing up and attending your first class can help you to conquer your fears.\nIt improves balance, coordination and flexibility\nWhile you may not realize it, kickboxing relies heavily upon good core strength. As you start to work your core, you\u2019ll become more flexible, coordinated and balanced.\nYou\u2019ll need to learn exactly how to deliver kicks and punches and know how to keep your balance while you\u2019re performing more challenging kicks.\nFlexibility is perhaps the most surprising benefit of kickboxing. It\u2019s not like yoga where there\u2019s a lot of stretching, so how does kickboxing help to improve flexibility? It\u2019s all to do with the range of movements you\u2019ll carry out. Kicks in particular can really loosen up the hips and boost flexibility.\nIt\u2019s fun to do!\nNot many exercises can be classified as fun, but kickboxing is an exception. One of the key factors which makes this one of the best workouts is the fact it\u2019s so varied. No two kickboxing workout routines are the same, so you\u2019ll never get bored.\nSo, there you have it, 5 reasons kickboxing is considered the best workout. It provides so many unique benefits and manages to give the entire body a workout. If there\u2019s just one exercise you take up, you really can\u2019t go wrong with kickboxing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthylifetricks.com/house-always-smells-wonderful-fresh-people-cant-understand-secret/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:SLUXEMUKT27PIYFP5U2WQPQZQZNBLYUP", "length": 2148, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.healthylifetricks.com", "title": "Her House Always Smells Wonderful and Fresh and People Can\u2019t Understand Why. This is Her Secret\u2026", "raw_content": "Her House Always Smells Wonderful and Fresh and People Can\u2019t Understand Why. This is Her Secret\u2026\nLadies, can I ask you a simple question? YES? No?! Well, I\u2019ll do it anyways \u2013 would you like to learn a simple trick, which will make your house smelling fresh? If YES, then please read on.\nI really think that you\u2019ll be amazed when we tell you that this method is very simple, but extremely effective. You just have to make this homemade mixture, spray your sofa, carpets, curtains with it and that\u2019s it. YES, that\u2019s it!\nThis homemade product is safe and easy to make. This means that you should stop wasting money on expensive air-freshener loaded with chemicals and make your own, homemade spray, which is extremely effective in neutralizing bad odors and it\u2019s completely safe and natural.\nLadies, you should definitely try this simple trick. It\u2019s very simple and easy to make, and you just need 3 simple ingredients (which you probably already have in your kitchen cabinet): detergent spheres, baking soda and water. Just follow the simple instructions. Here\u2019s what you need to do:\n\u00bc cup detergent spheres\npot to heat\nPut \u00bc cup of soap spheres in a bucket. Then, add 4 tablespoons of baking soda. After that, add 2 cups of boiling water to the mixture, and mix everything together. Leave it on for 30 minutes, until it is dissolved. Now, you need to take a spray bottle or empty aerosol can and pour the mixture in it. how to use it \u2013 you should use this mixture to spray things like mattresses, sofas, fabrics, carpets or drains of any kind. You will be amazed by the results.\nAnd, one last thing \u2013 if you notice that the baking soda isn\u2019t mixed well, then you should add a drop of alcohol in the bottle and mix it again to dissolve. As we said, you will be amazed by the results. Don\u2019t hesitate to share this article with your friends and family. Thank You and take care.\nNext story Every Night Before Going to Bed, Drink This Mixture: It Melts Fat for 10 Hours and Everything You\u2019ve Eaten During the Day!\nPrevious story Early Warning Signs That Cancer is Growing in Your Body\nFDA Is Recalling Turmeric from THESE Brands Due to Lead Contamination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/researchcentre/title-index/titlespr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:VLKTJRJ24GQGQYAVOHFMJKOL73LIIFD3", "length": 11124, "nlines": 119, "source_domain": "www.henrywilliamson.co.uk", "title": "Titles P-R", "raw_content": "Index of Titles (P-R)\nGeorge Duncan Painter (1914\u20132005)\nAn obituary of the incunabulist & biographer; referred to HW as \u2018the English Proust\u2019.\n37 (Sep. 2001): 79 Response to The Star-born, linking its ethos to the educationalist Rudolf Steiner: 'The individual Self is part of the Self of All'.\nGeorge L. Parker (1923-2008)\nAn obituary and appreciation of George, well known to many Society members and a regular at meetings, whose other interests included youth movements, the Marines (a distinguished career), a love of music, travelling and walking.\nA Patriot\u2019s Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War, Anne Williamson (Sutton Publishing, 1998)\nDr Blench feels that the book is valuable as an accurate and detailed account of HW\u2019s life during the war, including full reproduction of his letters home, his diary entries and his military notebooks kept in the battlefield, which also have an historical usefulness as a record of that war. These real -life facts can be related to and compared with his later writings.\nA Patriot\u2019s Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War,Anne Williamson (Sutton Publishing, 1998)\nRawling, William (Review)\nA reprint of a review by William Rawling (National Defence HQ, Ottawa, Canada) which first appeared in Albion, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2000 (Appalachian State University, Boone, USA) a quarterly journal concerned with British studies. Rawling considers the book, with its multi-level narrative which captures the variety and subtleties that made up a soldier\u2019s experience, to be a primary source for the historian of the First World War. Anne Williamson reproduces Henry Williamson\u2019s letters home to his mother, his diary entries, and his official field notebooks and interweaves them into commentary on the fabric of the war on the western front in Flanders and at home, his family and friends and the social history of England at that time.\nAn in-depth investigation into the routine and staff at Colfe\u2019s Grammar School as it was at the time HW attended, and comparison with fictional representation in Dandelion Days (1922).\n31 (Sep. 1995): 85 A review of Peace in War by Edward Seago (Collins, 1943).\nJordan, Douglas\n21 (Mar. 1990): 30-4 A description of HW's Norfolk farm prompted by the making of a radio programme.\n35 (Sep. 1999): 78-83 Here Richard gives the background to the writing of HW\u2019s book about a Reeve\u2019s pheasant on the Norfolk Farm, drawing on his own memories and pertinent documents, inc. the importance of music, particularly Bach\u2019s B Minor Mass.\nPhillip Maddison and the Decca Trench Gramophone\nAn examination of the importance of Phillip\u2019s possession of a Decca Trench Gramophone and the effect of his choice of records to play on it, as woven into the war vols of ACofAS. Includes photo and reprod. of contemporaneous advert.\n28 (Sep. 1993): 4 A poem referred to in the Editorial and used to preface the essay 'Threnos to T.E. Lawrence' by HW.\n27 (Mar. 1993): 38-9 A description of the area known as the Ypres Salient, with reference to The Wet Flanders Plain and the Chronicle.\nPhotographs, a selection from the early era\n38 (Sep. 2002): 29-32 Photographs from the archive of HW and family, and places associated with his early life which feature in his published work, including owlets kept briefly by HW and the basis for one of his earliest published newspaper items (see AW, Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic, p. 75).\nPhotographs of Henry Williamson:The Daily Telegraph Magazine Colour Library\n3 (May 1981): 22 Details of photographs of HW and his writing hut in 'The Green Desert' by HW and 'Recognising Henry Williamson' by Daniel Farson.\nPhotograph of Thomas Leaver\n38 (Sep. 2002): 58 In Moorish costume taken at the Alhambra, Spain , 1903.\nPlaces and Associations in Young Phillip Maddison\nTierney, Robert\n15 (Mar. 1987): 8-17 A detailed list of places with their real locations and proper names.\nThe Politics of Henry Williamson\nMosley, Diana\n3 (May 1981): 2l-2 A brief recollection of HW's association with the BUF and Oswald Mosley.\n29 (Mar. 1994): 34-43 A facsimile of an original manuscript.\n35 (Sep. 1999): 18-26 Part 1, 'The Family Background'; Part 2, 'Young Richard Maddison'. An analysis of the role in the Chronicle novels of one of its most central characters, Richard Maddison, who is based on HW\u2019s own father, William Leopold Williamson.\n36 (Sep. 2000): 76-84 Continuation of this analysis of one of the main characters in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight with Part 3 'The Husband', Part 4 'The Father', and Part 5 'Judgement'.\n(conc.)\n37 (Sep. 2001): 50-7 Peter Lewis continues to analyse the character of Richard Maddison, father of Phillip Maddison (and based on HW\u2019s own father), a major character within A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, with Part 6 'Special Constable'; Part 7 'Moonlighter'; and Part 8 'Pensioner', including his death from complications after a prostate operation in 1946.\nA Postscript to The Beautiful Years\nDetails of early versions of this novel.\nA Potted History of Stiffkey Old Hall\nFrom a typescript found inside a book, giving a short history of the Old Hall from 1573 to 1972.\nThe Power of the Dead\nRogers, E.J.\n10 (Oct. 1984): 19-22 The text of a letter sent to Brocard Sewell in 1963 examining The Power of the Dead and the preceding Chronicle novels.\n33 (Sep. 1997): 59 A statement of its aims and interests.\n1 (July 1980): 4-6\nA statement from the new Society's President in the first issue of its journal.\nThirty questions, based wholly on The Pathway, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its publication.\n36 (Sep. 2000): 7-25 The background to HW\u2019s friendship with Tom and Crystal Radford and their family (particularly Jo Radford) which originated with Gwendoline Dennis of Croyde in the 1920s. The Radford family lived at Ingo Brake, Lydford, the setting for The Star-born. Charles Tunnicliffe stayed with the family while completing the illustrations for the book in early 1933.\nA Reader on the Coast (Part I)\n12 (Sep. 1985): 30-9 An account of a return to Devon in 1982 for the Society AGM.\nA Reader on the Coast (Part II)\n13 (Mar. 1986): 30-7 A further instalment of reminiscences inspired by a visit to Devon in 1982.\nA Reader on the Coast (Part III)\n14 (Sep. 1986): 30-40 The continuation of memories and musings evoked by a return to Devon.\nA Reader on the Coast (Part IV)\n15 (Mar. 1987): 29-40 The concluding article of the series.\nThe Real Peter Raleigh\nPeter Raleigh in The Scandaroon identified as Patrick Foulds.\nReality in War Literature\n34 (Sep. 1998): 6-16 A facsimile copy of the manuscript of an early version of an essay later to appear in The Linhay on the Downs.\nMemories of inscribed copies of the privately printed first edition.\nRecreating a Lost World: Henry Williamson and Folkestone 1919-20, Anne Williamson (HW Society, 2008, ISBN 978-1-873507-29-2)\nA description of the booklet which researches a short period in HW's life after the end of the Great War that later formed a backdrop to his early novel The Dream of Fair Women.\nThe Redhill Mafia 21st Birthday Meeting\nAn account of the celebrations of this long-lived series of annual local meetings, in which members are encouraged to participate.\nRedhill Meeting: Food, Glorious Food, November 2007\nAn account of this local meeting, with food in HW's writing as its theme.\nRedhill Meeting, December 2006\nAn account of the meeting.\nRedhill Meeting: Aspects of War, 1914-1918, November 2005\nAn account of the meeting, with the theme of the Great War.\nRedhill Meeting: Book Reviews etc., November 2004\nRedhill Meeting, November 2003\nRedhill Meeting: Richard Williamson, talk on 'HW and his Nature Writings', November 2002\nAn account of the meeting, and Richard Williamson's talk.\nRedhill Meeting: A Wild Goose Chase, November 2009\nAn account of the meeting, and the two papers given: Anne Williamson's 'Following a Wild Goose Chase \u2013 an extraordinary tale og HW, the King of Redonda and Wilfrid Ewart's Way of Revelation'; and Robert Walker's 'Mackerel for Tea', based on ch. 26 of Donkey Boy and Phillip Maddison's Hayling Island holiday.\nReflections of a Brother\nSewell, Brocard\n19 (Mar. 1989): 24-7 Further comments on HW's writings by E.J. Rogers; also a letter from A.A.J. Smith with HW's reply.\nLoates, Mick\nThe artist of the Society's new edition of A Clear Water Stream reflects on both the book and its subject, the River Bray at Shallowford.\nReflections on a Theme\nHW\u2019s thoughts as contained in a letter to Fr Brocard Sewell (Editor of The Aylesford Review) after publication of The Phoenix Generation (1965, vol. 12, ACofAS), reprinted from The Aylesford Review, vol. VIII, no. 1, Summer 1966.\nReflections on the Death of a Field Marshal\n34 (Sep. 1998): 74-85 A defence of Field Marshal Haig prompted by a viewing of the film Oh, What a Lovely War!.\nRemembering Henry Williamson\n4 (Nov. 1981): 17-26 Recollections of HW at Georgeham with advice given to a novice writer.\nLady Winifred Renshaw (1925-2009)\nAn obituary of 'Winnie', wife of Sir Maurice Renshaw, who lived in Instow.\n11 (Apr. 1985): 29-31 A response to criticism of the Chronicle novels.\nReport of Exeter University Celebration of 10th Anniversary of Death of Ted Hughes\nA brief account is given of the event, 'The Artist and the Poet', held on 6 November 2008, the centrepiece of which was the showing of a film of Hughes in conversation with Leonard Baskin, his American illustrator. (Ted Hughes gave the eulogy at HW's memorial service.)\n7 (May 1983): 21-2 An account of the renewal of the roof of HW's Writing Hut.\n37 (Sep. 2001): 71-2 A selection of very short responses to the Spring 2000 investigation (see HWSJ, 36, Sep. 2000 for text of papers presented) of the meaning of this important work within HW\u2019s oeuvre by various HWS members.\nA Review of The Star-born\nKendon, Frank\n13 (Mar. 1986): 25-6 Review.\nReviews under Review 1: The Beautiful Years\nRobins, Peter\n29 (Mar. 1994): 51-8 Contemporary reviews of HW's novel.\nReviews under Review 2: Dandelion Days\nContemporary reviews of HW's novel.\nReviews under Review 3: The Dream of Fair Women\n33 (Sep. 1997): 50-3 A mixed reception for the third volume of The Flax of Dream.\nRichard Maddison\u2019s Bicycle\n32 (Sep. 1996): 66 A note on the origins of the \u2018Starley Rover\u2019.\nRichard Jefferies in Eltham\nA report of a visit by members of the Richard Jefferies Society to Eltham, where he once lived.\nA Riotous Artist\n30 (Sep. 1994): 54-6 A review of The Second Burst by Sir Alfred Munnings.\nA rebuttal, supported by HW's diary entries, of the premiss of M. Coultas's article 'Decline and Fall, Part 1: The Crisis of the Chronicle', which proposed that HW faced a crisis in the writing of the Chronicle in 1963.\nRoad to the Somme\n18 (Sep. 1988): 16-27 A personal diary of a Society visit in April 1987 to the Somme battlefields.\nRoots: An Examination of Henry Williamson's Lineage\n31 (Sep. 1995): 6-27 A detailed investigation into HW's family tree with reference to the Leavers, Turneys, Shapcotes, Luhns and Williamsons.\nThe Rural Tradition: Henry Williamson\n31 (Sep. 1995): 90-101 A reprint of a chapter from The Rural Tradition which assesses HW's earlier writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 14694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hickorystickbookshop.com/book/9781984817358", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VBY3UB6QDS5JJPTO5IU5JOVK7MIQEU37", "length": 3704, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.hickorystickbookshop.com", "title": "She Lies in Wait: A Novel (Hardcover) | The Hickory Stick Bookshop", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb She Lies in Wait: A Novel (Hardcover)\nShe Lies in Wait: A Novel (Hardcover)\nSix friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl is missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in an absorbing novel featuring a small-town cop determined to finally get to the truth\u2014for fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson.\n\u201cWhat a marvel! A corkscrew-twisty, knife-sharp thriller\u2014yet it doubles as a tender ode to loss and longing. Prepare to be haunted.\u201d\u2014A. J. Finn, author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window\nOn a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and brilliant, they are destined for great things, and the youngest of the group\u2014Aurora Jackson\u2014is delighted to be allowed to tag along. The evening starts like any other\u2014they drink, they dance, they fight, they kiss. Some of them slip off into the woods in pairs, others are left jealous and heartbroken. But by morning, Aurora has disappeared. Her friends claim that she was safe the last time they saw her, right before she went to sleep. An exhaustive investigation is launched, but no trace of the teenager is ever found.\nThirty years later, Aurora\u2019s body is unearthed in a hideaway that only the six friends knew about, and Jonah Sheens is put in charge of solving the long-cold case. Back in 1983, as a young cop in their small town, he had known the teenagers\u2014including Aurora\u2014personally, even before taking part in the search. Now he\u2019s determined to finally get to the truth of what happened that night. Sheens\u2019s investigation brings the members of the camping party back to the forest, where they will be confronted once again with the events that left one of them dead, and all of them profoundly changed forever.\nThis searing, psychologically captivating novel marks the arrival of a dazzling new talent, and the start of a new series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens.\nPraise for She Lies in Wait\n\u201cThis enjoyably chilling suspense tale . . . conveys both the thrills and the dangers of being a teenager on the brink of adult independence. . . . The fascination of this story is in the character studies of the surviving children, all grown up now and participants in a dark mystery that they all wish had never seen the light of day.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review\n\u201cThe mystery intrigues and twists, offering enough red herrings and moments of police procedural to please fans of the genre.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\u201cNeatly plotted and nicely atmospheric . . . This British import is plausible and eminently satisfying. Encore, please.\u201d\u2014Booklist\nGytha Lodge studied English at Cambridge University and received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.\n\u201cA dark, deep, terrific thriller and a scorching portrait of friendship and its betrayal.\u201d\u2014Nicci French, author of Day of the Dead\n\u201cA superior crime book . . . I loved it.\u201d\u2014Marian Keyes, author of The Break\n\u201cShe Lies in Wait delivers on just about every level\u2014a killer premise, an absorbing plot that twists and turns at just the right pace, and a lead detective who has hit the page fully formed and instantly likeable. One to watch!\u201d\u2014Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies\n\u201cMost enjoyable\u2014Gytha Lodge is a skilled storyteller and she weaves such an intricate plot. The book hooked me early on and kept me up way past my bedtime for several nights! The team of detectives Lodge has put together is top notch. All in all, it\u2019s a very satisfying read.\u201d\u2014James Oswald, author of The Gathering Dark\n\u201cA stunner . . . well plotted, brilliant characters, beautifully written: a sure-fire hit.\u201d\u2014Jo Spain, author of The Confession", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hillcrestcemetery.com/obituaries/Clayton-Sonny-Long/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KFAMX556FJ6VTTOPJJI4YA2BX7PXU6GA", "length": 501, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hillcrestcemetery.com", "title": "Clayton \"Sonny\" Long Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Clayton \"Sonny\" Long\nClayton \"Sonny\"\nConway.....Clayton \"Sonny\" Long, 83, husband of Minnie Bell Long, passed away at his home on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Born April 24, 1935 in Conway, Mr. Long was the son of the late William Mack and Sallie Clayton Long. Clayton \"Sonny\" Long... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Clayton \"Sonny\" Long created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nConway.....Clayton "Sonny" Long, 83, husband of Minnie Bell Long,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=884", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IQUOQ5XN3NGHFE4OIUCJFOXETZZWPEYH", "length": 3359, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hinduismtoday.com", "title": "Further Factors In Spousal Abuse - Magazine Web Edition December 1991 - Publications - Hinduism Today Magazine", "raw_content": "Further Factors In Spousal Abuse\nRaman, Shyamala\nThe alarming rate of increase of spousal abuse in the U.S. Indian community is a matter of utmost concern. The abuse is largely emotional and in some cases, physical, and is at the root of the several derivative problems such as divorce, relationships with elderly parents and suicide attempts, to name only a few. To this day, if anything goes wrong in a marriage, invariably the wife suffers more than the husband. I recently read in 'HINDUISM TODAY' that this is more due to the 'I' factor - individualism - rather than anything else. I beg to differ.\nMore than the 'I' factor, it is due to the demands placed on the wife. She has had to take on roles that are totally new in an alien environment. The husband not only expects the wife to be a breadwinner and put up with all the trials and tribulations of the workplace, but also adhere to elaborate traditions which are no longer in vogue back home. Consider the matter of entertaining relatives and guests. Many women have remarked that, especially during the summer, attending to the flow of guests during weekends is so draining that they look forward to going back to work on Monday because it provides them with the best form of relaxation they ever had. Is it relaxation or escape from an unpleasant situation? The silent coping of the wife with the demands of the home and the stresses of the workplace finally becomes unbearable.\nYet again, many of the cases of abuse arise out of the lack of financial freedom felt by the wife. The problems become acute when the wife earns more than her husband. While the joint earnings are supposed to enrich the family's financial pot, invariably the wife finds that she has no control over it. Even in the matter of purchasing a trivial item at the grocery store, many wives have been seen to seek the permission of their spouses. In the marriages that end in divorce, especially where the wife has substantial earnings, this has been a common story. After years of emotional turmoil, the wife decides to leave and sometimes has to face serious cash-flow problems because she never had control over her earnings during the duration of her marriage.\nOne of the first steps necessary among South Asian women is to acknowledge that spousal abuse exists. One of the objectives of our women's support group here is to be a compassionate listening post. Most of us find that we do not have the kind of support mechanisms provided by the extended family network that we had back home. We need to build strong, non-judgmental support networks in each country so that if someone feels that she must pick up the phone and wants to speak to someone in confidence, she has that facility available. It is very important to set up prenuptial counseling for to-be married couples so that they enter into a marriage with mutual respect and reasonable expectations. In the past, our mother told us that \"no matter what you are, you are going to your husband's house - remember to be submissive.\" It is my hope that we can tell our daughters and our sons that \"you are both equal partners in this relationship - while you should be guided by the principles of dharma.\" Spousal abuse - emotional and physical - is very traumatic to those going through it. Let us not pretend these problems do not exist or will somehow go away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.historytv.eu/za/lifetime-za", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3SNQ5TXDNU4U3PW2HYORM6ZJAJ6BBMMQ", "length": 2586, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.historytv.eu", "title": "Lifetime - za | Welcome to A+E Networks International", "raw_content": "Dance Moms S7B\nOnce again set in Pittsburgh's renowned Abby Lee Dance Company, owned and operated by the notoriously demanding and passionate Abby Lee Miller, Dance Moms follows children's early steps on the road to stardom and their doting mothers who are there for every rehearsal, performance and bow all under Miller's discerning eyes. Presenting a powerful cast of characters, the show immerses itself in the highs and lows surrounding dance competition season, delivering a captivating and dramatic look at the cast's intense pursuit of National Dance titles. Centered on the devoted Miller, who runs her school with an iron tap shoe as she instructs her young, talented students while also dealing with impassioned mothers who go to great lengths to help their children's dreams come true, Dance Moms will continue to pose the tough questions many people have been asking since the show's launch about what really goes on behind-the-scenes in the fast-growing and controversial sport of competitive dance.\nPart pitbull, part over-the-top showman, the University of Louisville Dance Team coach Todd Sharp has driven his team, the Ladybirds, to win 15 national championships. With this year's nationals approaching, their title and reputation are at stake and this self-proclaimed \"Head Bitch in Charge\" will push the team to another championship if it kills him. Along the way, he will have to be guidance counselor, surrogate dad and big brother, best friend and drill sergeant to these elite athletes, who also happen to be teenage girls.\nMondays at 08:00pm\nLittle Women: Couples Retreat\nAcross every series in the Little Women franchise, cast members have dealt with love, loss, breakups and makeups in their own unique ways. Now, Tonya Banks of Little Women: LA -- at a breaking point with her long term love Kerwin -- decides to get away from it all. Can time at a luxurious island resort help her reframe her relationship? Tonya invites several of her friends from different Little Women casts (Christy and Todd from LA, The Tiny Twins from Atlanta, Lila and Jazmin from NY) to join her, knowing they, too, are at a crossroads. Will the couples take advantage of their time on this couples retreat to better themselves? Or will old jealousies, uncovered truths and painful memories be too much to overcome?\nWednesdays at 08:50pm\nNow playing Lifetime\nLifetime is an entertainment channel dedicated to providing quality scripted dramas, distinctive factual entertainment and feature length Lifetime Original Movies. With a host of A-list talent in front and behind the camera.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hockeyalberta.ca/news/news-1/16-albertans-taken-2016-nhl-entry-draft-438/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:03Z", "digest": "sha1:UWDKZCSOJM37DRPTN7M76ZYPKCHQUI45", "length": 1319, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hockeyalberta.ca", "title": "16 Albertans taken at 2016 NHL Entry Draft | News | News", "raw_content": "Sam Steel (left-centre) and Kale Clague (right-centre), seen here celebrating Team Alberta\u2019s 2013 Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup victory, are two of the 16 Albertans selected at this year\u2019s NHL Entry Draft. (Photo by LA Media)\n16 Albertans taken at 2016 NHL Entry Draft\nWhen the 2016 NHL Entry Draft wrapped up on Saturday in Buffalo, 16 Albertans had heard their names called by an NHL team.\nCalgary\u2019s Jake Bean was the first to take the stage after the Carolina Hurricanes drafted the highly-touted defenceman in the first round, 13th overall.\nSam Steel, a Sherwood Park native, was the second and final Albertan drafted in the first round, taken 30th overall by the Anaheim Ducks.\nThe second round featured a pair of players drafted by their hometown teams, with Edmonton\u2019s Tyler Benson and Cochrane\u2019s Dillon Dube drafted 32nd and 56th overall by the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, respectively. Former Team Alberta Captain Kale Clague of Lloydminster was also taken in the second round, going 51st overall to the Los Angeles Kings.\nAnother Sherwood Park product, Carter Hart, 2016 WHL (Western Conference) and CHL Goaltender of the Year, was the lone netminder drafted from Alberta, as he went 48th overall in the second round to the Philadelphia Flyers. Hart was the first goaltender taken in the NHL draft.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3507, "original_length": 300039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hometown.in/living-essence-bowls-in-white-colour-by-living-essence/sku/LI889KD71RXWINDFUR", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GZTXMKLJOLC5WSZEOKO4D5COT6YW6KOF", "length": 163, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hometown.in", "title": "Buy Living Essence Bowls in White Colour by Living Essence Online at Best Price - HomeTown.in", "raw_content": "Living Essence Bowls in White Colour by Living Essence\nBowl Height: 2 inches (5 cm), Length: 7.5 inches (19 cm), Width: 7.5 inches (19 cm)\nQuantity: 1 Piece (Bowl)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 1873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hooklawcenter.com/newsletter/news-2014/fish-and-your-brain/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XWZK5BVD4NQD3YYGXPGV5VPMLWIF5FP3", "length": 3389, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hooklawcenter.com", "title": "Fish And Your Brain | Hook Law Center", "raw_content": "Fish And Your Brain\nDo you want to lessen your chances of being diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s later in life? Then, there is a simple, dietary remedy that will do just that! According to Dr. Cyrus Raji, a resident radiologist at UCLA and the lead researcher in a new study, consuming fish at least once a week vastly improves the brain\u2019s volume or size in the areas responsible for memory and cognition. Those with more voluminous brains have been shown to have a lower risk of Alzheimer\u2019s. \u201cIf you eat fish just once a week,\u201d he says, \u201cyour hippocampus\u2013the big memory and learning center\u2013 is 14% larger than in people who don\u2019t eat fish that frequently.\u201d The study appears in the current American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In the past, researchers had thought only physical activity and weight level could affect brain structure.\nNote, however, that the fish must be broiled or baked. There were no healthful benefits deriving from fried fish. The type of fish was inconsequential. Interestingly, eating it just one time a week was as helpful as more times per week. So what does fish have that is so beneficial? At first, the researchers thought it was omega-3 fatty acids that were responsible for the benefit. However, as they looked more closely, they realized that higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids didn\u2019t affect brain size. So, they\u2019re not really sure. Some at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine think that fish possesses more DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) which has been shown to increase the size of the amygdala and anterior cingulate gyrus. The researchers did control for other possibly confounding factors like obesity, activity level, education, age, gender, and race, but there may be something else they haven\u2019t thought of yet. Stay tuned as they continue to explore this connection.\nWhat Dr. Raji and his fellow scientists do suspect, though, as a result of the fish study, is that it is really lifestyle factors (in this case, fish intake) \u201cand not necessarily the presumed biological factors that can affect the structural integrity of the brain.\u201d This is really very good news! What that means, then, is that we humans can affect our overall brain health by lifestyle choices of exercise and diet. We can\u2019t completely eliminate our risk of Alzheimer\u2019s, but we can certainly do a lot to reduce that risk. (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/the-man-who-would-make-eating-obsolete/361058/).\nCruelty Consequences\nHook Law Center: Kit Kat, when people are cruel to animals, are there any consequences?\nKit Kat: Not always unfortunately, but one man recently in Brooklyn, New York was caught kicking a cat in a very extreme way. He was discovered when someone caught him on video and posted it to Facebook. He will stand trial for a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty, and the district attorney has stated that no offer of a plea bargain will be made. He could face up to one year in jail if convicted.\nI am happy to report, though, that his victim, King, a 1-year-old male cat is doing well. His picture appears in the latest Fall 2014 ASPCA Action magazine (p.5). He is a beautiful grey cat with white chest and feet. The event occurred on May 6, 2014, and he was adopted in June. His new owner said he does not appear to have any lasting negative effects of the incident. She says he is \u2018a real New Yorker!\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 8950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotelveenendaal.com/en/meetings/our-event-rooms/overview-event-rooms/de-witte", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YAFMZBEDVK6EMBSQYKXXQBW2AAOF2OJS", "length": 230, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hotelveenendaal.com", "title": "De Witte | Van der Valk Hotel Veenendaal", "raw_content": "De Witte is multi-purpose; any configuration is possible. The room has a beamer and a projection screen and is provided with daylight, but can also be dimmed. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms.\nRequest a quote for Room De Witte", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houmatoday.com/news/20111026/locals-honored-for-work-with-neglected-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GUBSUKOUZ5WSUERCJJQXM54UWNOL425A", "length": 4977, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.houmatoday.com", "title": "Locals honored for work with neglected children - News - Houma Today - Houma, LA", "raw_content": "Locals honored for work with neglected children\nTwo locals are being honored for their work helping abused and neglected children in Terrebonne and Lafourche navigate the legal system and find foster and adoptive homes.\nTerrebonne Chief Judge Randy Bethancourt is Louisiana CASA's Judge of the Year, and Thibodaux Child Protection investigator Cidney Ordoyne was recognized as state Department of Children and Family Services employee of the year. The two are among eight others from across the state honored by the organization. The awards were presented at the CASA's annual Awards of Excellence banquet last week in Baton Rouge.\nCASA, or Court Appointed Special Advocate, is a nonprofit organization that trains community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children who have been taken from their caregivers.\nAdults get to know the children and guide them as their cases wend through the court system during what can be a scary and overwhelming time.\n\u201cI was so honored to receive the award because it's from CASA, and it's a privilege working with them,\u201d Ordoyne said.\nOrdoyne has worked with the state Department of Children and Family Services for 28 years. She spent 15 years as a recruiter, searching for foster and adoptive homes for children. She now works as a child-protection investigator, making sure children are living in a safe environment.\nTammy Gibson, executive director of CASA of Lafourche, said the group nominated Ordoyne because she goes above and beyond to help local children in the foster system.\nOrdoyne partnered with local photographer Nicole Chiasson of Petite Bijoux Photography and Mandy Lynn Holloway of Mandy Lens Photography to launch the Bayou Region Heart Gallery, where professional photographers lend their skills to take photos of children who need a home. The photos are displayed locally and online to find prospective parents.\n\u201cShe's the hardest worker,\u201d Chiasson said. \u201cShe's all about the kids and goes above and beyond to find them forever homes. She works after hours and goes on weekends to speak at churches. She loves every one of them.\u201d\nOrdoyne said her biggest accomplishment has been working with CASA of Lafourche to find children homes. In addition to being advocates for children, the agency has worked with the department to help recruit at a time when there are too few foster and adoptive families.\nCASA also uses photos from the Heart Gallery in its presentations to showcase children who need homes.\nWorking with children who have been abused or neglected and removed from their homes can be difficult, Ordoyne said, but knowing that you've helped is worth it.\n\u201cIt's tough, but I count my blessings,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe that if you make a difference in the life of one child, you make a difference in the world.\u201d\nCASA of Terrebonne Executive Director Laci Melancon said the group nominated Bethancourt for his overwhelming support of the CASA program.\nThe judge takes time to let CASA volunteers know that the job they're doing is important and appreciated by attending the training required to become a CASA advocate. And even if he's not the judge who swears volunteers in as advocates, he's still there to show support.\n\u201cHe takes pride in the fact that he has these extra people to help see a foster child through the court system,\u201d Melancon said. \u201cHe goes above and beyond.\u201d\nBethancourt said he was humbled and surprised to receive the award. CASA is a wonderful organization and an important tool for judges, Bethancourt said.\n\u201cIt truly gives a voice to those children who are going through the difficulty of being taken out of their environment because there are allegations of abuse or neglect,\u201d he said. \u201cIt serves so many purposes, including holding the child's hand both literally and figuratively.\u201d\nBethancourt presides over a variety of cases as a judge in Terrebonne, including those involving abused and neglected children. But as an adoptive parent himself, child welfare is a top concern in his court, Bethancourt said.\nCASA advocates can give important input because they're neither connected to the state nor the family involved, Bethancourt said. Their attention is solely on the child.\n\u201cThat's important because the judge is obligated to do what's in the best interest of the children. We take their findings very seriously because they are a special tool,\u201d Bethancourt said. \u201cI'm an advocate for CASA and for children, so it was very rewarding to receive this award.\u201d\nBethancourt was unable to attend the CASA banquet because of a jury trial. CASA of Terrebonne will be honoring him with a ceremony set for 4:30 p.m. Monday in Houma's Courthouse Square on the courthouse steps.\nFor information on volunteering to be a CASA advocate, visit www.casaofterrebonne.org or www.casaoflafourche.com. You can also call your local office. The numbers are 876-0250 in Terrebonne or 446-6600 in Lafourche.\nStaff Writer Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or nicole.buskey@houmatoday.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houston-accidentattorney.com/blog/workers-critically-injured-after-electrocution-accident/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:48Z", "digest": "sha1:465A3O3KN36KVPM5BYDZADP65Z67HLBX", "length": 2516, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.houston-accidentattorney.com", "title": "Workers Critically Injured after Electrocution Accident | Houston Car Accident Attorney", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Workers Critically Injured after Electrocution Accident\nWorkers Critically Injured after Electrocution Accident\nAn accident has left five CenterPoint Energy workers critically injured. According to the Houston Fire Department, the workers suffered from being shocked on the job at a building in downtown Houston. The five were working at the Southwestern Bell building in the 1100 block of Capitol at San Jacinto around 10 a.m. Thursday morning. Employees in the building reported a power outage. A crew member was working on an electrical vault outside the building when somehow the fixture burst into flame and shocked the other workers. According to a Houston Fire Department spokesperson, the power vault is located l outside the building, and was not connected, and has a strong barrier around it, however the workers were inside when it flashed. In that flash, the five workers were hit with 480 volts of electricity. After rescue crews went down to reach the five injured workers. The five men were then transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital. All five are listed in critical condition with one suffering from second and third degree burns from the neck down. No one ever goes to work with the expectation of being hurt on the job. Most accidents involving electric shock or even burns tend to happen in workplace settings. Ideally, workman\u2019s compensation will take care of the medical treatment for these types of injuries, but the expense of rehab, a reduced wage for a worker who cannot come back to work right away. Sometimes employers will do anything to avoid having to pay worker\u2019s compensation claims or a claim can be denied. Sometimes when workers are injured on the job, the employer is not to blame. Injuries on the job can come from unsafe working conditions where a third party or defective product is involved. Because certain types of jobs involve a higher amount of risk for serious injuries or even death, having a good, experienced attorney on your side to help you navigate through the insurance claims is a must. If you have been injured on the job or a loved one has suffered from a workplace injury, give our offices a call. Our firm\u2019s attorneys have many years of experience in the courts in workplace injury cases. An attorney will take the time to go over the details of your case and even act as a liaison between you and insurance companies and workman\u2019s compensation to ensure that you receive fair treatment. Give us a call and speak with an attorney today. We can help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/event/houston-livestock-show-and-rodeo-11213161", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PLAAZEGT5XCCWSHV3RT42IFB4KQ5RLFU", "length": 537, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.houstonpress.com", "title": "Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Tickets - NRG Park - Houston Press", "raw_content": "Time: Daily from February 25 until March 17\nJoin us for Houston\u2019s favorite tradition, Feb. 25 \u2013 March 17 at NRG Park! There is something for everyone at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, including super star entertainers in concert nightly. Don\u2019t miss out on your chance to see your favorite performers for as low as $20, including Kacey Musgraves, Luke Bryan, Camila Cabello, Zedd and many more. Tickets are available now at rodeohouston.com \u2013 buy yours today!\nMore Events @ NRG Park\n2019 Across The Track Cook-Off Team Tent Tickets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hrjforemanlaws.co.uk/legal-services/debt-claims", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:5F7MEKEJUI2C2JNGEFME4SM6SV5EJGFP", "length": 1938, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.hrjforemanlaws.co.uk", "title": "Debt Recovery Claims", "raw_content": "Our experienced solicitor who provides advice and representation to businesses in relation to claims for debt recovery is:\nNeil Johnson \u2013 Senior Associate Solicitor\nNeil has a joint honours degree in Economic History and Geography from the University of Glasgow and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Westminster. Having been called to the Bar in 2003, Neil cross-qualified as a solicitor in 2008. Neil has Higher Rights of Audience, which allows him to represent his clients as a solicitor-advocate in the senior civil courts of England and Wales. He has been accepting instructions in debt recovery matters for the past 10 years.\nThese costs apply where your claim is in relation to an unpaid invoice which is not disputed and enforcement action is not needed. If the other party disputes your claim at any point, we will discuss any further work required and provide you with revised advice about costs if necessary, which could be on a fixed fee (eg if a one off letter is required), or an hourly rate if more extensive work is needed.\nOur fee (incl VAT)\n4.5% - 5% of the value of claim\n\u00a31,025 plus VAT or 5% of the value of the claim, whichever is the higher\nInterest and compensation may take the debt into a higher banding with a higher cost.\nTaking your instructions and reviewing documentation.\nReceiving payment and sending on to you, or if the debt is not paid, drafting and issuing claim\nWhen Judgement in Default is received, writing to the other side to request payment\nIf payment is not received within 14 days, providing you with advice on next steps and likely costs.\nMatters usually take 8-16 weeks from receipt of instructions from you, to receipt of payment from the other side, depending on whether or not it is necessary to issue a claim. This is on the basis that the other side pays promptly on receipt of Judgement in Default. If enforcement action is needed, the matter will take longer to resolve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fraternity-groups-college-rape_us_55c10396e4b0e716be074a7f?kvcommref=mostpopular&utm_hp_ref=breakingthesilence", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:UR4YYKEV765ZVXIZJWD74VLQP6AZM6G2", "length": 9130, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Fraternity Groups Push Bills To Limit College Rape Investigations | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Fraternity Groups Push Bills To Limit College Rape Investigations\nIn some circumstances, colleges would be forbidden from expelling a student for sexual assault.\nRep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) has authored legislation to enhance protections for students accused of sexual assault, and to block colleges from investigating rape claims if the alleged victim does not report it to police.\nColleges would not be allowed to punish a student for committing sexual assault unless the alleged victim agrees to report their attack to police, under a pair of new bills pushed by national fraternity organizations and opposed by higher education groups.\nThe North-American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Conference, umbrella groups representing fraternities and sororities, are promoting legislation that calls for new protections for students accused of rape. The legislation, introduced last week in the House of Representatives, would also limit the cases that colleges can investigate.\nThe fraternity groups, including the Fraternity & Sorority Political Action Committee, say the bills would address concerns raised by several higher education groups. However, many of the higher ed trade groups cited by the NIC told The Huffington Post they do not support the legislation, and some said they do not believe fraternities understand the concerns of college and university administrators about sexual assault.\nA pair of similar bills were presented on July 29 \u2015 the Safe Campus Act, sponsored by Reps. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Pete Sessions (R-Texas), and the Fair Campus Act, sponsored by Sessions and Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.) \u2015 just as the Senate conducted its first hearing on a bipartisan bill that would institute new regulations on how colleges handle sexual assault.\nThe Safe Campus Act, the more comprehensive of the two bills, stipulates that colleges may only investigate an allegation of a criminal sexual assault if the alleged victim agrees to report it to local law enforcement. If the alleged victim chooses not to do so, then the school would be forbidden to investigate or carry out any sort of punishment against the student accused of sexual assault, no matter what evidence is available. The school would only be able to offer counseling and academic or interim accommodations to the alleged victim.\nFrom the Safe Campus Act:\nIf an individual provides a notification to the institution under this paragraph with respect to an allegation, the institution may not initiate or otherwise carry out any institutional disciplinary proceeding with respect to the allegation, including imposing interim measures described in subsection, but only if the individual includes in the notification a statement that the individual understands the effect under this subparagraph of providing the notification.\nThe Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a higher education civil liberties group, said this restriction would be a good thing.\n\u201cCurrently, when the police aren\u2019t called, allegations of criminal misconduct are adjudicated by a patchwork campus system that has proven unable to fairly and competently adjudicate these accusations, frequently sacrificing the rights of the accuser, the accused, or both parties,\u201d Joseph Cohn, FIRE\u2019s legislative and policy director, said in a statement last week. \u201cFIRE does recommend, however, that non-punitive interim measures and accommodations be made available regardless of the student\u2019s decision to report.\u201d\nFratPAC described the Safe Campus Act as a bill that would \u201cbring more perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.\u201d NIC pointed to several instances in which members of the American Council on Education, a group representing college presidents, have voiced concerns about conflicts in sexual violence investigations. But ACE says it does not support the Safe Campus Act, noting that it had no role in the bill\u2019s formulation.\n\u201cThe suggestion that the bill addresses issues raised by ACE is simply speculation by those supporting the bill,\u201d the group said in a statement to HuffPost. \u201cHowever, colleges and universities would have grave reservations about any legislation that would limit our ability to ensure a safe campus.\u201d\nTo be sure, colleges and universities have raised objections to the Senate legislation on campus sexual assault. And schools are generally quick to remind critics that they don\u2019t have the same investigative power as the criminal justice system, and can\u2019t be expected to go to the same lengths in dealing with certain allegations. But higher education trade groups have not called for an end to campus adjudications, and many said they object to the restriction that would be imposed by the Safe Campus Act:\nAn official with the Association of American Universities, a group that represents elite research institutions, told HuffPost, \u201cWe don\u2019t support the bill and do not consider it a response to concerns expressed by higher education.\u201d\nNIC said the bill aligns with the Association for Student Conduct Administration\u2019s call to hold off on sexual assault investigations while law enforcement is handling a case. But Laura Bennett, president of the ASCA, said the group absolutely does not support the Safe Campus Act or the Fair Campus Act. \u201cNot only do they conflict with federal law such as Title IX,\u201d said Bennett, \u201cthey interfere with student conduct procedures that colleges and universities have in place to treat every student fairly and respectfully.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not certain that [the bill\u2019s authors] necessarily understand our concerns, let alone properly deal with them,\u201d said Makese Motley, spokesman for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Motley noted that the authors of the Safe Campus Act didn\u2019t discuss the legislation with the AASCU.\nThe National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities declined to endorse the bill, saying the group had not been consulted on the legislation and that its focus is on \u201cgiving colleges the flexibility to adapt and evolve as advances in best practices occur.\u201d\n\u201cThe legislation doesn\u2019t actually respond to the complexity that colleges and universities have to navigate with reports and allegations of sexual assault and violence while affirming the rights of both the survivor and the accused,\u201d said Andrew Morse, director for policy research and advocacy at NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.\n\u201cTo be clear, we have never been in support of the idea of blocking colleges from investigating complaints of sexual assault when the victim chooses not to involve law enforcement,\u201d said Jeff Lieberson, spokesman for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.\nBoth the Safe and the Fair Campus Acts include other provisions meant to increase the amount of due process afforded to students accused of sexual violence and fraternities accused of misconduct. While the U.S. Department of Education is investigating claims at 128 colleges \u2015 largely from alleged victims of sexual assault \u2015 that the schools mishandled their cases, a number of men accused of rape have also filed lawsuits against universities alleging mistreatment.\nUnder the proposed legislation, colleges would be able to use whatever standard of evidence they wish in campus adjudications. Currently, the Education Department tells schools they must rely on the \u201cpreponderance of evidence\u201d standard. In other words, a school has to believe there is at least a 51 percent chance an accused student is responsible for a transgression before the school can issue whatever punishment it sees fit.\nThe Safe and Fair Campus Acts could allow schools to set a much higher standard in these proceedings, potentially making it more difficult to punish offenders. In addition, accused students would get access to \u201call material evidence... not later than one week prior to the start of any formal hearing or similar adjudicatory proceeding,\u201d the bills state.\nColleges are obligated to respond to reports of sexual violence due to the gender equity law Title IX. The Safe Campus Act states that a school following its provisions would not be found in violation of Title IX.\nThe NIC and NPC declined to make anyone available for interview, but said through a spokesperson that they are seeking to limit campus rape investigations because \u201cany crime of violence committed against a student should involve a law enforcement role to hold the perpetrators accountable.\u201d\nThe NIC and NPC had previously floated the idea of blocking colleges from investigating sexual assault cases until after a police investigation and criminal trial. The proposal was met with backlash from U.S. senators, sexual assault advocacy groups and members of fraternities and sororities.\nRead the text of the Safe Campus Act below:\nSafe Campus Bill, As Introduced (PDF)\nSafe Campus Bill, As Introduced (Text)\nTyler Kingkade covers higher education and sexual violence, and is based in New York. You can contact him at tyler.kingkade@huffingtonpost.com, or on Twitter @tylerkingkade.\nSexual Assault Rape Breakingthesilence College Sexual Assault Greek Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 10714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imprisoned-sex-offender-charged-1975-murder-lyon-sisters-case-1511053", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:645YYYZCFW2OZE2NJVHDCZ6U2RNCYREG", "length": 3369, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.co.uk", "title": "US: Imprisoned sex offender charged in 1975 murder of Maryland sisters Sheila and Katherine Lyon", "raw_content": "US: Imprisoned sex offender charged in 1975 murder of Maryland sisters Sheila and Katherine Lyon\nLloyd Lee Welch is pictured in this 1977 booking photo courtesy of the Montgomery County Police. Welch, who has been imprisoned since 1997 as a \\\"convicted child sex offender\\\" was named a \\\"person of interest\\\" in the 1975 case of the disappearance of two sisters last seen at a Maryland mall by Chief Tom Manger of the Montgomery County Police Department during a press conference February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Montgomery County Police/Handout via Reuters\nAn imprisoned sex offender was charged with first-degree murder of two Maryland sisters, who disappeared from a suburban Maryland mall in 1975, authorities announced on 15 July.\nAccording to Fox News, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and her 10-year-old sister Katharine walked from their home to the Wheaton Plaza Mall in March 1975, but never returned home. The girl's remains were never found.\nThe case, which has remained a mystery for decades, finally led investigators to a suspect. Fifty-eight-year-old Lloyd Lee Michael Welch Jr, a child sex offender who is serving a long prison sentence in Delaware, was indicted on two first-degree murder charges by a grand jury on 10 July. Welch also faces charges of abduction and murder with the intent to defile.\nThis case has never left the collective consciousness of this police department nor our community. We know what Katherine and Sheila were like....These were wonderful, wonderful, naive, young children...It has remained with us forever.\n- John McCarthy, Montgomery County Attorney\nIn a press conference on 15 July, Montgomery County Attorney John McCarthy said, \"This case has never left the collective consciousness of this police department nor our community.\"\nMcCarthy continued, \"We know what Katherine and Sheila were like....These were wonderful, wonderful, naive, young children...It has remained with us forever.\"\nFox News reported that at the time of the sisters's disappearance, a then 18-year-old Welch was a carnival worker and drifter. According to investigators, Welch was at the mall the day the girls went to the mall and was witnessed paying attention to them.\nIn 2014, authorities reignited the search for the girls's remains in the mountains of Bedford County, Virginia, some 200 miles from Wheaton.\nWelch and his 70-year-old uncle Richard Welch had previously been named persons of interest in the case. According to Fox News, Richard Welch's wife Patricia was charged with perjury in December after testifying to the grand jury.\nThe Washington Post reported that Lloyd Welch denied his involvement in the girl's disappearance in a letter. Police affidavits however, revealed that Welch told investigators he took the girls from the mall and witnessed one of them get sexually assaulted by his uncle. He alleged he left the home and never saw the Lyon sisters again.\nWelch allegedly asked a relative in rural Virginia to wash bloody clothes he carried in a duffel bag, which investigators believe could link him to the sister's presumed deaths, the Post reported.\nCalifornia Police refuse to apologise after falsely accusing kidnap victim Denise Huskins of \\'Gone Girl\\' hoax\nFormer Boston Uber driver accused in 2014 rape faces five new sexual assault charges\nCharleston shooting: Dylann Roof allegedly pens response to serial killer fan letter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ihirehospitality.com/employers/help/topic/how-do-i-change-the-contact-information-on-my-account", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPW4S47XBD43XCTEGWOHC2IMNXMAHI4W", "length": 576, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ihirehospitality.com", "title": "Change my Account and Contact Information", "raw_content": "To change your Account information (your name, email address, company address, phone number, or password), log in and click on \u201cAccount\u201d in the blue navigation bar at the top of the page. Once you\u2019ve made your changes, be sure to click \u201cSave Changes.\u201d\nAlternatively, you may click on \u201cAccount\u201d in the dark gray box on the left side of your dashboard to access this page, or simply use this link: https://www.ihire.com/employer/account/edit\nFrom the Account tab, you can also change your company\u2019s branding information, view your payment methods, or view your purchase history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/statistics-langham-somerset-21389.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SGSLRB4JACL3UL7J6XTT4PBR5VBVB7GN", "length": 2713, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.ilivehere.co.uk", "title": "Socio-economic statistics for Langham, Somerset", "raw_content": "Socio-economic statistics for Langham, Somerset\nIf you are thinking of moving to Langham or just want to know a what the area is like, the statistics on this page should give you a good introduction. They cover a range of socio-economic factors so you can compare Langham to figures for Somerset and nationally. These statistics can tell you if Langham is an economically deprived area and how hard it might be to get a job.\nLangham Social Grade & Occcupation Statistics\nLangham General Health Statistics\nThe respondents of the 2011 Census were asked to rate their health. These are the results for Langham. The percentage of residents in Langham rating their health as 'very good' is less than the national average.\nLangham Benefits & Unemployment Statistics\nThese figures on the claiming of benefits in Langham come from the Department for Work & Pensions and are dated . They can often be a good indicator of the prosperity of the town and possible indicator of how hard it would be to get employment in the area. The rate of unemployment in Langham is both lower than the average for Somerset and lower than the national average, suggesting that finding a job in this area maybe easier than most places. The rate of claiming any benefit (which includes in work benefits) is more than 10% lower in Langham than the national average, suggesting higher salaries than the average in the area.\nLangham Immigration Statistics\nThese figures for Country of Birth for the residents of Langham are from the UK Census of 2011. Since Langham has a higher level of residents born in the UK than the national average and a lower rate of residents either born in other EU countries or outside the EU, it does not have a significant immigrant population.\nLangham Age Distribution Statistics\nThe population of Langham as a whole, is older than the national average.\nLangham Property Ownership & Rental Statistics\nLangham Education Statistics\nThese statistics are for the highest level education obtained by the residents of Langham and are from the UK Census of 2011.\nDo you live in Langham? Let us know what you think in the comments below.\nSocio-economic statistics for Langham, Dorset\nSocio-economic statistics for Langham, Suffolk\nSocio-economic statistics for Langham, Essex\nSocio-economic statistics for Langham, Norfolk\nSocio-economic statistics for Langham, Rutland\nSocio-economic statistics for Angersleigh, Somerset\nSocio-economic statistics for Dowlish Ford, Somerset\nSocio-economic statistics for Halse Water, Somerset\nTags: Langham, Langham Age statistics, Langham Education statistics, Langham Health statistics, Langham Immigration statistics, Langham statistics, Langham Unemployment rate, Somerset, statistics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 7332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250067357", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:NCBHYYRYPULNSQARDZR2KN335TUKEUYP", "length": 11131, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.indiebound.org", "title": "The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes | IndieBound.org", "raw_content": "The Making of Home (Hardcover)\nThe 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes\nThe 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian City\nThe idea that \"home\" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her most ambitious work to date, \"home\" is a relatively new idea.\nIn The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history. What turned a house into a home? Why did northwestern Europe, a politically unimportant, sociologically underdeveloped region of the world, suddenly became the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist crucible that created modernity? While investigating these important questions, Flanders uncovers the fascinating development of ordinary household items--from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to fitted kitchens, plumbing and windows--while also dismantling many domestic myths.\nIn this prodigiously researched and engagingly written book, Flanders elegantly draws together the threads of religion, history, economics, technology and the arts to show not merely what happened, but why it happened: how we ended up in a world where we can all say, like Dorothy in Oz, \"There's no place like home.\"\nJUDITH FLANDERS is an international bestselling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era. Her book Inside the Victorian Home was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. Judith is a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in London.\nPraise For The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes\u2026\n\u201cJudith Flanders\u2019s new book isn\u2019t just smart and diverting but it is also brave\u2026 Flanders uses books well and pictures intelligently, searching images for hidden meaning\u2026 this book has charm and learning.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review\n\u201cThe heart of Ms. Flanders\u2019s book traces the physical alteration of houses over the past five centuries\u2026 A useful synthesis for those interested in architectural history and material culture\u201d\u2014The Wall Street Journal\n\u201cWhen did houses evolve into homes? You\u2019ll find out in Flanders\u2019 lively trek through some 500 years of history.\u201d\u2014Entertainment Weekly, \u201cFall Books Preview, Riveting Nonfiction\u201d\n\"Flanders, a historian best known for her works on Victorian culture, has a knack for finding surprising, alternative perspectives on the familiar. In her new book, she takes an unconventional look at how our modern idea of home came to be.\" \u2014The Washington Post\n\u201cNo one writes about history like Judith Flanders. Reading her work (The Victorian City, Inside the Victorian Home) is like going back in time with an expert guide at your side.\u2026 In The Making of Home, Flanders helps us appreciate how much there is to know about something we care about so deeply.\u201d\u2014BookPage\n\u201c[Flanders] provides illuminating discussions about evolving home life as impacted by societal and economic changes. Some segments, for their value in understanding home traditions from the past, beg to be broken off and expanded into their own books\u2026 Flanders has written a book that is chock-full of absorbing information that will change how readers think about and understand their own homes \u2013 whether they are squeezed into a city apartment or lost in a multi-room manor.\u201d\u2014The Christian Science Monitor\n\u201cAn engrossing tour... It's a fascinating, eye-opening examination of just how far we've come in five centuries...It's possible to pick out any one of 100 different threads in Flanders's work and marvel at how they're all interconnected; you'll never take a fork for granted again.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly, starred review\n\u201cOver 500 years we moved out of huts and into McMansions, but British social historian Flanders says there are many aspects to home, including some that are just a state of mind.\u201d\u2014St. Louis Post-Dispatch, \u201cFall Book Preview\u201d\n\u201cExtensively researched and eminently readable\u2026 Flanders\u2019 treatise is an encyclopedic examination of how humans have redefined what it takes to survive.\u201d\u2014Booklist\n\u201cThe content is scholarly and well researched but is presented in a manner accessible to the general reader...Recommended for social historians as well as fans of HGTV and design blogs who are interested in learning more about the history of the home.\u201d\u2014Library Journal\n\u201cCovering all aspects of home life, Flanders even delves into modern architecture, popular in the house countries, which creates designs for ostentation rather than usefulness. The author's extensive knowledge of lifestyles and simple, concise writing combine for an enjoyable book showing how families have joined, separated, and rejoined over the last 500 years.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews\n\u201cFlanders' prose is witty and lucid, her ideas stimulating... In this clever and entertaining book she gives the everyday, from bed-making to drain-pipes, all the vivid interest of something newly made strange.\u201d \u2014London Sunday Times\n\u201cEnthralling... A delicious yet nerdy treat.\u201d \u2014London Times\n\u201cA treasure chest, bursting with facts and thoughts about what homes mean and how they have been lived in: a perfect book to curl up with in the comfort of your own.\u201d \u2014Mail on Sunday (UK)\n\u201cMagnificent... wonderfully rich and witty.\u201d \u2014Times Literary Supplement (UK)\n\u201cFlanders is at her riveting best when she gets right down to the housework. Flanders demonstrates how nakedly the measure of our social worth is laid out in domestic consumables. She is an efficient debunker of myths about poverty, family and the past. In her search for meaning she wipes the dust, clears the cobwebs and pulls the stuffing out of the cushions. It is in the down and dirty of the home that our hopes and delusions are revealed.\u201d \u2014Financial Times (UK)\n\u201cFrom the humble shack to the modern high-rise, Judith Flanders brilliantly illuminates the meaning of 'home' throughout history. The Making of Home is a fascinating and ambitious exploration into the soul of family life. We are more than what we eat, we are also how we live.\u201d \u2014Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of The Duchess\n\u201cA well-stuffed compendium on the transformational era in the history of London that fed both Charles Dickens' imagination and his well of outrage.... Flanders writes with bubbling enthusiasm about the old markets, Covent Garden and Smithfield, with their accompanying din and smells, and the plethora of life we only know through Dickens' eyes: the street vendors and artists, matchstick sellers, slum dwellers, prostitutes, habitu\u00e9s of gin palaces and prisoners. A terrific companion while reading Boz himself.\u201d \u2014Kirkus on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cFlanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel of London at Dickens's peak as she delves deep into the rhythms and architecture of particular neighborhoods\u2026. Flanders's expertise shines when exposing Dickens's embellishments, particularly when his character Fagin faces execution rather than the less powerful but more realistic punishment of deportment. This well-researched sociological overview provides highly detailed context for cultural touchstones, while shattering the popular yet inauthentic image of a pristine Victorian age that never existed.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cOutstanding.\u201d \u2014Sunday Times (London) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cThe teeming, bustling, hand-to-mouth and often smelly facts of mid-19th century urban life have seldom been more vividly presented than in this book.\u201d \u2014Literary Review on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cWith infectious enthusiasm Judith Flanders dives into the sights, smells, sounds and grit of what was then the largest city the world had ever known: London.\u201d \u2014Sunday Telegraph (London) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cFull of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.\u201d \u2014Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year (London) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cA quite extraordinary book, which I read with much enjoyment: an intoxicating blend of London, life and literature... I think it's Judith Flanders' best book yet, which is saying something.\u201d \u2014Andrew Taylor\n\u201cMeticulous and gripping... Flanders says that Dickens appealed to contemporaries because he gave them a voyage into the unknown: into parts of London they did not know and where they would not venture. She does something similar for us. The strangeness remains, but the voyage is unforgettable.\u201d \u2014Independent (UK) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cFlanders captures the variety and colour of 19th-century London, stirring admiration and indignation by turns. To lead us through the Victorian capital, through its hustle and sprawl, its dangers and entertainments, you couldn't hope for a better guide.\u201d \u2014New Statesman (UK) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cRecreates the textures of everyday life with an anthropologist's understanding of human behaviour alongside a storyteller's eye for character.\u201d \u2014Daily Telegraph (UK) on THE VICTORIAN CITY\n\u201cJudith Flanders's wonderful, sometimes appalling The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, is a guidebook to notably grisly true-life tales... [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting. Holmes once chided Watson, 'You see but you don't observe.' Ms. Flanders does both. This is an enticing book for any reader who, like the genteel lady in Emily Eden's The Semi-Detached House (1859), admits: 'There is such a grand murder in the paper . . . a whole family poisoned . . . it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.'\u201d \u2014Wall Street Journal on THE INVENTION OF MURDER\n\u201cFlanders' meticulous research, personable style and keen insights are bliss for anyone interested in the Victorians and their quirks.\u201d \u2014Seattle Times on THE INVENTION OF MURDER\n\u201cSuperb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly, starred review on THE INVENTION OF MURDER\n\u201cBrilliantly researched and rendered, this is an indispensible read for anyone\u2014scholars and the general public alike\u2014who harbors an interest in the evolution of the notion and representation of murder\u2026.Flanders presents a fascinating narrative in well-crafted and at times suitably ironic praise.\u201d \u2014Library Journal, starred review on THE INVENTION OF MURDER", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 12491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781581573114", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AJ6F5HUMK5YAMUM37DFLHPBJPR3MJT6N", "length": 922, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.indiebound.org", "title": "The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century | IndieBound.org", "raw_content": "The Typewriter Revolution (Paperback)\nA Typist's Companion for the 21st Century\nBy Richard Polt\nCountryman Press, 9781581573114, 384pp.\nWhat do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiedb.com/members/fafhred/hardware", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7EBP3XQVXKIOQBQYIA4YDQ4EMWYVY4WB", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.indiedb.com", "title": "Fafhred - Indie DB", "raw_content": "Christian joined Jul 17, 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiewire.com/2011/05/jim-james-originally-hired-to-write-music-for-the-muppets-songs-on-new-my-morning-jacket-album-118303/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:05Z", "digest": "sha1:YCXYTFZFIQGUG3LFAIWMDUCHY4Z3MKTQ", "length": 2724, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.indiewire.com", "title": "Jim James Originally Hired To Write Music For \u2018The Muppets,\u2019 Songs On New My Morning Jacket Album | IndieWire", "raw_content": "Jim James Originally Hired To Write Music For \u2018The Muppets,\u2019 Songs On New My Morning Jacket Album\nJim James Originally Hired To Write Music For 'The Muppets,' Songs On New My Morning Jacket Album\nThanks to the two recent teaser trailers \u201cThe Muppets\u201d looks like a total blast, capturing the vibe that made us giddy for the felt covered co-stars back when we were in short pants. The film features an all star cast (Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Rashida Jones, Chris Cooper with cameos from Emily Blunt, Ricky Gervais, Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis and more) and will be tuned up by \u201cFlight of the Conchords\u201d star Bret McKenzie. But it wasn\u2019t always that way. With My Morning Jacket\u2018s new album \u201cCircuital\u201d hitting stores today, frontman Jim James has been doing the press rounds revealing that at one time he was on track write songs for the upcoming movie, but that you can hear some of his efforts on the band\u2019s latest long player.\n\u201c\u2018Wonderful\u2019 and \u2018Outta My System\u2019 were my attempts to do new music for a new version of the Muppets\u2019 Electric Mayhem band [in which Animal plays the drums], and unfortunately the guy who hired us for it was fired during a corporate takeover,\u201d James explained to Vulture about his hiring and firing. \u201cThen we had a separate chance to do the songs for the Muppets movie, but that didn\u2019t work out, either. Maybe someone will read this and give us another shot. The original versions of the songs were more Muppet-y, more bouncy, like I\u2019m singing in more of a goofy voice.\u201d\nJames also tells GQ that the songs would be more kid friendly if they made the movie saying, \u201cIf it ended up being for the Electric Mayhem band, I would\u2019ve taken out the drug references.\u201d Well, yeah.\nAnyway, you can take a listen to the songs in question below and dream of what could have been. But McKenzie is certainly no slouch and we can\u2019t wait to see what he brings forth, particularly with his former \u201cFlight Of The Conchords\u201d director James Bobin at the helm. \u201cThe Muppets\u201d hits theaters on November 23rd. And oh yeah, in case you forget, that Todd Haynes directed webcast of the band\u2019s concert is tonight as well. You can watch it right here starting at 9 PM EST.\nMy Morning Jacket \u201cOutta My System\u201d\nThis Article is related to: Uncategorized and tagged Films, Jim James, Musicians, My Morning Jacket, The Muppets\n\u2018The Happytime Murders\u2019 Review: Melissa McCarthy\u2019s Painfully Unfunny Puppet Noir Is an Utter Abomination\nKermit the Frog Voice Actor Steve Whitmire Is Mysteriously Leaving the Muppets After Nearly Thirty Years\nFrank Oz Slams ABC\u2019s \u2018The Muppets\u2019 and Reveals His Favorite Characters in Candid Interview\nDeath Cab for Cutie Releases Anti-Trump Song \u2018Million-Dollar Loan\u2019 \u2014 Listen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 7397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infjs.com/threads/no-longer-attracted-to-older-men-at-all.30585/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CCJ6M3IL255WEKC4QPN5TAB4VFNWKPK2", "length": 8645, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.infjs.com", "title": "No longer attracted to older men at all | INFJ Forum", "raw_content": "Discussion in 'Relationships and Sociology' started by Artemisia, Sep 7, 2015.\nI am 32 years old and until age 30, I was exclusively attracted to men who were a lot older than me. In my 20s, I dated guys who were in their 40s and even early 50s. At age 31, I found myself exclusively attracted to men who are around my age, plus or minus a few years. Now, I do not find myself being interested to men over age 42. So what is going on?\nMy dad passed away when I was 29 and I was always very close to him. I wonder if you INFJs on this forum have anything to say about this. What could have triggered this massive shift? Did I have daddy issues before and now that dad is gone, they are no longer here? Or could it be that the failured relationships with older men in the past made me go the opposite direction? I'm trying to sort this one out. All the women in my family save my aunt married men who were more than 5 years older than them.\n#1 Artemisia, Sep 7, 2015\nMaybe you're just more aware of what people are like at different ages, and have enough experience to know what works and what doesn't. Sometimes, the novelty of dating someone older is intriguing, but then you have the experience, and it's not what you expected, and so you adjust your thought process to accept the reality, rather than stew in the fantasy of what you thought it would be.\n#2 Gaze, Sep 7, 2015\nI identify with this. You probably were trying to fill the void of an older man in your life for some time. Or you were just young, and for whatever reason appreciated the company of older men. Maybe because men mature emotionally later than woman, maybe you were attracted to the perceived \"authority\" or success of older men. I was similar I believe because my dad became disabled when I was a teen. I think I was trying to replace a \"strong\" older man in my life (even though I am blessed that he was and still is in my life of course, but he was reliant on me in many ways rather than vise versa). It wasn't until I was almost exactly your age that I met my husband who is only 2 years older.\n#3 PintoBean, Sep 7, 2015\nPintoBean said: \u2191\nI identify with this. You probably were trying to fill the void of an older man in your life for some time. Or you were just young, and for whatever reason appreciated the company of older men. Maybe because men mature emotionally later than woman, maybe you were attracted to the perceived \"authority\" or success of older men. I was similar I believe because my dad became disabled when I was a teen. I think I was trying to replace a \"strong\" older man in my life (even though I am blessed that he was and still is in my life of course, but he was reliant on me in many ways rather than vise versa). It wasn't until I was almost exactly your age that I met my husband is only 2 years older.\nDid this realization (that you are no longer into older men) cause some sort of an emotional crisis for a while? I remember having it last year, but this year, my emotional crisis is more about my own self-esteem rather than my aversion to much older men.\nNo, it was just kind of a sudden change. I met my husband and that's when \"the change\" happened. Maybe I would have loved him no matter if he was older or not. I felt calm and confident about loving him and never looked back at the silver foxes.\n32 and early 50s is hardly \"a lot \" older than you.\n#6 Eventhorizon, Sep 7, 2015\nSo, what would you call \"a lot\"? Cuz 20 years sounds like a lot.\ndrummergirlbk Community Member\nInteresting. It's funny how when both people are older the age difference seems to be less of a deal. By the time I'm 32 my fiance will be almost 50 and yet we've been treated like shit by people we know yet have nearly the same difference in age. If anything our age difference is less yet I've had to hide this fact from my family since they are so damn judgmental about everything.\nhttps://www.etsy.com/shop/ShawSquared?ref=hdr&view_type=gallery\n#8 drummergirlbk, Sep 7, 2015\ndrummergirlbk said: \u2191\nInteresting. It's funny how when both people are older the age difference seems to be less of a deal. By the time I'm 32 my fiance will be almost 50 and yet we've been treated like shit by people we know yet have nearly the same difference in age.\nThis is so true and i'm sorry you two are treated that way. It is such a stigma in our society but when the younger hits their 30's, it's not a big deal any more. I wonder what the reaction would be if the roles were reversed? An older woman and a younger man 20 years her junior?\n#9 Free, Sep 7, 2015\ndrummergirlbk likes this.\nMaybe it sounds like a lot but what are you basing your idea on? Your own perception or what society has lead you to believe?\n#10 Eventhorizon, Sep 7, 2015\nHere is what I think. Each person you meet and enter into a relationship with, be it friend or romantic partner, is in your life because you have something to learn and they can teach you. Whatever you are searching for on the surface, underneath it all is the desire to develop into the most whole person you can be. If you are attracted to someone, for whatever reason, it is most likely because you haven't learned what you need to yet and that person has the key. The age of this person is irrelevant.\n#11 Scientia, Sep 7, 2015\nhush and Free like this.\nMy point was that 20 years is a significant generational difference. That amount of age can have an effect on how the couple interacts with each other. I am not sure how or why a simple remark like this gets turned into a judgment of couples with huge age differences.\n#12 Gaze, Sep 7, 2015\nI asked two questions. Hardly judgment.\nWas there anything more to the relationship than it being just a relationship? I mean, dating a guy that much older than you could lead to a large discrepancy in maturity, experience, or influence within the relationship (in terms of financial resources, being established in the community, etc.). Maybe now that you're older and more established yourself, you don't need older guys to offer you any of that and don't get any bonus from dating an older guy as a result? I can see the appeal of being with someone who it feels like can take care of you or who is more emotionally developed than you as well. Guys in their 20s usually can't offer that and tend to be pretty damn immature.\nNot to mention that guys in their 20s are going to go for girls in their 20s whereas older guys know that they have almost no chance with a girl in her 20s, meaning that older guys feel luckier to be with a 20 something than guys in their 20s do.\n#14 Faye, Sep 12, 2015\nSounds like you were attracted to the 'idea' of an older man as opposed to the person himself. Perhaps you've matured enough to now look at the person as an individual and not a 'concept' that you are looking for.\nI can tell you that, although there are some exceptions, most men who will date much younger women are not the mature ones and they are not looking for a serious long-term relationship.\n#15 La Sagna, Sep 12, 2015\nLa Sagna said: \u2191\nNice. No bias there.\n#16 Eventhorizon, Sep 12, 2015\nPersonal observation plus discussions on the subject with a number of men. The more mature ones that I have spoken to don't understand the appeal of a younger woman besides just outward appearance and wanting to feel like a 'stud'. I did say that there are some exceptions. It is one thing if someone happens to fall in love with somebody of a different age group that they know, but deliberately targeting a very different age group, like much younger women or older men, is about the 'concept' and how it makes you feel as opposed to the actual individual. People can do whatever they want, but it's a good idea to have your eyes open as to what the dynamic is.\nEric Dane will still be 42 for like more than 2 more months! go for it!\n#18 invisible, Sep 12, 2015\nhush likes this.\npocketoli\nI had to Google who that was, then I was like... oh. :lol:\n#19 hush, Sep 12, 2015\nScientia and invisible like this.\nDont agree with your \"dynamic\". I think its born from emotion. Why are most men only interested in younger women. Oh it must be looks alone because there cant be any connection other than that.\nI could say any amount of hurtful things regarding older women and why men look past them that go far beyond appearance and all of them would be true. However I doubt they would be helpful in this instance so I wont.\nSimilar Threads - longer attracted older\nAre you attracted to Ni's supposed mind reading ability?\nla boheme, Jan 11, 2015, in forum: Relationships and Sociology\nlonger the relationship the less he sees me\nuning, Aug 31, 2009, in forum: Relationships and Sociology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 657, "original_length": 21582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infowars.com/reckless-endangerment-totally-corrupt-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7KPTCC457O2BDVHTWKMELF7V2MOVPKVT", "length": 5914, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.infowars.com", "title": "Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America", "raw_content": "Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America\nLast March I reviewed Matt Taibbi\u2019s important book Griftopia, an entertaining account of the through-going financial fraud that gave us the financial crisis. http://www.vdare.com/print/13156 Taibbi shows that the US \u201csuperpower\u201d can match any third world backwater in the magnitude of greed and fraud that is endemic in business and government. I would not be surprised if Taibbi\u2019s book motivated the more aware participants of Occupy Wall Street.\nTaibbi\u2019s Griftopia was published last year. This year Henry Holt publishers have provided us with Gretchen Morgenson and Joshur Rosner\u2019s Reckless Endangerment.\nMorgenson and Rosner tell the story again, but with less drama and provocation. Possibly, it might be more acceptable to those gullible Americans who wrap themselves in the flag and refuse to believe that their country could ever knowingly do anything that is wrong.\nI am not suggesting that Morgenson and Rosner pull their punches. To the contrary, the authors deliver enough knockouts to be contenders with Taibbi as world champions in exposing the reckless fraud that the US financial sector and its regulators now epitomize.\nThe financial crisis, which is very much still with us, did not result from accident or miscalculation; neither did it result because of a flaw in Alan Greenspan\u2019s theory, as he told Congress when a feeble effort was made to hold him accountable. It was the intentional result of people motivated by short-term profits who wanted to get theirs and get out.\nAs Reckless Endangerment shows, fraud characterized every stage of the process from the fraudulent borrower incomes and credit scores that mortgage issuers gave to unqualified buyers, through the securitization of the mortgages and their triple-A investment grade ratings by the rating agencies (Standard & Poor\u2019s especially, but also Moody\u2019s and Fitch) to the investment banks that sold what the banks knew was junk to investors around the world as investment grade securities. Indeed, Goldman Sachs was simultaneously betting against the mortgage derivatives that it was selling to clients.\nInvestment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, which once considered it a matter of honor to represent the interests of customers, took advantage of the trust that had been built up in the past to commit fraud against customers in order to advance the banks\u2019 short-term profits and the out-sized multi-million dollar managerial bonuses that these fraudulent profits produced.\nMorgenson and Rosner provide a number of unique accounts of how those benefitting from fraud were able to defeat laws that were passed that would have held them to account. For example, the state of Georgia passed perfect legislation that held predatory lending to account. William J. Brennan Jr. and Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes got the Georgia Fair Lending Act through the state legislature. It was a model for other states. As the federal regulators had thrown in the towel, the state laws would have prevent the worst part of the financial crisis, it not prevented the crisis altogether.\nThe Georgia law only lasted a few months, because the rating agencies saw that their enormous profits from issuing fraudulent investment grade ratings were threatened by the law. The corrupt rating agencies mischaracterized the consumer protection act as a jihad by regulators. Standard & Poor\u2019s declared that it would no longer allow Georgia mortgages to be placed in mortgage securities that it rated.\nIn other words, Georgia mortgages could no longer be securitized. This announcement banned Georgia mortgage lenders from securitization. Thus, the law was overturned, and fraud ran wild.\nThese kind of mafia strong-armed tactics in order to protect at all costs the short-term mega-bonuses that drove the totally fraudulent system have never been held accountable or punished. Totally innocent people are held indefinitely and tortured by the US government for no other reason than to convince the gullible public that they are endangered by terrorists, but those who wiped out the home ownership and retirement pensions of millions of Americans now hold high and honorable positions on corporate boards and US regulatory agencies.\nFederal regulatory agencies totally failed. Brooksley Born tried to use her statutory authority to regulate over-the-counter derivatives, but she was blocked by the Federal Reserve chairman, the US Treasure secretary, and the SEC chairman and forced to resign. As University of Chicago Nobel economist George Stigler predicted, regulatory agencies are captured by those who are intended to be regulated. This was the case. Regulators turned a blind eye to obvious criminal fraud, and were rewarded with lucrative positions in the financial community. The same for the US senators and representatives who repealed Glass-Steagal and other financial regulations.\nFor example, former US senator Phil Gramm who spearheaded the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking, the repeal of which set up the financial crisis, was rewarded by being made vice chairman of the mega-bank UBS, a Swiss global financial services company.\nWhat Taibbi, Morgenson and Rosner make clear is that while monster criminals continue to collect their multi-million dollar annual incomes, depressed single mothers, deserted by the men who fathered their child, are sent to prison for having small quantities of illegal drugs to boost their depressed spirits, and their children are put out to adoption.\nThis is \u201cjustice\u201d in America where there is \u201cfreedom and democracy.\u201d\nDr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, \u201cHow the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,\u201d details why America is disintegrating.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 12789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/07/05/randolph-college-will-end-equestrian-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U24A57JV72B6OWLGTLLYRBJIH2DFXHM4", "length": 764, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.insidehighered.com", "title": "Randolph College Will End Equestrian Program", "raw_content": "Randolph College Will End Equestrian Program\nRandolph College announced this week that it is eliminating its equestrian program. A statement from President Bradley W. Bateman said that the college is not in \"financial peril\" but must make responsible financial decisions. The program requires an annual subsidy of $350,000, has not been meeting its enrollment goals and uses facilities in need of renovation, he said. Many alumni have been urging the college to keep the program and raising money for an endowment to do so, but Bateman said that those efforts did not yield sufficient results.\nRandolph was formerly a women's college, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. And women's colleges in Virginia's \"horse country\" have historically had popular riding programs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 349, "original_length": 11564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/the-gift-adviser/2015/3/25/dept-of-sticky-gifts-changing-the-purpose-of-a-restricted-en.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IILCPQUCUBACT5B4WCI6W7OSNLVPOV45", "length": 7956, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.insidephilanthropy.com", "title": "Dept. of Sticky Gifts: Changing the Purpose of a Restricted Endowment \u2014 Inside Philanthropy", "raw_content": "Dept. of Sticky Gifts: Changing the Purpose of a Restricted Endowment\nAs discussed in a prior post, a restricted endowment is one in which the donor has specified the purpose toward which the income is to be spent. But what happens if conditions change and the charity can no longer comply with the spending restriction? Endowments are forever, but society changes.\nI once had a client that had been given land and a financial endowment to be used for an orphanage. Today, though, residential institutions dedicated to the care of orphans are not the favored way of addressing this issue. Can the charity simply direct these assets to the costs of 21st century orphan care?\nWhat happens if the charity simply wants to change the spending restriction? Suppose, in the preceding example, the charity was exiting the orphanage business altogether because it wanted to concentrate on foster care and adoption services? Can this charity simply divert the funds generated by the restricted endowment toward these other services? The charity would try to make the case that last century\u2019s orphanage is today\u2019s foster care and adoption system, and the orphanage money should naturally flow to these more modern services. Is it that simple?\nThe answer is usually \"no\"\u2014the charity cannot simply change how it uses a donor-restricted endowment where the donor has specified how the income is to be spent. In most states, however, the legislature (as part of the nonprofit corporation statute or some other law) allows organizations to seek judicial release or modification of donor restrictions if certain common law and/or statutory standards are met.\nThis usually involves petitioning the state\u2019s attorney general; ultimately the attorney general and the charity appear before a court to obtain approval of the proposed change. In theory, the attorney general represents the people and the charity represents itself. Ideally, a charity would like to appear in court with an attorney general who does not object to the proposed change or changes.\nIn most states, the language of the statute regarding the release of donor restrictions addresses restrictions that have become \u201cobsolete,\u201d \u201cinappropriate,\u201d \u201cimpracticable,\u201d or \u201cimpossible.\u201d Determining this is not as easy as one might think.\nThere was once a famous Ivy League university which held a nearly 200-year-old endowment, the income from which was to be used for scholarships for Baptist students. In the 1960s, when the university stopped asking a student\u2019s religion on its application form, complying with this endowment\u2019s scholarship restriction became \u201cimpossible.\u201d The university approached the state attorney general, who agreed that a change was likely appropriate and a date was set to appear before a Judge.\nThe university argued that it could no longer comply with the terms of the endowment and that it wanted to spend the endowment\u2019s annual income within the regular scholarship program. The judge, however, questioned how the university could be so sure that the donor from two centuries ago was primarily interested in subsidizing the education of students to that university vs. subsidizing the education of Baptist students at any university. If the donor was, in fact, most interested in the education of Baptists, then releasing the religious restriction on this scholarship money appeared inappropriate to the judge. The university countered that it was inappropriate to ask the religious preferences of its applicants and students in this day and age.\nThe judge asked the attorney general to poll other institutions of higher education in the area and ask if any of them could and would administer a scholarship program directed toward Baptist students as beneficiaries. When the attorney general came back to the court with the news that there was, indeed, another higher education institution willing to provide specific scholarship funds to Baptist students, the judge ordered the $30 million endowment transferred to the other institution. Needless to say, this was not the ruling that the Ivy League university anticipated.\nVariance Power\nIt may not have any relationship to the above case, but a relatively new clause has been added to the gift instruments in place at community trusts and institutions of higher education. This clause is known as the variance power clause of the gift instrument. Charities now either provide their donors with boilerplate gift instruments encouraging the donor to use that document for making their gift or they insist upon the insertion of the variance power clause into the donor\u2019s gift instrument.\nVariance power clauses indicate that if changed circumstances have rendered it unnecessary, undesirable, impracticable, or impossible to comply with a restriction imposed on an endowment fund, the board of the trust or charity may redirect the assets to other appropriate charitable purposes without the need for a court proceeding or attorney general review. Quite simply, this means that the charity has unilateral power to change the purpose for which the endowment was given. To date, there have been few situations where charities have used this variance power\u2014possibly because it is so new.\nHowever, donors should not take variance power lightly. Had this Ivy League university had variance power over the endowment discussed above, those college scholarships restricted to Baptist students would be gone forever.\nAlso, while few charities have used their variance power to this point, note that the language allowing the institution to release the donor restriction is quite broad: \u201cChanged circumstances have rendered it unnecessary, undesirable, impracticable, or impossible to comply with a restriction\u2026\u201d Let\u2019s take one example and see how this might play out some day.\nAssume a donor has provided a community foundation with an endowment directing income is to the local Boy Scouts chapter. Now, however, as a result of the Boy Scouts policy against gay scout leaders, the community foundation believes it is undesirable to fund that institution. If the community foundation has variance power over that endowment, it can simply redirect the income to another charity and away from the Boy Scout organization. Impossible, you say? If I were advising a donor, I would raise this potential and ask what the donor thinks of the variance power clause.\nSuppose a charity will not accept an endowment gift without a variance power clause in the gift instrument? What can a donor do? The donor can establish a charitable trust staffed with trustees who are charged with distributing the income to the intended charity. The donor can also provide the trustees with specific instructions should it ever become \u201cimpracticable\u201d or \u201cimpossible\u201d to comply with the income restrictions of the trust. Presumably, the donor\u2019s hand-picked trustees are more likely to follow his or her desires than those of the charity board. Could this be a reason why some donors create charitable trusts while others donate directly to the beneficiary charity?\nAlternatively, if the donor does not want to create a charitable trust, then he or she might consider providing the recipient charity with specific instructions regarding when and where the charity may repurpose the gift. Those instructions could also include requesting that the charity transfer the endowment to another charity that more closely matches the donor\u2019s original intentions. If this option is included, the donor should provide for some financial compensation to the charity that is being asked to conduct a search for an alternative organization and to pass the endowment along.\nIn summary, it is very important for both the charities and the donors to recognize that with endowment gifts that are designed to last in perpetuity, a little planning and anticipation for changes in the future is definitely in order.\nPerpetuity is a Long Time: A Closer ...\nThe Real Scandal Over the Avery ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 12179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insideselfstorage.com/development/cainbridge-investments-opens-coolbox-self-storage-hoover-al", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VPEWATOYEICVFJR6D6B44PU7YKH2OORG", "length": 2121, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.insideselfstorage.com", "title": "Cainbridge Investments Opens CoolBox Self Storage in Hoover, AL | Inside Self-Storage", "raw_content": "Cainbridge Investments Opens CoolBox Self Storage in Hoover, AL\nReal estate investment firm Cainbridge Investments LLC has opened CoolBox Self Storage in Hoover, Ala. The facility at 5215 Caldwell Mill Road comprises about 91,000 net rentable square feet in 771 units.\nCoolBox features two large elevators, loading areas large enough to accommodate tractor-trailers, wide aisles, motion-sensor lighting and piped-in music. It also offers a \u201cconnections center\u201d where local businesses can leave their business cards for customers seeking goods and services. Customers can use a move-in truck for free and purchase boxes and moving supplies in the retail center, according to a press release.\nThe facility also offers touchless entry. It\u2019s Easy Code access system allows tenants to use their smartphones to automatically enter the property with a unique passcode, the release stated.\n\u201cWhen we began our site-selection process, it became evident that North Shelby County was the perfect spot to build a state-of-the-art climate-controlled facility,\u201d said Philip Crane, a partner with Cainbridge. \u201cWe feel very fortunate to be part of the community and look forward to providing a great experience for all of our customers.\u201d\nUniversal Storage Group (USG), a self-storage operator and third-party management firm, will oversee the property. \u201cWe have been given a top-notch storage facility to manage, and we could not be more proud,\u201d said David Dixon, chief operating officer of USG. \u201cThe many access points for loading and unloading will allow our customers to save time and effort while they are moving into the facility. Moving companies also love our building because they can save time by being so close to their storage units.\u201d\nBased in Alabaster, Ala., Cainbridge specializes in real estate investment. It plans to open a second CoolBox location in the Birmingham, Ala., market in March 2019.\nBased in Atlanta, USG owns or manages more than 60 self-storage facilities comprising more than 4.2 million net rentable square feet. It also has an office in Columbia, S.C.\nAL.com, Keep Your Stuff Cool at CoolBox Self Storage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 5128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.instron.us/en-us/testing-solutions/by-standard/iso", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:42:17Z", "digest": "sha1:P3CHNZ7UTRPNPK3SJO6DLTS7ZCW7WVUF", "length": 354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.instron.us", "title": "ISO - Instron", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Testing Solutions \u00bb By Standard \u00bb ISO\nISO standards that are referenced in this section are not intended to be a complete and comprehensive list, but a list of the most prominent and widely-used ISO standards within the materials testing industry. For solutions that are not mentioned within this section, please contact your local Instron office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 5108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.intolerancetest.in/intolerance-videos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RPIEIRJKITZIRA6VMEVB4LCB36WALHMX", "length": 635, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.intolerancetest.in", "title": "Intolerance Videos - Intolerance Test India", "raw_content": "Intolerance facts.\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/attyi-why-test.mp4\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bread-alternatives.mp4\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/common-intolerances.mp4\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/dairy-milk-alternatives.mp4\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/five-ways-to-beat-bloating.mp4\nIntolerance test information.\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Test-Your-Intolerance-The-Next-Step.mp4\nhttps://www.intolerancetest.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/intolerance.mp4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 74.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iq-mag.net/2017/05/22-people-dead-bombing-ariana-grande-manchester-arena/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CVFOHOCMVUFUVADIGZAR2ZDTXZKTZ6EG", "length": 3340, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.iq-mag.net", "title": "22 people dead after bombing at Manchester Arena | IQ Magazine", "raw_content": "22 people dead after bombing at Manchester Arena\nIndustry and political figures react to news of the IS-claimed attack at an Ariana Grande concert last night which has claimed the lives of children as young as eight\nimage \u00a9 Kim Erlandsen/NRK P3\nAt least 22 people, many of them children, have lost their lives after a suicide bombing at Manchester Arena for which the Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility.\nAn explosion ripped through the foyer of the 21,000-cap. UK venue at around 22:40 last night, shortly after the conclusion of a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande (pictured), with the mostly young, female audience the apparent target. More than 50 people are also known to have been injured.\nChief constable Ian Hopkins of Greater Manchester Police described the attack \u2013 believed to have been carried out by 22-year old Salman Abedi, who died at the arena \u2013 as \u201cthe most horrific incident we have had to face in Greater Manchester, and one that we hoped we would never see\u201d.\n\u201cWe are deeply saddened by this senseless tragedy\u201d\nThe bombing is the worst terrorist attack in Britain in more than a decade, and comes 21 years after the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombed Manchester in an attack that left no one dead but injured 212.\nIt is also the deadliest terrorist attack on a music venue since the mass shooting at Bataclan in Paris in November 2015, which led to many venues, promoters and festivals rethinking their security strategies in response to the growing global threat of Islamist terror.\nSpeaking in Downing Street, UK prime minister Theresa May said: \u201cAll acts of terrorism are cowardly attacks against innocent people but this attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent and defenceless young people.\u201d\nMany foreign leaders have expressed their condolences, including US President Donald Trump who said the \u201cslaughter of innocent people, mostly innocent children\u201d was wicked and the work of an \u201cevil loser\u201d.\nAccording to Pollstar\u2019s annual figures on the arena market, Manchester Arena was the fourth busiest arena in the world in 2016, with total ticket sales of 851,785 for concerts.\n\u201cAll acts of terrorism are cowardly attacks against innocent people but this attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent and defenceless young people.\u201d\nThe arena issued a statement condemning the attack, which read: \u201cLast night, our community suffered a senseless tragedy\u2026 Our entire team\u2019s thoughts and focus are now on supporting the people affected and their families.\n\u201cWe are assisting the police in any way we can. We cannot praise the emergency services enough for their response and have been inspired by the way the people of this great city of Manchester rallied round last night and have continued to respond today. It shows the very best of this city.\n\u201cAgain, our thoughts and deepest condolences are with all those affected by last night\u2019s tragedy.\u201d\nLive Nation, which promoted the Grande show, says: \u201cWe are deeply saddened by this senseless tragedy, and our hearts and thoughts are with those impacted by this devastating incident.\u201d\nTimeline: Attacks on live music In the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, IQ has compiled a short timeline of terrorist incidents at concerts and festivals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/?utm_source=link&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=sectionlink", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4CCJUR4ZIQSULZROOT3NEEI4XUOIYRBM", "length": 205, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.irishexaminer.com", "title": "Ireland | Irish Examiner", "raw_content": "BREAKING NEWS - IRELAND\nThe Ivory Tower restaurant in Cork City is set to close its doors after more than a quarter of a century.\nThe Psychiatric Nurses Association has suspended next week's strike action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 5412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/japan-pm-abe-track-landslide-weekend-poll.html/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:77ISIL5MDX6N62KM4QHZDWOXMZHMRKMF", "length": 2145, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.irrawaddy.com", "title": "Japan PM Abe on Track for Landslide in Weekend Poll", "raw_content": "Japan PM Abe on Track for Landslide in Weekend Poll\nJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, campaigning in Tokyo on Sunday. (Photo: Yuya Shino / Reuters)\nTOKYO \u2014Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s ruling party is on track for a landslide victory in a Dec. 14 election and could take a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament even without its coalition partner, a media projection showed.\nThe result of the survey by the Mainichi newspaper was similar to previous forecasts, suggesting the prospect of a landslide has not caused voters to change their minds. Abe has dubbed the election a referendum on his reflationary policies.\nAbe\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to take 303-320 seats of the powerful chamber\u2019s 475 seats, the forecast showed, indicating the LDP may grab the 317 seats on its own to hold a \u201csuper majority\u201d needed to override votes in the upper house.\nThe expected win would make it easier for Abe to push ahead with his \u201cAbenomics\u201d recipe, despite the fact that many voters say they have yet to feel the positive impact and data shows the economy slipped into recession in the third quarter through September.\nWhen Abe dissolved the lower house, the LDP held 295 seats, and together with its junior partner, the Komeito party held 326 seats. Reforms cut the number of seats in the chamber by five.\nNews on Monday that the economy had contracted more than thought in the third quarter after an April sales tax rise was unlikely to affect the election, with many voters opting for the LDP because of dissatisfaction with the opposition rather than a positive groundswell for the ruling party, some analysts said.\n\u201cThis is an election without choice,\u201d said Tomoaki Iwai, political science professor at Nihon University, adding that voter turnout may be even lower than than the record low hit in the 2012 election that brought Abe and the LDP back to power.\nThe opposition Democratic Party is expected to win between 65 and 81 seats, more than the 62 it had before the election but far below the 100 it has targeted, the Mainichi survey showed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/walking-walk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:19Z", "digest": "sha1:JNLBBYHPXMQ7PPYICCO6FIPSBOJUIV2N", "length": 11720, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.irrawaddy.com", "title": "Walking the Walk on Constitutional Change in Myanmar", "raw_content": "Mandalay Protestors Call for End to Ethnic Conflict\nThai Court Rejects Bail of Suspects in Koh Tao Murder Case\nEthnic Bloc Condemns Attacks on Kachin, Insists Talks Continue\nHong Kong Student Leaders Arrested as Police Move on Protest Site\nIndian Sterilization Targets Remain in All But Name, Critics Say\nOn UN Women\u2019s Day, Burma\u2019s Shortcomings Exposed\nCambodia Khmer Rouge Trial Suspended Until January\nBurma Army to Assist with Festival Security in Kachin State\nParliament Proposes High-Level Charter Talks\nUpper House Adopts Nationwide PR System\nGovt to Push Left-Hand Steering Wheels on Future Car Imports\nRangoon Authorities to Build New Road, Ferry Gate to Help Students Commute\nBy Kyaw Zwa Moe 28 November 2014\nBurma seriously needs talks, but talking for talking\u2019s sake is not enough. These must be substantive discussions that will eventually lead to solutions to the country\u2019s many problems, bringing about benefits for its diverse peoples.\nThese days, many Burmese people are convinced that a dialogue is, now more than ever, essential to resolve longstanding grievances over the country\u2019s undemocratic Constitution. But the current stage of the constitutional amendment process is far from where we need to be. We are still talking about having talks.\nOn Tuesday, Parliament unanimously endorsed six-party talks\u2014to involve President Thein Sein, the speakers of both Houses of Parliament, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, military commander in chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and an ethnic representative\u2014to address amending the 2008 Constitution, which was drafted by the former military regime. It was the first time ever that Burma\u2019s Parliament has endorsed such talks.\nMore interestingly, the proposal was submitted by a parliamentarian from the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Lawmakers seemed to endorse the meeting in hopes that it might help thaw Burma\u2019s currently frozen constitutional discussions, which have hit a snag after military representatives in Parliament came out against any change to the charter.\nThe opposition and ethnic groups have not objected to the idea. Suu Kyi herself told reporters outside Parliament on Tuesday: \u201cI do not oppose this proposal. This shows that the Parliament agrees that high-level leaders should have these discussions, and I consider this an improvement.\u201d\nOn Thursday, Parliament moved quickly to choose an ethnic representative, voting for Arakanese lawmaker Aye Maung to represent them at the proposed sexpartite meeting.\nBut the idea appears to have been met with the cold shoulder from Thein Sein. Presidential spokesman Ye Htut told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday that a six-party discussion would be \u201cnot pragmatic\u201d and was unlikely to happen.\nThe military seems to be of the same mind. Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing recently told Voice of America that four-party talks earlier proposed by Suu Kyi would be \u201cnarrow.\u201d Suu Kyi\u2019s sought-after four-party talks would involve Thein Sein, Union House Speaker Shwe Mann, the military chief Min Aung Hlaing and herself.\nIn a separate VOA interview, the president matched the senior general\u2019s sentiment: \u201cDiscussion is the right way, but only four of us is not inclusive enough,\u201d he told the broadcaster in comments made before Parliament\u2019s endorsement of six-party talks.\nThe president and the military chief are believed to want to stick to the format of a 14-party roundtable meeting held in late October.\nKyaw Zwa Moe is editor (English Edition) of\nthe Irrawaddy magazine. He can be reached at [email protected]\nUnfortunately, that meeting didn\u2019t result in any progress on the pressing issues that the country faces. Many critics said the meeting was held as a political ploy, just prior to US President Barack Obama\u2019s visit to Burma in mid-November. Fourteen representatives from government, political parties and the military sat down in Naypyidaw, with participants including Thein Sein, Min Aung Hlaing, Shwe Mann and the opposition leader Suu Kyi.\nThe latest developments in Burma\u2019s dynamic political arena appear to be splitting the country\u2019s leaders into two camps. On one side, there are those in support of a six-party dialogue: parliamentary members from both Suu Kyi\u2019s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and the ruling USDP, and Burma\u2019s ethnic political parties. Many of the country\u2019s most prominent voices outside Parliament, such as 88 Generation leaders, are also throwing their support behind a sexpartite outcome.\nOn the other side: Thein Sein and the military establishment.\nWhy is the president and military averse to sitting down with the four other representatives proposed by Parliament? They seem to think a larger dialogue bringing more voices\u2014and potentially conflicting views\u2014to the table will increase the likelihood that the political status quo prevails through the 2015 election. That status quo affords military representatives in Parliament a veto over most amendments to the charter, including the provision barring Suu Kyi from the presidency.\nA genuine dialogue is crucial not only to discuss amending the Constitution, but also to address Burma\u2019s various other problems, including a peace process with the country\u2019s ethnic minority groups that is foundering.\nSince Thein Sein took office in March 2011, the president and Suu Kyi have held bilateral meetings six times, though if those sit-downs included substantive discussions on issues like constitutional change, there\u2019s little to show for it today.\nAnd while talking about constitutional talks is progress when you consider where the country was three years ago, it\u2019s high time that those doing the talking move on to the arduous work of negotiation and compromise. Instead of talking the talk, it\u2019s time to walk the walk.\nA Timeline of Suu Kyi\u2019s Many Meetings\nDec. 4, 2015 \u2014 National League for Democracy (NLD) chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi meets former dictator Than Shwe at his residence in Naypyidaw. Quoting the ex-junta leader, Than Shwe\u2019s grandson Nay Shwe Thway Aung wrote on Facebook: \u201cIt is the truth that she will become the future leader of the country after winning the election. I will support her with all of my efforts if she works for the development of this country.\u201d\nDec. 2, 2015 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein and military commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing separately in Burma\u2019s capital Naypyidaw. Thein Sein and Suu Kyi are said to have discussed ensuring a peaceful power transfer. Her meeting with the commander-in-chief is their first bilateral sit-down since Min Aung Hlaing assumed the post in 2011. \u201cBoth sides agreed to follow the people\u2019s wish to collaborate for the country\u2019s stability, rule of law, national unity and development during the meeting,\u201d read a statement released by the military afterward.\nNov. 19, 2015 \u2014 Union Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann meets Suu Kyi on the opening day of the 13th regular session of Parliament following a request by the opposition leader, who sent separate letters on Nov. 10 to Thein Sein, Min Aung Hlaing and Shwe Mann after preliminary election results indicated a big win for her party. Shwe Mann and Suu Kyi have met several times since then.\nJan. 12, 2015 \u2014 Thein Sein convenes 48-party talks in Naypyidaw involving Suu Kyi, Shwe Mann, the two vice-presidents, Min Aung Hlaing, 28 ethnic affairs ministers, leaders of ethnic political parties and USDP general secretary Htay Oo. Suu Kyi said the large gathering \u201cshouldn\u2019t be an excuse\u201d to avoid her party\u2019s proposed narrower dialogue.\nApril 8, 2015 \u2014 Another round of 48-party talks is held in Naypyidaw ahead of a six-party dialogue.\nApril 10, 2015 \u2014 A six-party dialogue on constitutional reform and upcoming national elections is held in Naypyidaw involving President Thein Sein, Aung San Suu Kyi, parliamentary leaders, an ethnic representative and the Burma Army commander in chief Min Aung Hlaing.\nOct. 31, 2014 \u2014 The first-ever high-level roundtable meeting is held in Naypyidaw with 14 participants in attendance: Thein Sein; Min Aung Hlaing; Suu Kyi; Deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win; Shwe Mann; Upper House Speaker Khin Aung Myint; Union Election Commission chairman Tin Aye; vice presidents Nyan Tun and Sai Mauk Kham; USDP Vice Chairman Htay Oo; National Unity Party representative Thein Tun; Nationalities Brotherhood Federation leader Sai Aik Pao; Federal Democratic Alliance leader Khin Maung Swe; and United Nationalities Alliance leader Khun Htun Oo. The meeting yields little against high expectations from political parties and the general public.\nMarch 9, 2014 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets Thein Sein, their fourth sit-down since their historic first meeting in 2011. During the meeting, the two leaders may have discussed a four-party meeting that Suu Kyi had proposed to the president in November. The opposition leader has called for talks to be held involving herself, Thein Sein, the powerful Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann and the Burmese military\u2019s commander in chief, Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, to discuss amendments to Burma\u2019s Constitution.\nAug. 31, 2013 \u2014 Thein Sein and Suu Kyi meet in Naypyidaw and exchange views on the state of the country\u2019s political affairs.\nSept. 25, 2012 \u2014 Suu Kyi and Thein Sein meet in New York. On Sept. 16, Suu Kyi began a 17-day visit to Washington, New York, Kentucky and the West Coast. Thein Sein arrived in New York on Sept. 25 for the UN General Assembly.\nIn September, Thein Sein says in an interview with BBC that he could accept a Suu Kyi presidency.\nAug. 12, 2012 \u2014 Suu Kyi holds her first talks with Thein Sein since becoming a member of Parliament. The Burmese opposition leader and Thein Sein discuss a wide range of issues but details of the two-hour meeting are confidential, according to Col. Zaw Htay, director of the President\u2019s Office. The talks take place in the capital, Naypyidaw.\nApril 12, 2012 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets Thein Sein again ahead of her historic entry into Parliament. NLD spokesman Nyan Win says that during the talks in the capital, Naypyidaw, the two discussed democratization and the peace process with ethnic rebels, as well as parliamentary affairs.\nAug. 19, 2011 \u2014 Aung San Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein for the first time in Naypyidaw. The meeting lasts nearly an hour and is \u201csignificant,\u201d a government official says. The meeting is believed to have paved the way for the NLD to rejoin electoral politics and collaborate in promoting political reconciliation.\nOctober 2007 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets then Information Minister Aung Kyi, who was appointed by Burma\u2019s military junta as a liaison to hold talks with Suu Kyi. He meets with the opposition leader at least three times over the next four years.\nJanuary 2002 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets Than Shwe. Following the meeting, the junta steps up the release of political prisoners and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party is allowed to reopen 35 of its branches in Rangoon.\n1989 \u2014 Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi tries in vain to meet with then Snr-Gen Saw Maung in the aftermath of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising.\nSept. 20, 1994 \u2014Suu Kyi meets the chairman of State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), Gen. Than Shwe, and Secretary One, Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, at a governmental guesthouse. The meeting is the result of mediation by Dr. Rewata Dhamma, a Burmese Buddhist monk living in the United Kingdom.\nOct. 28, 1994 \u2014 A second meeting between SLORC representatives\u2014Khin Nyunt, Armed Forces Judge-Advocate Brig-Gen Than Oo and Armed Forces Inspector-General Brig-Gen Tin Aye\u2014and Suu Kyi takes place at a governmental guesthouse.2000 \u2014 Suu Kyi meets then Sen-Gen Than Shwe. Details of the exact time and venue are unknown.\nThis post was updated on Dec. 8 to include Suu Kyi\u2019s latest meetings, on Nov. 19, Dec. 2 and Dec. 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 15956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/article33391641.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DBDR5HIIHPMFX7YYBACRUR52XEEIYKZZ", "length": 338, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.islandpacket.com", "title": "4 killed in car-train crash in Hardeeville | Hilton Head Island Packet", "raw_content": "A team of Highway Patrol officials and the Jasper County Coroner were investigating late Monday, Felder said.Gary Sease, a spokesman for CSX, said the train was heading south.\nAccording to the Amtrak Web site, the train involved likely was the 89 Palmetto that leaves Charleston at 7:15 p.m. and was due to arrive in Savannah at 9:03 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itsgoodfor.biz/case-study/twitter-use-explodes-after-embrace-user-invented-hashtags", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BEHQIJH4GTOSCC7SO47HEQSZMZLFTJU6", "length": 426, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.itsgoodfor.biz", "title": "Twitter Use Explodes After Embrace of User-Invented Hashtags | Case Study", "raw_content": "Twitter started out as a service that would only produce plain text. When Twitter users began using hashtags on the service, Twitter initially resisted calls from users to officially support them. As hashtags continued to become popular, Twitter reversed course and embraced them, leading to an explosion of their use on the service. Today, hashtags\u2014and thus Twitter\u2014are \u201ceverywhere\u201d and \u201cimpossible to ignore in our society.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ittf.com/2018/07/19/tehran-proves-ideal-destination-coach-education-course/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:57Z", "digest": "sha1:WT5BOPEYRNUFXGQWEQDNVNTG7M4QOWZS", "length": 2294, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ittf.com", "title": "Tehran proves ideal destination for coach education course - International Table Tennis Federation", "raw_content": "Tehran proves ideal destination for coach education course\nThe most populous city in Iran, located centrally thus affording access from throughout the length and breadth of the country, Tehran, the capital, was the host for a recent ITTF/PTT Level One Coaches Course.\nOrganised under the auspices of the ITTF Development Programme, supported by the Table Tennis Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran, the Tehran Provincial Committee and the Asian Table Tennis Union, proceedings commenced on Thursday 5th July and concluded on Monday 9th July.\nMembers of the ITTF/PTT Level One group (Photo: courtesy of Hamideh Iranmanesh)\nAt the helm of proceedings was Hamideh Iranmanesh; well educated she has a PhD in Sport Sciences, having focused in particular on Motor Behaviour at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.\nAdditionally, she has represented the national team and is currently one of the coaches at the National Table Tennis Academy; it was the first time that she had led an ITTF/PTT Level One course in Tehran.\nThroughout, the detailed itinerary was conducted at the Table Tennis Academy of the Islamic Republic of Iran; all the necessary facilities were provided. Notably, the hall had previously being visited by Glenn Tepper in his role as ITTF Deputy Chief Executive Officer and by Christian Lillieroos, one of the most experienced ITTF Course Conductors. They had led ITTF Level and ITTF Level Two Courses.\nA practical session being staged at the Table Tennis Academy of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Photo: courtesy of Hamideh Iranmanesh\nOverall, a total of 14 coaches from eight provinces attended; among the group were both high level coaches and some who had played for the National Junior Team.\n\u201dMy thanks must go to Afshin Badiee, Development Officer for the Asian Table Tennis Union. I am grateful for his support and advice. In conclusion, my special thanks go to the Iran Table Tennis Federation for preparing all the requirements to spread these courses in all parts of the country.\u201d Hamideh Iranmanesh\nA well organised, course, the contents of the ITTF/PTT Level One Coaches Manual were followed throughout.\nThe para table tennis element was well received by all members of the group (Photo: courtesy of Hamideh Iranmanesh\nHigh Performance and Development Hamideh Iranmanesh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2014-03-20/story/glynn-county-dismisses-chairwoman-animal-control-advisory-committee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:57Z", "digest": "sha1:EEFWW6CXOMHOAAUR7OMFUZ7LPMENKWUD", "length": 2554, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.jacksonville.com", "title": "Glynn County dismisses chairwoman of animal control advisory committee - News - The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL", "raw_content": "Glynn County dismisses chairwoman of animal control advisory committee\nBRUNSWICK - Marci DeSart said the Glynn County Commission ousted her as head of its Animal Services Advisory Board Thursday because she told the truth and pushed for a no-kill shelter.\n\"From 2006 until 2013, 83% of the cats and 50% of the dogs that have come into the shelter have been killed,\" she said. \"That's 17,573 killed by Glynn County Animal Services.\"\nDeSart created charts showing the rate of euthanization and posted them on Facebook.\n\"Since I created the charts, I have become a target,\" she said. \"No one knew the level of killing that was going on. I feel like they've built a case around me to derail the no-kill initiative.\"\nCounty commissioners told a different story leading up to their vote to remove her.\nThey said she set up the Facebook page without county oversight, openly criticized animal control staff, refused to go through the chain of command to address a problem and stepped outside the bounds of her job description.\nThe role of the board, they said, is not to run the shelter but to make recommendations to the County Commission.\n\"There has been somebody who has not been a team member on board,\" Commissioner May Hunt said as she made the motion to remove DeSart.\nCommissioner Richard Strickland seconded the motion, saying, \"This doesn't have anything to do with no-kill. It has to do with an individual who is causing real problems on this board.\"\nAnother advisory board member, Ashby Nix, said after the meeting that DeSart had been an effective chairman even if her tactics were questionable at times.\n\"She did bring a lot of facts out to the public,\" Nix said. \"That was highly controversial. Glynn County didn't like having that kind of material advertised.\"\nA feud of sorts has simmered between the advisory board and the County Commission for several months. At its January work session, the commission lambasted the advisory board and issued a warning at its next regular meeting that changes were on the way.\nPrior to their vote, they said DeSart was warned to change her ways but had continued her unacceptable behavior.\nNix said much of the conflict could be attributed to the commission's refusal to address board members directly.\n\"Throughout this whole thing, they have not had a discussion with the advisory board,\" she said.\nDespite DeSart's contention, commissioners said they will give the no-kill option a hard look.\n\"I think there is an opportunity for us to get together and look at no-kill,\" Hunt said. \"We do see its merits.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 4855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/brick/camp-osborn-application-still-undecided/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:WYWLQLIXJGBPISYLMHUFNC2THLGMYRVI", "length": 4743, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.jerseyshoreonline.com", "title": "Camp Osborn Application Still Undecided | Jersey Shore Online", "raw_content": "Home Brick Camp Osborn Application Still Undecided\nCamp Osborn Application Still Undecided\nJudy Smestad-Nunn\nThe vacant Camp Osborn property as it stands today. Lyndhurst Drive is on the right. (Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn)\nBRICK \u2013 Representatives for a developer who wants to build seven homes on a 1.405-acre sliver of land on the barrier island met before the Board of Adjustment for the second time on Feb. 28.\nIt was the second application for the site, which was formerly the site of 32 bungalows as part of Camp Osborn, which burned to the ground during Superstorm Sandy.\nThe Board of Adjustment previously gave the nod for a 2016 application for 14 homes to be built there, but in a lawsuit filed by a beachfront property owner, JStar LLC, who owns an adjacent oceanfront home on Lyndhurst Drive, attorneys argued that the plan did not abide by current zoning laws. A superior court judge agreed, which led to this new application.\nThe attorney for JStar LLC, Robert C. Shea, spent most of the first Board of Adjustment hearing, held in early February, arguing legal minutiae in what the developer\u2019s attorney John Jackson called filibustering.\nSince then, Shea filed an appeal to have the application dismissed because the proposal still does not abide by current zoning laws.\nThe Board of Adjustment agreed to hear the application since it had substantial changes over the previous application, said Board attorney John Miller. He said that the appeal would be heard at a later date.\nJackson gave an overview of the application, which is land that was formerly a \u201ctightly-spaced bungalow community,\u201d and \u201cground zero\u201d during Superstorm Sandy when wave action and a gas line-fueled fire destroyed the homes there. It is now a vacant lot.\nHe said that the developer, JR Prestifilippo, Jr. of Crimson Capital, had hired Mike Melillo A1A Architects to design seven homes for the property, five to be built along Cummins Street and two on the oceanfront.\nThe developer is requesting a density variance since a majority of the lots are below the bulk requirements for the zone, Jackson said. Most of the homes do not have the minimum front yard setbacks, but the garages are large enough to stack up to six cars.\nCummins Street, which would have a clamshell surface, would will be made available for the use of the redevelopment of the remaining Camp Osborn neighborhoods, which Jackson said was an important aspect of the application.\nThese drawings show what the proposed homes would look like. (Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn)\n\u201cThis plan facilitates and promotes an area that is still in distress,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is harmonious and consistent with the development pattern on the barrier island along the beach.\u201d\nThe homes would be built to \u201cV-zone\u201d (a term used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for coastal areas subject to flood events with additional hazards associated with storm-induced waves) standards for durability and resiliency, Jackson said, even though they would not be located in a V-zone area due to the steel revetment.\n\u201cIt would be out of character and inefficient to have one large barren estate on the property,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cOur design is a better design because a broader segment of the community would be enjoying the ocean.\u201d\nThe developer\u2019s engineer, Jeffrey J. Carr, testified that the five homes planned for Cummins Street mirror the adjacent homes on Lyndhurst Drive which pre-date Sandy.\nTownship assistant planner Tara Paxton said the Board of Adjustment had approved variances for those homes \u201cyears and years ago\u2026some of them are narrower than the lot lines we are requesting,\u201d she said.\nThis application only addresses property owned by Bob Osborn who leased the land to the previous residents in the bungalow community, Carr explained. After the neighborhood was destroyed the homeowners were released of their leases, he said.\nIn the other two sections of Camp Osborn, each individual has interest in their properties, and they are working on developing plans for the future, Carr said.\nA third special Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at which time the board may or may not vote on the application.\nCamp Osborn\nPrevious articleMarijuana Activists Try To Change Berkeley\u2019s Ban\nNext articlePinelands School Receives Threatening Message\nJudy moved to Ocean County from New York City in 1988, and began her second career as a feature and news reporter in the mid-1990's. She has worked for Micromedia Publications since 2008, primarily reporting for The Toms River Times and The Brick Times. Judy has also worked for The Leader Review in Point Pleasant Beach, The Brick Communicator and The Asbury Park Press. Reach Judy by e-mail at Judysmestadnunn@gmail.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 7111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jlaugusta.org/holiday-market-ladies-night-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IMEI77OLXNTRHTYNEUSHW27DTJGDAUQU", "length": 815, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jlaugusta.org", "title": "Holiday Market Ladies\u2019 Night Out | Junior League of Augusta", "raw_content": "Holiday Market Ladies\u2019 Night Out\nColumbia County Exhibition Center, 7-10pm\nGrab a girlfriend and come enjoy this ladies only event. Featuring local artists, a Lululemon Athletica Pop-Up Shop, and more. Your $35 ticket includes delicious food and non-alcoholic beverages catered by Silver Palm. A cash bar will be available.\nEvery ticket purchased promotes the Junior League of Augusta, Georgia\u2019s Mission to support the community by improving the lives of women and children. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds raised at Holiday Market this year will be donated to Columbia County Community Connections, a local nonprofit that works to make children safe, healthy, educated and part of a stable, self-sufficient family in a thriving community.\nTickets are currently available to purchase and are available here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 211.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jo-anbooks.com/my-life-in-america-before-during-and-after-the-civil-war.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ZS4PLGLQH26TIXIXV7J42RQSW3PKTUTF", "length": 2354, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jo-anbooks.com", "title": "My Life in America Before, During and After the Civil War - jo-anbooks.com Jo-An Books", "raw_content": "by louis Hensel\nTranslator, Sigrid Wilshinsky\n\"Immigrant Louis Hensel was like a poor man De Tocqueville\"\nLouis Hensel, the autobiographical subject of \"My Life In America Before, During and After the Civil War\" never occupied the public stage. A German immigrant, he arrived in New York in 1842. His life spanned most of the 19th century, and like a poor man's de Tocqueville revealed it in letters. ... Sam Roberts, Book Shelf Published January 11, 2013\nLouis Hensel was born in 1817 and lived a life of travel and adventure, as colorfully described in these letters to his granddaughter. This book is skillfully translated by Sigrid Wilshinsky from the Suderlein German handwriting into modern English. Hensel worked and traveled from Germany to France and Holland and finally arrived in New York City in 1848. On his first day in Manhattan, he sought and found a job and began working as a carver of artistic ivory pieces in an Art Shop. He later moved to Long Island to become a farmer. His very realistic descriptions of adventures with animals and people give a spellbinding view of his life and events. At the onset of the Civil War, he entered the Cavalry regiment in Brooklyn as an Officer and Master of the Horse. Later, Hensel spent many years traveling with the German Opera Company of New York which performed city to city, from New Orleans to St. Paul, where he vividly describes a wanton destruction and disruption of Southern cities in the path of the War. Hensel had the opportunity to meet President Abraham Lincoln which facilitated a visit to the White House on March 27, 1863, where Lincoln greeted representatives of the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, Comanche, Apache and Caddo Tribes in the East room of the White House. This meeting is mentioned in an edition of The Atlanta Century of March 29th 1863. The eye-witness report by Hensel, of this meeting, to our knowledge, has never been revealed before. Hensel ended his years as a music teacher in the town of Hawley, PA as his base. His insightful recollections and description of country life and changing society takes one back in History as if one is being spoken to through time by Hensel, himself. His fascinating letters tell an exciting and inspiring story about surviving in America before, during and after the Civil War era that one can easily relate to in today's times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.joltjournal.com/news/android/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:17Z", "digest": "sha1:F3OHXYNNEO5UZIOPCPZ5GRMFOD5TXKOM", "length": 495, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.joltjournal.com", "title": "Android \u2014 The Jolt Journal", "raw_content": "Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc. , which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 79.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.juliejohnsonlaw.com/blog/personal-injury-claim-evidence-need-dallas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:7IYPLB32PBFZ5LFD4Q3QZXDU2AJSDGLI", "length": 2763, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.juliejohnsonlaw.com", "title": "What personal injury claim evidence do I need in Dallas? | Law Office of Julie Johnson", "raw_content": "by admin | Jan 7, 2015 | General, Personal Injury | 0 comments\nIf you are filing a personal injury claim, you must prove that another person was responsible for your injuries and that you suffered damages. You must substantiate your claim by presenting personal injury claim evidence to establish negligence as well as of your damages.\nTypes of Evidence for Your Injury Claim\nYou can provide proof of the accident\u2019s cause by taking photographs at the scene of the accident. For instance, if you suffered injuries in a slip and fall accident caused by a broken stair or a puddle of water on the floor, take photographs of the broken stair or puddle.\nIf you were in a car accident, take photographs of the damage to your vehicle and that of the other driver, as well as skid marks and other evidence at the scene. Apart from photographic proof, you can also provide medical reports that act as evidence of your injuries, their cause, and their severity.\nMedical reports can include the following.\nDoctors\u2019 evaluations\nX-ray scans\nAn accident report from the police, the store owner, or another appropriate party can be helpful evidence as well. It can document what conditions were present at the time of the accident. Similarly, testimony from eyewitnesses can be important to help you prove what caused the accident.\nHow do I go about collecting evidence after an injury?\nIt\u2019s hard to collect physical evidence of an accident. For instance, you can\u2019t collect a broken stair that causes you to slip and fall. However, you can collect pictures of the hazard. Take pictures immediately, and in different types of light. If you cannot take photos right after the accident, return later to the scene of the accident or ask someone like a friend else to take pictures.\nTake pictures from different angles, and take these immediately after the injury. Waiting too long could result in the defendant fixing the hazard, resulting in loss of evidence.\nCall the police if appropriate, such as after a car accident. If you slipped and fell in a store, inform the store manager. The police or the manager or another appropriate party will create an accident report. Make sure you request a copy of the report to use it as evidence later.\nAsk eyewitnesses for their contact information. This lets you contact them later to get their testimony of what happened and what caused the accident. Don\u2019t wait too long to contact them, though, as their memory of what happened may start to fade with time.\nGet help from an attorney to collect this and any other appropriate evidence that could be useful for your case. Call 214-290-8001 to set up a consultation with attorney Julie Johnson if you\u2019re in the Dallas area. You may also use our online contact form to set up a consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.juniqe.co.uk/terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OCYHAXDGBULLVURGPWACPHQDX3Z2BSTY", "length": 22480, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.juniqe.co.uk", "title": "Terms & Conditions | JUNIQE", "raw_content": "\u00a7 1 Internet platform\nJUNIQE.co.uk GmbH (\"JUNIQE.co.uk\") operates the online shop JUNIQE.co.uk on the internet. Among other things, JUNIQE.co.uk consists of the website eu.JUNIQE.co.uk (the \"JUNIQE.co.uk website\") and other contents, which JUNIQE.co.uk provides directly on the internet (\u201cservices\u201d). You do not need to be a member to visit the JUNIQE.co.uk website (\u201cuser\u201d). A user must not be a member to purchase products. A user must register to become a member (\u00a7 3). You will receive personal information about impending sales campaigns via JUNIQE.co.uk's e-mail service, provided that you have agreed to receive these e-mails. The prices shown on the website are final and include VAT. Freight costs will be shown separately in a manner comprehensible to you.\n\u00a7 2 Validity of the general terms and conditions\n2.1 By declaring your agreement at the time of registration, you also declare your agreement with the application of these General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as \"GTCs\"). These GTCs define the conditions under which you may use the services provided by JUNIQE.co.uk. 2.2 You can download, save and print these GTCs at any time via the \"GTC\" link on the JUNIQE.co.uk website. 2.3 The general terms and conditions of users, members and partners will not apply to any direct business with JUNIQE.co.uk, even if not explicitly refuted by JUNIQE.co.uk and/or if JUNIQE.co.uk provides services without objection. This also applies if the user, member or partner has prescribed a special format for filing objections. Deviating terms and conditions will not apply unless this has been explicitly confirmed in writing in advance by JUNIQE.co.uk. 2.4 The contract language is German.\n\u00a7 3 Registration, termination and restriction of membership\n3.1 Registration with the JUNIQE.co.uk is free of charge. By registering you become a member. However, registration and membership do not give rise to any costs or obligation to purchase on your part. There is no legal entitlement to the conclusion of a contract as a result of registering or becoming a member. 3.2 The data requested during the registration process and during the life of the membership must be provided fully and correctly, including in particular a fully functional e-mail address, as a precondition for membership. Where the data provided to JUNIQE.co.uk change, the member is obliged to update his account with immediate effect. 3.3 You may only register once as a member of JUNIQE.co.uk. Simultaneous registration of several membership accounts is not permitted. Any circumvention of these regulations is prohibited and may result in the termination of your membership by JUNIQE.co.uk. 3.4 Members are obliged to keep their password confidential and to prevent any unauthorised access to their member account. Members are obliged to inform JUNIQE.co.uk with immediate effect if there is any indication that a member account has been or might be abused by a third party. 3.5 JUNIQE.co.uk will delete member accounts that have been inactive for a period of 6 months or whose holders can no longer be reached at the e-mail address stated. 3.6 Members can cancel their membership of JUNIQE.co.uk with immediate effect at any time free of charge. A cancellation may take the form of an e-mail sent to customer services. 3.7 JUNIQE.co.uk can duly cancel any member's membership at any time, subject to a notice period of 14 days. 3.8 JUNIQE.co.uk may block, restrict or terminate a member's membership without adherence to this notice period if there is reason to believe that the member has violated legal regulations, the rights of third parties, these GTCs or the shop regulations. When choosing a measure, JUNIQE.co.uk takes into account the legitimate interests of the member concerned, especially whether there are any indications that the member is not responsible for the violation.\n\u00a74 Conclusion of contract and reservation of title\nThe description of products and presentation of goods on the JUNIQE.co.uk website in the course of sales campaigns does not constitute a legally binding offer, but merely an invitation to private customers to order goods or services. There is no legal claim to the availability and deliverability of the products advertised. Sales campaigns are only directed at consumers within the meaning of \u00a7 13 of the BGB, i.e. any natural person concluding a legal transaction for a purpose that cannot be ascribed either to their commercial or independent professional activities. Only the normal volume required by a household may be ordered. JUNIQE.co.uk reserves the right in due course to make orders under sales campaigns subject to fulfillment of certain individual conditions. To order a product advertised by JUNIQE.co.uk, you must take the following steps: Place an article in the basket. Enter the delivery and payment information. Actively agree to the General Terms and Conditions and the Cancellation Policy. Send your order by pressing the \"Place Order\" button. By forwarding your online order, you are making JUNIQE.co.uk an offer to conclude a legally binding contract. By clicking on the \"Place Order\" button, you are placing a binding order for the goods in the basket, confirming that you are authorised to place such an order, i.e. minors must have the permission of their legal representatives. Immediately on receipt of your order, you will receive an automated e-mail in which the receipt of your offer will be confirmed, thus concluding the contract. All goods remain the property of JUNIQE.co.uk until full payment of the purchase price has been received and all claims resulting from the sale have been settled. You will not be entitled to dispose of the goods before transfer of ownership. If third parties should institute claims for the goods, you are obliged to inform JUNIQE.co.uk immediately. If, before concluding the contract, JUNIQE.co.uk finds that the ordered product is not available, we will immediately inform you about this and reimburse any payments already received. If, after concluding a contract, JUNIQE.co.uk should find that the product ordered is not available as a result of late or incorrect delivery (including delivery shortfalls) by our suppliers (where JUNIQE.co.uk is not responsible), unexpectedly and despite the fact that we have concluded a contract for delivery of the goods in question with the supplier, we reserve the right to withdraw from the contract. In this case JUNIQE.co.uk will immediately inform you about the non-availability of the product you have ordered and immediately reimburse any payments already received from you. JUNIQE.co.uk is entitled to reject any offers made by you without citing reasons. JUNIQE.co.uk particularly reserves the right to reject an offer where: the delivery address is outside Germany or Austria; there are indications that the person ordering the goods is not a consumer; an order exceeds the normal volume required by a household; the payment is not received, even after a reminder has been sent and a payment period stipulated.\n\u00a7 5 Use of the JUNIQE.co.uk\n5.1 JUNIQE.co.uk offers the services solely within the framework of the acknowledged state of technology. JUNIQE.co.uk may restrict the services where this is required owing to capacity limits, the security or integrity of the server or to carry out technical activities to provide for or to improve existing services (maintenance work). For technical reasons in particular, it may sometimes not be possible to make full use of the services (unforeseen system failures). 5.2 It is prohibited to use the services in a manner that violates statutory obligations, the rights of third parties or public morals. It is furthermore prohibited to make use of the services in a manner that constitutes abuse or that may adversely affect the reputation of JUNIQE.co.uk. In particular, it is prohibited to use the services for the following purposes: to carry out and/or promote anti-competitive activities, including progressive customer recruitment (such as chain, pyramid or snowball schemes); to make use of content that is deemed pornographic or that violates youth protection laws or to advertise, offer and/or sell pornographic products or products that violate youth protection laws; to abuse our services by, for example, making use of malware such as \"robot-reader\", \"spider-reader\" or \"offline-reader\"; to upload content subject to copyright to our service, unless the user has the right to the use of such content or has obtained the required permission; to use JUNIQE.co.uk in a manner that adversely affects the availability of our services to other users; to disseminate offensive, racist or otherwise illegal content or information via our services, including slanderous or libelous content, irrespective of whether this content concerns other users, employees of the company or other persons or companies; to use photos with a defamatory, offensive, racist or otherwise illegal or immoral content; to send out chain letters; to intercept or attempt to intercept messages; to advertise for shopping clubs; to send out messages for any commercial purpose; to make use of our services to threaten or unduly harass other people (especially by sending them spam mail) or to violate the rights of third parties (including their personal rights); to make use of the temporary e-mail addresses of so-called 10-minute mail services; and/or to publish the names, addresses, telephone or fax numbers, e-mail addresses, user names and/or other contact data of messenger services. 5.3 JUNIQE.co.uk has checked and uploaded its own content on the JUNIQE.co.uk website to the best of its knowledge and belief. JUNIQE.co.uk does not generally verify the content published by third parties on the JUNIQE.co.uk website. Nor does JUNIQE.co.uk generally verify other websites that can be reached by clicking on the JUNIQE.co.uk website, thus no responsibility can be taken for the form, accuracy, appropriateness or quality of such content. JUNIQE.co.uk will remove or suppress any content uploaded by third parties or refuse to provide links if JUNIQE.co.uk should find that there is any indication that the content uploaded or other websites might infringe the law or violate these GTCs. 5.4 For Germany: Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH (Rheinstrasse 99, 76532 Baden-Baden) provides credit ratings using a statistical method that takes your payment history, credit information and address data (provided by BFS finance GmbH, G\u00fctersloh Str. 123, 33415 Verl) into account. For Austria: CRIF GmbH (Diefenbachgasse 35, A-1150 Vienna) provides credit ratings using a statistical method that takes your payment history, credit information and address data (provided by BFS finance GmbH, G\u00fctersloh Str. 123, 33415 Verl) into account.\n\u00a7 6 Conditions governing competitions, lotteries or campaigns\n6.1 The following conditions apply to any competitions, lotteries or other campaigns (hereinafter referred to as \"promotions\") organised by JUNIQE.co.uk: The winners or beneficiaries are selected from all persons who have participated in the campaign and have fulfilled the requirements stipulated by JUNIQE.co.uk. The winners or beneficiaries are informed by JUNIQE.co.uk via the e-mail address they stipulated at the time of registration. If the e-mail contains the stipulation that the winner or beneficiary is obliged to contact JUNIQE.co.uk within a specific period to accept the prize, entitlement to the prize will expire once this period has passed if the winner has failed to make such contact. The prizes or benefits awarded as part of a promotion cannot be exchanged or paid out in cash. The participants in a promotion agree that, in the event of winning, their names will be mentioned on the JUNIQE.co.uk website and in other JUNIQE.co.uk services as well as in press releases. JUNIQE.co.uk may exclude participants from a promotion if they have manipulated the competition or promotion mechanisms by using unfair means or in violation of these GTCs. At its own discretion, JUNIQE.co.uk may punish such manipulations by excluding the perpetrators from membership with JUNIQE.co.uk. JUNIQE.co.uk reserves the right to cancel promotions or to extend them beyond the original period.\n6.2 The following conditions apply to social media competitions (hereinafter referred to as \u201cgiveaways\u201d) organised by JUNIQE.co.uk on Facebook and/or Instagram:\nGiveaways are organised by JUNIQE Kollwitz Internet GmbH (K\u00f6penicker Stra\u00dfe 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany).\nEach giveaway ends at the specified time.\nJUNIQE has the right to suspend giveaways temporarily or permanently without reason.\nUnless otherwise specified in the respective giveaway, participants must be a resident of one of the countries we ship to in order to be eligible to enter (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain).\nTo be eligible to enter, participants must be at least 18 years old.\nEach participant may only take part in a respective giveaway once. This also applies if the participant has multiple Instagram or Facebook accounts.\nJUNIQE employees are excluded from participation.\nParticipation is subject to the respective basic conditions outlined in the post.\nEntries or comments that are offensive, abusive, misleading, unethical, discriminatory, or defamatory are not permitted and will not be considered.\nAttempts to manipulate the result through technological means will result in disqualification.\n6.2.3 Prize\nThe winners will be selected at random by a JUNIQE employee.\nThe winners will be notified in the comments or via a private message on Facebook or Instagram.\nAll changes to giveaways will be announced with sufficient notice on the respective social media page.\nThe prize will be forfeited and awarded to another entrant if the winner does not respond within seven days or does not meet the above terms and conditions.\nAny personal details (name, date of birth, postal or email addresses) captured via giveaways will only be used, compiled and processed by JUNIQE for the purpose of carrying out giveaways.\nYour data will be treated with absolute confidentiality and will not be passed on to third parties.\nYou can find out more about JUNIQE\u2019s privacy policy here.\nNo legal recourse is possible.\nGiveaways have no connection with and are in no way sponsored, supported, or organised by Instagram or Facebook.\nBy participating in giveaways, participants accept our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\u00a7 7 Inviting friends, product and sales campaign recommendations\n7.1 Members can invite other friends to join JUNIQE.co.uk on the JUNIQE.co.uk website. Members also have the option of recommending sales campaigns or individual products to third parties by e-mail. 7.2 Members undertake to forward newsletters, sales campaigns and product recommendations only to the e-mail addresses of existing, living natural persons who have previously expressed an interest in this regard and who have explicitly consented to receive the corresponding e-mail. In the event of a dispute, a corresponding written statement in this regard will be required.\n\u00a7 8 Promotional coupons\nThe following conditions apply to JUNIQE.co.uk promotional coupons (and mutatis mutandis JUNIQE.co.uk credit balances): JUNIQE.co.uk coupons for goods can be redeemed for all products uploaded on the JUNIQE.co.uk website unless the redemption of JUNIQE.co.uk coupons has been excluded on the campaign overview or product overview page or unless the campaign involves ordering via the website of a third party; such is expressly indicated in either instance. The purchase price of the products ordered must at least equal the value of the coupon, unless otherwise indicated at the time the coupon is issued. JUNIQE.co.uk coupons for freight costs can be redeemed against the freight costs incurred when ordering products on the JUNIQE.co.uk website, unless the redemption of JUNIQE.co.uk coupons has been excluded on the campaign overview or product overview page or unless the campaign involves ordering via the website of a third party. Promotional coupons are provided in the form of codes made available to you personally. Usually, codes expire once they have been used. The period of validity and/or minimum order value or other conditions are determined by JUNIQE.co.uk and announced as part of the corresponding promotion. In this case, the minimum order value refers to the purchase price, including value-added tax. Freight costs are not taken into account. Only one JUNIQE.co.uk coupon can be used per order and several JUNIQE.co.uk coupons may not be combined. If you cancel the purchase of an item for which you have used a JUNIQE.co.uk coupon, the coupon amount will not be reimbursed and the coupon cannot be used again. This does not apply if you have obtained the JUNIQE.co.uk coupon directly from JUNIQE.co.uk against payment. You cannot acquire a JUNIQE.co.uk coupon using a JUNIQE.co.uk coupon that you have not directly obtained against a monetary payment. JUNIQE.co.uk coupons cannot be paid out in cash or attract interest. JUNIQE.co.uk coupons are personally issued to a member and cannot be transferred to third parties. Where JUNIQE.co.uk becomes aware of the transfer of a coupon, JUNIQE.co.uk reserves the right to declare the corresponding coupon invalid. Where JUNIQE.co.uk has indicated that the coupon is valid only for new customers, such a coupon will only be issued when a person registers as a member of JUNIQE.co.uk for the first time. With the exception of a loss of a coupon for which JUNIQE.co.uk is responsible, JUNIQE.co.uk does not accept liability for the loss or theft of any coupon. Replacement coupons are only issued when JUNIQE.co.uk is liable for the loss of the coupon. The shop regulations may contain further conditions or restrictions for the redemption of promotion coupons; alternatively such conditions or restrictions may be indicated when issuing the coupon.\n9.1 The warranty is governed in principle by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the event of a defect in goods you therefore have the legal right to have it remedied (delivery of non-defective goods), to cancel the contract or to receive a price reduction. 9.2 JUNIQE.co.uk\u2019s liability in damages towards consumers is limited. Notwithstanding the nature of the loss or damage, liability in damages is excluded unless provided to the contrary below. JUNIQE.co.uk only has statutory liability where you assert claims in damages that are based on intent or gross negligence, including intent or gross negligence on the part of our representatives or agents. JUNIQE.co.uk only has statutory liability where JUNIQE.co.uk is in culpable breach of a significant contractual obligation. A significant contractual obligation for this purpose is one the fulfilment of which is essential to the due performance of the contract and on compliance with which you are generally entitled to rely. JUNIQE.co.uk also only has statutory liability in the case of culpable death, personal injury or damage to health; this also applies to mandatory liability under the Product Liability Act. 9.3 The same limits on liability in damages towards consumers apply to companies that directly or indirectly participate in sales campaigns contrary to \u00a7 4, with the further proviso that liability in damages is limited to foreseeable loss or damage typical of the contract except in the case of liability for wilful acts or for death, personal injury or damage to health. 9.4 The aforementioned liability exclusions and limitations with regard to companies or consumers do not apply where JUNIQE.co.uk has given explicit guarantees.\nThe user indemnifies JUNIQE.co.uk against all claims by third parties instituted against JUNIQE.co.uk for violating their rights or these GTCs, the shop regulations or laws governing the use of JUNIQE.co.uk. The user agrees to bear the costs of the necessary legal defense, including any court costs and solicitor's fees, as incurred. This does not apply if the user cannot be held responsible for the violation of the rights of third parties or for any violations of these GTCs, the shop regulations or any laws. The user is obliged to provide JUNIQE.co.uk with all information that may be required to verify the claims and to defend the case - immediately, truthfully and completely - in the event that a third party should institute legal proceedings. Any delays in the provision of information will be at the expense of the user.\n\u00a7 11 Copyright and rights of use\nThe content provided by JUNIQE.co.uk is protected by the laws governing databases, copyright and trademarks. Such content may be neither copied nor disseminated nor used or copied in any manner whatsoever, without the prior agreement of the corresponding proprietors. This applies in particular to any copies made with the aid of robots, crawlers or other automatic mechanisms. Any use or modification of the services for purposes for which they were not intended is prohibited. In particular, copying or uploading of content, offers, directories, databases, etc. for commercial purposes is prohibited and will be subject to criminal and civil legal proceedings within the scope of existing legal options.\n\u00a7 12 Concluding conditions\n12.1 If individual clauses of these GTCs should be entirely or partially invalid or contain a loophole, this will not affect the validity of the other clauses or parts of clauses. In this event the parties undertake to enter into negotiations, with the aim of replacing the invalid clauses or loopholes with clauses that most closely approximate to the original intention of the parties, while maintaining the interests of both parties. 12.2 Only the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany will apply, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on the Sale of Goods and any envoi to foreign law. As a consumer, any binding regulations of the state in which you have your normal place of residence remain unaffected. 12.3 If you are a merchant, legal person under public law or a special fund governed by public law or if you do not have your general place of jurisdiction in Germany or in another EU member state, Berlin will be the place of jurisdiction for any disputes arising from this contract. 12.4 With the exception of shop regulations, no ancillary agreements have been concluded and any such agreements must be made in written form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 356, "original_length": 27230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.just-food.com/news/food-safety-co-operation-plan-agreed_id84909.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:28Z", "digest": "sha1:URGQP7SDB36K3224VT3CLNG6SDRA6IJX", "length": 2702, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.just-food.com", "title": "EU/USA: Food safety co-operation plan agreed | Food Industry News | just-food", "raw_content": "EU/USA: Food safety co-operation plan agreed\nBy Keith Nuthall | 7 July 2005\nDetailed plans have been released outlining cooperation on food safety issues agreed between the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission's directorate generals for food safety and enterprise.\nAt last month's EU-US summit in Washington. American and European Union leaders agreed that these bodies' officials should meet to identify specific regulatory cooperation projects and on sharing information.\nThe plans also involve officials discussing dovetailing European and American hazard awareness and control point procedures (HACCP) for both sides' meat and meat product manufacturing. 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Heinz has welcomed the decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant approval for the use of a Qualified Health Claim for raw, cooked, dried or canned tomatoes....\nUSA: FDA rejects last-ditch attempt to delay poultry antibiotic ban\nThe US Food and Drug Administration is to go ahead with a ban on a livestock antibiotic, despite a last-ditch attempt by poultry veterinarians to delay the embargo....\nUSA: USDA, FDA conclude BSE cow investigation\nThe US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the US Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration have completed their investigatio...\nUSA: FDA offers food safety advice for hurricane Katrina aftermath\nThe US Food and Drug Administration has published advice to people affected by hurricane Katrina on how to keep food safe....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justanswer.com/criminal-law/2009-06-p9-questions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RHRVJUC2XNS7CSJ2BN6HZSLP7PGALHHA", "length": 6968, "nlines": 101, "source_domain": "www.justanswer.com", "title": "Read through our Criminal Law Questions asked in June 2009 - Page 10", "raw_content": "Criminal Law Questions - June 2009 - Page 10\nhow accurate are kustom signals 1000 pro radars? 6/18/2009\nWhat is the law in So. 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He was 6/19/2009\nIn a three (3 ) page paper, please discuss, in detail, how 6/19/2009\nhubby got caught driving with a suspended license, no ins., 6/19/2009\nJuridical charges for CANNABIS/POSN/20+ 6/19/2009\nWhat is the proper procedure for a citizen of NC to get a law 6/19/2009\nIf I was told by a friend that he molested a nine year old 6/19/2009\nI have 2 convictions on record, one is embesslement (>$200 6/19/2009\nIf the owners of a house are going to have a California parolee 6/19/2009\nI need to know how I could get a certified copy of the final 6/19/2009\nMy husband has been convicted of a federal crime here in Texas. 6/19/2009\nmy grandfather was brutaully attacked on his property and is 6/19/2009\nI LIVE IN OHIO. I HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY IN 1985. 6/19/2009\ni live in miami florida i have a court date tomorrow for early 6/19/2009\nDo I have a right to receive a copy of indictment against me and the discover evidence ? 6/19/2009\nI have a question about proceeds of crime confiscation/forfeiture. 6/19/2009\nShock Incarceration - Lakeview, New York 6/19/2009\nyeprobation officer issued a revocation of probation warrant 6/19/2009\nI received a \"Notice of Hearing\" letter in the mail in which 6/19/2009\ndo I need to hire a Lawyer for my case? 6/19/2009\nI received a discover card at my home address for my husband. 6/19/2009\nI just got my third speeding ticket in a year. The ticket 6/19/2009\nwhat evidece do they need to convict someone on criminal 6/19/2009\nI received a dwi in NC over a year ago. It is just now going 6/19/2009\nWhile on active duty in the military I got a DUI in California 6/19/2009\nI would like to drop an assault & battery charge and restraining 6/19/2009\nI am looking to find a lawer to help in filling clemency for 6/19/2009\nJust curious what will happen in court can I go to jail? 6/19/2009\nU Visa Question 6/19/2009\nAre thier laws in Michigan concerning an 8 year old children having to testify agains 6/19/2009\nI confessed to larcency took 15000.00 dollars from a trust 6/19/2009\nI am a victim of high-tech stalking by my ex-husband. 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More Hash! \u00b7 Almost Certainly? \u00b7 Verify and Associate | July 26th, 2005 | Karen's Power Tools Newsletter | Utilities for Windows | KarenWare.com", "raw_content": "Yum! More Hash!\nAlmost Certainly?\nVerify and Associate\nWhew! Up here in the northern hemisphere, summer has definitely arrived. Just outside the protective walls of the secluded Power Tools workshop, experts predict the temperature may reach 103 degrees Fahrenheit today!\nThose experts should come inside, where it's always nice and cool. And if you're caught outside in this heat too, come on over. There's an icy pitcher of lemonade, and a cool plate of fresh sugar cookies, just waiting to be shared ...\nA warm serving of corned beef hash may not be the most appetizing meal during the heat of the summer. But longtime readers may still remember Karen's Hasher fondly. It's a cool little program that computes something called a \"hash value\" -- a small number representing a bit of text or the data found in a file.\nHash values, or \"hashes\", are amazing numbers. They serve as digital fingerprints, uniquely identifying the data used to compute them.\nIf two files have the same hash value, the contents of the two files are almost certainly identical too. But if the contents of two files differ, even by just one bit among billions of billions, their hash values will be dramatically different.\nThanks to this exquisite sensitivity to differences, hashes are often used protect the integrity of evidence. Detectives routinely use programs like my Hasher to compute the hash value of every computer file they uncover, before they examine the file further.\nLater, during a trial, they can prove the file's contents haven't changed while in police custody. If the file's current hash value is the same as the one computed the day the file was discovered, no changes have been made.\nYou and I can use hashes to detect changes too. For example, ask my Hasher to compute the hash value of every file in your \\Windows folder, and store the results in a disk file. Later, you can ask the Hasher to those hashes again, and compare the new hashes to the older values. If any hash value has changed, the content of the corresponding file has changed too.\nHashes can also be used to rapidly compare files \"at a distance\". It's a trick used by my Web Update program, and by similar services such as Windows Update too.\nThese services automatically distribute and install recently updated programs and other files. But how can a computer or web site, located thousands of miles away, know if your computer needs a new version of a particular file?\nIt's a simple trick. First, the remote computer, where the latest version of every file is stored, sends a short list. The list includes the names of the files it can provide, and the latest hash value of each.\nArmed with this master list, software running on your computer calculates hash values for your copies of the files on the list. Finally, it compares the hashes it computes for your files, to the hashes appearing in the list.\nIf a file's two hash values are the same, your copy of the file is identical to the copy residing on the remote server. In other words, your copy of the file is up-to-date.\nBut if a file's two hash values differ, your version of the file is not the same as the latest version residing on the distant server. You have an old version of the file. Software running on your computer can then automatically request the latest version of the file, and install it on your computer when it arrives.\nThanks to hashes, only the files you actually need are transmitted to your computer. And no information about your current files is sent to the faraway server. Instead, it sends information about its files, and your computer does the rest!\nThe sharp-eyed among us noticed I used the phrase \"almost certainly\" a moment ago. Yes, it's true. In theory, two files can have the same hash value, even if their contents differ.\nBut such a \"collision\" is very unlikely. Even the simplest popular hash formula, known as MD5 (Message Digest version 5) produces hash values consisting of 128 binary ones and zeroes. The yields an unimaginable number of unique hash values -- a total of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455 to be exact.\nIf every person on earth frantically created 1,000 new disk files every second, it would take 1,797,100,385,499,003,074 years to create that many different files -- one for every available hash value. And frankly, I suspect a few less-motivated folks would give up early, forcing the rest of us to work even longer.\nStill, some people worry about risk of hash collisions. Accidental collisions, though possible, are not a serious problem. But intentional collisions -- one file deliberately created to have the same hash value as another -- are another matter. They can upset some encryption schemes, and also upset the folks who rely upon them.\nThat's one reason why mathematicians have worked hard to improve \"hash algorithms\", the formulas used to compute hash values. Today, there are six popular hash formulas, each providing more security, and a smaller chance of collisions, than the one before it.\nWe've already mentioned the oldest popular hash algorithm, MD5. It's still widely used today. But recently, members of a new family of algorithms, known as SHA (Secure Hash Algorithms), have begun to replace MD5.\nThe oldest member of the SHA family is now known as SHA-1. Its hash values contain a total of 160 bits. The remaining SHA formulas have names that indicate the number of ones and zeroes their hash values contain: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512.\nThe new version of my Hasher can compute all six types of hash values. It's your choice how many bits you'd like to receive. And just in case you're wondering how many different 512-bit values the SHA-512 algorithm can produce, here it is:\n13,407,807,929,942,597,099,574,024,998,205,846,127,479,365, 820,592,393,377,723,561,443,721,764,030,073,546,976,801,874, 298,166,903,427,690,031,858,186,486,050,853,753,882,811,946, 569,946,433,649,006,084,096\nBy some estimates, that's 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as many atoms in the known universe!\nI mentioned earlier that some folks use hashing programs to detect changes to files on their disk drives. Until recently, this process involved a bit of hand work. But the newest version of my Hasher makes this job easy.\nFirst, ask the program to compute the current hash values of any folders and files whose content you want to protect. Then save those computations to a disk file, by clicking the Hasher's \"Save Results to Disk\" button.\nLater, when you want to test your files, simply click the Hasher's \"Verify Saved Hash File\" tab then ask the program to open the file where you saved the earlier results. Finally click the program's \"Verify Hashes\" button.\nThat's it! The program will automatically compute the current hash value of each file, and compare it to the hash value computed earlier. Any discrepancies are noted on-screen. If none are found, the files are all unchanged.\nThere's also a way to make hash verifications even easier. If you click the Hasher's \"Settings\" tab you'll see new checkboxes allowing you to \"Associate\" the program with any of the common hash filename extensions (.md5, .sha1, .sha224, .sha256, .sha384 and .sha512).\nOnce you've asked the program to make one of these associations, just double-clicking a saved hash file's icon will automatically run my Hasher, and cause it to load the file ready for verification!\nThis trick lets you quickly verify hash files you've saved, and also those that sometimes accompany large downloadable files from web sites such as The Gutenberg Project:\nIf you'd like to put the new Hasher through its paces, download your copy from its home page at:\nYou can also get the latest version of every Power Tool, including the new Hasher, on a shiny CD. These include three bonus Power Tools, not available anywhere else. The source code of every Power Tool, every issue of my newsletter, and some articles I wrote for Windows Magazine, are also on the CD. And owning the CD grants you a license to use all my Power Tools at work.\nUntil we meet again, stay out of the sun, and drink lots of lemonade. And if you see me on the 'net, be sure to wave and say \"Hi!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 10310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.karthikl.com/2018/03/science-fiction-series.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AC25Y5BTVD6QKRRWNCDADQSHCUKPC2NE", "length": 9774, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.karthikl.com", "title": "Science Fiction Series", "raw_content": "As far as good writing goes, usually the devil is in the details. When writing about the present, many authors usually try to draw from personal experience. Some authors go to length to experience really dangerous and awkward situations to be able to depict them accurately in their stories. That can be a challenge but it is not impossible. Things get tougher when writing about the past. Here one can't rely on personal experiences unless some day time travel becomes a reality. So the writer has to depend on second hand information. He has to pore over numerous accounts regarding the period of time he is covering in his story to get a mental image of how things would have been in those times. Wherever details are not there, he has to fill up the gaps with consistent assumptions. Now how about the future? That too not the near future but really distant future! READ MORE\nI was in college when I finally took the plunge. Science fiction was supposed to be the cool thing that the intellectual elites at college used to read. I of course did not belong with them but I was attracted to the things they did and spoke of. READ MORE\nA boy sees his family getting killed by villains. Then there is a gap in the story to allow the boy to grow up. And then \u2013 Lo Behold! We have the hero of the story \u2013 now an angry young man all set to seek vengeance. The villains themselves have grown from strength to strength in the intervening years and are no push overs. Now is the time to grab some popcorn and lean back on the recliner as the hero and the villains cross swords. And in between bring in some pretty young things and throw in some romance as well. Now we have it all \u2013 the sure shot recipe for a Bollywood blockbuster. But doesn\u2019t sound the likeliest of stories to hit it off with science fiction buffs, does it? Believe it or not \u2013 that is exactly what Jack Vance has managed to do with his demon prince series. And how! READ MORE\nOne of the biggest contributors to my development of reading tastes was my college hostel library. Here is where I picked up my first Asimov; here is where I picked up my first Herbert; here is where I picked my first Dickson. There was just one book of Gordon Dickson though: \u2018Tactics of Mistake\u2019. I found the book quite fascinating: the story flowed like a game of chess as the hero Cletus Graham formulates his theories on war and goes about executing it. In some ways, the book was like seeing Sun Tzu\u2019s art of war in action. Of course the author has his own theories which I might take liberty to say I found as ingenious and logically sound as Sun Tzu\u2019s. Then I did not find another book by this author for close to thirteen years till I ran into a fellow science fiction fan, who mentioned this author as one of his favorites. READ MORE\nRama series is not strictly typical Arthur C Clarke. The first book \u2018Rendezvous with Rama\u2019 is written entirely by Clarke and can be considered classic Clarke. The other three books in the series were written in collaboration with Gentry Lee. So they are quite different. READ MORE\nHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - a Totally Crazy Ride\nThis series is one science fiction series that has probably spawned the largest number of quotes. Even the title of each one of the books is so memorable that they have become catch phrases: \u201cRestaurant at the End of the Universe\u2019, \u201cLife, the Universe and Everything\u201d, \u201cSo Long and Thank you for all the Fish\u201d and \u201cMostly Harmless\u201d. It is also filled with a whole lot of interesting concepts that are so wildly imaginative that they can induce laughter but at the same time if you think about them they make lot of sense. Both as a science fiction concept and from a philosophical standpoint. READ MORE\nBeing the nearest planet to Earth and having similar conditions, the Red planet has always held the imagination of astronomers, mythologists and writers of science fiction and fantasy alike. Edgar Rice Borough's Barsoom series was one of the earliest science fiction series based on Mars. Barsoom is the local name given by the inhabitants of Mars for their world. Edgar Rice Boroughs was not a typical science fiction writer as such. He was more popular for his Tarzan of the Apes series. The way he approaches the stories in the Barsoom series is also closer to swords and sorcery fantasy than pure play science fiction. But then the lines between science fiction and fantasy are not so clearly drawn. I remember asking my professor in my first class of a course \u2019Introduction to science Fiction' the question on the difference between science fiction and fantasy. READ MORE\nHow do you differentiate between science fiction and fantasy? If there be dragons, it is fantasy. If there be space ships, then it is science fiction. Simple, eh? What if the story has both spaceships and dragons. What do you call such stories? Well that\u2019s Anne McCaffrey\u2019s Pern series for you. It is a tale of strange land where toxic spores called \u2018threads\u2019 keep falling from the skies whenever a neighboring planet passes close by. There is only one way to destroy these \u2018threads\u2019 before they fall to the ground and destroys the land and the people \u2013 dragon fire. So, we have the knights - riding dragons instead of horses to shoot down these 'threads' in mid-air. In the land, we have a medieval feudal society complete with castles and barons. A typical fantasy setting, isn\u2019t it? Well, not exactly. The dragons are alien sentient beings who are able to breathe fire by chewing phosphoric rocks. The riders are able to ride them by establishing a telepathic link with them. READ MORE\nEvery culture has myths of Gods with their magical powers interacting with men. Human faith started with animalism with ideas of totem animals and nature worship. The sun, the planets, the forests, the rivers were all supposed to have a Godly aspect to them. Slowly the Gods of nature began to acquire human attributes but with supernatural powers. Like say Zeus, Thor and Indra, the Gods of thunder and lightning. And a host of other beings came into existence \u2013 magical beings that were not really Gods. These were the faerie in Celtic myths, centaurs, dryads, nymphs in Greek myths, Yaskshas, Gandharvas, Nagas in Hindu myth and so on. And a whole set of stories emerged around the interaction of humans, Gods and magical races. Many of the modern fantasy are derived from one or the other of these myths. Now this is the more pragmatic, prosaic view of myths. Now one can instead take a romantic view and ask what if all these stories we read in myths had actually happened? READ MORE\nOrson Scott Card is one of the most controversial as well as most perceptive science fiction writers. Many have marveled at how a person who reveals so much sensitivity in his stories, could hold such deep prejudices. He is castigated especially for his opinion against gay marriage and other strong conservative views. But I must say one is seriously missing something if one doesn\u2019t read his stories due to his views. One bemoans the lack of right wing intellectualism \u2013 and here he is, and we want to ban him. Understanding conservatism itself is a tricky exercise for it is based on beliefs. So only a true believer can understand how it feels to be a conservative. And this creates a paradox \u2013 if you are a believer, how can you have an intellectual, questioning mind that refuses to take anything for granted and challenges everything? READ MORE\nThe Homecoming Series - a Biblical Science Fiction\nWhat if Gods were powerful aliens? That is the theme of Star Gate. What if God is a super intelligent computer? That is the theme of Orson Scot Card\u2019s Homecoming. The story starts on a modern planet in the future where society is developed with women being the rulers. There everything begins to collapse, and the main characters have to return to earth which is the homecoming referred to in the series. This is both to escape destruction of their world and quest to unite the computer called over soul that governs the planet with its counterpart on earth \u2018The Keeper\u2019. This is probably some obscure allegory of the journey of the soul to become one with its maker. READ MORE\nScience Fiction has four or five broad themes \u2013 sociology of an intergalactic human society many eons into the future, technological advancement and its impact few years into the future, time travel and encounter with alien species. The encounter will alien species was probably the earliest attempted science fiction and it soon became very cliched. Bug eyed monsters, skeletal or reptilian beings \u2013 human like when shown at close quarters or not shown in close quarters at all but as a distant force of nature who relentless pursues enslavement or destruction of the human race. Given that authors who can write interesting alien encounter stories are such a rare species, C J Cherry is one to be highly cherished belonging to this rare breed.READ MORE\nHave you were wished for a book that has Asimov\u2019s stories stretching across millennia and crises facing humanity to be solved like puzzles, Clarke\u2019s detailing of mechanism of futuristic space crafts and equipment, Orson Scott Card\u2019s ethical dilemmas faced by leaders \u2013 justification of evil and harm to certain sentient beings for greater good of humanity versus endangering entire humanity for sake of principles and last but not the least H G Wells\u2019 use of ideas from science and dark outlook for humanity? If so, you have a Chinese Science Fiction author who gives you just that \u2013 Cixin Liu\u2019s Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. Whoever says Chinese lacks imagination should read this series. And he is no Chinese American. He is a proper Chinese living in China, who has written the series in Chinese - the ones I read are English translations. READ MORE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 13263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kawowo.com/2018/07/12/croatia-france-to-lock-horns-in-2018-fifa-world-cup-finale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:43Z", "digest": "sha1:3EQIGXNLRLT6X5K3MTU3OWVINV3S4FPA", "length": 1964, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.kawowo.com", "title": "Croatia, France to lock horns in 2018 FIFA World Cup finale", "raw_content": "Croatia, France to lock horns in 2018 FIFA World Cup finale\nFinal (Sunday, 15th July):\nFrance Vs Croatia (6PM)\nCroatia players celebrate at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia\nCroatia will be playing in their first ever FIFA World Cup finals this weekend against the 1998 winners France.\nThe Croats defeated a 10 man England side 2-1 after extra time to qualify for the final.\nCroatia, who had reached the semi-finals in 1998 fell to Kieran Trippier\u2019s curling free-kick near the edge of the goal area on five minutes.\nIvan Perisic volleyed in the equalizer in the 67th minute to force the game into the added thirty minutes of extra time.\nMario Mandzukic then grabbed the lead in the 9th minute.\nCroatia now squares off with France who defeated Belgium in the first semi-final played on Tuesday.\nSamuel Umtiti\u2019s header earned France the slim 1-0 win over Belgium.\nIt is fitting that France now lie in wait in Sunday\u2019s final.\nCroatia\u2019s success at France \u201998, when they finished third in their first World Cup, has hung heavily over this current group. Robert Prosinecki, Davor Suker and Zvonimir Boban have offered a source of inspiration but also cast a large shadow and the will to carve a new piece of history has been apparent to anyone who has spent time with the Croatia camp recently.\n\u201cWhat our players did today \u2013 the strength, the stamina and energy levels they showed was fantastic. Some players played with injuries that they wouldn\u2019t have played with for other games. Nobody wanted to give in. Nobody wanted to say, I\u2019m not ready. Nobody in extra time wanted to be subbed. This is what made me proud. They never gave up. We were 1-0 down in three games in a row and have overturned all these and that showed character \u2013 we are a nation who never give in.\u201d Zlatko Dalic, the Croatia coach, said as quoted by the Daily Telegraph.\nFrench Players celebrate their goal against Uruguay\nOn Saturday, Belgium will engage England in the third place play off match.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kayak-newzealand.com/tag/kayaking-tours/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YJU5S2SIRHBGBUHJ6VIDCMAVTDL6YCOT", "length": 426, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kayak-newzealand.com", "title": "kayaking tours | Kayak New Zealand", "raw_content": "The Best 5 Kayaking Tours in New Zealand\nWhether sea, river or lake, in New Zealand there is a variety of opportunities to explore the country with a canoe or kayak. You will see the most beautiful and hidden areas you can imagine! Depending on whether you want to do extreme sport, visit famous Hobbit locations or glide \u2026 Read More\nNew Zealand Kayaking Blog kayaking tours, new zealand, the hobbit, what to do in new zealand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kennardlaw.com/blog/2015/01/hooters-accused-of-wage-and-hour-law-violations-by-2-servers.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4F2NTYXY2UG5BE5GMZVTXCTYPH6M2B3K", "length": 1623, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kennardlaw.com", "title": "Hooters accused of wage and hour law violations by 2 servers", "raw_content": "Two servers who worked for Hooters are claiming that they were not paid appropriately. One of the women was a server and the other was both a bartender and a server. According to the lawsuit, Hooters servers are paid $2.13 per hour along with their tips. The problem arose, however, when the servers were required to perform duties that did not provide them with tips, such as cleaning and prep work. They claim that they were still paid the server rate instead of the minimum wage.\nThe plaintiffs also claim that they were required to give a portion of their tips to workers who were not involved with customers. In addition, they were required to attend meetings before their shifts as well as other requirements after their shift had ended that were paid at their server wage. They believe that, when they were doing work that would not provide them with tips, they should have been paid minimum wage during that time.\nThe women are looking to be awarded any unpaid compensation as well as any overtime pay to which they believe they are entitled. It is best practice for Texas employees to be proactive and keep an account of the hours that they work and what they should be paid. If workers believe that there is an error on the check, they should bring it to their supervisor's attention to have it corrected. If the decision is made to not pay the workers and they still believe that they are owed money, they may choose to pursue legal action under our wage and hour employment laws.\nSource: al.com, \"Lawsuit filed against Hooters restaurant in Trussville over server pay and tip-sharing\", Kent Faulk, Jan. 19, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5942, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kennardlaw.com/blog/2016/03/applicants-and-workers-accuse-bh-of-workplace-discrimination.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UHE43ECYABTRGOO5E4TMYUF7PQ36VVTQ", "length": 1340, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kennardlaw.com", "title": "Applicants and workers accuse B&H of workplace discrimination", "raw_content": "According to the complaint, the company singled out Hispanic workers at some of its warehouses. The company also forced these workers to use separate restrooms that were often unsanitary or not functioning. Additionally, these workers were paid less and had less opportunity for advancement than their white co-workers.\nThe Hispanic workers claim that they were harassed and belittled and had racial comments directed toward them. The discriminatory actions apparently also extended to other minorities, who happened to be Asian, black or female. These individuals were not given the chance to be hired for entry-level jobs.\nThis case is crucial to B&H because if it loses the lawsuit it may could lose $46 million in federal contracts and not be given any more in the future. According to the DOL, B&H did not volunteer to change the situation and has not learned from its past workplace discrimination lawsuits. Individuals in Texas who perceive they are being victimized during the hiring process or upon employment can bring their complaints forward. Lawsuits such as these are a constant reminder that discrimination is against the law and will not be tolerated.\nSource: New York Daily News, \"B&H discriminated against Hispanic workers, refused to hire female, black and Asian applicants, lawsuit claims\", Denis Slattery, Feb. 25, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.khamis.net/2011/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5NTG6XVF5NJUSPSRGCSWAV7PPFZDGD62", "length": 1546, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.khamis.net", "title": "January 2011 - Rez's Blog Spot", "raw_content": "I do a lot of presentations and demos of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 on my laptop. It is a quad-core with 10 GB ram and my SharePoint environments are a full complete installation, self-enclosed SharePoint farm with SQL Server 2008 R2 and AD Installed on it. I\u2019m in the process of transitioning from VMWare to HyperV on this new laptop. Really, I\u2019m trying to give HyperV on Windows R2 a chance after not being to impressed with its performance\u2026\nI have been selected to speak at SharePoint Summit 2011 Toronto on January 31st, 2011 as a member of my new company StoneShare. My session is entitled: \u201cPractical Records Management in SharePoint 2010\u201d: In this session, we will be reviewing strategies to maximize new SharePoint 2010 technologies to achieve records excellence in your organization. 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Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/marketplace/real-estate/2017/12/07/realtor-community-shelby-miller/932814001/\nAmanda Oboza, Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS(r) Published 5:29 p.m. ET Dec. 7, 2017\nShelby Miller(Photo11: Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS(r))\nWinston Churchill said, \u201cWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.\u201d While this statement may seem simple, it\u2019s a powerful one that sums up the philosophy of many Lansing area REALTORS\u00ae, including Shelby Miller, who truly understands the importance of giving back to her community.\nMiller has lived in the greater Lansing area most of her life, attending Lansing public schools and Michigan State University. She began her real estate career in 2010, when many Americans were still dealing with the effects of the great housing crash.\nThough business keeps her busy, Miller finds the time to give back to her community. She has been a volunteer with the Sparrow Foundation for the last two years and donates her time every Wednesday afternoon to visit patients in the hospital who have themselves been philanthropic in the community.\nMiller also volunteers at many hospital events and gives her time to foundation fundraisers, including The Sparrow Gala, Day of Miracles, Hospice Walk to Remember, Michigan Mile, Dapper Dads, Health Classic Golf Outing, Kaleidoscope, Spartan Marching Band for Kids Concert, and The Guild\u2019s Incredible Fundraiser.\nThis year, Miller also joined Sparrow\u2019s Women Working Wonders, which supports the psychological and physical health of mid-Michigan women through community leadership, resource development, and outreach initiatives. The organization's most recent project is raising money for ice cap therapy, which is the process of cooling the scalp with ice packs or cooling caps before, during, and after chemotherapy treatments. The therapy is done in an attempt to lessen hair loss in the patient, and in some cases it has reduced it by as much as 50 percent.\nMiller and the Women Working Wonders team are also working on the development of a mobile clinic that takes medicine and treatment into the inner cities to help bring healthcare to those who do not have it.\nWhen asked why she chose the Sparrow Foundation, Miller says she was drawn to the organization after watching its incredible impact on the Lansing area.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been amazing to watch all of the wonderful improvements and advancements over the years,\u201d she said. \u201cFor instance, because of the Sparrow Foundation, Lansing is now home to the Herbert-Herman Cancer Center, which offers cutting-edge technology and treatments, and provides support for patients and families. 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Photo:Tony Keane.\nThe devastated mum of a six year-old autistic Newbridge boy has been forced to apply for a home tutor because he was unable to get a school place this year.\n\u201cThis is the only option we have. It\u2019s not ideal because I would love him to be in a class where he could interact with the other children and develop his social skills,\u201d said Leon Johnson\u2019s mum, Emma Stowe.\nLeon is still on waiting lists for ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) units at primary schools in the area and outlying towns, but demand outweighs the number of places available.\n\u201cHis little sister went off to playschool and he is wondering why he can\u2019t go to school,\u201d added Emma.\nShe said the delay and uncertainty was holding him back.\nEmma said she had no option but to apply to the Department of Education for a home tutor.\nShe is awaiting a response and when it is granted, she said she will have the daunting task of sourcing a tutor herself.\nThe successful tutor will also need to have the expertise and training to teach a child with autism.\nWhen the Leader first raised Leon\u2019s plight back in May, Emma said herself and her partner Stephen became concerned their son might be autistic at the age of three. 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Many in the area have not felt safe since finding KKK activity in their neighborhoods and local police departments in cities like Anaheim and Santa Ana have done nothing to stop the harassment.\nThis terrorist cell decided to hold an open rally against immigration in a Black and Latino community in an attempt to intimidate neighborhood residents. The KKK rallied armed with knives and makeshift weapons in the hope of using the cover of their alleged first amendment rights to instigate violence and have an opportunity to murder Black and Latino people and their allies.\nThis plan was made evident when the KKK brutally stabbed at least three anti-KKK protestors, leaving one in critical condition, while the Anaheim Police Department watched from afar. In one instance, APD was witnessed body slamming an anti-KKK protester just seconds after he was stabbed by the KKK. When a fellow protestor tried to tell the cop that he was further beating a victim of the KKK, he was arrested. Instead of turning on the armed Klansmen and arresting them immediately for their stabbing spree, the Anaheim police escorted them to the other side of the park, all the while beating the local community protesters who were demanding that KKK intimidation come to an end.\nBy the time the brawl was brought to a close, a half dozen Klansmen had been arrested along with a half dozen anti-KKK protesters. APD let the Klan walk on the grounds that they were acting in self-defense, while the anti-Klan protesters continue to face felony assault charges and several are languishing in the Orange County jail on outrageous bail amounts between $25,000 and $50,000.\nThe outrage of APD and Orange County District Attorney granting a terrorist organization total impunity was underscored by the copycat attack carried out in Lake Los Angeles the next day, when a Latino family in a community park was assaulted by three knife-wielding neo-Nazis shouting \u2018Heil Hitler\u2019. This attack was a clear celebration of the KKK stabbing spree.\nThe truth is that the Black and Latino community are engaged in a long-term battle of self-defense from the forward march of these white supremacists.\nIt was a white a supremacist who massacred 9 members of a historic Black church in South Carolina. It was a white supremacist who shot, execution-style, three Muslim students in North Carolina. It was a white supremacist who murdered three people outside a Jewish community center in Kansas City. It was white supremacists who viciously beat a Mexican man in Boston. It was white supremacists who shot 5 Black Lives Matter protestors in Minneapolis. There is no doubt that those who burned down more than a dozen Black churches last year were white supremacists.\nThis is why the ANSWER Coalition fully rejects the false claim made by APD and mass media that the stabbing of several anti-KKK protestors was justified as a means of self-defense.\nAPD and the mass media always go out of their way to defend the Klan\u2019s right to assemble. The KKK is not just another right-wing organization \u2013 it is a terrorist entity. It is not a civic organization but a collection of terrorists responsible to this day for the murder of innocent people by shooting, lynching and firebombing.\nIf ISIS attempted to hold a rally at a community park in Anaheim every agency of force in the United States would descend upon them. The KKK is the real terrorist for Black people, Latinos, Muslims, immigrants and the LGBTQ community that has killed far more American people in its 150 year history than any terrorists of Islamic background, but were treated with velvet gloves by police in Orange County.\nOrange County, and Anaheim in particular, have a checkered past with the Klan. During the early 20th century the Klan had control of most of the small cities in Orange County, holding positions on city councils, mayoral positions and deep infiltration of local police departments. Pearson Park, where the KKK attempted to hold their rally Saturday, was the site of the largest Klan rally in Southern California history in 1924 when 10,000 racists assembled there.\nAll progressive people have a duty to counter organize to prevent the KKK from growing in strength and ultimately from unleashing violence on oppressed communities. All progressive people have a duty to prevent any white supremacist organization from growing.\nWhat is needed is a multinational united front of Black people, Latinos, Asians, Arab Americans, indigenous peoples and anti-racist whites to beat back the rise of fascism in the United States that is characterized by the growing Trump movement.\nJust days before the attempted murder of anti-KKK protesters in Anaheim, Trump received the endorsements of former Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke and a founding leader of the French neo-Nazi movement, Jean Marie Le Penn. When asked if he would denounce David Duke and the KKK he claimed to have no knowledge of what the KKK was. This is obviously a lie, especially considering his own father was a documented Klansmen, that attempts to gloss over the fact that his base of support is not only a racist mass, but also largely connected to actual white supremacist organizations.\nTrump combines his play of ignorance with clear nods to his fascist underlings, such as his quoting Mussolini in a tweet Saturday night just hours after the KKK\u2019s attack. White supremacists are the essential oxygen to Trumps fire.\nTheir symbiotic relationship is more than endorsements or an identity of views on hatred of immigrants, Muslims, and Black people \u2013 it has even come in the form of open support as with the neo-Nazi American Freedom Party\u2019s donation and robocalls on behalf of Trumps campaign.\nWhite supremacists see in Trumps rhetoric an opportunity to grow. Trump being permitted to spew his racist hate speech against Muslims, Black people, Latinos, and others on national television without facing any repercussion has emboldened the KKK and neo-Nazi movements to come out in the open and recruit for the first time in years. Trump being able to call a vicious street attack by his supporters \u201centhusiasm\u201d and recommending that dissidents at his rallies \u201cshould be roughed up\u201d without consequence is a green light to the violence these groups are already using against Black people, immigrants, and all those who have been marching for an end to the systemic racism they face in this country.\n2015 saw the number of known Klan organizations more than double in their first year of growth after many years of decline.\nThe mass media is encouraging this growth by pursuing the ratings they achieve when giving Trump a full platform for his views. Mainstream Republicans have either put their heads in the sand or begun throwing their opportunistic support behind the proto-fascist as NJ Gov. Chris Christie did last week.\nThe ANSWER Coalition fully salutes the anti-Klan protestors and extends solidarity to all peoples struggling against racist oppression.\nNow is a critical turning point in a deeply polarized U.S. society. Either the white supremacist and fascist forces will continue to coalesce and build into an even greater threat or the anti-racist forces from all walks of life will unite and beat back Trump, the Klan, neo-Nazis, and their attendant ideologies of hate.\nThe community of Anaheim heroically pointed the way forward in the unity they displayed and the boldness of their action.\nWe call on all people of conscience to begin immediately the work of building the broadest unity against white supremacy and fascism.\nWe demand that the Orange County District Attorney drop all charges against the anti-KKK heroes and release them immediately.\nWe commit ourselves to fighting for the freedom of these heroes and building the struggle against all stripes of fascists.\nWe demand that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas release anti-KKK heroes from jail immediately.\nWe demand that all charges brought against anti-KKK protesters, who have already been the victims of a violent stabbing spree and police brutalization, be dropped immediately.\nanti-Klan, anti-racism, Donald Trump", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.libertybugle.com/democrats-want-to-remove-the-181-year-ban-on-religious-headgear-on-the-house-floor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ISAQGMCY7HBWCIUO5YNT5ZOZRQ7GVVBO", "length": 2382, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.libertybugle.com", "title": "Democrats Want To Remove The 181 Year Ban On Religious Headgear On The House Floor", "raw_content": "Democrats Want To Remove The 181 Year Ban On Religious Headgear On The House Floor\nDemocrats have drafted a proposal of rules for Congress once they take over the House of Representatives in January. One of the proposals is doing away with a 181-year ban on religious headwear, like hijabs, on the House floor. One of the first Muslim women who was just elected to the House, Ilhan Omar, is spearheading the policy change, ABC News reported.\nNancy Pelosi, who is expected to retake the Speakership, proposed the rule change last week. She\u2019s working with Ranking Member Jim McGovern and Omar on making the proposal a reality.\nOmar has been outspoken about her desire to wear her hijab.\nNo one puts a scarf on my head but me. It\u2019s my choice\u2014one protected by the first amendment.\nAnd this is not the last ban I\u2019m going to work to lift. https://t.co/7U3ZLTaWur\n\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) 17 November 2018\n\u201cI hope this will also help our Muslim schoolgirls who feel challenged or harassed when they wear a headscarf.\u201d\nThe first Somali-American congresswoman @IlhanMN, is campaigning for a change in the law to allow the wearing of religious headwear in Congress. \ud83e\uddd5\ud83c\udffd pic.twitter.com/2qPAf7PDcI\n\u2014 BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) 30 November 2018\nHere\u2019s what the current Congressional rules say:\n\u201cDuring the session of the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not wear a hat or remain by the Clerk\u2019s desk during the call of the roll or the counting of ballots,\u201d the section reads. \u201cA person on the floor of the House may not smoke or use a mobile electronic device that impairs decorum. The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged with the strict enforcement of this clause.\u201d\nFrederica Wilson tried fighting the rule back in 2010 because she wanted to wear colorful cowboy hats while on the floor. It didn\u2019t seem to take hold though.\nAccording to Roll Call, Omar will have a number of \u201cfirsts.\u201d She\u2019ll be the first member of Congress to wear a religious headpiece on the floor of the House, the first Somali-American in Congress and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota in Washington, D.C. Omar and Michigan\u2019s Rashida Tlaib are the first two Muslim women in Congress.\n\u2190 Michelle Obama Stuns Audience As She Talks About Pressures Of Marriage: \u201cbecause that sh*t doesn\u2019t work\u2026\u201d [VIDEO] \u2190 Adam Schiff Declares Trump \u201cCompromised\u201d By Russian Ties: \u201cPuts Our Country At Risk\u201d [VIDEO]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.linnealundgren.com/2013/04/week-of-terror.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KRQXZOON4UDO6ABJBKLLXZAAUNH3I4TF", "length": 1299, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.linnealundgren.com", "title": "Linn\u00e9a Lundgren: Week of terror", "raw_content": "Week of terror\nIt feels weird to get back to normal life after the happenings in Boston. After being so close to the marathon and the shootings when it happened. We lost a week in school due to the lockdown, and we couldn't even work on our homework cause we were worried about the world. And now it's back to normal as if nothing happened. Friday night was unbelievable; I have never seen so many people standing on the street singing the american national anthem and later screaming \"USA, USA!\". Honestly, that made me almost as freaked out as the bombings.\nAnyways, I am working on a billion projects at the same time (of course, otherwise it wouldn't be fun). I am rehearsing my band for a concert on Wednesday and later today I will record an r'n'b tune for Amit's final project. At the same time I am trying to book a studio for the film project, rehearsing with friend Shon who wants to record an EP, and working electronica tune with Lei and me and Vivienne are recording a video series of bebop licks for a youtube project.\nI am also in the beginning of planning a tour with my new band Karmacloud, consisting of Dan, Rumle and me. It's going to be amazingly fun! And we will hopefully end up in Paris! Check our website out: www.karmacloudmusic.com\nLife is filled with music! Music is fun!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lisd.net/domain/1345", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6IF5T3OGM2JIFECPE3A65WCZJOHV3V5X", "length": 1231, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lisd.net", "title": "Architecture / Home", "raw_content": "In the Architecture program at Career Center East, emphasis is placed on public presentation of student projects and ideas. \u00c2 In order to accomplish this, we have developed partnerships with many architecture and design professionals in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. One of the long-time partners in our program is OWT Architects in Fort Worth. Architects from OWT frequently visit Career Center East to review student presentations and provide critical feedback. This process of presentation and review gives students new and different perspectives to reflect on their own work, enhancing their learning and knowledge for projects in the future.\nIn addition to our professional review structure, Career Center East Architecture students also have the opportunity to participate in a career prep program that provides senior-level student internships in local architecture, design, or construction companies. The Dallas office of PBK Architects has hosted many Career Center East architecture students for these semester-long internships. 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Green has also had series regular roles in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Freddie, Wedding Band, and Anger Management. In 2010, Green married actress Megan Fox, with whom he is raising two sons, one from a previous marriage and another with Megan. Trivia: Plays the piano, drums and guitar. Began his own music production company \"Shen Productions\". In charge of his own production company \"Brian Austin Green Productions\". Appeared in a commercial with fellow child actor Jason An American actor best known for his portrayal of David Silver on the television series, Beverly Hills, 90210. Green has also had series regular roles in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Freddie, Wedding Band, and Anger Management. In 2010, Green married actress Megan Fox, with whom he is raising two sons, one from a previous marriage and another with Megan.\nPlays the piano, drums and guitar.\nBegan his own music production company \"Shen Productions\".\nIn charge of his own production company \"Brian Austin Green Productions\".\nAppeared in a commercial with fellow child actor Jason Marsden in the mid 1980s.\nPlayed drums on one track from Esthero's second album, \"Wikked 'lil Grrrls\".\nSon of George L. Green.\nEngaged to Megan Fox [November 2006].\nIs good friends with Jennifer Blanc and Michael Biehn.\nIs a fan of scream queen actress Linnea Quigley.\nIs of Irish, Scottish, Hungarian and Cherokee descent.\nA close friend of actress Kaleena Kiff.\nAlthough he and Megan Fox called off their engagement in February 2009, they got back together in April that same year.\nSold his two-bedroom, 3130-square-foot house in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $1,095,000. He had purchased the house in 1994 for $513,000. [2003]\nLives in Los Angeles, California.\nEngaged to Megan Fox for the second time [June 17, 2010].\nThe only other person present at his wedding to Megan Fox, besides the couple and the priest, was his son Kassius.\nGodmother of his son Kassius is Jillian Michaels. ... (more) (less)\nTags: Actor (4), American (4), Terminator (3), Born 1973 (3), Male (2), 90210 (2), Beverly Hills 90210 (2), Born In 1973 (2), Born In July (1), July 15 (1), Played Gay (1), Smallville (1), Played Lgbt (1), Domino (1), Edomite (1), Most Beautiful Men On Earth (1), Metallo (1), Freddie (1), Kickboxer 2 (1), Small Wonder (1)\nView all Brian Austin Green TV (51 more)\n1. The Wild Girl\n2. Baby M\n1. Domino (2005)\n2. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)\n4. Stay Cool (2009)\n5. Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)\nView all Brian Austin Green movies (14 more)\n1. Cross Wars (2017)\n2. Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)\n5. Purgatory Flats (2003)\n1. Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000)\nAdd a comment about Brian Austin Green\nMilena voted for an image 5 months ago\nMilena added this to a list 5 months ago\nFamous People Born in 1973 (39 person items)\nchloe51 posted a comment on this image 1 year, 3 months ago\n\"nice look!\"\njrf001 posted a image 1 year, 6 months ago\nmatt added this to a list 2 years, 11 months ago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 7171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lmorganmartin.com/blog/2016/11/south-carolina-man-facing-felony-dui-charge.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QSNITUVO3TW6BO45JK2NRQER26SGPMZ2", "length": 1362, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lmorganmartin.com", "title": "South Carolina man facing felony DUI charge | The Law Offices of L. Morgan Martin P.A.", "raw_content": "It was recently reported that police in Conway arrested the individual they believe is responsible for a hit-and-run pedestrian accident. A 19-year-old male -- a student a CCU -- was crossing Highway 544 at approximately 12:40 p.m. when he was struck. The driver is said to have fled the scene, but he returned a short time later.\nThe accused -- a 31-year-old male -- was promptly arrested and booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center. It has not been reported whether bond has yet been set in his case. It is also unknown whether any court dates have been scheduled regarding this matter.\nWhile police are still in the process of investigating this incident, the accused has been charged with both a felony DUI and for involvement in a hit-and-run accident. If convicted on these charges, this individual could face a number of serious consequences that could drastically alter the course of his life. While there is so much on the line, thankfully the accused does have the right to defend himself in a South Carolina criminal court with the assistance of legal counsel. By seeking professional legal help from the very beginning, steps can be taken to assist the accused in achieving the best possible outcome for the circumstances.\nSource: wbtw.com, \"Conway driver charged with felony DUI following death of a CCU student\", Jill Esteves, Oct. 29, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.londondrugs.com/50-years-with-peter-paul-and-mary---dvd/L0348273.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DNDLKMP3AYYD7WKMPKRMYOQCL2FRMXDX", "length": 569, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.londondrugs.com", "title": "50 Years With Peter Paul and Mary - DVD | London Drugs", "raw_content": "50 Years With Peter Paul and Mary - DVD\nFrom the group's emergence in Greenwich Village, the hub of the Folk Music scene in New York, to the Civil Rights and Anti-War era of the 1960s, through the decades of their later advocacy and music, to Mary Travers' moving memorial, and finally to the present, where their legacy continues to inform and inspire successive generations, this far deeper and more intimate exploration of the trio reveals the impact of their artistry and activism on their generation and the world.\nMary Allin Travers, Peter Yarrow, N. Paul Stookey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1385, "original_length": 25335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.longroom.com/discussion/1318461/india-says-non-muslim-migrants-have-nowhere-to-go-should-get-citizenship", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4F2BHPSZBKH7IQK4AIACE2YURDKE34II", "length": 861, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.longroom.com", "title": "India Says Non-Muslim Migrants Have Nowhere To Go, Should Get Citizenship - Long Room", "raw_content": "India Says Non-Muslim Migrants Have Nowhere To Go, Should Get Citizenship\nNEW DELHI (Reuters) \u2013 India wants to give citizenship to immigrants belonging to religious minorities persecuted in neighboring Muslim countries, including Pakistan, because they have nowhere go except India, the interior minister said on Tuesday.\nCritics have called the proposal, contained in a Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, blatantly anti-Muslim and an attempt by Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost its Hindu voter base ahead of a general election due by May.\nBill - Citizenship - Hindus - Sikhs - Jains\nThe bill seeks to give citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, who came to India before Dec. 31, 2014.\n\u201cThey have no place to go except India,\u201d Home...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loulexplo.fr/videos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IANEOCH7K23UPSXW6SEPMNEAUTSOVXMR", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.loulexplo.fr", "title": "Ma cha\u00eene YouTube - LOULexplo", "raw_content": "https://www.youtube.com/user/LOOL72", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 81.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lunchclick.co/to-the-girl-who-is-single-on-valentines-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TW4GXDLFDAWOJYKTCF5Q6PGN5I44YDJW", "length": 3522, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.lunchclick.co", "title": "To the Girl Who Is Single on Valentine\u2019s Day \u2013 LunchClick \u2013 Dating App by Lunch Actually", "raw_content": "Home / Dating Tips / To the Girl Who Is Single on Valentine\u2019s Day\nTwo simple words, and yet, they can cause anxiety and dread in the hearts of singles everywhere.\nMost people think of Valentine\u2019s Day as a day to spend with the person you love, like a boyfriend or a husband.\nIt\u2019s also a day to show the person you love how much you love them, like buying chocolates for a boyfriend with a sweet tooth, or going out for romantic dinners with your husband.\nWith such romantic displays of affection, Valentine\u2019s Day is an easy day for single girls to feel sad and lonely when they cannot partake in it with a partner.\nWhen you\u2019re single on Valentine\u2019s Day, it can feel as if the whole world is telling you that you are all alone by yourself.\nDon\u2019t listen to those pesky voices telling you that you are unloved.\nInstead, these are the 4 truths about your love life on Valentine\u2019s Day that you should know instead. Believe and act on these 4 truths, and by next year, you may have that other half to celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day with!\n1. Know That You Are Worthy of a Committed Love\nIt can be easy to tell yourself that you do not deserve a great love, especially when you feel lonely. While it\u2019s normal to feel down from time to time, to constantly think such thoughts is to carry out a self-fulfilling prophecy.\nDon\u2019t fall into the trap of accepting a relationship that makes you feel worse about yourself. Always strive for a love that respects and cherishes you, and fully believe that you deserve this love\u2026 because you do.\n2. The First Step to Finding Love is to Show Yourself More Love\nOn that note, if you\u2019re single on Valentine\u2019s Day, it does not mean you can\u2019t celebrate it! You can always show care and love to the person most deserving of your love \u2013 yourself.\nIf you want to, you can buy yourself flowers or chocolates ala the traditional Valentine\u2019s Day way. There\u2019s also nothing wrong with signing yourself up for a little pampering, like a facial, massage, or a nail session.\nStay in away from the crowd, and have some much important me-time, whether by yourself, or with the family and friends you love.\n3. Determination is the Key to Finding Someone You\u2019ll Love\nLove can seem elusive at times, but it\u2019s not. Determination and persistence are two key traits you must have when it comes to love.\nIt is by putting yourself out there that attracts the chances of love even more. It\u2019s only hard to find love when you make it hard for love to find you.\n4. To Attract Love, You Must Become the Right One Yourself\nMost girls will have a set of requirements when it comes to the guy they want to date, whether it\u2019s height, education level, physical looks, or otherwise.\nYet, in the quest for love, don\u2019t forget to ask yourself this most important question: \u201care you also the kind of person you\u2019d want to date?\u201d\nYes, it is important that the man who loves you loves you for who you are. However, there is always room for improvement. Being who you are does not mean becoming stagnant and accepting yourself that way \u2013 it means striving to be the best version of yourself at all times.\nFor example, a hot-tempered girl can tell herself that she\u2019s got a temper, but a hot-tempered girl who strives to keep her anger in check is much more attractive than the girl who lashes out at the tiniest thing.\nOnce you practice these four truths to love, you may surprise yourself with what happens next. 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In this course, you\u2019ll explore your career opportunities as you gain the skills that can help you land an entry-level position as a pharmacy clerk or technician. You\u2019ll discover the meanings of key pharmaceutical terms, learn about common categories of drugs and how they work, review the laws that govern pharmacy dispensing, and master the simple math that every pharmacy tech needs to know. You\u2019ll also take a look at the many job settings and career paths open to you if you become a pharmacy technician. In addition, you\u2019ll explore the steps you can take to boost your career by getting certified. By the time you\u2019re done, you\u2019ll be prepared to start your career in this popular and rapidly-growing field. 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However, in many cases we don\u2019t need to restore volume in the midface, we need to lift the midface when its sagging.\nA midface lift in San Francisco can restore a more youthful look, without using expensive fillers or having to undergo recurrent treatments, but it is important to understand the difference between volume loss, and loss of volume due to sinking of the tissues in the middle part of the face.\nConceptually, a percutaneous midface lift is a simple process of moving the fatty and soft tissues, along with the skin, from lower in the face back up into the cheek, which really should be the high point of our midface.\nThrough a tiny incision in the cheek, a device is placed and the midface cheek fat pad that sinks down with age is suspended, and contour is restored.\nA midface lift can be performed alone, but it can also be combined with a lower face lift or even a mini lift.\nThe procedure can be done under local anesthesia in the office, with or without sedation.\nRecovery after percutaneous midface lift is relatively short. There\u2019s a little bit of swelling typically in the upper cheek that can last for a week or so, and there\u2019s typically not much bruising.\nThe incisions are so tiny on the face that really they\u2019re invisible when you leave the office.\nIf you have any other questions about the percutaneous midface lift or restoring volume in the midface, please call The Maas Clinic at 415.567.7000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 9518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marcusmillichap.com/about-us/news-events/press/2016/08/12/devon-storage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:30Z", "digest": "sha1:U46BPC4DA4FCRI4KMGVC3SLKBHLG6AND", "length": 1609, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.marcusmillichap.com", "title": "Marcus & Millichap - Marcus & Millichap Sells Class A Self-Storage Facility in Canton, Michigan", "raw_content": "Marcus & Millichap Sells Class A Self-Storage Facility in Canton, Michigan\nCANTON, Mich., Aug. 12, 2016 \u2013 Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the United States and Canada, today announced the sale of Devon Self Storage, a 113,851-net-rentable-square-foot storage facility located in Canton, Michigan. The property sold for an undisclosed price.\nMarcus & Millichap\u2019s Chico LeClaire, senior vice president investments in Denver, and Brett Hatcher, vice president investments in Columbus, in association with Christopher Futo, senior associate in Detroit, represented the seller, a nationally recognized REIT. The Marcus & Millichap team also procured the buyer, Public Storage.\n\u201cIt was a great opportunity for one of the major REITs to buy a Class \u2018A\u2019 facility in one of the fastest-growing communities in Michigan. Its location on Michigan Avenue gives it excellent visibility and traffic counts,\u201d said LeClaire. \u201cThe seller bought the property in the economic downturn and achieved an excellent return selling it in a much improved market.\u201d\nBuilt in 2005, this Class \u201cA\u201d facility features 659 climate-controlled units, 131 non-climate controlled units, 15 RV units and nine office suites. The property has a unique campus- style layout with a two-story 140,000-square-foot climate-controlled warehouse with traditional drive-up storage buildings behind it. The property is well located on the south side of Michigan Avenue (U.S. Highway 12), and is surrounded by upscale residential apartments, condominium and single-family homes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mariammokhtar.com/tag/child-abuse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KV52TES7TEGLUKYVPIPXVY4HMYQ32N23", "length": 272, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mariammokhtar.com", "title": "child abuse Archives \u00b7 Rebuilding Malaysia", "raw_content": "Expert: \u201cThe Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2017. What next?\u201d\nAs a qualified mental health nurse, social worker and holder of an MA in Criminology, the former social worker and management consultant, Jim Lim, has over twenty years experience in \u2026 Continue Reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/OII/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5EISOC3VZBGCXT2LIEIRGG34FZMEZY7E", "length": 9189, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.marketbeat.com", "title": "NYSE:OII - Stock Price, News, & Analysis for Oceaneering International", "raw_content": "NYSE:OII - Oceaneering International Stock Price, News, & Analysis\nOceaneering International, Inc. provides engineered services and products to the offshore oil and gas, defense, aerospace, and commercial theme park industries worldwide. The company's Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) segment offers submersible vehicles for drill support, vessel-based inspection, maintenance and repair, installation and construction support, pipeline inspection and surveys, and subsea production facility operation and maintenance services. As of December 31, 2017, this segment owned 279 work-class ROVs. The company's Subsea Products segment constructs various specialty subsea hardware products, including subsea umbilicals utilizing thermoplastic hoses and steel tubes; termination assemblies; tooling, ROV tooling, and subsea work packages; production control equipment; installation and workover control systems; clamp connectors; pipeline connector and repair systems; subsea and topside control valves; and subsea chemical injection valves, as well as offers riserless light well intervention services. Its Subsea Projects segment performs subsea oilfield hardware installation and inspection, maintenance, and repair services; serves shallow water projects; and performs subsea intervention and hardware installation services, such as subsea well tie-backs, pipeline/flowline tie-ins and repairs, pipeline crossing, and umbilical and other subsea equipment installations, and subsea intervention services. The company's Asset Integrity segment offers asset integrity services for the safety of their facilities onshore and offshore; third-party inspections to customers in the oil and gas, petrochemical, and power generation industries; and first-pass integrity evaluation and assessment, and nondestructive testing services. Its Advanced Technologies segment provides project management, engineering services, and equipment for applications in non-energy markets. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.\nReceive OII News and Ratings via Email\nSign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for OII and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.\nCurrent SymbolNYSE:OII\nWebwww.oceaneering.com\nOceaneering International (NYSE:OII) Frequently Asked Questions\nWhat is Oceaneering International's stock symbol?\nOceaneering International trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol \"OII.\"\nHow were Oceaneering International's earnings last quarter?\nOceaneering International (NYSE:OII) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 13th. The oil and gas company reported $0.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.24) by $0.31. The oil and gas company earned $495.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $488.12 million. Oceaneering International had a negative net margin of 11.12% and a negative return on equity of 4.44%. Oceaneering International's revenue was up 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned ($0.08) earnings per share. View Oceaneering International's Earnings History.\nWhen is Oceaneering International's next earnings date?\nOceaneering International is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Oceaneering International.\nWhat price target have analysts set for OII?\n15 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Oceaneering International's shares. Their predictions range from $13.00 to $37.00. On average, they expect Oceaneering International's stock price to reach $22.9185 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 37.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oceaneering International.\nWhat is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Oceaneering International?\n15 Wall Street analysts have issued \"buy,\" \"hold,\" and \"sell\" ratings for Oceaneering International in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of \"Hold.\" View Analyst Ratings for Oceaneering International.\nHas Oceaneering International been receiving favorable news coverage?\nNews articles about OII stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Oceaneering International earned a media sentiment score of 1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.\nWho are some of Oceaneering International's key competitors?\nSome companies that are related to Oceaneering International include Subsea 7 (SUBCY), Core Laboratories (CLB), RPC (RES), Liberty Oilfield Services (LBRT), Propetro (PUMP), Franks International (FI), SemGroup (SEMG), C&J Energy Services (CJ), Keane Group (FRAC), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Select Energy Services (WTTR), FTS International (FTSI), Hurricane Energy (HRCXF) and National Energy Services (NESR).\nWho are Oceaneering International's key executives?\nOceaneering International's management team includes the folowing people:\nMr. Roderick A. Larson, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 52)\nMr. Alan R. Curtis, Sr. VP & CFO (Age 53)\nMr. Clyde W. Hewlett, Chief Operating Officer (Age 64)\nMr. David K. Lawrence, Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec. (Age 59)\nMr. Stephen P. Barrett, Sr. VP of Bus. Devel. (Age 61)\nWho are Oceaneering International's major shareholders?\nOceaneering International's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (11.79%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (8.05%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (3.13%), Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC (2.53%), Van ECK Associates Corp (1.79%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.61%). Company insiders that own Oceaneering International stock include Alan R Curtis, David K Lawrence, Paul B Murphy Jr, Stephen P Barrett, T Jay Collins and W Cardon Gerner. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Oceaneering International.\nWhich institutional investors are selling Oceaneering International stock?\nOII stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Eaton Vance Management, Madison Investment Holdings Inc., Northern Trust Corp, Bank of America Corp DE, Eagle Asset Management Inc., BTIM Corp., Isthmus Partners LLC and Granite Investment Partners LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oceaneering International.\nWhich institutional investors are buying Oceaneering International stock?\nOII stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Legal & General Group Plc, BlackRock Inc., TVR Capital Management LP and Gotham Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Oceaneering International stock in the last two years include Alan R Curtis, David K Lawrence and Stephen P Barrett. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oceaneering International.\nHow do I buy shares of Oceaneering International?\nShares of OII can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.\nWhat is Oceaneering International's stock price today?\nOne share of OII stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.65.\nHow big of a company is Oceaneering International?\nOceaneering International has a market capitalization of $1.64 billion and generates $1.91 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $166.39 million in net income (profit) each year or ($0.71) on an earnings per share basis. Oceaneering International employs 8,200 workers across the globe.\nWhat is Oceaneering International's official website?\nThe official website for Oceaneering International is http://www.oceaneering.com.\nHow can I contact Oceaneering International?\nOceaneering International's mailing address is 11911 FM 529, HOUSTON TX, 77041. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 713-329-4500 or via email at [email protected]\nMarketBeat Community Rating for Oceaneering International (NYSE OII)\nMarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Oceaneering International and other stocks. Vote \"Outperform\" if you believe OII will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote \"Underperform\" if you believe OII will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days.\nFeatured Article: The Discount Rate - What You Need to Know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 406, "original_length": 17150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/softbank-scraps-16-billion-wework-investment-in-favor-of-smaller-deal-2019-01-07", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:V5O6OEDUV2G6FNOQYJJZ5VNTWUCEKCXQ", "length": 1604, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.marketwatch.com", "title": "SoftBank scraps $16 billion WeWork investment in favor of smaller deal - MarketWatch", "raw_content": "SoftBank scraps $16 billion WeWork investment in favor of smaller deal\nDeal apparently faced too many hurdles; new $2 billion stake would value startup around $36 billion\nMembers use hot desks in a WeWork Cos. co-working space in London.\nEliotBrown\nSoftBank Group Corp. has scrapped a planned $16 billion investment in shared-office space provider WeWork Cos., opting instead for a smaller deal of about $2 billion amid market turbulence and opposition from investment partners, according to people familiar with the matter.\nThe two companies could announce the smaller deal as soon as Tuesday, valuing WeWork at about $36 billion, with half of the money going to buy shares from existing investors, the people said. SoftBank 9984, -4.40% is already a major investor in WeWork having committed more than $8 billion, partly from the Japanese company\u2019s giant tech-investment fund.\nThe earlier plan to acquire a majority stake in WeWork would have been one of the largest ever investments in a private tech startup, calling for SoftBank to spend $10 billion to buy out existing investors and provide an additional $6 billion in new capital over the next three years, these people said.\nExecutives at both companies had been in advanced discussions, and as of late last month they had planned to announce the landmark deal Tuesday, these people said. The exact reason for the pared-back investment is unclear, though the deal faced significant hurdles.\nThe phone that\u2019s failing Apple: the iPhone XR.\n\u2018You have to actually cut open Mumbai\u2019s belly\u2019 \u2014 Inside one of the world\u2019s most audacious transit companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marthalawton.com/blog/2018/6/21/why", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:59Z", "digest": "sha1:YFYXU6IAYMIH3VPC2XNZRQF2M35T5WGZ", "length": 2038, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.marthalawton.com", "title": "Why have a humanist naming? A time to reflect \u2014 Martha Lawton - Humanist Celebrant", "raw_content": "Non-religious ceremonies are on the rise, but why? What is the value of a ceremony like a naming, funeral, or wedding without a religious element? The answer is maybe more than you think.\nThis is the second of a series of thoughts on the psychological and social role of humanist naming ceremonies. The benefits to a ceremony that remain, or can even be enhanced, when you remove the religious content. For the first post, and the first reason why, click here.\nCouple at a table hold hands and talk.\nThe second benefit of humanist namings is reflection. Time to reflect is not a high priority when caring for a new baby. Keeping the child safe, fed, clean and so on takes over. Yet parenthood raises deep questions and taking time to think about them is a good idea.\nFor example, what are the most important values you want to teach your child? What about the way you're going to raise your child, what examples will you set? How will you teach your child to navigate life's challenges? What will you show them about their place in the world? If this is not your first child, what does it mean for your family to have a new addition? If you have a partner have you discussed these questions?\nA naming ceremony is a prompt to speak about what having a child means to you and what kind of parent you want to be. It can be a chance to talk more to older siblings about what the new arrival means for them. To be able to do this you have to reflect on the subject and talk it through with your partner, if you have one, as well as wider family and other people involved. Without the ceremony, that reflection and discussion may or may not take place. When it does it can be invaluable.\nA ceremony can help to promote mutual understanding about your ideas for the future. It can set you up as a parenting team with a common philosophy, which you might otherwise never discuss until something happens that you disagree about. Having these conversations early in your child's life can reduce tension down the line. That's got to be a good thing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.martplaza.com/events/chicago/sheffield-garden-walk-music-festival", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:57Z", "digest": "sha1:B7YMQWYG5UAUPKQXQN3IOD3YVCBZKYWL", "length": 397, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.martplaza.com", "title": "Sheffield Garden Walk & Music Festival", "raw_content": "Sheffield Garden Walk & Music Festival\n12:00 AM - 11:55 PM Sheffield Ave\nWhere: Sheffield Ave, Between Webster Ave & Fullerton Ave, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60614\nCelebrating its third year in 2014, Green Mountain Gringo Chicago Craft Beer Festival has grown in wild popularity to become the Windy City's hottest specialty beer gathering. More details: http://www.sheffieldgardenwalk.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryknollsisters.org/sisters/sister-alice-wengrzynek/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YNHN7KREIMECAGDN52DTLECSZECZSGCN", "length": 2140, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.maryknollsisters.org", "title": "Sister Alice Wengrzynek - Maryknoll Sisters", "raw_content": "Sister Alice Wengrzynek\n\u201cThe essence of my vocation to Christ as a Maryknoll Sister remains the same: God\u2019s love, faithfulness and abundant graces. This is what I treasure the most and what makes it all worthwhile.\u201d\nSister Alice Wengrzynek, was born in Simpson, Pennsylvania and entered Maryknoll in 1953. After formation, she served for three years at the Maryknoll Center, where she worked in the Seminary kitchen, acted as Bishop Lane\u2019s private administrative assistant, and studied at Maryknoll Teacher\u2019s College.\nSister Alice was then sent to the Midwest U.S. Region to earn her registration as an X-Ray technician at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City.\nIn 1963, Sister Alice set out for a five-year assignment in Taiwan, where she ministered to the people with loving dedication through youth, parish, and clinic work.\nWhen she came back to the Sisters Center in 1968, Sister Alice offered congregational service in the secretariat\u2019s office and in our physical plant office, while she earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree in community service at Rogers College.\nArriving in Hong Kong in 1970, Sister Alice began her work in Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital, as director of the Admissions Office. She also served in the Medical Records Department and as a private administrative assistant, meanwhile starting on-the-job secretarial training for local girls.\nThen, beginning in 1981, Sister Alice spent years visiting and ministering to mentally and physically handicapped people, making God\u2019s love visible to these poor and often forgotten individuals.\nAfter another two years of congregational service, this time in archives, Sister Alice returned to Hong Kong, where she did pastoral work and served as administrative assistant to the local Cardinal.\nIn 1992, Sister Alice returned to the center in New York, where she served as Administrative assistant to the congregational president and then archives curator for the next 16 years, at which point she retired to the Rogers Community.\nToday, Sister Alice remains a cheerful and active resident at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining, NY.\nSister Helen Werner \u00bb\n\u00ab Sister Barbara Ann Walenty", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryknollsisters.org/sisters/sister-genie-c-natividad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VNWCOA3CC65HNTZRR7HNBN57UZQDFN4A", "length": 2259, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.maryknollsisters.org", "title": "Sister Genie C. Natividad - Maryknoll Sisters", "raw_content": "Sister Genie C. Natividad\n\u201cThe Maryknoll Sisters belong to each successive generation, born to announce the Good News according to the time and place where each Sister finds herself.\u201d\nSister Genie Natividad entered Maryknoll on August 11, 2007, after completing a live-in experience in various Maryknoll Sisters\u2019 houses in the Philippines. She spent two years in our Chicago orientation house, studying part time at the Catholic Theological Union and doing part-time ministry, first with mentally challenged people and then in prison ministry with women and men at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center.\nOn Mission Sunday, October 18, 2009, Sister Genie was assigned to the Tanzania Region. She prepared for this first mission assignment with other new missioners for 2009. Her winning smile will continue to win hearts wherever she goes.\nAfter a visit with her family and the Sisters in the Philippines, Sister Genie settled in mission in Tanzania and will visit the Sisters and their ministries as part of her orientation to the country. She looks forward to language study in Morogoro where she is assigned for ministry with Sisters Janet Srebalus and LeKheng Chen.\nBorn in Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, one of six children, Genie experienced the death of her father when she was seven, and she lost her mother in 2003. Genie speaks Tagalog, Ilocano and English. She spent several years taking college courses and worked in Malaysia where she met a Spanish community who do missionary work in Africa. This strongly attracted her, but since her mother objected, she joined the Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation for four years. After which she became a lay missioner with the Missionary Community of St. Paul the Apostle in Turkana, Kenya, and worked in a feeding program caring for four- to six-year-olds in a nursery.\nBack in her hometown, Sister Genie volunteered as a catechist and assisted in organizing and animating the youth. On the Web, she discovered the video Maryknoll Sisters, Ordinary People \u2013 Extraordinary Deeds and saw that a vocation to religious life and mission could be combined. So began her safari to Maryknoll and the Tanzania ministry to which she is now called.\nSister Susan Nchubiri \u00bb\n\u00ab Sister Mary Naab", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marylandmatters.org/2018/06/27/alsobrooks-romps-in-prince-george-39-s-county-and-is-poised-to-make-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:39Z", "digest": "sha1:M7TXDHMLT46IG3EKOSS2OTIXHLWNQFUE", "length": 3087, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.marylandmatters.org", "title": "Alsobrooks Romps in Prince George's County and Is Poised to Make History \u2013 Maryland Matters", "raw_content": "Home Politics Alsobrooks Romps in Prince George\u2019s County and Is Poised to Make History\nAlsobrooks Romps in Prince George\u2019s County and Is Poised to Make History\nAngela D. Alsobrooks is poised to make history in Prince George\u2019s County.\nShe romped to victory in the race for Prince George\u2019s County executive in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary, and barring a stunning upset, she will become the first female to lead the county come December. At 47, Alsobrooks is also likely to become a major superstar for state Democrats.\nIn remarks to supporters at the University of Maryland Hotel, Alsobrooks emphasized the conversations she had with county residents during the campaign.\n\u201cI know what\u2019s in your heart. I know what keeps you up at night. I\u2019ve come to understand your concerns for the school system, the performance of it, the reputation of it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have heard you loudly and clearly, and we will respond.\u201d\n\u201cWe understand that when we work together there is nothing that we cannot accomplish.\u201d\nAlsobrooks, a two-term state\u2019s attorney, won 62 percent of the vote. Former congresswoman Donna F. Edwards, seeking a comeback after her 2016 loss to then-Rep. Chris Van Hollen in a U.S. Senate primary, racked up 24 percent.\nState Sen. C. Anthony Muse, who struggled to raise money, came in a distant third with 10 percent. Former Obama administration official D. Paul Monteiro, a political newcomer whose campaign never caught fire, finished a distant fourth.\nThe telegenic and empathetic Alsobrooks ran a disciplined campaign that brought her into contact with countless voters. She out-raised her rivals, taking in more than $1 million in contributions and winning the endorsement of The Washington Post editorial page, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Reps. Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony G. Brown, and numerous unions.\nEdwards, seeking a comeback after her bitter loss two years ago, positioned herself as an experienced problem-solver who brought the attitude of an outsider. She railed against the political establishment, with whom she has clashed much of her career.\nA union-based Super PAC pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into an effort to boost Edwards\u2019 chances and tie Alsobrooks to development interests.\nJerry J. Mathis, a civic activist and real estate agent who has run for office before, ran unopposed in the Republican primary. Democrats enjoy a better than 10-to-1 advantage in the county.\nPrince George\u2019s County adopted the charter form of government in 1970. Alsobrooks will likely become the eighth person \u2014 and the first woman \u2014 to serve as executive.\nIn another closely watched primary, Aisha N. Braveboy prevailed in the race for State\u2019s Attorney. Braveboy, a former two-term member of the House of Delegates, trounced state Sen. Victor R. Ramirez and attorney D. Michael Lyles to capture the Democratic nomination.\nBraveboy, head of government relations for Childrens National Medical Center who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general four years ago, captured 63 percent of the vote.\nNo Republicans filed for the post, which Alsobrooks is vacating.\nAngela Alsobrooks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mbird.com/2008/12/miscellaneous/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PW7KGBAMEYM2VCYJMRSEHBNEL5WP2IKR", "length": 616, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mbird.com", "title": "The New Yorker, Norman Rockwell and Albert Einstein | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "Art / Humor / Week In Review\nThe New Yorker, Norman Rockwell and Albert Einstein\nNorman Rockwell\u2019s \u201cLift Up Thine Eyes\u201d:\nFinally, Albert Einstein\u2019s take on the bondage of the will:\nTags: Albert Einstein, Comic Strips, New Yorker, Norman Rockwell\nI think that the Rockwell may be of New York's St. Thomas Church (W53rd & 5th) where I was a chorister! Guess Rockwell was an Anglican:)\nYup. Rockwell and his wife were members of \u200eSt. John\u2019s Wilmot Church, an Episcopalian church near their home, and had their sons baptized there as well.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Wilmot_Church_(New_Rochelle,_New_York)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mckesson.com/blog/10-pharmaceutical-distribution-trends-to-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:13Z", "digest": "sha1:PZD3NFAOL4F6OVIHH73Z5A67UIMME7EV", "length": 6325, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.mckesson.com", "title": "10 Pharmaceutical Distribution Trends to Know | McKesson", "raw_content": "10 Pharmaceutical Distribution Trends to Know\nFor drug manufacturers, pharmaceutical distributors are the important link between products and the pharmacies, health care providers and patients who need them. Culled from the HDA Factbook: The Facts, Figures and Trends in Healthcare (2017\u20132018) are 10 distribution trends and benchmarks that manufacturers should know as they craft their future growth and expansion plans.\nThe HDA Research Foundation published the 87-page report. The foundation is a nonprofit affiliate of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance.\n1. The percentage of pharmaceutical sales flowing through distributors is increasing\nIn 2016, $440.2 billion in pharmaceutical sales were made through distributors. That\u2019s up nearly 45 percent from 2013, when the figure was $304.6 billion. In 2013, that year\u2019s sales total represented 90.1 percent of all pharmaceutical sales. By 2016, that percentage had jumped to 95.7 percent.\n2. The average number of manufacturers per distributor is declining\nDespite the increase in pharmaceutical sales to customers through distributors, the average number of manufacturers that each distributor handles is dropping. In 2016, the average number of manufacturers from which one distributor purchased goods and services from was 1,211. That\u2019s down from 1,216 in 2015 and 1,474 in 2014.\n3. Specialty drugs are representing a larger percentage of total sales through distributors\nOf all pharmaceutical sales that distributors handled in 2016, 98 percent were for prescription drugs, with the remaining 2 percent representing non-prescription drugs, health and personal care items, durable medical equipment (DME), home health products and general merchandise. That\u2019s roughly the same sales ratio as the previous year. But, the percentage of sales represented by brand-name non-specialty drugs slipped to 65.9 percent in 2016 from 67 percent in 2015, while the percentage of sales represented by brand-name specialty drugs rose to 18 percent from 16.1 percent over the same period.\n4. Hospitals and specialty pharmacies are becoming bigger distributor customers\nChain pharmacies continue to be the biggest customers of distributors. In 2016, 42 percent of all sales through distributors were made by chain pharmacies. That\u2019s down slightly from 42.5 percent in 2015. Nipping at market share are hospitals/HMOs and specialty pharmacies. In 2016, hospitals/HMOs made 15.8 percent of all sales through distributors, up from 14.5 percent in 2015. Over that same time period, purchases by specialty pharmacies inched up to 1.4 percent from 1.1 percent.\n5. The average number of SKUs per distributor is increasing\nThe average number of SKUs, or individual products, per distributor rose by 5 percent to 54,692 in 2016 from 52,066 in 2015. Of the SKUs in 2016, 23,768 were for prescription drugs and 30,924 were for non-prescription health products. The average number of brand-name prescription drug SKUs per distributor dropped 1.8 percent to 6,265 in 2016 from 6,383 in 2015. The average number of generic prescription drug SKUs rose 1.9 percent to 16,283 from 15,975 over the same period. And the average number of SKUs for DME and home health care products jumped nearly 23 percent to 9,090 from 7,406.\n6. Barcoding at the individual item level is increasing\nThe smaller the sellable unit, the more likely it will be barcoded. Manufacturers barcoded an average of 74 percent of individual items like pill bottles in 2016, compared with 71.4 percent of product cases, 51.5 percent of product pallets, and 34 percent of product shelf packs. Distributors\u2019 ability to scan barcodes, however, varied by product level. For example, 83.3 percent of distributors can scan individual items and 83.3 percent can scan product cases, but only 40 percent can scan pallets and shelf packs, respectively.\n7. Overstocking continues to be the No. 1 reason goods are returned to distributors\nWhen customers return pharmaceutical and other health products to distributors, by far the most common reason is overstocking. In 2016, overstocking of products caused 88.3 percent of returns to distributors, compared with 88.9 percent in 2015 and 77.6 percent in 2014. A distant second reason in 2016 was short-dated products (2.4 percent), followed by outdated products (1.9 percent) and damaged products (1.1 percent).\n8. Electronic ordering systems remain dominate form of product procurement for customers\nSoftware-based and web-based order-entry systems are by far the most common customer ordering platform used by distributors. In 2016, 93 percent of all distributors offered one or both types of electronic ordering systems to customers to buy products. That\u2019s up from 92 percent in 2015 and 91 percent in 2014. A distant second was phone ordering, which still was offered by 6 percent of distributors in 2016. Only 1 percent accepted orders by fax that year.\n9. Data management services are essential business intelligence offerings to manufacturers\nOf all the different programs and services that distributors offer, data management services are the only ones that all distributors typically provide to both manufacturers and other customers. That means distributors provide sales, inventory and returns data to manufacturers and other customers. The four other most common programs and services that distributors offered to manufacturers in 2016 were: promotional material distribution (67 percent); rapid distribution for new product launches (67 percent); special handling distribution services (67 percent); and specialty pharmacy (60 percent).\n10. Inventory management agreements are common supply chain offerings to manufacturers\nLike data management services, distributors had inventory management agreements with their manufacturers in 2016, as they did in both 2015 and 2014. Other types of supply chain management agreements in 2016 were: collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (offered by 66.7 percent of distributors); vendor-managed inventory deals (33.3 percent of distributors); and consignment arrangements (16.7 percent).\nDrug manufacturers should weigh these 10 pharmaceutical distribution trends and benchmarks when planning their future clinical and business needs.\nRelated: Learn more about McKesson\u2019s pharmaceutical distribution services for drug manufacturers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 12874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/news/20180627/today-in-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:40Z", "digest": "sha1:YRKORNM2BZYKRA2SKGIO7SULUUKO7WKQ", "length": 4485, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.mcphersonsentinel.com", "title": "Today in History - News - McPhersonSentinel - McPherson, KS - McPherson, KS", "raw_content": "Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2018. There are 187 days left in the year.\nOn June 27, 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.\nIn 1787, English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, \"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.\"\nIn 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.\nIn 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago.\nIn 1922, the first Newberry Medal, recognizing excellence in children's literature, was awarded to \"The Story of Mankind\" by Hendrik Willem van Loon.\nIn 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm was placed at 390, although a variety of state, federal and local sources have estimated the number of fatalities at between 400 and 600.\nIn 1966, the Gothic soap opera \"Dark Shadows\" premiered on ABC-TV.\nIn 1974, President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union.\nIn 1985, the legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passed into history as officials decertified the road.\nIn 1988, at least 56 people were killed when a commuter train ran into a stationary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in Paris. In 1988, Mike Tyson retained the undisputed heavyweight crown as he knocked out Michael Spinks 91 seconds into the first round of a championship fight in Atlantic City, New Jersey.\nIn 1990, NASA announced that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus. (The problem was traced to a mirror that had not been ground to exact specifications; corrective optics were later installed to fix the problem.)\nIn 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation's highest court, announced his retirement.\n(His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)\nNorth Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor at Yongbyon. (However, North Korea announced in September 2008 that it was restoring its nuclear facilities.)\nIn Zimbabwe, roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election in which President Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH'-bay) was the only candidate.\nThe Senate passed, 68-32, comprehensive legislation offering the hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America's shadows; however, the measure became stalled in the GOP-led House.\nPresident Barack Obama visited Senegal, where he urged African leaders to extend equal rights to gays and lesbians but was bluntly rebuked by Senegal's president, Macky Sall, who said his country \"still isn't ready\" to decriminalize homosexuality.\nKevin Rudd was sworn in as Australian prime minister a day after toppling rival Julia Gillard.\nA new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software began causing mass disruption across the world, hitting Europe \u2014 and Ukraine \u2014 especially hard.\nBusiness executive Ross Perot is 88. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is 80. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 76. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 69. Actress Julia Duffy is 67.\nActress Isabelle Adjani is 63. Country singer Lorrie Morgan is 59. Actor Brian Drillinger is 58. Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 52. Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is 50.\nOlympic gold and bronze medal figure skater Viktor Petrenko is 49. Actor Edward \"Grapevine\" Fordham Jr. is 48. TV personality Jo Frost is 48. Actor Yancey Arias is 47. Actor Christian Kane is 44.\nActor Tobey Maguire is 43. Rock singer Bernhoft is 42. Gospel singer Leigh Nash is 42.\nChristian rock singer Zach Williams is 40. Musician Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) is 36. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian (kar-DASH'-ee-uhn) is 34.\nActor Drake Bell is 32. Actor Sam Claflin is 32. Actress India de Beaufort is 31.\nActor Ed Westwick is 31. Actor Matthew Lewis (Film: \"Harry Potter\"; TV: \"Ripper Street\") is 29. 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African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is now accepting applications from talented and motivated students from across the African continent for its 2019/2020 Master\u2019s & Co-operative Master\u2019s Program in Mathematical Sciences. The deadline for submission of applications is 31st March, 2019.\n1 AIMS Master\u2019s & Co-operative 2019/2020 Master\u2019s Program in Mathematical Sciences\n2 Why Should You Apply for AIMS Master\u2019s Program\n3 AIMS Master\u2019s Program Eligibility\n4 AIMS Master\u2019s Program Centres\n5 AIMS Master\u2019s Program Benefits\n6 How to Apply for AIMS Master\u2019s Program\nThe African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is pleased to announce that it has opened applications for its Master\u2019s & Co-operative Master\u2019s Program at its five centres of excellence for the 2019/2020 Academic year.\nAIMS is a pan-African network of centres of excellence enabling Africa\u2019s talented students to become innovators driving the continent\u2019s scientific, educational and economic self-sufficiency. 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Having a modern website, but not changing anything you\u2019re doing won\u2019t impact the amount of web traffic you\u2019re getting today.\nThere are singers who are just as good as Frank Sinatra, but no one knows about them because they\u2019re only singing in the shower. In this industry, websites are designed to be destinations; meaning that few people go to them by accident, and rarely does anyone \u2018stumble across them\u2019. Even if you\u2019ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on it! You need to guide people to your website.\nThe best way to do this is with email campaigns.\nIt's an open secret that web traffic increases significantly on days that email campaigns are sent, regardless of the industry that you\u2019re in.\nHow significant?\nYou can see the effect in Meyler's own Site Traffic results (below) - each dramatic spike was the result of an email campaign. These spikes also saw approximately 600-1,100% of the number of web visitors on a day without an email campaign.\nDrive up web traffic with COMPELLING email content. Ensure that it ENGAGES your prospects.\n... and most of all, keep it SIMPLE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mikipannell.com/school-fingerstyle-solos-tabs/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6NV2UAZQE6C646FRTY6DLLXD3FD35VYK", "length": 3315, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mikipannell.com", "title": "Didactic materials, sheet music and video tutorials for learning guitar - Miki Pannell - Musician and Producer / Heroe de la Guitarra School & Record Label", "raw_content": "Here are some of the transcriptions, sheet music, tabs and explanations from the YouTube video tutorials. In most cases they are the original fingerstyle transcriptions (instead of Miki Pannell's personal variations).\nDark Eyes. Version 2. This is another previous version (audio only) without the jazz arpeggios section and a little bit closer to the Chet Atkins' version. Below is a transcription / tab / sheet music of the Chet version.\nThis is a hybrid version featuring sections from the Doors' version mixed with some traditional flamenco music (the music associated with Andalucia, Spain) which was the origin of the piece. The flamenco improvisational form is called 'Granadinas' (sometimes 'Granainas') and originates from - you've guessed it - Granada. Harmonically the song is in B major and uses a the phrygian mode (the flamenco sounding scale). What this means, in simple terms, is that the tune revolves around the chords B, C, D, G and E minor. For simplicity's sake, it's far easier to think of it as a song in the key of E minor and use the related chords mentioned above. I'll post the transcription soon. A complete guide to flamenco technique and harmony will follow shortly.\nThis bears all the hallmarks of a Jerry Reed classic. It features a swinging, walking bass line, which Reed probably borrowed from 'Halleluja I Love Her So'. The tune - as with most of Jerry's stuff - seems to defy any logic and therefore needs to be learned with a note-for-note classical approach, rather than an improvise-around-positions approach. There are some nice chords that were also used in Reed's 'Drive-In'. My version is basically the one from the Buster B. Jones DVD with identical fingerings. I should imagine that it is fairly close to the original although there are some other interesting versions, like Joe Robinson's on YouTube, that use alternate positions and picking styles. Try messing around with it and see if you can do something original. Jerry never played anything the same twice - why should we?\nThe solo is basically a copy of the Chet Atkins version, which I've never heard, but I learnt the solo from the excellent John McClellan and Deyan Bratic book 'Chet Atkins In Three Dimentions'. As I hadn't heard the original I did an interpretation of the Bill Simpson Youtube video that seems to follow the book's transcription note-for-note. Also note that I prefer to do it on an electric guitar just to cheese off the purists - my philosophy is take the music and change it around and do something original with it. At least that was the philosophy of all my guitar heroes!\nHere's a quick and sloppy version of the Jerry Reed classic 'Jerry's Breakdown'. Below is the transcript and tab of the original studio recording with the Chet Atkins part included.\nTranscription and comments to follow shortly. Watch this space.\nNote: This is not an easy piece at all and as Jerry used to say, his music often seems unnatural and illogical to play. Memorize it as if it were a piece of classical music. I tried learning various versions of the tune, but in the end decided that the Craig Dobbins version from his Jerry Reed book (out of print now I think) was closest to the original and my version is a note-for-note rendering of Dobbins' score. Check out his stuff - he has excellent materials", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2013/11/01/daniel-radcliffe-to-star-as-olympic-runner-coe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ANYJ3YBPEQ55CF65OWN7BUHE6PY77XCR", "length": 831, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.military.com", "title": "Daniel Radcliffe to Star as Olympic Runner Coe | Military.com", "raw_content": "Daniel Radcliffe to Star as Olympic Runner Coe\nLONDON - \"Harry Potter\" star Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play British Olympic runner Sebastian Coe in a movie about rivalries on the running track.\n\"Gold\" will tell the story of the tense rivalry between Coe and fellow middle distance runner Steve Ovett in the run-up to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where Ovett won the 800 meters and Coe took the 1500 meters. Coe, also a gold medalist in 1984, went on to become a politician and headed the London organizing committee at last year's summer Olympics.\nThe movie reunites the 24-year-old Radcliffe with James Watkins, the director of the 2012 film \"The Woman in Black.\"\nFilming is expected to begin in in April 2014.\nRadcliffe's publicist confirmed Radcliffe's casting on Wednesday. The casting for Ovett has not yet been announced.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 5524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/business/healthcare/4538751-researchers-who-helped-restore-sight-blind-patients-win-sanford-health-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:D5EOIPKRB6A2ILNSPGVTFLDDSIPS4VMI", "length": 4940, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.mitchellrepublic.com", "title": "Researchers who helped restore sight to blind patients win Sanford Health $1 million award | The Daily Republic", "raw_content": "By Barry Amundson on Dec 5, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.\nDr. Jean Bennett and Dr. Katherine High. Sanford Health News\nSIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2014 There was a crash in gene therapy in the 1990s when rapid development led to less support and funding for gene therapy projects.\nBut the field is booming now.\nIt was evident on Tuesday night, Dec. 4, in the awarding of the Sanford Health Lorraine Cross Award worth $1 million.\nThe winners were the team of Dr. Jean Bennett and Dr. Katherine High of the University of Pennsylvania. They were one of three gene therapy pioneers that were finalists for the inaugural award funded by donations from philanthropic families, including Sanford's main benefactor, Denny Sanford\n\"Gene therapy was a bad word,\" said Dr. Jim Wilson, one of the finalists in talking about the 1990s. \"We had to work harder, and that's what we did.\"\nHe went to work on developing a safe , solid foundation for the future of gene therapy by uncovering a new way to deliver gene replacement therapies. His efforts led to a rebirth in gene therapy, leading to more research and potentially life-saving cures that most hope aren't too far away.\nThe Sanford award was created to award game-changers in medicine. Candidates were identified using a computer algorithm that sifted through medical research globally in search of major discoveries and advancements. An interdisciplinary scientific advisory board identified the finalists just over a month ago.\nThen, after the Sanford International Board listened to presentations on the finalist's work earlier in the day and had discussions with the members, they held a dramatic ceremony Tuesday night at a building on the sprawling Sanford research facility in north Sioux Falls where 300 researchers from around the world work..\nThe board made it known a winner was named by lighting a large blue flame on top of the building where the announcement was made, similar to how the Vatican announces when a new pope is chosen.\nSanford Health CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft told a crowd that included the operation's benefactor, Denny Sanford, that they created the award and do research at its facilities to not have people live forever, but for people to \"live life without suffering.\"\nThe award, he said, was to inspire people.\nBennett and High won the award for their work with the RPE65 mutation that has reversed an inherited form of blindness.\nBennett and High pioneered the gene therapy, took it to clinical trials and then received FDA-approval for the treatment, the first FDA approval of a gene therapy for a genetic disease.\nIt started with Bennett testing gene therapy \u2013 replacing a missing or mutated gene with a healthy one \u2013 to repair vision in dogs with Canine LCA, a genetic condition that eventually causes blindness.\n\u201cNinety-nine percent of the time we saw this remarkable reversal of the blindness,\u201d in dogs, said Bennett. \u201cSo we were very excited to test this in humans.,\" she told Sanford officials. The first human clinical trails were in 2007 with patients seeing dramatic improvement in just days. She helped found Spark Therapeutics, a company founded to develop and distribute the gene therapy drugs.\nHere's more on the other two finalists.\nWilson, director of the gene therapy program at the University of Pennsylvania, has worked mostly on processes, not patients, during his 35 years of innovation in gene therapy. \"This has been a journey of mine over three decades, but it's only the beginning of a revolution,\" he told Sanford officials. \"Gene therapy is really the ultimate treatment for patients that have diseases due to single gene defects.\" The theory behind the treatment is to replace a missing or mutated gene with a cloned one that works and heals the patient from the root of the problem, he said. Rare diseases affect small handfuls of the population, but taken together they affect 350 million people. Most stem from a missing or mutated gene, which Wilson has spend his career trying to replace.\nDr. Brian Kasper, of Bannockburn, Ill., was the scientific founder of a company called AveXis. He has been working on spinal muscular atrophy, the No. 1 genetic cause of death for infants, leaving them unable to walk, talk, eat or even breathe. Through his research work that he started in 2004, he is giving families new hope with a goal of eliminating the diseases forever. Through his work, children are now living a full life at age 5 when before 93 percent didn't ever reach the age of 2. His drug to help children is hoping FDA approval is just around the corner.\nThe award is named after the Lorraine Cross, a symbol synonymous for those who take action for their passions. In recent history, Sanford Health has used it to symbolize innovation in health care.\nThe $1 million prize is one of the top five awards money-wise in the world in medical care advancements.\nExplore related topics:BusinesshealthcareSanford HealthNorth Dakota South Dakotamedical research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 9648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobiledekho.com/news/galaxy-a5-2018-expected-with-6gb-ram/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RUQ5DR3RCXWY4K4K6L3SOTOLZBEHZVB6", "length": 2552, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mobiledekho.com", "title": "2017 Samsung Galaxy A5's Successor Expected With 6GB RAM | MobileDekho", "raw_content": "2017 Samsung Galaxy A5\u2019s Successor Expected With 6GB RAM And Dual Camera Setup\nAccording to the listings site, Geekbench, the South Korean phone maker has been spotted testing a completely new mid-range phone. It will most likely be Samsung Galaxy A5's successor which is on sale in the country right now.\nPowered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660\nMore details will be out soon\nNew phone to compete with Chinese rivals\nSamsung may have introduced dual-camera setup in its new mid-range smartphone range. The South Korean giant has been spotted testing a device with codenamed \u2018SM-A5300\u2019. Judging by the model number, the smartphone is expected to be the successor of the Galaxy A5 (2017), which carries model number \u2018SM-A5200\u2019.\nA listing spotted on the benchmarking site Geekbench suggest that Samsung is expected to launch new mid-range smartphone, dubbed as Galaxy A5 (2018). This new model will be equipped with 6GB RAM and a dual-camera setup. According to the listings, the new smartphone will run an Android 7.1.1 operating system and will be powered by Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 660 processor. The processor will be one of the latest and most equipped mid-range processors by Qualcomm. This processor has the capacity to run a dual camera setup which the new model may have.\nSamsung Galaxy Note 8 Image And Features Leaked Ahead Of Launch\nListings further suggest super-fast LTE speed as well as the latest Bluetooth version. To recall, the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) features a 5.2-inch display and is powered by an Exynos 7880 processor. It comes with 3GB RAM and offers 32GB internal storage. The present version of Galaxy A sports a single rear camera and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Compared to its rivals, these were considerable setbacks in the smartphone.\nSamsung Announces Massive Price Cuts For The Galaxy A5 and A7\nNotably, the Galaxy A5 (2017) and A7 (2018) faced a price cut of Rs 5000 flat. The new MOP of Galaxy A5 (2017) is now Rs 25,990 while that of A7 (2017) is Rs 25,990. The recent price cut has made these devices even better value-for-money smartphones with a decent combination of software and hardware. However, the price cut on the 2017 model of the Galaxy A5 still does not justify the hardware. Samsung is all set to launch its new flagship smartphone, Galaxy Note 8 tomorrow which is expected to take on the likes of flagship models by other phone makers.\nGoogle May Launch Google Assistant Smart Headphones And Two Other Devices Soon\nAirtel To Bring In A New 4G Phone Before Diwali, To Counter Jio\u2019s New Entry-Level Model", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monterey.courts.ca.gov/general-information/history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBJE6T5XY2H27K7MELOYZOD55NJPRHEZ", "length": 137, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.monterey.courts.ca.gov", "title": "Superior Court of California, Monterey County", "raw_content": "Monterey County Courthouse Completed 1878\nTour historic courthouses for all 58 California counties at http://www.courts.ca.gov/courts.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 167.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.montereyherald.com/2007/08/14/sidelines-shamblin-named-as-awc-softball-coach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4W67NUODZWO5PE4LLJOQFYUUKNGU4FU", "length": 2859, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.montereyherald.com", "title": "Sidelines: Shamblin named as AWC softball coach \u2013 Monterey Herald", "raw_content": "Sidelines: Shamblin named as AWC softball coach\nArizona Western College in Yuma, Ariz., has named Angel Shamblin as interim head softball coach.\nBorn in Truckee and raised in Chico, Shamblin was a two-time All-Eastern Athletic League second baseman at Las Plumas High. She started at shortstop for two years at Butte College, earning honorable mention All-Golden Valley Conference honors. She moved on to NCAA Division II BYU-Hawaii, starting both seasons in the outfield.\nShamblin earned her bachelor\u201ds and masters degrees in physical education from Chico State, and coached at Pleasant Valley High for six years, two as a varsity assistant coach, two as the junior varsity head coach, and then her last two as the varsity head coach. As the head coach, Shamblin took the Vikings to the Northern Section Division II championship both years, going 64-9-1 over the two seasons, and losing only once in 28 home games.\nLast year Shamblin was the assistant coach at Chico State under first-year head coach Jamie Brown.\nShamblin now takes over the reins of AWC, which finished 2007 with a 36-25 record.\nCondon breaks mark for age group\nChico\u201ds Frank Condon broke the USATF record and meet record for his age group at the U.S. Masters Track and Field Championships in Orono, Maine.\nCondon won the 800 meters for the men\u201ds 65 age group in 2 minutes, 17.20 seconds, breaking the three year old record of 2:21.14.\nWaldref bowls first career 300 game\nDave Waldref bowled a 300 game on Wednesday with his team Four of a Kind in the Reno Rollers league.\nHis previous high game was a 299 three years ago. Waldref is 78 years old and has been bowling for 70 years. He competes in four leagues and has a 195 average.\nWaldref had a 224, a 188 and then the 300 game.\n\u201cMy 11th ball went Brooklyn and I lucked out,\u201d he said.\nWaldref has been bowling and volunteering for the Chico Bowling Association for many years. He is a past president, Hall of Famer and lifetime member. He\u201ds also a professional ticket seller. He is famous for asking, \u201cYou going to the dinner?\u201d He loves to sell tickets to the CBA awards banquet.\nChico Legion sets fall ball sign-ups\nChico American Legion baseball will hold sign-ups for its fall season on Aug. 19 and Aug. 25 at Round Table Pizza on Pillsbury Road from noon to 2 p.m.\nThe program will offer competitive seasons for the Chico Nuts (17-18), the Chico Suns (15-17) and the Chico Rice (13-14). All players new to the program or attempting to move up in level must try out.\nFor more information, call Tom Stevens at 342-0717.\nChico Rice to hold fall baseball tryouts\nThe Chico Rice baseball club (freshman American Legion) will hold its fall tryouts at Eastside Baseball Complex. Tryout dates are Aug. 25, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Aug. 26, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Please wear appropriate baseball attire.\nCall Denny at 570-2900 for information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 6386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moonstone.co.za/compliance-consultation-service/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UO6PJLKR4W2HWRVMENZO4GLGWVDPQYGL", "length": 1465, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.moonstone.co.za", "title": "Compliance Consultation Service | Moonstone", "raw_content": "When one suspects a serious ailment, or is diagnosed with one, it is common practice to obtain a second opinion. The same approach should apply in the financial services industry.\nIt is extremely risky to rely on one\u2019s own interpretation of the relatively new, and hence untested, regulatory legislation. The same applies to one\u2019s compliance officer. He or she may know your business well enough, but it is possible for that closeness to influence the objectivity of their judgement.\nObviously, remedial action can only be taken where the correct diagnosis is made, and in time.\nThe requirements for appointing compliance officers are fairly wide, and often at the discretion of the FSP. Given the substantial increase in the cost of compliance since 2004, it is understandable that many practices are trying to find a more affordable alternative by appointing an internal compliance officer who also fulfils several other obligations in the business.\nThe risk that you run, of course, is that you can never escape liability for non-compliance, and accountability for what may follow from such transgressions. Recent findings by the Enforcement Committee recorded instances where misinterpretation of the law was seen as a mitigating factor, but fines still had to be paid.\nIf you require an annual check-up, or review of a worrisome practice, please send an e-mail to support@moonstonecompliance.co.za for more information on how we can help put your mind at ease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 168.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormon.org/me/H4MC", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:17Z", "digest": "sha1:A456T2TO6IVL3I42QBLSE5AYO7ATTFVH", "length": 3382, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mormon.org", "title": "Caice South | Mormon.org", "raw_content": "Caice South\nHi I'm Caice South\nI grew up in Riverton, Utah,graduated high school early, going to serve a full-time LDS mission in Florida and I'm a Mormon.\nI graduated high school as a junior, which took a lot of time to do studying for extra classes and a normal school day. I moved to Arkansas when I was 17 and moved back to Utah when I was 18. I started school at Utah Valley University, where I studied generals. I love traveling and being outside. I can't name all the places I would like to go, it's too long and there's just too much. I am not the most athletic person, but I love hiking and camping, just being outside makes me happy. One day I hope that I go sky diving, just to experience that rush of adrenaline and see the world like never before. I am also the type of girl who is good just going for a movie or reading a good book on a rainy day. I love my family. It's as simple as that. I adore my older brother and younger sister, who make me laugh and I love to hang out with. My parents are incredible and they work so hard. They have the greatest insight into life and they only want the best for my siblings and I. I also have a deep love for the friends and extended family that surrounds me in my day to day life.\nI am here on this Earth for a reason and I believe it is to bring others to Christ and raise a family of my own. When I was born, I was 1 lb and 8 oz. I was very tiny and the odds were not in my favor, health wise. I was able to push through challenges through my childhood, with the help of my family and my Heavenly Father and I am now a normal twenty year old. I also am a Mormon because no matter where I go in the world, there will always be somebody there who has my same belief in Jesus Christ and it creates a world wide \"family\". We are all connected through the Church and it gives you a sense of belonging. I am a Mormon because the knowledge and the comfort I receive from it's teachings and little life lessons helps make this crazy world make sense. There is a comfort of knowing why I am here, where I came from and where I am to go after this life. The Gospel makes this very simple and all we have to do is follow the commandments that our Loving Father in Heaven gave us.There are so many ways to get lost or knocked down in this life, but knowing that through the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I have many opportunities and the chance to live an amazing life and live happily ever after with my family and friends.\nGrowing up, I was in put in an in organization called Young Womens, aka a youth group in our Church. I was called as a president of the older group of girls. It broke open my shy personality and I ended up becoming engaged in teaching opportunities and many other growing experiences for me. As I have moved on from being a youth of the Church to a young adult, I have had opportunities to help people from around my home to find the Gospel. When I lived in AR, I had multiple opportunities to go out with the Sister Missionaries and teach people of different backgrounds and faiths about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was an amazing time in my life, where I really got an inside look to see how missionaries work with the Holy Ghost and the pure decidation they have to helping people out.It helped convince me in my decision to also become a sister missionary and serve the people in Florida.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 6233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1115348_mercedes-amg-gt-4-door-coupe-spawns-entry-level-gt-43", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:X5LJZKATPKHFMHG67EFK4U7CQY2HV7SX", "length": 1770, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.motorauthority.com", "title": "Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe spawns entry-level GT 43", "raw_content": "Mercedes-AMG's standalone sedan, the GT 4-Door Coupe, is making its sales debut in Europe and the Affalterbach tuner has just unveiled a new variant.\nCalled the GT 43, the model is yet to be confirmed for sale in the United States but elsewhere serves as the entry point to the range. Above it sits the GT 53, GT 63 and GT 63 S.\nThe GT 43 is the first of AMG's 43 series models to switch to a new 3.0-liter inline-6 engine, which thanks to an electric compressor-enhanced turbocharger delivers 362 horsepower and 368 pound-feet of torque.\nThere's also a mild hybrid system which Mercedes labels EQ Boost. It adds an extra 21 hp and 184 lb-ft during high-load situations but can't power the car on its own. The mild hybrid system also serves as the starter motor for the engine and can recover energy under braking. A similar setup features in AMG's new 53 series, including the GT 53 model.\n2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 43 4-Door Coupe\nDrive in the GT 43 is to all four wheels as standard, and AMG quotes a 0-62 mph of 4.9 seconds and a top speed of 168 mph.\nInside, the dash design is similar to what you find in other high-end Mercedes models. However, like in all GT 4-Door Coupe models there's a unique center console that mimics the design of an engine cover. The same design features in AMG's GT sports car. At the rear, there are only two seats. They are separated by an extended center console integrating storage cubbies and some vehicle controls.\nAvailability and pricing for the GT 4-Door Coupe models for the U.S. market will be announced closer to the car's local showroom appearance in early 2019.\nWe've reached out to AMG for comment on the GT 43's availability and will give you an update when we hear back.\nHigh-Res Gallery: 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 43 4-Door Coupe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 5223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1119313_new-amazon-prime-show-the-gymkhana-files-goes-behind-the-scenes-with-ken-blocks-viral-video-series", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XZCSRWZXZKTHDZNNBHQMALNTX4C3H4PN", "length": 1712, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.motorauthority.com", "title": "New Amazon Prime show \"The Gymkhana Files\" goes behind the scenes with Ken Block's viral video series", "raw_content": "New Amazon Prime show \"The Gymkhana Files\" goes behind the scenes with Ken Block's viral video series\nRallycross racer Ken Block ignited the internet with Gymkhana 1 in 2011. It has become a series with nine installations of intense stunts and high-horsepower machines. The series continues to draw millions of viewers and has given rise to Block's fame as a world-class driver. Next month, we'll be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at how the whole thing comes together from start to finish.\nOn Nov. 16, Amazon Prime will debut \"The Gymkhana Files,\" which will focus on Gymkhana 10 and give insight into how the online video series became a phenomenon. It will also look at how Block juggles filming the Gymkhana series with the ups and downs of competing in the World Rallycross Championship.\nCHECK OUT: Interview: Gymkhana and rally hero Ken Block\nThe tenth Gymkhana installment is billed as Block's biggest effort yet for over-the-top stunts, which seems hard to believe after viewing the insane stunts in the nine other installments. In the YouTube video description for its new show, Amazon said the Gymkhana series has been viewed more than half a billion times.\nWe know the tenth installment will see Block and crew travel to five locations. Block will drive five cars, one of which will be a surprise. A previous trailer showed off the Hoonicorn RTR Twin Turbo and Ford Escort Cosworth rally car. Filming took a full year to complete.\nThe first two episodes of \"The Gymkhana Files\" will be released on Amazon Prime on Nov. 16 and two more episodes will be released every Friday until the show's eight episodes are available. The series leads up to an official premiere date for Gymkhana 10 on Dec. 7.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpg-universal.com/2018/10/04/obituary-legendary-video-game-composer-ben-daglish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YZHGPQY5Q7IVKWTNIJURUT6ZY4POYUTF", "length": 209, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mpg-universal.com", "title": "Obituary: Legendary video game composer Ben Daglish |MPG Universal", "raw_content": "Obituary: Legendary video game composer Ben Daglish\nDaglish rose to prominence during the \u201980s, when he created the scores for a number of notable games\u00c2 including Cobra Trap, The Last Ninja, and Deflektor.\u00c2 \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpg-universal.com/2018/10/12/there-may-be-more-halloween-movies-after-all/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:762ZYD5M5ZII55MGBUQYYOBKSUCCNUBE", "length": 2407, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mpg-universal.com", "title": "New Halloween Movie\u2019s Director Thinks There Will Be Sequels |MPG Universal", "raw_content": "New Halloween Movie\u2019s Director Thinks There Will Be Sequels\nBy: Jeremy Winslow\nWith Halloween almost upon us, it\u2019s time for pumpkin-spiced everything and scary movies. And with Halloween, directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, The Sitter), hitting theatres on October 19, there\u2019s an opportunity to get some big screen scares too. But if Green\u2019s Halloween turns out to be a smashing success, Michael Myers could return for more outings.\nAccording to Entertainment Weekly, producer Jason Blum (Get Out, Blackkklansman)\u2013the founder of Blumhouse Productions\u2013told the publication he expects this new Halloween reboot can be franchised. \u201cYeah, for sure, for sure, 100 percent,\u201d Blum said when asked if he hopes to make more films in the Halloween universe. \u201cLet me tell you, if we got six movies out of [Paranormal Activity]\u2013they found new footage five times in a row!\u2013I feel like we can figure out the next chapter. But we\u2019ll see.\u201d\nGreen\u2019s Halloween was first announced back in May 2016 by series creator John Carpenter, the director of the first entry in the slasher franchise in 1978. \u201cHalloween needs to return to its traditions,\u201d Carpenter said in a statement. About a year later, Carpenter announced the talent that\u2019ll make the project \u201cthe scariest of them all.\u201d He recruited David Gordon Green to direct, and Danny McBride (The Disaster Artist, Alien: Covenant) and Jeff Fradley (Your Highness, Vice Principals) to write.\nIn April 2018, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who reprises her role from as Laurie Strode, began talking about the plot of the Halloween reboot. \u201cThere was the idea of, \u2018What do you call it?\u201d If I had had my druthers, I probably would\u2019ve called it Halloween Retold. Because it\u2019s being retold,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the original story in many, many, many ways. Just retold 40 years later with my granddaughter.\u201d She continued, saying that some of the footage she saw terrified her. \u201cThey went full-tilt boogeyman. And I\u2019ve never said that in my life, and I will say full-tilt boogeyman for the rest of the year as I go around talking about this.\u201d\nIn our review, we said that even though Halloween doesn\u2019t reinvent the horror genre or establish in new subgenres within the category, \u201cWhat it does is take the best parts of all the films in the franchise, and deliver the ultimate companion piece to Carpenter\u2019s 1978 masterpiece.\u201d\nHalloween is due out in theatres on October 19, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.musickpeeler.com/professional/Adam_Wieder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ4PCRTG4TTF5FXFJBLCTQTRJXXRCI7K", "length": 2380, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.musickpeeler.com", "title": "Professional details - Musick Peeler", "raw_content": "Associate, Ventura County Office\nAdam D. Wieder is an associate in the Firm's Ventura County office. His practice focuses on litigation and transactional matters involving commercial, real estate, labor and employment, and environmental law.\nMr. Wieder has successfully represented businesses, individuals and public entities in state and federal court litigation and before administrative agencies. He also has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, including judicial and contractual arbitration, mediation, and negotiated settlements. Mr. Wieder provides practical legal advice and efficient solutions on a broad range of business issues and compliance with various federal, state, and local government regulations.\nMr. Wieder\u2019s recent accomplishments include a complete defense verdict and an award of fees and costs for a leading reseller of Microsoft ERP solutions that was sued for $2 million based on claims for fraud, misrepresentation and breach of contract; numerous successful settlements of Proposition 65 claims; an outstanding settlement on behalf of an accounting firm in a professional liability action for its audit of a publicly traded company; several major settlements on behalf of a large school district in federal court actions involving environmental issues; a complete defense verdict in a bench trial representing a landlord and his companies who were sued by a tenant seeking over $1 million in damages; and a complete victory in an arbitration on behalf of an international computer services provider, obtaining a judgment for the entire amount sought, and all attorneys\u2019 fees and costs.\nWhile in law school, Mr. Wieder served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Arthur M. Greenwald, United States Bankruptcy Judge, and was a student mediator at the Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution.\nMr. Wieder is fluent in Spanish and Hebrew, and has lived, studied, and taught in various parts of the world, including South America, Israel, Italy, and Taiwan.\nIn 2015, Mr. Wieder was selected as a Southern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine.\nRichard Capella and Adam Wieder Prevail in Real Estate Trial\nEnvironmental Attorneys Reach Major Settlement With the City of Los Angeles\nState Bar of California, Member of the Real Estate Law Section\nVentura County Bar Association, Member of the Business Litigation Section", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.musickpeeler.com/professional/Catherine_Lee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PTGH7EGYXSFOTVAOKY4V346US7VS4AQP", "length": 2403, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.musickpeeler.com", "title": "Professional details - Musick Peeler", "raw_content": "University of California, Berkeley, B.A., cum laude, 1995\nCatherine M. Lee is a partner in the Firm\u2019s San Francisco office specializing in financial institution, commercial, and employment litigation.\nMs. Lee has successfully defended JPMorgan Chase Bank, Citibank, PNC Bank, World Savings, and other financial institutions in cases involving a wide variety of issues such as check/deposit transactions, correspondent banking, fraud (including wires, check kiting, Ponzi schemes, and mortgage loans), internet banking, privacy, credit reporting, wrongful foreclosure, financial elder abuse, and unfair competition. Ms. Lee presently represents several major financial institutions and other smaller banks in meeting their litigation needs. Currently, Ms. Lee also represents officers and directors of various financial institutions in receivership cases brought by the FDIC.\nMs. Lee represents public and private clients in the litigation of commercial matters that range from contract and tort disputes to cases involving privacy, trademark, and real estate issues. She has resolved cases successfully on dispositive pretrial motions, on appeal, in mediation and arbitration, and at trial. She was trial counsel in a four-month jury trial that resulted in a judgment for the client in excess of $5 million. Ms. Lee regularly advises new and seasoned businesses on corporate formations and transactions.\nMs. Lee counsels and represents employers on labor and employment matters. She has prevailed in state and federal court litigation where claims of wage and hour violations, discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, workplace violence, trade secrets, and PAGA were raised. Ms. Lee provides advice regarding employee hiring and termination, wage and hour issues, employee discipline, and personnel disputes. She reviews and prepares employee handbooks to ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations and drafts employment agreements on behalf of employers and employees.\nMs. Lee is fluent in Cantonese and conversant in Mandarin.\nThe California State Bar has selected partner, Catherine Lee to serve on the Financial Institutions Committee for a three year term\nUnited States District Court for the Northern, Central & Eastern Districts of California\nCalifornia State Bar Financial Institutions Committee, Member\nAlameda County Bar Association, former Director", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 224.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mwfamilylaw.com/blog/2018/01/what-common-divorce-mistakes-should-you-avoid.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EL6PWPJCODKA2GNB77OBS7P74JCMWILW", "length": 1935, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mwfamilylaw.com", "title": "What common divorce mistakes should you avoid? | Marvel & Wong, PLLC", "raw_content": "What common divorce mistakes should you avoid?\nOn behalf of Marvel & Wong, PLLC posted in Divorce on Friday, January 19, 2018.\nThere's a saying that, \"when one door closes, another opens.\" However, for someone going through a divorce, it usually feels like all the doors are slamming shut at once.\nDivorce can destroy any sense of calmness or peace that you have -- and it's easy to get angry or even bitter. Unfortunately, anger and bitterness can also lead you to mistakes. Here are some important ones to avoid:\nDon't try to interpret everything you read on the internet. There are thousands of articles out there about divorce -- but each case is unique. There's no online guideline to your divorce. By the same token, don't listen to your relatives over your attorney, either. None of their experiences with divorce are exactly the same as yours.\nDon't trust your divorce case to the first attorney whose name you see. Do your research and make sure that the attorney you choose is the right one for you.\nDon't lie to your attorney. If you lie to your attorney and hide income, assets or an affair, it is likely to hurt you. No matter how awful you feel about your secrets, your attorney isn't your judge. He or she is your best advocate -- but if you don't give the attorney all the information to do his or her job, you'll get less-than-great representation.\nDon't be unreasonable. Divorces aren't pleasant but they don't have to be tremendously ugly, either. They get that way when one or both spouses goes into the situation with expectations that aren't realistic: they demand full custody, more than half of the family assets and more support than is fair.\nWhile divorce is a painful process, couples who decide in advance that they're not going to make these mistakes will find the road ahead of them less uncertain.\nSource: Forbes, \"Alleviate Divorce Pain By Avoiding These 7 Common Mistakes,\" Michael F Kay, Jan. 09, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 8789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myactivesg.com/read/2015/9/a-winning-boost-from-the-singapore-sports-institute", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3YSH25K55YQNKFP27HO4A2XO56O5CT4A", "length": 3823, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.myactivesg.com", "title": "A winning boost from the Singapore Sports Institute - ActiveSG", "raw_content": "A winning boost from the Singapore Sports Institute\n24 September 2015 , By Peng You Xin for SAPGOC\nDr Kirsty Fairbairn (left) and Ms Cheryl Teo conducts the briefing on sports nutrition at the Sinapore Sports Institute workshop for athletes who are representing Singapore in the upcoming 8th ASEAN Para Games.\nWith the 8th ASEAN Para Games (APG) only a few months away, the Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) has stepped up to provide more support for the country\u2019s para athletes via a day-long nutrition and sports psychology workshop.\nAccording to SSI chief Bob Gambardella, such workshops are only the first of many APG initiatives in the pipeline.\n\u201cThis is just the beginning of a long legacy. We are reaching out to the para athlete community. Even though the APG is happening in December, we are already looking at what we can do for them after the Games,\u201d he said.\nBob Gambardella, Chief of the Singapore Sports Institute.\nThe workshop, which took place on Sunday, 20 Sep 2015, was centred on helping para athletes develop proper nutrition habits and a winning mentality, as well as to educate the athletes\u2019 support group on how to assist them in achieving excellence.\nA session on nutrition, led by Senior Sports Dietician Kirsty Fairbairn, touched on nutrition during competition and types of recovery foods. During the presentation, Fairbairn explained the basics of maintaining a healthy diet and reinforced the importance of nutrition, which was an area she believed had been severely underestimated by many athletes.\n\u201cI want them to have a very clear idea on how and why they want to eat well - how they recover from competitions, what foods to consume and why they are consuming those nutrients - so they understand what a good diet is doing for their performance. If they don\u2019t understand why they are doing it, they don\u2019t get the self-belief that comes from good nutrition habits,\u201d explains Fairbairn.\nAthletes sampling food during the nutrition workshop.\n\u201cEvery athlete wants to get the best out of their body when they can. Nutrition is fundamental to achieving that and the same applies to non-athletes. You need to nourish your body appropriately, so it functions at its own top level, wherever that top level is.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Edgar Tham, who is SSI\u2019s Sports Psychology Consultant, addressed the importance of having a strong mind-set during competitions and training. Citing his experience from working with various athletes, Tham encouraged the group to make use of what they had learned during the session to boost their mental skills.\nTham\u2019s colleague, Associate Sports Psychologist Eesha Sha catered her session to the athlete support group, which consisted of roles ranging from caregivers to officials and coaches. Throughout her session, members of the support group learned how to put together conducive training environments for the athletes.\nEesha Shah, Sports Psychologist at the Singapore Sports Institute\nBesides this, Shah also mentioned how the APG had given the SSI a chance to build a deeper relationship with the local para sports community.\n\u201cThe APG [has been] a catalyst to help us look into the para sports scene, for us to give the athletes more holistic support, and also provide them skills that will benefit them in their personal development, which will then translate into [their] athletic performance over time. [This will] hopefully inspire them to stay in the sport and aspire [to something] greater,\u201d says Shah.\nCertain areas within the SSI compound have already been converted into training areas for Singapore\u2019s Para Games athletes, including the biomechanics lab utilised by the para table tennis team. These kinds of set-ups have stemmed from the hope of providing the country\u2019s representatives with consistent access to the SSI team and the very best in sports science.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 6635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mytotalretail.com/article/6-website-flaws-that-will-chase-your-customers-to-a-competitor/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KKEFYT7BQFXM6ARXOBQ6KVHFUQKJGWDV", "length": 4778, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mytotalretail.com", "title": "6 Website Flaws That Will Chase Your Customers to a Competitor", "raw_content": "6 Website Flaws That Will Chase Your Customers to a Competitor\nYour website is the first impression you make on a user and the last you leave. It will either provide an intuitive experience or a frustrating one. It has the power to either engage prospects or deter them, inviting them to make a purchase or encouraging them to seek out a competitor instead.\nAccording to Baymard Institute, about 70 percent percent of online shopping carts are abandoned. When it\u2019s so easy to lose a customer and yet so complex to keep one until the end, it\u2019s important to remember six factors that matter most in their online buying process:\nNeglecting Mobile: When research shows that more than half of all internet traffic comes from mobile devices, and 62 percent of smartphone users have made a purchase online using those devices in the last six months, creating a website that\u2019s mobile friendly is no longer a quality that\u2019s just nice to have, it\u2019s a necessity. Purchases are increasingly made on smartphones, tablets and screens of varying sizes, which means that responsive design can no longer be ignored if you want don\u2019t want to exclude the majority of your market. Additionally, testing on mobile devices ensures that your website will be working for its mobile visitors.\nAnnoying Advertising: Whether it\u2019s paid advertising or a self-promotional call to action, there are plenty of good reasons to implement pop-ups, alerts, and overlays in order to capture attention. However, this stops being productive once it starts being annoying. Limit the number of times you interrupt your users experience on your website, and make sure when you are, it\u2019s only for necessary action items. You don\u2019t want to be the website that makes it impossible for people to get around your site. If it is, they\u2019ll leave.\nBuggy Design: When it comes to designing a website, things might look great at first, then get tricky when you look in a different browsers. This is why it\u2019s important to be mindful of the inconsistencies that arise when you skip browser compatibility testing. Just because something looks great in Chrome on your Mac doesn\u2019t mean it will look the same for a Firefox user. When text, images, layout and other elements aren\u2019t properly optimized, your visitors will discover problems with wrapping, spacing, distortion, overlapping and other visual bugs that will lead to an unpleasant experience.\nSlow Speed: Patience is a virtue, but that doesn\u2019t mean you want to keep your site visitors waiting for your page to load. In fact, according to Neil Patel, 40 percent of people abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load, and a one-second delay in page response can result in a 7 percent reduction in conversions. The numbers speak for themselves. Site speed and performance should be a priority if you want to keep your customers.\nConfused Customers: Your website needs to guide your customers through the buying process. Otherwise, they\u2019re going to hit roadblocks that prevent them from purchasing. Consider the usability of essential features such as account creation, login, navigation, search, filtering, checkout, and form fields. Check places that could easily trip up your customers, and focus on optimizing these areas in order to increase conversion and reduce irritation.\nFrustrating Functionality: There\u2019s more to a website than meets the UI \u2014 which is to say, you actually want it to work properly for users. Pay attention to business-critical functions as well as items that will be high risk \u2014 i.e., that will prevent customers from using the site if broken. For example, if it\u2019s the application that crashes or doesn't work when someone\u2019s trying to create an account or process their payment, it\u2019s going to make it difficult for them to follow through with a purchase. Chances are they probably won\u2019t stick around long enough to figure it out.\nAs soon as someone lands on your site, the clock is ticking. Every step in their journey will either take them closer to check out or to the exit button.\nSometimes, shopping cart abandonment is inevitable and users simply aren\u2019t ready to buy. However, there are also ways to optimize your website for those who are ready, and there are steps you can take to make up for the users you may lose along the way.\nBy paying closer attention to the flow of your website, prioritizing usability for important functions, and testing areas that are proven to impact customers, you\u2019ll start seeing less abandoned shopping carts and more satisfied customers.\nAlexandra McPeak is a content marketing specialist at SmartBear, a provider of software quality tools.\nRelated story: Performing a Risk Analysis of Your E-Commerce Website\nAlexandra McPeak Author's page\nAlexandra McPeak, Content Marketing Specialist, SmartBear", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 9806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/business/2017/12/24/mary-lou-connone-marks-25th-year-volunteer-naples-visitor-center/940697001/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3VJT6EPIOBLOXYLL5PBQUNQP24OT4PNW", "length": 8739, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.naplesnews.com", "title": "Mary Lou Connone loves to welcome visitors to Naples", "raw_content": "Mary Lou Connone marks 25th year as volunteer at Naples visitor center\nMary Lou Connone has welcomed Naples visitors for more than 25 years and she has no plans to stop anytime soon.\nMary Lou Connone marks 25th year as volunteer at Naples visitor center Mary Lou Connone has welcomed Naples visitors for more than 25 years and she has no plans to stop anytime soon. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/business/2017/12/24/mary-lou-connone-marks-25th-year-volunteer-naples-visitor-center/940697001/\nLaura Layden, laura.layden@naplesnews.com; 239-263-4818 Published 12:00 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2017 | Updated 4:20 p.m. ET Dec. 25, 2017\nDon Hamilton, 75, sought a volunteer opportunity that offered some excitement while tapping into his military experience and boating knowledge. He found the Collier County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit. Shelby Reynolds/Naples Daily News\nMary Lou Connone stands for a portrait in the visitor center of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce, where she has volunteered for more than 25 consecutive years, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017.(Photo11: Liam James Doyle/Naples Daily News)Buy Photo\n\"How may I help you?\"\nIt's a question Mary Lou Connone stands ready to ask when any outsider steps into the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce's visitor center.\nShe's asked that question more times than anybody can count as a volunteer at the center for more than 25 years. For her, the question never gets old \u2014 and it shows in her enthusiasm for the job.\nConnone, 88, works at the visitor center tucked inside the chamber's offices from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays.\n\"She's our superstar of 25 years. I must guess there aren't many volunteers that have given their time so graciously as Mary Lou has, and it has been our pleasure to have her volunteer for us,\" said Lori Lou Waddell, the chamber's visitor information specialist.\nConnone is one in a small army of about 60 volunteers at the visitor center. She's logged more than 6,000 hours there.\nMore: Volunteer elves bring Christmas joy to moms, kids who fled violence\nMore: Family marks 25 years of holiday toy donations\nMore: Bonita Springs man fixes broken bikes, gives them away to those in need\nShe recruited one of her best friends from childhood, Ethel Ferraro, to work alongside her. Ferraro, who comes in on the same day weekly, has given her time at the center for about 17 years.\n\"They're enthusiastic ladies and happy. I love my volunteers. I'm amazed by all these people. I'm so lucky to have them as team players,\" Waddell said.\nMary Lou Connone sits at the desk where she greets customers in the visitor center of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce, where she has volunteered for more than 25 consecutive years, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (Photo11: Liam James Doyle/Naples Daily News)\nOn the job, Connone is always eager to help. She asks how long tourists will stay before offering up any options or handing them any brochures. She wants to share the information that best fits with visitors' interests.\n\"If their main interest is hiking, I'm not going to send them to Waterside Shops,\" Connone said.\nShe often suggests a visit to The Revs Institute, offering a treasure trove of cars owned by Miles Collier, a descendant of the county's namesake, Barron Collier.\nSome of her other recommendations include a dolphin watch in Marco Island and shows at the local playhouses.\nMore: 10 places to see dolphins in Southwest Florida\nMore: Mass dolphin stranding near Everglades Park still a mystery\nConnone doesn't just help tourists.\n\"There are many locals who come in because they're not always up on everything,\" she said. \"There's just so many things going on that people would not know about if they didn't come into the chamber.\"\nConnone's curiosity helps keep her on top of all the new restaurants, shops and attractions in town.\nShe religiously reads the newspaper to stay up on local happenings. She also gets regular updates and training through the chamber, which includes visits and tours of new offerings for tourists.\nConnone loves to try new restaurants so she can give more informed dining recommendations.\n\"I've tried to eat my way through this town for more than 30 years,\" she said. \"I love telling people about the restaurants.\"\nShe's seen countless eateries come and go including St. George and the Dragon near Fifth Avenue South, which had a bathroom \"like the Arabian Knights,\" she recalled.\nMore: Lawsuit again targets Naples development, alleging council violated Naples charter\nShe remembers when the first Outback Steakhouse opened in Collier County.\n\"It was something to have that here,\" she said. \"It was something new and different.\"\nShe's seen so many other changes in Naples over the years as it's grown, some of which make her a bit sad, including the closing of the Witch's Brew nightclub and Mother Shuckers, a little seafood shack at the Naples Pier.\n\"Grand Central Station was this wonderful shopping center,\" she said. \"They had everything, and they tore it down. That's where Naples Square is now.\"\nMary Lou Connone (Photo11: Courtesy/Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce)\nWithin a few seconds of meeting Connone, it's clear she loves Naples. A former Realtor, she convinced many of her friends from Ohio to buy homes here.\nHer first introduction to Southwest Florida was a stay on Fort Myers Beach decades ago, a trip she earned as a top sales agent in Lorain, Ohio. She considered buying a home in the town but didn't like the traffic.\n\"I thought, 'Enough of that. Let's try Naples,'\" she said.\nConnone bought a waterfront hotel/condominium at the Cove Inn on Naples Bay as an investment in 1982, paying $55,000, considered expensive at the time. She purchased a second one, then talked about a dozen friends into buying units there, and before long, it became \"like a sorority house for seniors,\" she said. Sadly, most of those friends have fallen ill or died, but the memories live on.\n\"We had a ball,\" Connone said. \"We were young, and we even marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade. We all wore shirts that said Cove Inn.\"\nIn 2001, Connone sold her units at Cove Inn to move into a larger condo, officially becoming a full-time resident. Before that she had spent about seven months of the year here, reporting to the visitor center weekly for work when she was in town.\nThe center isn't as busy as it was when Connone first walked through the doors in 1992 to sign up as a volunteer. Then hardly anyone owned a cellphone, most people didn't have a computer, and the Internet hadn't become popular.\nIn the early years, Connone recalls handing out a cellphone to tourists so they could call chamber members to get more information about places to stay and things to do, then taking the phone back for the next visitors who walked through the door.\n\"We used to get 900 to 1,000 a day through the door,\" she said. \"Unbelievable.\"\nThe tools for sharing information have gotten more sophisticated, including the official Visitors Guide magazine, which is regularly updated. The visitor center is filled with glossy brochures, chock-full of information.\nSince Connone started volunteering at the center, it has moved five times, and it will soon relocate again \u2014 this time to an old baggage car at the historic Naples Depot downtown.\nMore: Naples visitor center to move into rail car at depot\nConnone has watched the county's year-round population swell to about 330,000 and tourism \"turn Naples, Florida, into a bright star on the map,\" Waddell said.\n\"Through it all, Mary Lou has had an unwavering curiosity, joy and pride in the people, the places, the events and the changes in Naples and Collier County,\" she said.\nConnone has arrived early and stayed late. She's updated and organized files and helped new volunteers become knowledgeable ambassadors for the destination.\nIn November, Connone received a one-of-a-kind service award and a personalized name badge. The city declared it Mary Lou Connone month.\nConnone is no stranger to volunteerism. In Lorain, Ohio, she was involved in many civic and community groups. She helped restore the community theater and get a community hospital built. She was the first to receive a \"Woman of the Year\" award from the Lorain Jaycees.\n\"Once a volunteer, always a volunteer,\" she said. \"It's just such fun.\"\nWhat Connone loves most about her work at the visitor center is \"just making people happy.\"\n\"They are all so different and always nice,\" she said. \"The first thing we hear from visitors is 'This town is so clean.' This town is so beautiful. It's paradise.\"\nRead or Share this story: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/business/2017/12/24/mary-lou-connone-marks-25th-year-volunteer-naples-visitor-center/940697001/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 11709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/140539b0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=d20246dc-21e3-4f7f-ac67-811eeab0d62b", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5NUXUE74VR4C5WMRCM4WA2GF7HD56JM", "length": 1643, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nature.com", "title": "Progress of Marine Engineering | Nature", "raw_content": "Progress of Marine Engineering\nON September 14, Mr. S. J. Pigott, director-in-charge of the Clydebank Works of John Brown and Co., Ltd., where the Queen Mary was built, delivered the presidential address to the Institute of Marine Engineers. In the main it was a review of the development in marine engineering during the last sixty years. The era 1877\u201387, he said, might be designated \"The Advent of Steel in Engineering\". In that decade it was possible to raise the pressure in cylindrical boilers to 160 Ib. per sq. in., and at the same time forced draught was introduced. The next decade, 1887\u201397, saw the development of the quadruple-expansion engine, which in the period 1897\u20131907 attained its maximum size. The year 1897 was also marked by the use by Sir Charles Parsons of the marine steam turbine, and in 1904 the Cunard Steamship Company equipped the Carmania with a high-pressure turbine driving a centre-line shaft and exhausting to a low-pressure turbine on each wing-shaft. The Diesel engine first made its appearance on shipboard in 1903 in the small Russian tanker Vandal. Another landmark was the fitting of geared turbines in the Vespasian in 1909. In 1910 impulse turbines as opposed to the earlier reaction turbines were fitted in H.M.S. Bristol, and to-day, the most highly powered British naval vessel, H.M.S. Hood, is propelled by impulse turbines with gearing. If the era 1927\u201337 has seen no epoch-making development, it has produced progressive designs as is seen in the cross-channel motor-ship Prince Baudouin, the turbo-electric P. and O. liner Viceroy of India, and last but not least the Queen Mary and Normandie.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbc.com/rise/credits/character/vanessa-suarez", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CC345N7WFF73NAMESQKGALCM2L464RKV", "length": 875, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nbc.com", "title": "Vanessa Suarez: Rise Character - NBC.com", "raw_content": "Played by Shirley Rumierk\nShirley Rumierk will play Vanessa Suarez on the new NBC drama \"Rise.\"\nLast year, Rumierk starred in the independent film \"11:55,\" opposite John Leguizamo, as well as David Frankel's \"Collateral Beauty,\" starring Will Smith. She recently completed guest-starring roles on \"Blue Bloods\" and \"Power.\"\nRumierk is a proud board member of the 52nd Street Project in New York City, which teaches kids in Hell's Kitchen the importance of theater and arts education while working alongside professional working actors. As a child, she was a member of the program. She is also an alumna of Oliver Scholars, an organization that unlocks doors of opportunity for high-achieving black and Latino students in New York City by helping them gain admission to top independent high schools and universities in the country.\nRumierk is a graduate of Harvard University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 160.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbc.na/news/zimbabweans-living-namibia-call-electoral-reforms.17620", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VV3RYX5EL37RHFJ2GDCFFG3XZ64F43GA", "length": 322, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nbc.na", "title": "Zimbabweans living in Namibia call for electoral reforms | | Namibian Broadcasting Corporation", "raw_content": "Zimbabweans living in Namibia call for electoral reforms\nWednesday, 6. June 2018 - 19:15\nZimbabweans living in Namibia are calling for electoral reforms to ensure free and fair elections scheduled for end July.\nMovement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) handed over a petition to the country's electoral commission on Tuesday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncmountainguides.com/about-us/our-guides/steph-williams", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ORVOCKE6VNVRLX66CBOFOQMMNXSSFX3E", "length": 571, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ncmountainguides.com", "title": "Steph Williams | North Cascade Mountain Guides", "raw_content": "Steph Williams first worked as a guide in 2003 on the glaciers of Alaska\u2019s Wrangell Mountains. Since then she has been privileged to work and play in the spectacular alpine wildlands of India, Iceland, Switzerland, New Zealand, China, Chile, and across western North America. She spent a decade as a professional ski patroller at Stevens Pass, teaches Nordic skiing in the Methow Valley, and surveys the North Cascades wolverines as a field biologist.\nA Michigan native, the Pacific Northwest has been home to Steph since 2001. She lives with her husband, Drew, in Twisp.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 4995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 161.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nearshoreamericas.com/brazils-economy-creates-jobs-fear-recession-lingers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:02Z", "digest": "sha1:OZILUDIGYPVF5A6IKX6NTXPA4NKJGW6V", "length": 4810, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.nearshoreamericas.com", "title": "Brazil\u2019s Economy is Creating Jobs but Fear of Recession Lingers - Nearshore Americas", "raw_content": "Brazil\u2019s Economy is Creating Jobs but Fear of Recession Lingers\nBrazil created 19,282 new jobs last month, raising hopes that Latin America\u2019s biggest economy is rebounding from the downturn caused largely by dwindling commodity prices. However, this was not \u2026\nBrazil created 19,282 new jobs last month, raising hopes that Latin America\u2019s biggest economy is rebounding from the downturn caused largely by dwindling commodity prices. However, this was not enough to compensate for job losses that totaled 64,907 jobs in the first two months of the year, the worst performance since 2009.\nDespite the hint of progress, the jobless rate rose to 6.2% from 5.9% the previous month, according to data released by the national statistics agency (IBGE). Moreover, the 19,282 new jobs pale in comparison with figures from the last decade, when Brazil used to create over 100,000 new jobs almost every month.\nFarms and service sector firms have created the most employment opportunities, while manufacturers, retailers and construction companies continued to shed jobs.\nLow growth and high inflation are wreaking havoc in Latin America\u2019s biggest economy, with corruption scandals and political chaos hindering President Dilma Rousseff\u2019s plans to reverse the country\u2019s economy fortunes.\nThe South American country is continuously raising interest rates in a desperate attempt to push down inflation (Brazil\u2019s central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate at four straight meetings to 12.75), but the high interest rates seem to have prevented businesses from expanding.\nMeanwhile, the government is pushing Congress to help cut costs by trimming unemployment and pension benefits as part of the fiscal adjustment to shore up accounts. But with the Petrobras scandal creating a lot of heat politically, the government\u2019s capacity to fix the economic problems is weakened.\nIn a central bank survey, economists have predicted further contraction in GDP growth.\nBrazil economic trouble\nBrazil Interest Rate\nNews Editor for Nearshore Americas, Narayan Ammachchi is a career journalist with nearly a decade of experience in reporting on politics and international business. He works out of his base in India's outsourcing capital, Bangalore.\nBad News Continues for Brazil\u2019s Economy as Political Chaos Intensifies\nIndustrial output shrank 9% in Brazil over the 12 months leading up to February, with the automotive, machinery, and electronic sectors hit the hardest.\nLatin America Again Performs Poorly on Transparency International\u2019s Corruption Index\nThe index is a grim reading for Latin Americans because there many countries still ranked below Brazil.\nSouth America Steps Up to Help Syrians Fleeing War\nWhile a number of countries around the world are closing their borders to the refugee crisis, Latin America is welcoming Syrian refugees.\nWorld Economic Forum Foresees Major Policy Changes in Latin America\nMany Latin American countries are likely to reform their economic policies, particularly crisis-hit nations like Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil, according to business leaders and policy makers gathered at...\nBrazil Turns to Austerity to Save Currency from Further Decline\nThe Brazilian government is likely to cut unemployment and pension benefits in an attempt to plug budget deficits and protect its currency, the real, which shrunk to 10-year low...\nBrazil Raises Taxes on Imports, Fuel and Credit\nBrazil has raised taxes on fuel, imports and consumer loans as Latin America\u2019s biggest economy battles to narrow budget deficits. According to new Finance Minister Joaquim Levy, the...\nBrazilian Currency Hits Nine-Year Low\nBrazil\u2019s real fell to a nine-year low on Tuesday, with the economy showing all signs of slipping back into the recession. Although Brazil was in recession technically in...\nLATAM\u2019s Credit Outlook is Bleak, Aside From in Mexico, Colombia\nWeak consumer demand and low commodity prices seem to be dealing a heavy blow to the majority of Latin American economies. The latest estimation by international ratings agency Fitch...\nBrazil Reports Record Monthly Trade Deficit of $1.18 Billion\nBrazil\u2019s trade deficit was widened by US$1.18 billion in October, underscoring the challenges facing incumbent President Dilma Rousseff after she was re-elected for a second term last week. The...\nBrazil\u2019s Stock Market Suffers as Rousseff Wins Re-election\nBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected, but the country\u2019s stock market and its currency plunged to new lows in response to her election. Rousseff won Sunday's run-off election...\nRising Inflation Sees Brazil\u2019s Economic Growth Slow to a Crawl\nAnalysts have cut their forecasts for Brazil's 2014 economic growth from 0.48% to 0.33%, dealing yet another blow to president Dilma Rousseff, whose political prospects hinge heavily on...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 8130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newarknj.gov/news/aquatic-programs-for-all-ages-at-jfk-and-sharpe-jameskenneth-agibson-aquatic-centers-now-through-june", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OFACTAPVKRRTUP6QUSAU6KPU4KQTDCBG", "length": 1774, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.newarknj.gov", "title": "News: indoor\u2008year-round\u2008Aquatic Programs for All Ages at JFK and Sharpe James/Kenneth A.Gibson Aquatic Centers", "raw_content": "indoor\u2008year-round\u2008Aquatic Programs for All Ages at JFK and Sharpe James/Kenneth A.Gibson Aquatic Centers\nMayor Ras J. Baraka and Director of Recreation, Cultural Affairs, and Senior Services Patrick Council reminds residents that the City of Newark is offering a wide array of aquatic learning programs at the John F. Kennedy and Sharpe James/Kenneth A. Gibson Aquatic Centers Year-Round, for all ages.\nClasses range from teaching adults to overcome \u201cFear of Swimming\u201d to Master Swim Classes. There are also classes in Water Aerobics, Stroke Development, and Parent & Child. A full listing of classes follows.\n\u201cSwimming is one of the most fun and healthy pursuits imaginable,\u201d Mayor Baraka said. \u201cIt can be enjoyed at any age, helps prevent obesity and related conditions, and enhances the swimmer\u2019s quality of life. I congratulate our recreation team on holding these classes, and urge all Newark residents to participate in them.\u201d\nThe John F. Kennedy Recreation and Aquatic Center is the City\u2019s largest such facility, offering Newark residents of all ages a wide variety of daily recreation, exercise, and swimming programs. The facility features a multi-purpose exercise room, an NBA-regulation size basketball court, a state-of-the-art weight room and the only indoor/outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool in the State equipped with a retractable roof.\nThe Sharpe James/Kenneth A. Gibson Recreation and Aquatic Center offers Newark residents of all ages a wide variety of daily recreation, cultural, exercise, and swimming programs. The facility features a multi-purpose exercise room, and an indoor swimming pool, providing residents with access to year-round aquatic classes and recreational programs.\n\"ENCOURAGING ALL NEWARK RESIDENTS TO SWIM INTO\nA HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neweurope.eu/article/fillion-may-win-juppe-can-win-le-pen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:57Z", "digest": "sha1:M2CKZQIPJSJDI77KZFMDTU7OLHNEMVHQ", "length": 2455, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.neweurope.eu", "title": "Fillion may win Jupp\u00e9 but can he win Le Pen?", "raw_content": "Now Reading: Fillion may win Jupp\u00e9 but can he win Le Pen?\nFillion may win Jupp\u00e9 but can he win Le Pen?\nTuesday's cover picture of Liberation, making Fran\u00e7ois Fillon look more Margaret Thatcher\nMEP Syed Kamall calls on EU to forge \u2018honest\u2019 relationship with Turkey Nov 23, 2016\nMEPs back automatic exchange of bank data Nov 23, 2016\nFran\u00e7ois Fillon,62, went from being the outsider to being the favourite for the nomination of the French right, winning over the frontrunner Alain Jupp\u00e9.\nFillon got 44% against to Juppe\u2019s 28%.\nthe front-running candidate combines anti-Jihadist credentials \u2014 having recently written a book on the subject \u2014 with the belief that French colonialism is a way for France to share its culture, as he recently remarked. He supports publically Christian family values, is against same-sex marriage and has a rather unclear position on abortion rights. In sum, he is fashionably not politically correct.\nWhen he served as Sarkozy\u2019s Prime Minister, in 2009, he denied Ms. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet a ministerial post because she was pregnant.Ms. Kosciusko Morizet is now supporting Mr. Juppe for the nomination.\nHe is also a proud \u201cThatcherite\u201d who wants to fire half a million public servants, get rid of the 35-hour week, and move towards an easy hire, easy-fire labour market. Liberation made this point yesterday by a cover picture that made the comparison rather more explicit on its front-page cover (see picture).\nLike most of the leaders of the far-right or sovereignist movement, Fillion favours a rapprochement with Vladimir Putin in Syria and is willing to work with President-elect Donald Trump. In sum, his pitch to French voters combines elements of the Sarkozy message with elements of the Macron liberal reformist zeal.\nFor over a year, the favourite to win the first round of the French Presidential elections is the far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The Front National took 27% in regional elections in December 2015. The Economist estimates Ms. Le Pen has a 40% chance of becoming France\u2019s next president. Recent polls suggest Le Pen could easily reach 30% in the first round of the French Presidential elections.\nIn theory, Le Pen would lose in the second round of Presidential elections, as whoever comes second is likely to benefit from the pro-European vote across the board. However, the Brexit and Trump effect have largely discredited similar projections. And with Fillion\u2019s profile that appears less likely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 8469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/16/number-republican-women-missouri-house-grows/19154275/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DQ37V3PIQOVKHSNB2I5PIV526AR5PFUR", "length": 3345, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.news-leader.com", "title": "Number of Republican women in Missouri House grows", "raw_content": "Number of Republican women in Missouri House grows\nSuccess rate made more difference the the number of candidates running\nNumber of Republican women in Missouri House grows Success rate made more difference the the number of candidates running Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1uCEMZd\nSummer Ballentine Published 9:53 p.m. CT Nov. 16, 2014 | Updated 9:55 p.m. CT Nov. 16, 2014\nJEFFERSON CITY \u2013 Missouri House Republicans will enter the next legislative session with more than double the number of women than a decade ago, a development that follows GOP efforts to recruit more female candidates.\nHouse Majority Leader John Diehl, who was nominated recently as the next speaker, said his party has made strides toward upending a gender gap that has traditionally worked against it.\n\"What it demonstrates is that women across the state recognize that the Republican Party is the party of economic and educational opportunities,\" Diehl said. \"Those are the types of issues that are important to a large cross segment of the population.\"\nThe number of Republican women in Missouri's House has grown to 23 from 11 in 2004. Nine served in 2009, the recent low.\nThe rise comes with an overall increase in the number of Republicans in the chamber. Voters this year elected more GOP members than ever to the state House, putting in 118, up from 110 this session.\nA few more female Republicans ran for the Missouri House this year compared with a decade ago, but there hasn't been a huge increase. Four more women ran for the chamber this year than in 2004. What makes this year different is the success rate of those candidates.\nBecky Ruth, a Republican from Festus, is among the new batch of women representing the GOP in the House. She said upping the number of women better reflects the state's demographics, but she said ultimately a qualified candidate is more important than their gender.\n\"I see my role not so much as a woman legislator, as a legislator representing my district,\" she said.\nLikewise, the next General Assembly will have more women than it's seen in 14 years, although the uptick is slight. In 2000, data from the National Conference of State Legislatures shows 44 women served in the Missouri Capitol. This year, 48 will.\nFemale GOP candidates for Missouri's Senate didn't show a similar increase as their House counterparts. The total number of women in the Senate has wavered between five and eight since 2000, with six serving next session.\nRebecca Richardson, treasurer and former president of the Missouri Women's Political Caucus, cautioned that having more female Republican lawmakers might work against what Democrats consider women's rights issues, such as abortion rights.\nFor example, state Rep. Linda Black of Desloge after her re-election this year switched over to the Republican Party. She cited stronger ties with their values opposing abortion.\nDespite gains, women still are underrepresented in the General Assembly.\nWith bolstered numbers women make up about 25.8 percent of the legislature \u2014 about half the 51 percent of female Missourians, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That's about a 2 percent increase from 2000.\n\"We're glad to see an increase,\" Richardson said. But \"until women are fully represented, our job is not done.\"\nRead or Share this story: http://sgfnow.co/1uCEMZd", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsfirst.lk/2018/07/13/a-new-home-for-the-western-provincial-council/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FHH72KOEHPQFJBQOGYTLLYUCPILK2QR7", "length": 1156, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.newsfirst.lk", "title": "A new home for the Western Provincial Council - Sri Lanka Latest News", "raw_content": "A new home for the Western Provincial Council\nCOLOMBO (News 1st) \u2013 The new building complex of the Western Provincial Council was declared open today under the auspices of President Maithripala Sirisena.\nA group including Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga were also present at the occasion. President Sirisena who declared the building open amidst the blessings of the Maha Sangha chaired the inaugural session on the 13th floor of the new building.\nThe building complex consists of all the ministries and departments belonging to the Western Provincial Council is equipped with all the facilities and latest technology with the intention of providing a broad and efficient public service.\nAddressing the occasion Governor of the Western Province, Hemakumara Nanayakkara stated that although the Western Province has the most powerful Provincial Council in the country and generates the highest income of all provincial councils, they face shortcomings due to the income being stagnant in one area rather than being diverted to the right areas. He further added that discussions are underway to provide necessary solutions to this matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 148.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/dvr-alert-jammin-the-blues", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SJWTWOWQ7LWT2WLEKDHDRJDPCSVZ6K6B", "length": 1371, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "DVR Alert: Jammin\u2019 the Blues | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "DVR Alert: Jammin\u2019 the Blues\nI don\u2019t want to give it away, but Gjon Mili\u2019s documentary short subject, from 1944 (on TCM Monday at 9 A.M. E.T.), opens with one of the neatest hat tricks in all cinema. (Here\u2019s a hint, courtesy of Charles Mingus.) It\u2019s a series of jazz performances captured in a studio by the camera of Robert Burks (whose work graced most of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s greatest films, from \u201cStrangers on a Train\u201d through \u201cMarnie\u201d). The indigo velvet tones of the tenor saxophonist Lester Young are captured at their peak (with keen visual attention to the distinctive angle at which he held his instrument), and, in the third number, a swinging jump tune, a pair of jitterbuggers, Marie Bryant and Archie Savage, do the solos honor (along with Young, there\u2019s the guitarist Barney Kessel and the trumpeter Harry \u201cSweets\u201d Edison, who, like Young, was a fellow Count Basie alumnus). A spot of good-natured grandstanding from the saxophonist Illinois Jacquet doesn\u2019t hurt much; some cool, coy singing by Bryant adds to the smoky atmosphere.\nAt the moment, it\u2019s among the classic-jazz films available on YouTube (along with some other Lester Young, from 1950, by which time something grainy and implacably sad had crept into his tone); but it would be good to have it on DVR for large-size viewing\u2014it was, after all, originally shown in theatres before a feature film.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneysblog.com/new-york-study-textalyzer-find-driver-texting-accident-occured/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SDMVBTFUMMPLTPW5JQ765HSASEVW3TYW", "length": 2011, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneysblog.com", "title": "New York to study textalyzer to find out if a driver was texting before an accident occured \u2014 New York Personal Injury Attorneys Blog \u2014 July 27, 2017", "raw_content": "New York to study textalyzer to find out if a driver was texting before an accident occured\nNY Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to find out if texting and driving accidents in New York could be prevented with the help of a textalyzer. Yesterday the governor announced that he mandated the Traffic Safety Committee to study the possibility of providing police officers with textalyzers. The textalyzer is a portable electronic device that can be plug into the phone of a driver to determine if they were using their cell phone just before an accident occurred.\nSupporters of the textalyzer says the device will help the police determine the cause of an accident and it will also act as a deterrent. It will aid in preventing drivers from using their phones while driving.\nOthers are opposed to it because they see it as an invasion of privacy. Civil libertarians argue that automatically handing your cell phone to a police officer violates due process. They believe police should have to get a warrant before being able to access someone\u2019s phone.\nThe Traffic Safety Committee will have to look at the existing technology and the constitutional and legal issues that come with it. The Committee will provide the results of its study by the end of the year. If the Committee approves the device, the next step will be to have it approved by State Lawmakers.\nDistracted driving is the number one cause of traffic accidents in New York and in the US. National statistics show that traffic accidents have been steadily increasing since the usage of smart phone became popular. According to a report released last December by the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, between 2011 and 2015 in New York State, the usage of cellphones by drivers caused 12 people to die and 2,784 people to be injured in car accidents. During the same time period 1.2 million tickets were issued by the NY police for texting and driving.\nRead the complete press release from Governor Cuomo here\nTagged: new york car acccident", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2018/12/new_york_jets_vs_new_england_patriots_live_score_u_3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YDFGFHNKQ6YK2GWYC5ISUOQ7YERY7B7S", "length": 7677, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.nj.com", "title": "New York Jets vs. New England Patriots RECAP, SCORE, STATS (12/30/18) | NFL Playoff Picture 2018 | NJ.com", "raw_content": "New York Jets vs. New England Patriots RECAP, SCORE, STATS (12/30/18) | NFL Playoff Picture 2018\nNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady faces the New York Jets on Sunday. (AP Photo | Seth Wenig)\nBy Matt Stypulkoski\nUPDATE: The Jets lost to the New England Patriots, 38-3, in the season finale at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.\nClick here for box score and stats\nHere's NJ.com's coverage:\nNFL Black Monday preview: Head coaches in trouble\nBest head-coaching candidates for Jets\nJets 2019 opponents\nCB Trumaine Johnson benched for last game\nHere's the AP recap:\nFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The New England Patriots claimed two victories in one game.\nActually, it only took them about a half.\nTom Brady threw for three first-half touchdowns and New England clinched its ninth straight first-round bye in the playoffs on Sunday with a 38-3 victory over the New York Jets. The Patriots (11-5) finished the season undefeated at home, where they'll have at least one playoff game.\n\"Essentially, we won next week because we won today,\" coach Bill Belichick said. \"We'll see who our next opponent is, but we know they'll be good or they wouldn't be playing this time of the year.\"\nNew England, the NFL's only unbeaten team at home, could still earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC if both Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers lose later Sunday. But after back-to-back December losses left the Patriots with a losing record on the road, they finished with two straight home wins to avoid playing in the wild-card round for the first time since 2009.\n\"Eleven and five is nothing to be sad about,\" Brady said. \"We fought pretty hard and put ourselves in good position.\"\nIn what could be the final game for Jets coach Todd Bowles, New York (4-12) lost for the ninth time in 10 games. Rookie Sam Darnold, who had been playing well since returning from a foot injury, completed 16 of 28 passes for 167 yards, but he also had a fumble that gave New England a touchdown.\nBrady completed 24 of 33 passes for 250 yards and four scores overall, bouncing back from his worst performance since 2006 -- a 48.3 passer rating in a 24-12 win over Buffalo. After punting on their first possession, the Patriots scored on three straight drives.\nBrady hit James White for a 17-yard TD late in the first quarter, and then connected with Rex Burkhead early in the second. After Elijah McGuire fumbled on the Jets' first play of the second quarter, Devin McCourty picked it up and ran it 14 yards to the 8.\nFive plays later, Brady rolled right and found Phillip Dorsett in the back of the end zone to make it 21-3. New England opened a 28-3 lead in the third quarter when defensive lineman Adam Butler knocked the ball out of Darnold's arm as he raised it to throw; Kyle Van Noy picked it up and ran 46 yards for the score.\nSAM'S SETBACK\nDarnold had strung together three solid games before Sunday's dud.\nThe No. 3 overall draft pick had completed 66 percent of his passes, with six touchdowns and just one interception, in the three games since he returned from a foot injury. But he won just one of them.\nThe Patriots earned their 13th playoff bye since 2001. ... They are the only team that went undefeated at home this season. It's their seventh time since 2002. ... They scored more than 400 points for the 12th straight season, extending their record. ... The ninth straight playoff bye also extended a record; Dallas and San Francisco (1992-95) and Denver (2012-15) went four straight. ... It was the 500th regular-season victory in franchise history. ... The ninth straight 11-win season is also a record; Indianapolis had seven from 2003-09. ... Coach Bill Belichick's 16th 11-win season is the most in history (Don Shula had 13). ... Brady threw for four touchdowns for the 29th time in his career, third-most all-time. He also threw for his 6,000th career completion. ... Stephen Gostkowski had a field goal and five extra points to move into 12th on the NFL's all-time scoring list, passing Norm Johnson with 1,743 points in his career.\nPatriots' DB Devin McCourty sustained a head injury early in the third quarter and left the game. LB Dont'a Hightower and S Patrick Chung were also injured on the play but they returned within a few plays.\nJets: Finished with five or fewer wins for the third straight season.\nPatriots: Will host the winner of a wild-card game on weekend of Jan. 12-13.\nThe New York Jets (4-11) -- led by quarterback Sam Darnold, wide receiver Jermaine Kearse and tight end Chris Herndon -- meet the New England Patriots (10-5) in an AFC East matchup in NFL Week 17 action on Sunday, December 30, 2018 (12/30/18) at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The Patriots, coming off a win over the Buffalo Bills, are led by quarterback Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski.\nThe Patriots won the AFC East and are playing for a first-round bye in the playoffs.\nPicks for Jets vs. Patriots\nPicks and predictions for every NFL Week 17 game version.\nHere is a roundup of NJ Advance Media's coverage of the game:\nBest candidates to replace Todd Bowles\nJets' 2019 opponents finalized\nJets bench Trumaine Johnson for season finale\nPlayoff schedule, matchups\nHere is the AP recap of the game:\nFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady threw for three first-half touchdowns and the New England Patriots clinched their ninth straight first-round bye in the playoffs on Sunday with a 38-3 victory over the New York Jets.\nThe Patriots (11-5) finished the season undefeated at home, and they guaranteed themselves at least one playoff game in Foxborough. New England could still earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC if both Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers lose later Sunday.\nWho: New York Jets at New England Patriots\nWhere: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts\nKickoff: 1 p.m. Eastern\nChannel finder: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish\nAnnouncers: Ian Eagle on play-by-play, Dan Fouts as the analyst\nLivestream: CBS All Access\nReplay: NFL GamePass (Subscription required)\nLine: Patriots -13.5\nJets vs. Patriots picks\nMore to know about Jets: NEW YORK had 3 players named for 2019 Pro Bowl: S JAMAL ADAMS, K JASON MYERS & RS ANDRE ROBERTS. * QB SAM DARNOLD (rookie) completed 24 of 35 (68.6 pct.) for 341 yards & 3 TDs vs. 0 INTs for 128.4 rating in Week 16. Has 594 pass yards (297 per game) & 5 TDs vs. 0 INTs for 113.6 rating in his past 2. Aims for 3rd in row with 2+ TD passes & 100+ rating. Ranks 2nd among rookie QBs in passing yards (2,698) & pass TDs (17). * RB ELIJAH MC GUIRE had 85 scrimmage yards (50 rec., 35 rush) & 2 TDs (1 rush, 1 rec.) last week, his 1st-career multi-TD game. Has 4 TDs (3 rush, 1 rec.) in his past 3. Aims for his 4th in row with 70+ scrimmage yards & rush TD. * WR ROBBY ANDERSON had career-high 9 catches for 140 yards & rec. TD in Week 16, his 5th-career 100-yard game. Has 20 receptions for 312 yards (104 per game) & 3 TDs in his past 3. Aims for his 4th in row with 75+ rec. yards & TD catch. WR JERMAINE KEARSE had 66 rec. yards & TD catch in last meeting. * S JAMAL ADAMS led team with 10 tackles last week. Had 10 tackles & 3 PD in last meeting. Has 20 tackles, 2 PD, FF & FR in his past 3 on road. Aims for his 3rd in row vs. NE with 10+ tackles & PD. Is 1 of 2 safeties (JOHN JOHNSON) with 100+ tackles (104) & 10+ PD (12) in 2018. DL HENRY ANDERSON had sack last week. Has 4.5 sacks in his past 3. Aims for his 3rd in row with sack. LB FRANKIE LUVU had sack last week. Has sack in 2 of his past 3 on road. -- via NFL Communications\nMatt Stypulkoski may be reached at mstypulkoski@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @M_Stypulkoski. Find NJ.com Jets on Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 388, "original_length": 15545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.njsp.org/division/homeland-security/marine-services-bureau.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MLIEAIG7OYMSHWXMLRNYEYMTTO6NVMS4", "length": 5229, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.njsp.org", "title": "Marine Services Bureau | New Jersey State Police", "raw_content": "Special Operations Section:\nLTC Albert Ponenti - Deputy Superintendent of Homeland Security\nMAJOR Frederick Fife - Commanding Officer, Special Operations Section\nCAPTAIN Tristin J. Collins, Executive Officer, Special Operations Section\nCAPTAIN James Knoeller - Bureau Chief\nLT Kenneth Ryan - Assistant Bureau Chief\nLT Michael Hartnett - Operations Officer\nSFC Christopher Wozniak - Marine Services Field Training Officer\nSGT Christopher Jones - Boating Education Coordinator\nThe Marine Services Bureau Mission\nThe Marine Services Bureau provides law enforcement services for all of New Jersey's waterways and is the primary provider for all police services on the water and contiguous land areas of the State of New Jersey. The mission of the Marine Services Bureau is to protect and serve the boating community and to preserve the natural resources of this state by utilizing general law enforcement concepts, training and education, as well as enforcing all laws fairly and without bias. We shall also provide a preventive level of homeland security through intelligent, vigilant, and highly visible patrol measures.\nBefore September 11, 2001, the Marine Services Bureau's primary mission focused on policing the recreational boating community, pollution investigations, fish and game investigations, and investigating criminal activity that occurred on the water. However, since September 11, 2001, our mission has drastically changed. The Marine Services Bureau now incorporates daily homeland security protection to our critical infrastructure locations that have waterside exposure and are susceptible to a waterborne attack. In addition, we conduct escorts of military vessels, both cruise ships and chemical vessels, as well as, identifying suspicious activity along the waterways. New Jersey is a peninsular state that has common water borders with Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York, which places New Jersey in a strategic and vulnerable position. Jurisdiction and patrol areas consist of New Jersey's territorial seas, extending three nautical miles offshore, along the 127 miles of the Atlantic Ocean coastline with an interior tidal shoreline of approximately 1,750 miles, composed of the Delaware River and approximately 100 inland bays, rivers, creeks and coves. In addition, there are more than 800 lakes and ponds within this state with a total of 700 square miles of surface area.\nMarine Services - Boating Safety\nMaritime Security Initiative - MSI\nContact a Station\nAs indicated, New Jersey has a tremendous amount of water that the Marine Services Bureau is responsible for patrolling. We also have more then 200,000 registered vessels in New Jersey. The safety of the recreational boater has always been a priority for the Marine Services Bureau and will remain so. We are committed to ensuring that all users of the state's waterways can do so in a safe and enjoyable manner. Our troopers have been very active in providing homeland security and recreational patrols for all of the communities and critical infrastructure locations along the Atlantic Coast and the Delaware River.\nMSB is comprised of nine stations. These facilities are strategically located throughout the State to address the bureau's mission.\n*Locate/Contact A Station\"\nSupplemental to standard State Police Training all of the troopers assigned to the Marine Services Bureau must demonstrate their proficiency through the successful completion of the \"Vessel Operator Certification Program.\" In order to maintain a high level of proficiency, the certification process must be re-validated annually.\nIn addition, approximately one third of the personnel assigned to the Marine Services Bureau are United States Coast Guard Licensed Captains with licenses that contain both tonnage and commercial towing endorsements.\nMarine Services Bureau training also includes water survival, open water rescue, and ice rescue.\nPatrol vessels vary widely from 13' to 50' in length, single outboard to twin diesel inboards producing in excess of 1,000 horsepower, fiberglass to aluminum, and from open to fully enclosed weather tight cabins with long-range capabilities.\nThe equipment onboard the vessels includes basic marine safety equipment, VHF radios, police radios, high-tech thermal imaging equipment, side-scan sonar, depth finders, and radar interfaced navigation equipment.\nAs a preventive measure intended to increase boating safety and reduce waterway user conflict, troopers are available to schools throughout the State to teach maritime safety to students, upon request.\nMarine Services Support Squad\nThe Marine Support Services is an administrative support unit for the marine activities and responsibilities within the Division of State Police.\nThis unit performs the following functions:\nDeveloping and conducting training courses\nResearch and purchase of marine equipment\nMarine accident review and statistical data study\nReview of marine related legislative proposals\nProcessing of NJ Boat Safety Certificates (same certificate for personal watercraft)\nYou may contact the Marine Services Bureau at (609)882-2000 X6170, 6173 or 6181 weekdays from 9:00AM to 5:00PM.\nView the Frequently Asked Questions page for important questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.noadoctors.com/History.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CUKJWCL3EU3D3WMUEDYSGAV3773GDI4S", "length": 3904, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.noadoctors.com", "title": "website", "raw_content": "Our History in RTOG\nMercy Hospital, (now Regional Hospital of Scranton), began its involvement in RTOG (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group) through NOA (Radiation Medicine Associates of Scranton) in 1987.\nAfter two years of active accrual, it became the \ufb01rst community-based hospital in the nation to be awarded full member status. Mercy and member hospitals were among a select group of 23 full members nationwide. Other full members included Albert Einstein Medical Center, The Mayo Clinic, the University of Pennsylvania, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University.\nTo maintain full member status, Regional was required to accrue at least 50 patients to RTOG studies.\nGeorgetown University, Desert Hospital in Desert Springs California, and Community Hospital of Indianapolis became af\ufb01liates of our institution for the purpose of participating in RTOG studies.\nHigh data quality scores over the years have made Regional Hospital attractive to other institutes who are interested in becoming a member of RTOG. As a top accruer to RTOG chemoprevention studies, an audit was conducted to verify data by a representative of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and an observer from the National Cancer Institute.\nPrior to full member status, institutes must \ufb01rst become an af\ufb01liate member with a parent institute to sponsor them. In 1997, the hospital became an af\ufb01liate. Our parent institution was the University of Pennsylvania. In 2003 the hospital became an af\ufb01liate of Thomas Jefferson, and in January 2005, we became a member of the Jefferson Cancer Network.\nCurrently enrolled to date: Over 800 patients to clinical trials. Top institution to accrue 137 patients to a Phase III prostate study (9202).\nParticipated in MammoSite Registry sponsored by Proxima Therapeutics Inc., being supervised by The American Society of Breast Surgeons.\nEnrolled patients in a prospective, observational registry of the management of men with prostate cancer and a rising PSA following de\ufb01nitive surgical or radiological treatment of the primary tumors.\nRTOG solicited our support to participate in the Quality of Life and Late Effects of Normal Tissue in Survivors of Head and Neck or Prostate Cancer research project. Evaluation on 219 patients provided data on the areas of continued problems due to treatment or disease.\nWe were pre-approved to participate in a trial of transrectal ultrasound guided permanent radio-active implantation of the prostate. A maximum of six patients per institution enrolled. Also approved: enrollment to a study of external beam radiation therapy combined with permanent source Brachytherapy for the prostate. A maximum of 12 patients registered.\nIn 2005 NROC was approved by the Radiological Physics Center for the use of IMRT for irradiating the prostate. The physicians of NOA have published 30 papers over 2 3 years regarding their clinical trials.\nThe Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) was initially organized in 1968 under the direction of Dr. Simon Kramer as a national clinical cooperative group for the purpose of conducting radiation therapy research and cooperative clinical investigations. Funding from the National Cancer Institute began in 1971.\nSince its inception the Group has activated 460 protocols and accrued a total of about 90,000 patients to cooperative group studies.\nThe Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) is a multi-institutional cooperative organization of which the principal objectives include:\nA national cancer study research group funded by NCI headquartered in Philadelphia with 35 years of experience in running clinical trials.\nComprised of over 300 of the major research institutions nationally and in Canada.\nCurrently have 40+ active studies that involve radiation therapy either alone or in conjunction with surgery and/or chemotherapeutic drugs.\nInterested in quality of life issues and their effects on the cancer patient.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nolahome.com/office-space-for-sale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLDFXD24KM5QVSHP262WORFA23LWRCMH", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nolahome.com", "title": "Office space for sale", "raw_content": "How Gorgeous is this office space?!\nhttp://nola.curbed.com/2016/5/13/11673078/4011-baronne-st-new-orleans-photos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northstarchiropracticcenter.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:17Z", "digest": "sha1:TKYJOUV46PKUNPA5C76L5MSWHMHYDZFP", "length": 1941, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.northstarchiropracticcenter.com", "title": "About North Star Chiropractic Center | (206) 440-7700", "raw_content": "About North Star Chiropractic Center\nThe North Star is a guiding light that gives direction to people who are lost. In the same way, Dr. Paul Early and the staff at North Star Chiropractic Center will guide you in getting your health pointed in the right direction.\nSince opening our practice in 2000, we have been a clinic with an environment designed for healing.\nDr. Early has always operated with a desire to get sick people well, to build healthy families and communities, and to build a team of professionals that shares his vision for educating the public about chiropractic and its benefits.\nBringing Chiropractic Wellness to Our Community\nWe pride ourselves on being a busy, stress-free clinic where people come to participate in the process of improving their health and are comfortable referring their family and friends. We are dedicated to providing you with individualized care tailored to your specific needs. We don\u2019t believe in a cookie cutter approach. Whether you\u2019ve been injured in an auto accident or are seeking relief from chronic pain, Dr. Early and his experienced, friendly staff want to help.\nEach member of the North Star Chiropractic Center team plays a role in your recovery. Our years of experience ensure we\u2019ll help you achieve the best possible results because Dr. Early looks for the underlying cause of your pain and symptoms, going deeper than just what you came in for.\nIf your problem can be treated with chiropractic, we\u2019ll get you started on a corrective plan right away. If chiropractic isn\u2019t the right answer for you, we\u2019ll get you pointed in the right direction so you can get the care you need without delay.\nYou\u2019ll find our office right near Northgate Mall. We offer same day scheduling, plenty of free parking, and we accept most insurance plans.\nCome visit us and find out whether chiropractic is right for you.\nStart feeling better today! Contact North Star Chiropractic Center to get started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nps.gov/care/learn/news/celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-wilderness-act-at-capitol-reef-national-park.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:T55UD6JHKRO7GELSCT6IFAPNMYA7Y3BP", "length": 1749, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nps.gov", "title": "Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act at Capitol Reef National Park - Capitol Reef National Park (U.S. National Park Service)", "raw_content": "Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act at Capitol Reef National Park\nContact: Holly Mills, 435-425-4115\nOn September 3, 1964, the Wilderness Act was signed into law. It created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as \"an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.\"\nCongress has now designated more than 109 million acres of federal public lands as wilderness: 44 million of these acres lie within 47 parks and comprise 53 percent of national park system lands. Additional national park areas are managed as \"recommended\" or \"proposed\" wilderness until Congress acts on their status. Seventy-five percent of Capitol Reef National Park is recommended wilderness and offers visitors outstanding opportunities to connect with wild lands.\nCapitol Reef National Park will celebrate this historic anniversary with several special events:\n1) Guided Hike: Hike in recommended wilderness with Park Ranger Holly Mills. 8:00 am to 10:00 am. Meet at the visitor center. Moderate hike with steep sections and minor exposure. Saturday, August 30 and Wednesday, September 3, 2014.\n2) Celebrate with cake: Enjoy anniversary cake along with a short talk on wilderness at the visitor center on Wednesday, September 3, 2014. 10:30 am to 11:30 am.\n3) Evening Campground Program (located at amphitheater):\nEvening program on Utah wilderness with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble. 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Saturday, August 30, 2014.\nEvening program on wilderness by Park Ranger Holly Mills. 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Friday, August 29; Wednesday, September 3; and Saturday, September 6, 2014.\nTo learn more about wilderness, visit www.wilderness.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nuget.org/packages/Paket/5.151.4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ISDBSLPYZI5NNLDIEZOORCYRCTGDSUER", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nuget.org", "title": "NuGet Gallery | Paket 5.151.4", "raw_content": "EMERGENCY: Zero-Diff release to work around defender issue - https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/issues/3121", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1328, "original_length": 31823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nutritionsociety.org/blog/healthy-ageing-what-role-can-nutrition-play", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KU4Z62RQFWNZ23VIWLHVTHO6YTNW33LN", "length": 7443, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nutritionsociety.org", "title": "Healthy ageing: what role can nutrition play? | The Nutrition Society", "raw_content": "Healthy ageing: what role can nutrition play?\nImproved social, medical, economic, and environmental hygiene conditions have led to a population explosion over the course of little more than a century. The resultant demographic shift represents a fundamental transition towards a new paradigm, with over-65-year-olds now the fastest growing age group globally and over 2 billion estimated to be aged over 60 years old by 2050. Yet despite life expectancy near doubling since the start of the Victorian era, these gains have not necessarily translated to an increase in years lived without disability and disease. Rather, the greatest proportion of healthcare expenditure is now concentrated in old age, with age a determinant for a number of diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia and respiratory tract infections. Improving health in old age (termed, \u2018healthy ageing\u2019) is therefore important both for individual quality-of-life (QoL), and in order to avoid the predicted social and financial strain on healthcare systems globally. These changing demographics are adding urgency to the need to understand the role of nutritional interventions in aiding healthy ageing.\nUnderstanding the ageing process and its impact on nutrition\nAgeing is best understood as a process, whereby a gradual accumulation over the life-course of cellular and molecular damage can result in increased risk of age-related disorders. Ageing is therefore a gradual, inconsistent process that is only loosely associated with biological age. As such, healthy ageing is more than simply absence of disease, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) urging a societal approach to the promotion of healthy ageing, and a shift away from disease-based curative models towards more integrated healthcare provision.\nNutrition can play a key role in determining healthy ageing, with the relationship a bi-directional and complex one. Physiological and socio-cultural changes associated with ageing can impact on nutritional status, with nutritional deficiencies common among the elderly and particularly prevalent in institutional and care home settings. Sensory impairment (e.g. loss of vision and taste), poor oral health, loss of mobility, and psychosocial changes such as poor finances and increased isolation can severely impact dietary intake, while decreased gastric acid secretion can impact on nutrient absorption. Sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass and function with ageing, is a significant contributor to disability, impacting on QoL and independence. After the age of around 30 years, an average of 3-5% muscle mass is lost every decade, with the rate of decline increasing after age 60 resulting in around 1 in 20 in this age group suffering the effects of sarcopenia.\nOther age-associated changes that can impact on nutritional status include changes in immunocompetence as the immune system matures. The elderly population typically lose lymphoid tissue (particularly in the thymus), have a decreased response to vaccination due to impairment of long-term immune memory, reduced production of T-cells, and experience changes to skin and mucous membranes which would usually act as the body\u2019s first line of defence against external pathogens. Together, these changes can impact on both the innate and acquired immune systems, with low grade chronic inflammation (termed \u2018inflammaging\u2019) often observed in the elderly. When these changes combine with environmental and lifestyle factors, the elderly are left more susceptible to infections \u2018than any other age-group except young children' [1]. Infection has a significant impact on nutrition status, increasing the risk of malnutrition via a number of different mechanisms including appetite loss and malabsorption problems.\nFigure 1: The vicious cycle of undernutrition and infectious disease\nNutrition for the promotion of healthy ageing\nYet the relationship between ageing and nutrition also works in reverse, with both macro and micronutrients playing key roles in maintaining healthy physiological status. Given the plasticity of the ageing process, nutrition and lifestyle interventions have the potential to promote healthy ageing and reduce non-communicable disease risk. Micronutrient deficiencies are associated with both physical and cognitive decline, with vitamins D, C and B9 for example playing important roles in promoting bone density and reducing inflammation, while Vitamin B12 deficiencies place elderly populations at risk of both neurological and bone density problems. Essential dietary minerals such as calcium, zinc, iron and selenium also contribute to bone density and a functioning immune system, with protein malnutrition playing a role in the development of sarcopenia. Evidence suggests that around 35% of over 50-year-olds in Europe, Canada and the USA have a deficiency of > 1 micronutrient, and with 1 million over-65-year-olds malnourished in the UK alone, adequate nutrition of elderly populations is of both clinical and public health significance.\nThe role of nutrition interventions\nTrials to date have produced rather inconsistent results for interventions targeting single nutrients, although there is some evidence to suggest that beneficial effects can be seen in those most deficient at baseline. The strongest evidence for nutrition that supports healthy ageing is for a Mediterranean-style dietary pattern, incorporating polyunsaturated fatty acids, anti-oxidant rich foods, and with a focus on more nutrient-dense foods. This helps to negate the issue of energy requirements for the elderly often being low, despite micronutrient requirements remaining unchanged.\nIn line with the WHO\u2019s framework for ageing, a recent round-table meeting aiming to reach a consensus position on healthy ageing, highlighted the need for a life course approach that takes into account the multifactorial nature of ageing. Nutrition at all stages of life plays an important role in health and well-being, with food and activity habits often established in youth. A wide-ranging approach that promotes good nutrition throughout the life-course is therefore recommended, although proactive action promoting diet, nutrition, and physical activity would appear to support the maintenance of body composition, cognitive health, immune function and vascular health into old age.\nThe coming months are likely to see the topic of healthy ageing increasingly in the spotlight, with The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) currently working on a position statement on nutrition and older adults. More information about this work can be found on SACN\u2019s webpage, and a call for evidence is now available online, with a deadline of 5 February 2019.\nAs such, the Society is delighted to announce that we will be organising a session entitled \"Nutrition Challenges of an Ageing Population\" for the Parliamentary and Science Committee at the House of Commons on Monday 25 March 2019. Chaired by Stephen Metcalfe MP, this is the first time the Nutrition Society have hosted a parliamentary meeting. A review of the debate and any relevant outcomes will be shared on the website after the event, and we look to engage the membership in parliamentary activities in the future.\n[1] Maggini, S. et al (2018). Immune function and micronutrient requirements change over the life course. Nutrients. 10(10), 1-27.\nRegister for our upcoming webinar on ageing and the immune system", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 9999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nwf.org/en/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Wild-Places/Red-River-of-the-North", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:POEEZQXFFLRQCUQ52KORQLAJSFV7KGXA", "length": 3845, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nwf.org", "title": "Red River of the North | National Wildlife Federation", "raw_content": "The Red River of the North (Red River), in part, forms the boundary between North Dakota and Minnesota. The river flows north through the Red River Valley and empties into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. 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The warring sides signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday.CreditCreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times\nADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia \u2014 South Sudan\u2019s warring factions on Thursday signed a new agreement to cease hostilities and protect civilians in the latest effort to calm a devastating civil war.\nThe two sides also signed an agreement to grant humanitarian access to conflict-affected areas after days of talks in neighboring Ethiopia brokered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development regional bloc.\nThe cease-fire is set to begin Sunday morning.\nSouth Sudan is entering the fifth year of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people. 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Redstone and Barry Diller, fought each other for what was then the entertainment industry\u2019s ultimate prize: Paramount Pictures, the 62-acre studio behind classic films like \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and \u201cChinatown\u201d and contemporary blockbusters like \u201cTop Gun\u201d and \u201cBeverly Hills Cop.\u201d\nThe studio was behind classic films like, from left, \u201cBeverly Hills Cop,\u201d \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and \u201cTop Gun.\u201d\nThe home entertainment boom was showering Hollywood with cash. But Paramount was more than a money machine. Legacy studios like Paramount \u2014 founded in the 1910s, operating sumptuous soundstage complexes and controlling vast film libraries \u2014 rarely came up for sale. Owning one made you a permanent power player, a certified member of the cultural elite.\nWith a bid of $9.75 billion, or $17 billion in today\u2019s money, Mr. Redstone\u2019s Viacom took the spoils. \u201cDon\u2019t tell me I don\u2019t buy you anything for your birthday,\u201d he told his then-wife, Phyllis, as they celebrated with lawyers at the 21 Club in New York.\nFlash forward 25 years, and Paramount once again finds itself at the center of a battle. Only this time the historic studio is not the belle of the Hollywood ball, not even remotely. Today, Paramount is fighting for its very existence.\nAlmost slapstick mismanagement by Viacom \u2014 cleaving off a lucrative TV business, firing the horror maestro Jason Blum, missing the opportunity to buy Marvel Entertainment, describing Steven Spielberg as \u201ccompletely immaterial\u201d \u2014 has left Paramount on life support. The studio racked up nearly $900 million in losses between 2016 and 2018. It has placed last at the domestic box office for seven years running. The 29-soundstage Paramount lot is long overdue for improvements; $700 million in upgrades, unveiled in 2011, have yet to happen.\nThe 29-soundstage Paramount lot is long overdue for improvements; A planned $700 million in upgrades, announced in 2011, have yet to happen.CreditAlex Welsh for The New York Times\nParamount, along with the rest of Hollywood, is also colliding with Silicon Valley. Netflix, which occupies a rented office tower six blocks from Paramount headquarters, has been swallowing the entertainment business whole. This year, the streaming service will pump out about 90 movies, including documentaries. To compare, the five conventional studios left standing \u2014 Paramount, Universal, Sony, Disney and Warner Bros. \u2014 will make about that many combined. Paramount is set to contribute 13.\nThe old-line film business is only going to become tougher as streaming services proliferate. Apple intends to roll out its multibillion-dollar TV and movie offering in the months ahead. Facebook has recently gotten serious about marketing its Watch video-on-demand platform. Scrambling to keep pace, entertainment companies like Disney and Warner Media have bulked up \u2014 Disney with its $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox assets and Warner by selling itself to AT&T for $85.4 billion \u2014 and plan to introduce their own megawatt streaming services by the end of the year. Next to those supertankers, Viacom is the corporate equivalent of a canoe.\nAll of which has agents, directors, writers and producers confronting uncomfortable questions. Can Paramount \u2014 the studio that, more than any other, symbolizes Hollywood itself \u2014 find a path forward as a stand-alone studio? Or, as they did at Fox, could its end credits roll?\nJim Gianopulos took over as Paramount\u2019s chief executive in 2017 and is leading a resuscitation effort.CreditPhotographs by Alex Welsh for The New York Times\n\u201cI knew it was challenged,\u201d said Jim Gianopulos, a veteran film executive who took over as Paramount\u2019s chairman in 2017 and is leading a resuscitation effort. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how much.\u201d\n\u2018Suddenly people\u2019s eyes light up. Yours just did.\u2019\nStroll around the Paramount lot, as we did one afternoon late last year, and you\u2019ll see a frenzy of activity. Fleets of forklifts carry newly fabricated sets from the in-house woodworking mill. Gardeners tend the hibiscus hedges. Electricians hang lights. Production staffers whiz around on golf carts. At a glance, Paramount seems every bit as vibrant as it was when Mr. Redstone took over in 1994.\nBut the bustle is mostly an illusion. Few movies are shot in Los Angeles anymore, by Paramount or any studio. Of the 100 top-grossing films in 2017, only 10 were shot in California, according to Film L.A., which tracks production. It\u2019s cheaper to make movies in states like New Mexico and Georgia, which offer fat subsidies. TV series are still taped on studio lots, but Mr. Redstone chopped his business empire into two pieces in 2005, and Paramount\u2019s entire small-screen division went to the CBS Corporation.\nParamount in many ways has become a glorified rental property. HBO leases Stage 17 for \u201cBarry,\u201d a comedy about a hit man who wants to change professions. The weepy \u201cThis Is Us,\u201d a Fox production that airs on NBC, sprawls across three stages. Sony and Amazon rent other Paramount stages.\n\u201cThe decision to move all of Paramount TV really crippled Paramount Studios,\u201d said Frank J. Biondi Jr., who ran Viacom from 1987 to 1996.\nAlong with filling stages, TV production provides studios with a stable revenue stream \u2014 something to fall back on when big-budget films bomb, as some inevitably do. TV has also been Hollywood\u2019s growth engine over the last decade. At least 495 original scripted programs aired in 2018, up from 288 in 2012, the result of new buyers like Netflix and Hulu.\nTo pull Paramount back from the brink, Mr. Gianopulos and a new lieutenant, Nicole Clemens, are rebuilding the studio\u2019s TV operation. Paramount restarted television production in 2013 and now has nine series running, including \u201cThe Alienist\u201d on TNT and \u201cJack Ryan\u201d on Amazon Prime. Mr. Gianopulos said he hoped to have 20 series in production by the end of the year. Viacom said Paramount Television generated $400 million in revenue last year; Mr. Gianopulos said the division\u2019s profit was on track to double this year compared with 2018.\nWith the pressure on her to deliver, Ms. Clemens was still zealously working at 6 p.m. on a recent Friday. As we waited outside her office door, two assistants dialed phones as if their lives depended on it.\nThe studio\u2019s prop warehouse includes a phone booth from \u201cTransformers: The Last Knight\u201d and characters from \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin.\u201dCreditAlex Welsh for The New York Times\nMs. Clemens eventually came out from behind her desk. \u201cOh, this is calm,\u201d she said. \u201cYou should have seen us earlier.\u201d\nAs important as TV is to Paramount\u2019s financial future, Mr. Gianopulos said movies would always be the company\u2019s anchor. To that end, in September 2017 he hired one of Hollywood\u2019s top producers, Wyck Godfrey, whose resume includes the \u201cTwilight\u201d blockbusters, as president of the film division. Supporting Mr. Godfrey are new marketing, publicity and animation chiefs.\n\u201cIt sounds trite, but you are only as good as your team,\u201d Mr. Gianopulos said. \u201cAnd all of the key people that I have brought in are accomplished, experienced executives.\u201d He added of the new hires, perhaps commenting indirectly on hotheads who have left the studio: \u201cNone of them are screamers. None of them are hyperbolic. They\u2019re all grown-ups. They\u2019re all collaborative.\u201d\nMr. Godfrey had experienced Paramount\u2019s dysfunction firsthand as a producer. In 2016, the studio abruptly pulled the plug on one of his projects, a movie adaptation of John Green\u2019s novel \u201cLooking for Alaska,\u201d amid a casting dispute.\n\u201cFrom my outsider\u2019s perspective, this place had become very fear-based, and so my first job was to try and change that,\u201d Mr. Godfrey said. \u201cI\u2019ve said to anyone who will listen, \u2018We are going to start taking real chances on things we believe in.\u2019 I will take the responsibility, the heat, when we miss, which is inevitable. But just go for it.\n\u201cWe have to make more movies and also movies that stand the test of time,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have no choice. It\u2019s the only way.\u201d Paramount hopes to make 17 movies in 2020.\nMr. Godfrey\u2019s coming film lineup emphasizes big-budget, global-audience movies, known in Hollywood as tentpoles. A long-gestating \u201cTop Gun\u201d sequel is finally happening. Mr. Godfrey is working to breathe life into the tired \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,\u201d \u201cTerminator,\u201d \u201cStar Trek\u201d and \u201cG.I. Joe\u201d franchises. Paramount also has high hopes for films tied to Viacom\u2019s cable networks, including \u201cDora the Explorer,\u201d a live-action, big-screen adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon.\nWhatever its box-office viability, though, such fare doesn\u2019t quite scream \u201cstand the test of time.\u201d\nBut Mr. Godfrey insisted otherwise. Imagine, for instance, Paramount giving \u201cStar Trek\u201d to Quentin Tarantino. \u201cSuddenly people\u2019s eyes light up,\u201d Mr. Godfrey said. \u201cYours just did.\u201d\nHe also pointed out that \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 Fallout,\u201d released by Paramount in August, had proved naysayers wrong. That film, the sixth chapter in a 23-year-old series, received euphoric reviews and generated $791 million in global ticket sales, 16 percent more than its franchise predecessor. Two more \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d installments starring Tom Cruise are moving ahead.\nCreditDavid James/Paramount Pictures, via Associated Press\nThe hits \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 Fallout,\u201d top, and \u201cA Quiet Place\u201d helped Paramount post an operating loss of $39 million for 2018, compared with a loss of $280 million a year earlier.CreditJonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures, via Associated Press\n\u201cFallout\u201d and another unexpected hit from last spring, \u201cA Quiet Place,\u201d helped Paramount post an operating loss of $39 million for 2018, compared with a loss of $280 million a year earlier. To compare, the industry leading Walt Disney Studios had 2018 profit of $2.98 billion, up from $2.36 billion.\nMore recent Paramount movies have delivered mixed results. \u201cBumblebee,\u201d a well-reviewed \u201cTransformers\u201d prequel, has taken in roughly $370 million, a respectable number if not exactly a breakout hit. A pair of fall comedies, \u201cNobody\u2019s Fool\u201d and \u201cInstant Family,\u201d fizzled at the box office.\nMr. Gianopulos said a turnaround was still early. He expects the studio to return to profitability this year. \u201cIn a four-quarter game,\u201d he said, \u201cwe\u2019re halfway through the second quarter.\u201d\n\u2018You see the studio eating itself\u2019\nAsk Hollywood\u2019s power brokers how Paramount went from prestige to debris and they will say they don\u2019t want to speak ill of the dead. And then they will proceed, at length and with great verve, to speak ill of the dead.\nMr. Gianopulos\u2019s predecessor, Brad Grey, who led the studio for 12 years, resigned under pressure in February 2017. He died from cancer three months later, stunning the movie capital. Almost no one knew he was sick.\nLooking back, there were signals. Toward the end of his run, Mr. Grey was rarely seen at Paramount. A rumor took hold, calcifying into legend, that his chauffeur would drive the car onto the lot and park \u2014 so it would look as if Mr. Grey were somewhere on the premises \u2014 and then take a taxi home. The studio\u2019s vice chairman, Rob Moore, was also frequently away. He spent a lot of time in China, where he worked on an unconsummated deal to sell a minority stake in the studio. He was also dating a Chinese TV host.\nAn absentee overlord may have contributed to the studio\u2019s decline, but the decay can be traced to Mr. Redstone\u2019s battle with Mr. Diller in 1993. Mr. Redstone, viewed by Hollywood as cocksure and uncouth, wanted to acquire Paramount to prove that he\u2019d made it \u2014 that he belonged. That he was more than his cable business of VH1, Nickelodeon and MTV, a media company that the real bigwigs called \u201cThe House That Beavis and Butt-Head Built.\u201d\nMr. Diller also had emotional ties to Paramount; he had run the studio from 1974 to 1984, finding hits like \u201cGrease,\u201d \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d and \u201cBeverly Hills Cop.\u201d But Mr. Diller had visions of using Paramount to push Hollywood into a new era: that a budding \u201cinformation superhighway\u201d called the internet might someday run through the studio, bringing movies and TV shows directly to computers.\nIn other words, Netflix.\nMr. Redstone, who ended up acquiring Blockbuster (yes, that Blockbuster) to get the deal done, and his lawyers made fun of Mr. Diller\u2019s interest in the internet. They ribbed him for bringing a computer \u2014 one of Apple\u2019s early brick laptops \u2014 into the negotiating room. The joke, it turned out, was on Mr. Redstone, whose Viacom would miss internet opportunities at nearly every turn over the next 25 years. Mr. Diller went on to found IAC, a thriving collection of web businesses.\nSumner M. Redstone in his New York office in 1994, the year he took over Paramount.CreditDon Hogan Charles/The New York Times\nOther shortsighted decisions by Mr. Redstone and his cronies \u2014 rooted in hubris and old-fashioned greed \u2014 dragged Paramount down. Longtime entertainment executives likened the studio\u2019s mismanagement under Mr. Grey and his boss, Philippe P. Dauman, who ran Viacom from 2006 to 2016, to an old horror movie. Perhaps \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers.\u201d\n\u201cYou have this aching sensation in your belly when you see the studio eating itself,\u201d said Jonathan L. Dolgen, chairman of Paramount in the 1990s.\nThe real debacle started in 2005. To fortify Paramount\u2019s slate, the studio bought DreamWorks SKG, bringing Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen into the fold. But the alliance quickly became a clash of personalities. At one point, Mr. Dauman told investors that Mr. Spielberg \u2014 the most powerful director in Hollywood then and now \u2014 was, in effect, \u201ccompletely immaterial\u201d to the company\u2019s earnings. Mr. Geffen pried DreamWorks loose from Paramount and Viacom in 2008.\nThen, in 2009, a micro-budgeted horror movie called \u201cParanormal Activity,\u201d produced by Jason Blum and released by Paramount, became a runaway hit, spawning a $1 billion franchise. Instead of anointing Mr. Blum, Mr. Grey wanted to control the series \u2014 and take the credit. So he kicked him off the Paramount lot. Mr. Blum went to Universal, where he has printed money, churning out low-cost blockbusters like \u201cGet Out,\u201d \u201cThe Purge,\u201d \u201cHalloween\u201d and \u201cSplit\u201d through his Blumhouse Productions.\nThe next year, Paramount allowed Disney to buy out its rights to distribute Marvel superhero movies. The deal helped Viacom executives hit financial targets that triggered bonuses. Paramount, however, was hobbled down the road; Marvel became Disney\u2019s most reliable hit machine.\nTheories began to spread about how Mr. Grey kept his job. Early in his tenure, he had intervened at a movie premiere party to defend Mr. Dauman from an obscenity-laced fusillade by the producer Harvey Weinstein. Back then, nobody stood up to Mr. Weinstein, and the move endeared Mr. Grey to the refined Mr. Dauman. But it had been a setup. Mr. Grey had planned the confrontation with Mr. Weinstein, whom he had been close to ever since their early careers.\nMr. Dauman, who was fired in 2016, received $72 million in exit payments. At the time, Paramount was losing $450 million a year, and Viacom\u2019s stock price had fallen 50 percent over two years.\nMr. Dauman could not be reached for comment. For his part, Mr. Grey insisted until the end that he had done the best he could with Paramount. He was proud that Mr. Dauman had allowed him to stick with a romantic notion of the film business \u2014 one that found a place for auteur-driven movies like \u201cSilence\u201d from Martin Scorsese and \u201cAllied\u201d by Robert Zemeckis \u2014 even as competing studios, adjusting to business realities, had shifted almost entirely toward fantasy tentpoles.\nHollywood saw Paramount as failing to evolve. It was almost as if Mr. Grey and certain cohorts were playing out scenes from \u201cSunset Boulevard,\u201d which Paramount made in 1950.\n\u201cI am big,\u201d the delusional silent film star Norma Desmond insists in one famous moment. \u201cIt\u2019s the pictures that got small.\u201d\n\u2018It\u2019s irrelevant\u2019\nParamount has endured boom and bust cycles before. In the 1960s the studio\u2019s then-owner, the industrial conglomerate Gulf & Western, very nearly sold a badly struggling Paramount for its real estate value. Talks began with a cemetery that borders the studio. More burial plots were envisioned.\nThat was when Paramount\u2019s young production chief, Robert Evans, turned a macabre drama, \u201cRosemary\u2019s Baby,\u201d into a box office juggernaut. Another unexpected hit, the teary romance \u201cLove Story,\u201d arrived in 1970.\nMr. Evans went on to make the studio a showcase for culture-defining cinema, serving up \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d \u201cThe Godfather II,\u201d \u201cHarold and Maude,\u201d \u201cSerpico,\u201d \u201cChinatown\u201d and \u201cUrban Cowboy,\u201d among others. Those movies inspired many of today\u2019s top directors and film executives to pursue Hollywood careers \u2014 an entire generation of creativity reared on what Paramount produced.\nA successor, Sherry Lansing, kept Paramount healthy until handing over the reins to Mr. Grey. Her tenure was marked by the Academy Award-winning hits \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d \u201cBraveheart\u201d and \u201cTitanic,\u201d a co-production with Fox. The studio was so strong, in fact, that people in Hollywood referred to it by a nickname: \u201cthe Mountain,\u201d a reference to its logo of a snow-capped peak encircled by stars.\nSo anything is possible. In the months ahead, Paramount is betting big on drugs, gay sex and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll: \u201cRocketman,\u201d a musical about Elton John\u2019s turbulent life and career, arrives from the studio in May, one of Hollywood\u2019s most competitive months. Mr. Gianopulos sees another potential success in Ang Lee\u2019s \u201cGemini Man,\u201d which will roll out in the fall and stars Will Smith as an aging hit man who must combat a clone of his younger self.\nGenerally boding well, Mr. Gianopulos has repaired crucial relationships with producers. Hasbro, a partner that had grown disenchanted, agreed to a five-year extension, for instance.\nDavid Ellison, a producer and billionaire financier of big-budget movies like \u201cTerminator Genisys,\u201d was on the verge of leaving Paramount for another studio home base; Mr. Gianopulos persuaded him to sign on with Paramount for four more years. That relationship has once again grown tense, however, with Paramount unhappy about Mr. Ellison\u2019s decision to hire John Lasseter, who was forced to resign from Disney last year amid #MeToo allegations.\nMr. Gianopulos in November made a deal with Netflix to supply the streaming service with a handful of original movies a year, opening up a new revenue stream.\nAnd Paramount finally has the full support of Viacom, where a new chief executive, Robert M. Bakish, has put into motion an aggressive turnaround plan. In an interview on the 52nd floor of Viacom\u2019s Times Square headquarters, Mr. Bakish noted that he had just returned from Hollywood, where he met with agents, telling them that, unlike his predecessor, he has no plans to offload Paramount. If anything, Viacom was doubling down on the studio: We are open for business, so bring us your scripts.\n\u201cIt was clear we had a major problem,\u201d Mr. Bakish said. \u201cBut it\u2019s Paramount \u2014 it\u2019s the Mountain.\u201d\nMovie insiders want to believe that Paramount will respond to the heart paddles. But some people are privately sitting vigil.\nWhen we reached Mr. Diller on a business trip in Europe to talk about his failed bid for Paramount and what has become of the studio and the movie business, his first reaction was to ask why anyone would bother writing about the studio.\n\u201cWhy Paramount?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt\u2019s irrelevant.\u201d\nBecause of an editing error, an earlier version of this article overstated what is known about the severance Brad Grey received when he left Paramount Pictures. A reference to his exit package has been removed from the article.\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Hollywood\u2019s Mountain, Now a Molehill. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | Subscribe\nA Year After #MeToo, Hollywood\u2019s Got a Malaise Money Can\u2019t Cure\nA Battle for Control of CBS, With Far-Reaching Consequences\nNew Chairman at Paramount Pictures Faces an Arduous Task", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 23506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.offthepost.info/blog/2018/08/chelsea-rejected-chance-sign-nabil-fekir/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TN3VUVU36R4TULI4QBBUCVXUCWCYI5XQ", "length": 1417, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.offthepost.info", "title": "Chelsea rejected chance to sign Nabil Fekir | Off The Post", "raw_content": "Chelsea rejected chance to sign Nabil Fekir\nChelsea turned down the opportunity to sign World Cup winner Nabil Fekir, according to Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas.\nFekir had looked set to join Liverpool in the summer transfer window. But the Reds pulled out of a deal to sign him at the last minute amid reports that they had either been spooked or prompted to renegotiate the fee agreed with Lyon due to the results of a medical.\nAulas has revealed that his club later spoke to Chelsea representatives about a possible deal, but the Blues had no interest in signing the 25-year-old.\nAccording to the Daily Mail, he said: \u201cIn the beginning, when we thought about our summer transfer window and how to organise the future squad, we thought that he [Fekir] was practically gone.\n\u201cThat\u2019s why we have been able to adapt things.\n\u201cWe spoke with Chelsea representatives, and they had no interest at all in him.\n\u201cFrom then on, we realised we could change our plans [as he would stay].\u201d\nFekir scored 23 goals in 39 games in the 2017/18 season and was widely expected to make a big-money move away from his boyhood club.\nHe pinned his hopes on a switch to Anfield and was reluctant for Lyon to negotiate with other clubs.\nBut the deal collapsed just hours before he was expected to be confirmed as a Liverpool player.\nLiverpool star on \u2018not easy\u2019 Champions League draw\nJose Mourinho urged Man Utd not to sign Cristiano Ronaldo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.olaladirectory.com.au/rolling-steel-doors-and-their-pecularities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CAW2AISWEBCBK2EVTDL7AWDQBTTZFLAN", "length": 3326, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.olaladirectory.com.au", "title": "Business Directory - Products, Articles, Companies Rolling Steel Doors and Their Pecularities \u2013 Business Directory", "raw_content": "Rolling Steel Doors and Their Pecularities\n5r8v5110dO5425415 Business\trolling steel doors, Steel Doors\nRolling steel doors represent doors that are perfect for installation in confined spaces. For example, today they are commonly installed in garages, hangars, industrial premises etc along with barrier security gates. In addition to compactness, rolling steel doors provide reliable protection and safety. Having installed rolling steel doors, you do not have to worry about unauthorized entry or break-ins.\nThese doors are called \u201crolling\u201d because of their unique design. The thing is that when they are opened, they fold into a roll. Roughly speaking, the doors of this type are a kind of roller shutters, as they share a similar design. Rolling steel doors consist of the so-called lamellas, which, when opened, are wound onto a shaft located in a box above. The doors are easy to manage: they are reliable and durable.\nRolling steel doors have no competitors when it comes to comfort and practicality. They are great for large openings, which is their undeniable advantage.\nFEATURES OF ROLLING STEEL DOORS\nBefore buying these security gates, it is first worth getting acquainted with their main features:\n\u2022 These doors perform not only a protective function like barrier security gates, but also a decorative function. In addition, rolling steel doors provide good thermal insulation;\n\u2022 The installation requirements of rolling steel doors are practically nonexistent, as they can be installed no matter what the size of a door opening is;\n\u2022 In addition to automatic controls, special devices can be additionally installed, which can recognize various obstacles\nADVANTAGES OF ROLLING STEEL DOORS\nIt is no wonder that rolling steel doors are so popular today, as they have number of advantages. These are the following:\nCompactness. The doors do not take up much space either from inside or outside the premise, because they move in a vertical direction;\nPracticality. If the assembly of the doors is carried out correctly, then there will be no problems with their long-term operation;\nQuick installation. As a rule, the installation of rolling steel doors does not take much time and is not particularly difficult;\nQuick opening / closing. Automatic doors open very quickly, and, as a rule, the whole process takes about 10 seconds;\nAffordable price. Rolling steel doors are affordable to a large number of consumers;\nDurability. In the case of a high-quality manufacturing, proper installation and proper operation, rolling steel doors will last for several decades without deteriorating.\nTHINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN GETTING ROLLING STEEL DOORS\nSumming up, we would like to give you several recommendations for buying this type of doors.\n1. Choose the design of the doors with the prior calculation of the necessary space for their operation;\n2. When buying rolling steel doors, it is also important to consider conditions in which they will be used. In particular, this applies to winter;\n3. Purchase the doors only from trusted manufacturers who, together with their products, provide all the necessary certifications;\n4. If you know little to no about rolling steel doors, then it is best to consult with a specialist in the field.\nWhat Is A Water Softener and Why Do You Need One?\tAdidas Unisex New Footwear Collection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 8939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.omahasouthalumni.com/tooterad.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZV7454JBWWLDEMC6RIYMM3XNCB6HHTY3", "length": 1487, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.omahasouthalumni.com", "title": "Tooter Ad", "raw_content": "TOOTER Advertising\nAgain this year we are offering a discounted rate when advertising in both the Spring and Fall Alumni TOOTER issues. The Spring issue will be published in March; the Fall in September. We hope you would consider placing an ad in one or both of our issues!\nN/A-Friend of SHS 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930\nAnyone can purchase an ad, but we'd love to know if you are a South alum!\nAd Levels (choose one) *\nSupporter - Listed Name Business Card 1/4 Page 1/2 Page Full Page\nWhich Issue(s)? *\nSpring (March 1) Fall (September 1) Both\nTOOTER Ad Options\nSizes and Issues\nSupporter-1 Issue $25.00 USD Supporter-2 Issues $47.00 USD Business Card-1 Issue $50.00 USD Business Card-2 Issues $92.00 USD 1/4 Page-1 Issue $100.00 USD 1/4 Page-2 Issues $180.00 USD 1/2 Page-1 Issue $175.00 USD 1/2 Page-2 Issues $325.00 USD Full Page-1 Issue $300.00 USD Full Page-2 Issues $540.00 USD\nPay via Postal Mail:\nPlease make your check payable to the South High School Alumni Association and write 'Tooter Ad' in the memo field. Please mail your check to:\nSouth High School Alumni Association", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 146.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onclive.com/web-exclusives/novel-combination-shows-promising-responses-in-pancreatic-cancer", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FRO34Z2LLZLMDS6PDY4ETSHRFTYJQ7VV", "length": 5654, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.onclive.com", "title": "Novel Combination Shows Promising Responses in Pancreatic Cancer", "raw_content": "Novel Combination Shows Promising Responses in Pancreatic Cancer\nPublished: Sunday, Nov 12, 2017\nZev Wainberg, MD\nThe combination of the novel tumor-associated macrophage (TAM)-targeting agent cabiralizumab and the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) resulted in intriguing objective response rates in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to findings from a phase I study presented at the 2017 SITC Annual Meeting.\nAt the time of the presentation, cabiralizumab plus nivolumab elicited a confirmed objective response in 4 of 31 (13%) efficacy-evaluable heavily pretreated patients with pancreatic cancer. Three of the 4 responding patients continued to receive treatment with the combination (range, 168+ to 275+ days) and 1 additional patient had stable disease (disease control rate, 16%). Along with reductions in tumor burden, a marked reduction was seen in CA19-9 levels for those with confirmed responses.\n\u201cAll 4 confirmed responses were observed in patients with microsatellite stable disease, who historically have not shown benefit with anti\u2012PD-1 or PD-L1 therapy,\" lead investigator Zev Wainberg, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at UCLA and co-director of the UCLA GI Oncology Program, said during his presentation of the results. \"Further cohort expansion is ongoing as well as additional biomarker analyses.\"\nCabiralizumab inhibits CSF-1R6 leading to depletion of TAMs, which are thought to be associated with prevention of an antitumor immune response in the tumor microenvironment. In preclinical findings, synergy was seen between CSF-1R and PD-1 inhibition, establishing the rationale behind the first-in-human study.\nIn the phase I study, patients received cabiralizumab alone (n = 24) or in combination with nivolumab (n = 10) in a dose escalation cohort across several solid tumors. Doses of cabiralizumab ranged from 1 mg/kg to 6 mg/kg and nivolumab was given at a 3 mg/kg dose. Treatment with both antibodies was administered intravenously every 2 weeks. An optimal dose of 4 mg/kg of cabiralizumab plus nivolumab at 3 mg/kg was further explored in a dose expansion cohort (n = 195).\nPatients in the monotherapy arm had a median age of 65.5 years, an ECOG performance status (PS) of 0 (29%) or 1 (71%), and 71% had received \u22653 prior regimens. In the combination arm, the median age of patients was 64 years, 27% had an ECOG PS of 0 and 71% had a score of 1. Overall, 45% of patients had received \u22653 prior regimens, 28% had received 2 and 23% had received 1. Seven patients were treated in the frontline setting (3%).\nPharmacokinetic data were similar for cabiralizumab when administered as a monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab, Wainberg noted, and the combination showed low immunogenicity, he added. The 4 mg/kg dose was selected for the expansion cohort after showing similar serum concentrations after the first dose as the higher 6 mg/kg dose, suggesting saturation of target-mediated clearance. Additionally, depletion of circulating nonclassical monocytes, a pharmacodynamic marker of CSF-1R inhibition, was not seen until the dose reached 4 mg/kg.\nEfficacy findings were presented solely for patients with pancreatic cancer at the SITC meeting, although adverse events (AEs) were described across the full study. The pancreatic cancer cohort contained 33 patients treated in the dose expansion stage of the study. The median age was 64 years, 58% had ECOG PS of 1, and 45% had received \u22653 prior regimens.\nIn the pancreatic cancer group, the most common treatment-related AEs (TRAEs) of all grades were serum enzyme elevations (52%), fatigue (42%), periorbital edema (30%), rash (21%), and vomiting (21%). The most common grade 3/4 TRAEs were serum enzyme elevations (33%), hyponatremia (9%), and rash maculopapular (9%). AEs led to treatment discontinuation for 9% of patients, all of which were grade 3/4 in severity.\nAcross all patients treated with the combination, the most common grade 3/4 TRAEs were serum enzyme elevations (20%), pancreatic enzyme elevations (12%), fatigue (5%), rash (4%), pruritus (1%), and periorbital edema (<1%). There were 3 treatment-related deaths in the combination arm, these were due to pneumonitis in a patient with thyroid cancer (n = 1) and respiratory distress (n = 1) and acute respiratory distress (n = 1) in patients with lung cancer. The most frequently observed grade 3/4 TRAEs with cabiralizumab monotherapy were serum enzyme elevation (38%), pancreatic enzyme elevations (8%), and rash (4%).\n\"The most common treatment-related AEs were elevations in creatine kinase and serum liver enzymes, without elevation in bilirubin,\" said Wainberg. \"These are believed to be secondary to cabiralizumab\u2019s depletion of macrophages and might represent a class effect of CSF-1R inhibition. Isolated serum enzyme elevations were not associated with other clinical presentation.\"\nA phase II study is currently enrolling to explore the combination of cabiralizumab and nivolumab with or without chemotherapy for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Chemotherapy agents in the trial will consist of nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane), gemcitabine, irinotecan liposome injection (Onivyde), or the FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy. The primary endpoint of the study, which plans to enroll 160 patients, is progression-free survival (NCT03336216).\nWainberg ZA, Piha-Paul SA, Luke JJ, et al. First-in-Human Phase 1 Dose Escalation and Expansion of a Novel Combination, Anti\u2013CSF-1 Receptor (cabiralizumab) Plus Anti\u2013PD-1 (nivolumab), in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors. Presented at: 32nd SITC Annual Meeting; November 8-12, 2017; National Harbor, MD. Abstract O4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opusdei.org/en-us/article/abba-father/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HGEEWGTKXKPPAOG5E56F6P42NWCQVPRT", "length": 6118, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.opusdei.org", "title": "\"Abba, Father\" - Opus Dei", "raw_content": "\"We continue to say 'Our Father,' but with the heart we are invited to say 'Papa,' to have a relationship with God like that of a child with his father.\" In his January 16 general audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Lord's prayer.\nContinuing the catechesis on the \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer\u201d, today we will start from the observation that, in the New Testament, the prayer seems to seek to arrive at the essential, to the point of being concentrated in a single word: Abba, Father.\nWe have heard what Saint Paul writes in the Letter to the Romans: \u201cThe Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by Him we cry, \u201cAbba, Father\u201d (8: 15). And to the Galatians, the Apostle says: \u201cBecause you are His sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit Who calls out, \u201cAbba\u201d, Father (Gal 4: 6). Twice there returns the same invocation, in which all the newness of the Gospel is condensed. After having known Jesus and listened to His preaching, the Christian can no longer consider God as a tyrant to fear; he is no longer afraid but rather feels the trust in Him flourish in his heart: he can speak to the Creator, calling Him \u201cFather\u201d. The expression is so important for Christians that often it is conserved intact in its original form: \u201cAbba\u201d.\nIt is rare in the New Testament for the Aramaic expressions not to be translated into Greek. We must imagine that in these Aramaic words, the very voice of Jesus Himself remains as if \u201crecorded\u201d: they have respected Jesus\u2019 language. In the first word of the Lord\u2019s Prayer we immediately find the radical newness of Christian prayer.\nIt is not only about using a symbol \u2013 in this case, the figure of the father \u2013 to link to the mystery of God; it is instead about having, so to say, all Jesus\u2019 world poured into our heart. If we carry out this operation, we can pray the Lord\u2019s Prayer with truth. To say \u201cAbba\u201d is something much more intimate, and more moving than simply calling God \u201cFather\u201d. This is why some have proposed to translate this original Aramaic word \u201cAbba\u201d with \u201cPapa\u201d, or \u201cDad\u201d. Instead of saying \u201cOur Father\u201d, saying \u201cPapa, dad\u201d. We continue to say \u201cOur Father\u201d, but with the heart we are invited to say \u201cPapa\u201d, to have a relationship with God like that of a child with his father, who says \u201cPapa\u201d, and says \u201cDad\u201d. Indeed these expressions evoke affection, they evoke warmth, something that is projected to us in the context of childhood: the image of a child completely wrapped in the embrace of a father who feels infinite tenderness for him. And for this reason, dear brothers and sisters, to pray well, we must arrive at the point of having a child\u2019s heart. Not a self-sufficient heart: in this way one cannot pray well. Like a child in the arms of his father, his daddy.\nBut certainly it is the Gospels that introduce us better to the meaning of this word. What does it mean for Jesus, this word? The \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer\u201d takes on meaning and colour if we learn to pray it after having read, for example, the parable of the merciful father, in the fifteenth chapter of Luke (cf. Lk 15: 11-32). Let us imagine this prayer pronounced by the prodigal son, after having experienced the embrace of his father who has long awaited him, a father who does not remember the offensive works that he has said to him, a father who now simply makes him understand how much he has missed him. Then we discover how those words take on life, take on strength. And we ask: how is it possible for You, or God, to know only love? Do you not know hatred? No, God would answer, I know only love. Where in You is the vendetta, the demand for justice, the anger for your wounded pride? And God would answer: I know only love.\nThe father of that parable has in his way of acting something that reminds many of the heart of a mother. It is above all mothers who excuse their children, who cover up for them, whose empathy towards them is uninterrupted, who continue to love them even when they no longer deserve anything.\nIt is enough to evoke this single expression \u2013 Abba \u2013 for a Christian prayer to develop. And Saint Paul, in his letters, follows this same road, and it could not be otherwise, as it is the road taught by Jesus in this invocation that is a force that attracts all the rest of the prayer.\nGod looks for you, even if you do not seek Him. God loves you, even if you have forgotten about Him. God perceives in you a beauty, even if you think you have squandered all your talents in vain. God is not only a father; He is like a mother who never ceases to love her creature. On the other hand, there is a \u201cgestation\u201d that lasts for ever, well beyond the nine months of the physical one; it is a gestation that generates an infinite circuit of love.\nFor a Christian, to pray is simply to say \u201cAbba\u201d, to say \u201cPapa\u201d, to say \u201cDad\u201d, to say \u201cFather\u201d but with the trust of a child.\nIt may be also that we find ourselves walking on paths far from God, as happened to the prodigal son; or that we fall into a solitude that makes us feel we are abandoned in the world; or even to make a mistake and be paralysed by a sense of guilt. In those difficult moments, we can still find the strength to pray, starting from the word \u201cFather\u201d, but said with the tender meaning of a child: \u201cAbba\u201d, \u201cPapa\u201d. He will not conceal His face from us. Remember this well: perhaps someone has ugly things within themselves, things they do not know how to resolve, great bitterness for having done this or that\u2026 He will not conceal His face. He does not close up in silence. If you say \u201cFather\u201d to Him and He will answer you. You have a father. \u201cYes, but I am a delinquent\u2026\u201d. But you have a father Who loves you! Say \u201cFather\u201d to Him, start praying in this way, and in the silence He will tell you that He has never lost sight of you. \u201cBut, Father, I have done this\u2026\u201d \u2013 \u201cI have never lost sight of you, I have seen everything. But I have always remained there, close to you, faithful to my love for you\u201d. That will be the answer. Never forget to say \u201cFather\u201d. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 12281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.orangepublicrecords.com/sample.php?id=35004", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:O5RFLWAMYU45WJJ6TQGWISQKA7HOKBHZ", "length": 2428, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.orangepublicrecords.com", "title": "GEORGE STAPLES | Is There A GEORGE STAPLES On Facebook? | Is There A GEORGE STAPLES On LinkedIn?", "raw_content": "Lawmakers in Florida have long believed in the importance of an open system of government. As such, any document filed by a clerk of courts throughout the state, as well as any correspondence sent from, or received by, any government employee, shall become the immediate property of the citizenry. In short, in the State of Florida, the people have a right to know. That is why you are seeing information below regarding GEORGE STAPLES. Once a report is filed by a criminal justice agency in Orange County, Florida, it becomes accessible to anyone who desires to see it. So after GEORGE STAPLES was detained by authorities on 12-06-2018, all of the information filed on that date, as well as all future files docketed in connection with the apprehension of GEORGE STAPLES in Orange County, became a matter of public record. If you write to the governor of Florida (currently Richard Scott) or to the attorney general (currently Pamela Bondi), your name and e-mail address will become part of Florida's public record. If you are jailed, for any reason, the complete report and your photograph (if taken) are immediately available to anyone, anywhere in the world, at virtually any time. That is why you are seeing this report about GEORGE STAPLES; this website endeavors to publish an accurate record of all detainments in Orange County to better provide for transparency in government.\nTrespass/prop Other Struc/conv-Curtilage\nFor an update on the detainment of GEORGE STAPLES, you are welcome to contact the Orange County Clerk of Courts. This website does not have the resources to publish a file-by-file of all papers docketed in any individual criminal case proceeding. The inclusion of information regarding GEORGE STAPLES on our website is an indication merely of an apprehension. DO NOT ASSUME ANY CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ANYONE WHOSE NAME, ADDRESS, DATE-OF-BIRTH, OR THE LIKE, APPEARS HEREIN. In the United States, everyone detained by a law enforcement official, including GEORGE STAPLES is presumed innocent. The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1788, provides all defendants in criminal proceedings the right to a speedy trial (Amendment Six) and Due Process (Amendment Fourteen). GEORGE STAPLES's name and/or image appear(s) herein because it/they are part of the Orange County Clerk Of Court's official record and are published in accordance with all local and state laws in the State Of Florida (USA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 149.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-commando-way/9781907794322/chapter6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:18Z", "digest": "sha1:2JAWVT2OCWMBN3QLWUPAF7QZDZTJU6P6", "length": 792, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.oreilly.com", "title": "Chapter 6: Make sure it works - The Commando Way [Book]", "raw_content": "The Commando Way by Damian McKinney\n6 Make sure it works\nWhen I entered the business world, after two formative decades in the Royal Marines, I expected people to be obsessed by numbers. That is part of the stereotyping that goes on in all our minds. What about the bottom line? The figures tell the story. To a large extent they do. But there is a myth that business decisions are made only on the basis of cold calculation of facts and figures. I soon discovered \u2013 partly with relief, partly with dismay \u2013 that this was not the case. It was a relief because I believe people need to make decisions using all their human resources of emotion, intuition, cunning and intelligence. 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The most common is a 3 x 4 and a 3 \u00bd x 4 \u00bd, Elliptical, Forged Steel Plate, Flat or Curved.\nIn addition to Handhole Plates, repair and replacement boiler parts for Wickes Boilers available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 481, "original_length": 12527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.otiumhotels.com/hotels/otium-hotel-seven-seas/spa-beach--pools/beach--pools/general-view/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:BYKQG3OFFRNNUUJCHD6YPWVKPUQEQZGR", "length": 999, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.otiumhotels.com", "title": "Otium Hotels - General View", "raw_content": "Enjoy the sea in the crystal clear waters of every shade of blue, where the spectacular nature meets the blue waters of the Mediterranean. 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We also have a shady playground where our little guests spend time throughout the day.\nBesides, you can sip your hot or cold, alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, and appease yourself with alternatives from the snack buffet and the salad bar at the beach bar, thus increasing your pleasure, from 10:00 to 18:00.\nThe Cave Bar serves from 10:00 to 24:00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 4068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ottasilver.com/sterling-silver-tassel-fever-amber-rosary-qt105549", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MLVX7HAPKRTPNINHAIWQRXV6MRJHGLYV", "length": 1365, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ottasilver.com", "title": "Sterling Silver Tassel Fever Amber Rosary", "raw_content": "Sterling Silver Tassel Fever Amber Rosary\nSilver Tassel Fever Amber Rosary\nRosy is the most elegant and beautiful gift that can be bought for a boy and a babe.\nThe New Year should be a favorite Day of Love, Babes Day and Birthdays. Amber Stone (Amber) is very beautiful and high quality real rosaries are emerging. As Amber knows, the resin they secrete from the tree is separated from the tree and becomes a stone as a result of the natural factors that go through the soil for millions of years. It spreads the body temperature in contact with the body. There is also a non-transparent genus. The most important feature of true amber is that it smells when it is burned.\nAmber Raspberry Features: First, an amber used in the left hand avoids the electrification of the tesbih body. Personality is supported by life energy. If there is a pain, it is a great help in alleviation. Supports spiritual balance.\nTo be sure, I will not be disappointed. I will not be able to smoke. It should be a natural smell like pine-smell. There are more than 150 amber types and 256 different shades in the world.\nAmber Stone Benefits: When you feel that your life is a burden and you feel like you are being trampled under problems, it stimulates you with a healing energy.\nIt has the ability to treat throat and thyroid gland infections.\nThe item will be sent to the gift box ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 4419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com/who-we-are/staff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:E4J655B33EGFJ7UNAJ66NZKBIBI7AI3G", "length": 4975, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com", "title": "South Paris, Bridgton, Mechanic Falls, Bethel, Oxford & Fryeburg, ME Funeral Home & Cremation | Chandler Funeral Homes", "raw_content": "Dana Chandler Funeral Home Owner/Director\nDana is a 1979 graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn. He graduated from New England Institute of Applied Arts and Science in 1981. He worked for Stanton Funeral Home in Watertown, Mass. while in school. He returned to Maine in 1982 to work for Raymond Funeral Homes, Inc. In 1993, he purchased the Raymond Funeral Homes in Norway, South Paris and Mechanic Falls, renaming them Weston-Chandler Funeral Homes, Inc. Dana lives in Norway with his wife, Pat; his son, Marc has joined him in the business and lives in Norway with his fiancee Amanda; his stepdaughters, Catherine Jones McCrossan of No. Andover,MA. and Stephanie Toothaker of Mechanic Falls; and his grandchildren Emma Laird, Jack and Connor McCrossan,Charlotte McCrossan, Sophia and Carley Toothaker. He is a Past President of the Norway-Paris Kiwanis Club, a Past Master of Tyrian Lodge #73 AF & AM in Mechanic Falls, a member of Oxford Lodge #18 in Norway, St. Andrews RAC, Oxford Council R&SM, Lewiston Commandry and Kora Temple. He is an active member of many State and National organizations associated with the funeral industry. Dana is past chairman of the board of the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce. He serves on the Town of Paris Cemetery committee and is the Sexton for the Town of Paris. He is also a member of The First Congregational Church in South Paris.\nStephanie Toothaker Receptionist/Secretary chandlerfhoffice@gmail.com\nStephanie graduated from OHCHS in 2006 and worked at Norway Savings Bank as a Certified Teller for 6 years. She then worked at Bessey Motor Sales before coming to work for the funeral home in 2016. She and her husband Chad live above the funeral home in Mechanic Falls along with their 4 daughters, Emma, Alexis, Sophia and Carley.\nMarc Chandler Licensed Funeral Director\nMarc graduated from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in 2008. He is a graduate of Hudson Valley Community College with an Associates Degree in Mortuary Science. He is a fully licensed director and has been working here since 2010. He lives in Buckfield with his fiancee Amanda and their dogs Zander and Willow.\nEric Nelson Licensed Funeral Director\nA proud native of western Maine, Eric was born in Bridgton and raised in the town of Stoneham. He was brought up working in various cemeteries alongside his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and brother digging graves and doing general cemetery maintenance. He attended schools in Lovell and Oxford Hills graduating from Oxford Hills High School in 1994 where he played football, basketball and baseball.\nThrough middle and high school, he lived with his mother and stepfather, Dana Chandler in his family owned funeral home at two of their locations in Mechanic Falls and South Paris. It was there that he learned the work and care involved in the profession and decided to attend a year in the Funeral Service program at Mt. Ida College in Newton Center, Massachusetts. Following that year he returned to Maine to work alongside his father in his cemetery business. In 1997, Eric enrolled in the Mortuary Science program at the State University of New York at Canton earning his associates degree in 1999.\nHe returned to Maine in 1999, moving to the Farmington area to serve his apprenticeship and becoming a licensed Funeral Practitioner in 2000. He worked as a funeral director and with cemetery memorials for 14 years in the Farmington area before returning \u201chome\u201d to the Oxford Hills and Lakes Region. Eric now lives at the Bridgton location of Chandler Funeral Home and Cremation Services and is eager to get reacquainted with the area, establish new friendships and rekindle old ones. He lives in Bridgton with his wife, Erin and their two young sons, Sawyer and Cooper who was born in December of 2011.\nHe was a former member of the Jay Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce and Past King Lion of the Wilton Lions Club.\nWhen not working, Eric is hopefully at his family's camp of over 40 years located on the west side of Aziscohos Lake in Lynchtown Twp. He also enjoys spending time in Stoneham and Lovell hunting and visiting with his friends, traveling with his wife, particularly to Minnesota to visit her family and Georgia, where they have some close friends.\nElizabeth Smith Secretary/Administration chandlerfunerals93@gmail.com\nElizabeth is a 1981 graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn and a 1982 graduate of Mansfield Beauty Academy in Lewiston. She has been with Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service since 1997. Prior to that she had been employed at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Lewiston for 10 years. 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See some photos at: http://ow.ly/o5IT305wTs6.\nThe Apprenticeship Champion of the Year Award recognises the commitment and dedication of former Apprentices who continue to raise awareness of the benefits of Apprenticeships with local young people and their families as well as employers. Laura is a very worthy winner! She completed her Apprenticeship in 2012 and joined the Oxfordshire Apprenticeships Ambassador scheme when it was launched in March 2015. She has shared her experiences and given advice about Apprenticeships to people ranging from Year 10 students to the Prime Minister!\nLaura says: \u201cIt was such an honour to win an award in recognition of my achievements over the last few years. I chose to do an Apprenticeship because I am a \u201chands on\u201d person and my Apprenticeship enabled me to gain qualifications in a way that suited my style of learning culminating in my NVQ level 3 Diploma. It also gave me the confidence to progress my career to where I am now - working in my dream job within the legal sector at Freeths as a legal secretary.\u201d\nThis extract from Laura\u2019s application, written by Melanie Ringer of Oxfordshire Apprenticeships, illustrates the valuable contribution Laura has made to Oxfordshire young people and their families: \u201cLaura regularly gives up her own time to attend school and community careers events because she cares so passionately about wanting to get the message across that Apprenticeships are a great career option. Young people and their parents relate brilliantly to her, really valuing the honest advice from both heart and head she shares. Laura brings enthusiasm, passion, fun, knowledge, experience and valued opinions to the Ambassador scheme and has had a huge impact on so many young people and their families in our county.\u201d\nRead more about the London and South East winners at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/london-and-the-south-east-top-apprentices-and-apprentice-employers-announced.\nRegional winners announced at London and the South East celebration for National Apprenticeship Awards 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/06/16/menlos-spataro-named-top-ad-by-cal-pac-athletic-directors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YFASQ6U2N3A6VBE72ZUIRT4ESF3C24Y7", "length": 3394, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.paloaltoonline.com", "title": "Menlo's Spataro named top A.D. by Cal Pac athletic directors | News | Palo Alto Online |", "raw_content": "Menlo's Spataro named top A.D. by Cal Pac athletic directors\nThe California Pacific Conference Athletic Directors named winners of the conference's end of the year awards last week, recognizing outstanding performances from three individuals and three institutions.\nMenlo Athletic Director Keith Spataro was voted by his peers as the Cal Pac's AD of the Year following another year of success and growth in the Oaks athletic department. In his sixth year at the helm, Spataro led the department to a winning percentage of 55 percent or better for the second-straight season, saw two teams and eight individuals qualify for national postseason tournaments, and reaped the rewards of continued success in the classroom with 14 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete award winners, seven Capital One Academic All-District selections and three Capital One Academic All-Americans.\nKeith Spataro, Menlo College AD. Photo courtesy of Menlo College.\nWithin the conference, Menlo had three players selected as Cal Pac Players of the Year, one Cal Pac Defender of the Year, one Newcomer of the Year, one Coach of the Year, 24 conference Players of the Week and a pair of teams claim conference titles.\nThis marks the second time Spataro has earned this honor after he was named AD of the Year following the 2009-10 year. Spataro was also selected as an Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year award winner following the 2013-14 season.\nHonoring the best Sports Medicine program within the conference, the Cal Pac voted Menlo College the Sports Medicine Award for the 2013-14 season. Under the direction of head athletic trainer Mark Fowler, Menlo has earned this award for two consecutive and three of the past four years.\nFowler was assisted by his staff consisting of: Jennifer O'Hara, Rob Dalnoki and graduate assistants Yuki Nakamura and Courtney Beverine.\nContinuing the trend of national and conference-wide recognition for the department, women's basketball coach Shannon Osborne was recently chosen as the 2013-14 NAIA Coach of the Character Award winner representing the California Pacific Conference as announced by the NAIA National Office earlier this month.\nThis award is given annually to an NAIA head coach from each conference who has embraced the five core values of the NAIA Champions of Character program, demonstrated character through sport and instilled a culture of community leadership through volunteering or service.\nMenlo also featured two finalists in voting for the 2013-14 Men's and Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Softball senior Casey Showalter represented Menlo on the women's side. An accounting major boasting a 3.84 GPA, Showalter was a two-year softball team member who excelled in the classroom, graduating Magna Cum Laude, earning a place as an NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete and serving as Menlo's 2014 CalCPA Campus Ambassador.\nOn the men's side, soccer player Bryce Nelson was chosen to represent the Oaks. A finance major with a 3.55 GPA, Nelson was a 2013 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete award recipient while serving as a team captain for a Menlo team that won 23 games during his two-year career.\nNelson is actively involved with his church and has served on mission trips in various countries including a trip to Haiti to assist in recovery from a massive earthquake that hit the area. He plans to travel to Ethiopia on a mission trip this summer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pandyamedicalcenter.com/blog/sleep-solutions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CPSWSRVB4GFHHUIIB44OB4WNPXBKW5E3", "length": 3484, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.pandyamedicalcenter.com", "title": "Sleep Solutions: Pandya Medical Center: Board Certified Family Medicine Physicians", "raw_content": "Pandya Medical Center Blog Sleep Solutions\nWithout doubt, one of the most common topics of discussion during clinic visits with our patients at Pandya Medical Center (PMC) is that of insomnia. Insomnia, the perception of not sleeping well, may involve challenges with falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early. Patients also frequently complain of unrefreshing sleep with persistent daytime sleepiness and fatigue. Not only does insomnia often have a negative impact on one\u2019s quality of life, it can also have marked permanent health consequences leading to increased morbidity and mortality in the future.\nPsychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety are common in the general population and almost invariably affect one\u2019s ability to sleep and/or quality of sleep. Other important considerations include neurologic diseases (head trauma, stroke, Parkinson\u2019s), and hundreds of medications. Physical conditions such as chronic pain, gastroesophageal reflux disease, heart failure and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) often play a central role in sleeping difficulty as well.\nIdentifying sleep apnea is of particular importance to your health. Snoring, unrefreshing sleep, and persistent daytime sleepiness are hallmarks of this condition. Left untreated, it can lead to hypertension and cause irreversible heart failure in the future. Depending on the severity and underlying cause of the sleep apnea, sometimes lifestyle changes and weight loss alone can resolve the problem. However, patients often need additional treatment/therapies such as a CPAP machine or oral device that can eliminate snoring. With this simple intervention patients can enjoy much more restful sleep and avoid the long-term unwanted complications of sleep apnea.\nAt PMC we are firm believers in the power of preventative care in preserving your future health. We invite you to meet with one of our providers at either of our two convenient locations to further discuss your difficulty sleeping. For those of you who struggle with insomnia, take a look at our Sleep Hygiene Tips below:\nIf you have trouble falling asleep at night, avoid naps during the day.\nExercise is important, but make a concerted effort to do this earlier in the day. Exercising late at night can make it difficult to fall asleep.\nMany of us are creatures of habit-try to stick to a consistent relaxing routine as bedtime approaches.\nMaintain a regular sleep-wake cycle. Having a regular bedtime and sticking to it helps train your body and brain to fall asleep\nAvoid caffeine after lunchtime\nAvoid alcohol in the evening.\nMake an effort to keep work in the office-leave potentially stressful things out of the bedroom.\nIf you have difficulty \u201cshutting your brain down\u201d at night, make a checklist of things to do and how you plan on accomplishing those items.\nAvoid all technology (phone, ipad, T.V.) use 1 to 4 hours prior to sleeping. It is well known that the blue light on devices disrupt sleep cycle\nIn addition to on-site phlebotomy for both of our clinic locations, stress testing, and ultrasound, we are now able to offer you in-home sleep studies. If you do indeed have sleep apnea, we can help coordinate care with medical equipment companies, sleep specialists and dental specialists to help reduce snoring. If it appears you need a more in-depth assessment of your insomnia we have strong relationships with pulmonologists and sleep medicine specialists in the community who can consult on your health as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parkwestgallery.com/autumn-de-forest-is-an-epic-kid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6RKMYKI7CZLURMRSCHUTRR77YFW2NVW", "length": 1285, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.parkwestgallery.com", "title": "Autumn de Forest models for P.S. by Aeropostale - Park West Gallery", "raw_content": "Autumn de Forest is an \u201cEpic Kid\u201d\nIn Art & Gallery News, Articles, Autumn de Forest, Media Coverage\nAutumn de Forest is an \u201cEpic Kid\u201d2014-01-292014-01-29https://www.parkwestgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pwg_site_logo_trimmed.pngPark West Galleryhttps://pwg-tylq7dm.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Autumn-PS-Aeropostale.jpg200px200px\nThe site FanLaLa.com put it well \u2013 \u201cIf you haven\u2019t heard the name Autumn de Forest yet, get ready, because her name is about to be everywhere!\u201d\nThe 12-year-old artist is one of the faces of P.S., a new line of children\u2019s apparel by clothing company Aeropostale. As part of its Epic Kid ad campaign, Autumn traveled to Los Angeles for a photo shoot and to meet fellow campaign models.\nAdvertisements featuring Autumn will soon be on display in Aeropostale P.S. stores, online and even on a billboard to be unveiled Feb. 8 in New York\u2019s Times Square.\nThe young artist has also made appearances on several programs and in publications, including NBC\u2019s Today Show, Time for Kids magazine, Discovery Kids and the Hallmark Channel.\nThe Glenns get ready for the GrammysArt & Gallery News, Articles, Artists & Special Collections, In the News, Marcus Glenn\nJailbirds Mitsie and Nicky post bail \u2026 and then someArt & Gallery News, Philanthropy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/2041339/marketo-rolls-out-customer-engagement-tools-as-salesforcecom-threat-looms.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JCMVFQ2YVX4H44QXOW55MW2UJAUQQ7KP", "length": 3964, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "Marketo rolls out 'customer engagement' tools as Salesforce.com threat looms | PCWorld", "raw_content": "Marketo rolls out 'customer engagement' tools as Salesforce.com threat looms\nMarketo says it has created tools that put it far ahead of rival marketing automation software vendors by making it much easier to run targeted campaigns, and more effective ones to boot.\nThe new capabilities go into general availability Friday in two versions, a basic version at no additional charge to existing customers and a paid edition for power users, Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez said in an interview prior to Tuesday\u2019s announcement.\nUntil now, marketing automation software allowed users to build a degree of sophistication into their ad campaigns by setting up a series of rules, Fernandez said. For example, a gaming company could decide to send out an emailed loyalty offer to all male customers in their early to mid-twenties who have bought at least three games in the past year, according to Fernandez.\nThe problem has been difficulty in taking the targeting down to a more individual level. This requires increasingly complex rule sets and just doesn\u2019t scale up well as marketers try to reach more people individually, Fernandez said.\nMeanwhile, through cookies, clickable buttons in emails and other means, Marketo\u2019s technology keeps track of which pieces of content a particular user may have already viewed, and stops the campaign from sending a duplicate message.\nMarketo\u2019s new customer engagement technology, some 18 months in the making, seeks to automate the prioritization and delivery of marketing content, by applying proprietary algorithms to a massive database of its clients\u2019 customer data.\nIn turn, marketing staffers using Marketo focus on building out \u201ccontent streams\u201d for a given campaign, which may consist of a variety of emails, Twitter messages, Web pages and other types of communications, Fernandez said.\nThe paid version of the customer engagement toolset allows for more sophisticated scenarios, such as by introducing elements of real-time targeting. For example, rather than send an email to all of those gamers at the same time, the system could instead send a loyalty offer to a particular customer moments after they reach a specific number of purchases, Fernandez said.\nMarketo isn\u2019t promising customers it has created magic, however. \u201cWe don\u2019t make the claim that this product is delivering exactly the right message at any time or that nobody ever seems the same message twice,\u201d Fernandez said. But internal testing against Marketo\u2019s previous-generation software showed that targeting precision had gone up by a factor of three, he added.\n\u201cIt\u2019s way better,\u201d he said. Over time, Marketo\u2019s \u201cway better\u201d advantage will get \u201csqueezed out and it will be a battle of inches,\u201d he added. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s a battle of football fields.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Marketo is about to face a fresh wave of competition from a company that it\u2019s been a close partner with for some time, Salesforce.com. Marketo relies heavily on Salesforce.com\u2019s CRM (customer relationship management) software customer base, which uses the two products in conjunction.\nBut this week, Salesforce.com announced it would purchase Marketo competitor ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, a move that surprised some observers since it was long rumored Marketo itself would get snapped up by Salesforce.com.\nFernandez declined to relate the details of any talks his company had with Salesforce.com. Marketo, which recently underwent a successful IPO, may be better off on its own, according to Fernandez. \u201cWe\u2019ve been very clear with the market that we think the world is moving toward best-of-breed independent leaders,\u201d he said.\nHe expressed no concern that Salesforce.com would make it more difficult for companies like Marketo to do business, saying the vendor has made it \u201creally clear\u201d it will keep its systems open to third parties.\nThat said, \u201cwe have never been that good of friends,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cThe number of leads that have come to us from Salesforce.com in our history is minimal.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 7402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2019/2/1/youtube-weatherman-frankie-macdonald-says-a-major-winter-storm-is-on-its-way-to-portland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3SPBUAKFRM6KCJSLXHPXQTP7EYAXEDC", "length": 3343, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pdxmonthly.com", "title": "YouTube Weatherman Frankie MacDonald Says a 'Major Winter Storm' Is on Its Way to Portland | Portland Monthly", "raw_content": "By Shayla Norris-York 2/1/2019 at 12:19pm\nWhile much of the country suffers through sub-zero temperatures, mountains of snow, and treacherous travel conditions, Portland has been blessed with the unexpected: mild (for winter) weather. We might be tempted to stash our beanie collection away for the season, but that\u2019s all subject to change this coming Monday. At least, according to one amateur weatherman.\nYes, Canadian YouTube sensation Frankie MacDonald has been kind enough to grace us with a dire warning in one of his numerous videos. In the video, MacDonald foresees \u201cdangerous, slippery driving conditions\u201d in Eugene, Medford, Salem, Portland, and Vancouver, Washington. He goes on to suggest that we keep hats, gloves, scarves, and ski pants ready and waiting, and that we do our grocery shopping this weekend. MacDonald encourages us to make sure all our devices are charged and ready, that our laptops and phones are equipped with portable chargers, and to have a stockpile of tea ready.\n\u201cDrink lots of green tea, white tea, red tea,\u201d he told Portland Monthly over the phone (a piece of advice he also offers in the video). \u201cOrder pizza, order Chinese food. Do your grocery shopping. Don\u2019t wait 'til the last minute\u2014do it right now.\" (Here are some extra tips for Portland snowpocalypse.)\nHailing from Sydney, Nova Scotia, the 34-year-old MacDonald has become something of a mini-sensation with his YouTube forecasts. He began studying weather models back in 2007, but has said he wanted to be a weather reporter since he was a little boy. His first video appeared in 2009, and between 2011 and 2012 he rose to YouTube fame, covering everything from Hurricane Isaac to a rainstorm in Nebraska. He now boasts nearly 188,000 subscribers and more than 33 million views.\nHis videos are characterized by sparkling enthusiasm, concerns about global warming (which he says hinders his abilities to predict the weather), and, most of all, worries about people\u2019s preparedness in the face of oncoming storms. Thus, his slogan: \u201cFrankie Says Be Prepared.\"\nIn our phone call, Frankie offered a final word of caution: \u201cMake sure you have your snow boots, shovels, snowshoes, and snow plows ready.\"\nLocal meteorologists, however, are less panicked. \u201cWe may be cold enough around some point [to get snow],\u201d says local NOAA meteorologist Jeremiah Pyle. \u201cBut there may not be much, if any, precipitation.\u201d According to Pyle, we may see some snow mixed with rain in Portland on Monday, but the coast range will probably absorb the snowfall. Weather.com currently predicts a partly cloudy but dry Monday.\nStill, depending on your situation, you may be hoping that Frankie's prediction proves correct. If you've experienced wintry weather in Portland, you know that even an inch of snow can bring the \"city that works\" to its knees. In that case, we recommend placing spoons under your pillows, going to bed with your PJs inside out, flushing ice cubes down the toilet, or whatever childhood ritual you think will encourage the snow to fall. And in the meantime, drinking tea certainly can't hurt.\nWinter Relaxation: Snow Day\nEverything You Need for Portland Snowpocalypse\nWhen the Gorge Burned, Oregon Search & Rescue Volunteers Scrambled\n10/16/2017 By Christopher Van Tilburg\nGorgeous Raincoats to Slick Galoshes, the Best Local Stuff for Wet Weather", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 7166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pe.com/2017/06/08/starting-this-summer-you-can-get-to-china-from-ont-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UCPW5M4WOTSKPWW5EXEDU7XVDQ5KIGBY", "length": 4419, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.pe.com", "title": "Starting this summer, flights from China expected at ONT \u2013 Press Enterprise", "raw_content": "Starting this summer, flights from China\u2026\nStarting this summer, flights from China expected at ONT\nTravelers leave the baggage claim area outside Ontario International Airport.\nBy Neil Nisperos |\nPUBLISHED: June 8, 2017 at 5:40 pm | UPDATED: June 8, 2017 at 11:54 pm\nONTARIO >> On a trial basis, Ontario International Airport will start to receive flights from China this summer \u2013 part of a larger effort to help spur development and expand international flights between the Inland region and the Asian country, officials announced Thursday.\nDynamic International Airways, a charter airline service based out of North Carolina, is set to operate round-trip flights from Nanchang, China, to Ontario with service to begin sometime in July and to run through the summer, officials said.\nFor now, the business will target Chinese tour operators packaging group tours for Chinese customers only, but ONT officials say they hope the summer service is a \u201cproof of concept,\u201d showing the airport can courier passengers and cargo between Ontario and China.\nOntario International Airport CEO Kelly Fredericks said by phone Thursday that he and other officials believe the service to be the first of many.\n\u201cWe as an airport think this is a great trial run,\u201d Fredericks said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great way to test the market if you have a seasonal service. We hope to see it increase going forward. It\u2019s a great way to start and minimize the risk. It\u2019s a mutual hope from all parties that this is going to be very successful and leads to increased levels of service.\u201d\nDynamic International Airways\u2019 Nanchang service also operates from Los Angeles International Airport. Officials with Dynamic could not be immediately reached for comment.\n\u201cDynamic International Airways is dedicated to providing our passengers comfortable, low-cost, long-haul travel with the highest standards for customer service,\u201d said Dynamic\u2019s CEO Paul Kraus, in a statement. \u201cWe are confident ONT will add nicely to the enjoyable customer experience we strive to deliver with each and every flight.\u201d\nThe twice-weekly round-trips will depart Nanchang Changbei International Airport Saturday and Tuesday with a stopover in Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, in Anchorage, Alaska,for re-fueling and U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing. Dynamic will utilize Boeing 767-300ER aircraft configured to accommodate 235 passengers.\nThe service is scheduled to run from sometime in July until Aug. 30.\nOntario International Airport Authority officials are actively marketing ONT to Chinese companies and airlines to set up shop at Ontario International.\nMark Thorpe, chief development officer for the OIAA, said the goal is to have more China-based airline operators realize that 67 percent of the customer base for business travel to China, in the region normally served by LAX, are closer to ONT than they are to LAX.\n\u201cWe continue to tell the airlines we have a really viable market here, and Nanchang is important to prove the concept,\u201d Thorpe said. \u201cA charter (service is often done) with tour operators but this starts to begin to show how viable Ontario International Airport is as a second gateway. If people can come here to go to Disneyland, Universal Studios and the beaches, they can certainly start to do the same thing for business travel.\u201d\nLocal tourism officials are hopeful that Dynamic International\u2019s summer flights are the first of many from China.\nSue Oxarart, spokeswoman for the Greater Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau, said China is expected to be the No. 1 international tourism market for California in a few years, surpassing Canada.\nLast year, China sent more than 1.3 million travelers to California, which accounted for more than 2.9 billion dollars in visitor spending.\nThe Ontario visitors bureau recently hosted a seminar at the Ontario Convention Center that was attended by members of the local business community to help them accommodate the influx of customers from China. The bureau is also getting ready to introduce new California Welcome Centers at each of ONT\u2019s two terminals to help tourists navigate through California and the Inland Empire.\n\u201cIn 2016, the average nonstop weekly visits coming from China to LAX was 68 flights per week,\u201d Oxarart said. \u201cIf we can get (more China-related flights) started here at ONT, we can bring in a lot more Chinese travelers to our market, whether it\u2019s for business or leisure.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 9319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peggsandson.com/paper-picture-book", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DJ3GTOPRQAUZSOBPCVMJW5UQBEDTJ5PH", "length": 338, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.peggsandson.com", "title": "Paper Picture Book | Neighborhood | Peggs & son", "raw_content": "Here we have the Paper Picture Book, a great reference piece showing the versatility and breadth of Neighborhood\u2019s creative output. From classic items of streetwear to interesting takes on camping gear, this book serves as an insight into one of the most progressive and influential brands to have emerged from Japan in the past 20 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 4623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/texas-sportscaster-blasts-homophobia-in-nfl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OUIQVGLOMW54JD3J5IAQIDKGKT6EXKF2", "length": 2709, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.peoplesworld.org", "title": "Texas sportscaster blasts homophobia in NFL", "raw_content": "Texas sportscaster blasts homophobia in NFL\nIn a searing rebuff to pervasive anti-gay attitudes in professional football, Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen delivers a moving and insightful commentary on NFL-bound University of Missouri All-American defensive lineman Michael Sam, who came out publicly last weekend and will be the first openly gay professional football player.\nIn Dale Hansen\u2019s words:\nThat little dust-up in Lubbock Saturday night, and then on Sunday, Missouri\u2019s All-American defensive end Michael Sam \u2013 the SEC\u2019s defensive player of the year and expected to be a third to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft \u2013 tells the world he\u2019s gay.\nThe best defensive player in college football\u2019s best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That is shocking, and I guess that other thing is, too.\nMichael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL; says he knows there will be problems\u2026 and they\u2019ve already started.\nSeveral NFL officials are telling Sports Illustrated it will hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn\u2019t be welcome in an NFL locker room. It would be uncomfortable, because that\u2019s a man\u2019s world.\nYou beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You\u2019re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft.\nYou kill people while driving drunk? That guy\u2019s welcome.\nPlayers caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they\u2019re welcome.\nYou lie to police trying to cover up a murder?\nWe\u2019re comfortable with that.\nYou love another man? Well, now you\u2019ve gone too far!\nIt wasn\u2019t that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn\u2019t play in \u201cour\u201d games because it would be \u201cuncomfortable.\u201d And even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback.\nBecause we weren\u2019t \u201ccomfortable\u201d with that, either.\nSo many of the same people who used to make that argument (and the many who still do) are the same people who say government should stay out of our lives.\nBut then want government in our bedrooms.\nI\u2019ve never understood how they feel \u201ccomfortable\u201d laying claim to both sides of that argument.\nI\u2019m not always comfortable when a man tells me he\u2019s gay; I don\u2019t understand his world.\nBut I do understand that he\u2019s part of mine.\nCivil rights activist Audre Lord said: \u201cIt is not our differences that divide us. It\u2019s our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.\u201d\nWe\u2019ve always been able to recognize \u2019em. Some of us accept \u2019em.\nAnd I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate \u2019em.\nI don\u2019t know if that day\u2019s here yet. I guess we\u2019re about to find out.\nBut when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it\u2019s time to celebrate him now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-un-geneva/documents/speeches/2018/03/23/joint-statement-on-human-rights-council-strengthening", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:37GJBKIONY5H33AW3IN2DQS2C3Q26ZTZ", "length": 3705, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.permanentrepresentations.nl", "title": "JOINT STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STRENGTHENING | Speech | The Netherlands at International Organisations", "raw_content": "You are here: The Netherlands at International Organisations Permanent Representations PR UN, Geneva Documents JOINT STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STRENGTHENING\nJOINT STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STRENGTHENING\nConcluding statement delivered by the Kingdom of the Netherlands\nI have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of a cross-regional group of 49 States, including Albania, Andorra, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ghana, Georgia, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, The United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Zambia.\nThe Human Rights Council has made a marked difference in the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. It has the ability to contribute significantly to the advancement of human rights. This was again demonstrated this 37th session by the way it addressed many relevant thematic and country situations.\nWe believe that the Council\u2019s effectiveness and credibility can be further enhanced. The Council can do even better in preventing and monitoring violations in all countries worldwide, supporting States in their implementation of obligations, promoting accountability for perpetrators, and enhancing access to remedy and justice for victims. We should continuously consider ways to further strengthen the Council\u2019s influence and impact on the ground. The links and complementarity between the work of the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, as well as the Security Council, could also be strengthened.\nThere is a need for all of us to demonstrate leadership and collectively make improvements aimed at strengthening the Council. There is room for improvement in terms of the Council\u2019s working methods and efficiency, its agenda and annual programme of work, the responsibilities and engagement of its members, its delivery of capacity-building and technical support, and the fulfilment of its mandate to prevent violations. We pledge to promote progress in these areas within the existing IB package.\nAt the opening of this 37th session the Council approved the restructuring of panel discussions as a temporary efficiency measure in order to address the urgent need to streamline the Council\u2019s working methods and efficiency. Now as this session has come to a close we look forward to forthcoming additional proposals. It is important that we all work together in order to ensure that the Council can continue to meet for the required full ten (10) weeks. We stand ready to constructively support your efforts aimed at finding the necessary broad cross-regional support for the adoption of short-term efficiency measures.\nWe also fully support the need to find long-term sustainable solutions that will strengthen the Council\u2019s working methods and efficiency with the overall aim to preserve and further enhance the Council effectiveness, its unique role and value and wish to express our gratitude for your personal endeavors and leadership in this regard.\nThe signatories of this Joint Statement are firmly committed to an inclusive and transparent effort to strengthen the Council and will engage constructively with the Bureau and other delegations in any such efforts. This process should also envisage and enable the meaningful participation of civil society actors working at the national, regional and international levels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 140.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.perurail.com/blog/cusco-guide-3-10-things-to-do-in-the-city-of-cusco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:07Z", "digest": "sha1:S4HXHDIKENM4X4KG6PJI6LUEWQO6TKDL", "length": 5832, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.perurail.com", "title": "Cusco Guide #3: 10 things to do in the City of Cusco | PeruRail | Cusco Guide #3: 10 things to do in the City of Cusco", "raw_content": "Cusco Guide #3: 10 things to do in the City of Cusco\nThe city of Cusco which is located at 3.399 m.a.s.l., between mountains, valleys, and a vast heritage of art and culture, offers visitors many amazing attractions that will make their visit to the mythical capital of the Inca Empire one of the most amazing.\nCusco, also known as Qosqo for its Quechua origins, was the capital of Tahuantinsuyo which was used as a junction that links the Inca Trail to the 4 Suyos: Antisuyo, Contisuyo, Chinchaysuyo, and Collasuyo. Its legendary past can be seen while walking about the city; its stone walls and historical relics will get you immediately connected to this millenary city that offers puzzling attractions.\nHere, we will recommend you 10 things to do in the city of Cusco, so you will have a pleasant stay in this city.\nThe Main Square (Plaza de Armas): A magical city with a perfect mix of history, customs, and refined colonial Inca architecture, which turn it into an unforgettable visit for its beautiful buildings, during both day and night-time. This place is surrounded by tourist restaurants, hotels, jewelry stores and travel agencies; it is one of the most important tourist areas of the city of Cusco, as it was used as an administrative and religious site in pre-Hispanic times. It was formerly called Huacaypata, which means \u2018place of weeping\u2019 in Quechua because, during Tahuantinsuyo Empire era, it was used for sacred ceremonies.\nThe Cathedral: the Cathedral of Cusco, built in the sixteenth century, is a wonderful piece of architecture of a refined renaissance style. There are more than 1,200 pieces of art in the Cathedral which can be appreciated by visitors. There is a high altar covered with silver foil, over which the venerated image of Our Lady of the Assumption is placed. Timetables to visit the Cathedral are Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, and on Sundays and/or holidays from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.\nCoricancha: Which means Qurikancha (Golden Temple) in Quechua, was built for religious purposes. During the Incas time, it was a sanctuary dedicated to the worship of the Sun God, and, therefore, it was the most important and respected sanctuary. The complex was built with fine stone structures, over which the Convento de Santo Domingo is currently located.\nCusco Art: Cusco art is characterized by the production of textiles, hand-made by expert weavers who have crossed borders with their famous alpaca and cotton fabric chullos and sweaters. In addition, ceramics, silverware, handicrafts, and painting have supplemented the native art in this city. These artistic pieces can be purchased in the art market of San Pedro, San Blas and around the small square of Nazarenas or at Portal Comercio located at the Main Square of the city of Cusco.\nSan Blas Neighborhood (Barrio de San Blas): The San Blas Neighborhood or the Neighborhood of Craftsmen, characterized by its narrow and pleasant streets, is just four blocks away from the Main Square. Its large white houses and charming neighborhoods hold plenty workshops where beautiful works in ceramic, wood, gold and stone are made.\nSan Pedro Market: The oldest market in Cusco, known as Mercado de San Pedro (San Pedro Market) or Mercado Central (Central Market) is located a few meters away from the Main Square. Here you can find a great variety of native foods such as quinoa, corn, olluco, maca, papa huayro (potato) and medicinal plants for consumption as chamomile, mu\u00f1a, and lemon verbena. However, if you wish to take some souvenir from Cusco, you can buy nice souvenirs such as fabrics made of alpaca (chullos or sweater), handicrafts, ceramics, souvenirs, among others.\nLas Nazarenas Square (Plaza de las Nazarenas): Las Nazarenas Square surrounded by museums, temples and luxury hotels is located a few meters away from the Main Square of Cusco; its narrow winding colonial streets make this small square a warm place to stop for a while and enjoy an atmosphere of tranquility.\n12 Angle Stone: The 12 Angle Stone, famous for its perfectly carved corners and sides is part of a palace at the HatunRumiyoc Street. Its finish and edging show the architectural perfection of the Inca culture since there is no asymmetry in its joints.\nSacsayhuam\u00e1n: Sacsayhuaman Fortress called like that because of its huge stone walls is located 2 kilometers away from the Main Square of Cusco, 10 minutes by car. Every June 24th, the Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) the most representative festival of the Inca Empire takes place in this architectural complex. It also has magnificent buildings such as La Casa Real del Sol (The Royal House of the Sun), Las Puertas de Sacsayhuaman (Gates of Sacsayhuaman), Las torres de Sacsayhuam\u00e1n (Towers at Sacsayhuaman), among others.\nThe White Christ (El Cristo Blanco): This work of art, located in the Pukamoqo hill, 3,600 m.a.s.l., was created by the Cusco sculptor and filmmaker, Francisco Olazo Allende in 1945 and was donated to Cusco by the Palestinian Arab Colony. The statue is 8 meters long and is made of granite covered with plaster and marble. This figure is considered \u2018the protector of the city of Cusco\u2019 and is just 5 kilometers away from the city, at Cusco\u2019s lookout point, close to Sacsayhuaman and Qenko. History relates that in the Inca time, this place was seemed to be a sacred place as it reunites lands from countries that were part of the Tahuantinsuyo as Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Tucuman in Argentina. From the top of this place, you can see the main attractions of the city.\nCusco dazzles you with the artistic value of its colonial churches, squares, and beautiful Inca buildings, be sure to discover and have the best experiences the imperial city may offer.\nSources: MINCETUR, Destino Peru, Cusco Peru Andean origin, Cusco City, Cusco Per\u00fa.com and In Peru.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 14599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pestalerts.org/oprDetail.cfm?oprID=725", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3ASFAFSCS2H4LOH2ZLGLIFLVDA6PPKL", "length": 732, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pestalerts.org", "title": "NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System", "raw_content": "Detection of severe strain of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in the municipality of Cazones de Herrera, Veracruz.\nAs part of the actions applied by the National System for Phytosanitary Epidemiological Surveillance in Mexico, a severe strain of the Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) was detected in the community of Tajamanil, municipality of Cazones de Herrera.\nSENASICA, through the Plant Health General Directorate, initiated phytosanitary actions, such as delimiting the outbreak and removal of positive plants.\nBased on this and according to the International Plant Protection Convention standards, the severe strain of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is considered a quarantine pest, transitory, actionable and under eradication in Mexico.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.philosateleia.com/gallery/1919/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:40Z", "digest": "sha1:I2PDF3E3CQLVMGME3XTGDFILAMHKDHML", "length": 172, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.philosateleia.com", "title": "1919", "raw_content": "The only commemorative stamp issued by the United States in 1919 was a 3\u00a2 design marking the end of World War I.\n\u201cVictory\u201d & Flags of Allies\nNext: 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.piehtoolco.com/contents/en-us/p10998.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MMPZX4NJOHFSLN7ZAY24XY3P5FCKSKIY", "length": 745, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.piehtoolco.com", "title": "Heintz Art Metal", "raw_content": "<< Back Heintz Art Metal\nThe American Arts and Crafts Movement flourished briefly but brilliantly during the early years of the twentieth century. It was during this era that the Heintz Art Metal Shop and its successor the Smith Metal Arts Company (Silver Crest) produced decorative bronze wares of the highest quality. Today's avid interest in Arts and Crafts furnishings and accessories has collectors searching for examples made by these two firms.\nThis book provides collectors and dealers alike with a pictorial panorama of such Heintz and Silver Crest items as bowls, jewelry, trophies, vases, and desk pieces, as well as essential data regarding value, rarity, maker's marks, and company histories.\n127 Pages, 8.8 x 5.9 (Paperback) photos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pippins.net/movies/movies/a-beautiful-mind/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BLFLBXDQ2QHAMGC5S62HXBUBLWDDROOC", "length": 90, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pippins.net", "title": "A Beautiful Mind \u2013 Movie Database", "raw_content": "Next story The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\nPrevious story Ocean\u2019s Eleven", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 79.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plantemoran.com/get-to-know/people/s/david-steimel", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:COLLIJ7KIESNA42PTOFDY7GOF7OLXJ2G", "length": 1558, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.plantemoran.com", "title": "David Steimel | Get to Know Plante Moran | Plante Moran", "raw_content": "Home Get to Know Plante Moran People David Steimel\nDavid Steimel\nDavid.Steimel@plantemoran.com 303-796-4317\nWith more than 20 years of accounting experience, I help public and private companies handle complex accounting issues. I have significant expertise in revenue recognition, business combinations, and stock compensation. I\u2019m also experienced in SEC financial reporting, including initial and secondary public offerings, and quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements.\nIn the 15 years I\u2019ve been with the firm, I\u2019ve discovered a niche I truly enjoy \u2014 quality control. It\u2019s rewarding that I\u2019ve carved a career path where I can spend most of my time doing what I\u2019m passionate about, and it shows in my interactions with clients. Colleagues frequently comment on my willingness to help whenever I\u2019m needed \u2014 when the phone rings, I pick it up.\nI\u2019m a frequent speaker to clients and different groups on technical accounting topics and ethics issues. I enjoy making mundane topics entertaining and easier to understand. I belong to the AICPA and the Colorado Society of CPAs, and I\u2019m an observer on the AICPA Auditing Standards Board. I received my B.S. in accounting from Northern Arizona University.\nIn my free time, I enjoy coaching both baseball and basketball for my sons. I\u2019m also a tinkerer \u2014 I rarely hire out any work that needs to be done around the house.\nWhen I was younger, I spent about 10 years working part-time while I traveled around the world. When I was in college I rode freight trains and hitchhiked across the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 5302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plughitzlive.com/theupstream/?Page=74", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJBMPKKFN3KP6KI7CQA7WK3JNWUS5EBU", "length": 17864, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.plughitzlive.com", "title": "The UpStream - PLuGHiTz Live", "raw_content": "Microsoft Extends NFL Partnership to Include New Surfaces and a New App\nposted Sunday Aug 16, 2015 by Nicholas DiMeo\nThe NFL and Microsoft have had a bit of a tumultuous partnership. A couple of years ago, the full push behind Microsoft's Surface as the technology that powered on-field devices ended up with announcers calling them iPads. This led to Microsoft issuing a statement and demanding all personnel know what the computers were actually called. This seemed to have fixed the problem, with NFL teams adopting more and more Microsoft technology, and even venturing into the virtual reality world. Now, the partnership between the National Football League and the team behind Windows has been extended even further, with new things coming for the fan, player and coach.\nFans of the NFL who are using Windows devices will benefit from having a new app for the Xbox One and Windows 10 that will feature improved video playback, new stats and an added fantasy football tracker. The NFL app on the Xbox One was badly missing a fluid user interface and not many people used it as it was reported that the app would freeze and crash on occasion. And with fantasy football becoming more and more popular, being able to snap a tracker on your Xbox seems like a perfect match for those watching football through their TV input on the console. Adding it to other Windows 10 devices gives customers the ability to check out all the content while away from home.\nAdded to the app will be a new feature called Next Gen Stats. The NFL has added sensors into player equipment that will provide really cool stats like the distance a player has traveled throughout a game or play, how fast they were going and even replays that feature player movements combined with those stats.\nNext Gen Stats have opened up a new game for NFL fans to play, called NGS Pick'em. This new quick-hit game lets Xbox users pick players who they think will perform well in a game and will award them prizes for picking the right ones. The winners will be picked weekly, with one winner for the entire season getting tickets to Super Bowl 50. Microsoft has said all these features will be identical on the Windows 10 app as well, naturally.\nFor coaches and players, Microsoft has supplied them with an abundance of new Surface Pro 3 tablets. Players have fallen in love with the older Surface Pro 2s, as it gave them next to real-time feedback on their last plays and current performance on the field. Coaches were using the computers over printing each and every play from the 12 angles they have access to and instead were swiping, zooming and drawing right on the screen. Referees will get to join in on the tech fun, too, as they will continue to use a Surface for all replay reviews under the hood.\nLastly, Microsoft has made sure that nobody will forget what these devices are called ever again. Instead of just putting the Microsoft logo or the word on the back of the Surfaces, each and every one will have the word Surface labeled on the back of the special housing, in big, bold white lettering. This way, the only people who will misname them again will be those with a secret anti-Surface agenda.\nPC World:Microsoft's NFL partnership enters next generation with new apps\ngadgetsmicrosoftsurface\nRIAA Attacks CBS and BitTorrent, BitTorrent Responds Rationally\nposted Sunday Aug 9, 2015 by Scott Ertz\nIt has been quite a while since the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, has made any moves that required discussion. Over the past few weeks, however, the industry trade group has begun sending out letters to organizations that they believe to be actively harmful to the music industry as a whole. First they contacted CBS complaining that the company provides software that promotes the theft of otherwise legal music.\nIn particular they take offense to software that allows people to strip the audio from online streaming services, such as YouTube. These products are easily obtained from all over the Internet, including in most of the YouTube clients available in Google Play, the Apple App Store and Windows Store. So, with all of this easy availability, why CBS? Because they own CNET, and CNET runs Download.com, one of the original popular software download services. The site dates back to 1996, before most people really knew about the Internet.\nIn addition to the audio strippers, Download.com also hosts installers for BitTorrent. The BitTorrent client for windows on Download.com has nearly 24 million downloads as of this writing, which is likely the actual reason for targeting CBS. This guess is because BitTorrent was the next company to receive one of these letters. RIAA believes that BitTorrent is used solely for the transfer of illegal content and they want it to stop.\nThe problem with this assertion is that BitTorrent is a protocol, no different from HTTP. The protocol can be used to transfer any content, and is used by many companies to transfer large amounts of data in a decentralized manner, allowing them to free resources on their corporate servers. For example, Amazon, Blizzard, Facebook and Twitter all use the protocol. It is less than likely that Facebook is out there moving music they don't own.\nBitTorrent responded to the claims in a rational, calm manner, certainly setting themselves apart from, say Napster, who would respond to RIAA like a scolded child. In a statement, the company said,\nOur position is that they are barking up the wrong tree, as it seems they were with their approach to CBS last week.\nAs informed commentary in the past few days has made plain, there is a distinction between the BitTorrent protocol and piracy. Piracy is a real thing, but BitTorrent, Inc. is not the source. We do not host, promote, or facilitate copyright infringing content and the protocol, which is in the public domain, is a legal technology.\nWe do however have a direct-to-fan platform for artists and content owners to use. More than 30,000 publishers have signed up for it to date, including some of the most popular music artists around the world.\nIt is difficult to vilify a company who provides a service for the purchasing of music direct from artists by saying they promote the theft of music. It is actually in their best financial interest to discourage theft and, instead, encourage the purchasing of said music through their own platform. My guess is this is RIAA trying to get their name back out into the world as a legal group, though I suspect it will be with the same laughable tactic they have used before. Anyone remember the older woman who was sued for using Morpheus to download music, though she had a Mac and the software wasn't available on Mac?\nMashable:Recording industry blasts BitTorrent for enabling piracy\nbittorrentlegalmediarecording industry association of america\nReddit Begins Implementing New Rules, Bans Racist Communities\nAfter the Ellen Pao disaster, Reddit has been working to implement the new policies announced at her resignation. The process has not been a particularly simple one, as backlash from some of the communities on the site has been vocal. Fortunately, those communities have been a small percentage of the overall userbase.\nThe vocal minority might have something new to complain about soon, however, as the company has altered their policies once again. Now, instead of quarantining offensive communities, such as those that promote racism, they will ban them. While you might immediately look at this as a positive move, let me explain to you the culture of Reddit and why there is likely to be a negative response associated with the decision.\nThe stated goal of the site is to provide a safe place for the free exchange of ideas. One of the things that comes along with free speech is the likelihood that some people will be offended by said speech. As the site grew, a larger than expected portion of the community became more a place for people to say insane or hurtful things rather than to spread ideas and thoughts. This has left the executives with an interesting dilemma: do they back off of their idea of a true free speech zone, or do they deal with the public outcry about it being a community filled with hate?\nRight now, they are trying to find a harmony between the two sides. In removing communities who intention is to take advantage of the free speech zone only to say hurtful, offensive and racist things, they seem to have found a balance they think will keep their users and community positive, while still mostly adhering to the intentions of the site. It will not make everyone happy, but it should not affect those who use the site for the purposes it was originally created to serve.\nIn addition to offensive content, the management will also take steps to remove what CEO Steve Huffman calls animated child pornography, likely referring to the rising popularity of lolicon or shotacon on Reddit and similar sites. While not technically illegal in the west, many believe that the content leads to the mistreatment of minors in the real world, and sites like Reddit are taking a preemptive stand against the content. It's a pretty smart move as the company does not need any potential legal issues as they are trying to redefine themselves on the Internet.\nReddit:Content Policy Update\ninternetreddit\nMicrosoft Announces New Features for Xbox One Coming November\nIt has been no secret the PlayStation 4 has continually outsold the Xbox One. Microsoft is not unaccustomed to this position, having been outsold in both of their previous generations, only to gain the upper hand as they improved and added to the platform. For example, Xbox 360 sales really took off after the NXE (New Xbox Experience) in 2009. The Xbox 360 ended up being the undisputed leader of its generation.\nWe know that this year, the Xbox One is set to receive its equivalent of the NXE - Windows 10. Along with Windows 10 will come a slue of new features and capabilities, similar to what the 360 received with the NXE. At Gamescom 2015, Microsoft gave a lot of information about what we can expect to come along with said upgrade.\nFirst will come an NXE-level overhaul of the controversial dashboard. While some, like myself, have loved the interface in theory, others have hated it. The changes won't be as visually drastic as the 360's transition from blades to tile groups, it will be a welcome change for most. The important change will come in its speed - a complaint that every Xbox One owner has had. Enhancing that aspect will make everyone's life easier.\nAs I predicted, Cortana will be taking over voice commands from the Kinect after the update. That will certainly enhance the capabilities of the voice commands above their already impressive response. It should also give more capabilities to the browser, which I assume will be swapped from Internet Explorer to Edge in the update. This means we could see the ability to draw on the web using Edge and the Kinect.\nXbox 360 backward compatibility details were also expanded. We know that around 100 games will be available at launch, and starting now all Games With Gold for Xbox 360 titles will be included in the backward compatibility list. That means that the free games included for the 360 will also be playable on the Xbox One. That will enhance the catalog of free, playable games on the Xbox One. While we may not know all 100 titles coming, we do know that all games in the Gears of War franchise will be included.\nAlso drawing from the Xbox 360, Microsoft showed off a Chatpad. It looks nearly identical to the one for the 360, which is a positive as the original was popular and efficient. It will clip into the controller in the same way, but adds the new features of the console, such as screenshot and 30 second video backup. The Chatpad will work on the console and Windows 10, and will be available sometime in 2016.\nThe most exciting information was the release date for Windows 10 on Xbox One. The new platform will release to the world in November of this year, with the preview program having begun for a very small group of testers, rolling out to more in the near future.\ngamingmicrosoftwindows 10xbox\nVerizon Wireless Goes Contract-Free With New Plans\nThe US wireless market has always been a bit of an oddity in the global wireless industry. Much of the world operates on the premise that you are responsible for purchasing your phone, the US wireless companies have long paid the cost of your phone up-front in exchange for you promising to stick with them for 2 years. This allowed you to spread out the cost of the device over the length of the contract, meaning you wouldn't have to pay $700 for a new iPhone (excluding the first generation).\nThat business model has been changing recently, however. Pushed by T-Mobile US, the North American arm of German operator Deutsche Telekom, American wireless companies have been shifting away from subsidized phone prices. T-Mobile introduced a lease program a few years back, and subsequently the other 3 major carriers implemented similar or identical programs. Now, Verizon Wireless, a wholly-American operator is taking the lead in the transition to a more European style business model.\nThe company's new plans will retire service contracts and phone subsidies completely in exchange for outright phone purchases or device leases and far simpler plans. In fact, all plans come with unlimited voice and text, and 4 levels of data, labeled small, medium, large and extra-large. These sizes offer 1, 3, 6 and 12GB of sharable data, respectively. Device additions are easy as well, at $20 per smartphone, $10 per tablet and $5 per connected device (smartwatches, etc.). Rob Miller, vice-president of consumer pricing, said,\nChoosing a wireless plan is now easier than ever. Customers said they don't want to have to do a lot of math to figure out their best options, and we heard them. A plan with small, medium, large and x-large choices makes sense for the way people actually use their wireless service.\nWhile the idea of abandoning contracts might sound good on its face, it is important to note one thing: A contract is an agreement between 2 parties. In the case of wireless contracts, the thing people always focused on was that they were being \"locked in\" to a specific carrier. There has always been an exit clause, and the buyout was often less than the price of purchasing the handset outright, making the option potentially less expensive than the new plans. On the other side, however, is the fact that the carrier is also \"locked in\" with you, meaning they could not change the details of your plan. Without the service agreement, technically the carriers can change the pricing of your plan over time, because there is no contract preventing it.\nWe have seen no-contract carriers do this in the past. MetroPCS, especially in its early days, changed the prices of plans for all of their customers a number of times (having started at $30 for unlimited data in our market). Virgin Mobile, under Richard Branson's management before becoming part of Sprint, also forced plan changes across the board with no ability for customers to remain on previous plans.\nWe have never seen the big 4 make this move on their no contract brands, however we have seen them force changes when handsets were upgraded. Under this plan, if Verizon discovers they have made a bad deal, they could change the pricing, similar to how your cable, power or landline phone service works.\nVerizon Wireless:Simplified Data Choices Match Customer Lifestyles\ngadgetsmobileverizon\nAppeals Court Upholds Microsoft's Win Over Motorola\nposted Sunday Aug 2, 2015 by Nicholas DiMeo\nIf you've been following the Microsoft-Motorola saga over the past few years, you'll know that the two companies have been feuding over royalty payments since 2012. The fighting has been so intense that Samsung decided to jump into the fray, only to end up settling out of court. Motorola, however, tried to set up injunctions and stop sales of the Xbox 360 in 2013. The case has been ongoing, with the ITC stomping on the injunction. Now, an appeals court has upheld the initial ruling of Microsoft's royalty victory and Motorola must pay up.\nThe US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has agreed with the decision to have Motorola pay Microsoft $14.5 million for violating license agreement in relation to patents the company were using over the past five years. This finally puts Motorola in the losing position of the half-decade lawsuit, and will require all handset and tablet manufacturers using Android as their operating system to pay Microsoft royalties for use of their patents.\nFrom the ruling,\nWith the parties' consent, the district court conducted a lengthy, thorough bench trial on the RAND rate and range. The court analyzed that evidence in its exhaustive findings of fact and conclusions of law, in a manner consistent with the Federal Circuit's recent approach to establishing damages in the RAND context. The court's factual findings were properly admitted at the jury trial. The jury's verdict was supported by substantial evidence, and its damages award\nwas proper. The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.\nThat's about as emphatic as it gets. The key here is that no judge before the one presiding over the case had ever ruled on what was a \"fair and reasonable\" basis of use for patents regarding smartphones and tablets. Well, the judge here determined that the rate of use can be pretty low, and would still fall under that clause. This sets a precedent moving forward that other companies will have to abide by. Plus, it keeps in place the funny and ironic notion surrounding the ordeal that Microsoft gets paid for each use of Android.\nUS COURTS:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (PDF)\nandroidgadgetslegalmicrosoftmotorola", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 18543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politico.eu/article/alain-juppe-france-uk-border-must-be-pushed-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HNFMX7QUL62AIDALXUPLXUC7FISNW4AE", "length": 6260, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.politico.eu", "title": "Alain Jupp\u00e9: France-UK border must be pushed back \u2013 POLITICO", "raw_content": "Bordeaux's mayor and right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party's candidate for the party's primary ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Alain Juppe speaks during a meeting with youth on October 8, 2016 in Malakoff, south of Paris | Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images\nAlain Jupp\u00e9: France-UK border must be pushed back\n\u201cDon\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s difficult because the British don\u2019t want it.\u201d\nThe favorite to be the next president of France wants his country's border with the U.K. to be moved from Calais to the Kent coast.\nSpeaking to the Guardian, Alain Jupp\u00e9 said he wants to renegotiate the deal \u2014 the Le Touquet accord \u2014 between France and Britain that keeps border checks, and therefore thousands of refugees and migrants, on the French side of the English Channel.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t tolerate what is going on in Calais, the image is disastrous for our country and there are also extremely serious economic and security consequences for the people of Calais,\u201d Jupp\u00e9 said.\n\u201cSo the first thing is to denounce the Le Touquet accords. We cannot accept making the selection on French territory of people that Britain does or doesn\u2019t want. It\u2019s up to Britain to do that job.\u201d\nAsked if the border should be pushed back to the English coast, Jupp\u00e9 said: \u201cOf course. Don\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s difficult because the British don\u2019t want it.\"\nJupp\u00e9, a former French prime minister, is frontrunner to secure the presidential nomination of the center-right Les R\u00e9publicains, ahead of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy.\nFrench presidential candidate takes aim at her own party over Europe\nor\u2026 process the refugees as you should and stop blaming everyone else as usual.\nFrance always needs to criticise Britain to feel good about itself. Have some pride France.\nYou hypocrite. Calais looks bad because you \u2013 FRANCE \u2013 were too cheap and lazy to process all those economic migrants and deport them. YOU let Calais turn into that swamp jungle.\nAnd now, of course, that the Calais camp is going to be closed, suddenly you\u2019re trumpeting moving the border. Only there isn\u2019t going to be a Calais issue by the time the election rolls around.\nJust wait till those migrants get distributed far from the Calais border, and the villages and towns you put them in start revolting and voting FN. By then, the border between Calais and Kent will be a moot point.\nSo let us say this happened. The Ferry Company will need to check that proper documentation is supplied, and face fines if they transport somebody without it. Then somebody arriving and not admittable just gets sent back. So passes the buck mainly to the ferry companies.\nIt is up to France to manage its own migrant crisis. The issue is not where people want to go to from France but how they actually get/ got into France in the first place and that is an indictment of the catastrophic failure of French policy & the operation of Schengen.\nThe camp at Calais is a self-imposed stain on France\nWhat an admission of failure this poor excuse of a politician hoped that the UK would cave in and admit the \u201cwonderfully enlightened highly skilled worldly\u201d mainly Muslim young men.\nBut the UK has been resolute so far fearing a backlash in England if they allowed again unfettered unchecked immigration.\nBut then what do you expect from a failed nation like France at war with itself and its Muslim population.\n\u2014Unless Juppe is a complete idiot (a very real possibility), he is well aware of the reason for the Le Touquette Accord: it was requested BY FRANCE, begged for BY FRANCE & pushed through BY FRANCE\u2026Why? French companies (ferry & train) were suffering huge fines by the U.K., due to the large number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the U.K\u2026.Also, the French found that having the border in Kent not only did NOT reduce the number of migrants waiting on the Calais side for their chance to (surreptitiously) board French trains/ferries, but actually INCREASED their number, due to the (by comparison) much easier access to the U.K. \u2026\u2026This is nothing but pandering on Juppe\u2019s part. He KNOWS (as did Sarkozy & Hollande discovered) that moving the border would actually INCREASE the problem\u2026\n\u2014-Why don\u2019t the French own up to their own abysmal moral failing in regards to migrants? It would be utterly UNTHINKABLE in the U.K. to have ungovernable mob-run \u201ccamps\u201d such as the Jungle\u2013with under-age CHILDREN living totally unsupervised\u2026The French truly stink at integration.\nComplete idiot. Yes let\u2019s change it and leave the problem completely to you to resolve as it should be. This is just electioneering rhetoric and bluff\u2026.but no problem let\u2019s call your bluff\u2026makes it simpler for the UK.\nJuppe, you let them get into France, so it is your problem. If you don\u2019t like it then sort it out.\nWhile we are here can we send all the French that live in London back home?? Largest population in the EU outside France, but I guess that is due to Frances massive taxes??\nMonsieur Jupp\u00e9,\nThe British don\u2019t want the border moved to Dover, or any other port along its coast, because it has learnt from bitter experience that the moment immigrants leave French territory, then there\u2019s no way that France will take them back \u2013 which is there legal obligation and they know it \u2013 when Britain innevitably turn them back from whence they came. The ferries will become clogged with immigrants who find themselves in no-man\u2019s land and France will simply turn its back \u2013 again. Nice try, but no thanks!\nIf you, \u201c\u2026can\u2019t tolerate what is going on in Calais, the image is disastrous for our country\u2026\u201d, then I suggest you deal with your own border control shortcomings along your national boundaries. France voted for Schengen (Britain saw the pitfalls only too clearly and refused) and now you have to deal with the outcome. For once, stop sweeping your responsibilites under the carpet by foisting your problems onto others!\nBritain has UK immigration authorities stationed in Calais to process the flow of immigrants into the UK, in the same way that France has immigration authorites based in the UK for the same purpose. This has been the case for 25 years or more; you simply can\u2019t renege on a formal agreement simply because the dice aren\u2019t loaded in your favour.\nPlease keep your French \u2018exceptionalism\u2019 games for Brussels; Britain isn\u2019t interested!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 516, "original_length": 21337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ponsse.com/ru/investors/corporate-info/articles-of-association", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:WWFNFYE7UPYZDIFF5ZOMXVRJKXJN7QK5", "length": 4249, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.ponsse.com", "title": "Articles of Association - Corporate Info - Investors - Ponsse.com", "raw_content": "Ponsse.com \u203a Investors \u203a Corporate Info \u203a Articles of Association\nArticles of Association of Ponsse Plc\n1 \u00a7 Company name and registered office\nThe company's name is Ponsse Oyj, and its registered office is in Vierem\u00e4. The english name of the company is Ponsse Plc.\n2 \u00a7 Objects of the company\nThe objects of the company are to engage in the manufacture, import and marketing of forest machines, other products in the metal industry and information system hardware and software. Furthermore, the company produces training- and consultation services, administration services for the group companies and engages in insurance representation operations. Furthermore, the company may own and manage securities and properties and trade therein.\n3 \u00a7 Book-entry securities system\nThe shares have joined in the book-entry securities system, which is mentioned in the law concerning book-entry securities system.\nThe company shall have a Board of Directors comprising at least five (5) and at most eight (8) members.\nThe term of office of members of the Board of Directors shall expire at the end of the first Annual General Meeting following election.\nThe Board of Directors shall appoint a chairman from among its members and convene at the request of the chairman as often as the company's business so requires.\nThe Board of Directors shall be quorate when more than half its members are present.\nMatters shall be resolved by majority vote. In the event of even votes, the opinion of the chairman shall prevail.\n5 \u00a7 Managing Director\nThe company shall have a managing director appointed by the Board of Directors. The managing director shall be responsible for the everyday management of the company in accordance with the instructions and provisions issued by the Board of Directors.\n6 \u00a7 Signing for the company\nThe company's name shall be signed severally except by the Board of Directors, also jointly by any two members of the Board of Directors, or the Managing Director jointly with one member of the Board of Directors. Furthermore, the Board of directors can authorise a named person to sign for the company jointly with another authorised person or with a member of the Board of Directors, or with the Managing Director.\n7 \u00a7 Auditor\nThe company shall have one (1) auditor, which shall be a public accounting firm (KHT) authorised by the Central Chamber of Commerce.\nThe auditor's term of office shall expire at the end of the first Annual General Meeting following election.\nThe company's financial year shall be the calendar year.\n9 \u00a7 Notice to convene the meeting\nThe General Meeting shall be held in the company\u2019s domicile, Iisalmi or Kajaani.\nNotice of the General Meeting shall be delivered to shareholders by publishing it as a stock exchange release and on the company\u2019s website and, if the Board of Directors so decides, in one newspaper of large circulation decided upon by the Board of Directors at the earliest three (3) months and at the latest twenty-one (21) days before the General Meeting.\nTo be eligible to participate in the General Meeting, shareholders must notify the company of their intention to attend no later than on the day mentioned in the notice of General Meeting, which may be no earlier than ten (10) days before the meeting.\n10 \u00a7 Annual General meeting\nThe Annual General Meeting shall be held each year on a date specified by the Board of Directors latest in six (6) months after finishing the financial year.\nAt the Annual General Meeting shall be:\n1. the accounts, including the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, the consolidated profit and loss account, the consolidated balance sheet and the report by the Board of Directors,\n2. the auditor's report,\n3. the adoption of the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, the consolidated profit and loss account and the consolidated balance sheet,\n4. the actions warranted by the profit or loss shown in the adopted balance sheet,\n5. the discharge of liability of members of the Board of Directors and the managing director,\n6. the number of Board members,\n7. the emoluments for members of the Board of Directors and the principles of compensation for travel expenses,\n8. the fees for the auditor,\n9. members of the Board of Directors and\n10. the auditor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 11912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.poppelgaard.com/xenapp-6-best-practise-hint-2-disable-dep-for-w2k8r2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:F75EVLTZFTOE53TEJY3E35UVBTXHJVGI", "length": 188, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.poppelgaard.com", "title": "XenApp 6 - Best Practise ........................ Hint #2 - Disable DEP for W2K8R2 - Poppelgaard.com", "raw_content": "XenApp 6 \u2013 Best Practise \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Hint #2 \u2013 Disable DEP for W2K8R2\nHowTo, XenApp\nit\u2019s recommended to Disable Data Execution Prevention on Windows 2008.\nThis can be done with this command :", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 212.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portlandvancouverhomesearch.com/blog/christmas-memories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAIW6QCNKFV5464WFIVTAR32PVIIOPQL", "length": 2482, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.portlandvancouverhomesearch.com", "title": "Christmas Memories | Portland and Vancouver Area Real Estate :: Keller Williams Realty Professionals", "raw_content": "Another Christmas has come and gone. How was yours?\nWhen people traditionally think of Christmas, they think of cold and snow. Nevermind that the historical Jesus, whom is, after all, the subject of Christmas, was definitely born in the desert and most likely the summer, images of snow, and gloves, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire have become synonymous with the most wonderful time of the year.\nAmy Grant once sang that she wanted a tender Tennessee Christmas. Christmas in Tennessee, especially in Nashville, where she resides isn\u2019t exactly known for cold and snow. Yet, to her, that is Christmas. Christmas is what you make of it. It\u2019s time spent reflecting. Time spent spending time with friends and family and giving to others and caring and being merry.\nAs a lifelong resident of Portland, Oregon, I have experienced pretty much every kind of Christmas possible. We aren\u2019t known for our massive amounts of snow, but I remember one Christmas, my grandparents flew in for the birth of my baby brother, who was due just after Christmas, and they ended up stranded here for two weeks because of a massive and unexpected blizzard. But, usually when we get snow, it\u2019s just enough to pretty things up for awhile.\nI remember a bunch of Christmases where it just rained like proverbial cats and dogs. Like, pouring. These days were nice too, always spent with family and hot cocoa and indoors. So it didn\u2019t matter. It rains a lot here, so, raining on Christmas really isn\u2019t that unusual.\nPlenty of Christmases, too, where it was clear and crisp and ice cold. These days, outside of the snowy days, are my favorite Christmases. I love that crispness where you can see for miles and where you step outside and get chilled to the bone.\nAnd yet, I\u2019ve also had Christmases here in Portland that were sunny and relatively warm. Portland, Oregon always keeps you guessing with the weather\u2014especially around Christmas time.\nBut, one constant, at least for me, is that I have spent every Christmas surrounded by people I love and by people that love me. In that sense, Christmas is always warm. I feel for those who don\u2019t have the same experiences but, it is my hope that everyone always has a nice Christmas and that it is spent with those that you care about\u2014whatever your family looks like.\nSo, from one Portlander to another, I wish you the warmest and happiest of holidays!\nTags: Christmas, Christmas Memories, Holidays, Ice & Cold, Oregon, Portland, Snow land, Tennessee Christmas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pragcap.com/goldman-sachs-accused-of-civil-fraud-by-sec/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CBJUODHA3ICB2SBS53CKIJODSAWCIXG6", "length": 4191, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.pragcap.com", "title": "GOLDMAN SACHS ACCUSED OF CIVIL FRAUD BY SEC - Pragmatic Capitalism", "raw_content": "Big development for the financials and the White House crackdown on the banks:\nWashington, D.C., April 16, 2010 \u2014 The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.\nThe SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to investors vital information about the CDO, in particular the role that a major hedge fund played in the portfolio selection process and the fact that the hedge fund had taken a short position against the CDO.\n\u201cThe product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple,\u201d said Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement. \u201cGoldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party.\u201d\nKenneth Lench, Chief of the SEC\u2019s Structured and New Products Unit, added, \u201cThe SEC continues to investigate the practices of investment banks and others involved in the securitization of complex financial products tied to the U.S. housing market as it was beginning to show signs of distress.\u201d\nThe SEC alleges that one of the world\u2019s largest hedge funds, Paulson & Co., paid Goldman Sachs to structure a transaction in which Paulson & Co. could take short positions against mortgage securities chosen by Paulson & Co. based on a belief that the securities would experience credit events.\nAccording to the SEC\u2019s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the marketing materials for the CDO known as ABACUS 2007-AC1 (ABACUS) all represented that the RMBS portfolio underlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management LLC (ACA), a third party with expertise in analyzing credit risk in RMBS. The SEC alleges that undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, the Paulson & Co. hedge fund, which was poised to benefit if the RMBS defaulted, played a significant role in selecting which RMBS should make up the portfolio.\nThe SEC\u2019s complaint alleges that after participating in the portfolio selection, Paulson & Co. effectively shorted the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into credit default swaps (CDS) with Goldman Sachs to buy protection on specific layers of the ABACUS capital structure. Given that financial short interest, Paulson & Co. had an economic incentive to select RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future. Goldman Sachs did not disclose Paulson & Co.\u2019s short position or its role in the collateral selection process in the term sheet, flip book, offering memorandum, or other marketing materials provided to investors.\nThe SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs Vice President Fabrice Tourre was principally responsible for ABACUS 2007-AC1. Tourre structured the transaction, prepared the marketing materials, and communicated directly with investors. Tourre allegedly knew of Paulson & Co.\u2019s undisclosed short interest and role in the collateral selection process. In addition, he misled ACA into believing that Paulson & Co. invested approximately $200 million in the equity of ABACUS, indicating that Paulson & Co.\u2019s interests in the collateral selection process were closely aligned with ACA\u2019s interests. In reality, however, their interests were sharply conflicting.\nAccording to the SEC\u2019s complaint, the deal closed on April 26, 2007, and Paulson & Co. paid Goldman Sachs approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS. By Oct. 24, 2007, 83 percent of the RMBS in the ABACUS portfolio had been downgraded and 17 percent were on negative watch. By Jan. 29, 2008, 99 percent of the portfolio had been downgraded.\nInvestors in the liabilities of ABACUS are alleged to have lost more than $1 billion.\nCLOUDS OVER EUROPE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/georgemichael/view/171155/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:U7MFT33FTZDWTNM6HCJZ6E6D3TZGUG5T", "length": 2859, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.pressparty.com", "title": "Solange Knowles and Bruno Mars lead nominations for 2017 Soul Train Awards: Pressparty", "raw_content": "Shortlink to this content: http://bit.ly/2ikFxsJ\nWednesday, October 18, 2017 5:04am ET\tby Pressparty\nmusic, news, pressparty, music news, london, united kingdom, uk, soul train awards, solange knowles, bruno mars, george, michael\nSolange Knowles and Bruno Mars lead the nominations for the 2017 Soul Train Awards.\nThe event is set to take place in the US on November 5 in Las Vegas.\nThe US soul singer tops the list with seven nods, including one for Best R&B/Soul Female Artist, which will see her battle it out with Mary J. Blige, Kehlani, Lalah Hathaway, Ledisi and Sza.\nThe \"Where Do We Go\" hitmaker's \"Cranes In The Sky\" is up for both Song of the Year and Video of the Year, but she is up against Bruno Mars and her sister Beyonc\u00e9, whose video for \"All Night\" has also received a nod.\nMars, 32, has received six nominations, including one for Song of the Year for his hit \"That's What I Like\", while his \"24K Magic\" clip is up for Video of the Year. He also stands a chance of winning the Best R&B/Soul Male Artist category, but could lose out to one of Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown, Khalid or The Weeknd.\nMars and Knowles will also be up against each other in the Best Dance Performance category for their respective hits \"24K Magic\" and \"Don't Touch My Hair\", which she teamed up with Sampha for. Their duet is also up for the Best Collaboration accolade, alongside side Mary J. Blige and Kanye West's 'Love Yourself' and Rihanna's tune with Bryson Tiller, \"Wild Thoughts\".\nHere are the full list of this year's Soul Train Awards nominations below:\nBeyonc\u00e9 - 'All Night'\nBruno Mars - '24K Magic'\nChris Brown Ft. Usher & Gucci Mane - 'Party'\nDJ Khaled Ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller - 'Wild Thoughts'\nSolange - 'Cranes In The Sky'\nCardi B - 'Bodak Yellow'\nFrench Montana Ft. Swae Lee - 'Unforgettable'\nKendrick Lamar - 'Humble.'\nYo Gotti Ft. Nicki Minaj - 'Rake It Up'\nBruno Mars - 'That's What I Like'\nChildish Gambino - 'Redbone'\nKhalid - 'Location'\nThe Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award\n'Cranes In The Sky' - Written By: Troy L. John, Solange Knowles,\nRaphael Saadiq (Solange)\n'Location' - Written By: Alfredo Emmanuel Gonzalez, Olatunji\nOlutomiwa, Samuel David Jimenez, Khalid Robinson, Joshua Scruggs\n(Khalid)\n'Love Me Now' - Written By: Blake Matthew Simon Mills, John Henry\nRyan, John Roger Stephens (John Legend)\n'Redbone' - Written By: George Clinton, William Earl Collins, Gary Lee\nCooer, Donaldmckinley Glover Ii, Ludwig Emil Tomas Goransson (Childish\nGambino)\n'Versace On The Floor' - Written By: Christopher Steven Brown, James\nEdward Fauntleroy, Bruno Mars, Philip Martin Lawrence (Bruno Mars)\nSolange Ft. Sampha - 'Don't Touch My Hair'\nWizkid Ft. Drake - 'Come Closer'\nJazmine Sullivan & Bryson Tiller - 'Insecure'\nMary J. Blige Ft. Kanye West - 'Love Yourself'\nSza Ft. Travis Scott - 'Love Galore'\nThe ceremony will air on BET on Nov. 26.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pricingforprofit.com/pricing-strategy-consulting/expert-pricing-witness", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:47Z", "digest": "sha1:TNFPY65DI6BYMOKBVRTN6T7HP3SCNNR5", "length": 1495, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pricingforprofit.com", "title": "Pricing Strategy Expert Witness", "raw_content": "Pricing Strategy Expert Witness\nPrice is a key issue in regulatory proceedings as well as civil and criminal legal cases (e.g., fair marketing practices, collusion, antitrust). Having the best expert witness on your side often makes the difference between winning and losing. Dr. Rafi Mohammed is one of the most credible authorities on pricing strategy.\nCredibility, Skills, and Experience Leads to Success\nTop academic credentials. Cornell University (Ph.D. Economics), London School of Economics & Political Science (Diploma Economics), Darden School of Business - University of Virginia (Batten Fellow).\nExcellent speaker. Native English speaker (born in Milwaukee, raised in Cincinnati), award winning teacher, regular speaker at conferences (outstanding reviews), and experienced in live television interviews.\nPricing strategy thought leadership. Author of two critically acclaimed pricing strategy books (published by Crown Business - a division of Random House - and HarperBusiness). Written over 90 articles on pricing strategy published in leading business-related websites, magazines, and academic journals.\nRecognized pricing strategy authority. Quoted and appears in top media outlets to discuss pricing strategy including: Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, New York Times, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, The Today Show, and National Public Radio.\nTestifying experience. Expert witness testimony before 6 Public Utility Commissions on pricing issues early in career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.primoartists.com/uncategorized/boston-klezmer-concert/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:55Z", "digest": "sha1:MABXTOLF26FJRW42BPCJHG57Q7ILSZVC", "length": 1045, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.primoartists.com", "title": "Perlman's sold-out klezmer concert receives rave review - Primo Artists", "raw_content": "Violinist Itzhak Perlman played to a sold-out Symphony Hall in Boston (Robert Torres / Boston Globe)\nCommemorating the 20th anniversary of his hugely popular \u201cIn the Fiddler\u2019s House\u201d EMI release and PBS Special, Itzhak Perlman and his longtime klezmer collaborators sold out Symphony Hall in Boston on March 6th in a performance that brought hundreds of audience members out of their seats and dancing in the aisles of the concert hall.\nThe Boston Globe wrote: \u201cThey were line-dancing in the Symphony Hall Boston aisles, several hundred audience members, on Sunday night. The performers on stage were Itzhak Perlman and a band of klezmer musicians; and the occasion was the 20th anniversary of Perlman\u2019s 1995 PBS special and recording \u2018In the Fiddler\u2019s House.\u2019 On Sunday, in a sold-out house, laughter predominated, precipitated as much by Perlman\u2019s hilarious spoken asides as by the music.\u201d\nFor the full review: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/03/07/dancing-symphony-hall-aisles-perlman-celebrates-fiddler-house/cfSn0K2mVTwyAvH8wjxpZO/story.html.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/advice-to-parliament/archive/02_05_a_980507/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KPQ3BBVGZMZMXSARZAKDUEWGYPTHK4U4", "length": 16535, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.priv.gc.ca", "title": "Estimates for 1998 - 1999 - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada", "raw_content": "Appearance of Bruce Phillips the Privacy Commissioner of Canada before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights\nSince I last appeared, an election has intervened. Thus, some of us are meeting for the first time and the issue, and my office's existence, will be a revelation to you. I thought, with the indulgence of returning committee members, I should explain what privacy is, what it is not, and then how I and my 36 staff attempt to defend it.\nPrivacy is so taken for granted in a democracy, so self-evident that it has almost ceased to be evident. Think about it. Privacy is the value at the foundation of the secret ballot, doctor-patient confidentiality, solicitor-client privilege, wire-tapping law, the concept that our homes are our castles, and our society's fierce defence of the autonomy of the individual.\nIn the words of former Supreme Court Justice La Forest, privacy is \"at the heart of liberty in the modern state\". Respecting one another's privacy means the difference between a life of liberty, autonomy and dignity, and a hollow and intimidating existence under a cloud of constant oppressive surveillance.\nThus, privacy is not an individual right enjoyed at the expense of society as a whole. It is part of the glue of mutual respect which helps hold a free society together. Whether to reveal or conceal the details of our lives are decisions for the individual to make, not the state, except in the most limited and exceptional circumstances.\nThis is a critical time for this value we take for granted. Nothing but bold steps will save it. Surveillance, that tool of oppressive totalitarian regimes, is now within the reach of virtually everyone with the desire and the few dollars it takes to buy the sophisticated equipment. By surveillance, I don't mean the guys in trench coats or ubiquitous cameras, although the proliferation of cameras is astonishing. I mean the unseen surveillance through the computer databases of governments and businesses both large and small.\nThe power of new information systems to record, to mine, to match and to manipulate data has grown exponentially since passage of the Privacy Act. Consider my own tiny office. When the Act took effect in 1983, three secretaries had word processors, the Commissioner and one staff member had typewriters. Although our equipment has never been state-of-the-art, we were probably like many government offices. Computing, where it happened at all, was done on mainframes which, despite their then-impressive size, simply stored and retrieved static data.\nToday, everyone in the office has personal computers on their desks. The de-facto standard desk-top computer today has 32 megabytes of memory, substantially more powerful than those old mainframes. And in an office setting, they seldom stand alone but are linked into internal networks which enable us to share data. But more critical to our privacy than the memory capacity is the new machines' ability to collect, exchange, manipulate, analyze and store the data.\nThe more the machines can do, the more we seek new and creative uses for them and the data they store. This is what privacy advocates call \"function creep\", or \"If you build it, they will find new and sometimes dubious uses for it\".\nThere is no debate about modern societies living without electronic information processing. But the quid pro quo is legal protection for the individuals whose personal data can be amassed, mined, manipulated and disclosed, often, one might even argue, usually, without the subjects' knowledge or consent.\nCanadians hold this protection dear. As early as the 1960s, they began questioning the relationship between information, privacy and political power; whether our increasing use of computers could lead to loss of individuality or enforce conformity.\nAs the concerns grew, the Departments of Communications and Justice struck a joint task force in 1971 to examine the issues, culminating in their watershed report, Privacy and Computers. The task force's recommendations contributed to privacy rights being embedded in law in 1978 as Part IV of the Canadian Human Rights Act. The current Privacy Act was built on Part IV and on the OECD's privacy guidelines, adopted in 1980.\nThe aim of the Privacy Act is to hold the federal government accountable for its handling of Canadians' personal information. It does this in two ways. First, it gives individuals a right of access to their personal records held by government agencies, broadly similar to the right to have access to general records.\nBut, the second aspect is the most critical; it sets a standard for government collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The Act is an information management code set out in law. It gives the Commissioner the right to investigate compliance with the code. And it provides individual citizens the right to complain about government information practices, not just about how their access request was handled. In fact these privacy complaints comprise about one quarter of our workload but consume about 80 per cent of our effort.\nThe Act does not cover the Crown corporations (although Parliament unanimously agreed that it should during the last session). It does not cover you, Parliament, or me. It does not cover the Courts. And it does not cover the private sector. There is broadly similar legislation covering most provincial governments and, in Quebec, the private sector. In sum, this patchwork quilt exposes more than it covers and we are beginning to feel the drafts.\nThe Privacy Commissioner is Parliament's independent ombudsman who oversees government compliance with the federal law. Not only do I investigate complaints, I am, in a sense, your canary in the mine. I am here to sing.\nI said this was a critical period for privacy policy in Canada. Let me explain.\nThat patchwork of legal protection is no match for current information technology in the hands of those pressuring for administrative efficiency, cost savings, one-stop shopping for government services and safe streets, and damn the social consequences.\nI will begin with a positive sign, government proposals to bring at least the federally-regulated private sector under the legal umbrella. In September 1996, then-Minister of Justice Allan Rock assured international data commissioners (as privacy commissioners are known elsewhere) that Canada would have private sector privacy law by the year 2000.\nThe first step on this thousand-mile journey is the Industry Canada and Department of Justice discussion paper. The paper, entitled Protection of Personal Information: Building Canada's Information Economy and Society, acknowledges that effective privacy protection is no longer possible without binding the commercial world. The paper proposes building privacy law on the Canadian Standards Association Model Privacy Code and it sought public input on industry codes, registry of databases and independent oversight.\nThe paper focuses on privacy protection as essential to electronic commerce, rather than as a social value. And, it assumes that business has the right to collect whatever personal information it needs. Nevertheless, it is a useful vehicle for stimulating public debate on the issue and for moving it forward with legislative action. That is the essential next step. We need legislation across the country which reflects the best features of an enhanced CSA code and existing privacy law. Voluntary codes simply do not cut it. We also need meaningful and independent oversight.\nAnother aspect of electronic commerce now being discussed is encryption. Encryption scrambles electronic communications to ensure that only the intended recipients can read them, that we know who sent it, and we know it has not been altered in transit. Our trust in the system is fundamental to our engaging in electronic commerce. Also critical to Canadians' participation will be our freedom to choose and use different encryption tools. The more restrictive the government controls on those tools, and the more the encrypted communications are subject to law enforcement override, the less we will use electronic commerce.\nLaw and policy makers should weigh carefully the claims that access to encrypted communications is essential for law enforcement. Giving unfettered access by law enforcement agencies to the tools to read encrypted communications will both reduce the trust in the system and make all electronic communications potentially available.\nLaw enforcement interests must respect the privacy of Canadians, and must not abrogate or encroach on fundamental civil liberties. Broad interception and decryption capabilities may not be the most appropriate solution to the problem of criminal activities, and may violate Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\nAnother policy issue of growing concern is the move towards constructing a national health data network. While health is clearly a provincial matter, the funding to establish an integrated health network comes from the federal government. Health Canada is an important player in the process.\nPutting health care information into an electronic system has important real life implications for Canadians. Respect for privacy is the essence of the doctor-patient relationship. And while the privacy of that relationship was never iron-clad, there were always the risks in paper records and office gossip, leaks were generally within a small circle.\nThe circle expanded with conversion to on-line billing and government collection and storage of some health information. Now the cost and efficiency pressures are on, among them delivering health care across the country, assessing why people get sick, and determining who is using (and abusing) the system and why.\nThese are important issues that affect us all, both as patients and taxpayers. We would all want the doctor to have access to critical medical details if we are wheeled unconscious into an emergency room while away from home. Most of us accept, and indeed support, providing clinical information for legitimate medical research. And most of us can accept that we need to protect the system from abuse. But the quid pro quo for these legitimate aims should not, and need not, be an on-line network that expands that doctor-patient communication to a cast of thousands. We cannot have a trusted relationship with the monolity that is our health care system. I worry that this intimate information, once revealed, may become part of a \"womb-to-tomb\" medical record.\nLoss of privacy should not be the inevitable cost of access to Canada's health care system. Protecting patients' medical information must be central to building health information structures, not an afterthought.\nI would like to close with some administrative matters beginning with the latest statistics on our caseload. This past year, we received 2,455 complaints, completed 1,821 investigations and handled 10,330 inquiries. We continue to carry an open caseload of 1780 which is far too high for the complainants and for my investigators' health.\nThe silver lining to this huge cloud is that more than 900 of these open cases concern HRDC's use of Canada Customs Travellers Declaration Cards to determine who was out of the country while claiming employment insurance. That matter is now before the Court and, for investigators' purposes, effectively reduces the open cases to under 900, a signal improvement over last year's 1467. We also conducted a detailed review of Human Resources Development Canada, analyzed and commented on several pieces of legislation, continued research on the issues I mentioned above and more, made countless public appearances, a few of them before other committees. In all, not a bad bang for $2.5 million, only $100,000 of which is available to spend on running the program.\nWhich leads me to the perennial question of whether the Information Commissioner's Office should be merged with mine. This notion has more lives than the proverbial cat. The incentive, apart from Mr. Grace's continual urging, seemed, at first, to be cost savings.\nLet me explain our structure because it is relevant to the cost argument. The two Commissioners share physical premises, we are on the same floors of the same building so we have one lease and one landlord. We share personnel, financial, informatics, materiel and library services, same reception, same telephones, same computer network, and one Parliamentary vote.\nWe each have our own program staff, investigators and a lawyer for each. In addition, my office has compliance auditors, an obligation which appears only in the Privacy Act, and a handful of policy and public affairs staff, several of them only part-time on contract.\nTreasury Board examined the vaunted \"cost savings\" and concluded there were none. Mr. Grace says there are $500,000 to be saved. I invite him to state specifically how. While I can anticipate it will mean off with one Commissioner's head, the savings are illusory. In practical terms, no single Commissioner can hope to handle the combined workload of more than 4000 complaints.\nAssistant commissioners will be needed (like the provincial model) promptly wiping out any savings. Without assistants, decision making would devolve to staff who are public servants. This is not at all what Parliament intended.\nThe second justification often cited is that this is how the provinces and other countries do it. First, no other countries do it. In fact, after consulting officials and examining the laws and oversight mechanisms in Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand, the British White Paper proposes separate commissioners. One important reason for this is the clear delineation of the issues and the long-standing existence of independent data protection (or privacy) commissioners.\nIn fact, combined commissioners are a feature only of Canadian provincial offices. I will explain the difference between theirs and mine. The federal Commissioner is an ombudsman for an individual right. He or she recommends a course of action to the bureaucrats. That is an important distinction from the provincial commissioners who issue orders, which can be challenged in Court. The classic role of an ombudsman is to require departments and agencies of government to account for their administrative actions and decisions, and to recommend corrective action where necessary.\nAppointing a single commissioner to avoid what Mr. Grace described as \"the scandal\" of senior bureaucrats receiving conflicting advice, effectively means moving the decision making from the head of the agency, where it properly belongs, to the Commissioner. Far from being scandalous, I would argue that it is essential that the head of the institution look at all sides of the matter before he or makes the decision.\nThe effect of \"integration\" would be to irrevocably alter the Commissioners' roles and the focus of the acts. In practice, our offices seldom collide and, in the handful of occasions when they have over 15 years, the differences were usually prompted by the imprecise definition of public servants' personal information, or a different view of the \"public interest\".\nAccess to personal records is a small part of what we do. If anything, the last seven years has seen the privacy issues move our Office further and further from that of the Information Commissioner. The trend will only continue. And should our Office have any oversight role under private sector privacy law, I would argue that, rather than integration, we will need a neat, clean divorce.\nI will close by urging on you two actions. First, I encourage you be alert to the privacy issues which often lurk in much apparently unconnected legislation. Ask yourself whether a new bill requires government to collect and use personal information and, if so, will it be protected by law or, like the NAV CAN example, simply subject to the whims of the marketplace. I encourage you to call us with questions and comments. Since departments are not obliged to consult us when they draft new legislation, your call could be our first alert.\nSecond, I urge you to adopt as your own the report issued by your colleagues on the Human Rights Committee in the days just before the last election. That report, entitled Privacy: Where do we Draw the Line? said much that needs to be said about the value and how it must be protected. 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The cancellation comes after Mexico\u2019s government denounced Trump\u2019s new border security measures aimed at interfering with the cash flow of the very Mexican cartels believed to have financed the current Mexican president\u2019s campaign. On Thursday morning, Pe\u00f1a Nieto took to Twitter to announce that his staff had notified the White House that he would not be going to the scheduled meetings with Trump. On Wednesday, Trump signed two executive orders dealing with enforcing current immigration laws and the construction of a border wall. Trump specifically called out Mexican cartels in the executive order. In response to the anti-cartel measures, Pe\u00f1a Nieto took to social media, as Breitbart Texas reported. In addition to denouncing the measure, Pe\u00f1a Nieto announced that he would be ordering the 50 Mexican Consulates in the U.S. to step up their efforts to protect \u201cmigrants\u201d. The Mexican president made no mention of the fact that the migrants are one of the largest funding mechanisms for the cartels who reportedly helped him gain his office. We've known this all along in regarding Mexico for years, but is the Mexican President's cancellation of a meeting next week absolute proof that the Mexican cartels actually run the nation south of our border. The most major thing Trump's wall would defend America against is the importing of drugs from Mexico onto America's streets that we have dealt with for decades in America, and come on the Mexican government has really done absolutely nothing to stop cartel traffic into the United States. You think if the Mexican government would truly be at war with the Mexican cartels, then you would think Mexico would be for building the wall to put a deep debt into the cartels by blocking them from getting into America nearly everyday due to our current open borders. Nothing really comes out of Mexico besides the cartel drug trade. So question is did the Mexican President cancel his meeting with Trump, because the cartels are who really run Mexico...And because Trump's wall would put an instant burden into cartels by preventing them from trafficking multiple things like drugs and humans into the United States?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/rand-paul-introduces-bill-to-make-marijuana-legal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:E4C4VUF2AY75KVXUMFQK7YUPPMY46HN2", "length": 1994, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.puppetstringnews.com", "title": "Rand Paul introduces bill to make marijuana legal - Puppet String news", "raw_content": "Rand Paul introduces bill to make marijuana legal\nU.S. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Corey Booker (D-New Jersey) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) introduced a bill that would end the federal prohibition of medical marijuana and take steps to improve research. The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States, or CARERS, Act would effectively change the Controlled Substances Act, allowing the possession, production and distribution of medical marijuana in states with established marijuana laws.\nTwenty-nine states, as well as the District of Columbia, have already legalized marijuana, but the CARERS Act would prevent the federal government from prosecuting businesses and individuals in states where medical marijuana is legal, since federally marijuana is still illegal under the Controlled Substances Act.\nThe legalization of weed being proposed by Rand Paul would be a good thing, because it would decriminalize a problem that isn't really a problem...And with the health benefits of marijuana the good possibilities would be endless. Now if this bill is to pass if voted on and signed by President Trump, then we will find out that Trump agrees with the health benefits of marijuana and the decriminalization of the natural cure known as marijuana.\n\u200b People across America should not be against this, as the legalization of marijuana would create millions of jobs, bring in billions of revenue into the United States, and end the high rate of prisoners in the America justice system. This is one of the biggest opportunities for President Trump should this law pass if he agrees to sign a marijuana legalization bill, as President Trump signing this bill would secure his 2020 Presidency bid.\naffordable essay link\nI do think that it is practical. Sometimes, we have to adapt to the new innovations. We can't always live with the rules set by the previous generations. We should also make medicines cheaper for the public. This is a big step for the medical industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/visiting-libyan-muslim-advocates-for-trumps-immigration-ban", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EBREP5WX2LKIX7T43XRYXK6IWBGYOPB2", "length": 2731, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.puppetstringnews.com", "title": "Visiting Libyan Muslim advocates for Trump's immigration ban - Puppet String news", "raw_content": "Visiting Libyan Muslim advocates for Trump's immigration ban\nAmaal Elhaaj is fighting the same radical Islamic terrorism that threatens people around the globe, including in her home country of Libya. She is also a Muslim who agrees with President Donald Trump\u2019s travel order and his effort to keep Americans safe.In fact, Amaal and the eight other Libyans who were granted visas by the Trump State Department came to the United States to seek help from the United Nations and the United States to achieve stability in their country and to gain support for all Muslims in Libya, not just what Amaal calls \u201cpolitical Islam\u201d in power there, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Members of that delegation, made up of tribal leaders and women activists and organized by the National Movement of Libya (NML), believe that the political processes led by the United Nations in Libya have been more accommodating to Islamists than tribes that represent much larger areas and far more people, partly due to the influence of foreign powers, including the United States under the Obama administration. \u201cI believe Trump is not fighting Muslims just because they are Muslims,\u201d Amaal told Breitbart News. \u201cAnd the decision he made, I can accept it \u2026 because he has to make sure the people who enter America are not the wrong people.\u201d To Federal judges now in Washington State, Hawaii, and Maryland you have someone against you're immigration ban block against President Trump, and of all people it's a Muslim leader of Libya...Female Muslim by the way. See America some Muslims truly do understand the evil that Trump is trying to prevent from coming into America, and it's Muslims who have lived overseas under the threat of radical Islam for decades. To be honest not only are Federal judges who are blocking Trump's immigration ban hurting the National Security of Americans, but they have even reflected negativity even among Muslims from the middle east after blocking Trump's lawful immigration ban on six Muslim nations. For agreeing with President Trump on his immigration ban...Maybe Trump should invite Amaal Elhaaj to speak in front of Congress and the Senate. Boy wouldn't that trigger Democrats, Federal Judges in the back pocket of Hillary and Obama refugee policies, if they heard a Muslim female from one of the many Muslim nations that have fallen a part due to radical Islam like Amall Elhaaj home nation of Libya speaking in the House in support of Trump's immigration ban. 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They don\u2019t jump in with solutions.\nLeaders provide feedback and positive reinforcement \u2026 not criticism. Leaders trust their team members enough to surrender a lot of control.\nMaybe not always, and maybe not all that much. It depends on the circumstances, but when it\u2019s appropriate, they delegate authority to the team and live with the outcome, good or not so good.\nThey give their teams the freedom to fail without punishment and subjecting them to a lot of jabber about \u201caccountability.\u201d\nIt\u2019s how you build a competent team, which is no different from the way you raise a competent, resourceful child.\nThe skills required are largely interpersonal skills and communication skills, not expertise in your field and not the personal, hands-on involvement you\u2019ve always relied on.\nBut what you typically see happening, especially with hard-driver personality types \u2026 who, by the way, are the very people who typically get things done and get promoted \u2026 is they want their fingers in every bit of the pie.\nThey become micromanagers, trying to maintain control rather than delegating, coaching, and supporting.\nI see it over and over again. The strength that made someone a great individual performer becomes a weakness in the leader.\nThis is especially the case if someone was really competent in a field and they\u2019re now working with team members who may not have the same skill level and who they don\u2019t completely trust to perform to the same high level they did.\nThe bottom line is you have to make a transition, and it can be a tough one.\nYou were a performer. Now, you have to be the visionary, the coach, the booster, the facilitator. And you have to give up a lot of authority via delegation while retaining all the responsibility.\nThe sad fact is a lot of people thrust into leadership positions simply can\u2019t handle that kind of jolting change of roles.\nThe key to success is understanding what the role demands of you.\nIf you don\u2019t understand the requirements of the role, if you rely on your old success formula, you\u2019re almost certain to struggle.\nThis is why smart organizations provide training and coaching for their emergent leaders in the areas of communication skills, team development, facilitation skills, strategic thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, etc. \u2026 the often maligned \u201csoft skills\u201d that so often make the difference.\nAnd they often provide coaches to help their leadership executives translate what they\u2019ve learned in their training into actual team-leader-like behavior in real time.\nLike not yelling at someone who screwed up right in front of you, but instead giving them feedback and guidance and the assurance that they aren\u2019t in trouble, as long as they gave their honest best effort.\nThe good news. You can make the transition.\nJust don\u2019t think what\u2019s always made you a winner will continue to do so in your new position.\nYou have to grow beyond that.\nIt ain\u2019t easy. The upside? Get it right, and you\u2019ll have much greater influence in your organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ran.org/the-understory/lessons_for_activists_from_epa_s_anniversary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:4MJCKJTYN2T2SNOWCEGLCP2MO224NWVY", "length": 4031, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ran.org", "title": "Lessons For Activists From EPA's Anniversary - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network", "raw_content": "Lessons For Activists From EPA\u2019s Anniversary\nDonora Zinc Mill\nThe anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency, created forty years ago this month, should remind us all of how action at the grass roots can make a real difference. I am certainly not the only one who gets frustrated when bureaucrats bend in the face of pressure, wear narrow blinkers and ignore new facts, or use uncertainty as an excuse for inaction. But writing a book about the history of environmental control\u2014just published as The Polluters\u2014showed me how much worse things were before EPA came into existence. I\u2019ve been dealing with regulators for years as a consultant to community and environmental groups, but I don\u2019t think I ever appreciated the enormous achievement of the activists who led the first Earth Day. It was their organizing that led an unsympathetic Richard Nixon to establish EPA and pushed the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act through congress.\nThe new environmental agency that began life in 1970 was not created out of thin air. It inherited a grab-bag of existing organizations, with long-standing bureaucracies responsible for water and air pollution at its core. These two offices in particular had a long and sordid history. They again and again had made excuses for polluters, while counseling inaction in the face of growing contamination.\nWhat eventually became EPA had its genesis in 1912, when the Public Health Service first expanded its activities into industrial hygiene and sanitation. These two divisions, set up in an abandoned naval hospital in Cincinnati, quickly fell under the influence of business interests. The Industrial Hygiene Division was especially craven \u2013 in the face of conflicting scientific opinion, it proclaimed the safety of leaded gasoline after the fuel was briefly banned in 1925, denied the existence of black lung disease, and declared that the new bug-killer DDT could be sprayed without risk of harm.\nOther, more aggressive, agencies initially shared responsibility for pollution control. But in the absence of strong public pressure, polluting industries with political clout could drive them from the field. In 1937, the House Appropriations Committee shut down pesticide research at the Food and Drug Administration\u2014halting an unfinished experiment with the slaughter of 5000 rats\u2014and gave the money to the Industrial Hygiene Division. In 1955, the Bureau of Mines was put out of the air pollution business. At the center of the action in both years was Felix Wormser, a long-time lobbyist for the lead industry who is otherwise known to history for his efforts to stop publication of warnings against the use of lead paint on cribs and toys.\nThe tide began to turn with the publication of Rachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring in 1962, but progress was at first glacially slow. Congress transferred water pollution control out of the Public Health Service the next year, but there was little change in attitude. Air pollution remained where it was, frustrating environmentally minded higher-ups. Real change came only after these stubborn bureaucracies were folded into EPA in 1970. In the aftermath of Earth Day, Nixon felt compelled to appoint a genuine environmentalist, William Ruckelshaus, as EPA\u2019s first leader. Ruckelshaus challenged sacred cows, pressed for strong protective laws in the face of entrenched opposition, and created an organizational culture that has largely endured, despite retreats and reversals, for forty years.\nAs the Gulf oil spill once again reminds us, government regulators can be captured by those they are supposed to oversee. But that is no certainty. It is the consequence of political and economic pressure, and it can be countered by a vigilant public. Boldness in seeking change, accompanied by wise leadership that harnesses outrage into constructive action, can make a difference today as it did in 1970.\ncleanairact, cleanwateract, environmentalprotectionagency, EPA, Learn\nCoal Tattoo: Massey\u2019s Blankenship to Plead the Fifth in Mining Disaster Probe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raveis.com/towns/ME_Farmington.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VYFMBBR2VLLYK5OB34KIMHYVUJEMKJHQ", "length": 1418, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.raveis.com", "title": "Farmington homes for sale - Maine (ME)", "raw_content": "Farmington Maine Homes For Sale\nClick here to view homes for sale in Farmington Maine or view our nearest office!\nWelcome to William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance, the largest family-owned company in the Northeast serving Farmington Maine. For 43 years, our dedicated mortgage, new homes, international and relocation divisions have provided the resources and experience to find the perfect home for you, whether you're a first time homebuyer, raising a family or downsizing. Since our establishment in 1974 - William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance has experienced steady growth primarily through the sale of Farmington.\nToday, William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance maintains the largest database of Farmington Maine homes for sale and has a network of 85 sales offices and 3,500 sales associates and/or Realtors. Our Connecticut real estate and Massachusetts real estate sales have topped the $5.6 billion mark, and we've closed more than $9 billion worth of mortgage loans. No other real estate firm in Farmington Maine has grown as rapidly under the same owner or has offered such innovative programs and home ownership services to its customers.\nPlease take some time to explore our website and call us with any questions you might have concerning Farmington Maine homes for sale. We promise we'll never be too busy to remember what got us to where we are today - you, the customer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raynordandrea.com/notices/Maria-Costa-Martinez", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SGOXMVPGZMBDUXKVM2BPSELGU4WZNIDN", "length": 930, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.raynordandrea.com", "title": "Obituary for Maria Costa-Martinez | Raynor & D'Andrea Funeral Homes", "raw_content": "Maria Costa-Martinez\nVisiting Hours: Friday, January 18th, 9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. at our West Sayville funeral home.\nFuneral Mass: Friday, January 18th, 11 a.m. at St. Joseph's RC Church, 46 Church Street, Ronkonkoma.\nInterment to follow at Washington Memorial Park, Coram.\nMarie Martinez, 88, a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and aunt passed away on January 15, 2019. Marie was a professional artist who graduated from the School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan, NY and dedicated her life to the fulfillment of her passion. As a fountain of creativity, Marie was an innovator in the field of Re-motivational Therapy, where she helped to define the practice with over 25yrs of service.\nMarie leaves to cherish her memory, four children, Lisa Crofton, Carmen Martinez, Ken Martinez, Carl Martinez; one brother, Anthony Costa; seven grandchildren; one great grandchild and a host of other relatives and friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1eno", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:04Z", "digest": "sha1:66YY5VP5S7KJ2TZJMO2CTHNVECKSHYJJ", "length": 1531, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rcsb.org", "title": "RCSB PDB - 1ENO: BRASSICA NAPUS ENOYL ACP REDUCTASE/NAD BINARY COMPLEX AT PH 8.0 AND ROOM TEMPERATURE", "raw_content": "BRASSICA NAPUS ENOYL ACP REDUCTASE/NAD BINARY COMPLEX AT PH 8.0 AND ROOM TEMPERATURE\nDOI: 10.2210/pdb1ENO/pdb\nDeposition Author(s): Rafferty, J.B., Rice, D.W.\nCommon themes in redox chemistry emerge from the X-ray structure of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) enoyl acyl carrier protein reductase.\nRafferty, J.B., Simon, J.W., Baldock, C., Artymiuk, P.J., Baker, P.J., Stuitje, A.R., Slabas, A.R., Rice, D.W.\nEnoyl acyl carrier protein reductase (ENR) catalyzes the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of trans-delta 2-enoyl acyl carrier protein, an essential step in de novo fatty acid biosynthesis. Plants contain both NADH-dependent and separate NADPH-dependent EN ...\nEnoyl acyl carrier protein reductase (ENR) catalyzes the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of trans-delta 2-enoyl acyl carrier protein, an essential step in de novo fatty acid biosynthesis. Plants contain both NADH-dependent and separate NADPH-dependent ENR enzymes which form part of the dissociable type II fatty acid synthetase. Highly elevated levels of the NADH-dependent enzyme are found during lipid deposition in maturing seeds of oilseed rape (Brassica napus).\nCrystallization of the Nadh-Specific Enoyl Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase from Brassica Napus\nRafferty, J.B.,Simon, J.W.,Stuitje, A.R.,Slabas, A.R.,Fawcett, T.,Rice, D.W.\nKrebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK.\nENOYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN REDUCTASE\n312 Brassica napus Mutation(s): 0\nFind proteins for P80030 (Brassica napus)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 6464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 251.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.re-techuk.co.uk/solution-applications/utilities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:05Z", "digest": "sha1:V3SHAIDOTYXAKEAQYIDJARMFCBMHOWUY", "length": 631, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.re-techuk.co.uk", "title": "Utilities | IoT Solutions |Sigfox |Manhole access monitoring | RE-Tech UK", "raw_content": "Utilities Solution Ranges\nUtility companies look after and manage our essential services. Knowing when the meters have been accessed by the appropriate person can be critical in identifying unauthorised access for fraudulent or otherwise purposes. With IoT smart meter technology, you can have accurate and up to date information at your fingertips. We can also eliminate the need for personnel to visit metering sites reducing costs while giving live meter readings of your electricity, gas, oil and water usage. Our devices require no external power supply, so fitment is quick and easy offering a battery life of up to 10 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reallifeathome.com/tag/january/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BBA5ZCS72DQL3UAX5PWOZCIBYXFU22N5", "length": 1410, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.reallifeathome.com", "title": "january Archives - Real Life at Home", "raw_content": "Most Holy Name of Jesus Coloring Page Set\nThis Most Holy Name of Jesus Coloring Page set is a bit of a departure from the usual coloring pages that Eric and I make. While these ones could definitely be done by younger children as well, I wanted to make a design that older kids might have fun with as well. To do this, I went with a hand drawn style approach\u2026 Read More\nFiled Under: All Printables, Catholic Printables Tagged With: coloring pages, january, Most Holy Name of Jesus\n18 New Year\u2019s Eve Activities and Crafts for Kids\nI don\u2019t know about all of you, but I\u2019m very ready to say goodbye to 2016 and hope for a happier, more hopeful 2017. To celebrate the new year, I put together some awesome resources for New Year\u2019s Eve activities and crafts for kids. Included in the list of New Year\u2019s Eve activities and crafts are: Printables for New Year\u2019s\u2026 Read More\nFiled Under: Crafts and Projects for Kids, New Years Tagged With: january\nJanuary Catholic Saints Word Search Printable\nEven though December isn\u2019t done yet, it\u2019s not too early to print up (or pin) this fun and easy Catholic saints word search that features the names of nine saints who have feast days in January. In this puzzle, words can be found running up and down, left to right, and diagonal. Words that should be searched for are the\u2026 Read More\nFiled Under: All Printables, Catholic Printables Tagged With: Catholic Word Searches, january", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 7511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rebelnrose.co.uk/returns/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EQUJETVJ774AAEFMBZRCMK7BQ4XS7YYL", "length": 1248, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rebelnrose.co.uk", "title": "Rebel n Rose Halifax, Handmade bath bombs Returns Policy", "raw_content": "Home | Refunds & returns\nPlease read the following information about returns/refunds\nAll refunds/returns/exchanges are decided on a case-by-case basis. I want you to be thrilled with your purchase & we will do what we can to help you be happy.\nItems are entitled to be refunded or returned based on a complaint. If an item is unsatisfactory, a written explanation is needed before the item may be considered for a refund. Buyer must take into account the description of the item before requesting a refund. If the item matches the description by the seller and the buyer is unsatisfied, the seller is not responsible for refund.\nWhen do I qualify for a refund?\nYou qualify for a refund only if we have provided you with the wrong items, or if your items were faulty when received. Unfortunately, due to the nature of our products, we cannot provide refunds for any other reason. Please see our Terms and Conditions for more information.\nIf you qualify for a refund, then please contact us immediately by emailing [email protected] or calling 07852845339. If your refund application is accepted, we will send your payment back directly, via the method you used to purchase the items. The agreed refund value will then arrive within 3-5 working days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.recrosmedica.com/board-of-directors/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:13Z", "digest": "sha1:USYIVZWUWZWQDV55ZKDWXPPBVZXVYAMI", "length": 3474, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.recrosmedica.com", "title": "Board of Directors \u2013 Recros Medica", "raw_content": "Board of Directorsaircan12018-03-02T20:52:24+00:00\nPresident and CEO, Board Director\nMr. Albright was formerly Chairman and CEO of Andrew Technologies LLC from 2011 to 2017. In the past, Mr. Albright was President of the topical aesthetic division at Syneron Medical Ltd. and before that Head of North American marketing at Nobel Biocare. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Albright was VP BOTOX Global Strategic Marketing at Allergan, where he led the U.S. launch of BOTOX Cosmetic and the commercial development of Latisse. He started his medical industry experience in 1983 at Parke-Davis division of Warner Lambert, where he was a Director of Marketing on the Lipitor launch team. Mr. Albright is also a Board member of Bonti Inc and Andrew Technologies. Mr. Albright has a BS in biology from The Citadel and an MBA in marketing from Mercer University.\nBoard Director, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board\nDr. Ambe is a board certified Plastic Surgeon with over 20 years of experience in Newport Beach, California. He is the founder and CEO of the Newport Center Surgical, a multispecialty surgery center of excellence. He is also the founder Ambe Aesthetics, a non-surgical aesthetic center of excellence. Dr. Ambe is also the Chairman of the Company\u2019s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Ambe is currently serving as the principle clinical investigator for Recros Medica. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of California and received his medical degree with honors from the University of California Medical School in Irvine, California. He has authored several articles in Plastic Surgery including the \u201cThe Latest Advances in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.\u201d\nDAVID F. HALE\nChairman of the Board, Founder\nMr. Hale is Chairman of Hale BioPharma Ventures, LLC, a private investment fund. He is also; Chairman of Adigica Health, Biocept, Cassiopea, Clarify Medical, Colorescience, Conatus, Dermata, MDRejuvena, Neurelis and Neurana Pharmaceuticals. In the non-profit world, Mr. Hale is Chairman at Rady Children\u2019s Institute for Genomic Health; Director of Rady Children\u2019s Hospital, the Salk Institute, CONNECT and BIOCOM. He is the former Chairman of Crisi, Santarus, SkinMedica, Micromet, and Somaxon; and a former President and CEO of CancerVax, Gensia and Hybritech.\nMARK J. KERSLAKE\nEDWARD KNOWLTON, M.D.\nFounder, Chief Scientist & Board Director\nDr. Knowlton is a board certified Plastic Surgeon with over 30 years of experience and is a graduate of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis. As the founder of Thermage (a publicly traded company), he was the principle inventor and developer of the ThermaCool TC System that tightens skin non-invasively. Dr. Knowlton has authored over 100 medical device patents and has published several articles on Plastic Surgery including an innovative approach to Breast Reconstruction called \u201cThe Peg Procedures.\u201d\nFounder, Board Director\nMs. McCarthy is President and CEO of Cross Tack, Inc. a consulting firm providing clients a framework to address critical strategic decisions. She was previously Retired, President and CEO of SM&A, the world\u2019s largest contract procurement service for defense, homeland security, health care, aerospace and information technology. Ms. McCarthy was also previously CFO of PIA Merchandising; Giant Group, Ltd.; and Wherehouse Entertainment. She began her career at Mellon Bank, where she became a Vice President in the Highly Leveraged Transaction Division.\nCHRISTOPH WESTPHAL, MD, PhD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tv/video/AP-1V1QA2R7N1W11/2nd-place-run-rotorua?playlist=AP-1U6MB65Q11W11:recommendations:different_type", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HQRAFBWFHI7CDSCSWL4DQ2LAXPWQNPTM", "length": 166, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.redbull.com", "title": "2nd Place Run \u2013 Rotorua | Crankworx World Tour 2018 | Red Bull TV", "raw_content": "Rising from fifth place standing to quench a solid second place run, check out Thomas Genon's second-place run from Crankworx World Tour 2018 in Rotorua, New Zealand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 11419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2013/07/super-priority-of-financial-support-directions-ove", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3BXI5OTNTJQLKTRMMHGHEWWHWPSVVBXY", "length": 7485, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.reedsmith.com", "title": "\u2018Super Priority\u2019 of Financial Support Directions Overturned in Supreme Court of England and Wales | Perspectives | Reed Smith LLP", "raw_content": "\u2018Super Priority\u2019 of Financial Support Directions Overturned in Supreme Court of England and Wales\nAuthors: Charlotte M\u00f8ller Josh Hughes William Sutton\nThe Supreme Court has today allowed an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal (14 October 2011) which, in certain circumstances in an insolvency situation, would have accorded \u201csuper priority\u201d to a financial support direction made by the Pensions Regulator.\nReferring to it as \u201cthe sensible and fair answer\u201d, the Supreme Court held that liability arising under a financial support direction made after an insolvency event has occurred will rank pari passu (i.e. equally) with other unsecured creditors (rather than constituting an expense of administration as the Court of Appeal had previously held).\nThis is because, even where a financial support direction is made after the insolvency event, the liability should properly be considered as having arisen \u201cby reason of any obligation incurred before\u201d the insolvency event.\nBackground: Protections for a Pension Scheme\u2019s Funding Position on Insolvency\nPrior to the Pensions Act 2004, the key statutory protection that trustees could look to on the insolvency of a sponsoring employer was Section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995 (Section 75).\nSection 75 is designed to provide protection for members of a defined benefit pension scheme when the sponsoring employer(s) of that pension scheme suffers insolvency. Section 75 does this by giving the trustees of such a pension scheme a statutory claim for the cost of securing the benefits promised by the pension scheme. That claim is against the entity that employed the members under the pension scheme.\nHowever, despite Section 75 being the key \u201clast resort\u201d protection for pension scheme benefits (and in the absence of any other security negotiated by the trustees), the statutory claim only gives trustees ranking as an unsecured creditor of the insolvent employer.\nTrustees of such pension schemes were given added protection for the benefits of their members when the Pensions Act 2004 created the Pensions Regulator and gave him powers to issue financial support directions (FSDs) and contribution notices (CNs). This gave trustees comfort that the Pensions Regulator could, through issuing an FSD or a CN, give them access to the financial resources of entities other than just the employers under the pension scheme. This power was designed primarily to be used against companies in the same group where assets of the group were held away from the sponsoring employer company and out of reach of the trustees of pension schemes.\nHigh Court and Court of Appeal Judgments\nRecent case law, sparked by the high-profile collapses of the Nortel and Lehman groups of companies, had expanded the effect of these powers even further when the Court of Appeal confirmed that liability for an FSD issued after insolvency ranked as an expense of insolvency.\nThis interpretation was widely viewed as not representing the intention behind the legislation. Nonetheless, this was the only way that the judges involved felt they could interpret the law (even if their comments suggested that they did so reluctantly).\nOn the basis of the High Court\u2019s and the Court of Appeal\u2019s interpretation, the additional powers introduced under the Pensions Act 2004 therefore not only gave trustees access to a wider group of companies for funding (as was previously known), but also, unexpectedly, could give any such liability a higher ranking position on insolvency than a Section 75 claim.\nToday\u2019s Supreme Court Judgment\nThe Supreme Court unanimously allowed the appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal and held that liability arising under an FSD made after an insolvency event has occurred will rank pari passu (i.e., equally) with other unsecured creditors.\nThe Supreme Court took the view, by reference to the Insolvency Rules 1986 (Rules 12.3 and 13.12), that the liability arising from an FSD made after the insolvency date still fell into the category of a \u201cdebt\u201d of the insolvent company.\nThis was on the basis of one of the limbs of the definition of \u201cdebt\u201d which states that \u201cdebt\u201d includes \u201cany debt or liability to which the company may become subject after [the insolvency date] by reason of any obligation incurred before [the insolvency date]\u201d (Rule 13.12(1)(b)).\nThe Supreme Court referred to the fact that the insolvent entity was, prior to insolvency, a member of a particular group of companies (which made it possible to impose liability through an FSD) and held that this must amount to a sufficient \u201cobligation incurred\u201d prior to the insolvency event (as required under Rule 13.12(1)(b) quoted above).\nIn addition, the Supreme Court held that, for a company to have incurred an \u201cobligation\u201d, it must normally have taken, or been subjected to, some step or combination of steps which:\na) Had some legal effect (such as putting it under some legal duty or into some legal relationship) \u2013 in this case, being part of the relevant group of companies was sufficient; and\nb) Resulted in it being vulnerable to the specific liability in question such that there would be a real prospect of that liability being incurred \u2013 in this case, the fact that the group of companies met the key criteria for the imposition of an FSD was sufficient.\nConsideration must also then be given to whether it would be consistent with the type of liability being imposed to conclude that it gives rise to a \u201cdebt\u201d under the Insolvency Rules.\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s view was that all these requirements were satisfied in relation to the FSDs against the Nortel and Lehman groups of companies.\nAs such, the liability would be treated as a \u201cdebt\u201d of the insolvent company and therefore given the same priority as any other unsecured obligation that existed prior to insolvency.\nThis, the Supreme Court held, was \u201cthe sensible and fair answer\u201d, and the answer supported by the law. Comment was also made that there was no reason why there should be any distinction in the priority order of a Section 75 claim and the liability under an FSD/CN.\nFor trustees of pension schemes, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision means that the unexpected extra protection that may have resulted from the Court of Appeal\u2019s judgment in 2011 has been removed. To obtain any priority for scheme funding on insolvency which is above that of being an unsecured creditor (either on the basis of Section 75 or an FSD/CN), trustees will therefore need to continue to negotiate with their sponsoring employers to obtain extra security where this is warranted.\nLenders, borrowers and insolvency practitioners alike will generally welcome the judgment. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision means that companies which have a potential FSD liability should not find their access to funding impaired for this reason alone as lenders will have greater certainty as to the value of their security and their ability to enforce it. Insolvency practitioners will be better able to assess the risk of appointments to companies with such exposures, and will therefore be more willing to take such appointments.\nHowever, the judgment will no doubt give rise to some further debates as to the nature of provable debts where companies are in an insolvency procedure and indeed what should be considered a contingent liability prior to administration or liquidation.\nCapabilities: Financial Industry Investment Management Private Equity & Investment Funds Restructuring & Insolvency Structured Finance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 8619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2013/07/us-district-court-vacates-secs-rule-requiring-publ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZL53JLNX2NKPYA6FIVLSX2HVG5ED73Q", "length": 5103, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.reedsmith.com", "title": "U.S. District Court Vacates SEC\u2019s Rule Requiring Public Disclosure of Energy Companies\u2019 Payments to U.S. and Foreign Governments | Perspectives | Reed Smith LLP", "raw_content": "U.S. District Court Vacates SEC\u2019s Rule Requiring Public Disclosure of Energy Companies\u2019 Payments to U.S. and Foreign Governments\nOn July 2, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a rule promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\") that would have required energy companies to publicly disclose payments to U.S. and foreign governments regarding the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals, even when such disclosure is prohibited by those governments. The American Petroleum Institute (the \"API\"), the national trade association representing the oil and gas industry, challenged the rule under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act (\"APA\"). In a 30-page Memorandum Opinion, Judge John D. Bates decided the issue in favor of the API, holding that the SEC had \"misread the statute\" to require public disclosure of the reports. This ruling forestalls the imposition of a burdensome new requirement on energy companies, but likely only temporarily. The SEC must now go back to the drawing board and produce a new rule under the statute.\nThe statute in question is the Dodd-Frank Act, and specifically section 13(q), which directs the SEC to issue a rule requiring companies listed on a U.S. stock exchange and engaged in commercial resource extraction to include in an annual report any payment made to a foreign government or the U.S. government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals. The provision is intended to address what Congress deemed the \"resource curse\" phenomenon, in which the general populations of resource-rich countries remain poor despite anticipated or actual inflows of payments for the resources. Section 13(q) is intended to enhance the energy industry\u2019s already existing voluntary efforts to address this concern, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative through which key players in the industry report their payments to foreign governments for compilation and selective disclosure.\nSection 13(q) does not specify how the industry reports are to be submitted, and mentions public disclosure only in a subsection that directs the SEC, to the extent practicable, to make available to the public a compilation of the submitted information. In accordance with the statutory language, commentators had urged the SEC to adopt a rule allowing energy companies to file their disclosures confidentially with the SEC, which could then make compilations of the information public. Commentators further argued that the SEC\u2019s rule should provide exemptions to the disclosure requirements for four countries that prohibit such disclosure \u2013 Angola, Cameroon, China, and Qatar \u2013 because refusing these exemptions could force companies doing business in those countries to withdraw, costing tens of billions of dollars. Instead, the SEC issued a rule last September providing that the reports should be submitted through its online EDGAR system, accessible to all.\nWithout reaching the constitutional issue, the court vacated the rule, labeling the SEC\u2019s interpretation of Congress\u2019s mandate fundamentally incorrect, and the SEC\u2019s refusal to allow exemptions \"arbitrary and capricious\" under the APA. The court chastised the SEC for abdicating its statutory responsibility to investors by failing to undertake a reasoned decision-making process and pursuing the section\u2019s perceived aims \"no matter the cost.\" Calling the rule\u2019s deficiencies \"grave indeed,\" the court vacated the rule and remanded it to the agency for further proceedings.\nThis recent ruling is just one in a string of court losses for the SEC on challenges to its rule making. The ball is now back in the SEC\u2019s court to promulgate a different rule pursuant to section 13(q), and it remains to be seen whether the new rule will be any less onerous for energy companies. The SEC previously acknowledged that public disclosure of payments to government entities would burden competition and harm investors. If the SEC had viewed itself as powerless to address that harm because of its interpretation of Congress\u2019s mandate, this recent decision may clear the way for a new rule requiring only confidential disclosure to the SEC. If, however, the SEC continues to take an aggressive stance, it could re-promulgate an identical rule pursuant to its own discretionary authority and supported by a better explanation for its refusal to allow exemptions. Alternatively, it could decide to redraft the rule to provide exemptions for the foreign countries with conflicting laws, but continue to require public disclosure in all other cases.\nReed Smith\u2019s Global Regulatory Enforcement and Energy & Natural Resources lawyers have extensive experience with SEC rulemaking, compliance, and defense. If you would like any further information regarding any of the matters highlighted above, please contact one of the authors or your regular Reed Smith relationship lawyer.\nCapabilities: Commodity & Derivatives Regulatory Energy & Natural Resources Regulatory Securities Litigation & Financial Markets Regulation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 6297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reellifewisdom.com/taxonomy/term/bette_davis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KAVQ6L2SDO5UN3DS43TWQCGJ2N4TCIER", "length": 1126, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.reellifewisdom.com", "title": "Reel Life Wisdom - Bette Davis | Reel Life Wisdom", "raw_content": "\u201cFunny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman.\u201d\n\"So many people know me, I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.\"\n\u201cIn the last analysis, nothing\u2019s any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that, you\u2019re not a woman. You\u2019re something with a French provincial offices or a book full of clippings but you\u2019re not a woman.\u201d\n\u201cIf you want people to like you, you\u2019ve got to like people.\u201d\n\u201cIndependence is reliance on one\u2019s own will and judgment.\u201d\n\u201cIf I could get rid of some of my inhibitions just for once I might have more confidence.\u201d\n\u201cYou mustn\u2019t miss the moment. There\u2019s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.\u201d\n\u201cI hate conversation before I\u2019ve had something hot.\u201d\n\u201cIf love is right, it is the most precious gift in the world. But you must be sure, very sure, that it is right. For if it isn\u2019t, there is no worse agony.\u201d\n\u201cThere are some things that are useless to fight against, Monsieur, and one of them is another woman\u2019s jealousy.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reference.com/history/sphinx-located-9cba0d5ff785ba72", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:06Z", "digest": "sha1:54QHHNQUASAMEYTKYEYKCXYKAOND4QVC", "length": 985, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.reference.com", "title": "Where Is the Sphinx Located? | Reference.com", "raw_content": "Where Is the Sphinx Located?\nThe Sphinx is located in Giza, Egypt. The Sphinx is situated on the west bank of the Nile River on the Giza Plateau. It is the largest monolith statue in the world and is over 60 feet high, 241 feet long and 63 feet wide.\nA sphinx is a mythological creature that has the body of a lion but the head of a human. The face of the Sphinx is believed to depict the Egyptian pharaoh, Khafra. The Sphinx is thousands of years old, but there is some controversy over exactly how old it is. The nose of the Sphinx was removed in 1378 by a Sufi Muslim, and further damage occurred to the face around 1800 when the French occupied the area and used the Sphinx for cannon practice.\nWhy Is the Great Sphinx so Important?\nHow Long Did It Take to Build the Great Sphinx?\nWhat City Is the Sphinx Located In?\nhistory of the sphinx egypt\nhow the sphinx originally looked\n10 facts about the sphinx\ngreat sphinx of giza location\nthe great sphinx of egypt\nhistory of the sphinx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 4120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reference.com/math/explanation-sum-rule-product-rule-probability-d47e2f9910bab545", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GMQEO7KCFTBSSOOE54UWJYRONQFJHGBN", "length": 1638, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.reference.com", "title": "What Is an Explanation of the Sum Rule and Product Rule of Probability? | Reference.com", "raw_content": "What Is an Explanation of the ...\nWhat Is an Explanation of the Sum Rule and Product Rule of Probability?\nThe product rule postulates on the probable simultaneous occurrence of two independent events while the sum rule indicates the probable occurrence of either one of two mutually exclusive events. Both rules use a mathematical formula to calculate the respective probabilities.\nThe product rule is also called the multiplication rule. It states that the probability that two independent events will occur simultaneously is equal to the product of their respective probabilities. For example, if the probability of event A is 188 and the probability of event B is 189, then the probability of both occurring at the same time is 188 times 189 or 8539.\nThe sum rule is also known as the addition law or rule. It states that the probability of any one of two or more mutually exclusive events occurring is the sum of the probabilities of each individual event. This also applies to the probability where one event can occur in two or more different ways. For example, if the probability of event A is 8539 and the probability of event B is 8541, then the probability that one or the other will occur is 190.\nThe produce rule and the sum rule are often used in the study of genetics to determine the probability of specific genotypes and phenotypes, among other uses. The two rules may also be used together when a probability experiment is performed repeatedly.\nWhat Are Different Types of Probability?\nHow Do I Calculate Probability?\nHow Can You Predict Outcomes?\nWhat Are Example Statistics and Probability Problems and Their Solutions?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 4705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 181.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regus.ae/business-package/united-kingdom/london/london-covent-garden-22-long-acre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WKOLQRXB657HIYQLUSN2JF7ZGATYTZAL", "length": 1107, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.regus.ae", "title": "London, Covent Garden - 22 Long Acre Business package option with one simple price - Regus United Arab Emirates", "raw_content": "Business package in London, Covent Garden - 22 Long Acre\nThe Regus centre at 22 Long Acre is a stylish building and is fully furnished with a high-end decor. It offers a wide range of serviced offices and shared space across 5 floors for long and short term hire. It also features a lounge area and roof terrace to enjoy excellent views of London city. Often used by media and PR companies, the impressive meeting rooms are suitable for businesses of any size, for any length of time. Visitors can expect high-quality technology and helpful admin support. The building has 24-hour access, security and air-conditioning.\nRegus 22 Long Acre is located in the heart of the theatre district in London's Covent Garden and is very easy to access via transport links. It is within 100 metres from Covent Garden tube station and is only a short walk from Charing Cross and Leicester Square stations which give access to the Piccadilly Line, Northern Line and National Rail services. If you are driving, the centre does offer ample onsite car parking.\nBusiness package in London, Covent Garden - 22 Long Acre Buy now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 6208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rehasport.pl/service/rheumatology?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PHKVOW3MP6VP66YJMKY3LAPEFKDCSRHU", "length": 1028, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.rehasport.pl", "title": "Rheumatology - Ortopedia, diagnostyka, rehabilitacja | Rehasport Clinic", "raw_content": "Rheumatology is a field of medicine which deals with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of joint, bone, connective tissue inflammatory and degenerative diseases. The specialist in this respect is a rheumatologist.\nIf you notice any of these symptoms, you are advised to arrange an appointment: reddening, edemas, rash around joints, recurring muscle and joint pains which limit mobility, symptoms unrelated to previous injuries, as well as fever, drowsiness, weakness. Rheumatological diseases are sustained both by older people and youngsters.\nThe most common rheumatological disorders are as follows:\nArthrosis,\nThe rheumatologist\u2019s diagnosis and initial commencement of treatment may hinder or inhibit growth of such diseases. The earlier the disorders is detected, the more comfortable life is in the future.\nPlease visit Rehasport Clinic. Rheumatologists see patients in our centers in Pozna\u0144 and Gda\u0144sk. We can perform a wide range of laboratory tests and imaging examinations as well as provide top-quality medical care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 8144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/on-some-equivalence-relations-between-incidence-calculus-and-dempstershafer-theory-of-evidence(102e2edf-4b05-4b56-9888-ae1f448d2889).html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XBJJL372KIKO5YELKZZF4YX3PWCDVIAR", "length": 269, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.research.ed.ac.uk", "title": "On Some Equivalence Relations between Incidence Calculus and Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence - Edinburgh Research Explorer", "raw_content": "On Some Equivalence Relations between Incidence Calculus and Dempster-...\nOn Some Equivalence Relations between Incidence Calculus and Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence\nF. S. Correa da Silva\nProceedings of the Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revengenews.com/pvr-cinemas-oscars-film-festival-adds-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-isle-of-dogs-in-week-two/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:XIKOFNYZU5PH2TEC6ASM465ZPELVILOZ", "length": 2882, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.revengenews.com", "title": "PVR Cinemas \u2018Oscars Film Festival\u2019 Adds Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Isle of Dogs in Week Two", "raw_content": "PVR Cinemas \u2018Oscars Film Festival\u2019 Adds Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Isle of Dogs in Week Two\nSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Isle of Dogs are the new additions to the second week of PVR Cinemas\u2019 ongoing month-long \u201cOscars Film Festival\u201d, which is running across 11 cities \u2014 Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Noida, Baroda, Nagpur, and Hyderabad \u2014 in India, till Thursday, March 7, 2019, well beyond the 2019 Oscars ceremony later this month on Sunday, February 24, 2019. The two animated films join Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, Mary Poppins Returns, and Mary Queen of Scots, which will continue from the first week of the Oscars Film Festival. Christopher Robin, First Man, and A Quiet Place drop out, meanwhile. Both Into the Spider-Verse and Isle of Dogs are re-releases, the former from December and the latter from July 2018.\nIn its original announcement last week, PVR Cinemas had said that the lineup for its Oscars Film Festival would somewhat change every week, which is exactly what\u2019s happening here. The Golden Globe-winning Into the Spider-Verse, which is still playing in very few non-PVR theatres across India, joins the catalogue for PVR\u2019s Oscars Film Festival on the road to the 2019 Oscars, alongside Wes Anderson\u2019s Japanese-inspired Isle of Dogs, both of which are nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category opposite Incredibles 2, Mirai, and Ralph Breaks the Internet. Isle of Dogs is also nominated for Best Original Score, for the work of Alexandre Desplat.\nAs with the first week, each film that\u2019s part of PVR\u2019s Oscars Film Festival will have a single screening in each city. Check your local listings on PVR Cinemas\u2019 official website or third-party ticketing partners such as BookMyShow and Paytm for additional details. PVR is re-releasing Into the Spider-Verse and Isle of Dogs in a week that already has three new releases from Hollywood: the sequel to the animated hit, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part; the long-gestating Alita: Battle Angel from director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and producer James Cameron; and the Liam Neeson-starrer action thriller Cold Pursuit.\nThere\u2019s still no sign of the five missing Best Picture contenders at the 2019 Oscars: BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Roma, A Star Is Born, and Vice. Of those, don\u2019t expect to see BlacKkKlansman and Roma in theatres due to their subject matter and Netflix release model, respectively. A Star Is Born is still missing, strangely, despite releasing previously in India back in October. Gadgets 360 has reached out to PVR Cinemas for India release date info on The Favourite and Vice, and we will update this article if we hear back.\nNext article Ranveer Singh sports print on pattern and we're not sure where to look first\nPrevious article Prime Minister to Visit Jalpaiguri, West Bengal on 8th February 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 11364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reverbnation.com/theexoticones/songs", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4C5OI3B7HJMJFVANI736CMSOI6W4A5NO", "length": 130, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.reverbnation.com", "title": "The Exotic Ones Songs | ReverbNation", "raw_content": "The Exotic Ones\nRock / 60s Garage Rock / horror/sci-fi Nashville, TN ... more\nRock / 60s Garage Rock / horror/sci-fi Nashville, TN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revolutionpersonaltraining.com.au/blog/how-does-small-group-personal-training-compare-to-other-fitness-plans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NUDV4Y4FQGNAY6Z7CDHWFEK4NU2ISB3R", "length": 3903, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.revolutionpersonaltraining.com.au", "title": "How does Small Group Personal Training Compare to other Fitness Plans? | BLOGGING ALL THINGS HEALTH & FITNESS", "raw_content": "How does Small Group Personal Training Compare to other Fitness Plans?\nOver the years, many different weight loss and fitness programs have popped up. Each one promising better results faster and easier than the last. How do these plans compare to each other? Which program is truly going to help individuals achieve the results they desire in the healthiest and quickest manner? Is small group personal training a feasible option for you?\nSmall group personal training is a new trend on the rise among people all over the globe with weight loss , motivation and fitness goals. A lot of things in life are more fun when tackled in a group environment. Going to the movies and eating out are not very exciting when done alone; the same goes for exercising. Small group training provides constant motivation and heavy doses of encouragement between members to help each other reach their goals. People tend to lose interest in sticking to their goals when training alone and can easily slide back to being a couch potato again but if working out with other people who all share the same goals, each individual can reach their goals faster by being part of a motivating group. There are cost-saving aspects to it too since personal training is much easier to afford when the cost is split between members. Even people who have found results from the previous exercise programs find that there are definite cons and setbacks that are not suffered in small group personal training.\nA few years back, the thirty minute training session was introduced as an alternative to the normal one hour personal training session. This session was shorter and less expensive than traditional workouts and made it possible for people with time constraints and slim wallets to benefit from having a personal trainer. Some critics of this method complain that thirty minutes is not enough time to truly experience the lasting effects necessary for goals to be met. However with a healthy diet, a good warm up and cool down strategy; the quickie thirty minute session with a trainer can do wonders for the body. Boot camps are another development and seem to have been the most affordable one in the past. Similar to small group personal training, these classes offer the benefit of having a group of people that can motivate each other while still providing a qualified personal trainer to guide the sessions along. However, due to the larger group size, it does not allow for much one on one time so it is not a feasible option for people with medical issues or special needs who require individualized attention. There are many other \u201cfun\u201d classes that are available such as Zumba and line dancing. Zumba is fun in the way that once the workout begins; it\u2019s possible to forget that it is a fitness routine. Zumba features dance moves that are easily learned by young and old alike and is especially popular among seniors who find the moves easy on the body. Unfortunately these classes do not offer the benefit of having personal attention from a the profession personal trainer for questions, needs and focus on individual body areas that need extra work. This is where people can get lost in the crowd.\nOut of all the options and variety of classes discussed, it is clear that small group personal training is the most effective way to reach fitness and performance goals in a group environment. Small group training offers the one on one attention that a lot of people need and desire in order to achieve their goals. The motivation provided by the other participants can be a good kick in the rear end that is needed from time to time in order to not give up and keep in gear. Make working out fun! Do it with other people who share the same goals in a small group personal training class found with us here at Revolution Personal Training.\n< Reap the Benefits With Mobile Per... The Ins & Outs Of Exercise: How T... >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rferl.org/z/16235/2016/10/1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PCFZMFRWCH75WSNWWJMUJKZ3YYXMK6YN", "length": 3715, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.rferl.org", "title": "Photo Galleries, October 01, 2016", "raw_content": "The Undersea Soviets\nOff the coast of Crimea, a collection of Soviet leaders lies submerged beneath the waves.\nVaclav Havel's Legacy, Through The Lenses Of Friends\nFriends of former Czech President Vaclav Havel plan to mark his 80th birthday on October 5th with several memorial events. Havel, who died in 2011, went from being a jailed playwright to Czechoslovakia's first postcommunist leader. Two of his friends, photographers Bohdan Holomicek and Tomki Nemec, captured intimate moments from Havel's private life as he evolved from communist-era dissident to head of state.\n'Still Much To Say': Remembering The Massacre At Babi Yar\nIn the autumn of 1941, one the gravest atrocities of the 20th century unfolded in a ragged ravine on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The massacre of 33,771 Jews on September 29-30, 1941, at Babi Yar was an early example of the industrial-scale murder the Nazis would employ in their quest to annihilate the Jewish race.\nRussia's Valaam Island: A Place Of Pilgrimage And Impending Evictions\nRussia's Valaam Island has been a destination for religious pilgrims for hundreds of years. A 14th-century monastery and the natural beauty of Lake Ladoga have attracted visitors including tsars and presidents. But in recent decades, the remote island has been at the center of legal disputes. The monastery and the rest of island's property were returned to the Orthodox Church in the post-Communist era, and officials are now using their authority to evict most long-term residents who are not connected with the church.\nBelgrade Pride March Passes Off Peacefully Amid High Police Presence\nGay pride marchers have rallied in central Belgrade amid a massive turnout of riot police and security officials aimed at preventing unrest that had marred previous rallies.\nSome of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 37th week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.\nThe shaman has served as healer and diviner in Siberia for centuries. During the Soviet age of \"science and reason\" the mystical figures were harshly repressed, but today in isolated regions of Siberia the shaman is once more regaining importance as the mediator between the spirit worlds above, the underworld below, and this world of ours.\nMuslims Begin Celebrating Eid Al-Adha, The 'Festival Of Sacrifice'\nMuslims in many countries celebrated the first day of Eid al-Adha on September 12, marking the holiday with the slaughter of sheep and other animals. The feast of sacrifice pays tribute to the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), who showed his willingness to sacrifice his first son as an act of supplication to God. Families traditionally keep some of the animal's meat for themselves, share some with friends and neighbors, and donate a portion to the needy. While Muslims in Eurasia and the Middle East started their celebrations, believers in Pakistan and other countries were still waiting for the holiday to begin one day later.\nHow The World Commemorates The Victims Of 9/11\nIn the 15 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the former site of the World Trade Center in New York has been transformed into a place of remembrance. But there are other, lesser-known memorials devoted to the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks. The United Kingdom, Israel, and Italy all host their own memorials, and Russia has donated a commemorative artwork to the United States.\nClip Clop, Click Click: First To Worst At The World Nomad Games\nWhat is it like to photograph Central Asia's biggest sporting event? Our photographer shares the view from the media pack. From first to worst, these were the standout details from the 2016 games.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rfsat.com/index.php/en/research/projects/cost-ca16226.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2HJ6WUREYHJMSMSDA27EQANUL3SJALDC", "length": 1749, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rfsat.com", "title": "RFSAT - COST-CA16226 \"Sheld-On\"", "raw_content": "Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly\nTime frame: 24th October 2017 - 23rd December 2021\nBy 2050, the number of people in the EU aged 65 and above is expected to grow by 70% and the number of people aged over 80, by 170%, which will increase demand and costs for healthcare. Integrating ICT solutions into habitats, along with improved building design, will allow us to live at home and stay active and productive for longer despite cognitive or physical impediments.\nImproving accessibility, functionality, and safety at home, at work and in society in general requires combining many disciplines together to develop solutions that integrate ICT, ergonomics, healthcare (psychological and physical), building and community design.\nThe furniture sector plays an incredibly important role. Not only is it a critical part of the European economy, it also can significantly improve the accessibility of the built environment for the elderly by integrating ICT solutions, ergonomic design, and taking into account the health needs of the elderly more completely.\nThe present COST action will be a science and technology network where relevant actors from academic, research and industry sectors will utilise networking tools and activities to address the ageing population challenges facing Europe, helping to reduce redundancy in RDI efforts, ensure solutions are developed with a broader set of expertise, and help refine the efforts of diverse group of researchers.\nSHELD-ON aims to foster knowledge exchange and the development of a joint research agenda in terms of design and development of multifunctional indoor environments to meet the requirements of Europe's ageing population while promoting healthy and safe ageing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.richardnelsonllp.co.uk/services/criminal-defence/bis-investigations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DMFUTTWPFEACFZWHD7X3KZOGNF2FYR7A", "length": 4418, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.richardnelsonllp.co.uk", "title": "BIS Investigation & Interview Solicitors | Richard Nelson", "raw_content": "Home \u2192 Criminal Defence \u2192 BIS Investigations\nOur BIS defence lawyers have years of experience of defending a variety of criminal prosecutions bought by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), who bring a substantial number of criminal prosecutions each year. Unlike the Police, the BIS does not have powers of arrest. However, during criminal investigations they can invite the subjects of those investigations to attend a formal interview under caution.\nShould you ever be invited to attend an interview under caution with the BIS, you should seek specialist legal advice from us before deciding on whether to attend the proposed interview. There is no compulsion to attend and advice can be provided regarding the advantages and disadvantages of being at an interview, depending on your specific circumstances.\nA BIS investigation may be conducted for a variety of criminal offences, the four most common of which are:\nThe offence of Fraudulent Trading is the carrying on of any business or company, with the intent to defraud creditors or for any fraudulent purpose. Every individual who was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business in such a manner is guilty of fraudulent trading.\nFrequently senior employees and company directors are charged with Fraudulent Trading. To secure a conviction, the Prosecution must prove that the individual acted dishonestly. This can include those that chose to \u2018turn a blind eye\u2019, where they have a firmly grounded suspicion that relevant facts exist and made a deliberate decision to avoid confirming their suspicions.\nThis is an offence which is capable of being heard in the Magistrates Court, however, most people charged with this offence have their cases heard in the Crown Court, due to the serious nature of the crime. A conviction for Fraudulent Trading carries a high risk of a custodial sentence; usually followed by confiscation proceedings. We\u2019ll always give you the best advice specific to your circumstances.\nUndischarged Bankruptcy Offences\nIt is a criminal offence for an undischarged bankrupt to act as a company director, or to either directly or indirectly be concerned in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without prior permission from a Court.\nA conviction for this offence carries a risk of a custodial sentence for a maximum of two years. However, it can be a question of interpretation whether specific actions and roles within a company are prohibited by this offence. Our BIS investigation defence solicitors will give you advice on your appropriate plea. Where necessary, skilled mitigation can be put before the Court and can often result in non-custodial sanctions.\nBreach of a Disqualification Order Offences\nIt is a criminal offence if an individual has been disqualified from acting as a company director for a specific period of time but then breaches such an order.\nA conviction for this offence carries a risk of a custodial sentence for a maximum of two years. It is sometimes a question of interpretation of whether the defendant\u2019s actions amount to a breach of the disqualification order, which our specialist BIS investigation lawyers can advise on, where necessary, we can present the Court with appropriate mitigation and the Court can often award a non-custodial sentence, especially in circumstances where there are no previous convictions for the same offence.\nFailure to keep accounting records\nEvery limited company has a legal obligation to keep accounting records that illustrate the company\u2019s transactions.\nIf a company fails to comply with this requirement, every officer of the business which is in default is guilty of the offence, unless they can show that they acted honestly and that in the circumstances in which the company\u2019s business was carried on, the default was excusable. Our BIS lawyers can give specialist advice to anyone charged with failing to keep these records.\nContact us if you have a problem in relation to an investigation or prosecution by BIS, or if you would simply like to discuss these issues with one of our solicitors in strict confidence and without obligation:\nWe can provide you with expert specialist legal advice if you:\n\u2022 have been invited to attend an interview under caution by BIS;\n\u2022 are aware that BIS are investigating you and/or your business;\n\u2022 have received a summons requiring you to attend Court in connection with a BIS Prosecution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 7525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ridinforrhizokids.com/meet-the-families-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HB2JTSES25SVNPJBBS3Q3YHR2PETDHF7", "length": 1573, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ridinforrhizokids.com", "title": "What is RDCP \u2014 Ridin\u2019 for RhizoKids", "raw_content": "What is RCDP?\nRhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata (RCDP) is a rare, terminal metabolic genetic disorder that affects children and is present at birth. It is a form of dwarfism that causes many disabilities, including: severe developmental delays, cataracts, seizures, limited range of motion and a short lifespan. Children with RCDP have poor nutrition, resulting in limited growth. In addition to the severe disabilities the condition produces, these children have small rib cages. This makes it necessary to avoid respiratory infections, as they can compromise their breathing.\nMany children with RCDP will never walk or talk, however they are joyful additions to their families because most spend their day laughing and smiling.\nRCDP refers to the unique bone structure present in these children. Rhizomelic refers to the shortening of the upper arms and legs. Chondrodysplasia punctata refers to punctate areas of calcium in the growth plates. Many of the children with RCDP remain near infant size their entire life.\nRCDP is such a rare disorder that there are believed to be around 75 cases worldwide at this time. Most families are given a very grim life expectancy for their RCDP child. 25% earn their wings during the neonatal period, 50% earn their wings before age 5 and 25% living past age 5 are labeled \"long term survivors.\"\nMegan, Easton, Raegan\nArticle coming soon.\nWhen I decided to have a baby again Logan was 10. Lucas biological father wanted a baby. I really didn\u2019t. But in the end Lucas was the best choice I ever made! Lucas changed my life forever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/newark-taxi-cab-carjackers-abandon-vehicle-east-orange-second-vehicle-carjacked-east-orange", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3TVF7V7LZIDEQRJZCMAO7HVLIU53BXU", "length": 893, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rlsmedia.com", "title": "Newark Taxi Cab Carjackers Abandon Vehicle in East Orange; Second Vehicle Carjacked in East Orange | rlsmedia.com", "raw_content": "Newark Taxi Cab Carjackers Abandon Vehicle in East Orange; Second Vehicle Carjacked in East Orange\nAn armed carjacking of a taxi cab in Newark had the suspects easily abandoning the vehicle in East Orange, then taking a second vehicle in their mission to escape.\nThe incident began in the 30's block of Johnson Avenue in Newark shortly before 4:30 a.m. when according to authorities, four black male suspects pointed what appeared to be a weapon at a cab driver and demanded him from the vehicle.\nPolice arrived to the scene a short time later and began a search for a yellow 2010 Crown Victoria.\nAccording to Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, the vehicle was later found unoccupied on Westcott Street in the city of East Orange.\nThe suspects then carjacked a second vehicle at gunpoint in East Orange not too far from where they abandoned the taxi cab.\nJohnson Avenue, Newark, NJ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rnh.com/news/553/Acoustics-And-Electronics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6DGCIIGXFL765YHYEC5WYVER35TSJTIX", "length": 5251, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.rnh.com", "title": "Acoustics And Electronics :: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: News", "raw_content": "Acoustics And Electronics\nby Ted ChapinIn doing some research recently into the original Broadway production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, I came across an interview with Richard Rodgers where he was explaining that they were installing 18 reverberator speakers around the theater to give the audience a sense of being surrounded by the nuns' choral singing. It made me remember hearing of a conversation Joshua Logan had about SOUTH PACIFIC in 1949, when Rodgers and Hammerstein were experimenting with placing microphones across the footlights to enhance the sound coming from the stage. And that made me remember the wonderful photographs we have of Richard Rodgers conducting a special performance of OKLAHOMA! at the St. James Theater in 1947, where the front row patrons are practically in the orchestra.\nThese thoughts, in conjunction with our recent introduction of computer orchestral enhancement programs InstrumentalEase and AccompanEase made me wonder about the whole question of theater acoustics and electronics, and how they have evolved together in recent times.\nThere are many who feel that we should get rid of all microphones and all electronic devices in theaters and go back to a completely \"\"acoustic\"\" sound. That's a worthy thought--after all, what is live theater if not live? We see performers on a stage, sometimes we see instrumentalists playing the music, why should we have to listen to what's going on through speakers? Well, yes, but....\nThe space where live theater happens has changed throughout time. Go to the ancient theater at Epidaurus in Greece, and while the acoustics are still amazing, imagine seeing a modern Broadway musical--with all its attendant spectacle and hoopla--performed there. Unlikely. When playhouses came indoors, along with challenges of lighting and new possibilities of stagecraft and scenery, the acoustics of the architecture remained influential. The stage was like the small end of a megaphone; the auditorium like the cone end, and the actors spoke or sung straight out front. That may have limited the ability for performers to interact with each other on stage, but at least the words could be heard by everyone in the auditorium.\nWhen the great Broadway showman George Abbott was asked to name the single biggest innovation of his nearly century-long career, he replied, \"\"Electricity.\"\" It opened endless possibilities, starting, of course, with lighting and stagecraft, but also with sound. If you brought in microphones and speakers, you could both create effects previously impossible, and also free up actors to deliver lines without the rigidity of projecting out front. And then when body mics were developed--in the 1960's--a whole new world of amplification became possible.\nThe music in theaters evolved as well. Whatever instruments were current were brought into the theater, and for theatrical presentations in which music played a major role, they were seated in front of the stage, on a lower level, sometimes on the same level as the audience. Placement of instruments was experimented with, since a trumpet is a lot louder than a violin. And of course, which instruments to use and how many became part of the equation with influence from both composer and producer.\nThe orchestra pit evolved as well, and over time got lowered and moved under the stage. With each architectural move came a new set of acoustical problems. Robert Russell Bennett, the great Broadway orchestrator, said that he needed to take the architecture of the specific Broadway theatre a show was going to play into consideration when he created his orchestrations. Some playhouses favored low sounds; others were more hospitable to higher ones. That also effected how the pits were laid out--which instrumentalists would be seated dead center, and which would be seated at the far ends. And for many years, all the instruments used in the musical theater were acoustic, with sounds made by people plucking, bowing, blowing or manipulating things made of wood, metal, gut and the like. Then subtle amplification helped blend the acoustic sound into a whole.\nWhat about those instruments that use an electronic source for sound? The first experiments in electronic instruments were actually in Germany, in 1870. Inventors in the United States came up with the first electronic keyboard in 1915 and the Theremin, which made sounds using radio vacuum tubes, was introduced in 1917. That remained the basis of electronic instruments (which were mostly keyboards), through the 1960's when integrated circuitry took over. After 1980, the world of digital sound moved in and has become the foundation of today's sophisticated electronic keyboards, which can emulate sounds unimaginable years ago.\nAnd that brings us back to the original discussion--acoustics or electronics? Answer: both. The reality of today's theater is that we need to find the balance, and finding that balance is extraordinarily tricky. There are no easy answers. With the sophistication of the world of electronic instruments and amplification devices, along with today's economic realities, it is important for everyone to view each circumstance individually.\nBut with electronics in the theater to stay, the cat is out of the bag.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rnh.com/show/37/Flower-Drum-Song-Hwang-Version", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PCEJYPVM46NKE3WPF35FTVL3VXGJORIA", "length": 19323, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "www.rnh.com", "title": "Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version) :: Rodgers & Hammerstein :: Show Details", "raw_content": "Home > Shows > Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version)\nMusic by Rodgers, Richard | Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Book by David Henry Hwang | Based on the original book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields and the novel by C.Y. Lee\n'To create something new, we must first love what is old,' claims Mei-Li in Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang's new adaptation of this Rodgers and Hammerstein jewel. The sentiment is obviously shared by the author himself, who has created something dazzlingly new while honoring the original material. Mei-Li flees Mao's communist China after the murder of her father and finds herself in San Francisco's Chinatown. This na\u00efve young refugee is befriended by Wang, who is struggling to keep the Chinese opera tradition alive despite his son's determination to turn the old opera house into a swingin' Western-style nightclub. A unique blending of American razz-ma-tazz and stylized Chinese opera traditions creates a beautifully theatrical tapestry. The wonderful score, by turns lushly romantic and showbiz-brassy, retains all of its luster in this lovely new version of an American classic. Mei-Li's gradual assimilation is informed by her realization that the old and new can coexist when there is respect for both. It is in that spirit that R&H Theatricals makes available both the original and new versions of FLOWER DRUM SONG.\nDescription Tags: Strong Role for a Leading Woman \u2022 Roles for Children \u2022 Specific Minority Casting \u2022 Musical Comedy \u2022 Musical Drama \u2022 From the World of Literature \u2022 Social Themes \u2022 Americana \u2022 Something Different \u2022 Classic Broadway.\nThe birthday of David Henry Hwang, who was inspired to write a new book for Rodgers & Hammerstein's FLOWER DRUM SONG that earned him a Tony nomination for the 2003 revival.\nIn 2003, David Henry Hwang's new version of FLOWER DRUM SONG closed on Broadway after 169 performances and three Tony nominations.\nIn 2002, a new version of FLOWER DRUM SONG with an updated book by David Henry Hwang opened at the Virginia Theatre, where it ran for 169 performances and recieved three Tony nominations.\nIn 1960 FLOWER DRUM SONG opened at the Palace Theatre, London, and ran for 464 performances.\nIn 1958, the world premiere of FLOWER DRUM SONG was presented at the Shubert Theatre, Boston.\nIn 1958, FLOWER DRUM SONG opened at the St. James Theatre, New York, and ran for 600 performances.\nIn 1960 the national tour of FLOWER DRUM SONG began at the Riviera Theatre, Detroit and played in twenty-two cities before closing at the Hanna Theatre, Cleveland, on October 14, 1961.\n\"Rodgers has composed one of his more persuasive scores, and Hammerstein has written lyrics that are moody and amusing...a delight; everything about it is just right.\" \u2014 New York Daily Mirror, January 01, 1958\n\"Another notable work by the outstanding craftsmen of our musical theatre...a lovely show, an outstanding one in theme and treatment.\" \u2014 New York Daily Mirror, January 01, 1958\n\"FLOWER DRUM SONG continues to live and breathe, and sing, as joyously as it did three and a half decades in the past...Revolutionary for its time, it continues to be so in ours.\" \u2014 Inside Asian America, January 01, 2001\nFlower Drum Song Comes Roaring Back to Broadway\n\u201cTo create something new,\u201d says a character in David Henry Hwang's script for FLOWER DRUM SONG, \u201cwe must first love what is old.\u201d For Mr. Hwang, this is the guiding philosophy for what is arguably\u2014and controversially\u2014the most radical reinterpretation yet of a Broadway musical.\nFLOWER DRUM SONG has always held a unique place among the R&H musicals. Coming late in their career\u2014after two consecutive, and rare, Broadway flops (ME AND JULIET and PIPE DREAM) and one hugely successful television musical (CINDERELLA)\u2014it once held its own against mega-popular hits like OKLAHOMA! and THE KING AND I. However, as fashions changed, so did its fortunes. \u201cOscar Hammerstein referred to it as their 'lucky hit,'\u201d R&H President Ted Chapin told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cUnlike the rest of the canon, it didn't live on with the same kind of force as some of their other musicals.\u201d\nThe original production, though, was a hit indeed, running for 600 performances, making stars of its leads Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki (landing them on the cover of Time \u2014Suzuki was the first American-born Asian to enjoy such an honor), launching a London production, a U.S. National tour and becoming one of R&H\u2019s strongest titles in the summer stock (and Vegas) circuits of the early \u201960s. A 1961 movie version, starring Umeki, Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Jack Soo, was also a huge hit with profound implications for Asian Americans.\n\u201cFLOWER DRUM SONG represented a real breakthrough for our parents,\u201d Hwang told Performing Arts. \u201cIt portrayed a Chinese American family that was 100% American, and characters who didn't all speak in accents, who were sympathetic and had romantic relationships\u2014which, by the way, we still don't see much in movies today.\u201d In a 1996 appraisal for lnside Asian America, journalist Yuan-Kwan Chan observed: \u201cIt was the first\u2014and so far, the last\u2014film by a major U.S. studio in which Asians or Pacific Islanders play all the major roles Revolutionary for its time, it continues to be so in ours. \u201d In Los Angeles Magazine, Nancy Kwan recalled, \u201cThis was the first big movie about Asian Americans. They spent money on sets, costumes, dance numbers, and they made money. That all said something important.\u201d\nNevertheless, by the time Hwang was a student at Stanford University in the late '70s, attitudes towards FLOWER DRUM SONG\u2014including his own\u2014had changed. \u201cWe were deep into issues of identity politics,\u201d he recalled in an interview with the Daily Breeze. \u201cWe were so politically correct, I think I felt a need to demonize FLOWER DRUM SONG on principle.\u201d In Performing Arts, he elaborated: \u201cIn retrospect, I think the protest was probably necessary. Asian Americans were beginning to write about themselves. We felt a need to repudiate the way non-Asians had written about us. Which meant repudiating FLOWER DRUM SONG.\n\u201cBut even back then people would, in private, admit that they liked the show. How could they not? For us boomers, it was our first opportunity as kids to see Asian Americans singing and dancing in a Broadway play and Hollywood musical...As a kid I had liked it. As a young man I rejected it. Now I'm trying to reconcile that and find some middle ground.\u201d\nThat reconciliation began in Siam\u2014specifically, the Siam depicted in the 1996 Tony-winning Broadway revival of THE KING AND I. \u201cI really enjoyed it,\u201d Hwang told the started thinking of other Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals that I'd like to see again, and that led to FLOWER DRUM SONG.\u201d He added, \u201cI knew there was a lot to like and a lot not to like.\u201d Revisiting FLOWER DRUM SONG, he thought, would provide him with \u201ca wonderful opportunity to collaborate with two of the greatest artists of this century,\u201d as he told Playbill. \u201cIt would be fun to create a new musical using the wonderful score that had been written for the original.\u201d\nIn 1996, Hwang met with Ted Chapin, Mary Rodgers and the late James Hammerstein to make his case. (Jamie had been a stage manager on the original Broadway show and subsequently directed several productions of FLOWER DRUM SONG.) At that meeting, Hwang recalled, \u201cI told them I wanted to remain true to the show's original sensibility and themes, its sense of cockeyed optimism, while giving it more of the dramatic weight the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals have. I wanted to write the book that Oscar Hammerstein would have written if he'd been Asian-American. Instead of being a tourist's-eye view of Chinatown, I wanted to write it from the point of view of the inside looking out.\u201d\nThe rights holders (including Ralph Fields, the son of co-librettist Joseph Fields) liked what they heard from Hwang and decided to say yes. \u201cWe went into it understanding that if we were going to go ahead with this experiment,\u201d Chapin told the Los Angeles Times, \u201cwe had to be open to it.\u201d\nAfter an early draft that was, in Chapin's words, \u201ctotally unproduceable,\u201d Hwang hit his stride with a script he developed in tandem with director Robert Longbottom and music director David Chase. A new musical began to emerge\u2014one that stayed true to the basic settings and principal characters of FLOWER DRUM SONG while rearranging those characters and their situations into an almost entirely new plot, an amalgam of Hammerstein, Fields, the original novelist C.Y. Lee, and Hwang himself. Its theme, one that runs through much of Hwang's work, is assimilation. \u201cThe issue of assimilation hasn't dated,\u201d Chapin told American Theatre. \u201cIn fact it's very universal. What's dated is the idea that the height of being American is getting a Thunderbird and a TV set, which is partly what the original show conveyed. Today when you come to America, it's important to hold on to some of what you brought with you, and David wanted to look into that.\u201d\nVital to this re-telling was the score, kept almost intact. (Two songs were cut and one, \u201cMy Best Love,\u201d was restored. One other number, \u201cThe Next Time It Happens\u201d from PIPE DREAM, was interpolated.) \u201cI like our demonic reputation of not wanting to change anything,\u201d Chapin told Performing Arts. \u201cIt's a good reputation to have because then, when someone like David comes along with a proposal, we can really surprise people. We've allowed more wholesale revisions than we might with any other show,\" he added, \"because this show may be more caught in its time than Rodgers and Hammerstein's other works.\u201d\n\u201cI didn't sit down thinking, 'I need to fix the old FLOWER DRUM SONG,'\u201d Hwang told American Theatre. \u201cI thought, here's an opportunity to tell a story about assimilation and immigration, but do it in collaboration with Rodgers and Hammerstein, who created this wonderful score around those themes. It meant working with great music that already existed, and trying to make that music flower around a story that would thematically bear out some of their own initial ideas.\u201d\nWith a sensational, fully Asian/Asian-American cast starring Tony winner Lea Salonga, FLOWER DRUM SONG opened at the Virginia Theatre on October 17. The original 1958 production was the first Broadway musical to deal with the Asian-American experience; the 2002 production is only the second. The sense of history, therefore, was palpable\u2014not only on opening night, but from the earliest previews; and not only from the audience (which, from the start, included a steadily growing contingent of Asian-American theatregoers) but from the performers themselves.\nAlvin Ing, who played the character of Chin in the new version, had played the role of Wang Ta in the original production's national tour and went on to play that role in more productions than any other actor. Jodi Long, Madame Liang in this production, spent part of her childhood backstage at the St. James Theatre during the original run where her father, Larry Leung, was in the cast.\nThe original company of FLOWER DRUM SONG stayed together as a family over the years, and was famous for its periodic reunions. An especially meaningful reunion occurred in early October, when over a dozen members of the Broadway, National Tour and film casts attended a preview performance of the new FLOWER DRUM SONG. Among them were Cely Carrillo (a Mei-Li in the original Broadway run), Susan Kikuchi (a child performer in the original Broadway cast, whose mother, Yuriko, appeared in original casts of FLOWER DRUM SONG and THE KING AND I), and Luther Henderson, Jr., creator of the original dance arrangements. Arabella Hong, who introduced \u201cLove, Look Away\u201d in 1958, and Pat Suzuki, the inimitable original Linda Low, are both ardent fans of this version and each came to see it several times during previews, and again on opening night.\nAudience response from the start was enthusiastic. Critical reaction, however, was divided, with the nay-sayers falling into two contradictory camps: those who felt that any reworking of the original version was a desecration, and those who wondered why Hwang had made the effort. R&H President Ted Chapin defends the production simply: \u201cWe take risks,\u201d he says. \u201cThat's what Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein did when they were around, and that's what their heirs continue to do. It's about having confidence in the durability of the works themselves, and being open to new ideas.\u201d\nStill, for most critics, the risks paid off. \"This little-performed 1958 musical,\" said David Cote in Time Out, \"shines in this jubilant, top-to-bottom revision. David Henry Hwang's wised-up book adds more humor and political savvy [and] fits perfectly into Robert Longbottom's seductive and opulent revival.\" NY-1 critic Roma Torre reported, \"FLOWER DRUM SONG has been brought back to life, thanks to David Henry Hwang's funny, hip, politically correct sensibility, and Robert Longbottom's impressive direction and choreography.\" John Heilpern of the Observer felt that Hwang and Longbottom \"worked brilliantly...to create a new Broadway show of high and low seriousness, which was Rodgers and Hammerstein's intention in the first place.\" In USA Today, Elysa Gardner observed, \"Hwang and Longbottom have retained the show's irresistible sweetness and added more of the unabashed grandeur that distinguishes Rodgers and Hammerstein's best-loved material. And David Chase's new adaptations of Rodgers' music, much of which is presented in new contexts, are rapturous.\"\nPlaybill interview with Andrew Gans\nWritten By: David Henry Hwang\nWhen I was a kid, I generally had this policy of avoiding plays or movies or TV shows with Asians because they always made me feel kind of icky, but FLOWER DRUM SONG was an exception in the sense that you had an actual love story between an Asian man and an Asian woman, which you still don\\'t see much of today. You had a younger generation that acted pretty much American, and you had this great score and these wonderful dance numbers. And, it also established a generation of Asian stars for my parents\u2014that whole era\u2014and, for me, it was one of the few things I saw on television as a kid that I could at all relate to. So, it actually had a lot of meaning to me as a kid.I think it was incredibly brave of [Rodgers and Hammerstein to write the show], and it was incredibly brave of them also to do it with an all-Asian cast. I think this probably relates to\u2014this is just my own theory\u2014Hammerstein with CARMEN JONES and having those sorts of breakthroughs. I think, probably, it was part of their principles or their agenda to be able to present this other minority group as being Americans like everybody else. Over the years, that concept of what it means to be American like everybody else has sort of dated a bit. You can quibble whether this part of the original FLOWER DRUM SONG is authentic or not, [but] I think it was authentically felt, and I think their intentions were pretty radical. [The production is being billed as a new musical.] If you ask me, I think the best word for it is a remake. It\\'s most analogous to \"Ocean\\'s Eleven\" or David Cronenberg\\'s \"The Fly,\" where you take something that existed before and you build a new piece on it. Now does that make it a new musical? I don\\'t know; that\\'s up to producers and critics and other people to decide. It doesn\\'t fit neatly into other traditional categories.\nFLOWER DRUM SONG (HWANG) - Orchestration Package (20 Books/19 Players)\n1 \u2013 REED I (see note below)\n1 \u2013 REED II (Flute, Clarinet & Alto Sax)\n1 \u2013 REED III (Oboe, English Horn, Flute, Clarinet & Tenor Sax)\n1 \u2013 REED IV (Bass Clarinet, Bassoon & Baritone Sax)\n1 \u2013 TRUMPET I (Doubling Flugelhorn)\n1 \u2013 TRUMPET II (Doubling Flugelhorn)\n1 \u2013 TROMBONE (Doubling Bass Trombone)\n1 \u2013 GUITAR (Acoustic, Archtop, Electric, Banjo, Ukulele, Mandolin and Pipa)\n1 \u2013 KEYBOARD (see Keyboard Book for breakdown)\n1 \u2013 VIOLIN I (Doubling Violin)\n1 \u2013 VIOLIN II\n1 \u2013 VIOLA (Doubling Violin)\n1 \u2013 CELLO (Doubling Ehru)\nLibretto/Vocal Books 10 p\nFLOWER DRUM (HWANG) - PRE-PRODUCTION PACKAGE\nA large singing-dancing chorus consisting of Citizens of the People's Republic of China, Communist Party Members, Mei-Li's Father, Soldiers, Refugees, Chinese Opera Company Members, Immigrants, Showgirls, Chorus Boys, A Ghost Couple, Stage Manager, Photographers, Reporters, Factory Workers, Emigrants, Warrior Dancers, Maiden Dancer, Wedding Guests and Citizens of San Francisco Chinatown.\nWu Mei-Li - a new immigrant from China, in her twenties\nWang Chi-Yang - a Chinese opera actor and immigrant to San Francisco, in his fifties\nWang Ta - his Chinese American son, in his twenties\nChin - an old family friend of the Wangs, a Chinese man in his sixties\nLinda Low - a Chinese American showgirl, in her twenties\nHarvard - a Chinese American, in his twenties\nMadame Rita Liang - a Chinese American talent agent, in her forties\nChao Hai-Lung - a new immigrant from China, in his twenties\nMr. Chong - the Chinese American owner of the On Leock Fortune Cookie Factory\nMr. Lee - a Chinese American restaurant owner\nCitizens of the People's Republic of China, Communist Party Members, Mei-Li's Father, Soldiers, Refugees, Chinese Opera Company Members, Immigrants, Showgirls, Chorus Boys, A Ghost Couple, Stage Manager, Photographers, Reporters, Factory Workers, Emigrants, Warrior Dancers, Maiden Dancer, Wedding Guests and Citizens of San Francisco Chinatown.\nThis version of FLOWER DRUM SONG is set in China, and San Francisco\u0092s Chinatown, 1960. All of the characters are Chinese or Chinese-American. It is this author\u0092s hope that these roles be cast with actors of Asian ancestry whenever possible. Barring that, the author discourages the use of make-up or prosthetics to alter an actor\u0092s ethnicity, or requests at the least that the use of such devices be kept to a minimum. --David Henry Hwang\nFLOWER DRUM SONG takes place in various locales in San Francisco's Chinatown circa 1960.\nThe Golden Pearl Theatre in San Francisco Chinatown\nLinda's Dressing Room\nOnstage at the Theatre\nClub Shop Suey\nThe On Leock Fortune Cookie Factory\nThe Golden Dragon Restaurant\nThe San Francisco Docks\nREED I Doubling: Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, Dizis in C, D, Eb, F (high) & B, Bamboo [Bonsuri] Flutes in E (low), F (high) and G)\n(See percussion book for specific details): Cymbals, Triangle, Xylophone, Toms, Concert Bass Drum, Gongs, Bell Tree, Finger Cymbals, Crotales, Cabasa, Glockenspiel, Vibraslap, Vibraphone, Timpani, Dragon Drums, Marimba, Bamboo Chimes, Rain Stick, Brass Bell, Castanets, Shakers, Congas, Temple Blocks, Mark Tree, Wood Blocks, Sarons, Guiro, Tambourine, Bongos, Baos, Cow Bell, Whip (Slapstick), Ratchet, Tuned Water Bowl.\n*Promotional video rights can only be granted once a performance license for Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version) has been secured. Please contact customer service if you have any questions. If you have not yet applied for Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version), you can do so here. LOG IN to learn more.\n*You must be logged in and licensed to present Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version) in order to license Archival rights. Please contact customer service with any questions.\n*You must be logged in and licensed to present Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version) in order to license Distribution rights. Please contact customer service with any questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 27809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rochestermnsports.org/news/morneau-to-be-banquet-guest.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SJ53XCBH4KVQM5WKPPPRWH6CLJUPNTMK", "length": 2584, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rochestermnsports.org", "title": "Morneau to be Banquet Guest", "raw_content": "Making his major league debut in June of 2003 with the Twins, Morneau went on to another ten years with the team before being traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2013. After signing a free agent deal with the Colorado Rockies in 2014 he proceeded to win the National League batting title. He finished his career in 2016 with the Chicago White Sox.\nMorneau accomplished a lot in his major league career including the 2006 American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, joining Twin greats Zoilo Versalles, Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew (the 2010 Sports Banquet speaker) and Joe Mauer who have won that honor. He was also a four-time All-Star and the winner of the 2008 All-Star Home Run Derby. In addition, he was also a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner (best league batter for their respective position).\nMorneau is now a special assistant with the Minnesota Twins front office. Inspired by their niece, Maddie, who suffers from juvenile arthritis, the Morneaus have been active in fundraising for the Arthritis Foundation and organized the Giving Back Fund \u2013 Morneau Family Foundation located in Los Angeles, California.\nOur committee identifies high-profile athletes that have not only done well on their field of play but off the field in the manner they handle themselves. Justin Morneau fits this role perfectly as he reflects hard work, a kind heart and respect for all. On a personal note: while my wife Sue--who was a huge fan of the Minnesota Twins--was battling terminal cancer, Justin took the time to write her and send her a few signed items. She was thrilled to receive the letter and items and it reflects a professional player who cares and gives to others where he can help make a difference.\nWhile Justin pretty much mastered the art of hitting a baseball he still has a bit of skepticism in speaking in front of larger crowds. One of the items of agreement to get him as the guest speaker was to forgo a standard speech but instead offer up time at the banquet where he could be introduced and do a question and answer session with the audience. We gladly agreed \u2013 how often do we all get to visit with an MLB batting champion, MVB and Home Run Derby winner?\nWe are thrilled to have Justin Morneau as our guest speaker for the 2019 Rochester Area Sports Banquet next January. While it a fun night of honoring our local outstanding athletes, teams and coaches \u2013 it will also be a chance to get to know Mr. Morneau for those in attendance. I am betting they will enjoy what they see \u2013 he is a class act!\nOctober 6-7: PGF Northern Premier Club Fastpitch Challenge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockpeaks.com/artists/m/Milagres", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:05Z", "digest": "sha1:354ZY6BDOLKXOOFC5CO7AW7PPFJDKXHP", "length": 2987, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.rockpeaks.com", "title": "Milagres | Rock Peaks", "raw_content": "You are not currently tracking Milagres\nMilagres on Wikipedia\nMilagres performing at Bowery Ballroom, NYC in 2014\nindie rock, indie pop, alternative rock, synthpop\nKill Rock Stars (US), Memphis Industries (UK/EU)\nwww.milagresmusic.com\nFraser McCulloch\nEric Schwortz\nSteve Leventhal\nPaul Payabyab\nChris Brazee\nMilagres is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The band was founded in 2006 under a different name and lineup, and independently released an album, Seven Summits, in 2008. After some lineup changes and regional touring, the band changed its name to Milagres and began writing and recording what would later become their second record. The band signed to the music label Kill Rock Stars in Spring of 2011, and released their national debut, Glowing Mouth, in September 2011. Milagres embarked on several national tours of the US, UK and Europe in support of Glowing Mouth. Kill Rock Stars released the band's follow-up, Violent Light, in 2014.\nKyle Wilson (lead vocals, guitar), Fraser McCulloch (bass, keys, backing vocals), and Eric Schwortz (guitar, backing vocals, percussion) met while attending New York University. Drummer Steven Leventhal had played in bands with Schwortz since high school. Keyboardist Chris Brazee knew McCulloch from high school, where they were in a band together. The band was on shaky ground when Wilson went on a mountain climbing expedition in 2010: he sustained a fall and back injury, and wrote many of the songs that would become a part of Glowing Mouth while bed ridden. Upon hearing the album, music label Kill Rock Stars signed the band without even seeing them.\nShortly after their release in September 2011, the band signed with U.K. based label Memphis Industries to release the album in the UK and EU territories. The band received national and international attention from Spin Magazine,[1] National Public Radio,[2] The Guardian, KEXP, and KCRW (amongst others). The band has also placed in the CMJ music charts and a significant number of Milagres songs have been played on several notable radio stations (such as BBC, KEXP, KCRW, The Current, and World Cafe Live).\nIn Spring of 2012, Paul Payabyab replaced original drummer Steve Leventhal.\nIn Fall of 2010 the band played at CMJ Music Festival\nThe band performed at South by Southwest Music Festival in 2011 and 2012\nIn Fall of 2011 the band went on a National Tour with Peter Wolf Crier and went on to the West Coast as a headlining act\nIn Spring of 2012 the band went on a National Headlining Tour in the US and UK\nThe band has performed at Primavera Sound, Bestival, Electric Picnic, and other festivals\nSeven Summits (2008, Self Released)\nGlowing Mouth (2011, Kill Rock Stars (US), Memphis Industries (UK/EU))\nViolent Light (2014, Kill Rock Stars (US), Memphis Industries(UK/EU))\n^ Anderson, Stacey \"Milagres, Album Review\", 'Spin Magazine, September 13, 2011.\n^ Boilen, Bob \"First Watch: Milagres, 'Halfway'\", 'NPR', September 12, 2011.\nMilagres at Kill Rock Stars", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/enrique-begne", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6Z4TB3MYO3LEVZKWNJKV6VH3MZ7IUKN4", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rogerebert.com", "title": "Enrique Begne Movie Reviews & Film Summaries | Roger Ebert", "raw_content": "Compadres (2016) \u2014 Writer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 84.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rombrolaw.com/family-law/contested-uncontested-divorce", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:23Z", "digest": "sha1:2BLXJVNIE6GP4YVWGBX3NC2OOSWOGCVO", "length": 3135, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.rombrolaw.com", "title": "Contested vs. Uncontested Divorce \u2013 Manhattan Beach, CA", "raw_content": "An uncontested divorce refers to a situation in which both parties agree to the terms of the divorce. In contrast, in a contested divorce, the spouses are unable to reach an agreement on one or more issue. In either case, our attorneys can represent your interests in court and protect you from any foreseeable disputes. If you have questions about contested vs. uncontested divorce, please schedule a consultation at our Manhattan Beach, CA, practice today.\nWe are prepared to help if you are involved in a contested divorce.\nWhen planning a divorce, the assets and child custody ultimately allotted to both parties are brought into question. Court hearings and trials are sometimes needed when spouses cannot agree, and it is critical to enlist the help of an attorney who can protect your interests during this time. Our attorneys can help file a divorce petition that includes the names of each spouse as well as any children that resulted from the relationship. It may also include provisions regarding separate and communal property, child custody, and alimony.\nOur attorneys can review the petition and all paperwork associated with the divorce process to ensure your rights and interests are protected.\nOnce both parties sign the petition, and until the divorce is finalized, each is prohibited from taking the children out of state unless both spouses consent. Neither can sell or borrow against any property or make any changes to insurance plans during this time. Both parties must disclose all information regarding their income, expenses, assets, and liabilities. They must then agree on the division of property and assets, as well as child custody and child or spousal support. Once the court enters a judgment, the divorce is finalized.\nUncontested divorces typically cost much less than a contested divorce. When both parties can come to an agreement regarding the division of assets and child custody, they can avoid court hearings and the process goes more quickly. The judge only has to ensure both parties understand the agreement before approving it and finalizing the divorce.\nIn a contested divorce, there may be one or more items upon which the spouses cannot agree. Some of the major disagreements spouses have during the divorce process include:\nPayments of alimony or child support\nIf both parties cannot reach an agreement, a court hearing or trial may be necessary.\nAlthough an uncontested divorce may seem relatively simple and straightforward, you should still consult with a divorce attorney. Our attorneys can review the petition and all paperwork associated with the divorce process to ensure your rights and interests are protected. Each of our attorneys is board certified and has represented clients in many kinds of divorce proceedings. We will work hard to ensure a smooth process in an uncontested divorce, or to fight for your rights in a contested divorce.\nSpeak with One of Our Divorce Attorneys\nNavigating a divorce can be incredibly complex and challenging, especially without the help of an attorney. If you are facing a divorce, contact Rombro & Associates online or call (310) 545-1900.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.roomzzz.com/blog/top-five-bars-to-end-a-pub-crawl-in-newcastle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WLFJZ3REC437BQFPAK5JBOUR2XKZVUMO", "length": 3146, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.roomzzz.com", "title": "Top Five Bars to endnd a Pub Crawl in Newcastle | Roomzzz Aparthotels | Roomzzz Aparthotels", "raw_content": "Top Five Bars to end a Pub Crawl in Newcastle\nMost major cities in the UK have their own pub crawl routes. Leeds has the Otley Run, Cambridge has its King Street Run and London has its Monopoly Pub Crawl, based on locations on a Monopoly board. Newcastle has a couple of designated routes itself, but you don\u2019t have to follow them!\nThe beauty of a pub crawl is that you can set your own route, go in whichever bar you want and not have to worry about getting lost until closing time. However, picking the right pub to end your crawl in is tricky, which is why we\u2019ve picked out five bars in Newcastle that are perfect for seeing out a marathon session with your mates in.\nIdols/Vaults\nFormerly known as The City Vaults, this sports bar and nightclub has plenty of room for you to see out a great night around Newcastle. An extensive drinks menu and live sport on the various big screens mean that you won\u2019t get too bored.\nIt\u2019s also on the Bigg Market, which is close by to many taxi ranks. On top of that, there\u2019s different music played across two floors, so if you don\u2019t like the tunes upstairs, just head downstairs!\nA relaxed, classy pub that has been going for nearly a century, City Tavern is a haven for those who like a real ale or two. Having only recently been refurbished, it has a charming, retro feel, with plenty of seating across two floors to accommodate you and your friends.\nReal ale is the star of the show on its drinks menu, but cocktails, spirits and wines are also available. Watch out for drinkers\u2019 dogs though \u2013 City Tavern prides itself on being a dog-friendly pub!\nThe Charles Grey\nConveniently located opposite the Monument Metro Station, The Charles Grey is a welcoming, friendly sort of bar where you can have a last couple of pints at a leisurely pace. It also has a long cocktail menu to boot, where you can get a refreshing mojito to keep you from drifting off.\nWhen you\u2019re in the mood for something different, they also have a lengthy list of wines to choose from. Their offer of getting the rest of a bottle free when you order two large glasses of red, white or rose is worth a pop.\nOne of Newcastle\u2019s oldest pubs, the Old George Inn is in a relatively quiet part of the city centre. It may not be the cheapest bar in town, but it\u2019s a good place to finish off a crawl, with plenty of comfortable places to sit down and have one last cocktail.\nWhether it\u2019s a White Russian or one of their \u2018seven deadly gins\u2019, you won\u2019t forget the last drink of the night. While you\u2019re there, it\u2019s worth looking around the walls of this 17th century bar to take in what it might have been like back when it first opened.\nFinally, where better to end a pub crawl than in a CAMRA award-winning one? Named Pub of the Year for 2016, Fitzgeralds manages to pull off the trick of being both contemporary and traditional, with craft ales and wines from all over the world and closer to home resulting in a packed menu.\nBe warned that Fitzgeralds closes its doors at midnight. That shouldn\u2019t matter too much if you\u2019ve made an early start though, while its proximity to the Quayside area means you can get some fresh air come closing time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.royal-painting.com/Camille-Pissarro/Path-of-l'Hermitage-at-Pontoise.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YCWVHDER64JV4YSDA5R5GWWT3RB4KNN3", "length": 750, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.royal-painting.com", "title": "Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro | Oil Painting Reproduction", "raw_content": "Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\nPath of l'Hermitage at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro\n45894-Pissarro, Camille-Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise.jpg\n* Hand-painted Camille Pissarro Oil Painting Reproduction : Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\nDownload(Print) PDF File: Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\nDownload(Print) Word File: Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\nCamille Pissarro oil painting : Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\nMuseum quality reproduction of \"Path of l'Hermitage at Pontoise\". Wholesale oil painting reproductions of Camille Pissarro. We also create oil paintings from your photos or print that you like. Turn your photos into beautiful portrait paintings. Most orders will be delivered in 1-3 weeks depending on the complexity of the painting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-why-decarboxylating-your-cannabis-is-so-important-n317", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VQMD7DEBHODV3UWME2QCAPLYTSVOXZ2W", "length": 4162, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.royalqueenseeds.com", "title": "Why Decarboxylating Your Cannabis Is So Important - RQS Blog", "raw_content": "Decarboxylation may sound complicated but chances are you've already experienced it. Put simply, it means heating your cannabis and is the only way to ensure you're getting the most from your edibles.\nIf you have ever lit up a joint or used a vaporizer, then we are proud to say you have already decarboxylated your cannabis before. The process is simple, but is one that is essential - especially where edibles are concerned.\nWithout the process of decarboxylation when making cannabis-infused food, the cannabinoids within your bud won\u2019t activate, leaving your edibles pretty lackluster. If you are baking with weed, then this process occurs naturally, to a degree, as it is the process of heating cannabis that performs this activation (hence smoking and vaping working instantly. However, if you are not baking, or even if you are, it is always a good idea to decarb your cannabis first to get the most out of it.\nThis is the decarboxylation process we've been talking about.\nDECARBOXYLATION: WHAT IS IT?\nDecarboxylation is a chemical reaction that occurs when cannabis is baked that removes a carboxylic acid group from the makeup of the herb, making it much more potent. The presence of this carboxyl acid group is the reason why eating raw weed won't get you that high, it acts as a blocker for the psychoactive properties of the plant.\nYou see, it's all about chemical makeup. For the same reason the weed is dried and cured before smoking/cooking/vaporizing it, it must be heated to be activated. By burning off the carboxylic acid group the chemical changes from THCA, a substance that won't get you high, to THC, a substance that will.\nHOW TO DECARBOXYLATE YOUR CANNABIS\nThe most effective way to do this when cooking with cannabis is to grind your weed up until it is malleable enough to be smoothed evenly over a surface. You want to get some baking parchment or baking paper and place it on a baking tray, then simply pour on the weed and distribute it with your hands until it is fairly dispersed on the paper.\nOnce there is an even lining of marijuana, you need to place the tray in a pre-heated oven that is at 110\u00b0C, leaving it to cook for 60 minutes. This tends to be the accepted standard, although you can choose to raise the temperature and thus cut down the time it takes but cooking it at a lower temperature for a longer period is generally considered the best way to increase the potency without burning off any of the good parts.\nWHY EDIBLES HAVE A DIFFERENT EFFECT TO SMOKING\nEdibles are a chance to feel some of the heady benefits of smoking, without any of the negative effects. Due to the THC being absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract instead of the lungs, the weed is metabolised by the liver converting it into 11-hydroxy-THC, an even stronger chemical more successful at penetrating the blood-brain barrier than its smoked equivalent.\nWhen smoking cannabis, the THC goes straight to the smoker's brain meaning the high comes a lot faster but is often less intense a high gleaned from consuming cannabis. Edibles mean a high that can last for up to 4-6 hours depending on the dose and have been known to induce neigh psychedelic effects.\nNow if that doesn't have your stomach rumbling, I don't know what will.\nAdditionally, as more and more people begin experimenting in the kitchen with cannabis, you are no longer limited to only consuming your weed via baked goods like brownies or cookies. Now there is the option of washing down that cake or sweet treat with a steaming cup of pot-infused coffee or perhaps a relaxing mug of weed-brewed tea.\nDrinkables may seem like a new form of the ever versatile marijuana plant, but tea made from marijuana dates back thousands of years of traditional use.\nBy stirring cannabutter (butter mixed with decarboxylated cannabis) into tea, people in India have been using the recipe for ceremonies and homeopathic medicines for centuries. What better reference is there than centuries of use?\nIf you want to discover your inner Brahmin or are simply intrigued by the milky allure of the Cannabis Tea-Latte, then we have an easy to follow recipe showing you can you can make your very own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 8407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rrexparrishs.org/departments/work-permits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YR67FLY6MJICK4ZNEIS24ZZ3JNT63NAQ", "length": 299, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.rrexparrishs.org", "title": "Work Permits - R. Rex Parris High School", "raw_content": "If you are under 18, you need a work permit on file with your school.\nOnce you have a job, pick up an application for a work permit from the front office and have your employer fill it out. Return the form to the school office and the work experience teacher will issue your work permit if approved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 3360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20848708/nick-symmonds-to-appear-on-american-ninja-warrior/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4YDDMRWJXF3EISBHYA4GK6I5MSDU5NFP", "length": 1833, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.runnersworld.com", "title": "Nick Symmonds to Appear on 'American Ninja Warrior' | Runner's World", "raw_content": "Nick Symmonds to Appear on 'American Ninja Warrior'\nTwo-time Olympic 800-meter runner will tackle obstacle course next month.\nTwo-time 800-meter Olympian Nick Symmonds announced Tuesday that he'll appear on American Ninja Warrior, an NBC show that involves completing increasingly difficult obstacle courses.\nSymmonds will compete in Venice, California, on March 13 in the first of five regional qualifiers for the national finals, which will be held in Las Vegas in June.\nSymmonds told Sporting News that, after watching the sixth season of the show, he decided to submit a video of himself working out with his strength and conditioning coach. Symmonds said he received a call from the show on Monday night.\nSymmonds told Sporting News that he won't dramatically change his training to prepare for American Ninja Warrior. The obstacles on the show tend to favor upper-body strength and agility over aerobic capacity.\nIn 2013, American track Olympians Dee Dee Trotter and Lauryn Williams (both sprinters) and Hyleas Fountain (a heptathlete) appeared on the show's fifth season. None of the three were among the top competitors.\nIf Symmonds qualifies for the finals in June, he'll have a busy month, as the USATF Outdoor Championships will be held June 26-28. The meet is the qualifier for the World Championships, which will be held in Beijing August 22-30.\nSymmonds won the 800-meter silver medal at the 2013 World Championships. He missed the 2014 outdoor track season because of injury. He returned to competition last weekend at the Husky Classic at the University of Washington, where he ran 8:20.42 for 3000 meters to finish 15th in his heat.\nNick Symmonds Tested by 'Ninja Warrior'\nNick Symmonds' Running Bucket List\nNick Symmonds Seeks a Final World Championships Appearance Before Retirement\nA Brief Chat With Nick Symmonds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20866643/meet-the-man-who-ran-7-ultras-on-7-continents-to-raise-money-for-7-schools/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SGSI6OB5CKREIKKP3HTAZW72TKKS7CTV", "length": 11703, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.runnersworld.com", "title": "\u200bMeet the Man Who Ran 7 Ultras on 7 Continents to Raise Money for 7 Schools | Runner's World", "raw_content": "\u200bMeet the Man Who Ran 7 Ultras on 7 Continents to Raise Money for 7 Schools\nJoel Runyon\u2019s mantra\u2014\u201cNot Dead, Can\u2019t Quit\u201d\u2014got him through a stripped tendon, 25 mph winds and negative 15 degree temps.\nAt 6\u20192\u201d and 190 pounds, Joel Runyon does not have the typical ultramarathoner\u2019s physique. But that didn\u2019t stop the 30-year-old Chicago native from recently completing seven ultras on all seven continents to raise money to build seven schools in partnership with Pencils of Promise, a not-for-profit organization that constructs schools in Ghana, Laos and Guatemala. (Enjoy inspiring stories? Get .)\nOther obstacles that Runyon overcame while running through jungles and the arctic: a stripped peroneal tendon, 25 mph headwinds, and temperatures so cold that his only water source froze solid.\nRunyon completing a 100K race in Antarctica.\nJoel Runyon / IMPOSSIBLE\nDespite his name\u2014and these incredible feats\u2014Runyon insists that he isn\u2019t a natural runner. In fact, he hadn\u2019t run more than a 5K race until age 24.\nRELATED: I Run Trail Ultras Because They\u2019re Everything Road Races Aren\u2019t\nHis story begins in 2009, when he graduated college in the midst of the financial crisis. Runyon spent the first nine months post-graduation unemployed and living in his parents\u2019 basement.\n\u201cI had all of these things I wanted to do, but they seemed impossible,\u201d he recalls. In an effort to motivate himself, he made a list of these challenges and decided to attempt one of them: finish a triathlon.\nKnowing little about the sport or the training process, he signed up for a race with his local gym. The entire event lasted an hour\u2014it included a 10-minute swim in a pool, a 30-minute bike ride on a cycling machine and 20-minute run on the treadmill. Feeling inspired, he signed up for more triathlons. Eventually, he worked his way up to a Half Ironman, which, he says, is how he tricked himself into becoming a runner.\n\u201cThere is a lot of gear involved with triathlons,\u201d explains Runyon. \u201cBut with running, there is no excuse not to run\u2014you just get a pair of shoes and go out and do it. It\u2019s a cheap drug you can take with you anywhere.\u201d\nAnd so Runyon kept running, seeking out bigger, more daunting challenges. He also began blogging about his quest to do the impossible and even founded a company, IMPOSSIBLE, inspiring others to do the same.\nSoon, he was running marathons. Then, Pencils of Promise reached out. Would he like to run an ultramarathon to raise funds to build a school? He would, and he did. In 2012, he ran 50K in Chicago and raised a little over $26,000, enough to build a new school in Guatemala.\nThat next year, he visited the school in Guatemala, met the children he\u2019d helped and realized he wanted to do more.\n\u201cFor a lot of kids on a global scale, getting an education is truly impossible,\u201d says Runyon, citing lack of access and funds. \u201cBasic level education is a huge driver in elevating people to have more possibilities.\u201d\nThat \u201cmore\u201d came in the form of The 777 Project, an initiative he launched in 2014. The goal: run seven ultramarathons across all seven continents and raise $175,000\u2014enough to build seven new schools with Pencils of Promise.\nRunyon with children at a school in Laos constructed by Pencils of Promise.\nHis first race: a 63 kilometer (39.14 mile) trek along trails and packed gravel roads at the Patagonian International Marathon in September 2014. All was smooth sailing\u2014until mile 26, when 25 mph winds blew Runyon sideways across the road. He rolled his ankle and stripped his peroneal tendon. Thinking it was just a bad roll, he hobbled on for the remaining 13 miles. That decision proved dangerous, and Runyon had to do rehab for the next six months just to gain back his mobility. Then, another obstacle: The 777 Project got entangled in a trademark lawsuit, bringing the entire endeavor to a halt.\nRELATED: Ask the Doctor: Peroneal Tendon Pain Persists After Marathon\n\u201cI was really scared to launch 777 at first, and then I got hurt right away and hit with the lawsuit,\u201d says Runyon. \u201cI was tempted to just give up and could have rationalized it.\u201d\nBut he reminded himself that setbacks are okay\u2014in fact, they\u2019re part of the journey\u2014and that hard work and patience pay off in the long run.\nSo 18 months later, after settling the lawsuit and silencing the inner voice that told him it was okay to quit, that he\u2019d given the project best shot, Runyon quietly picked things back up again by completing 50 kilometers at the Chicago Lakefront 50/50 Ultra in October 2016.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t really announce that I was doing it,\u201d Runyon explains. \u201cI just wanted to fix my head and remind myself that I could keep going.\u201d The tactic worked, and with renewed confidence, Runyon signed up for three more ultras, all within the first six weeks of 2017.\nRELATED: Moving Forward, Despite the Setbacks\nFirst on the docket: the Narrabeen All-Nighter Marathon in Narrabeen, Australia, which Runyon thinks back on as the most mentally challenging of all seven races. In the overnight event, which takes place on New Year\u2019s Eve, participants run a 5K out-and-back course as many times as possible within 12 hours. Runyon ran 42.5 miles.\n\u201cFor the first three or four hours, there were tons of people out of the course and it was still light out, so that was exciting,\u201d recalls Runyon. But then the sun set. And as 2017 crept closer, Runyon found himself running solo through a pitch black forest, his bobbing headlamp the only light as the sounds of chirping creatures surrounded him. Eventually, even the crickets went to bed, and Runyon soldiered on, running back and forth between the endpoints.\n\u201cThe out-and-back course was mind numbing,\u201d remembers Runyon. \u201cAfter you run by the same tree 18 times, you don\u2019t want to see it one more time.\u201d\nBut giving up simply wasn\u2019t an option for Runyon. \u201cSometimes I\u2019d have to turn my watch face around and just look at my feet and not do anything else but count to keep them going,\u201d he says of these particularly challenging moments. A mantra that he often repeated to himself: Not dead, can\u2019t quit.\nRELATED: Mental Tricks to Push Through Midrace Pain\n\u201cIt flows pretty well when you\u2019re running, and you can just say it to yourself over and over again,\u201d he says. \u201cI often talk to myself during races. I\u2019ll look like a crazy person muttering to myself on the side of a mountain.\u201d (There\u2019s some scientific research that shows talking to yourself during a race can be effective.)\nAnother mental tactic: negotiating with the race. \u201cI\u2019ll say to myself, The only way I\u2019m not finishing this race is if I break or leg, or if a tornado comes through and destroys the trail. I\u2019ll decide at the beginning of that race that I\u2019m not going to let anything stop me.\u201d\nRunyon is the first to admit that this never-quit mentality can land him in trouble. He cites the fact that he ran 13 miles on a strained peroneal tendon during the Patagonian race as one example.\n\u201cFrom a medical standpoint, some of what I do is probably not recommended,\u201d says Runyon, \u201cBut I write a lot on my website about not taking excuses. I\u2019m pretty ruthless with excuses.\u201d\nThat ruthlessness helped him two weeks later when he competed in the Antarctic Ice Marathon, which he describes as \u201cthe most ridiculous\u201d of the seven races. \u201cI was pinching myself the entire time,\u201d he remembers. Mere hours after landing on a glacial runway, he embarked on the 100K (62 mile) trek with nine other runners. During certain portions of the race\u2014which consisted of ten 10 kilometer laps\u2014Runyon saw no other humans or wildlife.\nRunyon bundled up for the Antarctic Ice Marathon 100K. He had to wear special sunglasses for the race to avoid snow blindness.\n\u201cIt was white everywhere, and you couldn\u2019t judge distances,\u201d he recalls. He wore special sunglasses to protect his eyes from snow blindness. Because it was summer there, the sun never set, making the hours, and the laps, bleed together. Nearly 18 hours later, he finished and began turning his thoughts towards the next race, scheduled just two weeks later in diametrically opposite conditions.\nThat next race\u2014The North Face Thailand 50K\u2014was \u201cthe race that tried to break me,\u201d says Runyon. The race took off on a single track for two brutal uphill miles. The downhill portion was no easier, as Runyon struggled to keep his footing on top of slippery rocks and mud while also swatting trees and branches out of the way. \u201cIt slowed me down so much and zapped so much energy,\u201d Runyon explains. \u201cI was super hot and sweating like none other. My legs were completely zapped and we had another six to nine miles to go.\u201d\nHe wrestled with the temptation to skip portions of the race and thus disqualify himself, but pushed through by picturing the schools he was helping to build, and reminding himself of the hurdles he\u2019d overcome in previous races.\n\u201cI reminded myself that I didn\u2019t run this race to be really comfortable or have it all be easy,\u201d says Runyon.\nHe finished in about eight and a half hours and today describes the experience as the hardest 50K he\u2019s ever done. \u201cI was so confident for the first 18 miles, but then just kind of fell off the map,\u201d he laughs. \u201cIt was a good humbling experience and a reminder to not get too cocky in the middle of the race.\u201d\nRunyon competing in The North Face Thailand 50K, the race that he says \u201ctried to break me.\u201d\nHe had little time to dwell on the rough experience. Next up: the Rovaniemi 66K (41 mile) Arctic Ultra, a self-supported race in Finland. The course contained five checkpoints, only one of which had water. This was especially unfortunate for Runyon, whose water bladder broke 10 minutes before the race began. He grabbed a water bottle instead and drank it dry just nine miles into the race. He then resorted to Plan C: eating snow. In the negative 15 degree conditions, Runyon got lost three times along the route, mistakes that caused him to run an extra two and a half miles.\n\u201cThere were points there where I was hurting,\u201d says Runyon, \u201cbut I decided that I didn\u2019t care how long it was going to take me, I was not not going to finish.\u201d The suffering dissipated when the Northern Lights showed up the last mile of the race.\nRELATED: Why Winter Marathon Training is Better\nRunyon\u2019s foot after the Rovaniemi 66K Arctic Ultra. It was so bruised he thought it was broken and went to the hospital. Doctors and an X-ray confirmed it wasn\u2019t broken; just severely \u201coverused.\u201d\nRunyon finished his last ultra\u2014the 34.8 mile Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, South Africa\u2014in April. To date, he\u2019s raised more than $155,000 for Pencils of Promise. He\u2019s now waiting to hear back from the Guinness World Record folks to confirm that he is the youngest person to run 7 ultras on 7 continents.\nSo what\u2019s next on his impossible list? \u201cAfter Cape Town, I said \u2018I\u2019m done\u2014I\u2019m not running for a long time,\u2019 \u201d laughs Runyon. Of course just a few weeks later, when traveling through Europe, he decided to cross the countries Liechtenstein and Monaco. \u201cAs soon as I hear of something cool, I feel compelled jump on it,\u201d Runyon laughs.\nAll this running is a bit surprising for someone who claims to \u201cnot always love running for running\u2019s sake.\u201d What Runyon does love about the sport: getting to the place where you want to give up and you\u2019re tired, but you decide to keep going and pushing through.\n\u201cJust because it\u2019s hard or you have a setback, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s over,\u201d says Runyon. \u201cIt\u2019s only over when you walk off the course.\u201d\nAbove, watch these other stories of runners who have changed people\u2019s lives.\nMeet the Man Who Joggles Marathons\nI Ran 7 Marathons on 7 Continents in 7 Days\u2014and I Have Brain Cancer\nMeet the Masters Sprinter Who Ran His First 10K in North Korea\nRaising Money for Charity, from One Marathon to Another", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 15217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.runsforcookies.com/2012/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JCN35OQ3MBJEOVEWPXPLYM2PUC6GPWCM", "length": 56601, "nlines": 214, "source_domain": "www.runsforcookies.com", "title": "Runs for Cookies: March 2012", "raw_content": "Our Ragnar Florida Keys team is now complete! We finally made a decision about our 12th team member yesterday, and let me just say, it was HARD. When I first had the idea of filling that open spot by having people write e-mails to \"apply\" for it, I wasn't thinking about the fact that we were going to have to pick just one person out of many. It was upsetting yesterday when I realized I was going to have to turn people down.\nAll of the \"applicants\" (I hate that word, but I guess that's what they would be called) had something unique and amazing about them. We would have been lucky to have any of them on the team, and we had to choose just one. We did toss around the idea of a second team, but putting together a Ragnar team involves a LOT of work--and Rik would be up to his eyeballs in stressful planning, so we decided just one team is plenty for now.\nBut anyway, we voted as a team and made the final decision yesterday. Our newest team member is a woman named Meredith--and she is extremely inspiring! She's lost 101 pounds and has kept it off for two years now. She's completed three half-marathons, with a PR of 2:10:29. Her husband has even lost weight too--166 pounds!! But I will stop raving and let her share her story.\nThis is the e-mail that she sent our team:\nHi Ragnar Relay Team,\nMy name is Meredith and I would love to be considered for the last spot on your relay team. I live in Mesa, Arizona. I am 37 years old and in the best shape I have been in my life. My friend in California read about this opportunity on your blog and text me to let me know. As soon as I read the blog I knew this was something I would love to do.\nLet me tell you a little about myself and my journey to where I am now. When I realized I need to lose weight it was May of 2005 and I had just gotten back from my best friend\u2019s rehearsal dinner. We took a bunch of pictures and when I saw the pictures I wanted to cry. I always knew I needed to lose weight but I never realized how much I had put on. I always avoided scales and I always just assumed that I was no bigger than the previous time that I had to lose weight. My job did not require me to wear any form fitting clothes so I always had elastic hiding my true size.\nAs of today I have lost 101 pounds. I joined Weight Watchers in September of 2005 weighing 256 pounds and have been attending meetings ever since. My experience in my weight loss journey has completely changed my life. I would love to say that the weight came off easily and that keeping it off is not a struggle, but that would not be the truth. This journey though has taught me that I am able to keep the weight off for the first time in my life and I have completely changed the way I live.\nI reached my \u201cgoal weight\u201d at Weight Watcher\u2019s at the end of May in 2010 and became a Lifetime member six weeks later on July 10th, 2010.\nI am proud to say that I have been Lifetime ever since and have not gone over my goal weight. I had taken the first 40 pounds off in a relatively quick manner but the last 61 pounds were a struggle. My real turning point was in November of 2009, the Saturday before Thanksgiving that year. I was struggling badly. I had just realized that in a 42-week span I had gained and lost the same pound over and over again. When I went to discuss my plateau with my WW leader I couldn\u2019t do so without bursting into tears. I sat through the entire meeting crying and only my husband and my WW leader knew. When I left the meeting that day I told myself enough was enough and I was going to get to goal. This is where my running came into play.\nI started off walking every day, started at three miles and got up to five miles. Once I realized that I wasn\u2019t going to be able to have the same results with just walking I started to run. We used to go to a rec center near my house that had an indoor track. Living in Arizona, this was a must in the summer time. The track took 14 times around to equal one mile. I would walk 70 laps; and when I started running, I started with one lap out of 70.\nBack in September of 2010 I ran my first 5K in which I came in first place in my age group. I was working on training for my first half marathon in October of 2010 when I tore my right hamstring when I slipped on a wet piece of tile in my house. That put my running on a stand still for a few months but I never gave up. I got back to running, knowing that I still needed to do my half marathon that I could not do the year before. I used a few 10Ks and a 12K as training to get ready for the PF Chang\u2019s half-marathon in January of 2012.\nI successfully ran the half marathon and finished in 2:22:01; my second half marathon was just one month later. I signed up for the Lost Dutchman half marathon and ran that one in February 2012, completing that in 2:17:29. So I figured what is one more... I ran the Phoenix Half Marathon on March 3, 2012, and my finishing time there was 2:10:29.\nI typically run 4-5 times a week from 5-10 miles a day depending on my schedule. I use running as a stress relief and as a way to make sure that I stay in shape. I love to run. I have found something healthy that I love to do and that, to me, is the best feeling in the world.\nI think I would make a great addition to your team because I feel like I have learned a lot from my weight loss journey. I have learned how to overcome struggle, how to never give up, and how I can do anything I put my mind to. I am so inspired by other people and their weight loss journeys and I love to hear about them and to be surrounded by people that have done what I have done and what I continue to do. Although technically I am at my goal weight I do not feel like my journey is over. I feel like I will be on this journey for life and am excited to do so. I learn new things about myself on a daily basis and I have an amazing support team around me including my husband who is also down 166 pounds.\nI have attached a before and after picture. My before picture was the one that inspired me to change my life and the after picture if the day I made Lifetime at Weight Watchers.\nOur team is very happy to have Meredith on board!\nLabels: guest post, race, race training, Ragnar Relay, success stories, weight loss\nMy legs feel like they are going to snap in half at the knee right now. I'm lying on the floor, and I just finished playing solitare (with real cards, not the computer). Chandler decided that he would settle all 23-pounds of cat right under my butt, on top of my legs. I managed to get my camera from the table and take a picture while holding the camera over my head...\nTaking that picture was much harder than it looks, believe me.\nSpeaking of the cats, Jerry just showed me Paolo's \"trick\". Paolo is the first long-haired cat we've had, so the hairballs are new to me. But apparently, if you scratch the underside of Paolo's neck and his chest (which he loves) he then coughs up a hairball on cue. I didn't believe Jerry when he told me, so he showed me. Totally gross, but hilarious at the same time.\nToday I was scheduled for a 4-mile run. I (once again) was really not wanting to run. I decided to go to the rec center and run on the indoor track so that I could see other people and hopefully it would go by faster. There were a few people walking on the track. I brought my iPod to listen to the radio, but it didn't distract me enough.\nI actually started counting my laps, thinking that the foot pod was all wrong and I had actually run 5 miles when my Garmin said 2 miles--but after counting laps, I realized that the foot pod was right on target and my run was just going by really slowly.\nAlicia came up to the track with a friend when I had 1.25 miles left. They were just ahead of me, so I just kept pace with them for the rest of my run. I really hope that taking the weekend off of running helps me to be excited for Monday's 16-miler. Our 15-mile run was so good that I felt like I loved running!\nJess and I decided we're going to La Pita (like usual) after our run Monday, but we're going to skip the side of garlic sauce that we always order with the pita bread while we wait for our food to come out, and we're going to ask for our bread to come WITH our meal rather than before. That way we won't load up on pitas and garlic sauce and then eat a huge meal.\nI ate really well yesterday and today (tons of veggies and fruit). Today I've been craving Easter candy. I went to K Mart with Jerry so he could buy a new lunch cooler, and they had these HUGE Reese's peanut butter eggs. I really wanted one, but resisted. Then I saw these Reese's Pieces eggs, and those looked really good too. But I keep reminding myself that I have GOT to get my weight back down before this extra 5 pounds turns into 20 and then 50 and then 100.\nWe got a storm this afternoon and our power has been on and off all afternoon. I better post this while it's back on!\nBy the way, thanks so much for all of your votes on the Fitness magazine blog award! I can't believe how quickly I've caught up to a lot of the other bloggers. I'm sure it's just a promotional tool for the Fitness website, but it's still fun to be in the running :)\nLabels: diet, media, pets, race training, running\nI was supposed to meet up with a bunch of the girls that ran Sunday's half-marathon today for breakfast, but I was so tired this morning that I decided to just stay at home and be lazy. It's weird, I went from insomniac to sleeping like a rock over the past week. Normally, I'm bouncing out of bed at 6:00, but lately I've been dragging myself out of bed at 7ish. I'm thinking it may have something to do with all the miles I've been running recently.\nAnyway, I decided to watch a film called Hungry for Change online. It's free to watch online until March 31st. I really liked the film Food, Inc. and this is by the same producers. I wish I had watched it before I tried my \"real foods challenge\" last month. It's very eye-opening about sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and all kinds of stuff that harms your body.\nI LOVED this film, and I'm probably going to buy it so that I can watch it again and again when I need a reminder of why I need to cut back on the sugar ;) The film recommends juicing, and I don't think I will ever hop on that bandwagon, but I am willing to add more fruits and veggies to my diet. I was so inspired by the film that I went to the fruit/veggie market after watching and picked up a lot of produce. I got all of this for $28 (and that's including an 8 oz wedge of parmesan cheese $$):\nI've decided to make it a goal to use all of it up before it goes bad. That's a challenge in my house. I buy produce with good intentions, but end up throwing half of it away because nobody eats it. So I washed and chopped up the veggies and made them easy and accessible for me and the family. I made some hummus for dipping.\nI think my kids just may find them appealing, if I give them some ranch dressing for dipping, of course.\nOne of the things that the film points out is that you shouldn't worry about cutting things OUT of your diet, but focus more on fitting things IN--like the veggies and fruits. Once you fit those in, the other stuff starts to get pushed out.\nAnyway, check out the film, it's worth your time!! And it's only free until March 31st.\nI was reading my Runner's World magazine today and came across this page that seemed was printed just for me:\nIt says to limit your reward calories after a run to 200--or 400 for a \"really\" long run. Bahahaha, I have been rewarding myself with nearly all the calories burned on my really long runs, and about half the calories burned on my other runs. Maybe that is why my weight is up 5 pounds ;) I really should try and cut back, but low-fat ice cream does not seem like a \"reward\" to me. I'll stick with the good stuff, and just try to have a smaller portion.\nI was just notified today that my blog was nominated for Fitness Magazine's 2012 Fitterati blog awards for \"Best Weight Loss Blog\". Thanks so much to whomever nominated me! However, the other nominees have been up for about a month now, so I'm way behind the game.\nOver the past couple of days, I've realized that I am feeling very burnt out on running. It was especially apparent after the half-marathon, when all of my friends (except Jess) are done training now, and I still have a long way to go until the marathon.\nI'm only running four days a week, so I know I'm not over-training. I am just at the point where I completely dread going for a run. I've always dreaded running, but nothing like this. Jessica sent me a text yesterday that said, \"I just want to tell you that I don't want to run tomorrow. I'm still going to, but I don't want to.\" Hahaha, that was exactly how I was feeling about it too.\nOur medium length run is now 8 miles. So we made plans to meet today for that. I'm glad we did, otherwise I would probably have procrastinated all day. We agreed to go slow and easy, since neither of us wanted to run today. A \"lazy run\", if that isn't an oxymoron ;)\nI brought a peanut butter Gu and some lemon lime Powerade. I checked the website of the marathon, and they are going to have the lemon lime Powerade throughout the course, so I want to train with it and see how my body reacts to it.\nWe had a very uneventful 8-mile out-and-back run. At mile 5, I ate my Gu and sipped some Powerade. I felt fine with it, so I think I'll bring it along on our 16-miler on Monday. Right now, I don't even want to think about 16 miles. I have another 4-mile run this week, which I'll probably do on Friday, and then take Saturday and Sunday as rest days, like usual. I really feel like I need them, both mentally and physically.\nWhen I got home, I made a breakfast that I've been having a lot lately. Last week at Kroger, I noticed that they had a bunch of boxes of my favorite cereal on 'manager's special', because they are going to expire in a couple of months. Logically, I knew that buying some and bringing it home was asking for trouble... but I did what any normal person would do and I bought 5 boxes. (What can I say, they were only $1.49!)\nI wanted to make sure that I didn't do what I did last time I had this cereal in the house, so I tried using it as an ingredient rather than the main course for my breakfast.\nI peeled and chopped an apple, and sprinkled it with cinnamon, then threw it in the microwave for 2 minutes to get it soft. Then I sprinkled on 1/3 cup of the granola, and drizzled with a tablespoon of almond butter. The whole combination was REALLY good. The texture was perfect too.\nYou know I'm always talking about Hal Higdon's training programs, but I just got his book Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide from the library and I LOVE it so far! The first couple of chapters would probably get anyone excited about doing a marathon. I'm only about 1/4 of the way through the book, but I've gotten a lot of helpful tips so far. It's geared more toward a full marathon, but people training to do a half-marathon would benefit from it as well.\nI just read a part last night about feeling burnt out about running, and if you feel that way, it's probably from training too hard. Which makes sense, because I just did a half-marathon race that I wasn't \"supposed\" to do (it wasn't in my training schedule). I'm going to make sure I take my easy runs very easy, and my long runs even easier. I need to get out of the race-mindset.\nMy Ragnar team is trying to come up with a team name... something clever that incorporates the fact that we've lost a lot of weight. Any ideas? (By the way, we have not chosen our 12th team member yet--we're working on it though. I will introduce the person when we do.)\nOh, by the way, I posted a bunch of blogs on the \"Blog List\" page... so if you're looking for something to read, take a look! A lot of those blogs were new to me, and I'm super excited to check them out as well.\nLabels: marathon, race, Ragnar Relay, running\nI don't know what was wrong with me this morning, but I was SO tired when I woke up. It was 6:30, which is later than I usually get up, but I had to drag myself out of bed to get the kids up for school. I was really tempted to take another rest day, but I knew I would feel guilty if I did that, so I decided to get my 4-mile run out of the way.\nMy legs were a little tired, but I feel pretty good. I expected to be much more sore after Sunday's half-marathon. Oh, I got the race photos today... I added them to the race report post.\nIt was kind of cold this morning--30 degrees, which is much colder than it has been lately. So I wore my running tights and a long sleeved shirt, gloves, and headband to keep my ears warm. I actually wished I had worn my fleece, too.\nWhen I got home, I took a shower and then decided to use some almond meal my mom bought me. She went to the Detroit Eastern Market on Saturday morning, and I was really excited when she told me that she bought it for me. She said it sounded like something I would like.\nI wasn't sure what to do with it, but I decided to try making a one-minute muffin using the almond flour instead of flaxseed. (I thought I was brilliant for thinking of this idea, until I later looked online and thousands of other people already did this, haha).\nI combined 1/4 cup almond flour + 1 beaten egg + 1 Tbsp. Torani sugar free chocolate syrup + 1 Tbsp. cocoa powder + 1/4 tsp. baking powder in a mug, and then microwaved it for 60 seconds. The result? A beautiful chocolate muffin! Which I spread with peanut butter, of course.\nThere is a certain question that I've been asked dozens of times, but I always avoid it. People want to know a list of blogs that I read, because they're not sure how to go about finding blogs similar to mine. I don't want to hurt feelings of people whose blogs I may not read, so I don't have a public blog roll.\nIn fact, I don't read a LOT of blogs--probably only about 15-20. I don't read food blogs, because they are a binge trigger for me. And I don't read any blog that has one of those gadgets that say, \"A visitor from Detroit, MI!\" or whatever city--I hate feeling \"spied on\". I don't follow any of the \"big\" blogs with thousands of readers, because I much prefer smaller, friendlier, more \"quaint\" blogs.\nMy intention with my blog was to keep it small, friendly, and quaint--which is why I didn't even tell my friends and family that I was writing a blog--but it kind of blew up on Pinterest. I'm happy to have a lot of readers, but I still try to keep my blog warm and friendly, and I always respond to reader e-mails.\nSo because my blog has gotten quite a few readers, I can't possibly read all of the blogs of my readers. When I get a comment from a new reader, I always check out their blog (if it's linked). But as far as blogs I read regularly, I read a few running blogs and a few weight loss/maintenance blogs, and that's it.\nSo I've avoided the question of a blog roll for those reasons. But in order to have some sort of blog list that you can see at a glance, I've created a \"Blog List\" page. Here, there is a form you can fill out about your blog. I will compile the information on that page, and when you want to find a blog to read, you can do so--by category, with a small description of the blog.\nSo if you have a blog that you would like me to link to, feel free to fill out the form and I'll add it to my list. (Thanks, Detroit Runner, for the idea!)\nNormally, I do this post on Sundays, but since I had my half-marathon yesterday, I saved it for today...\nQ. Which character from the hit TV series \"Friends\" is your favorite and why? Also, which \"friend\" could you see yourself hanging out with in real life and why?\nA. Love this question!! I can honestly say that I've never been asked this one before. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I would have to say Chandler. I love a sarcastic sense of humor! Could Chandler BE any more sarcastic?\nI could see myself hanging out with Chandler for sure (his goofiness reminds me a lot of Jerry). I would say Monica, but she and I are a LOT alike (very bossy, kind of nerdy, type A personalities...) so I think we would butt heads. I love Joey and I think he would be fun to hang out with too!\nQ. How do you manage not going out to eat with friends and family during the week or on the weekend? It seems you have a pretty close-knit group of friends and your family live nearby so I would think it would be hard not getting together and eating.\nA. I honestly don't have much of a social life. I go out with friends once a month for Winers (my wine club). Winers is always after dinnertime, so while I was losing weight, I just skipped the food at Winers and just had a glass of wine. Just recently, Jessica and I have been going out to lunch after our long runs. Other than that, however, I never go out to eat.\nWhen I was losing weight, and someone wanted to go out to eat, I would do one of two things: 1) If it was something I really wanted to do, I would look up the menu online and figure out exactly what I was going to order (and a back-up order in case they were out of what I wanted). Then I would stick to that plan no matter what. Or, 2) I would decline the offer.\nIf declining going out to eat, I would suggest something else--want to go bowling after dinner? Go see a movie? Take the kids to the zoo? Stuff like that, where I didn't have to eat.\nEating out, for me, ALWAYS makes my weight go up quickly, no matter what I order or how little I eat. And I'm very cheap with my money, so I don't want to spend the money on one meal when I could spend the same amount and feed my entire family at home.\nI've never been extremely social or had a lot of friends, so I wasn't constantly turning down offers ;) The most frustrating was when my mom would ask us to come over for dinner at her house. She lives less than a mile from me, and she always invites us over. She likes to cook, and she makes some good (i.e. highly caloric) food. I explained to her that I was following my food plan and I didn't want to eat dinner, but I would come over with the family and I would bring my own food.\nGoing to a race expo can be way more fun than pigging out!\nAnd I did just that. I would make a dinner for me and bring it with me, then sit down and eat with everyone. It took a long time for my mom to realize that I wasn't going to give in. She wasn't trying to sabotage me, but she didn't understand how serious I was about losing weight.\nNow, I still don't have many friends, but the friends I do have understand my way of doing things now. Renee and Jessica are my closest friends, and I feel very comfortable telling them thanks, but no thanks to certain foods sometimes. They're used to it, and they don't push me to eat things when I've told them I \"can't\" right now.\nThe best part is, I've made some running friends--so instead of getting together for dinner, we get together to run. Doesn't sound like much fun, but I've had some great conversations while running with my friends, and I've met some great girls as well.\nI think it all boils down to what YOU want most, and what will help you reach your goals. If you know that eating out is going to throw you off track for your goal, then don't feel guilty telling your friends/family \"thanks, but no thanks\"! Just suggest something else you can do, that doesn't involve food. Something else I do is get together after dinner for a glass or two of wine--it's social, it's fun, and it only costs 100-200 calories.\nQ. I really need some advice from an ex-non-runner. I just started training for a half marathon and I'm trying to increase my mileage (following a program) and I've decided my problem isn't so much my stamina, but my brain. I can pump myself up all I want for a run and be so excited about the weather, but the moment I take my first running step I start to talk myself out of it. I tell myself I'm tired, or hot, or fill in the blank. How do you (or did you) get past this? Maybe you never had this problem, but I'm really in dire need for some advice in this area. Thanks in advance!\nA. Ask any runner about this, and they will tell you that running is as much mental as it is physical, if not more so. I have the same problem as you on most of my runs. It's easy for me to get out there, but the second I start running, I want it to be over.\nFor this reason, I make sure that I am always training for a race of some sort--that way, I have a training schedule that I have to stick to. I will know that if I skip a run, or cut it short, I won't be able to meet my goal for the race I'm training for.\nI print out my schedule (I always use Hal Higdon's race training programs), and I keep it hanging in my kitchen. After I do my scheduled run, I highlight it so that I can see where I'm at in the training. It gives me a sense of satisfaction to cross it off. And being the Type A that I am, it would bug the heck out of me if I skipped a few runs and didn't have those highlighted marks ;)\nYou can see that I missed a 3-mile run the second week of training. I hate seeing that white spot! ;)\nAnother thing I will do to stay motivated to run is reward myself, especially on my long run days. I know you're not \"supposed\" to reward yourself with food, but I do--and it works for me. If I know that I'm going to have an awesome cookie after a long run, I get excited to finish that long run! Jessica and I have been rewarding ourselves with lunch at La Pita (or Whole Foods) after our long runs, and we both find that it makes us look forward to our runs.\nWe don't feel guilty for eating that many calories for lunch because we burned a heck of a lot on our run. Just make sure that if you reward yourself with a treat, it doesn't exceed the calories you burned, or you're defeating the purpose ;)\nAnd now, a question for all of you...\nWhich Friends character are you most like?\nAs I said above, Monica and I are very much alike in our personalities. Which is kind of funny, because I don't like her personality! haha\nLabels: diet, race, race training, reader questions, running, weight loss\nLet me start by saying that I am so glad I didn't go into this race with the expectation of hitting my sub-2:00 goal! Today was not my day for racing, apparently.\nIt took me forever to fall asleep last night, and I didn't sleep well at all. I woke up before my alarm, at 4:15 this morning. I had oat bran for breakfast with milk and peanut butter, and a cup of tea. Then I drove to meet Jessica, Renee, and Andrea, and Renee drove to the race, picking up Alicia and Stephanie as well.\nAlicia, Jessica, Andrea, me, Renee, Julia\nThe race was scheduled to start at 7:30, and we got there pretty early, so we took a couple of pictures while we waited. Then we waited in the long bathroom lines, of course. I got to the starting line about 2 minutes before the race started--and it started right on time, which was great.\nI brought along my iPod, which I've never done for a race before. I remembered how awful my last race on Grosse Ile was (the Run Happy 8K), and nobody was talking during that race. I figured it would be the same, quiet run today, so I brought the iPod.\nI popped a Clif Shot Blok in my mouth right as the race started, because I usually get caught up in the excitement, go too fast, and get a really dry mouth. Having the shot blok helped a lot. Almost immediately, I spotted a someone about 5 people deep in front of me with a shirt that had \"watchmegorun.com\" on the back--and I realized that I read her blog. So I tried to catch up to her to say hello, but there were too many people (and she was definitely speedier than me).\nI tried to settle into a comfortable pace right away, but it was hard. There were a lot of people, and the race course bottle-necked us a couple of times right at the start. About a mile or so in, Johna (who I ran with a few times with Jessica in the beginning of our marathon training) came up from behind, and we ran together for a couple of miles. I had a bad muscle cramp in my left side from the very start of the race, and it was then that I realized today was definitely not my day for hitting the sub-2:00, so I was glad I stuck to my 'B' goal (which was to PR).\nAt mile 4, I ate a chocolate Gu that the race was handing out, and that gave me a little pick-me-up, so I sped up and that was the last I saw of Johna. Once I got to mile 6 or so, I was really looking forward to the water stations. I was thirsty! But they were more sporadic than I would have liked. I wished I had brought my water bottle belt thing.\nAt around mile 7, I was staying right on pace with this one guy for a while--we were running side by side. Then he'd pass me, and I'd pass him, and so on, playing leap frog until I passed him at mile 9 and didn't see him again until later.\nI chatted with a woman for a minute about her Nathan handheld water bottle, asking if she liked it. At mile 10 or so, I felt like my legs suddenly turned to lead. The fatigue hit me fast. I ate my 'emergency' Gu from my SPI belt, and just kept putting one foot in front of the other. I wanted it to be over so badly!\nAt around mile 11, that guy from earlier passed me. I said, \"Hey, not YOU again! I thought I passed you!\" But I knew I had slowed down, and I was fine with that. I knew I would still PR, by quite a bit. I felt like I was dying for water the last 5 miles or so, but they had finally had a water station at mile 11, which I definitely needed. I drank two cups and kept moving along. The last mile felt really long.\nI kind of wished I didn't bring my iPod with me, because a lot of the people on the course were friendly. I probably could have had some good conversations. I put the iPod in my SPI belt at mile 12, so I could be all-ears for the last mile.\nI finally saw the finish line. We had to enter a high school track and run half a lap to finish. It was then that I heard Andrea yell out to me, \"GO KATIE\" really loud, and that boosted my spirits, which were feeling crappy at that point. (Steph was kind enough to take some pics of me--I wish I knew that, so I looked a little nicer for the camera!)\nThe clock said 2:03:47 (which was more than my chip time), and I knew I crushed my previous PR of 2:10:40. I waved to Renee at the last minute and stuck my tongue out (as in, \"Ugh, I'm so exhausted!\") and I think that's probably what was captured in my race finish line photo, haha.\nThe Garmin time isn't my \"official\" result, but it's close:\nI saw Alicia, but all I could think about was to find water. I was dying! I got my medal (they had soldiers handing them out, which I thought was so cool!) I thanked him for his service (the military, not handing out medals, haha), then went to find water. I grabbed two bottles, and chugged the first one down fast. Then I went and sat with Renee (1:48:??) and Alicia (who just said she had the worst race of her life, but she still beat me and PR'ed) and Stephanie (who walked the 5K, her first race, in 40:xx! That's a super fast walk). We saw Johna finish at 2:09:xx, and then Jessica at 2:13:xx (a PR for her).\nWhile I was walking, I saw a very pregnant half-marathon finisher who looked familiar--so I said hi and introduced myself (I read her blog, but I don't think she had a clue who I was).\nWe went to check out the food, and they had PANERA bagels and homemade cookies--if my stomach felt up to it, I would have eaten some serious carb calories. I did take a blueberry bagel and a macaroon. I ate the macaroon right away, and it was AMAZING. But my stomach wasn't feeling up to the bagel, so I brought it home for lunch, and it was delicious.\nStopped for a group picture on the way to the car:\nMe, Alicia, Andrea, Jessica, Stephanie, and Renee\nMy \"official\" results:\nChip time: 2:02:57 (9:23/mi pace) (crushed my previous PR of 2:10:40)\nOverall placement: 454/834 (I was in the bottom half of finishers... good grief!)\nAnd my splits:\nYou can see where miles 12 and 13 were where I just felt exhausted--going from 9:09 to 9:31 and 9:36.\nI'll post the race photos when they're ready on the website. Overall, I'm happy that I PR'ed, and I'm happy I didn't go for the sub-2:00, because I think I would have been very disappointed. The race was good, I would probably do it again next year--except I'd bring my own water for the course.\nRace photos are in! A couple of good ones, a couple of bad ones...\nMy running form looks terrible here\nMy favorite of the pics\nAll race finish photos show me stopping my Garmin\nLabels: half-marathon, race, race report, running\nWith the exception of refueling at the Whole Foods bakery after a long run, my favorite part about running is carb loading the night before a race. It's true, I really do run to eat.\nToday I had a pretty low-key morning, which was nice. Jerry was off work, so I spent some time with him just catching up on a few of our shows. We took the kids to the mall. I went to Vitamin World so I could get some more protein powder. Amazon apparently doesn't carry my favorite flavor anymore.\nI had plans with Renee and Jessica to go pick up our race packets for tomorrow. I drove to Jessica's, and then she drove us to Renee's. Then we all went to the high school to pick up our packets. It was good to spend some time with Renee, even if it was just in the car. I feel like I never see her anymore, and I miss her!\nShe had plans for dinner already, so just Jessica and I went out to eat. We decided to carb load at an Italian restaurant. I ordered gnocci with meat sauce and cheese. It came with salad and bread. I ate almost all of it, and totally regreted it when I was done. I felt too full. Oh, and Jessica and I split a tirimisu for dessert.\nWe were laughing during dinner because we said that if we knew each other when we were fat, we would definitely be best bingeing buddies. A lot of people have told me that they had a friend (or friends) that they would binge eat with--going out to dinner, just having friends over for food and drinks, etc. I've never had a friend like that--I was always \"the fat one\" and I tried to hide it and eat how my friends did.\nBut Jessica and I are seriously kindred spirits when it comes to food! ;) It's a good thing we're both maintaining a large weight loss, because we keep each other in check when we need to. But we do enjoy refueling together!\nAfter dinner, we went right to our wine club meeting. I was too full to enjoy any of the food Melissa prepared, unfortunately. And I only had a few sips of wine, just enough to taste it. Melissa was celebrating her recent divorce, so she had a \"survivor\" theme. I didn't want to stay late because of the half-marathon tomorrow, so Jessica and I left at 8:30. We have to meet tomorrow at 5:45 in the morning for the race!\nHere is our group Winers photo:\nThe whole group for this month's meeting\nJessica, me, and Renee\nJessica said we look like we've been spending too much time together--we did not dress alike on purpose!\nOkay, I really have to get to bed for the race tomorrow.\nLabels: race training, Winers\nJerry and I had to get up early today to get all of the furniture moved out of our living room--a 3-piece sectional, a recliner chair, two end tables, a coffee table, two book shelves, our TV and entertainment center, and a treadmill--for our new carpet.\nAnd when I say 'Jerry and I', you know I really mean 'Jerry', right? I watched, and I tried to help, but I think I was just in the way.\nWe got everything moved into the kitchen and bedrooms, so our living room was bare. I got really curious while we were waiting for the carpet guys, and I ended up ripping up the carpet myself. I knew our carpet was 9 years worth of gross, but good grief! I'm SO glad that we chose to spend our tax return on carpet. It was badly needed.\nI chose to go with Berber carpet, which I really dislike. I just chose it because I know it's sturdy and doesn't get matted down, and it will last a long time. I can't say I love how my new carpet looks, but I do love that it's not gross and it will last a long time. And as far as Berber carpets go, it's not bad.\nThe carpet isn't done yet, so I can't show you the final look, but I assure you, Estelle is here for quality control, per usual:\nI made plans with my dad to go see The Hunger Games today. We went to the noon show, and thankfully, there were only about 10 other people in the theater. I will never be one of those people that chooses to go see the midnight show on the day the movie comes out--because I can just see it the following day without all the teenagers texting and being super loud (yes, I know, I sound old and mean for saying that).\nJessica and her mom went to the show too, so we sat with them. Jessica brought me a Cadbury Cream Egg :) Less calories and much tastier than popcorn! The movie was actually really good. It followed the book pretty closely, and the only parts they left out weren't all that important. One thing that I loved about the movie is that it periodically showed the gamemakers doing their thing, and talking about how they were going to manipulate the game. The book is all from Katniss's perspective, so you can't see what the gamemakers are up to.\nWhen I got home from the movies, the carpet guys were still here, and I had nothing to do, so I decided to go out for a 3-mile run. I was going to skip it this week since I have the half-marathon on Sunday, but I was bored enough to change my mind. While I was running, I was thinking about my half-marathon goal, and I finally made a decision.\nI'm not going to go for the sub-2:00 on Sunday. I've been training for a full marathon for the past 10 weeks. My goal for the marathon is to finish--not finish FAST, but finish. So I haven't been doing much speed work at all. I haven't been training for a half-marathon, and certainly not a sub-2:00 half-marathon. When I hit my sub-2:00, I want to know that I worked hard for it.\nI know that probably doesn't make much sense, but it does in my mind ;) On Sunday, I'll run an enjoyable 13.1 miles, and probably stick to a pace of about 9:45/mi--which will give me a half-marathon PR, but I won't feel like I'm killing myself to get it.\nThen NEXT year, in Indy, I'm going to crush my sub-2:00 goal after training hard for it!\nTomorrow is our monthly Winers meeting. I'm kind of bummed, because I have the half-marathon on Sunday morning. I'm going to go to Winers, but I just won't stay very long and I won't drink more than a few ounces of wine. I'm also going to pick up my race packet with Jessica and Renee tomorrow. Busy weekend!\nLabels: Winers\nThis morning, I was supposed to run with Jessica, but she canceled because she had some stuff going on at home. So I changed my plan from doing 4 miles at a 10:00/mi pace to doing 4 miles at my 'A' goal race pace. I wanted to see if it would even be possible for me to hold that pace on my race Sunday.\nI don't know where I got the number 9:14 from yesterday--but to finish sub-2:00 on Sunday, I'll have to pull a 9:10/mi pace. I set my Garmin to beep an alert if my pace became faster than 8:50/mi and slower than 9:30/mi. I chose such a wide range because I didn't want it to be beeping constantly, and I wasn't sure how well I was going to be able to hold my pace.\nI didn't realize that by changing these settings, my 'auto lap' feature would be turned off--which means I have no idea what my splits were for each mile. I only know my average pace for the whole run.\nAnyway, I headed out for my run, and I tried my best to keep my pace as close to 9:14 as I could without going slower than that (I later learned this should have been 9:10). I think I finished the first mile in 8:58 or something, so I tried to slow down. A few times, I found myself spacing out and getting into my \"zone\" for running, and when I glanced down at the Garmin, I was at about a 9:07 pace.\nSo I think (I hope!) that my comfortably uncomfortable race pace for the half-marathon will be less than 9:10. But I'll really have to push it. My heart rate was about 160, which is uncomfortable, but sustainable. My average heart rate at my previous half-marathon, in Indy last May, was 161 bpm, and I ran a 9:59 pace. So my heart rate is the same when I run a 9:06 pace now, which means I'm getting more conditioned. Of course, I only did 4 miles at that today).\nI know I'm putting WAY too much thought into this stupid race. I was thinking of it as a training run all along, but now that there is a possibility of getting my sub 2:00 half-marathon, I'm tempted to go for it.\nI was dreading writing about this, but I know I need to. My weight has gone up about 5 pounds since I started getting into the double-digit runs :( I know this is actually pretty common in marathon training, due to a number of factors...\nA tiny amount of it could be from the increase in glycogen stores from my increase in mileage (when your body stores glycogen, it stores water with it). But I know deep down that the real cause for it is due to my trips to Whole Foods or La Pita after our long runs. I've been using the calories burned during those runs as a license to eat much more than usual.\nSo in order to keep this 5 pounds from turning into 20 pounds, I'm going to have to nip this in the bud. I'm going to get my eating back to normal at least 6 days a week. On my long run days, I'll allow myself an extra treat--something I've been craving, or going out to eat with Jessica.\nI'm going to go back to my \"Wednesday Weigh-Ins\" where I post a scale picture, and my body fat percentage, and my waist measurement. Hopefully this will keep me accountable.\nI have a big day tomorrow! Our new carpet is getting installed, and I'm going to the movies with my dad to see The Hunger Games. I started re-reading the book yesterday, hoping to finish today. I have about 100 pages left, so I better get going on it!\nLabels: diet, marathon, race training, running, wednesday weigh-in\nI was reading my Runner's World magazine and came across an article about pacing, and how it's important to try to keep a consistent pace during a race. My pace is usually all over the place--for a 5 mile run, I might have splits like 9:10, 9:45, 8:58, 9:15, 9:05. Maybe they aren't that extreme, but I rarely stay at a consistent pace for the entire run.\nI always find it amazing that the elite runners are able to maintain the same pace within a fraction of a second for the entire distance of their runs. And they do this by feel--tell them to run a 5:30 mile and they can do it to within a second, based on how they feel when they run.\nI have to use my trusty Garmin to tell me how fast I'm going. I always have some general idea, but I tend to take everything to the extreme. If I am running a 10-min/mi pace and I \"should\" be running a 9:45 pace for my training, for example, I will make a conscious effort to go faster--and then I end up running a 9:00/mi pace. I either go too fast or too slow for whatever my target is.\nSo my whole point of all this is that I want to work on pacing by feel. And one of the steps to doing that, according to the article, is to do progression runs. A progression run is just what it sounds like--a speed workout where you start at a comfortable pace and then increase your pace a little each mile until you finish at race pace, or close to it.\nToday, Jessica and I had a 7-mile run on the schedule, so I decided to try and do a progression run. It sounds easy enough--just run a comfortable pace (I figured 11:00/mi to start) and then increase by 10 seconds per mile.\nIt was so much harder than I thought it would be! I hate looking at my Garmin constantly, but I kept doing that to check the pace. And when I noticed it was too slow, we sped up until we were going too fast, and vice versa. In theory, our splits should have read: 11:00, 10:50, 10:40, 10:30, 10:20, 10:10, 10:00. What they actually looked like was, well, not even close!\nProgression run fail, for sure. I think I'll need to start with shorter runs and work my way up. Tomorrow, I'm going to try to maintain a consistent 10:00/mi pace for 4 miles. Anyway, our run was pretty good. We went down a route that I'd never done before, and it was really pretty. Jessica let me try one of her Clif Shot Bloks at mile 5, just to see how I could stomach it.\nThe Shot Bloks are kind of like Gummy Bears, only they are in cube shape and probably the size of two Gummy Bears put together. Jessica had the black cherry flavor. I didn't chew it, but tucked it in-between my teeth and my cheek and let it dissolve. It took two miles for the thing to dissolve, and I liked having it in my mouth (go ahead, make dirty jokes). I don't know that I felt any energy from it that way. I like that when I eat a Gu, I feel a little pick-me-up from it; I didn't feel that with the Shot Blok (but I only had one and I made it last two miles).\nSeven miles flew by like nothing. That's the best part about running 15 miles for a long run--the shorter runs feel so fast and easy!\nI have a half-marathon race on Sunday, and I'm still unsure of what my plans are. It's going to take the place of our normal long run, so I could treat it like a training run and go slow and easy. OR, I could try and PR (sub-2:10:40), OR, go balls to the wall and aim for the sub-2:00 I've been dreaming about since last May.\nI think I really have a sub-2:00 half-marathon in me (a 9:14/mi pace), but right now, it would be a torturous 13.1 miles. I wouldn't enjoy it at all. But last year, after running Indy in 2:10, I really wanted to aim for sub-2:00 this year at Indy. That was before I planned on running a full marathon just two weeks after Indy. I don't think it would be smart of me to go for my 'A' goal in Indy and risk injury just two weeks before my marathon.\nI've been training at a much slower pace, so running the 9:14/mi pace would be really difficult. But I would love to bust out that sub-2:00! I could just aim for my 'B' goal, which is anything less than 2:10:40 (a 9:59 pace).\nI'll probably decide on Sunday morning when the race starts ;)\nLabels: half-marathon, product review, race, race training\nNot me--although I'm sure you were thinking it! ;)\nLast night, Jerry, the boys, my mom, and I all went to a local dairy farm to get ice cream and see the animals. I didn't eat dinner, since I had La Pita for lunch just a few hours prior, so I just counted my ice cream as dinner. I couldn't decide between coconut ice cream or maple nut--so I had a half-scoop of each.\nI actually really like the fact that this place is true to portions. They don't call it a scoop and then pile the ice cream a mile-high. One scoop is literally one scoop--a perfect serving size.\nAnyway, we took our ice cream outside where we could smell see the animals while we ate. The geese are mean! They were hissing and being really pesty. We bought a bag of food to give them (which I'm pretty sure was just dog food in a paper bag), and the kids threw that around.\nJerry was terrified of getting eaten by a goose, so he used Eli as a shield. What a baby.\nThere were a couple of horses that came right over to us and were practically begging for us to pet them, but I was kind of terrified of them. I've never had a fear of horses before, but I discovered that I definitely do now. They're huge!\nMy favorite animals at the farm are the calves. They're tiny and adorable, and they always try to suck on my arm when I pet them. Jerry discovered what they do when you stand too close and don't pay attention:\n(I showed Jerry that picture and all he said was, \"Why do I look so ugly?!\")\nThe pigs made me laugh so hard! There was one walking around (not confined at all) and I thought maybe he was blind or something. And maybe deaf, too. He walked right between where we were standing, without even a glance our way. And by walk, I mean strolled as slowly as possible. Then he parked his butt down right in front of one of the calves for a rest.\nI thought he was super cute, because he was so chunky. But then I noticed another pig who took \"chunky\" to a whole new level!\nThis one didn't even blink (at least I don't think so--it's hard to tell because his eyes are so buried!) I wonder if he can even walk? I don't know, maybe it's normal for a pig to get that big.\nThere are a lot of animals that have something wrong with them--a cow with a bad foot, who they confined to a spot in the barn with a bunch of hay for soft footing until she heals; a cat who was missing one eye; the blind and deaf? pig; and probably some others. When we saw a bunch of cats roaming around, Jerry and I both said \"Phoebe would LOVE it here!\" She'd fit right in, too, because she only has half of a tail. Phoebe loves to be outside and would be in heaven on a farm.\nWe saw some pregnant cows who were laboring in a stall. One time when I was there, I saw a cow give birth. It was really cool to see! But my mom asked how close these cows were to giving birth, and the guy who worked there said it could be tonight or it could be another 3 days--hard to tell.\nWhen we were getting ready to leave, we saw a goose walk by, and it looked like it was smoking a cigarette...\nIsn't that funny? I tried to get closer to see what it was, but it kept running from me. It looked kind of like a clip of some sort hooked to it's beak.\nThe boys had a blast, and asked if we could go back tomorrow. I've taken them there plenty of times before, but they never liked it as much as they did last night. Maybe I can turn it into a Monday-evening thing while I do my long runs. Refueling with ice cream is the best!\nOh, and speaking of that... I think it's obvious that I have a sweet tooth. My cravings are awful sometimes most of the time! I've learned to live with it, and even to lose 125 pounds while indulging my cravings, but I really do think it would be best to cut back a little. When I saw a challenge on SparkPeople called \"Tame Your Sweet Tooth\" I decided that I should try it.\nThe first step is taking a quiz to see how your sweet tooth is... and my results?\nMy sugar cravings are \"out of control\". Shocking, right? I know, I couldn't believe it either.\nA couple of people asked me about sodium and running, since I mentioned on my blog yesterday that I made sure to eat a high sodium snack the night before, and I added a pinch of salt to my water. Here is a page from a book called Runner's World Best: Competitive Running:\nThat explains it better than I can. I never really gave much thought to it before, because I only did shorter distances, but now that I'm marathon training, I have to make sure to keep my electrolytes balanced. For once, I'm not getting all technical with the numbers--just trying to increase my sodium a little for the long runs.\nQ. I was wondering how you found your running partners. Were you friends with them before you lost weight, or did you meet them along the way in your weight loss journey? I would really like to start running more, and eventually complete a marathon (sometime in my life). So far I have lost 15 lbs on my weight loss journey, and you have been a huge inspiration to me!\nA. First, congrats on the weight loss! The question about my running friends has actually come up a lot lately. The truth is, I was strictly a solo runner until just recently. Before I started running, the only runner-friend that I had was Renee. She had just run her first marathon, and I didn't even comprehend then what that meant. She was the one who encouraged me to sign up for a 5K race, before I had even run one step.\nMy first 10K run (Evie, Jessica, Renee, me, Kerri)\nOnce I got hooked on running, I invited Renee and Jessica to do the Indy half-marathon. Jessica wasn't a runner at the time, but I told her she could walk it. She ended up running it and getting hooked on running as well. Jessica is probably the very definition of a \"social butterfly\"--especially when it comes to exercise. She loves taking classes at the YMCA and she almost always runs with friends (most of whom she met at the Y).\nWhen we decided to run our first marathon, we wanted to train together to keep our super long runs from boring us to death. And it was through Jessica that I met some other runners.\nSo basically, if you know a runner, that runner probably knows other runners, and so on. I still like running solo on my short runs, because I can go at my own pace, but for anything longer than about 4-5 miles, I really enjoy the company!\nQ. Do you warm up and/or cool down after a run? I'm signed up for a 5K in April and I just ran my farthest distance of 4.59 miles. I have always had tight hamstrings, but I'd like to prevent them from being any tighter. What is your pre and post- run routine?\nA. I know what my answer *should* be. But honestly, I don't warm up before a run. I just head outside and start running. I only recently started cooling down, and that's because my legs feel much better when I do, especially after a long run. After Jessica and I finish a long run, I'll stop the Garmin and we walk for about 5 minutes. Then I usually stretch for a couple of minutes--nothing crazy, just some stretches that make my legs feel good. That's about it as far as my pre- and post-run routine. I just do what makes me feel good, and the post-run walking and stretching feels good!\nQ. Can you tell me what to expect from my first 5K? Do we all take off at the word \"go\" like a pack of dogs? LOL. I'm wondering how you can even run in a crowd?\nA. This is something that I was scared and nervous and excited about before my first 5K as well. I had no idea what to expect.\nUnless you get there right at the last minute, there is actually a lot of standing around and waiting at a race--waiting for your packet pick-up, waiting in line for the porta-potty, waiting for the start of the race... the race itself is the only part where you don't seem to be waiting.\nOnce you pick up your packet (in bigger races, you might even do this days ahead of time) and pin on your number bib, make sure you go to the bathroom one more time before the race. When you're ready, you'll go to the starting line. A tidbit of race etiquette: if you're a walker, go to the back of the pack. If you're a run/walker, go just a little ahead of the back. Save the actual starting line for the people that run 5 minute miles, and the 8-10 minute/mile people should be in the middle of the pack. It's really frustrating when you're much faster than the people standing around you and you have to dodge around them. And you'll annoy the people behind you if you stand with the 5-minute/mile crowd and you're running a 10:00/mi.\nThe Indy 500 Festival Mini-Marathon starting line\nOnce you are waiting at the starting line, they might have announcements, or something. Then you'll hear a loud horn (or whatever they use to start the race). It might take some time to get up to the starting line, so you could be shuffling forward slowly (depends on how many people in the race--in Indy, it takes me 30+ minutes to get to the starting line! At a small race, just 5-10 seconds at most). Your race time will start when YOU cross the start line (assuming that they are using chip timing--attached to your shoe or your bib).\nOnce you cross the actual starting line, you'll be able to pick up speed pretty quickly. You might have to dodge around people for a half mile or so, and you might feel overwhelmed if people are dodging around you. The first race I was in, I almost cried because I thought EVERYONE was passing me. But just try to forget about everyone else, and run your own race. The people spread out quickly, even in a larger race, so you won't feel like a sardine.\nSee how much fun I'm having? LOL\nAfter a half-mile or so, you'll have some more space and you can pick up speed or drop speed if needed. It's important to try not to go out from the start too fast, especially if you feel like you have to keep up with people that are passing you. Something I always notice at races is that a lot of the people who pass me in the beginning drop to a walk after a mile or two, and I pass them. Just try and keep a consistent pace, and don't worry about the people around you.\nOnce you cross the finish line, you'll probably be able to grab a bottle of water and some post-race snacks, and perhaps they'll give you medal. You can hang around for a bit or just leave right away. If you're pretty fast, you might even win a prize for your age group--so I've HEARD from my speedy friend Renee, anyway ;)\nI still get nervous before every race, but there is honestly no reason to--just try to enjoy it and not think too hard about it! 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But her actions also got her invited to the first International Congress on Islamic Feminism, held in October 2005 in Barcelona.\nThe conference signalled a shift in Nomani\u2019s activism. From small-town marches in Morgantown, WV, to a national campaign throughout the US, Nomani is now taking her place within the international movement for Muslim women\u2019s rights. Having been raised in the US she says, has given her privileges of education and access to resources that she can bring to a worldwide movement but she\u2019s quick to point out that these privileges do not set her apart from Muslim women in Africa and the Middle East: \"There are different degrees of threat but the dynamic of subordination that we face in our traditional communities is the same. In Nigeria, women face physical stoning; here they face psychic shaming and intimidation that can be just as brutal.\"\nBut this movement will not follow in the footsteps of other feminist movements from history. Rooted in religion, the efforts of Islamic feminists are focused on reclaiming sacred texts by means of a progressive contemporary interpretation that includes women\u2019s rights. \"Muhammad was a feminist,\" Nomani says. She intends to prove the point through her newest project, the Islamic Dream, a website devoted to Koranic analysis and interpretations from the leading Islamic scholars of the day, men and women, to create a go-to source for Muslims grappling with contemporary issues. \"I\u2019ve gotten hundreds of emails from people,\" \u2013 from a Muslim woman in the US in love with a Christian man to a man in Pakistan who is struggling with being gay \u2013 \"asking what can I do?\"\nMother Jones talked to Nomani on a Friday, after she attended prayer service at her local mosque with two other non-Muslim American women. Together they stood shoulder to shoulder in the main hall, under the disapproving gaze of the men. In this interview Nomani reports back on the conference and explains the role American progressives of all faiths must play in the struggle for Muslim women\u2019s rights. \"The progressive movements in America are completely in sync with the progressive theology of Islam,\" she says. \"We need to mature and the larger American progressive community needs to mature with us.\"\nMother Jones: Tell me a little bit about the conference. What was the motivation behind it?\nAsra Nomani: In the history of women\u2019s rights in America it was comparable to the Seneca Falls conference, which was a landmark for establishing women\u2019s rights in the US. One big difference was that at the Seneca Falls conference, the women of America told the men that they could attend but had to remain silent. But this conference was organised and spearheaded by Muslim men who believe that Islam is being misrepresented when women don\u2019t get their full rights in the world. It was so exciting to (be) at a place where we actually acknowledge this concept of Islamic feminism because right now it\u2019s still this taboo topic. People don\u2019t want to acknowledge it as a legitimate concept.\nMJ: Who was there? What was discussed?\nAN: There were amazing activists and scholars from Indonesia to Mali, women that I\u2019d heard about for years but hadn\u2019t met face to face. When we came together, we embraced each other because we\u2019re all good friends who are very much alone all the time in our communities but very like-minded. This was a crowd where we very clearly saw that much of what is put out in the world in the name of Islam is interpretation, not god\u2019s law. It\u2019s not divinely ordained but really the creation of men. This is something we\u2019re still putting out there in our communities that isn\u2019t widely accepted. Islam is still considered by many people, including Muslims, to be monolithic. We\u2019re challenging the many interpretations that create this monolithic entity.\nRaheel Raza, a native of Pakistan, spoke about her work fighting religious arbitration courts in Canada that impose the Shariah, Islamic law, on communities. She was very clear that she is not against the Shariah but she\u2019s against the interpretations of the Shariah that, most of the time, demean women. A woman from Senegal talked about having been in a marriage that was polygamous and suffered greatly from it. A woman from Malaysia talked about the work they\u2019re doing on the ground refuting the theology and interpretations that allow polygamy. A woman from Mali talked about the work her organisation does through a radio programme educating women about their right not to have their clitorises cut off, the surgery that is imposed upon them in the name of Islam. An inspiring woman from Nigeria talked about the work that her organisation, BAOBAB, does to get the imams, the prayer leaders of mosques, to open their minds to the concept of different interpretations.\nMJ: How did this congregation of women activists inspire you?\nAN: What I could feel during this conference was that we are on the verge of a really great opportunity to bring all this really great work together and create a new approach for Islam in the world. Because women and men in communities all over the world right now are challenging interpretations. Now it\u2019s time for us to bring it together so nobody has to start from scratch in any community. So what I introduced in my presentation was this concept that I called the Islamic Dream, where we would have a project to bring together all of these interpretations of Islamic law that are progressive and women-friendly, and give people an alternative to the type of Islam that\u2019s being practised in the world in many of our communities.\nSince then I\u2019ve been working on trying to make that happen. It\u2019s not like my activism before where if I just did it, it was a victory in overcoming my own fears and challenging the status quo. In order for us to really succeed in putting a new approach out there we need to make it viable. So I\u2019ve been getting a lot of advice from scholars and organisational folks in putting something like this out there. I\u2019m hoping that over the next six months I can come up with a plan to get thinkers and scholars together under this very simple concept of tawheed, which is the fundamental principle in Islam of oneness. Tawheed is vital in ensuring that people are equal in this world and one person isn\u2019t more privileged than the other. This is such an important and missing concept in a lot of our Muslim society where people denigrate women or denigrate people of other religions. Enough is enough with all of that.\nMJ: In what form do you envision the Islamic Dream coming together?\nAN: I know that this is the internet age and that\u2019s how we can connect across this divide of loneliness that separates us. I got a letter from a woman who\u2019s in love with a Christian man and she asks me, \"Can I marry him?\" I want to be able to refer people to a place where they can see clearly what the scholars say on this, in an interpretation that allows for plurality and progressive thought. In this instance we can bring together the many scholars that accept a Muslim woman marrying a Christian man without his conversion. This is still taboo in our community and there are so few resources available on the point. Or I get a letter from a gay man in Pakistan who says, \"Can I be gay or do I have to change?\" And I could actually give him the resource and the interpretation that allow him to accept himself. That\u2019s what I\u2019m envisioning.\nMJ: Who are the main people you have in mind as contributors?\nAN: I\u2019ve really been inspired by Khaled Abou El Fadl, a lawyer by training. He is one of the few scholars brave enough to come right out and acknowledge women\u2019s rights to be imams, to both women and men. Reza Aslan, an Iranian immigrant who\u2019s written a book called No god but God. He says very clearly that women are not obligated to cover their hair with a scarf, which is considered part of the Islamic code according to so many people. And he takes a brave stand in accepting homosexuality. Dr Amina Wadud, the woman who lead the prayer in New York, and Asma Barlas, another professor. They both have done these great readings of the Koran. Omid Safi, he has written a book on progressive Islam. In Malaysia, Zainah Anwar from Sisters in Islam. They\u2019ve already challenged so much of the family law that denies women\u2019s rights. Kecia Ali, she\u2019s done really important work on sexuality issues in Islam. There\u2019s a lot of really great work out there by great scholars of the day who are doing their piece of the pie. Now is the time to bring the pie together so that everybody can share it.\nMJ: You mention a lot of men in your list. Do you think men have a particular role in Islamic feminism that is different from the role men have played in other feminist movements?\nAN: It\u2019s true that in a lot of western feminist movements you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women\u2019s rights movement in the \u201960s here. But when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they\u2019re (entitled).\nIn our world the men stand with us. And they know that we need them and we know that we need them. Other men turn on them. They are ostracised, they\u2019re mocked, they\u2019re ridiculed. They go through their own hell for supporting us. But they back us up and we definitely are stronger because of it.\nMJ: You\u2019ve said before that \"Intolerance toward women is like the canary in the coal mine for intolerance toward other people.\"\nAN: When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women\u2019s rights. It\u2019s about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. It\u2019s about kindness and goodness to all people. Women\u2019s rights is one aspect of it, it\u2019s not the end-all, but I also think that the women\u2019s issue is the strongest entry point that we\u2019ve got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman\u2019s issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It\u2019s the fastest path that we\u2019ve got to making change happen. If as women we stand up, day in and day out, day after day, then we really force the extremists to confront their real ideas.\nMJ: In what ways do you think US Muslim women\u2019s concerns differ from Muslim women in Africa and the Middle East?\nAN: I think that we don\u2019t have as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as women in other parts of the world. But the continuum is the same. The pressures on women to fit into a certain image of a good Muslim girl is the same. The controls and rules are the same but there are different degrees of it. So in America a father will threaten a daughter that he will disown her if she marries the American boyfriend and in Pakistan she faces acid thrown on her face. The power dynamic is the same, it just expresses itself differently.\nMJ: What role do American Muslim women play in the international Islamic feminist movement?\nAN: Personally, I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries so I don\u2019t feel like we are the leaders and I don\u2019t agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. These women are so far ahead of where we are as American Muslims in affirming and asserting their rights in the world. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilise and galvanise a lot of these ideas and resources. It\u2019s a war of ideas. We are very well supported in this country, by institutions, academic and non-profit, that are already in the field, endorsing women\u2019s rights and tolerance. We have skills and resources from growing up in America, to raise funds or build websites or publish papers or develop big picture plans. We can publish op-eds in newspapers that get wide circulation to send strong messages out to the world. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work. They\u2019re putting out newsletters and guidebooks and media points but I believe that a lot of the war right now is on getting the ideas out there through books and newspaper articles and interviews. In America we\u2019ve got the machinery to do that.\nMJ: Some critics have charged that Islamic feminism is unduly influenced by western social trends. And yet women from the congress in Barcelona say that this is a movement coming from within Islam. Do you think that it\u2019s strictly one or the other or could it possibly be both?\nAN: Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn\u2019t authentic. But I don\u2019t understand and I don\u2019t believe or subscribe to this idea that I don\u2019t have a right to speak as a Muslim because I\u2019m an American. I don\u2019t speak Arabic but Osama bin Laden does and I don\u2019t consider him a more authentic Muslim than I am. Being Muslim is to accept and honour the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically and linguistically because that\u2019s what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world but that doesn\u2019t make us less than anyone else.\nMJ: In that sense, when you look ahead to your idea for the Islamic Dream, why is collaboration among women from different countries so important?\nAN: I think there\u2019s probably going to be a lot of differences when it comes to implementation because that is going to be uniquely cultural. Communities are all going to evolve differently from each other but at the conference we hit just about every hot button issue, like homosexuality and women imams, capital punishment, terrorism, sex, and I think in all of these, there\u2019s consensus out there. What\u2019s going to have to get worked out is developing where there\u2019s common ground and then allowing places where there\u2019s difference to get worked out over time.\nMJ: And what about women and men who are not Muslim. What role do they have, if any?\nAN: One of our greatest challenges here in America (is that) progressives don\u2019t always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest of freedom of religion and civil liberties and political correctness they don\u2019t want to offend cultural choices by Muslims. I know that people have gone to these interfaith sessions at different mosques and they see that the women end up in the basement but they don\u2019t want to challenge anyone because they think, \"Oh, well this is your way.\"\nBut we\u2019re standing up for women in the community and we\u2019re saying, \"This isn\u2019t our way, this isn\u2019t the right way, this isn\u2019t the Islamic way,\" and yet it\u2019s really hard for people who think of themselves as outsiders to weigh in. We have to evolve all of us. When we stand up against sexism and prejudice in a Muslim community, we\u2019re standing up against ideas, not an entire group of people or the whole faith. We have to mature and the larger American progressive community needs to mature with us. Progressive Americans need to know that they really are needed in this struggle to encourage more inclusive and tolerant expressions of Islam in this world.\n(April Dembosky is a freelance writer and former editorial fellow at Mother Jones magazine. This article appeared in December 2005.)\nArchived from Communalism Combat, November-December 2007 Year 14 No.126, Gender Jihad, Cover Story 1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 18230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2002-01-0251/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QF3FNTPMLARRQWDIECPWGNCOG4LCLAUB", "length": 967, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "A Study of the Pulsations in a 3/4 Open Jet Wind Tunnel", "raw_content": "A Study of the Pulsations in a 3/4 Open Jet Wind Tunnel 2002-01-0251\nSome open jet wind tunnels have been operating under limitations due to a phenomenon that causes large pressure fluctuations at some speeds. The matter has been studied over several years and no configuration has been found to eliminate these fluctuations without introducing new noise sources.\nThis paper describes test results from a sub-scale facility that demonstrates this phenomenon. The facility is then tested with a configuration that does not exhibit these phenomena over a wide range of speeds. It is possible to retrofit this configuration in existing facilities.\n(The modification is the subject of a pending patent application.)\nCitation: Lacey, J., \"A Study of the Pulsations in a 3/4 Open Jet Wind Tunnel,\" SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-0251, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-0251.\nAuthor(s): John Lacey\nAffiliated: Aero Systems Engineering, Inc.\nWind tunnel tests Pressure Noise", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2004-01-2790/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:H732F2IOTEKTWQTCPNZGRCJCKN35DT7R", "length": 1480, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "Suppression of Self-Excited Vibration by Dither Technique with Potential Application to Reduce Brake Squeal", "raw_content": "Suppression of Self-Excited Vibration by Dither Technique with Potential Application to Reduce Brake Squeal 2004-01-2790\nDisc brake squeal is a manifestation of the friction-induced self-excited instability of the brake system. One of known techniques in suppressing dynamic instabilities in nonlinear systems is by applying dither. The focus of this paper is to examine, through numerical examples, the feasibility and effects of dither on nonlinear systems as a means of quenching large-amplitude limit cycles. In particular, various ways of introducing the dither, either via modifications of the system characteristics or as external excitation, are explored. The investigation is extended to a disc brake system using finite elements simulations. Numerical results show that large-amplitude vibrations can be suppressed by dither and careful tuning of the amplitude and frequency of the dither can result in an effective quenching. The potential application of this technique to disc brake squeal control is also discussed.\nCitation: Chen, F., Wang, A., and Tan, C., \"Suppression of Self-Excited Vibration by Dither Technique with Potential Application to Reduce Brake Squeal,\" SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-2790, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-2790.\nAuthor(s): F. Chen, A. Wang, C. A. Tan\nAffiliated: Research and Vehicle Technology, Ford Motor Company, Wayne State University\nEvent: 22nd Annual Brake Colloquium & Exhibition\nDisc brakes Braking systems Noise Vibration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/480092/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:49Z", "digest": "sha1:OU6L7FDS5CLPV5XZPSDSJ5WTVTFLHO5U", "length": 403, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "The Automotive Industry's Participation In Reduction Of Radio And Television Interference", "raw_content": "The Automotive Industry's Participation In Reduction Of Radio And Television Interference 480092\nCitation: KENT, P., \"The Automotive Industry's Participation In Reduction Of Radio And Television Interference,\" SAE Technical Paper 480092, 1948, https://doi.org/10.4271/480092.\nAuthor(s): P. J. KENT\nAffiliated: Electrical Division, Chrysler Corporation\nEvent: SAE SUMMER MEETING French Lick Springs Hotel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 2592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/search/?sort=relevance&display=list&affiliations=%28%22Michigan+Technological+University%22+OR+%22Caterpillar+Inc.%22%29&authors=%28%22Franz+X.+Tanner%22%29", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TEOCPKFLDIB255U6JGXER5DYY7DI3C2P", "length": 3123, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "Search - SAE International", "raw_content": "Franz X. Tanner Caterpillar Inc. Michigan Technological University\nOptimization of an Asynchronous Fuel Injection System in Diesel Engines by Means of a Micro-Genetic Algorithm and an Adaptive Gradient Method\nOptimal fuel injection strategies are obtained with a micro-genetic algorithm and an adaptive gradient method for a nonroad, medium-speed DI diesel engine equipped with a multi-orifice, asynchronous fuel injection system. The gradient optimization utilizes a fast-converging backtracking algorithm and an adaptive cost function which is based on the penalty method, where the penalty coefficient is increased after every line search. The micro-genetic algorithm uses parameter combinations of the best two individuals in each generation until a local convergence is achieved, and then generates a random population to continue the global search. The optimizations have been performed for a two pulse fuel injection strategy where the optimization parameters are the injection timings and the nozzle orifice diameters.\nGradient-Based Optimization of a Multi-Orifice Asynchronous Injection System in a Diesel Engine Using an Adaptive Cost Function\nA gradient-based optimization tool has been developed and, in conjunction with a CFD code, utilized in the search of optimal fuel injection strategies. The approach taken uses a steepest descent method with an adaptive cost function, where the line search is performed with a fast-converging backtracking algorithm. The adaptive cost function is based on the penalty method, where the penalty coefficient is increased after every line search. The parameter space is normalized and, thus, the optimization occurs over the unit cube in higher-dimensional space. The application of this optimization tool is demonstrated for a non-road version of the Sulzer S20 DI diesel engine which, for these simulations, is equipped with a multi-orifice, asynchronous injection system. This system permits an independent timing of the fuel pulses, and each orifice has its own diameter and injection direction.\nOptimization of Fuel Injection Configurations for the Reduction of Emissions and Fuel Consumption in a Diesel Engine Using a Conjugate Gradient Method\nThe objective of this study is the development of a computationally efficient CFD-based tool with the capability of finding optimal engine operating conditions with respect to emissions and fuel consumption. The approach taken uses a conjugate gradient method, where the line search is performed with a backtracking algorithm. The initial backtracking step employs an adaptive step size mechanism which depends on the steepness of the search direction. The engine simulations are performed with a KIVA-3-based code which is equipped with well-established spray, combustion and emission models. The cost function is based on the idea of the penalty method and is minimized over the unit cube in n-dimensional space, which represents the set of normalized injection parameters under investigation. The application of this optimization tool is demonstrated for the Sulzer S20, a central-injection, non-road DI diesel engine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 16309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/atkins-kroll-offers-toyota-tacoma-hole-one-prize/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OVM5QDTEJD3GA25JVNE7BLGWEUNRIPSI", "length": 2569, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.saipantribune.com", "title": "Atkins Kroll offers Toyota Tacoma as hole-in-one prize - Saipan News, Headlines, Events, Ads | Saipan Tribune", "raw_content": "Atkins Kroll offers Toyota Tacoma as hole-in-one prize\nTag: Carmen Fernandez, Doug Brennan, NMC, Toyota Tacoma\nAtkins Kroll is offering a 2017 Toyota Tacoma that will be featured at the upcoming annual NMC Foundation Golf Tournament on Saturday, March 3, 2018. In the photo are Atkins Kroll employees and NMC staff and students, led by Northern Marianas College president Dr. Carmen Fernandez, third from right. (NMC)\nAtkins Kroll (Saipan) Toyota is offering a new Toyota Tacoma as a hole-in-one prize for the upcoming 15th Annual NMC Foundation Golf Tournament.\nThe tournament is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, 2018, at Laolao Bay Golf & Resort.\nThe NMC Foundation Golf Tournament will be the first major golf tournament of the year.\n\u201cOne of Atkins Kroll\u2019s key priorities include supporting higher education and workforce development in the Marianas,\u201d said Doug Brennan, vice president and general manager of Atkins Kroll (Saipan) Toyota. \u201cWe are excited to be part of the NMC Foundation Golf Tournament again and look forward to a successful event in March.\u201d\n\u201cAtkins Kroll has been a part of the Foundation Golf Tournament for many years,\u201d said NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez. \u201cWe are thankful for the company\u2019s longstanding support.\u201d\nThe golf tournament is the NMC Foundation\u2019s signature event that raises funds to support NMC\u2019s academic programs and services.\n\u201cThe Toyota Tacoma prize helps to build anticipation and excitement for the golf tournament,\u201d said Mary Tenorio, NMC Foundation president. \u201cThank you to the team at Atkins Kroll for their contribution.\u201d\nThe 15th Annual NMC Foundation Open golf tournament will be held at the west course of the Saipan LaoLao Bay Golf & Resort, on Saturday, March 3, 2018. Showtime is at 6am and the shotgun start will be at 7am. The tournament will follow a medal play format.\nFirst place winners in the men\u2019s Championship, A, B, C, Senior, and Ladies flights will each receive $500, while $300 and $200 will go to the second and third place finishers, respectively.\nOther hole-in-one prizes include a Honda HR-V from Joeten Motors, $5,000 in cash from Pacifica Insurance, and $10,000 in cash from Marianas Insurance Co. The tournament will also feature many other items as raffle prizes like smartphones, hotel stays, meal gift certificates, and much more.\nRegistration and payment can be made at Laolao Bay Golf & Resort or the NMC Cashier\u2019s Office. For sponsorship opportunities or registration information, visit marianas.edu or call 237-6833. (NMC)\nMilitary to conduct training at the ex-Adm. Nimitz Golf Course", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 8448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.salesprocentral.com/construction/real-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YWG4YGC5FSOW4V2DYUDS72CG64W5Y5JZ", "length": 15074, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "www.salesprocentral.com", "title": "Construction and Real Estate - Sales Pro Central", "raw_content": "And the initial investment amount includes expenses such as royalty fees, real estate, and inventory costs. And they support their franchisees with training and assistance with site selection, construction, operations, management, and marketing. MORE\n\u201cYou\u2019re in real estate \u2014 you\u2019ll know,\u201d my friend said with an inquisitive look on his face. \u201cWhat company is moving into that big office building under construction along the freeway?\u201d \u201d This was a problematic question for me, because I hadn\u2019t even noticed the office building under construction along the freeway. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List. MORE\nHow many hours a week do you wave farewell to while answering buyer or seller questions about basic real estate concepts and terminology? I\u2019ve pulled together a comprehensive dictionary of real estate terms and definitions. Real Estate Terms and Definitions. MORE\nNearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company. Author: Tony Agresta Most salespeople could teach a course in rejection. MORE\nWhether you\u2019re starting a real estate business or have been selling homes for a while, there\u2019s clear and increasing benefit to professionally staging your clients\u2019 homes. Need virtual construction help? Real Tour Vision. MORE\nI decided that the first thing that I need to do was to inventory the area for opportunities and, in my case, that was based on new commercial construction. I tore the whole damn list up and instead began a coordinated effort to get in front of every commercial real estate, commercial developer, architecture, and construction firm that would see me. I started B2B selling in 1977. As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust. MORE\nLet\u2019s take a deep-dive into DiscoverOrg\u2019s Top 10 most prospected-to companies of 2018, including real example \u201cScoops\u201d: Insight gathered by our 350+ in-house human researchers via phone calls and proprietary technologies. In real estate, the secret ingredient is location. MORE\n22 Incredible Small Business Opportunities for 2019 and Beyond\nThat said, if you've got the right personality and patience, making money using your influence online is a very real possibility. Construction. This could entail constructing new government buildings or updating or maintaining existing buildings. Get Into Real Estate. MORE\nSmall Business Small Business Opportunity Government 106\nReal estate is a linchpin industry in our society. In the past decade or so, software and websites have amended the traditional real estate process. But regardless of how much technology advances, it\u2019ll never replace the real estate middleman \u2014 the agent. MORE\n7 Tips to Real Estate Agents\u2019 Success\nWith over 2 million real estate agents (2006) according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), becoming a successful real estate agent takes more than just a license and knowledge of current laws and regulations. MORE\nReal Estate Licensing Construction Guarantee 169\nA Beginner's Guide to Running a Comparative Market Analysis\nIt is prepared by real estate professionals by examining the sale prices of similar properties in the area. To set the right price, it\u2019s essential to be familiar with a neighborhood and knowledgeable about the historical and current sale and rental value of real estate there. MORE\nAnalysis Real Estate Construction Report 73\nThis should tell you one thing: if you\u2019re selling a house in 2018, you don\u2019t just need to be on the internet, you need to be on the right real estate websites. Best Real Estate Agent Websites. CENTURY 21 Real Estate. MORE\nThis investment cost is lower because the cost of real estate is decreased in this model. Real Estate and Construction. Dogtopia assists with a real estate and construction package. MORE\nI\u2019ve worked in a variety of industries: SEO and marketing technology (Conductor, Percolate), Real estate technology (Compass) and now IT automation (Electric). You want people who will challenge each other constructively as a way to learn and get better. MORE\nGive them constructive feedback and stay positive. Several years ago, in a sales management position, the Senior VP I reported to challenged me to do a 2-hour workshop with all the investment real estate brokers in my office. Two years ago, I walked into my family room as my four children were watching television wondering why none of them were doing anything about the phone being off the hook. I asked, \u201cWhy is the phone off the hook?\u201d They looked at me with blank stares. MORE\nWondering How Much Money You Can Actually Make as a Realtor? All Your Real Estate Income Questions, Answered\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects the employment of real estate agents to grow 6% over the next eight years. How much do real estate agents make in a year? How much do real estate agents make? How much do real estate agents make per house? MORE\nReal Estate Commission Construction Buyer 63\nWe need to offer a real alliance. Tangible property\u201d simply means physical items, like clothing, vehicles, toys, construction materials, and so on. Sales Email Templates - A list of 21 email templates that have been used with tremendous success by real companies (including HubSpot.) MORE\nNick Georgiou \u2013 Business Planning and Recessions \u2013 Surviving in the Real Estate/Construction Industry. As the old song goes, \u201cOne is a lonely number.\u201d MORE\nThe Growth Hacking Playbook: Your Ultimate List of Growth Hack Resources\nThe homepage serves as Trello's most important real estate for new users to learn about the product and sign up. Get feedback from real people. Get feedback from real people. As it turns out, you really do use some of that elementary school information in real life. MORE\nResources Hubspot Social Media Video 110\nBut you also can\u2019t start a real estate business -- or grow the one you have -- if you\u2019re stuck behind a computer spending hours each week reading. So, I\u2019ve put together a carefully curated list of the best real estate blogs to follow in 2018. Best for: Real estate agents. MORE\nThe 11-Step Guide to Getting Into Real Estate\nAre you considering a career in real estate? The employment of real estate agents is expected to increase by 6% over the next eight years. With a positive employment outlook, now is a great time to begin your career as a real estate agent. Real Estate MORE\nReal Estate Licensing Commission Salary 76\nFor me, since I believe in balance, I would construct the action plan to reflect the 6 areas within sales leadership success. Yet, I have yet to find one residential real estate agent who has read it. Most people understand the value of a simple written grocery list. MORE\nIndustries with drastically lower innovation rates included Telecommunications, Real Estate, Paper Manufacturing, and General Manufacturing. Industries with the best increases in IT staff efficiency include Financial Services and Banks, Food and Beverages, Healthcare, Insurance, Professional Services, Real Estate, Wholesale, Government and Education. MORE\nArts & Entertainment, Construction, Human Resources, Legal & Government, and Real Estate have the highest open rates. Construction: 45%. Real estate: 42%. What is the average email open rate for construction companies? MORE\nThe Ideal Length of a Sales Email, Based on 40 Million Emails\nDon't waste important real estate - Your email opening line and greeting is incredibly important, so don't waste it on \" Hi, my name is. This is a tendency especially when we're asking for something or providing constructive feedback. MORE\nReal Estate Study Construction Data 114\nConstruction Real Estate Related Topics\nAdvertising Software Marketing Tools Training Channels Prospecting Customer Service Sales Demand Generation More Related Topics >\nReal estate is a linchpin industry in our society. In the past decade or so, software and websites have amended the traditional real estate process. But regardless of how much technology advances, it\u2019ll never replace the real estate middleman \u2014 the agent.\nAre you considering a career in real estate? The employment of real estate agents is expected to increase by 6% over the next eight years. With a positive employment outlook, now is a great time to begin your career as a real estate agent. Real Estate\nWith over 2 million real estate agents (2006) according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), becoming a successful real estate agent takes more than just a license and knowledge of current laws and regulations.\nHow many hours a week do you wave farewell to while answering buyer or seller questions about basic real estate concepts and terminology? I\u2019ve pulled together a comprehensive dictionary of real estate terms and definitions. Real Estate Terms and Definitions.\nBut you also can\u2019t start a real estate business -- or grow the one you have -- if you\u2019re stuck behind a computer spending hours each week reading. So, I\u2019ve put together a carefully curated list of the best real estate blogs to follow in 2018. Best for: Real estate agents.\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects the employment of real estate agents to grow 6% over the next eight years. How much do real estate agents make in a year? How much do real estate agents make? How much do real estate agents make per house?\nWhether you\u2019re starting a real estate business or have been selling homes for a while, there\u2019s clear and increasing benefit to professionally staging your clients\u2019 homes. Need virtual construction help? Real Tour Vision.\nThis should tell you one thing: if you\u2019re selling a house in 2018, you don\u2019t just need to be on the internet, you need to be on the right real estate websites. Best Real Estate Agent Websites. CENTURY 21 Real Estate.\nIt is prepared by real estate professionals by examining the sale prices of similar properties in the area. To set the right price, it\u2019s essential to be familiar with a neighborhood and knowledgeable about the historical and current sale and rental value of real estate there.\nFor me, since I believe in balance, I would construct the action plan to reflect the 6 areas within sales leadership success. Yet, I have yet to find one residential real estate agent who has read it. Most people understand the value of a simple written grocery list.\nThis investment cost is lower because the cost of real estate is decreased in this model. Real Estate and Construction. Dogtopia assists with a real estate and construction package.\nNick Georgiou \u2013 Business Planning and Recessions \u2013 Surviving in the Real Estate/Construction Industry. As the old song goes, \u201cOne is a lonely number.\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re in real estate \u2014 you\u2019ll know,\u201d my friend said with an inquisitive look on his face. \u201cWhat company is moving into that big office building under construction along the freeway?\u201d \u201d This was a problematic question for me, because I hadn\u2019t even noticed the office building under construction along the freeway. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List.\nArts & Entertainment, Construction, Human Resources, Legal & Government, and Real Estate have the highest open rates. Construction: 45%. Real estate: 42%. What is the average email open rate for construction companies?\nThat said, if you've got the right personality and patience, making money using your influence online is a very real possibility. Construction. This could entail constructing new government buildings or updating or maintaining existing buildings. Get Into Real Estate.\nI\u2019ve worked in a variety of industries: SEO and marketing technology (Conductor, Percolate), Real estate technology (Compass) and now IT automation (Electric). You want people who will challenge each other constructively as a way to learn and get better.\nDon't waste important real estate - Your email opening line and greeting is incredibly important, so don't waste it on \" Hi, my name is. This is a tendency especially when we're asking for something or providing constructive feedback.\nLet\u2019s take a deep-dive into DiscoverOrg\u2019s Top 10 most prospected-to companies of 2018, including real example \u201cScoops\u201d: Insight gathered by our 350+ in-house human researchers via phone calls and proprietary technologies. In real estate, the secret ingredient is location.\nNearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company. Author: Tony Agresta Most salespeople could teach a course in rejection.\nAnd the initial investment amount includes expenses such as royalty fees, real estate, and inventory costs. And they support their franchisees with training and assistance with site selection, construction, operations, management, and marketing.\nGive them constructive feedback and stay positive. Several years ago, in a sales management position, the Senior VP I reported to challenged me to do a 2-hour workshop with all the investment real estate brokers in my office. Two years ago, I walked into my family room as my four children were watching television wondering why none of them were doing anything about the phone being off the hook. I asked, \u201cWhy is the phone off the hook?\u201d They looked at me with blank stares.\nI decided that the first thing that I need to do was to inventory the area for opportunities and, in my case, that was based on new commercial construction. I tore the whole damn list up and instead began a coordinated effort to get in front of every commercial real estate, commercial developer, architecture, and construction firm that would see me. I started B2B selling in 1977. As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust.\nThe homepage serves as Trello's most important real estate for new users to learn about the product and sign up. Get feedback from real people. Get feedback from real people. As it turns out, you really do use some of that elementary school information in real life.\nWe need to offer a real alliance. Tangible property\u201d simply means physical items, like clothing, vehicles, toys, construction materials, and so on. Sales Email Templates - A list of 21 email templates that have been used with tremendous success by real companies (including HubSpot.)\nIndustries with drastically lower innovation rates included Telecommunications, Real Estate, Paper Manufacturing, and General Manufacturing. Industries with the best increases in IT staff efficiency include Financial Services and Banks, Food and Beverages, Healthcare, Insurance, Professional Services, Real Estate, Wholesale, Government and Education.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 738, "original_length": 51654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sandcrestseo.com/5-latest-marketing-trends-your-denver-seo-company-should-look-out-for/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WRGY2WP3IXFE6KHHRQNXRDTYCDJYFJAE", "length": 6666, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.sandcrestseo.com", "title": "5 Latest Marketing Trends Your Denver SEO Company Should Look Out For - Sand Crest SEO", "raw_content": "Have you been struggling to keep up with the fast-paced internet marketplace? If so, you are not alone. Most business owners are overwhelmed when it comes optimizing their websites to compete on this volatile platform. Millions of websites are launched daily yet only a few succeed in every niche. This has led to naysayers\u2019 movements that believe that there is no way a new website can rank highly using white hat techniques.\nTruth be told, the internet market is overly competitive and for a good reason. Consider that there are over 3.2 billion internet users today and you start appreciating the reason why every marketer wants a piece of the cake. A 2016 study published in the Fortune shows consumers are now doing most of their shopping online. In fact, over 50% of the respondents said they shop online, which best explains why online marketers are ready to risk everything to get noticed online.\nA Search engine journal survey shows that 75% of internet users never scroll past the first page of search engine results pages. This means that if a website is not on this page, it simply doesn\u2019t exist. For this reason, most marketers are ready to go all the way though this is sometimes counterproductive.\nSearch engine optimization should not be an end in itself. Instead, it is supposed to be a strategy that increases visibility of your website and helps you keep growing. While the demand for better ranking on SERPs is understandable, you should never risk the integrity of your brand by taking internet marketing shortcuts.\nLeveraging Emerging SEO Trends\nIf you are a website owner trying to position your brand online, it is important to appreciate the importance of using viable digital marketing strategies. Due to growing demand for higher ranking and more traffic, online marketing is a fast paced industry where trends come and go before they are even fully felt. As an online marketer, it is not possible to keep abreast of all these changes.\nLuckily, your Denver SEO Company will be in place to monitor the industry and help you leverage emerging search engine optimization strategies. Sand Crest SEO is one of the most established internet marketing service providers in the city with over 22 years\u2019 experience in the industry.\nThe company offers a full-service inbound marketing package to clients in different industries with the main goal being to position client brands online. The company\u2019s innovative approach to digital marketing helps it integrate the latest online marketing trends in its projects.\nBelow are some of the internet marketing trends the company is now incorporating in its digital marketing services:\nThere is no denying that the world has gone fully mobile and the revolution has mostly been inspired by internet technology. Google is now more focused on mobile internet than ever with its Accelerated Mobile Pages project (AMP) now turning into reality. These efforts to build a better mobile-friendly web are being felt in search with the mobile-first indexing again pointing to the search engine giant\u2019s commitment to mobile internet. Of course this comes in the backdrop of mobile internet traffic surpassing desktop which necessitates a paradigm shift in inbound marketing.\nYour search engine optimization company should focus on creating a responsive website design that is adaptable to any mobile internet device. There are other design layouts and content strategies that will have to change in order to provide a seamless internet experience for mobile users.\nIt is time to start focusing on featured snippets which provide answers to questions users are likely to ask. There is no denying that voice search, which seemed like a futuristic topic for geeks a few years back, is now big in search. Technology giants led by Google, Amazon, Windows and Samsung now have voice search as part of their software development projects.\nVoice search is bound to change the online marketing landscape and internet marketing companies must be ready to provide solutions. A rich answer is a great way to improve traffic to your website. As such, talk to your digital marketing service and ask how they can help you to get more from voice search. A ComScore report predicts that by 2020, 50% of internet search will be voice.\nIn a mobile-only world, it is becoming obvious that more people are using these devices to shop and find local services. For instance, it is easier for a consumer to find the nearest Mexican restaurant through search than any other resource. For this reason, your website must leverage local search in an attempt to grow its reach and build visibility in the city.\nGoogle\u2019s Possum update is a major step towards helping businesses leverage local search to increase foot traffic. If you are running a local store, it is time to talk to your search engine optimization company about the relevance of search and how you can drive more traffic using it.\nIt might have sounded too surreal a few years back but with Google\u2019s RankBrain already in place, machine learning is now a reality. This is going to change Google\u2019s algorithm and it can also be viewed in line with the Hummingbird function extension. The attempt to learn how people are likely to phrase their queries will help in content creation. With time, machine leaning will extend to data interpretation which will greatly help webmasters and searchers alike.\nFocus on User Experience Optimization (UEO)\nUser experience has been a topic Google has once and again mentioned in all forums. This is in line with many complaints that users make regarding poor experiences. With this becoming a search ranking factor, inbound marketing companies have to redesign their clients\u2019 websites to provide a better user experience. More importantly, these websites must be optimized for mobile because most users are using these devices.\nThere are other digital marketing trends that your SE optimization company should be on the lookout for including increased mobile app development, rise of dense content, importance of personal branding and many more. Of course many other trends are emerging and the best way to stay ahead is by using a highly knowledgeable internet marketing company to help you leverage these trends and strategies.\nSand Crest SEO has a highly trained team of experts who have a passion for innovative SEO solutions. They are always looking for the latest trends in order to boost clients\u2019 websites in a highly competitive environment. 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The model is designed to be powered by a.60 cu.in. two-stroke engine but experienced modellers should be able to convert it to electric power (details not supplied). It is not suitable for beginners, either to plan building or model flying.\nPart of the Brian Taylor Scale Plans collection.\nThe model is of conventional all wood construction. A laser cut wood-pack is available, which contains most of the shaped parts needed, such as fuselage formers and wing ribs, but you will need additional sheet and strip wood and ply to complete the aircraft, as well as all the hardware. A moulded plastic cockpit canopy and FG engine cowling are also available for this model, as well as an aluminium propeller spinner. The model was designed to be powered by a glow engine but experienced modellers should be able to convert it to electric power (details not supplied). 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The CH6640E is the perfect broadband solution for the home, home office, or small business; allowing users to create a custom home network to share a single ultra-broadband connection, files, and networked peripherals, using wired or wireless connectivity. Cost-effective, efficient, and secure, the CH6640E enables users to maximize the potential of their existing resources, while benefiting from next generation high-bandwidth data and IP voice services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 8398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.savecalifornia.com/ca-release-03-26-13.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IPSKE4UZ3P2U3OOLNH5NU7YQLDZTWHBA", "length": 3852, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.savecalifornia.com", "title": "3/26/13: Randy Thomasson on Prop. 8 Hearing at U.S. Supreme Court | California Releases | Newsroom", "raw_content": "Randy Thomasson on Prop. 8 Hearing at U.S. Supreme Court\nWhile judges struggle to obey the Constitution, Americans in touch with reality should consider why marriage exclusively for a man and a woman benefits children\nSacramento, California -- A leading family-values organization in California is glad that the U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to discover that marriage is not in the U.S. Constitution and that states' right are, and therefore decide to uphold California's Proposition 8.\n\"Prop. 8 at the Supreme Court is an opportunity for Americans in touch with reality to think about the God-given differences between male and female, the requirement of a man and a woman for procreation, the natural physical match of a husband and wife, and the fact that children do best with a married father and mother under the same roof,\" said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, which promotes moral virtues for the common good.\n\"The concerning part about the Prop. 8 hearing was the justices' subjective feelings and personal agendas trumping strict loyalty to the plain, written words of the Constitution and their original intent,\" Thomasson said. \"Judicial activists who don't care what the Constitution says or doesn't say are the problem. Californians need the Supreme Court to realize that marriage isn't in the Constitution, but that states' rights are, and that the court should uphold Proposition 8 as the honorable public policy of the People of California.\"\nWith full recognition that Prop. 8 could come down to the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy, Thomasson said, \"Kennedy is correct that it would be 'uncharted waters' for the high court to expand homosexual 'marriages' by judicial fiat. In fact, it would be unconstitutional. Kennedy is also correct to affirm there is a wealth of evidence that children do best when raised by a married father and mother.\" Concerning the recent impact of same-sex \"marriages\" upon children compared to the long-standing plethora of evidence demonstrating the benefits of a child having a married father and mother, Kennedy opined, \"We have five years of information to pose against 2,000 years of history.\"\n\"The liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court are trying to get Prop. 8 struck down on a standing issue,\" Thomasson observed. \"But this subversive strategy to force homosexual 'marriages' upon California shouldn't fly. The extraordinary permission granted the Prop. 8 campaign to directly appeal their case to the nation's high court was bestowed by the California Supreme Court, as well as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, because of the extraordinary dereliction of duty by current Governor and former Attorney General Jerry Brown, current Attorney General Kamala Harris, and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger -- all refusing to perform their sworn duties to defend Prop. 8 and appeal it if necessary. The Prop. 8 campaign's standing as a party in this case is completely justified. For without standing, there is no chance for justice, no representation of the People, and our California Republic cracks apart all the more.\"\n\"The justices have a simple question before them, and the ruling is also simple when you abide by the written Constitution,\" Thomasson said. \"First, marriage not in U.S. Constitution. Second, the 14th Amendment, which is not about marriage but about race, and not about couples but individuals, does not apply to Prop. 8. Third, the 10th Amendment recognizes states have powers that are not federal powers and that are not prohibited by the Constitution. Fourth, Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a republican form of government to each state, where a written constitution is the supreme law of the state. Fifth, the California Constitution contains Proposition 8 as Article 1, Section 7.5. 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However, beyond the brick walls of the Horseshoe, our neighbors in the Carolinas have experienced incredible hardship.\nIn alignment with Richland County government, which as a state agency we are required to follow, classes and normal operations are resuming on Monday, and it's time to think about your return to campus. Due to a previous announcement anticipating that classes would resume on Tuesday, any student unable to return to Columbia for Monday classes will not be penalized for the absence. Students are still responsible for the material covered in classes on Monday and instructors will be cooperative with students needing to make up this work.\nA week is a long time to be away during the course of a semester. As an undergrad, I remember an occasional snowstorm which closed school for a day or two at a time, but nothing like this. I hope this isn't our new normal. However, our seniors might argue otherwise, as this is the fourth fall in a row they have experienced either a flood or hurricane.\nI trust that you all have used your time wisely to catch up on some reading or make progress on a semester project. Patricia and I would like to thank all of you who participated in our short essay contest entitled, \"This is How We Can Make USC an Even Better University.\" The response has been extremely positive. A reminder that Monday morning is the deadline, so there's still time to submit your essay to president@sc.edu.\nUpon your return, your Carolina family will be right here to welcome and support you. I know we will all be flexible and understanding, yet committed to the task. Despite this lost class time, I especially want you to know that your professors are prepared to work with you to ensure you are right where you need to be by semester's end.\nAs you return to campus, I want to remind you that Monday is also national Constitution Day. The day commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and provides all of us an opportunity to recognize the freedoms that we have by becoming more familiar with our Constitution. I encourage you to participate in the range of campus activities we have planned on Monday, including a TurboVote movie screening and conversation, followed by a voter registration drive where pizza and pocket constitutions will be provided. These and a full resumption of services and activities will be available to you as well.\nI look forward to all of us being back together. The Horseshoe, your classrooms, your professors, and even Williams-Brice Stadium will be ready for you. And I know you will come back stronger and more prepared than ever. 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Subject to availability, the seminar room may be booked by non-department faculty/staff or by officially recognized student organizations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 170.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.schmidtkramer.com/blog/lancaster-woman-speaks-about-dangers-of-cellphone-use-while-driving.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:03Z", "digest": "sha1:G4GRT6OK5Y4GYXDIZ34AN7PWJ7ZQQAL3", "length": 1981, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.schmidtkramer.com", "title": "Lancaster Woman Speaks about Dangers of Cellphone Use While Driving | Schmidt Kramer", "raw_content": "Lancaster Woman Speaks about Dangers of Cellphone Use While Driving\nIf you're wondering what a major cause of car crashes is in Pennsylvania, ask your auto accident attorney. Harrisburg lawyers often meet with people who were seriously injured by individuals who were driving while distracted. One big source of distraction is the cell phone. Texting while driving is banned in the state, but drivers are still allowed to talk on their cell phones, regardless of whether or not they are hands-free.\nJacy Good was involved in a car accident in Pennsylvania that killed her parents and nearly took her life. They were driving home to Lancaster from her graduation at Muhlenberg College in Allentown when a distracted driver caused the deadly accident. The car Jacy was in entered an intersection, when a driver talking on his cell phone tried to turn left at a red light and cut in front of a tractor trailer. The truck swerved to avoid the drivers and hit Jacy's family's car head-on.\nFive years later, most of Jacy's injuries have healed, but she has a traumatic brain injury. She does not have full use of her left arm or lower left leg. She also believes it has desensitized her in some ways because she cannot cry.\nFor nearly three years now, Jacy has been traveling and speaking across the country about the dangers of distracted driving. She has said \"There's absolutely nothing on their cell phones, whether it be a text message or a phone call or a Facebook update or anything, that's more important than their own life or the life of the other people on the road around them.\"\nDistracted driving is certainly a big problem in Pennsylvania and across the country, and we encourage people to be attentive and present when they are driving.\nWere you injured in a car accident and are now looking for an auto accident lawyer? Harrisburg is home to Schmidt Kramer, a personal injury law firm with exceptional customer service. Call today for a free consultation at 888-476-0807.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/10-things-you-can-do-to-reduce-reuse-recycle-by-elizabeth-weit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:47Z", "digest": "sha1:J43FOGNZXMIKEKNBCLCWROFGSV7OSCJR", "length": 287, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.scholastic.com", "title": "10 Things You Can Do to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle by Elizabeth Weitzman | Scholastic", "raw_content": "It doesn\u2019t take a lot to reduce the amount of trash we create. Taking action can be as simple as recycling bottles and cans or bringing reusable bags to the grocery store. Kids learn this and more about what they can do to help in 10 Things I Can Do to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencefactory.co.uk/christine-garwood", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DVMADDSODAX3KFP2IDNEPOODKHPJFLIP", "length": 630, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sciencefactory.co.uk", "title": "Christine Garwood \u2014 The Science Factory", "raw_content": "Christine Garwood has a BA in history and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Leicester. She was formerly a research fellow at the Open University, where she was principal archivist of the Wallace Project. The author of several articles on Alfred Russel Wallace and on Victorian and Edwardian science and society more generally, she now works as a consultant for heritage and heritage preservation, and is interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century new towns and utopian urban experiments. She is an associate member of the Centre for Regional and Local History Research at the University of Hertfordshire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 63.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencefactory.co.uk/david-bainbridge-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TSYXEYQKRGHGP6RZRIWGN2PLSJJTHPSG", "length": 844, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sciencefactory.co.uk", "title": "Trevor Cox \u2014 The Science Factory", "raw_content": "Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford and a past president of the UK\u2019s Institute of Acoustics. A major strand of his research is room acoustics for intelligible speech and high-quality music production and reproduction (his diffuser designs can be found in rooms around the world). He is currently working on two projects: developing algorithms to allow big audio data to be interpreted by computers; and investigating future technologies for spatial audio in the home. For two decades he has been communicating science to the public, putting on shows for some 15,000 pupils in venues ranging from the Royal Albert Hall to the Royal Institution in London. He has also presented around two dozen documentaries for BBC radio and written feature articles for New Scientist, Sound on Sound and the Guardian.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 128.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-probe-to-dive-through-saturn-moon-s-icy-plume/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:35Z", "digest": "sha1:T4S2TRJQDBRNDCQWMS35KM46TF73VYQW", "length": 3612, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.scientificamerican.com", "title": "NASA Probe to Dive through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume - Scientific American", "raw_content": "NASA Probe to Dive Through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume\nThe Cassini spacecraft will zoom just 50 kilometers above Enceladus at about 1 P.M. EDT on October 28\nBy Mike Wall, SPACE.com on October 27, 2015\nSaturn's icy moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute\nScientists are about to get their best look ever at the ocean that sloshes beneath the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.\nOn Wednesday (Oct. 28), NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zoom just 30 miles (50 kilometers) above Enceladus, flying through and sampling the plume of material that erupts from the satellite's south polar region.\nThis plume is thought to originate from Enceladus' underground liquid-water ocean, so Cassini's onboard sample analysis should shed light on the moon's potential to host life, mission team members said. [Watch how Cassini will sail through Enceladus' icy plumes]\n\"On Wednesday, we will plunge deeper into the magnificent plume coming from the south pole than we ever have before, and we will collect the best samples ever from an ocean beyond Earth,\" Curt Niebur, Cassini program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said during a news conference today (Oct. 26).\nCassini is not equipped to search for signs of life, but the probe's measurements should help researchers assess the habitability of Enceladus' global ocean, Niebur added.\nThere are three main science objectives for the flyby, said Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, who's based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California: The mission team aims to confirm the presence of molecular hydrogen in the plume, which would provide evidence for hydrothermal activity (a potential energy source for life) in the ocean. The team also hopes to characterize the plume's chemistry (perhaps finding previously undetected organic compounds) and determine the nature of the plume sources (discrete jets versus broader, curtainlike eruptions).\nThe flyby will occur at about 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Wednesday. Cassini will check in with mission control about 3 hours later, but the first encounter images likely won't be released until late Thursday or early Friday, Spilker said.\nScientists will probably get their first quick look at Cassini's spectrometer data on the sampled plume particles within a week after the flyby, but more in-depth analysis may take several weeks, she added.\nWednesday's close encounter will mark the 21st flyby of Enceladus for Cassini, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 and discovered the moon's icy geysers in 2005. Cassini has flown through the plume before, but its previous closest approach to the south polar region was 50 miles (80 km).\nSo Wednesday's event is pretty special, Spilker said.\n\"There's a lot of excitement about this particular flyby,\" she said. \"We're certainly all eagerly awaiting the scientific results from this deep plunge through the plume.\"\nAfter Wednesday, Cassini will have one more flyby of Enceladus remaining before the end of its mission, in September 2017. On Dec. 19 of this year, the spacecraft will cruise within 3,106 miles (4,999 km) of the icy satellite, making observations that should allow mission scientists to gauge the heat flowing from Enceladus' interior.\nThe $3.2 billion Cassini mission, a joint effort involving NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, launched in 1997.\nSniffing Enceladus\u2019 Spray - Spacecraft To Fly 30 Miles From Saturn Moon | Video\nInside Enceladus, Icy Moon of Saturn (Infographic)\nSaturn Moon's Eruptions Are 'Curtain-Like', New Research Suggests | Video\nEnceladus: Saturn's Refreshing Secret", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 6236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scouter.com/profile/11795-fotoscout/content/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CTZGW7G6V4A3HXM25RFJXIFPR32VTDTN", "length": 19358, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.scouter.com", "title": "SCOUTER Forum", "raw_content": "fotoscout\nEverything posted by fotoscout\nSE Revoking Membership's\nfotoscout posted a topic in Council Relations\nWe seem to have Scout Executive who's first salvo in any disagreement with a volunteer is to threaten the volunteers' membership with revocation. Does anyone have experience with this? I'm not looking for information on revoking a volunteers membership. I am looking for experience with what appears to be an out of control Scout Executive. It seems that he has done this multiple times that I am aware of. I cannot begin to imagine how many times he has done this that I am not aware of. Thanks for your help.\nfotoscout posted a topic in Going to the next Jamboree?\nFinally had a call from my son as he waits for the bus to take him home. Here is his quote, \"they had some really nice stuff but overall it sucked\". First let me say that this was my son's second Jambo. He is no neophyte. Although I don't have all the details yet, it seems that the 2 1/2 days of scheduled time morphed into virtually everyday being scheduled. There was no time to just go out and explore. Additionally, the long walks to the Action Centers (or whatever they called them) created a situation where you basically committed most of your day to one activity, and when the weather shut things down your day became pretty much a loss. Apparently he and his buddies went to shooting sports, waited on line, got to the safety briefing and then had the place shutdown for lightening. Safety first, I'm all for it, but ultimately this left them with pretty much a wasted day. This seemed to be just one example. Each day had something that they HAD to do. Seems like a cub scout event where you have to point and direct their every move. In my 6 years a Council Camping Chairman I learned that Program, (followed by staff, then facilities), is the number one item when it comes to a successful outcome. It seems that they put the cart before the horse. Much work still needs to be done in the Program area. From a distance this whole event seemed to be a giant district camporee. I'm not sure that I like that format for the Jamboree. On a different note, I was told that some activities were restricted to Venturers. If this turns out to be true, someone will need to answer the question, why were all the activities not available to Boy Scouts at the Boy Scout National Jamboree?\nfotoscout replied to fotoscout's topic in Going to the next Jamboree?\nMy reference point for this thing continues to be one of honesty. BSA did not follow the scout law in advertising and hyping the event. IF.......IF, they had come out at some point in time and informed the participants that not all the activities would be available to them, then I'd have nothing to talk about. They would have had to do this in some meaningful way, not in the fine print. But they did not do that. Instead, they hyped this thing to the bitter end, leading everyone on with the belief that they'd be able to participate in ALL the activities that were advertised. I believe that they were intentionally deceptive and dishonest.\nIn the last week I've had the chance to spend time with a few of the leaders and scouts (BS and Venturing) that attended the Jambo. More and more my overall impression of the event is being validated by everyone I speak with! Most interesting, in a conversation I had with one of the leaders I was told that there was an exodus of adult staff before the Jambo even started and it went on into the first week. Apparently some of the adult staff simply decided that considering the distances and terrain, BSA was asking too much of them. They quit. As the story goes, it was just too strenuous and the setup was too inconvenient for them to stick it out.\nAgain I'm not sure what this number should be, but it's not based on 30,000. It's based on the number of kids that participated in primarily two activities (skateboarding and BMX), and we know that for multiple reasons not everyone participated in those activities.\nJamboree Menu (Meals)\nfotoscout replied to Eliza's topic in Going to the next Jamboree?\nMy son had nothing very negitive to say about the food. It seemed to be adequate. He didn't like the whole lunch thing, but was thankful for the exchange stations. Apparently that was something that worked very well. Actually his biggest gripe about meals were the scouts who couldn't even light a stove.....etc, etc......\nLet me throw this out there as possibly another example of something that might have gone wrong\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6.. As the story goes, between the skate parks and the BMX courses, there were some 40 broken arms per day. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve heard variations of the number but I suspect its close. Statistically I have no idea what that number should be, but anecdotally it suggests one of a number of things: 1- facilities that were too difficult for the target audience, 2- Inadequate training for the beginners, 3-Inadequate policing of the activity, or 4-Poor equipment selection for the target audience. Any thoughts??\nI was not there. The opinion I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve formed and the comments I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve made are the result of discussions with over a dozen Scouts, Venturers, and Leaders that were there. And I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll admit some the bitterness comes from my original recognition that this thing was over hyped, and lacking hard information during the sales and buildup phases leading into the event. I, like some of the rest of you was able to see a problem evolving early enough for some action to have been taken. That action might have been distasteful. But it would have been honest. Instead they buried the problems. What\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been really interesting is that the story has been consistent. The youth, the adults, the Venturers, and the Boy Scouts have all said the basically the same things. If you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re wondering if I prompted them for similar answers I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll tell you that I was very careful to just let them talk.\nLast time around the kids in our troop did everything they wanted to do and yes some did everything. They invested the time, they worked at it, and they succeeded. It was very doable.\nI'm not saying it's the same, but just think for a minute.....................what would happen if you took your family on vacation to a resort that offered all sorts of great activities. The brochures had great glossy pictures of people doing all sorts of great stuff. You wanted to do this, that, and everything. You expected to be able to do everything because no one told you otherwise. On the contrary, the day before you left you checked the website and everything was hunky-dory. Then when you got there, you couldn't do most the activities that were advertised. What would you do, how would you feel??? One thing most of you would not be doing is touting the virtues of the resort and glossing over the shortcomings.\nI understand and appreciate what you've said, and I think we all have to say that it could have been a whole lot worse! But I won't give them a pass on this one. They knowingly oversold the event. Both literally and figuratively. Expectations for the scouts were nowhere near satisfied. The scouts all saw the hype, the scouts all saw the videos, and most of them said, \"I want to that when I get to the Jambo\". But they could not, not by a long shot. BSA took advantage of the good will and beliefs that the scouting community has for the program, they over hyped the entire event and then failed to deliver. I don't particularly care about the food, or the long walks, or the heat. They did not pull off the program in an acceptable way. Too many people that I've spoken to have confused their affinity for the larger program with the Jambo. We all support and believe in the program, and will when necessary defend it. Me included! But I won't allow that to get in the way of making a clear call on the outcome of this Jamboree. The bottom line is that they were disHonorable and unTrustworthy in promoting the event. They were very poorly Prepared to deliver on their promise and they devised some very shady manipulations to cover the deficiencies.\nI am not surprised that they would continue the Day of Service. Although I continue to believe that it's inappropriate, opportunistic, and possibly abusive, it's takes the high road and can be defended from the bully pulpit by the powers that be. I will paraphrase what others have said.................The Scouts are not at the Jambo to do Missionary work! If they and their parents wish to do that, they all know where to go to make it happen.\nAfter a few days of questions and answers my son's experience boils down to this, \" It was like the most crowded week ever at Disney World, except at Disney World there is always something to do as you walk from one attraction to another\". Simply too much wasted time because the lines were too long and there was nothing to do as you hiked from one area to another. As for staffing, pardon my shouting, WHAT DID THEY EXPECT ! They excluded what I would think is 50% of the available volunteer resource when they implemented the weight restrictions. I do have to give them credit for the absolute brilliance they exhibited by scheduling significant numbers of Scouts out of the Jambo proper for huge blocks of time. The marketing gurus even got some to pay extra for some limited availability activities..............rather elitist I would think. But it did get even more Scouts away from the Jambo for additional time.\nSorry, I still believe that there is enough support for the neighborhood by virtue of just being there with everything that comes with it. As for BSA's assumption, it was a very poor assumption! It seems that the scenario that you've laid out basically allows the non-profit to compete with the local for profit operations. That's a long term kiss of death for whichever side of the argument you take. If they really want to be good neighbors, maybe they should start by not taking the bread and butter away from the locals.\nI certainly hope I didn't sound like my expectation was that the Jambo should be \"Amazing\" in a Disney like way. I think it should be anything but ,disappointing. Council OA does service in the council camp. But my understanding is that Service Core and Trail Crew do service anywhere. I didn't miss the memo.........I knew that the Day of Servie was scheduled from the outset. But what really gets me is this report of off site service being done. I think it compounds the insult. BSA doesn't need to curry favor with the locals. Locating there was more than enough. The community should be more than grateful. Job, Jobs and more Jobs. A local year round staff, summers full of campers, and still more staff. That's without knowing what National, the State of WV and the Bechtel family has done for the community. Any rural community would be thrilled to have this facility. Again, this idea of service at the Jambo is my opinion. I think its wrong in this situation.\nPublic invited to Jambo\nfotoscout replied to RememberSchiff's topic in Going to the next Jamboree?\nAlthough I'm in favor of the visitors being banned from participating in the activities, I don't like the idea that their access to the entire site was limited. The comment that all scouting activities should be open to parents is a fact. That fact was violated.\nMentality noted, and thank you. But it doesn't explain why Boy Scouts should be excluded from anything at the Jamboree. And on still another note, some of you may have seen a facebook post about the Day of Service Project that took a different direction. Here is the part that interests me, \"Scouts were building picnic tables, an outdoor learning space and a gravel walkway at the school\". I've had a problem with this Day of Service thing from the start, but I tempered my opinion thinking that the tens of thousands of service hours were going to be done inside The Summit. Now we find out that that was not the case. This is, in my opinion, an outrageously opportunistic act of selfishness by the National Council. If they want to be seen as do-gooders, then arrange with the OA to have local projects done by Service Corp. But to do it on the $1800 that I paid for my sons trip, is manipulative, abusive. and deceptive. I believe that this Day of Service thing was just another way to take the participants out of circulation for a day. National knew that it could not handle the volume or throughput on most of the big advertised activities, so they just came up with a mechanism to remove a significant number of participant from the mix. To me the whole concept of this Day of Service at the Jambo is questionable. Scouts, all Scouts know what service is about. The Den, the Pact, the Troop, or even the Crew sends out a message that our activity for the day will be 'some service project'. You choose to go along or you choose to stay home. That's your choice. But either way, you haven't been asked to shell out thousands of dollars for the privilege of participating in the that service project without ever having the chance to decline. And the justification for declining would simply be, \"my parents sent me here to participate in the Jamboree, not to build picnic tables\". Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that the kids were able to help save the schools equipment and material. To me this is an issue of principle.\nJambo Hype !\nfotoscout posted a topic in Camping & High Adventure\nThis is a duplicate of something I recently posted in the Jamboree thread. My appologies for it, but I think the topic needs a much larger exposure. Foto. I've had enough of the over the top hype being communicated about this Jamboree. It's time that we started to get some solid information and instruction passed along to us. To say it simply, my comfort level is low and getting lower! National needs to park the PR machine. The Jambo website has nothing but hype, the leaders guide is pitifully puny, and the leaders are frustratingly uninformed. As a parent of a Scout who plans to go, and past Jambo leader myself, I am really very concerned. It seems to me that National has not moved beyond the \"sales\" phase of this event. Yes, yes, I've heard all the rhetoric about the great things being done at the Summit. But none of it appears to have morphed into a logistically sound operation. At the bare minimum, I expect that we'd have had a thorough understanding about meals by now. We don't! As you all know, this is not an inexpensive event. I will give it until the end of February. At that point if my comfort level has not significantly increased, I will cancel my son's registration. Foto\nStop the Hype, give us solid information !!!!\nI've had enough of the over the top hype being communicated about this Jamboree. It's time that we started to get some solid information and instruction passed along to us. To say it simply, my comfort level is low and getting lower! National needs to park the PR machine. The Jambo website has nothing but hype, the leaders guide is pitifully puny, and the leaders are frustratingly uninformed. As a parent of a Scout who plans to go, and past Jambo leader myself, I am really very concerned. It seems to me that National has not moved beyond the \"sales\" phase of this event. Yes, yes, I've heard all the rhetoric about the great things being done at the Summit. But none of it appears to have morphed into a logistically sound operation. At the bare minimum, I expect that we'd have had a thorough understanding about meals by now. We don't! As you all know, this is not an inexpensive event. I will give it until the end of February. At that point if my comfort level has not significantly increased, I will cancel my son's registration. Foto\nfotoscout replied to fotoscout's topic in Camping & High Adventure\nVery interesting. Disappearing posts, posts being moved from one forum to the another. Very suspicious. Who's trying to bury the conversation ???? Foto.\nI started this thread because the groundswell of concern about the Jamboree is getting louder and louder as each week goes by. Many Scouters, virtually everyone I come in contact with is concerned. The professionals are putting on a good face, and the volunteers are desperately trying to reassure the parents that everything will come together. But the fact is that National needs to wake up and begin to produce the kind of solid information that will reassure both the parents and the professionals. I intentionally put this thread in two very visible places here on Scouter.com. Very specifically I put it in the Open Discussion forum because it gets the most traffic. I go away for a few days and what do I find. The moderators moved the thread to a lower profile forum. Now someones going to say that they moved it because the Jambo is a camping and high adventure activity. That of course is a lot of hooey. It may have elements of both, but it is neither one nor the other. The Jambo is a different scouting event. It is a one of a kind event that happens every 4 (or so) years and connects decades of scouting. It is a part of Scoutings history, and a part of Scoutings future. The Jambo owns a big piece of Scoutings legacy. This discussion has to happen. BSA will be decades rebuilding the Jamboree legacy if this one turns out to be the disaster that many see coming. There is still time to get it together. But obviously they need a push. Let us be the push. To the Moderators, let this discussion happen. Move the thread back into a more active Forum.\nOldGreyEagle, as an adult I completely agree. We make decisions based on the things that excite us. Had I been able to go this year I may have made the same decision you did for the same reason. It could be fun to be in the middle of an unmitigated disaster. However, the decision making process is different for the kids. My son expects to have a first class adventure. He expects to be busy doing things all day. He expects that \"Scouting\" will put on a show that's organized, thoughtful, and fulfilling. He is not going to experience the adventure of an unmitigated disaster. He's a kid, he wants to have a good time, he doesn't want to spend his days being frustrated by the demons of Scouting. And that's why they need to get us more solid information. At this time, I just don't see the event coming off in a way that is satisfying to the kids. You and I may appreciate the chaos, and ultimately the rectification of an unmitigated disaster, but the kids will not.(This message has been edited by fotoscout)\nYes I agree, that happens at summer camp all the time. But I have to tell you that I don't remember one instance of a scout getting turned away from anything in 2010. Certainly they had to secure tickets or schedule some activities, and sometime they just arrived too late in the day, but as long as the scout did his due diligence he was not turned away. I respectfully differ with you...........the Jambo is different. No summer camp, not one of them anywhere in the country has the resources that the Jambo does. If the Jambo falls short, it only because the commitment by National was limited. Some of you might remember that one of the early plans floated for the first year at The Summit involved a plan to limit participants at the Jambo to approximately 15 or 20,000 total participants. That plan was obviously scraped.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 24510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sdsc.edu/research/researcher_spotlight/pekurovsky_dmitry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:V5ONKYKDYF7W7ECPRE6FHESYVEPEMY4O", "length": 980, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sdsc.edu", "title": "Researcher Spotlight: Dmitry Pekurovsky", "raw_content": "Dmitry Pekurovsky, Ph.D.\nMember - Scientific Computing Applications Group, SDSC\nDmitry Pekurovsky Ph.D., is a senior computational scientist with training in Theoretical/Computational High Energy Physics and many years of experience in High Performance Computing. 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In particular, his interests include code optimization, performance evaluation, open source software, numerical libraries and enabling large-scale simulations.\nProgramming and code optimization on large-scale parallel computers\nSoftware development for scientific applications\nSoftware performance evaluation\nParallel 3-D Fast Fourier Transforms and related algorithms\nElementary particle physics (lattice gauge theory)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/doctor-gets-life-term-in-hong-kong-over-yoga-ball-killings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AHWV76E2UHRIPUZPL36VOIETVPXETGNF", "length": 2208, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.seattletimes.com", "title": "Doctor gets life term in Hong Kong over yoga-ball killings | The Seattle Times", "raw_content": "Doctor gets life term in Hong Kong over yoga-ball killings\nKhaw Kim Sun, 53, center, covered face, is escorted in a prison bus after being sentenced to life in Hong Kong. Kim, an anesthesiologist, was convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car. (Apple Daily via AP)\nHONG KONG \u2014 An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong.\nMalaysian citizen Khaw Kim Sun, 53, had become estranged from his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and their four children, although they continued to live together while he had an affair with a student.\nA jury of five men and four women found him guilty at Hong Kong\u2019s High Court after seven hours of deliberation Wednesday.\n\u201cIt is shocking that a highly educated and successful man would conjure up such a calculated method to get rid of his wife,\u201d judge Judianna Barnes Wai-ling was quoted in media as telling Khaw.\nKhaw was accused of putting the gas-filled yoga ball in the trunk of a Mini Cooper driven by his wife, Wong Siew-fung, on May 22, 2015.\nWong and their 16-year-old daughter were found unconscious in the car parked at a bus stop about an hour after leaving home. They were later declared dead from severe carbon monoxide poisoning, although the vehicle showed no defects such as a leaky emissions system.\nThe case initially flummoxed Hong Kong police until the presence of the deflated yoga ball drew suspicion. Khaw was arrested in September after colleagues from the teaching hospital where he worked spoke with police.\nKhaw reportedly obtained the carbon monoxide from the hospital. He told colleagues he wanted to \u201ctest its purity\u201d and its effects on rabbits, according to accounts.\nHe reportedly told police he took the gas home to use it to exterminate rats at home, although a domestic helper employed by the family testified that they had no rodent problem.\nWhile Khaw stood to inherit considerable amounts of property co-owned with Wong following her death, there was no apparent motive for killing his daughter, leading to speculation that her death was unintentional.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 5514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seeingspots.co.uk/2016/03/book-review-afternoon-tea-at-sunflower.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:32Z", "digest": "sha1:OV5YYNSIFNDAUH3OG77EG75HQ2EGVRVG", "length": 3271, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.seeingspots.co.uk", "title": "Book Review - Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe by Milly Johnson - Seeing Spots", "raw_content": "Book Review - Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe by Milly Johnson\nLast year I read about 30 books, it might have been a couple more. For 2016 I set the aim of reading 52 books. 1 book a week or 4.3 a month. That shouldn't be too difficult or so I thought.\nHere we are on 19th March and I have finished book number .... wait for it.... going off one a week it should be about number 11.\nDrumroll please as I have just finished reading book number....\nTWO!!!!\nErr yeah, so I don't know what has happened but I just haven't been enjoying reading. I have started three different books and I'm not getting very far. One of the books I've been reading since the middle of last year and while it should have been a fairly quick chick lit book, I'm sure I could have read War & Peace quicker!\nBook 2 took me about 3 days to read, which is about average for my reading speed and you know what I really enjoyed it.\nI knew I would as it's by one of my favourite authors, Milly Johnson. There is only one of her books that I couldn't get into and I'm not sure why. I will be looking out for it and giving it another try.\nI'm not going to do this review in my normal style as I need to just type and let my thoughts flow out.\nThe book in question is Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe by Milly Johnson\nI will start with what I normally leave the the end and that is the score I give the book on my Goodreads account. 5 stars, I wish I could give more.\nOne if the things I love about all of Milly Johnson's books is the continuity of characters and places. All of the books of her's that I've read are set in Barnsley or on a cruise ship but the people are from Barnsley and there are some cross overs of people, however you don't need to read the books in order as they are all standalone stories (some are sequels or best read before / after but I didn't do this and now I've read them some things have click into place and I almost feel like I've been let into a private joke.)\nThis book is centred around a cleaning firm in Barnsley, when the owners wife finds out he's planning to leave her for the 19 year old office assistant she put's plans into place to get the upper hand.\nThe story follow's Connie the wife, her partner in crime Della and a host of cleaners who each have their own stories to tell. It's filled with funny well timed expletives. The strange and odd things cleaners have to see. A spattering of the rough side of town and the bad guys getting their comeuppance.\nI laughed, I had a little cry and I've told at least 4 people they need to read this book and to you reading this YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK!\nWhen I was trying to explain this book to a colleague he looked at me strange when I said it was about cleaners and I think he thought it was a Marie Kondo type book but it really is a laugh out loud funny book and I have to give it credit for getting me back in to reading.\nWhile I know I'm not going to meet my aim of reading 52 books in 2016. I'm ok with that. If I only read 3 more books this year I'll be happy and now I've finished this I've also almost finished the books I've been reading for almost 6 months.\nThank you Milly Johnson for getting me back to enjoying reading and when is your next book due out?\nTags: Book Review, Books, Lifestyle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.selftalkradioshow.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:V6O272EZFKTPQCE54YL2XKJK6I7XKGCY", "length": 1070, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.selftalkradioshow.com", "title": "Self Talk Radio Show - Home", "raw_content": "Mind Changing Radio\nI love stories that can really change my mind, (in a good way\u2026) don\u2019t you? Over the years, I\u2019ve found it difficult to pay attention to television, probably because I don\u2019t need another murder, inane argument or a pill to feel better. I have a finite amount of hours in the day, so I want my \u201cdown time\u201d to matter, which is why I suspect, you\u2019re here. You and I want the same thing - stories that build you up, not tear you down, right?\nI love learning about the masters of the mind - hypnotists, therapists, leading edge thinkers who have much to bring to the table. I don\u2019t want someone talking at you, I want someone talking with you.\nI hope you enjoy our guests\u2019 stories as much as I love recording them. So pop in your ear buds, brew a cup and thank you for joining the conversation. Feel free to leave your thoughts on our Facebook page HERE.\nMeet Sarah Spencer, your host for Self Talk Radio Show.\nNamed Intuit's 2018 Firm of the Future, expert Michael Ly discusses the impact Blockchain has on elections, accounting and the way we do business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.senatenj.com/print/release.php?postid=11365", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:42XJCYETP6CZ45C3A72KXKBZFOAZI2RI", "length": 136, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.senatenj.com", "title": "Press Release", "raw_content": "https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/doherty-to-hold-town-hall-meeting-in-bayville-to-present-fair-school-funding-plan-on-35/11365", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.senatenj.com/print/release.php?postid=37105", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UE74GDL6AA6QQQWHQI6SMTRJVFRI3QVH", "length": 120, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.senatenj.com", "title": "Press Release", "raw_content": "https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/cardinale/cardinale-statement-following-sexual-assault-arrests-in-bergen-county/37105", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sentara.com/hampton-roads-virginia/findadoctor/healthcare-provider/anderson-robin-8451.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:P2VKI642SLZI7O2XY6G4KS5E7HLEXEOU", "length": 235, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sentara.com", "title": "Robin Anderson, M.D. | Sentara Healthcare", "raw_content": "Robin N. 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Ledson designed and built the home for HGTV on his Armstrong Estates, a new development built to resemble a \"heritage neighborhood.\" Surrounded by century-old oak trees, the home resembles a Victorian farmhouse, with generous spaces and front and back porches. A large family room opens to a patio and outdoor kitchen. HGTV had valued the home plus its decorator-selected furniture and a new car at $2 million. The current price is 10 percent higher and excludes the car and furniture - a significant appreciation.\nDon't miss: HGTV hired decorators to trick out the home. The lottery winners donated all the furnishings to Ledson's Harmony Foundation for Children. 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She has been living in London for the past six years and makes her pieces in Leytonstone, East London where she lives.\nBr\u00ed has worked with metals and resins for the past five years, and in early 2017 set up her own business Bybr\u00ed Jewellery.\nAll of her jewellery has been made by hand, and although the aesthetic is clean and contemporary, it is the handmade quality and feel that is integral to the brand. Using mainly brass, sterling silver and resin, Br\u00ed focuses on creating striking pieces for everyone to wear.\nContact Bri directly using the form below:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 1869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shortstories101.com/story/dear-mum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:51Z", "digest": "sha1:24IDSUFMIGXLP5KNQKEQAJV3CG6U3QQW", "length": 1817, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.shortstories101.com", "title": "Dear Mum, - Story by KATNICKELL", "raw_content": "Sometimes when I\u2019m all alone, I look in the mirror, I can see your eye\u2019s looking back at me, then suddenly I\u2019m taken back in time, I wanna go back there even though it\u2019s the worst night of my life, even though it cut\u2019s me like a knife, but if I could just go back in time to you at a better moment, A moment when you could smile, it does work that way, you can\u2019t choose it, that dreadful night over powers every memory I have of you, I try though in hope that just one time I might be able to go back to where your smiling and happy without the interruption of the nightmare of the car sliding, the sight of the small tree directly before us on the side the road and the realisation that we are going to slide over the edge of the embankment, the worst of my fears unfolding before my eyes. Glass and blood spinning, loud smashing and crashing, I close my eyes tightly, when everything stops I hear brother screaming, I climb out of the car, I\u2019m in shock heavily, I find you on the ground, my brother and I go for help. The thing is that when I go back in time to this moment, to this nightmare, as much as I hate this moment, it is the moment I\u2019m willing re-live over and over again if I have to because it\u2019s the one thing that brings me back to you, it\u2019s that one moment that won\u2019t leave me alone, the moment hate most of all, yet that same moment is the only one that lets me see you, really feel you, 25 years have passed me by and I don\u2019t know will I ever escape this moment, this state of shock and replace it with a good memory of you, a good memory that still takes me back to you, and maybe one day I when I go to the mirror and see you through my eye\u2019s, I will wake with a smile and the tears will be gone because I feel you hugging me mum, and can hear telling me \u201cI love you my little pumpkin cherry pie!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/11/21/minnesota-twins-power-rankings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3D64R2Q6V3BCJA27V4ZTM7CZAEPXTCEA", "length": 1284, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.si.com", "title": "MLB power rankings: The Minnesota Twins are No. 10 | SI.com", "raw_content": "Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images\nWe\u2019re in full \u201cwhere did THAT come from mode?\u201d in this stretch of 2017 underdogs. The Twins were arguably the biggest surprise of the bunch. Start counting the number of teams that went from 103 losses (and the worst record in the majors) to the playoffs in the span of one year. It\u2019s a really short list.\nThe offense produced multiple surprises, with outfield mates Eddie Rosario and Byron Buxton perhaps the most promising of the bunch. Rosario started the season looking like his usual free-swinging self, batting just .268/.294/.366 at the end of April, with three walks in 86 plate appearances. His batting eye improved substantially as the year wore on, and with it came a power outburst: .293/.334/.533 the rest of the way, with 25 homers and a much lower percentages of swings on pitches outside the zone in the season\u2019s final five months.\nMeanwhile Buxton is the most tantalizing player in all of baseball. He\u2019s a Gold Glove-caliber center fielder with mind-blowing speed who merely needs to be decent at the plate to be an All-Star. If he replicates the .314/.359/.553 line we saw from July 4 on, he becomes an instant MVP candidate ... and the leader of a team that could book more champagne celebrations in the next few years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 493, "original_length": 16113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sicemdawgs.com/2009/03/mike-anderson-turns-down-georgia-missouri/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FZMQADBNERWICOCK2RDRFE7EYM3MUVGV", "length": 1285, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sicemdawgs.com", "title": "Mike Anderson Turns Down Georgia To Stay At Missouri", "raw_content": "Mike Anderson Turns Down Georgia To Stay At Missouri\nESPN has reported that Missouri Tigers head coach Mike Anderson has turned down an offer from the Georgia Bulldogs to become their next coach. Anderson was offered $2.1 million by Georgia, but will sign a new 7-year contract with Missouri for $1.3 to $1.5 million annually.\nSo where do Damon Evans and Georgia go from here? Nobody really knows and most of the coaches mentioned are just rumors and speculation. ESPN believes that Miami\u2019s Frank Haith and Clemson\u2019s Oliver Purnell could be the next targets. Others are mentioning FSU\u2019s Leonard Hamilton. None of these three really excite me or much of the UGA fanbase.\nWith the money Georgia is offering, hopefully they will attract attention from Oklahoma\u2019s Jeff Capel, unless a private denial has already been issued. Other top coaches to consider should be Xavier\u2019s Sean Miller, Villanova\u2019s Jay Wright and Pittsburgh\u2019s Jamie Dixon. Some \u201crealistic\u201d candidates include UNLV\u2019s Lon Kruger, Baylor\u2019s Scott Drew and Butler\u2019s Brad Stevens.\nAnother possibility is Minnesota\u2019s Tubby Smith, formerly the head coach at Georgia from 1995 to 1997. However, Tubby has stated publicly that he wants to stay at Minnesota. And somewhere, Bobby Knight is impatiently waiting for his telephone call.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sifma.org/people/nancy-lee/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QTK4GYHT3DJQBLP47GHCAOVVYCQLKFGT", "length": 963, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sifma.org", "title": "Nancy J. Lee - Nancy J. Lee - SIFMA", "raw_content": "Senior Technical Reviewer, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)\nNancy J. Lee is a Senior Technical Reviewer in the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) and was one of the principal authors of the 2014 temporary regulations relating to both withholding and information reporting under chapter 4 of the Internal Revenue Code (FATCA) and information reporting under chapter 61 and backup withholding under section 3406 and was a reviewer of the 2017 final regulations relating to FATCA. Prior to joining International, she was a manager in the Income Tax and Accounting division where she specialized in capitalization, income tax deductions, and methods of accounting. She has been with the Office of Chief Counsel since 2006. Prior to joining the IRS, she clerked for Judge Stephen J. Swift of the United States Tax Court. Nancy has a J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law and an A.B. in English from Duke University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 82.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.silveremulsion.com/2010/12/10/verboten-1959/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CNVIBJSOEZ657O3BRR2YNCUCBVIRXMEI", "length": 6160, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.silveremulsion.com", "title": "Verboten! (1959) \u00ab Silver Emulsion Film Reviews", "raw_content": "Starring James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, Paul Dubov, Harold Daye, Dick Kallman, Stuart Randall, Steven Geray, Anna Hope, Robert Boon, Sasha Harden, Paul Busch, Neyle Morrow, Joe Turkel\nExpectations: High, it\u2019s Sam Fuller.\nVerboten! is notable for a few reasons. It is Sam Fuller\u2019s first World War II movie, it was the last picture produced by RKO and it\u2019s a damn fine piece of 1950s cinema. Opening with a bang as all Fuller pictures do, we are thrust into the action as a pair of soldiers are under assault from some Germans hiding behind a jeep. After a well-placed grenade they take a moment\u2019s rest under a road sign that reads Trinken Verboten!, but their rest is short as they have orders to enter the town of Rothbach and clear out a sniper nested there. Queue Beethoven\u2019s Fifth and run for cover!\nJames Best plays an American G.I. wounded in battle and nursed back to health by Susan Cummings\u2019 sympathetic German. At first Best is nervous that he has been taken hostage by the enemy, but Cummings is quick to dismiss his fears with the notion that all Germans are not Nazis. Hitler first persecuted Germany before trying to take over the world, she says. The town where they\u2019re located is soon controlled by the Allied forces and shortly thereafter the war is won. Best has a chance to return home, but instead weds Cummings and takes a job at the American Military Office in the Food Department.\nVerboten! is not a plot-driven film in the normal sense though. Underlying the initial setup is Fuller\u2019s desire to relate the climate in post-war Germany. He had been there and had first-hand knowledge of the events, so what better person to take it to the silver screen. In addition to this, Fuller also wanted to convey the horror of the Nazi war crimes, which he had also experienced himself when he helped to liberate the Falkenau death camp. The footage he shot there and his experiences are explored fully in the documentary Falkenau, the Impossible.\nDue to this three-pronged desired objective for the film (create quality narrative, convey post-war climate, relate Nazi war crimes) the film suffers just a bit and comes off as slightly disjointed. For instance, during the first third of the movie we follow James Best through the story I described above. After he gets the government job, the focus shifts to an ex-Nazi soldier and Cummings\u2019 brother, who work and live with Best respectively. This section charts the rise of the Nazi underground faction, the Werewolf (complete with Wagner\u2019s Ride of the Valkyries on the soundtrack). Once this is established, the film again shifts focus to dealing with the Nazi war crimes. It is only through the skilled pen and hand of Sam Fuller that this kind of movie works, but I can see it putting off people who come in expecting a straight narrative movie. To call Verboten! disjointed and leave it at that isn\u2019t being fair though. The script is very well written and the focus shifts always make sense and happen rather seamlessly. There is an overall narrative that continues through the film, but the main character should be seen as post-war Germany instead of James Best.\nFuller mentions in the documentary Falkenau, the Impossible that he used some of the footage he shot after the camp\u2019s liberation to enhance the dramatic effect of key scenes in Verboten! I didn\u2019t specifically notice any of the same footage here, but there is a strong commitment to using documentary footage that really adds a lot to the film. Early on it is used to show Nazi artillery strikes, and in one piece of film a man fails around on a roof with his leg blown off. The power of the documentary footage is incredible, and the fact that it doesn\u2019t necessarily blend well with the professional footage makes it that much better. It is like a call to the mind, letting you know without a shadow of a doubt that what you\u2019re witnessing is truth on celluloid. The truth is surrounded and informed by the fiction, and it lends the film an unflinching quality that is unlike any other film on the subject.\nThis is nothing compared to the power of one of the final scenes depicting the Nuremberg war crime trials. I was caught completely unaware by this scene and its striking force. Fuller takes a seemingly minor supporting character that we\u2019ve followed sporadically and places him in a situation where he has no choice but to confront the truth of his actions and the actions of his compatriots. As he watches the documentary evidence of the Nazi\u2019s heinous war crimes, he realizes that he\u2019s been wrong all along. The weight of his deeds change his face and the face of the audience follows suit, because in that moment we are one with him in his shock and disgust at the truth we are being shown. Most films based on facts are purposefully a step removed from reality, as many viewers prefer the romanticized truth that they can easily deal with and move on. Fuller\u2019s choice to use striking, visually disturbing documentary footage in this key moment takes away that security blanket of fiction and forces us all to reflect and confront the demons of the situation. It becomes a living newsreel at this point and like the character, we too can only widen our eyes in horror at the images we will be hard-pressed to quiet in our minds and whisper, \u201cI didn\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t know.\u201d\nThis is some hard-hitting shit for the late 50s and absolutely quintessential Samuel Fuller filmmaking.\nVerboten! was recently released to DVD through the Warner Archive manufacture-on-demand service. I can vouch for the quality of both the disc and the remastering job, and I wholeheartedly recommend that you check out the large selection of forgotten films and television series over there! They didn\u2019t pay me for this either, I swear!\n1950s, Action, Documentary, Drama, Movie Reviews, Rating: 3.5 Stars, War, Will's Reviews 1959, Anna Hope, Dick Kallman, Harold Daye, James Best, Joe Turkel, Neyle Morrow, Paul Busch, Paul Dubov, Robert Boon, Samuel Fuller, Sasha Harden, Steven Geray, Stuart Randall, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman\n\u00ab Uncle Jasper reviews: Executioners from Shaolin (1977)\nUncle Jasper reviews: Death Dimension (1978) \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 11622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sitesell.com/blog/tag/great-depression/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4TUYLCDTYKUJBQ7SGVWYTTTF2TFMLVUL", "length": 311, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sitesell.com", "title": "great depression Archives - Solo Build It! Blog - Proven Real-World Advice for Solopreneurs great depression Archives - Solo Build It! Blog - Proven Real-World Advice for Solopreneurs", "raw_content": "Make Your Own Lifeboat\nBefore We Hit the Iceberg\nA few days back, I posted about the tailspin that the U.S. and Europe are in. That tailspin is basically irreversible, barring a miracle. And it\u2019s not a good idea to plan one\u2019s life on the basis of miracles.\u2026 Read more\nBy Ken Evoy (CEO, SiteSell) on June 1, 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 220.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sivinandmiller.com/Noteworthy-Cases/Appeals5.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NTBEDSRLA5LFHTE7NQNXNEJK55SIKX37", "length": 14140, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.sivinandmiller.com", "title": "Appeals 5 | Sivin & Miller, LLP Attorneys at Law | New York, New York", "raw_content": "Appeals: Lundes Garrett v. Twin Parks Northeast Site 2 Houses\n1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 14532, ***\nLundes Garrett, Respondent, v. Twin Parks Northeast Site 2 Houses, Inc., et al., Appellants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants-Respondents. Apex Investigations and Security Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent-Appellant.\n256 A.D.2d 224; 682 N.Y.S.2d 349; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 14532\nDecember 29, 1998, Decided\nDecember 29, 1998, Entered\nCORE TERMS: duty, tenant, landowner, landlord, assault, foreseeable, precautions, third-party, residential, intruder, invitee, guard, armed guards, common law, posit, apartment complex, criminal activity, summary judgment, high level, non-tenants, memorandum, reargue, armed, owed, obligation imposed, proximate cause, third persons, criminal acts, precautionary, breached\nCOUNSEL: [***1] For Plaintiff-Respondent: Edward Sivin.\nFor Defendants-Appellants/Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants-Respondents: Richard J. Pelliccio.\nFor Third-Party Defendant-Respondent-Appellant: Barry Jacobs.\nJUDGES: Wallach and Rubin, JJ., concur in a memorandum by Rubin, J.; Saxe, J., concurs in a separate memorandum, and Lerner, P. J., dissents in a separate memorandum, all as follows:\nOPINION: [*224] [**349] Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered July 24, 1997, which denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint; order, same court and Justice, entered on or about October 22, 1997, which denied third-party defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and third-party complaint; and order, same court and Justice, entered December 3, 1997, which, to the extent appealable, granted defendants' motion to renew and reargue and thereupon adhered to its original determination, affirmed, without costs. Third-party defendant's appeal from that portion of the December 3, 1997 order denying its cross motion to reargue, dismissed, without costs, as no appeal lies from the denial of a motion to reargue.\nWallach and Rubin, [***2] JJ., concur in a memorandum by Rubin, J.; Saxe, J., concurs in a separate memorandum, and Lerner, P. J., dissents in a separate memorandum, all as follows:\nCONCURBY: RUBIN; SAXE\nCONCUR: Rubin, J. (Concurring).\nOn May 10, 1993, plaintiff, an unarmed security guard at defendant's apartment complex in the employ of third-party defendant-respondent-appellant Apex Investigations and Security Co., Inc., was assaulted in the lobby by a man and two accomplices, all of whom gained access to the area through the unlocked front door of the building located at 2311 Southern Boulevard. After plaintiff evaded the unidentified man's attempt to strike him in the face and eluded the two accomplices, the man produced a gun from the front pocket of his trousers and shot plaintiff in the chest.\nPlaintiff is unable to identify the intruders and does not know whether they are residents of the apartment complex or not. Defendants therefore sought to dismiss the action on the ground that no liability can be imposed for failure to maintain premises so as to prevent unauthorized entry if it cannot be demonstrated that the assailant was in fact an intruder and not a resident or [***3] invitee (see, e.g., Cortes v New York City Hous. Auth., 248 AD2d 191, lv granted 92 NY2d 808; Pena v New York City Hous. Auth., 195 AD2d 395). As this Court explained in Maria S. v Willow Enters. (234 AD2d 177, 178):\n\"It is well established that a landlord's duty to maintain his [*225] property in a safe condition includes the taking of minimal precautions to protect against the reasonably foreseeable criminal acts of third persons ( Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 50 NY2d 507, 519; Provenzano v Roslyn Gardens Tenants Corp., 190 AD2d 718, 720), and that duty arises where the party possessing the property knows or has reason to know of a likelihood of conduct by third persons which is likely to endanger the public ( Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., supra; Rivera v Lazo, 230 AD2d 662).\n\"However, it is equally clear that absent proof of how the perpetrator gained entry to the premises, any negligence claim premised on the theory that defendants' inadequate security measures permitted [**350] the intruder to gain access to the premises necessarily [***4] involves speculation on the issue of proximate cause, and will not survive defendants' motion for summary judgment (see, Kirsten M. v Bettina Equities Co., 222 AD2d 201, lv denied 88 NY2d 813; Rojas v Lynn, 218 AD2d 611, lv denied 87 NY2d 804; Wright v New York City Hous. Auth., 208 AD2d 327, 330).\"\nBy contrast, liability in the instant matter is predicated on the independent basis that defendants were well aware of criminal activity at the premises and had been apprised of the inadequacy of security measures. The record contains evidence in the form of incident reports, covering the approximately two-year period prior to the assault on plaintiff, that document the crimes of homicide, robbery, and assault at the premises, including several incidents of assaults against security officers. In addition, the record includes a letter by the president of third-party defendant Apex Investigations to the president of defendant R.Y. Management Co., written some eight months before the attack upon plaintiff, complaining about inadequate security and the danger that conditions at the apartment complex pose [***5] to his employees. The premises, which comprise two adjoining buildings containing over 200 dwelling units, are described as being \"infested\" by drug dealers. The letter recommends \"a minimum of six guards, armed and manned [sic] with dogs to be placed at 2311 Southern Boulevard\".\nPlaintiff's theory of liability posits a duty to take reasonable security precautions beyond, and apart from, the mere maintenance of door locks and entry systems (see, Miller v State of New York, 62 NY2d 506, 513; Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., supra, at 520; see also, Jacqueline S. v City of New York, 81 NY2d 288, 294-295). In this context, the Court of Appeals' recent decision in Burgos v Aqueduct Realty Corp. (92 NY2d 544, 548), relied upon by the dissenter, is inapposite, dealing [*226] with \"the 'common-law duty to take minimal precautions to protect tenants from foreseeable harm' \" (quoting Jacqueline S. v City of New York, supra, at 293-294). The obligation imposed on the possessor of land to exercise reasonable care to undertake protective measures to safeguard persons on its property from assault [***6] by third parties does not depend on a plaintiff's status as tenant, business invitee or mere visitor ( Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., supra, at 519-520; Basso v Miller, 40 NY2d 233). Moreover, whether particular precautions are adequate to fulfill the landlord's obligation is almost always a question of fact for the jury based upon the nature of risk presented and the availability of security measures ( Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., supra, at 520, n 8; Carroll v Ar De Realty Corp., 167 AD2d 216; Gilmartin v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 162 AD2d 275; Loeser v Nathan Hale Gardens, 73 AD2d 187, 190-191). The record before this Court raises significant factual questions with regard to whether that duty was breached by defendant and, if so, whether such breach was the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries (see, e.g., Jacqueline S. v City of New York, supra, at 295; King v Resource Prop. Mgt. Corp., 245 AD2d 10; Rivera v 21st Century Rest., 199 AD2d 14, 15; Beatty v National Assn. for Advancement of Colored People, 194 AD2d 361, 364, [***7] lv denied 82 NY2d 662).\nSaxe, J. (Concurring).\nI agree with the reasoning of Justice Rubin's concurrence, except in one respect. I conclude that the standard so clearly pronounced in Jacqueline S. v City of New York (81 NY2d 288), and reasserted in Burgos v Aqueduct Realty Corp. (92 NY2d 544), applies to this case, notwithstanding the plaintiff's status as invitee rather than tenant.\nThe obligation imposed by the common law upon the landowner, to take a degree of precautionary measures to protect against the risk of harm from foreseeable criminal attack, was discussed at length in Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc. (50 NY2d 507). Then, in Jacqueline S. v City of New York (81 NY2d 288, 293-294, supra), the Court enunciated the landlord's common law obligation, at least as regards tenants, as a \"duty to take minimal precautions to protect tenants from foreseeable harm\". However, there is no indication that the Court in Jacqueline S. was attempting to define a distinct duty to be applied to landlords only as toward their tenants (i.e., to take minimal precautions against foreseeable [***8] criminal activity), while the duty the law already imposed upon landlords as to others, such as invitees, remained broader (i.e., to take reasonable precautionary measures against foreseeable criminal activity). Indeed, [*227] the Jacqueline S. case relied upon, and built upon, its recognition that in the Nallan case it had previously recognized \"the duty of landlords to take steps to minimize foreseeable danger from criminal acts\" (81 NY2d, supra, at 294).\nDespite my disagreement with the majority as to the applicable standard to be applied to the landlord's conduct, I agree that issues of fact are presented as to whether the landlord breached its duty, and as to the foreseeability of the criminal conduct to which plaintiff was subjected.\nDISSENT BY: LERNER\nDISSENT: Lerner, P. J. (Dissenting).\nI respectfully dissent and vote to reverse. The plaintiff, who did not reside on the premises, is unable to demonstrate the existence of any duty owed to him or of any breach of a duty.\nWhile the majority posits liability on the \" inadequacy of security measures\", the test imposed by the Court of Appeals is one of \"minimal\" security ( Burgos v Aqueduct Realty Corp., 92 NY2d 544; [***9] Miller v State of New York, 62 NY2d 506). To submit the issue of whether security was \"adequate\" to a jury is to virtually direct a verdict against the landowner. Obviously the security was inadequate. Had it been adequate to prevent the assault upon plaintiff, there would have been no assault. The \"adequate security\" formula would cast these defendants in the role of insurers. It is respectfully suggested that this is not a role contemplated by the Legislature or by the Court of Appeals.\nIn the case at bar, defendants, which were apprised of the high level of crime in the building, adopted security measures which were reasonable under the circumstances and were more than \"minimal\". In doing so they satisfied their duty to provide minimal security. There were security guards on the premises. The plaintiff himself was one. A landowner who allocates substantial resources for security should be deemed to have satisfied its minimal duty. It cannot guarantee that the security measures will prevent a particular crime; it cannot guarantee that the security devices will not be vandalized.\nTo suggest that because a letter was sent to the landowner recommending [***10] that the guards be armed (these guards were not), and that this assault would not have occurred but for that purported deficiency, requires a very great leap of faith. As a matter of cruel fact, it has too often been demonstrated that even the presence of highly armed and well trained soldiers cannot insure the safety of certain premises.\nThe letter sent to the landowner advising it of the high level of crime and recommending a minimum of six armed guards [*228] accompanied by dogs is immaterial. Foreseeability does not give rise to a duty where none otherwise exists ( Pulka v Edelman, 40 NY2d 781). To hold that such a letter may suffice to establish a triable issue of fact is to invite [**352] a mass mailing to all residential landowners in high crime areas giving notice of local crime statistics and gratuitously suggesting that armed guards be hired. It should be for the Legislature, if it deems it appropriate, to impose a duty on landowners to provide armed guards, not this Court nor a lay jury.\nIn Jacqueline S. v City of New York (81 NY2d 288), the Court of Appeals created a new classification of persons to whom a duty, arising out [***11] of a special relation, would be owed. Under common law, residential landowners and their tenants had no special relation from which a duty of protection flowed.\nIn Jacqueline S., the Court found that the defendant-landowner did owe a duty, under certain circumstances, to protect a tenant who had been assaulted, thus establishing a special relation between residential landowners and their tenants. The Court held that assuming a high level of crime in a residential building or in the vicinity of the building, the landowner must bear the burden and expense of providing minimal security to the tenants. That the duty was owed to tenants was reiterated in Burgos. To impose liability in this case would require the establishment of a special relation between landowners and non-tenants such as this plaintiff, thus expanding greatly the class of potential plaintiffs.\nThe record here discloses that not only was more than minimal security provided but that defendants' security devices were routinely destroyed by tenants and non-tenants. Residential landowners cannot be expected to maintain a constant vigil to ensure the integrity of the security measures which were provided. To [***12] demonstrate a breach of duty, even were one to exist, there must be a showing of some departure from accepted standards of reasonable care. There was no such showing here.\nDefendants' acts were reasonable as a matter of law. To hold otherwise will permit a jury to find that a duty is owed to protect outsiders (non-tenants) from outsiders (intruders). The existence of a duty to keep tenants safe in their homes should not be expanded to posit a duty to those who have no justifiable expectation that they would be provided such security and from whom the cost of these security measures cannot be recovered. To hold otherwise will permit a jury to find that, notwithstanding the expenditure of substantial monies for security, \"minimal\" security was not provided.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 15949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.slideshare.net/SallyWan1/using-phenomenography-in-educational-technology-research-from-2003-to-2017-a-systematic-review-and-content-analysis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:48Z", "digest": "sha1:S6RHIHXTUBFRQS2DE5VJHWJIJBPAN3JJ", "length": 55196, "nlines": 104, "source_domain": "www.slideshare.net", "title": "Using phenomenography in educational technology research from 2003 to\u2026", "raw_content": "Using phenomenography in educational technology research from 2003 to 2017: A systematic review and content analysis\nPaper presented at the ICLS 2018, UCL Institute of Education, London, June 25, 2018\n1. Using phenomenography in educational technology research from 2003 to 2017: A systematic review and content analysis Presented by: Sally Wai-Yan WAN (EdD) Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Email: sallywywan@cuhk.edu.hk Website: www.sallywywan.com ICLS 2018 June 25, 2018\n2. Agenda 01 Background 02 Literature review 03 Methods 04 Findings & discussion 05 Concluding remarks\n4. Definition: Education Technology \u201cthe study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources\u201d (Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p.1) \u2026 associated with: \u2022 instructional technology \u2022 information technology (IT) \u2022 information technology and communication (ICT) \u2022 computer-supported collaborative learning \u2022 online learning \u2022 distance education \u2022 computer education (Pelgrum & Plomp, 2002)\n6. Definition: Systematic Review A systematic review attempts to collate all empirical evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria in order to answer a specific research question. It uses explicit, systematic methods that are selected with a view to minimizing bias, thus providing more reliable findings from which conclusions can be drawn and decisions made (Antman 1992; Oxman 1993). (Cochrane Community, 2017)\n7. Features of systematic review 1. explicit and transparent methods 2. a piece of research following a standard set of stages 3. accountable, replicable and updateable 4. relevant and useful to users (EPPI Centre, 2018)\n8. Why Systematic Review? Literature reviews in educational technology studies \u2026 \u2022 Different applications of educational technology \u2022 hypermedia (e.g. Dillon & Gabbard, 1998) \u2022 games (e.g. Randel et al., 1992) \u2022 \u2026 \u2022 Factors affecting the effectiveness of the use of educational technology \u2022 learning environments (e.g. Winn, 2002) \u2022 professional training and development (e.g. Daly, Pachler, & Pelletier, 2009) \u2022 \u2026 \u2022 Factors affecting the implementation of educational technology (e.g. Durlak & DuPre, 2008)\n9. Why Systematic Review? Literature reviews in educational technology studies \u2026 \u2022 Different applications of educational technology \u2022 hypermedia (e.g. Dillon & Gabbard, 1998) \u2022 games (e.g. Randel et al., 1992) \u2022 \u2026 \u2022 Factors affecting the effectiveness of the use of educational technology \u2022 learning environments (e.g. Winn, 2002) \u2022 professional training and development (e.g. Daly, Pachler, & Pelletier, 2009) \u2022 \u2026 \u2022 Factors affecting the implementation of educational technology (e.g. Durlak & DuPre, 2008) However \u2026 \u2022 narrowly studied or loosely organized \u2022 doubted for the trustworthiness as they might contain \u2018questionable findings\u2019 due to \u2018under- examined assumptions\u2019 (Kirkwood, & Price, 2013, p.536)\n10. What is phenomenography? \u2022 Qualitative research approach: researching qualitatively the experience of learning \u00d8 content of thinking > process of thought/perception \u2022 \u201cPhenomenography is explained as a qualitative, nondualistic research approach that identifies and retains the discourse of research participants.\u201d (Barnard, McCosker, & Gerber, 1999, p. 212) \u2022 \u201cPhenomenography is less a methodology than an explorative and analytic approach to qualitative research.\u201d (Barnard, McCosker, & Gerber, 1999, p. 223) \u2022 \u201d\u2026the outcome of phenomenographic research never departs from a portrayal of the language of the participants. The outcome remains purposefully at a descriptive level and is presented in the form of categories of description and outcome space.\u201d (Barnard, McCosker, & Gerber, 1999, p. 223)\n11. Phenomenography: Origins and Usage \u2018a research method for mapping the qualitatively different ways in which people experience, conceptualize, perceive, and understand various aspects of, and various phenomena in, the world around them\u2019 (Marton, 1986, p.31) \u2022 An effective approach to investigate variations in conceptual understandings of different phenomena (Bowden, & Walsh, 2000)\n12. Phenomenographic study Choose phenomenon Data collection Immersion in data Develop categories & dimensions Finalising of outcome space Devise interview protocol Select participants for diversity Conduct & transcribe interviews Interrogate data responses Interpret responses for meaning Revisit data into refine categories & dimensions Describe categories in more detail Delineate categories based on dimensions Generate outcome space Group meaning statements into themes Describe categories & dimensions Source: Herbert & Pierce (2013) second-order perspective\n13. Phenomenography vs. Phenomenology Phenomenography Phenomenology The structure and meaning of a phenomenon as experienced can be found in pre-reflective and conceptual thought. A division is claimed between pre- reflective experience and conceptual thought. The aim is to describe variation in understanding from a perspective that views ways of experiencing phenomena as closed but not finite. The aim is to clarify experiential foundations in the form of a singular essence. A second-order perspective in which experience remains at the descriptive level of participants\u2019 understanding, and research is presented in a distinctive, empirical manner. a first-order perspective that engages in the psychological reduction of experience. Analysis leads to the identification of conceptions and outcome space. Analysis leads to the identification of meaning units.\n14. Phenomenography: Origins and Usage \u2018potential impact that phenomenography and the relational perspectives have on pedagogical practices\u2019 (Andretta, 2007, p.152)\n15. Phenomenography: Origins and Usage \u2018potential impact that phenomenography and the relational perspectives have on pedagogical practices\u2019 (Andretta, 2007, p.152) \u2022 Little is known about to what extent phenomenography can be applied in the context of educational technology\n16. Research Questions (1) How is phenomenography applied in studying educational technology? (2) What are the key limitations and possible future development in the use of phenomenography in educational technology studies as stated in the published articles in the SSCI journals?\n18. Methods Databases: 14 SSCI journal websites Journals Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Computers & Education (CS) Educational Technology & Society (ETS) Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D) Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education (EJMSTE) Internet and Higher Education (IHE) International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IJCSCL) Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) Journal of Science Education and Technology (JSET) Language Learning & Technology (LLT) Learning Media and Technology (LMT) Technology Pedagogy and Education (TPE)\n19. Process of Systematic Review SSCI papers with the use of phenomenography in educational technology studies exclusion criteria Keyword search \" SSCI journals in educational technology Keyword search *phenomenography* *phenomenographic method* *phenomenographic approach* Inclusion criteria \u2022 14 SSCI journals in the field of educational technology \u2022 English text \u2022 Year of publication: 2003- 2017 \u2022 Studies with the use of phenomenography\n20. Identification process Records identified with database searching (N=35) Identification Records screened (N=32) Records excluded (N=3) due to: Not a phenomenographic study ScreeningEligibility Full-text articles assessed for eligibility (N=32) Included Studies included in analyses \u2022 Higher education (N=22) \u2022 Secondary education (N=8) \u2022 Primary education (N=2)\n21. Data analysis (1) Descriptive analysis (i.e. counting the number of published papers, origin of papers, targeted groups, data collection methods) with the use of MS Excel software (2) Content analysis (i.e. thematic analysis) \u2022 NVivo (version 11.0) to generate and search for patterns (Bazeley, 2013; Clarke & Braun, 2013) (3) A preset coding system to identify and construct themes \u2022 Aims of the study \u2022 Why using phenomenography? \u2022 Any details about phenomenography? \u2022 Research questions \u2022 Limitations (Challenges) \u2022 Contributions/ Significance of the study? \u2022 Suggestions for improvement (Solutions) \u2022 Forms of data collection \u2022 Is phenomenographic analytic procedure applied in the study? \u2022 Participants (sample size? Who?)\n22. Findings & discussion\n23. Research question 1: How is phenomenography applied in studying educational technology?\n25. Closer look \u2026 Computer & Education Aim: to increase knowledge and understanding of ways in which digital technology can enhance education, through the publication of high quality research, which extends theory and practice. Scope: research papers on the pedagogical uses of digital technology, where the focus is broad enough to be of interest to a wider education community. (Source: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education)\n26. Closer look \u2026 Computer & Education Scope (cont\u2019d): We do not publish small-scale evaluations of specific software/systems in specialist domains or particular courses in individual institutions (unless the findings have broader relevance that is explicitly drawn out in the paper). Papers that include discussions of the implementation of software and/or hardware should focus on the context of use, the user/system interface, usability issues and evaluations of the user experience and impacts on and implications for learning and teaching. Detailed information on implementation architecture should NOT be included in the paper, but may be provided via hot-links. We welcome review papers that include clear aims (research questions), a framework of analysis, and conclusions that reflect the aims of the paper. (Source: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education)\n27. Closer look \u2026 Technology Pedagogy and Education Aim: \u2022 To serve the international education community by disseminating research findings regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to improve teaching and learning. It explores the particular contribution that ICT can make to educational environments, focusing on empirical evidence derived from both quantitative and qualitative research designs, and on a critical analysis of the ways in which new technologies can support learning and teacher professional development in all phases of education. \u2022 To promote the advance of research and scholarship in its field \u2022 To provide a vehicle for the exchange and dissemination of reports regarding implementations and practices and research \u2022 To offer a forum for the debate of contemporary issues \u2022 To create an international arena for discussion of the role of ICT in education and professional development \u2022 To develop greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between educators.\n28. Closer look \u2026 Technology Pedagogy and Education Scope: welcomes all contributions which extend or amplify what is already published in the field of technology and pedagogy, and which will be of interest to those involved in teacher education. It especially seeks to publish articles concerned with: \u2022 ICT practices and innovations in education \u2013 schools, teacher education, higher education and informal settings; \u2022 the theory and practice of ICT in teaching and professional development/learning/; \u2022 evaluation of the impact of ICT on teaching and learning; \u2022 social, cultural, political and economic aspects of ICT and pedagogy, particularly concerning better educational opportunities for disadvantaged learners; \u2022 pre-service teachers working with ICT in formal and informal settings; learners working with ICT; \u2022 links between schools, training institutions and the wider community. Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rtpe20\n29. Closer look \u2026 Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Aim: To make the outcomes of contemporary research and experience accessible. During this period there have been major technological advances offering new opportunities and approaches in the use of a wide range of technologies to support learning and knowledge transfer more generally. There is currently much emphasis on the use of network functionality and the challenges its appropriate uses pose to teachers/tutors working with students locally and at a distance. Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652729/homepage/productinformation.html\n30. Closer look \u2026 Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Scope: covers the whole range of uses of information and communication technology to support learning and knowledge exchange. It aims to provide a medium for communication among researchers as well as a channel linking researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. JCAL is also a rich source of material for research students in areas such as collaborative learning, knowledge engineering, open, distance and networked learning, developmental psychology, and evaluation. Research themes are treated in a way which will maximise their influence on theory and practice in the learning sciences, in education, vocational training, and professional development. Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652729/homepage/productinformation.html\n31. General characteristics Authorship Location Title Research questions Research method Participants Single (N=8) Multiple (N=24) Australia (N=7) Taiwan (N=6) UK (N=5) USA (N=3) Cyprus (N=3) Greece=2) South Africa (N=2) Singapore(N=1) New Zealand (N=1) Malta (N=1) Spain (N=1) Conceptions (N=11)* Experiences (N=4) Approaches (N=3) No=15 Yes=17 Interviews (N=24) Open-ended questionnaires (N=9) Drawing (N=1) Tests (N=1) Field notes (N=1) Mapping study (N=1) Online reflections (N=1) Journal writings (N=1) Video records (N=1) Journal of reflections (N=1) Audio recording (N=1) Students (N=18) Teachers (N=14)\n32. Research questions Key features of research questions? What \u2013 questions Examples: \u2022 What preconceptions on the phenomenon of sound attenuation do secondary school students use when explaining the acoustic behaviour of materials? (Hern\u00e1ndez et al., 2012) \u2022 What are in-service preschool teachers\u2019 approaches to online education? (Yang & Tsai, 2017)\n33. Research questions Key features of research questions? How \u2013 questions Examples: \u2022 How do students perceive the role of ICT in research? (Markauskaite & Wardak, 2015) \u2022 How do students approach integrating different sources of knowledge (from the Internet and from their textbooks and classes)? (Ellis et al., 2011)\n34. Research questions Key features of research questions? Common words used? \u2022 Conceptions \u2022 What are in-service preschool teachers\u2019 conceptions of online education? (Yang & Tsai, 2017) \u2022 What are university students' conceptions of OCW? (Limbu & Markauskaite, 2015)\n35. Research questions Key features of research questions? Common words used? \u2022 Differences / Variations \u2022 What are the possible differences between the students\u2019 conceptions of learning and web-based learning? (Tsai, 2009) \u2022 Is there a difference in the students' approaches to online argumentation between conditions? (Tsai & Tsai, 2013) \u2022 How variation in the quality of their approaches and conceptions were related to their performance levels? (Ellis et al., 2005)\n36. Research questions Key features of research questions? Common words used? \u2022 Relationship / relate \u2022 What is the relationship between preschool teachers\u2019 conceptions of and approaches to online education? (Yang & Tsai, 2017) \u2022 How are qualitatively different conceptions and approaches related to student achievement in the class tasks? (Ellis et al., 2011)\n37. Research questions Key features of research questions? Common words used? \u2022 Approaches \u2022 What are in-service preschool teachers\u2019 approaches to online education? (Ellis et al., 2005) \u2022 What are the students' approaches to online argumentation as identi\ufb01ed by the phenomenographic method? (Tsai & Tsai, 2013)\n38. Research methods: Interviews Provision of interview guide? Provision of sample interview questions? a \u201cspecialised form of the qualitative research\u201d (Bruce, 1994: p.49)\n39. Interviews No. of studies using interviews (N=24) \u2022 With sample questions in the main text (N=15) \u2022 With an appendix (N=2) Information for conducting interviews in the use of phenomenographic study ?\n40. Interviews The interviews were carried out as a dialogue between researcher and subject. The subjects were assured that it was their conceptions that were important rather than reaching the \u2018\u2018right\u2019\u2019 answer. The interviewer\u2019s role was to listen attentively, and ask questions only to further clarify views, as described in Ebenezer and Fraser (2001). Rather than asking, \u2018\u2018What is voltage?\u2019\u2019 which tends to elicit a recital of textbook de\ufb01nitions, questions began with phrases such as, \u2018\u2018How do you explain\u2026\u2019\u2019 in order to uncover the subjects\u2019 own ideas. This helped elicit if\u2013then propositions from subjects, such as, \u2018\u2018If the current is \ufb02owing in this direction, then what we should see is this bulb lighting up \ufb01rst.\u2019\u2019 (Bledsoe & Flick, 2012)\n41. Interviews (Tsai et al., 2011)\n42. Interviews (Stein et al., 2011)\n43. Interviews No. of participants in interviews >/=7: 4 studies 8-20: 10 studies >20: 10 studies (ranging from 22 to 50 participants)\n44. General characteristics Aim of phenomenography Phenomenographic analytical procedures Research rigor (Credibility) Referential (Categories of description) Structural (Outcome space) No=0 Yes=32 No=2 Yes=30 No=10 Yes=22 No=5 Yes=27 No=22 Yes=10\n45. Aims of phenomenography Key features as stated \u2026 Phenomenography offers a recursive model to investigate the student experience of learning, one that allows meanings to be unpacked from interrelated concepts. It suggests that at a high level of description, the student experience of learning can be usefully understood as what the students think they are learning, their conceptions, and how they go about their learning, their approaches (Prosser & Trigwell 1999). Each of these can be unpacked further. Student conceptions of learning have a referential aspect, those aspects that reveal the meaning of the parts of the concept, and structural aspects, which are its parts. Student approaches to learning can be divided into what students do while learning, their strategies, and why they do those things, their intentions. (Ellis et al., 2011) Investigations of experiences\n46. Aims of phenomenography Key features as stated \u2026 \u2026 The goal of phenomenography is to de\ufb01ne the different ways in which individuals experience, interpret, understand, perceive, and conceptualize a given phenomenon, or aspect of reality (Marton 1986), which in this case would be the \ufb01eld of engineering. The result of phenomenographic research is a set of categories of description of various aspects of the individuals\u2019 experiences of the phenomenon. Phenomenographic research involves identifying conceptions of the phenomenon and then looking for underlying meanings and relationships among these different conceptions (Orgill 2007). Marton (1981) captures the essence of phenomenography by noting that it searches for the middle-ground between the extremes of \u2018\u2018the common\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2018the idiosyncratic.\u2019\u2019 Phenomenography was deemed appropriate for this study because it allowed us to investigate similarities and differences in the perception of engineering that 6th grade students constructed as a result of their experiences. Investigations of experiences: similarities & differences\n47. Aims of phenomenography Key features as stated \u2026 The purpose of phenomenographic studies is to describe variations of conceptions that people have of a particular phenomenon, i.e. their conceptual meanings of the phenomenon of interest. Such studies are suited for under- researched areas because they open up the spectrum of perceptions for further more focused studies. (Souleles et al., 2017) Descriptions of variations\n48. Aims of phenomenography Key features as stated \u2026 The phenomenographic approach was selected for this study on the basis of its potential to reveal variation in ways (Bowden & Marton, 1998) novice programmers (pre-service teachers) and experienced programmers (inservice teachers) experience the act of learning to program in a new language, speci\ufb01cally, an object-oriented language. In deriving categories of description for students\u2019 conceptions of learning to program, we strove to \ufb01nd relationships between the students and the subject matter that expressed their ways of experiencing the subject, learning to program, as they were learning it. The relational view of learning furnished by phenomenography has formed the basis of much of the research into student learning in higher education. (Govender & Grayson, 2008) Variations: exploration of relationships between subjects & conceptions\n50. Phenomenographic analytical procedures Key commonalities? The process of analysing the student responses followed a phenomenographic procedure (Crawford et al. 1994; Cope 2000, Ellis 2004). The process of analysing one of these areas, face- to-face approaches to case-based learning, is taken as an example for the following description. 1. The section of each questionnaire relating to face-to-face approaches was analysed for variation in the response. 2. After reading all of the students\u2019 answers about their face-to-face approaches, there was a sense of qualitative variation in the students\u2019 responses. This variation was evident in the key features of their approaches, some suggesting an awareness of inquiry in order to understand the issues, while others revealed an awareness of more super\ufb01cial aspects of inquiry, such as a way of collecting information. 3. Student responses with a clear indication of key features of their approaches were identi\ufb01ed and used as the beginning of themes (Marton & Booth 1997). The themes were used to orient the classi\ufb01cation process as categories of approaches began to appear. 4. The themes were grouped into logically related areas. Some overlapped and these began to form the basis of the outcome space for approaches in the face-to-face context. (Ellis et al., 2005)\n51. Phenomenographic analytical procedures Key commonalities? 5. After re-reading all the student responses in relation to the overlapping draft categories and initial structural relationships, a draft set of categories that revealed meaning and structure was established. This was the initial classi\ufb01cation. 6. The initial category descriptions required further development as different aspects of the student experience of learning through inquiry were emphasised by different students. 7. To improve the category of descriptions, representative extracts from the questionnaire were chosen and discussed with supporting researchers. This led to the reconsideration of all of the responses in relation to the redrafted categories. Both the \ufb01nal version of the category descriptions and the re-categorisation of the extracts were agreed upon by all researchers. 8. The redrafted categories became the \ufb01nal version and extracts from student responses that best represented the draft categories were selected. The draft categories and the representative extracts formed the outcome space for this part of the phenomenographic study and drew on the SOLO taxonomy as a way of structuring the hierarchy (Biggs 1999) (Ellis et al., 2005)\n52. Phenomenographic analytical procedures Key commonalities? Phenomenographic data analysis incorporated nine iterations, reading through the whole collective of transcript data towards the next set of categories of description and beyond that towards an outcome space. This process was spread across more than seven months. In the earlier stages the focus was entirely on identifying the categories of description describing variation among students\u2019 accounts of their lived NL experiences. In the later stages the concern turned more on the structural distinctions among categories and how this structuring set the categories in qualitative distinction from each other, yet bringing them together into a coherent whole outcome space (\u00c5kerlind, 2005a). The main issues of concern during the data-analysis stage were the need to focus on the collective (Bowden, 2000), the problem of natural attitude (Marton & Booth, 1997), that is, the researcher\u2019s unintentional assumptions, and the risk of abstraction (Bowden, 2000; S\u00e4lj\u00f6, 1997), meaning going beyond what is said by the data. To reduce the possibility of abstraction and to move away as much as possible from the hazard of natural attitude, the whole transcripts were addressed throughout the data-analysis process (Bowden, 2000). Furthermore, evidence from the data collective was made a requirement to substantiate analysis at all times (\u00c5kerlind, 2005b). To guard against the potential hazard of inadvertently shifting attention to individual transcripts, at all times during the data- analysis stage the fact was foregrounded that, just as the paragraph being read is part of a transcript as a whole, the transcript is part of the data collective as a whole. (Cutajar, 2017)\n53. Phenomenographic analytical procedures Key commonalities? Data analysis employed procedures proposed by Marton (1986, 1994) and was conducted using NVivo software. The analysis started after all interviews were completed and transcribed. \u201cPhenomenographic research aims to explore the range of meanings within a sample group, as a group, not the range of meanings for each individual within the group\u201d (\u00c5kerlind 2008, p. 117); accordingly, the initial pool of meanings was constructed from all the transcripts by categorising data based on common ideas expressed by all participants, without focusing on specific participants or parts of the interviews. Each quote was then interpreted in relation to the pool of meanings, to see what others had said about the same thing, and in relation to individual transcripts, to see what the person had said about other issues relating to the topic. The process took into account all meanings expressed by participants about different aspects of research, irrespective of the structure of the interview, thereby reducing the risk of taking utterances out of their original interview context. To maintain the research rigour and quality of the findings, two researchers initially separately examined the pool of meanings and assigned the participants\u2019 expressions to the categories of descriptions. Then they discussed and refined their interpretations iteratively in several meetings. In the final outcome, each category and each dimension of variation was represented by a number of quotes from multiple participants of varying backgrounds. This result shows that this sample and procedure resulted in sufficient \u201cdata saturation\u201d (Bowden & Green, 2005). (Markaukaite & Wardak, 2015)\n54. Phenomenographic analytical procedures Key commonalities? Initial understandings Read all (materials/ transcripts) collectively Differences? Similarities? Categories Outcome space\n56. Research rigor (credibility) There was 90% agreement between the three evaluators concerning the interpretation of the data and the categories obtained and after discussing the minor differences, consensus was established. (Levin & Wadmany, 2005)\n57. Research rigor (credibility) The interviews took place before the essays were graded and returned to the students so as to avoid compromising the evaluations. The teacher of the course was also interviewed after the course but before grading the essays. All interviews were taped and transcribed. The interviews were conducted in Finnish and translated into English by the first author. (Lindblom-Ylannes & Pihlajamaki, 2003)\n58. Research rigor (credibility) First, the collected data were processed and analyzed, then, categories were generated, and \ufb01nally, the researchers\u2019 insights into the investigated phenomenon were constructed. The data was jointly analyzed by two educational-researchers for establishing research trustworthiness. (Barak, 2007)\n59. Research rigor (credibility) To maintain the research rigour and quality of the findings, two researchers initially separately examined the pool of meanings and assigned the participants\u2019 expressions to the categories of descriptions. Then they discussed and refined their interpretations iteratively in several meetings. (Markaukaite & Wardak, 2015)\n60. Research rigor (credibility) After the initial classi\ufb01cations, the students\u2019 interview responses were classi\ufb01ed againby two researchers, independently. The percentage of agreement was applied to calculate the reliability of these two researchers\u2019 coding, showing an initial 82% agreement between them. Those responses without agreement were resolved by discussion between the researchers. (Tsai et al., 2011)\n61. Research rigor (credibility) The reliability measure (proportion of agreement) for the qualitative analysis calculated as the agreement coef\ufb01cient for the categories of students\u2019 conceptions was 0.89. Disagreements were discussed after the reliability analysis, and those conceptions that were classi\ufb01ed differently by the two reviewers were classi\ufb01ed according to mutual agreement. (Zacharia, 2007)\n62. Research rigor (credibility) The process of categorizing each student\u2019s conceptions of learning and of web-based learning was performed by an expert researcher, and a second independent researcher validated the categorization of 20 participants\u2019 interview responses. The agreement between these two researchers reached 0.88, indicating fairly acceptable reliability of classifying the students\u2019 conceptions of learning and of web-based learning. (Tsai, 2009)\n63. Research rigor (credibility) 1. An initial set of categories was identi\ufb01ed by the \ufb01rst author and another colleague at the \ufb01rst author\u2019s institution. This involved independent reading and classi\ufb01cation of the entire set of journal entries and the interview transcripts. 2. These two people then compared and discussed their initial categories and agreed on a draft set of categories and sub-categories (Govender & Grayson, 2008)\n64. Research rigor (credibility) After the initial categorization of the students' interview responses into the main and achieved levels, 15 interviews were randomly selected and classi\ufb01ed by another researcher using the same coding criteria. The percentage of agreement regarding the main conceptions, achieved conceptions, main approaches, and achieved approaches was employed to determine the reliability of the two researchers' coding, showing 80%, 93%, 73% and 87%, respectively. Those interview responses without agreement were discussed by the two researchers. (Tsai & Tsai, 2013)\n65. Research rigor (credibility) Throughout the analytical process, we maintained an open mind with no pre- existing categories, and constantly revisited the original transcript data in order to con\ufb01rm, contradict, and modify the emerging hypotheses about the key meanings and their structural relationships to ensure that the interpretations were validly derived from the data. The use of the entire transcript or large chunks of each transcript helped to increase the accuracy of the interpretation (\u00c5kerlind, 2005b). The analytical process did not end until a consistent set of categories of description regarding teachers\u2019 conceptions of mobile learning was reached. After the initial categories and their hierarchical relationship were formed, we sought feedback from an experienced researcher for communicative validity check (\u00c5kerlind, 2005c). Based on the feedback received, we then \ufb01nalized the conception categories derived from the data. (Hsieh & Tsai, 2017)\n66. Research rigor (credibility) Each data set was analyzed as a single unit with themes being identi\ufb01ed and generated within the data sets. A narrative was then constructed to represent each of the student teachers\u2019 experiences and drawing out the themes that characterized them. These written narratives were then shared with each of the student teachers to validate and authenticate the perceived meaning of their experiences. Interestingly none of the student teachers questioned or contested the narratives but in some cases offered further insights into their use of technologies beyond their professional practice. (Turvey, 2010)\n67. Research rigor (credibility) An issue in this kind of transcript analysis is the extent to which the outcomes are dependent on the idiosyncratic views of a single researcher. To provide some check on this, three researchers were involved in the process. The degree of agreement between Researcher 1 and Researchers 2 and 3 is shown in Table 1. The percentages shown in Table 1 give the initial level of inter- researcher agreement as well as the level of agreement after consultation between the researchers about category de\ufb01nitions, etc. Final levels of agreement in the classi\ufb01cations after consultation range from 88% to 100%. (Ellis et al., 2006)\n68. Research rigor (credibility) The interviews were transcribed and all the participants\u2019 answers to the \ufb01rst question were pooled and read by the researchers. In the initial stages of the process, students\u2019 descriptions of their learning experiences in the course (from both open-ended questionnaires and interviews) were analysed independently by two members of the research team. Speci\ufb01cally, emerging themes were identi\ufb01ed and then discussed. Discussion and re\ufb01nement of the categories continued until total agreement was reached (the process of independent re\ufb01nement of themes followed by discussion on the main thematic categories and their hierarchy was re-iterated several times until a \ufb01nal decision was made). The same procedure was applied for all questions. (Bliuc et al., 2011)\n69. Research rigor (credibility) To enhance reliability and validity, the design and execution of this study closely followed traditional principles and procedures of phenomenographic research (Booth, 1993). After the initial examination of the participants' expressions and assignment of expressions to the categories by the \ufb01rst author, the researchers met to discuss emerging \ufb01ndings. This was followed by the establishment of dimensions of variation and an iterative re\ufb01nement of the categories. Each iteration and emerging interpretations of \ufb01ndings were discussed in four subsequent meetings. Once the outcome space was established, the \ufb01ndings were brought in relationship to the literature and presented to two external experts for peer review. A clear record of the research process was maintained. (Limbu & Markauskaite, 2015)\n70. Research rigor (credibility) \u2026 validity and reliability considerations were pursued by the researcher throughout the research process. Besides, a critical \u2018friend\u2019 was brought in to check dialogic reliability of the preliminary research findings and to test pragmatic validity; and the professional service sought to verify Maltese-to-English translations completed by the researcher to some degree served to check the interpretation of participants\u2019 accounts. Communicative validity was also sought through the presentation of the work in relevant educational and research circles. Significant effort was expended to counterbalance the potential of individual interpretation problems, and the higher degree of partiality which might result from doing phenomenography as an individual researcher (\u00c5kerlind, 2005b). (Cutajar, 2005)\n71. Research rigor (credibility) After the initial classification of student essay responses into different categories, the data of 30 essays [out of 91 participants] were chosen at random and were categorised by another researcher independently using the same categories and coding criteria. The percentage of agreement was then calculated to determine the reliability of the researchers\u2019 coding (Hayes & Hatch, 1999). The percentages of agreement for the conceptions and approaches were 73% and 80%, respectively, for the initial classifications. These percentages were increased up to 90% and 97% respectively after consultation by the two coders. (Yang & Tsai, 2017)\n72. Research rigor (credibility) The initial category descriptions required further development as different aspects of the student experience of learning through inquiry were emphasised by different students. To improve the category of descriptions, representative extracts from the questionnaire were chosen and discussed with supporting researchers. This led to the reconsideration of all of the responses in relation to the redrafted categories. Both the \ufb01nal version of the category descriptions and the re- categorisation of the extracts were agreed upon by all researchers. The redrafted categories became the \ufb01nal version and extracts from student responses that best represented the draft categories were selected. The draft categories and the representative extracts formed the outcome space for this part of the phenomenographic study and drew on the SOLO taxonomy as a way of structuring the hierarchy (Biggs 1999) (Ellis et al., 2005)\n73. Research rigor (credibility) Students\u2019 written responses from the three schools were collated and analysed by three independent researchers. The analysis was based on phenomenographic principles drawing on research by Prosser and Trigwell (1999), Crawford and colleagues (Crawford et al. 1994), and Ellis and colleagues (Ellis et al. 2004; Ellis et al. 2008). In the process of analysing the responses, the \ufb01rst step followed by the researchers was to independently read the materials (the collated responses coming from the three schools). This was followed by a more thorough examination of the responses with emerging themes for each question. \u2026 The researchers took the decision that the research made the most sense if the categories were derived from all the responses. The outcomes show that variation in students\u2019 responses was identi\ufb01ed in terms of quality but, in this study, it did not vary depending on the school or discipline. The researchers discussed emerging themes during the analysis process, which were continually re\ufb01ned. (Ellis et al., 2011)\n74. Research rigor (credibility) The data we collected during interviews referred to each group and were usually con\ufb01rmed by three or four persons (the teammates). In order to minimize the researcher\u2019s subjectivity on the \ufb01ndings, participants were asked to further explain their answers and provide feedback on the researcher\u2019s interpretations. The main question of interest underlying the qualitative analysis of interviews concerned how our group formation method affected students\u2019 collaboration. The inner workings of the groups\u2019 collaboration were realized during the group facilitation meetings and mainly during the students\u2019 interviews, which helped us understand the qualitatively different ways in which students experienced, conceptualized, realized and understood collaboration. During the analysis of the collected data from students\u2019 interviews, we followed the steps of the phenomenographic analysis (Ornek 2008) in order to identify speci\ufb01c categories. We identi\ufb01ed signi\ufb01cant elements in students\u2019 answers and\u2014based on their similarity\u2014we grouped them in categories. We iteratively compiled, analyzed, segmented and sorted the students\u2019 statements regarding their whole experience of collaboration. This process resulted to the identi\ufb01cation of nine (9) initial subcategories [Sx] of description which were subsequently organized in four (4) main categories based on their conceptual relevance, which are presented in the next section. (Kyprianidou et al., 2012)\n75. Research rigor (credibility) In phenomenography, the issue of reliability is addressed through ensuring that the categories are easily recognizable by others (Trigwell, 2006). Validity can be achieved through showing the appropriateness of the internal logic of the categories (Marton, 1986; S\u00e4ljo, 1988). A group of independent judges can be used to establish reliability and validity by examining the transcripts of the responses to determine reliability of categories and the logic of the links among the categories, as illustrated through the outcome space (\u00c5kerlind, 2005). In this research, two colleagues of the researcher (\ufb01rst author) performed this checking role. There was clear agreement with the researcher by these cojudges. Johansson et al (1985) report that interjudge reliability \ufb01gures should be within the range of 75% to 100%. S\u00e4ljo (1988) suggests that they should be in the order of 80% to 90%. Another way reliability can be enhanced is by examining the categories in the light of how they make sense amongst related studies documented in the literature. \u2026 (Stein, Shephard & Harris, 2011)\n76. Research rigor (credibility) The \ufb01rst level of analysis involved having the researchers who had participated in the interviews independently examine a subset of one-quarter (n=5) of the transcripts of the student interviews to create a series of initial codes based on similarities and differences in the responses. The researchers then discussed their initial codes and possible categories that might emerge from the codes. The data were then subjected to a second and deeper analysis that helped the researchers develop categories that were more general. One of the goals of this process was developing internal consistency within each category. Another important goal was the development of as few general categories as were needed to describe all of the participants\u2019 views. After the \ufb01rst set of categories had been developed from an analysis of \ufb01ve interview subjects, the remaining data were examined to look for additional categories of description. (Karatas et al., 2011)\n77. Research rigor (credibility) Once a pile of transcripts was reviewed, transcripts in the other piles were interpreted for the similarities and differences in meanings described associated with using learning technology. If the themes emerging highlighted a different meaning to the earlier identi\ufb01ed categories, then a new category was added to the initial set. Otherwise individual responses were included in one of the other categories previously identi\ufb01ed in the analysis. Once all the transcripts had been analysed and grouped together, these formed \u2018pools of data\u2019. \u2026 To further understand the variation in lecturers\u2019 meanings and conceptions of learning technology, quotes describing their action and intentions within one pool of data were analysed and compared with descriptions from other pools of data. This helped identify a series of illustrative \u2018utterances\u2019 from each pool of data. Quotes from original transcripts were re-read against the selected representative utterances to better understand the meanings associated with these utterances. (Hodgson & Shah, 2017)\n78. Research rigor (credibility) Simple Detailed Loose Systematic Practice-based Evidence-based\n80. Referential (Categories of description) Key features? Source: Ellis et al. (2005, p. 246))\n81. Referential (Categories of description) Key features? Source: Tsai (2009)\n82. Referential (Categories of description) Key features? Source:\n83. Referential (Categories of description) Key features? Source: Hodgson & Shan (2017)\n85. Structural (Outcome space) Key features?\n86. Structural (Outcome space) Key features? Source: Limbu & Markauskaite (2015)\n87. Structural (Outcome space) Key features? Source: Cutajar (2017)\n89. Research question 2: What are the key limitations and possible future development in the use of phenomenography in educational technology studies as stated in the published articles in the SSCI journals?\n90. General characteristics Limitation Significance / Contribution No=18 Yes=14 No=15 Yes=17\n91. Key limitations 1. Sampling size 2. Diversity \u2022 Background \u2022 Experiences \u2022 Abilities 3. Research methods\n92. 1. Sampling size \u201cBecause of the relatively large population sample for a qualitative study, it was only possible to survey the students (rather than conduct one-on-one interviews).\u201d (Ellis et al., 2011) \u201cIt is not possible to generalise from this study to other contexts or assume other lecturers\u2019 conceptions of using learning technology would be the same.\u201d (Hodgson & xx, 2017) \u201c\u2026 it is not possible to generalise the results. Speci\ufb01cally, the size of the group of students participating in this study was relatively small, and the number of MST attempted during this experiment was also limited.\u201d (Kordaki, 2015) Practicality vs Generalizability\n93. 1. Sampling size \u201cThe main limitation of phenomenographic analysis relates to the generalisability and utility of \ufb01ndings, i.e. the ability to draw descriptive or inferential conclusions from the sample data about the wider group of art and design faculty members, vis-\u00e0-vis their perceptions about the instructional potential of the iPad.\u201d (Souleles, 2017) Practicality vs Generalizability \u201c\u2026 the study sample was relatively small and from one university. These students may represent more homogenous views than students selected from a range of universities.\u201d (Markaukaite, 2015) \u201c\u2026 we must be cautious about over generalising from the findings of this study. What we have found regarding the preschool teachers here might be specific to the context of this particular online education scenario.\u201d (Yang, 2017)\n94. 2. Diversity \u2026 the participants\u2019 diverse backgrounds and broad range of research topics meant that they encountered ICT outside their present degree, and in their current research, in different ways. (Markaukaite & Warde, 2015) Due to the abilities of participants to express or identify their habits, approaches and behaviours (Yang & Tsai, 2017)\n95. 2. Diversity An additional limitation of this study is that, since it was critical to capture the unimpeded experience of faculty, a prescriptive approach on how to use the iPads was avoided, and subsequently little is known about the different contexts of use. (Souleles et al. 2017) It may be argued that when analysing conception and approach categories, it would be very likely that each participant would have expressed experiences that could be classified within a number of the categories of description. It would be less likely that all individual participants would be able to be classified into single categories. (Yang & Tsai, 2017)\n96. 3. Research methods It has a relatively small population sample (n=5133) and has used only one qualitative instrument: an open-ended questionnaire. Its aim has been to evaluate the quality of learning arising from the blended experience that leaves little room for an analysis of skills, rather focusing on the meaning underpinning the approaches to blended learning. (Ellis et al., 2005) Application of a single method\n97. 3. Research methods First, the interview questions prompted participants to reflect on the major elements of the research knowledge cycle, but did not provide them with a detailed definition of ICT and did not ask about specific technologies, methodologies or applications. Thus, the software tools and ways of using ICT, as discussed by the participants, do not necessarily represent canonical notions of ICT, or a full range of possible ICT uses in educational technology research. However, these technologies are indicative of students\u2019 experiences understanding of the scope of this domain, which was the main focus of this study. (Markaukaite & Wardak, 2015) Application of \u201cright\u201d interview questions\n99. Significance/ Contributions The qualitative categories in this study as well as the empirical relationship among these categories have provided some insights into conceptions of and approaches to learning, and have revealed aspects not considered previously. (Yang & Tsai, 2017) Understanding of learning & teaching\n100. Significance/ Contributions This study presented evidence that students\u2019 conceptions of learning differed from those of web-based learning. These \ufb01ndings also strengthen the need for exploring students\u2019 conceptions of web-based learning, as they are positively related to better ways and outcomes of web-based learning. Also, relevant research for investigating students of other grade levels, such as high school, may be of importance. (Tsai & Tsai, 2009) Understanding of learning & teaching\n101. Significance/ Contributions Within the research-based design paradigm, this study is relevant not only because it contributes to clarifying students\u2019 conceptions about sound attenuation and of the acoustic properties of materials, but also because the \ufb01ndings can be used to adjust and support the decisions made when designing a teaching sequence, like those already developed by Pinto\u00b4 et al. (2009) on the Acoustic Properties of Materials. \u2026 the research study \u2026 gave us some insight into how to organise the content to be taught in the TLS on tasks, we designed a teaching/learning sequence drawn upon the \ufb01ndings presented here. The teaching sequence allows engaging students in the analysis of the relationship between the properties and internal structure of speci\ufb01c materials so that they are able to account for their acoustic behaviour. (Hernandez et al., 2012) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n102. Significance/ Contributions Nonetheless, the \ufb01ndings in this study do offer some interesting possibilities for thinking about the use of learning technology in their daily practices. The study thus potentially offers new insights into why lecturers often feel unable or unwilling to either teach according to their pedagogical preferences or integrate well learning technology into their pedagogical practice. (Hodgson & , 2017) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n103. Significance/ Contributions This exploratory study points to a direction of research that seems very promising: to encourage as many students as possible (and why not ALL students?) to be actively, effectively, creatively and passionately engaged in their learning. In fact, the experience of this study clearly supports the idea that the provision of tasks allowing for and demanding solutions from each student \u2018in as many ways as possible\u2019, while at the same time providing tools designed in such a way as to support the expression of the learning concepts in different representation systems, can ef\ufb01ciently support students in expressing themselves to their fullest extent in terms of the learning concepts in question. (Koradaki, 2015) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n104. Significance/ Contributions This conceptualisation of the student\u2019s NL [networked learning] experiencing gives an alternative explanation which is more constructive and potentially may prove significant to bring in closer alignment our thinking about the NL approach and supporting our students\u2019 learning using networked technologies. (Cutajar, 2017) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n105. Significance/ Contributions The \ufb01ndings of these studies may shape educators' insights into students' learning experience, and lead them to develop better teaching designs to help students engage in meaningful learning. Therefore, future study is suggested to explore the effects of conditions, conceptions and approaches on the quality of online argumentation. In addition, researchers have explored some phenomenographic investigations into students' experiences of learning at both online and face-to-face contexts, involving conceptions of and approaches to learning through discussion (Ellis et al., 2008, 2006), and conceptions of learning management (Lin & Tsai, 2011). Those studies provided some insights into students' online and face-to- face activity from students' perspectives\u2026 (Tsai & Tsai, 2013) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n106. Significance/ Contributions This investigation sets out to identify from the perspective of students the range of perceptions and views about the use of iPads in undergraduate art and design programmes with a signi\ufb01cant component of SBL. The uniqueness of this study is that it sought the unhindered perceptions of students\u2014within the limits of the methodology and research design\u2014and was not based on a speci\ufb01c instructional intervention. (Souleles et al., 2017) Understanding of learning & teaching Pedagogical design\n107. Significance/ Contributions Despite these limitations, the \ufb01ndings are of signi\ufb01cant interest and require re\ufb02ection in what they may suggest for research, student learning, and educational practice. \u2026 The outcomes of the analyses in this study have identi\ufb01ed qualitatively different experiences of case-based learning in undergraduate veterinary science\u2026. Broadly speaking, when students think about case-based learning in fragmented ways, that is, when they conceive of it as unrelated to the development of appropriate diagnoses and the professional practices of veterinarians, then there are signi\ufb01cant dif\ufb01culties in the case-based learning experience: approaches are not closely associated with understanding, and the online part of the experience seems to be marginally related at best. This type of research outcome suggests that the research methodologies adopted from student learning research for this study are appropriate evaluation tools for the evaluation of blended learning environments. More studies investigating variation in the student blended learning experience will help to provide evidence of the quality and issues raised by the combination of face-to-face and online learning environments in higher education. (Ellis et al., 2005) Understanding of learning & teaching Evaluation\n108. Significance/ Contributions This study investigated the conceptions of mobile learning held by 15 Taiwanese high school teachers, and revealed six conception categories and their hierarchical relationships. Nevertheless, the six categories obtained in this study could serve as a basis for developing a questionnaire to assess teachers\u2019 attitudes toward mobile learning. The \ufb01ndings of this study could inform teacher education and professional development programs that wish to promote mobile learning in school settings. For instance, teachers could re\ufb02ect on their teaching practice with mobile devices with the aim of expanding their perspectives on mobile learning. If teacher educators would like to see mobile devices used to their fullest potential, it is necessary to cultivate more sophisticated conceptions of mobile learning among teachers. (Hsieh, 2017) Understanding of learning & teaching Professional development\n109. Final remarks\n110. Final remarks Limitations \u2022 Coverage (publication type, year, technology, etc.) \u2022 Quality of processes (transcriptions; interviewing processes; external reviews; tools for analysis, etc.) \u2022 How to further help teachers/educators\u2026 Contributions \u2022 Methodological rigors and practices \u2022 Feasibility of using phenomenography in supporting educational technology studies Conceptions Experiences\n111. Contact: sallywywan@cuhk.edu.hk\nSample feedback sheet unassessed project marker copy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 60562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.socialstatus.io/news-and-trends/snapchat-push-remain-platform-choice-younger-audiences-introducing-campus-publisher-stories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6I2VG7XNEFQOKFV7L4JWNUUIUTNUNF56", "length": 2627, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.socialstatus.io", "title": "Snapchat Push to Remain Platform of Choice by Introducing Campus Publisher Stories | Social Status", "raw_content": "Snapchat Push to Remain Platform of Choice by Introducing Campus Publisher Stories\nWith 45% of Snapchat\u2019s user base between the ages of 18-24 (prime college age), Snapchat is leveraging off their dominance with younger audiences to introduce Campus Publisher Stories to their Discover Section.\nA study conducted in partnership with MORI Research, indicated that college newspapers continue to reign as a top media choice among today\u2019s co-eds and a sought-after source for campus news, entertainment and shopping information [Alloy Media & Marketing].\nWith 76% of all college students reading their campus publication in the past 30 days, the move to include these campus stories is a strategic push for the platform to remain relevant and dominant for younger audiences.\nSnapchat launched \u2018Discover\u2019 in early 2015 as a means to achieving their goal of becoming a \u201cdestination for consuming news\u201d.\nOur ambition is very much that when something happens in the world or there\u2019s a news event, that our audience would turn to Snapchat increasingly to get that news\u201d \u2013 Sean Mills, Head of Original Content.\nSince then, Snapchat have launched a series of Stories including some of the biggest names in publishing from The New York Times, Fox Sports, National Geographic and Harpers Bazaar.\nSnapchat Discover\u2019s facelift from 2015 to now \u2013 Image courtesy of TechCrunch\nSnapchat have selected to partner with handful of colleges around the US including Berkeley, Texas A&M, Syracuse and The University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, to begin producing weekly Publisher Stories to be distributed on Snapchat.\nThe move sees Snapchat nurturing the \u201ctalent pool\u201d stating that many of the leading journalists and editors get their starts working in school newspapers and they plan to help each school monetise and grow their newspaper through a revenue sharing agreement (although we are not quite sure what this entails).\nSomething (Snapchat) really stressed was to create content that made people feel like they were in on the joke or part of the campus community \u2013 University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, Editor in Chief \u2013 Alice Agun on her meetings with Snapchat\nSnapchat still seems to have a fair share of control in the content being produced, working with students to develop the \u201cright\u201d kind of content, with a focus on virality and shareability.\nThe content will only be available to users within a close radius of the campus they are currently working with, aiming to create feelings of exclusivity and amplification of the community connectedness.\nNo word yet on when this will be rolled out to Australian Universities. We\u2019ll keep you posted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sokolovelaw.com/job-sites/wa/seattle-steam-corporation-1963403/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6QNW2POTIEQKZHOE252UUGFTZUXSCMUJ", "length": 593, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sokolovelaw.com", "title": "Seattle Steam Corporation | Asbestos Exposure & Mesothelioma Risks", "raw_content": "Seattle Steam Corporation - Seattle, Washington\nDid you or someone you know work at Seattle Steam Corporation in Seattle, Washington? If so, you should be aware that asbestos was present at that facility for some time, putting employees and anyone else who frequently visited the location in Seattle at an increased risk for health concerns.\nFor more than 40 years, Sokolove Law has worked to educate people about their rights. If you worked at Seattle Steam Corporation or other locations in the greater Seattle, Washington area where you may have been exposed to asbestos - contact us today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Detheridge", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:L6YPJ4KRZ27SQBT7DGHGKDWI7XP64NZU", "length": 1044, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sourcewatch.org", "title": "Alan Detheridge - SourceWatch", "raw_content": "Alan Detheridge\nAlan Detheridge \"graduated from Oxford University and, after some years in the computing industry, he joined the Shell Group in 1977. He is currently a Vice President of Shell International Limited, responsible for external relationships in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group's worldwide exploration and production business. In that capacity, he liaises with home and host governments, non-governmental organizations, multi-lateral agencies and foundations. Alan is also a director of several Group companies with investments in Africa. Prior to taking up his current responsibilities, he was the Shell Group's Chief Internal Auditor. Before that, he was a Vice President of Shell Canada Limited.\u201c [1]\nDirector, Africare\nDirector, International Foundation for Education and Self-Help [1]\nDirector, Synergos Institute\n\u2191 Directors, International Foundation for Education and Self-Help, accessed August 26, 2008.\n\u201dBiography\u201d, Accessed January 2007.\nRetrieved from \"https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Detheridge&oldid=342800\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 159.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/43015-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-not-that-special.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WXWFMC2BNNVMA5BRG2EAORB4WRXBDB3U", "length": 3433, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.space.com", "title": "1st Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is Not That Special | Space", "raw_content": "1st Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is Actually Not That Special\nSEATTLE \u2014 A cigar-shaped space rock named 'Oumuamua caused quite a stir when it became the first interstellar visitor discovered in our solar system. Is it an asteroid, a comet or an alien spacecraft? While astronomers continue to work on answering these big questions, one thing has become certain: 'Oumuamua probably isn't that special.\nIn fact, there are likely trillions upon trillions of objects just like 'Oumuamua drifting through the Milky Way galaxy, Greg Laughlin, an astronomer from Yale University, said during a lecture here at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. More precisely, he estimated that there are about 10^26 of them in our galaxy alone.\nSo, though 'Oumuamua may be the first and only interstellar visitor astronomers have spotted in the solar system, this kind of interstellar object may not be that rare, astronomers say. Rather, it's possible we just haven't seen them, because we haven't been looking hard enough. ['Oumuamua: The Solar System's 1st Interstellar Visitor Explained in Photos]\nA new study from Harvard University suggests that about two 'Oumuamua-like objects swing past the sun every year. The paper, published Jan. 4 to the pre-print journal arXiv.org (and not yet peer-reviewed), offers a new way to learn about 'Oumuamua's composition and origin: by comparing the object to other comets and asteroids observed in the solar system. By factoring in the estimated density of interstellar comets, the researchers found that 'Oumuamua-like objects \"collide with the sun every 30 years, while about two pass within the orbit of Mercury each year.\"\nAt its closest approach, on Sept. 9, 2017, 'Oumuamua was about 0.26 AU (astronomical units, or the average Earth-sun distance) away from the sun. Astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii discovered the object about one month after its closest approach to Earth. Pan-STARRS 1 is tasked with searching for potentially hazardous asteroids near Earth.\nOfficially designated 1I/2017 U1, the space rock was given the Hawaiian nickname 'Oumuamua, meaning \"scout\" or \"visitor from afar arriving first,\" according to the International Astronomical Union, which is in charge of naming bodies in space. But astronomers have yet to figure out exactly what 'Oumuamua is, because it has properties of both comets and asteroids.\n\"There's lots of mysteries over 'Oumuamua, but it doesn't appear that there's anything completely crazy,\" Laughlin said, adding that 'Oumuamua's discovery \"implies that there's lots of them out there. The fact that Pan-STARRS was able to observe 'Oumuamua means that there are on the order of 10^26 such objects in our own galaxy floating freely.\"\nThose objects have a combined mass of about 100 billion Earths, Laughlin said. To become an interstellar traveler, an object like 'Oumuamua could be slung out of its own solar system by getting a gravitational boost from a giant gas planet resembling those in our own solar system \u2014 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.\nWhile Earth's sun may see an 'Oumuamua-like space rock swing by twice per year, 'Oumuamua \"will never encounter another star,\" Laughlin said. \"The odds of it coming close to another star are roughly 1 in every 10^14, 10^15 years, so those brief and exciting moments in September and October were wonderful for us, but they were really the time of 'Oumuamua's life.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spacecoastbusiness.com/2017/03/01/featured-businesswoman-rita-pritchett/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:B3MVXQHGIZWGCFFEWJEJDXPKCM5VEFGA", "length": 4624, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.spacecoastbusiness.com", "title": "Featured Businesswoman: Rita Pritchett - Space Coast Business", "raw_content": "Featured Businesswoman: Rita Pritchett\nDistrict 1 County Commissioner\nOne of the world\u2019s greatest boxers, arguably the greatest heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali once said, \u201cService to others is the rent you pay for room here on Earth.\u201d It is a principle echoed by many and embodied by District 1 County Commissioner Rita Pritchett.\nWhen the affects of the 2008 economic recession poured into the space shuttle era ending in 2011, Titusville\u2019s economy struggled more than other Brevard County cities. Pritchett\u2019s community went through some financially challenging times. She watched her children move out of state due to space center layoffs to support their family. Taking two of her and her husband Daniel\u2019s grandchildren. Rita saw the impact of the housing market crash and the exit of the launches in the community and wanted to bring about change for the better, not just for her family, but also to others in the Brevard County area.\nPritchett got involved in city government and successfully served as Titusville City Council for two terms. Born in Clearwater, Florida, Brevard County has been Pritchett\u2019s home since 1960. Pritchett graduated from Titusville High School then attended Brevard Community College, now Eastern Florida State College.\nShe then transferred to the University of Central Florida where she earned her Bachelor\u2019s of Business Administration and a Master\u2019s in Accounting. Pritchett is a Florida Licensed Certified Public Accountant and has served as the Women\u2019s Pastor and Financial Director at her local church, New Life Christian Fellowship, for 30 years.\nLeaders Leading Leaders\nFor many successful women, it was the influence of other successful women who mentored them along their journey to collaborate, create, and thrive. But not in Commissioner\u2019s Pritchett case. She highlighted two men who have had helped her soar into new horizons.\n\u201cMy Pastor Dr. Larry Linkous and his wife Sandra have been a great influence in my life for over 36 years,\u201d Pritcett said. \u201cThey have been the pastors of New Life Christian Fellowship in Titusville for over 30 years and church has grown to over 1000 families in the north Brevard Area.\u201d\n\u201cI have been greatly influenced by their faith and resilience over the years. They have encouraged me to never quit and to keep priorities a priority,\u201d she added. \u201cBuilding great structures is noble, but greater than that is building people.\u201d\nOne of my favorite quotes Pastor Linkous shared that I have taken to heart is, \u201cHe who loses his emotions loses.\u201d\nSecondly, Robin Fisher, former chairman of Brevard County Board of County Commissioners, has also been an influential mentor in Pritchett life. \u201cHe was always able to get a lot of economic growth and get things shaking and moving,\u201d Pritchett said. She worked alongside Fisher in efforts to bring economic development North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ) for District 1. The Zone focuses on four critical components in planning and implementation for economic growth, high wage business attraction and retention, redevelopment of commercial/industrial sites, development of pad ready/spec building sites, small business attraction, creation, retention, and expansion. Northern Brevard has seen some changes for the better in job opportunities and business expansion through businesses such as One Web, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, and the Brix Project with the Playalinda Brewery Company.\nIn continued service toward health and wellness, city beatification and livelihood, and economic development, Pritchett served as a liaison to the Brevard County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, Economic Development Commission, Parrish Medical Center, and is currently a member of the Brevard Nature Alliance. She was honored to receive the Space Coast Daily 2015 Humanitarian Award and the Image Award from St. James AME 2015. Pritchett marks her proudest moment in District 1 voting in support of the creation of NBEDZ. One Web is the world\u2019s first facility for high volume satellite manufacturing. The plan is to put more than 600 satellites into orbit to provide low-cost global Internet access. \u201cNBEDZ is helping to bring many jobs and economic growth to District 1 and other parts of our county as well,\u201d Pritchett said.\nSince 2006, Pritchett has been an Eastern Florida State Instructor in Accounting and Tax and hopes to continue teaching. When asked what advice she would give to young people hoping to work in local government, Pritchett said, \u201cJust realize everything in your life is going to lead to your future. Don\u2019t despise small beginnings, because it\u2019s preparing you for your future.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spacecoastbusiness.com/2018/03/01/martha-scholz-carla-casey-colette-wood-cbre/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:53X3KRAXATPOJKSOAVQVV5TEZ5CUWF2V", "length": 2908, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.spacecoastbusiness.com", "title": "Martha Scholz, Carla Casey, Colette Wood | CBRE - Space Coast Business", "raw_content": "Martha Scholz, Carla Casey, Colette Wood | CBRE\nFollowing a 25-year career in higher education at three national universities, Scholz began a second career as the founder and owner of Golf USA, a successful franchise retail golf store. Eleven years later, the business was sold and continues to operate as a well-known independent golf store.\nCombining a lifelong \u201chobby\u201d of real estate investment with a desire to help business owners find the right space and the right place for their businesses, Scholz earned a Florida real estate license and began a career in commercial real estate with CBRE, an international real estate firm with offices in Brevard County.\nToday, Scholz focuses her efforts on assisting business owners in identifying the right location for their businesses, as well as negotiating the best terms for leases and the purchase of property. In addition, as a member of the CBRE team, Scholz has access to a worldwide network of sales associates who can assist in identifying buyers for commercial properties or assisting clients in finding investment properties.\nCarla Casey began her commercial real estate career nearly 25 years ago in St. Louis. Casey relocated to Florida in 1995 and has spent the last 20 years with Brenner Real Estate Group and then its successor, CBRE.\nShe is currently the senior real estate manager responsible for the day-to-day property management, operations of retail, office and single-tenant properties and administration of the Melbourne office, construction management, development, leasing and land sales in Brevard County and South Florida.\nThe multi-faceted aspects of her position ensure a commitment to provide excellent service, high tenant retention and superior results for tenants and clients alike. The longevity of the relationship with the Brevard County community has made each member of the Melbourne team an integral part of each and every interaction and transaction.\nCasey, a 15-year Brevard resident, raises 14-year-old twins with the help of her husband and actively volunteers with Citrus Council of Girl Scouts.\nCOLETTE WOOD\nColette Wood began her career in commercial real estate in 2006 shortly after moving with her family to Brevard County for her husband\u2019s final assignment with the Air Force. Wood enjoys the challenges presented by commercial real estate and focuses on meeting the individual needs of each client.\nAs a member of the CBRE team, Wood has proven to be adept at working across all commercial real estate platforms including tenant and buyer representation, landlord representation, property management, investment purchases and sales of commercial property.\nWood is an active participant in the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, Viera Suntree Business Council and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and American Cancer Society. She has previously provided volunteer assistance to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/wellness_articles.asp?ID=2412", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UCQPCQBYUCI5IMO23G3I3TBH4I4OMKLJ", "length": 9254, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.sparkpeople.com", "title": "5 Healthy Habits You Should Steal From the Pros | SparkPeople", "raw_content": "5 Healthy Habits You Should Steal From the Pros\nBy Greg Presto 9/24/2018\nCreating a \"healthy lifestyle\" can seem daunting. It can sometimes feel like you have to revamp your entire life\u2014changing everything about your diet, exercise, sleep, work and even mental life to finally \"be healthy.\" It's a little much.\nBut it doesn't have to be. Adding just one new healthy habit to your daily life can make a huge difference. If you eat just 100 fewer calories per day, for instance, you could lose 10 pounds or more in a year without any other dieting.\nEven fitness coaches\u2014people who make their living in and around gyms\u2014don't have time to live a healthy lifestyle 24 hours per day. They've got families and paperwork, responsibilities and distractions, just like the rest of us. But they all have one or two things they do every day to stay healthy\u2014they're non-negotiable and help these fit folks help other people become their fittest.\n\"I spend five minutes per day moving my joints through their full range of motion.\"\nMultiple strength coaches mentioned working on joint mobility as a daily habit and it's no wonder: Studies have shown that losing mobility as you age is a risk factor for overall functional decline. To keep their joints moving, these coaches aren't necessarily going through any complicated system, though.\n\"It doesn't take any special knowledge,\" says Jeremy Frisch, owner of Achieve Performance Training in Massachusetts. \"I simply reach up, reach down, reach to the side. Swing the arms, lift the legs, twist, turn, step forwards, backwards and sideways. I move my neck in all directions, [as well as my] toes and ankles. It lubricates the joints, wakes up proprioceptors and improves my balance.\"\nMike Perry, owner of Skill of Strength, a performance-based training facility in Massachusetts, does a similar 10- to 15-minute run through his joints, moving his ankles, hips and spine. He says it's not just for the physical benefits of the movement, but because it can help him be more aware of how he's feeling and the effects his training has on his body.\n\"I almost use it as a daily check-in to form a baseline of how my body's performing day-to-day,\" he says. \"For example, if I'm really sore and I do this normal joint mobility [check-in] and I feel pretty locked up, it's a pretty good indication that the prior training session was probably a bit too much.\"\n\"I skip breakfast.\"\nYou may have heard of a diet protocol called intermittent fasting. The idea behind this diet is that you concentrate your daily eating into a smaller window of time\u2014usually eight hours. Many wind up fasting for 16 hours per day, and eating all their calories from, say, noon to 8 p.m. Proponents of intermittent fasting say it helps them reduce calories and burn body fat, while simultaneously kicking off a process in the body called autophagy, where old and diseased cells are cleaned out of the body. Studies have shown that this increase in autophagy from fasting helps prevent neuron damage in the brain.\nBut while some hear the word \"fasting\" and think it sounds scary or like you'll be starving, intermittent fasting proponent and author of \"Rise and Hustle\" Mike Whitfield says it's simple: He just skips breakfast.\n\"I usually don't eat until around 11 a.m. every day,\" he explains. \"I've got more energy in the mornings than ever. It allows me to focus on important tasks without brain fog, and it's also an easy way to cut out calories and help me maintain my 115-pound weight loss.\"\nIf you're a morning exerciser or you're cranky in the a.m. if you don't eat, this may not be for you. But you can also try intermittent fasting by eating dinner a little earlier: If you stop eating at 6 or 7 p.m. and don't eat again until breakfast, you can fast for 12 hours or more to get these autophagy benefits.\n\"I meditate.\"\nLike many business owners, Evan Marcantonio is busy. And with a 2 year old and 12 week old to boot, the owner of Elevate Strength & Performance in Massachusetts, says he isn't sleeping much.\n'[Meditating] gives me a bit of a break. I find myself to be more focused and more productive after. It's the most powerful thing I've done over the last year,\" he says. But it doesn't take up valuable sleeping time in his day. \"I was able to start with two minutes and now I'm up to 10 minutes. I focus on my breathing, I try to clear my mind and I count.\"\nAnd Marcantonio productivity is not just in his head: In one study from 2012, researchers found that those who were more mindful were better at coming up with creative solutions to problems. It can also help at the end of the day: Studies of insomnia patients have found that mindfulness meditations increased total sleep time.\nAs Marcantonio indicates, meditation doesn't have to take long and doesn't have to be complicated. Oftentimes participants are asked simply to focus only on their breathing, counting each inhale as \"one\", and each exhale as \"two.\" Other meditations involve internally saying \"I am breathing in\" and \"I am breathing out\" as you inhale and exhale. These counting protocols clear the mind of other thoughts during the meditation.\n\"I write on my gratitude whiteboard.\"\nEach night before bed, breathing and mobility coach Dana Santas writes three things she's grateful for on a whiteboard near her toilet. Even on a stressful day, she says, she makes sure to spend some pre-sleep time with the board\u2014and its placement by the toilet is no mistake.\n\"You go to bed, and it's the last thing you thought of. Now [because it's by the toilet], it's one of the first things you see in the morning. When you wake up, you're reminded of what was great the day before.\"\nWriting down what you're grateful for won't just improve your mood. In one study, scientists found that people at risk for heart failure who started a daily gratitude journal reduced biomarkers for heart disease in eight weeks. Other studies have found that gratitude writing for 10 weeks helped study participants become more optimistic, and also increased the amount they exercised while reducing the number of visits they made to doctors. If you'd like to start a daily gratitude writing habit that benefits others, too, consider tapping out a quick thank you note: When University of Pennsylvania researchers had people write thank you notes, the writers' happiness scores not only increased, but gave them feel-good benefits that lasted a whole month.\n\"I exercise every single day.\"\nOkay, that sounds like a big commitment. But Frank Nash, owner of Stronger Personal Training in Massachusetts, says it doesn't have to be: \"I don't exercise hard every day, but I've got to move every single day.\" Even if it's just walking, Nash says he carves out even a small slice of his day for controlled movement.\nAlwyn Cosgrove, co-owner of Results Fitness in California doubles it, aiming to do two types of exercise each day\u2014intentional and unintentional. \"I like walking the dog. She gets about an hour in the morning and that's my mental health thing,\" he says. Cosgrove calls movements like this\u2014taking the stairs, walking the dog or performing a somewhat physically demanding, but necessary, task\u2014unintentional exercise. In addition to its physical benefits, Cosgrove says this can help him clear his head, come up with ideas and work through problems.\nResearch backs this up: Stanford scientists found that participants who walked for 10 minutes gave more creative responses on tests designed to measure creative thought compared to those who tried to solve problems while seated.\nWhile unintentional exercise is for his mind, Cosgrove also does regular exercise\u2014what he calls \"intentional exercise\"\u2014to improve his body. And while some days that may be a hard training session, it isn't always.\n\"It might be a walk for the purpose of exercise, rather than to get somewhere. Maybe some stretching,\" he explains. \"This is a dedicated portion of time to improve me.\"\nI'll gladly take all this advice. I especially like the suggestion to spend five minutes moving joints through a full range of motion. Report\nThank you for an excellent article. Report\nAwesome....thanks\n... Report\nGreat tips Report\nJPTOWNSEND\n***** Five stars. I love that these are things that can be easily incorporated and have such great effects. Thank you! Report\nThese are all down to earth tips. Report\nI will stick to the advice of trained medical professionals . Report\nEBETHE07\nInteresting! Report\nGreat tips! Thanks! Report\nGives me a lot to think about as I plan for the next phase of my healthy lifestyle journey. Thx! Report\nGreat tips! Report\nCan You Spot a Bad Workout on Pinterest?\nDeclutter Your Home in 30 Days\nCan You Trust the Results Your Tracker Delivers?\nIgnoring the Haters, Learning to Love and Live Life at Any Weight\nWhy Are 'Bad' Habits So Hard to Change?\nThe Secrets to Achieving 10 Popular Fitness Goals\nGreg Presto is a sports and fitness reporter and video guy based in Nairobi, Kenya who thinks fitness should be fun and an adventure, whether you're on a trail, in the gym or on the living room floor. He is an ACE-certified personal trainer whose work has appeared in Men's Health, Women's Health, Shape, Prevention, Reebok, USA Today and other publications. 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Regardless of age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability, everyone is warmly welcomed at London Stadium.\n\"Anyone identified committing an offence will have their details passed to the police and will face a lifetime ban from London Stadium. There is no place for this kind of behaviour at our stadium.\"\nMet Police.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spuc.org.uk/news/news-stories/2003/may/news-15-may-2003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XOSE4RGH3ZMT54H6FCHT6B2PUS6BNDRP", "length": 2097, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.spuc.org.uk", "title": "News 15 May 2003 - SPUC", "raw_content": "15 May 2003 The Clonaid company which claims to have cloned five humans has published a picture of one of the babies whom it says it has created. Dr Brigitte Boisselier, Clonaid's president, and Ra\u00ebl, the leader of the Raelian cult, exhibited the photograph on a computer in Brazil where Ra\u00ebl has been promoting a book. Although no scientific proof has yet been provided of the alleged cloning, the company says that it will soon be shown that the child in the picture has the same DNA as a deceased sibling. [New Zealand Herald, 15 May ] It remains to be seen what independent verification will be offered of Clonaid's evidence. The New Zealand government's proposed legislation on human reproduction includes a ban on cloning for live birth but does not appear to forbid it for research. The law would allow children created with donor eggs or sperm to know the donors' names, a change from current policy though it will not act retrospectively. There would be a committee to advise the health minister on decisions concerning the planned law and an ethics committee would consider research proposals. There would be a ban on commercial surrogacy, putting human embryos in animals and vice versa, and the creation of human-animal hybrids. The opposition National party has said it will support the measure if ethics committees are required to reach decisions more quickly. A select committee is considering the proposals and hearing submissions, and the law is expected to come into force next year. [nzoom.com, 14 May , and Stuff, 15 May ] Stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood could be used to treat liver damage. Scientists at Washington university, Missouri, have done research with human tissue using mice and suggest that their findings could help overcome the problem of a shortage of livers for transplantation. The therapy could treat damage caused by chemotherapy, cirrhosis, radiation therapy, trauma or viruses. 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In 2005, the state of Indiana formed a Regional Development Authority (RDA) to attract investment to Northwest Indiana. This paper analyzes the state\u2019s approach of fighting disinvestment with this development plan in light of Gary\u2019s particular history. It shows why such development is unlikely to translate into jobs for Gary\u2019s impoverished residents, and will potentially widen the economic inequality gap in the region.\nFor more than 50 years, the city of Gary, Indiana, has suffered the effects of extreme deindustrialization and disinvestment. These economic and political changes have left the city with few resources to meet the needs of its residents. In 2005, the state of Indiana attempted to address this problem of disinvestment and uneven development in the area by establishing the Regional Development Authority (RDA) to fund and direct infrastructure projects and catalyze economic development throughout Northwest Indiana.\nThe RDA, self-defined as \u201cquasi-governmental,\u201d is partially funded by the state as well as by the cities and counties in the region. It uses these funds to attract further federal, state, local, and private financial support. This approach has been successful at funding regional and local projects. But it is not free from \u201cmany dilemmas, conflicts, and contradictions regarding the links between space, capital, and power\u201d (Gotham 2001, 3). In particular, while the RDA brings significant capital to the area, the state of Indiana has predetermined the priorities for spending and investment. Gary cannot propose alternative priorities. The RDA is then held accountable by the larger region and the state. The residents of Gary, and their needs, are left as marginalized players in the process of targeting investment. This essay explains why this model for economic development has perpetuated the region\u2019s unequal distribution of resources and left Gary underserved.\nA History of Disinvestment\nGary has always been subject to socio-spatial redefinitions. Founded as an industry town in 1906 by the world\u2019s first billion-dollar corporation, United States Steel, the city, named after its chairman Elbert Gary, drew many African-American workers from the southern states in the wake of World War I (Wacquant 2001, 101-102). As the number of blacks living in Gary steadily increased, they were confined to the downtown neighborhood of Midtown and prohibited from living elsewhere (Hurley 1995, 33). Racist housing laws and racial prejudice worked to keep down property values in Midtown since it was nearly impossible to get reasonable loans for housing. This practice was federally sanctioned by the Home Owners Loan Corporation program that, through a rating process of residential areas now referred to as redlining, systematically made diverse and older neighborhoods ineligible for housing loans, while incentivizing whites to move to new homogenous suburban developments (Jackson 1985). By the 1960s, declining domestic production and manufacturing led US Steel to downsize and it laid off much of its labor force. In just a few years, the city became predominantly African American. It elected one of the country\u2019s first black mayors, Richard Hatcher, who fought for integration through an open housing bill. But the effects of white flight, redlining by banks, and the further downsizing and outsourcing of industry, continued to isolate Gary\u2019s population.\nJust south of Gary, the town of Merrillville was created by using state legislation to remove what had once been a protective, three-mile buffer zone mandated by Indiana law for all cities the size of Gary. With the buffer zone eliminated, Merrillville expanded right to Gary\u2019s border. White flight from Gary and continued growth and economic development allowed Merrillville to \u201ccater to commercial interests, entertainment, tourists, and consumers,\u201d leaving adjacent areas \u201cto languish in chronic disinvestment and decay\u201d\u2014Gary became \u201creserved for the homeless, the poor, minorities, and the urban underclass\u201d (Gotham 2001, 3).\nPolitically, Gary\u2019s predominantly African-American population experienced what Wacquant (2001) calls a \u201cdouble edged sociospatial formation\u201d (103). This formation \u201coperates as an instrument of exclusion from the standpoint of the dominant group; yet it also offers the subordinate group partial protection and a platform for succor and solidarity in the very movement whereby it sequesters it\u201d (Wacquant 2001, 103). Indeed, as black isolation was forced onto Gary, separate, autonomous ideas of community development came to the fore. The concentration of African Americans in the city allowed for black leaders to be elected democratically and for it to become central in the Black Nationalist movement, which held a national convention in Gary in 1972. However, national inflation and the severe recession of 1973 meant that Gary\u2019s new black leadership would not have access to adequate resources for managing the consequences of such extreme and sustained deindustrialization.\nIn 1979, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Paul Volcker, brought forward \u201ca policy designed to quell inflation no matter what the consequences might be for employment\u201d (Harvey 2005, 23). Within the national trends away from manufacturing labor (which had previously generated wealth and more stable employment) and towards financialization (the redistribution or trading of wealth and unstable employment), US Steel changed its name to USX\u2014with its chairman announcing \u201cThe duty of management is to make money, not steel,\u201d (Harvey 1989, 158)\u2014and Gary found itself with an ever-increasing need for new jobs.\nWith few jobs and a lack of federal and state investment to respond to the decline, Gary has been unable to meet the needs of its residents. Its socio-spatial definition became what Wacquant calls a hyperghetto: a space that emerges once a labor force is no longer needed and there remains only \u201cthe negative economic function of a storage of a surplus population devoid of market utility\u201d (Wacquant 2001, 105). In such a space, vulnerability and insecurity can be easily commodified by offering predatory lending and unstable low-wage work (Harvey 2005).\nSince development in Northwest Indiana has been so uneven, a regional approach does seem like an attractive strategy to reverse the history of local disinvestment from Gary to neighboring areas, ultimately allowing Gary to rebuild its economy from the demand side by providing for its residents\u2019 needs. However, in this process it would be imperative for Gary to maintain its autonomy in order to represent the best interests of its residents.\nThe Regional Development Authority\nThe Regional Development Authority (RDA) was created to address the issue of disinvestment. It was established in 2005 by the state of Indiana (IC 36-7.5-2) as a:\nquasi-governmental development entity entrusted to make public investment decisions within a regional framework for supporting catalytic infrastructure projects and inducing private sector investment. Its mission is to be a catalyst for transforming the economy and quality of life for Northwest Indiana. (RDA, 2012)\nIt was charged with addressing four regional infrastructure priorities: 1) The expansion of the Gary-Chicago International airport; 2) Redevelopment of the Lake Michigan shoreline; 3) Creation of a Regional Bus Authority; and 4) Extension of the South Shore Commuter Train Service (RDA 2012). The RDA raises funds and then awards grants to local projects aligned with these priorities.\nThe decision-making board of directors consists of a chairman appointed by the governor of Indiana, a vice-chairman nominated by a city in Porter County and appointed by the governor, and one member each appointed by the mayor of Gary, the mayor of East Chicago, and the mayor of Hammond (all of which are cities in Lake County). Lake and Porter counties each appoint a member to the board as well, through a joint decision of their executive and fiscal bodies, so that there are seven members serving on the board at a time. Each board member must have significant professional experience in air and rail transportation, regional economic development, or business and finance (IC 36-7.5-2-3c). The state legislation that established the RDA also set goals that 15% of the business enterprises involved in its projects be minority-owned and that 5% be women-owned (IC 36-7.5-2-8b).\nThe RDA is funded through annual dues ($3.5 million) from Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Lake County, and Porter County. The state also contributes $10 million from the Major Moves Fund per year until 2015. The funds from Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, and Lake County come from their casinos, while Porter County\u2019s contribution comes from a portion of the County Economic Development Income Tax (CEDIT).\nThe RDA\u2019s spending in Gary from 2006 and projected spending through 2013 included $50,264,727 for the airport, where initiatives included runway extension and railroad relocation, as well developing comprehensive business, strategic, and land-use plans. Over the entire region, the authority has committed $104,537,364 to shoreline development, including over $28 million to a project beautifying Gary\u2019s lakefront and renovating a pavilion.\nThe primary strength of the RDA is that it reverses the history of disinvestment in Northwest Indiana by leveraging its local and state funds to draw federal and private investment to the area. For example, the RDA\u2019s economic development fund, created in 2011, spent $4 million to encourage the Canadian National Railway Company to expand a maintenance facility in Gary, potentially leading to the creation of 250 new jobs in the city by 2015 (RDA 2012). The authority also creates jobs by driving its infrastructure projects through local employment, and encourages its grantees to hire employees from minority- and women-owned businesses by providing a database of such businesses and setting goals.\nThe RDA\u2019s transparency gives the public and community-based organizations grounds from which to criticize its decisions and hold the RDA accountable. In its 2011 annual report, the RDA also measures its projects\u2019 potential impacts on quality of life indicators through a report card. By reporting on their lack of impact in quality of life indicators like education (graded C-) and health (D+) their report documents a serious need for efforts in crucial areas external to the priorities mandated in the creation of the RDA.\nThe RDA\u2019s emphasis on the shoreline\u2019s parks and regional environmental protection provides Gary with the funds to preserve some of its assets and create a healthier environment for its residents. While encouraging the raising of property values along the lake may help Gary bring in (property) tax revenue to help fund public services, these benefits will most likely be unevenly distributed to the city\u2019s residents (e.g., the public school system is being rapidly broken up into charter schools with unequal access to resources).\nUnfortunately, the RDA development model relies on the assumption that local investment leads to local job creation. It denies Gary\u2019s officials the autonomy to set the governing priorities they have been elected to implement. The city\u2019s lakefront and a Gary-Chicago airport could be attractive investments if the city could afford to prepare them as such. But these projects seem destined to merely provide opportunities for those with economic power to profit off of Gary\u2019s poverty and associated low property values, leaving those without economic power excluded and pushed aside. The overall approach, despite the rhetoric of job creation, makes it more likely that these development projects will provide an opportunity for the region\u2019s more affluent to draw profits out of Gary\u2019s public assets than they will provide stable employment for the city\u2019s poor.\nWhile the RDA commits its contractors to hiring a certain, albeit small, percentage of minority- and women-owned businesses in their projects, the Northwest Indiana Federation of Interfaith Organizations has used the RDA\u2019s own statistics to show that \u201c81 percent of man hours presently paid have gone to workers who don\u2019t live in Lake and Porter counties\u201d (Rast 2012). They further raised the point that minority- and women-owned businesses do not necessarily hire minority and women laborers. The Federation, similar to Chicago community-based organizations that pushed Mayor Daley to incorporate more progressive policies (Rast 2001), has recently challenged the RDA to adopt a Regional Community Agreement, stipulating that 30% of man hours on their projects \u201cbe paid to people from the most economically distressed zip codes in Lake and Porter County\u201d (Rast 2012). The RDA\u2019s response to this request will be telling in demonstrating its priorities.\nRegardless of such changes, the structure of the authority is built on unequal dues and representation. Although Gary and East Chicago each make significant contributions to the RDA\u2019s budget, the smaller, whiter, and wealthier Porter County is overrepresented on the Board of Directors, which makes the RDA\u2019s investment decisions. The chairman of the board, appointed by the governor, is from neighboring LaPorte County and the vice-chairman of the board, also appointed by the governor, is from Porter County. When the RDA created a regional bus system and the extension of the commuter train service to improve transportation from the region to jobs in Chicago, Gary did not benefit\u2014the bus system bypasses the city and the train has served Gary prior to the RDA\u2019s existence (RDA 2012, 11). At the same time, Gary is now in debt to the RDA, it already owed $6.9 million as of December 2011 (RDA 2012, 16). This might lead to some of the city\u2019s remaining assets ultimately susceptible to acquisition by the RDA.\nWhile regional approaches to development have the potential to help poor cities meet their residents\u2019 needs and improve their quality of life, the RDA denies Gary autonomy, leading to a neglect of the city\u2019s public education system, as well as other essential and social services in favor of projects preferred by the region\u2019s more affluent residents. The national shift from stable manufacturing jobs to the era of financialization and what David Harvey (2005) calls \u201cflexible accumulation\u201d\u2014where company profits come less and less from production\u2014means that attracting capital to the area is unlikely to translate into secure jobs for Gary\u2019s impoverished residents, whose surplus labor and vulnerability continue to be stored in the hyperghetto. Due to this transformation in the city\u2019s political economy, the RDA\u2019s current approach towards investment will not be a sufficient means to bring back the jobs that were lost through five decades of disinvestment and has the potential to further widen the economic inequality gap in the region as opposed to strengthening the middle class.\nGotham, Kevin Fox. 2001. \u201cUrban Redevelopment, Past and Present.\u201d In Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment, edited by Kevin Fox Gotham, 1-31. New York: Elsevier Science.\nHarvey, David. 1989. \u201cFordism\u201d and \u201cFrom Fordism to Flexible Accumulation.\u201d In The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, 125-172. Oxford: Blackwell.\n\u2014. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press.\nHurley, Andrew. 1995. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.\nIndiana Constitution: 36-7.5 Retrieved from: http://www.in.gov/rda/files/RDA_Law.pdf\nJackson, Kenneth. 1985. \u201cFederal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream\u201d and \u201cThe Cost of Good Intentions.\u201d In Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, 190-230. New York: Oxford University Press.\nNorthwest Indiana Regional Development Authority. 2012. \u201cAnnual Report: Fiscal Year 2011.\u201d Accessed November 1, 2012. http://www.in.gov/rda/files/RDA_FY2011_Annual_Report.pdf\nRast, Joel. 2001. \u201cManufacturing Industrial Decline: The Politics of Economic Change in Chicago 1955-1998.\u201d Journal of Urban Affairs 23, no. 2: 175-190.\n\u2014. \u201cInterfaith Group Continues to Press for Minority Inclusion.\u201d The Gary Crusader,November 24, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012. http://www.chicagocrusader.com/news-detail. aspx?cityID=2&typeID=1&newsid=3018\nWacquant, Loic. 2001. \u201cDeadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh.\u201d Punishment & Society 3, no. 1: 95-133.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 17847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 222.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stdennis.ca/news/2017/8/15/partake-of-the-glory-of-the-assumption", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ADEYEP3TLP5VAS2V5IRJKWXVNE2C5PAH", "length": 3238, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.stdennis.ca", "title": "Partake of the Glory of the Assumption \u2014 St. Dennis Parish", "raw_content": "Partake of the Glory of the Assumption\n\u201cThe Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.\u201d \u2013Pius XII.\nThe collect prayer of the Mass of the Assumption says: \u201cAlmighty, Everlasting God, who did receive the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Thy divine Son, body and soul into the glory of heaven; grant we beseech Thee, that aiming always at the things above, we may be worthy to be partakers of her glory.\u201d Yes, we should desire to be partakers of her glory! This privilege of bodily assumption into Heaven, so that we may be, forever, with our whole person, body and soul, united to God in happiness \u2013 this is promised to each one of us, in a similar manner, if we are worthy.\nWorthiness consists, as the prayer says, in aiming always at the things above. The time of our lives is a preparation for Heaven. Now is the time for good works, and for prayer \u2013 for all that will direct us towards Heaven. Now is not the time to give importance to merely earthly concerns, idleness, or worse \u2013 to sin.\nWe are to work during our time on earth to store up merits for Heaven. In all circumstances, this means to do God\u2019s will, cheerfully. Love God above all things, and love your neighbour as yourself for the love of God. This is Mary\u2019s prayer, the Magnificat: \u201cMy soul does magnify the Lord.\u201d Most of us are lazy. We should do more good works, we should spend more time (quality time) at prayer, and we should especially do more penance, lest we appear on the Day of Judgment, empty-handed.\nMary\u2019s Assumption flows from her Immaculate Conception; for this reason she is called Immaculate. This word may also be translated as \u201cspotless\u201d, and it refers to the spotless beauty of our Lady\u2019s soul, which was not marred by and sin or voluntary imperfection. Mary was always Immaculate, from her conception, but this does not mean that she was not tempted to sin. Surely she was tempted, since even our Lord was tempted. It is virtuous to resist temptation. It is a difficult practice of virtue, since it requires self-denial. But our Lady practiced this virtue in all temptations, so that she remained Immaculate. She had the strength to practice virtue by a special help of God, such as we all have from our baptism and confirmation: the gift of the Holy Ghost, called fear of the Lord. It is to this that our Lady referred at the end of the Magnificat: God\u2019s \u201cmercy is from generation to generation to them that fear Him.\u201d A holy fear helps us to anticipate punishment if we should offend God, so that we will be mindful not to offend Him.\nThe Immaculate Virgin was always careful not to offend God in any matter. She is a great hero for us to emulate: if we would partake of her glory, we must also aim always at the things which are above. Make good use of time, work now to acquire merits for Heaven, avoid sin, and fear to offend God in any matter. Pray to our Lady, who like her divine Son has gone before us into Heaven, that she may help us to follow. One day, after death and judgment, we also hope to be found worthy to be partakers, body and soul, in the glory of Heaven.\nNewer PostTo Restore All Things in Christ\nOlder PostFirst Communions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stfrancistyler.org/daughters-of-the-king.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:K3LYS7BERF5N3YFPTAMOG5DPCBBOACS4", "length": 1090, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.stfrancistyler.org", "title": "Daughters of The King", "raw_content": "The St. Clare Order of the Daughters of the King\nThe Daughters of the King is a religious order whose members seek to enrich their relationship with Christ by following the Rule of Life. A Rule of Life is a considered pattern of activities designed to embody and focus our relationship with God. A Rule of Life may be thought of as a covenant between God and yourself; a way to provide \u201cprime time\u201d for God in your life.\nOur National Handbook states (pg 5):\n\u201cWe are a group of women living a Rule of Prayer and Service to our neighbors. We are women to whom parishioners can look for love and help in time of need, loneliness or strangeness. We seek to walk with God as our guide and try to draw those with whom we come in contact into the Church. We are women who work to spread Christ\u2019s Kingdom here on earth. We can never forget that prayer is the foundation from which our service grows.\u201d\nIf you are interested in becoming a member of the St. Clare Chapter Daughter\u2019s of the King women\u2019s group associated with St. Francis Episcopal Church, please call Sandra Dugan for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stites.com/resources/creditors-sidebar/services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:W2PM5GQNOANYKFC5RA6SHWPCJAADCWNM", "length": 1140, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.stites.com", "title": "Stites & Harbison", "raw_content": "About Creditors' Sidebar Services\nStites & Harbison is a full-service law firm with locations throughout the Southeast with 240 attorneys licensed to practice in 21 states and the District of Columbia. Stites & Harbison's Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Service Group consists of more than 25 lawyers dedicated to the practice of bankruptcy and creditors' rights law in Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee.\nOur Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy lawyers are well-versed and experienced in all areas\nof insolvency practice, including:\nWorkouts, Forbearances, Modifications, Deeds-in-Lieu and Friendly Foreclosures\nLoan Enforcement, Judicial and Non-Judicial Foreclosure\nState-Specific Creditor Remedies, such as receiverships, replevin, attachment, assignment for the benefit of creditors, and charging orders\nFraudulent Conveyance, Preference, and Alter Ego Litigation\nDefense of Lender Liability Counterclaims and Commercial Borrower Actions\nNote Sales and Purchases\nComprehensive Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Representation of lenders, servicers, landlords, franchisors, trade creditors, sureties, asset purchasers, and creditors' committees", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-officials-to-meet-national-held-over-kim-jong-nam-murder", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:FVVP6JRVPE4KNZQFC4IDBIHXT2TOGG64", "length": 2227, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Indonesian officials to meet national held over Kim Jong Nam murder, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Indonesian officials to meet national held over Kim Jong Nam murder\nIndonesian Siti Aisyah is a suspect in the murder.PHOTO: REUTERS\nhttp://str.sg/4ncW\nKUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Indonesian diplomats in Malaysia will meet on Saturday (Feb 25) with a female national in detention for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, the Indonesian foreign ministry said on Friday (Feb 24).\nThe Indonesian woman is one of three suspects being held for the apparent assassination with a chemical weapon of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong Un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb 13.\n\"The Indonesian foreign minister has obtained confirmation that our embassy and lawyers will get consular access (to the suspect),\" the foreign ministry said in a statement.\n\"Consular access will be used to physically verify the suspect's nationality... and obtain preliminary information to provide legal assistance,\" the statement added.\nIn keeping with Malaysian law, Indonesian officials had previously not been allowed to question the suspect.\nThe Indonesian woman, alongside a Vietnamese woman, is alleged to have killed Kim Jong Nam by wiping across his face a substance that authorities have identified as VX nerve agent.\nVX is classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and is the most potent nerve agent ever created.\nMalaysian police are investigating whether the chemical was brought into the country or produced here.\nFootage released earlier this week by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV appears to show two women lunge at the victim as he prepared to board a flight to the Chinese territory of Macau.\nThey grab at his face and then quickly walk away in different directions. Later clips show the victim asking airport officials for medical help.\nFamily members of Indonesian national Siti Aishah have said she believed she had been part of a prank on a TV show.\nBut Malaysian police have said the two women had rehearsed the attack before carrying it out and had been instructed to wash their hands afterwards.\nPolice have also arrested the Vietnamese woman and a North Korean man. Seven other North Koreans, including a diplomat at their embassy in Kuala Lumpur, are also wanted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 4819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/julius-baer-steps-up-hiring-in-singapore-and-hk-says-asia-revenue-may-top-europe-in", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:17Z", "digest": "sha1:M2ZC3PTTYUGHUYMZMPNGB6XM7GSQ5UJM", "length": 4582, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Julius Baer steps up hiring in Singapore and HK, says Asia revenue may top Europe in 5 years, Banking News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Julius Baer steps up hiring in Singapore and HK, says Asia revenue may top Europe in 5 years\nMr Boris Collardi, chief executive officer of Julius Baer Group Ltd., at a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore, on Sept 21, 2016. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG\nhttp://str.sg/4GHV\nSINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - Julius Baer Group said Asia may overtake Europe as its biggest revenue-generating region, as the Swiss wealth manager steps up hiring in Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\"In the next five years, Asia could be the biggest region for us if we grow at double-digit\" rates, chief executive officer Boris Collardi said on Wednesday (Sept 22) in an interview in Singapore.\nMore than half of about 200 new bankers that Julius Baer plans to hire this year will be based in Asia, he added.\nAsia contributed about 532 million Swiss francs (S$739.9 million) of Julius Baer's operating income in 2015, small compared with the 2.2 billion Swiss francs from Switzerland and the rest of Europe. But the share of revenue generated in Asia has been growing fast, doubling to about 20 per cent of the total last year from about 10 per cent in 2011.\nJulius Baer is the fifth-largest private bank in Asia by assets under management, according to a 2015 ranking by Asian Private Banker. Its AUM in Asia stood at US$75.1 billion, the publication said. It is the third largest in Switzerland, after UBS Group and Credit Suisse Group.\nLike UBS and Credit Suisse, Julius Baer has been expanding in Asia, lured by the growing number of rich people. Private wealth in the Asia-Pacific region surpassed that of North America for the first time in 2015, according to a report by Cap Gemini.\n\"In general we are following where the market is going. And Asia is our second home,\" Mr Collardi said in a separate Bloomberg Television interview on Wednesday. He said the bank has been hiring in Hong Kong and Singapore \"in a big way\".\nShares of Julius Baer fell 0.2 per cent to 41.04 Swiss francs in Zurich on Wednesday. The stock has declined 16 per cent this year.\nMr Collardi said he does not rule out the idea of further acquisitions, but for the moment his bank is focused on expansion through hiring. Julius Baer last year completed the acquisition of the Merrill Lynch wealth management business outside the US, which it bought from Bank of America Corp.\nThe acquisition of other private banks can either be expensive or pose substantial risks at a time of stricter regulation, Mr Collardi said.\nHe noted the case of BSI, a Swiss private bank which this year agreed to be taken over by EFG international. BSI was subsequently fined by regulators in Switzerland and Singapore for its ties to 1Malaysia Development Bhd, the development fund at the centre of global probes into alleged money laundering. 1MDB denies any wrongdoing.\nSingapore withdrew BSI's banking licence for breaches including a failure to conduct due diligence on high-risk accounts and to monitor suspicious customer transactions.\n\"We are in the phase of the industry right now where there's a number of issues where you can buy an asset that looks cheap, but there's an atomic bomb in it,\" said Mr Collardi.\nFrom a financial perspective, BSI could be seen as an \"interesting transaction\", Mr Collardi said. \"I am sure it's a good business, and I am sure people that made this judgment call made it on a sound basis, but there's an opportunity cost,\" he added.\nSince announcing the deal to acquire BSI from BTG Pactual Group in February, EFG has reiterated that its agreement contains legal protections and an escrow account for potential legal risks. Potential indemnifications may cover \"special\" matters relating to Malaysia, EFG said in August.\nJulius Baer is investing heavily in technology, and has chosen Singapore as the base for a new platform that will support its global operations, Mr Collardi said. The bank will spend \"several hundred millions\" of Swiss francs over the next five years on technology, he said, without providing details.\nThe firm's first-half net income climbed to 362 million Swiss francs from 39 million Swiss francs a year earlier, when profits were depressed by a provision related to a US tax probe.\nExcluding the effects of the provision, adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share increased by 5 per cent in the first half. Assets under management climbed 4 per cent to a record 311 billion francs.\nJulius Baer agreed to pay US$547 million to avoid US prosecution and admitted it helped American clients hide billions of dollars in assets from tax authorities while coaching its bankers on how to avoid detection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 6508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/standard-chartered-to-exit-equity-derivatives-convertibles-businesses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FXKTVNP2D6IZ7DKSP5O5YQJWEOQ752ZQ", "length": 2862, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Standard Chartered to exit equity derivatives, convertibles businesses, Banking News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Standard Chartered to exit equity derivatives, convertibles businesses\nPeople walk past the main branch of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. PHOTO: REUTERS\nhttp://str.sg/ZbH4\nHONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Standard Chartered said it was closing its equity derivatives and convertible bonds businesses as chief executive officer Bill Winters tries to turn around the lender's performance.\nThe bank will phase out the businesses after in January exiting from institutional cash equities, equity research and equity capital markets, it said in an e-mailed statement on Monday (Oct 26). At least 10 jobs will go, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the details are private.\nMr Winters is trying to reverse a two-year profit slide at the emerging markets-focused lender. Standard Chartered, which generates most of its revenue in Asia, has fallen 24 per cent in Hong Kong this year after commodity prices slumped and China's economy cooled.\n\"Regulators are pretty negative about commercial banks' trading activities, so this move probably helps improve capital ratios, reduces earnings volatility, and cuts staff, so costs,\" said Jim Antos, an analyst at Mizuho Securities Asia in Hong Kong. \"They are going back to basic banking.\"\nStandard Chartered shares rose 0.2 per cent in Hong Kong as of 10:55 am on Monday, compared with a 0.3 per cent gain in the benchmark Hang Seng Index.\nStandard Chartered will continue to offer equity financing advice for corporate and institutional clients and will still offer securities trading for retail and private banking clients, a spokeswoman said by e-mail.\nGetting out of equity derivatives and convertible bonds, businesses run mainly out of Hong Kong, is part of efforts to position the bank for growth and \"kick-start performance,\" the lender said in the statement. The bank remains \"fully committed to Hong Kong,\" it said.\nGlobal investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup saw increases in their derivatives sales and trading income in Asia during the first half of this year. But the business is expected to fall off in the second half of the year due to the drop in China's stock market. Sales of equity-linked securities in Japan and Korea fell to a one-year low in September.\nSince taking over in June, Mr Winters, 54, has eliminated 1,000 senior positions and cut the bank's dividend in half to save about US$1 billion. Some analysts have forecast a capital gap of between US$4 billion and US$10 billion will be revealed when the Bank of England releases its second round of stress tests on Dec 1.\nStandard Chartered's board will meet as early as next month to discuss whether the bank needs to raise capital as it struggles under rising bad loans and an economic slowdown in Asia, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/south-koreas-central-bank-keeps-rates-unchanged-as-it-weighs-weak-yen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:58Z", "digest": "sha1:TBDMDE5O2RYEOTR7QRD4H5OZLVXHGTSN", "length": 2125, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "South Korea's central bank keeps rates unchanged as it weighs weak yen, Economy News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "South Korea's central bank keeps rates unchanged as it weighs weak yen\nhttp://str.sg/9uK\nSEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank kept its policy interest rate steady on Thursday, as widely expected, to assess the effects of this year's two rate cuts as well as policy decisions in the United States and Japan.\nThe Bank of Korea's monetary policy committee left its base rate unchanged at 2.00 per cent, a media official said without elaborating. Governor Lee Ju-yeol is due to hold a new conference from 11:50 a.m. (0250 GMT).\nMarkets showed little reaction as investors turned their focus to indications of future policy direction from the governor's news conference.\n\"We think downside risks to the Bank of Korea's growth outlook have increased. Given the yen weakened significantly after the Bank of Japan announced additional easing on October 31, Korea exporters may face greater price pressures over the coming months,\" said Ronald Man, an economist at HSBC in Hong Kong.\nThe central bank is now more focused on the effects of policy decisions from the United States and Japan, especially as the yen has weakened dramatically since the Bank of Japan expanded its stimulus programme last month.\nPolicymakers have been fretting over measures to counter risks to South Korean export competitiveness but the central bank has balked at slashing interest rates more as its governor said the effects of rate cuts on the real economy are limited.\nThe Bank of Korea has already cut interest rates twice this year, in August and October, in moves widely seen as giving in to pressure from the government to boost its growth policies.\nStimulus measures by the government and the central bank, including plans to boost public spending and interest rate cuts have encouraged consumers to spend, with South Korea's bank lending to households rising by the largest amount on record in October.\nThe Bank of Korea lowered next year's growth forecast to 3.5 per cent from 3.8 per cent in October, but it is still close to the economy's potential growth rate, which the central bank has said is somewhere in the high 3-percent range.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/zombies-of-misery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3FUTRKFNKDPDYFN7EVY57YBFMWO6KB56", "length": 3902, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Seoul Station director says the movie offers more than just zombie thrills, Entertainment News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Seoul Station director says the movie offers more than just zombie thrills\nHomeless people fleeing zombies are left to fend for themselves in Seoul Station.PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE\nSeoul Station's writer-director Yeon Sang Ho says horror animation represents the misfortunes in society\nIn the animation feature Seoul Station, the South Korean capital is besieged by the undead hordes.\nWhat begins as a small viral outbreak becomes a catastrophe because early victims are the homeless, whose plight is ignored.\nWriter-director Yeon Sang Ho, 38, says he wanted his horror movie to \"mirror the society in which audiences live\".\n\"This strongly determines how much they will enjoy the movie. It was important for me to represent characters from all walks of life,\" he says in an e-mail interview with The Straits Times.\nSeoul Station (NC16, 92 minutes) is showing in cinemas. It is a prequel to the smash hit, the live-action thriller Train To Busan (still showing in a few cinemas), which Yeon also wrote and directed. Train To Busan has taken nearly $5 million at the box office here, making it the highest-grossing Asian film in Singapore this year.\nYeon agrees that both films are cynical about governments having the interests of citizens at heart.\n\"In my opinion, the onset of tragedy in a society is when the public authority abandons its people in the pursuit of power,\" he says.\nSeoul Station is seen mostly through the eyes of the city's lowliest, such as teen runaway Hye Sun (voiced by Shim Eun Kyung) and her unemployed, videogame-addicted boyfriend, Ki Woong (Lee Joon).\nAs in Train To Busan, characters fend for themselves. Even the weakest among them have to become their own heroes.\nThose whose job it is to protect people - the administrators, the police, the military - are busy covering up their mistakes or preoccupied with protecting property and civil order.\nHye Sun, fleeing the zombies with a group of homeless people, runs into a police station.\nInstead of trusting their witness accounts, the cops scold them for their smell and move to eject them.\nIn Train To Busan, a railroad executive shuts others out of his protected compartment in order to save himself.\nYeon says: \"It is natural to see both selfless heroes and selfish people emerge from tragic events. The selfishness of the authorities and their lack of concern for people is what I wanted to portray.\"\nHis first feature, the award-winning animated work The King Of Pigs (2011), also touches on the issue of class in South Korea and the abuse of power, as does his feature, the animated drama The Fake (2013).\nYeon's other abiding theme is the family and how fragmented the unit has become recently.\nIn Train To Busan, a divorced man and his daughter fight for their lives, while in Seoul Station, a teenage girl, estranged from her parents, must survive on her own.\nThe breakdown of society in the face of a zombie apocalypse is a reflection of the breakdown of the family, says Yeon.\nBoth his most recent films \"allude to the end of an era\" of the normal nuclear family and the rise of new ideas, he says.\n\"By viewing these two movies with a sense of continuity, I hope the audience will give more thought to the meaning of family and home.\"\nZombies are popular in pop culture now and critics have spoken about how the creatures tap current anxieties about epidemics, overcrowding and planetary resources drying up.\nFor Yeon, zombies are a symbol of one's \"fear of society\", representing \"inexplicable misfortunes and misery\", such as when catastrophes happen, taking lives regardless of whether the people deserve to die or not. He says: \"Zombies are a representation of disasters, of becoming a victim.\"\n\u2022 Seoul Station and Train To Busan are in cinemas.\nA version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 30, 2016, with the headline 'Zombies of misery'. Print Edition | Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/bjoergen-the-toast-of-norway", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HFXTUESLJUR5I67ZGEP6XZVYXAFRW74F", "length": 4700, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Bjoergen the toast of Norway, Sport News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Bjoergen the toast of Norway\nThe Olympic Athletes from Russia ice hockey team carrying their coach Oleg Znarok after the medal ceremony. The team beat Germany in the final, ending their 26-year wait for gold. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE\nWon Yun Jong, Jun Jung Lin, Seo Young Woo and Kim Dong Hyun arriving at the finish area in the four-man bobsleigh final. They bagged an unexpected silver, South Korea's first medal in the sport.PHOTO: REUTERS\nhttp://str.sg/o56d\nVeteran's eighth career gold lifts country to top spot in medal tally, as Russian flag stays banned\nPYEONGCHANG (South Korea) \u2022 Winter Olympics legend Marit Bjoergen lifted Norway to the top of the final medal tally yesterday, as Russia celebrated a dramatic men's hockey gold - but also saw their flag barred from the closing ceremony over an ongoing doping controversy.\nBjoergen, 37, won her second gold and fifth medal in Pyeongchang in the women's 30km cross country mass start - the last event of the 23rd Games - extending her career tally to 15.\nIt was a fitting finale as it handed Norway their 14th gold to overtake Germany, who had won the four-man bobsleigh earlier, in the final medal count.\nGermany also finished on 14 golds, but Norway took top spot with their record 39 medals overall to Germany's 31. Canada were third with 11 golds, while hosts South Korea were seventh (5-8-4).\nHowever, the fairy tale of South Korea's \"Garlic Girls\" women's curling team ended in disappointment, as they lost the final 3-8 to Sweden.\nThere was joy for Bjoergen who matched the Games record of eight golds shared by compatriots, biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and cross-country skier Bjoern Daehlie. She also equalled the record of winning five medals at a single Games, something 10 athletes have done, including Bjoergen herself in 2010.\nEmotional after her race, she said: \"I have been three weeks away from Marius (her two-year-old son), and now I know that I'm finished and tomorrow I can see him.\nMarit Bjoergen, winner of the 30km cross-country mass start race, being feted while waving the Norwegian flag. Her fifth medal in Pyeongchang took her tally to eight golds, four silvers and three bronzes over five Games - making her the most successful Winter Olympian. PHOTO: REUTERS\n\"It's incredible to finish my Olympic career like this, there were lots of feelings the last 100 metres, and I'm really happy. It's hard to understand what I have done, from my first Olympics in Salt Lake until now, it's been incredible.\"\nNorway's celebrations capped a dramatic final day that saw the Olympics Athletes from Russia beat Germany 4-3 in a sudden-death, overtime hockey thriller.\nKirill Kaprizov scored a thumping power-play goal 9 minutes and 40 seconds into the extra period to trigger wild celebrations and end a 26-year wait for the title to return to Russian hands.\n\"It was great it came out like that. Our whole team will stay in the memory of the people as having won the gold medal,\" he said.\nRussia's coach Oleg Znarok said Russian President Vladimir Putin called him to congratulate him on the victory. Znarok said his calm exterior during the final was \"a mask\" and added: \"I was nervous but I did not want to show it. This match was the most important one in my life.\"\nThe men's ice hockey win brought Russia's total gold medal haul to two, far behind their dope-tainted haul of 13 at Sochi.\nThe Russian players were heard singing their national anthem on the ice - apparently contravening rules governing their participation as neutrals, following a major doping scandal.\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) had voted to maintain Russia's ban pending the results of final dope tests from Pyeongchang, meaning the Russians could not wave their national flag during last night's closing ceremony.\nAltogether 168 Russian athletes, including the ice hockey players, were deemed \"clean\" and allowed to compete as neutrals, despite the suspension of Russia's national Olympic committee.\nBut two Russians tested positive for doping during the Games and IOC president Thomas Bach said as a result, the ban could not be lifted.\nHe denied the Pyeongchang Games had been \"tainted\" by the Russian doping scandal and said Russia's ban from Olympic participation will automatically be lifted if anti-doping officials do not find any more Russian drug cases in Pyeongchang.\nRussia's national Olympic committee hailed yesterday's IOC vote and said it expected its suspension to be lifted \"within the next few days\".\nAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, XINHUA\nA version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 26, 2018, with the headline 'Bjoergen the toast of Norway'. Print Edition | Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/football-republic-of-ireland-manager-oneill-confident-for-euro-2016-despite-draw", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:39Z", "digest": "sha1:T3CK3OEHOOJ3TBVQNRA4W3SGUS2AQVUT", "length": 2481, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.straitstimes.com", "title": "Football: Republic of Ireland manager O'Neill 'confident' for Euro 2016 despite draw, Football News & Top Stories - The Straits Times", "raw_content": "Football: Republic of Ireland manager O'Neill 'confident' for Euro 2016 despite draw\nRepublic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill at the UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying play-off second leg on Nov 16, 2015.PHOTO: REUTERS\n(AFP) - Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill will draw hope from his side's remarkable recent win over Germany after they were handed a tough Euro 2016 draw on Saturday.\nThe Irish were pitted alongside Belgium, Italy and Sweden in Group E at the Finals, arguably the toughest section of all.\nWith Belgium currently ranked as the no. 1 team in the world and Euro 2012 runners-up Italy widely regarded as the side to avoid from all the teams in pot two, O'Neill admitted his team face an enormous challenge.\n\"I think the draw is difficult for us. But we'll go there with confidence. We'll go and try and compete,\" he told reporters in Paris where the draw ceremony was held.\n\"Naturally you're talking about Italy in our group, who are effectively a pot one team, and Belgium are considered now the best side in the world - whether you agree with that or not, they are certainly one of the top five or six teams playing in the competition.\"\n\"And Sweden know about these competitions, they've got so much experience and seem to know how to qualify and get through.\n\"It's one I think our fans will look forward to even if the games are hard for us.\"\nSweden will be Ireland's first opponents at the Stade de France on June 13, with a trip to Bordeaux to face Belgium following that five days later.\nThey will then tackle the Italians in the northern city of Lille on June 22 in a daunting final group game.\nIt is a repeat of Euro 2012 for the Irish, who lost 0-2 to Italy in their final group game in Poland, when they went home without a point and with just one goal to their name.\nNevertheless, Ireland showed they could compete with the very best at international level when they took four points off Germany during qualifying, a very respectable 1-1 draw away being followed by a stunning 1-0 victory in Dublin in October thanks to a Shane Long strike.\n\"We have actually beaten the world champions so we'll get some confidence from that,\" added O'Neill, whose side finished third in qualifying Group D but made it to France thanks to a two-legged play-off success against Bosnia-Herzegovina in November.\n\"It's a long way away, there's another six months to go. I'll fret now for the next couple of weeks and then I'll look forward to it with enthusiasm after that.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suasnews.com/2018/01/aero-t-completed-development-production-first-skyguard-1-aerostat-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:27Z", "digest": "sha1:TUBDHVQWT3CFXBYO4SYI3SZDBINZMBQN", "length": 3748, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.suasnews.com", "title": "Aero-T has completed the development and production of a first SkyGuard 1 aerostat system - sUAS News - The Business of Drones", "raw_content": "Home The Market Aero-T has completed the development and production of a first SkyGuard 1...\nAero-T has completed the development and production of a first SkyGuard 1 aerostat system\nSkyGuard1 is a large aerostat in a Blimp shape, which can carry payloads of up to 90 kg and reach altitudes of up to 1,000 meters\n[January 16, 2018] Aero-T, a subsidiary of RT LTA, the Israeli based aerostat company which develop and manufacture the SkyStar\u2122 family of tactical Aerostats, announces it has completed the development and production of a first SkyGuard1 aerostat system. All the system components were successfully tested as part of final examinations of the aerostat before deployment in the air.\nThe SkyGuard1 has an ability to carry payloads of up to 90 KG weight, operational elevation of up to 3,000 feet (1,000 meters) and long endurance ability. Taken together, these abilities allow the aerostat to operate continuously for at 14 days.\nThe development of the SkyGuard1 also included a ground station for the deployment of the aerostat. The ground station is also developed and produced in-house, following RT\u2019s one-stop-shop policy. The manufacturing of the SkyGuard1 as well as the system\u2019s examination takes place in RT and Aero-T\u2019s production line in Katzrin, in the north of Israel.\nRami Shmueli, Aero-T and RT\u2019s CEO: \u201cAfter an extensive process of design and development, this successful testing of the SkyGuard1 brings us one step closer to the deployment of the aerostat in the air. The SkyGuard1 opens up a whole new world of possibilities in the aerostat market, as it can operate continuously in high attitudes for 14 days, in a very cost-effective way while carrying multiple surveillance sensors. Aero-T offers proven solutions for different weather conditions, as well as the experience of fielding such systems all over the world from very hot deserts to high mountains\u201d.\nEstablished in 2016, Aero-T is a subsidiary of RT LTA, the Israeli based designer, developer, and manufacturer of the tactical Aerostat family SkyStar\u2122. Aero-T specializes in the development and manufacture of large aerostats. Aero-T\u2019s first family of large aerostat is the SkyGuard family. This aerostat family is based on the proven technologies developed and operated during 25 years of experience by RT LTA.\nAbout RT LTA Systems Ltd.\nRT LTA Systems Ltd. is a world-class designer, developer, and manufacturer of the SkyStar \u2122 family of aerostats for use in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and communications applications. SkyStar is a self-contained, versatile, easily transportable, cost-effective tactical system comprised of a ground control station, a ground system module, a tether, a lighter-than-air platform, a stabilized payload platform, and a sensor suite.\nRT LTA was chosen as one of the 5 most influential companies in the field of aerostats, according to the Market and Markets survey. The SkyStar systems already accomplished more than 1 million operational hours worldwide, and are currently operational in various military and civilian missions in many different countries.\nRT LTA Systems was established by former military intelligence and current CEO Rami Shmueli, Who served as the head of the aerostats department in the IDF. The company headquarters and production lines are based in Yavne, Israel, and its American subsidiary company, RT Aerostat Systems, is located in Texas. RT\u2019s second subsidiary, Aero-T, was established in 2016. Aero-T specializes in the development and manufacture of large aerostats.\nKim Laronne: [email protected] , +972-52-4714002\nwww.RT.co.il\nRT LTA\nPrevious articleDrone America to Scale its Autonomous Air Tanker Concepts\nNext articleRedefining sports coverage with the worlds safest drone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suasnews.com/2018/05/drone-delivery-canada-appoints-jim-williams-director-of-regulatory-affairs-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5AUVBHT64LCVOGBRFG524BGMQOCKK6KT", "length": 3571, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.suasnews.com", "title": "Drone Delivery Canada Appoints Jim Williams Director of Regulatory Affairs USA - sUAS News - The Business of Drones", "raw_content": "Home The Market Delivery Drones Drone Delivery Canada Appoints Jim Williams Director of Regulatory Affairs USA\nDrone Delivery Canada (DDC or the Company) (TSX.V:FLT \u2013 OTCQB: TAKOF), is pleased to announce the appointment of James (Jim) Williams to the newly created position of Director of Regulatory Affairs, USA, as the Company grows its management team advancing its Drone Delivery technology into the United States of America.\n\u201cAs we move ahead to solidify the roll out in international markets, Jim\u2019s industry knowledge and experience in the United States of America will assist DDC greatly. We are very pleased to have Jim join the team and look forward to his contribution with our American expansion,\u201d commented Tony Di Benedetto, CEO of Drone Delivery Canada.\nPresently, DDC\u2019s Sparrow Drone, its proprietary software FLYTE, and the Company are deemed compliant by the Canadian regulator, Transport Canada, within Canadian airspace.\nDDC, through its newly-formed American subsidiary, Drone Delivery USA, looks to export its technology to the USA to enable its larger American clients to harness and deploy DDC\u2019s Drone technology in American airspace.\nAs Director of Regulatory Affairs, USA, Jim will oversee our regulatory compliance and coordinate with the Federal Aviation Administration at Drone Delivery USA, to expedite the export of our Drone delivery technology.\nThe Company is also pleased to report that much progress is being made with both our Raven and Condor drones, which are expected to complement our Sparrow drone with greater payloads and distance capabilities. The Raven is expected to have a payload capacity of 20 lbs. and a distance of over 20km and the Condor will have a payload capacity of 400 lbs and a distance of over 100km. These new aircraft will substantially enhance our service offering to customers and are seen as potential game-changers for the deployment of highly automated drones in a variety of industries and geographies. We will report further detailed technical progress on these initiatives later in Q3, 2018.\nBiography for Jim Williams:\nJim has over 30 years of experience in the Aerospace sector and recently served as Manager of the FAA\u2019s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office at the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). During his 15 years as an executive at the FAA, Jim held several important positions including Director of Systems Engineering, leader of the Integrated Product Team for ATC Communications, and finally, executive lead for all FAA UAS integration activities. During his tenure, the FAA approved the first commercial drone operations in the USAand published the regulatory structure that enabled routine commercial drone operations in the USA. Prior to joining the FAA, Jim was a flight test engineer and a production liaison engineer for the Lockheed Georgia Company\u2019s C5, C-141 and C-130 programs. He also worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Mission Control during the initial flights of the US Space Shuttle.\n\u201cSince I left the FAA, my vision has been to do everything I can to help enable routine unmanned aircraft operations in the US. Joining the Drone Delivery Canada team is an amazing opportunity for me to realize the vision of making drone delivery in the US a reality.\u201d, commented Jim Williams, Director \u2013 Regulatory Affairs USA.\nPrevious articleDJI And Microsoft Partner To Bring Advanced Drone Technology To The Enterprise Sector\nNext articleRaytheon named key partner for drone airspace testing corridor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunlive.co.nz/blogs/12491-changing-face-of-racing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZPF2SM7PFC7LIEERG542AAAZFHB7AFH", "length": 1234, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sunlive.co.nz", "title": "SunLive - Changing the face of racing - The Bay's News First", "raw_content": "Changing the face of racing\nClayton Mitchell\nNew Zealand First MP\nThe report into the state of New Zealand\u2019s racing industry by Australian expert John Messara was released last week, and was largely welcomed by racing enthusiasts who are at their wit\u2019s end over the lack of support shown by previous governments.\nI was pleased to be at the Claudelands Event Centre in Hamilton for the announcement and to read that among the 28 race fields recommended to remain from the current 48, Tauranga is among the survivors. Reducing the number of race fields is a proposed mechanism to get the racing industry back on its feet, but is only one positive move in a suite of changes put forward by Messara, who reformed the NSW industry.\nOther measures include outsourcing our betting platform (TAB) to an international provider to achieve greater efficiency and open NZ racing up to larger markets, changing the structure of the New Zealand Racing Board, renaming it Wagering New Zealand, and allowing the three racing codes to manage themselves in a way that would give them more flexibility and freedom.\nIn all, 17 recommendations were made, and I feel very positive for the future of racing in New Zealand if we manage to implement them all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 389, "original_length": 11213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.supermoney.com/reviews/student-credit-cards/first-national-bank-of-omaha", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5X3GCLUNVRCK42L27HJ2L2REMMZYFTYU", "length": 1617, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.supermoney.com", "title": "First National Bank of Omaha Reviews (February 2019) | Student Credit Cards | SuperMoney", "raw_content": "in Student Credit Cards from First National Bank of Omaha\nWould you recommend First National Bank of Omaha to your friends?\nPurchase APR\t Starting at 19.24%\nFirst National Bank of Omaha is a credit card issued by First National Bank of Omaha, which is based in Omaha, NE.\nIt is also designed for people who want a cashback rewards program. This card allows you to earn cash on the purchases you make. A rewards program is included that allows you to convert your purchases into travel, gifts, and other perks. This card supports balance transfers, which is an attractive feature if you have credit card debt and would like to transfer it to a card with a lower APR. Note that this card is designed for students. This means students can apply for the card even though they don't have much of a credit history.\nFirst National Bank of Omaha has a variable purchase APR starting at 19.24%.\nNo, First National Bank of Omaha does not come with an introductory APR offer.\nThe following fees apply to First National Bank of Omaha:\nA foreign transaction fee of 3%. Transactions in a foreign currency get hit with a 3% commission. For example, if you buy a $1,000 flight in euros, you will pay a foreign transaction fee of $30.\nFirst National Bank of Omaha offers a rewards program to its customers. The rewards program allows you to earn cash with every purchase you make.\nFirst National Bank of Omaha doesn't offer a cash signup bonus.\nFirst National Bank of Omaha doesn't offer a cash loyalty bonus.\nFirst National Bank of Omaha provides the following benefits:\n16th & Dodge St\nOther Services by First National Bank of Omaha", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 419, "original_length": 12218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.surgewatch.org/events/1921-07-29/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:LU5CEP2MOZBW3YCHBL4SYJS4JN5GEBTA", "length": 119, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.surgewatch.org", "title": "1921-07-29 - SurgeWatchSurgeWatch", "raw_content": "Storm Event 29th July 1921\nThis event was associated with coastal flooding in Folkestone, Kent (Zong and Tooley, 2003).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.surgewatch.org/events/1930-03-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:J5QQI7LOTUX5MKN6UK57JN6VTADI72EF", "length": 440, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.surgewatch.org", "title": "1930-03-16 - SurgeWatchSurgeWatch", "raw_content": "A breach in sea defences allowed thousands of tons of water to inundate onto low-lying ground (The Times, 1930).\nThis event was associated with coastal flooding in Winchelsea (Zong and Tooley, 2003), where \u201cserious\u201d damage was caused following the breach (The Times, 1930).\nCoastal defences Sea defences breached in Winchelsea\nThe Times, 1930. British Steamer Aground. Times Newspapers Limited, [London, England]. The Times Digital Archive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.susanandtroy.com/housing-analysis/improving-market-index-may-2012/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UEBLF4V4ZDSKNFYLZ6EUJ23UIN2VV6QW", "length": 2254, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.susanandtroy.com", "title": "8-Fold Increase In \"Improving Markets\" Since September | Housing Analysis | Susan Deierling", "raw_content": "8-Fold Increase In \u201cImproving Markets\u201d Since September\nThe economic recovery continues nationwide, but the recovery\u2019s an uneven one.\nSome metropolitan areas are faring very well this year, posting measurable gains in both employment and housing. Other metropolitan areas, by contrast, are struggling.\nTo help identify those markets in which growth is occurring, the National Association of Homebuilders created the Improving Market Index, a metric analyzing three separate, independently-collected data series \u201cindicative of improving economic health\u201d.\nThe IMI\u2019s three collected data series are :\nEmployment Growth (as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics)\nHome Price Growth (as published by Freddie Mac)\nSingle-Family Housing Growth (as published by the Census Bureau)\nA metropolitan area is considered to be \u201cimproving\u201d if all three indicators show growth at least six months after the respective area\u2019s most recent trough, or \u201cbottoming out\u201d.\nIn May, there are exactly 100 U.S. markets that qualify for the NAHB\u2019s Improving Market Index, down from 101 last month but higher by more than 800% from the reading in September 2011, the index\u2019s inaugural release.\n17 areas were added to the Improving Market Index list this month including Phoenix, Arizona; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Bend, Oregon. 18 areas were removed from the May IMI.\n83 metropolitan areas remained from April.\nThere is little actionable information in the Improving Markets Index but the report does a good job of highlighting how \u201creal estate markets\u201d can\u2019t be summarized on a national level and remain relevant to everyday home buyers and sellers across AZ and nationwide. For example, Fort Collins, Colorado is listed as an Improving Market. However, Greeley, Colorado \u2014 located just 30 miles away \u2014 was just downgraded from the same list.\nHome values and economies vary by region, by state, by city, by neighborhood, and even by street.\nThe complete Improving Markets Index can be viewed at the NAHB website but for the best read of what\u2019s happening in your neighborhood, talk to a local real estate agent.\nPosted in: Housing Analysis Tagged: IMI, Improving Market Index, NAHB\n\u00ab With LIBOR Low, Don\u2019t Rush To Refinance Your ARM\nMortgage Rates Make New All-Time Lows (Again) \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 6512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.systemswatch.com/pages/tos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:2MYESN4HOIQJ3DRBP7EHISV43L5YIG6H", "length": 12822, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.systemswatch.com", "title": "Systems Watch - Monitoring that analyzes the past, present, and future of your infrastructure.", "raw_content": "Terms of Service (\"TOS\")\nAdministrator is a role designated by customer to a user account within Systems Watch Dashboard. The Administrator is responsible for all financial responsibility connected to the usage of their account and all terms within this agreement. An Administrator account must be defined at all times.\nBilling Plan: The \u201cBilling Plan\u201d refers the the level of service and the monthly usage volumes stated in the plans located on Systems Watch website and can be found here https://www.systemswatch.com/pricing\nBilling Period: The Billing Period is start date is defined as the date Customer agrees to these TOS and selects a Billing Plan and shall extend for thirty (30) days. At the end of each thirty (30) day period if Customer has not terminated their account, the Billing Period shall renew for an additional thirty (30) days.\nWeb Domain(s) are defined as unique host names which refer to assets within SYSTEMS WATCH\u2019s network.\nWritten Notice is any written message sent from Systems Watch to Customer\u2019s Account Administrator. Email shall constitute Written Notice. By selecting a billing plan and agreeing to use Services provided by SYSTEMS WATCH, Inc. (\u201cSYSTEMS WATCH\u201d) you are agreeing to this TOS, which shall constitute the complete agreement of the parties (together they may be referred to as \u201cAgreement\u201d and supersedes all prior discussions and negotiations. In case of conflict, the terms of the Service Order or Billing Plan shall take precedence over this TOS.\n1. Acceptable Use: SYSTEMS WATCH\u2019s Acceptable Use Policy, located at https://www.systemswatch.com/pages/aup is considered an integral part of the Service Order and is incorporated herein by reference.\n2. Service Fees: Customer will pay all fees due for Services according to the prices and terms listed in the agreed to Billing Plans. 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Limitation of Liability: NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THIS AGREEMENT OR A SERVICE ORDER, SYSTEMS WATCH WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA OR PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES \u2013 EVEN IF SYSTEMS WATCH HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL SYSTEMS WATCH\u2019S LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY SERVICE ORDER, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED 100% OF THE MAXIMUM CUMULATIVE AMOUNT PAYABLE BY CUSTOMER FOR SYSTEMS WATCH\u2019S SERVICES PURSUANT TO SERVICE ORDERS HEREUNDER.\n7.1. SYSTEMS WATCH is providing a service on a month to month basis and Customer is free to discontinue services or cancel at any time. Should Customer elect to terminate in the middle of a Service Billing Plan, all Service fees will become immediately due and will be charged to Customer Credit Card on file.\n7.2. Either party may terminate Service at any time if (a) a receiver is appointed for the other party or its property, (b) the other party makes an assignment of all or substantially all of its assets for the benefit of its creditors, (c) proceedings are commenced by or for the other party under any bankruptcy, insolvency, or debtor\u2019s relief law, (d) the other party liquidates or dissolves or attempts to do so, (e) the other party assigns or purports to assign this agreement in breach of its provisions, or (f) the other party commits any other breach of a material obligation hereunder which it fails to cure within 3 days of written notice or immediately if it is by its nature incurable.\n7.3. Furthermore, should Customer fail to pay any fee in a timely manner or the Credit Card on file is unable to be charged for any reason, SYSTEMS WATCH shall be entitled to suspend its Services immediately until a valid Credit Card can be charged.\n7.4. SYSTEMS WATCH\u2019s failure to perform any term or condition of this Agreement as a result of conditions beyond its control such as, but not limited to, war, strikes, fires, floods, acts of God, governmental restrictions, power failures, or damage or destruction of any network facilities or servers (a \u201cforce majeure event\u201d), shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement. In the event that SYSTEMS WATCH is not able to provide Services during a force majeure event, during this period Customer\u2019s obligation to pay for the Services shall be suspended.\n8. Disclaimer: EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY SYSTEMS WATCH ARE PROVIDED ON AN \u201cAS IS\u201d BASIS AND THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS WITH SYSTEMS WATCH ABOUT OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH SERVICES, SYSTEMS WATCH MAKES NO WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON- INTERRUPTION OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICES, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.\n9. General: All notices or other communications required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given when delivered in person, when received by mail, postage prepaid, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or when received by an internationally recognized courier service, and proof of delivery received by the noticing Party. All notices to SYSTEMS WATCH shall be sent to SYSTEMS WATCH Inc.: Attn: Legal and Finance. Notices to Customer shall be sent to the email address provided as the Administrator Contact at the time of account registration.\n9.1. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California, USA without regard to conflicts of law principles. In the event that any portion of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion shall be restated to reflect as nearly as possible the original intent of the Parties and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect.\n9.2. The Parties agree that any and all disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement that are not resolved by their mutual agreement shall be initiated only and exclusively before the courts of San Diego County, CA, with California substantive and procedural laws prevailing (except those that pertain to conflict of laws).\n9.3. If any legal action is necessary to enforce the terms of the Agreement, the substantially prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable legal fees and costs.\n9.4. Customer acknowledges that SYSTEMS WATCH, its affiliates, and third party providers own and retain all trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, designations, copyrights and other proprietary rights in or associated with SYSTEMS WATCH, its affiliates and their third party providers, respectively, as applicable, and agrees that it will not at any time during or after the Term assert or claim any interest in such proprietary rights or do anything that may adversely affect SYSTEMS WATCH, its affiliates, or the third party providers (including, without limitation, any act or assistance to act which may infringe or lead to the infringement of any of the proprietary rights of SYSTEMS WATCH, its affiliates or the third party providers).\n9.5. Neither party may assign this Agreement to any third-party except upon prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a party may assign this Agreement without such consent to\n(i) a parent or subsidiary of such party,\n(ii) an acquirer of all or substantially all of the capital stock or assets of such party, or\n(iii) in connection with a reorganization or merger. Any purported assignment in violation of this Section shall be void. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement and each and all of the provisions hereof bind and benefit the parties and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors and assigns.\n9.6. No failure to pursue any remedy resulting from a breach of this Agreement by the non-breaching Party shall be construed as a waiver of that breach by the non-breaching Party or as a waiver of any subsequent or other breach unless such waiver is in writing and signed by the non-breaching Party.\n9.7. The provisions contained in Sections 4 (only to the extent that a payment obligation arising during the term of the Agreement has not been fully paid on or before termination of the Agreement), 5, 7 and 9 shall continue in force notwithstanding the termination of this Agreement.\n9.8. Neither the course of conduct between the Parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision hereunder. The terms and conditions of the Agreement, including all attachments thereto, shall prevail notwithstanding any conflicting terms and conditions of any order form or other form for order solicitation submitted by Customer to SYSTEMS WATCH. This Agreement and any addenda or order forms accepted hereunder constitute one and the same legally binding instrument and the entire agreement between Customer and SYSTEMS WATCH, and supersede all prior oral or written agreements between the Parties with respect to the matters provided for herein. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, no modification, amendment or other change may be made to this Agreement or any part thereof unless reduced to writing and executed by authorized representatives of both Parties.\n9.9. The parties agree that, to the extent permitted by law, the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods, or similar consumer protection legislation worldwide, do not apply in any respect to the Agreement.\n9.10. This Agreement does not create an employer-employee relationship between SYSTEMS WATCH and Customer, or any agency, joint venture or partnership. Customer shall have no authority to act for or to bind SYSTEMS WATCH in any way, including to warrant or to execute agreements on behalf of SYSTEMS WATCH or to represent that SYSTEMS WATCH is in any way responsible for the acts or omissions of Customer. Customer and SYSTEMS WATCH shall be independent contractors only.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 13255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sythwood.surrey.sch.uk/page/?title=Religious+Education+%28RE%29&pid=50", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MKRYZHHVQIE5TMSIWWISLVWISU64ZSLN", "length": 651, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sythwood.surrey.sch.uk", "title": "Sythwood Primary School - Religious Education (RE)", "raw_content": "We follow the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education in Surrey. We aim to develop children's knowledge and understanding of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and other religions represented in Great Britain.\nThere are two aspects to our RE teaching - learning about religion and learning from religion. We use a variety of activities, for example visiting places of worship, meeting people of different faiths, handling religious objects, telling stories, producing artwork, dancing, discussions and drama.\nIf you would like to know more about RE teaching, please ask. 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However, the cost of healthcare is still high because it is highly privatized.The city of Nixa, Missouri, has recorded a high residential growth which resulting from a high quality of life. It is focused on progress; therefore, it takes advantage of the available opportunities to make wise investments.\nEmployers are often faced with the challenge of having to understand the laws governing the group health insurance sector. They also need to understand the level of coverage, terms and conditions. Involving a reputable insurance provider makes selection of insurance plans easier.\nIn order to attract and retain the most hardworking and talented employees, you need to first offer a competitive benefits package. This will ensure that you reduce employee turnover and position your business for success. Additionally, you will have motivated and healthier personnel.\nThere are numerous insurance providers in the market and selecting the best one for your insurance needs can be quite a challenge. However, there are qualities that you can take into consideration when choosing the best. They include:\nLicensing - A reliable insurance provider should be licensed by your state. They should also be licensed to offer the insurance policies you are interested in.\nRates - Get quotes from different insurance providers and compare them because different insurance providers offer different rates on their premiums. Ensure that you are getting the most affordable prices.\nReputation - Check the reputation of the insurance company you want to work with to ensure it has a good reputation. Choose a company that offers financial stability, the right products and settles claims quickly.\nInsurance brokers will help you in the purchase of your insurance plans especially if you have limited knowledge regarding the insurance industry. Some top benefits of working with an insurance broker include the following:\nInsurance brokers are independent of any insurance company and will focus on you to offer the most suitable insurance plans for your needs.\nThey have a detailed technical expertise and are knowledgeable about the insurance market; therefore, they will suggest the most appropriate insurance plans. They are also qualified to offer insurance advice.\nAs a result of their knowledge, they will do the shopping around for you to save you time so that you can focus on other important issues.\nDial 800-903-6066 and get free consultation on Nixa Group Health Insurance & Employee Benefit Plans\nWith a presence in Nixa and throughout the nation, Taylor Benefits is an industry leader in the provision of quality group health insurance plans. We work closely with you to ensure that we understand your needs then customize the insurance plans to satisfy your specific needs. We also work within your budget to offer valuable insurance coverage to help you achieve a healthy bottom line. With over 30 years in business, we have established good working relationships with all competitive insurance carriers who we work with on your behalf to get the best prices for your plans. We communicate relevant information on time to ensure that you make the right decisions.\nAt Taylor Benefits, we offer various group health insurance and employee benefit options. They include:\nAre you looking for a Nixa Group Health Insurance & Employee Benefit Plans? Click the quote button to get an instant quote.\nWe offer affordable group health insurance and employee benefits plans in the city of Nixa and across the country. As an insurance broker, we have access to a wide range of products which gives you various options to choose from. We have a wide knowledge base and expertise which will ensure that your specific business and employee needs are covered. We offer Cobra administration through a 3rd party administrator if your company needs it. At every yearly renewal, we shop for your employee benefits plan to ensure that your carriers are still competitive.\nGet in touch with us today to get started on your group health insurance and employee benefits plan or to switch to our plans. Dial 800-903-6066 to speak to one of our agents now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.taylorvillememorial.org/About/News/post/taylorville-memorial-hospital-foundation-welcomes-three-new-board-members-elects-officers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFNY56TB47IMQMYDC2F4SVLHZJKIJ2HX", "length": 2591, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.taylorvillememorial.org", "title": "Taylorville Memorial Hospital Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members, Elects Officers", "raw_content": "Taylorville Memorial Hospital Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members, Elects Officers\nThe Taylorville Memorial Hospital Foundation welcomed three new board members and elected new officers at a recent meeting of its board of directors.\nBoard members also recognized the contributions of three retiring board members \u2013 Roger Hickman, Meg Kettelkamp and D.J. Kennedy \u2013 with a combined 18 years of leadership and dedication to the nonprofit hospital\u2019s foundation.\n\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the dedicated service each of these board members has provided to improving the health of the people and communities we serve,\u201d said Raedena Ryan, executive director of the foundation. That service included being part of the Bringing the Best to You Capital Campaign, which raised more than $1.3 million to improve the hospital\u2019s facilities with the addition of the Outpatient Services Center.\nThe new board members are Nancy Handegan, Melisa Livingston and Billy Williams.\nNancy Handegan is from Taylorville. She is an attorney with offices in Decatur, where she works in the areas of estate planning, business representation and real estate. She is the owner of First Illinois Title Group, LLC, a land title company with offices in Decatur and Shelbyville. She serves on the Christian County Farm Bureau board of directors and is legal counsel for Shadow Home, a women\u2019s shelter in Taylorville. Handegan and her husband, Jerry, have two children: Nathan and Veronica.\nMelisa Livingston, a Taylorville native, serves as a substitute teacher for Taylorville Community Unit School District 3, primarily in junior high and high school. She is on the board for Taylorville Youth Basketball. She previously served on the board of the Christian County YMCA and is a longtime volunteer for Vision Way Christian School. She and her husband, Jon, have three sons: Grant, Nick and Jack.\nBilly Williams, a lifelong Taylorville resident, is co-owner and president of Computer Techniques Inc., a local technology company known as CTI. He founded CTI in 1998 with business partner Adam Vocks and has been a part of Taylorville\u2019s business community for 18 years. He and his wife, Pamela, have one daughter, Megan.\nNew officers elected are Shelly Cappellin, president; Scott McClure, vice president; Gloria Brummer, secretary; Mike Blakeman, treasurer; and Eric Kahle, immediate past president.\nThe Taylorville Memorial Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit, incorporated as a 501(c)3 and organized in 1995, and supports Taylorville Memorial Hospital\u2019s mission to improve the health of the people and communities it serves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tba.org/news/former-state-sen-joe-haynes-dies-at-81", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TATV67Q4MRTRMGCSE6KV5MKC3FXUYN7W", "length": 457, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tba.org", "title": "Former State Sen. Joe Haynes Dies at 81 | Tennessee Bar Association", "raw_content": "Former State Sen. Joe Haynes Dies at 81\nFormer Democratic state Sen. Joe Haynes died today, The Tennessean reports. He was 81. Haynes, an attorney, served nearly three decades in the Tennessee legislature before his retirement in 2012. He then returned to private practice as an attorney with Haynes, Freeman and Bracey. Last year, Haynes was indicted on one charge of sexual battery. He pleaded not guilty and was awaiting the start of the trial this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 6672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 154.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tbr.edu/node/29470", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:20Z", "digest": "sha1:FAAXDCIDOU5NBMCAHCSXVJ5HW7KZNRJK", "length": 5231, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.tbr.edu", "title": "Washington Monthly names TBR Vice Chancellor Tristan Denley one of \"The Sixteen Most Innovative People in Higher Education\" | Tennessee Board of Regents", "raw_content": "Washington Monthly names TBR Vice Chancellor Tristan Denley one of \"The Sixteen Most Innovative People in Higher Education\"\nDr. Tristan Denley, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Tennessee Board of Regents, has been named one of \u201cThe Sixteen Most Innovative People in Higher Education\u201d by the Washington Monthly, a respected independent magazine that focuses on improving government and public institutions.\nThe article in the magazine\u2019s new September edition cites Denley\u2019s innovative work transforming how Tennessee\u2019s community colleges provide remedial education in ways that significantly improved student success and is more cost effective. The \u201cco-requisite remediation\u201d model championed by Denley allows students requiring remediation to take credit-bearing classes while receiving needed learning support. Previously, students had to complete non-credit remedial courses before enrolling in credit-bearing classes in the same subjects. Earning credits toward graduation earlier has proven a powerful incentive to remain in school.\n\u201cTennessee has become a national leader in improving remediation\u2026and Denley has had a lot to do with it,\u201d the Washington Monthly article says. It traces his work on the subject to his years as provost at Austin Peay State University. After success with the APSU experiment, Denley later, as vice chancellor for academic affairs at TBR, helped apply the new approach across Tennessee\u2019s system of 13 community colleges.\nThe Board of Regents launched its co-requisite pilot program in 2014 with about 2,000 community college students. \"The results were so staggering that the very next year, the model was implemented at every community college in the state, for every student in remediation. The expansion has been a wild success,\u201d the article said, citing the results: \u201cIn its first year, 51 percent of co-requisite math students passed their credit-bearing math class in the fall semester \u2014 compared to the 12 percent who previously managed that in a full year. In English, the 30 percent number leapt to nearly 60 percent. In fact, more students are now completing credit-bearing classes than previously completed just the remedial courses.\n\u201cTo Denley, that\u2019s powerful proof of the role students\u2019 mind-set plays in their success or failure. The failure of the old model may have a lot to do with the fact that it told students they didn\u2019t belong at college\u2014and they believed it,\u201d Washington Monthly concluded.\nDenley is the only official of a statewide university system administration, and the only Tennessean, on the magazine\u2019s list. Others cited include administrators and educators at individual colleges and universities \u2013 including Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia \u2013 and at national foundations and research and advocacy organizations such as Achieving the Dream, University Innovation Alliance, College Advising Corps and New America.\nThe magazine said that it created the list in order to \"empower those still struggling to create change\" by publicizing the work \"of those who are already succeeding.\" It said the list isn't a ranking nor exhaustive but \"a snapshot of the various overlapping ways in which creative, passionate people around the country are working to make higher education more accessible, affordable and effective.\"\nDenley shared the recognition with faculty and staff across the TBR system who have helped implement the co-requisite model. \u201cThe article describes some wonderful work that is happening nationally. It is an honor to be chosen as part of this group. Certainly, none of the innovation across the Tennessee Board of Regents would be possible without the tremendously hard work of our faculty and staff,\u201d he said after the article\u2019s publication online Monday.\nTBR Chancellor David Gregory noted that the Washington Monthly article is the second national recognition Denley has received just this summer. In July, the National Federation of the Blind awarded Denley its highest honor, the Newel Perry Award for 2016, for his work in making accessibility for all students a priority in Tennessee higher education.\n\u201cDr. Denley deserves to be on anybody\u2019s list of the most effective innovators in higher education and we at the Tennessee Board of Regents couldn\u2019t be prouder of his recognition by Washington Monthly,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cThe article cites his work on transforming remediation but he\u2019s also a national leader in other student success innovations, including \u2018guided pathways\u2019 and \u2018purpose first\u2019 initiatives that that help students choose their degree programs earlier, dramatically improving their chances of graduating, and the revitalization of gateway courses with new ways of teaching.\u201d\nThe Community College Research Center at Columbia University reported in April that co-requisite remediation is significantly more cost effective, cutting in half the cost to get a student through the first college-level math class, from $7,720 to $3,840. The cost for writing classes was cut 11 percent, from $3,750 to $3,350.\n\u2022 More information on Tennessee's co-remediation model: https://www.tbr.edu/news/transforming-remedial-programs-dramatic-gains-s...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 8102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/st-lucie-county/reader-submitted/2017/07/20/watch-crosstown-construction-live-new-earthcam/495517001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QZPBGTCRKW366KTZJRL4BY7SEBVV523J", "length": 2761, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.tcpalm.com", "title": "Watch Crosstown construction live on new EarthCam", "raw_content": "The City of Port St. Lucie is pleased to announce the addition of EarthCam on the Crosstown Parkway Extension Project, providing real-time video streaming of construction for the new bridge.\nWatch Crosstown construction live on new EarthCam The City of Port St. Lucie is pleased to announce the addition of EarthCam on the Crosstown Parkway Extension Project, providing real-time video streaming of construction for the new bridge. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/st-lucie-county/reader-submitted/2017/07/20/watch-crosstown-construction-live-new-earthcam/495517001/\nSarah Prohaska, YourNews contributor Published 11:26 a.m. ET July 20, 2017\nPORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Residents can watch the construction of the Crosstown Parkway Extension project live on Port St. Lucie's EarthCam.\nView the EarthCam's real-time video streaming of construction for the new bridge at http://crosstownextension.com. The public has 24/7 access to activities on the highly-anticipated project that will provide the City\u2019s third bridge crossing of the North Fork of the St. Lucie River.\n\u201cAdding EarthCam allows residents to get a birds' eye view of this historic construction project,\u201d said Port St. Lucie City Manager Russ Blackburn. \u201cThe Crosstown Parkway Extension Project will change our city for the better and this advanced technology will allow the community to be a part of it.\u201d\nIn response to intense public interest in the bridge and to chronicle its construction for future generations, the City Council agreed to incorporate EarthCam into the project.\nThe new bridge will connect the existing Crosstown Parkway with U.S. Highway 1 at Village Green Drive. The project will provide numerous benefits to the community, including relieving traffic congestion and providing a new emergency evacuation route.\nThe EarthCam was placed atop a 52-foot pole at the construction site using a hydraulic lift. Viewers can watch live, up-to-the-minute construction activities including pile driving and temporary trestle installation.\nA final, full time-lapse video of the entire construction process will be compiled at project completion, in fall 2019.\nThe project will provide a six-lane divided highway and bridge that will serve as a multi-modal transportation alternative.\nFor more information, contact Beth Zsoka, Crosstown Parkway Extension Project Public Information Officer, at beth.zsoka@qcausa.com or 772 871-5176 or Sarah Prohaska, City of Port St. Lucie Public Information Officer, at sprohaska@cityofpsl.com or 772 873-6326.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/st-lucie-county/reader-submitted/2017/07/20/watch-crosstown-construction-live-new-earthcam/495517001/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110927/09480916110/can-nypd-back-up-its-claim-confrontation-that-required-pepper-spray-despite-more-video-evidence.shtml?cid=566", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WNPZSB3E7I2QNAG6TAKTIXJQYEUBW7MY", "length": 4290, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.techdirt.com", "title": "Can The NYPD Back Up Its Claim Of A Confrontation That Required Pepper Spray, Despite More Video Evidence? | Techdirt", "raw_content": "Monsanto Wins Patent Dispute Against Farmer Who Bought Legal Seeds\nUS, EU, Canada, Japan, Australia & Others To Sign ACTA This Weekend, Despite Legal Concerns\nCan The NYPD Back Up Its Claim Of A Confrontation That Required Pepper Spray, Despite More Video Evidence?\nfrom the keep-the-videos-running dept\nYesterday we wrote about the NYPD claiming that the video evidence of a police officer, now identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, pepper spraying a group of women shows that it was done appropriately. The specific claim from NYPD spokesperson Paul Browne was that \"Pepper spray was used once after individuals confronted officers and tried to prevent them from deploying a mesh barrier -- something that was edited out or otherwise not captured in the video.\"\nThe problem, of course, is that the video evidence suggests no such thing, and with more videos taken by other people at the same time and place indicating no such editing or confrontation, it's increasingly clear that the NYPD's Paul Browne lied to the press, and falsely accused folks of editing out a confrontation that does not appear to have happened.\nThe US Law blog, which has been at the forefront of covering this particular story, has linked to another video at the same place (at about 5:45 in the video). While the person taking the video is turned away from the pepper spray at the moment it happens, you can see as she walks through the women just before it happens (in fact, you can see this same person in the original video passing right behind the pepper sprayed women, seconds before it happens).\nAdd to that another video that actually pulls together two perspectives of the incident, which you can see below:\nAnd, finally, we have a 4th view of the events surrounding the incident, immediately prior to the pepper spraying. From these multiple videos at multiple angles, two things are abundantly clear: contrary to the claims of the NYPD, nothing was edited out of the first video and while there was lots of screaming, the women who were sprayed do not appear to have \"confronted the officers and tried to prevent them from deploying a mesh barrier\" at all. Some others may have done so, but not the women being sprayed. Instead, as originally alleged, it appears that the spraying was entirely arbitrary.\nFurthermore, as pointed out on the US Law Blog link above:\nHaving approached the immediate area from some distance away, it is difficult to understand how the Deputy Inspector could have had any instant awareness of what, if any, confrontation may have been happening at that time and place. The officer does not appear to take adequate time to assess whether the handfull of people in the immediate vicintiy were obeying police orders. In fact, his approach with outstretched arm and the surprised reaction of the blue shirted officers suggest he may have made the decision to release pepper spray in advance of his arrival at the immediate location of it's deployment.\nFurthermore, they note that the NYPD rules say that pepper spray may be used if \"it is necessary to effect an arrest of a resisting suspect.\" And yet, after pepper spraying the women, no arrests were made (some of the people sprayed were arrested later, at different locations for different reasons). It appears that even if there was a confrontation, which there does not appear to be, involving these women, the use of pepper spray was inappropriate.\nOnce again, what fascinates me about all of this is all of this video evidence, and the value in showing that the \"official story\" from the police is almost certainly false. I'm curious as to how long the NYPD will keep up the charade of pretending its version is accurate.\nFiled Under: anthony bologna, evidence, nypd, occupy wall street\n\"maybe the cops were afraid of the trim-haired Wiccan in the prairie skirt. Maybe she was about to cast a spell on their asses, so they had to act\"\nthats a good point, i need a better view of her hands\n\"I believe the barrier is not to keep them in, but instead to designate the \"protest area.\"\"\nso your telling me these girls were standing in the protest area? As in they were standing around shouting in the place designated for standing around and shouting? Oh well in that case i can see where the cops are coming from...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.technologydecisions.com.au/content/cloud-and-virtualisation/article/to-protect-us-from-the-risks-of-advanced-artificial-intelligence-we-need-to-act-now-548534685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:LQSSJAPD646MEEY6CQEBBRQDVDAJKS7Y", "length": 2912, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.technologydecisions.com.au", "title": "To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now", "raw_content": "By Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast; Peter Hancock, University of Central Florida, and Tony Carden, University of the Sunshine Coast\nArtificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind\u2019s AlphaGo, Tesla\u2019s self-driving vehicles, and IBM\u2019s Watson.\nBut while many impressive capabilities have been demonstrated, we\u2019re also beginning to see problems. The worst case involved a self-driving test car that hit a pedestrian in March. The pedestrian died and the incident is still under investigation.\nArtificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have advanced computational powers and human level intelligence. AGI systems will be able to learn, solve problems, adapt and self-improve. They will even do tasks beyond those they were designed for.\nWhat appears almost certain is that they will arrive eventually. When they do, there is a great and natural concern that we won\u2019t be able to control them.\nThere is no doubt that AGI systems could transform humanity. Some of the more powerful applications include curing disease, solving complex global challenges such as climate change and food security, and initiating a worldwide technology boom.\nDespite what we see in Hollywood movies, existential threats are not likely to involve killer robots. The problem will not be one of malevolence, but rather one of intelligence, writes MIT professor Max Tegmark in his 2017 book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.\nIt is here that the science of human-machine systems \u2013 known as Human Factors and Ergonomics \u2013 will come to the fore. Risks will emerge from the fact that super-intelligent systems will identify more efficient ways of doing things, concoct their own strategies for achieving goals, and even develop goals of their own.\nMany controls on human behaviour rely on our consciousness, our emotions, and the application of our moral values. AGIs won\u2019t need any of these attributes to cause us harm. Current forms of control are not enough.\nthe controls that need to be built into the AGIs themselves, such as \u201ccommon sense\u201d, morals, operating procedures, decision-rules, and so on\nFor example, it\u2019s possible to model the controls that exist in a particular system, to model the likely behaviour of AGI systems within this control structure, and identify safety risks.\nEven the high-profile tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has warned of the \u201cexistential crisis\u201d humanity faces from advanced AI and has spoken about the need to regulate AI before it\u2019s too late.\nAt the same time, a business-as-usual approach in which we play catch-up with rapid technological advances could contribute to the extinction of the human race. The ball is in our court, but it won\u2019t be for much longer.\nImage credit: \u00a9stock.adobe.com/au/peshkova\nA successful cloud-first strategy requires a measured approach and a customer-centric focus, says...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 10019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/22807-ati-misses-sales-mark-by-140-million-due-to-intel-chipsets.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YM7AB5DJSKSJQCZ5BA4F7RZJ3WY2XOTW", "length": 1255, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.techspot.com", "title": "ATI misses sales mark by $140 Million due to Intel chipsets - TechSpot", "raw_content": "ATI misses sales mark by $140 Million due to Intel chipsets\nDoubtless as partly fallout from their merger with AMD, ATI's sales of chipsets for Intel CPUs have fallen dramatically. With original expectations of up to $660 Million for Q4 sales, it seems that they'll miss that mark by a huge margin of $140 Million. While this obviously hurts them and their investors, they see it as only a temporary setback:\nThe anticipated revenue shortfall is due primarily to lower sales volumes of integrated chipsets for Intel-based platforms, the company explained. In addition, handheld revenue was lower than expected, reflecting a supply chain adjustment by one of ATI\u2019s major customers. \u201cWe believe this adjustment is temporary in nature and should not have a long-term impact on revenue,\u201d\nThey also mentioned that they predicted this decline in sales for Intel chipsets, but that it came sooner than they had planned. It just goes to show how fickle the market can be, considering the merger is a long ways from being over.\nSpotify hits 83 million paid subscribers, 180 million monthly active users\nQualcomm settles $774 million Taiwan antitrust suit, reducing fine to $93 million\nA man is suing AT&T for $224 million over a $24 million theft of cryptocurrency", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tellows.com/num/2562092209", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WAM4K2RT5QRLBUWT63RKSV5B3PVOB2TK", "length": 211, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tellows.com", "title": "Who calls from 2562092209 Alabama - Huntsville,North Alabama ? | Phone number score: 5 - +12562092209 tellows", "raw_content": "Last day I got a call. I was not at home...\nThe caller left no message. I tried to r...\nThe phone number 2565256 was rated with a score of 9 on Nov 25, 2013 7:54:44 AM\nI received a call. The caller ask me som...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 152.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tetramap.com/facilitator/faye-mcdonnell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6FCPBGOKQ4XZRMAUILEROZVRG3MTRU7E", "length": 271, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tetramap.com", "title": "Faye McDonnell | Faye McDonnell \u2013 Tetramap", "raw_content": "Faye McDonnell\nI am a highly experienced Team Leader with a strong managerial background in retail with several high profile companies. I have worked for companies who have undergone significant changes and I have successfully led and managed teams through these changes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thaistonepark.org/en.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:22Z", "digest": "sha1:KUYMQWEGOECMWHHFZCLDEXSSFO7FKZJN", "length": 435, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thaistonepark.org", "title": "The Million Years Stone Park & Pattaya Crocodile Farm", "raw_content": "Located on an over-70-acre piece of land just 15 minutes' drive from Pattaya, this Park & Farm is a new striking tourist attraction created with more than 20 years' efforts, for all nature lovers.\nIt contains much more than what its name suggests. It is not only a living museum of curious and beautiful things of all the three kingdoms-animal, vegetable and mineral, but it also offers you several kinds of amusing and exciting shows.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thantakit.com/why-you-should-get-rid-of-your-amalgam-fillings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:VH4OA6S3KXSKA4FY3BZSREAV4YSZ4357", "length": 13100, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.thantakit.com", "title": "Why You Should Get Rid of Your Amalgam Fillings", "raw_content": "Why You Should Get Rid of Your Amalgam Fillings\nDental amalgam is something typically used for filling cavities. They\u2019re also known as silver fillings and they work effectively in sealing cavities before they could get worse. However, as dental research advanced and as the years pass by, people have grown concerned in the use of amalgam fillings because of its alleged downsides. To be more specific, dental amalgam is known to contain mercury. However, this does raise the questions of why it took so long for people to figure this out and why they were willing to use mercury for teeth filling for one and a half centuries.\nWhy Does Dental Amalgam Contain Mercury in the First Place?\nFor 150 years (or more) and for more than hundreds of millions of patients around the globe, mercury-filled dental amalgam has been used as teeth caries or cavities filling in order to stave off tooth decay. With that in mind, why would amalgam fillings have mercury in them in the first place even though mercury is a dangerous substance?\nAmalgam Composition: A mixture of metals including powdered copper, tin, silver, and liquid (elemental) mercury is used for amalgam dental filling, with about 50 percent of it being mercury by weight. In other words, more often than not, the amalgam on your teeth is composed of mercury since mercury is what binds and amalgamates powdered alloy together into cohesive fast-drying putty.\nLow Dose Harmlessness: Even though mercury is poisonous, if it remains solid in filling form it won\u2019t poison you. It also won\u2019t harm you in low levels (although high levels of mercury poisoning can lead to adverse effects in the brain and kidneys). However, tests reveal that the filling isn\u2019t as harmless or inert as previously believed in the past. Then again, the amounts released are so miniscule you\u2019re more likely to end up with mercury poisoning from eating a lot of fish.\nAmalgamation or Bonding Properties: What\u2019s more, mercury is necessary in order to bind the disparate elements of tin, copper, and silver alloy together, forming a solid amalgamation that you can depend on. The bonded alloy particles are solid, durable, and strong, mostly thanks to the presence of mercury. This makes it an important component of all dental amalgam that makes the technique more durable.\nSilver Fillings and Silver Lining: It\u2019s also known as silver fillings because of its silvery appearance. However, don\u2019t let the name fool you. It\u2019s mostly composed of mercury and it probably shares half of the composition with tin and copper. The silver lining here is that some amalgams do have silver in them. It\u2019s also arguably stronger than the average tooth enamel or outer shell.\nAmalgam Methodology and Application\nDental amalgam treatment requires the dentist to drill the tooth first to remove the decay. He then shapes the cavity for easier placement of the amalgam putty. Afterwards, with appropriate safety conditions, the dentist mixes liquid mercury with powered alloy to create the putty itself. The components are provided to him in capsule form.\nThe dentist can\u2019t have the amalgam fillings putty already premixed. He needs to mix them up so that they\u2019d be malleable, then let them dry on the tooth itself (just like how cement comes in powder form requires mixing with sand and water).\nAfter the putty is put into the cavity, it rapidly hardens into a solid filling that\u2019s arguably even harder than the teeth, it\u2019s supposed to protect since it\u2019s made of alloys instead of enamel. This is in stark contrast to resin composite filling that\u2019s teeth-colored and is about as chitinous (shell-like) as the outer shell of your tooth.\nPotential Risks of Amalgam Usage Nowadays\nDental amalgam has mercury in it. While in the past (when this procedure was much more common and alternatives like tooth-colored chitinous filling weren\u2019t available) it was believed to be inert once it has solidified, studies have shown that this is not the case.\nLow Levels of Mercury Absorption: To be clear, any amount of mercury absorption is enough to cause alarm to anyone. Dental amalgam contains elemental mercury. Microscopic amounts of it are released from even hardened amalgam filling in the form of vapor. Someone with amalgam fillings might end up inhaling the dangerous substance, which isn\u2019t easily removed from the body. High levels of mercury vapor exposure over time can cause adverse effects on your kidneys and brain that might be irreversible.\nIndeed, mercury poisoning at high dosages can even lead to complications such as trouble seeing, trouble hearing, trouble speaking, memory problems, skin rashes, numbness in the feet and hands, poor coordination, and muscle weakness. On one hand, amalgam usage hasn\u2019t been outright banned for good reason. When you measure mercury content from amalgam vapor inhalation, it\u2019s so miniscule that it shouldn\u2019t lead to fatal over-dosage. On the other hand, concerned anti-amalgam activists insist that the practice should be stopped and all amalgam fillings should be replaced with tooth-colored ones immediately.\nThe FDA\u2019s Take on Mercury Found in Dental Amalgam: Back in 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA evaluated the many studies done on these fillings regarding how safe they truly are. Ultimately, the FDA found no reason to limit or ban amalgam usage in light of how miniscule the amount of mercury vapor found in tiny amalgam fillings. They concluded it\u2019s safe for adults and children (aged 6 years and above). There are no links between health problems and amalgam fillings. Many people are still removing their dental amalgam since it\u2019s better to be safe than to be sorry.\nA new review is underway because many groups remain unconvinced of the safety of amalgamation of metals with mercury for dental filling purposes. Whether you agree with the FDA\u2019s findings or not is up to you and there are indeed those who rather be safe than be sorry and have hired dentists to remove the amalgam filling from their teeth. The mere fact that removal of the filling requires loads of safety measures makes many a patient suspicious about the safeness of these so-called \u201cinert\u201d metal fillings in the first place.\nBioaccumulation Concerns: If you\u2019re wondering what all these people are worried about regarding mercury in amalgam fillings, then you should learn more about bioaccumulation. To be more specific, bioaccumulation refers to steadily increasing concentration of a chemical through the buildup in tissues or organs of the body. This is certainly the case with lead in lead paint or asbestos used in old buildings for fireproofing. What concerned people, particularly parents, fear from dental amalgam is future poisoning and damage of them and their loved ones.\nAside from mercury vapors from amalgam fillings, people also worry about mercury found in fish (although it\u2019s a different type of mercury and instead affects the digestive tract). All mercury is bioaccumulative. The studies conducted on dental amalgam (that the FDA waved off as not enough proof of amalgam harmfulness) show that the fillings expose the body to mercury vapor that builds up in certain tissues such as the brain and kidney, If you add that mercury with the mercury you can get from fish, that could lead to minor damage to the targeted organs (despite the FDA\u2019s claims to the contrary)\nPregnancy and Amalgam Fillings: Concerned mothers-to-be are also looking into getting their old amalgam or silver fillings replaced with something safer for the sake of safeguarding the healthiness of their child. However, according to research, the connection between dental amalgam and health effects on pregnant women are nonexistent. There\u2019s still some cause of concern because it\u2019s also a fact that mercury can cross the placenta and affect the developing baby. There\u2019s a risk involved that many parents aren\u2019t willing to take.\nMany dentists advise pregnant women to avoid dental care that isn\u2019t necessary. It\u2019s only common sense to not get dental amalgam while pregnant. It\u2019s instead recommended that these pregnant women use other filling material to cement or cover up any cavities in their teeth that require fixing. There are also studies that suggest the neurotoxic effects of mercury vapor, however miniscule they\u2019re claimed to be, can have a bigger effect on the still developing neurological systems of fetuses and young children.\nBreast Milk and Mercury Vapors: Could it be possible that mercury from a mother\u2019s amalgam could end up inside her baby by breastfeeding? There\u2019s little to no clinical data regarding the health outcomes of children under 6 years old (including infants) that are breastfed. If you\u2019re a concerned parent when it comes to the dangers of mercury poisoning and how it could transfer to your baby through breastfeeding, you should consult your dentist for more details. You can decide about removal or non-removal according to the facts presented.\nEven though there\u2019s limited info on this, healthcare professionals tend to err on the side of caution. What this means is that if there\u2019s a risk, they would rather not take that risk and prevent the mother from nursing their child with their own breast milk until the amalgam fillings are removed and replaced. For those who choose to keep their amalgam, rest assured that FDA findings support your choice and the estimated amount of mercury in breast milk coming from dental amalgam is so miniscule and far below the levels for oral intake according to the EPA or Environmental Protection Agency.\nAllergic Reactions: Some people have allergic reactions to amalgam. However, this is rare. These individuals are usually hypersensitive to even miniscule amounts of mercury. According to the ADA or American Dental Association, fewer than 100 cases of this allergy type have ever been reported. Amalgam-allergic people can receive other alternative filling materials that are less dangerous. This allergy can also occur from all the other ingredients that make up the amalgam in the first place.\nRemember, amalgam fillings are composed of tin, copper, and silver that\u2019s been turned into powder. The potential symptoms of allergy include contract reactions such as oral lesions or swelling. They might get other symptoms depending on the severity of their amalgam sensitivity, such as swelling (of the face, eyes, tongue, or lips), hives, wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, shortness of breath, itchiness and redness of the eyes, watery eyes, sneezing, and a runny nose. If you\u2019re suffering from allergy symptoms, consult your dentist for an alternative filling treatment.\nAmalgam Mercury versus Fish Mercury: The mercury found in dental amalgam is not the same as the mercury found in certain species of fish. There are many different chemical forms of mercury. They include the following.\nInorganic Mercury: This type of mercury is a compound that\u2019s formed when elemental mercury combines with other elements such as oxygen or sulfur. It typically forms compounds like salts and it can occur naturally in the environment.\nOrganic Mercury or Methylmercury: This is the type of mercury that can be found from fish. It\u2019s an organic type of mercury and the opposite of inorganic mercury. This mercury type usually accumulates in your digestive tract after excessive fish consumption.\nElemental or Metallic Mercury: The form of mercury associated with dental amalgam. This mercury is released in the form of vapor. Mercury vapor is typically absorbed by your lungs.\nThe body has different levels of tolerance for methylmercury and mercury vapor from elemental mercury found in dental amalgam. It also processes these various mercury forms in different ways.\nWhen removing amalgam, you need a skilled dentist trained in observing the Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique or SMART. Mercury is released during placement, replacement, and removal of the amalgam, so you require the skills of an expert for the job. It typically involves the following:\nKeeping the fillings cool during removal.\nCutting the amalgam into small chunks.\nUsing a high-volume evacuator.\nUsing a rubber dam.\nUsing activated charcoal.\nPurifying the dentist office\u2019s air.\nProviding an alternative air source to the patient.\nDoing immediate cleanup.\nOffering additional air purification.\nThe controversy regarding amalgam fillings technology roots from its usage of mercury and how much mercury is released from the filling that the body can end up absorbing. Contrary to popular belief in the past, amalgam filling is not inert or it does release more mercury than previously believed.\nWe now know that miniscule amounts of mercury are released from amalgam fillings in the form of vapor, which can accumulate on your lungs or cause damage to your brain and kidneys. This is the reason why more and more dentists are switching to the safer resin composite putty to fill in dental caries and cavities instead of the old amalgam method. At least the new type of dental filling putty isn\u2019t prone to potential poisoning.\n\u2190 What Are the Best Laser Teeth Whitening Methods? What Is the Best Loose Tooth Treatment? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 17760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/qa-from-fda-to-industry-32800", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:NP75VCMVNORA4IM7NFJP3JGR72NPZX6G", "length": 7570, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.the-scientist.com", "title": "Q&A: From FDA to Industry | The Scientist Magazine\u00ae", "raw_content": "Q&A: From FDA to Industry\nAmong a subset of US Food and Drug Administration regulators who leave the agency, more than half go to work for pharmaceutical companies, researchers report.\nVINAY PRASADMedical reviewers at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decide which drugs make it to market. An analysis of 55 FDA reviewers who approved blood and cancer drugs between 2006 and 2010 found that a substantial number of these individuals went on to work for the industry they were previously regulating.\nVinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) who coauthored the study with OHSU medical resident Jeffrey Bien, said the results are concerning. Given the possibility of career advancement by moving to industry, Prasad said, \u201cit may make you more likely to want to be agreeable, to get along, to move things through.\u201d\nPrasad and Bien\u2019s analysis, published in The BMJ today (September 27), found no impropriety. In an email to The Scientist, an FDA spokesperson said the agency has numerous policies in place to protect against potential conflicts of interest. \u201cFederal laws and FDA ethics rules cover issues like outside employment, avoiding real and apparent conflicts of interest, recusals, disclosure requirements, protecting confidentiality, a ban on gifts from regulated industry, and avoiding conflicts should a federal employee choose to seek or negotiate outside employment.\u201d Additionally, senior officials can\u2019t go straight from the FDA to an industry job, but have to wait for a certain period.\nThe Scientist spoke with Prasad about his study.\nThe Scientist: What did you find in your analysis of former FDA reviewers\u2019 subsequent employment?\nVinay Prasad: Using the publicly available medical reviews, which are published only for the drugs that are approved\u2014we don\u2019t have data for drugs that are unapproved, and, in fact, those are considered proprietary information\u2014we still nevertheless could find 55 people who were medical reviewers within a decade at the FDA. We followed them out into the future and we asked, \u2018Where are they now?\u2019\nAbout half of the people are still at the FDA. But about half of the people left the FDA. And if you left the FDA, there\u2019s a good chunk of people, [around] 30 percent, who we really just don\u2019t know where they are right now. But 57.7 percent of them we can show they either consult for the drug industry or they work for the drug industry.\nTS: What do you make of these results?\nVP: I think they\u2019re cause for concern. I think the concern is a nuanced concern. Somebody said [to me], \u2018Do you think that the people leaving are colluding with the drug company and planning with them before they leave?\u2019 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s happening. Maybe that\u2019s a bit paranoid.\nBut what I think is happening is we are all ultimately human beings and we are all susceptible to the same implicit biases. [FDA reviewers] frequently have phone calls with people from the industry. They frequently have meetings with people from the industry whose applications they are reviewing. There\u2019s a lot of personal contact. And when you\u2019re having this personal contact and you\u2019re reviewing this application and somewhere in the back of your mind you know that, hey, if you ever want career advancement, better salary, to move on from the FDA, you may be working for this or another company. I think it may play a role in your decision-making. It may make you more likely to want to be agreeable, to get along, to move things through.\n[You may be] less likely to really put your foot down, to be a stickler for some detail, to be perceived as a tough regulator. There are regulators who do make the news because they are vocal critics of one drug or another. The fact that if 60 percent of people are going to work for the industry, you may stifle that. Even it\u2019s not like a conscious stifling, even subconsciously you may want to get along a little bit better. And I think that\u2019s what I worry about.\nTS: Is being a reviewer thought of as a stepping stone to a career as an industry executive?\nVP: Anecdotally, those of us who follow this field, we know people who . . . think of going to the FDA or go to the FDA with the idea that they\u2019re going to use it to leverage an industry career. But again, here we don\u2019t know to what extent that happens. I would agree with you that I would not be surprised if at least some people went in with that idea.\nI\u2019ll also say I\u2019m very sympathetic with people who do go to industry. Because, let\u2019s look at what we\u2019re talking about: we looked at their degree status. Most of these people are providers. They\u2019re a registered nurse or the vast majority are physicians. And a lot of them had advanced training in oncology, so these are doctors who a lot of them could go into practice and treat patients with cancer. They could make salaries maybe double what they\u2019re making at the FDA. If they wanted to they could go to the industry, and that\u2019s probably why they go to the industry, their salaries are much better.\nThe last thing I would say is, how much career advancement can there be at the FDA when there are only a few really top positions? . . . I see why people do leave. I don\u2019t blame them for wanting to leave. But we need to recognize that this is happening and at a fairly frequent rate.\nTS: What should be done about potential conflicts of interest at the FDA?\nVP: There\u2019s going to be no easy fix. But there are probably a few things that are reasonable. One would be, we should consider some moratorium period. In many careers people are not allowed to take jobs in certain sectors after they leave on job.\nI think a second thing to talk about is we think it\u2019s a good thing for regulators to have greater and greater contact with people in the industry because they can resolve miscommunications, they can all be on the same page. But we should also be open to the idea that there are unintended consequences. It\u2019s much harder to decline [a job] application from somebody you know well than somebody you don\u2019t know at all. . . . Maybe you do want some degree of independence within the agency. Maybe there should be some reviewers who meet with the company but others who don\u2019t meet and provide an independent assessment of drugs.\nTS: Is one solution paying FDA reviewers like they might be paid in medical practice? [Current medical officer positions open at the FDA pay between $87,000 and $113,000 per year. According to Medscape\u2019s 2015 compensation report, oncologists in the U.S. earn an average of $302,000 annually.]\nVP: Yes. I\u2019m a big proponent that we have to pay regulators more. We have to pay them more, like, comparable to what they make in the industry so they have more incentive to stay. They are underpaid. And their job is too important to be underpaid.\nTS: It\u2019s interesting that, in your study sample, you didn\u2019t find many FDA reviewers going into academia.\nVP: It was a tiny sliver. I think we found two. I guess I am a little surprised by that because actually, academia would really benefit from people [with regulatory experience]. I\u2019ll give you a good example is a psychiatrist named Erick Turner, who used to be a reviewer at the FDA and he became faculty here at OHSU and he published a very influential paper in the New England Journal [of Medicine] about unpublished studies. That put unpublished studies on the map. People realized there are all these unpublished studies and actually if you look at them it matters. That\u2019s a great example of somebody taking what he learned at the agency and really putting it to use in academics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 9458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/no-charred-bones-or-animal-fat-the-search-for-a-vegan-tattoo/246936/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UTLLMDOZ52SAI2NIEJYIJGAMNAWKOMGS", "length": 5923, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "No Charred Bones or Animal Fat: The Search for a Vegan Tattoo - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "No Charred Bones or Animal Fat: The Search for a Vegan Tattoo\nFor thousands of years, humans have been using a host of animal byproducts to decorate their bodies, but there are finally alternatives\nAt a party in Midtown a few weeks ago, a friend and I were caught up in the rush of an open bar with name-brand liquor and a buffet table stocked with delicious vegan options. Something about the dizzying lights mixed with being broke among successful entrepreneurs made us feel mischievous and impulsive. Once the discussion turned to our mutual desire to stop being the last people in Brooklyn without tattoos, we made a pledge to impulse-buy some body art on the way home.\nMidtown is not exactly a hotbed of tattoo activity at any time of day, let alone at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday, but that turned out to be the saving grace that prevented me from becoming a hypocrite. As I accidentally discovered online a few days later, getting a tattoo can be about as vegan as having a rib-eye sewn to your arm. The ink and processes at your average shop contain a veritable buffet of animal detritus: charred bones of dead animals in the ink, fat from once-living things in the glycerin that serves as a carrying agent, enzymes taken from caged sheep that go into making the care products.\nI had been off the meat for 10 years before I decided last year to finally go whole-hog (pardon the expression) vegan. Moving to Brooklyn from South Carolina made it significantly easier to maintain a plant-based diet. But, along with vegans, the tattoo-per-capita ratio is much higher in Brooklyn, and there's considerable overlap. Has it always been this way?\nThe first recorded people to get inked are believed to have been in ancient Egypt, somewhere around 2,000 BCE, though recent discoveries suggest it may have been even thousands of years earlier during the Ice Age. The Smithsonian says the first discovered mummies with tattoos were often discarded by excavators as being of \"dubious status\" (punks!), but the marks were probably used as ritualistic amulets to protect births. The instruments used were a bundle of tied-together needles, often made of bone, which is very similar to ones used as late as the 19th century in England.\nFor ink, they used soot, burned wood, or oil, and even a bit of breast milk. One ink recipe attributed to an ancient Roman physician called for wood bark, corroded bronzes, and insect eggs.\nIt wasn't until 1891 that the electric tattooing machine came to market. Other places in the world do tattooing differently: Just a few years ago in Samoa, for example, someone I know got a tattoo done traditional style, meaning with a boar's tooth dipped in ink, a plank of wood to slap it, and no anesthesia besides a warm 40 oz. beer.\nThere are vegan tattoos, but outside veggie hotspots like New York City, Portland, and Los Angeles, they can be hard to find. You might have to ask an artist which products they use and do the research yourself.\nThere are a few places that openly advertise vegan tattoo processes in Brooklyn, where I live, but some people say you can't obtain the same depth of color without all the animal products. Myles Karr, co-owner of Williamsburg's busy Three Kings Tattoo, which has an artist specializing in vegan tattooing, said he thinks the animal-free black ink isn't as solid because it's supposed to be carbon-based, which is where the bone comes in. Vegan alternatives sometimes contain plastic, and some clients balk at having plastic under their skin instead of something organic.\n\"I've never found anything that works as well,\" said Karr, who dabbles in ink-making himself. \"It sucks that you can't live your life completely vegan. Where do you draw the line? It's really difficult to remove all the elements from your life.\" Another shop told me people inquire more about the trendy new black-light ink than vegan ink.\nIn times of ethical crisis like this I turn to my friend J.P. Piteo, a coworker and compendium of cruelty-free esoterica. In addition to being the longest tenured vegan in my quiver (13 years), she's tattooed from ear to ankle. She didn't learn about the ink issue until five years after her first tattoo and well into her vegan career.\n\"In the moment you are permanently decorating yourself with a tattoo, you can also choose how you make an impact on the environment,\" she told me. \"And we all know how pollution works and how it's largely irreversible, just like your new tattoo. That's supposed to be a part of what veganism is about, that big picture.\"\nGristle Tattoo, a new shop in Williamsburg, touts its completely animal-free process. Artist Ashley Thomas uses non-toxic Eternal Ink, which has a plant-based glycerin, and natural after-care products that don't include animal products.\nThomas told me there's no difference in quality; It's all about the skill of the artist applying the tattoo. She went vegan three years ago and then heard from a coworker about the hidden animal products in her inks, and immediately altered her process.\nBut what about the vegans who will eschew Jell-O because it contains tissue from cows and pigs, but go right on with getting animal bones pumped under their skin?\n\"That's sort of something everyone has to come to on their own terms,\" Thomas said. \"Once you find out about it, you really should lead by example. You should be the best example that you can be.\"\nFor some veggies I talked to, it seems the concern is similar to one they have about sugar: most mass-produced sugar is made using a process that includes bone char, making tons of delicious, sweet, and seemingly harmless things decidedly not vegan, or even vegetarian, but devilishly hard to avoid.\nImage: Vegan tattoo by Ashley Thomas of Gristle Tattoo.\nTim Donnelly is the managing editor of Brokelyn.com, a writer for Inc. magazine, and a former McClatchy newspapers reporter. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find him at TimDonnelly.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/08/germany-refugees-arrival-cities-syria/496697/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:EJFGB7ANG7GSBVGXBGWCRGL7KF7SMLNO", "length": 10896, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Germany's Pro-Refugee Urban Planning Experiment - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "Germany's Radical, Pro-Refugee Urban-Planning Experiment\nA look at the country's burgeoning \"arrival cities\"\nAlexis ZanghiCityLab\nMigrants arrive at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin. Markus Schreiber / AP\nHeimat is a German word with no direct translation in English, like schadenfreude, or zeitgeist. It describes the relationship between a person and his built environment, somewhere between the feeling of home and homeland. Since August of 2015, Germany has become home to more than 1.1 million refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. This influx has German architects and urban planners asking the question: \u201cDo we have a refugee crisis on our hands? Or a housing crisis combined with huge challenges to the ability of cities, job markets, and schools to integrate the newcomers?\u201d\nMaking Heimat: Germany, Arrival Country is Germany\u2019s publication for the starchitectural extravaganza that is the 2016 Venice Biennale. Featuring writing from prominent German architects, urban planners, and sociologists, Making Heimat examines how to create immigrant communities in today\u2019s Germany, and builds on the lessons from Doug Saunders\u2019s 2011 book, Arrival City. Published well before the current diaspora to Europe, Arrival City argues that the ad hoc, self-determined neighborhoods that emerge out of mass migrations, termed \u201carrival cities,\u201d are integral to integrating newcomers in their destination country.\nSaunders contributes an essay to Making Heimat. In it, he cautions that arrival cities are \u201cwhere the new creative and commercial class will be born, or where the next wave of tension and violence will erupt.\u201d The difference, he adds \u201cdepends on how we approach these districts both organizationally and politically, and, crucially, in terms of physical structures and built form.\u201d\nThe cities of Hamburg and Berlin have come up with two different approaches to designing arrival cities.\nChances are you\u2019ve been to an arrival city before. The Lower East Side was once one. So was London\u2019s Bethnal Green. In these self-determined cities-within-cities, housing solutions are often organic and improvised\u2014think tenement housing and cold-water flats, with smaller rooms and larger communal spaces. The cost of living is low, and it\u2019s located close to public transportation and economic opportunity. From market stalls to halal butchers to corner kiosks, ethnic entrepreneurship thrives in the arrival city, which becomes the primary point of entry for newly arrived immigrants.\nMost of all, the arrival city is by immigrants, and for immigrants.\nBerlin\u2019s Kreuzberg district was first established as an arrival city in the 1970s by Turkish men who had traveled to West Germany as part of its gastarbeiter (guest worker) program. Initially, these men lived in dormitories, until their employers realized that workers were more productive when they were happy. Guest workers\u2019 families then joined them, and the men moved out of the dorms and into Kreuzberg. Along the Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, the rents were cheap. More importantly, landlords were willing to rent to Turks.\nToday, Kreuzberg is a mix of first-and second-generation holdovers from the 1970s migration, arty Berliners, hipster tourists, and English-speaking expats from the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere. Shabby-chic bars and white cube art galleries push up against kebab houses and hookah lounges. Saunders describes it as having \u201cgone from disreputable to fashionable in a generation.\u201d\nBut for all the cocktails and kebabs, Kreuzberg still plays host to new arrivals in Germany. Its become a ground zero for Berlin\u2019s refugee advocacy movement since asylum seekers occupied a disused school building in 2013. This past weekend, the refugee rights group Women in Exile held a rally there, seeking, among other things, more viable housing solutions for refugees and asylum seekers.\nFrom Kreuzberg to Neuk\u00f6lln\nIn Berlin, the housing process for migrants goes something like this: First, newcomers register and declare their intent to seek asylum at the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, commonly called the LaGeSo. From there, they are assigned to large reception centers, or lagers, which house hundreds to thousands of asylum seekers at a time. The primary lager is located in a hangar at the former Tempelhof airport. (In response to record delays at the central LaGeSo location, the office has recently announced a second location will open on-site at Tempelhof itself.)\nAfter these massive reception centers, refugees and asylum seekers are then relocated to smaller state heims or refugee hostels, while they wait for their claims to be processed.\nCabins are set up inside Hanger 4 of the former airport Tempelhof to be used as a temporary emergency shelter for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber)\nIn an email, Barbara Caveng, a Swiss artist who works with asylum seekers, described life in the heims: \u201cIn this extraordinary living situation you don't have a ordinary \u2018day-by-day\u2019 life.\u201d Asylum seekers go to the doctor and meet with case workers, take language classes, and search for schooling options for their children. Most of all, Caveng says, \u201cThey search for permanent apartments. Everybody is waiting for the delivery of mails [sic]. A letter can decide about your destiny in one second.\u201d\nEventually, some asylum seekers do find a permanent apartment. But this lengthy process, combined with Berlin\u2019s already-crowded and extremely regulated housing market, presents challenges to the inherently organic nature of arrival cities.\nBerlin\u2019s Neuk\u00f6lln neighborhood is just south of Kreuzberg and home to the Tempelhof lager. It\u2019s also host to a project that Making Heimat identifies as a possible housing solution for Berlin and its immigrants. Designed by Praeger Richter architecture and loosely inspired by the work of Chilean architect and Venice Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena, the Neuk\u00f6lln Ausbauhaus incorporates 24 units for living and working. Like Aravena\u2019s \u201cincremental\u201d housing plans, Ausbauhaus occupants can choose among different degrees of completion to their unit. The result is low-cost, high-density housing units that allow for mixed-use\u2014exactly the kind of flexible housing that facilitates the growth of arrival cities. (The Ausbauhaus has since won the 2016 Architekturpreis.)\nFinding Places in Hamburg\nWhile Berlin is a city of neighborhoods, Hamburg is a canal city that is anchored by its central (\u201cMitte\u201d) borough, which boasts High Street and luxury shopping, museums and galleries, bars with 20-euro cocktails, and a Rolls-Royce dealership. It\u2019s also slated to accept 80,000 asylum seekers by the end of 2016.\nAs of April, Hamburg had accommodated 39,000 asylum seekers through a series of emergency measures, ranging from tent cities on its periphery to confiscating commercial property for refugee housing. But the city eventually wants to re-settle refugees evenly throughout its seven boroughs. In Making Heimat, German sociologist Walter Siebel cautions that \u201crefugees in such specially constructed settlements would remain isolated both from Germans and from their integrated compatriots\u201d\u2014a scenario, he adds, \u201cthat might merit the label, \u2018a planned ghetto.\u2019\u201d\nThese concerns are also echoed by newcomers themselves. Anas Aboura, a Syrian activist and organizer who immigrated to Germany in October 2015, hopes for a collaborative approach to resettlement, incorporating mentorships and cultural exchanges. Never without his neon-yellow wayfarer sunglasses, Aboura works with a number of organizations within Hamburg to plan culturally inclusive events like advocacy conferences, refugee movie nights, Arabic karaoke parties, and demonstrations of Syrian urban-gardening techniques. In an interview conducted in his office at the performing arts center Kampnagel, Aboura emphasized the need for culturally sensitive approaches to integration. \u201cOne of the main aims is that I want to show to Germans that our culture is so rich, and people like it so much. Integration works both ways,\u201d Aboura said.\nHamburg\u2019s refugee resettlement approaches have met with criticism from the right, too. In April, residents of Hamburg\u2019s wealthy Blankenese district staged a protest that Der Spiegel described as \u201cegoism with a racist side effect.\u201d Blankenese neighbors used their limousines and yachts to blockade the streets and prevent trees from being cut down to make room for refugee housing. (While protesters maintained that it was all about saving the trees, Speigel pointed out the carbon emissions of maintaining large town cars and even larger boats.)\nA new partnership between Hamburg\u2019s HafenCity University (HfC) and MIT\u2019s CityScienceLab, called FindingPlaces, seeks to bridge these concerns through community input. Residents from each of Hamburg\u2019s seven districts meet for workshops at HfC to identify possible sites for additional housing using data visualization tools and 3-D models of the city. After residents identify potential locations, city officials review them for zoning considerations and environmental concerns.\nMIT\u2019s Kent Larson noted that more than 30 such locations had been vetted and approved by Hamburg\u2019s city government, allowing for 7,000-8,000 out of a target 20,000 units. Larson suggests that FindingPlaces\u2019s collaborative approach allows for better problem-solving. \u201cFor most of these complex urban challenges, you either have well-structured, top-down processes or a bottom-up process, and you rarely have a workable bottom-up process. I believe that the people in the community have the best local knowledge,\u201d Larson said over the phone in July, adding that the workshops circumvent the social \u201cecho chamber\u201d that can emerge around immigration. \u201cThese workshops force people with different viewpoints to come together and meet face-to-face and hopefully develop a better understanding of the values and concerns that they may not have agreed with initially.\u201d\nWhen asked if members of the community included refugees and asylum seekers, Larson concedes that they haven\u2019t been included\u2014yet. But he adds that CityScienceLab hopes to incorporate input from newcomers to Hamburg as the project moves to its next phase, designing the communities themselves. \u201cUltimately what we're looking at with our tools is how to create healthy, high-performance communities, and how do we take advantage of all the systems related to how people live and work\u2026to create places that are much more livable and healthy.\u201d\nA community that collectively and efficiently uses its resources to facilitate growth and inclusion sounds like an arrival city. Through intuitive design, projects like Ausbauhaus and CityScienceLab are working to empower Germany\u2019s newcomers to feel heimat once more.\nAlexis Zanghi is a writer currently based in Minneapolis, focusing on the role of art in public life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 12515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theburydirectory.co.uk/kb5/bury/directory/site.page?id=JQH_sJU90To", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:S74IMTHQJKF7O4M3635RGZWQ4XQNGEP7", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theburydirectory.co.uk", "title": "Cover Your Tracks | The Bury Directory", "raw_content": "Some content to be added here...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 95.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedad.com/screentime-moanas-dad-sucks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PFUP5DR4CKOEAXKAY6YKSBEPRLTDYSN7", "length": 4839, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.thedad.com", "title": "Screentime: Moana's Dad Sucks", "raw_content": "Screentime: Moana\u2019s Dad Sucks\nBy Matt McC\n(Walt Disney Studios Motion pictures)\n\u201cDaddy, this you.\u201d\nMy daughter loves to identify the characters she sees, in books, TV, movies, with counterparts from her real life. She\u2019ll point to a random woman in a picture book and loudly declare, \u201cIt\u2019s Grandma\u201d. There\u2019s an illustration snail she will reliably identify as \u201cMommy\u201d for no discernible reason. In The Cat In The Hat, there\u2019s a crudely sketched portrait of a dude with a huge nose\nEvery time we read the book she points at the damn painting and says \u201cPICTURE OF DADDY\u201d over and over again until I say \u201cYes, that\u2019s a picture of daddy can we please move on?\u201d\nSo it came as no surprise when she held up a figurine of Chief Tui, Moana\u2019s father, and told me \u201cDaddy, this you\u201d. In fact, it made more sense than many of the characters that are \u201cme\u201d. My daughter obviously identifies with Moana and Tui is Moana\u2019s dad. Simple.\nInitially, the comparison seemed favorable. For a start, Tui is a pretty impressive-looking guy. If this is what my kid sees when she looks at me, I\u2019m doing something right. He\u2019s also the Chief of a whole dang island, which looks pretty good on your CV.\nPictured: Me (Left); Other Dads (Right) (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/20th Television)\nBut the more I thought about the movie, the more uncomfortable I was about being linked with Tui in my daughter\u2019s mind. Obviously, there is the fact of his being the main obstacle to Moana exploring the ocean, saving the world and finding herself in the process. But that\u2019s just the start of it!\nMoana is rightly praised for being a female-led film in which the heroine\u2019s victory is her own. No man swoops in to save the day, or to offer a ring. Instead, the men of the film represent the status quo, the facts of the world that Moana must navigate around. It is no accident, therefore, that the two most significant male presences in the film are both authority figures. Tui and Maui are both powerful men, and each can be seen as representing different types of dad. (Stay with me here)\n(Youtube//DisneyMusicVevo)\nMaui\u2019s is less so, but still valid. Maui is the figurative father of humanity. The litany of feats he lists in \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome\u201d demonstrate that without him, human lives would be unrecognizable. Tides, Wind, Land, Fire, Coconuts. All the things Moana and her people treat as givens, he handed to them. In the same sense that Prometheus is the father of humanity in Greek mythology, Maui is father to us all.\nMaybe this is the dude I want to be compared to. Magic, heroic, legendary. Sounds pretty good!\nBut what kind of a father is he? As his song proclaims, he is a heroic one. He has performed incredible, dangerous feats to improve the lives of his children. He is brave and strong, fun and adventurous. But he also solves all his problems in the same way: Brute force.\nHe is also an absent father. His version of fatherhood consists of providing, but not sustaining. As soon as a complication approaches, he runs away.\nHis self-image is so dependent on his heroic victories & his strength that he cannot face the possibility of failure. I don\u2019t want that.\n(Youtube//Nicole Sthefania)\nSo I guess it\u2019s back to Moana\u2019s actual father, Tui. He has a more grounded, less spectacular, approach. He emphasizes tradition, tries to teach responsibility. I can get behind this, I suppose. I mean, kind of boring, but commendable.\nApart from two things. Firstly, he uses the twin swords of Tradition and Responsibility to hem his daughter in, stopping her not only from following her heart, but from coming up with genuine solutions to real problems they both face.\nSecondly, it becomes clear he\u2019s doing this not in order to help his daughter develop or grow, or even because he genuinely thinks its what\u2019s best. He\u2019s just projecting his own fear of the ocean onto her. His talk of tradition is just a cover for his own hang-ups. He doesn\u2019t run away, he just hides behind his value-system!\nI don\u2019t wanna be either of these dudes!\n(YouTube// Ultimate Productions)\nA Girl Who Loves Her Island, A Girl Who Loves The Sea\nIn the end, though, Moana herself doesn\u2019t outright reject either of these flawed father figures. She embraces the Tui\u2019s responsibilities and traditions while rejecting the fears that guided him. She embraces Maui\u2019s bravery and sense of adventure but rejects his fear of failure and his violence. She takes the best of each of them, rejecting their shortcomings, and becomes her own, stronger, person, finding solutions neither of them could ever see. (Obviously, this is also in large part due to the supportive maternal figures in her life, but you knew that.)\nSo I suppose I don\u2019t mind whether my kid sees me as Tui, or Maui, or Heihei. I just hope that she can take the best of me, and use it to forge her own, better, way.\n(YouTube//ArchieBuld)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 18566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-knew-pedophile-priest-took-nude-selfies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TG6GYOMW3H3JJX2527UFVXD3I5AC2NO7", "length": 4906, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.thedailybeast.com", "title": "Pope Francis Knew Pedophile Priest Took Nude Selfies", "raw_content": "Pope Francis Knew Pedophile Priest Took Nude Selfies\nThe Pope was told in 2015 and 2017 about his protege\u2019s perverted behavior but brought him to Rome anyway.\nJavier Corbalan/AP\nPope Francis was apparently told in 2015 and again in 2017 that an Argentine priest he once called his \u201cspiritual son\u201d and elevated to bishop before he became pope had taken naked selfies, exhibited obscene behavior including public masturbation, and had harassed seminarians, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press.\nIn early January the Vatican confirmed that it had just learned that Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, who resides in Vatican City with complete immunity, faces credible criminal allegations in Argentina for sexually abusing seminarians in the remote Argentine diocese of Oran.\nBut Juan Jose Manzano, the former vicar where Zanchetta allegedly carried out the sexual harassment that included sending nude photos of himself in various stages of arousal, told the Associated Press that he first reported Zanchetta\u2019s lewd behavior to the papal nuncio or ambassador to the Holy See, who then delivered the complaints to the Vatican in 2015, two years after Francis was elected.\nThe Vatican spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about the AP report on Sunday. The pope has summoned Catholic leaders to Rome from Feb. 21-24 for a crisis summit to address the systematic global clerical abuse scandal. Revelations like these that imply that the pope himself may have been involved in the cover-up of errant priests will do nothing to set the stage for much-needed change.\nManzano claims he even sent nudie photos of the priest to Rome as proof to back up the complaint. Manzano told the AP that Francis then actually summoned Zanchetta to Rome to discuss the matter, in direct contradiction with the Vatican press office, which claims the news of sexual impropriety on the part of Zanchetta only came to light in late 2018.\n\u201cIn 2015, we just sent a \u2018digital support\u2019 with selfie photos of the previous bishop in obscene or out of place behavior that seemed inappropriate and dangerous,\" Manzano told the AP in face-to-face and email interviews. \u201cIt was an alarm that we made to the Holy See via some friendly bishops. The nunciature didn't intervene directly, but the Holy Father summoned Zanchetta and he justified himself saying that his cellphone had been hacked, and that there were people who were out to damage the image of the pope.\u201d\n\u201cThe Holy Father summoned Zanchetta and he justified himself saying that his cellphone had been hacked, and that there were people who were out to damage the image of the pope.\u201d\n\u2014 Rev. Juan Jose Manzano\nManzano said that Zanchetta returned to Argentina \u201cimproved, to the point that no one even investigated how those photos got to Rome.\u201d\nBut Zanchetta\u2019s good behavior apparently didn\u2019t last long, and Manzano said he again reported Zanchetta to the Vatican in 2017. Zanchetta was apparently summoned to Rome once again and immediately tendered his resignation when he returned to Argentina a short time later.\nAccording to a statement released by the Vatican\u2019s new spokesman Alessandro Gisotti on January 3, complaints about Zanchetta\u2019s apparent bad behavior were new to them.\n\u201cBishop Zanchetta was not removed from the diocese of Or\u00e1n. He was the one who resigned. The reason for his resignation is linked to his difficulty in managing relations with the diocesan clergy and in very tense relations with the priests of the diocese.\u201d\nIt was previously thought that in 2017, Zanchetta left Argentina abruptly and tendered his resignation of his own free will to Francis, who acted on it immediately. Francis created a cushy job for his Argentine compatriot in Rome in 2018 in the division of the Secretariat of the Economy\u2019s property asset division called the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See or APSA.\nManzano\u2019s claims that Francis summoned Zanchetta to Rome in 2017 imply that it was the pope who likely asked Zanchetta to resign, which would fall in line with the timing of events and the speed with which Francis acted on the resignation. (The pope often takes months to act on such resignations.)\nStill, the Vatican claimed that when Francis accepted Zanchetta\u2019s resignation in 2017, no one knew about the sexual abuse claims at all. But if Manzano is to be believed, Francis very well knew and even directly dealt with Zanchetta both in 2015 and again in 2017.\n\u201cAt the time of his resignation there had been accusations of authoritarianism against him, but there had been no accusation of sexual abuse against him,\u201d according to the early January Vatican statement. \u201cThe problem that emerged then was linked to the inability to govern the clergy.\u201d\n\u201cNo charges of sexual abuse had emerged at the time of appointment to [APSA],\u201d Gisotti wrote in his early January statement. \u201cThe accusations of sexual abuse date back to last fall.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedeckstoreonline.com/decking/trex-decking/trex-transcend-decking.html?price=1000-", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NKCLUSZFOC4TTG6G3XAMP6WW7YGOV6CX", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thedeckstoreonline.com", "title": "Trex Transcend Decking | The Deck Store", "raw_content": "Search by Price: $1,000.00 and above", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 621, "original_length": 13745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedoctorschannel.com/view/visualizing-breast-reconstruction-outcomes-before-surgery/?utm_source=recommendedforyou&utm_medium=onsite-widget", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:MAZUYAPJF6D2AMOXXYZHQYGYUWFEWWD7", "length": 1317, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thedoctorschannel.com", "title": "Visualizing Breast Reconstruction Outcomes Before Surgery - The Doctor's Channel", "raw_content": "1:52 | Sep 26, 2017 | Business of Medicine, Family Medicine, Human Interest, Men's Health, Patient Education, Plastic Surgery, Surgery, Women\u2019s Health\nPhysicians have sought after opportunities to explain the intricacies of medical sciences to laypersons from different backgrounds for centuries. We\u2019re all familiar with the phrase \u201ca picture is worth a thousand words,\u201d and with this 3D visualization technology, patients can see and appreciate the potential of breast reconstruction surgical aesthetic outcomes before surgery ever begins.\nThe Crisalix Virtual Reality system was designed to provide three-dimensional views of post-operative breast reconstruction outcomes with unparalleled accuracy from multiple angles. Patients find it useful because it shows them what they should look like after surgery, while surgeons enjoy the ability to properly explain surgical options including size, shape, implant type, and other crucial factors that ultimately influence aesthetic appearance.\nScott Chapin, MD\nMedical Director: Chapin Aesthetics\nVorstenbosch J, Islur A. Correlation of Prediction and Actual Outcome of Three-Dimensional Simulation in Breast Augmentation Using a Cloud-Based Program. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2017 Jun;41(3):481-490. doi: 10.1007/s00266-017-0830-2. Epub 2017 Mar 13. PubMed PMID: 28289827.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 6215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/oped/comment/Tundu-Lissu-assassination-attempt/434750-4089196-141ibk5/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RTZ3CTGRLJMC3C25LYRK3UIWDVRAHS4F", "length": 4794, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.theeastafrican.co.ke", "title": "Who is so afraid of Tundu Lissu? - The East African", "raw_content": "Who is so afraid of Tundu Lissu to shoot and injure him?\nTanzania opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, is wheeled into a plane. He was evacuated to Kenya for treatment at the Nairobi Hospital following an attempt on his life by unknown assailants. PHOTO | EDWIN MJWAHUZI\nFor starters, let us hope that this was just a failed attempt at assassination, that Lissu survives it and remains with the living, and in working condition. Then, let us hope that this deed was the act of some rogue elements in our society and that they did not act at the behest of some structured organism.\nAdvocate Tundu Lissu, president of the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) and MP for Singida East was last Thursday shot by unknown gunmen in Dodoma and was rushed to a Nairobi hospital to receive emergency treatment.\nEarly reports suggested the gunmen, whose number could not be ascertained, had tailgated his car as he was being driven home for lunch after parliament\u2019s morning session.\nThe attack occurred after his car had arrived in front of his home when the assailants parked their car alongside his and proceeded to set off a hail of bullets, pumping at least five slugs into his abdomen, legs and arms. Somehow they missed his head, which is probably the only reason the doctors had something to work on.\nThe story of this attack on Lissu sent shockwaves in the whole of Tanzania and abroad because Lissu has come to represent the most uncompromising opposition to the government of President John Pombe Magufuli on many issues dealing with political as well as economic governance.\nHe has taken on Magufuli almost singlehandedly on matters pertaining to the way he governs the country politically, calling him what would translate loosely into \u201cpetty dictator\u201d for the president\u2019s restrictions on political activities and the way he has been handling the country\u2019s disputes with the giant mining companies operating in Tanzania.\nLissu has been warning Magufuli not to treat international investors in a cavalier fashion, urging him to respect the law even where Tanzania\u2019s interests are perceived to be hurt as a result of sweetheart deals signed by Magufuli\u2019s predecessors and which gave investors lucrative concessions.\nThe legislator\u2019s advice has been for the government to learn from past mistakes and to learn never to repeat them in the future, but this has not sat well with Magufuli who insists every \u201cpatriot\u201d must be in his corner.\nSo, when an attack of this kind takes place it is easy for people to put two and two together and get silly. Lissu has indeed been a sharp thorn in the side of the government, and Magufuli is known to be intolerant of criticism. The young lawyer has been a frequent visitor to remand prison, and his court appearances to answer to charges of sedition have become too frequent to enumerate.\nBut would Magufuli\u2019s government risk universal condemnation by organising a hit which makes it look like someone wanted Lissu dead? Has Tanzania come so low that political differences are now to be resolved through assassination? Because that is what it is: The attack on Lissu was an assassination attempt, no less. It is hardly believable.\nMagufuli himself has been quick to send his message condemning the attack and calling on law enforcement to catch the culprits. Some top honcho from the ruling party echoed the same sentiments of shock and disbelief. But that is just that, statements. Action needs to be seen to be done.\nIt cannot be said that this attack was totally unforeseeable. Lissu himself has had occasion to report that he was being followed by elements who could have been from the security details. When a preeminent personage of Lissu\u2019s stature makes such claims, in my view it is prudent for the authorities to take them seriously and investigate.\nNow a certain Rubicon has been crossed. A foremost critic of the government has had an attempt made on his life. For starters, let us hope that this was just a failed attempt at assassination, that Lissu survives it and remains with the living, and in working condition.\nThen, let us hope that this deed was the act of some rogue elements in our society and that they did not act at the behest of some structured organism. If that is so, they must be weeded out in short order, because this kind of act serves as a warning that the well is poisoned, and sooner or later more and more people will be drinking from it.\nWe have seen examples of little operatives prancing about with real guns that they point at people where there is no provocation at all. They look like they are high on something, most likely an embedded and incurable stupidity. They have to be reined in, and fast.\nOtherwise, Tanzania will continue to become a scarier and scarier place, and I do not suppose that is what Magufuli wants for us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefader.com/2018/05/11/playboi-carti-drops-debut-album-die-lit/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PDVGJWKUY2K7CEUJOQBHATMQU5LZP3NH", "length": 563, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thefader.com", "title": "Playboi Carti drops debut album Die Lit", "raw_content": "Playboi Carti drops debut album Die Lit\nFeaturing Skepta, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Nicki Minaj, Chief Keef, Young Thug, Bryson Tiller and more.\nJust a week after sharing the Travis Scott-featuring \"Love Hurts,\" Playboi Carti's debut album has arrived. The expansive 19-track LP is called Die Lit, and it's got a pretty impressive stage dive on its cover. The record features guest appearances from the likes of Skepta, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Nicki Minaj, Chief Keef, Young Thug, and Bryson Tiller. Dive back into the world of Carti \u2014 stream Die Lit below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 146.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegoodlifefrance.com/fabulous-french-seaside-towns-opal-coast-pas-de-calais/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:57Z", "digest": "sha1:AMZGKHZHMN4XV6AKJJSOSOXD4JPC3DHK", "length": 4157, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thegoodlifefrance.com", "title": "Fabulous French seaside towns Opal Coast Pas-de-Calais : The Good Life France", "raw_content": "Fabulous French seaside towns Opal Coast Pas-de-Calais\nWritten by\tBob Lyons\ton\tMay 26, 2018\tin\tNord-Pas de Calais\nNip across the English Channel to enjoy the authentic fishing villages and seaside towns of the Opal Coast in France\u2019s most northerly region, Hauts de France. It\u2019s a terrific place for the whole family.\nStart your adventure at Calais when you leave the boat. French pastries will set you all up for your seaside jaunt. Set off along the D940, keep the sea on your right and follow the road signs to Boulogne via the \u2018cote\u2019.\nThe Opal Coast route\nBoulogne is about 40 kilometres away at the end of this stunning road. The route runs right along the coastline and follows the scenic undulations of the terrain. On a clear day, the English South Downs can be seen from some of the high spots. The kids will be able to spot the busy world of ferry traffic, sailing cargos of people and vehicles between Dover and Calais.\nThis coastal road towards Boulogne is awash with things to find. There are prominent museums preserving the events of the two Great Wars, wiry grass bound sand dunes and quaint architectural structures. First stop off is Sangatte where you can find the vast golden sandy beach that aviation hero, Louis Bleriot took off from and became the first man to fly the English Channel.\nThere are numerous places to stop en route to Boulogne, authentic little Audresselles with its rock pools and nautical houses, secret bays, museums, forts and beaches galore.\nOn the other side of Boulogne are yet more lovely seaside stops.\nHardelot Plage is an oasis of seaside nostalgia. The beach is broad and seemingly never ending. Sand yachts and kite flying fill the scene and families stroll across the sands. It\u2019s a great place for swimming.\nJust inland there are shops, restaurants and caf\u00e9s with large villas and carefully tended highways. Just on the north east corner of the town seek out the country park. The birds, animals and plant life here provide a spectacular diversion from the sea.\nLocated in the park is a grand Chateau that has often been visited by English Royalty over previous decades. Have a look inside and admire the grand rooms and furniture, it\u2019s a centre of Entente Cordiale, the only one of its kind in France. The park is also home to a stunningly contemporary Shakespearean theatre.\nWithin the Hardelot town boundaries there are sporting activities for everyone. A celebrated golf course, equestrian centre, tennis courts and pony riding for children. Hardelot is sophisticated and welcoming.\nTake the short journey into nearby Le Touquet. The sand is fine and glistening and the downtown culture though is a real contrast to sleepy Hardelot. Le Touquet was created for the well healed and affluent and has many posh hotels, restaurants, casinos and restaurants. The beach was voted the 6th best in France \u2013 Trip Advisor, Travellers Choice Awards 2018, just down the road, Wissant beach came in at No. 10.\nLe Touquet is a magnet for wealthy Parisians. In the past, famous writers, politicians, aristocrats and Parisians have all brought their money and influence on the town.\nMove inland a couple of kilometres and you\u2019ll find Etaples a fishing port. The culture here is the complete opposite of Le Touquet. Etaples is not a seaside town really but still very close to the coastline. Town museums present life from long gone days in Etaples. There are poignant reminders of the horrors of the Great War that was fought on its doorsteps.\nTake the coastal road to Berck sur Mer and unpretentious seaside town with a broad and wide-open beach. Berck can literally take your breath away \u2013 it\u2019s a windy beach and famous for its annual Kite Festival which attracts contestants from around the world. Berck caught the imagination of many of the celebrated impressionist painters and you can see some of their masterpieces in a museum in the converted gendarmerie in the town centre.\nThis little part of France is for enjoying the simple pleasures of family seaside life. It provides the sense of being abroad without having to travel far from home.\nBob Lyons is an ex-pilot turned travel writer, and a total Francophile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 12875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegreedypinstripes.com/2017/03/quick-hit-alex-rodriguez-to-expand-role.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EBCXRJRHCVK5Q5YIFU5DCGYSNMREGHXF", "length": 1511, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thegreedypinstripes.com", "title": "The Greedy Pinstripes: Quick Hit: Alex Rodriguez to Expand Role as FOX Analyst", "raw_content": "Quick Hit: Alex Rodriguez to Expand Role as FOX Analyst\nAlex Rodriguez\u2019s days as a player are officially over, although next time he sneezes or goes to a sports store there will be some dumb ass blog or news publication out there \u201cwondering\u201d if it\u2019s because he is gearing up for a comeback, but his days as a FOX Sports analyst are just beginning. According to a few reports Alex is getting his role with the network expanded in fact which may further confirm that his playing days are over.\nAfter spending each of the past two postseasons as a guest studio analysts for FOX the former Yankees third baseman and DH will now be a game analyst and feature reporter for both FOX Sports and FS1 while also working in the studio as he did before.\nAlex signed a multi-year deal with the network but none of the terms were obviously disclosed.\nLabels: Alex Rodriguez, FOX, FOX Sports, Fox Sports One, Hot Stove, New York Yankees, News, Playoffs, Postseason, Quick Hit, retirement, Rumors, World Series\nFid March 9, 2017 at 5:55 PM\nHe's also expanding his role in J-Lo...\nKen Reed March 9, 2017 at 11:01 PM\nIF I were 50 years younger, I would like to be as lucky...but I have what I want. 'The Boss' is good and mean, with her LONG (real) nails!\nQuick Hit: Alex Rodriguez to Expand Role as FOX An...\nEric Gagne Wants to Return to MLB\nShohei Otani Hints He Wants to Get PAID After 2017...\nIs There Life After Joe Girardi?...\nSo it Seems Crying IS Allowed in Baseball\nThis Day In New York Yankees History 3/9: A Rod's ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2696, "original_length": 44587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/nov/09/kiribati-climate-change-conference-intro", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DBPRYRCTV5WLNZYBRZTMEVOZ34FTEWXP", "length": 2566, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Voices from Kiribati\nKiribati climate change conference: voices from the South Pacific\nKiribati, a chain of low-lying South Pacific islands, is to host a conference addressing the impacts of climate change on some of the world's most vulnerable countries\nLiz Ford and Aaron Packard\nTarawa atoll, Kiribati. This week, the tiny island state is hosting a global conference on the impacts of climate change on some of the world's most vulnerable nations. Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP\nHalfway through this year, Pelenise Alofa left her job managing a cafe in Tarawa, Kiribati, so that she could focus on setting up KiriCAN, an NGO that works with local communities on climate change. Each morning she gets up at 4am and cooks 50 lunches, which get sold at the local school canteen for AUS$1 each. \"After the costs, I make about $20, but that's OK, you can survive on that \u2013 it lets me buy my rice. And I'm enjoying it - the meals get picked up at 7am, and then I am free for the whole day to work on KiriCAN projects.\"\nLocated and spread across the central Pacific, Kiribati, a low-lying chain of islands, is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and it is already feeling some of the impacts, as Alofa's blog, published today, testifies\nAccess to safe water is scarce, and recent heavy rains caused major flooding. The government is now planning to relocate the majority of the population of Tarawa to the larger \u2013 and higher \u2013 Christmas Island.\nAs one of the poorest and least-developed nations in the world, the Kiribati government has said that of all the problems it faces, climate change will eclipse them all.\nToday, representatives from Kiribati and many of the other most vulnerable countries in the world, along with delegates from the UK, US, EU, Asia and Africa,will gather in its capital, Tarawa, for the Tarawa Climate Change Conference , to discuss ways to prepare for and address the impact of climate change. A small rise in sea-levels could have devastating consequences for these states. It is hoped that the discussions will feed into the Canc\u00fan talks, which begin at the end of the month.\nOver the next three days, we will be hearing from local people how climate change is affecting their lives.\nAlofa will blog on Kiribati, Priestley Habru will offer the view from Solomon Islands, Stephane Ramananarivo on Madagascar, Rina Saeed Khan on Pakistan, Servaas van den Bosch on Namibia and Natalia Viana on Brazil.\n\u2022 Aaron Pickard is the coordinator for the Pacific region for 350.org, a global climate change campaigning organisation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theleadingpost.com/2018/11/18/is-the-payment-service-bank-a-hybrid-for-m-pesa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:26HDDHFGGSML2OLO4TMDF3RN7RT7NNUD", "length": 14124, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.theleadingpost.com", "title": "Is the payment service bank a hybrid for M-pesa?", "raw_content": "Is the payment service bank a hybrid for M-pesa?\nAs an attorney dealing with FinTech companies who are interested in bridging the financial gap in Nigeria, I was very intrigued when I learnt that on the 5th of October 2018, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a proposed guideline for a new Bank to be called a \u201cPayment Service Bank\u201d (PSB). In the course of my work, I have supported clients in their applications for CBN licences such as Microfinance Bank Licence, Payment Solution Service Provider Licence, Mobile Money Operator Licence and Banking Agent Licence. My first impression on hearing about this new Bank was\u2026\u2026Yes!!! this seems like a new stream of revenue for me.\nIt may seem too early to write an article on a proposed draft, but I beg to differ as the final guideline on Value Added Services Framework released by the Nigerian Communication Commission in 2018, after several stakeholder\u2019s consultation is very similar to its original draft. My initial review of the proposed document called \u201cGuidelines for Licencing and Regulation of Payment Service Banks\u201d left me rather confused on where the PSB sits in the hierarchy of Banks, and if a PSB is the best option to breach the ongoing financial inclusion discourse between the telecommunication companies and Banks, as Nigeria strives to keep away from the M-Pesa model of financial inclusion.\nM-PESA AS A TOOL FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION\nSeveral articles have been written on M-Pesa, and it is currently regarded as a global model for financial inclusion. M-Pesa, which is a mobile money transfer service was launched in Kenya by a company called Safaricom in 2007, and its software application allows people without bank accounts to send money via mobile messaging to contacts on their phone, or even to pay for goods and services such as groceries or a taxi fare. Uptake for the service grew rapidly in the first year to 2 million users, and by 2014 MPesa processed transactions amounting to almost 7% of the total national payments (NPS) throughput value and two-thirds of total NPS throughput volume in Kenya . In 2017, during the 10 -year anniversary of M-Pesa, CNN reported that that the company now has about 30 million users in 10 countries and the system processed around 6 billion transactions in 2016 at a peak rate of 529 per second .\nWhat is worthy of note, is that M-Pesa facilitates the remittance of cash between users via a combination of its software and a GSM provider, thereby bypassing the banks software. It also relies on an agent network structure which currently comprises of about 287,400 agents for deposit and collection of cash without the hassle of waiting in a banking hall queue. It has been argued that M-Pesa cannot work effectively in a country where there is an existing Government central switch such as the Nigeria Inter Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) in Nigeria, or where the banks have largely captured both urban and rural areas. This may be the reason the technology was never introduced to Nigeria, and may have also resulted in its failure in South Africa where the banks have captured the rural areas and Vodaphone had to work with Nedbank to launch the product .\nPAYMENT SERVICE BANK AS A TOOL FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION\nThe Central Bank of Nigeria has never hidden its displeasure on the issue of virtual currencies, however, when it comes to the issue of the telecommunication companies providing financial services to the public, there is only a perceived reluctance to allow such services. This may be seen as a legitimate concern for CBN as the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and the CBN have different levels of Know Your Customer (KYC), Consumer Protection Framework, Regulatory Framework and risk mitigation strategies, and surely creates a conflict of interest where the NCC is allowed to take on the financial monitoring role of CBN.\nCBN in its National Financial Inclusion Strategy defines financial inclusion as \u201c\u2026when adult Nigerians have easy access to a broad range of formal financial services that meet their needs at an affordable cost.\u201d These services may include payments, savings, loans, insurance, and pension products. CBN stated that in 2010, 46.3% of adults were unbanked, hence CBN outlined a strategy under its National Financial Inclusion Strategy to bring the figure of unbanked adults down to 20% in 2020.\nThe PSB is largely a Digital Bank capable of receiving and transferring cash between individuals and small businesses and also maintains savings accounts. It will be largely technology driven as it will be based in rural areas with a main office, but with various coordinating centres to coordinate the activities of its banking agents. The PSB will have the ability to issue electronic wallets, debit and pre-funded cards, and electronically make payments/remit cash between banks for services rendered, as it will be connected or utilize a corresponding bank which is connected to NIBBS.\nThe draft guidelines provide that the founders of a PSB shall be Banking Agents,\nTelecommunication Companies (Telcos) through a subsidiary, Retail Chains (Supermarkets), and Mobile Money Operators (MMO).It also stipulates that the paid-up share capital of the PSB shall be N5,000,000,000 (Five Billion Naira), but the bank will not be allowed to grant loans, advances, guarantees or underwrite insurances. It does seem as though there are several similarities between M-Pesa and PSB, however, one cannot miss out the fact that while M-Pesa sits outside the banking network, the PSB sits within the banking network and will be directly regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. So, can we say the PSB is a hybrid of M-Pesa which removes any worries regarding customer\u2019s money sitting outside the purview of CBN and not insured by the NDIC?\nCould it be that in an attempt to pacify the perceived tension between the Telcos and the banks on the introduction of the Telcos as players in the financial space, the CBN came up with a structure that allows the Telcos to play in the financial space as a bank and under the similar rules as the other banks? Can we also say that in trying to achieve this, CBN unknowingly or maybe knowingly, created an exclusivity for Telcos to play in the Financial Sector to the detriment of FinTech companies?\nCurrently, there are three (3) categories of banks in Nigeria, namely; Commercial, Merchant, and Specialised Banks. The hierarchy of these banks are determined by their paid-up share capital requirements. The requirement for Commercial Banks are N10,000,000,000 (Ten Billion), N25,000,000,000 (Twenty-Five Billion), and N50,000,000,000 (Fifty Billion Naira) depending on the class; Merchant Banks require N15,000,000,000 (Fifteen Billion Naira); and Specialised Banks which includes Microfinance Banks, Mortgage Banks, Non-Interest Banks and Investment and Development Banks, have varying paid- up share capital requirements which begins from N20,000,000 to N100,000,000 (Twenty Million to One Hundred Million Naira).\nIt is rather strange that the PSB is the only bank wherein the exact field of the promoters have been stipulated in the guidelines. All other banks can be founded by individuals or companies from any sector. Why then did the CBN feel the need to restrict the founders of a PSB to Bank Agents, MMO, Retail Supermarket and Telcos? Is this because their expertise is necessary for the operation of a PSB? Since the PSB is technology driven and all four proposed founders are involved in promoting the sales of products via technology, I am inclined to agree that they have the requisite experience, however, it will be a struggle for an MMO or a Bank Agent to raise the N5,000,000,000 (Five Billion Naira) paid-up share capital as proposed by the CBN as these are largely start-up companies.\nSo, in anticipation of additional revenue from bank card charges, card maintenance fees, and transaction charges (which the MMO and Bank Agents already share with Commercial Banks), the MMO and Bank Agents are required to maintain a minimum paid-up capital of N5,000,000,000 (Five Billion Naira). One wonders if this is a viable option for the MMO and the Bank Agents, and I guess only time will tell.\nBig Retail Supermarkets such as Shoprite, and the Telcos will likely be able to raise and maintain the required paid-up capital, however, what are the odds of the retail supermarkets moving to rural areas in Nigeria away from their strategic market? It is obvious that this is only a no-brainer for the Telcos, as their business already takes them to rural areas to provide telecommunication services to people in the rural areas. However, one question that remains unanswered is what industry the Telco subsidiary will be involved in, and will the subsidiary be registered as a Banking Agent, an MMO or a Retail Supermarket, since those where the areas specified for promoters?\nIf it was a dream for an MMO or Bank Agent to one day grow into a bank, does the PSB make this dream any closer? I dare to answer in the negative, as the paid-up share capital requirement is prohibitive and still does not allow the PSB to grant loans or invest in any other product than that of CBN, which reduces the ability for the bank to generate substantial revenue, other than the bank charges/fees mentioned above.\nIt is obvious that the only promoter who gains from this current arrangement would be the Telcos by using USSD or text messages as part of their payment solution. This will lead to a new revenue stream from airtime purchases as customers in the rural areas will have to top-up in order to transact. This would undermine the other listed promoters as their technology will most likely be centred around the use of USSD and text messages, to the advantage of the Telcos. Therefore, the Telcos are bound to win whether they are a promoter or infrastructure provider, but CBN has an obligation to present a level playing field for all promoters in its pursuit of financial inclusion, as the more the players, the faster CBN can achieve its 20% unbanked target.\nI propose that the Telcos should be designated as infrastructure partners and earn revenue off transactions, while CBN licensed companies such as Bank Agents, PSSPs , FinTechs and other existing players in the ecosystem should have the mandate to provide solutions/platforms targeted at rural areas using the Telco\u2019s infrastructure.\nLastly, one struggles with how to place the PSB within the hierarchy of banks in Nigeria, largely because it has a minimum paid-up share capital requirement which is less than that of a Merchant Bank but more than that of a Specialised Bank. Does this mean a PSB will seat above the Specialised Banks, and if this is the case, why does the PSB not have the ability to carry out basic functions which are available to Specialised Banks?\nThe paid-up share capital requirement for the PSB and the restrictions on who its promoters can be makes it undesirable as a bank, and is considered as a bottleneck to prevent applications from other relevant players in the industry.\nThe PSB is not like the current Specialised Banks, as the PSB has higher minimum paid-up share capital requirements but less functionality and opportunity to make money, which calls its \u201cbanking-hood\u201d into question as it does little to help its owners and customers since it is not able to advance loans. However, it is a far cry from the M-Pesa model, since it sits within the banking infrastructure and will not be available to Telcos as a direct product. However, there is a major similarity, since the Telcos will be involved and the promoters are most likely to use a Telco led technology in provision of the services in rural areas.\nAs much as one appreciates the efforts of the CBN at arriving at this draft guideline, as it removes any perceived issues relating to the unwillingness of the CBN to include the Telcos as players in the financial sector, the framework must be examined holistically in order to ensure that it is fair to all promoters. In the context of the PSB and taking into consideration that any platform used in rural areas will include the use of USSD or text messages, the Telcos will be better off as infrastructure partners who earn revenue off transactions, while CBN licensed companies such as Bank Agents, PSSP, FinTechs and other existing players in the ecosystem should have the mandate to provide solutions/platforms targeted at rural areas using the Telco\u2019s infrastructure\nMr. Olusola Teniola, President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria in his discussion with CNBC Africa on 9th October 2018, confirmed that the proposed PSB is great news for the Telcos, however, no other promoter has openly shown the same enthusiasm about the current framework as I believe the minimum paid-up share capital requirement has to be reduced significantly for a wider range of promoters to get involved. Also, the use of the word \u201cbank\u201d makes the framework undesirable when compared to other existing bank structures. I believe that if it must remain a bank, then the PSB should be permitted to give out loan facilities in order to justify the proposed minimum paid-up share capital of N5,000,000,000 (Five Billion Naira). Otherwise, what would be the yard stick for such minimum paid-up share capital when the funds saved in the e-wallets and bank accounts can only be transferred on the request of the account holder? One may highlight the issue of liquidation of the PSB as a concern, but is that not what the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) caters for?\nSurely, the PSB is unique and not a hybrid of the M-Pesa model, but it must be able to assimilate the current promoters and players in the field, in order to avoid the perceived notion that this structure has just been created to pacify the Telcos, to the exception of the other promoters.\nPlease note that the \u201cGuidelines for Licencing and Regulation of Payment Service\nBanks in Nigeria\u201d is a proposed draft which was released on 5th October 2018 by CBN and I encourage all concerned parties to review the document and contribute to the discussion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 20517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theleadingpost.com/2019/02/13/psg-power-shows-how-far-man-united-have-fallen.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7YQ6DRFVZXN6JMLMN5AZY74F674QAGA3", "length": 2142, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.theleadingpost.com", "title": "PSG power shows how far Man United have fallen", "raw_content": "Barring an incredible comeback in the French capital in three weeks\u2019 time, United will miss out on the Champions League quarterfinals for the fifth straight year.\n\u201cThis is a level up from what we\u2019ve played against with the games we\u2019ve had,\u201d admitted Solskjaer.\nThe man who scored the winning goal when United won the Champions League in 1999 had won 10 and drawn one of his first 11 games in charge to lead United back into the top four of the Premier League \u2013 the passport into next season\u2019s Champions League.\n\u201cMan Utd should be at the top and this is a top, top team we are playing against. Our players today are disappointed after the game of course, but I also think they know we need to step up our level to get to the level we want to get to.\u201d\nPOGBA SEES RED\nThe reality of where United stand among the European elite did not just bite on Tuesday \u2013 the defeat was further evidence of their struggles since they reached a third Champions League final in four years in 2011.\nBy contrast, PSG\u2019s campaigns are now defined by Champions League success or otherwise.\nWithout two-thirds of their star-studded forward line, Kylian Mbappe alone was still too good for United\u2019s defence, while Angel di Maria \u2013 on his return to Old Trafford \u2013 and Julian Draxler also shone.\n\u201cYou can see their strength they have when they put those players in (Di Maria and Draxler), but then again, that\u2019s the level we want to get to,\u201d said Solskjaer.\n\u201cWe are looking to strengthen the squad then again we have to learn with so many young players that we have, to make the step up next season.\u201d\nHow much of a blow failure to progress is to Solskjaer\u2019s chances of being in charge next season on a permanent basis remains to be seen.\nBut the lack of a response to losing Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard in quick succession to injury towards the end of the first half underlined why planning on overhauling the squad needs to start straight away.\nJuan Mata and Alexis Sanchez made little impact off the bench, with the Chilean\u2019s anonymous display again raising doubts over his future after a return of just five goals in more than a year since joining from Arsenal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 10197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themarksarasota.com/location/beaches-bay", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:22Z", "digest": "sha1:P3J5OTP362AZQ67KMJKFBZJ6JRD6OS7V", "length": 1034, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.themarksarasota.com", "title": "Beaches and Boating | Sarasota, FL | Mark Sarasota", "raw_content": "A beach, boating and sport fishing paradise.\nDazzling white sand beaches and warm, emerald waters.\nTwo blocks from Mark Sarasota you can tie up your boat at Marina Jack or travel just over the John Ringling Causeway to the private Sarasota Yacht Club. The area plays host to numerous prestigious international sailing regattas and events throughout the year. A new Olympic-class rowing competition and training facility draws teams and fans from around the world.\nThe renowned key islands of Sarasota lie between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, offering endless opportunities for water-inspired activities. Boating, kayaking and fishing are enjoyed year-round. Waterfront eateries and beach bars beckon from nearly every shore. You can even wiggle your toes in the powder soft sands of Siesta Key, named the #1 Beach in the United States in 2015 by Dr. Beach.\nWhether you're taking in a sunset on Casey Key or casting to tarpon in Midnight Pass, the beaches and waterways of Sarasota provide year-round inspiration and adventure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themonitor.com/2018/07/26/educators-immigration-advocates-hold-vigil-on-family-reunification-deadline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:24Z", "digest": "sha1:PNQB32OBMLXAYZYCUAKYGQPYSRR2BWJ4", "length": 7291, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.themonitor.com", "title": "Educators, immigration advocates, hold vigil on family reunification deadline - The Monitor", "raw_content": "Educators, immigration advocates, hold vigil on family reunification deadline\nMcALLEN \u2014 With nearly 15 years experience inside Rio Grande Valley classrooms, Delia Ortiz said she was compelled to show support for children separated from their families at a vigil Thursday morning.\nStanding in front of the federal courthouse in McAllen and moments after speaking in front of a crowd of about 50 protesters and immigration advocates, Ortiz, a teacher at Kelly-Pharr Elementary in the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school district, said it was important to her to show support for the more than 1,000 children still held inside detention centers on the day of the deadline for the Trump administration to reunify parents and children separated under the \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy.\nA month ago, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the Trump administration to begin reunifying the nearly 3,000 children separated along the U.S.-Mexico border, which came after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u2019 April announcement about the policy\u2019s implementation.\nThe event, marking the deadline to reunify, was held just outside the federal courthouse in McAllen and organized by La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, a local immigration advocacy group, and the Fuerza del Valle Workers Center.\nOrtiz was part of a contingency of childcare providers and teachers lending their voices to support the children who remain in detention facilities as the reunification orders deadline loomed.\nIn a memo sent by Sessions to federal prosecutors along the southern U.S.-Mexico border, Sessions urged those prosecutors to employ a zero tolerance approach to illegal entry and illegal re-entry cases.\nThis resulted in the Border Patrol referring all illegal entry and re-entry cases for prosecution at the federal level; before, only individuals with a prior criminal record had been referred for federal prosecution.\nAs a result, people who had tried entering the country with their children were subsequently separated from them upon being referred to the federal courthouse \u2014 often without their knowledge.\nThis then led to hundreds of parents losing contact with their children, creating chaos for public defenders attempting to locate the children for their clients.\nThe 49-year-old educator, originally from South Bend, Indiana, who has lived in San Juan for more than two decades now, said she has witnessed what it\u2019s like for a student to be alone, without their parents, and how it affects them throughout the school year.\n\u201cI\u2019ve seen the trauma the kids suffer when they\u2019re here without their parents,\u201d Ortiz said in Spanish. \u201cIt\u2019s not the same for those kids when they\u2019re here studying trying to better themselves and attending school away from their parents, trying to receive a better education. That\u2019s why I came here to support them, I hope they reunify these families because they came to this country to better themselves, because this is a land of opportunity.\u201d\nAlso in attendance at the vigil were representatives from the Texas Civil Rights Project, which currently represents nearly 400 clients who have been separated as a result of the now defunct policy.\nEfr\u00e9n Olivarez, TCRP\u2019s Racial and Economic Justice Program director, said he was less than optimistic the administration would be able to meet the deadline to reunify the still more than 1,000 children in detention by the day\u2019s end.\nWhen asked what questions he still had for the administration as it related to TCRP\u2019s clients, Olivarez replied, \u201cWhen?\u201d the question many of the parents still detained ask about their children, when will they finally get to see their kids.\nThe director said the administration must make every effort to reunite all families, even those more than 450 parents the administration said it deported without their children.\n\u201cThis deadline marks four weeks since the injunction was issued, but we have clients who have not seen their children in months,\u201d Olivarez said. \u201cFamily separation and indefinite family detention go against our values as a nation. All families must be reunited, including those parents who have been deported without their children, and every asylum seeker should be treated with fairness, basic decency and due process under U.S. laws and regulations.\u201d\nDespite the lack of optimism from some who attended the event, Abraham Diaz, Education specialist for LUPE, said he was hoping there would be mass reunifications to meet the deadline imposed by a federal judge more than 30 days ago.\n\u201cI\u2019m feeling positive, and hopeful that they\u2019re going to get there,\u201d Diaz said. \u201cI know that the way the government works is that they drag their feet on as much as possible and this issue, while its very important to us, we know that they\u2019re going to do the same thing.\u201d\nBy Thursday, the administration said all parents eligible for reunification would be reunified with their children by day\u2019s end, according to a 14-page court filing.\n\u201cThe reunification plan outlined to the court in defendants\u2019 filing on July 15, 2018, ECF No. 109, and discussed at the July 16, 2018 status conference, is proceeding, and is expected to result in the reunification of all class members found eligible for reunification at this time by the Court\u2019s July 26, 2018 deadline,\u201d the court record shows.\nCourt records further show that of 2,511 children in the custody of Office of Refugee Resettlement, 1,820 have been discharged, and 1,442 were reunified with their parents. Advocates have reported representing clients who unknowingly waived reunification, which according to court records amounts to 120 children in such cases.\nThe administration also proposed meeting with the representatives of the plaintiffs to discuss a host of issues, primarily \u201cdeveloping a plan\u201d on how to reunite those parents who have already been deported or are no longer in contact with ORR.\nAccording to the filing, this includes: \u201cidentifying which of those individuals are class members, locating those individuals, and determining whether they want to be reunified with their child(ren) in their current location or to waive reunification.\u201d\nTotal number of possible children of potential class members originally identified: 2,511\nChildren where further review shows they were not separated from parents by DHS: 20\nTotal number of those children who have been discharged from ORR: 1,820\nChildren discharged by being reunified with parents in ICE custody under the government\u2019s plan: 1,442\nChildren discharged in other appropriate circumstances: 378 (these include reunifications with parents in the interior, discharges to other sponsors (such as in situations where there parent is not eligible for reunification), reunifications with parents in DHS custody earlier in the process, or children that turned 18)\nChildren in care with ORR, where the adult associated with the child is either not eligible for reunification or not available for discharge at this time: 7112\nParent waived reunification: 120 children\nReunification precluded by plaintiffs and court order in separate litigation: 7 children\nAdult red flag from background check: 21 children\nAdult red flag from other case file review: 46 children o Adult released to the interior: 79 children\nAdult outside the U.S.: 431 children\nAdult location under case file review: 94 children", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 9105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themystica.com/hebe/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QNUHFDDJHB6QRMR3SXZ75ZWMIW7PMRLE", "length": 143, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.themystica.com", "title": "Hebe \ud83d\udcd7", "raw_content": "Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth, is the daughter of Zeus and Hera, and consort of Hercules. In the Roman pantheon she becomes Juventas. A.G.H.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 70.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenation.com/article/the-news-is-breaking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSQEPSBNB4M7LV52QRGPPKIRXUDDGT54", "length": 6199, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thenation.com", "title": "The News Is Breaking | The Nation", "raw_content": "The News Is Breaking\nPoor reporting and the chaos of social media have put responsible journalism in grave danger.\nA 3-D-printed Twitter logo is seen through broken glass. (Reuters / Dado Ruvic / Illustration)\nBuried inside a New York Times report on additional corporate tax cuts being quietly bestowed by Congress is a quotation from Martin Gaynor, a health economist at Carnegie Mellon University. Addressing the question of why the so-called \u201cCadillac tax\u201d on expensive health-care plans had been delayed yet again, he mused: \u201cI don\u2019t know if, as economists, we\u2019ve just fallen down and not done a particularly good job explaining this to policymakers and the general public or whether this is just very hard.\u201d1\nAn academic economist can be forgiven for believing that this Republican Congress might make a decision on the basis of sound policy. The New York Times cannot. Neither should the Times be excused for referring to the Heritage Foundation in another article as \u201ca leading conservative think tank\u201d in its coverage of a press release that bragged that \u201cnearly two-thirds of [the foundation\u2019s] ideas had been carried out or embraced by the White House over the past year.\u201d The real story here is that the reason the Trump administration has adopted its ideas\u2014if in fact it\u2019s true and the Times is not just being played, again, by right-wing hucksters\u2014is that Heritage long ago ceased to operate even minimally as a \u201cthink tank\u201d and instead became a lobbying pass-through operation in which ideologues and the extremely wealthy could pressure politicians via \u201cstudies\u201d that have no grounding in impartial research or analysis. Does the Times not read the Times? Because I recall learning from a 2014 news story that, though \u201cLong known as an incubator for policy ideas and the embodiment of the [Republican] party establishment, it has become more of a political organization feeding off the rising populism of the Tea Party movement.\u201d The article continued, \u201cIn recent months, some of the group\u2019s most prominent scholars have left. Research that seemed to undermine Heritage\u2019s political goals has been squelched, former Heritage officials say. And more and more, the work of policy analysts is tailored for social media.\u201d2\nBut never mind any of that. The problem is, as always, \u201cbipartisan,\u201d according to a third recent story in the Times. \u201cA group of Republicans in the House and the Senate are warning of a secret plot in the F.B.I. to overthrow the Trump government. Democrats speak of corruption and creeping authoritarianism, unchecked by a Congress that has turned into an adjunct of the executive.\u201d Got that? One party is pursuing a comically insane \u201cplot\u201d based on a joke e-mail and the other one \u201cspeak[s]\u201d of a genuine threat to our democracy from these same malevolent lunatics, and, therefore, the problem is \u201cbipartisan.\u201d Just ask, as the Times did, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), who imagines that a fetus can be viable outside the womb after only 20 weeks of pregnancy, lies about Planned Parenthood, denies the reality of man-made climate change, and earns a zero percent score from the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters. He also votes with Trump 90 percent of the time. But to the Times, he is a credible source to explain that \u201cBoth parties\u2014Republicans and Democrats\u2014are obsessed with political survival and incumbency.\u201d3\nThe problem of intellectual integrity in our public life is now almost beyond repair. According to a recent Gallup/Knight Foundation survey, \u201cmost Americans believe it is now harder to be well-informed and to determine which news is accurate. They increasingly perceive the media as biased and struggle to identify objective news sources. They believe the media continue to have a critical role in our democracy but are not very positive about how the media are fulfilling that role.\u201d They are right, of course, but unfortunately most people don\u2019t demand more from the media, much less prove themselves willing to pay what it costs to improve the situation.4\nThe Media Must Stop Normalizing Nazis\nA significant section of our citizenry simply does not care whether the \u201cnews\u201d it receives is accurate. According to Gallup/Knight, \u201cRepublicans who can name an accurate source overwhelmingly mention Fox News.\u201d These are people who want nothing more than to see their ignorant worldview confirmed by the obvious lies, fantasies, racist innuendo, and crazy conspiracy theories put forward by the network\u2019s Trump cheerleaders: Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham, among others. The rest of us are at the mercy of an increasingly chaotic media landscape driven by social-media sources often created expressly for propaganda purposes.5\nFive scholars associated with Microsoft Research recently released a study of \u201cTrends in Fake News Consumption During the 2016 US Presidential Election,\u201d based in part on Internet Explorer data. They found that \u201csocial media was the primary outlet for the circulation of fake news stories and that aggregate voting patterns were strongly correlated with the average daily fraction of users visiting websites serving fake news.\u201d This was true at both the federal and state levels. According to Twitter\u2019s own data, at least 50,000 automated accounts tied to Russia sent out more than 2 million election-related tweets between September 1 and November 15, 2016. And these were only the ones that Twitter could identify as Russian. Twitter says 12 percent of its accounts cannot be traced at all, while a study conducted by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Southern California puts that percentage at up to 15 percent\u2014or as many as 48 million accounts. Meanwhile, Facebook, which may have as many as 60 million automated accounts, announced that it would downgrade posts that come from genuine news sources in order to focus more on friends and family. The company\u2019s more than 2 billion active users can now look forward to less reliable news and to providing less traffic, and therefore less income, to the struggling media institutions that try to deliver it. They can also, as a direct result of all these trends, look forward to more presidents and politicians like Donald Trump.6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 9870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/5018-the-next-step-toward-the-north-american-union", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7PF6MKY3NADN452YAOHTAA2SWTWZKI7", "length": 7321, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thenewamerican.com", "title": "The Next Step Toward the North American Union", "raw_content": "The Next Step Toward the North American Union\nWritten by Bob Confer\nOne-worlders are successful in their efforts because of incrementalism. They work toward their ultimate goal of a global government by very slowly piecing together the parts of that evil puzzle \u2014 the regional collectives of countries. When the building of socioeconomic partnerships (and, ultimately, political integration) is spread out over years, if not decades, the majority of the citizens of the affected nations remain oblivious to the destruction of their sovereignty.\nTake the European Union, for example. Its roots go back to 1945 when European communities were made based on the facilitation of trade in steel and energy. As the years wore on, the communities instituted more powerful trade partnerships, opened their borders, and shared environmental policies \u2014 setting the stage for the creation of the EU in 1993. In just the past 17 years, the countries in the European Union have developed shared currencies, governance, laws, and courts \u2014 with each participating nation being stripped of sovereignty and any self-rule it once possessed.\nCertain individuals and groups within the United States \u2014 The John Birch Society being first and foremost \u2014 have fought the development of a similar regional government on this side of the Atlantic, the North American Union, which would bring together America, Canada, and Mexico under one rule. Although the NAU is often identified by the mainstream media as some sort of fantastic and unrealistic conspiracy theory, it is nothing of the sort. It began in earnest with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on December 17, 1992 \u2014 an ignominious event that has done much to destroy the quality of life in the United States by escalating the exodus of manufacturing jobs from our country. In the years since 1992, North American leaders have held periodic meetings about the furthering of the NAU under the guise of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), an endeavor to find common ground not only in economics, but in security as well.\nThe ideas thrown around in the SPP are now coming to fruition, furthering the realization of the NAU. On February 4, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced their deal to establish a trade and security perimeter encompassing their two nations.\nIn his speech, Obama outlined three major initiatives to make this a reality. The first is something along the lines of open borders. As he has mentioned in his recent economic harangues, he is driven to double U.S. exports as a means of saving our economy. To do that, he claims we must allow the free flow of people and products between our borders \u2014 something the federal government has basically been allowing uncontested on our southern border, facilitating the infiltration of nearly 20 million illegal aliens so far.\nBut, in order to have truly open borders between the United States and Canada, Obama claims we must strengthen security and endorse modern technology \u2014 instituting a means to track travelers through (as well as in) our borders with advanced biometrics. According to Canadian columnist John Ivison, \"The intention is that fingerprints and retinal scans will become routine, leading to the evolution of an integrated entry-exit system, where entry into one country serves to verify exit from the other. This would require an unprecedented exchange of personal information.\u201d\nIt\u2019s safe to say our movements will be monitored domestically as the federal government deploys this science-fiction nightmare that is becoming a reality. It will be an assault on our sovereignty as much as it is on our existing rights as American citizens, despite the two countries' claims that it will promote principles of human rights, privacy, and civil liberties.\nPresident Obama also cited the need for the development of a new council to sweep away regulations that stifle trade and job creation. Such a council should make all people cringe. It mirrors what the federal government has done in the United States, where it abuses the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Through the development and strengthening of entities such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration \u2014 and the subsequent creation of countless regulations \u2014 the federal government manages the minutiae of our lives, dictating what we do and how we do it, far outstripping what the Founding Fathers intended for the federal system. Now, imagine such an unaccountable entity \u2014 one with no public input whatsoever \u2014 overseeing all economic activity that occurs in and between our two countries.\nFortunately, these plans have not been without criticism. Whereas the U.S. press and elected officials have been more than willing to support the NAU, this has not been the case north of the border. The National Post, something comparable to a Canadian version of USA Today, identified the Obama-Harper deal as an \u201cambitious border declaration \u2014 the product of several months of behind-the-scenes preliminary work \u2014 foresee[ing] the most significant changes in the Canada-U.S. border relationship since the North American Free Trade Agreement.\u201d\nIt was interesting that the Canadian press did something that the U.S. press would not: acknowledge what the NAU theorists have been saying all along \u2014 that this partnership has long been devised in secret, behind closed doors and away from congressional and parliamentary (and therefore public) oversight.\nSuch coverage reflects the general sentiment over this matter in Ottawa. Paul Dewar, a member of parliament, was livid over the deal, thundering, \"All we're asking for is a little democracy. [Harper] hasn't informed Canadians what he's up to and he hasn't consulted this House.\" Canada\u2019s Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was just as concerned, accusing the Prime Minster of \"talking with President Obama about things he's not prepared to talk to Canadians about.\" Many more Canadian elected officials are equally frustrated by the usurpation of their rights and all things Canada.\nThe big question is: Where is such an uproar in America? It seems that most of our citizens have been blinded by the effects of the well-oiled incrementalism machine. A bit here, a bit there \u2014 and they\u2019re still unaware of the impact that the NAU will have on our lives. They fail to see that once the economy and security are scratched off the list, all that would remain would be our money and our courts. Before most Americans know it, we will have lost them, too. With them will go our identity, our sovereignty \u2014 and above all, our rights.\nThough it won\u2019t be told by either our controlled major media or mostly unconcerned Congressmen \u2014 this is a defining moment in our history. If we allow ourselves to consolidate with a neighboring nation on such key issues, we will truly have set the America we've known on the path to dissolution. Oh, we will remain the United States of America, but we will be that in name only. Instead, we shall become a people beholden to the North American Union. Through the powers of incrementalism, that will be just a further step on the path to a global collective.\nMore in this category: \u00ab Where Is the GM \"Bonus\" for Taxpayers?\tMyth: Uncle Sam Is the Stork That Delivers Jobs \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 9521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenews.mx/science/volcanic-blast-reshaped-summit-of-indonesia-s-mount-sinabung/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SUZFTFWWDIRFASAB4LGDZAIKGEFISI65", "length": 1928, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thenews.mx", "title": "The News", "raw_content": "The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung that shot ash 3 miles high also \"annihilated\" the mountain's summit. Before and after images show an enormous chunk missing from the peak. The eruption on Monday morning sent ash clouds rolling down its slopes. The volcano has been active since 2010 and an exclusion zone surrounds the volcano.\n, In this Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, file photo, motorists ride on a road covered in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Gurukinayan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Rumbling Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has shot billowing columns of ash more than 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) into the atmosphere and hot clouds down its slopes. (AP Photo/Endro Rusharyanto, File)\nJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) \u2014 The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung that shot ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) high also blew away much of the mountain's summit.\nBefore and after images from Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation show an enormous chunk missing from the peak, which it called \"completely annihilated.\"\nVolcanologist Devy Kamil Syahbana said Tuesday that the chunk, known as the \"lava dome,\" had a volume of at least 1.6 million cubic meters (56.5 million cubic feet).\nThe volcano in North Sumatra, which has been active since 2010 after centuries of dormancy, erupted explosively on Monday morning.\nHot ash clouds rolled down its slopes, traveling as far as 4.9 kilometers from the crater, and ash reached Lhokseumawe, a city more than 260 kilometers (162 miles) to the northwest.\nNo-one was injured. Video showed screaming children fleeing a school outside the volcano's exclusion zone as a billowing column of ash rose in the background.\nMount Sinabung is among more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire,\" an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/tacoma-rainiers/article158358019.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IKJWORYJFEH7I6YKLM6X2EEESHR7NWX6", "length": 902, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thenewstribune.com", "title": "Pitcher Andrew Moore could be saying goodbye to Tacoma this week and hello again to Mariners | Tacoma News Tribune", "raw_content": "Moore said the experience, one he had been dreaming all of his life, was everything he hoped it would be.\n\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d Moore said Monday. \u201cThe lights really are a lot brighter up there. It\u2019s always been a childhood dream to play in the big leagues.\n\u201cIt was great to have my family be able to come up and watch.\u201d\nMoore said he settled down after the first inning. \u201cOnce I got in the game it was just another game to me,\u201d he said.\nListach wasn't surprised by Moore\u2019s performance, considering how competitive he is.\n\u201cHe pitches to win every single day, every single inning,\u201d Listach said. \u201cWhen he gets in trouble he knows how to get out of trouble \u2013which is a big attribute to have.\n\u201cHis stuff isn\u2019t a 100 miles an hour \u2013 but he knows how to pitch.\u201d\nListach said Moore, who was 3-1 with a 3.13 ERA in eight starts at Tacoma before his promotion, will be on 75-pitch limit.\ntholmes@thenewstribune.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/07/student_results_sliced_diced_analyzed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7XGRLIUCJHMVJ5LMXK5Z2S3PLCVSZDU", "length": 6754, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.theregister.co.uk", "title": "So, who is the cluster bomb? Student results sliced, diced, analysed \u2022 The Register", "raw_content": "So, who is the cluster bomb? Student results sliced, diced, analysed\nAnd maybe over-analysed too\nBy Dan Olds, OrionX 7 Dec 2016 at 10:33\nHPC Blog It's time to close the books on another highly successful SC Student Cluster Competition. This year was special in a number of ways. First, it was the event's 10th anniversary. At 14 teams, it was also the largest SC competition ever \u2013 a far cry from the original five. SC16 was also noteworthy in terms of the performance achieved (more than twice the existing LINPACK record) and the wide variety of cluster configurations designed by the student participants.\nWe already covered the LINPACK and HPCG results here and here, so let's get right to the applications.\nThe \"Reproducibility\" application is a first for any cluster competition. This application has students testing out a scientific paper in order to reproduce the results.\nIn this test, the students are using ParConnect to analyse pond scum in an exercise of metagenomics. As you can imagine, there are a huge number of different organisms in your typical sample of scum, and assembling their genes is a pretty big compute job.\nAs you can see from the scores, this application didn't pose a huge challenge to our student teams. The top three teams (USTC, Illinois, and FAU) all scored a perfect 100 per cent on this application, while Utah came in fourth with 98 per cent. Munich and Texas followed with twin 95 per cent scores.\nThe next application up is Paraview, a visualisation application that is used in a wide variety of fields. It is particularly handy for analysing extremely large datasets, and has been used on supercomputers to analyse petascale-sized datasets.\nTeam USTC narrowly edged Team Munich on this application by a single point. Running a little bit behind the leaders are Teams Illinois and Utah \u2013 which is a very impressive performance for newbie teams. As you can see by the median and mean scores, there was a bit more variability in the scores for the other ten teams.\nGROMACS was this year's mystery application \u2013 revealed to students just before the application portion of the competition began. Those of you who routinely analyse proteins or lipids, whether for your job or as a hobby, know that GROMACS is one of the mack-daddy programs designed to handle these tasks.\nOur students weren't quite as experienced with this program, judging by the average and median scores for this application. Still, the kids from Singapore (Team Nanyang) managed to post a perfect score, followed by the newbie Power-pushing team from Peking at 85 per cent. Team USTC, with their ten P100 accelerators, finished behind Peking by a single point, with USTC finishing in the money with 84 per cent. Illinois gets on the scoreboard with an honourable mention.\nThe hands-down toughest task for the teams was the Password Cracking challenge. Students are presented with a series of datasets that contain password hashes. It's their task to work through dictionary attacks to decode these hashes into true passwords.\nAs you can see by the median score, teams were all over the map on this application. This is also the lowest average score of all of the applications in the competition. The organisers really threw the kids a curveball with this one.\nTeams were scored by the number of passwords they managed to crack \u2013 with Team Taiwan (NTHU) posting the biggest number. Team Utah managed to get within 20 per cent of NTHU's result, which again is a great job by a new team.\nBut check out Team NEU/Auburn. These are the kids whose cluster was lost in the mail and ended up running a couple of workstations and a single true supercomputer node. Somehow, some way, they were able to grab third place \u2013 despite having less and significantly crappier hardware. According to our application experts, it looks like NEU/Auburn was able to find great dictionaries and exploit them to the max in order to achieve this score. Colour me impressed.\nThe final part of the competition included interviews by HPC experts and the judging of team posters. Each team was interviewed with an eye towards their HPC knowledge, their understanding of their systems, and how well they could explain their optimisations.\nTeam Munich scored a big win with a 95 per cent score, with Team Texas and Utah knotted at 93 per cent. Teams FAU and Peking were right behind with scores of 91 and 90 respectively.\nOverall, the teams did very well on the interview and post part of the competition, with the average and median scores both at 84/85 per cent.\n... and the Champion is...\nTeam USTC topped the other thirteen with an overall score of 89 per cent. They are the first team to ever capture the Overall Championship Award and the Highest LINPACK Award at the same competition \u2013 an amazing performance.\nWhat's interesting is that they only won two of the application categories (along with LINPACK and HPCG). This was a very close competition. USTC finished in the money on GROMACS, but didn't make the scoreboard on the other applications. I think the big key to their win was not making any mistakes. They turned in an all-round good performance, while posting wins on Paraview and Reproducibility.\nLook at Team Utah! They're both a first-time competitor and the home team \u2013 and they brought home the Silver Medal (or, since they were already at home, they just sort of kept it there). They built their second place score by placing on the scoreboard on four out of the five applications, plus doing well on the benchmarks.\nThis is unprecedented in SC competitions. Typically the home team doesn't do so well, and particularly if they're first-timers. This was a fantastic performance by the Utes.\nVeterans NTHU took down third place, fuelled by their dominant performance on Password Cracking and solid scores on the other applications/benchmarks. This is the highest the team has placed for several competitions. Perhaps we're seeing the start of a resurgence in Taiwan student clustering?\nThe blended team of University of Texas (Austin) and Texas State University grabbed an Honourable Mention for finishing only two points south of third place, the best performance we've seen with a blended team in competition history. Quite an achievement.\nThis competition was unusual in that all of the teams did pretty well. There weren't a lot of zero scores on the scorecards, which is a break from what we've seen in the past. Students are getting better, the hardware is getting better, and the scores are rising. Things are going well in Student Cluster land.\nThe next major international competition is scheduled for Asia sometime around April. We'll be there to cover all the action and bring you the most comprehensive overview and results possible. Stay tuned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 13484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theremodeledlife.com/2012/05/senior-salute.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YHHBADQVWHRJRUK57D4YQ5LANXFILTM2", "length": 2134, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.theremodeledlife.com", "title": "The Remodeled Life: Senior Salute", "raw_content": "Over the weekend, we had the privilege of honoring and recognizing a fantastic group of Seniors from our student ministry. This weekend is always bitter sweet for us. We have spent the last seven years getting to know this awesome group and it's hard to let them go. We have cried with them, laughed with them, experienced God with them, worshipped with them, prayed with them and watched them grown into incredible young men and women of Christ. Even though we will miss them being a part of our youth group, we are so excited to see how God works in their lives in the future!\nPart of the festivities includes a lunch for all of the seniors and their families and friends. The Junior class families always work so hard putting this event together. Everything from wrapping gifts, decorating, setting up, serving the meal and clean up - they always make it a special day. So, I wanted to share a few of the things we did, you know in case you have a graduation party looming in your near future.\nThe church always provides a gift for our graduating seniors but Justin and I like to leave them a little reminder of what they have learned while in youth group. This year we focused a lot on being the light in the world and being the City on a hill: You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden -Matthew 5:14. So, we got a little flashlight for each of them - the flashlights aren't anything fancy, just a little reminder. We also wrote them a note of encouragement to continue shining their lights and being the City.\nThanks for letting me share a little bit of our weekend with you! We've got the big Share Your Story series starting this Wednesday so make sure you check back in!! Have a wonderful week!\nLabels: Faith, family, God, graduation party ideas, student ministry, youth group\nI always love senior recognition at church...I definitely cried this year when I saw some of the \"kids\" on the stage!\nMelody Logan May 22, 2012 at 8:12 AM\nThat looks like such a wonderful party! We always have a year-end banquet at our church youth group where we would do something special for the seniors. I love this idea!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestbernardvoice.com/news/st-bernard-parish-government-update-its-restore-act-multi-year-implementation-plan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:X2V6YIU2UJZXJFD2YD47LAVFBPBSYUAX", "length": 334, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thestbernardvoice.com", "title": "St. Bernard Parish Government to update its RESTORE Act Multi-year Implementation Plan | St Bernard Voice", "raw_content": "St. Bernard Parish Government to update its RESTORE Act Multi-year Implementation Plan\nSt. Bernard Parish Government is in the process of updating its RESTORE Act Multi-year Implementation Plan (MIP), which includes a number of coastal and economic development activities that are intended to mitigate the impacts of the BP Oil Spill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 147.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestbernardvoice.com/obituaries/beth-ann-byrd-ruiz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JLXLBRF7W4XFCZYQD5DXUVQEH4G7ILG6", "length": 1319, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thestbernardvoice.com", "title": "Beth Ann Byrd Ruiz | St Bernard Voice", "raw_content": "Beth Ann Byrd Ruiz\nBeth Ann Byrd Ruiz gained her wings at Ochsner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, LA, on the afternoon of Monday August 6, 2018, at the age of 49. She was born in New Orleans and lived in St. Bernard Parish all of her life, spending her childhood in Hopedale. She worked as a waitress and tended bar at Antoine\u2019s in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Lehman\u2019s Bar in Chalmette and also at Big Daddy\u2019s in the Marigny district. She unselfishly gave of herself through the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) to help others live. Her bright smile and her giving heart will be missed by her parents, her husband, her daughters, granddaughter, sisters, brothers, and all who knew and loved her. She is survived by her parents, Richard E. Byrd and Carole Chastant Byrd; her husband, Murphy J. Ruiz; her daughters Marissa Ruiz (Jared) and Meghan Ruiz; and her granddaughter, Menah Powell, who loving called her \u201cBAM.\u201d She was also the loving mother of the late Mathew Ruiz who she missed every day. Beth is the sister of Dayna Byrd Fitzgerald (Mark), Robert Byrd, Sherri Byrd Lopez (Scott), and Scott Byrd (Fannie). She is the aunt to a host of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews who loved her. A private service was held. Arrangements are entrusted to Serenity Funeral Home, Covington, LA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/football/wayne-rooney-announces-retirement-from-international-football-after-the-2018-world-cup/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KX4NB6VYCT77TVJTRH2GHWH3FTYJNSUG", "length": 110, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", "title": "Wayne Rooney announces retirement from international football after the 2018 World Cup \u2013 The Sun", "raw_content": "Wayne Rooney announces retirement from international football after the 2018 World Cup\nRooney\u2019s last world cup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 579, "original_length": 20212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 203.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/all-brexit-options-would-hurt-uk-economy-9cvpnn32f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:08Z", "digest": "sha1:A2PPCMEIFQDFPUWHZILVZC3CSGQ6SBFZ", "length": 1123, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thetimes.co.uk", "title": "No-deal Brexit \u2018would be worst crash since 1930s\u2019 | News | The Times", "raw_content": "No-deal Brexit \u2018would be worst crash since 1930s\u2019\nBank warns of deep recession, house prices could fall by a third and governor is attacked over analysis\nPhilip Aldrick, Economics Editor | Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor\nMark Carney, the Bank of England governor, said that Britain was not ready for a no-deal Brexit. The Bank\u2019s analysis was dismissed as \u201cfraudulent\u201d by BrexiteersGetty Images\nBritain would be plunged into its deepest recession since the 1930s under a disorderly no-deal Brexit, the Bank of England warned yesterday.\nHouse prices could fall by 30 per cent, interest rates rise to 5.5 per cent and the economy shrink by 8 per cent \u2014 a greater contraction than after the 2008 financial crisis \u2014 its worst-case scenario showed.\nBen Broadbent, one of the Bank\u2019s deputy governors, said that this would be worse than any crisis since \u201cwe went back on gold\u201d and the economy subsequently crashed in 1930. In the 2008 financial crisis the British economy shrank by 6.3 per cent.\nThe Bank gave its assessment hours after a Whitehall analysis suggested that the economy would shrink under all versions of Brexit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/347/matchmakers", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6BJFAHVGYDEW5AV52KONRRF6YJW6TSN4", "length": 3016, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thisamericanlife.org", "title": "Matchmakers - This American Life", "raw_content": "Sabir, a young man in Afghanistan, thought he'd found true love but he couldn't afford a wedding. So two foreign aid workers, friends of his, decide to come to his rescue. They soon find out making a lasting love match isn't as simple as writing a check.\nSabir with his would-be matchmakers, Miriam (left) and Nikaj (right).\nThis and other stories of people matching others up\u2014with wives, with toys, with body parts.\nIra Glass talks to This American Life Producer Jane Feltes about a recent date she was set up on by a friend. The date was awful\u2014the guy seemed stoned the whole time. But worse than a wasted evening was the thought: what must her friend think of her if he's setting her up with this guy? (5 minutes)\nA Good Year For Grand Gestures\nMiriam and her husband were development workers in Afghanistan. They'd had a whirlwind romance themselves, so when they heard that their driver was in love, but didn't have enough money to propose to the girl, they made a grand romantic gesture: They gave him $10,000 to pay for the dowry and the wedding. It was a move they probably should have known wouldn't work out so well. Gregory Warner reports. (16 minutes)\n\u201cMatchmaker, Matchmaker\u201d by Wes Montgomery\nPart Of Me, Why Not Take Part Of Me?\nChaya Lipschutz, an Orthodox Jewish woman from Brooklyn, donated her kidney to a stranger. After that, she decided to spend all her time trying to match up potential donors with kidney patients. It's incredibly hard to make a match, and for a year, she had no success. Then, she gets her first break: Her brother's going to donate. For Chaya, a single, middle-aged woman who was supposed to get married decades ago like everyone else in her community, being a kidney matchmaker has become an obsession. She needs this surgery to succeed. Reporter Mary Robertson and This American Life Producer Sarah Koenig recorded Chaya and her brother as the transplant date approached. (19 minutes)\n\u201cStranger in Love\u201d by John Holt\nBabies Buying Babies\nElna Baker reads her story about the time she worked at the giant toy store, FAO Schwartz. Her job was to sell these lifelike \"newborns\" which were displayed in a \"nursery\" inside the store. When the toys become the hot new present, they begin to fly off the shelves. When the white babies sell out, white parents are faced with a choice: Will they go for an Asian, Latino, or African-American baby instead? What happens is so disturbing that Elna has a hard time even telling it. 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He has a great time out there. He makes plays out of nothing. It's fun to watch.\"\nRyan threw for 1,254 yards and 16 touchdowns and rushed for 932 with 19 touchdowns through 13 games. His team lost to Eastmoor 14-10 in a state semifinal last Saturday. He made first-team all-district on defense as the free safety. A probable baseball recruit for college, he also returns kicks and is punting in place of Klein in the playoffs.\n\"He's the difference-maker on that team this year,\" Newark Catholic coach Bill Franks said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thompsons.law/news/news-releases/asbestos-disease-news/thompsons-secures-gbp160000-asbestos-compensation-for-former-carpenter-s-labourer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:LH7NZWAP3HQDQTJ4QMGY7V5SRKZM6RM3", "length": 1894, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.thompsons.law", "title": "Thompsons secures \u00a3160,000 asbestos compensation for former carpenter\u2019s labourer | Thompsons Solicitors", "raw_content": "Thompsons secures \u00a3160,000 asbestos compensation for former carpenter\u2019s labourer\nAsbestos claims specialists Thompsons Solicitors\nAsbestos claims specialists Thompsons Solicitors has obtained over \u00a3160,000 in compensation for a former carpenter\u2019s labourer diagnosed with fatal asbestos cancer.\nThe 69-year-old from Somerset was exposed to asbestos while working for a contractor as a carpenter\u2019s labourer at RAF barracks on Salisbury Plain for four weeks in 1974.\nDuring the four weeks with the company he worked on adapting accommodation blocks. His work included cutting up Asbestolux sheeting to use as partitions.\nHe was never warned about the dangers of asbestos nor given adequate protection from the dust.\nAsbestos related cancer, mesothelioma\nHe first began to suffer from symptoms of the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, in October 2011 and was diagnosed with the fatal disease in December 2011.\nThe married dad of two and granddad to five contacted Thompsons Solicitors to investigate a claim.\nHe said: \u201cWhen I was diagnosed with mesothelioma I knew that I\u2019d been exposed to asbestos working in the construction company. At the time I had no idea just how much damage the asbestos would do to me. I was never told by the employer that it was dangerous. I so wish we had been.\n\u201cI knew claiming compensation was the right thing to do for my family. It is a relief to know that this compensation is now available for my wife in the future.\u201d\nEamonn McDonough from Thompsons Solicitors added: \u201cThe legacy of asbestos use in the building trades has affected many workers who have sadly been diagnosed with mesothelioma. Carpenters and joiners who worked in the trade in the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s are among those most at risk.\n\"It was particularly important that the case for this client was finalised quickly and efficiently during his lifetime so he could make provision for his family.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 8446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.threadsofsuccess.co.uk/using-persona-dolls", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BTMQPJPLC24VEJBUNUQIRA5ZIT7PA43E", "length": 305, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.threadsofsuccess.co.uk", "title": "(info) Using Persona Dolls \u2014 Threads of Success", "raw_content": "Using Persona Dolls (half day)\nThis new workshop will explore the many ways in which persona dolls can be used to encourage children to empathise, help them solve problems and can be used to introduce added diversity to a setting in order for children to learn about different backgrounds and life styles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 6082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2015/04/a-metaphor-a-plea/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GGJOUI7DCP7LYYCTBPQAXHPBAJZUOT4L", "length": 32399, "nlines": 146, "source_domain": "www.timesandseasons.org", "title": "A Metaphor & a Plea | Times & Seasons", "raw_content": "A Metaphor & a Plea\nby Rosalynde Welch \u2022 April 7, 2015 \u2022 70 Comments\nI\u2019m pleased to share a post written by my friend Christian Harrison.\nI\u2019d like to write a few words about something that was said, during the Saturday morning session of General Conference.\nI grew up in Spokane, Washington. Living so close to the Canadian border, I frequently came across the random Canadian penny or dime. As a child, I learned that they were easily used to pay at the cashier but they were rejected outright by vending machines.\nYou see, those Canadian coins weren\u2019t counterfeit, they were just foreign. The cashiers knew the difference\u2026 but the machines did not. And what separates the cashier from the machine is experience \u2014 and the willingness to learn from it. The cashiers knew that the coins were valued the same as their US equivalents by their customers. The foreign coins weren\u2019t part of the official economy, but they were part of mine. I knew that I could use them to get cookies at the grocery store, to pay for a day at the local pool, or to pay my late fines at the library.\nI\u2019m both an out gay man and a practicing Latter-day Saint\u2026 and I\u2019d like to speak to my brothers and sisters: as Latter-day Saints, we know the power of bearing testimony. And as LGBTQ Mormons, I would hope, we understand how vital it is to live our lives out loud. It\u2019s my hope that our lives might be a testimony to our friends, neighbors, and leaders of our enduring and inherent value \u2014 a testimony that our lives and loves are simply foreign\u2026 not counterfeit.\nWe\u2019ve come so far, and have so far to go. Sites like Mormons & Gays do their part, but the heavy lifting will be done in our wards and in our neighborhoods as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints step out from the shadows and members of the Church who\u2019ve not had any true frame of reference realize that they\u2019ve loved someone gay (or lesbian or trans) all along.\nIt\u2019s hard, after all, to hate someone you actually know.\nD Christian Harrison was born and raised in Spokane, Washington. After a two-year mission in Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec and a five-year stint at BYU, Christian settled down in Salt Lake City. With neither a spouse nor children, Christian spends his vast reserves of free time working, politicking, hosting dinner parties, serving in Church, dating, and road tripping. Christian is a long-time friend of Times & Seasons where, in the early years, he posted as Silus Grok.\n\u2190 New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson #15\nVarieties of Grace \u2192\n70 comments for \u201cA Metaphor & a Plea\u201d\nWell stated! Thank you\n*It\u2019s hard, after all, to hate someone you actually know.*\nChristian, thank you for this. I think your metaphor is memorable and illuminating. The full, genuine, bona fide humanity and fellowship of LGBT Saints (and others who depart from the norm) is something we must never stop paying attention to. All metaphors have their limits, of course \u2014 the limit here is that all Canadian pennies look alike, whereas different gay Saints will live their lives differently. Some may be called to celibacy, others to relationship; some to group advocacy, some to good works of a different kind. But each one is fully, genuinely human.\nAdam, I agree. However, it is *harder* to hate someone you actually know than it is to hate a faceless bogeyman. And it is harder still to hate someone you love. And when you can see their efforts to live the gospel, you can still disagree with them, but hate becomes very difficult.\nWell, I hope that\u2019s the case, anyway. On my better days.\nWell said. Am I the only one, though, who doesn\u2019t know what was said at the Saturday morning conference session that sparked this post? Could some context be added?\nI believe Christian is responding to a line in this talk: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2015/04?lang=eng&vid=4153594606001&cid=11\ndavidsonlaw\nThis is an unfortunate metaphor. Canadian pennies are only worth 80% of their American counterpart.\nBut not in the local economy Christian describes \u2014 that\u2019s the point! The community accepted them as foreign, but of full value in exchange.\nRosalynde (8), this post and follow-up seem to be dancing around a lot of things. What is the line in the talk you are referring to? Also, does the \u201clives and loves\u201d referred to in the OP include dudes having sex with dudes?\nRosalynde:\nDid Elder Perry say that gay Saints aren\u2019t fully, genuinely human?\nLisa in WY\nI have found that when you finally have a dear friend who is gay, or when you receive heartfelt service from someone who also happens to be lesbian, the worry about sexuality falls away. So much more important is who they are and what they mean in your life. That has been my experience. So yes, it is hard to hate someone you don\u2019t know.\nRoughly 80% of murder victims are killed by someone who knows them.\nAs a rule, I generally let my posts (wherever they turn up) develop a life of their own before wading into the comments\u2026 but I don\u2019t want Rosalynde to be in the awkward position of defending my post.\nIf you have questions about my post, please direct them to me.\nYou apparently have an opinion on what he said, why don\u2019t you share that with us, NWC.\nMy opinion is that he did not say that gay Saints aren\u2019t fully, genuinely human. What\u2019s your opinion, Christian?\nN. W. Clerk: Without taking the time to watch the entire talk (again), I\u2019m pretty sure I can say that no, he did NOT say \u201cgay Saints aren\u2019t fully, genuinely human\u201d. But he didn\u2019t need to. You can be fully, genuinely human and still be on \u201cThe World\u2019s\u201d side, and therefore not fully, genuinely committed to the Gospel (at best) or wholly evil and completely pitted against God and His work (at worst).\nThe problem is that as long as we hear talks about \u201cthe world\u201d and \u201cworldly philosophies\u201d trying to destroy THE FAMILY, it\u2019s a very short trip to the idea that the main threat is gay marriage (which has been preached, if not over the pulpit at GC, then in the Church\u2019s actions re Prop 8). The next step in the train of thought is that all gays want to get married, and that therefore, all gays \u2013 and anyone who support them \u2013 are trying to destroy the family.\nGreat! So defending gay Saints as \u201cfully, genuinely human\u201d is defending them against a charge that wasn\u2019t being made. I\u2019m glad we can agree on that.\nNobody accused Elder Perry of saying any such thing. So you\u2019re defending him against a defense that wasn\u2019t made against a charge that wasn\u2019t made.\nRosalynde\u2019s comment (as I read it) was that we, *as a church*, need to be better at viewing our LGBT brothers and sisters as fully, genuinely valued *as members of the church*. And that is absolutely something we need to work on. While there were many talks (especially Sunday morning) that were very much about all of us as sinners and all of us being patient and loving with each other\u2019s shortcomings, many of our talks about the family engender an \u201cus vs. them\u201d mentality \u2013 especially against \u201cthe gays\u201d\nWell Canadians come to the glory of Canada\u2026\nN.W. I think that the point of the post is that others lives and experiences and perspectives are not counterfeit, just because they are foreign to us doesn\u2019t make them counterfeit. Who we are, what we are, and how we are, and our experiences are all real and of worth. When we other people or call their experiences counterfeit because they are not like us we sin.\nI\u2019m still confused. Are we being asked to consider gay sex as \u201cforeign\u201d instead of sinful or not? If this is about accepting that everyone is valuable and may have much to offer regardless of alphabet soup designation, OK, done. But if the idea is that Mormons are supposed to stop thinking dudes having sex with dudes is a sin (just \u201cforeign\u201d), this is a delusional waste of pixels.\nElder Perry wasn\u2019t speaking of individuals but of families. It would have been better for many reasons if he had simply drawn the line between marriage and non-committed relationships (which he also referenced in his talk). Instead, he praised *traditional* families and absolutely implied *non traditional* families were counterfeit:\nWell done, Christian.\nFrank Peleltt\nOk, had to listen to it, since the print isn\u2019t out yet.\n\u201cWe want our voice to be heard, against all the counterfeits and alternate lifestyles that try to replace family organizations that God Himself established.\u201d (L Tom Perry, Saturday Morning Conference Session, at abt 13:14)\nThere was nothing about gays not being fully human or not being fully valued. The whole talk was about how we and other religions can find commonalities in \u201ctraditional\u201d marriage.\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good metaphor. Also spending some years near the Canadian border, Canadian pennies were a serious nuisance, not just something that people used interchangeably with US pennies. Banks (with their machines) wouldn\u2019t accept them, so the loss had to be taken by the shop owners.\nIf you want to talk about how same sex marriage is just as good as two sex marriage, just different, you\u2019re going to have to come up with a different talk to use as an example. If you want to talk about how those outside the gender/sexual \u201cnorm\u201d are different but just as acceptable, you\u2019ll need a better metaphor.\nThanks, Christian. As someone born from a non-Christian interracial relationship who grew up to marry interracially (and, technically, to a non-Christian as well though she later joined the church), I wonder how church leaders of earlier eras would have described my family. If Elder Perry meant to call out cohabitation, or sexual sin, or secularization, fine, he should have done so. Otherwise, I\u2019m not sure I see the value in even attempting to define a given relationship as \u201ccounterfeit.\u201d\nSerious questions for Bro. Harrison\u2026\nDoes acknowledging a gay man\u2019s \u201cenduring and inherent value\u201d require that I disavow my perception of homosexual acts as immoral and contrary to God\u2019s law?\nIs acknowledging a gay man\u2019s enduring and inherent value any different than acknowledging the enduring and inherent value of any man or woman irrespective of their sexual orientation or personal predilections?\nIf we can agree on the premise that homosexual acts are immoral and contrary to God\u2019s law, what is the value of self identifying as gay (\u201cout loud\u201d)? Putting aside social policy and within the confines of our wards/neighborhoods/families, how is it different than self identifying with any other personal predilection the pursuit of which runs contrary to God\u2019s law?\nYou reference the heavy lifting needed from LBGTQ Mormons. Help me understand what I can do to better recognize your enduring and inherent value. Is your purpose a matter of eroding the social stigma within the Church associated with LBGTQ issues or are you are asking for something more? If so, what?\nI hope these questions don\u2019t come across as rhetorical or agenda driven. I ask them sincerely. The problem is that the language used to discuss the LGBTQ movement carries social and political baggage. I often find myself wondering what exactly you and other outspoken proponents of the LGBTQ movement within the Church ask of me, your brother in the Gospel.\nMormon theology, as I see it, is premised on the idea of the \u201cpatriarchal order.\u201d It is an ideology that says the social unit of value in this life and the next requires one heterosexual male and some number of females greater than or equal to one. And, everyone has to be virile and fertile.\nHeaven knows I\u2019d like some other way to interpret our faith, but at it\u2019s core, the faith is centered on the \u201cpatriarchal order,\u201d i.e. the heterosexual male and his \u201ckingdom.\u201d\nThis discussion, along with many other discussions by thoughtful LDS people, is answering this question: \u201cThis \u2018patriarchal order\u2019 thing doesn\u2019t really give me much purpose or meaning in life. Can I still be LDS?\u201d\nGood heavens I hope this works out for you Christian. I\u2019m all ears for how people manage to make this work. I genuinely pray for your success in working out a meaningful solution.\nI echo JJ above. It is often not really clear to me what I, as a member of the church, am being asked to change or do for LBGTQ members besides doing what I should be doing for all members\u2026 namely loving and serving them, forgiving them their trespasses against me and striving to be kind to them. Is there something more to all of this?\nThanks for this, Christian.\nFrank, when L. Tom Perry mentioned \u201ccounterfeit\u201d lifestyles, he clearly had same-sex marriage in mind. I think what Christian means by \u201clive our lives out loud\u201d is dating people of the same gender with the intent finding a same-gender marriage partner (correct me if I\u2019m wrong). He then states that \u201cour lives\u201d (with the apparent meaning of same-sex romantic relationships) shouldn\u2019t be regarded as \u201ccounterfeit,\u201d although it is not clear if he is alluding to L. Tom Perry\u2019s talk.\nI\u2019ve said this before but I am at a loss as to what to think about subjects like polygamy and LGBT. The way some brethren talk about it it\u2019s as if life is black and white, all are straight, all are interested in marriage, all know the plan of salvation, all want and should have kids, can afford them and all have access to dating partners. The world is just not like that. I don\u2019t know where or what purpose homosexuality serves or what God expects his children (LDS or not) who are LGBT to do. Is he suprised gay rights is an issue? or that people don\u2019t like gay folks or that vice versa?\nBeautifully put! Thank you.\nI believe its wishful thinking that the Church will ever fully accept you as you are. I hope someday to be proven wrong but the way the Church has and continues to fight against same sex marriage speaks volumes. Also, history has shown that as movements such as mormonism get attacked like it is with the debates over historicity of the BofM,etc., the movements move way to the right because the liberals leave and the fox news believers are the ones remaining.\nSo, good luck to you if you choose to stay. I personally think you would be better served by leaving an organization that doesn\u2019t care one bit about you and denies deep down that you were born this way.\nOne of my favorite snippets from literature comes from Graham Greene\u2019s The Power and the Glory. Here\u2019s the quote, and it fits perfectly with your closing line, Christian.\n\u201cWhen you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God\u2019s image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.\u201d\nyoserian,\nDon\u2019t mean to go off topic, but I find your caricature of church members offensive. Those of us that choose to remain in the church are not all knuckle-dragging, fox news watching ignoramuses who don\u2019t care about the lives and struggles of other people, including those that are gay.\nWe think seriously about these issues. Just because we come to a different conclusion than you, doesn\u2019t mean that we are in denial nor does it mean that we don\u2019t care about members like Christian.\nChristian, as a fellow gay active Latter-day Saint, I think we\u2019re in a more difficult position than your post implies. It may be unfair or selfish, but I don\u2019t want to be the victim of tokenism. As soon as I tell a lot of people I\u2019m gay\u2014especially people I\u2019m only newly acquainted with\u2014that becomes all I represent to them. I\u2019m gay, and I\u2019m not ashamed of that, nor do I actively try to conceal it, but I\u2019m also so many more things than that, and as sick as I get of the hate and misunderstanding, I get almost as sick of the \u201cyou\u2019re so brave\u201d comments and cooption by people for whatever cause they believe in, conservative or liberal.\nSo does anyone in my current ward know I\u2019m gay? No. Does my current bishop know I\u2019m gay? No. The first bishop I told spent every interview we had telling me I needed to get married and that he knew a gay women he\u2019d counseled who had gotten married and prayed really hard and she became heterosexually attracted to her husband, and he kept promising me that if I dated people of the opposite gender and got married and prayed for long enough I would gain heterosexual attraction, too. Even he tokenized me, and I don\u2019t want that again.\nI\u2019m different, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m foreign or exotic or brave or damned or mutated or better or worse. I\u2019m just different. My chosen religion doesn\u2019t approve of me being capable of an eternal marriage. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s right or wrong, but I believe in the fundamental core of the gospel message, so I stay unmarried.\nAnd that\u2019s my life. It\u2019s not something brave and heroic or testimony-worthy that I need to go around screaming to everyone I meet, any more than any other person\u2019s life is. There\u2019s nothing sacred and testimony-worthy about me being attracted to people of my same gender just like there\u2019s nothing shameful and sinful about it, just like there isn\u2019t anything sacred or sinful about my height or eye color.\nAnd more to the point, I\u2019ve come to realize that our feelings of prejudice are caused by our own securities. To get someone to love me, I don\u2019t need to get them to know me, I need them to get to know themselves, and to see how much God loves them and how valuable they are to Him and how they don\u2019t need to be afraid or despair because Jesus came and took their sins and blood and everything upon himself if they\u2019ll just let go if it.\nUs gays are hardly the only people being judged at church or in the world. Your way helps just me. The other way helps everyone. Otherwise, whenever a pence or kopek or rupee or whatever the next metaphoric currency is comes along, we\u2019ll just have to start all over, because we never taught anyone the real lesson in the first place.\nSorry to disagree.\nJJ, others:\nAcknowledging a gay man\u2019s \u201cenduring and inherent value\u201d doesn\u2019t require you to disavow your belief that homosexual acts are immoral\u2026 but I\u2019m wagering that required or not, that will be the wage of familiarity. Once you come to have gay friends who live and love out loud, the otherness of gay love \u2014 and, ultimately, gay sex \u2014 will fade into the background. Our shared experience of human sexuality will be all that\u2019s left\u2026\nThe tender embrace, the practiced vulnerability, the molecular abandon \u2014 that heady, awkward dance that plays out on eddies of desire and indifference \u2014 heaving, as it were, on tides of cosmic and biological cycles.\nOnce we restrict consensual sex to the confines of a loving marriage, focusing on the plumbing is like arguing over which highway one should take to Disneyland/the beach/the temple.\n\u201cAcknowledging a gay man\u2019s \u2018enduring and inherent value\u2019 doesn\u2019t require you to disavow your belief that homosexual acts are immoral\u2026 but I\u2019m wagering that required or not, that will be the wage of familiarity.\u201d\nYou\u2019d lose that wager. I have friends and relatives who have broken the Law of Chastity in a wide variety of ways. I never stopped loving these people; I never started believing that they were right and the Prophets and Apostles were wrong.\nMoreover, I\u2019d submit that infidelity, fetishism, and promiscuity are categorically different from consensual sex one finds within the confines of a loving marriage. So it\u2019s no wonder you haven\u2019t changed your mind\u2026 yet.\nDoes that maxim apply to you as well? Are you certain that you will never come to agree with the Prophets and Apostles that homosexual relations are sinful?\n\u201cfocusing on the plumbing is like arguing over which highway one should take to Disneyland/the beach/the temple.\u201d\nI\u2019m a heterosexual male. I cannot foresee the day when I can view. \u2026 To me, gay sex is personally revolting. I don\u2019t understand it at all.\nThat being said, I feel every compulsion to take homosexuals at their word\u2013that homosexuality is perfectly natural, that they were born that way, and that they should be free to live life in that manner. I\u2019m persuaded that legally homosexuals should have available to them all of the rights of heterosexuals, including marriage. I have an uncle who is gay and has been with his partner for 25+ years through sickness and health, poverty and wealth. I know gay parents trying to raise children in this world. Those children deserve every benefit we as a society can give them. I see a bright future for homosexuals in society at large. If I have a son or daughter who is gay, I\u2019m hopeful for his or her future, in the U.S.\nI would have serious doubts about encouraging that child to remain LDS. When church leadership speaks of \u201ceternal families,\u201d they are not using that term as it would be understood in common parlance. What they are talking about is a claim that the purpose of mankind is tied up with the \u201cpatriarchal order.\u201d That is not what Joe-on-the-street thinks about if you told him the word \u201ceternal family.\u201d \u201cEternal family\u201d is a marketing term.\nHomosexuality does not fit in the LDS narrative. I\u2019m not saying it cannot be done. I\u2019d like to think the LDS ideology could evolve, maybe. I know for a fact that the lion\u2019s share of LDS members are open minded people who genuinely love other people. And, maybe spending one\u2019s life giving people familiarity is a worthy pursuit. However, I would never ask my son or daughter to do that. I would encourage them to find other things that give them meaning and purpose in life, other than LDS ideology.\nChristian Harrison (39) \u2013 \u201cOnce we restrict consensual sex to the confines of a loving marriage, focusing on the plumbing is like arguing over which highway one should take to Disneyland/the beach/the temple.\u201d\nWow, you\u2019re just not very good at analogies. Not all highways lead to the same place. While it\u2019s true that there are many routes from New York to Disneyland, if you\u2019re at least not going West and South, you\u2019ll never get there. It\u2019s the same with marriage. If you\u2019re not at least headed in the direction of the goal (Eternal marriage, which is very well established as requiring two genders), you\u2019re never going to get there.\nThe metaphor doesn\u2019t work for me. We need to be saints first and everything else second.\nFrank (#45): You\u2019re an excellent example of what I\u2019m talking about. There is absolutely no room in your LDS world view for homosexuality. My intuition says you\u2019re right, regrettably.\nJust curious, according to you is there a difference between \u201ceternal marriage\u201d and \u201cpatriarchal order\u201d? I\u2019m not asking a rhetorical question. I\u2019m genuinely interested in your view.\nJosh Smith (44): I imagine my revulsion to straight sex is similar to your revulsion to gay sex. The point of my comment isn\u2019t to say that your tastes will change, but that it will fade to the background. Also, I don\u2019t think that homosexuality is incompatible with the LDS narrative. That just hasn\u2019t been my experience.\nFrank Pellett (45): Crafting a good analogy requires faith that the hearer can suspend their insistence on being literal. I\u2019m sorry my faith in you was misplaced.\nJack (46): Being a \u201csaint first and everything else second\u201d is the very definition of crazed fundamentalism. Good luck with that.\nAHA! (This is almost certainly going to get me in trouble.) I\u2019m very interested in other\u2019s thoughts on this:\nI think Joseph Smith was implicit in the first same sex marriage in the LDS faith, and, \u2026 and, he may be a partner in a same sex marriage himself.\nIt\u2019s my understanding that when a man is sealed to more than one woman, the women are sealed to each other. If two women are sealed to one man\u2013and the women are sealed to each other!\u2013and they\u2019re not mother-daughter, what are they? They\u2019re sealed! Is that not same sex marriage?\nNow, if two men are sealed to the same woman (polyandry), are not the two men sealed to each other?\nI\u2019ll leave this to the theologians and historians to work out the intricacies. You heard it here first folks! The LDS faith has been practicing same sex marriage since its inception.\nChristian, what do you think about that? Anything useful in there?\nGood to see you back, Silus.\nPlural marriage is beyond my ken \u2026 BUT Joseph Smith did, most certainly seal men to men. Of course, I imagine it meant something slightly different to them than it would to us, seeing as how 19th century American men were still awash in a homosociality that was ripped \u2014 roots and all \u2014 from our civic fabric in the aftermath of WWI.\nJosh Smith (47), since you asked, I believe there\u2019s a vast difference. To me, Partiarchal Order is a burden caused by the actions in the Garden that we should be trying to overcome, and not part of our Eternal experience.\nChristian Harrison (48) \u2013 trying to convince someone of the error of their ways (as you\u2019ve been attempting with the OP) requires crafting analogies that even somewhat literal people can understand. bad analogies (these not being bad because of literalness, but because you use them poorly) don\u2019t help make your point.\nJosh Smith (49) \u2013 the LDS version of polygamy wasn\u2019t between one person and more than one person, it was strictly between two people of different genders. Emma wasn\u2019t sealed to any of the wives, she was sealed to Joseph. it\u2019s the loophole that allows us to continue polygamy where at least one party is dead, as it\u2019s still a marriage between one man and one woman.\nThough this post was inspired by Elder Perry\u2019s unfortunate (ham-fisted?) use of the term \u201ccounterfeit\u201d \u2014 and not a direct rebuttal of his talk \u2014 I think some readers might like to actually read the talk that inspired the post:\nhttps://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/2015/04/why-marriage-and-family-matter-everywhere-in-the-world?lang=eng\nI get the feeling from your responses that you believe that God is not offended by consensual sex in the confines of a loving marriage irrespective of gender. Maybe you\u2019re right, but given the current position of the Church, how can you reasonably ask believing Mormons to accept your premise that homosexual sex in the confines of a loving marriage does not offend God? Is it fair to write off a believing Mormon as a vending machine that simply hasn\u2019t reached your level of enlightenment?\nRight or wrong, and I hope you acknowledge the possibility that you may be wrong, why does your personal predilection demand such heightened status? I fight mine everyday. Whether the fight is driven by social norms or God\u2019s law, it is still a fight. I constantly try, and fail, to sacrifice them on the alter. I endure them without fanfare and oftentimes without acknowledgement from those very close to me. Maybe I\u2019m doing it wrong, but I don\u2019t feel a need to live my predilections out loud, especially when acting out on them could offend God. I do not take offense if the powers that be in the Church seemingly relegate my personal predilection to some inferior status.\nmirrorrorrim\u2019s comments resonated with me. At the end of the day, shouldn\u2019t we strive to define ourselves by who we can become through Christ rather than by who we currently are (as interpreted through cultural/social lenses)? That said, maybe I\u2019m off here but I\u2019m not aware of any scripture or doctrinal support for the proposition that sexual attraction has some inherent or eternal value. I simply find it difficult to believe that my personal sexual attractions in this life have any enduring value or bearing on the eternities. If not, why should any of us use that specific predilection to define ourselves in the present?\nCalling Dave Banack! I\u2019m only an occasional troll on this blog. It\u2019s my understanding that Dave is a polygamy expert, as a scholar. So somebody please contact him with this question:\nDid Joseph Smith perform or was he involved in the first same sex marriage in the U.S.?\nThat is, when two women are sealed to one man, are the women not sealed to one another?\nAdditional question: Was Joseph Smith sealed to a woman who was sealed to another man? Is Joseph Smith sealed to a man who is not biologically related to him? Was Joseph Smith the first Mormon to be engaged in same sex marriage?\nFrank (#52): Google \u201cpatriarchal order\u201d and see what pops up.\nChristian (#48): Please don\u2019t interpret my comments as a personal attack in any way. Above all in this discussion, I don\u2019t want to inadvertently offend another. Except maybe Frank. If Frank gets an ulcer tonight trying to figure out if Joseph Smith was \u201csealed\u201d to another man, I\u2019m okay with that. :-)\nThat last comment reminds me of Mary McCarthy\u2019s statement about Lillian Hellman: \u201cevery word she writes is a lie, including \u2018and\u2019 and \u2018the.'\u201d\nThere is one exception, though: \u201ctroll.\u201d\nMark B., I offered only questions. Do you have answers?\nJosh Smith (#52) \u2013 yep, quite aware of the predominant teachings about it. I just don\u2019t buy it. I don\u2019t believe men are eternally destined to be above women.\nAnd you\u2019re not even close to starting an ulcer. I rather enjoy learning new things about our history, which is why it helps to work in the Church History Library, even if as just a techie.\nAnd Frank, I\u2019m sorry about being an ass. People have predispositions towards all kinds of things. Unfortunately, I was born a natural ass hole.\nThough I\u2019m absolutely sincere about the questions I posed in #55.\nThis and many similar discussions invoke rhetoric of \u201cauthenticity\u201d which is far from helpful or clear. I\u2019ve found this a good discussion.\nhttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/in-search-of-the-true-self/?_r=0\nWhen two women are sealed to one man, they are not sealed to each other.\nAlso, the sealing of men to men practiced in Joseph\u2019s time is dynastic, not conjugal. You have to delve into the history, but the ordinance is not seen the exact way we perceive sealing now.\nLast comment. I promise.\nThank you SilverRain. Your comment, along with 10 free minutes, inspired a Google search. \u201cWas Joseph Smith sealed to other men?\u201d I really only had time to skim quickly.\nThere is a Wikipedia article on \u201cThe Law of Adoption.\u201d Apparently back in the late 1970\u2019s and early 80\u2019s gay Mormons argued that this doctrine provided a theological basis for the sealing of homosexual men. Here I thought I had an original idea today. Nope. Nothing new coming out of my mind. But, let it be written that I came to the idea on my own, without any impetus from the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s.\nI\u2019m sure there is other interesting material out there. This morning I woke up thinking LDS thought and homosexuality were completely, inevitably at odds. Now, I\u2019m not so sure. A thoughtful Mormon may be able to build a theological foundation for homosexuality within Mormonism.\nThat\u2019s my last comment. Thanks for the thoughtful post, Christian. I\u2019ll keep reading posts, but I\u2019m done.\nJosh Smith: don\u2019t be confused. A \u201cMormon\u201d might build theological basis for homosexuality, but not if they want to be mainstream. Even if Joseph Smith was sealed conjugally (which I have never seen a shred of evidence to that effect, but I\u2019m sure there are more avid historians who can contribute actual documented evidence,) current prophets of the CoJCoLdS speak unequivocally against it.\nAnd the research I\u2019ve done paints a very different picture of the early understanding of the sealing ordinance. Just because someone tried to build a case, doesn\u2019t mean they had any ground to stand on.\nAlexander Pope\u2019s lines about vice\u2019s mien have been quoted 13 times in General Conference. The OP seems to have taken that diagnosis and turned it into a strategy.\nChristian, we admire your courage and openness. I feel like you stretching a bit, but empathize with feelings toward the word choice of \u2018counterfeit.\u2019 I do think that word is accurate in describing the promotion of alternate sexual behaviors, but perhaps a more constructive word would be \u2018thorn in the flesh.\u2019 How do you feel about that one?\nnumfickle\nhttp://www.sltrib.com/news/2396365-155/mormon-church-joins-other-faiths-in\nAfter recently viewing the movie \u201cWoman in Gold,\u201d I wondered why humanity continues to want to marginalize particular groups, either ethnic, religious, gender, etc.? Haven\u2019t we had enough of witting and unwitting persecutions, teenage suicides, banishments, disownments, etc.? Why do we continue to preach that some members need to live celibate lives? Isn\u2019t that anti-family. The LDS Church is headed down the same path that it trod with the black priesthood/temple issue. And all know how that was resolved. Do we need to just wait for a new generation of GAs?\nThey think they need a devil to condemn in order to keep people in the pews. Christianity has done this for centuries and so has the mormon hierarchy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 36686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesindonesia.co.id/read/192088/20181207/002207/kemenkominfo-asks-umkm-enterpreneurs-to-maximize-e-commerce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QSYJQPOIUKCFMHM5NW6TLDUAR3OC55JN", "length": 5868, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.timesindonesia.co.id", "title": "Kemenkominfo Asks UMKM Enterpreneurs to Maximize E- Commerce | TIMES Indonesia", "raw_content": "Kemenkominfo Asks UMKM Enterpreneurs to Maximize E- Commerce\ncolloquium speaker Let's sell MSMEs online\nTIMESINDONESIA, DENPASAR \u2013 The Ministry of Communication and Information of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemenkominfo) held an Online Shopping and Selling Socialization Forum: Cheap, Fast, and Safe in the hall of Mahasaraswati University, Denpasar, Wednesday (05/12/2018).\nOn this occasion the Ministry of Communication and Information held training and facilitate and online sales simulations to invite MSME entrepreneurs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) or UMKM to participate in building and driving ecommerce businesses in Indonesia. This is because Indonesia considered as the great potential place for developing online transactions.\nKemenkominfo cooperates with the Denpasar city government, LPP RRI Denpasar, and the marketplace of Bukalapak to educate MSME regarding the use of e-commerce, it is expected that MSME players can be increasingly stimulated to maximize e-commerce in developing their businesses.\nMoreover, Indonesia is considered to have enormous potential to become the largest digital economy country in Asia, regarding that currently there are penetration of internet users more than 132 million, e-comerce users who fulfill various needs of the community today.\nDirector General of Information and Public Communication of the Ministry of Communication and Information, Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, in her speech said that since the end of 2014, the Ministries and Associations together with the Institutions under the coordination of the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs worked together to prepare a good ecosystem to develop the local e-Commerce industry.\nThe result is the givernment regulation No. 74 about the Indonesia e-Commerce Roadmap which contains solution initiatives related to e-Commerce issues to support and encourage the growth potential of Indonesian e-commerce.\nThe growth of e-commerce in Indonesia must be done together with related institutions to produce a comprehensive and synchronous policy.\n\"The government also formulates the main principles of e-commerce development through affirmative action with the main points of local e-commerce businesses, especially beginner businesses players and MSMEs, they get decent and priority protection,\" Rosarita continued.\nWell, Director of Economic and Maritime Information and Communication, Septriana Tangkary, also attended the event\nIn his statement, Septriana said that online transactions through e-commerce portals are increasingly popular in the wider community, and this can be considered as positive development, because it is easier to connect current sellers and buyers.\nIt is important to say so to MSMEs (UMKM) to understand the potential large market.\n\"The initial steps have been exercised, but education on the use of e-commerce portals is important to continue to do,\" said Septriana. This economic development must continue to be stimulated, and the public must continue to be encouraged and supported to continue to make online transactions so that the industry can continue to grow rapidly. But it is important to remember, the community also needs to be protected by the knowledge of safe digital transactions, \"she explained.\nSeptriana explained that through the event, she also wanted to do a socialization movement \u2018Ayo UMKM Jualan Online\u2019.\nCurrently from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) data, the contribution of MSME to Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reaches 61.41%, with the number of MSMEs reaching almost 60 million units. However, only about 8% or as many as 3.79 million MSME players have used online platforms to market their products.\n\"Though the consumer movement trend is really getting bigger in online transactions,\" she explained.\nThe event was divided into two sessions, the first session was the presentation of the speakers in a panel discussion format about buying and selling transactions in e-commerce in general.\nThen the second session is an online selling workshop for MSME players, market traders or anyone interested in marketing their products online.\nAlso present and give a speech from the Rector of Mahasaraswati University, Dr. Drs.I Made Sukamerta, M.PD and Head of RRI Denpasar Dr.Drs. I Made Sukamerta, M.PD. The Director General of Information and Public Communication of the Ministry of Communication and Information, Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, also gave a keynote speech at the event.\nThere are also testimonials from several MSMEs who have successfully sold online.\nTherefore, to overcome the reluctance of MSME to participate in the development of Indonesian e-commerce, KEMENKOMINFO invited several related speakers to help to show the onboard process for MSME, the introduction of online sales registration and how to sell online.\nAt present there is a large potential that must be explored in Indonesia, because the number of people who have access to the internet allows Indonesia to become the largest online transaction market in Asia. In 2020, e-commerce transactions in Indonesia are targeted to reach US $ 130 billion.\nThis can be achieved, if MSME are also involved in building markets from the provider of goods.\nKEMENKOMINFO and all parties involved in this event believe that through the education and training provided, MSME can immediately take a role in the development of the e-commerce industry in Indonesia, and present a variety of items that are attractive to the growing market.\nKEMENKOMINFO hopes that this effort can be carried out massively and sustainably. In the future, the role of KEMENKOMINFO is no longer a leader but as an enabler, which encourages the Regional Government to take a leading role in efforts to encourage MSMEs to grab the local and the global market while keep to show solid cooperation between Government, Business and Communication. (*)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 477, "original_length": 14382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeslocalnews.co.uk/tunbridge-wells-news/survey-shows-young-are-having-to-pay-unaffordable-rent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:47Z", "digest": "sha1:76DLAHNLUO7EN4GXLBUIB37UVZG2BQV5", "length": 2061, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.timeslocalnews.co.uk", "title": "Times Local Newspapers & Magazines | Survey shows young are having to pay 'unaffordable' rent", "raw_content": "Bjorn Simpole Chair of the Tunbridge Wells Labour Party\nSurvey shows young are having to pay 'unaffordable' rent\nRENTERS in their 20s are paying more than one third of their salaries to keep a roof above their heads in Tunbridge Wells, according to new research.\nOrdnance Survey data, analysed and published by the BBC last week, shows on average adults aged 22 to 29 would spend 39 per cent of their income on maintaining a one-bedroom property.\nAnd in Tonbridge young people of the same age group would be spending 42 per cent of their salary while in Sevenoaks the figures stands at 46 per cent.\nFindings also showed the mean rent for one month in Tunbridge Wells to be \u00a3722, in Tonbridge it is \u00a3788 while in Sevenoaks it is higher still at \u00a3857.\nThe South East average is \u00a3700.\nMany housing organisations regard spending more than a third of income on rent as being \u2018unaffordable\u2019.\nDan Wilson, Director of pressure group Generation Rent said: \u201cThis research is more evidence of how difficult it is to lead the life you expect. If you work hard, you should expect to have some choice about living arrangements.\u201d\nLocal political groups have raised concern that the figures show young have been hit hardest as house prices have risen 173 per cent since 1997.\nBjorn Simpole, Chair of Tunbridge Wells Labour Party Branch, said: \u201cThe younger generation have experienced the sharp end of an austerity programme which has suppressed wage growth and opportunities whilst inflating the price of housing locally beyond the reach of all but high earners.\n\u201cNever mind owning your own home, in Tunbridge Wells increasingly renting your own home is impossible for many.\u201d\nA UK-wide map based on the lattest data shows that South East renters are paying the most, especially in London where a salary of \u00a351,200 is needed to afford a one-bedroom home.\nAnd house sharing, a common modern choice for the under-30s, does not always resolve the problem with 12 per cent of postcode areas in Britain remaining \u2018unaffordable\u2019 for two people in their 20s sharing a two-bedroom home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.today.com/health/lung-cancer-survivor-shares-her-journey-megyn-kelly-t119504", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4FE754P5R4NP2VCUPAH3ODKP5MLNJQZ", "length": 413, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.today.com", "title": "Lung cancer survivor shares her journey with Megyn Kelly", "raw_content": "Lung cancer survivor shares her journey with Megyn Kelly\nDec. 1, 2017, 11:54 AM GMT / Source: TODAY\nMarking Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Megyn Kelly is joined by Sandy DeMille and her husband, best-selling novelist Nelson DeMille, to share Sandy\u2019s lung cancer journey. Sandy, a non-smoker with a healthy lifestyle, describes her shock upon being diagnosed. She has now gone three years without a cancer diagnosis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mother-cpu-charts-2005,1175-18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6LIYGPDRJWMZ6MLNPDGHFVUY33CTEH3V", "length": 2424, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tomshardware.com", "title": "Codenames, Continued - The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006", "raw_content": "The E6 feature allowed AMD to add another feature to its CPUs, namely the SSE3 instruction set that had been originally introduced with Intel's Prescott core. Interestingly, the Athlon 64 did not benefit from the additional instructions as greatly as the Intel processors. We suspect that this can be traced back to the MMONITOR and MWAIT instructions that are used for thread communication. Since the X2 does not have Hyper Threading functionality, it lacks this feature. At 110 watts, the thermal power loss is also a good 15% lower than that of Intel's Pentium D.\nMeanwhile, AMD's dual-core processors are also available with the model numbers 4600+, 4200+ and 3800+, all of which contain only 512 kB of L2 cache (per core). Instead of deactivating part of the cache, AMD produces these processors with the smaller cache right from the start. This reduces the die size from the 199mm\u00b2 of the Toledo to 147mm\u00b2; AMD calls this core Manchester (E4).\nThanks to its comparatively small die size, the Manchester CPU gets by with only 89 watts of heat dissipation. Although this core received a different stepping, namely E4, it nonetheless comes with the same improvements and features as the Toledo core.\nOne month after the introduction of its dual-core technology, AMD unveiled several new single-core CPUs. With the San Diego (E4), SSE3 was brought into AMD's single-core line. The E4 core is completely identical to one of the halves of the Toledo core. Calling this 2.8 GHz processor the Athlon 64 FX-57, AMD was able to overtake Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 by more than 30%. Despite its better performance, the processor is about 10% less expensive than its competitor from Intel. The San Diego core is also found in the Athlon 64 FX-55, 4000+ and 3700+.\nFaster than Intel: The FX-57 takes the lead.\nStarting in June, the low-cost market was also able to enjoy the benefits of SSE3 technology as AMD introduced the Venice core. It is available in an E3 and an E6 stepping and can be found in the 3800+, 3500+, 3200+, and 3000+ models. However, these CPUs only feature 512 kB of L2 cache. Thanks to its 90 nm technology, this processor can be used to build computers that are both powerful and very quiet.\nWe used the Asus A8N-SLI for all benchmarks of the Athlon 64 and FX CPUs. This board is built around NVIDIA's nForce 4 SLI chipset.\nBoard: Asus A8N-SLI Premium (Nvidia nForce 4 SLI)\nRAM: Dual DDR400 (PC3200)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 9652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/13454-fitting-tributes-to-a-legend/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KUQ4SH4OZU3I2XVV3C6GLDVO5BGPGNDP", "length": 336, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.toontastic.net", "title": "Fitting Tributes To A Legend - General Chat - Toontastic", "raw_content": "Fitting Tributes To A Legend\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ObEkOUEL4\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzQereQTeI\nNeil this quote is blatantly your work.\n\"Bennett contests should be a demonstration sport at the next Olympic games!\"\nHe's no Clarence or Hans\ndouble of chopper-reid\nIts a good idea, if only i'd thought of it before them!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 2747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 199.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.top10casinoreviews.com/las-vegas-casino-owner-sheldon-adelson-donates-500000/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2E26K5QPYK5A2OHISTQ2BHP4QBJOOHGS", "length": 2167, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.top10casinoreviews.com", "title": "Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson donates $500,000", "raw_content": "Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson donates $500,000\nIn a latest development of donation a Casino owner from Las Vegas Mr. Sheldon Adelson has donated an amount of $500,000 to the campaign against legal recreational marijuana in Arizona.\nTill date the campaign has received more than $4.3 Million by different business owners of the state to make a Responsible Drug Policy. The fund is being used to oppose any recreational drug abuse including medical marijuana in Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts.\nAdelson donated an amount of $5 Million to this campaign back in 2014, to fight against any medical marijuana in Florida, and this year he already donated an amount of $2 Million to oppose drug abuse in his home state i.e. Nevada and $1 Million for Massachusetts .\nSheldon Adelson is a businessman and owns a casino as well. He and his wife run a no profit organization which deals in opposing drug abuses in many states of the America. The NGO related to drug abuse treatment and research clinic was created back in 2000.\nSome notable donations to this campaign from different business owners are like $1 million from Discount Tire Company and Insys Therapeutics, which donated $500,000 in August.\nIn a statement to the press Adelsons said that we are very grateful to the people and to the business owners who are supporting us to fight against bad moves and bad policies of the law. We\u2019ll keep doing the same in future as well and will expand our work, he said.\nMeanwhile Barrett Marson, the spokesman of the Proposition 205 said that Adelson is using emotions and he is creating hypocrisy, which is very disappointing at the end.\nIn a statement to the media he said that Adelson wants that people can drink alcohol, but they should not consume marijuana while playing video games at their own place or in their home and if they make it they will have to go to the jail, which is by all means hypocrisy.\nAccording to Prop. 205, an adult of at least 21 or older can possess, manufacture and give away or transport up to an ounce of marijuana.\n\u2190 19 player and 17 Staffs arrested by Delhi police for illegal gambling Mount Airy Casino ask to fix local slots tax \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 5256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/liberty-falls-at-nc-state_aid35123", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GMBEULZNBVZ6D3GHYXTLBBH2C6WHWF6V", "length": 2675, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.topdrawersoccer.com", "title": "Liberty Falls at N.C. State | College Soccer", "raw_content": "Liberty Falls at N.C. State\nThe Liberty Flames stepped away from Big South Conference play for the last time during the 2014 regular season, Tuesday evening. The Flames fell to the N.C. State Wolfpack, 4-1, in a non-conference match at Dail Stadium.\nHost N.C. State scored three goals in the first half en route to its sixth non-conference win of the season.\nLiberty freshman defender Oluwatomiwa Kosoko scored his first collegiate goal in the second half for the Flames.\nLiberty drops to 8-5-1 overall and finishes its regular season non-conference schedule with a 5-2-1 record. The Flames finish their 2014 regular season with three Big South Conference contests. N.C. State moves to 7-5-4 overall and has posted a 6-2-1 mark in non-conference games.\nThe Wolfpack struck early for the first goal of the contest at the 3:15 mark. Defender Conor Donovan sent a cross pass to the right post, which defender Reed Norton headed in for his first goal of the season and a 1-0 advantage.\nAfter a shot by Liberty midfielder Blessing Tahuona went wide during the 17th minute, N.C. State Michael Bajza scored his fourth goal of the year, unassisted, at 20:23 for a 2-0 lead.\nA shot by Jovanni Chavez during the 26th minute resulted in back-to-back corner kicks for the Flames. However, the Wolfpack was able clear the second kick to maintain its advantage.\nN.C. State made it 3-0, scoring off another crossing pass at the 33:00. Defender Matt Ingram sent a pass from the right sideline to the left post, which Philip Carmon headed in for his first goal of the year a 3-0 lead.\nLiberty leading scorer Sachem Wilson forced Wolfpack goalkeeper Joe Mills to make a save during the 38th minute to close out the first half.\nRALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 The Flames opened the second half with their lone goal of the contest. A header by midfielder Alan Arellano forced Wolfpack goalkeeper Mills to deflect the ball away from the goal to prevent a score, but could not control the loose ball. Kosoko followed by heading the rebound into the net at 56:01, cutting the N.C. State lead to two, 3-1.\nLiberty goalkeeper Jeremy Lee denied a penalty kick during the 74th minute. However, N.C. State\u2019s Yanni Hachem scored on a penalty kick during the 83rd minute, his third goal of the year, for what proved to be the final of 4-1.\nThe Wolfpack outshot the Flames, 15-9, in the contest. Liberty held a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.\nIn his first start of 2014, Lee made six saves in the match. Also making his first start of the year, Mills recorded five saves.\nLiberty next travels to Clinton, S.C., for a Big South Conference match at Presbyterian, Saturday. Match time at Martin Stadium is scheduled for 7 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 7973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.torahofawakening.com/weekly-torah/the-great-mother-parshat-tazria", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:31Z", "digest": "sha1:JKI36CZ475DYPCH3GRF74YSCKTGSIS3W", "length": 335, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.torahofawakening.com", "title": "Parshat Tazria- Torah of Awakening Commentary", "raw_content": "I have always seen G-d as separate from myself; the Divine Presence that accompanies the Jewish people in her exile(from the Zohar). On the other hand, now that the Temple has been destroyed I see the Mishkan where G-d resides within me. So I am encouraged to know that the former model of love and devotion is the more transcendent...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 9764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.touristplaces.net.in/junagadh-district-gj/gir-national-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JTZNHMDXKLPJ5EZILOQ7BQK4WJ3PICEH", "length": 826, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.touristplaces.net.in", "title": "Gir National Park, Junagadh district GJ", "raw_content": "Junagadh district, GJ - 362135\n\u0938\u094c\u0930\u092d \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0940\nketan Chekhaliya\nYou may use the following form to text the link of Gir National Park to a SMS capable phone.\nGir National Park is located in Junagadh district, GJ - 362135. This is the only park listed in Junagadh district. There's also one attraction listed in this city in other categories. You will find the exact location of Gir National Park on the map above. If you need any other information on Gir National Park that is not listed here, please visit their website.\nNone of our visitors shared their reviews on Gir National Park yet. However, we have collected 5 ratings from external sources on this park.\nFollowing is a list of other nature attractions found within few kilometers of Gir National Park. You may also view all nature attractions in Junagadh district, Gujarat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.touristplaces.net.in/west-bengal/science-museums/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DRYQHLRUSNDFTVZK3PAI75Z7PM7GTLMK", "length": 511, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.touristplaces.net.in", "title": "Find Science Museums to Visit in West Bengal", "raw_content": "There are 13 science museums in West Bengal. This is 4% of all the tourist places listed in this state. Top cities in West Bengal with popular science museums are Kolkata, Burdwan, Purulia, Medinipur and Uttar Madarihat. You may find a list of all categories of West Bengal attractions on this page to choose from.\nTop Science Museums in West Bengal\nVisit the top science museums in West Bengal. Click on a science museum bellow to find the detailed information.\nScience City, Kolkata\nBirla Planetarium, Kolkata", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transamerica.com/individual/products/mutual-funds/funds-list/us-equity/large-value-opportunities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:15Z", "digest": "sha1:55JBRT4CVRI36X4FJHEGDNAVDG2GSPYY", "length": 2164, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.transamerica.com", "title": "U.S. Equity Large Value Opportunities", "raw_content": "Large Value Opportunities\nTransamerica Large Value Opportunities\nClass R TLORX | Class R4 TLOFX | Class I3 TLOTX\nThe fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.\nPrimary Benchmark MSCI USA Value Index Gross\nGoal is to outperform the MSCI USA Value Index and peers.\nThe fund is newly organized. The fund acquired the assets and assumed the liabilities of three Transamerica Partners funds, including Transamerica Partners Institutional Large Value (the \u201cpredecessor fund\u201d), on May 5, 2017, and the predecessor fund is the accounting and performance survivor of the reorganizations. This means that the predecessor fund\u2019s financial and performance history became the financial and performance history of the fund. In the reorganization of the predecessor fund, shareholders of the predecessor fund received Class R4 shares of the fund. The performance of Class R4 shares includes the performance of the predecessor fund prior to the reorganization, and has not been restated to reflect the estimated annual operating expenses of Class R4 shares. Please read the prospectus for more information.\nEffective August 31, 2018, PineBridge Investments LLC replaced AJO, LP as sub-adviser to Transamerica Large Value Opportunities. In connection with the change of sub-adviser, changes are also made to the principal investment strategies and primary benchmark for the Fund.\nThe MSCI USA Value Index is an unmanaged index used as a general measure of market performance. It is not possible to invest directly into an index. Calculations assume dividends and capital gains are reinvested and do not include any managerial expenses.\nThe price of equity securities \ufb02uctuates based on changes in a company\u2019s \ufb01nancial condition and overall market and economic conditions. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of the fund will decline. Value investing carries the risk that the market will not recognize a security\u2019s intrinsic value for a long time or that an undervalued stock is actually appropriately priced. The fund may be more concentrated than that of a more diversi\ufb01ed fund, subjecting it to greater \ufb02uctuation and risk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 14108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.travelctm.com/resources/insights_blog/business-travel-news-new-zealand-october-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:HEWNSMRBRY4FRNWZ4TQIFY4EORQ745U3", "length": 4549, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.travelctm.com", "title": "Business Travel News New Zealand - October | Corporate Travel Management", "raw_content": "New ID and mobile phone requirements for New Zealand\nFrom 27 September 2018, passengers travelling with checked baggage on all domestic flights on Jetstar within New Zealand are required to provide identification. Accepted ID types are a passport, driver\u2019s license, original or certified copy of a birth certificate or citizenship document, Student ID, aviation or airport authority issued ID. Passengers flying into local airports who are subject to being detained or searched may now be required to provide their mobile phone passwords if requested or face a penalty of up to $5000, confiscation and prosecution.\nAir New Zealand to take delivery of new aircraft\nThe first of Air New Zealand\u2019s A321neo aircraft will be taking off from 12 November 2018, the airline confirmed today. The new engine option aircraft will replace the current A320 fleet and allow the airline to grow its short-haul network to Australia and the Pacific Islands. Customers will be able to experience a new in-cabin experience including larger overhead space, screen size and WiFi connectivity. Tickets are on sale now for the service.\nIncreased baggage allowance for Air New Zealand passengers\nFrom 19 September 2018, Air New Zealand will introduce a 2 x 23kg baggage allowance per person for all new bookings to North and South America. Travellers are advised that this change applies only to Air New Zealand flights, including NZ codeshare and partner airline services within North America, and NZ codeshare services within South America. The current $1 additional bag offer on Economy fares from Australia to North and South America will be withdrawn.\nAir New Zealand revamps lounges\nAir New Zealand is revamping or replacing five of its domestic and regional lounges over the next two years. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson and Tauranga are all part of the $60 million refurbishments to increase seating capacity at key airports.\nAir New Zealand and Singapore Airlines codeshare extension\nAir New Zealand and Singapore Airlines have been given the approval to extend their joint venture partnership until at least March 2024. The alliance has allowed both airlines to increase their seating capacity by more than 25% through the introduction of the Wellington-Singapore route in 2016. Both airlines are also scheduled to launch a third daily Auckland-Singapore service at the end of this month, boosting the capacity by more their combined capacity by more than 40%.\nDunedin Airport to begin expansion works\nDunedin Airport will commence its terminal expansion in October 2018. The $13.5 million project will double the size of its security screening area and triple the departure lounge to cater to the airport\u2019s surge in user numbers until 2026. The expansion will be finished by the end of 2019.\nBritish Airways taps Ozwald Boateng for new uniforms\nCelebrated Savile Row tailor and designer Ozwald Boateng OBE has been confirmed to design the next British Airways uniform, celebrating the airline\u2019s centennial next year. Boateng will work closely with personnel to understand their roles and how the garments need to perform ahead of its global debut on 32,000 uniform-wearing employees.\nChina Southern Airlines increases capacity\nFrom the end of this month, China Southern Airlines will deploy its new Boeing 787-9 aircraft on its Guangzhou-Auckland route. This will increase capacity for the carrier by 30% and capitalise on the New Zealand-China Year of Tourism in 2019.\nEmirates cuts Bali connection\nEmirates Airline will decrease the frequency of its Auckland to Bali service from seven down to four flights per week. The new schedule will take effect from late January 2019 owning to seasonal capacity changes.\nSO/ Sofitel Auckland to open next month\nAccorHotels\u2019 luxury lifestyle brand SO/ Sofitel will make its highly anticipated in Auckland in November 2018. The hotel is located in the former Reserve Bank building, offering a rooftop bar, French restaurant, a cafe, Club Signature lounge, spa, gym and indoor heated pool and 130 premium rooms for its guests.\nAuckland to get second Travelodge in 2020\nA much-needed mid-tier accommodation offering will be added to Auckland\u2019s Wynyard Quarter in mid-2020 with the development of a new Travelodge Hotel, managed by TFE Hotels. The hotelier has partnered with investor Infratil to bring the proposed 6 storey, L-shaped property to the corner of Pakenham Street West and Halsey Streets. 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It would take years to truly explore every corner of this continent, so where do you even begin?\nSoutheast Asia is popular for backpackers, but don\u2019t be afraid to explore the less popular destinations. I\u2019ve explored the south, east, west, and north \u2013 and each adventure was different and unique.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trcmaine.org/news/memoriam?num=100183", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MGEQVTOFK2KMCLUP7RRZO7ACMVJNQ6J2", "length": 1329, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.trcmaine.org", "title": "In Memoriam | TRC", "raw_content": "Jack F. Plummer Sr.\nDOVER-FOXCROFT - Jack F. Plummer Sr., 77, died Oct. 4, 2003, at his daughter, Deborah's home surrounded by his family and special friend, DeDe Venott. He was born in Dover-Foxcroft, Feb. 20, 1926, the son of John F. and Louise (Rollins) Plummer. He served his country in the army during World War II. He retired from the Department of transportation after 33 years. He belonged to the Masonic Mosaic Lodge A.M. & F.M. in Dover Foxcroft, The Anah Temple Shrine in Bangor, The national rifle association, and the V.F.W. in Brooksville, Fla. He is survived by his companion of seven years, DeDe Venott; one son and his wife, Jack and Brenda Plummer Jr.; three daughters and their husbands, Pam and Steve Arno, Deborah and Ernest King, all of Dover Foxcroft, Tammy and Dan Brasier of Ripley; two step-sons and their wives, Norman and Janine Ames of Milo, Brian and Janine Ames of Bingham; one step-daughter and her husband, Barbara and Ernie Brandon of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; one sister, Leone Vaughn of Hallowell; 12 grandchildren; several step-grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and special hunting buddies, his son Jack Jr., Bob Crest, and Norman Kenny. He was predeceased by his wife of 21 years, Florence; and one brother, Lewis Plummer.\nPrevious: Stanley W. Smith Memoriam Home\nNext: Rosie M. Stewart", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trcmaine.org/news/memoriam?num=101074", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TWOAHTE7KCTK456LOOBVPPPISXTZRDMX", "length": 4254, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.trcmaine.org", "title": "In Memoriam | TRC", "raw_content": "Carroll E. Russell\nORNEVILLE - Carroll E. Russell, beloved husband of Cheryl A. (Gerrish) Russell, passed away peacefully March 30, 2011, at a Bangor hospital. Carroll was born Sept. 22, 1943, in Brownville, son of Ernest L. and Fern M. (Royal) Russell. Carroll lost his father at a young age and started working in the woods business as a teenager for Calvin A. Herbest Sr., who treated him as his own son. Carroll married the love of his life, Cheryl, in 1965 and together they raised two wonderful daughters. Carroll went on to become a truck driver for many years for several local loggers. In 1980, he bought his first \"big rig\" and within a few short years realized his lifelong dream of owning his first new truck. The business flourished under his and Cheryl's watchful eye, and eventually he would have a fleet of 13 trucks on the road. Cheryl was always at his side and his helping hand whenever he needed her assistance, no matter what the need. Carroll decided in 2005 to expand his trucking business to include a cutting crew and purchased the equipment for this new venture. Carroll's love for the woods was evident in all he did. His first and foremost thought was always of his business and his \"men.\" Most people have hobbies and outside interests, but to Carroll the woods business and trucking were his hobby, his passion and his life. He loved having his family close by and worked hard to keep them all on \"the hill\" where he grew up and lived his entire life. Carroll was a loving and giving man all his life, and he will be sadly missed by all whose lives he has touched. He was a Mason, and member of Piscataquis Lodge No. 44 of Milo and a member of Anah Temple Shrine. He was a longtime supporter of Milo Fire Department, Schoodic Lake Fishing Derby and Maine State Troopers' Association. His company was awarded the 2006 Family Friendly Employer Award Small Company by Penquis Community Action Program, Inc. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Cheryl; his daughters, Bonnie J. Russell and her partner, Danny Brown, and Crystal C. Grant and her husband, Chad, all of Orneville; his grandchildren, Bradley A. Brown and his fiancee, Melissa Miller, Cooper B. Brown, Macee J. Grant and Mylee J. Grant, all of Orneville; a brother, John Russell and his wife, Sandra, of Dexter; and a sister, Sheila Thurber and her companion, \"Blackie\" Thibeault, of St. John Plantation. He leaves his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Cathy and Dennis Ames of Sebec, and Teresa and Norman Goodine of Medford; his nieces, Michelle Hathaway, Kellie Howe, Kimberly Lincoln and Roxanne Goodine; his nephew, John E. Russell and wife, Monica Kemm; a special nephew, Jason Gerrish; special cousins, Edward and Linda Herbest, and Philip Herbest; and aunts, Alice Dawson, Carolyn Young, Mary and Allan Sibley, Clayton and Brenda Royal, Roland Royal and his companion, Jackie Willinski, Roger and Judy Royal. He will be missed by special friends, Norman and Emma Howell; as well as numerous other aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his mother and father; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Willis and Roberta Gerrish; his aunts and uncles, Dottie and Arthur Heath, Leona Hersey, Merle Royal and Bobby Royal. He was also predeceased by his wife's aunts and uncles, Alta Baker, Betty and Stanley Allen, Stella and Danny Royal; and special lifelong friends, Ralph Herbest Sr., Calvin Herbest Jr. and Robert Emery. He will be sadly missed by his workers and friends, Ronnie Martin, Roscoe Green, Andrew Peirce, Paul Gray and Eric Young; grandson, Bradley Brown; and nephew, Jason Gerrish. Friends are invited to call noon until time of funeral service 2 p.m. Sunday, April 3, at Lary Funeral Home, Milo, with the Rev. Michele St. Cyr officiating. A reception will be held after the service at Carroll Russell Trucking Garage and home. Burial will be later in the spring in the family lot at Evergreen Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Anah Temple Shrine, P.O. Box 735, Bangor, ME 04401. Messages of condolence and memories may be expressed at www.laryfuneralhome.com.\nPublished in Bangor Daily News on April 1, 2011\nPrevious: Dennis Plummer Memoriam Home\nNext: Charles Joseph Goodine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsxperts.com/ni-week-2014-expect/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:QFR777CFVGZWTLVXDZUKTX4WZO6KYHIA", "length": 5385, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.tsxperts.com", "title": "NI Week 2014 - What to Expect - TSXperts", "raw_content": "This coming week brings the yearly National Instruments convention, NI Week, in Austin, TX, home of NI headquarters. As NI grew as a company in the test and measurements industry, what started as a moderate size event to promote new NI product launches, has now became one of the most important test and measurements events in the year. This year\u2019s NI Week attendance is expected to surpass last year\u2019s, in a constant up and to the right growth curve year over year, proving the increased importance of this company for engineers and scientists of today.\nI have been fortunate enough to have attended almost all NI Week events since 2001, having missed only a couple in these thirteen years. As a regular of the event, I decided to write this week\u2019s blog in an attempt to give the first year NI Week goers some pointers on how to take the most out of the event.\nNI Week has year over year increased number of technical lectures and hands on sections. This may sound very appealing to you who never been to a NI Week, and are expecting to either brush up technical skills of a given area, or maybe get your hands on a NI technology that you have been dying to test drive. Well, though this is the case, you will have the opportunity to do either one of the two or both to your heart\u2019s content; you should come to the event with your expectations set in order to avoid disappointment.\nThe technical sections are usually 30-45 minutes long; therefore, if you are expecting to walk out of the section with a lot of knowledge on the subject; well, don\u2019t. Any new technology today will take one, regardless of how intelligent and tech savvy one may be, much more than 30 minutes to grasp. Besides, since these are open sections to the public and don\u2019t require any pre-requisite to be attended, their contents need to be tailored to be one size fits all. Along those lines, they tend to be more marketing driven than technically driven. They are meant to give the public an introduction about the given topic and present some references at the end pointing the audience to resources they can use to learn more about it. Obviously, this carries value in itself as the information about the resources will come already digested for you, saving you potentially hours searching ni.com. However, like I said before in this post, as long as your expectations are aligned with this reality, you will be saving yourself some disappointment.\nNow, onto the hands on sections. This is indeed a great opportunity for one to play with a given technology. Can you feel the \u201cbut\u201d coming? Well, but, these are usually either 1 hour or 2 hours long and are a guided exercise. What do I mean by \u201cguided exercise\u201d? There will be someone proctoring the section who will most likely present one or two slides about the technology at the beginning; most likely a couple of slides produced by the Marketing department; and then he/she will hand out a little notebook with the script you should follow to implement the exercise. This is exactly what you will go through, a scripted exercise, designed to barely fit within the allocated time the section is supposed to run for; allowing you very little time to actually play with the technology. Moreover, NI tends to assign these sections to inexperienced Applications Engineer who have very little overall knowledge on the technology other than maybe taking support calls about it. What this means is that you will have very little opportunity to learn from the proctor, at the same time that won\u2019t have much time to play with the technology and will be pushed to run through a scripted exercise the proctor will not deviate from to save his life. Does this carry value at all, you may be asking? The answer is, again, it depends on your expectations. My suggestion for you is; if you are planning to attend one of these hands on sections, try to prepare by studying as much as you can before hand and get to know what the technology is about ahead of NI Week. Once you get there, use the time you have with the hardware to try and answer the questions that you came up with during your prep time. You may also try to ask your proctor those questions and maybe get lucky that he/she happens to know the answer.\nNow, I have saved the best of NI Week for last. Network, network, network. This year\u2019s NI Week will probably bring over seven thousand attendees from all over the globe. Based on what business you are in, it may be an unique opportunity for you to be in the same spot where hundreds or more people you may have a business interest in are. To summarize, my overall suggestions for you about NI Week are:\nDo your homework and prepare ahead of time on the topics that interest you so you can bring your questions to both the technical lectures and hands on sections\nDon\u2019t expect to walk out of NI Week as an expert in anything. NI Week is still much more about marketing NI products than necessarily teach the audience about them\nIf you are ever in a position where you need to make a choice between either attending a section or go to a network meeting; take the meeting. Trust me, the return on your time investment networking on NI Week is a hundred fold higher than investing your time on the sections\nOh, one last thing. Drink lots of water throughout the day and once you are back at your hotel room at night. 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My early employment was mainly for local estate agents and in solicitors\u2019 offices. After this I spent five years working as the Secretary at the then Worthing Art College which brought out my interest in architecture and \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fedzardernst.com%2F2018%2F10%2Fis-evening-primrose-oil-effective-after-all-i-still-have-my-doubts%2F&title=Is+evening+primrose+oil+effective+after+all%3F+I+still+have+my+doubts%21", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EDODMINW7JB7XBGREAKBZI5IAXO75ROZ", "length": 993, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "Evening primrose oil (EPO) is amongst the best-selling herbal remedies of all times. It is marketed in most countries as a dietary supplement. It is being promoted for eczema, rheumatoid arthritis, premenstrual syndrome, breast pain, menopause symptoms, and many other conditions. EPO seems to be a prime example for the fact that, in alternative medicine, the commercial success of a remedy is not necessarily determined by the strength of the evidence but by the intensity and cleverness of the marketing activities. Evening primrose oil has been extensively tested in clinical trials for a wide range of conditions, including eczema (atopic dermatitis), postmenopausal symptoms, asthma, psoriasis, cellulite, hyperactivity, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and mastalgia. As I have reported previously, these data were burdened with mischief and scientific misconduct, and it is therefore not easy to differentiate between science,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 1119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 98.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgood-nonprofit.com%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2Fthe-mayor-of-chicago-proposes-to-pay-1000-residents-1000-a-month-without-any-conditions-%25e2%2580%25a2-good-non-profit%2F&title=The+Mayor+of+Chicago+proposes+to+pay+1%2C000+residents+%24+1%2C000+a+month+%22without+any+conditions%22+%E2%80%A2+Good+Non+profit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:BKS2VAPIMZP5VZ7YGWJBKHDU37VLKZ4F", "length": 198, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "With regard to the US cities facing serious financial difficulties, it is worth highlighting the one with the highest murder rate in the country, a gloomy climate, endemic corruption and financial \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 156.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tuttlemotor.com/aboutus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HA5GZZOQBBXDX3QWDST3YJ5MZIBMMR3B", "length": 1548, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tuttlemotor.com", "title": "About Us Tuttle Motor & Hardware Poteet, TX (800) 880-8722", "raw_content": "About Tuttle Motor and Hardware\nTuttle Motor and Hardware is a family owned and operated company that has been providing quality equipment at competitive prices since 1933. We are one of the premier providers of farm, hunting, home, and ranch equipment and supplies in all of the Southern Texas and nationwide. We are proud to deliver exceptional customer service while providing the best parts and accessories.\nWe offer a full range of outdoor power equipment including STIHL and Cub Cadet. STIHL features an extensive line of handheld equipment that is specifically designed to produce power and dependability in every application. This line also includes trimmers, blowers, chainsaws, shredder vacs, and multi-task tools. If you are looking for the best riding mowers in the area, Cub Cadet is one of the most trusted brands. They have a large selection that can competently finish jobs of any size.\nWe are committed to offering the best deals and affordable financing terms so you can get the quality equipment you need without the wait. Whether you need financing for an ATV, lawn mower, tractor, or any other type of equipment, we will work with you to find the best package for your needs.\nAt Tuttle Motor and Hardware, we always service the items we sell so you can be assured of the best service for your equipment. We are committed to going above and beyond to ensure our customers are always completely satisfied. When it comes to getting the best equipment, amazing financing, and quality services, there is no need to go anywhere else.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2009/10/29/vatican-hosts-matteo-ricci-exhibition&post_id=51120", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:10Z", "digest": "sha1:TDCIQCXYT6L5XXB3ZG3WCAMQW4PLKTNX", "length": 4005, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ucanews.com", "title": "vatican hosts matteo ricci exhibition - ucanews.com", "raw_content": "Vatican hosts Matteo Ricci exhibition\nThe Vatican is hosting a major exhibition on Father Matteo Ricci, the famous Italian Jesuit missioner to China, as part of celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of his death.\nFather Matteo Ricci. He was a bridge between the West and China, promoting Christianity in the country while introducing its culture to the West.\nFather Ricci died in Beijing on May 11, 1610. Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State, is scheduled to open the exhibition on Oct. 29 in the Charlemagne Wing of the colonnade in St. Peter\u2019s Square in Rome. The Chinese ambassador to Italy, Sun Yuxi, is expected to be among the many dignitaries present at the opening ceremony in honor of the man the Chinese know as Li Madou. The exhibition, titled \u201cTo the heights of history, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610): Between Rome and Peking,\u201d will be open to the public from Oct. 30, 2009 to Jan. 24, 2010. An exhibition should be \u201cboth didactic and emotional,\u201d Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums said at a Vatican press conference on Oct. 28. The exhibition presents Ricci\u2019s life in two colors -- the upper floor in blue for his early life in Europe and the lower floor in red covering Ricci\u2019s life in China. It includes original handwritten manuscripts by the missioner, paintings by great masters, various scientific instruments, a reconstruction of an altar to Confucius and much else. The upper level of the exhibition traces the priest\u2019s early life from his birth in Macerata, Italy, 1552, through his entry to the Jesuits, his departure from Lisbon for India in 1578, and his ordination there before going on to Macau, then a Portuguese colony, and then to mainland China. It presents his life in the historical context of the Counter-Reformation and the period of absolutism in Europe, during the reign of various popes who had an impact on the Jesuits and their missions to Asia. The exhibition\u2019s lower level portrays the second part of Father Ricci\u2019s life: his entry to mainland China in September 1583, his publication of the first Chinese map of the world, his use of science to reach Chinese intellectuals and his first arrival in Beijing in 1598. It recalls too his later entry to the Forbidden City in 1601, thanks to a decree of Emperor Wanli, and the last eight years of his life in Beijing, where he died on May 11, 1610 and where he is buried. Professor Paolucci highlighted the place Ricci holds in Chinese history by recalling that only two foreigners are depicted in the new Millennium Building in Beijing \u2013- Italian explorer Marco Polo and Father Ricci.\nThe tombstone of Father Ricci in Beijing. The Jesuit missioner lived in China for 27 years from 1583 until his death in Beijing in 1610.\nBishop Claudio Giuliodori of Macerata recalled how the priest\u2019s \u201cextraordinary adventure led him to build, for the first time in history, a true bridge of dialogue and of exchange between Europe and China.\u201d \u201cRicci\u2019s method of dialogue and inculturation is still relevant, and in many ways has not been surpassed,\u201d he stated. Bishop Giuliodori revealed that the cause for Father Ricci\u2019s beatification is making headway. He plans to lead a pilgrimage from Macerata to Beijing to pray at the priest\u2019s tomb in 2010 and expressed the hope that the day would soon come when the Church will declare him a saint in recognition of \u201chis missionary genius, his moral and spiritual stature, his openness and cultural far-sightedness.\u201d Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, expressed that same hope but added that he would also like to see the Jesuits\u2019 first and perhaps greatest Chinese convert, Xu Guangqi, who worked closely with Father Ricci, canonized alongside him. 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His work is forthcoming in The Midwestern Gothic. In 2018, he was awarded Northern Michigan University's Legler Memorial Poetry Prize and VandeZande Fiction Award. Beyond writing, he is a gardener, mixologist, and a certified wildlife tracker, who lives with his life partner, Julianna, in the Palouse.\nRyan Downum is a second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. Poems of his have appeared in jubilat, Reality Beach, Bear Review, and elsewhere. He has been awarded a scholarship from the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and currently serves as the Poetry Editor for Fugue.\nZach Eddy is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. His work has been published in The Comet Magazine, Mirror Northwest, The Confluence, and is forthcoming in Manastash. His poem \"Fish Eyes\" received first place for the Wenatchee Valley College Earth Day Poetry Prize. He is a former aluminum worker, and is deeply disturbed by the state of our environment and nation.\nCMarie Fuhrman is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction and Program Coordinator for IKEEP (Indigenous Knowledge for Effective Education Program). CMarie's writing, both poetry and nonfiction, can be found in Broadsided Press\u2019s No Dapl compilation, two anthologies, and several literary journals, including Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and Whitefish Review, High Desert Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, and Sustainable Play, among others. She is recipient of the Burns Award for Poetry and multiple fellowships and scholarships. CMarie is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Native Voices, for Tupelo Press.\nCourtney Fund is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. She is the founder of the University of Arkansas's undergraduate literary magazine, The Fiddler, where she served as Editor from 2015-2017. Her poetry is influenced by the body, the ecstatic, and disruptive language. She writes for her dog, Annie.\nStephanie Hamilton is a second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction.\nCaitlin Hill is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction. She is an essayist, memoirist, and columnist from South Dakota whose work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Synaesthesia Magazine, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. During her time at the University of Idaho, Caitlin has focused on Midwestern literature and documentary, economics, place and Great Plains studies as vehicles of her creative writing. She has been awarded a spot at the Cirenaica Writers Residency by the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, a scholarship to read at the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Symposium, and a Writing in the Wild Fellowship. She currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of Fugue.\nJack Hill is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction from Norther California. Prior to graduate school, Jack worked in tattoo shops, social services, and toured in punk bands. He is currently at work on a novel about animal rights activism.\nLouie Land is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction. Originally from rural central Pennsylvania, his work has appeared in Dog Pond, Frigg, Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere. In addition to studying fiction, he has taught courses in jazz literature and superhero graphic novels. He is also a working musician and is finishing recording on his first album, Afterglow.\nStacy Boe Miller is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. Some of her work can be found in or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Driftwood Press, and Midwestern Gothic. She had been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. She has been awarded the Writing in the Wild Fellowship and MLK Graduate Art Award through the University of Idaho, and the Academy of American Poets University and college Prize. She is also a mother, artist, and small business owner.\nEmmy Newman is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. She is from Seattle, Washington, and received her bachelor's degree from Beloit College. Her work has been published in The Eunoia Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and by Seattle 4Culture.\nCaitlin Palmer is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction. Caitlin is a writer from the Midwest who writes about wanderlust, malaise, and small beauty. She has attended the prestigious University of Missouri School of Journalism, and the Hellenic International Studies in the Arts Program, in Greece. She has work published or forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Under the Gum Tree, Midwestern Gothic, and museum of americana, where she was nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net Award. She will be published in the 2018 Idaho anthology \"Writers in the Attic,\" and is the fiction editor for Fugue. She is the 2018-2019 Hemingway Fellow at the University of Idaho.\nSteven Pfau is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in nonfiction. He is also the Managing Editor of Fugue and a coordinator of the POP-UP PROSE reading series in Moscow. He grew up in and around Boston, studied English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and worked for several years at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\nBen Shane is a second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction, with plans to become a third-year candidate in the near future.\nClare Shearer is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction. She is also the Associate Editor of Fugue. She graduated from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbra and has worked as an arts editor and copywriter since. You can find her writing and interviews in Issue Magazine and the LA Review of Books.\nJeffrey Keene Short is a second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction. He is also the Nonfiction Editor for Fugue. His work has appeared in Atticus Review, Split Lip Magazine, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Find out more at keeneshort.com.\nSean Theodore Stewart is a first-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction. For his B.A. he studied English literature, film, and classical studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work is influenced by small town life and mythologies, both ancient and contemporary.\nSarah VanGundy is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative nonfiction. She is a librarian, writer, and editor living in Moscow, Idaho. Her essays have appeared in Harvard Review and [PANK].\nJacob Wilson is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in fiction.\nLauren Yarnall is a third-year Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry. She is from Ellicott City, Maryland, and received her bachelor\u2019s degree in Creative Writing from Salisbury University. Her work has previously appeared in Harpur Palate, Permafrost Magazine, Slipstream Magazine, Barely South Review, Spillway Magazine, and elsewhere.\n2018 Graduates:\nSamantha Burns, M.F.A. Fiction\nTara Howe, M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction\nKat Lewis, M.F.A. Poetry\nGrant Maierhofer, M.F.A Fiction\nCameron McGill, M.F.A. Poetry\nCorey Oglesby, M.F.A. Poetry\nLauren Westerfield, M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction\nJerri Benson, M.F.A. Fiction\nGarrett Lee Chavis, M.F.A. Poetry\nJordan Clapper, M.F.A. Fiction\nAsh Goedker, M.F.A. Poetry\nCaroline Hall, M.F.A. Fiction\nRoss Hargreaves, M.F.A. Fiction\nJ. Hamilton, M.F.A. Fiction\nCanese Jarboe, M.F.A. Poetry\nJason Mastaler, M.F.A. Poetry\nJason Sarna, M.F.A. Fiction\nKarl Utermohlen, M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction\nPaul Warmbier, M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction\nSally Yazwinksi, M.F.A. Fiction\nLaura Zak, M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction\nMyles Barker, M.F.A. Fiction\nSarah Barrett, M.F.A. Fiction\nNathaniel Brown, M.F.A. Fiction\nLane Culton, M.F.A. Fiction\nMichelle Cushing, M.F.A. Fiction\nJordan Durham, M.F.A. Poetry\nMax Eberts, M.F.A. Fiction\nMisty Ellingburg, M.F.A. Fiction\nNathan Fisher, M.F.A. Poetry\nRyan Kalis, M.F.A. Fiction\nCourtney Kersten, M.F.A. Nonfiction\nMichael Landreth, M.F.A. Poetry\nJamie Lyon, M.F.A. Fiction\nJessica McDermott, M.F.A. Nonfiction\nJoseph Perreault, M.F.A. Fiction\nZana Previti, M.F.A. Poetry\nMelanie Thongs, M.F.A. 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The biggest environment story of the year began on April 20 \u2014 the 40th anniversary of Earth Day \u2014 when BP\u2019s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. That began what is now known to be the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, with at least 185 million gallons of crude pouring into the Gulf. The disaster grabbed the public\u2019s imagination as no environmental story had since, well, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Underwater cameras revealed the daily failure of BP and the government to stop the flow of oil, while photographers captured oil-drenched beaches in Louisiana and animals slicked with crude. Environmentalists warned about an ecological catastrophe in the aftermath of the spill, while hoping that it would trigger a change in the way America consumed energy.\nOne thing everyone agreed \u2014 the spill wouldn\u2019t be forgotten any time soon. And yet\u2026that\u2019s exactly what seems to have happened. Once BP finally sealed the underwater leak and the video stopped, once the visible oil vanished from the beaches, so did public interest in the spill. The White House\u2019s moratorium on new deepwater drilling was lifted early, and industry is looking for new and more dangerous frontiers in the Arctic. 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Donors should eat at least four hours within giving blood and drink plenty of fluids before and after making a donation.\nFor more information, email Renee Howard at rhoward@umc.edu.\nSHRP OT expert to lead health disparities discussion\nDr. Penny Rogers, assistant professor of occupational therapy in the School of Health Related Professions, will serve as discussion leader at the next Health Disparities Journal Club meeting from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, in conference room D on the second floor of the Norman C. Nelson Student Union.\nThe meeting is sponsored by the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities.\nTo view the article for discussion, click here. For more information, call Felicia Caples at 5-9019 or email her at fcaples@umc.edu.\nTexas A&M neuroscientist to discuss opioid immunity\nDr. Michelle Hook, assistant professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center, will present \u201cOpioid-immune Interactions after Spinal Cord Injury: Implications of Recovery\u201d from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, in classroom 6A (room 617 on the North Wing).\nAll Medical Center faculty, staff and students are invited. The presentation is part of the Neurobiology and Anatomical Science Seminar Series.\nPastoral Services to host Good Friday service\nThe Department of Pastoral Services will offer a Good Friday worship service at noon on March 25 in the University Hospital Chapel.\nAll Medical Center faculty, staff, students, patients and visitors are invited. 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Here are some pointers.\nDon't approach everyone\nPersonally, I don't like to be approached by sales people, let alone telemarketers. I like to have the initiative when it comes to making a purchase. I feel less respected when I'm approached before I have even decided I'd like to have some information, or have decided to make a purchase.\nDon't manipulate\nSales people who do approach people are used to the response that the person \"is just looking.\" How much sales persons like to convert those lookers to buyers, persuading people into buying, let alone manipulating them into that, is not really respectful.\nNo telemarketing\nApproaching people over the phone, without them even having a relationship to the company, is not particularly a sign of respect. Telemarketing companies in the US are now expecting to go out of business, because of the Do Not Call register. It shows that they never had a respectful position to begin with.\nTrue for the customer\nIt goes without saying that when people ask information from sales people, that they expect to receive an answer that is beneficial to them, and not just to the company. Sales people getting bonuses the height of which depend on how much they sell, puts them into a position that it is profitable to them to lie to customers in order to get that sale. Customers shouldn't have to deal with such an attitude.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unicef.org/publications/index_103388.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PH52NCJMO3NQAHLADVIIQGANQ5WMBAN2", "length": 857, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.unicef.org", "title": "\ufeff Crisis in the Central African Republic: In a neglected emergency, children need aid, protection \u2013 and a future | UNICEF Publications | UNICEF", "raw_content": "Crisis in the Central African Republic: In a neglected emergency, children need aid, protection \u2013 and a future\nUNICEF Child Alert is a briefing series that presents the core challenges for children in different crisis situations. This edition focuses on the situation of children and families in the Central African Republic (CAR), where 1.5 million children now require humanitarian assistance and more than 43,000 under five years of age are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. Five years after the country\u2019s capital descended into conflict, the Child Alert notes, life in CAR is even harsher and more dangerous for children. Despite the escalating crisis, international attention and support are critically low and must be stepped up to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.\nAuthor: UNICEF Price: Free Publication date: November 2018 Publisher: UNICEF", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/29638/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YHEKRUR6JD7UZWQAP6UXYC7XVSEYG4XV", "length": 608, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.unitedstateszipcodes.org", "title": "ZIP Code 29638 Map, Demographics, More for Donalds, SC", "raw_content": "Donalds, SC (View All Cities)\nShoals Jct, Shoals Junction\nMale 93 102 110 121 67 68 71 99 100 91 120 100 103 67 54 31 28 18\nFemale 99 102 93 98 71 65 90 83 92 96 128 133 104 69 55 55 39 29\nMale 15 15 31 14 15 24 30 19 14 25 21 24 18 22 19 30 34 22 16 9\nFor more information, see Donalds, SC household income.\nZIP Code 29638 is in the following school districts: Abbeville 60 School District and Private. There are 2 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 29638.\nCherokee Trail Elementary\nDistrict: Abbeville 60 School District\nLighthouse Christian Academy of Donalds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 11116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 161.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unleashyoursparkle.com/blog/free-yourself-accept/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CDMGLYFNFLA5RBGLLPNTDY56XT5SHTQA", "length": 1173, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.unleashyoursparkle.com", "title": "Free Yourself by Becoming More Accepting of Others - Unleash Your Sparkle", "raw_content": "MaryAnn Barnett on July 28, 2018 at 6:32 am\nHi Sherri, I got up very early after having a very restless almost sleepless night and not feeling rested. There is a lot going on in my husbands family and he is the oldest and his mother relies on him, to keep things organized and her wishes followed. They just revised the will, she is only 98 and lives on her own. I guess I am frustrated as I feel I live in a loveless relationship, even though I know they love me in their own ways. When we were visiting yesterday it seemed everything I said they corrected or contradicted. I feel I must feel uneasy or unsecure around them at the same time. I said to myself I am not going to go there anymore or even not even bother to visit. I was going to look up \u201chow to look submissive to my husband and mother in law\u201d. I just read your article and LOVE and understanding does seem to be the best way. Sometimes a person just gets bogged down. Keep up the good work Sherri. Sincerely, MaryAnn \u2013 I found your sparkle pen the other day and just happen to be using it the past few days. It is an impressive pen!\nSue Fleming on July 30, 2018 at 6:39 pm\nI love reading your posts, Sherri.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 7878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unv.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=&type%5B0%5D=story&field_sustainable_development_go%5B0%5D=60&field_story_category%5B0%5D=5&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2FYFMESK7QVYPOVHDAFHBNQVZID4EH6C", "length": 1686, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.unv.org", "title": "Search | UNV", "raw_content": "SDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 10: Reduced inequalities, SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nA public affairs specialist, Tommaso was working with the UN Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels \u2013 after...\nSDG 13: Climate change, SDG 15: Life on land, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nBosnia and Herzegovina, a country that is among the richest in biological diversity in Europe, prides itself in being...\nPromoting women's representation in parliamentary elections in Lebanon\nIn Lebanon, three national UN Volunteers, Vicky Kendirjian, Lara Riachi and Rim Kalfayan, joined the Office of the...\nDelving into the complexity of Mongolian local governance and parliamentary support\nFinally, we are reaching our destination, after nearly 700 kilometers on a bumpy road. The jeep approaches a small town...\nWomen in South Africa give birth to 2.3 children on average translating to a population growth of 1.6 per cent. While...\nSince August 2017, close to 700,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, creating the world\u2019s...\nSDG 1: No poverty, SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nGuyaku, located in the Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State, is amongst the villages suffering from this...\nSDG 1: No poverty, SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth, SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nDespite the situation, Falmata Haruna Bwala did not hesitate to seize the opportunity offered by UNV to serve as a UN...\nElsie Aroyan is serving with UNHCR as a UN Volunteer Community Services Assistant to protect the rights and build a...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uplusb.com/about/colin-liu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LRQ6X75PIUPXUM7HIE3K4K2ARE5MU3MG", "length": 746, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.uplusb.com", "title": "Kamon (Colin) Liu \u2013 U+B architecture & design, inc.", "raw_content": "A graduate from the master\u2019s program at the University of Minnesota, Colin seeks to create space that brings a greater quality of life and experience for humanity. His approach fosters communication and considers multiple facets of the socio-philosophic, economic, historical, and material components of every project. Raised in a traditional Chinese family, Colin spent his childhood between Thailand, Taiwan and the United States. He brings this broad range of cultural experience to inform and elevate design decisions, frequently bringing unique perspectives that positively impact project outcomes.\nHe has a sincere love of traveling and exploring new places around the world while also finding opportunity to spend time with distant family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uslleaguetwo.com/standings/show/4731426?subseason=583580", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ULOOOT45WZ6LSTV5JPOIYEUSW34HB2NH", "length": 3380, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "www.uslleaguetwo.com", "title": "Standings - 2019 Regular Season - USL League Two", "raw_content": "USL League Two - 2019 Regular Season\nCentral Conference - 2019 Regular Season\nGreat Lakes Division - 2019 Regular Season\nCincinnati Dutch Lions CIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nDayton Dutch Lions DAY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nFlint City Bucks MIC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nWest Virginia Alliance FC WVA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nChicago FC United CHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nHeartland Division - 2019 Regular Season\nDes Moines Menace DMM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nKaw Valley FC KV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSt. Louis Lions STL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nThunder Bay Chill TB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nWSA Winnipeg WSA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nGreen Bay Voyageurs GB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nEastern Conference - 2019 Regular Season\nNortheast Division - 2019 Regular Season\nAC Connecticut ACC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nBlack Rock FC BR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nBoston Bolts BOS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nGPS Portland Phoenix GPS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSeacoast United Phantoms SUP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nWestchester Flames WF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nWestern Mass Pioneers WMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nManhattan SC MAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nMid Atlantic Division - 2019 Regular Season\nEvergreen FC EVE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nFA Euro New York FAE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nLehigh Valley United LVU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nLong Island Rough Riders LI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nNew York Red Bulls U23 NY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nOcean City Nor'easters OCN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nReading United AC REA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nCedar Stars Rush CSR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSouth Atlantic Division - 2019 Regular Season\nCarolina Dynamo CAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nLionsbridge FC LB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nNorth Carolina FC U23 NC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nTobacco Road FC TR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nTri-Cities Otters TCO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nWake FC WFC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nVirginia Beach United VB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSouthern Conference - 2019 Regular Season\nDeep South Division - 2019 Regular Season\nCharlotte Eagles CLT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nPeachtree City MOBA PTC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSC United Bantams SCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nSouth Georgia Tormenta FC 2 TRM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nDiscoveries SC DIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nDalton Red Wolves SC DAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nMid South Division - 2019 Regular Season\nMississippi Brilla FC MIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nAHFC Royals AHR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nBrazos Valley Cavalry F.C. 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Between 2000 and 2010, Austin\u2019s black population dropped 5.4 percent, according to the Bureau.\nEllis said the disparity between the shrinking population and the high percentage of anti-black hate crimes is worrying.\n\u201cThe dwindling black population still has to endure almost half of the hate crimes that are occurring,\u201d Ellis said.\nWant more content like this in your inbox every morning?\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation defines a hate crime as a criminal offense against a person or property motivated by an offender\u2019s bias against a race, religion or disability, among other attributes. Austin reported 18 hate crimes in 2017, more than any other Texas city, according to the FBI\u2019s most recent data set.\nJeannie Tomanetz, APD victim services counselor and member of the Hate Crimes Task Force, said APD does a better job of reporting hate crimes than other large cities around the state.\n\u201cWe actually have somebody \u2026 who sits down at the computer and runs biased, hate-filled words through every police report written in our system, just to see if anything comes up,\u201d Tomanetz said.\nAlong with reviewing every police report for signs of a hate crime, Tomanetz said APD has been building relationships with outside organizations such as the Austin Anti-Defamation League to catch hate crimes that aren\u2019t reported directly to APD.\nEllis said while he appreciates the added infrastructure towards reporting hate crimes in Austin, he wants to see the reporting system become unnecessary.\n\u201cAt the same time, while the system itself does deserve a pat on the back for being more robust, I think the focus should be less on how robust the system is,\u201d Ellis said. Let\u2019s make it so the system is obsolete.\u201d\nChas Moore is the executive director of the Austin Justice Coalition, a black-led grassroots organization that focuses on local policy and social justice. Moore said he was sad the hate crime data was not surprising.\n\u201cAs a black person, this city and the state as well are just not as liberal as people claim it to be,\u201d Moore said. \u201cAustin tries to wear the makeup of liberalism and inclusivity and that we all get along, but really underneath that is a lot of anti-blackness, a lot of racism, homophobia, xenophobia.\u201d\nMoore said the Austin community at large needs to be held responsible to call out casual racism, sexism and xenophobia.\n\u201cAt the end of the day it\u2019s us as a society,\u201d Moore said. \u201c(We are) letting these little things continue to go and grow and eventually they grow into the extreme of it, which is hate crimes and viciously attacking someone.\u201d\nRead more here: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2019/02/07/almost-half-of-austin-hate-crimes-last-year-were-anti-black", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/11/microsoft-disc-less-new-xbox-one-console/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:FZZILDELTC25QMROZCUWIAEYZWZUG2PY", "length": 4286, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.valuewalk.com", "title": "Microsoft is working on new disc-less but cheaper Xbox One", "raw_content": "Microsoft is working on new disc-less but cheaper Xbox One\nQuentinLGH / Pixabay\nMicrosoft launched the Xbox One X just last year, and rumors suggest the company will launch a new Xbox One console next year. However, rather than the next-gen Xbox console everyone is waiting for, it\u2019s expected to be a new entry-level Xbox console without a disc drive, according to Thurrott.com.\nNew Xbox One console expected to be cheaper with no disc drive\nMicrosoft\u2019s new Xbox One console could cost $200 or less because it won\u2019t have the disc drive, Thurrott claims. Currently, the entry-level variant of the Xbox One S is priced at $299 at most retailers, although Amazon does offer it for $250.\nThurrott claims the new entry-level version of the console could be launched in spring 2019. Since it is meant to make the Xbox affordable, it will be an entry-level version of the Xbox One S rather than the Xbox One X, which comes with 4K and HDR color support and more processing power. Microsoft launched the Xbox One S in August 2016, while the Xbox One X came out in November 2017.\nThurrott adds that Microsoft still has not decided definitely to ditch the disc drive, but it will likely make the decision shortly.\n\u201cMicrosoft is moving forward very carefully with this product as it knows that a sizeable portion of its users do prefer to buy physical games and not download them,\u201d the website says.\nShift to digital games\nThe report also suggests the company is considering a \u201cdisc-to-digital\u201d program, in which players will bring in their physical games and get digital codes in exchange. Users would have to take their physical Xbox One media to Microsoft stores to get the digital download added to their Xbox Live account. For the plan to succeed, there are two important requirements: a big hard drive and fast internet connection.\nWhen Microsoft first launched the Xbox One in 2013, it reportedly had plans to focus on digital games users could play without even inserting a disc. The company even thought of a way to allow users to lend a digital game to a friend for 30 days. However, Microsoft abandoned the plan for some reason and went with a traditional console. Now five years later, digital games are much more popular than before, and internet connections are much faster, so it seems Microsoft plans to revisit the idea of a focus on digital games.\nMicrosoft already believes the future of games will be based on subscriptions. The Xbox Game Pass allows users to access more than ten games at a time for just $10 per month. Players can also subscribe to EA Access on the Xbox One. Microsoft is even working on an Xbox game streaming service which will bring the console\u2019s titles to other platforms.\nDeals on Xbox consoles\nMicrosoft\u2019s main reason for coming up with a disc-free version would be to make the console affordable. If you are impressed with the idea of a disc-free console, although its existence is still unconfirmed, and are planning to buy it next year, you may have forgotten it\u2019s that time of year when almost everything becomes more affordable.\nThere are many lucrative deals on the Xbox right now. Several retailers are offering the 1 TB Xbox One S Minecraft Creators Bundle for $200, a savings of $100. This particular deal is already available from many retailers, while others will offer it in the coming days. Kohl\u2019s is offering the same deal with $60 in Kohl\u2019s Cash, while Target is offering a $20 Target gift card with it.\nYou can also buy the 1 TB Xbox One S with Battlefield V bundle for around $230. Many retailers are offering a similar deal, but only eBay is offering the bundle with Red Dead Redemption 2, one of the biggest games of 2018. Several retailers like Amazon and Dell are selling the 1 TB Xbox One S with Battlefield V bundle for $229, a savings of $70).\nAmazon is selling the 1 TB Xbox One X with Fallout 76 bundle for $429, a savingd of $70. Walmart is also selling 1 TB Xbox One X bundles, and game choices include PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds, Fallout 76 and NBA 2K19. Kohl\u2019s is offering the Xbox One X with PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds bundle for $400. With the cash savings, you also get $120 in Kohl\u2019s Cash. Further, Best Buy is selling the Xbox One X with Battlefield V Gold Rush Special Edition and a select controller for $430.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanderbilt.edu/reu/2014_Trainees.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4WYW3FJLXBCL7ASIVC7AXI7VLQFV2OWL", "length": 8427, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.vanderbilt.edu", "title": "2014 Trainees | REU Program | Vanderbilt University", "raw_content": "2014 Student Testimonials\nHome Institution: Central Michigan University\n\"Progress Towards the Synthesis of Oxidative Metabolites of Curcumin\"\nAbstract: Curcumin is the major component of the popular South Asian spice turmeric and is largely responsible for turmeric\u2019s characteristic yellow color. Research has shown that curcumin is the compound that provides turmeric\u2019s desired health benefits including anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer properties. Recent studies have shown that curcumin is not stable past ingestion, but rather undergoes a process of auto-oxidation forming several different compounds. Therefore, it has been reasoned that these metabolites may be the key to curcumin\u2019s various pharmacological effects. This research pursues the synthesis of four curcumin metabolites. Three metabolites are proposed to be accessed by way of a common synthetic intermediate cyclobutene derived from a [2+2] photocycloaddition reaction. A fourth metabolite is proposed to be obtained from a [4+2] thermal cycloaddition (Diels-Alder) reaction.\nCorey Hayford\nDepartment: Chemistry and Cancer Biology\nHome Institution: University of Texas at Austin\n\"Mathematical Modeling of Progression Through the Mammalian Cell Cycle\"\nAbstract: The life cycle of a cell comprises multiple molecular checkpoints that regulate transitions between different phases of growth, DNA synthesis, and division. When a healthy cell suffers DNA damage, changes in protein dynamics occur that can lead to cell cycle arrest. Depending on damage level, the cell then decides to either engage in DNA repair or execute programmed cell death. In cancerous cells, the cell cycle signaling network becomes dysregulated, causing cells to bypass checkpoints and proliferate unbounded. The damage signal can be disrupted at any stage of the pathway, making it difficult to pinpoint the source of the malfunction and, hence, develop focused treatments. By understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie cell fate decisions in healthy and carcinogenic cells, we should be able to develop targeted therapies that restore proper functionality or achieve cell death via alternate routes. A mechanistic, predictive understanding of cell-cycle progression and commitment to growth would provide novel insights about cellular proliferation and offer novel drug targets for cancer therapies. Mathematical modeling allows mechanistic hypotheses to be tested and improves understanding of experimental observations. In this project, a model of the entire cell cycle was constructed by merging models of different cell cycle transitions obtained from the literature. The model was constructed in PySB, a Python-based environment for modeling and simulation of biochemical processes. Chemical kinetics simulations were performed to explore molecular interactions under various system perturbations. The model provides a basis for future exploration of cell cycle dynamics under different external conditions.\nGabriel Pajares-Hurtado\nMentor: Larry Marnett\nHome Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology\n\"Oxidative stress propagates methylglyoxal generation via inhibition of glyoxylase 1**\"\nOxidative stress propagates the generation of damaging lipid aldehydes, such as 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) and 4-oxononenal (ONE), and the highly reactive \u03b1-oxaldehydes, glyoxal and methylglyoxal (MG). MG has been shown to modify a wide range of biomolecules including DNA, lipids, and proteins, resulting in the generation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). AGEs have been proposed to further promote both inflammation and oxidative stress, playing a central role in the development of diabetes; however, these mechanisms remain elusive. Glyoxalase 1 (GLO1) serves as the primary mechanism for MG detoxification via thiol-mediated conjugation to glutathione. Here, we examined the effects of the lipid electrophiles HNE on the activity of GLO1. Treatment of HEK293 cells with increased glucose concentrations resulted in a dose-dependent increase in cellular MG, these effects were exacerbated in the presence of HNE. Consistent with these data, click chemistry was utilized with purified GLO1 and \u03c9-alkyl-HNE (aHNE) to reveal a dose-dependent increase in protein adducts. Future studies will aim to confirm these data in a more endogenous setting using RAW264.7 macrophages incubated with increasing concentrations of glucose. Stimulation with the pro-inflammatory agent, Kdo2-Lipid A (KLA), is predicted to result in a further increase in cellular MG production. Together these data serve to support the role of oxidative stress in propagating the generation of MG and ensuing AGEs.\nLidalee Silva\nMentor: David Wright\nHome Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla\n\"Development of a Catch and Release Diagnostic Platform for the Malarial Biomarker PfLDH\"\nAbstract: Lateral flow immunochromatographic Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT\u2019s) are known for their undemanding applicability in low- resource settings due to their simple interpretation and rapid timeframe for results. However, RDT\u2019s posses intermittent consistency attributable to their low sensitivity and quantitative character when testing patient blood samples. Previously, a low resource sample processing and extraction method has improved the sensitivity of biomarker identification, but this technique is limited because it captures any target incorporating histidine, thereby reducing specificity. To overcome this obstacle, we developed a catch and release diagnostic platform for Plasmodium falciparum L-lactate Dehydrogenase (PfLDH) malarial biomarker by coupling a Hexa-his tag to its primary antibody. PfLDH is a metabolic enzyme in the malaria parasite that takes part in glycolysis and only inhabits the human body when an infection is present; furthermore it is recognizable in asymptomatic stages. The Hexa-his tag appended to the antibody allows its capture by magnetic Cobalt (II)- Nitriliotriacetic Acid (Co (II)-NTA) beads. An excess concentration of imidazole (500 mM) replaces the histidines bound to (Co (II)- NTA) particles, permitting the elution of the PfLDH-antibody complex after washing. With the concentrated target obtained analysis is performed using the Malstat assay, which detects PfLDH metabolic activity. At PfLDH concentration of 100nM, purification and concentration was achieved with a 67% recovery of total protein biomarker. This elucidation provides a general platform for the further development of a broad range of low- resource diagnostic tests for developing countries.\nKari Stratton\nMentor: Ned Porter\nHome Institution: Texas A&M University\n\"Determining the Propagation Rate Constants of Biosynthetic Precursors to Cholesterol\"\nAbstract: Cholesterol biosynthesis disorders, such as Smith-Lemli-Opitz, desmosterolosis, lathosterolosis, and Antley\u2013Bixler, are human autosomal recessive syndromes caused by mutations in the genes involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. The defects in the biosynthesis lead to elevated levels of cholesterol precursors in affected individuals. Peroxidation of sterols can go through complex mechanistic pathways, generating various oxysterols that may contribute to the pathology of these disorders. Using a linoleate radical clock, the Porter lab has previously reported the propagation rate constants of various biosynthetic precursors to cholesterol such as 7-dehydrocholesterol and 8-dehydrocholesterol, both being among the most oxidizable lipids to date. The focus of this research is to use the linoleate radical clock to determine the rate constants of other cholesterol precursors, such as lathosterol and desmosterol, which are involved in other cholesterol biosynthesis disorders. Another aim of this project is to determine the effect of the C24-unsaturated side chain on the propagation rate constants of the cholesterol precursors in the Bloch pathway as compared to their C24-saturated counterparts in the Kandutsch-Russell Pathway. We found that while desmosterol (15 \u00b1 4 M-1s-1) exhibits approximately the same reactivity as cholesterol (11 M-1s-1) in free radical oxidation, lathosterol (59 \u00b1 4 M-1s-1) is more than five times as reactive. The propagation rate constant of the unsaturated side chain was found to be relatively small (9 \u00b1 2 M-1s-1), suggesting that the reactivity of the sterols mostly depends on the structure and unsaturation degree of the steroidal rings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 9507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-wolf-ghost-warg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LLQP7DLYH2JBNLCCM4HOMXAETOTEYBUR", "length": 9961, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.vanityfair.com", "title": "Game of Thrones: 4 Reasons Why Jon Snow Will Come Back with a Wolf Mind | Vanity Fair", "raw_content": "Game of Thrones: 4 Reasons Why Jon Snow Will Come Back with the Mind \u2026\nGame of Thrones: 4 Reasons Why Jon Snow Will Come Back with the Mind of a Wolf\nThe evidence stacks up.\nThe return of Game of Thrones hero Jon Snow last Sunday night seemed pretty straightforward. But is there more to the resurrection than meets the eye? Ever since A Dance with Dragons came out in 2011, many readers have been convinced that Jon\u2019s direwolf, Ghost, would have a key role to play in his return. Warging (the act of putting your mind into an animal or, less often, human) plays a big part in the novels and, on the page, the last word Jon Snow says as he goes down is \u201cGhost.\u201d The surface interpretation of Jon\u2019s return in the episode \u201cHome\u201d is that it was Melisandre who brought him back, but there\u2019s clear evidence that the direwolf theory isn\u2019t done yet.\nWarging is a huge part of the books but has been downplayed a bit in the TV show. Game of Thrones has mostly left it to Bran Stark and the Wildling Orell (you don\u2019t even remember him, do you?) to represent the process of going inside the mind of another creature.\nKit Harington alluded to the popular warg theory during a panel event last year. He told the audience, \u201cI\u2019d like to be a warg. I\u2019d like to put myself into a wolf.\u201d Show-runner Dan Weiss joked, \u201cTwo words for you: Season 6.\u201d But was he joking? George R. R. Martin has said that all his resurrected characters come back \u201cworse for wear. In some ways, they\u2019re not even the same characters anymore.\u201d The notion that Snow will come back in some way darker and more feral adds an interesting twist (and Maisie Williams promised it would be a \u201cgreat\u201d one) to a resurrection that, so far, doesn\u2019t quite feel worth all the fuss. So, will Jon Snow come back with the mind of a wolf or, at least, a wolfish mind? It sounds crazy, but the evidence stacks up pretty high.\nBehind-the-Scenes Hints: When speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the director of Jon Snow\u2019s resurrection scene, Jeremy Podeswa, somewhat sidestepped the question of Ghost\u2019s importance while also hinting that we\u2019ll have answers soon. \u201cI would say if you keep watching, all will be revealed. Better to leave it to the fans to discover.\u201d But according to the production blog Making Game of Thrones, Ghost was heavily featured even in the storyboard phase of planning.\nIn a behind-the-scenes production video, David Benioff describes Jon\u2019s state of mind as, \u201cI was so warm and comfortable and everything was peaceful, and now you\u2019ve pulled me into the cold, bright world. And now who knows what\u2019s going to happen?\u201d (It\u2019s a description that might sound familiar to fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6.) In talking about Jon\u2019s resurrection in the HBOGo post-episode interview, Benioff focused almost entirely on Ghost: \u201cAll these wolves have a strange and deep connection with their Stark counterpart. So Ghost has a sixth sense about Jon Snow and when he might be in danger and when he might be coming back.\u201d\nForeshadowing on the Screen: As if the Red Wedding wasn\u2019t horrific enough, it all ended with poor Arya having to watch her brother Robb paraded around with the head of Grey Wind, his direwolf, placed on his shoulders. This Stark child literally had the head of a wolf after he died. There also may have been a little hint about Jon\u2019s future in last week\u2019s episode. Fans have concocted a theory that the young stable boy Hodor (n\u00e9e Wylis) somehow warged into Lyanna\u2019s horse (named Hodor?) and accidentally got stuck with an equine mind for the rest of his life.\nMartin has never said conclusively what happened to Hodor in the books (though he\u2019s promised to reveal it in the future) and while the \u201cHodor is a horse\u201d theory may seem far-fetched, it\u2019s true that the gentle stable boy has been a loyal steed to Bran for six seasons. Is this another example of a mind warped by warging?\nForeshadowing on the Page: But of course Hodor and Robb have got nothing on Bran Stark when it comes to warging. The crippled boy spends many of his chapters running with his wolf pack by slipping into the skin of his wolf, Summer. Bran is, understandably, tempted to stay for a long time in the shape of his wolf, but Martin\u2014in the voice of Jojen Reed\u2014makes sure readers know the dangers of warging too long. From Bran\u2019s first chapter in A Storm of Swords:\n\"I want you to say the words. Tell me who you are.\"\n\u201cBran,\u201d he said sullenly. Bran the Broken. \u201cBrandon Stark.\u201d The cripple boy. \u201cThe Prince of Winterfell.\u201d Of Winterfell burned and tumbled, its people scattered and slain. The glass gardens were smashed, and hot water gushed from the cracked walls to steam beneath the sun. How can you be the prince of someplace you might never see again?\n\u201cAnd who is Summer?\u201d Jojen prompted.\n\u201cMy direwolf.\u201d He smiled. \u201cPrince of the green.\u201d\n\u201cBran the boy and Summer the wolf. You are two, then?\u201d\n\u201cTwo,\u201d he sighed, \u201cand one.\u201d He hated Jojen when he got stupid like this. At Winterfell he wanted me to dream my wolf dreams, and now that I know how he\u2019s always calling me back.\n\u201cRemember that, Bran. Remember yourself, or the wolf will consume you. When you join, it is not enough to run and hunt and howl in Summer\u2019s skin.\u201d\nThe Three-Eyed Raven gave Bran a similar warning in last Sunday\u2019s episode saying that too much time spent \u201cunder the sea\u201d (a.k.a. strolling through visions of the past) can be dangerous. Podeswa, for what it\u2019s worth, described Jon\u2019s dramatic return as a man drawing his first breath after drowning.\nIn the books, Martin even devoted the entire prologue in A Dance with Dragons to Varamyr Sixskins, a minor Wildling character who, as he is dying, puts his mind into that of a wolf. A warg can live a second life inside the mind of an animal he controls. In the second life, the skinchanger\u2019s memory slowly fades until nothing of the man is left and only the beast remains. Martin wanted to make sure we all remembered that.\nIn the show, Bran wakes up from his comatose state in Season 1 the very second after Lady, Sansa\u2019s direwolf, dies. Both Bran and Jon had their wolves by their sides the entire time they were sleeping.\nIt\u2019s All Been Done Before: In April 1995, over a year before George R. R. Martin published the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, fantasy writer Robin Hobb published the first installment in her Farseer trilogy, which eventually saw a young bastard hero, Fitz, save himself from death by warging into the mind of his wolf, Nighteyes. The hero was resurrected but the time inside the wolf\u2019s mind irrevocably changed him, and he spends the rest of the series with a wolfish demeanor.\nWas Martin aware of these books? He was. Martin and Hobb actually share the same editor, Jane Johnson, and as Hobb describes in a 2014 blog post, she and Martin were sent each other\u2019s manuscripts and asked to provide complimentary blurbs. Martin wrote several for Hobb including one, \u201cFantasy as it ought to be written,\u201d that, according to Hobb, adorns the cover to this day.\nBook readers have picked up on the similarities between the two book series\u2014Hobb also has stone dragons in her novels\u2014and wondered if we might expect the same kind of wolf-minded return from Jon.\nThis is probably less a matter of Martin lifting Hobb\u2019s ideas and more a case of two authors being influenced by the same material. In 2014, Martin joined Hobb onstage to talk about their works and when asked which of Hobb\u2019s creatures he would warg into, Martin answered that, of course, it would be a wolf. \u201cWe\u2019re both wolf people,\u201d he exclaimed. (We know, George!) \u201cWe\u2019re both Jungle Book people,\u201d Hobb gently corrected. Martin then credited Rudyard Kipling, Akela, and Mowgli for some of the man-cub themes in A Song of Ice and Fire. But he was eager to point out that his wolves are \u201cbigger\u201d than Hobbs\u2019s.\nSpeaking of older inspirations, there\u2019s a curious connection between A Song of Ice and Fire and a post-medieval alchemical text called The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine. All the Melisandre-centric symbols of Martin\u2019s books\u2014salt, smoke, dragons, etc.\u2014make an appearance in the 1599 text, but it goes a little deeper than that. There\u2019s an amatory Venus clad in abundant color (red) who has a leprous body. Familiar, right? And in the 11th key there\u2019s a \u201cgilded\u201d knight who takes his sister as his bride. The accompanying illustration is heavy on the lions. Sounds pretty Lannister-esque to me.\nWhat does that have to do with Jon? Well, there\u2019s this section: \u201cCast to [the wolf] the body of the King, and when he has devoured it, burn him entirely in a great fire. By this process the King will be liberated.\u201d Obviously, we\u2019d have to do a little bending to get this to fit Jon entirely, but casting his mind into a wolf, being brought back to life by fire magic, and, then, being liberated from the bonds of his oath to the Night\u2019s Watch? (This week\u2019s episode title, \u201cOathbreaker,\u201d foreshadows that last part.) It\u2019s not entirely outside the box.\nBut the truth is that all these themes\u2014lions, dragons, wolves, etc.\u2014are part of a long history of fantasy and medieval writing. Martin is a self-proclaimed heraldry geek and the Lannisters are based on the real-life Lancasters who had lions on their house shields. But still it\u2019s fun to trace these recurring themes to their roots, and the Mowgli connection, certainly, shouldn\u2019t be ignored.\nIf Jon did send his mind into Ghost, he spent, what, 24 hours there? That\u2019s far longer than any of Bran\u2019s wolf dreams. If Jon\u2019s mind isn\u2019t in some way warped by the experience, we should be surprised. And if he is, then all the Starks, Boltons, and Freys better get out of his way.\nGame of Thrones: Jon Snow Should Have Stayed DeadVanity Fair\nGame of Thrones: Jon Snow\u2019s Alive but Not Necessarily WellVanity Fair\nGame of Thrones: Unraveling the Complex Pack of Lies Behind Jon Snow\u2019s ReturnVanity Fair\nGame of Thrones: Jon Snow Should Have Stayed DeadBY JOANNA ROBINSON\nGame of Thrones: Jon Snow\u2019s Alive but Not Necessarily WellBY JOANNA ROBINSON", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 13463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vdb.org/artists/artists-television-network", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:12Z", "digest": "sha1:FR4BFVK6KCQABSWXJRVSZA7WV75USGZ7", "length": 4192, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.vdb.org", "title": "Artists Television Network | Video Data Bank", "raw_content": "In the 1960s, New York City\u2019s SoHo district had more video artists per square block than the rest of the country put together. In 1976 exhibition facilities like The Kitchen, Global Village, and Anthology Film Archives joined with a number of individuals to organize Cable SoHo in an attempt to place video art on Manhattan Cable Television. Later that year, the Artists\u2019 Television Network (ATN) was incorporated. Supported through funding from the New York Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, ATN commissioned artists to create works for television cablecasting. The non-profit corporation provided production and post-production facilities, and paid expenses incurred during production.\nLaurie Anderson, Gregory Battcock, John Cage, Douglas Davis, Jean Dupuy, and a host of others, were among the initial artists whose works were produced by ATN. While video art is most often confined to the exhibition arena, the Artists Television Network was committed to the development of \u201ctelevision\u201d as an artistic medium, and to the distribution of contemporary arts programming to a broad-based television viewing audience. Through SoHo Television and the Live Show, ATN presented regular weekly telecasts of programs composed of original, innovative works by visual and performing artists on Manhattan Cable from 1978-83. In 1988, these tapes were donated to the University of Iowa. A small cross-section of these ground breaking productions is currently being distributed through Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\nProduced in SoHo mainly in the latter half of the 1970\u2032s, these videotapes give testimony to the best of experimental video art \u2014 in dance, theatre, music and the visual arts. Artists associated with the video art produced by ATN include Laurie Anderson, Gregory Battcock, John Cage, Douglas Davis, Jean Dupuy, and many others. Video exhibitions, which took place in artists\u2019 lofts, galleries, and alternative spaces in SoHo and elsewhere, needed to create a larger audience, an exhibition outlet of its own. In 1976, several cable facilities joined with a number of individuals to organize Cable SoHo, with the goal of placing video art on Manhattan Cable Television.\nOf the individuals involved in organizing this effort \u2014 video artist and painter Jaime Davidovich, video artist and journalist Douglas Davis, and Jude Quintiere, director of music at New York City\u2019s Pacifica station WBAI \u2013 Davidovich was especially enthusiastic about cable\u2019s potential as a medium of art and artists, and its ability to bring the artists\u2019 work into people\u2019s homes. For the artists, it meant the integration of the working concept of art-making as unbounded, highly individual expression, with the rigid time-space and necessarily cooperative structure of television. The programs were allowed to include artists\u2019 work in any medium, as long as the presentation was conceived as television. The result was the production of artists\u2019 television which focused on live performances, lectures, seminars, screenings, video art, theatre works, contemporary music compositions, street events, and two-way interaction.\n\u2014 The Artists' Television Network Special Collection, University of Iowa Libraries\nVito Acconci: Conversations 1980 On Art and Artists, Interviews\nAlternatives in Retrospect 1981 Single Titles\nLaurie Anderson: Conversations 1980 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles\nJohn Cage Reads from 36 Mesostics Re and Not Re Duchamp 1978 On Art and Artists, Single Titles\nJohn Cage: Conversations 1978 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles\nLes Levine: Conversations 1980 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles\nAnnette Michelson: Conversations 1980 On Art and Artists, Interviews\nDennis Oppenheim: Conversations 1980 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles\nPerformance Work (The Live! 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The Department SFO is a world-class, award-winning airport that served more than 55 million guests in 2017. SFO offers non-stop flights to 45 international ...\nSan Francisco undo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 127.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.villageinn.com/locations/sterling-co/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:IJEUSS4LRYPZQXYKYORVU2DZ2UFMCN23", "length": 100, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.villageinn.com", "title": "Sterling, CO Restaurant | Village Inn", "raw_content": "203 N. Fourth St. Sterling, CO 80751\nVillage Inn in Sterling, CO is located at Hwy 6 and 4th Street.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitsormland.com/en/undersida-outdoor-life-recreation/sormlandsleden-hiking-trail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:33Z", "digest": "sha1:76WRBKTKIXJ7S45Y5BLXZTLGLVL4ITSY", "length": 1756, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.visitsormland.com", "title": "S\u00f6rmlandsleden - hiking trail Stockholm Country Break -", "raw_content": "Your walk on S\u00f6rmlandsleden will be through large areas of wilderness, but suddenly a huge desolate forest can be split by a motorway. You can swim in the lakes, meet wild and tame animals, listen to birds and breathe freedom.\nOrange trail markings\nThe S\u00f6rmlandsleden trail is marked with orange trail markings. Usually, the mark is an orange circle around a tree or pole. Road crossings are marked with orange S-arrows. In population centres you follow orange stickers, usually placed on lampposts. In places, the orange colour is supplemented with blue, on arrow tips or a dot in the circle around a tree, indicating that the section also forms part of a shorter circular route of approx 2-15 km. Planks and footbridges take hikers across sensitive and waterlogged areas. You also find signs that indicate spring (k\u00e4lla), shelter (sk\u00e4rmskydd) or privy (dass).\nThe S\u00f6rmlandsleden trail is maintained by an association. Members of the S\u00f6rmlandsleden Association work as volunteers to keep the trail in the best possible order. One person is responsible for each section. It costs SEK 200 a year to become a supporting member.\nAccommodation along the route\nWhen you walk the S\u00f6rmlandsleden trail you have to be prepared to carry all your provisions, and on most sections you have to overnight in the countryside, either in a shelter or in your own tent.\nAlong the S\u00f6rmlandsleden trail there are a number of wind shelters. They are log huts with open front, away from roads and near lakes or the sea. You can overnight here in your own sleeping bag. The shelters are designed for four people. They are free of charge, but cannot be booked. If other hikers turn up, you must share the space. Next to all shelters are prepared fireplaces.\nwww.sormlandsleden.se", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2009-08-13-voa45-68707192/356682.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:33Z", "digest": "sha1:AJNMPX2LUROESZRRXUXJVG7MIYI4FOHI", "length": 1688, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.voanews.com", "title": "Golf, Rugby Make Cut for 2016 Olympics", "raw_content": "Golf, Rugby Make Cut for 2016 Olympics\nThe International Olympic Committee, or IOC, has approved rugby sevens and golf for the 2016 Olympics, but left off baseball, softball and three other sports. The vote opens the way for Tiger Woods and other top professionals to earn Olympic gold.\nThe IOC Executive Committee Board approved the two sports' inclusion by secret ballot in Berlin.\nInternational Golf Federation Executive Director Ty Votaw said at the PGA Championship in Minnesota that he is delighted by the news.\n\"We are obviously thrilled with this announcement. It takes an important step for golf to return as an Olympic sport,\" said Votaw.\nGolf was played at the 1900 Paris Olympics and 1904 St. Louis Games. Tiger Woods and other top players have indicated they would play in the Olympics, if the sport is approved. The 106-member IOC Assembly will vote on the move in Copenhagen in October.\nSeven sports had been vying for inclusion in the 2016 Games. Baseball, softball, karate, squash and roller sports were not included on the program.\nThe decision means that the five rejected sports cannot come to the Games as an alternative option, if one of the approved sports is voted down.\nRugby has been played in four different Olympics. Rugby sevens is a smaller version of the 15-player-a-side game. The International Rugby Board would scrap its Sevens World Cup to ensure the Olympics is the sport's top event.\nThe vote is especially painful for advocates of baseball and softball, which were left off the 2012 London program. Baseball could not persuade major leaguers to take part. Softball debuted in the 1996 Atlanta Games, and was played at last year's Olympics in Beijing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 3684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp2745076.jsp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:L43BO5YOW45DT3TUPXMLVXUVESN6HQC3", "length": 1145, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.volunteermatch.org", "title": "Big Brother Mentor: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley Opportunity - VolunteerMatch", "raw_content": "Big Brother Mentor\nBig Brothers Big Sisters of Langley\nThe Big Brothers Mentoring program provides boys and young men with a role model and a friend to talk to and share the experiences of growing up with. Through regular outings, a relationship is developed between the mentor and the mentee, that is built on trust and common interests, and is supported by our experienced case-workers. The result is a life-changing experience for both the mentor and the mentee.\nThe Big Brothers Mentoring program usually requires weekly scheduled outings of 2 to 4 hours each, and a minimum of 1 year commitment.\nThe program strives to do the following:\nProvide a role model and a friend for boys and young men\nPromote the importance of staying in school and healthy relationships with family and peers\nInstill trust and self-confidence in order to make healthy decisions\nEncourage leadership skills and independent thinking\nHave mentors make a difference while having fun\nMore opportunities with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley\nThe Langley AreaLangley, BC V3A 4G2Canada\n2 hours per week for at least one year\nNo experience is required to mentor a child", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vvng.com/fearless-faith-breaking-cycle-domestic-violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XIWFZCTRZSXDK3MRPT3MWOO45AYP2GD2", "length": 4288, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.vvng.com", "title": "Fearless Faith - Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence - Victor Valley News Group | VVNG.com", "raw_content": "Home/News/Fearless Faith \u2013 Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence\nFearless Faith \u2013 Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence\nFearless Faith - Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence (Youtube)\nSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (news release) \u2013 They call her Fearless Faith.\nThose who know the 11-year-old San Bernardino resident and the struggles she endured as a victim of domestic violence immediately point to her courage and willingness to help others.\n\u201cFaith is such a remarkable young lady whose story of strength and perseverance will no doubt inspire others to break the cycle of domestic violence,\u201d District Attorney Mike Ramos said. \u201cLast week, I had the chance to meet her, and the fact that she wants to be an advocate for other children is something we don\u2019t see very often.\u201d\nAs part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month which takes place every year in October, the San Bernardino County District Attorney\u2019s Office partnered with San Bernardino-based Option House, Inc. and Project Fighting Chance to release the following Public Service Announcement (PSA) based on Faith\u2019s story:\nThe 2-minute PSA highlights Faith\u2019s story of survival and her desire to be an advocate for other children her age who are witness to domestic violence.\nTo be a certified advocate, the State of California requires a 40-hour training certification course for all Domestic Violence Advocates, as mandated in Penal Code section 1203.098. The goal of the training is to educate future advocates on the history of domestic violence and strategies to help survivors of abusive relationships.\n\u201cI want to be an advocate to teach little kids that they have a voice,\u201d said Faith. \u201cI want to tell them it\u2019s okay to speak up and tell someone what they are going through. I want to be an official advocate.\u201d\nFaith will begin her 40-hour Domestic Violence Advocacy training through Option House, Inc. next month and it will entail a child component which will allow her to be an advocate for her peers under the supervision of a certified adult.\n\u201cFor children, the fear they live with is more than fear of injury or death,\u201d said Heather Stevning, Executive Director of Option House, Inc. \u201cThey fear the destruction of their family \u2013 their world. Children may experience feelings of shame, guilt, and divided loyalties to parents making it unlikely that they will disclose the violence to others.\u201d\nStevning added that while there has been a focus on the causes of domestic violence and a push to stop it from happening, there has been much less discussion about how children like Faith are impacted by domestic violence.\nThe PSA also showcases Faith\u2019s recent enrollment in a local boxing program designed to empower victims. The program, Project Fighting Chance, is a Youth Mentoring Life Skills Program run by San Bernardino youth boxing founder Ian Franklin.\n\u201cI hope Faith gains confidence, releases stress and any unaddressed anger,\u201d said Franklin. \u201cMost importantly, I hope she develops positive self-esteem.\u201d\nThe PSA ends with a final call to action: If you or someone you know needs help, please call Option House, Inc. at (909) 381-3471 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE.\nIn 2016, the San Bernardino County District Attorney\u2019s Office filed 3,150 domestic violence-related cases. During this same period, the District Attorney\u2019s Bureau of Victim Services assisted 728 domestic violence victims: 120 of those victims were assisted with relocation, 10 with emergency shelter, 280 with emergency assistance, and 116 were advised on how to get a civil restraining order.\n\u201cMany of these cases involved children, just like Faith, who witnessed horrible crimes committed against their loved ones,\u201d said Ramos. \u201cI have said it over and over, we will hold the guilty accountable, but in doing so, we need to also take into consideration the young victims who are left behind, our children.\nThrough this PSA and our community partnerships, we can intervene early and break any future cycles of domestic violence or at-risk behavior.\u201d\nThe San Bernardino County District Attorney\u2019s Office has partnered with several community agencies to better serve victims of domestic violence.\nPlease share the PSA and the following information: http://www.sbcountyda.org/HelpingVictims/DomesticViolenceShelters.aspx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wamc.org/post/officials-celebrate-phase-one-completion-adirondack-gateway-project", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UQ5RFVRG2JXJW6OATK7NQW7FKWNJUQCA", "length": 3803, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.wamc.org", "title": "Officials Celebrate Phase One Completion Of Adirondack Gateway Project | WAMC", "raw_content": "Officials Celebrate Phase One Completion Of Adirondack Gateway Project\nState and local officials are marking the completion of the first phase of a long-awaited project intended to create a new gateway to the southern Adirondack region.\nIn his January 2017 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to create a tourism hub at Exit 29 of the Adirondack Northway in North Hudson at the long closed Frontier Town. Days later, he was in Plattsburgh to describe the proposal. \u201cWe want to build a Gateway to the Adirondacks. $32 million to redevelop the existing property as a multi-use facility: camping, access to Schroon Lake, dining, lodging, hiking, preserve the history of Frontier Town, but really build a new gateway facility to the Adirondacks.\u201d\nThe Department of Environmental Conservation is constructing and will operate campgrounds on 91 acres of the former theme park property. Officials gathered recently to celebrate completion of Phase One, which includes an equestrian camping area, a seasonal day-use area along the Schroon River, staff facilities and parking for trail access.\nTown of North Hudson Supervisor Ron Moore expects a number of jobs to result from the state\u2019s work and from a new brewery being built adjacent to the site. \u201cIf you couple that with the numbers of recreational activities that we\u2019re going to have, biking, mountain biking, kayaking, tubing, horseback riding and then your typical hiking and so on and so forth, and we\u2019re 7 miles from the Boreas Ponds Tract. Having that array of activities I think will pull some people off of more highly used areas. It will result in new business growth.\u201d\nRegional Office of Sustainable Tourism President James McKenna believes the state\u2019s work will significantly benefit the region. \u201cThe state has moved quite quickly on it and they seem to have it on their radar screen for completion next year. And it\u2019s very valuable because it\u2019s located right off the Northway number one. Number two it\u2019s identifying some areas where we\u2019ve seen some real need for advancements, certainly camping, certainly horseback riding and other things. But the fact that it will have such access to a large number of people, I-87 or the Adirondack Northway is the main feeder for you know the New York metropolitan area, the Capital Region and beyond, and this should serve as a good location to help diversify where all our hikers are going presently.\u201d\nPhase Two of the project will include creation of recreational vehicle and tent campsites. According to the governor\u2019s office, in 2017 more than 12 million people visited the Adirondacks, an increase of nearly 20 percent since 2011.\nGateway to the Adirondacks\nAdirondack Park Agency Approves DEC Frontier Town Plan\nThe Adirondack Park Agency has approved the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation\u2019s plan to redevelop the former Frontier Town site in North Hudson.\nFrontier Town Redevelopment Plans Reviewed\nThe New York state Department of Environmental Conservation released its plan for redevelopment of the former Frontier Town site in North Hudson earlier this month and held public information sessions on Monday.\nGroundbreaking At Former Frontier Town Marks New Development At Site\nThom Hallock/MLPBS\nState and regional officials were in North Hudson, New York last week for a groundbreaking marking new development at the former Frontier Town theme park.\nGroundbreaking Set For Frontier Town Redevelopment\nBy Lucas Willard \u2022 Apr 10, 2018\nA groundbreaking is set for the redevelopment of a former amusement park in the Adirondacks.\nNYSDEC Announces Plans For Former Frontier Town Theme Park\nBy Lucas Willard \u2022 Dec 7, 2017\nThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has announced plans for a former amusement park in the Adirondacks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 6952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wareable.com/features/wearable-future", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KD6M2TXN3Z2M2UT5JUV4ZC75OFTOIV55", "length": 7412, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.wareable.com", "title": "Wearable future: What will we be wearing in 20 years?", "raw_content": "Wearable future: What will we be wearing in 20 years?\nA glimpse of the wearable tech future from a host of industry experts\nDespite the boom in wearable technology in the last couple of years, it's easy to forget this corner of consumer technology is still very much a burgeoning one. But the future of wearables is an incredibly exciting prospect.\nWe have, in front of us, the green shoots in what could be some fertile lands. Smartwatches, fitness bands, virtual reality and the like are the sprouting grounds for now but will we still be talking about them when the mature blooms of a pan-global wearable reality flourish?\nTo find the answer we found four experts in the field willing to stake their reputations on what tomorrow might bring and asked them what they think we'll all be wearing in 20 years' time.\nWearables in 2 years time\u2026.\n\u201cOne of the big benefits of wearables will be having our health and constitution monitored,\u201d futurologist Ray Hammond told us.\n\u201cIn the early stages it will be simple stuff like pulse, breathing rate, the number of steps we take, oxygen levels in the blood, the amount of glucose in the blood which can just be gathered from sweat on the skin surface. A bit later on it will be ECG. We\u2019ll slip on an under-vest and our wearables will provide ECG pads. If you're elderly or have a sick baby, you could slip on a vest and have accurate monitoring all the time.\u201d\n\u201cYou can\u2019t easily put wires in garments at the moment,\u201d explained Ben Moir, co-founder of We:Ex. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the major problems holding back wearable tech in fashion. It\u2019s the way fabrics are made and how cheaply it\u2019s done. The idea of putting high cost conductive fibers in these low cost textiles that will still world after several washes and wears; it\u2019s still to rudimentary even in two years.\n\u201cWe really need nano-tech to come through on the material side. What we might see are more guys like Ralph Lauren dabbling in it but you won\u2019t find technology in a \u00a310 t-shirt for a very long time.\u201d\n\u201cIn two years we\u2019ll see a lot more customisation, versatility, style, fabrics to make devices that people are happy to attach to themselves,\u201d added Simon Randall, managing director of OMG Life, the company behind Autographer.\n\u201cSo, I think the products will look more accessories and clothing than tech gadgets. I think people that use really good designers to design their products from scratch - knowing that it needs to be worn by males and females of different sizes, heights and different fashion attitudes and customisation - they\u2019re the people that are going to win.\u201d\n\u201cIn 5 years, the tech on the silicon side, the battery life, the improvements in the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity will all be in place,\u201d explained Simon Randall.\n\u201cIn five years, there will be shirts measuring some biometrics,\u201d added Pekka Tolvanen, CEO of sports wearable brand Myontec. \u201cThose who already use heart rate monitors would like to know something more and we hope that muscle measurement is one of those new parameters.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to begin to develop our own personal CCTV systems which will always be on,\u201d predicts Ray Hammond.\n\u201cIf we're walking along a dark road late at night and it\u2019s generally understood that everyone is transmitting, in real time, vision and sound, then that\u2019s a pretty strong deterrent. Even if someone comes and knocks you senseless, they\u2019ll have been seen and recorded.\n\u201cLook at a car crash or an argument over a contract; that\u2019s why we\u2019ll be doing it. These personal networks will also do two-way, real-time foreign language translation. They\u2019ll do ID verification and, of course, they will be part of a payment system which we can use globally.\u201d\n\u201cThe core issues will be energy harvesting and working out how to create the ability to have clothing taking energy from your movement of your body and your shoes on the street,\u201d Ben Moir told us.\n\u201cMy company is looking at battery solutions like a coat hanger rack that will charge your clothing as well as store it. You hang your jacket or your pants up and these hangers will charge it overnight. That will provide a stopgap before energy harvesting has gone mainstream.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll also see developments in flexible circuits and batteries that can be printed onto any shapes and spaces we like. That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to get away from all these bulky, square wearables we see at the moment.\u201d\nWearables in 10 years time\u2026.\nNext next-gen products\n\u201cWe have to go through the iteration of smartglasses, which will probably be an eight or ten year iteration,\u201d Ray Hammond explained. \u201cIf our glasses or lenses are examining our eyes while we\u2019re using them - looking for movement, blood clots, patterns of the blood vessels, iris movements, colouration, inflammation - that gives us a clue as a diagnostic tool for mental and physical health.\u201d\n\u201cBy then, we\u2019ll have sensors like nicotine patches which can take micro samples from our body fluids and can detect biochemical minutiae and do things like detect pain and also deliver medicine in the right doses automatically,\u201d added Moir.\nCalling in the cloud\n\u201cIn 10 years, most probably the data integration will be heavily developed,\u201d stated Pekka Tolvanen. \u201cThen we\u2019ll have sensors all over our bodies. We might also start to see some kind of analytics from our brains for exercise, so that we can combine how the signals start from there and then end up in muscles and motions.\u201d\n\u201cAssuming you\u2019ve got some sort of Wi-Fi-connected power mesh on your body, then these sensors can be pushing things directly up to the cloud for processing,\u201d added Simon Randall from Autographer. \u201cThere\u2019s a chance that could happen in 10 years but it relies on some fairly big steps in power management.\u201d\nSuper hero shift\n\u201cIn 20 years, there\u2019ll be a shift towards what's\u2019 known as transhumanism where we transcend being individual humans,\u201d explained Ben Moir. \u201cIt\u2019s when we have senses that we don\u2019t have now, when we can see more than the visible spectrum for example. If you\u2019re just living your life with the five senses you were born with, then you\u2019re missing out on the experience. That\u2019s wear wearables will go.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll also be able to see the world through each other's eyes, and be connected to them more fully. You\u2019ll be able to feel what I\u2019m feeling. The forward thinkers won\u2019t even think twice about doing implantables in 20 years' time. What that might lead to eventually is a certain percent of the human population will leave and evolve to beyond what the human limitations are.\u201d\nAlways connected, always recording\n\u201cEveryone will be wearing lenses of a sort,\u201d predicts Simon Randall. \u201cThey\u2019ll able to constantly capture images throughout the day which go up to the cloud services, get processed and you can then get different types of curation from them.\u201d\n\u201cWhat we\u2019re going towards is a kind of living in a personal halo of information and, 20 years from now, all our interactions with the outside world - not with our loved ones or our friends or our family - will be mediated by this halo,\u201d added Ray Hammond.\n\u201cIf someone\u2019s approaching us on the street, depending on the levels of privacy they\u2019ve adopted, you may just glance at them and see who they are, who they work for, where they\u2019re from, what their interests are. If you\u2019re a friend of a friend or got some personal connection, then the person will have the option to blink and accept you.\u201d\nBookmark Wareable: Latest wearable technology news and reviews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 10116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/long-odds--for-now--on-legal-sports-betting-in-the-dmv/2018/05/15/bf19bdf8-5851-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html?utm_term=.ff79f570ec41", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:6BIZD2Z7JZJZ2Q37ICODKWDF3NPXP2UZ", "length": 5479, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "Will the District, Maryland or Virginia move quickly to legalize sports betting? - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "Long odds \u2014 for now \u2014 on legal sports betting in the DMV\nPeople make bets in the sports book at the South Point hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Monday. Could Maryland, the District or Virginia follow suit? (John Locher/AP)\nLegalized sports betting could come to the nation\u2019s capital or its surroundings after a Supreme Court ruling this week opened the way for states to allow it. But where, and how fast, remain very much up in the air.\nNearly 20 states have introduced bills to legalize sports betting or allow voters to decide. The District and Virginia aren\u2019t among them.\nIn Maryland, a bill calling for a voter referendum on the issue passed the House of Delegates this year, but not the Senate. Any betting proposal now must wait until next year, barring a special legislative session, which the office of Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he has no plans to initiate. That pushes the soonest potential legalization to 2020.\n\u201cThe governor has previously expressed support for the rights of states to make this determination,\u201d Hogan spokeswoman Shareese Churchill said in an email. \u201cWe anticipate this issue will be debated in the next legislative session.\u201d\nDel. Jason C. Buckel (R-Allegany), who has sponsored past sports betting legislation, said the bill\u2019s failure could put Maryland at a competitive disadvantage. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that all our neighboring states and competing casinos are going to be up and running with this new amenity for their customers,\u201d he said.\nIndeed, in the District, one council member said he\u2019d like to get betting in place before Maryland and Virginia do, so gamblers from across the region can spend their dollars in Washington.\n\u201cThis is a source of enormous revenue, and we need to move forward as quickly as possible,\u201d said council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who\u2019s planning to introduce a bill.\nBut first, Evans \u2014 who was a driving force behind bringing Major League Baseball back to Washington and building the publicly financed Nats Park \u2014 said he\u2019s trying to sort out questions, such as where revenue from sports bets should go.\n\u201cGambling has always been a mixed bag in the District. When we looked at casino gambling, there was a lot of opposition to it, particularly from churches,\u201d \u00adEvans said. \u201cI personally want to make this happen, but it\u2019s a long road.\u201d\nVirginia, unlike Maryland, has so far resisted any form of casino gambling. Its conservative legislature turned away riverboat gambling in the 1990s, outlawed Internet gambling cafes in the 2000s and has kept a casino bill bottled up in a Senate committee for the past five years.\nBut momentum for gambling in the commonwealth is getting a push from the popularity of the MGM National Harbor casino just across the Potomac River in Maryland, which estimates that at least 40 percent of its business comes from Virginia.\nDuring the first four months of this year, Maryland\u2019s six casinos hauled in more than $414 million, with nearly $150 million of that going to state and local coffers.\nVirginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has taken note and said it may be time for something similar in his state. On sports betting, his office was noncommittal this week. \u201cWe are still reviewing the ruling and should the General Assembly take up legislation on this issue, we\u2019d review that as well,\u201d Northam spokeswoman Ofirah Yheskel said in an email.\nThe Supreme Court struck down a federal law that kept most states from authorizing sports betting, ruling in favor of New Jersey, which had challenged the statute.\nThat state has been preparing for legalized sports wagering since 2012, and many locations are ready to move quickly. Monmouth Park, a racetrack on the Jersey Shore, says it could open betting windows within the next two weeks. Delaware could also have betting windows open soon, and other states are poised to follow. A 2017 report from Eilers & Krejcik Gaming estimated that as many as 32 states could offer legal sports betting within five years.\nExperts suggest that illegal sports betting in the United States is a $50 billion to $150 billion business, though it\u2019s probably impossible to accurately estimate. According to research by UNLV\u2019s Center for Gaming Research, legal sports betting in Nevada totaled nearly $5 billion last year, led by wagers on football \u2014 both college and professional \u2014 which accounted for $1.76 billion.\nMany in the gambling and sports industries in the D.C. region have greeted the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling enthusiastically.\n\u201cThe Court\u2019s decision is both a victory for state\u2019s rights and for the millions of Americans who want to legally bet on sports in a safe, regulated environment,\u201d Joe Weinberg, managing partner of Maryland casino developer Cordish Companies, said in a statement. \u201cSports betting should be made available exclusively through the regulated casinos in Maryland, where it is best positioned to protect consumers and maximize tax revenues to the state.\u201d\nWashington Wizards, Capitals and Mystics owner Ted Leonsis also said he\u2019s eager to embrace legalized betting, though he said there are \u201ca huge number of questions\u201d about how the court\u2019s decision will play out.\n\u201cMany ask if this decision will impact the integrity of sports themselves,\u201d Leonsis said in a statement. \u201cI think it\u2019s just the opposite. I think that the increased transparency that will accompany more legalized betting around the country will only further protect against potential corruption.\u201d\nFenit Nirappil, Greg Schneider and Luz Lazo contributed to this report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-to-remain-britain/2016/06/16/e03f2dc6-33e4-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BMR7AZ2WQJVFGCPZUPTYGM6VMQZDG4LU", "length": 3814, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "A \u2018Brexit\u2019 would be perilous for not just for the U.K., but for the world - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "A \u2018Brexit\u2019 would be perilous for not just for the U.K., but for the world\nBritish Prime Minister David Cameron takes part in a BuzzFeed News and Facebook live E.U. referendum debate in London on June 10. (Adam Gray/Buzzfeed News/Facebook/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)\nTHE EUROPEAN Union is not popular just now. The E.U.\u2019s median favorability rating in 10 major nations, encompassing 80\u2009percent of its 508 million inhabitants, is a tepid 51 percent, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. This is not surprising given the crises \u2014 economic, migratory and security-related \u2014 confronting Europe.\nIn the United Kingdom, the E.U.\u2019s approval rating is an even lower 44 percent, even though Britain has opted out of Europe-wide institutions that euroskeptics most dislike \u2014 such as the common currency \u2014 and has negotiated other special exemptions from E.U. strictures. In this skeptical mood, British voters will go to the polls June 23 and choose whether to stay in the E.U. or begin a negotiated departure. \u201cBrexit\u201d would be the first such secession in E.U. history but, if successful, possibly not the last. The latest polls \u2014 taken before Thursday\u2019s shocking assassination of Jo Cox, a pro-E.U. Labour Party member of Parliament, prompted a suspension of the referendum campaign \u2014 suggest British voters may well vote \u201cleave.\u201d\nThis would be contrary to the pleas of Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama and practically every elected leader across Europe. It would be contrary to the internationalist example set by Ms. Cox, a committed and thoughtful campaigner for the rights of refugees and supporter of a vigorous British response to the Syrian war that has forced so many to flee.\nIt also would be dangerous for the world, for Europe and, not least, for Britain.\nWe understand the populist impulse behind the Brexit surge. Brussels and its multiple officious agencies are remote; their ponderous processes offer no prompt resolution to the issues that worry Britons most, including a surge of immigrants via the borderless E.U. That this impulse is understandable, however, does not make it any less, well, impulsive; there\u2019s nothing particularly new, or particularly admirable, about the politics of anti-immigrant backlash. Any control Brexit would \u201ctake back,\u201d to paraphrase the Leave campaign slogan, would be offset by increased economic uncertainty and political tension, to include conflict, potentially, with Scotland, which might rethink its recent vote to remain in the U.K. rather than join a flight from Europe. Brexiteers promise a boom born of deregulation; practical people grasp that Britain\u2019s global financial center and export economy require regulation and standard-setting, including some that will inevitably be carried out multilaterally. Leaving the E.U. won\u2019t change that reality, just render Britain less influential in shaping it.\nFor all its defects, the European Union is still a force for comity and commerce among the peoples of the continent, and a multiplier of their power and influence on the world stage. The E.U. is a strong partner with the United States, especially so when it includes Britain\u2019s economy, the world\u2019s fifth largest, and its military, the fifth most powerful . What\u2019s more, it is a force for stability, possibly the most important of all the public goods that governing institutions provide \u2014 but, alas, the one most often taken for granted. Sensible citizenries prize stability as well as grievance and don\u2019t lightly vent the latter at the risk of the former.\nCome June 23, we hope the British people will vote accordingly.\nSebastian Mallaby: The economic shock of a \u2018Brexit\u2019\nRobert J. Samuelson: Is the Brexit camp about to triumph?\nGeorge F. Will: The \u2018Brexit\u2019 referendum is the most important vote in Europe in a half-century", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-good-times-for-illegals-is-over-trump-finds-allies-in-europes-anti-immigration-movement/2018/06/19/1a1da27a-73d5-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WXCFZPPSQG5BWS3CNSPV657WAAUNQCXR", "length": 8869, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "Trump finds allies in Europe\u2019s anti-immigration movement - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "\u2018The good times for illegals are over\u2019: Trump finds allies in Europe\u2019s anti-immigration movement\nItaly's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, shakes hands with President Trump while Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, looks on at a family photo session with the leaders of the G-7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada on June 8. (Yves Herman/Reuters)\nPresident Trump\u2019s decision to endorse a \u201czero tolerance\u201d border policy aligns his administration squarely with the populist, anti-immigration movement that has swept Europe and brought hard-right leaders to power amid an unprecedented wave of global migration.\nAs Trump this week defended his administration\u2019s border security strategy by warning that lax immigration laws are \u201cdestroying our country,\u201d Italy\u2019s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, was announcing plans to conduct a national census with the aim of deporting ethnic Roma who had not attained citizenship. This comes after the Italian government this month blocked a rescue ship carrying hundreds of migrants from docking in its ports.\n\u201cThe good times for illegals are over \u2014 get ready to pack your bags,\u201d Salvini said shortly after being sworn in on June 1.\nThe hard-line immigration messages from Washington and Rome represented a stark shift from less than two years ago when President Barack Obama and then-Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stood together at the White House and agreed that all nations must do more to share the costs of migration.\nInstead, Trump has expressed solidarity with European leaders who have sought to seal their borders, speaking last weekend with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government has built fences to keep out migrants. Trump recently extended a White House invitation to Giuseppe Conte, Italy\u2019s new prime minister, who leads the first purely populist government in the core of Western Europe since the founding of the European Union.\nAnd Trump has renewed his criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her decision three years ago to welcome hundreds of thousands of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Merkel is hanging on to power by a thread amid a dispute over migration policy within her conservative bloc.\nOn Tuesday, Trump repeated his false claim that Germany\u2019s crime rate has increased by 10 percent, even though official statistics released last month showed a drop of more than 5 percent in 2017 and the lowest rate since 1992. (A separate study found a 10 percent increase in violent crimes in one German state between 2015 and 2016. Researchers attributed the jump largely to the influx of young male refugees but noted a similar increase would have been expected had there been sudden growth in the population of young male Germans.)\n\u201cThe United States has just surpassed Germany as having the most asylum seekers of any nation on Earth \u2014 can you imagine that?\u201d Trump said Tuesday during a speech to small-business owners, citing a new report from the United Nations Refugee Agency that attributed the U.S. spike to a flood of Central American migrants.\nTrump on Wednesday backed off his administration\u2019s policy of separating families at the border but made clear he would continue his aggressive approach on immigration.\n\u201cWe\u2019re keeping families together, and this will solve that problem,\u201d he said Wednesday when signing an executive order in the Oval Office. \u201cAt the same time, we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero tolerance. We have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally\u201d\nAs U.S. lawmakers and journalists have highlighted the humanitarian costs of Trump\u2019s border policies, which have separated more than 2,000 immigrant children from their parents over the past six weeks, experts said his administration\u2019s approach reflects an ongoing backlash among voters in Western nations to the record levels of displaced people that have scrambled global politics.\nThe U.N. report showed a worldwide total of 68.5 million migrants in 2017 \u2014 an all-time high. Filippo Grandi, the international body\u2019s high commissioner for refugees, characterized the numbers as \u201ca watershed\u201d and called for \u201ca far more comprehensive approach so that countries and communities aren\u2019t left dealing with this alone.\u201d\nBut Trump, in his remarks, vowed to seek congressional authority to cut off financial assistance to countries that fail to stem the flow of migrants to the United States.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not going to give any more aid to those countries,\u201d Trump declared. \u201cWhy the hell should we?\u201d\nCritics have called Trump\u2019s policies racist and xenophobic, citing studies that have shown immigrants contribute to economic growth and commit crime at lower rates than do native-born Americans.\nBut supporters said the president is responding to the same public concerns about national security, cultural change and economic upheaval that prompted Britain\u2019s Brexit vote, a second-place finish for the radical right in the French presidential election and the return of the far right to the German parliament for the first time in half a century.\n\u201cThe elites have internalized a post-national worldview\u201d because they benefit from globalization, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for lower immigration levels. \u201cWhereas the public more broadly still sees real emotional and normative value in peoplehood and nationhood.\u201d\nIn Europe, immigration has recast the political map, sapping the strength of the left and shifting much of the right to what had long been considered the radical fringe.\n\u201cTo be anti-immigration is one of the most mainstream positions in European politics,\u201d observed Peter Kreko, director at Budapest-based Political Capital. Although discontent over immigration had long been building, it was a massive refu\u00adgee crisis in 2015 and 2016 that tipped the balance. Within a matter of months, more than a million people fleeing war, oppression and poverty streamed into Europe.\nAnti-immigration forces have surged across the continent again in recent months, and some analysts suggested Trump\u2019s renewed interest in making common cause with his ideological brethren across the Atlantic could be contributing to his recent immigration enforcement push. The spike in Central American migrants has sent illegal immigration to the highest levels of Trump\u2019s presidency.\nAmong Europe\u2019s far right, analysts said, there is a feeling that Trump, after failing in his first year to act as aggressively as he promised in the campaign, has in recent months begun trusting his instincts and disregarding the cautions of his more centrist advisers, several of whom have left the administration.\nStephen K. Bannon, who was forced out last summer as White House chief strategist after clashing with other West Wing advisers over his hard-line populism, recently toured Europe and met with populist leaders to sell his dream of a transatlantic nationalist revival.\nEurope is \u201cmaybe two years in the cycle ahead of the United States\u201d in its populist embrace, Bannon said in an interview with The Washington Post last month. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to learn from Europe.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Trump\u2019s new ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, told Breitbart News that he intends to use his perch to \u201cempower\u201d conservatives across the continent. He singled out for praise Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who has made cracking down on immigration a core government priority since coming to power in an alliance with the far right.\nGrenell was widely criticized in Germany for his comments. But analysts said his view reflects a new reality in which nationalists on either side of the Atlantic are attempting to coordinate their strategies and messages.\n\u201cThis is something new,\u201d said Jan Techau, Europe director for the German Marshall Fund. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time the right has a true international narrative.\u201d\nThat has left Merkel increasingly isolated, and it\u2019s not clear how much longer she can hold on. Her government has wobbled badly in recent days with a core part of her conservative bloc threatening a mutiny as it pushes for border controls to block certain asylum seekers from entering Germany.\nEven as she was struggling to keep her government together, Trump gloated about the rebellion, tweeting Monday that Germans are \u201cturning against\u201d their leaders.\n\u201cBig mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!\u201d the president added.\nTechau said Merkel\u2019s survival remains in doubt. Much depends on her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, which is close to both Kurz and Orban and may decide that anger over immigration gives the party leverage for a radical move.\n\u201cThe onus is on them,\u201d Techau said. \u201cEither the CSU stays within the traditional logic or it goes nuclear and breaks apart the party system in Germany.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/28/what-white-people-need-to-know-and-do-after-ferguson/?utm_term=.e36ae729d776", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5WOUOII2XJVTBPIPLPQ35WPTF7GKVVAX", "length": 7082, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson\nBenefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice.\nA protester in Ferguson this week. (Jewel Samad)\nSally Kohn is a CNN political commentator and author of \"The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity.\"\nIn the days before the grand jury\u2019s decision in Ferguson, when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon decided to impose a pre-emptive state of emergency, a white relative posted on my Facebook page, \u201cBetter to be prepared for the worse, than to have racially charged riot. [sic] At that point, no one cares what your political view points are, who you married or what God you pray too, only that you are White and you are Wrong.\u201d This essay is for my cousin and every other white person who is well meaning but somehow feels hopelessly polarized in a racially polarized debate. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way.\nWhen black people are protesting in Ferguson and across America, they\u2019re not protesting against white people. Maybe this seems obvious, but it\u2019s worth stating. In fact, in the case of Ferguson, the protests weren\u2019t (primarily) about one white cop. Black communities are ultimately protesting systems of injustice and inequality that structurally help white people while systematically harming black people. Just because you\u2019re white and therefore generally benefit from those systems doesn\u2019t mean you inherently support those systems \u2014 or need to defend them. Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice.\nPrivilege is like oxygen: You don\u2019t realize it\u2019s there until it\u2019s gone. As white folks, we can\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to go through life without racial privilege because we literally haven\u2019t. You may have heard stories about black friends being monitored in department stores or seen the research that black names on resumes get half as many job interviews as white names on the same resumes. Maybe you know that a black man or boy is killed every 28 hours in America by police or vigilantes. Maybe you\u2019ve read the studies on implicit \u201cshooter bias\u201d \u2014 how we\u2019re all more likely to pull a simulated trigger on unarmed black men than unarmed white men \u2014 and maybe you know that even the most egalitarian Americans harbor unconscious negative attitudes about black people. The studies and the stories are overwhelming. Just this week, police shot and killed a black 12-year-old for holding a BB gun.\nBut still, in some part of your brain, if you imagine that wouldn\u2019t happen to you even if you were black, it means you believe something other than race is to blame for all those statistics and studies \u2014 which can only boil down to some rationalization of inherent superiority on your part. And then you\u2019ve just shown exactly what privilege is and why black folks feel the need to assert their basic humanity. See how easy it is to reinforce white privilege, even unintentionally?\nBeing a constructive part of America\u2019s necessary discussion on race and racial bias means acknowledging how bias and privilege may shape your own life even if you don\u2019t want it to. Responsibility isn\u2019t the same as culpability. It is not your personal fault that Michael Brown was shot and killed or that we have deep and structural racial bias in America. But that bias is nonetheless a reality, and so you do have a responsibility as to whether you are part of the problem or part of the solution. Just like you\u2019re mistaken if you don\u2019t think white is a race, you\u2019re mistaken if you think you can remain neutral.\nWhen a black boy is shot by police or when a black community is neglected (as in the response to Hurricane Katrina), pundits and politicians often call for a national \u201cconversation\u201d on race. That conversation never seems to continue. It happens episodically, often in moments of desperation when black frustration seems ready to boil over. If white people were also demanding that conversation happen, not just reactively but proactively, the discussion might really happen. But that would mean we\u2019d have to want the conversation, and with it the critique of our racial group and dynamics, rather than a defensive dismissal that we had nothing, personally, to do with the most recent tragedy.\nResponsibility isn\u2019t the same as culpability.\nThe puzzle in all this is that, according to a recent study by Stanford, when white people hear about how black people (12 percent of the country) are overrepresented in America\u2019s criminal justice system (where they are 40 percent), they actually become more supportive of policies that would increase that inequality \u2014 stop-and-frisk, three-strikes sentencing laws, etc.\nDoes this all sound like whitesplaining. Fine, then it is. Too many white people refuse to own up to \u2014 let alone confront \u2014 racial bias in America. We check out of conversations on race that communities of color are desperately trying to include us in. The truth is that some white people can hear this only from another white person.\nOn Twitter, some white people have responded to the Ferguson-inspired rallying cry \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d with the hashtag #AllLivesMatter \u2014 as if the Ferguson protesters have been somehow arguing otherwise. No, they were arguing that black lives also should matter, equally, in a country that often reveals otherwise. The irony is that while many white folks criticize black activists for being \u201crace hustlers,\u201d supposedly injecting race (\u201cplaying the race card\u201d) into the conversation where it doesn\u2019t belong, white people are the ones who often construe these conversations in unnecessarily dichotomous racialized terms.\nStanding up for the rights and opportunities of black people doesn\u2019t in any way harm the opportunities of white people \u2014 unless you think of justice and fairness as zero-sum contests in which only one race can win. Thankfully, fewer and fewer people see feminism as anti-male. And not many straight folks see gay rights as a threat to them. But somehow when black people stand up for their rights, sensible white people have a knee jerk defensiveness that \u201ctheir own group\u201d is under attack. Gay marriage laws are gaining steam with a rapidly quickening pace at the same time affirmative action policies and voting rights protections are being rolled back. Is our consciousness on race and racial justice going backward, too?\nIt\u2019s not wrong to be white. Maybe a few people in America think so, but that\u2019s it. What racial justice activists and those protesting in Ferguson do think is that it\u2019s wrong to not scrutinize what race means in our society today \u2014 how implicit bias shapes everything from our neighborhoods to our economy to who gets to live and who gets to die when they\u2019re doing nothing else but holding a toy. That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong. We don\u2019t have a choice about which side of that equation we\u2019re born on, but we do have a choice about whether we acknowledge the reality of bias and talk honestly \u2014 together \u2014 about solutions.\nSally Kohn Sally Kohn is a CNN political commentator and author of \"The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity.\" Follow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 8980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk/news/homes-left-without-postal-cover-1-525659", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GUP6PRY4BSTCTWGJSSJKAZNM5ZW5YMFT", "length": 2443, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk", "title": "Homes left without postal cover | Watton and Swaffham News - Watton and Swaffham Times", "raw_content": "Homes left without postal cover\nHundreds of houses in the Watton area have been left without postal coverage for nearly two weeks because of staff illness.\nResidents in Watton, Ashill, Carbrooke and Ovington have raised concerns about the erratic services, criticising Royal Mail bosses for \u201cpoor management\u201d.\nIt is understood that there are 13 employees covering the patch, but following recent staff illness, there were up to five people on leave or on long-term sickness at one time.\nA Watton resident, who did not wish to be named, said: \u201cThe new housing estate near the former RAF Watton site has not had post for days.\u201d\n\u201cWe haven't had any deliveries since before Easter and there are still disruptions.\n\u201cMy understanding is that they (Royal Mail) are bringing workers from Ipswich every morning. They get them on taxis and bring them over here.\n\u201cThat's not the right way to solve the problem. This is just poor management.\n\u201cParcels have been piling up for almost a week and there was nobody to deliver them.\n\u201cEventually someone cracked into it and they were delivered. The problem is not that there are people off sick. The problem is that they haven't organised back-up coverage.\n\u201cAlso, they just wouldn't admit that there have been disruptions. We're still not receiving our post.\u201d\nRodney Small, a resident from Ashill, has also been left without post since Monday, March 24.\nHe said: \u201cThere has been a complete blackout for nearly two weeks now.\n\u201cWe didn't get any post on Monday, (March 24) and Tuesday (March 25). Then we received post the following two days. On Good Friday there was no post, but there should have been a delivery on Saturday.\n\u201cThe week after Easter, again, we received nothing.\n\u201cThis is very distressing, especially for pensioners who are waiting for their bills. If they (the bills) come too late, people could end up paying penalties.\u201d\nGary Fitch, office manager for Watton Royal Mail, said the company was working to clear the backlog and insisted that deliveries resumed at the end of last week.\nBut he refused to make any comment on the disruptions experienced over the last two weeks.\nIn London, Sunita Chohan, speaking for Royal Mail, was not aware of the problems experienced by residents locally.\nShe said: \u201cRoyal Mail is not aware of any delivery issues in the area and deliveries have gone out on a daily basis.\n\u201cAny customers with concerns should contact our customer service number on 08457 740740.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 6024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/rand-paul-files-civil-suit-against-neighbor-who-tackled-him", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVLFI5MSZ5WM72QNWMGRYH35D2XCHNHX", "length": 1638, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wcpo.com", "title": "Rand Paul files civil suit against neighbor who tackled him", "raw_content": "Rand Paul files civil suit against neighbor who tackled him\nBOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) \u2014 U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is suing a neighbor who admitted tackling Paul as he mowed his yard.\nThe Bowling Green Daily News reports the complaint filed Friday seeks compensatory and punitive damages from neighbor Rene Boucher for \"physical pain and mental suffering\" from the November assault.\nBoucher says his actions were brought on by Paul repeatedly stacking yard debris near a shared property line. Paul suffered multiple fractured ribs. The lawsuit calls Boucher's actions \"unnecessarily cruel, malicious, willful, wanton\" with total disregard for Paul's \"rights, life and liberties.\"\nThe lawsuit charges that Paul has \"been deprived of his enjoyment of life\" and left with an increased likelihood of injury and disease. It also asks to prevent Boucher from contacting the Paul family or Boucher \"will continue ... the pattern of stalking and harassment.\"\nBoucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced this month to 30 days in jail and fined $10,000.\n\"To the best of my knowledge, Sen. Paul has not suffered any loss of any income and doesn't appear that he will in the future,\" said Matt Baker, Boucher's lawyer. \"It was established at the sentencing hearing that he does not have any out-of-pocket medical expenses in this case, and at some point after the incident he told Fox News in an on-camera interview that he has not taken any prescription pain medication, and so all that is to say we're going to defend this civil suit just like we would any other and see if we can get it resolved as efficiently as possible.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 3483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wcpo.com/sports/college-sports/xavier-university-sports/dartmouth-transfer-evan-bourdreaux-picks-xavier-but-degree-comes-first", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:R4GJHIVZYSTXFQMWU3H5AFI4GH6MZ2J5", "length": 3059, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.wcpo.com", "title": "Dartmouth transfer Evan Boudreaux picks Xavier, but degree comes first", "raw_content": "Dartmouth transfer Evan Boudreaux picks Xavier, but degree comes first\nBy: Shannon Russell | WCPO Contributor\nCINCINNATI -- Xavier\u2019s newest men\u2019s basketball player is hardly its youngest.\nFormer Dartmouth player Evan Boudreaux on Monday announced plans to play for the Musketeers after re-opening his recruitment last month. The 6-foot-8 power forward will remain at the Ivy League school this year to continue his studies and expects to finish his sociology degree over the summer at Xavier via distance learning.\nA Bachelor\u2019s degree in hand, Boudreaux will have two years of eligibility with the Musketeers.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a little different being a grad transfer for two years (instead of one). I think I\u2019m in a unique situation,\u201d said Boudreaux, 20.\nThe Illinois native will help fill a significant front court void created when Sean O\u2019Mara and Kerem Kanter conclude their time at Xavier at the end of the season.\nStandout guards Trevon Bluiett and J.P. Macura also are playing their final seasons. Boudreaux, in addition to an incoming freshman class featuring 7-foot center Jake Walter, 6-4 guard Keonte Kennedy and 6-8 forward Dontarius James, will give the Musketeers a new look.\nLast season as a sophomore, Boudreaux averaged a team-best 17.5 points and 9.5 rebounds on a Dartmouth team that went 7-20. Boudreaux also led the team in scoring (17.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.4) as a freshman. That team went 10-18.\nBoudreaux\u2019s strengths lie in his versatility, namely is ability to score inside and out; he made 37 3-pointers last season. He\u2019s most proud of his rebounding and \u201cbeing able to go get the ball.\u201d\nRoughly 25 programs sought Boudreaux after he announced transfer plans in November. He visited Xavier, Purdue and Colorado but ultimately was swayed by the Musketeers\u2019 postseason presence and success under Chris Mack.\n\u201cOne of the biggest parts of this decision is having the ability to go to the NCAA tournament and do well in the NCAA tournament. That\u2019s my goal. I\u2019m looking forward to that,\u201d Boudreaux said.\n\u201cI just felt really comfortable with the coaching staff and the history of their success. The job Coach Mack has done is really incredible. I really wanted to be a part of that.\u201d\nAssistant coach Luke Murray was the lead recruiter on Boudreaux. Xavier was a familiar program to the student-athlete, not only because of the Musketeers\u2019 consistent TV games and postseason play but because he was recruited \u201ca little bit\u201d by Xavier in high school, too.\nBoudreaux will follow a strict workout plan this season. He plans to work with Xavier and his AAU coach, Dickey Simpkins, to formulate a strategy to stay in shape and improve his game.\nAsked what he could bring to the Musketeers beyond scoring and rebounding, Boudreaux said a veteran presence in the post.\n\u201cCoach Mack really wants leadership and the work ethic that I have and that kind of culture. The seniors who are leaving have obviously established a great program and fostered that culture,\u201d Boudreaux said. \u201cNothing is promised, but having the opportunity to earn minutes is important.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wearepoway.com/go-guide/borrego-springs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6OQ3SVXBJ5SD6WBTE3URWG5VH7SUWPAU", "length": 1435, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wearepoway.com", "title": "Borrego Springs -", "raw_content": "A land for all seasons, Borrego Springs is a year-round destination that offers a unique experience each and every time you come: expansive desert vistas framed by stark, ancient cliffs; miles of emptiness that are, in fact, teeming with wildlife; endlessly dramatic desert skies that can be sweeping across the landscape one minute and hovering in absolute stillness the next; a peace and quiet that cannot be understood without experiencing it and, at night, a darkness that defies description. These are experiences Borrego visitors discover and these are the reasons people come back again and again. Of course, there is as little or as much to do in Borrego Springs as you are willing to contemplate. Soaking up the magnificent scenery is an admirable full time occupation and can be accomplished on foot, by car, on horseback, in an off-road caravan or from the air. If you are game for more, there is tennis, golf, shopping, music, galleries, hiking, cycling, photography, bird watching, sunning, swimming, star gazing, and even time travel, if you include the prehistoric animals of Galleta Meadows in your wanderings. You can explore Borrego on your own or you can access this truly magical locale with the help of an experienced guide \u2013 either way, you will be amazed, astounded, awe struck. And, while a two night stay is a good beginning for your first trip, be prepared for the effect of this adventure to last a lifetime!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.web1776.com/2014/12/23/happy-holidays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:O3OPN2C3YCK2V7N4HI6A4NFVEEPPCMAU", "length": 437, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.web1776.com", "title": "Happy Holidays! - Web1776", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been pretty busy here and we haven\u2019t had much of a chance to keep this area as fresh as we would like. There are some articles that we\u2019re working on and a video of our new office here in Hudson. We started out in the attic of the house, then moved to the front porch and now are ensconced in our own space with a separate entrance. We\u2019ll be putting up a video sometime in January but feel free to stop by if you\u2019re ever in the area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 159.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weincluded.com/disease/2017/06/19/meningitis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VPCGQH4EF7NHXDDZIEEFJOH4TE7NZVEG", "length": 3797, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.weincluded.com", "title": "What is Meningitis? | We Included", "raw_content": "June 19, 2017 by Namrata Lamba\nMeningitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord membranes, caused by an infection. It is life-threatening blood poisoning disease which results in permanent damage to the brain cells and nerves if not treated right away. It can be acute, with a quick onset of symptoms; or moreover can be chronic lasting a month or more.\nSymptoms in adults:\nMain pain areas: in the back, muscles, or neck\nWhole body: chills, fever, lethargy, loss of appetite, malaise, or shivering\nNeck: stiffness and rigidity\nSkin: patchy rashes or red rashes\nOther common signs: drowsiness, cold feet, and hands, fast breathing, fast heart rate, fear of loud sounds, severe headache, irritability, light sensitivity, stiff neck, mental confusion, sensitivity to light, sleepiness\nSymptoms in infants:\nLack of interest in feeding in infants.\nStiffness in a baby\u2019s body and neck.\nA bulge in the soft spot on top of a baby\u2019s head.\nConstant crying.\nThe inflammation is caused by infection with viruses, microorganisms, or other bacterias and certainly less commonly by drugs. However most of the times meningitis is caused by bacteria and viruses that often live in our bodies which are common and associated with other routine illnesses. Usually, these germs stay in the intestines or in the throat and nose, where they may or may not make us sick. But if they spread to the tissues (meninges) that surround the brain and spinal cord, they cause infection which leads to inflammation.\nThere are 5 different types of meningitis:\nThis bacteria enters the bloodstream and travels to the brain and spinal cord. Additionally, babies and people with weak immune systems are more likely to develop it. It can cause complications such as brain damage, hearing loss, and ultimately death in case not diagnosed promptly.\nThis tends to be less severe than bacterial meningitis. Therefore most of the people with viral meningitis recover within 7-10 days without any treatment. As it is usually mild and clears out on its own. In about 85 percent of cases, it is the source by a group of viruses called as enteroviruses, most common in early fall and late summers.\nFungal:\nIt is rare and happens when a fungus enters the bloodstream. There is an increased risk for people with weakened immune system. For instance caused by inhalation of fungal spores from contaminated soil or from bird droppings. Treatment consists of long courses of high-dose antifungal drugs.\nParasitic:\nThe disease causes a brain infection. It rapidly progresses one to 12 days on an average and as a matter of fact, it is usually fatal. A parasite called Naegleria fowleri is the source for primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a very rare type of parasitic meningitis.\nNon-Infectious:\nIt occurs as the result of a head injury, cancer, brain surgery, or from certain medications. Some other causes of non-infectious meningitis are chemical reactions and drug allergies.\nThe treatment depends on the type of meningitis a person has.\nBacterial meningitis requires immediate hospitalisation. There\u2019s no specific antibiotic; it depends on the bacteria involved. Viral meningitis isn\u2019t treated, it usually resolves on its own. The symptoms should go away within two weeks. Treatment to ease symptoms includes fluids, rest, and over-the-counter pain medicines. Fungal meningitis is treated with antifungal agents. In some cases, the condition can resolve on its own without any treatment.\nMeningitis is curable if dealt with immediately. In general, one must try to maintain a healthy quality lifestyle and must also get routine vaccinations and regular course checkups. However, taking some preventive measures will help in distancing the symptoms of meningitis.\nTags: Bacteria, blood, disease, Infection, Meningitis, Skin, Virus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/2017/03/04/union-elections-2017-post-election-analysis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MZPLO4SAS234A44FAFY75MQCOAZDKH4J", "length": 6129, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.wessexscene.co.uk", "title": "Union Elections 2017: Post-Election Analysis", "raw_content": "Credit: Wessex Scene\nBy Samuel Tyler on\t March 4, 2017 News Politics\nThat\u2019s it, the Union Elections are finally over! The fluttering posters, references to hotdogs and communism, and bombardments of Facebook page invites can stop. We have a new sabbatical team for 2017-18. Though how expected were the results, and how accurate were the forecasts? Wessex Scene investigates.\nThis year saw a turnout increase of 8.2% from last year\u2019s spring elections. The greatest proportion of voters were freshers, contributing to 32% of the vote. The polls were tight and some positions achieved predictable results, while others took us completely by surprise. Let\u2019s look at the Exit Polls, and see how they compare to the actual results to try to establish how the candidates won.\nOur exit poll predicted that Henry Lane would win the Presidency by 29% of the vote, followed closely by Flora Noble with 25% and Alex Hovden with 22%. I think we must first admit that the exit poll may have produced some anomalous data with Henry Lane, as our beloved comrade did not win the Presidency but instead came second to last, above re-open nominations (RON).\nDiscounting the anomaly, we can see that actually, when we compare the percentages of the results for candidates at the point of elimination, that the race between Alex and Flora was actually substantially closer. Alex was leading in the first three rounds of elimination, and it was not until the final round, when people\u2019s second and third preference votes made more of an impact, that Flora finally managed to secure the Presidency. This leads us to infer that Flora received a substantial number of votes as a second choice candidate alongside those placing her first choice, something which proved essential in securing her Presidency. Alex held a strong base backing, but where Flora was able to succeed him was where the electorate felt her ideas were good enough to rank her in second or third place on their ballot sheets.\nVP Democracy and Creative Industries\nOur exit poll suggested that this was very much a one-horse race. Greg Williams was leading on 63% compared to his next closest rival, Evelyn Reilly with 23%. exit polls can often be the subject to inaccuracy as everyone who lived through 2016 will tell their children and grandchildren. Predicting results in an alternative voting system using a First-Past-The-Post exit poll method can lack validity and, as such, these polls should be read critically.\nThe actual result which we found was substantially different and uncomfortably close. Greg\u2019s lead was more marginal than we predicted in the first round with a 3% lead. A lead which transformed by the third and final round to a loss by 0.28%; that equates to just 11 votes. Evelyn Reilly had managed to secure the VP DCI position by an incredibly narrow margin which indicates the same themes as those seen in the Union President contest, but to a much greater extent. Evelyn\u2019s victory was secured by holding a strong basis and particularly being a second choice for a number of voters on the ballot sheet. The fact that the margin was as close as this epitomises how harsh and cut-throat elections can be.\nMoving on from areas where our exit polls had produced misleading results, let\u2019s turn to one where the Wessex Scene exit polls were very accurate. Our exit poll predicted a margin between Dan Varley and Thomas Gravatt of 4%. The actual results reflected this gap, with the final round showing a gap of 4.28%. In this, there is little analysis that can be done that goes beyond our poll.\nVP Sports Development was another incredibly contentious position. With debates surrounding views on \u2018Lad culture\u2019 and Women\u2019s hour in the Gym, this quickly became one of the most interesting points of this year\u2019s election. Our exit polls predicted that Stephen Gore would win with a 59% majority compared to Ben Parker\u2019s 33%. The polls were able to predict the result but over-estimated the extent of the margin, much like Union President. The final round saw a margin of just 1.18% between Stephen and Ben. Again, it seems that this was closer than originally thought and perhaps reflects a disparity between the participants in Wessex Scene\u2018s exit polls and the rest of the electorate.\nFor VP Welfare our exit polls again predicted this to be a one-horse race, with Sam Higman gliding into the Vice-Presidency with 54% of the votes compared to Leyla Elsey\u2019s 31%. While Sam did eventually secure the position, it was by a far more narrow margin than this suggests. Our polls were accurate in suggesting that Liam St Dennis would be eliminated first in the count.\nThe margin between Sam and Leyla in the final round however was substantially closer. The difference between the two was 1.78% of the vote, which again suggests that this was more of a two-horse race than our exit polls had us believe. This is not quite the volte-face that VP DCI turned out to be, but still suggests that polls cannot be treated at face value.\nThis result was incredibly unsurprising. Our exit poll suggested that Samuel Dedman would win by 89% of the vote to RON, and the results reflected this. A higher proportion was given to RON in this result, suggesting a slight discrepancy but not one that really impacted the results.\nVP Student Communities\nAgain, the story here is similar to education above and there is little to really expand upon. When you have strong candidates who run for uncontested roles, they are almost certainly going to win.\nThere are some clear conclusions which can be drawn from this. Firstly, the Alternative Voting system that our Students\u2019 Union deploys allows for a wide range of student views and perceptions to be captured, resulting in narrower results that can have margins which are astonishingly close. This is symptomatic of countries such as Australia, where Alternative Voting is used for national elections. Secondly, the exit polls, while indicative, cannot always give an accurate answer as to the results and must be read critically by everyone, especially when only a small proportion of the electorate participate in these polls.\nSamuel Tyler", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 11556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/07/07/opinion/national-views/down-and-out-in-san-francisco-on-117000/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TFKBCJ6LERE42CFPZJ3YX4JMIK6VTJS7", "length": 1369, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.westhawaiitoday.com", "title": "Down and out in San Francisco on $117,000 - West Hawaii Today", "raw_content": "By Timothy Egan / New York Times | Saturday, July 7, 2018, 12:05 a.m.\nA family of four earning $117,000 is now classified as low income in the San Francisco area. This threshold, used to determine eligibility for federal housing assistance, is the highest in the nation \u2014 and no surprise.\nRaised in poverty, and the first African-American chosen to lead the city, Breed has vowed to remove homeless encampments within a year. There is nothing compassionate or financially sound in spending $250 million a year on homeless services that still leaves thousands sleeping on the street.\nIn order to do the other thing that Breed wants to do, build more housing of all kinds, she has to secure the social contract. That is: Can people accept more crowded neighborhoods, in a city that is already the second most densely populated among big cities in the nation, if they feel that elected leaders do not have a decent plan \u2014 or a clue?\nAn unholy alliance of socialists and developers threatens to destroy the city\u2019s single-family neighborhoods with a major upzoning \u2014 further disrupting trust between residents and politicians. If the intent is to make Seattle more affordable, this approach has failed. The city has built more new units of housing over the last five years than in the prior half-century. And yet Seattle continues to lead the nation in home price increases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wheels24.co.za/FormulaOne/canadian-gp-verstappen-answers-critics-by-topping-montreal-practice-20180608", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GTX5CWQ5ZIRFSJ47JHIRM6KE3H2B4JMO", "length": 1787, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wheels24.co.za", "title": "Canadian GP: Verstappen answers critics by topping Montreal practice | Wheels24", "raw_content": "Canadian GP: Verstappen answers critics by topping Montreal practice\nUnder-fire Dutchman Max Verstappen delivered a perfect riposte to his critics on Friday when he topped the times in both practice sessions for this weekend's Formula 1 2018 Canadian Grand Prix.\nAfter a flawless showing to go fastest in the morning at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the 20-year-old Red Bull driver followed up with a similar run in the afternoon.\nIt was the first time he had topped the times in any practice sessions this year.\n\"Yeah, that was a pretty good day for me, but I think Mercedes looked very fast in the longer runs,\" he said in a brief post-session comment.\nTwenty-four hours after his impetuous performance at a pre-race news briefing, in which he threatened to \"head-butt\" his inquisitors, it was a perfect answer to those who had questioned his temperament after a series of incidents this season.\nVerstappen clocked a best lap in one minute, 12.198 seconds to outpace nearest rival Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 champion, of Ferrari by 0.130 seconds in the second session.\nThat left his Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who won the Monaco Grand Prix two weeks ago, down in third, four-tenths of a second adrift, ahead of championship leader and defending four-time champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.\nSebastian Vettel, who trails Hamilton by 14 points in the title standings after six races, was fifth for Ferrari, seven-tenths off the pace ahead of Valtteri Bottas in the second Mercedes.\nThe session, like the morning one, delivered two major incidents when Spaniard Carlos Sainz smacked the wall in his Renault, bringing a red-flag interruption for seven minutes, and later when Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne went into the barriers at Turn Eight, breaking the suspension of his McLaren.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whenlovehurts.ca/videos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2CSFSQ7EPB573LUOZHFDMLZQFAIXZ5D7", "length": 257, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.whenlovehurts.ca", "title": "Featured videos | when love hurts when love hurts", "raw_content": "What is a normal reaction to abuse?\nIn this video Jill asks the question, \u201cwhat is a normal reaction to living with abuse, power and control?\u201d She touches on some normal mental and physical reactions such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks and headaches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitman.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/music/music-faculty/doug-scarborough", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JTBDL53HSRYPSVIHNYQJCAL4VFHGWORH", "length": 1748, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.whitman.edu", "title": "Doug Scarborough | Whitman College", "raw_content": "\u00bb Academics \u00bb Departments and Programs \u00bb Music \u00bb Faculty \u00bb Doug Scarborough\nDepartment Chair, Associate Professor of Music\nscarboda@whitman.edu\nJazz Ensemble Page\nDoug Scarborough directs Whitman's Jazz Ensemble I and teaches applied lessons in trombone as well as courses on jazz theory and history, popular music, songwriting, and the Beatles. As a teacher, his prime directives are guiding and encouraging musical ability, facilitating the exploration of music, and providing opportunities for performance. His goal is to enable students to be the most complete musician possible, recognizing it may look different from person to person. Some of his personal interests are improvisation, composition, performance, and the intersections of modern jazz, Middle-Eastern music, and the blues. In 2015, he released his third CD, Bridges, which blends jazz with Middle-Eastern music.\nA native of the blues-rich Mississippi Delta, Doug is equally at home on the trombone, piano, electric bass, or vocals. He has won three DownBeat jazz awards and performed with such luminaries as Arturo Sandoval, Bobby Shew, Benny Golson, Louie Bellson, Kenny Wheeler, Shawn Lane, the Gypsy All-Stars, Brian Lynch, and Mountain Heart.\nOn the classical side, Doug recently performed Samuel Jones's Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra with the Walla Walla Symphony and has appeared with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, and the Greenville Pops Orchestra. He has also contributed record reviews for the International Trombone Association Journal.\nDoug received his D.A. in Music Theory and Composition with an emphasis in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado and his MME and BME from Delta State University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 6812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitstablebiennale.com/project/the-ash-walks-2-the-walking-reading-group/?ref=archive", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:42Z", "digest": "sha1:JUKY6D7LY763VACVMLKXVBSRH6OGIXHG", "length": 2028, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.whitstablebiennale.com", "title": "The Ash Walks #2: The Walking Reading Group \u2013 Whitstable Biennale", "raw_content": "Walking Reading Group, Ash Walk, 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale\nThe Ash Walks #2: The Walking Reading Group\nClick here to register for this free event via Eventbrite\nThe ash tree is the most common tree in the Kent Downs but in 2012, ash dieback (caused by the fungal pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) was discovered in the U.K. and the disease has rapidly spread. Ash dieback is untreatable and could see the demise of up to 98% of these trees over the next decade.\nThe Ash Project is a cultural response to ash dieback, asking how we might mark and celebrate ash trees. In 2018, The Ash Project is working in partnership with Whitstable Biennale to present a series of artists\u2019 walks. Curator Rose Thompson has devised four walks in collaboration with artists, encouraging different ways of looking at and exploring the landscape in Kent.\nThe second in this series of four walks will be hosted by The Walking Reading Group (TWRG), which is run by Lydia Ashman, Ania Bas and Simone Mair. The group facilitates a knowledge exchange through the discussion of texts whilst walking. On this walk, TWRG will focus on care in relation to the environment, taking the ash dieback disease, which has now infected Ash trees across Kent, at the centre point of the discussion. Selected texts that explore the different ways we relate to the environment will form the basis for conversation during the walk and these will be provided to walkers to read ahead of the event.\nMeet opposite the Horsebridge Arts Centre at 14:00.\nThe walk is free and open to all to attend, but as spaces are limited, we recommend booking in advance. Please note, this walk will be approximately three hours long and will take place through uneven countryside terrain. For any queries, please email info@whitstablebiennale.com.\nThis is the second of a series of artists\u2019 walks taking place in 2018. With thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England, Kent County Council, and the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.\nPhotos by Rosie Lonsdale:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.who2.com/bio/fat-albert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FWH5P3OLT26NTP3HVIAEC2AYIQC23EWA", "length": 1944, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.who2.com", "title": "Fat Albert biography | birthday, trivia | Animated Character | Who2", "raw_content": "Facts about Fat Albert\nBirthplace: Television\nBest known as: Mirthful obese character based on Bill Cosby's childhood memories\nGives a detailed lowdown on the cartoon and its creation\nFat Albert: The Movie\nCast and crew, courtesy of the Internet Movie Database\nFat Albert News\nUpdates and cast photos from MTV\nBrief stats on the original cartoon show\nFat Albert Biography\nFat Albert was the central character of the 1970s TV cartoon series Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, created by stand-up comedian Bill Cosby. The first appearance of an animated Fat Albert was in 1969, in a special TV show that showcased characters based on Cosby\u2019s early years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Saturday morning cartoon began airing in 1972 and continued until 1982, when it went into syndication (having been re-titled The New Fat Albert Show in 1979). The characters, many of them originally voiced by Cosby, included Rudy, Mush Mouth, Bill, Dumb Donald, Old Weird Harold, and Russell \u2014 African-American urban kids whose adventures inevitably resulted in lessons on social issues such as bullying, peer pressure, honesty and integrity. In the early 1990s plans were hatched to create a feature-length, live-action film based on the popular cartoon, and after a decade of production obstacles, it was announced in 2003 that the movie would be released in late 2004, with actor Kenan Thompson in the title role.\nFat Albert\u2019s signature line was \u201cHey, hey, hey, it\u2019s Fat Albert!\u201d\u2026 Pop singers Aaron Carter and Omarion had small roles in the feature film\u2026 Not only did Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids represent the first U.S. cartoon featuring African-Americans as central characters, it was among the first children\u2019s cartoons to focus on educational and social issues\u2026 Although the character of Fat Albert is based on Cosby\u2019s childhood experiences and is mentioned on his early comedy records, the image known now as Fat Albert comes from the animated series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 138.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/events/pli-s-understanding-the-securities-laws-2006-september-7-8-2006", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ6FPTHEISEIBC5RYJIG537MJYV2OKCU", "length": 463, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wilmerhale.com", "title": "PLI's Understanding the Securities Laws 2006 | WilmerHale", "raw_content": "PLI's Understanding the Securities Laws 2006\nSeptember 7-8, 2006 New York, New York\nPartner Rod Howard will a featured speaker at this event for lawyers practicing corporate or securities law in a post-Sarbanes-Oxley environment. This program will cover up-to-the-minute information of securities laws and discussion on how securities lawyers can solve practical problems in order to help clients avoid crippling mistakes and costly and time-consuming litigation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wirednewsengine.com/2014/10/09/fearless-poets-are-challenging-the-world-to-help-create-awareness-on-bullying_2014100933065.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KJGQQXVOP3BO7WX7SL4FWMWRE5K22ZJT", "length": 2535, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wirednewsengine.com", "title": "Fearless Poets are challenging the world to help create awareness on bullying\u2026 - Business News and Press Release Distribution", "raw_content": "Fearless Poets are challenging the world to help create awareness on bullying\u2026\n10/06/2014 (press release: chargedvisions) // Alexandria, LA, USA // Wilma Harris\nFearless Poets, the organization founded by Best-Selling Author Ashley Love, is doing their part during Bullying Awareness Month by challenging all who are willing to stand up for those who often get unheard, to do one simple task a day for the month of October. Each task\u2019s purpose is either to make the supporter a better person, to support the movement against bullying, or to support others who need the encouragement and love.\nFearless Poets, although less than a year old, already has a book under their belt, the second on the way, has followers and supporters around the world and is planning their first large-scale confidence building/bullying awareness week next July. They are doing exactly what their organization\u2019s mission statement declares, \u201cSpeaking Up & Reaching Out with Spoken Word\u201d and they are not afraid to ask others to join them in their mission.\n\u201cWe must realize the power in our voices. I never believed the statement as a child, \u201cWords can never hurt you\u201d because they hurt me. They almost destroyed me, but I stayed strong and I made it through. Because I am still standing, I want to help others use their voices to stand up for what they believe in. That\u2019s what Fearless Poets is about\u2026Realizing you can make a difference.\u2019 \u2013 Ashley Love\nLove is the mother of three girls ages 9, 6, and 4 and is recognized as the \u201cVisionary Mompreneur\u201d in her coaching business to help CeoMoms juggle being a business woman and a mom, Charged Visions. She was born in New Orleans, La and currently resides in Alexandria, La. Love was honored by the Unstoppable Women this September at their 2nd Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia and was the recipient of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.\nTo join the challenge, go to www.facebook.com/fearlesspoets and for more information on the Fearless Poets, go to their website at www.fearlesspoets.org.\n\u201cIndividually we can make a difference in people\u2019s lives, but together we can change the world.\u201d \u2013 Ashley Love\nSocial Media Tags:Bullying, Bullying Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Ashley Love, Fearless Poets, Fearless Poets Against Bullying\nTags: Ashley Love, bullying, Bullying Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Fearless Poets, Fearless Poets Against Bullying\nAmadeus Consulting Lands on Inc. 500 | 5000 List for 8th Time\nMastria Auto Group Launches Drive for Breast Cancer Campaign", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wirednewsengine.com/2014/10/17/Statement-on-Statistics-Week-2014-October-13-17-2014_2014101733161.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ITLTBKJ6HHXUXMUZPIPIYNS7M5YVQ5YZ", "length": 5311, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.wirednewsengine.com", "title": "Statement on Statistics Week 2014 (October 13-17, 2014) - Business News and Press Release Distribution", "raw_content": "Statement on Statistics Week 2014 (October 13-17, 2014)\n10/14/2014 // eso (Press Release) // (press release)\nBy Hon. Marco Archer, JP\nMinister for Finance and Economic and Development\nThis week (October 13-17, 2014) is Statistics Week in the Cayman Islands. This is being held in collaboration with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which is celebrating the region-wide Statistics Day on October 15, 2014.\nThis year\u2019s celebration has the theme \u201cData Revolution for Sustainable Development.\u201d In many parts of the world, the development of statistics has been recognized as a critical factor in facilitating sustainable economic development. In the new \u201cinformation economy,\u201d greater focus is being centered on the generation and use of economic information as a resource, in addition to a greater emphasis being placed on human capital as the principal producer, repository, and disseminator of information. Organizations continually aim to maximize profitability or value for money, and increase the productivity of human resources. To achieve this objective, an even greater reliance is placed on the utilization of sound information. In short, good statistics allied to appropriate government policies, business and individual plans can change things radically for the better.\nThe rapidly emerging environment of the \u201cinformation economy\u201d further underpins the importance of statistical offices as information sources. Although it is not easily recognized, information provided by these agencies can have significant impacts on the lives of people through various uses of their outputs and services.\nStatistics such as the gross domestic product (GDP) influence the way in which people view their country\u2019s economic prospects and challenges.\nThe more familiar consumer price index (CPI) provides a basis for changes in the compensation paid to workers and pensioners, as well as utility charges.\nMacroeconomic statistics also provide a snapshot of the country\u2019s standing in the global economy, which we in the Cayman Islands cannot take for granted in view of our reliance on off-shore markets. Several of these statistics such as GDP per capita and balance of payments determine in part the government\u2019s sovereign credit ratings and therefore, the interest rates paid by the government and businesses in the global capital market.\nIn recognition of the challenges posed by the data revolution, as Minister for Finance and Economic Development, I have prioritized a number of changes that seek to further make our official statistics more responsive to the needs of the community in general and policy-makers in particular. Additional resources are being provided to the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) for new surveys. Next year, the Household Budget Survey 2015 will be conducted from January to December. This survey will determine the importance or statistical weights of household items that will be included in an updated consumer price index basket which is popularly used for monitoring the cost of living in the Islands.\nStarting next year as well, we will have two Labour Force Surveys (LFS) \u2013 in April and October. (The October 2014 LFS covering all districts of the Cayman Islands started last Sunday, October 5th, 2014). LFS interviews are now conducted using tablets rather than the previously used paper questionnaires. With this enhanced technology and twice-a-year survey, we can expect more timely labor force statistics in support of employment monitoring and policy-making.\nI have also proposed amendments to the Statistics Law aimed at strengthening the flexibility of ESO to respond to emerging data requirements on one hand, and ensuring greater participation of residents to these data collection activities on the other hand.\nThe official statistics being disseminated by the ESO are not only beneficial to the local community; they have also become assets for raising Cayman\u2019s reputation in the global investment community. Top-notch global data organizations have recently requested to become data dissemination agents of ESO\u2019s economic indicators to global investors. In light of these requests, there is a need for the ESO to catch up with the data dissemination terms and conditions of the most developed statistical offices in the world such as Statistics Canada. More importantly, such opportunities make it more compelling for every member of the community to invest in official statistics by participating willingly in surveys, and ultimately by using them for everyday decision-making.\nIn conclusion, on behalf of my Ministry, I wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all members of the community who have willingly participated in all household and business surveys. Without the information that you provided (and will continue to provide), all efforts to upgrade official statistics will be in vain. ESO will continue to abide by the provisions of the Law and the highest professional and ethical standards to respect the confidentiality of your information, as it has done so in the many years of conducting censuses and surveys.\nThank you and may God bless the celebration of Statistics Week 2014 in the Cayman Islands.\nUrl: http://news.eso.ky/statement-on-statistics-week-2014-october-13-17-2014_12496.html\nKaepernick fined by NFL for wearing \u2018unauthorized gear\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wishahmon.com/blog/2016/04/11/when-not-to-be-a-hero", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NUS65L5DOWOEO22ZMJQ7VRT2QDV7SNXC", "length": 4507, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wishahmon.com", "title": "BLOG \u2014 WISHAHMON", "raw_content": "I have always considered myself a strong and independent woman. After I found out I was expecting, naturally, I had strong assumptions that nothing would change and I would continue being a strong woman. Pregnancy kicked my butt big time. Hormones made me an emotional wreck; I was indecisive; and I was insecure. There was so much I didn\u2019t know and so much I could not research. As I was choking back my tears as I was talking to a friend (and recent dad), he gave me the best advice ever: Don\u2019t be a hero. There isn\u2019t a need to be one.\nUsually, I am not one to take advice kindly. I always knew best and trusted myself\u2026only. This was an exception. I took his advice and continually reminded myself: Don\u2019t be a hero. Here are the times when I reminded myself I didn\u2019t need to be a hero:\nYour circumstances have changed.\nYou must change as well. During my pregnancy, I constantly had to remind myself that I was pregnant. The fact that my belly stuck out well after five months and I could rest an apple on top of it wasn\u2019t enough of a reminder. Once at work, I noticed the water cooler was out of water. Rather than asking someone to change the huge gallon of water, I diligently took off my heels and proceeded to do it on my own. A coworker walked in just as I was going to lift the water and told me to stop. She screamed that I am pregnant (duh) and I shouldn\u2019t be lifting anything heavy (double duh). I knew both things but I didn\u2019t want to ask for help. Don\u2019t be a hero. Ask for help. The consequences are too high not to.\nIt is ok to be scared and to ask questions.\nBeing pregnant is so scary. There are so many things that can go wrong. It is absolutely ok to be scared and to ask questions. The doctors don\u2019t expect all mommies to be calm and happy about everything for the entire pregnancy. (I doubt such a mom even exist.) You don\u2019t have to act tough and internalize all feelings. Ask questions if you need to. Even ask the dumb ones that don\u2019t make sense to anyone except for you.\nHave your labor your way.\nSure it seems like the heroes are the moms that give birth naturally; without drugs; and after being in active labor for 10 hours. They are who they are. You are who you are. If you need the drugs to assist with labor, do it. If you need to hug your husband or bite his hand the entire time you are having active labor, do it. If you need to squat to give birth to your child, who cares? Do it. No one will judge you for having the labor you had. Personally, I did not have a smooth labor and it was not the labor I envisioned with my rose colored glasses. However, I gave birth to my lovely and healthy full term daughter weighing in at 7 pounds and 1 ounce. That makes me a hero.\nAccept help when offered.\nMy mother in law offered early on to come help us but I declined. I felt like I could do it all because I am a strong woman; I wanted to have our first days together as a family; I didn\u2019t want to say something to offend her cause I didn\u2019t know what my hormones would be like; and I didn\u2019t want my mother in law here to remind me that my mother cannot be here because she has already passed away. After I was finally released from the hospital, we went home and immediately went to \u201cwork\u201d on keeping our baby alive. For the first 24 hours, we didn\u2019t eat, sleep, or shower. We were hungry, tired, and disgusting. I caved and asked my mother in law to come help. Bless her heart, she had already packed and was ready to drive 2.5 hours into Calgary to help us out. When she arrived, the first thing she did wasn\u2019t to see her grandchild. She gave me a huge hug and thanked me for a great job in bringing her grand-daughter into this world. For the next 11 days, she took turns helping us feed/change/rock our daughter, she did all the laundry, and she cleaned up the house when it was out of order according to our standards. She was a dream come true for me. Although she told me that I was a hero, she was mine.\nThere are no set guidelines on how you should proceed with your pregnancy, what decisions you have to make, and how you should bring your child into the world. Whatever decisions you make, you are already a hero for carrying your baby; for protecting your baby; for bringing your baby to this world. You are your baby\u2019s hero. You are your husband/partner\u2019s hero. You are your family\u2019s hero. 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Before the start of each calendar year, they are required to prepare submissions for new or renewed coverage through the HealthCare.gov website during this open enrollment period.\nAs previously announced last month, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium has offered to assist potential e...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wvutailgating.com/welcome-to-wild-and-wonderful-tailgating/sports-talk/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3J6O2E33TBBZHXZF7FGOS6JALN3PMSMX", "length": 3729, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.wvutailgating.com", "title": "Sports Talk | Wild and Wonderful Tailgating - Part 2", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Welcome to Wild and Wonderful Tailgating / Sports Talk\nMy sister and I with the real WVU sports guru, our mom (otherwise known as Mountain Mama)\nThere are scores of websites and message boards that cover the latest in Mountaineer sports, so if that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for, you\u2019re not apt to find it here.\nSure, I\u2019ll have posts about what a player\u2019s injury could mean for the season or a general team-related story, but they\u2019ll mostly be about my game experiences.\nFor the first time since 2012, the West Virginia Mountaineers begin the season with a 2-0 record. After holding the Liberty Flames scoreless during the first half, they allowed them to rack up 17 points in the last 20 minutes of the game. Read more on WVU Sports.\nYou couldn't have asked for a better season opener than this past Saturday when West Virginia dominated Georgia Southern, 44-0. Before WVU\u2019s defense did it last night, Georgia Southern hadn\u2019t been shutout since Dec. 2, 1995, during an FCS playoff loss to Montana.\nAfter spending Sunday afternoon at Fan Day, I couldn\u2019t wait to attend the 4th annual Football 101 for Women at Milan Puskar Stadium. Hosted by the Mountaineer Athletic Club, this event teaches you some gridiron basics and gives you a deeper appreciation for how hard our boys work throughout the season. A total of 115 [\u2026]\nVideo \"WVU Football 2015: The World\" stirs strong feelings of Mountaineer pride\nBoy howdy! Dougity Dog has done it again. He\u2019s produced another red-hot video to get us revved up for the 2015 WVU football season. This year it\u2019s WVU against the World. This video sparks fervent excitement and promise for the new football season. Many of our players are returning, including 10 on defense. I feel [\u2026]\nOur Mountaineers finally hit the proverbial wall Nov. 8, falling flat on the road in Austin. From the first kickoff, they had me as jumpy as spit on a hot skillet. They looked as haggard and lethargic as I\u2019ve seen them this season, trailing at the half 24-3. They woke up a little in the [\u2026]\nThe waters were anything but still last Saturday when the Oklahoma State Cowboys played the West Virginia Mountaineers at Boone Pickens Stadium. After an exciting and hard-fought game, the Mountaineers left Stillwater, OK, with their fourth consecutive win. Now they\u2019re only a game behind Big 12 Conference leader Kansas State. The week leading up to the game, [\u2026]\nThe West Virginia Mountaineers conquered the then undefeated, #4-ranked Baylor Bears last Saturday, thanks to a strong defense and magnificent performances by Clint Trickett and Kevin White, who\u2019s the nation\u2019s leading receiver. Trickett had 322 passing yards and 3 touchdowns, including 2 in the fourth quarter. White had 2 TD catches and 8 catches for 132 [\u2026]\nMy mom likes to refer to the Mountaineers as the cardiac kids, and I think that\u2019s a pretty apt moniker. Games like last Saturday\u2019s always give me acute tachycardia. For the second time this season, sophomore Josh Lambert became a Mountaineer hero when he kicked a long, game-winning field goal with virtually no seconds left [\u2026]\nHighlights of the Mountaineers' victory over Jayhawks\nDave and I were in Freehold, NJ, for a wedding last Saturday, so we missed watching the Mountaineers defeat the Jayhawks. Although we couldn\u2019t find a TV station that carried the game, we got to listen to a live stream with the WVU Gameday app. As typical of the games this season, WVU played well [\u2026]\nI was excited to hear we were going to stripe the stadium for our Big 12 season opener against Oklahoma on Sept. 20. Since our seats are in the gold section, I have the perfect t-shirt. I bought it in Phoenix the day after we smacked the Sooners 48-28 in the 2008 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. 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The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo, raising the public's hopes. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. However, after completing their missions, the bombardment air craft pilots had to bail out at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to shortage of fuel. A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, who risked her life as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between those two.\nRelease info : The.Hidden.Soldier.2018.HDRip.XviD.AC3-EVO", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www9.project-free-tv.ag/free/my-mother-and-other-strangers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:X5R6DWOQHOK3O66TCYSKPHDPLXGXZR7O", "length": 664, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www9.project-free-tv.ag", "title": "Watch online My Mother and Other Strangers - Project free tv", "raw_content": "My Mother and Other Strangers Watch Online\nMy Mother and Other Strangers follows the fortunes of a rural family, the Coynes, and their neighbours in the village of Moybeg on the shores of Lough Neagh in County Tyrone, as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge USAAF airfield with 4,000 service men and women \u2013 complete with a handsome and charming liaison officer, Captain Dreyfuss \u2013 lands smack-dab in the middle of their parish in 1943.\nSeasons My Mother and Other Strangers\nMy Mother and Other Strangers Season 1 (5 Episodes)\nMy Mother and Other Strangers Season 1 Episode 5 06 Dec 2016\nMy Mother and Other Strangers Season 1 Episode 4 29 Nov 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00003.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 143.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xaviersjournalism.wordpress.com/activities/608-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:34Z", "digest": "sha1:TBFMWA5IBAVNRGRW7BTVDH7CL6OOPQXD", "length": 695, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "xaviersjournalism.wordpress.com", "title": "Events \u00ab Journalism in Goa, India - B.A. in Journalism", "raw_content": "Calamus \u2013 Where We Speak For Ourselves\nWith the aim of providing exposure to students in event management and production as a means of personality development and interaction with eminent personality from the media industry. 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During the June 26th, proponents on each side of the potential ballot measure were given a ten-minute presentation period.\nFor additional information on the upcoming ballot measure, please call Duarte City Hall at 626 357-7931.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acertainslantoflight.blogspot.com/2006/02/more-on-ports-roar-of-which-im-part.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KLJQ2US75MSQMQDQJSGVNVJNLSKHCEPU", "length": 2363, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "acertainslantoflight.blogspot.com", "title": "A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT: MORE ON THE PORTS' ROAR (OF WHICH I'M A PART)", "raw_content": "Here's a must-read column by Michelle Malkin on the Dubia Ports World deal and I found it linked in a well done post by Betsy Newmark on the same subject. I'm on the same page with Betsy and Michelle.\nCaptain Ed continues to stay on top of this boiling issue and adamantly opposes the deal.\nKevin Alyward of Wizbang! appropriately calls the president \"politically tone deaf.\" Shades of the president's initial reluctance to pull his curious nomination of Harriet Miers.\nLaura Ingraham is doing a splendid job on the subject on her morning radio talk show. I tune in on News Talk KRLA. And her Web site carries germane links. She's a gemstone of the Conservative Movement.\nAnd Nick Anderson's political cartoon in today's Houston Chronicle makes the point well, I think (although perhaps I out did him this time around!). And, to be sure, kudos to the Chronicle's editorial writer.\nPresident Bush has said that if there was any chance at all that the ports deal would jeopardize America's national security, then the deal wouldn't go through. This is the same president, of course, who has been a long-standing open borders' apologist and has done precious little to secure America's borders during his two-term tenure in the White House. I'd say a legitimate credibility gap exists, don't you think?\nHey, maybe in his phone call to Mexico's Vicente Fox on Monday, the two compadres kicked around the possibility of a Mexico-owned security firm taking over border patrol and customs' management at U.S. Ports of Entry. I'm sure the Wall Street Journal would endorse that transaction in a heartbeat and reassure Americans that the deal was \"sufficiently vetted for the task at hand.\" Libertarian bloggers would, in turn, painstakingly instruct those of us deemed too dumb to get it that Mexico wouldn't own the border, but merely would be managing it and in that nuanced distinction all concerns about our country's national security should be allayed.\nThe inimitable James Lileks hones in on the likely outcome of this ports' imbroglio:\nBut if I had to make a prediction, I\u2019d say this: the Dubai-ports fracas will become a flap, quickly swell into a firestorm, then become a debacle before settling into the history books as a \u201chistoric miscalculation\u201d \u2013 providing the Republicans only lose the Congress. If they lose a city, it will be a \u201ccritical turning point.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 538, "original_length": 11347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://activehistory.ca/2015/12/if-ye-break-faith-we-shall-not-sleep/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YQHLB44GQZWUDMHPHYNK37RFUOERNP7Q", "length": 9006, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "activehistory.ca", "title": "\u201cIf ye break faith \u2013 we shall not sleep?\u201d \u2013 ActiveHistory.ca", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Canada's First World War \u2022 Canadian history \u2022 Public History\nDecember 8, 2015 December 8, 2015 No Comments on \u201cIf ye break faith \u2013 we shall not sleep?\u201d\nBy Mary Chaktsiris and Stephanie Bangarth\nWe leave you our deaths: give them their meaning: give them an end to the war and a true peace: give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards: give them their meaning.\u201d \u2013 Archibald MacLeish, \u2018The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak\u2019 (1941)\nOn March 18, 1931, A.W. Neil, MP for Comox-Alberni in British Columbia, introduced a motion in the House of Commons to have Armistice Day observed on November 11 and \u201con no other date.\u201d Another MP, C.W. Dickie of Nanaimo, also speaking on behalf of veterans, moved an amendment changing the name from \u201cArmistice\u201d to \u201cRemembrance\u201d Day. This term, Dickie felt, better \u201cimplies that we wish to remember and perpetuate.\u201d Parliament swiftly adopted these resolutions and Canada held its first \u2018Remembrance Day\u2019 on November 11, 1931. The hour of annual remembrance was fixed at 11 a.m. on 11 November, the time and date of the Armistice in Europe.\nDepartment of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / ecopy, R112-4004-8-E, Remembrance Day Ceremonies, Ottawa, 1962.\nCanadians first started to collect around military cenotaphs in 1902 at the end of the Boer War when the nation indulged in a great, patriotic burst of memorial-building. Monuments to Canada\u2019s first foreign war were erected in city parks and town squares from Victoria to Halifax. Over the next decade, huge crowds would gather around them. By 1918 the trauma and slaughter of the First World War meant that new memorials would be built, but this time they were mostly sombre creations designed simply to honour the dead as opposed to marking military success. In the decades that followed through the Second World War, the Korean War, and Afghanistan, Canadians have gathered faithfully around such memorials each November 11 to remember.\nBut what is it that we are remembering? And who and what are we leaving out? In many ways we have been confined by a very narrow definition of remembrance. This narrowing represents a lost opportunity to think more deeply about war and its effects, to reflect on the causes of war making, and to search for ways to understand war, death, and sacrifice as meaningful in our modern lives.\nLest We Forget: Remembrance Day Commemorations in Canada\nRemembrance Day presents opportunities to collectively mourn for those lives lost in war, and to recognize the sacrifices of those who serve in the armed forces. Building on the theme of loss, and highlighting a focus on the world wars, many of the images we see used in Remembrance Day commemorations often focus on warfare in the past tense. This focus on war in the past is also reflected within a recurring theme presented by media commemorating Remembrance Day \u2013 that of conversations and relationships between younger Canadians and older veterans. Bell Canada recently released a commercial where a young girl searches Google to find the meaning of the poppies a veteran is selling. After a transnational online search, she presents the veteran with a pressed poppy from Flanders Field. She also encounters a young veteran in uniform on the bus \u2013 a fleeting reminder of reality that Canadian veterans and Canadian experiences of war are also in the present, rather than only in the past.[1]\nWe are called to certain acts of remembrance on November 11: the gathering at monuments or other sites of remembrance; the recitation of John McCrae\u2019s iconic poem, \u201cIn Flanders Fields\u201d; the playing of \u201cThe Last Post\u201d; a reading of the fourth verse of the \u201cOde of Remembrance\u201d, and two minutes of silence at 11:00 a.m.. Wreaths are laid at local war memorials and assemblies are held in schools. And we wear poppies. In this last instance, as Victoria Basham has noted, the poppy appeal remembers military sacrifice while forgetting the violence of actual warfare. [2]\nThe rhetoric of the red poppy also diminishes or often completely omits the sacrifices of others in Canadian society: women, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, visible minorities, peace activists, and all of those who do not fall into the ideal of those who served who are often lauded in commemorative imagery and wording. Within the iconography of Remembrance, the soldier continues to be defined by the figure of a young, fit, white male. Certainly, there are more to remember.\nWidening the Discussion\nWe are rarely called on to search deeper, to think about the causes of war, or to find ways to make wartime death and trauma more meaningful in our lives today. Remembrance Day commemorations offer an opportunity to reflect on war and its sacrifices that is rarely seized; the overt and repetitive symbolism in Remembrance Day ceremonies leaves little room for the complexity of Canadian experiences and imaginings of war.\nHistorians, including Jay Winter and Paul Fussell, have explored the connections between memory, war, and commemoration in national histories. While national commemoration is an important aspect of Remembrance Day, many Canadians and Canadian families have their own stories about war and its impacts, and these stories do not always fit neatly into the prescribed narrative. For example, Stephanie\u2019s grandfather, Stephen Bangarth, served in the Austro-Hungarian army during WWI in the Carpathian Mountains. He went on to fight in WWII on the Italian front. When participating in Remembrance Day services it is difficult not to think of the grandfather who fought on the \u201cother side\u201d, who was assisted in his escape from Hungary by German officials, and who gratefully settled in Canada.\nThe Bulletin, (http://jccabulletin-geppo.ca/sgt-masumi-mitsui-last-of-the-issei-veterans/)\nIs there room for this story of war, and others highlighting the impacts of war on Canadian immigration and families, within the symbolism of Remembrance Day? What about the history of Sgt. Masumi Mitsui, WWI veteran and recipient of the Canadian Military Medal for bravery, who was interned following Japan\u2019s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941? And lest we forget the 6,000 First Nations soldiers and Black Canadians who served in both world wars for whom equality on the battle field did not mean equality at home?\nRemembering Veterans and Families\nRather than concentrating our focus predominantly on the world wars, or focussing on familiar versions of commemoration and symbolism, Remembrance Day presents opportunities to honour those who serve in the contemporary armed forces and to advocate for the needs of veterans and their families. Current debates focus on Canada\u2019s roles and responsibilities in reference to the provision of care and services to veterans. A recent Globe and Mail investigation revealed that at least 54 soldiers and veterans killed themselves upon returning from duty in Afghanistan. As retired General Romeo Dallaire has noted, because suicides by reservists and veterans are so poorly tracked this number is likely higher. He is calling for the incoming federal government to establish a covenant that entrenches Canada\u2019s moral obligation to look after military members and their families as part of our nation\u2019s \u201cduty of care\u201d.\nAs Canadians gather around cenotaphs and monuments, we could be honouring the service of veterans in Canada today by advocating for the betterment of social supports for veterans and their families. The war in Afghanistan certainly made real the risks and consequences of war as it introduced to modern citizens families in our own communities with sons, daughters, wives, and husbands killed and injured overseas.\nIt is important that in our national focus on commemoration, Canadians remember who we were, who we are, and who we want to be. The answers to these questions will be different and numerous. Remembrance Day presents an opportunity to participate in broader discussions about war and its impacts, discussions that may also bring uncomfortable stories to the surface. From these, we should not shy away. On Remembrance Day we should observe sacrifice but, as Archibald MacLeish urged in his poem, we should aim to give that sacrifice meaning. This is not a call to re-imagine Remembrance Day, but rather to live up to its ideal of meaningful commemoration.\nDr. Stephanie Bangarth is an Associate Professor in History at King\u2019s University College at Western University.\nMary Chaktsiris recently completed her Ph.D. this fall in History at Queen\u2019s University.\n[1] Angela Duffet explored the social media and commercialization of Remembrance Day last year in this Active History blog post.\n[2] Victoria M. 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These batteries are designed to be cycled many times for a long overall life of battery.\nThe primary functioning of the deep cycle batteries can be easily understood by comparing it to a simple car battery except for a single main difference i.e. the car battery is used and preferred for a burst of high voltage in a short time while deep cycle batteries are used for steady rate of power supply over a desired period of time.\nLike the improvements in the lead-acid car battery, there have been many changes in the development of deep cycle batteries so today, there are a number of options available in the deep cycle batteries such as, flooded batteries, gel batteries and AGM batteries. The design and specifications of all these types differ.\nThe flooded battery is similar to the common lead-acid battery. Gel batteries contain a gel-like substance in them while the AGM batteries consist of acid suspended in a glass separator. The details of these batteries will be discussed in a while.\nThere\u2019s another recently-invented type of battery that is worth mentioning here. They are called Lithium-ion battery and they are believed to be the next generation of the batteries. They will be a treat, especially for the grid-connected houses in Dubbo, Australia.\nRatings of the Deep Cycle Batteries\nDifferent rating methods are available in the case of batteries. From volts and amps to Amp hours (Ah) or the recently developed, Kilowatt-hour (kWh). The usage of these systems depends mostly on their application. For example, kWh is used for residential applications. It was not known common when the application of the batteries was restricted to industrial use. Similarly, the Amp hours (Ah) is used to define the capacity of the battery to change chemical energy to electrical energy. It can also be used to approximate the amount of energy that can be stored in the battery. Moreover, this unit can also be used to estimate the amount of time the battery can give power before it needs to be charged again.\nAs mentioned before, the Absorbent glass mat (AGM) batteries are a type of deep cycle batteries with a little modification. In the AGM batteries, the electrolyte is absorbed in a fiberglass mat, hence the name, AGM. The plates in AGM batteries may be flat or spiral. However, in either case, the AGM batteries offer lower internal resistance along with the ability to operate at higher temperatures. The self-discharging is also relatively slower in the AGM batteries.\nIn AGM batteries, there is a valve that activates when the battery is recharged at high voltage. The purpose of the valve is to let some of the excessive gas escape when the pressure exceeds the safety limits. In doing so, it regulates the pressure back to the safety levels. A significant attraction of AGM battery is that its maintenance free. This, however, does not mean it does not require cleaning or regular functioning testing. The AGM batteries can be oriented in any way, unlike the common flooded lead-acid batteries which need to be places upright to avoid acid spills.\nThe Gel batteries, another form of deep cycle batteries, are also valve regulated. They, on the other hand, have the electrolyte in the form of gel. Due to electrolyte being in gel form, Gel batteries remove the need for battery to be kept upright to avoid any kind of spillage. They are also more heat and shock resistant. Gel batteries also eliminate the evaporation of the electrolyte since it\u2019s in gel form. Keeping the qualities of the gel batteries in view, they are mostly used for automobiles, boats, aircrafts and other vehicles for they can absorb good amount of vibration, unlike the other options of batteries available.\nBuying the right battery\nBuying the right battery for your application can be an important decision so it\u2019s better to take advice from an expert. Nevertheless, if you don\u2019t want to go out seeking experts then the knowledge shared in this article should suffice for the selection stage. Whether it\u2019s your home in Dubbo or the vehicle you wish to drive, in either case, you can go through the specifications of the different batteries and choose the one that suits your needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ahlab.org/people/tharindu-kaluarachchi", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FD7YL7YKCJIVHC2OMNA2GLI43RALUILW", "length": 977, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ahlab.org", "title": "Tharindu Kaluarachchi | Augmented Human Lab", "raw_content": "Tharindu Kaluarachchi joined the Augmented Human Lab in October 2015 as an intern. In 2017 he received his B.Sc. honours degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. After that, he worked for two years as a research and development engineer at Cyrup (Pvt). Ltd. which is a start-up in Sri Lanka. There he has worked on developing solutions for local and international businesses using portable electronics, image processing, and machine learning.\nNow he is conducting research as a Ph.D. student in the area of Human-Centered Machine Learning. He is interested in unsupervised learning, human-computer interaction, Artificial Intelligence in general and its real-world applications. 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White is perhaps most famous for his record-setting flights in the X-15, including, on Nov. 9, 1961, becoming the first person to fly a winged aircraft six times faster than the speed of sound (4,093 mph) and, on July 17, 1962, taking the X-15 to 59.6 miles above the Earth and in so doing earning astronaut wings. White also served in three wars, flying the P-51 in World War II, returning to active service for the Korean War, and flying 70 combat missions in the F-105 during the Vietnam War. 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City of Lake Angelus\nCite as: 76 F.3d 778\nROBERT GUSTAFSON, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant,\nCITY OF LAKE ANGELUS; DONALD ALTHOFF, Mayor of the City of Lake Angelus; MICHAEL STEFANI,\nChief of Lake Angelus Police Force, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.\nNos. 93-2508/93-2537\nMarch 20, 1995, Argued\nFebruary 27, 1996, Filed\n(Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 92-73976, Paul V. Gadola, J.)\nFor ROBERT GUSTAFSON, Plaintiff - Appellee Cross-Appellant: Thomas M. Slavin, ARGUED, BRIEFED, [COR LD NTC ret], Steven M. Chait, BRIEFED, [COR ret], SULLIVAN, WARD, BONE, TYLER, FIOTT & ASHER, Southfield, MI.\nFor CITY OF LAKE ANGELUS, Defendant - Appellant Cross-Appellee: John D. Staran, BRIEFED, [NTC ret], James L. Howlett, ARGUED, [COR ret], BEIER & HOWLETT, BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mi. For DONALD ALTHOFF, Mayor of the City of Lake Angelus, MICHAEL STEFANI, Chief of Lake Angelus Police Force, Defendants - Appellants Cross-Appellees: John D. Staran, (See above), [COR LD NTC ret].\nFor MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MUNICIPAL LAW OFFICERS, Amicus Curiae: Koteless Alexander, BRIEFED, [ret], Alexander, Gebhardt, Aponte & Marks, Silver Spring, MD.\nCONTIE, LEROY J., JR., Circuit Judge.\nDefendants-appellants/cross-appellees, the City of Lake Angelus, Donald Althoff, Mayor of the City of Lake Angelus, and Michael Stefani, Chief of the Lake Angelus Police Force, appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment to plaintiff-appellee/cross-appellant, Robert Gustafson, holding that city ordinances prohibiting the operation of seaplanes on the surface of Lake Angelus are preempted by federal law. [FN 1] Plaintiff Gustafson cross-appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants in regard to plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 1988 claims that the ordinances denied his due process and equal protection rights in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and that he should be awarded attorneys fees. For the following reasons, we affirm in part and reverse in part.\n[FN 1] The City of Lake Angelus's brief is supported on appeal by amici curiae, National Institute of Municipal Law Officers and Michigan Municipal League. Robert Gustafson's brief is supported on appeal by amicus curiae, Seaplane Pilots Association.]\nPlaintiff Robert Gustafson, a seaplane pilot, brought suit against defendants, the City of Lake Angelus (the \"City\") and various city officials, challenging city ordinances prohibiting the operation of seaplanes on the surface of Lake Angelus as preempted by federal law. Plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of the ordinances. Plaintiff also presented a claim under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for the violation of his constitutional rights caused by enforcement of the ordinances and sought an award of attorneys fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988.\nPlaintiff owns a waterfront home on Lake Angelus, an island lake in Oakland County, Michigan, that is approximately one and one-half miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. The City of Lake Angelus is a residential community consisting of about 140 homes around the take and lies within the airport traffic area and control zone of the FAA air traffic control tower located at the Oakland-Pontiac airport.\nPlaintiff Gustafson has been certified as a seaplane pilot by the Federal Aviation Administration (\"FAA\"). On August 9, 1991, plaintiff landed a rented seaplane on Lake Angelus and then docked and moored the plane at his home on the shore of the lake. Subsequently, a city police officer notified plaintiff that he had violated two city ordinances concerning seaplanes and warned him not to land his seaplane on the lake again. Plaintiff was not prosecuted for violating the ordinances.\nPlaintiff was in violation of city ordinances 66(E) and 25(J). Ordinance 66(E) is an amendment to the City's zoning ordinance, which reads in relevant part: [FN 2]\n4. 10. Nuisances prohibited. Land may not be used for any of the following purposes, all of which are declared to be public nuisances:\nE. The mooring, docking, launching, storage, or use of any . . . aircraft powered by internal combustion engines . . .\nOrdinance 25(J) is an amendment to the City's nuisance ordinance, and states that the following is a public nuisance:\nJ. The landing upon the lands, waters, or ice surface within the Village of Lake Angelus of any aircraft, airplane, sailplane, seaplane, helicopter, ground effect vehicle, or lighter than air craft.\n[FN 2] When the suit was filed, ordinance 66 included an altitude regulation which prohibited flying over the City at altitudes less than 500 feet. Although the altitude regulation had never been enforced against plaintiff or anyone else, plaintiff Gustafson also challenged its validity. The City acknowledged that this provision was federally preempted and did not argue in support of its validity. The altitude regulation was subsequently deleted from ordinance 66 by amendment and is not at issue in this appeal.]\nAfter plaintiff was warned not to land his seaplane on the lake, he asked the city council to rescind or modify the ordinances. In response to plaintiff s efforts, on September 10, 1991, the city council issued a resolution declaring that ordinances 25(J) and 66(E) were intended to 'protect the public health, safety, and general welfare' of the people and property of the City. The council listed 'noise, danger, apprehension of danger, pollution, apprehension of pollution, contamination and infestation from other bodies of water, destruction of property values, and interference with other lawful uses of the lake enjoyed by the great majority of citizens, including boating, sailing, fishing, swimming, and other recreational uses,\" as ways in which the welfare of the City was protected by the ordinances.\nPlaintiff filed this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, contending that the ordinances are preempted by federal and state law and that they violate his constitutional rights. He asked the court to: (1) declare that ordinances 25(J) and 66(E) are void, unenforceable, and unconstitutional pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2201; (2) issue a permanent injunction enjoining defendants from enforcing the ordinances; and (3) award costs and attorneys fees to plaintiff pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988 for the alleged constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. 1983.\nOn October 21, 1993, the district court heard the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment and plaintiff's motion for declaratory judgment and a permanent injunction. On October 22, 1993, the district court issued an opinion. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2201, the court found that ordinances 25(J) and 66(E) governing the operation of seaplanes on the surface of Lake Angelus are preempted by federal law. The court granted plaintiff Gustafson's motion for summary judgment on this issue and issued a permanent injunction against the City from enforcing the ordinances.\nHowever, in regard to plaintiff s claim under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for violations of his constitutional rights, the court granted the City's motion for summary judgment. The court stated that even though it had decided the case based on federal preemption, the court would address the section 1983 claim in order to determine if plaintiff was deserving of costs and attorneys fees under 42 U.S.C. 1988. After examining plaintiff's constitutional claims, the court found they were without merit. The court determined that plaintiff failed to show that his due process or equal protection rights were violated and that he made no showing that the ordinances were overbroad, ambiguous, or vague. In addition, the court found that in order to support the ordinances, the City had presented multiple rationales, which were rationally related to legitimate government interests. For these reasons, the court granted the City's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's 42 U.S.C 1983 claim and determined that plaintiff should not be awarded costs and attorneys fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988.\nDefendants filed a timely notice of appeal in regard to the district court's issuance of a permanent injunction prohibiting the City from enforcing the ordinances against the operation of seaplanes on the surface of Lake Angelus. Plaintiff Gustafson filed a cross-appeal, challenging the portions of the district court's opinion that found no violation of due process or equal protection rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983 and denied costs and attorneys fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988.\nWe must first decide whether the district court erred in determining that the City of Lake Angelus ordinances 25(J) and 66 (E), which prohibit the operation of seaplanes on the surface of Lake Angelus, are preempted by federal law.\nThe doctrine of preemption springs from the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution: \"the Constitution and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land.\" U.S. Const., art. VI, cl. 2; Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. de la Cuesta, 458 U.S. 141, 152, 73 L. Ed. 2d 664, 102 S. Ct. 3014 (1982). As interpreted by Chief Justice Marshall, \"in every case, the act of Congress, or the treaty, is supreme; and the law of the state, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it.\" Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 US. (9 Wheat.) 1, 6 L. Ed. 23 (1824). Preemption is predicated on congressional intent. The will of Congress to monopolize an area of legislation may be expressed in the authorizing statute and in the regulations enacted pursuant to that statute. Hillsborough County, Florida v. Automated Medical Labs., Inc., 471 US. 707, 713, 85 L. Ed. 2d 714, 105 S. Ct. 2371 (1985).\nA statute may be construed as preemptive under three circumstances. Id. First, Congress, in enacting a federal statute, may express a clear intent to preempt state law. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Common, 461 US. 190, 203, 75 L., Ed. 2d 752, 103 S. Ct. 1713 (1983). Second, absent express preemption, federal law may have an implied preemptive effect if Congress revealed this intent by \"occupying the field\" of regulation. Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp., 464 U.S. 238, 248, 78 L. Ed. 2d 443, 104 S. Ct. 615 (1984). There is implied preemption when there is a \"scheme of federal regulation . . . so pervasive as to make reasonable the inference that Congress left no room for the States to supplement it\" or \"because the Act of Congress may touch a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject.\" Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Assn, 458 US. at 153. There is a third type of preemption when state law actually conflicts with federal law. Such conflict occurs where \"compliance with both federal and state regulations is a physical impossibility,\" Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, 373 U.S. 132, 142-43, 10 L. Ed. 2d 248, 83 S. Ct. 1210 (1963), or where state law \"stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.\" Hines v. Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52, 67, 85 L. Ed. 581, 61 S. Ct. 399 (1941).\nThe focus of a preemption inquiry is on congressional intent. In the present case, we must determine whether Congress, in passing the Federal Aviation Act, 49 U.S.C. 40101-41901 [formerly 49 U.S.C. 1301-1557] [FN 3] intended to preempt the right of a local government to designate and regulate aircraft landing areas, specifically seaplane landings on a lake. Plaintiff concedes that Congress has not expressly spoken on this issue, but argues that the City's ordinances arc preempted under the second prong of the preemption doctrine - - pervasive federal regulation of the field.\n[FN 3] On July 5. 1994, Congress restated the laws related to transportation in one comprehensive title. The former Code sections are provided in brackets.\nThe district court in Gustafson v. City of Lake Angelus, 856 F Supp. 320 (E.D. Mich. 1993) found that the dictates of the Federal Aviation Act (\"the Act\") and the regulations enacted pursuant to it implied that Congress intended that the designation of landing sites for seaplanes is preempted by federal law. The district court found that former section 1508(a) of the Act stated: 'The United States of America is hereby declared to possess and exercise complete and exclusive national sovereignty in the airspace of the United States. . . .\" Furthermore, the district court found that Congress expressly directed the formulation of comprehensive regulations governing aircraft operations pursuant to former sections 1348(a) & (c), and therefore, the ordinances at issue are preempted by federal law.\nIt is true that the Act indicates that the FAA has exclusive authority in regulating the airspace over the United States. Section 40103(b)(1) [former 1348(a)] reads in relevant part:\nThe Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall develop plans and policy for the use of the navigable airspace and assign by regulation or order the use of the airspace necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and the efficient use of airspace.\n49 U.S.C. 40103(b)(1)(emphasis added). Section 40103(b)(2) [former 1348(c)] provides as follows:\nThe Administrator shall prescribe air traffic regulations on the flight of aircraft (including regulations on safe altitudes) for --\n(A) navigating, protecting, and identifying aircraft;\n(B) protecting individuals and property on the ground;\n(C) using the navigable airspace efficiently; and\n(D) preventing collision between aircraft, between aircraft and land or water vehicles, and between aircraft and airborne objects.\n49 U.S.C. 40103(b)(2) (emphasis added). However, we believe the United States' sovereign regulation of the airspace over the United States and the regulation of aircraft in flight is distinguishable from the regulation of the designation of plane landing sites, which involves local control of land (or, in the present case, water) use.\nThe district court's analysis that ordinances 66(E) and 25(3) are preempted by federal law relied heavily upon the Supreme Court's opinion in City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal, Inc., 411 U.S. 624, 36 L. E,d. 2d 547, 93 S. Ct. 1854 (1973). In Burbank, the Supreme Court stated that in light of the pervasive nature of the scheme of federal regulation of aircraft noise, the FAA, in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency ('EPA'), has full control over aircraft noise, preempting state and local regulation. Id. at 638. Therefore, the Supreme Court held that the City of Burbank could not use municipal curfews to impose noise regulations on aircraft operations. In the present case, the district court relied on the Supreme Court's language in Burbank, which stated that the FAA has broad authority to regulate the use of the navigable airspace, in holding that the City's ordinances are preempted under the second prong of the preemption doctrine -- pervasive federal regulation of the field.\nWe believe the district court read Burbank much too broadly in finding it to be dispositive in the present case. The district court failed to comprehensively examine the federal statutes and regulations pertaining to aircraft landing areas in order to glean the existence of preemptive pervasiveness, which is the proper approach established by the Supreme Court in Burbank. When the Court in Burbank turned to the FAA regulations to determine federal pervasiveness in the regulation of aircraft noise, it discovered: (1) the existence of express language in a Senate Report, which stated that 'States and local governments are preempted from establishing or enforcing noise emission standards. . . .\"; (2) the existence of two agencies, the EPA and the FAA, with control over aircraft noise; and (3) the imposition of a variety of regulations governing noise by the Administrator of the FAA. Id. at 628-34. The Court in Burbank focused upon the fact that the Federal Aviation Act, the attendant regulations, the legislative history of the Act, the Noise Control Act, and the EPA clearly identified noise regulation as a field fully regulated by the federal government. The combination of these factors made it obvious that in regard to noise control, Congress intended to occupy the field of regulation. ld. at 638. Based on this evidence of pervasiveness, the Court in Burbank determined that aircraft noise was so comprehensively and strictly regulated by the federal government that it precluded enforcement of state or local laws on the same subject. Id. at 638-39.\nIn contrast, in the present case, an examination of the Federal Aviation Act and regulations concerning seaplanes and aircraft landing sites indicates that the designation of plane landing sites is not pervasively regulated by federal law, but instead is a matter left primarily to local control. In contrast to the pervasive scheme of federal regulation of aircraft noise found in Burbank. we fail to identify any language in the Act, the regulations promulgated pursuant to the Act, or the legislative history of the Act, which by implication preempts enforcement of the City's ordinances prohibiting the operation of seaplanes on Lake Angelus.\nThe applicable statutes and regulations indicate the following. In regard to federal preemption, the Act states:\n(b) Preemption.--(1) Except as provided in this subsection, a State, political subdivision of a State, or political authority of at least 2 States may not enact or enforce a law, regulation, or other provision having the force and effect of law related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier that may provide air transportation under this subpart.\n49 U.S.C. 41713(b)(1) [former 1305(a)(1)]. The plain language of 41713(b)(1) expressly prohibits States from regulating aviation rates, routes, or services, but the City of Lake Angelus ordinances do not infringe on these expressly preempted fields. The FAA has acknowledged that land use matters within the federal aviation framework are intrinsically local. For example, the regulation concerning the procedures governing the establishment of a civil airport indicates the following: [FN 4]\nFAA determinations.\n(a) The FAA will conduct an aeronautical study of an airport proposal and, after consultations with interested persons, as appropriate, issue a determination to the proponent and advise those concerned of the FAA determination. . . . While determinations consider the effects of the proposed action on the safe and efficient use of airspace by aircraft and the safety of persons and property on the ground, the determinations are only advisory.\n. . . A determination does not relieve the proponent of responsibility for compliance with any local law, ordinance or regulation, or state or other Federal regulation. Aeronautical studies and determinations will not consider environmental or land use compatibility impacts.\n[FN 4] Anyone proposing to establish a new airport is required to notify the Department of Transportation before any consideration or use begins. 14 C.F.R. 157.3. In its review of an airport proposal, the FAA considers the following: the effects the proposed action would have on existing or contemplated traffic patterns of neighboring airports; the effects the proposed action would have on the existing airspace structure and projected programs of the FAA; and the effects that existing or proposed manmade objects (on file with the FAA) and natural objects within the affected area would have on the airport proposal. 14 C.F.R. 157.7(a).]\n14 C.F.R. 157.7(a) (emphasis added). Clearly, the FAA defers to local zoning ordinances, since this regulation requires the establishment of an airport in compliance with a municipality's land use plan. As the regulation states, the proponent of the establishment of an airport must comply with any local law, ordinance or regulation. [FN 5] Moreover, the regulation indicates that environmental impact and land use compatibility are matters of local concern and will not be determined by the FAA. Thus, in contrast to Burbank, in which the Supreme Court stated that the FAA made clear its intent to pervasively regulate aircraft noise, FAA regulation 14 C.F.R. 157.7 indicates that the FAA does not intend to pervasively regulate the designation of the location of airports. We find no regulations governing the designation of the location of private airfields or seaplane landing sites. Under 14 C.F.R. 157.7, the FAA recognizes that within the federal aviation framework, local zoning ordinances governing land use must be complied with. We believe this rationale applies in the present case, which concerns water use. Under the general provisions of the Act, an airplane landing area is defined as follows:\n\"landing area\" means a place on land or water, including an airport or intermediate landing field, used, or intended to be used, for the takeoff and landing of aircraft, even when facilities are not provided for sheltering, servicing, or repairing aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.\n[FN 5] The definition of airport includes a \"seaplane base.\" 14 C.F.R. 157.2.]\n49 U.S.C 40102(28) [former 1301(27)] (emphasis added). Since a landing area includes a body of water, we find no merit to plaintiff s argument that \"the inland waters,\" such as Lake Angelus, are part of the navigable airspace of the United States over which the federal government exerts preemptive control. The inland waters are part of the earth's surface, and water (as well as land) use compatibility are matters of local control.\nThe district court relied on two federal regulations concerning the operation of aircraft on the surface of the water to find pervasive preemption of the field. We disagree with the district court's analysis in this regard. 14 C.F.R. 91.115(a) states:\nRight-of-way rules: Water operations.\n(a) General. Each person operating an aircraft on the water shall, insofar as possible, keep clear of all vessels and avoid impeding their navigation, and shall give way to any vessel or other aircraft that is given the right-of way by any rule of this section.\nThis regulation pertains to the safe operation of seaplanes in order to avoid collisions and contains no specifications for seaplane landing sites. 14 C.F.R. 91.119 states:\nMinimum safe altitudes: General\nThis regulation is also directed to the operational safety of seaplanes, not to the designation of landing areas or restrictions on access rights. We do not believe these two regulations pertaining to \"right of way rules and 'minimum safe altitudes' illustrate an intent by Congress to pervasively regulate the field and to exert exclusive federal control over seaplane landing sites. To the contrary, there is no scheme of federal regulation designating locations for seaplane landings. The district court confused federal regulation of \"The navigable airspace\" and \"the flight of aircraft\" with regulation of use of the water surface itself, and erred in viewing the City's ordinances as pertaining to aircraft operations rather than to municipal water use. Because there is no pervasive, extensive, or complete federal regulatory scheme that controls seaplane landing sites, we find that no reasonable inference may be drawn under the second prong of the preemption doctrine that Congress left no [*20] room for the states or local governments to regulate in this area. See Hillsborough County, Florida, v. Automated Medical Labs., Inc., 471 US. 707, 719-20, 85 L. Ed. 2d 714. 105 S. Ct. 2371 (1985).\nMoreover, there is nothing in the City's ordinances which conflicts with or impedes the objectives of federal law under the third prong of the preemption doctrine. For example, the portion of ordinance 25(J) that prohibits \"the landing upon the lands, waters, or ice surface within the Village of Lake Angelus of any aircraft\" does not make compliance with federal aviation law impossible or create obstacles to the attainment of federal goals. The pertinent language in the ordinances does not impinge upon the 'exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States,' 49 U.S.C. 40103(a)(1) [former 1508(a)], nor does it interfere with the congressional mandate to insure the safety of aircraft and the efficient utilization of airspace pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 40103(b)(2) [former 1348(c)]. Instead, the ordinances are limited to the regulation of the lake surface within the borders of the City. and there is no conflict with federal law. 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She had one sister and two brothers. After graduation from high school, she was employed in the town post office. Later she was organist in one of the Olathe churches. Her marriage to Bert Rogers, editor of the town paper, took place on Christ Day in 1900. Mrs. Rogers died in Olathe, Kansas in 1960.\nJean Arthur and her mother, Johana Nelson Greene\nJohana Nelson Greene, the mother of Jean Arthur, was born in Dakota Territory before it became South Dakota. She spent her early days in the midst of the adventures of the early West. Mrs. Greene always wanted to be a singer but the opportunity never came along. She lived on her father\u2019s farm and married H. S. Greene, a photographer. His business took him to New York and various parts of the East.\nGary Cooper and his mother, Alice Brazier Cooper\nAlice Brazier Cooper, the mother of Gary Cooper, was born in Kent, England, and went to a church school. With her three borthers and one sister, she spent much of her earlier childhood on or near the sea. After graduation, she went to Helena, Montana on a visit. She had planned to make a tour of the world but she met Judge Charles Henry Cooper and married him.\nRamon Novarro and his mother, Leonor Gavilan Samaniego\nLeonor Gavilan Samaniego, the mother of Ramon Novarro, was born in the town of Leon, Mexico. There Ramon\u2019s mother was educated and there she spent her childhood. When she was twenty-two years old, she married Mariano N. Samaniego, a dentist. She became the mother of twelve boys and girls, ten of whom survived. She died in Hollywood in 1949.\nWilliam Haines and his mother, Laura Matthews Haines\nLaura Matthews Haines, the mother of William Haines, was born in Staunton, Virginia. When she was seventeen, she married George A. Haines. The newlyweds made their home in Staunton, where they remained until moving to Richmond in 1918. In 1929, they joined their son in Hollywood.\nRichard Arlen and his mother, Mary Clark Van Mattemore\nMary Clark Van Mattemore, the mother of Richard Arlen, was born on a farm near St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of a road builder. In the family were two brothers and two sisters. Her marriage to James Van Mattemore took place shortly after her graduation and continued to live in St. Paul.\nClaudette Colbert and her mother, Jeanne Colbert\nJeanne Colbert, the mother of Claudette Colbert, was born in Paris, France and was an artist before her marriage. Several years after Claudette was born, the family came to America. The Colbert\u2019s lived in New York.\nJoan Crawford and her mother, Anna Johnson La Sueur\nAnna Johnson La Sueur, the mother of Joan Crawford, was born in Medora, Illinois. After her marriage she made her home in Kansas City. She was the mother two children, Lucille (Joan) and a son, Hal. She died in Hollywood in 1958.\nTags:charles \"buddy\" rogers, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, jean arthur, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, Richard Arlen, William Haines\nPosted in Book/Film News | 2 Comments \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 443, "original_length": 29009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allornothing.beer/0000/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:13Z", "digest": "sha1:X27W7VHRVPDVC3UCXY7RQSGIR3NYDSMA", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "allornothing.beer", "title": "bottleshop@allornothing.beer", "raw_content": "0000 June 8th, 2016admin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://altoday.com/archives/12134-huma-abedin-a-top-hillary-clinton-aide-is-leaving-husband-anthony-weiner-amid-new-sexting-scandal", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UKFEIT7LB7XJNKHGNMLPER6GU4PBYAT4", "length": 5422, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "altoday.com", "title": "Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin is leaving husband amid new scandal", "raw_content": "Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner\nHuma Abedin, a top Hillary Clinton aide, is leaving husband Anthony Weiner amid new sexting scandal\nHillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is done playing the good wife to Anthony Weiner, announcing Monday she is leaving the serially sexting ex-congressman after he was accused of sending raunchy photos and messages to yet another woman.\nAbedin, who as vice chair of Clinton\u2019s campaign is destined for big things if the Democrat is elected president, stayed with Weiner after a sexting scandal led him to resign from Congress in 2011 and after a new outbreak of online misbehavior wrecked his bid for New York mayor in 2013. She didn\u2019t leave even when a recent documentary blew up tense moments in their marriage to big-screen proportions.\nBut on Monday, she effectively declared she had had enough.\n\u201cAfter long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,\u201d she said in a statement issued by the campaign. \u201cAnthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life.\u201d\nThe New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year to a woman identified only as a \u201c40-something divorcee\u201d who lives in the West and supports Republican Donald Trump. The photos included two close-ups of Weiner\u2019s bulging underpants.\nIn one of the pictures, Weiner is lying on a bed with his toddler son while texting the woman, according to the Post. The tabloid also ran sexually suggestive messages that it said the two exchanged.\nWeiner told the Post that he and the woman \u201chave been friends for some time.\u201d\n\u201cShe has asked me not to comment except to say that our conversations were private, often included pictures of her nieces and nephews and my son and were always appropriate,\u201d the 51-year-old Democrat told the newspaper.\nWeiner didn\u2019t return a call, text or email from The Associated Press. He deleted his Twitter account Monday.\nThe Post didn\u2019t say how it obtained the photographs and messages.\nAbedin, 40, is a longtime Clinton aide and confidante who is often referred to as the candidate\u2019s second daughter.\nTrump immediately seized on the aide\u2019s marital split to accuse Clinton of \u201cbad judgment.\u201d He suggested that Weiner might have compromised national security, but offered no evidence to support the allegation.\n\u201cI only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,\u201d Trump said in a statement. \u201cWho knows what he learned and who he told?\u201d\nAbedin has been under scrutiny during the probe into Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Federal prosecutors declined to file charges in the investigation, but FBI Director James Comey said Clinton and her aides had been \u201cextremely careless\u201d in their handling of classified information.\nAbedin began working for the former first lady as a White House intern and became a trusted aide as Clinton won a seat in the Senate representing New York in 2000, ran for president in 2008 and served as President Barack Obama\u2018s secretary of state. Former President Bill Clinton officiated when Abedin and Weiner married in 2010.\nThe marriage would provide years of fodder for political commentators, armchair psychologists and spouses all over America who wondered: How could she stay with him?\nAbedin was pregnant with the couple\u2019s son, Jordan, when a photo of a man\u2019s bulging underpants appeared on Weiner\u2019s Twitter account in 2011. After initially claiming his account was hacked, Weiner acknowledged inappropriate online communication with several women.\nTwo years later, Abedin was all in for her husband\u2019s mayoral bid, raising money, appearing on the campaign trail and participating in interviews in which the couple talked about rebuilding their trust and marriage. Then a new series of sexually explicit pictures and messages emerged, and Weiner was forced to acknowledge he kept sexting after he had resigned from Congress.\nStill, Abedin said, \u201cI love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and \u2026 we are moving forward.\u201d\nVoters weren\u2019t ready to forgive, however. Weiner lost the Democratic primary.\nWeiner has since remained in the public eye, commenting on politics on cable news shows. \u201cWeiner,\u201d the documentary offering a cringe-inducing inside view of his mayoral campaign and its unraveling, played in theaters earlier this year and is set to air on Showtime this fall.\nHe recently refused to answer when asked whether he was still sexting, telling The New York Times Magazine in an interview published Aug. 16: \u201cI\u2019m not going to go down the path of talking about any of that.\u201d\nSome psychology experts, while cautioning they haven\u2019t treated him, suggested his behavior smacks of extreme impulsiveness, compulsion or addiction.\n\u201cImpulsivity is something that a lot of people really struggle with,\u201d said Jeannette Stern, a New York therapist. While there are various approaches people can try to change such behavior, she noted, \u201cthey have to really be willing to stop.\u201d\nBamaStephen on August 29, 2016 4:25 pm\nRT @AlabamaToday: Huma Abedin, a top @HillaryClinton aide, is leaving husband Anthony Weiner amid new sexting scandal https://t.co/Hpj8BPvK\u2026\nHuma Abedin, a top HillaryClinton aide, is leaving husband Anthony Weiner amid new sexting scandal https://t.co/sM9lf6eF4p #Election2016 A\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 9129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amerinz.blogspot.com/2008/05/oily-liars.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PPWZZ3Y3ZLOG5MMADWO5VWZB2KEK55AF", "length": 3686, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "amerinz.blogspot.com", "title": "AmeriNZ Blog: Oily liars }", "raw_content": "I can't help thinking this is a good thing -- instead of cost rising more subtly over time we get noticeable effect which would be more likely to force people into examining energy use and policies.\nOil cpys are doing what they're designed to do -- don't get mad at donkeys because they don't know how to fly.\nI'm probably being a little harsh but it's because coming from the US South I know so many folks who feel it's the govt's job to make sure they can afford to drive single passenger commuter trucks that get 10miles/gallon 60 miles each way to and from their office jobs.\nI agree that the oil companies could take a little less in profit and lower the cost of gas a little. But that's not going to solve the long term problem. The US has to come to grips with the fact that we are addicted to oil. And I use that term on purpose because that is what we are addicts.\nInstead of members of congress holding hearings to berate oil executive, how about coming up with ideas on how the country can kick the habit of oil. But that might actually be hard and they certainly wouldn't want to do that.\nReed: In a perfect world, I'd agree, and images of America's \"soccer Moms\" moaning because their giant SUVs cost more to fill makes it hard to sympathise with ordinary people.\nBut this hits the poor and working classes much harder, particularly in areas where there is no--or very bad--public transport, like Auckland for example. Then, it also causes price rises in every commodity, like food and clothing, plus home energy use. The rich can absord these costs, but the further down the scale you go, the harder and harder it becomes to cope with soaring energy prices.\nSo while this crisis may have the beneficial result of forcing soccer Moms to ditch their SUVs for a real car, it will hit the poor and working classes very hard, with no identifiable gain for them or for society.\nJason: I agree with you. That's why I think the windfall profits tax should be directed completely to alternative energy research (with not one cent going to research biofuels made from food).\nAs always, this topic is a bit more complicated than \"gas prices are high, and oil companies are making huge profits\".\nAs a tax accountant - for an oil company (yes it's true!) - I have an insider's view on how money is spent and earned, at least in my company.\nAnd it is truly complicated. I'll be writing up a blog post on the industry soon, so stay tuned.\nIn the meantime, I'll just point out that a company's tax return is a better gauge on just how well they are doing. Most oil companies operate in the red for years before making profits. If they did not pay taxes last year, it means they are still eating through losses created in prior years.\nI don't dispute the tax aspect, but my point is that their profits rise as the price of petrol rises without them doing a thing, assuming they maintain the same profit margins, which they do.\nThe modern business paradigm\u2014which requires the maximum return to shareholders no matter what\u2014is, as I've often said, what I believe is at the core of the problem: Business has no incentive to invest in the future or behave in a socially or environmentally responsible way (without government regulation) because it's against the shareholder's interest in maximising short-term profit over long-term profitability.\nWithout a new way of raising capital that doesn't reward greed, there's little hope this will change. So, governments must step in, and this is why I believe a windfall profits tax is needed, with the various caveats I've added before, including that the taxes not be passed on to consumers but rather come from the shareholders who are profiting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 15975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amysmarathonofbooks.ca/tag/tradewind-books/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SMKGW3DQP7Y7LPCXDF23AMU2CEI2KBIT", "length": 1804, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "amysmarathonofbooks.ca", "title": "Tradewind Books | Amy's Marathon of Books", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \"Tradewind Books\"\nSummary: Spending her summer in Italy with relatives, Angela is taking a break from her mourning mother after the death of her father and exposing herself to a new way of life. When she has the opportunity to help out a family by exercising their horses, she jumps at the chance. Introduced to a horse she calls Storm who is marked to be destroyed after throwing another rider and stepping on her, Angela quickly realises this horse is scared instead of angry and endeavours to save his life. With a summer romance in the works, a new friend and a community caught up in an upcoming horse race,...\nSummary: With younger twin brothers, Victoria knows living with her aunt and her aunt\u2019s abusive boyfriend after her parents are out of the picture is not ideal, but isn\u2019t sure how support them on her own. When her aunt\u2019s boyfriend makes a pass at her though, Victoria has to choose between taking a risk by leaving home or being raped. Life on the streets of Parana, Argentina isn\u2019t easy, and Victoria encounters several seedy characters dealing with drugs. Still she manages to find a place to live, support, and love, but all is put in danger when those calling the shots...\nSummary: A collection of short stories featuring Chinese teens living in Toronto. Stories cover generational rifts, identity issues, sexuality, immigration, the bonds of family and culture in the midst of the regular stress of finishing high school and growing up. Number of Pages: 178 Age Range: 15-17 Review: Sadly, a day is not long enough to do justice to a collection of short stories. I liked the way Paul Yee connected the stories in his book by using and referring to characters who all knew each other, but I needed more time to let the stories sink in and realise their true meaning. A...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 5061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.jsonline.com/business/people-voluntarily-leaving-jobs-at-highest-rate-since-2009-downturn-b99303175z1-265866551.html/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FWLXWS3EQ5RH6YNB56TSXZDW3QS3UL7J", "length": 5861, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "archive.jsonline.com", "title": "People voluntarily leaving jobs at highest rate since 2009 downturn", "raw_content": "People voluntarily leaving jobs at highest rate since 2009 downturn\nBy John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel\nIn the darkest days of the last recession, few among those who had jobs were able, willing or bold enough to quit them.\nThat is changing, however, according to a statistic called the national \"quit rate,\" which some might call the \"Take this job and shove it\" index. The figure shows that the percentage of Americans who are jumping ship voluntarily is hovering at its highest levels in the four-year recovery.\nMany see the shift as a sign of optimism for an economy that has sputtered its way through an on-again, off-again rebound from the demoralizing downturn of 2008-'09.\n\"The quit rate is a useful measure of how much confidence workers feel and how many opportunities they have to switch to a more attractive job,\" said Steven Davis, a professor who specializes in labor economics and worker mobility at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.\nWhen times are good and workers are in high demand, employees quit more frequently than when unemployment is high and workers lack confidence, Davis said.\nIn the private sector, the percentage of working-age Americans who voluntarily left their job stood at 2.0% in April, up from 1.8% one year earlier and 1.4% at its lowest level in 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That works out to an estimated 2.34 million workers who gave notice in April, compared with 1.54 million at the trough of the slump.\nThe recession obliterated more than 8 million jobs in less than two years. It's well-documented that many companies in that time learned to get more done with fewer hands, with some workers producing what two or three once did.\nIn a normal economy, such pressure-cooker environments would have compelled many workers to bolt. But the quitting indicator showed that the climate was too uncertain for such brash moves.\nWhile the indicator has since rebounded from its 2009 lows, it still has a long way to go to regain its pre-recession peak.\nIn much of 2006, the quit rate held steady around 2.5% for the private sector \u2014 before the national economy began to cool and subsequently shifted into reverse with the 2008 Wall Street financial crisis.\nIt's even further below the levels of 2000, when the nation still was basking in the boom of the dot-com euphoria of the late 1990s. The quit rate peaked at 2.9% before the recession of 2001. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked the quit rate only since December 2000, making it one of the newest U.S. economic indicators.\nSo the rising quit rate suggests improvement, but it by no means suggests that the job market is as healthy as it ought to be.\n\"There's still considerable weakness in the labor market,\" Davis said.\nThe frequency with which workers break the news to their boss offers insights that aren't apparent in conventional monthly jobs statistics, which focus on the unemployment rate and jobs that are gained or lost.\nIn purely mathematical terms, the nation made up the over 8 million jobs destroyed by the recession \u2014 but it has not yet created jobs for the new generation of young graduates who entered the workforce since the downturn. Their numbers, which are not reflected in the statistics, are nearly as great as the total lost, leaving a gaping hole in the world of work.\nThat's why many Americans complain that the recovery so far has passed them by.\n\"The improvement in the labor market is not as great as it looks at face value from the decline in the unemployment rate,\" Davis said. \"The quit rate is one of many indicators that point to a partial recovery.\"\nThe quit rate is not followed nearly as closely as much other employment data, such as monthly jobs reports. But it has some influential adherents, Davis said, including Janet Yellen, who chairs the Federal Reserve Bank.\nThe quit rate belongs to a monthly data set that the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey \u2014 known among economists as \"JOLTS\" data. That data includes other insights into the national economy that aren't found elsewhere.\nThose include an estimate of the number of job openings in any given month. According to the federal agency, the number of unemployed people per job opening was 1.8 when the most recent recession began in December 2007. By that reckoning, an applicant had a decent chance to land a new job for every two applications. By the time the economy bottomed out in 2009, however, the ratio had skyrocketed to 6.2 unemployed people per opening.\nAs job openings have become more plentiful, that ratio, like the quit rate, also has been improving.\nJOLTS data are not available at the state level, although the Bureau of Labor Statistics breaks out four national regions: Midwest, Northeast, South and West.\nAt the national level, the quit rate is broken out by sector. It shows that government jobs turn over less frequently than the private sector. It also shows that manufacturing jobs (1% national quit rate) are far more stable than the leisure and hospitality sector \u2014 covering hotel and restaurant employers \u2014 where workers quit more than three times as often (3.5%).\nJOLTS statistics also include a figure called the \"layoffs and discharge rate,\" which measures \"involuntary separations initiated by the employer.\" That statistic also has improved as the economy has picked up pace, falling to 1.2% of the workforce in April from 2.0% in 2009.\nWhile those shifts in percentage may seem incremental \u2014 unlike the national unemployment rate, which has moved from 10% to 6.1% in the same period \u2014 they represent the difference between a paycheck and the unemployment line for hundreds of thousands of Americans.\nAbout John Schmid\nJohn Schmid covers economics, business and other topics for the Journal Sentinel.\n@GlobalMilwaukee\njschmid@journalsentinel.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 450, "original_length": 14920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arthealthcare.in/drug-sales-in-emerging-markets-to-match-u-s-by-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LTKSOIKPDDZU2ZOHJJY6WVK7P64METSP", "length": 3653, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "arthealthcare.in", "title": "\ufeff Drug Sales in Emerging Markets to Match U.S. by 2016 | Arthealthcare", "raw_content": "Healthcare Informatics, a Parsippany, New Jersey-based research arm of drug sales analysis company IMS Health Inc.\nAs emerging markets grow, European government budget cuts and drugs losing U.S. patent protection will lessen the buying power of those regions.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s driving it is the really strong economic growth across these markets,\u201d Michael Kleinrock, director of research at the IMS institute, said of the emerging countries. \u201cWhen millions of people come out of extreme poverty, they start to be able to afford basic medicines and services.\u201d\nChina is leading the growth in these markets. In the world\u2019s most populous country, 339 million people will go from making less than $5,000 a year to more than that in the 2011-2016 period. With low drug prices there of about $12 a month, according to Kleinrock, people making $5,000 a year can afford to spend about the same percentage of their income on drugs as do people in the U.S.\nThat will benefit multinational brands and generic drugmakers, who can displace lower-cost, lower-quality producers in those countries. At higher income levels, consumers \u201cstart to be aspirational for branded generic products and original branded products,\u201d Kleinrock said.\nIn the U.S., the so-called patent cliff will peak in 2012 and 2013, with less than a 2 percent increase in U.S. drug sales those years, according to the report. America\u2019s share of the projected $1.2 trillion in worldwide drug spending in 2016 will fall to 31 percent from 34 percent in 2011.\nThe EU and Japan\u2019s spending also will decline to 23 percent of the global market in 2016 from 29 percent last year.\nThe emerging markets will make up 30 percent of spending by 2016, compared with 20 percent in 2011. The report lists these countries as China, India, Brazil, Poland, Mexico, Romania, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, Vietnam and Venezuela.\nConsumers in emerging markets have an appetite for products by brand-name and multinational generic drugmakers, Kleinrock said. \u201cTheir aspiration to get the real Levi\u2019s instead of the fake is tangible,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see higher levels of branded generics.\u201d\nDrugmakers led by Pfizer Inc. (PFE) (PFE) are relying increasingly on those markets for growth. The New York-based company\u2019s first- quarter revenue from Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico and Turkey grew 10 percent compared with a 15 percent decrease in U.S. sales, Pfizer reported.\nGeneric drugmakers still make up the bulk of the sales in emerging markets, and have focused expansion efforts there. In April, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (WPI) (WPI) announced it would buy closely held drugmaker Actavis Group hf for 4.25 billion euros ($5.6 billion) to expand its reach in Europe and Asia. The deal gives Watson, the third-biggest generic drugmaker by revenue, access to markets in China, India and Eastern Europe, according to Michael Faerm, a Credit Suisse analyst in New York.\nHarald Stock, chief executive officer of closely held Grunenthal Group in Aachen, Germany, said his company is looking for acquisitions in Latin America, the main source of the generic drugmaker\u2019s growth. He sees \u201csustainable\u201d growth in the economies there. \u201cIt\u2019s not an emerging market anymore,\u201d Stock said in an interview in New York.\nIn one respect, though, these countries are behind the U.S., EU, and Japan. Developed markets still spend far more per person on drugs than the 16 emerging countries in the IMS report. U.S. consumers will spend $892 per person on drugs in 2016 and Japan $644 a person, while $180 per person will be spent for medicines in Brazil and $33 in India, according to the report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artherapievirtus.org/migrants/tag/associations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HSW7KF7TTP6HFW4YPX3A3S43AUE5TBNB", "length": 3376, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "artherapievirtus.org", "title": "Associations \u2013 Migrants", "raw_content": "Publi\u00e9 le 4 septembre 2017 Auteur Emmanuelle Cesari\tAucun commentaire sur Art Programs in Calais Bring Humanity Back to the Lives of Refugees\nArt Programs in Calais Bring Humanity Back to the Lives of Refugees\nThe British Association Of Art-Therapists\nWritten by Isabel Soloaga\nThrough the artistic expression enabled by Art Refuge UK in Calais and echoed in the work of artists around the globe, refugees are reclaiming their identity as human beings despite the methodological dehumanization they face in the media, public policies and police brutality\u2026\nRiot police in \u201cThe Jungle\u201d of Calais, a refugee camp on the border of France and the UK, sprayed tear gas into one young refugee\u2019s dinner last week.\nThe boy, around 13 years old, lives unaccompanied in the town\u2019s dump. His dream is to reach the UK. That afternoon, men and boys traced their journeys from homes in Eritrea, Afghanistan, the Sudan and other faraway, war torn countries using the maps and art supplies brought to Calais by Art Refuge UK, a small charity that offers art therapy groups in various spaces in and around town alongside their French partners Secours Catholique and Medecins du Monde. The exhausted individuals gathered could finally share their stories, embracing a new mode of self-expression through which to tell them: art.\n\u201cI\u2019m made of the same stuff as you,\u201d one boy, absorbed in his painting, told Mary Rose Brady, Director of Operations, British Association of Art Therapists, when she visited Calais. \u201cPeople should love me.\u201d\n\u201cThey are being treated like animals,\u201d said Clare Moseley, founder of the UK based nonprofit Care4Calais, to a team of volunteers huddled together in the icy wind of the intact camp last November. Today, the nonprofit cites that human rights violations in the camp are worse than ever. Since Human Rights Watch published their report last month, \u201cIt has been the refugees who are facing the backlash,\u201d said Naomi Press, an art therapist who has worked in the Jungle for over two years with Art Refuge UK.\nHowever, determined artists like 19 year old photographer Abdulazez Dukhan and Allan deSouza, chair of UC Berkeley\u2019s Visual Arts program, are working to challenge, subvert and provide alternatives to the mainstream media\u2019s representation of refugees which depict them, in deSouza\u2019s words, as \u201ceither terrorists or victims.\u201d\nDukhan, who fled Syria three years ago, now lives in a refugee camp in Belgium. As he says, \u201cWe\u2019re just regular people wanting to get back to our ordinary lives.\u201d\nThrough the artistic expression enabled by Art Refuge UK in Calais and echoed in the work of artists around the globe, refugees are reclaiming their identity as human beings despite the methodological dehumanization they face in the media, public policies and police brutality.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult in Calais right now,\u201d says Bobby Lloyd, CEO of Art Refuge UK. She would know. Her organization, which brings skilled and experienced HCPC registered art therapists into the Calais area, has been on the ground every week for over two years now. She has witnessed the growth of the camp, two demolition attempts by the French government, and, now, a string of human rights abuses. \u201cBoys come in, and they want to tell us their stories,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cThey want to tell us how the police tear gassed their food.\u201d\nPubli\u00e9 dans A l'\u00e9tranger, Royaume-Uni\nEtiquet\u00e9 Associations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-03-16/news/26416429_1_groton-birthday-sd", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZC3YKYORWGV5Z5IRFC2P2MCTG76S5QIK", "length": 156, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", "title": "Esther Falk - townnews-aberdeennews", "raw_content": "Esther Falk\nEsther Falk of Groton is celebrating her 85th birthday Sunday, March 16. Greetings may be sent to 405 N. Garfield St., Apt. 7, Groton, SD 57445.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-03-28/news/26422282_1_plant-aberdeen-rumor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3XJXRVKAREZPQBK7Q3ITGL6PI3TNYDIT", "length": 4277, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", "title": "Aberdeen: Beef plant rumors not true - townnews-aberdeennews", "raw_content": "Aberdeen: Beef plant rumors not true\nForeigners involved are investors, not buyers\nA story making its way around the area about Northern Beef Packers having been sold is untrue, said Dennis Hellwig, a partner in the plant. Generally, the rumor is that Hellwig sold the plant to a Korean company, and that paperwork filed at the register of deed's office shows the transaction. But while there are other names on the papers, Hellwig is still listed as the majority owner. Some of the investors are from other countries, including Korea. Some take advantage of a program that allows them access to green cards in exchange for large investments. A project by the American News in October 2007 fully explained the employment-based visa program called EB-5. (Go online at www.aberdeennews.com to read the October story, linked to today's story.) Another rumor is that Aberdeen businessman Norg Sanderson is no longer involved with the plant. Sanderson was never a Northern Beef Packers partner, but has spoken in favor of the plant, helped it procure tax increment financing and remains an advocate, Hellwig said. IKOR, a company that will process blood from livestock slaughtered at the plant, will do so as soon as the plant starts operating, Hellwig said. Sanderson is involved with IKOR. Northern Beef Packers has faced a series of hurdles ranging from severe flooding last spring to a countywide vote to determine whether the plant should be granted a TIF, a benefit that allows it to use some property taxes that would otherwise have gone to local governments to instead pay off bonds used for financing. If things go well, Hellwig still thinks the plant could be processing livestock by August. Good weather that allows construction to continue is key, he said. Hellwig said he's not discouraged by the delays or the stories going around. \u201cThat's going to happen,\u201d he said. He said that he senses solid support from the community and county. Hellwig said Northern Beef Packers has hired 10 or so people, mostly for management positions. He said that he collected 118 applications at last week's job fair in Aberdeen. He expects 200 to 300 people to be hired by July if plans hold. Construction is progressing and, Hellwig said, now that people who pass by can see that, their doubts about how the plant is progressing are probably eased. There are four construction crews on site and another crew doing dirtwork, Hellwig said. Some details, though, aren't yet resolved:\nWhat businesses might locate in the front of the plant aren't set, but Hellwig said there has been interest. However, he said, there probably won't be any action before next year.\nIt's too early to tell whether an idea to use the plant's treated wastewater to irrigate nearby crops will become reality. Hellwig said testing will have to be done to see if the water and cropland are compatible.\nHow the county road that goes in front of the plant will be improved is unknown. Hellwig said he would like to see at least part of the road have a hard surface by summer or early fall. Other improvements could be made in the future. Hellwig also said there's still a need for more housing for potential employees in the region. And, he said, the area's labor pool will determine, at least in part, how quickly the plant gets up to full speed. The plant itself is expected to cost roughly $40 million. It is being built about a mile south of Aberdeen on 135th Street, and west of the city's wastewater treatment plant. Plans call for it to eventually process 1,500 head a day and employ about 650 people. Q.What ever happened to the plans Northern Beef Packers had to use wastewater for irrigation? I heard they were scrapped, then heard that it might still happen. A.It's still a possibility, but the plans aren't firm, said Dennis Hellwig of Northern Beef Packers. Before that could be considered, testing would have to be done to determine whether the beef plant's treated water is compatible with land in the area, Hellwig said. For now, he said, Northern Beef Packers will treat the water it's going to discard on site, then pump it to an aerated holding pond before sending it to the city plant. PROGRESS\nOur Voice: Tax increment financing districts need work early\nBeef plant's impact on creek questioned", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 4770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.dailypilot.com/keyword/aircraft-carrier", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:B2NXFBNUZQEDRKFE4AKA3WBG3LNYVAF7", "length": 6279, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "articles.dailypilot.com", "title": "Articles about Aircraft Carrier - tribunedigital-dailypilot", "raw_content": "YOU ARE HERE: Daily Pilot Home\u2192Collections\u2192Aircraft Carrier\nTRAVEL TALES:War maneuvers aboard aircraft carrier\nBy Chuck Cassity | April 19, 2007\nThrough a fortuitous meeting with a retired military officer friend, I learned of a little known Navy program. The U.S. Navy is promoting itself as the place for young men and women to grow up, better themselves, learn a trade and become productive citizens. They're looking for business and community leaders to experience the Navy first-hand and then tell their friends and neighbors about their experiences so the word gets out to prospective recruits. When my wife, Elaine, and I arrived at San Diego's North Island Naval Air Station we realized one of my life-long dreams.\nMariners school honors veterans\nIt's been 68 years since Eddie Felix worked in the boiler room of the USS Cowpens during World War II, but he recalls events as if they happened yesterday. The keynote speaker Monday at Mariners Christian School's 11th annual Veterans Day commemoration shared his naval experiences with a gathering of more than 700 students, veterans and their families. Felix, now in his late 80s, left his family for Navy boot camp two days after he graduated from high school. To calm his parents, he devised a secret code to let them know where he was stationed.\nAircraft carried\nGreg Risling NEWPORT BEACH -- Taking stomach-churning dips and loops on a roller coaster can't compare to a launch off an aircraft carrier. Former Newport Beach City Councilman Art Gronksy got a unique look at naval operations earlier this month when he and several of his friends -- including Cannery manager Bill Hamilton and Balboa Bay Club president Henry Schielein -- were guests aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier John C. Stennis. The trip was sort of a payback for the group of Newport residents, who are active members of the Navy League, a civilian support group for the military branch.\nMariners students keep aiding military members\nStudents at Mariners Christian School in Costa Mesa are continuing fundraising efforts to help members of the military deployed a half a world away feel a little closer to home. In celebration of Valentine's Day, Mariners students will send boxes containing items like Chap Stick, hand lotion, eye drops, candy and magazines to the crew of the USS Harry S. Truman, which is in the Middle East. They began raising funds last year and around Christmas mailed $12,000 worth of phone cards and personal notes to the crew.\nPrimed for progress\nBryce Alderton In basketball, if you don't have a very tall team, you have to beat your opponent with a shooting touch and be quick of feet. Those are the qualities second-year Orange Coast College men's basketball coach Steve Spencer expects from this year's team, a team whose tallest player, freshman forward Sam Bailey, stands at 6-foot-6. \"Big guys are a rare commodity other than Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal) and maybe Tim Duncan in the (National Basketball Association)\nFor love of life, family and country\nYoung Chang With hymns and the tinkle of chimes hung on a branch, loved ones on Friday honored and remembered Richard Warren Knapp, a veteran of the Korean War who passed away Nov. 1. He was 70. Just one day before Veterans Day, Knapp's family remembered his life. At the conclusion of the service held at Pacific View Memorial Park in Newport Beach, a Navy honor guard stood at attention, saluting in Knapp's direction as \"Taps\" played in the background.\nHeather Smith has returned from a year in Argentina, where...\nHeather Smith has returned from a year in Argentina, where she learned porteno Spanish. Smith was selected last year as an ambassador for the Rotary International Club to promote its dedication to world understanding and peace. Smith was then sponsored by the Newport-Irvine Rotary Club to part of the Rotary Youth Exchange, which took her to Argentina ... Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen E. Rodriguez, a 2000 graduate of Estancia High School, received the Navy's Retention Excellence Award for the fiscal year 2003 with his fellow crew members aboard the aircraft carrier Enterprise, ported in Norfolk, Va. The Retention Excellence Award, also known as the Golden Anchor, recognizes a command's ability to meet or exceed its annual goals for sailor retention ... Navy Lt. Kyle P. Durand, son of Jane C. Sandmann of Whittier and Paul H. Durand of Costa Mesa, received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for two years of outstanding service while assigned to Naval Legal Service Office Northwest in Bremerton, Wash.\nEugene Hayworth Moriarty\nBeloved Eugene Hayworth Moriarty of Santa Ana passed away at 91 years of age on March 2, 2011 due to complications from cancer. Eugene was the son of James Rickard Moriarty, a Vice President of Santa Fe Railroad, and Edna Hayworth. He was born on April 15, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a proud descendent of Tralee, Kerry, Ireland. He graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California before attending the University of Maryland, where he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves.\nSidelines: Memorial Day meaningful for Newport Harbor alumni\nDon Cantrell Veteran television anchor and writer Tom Brokaw has predicted that the 60th anniversary this year of World War II will be an overwhelming event -- \"the last anniversary a lot of veterans will live to see.\" And it is fair to say that untold Newport Harbor High athletes were a bright and integral part of the military forces that bravely struggled against the evil powers, German, Japan and Italy. Hence, this year's Memorial Day stands as a meaningful occasion.\nThe God Squad: Plenty to be thankful for\nBy Rabbi Marc Gellman | November 22, 2013\nNext week, I hope each of you will pause at your Thanksgiving table, before burying your faces in assorted carbs, to ask your fellow diners to name something or someone they are thankful for this year. In addition to family, friends, America and pie, here are some of my unconventional candidates for thanks and continued blessings this year. May God bless us one and all. I am thankful for soldiers carrying rice. The half a million homeless Filipinos and the millions still wandering in shock amid the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan have many nations expressing support in words.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 13234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-26/entertainment/ca-6085_1_black-moon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4O3K35JRMOW2GWDMIEA4Q34GEP4BOVR", "length": 4266, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "That 'Pretentious' Trio ELP Is Back on the Rock Scene : Pop music: After splitting up in 1978, Emerson, Lake and Palmer are together again for 'Black Moon,' their first album in 14 years. - latimes", "raw_content": "That 'Pretentious' Trio ELP Is Back on the Rock Scene : Pop music: After splitting up in 1978, Emerson, Lake and Palmer are together again for 'Black Moon,' their first album in 14 years.\nAugust 26, 1992|STEVE HOCHMAN | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES\nBack in the '70s heyday of progressive-rock, everyone heard the joke:\nQ: How do you spell pretentious?\nA: E-L-P.\nEveryone, that is, except Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer--the E , L and P of the punch line.\nWhen the joke was related to them recently, Emerson, Lake and Palmer reacted first with blank stares, then burst out laughing.\n\"Very good!\" said bassist-singer Lake, 45, sitting in a Hollywood recording studio where the three English musicians were putting the final touches on \"Black Moon,\" their first album in 14 years. \"I hadn't heard that before.\"\n\"How do you spell pretentious? Is that right?\" said drummer Palmer, 42. \"That's nice now. I don't mind that. That doesn't offend me at all.\"\nContinued Lake, \"I suppose what we do could be interpreted as pretentious. We like to play European-based music, a large part of which is classically orientated. I mean, a lot of it comes from the fact that we're not blues orientated, which tends to have the tag of street credibility. . . . I mean, we're just not like that.\"\nStreet credibility is the last thing ELP ever had. The group's agenda was clear from its very first concert at the 1971 Isle of Wight Festival. Keyboardist Emerson (coming from the similarly constructed trio the Nice), Lake (ex-King Crimson) and Palmer (who had worked with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster) debuted with their rock interpretation of Russian impressionist Modest Mussorgsky's \"Pictures at an Exhibition.\"\nFor the next few years, ELP was at the forefront of a movement to expand rock's horizons and raise its intellectual quotient. But by the time the punks came along later in the decade, ELP seemed stodgy and irrelevant, the most lumbering of the dinosaurs that Johnny Rotten et al. swore they'd make extinct.\nNow, though, ELP is having its own--if not the last--laugh.\n\"The interesting thing is if you look back to (the early '70s), if you played a record from that time, within the first four bars you'd know it was the Stones or Zeppelin or the Moody Blues or ELP or Yes,\" said Lake, who will front the band at its shows tonight at the Open Air Theatre in San Diego, Friday at the Universal Amphitheatre and Saturday at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center.\n\"The character of the music was easily identifiable,\" he continued. \"These days a record starts and you're halfway through it and it could be any one of 20 bands. Progressive-rock was very good because it brought out originality and individuality.\"\nBut there was little place for ELP in the world of Sid Vicious, and the trio split in 1978. Emerson concentrated largely on film scoring, Lake made two solo albums and Palmer co-founded Asia, though several times ELP nearly reunited.\nEmerson and Lake were joined by another drummer (the conveniently initialed Cozy Powell) for a 1986 ELP album and tour, and then in 1988 Emerson and Lake teamed with American singer-guitarist Robert Berry as Three. Lake even briefly joined Palmer in Asia, to complete the pairing possibilities.\nThe intervening years have had little effect on the ELP formula. \"Black Moon\" offers the same mix of Emerson's prodigious, classical-rooted keyboard playing, original compositions and interpretations of classical pieces and Lake's blend of existential philosophy and love ballads found as in the old days. (Highlights are on the new two-CD compilation, \"The Atlantic Years.\") Emerson even still favors his old favorite Hammond organ and trumpet-like synthesizer sounds.\nIronically, ELP cites the use, or over-use, of the very technology it once championed--Emerson was one of the first rock keyboardists to make full-time use of synthesizers--as the reason they felt the time was right for a comeback.\n\"People were worried when we came out that synthesizers would eventually take over, and in fact it has actually happened,\" said the quiet Emerson, 47. \"Now there's a reliance on sequencing and everything in music, and sadly there's a loss of real players.\"\nInsomnia takes over the world in Kenneth Calhoun's 'Black...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1985-10-24/news/0340080225_1_missouri-compromise-state-of-missouri-second-missouri", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:I3YRYAPZTOA5DKWHP3RDO2LWM7GQ6SJT", "length": 2876, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "articles.orlandosentinel.com", "title": "Midwestern Country Boys Are On A Roll - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel", "raw_content": "Midwestern Country Boys Are On A Roll\nOctober 24, 1985|By James Reston, New York Times\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Without taking sides between the Royals of Kansas City and the Cardinals of St. Louis, it is clear that both are in violation of the spirit of compromise that brought the state of Missouri into the Federal Union on Aug. 10, 1821. Not being satisfied to join the club, they decided in 1985 to take the joint over.\nAs every attentive high school student knows, the Missouri Compromise of 1821 stipulated that Missouri would not be given the status of a state until it agreed that nothing in its Constitution should be interpreted to abridge the privileges and immunities of any citizens of the United States.\nThe meaning of the Missouri Compromise was obvious. It was intended to limit the spread of slavery and preserve the rights of its black citizens. Missouri was chosen by Congress as the designated hitter for freedom and equality.\nFor 164 years Missouri faithfully kept its place, but in the year 1985, from Kansas City in the west to St. Louis in the east, it rebelled at being merely an equal state among many, and it proclaimed its domination over all others.\nIn the long history of conflict between the states, nothing in the outfield or the infield or the bullpen has matched Missouri's imperious and aggressive claim to superiority. It has not even shown pity for the immunities of the Southern states, with which it originally shared the Louisiana Purchase.\nInfuriated by the charge that the coastal cities of New York and Los Angeles, with all their money and computers, were the pathfinders to the future, and that the prairie states of the Middle West were hopeless strikeouts, Missouri swept the Yankees and Dodgers from the field in the most dramatic agrarian uprising and upset since Harry Truman in 1948.\nMissouri did more than this. Originally it was established by explorers, traders and settlers from Canada, whose dreams outran their energy and whose fastball was better than their control.\nStill, these French Canadians got Missouri out of the bush leagues into the big leagues and statehood. But when Toronto ventured to seek a place in the final test for the championship of the world, the Midwestern isolationist impulse put down the rebellion, and Missouri stood alone.\nThis established the Second Missouri Compromise: Don't show me, I'll show you. A 50-50 compromise: hits and runs for us, errors and oblivion for you.\nSo what? So watch out, you fancy guys, the country boys are on a roll not only in St. Louis and Kansas City. The Bears are howling again in Chicago, and Iowa and Michigan are back on top of the college football ratings. It was bound to happen. Folks get soft in the Sun Belt eating quiche and drinking wine, while the meat-and-potato boys in the mud belt are planting corn.\nKansas 41, Iowa St. 23\nNo. 3 Missouri vs. No. 2 Kansas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atrakcija.info/?p=2035", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2V2OREFZ7N4B5YVNBBWEYUDWAJSBXDGF", "length": 2526, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "atrakcija.info", "title": "Three Helpful Resources For Making A Hotel Reservation | Holidays and travel", "raw_content": "Three Helpful Resources For Making A Hotel Reservation\nA quality hotel at a good price is the objective when you\u2019re making reservations at a hotel. Because many people aren\u2019t sure where to look for the best hotel, they often end up choosing a chain of hotels that they have never heard of. While there is nothing wrong with this, simply digging a little deeper can often lead you to the perfect hotel. Picking a hotel can be simpler when you use the following strategies.\nWhen considering hotel reservations, the price and availability of rooms will depend heavily on when you plan to travel. Be sure that if you are going somewhere that is very popular that you book your hotel room well in advance. You also have to make sure that there isn\u2019t some special event going on that might cause a shortage of hotel rooms for the time you\u2019ll be traveling. If your travel arrangements are flexible, you can save money by planning your stay at a time that isn\u2019t very popular. If you go to hotels quite often, you can ask the hotel to issue one of their credit cards or make use of the rewards program that is being offered by your current credit card company. Just like you can collect miles that can be applied to airfare, you can use reward points that can be applied to hotel reservations. You can decrease your future hotel bill every time that you use your credit card and collect points. If you accumulate a certain amount of points, you might be able to get a free hotel night on occasion. This is a way for people who travel frequently can save money.\nThe majority of travelers won\u2019t try and negotiate a deal because they believe them to be fixed and unchangable. Hotel prices are not often set in stone, in fact they fluctuate with the seasons. You can get a better rate for this reason simply by asking the hotel for it. Most hotels will offer a better room for hte same price or a better deal on a room if you simply ask them for it. Even when the hotel is desperate they may not want to negotiate with you but many still will just to avoid having empty rooms.\nPresently, there are plenty of ways to make hotel reservations.\nWhen you decide to travel, make sure you research all ads before you reserve the first hotel room that you see advertised. Plenty of times you can get better deals if you compare ads. In addition, you must do things based upon the type of hotel you like and the amount of money you want to pay for it. Be patient and remember to abide by these guidelines when you make your next hotel reservations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 2679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://austin.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/12-28-15-top-real-estate-stories-of-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRTQKOJC5DS33JZWYUXJD6L6SWHANNKH", "length": 3377, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "austin.culturemap.com", "title": "The 10 hottest Austin real estate stories of the year - CultureMap Austin", "raw_content": "Austin Proper Sneak Peek\nSneak peek inside new Austin hotel and residences from all-star team\nWest Lake Wonderland\nGet a load of the stunning views from this luxurious West Lake estate\nThe 10 hottest Austin real estate stories of the year\nHGTV gave away a \"Smart Home\" in Zilker Park to one lucky contest winner. Photo courtesy of HGTV Smart Home\nThe St. Elmo Public Market is a new retail and business hub planned for South Austin. Rendering courtesy of Andersson-Wise Architects\nDel Valle is one of the hottest neighborhoods to buy in Austin. Photo courtesy of GoodLife Realty\nRentCaf\u00e9 created side-by-side comparisons of Austin's skyline in 2007 and 2014. Wikimedia Commons\nEditor's note: Our top 10 real estate stories of 2015 represent the best and worst of the Austin market. From the Smart Home in Zilker to reports of high taxes and overvalued homes, here are the biggest real estate stories of the year.\n1. Sneak peek at the HGTV Smart Home in Zilker Park. Each year, HGTV builds and furnishes a Smart Home to be given away to a lucky sweepstakes winner. Last year, HGTV gave away a charming, high-tech home in Nashville. This year, it was a 2,300-square-foot house in the Zilker neighborhood.\n2. Austin declared the best housing market to invest in 2015. Forbes declared five of its 20 \u201cbest buy cities,\u201d i.e., where to invest in housing in 2015, are in Texas, including Austin at No. 1. In fact, all five Lone Star locales were in the top 10.\n3. The nine hottest neighborhoods to buy in Austin. We got the inside scoop from local real estate experts on where to buy in Austin.\n4. HGTV Smart Home in Zilker Park neighborhood will soon be for sale. In July, HGTV announced the winner of its Smart Home sweepstakes, which included the fully furnished home, $100,000, and a 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Isabel Villarreal of Harlingen, Texas was the lucky winner, but she decided to sell the impeccable Austin home.\n5. Surprising Central Texas town has the hottest real estate market in U.S. for 2015. In the spring, experts said Waco was slated to have the hottest market in the country, followed by Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.\n6. Austin declared the most overvalued housing market in America, but is it a bubble? According to Forbes, Austin had the most overvalued housing market in the U.S. this year. The five most overvalued markets were determined by Fitch, who weighed home price trends against economic fundamentals of each market.\n7. Developers reveal plan for Austin's new and massive public market space. South Austin is getting its own Pike Place come 2018. Saint Elmo Public Market is a mixed-use development that centers around a massive indoor-outdoor marketplace.\n8. See how dramatically Austin's skyline has changed since 2007. To help visualize Austin's massive real estate boom, the folks at RentCaf\u00e9 created nifty time-lapse sliders from Google Images to compare the vertical growth in Austin from 2007 to 2014.\n9. Property taxes in Texas are higher than almost anywhere in the U.S. While every homeowner across the country is subject to real estate taxes, Texans owe a lot more than most Americans, according to a study from WalletHub.\n10. Why Austin is one of the worst places in America to own a home. It's one of the best real estate markets for investors, but a fall 2015 report boldly stated that Austin is one of the worst places to own a home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 6975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://awa2018.concurrences.com/articles-awards/business-articles-awards/article/vertical-restraints-evolution-from-per-se-to-rule-of-reason-analysis", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HFNFWY7EFJ3HZ3EVLHN5NK3FWBDBKFFI", "length": 2027, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "awa2018.concurrences.com", "title": "Vertical Restraints: Evolution from Per Se to Rule of Reason Analysis - Antitrust Writing Awards 2018", "raw_content": "Alleged violations of the antitrust laws are typically analyzed in one of two ways: per se illegality or the \u201crule of reason.\u201d When a court applies per se treatment, it does not consider the reasonableness of the conduct or arguments about procompetitive effects. The rule of reason, however, requires consideration of the circumstances surrounding the restraint, including the effects of the restraint in the particular case and any procompetitive benefits.\nWhile the universe of conduct to which per se treatment is applied has narrowed in recent years, courts historically condemned a relatively broad array of conduct as per se unlawful, including various types of vertical restraints. For plaintiffs, this meant that if a violation could be categorized as per se unlawful, the case was easy to bring. Antitrust counselors would advise clients to avoid these categories of conduct but would worry much less about conduct that was likely to be analyzed under the rule of reason.\nOver time, the Supreme Court has pulled back on what it considers to be per se unlawful violations, removing several broad categories such as maximum resale price maintenance and minimum resale price maintenance. The Court has made clear that per se treatment is reserved for those cases where the courts have sufficient experience with the conduct at issue to determine that it almost always results in competitive harm, and has discouraged lower courts from expanding per se treatment to new categories. This means that counselors and litigators need to be well versed in the types of evidence and considerations that will ultimately affect the outcome of a rule of reason case. Vertical restraints in particular have been almost entirely removed from the realm of per se treatment, yet they are often investigated and challenged in court. Companies need to be aware of the antitrust risk they face when using vertical restraints such as resale price requirements, exclusivity, anti-steering provisions, loyalty discounts, tying, and the like.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://azzatawfik.com/Mortgage_info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:20Z", "digest": "sha1:F533I7KBYMQYQS6OMOYVFHST5L2RV26I", "length": 183, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "azzatawfik.com", "title": "Mortgage information and tips", "raw_content": "I would be happy to refer you to some very good mortgage contacts I have in Bourbonnais, or to help you in any other way I can to secure the best possible rate for your home purchase.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://babyglowla.com/2016/04/page/2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5IM4K57QHGA6JY3RKYHHN5HDWD77E2EM", "length": 362, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "babyglowla.com", "title": "April, 2016 | Baby Glow La - Part 2", "raw_content": "Interior designs are important in shaping the feel of a home. People have used various styles of interior planning to\u2026\nCarpet is really a large investment and really should be correctly looked after to maximise its lifespan. To make sure\u2026\nGenerally, installing a brand new appliance involves not only plugging the system into a wall outlet. Think about a couple\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-evolution-controversy/273761", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WH5XQDBEYY7UUQGTHE62UPGAPVH6WVHK", "length": 7311, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "bakerpublishinggroup.com", "title": "The Evolution Controversy | Baker Publishing Group", "raw_content": "The Evolution Controversy\nA Survey of Competing Theories\nby: Thomas B. Fowler, Daniel Kuebler\n\"The authors provide an invaluable service by clearing away many of the misrepresentations. . . . [They have] largely succeeded in their quest to present all of the views as objectively as possible.\"--Tim Challies, American Theological Inquiry\nMost books on the topic of evolution are one dimensional, attempting to sway readers to join a particular camp. Thomas Fowler and Daniel Kuebler, however, take a different approach to the subject in The Evolution Controversy. Instead of advocating a particular position, they present various sides of the debate about evolution. Not only do they trace evolution's development from the ancient Greeks to the present but they also summarize and critique four leading schools of thought: Neo-Darwinism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Meta-Darwinism. To help readers understand, learn, and master the content, the authors provide numerous diagrams, tables, and comparison charts. In addition, a technical glossary covers terms from abiogenesis to vestigial structures, and a helpful bibliography includes books, articles, Web sites, and organizations for further research.\nThis in-depth, balanced primer will appeal to professors, students, and general readers, and it will find its niche in biology, philosophy, and theology courses as well as interdisciplinary classes on science and religion.\n\"The Evolution Controversy takes a dispassionate, scrupulously honest look at the main schools of thought on the riveting question of how life originated. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the schools' strengths and weaknesses.\"--Michael J. Behe, professor of biological sciences, Lehigh University, and author of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism\nThomas B. Fowler\nThomas B. Fowler (ScD, George Washington University) is senior principal engineer\u00c2 at the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications at Noblis, formerly known as Mitretek Systems, a not-for-profit consulting firm working in the public...\nContinue reading about Thomas B. Fowler\nDaniel Kuebler\nDaniel Kuebler (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is assistant professor of biology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. He has written a number of articles for scientific journals as well as for the National Catholic...\nContinue reading about Daniel Kuebler\n\"What we have here are two sound Catholic thinkers with the credentials necessary to treat the complex topic they have chosen. . . . With respect to most past discussions of evolution, The Evolution Controversy is a critical missing link. The authors demonstrate a masterful command of both scientific evidence and legitimate inference; they have no particular axe to grind; and they are able to explain the strengths and weaknesses of the various schools of thought with a dispassionate clarity which serves three vital purposes. First, it is a tour de force of education about origins theory. Second, it gives a wonderful example to all sides of how legitimate scientific inquiry ought to proceed. Third, it provides a much-needed model for teachers of biology who would like to do a more even-handed and, in fact, better job of presenting the science of origins. . . . Because Fowler and Kuebler are able to group their technical information around the precise points at issue in each theory, the reader is never lost in the details; rather he finds himself able to go far more deeply into the topic than before. The Evolution Controversy enables non-specialists, perhaps for the very first time, to gain a fascinating education.\"--Jeff Mirus, catholicculture.org\n\"The authors provide an invaluable service by clearing away many of the misrepresentations. . . . The authors have done the proponents of each school a service by forcing them, if necessary, to move beyond rhetoric and deal with the arguments. Many proponents of each school already acknowledge the weaknesses in their arguments that Fowler and Kuebler point out. This book can only help them as they seek either to strengthen those arguments or replace them with stronger ones. . . . The authors largely succeeded in their quest to present all of the views as objectively as possible. . . . Since the stated purpose of this volume is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the four major schools in regard to their handling of the common observational data available to all, it succeeds rather well in reaching that goal.\"--Keith Mathison, ligonier.org\n\"The book is intended for those who are aware of the scientific controversies swirling about the theory of evolution and who seek an objective reference that will help them critically evaluate the myriad articles and books on the subject that appear every year. The book equips readers, whether they are students, church leaders, or the general public, with the background necessary to read and analyze other books and articles and come to their own informed conclusions. The broad range of information presented is of value in helping readers discern which schools have made a viable scientific base for their position. Fowler and Kuebler fully explore the subject, putting all important issues on the table.\"--SirReadaLot.org\n\"[The authors] carefully explain what each school of thought does and does not teach. . . . Since it is impossible to evaluate an idea if that idea is not accurately understood, the authors provide an invaluable service by clearing away many of the misrepresentations. . . . The authors have done the proponents of each school a service by forcing them, if necessary, to move beyond rhetoric and deal with the arguments. . . . The authors largely succeeded in their quest to present all of the views as objectively as possible. . . . Since the stated purpose of this volume is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the four major schools in regard to their handling of the common observational data available to all, it succeeds rather well in reaching that goal.\"--Tim Challies, American Theological Inquiry\n\"A good place to start. . . . [This book] is a true overview of the issues of the evolution controversy.\"--Mark M. Wilkins, St. Anthony Messenger\n\"One might rightly be skeptical of the authors' claim to present without bias the strong and weak points of Neo-Darwinism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Meta-Darwinism, as most who venture to evaluate the claims of biological evolution do so from emotionally held religious/philosophical positions. Yet, [they] are fairly successful. . . . This book contains many helpful summarizing charts, a glossary and an extensive bibliography.\"--Duane Voskuil, Religious Studies Review\n\"One of the book's strengths is that it uses tables and illustrations to help the reader understand the varying positions and their strengths and weaknesses, then challenges the claims made by each perspective. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the debates that center on evolution, both religious and otherwise; it contains a wealth of information on the major perspectives and their respective arguments in one volume. It also serves as a good starting point for further study on the subject.\"--Jeffrey G. Betcher, Ethics & Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 7870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://barkhamstedhistory.org.magenta.mysitehosted.com/blogs/diary/archive/tags/Art/default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KN56LSDRVIKKAW6AYQOCMP6LI5JTVVSB", "length": 316, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "barkhamstedhistory.org.magenta.mysitehosted.com", "title": "Barkhamsted Historical Society Art - Town Diary", "raw_content": "Town Diary - December 2001 Those residents and travelers passing through Pleasant Valley are probably very familiar with the three large paintings that are displayed here each year during the holiday season. These paintings are nativity scenes and have...\nPosted Dec 19 2001, 10:04 AM by Paul with | with no comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 2362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beetfoundation.com/words/a/ahimaaz.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6WNMIEAHSLRGF2IIFN4XWO7L2U6IX6V", "length": 690, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "beetfoundation.com", "title": "Home Page of The Beet Foundation", "raw_content": "brother of anger = irascible. (1.) The father Ahinoam, the wife\nof Saul (1 Sam. 14:50).\n(2.) The son and successor of Zadok in the office of high\npriest (1 Chr. 6:8, 53). On the occasion of the revolt of\nAbsalom he remained faithful to David, and was of service to him\nin conveying to him tidings of the proceedings of Absalom in\nJerusalem (2 Sam. 15:24-37; 17:15-21). He was swift of foot, and\nwas the first to carry to David tidings of the defeat of\nAbsalom, although he refrained, from delicacy of feeling, from\ntelling him of his death (2 Sam. 18:19-33).\nAhimaaz, a brother of the council", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beetifulbookcovers.com/cover/roses-and-crosses/?add_to_wishlist=66629", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:28Z", "digest": "sha1:K47ZRFHAKYRY662DZZRIUF5TPFCNXDCZ", "length": 525, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "beetifulbookcovers.com", "title": "Roses and Crosses - Fantasy Book Cover For Sale", "raw_content": "The Tenth Colony $99.00 $89.00\nThis science fiction book cover shows a city in the distance on a different planet. Behind the city we see a large planet or moon that\u2019s located on the left side of the cover.\nMutual Attraction $99.00 $89.00\nSpace Battalion $99.00 $89.00\nThis science fiction book cover shows a city in the distance on a different planet. Behind the city we see a large planet or moon that\u2019s located on the right side of the cover.\n* Related to the The Tenth Colony Book Cover and can serve a sequel book cover.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 8721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://benchbartending.ca/kristatorres/miss-illinois-says-her-cancer-was-likely-caused-by-gel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:54Z", "digest": "sha1:5BIH2VNBDGOIGCHQPV46VPPVPR4OTPKJ", "length": 3542, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "benchbartending.ca", "title": "Miss Illinois Is Raising Awareness After UV Gel Manicures Likely Gave Her Skin Cancer At 18 Years Old", "raw_content": "Miss Illinois Got Cancer At 18 Years Old And Is Speaking Out Against UV Manicures\nKarolina Jasko was diagnosed with melanoma when she was a senior in high school.\nWhen Karolina Jasko became Miss Illinois last year, no one really knew how much she had been through.\nInstagram: @karolinajasko\nIn 2016, at only 18 years old, Karolina was diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. She was a senior in high school.\nKarolina told BuzzFeed that she and her nail tech saw a black vertical line on her right thumbnail when she was in the process of taking off her old acrylic nail set to get a new one.\nKarolina Jasko / Via BuzzFeed\nKarolina said she started getting her nails done when she was a freshman in high school. \"I would get acrylics put on once or twice every other month.\"\nGoing into surgery, there was a possibility Karolina's thumb would have to be amputated because the doctors were not sure how deep the cancer was. \"Luckily, they were able to just remove my whole nail matrix. I don't have a nail on that thumb and never will, due to them removing the matrix,\" said Karolina.\nKarolina Jasko / BuzzFeed\n\"I experienced a lot of different feelings when I got my diagnosis. I was scared, but also confused. I didn't think that this could happen to me, so I was in a little bit of shock. I'm very thankful for my doctors and my early diagnosis because this could have been a lot worse, so I feel lucky.\"\nKarolina's melanoma was likely genetic, however, doctors told her the UV rays from the gel manicures could have brought the cancer out sooner.\nBefore becoming Miss Illinois, Karolina said she was incredibly self conscious of her scars. \"I was embarrassed because I thought people noticed them and it was something to be ashamed of, especially the thumb. I wore a bandaid every time I was in public for the first year after it healed because of how scared I was of someone asking me or being grossed out by it.\"\nKarolina has scars on her groin, chest, back and arm. She had to get a skin graft from her groin twice to put on top of her thumb, and her chest scars are from her biopsy. As precautionary measures, doctors have also removed a handful of spots on her back, chest, and arm.\n\"Once I started to feel more comfortable in my role as Miss Illinois, and from speaking to my directors and everyone involved in my life, I realized I was granted an incredible opportunity,\" said Karolina. She has been using her voice to spread awareness about the dangers of UV rays and melanoma.\nKarolina added, \"I also wanted to show girls that they need to be confident in their own skin and with their imperfections. I was able to become Miss Illinois and compete on the Miss USA stage with mine. Everyone is beautiful in their own way and they need to embrace that and feel comfortable in their skin. I'm still learning to do so, but I've come a long way.\"\nKarolina said she has two sets of advice to young girls. \"Remember to love yourself. Whether you have a scar from an accident or a surgery, or even a birthmark you don't like, no matter what you feel uncomfortable and insecure about... you don't need to. You are beautiful in your own way, everyone is. Our \"imperfections\" are what make us unique and what make us beautiful.\" She added, \"Please consider going to the dermatologist once a year, just to be safe and make sure you're alright. We get lots of sun exposure; make sure you're protecting yourself by wearing sunscreen. Try to avoid tanning beds and UV rays at the nail salon as much as you can. Just take care of yourself.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bernierlawoffice.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OF37Q3RVGLCAWEWQDASZPEER66UOZBPL", "length": 300, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "bernierlawoffice.com", "title": "Law Office of Daniel J. Bernier, LLC", "raw_content": "Law Office of Daniel J. Bernier, LLC\nThe Law Office of Daniel J. Bernier, LLC.\nWe're located in Suite 304 of the historic Professional Building in Downtown Waterville, Maine.\nMonday through Friday 8-4:30.\nThe Professional Building, 179 Main Street, Waterville\nDan Bernier's areas of practice include:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2014/09/loved-it.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WJSZHK2MKCQUN5AYFQGA6FXKUZUCZZAS", "length": 769, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com", "title": "bibliographic manifestations: Loved it!", "raw_content": "The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer\nI read this in November 2008 and wrote this review at the time: Wow! This is an amazing novel. I read it in a single evening and was very impressed. The story is a page-turner, the writing is beautiful, and the characters are strange and familiar at the same time. There are (of course) lots of reflections on marriage, but also on youth, and war, and courage, and race, and the Rosenbergs, and love, and how a house is a witness to our life.\n\u201cWe think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.\u201d\nThis is my contribution to the September Books You Loved Link Up.\nLabels: Andrew Sean Greer, Loved it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 13943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bigislandnow.com/2018/12/11/operators-of-boat-charged-with-trafficking-smuggling-shark-fins/?print", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6HORLDXRJE6ME3WL2E5V3MVSD6FCRCJJ", "length": 6303, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "bigislandnow.com", "title": "Japanese Fishing Boat Owner Charged With Smuggling Shark Fins | Big Island Now", "raw_content": "December 11, 2018, 5:36 PM HST (Updated December 12, 2018, 7:29 AM)\nThe owner and officers of a Japanese-flagged fishing vessel were charged in federal court on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, with aiding and abetting the trafficking and smuggling of 962 shark fins into and out of Hawai\u2018i on Nov. 7, 2018.\nAccording to court documents and information presented in court, the Japanese-flagged fishing vessel, M.V. Kyoshin Maru No. 20, engaged in longline tuna fishing in the southern Pacific Ocean for approximately one year. The officers were Japanese nationals, and the fishermen were Indonesian nationals. During the voyage, the fishermen harvested fins from approximately 300 sharks, in some instances while the sharks were stunned but still alive, and discarded the finless carcasses into the ocean, all under the supervision of the Captain, and at the direction of the Fishing Master and First Engineer. The Captain, Fishing Master, First Engineer, and many of the Indonesian fishermen all kept shark fins to take home with them.\nOn or about Nov. 6, 2018, the Kyoshin Maru traveled to a location near Honolulu, Hawai\u2018i, but more than 12 miles from shore, where it met a water taxi that had been arranged by a Vessel Agent from a local marine navigation corporation. The Indonesian fishermen disembarked the Kyoshin Maru and boarded the water taxi. The Kyoshin Maru then left for Japan with the Captain, Fishing Master, and First Engineer onboard, still in possession of shark fins. Meanwhile, the Indonesian fishermen traveled to Pier 36, where they legally entered the United States for the purpose of traveling in the custody of the Vessel Agent to Honolulu International Airport, in order to board previously-ticketed flights to Indonesia.\nDuring routine screening, officers with the Transportation Security Administration discovered shark fins in checked luggage. Upon discovering the shark fins, TSA immediately notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which determined the checked luggage belonged to 10 of the Indonesian fishermen and included approximately 190 pounds of shark fins, which is worth as much as $57,850 on the black market.\nSome of the shark fins were from oceanic whitetip sharks, which are listed as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act and are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), an international convention with over 180 parties, including the United States, Japan and Indonesia. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the oceanic white tip shark has declined by approximately 80-95% across the Pacific Ocean since the mid-1990s. Other fins were from silky sharks and bigeye thresher sharks, which are also protected under the CITES Convention.\nThe 10 Indonesian fishermen were subsequently charged in a criminal complaint in United States v. Abdurahman, et. al., Mag No. 18-01253 (D. Haw. 2018), and are currently released on pretrial supervision. The criminal complaint filed today brings charges against five additional defendants: Hamada Suisan Co., Ltd, the Japanese business that owned and operated the vessel; JF Zengyoren, a Japanese fishing cooperative to which the vessel belonged; Hiroyuki Kasagami, the Captain of the vessel; Toshiyuki Komatsu, the Fishing Master of the vessel; and Hiroshi Chiba, the vessel\u2019s First Engineer. The three Japanese nationals charged were not arrested because they never entered the United States. They remain at large, presumably in Japan.\nThe charges filed Tuesday include four counts of aiding and abetting violations of the Lacey Act, which each carry a maximum term of five years imprisonment; three counts of aiding and abetting the Smuggling of Goods Into the United States, which each carry a maximum term of 20 years imprisonment; and four counts of aiding and abetting the attempted Smuggling of Goods From the United States, which each carry a maximum term of 10 years imprisonment. The two corporate defendants each face a maximum fine of $500,000 per count, or $5.5 million. The three individual defendants each face a maximum fine of $250,000 per count, or $2.75 million. The charges in the criminal complaint are merely allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. If the defendants are ultimately convicted of any offense, the sentencing will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.\nIn announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawai\u2018i Kenji M. Price stated: \u201cShark finning is unlawful and takes a very real toll on our precious ocean ecosystem. My office is committed to combatting this practice by prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law anyone found to be trafficking in shark fins.\u201d\nUnited States laws prohibit, within U.S. jurisdiction: the removal of any fins of any shark at sea; the possession of such fins aboard a fishing vessel that are not attached to the corresponding carcass; and the transfer or landing of any such detached fin. Some of these laws implement U.S. obligations under international conventions. In addition, the laws of the State of Hawai\u2018i make it unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute shark fins. Due in part to the over-harvest of sharks, some species of shark\u2014including three species found among the fins at issue in this case\u2014are protected under the CITES Convention.\nThis case is being investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, with assistance from: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Law Enforcement; Homeland Security Investigations; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; and the U.S. Coast Guard. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc A. Wallenstein, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Hawai\u2018i, and Senior Counsel for Wildlife Programs Elinor Colbourn, Environmental Crimes Section, U.S. Department of Justice. The prosecution team is coordinating with the U.S. Department of State on this matter.\nYamamoto Named New Director of Public Works\nEight Saved From Sinking Boat NE of Big Island\nMeth Traffickers Shipped Drugs to Hawai\u2018i Disguised as Aztec Objects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 159.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://biz.newsbelow.co.uk/first-time-buyers-hit-10-year-high-as-buy-to-let-property-sales-fade-44766/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:6MXGPQMXSL4NK7IZPD7JR25GYV4AZB3H", "length": 713, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "biz.newsbelow.co.uk", "title": "First-time buyers hit 10-year high as buy-to-let property sales fade | The Guardian", "raw_content": "biz.newsbelow.co.uk biz Back The Guardian First-time buyers hit 10-year high as buy-to-let property sales fade\nFirst-time buyers hit 10-year high as buy-to-let property sales fade\nSales of first homes rise 7.4% in 2017 but property experts warn boom may already be waning The number of first-time buyers hit the highest level for a decade in 2017 while lending for buy-to-let has gone into retreat, according to official figures. A total of 365,000 buyers took ownership of their first home in 2017, an increase of 7.4% on the year before and the highest number since 2006, said UK Finance, the trade body for Britain\u2019s banks. Its data showed that the average first-time buyer was 30 and had an income of \u00a341,000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blackhammer.com/black-hammer-productions-helps-oprah-go-online", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:W7NHW2LNEEL5WB4C5XWUN5RK6GB36YXN", "length": 2584, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blackhammer.com", "title": "Black Hammer Productions Helps Oprah Go Online | Black Hammer Productions", "raw_content": "Black Hammer, a five-year-old Silicon Alley New Media developer, has been lauded in New York Magazine and other publications as one of the country's most creative and successful interactive agencies. Black Hammer designs and produces multi-media products, including websites, CD ROMs, web games and interactive kiosks. Of the \"Oprah Goes Online\" project, BHP founder and President Matthew Schlanger comments: \"We knew we were dealing with an icon, and that millions of people were going to come to this site with the special trust that Oprah has built up in her vast followers over many years. Since the target audience for Oprah Goes Online are web novices, we had to develop a user interface that would be enjoyable and easy to use even for the computer phobic.\" \"One of the innovative features of the site,\" Schlanger notes, \"is its use of layered navigation buttons on the homepage that reveal hidden hypertext links and images. We also created animated 'cyber guides' which lead the audience through about 20 lessons, each having its own cyber challenge and cyber diploma.\"\n\"Oxygen was pleased, which makes us happy,\" reports Marni Kotak, BHP Director of Business Development and Marketing. \"When you work around the clock, at breakneck speed, the final product better not only meet but exceed the client's high expectations, and also our own.\"\nIn addition to being selected by Oxygen for this prestigious assignment, Black Hammer Productions has done major websites for Thomas Publishing and Advanstar, and has developed a series of delightful interactive web games for General Mills, Showtime and Nickelodeon. BHP also has a strong hold on the children's CD ROM entertainment market through the company's development of the multiple award-winning Scholastic I Spy CD ROM series, and Simon and Schuster's CD ROM \"Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy\" by Vicky Iovine. Other noteworthy projects include the WNET Nature Series, including the award-winning edutainment CD ROM, \"Virtual Serengeti,\" and an interactive sales presentation, with Flash animation maps, photorealistic 3D models of expansion plans, an organization chart that incorporates videotaped interviews with executives, etc. to help the Pyramid Companies sell their multi-billion-dollar shopping complex. They have also created compelling educational interactive trade show exhibits for major pharmaceutical companies, etc. Their clients, many from the dot-com and entertainment industries, include WatchNetwork.com, the Wall Street Journal, the National Basketball Association, Globo Latino, Qualcomm and many others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 4736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.booksonfirst.com/2011/12/vassar-and-vampires.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BUM6OHSVEJOTLMJZ6VTV52XI5X6SZ73C", "length": 3060, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.booksonfirst.com", "title": "Books on First Blog: Vassar and Vampires", "raw_content": "Vassar and Vampires\nThere have been a lot of books with a glancing reference to Vassar. Vassar has a name -- a reputation -- that conjures up many conflicting images: the over-indulged snobby rich girl, the sophisticated lady, the frigid virgin, the butch lesbian, the slut, the eccentric but resourceful aunt, the hippie activist, the super-smart intellectual, the clueless blonde debutante, ...; the list goes on. Vassar's campus, too, is a showcase. It is an arboretum, literally. Each graduating class has either planted or chosen a tree as its class tree and today, there are about 230 different species of trees at Vassar. It has also been in the vanguard of architectural diversity. Many people deplore the Emma Hartman Noyes House, one of the ten residential halls at Vassar (not counting the Terrace Apartments and Town Houses and South Commons (which did not exist as student housing when I was enrolled)).\nDesigned by Eero Saarinen and built in 1958, it is actually our newest dormitory building, an airy steel, glass and concrete structure amongst rather traditional European brick housing, and it had been much maligned in my time. Some students thought it ugly. Some called it \"Annoys.\" The interior was more the butt of disparagement than the outside, not least was the colors (or lack thereof) and specially designed furniture. Inside, the walls separating rooms were thin and the floors were pre-fabricated poured concrete. As one can imagine, the hallways curved. Even though there was carpeting in parts of the building, like the hallways, sound bounced around a lot. (Thus, some called it \"Noyes-y.\") It was actually a pretty interesting building, inside and out, although I am not an architectural critic.\nThe entire Vassar campus had undergone major beautification and general updating of the facilities. When I visited in 2004, it was gorgeous, probably what it had looked like nearly forty years previously. But, I don't recall anyone saying there's now a fountain nor do I believe there was a statue of Emma Hartman Noyes (Vassar Class of 1880) for whom the building was named. Yet, here is Jennifer Rardin, a native of Illinois and graduate of Eastern Illinois University, whose relationship to Vassar I have yet to discover, in the first book of her Jaz Parks paranormal series, describing a fight between two vampires among the water lilies in the fountain pool in the \"court\" of Vassar's Noyes House in such details that I almost thought I had missed hearing about the communal lounge area being made into a courtyard and the \"pit\" (the sunken seating area in the middle of the communal area) had been converted and filled with water. Rardin must have suffered from or capitalized on the same rarefied ideas that many have about Vassar. I guess the Vassar legends live on, but I hope no starry-eyed high school senior will be visiting Vassar expecting a fountain in the middle of his dormitory (but then, again, we hope there aren't vampires milling about looking for one, either).\nLabels: Jennifer Rardin Jaz Parks, Vassar College", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 10925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.clearwaterschool.com/2009/02/caroling-concert-at-last.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KX2PYK3EC5RVT3TFGWI52BH24Y3OYOEM", "length": 1872, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.clearwaterschool.com", "title": "The Clearwater School: Caroling Concert At Last", "raw_content": "The Christmas Caroling Concert originally scheduled on December 18, 2008, was cancelled when snow closed the school that day and the next. Then Winter Break began.\nAll the carolers wanted to reschedule the concert in January, and we set a new concert date of January 15. Another student who hadn't rehearesed in the fall joined us, so we had a total of nine singers. Two singers were recovering from illness and a dental procedure, and arrived half an hour before the concert. Earlier in the day the seven singers at school had practiced again and again a wave bow that everyone wanted do to end the concert. The two late-arriving singers practiced the bow a few times with everyone before showtime.\nThe rescheduled concert was attended by a good-sized audience, and it was obvious how hard the singers had practiced and how much they enjoyed singing. With some consternation I watched and listened as, in between songs, singers announced to each other and the audience that something didn't work as well as they wanted it to. Then, I relaxed and realized how wonderful it was that instead of being nervous and stiff, every student felt comfortable and confident enough to talk so openly about mistakes. I did ask the performers to hold their comments until after the show--part of learning the ins and outs of performance.\nWe had so much fun and audience members were so enthusiastic that several singers and I have decided to select and rehearse a program of songs for a spring concert. Stay tuned for more information.\nThe video above is a sampling of songs from the concert. If there is enough interest, we can create and offer DVDs of the entire performance, with charming outtakes. For fundraising purposes, we would charge a fee for a DVD copy. All proceeds would go to Clearwater. Please let us know if you would like a full concert DVD.\nLabels: fundraising, Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.customtech.com.au/2014/04/smoothwall-reporting-updates.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:AB4BBY22ODBQG6WD7SDZ4FTPQJKJXPUB", "length": 1083, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.customtech.com.au", "title": "CustomTech Blog: Smoothwall Reporting Updates", "raw_content": "Smoothwall have been doing some reorganising of report templates over the last couple of months. Smoothwall have over 300 templates in the system, but research has shown that most customers only use a small number of these \u2014 and sometimes struggle to navigate through the system to find them!\nSo, to answer these concerns, Smoothwall have completely reorganised the report templates into a maximum one-level deep structure with folder names that relate to the task in hand. Initial beta tests on the new structure have been highly complimentary. This new structure should be available in a couple of months, and we look forward to your feedback.\nPortal Updates ...and while we're on the subject of reporting, Smoothwall have also revamped the User Portal to include the new report templates. For those that don't use the User Portal: it's a very simple web page for non-technical users, allowing them to run reports, ban users and use the Policy Test Tool. The reporting enhancements through the User Portal are designed to allow authorised members of staff to run their own reports.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.danielwilson.me.uk/2013/09/postdoctoral-scientist-in-statistical.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:02Z", "digest": "sha1:L6FPS23USUBI4W2HS2Q5USH4KBVCDCY4", "length": 2856, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.danielwilson.me.uk", "title": "Daniel Wilson's Blog: Postdoctoral Position in Statistical Genomics", "raw_content": "Postdoctoral Position in Statistical Genomics\nThe position of Postdoctoral Scientist is available in my group to lead research on the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society funded project Statistical Methods for Whole Genome Phenotype Mapping in Bacterial Populations.\nBacteria cause disease throughout the world. Different strains vary in disease severity, but the genetic variants responsible remain largely undiscovered. Recent breakthroughs in whole genome sequencing provide new opportunities for discovery, but the lack of statistical analysis tools tailored to the special structure of bacterial populations presents a roadblock. The goal of the project is to develop an analysis framework for mapping genes underlying naturally variable traits in bacterial populations. Focusing on the hospital-associated pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile, we will investigate the role of bacterial variants on disease severity.\nThe role of the Postdoctoral Scientist is to develop novel statistical methods for analysing genotype-phenotype associations in bacteria at the whole genome level. The successful candidate will write software implementing the statistical methods and apply them to design and carry out investigations into the genetic basis of virulence in natural populations of bacterial pathogens. The ideal candidate would be a recently graduating PhD student with experience of statistical genetics and computer programming, with evidence of publicly released software. Experience of population genetics or microbiology would be advantageous but is not essential.\nThe post is available immediately, and is available for up to 3 years in the first instance. For more details on this position, including salary, job description, selection criteria and how to apply, please see the University of Oxford recruitment page.\nApplications for this vacancy are to be made online. The closing date is 12.00 noon on Monday 4 November 2013. Applicants will be asked to upload a CV and a supporting statement as part of the online application. For informal enquiries, please email me. More information about the group's research is available here.\nLabels: Clostridium difficile, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, Recruitment, Staphylococcus aureus, Virulogenomics\nThis position is funded by a grant of the \u201cR\u00e9gion Bretagne\u201d and is open to non French scientists or French scientists who spent at least 12 months abroad in the . feng shui\nThe comments could be as specific as how line drives are being hit straight at the third baseman, less specific by mentioning BABIP, or even less specific by indicating how performance marks in general are not up to peak career marks. What I want to comment on is the conversation right in the middle: BABIP. feng shui master\nThanks for the offer, but I'm in the field of shotgun protein sequencing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 7865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.flickr.net/2015/04/24/three-mothers-transform-a-photographers-prejudices/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5YSBXVANWF5BCLALN2FGG3QGOFGZZ6PO", "length": 4356, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blog.flickr.net", "title": "Three mothers transform a photographer\u2019s prejudices | Flickr Blog", "raw_content": "Three mothers transform a photographer\u2019s prejudices\nBefore embarking on her series Balancing Acts, photographer Lucy Gray had little respect for ballet as a career. \u201cMy perception of ballerinas, as a feminist, was that they were starving themselves for their job, that they were doing what they did for a man that was telling them what to do, that they didn\u2019t want to grow up,\u201d she says. \u201cBut,\u201d she adds, \u201cas a photographer, your job is to hunt down your prejudices and get rid of them.\u201d\nLucy, a former writer for Elle magazine, had always admired working mothers \u2014 her own mother worked while raising her and her four siblings. She was looking for an opportunity to photograph a series about their struggles and triumphs when, in 2000, she was at the grocery store with her 3-year-old son and met a striking woman with a newborn. \u201cWe met this extraordinary-looking woman who was carrying her child,\u201d she recalls. \u201cShe looked sort of ghostly because she was so pale and so thin. But she was extremely beautiful.\u201d\nWhen Lucy found out the woman was Katita Waldo, a prima ballerina at the prestigious San Francisco Ballet, she instantly knew she wanted to photograph her. Katita introduced her to two other ballerinas who had just become mothers, Tina LeBlanc and Kristin Long, and she began photographing their careers and personal lives for what ultimately became the Balancing Acts series. Little did she know that the project would end up spanning 15 years.\nLucy\u2019s negative perception of ballerinas began to unravel as she encountered the high stakes of their decisions to have children. Since most ballerinas choose a career in dance by age 11 and begin dancing professionally shortly thereafter, they have little opportunity to develop other job skills. With the physical demands of both dance and childbirth, professional ballerinas who decide to have children are taking a major risk if their bodies are unable to quickly recover after birth \u2014 their livelihood is on the line. This risk, coupled with the demanding and stressful nature of professional dance, means it is both rare and quite brave for ballerinas to have children.\nThe three ballerinas in Balancing Acts were at the top of their field when they chose to get pregnant, and motherhood was not easy. One battled crippling stage fright, another\u2019s marriage fell apart. Each faced not only the stresses common to motherhood, but also the constant pressure to prove themselves in the highly competitive world of dance. Past achievements were no guarantee of getting cast in upcoming shows, so long hours of practice and attempting to capture and hold the attention of the ballet\u2019s artistic director were a constant feature of their lives. Yet, instead of faltering, they succeeded. \u201cAfter they had children, they all got to be better dancers, which was the biggest surprise for me,\u201d she says.\nLucy\u2019s front row seat to the challenges, joys, and triumphs of the three mothers transformed her view of ballerinas and ballet. \u201cI really admire them. I really believe in what they\u2019ve done,\u201d she says. \u201cThey taught me so much about ballet. I think it\u2019s a great career now; I never would have imagined that!\u201d\nLucy compiled their stories and her photographs in her first book, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, published in 2015 by Princeton Architectural Press. \u201cI wanted to make an appropriate tribute to them,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s the gift I could give them, which they deserve.\u201d\nHaving had her own preconceptions upended in the process of creating Balancing Acts, Lucy hopes readers of the book will take away that \u201cbeing a working mother, having a job, can make you a better mother; and being a mother can make you better at your occupation.\u201d\n\u201cBut,\u201d she adds, \u201cI also hope people take away the pleasure, the joy in these women\u2019s experience.\u201d\nPhotos from Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers by Lucy Gray, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2015.\nVisit Lucy\u2019s Photostream to view more of her work.\nPrevious episode: Celebrity Portraits Have a Surprising Twist\nTwitter Tuesday: Rain\nDon\u2019t dread the downpour but savor the moment and each little droplet! Scan your archives, make your choice, and tweet it to @Flickr, adding #TwitterTuesday [\u2026]\nFlickr Friday: The Unexpected Detail selection\nThe theme for last week\u2019s #FlickrFriday was #UnexpectedDetail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 6245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.invitationbox.com/2013/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RP7OSVRENZ534KOJD2EITQM2ZFTYH2ZT", "length": 3967, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "blog.invitationbox.com", "title": "2013 January | Trendy News About Birthday, Wedding, and Party Invitations", "raw_content": "The Special Way He Proposed\nThe best feeling is when you look at him and he is already staring\u2026 It\u2019s wedding season again! With Valentine\u2019s Day just a few weeks away, I felt it appropriate to feature special engagements in today\u2019s blog. The day he proposes is one of the days we all dream of when we are little girls, [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"The Special Way He Proposed\"\nCelebrating the Mom-to-bee\nHave you heard the buzz? Spring is just around the corner, which means now is the perfect time to start planning your spring baby shower! One of my favorite spring shower invitations has to be the mom-to-bee baby shower invitation here to the left! It\u2019s chic, stylish, modern and oh-so-appropriate for a spring shower. And [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Celebrating the Mom-to-bee\"\nA Chanel Bridal Shower\n\u201cDress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman\u201d \u2013 Coco Chanel Coco Chanel is the French fashion designer that paved the way for women\u2019s fashion and she gave women a sense of individuality in the world at a time when they needed it most. It\u2019s this strong-willed, confident and [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"A Chanel Bridal Shower\"\nSassy & Chic \u2013 NEW Doc Milo Invitations\nWe\u2019re always super excited when our vendor, Doc Milo, comes out with a brand new collection of party invitations. Just in time for wedding, baby and party season, Doc Milo has introduced a plethora of new designs to their baby, bridal and celebration collections. Below you\u2019ll find just a small preview of the new cards [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Sassy & Chic \u2013 NEW Doc Milo Invitations\"\nIf there\u2019s one thing kids love to do, it\u2019s play \u2018grown-ups\u2019, where they get to stay up late, eat cookies in bed and watch R rated movies, (little do they know we secretly wish we were kids again)! Let your child experience the spa just like you do on occasion, as they get spoiled and [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Kids Spa Parties\"\nAre you ready for some football? There are only two more playoff games left in the NFL season, which will determine who will be going to Super Bowl XLVII on February 3rd. Will it be the New England Patriots? The Baltimore Ravens? The San Francisco 49ers? Or the Atlanta Falcons? My prediction is that the [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Super Bowl Party Ideas\"\nSweet Treats for Valentine\u2019s Day\nWhat\u2019s your favorite Valentine\u2019s Day treat? I know that each year I look forward to seeing those conversation hearts on the store shelves, and I can\u2019t wait to make heart shaped sugar cookies and decorate them with icing and sprinkles with the kids. Do you have a V-Day staple, like a Russel Stovers red cellophane candy-filled heart [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Sweet Treats for Valentine\u2019s Day\"\nAnti-Valentine\u2019s Day Party Ideas\n\u201c\u2026\u2019til you put me down.\u201d are the lyrics Taylor Swift tweeted after her return from the British Virgin Islands after the holidays, and the word is out\u2026Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have reportedly broken up! So it looks like she\u2019ll be celebrating Valentine\u2019s Day single this year, along with the other singles around the world. [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"Anti-Valentine\u2019s Day Party Ideas\"\n2013\u2019s Color of the Year \u2013 EMERALD\nPublished January 9, 2013 / by iboxblog / Leave a Comment\nIt\u2019s been announced\u2026Pantone has announced their 2013 color of the year, which is EMERALD!! Each year we look forward to Pantone\u2019s announcement of the color of the year, and emerald was a color which didn\u2019t so much surprise me as being a popular color for fashion in 2013, however I was surprised that it was [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"2013\u2019s Color of the Year \u2013 EMERALD\"\nThe Color of LOVE \u2013 2013 Wedding Colors\nRed is most typically associated with the word Love, which I can only imagine comes from our association of love with Valentine\u2019s Day \u2013 but what color expresses your love for one another? If you\u2019re recently engaged, now is the time to choose your wedding colors, as you enter into the world of wedding planning, [\u2026]\nContinue reading \"The Color of LOVE \u2013 2013 Wedding Colors\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.mcohen.me/2011/01/01/links-for-2011-01-01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:23Z", "digest": "sha1:LQOMGB33UWNWERKQN5H6PGFZWGSDWDJE", "length": 638, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blog.mcohen.me", "title": "Links for 2011-01-01 | /dev/random", "raw_content": "A profile of a few families who chose to cross the border and a view of agricultural work in America for migrant laborers. | MetaFilter \u2013\nMac and iPhone-friendly alternatives to Delicious \u2013\nMac OS X Debugging Magic \u2013 Mac OS X contains a number of 'secret' debugging facilities, including environment variables, preferences, routines callable from GDB, and so on. This technotes describes these facilities. If you're developing for Mac OS X, you should look through this list to see if you're missing out on something that will make your life easier.\nThis entry was posted in Links and tagged cocoa, debugging, Mac. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.monikasulik.net/?tag=jaya-bachchan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:02Z", "digest": "sha1:HWWA35PKKGBEXOMAKKQTNY25JXW4GSWC", "length": 699, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.monikasulik.net", "title": "Monika\u2019s Pensieve \u00bb Jaya Bachchan", "raw_content": "Mumbai, Maharashtra, the diversity of India and how the Shiv Sena fit in\nWednesday, 22 October 2008, 12:12 | Category : Bollywood & the Indian film industry, Loaves, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff\nTags : Abhishek Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Drona, India, Jaya Bachchan, Maharashtra, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mumbai, Raj Thackeray, Shahrukh Khan, Shiv Sena\nOne of the things that I find most mind-boggling about India (or what I think I know about it anyway) is that every opinion or stance you could possibly conceive of seems to be somehow represented if you look for it hard enough. Things that seemingly contradict will mysteriously manage to function side by side.\nMumbai, [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.resolutefp.com/2015/09/about-working-with-first-nations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:30Z", "digest": "sha1:S645F5QDAETJFAQNRDL27WMK3QIIYG4R", "length": 2302, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.resolutefp.com", "title": "About working with First Nations | The Resolute Blog", "raw_content": "What are some examples of mutually beneficial initiatives?\nIn June, we signed a collaboration agreement with the Council of the Innu of Pessamit to promote economic development for the First Nation and Resolute\u2019s North Shore operations that provides mainly for the recruitment, training and hiring of Innu labor as well as for investment in Innu businesses in the forest, biofuel and wildlife industries. Resolute benefits from a timber supply guarantee applicable to the North Shore administrative region.\nIn May, we signed a new Memorandum of Agreement with the Gull Bay First Nation to identify and pursue new economic opportunities. We\u2019ve enjoyed a productive business relationship with the Gull Bay First Nation, near Ontario\u2019s Lake Nipigon, for over 30 years.\nLast year, multi-year contracts in excess of $100 million were awarded to six First Nations as a result of our investments in Northwestern Ontario \u2013 including the Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation, Lac des Milles Lacs First Nation, Seine River First Nation, Couchiching First Nation, Mitaanjigamiing First Nation and Lac La Croix First Nation.\nOur Thunder Bay (Ontario) sawmill operates under a unique business model with Fort William First Nation. This facility was the first in Canada to work under regulations created by the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act and 2015 is the 12th year of operation.\nThe Opitciwan (Quebec) sawmill is a joint venture between Resolute and the Atikamekw Council of Obedjiwan. It\u2019s been operating this way since 1999 and in 2013 won the Aboriginal Business Leadership Award.\nCheck out Resolute\u2019s combined 2014 Annual Report for more information on our business performance and other interesting #RFPfacts.\nAboriginal peoples cooperation employment opportunities first nations indigenous rights partnerships\nDec 4 2015 10:05 pm Reply\n[\u2026] relationship with one First Nation, the Innu of Mashteuiatsh. But it could have just as easily highlighted our close ties with around 30 First Nations communities we partner with in Ontario and [\u2026]\nResolute Celebrates Historic Partnerships with First Nations | Resolute Forest Products \u2013 Blog says:\n[\u2026] Resolute, we\u2019re proud of the strong partnerships we have built with dozens of First Nations across Ontario and Quebec. These partnerships [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.sustainablesupply.com/forests/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:13Z", "digest": "sha1:2SNFHIOOQ73VW4UIM4AQ4FSWO4VKFASY", "length": 5022, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "blog.sustainablesupply.com", "title": "How to Lessen Your Company\u2019s Impact on Forests \u2013 Sustainable Supply Blog", "raw_content": "March 21, 2016 April 20, 2018 Scott Krueger Green Building\n\u201cInvesting in forests is an insurance policy for the planet.\u201d \u2013 United Nations\u2019 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\nIt\u2019s World Forestry Day; an occasion meant to help us understand the importance of forests, but also the challenges forests face globally. Even after learning some facts about the crucial role forests play, the real challenge is in understanding how forestry practices could be impacting your business right now.\nAccording to the United Nations:\nThe International Day of Forests is held annually on March 21st to raise awareness of the importance of forests to people. Forests shelter, nurture and inspire. 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods, medicine, fuel, and food. Forests cover 31% of the global land area.\nForests are the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land, home to more than 80% of the terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. They also provide shelter, jobs and security for forest-dependent communities.\nDespite all of these priceless ecological, economic, social and health benefits, global deforestation continues at an alarming rate \u2013 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed annually. Deforestation accounts for 12 to 20 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.\nForested watersheds and wetlands supply 75 percent of the world\u2019s accessible freshwater.\nAbout one-third of the world\u2019s largest cities obtain a significant proportion of their drinking water directly from forested protected areas.\nForests act as natural water filters.\nClimate change is altering forests\u2019 role in water flows and the availability of water resources.\nForests have a crucial role in building and strengthening resilience.\nForests And Your Business\nThe importance is real. The functions of forests are critical. The connection between forests and drinking water is profound.\nBut what can your business do, or rather, how does any of that relate to your company?\nWood, windows and sills, furniture, tool handles, paper, books, boxes, napkins, business cards, carpet, upholstery, paper plates and bowls, stairways, paper towels, toilet paper, and absorbency products are only a fraction of the wood-based products you are likely to see around your facility.\nSome of those products are difficult to do anything about. If your building utilizes wood framing studs sourced traditionally, there isn\u2019t anything you\u2019re going to do about it now. The same holds true for the carpet and other products that were already installed. But your business also purchases ongoing consumables like paper towels, toilet paper, printer paper, napkins, and more that are available in a variety of sustainable options.\nIf your business is developing its Social Responsibility policies, sustainability goals, or an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing plan, here are just two certifications you can use to ensure sustainable sourcing of your wood-based products (here\u2019s a complete list of certifications that matter):\nForest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified products enable consumers to meet their current needs without sacrificing the future health of the world\u2019s forests. Over the past two decades, FSC has become recognized as the most thorough and credible forest certification system through the development of 10 principles and 57 criteria that apply to all FSC-certified forests. Whether your project is looking to attain LEED certification for green building or only to increase the use of sustainable products, FSC-certified wood, paper, and other forest products are derived from sustainably-managed forests.\nThe Sustainable Forestry Initiative\u00ae (SFI) promotes sustainable forestry management, improved forestry practices, and responsible purchasing of forest products. The SFI Standard requires program participants to purchase wood from known and legal sources, conserve biological diversity and promote socially sound practices. The SFI program is made up of the following components: the SFI Forest Management Standard, fiber sourcing certification, the chain of custody standard, and SFI on-product labels.\nThose are just two certifications that matter, but here are some tips to rely on for paper purchasing responsibility:\nReduce paper consumption \u2013 print on both sides, recycle, reuse, encourage paper efficiency company-wide\nAvoid virgin tree fibers \u2013 prioritize recycled content, prioritize FSC-certified products, publicize your decisions to encourage others to do the same.\nBuy clean paper \u2013 promote unbleached or chlorine-free bleached paper.\nAdditional resources are plentiful for a company looking to change some of its standard operating procedures to develop Corporate Social Responsibility measures, sustainability goals, or institute an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing plan, but it all starts with understanding a need. On World Forestry Day we can all appreciate the need for responsibly managed forests.\nFSC paper efficiency recycled content recycled paper SFI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 7847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/slevine25/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HNO7RH63ALOAAMAXZUL2IYBYZDGFT7B5", "length": 1418, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blogs.scarsdaleschools.org", "title": "Uncategorized | Smart Samantha", "raw_content": "My class and I have been writing so much so far this year in school such as essays, non \u2013 fiction, fiction and much more. I think I have grown as a writer. I love writing non \u2013 fiction and I think that I have gotten so much better writing in fifth grade than in 4th and 3rd grade. I like writing other types of writing but I have a talent on one type which is non \u2013 fiction. I could keep writing and writing non \u2013 fiction for a long time because I think I am good at it. Sometimes I try different types of writing. Essays are usually the hardest for me because there are many steps to write an essay and there are also many things you have to add to an essay to make it a good essay. It\u2019s sometimes hard for me to think of examples to add but I finally come up with some good ones. My second favorite type of writing is writing reflections which is what I am doing now. I think that a reflection is a time when you get to reflect on what you are doing and how you do it. I think it is a time to reflect on you and what you have done. I like writing reflections because I can write whatever I want since it is about me only. I love writing and I think I am good at it and also I think that I have grown as a writer.\nMy class just finished our lesson on Colonial America. I researched Colonial Entertainment. It was a bit of work but it was fun learning about your topic. I hope you like it.\nThanks for reading about it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.strose.edu/good-to-know-welcoming-them-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XWTVFS5ZTOTYCTGIHIYT6LXKSV5YEDNW", "length": 5274, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "blogs.strose.edu", "title": "Good to know: Welcoming them home \u2013 The College of Saint Rose", "raw_content": "Good to know: Welcoming them home\nby Jane Gottlieb on July 14, 2016 in All About Saint Rose, Good to Know, International, The College of Saint Rose \u00b7 0 Comments\nChhabillal Timsina Sharma, left, a former refugee and now a psychiatrist who works with U.S. refugees, trades notes with a participant at EVER Changing World conference held recently at Saint Rose.\nHELPING REFUGEES EASE THE TRANSITION\nAt home in Bhutan, a small country bordering India and China, Chhabilall Timsina Sharma was a doctor overseeing a network of public health facilities. But in the 1990s, his family and thousands more ethnic minorities fled to Nepal to escape intimidation and torture by the government. Sharma spent the next eight years treating individuals who, like himself, had lost everything.\nHe and his family are among the thousands of refugees each year who come to the United States to recover from emotional and physical trauma and perhaps thrive as new Americans.\n\u201cSome of us can make it and some of us may not, or we are just surviving,\u201d said Sharma, now a psychiatrist in St. Paul, Minnesota, working with new immigrants from dozens of countries. \u201cWe make it because as human beings, there are two things we want: We want to live without pain and we want to live happily. As people we instinctively try for that.\u201d\nSharma joined a host of experts from around the world who addressed the well-being of refugees and new immigrants at the EVER Changing World conference held earlier this month at Saint Rose. The fourth annual conference was sponsored by the Institute of Community Research and Training (ICRT), an interdisciplinary program at the College that addresses homelessness, mental illness and other social issues.\nPreviously held in the Netherlands, the two-day conference looked at strategies that have helped migrants successfully transition to new lives. Mental health counselors, social workers, doctors, academics and community organizers shared their experiences, challenges and results. And the conference, which Saint Rose students and recent graduates also attended, culminated in a consensus to continue on, by advocating for much-needed services in New York and beyond.\n\u201cThe theme that emerged was \u2018self-determination,\u2019 that is we shouldn\u2019t be telling people what to do but ask them how we can help them succeed,\u201d said Richard Pulice, a Saint Rose social work professor and ICRT director.\nAfter arriving in the U.S. in 2003, Sharma worked at a photo copy shop, in fast food and at a gas station before finding his way back to the medical track and the training he needed to become a psychiatrist.\nToday, at the Health Partners Center for International Health in St. Paul, he uses a cross-cultural approach to his patients, non-native English speakers who have lost their homes and possessions along with their careers and social standing.\n\u201cRefugees are ordinary people with extraordinary stress,\u201d Sharma explained. \u201cThey were people who were not accepted in their own countries because of ethnic, religious and political unrest and now they are here in a completely unfamiliar place. There is a saying out there that \u2018USA\u2019 stands for \u2018you start again.\u2019\u201d\nHe noted that many people showing signs of depression and PTSD \u2013 normal responses to horrific experiences \u2013 avoid treatment because in their home countries \u201cmental health\u201d problems equate to insanity or out of control behavior.\nTo build a rapport, Sharma asks patients if they feel sad or tired, rather than using medical terminology. He then explains that there are doctors who can treat those symptoms \u2013 something people from less developed parts of the world might not be aware of.\nHe also finds that newly arrived immigrants are so focused on their children and older parents that they don\u2019t consider their own health. And Sharma urged counselors and other caregivers to respect their patients\u2019 non-Western beliefs about illness and healing.\n\u201cThey may believe that witchcraft or bad karma or bad planetary positions are behind an ailment,\u201d he said. \u201cYou might say, \u2018By all means, believe that. Read the Quran or the Bible or whatever else you need to while we also try to help you out.\u2019\u201d\nSadly, Sharma has seen people who have survived torture and deprivation only to arrive in the U.S. and find that it does not live up to its reputation for instant prosperity. This was the reality in 2008, when persecuted and displaced people from his own native country, Bhutan, arrived in time for the worst recession in recent memory. The result: 58 committed suicide.\nThe economy has since improved as people from that part of the world have established a foothold here. There are now more than 85,000 Bhutanese in the U.S. and the emerging community in his region has begun to thrive.\n\u201cI always want people to know that their lives may look like just losses,\u201d Sharma said of the people he meets on their arrival to American soil. \u201cBut they must have something inherent. We have to bring it out. They have already survived so many different things.\u201d\nTags:Albany Chhabillal Sharma EVER Changing World conference ICRT Institute of Community Research and Training new immigrants refugees social work program the college of saint rose\n\u2190 Good to know: Hollis Seamon\u2019s next chapter\nProject 70 \u2013 My Metrohm USA Internship \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bolobhi.org/pakistans-cybercrime-bill-2015-speak-now-forever-hold-breath/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5QFRH2OYSJWBY6V6JLTLD3GLAE7VIJYK", "length": 676, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bolobhi.org", "title": "Pakistan's Cybercrime Bill 2015: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Breath - Bolo Bhi", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Bill has not been approved. Chairman NA Standing Committee on IT has formed a 4-member committee of MNAs to review and amend it within 14 days and finalize.\nToday, on February 4, 2015, proposed cybercrime legislation \u2018Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015\u2019 was approved by the National Assembly\u2019s Standing Committee on Information Technology. This will now be tabled before Parliament before moving on to the Senate. In this note, we highlight some areas that require attention, before it is written into law. This is only a preliminary analysis and we are working on dissecting it further. We would be happy to receive comments. Read the proposed legislation here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://booksofmonthclub.com/category/parenting-relationships/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:E7X5PR3WC7H42VIYW5FYNC7X5KAG2TAY", "length": 2638, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "booksofmonthclub.com", "title": "Parenting & Relationships \u2013 Book of The Month Club", "raw_content": "The Mothers Manual\n[alert style=\"warning\"]Get the book for that special someone for Christmas[/alert]\n\"The Mothers Manual: Your Kids Wont Be Delivered With A Manual, Here is Your Copy\" by Liu Yang\n| UK Amazon | US Amazon | DE Amazon | Facebook | The Mother\u2019s Manual is a practical handbook on parenting children from birth to 5 years old. It provides easy-to-apply tips and practical tools that parents can adapt in their life to deal with some of the most common issues that crop up in those early critical years based on the latest research in child psychology, neuroscience on the understanding of children\u2019s brainwave pattern and its implications to children\u2019s behaviour. Parents will be able to understand and experiment alternatives to time-outs on naughty steps or feeling frustration themselves; instead use simple and direct suggestions to observe miraculous changes in children\u2019s behaviour to how the parents want. Raising happy and confident children should be an enjoyable part of the parenting process. We all know that a job is easy to do once you have discovered the secrets to how. This book also serves as a go-to reference book with quickly learn and apply simple strategies and easy-to-follow explanations of children\u2019s developmental stages to guide parents through the daily challenges effectively to create the family life they desire.\nMy Friend, My Hero\n\"My Friend, My Hero\" by Jerald L. Hoover\n| Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bennett Wilson has the world at his fingertips. One of the top basketball players in New York State, he is destined to lead Mount Vernon High to the state championship for the first time. Many of the nation\u2019s top colleges are already reaching out, eager to sign him to their roster. Scholarships are guaranteed. Still young, Bennett is seduced by the promise of fame and fortune. Yet all is not as it appears. Bennett\u2019s life is plagued with strife and conflict. The oldest of three, he has grown up with his single mother in the tough inner city projects of Mount Vernon. Life is hard but Bennett refuses to choose the fast life of the streets. He knows his only ticket to freedom is through basketball and academics. Bennett\u2019s dreams come to a screeching halt when he learns his sick mother has fallen far behind on her rent and is threatened with eviction. He knows he can get easy money on the streets, but at the cost of ruining his future. Will Bennett finally succumb to a life he\u2019s avoided and if he does, what will it cost? My Friend, My Hero, which celebrates its 25th year in print, is the first in the acclaimed, The Hero Book Series, by author Jerald LeVon Hoover.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bosnischepyramide.com/year/2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RJV47EGJ2CJSMXIQ2UZXW3VBYEC6UQNX", "length": 516, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bosnischepyramide.com", "title": "2016 - Buying Real Estate Inspired by Ancient Architecture", "raw_content": "Moving Into A Smaller House? Here Are some Storage Ideas For Your Excess Furniture\nThings are not always rosy when moving. You might be moving with short notice, you might be moving into a house that you don't exactly like, and in some cases, you might find that you are moving into a house that is smaller than what you had. This presents a problem because you are then left with excess furniture that can't fit in the house. If this is your current predicament, check out some of the options you have on the table.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breitlinks.com/DeweyChallenge2/question_22.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WHXCJVG5P6JTXLWAD2D3KSEJLPMXU3NB", "length": 194, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "breitlinks.com", "title": "Mr. Breitsprecher's Dewey Challenge II, Question 22", "raw_content": "Discovering Crickets and Grasshoppers, by Keith Porter. Describes the physical characteristics, habits, habitats, and life cycles of two of the noisiest insects, the cricket and the grasshopper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brendanpauljacobs.com/abpconclusion.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:RC5ADHJS7REM5WMDALBSMNVWDHL6DLPA", "length": 5668, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "brendanpauljacobs.com", "title": "Conclusion", "raw_content": "Animation is an excellent way to present new information. It also allows students to demonstrate evidence of their own learning. The post-test data for all six viewers improved greatly after viewing the animations.\nThe following merits of teaching with animation are from the Centre for Animation Pedagogics: (1)\n\u2022 Animation is popular among children\n\u2022 Animation makes it possible to be in control of the film because one works on each picture on the filmstrip \u2013 each move and cut is planned thoroughly which makes it possible to reflect and analyse.\n\u2022 Animation can be included in a regular teaching situation because it does not take up a lot of space.\n\u2022 Animation and imagination are closely connected which makes it possible to use animation even with the youngest pupils\n\u2022 An animation production can combine the physical and the virtual worlds.\n\u2022 Animation strengthens the creative mind.\nWe would normally define animation as a succession of moving images. As was argued in the introduction to research issue, a more inclusive term for educational purposes is variant graphics where various images are viewed in succession. This is a more accurate definition because films are also moving images. Variant images is also a more inclusive term as it would include common presentation styles such as PowerPoint presentations.\nAn important element of variant images is that there is also a constant image. Unlike a traditional lecture where an occasional diagram might be presented, the idea of a constant image implies that there is always something to look at other than the teacher. This cannot guarantee engagement but it certainly helps.\nHigh tech - Low tech - No tech\nIf we accept that animation is an effective and efficient way to teach, how does this inform what actually transpires in the classroom? To mandate that animation should be used as much as possible would be to miss the point that students need to be active participants in their own learning. Being bombarded with information would soon overload them and they would not necessarily be able to retain or apply what they have learnt. I would therefore propose that animation is used as a teaching style for both teachers and students, i.e. students should be encouraged to create their own animations.\nDesign is a crucial element when creating animations. Design goes further than merely planning the content of an animation. Every single element is carefully considered, critiqued and revised to produce the best possible work. Because each frame is crafted with such care and reflection, the merits of having students apply the disciplines of design in their own work have obvious benefits in terms of quality and skill development.\nStudents could be given research topics in small groups where they are required to present their work as an animation. To allow for the differences in the classroom teacher and technology resources available, I would propose at least three categories of sophistication:\nHigh tech: The students create and present stand-alone animations. These could be created using Flash, Stop Motion Pro, PowerPoint, etc.\nLow tech: The students create a series of visuals which are explained in person like a traditional PowerPoint presentation.\nNo tech: The students create a series of posters which are explained in order much like a book.\nTaking the emphasis off the actual movement and focusing on the order and content of the information being presented makes this medium accessible for all teachers. By encouraging children to present information as an animation the teacher can stay within their first level of expertise which is supervising the information itself and the organisation thereof.\nThere is also the opportunity for content to go from no tech to low tech by digitising the posters using a camera or scanner. Low tech can also move to high tech by simply recording the presentation on video. Those students who do produce work in low or high tech formats have the advantage of being able to publish their work through avenues such as the Internet. In this way there could be mutual sharing of information which is already happening in some schools. The option of publishing also motivates students to present their best work.\nWhen should animation be taught?\nI am not suggesting that variant graphics should always be used for teaching. It is merely one medium of teaching and learning that is very powerful and yet often overlooked.\nReasons to maintain the use of other teaching styles include:\nSome learning areas require skill development such as playing a musical instrument or sporting proficiency. Animation can help people learn concepts but students should still have a practical outlet for this knowledge.\nWritten language is generally restricted in animations. Keywords, heading and definitions are often included but it is primarily a visual medium. For this reason, traditional activities like reading a book will always be essential learning.\nDirections for further study\nIt is my intention to pursue further study in this area of animated music education. The two main differences between this present and future study are:\n1.\tTo design interactive animations where the user interacts with the animation using the computer keyboard. These are outlined in the Interactivity section.\n2.\tTo work with children instead of adults.\nThere are no particular gender issues in current research on animation in education. If anything, animation levels the playing field for both sexes. With no disadvantage over strength or access, boys and girls who are struggling with other literacies are just as likely to become skilled in animation as anyone else.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brentryanbellamy.com/2014/10/the-contested-politics-of-the-u-s-post-apocalyptic-novel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:17Z", "digest": "sha1:M7PHEPEKI4K7VUFE7MT42WCSBPVC3RIE", "length": 16465, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "brentryanbellamy.com", "title": "work-in-progress", "raw_content": "October 1, 2014 by bbellamy\nThese remarks are the public presentation portion of PhD defence. I remain thankful to my friends and colleagues for attending\u2013they offered a crucial intervention, converting my anxiety adrenaline into performance adrenaline, or at least that\u2019s how it felt.\nBefore I begin, there are many people I would like to thank. Today, I will restrict myself to those who helped directly with the writing of this presentation and those present here today, and leave the rest for the Acknowledgements of my dissertation itself. Thank you to Alexandra Carruthers, Marija Cetinic, Jeff Diamanti, and Katie Lewandowski for helping me as I prepared this talk. Thank you to Dr. Janice Williamson, our fearless chair, to Dr. Priscilla Wald, Dr. Natalie Loveless, Dr. Mike O\u2019Driscoll, Dr. Mark Simpson, and Dr. Imre Szeman for taking the time to read my work\u2014I eagerly look forward to our conversation. Thank you also to those of you here to listen today. I hope you find it lives up to your expectations. The title for my talk this morning is:\nIt seems humorous to me now that I decided against studying stories that centered on the apocalypse itself. I could not commit myself to researching such a sensationalist genre where implausibly everyone seemed to survive. How was I to know that implausible survival would be precisely what I could come to expect from the U.S. post-apocalyptic novel as well? For instance, take an opening paragraph of a recent novel:\n\u201cOn the map, their destination had been a stretch of green, as if they would be living on the golf course. No freeways nearby, or any roads, really: those had been left to rot years before. Frida had given this place a secret name, the afterlife, and on their journey, when they were forced to hide in abandoned rest stops, or when they\u2019d filled the car with the last of their gasoline, this place had beckoned. In her mind it was a township, and Cal was the mayor. She was the mayor\u2019s wife\u201d (Lepucki 2014, 3).\nThis is how the narrator of Edan Lepucki\u2019s California(2014) begins the novel. It contains in miniature instructions for the post-apocalyptic plot: after catastrophe look towards a new Edenic beginning, document destruction, struggle with adversity, leave things behind, and, at the end, re-form the social. Compare it with how Hig, the narrator of Peter Heller\u2019s The Dog Stars (2012), begins to recount his story:\n\u201cI keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks. I am young enough, I am old enough. I used to love to fish for trout more than anything\u201d (Heller 2012, 3).\nThe first striking point of comparison is the gruffness and closeness of Heller\u2019s first person to the distanced knowledge of Lepuki\u2019s third. Curiously, too, this difference deepens when we notice that Lepuki\u2019s narrator describes a couple, and, though Hig mentions his late wife on the first page, Heller\u2019s is a confident solo pilot. Each character anticipates their future as much as they look back on their past. They express a relationship to fuel and are fixated on survival. California and The Dog Stars are examples of U.S. post-apocalyptic novels that fit into the literary fiction end of the form\u2019s literary-popular spectrum. These two novels stand at one coordinate of what I am calling the contested politics of the post-apocalyptic novel.\nPopular U.S. post-apocalyptic novels have tended to include blight and toxicity as elements of their story worlds. There are stark examples, the gory death of anyone who feels that tickle of the Captain Trips disease in their throat in Stephen King\u2019s The Stand (1978) or, looking back further, the barren deserts and anti-intellectual climate of Walter Miller Jr.\u2019s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1964). Devastated story worlds are not only the stuff of the popular side of things. Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road (2006) banishes any colour but ash grey from its landscapes. We find a different kind of devastation in Steven Amsterdam\u2019s Things We Didn\u2019t See Coming (2009) as the narrator muses on his colleague Julia\u2019s vision of the future.\nShe says her goal \u201cis to connect the coasts and the north-south borders with great corridors of wild land\u2014farms, forests, suburbs reclaimed by nature. One day there will be no more cities\u2014their shells will be ghostly interruptions of the new nation, which will be composed of rural communities linked in all directions. Even if we aren\u2019t here, the land will be: My money will keep it safe. When the rain comes back\u2014ever the optimist\u2014this is where her utopia will be\u201d (Amsterdam 2009, 125).\nAmsterdam\u2019s narrator relays Julia\u2019s plan for the future despite the signal that their part of the world has been plagued by drought. In this way Amsterdam\u2019s novel takes a step away from the blasted setting of the popular variants of post-apocalyptic novels. Cast between the craggy-rock worlds of earlier novels and the green hope of novels like Lepucki\u2019s and Heller\u2019s, Thing We Didn\u2019t See Coming offers a tantalizing read precisely because it does not offer a revelation of what disaster has taken place. In each of its nine vignettes, there are hints that some major event has transpired, but the first person narrator has no vantage from which to determine what went wrong. Amsterdam\u2019s novel recognizes that knowledgeable exposition has become a tired trope of the post-apocalyptic novel. Thus, through its formal innovation, Things We Didn\u2019t See Coming differentiates itself from the popular strain of the post-apocalyptic novel, while thinking critically about what it can and cannot plausibly represent.\nThe narrative form of the post-apocalyptic novel, how the story is told, lends it generic coherence despite this contest over what it can (or should) do. The work of British literary critic Frank Kermode on the apocalyptic provides a rich place to begin a formal understanding of the post-apocalyptic novel. In The Sense of an Ending, Kermode suggests apocalyptic concerns allow individuals and societies to locate themselves in space and time\u2014we know where we are because we can see that we are headed for an ending. Post-apocalyptic novels undertake an inversion of Kermode\u2019s apocalyptic narrative, beginning from the apocalyptic end and working towards resolution in a new origin.\nIn the post-apocalyptic novel the origin of historical time within the story is identical with the end of the historical time of the reader. Put differently, post-apocalyptic novels develop claims about the present as they work through an interpretation of their historical conditions.Thus, we could say that the post-apocalyptic novel attempts to look beyond the telos, beyond the ending, of the apocalypse by distancing the confines of the present through an estranging, apocalyptic event. Their formal inversion generates a newly cleared space in which to imagine how social ways of being might change. I call this device cognitive reduction\u2014the elements of life under late capital are stripped away, inviting imaginary scenarios to unfold in their place. Despite all of their setbacks, these novels still promise to engage in thinking beyond the apocalyptic imaginary outlined by Kermode, and that, to me, makes them worthy of our time and attention.\nBefore I proceed too much further, I should answer two questions: why talk about the novel and why the U.S. post-apocalyptic novel in particular? I am a literary critic by training, and an explanation for why I took up the post-apocalyptic novel as the centerpiece of my study may not be needed in this company. However natural this decision seems, there was choice involved. I found that the novel allowed for me to avoid the sensational images of post-apocalyptic film (I have somewhat of an axe to grind about the Emmerich perspective so widely used in his and other apocalyptic films). Further, the novel has a rich history in grappling with historical change, which can be seen in the assessment of Sir Walter Scott\u2019s historical novel by Georg Luk\u00e1cs and the description of \u201csetting\u201d in U.S. literary history by Phillip Fischer in Hard Facts. The post-apocalyptic novel offered the occasion for me to ask questions about history, form, and politics (which just so happen to be three of my favourite things).\nThe United States acts as a geographic boundary for my dissertation for both practical and methodological reasons. As for the practicality of it, I had to limit the number of texts I would address in the dissertation: even a focus on the post-World War II United States meant leaving many novels out of the dissertation. The methodological reasoning was that United States has been going through a major historical transition in the late 20th and early 21st century. It has been moving from a phase of historical dominance as an economic and political superpower to a phase of uncertainty. Three particular moments of this change interest me most: first, the moment of U.S. dominance just after the War at the zenith of what has been generally called the American Century; second, the tightening grip of neoliberal dominance in the mid-1980s; and, third, the moment of free fall between the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the on-going global financial crisis of 2007-2008. The coincidence of U.S. decline and a veritable rash of post-apocalyptic novels struck me as the ripest relationship to consider in my dissertation.\nWhen I began to plot out the dissertation, I was intrigued by the way these novels seems to be operating, simultaneously, with uncanny precision in their estimations of the scope of our current crises and with a wildly inaccurate sense of what to do in the face of these various cataclysms. I began to trace this seeming paradox of acuity to their role as national allegories. U.S. post-apocalyptic novels, in particular, struggle with how historical change takes place. They seem to want to come to terms with how to maintain the way of things in the face of knowledge that this might not be the most equitable, ethical, or environmental way of life. Their main theory of history seems to be that of rupture\u2014that only the apocalyptic event could restore order, enabling a return, or just a turn, to a mode of social organization that will restore the promise of what the U.S. could be. The problem for a critic reading these novels is that this is a corpus composed of exceptions. The way they represent the apocalyptic break and what they will suggest should follow in its wake varies wildly from one novel to the next, which makes the post-apocalyptic novel as form into a site of contest. The inversion of Kermode\u2019s apocalyptic narrative turns the post-apocalyptic novel into a veritable sandbox for storytelling.\nAlong with those first two coordinates of the more popular or literary variants, these novels also struggle politically over what is to come. For instance, on the one hand, James, Wesley Rawles\u2019s Novels of the Coming Collapse take a libertarian position, placing the individual and that individual\u2019s allegiance to a cadre of trusted militia-survivalist patriots at the core of its post-apocalyptic enterprise. The United States have collapsed and anyone from on the road, whether they are cannibals carrying copies of Mao\u2019s little red book, I kid you not, or folks claiming to be from the U.S. government, they are not to be trusted. Rawles\u2019s novels make a political bid through their encyclopedic form, which is codified in their extensive glossaries: these will be novels people learn from and look to in the event of actual crisis. On the other hand, Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s The Wild Shore (1984)\u2014the first novel in a trilogy that imagines three different versions of Orange County, California\u2014brings a realist approach to the post-apocalyptic novel. The novel meditates on what life might look like in the wake of a targeted apocalypse: the fictive conceit of The Wild Shore is that a world government banishes the United States to technological backwardness and political obscurity through a nuclear strike. The politics of Robinson\u2019s novel are equally contained in the form: the novel is a kind of microcosm of the Three Californias trilogy precisely because it presents multiple social ontologies in conflict without judiciously selecting one as dominant or preferable. Robinson, rather than fantasizing about how history could consecrate his politics, depicts a rich, plausible post-apocalyptic world. As an aside, I have included my mapping of this novel with the Jamesonian adaptation of A.J. Greimas\u2019s semiotic square. I would be happy to offer further explanation of this device after my talk.\nIn order to get to the bottom of the adaptability of the U.S. post-apocalyptic novel to different political ends, I chose to understand it as a mode or sub-genre of science fiction, because of the latter\u2019s much lauded capacity to think historically, to grapple with difficult questions, and to encourage its readers to think critically. I suspect that we can adopt the way Fredric Jameson describes science fiction to the post-apocalyptic novel, as well:\n\u201cits multiple mock futures serve the\u2026function of transforming our own present into the determinate past of something yet to come\u201d (Jameson 2005, 288).\nGerry Canavan and Priscilla Wald give life to Jameson\u2019s theoretical formation in their \u201cPreface\u201d to a special issue of American Literature on science fiction:\n\u201cIn a world whose basic coordinates are under constant flux from eruptions of ecological crisis to the emergence of genomic science, from the global realignments of religious fundamentalism to the changing parameters of liberation theology, from the ongoing unfoldings of antiracist activisms worldwide to the struggle for LGBTQ rights, the estrangements of SF in all its forms, flavors, and subgenres become for us a funhouse mirror on the present, a faded map of the future, a barely glimpsed vision of alterity, and the prepped and ready launchpad for theory today\u201d (Canavan and Wald 2011, 247).\nThus, the contested politics of the post-apocalyptic novel could be read as a contest over the future of the state and the social in the wake of the political uncertainty generated by U.S. economic decline and military action on the world stage. Because the post-apocalyptic novel\u2019s imagined futures are contested, they invite an engagement with literary form, history, and politics that has implications for understand the relationship between U.S. hegemony, global capital, and the possibility of a more equitable future.\nThe political stakes of my research are that we can and should know the world, especially in the face of the relentless accumulation of capitalist production and its devastating social and environmental effects. My dissertation does not offer a grand scale mapping of literary endeavours and elements, nor does it offer a molecular assessment of each novel\u2019s humming particularity; rather, it immanently studies the U.S. post-apocalyptic novel against the historical conditions of U.S. declining hegemony. In this way, my project takes its cue from American Studies, which invites a number of methodologies and approaches under one roof in order to see where the tensions lie and, crucially, where they might lead. Indeed, as I develop this study for publication, the production of U.S. post-apocalyptic novels continues unabated as does their political contest. In light of recent developments and the insight they offer, I find myself returning to a symptom only briefly mentioned in this talk: the talk of fuel in California and The Dog Stars. How are the post-apocalyptic novel and its settings sustained by the ideology of energy? Do post-apocalyptic novels offer a vantage from which to assess what critics have come to call petroculture? Does the contested politics of the post-apocalyptic novel read differently, with more urgency perhaps, when considered in light of our current anthropogenic climate crisis? These questions are meant to tantalize. Please do feel free to stay for the discussion of my thesis and, whether you stay or other have places to be, thank you for coming.\nAmsterdam, Steven. Things We Didn\u2019t See Coming. New York: Anchor Books, 2009.\nGerry Canavan and Priscilla Wald. \u201cPreface.\u201d American Literature 83.2 (June 2011): 237-249.\nHeller, Peter. The Dog Stars. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.\nJameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso, 2005.\nLepucki, Edan. California. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 17379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bubble.news/2019-01-14-pge-going-bankrupt-just-the-beginning-of-the-financial-collapse-of-california.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NF4NOVAYZXQHRMNWQ2TLV57ZERYM5MMJ", "length": 4407, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "bubble.news", "title": "PG&E going bankrupt is just the beginning of the financial collapse of California under suicidal liberal economic policies", "raw_content": "Since Democrats have taken over all levels of government in California, imposing their brand of \u201cprogressive\u201d politics and policies, a strange thing has happened: The state has grown richer and poorer at the same time.\nBuoyed by billion-dollar industries in entertainment, agriculture and technology, California\u2019s GDP is $2.7 trillion annually. But according to the Census Bureau\u2019s Supplemental Poverty Measure, the Golden State also has the highest poverty rate.\nAnd it\u2019s the latter statistic that has become California\u2019s Achilles heel.\nKerry Jackson, writing in the Los Angeles Times in January 2018, noted that Leftist Democrats have bled these high-earning industries, and the millionaires and billionaires they created, to fund massive social welfare programs that still have not alleviated poverty. In fact, Jackson writes, they seem \u201cto have made it worse.\u201d\nBut Democrats have not curbed those entitlement programs, regardless of how much they cost or how ineffective they\u2019ve been. And now, as Dave Hodges, host of The Common Sense Show, reports, financial disaster looms.\n\u201cCalifornia government, as we understand it, is on its last legs,\u201d he writes on his show web site. \u201cIt\u2019s imminent demise is a testament to what happens to a government which embraces blatant socialism and extreme leftist leadership and subsequently loses sight of the fact that government\u2019s main mission is the safety of its citizens.\u201d\nHodges said that he has learned through conversations with Robert Paul Preston, head of the New California Statehood movement, that California\u2019s primary utility, PG & E, is set to declare bankruptcy, after failing to stay ahead of its expenditures.\nHe also reports that the initial disaster funding provided to California by the Trump administration via FEMA for its recent massive wildfires was diverted to pay down state debt \u2014 presumably to PG & E if his sources are correct. The Trump administration has since \u201ccut off FEMA disaster funding,\u201d leaving California unable \u201cto meet its financial obligations.\u201d (Related: Lengthy study finds businesses fleeing California over nightmare taxes, regulations imposed by DEMS.)\nHodges reports further:\nCalifornia is overrun with an illegal alien population that State government cannot support. It\u2019s [sic] economy has been devastated by the NO. California fires, which were deliberately caused by Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). As a result of these factors and many more, California\u2019s state government is on the verge of absolute collapse.\nHodges says that Preston, host of Agenda 21 radio, will discuss critical information regarding the state of California\u2019s finances on Monday.\n\u201cDirected Energy Weapons have been used to start fires. The federal disaster relief funds have been diverted to the state budget by former Governor Jerry Brown. 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Trump has cut off the funds,\u201d Hodges wrote.\nHe added that the state missed a debt payment \u2014 defaulted \u2014 on a $10 billion loan last week, and is set to default on a $60 billion note next month (California\u2019s debt clock shows a GDP of $2.8 trillion and a debt of more than $462 billion).\nWhat\u2019s also draining state coffers, according to Hodges, are costs related to illegal aliens, on whom California spent $27 billion last year, Hodges noted. \u201cBy April,\u201d he said, \u201cCalifornia state government will not be able to meet its projected $128 billion budget.\u201d\nIn addition to PG & E, Hodges said sources believe another major utility will also come under economic duress \u2014 all of which amounts to the beginning of the end of Californian prosperity.\nThere are going to be legal repercussions as well. \u201cI have been told that a law suit [sic] is being prepared against [former] Governor Jerry Brown for his role in \u2018crimes against humanity\u2019 and the suit will be filed at The Hague,\u201d Hodges wrote, over deaths caused by the wildfires.\nHodges notes that more information will be revealed soon as \u201cthere are many unanswered questions.\u201d\nRead more about California\u2019s government debt collapse at Collapsifornia.com.\nTagged Under: bankrupt, Bubble, California, Collapse, Collapsifornia, debt, debt collapse, debt payment, disaster capitalism, economics, electric utility, entitlement programs, finance, Gov Brown, government spending, Illegal aliens, invasion usa, jerry brown, lawsuit, Libtards, Misappropriation of funds, PG & E, socialism, The Hague, utilities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buffaloah.com/h/lacksteel/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GDB6B2PI5LOYWQXX2QX4UEWREPTOTDP4", "length": 4658, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "buffaloah.com", "title": "Index: Lackawanna Steel and Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron", "raw_content": "Lackawanna Steel Company\nBuffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company\nThe Lackawanna Steel Company\nThe Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company\nJohn J. Albright\nStephen M. Clement\nFrank H. Goodyear\nCharles W. Goodyear\nBuffalo and Susquehanna Iron Co.\nThe following excerpt is printed verbatim from \"A History of the City of Buffalo,\" published by the The Buffalo Evening News, 1908:\nThe Lackawanna Steel Company and the Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company\nThe founding of The Lackawanna Steel Company's plant at Buffalo preceded that of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company by three years, and came about as follows:\nOn March 23rd, 1899, Mr. Walter Scranton and Mr. Henry Wehrum came to Buffalo with a letter of introduction from Mr. Cadwalader, the attorney for the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, addressed to Mr. John G. Milburn.\nHearing the nature of their business, Mr. Milburn telephoned to John J. Albright, requesting him to come to his office to meet them. At that time they stated their thought of moving the Lackawanna plant from Scranton, to Buffalo, and a general discussion of the plan there took place.\nAs Mr. Albright and Mr. William A. Rogers had recently been discussing the subject of organizing a steel plant to be built in Buffalo, the former asked that the latter be brought into negotiations.\nMr. Rogers, happening to be in Cleveland on that day, was reached by telephone and requested to come back that night, so as to meet the party on the following morning. Meanwhile the question of a proper location was considered and the supposition reached that the best spot would be at some point down the Niagara River. This being submitted to Mr. Rogers, he pointed out to them that it would be many years before the improvement of that waterway would make it possible to float the large ore carriers to docks so situated, and, going to map, pointed to the only available spot near Buffalo for a plant of that character and magnitude.\nThe same afternoon the party took carriages and drove to South Buffalo, where they walked over several miles of territory and selected the site. The purchasing of the property was put into the hands of Mr. Albright, and on April fist the first payment of one thousand dollars was made to obtain an option on one of the pieces of property desired. During the month of April $1,095,430.98 was paid for real estate, so that the whole transaction was practically closed in about a month from the time Mr. Scranton and Mr. Wehrum first came. At he time these negotiations were started General Edmund Hayes was at Jekyl Island, but returned about the first of April and gave valuable assistance in putting the project through.\nMr. Milburn attended to the legal part of these negotiations, and as he was the president of the Pan-American Exposition, which was then being projected, the opinion generally prevailed that a site for the exposition was under consideration. This fact facilitated the getting of options at rtes satisfactory to the steel company During the month of April over two million dollars of the stock of the steel company was subscribed when the capital was increased later.\nThree years later the Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company came into existence as the fruit of a private car trip to Chicago, taken by some of these men of Buffalo.\nRogers, Brown & Company's iron manufacturing interests include a plant of two blast furnaces located at South Chicago, Illinois, -- a corporation known as The Iroquois Iron Company, in which Messrs. J. J. Albright, Edmund Hayes, and Stephen M. Clement, citizens of Buffalo, had been interested for several years, though they had never seen the property.\nMr. William A. Rogers, vice-president of the Chicago company, accordingly invited these stockholders to accompany him on one of his periodical visits. Mr. Frank H. 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Friggens and tells the true story of Marquette County's 1926 Mine Disaster. On a cold November day in 1926, fifty-one miners went to work in a western Marquette County iron ore mine in Michigan's upper peninsula and never came home. While working on several different levels of this 1,000 feet deep mine, the structure suffered a massive cave in, which sealed the fate of the miners who were fathers, brothers and sons of families living in Marquette County. The viewer of this documentary will hear the stories of some of the miners as told through their descendants. You'll also hear stories of the widows who went on to raise their families and an account of how one man managed to make it out alive by climbing up an eight hundred foot ladder to the surface of the mine. \"Barnes-Hecker: Memories Of A Misfortune\" is sure to appeal to anyone interested in mining or Michigan history. Narrator's name not given. Full screen in color. Released in 2001. Runtime 35 minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 223.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bxbgames.co.uk/index.php/tag/parappa-the-rapper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:04Z", "digest": "sha1:AAIWUJRIC2ABN45Q74SM62J3X4YH227Z", "length": 277, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bxbgames.co.uk", "title": "Parappa The Rapper \u2013 BXBGAMES", "raw_content": "BXB\u2019S BITS AND BOBS EPISODE 24 \u2013 JUST THE TWO OF US\nHello everybody and welcome to the twenty fourth episode of BXB\u2019s Bits and Bobs! A bi-weekly podcast where we talk about whatever we damn well please! This weeks show is a little short on manpower with only two of us able to\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Hornlux", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PGCQDCJLW5RPXN4NRD2HKXYPOKU4PAAS", "length": 81, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cameo.mfa.org", "title": "Hornlux - CAMEO", "raw_content": "Hornlux\nRetrieved from \"http://cameo.mfa.org/index.php?title=Hornlux&oldid=41179\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cammybean.kineo.com/2007/03/immersive-addictive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ORAZQXBIODBZ4WJM76EJC33P5CALVZ3A", "length": 1490, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cammybean.kineo.com", "title": "Cammy Bean's Learning Visions: Immersive = Addictive", "raw_content": "A couple of weeks ago, I participated in the eLearning Guild online presentation of their 360 Report on Immersive Learning Simulations hosted by Steve Wexler and Mark Oehlert. The conversation was initially focused on defining just what ILS is. I was of the naive mindset that ILS = dragons and virtual worlds and high-end 3D graphics and enormous budgets. Something that will be out of range for most organizations, at least for now.\nMark tried to set me straight on this point. By \"immersive\", what we actually mean is \"addictive.\" A game that you don't want to stop playing. This could be tetris or solitare. Low-end on the graphic scale, but addictive nonetheless.\nLots of us e-Learning designers have built plenty of games into courses: crossword puzzles; mini-jeopardy; drag and drop. I often find the use of these kinds of games to be somewhat gratuitous. Look, we made a game! Aren't we fun? Aren't we creative? The client asked for a game, and, boy, did we deliver.\nI suppose these types of games may actually add to the learning experience by providing repetition of learning points, but to call these games immersive or addictive? Learning designers will have to get a lot more creative in order to take these kinds of games to the next level....perhaps Patrick Dunn can provide us with some pointers on that. Karl Kapp often links to good examples of educational games, although these are typically created for the K-12 environment.\nLabels: e-learning, games, immersive learning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://candace-cameronbure.net/category/tv/the-view/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CTXGVA2422GQO7OPVUNHU2VCRFT4PB74", "length": 224, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "candace-cameronbure.net", "title": "\ufeff Candace Cameron Bure Online | \u00bb The View", "raw_content": "Category: The View\nThe View \u2013 December 8, 2016 HD Captures\n\u2013 The View > December 8, 2016\nCandace Announces That She\u2019s Leaving \u2018The View\u2019\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy decision,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really wonderful, and I\u2019m grateful.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cardwell-capital.ch/a-draft-law-on-the-voluntary-declaration-of-property-amnesty-and-an-extended-deadline-for-filing-notifications-on-owning-shares-in-foreign-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MDHNQFFFMGMIEXCBHFURJFCHAUP5BQWS", "length": 1083, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cardwell-capital.ch", "title": "Russian Tax | Cardwell Capital Inc.", "raw_content": "\u2190 Update on the Automatic Exchange of Information (\u201cAEOl\u201d) Global Standard\nCustody of Bearer Shares in Panama \u2192\nDraft law on the voluntary declaration of property (amnesty), and an extended deadline for filing notifications on owning shares in foreign companies\nThe draft law \u201cOn Voluntary Declaration by Individuals of Property and Bank Accounts (Deposits)\u201d (the \u201cDraft Law\u201d) was submitted to the Russian State Duma on 27 March 2015; it should motivate business owners to disclose their foreign property and facilitate tax-free restructuring of foreign assets.\nAmendments to the Tax Code requiring all Russian taxpayers to file notifications on owning shares in foreign companies, and on the establishment of foreign structures, before 1 April 2015 (the \u201cNotifications\u201d) entered into force from the beginning of the year. Russian taxpayers must also disclose controlled foreign companies (CFCs), and must pay taxes on their undistributed profits. And on 1 April 2015 the Federation Council approved a draft law extending the filing deadline for the Notifications until 15 June 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carlsherifiphotography.com/2014/04/13/the-2014-london-marathon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:50Z", "digest": "sha1:JZCHNB7NUZSWCS6AJ2GXZ4SDBNDG2FK2", "length": 588, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "carlsherifiphotography.com", "title": "The 2014 London Marathon \u2039 Carl Sherifi Photography", "raw_content": "The 2014 London Marathon\nIt\u2019s April and that means London Marathon time.\nI have the privilege of living in Blackheath and just a short walk from the start of the London Marathon, one of the the largest marathons in the world.\nThe weather was kind, once again, to the runners and spectators with blue skies and little wind. Thousands will put their stamina to the ultimate test over a gruelling 42.195 kilometres in the name of their chosen charity. This year also marks the first attempt by Britain\u2019s iconic athlete, Mo Farah, who will attempt to keep the pace with the seasoned regulars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 156.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catclinicatcherryhill.net/author/cat-clinic-at-cherry-hill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VU6KWG4BHCISG4VY3ZMFSY4YFAKPY53Y", "length": 2317, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "catclinicatcherryhill.net", "title": "Cat Clinic at Cherry Hill, Author at Cat Clinic at Cherry Hill", "raw_content": "Pay Attention To Your Cat\u2019s Fur Coat!\nCats tend to thrive on low-maintenance. Give them a litter box, a bowl of food and water, and you can leave them alone for days without any problems. That\u2019s a big reason why cats make wonderful pets \u2014 they\u2019re practically self-sufficient! They even groom themselves \u2014 most of their energy goes into perfecting their fur coat. Believe it or not, you can learn a lot about your cat\u2019s health by the state of its coat. If you notice something unusual about your cat\u2019s fur, you may want to investigate further. Your cat\u2019s fur coat is the first place you should look to detect any health concerns.\nWhat is my cat\u2019s coat telling me?\nUnkempt hair can be a sign that your cat is not feeling well \u2014 you know how consistently your cat grooms herself. On the other hand, if your cat is over-grooming herself to the point of becoming raw or scabbed, that could be another sign of danger. Your cat could be under stress, or she could have a painful skin condition, such as acute dermatitis, which is caused by allergies, fleas, or insect bites. She could also be suffering from arthritis \u2014 stiff joints may be preventing her from twisting her body to reach certain areas to groom herself.\nAnother reason your cat\u2019s fur is deteriorating could be a lack of vitamins. Your cat should be getting a nutritious, balanced diet of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. When choosing cat food, make sure the label says it meets the standards set by the American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), which means that the food meets the minimum nutritional requirements for your cat.\nShould I be concerned about shedding?\nShedding is perfectly natural, so you have nothing to worry about, unless there are signs of balding or matting. When you spend more time with your cat and you become familiar with her behavior, you will be able to catch abnormalities early on. If you pay close attention to her behavior and appearance, you may be able to keep her from getting sicker.\nIf you think your cat might have a health issue, or if it\u2019s simply time for a check-up, head over to the Cat Clinic at Cherry Hill! We offer a wide variety of medical services that will keep your cat purring, meowing, and thriving. Give us a call at (856) 662-2662 to schedule an appointment with our feline-loving doctors!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 27633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cayman27.ky/2019/02/temporary-fencing-concern-kaaboo-received-permit-approval/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTNBBG56Z762LRNQ4SC5TWUK5LN425KN", "length": 893, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cayman27.ky", "title": "Temporary fencing concern: KAABOO received permit approval \u2013 Cayman27", "raw_content": "A social media video of temporary fencing for the festival installed along public beach has provoked the ire of some residents.\nThe video was shared by local activist Billy Adam on Monday (11 February) and in it, he claims the fencing breaches the Prescription Law.\nHowever, KAABOO partner and Chief Brand Officer Jason Felts said the fencing was approved for construction along the music festival site\u2019s western perimeter on Seven Mile Beach.\nHe said, \u201cA temporary fence has been installed as the law requires, the fence is set back from the water line and public rights of way have been kept clear to ensure beach access is not impacted. Permitting for the fence was approved as part of the temporary event application by the building control unit of the department of planning. 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(SOURCE: CBS2)\nONTARIO (CBSLA) \u2014 It\u2019s a promise from the larger-than-life NBA dad and reality TV star many doubted, but LaVar Ball kicked off his new basketball league\u2019s inaugural season Thursday with dozens of players hoping the reach their hoop dreams.\n\u201cThis is my dream, just to play basketball and not worry about nothing,\u201d said Seattle Baller Jamichael Morgan. He is one of 64 players, along with Ball\u2019s son Lamelo, taking part in LaVar\u2019s new, eight-team Junior Basketball Association. Lamelo\u2019s older brother Lonzo currently plays for the Lakers.\nJBA is described as an alternative to the NCAA for those who, for whatever reason, cannot attend college.\n\u201cThis is a big opportunity, not only for kids that come straight out of high school,\u201d said Moises Burgos with the New York Ballers. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s kids that think if they don\u2019t go Division 1 college, they think their dreams are over, and, honestly, it\u2019s not so. I thank LaVar a lot for this opportunity.\u201d\nThe senior Ball knows many doubted him when he set out to create this league, but he said that\u2019s because they didn\u2019t understand what he was trying to do.\n\u201cI\u2019m not competing with no G league, not competing with no NCAA. I\u2019m doing my own thing,\u201d Ball told CBS2 News. \u201cWhen you get a bunch of guys like this, a bunch of dogs all in one room, it\u2019s a beautiful product.\u201d\nFans seem to like what they\u2019ve seen so far.\n\u201cTo me, it\u2019s innovative,\u201d Marcial Sigila of Rialto told CBS2. \u201cIt\u2019s showcasing what the up-and-coming talent is going to provide us.\u201d\n\u201cI believe it\u2019s a very exploitative system, the college system forcing kids to play for free before they can chase their dreams,\u201d said Clif Means of Oakland. \u201cGolfers and tennis players and hockey players skip the college process all the time.\u201d\nThe attendance at the JBA\u2019s inaugural game at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario Thursday was not great, but players are confident more fans will come as the season progresses.\nAs for Ball, he\u2019s not sweating it. He said if he\u2019d listen to the haters and doubters, he never would have gotten the league off the ground in the first place.\nFor now, JBA games can only be watched on Facebook Live.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cccengineers.com/beneficial-uses-of-the-steam-generator-verbal-jint/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:13Z", "digest": "sha1:M4RZ6TT4IBUVEMWNHNJQTWCCHEB2CP3T", "length": 3513, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cccengineers.com", "title": "Beneficial Uses Of The Steam Generator-verbal jint \u2013 qqzb.cc,www.cnool.net,www.cqpx.cc,\u706b\u725b\u89c6\u9891,haha\u89c6\u9891", "raw_content": "Business You will definitely stand to benefit if you choose to own a steam machine. These machines are designed with a unique controlled circulation system that also has counter flow making it very useful. As a result of this you will stand to enjoy many operational benefits associated with the generator. Some of these operational benefits include quick startup capability and good response to load skills, greater fuel to steam efficiencies, and a low space and weight requirement. In addition to these benefits, you will be able to reduce blow down and reduce water wastage, and you will be sure to get a higher-quality of consistent steam output. However, in order to receive these benefits you may need to understand how the generator works: Steam Generators Exchanges Heat : A steam generator can be used in many different ways, however, one of its main functions is to harness liberated energy as heat. This heat is very useful in providing both electrical and mechanical energy. In order to do this the generator works by increasing the temperature of an exchange medium like oil. This oil will then be circulated throughout a closed circuit and then be used to heat up your reservoir of water without .ing in contact with the water. By doing this you effectively covert your heat source into useable energy without contaminating the water with the oil. Generating Useful Steam for Energy : The generator also serves another beneficial function which is to generate steam and this basically involves heating the oil to generate steam. This can be done through varying methods like a water bath. However, a popular method involves heating a liquid and then channeling it into smaller pipes to increase its contact with water. Once there is contact with the water a rapid exchange of heat will take place, as well as a large amount of steam generated. There are also several steam producing plants across the globe that generate steam through modern nuclear and coal power plants. Steam Generators Converts Heat to Electricity : While you can easily recover heat through your heat recovery steam generator , a supercritical steam is usually overloaded with energy. By applying pressure or forcing steam through a steam turbine machine, you will be able to convert the steam energy into mechanical energy. The dynamics of producing mechanical energy is that the high pressure steam will push against all the blades of the turbine creating a huge shift and rotating of the shaft. After producing the mechanical energy, by further process, this mechanical energy can be converted into electricity. Generators are an excellent way of using water as a natural source of power. The truth of the matter is that technological advances have encouraged many individuals to design different types of machines to increase the efficiency of using water as a useful energy source. Not only can steam generate electricity, but steam power can even be used to power a number of machines like trains and boats, which are used to transport people and cargo. To preserve our environment, a number of .panies are leaning towards a natural renewable source of energy like steam energy. Using steam for electricity will reduce the pollutants in the atmosphere, and it is also much healthier for our respiratory system. About the Author: \u76f8\u5173\u7684\u4e3b\u9898\u6587\u7ae0\uff1a\nStudent Loan Consolidation Rates Set To Increase On July 1-roselip\nA Description Of Wood For Hardwood Panels-freyja\nship+engine+parts Posts \u2013 Page 1 \u2013 ArticleSnatch.com-holle\u6811\u5148\u751f\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 380, "original_length": 23125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cecilbuffington.com/photo3_51.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VZZO3F77FWVCPLDYSLUMUGMEVCKU77EN", "length": 5281, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "cecilbuffington.com", "title": "\"PORCH SITTING\" WITH DORSEY BROOKS", "raw_content": "'PORCH SITTING' WITH DORSEY BROOKS\n( EDITOR'S NOTE: Michael Helms is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jefferson )\nMy secretary calls me in my office and she says, \u201cDorsey is here and wants to know if you have time to sit on the porch.\u201d I say, \u201csure, send him in.\u201d\nDorsey Brooks remembers that his father used to sit on the porch as people rode their wagons to and from town. It was common for people to direct their horses into the yard, get off the wagons, sit a while on the porch, and talk about their life before heading on their way.\nWhat makes \u201cmy porch\u201d a place that feels like home for Dorsey is that it used to be his home back in the seventies. When he comes into the church office, he sees the layout the way it used to be and not just the way it is, commenting where the living room and the bedrooms used to be.\nBut long before there was ever a home on 81 Institute Street, it was the site of Martin Institute, the first privately endowed educational institute in the United States. Dorsey has a picture of the two-story brick building, crowned with a belfry, hanging in his home. He also has a picture of that place burned into his mind because that is where he received most of his education as a boy and teenager.\nLately I've noticed a tear or two in Dorsey's eyes as we sit on the porch. As he recalls all that has happened in his life, the good times and the difficult ones, he eventually turns his thoughts to God. He sounds like the psalmist who wrote: \u201cI remember the days of long ago, I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done ( Psalms 143:5 ). The tears come from the well of thanksgiving and praise. Dorsey realizes that few are blessed to live as long as he has or stay as active for so long.\nFor most of the 99-year olds, the greatest days of their lives were long ago. Yet Dorsey continues to celebrate life and others have helped him celebrate past achievements as recently as last month in Tucker, Georgia by naming the Tucker High School baseball field \u201cDorsey Brooks Field.\u201d Dorsey was on hand two years ago when the school played its first game on the field and he was honored by getting to throw out the first pitch. Last month, Dorsey, his wife Diane, Dorsey's four children, a group from his Sunday School Class at First Baptist Church, and about 100 Tucker supporters were on hand for the dedication ceremony.\nDorsey has been given the title: \u201cFather of Tucker Baseball,\u201d having developed the program from scratch in 1947. Not only did he coach baseball: he coached football, basketball and track. In addition to all those duties, he taught physics and had to maintain the fields and the gymnasium.\nHe put Tucker on the map with thirteen straight regional titles in baseball and led the baseball team in 1956 to the school's first state championship in any sport.\nMany members of the 1956 championship team, now in their 70s, were on hand for the ceremony. To these men, Dorsey is still referred to as \u201cCoach.\u201d\nBeing successful, 'believing you can win,\u201d as Dorsey puts it, gave him a platform to teach and guide young men in areas where their decisions about life counted the most. While everyone praised Dorsey for being a winner, it was clear that the highest praise was reserved for Dorsey's character.\nDorsey has changed a lot of people's lives by his positive attitude and encouragement. Whether it's the children in the Incentive Reward Program he started at Jefferson Middle School in 2006 or his teaching the Baraca Sunday school Class at the First Baptist Church, Dorsey has always been about trying to make the lives of other people better.\nThere was a time when life moved a little slower and it wasn't unusual for people to stop and visit with others on a front porch. Whenever Dorsey stops by or whenever I visit with him and his wife Diane, I usually can count on getting some coaching. Dorsey has lived long enough to have some wisdom, so I listen like a pitcher listens to a manager when they have a chat on the mound. While he would not think of himself as a person who doles out great insight, you can't sit on the porch wih Dorsey long without picking up a nugget of truth that he has found through his long journey of faith.\nMy guess is that if we all did a little more porch sitting, listening and sharing with each other, all of our win-loss records might improve.\nReprinted from the May 7 issue of the Jackson Herald.\nCoach Dorsey Brooks with Jefferson High School 1964 basketball captains Gary Brooks and Cecil Buffington. Mr. Brooks served as principal and head basketball coach in 1964\nMr. Dorsey D. Brooks in 1964.\nMr. Brooks has been called \"The Father Of Tucker Baseball\".\nCoach Brooks visits with a member of his 1956 Tucker High School state championship baseball team during the field name dedication ceremony.\nCoach Brooks addresses the crowd at the field name dedication ceremony.\nTucker supporters with Coach Brooks at the field dedication ceremony on April 12, 2014.\nThe Brooks family at the field name dedication ceremony on April 12, 2014.\nCongratulations Coach Dorsey D. Brooks on the naming of the Tucker Tigers baseball field in your honor.\nAt the 2013 Jefferson Memorial Stadium ~ 50th Anniversary Tribute: L-R - Gary Brooks, Roberta Brooks, Dorsey Brooks and Diane Brooks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 6050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/18170/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:16Z", "digest": "sha1:W4KACJDXTZIYC5M4ATLHHBPL5I3IDSQW", "length": 377, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "centaur.reading.ac.uk", "title": "An agent-based architecture for participatory sensing platform - CentAUR", "raw_content": "An agent-based architecture for participatory sensing platform\nSun, Y. and Nakata, K. (2010) An agent-based architecture for participatory sensing platform. In: 4th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2010). IEEE, pp. 392-400. ISBN 9781424478217\nTo link to this item DOI: 10.1109/IUCS.2010.5666187\nThe symposium was held in Beijing, China, 18-19 October 2010.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://centralmonews.net/art/sedalia-painter-damon-freed-releases-new-book-twonism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RQFACLKJXPJG6XXSM3QOAGP7SCFBZHEF", "length": 5308, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "centralmonews.net", "title": "Sedalia painter Damon Freed releases new book: \u2018Twonism\u2019 | Central Mo News", "raw_content": "Home Art Sedalia painter Damon Freed releases new book: \u2018Twonism\u2019\nSedalia painter Damon Freed releases new book: \u2018Twonism\u2019\nIt is the dream of every artist and writer to one day have their works published. For Sedalia, Mo., painter Damon Freed, that dream became a reality with the recent release of his book, \u201cTwonism (Thoughts, Essays, and Poems on Life and Art).\u201d\nAs the title suggests, the book encompasses Freed\u2019s Twonism (pronounced twONE-izm) style of painting, essays, poems, and philosophies on facets of his life and the art world. Twonism is a style Freed developed while living in New York City, after being inspired by another abstract artist.\n\u201cTwonism came to me while standing in my studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn,\u201d Freed said. \u201cAnd I remember, literally, standing up, I think I had just been to the Barnett Newman show in Washington, D.C., and I viewed the \u2018Stations of the Cross,\u2019 which are epic paintings. It\u2019s a series he did in the \u201840s, I believe he began it then. I was reading a book about Barnett Newman on his stripes in his paintings, and he referred to them as \u2018zips.\u2019 Something clicked. In that moment, Twonism came to mind. So, right around in there it was blossoming. I needed something I could latch onto as a title for the book. It seemed appropriate, it was ambiguous.\u201d\nWhile abstract, Freed said all of his paintings are grounded in the real world \u2013 inspired by a wide range of objects and experiences ranging from a cities grid work to emotions. He finds inspiration in his experiences and puts them to canvas through a variety of paint types such as oil and acrylic.\n\u201cEmotions, these are all real things,\u201d Freed said. \u201cMaybe we consider them far-fetched but emotion is a very real part of life.\u201d\nWhile abstract art can mean something new to every individual who views the piece, Freed noted there is some intention behind the pieces.\n\u201cSo the art, the paintings are also ambiguous,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think the artistic style is my own, but it is a labor of love of course. It\u2019s abstract, I like to say non-objective abstract. I think in those terms sometimes because that means creating a painting without forms, objects from the world is what I mean by that. So no objects, no recognizable objects \u2026 It\u2019s not narrative, I\u2019m not interested in telling a story.\u201d\nAs the book transitions to the essay section, Freed inserted some of the abstract Twonism paintings on the page, a decision he said was intentional to illustrate each part. Freed said the essays are accumulated from what he describes as \u201cstudio notes\u201d he\u2019s been keeping on his computer for more than 15 years.\nThe subject matter ranges from paintings and the different facets of putting pieces together, emotions, thoughts on random topics, and advice for young artists \u2013 which Freed said hits home, in part of his role as a teacher at the University of Central Missouri and State Fair Community College.\n\u201cThat\u2019s an important part of the book, teaching,\u201d Freed said. \u201cThat\u2019s my career, part of it.\u201d\nA large part of the book symbolizes motivation. The stages of creation for an artist range from \u201cattack,\u201d as Freed put it, to approaching the medium in a more subtle method. Freed said his work now shows more maturity, based on how he\u2019s grown as an artist.\nFreed\u2019s brother gave him the advice to put his poetry at the end of the book, giving it a good bookend and something \u201csoft\u201d to end the book. As with his paintings, Freed uses his daily experiences as motivation for both his essays and his poetry, giving them a grounding in real life. While it may seem some of his poems have a sense of duality between the topic matter and other aspects of life, Freed disagreed with that point of view.\n\u201cDuality refers to a potential opposite situation, and I don\u2019t believe there\u2019s a break,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe in opposites, that they don\u2019t exist. I believe that there\u2019s a connection, always \u2026 Balance is a crucial element in what we do.\u201d\n\u201cTwonism\u201d is a labor of love project for Freed, based on an idea he had to publish a book in 2005.\n\u201cIt was always my hope to do so, and that just came about,\u201d he said. \u201cI began writing in 2005 seriously, to a degree. And I thought \u2018why not, one day\u2019 but it was so in the distant future I couldn\u2019t perceive ever having done it. But now here it is, and it\u2019s taken a couple years to put it all together.\u201d\nFreed\u2019s favorite poem is called \u201cA Song of Greyness,\u201d which is the final poem of the book. It again offers a sense of ambiguity in the words, and carries a weight Freed said he holds close to his heart.\n\u201cIt\u2019s hopeful, it\u2019s optimistic \u2026 I think that\u2019s the core of what I do. It\u2019s optimism. I air on that side of things.\n\u201cArt is about light, and it\u2019s about \u2026 we work with color as a painter and it\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s about beauty and letting people know, in our own way, about the positives.\u201d\n\u201cTwonism (Thoughts, Essays, and Poems on Life and Art)\u201d is available for purchase via Lulu by clicking here. The book is also available to view for free via Issuu by clicking here. Follow Freed on Facebook here. As always, be sure to like Central Mo News on Facebook for the latest in arts and entertainment.\nTags: abstractartbookDamon FreedessaysnewpainterphilosophypoetryreleaseTwonism\nRetrograde Brings a Blast From the Past\nKubrick\u2019s \u2018Full Metal Jacket\u2019 makes best of Netflix for December", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chesterfield.library.link/resource/Ngrj0fx-0dk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:11Z", "digest": "sha1:S7E226GYDYXO54FVHWXI5CZ2GHH7DM5C", "length": 214, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "chesterfield.library.link", "title": "Chesterfield Township Library - Resource not available...", "raw_content": "American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States\n3 Items that previously were related to the Organization American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://churchofgodatessex.com/?page_id=90", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SYSDR7GSJYB7U2NPBCKQ7U7YKQNTKNM7", "length": 1002, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "churchofgodatessex.com", "title": "Contact Us | Church of God at Essex", "raw_content": "I would like to introduce myself and extend a warm welcome to you to attend services at THE CHURCH OF GOD \u2013 403 DORSEY AVENUE.\nWhere I recently became the 4th pastor in the congregation\u2019s 80 year history. I was born and raised in Essex. Attended Sunday School here as a young boy and was saved here at the age of 17. Graduated from Kenwood High School and from a local trade school. I am a husband and a father. I have worked in the transmission business for 25 years and still work part-time at Jim Jennings Transmission. I consider the calling to preach the gospel to be the most important calling on earth. That is why I want to share it with as many as I can in my Community.\nPastor Douglas C. Koerner Sr.\nThere is a great need in our country today for Godly direction in the lives of men and women.\nMatthew 11:28 says, \u201cCome unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.\u201d\nDouglas C. Koerner Sr.\nContact us via phone or mail.\nThe Church of God is wheelchair accessible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 12916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cinemademerde.com/reviews?page=6&%3Bamp%3Bpcode=ycMhaPdhKdFSO6x3Yqatx9Xvr9o9J%203b&userid=8408&v=2%27A%3D0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:A5AQUU4ERZESQMN4F6LNWHNOV7UZXYZ6", "length": 62, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cinemademerde.com", "title": "All Movies | Cinema de Merde", "raw_content": "A monument to deluded self-importance\nCross-country sociopaths", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 2221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://citizenwill.org/2009/10/19/ifc-mens-shelter-one-neighbors-letter-of-support/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FPNRDZHOGUDADERHS76R6HD74B6Q7DL7", "length": 4250, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "citizenwill.org", "title": "IFC Men\u2019s Shelter: One Neighbor\u2019s Letter of Support \u00ab Citizen Will", "raw_content": "IFC Men\u2019s Shelter: One Neighbor\u2019s Letter of Support\nPosted by WillR under ChapelHill , LocalPolitics\nI have read over 100 emails detailing concerns around moving the IFC\u2019s Men\u2019s Shelter to Homestead Rd. Not all emails have been positive, many have very good questions that need to be laid to rest. I\u2019m working on another post that condenses and highlights those specific neighborhood concerns.\nHere\u2019s a letter in support of the facility from Peggy Yonuschot:\nDear Mayor Foy and Members of the Town Council:\nI write in support of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC) with respect to the proposed location of the men\u2019s residential facility at 1315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. I also write in response to some of the fear and hateful rhetoric about people who are homeless that has been expressed by some of my neighbors to the Town Council as well as posted around my neighborhood at mailbox locations and the Tot Lot.\nMy home is in the Vineyard Square neighborhood, adjacent to Homestead Park. I live within walking distance to Project Homestart (the IFC facility for women and children who are homeless), Freedom House Recovery Center and the Seymour Senior Center as well as Homestead Park playground, playing fields and aquatic center. I have a young son and we walk to swim lessons, soccer practice and the swingset several times a week. I have experienced no adverse or negative impact as a result of living in close vicinity to any of the human services providers operating nearby. I do not view the proposed location of the men\u2019s residential facility as a threat to my family\u2019s safety.\nThe shelter has to go somewhere. It is my understanding that the proposed location was chosen after an extensive search by Town of Chapel Hill staff and in consult with myriad community partners. If IFC, their community partners and other entities with the expertise and experience needed to work effectively with people who are homeless believe that this is the best possible location for this facility in our town, then we should support them.\nI have every confidence that the IFC will continue to work with community partners and surrounding neighborhoods to mitigate any potential negative impact. I have every confidence that the Chapel Hill Police Department will continue to enforce existing town ordinances and other regulations that address some of the real concerns that have been expressed about locating the shelter near a park. It is my hope that you will not allow misunderstanding and fear to derail the presence of a well-managed shelter in Chapel Hill, which is a benefit to the entire community as well as individuals who are homeless.\nThe individuals who are contacting you to express fear and hateful rhetoric do not speak for me or my family or all of our neighbors. I invite my neighbors who are gathering to speak against the IFC and the proposed site of the men\u2019s residential facility to consider how they might feel if it were their son, brother or father who was without resource and in need of shelter. I believe that it is by grace that it is not me or my loved one currently in need. I am grateful to the IFC for providing an absolutely critical array of services in offer of assistance to those families and individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.\nPeggy Yonuschot\n2 responses to \u201cIFC Men\u2019s Shelter: One Neighbor\u2019s Letter of Support\u201d\nThanks, Will, for giving a platform to another viewpoint on this. I also, btw, think the town needs to step up to its responsibility in assisting IFC with the siting. While the current location has its drawbacks, I doubt the IFC would be looking for a new place right now if not for the town pushing them out.\nThe last two election cycles I was one of two candidates who said clearly that not only does the IFC needed to move from existing location but the Town has a role beyond approving that of siting the facility. Several years ago, prior to UNC\u2019s land donation (under Roger Perry\u2019s guidance), I suggested that the Town provide logistical support to the IFC for identifying appropriate locations.\nAfter last night\u2019s presentation, I\u2019m confident that we can pull our community together on this issue and find a satisfactory solution.\nChapelHill and LocalPolitics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clairelouise.net/lifestyle-halloween-horror-nights-at-universal-studios-florida-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2XM5XK5SMA4IT25STJIG2MS5EJSGR4FP", "length": 4403, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "clairelouise.net", "title": "Lifestyle: Halloween Horror Nights At Universal Studios, Florida - Claire Louise", "raw_content": "Unlike our Disney day, we were in Universal Studios all day long, and not just for the Halloween Horror Nights event. We knew that being there so early might mean we\u2019d get some line-skipping privileges, so we decided to research. I\u2019m pretty glad we (and by we, I mean Dougie\u2026) did, because it meant we knew exactly where to be to get to the front of the queues immediately after we were allowed.\nThanks to this Orlando Informer blog, we knew to wait in one of four holding areas prior to admittance to any of the eight haunted houses that had been set up for the night. This guaranteed us \u2018Early Admission\u2019 in effect, because we were able to stay between general admission and the new night being set up. They recommended we wait in and around Finnegan\u2019s, an Irish Bar & Grill, and I\u2019m glad they did, because it meant I could have a cheeky vodka to calm my nerves! We saw plenty of HHN veterans in there, and our excitement grew and grew! As soon as 5.45pm hit (15 minutes before people who had not been there all day could enter!), we were set loose, providing we had this trusty wristband.\nThe houses available on the night for this year (it changes annually) were:\nThe Walking Dead: The End of the Line\nDracula Untold: Reign of Blood\nGiggles & Gore Inc.\nRoanoke: Cannibal Colony\nThey were all excellent, although the \u2018Dollhouse of the Damned\u2019, \u2018Halloween\u2018 and the \u2018Giggles and Gore\u2019 ones were probably my faves \u2013 they were perpetually frightening! I must admit, \u2018The Walking Dead\u2018 house (which was majorly promoted) was slightly overrated, and even Dougie, who actually watches the show, agreed. I wouldn\u2019t say I was in any way disappointed, though! The only one we sadly missed was the \u2018Dracula\u2018 one (boo), because the line unexpectedly closed when we reached the front and we didn\u2019t have time to return later.\nThe points to note are that the lines are pretty long, so be prepared to wait. You can buy Express passes, but honestly, I\u2019d say they would only be worth it on the really peak nights like Halloween itself. The longest we probably waited was around 25 minutes \u2013 not bad at all!\nIt\u2019s also important to remember that they (the zombies, witches, murderers, and so on!) won\u2019t touch you \u2013 but you can\u2019t touch them, either (duh!). No matter how convincing they are, they\u2019re actors, aka people like you and me! Another fun thing to do (if you\u2019re feeling brave\u2026) is to try and mess with them. Stare them out! Sometimes, that comes back to bite you, other times, THEY genuinely look like the ones who are weirded out. Score! Also, please, please, don\u2019t dress up in costume for this event. They won\u2019t let you in, because they need to be sure they can differentiate between you and the performers. By all means apply for next year though\u2026 imagine how cool that would be!\nOnce twilight had passed and the whole thing was plunged into darkness, it was even more thrilling. Loads of rides were open, too, but we spent our time focused on the Halloween Horrors which were at hand. There was still plenty to do in the park even when not exploring a house \u2013 the Scare Zones, especially the one based on The Purge, were absolutely fantastic. For those who don\u2019t know the concept of \u2018The Purge\u2019 film, it\u2019s basically about a fictional, annual 12 hour window in the USA where all crime is legal, law enforcement ceases, and emergency services do not operate. This leads to carnage and chaos, understandably, but there\u2019s creepy propaganda going on to tell American citizens that it\u2019s to \u2018protect\u2019 them \u2013 but of course, only the rich are protected. The movie may have highly political connotations, but when the concept is brought into \u2018reality\u2019 in the middle of the streets of Universal Studios, it\u2019s delightfully terrifying. Being chased with knives, watching people being auctioned off to be slaughtered, and being accosted by chainsaws may not SOUND like fun, but when it\u2019s all fun and games, it may well become the highlight of the night.\nAll in all, I\u2019d recommend this night to anyone, even the faint hearted, like me. Okay, I\u2019d definitely say \u201cdon\u2019t go alone!\u201d, and I\u2019d say \u201chave a drink to steady your nerves!\u201d, too, but realistically you\u2019re not going to go alone anyway, and having a drink actually probably makes you more hysterical. 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You will earn more than minimum wage but will be limited in your earning potential even after years of employment.\nIn many areas of the United States, the average cna salary and pay scale falls between about $23,000 and $28,000 per year. Some nursing assistants will make a little less than $23,000 and some nursing assistants will be able to earn more than $28,000. These are just average pay rates.\nMost nursing assistants in small town areas do not earn a high income. In fact, some of the nursing assistants in those areas will only earn about $20,000 per year. Incomes tend to be lower in communities will the cost of living is not very expensive.\nYou might find that your salary is higher as a nursing assistant if you live in a city (or even a larger town). In addition, you might receive a higher salary or pay scale if you live and work in a community where the cost of living is quite high.\nMost certified nursing assistants earn a higher income with more years working in the field. For instance, CNAs often receive a raise after their first year of work. Most employers will give their nursing assistants a slight increase in pay each year.\nAfter working for four or five years as a CNA, you might see a more significant increase in your salary. This seems to be particularly true if you work for the same employer for an extended period of time. Individuals who have worked as nursing assistants for more than ten years typically see the highest wages.\nTraveling nurses often have a higher pay scale and salary than nurses who work within a healthcare facility. Nurses who travel between more than one nursing care facility or nurses who travel to see more than one patient each day (or week), can expect to earn a higher salary.\nNursing assistants who work for home health agencies can often earn as much as $15 per hour. Individuals who cover night-shifts with clients can sometimes earn even more money per hour. The same is often true of certified nursing assistants who work in healthcare facilities; employers pay more for individuals who must work overnight.\nIt is not unheard of for a nursing assistant to earn as high as $35,000 per year in some situations. Individuals with advanced training or skills can expect to earn a higher salary than nursing assistants with the most basic training. CNAs can earn a high rate of pay if they work in supervisory positions over other nursing assistants.\nYou will want to give careful considerations to the average salaries for nursing assistants in your area. 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Music industry? Not so much - The Collegian", "raw_content": "Music is cool. Music industry? Not so much\nMusic is awesome, and it\u2019s more accessible than ever. For $10 a month, all of the music you could ever want is yours.\nStreaming services have made discovering artists, albums and songs easier than it has ever been. Gone are the days of having to actually purchasing an album in order for you to figure out if you enjoy it. Now, you can simply stream it, form an opinion on it, and move forward from there.\nThe Copyright Royalty Board recently announced that artists would be receiving a pay raise from the streaming revenue. Their cut went up from 10.5 percent of the revenue to 15.1 percent. That\u2019s good, but it\u2019s probably not enough, seeing as with the old revenue share it took 1,500 streams on an album for it to equate to an album sale, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).\nTo put this in even greater perspective, an artist receives approximately $0.0038 per stream from Spotify.\nOkay, well then there\u2019s physical sales. Those should help the artist a lot more, right? Wrong, according to BBC, artists are only paid a little over $1 per album sale.\nWell that leaves a whole lot of money on the table that isn\u2019t going to the artist, both in streaming and album sales. That\u2019s where the record companies come in.\nThese behemoth corporations take in more than double the artist\u2019s revenue, and then proceed to try and take more. It\u2019s a system that\u2019s been in place since music began being mass produced, and it\u2019s one that has left many an artist mistreated.\nPrince called record contracts \u201cslavery,\u201d Michael Jackson had a lengthy legal battle with Sony over his 2001 album \u201cInvincible,\u201d and, more recently, there was Kesha\u2019s legal battle over her contract that would force her to work with a man she said sexually abused her.\nThe stories go on and on, but those stories then beg the question, how can consumers support their favorite artists without supporting the corporations that tear them down?\nThere is no right answer, but buying their music always helps, even though it also helps the record companies. Tell your friends about your favorite artists. And buying artist\u2019s merchandise, which is usually sold independently from record companies, is another great avenue of support.\nIt\u2019s also nice to see artists like Chance the Rapper and Run the Jewels exposing the benefits of being independent artists. This, of course, is not as easy as they make it seem\u2013record companies do provide a lot of musical, social and promotional resources that help artists succeed\u2013but artists like Chance and RTJ are showing other young artists that it is possible to succeed without the industry\u2019s help.\nMusic is changing, but record companies aren\u2019t. So, it is up to us, the consumers, to try and support our favorite musicians the best ways we can.\nShould I care what my siblings think of my boyfriend?\nThe dark abyss of internet comment sections", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 5118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collider.com/begin-again-trailer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JQQ4L6DKYDSL3Z4BXUICQOETHMKSFDUU", "length": 2344, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "collider.com", "title": "BEGIN AGAIN Trailer Featuring Mark Ruffalo | Collider", "raw_content": "First Trailer and Poster for John Carney\u2019s BEGIN AGAIN Starring Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley [Updated]\nThe Weinstein Company has released the first trailer for director John Carney\u2019s (Once) new film Begin Again, which was formerly titled Can a Song Save Your Life?. Mark Ruffalo stars as a washed up A&R man who discovers a young singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) soon after being fired, and the two set out to change each other\u2019s fortunes for the better while crafting a unique concept album. I caught the pic at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall where it was a bit of a crowd pleaser, and while I liked it well enough, the song\u2019s aren\u2019t really all that memorable and it falls quite short of Carney\u2019s previous effort. Nevertheless, Ruffalo and Knightley give a pair of swell performances, and Adam Levine is surprisingly strong as Knightley\u2019s rock star ex-boyfriend.\nHit the jump to watch the trailer and click here to read Matt\u2019s review from TIFF. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener, Mos Def, Cee-Lo Green, and James Corden. Begin Again opens in limited release on July 4th. [Update: We\u2019ve added the first poster as well.]\nThe latest film from writer-director John Carney (ONCE), BEGIN AGAIN is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful music together. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major label. But the trappings of his new-found fame soon tempt Dave to stray, and a reeling, lovelorn Gretta is left on her own. Her world takes a turn for the better when Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a disgraced record-label exec, stumbles upon her performing on an East Village stage and is immediately captivated by her raw talent. From this chance encounter emerges an enchanting portrait of a mutually transformative collaboration, set to the soundtrack of a summer in New York City.\nDiego Luna Talks CESAR CHAVEZ, the Challenges of Getting the Film Made,\u2026\nFirst Voice Actor Cast for Disney/Marvel\u2019s BIG HERO 6 Is T.J. Miller\n\u2022 Adam Levine \u2022 Begin Again \u2022 Can a Song Save Your Life? \u2022 Catherine Keener \u2022 Cee Lo Green \u2022 Entertainment \u2022 Hailee Steinfeld \u2022 James Corden \u2022 Keira Knightley \u2022 Mark Ruffalo \u2022 Mos Def \u2022 Movie \u2022 Posters \u2022 Trailer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://communitypsychologypractice.blogspot.com/2015/10/force-feeding-in-mauritania.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4F5BFKFH5BCPPGOGRC7NUCFAPSPQFY32", "length": 298, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "communitypsychologypractice.blogspot.com", "title": "Community Psychology Practice: Force-feeding in Mauritania", "raw_content": "Karthik April 10, 2018 at 3:22 AM\nIt is of critical importance for community engagement practitioners to develop a knowledge of the dominant view in policymaking that technology will determine the cultural, economic, political and social dimensions of urban life.\nStrategies of Community Engagement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 189.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://complexmeme.net/thoughts/?currentPage=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7VCD5YAGDCZQPP7JX2DGG3NYASHCEVSA", "length": 5955, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "complexmeme.net", "title": "ComplexMeme - Thoughts", "raw_content": "Memetic Defenses Enabled\nComment moderation has been enabled to stem the tide of irrelevant and poorly written commercial solicitations.\ntagged internet, meta\nWhat's the Default?\nThere\u2019s a lot of talk about the US debt ceiling and whether that will be raised or not by the August 2 deadline. The odd thing about this is that it\u2019s always framed in terms of an impending default, when it\u2019s not clear that will happen at all. Especially when that\u2019s expressly prohibited by the US Constitution (Amendment 14, Section 4):\nClearly, the amendment addresses debt in the context of the Civil War in particular, but it\u2019s not unreasonable to read that as a blanket prohibition on a default on treasury bonds. So on August 2, absent legislation, we\u2019ll be in the following state:\nCongress has said \u201cno more borrowing\u201d.\nCongress has determined how money can be printed, and the answer is \u201cnot without more borrowing\u201d (money is printed by the Fed and exchanged for new Treasury Bonds).\nCongress has specified the amount of taxes to be taken in.\nCongress has specified how much is to be spent and on what. (But it\u2019s a higher amount than the revenues provided for in 2!)\nTreasury Bonds specify when they need to be repaid and for how much, and the Constitution says Congress can\u2019t just decide to not pay those. (There are also a few other obligations the Constitution says Congress can\u2019t decide not to pay, including judicial salaries.)\nThat\u2019s an odd state, as of yet untested under US law. Clearly, something\u2019s got to give. The executive department must faithfully meet conditions 1-5, which is impossible. The Constitution gives only Congress the authority to alter 1-4, and no one the authority to alter 5.\nSince the debt ceiling law and the most recent budget are in some sense contradictory, and Congress is the one with the power to alter those conditions, I think the relevant question is how to interpret the actions of Congress regarding those laws. I can think of a two reasonable possibilities:\nOne: The budget implicitly raises the debt ceiling to cover the difference between revenues and expenses, since otherwise that law would be requiring the impossible. (Bill Clinton seems to take almost this view, but it\u2019s a way better argument to suggest that Congress implicitly loosened 4 than to say the Constitution gives the president the authority to violate 1 in order to fulfill 5. Both are required by the Constitution, it would be quite an ass-pull to say that Am. 14 Sec. 4 gives additional emergency borrowing powers to the Executive Branch.)\nTwo: The debt ceiling law, unless explicitly repealed, implicitly limits spending after the debt ceiling is reached to revenues taken in. The budget didn\u2019t amend that restriction, so the restriction still applies. Unfortunately, the debt ceiling law doesn\u2019t specify what spending to cut or how that should be decided. But a reasonable assumption might be that the Executive Branch (the Secretary of the Treasury?) would have the authority.\nThat puts the power in the right constitutional place: When Congress passed the last budget, they either intended increased borrowing or decreased spending, they can\u2019t have both. That\u2019s what should happen. Of course, it\u2019s not ideal for courts to try to interpret laws that are either overly vague or logically impossible, but it\u2019s not the courts\u2019 fault that Congress failed to do at least one of those in this case.\nSome have suggested that the debt ceiling law is unconstitutional because they view all spending as sacrosanct under Am. 14 Sec. 4. There\u2019s a good take-down of that argument by Professor Lawrence Tribe, here. His counter-argument is sort of like my second case above, except he doesn\u2019t claim that \u201cbend 4 to satisfy 1-3\u201d is implicit in the budget, he just cites legal precedent. (I like my argument a bit better, but Tribe\u2019s argument certainly beats Clinton\u2019s, and I\u2019m willing to defer to his expertise.) I also agree with the caveat on his conclusion:\nI do not mean to suggest that, if it becomes necessary for the President to prioritize expenditures, the President is free to use whatever priorities he likes. First, the Constitution itself requires giving some expenditures (such as the payment of judicial salaries, Art. III, \u00a7 1, or payments on the public debt, Amdt. XIV, \u00a7 4) priority over others. Second, even if circumstances make it impossible for the President to obey the anti-line item veto rule announced in Clinton v. New York, he must do his best to honor the principles animating that rule: namely, using the line item veto to give the President unbounded power over spending would allow the Chief Executive to reward political allies and punish political adversaries. The President may not, for example, prioritize spending in blue states over spending in red states. Within those constitutional boundaries, however, it is up to the President to determine how spending must be prioritized when it becomes impossible to comply with all of the President\u2019s legal obligations simultaneously.\nI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a reasonable prediction of what would actually happen if the debt ceiling failed to be raised. Obama would have the first move, so if he did something other than prioritize spending, the courts would have to react to that instead.\nAnd it\u2019s not clear that such a \u201cdefault\u201d (not actually a default!) will happen. There are still possible ways to avoid that, including congress actually raising the debt ceiling, or harebrained schemes in which Congress restores the \u201cout of power party futilely opposes the debt limit raise\u201d status quo by handing over the raise-the-debt-limit power to the Executive, reserving for Congress enough power to oppose Obama\u2019s decision but not enough to actually succeed.\n(Also, if all this media default hullabaloo has you thinking about fleeing to gold or some such, you should find this Moldbug piece interesting.)\ntagged economics, law, news, politics\nPage 1 ... 2 3 4 5 6 ... 7 Next 10 Entries \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 31833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://comunicati.netwww.comunicati.net/comunicati/aziende/internet/523703.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OYFKPGIGV4A4E6TMWCXCJZHXPTPJKX4X", "length": 4557, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "comunicati.netwww.comunicati.net", "title": "Nutritional Lipids Market Research Report by Size, Share, Trend, Global Analysis and Forecast to 2023", "raw_content": "Nutritional Lipids Market Research Report by Size, Share, Trend, Global Analysis and Forecast to 2023\nNutritional Lipids Market Overview:\nBased on type, the global Nutritional Lipids market has been segmented into omega-3, omega-6, medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), and others. The omega-3 segment is expected to be the largest and fastest-growing global nutritional lipids market during the forecast period due to the high consumption of omega-3 to fight cognitive disorders such as depression and psychosis and for brain development. The other factors boosting the demand for omega-3 are its use in managing and preventing heart disease as well as for cognitive development in infants and children. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are essential omega-3 fatty acids. Fish, algae, krill, and walnut oils are an important source of omega-3 fatty acids. Infant formula, dietary supplements, and beverages with EPA and DHA content help in boosting ocular vision and brain development. These factors are expected to further propel market growth in the coming years.\nThe demand for nutritional lipids is increasing rapidly across the world due to the growing number of health-conscious consumers and rising awareness of the importance of cognitive development, maintaining heart health, and the consumption of energy supplements. The lack of adequate nutrition due to hectic lifestyles and the increasing consumption of junk food has led to the demand for nutritional lipids as they offer several health benefits such as cell growth, hormone development, and bile acid synthesis for improved digestion. Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are a type of fat lipid that is easily metabolized, offering adequate energy to the body. MCTs help in weight loss management by burning extra calories and oxidizing more fat compared to long-chain fatty acids. Furthermore, MCTs, when given intravenously, help in preventing muscle breakdown in critically ill patients. These factors are directly influencing the growth of the global nutritional lipids market.\nOn the basis of source, the global nutritional lipid market has been classified as animal and plant. The animal segment is expected to account for the larger share of the global nutritional lipids market during the assessment period. Fishes such as salmon, trout, and herring are considered rich sources of nutritional lipids due to their high omega-3 fatty acid content. The plant segment is projected to be the faster-growing segment since plants are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and have lower oxidative rancidity than animal fats.\nThe global nutritional lipids market has been divided, by form, powder and liquid. The powder segment is expected to be the larger and faster-growing market during the assessment period owing to the ease of storage, packaging, and transportation.\nThe global market for nutritional lipids has also been classified, by application, as dietary supplements and nutraceuticals, infant formula, pharmaceuticals, fortified food & beverages, animal nutrition, and others. The dietary supplements and nutraceuticals segment is expected to generate the highest revenue during the forecast period due to the increased intake of dietary supplements to treat various deficiencies. The dietary supplements and nutraceuticals segment is also expected to record the highest CAGR during the forecast period. This can be attributed to the growing demand for functional food for health improvement and to overcome nutrition deficiencies.\nKey Players Review: Some of the key players in the Global Nutritional Lipids Market are Croda International PLC (UK), Koninklijke DSM NV (Netherlands), Omega Protein Corporation (US), Nordic Naturals, Inc. (US), Archer Daniels Midland Company (US), Neptune Wellness Solutions (Canada), FMC Corporation (US), Polaris (France), Pharma Marine AS (Norway), BASF SE (Germany), Kerry Group (Germany), and Royal FrieslandCampina NV (Netherlands).\nRegional Analysis: The Global Nutritional Lipids Market has been segmented, by region, North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world.\nAsia-Pacific is expected to dominate the global nutritional lipids market due to changing lifestyles and dietary habits in the developing economies in the region. The nutritional lipids market in North America is expected to grow rapidly due to increasing health concerns caused by unhealthy diets and the growing prevalence of chronic conditions such as stroke and obesity.\nGet More Information @ http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4092372", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 4969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series2/PhillipsSamuel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HJGZ47MU6MCSUMGNLBLRTY2ROZHCOA2C", "length": 2753, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "congregationallibrary.org", "title": "Phillips, Samuel. Papers | Congregational Library & Archives", "raw_content": "Phillips, Samuel. Papers\nSamuel Phillips (1625-1696) was born in England and accompanied his father, Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, to America at five years of age. He graduated at Harvard in 1650 and was ordained the following year, ministering to the Congregational Church of Rowley until his death. This collection includes two sets of Rev. Phillip's sermons, which contain three full sermons each. The first volume (1670-1695) contains three iterations of sermons preached on Exodus 20:12. The second volume (1690-1723) is more varied in content, and also includes a posthumous document detailing the Proceedings of a Council at Reading in 1723. Also included is the transfer of Boxford parishioner Elizabeth Holt by Rev. John Cushing in 1746.\nThe original manuscripts in this collection are owned by our project partners, the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Further information about the collections can be found in the Phillips Library's catalog and the NEHGS catalog, respectively.\nfrom the New England Historic Genealogical Society\n1693-1932 multiple scribes envelope with descriptions of provenance\nundated by Rev. Phillips handwritten sermon notes with pages numbered 311 to 318\n1690 from Samuel Russell to Rev. Phillips sermon notes over-written on envelope\n1693 by Rev. Phillips fragmentary sermon notes\nundated by Rev. Phillips leaf of correspondence referencing \"sad blemishes and aspersions\" cast upon Caleb Boynton of Ipswich\nfrom the Phillips Library\nThis volume contains four sermons delivered by Rev. Phillips in Rowley, Mass.\nUndated [partial]\nExodus 20:12 (ver. 1) \u2013 \"Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.\"\npreached 20 March 1669/70\nSermons and proceedings, 1690-1723\nThis collection comprises a folder containing three of Rev. Phillips's sermons preached during the 1690s, as well as minutes from a church council at Reading in 1723.\nActs 8:36-37 \u2013 \"And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?\nGenesis 14:21 \u2013 \"And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.\"\n1 Corinthians 11:26 \u2013 \"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.\"\npreached 4 May 1690\nProceedings of a Council at Reading, 1723\nTransfer of parishioner, 1746\nThis letter from Boxford Church to the Second Church in Andover, Mass. requests a transfer for Boxford parishioner Elizabeth Holt. The document is dated December 22, 1746 and signed by Rev. John Cushing.\nRowley, Mass. 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Jackie\u2019s the bumbler, the well-intentioned but clumsy \u201cnice guy\u201d who\u2019s just happened to save the day. Off the screen (from the interviews I\u2019ve seen and read and the out take footage at the end of his movies), Jackie seems to be just as nice and well-intentioned as the characters he\u2019s played.\nUp until recently, I hadn\u2019t put much thought into how Jackie might be as a father. I guess I just assumed he would be Bob Ho from The Spy Next Door.\nAs it turns out, he isn\u2019t. According to Channel News Asia, Jackie is donating his entire fortune to charity when he dies. His son, Jaycee, is not getting a dime. His rationale: \u201cIf he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.\u201d\nBut it\u2019s not this decision that has me wondering about Jackie: The Father (as opposed to Jackie: The Comedian, The Actor, The Kung Fu Star). It\u2019s his reaction when his son Jaycee called concerned about his rumored death. I acknowledge that Jaycee may be exaggerating a tad and that Jackie\u2019s reaction is not atypical for the older generation of Chinese parents. But still, I imagined Jackie being a little more \u201cprogressive\u201d than that. According to Channel News Asia, Jaycee said, \u201cMy dad scolded me \u2018Do you wish I were dead?\u2019 That was when I knew it was all false.\u201d\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get tired of Russell Peters\u2019 \u201cBeat Your Children\u201d monologue.\nIt\u2019s brilliant! It\u2019s funny because as the child of Asian immigrants, I can totally relate (I laugh now but it was terrible at the time) AND as an Asian parent, I have already caught myself more times than I would like whipping the same criticisms my parents beat me with __ \u201cAn 80 is a good score, if that\u2019s the best you can do\u2026\u201d, \u201cThe teacher wrote you are creative and imaginative. Imagine all you can achieve in this world if you stopped daydreaming and focused on acing those tests\u2026\u201d and so on. Chinese parents are masters of the art of the backhanded compliment.\nTiger Mom, Amy Chua, Wolf Dad, Xiao Baiyou, and Eagle Dad, He Liesheng, have been elected the 21st Century ambassadors of modern Chinese parenting by the news media-at-large. Happily, at each instance of this so called \u201d traditional Asian parenting\u201d there have been as large a chorus of Asian outcry as there have been American ones.\nIt\u2019s been half a year since Duo Duo\u2019s famous run around the park, dressed in only his underwear, on a cold and snowy winter\u2019s morning. His father, the Eagle Dad, had forced him into the cold and then posted his run on YouTube because he wanted \u201cto show that if a child can accept this kind of extreme education when they are young, they can overcome any difficulties the future might hold.\u201d He says, \u201cI did it because I want Duo Duo to be strong.\u201d\nThe video of little Duo Duo\u2019s wintry run might not have seen any controversy had there been a Golden Harvest or Shaw Brothers logo in front of it. Parents who spent their adolescent years in the 80s will remember a young Gordon Liu in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin enduring a battery of imaginative (sometimes fantastical) but harsh training regiments on his path to become a \u201cShaolin Master Killer\u201d.\nChose any Jackie\u2019s early films and you will see the same ludicrously rough lessons. But while this form of training makes for great drama and fantastical action sequences, parents need to know that these movies are make believe and you cannot hope to apply the same tough love tactics they depict and expect to garner the same results in reality.\nBy Kung Fu movie standards, I am spoiling my children. But I like to think that they work as hard as they play. I also like to think that given the advantages I didn\u2019t have, they will be more successful than I have been and able to do more good. I don\u2019t believe I coddle my children. Instead I think in the amount of time I spend with them, I model positive problem solving strategies and social skills for them, while telling them they are the most cherished and important part of my life. I don\u2019t have to be the high paid executive or the biggest star as long as I ensure they can be.\nIn homage to the movie that inspired the title of this post, here\u2019s a trailer for Jackie Chan\u2019s Snake in the Eagle\u2019s Shadow (It includes clips of Jackie\u2019s character learning and training in Kung Fu):\nTags: Asian parenting Chinese parenting discipline Eagle Dad fatherhood Jackie Chan Kung Fu movies Tiger Mom tough love Wolf Dad\n\u2190 Can A Song Save Your Life?\nPaul Yee\u2019s Money Boy \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://csample.ml/wujip/enduring-love-essay-3171.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4VRFCW6T5TIUVGKGA5RTBBSWOEDC7JIL", "length": 9829, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "csample.ml", "title": "Enduring Love - Chapter One Synopsis | Essay Example", "raw_content": "\u201cEnduring Love\u201d by Ian McEwan Essay Sample\n\u2776From the moment of his first encounter with Joe he is sure that he is in love with Joe.\nThey keep going over the accident again and again in detail to try to search for the solution. Craftsmen are very dedicated and pay good attention to detail so by comparing the couple to them shows the amount of detail they are going into and just how desperate they are to come to the closure which makes sense and that all stories have.\nThe couple use the form of the narrative as a sense of release and even like a form of medication that needs to be taken as they keep retelling the story over and over again. They retell it to such an extent that they become more wrapped up in the actually structure and form of the story. The story becomes a separate thing in itself making them able to detach themselves through the actually storytelling and without the pain and memories.\nThis is their form of the solution to the problem they have with the feelings of pain and guilt. However this form of medication as it were becomes out of control when Joe goes to meet a radio producer.\nI had to be saying it to someone. Joe loses control of his brain and body and suddenly tells a completely stranger of his ordeal with the ballooning accident and of Jed.\nThis also shows that he may have even become obsessed with the stalking at one stage. However it may just be due to the human urge to tell stories in order to share emotions.\nThe reader would get this impression when the couple are retelling the story for the first time. They like the drama of it all and they are making a bigger thing out of it especially by drinking wine, which suggests they are turning it into an occasion.\nThey are making a drama out of their terror for comfort. The idea of a narrative being able to make sense of a situation is also shown through the concept of the importance of literature in science. Joe describes many scientists as using anecdotes and narratives to explain their scientific theories. Freud was one of the greatest thinkers of the 21st century but he used storytelling through his case studies.\nThis shows that a wide range of people need narratives in order to express themselves. Science without the narrative is too hard-edge and cold but narrative gives it its beauty, which makes it attractive.\nScience without narrative was too difficult and meaningless. However Joe contradicts himself as he also gives the impression that the anecdote is nonsense and not useful when reading a scientific piece on a dog.\nBy any standards of scientific enquiry\u2026 the story was nonsense. Joe is saying that the narrative can disguise the nonsense of a theory by turning it into a charming story and is almost degrading to science. However he does accept the power in which literature and narratives have over science. Joe set out in his argument to prove that nineteenth century science can be distinguished from twentieth century science by the fact that the earlier science relied on story telling.\nBut Joe does become less and less confident about this theory. So this shows that he and the novel belong to the particular time when everything was communicated through a story for clear understanding. However this novel does not show a clear understanding of love instead it portrays in many interpretations. McEwan teaches us that love is a combination of egotistic, altruistic and irrational behaviour. Love is shown through Joe and Clarissa caught up in their own needs and do not tend to each others.\nIrrationalism is shown when Jed tells Joe that he loves him without even knowing Joe. During the start of the story main focus of the love theme is on Joe and his wife Clarissa. In the early stages of the story Joe describes the relationship as seeming perfect with the descriptions of the love letters Clarissa had sent him. However Jed soon destroys this and the start of this is shown when Joe keeps the phone call from Jed a secret from Clarissa.\nFrom the moment of his first encounter with Joe he is sure that he is in love with Joe. McEwan chose to write Enduring Love in the form of the first person narrator, which gives a limited perspective on things and the reader has to put all of their trust into Joe as they have to believe in the story he is telling. In conclusion I believe the most important theme in chapters one to five is the story making. This is because it helps the reader to see the whole extent in which the accident has affected Joe and Clarissa especially in the way they cling to the narrative for comfort and almost become addicted to it as Joe loses control.\nThe story making is a representation of their emotions. The story making theme is introduced from the opening and appears all the way through chapters one to five, which shows that McEwan wants to keep bringing it up due to its importance.\nReading the three different novels \"Old Mortality\", \"Noon Wine\" and \"Pale Horse, Pale Rider\" you will learn that despite the different plots in the novels there is a common thread. The protagonists in all three novels has been challenged or locked in some way by the society but finally breaks free and live a better life the way they want to. The strong individual beats But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas, Pere is a french author best known for his talents, prolific plays, and historical adventure novels.\nHe was born on july 24, in villers-cotterers, France. We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. In this chapter, Ian McEwan really pulls out all the stops in authoring terms, to capture the reader entirely and drag them into the near-real images conjured up in this opening.\nIan McEwan uses first person narrative to open the piece, and we are immediately introduced to the narrator, Joe, one of the men struggling to hold down the balloon, this is only the beginning of the nightmare.\nOne by one they let go, until one man is left hanging and is carried off to drop shortly to his death. The chapter begins with the picnic. McEwan slowly gives the reader snippets of information, like flashbacks perhaps, and manipulates the reader to such great extents that by page four, one is already pulling at the lead to find out where this strange encounter is going. The narrator describes his visit to Heathrow to collect Clarissa and how he watched reunions between old friends and families in the airport.\nThe pace of the story then slows down drastically while yet again, the narrator takes time to elucidate in great detail the surrounding countryside; the mood becomes tranquil. Toward the end of page eight, Joe finally plucks up the courage to describe the ordeal in its completeness. Clarissa and Joe see a huge grey balloon, and the alleged pilot of the balloon whose leg had been entangled in the ropes.\nIn the basket there was a child. Joe begins to run toward this disaster instinctively and is joined by several others: He describes each man in turn with a short background preface, except for Jed.\nWhen the men reach the balloon the struggle to tame it begins; the wind becomes strong and eventually they are lifted off the ground. As the situation becomes more desperate, one by one, they let go of the rope. Joe makes it clear that he was not the first to let go, but after the adrenaline and bravery slowly wore off, Joe begins to explain that this child was not his, and that it was a stupid thing to try and save him by putting his own life at risk.\nHowever one man, John Logan, hung on. With around six hundred pounds shed from the balloon and the wind in full force, the balloon ejected upward. Throughout the chapter we slowly pick up on the narrators persona via sub-plot and use of science in particular. There are frequent associations made by Joe between the surrounding circumstances and familiar sciences.\nOne comes to the conclusion after this chapter that perhaps Joe feels security in science, in this rational and mathematical way of thought, yet in this circumstantial horror, such thoughts make this character come off as extremely insensitive. Kate Chopin was one of the best writers of the Realism and Feminism literature movement. These compositions are sectional that alternate between free improvisatory sections and fugal sections, all make heavy use of pedal as well.\nBoth captivity narratives were written by women. In your opinion, does that give a unique perspective towards the natives? Do not forget to explain your answer. Finally, which narrative did you prefer and why? Captivity Narratives What shapes our viewpoints of other people?\nI believe that there are many different ways for us to have a viewpoint of something or someone. A review of the literature to critically explore the value and purpose of reflective practice.\nEnduring Love study guide contains a biography of Ian McEwan, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.\nFree enduring love papers, essays, and research papers.\nChapter Nine of Enduring Love switches narration from first person through the novel's main character, Joe, to a third person narrative. When a central figure is telling the story using \"I\" the reader is aware of their inner thoughts/5(3). The Enduring love is one of the most popular assignments among students' documents. If you are stuck with writing or missing ideas, scroll down and find inspiration in the best samples. Enduring love is quite a rare and popular topic for writing an essay, but it certainly is in our database.\nEnduring love essay, - Teenage years are the best years of your life essay. We have written thousands of essays that satisfied our customers. You can also become one . Ian McEwan Enduring Love Essays - Ian McEwan's Enduring Love.\nShort term causes of the civil war", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 11573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cuzcoeats.com/death-mourning-and-burial-in-cuzco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXLBQR5QJTGQ4VNTEP2HJ25KBWVL65XY", "length": 2441, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "cuzcoeats.com", "title": "Death, Mourning and Burial in Cuzco \u2013 Cuzco Eats", "raw_content": "Death, Mourning and Burial in Cuzco\nArni Fernandez 24 April, 2015, 11:40 am 5 October, 2016 0 1295\nNot infrequently people die in the city of Cuzco. This may be due to sickness or natural causes, but there is also vandalism and violence. In the last few years it seems vandalism is on the rise.\nThe consequences of this violence do not seem to impact those who do it. They do not care about the tears of family members nor, especially, of the many mothers who suffer the most and, sometimes, even decide to accompany their child to the next world.\nIt is very sad to see an entire family dressed in black, standing by a their loved ones\u2019 coffin. Before putting him in the coffin first they bathe the body and then dress it in the clothing the person liked most in life. Only then to they place him in the coffin in order to sit with the body. The family invites all their friends and family members to come and sit with the body offering each other hot ponche and anisette. In Spanish we call this a velada.\nAfter the velada comes the burial. People gather the day after the velada at around ten in the morning they carry the flowers and the men carry the coffin. They first make a despedida, a goodbye to the neighborhood in which saw the person born. With a live band accompanying them they march around the neighborhood and then take the coffin to the cemetery where it will be buried.\nA Group of Friends in the Cemetery (Hebert Huamani Jara)\nOnce in the cemetery everyone gathers around the coffin crying, dancing and singing they now place the dead one in his grave. This will be the last time they will see their loved one. Once he is in his niche in a multilevel cemetery, or beneath the ground in the garden cemeteries, people start drinking, they consume a lot of chicha and beer in order to mark the departure with joy now that their loved one will only be in the memories of his friends and family.\nFinally, after the burial, on the next day, they carry out a mass in honor of the departed one and in this way pray for him and say goodbye with honor to that being who accompanied them for a time.\ncemeteriesdeathfuneralsveladas\nPrevious ArticleFresh Corn Cake, Sweet or Savory, a Peruvian TraditionNext ArticlePilot Plan Continues to Ban Cars on Cuzco\u2019s Main Square\nThe Fire Devils (Nina Saqras) and the Flaming Cart\nOfferings to the Earth by Sacsayhuaman\nThe Work of The Midwife and Ancestral Rituals to Bring a Child to The world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dailyanarchist.com/2013/01/09/expanding-on-rothbards-lifeboat-situations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BNB6RAW6EBUUZHMUJQJNQLUCP4WVVCQK", "length": 45976, "nlines": 141, "source_domain": "dailyanarchist.com", "title": "\ufeff Expanding on Rothbard\u2019s \u201cLifeboat Situation\u201d - Daily Anarchist", "raw_content": "January 9th, 2013 Submitted by Wendy McElroy\n\u201cTwo men are stranded in a lifeboat, and\u2026\u201d\nHow many discussions of rights and ethics begin in a lifeboat where one man\u2019s survival involves killing the other? The discussions usually end by concluding there is no right of self-ownership, no such thing as natural rights; there is no objective morality.\nThe argument so deeply annoyed Austrian economist Murray Rothbard that chapter 20 of his pivotal book The Ethics of Liberty is entitled \u201cLifeboat Situations.\u201d Rothbard\u2019s analysis has exerted a defining influence on how many libertarians approach \u2018moral dilemma\u2019 constructs that are used as hypothetical debating points. He wrote:\n\u201c[A] lifeboat situation is hardly a valid test of a theory of rights, or of any moral theory whatsoever. Problems of a moral theory in such an extreme situation do not invalidate a theory for normal situations. In any sphere of moral theory, we are trying to frame an ethic for man, based on his nature and the nature of the world \u2014 and this precisely means for normal nature, for the way life usually is, and not for rare and abnormal situations. It is a wise maxim of the law, for precisely this reason, that \u2018hard cases make bad law\u2019. We are trying to frame an ethic for the way men generally live in the world; we are not, after all, interested in framing an ethic that focuses on situations that are rare, extreme, and not generally encountered.\u201d\nInterestingly, this is an issue upon which the oft-conflicting Rothbard and Ayn Rand are in accord. The chapter entitled \u201cThe Ethics of Emergencies\u201d in Rand\u2019s The Virtue of Selfishness described those who argued ethical positions from emergency situations. Rand commented, \u201cObserve also that the advocates of altruism are unable to base their ethics on any facts of men\u2019s normal existence and that they always offer \u2018lifeboat\u2019 situations as examples from which to derive the rules of moral conduct. (\u2018What should you do if you and another man are in a lifeboat that can only carry one?\u2019 etc.) The fact is that men do not live in lifeboats\u2014and that a lifeboat is not the place on which to base one\u2019s metaphysics.\u201d\nRothbard writes of \u201cabnormal situations\u201d and Rand refers to arbitrary \u201cmetaphysics\u201d but they are both making the same point, and it is valid: political and moral systems should not be evaluated by extraordinary or hypothetical situations anymore than the average person\u2019s daily health regime should be determined by a course of chemotherapy.\nNevertheless their answer to the lifeboat situation is not entirely satisfying. Many of the hypothetical debating points that are intended to discredit natural rights and morality should be dismissed. Why? Because they dramatically alter the nature of reality and then ask you to apply a moral code that is rooted in the real world. For example, if pushing a button can cure your son\u2019s cancer but also kill an innocent person, would you do it? This is an intellectually dishonest question because no one could know what they would do in a reality that did not resemble their own.\nA lifeboat situation does not alter reality in a similar manner, however. Consider a commonly offered form of the situation. Two men are adrift and, unless one of them becomes a cannibal, they will both starve to death. The situation is amazingly rare but it is possible in our present reality. Sometimes unrealistic elements are added. For example, no rescue is possible. This assumption alters reality because it would require knowledge of the future on the part of the stranded men. Nevertheless, it is plausible to assume both men are convinced of their utter isolation.\nThe underlying principle being tested by the lifeboat: at what point (if any) would you be willing to violate the rights of another human being for your own survival? Unlike magical buttons, this is an honest question. A libertarian answer hinges upon the distinction between rights and morality.\nA right is an enforceable claim that every human being has against others in society. Because individuals own themselves, they have an enforceable claim to the peaceful use of their bodies and all property peacefully acquired thereby. The rights carry a corresponding duty to respect the equal freedom of others.\nBut not every peaceful action is moral. People lie about adulterous affairs, they are cruel to animals, they verbally humiliate children. Or a man could buy an artistic masterpiece for the purpose of destroying it. None of the foregoing are violations of right but I consider them all to be immoral. Or, as Rand would phrase it, they are \u201canti-life.\u201d\nThe key difference; natural rights tells people that they are free to use their bodies in any peaceful manner; morality tells them which specific peaceful acts they should choose in order to lead a fulfilling or moral life. You should not lie, you should not be gratuitously cruel, you should not destroy for the sake of destruction.\nThe question of \u201cwhen (if ever) would you be willing to violate the rights of another human being to survive\u201d arises in situations that are far more common than a lifeboat. What if you have to steal food in to keep from starving to death? Frankly, I would almost certainly steal the food. But, in doing so, I would not be negating natural rights. I would acknowledge the act as theft and my victim as deserving restitution when I was financially able to do so. I would also submit to other reasonable remedies, if there were any. In short, I would acknowledge natural rights but my actions would demonstrate that \u2013 at least in this one case of life or death \u2014 natural rights were not my priority.\nMorality is a different question. It is the difference between making restitution and sincerely apologizing, asking for forgiveness. Again, the morality of stealing food to preserve your life is not as clear to me as the rights issue.\nReturning to an actual lifeboat situation\u2026 In terms of natural rights, one man killing and cannibalizing another is outright murder. When rescued, the perpetrator should expect to face whatever punishment that crime merited. Indeed, the prospect of just punishment upon rescue might be a strong constraint on both men\u2019s behavior.\nOther constraints would include their characters, their personal relationship and religious beliefs. Murder and cannibalism may be so abhorrent to their ingrained sense of morality that it would be impossible to continue with life afterward. My sense of self makes it difficult to imagine killing another human being for food even if I could come to terms with the rights issue. There is a difference of kind between stealing a loaf bread and killing a human being.\nAt this point in the hypothetical debating point, the natural rights advocate has either agree to his own death or to committing murder. The question is apt to declare victory by claiming to have discredited natural rights (libertarianism) and objective morality. Libertarians need to take an aggressive stand in arguing that nothing of the sort has occurred.\nWhy? Because in evaluating the worth of a political or moral system, it is essential to ask, \u201dcompared to what? Does any other system address the situation better?\u201d\nA society by contract may not resolve the constructed conflict in a peaceful manner. But if it provides the best and most coherent solution available, then it has been vindicated rather than discredited. It becomes important to assess how other political or moral systems address the irksome cannibal question.\nUnder the political system of communism, property is \u2018owned\u2019 in common and usually controlled by a single political party known as the state. Two communists adrift would be common property (as would be the boat and everything on it) and they would need to decide which one would \u2018play\u2019 the state, perhaps by comparing rank in the Party. Socialism suffers from a somewhat similar problem. Under democracy, both men would cast a vote.\nUnder the moral system of pacifists, both would sit and wait for the other person to die of natural causes. Altruists would each jump overboard to save the other.\nThe preceding examples may sound (and be) foolish but they are no more so than the emergency-dilemmas thrown up as a way to dismiss natural rights. The most that the lifeboat situation demonstrates is that rights cannot perfectly resolve every case. Nor can any other political system.\nIt is not reasonable to judge systems by a standard of perfection. The only reasonable method is to examine how well a political or moral system works in the real world and, then, to contrast its performance with that of competitors. And by that standard, natural rights does very well indeed.\n41 Responses to \u201cExpanding on Rothbard\u2019s \u201cLifeboat Situation\u201d\u201d\nThis isn\u2019t directly about arguing from \u201clifeboat\u201d situations, but a response to your rights. vs. morality distinction.\nIndeed, I often have to explain to others that voluntaryism/non-aggression is only the start of a process. It is only telling you that you shouldn\u2019t aggress on other persons or their property, and that is okay to defend one\u2019s person or property with force if necessary against aggressors.\nIt does *not* go on to say, given human nature, \u201cWhat are the sorts of things one *should* be doing in order to hope to lead a fulfilling life?\u201d\nThe first is a prerequisite of the second, but so much more ink/bits are spent discussing the first, it\u2019s easy to lose sight that once that issue is settled, there are many much more interesting questions about the second, and the answers can be very different for different individuals.\nI\u2019m glad you addressed the issue of stealing to survive. Of course a libertarian would steal in order to survive. It only means that restitution will have to be paid at a later date. It doesn\u2019t invalidate that natural rights of the individual stolen from.\nAs far as two people faced with cannibalism on a life boat, situations like that happen every year, and as far as I know it never gets resolved through cannibalism. At least not amongst westerners. I suppose the thought of having to murder another person is too great a price to pay to stay alive, since restitution cannot be paid to your victim. In other words, you may live, but you\u2019d only live with a guilty conscience your whole life.\nPeople do it all the time\nThanks Jonathan. In \u201cThe Wealth of Nations,\u201d Adam Smith made an intriguing distinction between rights and morality.. He said that a man who did not aggress against his neighbor was not a moral man. Or, rather, he might be a moral man but it was not possible to tell merely by his non-aggression because non-aggression was the duty he owed to every other person and, so, not something for which he was to be morally congratulated. To judge his morality, it was necessary to observe how *else* he treated the neighbor. Was he kind or did he slander the fellow? Did he allow his neighbor\u2019s house to burn down or risk his safety to assist anyone inside? These are the actions in which morality lived. And, yes, I agree with you. These are the more interesting questions and ones for which there is usually not one answer.\nHi Seth: I can think of cases of cannibalism but they are extremely rare, and that is interesting in and of itself. I think the Western horror of that practice is so deeply ingrained that eschewing it goes well beyond a respect for rights. Various African tribes that practice cannibalism might give a very different answer to the lifeboat situation. This raises the question of how deeply our behavior is influenced by our culture. Admirers of Rand (and I am one) like to think that their decisions are almost entirely rational but I have always been comfortable with the idea of being a product of my culture to a significant degree. This is neither rational or irrational\u2026but arational..\nCannibalism isn\u2019t what bothers me. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d have too much difficulty eating another person. It\u2019s the killing an innocent person that makes my stomach turn.\nI suspect it\u2019s the same for most westerners as well. If the meat is already dead and they\u2019re hungry, they\u2019ll eat. But they won\u2019t kill for it.\nThat\u2019s a question one can\u2019t answer unless truly faced with the situation. Sitting here typing this answer, there\u2019s no possible way I could imagine eating a human being. The very thought disgusts me. But, I\u2019m also not starving currently, either. Extreme situations can certainly alter a person\u2019s behavior quite radically.\nmacsnafu says:\nSure. How many people would be comfortable with killing a cow or chicken before it\u2019s turned into hamburger or fried chicken? So in that sense, killing another human to survive isn\u2019t even about rights or morality. But if you could buy ground human meat at the store, I imagine it would be a lot easier for many people to take it home and cook it.\nWendy, It interests me how, in your reference to Adam Smith, the additional factors related to moral reasoning still all had to do with how the person chose to treat his neighbor.\nTrue, one does not enhance one\u2019s ability to trade or collaborate, often a requirement to achieve one\u2019s chosen values, by being an asshole.\nYet why do the various \u201clifeboat\u201d scenarios and related discussions rarely address the personal choices one makes regarding things like goal selection, rationality, productivity, time preferences, etc.?\nPerhaps the term \u201cmorality\u201d really does apply only to one\u2019s relationships with or actions toward others. Is there a better word for what I describe in the previous paragraph?\nJohnathan, I believe it is because the \u201clifeboat scenario\u201d is specifically designed, \u201cthe trolly cannot be stopped except to throw the fat man..\u201d, to have as few choices as possible, to put those choices into isolation, and thereby to lead to the conclusion desired by the person creating the scenario.\nJonathan..although the words are often used interchangeably, I make a distinction between morality and (personal) ethics. I use morality with reference to the specifics of how I should treat others and ethics with reference to the principles underlying the specifics. If I should not lie to friends (a specific), it is because of the general value of truth (a principle). I don\u2019t claim that this is a hard and fast distinction\u2026but it is one I use.\nPrinciples are general rules, not rules etched in stone. There are extreme situations when abandonment of a principle is a morally right decision. What is not clear to me however is the senario of saving one\u2019s life at the expense of others. i.e. Those who collaborated with the agents of the National Socialists. For example, prisoners who would help the prison guards by shaving the heads of prisoners\u2019 prior to the prisoners being murdered knowing that the prisoners were going to be murdered. A situation such as one being lost in the woods and finding a cabin with food in it and they eat the food is a clear matter of survival otoh.\nHello H.R. Principles are also contextual. Even Objectivism is based on a fundamental contextualism as evidenced by the fact that Rand would preface her discussion of values with the conditional \u201cGiven that life is of value, then\u2026.\u201d For a person to whom life is no longer of value \u2014 e.g. a man in extraordinary pain with no prospect of relief \u2014 then her list of life sustatining values loses its hold on him. He might well value a painless pro-death scenario instead.\nWendy, sometimes I see discussions about rights and/or morality kind of like the old religious debates of how many angles can dance on the head of a pin. Since angels, morality, and rights have no physical existence they at best represent issues of philosophy. I basically like libertarianism as a fair approximation of individualistic anarchism, but I can\u2019t see that it is any more \u201cright\u201d than London\u2019s law of club and fang. Ultimately any social system will exist or fail by virtue of the power its proponents have. To the extent that rational discourse can influence the proponents of any particular system, a discussion of rights and morality may be worthwhile. In most cases probably not. Most people will only change in response to coercive threats. A shame, but I have observed it to be true.\n\u201c\u2026Ultimately any social system will exist or fail by virtue of the power its proponents have\u2026\u201d\nThat is true only in the short term. The \u201cPower\u201d people have will not guarantee long term survival or winning competition with other peoples/societies. Romans had more power than barbarians, but the latter ended up victorious. Thus morality as Rand taught was an objective discipline with man\u2019s proper survival being the ultimate criterion for evaluating good and evil. Given man\u2019s nature there\u2019s objectively right code of morality (which promotes \u201cproper survival\u201d).\nVaso, I do not see that the situation changes from the short term to the long term. Historically, power matters and moralilty is what the intellectual apologists for the present regime say it is. Rome held power by virtue of its military for hundreds of years. The military then became weak and Rome fell. The reasons it became weak can be debated, but the power was due to the military might which made Roman morality king for hundreds of years.\nYou are putting cart before the horse, IMO. First, Rome established relatively superior (but obviously not ideal) social system (e.g. property rights for citizens, free-er trade etc), then the resulting economic surplus allowed it to sustain strong army and big state, then they plundered their colonies; but not only plundered, in the beginning at least, they also spread their social order, technologies.\nAbove totally primitive level of competition pure military efforts are vain. The same has been happening with the West in a few recent centuries. Property rights get recognition, economy develops, surplus emerges, state apparatus grows with a little lag, then parasitism, which necessarily comes with military might, overcomes productivity, and collapse follows. Stefan Molynex analyzed this cycle well.\nThe rise of military might of a state is necessarily followed by collapse. It\u2019s like cancer; it kills the host (state). The cancer prospers and lives short term only and ends in self-destruction.\nVaso, perhaps you are accurate and militarism drags down a society over enough time. But when you are referring to nation states the \u201cshort term\u201d is quite long compared to human lifespan. Rome existed for hundreds of years. The Egyptians were powerful even longer. China has been up and down for about 5,000 years. The USA looks to have a sustainable power base that could eventually rival the Chinease\u2019 in that it uses modern phychology to back up its military power. But without the military power no state lasts very long. Throughout history we peons have been traded back and forth by virtue of military might. The ruling elilte only cares about productivity peripherally. Power is their first concern. Otherwise true free enterprise systems would be proliferating all over the world rather than the various forms of tyrrany and forced collectivism that we see everywhere. Hell, even in the USA where free enterprise is still given lip service there is no large scale free enterprise. Oh sure we have a few gray marketeers, barterers, etc. But we principally live under socialist type governmental controls on we individuals with giant corporations playing at a variant of free enterprise amongst themselves. Of course that is not really free either for corporations backstab one another forming alliances with government and breaking them when convenient constantly undercutting one another through the power of government which ultimately depends upon physical coercion of individuals.\nMy basic point in all this is that despite our predilictions, most people make decisions based on emotion not logic. Physical coercion has worked for all human history as the major driving force behind human action or inaction. That will not change because some intellectuals in the ivory tower state that morality and ethics should take precedence.\nIndeed the short term could be very long from the point of view of individual actors. I understand morality as the code of values which promotes people\u2019s proper survival sustainably, not until some organization runs out of victims, however long that might take. You might be defining it differently, e.g. the running code of values which promotes people\u2019s survival in their actual environment. \u2018Proper\u2019 and \u2018sustainably\u2019 are missing in this definition. Hence the different views on military power\u2019s role. The definition of \u2018proper\u2019 will also reflect the sustainable nature of the code. The survival as a looter cannot be called proper, even though it may be doable and easiest to practice for a time.\nYes, almost all of the states nowadays are fascist.\nMaybe it will all mean that this cycle of liberty \u2013 accumulation of capital- rise of the state \u2013 military power \u2013 stagnation \u2013 collapse will repeat indefinitely. The bright side of that would be that at least liberty will return from time to time. But unfortunately, not necessarily during lifetime of any given generation.\nVaso, I fear you may be correct and the cycle you mention may continue ad nauseum. I tend to look at things from a pragmatic perspective while trying to keep a basic freedom philosophy, so I would be a looter to survive but would prefer trading in a free enterprise system. Unfortunately free enterprise seems to be vilrtually non-existent anymore. The thing I see so many libertarians not seeming to realise is that for the vast majority of people including myself survival trumps all ethical, moral, legal, etc. considerations. If you can\u2019t show most folks how freedom will help them survive they will ignore you at best.\nAlthough I subscribe to a cyclical theory of history, I don\u2019t see the cycle in black and white terms \u2014 that is, I don\u2019t there is either liberty *or* authority.. There is and always will be a struggle between liberty and authority because impulses toward both (as with good and evil) exist within man himself. Sometimes liberty will be on the rise in general terms or in specific locations and authority will be on the decline. At other times, the situation will be reversed. We (in North America and Europe) are definitely in a period of low liberty and high authority, although there seem to be areas of the world where liberty is faring well. There is no need to despair or to become part of the problem because there is still a great deal of hope for liberty to expand. Indeed, one of the main hopes resides in the people who do not give up and join with authority or just \u201cgive up.\u201d\nFritz\u2026if I use the phrase \u201cpeaceful cooperation\u201d in the place of freedom, does that make the survival value more evident? Because in society, I consider \u201cpeaceful cooperation\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d to be almost interchangeable terms for practical purposes. Of course, cooperation assumes you have something of value \u2014 and optimally of continuing value \u2014 to offer another person. I think libertarians ignore the fact that practical liberty requires a significant degree of self-sufficiency; practical liberty within society requires the ability to produce what someone else wants.\nWendy, I like your idea that the terms \u201cpeaceful cooperation\u201d and freedom are nearly practical equivalents. I remember Rayo\u2019s definition of freedom as \u201cinvulnerability to coercion\u201d which may be technically more accurate but less pragmatic than your definition. It certainly could be a wonderful society if we mostly practiced peaceful cooperation. Unfortunately the huge dichotomy between the \u201chaves\u201d and the \u201chave nots\u201d basically precludes any peaceful solution that does not continue the status quo of economic slavery for the vast majority of people on the planet. The ruling elite who have title to most everything, most of the power, and control of the mass media are not going to peacfully cooperate with creating a free society. The same families have controlled high finance for at least the past 400 years. I do not think they will give up that power willingly. It would not matter so much if people actually had the power to start an alternative economic system and ignore the old one. But if you try with any notable success to do anything like this, men with guns will show up at your door to either arrest you or shoot you. I always remember Randy Weaver\u2019s family and all those people murdered at Waco, Texas. And they were only promoting a very small aspect of the freedom you or I believe in. My brother believes that people are basically evil and must be controlled by law and religion for society to survive. I observe people to be neither good nor evil but weak enough to usually take the path of least resistence. If one could convince most people that freedom was in their self interest they would flow that way for a while until the going got tough. Then they would sell out not only their own freedom but your\u2019s as well for alcohol, drugs, and Facebook are far more important to them than individual liberty. To be fair, most don\u2019t even understand what real liberty entails. They don\u2019t miss what they have never had.\nYou are one of the most rational promoters of freedom I have ever read, at least on a level with Rothbard. Yet can you honestly state that you have had notable success in making a more free world? It scares me how little most people care about or understand that we live in an ever increasing police state.\nSorry Wendy. I guess I am getting old and worn down. My innate cynicism is getting the best of me. Keep writing. You are great!\nArmed agents of the state are too few in number, as a percentage of the population of most countries, for coercive threats to be the primary determinant of most of the choices people make in life. I rather see the herd instinct as the primary cause for the typically broad support for statist systems.\nTom, I used to raise sheep, cattle, hogs, and horses. The herd instinct you mention is part of the reason threats of coercion by a few work against the many. No one wishes to be the sheep cut out of the herd and slaughtered. If we had a recalcitrant steer that caused us difficulty guess who got slaughtered first. People, being slightly brighter than cattle, usually recognize the very real threat that government thugs represent and don\u2019t stray far from what the herd of people are doing thus not calling attention to themselves by being \u201cdifferent\u201d. So it matters little that the thugs are relatively few in number. Theilr threat is to individuals not the herd.\nHello Fritz: Sorry to take so long to reply but things have been a bit crazy here. Nothing wrong or bad\u2026just non stop.\nI think that systems of rights and morality can be compared to each other in reference to the questions that every such system must confront. This is a utilitarian way of arguing \u2014 and one I do not prefer \u2014 but it is valid enough. An example of one question would be, \u201cwhich one provides the most justice at the least price to society?\u201d Every system of rights and morality must deal with \u201cjustice\u201d even if the manner of handling it is to dismiss its relevance or desirability. Another question, \u201cwhich system provides social harmony and at what price?\u201d\nThe main problem in such comparisons is that some systems define terms like \u201cjustice\u201d in markedly different manners and, so, you must begin with the basics. Almost everyone will agree there is something wrong about murdering an innocent man who has done you no harm; they may agree on the basis of rights or of morality. You can generally proceed from this point of agreement to build a broader consensus, although that may well break down at some point of the extrapolation.\nEqually, almost everyone will agree that a peaceful society is better than one in which there is an open violence of all-against-all on the streets. Again, this is a point of agreement upon which to build.I always try to go back to the basics when I am speaking with someone who defines justice or social order in a qualitatively different manner than I do.\nI think comparisons are quite possible..\nUnlike you, I do tend to see thing in a utilitarian way largely because of being very poor throughout my life. If one is usually worried about where you will find the wherewithall to keep your family afloat another month, week, or sometimes day, you tend to put aside ivory tower type thinking for when you can afford it. That time has never really come for me. But I do agree that getting basic definitions straight is very important. Most libertarians define freedom far differently than most leftists for example. But I must admit that I am astounded at how seldom I find even amongst anarchists people who seem to share my apriori assumptions about life and liberty which seem utterly rational to me.\nAs for your comments on the cycle of liberty, I agree that nothing is ever black and white but always nuanced. But your thoughts that the USA and Europe are now low on liberty and high on authority though accurate in my mind are diametrically oppossed to what most folks think here today. You say that there are places in the world where freedom is on the upswing so there is no need to dispair. Where are these places?! To the best of my knowledge there is no place on earth with a more free general lifestyle than in the USA. I think we agree that the real level of freedom here is terrible and getting much worse quickly. So where is the hope for we individuals? This is not a rhetorical question. My kids can barely survive using every government program they can not because they want to but because they see no choice. I will personally probably be dead within a few years because I can\u2019t possibly afford dental and health care. So where is the hope for a free enterprise system where I could afford it? I have promoted liberty as long as I can remember, even as a kid. I\u2019ve been kicked in the teeth consistently for my efforts. My contemporaries who sold out now have $100,000 plus per year jobs and a half million dollar estate while I try to get by on under $11,000 per year living in a house without running water and off the grid just to be able to survive. And I have it much better than many folks I know. Where is the hope Wendy? Where is the hope?\nI\u2019ll start by saying that I\u2019m a huge fan and longtime admirer of your work and philosophy. I think you do amazing work giving a voice to those of us who want to be treated and treat others as individuals, not simply as one collective or another.\nTo my question, you say, \u201cA society by contract may not resolve the constructed conflict in a peaceful manner. But if it provides the best and most coherent solution available, then it has been vindicated rather than discredited.\u201d\nThe problem I have with this statement is the inevitable problem of the subjective nature defining the \u201cbest and most coherent solution.\u201d Surely there are endlessly abundant situations where rational and moral individuals will disagree what constitutes the best outcome.\nAs a real world example, studies have shown that in areas where vaccinations are mandatory for school children, infection rates have gone down. While I always strive to keep up to date on my vaccinations for my own benefit and personally believe others should do the same, I remain unconvinced that the \u201cbest\u201d option requires forcing others to inject a substance they are fearful of into their bodies. I could easily see others arguing that this price is very small and worth the cost. Which of us is \u201cright\u201d depends entirely on one\u2019s subjective values when weighing outcomes.\nI can\u2019t help but feel your analysis results in argument that is less for natural rights than it is for utilitarianism. I believe a stronger approach to the life boat scenario is to do what you borderline suggested and simply throw it out, much in the same way you would throw out outliers in a statistical sampling.\nHello Laura: Thank you for the compliment.\nWhen I used the phrase \u201cthe best and most coherent solution available\u201d, I did not mean the content of the solution would be set in stone, that there would be only one answer to the same question. You mention that rational people disagree and the same dispute might be answered in a wide-ranging vary of ways. The \u201cbest and most coherent solution available\u201d would be defined by the process of the solution, not by its end result. By which I mean, *any* resolution that is peacefully arrived at by the parties involved is the best one. As a third and irrelevent party, I might think the mutually acceptable resolution is bunk. But my opinion does not matter.\nAnother way of phrasing this: libertarianism is \u201cprocess driven\u201d not \u201cend driven.\u201d As long as the process is peaceful, then the end result reflects libertarianism. It may not reflect a sound morality but it does reflect rights.\nHey bro. Great website and some good advice. Keep fighting the good fight, and I will do my best to keep up. Cheers!\nI do not see how \u201clifeboat situation\u201d or \u201cstealing bread to survive\u201d compromises voluntarism and objective morality. One\u2019s decision to violate moral principles to survive does not compromise moral principles, but rather moral integrity of the person. The violator should be honest in accepting wrongdoing and punishment, including the use of force (potentially deadly) in defense by the victim. The owner of the bread to be stolen for one\u2019s survival has every right to defend their property.\nIn the lifeboat there\u2019s no conflict if non-aggression principle is applied consistently. One should value one\u2019s own survival more than that of a stranger. But it does not mean permission to kill (except in self-defense), whatever the circumstances. If one of the two in the boat has to die, the only moral option for the pair may be to cast lots. It may be extremely difficult to accept having to die, but it does not alter moral judgment.\nKratoklastes says:\nIf your assessment of the other guy in the boat is that there is 0, then E(number of future rights-infringements) > 0.\nIn that case, the probability-weighted sum of the outcomes is inferior to the outcome if you force the game (i.e., you kill the guy and eat him).\nIt gets better: damage from rights-infringement is convex (violating 100% of someone\u2019s rights is more than twice as bad as violating 50%). So there\u2019s an even stronger case for eating him.\nAnd since you cannot possibly know another\u2019s mind, it can be said a fortiori that your prior MUST BE that Pr(the other guy is not like you) > 0.\nKill him. Eat him. If you\u2019re moral it\u2019s actually the moral thing to do.\nSorry for dupes, but the first bit of the comment got truncated because > was inadvertantly recognised as HTML.\nThis is what I posted\u2026\n\u201cIf your assessment of the other guy in the boat is that there is less than 100% chance that he has your level of understanding of rights, ethics and morals, then permitting your life to be extinguished by a morally-inferior agent becomes an immoral act.\nI\u2019m not a fan of utilitarianism, but it can work \u2018in the deviations\u2019 (as we economic modellers say).\nIf you\u2019re genuinely a rights-observing individual, the \u2018state of nature\u2019 if you survive is that the expected number of future rights-infringements by survivors will be ZERO.\nIf Pr(the other guy is not like you) > 0, then E(number of future rights-infringements) > 0.\nWhile Rothbard\u2019s and Rand\u2019s critiques of lifeboat scenarios are very convincing, they mirror a technique used in Physics. When an equation is derived that describes a system, the first thing a physicist does is takes every variable to its extreme values to see if the equation correctly describes what would intuitively take place. It\u2019s a method of validating that equation.\nOf course Physics is an exact science, and human affairs is far from that. All we have to do is to be \u201cclose enough\u201d. Rothbard is correct.\nAs to rights, we don\u2019t have to look to extreme cases to detect that they are fantasies. They don\u2019t even work in common situations.\n\u201cA right is an enforceable claim that every human being has against others in society.\u201d\nSo, the Jews in Treblinka had no right to life? They obviously couldn\u2019t enforce anything.\n\u201cThe only reasonable method is to examine how well a political or moral system works in the real world and, then, to contrast its performance with that of competitors. And by that standard, natural rights does very well indeed.\u201d\nNot so well I think. The Jews no doubt got themselves into trouble by thinking their lives were protected by these fantasy \u201crights\u201d. They\u2019d have been better off understanding reality, and buying themselves guns and ammo.\nThere are no rights. There is only will, and self-interest. People act, or refrain from acting, due to will and self-interest, and only academics imagine that it is rights that drive them.\nhttp://strike-the-root.com/life-without-rights\nYou start from an incorrect premise (that a \u2018right\u2019 is an \u2018enforceable claim\u2019) and proceed from there to furnish an example where rights were not enforceable. Where I come from, that gets the acronym \u2018GIGO\u2019.\nA right is a JUST claim \u2013 a claim that satisfies a quasi-Pareto (or quasi-Kaldor-Hicks) condition: namely that exercise of the right leaves no other non-offending economic agent worse off.\nA right may not be \u2018enforceable\u2019 \u2013 as in your Treblinka example \u2013 but the rights still exist.\nRecognising rights does not immediately make the rights-holder immune to all acts of aggression: life is not a cartoon.\nHowever, recognition of rights enables the identification of instances in which rights are VIOLATED, which in turn enables moral and ethical evaluations of the protagonists.\nThis is where the \u2018lifeboat\u2019 example has some (limited, sophomoric) usefulness: the easiest counter-argument to it is that you can (and arguably *should*) kill and eat your cohabitant in the lifeboat, knowing full well that you are violating his rights and committing an unethical and immoral act.\nWhy \u2018arguably *should*\u2019? Because your understanding of rights and ethics \u2013 the very fact that you acknowledge that you are violating the rights of the other in the lifeboat \u2013 is known to you with certainty.\nBy contrast, you have no basis on which to assign CERTAINTY to your assessment of the ethical status of the other guy in the boat.\nIt is UNIVERSALLY preferable that individuals with \u2018sound\u2019 understandings of rights and ethics survive such situations, on the basis that the present value of future infringements on rights by the survivor, is minimised.\nSo,,, in summary: if you\u2019re a moral person (you understand and recognise rights, deplore their unjust violation, and KNOW that what you are about to do is a violation of the other\u2019s rights), the \u2018right\u2019 outcome of the game is that you kill and eat the other guy \u2013 whether you believe in utilitarianism or not. I happen not to believe in utilitarianism, because of the stupidity of treating Buffet\u2019s \u2018utils\u2019 as being of equal value to those of a blind pensioner\u2019s, despite understanding that a dollar in each case has different utility (that is to say, a policy that deprives a pensioner of one util but adds two utils to Buffet, is acceptable on the \u2018social utility maximising\u2019 view \u2013 despite being reprehensible).\nWell, *I* did not start from the premise that a right is an enforceable claim. I merely quoted Wendy on this point, in order to refute it. Personally I don\u2019t think rights are much of a claim at all, but just a meme that is held inconsistently from one person to the next, that does not describe reality very well.\nYeah, I know. The Nazis were judged at Nuremberg \u2013 by the very same group of people who got away with bombing the shit out of innocents living in Dresden. The Nazis\u2019 problem was clearly not that they violated \u201crights\u201d, but that they had lost the war.\nOh, and I thought we had decided lifeboat arguments were pretty worthless? So why are we continuing with them?\nIf you are worried about future infringements, the thing to do is get yourself a battle rifle and a case of ammo, not to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Most thugs who bust down your door won\u2019t be very impressed with \u201cI know my rights!\u201d\nI am not sure where to start answering the points upon which you and I disagree. I hope you excuse my starting with the last point you make in your post and, then, working my way upward as time permits. That is, the point that Jews under Hitler who believed in their own natural rights would have cried out \u201cYou are violating my rights!\u201d instead of defending themselves.\nWhy wouldn\u2019t they buy guns with which to exercise the right of self-defense? Wouldn\u2019t a commitment to the right to defend their lives make more of them rise up as they did in the Warsaw Ghetto? Your logical leap on the gun issue just baffles me and, so, I don\u2019t know how to answer\u2026unless, of course, you conflate natural rights with pacifism.\nAnd best to you,\nWhat I actually said was, \u201cThe Jews no doubt got themselves into trouble by thinking their lives were protected by these fantasy \u201crights\u201d. They\u2019d have been better off understanding reality, and buying themselves guns and ammo.\u201d\nThat is, if I am correct about the post you responded to. It\u2019s a little unclear in this blog.\nTo elaborate, people think that rights protect them, which makes them careless about getting actual protection. To me that is a drawback of the \u201crights\u201d meme that never is admitted for some reason.\n\u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t they buy guns with which to exercise the right of self-defense?\u201d\nBecause they think they are already protected \u2013 by \u201crights\u201d! Foolish them.\n\u201cWouldn\u2019t a commitment to the right to defend their lives make more of them rise up as they did in the Warsaw Ghetto?\u201d\nAnother problem with the \u201crights\u201d meme is that it is superfluous. It adds nothing to the discussion. For example, I can re-write your last two sentences to be much more concise and clear by simply eliminating this \u201crights\u201d fluff:\n\u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t they buy guns with which to defend their lives? Wouldn\u2019t the will to live make more of them rise up as they did in the Warsaw Ghetto?\u201d\nComputer programming is similar to science. Once a program is written, the programmer has to make sure it can handle any possible data, including invalid data, to keep the program from crashing. As you say, human affairs are far from an exact science, but perhaps lifeboat situations should be treated like invalid data for a computer program, in that they are not relevant to the principles or morals that are supposedly being tested.\nAs for rights, sure rights exist\u2013as normative concepts of how people ought to treat other people. The question of the enforcement of rights is a separate but related question from the actual concept of rights themselves. But recognition of rights, by *somebody*, is a necessary first step towards enforcing them. The concept helps clarify how we think about political or criminal issues, and how we think we should act or react on those issues.\nOr alternately, I could ask you where this \u201cwill\u201d and \u201cself-interest\u201d that you speak of exist? I\u2019ve never seen them, I can\u2019t touch them, they can\u2019t be put in a box or a room. How do you know that they exist?\n\u201cI could ask you where this \u201cwill\u201d and \u201cself-interest\u201d that you speak of exist? I\u2019ve never seen them, I can\u2019t touch them, they can\u2019t be put in a box or a room. How do you know that they exist?\u201d\nThat\u2019s not a very good test. There are lots of things that exist that I haven\u2019t seen or touched. There are people who say that everything is a dream. I don\u2019t go quite that far; I\u2019m willing to buy a collection of brain cells, chemical receptors and electrical transmission that boils down to something called \u201cwill\u201d. Also, because people act like they have wills. The will to live is not hard to discern in lots of animals, never mind humans. Rights on the other hand, have nothing backing them up. No behavior, nothing. Every behavior you see can be attributed to such things as will and self interest.\nIf you disagree, then please tell me of some physical manifestation or behavior that can be attributed to \u201crights\u201d but not to will or self-interest. Note that I don\u2019t go around killing people any more than you do, even though I think the \u201cright to life\u201d is silly.\n\u201crights exist\u2013as normative concepts of how people ought to treat other people\u201d\nIf that\u2019s as far as it went, I\u2019d have no complaints. In fact I imagine that is exactly how the meme of rights was born. But people usually are not talking about some academic, normative concept when they use the word \u201crights\u201d. They talk about rights protecting them, or them protecting rights. They talk of it as \u201cI can do X\u201d (e.g. get \u201cfree\u201d health care). My argument is a somewhat semantic one; the way the word \u201crights\u201d is used today is way beyond the original concept, and has migrated into never-never land. Also it has been bent to the ends of the ruling class. Time to give up on it. If academics still want to talk about how people ought to treat each other, let them use those words, not \u201crights\u201d which is confusing because it can mean almost anything.\nPaul: When Jefferson penned the famous idea of \u201cinalienable rights\u201d to justify the secession of some British from the control of their king he was refuting the idea of a sovereign king, and claiming that \u201call men\u201d, i.e., each person, is a sovereign. This probably was not well understood, e.g., the full implications of such a new concept had never been worked out. That was to be the American experiment. It did not fail because \u201crights\u201d are a fantasy. It failed because the intellectuals did not fully understand all the implications, and did not defend the idea well. The idea of sovereign individuals was quickly contradicted by a counter American Revolution document, the Constitution.\nToday, words like \u201crights\u201d and \u201ccapitalism\u201d have been destroyed by academics (intellectuals). So have the words like \u201cwill\u201d and \u201cself interest\u201d. We could invent new words but they would be destroyed also. All we can do is keep fighting the lies and confusion. We have to be \u201cThe New Intellectuals\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 51208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dailycampus.com/stories/2017/10/10/naturopathic-medicine-as-alternative-to-conventional-medicine", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PC3ZZN6SGVIHVHOYXNAXWGKBYWUOHLQ3", "length": 3436, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "dailycampus.com", "title": "Naturopathic medicine as alternative to conventional medicine \u2014 The Daily Campus", "raw_content": "By Rachel Philipson\nThe Hilda May Williams Student Health Services building serves as the Infirmary for UConn students on the Storrs campus. (Amar Batra/ The Daily Campus)\nNaturopathic medicine emphasizes prevention, treatment and optimal health through the use of all-natural medicine to help the body heal itself and gives patients a new path to treat conditions that do not respond well to conventional medicine, according to The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.\nDr. Tonya Pasternak, a physician with Collaborative Natural Health Services in Manchester, CT, said that with naturopathic medicine, people are given a wider variety of healthcare options.\n\u201cI feel that naturopathic medicine has something to offer for every condition because the goal is to not only treat the condition, but to strengthen a person as a whole, \u201c Pasternak said. \u201cThrough the use of naturopathic medicine, people are able to understand their bodies and their health, which helps to empower them to make informed decisions.\u201d\nThe physical conditions that naturopathic medicine can treat are typically chronic conditions that do not respond to conventional medicine, such as sleep disturbance and digestive disorders, Pasternak said.\n\u201cNaturopathic doctors see and treat all the same conditions that primary care doctors treat,\u201d Pasternak said, \u201cAnything from digestive efforts to hormone imbalances.\u201d\nAccording to Pasternak, some patients may have to refer back to conventional medicine instead of alternative naturopathic techniques for treatment.\n\u201cWe are limited when it comes to severe acute conditions such as certain infections or physical trauma,\u201d Pasternak said. \u201c While we can treat conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, there are times when natural medicine is not enough and a person may need a medication.\u201d\nPasternak said the unique aspect of naturopathic medicine is that doctors examine a patient\u2019s body, mind and spirit before determining the proper natural substances or therapies for treatment. This allows the patient to have a range of treatments that will better suit his/her needs than a generic conventional equivalent, Pasternak said.\nAfter the initial diagnosis, the types of treatments that naturopathic physicians use can range from physical medicines, medicinal herbs, nutrition and counseling, Pasternak said.\n\u201cThe nice thing about having so many treatment options is we can form a blend unique to each patient depending on how their body responds,\u201d Pasternak said.\nPasternak said there are multiple benefits to naturopathic medicine, but she feels that few people are educated about how it can heal their ailments.\n\u201cWhile naturopathic medicine has been around for many years, it is still not\u2026well known,\u201d Pasternak said. \u201cIt\u2019s important for people to know the various treatment options available to them so they can find the right fit for their health concerns.\u201d\nEastern Connecticut State University recently featured Pasternak as part of its \u201cUniversity Hour\u201d lectures.\n\u201cI was invited to speak at Eastern as a way to raise awareness of naturopathic medicine. It was a great experience and it seemed like a very nice community, \u201c Pasternak said. \u201cI hope that I sparked the interest in naturopathic to those who may have been unfamiliar with it.\u201d\nRachel Philipson is a campus correspondent for The Daily Campus. She can be reached via email at rachel.philipson@uconn.edu.\nTagged: Health Care, Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/design-diary-new-starts-but-does-not.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:B3PWSMN3NJ776JK4GAUW7LQHZ223P7Q7", "length": 2213, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "danielsolisblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Daniel Solis: Design Diary: \"New\" starts, but does not finish. [Part 1]", "raw_content": "Had a funny little moment yesterday. Might be useful to elaborate a bit as a part of a larger discussion of game design specifically and getting things done in general.\nI am writing the next draft of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple based on edits from Ryan Macklin. As a part of this process, I built up a lot of new Actual Play reports by playing several concurrent games on Skype. Since then, I've also kept in contact with those players asking for any advice that might make it into sidebars or addenda of the published game.\nIt was in that discussion that Mark Sherry, he of the genius mathematical brain that has helped me through many hair-brained game ideas, came up with a new idea for Do's procedure.\nSome background. In the present rules, an overview of which you can see here, the color of stones you keep does not have an affect in the short term. Only the number of stones you keep matters. The color has an impact at the end of the game and at the end of a series of games, when your accumulated choices flavor how that ending plays out.\nSome more background. The email list was discussing some tips on how to choose a good pilgrim name. This advice generally revolved around avoiding a situation where your name is too limited in its possible interpretations. When you describe Pilgrim Rolling Fist as solving problems with his fists, then he's probably not going to help people with his charming smile. However, if he helps people by defending against injustice, well, that opens many other narrative opportunities.\nSo, Mark's idea. Make color of stones matter in the short-term and allow both words in your pilgrim's name to be used as metaphors for getting into trouble and helping people. Then, when you choose light or dark stones, you are deciding whether it is the Banner that is helping people and the Avatar getting you in trouble or vice versa. An interesting side effect of this is that at the end of the game, you can make it so that the word that got your pilgrim into trouble the most is what ends up changing. Your pilgrim learned from her mistakes and grows up from the experience.\nThis is a provocative idea and tempted me greatly. Let's see how it turned out in tomorrow's post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-united-by-james-meservy-giveaway.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:52SCSI3H4NHUABRKPPC5HK4AQO4D2AZT", "length": 1878, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com", "title": "Deal Sharing Aunt: The United by James Meservy Giveaway", "raw_content": "The United by James Meservy Giveaway\nSome time ago in a land since long forgotten, an evil force by the name of Lord Yrimwaque \u2013 servant of the Threat of Rai \u2013 threatens to destroy everything and prepare the world for a harvest. The only thing that stands in his way are three reluctant heroes: Tyler, his girlfriend KimberlyAnn and his best friend Blaze Morrison, who have been recruited by the followers of the Light of Rai. Upon their journey of knowledge, TJ and his friends are forced into an unlikely encounter with a creature of legend, and find themselves in the midst of an ancient battle between the Light of Rai and the Threat of Rai, with our world hanging in the balance. As the Light of Rai teach them to hone their various gifts and talents for the greater good of the kingdom, faith is restored, in the hopes that they will be able to stop Lord Yrimwaque and vanquish the evil horde he desires to unleash upon the land. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the land hangs in the balance, as the lines between good and evil become more skewed. But will all their efforts be enough, or will the kingdom be plunged into darkness forever?\nLiterature has always been a passion of mine. I love to read, and I love to discuss literature. My favorite genre to read and write is fantasy.\nI was born in the InterMountain West of the United States. I consider my home town to be Mendon, Ut; however, I spent my childhood years in Hinesville, Ga, and multiple communities in Northern Utah.\nI graduated from Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, Utah, and graduated from Utah State University with a degree in Anthropology, emphasis in Archaeology, with minors in Russian and Geology.\nI started writing in grade school, and after many years and multiple attempts, I finally published my first book The United.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 438, "original_length": 10342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://desperatesarah.blogspot.com/2007/07/doctors-visit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:01Z", "digest": "sha1:M5IF6NCZHFOGQERZL53EBAYJATVP7VE2", "length": 9657, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "desperatesarah.blogspot.com", "title": "He Loves Me Not: It's not codependency when you're openly bleeding", "raw_content": "It's not codependency when you're openly bleeding\nMy hands tightened around my steering wheel.\n\"You just totally looked at me like I'm an asshole,\" Scott said.\nI woke Scott up early in the morning. I told him he had to get up and walk around to see if he could drive himself to the doctor's or not. If he couldn't, I would call out sick to work and take him. Instead he grumbled and said he wanted to sleep. He said he would be fine. I went to work and he called me and said he got a 1:30 appointment, but he couldn't ride his motorcycle. I had to go to my boss again and tell her that I needed to leave early. Scott and I hadn't even been together long enough for my employers to realize my change of status, so I know I must have come off as some insane idiot.\nScott had been protesting everything I tried to do since his accident. I wanted to take care of him like he took care of me. The only difference is that I readily gave up control and he didn't. I tried taking care of him and I was only getting balked at. I told him I knew what I was doing--five years as a lifeguard and I'm both fully certified and experienced at handling first-aid--but he wouldn't listen. And instead of calling out for the day like I wanted, I had to leave early, explaining my whereabouts to my boss.\n\"I'm trying Scott, I just don't know what to do with you. You've just been so argumentative that I don't know if I'm doing the correct things.\"\nHe softened up, \"You're going a great job. I'm just trying so hard to not be codependent like I have been in the past.\"\n\"It's not codependency when you're openly bleeding.\"\nI pulled my SUV, which feels safer and safer everyday, into Scott's doctor's office and quickly noticed it was a free clinic. He goes to a free clinic.\nI've never seen a free clinic before.\nI was embarrassed, not for the people inside, but for me. I had come from work to take him, meaning that I was dressed professionally and sporting my $400 Coach leather bag. My purse alone would pay for their collective doctor's bills. My doctor is a friend of the family. I can call him up and go see him whenever I want. And if he's too busy, I can always call Harvey's father, also a doctor. If I had known, I would have changed and left the bag at home.\nWe grabbed seats in the corner. At least I was sitting next to Scott. And good for him for getting medical attention within his means. He could get money from his parents and go elsewhere, but he chooses not to. That's admirable.\nScott got called away and then I realized I was sitting alone in the free clinic. I pulled out my mp3 player and unwound the earplugs to listen to my music and zone out, but then I realized my surroundings and put the mp3 player away. I opened my lunch, drive-thru from McDonald's, and began to eat instead.\nAt the sight of my french fries, three Mexican children ran away from their mother and grabbed the seats around me. Three Mexican children surrounded me and stared at me while I tried to eat. I looked helplessly at the mother, who didn't care what her children were doing.\nI looked at the kids, \"You're not supposed to eat food from strangers and I'm a stranger.\"\n\"(Unintelligible Spanish.)\"\nThey don't even speak English! my head shrilled. I ignored their presence and ate hurriedly. Clearly their mother wouldn't want a stranger feeding them no matter how hard they begged, right?\nThe children kept speaking to me in Spanish. I never took a single Spanish class. I didn't know what they were saying, so I kept ignoring them while sending mind waves for their mother to collect them. This is just rude.\nThen one kid leaned towards me and blew a raspberry. I just got spit in the face by a Mexican kid who doesn't speak English at a free clinic. It's a doctor's office, which means one or more of them are probably ill, and now his saliva was on my face.\nI quickly began to lose patience. I am from upper-middle class suburbia. I grew up around senators and quasi-celebrities. I spend more time at the country club than I do at the free clinic. If my mother knew where I was right now she would flip the fuck out. I'm about to flip the fuck out. What am I doing here? I have no business being here. Why didn't I call my own doctor for Scott? I should just get up and leave. I should just--\n\"Hey baby it's just going to be a couple of more minutes,\" Scott leaned his head out the door. I saw that his arm was in a sling.\nI jumped out of my chair, \"Are you alright?\" I whimpered. The sling meant he was hurt; my heart leapt at the sight of Scott.\nAnd that's why I'm sitting at the free clinic on a Tuesday afternoon.\nThe verdict was a separated shoulder and a chipped collarbone. The doctor said it's only going to get worse before it's going to get better and wrote Scott a prescription for hydrocodone. And absolutely no motorcycle riding.\nWe filled his prescription and then I drove to his house for the very first time. I had been telling him for a few days that I really want to see it. I joked that I needed to make sure he wasn't married anymore or living with a girl and that's why I hadn't seen it yet. As if it were possible, Scott's apartment was smaller than mine, but it was immaculately kept.\nI collapsed on his futon while he packed a bag. It was decided he would stay with me for the next few days. He couldn't drive, much less use the left side of his body, and I lived closer to his bike shop than he did. I could pick him up in the afternoons and his boss could swing by and get him in the mornings. This also meant I had to give Scott my spare key. First week in and he's staying with me and has the key--this relationship was moving quickly.\nAs predicted, the hydrocodone made Scott loopy and pretty out of it. We rented a movie and he immediately fell asleep, taking up all my couch space. I squatted on the floor and brushed his hair back, trying to wake him up.\n\"Come on, let's go to bed. This couch isn't good for your shoulder.\"\n\"You're taking such good care of me,\" he murmured.\n\"I'm trying, but you're so stubborn.\"\n\"That's one thing you'll learn about me fairly quickly.\" He opened his eyes and cupped my face in his hand, \"I don't know what I would do without you. I can't drive. I'd be stuck in my own apartment and not be able to do anything.\"\n\"Well you took care of me.\"\nHe sighed, \"I know. I can't believe it. A couple of weeks ago we were just riding motorbikes together. Then you wrecked and then I wrecked and now I'm here. I just don't know what I'd do without you,\" he repeated. \"It's crazy how all this happened.\"\nI dismissed it and put him in bed. Everyone knows that hydrocodone has opiates in it.\nThe free clinic sounds like quite the \"adventure\". If you're going to live in this country speak ENGLISH!! I have neighbors that are from Mexico. Very nice but their 6 year old son has to translate for them. I blame it on the fact that they know english (I've heard them) but the just don't use it. But I guess in my little town it's the best way to get all the assholes to leave you alone. Anyway...off track there. :P At least they hydrocodone made him more agreeable :)\nI saw a free clinic once...it's on the Haight in San Francisco. :-) Sounds scary, glad I've never gone into one.\nAnd I don't care what nationality you are, take care of your damn kids, and keep them away from strangers. Jeez!\nHmm... sounds like SOMEONE should be giving herself a little more credit, :).\nWe don't have free clinics so much as uninsured-only-welcomed clinics. I need to make an appointment.\nThe people in charge of the city should be implementing programs for children to learn English. A lot of kids get thrown into classes and no one even translates for them. I don't follow politics but that is one issue I should get into.\nI seriously wish my life was as interesting as yours! I had to laugh at the Coach bag thing. I feel awkward being the non-white student in standard college student sweatpants sitting on a park bench with a Coach bag, but I can only imagine what the clinic must have been like!\nOh yeah, and I totally agree about the English thing. My dad grew up in colonial British East Africa (being neither an african, nor british). So he became (and still is) fluent in English - the lingua franca, Swahili - the native african language, French to deal with nearby colonies, Urdu and Punjabi to talk to the South Asian population, and Latin for his studies. And people can't even pick up English in America?\ncrazy but fate?\n\"Soy una bruja y yo voy a comer sus almas.\"\nWrite that down and next time you are surrounded by little mexican kids that are bothering you say it.\nIt translates into: I am a witch and i am going to eat your souls.\nI give you a money back guarantee they will go running to their mommy and leave you alone :)\nSavage - that is SO wrong! I love it!! :D\nSarah I'm glad you got the experience. I used to go to the free clinic in college because I loved the doctor so much, not because I had to. I always gave a good donation. Getting outside your comfort zone is very important, maybe this Scott will teach you a little more about yourself than you expected? Open up your mind a little....\nI'll never understand the US medical system. However i do appreciate this story, it's a shock to see how 'the other half' live.\nOh, and I wish him a speedy recovry\nThat's weird - we don't really have free clinics in Canada because all health care is free...\nI hope Scott heals well!\nhuraah hurrah\nBut that's just men for you. Trying to be all manly. However, give them the common cold and watch them cry like babies. . .\ndid you mean to come across as racist and spoilt?\nor is there a sense of irony i'm missing somehow?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 14656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.dailytexanonline.com/2018/03/01/texas-takes-on-northwestern-in-four-game-series", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TWPC4TXGTFVZ4PLQHNSAZEENVWKBVM5Z", "length": 3181, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "dev.dailytexanonline.com", "title": "Texas takes on Northwestern in four-game series | The Daily Texan", "raw_content": "Texas takes on Northwestern in four-game series\nPublished on March 1, 2018 at 11:26 pm Last update on March 1, 2018 at 11:52 pm\nAt 5\u20133, the No. 23 Longhorns are not where they\u2019d hoped to be at this point in the season. They\u2019re not too far off, however. And with a four-game series against Northwestern looming this weekend, Texas is in prime position to almost double its win total.\nThe Northwestern Wildcats come to Austin sporting a 2\u20134 record after most recently dropping a series against Kansas.\nThis is not the Texas team many expected to see coming into the season, though. Most would\u2019ve assumed that the Longhorns would be strong in their pitching rotation and on the field. While they\u2019ve done an adequate job in those aspects of the game, at the plate is where the team has done most of its damage.\n\u201cWe\u2019re a better offense than most people think,\u201d Texas head coach David Pierce said. \u201cWe\u2019re not as good defensively and pitching as most people give us credit for. But I think we\u2019re solid.\u201d\nHelping lead the offensive charge for the Longhorns is somewhat of a surprise name for fans. Moving up into the cleanup spot for Texas, redshirt freshman designated hitter Zach Zubia has been stellar, batting an impressive .300, while leading the team with eight RBIs. The most eye-popping statistic for the first-year starter might be his ridiculous .750 slugging percentage.\n\u201cEvery swing (I feel like I have the chance to change the game),\u201d Zubia said. \u201cBut you can\u2019t think that you\u2019re going to hit a home run every at bat, because you\u2019d be in the Hall of Fame already. But just to know that you have one swing that can change the game, that can change momentum especially, is nice to know.\u201d\nWhere Zubia has struggled, though, is in the strikeout category. He currently leads the team with 10 strikeouts in only 20 at bats \u2014 most of which came on off-speed pitches.\n\u201cIf he can be disciplined, he can be a force,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s going to come with at bats. Zach is going to go through some growing pains. But at the same time he can be a dominating force like we\u2019ve seen already.\u201d\nWhile Texas does not have its complete pitching rotation set for the weekend, junior Chase Shugart will likely start on Friday night, with junior Nolan Kingham and sophomore Blair Henley starting in Saturday\u2019s double header. Henley, in particular, has been absolutely masterful during both of his starts in this young season. As the only Texas starter with an ERA below 1.00, Henley has thrown for 11 innings, allowing 11 hits and only one earned run. Henley, who Pierce said can throw strikes in his sleep, has found his groove only two starts into the season. He was even named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week after shutting out LSU in his six-inning performance last weekend.\n\u201cIt\u2019s cool (to win the award),\u201d Henley said. \u201cIt is another day. I do want to thank my defense for that one. I think I had three Ks and three walks, and every other pitch was a groundout or pop up. They really did their job on the routine plays, and that\u2019s what I think is going to make us successful.\u201d\nTexas\u2019 first game against Northwestern will be on Friday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:FGGQYKEWSHLUGLDUNYXDCVFVQ2WUS7R2", "length": 11515, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "dev.ushistory.org", "title": "Biography of Martha Washington", "raw_content": "Picture: American Memory\nIn 1633, the Reverend Rowland Jones immigrated from England to the colony of Virginia. He had graduated from Oxford University and in Williamsburg served as minister of Bruton Parish for fourteen years. Two generations later, his great-granddaughter, Martha Dandridge was born on June 2, 1731 on a plantation near Williamsburg. She grew up in the Dandridge home, Chestnut Grove. She enjoyed riding horses, gardening, sewing, playing the spinet and dancing. Her father saw that she received a fair education in basic mathematics, reading and writing...something girls primarily did not receive at the time.\nAt the age of eighteen, Martha was married to Daniel Parke Custis. He was wealthy, handsome and twenty years older than her. Martha set up housekeeping on the Custis plantation, while her husband managed the estate which encompassed over 17,000 acres. Her husband adored his young, pretty bride and pampered her with the finest clothes and gifts imported from England. They had four children, two died in infancy. John Parke, called \"Jacky\" and Martha, called \"Patsy\" were their two surviving children. In 1757, when Martha was twenty-six, Daniel Parke Custis died after a brief illness. Jacky was three and Patsy was less than a year old.\nPassing on without a will, Martha was left with the duties of running the household, the estate and raising her children. (Fatherless children were usually \"raised\" under the auspices of a guardian, even if the mother survived \u2014 which meant that another male, primarily a relative, took care of the estates of the children). Her early education proved quite helpful in the task. Her husbands former business manager stayed on to help with the operation of the plantation and she consulted with lawyers when she felt it was necessary.\nSometime later, Martha met a young colonel (several months younger than her) in the Virginia Militia at a cotillion in Williamsburg. This young colonel fought for the British in the French and Indian War. His desire was to become a commissioned officer in the Royal Army, but the British never considered it. His name was George Washington.\nMartha fell in love and George found her quite attractive. (That she had a good disposition and inherited wealth were an added bonus to the relationship). He had had a crush on a pretty neighbor, Sally Fairfax, but when she married another, he knew he must find a suitable wife for himself.\nMartha married George on January 6, 1759. The marriage changed George from an ordinary planter to a substantially wealthy landowner. He had resigned his commission in the militia and so, George, Martha, Jacky (4), and Patsy (2) moved into the enlarged and remodeled Mt. Vernon. Martha was careful and conscientious in running her home, although she and her husband did not pinch pennies when it came to caring for their home. Her children were denied nothing. She pampered and lavished attention and expensive gifts on them.\nThey lived well at first, but subsequent bad crop returns over a number of years began to take their toll on their finances. They continued their style of living, however, and the constant stream of visitors to entertain did not help their sagging bank account.\nWhen the children were eight and six years of age, a Mr. Walter Magowen was hired as their tutor. At the age of twelve, Patsy had an epileptic seizure and as her condition worsened, she could no longer study. Mr. Magowen left for England soon after Patsy became ill and Jacky was sent to Boucher School in Caroline County (Boucher was moved to Annapolis in 1770). He was an indifferent student, interested more in having fun than being studious. A proposed trip for Jacky was refused by his stepfather because he felt Jacky was too immature, and their finances couldn't handle the expense. He was sent to King's College in New York instead. While there, he met Eleanor \"Nelly\" Calvert and they got engaged. Soon after he had left for New York, Patsy died at the age of 17. Martha was devastated, but told Jacky to remain in school. By December, Jacky wanted to return to Mt. Vernon, and on the way, on February 3, 1774, Jacky and Nelly were wed at Nelly's home Mt. Airy in Maryland, before heading further south.\nAround the same time, the political unrest in the colonies was becoming more vocal. The colonists were being burdened with an inordinant amount of taxes and levies. Some of the friends and acquaintances of Martha and George, people who were visitors to their home, were soon to become the Founding Fathers. Martha herself was considerably torn. Her friends and family were split on both sides. Her son's in-laws were loyalists as well as some of their neighbors. George, however, felt it was his duty to assume some role of leadership at the urging of some of his fellow patriots. He began by working on recruiting and training an armed force. Militia were organized by state. Realizing he would have to be away from home, he asked Jacky and Nelly to stay at Mt. Vernon with Martha, which they did.\nGeorge Washington soon became the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and he took charge of his army at Cambridge, Massachusetts in the winter of 1775. Martha, Jacky, Nelly, and some friends traveled two weeks to be with him there for Christmas. Martha stayed with him until June of 1776, but the others returned home soon after Christmas. She wouldn't see him again until March of 1777, where the army was encamped at Morristown for the winter. The General was feeling ill and his wife was there to nurse him. He sent her home when the fighting got closer.\nAt Mt. Vernon, Martha gathered her family to get the smallpox inoculation...an iffy project because you could contract the disease and die anyway. Martha would not rejoin her husband until February of 1778, where she joined him at Valley Forge. There she entertained some of the officers and the other wives who shared winter quarters there.\nJacky was becoming restless at home, and volunteered to become an aide to his stepfather. He was enlisted only a few days when he died on November 5, 1781 of \"camp fever.\" Jacky was the last of Martha's children and she was quite distraught. George told her to stay at Mt. Vernon instead of being with him that winter. By this time, Jacky and Nelly had six children: Eliza Parke Custis, Martha Parke Custis, Eleanor Parke Custis, a set of twins who died and George Washington Parke Custis. Nelly was in poor health after the birth of her own Nelly and as a result, the young baby was sent to Mt. Vernon to be nursed. With the birth and death of the twins and the subsequent birth of George Washington Parke Custis, he joined his sister at Mt. Vernon.\nThe war ended on November 25, 1783, when the British left their last stronghold. Washington said farewell to his troops at Fraunces Tavern in New York, shopped for gifts for his grandchildren in Philadelphia and resigned his commission in Annapolis (temporary home of Congress). On Christmas Eve, he rode into Mt. Vernon.\nMartha's daughter-in-law soon remarried a widower, Dr. Stuart, who had set up practice in Alexandria. Young Nelly and Wash would imminently be leaving Mt. Vernon to live with their mother. Due to some confusion in guardianship and Martha's own distress at losing her grandchildren, the children ended up staying at Mt. Vernon.\nMartha resumed her housekeeping career, as well as entertaining and caring for her grandchildren. Guests were constantly streaming in and out of their home. She became ill in 1785, the same year her mother and brother died. George hired several tutors until Tobias Lear was hired as tutor for the children and as secretary to George Washington, which lessened some of Martha's duties.\nThe Constitutional Convention was convening and George traveled to take part. He was named president of the convention and before ratification of the new Constitution, he was being urged to accept the role of the President of the United States. He returned to Mt. Vernon. Both he and Martha realized that he would be President by the beginning of 1789. In April, he was elected unanimously by the Electoral College.\nGeorge and Martha had to apply for a loan to pay for the move to New York \u2014 the temporary capital. George arrived first and his inaugural ball was held before Martha could be with him. Martha and her grandchildren were hailed with fanfare all the way to New York. It was all a bit overwhelming for her. Her duties included not only the operation of her own house, but planning and arranging formal dinners, parties and receptions.\nThey fell into a pattern of routine with the President holding open receptions to any clean respectable males on Tuesday afternoons. Martha had her own receptions on Fridays open to both men and women. Sundays were family days, first going to church at St. Paul's and various outings with the grandchildren in the afternoons.\nThe first year they moved twice. Once to a larger home in New York on Broadway and the second time, in November, to Philadelphia, to await the completion of the new capital on the Potomac River. Martha loved Philadelphia, as did her grandchildren. She had a number of old friends and acquaintances there with whom she could attend parties and the theater with.\nNelly and Wash were raised much like Patsy and Jacky had been, and were similar in temperament to their father and aunt. Wash, in fact, hated school as much as his father had. Nelly was very pretty, popular and was very close to her grandmother and step-grandfather.\nGeorge Washington was elected to a second term which was somewhat difficult for him when war broke out between France and England. His desire was for the United States to remain neutral and others in the government felt aid should be given to France. As a result, Thomas Jefferson resigned as Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton threatened to submit his resignation. By August, a severe epidemic of Yellow Fever spread over Philadelphia. The First Family traveled to Mt. Vernon until cold weather hit the city and ended the disease.\nMarch 4, 1797 was the day that George Washington gave his farewell to Congress and the Washingtons soon returned home to Mt. Vernon. They celebrated George's sixty-seventh birthday with a wedding ceremony. Young Nelly married his nephew, Lawrence Lewis. They lived at Mt. Vernon until they were given a portion of land of Mt. Vernon and their home, Woodlawn.\nAfter riding the grounds of Mt. Vernon one day, George returned home with a severe cold. He died December 14, 1799. Martha was too grief-stricken to attend the funeral. Upon his death, she closed the door to their bed chamber and moved herself to a tiny, plain garret chamber on the third floor of the mansion, directly over Nelly's bedroom. Twenty days before her beloved grandfathers death, Nelly gave birth to her first child, Frances Parke Lewis. She was unable to be with him in his final hours. The baby was a joy to Martha, and lessened the pain, somewhat, of her grief.\nThe will of George Washington ordered the freedom of half of his slaves, leaving the old and the young to remain. Martha freed them all in 1800. Her own health was deteriorating and in March of 1802, sensing her death, she made a will. She then burned all her letters she and her husband had written to one another over the years, except for two.\nMay 22, 1802, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington breathed her last with her beloved granddaughter Nelly nearby. She was entombed next to her husband at Mt. Vernon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 12024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 187.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dhheaf.org/letters_of_students0.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:24LPVLJ2WUQR7BPHFD345PH74NQKB3KO", "length": 1714, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "dhheaf.org", "title": "Deaf and hard of hearing Educational Athletic Foundation - Letters of Students", "raw_content": "Students's Letters\nI had fun & my favorite sport is tennis. Thank you so much for teaching me. Lucille, 11th grade\nThank you for teaching us to play tennis. It's fun and a good way to exercise. Try tennis, you may like it. Terrell, 10th gr.\nit was fun when we played one on one. We could make a team and start a season in the fall. I want to keep practicing. & hope we win a tournament. Rigo, 11th grade\nI had fun with your program and want to say thank you. I enjoyed it and had fun with my friends and you. I need to practice more. Illana, 11th gr.\nEven though I'm a basketball player, I can handle both sports......starting to like tennis and I'm having a great time. Freddie, 12th gr.\n.....the best part is the serve. Maybe I'll see you again when I go to high school. Joshua, 8th gr.\nI will be practicing tennis at my own home right in the backyard. Your friend, Deandre, 7th gr.\n......great helper, great time & I like to see you again. Thank you, Tyrone, 7th gr.\nI appreciate you lessons. It is nice having you around. Your friend, Randy, 7th gr.\nThank you for coming to summer school. I like to play tennis a lot. Diego, 8th gr.\nThank you.....I hope you can teach us next year. Xavier, 8th gr.\nHey Coach, Thank you, thank you. I started to become better. I will see you next time. Frankie, 7th gr.\nI really had a lot of fun at the park this summer. You are a really good coach. Manny, 7th gr.\nThank you for help me to play tennis. It makes me feel better. Angel, 7th gr.\nI didn't know how to play tennis. Since you came I started to become better. Your friend, Jose, 8th gr.\nThank you for teaching me to play tennis. Your friend, Mia, 7th gr.\nThank you from the winners who got the sodas. Jennifer, 7th gr.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cs/id/7761/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ILA2D4R3DQYE7S4NGHFN5TPMLGHJE3BQ", "length": 774, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "digital.library.louisville.edu", "title": "House and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. :: Caufield & Shook Collection", "raw_content": "Home Caufield & Shook Collection House and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.\nHouse and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.\nTitle House and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.\nDescription A view of 18th St. (now Dixie Highway) in Louisville, Ky. A car is parked on the side of the road and a two story house is nearby. Additional cars are traveling down the road in the distance. The invoice indicates this is south of St. Helen's and was the scene of a car wreck.\nInvoice Information Continental Casualty Co., Starks Bldg, Invoice Number 12913\nAdd tags for House and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.\nPost a Comment for House and car along Eighteenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 4608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalcollections.nyhistory.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A4686", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:X7ZLFZBKKWWLT5HCGYLATSZY45MQNVTC", "length": 206, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "digitalcollections.nyhistory.org", "title": "To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. | New York Historical Society | Digital Collections", "raw_content": "To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York.\nArguing against anyone holding office who does not possess \"great abilities, or considerable property.\"\nSigned and dated: The watchman. April 15, 1776.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub/123/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HOWZJEQ5SZ6SLVYFRH74N6IWBDQOYW5M", "length": 4219, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.unl.edu", "title": "\"Chaco Landscapes: Data, Theory and Management\" by Ruth Van Dyke, Stephen Lekson et al.", "raw_content": "Home > Anthropology > Anthropology Faculty Publications > 123\nChaco Landscapes: Data, Theory and Management\nRuth Van Dyke, Binghamton UniversityFollow\nStephen Lekson, University of ColoradoFollow\nCarrie Heitman, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow\nJulian Thomas, University of ManchesterFollow\nDraft report submitted as partial fulfillment of CESU Master Agreement P14AC00979, Project Number: UCOB-109 to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico by the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado\nThis paper, informally termed the \u201cWhite Paper,\u201d presents current anthropological theory, methods, and research on Chacoan landscapes at several scales. The paper consists of 17 pages of text which summarize anthropological and management issues, supported by 45 pages of Appendices and a list of References cited. A condensed set of \u201cManagement Considerations\u201d is presented in Section VIII of the text.\nThe Colorado Plateau is a land of long horizons punctuated by dramatic buttes, mesas, and mountain ranges. The rich cultural heritage and natural beauty of this region hold meaning for the millions of tourists who visit each year to experience this iconic landscape. Many of these same places on the Plateau are still considered central to indigenous religious practices, histories, and oral traditions of descendent communities in the region. This landscape is also defined by the complex connections and histories of diverse resident communities. Ancient communities of the Plateau are the focus of ongoing major anthropological investigations into such issues as Neolithic demography and agriculture, emergent sociopolitical complexity, and human impact on the environment. In short, Chacoan archaeology has many stakeholders.\nChaco Canyon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, important not only for contemporary indigenous peoples and archaeologists but for all of humanity. It preserves a unique aspect of the human experience and draws over 40,000 visitors yearly to witness its grandeur and Native history. The confounding aspect of this cultural chapter is precisely its scope and formal expression across such a vast landscape. It was not until the 1970s that archaeologists fully grasped the extent of the ancient Chacoan roadways and thus the scope of the Chaco world. Forty years later, we are still struggling to understand this spatial and temporal complexity, trying to determine the connections and human experiences of those who built and traversed these roads, great houses, shrines, and kivas.\nChaco was not a single locality, nor was it merely a series of discrete localities or elements; management decisions that reduce this landscape to dots on a map threaten to destroy the most compelling, least-understood, and perhaps most significant aspect of this phenomenon. A century of research has shown that Chaco was comprised of relationships and shared symbols. Our ability to resolve many of the remaining research issues outlined above depends upon the protection of this landscape in a way that honors both what is known and what we still have to learn.\nThe goal of this paper is to provide an academic overview regarding the Chaco landscape: what it is, what we know about it, how we know what we know, and what we still have to learn. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive tool that can be used for management purposes. The text provides a summary road map while appendices to this document contain supporting information and broader discussions. The paper is divided into 7 sections: (1) introduction to Chaco in time and space; (2) management history and considerations; (3) landscape theory; (4) defining the Chaco landscape, part one \u2013 the material elements; (5) research issues; (6) defining the Chaco landscape, part two \u2013 the experiential elements; and (7); concluding arguments. In the main body of this paper we lay out our primary points; supporting data and additional discussion for each section is found in corresponding appendices.\nAmerican Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons\nAnthropology Faculty Publications Website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalmarketing.computan.com/the-benefits-of-hubspot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:25Z", "digest": "sha1:MYA3KWJHG5IGC47GEVMCXSFPT2PXM4WE", "length": 2803, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "digitalmarketing.computan.com", "title": "The Benefits of HubSpot", "raw_content": "If you know anything about us, you\u2019ll know that we love HubSpot. In our perfect world, everyone would be using HubSpot for their business because it makes so much sense and has so many amazing benefits.\nDon\u2019t believe us? You don\u2019t have to. But we\u2019re here to tell you why we\u2019re on the bandwagon- and we\u2019re there to stay.\nHere are some of the benefits of HubSpot you will be able to enjoy when you use the platform for your all of your marketing and website needs.\nLearning How to Use HubSpot is Easy\nThanks to HubSpot Academy, learning to use this platform has never been easier. There are many, many things you can do with HubSpot, and the Academy provides video and powerpoint tutorials that walk you through how to use all of those features.\nAdditionally, HubSpot also has a plethora of other resources that can really help you out when you\u2019re learning the ropes. There is the HubSpot blog, which has many great articles about the system, and there is also the Resources section, which is full of great content.\nMarketing Automation Will Boost Your Strategy\nThe marketing automation options available in HubSpot are a major game-changer for any marketing department. You can collect contacts, segment lists, send out emails and workflow campaigns, and publish blogs all from one location. HubSpot\u2019s smart targeting techniques allow you to gather as much data as possible about your customers\u2019 behaviours and use that information to create custom, hyper-targeted campaigns that drive more traffic and leads to your site.\nYou Can Make Your Own Templates in HubSpot\nThe ability to make your own templates in HubSpot is one of the software\u2019s most convenient features. Using the design manager, you are able to build templates for landing pages, emails, and blogs. This can be done right in design manager or through a PSD to HubSpot transition.\nHubSpot templates make it easy to connect all of your marketing efforts and integrate them throughout your website, social media, and other channels. This helps make sure you retain brand consistency throughout your site, while also streamlining your efforts and making it as easy as possible for you to do what you need to do.\nIt\u2019s Easy to Get an Expertly Developed HubSpot Website\nWhen it comes to creating a new, custom website, HubSpot has all of the resources to help you get there- including recommendations for a HubSpot development team. There are many HubSpot partners that are HubSpot certified and recommended to work closely in the back end of the platform.\nAt Computan, we are a HubSpot certified partner and have worked closely with HubSpot for a long time now. We know the ins and outs of the software and its coding language, and this knowledge helps us provide you with the website of your dreams. Get in touch now if you\u2019d like to learn more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digitalxplore.org/abstract.php?pdf_id=6972", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:20Z", "digest": "sha1:CL6IOQAO44PS2Q5HAUYTQYSKXM4XT3DX", "length": 826, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "digitalxplore.org", "title": "Paper Title", "raw_content": "The hearing-impaired community uses gestures to communicate. Gestures can also be used in interactions between man and computer. However, gestures become increasingly complicated in a comparatively complex environment. A recognition algorithm with a choice of function based on the improved genetic algorithm is proposed to improve the ability to identify gestures. The recognition process includes retailing, extraction, and feeding functions before classifying the neural network. After learning gestures, the proposed method is compared with traditional methods that use the classic genetic algorithm. The proposed method demonstrates the effect of optimization and sensitivity of the function. Keywords - Genetic Algorithm, Progressive Sampling, Feature Selection, Named Entity Recognition, Maximum Entropy.Area-efficient.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dinamikyapi.az/?/en/menu/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TN5UFTT476Q6GQBNY6GIP6GY7IKRTUA4", "length": 968, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dinamikyapi.az", "title": "Dynamic home page", "raw_content": "ARCHITECTURE - space and environment for human life and activity buildings and structures that form the system. This is the art of creating buildings and structures in accordance with the laws of beauty.\nDESIGN - a creative activity to determine the form of manufactured goods. It's the appearance, define the responsibilities of both the structural and functional features of concern. Construction design of objects of labor, taking into consideration their welfare and recreation harmony providing aesthetic sphere.\nPROJECTS - the start and end time points, which aims to build a new product or service, with a particular resource, unique in the field of quality and risk of the requirements.\n\"Dinamik Yap\u0131\" LLC offer to Design your homes, offices, dachas and development areas in all of design styles, and also offer you in a land (regardless of width and longitudinal), taking into account the client's wishes, maximum convenience and optimal development projects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dogsunlimited.ca/ancaster.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3YLRXGRDGDN4N7ATRQULT3BLBMRL75DK", "length": 814, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dogsunlimited.ca", "title": "DogsUnlimited \u2013 Dog Training in Ancaster, Dog Obedience Ancaster, Mark McConnell - Take Home Dog Trainer Ancaster ON", "raw_content": "Welcome to dog training in Ancaster, the DogsUnlimited way!\nFounder of DogsUnlimited and Take-Home-Dog-Trainer Mark McConnell is here to help you with all your dog training needs. Renowned for a tireless commitment to his clients, Mark has spent the past 20 years helping people understand their dog\u2019s behaviour to bring about the positive changes they seek. In Ancaster and surrounding area hundreds of dog owners have relied on Mark for one-on-one dog training advice, dog obedience training, puppy socialization, and solutions to all types of dog problems including aggression. We specialize in finding ways to incorporate the fundamentals of dog training into our clients\u2019 busy lives. After all, successful dog training is as much about being aware of your own actions, as remembering what to do with your dog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://donald-marshall.com/kids.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:72HZQIJJ7XTNH6O3SLFH3B6LDB6I2MIQ", "length": 1275, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "donald-marshall.com", "title": "PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED", "raw_content": "If nothing else a good intro to sacred geometry... They sure were a lot more open with this stuff in 1957... Maybe the masons hadn't learned their boundaries yet... This will teach someone a lot about how you can spot sacred geometry in everyday life....\n***Post from Don's page Re: Gravity Falls***\nDonald Marshall: \"Anyone know what this is about on the Disney cartoon Gravity Falls? It's got a numeric code in it. Have fun. I'll post close ups in comments.\"\nTom & Jerry & the leader of Hollywood\ntwo scenes from the movie \"Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry\" (2005)\nAC1O1(OP): \"Short Film/Animation...as topic...holy s#!t..no wonder it's banned from tv...mysterious stranger? is that mark twain or albert einstein? i think its from mark twain\"\nClone High (2002-2003)\nThe greatest minds of the world have been cloned and are now attending high school together.\n***EDITOR'S NOTE*** I have posted the entire first season below for those of you who want to see it; I wonder why they only made 1 season? Hits a little too close to home, perhaps?\nWalt Disney & Illuminati : Subliminal Perversion Exposed (2013)\n***EDITORS NOTE*** I had to include this...this one scene from A Bug's Life says a lot about the current situation of Humanity....truthfully, the entire movie does.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drgeorge.org/index.php?area=kid&page=craft", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HODIFWQATD67VCNUOEV7P7JRSM3NAPO2", "length": 901, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "drgeorge.org", "title": "Dr. George's Science Web", "raw_content": "The material in this section is intended for primarily fun, although you may find some educational jewels sprinkled subtly about. The crafts are generally adapted from my reference library (I'm not very creative with my hands, I'm afraid). Distribution is controlled by the same license as other materials on this site.\nThis section contains complete instructions and printable materials (where needed) for the crafts. In many cases, you will need to print special pieces, possibly on heavy cardstock paper. This is available at your local business supply store for a modest price. Alternately, you can print two copies and paste them together to make the equivalent of \"card stock\".\nIf you've invented (or significantly enhanced) a craft you'd like to share, please send it to me. I'll have my testers try it out, and if it's fun and practical, we'll work with you to get it in shape for publication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drinksretailingnews.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/18398/Richard_Hemming_MW:_the_challenge_of_niche_interests.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VINQJ4DEM43H4Z445PZWD4WCUMXN2RMN", "length": 2774, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "drinksretailingnews.co.uk", "title": "Richard Hemming MW: the challenge of niche interests - Drinks Retailing News - The Voice of Drinks Retailing", "raw_content": "By Richard Hemming\nWine retailers should be equally ready to cater to vegan wine drinkers, despite the fact that they represent a tiny fraction of customers overall, and even though it raises a broader question about the challenges of merchandising.\nBut first, a bit of revision. Certain animal products can be used in the production process of wine, principally in the fining and stabilisation stages. Isinglass (from fish) and gelatin (from cows) are unacceptable to both vegetarians and vegans; while casein (from milk) or albumin (from egg white) would be acceptable to vegetarians but not vegans. A common alternative is bentonite, a type of clay that is acceptable to all.\nIn case you\u2019re wondering, yeast is classified as a type of fungi, which causes no problems to any dietary requirement, as far as I can tell \u2013 while I\u2019m afraid we will just have to ignore the rodents and insects that routinely fall into winery crushers in every vintage.\nNow that vegetarian and vegan wines can be defined, it\u2019s surely worthwhile for wine retailers to identify them in store. The question is how.\nMerchandising such bottles in a completely separate section might be of maximum convenience to vegetarian and vegan consumers, but it is hardly practical for other consumers, for whom categorisation by county or region of origin or style \u2013 light whites, full reds etc \u2013 are the most useful systems. Having to go between the vegetarian and non-vegetarian sections would be hugely inconvenient.\nBesides, if vegan wines are to be segregated, then so should all the other niches \u2013 organic, biodynamic, orange, natural, and so on. Then you might have additional sections for bin-ends, monthly promotions, new arrivals, back vintages, low- and no-alcohol wines \u2013another up-and-coming sub-genre \u2013 and any number of other categories. It would soon get very complicated.\nAlternatively, you could group wines together in broad categories such as origin or style and then additionally identify individual wines that are, for example, vegan by using neck tags, shelf talkers, and other POS tools. Providing too much information, however, creates an overcrowded message, making it too confusing for your customers to make a decision.\nThis, of course, is where online retail has a clear advantage. A well-designed website can filter products by any combination of criteria to produce a specific, targeted set of results.\nIn both cases, the key requirement is clear navigation, a perennial problem for the wine world, which is a complicated product by its very nature.\nWhile it may not be possible to please everyone, it\u2019s always worth periodically auditing how your stock is presented, both online and in store, by asking the basic questions: who are your customers, and what are their priorities?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dspace.univd.edu.ua/xmlui/discover?filtertype_0=subject&filtertype_1=dateIssued&filter_relational_operator_1=equals&filter_relational_operator_0=equals&filter_1=%5B2000+TO+2009%5D&filter_0=%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE+%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%81.+%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.+Administrative+Law+and+Procedure.+Administrative+Activity.+%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE+%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81.+%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C&filtertype=subject&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=12.00.07", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:02Z", "digest": "sha1:6XF7NWQ3FZWZ24IZBKDFFKHPI5L2E7VZ", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dspace.univd.edu.ua", "title": "\u041f\u043e\u0448\u0443\u043a", "raw_content": "Kolomoiets, T. 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Some of the curricula both levels use to teach skills are: \"To Kill a Mockingbird\", \"The Odyssey\", and \"Romeo and Juliet.\" The writing involves argumentative and text analysis for character development, theme, author\u2019s use of tone, diction, and syntax. Emphasis is placed on vocabulary; both domain-specific and SAT suggested words. In Pre-AP English, students will make and keep a portfolio as well as complete an independent book study every nine weeks.\nEighth Grade English consists of regular English and Pre-AP English. Pre-AP English is a challenging, academically demanding course that prepares students for future AP classes by helping them develop the skills beneficial to those classes. Students are expected to devote significant outside class time to homework assignments, projects, daily work, and reading assignments, which are more rigorous than in a regular English class. There may be homework assignments on weekends and holidays. 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The Congress will offer a stimulating scientific programme composed of invited lectures from renowned experts in the field, symposia, and \u2018state of the art\u2019 presentations on controversial topics, master classes and free communications.\nThe Congress aims to provide scientific education for everyone working in the field of Cranio Maxillo-Facial Surgery, ranging from trainees to junior and senior specialists. To facilitate exchange between units and finally bring together colleagues in order to share and advance clinical expertise.\nThe scientific programme should be seen as an encouragement towards the establishment of uniform training requirements throughout Europe for our specialty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 9713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://easternaudio.com/our-work/testimonials/page/13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3F2ELLUVMTJBHDQ2OK5SAFDWN7Y5PFZJ", "length": 552, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "easternaudio.com", "title": "Eastern Audio Testimonials | Eastern Audio - Part 13", "raw_content": "\"Greg Burt and Curtis provide exceptional service...Price is certainly being scrutinized more closely and I...\"\nCanadian Society of Nephrology\n\"The staff for the last 10 years have been professional, very knowledgeable and super easy to work with.\"\nJewish Community of Havura of Newfoundland & Labrador\n\"It was a tremendous success and we reached so many people... 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The play features three different sections designed to boost audience interaction throughout the performance.\nThe production opens with a pre-show that brings audience members up to the stage to spin a wheel, participating in a game show kind of experience. The wheel results in a fairy tale for the actors to attempt to retell in just one minute. These quick stories move into the middle of the show, the core story of Jack\u2019s adventures, with some high-thrill additions.\nLevi Bradford is the star of the show. He uses his aerial silk skills to provide an entertaining performance for all types of audiences. After the story ends, a post-show dance battle, featuring the actors from the production and audience participation rocks the house, making for a high-energy, upbeat curtain call.\nChair of the Department of Theatre and Dance Karen Brewster hopes this performance sets the tone for the rest of the season. She encourages everyone to come and see the production, young and old alike.\n\u201cWe are taking these classic stories and reimagining them,\u201d said Brewster. \u201cThis is the perfect example of that with the beanstalk being an aerial silk. It is a story that is familiar to audiences, but it\u2019s got a fresh approach.\u201d\nJack and the Beanstalk will run October 8-10 at 10:00 a.m. and October 11 at 7 p.m. in the Bud Frank Theatre located on the ground level of Gilbreath Hall. Tickets are available for purchase on the ETSU website. Adults are $10, children are $5. ETSU faculty and staff are $5 with an ID.\nTags: Bud Frank TheatreCara HarkerChris StilesDepartment of Theatre and Danceinteractive productionJack and the Beanstalkkaren brewsterLevi BradfordReimagining Classics\nNext post Buctainment hosts interactive murder mystery show\nPrevious post Virtual career fair and grad school fair on Oct. 9\nA spotlight on lighting designer Shafer\nKayla Hackney, February 4, 2019\nComing soon: \u201cHamlet\u201d presented by actors from The London Stage\nJeffrey Shell, October 22, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://easttnhistory.com/store/heart-valley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RUQZH62XJMCGSOHR2D2BHYSDHJBEXZHT", "length": 269, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "easttnhistory.com", "title": "Heart of the Valley | East Tennessee Historical Society", "raw_content": "Lucille Deadrick\nSixteen authors have explored Knoxville's history from the capital of the Southwest Territory to statehood to the Civil War to the twentieth century to the Great Smoky Mountains, Oak Ridge, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. 1976, 71 pages, hard cover", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/124840/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:2L7YRB7NBX7FGSULL4GFRQMGBTEMOLY2", "length": 1835, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "ebrary.ifpri.org", "title": "Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition :: IFPRI Publications", "raw_content": "Home IFPRI Publications Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition\nGrowth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition\nTitle Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition\nAuthor Ecker, Olivier\nBreisinger, Clemens\nORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-0682 Breisinger, Clemens; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7549-2511 Ecker, Olivier; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-173X Pauw, Karl;\nAbstract While it is generally agreed that growth is a necessary precondition for reducing poverty, relatively little is known about the relationship between economic growth and nutrition and, hence, how economic policies can be leveraged to improve nutrition. This brief argues that growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition. During the early stages of development, growth helps reduce the prevalence of calorie deficiency, and, in most countries, agricultural growth plays a key role. But malnutrition becomes less responsive to growth as its prevalence rate declines, so economic diversification into the manufacturing and service sectors becomes necessary to leverage further reductions in malnutrition, especially as people migrate into urban areas. Nevertheless, growth\u2014whether driven by the agriculture or nonagriculture sectors\u2014is insufficient to address child malnutrition and reduce micronutrient malnutrition in all their dimensions. Strategic investments and special programs are needed in the complementary sectors of health and education as well.\nSeries Name 2020 Conference Paper\nLanguage Versions http://www.ifpri.org/publication/growth-good-not-enough-improve-nutrition-0\nIFPRI Web link http://www.ifpri.org/publication/growth-good-not-enough-improve-nutrition\nAdd tags for Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition\nPost a Comment for Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 3984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edgechurch.co.za/videosermons/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:57Z", "digest": "sha1:DVTGORPFJELIP725KQ3Z3NI3D4YKBXHI", "length": 5320, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "edgechurch.co.za", "title": "Video Sermons - Edgemead", "raw_content": "/ Video Sermons\nVision 2020 \u2013 Pedro Erasmus\n29 May 2016, AM\nGod is a God of the impossible. Edge Church is on a mission, to point people towards Christ. To make disciples, we need to be growing in our own discipleship journey. Our schools are no longer safe places. Our family units are being reshaped and redefined. We are called by God as His church, not to withdraw, but to move towards people far from God. We need to look at others with hearts filled with compassion. When we place our lives into God\u2019s hands, He will do the multiplying. He is looking for a willing people, a people who will say, \u201cYes Lord\u201d. We need a radical shift. To reach 20 000 people by 2020 is impossible with man, but with God nothing is impossible. We\u2019re starting a journey, the gun has gone off. Start walking towards the people of our country and hear their cries. Follow Jesus and find others.\n29 May 2016, PM\nWhat\u2019s It Going To Take \u2013 Barbie Erasmus\n05 June 2016 \u2013 AM\nGod wants to do the impossible with us through the church. He wants to act in the supernatural \u2013 beyond us, beyond our abilities. We need a paradigm shift, a radical shift in our thinking, our beliefs and our actions. God wants us to reach people far from God. The heart and the culture of Edge Church need to reflect the heart of God. We need to take it beyond the walls of Edge Church. What\u2019s it going to take for you and I to fulfil the vision of 2020 Beyond as we follow Jesus and find others who are far from God? God has a dream, a vision and a purpose for us. God always wants to keep us moving towards the dream.\nWhat\u2019s It Going To Take \u2013 Daniel Erasmus\n05 June 2016 \u2013 PM\nGod has birthed a vision, to reach 20 000 people by 2020 through Edge Church. This vision is only possible if there is a shift that happens in our hearts. We need 2000 healthy leaders. God is in the business of using people to do the impossible. God needs you and me. For us to reach that vision it\u2019s going to take a shift in our hearts. God is calling us to have a new shift into a new era \u2013 a new period of history for us as Edge Church. We need to completely surrender our lives to God. When we have a shift in our heart and mind, a shift takes place in our hands. When we do the natural, God does the supernatural. A miracle is dependent on our obedience. When we become obedient, God activates the miracle.\nGod has birthed a vision, to reach 20 000 people by 2020 through Edge Church. This vision is only possible if there is a shift that happens in our hearts. We need 2000 healthy leaders. God is in the business of using people to do the impossible. God needs you and me. God is calling us to have a new shift into a new era \u2013 a new period of history for us as Edge Church. We need to completely surrender our lives to God. When we have a shift in our heart and mind, a shift takes place in our hands. When we do the natural, God does the supernatural. When we become obedient, God activates the miracle.\nCourage \u2013 Grant Stevenson\nWe have a God inspired vision, that we will see 20 000 people actively being transformed as followers of Jesus by the year 2020. We need courage, to use what\u2019s in our hands for the glory of God. Courage is the quality of been able to act bravely under difficulties or in the face of opposition, been prepared to do dangerous or risky things in obedience to God. Courage is the willingness to say, \u201cHere I am and this is what I\u2019ve got\u201d. Don\u2019t despise what\u2019s in your hand. Stop criticising what you have. If a boy\u2019s lunch box can feed 5000, if a staff can separate a sea and if a shout can bring down the walls of a city your contribution will be just fine.\nFather\u2019s Day \u2013 Donovan Coetzee\nGod initiates, He reveals Himself to us. Jesus came to reveal God as a father. God is vitally interested in all His children. He is interested in our relationships, how we eat \u2013 in the fact that we are cared for. Do not worry about your life. He cares about you. He knows and loves each individual child. Every time one person comes to repentance God rejoices. God understands sacrificial pain, God new that His son had to go through pain. He knows what you are going through. God and Jesus understand your pain. God\u2019s holy love was crucified, it was not killed. His love cannot be killed. Love overcame so we can be forgiven. Love refused to die. Jesus showed us a God, who disagrees, but paid the price, so that He can constantly have a relationship with us.\nGenerations \u2013 Donovan Coetzee\nNo one else determines our purpose but God. When you and I find God\u2019s purpose for our lives our lot is secure. You will be satisfied in life when you find God\u2019s purpose for your life. God sets the boundary line. You and I cannot move the boundary line. God never wants you to look at what you do not have. He wants you to look at what you do have. God works in our working. God blesses when we become active. We have to give what we have and we have to use what we have. There\u2019s a generation enjoying the fruit \u2013 generation after generation after generation. Don\u2019t make the mistake of just enjoying the fruit. The fruit you\u2019ve been given also has a seed. Enjoy the fruit and sow the seed. 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WP6\u2019s objectives are to formulate policy recommendations for the effective protection of patients and medical workers and the general public; to organize a web-based consultation of a wide range of stakeholders; and to disseminate the MEDIRAD results to broader communities interested in RP.\nhttp://www.enen.eu/\nThe primary motivation of the ENEN+ project is to substantially increase the interest of students and young professionals in a career in nuclear sector. This is to be achieved by pursuing the following main objectives:\nAttract new talents to careers in nuclear\nDevelop the attracted talents beyond academic curricula>\nIncrease the retention of attracted talents in nuclear careers\nInvolve the nuclear stakeholders within EU and beyond\nSustain the revived interest for nuclear careers\nTo achieve these objectives, the ENEN+ project will financially support through mobility grants students and professionals willing to carry out any education or training activity in the nuclear fields, which may benefit their nuclear knowledge and skills.\nThe mobility grants are intended for those who would like to improve their knowledge, skills and competitiveness for career opportunities in the following nuclear fields:\nWaste management and geological disposal\nEFOMP is a partner in the ENEN plus consortium\nEUCLID, European Study on Clinical Diagnostic Reference Levels for X-ray Medical Imaging\nhttp://www.eurosafeimaging.org/euclid\nThe objective of the project is to develop and implement an EU-wide survey to collect data from around hospitals across Europe in order to establish up-to-date clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for adult patients for CT, plain radiography and interventional radiology. ESR is the leading organisation and EFOMP stands in the External Advisory Panel together with Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities (HERCA), European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and World Health Organisation (WHO).The kick off meeting was held in Luxembourg 1st September 2017.\nACCIRAD project Guidelines on a risk analysis of accidental and unintended exposures in radiotherapy. The ACCIRAD report was published in the Radiation Protection Series RP181 http://www.accirad.eu/guidelines\nPiDRL project 27-month tender project on the establishment of European DRLs for paediatric patients. http://www.eurosafeimaging.org/pidrl\nEMAN project: on the specific roles of the different experts, as well as training, organisational and ethical aspects. More information can be found here: http://www.eurosafeimaging.org/eman\nEuropean Guidelines on the MPE project Comprehensive guidelines on the role, education and training, staffing levels and recognition of the MPE in Europe based on the provisions for the MPE in EU directive 2013/59/EURATOM. https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/174.pdf\nMEDRAPET project Study on the Implementation of the Requirements of EU directive 2013/59/EURATOM with regard to Radiation Protection Education and Training of Medical Professionals in the EU; more information here: http://www.eurosafeimaging.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/175.pdf\nDOSEDATAMED II Project European Guidance on Estimating Population Dose from Medical X-ray Procedures1 (RP154). http://ddmed.eu/\nEUTEMPE-RX FP7 project EUropean Teaching and Education for Medical Physics Experts in Radiology. The project partners created 12 courses to achieve EQF level 8 in Medical Physics in Radiology. www.eutempe-RX.eu\nBSS Transposition\nThe new Basic Safety Standards Directive (Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom) modernises European radiation protection legislation by taking account of the latest scientific knowledge, technological progress, and operational experience with current legislation. At the same time, the new BSS consolidates the existing acquis of Euratom radiation protection legislation into one single piece of legislation, merging five Directives and upgrading a recommendation to become legally binding. As a result of the consolidation process, the new BSS Directive was given a broader scope and a completely new structure improving coherence and clarity of both definitions and requirements. The objective of this EC tender project was to evaluate Member States\u2018 activities for the transposition and implementation of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom in the medical area. In addition, Candidate and EFTA States were contacted to help facilitate the detection of issues, an exchange of first experiences and resolutions, and the identification of good practices.\nThis project was awarded to a consortium headed by the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP). Other participating organisations were the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS). Website: http://www.eurosafeimaging.org/bss-transposition\nENETRAP III European Network on Education and Training in Radiological Protection.\nFor a vast amount of applications in the medical, industrial, research and other sectors, a good understanding of radiation protection (RP) is fundamental in order to protect workers, the public and the environment from the potential risks of ionising radiation. Within this perspective, building and maintaining an advanced level of competence in RP, assuring sufficient well-trained personnel and organising an adequate knowledge management, is crucial. Effective education and training (E&T) is a critical element in these matters, helping to prevent the decline in expertise and to meet future demands.\nA pilot course satisfying the training requirements for the RPE in the medical sector was run in Budapest in 2016. Successful course participants was able to show that they are able to provide expert radiation protection advice to employers, staff and members of the public in the medical field. This allows them to seek the status of Radiation Protection Expert (RPE) in the medical field from an authorised body following the recognition procedure of the respective Member State.\nhttp://enetrap3.sckcen.be/en", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 9166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/israel-education-not-all-standards-are-created-equal/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXHI4Q65GBX2QG7CO5JOHOT5CTRFO2NS", "length": 5617, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "ejewishphilanthropy.com", "title": "Israel Education: Not All Standards Are Created Equal", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Readers Forum / Israel Education: Not All Standards Are Created Equal\nIsrael Education: Not All Standards Are Created Equal\nPhoto courtesy The Children\u2019s Learning About Israel project via Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education.\nBy Galia Avidar, PhD\nYedida Bessemer\u2019s recent article on the lack of Israel education standards and benchmarks is a reminder of how this particular teaching endeavor is fraught with ambiguity and confusion. Through the years, a host of scholars and educators have criticized Jewish schools for their lack of a clear mission, plan, or set of ideological principles. Research in the field demonstrates that Israel education goals are varied and the curricular recommendations that come along with these goals are equally diverse. So, do we bother? It is not that standards don\u2019t exist, they do. It is not that we can\u2019t come up with principles, we have. In my opinion, the problem lies in the fact that not all Israel education standards are created equal. We focus on some and avoid others.\nResearch in the field demonstrates that some goals for Israel education are more attainable than others. Scholars claim that the highest priority of schools and their teachers is to cultivate love for Israel. The American Jewish community and schools have a long history with cultivating this love, which necessarily entails positive affiliations and associations. This is pleasurable and easy to do, since \u201cit has always been done this way.\u201d For years, American Jewish education has focused on a heroic, sometimes mythic narrative about the founding, growth, and strength of the State of Israel. Who doesn\u2019t want to be a part of this extraordinary story? So, a standard for \u2018cultivating love\u2019 for Israel exists and is shared among Jewish day schools, even if it is not written down somewhere.\nHowever, schools have not been very successful in teaching a complex version of Israel, one that addresses Israel\u2019s imperfections and controversies, chief among them the Arab-Israeli conflict. Why? Clearly, teaching about Israel\u2019s controversial issues is uncomfortable. There are fears of students rejecting Israel, teachers revealing biases, and anxiety about creating divisiveness among members of the school community. This is not a challenge unique to Jewish schools. Discussing controversial issues is generally not done well in the public school arena either. Unfortunately, very few studies have documented the dynamics of teaching conflict in classrooms of any kind, and no serious study has been undertaken on classrooms that teach about Israel in American Jewish day schools. However, in my recent dissertation study, I was fortunate to be able to combine both aspects, taking a hard look at how the intractable Arab-Israeli conflict is taught in American Jewish day schools.\nI had the privilege of observing three dedicated teachers, from three separate day schools (modern Orthodox, Conservative, and Community). These generous teachers let me into their classrooms for a full semester as a part of my dissertation. I wanted to understand how teachers and students experience the teaching and learning of controversial issues around Israel, particularly the Arab-Israeli conflict. What was revealed in the data were similarities in curricular design, which I call Conflict Curricula Dimensions.\nI will list two brief examples here. First, though none of the courses were dedicated to studying it, there was a clear \u201cPresentation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.\u201d In each case, I observed how the \u201cother\u201d was presented in relation to one\u2019s own group. The depiction of the conflict, its goals, its conditions, and the rival can demonstrate whether the curriculum maintains strong ties to what Dr. Daniel Bar Tal calls a \u201cculture of conflict\u201d or whether it advances towards a different reality (along a continuum), toward a \u201cculture of peace.\u201d Second, in each classroom, there was a distinction to be made in a teacher\u2019s \u201cPresentation of History,\u201d that is traditional history vs. new historiography. New historiography has challenged the traditional representation of history with a fierce debate between these two groups. While these academic wars are waged elsewhere, I saw them make their way into the classroom by how teachers employ educational material (primary sources, films, art, literature). The ways in which these histories were taught yielded very interesting pedagogical insights.\nIn my opinion, it is possible to find standards not just for love, but also for conflict and controversy. My findings can assist teachers and schools to realize that even as controversial issues around Israel are broached differently, similarities in teaching methods exist. Through these findings, educators can explore ways to create more equity and balance between love and critique of Israel. Undoubtedly, there are many organizations and people in the field, like Ms. Bessemer, who are doing great work. However, without more transparency and information gathering/sharing, these efforts are not put to maximum use. Teachers need a community to talk about controversial issues and share best practices about all areas of Israel Education, but particularly in regards to the Arab-Israeli conflict. I believe that the methods I uncovered can be developed into the right frameworks to help them do this.\nGalia Avidar is an educator, administrator, and researcher. She is currently developing ways to define and enhance the field of Conflict Education. She can be reached at galiaavidar@gmail.com.\nFiled Under: Readers Forum Tagged With: Israel Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 11774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elmers.com/products/glues-and-adhesives?filters=glow-in-the-dark-glues-adhesives-%7Cclear%7C4in-x-4in", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:D7HSA6XVYKY3BUNQUJNYF2SVTYDYGJ4C", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "elmers.com", "title": "Elmer's Glues and Adhesives for Craft and School Projects", "raw_content": "Browsing: Glow In The Dark, Clear, 4\"x4\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 2471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 125.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emilie.io/blog/page:5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AMOFFXBHKFAJPB5DONXDDAJG3PODZNRX", "length": 4218, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "emilie.io", "title": "Emilie Thaler | Seattle, WA | Blog", "raw_content": "The Lack of \"Brand\" in Muji's Brand\nI've been a MUJI fan for quite some time. I love their simple, expertly designed products because they are constructed well, look great, and most importantly, and are distilled to their most basic, functional essence. MUJI's Target Customers MUJI customers are image-conscious individuals who care about quality but don't need their possessions to have brand recognition. I suspect they in their\u2026\nThis week for Andrew's New Media class we were tasked with creating banner ads for the stranger website. We were given the option of creating ads for either Redhook, Starbucks, or Gatorade. Being a Seattle institution, I chose to create ads for Starbucks. The biggest struggle for me in creating these ads was finding decent brand assets. I was surprised to find it was actually quite difficult to\u2026\nDesigning an Interface: Photo App\nThis week for Interaction Design, we designed an interface for a photo-sharing app. Tim gave us the wireframe for the app and we were given the task of giving it a visual identity. I bounced back and forth a lot on this one, and struggled a bit using Photoshop. I've done some interface design, but this was the first time I've done it with Photoshop. For my concept I decided to make an app for\u2026\nLetters are Beautiful\nI\u2019ve always loved writing. Not just making shaping stories and ideas, but shaping letters. I remember being a kid in school, writing my name in the upper right-hand corner of my assignments as perfectly as I could, sometimes erasing two, three, four times until it was printed perfectly. I experimented with different tools, different styles, different paper. All of these help form a different s\u2026\nSometimes I Pretend Like I'm Mr. Bean\nSometimes when I look in the mirror, I like to make a Mr. Bean face. There's really nothing more transcendental and humbling. Keeps a lady in check. Oh, you know, just a picture of Mr. Bean staring at you like he sees right through your soul. Because he does. This is a pretty classic Mr. Bean face. Look at him. It's like he's staring right into your soul. That's because he is.\nThis week in Andrew Nedimeyer's New Media class we're taking some time to write about our favorite blogs. Below are some blogs I've read (some longer than other others) and that have all been fantastic resources. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine was one of the first blogs I started reading when I got into web development and I still read it just about every day. One great thing about Smashing\u2026\nAn Exercise in User Centered Design: Redesigning the iOS Calendar\nFor this week's New Media assignment we've been task with redesigning a bad user experience we've encountered... in 45 minutes. For me I instantly thought of the design of the iOS 7 Calendar application. Though I overall love the rest of the update, as one of my most frequently used applications, the Calendar left a lot to be desired. The biggest pain point for me is that the design makes it\u2026\nCreative Academy: My First Few Weeks in Review\nIt has been an absolute whirlwind couple of weeks. The transition from working gal to school has been difficult. It doesn't help that I'm still trying to work in my \"free\" time but overall it's been a great experience so far and though I've begrudgingly been updating this blog I'm actually really glad to pause for a moment to talk about how school is going so far. Interaction\u2026\nAn Interview with Jesse Rivera\nJesse Rivera is a man whose awesome facial hair does not belie him. I had the pleasure of sitting down to interview him for last Friday\u2019s New Media class. Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington Jesse is a charismatic and personable fellow with indescribably awesome facial hair. Brought up in an artistic and supportive household, Jesse\u2019s mother believed in his talent from the very start and sup\u2026\nTo me, there is nothing more symbolic of transitions and change than the beginning of autumn, and this year I am making a huge transition in my life. This week I began graphic design school at the Seattle Central Creative Academy. For a long time I've wondered if I should take the plunge and completely switch gears, and though it is totally nerve-wracking I am so incredibly excited to be studying\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emsf-lisboa.pt/news.php?news=PRNE_English/201811220830PR_NEWS_EURO_ND__EN81641.xml&ling=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ4D6FGIOMOQCZNCK52U6RXSRBCHTFUM", "length": 2010, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "emsf-lisboa.pt", "title": "2018 China Hi-Tech Fair Concludes in Shenzhen", "raw_content": "2018 China Hi-Tech Fair Concludes in Shenzhen\nSHENZHEN,China, Nov. 22, 2018\nSHENZHEN,China, Nov. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The 20th China Hi-Tech Fair wrapped up at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Guangdong province, on Nov. 18, attracting 563,000 visitors from 103 countries and regions during the five-day exhibition.\nHan Wangxi, director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, addressed a press conference on the same day. Yang Xiuyou, deputy secretary-general of the organizing committee, was invited to summarize the 2018 fair.\nAccording to Yang, a record-breaking 41 countries and international organizations, plus 61 foreign delegations, attended the event, with Chile, Cuba and Peru as newcomers.\nA total of 3,356 exhibitors displayed 11,322 hi-tech projects related to intelligent automobiles, Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, Internet Plus, biomedicine, big data, smart city, new energy, new materials, and modern agriculture.\nIn the meantime, 1,746 new products and 585 cutting-edge technologies were released at the fair by more than 80 companies.\nCompared with previous sessions, this year's event saw a more active participation from unicorn enterprises, including SenseTime, iQiyi, Royole, Orbbec and Qiniu Cloud, as well as three domestic AI chip tycoons - Cambricon, Horizon Robotics and DeePhi.\nEchoing the innovation and entrepreneurship drive, the hi-tech fair set up dedicated sci-tech start-up and maker exhibitions, which more than 200 domestic and foreign companies and makers signed up for.\nThe newly launched international sessions of match-making fair and financing roadshow also effectively promoted the connection between capital and industry.\nA time corridor, a micro-video and an outstanding innovation works exhibition area in celebration of the Fair's 20th anniversary were acclaimed by the public.\nPhoto - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/788533/CHTF_press_conference.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emuseum.nyhistory.org/view/people/asitem/A/374?t:state:flow=e2a209bf-e122-481a-a503-a14acfb02dbc", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZM6FNCN3BUZXJEBRICIKROCJ5AS5V5Z", "length": 700, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "emuseum.nyhistory.org", "title": "eMuseum", "raw_content": "Fragment of wood from the Astor Mansion\nDate: July 13, 1864 - April 15, 1912\nRemarks: John Jacob Astor IV, a Harvard graduate, spent his time managing the family fortune, writing a novel, and developing devices such as a bicycle brake. In 1897, he built the Astoria Hotel, which joined with his cousin's hotel to become the Waldorf-Astoria. In April of 1912, Astor and his second wife were aboard the ill-fated Titanic, returning to New York after traveling abroad. When the liner hit an iceberg, Mrs. Astor was able to secure passage on a lifeboat. However, John Astor was not so lucky, and his body was found seven days later. - Source: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio/p/1st/astor_jj.shtml", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 152.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.banglatribune.com/entertainment/news/12817/Sex-politics-media-converge-in-The-Front", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IQFSXUYRC2XLS3RNQ2G2YS2SR44A6IGR", "length": 2300, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "en.banglatribune.com", "title": "Sex, politics, media converge in 'The Front Runner'", "raw_content": "\u201cThe Front Runner\u201d tells the story of the fall 30 years ago of U.S. Senator Gary Hart over allegations of an affair, but the makers hope it also prompts an examination of what really matters in candidates running for high political office.\nThe movie, starring Hugh Jackman as the 1988 Democratic presidential contender, follows the brief period from Hart\u2019s announcement of his candidacy to the suspension of his campaign following a media frenzy over allegations of an extramarital affair with Donna Rice.\nHart, who met with Jackman during the film shoot, denied the allegations.\nFormer political correspondent Matt Bai, who wrote the book \u201cAll the Truth is Out\u201d on which the film is based, said the public seems to care less about sexual scandals in politics than it did at the time.\nBut the movie looks at questions the media and the public still wrestle with, he noted.\n\u201cDo we assume that everybody\u2019s lying and everybody\u2019s fraudulent and it\u2019s our job to find out how?\u201d Bai told a news conference on Saturday in Toronto, where the film is playing at the city\u2019s film festival.\n\u201cOr do we endeavor to provide the context that the character requires, what they\u2019ve been their whole lives, their whole career?\u201d he added. \u201cWe hope to leave asking each other and arguing about what it is that matters.\u201d\n\u201cThis is a deeply human movie,\u201d said Jay Carson, one of the screenwriters. \u201cThe people who are involved in politics are human beings trying to make difficult decisions every single day. There are no black hats or white hats in our story. There\u2019s a lot of gray.\u201d\nThe movie, directed by Jason Reitman, also hones in on the women affected by the scandal: Rice, played by Sara Paxton; his wife Lee Hart, portrayed by Vera Farmiga; and Molly Ephraim\u2019s Irene Kelley, a young scheduler in Hart\u2019s campaign.\n\u201c\u2018The Front Runner\u2019 is a movie that\u2019s also very interested in the emotional burden that\u2019s put on women during a scandal,\u201d Reitman said.\n\u201cWhether that\u2019s Donna Rice, a young, bright aspirational woman who had her life stolen from her ... or whether you\u2019re the one young woman working at the Washington Post or one young woman working on a campaign, and are forced to speak for your entire gender.\u201d\nThe film will be released in select theaters on Nov. 6, the day of the U.S. midterm congressional elections.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/105567/20181206/oneplus-confirms-its-next-handset-will-be-powered-by-qualcomms-new-snapdragon-855-chipset.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KBVDH6WPAZQXV3PEDFBJOVT3GXWVRQSE", "length": 2919, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "en.businesstimes.cn", "title": "Oneplus Confirms Its Next Handset Will Be Powered by Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 855 Chipset : TECH : Business Times", "raw_content": "Oneplus Confirms Its Next Handset Will Be Powered by Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 855 Chipset\n(Photo: CARLO ALLEGRI)\nAt Qualcomm's Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 in Maui, Hawaii, the company announced that its new Snapdragon 855 chipset will power the 5G handsets that will be out in the market starting 2019. People initially thought that it's going to be Samsung's Galaxy S10 range first, but it seems that it's not the case as OnePlus has confirmed that it's going to manufacture a handset that's powered by the new Snapdragon 855.\nOnePlus CEO Pete Lau was the first to confirm at the summit that the company will develop its next smartphone that will be packed with the more powerful Snapdragon 855. He did not mention the name of the next handset, but Tech Radar assumed it's going to be OnePlus 7 considering how the Chinese/Swedish smartphone manufacturer names its devices - from OnePlus One to OnePlus 6T.\nAs for the new smartphone's release, the company usually releases new devices every six months. The OnePlus 6T hit the store shelves in October 2018, so OnePlus 7 might just be released in April 2019 considering the timeline.\nThe tech giant though did not disclose any more details about its upcoming Snapdragon 855-powered smartphone, but the launch might also happen earlier, especially that the CEO has confirmed its development. It is very possible that the people behind it are already working on the smartphone considering that the company already announced it.\nFurther, Lau also confirmed that OnePlus will be the first smartphone manufacturer to release 5G handsets in Europe in partnership with EE in the United Kingdom. With that being said, it's likely that this will be the OnePlus 7 (if it's going to be the next phone's name) to flatter with the Snapdragon 855 chipset.\nMany analysts expected that Samsung will be the first to release the new chipset handsets in 2019, especially that the Galaxy S10 range will reportedly hit the marketplace in February 2019 during the Mobile World Congress (MWC). But with OnePlus CEO's confirmation, it's possible that the OnePlus 7 with Snapdragon 855 will hit the store shelves first before the Galaxy S10.\nQualcomm's Snapdragon 855 promises faster and more accurate unlocking with its ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. It will also support multi-gigabit 5G handsets and its 4th-gen multi-core AI (Artificial Intelligence) engine is 3x faster and more powerful than the Snapdragon 845.\nQualcomm senior vice president and general manager for mobile Alex Katouzian also announced that the new chipset will be the first in the world to warrant computational photography and video capture features. So it's possible that OnePlus will compete with other tech heavyweights in developing more powerful smartphones next year.\nNew Leak Shows the First Look at Samsung Infinity-O Display Screen\nPhotos Taken From Google Pixel 3 Lite Leak; Showing Advanced Camera Features", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.deercongress.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IQBXVT2P3L6A33V2N6XTKHTOKURIHZMP", "length": 5367, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "en.deercongress.com", "title": "About congress", "raw_content": "Development of the Velvet Antler Industry in Altai Krai\nThe Russian velvet antler industry was formed as a sub-industry of livestock breeding in the second half of the 19th century. This sub-industry covers various sectors of agriculture, the health resort business, food and processing industries, pharmaceuticals and medicine, and has the potential to become a leader in the use of recreation and health technologies not only within the Russian Federation, but also throughout the Customs Union. Currently, the Russian Federation is home to 2.2% of the global livestock of velvet antler deer.\nThe velvet antler industry began developing in Altai Krai in the 1990s. Unlimited demand for velvet antlers and dietary meat and the high profitability of the sub-industry gave it a real boost. At that time, the region had 38 red deer and deer farms. Today, Altai Krai and the Republic of Altai are home to the country\u2019s main stock of velvet antler deer (more than 90%). Velvet antler deer is of great importance for the territory, as it contributes to the development of hard-to-reach highland areas and its products create a brand.\nThe velvet antler industry in Altai Krai involves breeding two animal species: red deer and spotted deer. There are currently 24 agricultural producers of all forms of ownership in the region that are engaged in the velvet antler industry. The total number of red deer and spotted deer is more than 24,000. They are in six municipal districts of Altai Krai; 83% of all farms are located in three of these districts (Altaisky District \u2013 47%, Charyshsky District \u2013 23% and Soloneshensky District \u2013 13%). These are also the leading districts for the production of velvet antlers, which represent the main product type of the velvet antler industry. The region produces ten to twelve tonnes of preserved velvet antlers every year. In 2017, farms produced ten tonnes of preserved and three tonnes of frozen velvet antlers.\nThe National Research Institute of the Velvet Antler Industry was established to promote the development of the velvet antler industry in the region. This is the only such institution in the country and is currently incorporated in the Federal Altai Research Centre for Agrobiotechnologies Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution. Its key research areas include the development of a scientific basis for livestock breeding in the velvet antler industry and feeding animals, as well as diagnostics and prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases of red deer, appropriate control measures, improvement of existing processing methods used for velvet antler products and development of new ones. The interest shown in by-products is continually increasing: meat, blood, tendons, tails, embryos, etc. According to research, these organs and tissues of red deer and spotted deer are associated with high bioactivity and may be used for health and treatment purposes.\nGovernment support for the development of the velvet antler industry has made it possible to hold regular research-to-practice conferences and congresses. For the fourth year running, the Agro-Standart breeding exhibition centre in the village of Altaiskoye in Altaisky District will hold the Altai Red Deer Festival. This event is aimed at improving the image of the sub-industry, promoting advanced technologies and exchanging experience between reindeer herders. In August 2018, on the initiative of the Governor of Altai Krai, Alexander Karlin, the region will host a global event, the 7th World Reindeer Herders Congress. Our region will welcome guests from China, New Zealand, South Korea, Australia and several other countries interested in the development of the velvet antler industry. The decision to hold the next congress was taken by the International Coordination Council of Reindeer Herders in 2014.\nDespite the upward trend that continues to this day, there are a number of issues in the current market situation that create obstacles in the further development of the industry. The main current constraint is the fact that the velvet antler industry is primarily represented on the global market by raw materials. Most preserved velvet antlers (70%) are exported to South Korea, where they are processed.\nAltai Krai also acts mainly as a supplier of raw materials for the production of velvet antler products, which has an extremely negative impact on the competitive position of the region. Today, however, enterprises in Altai Krai produce a wide range of products that can be used for health and treatment purposes in Russia. These include medicines, dietary supplements and cosmeceuticals. Most of these products are manufactured by members of the Altai Biopharmaceutical Cluster Non-Commercial Partnership, for whom processing raw materials from deer velvet antler is one of the most promising high-priority activities. Enterprises in the region currently produce more than 360 different products using raw velvet antler materials, including 99 types of bioactive supplements, one special-purpose food product for athletes, two special-purpose food products for dietary and protective nutrition, three medicinal products and one medical technology (velvet antler baths). A distinctive feature of Altai products using raw materials from deer velvet antler is that they can be used both at health resorts facilities and at home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 186.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.people.cn/data/China_in_brief/Economy/Major%20National%20Projects.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:J7ECSJ3TJUPYJKRVEZAYU7PCBKZGDDUV", "length": 2381, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "en.people.cn", "title": "People's Daily Online Major National Projects", "raw_content": "Major National Projects\nThe \"project to send electricity from the west to the east,\" the \"project to transmit natural gas from the west to the east,\" and the \"project to divert water from the south to the north\" are three major strategic projects of the Chinese government to change the overall arrangement of economic development and realize reasonable allocation of national resources. By making use of hydropower and coal resources in west China, and constructing electricity-transmission passageways, the \"project to send electricity from the west to the east\" is in full swing, involving a total investment of 116 billion yuan. More than half of the \"project to transmit natural gas from the west to the east\" was completed by the end of 2003. With a total investment of 300 billion yuan, this project - which starts from the west and goes to the cities in north and east China - includes a 4,200-km pipeline running through nine provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. The construction of the \"project to divert water from the south to the north\" formally started on December 27, 2002. The goal is to complete the first phase of the project, involving a total investment of 156 billion yuan, by 2010 to solve the serious deficiency of water resources in north China and to realize a reasonable allocation of the water resources of the Yangtze, Yellow, Huaihe and Haihe river valleys.\nAnother major national project, the Three Gorges Dam Project, began storing water in 2003 in the Three Gorges Reservoir; permanent locks on the Three Gorges Project were opened to navigation; and the project's first set of generators began producing power. Launched in 1993 and expected to be completed in 2009, the project when completed will have 26 sets of generators, each set with a generating capacity of 700,000 kw that can satisfy the electrical power needs of a city with a population of a million.\nThe Qinghai-Tibet Railway, with the highest elevation in the world totaling 1,142 km, is a major national project expected to be completed in 2006. The trunk line track has been laid over 347 km. In 2003 work began on the 420 km area between the Kunlun Mountains and the Thanglha Mountain in permanent frozen soil. Workers have proceeded to the highest section in the most adverse terrain in the mountain, some 5,000 meters above sea level, to the top of Thanglha Mountain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 134.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.wahooart.com/@@/8YDEMJ-Henri-Matisse--Luxe,-Calme,-et-Volupt%C3%A9-(compositional-study)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:26Z", "digest": "sha1:7FLVPIQ3K66LYCTPASUOY7T42GHOYRHE", "length": 2115, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "en.wahooart.com", "title": "Luxe, Calme, et Volupt\u00e9 (compositional study), 1904 by Henri Matisse (1869-1954, France) | Oil Painting | WahooArt.com", "raw_content": "Painting Copy Luxe - Calme - Et Volupt\u00e9 , Artworks\n\"Luxe, Calme, et Volupt\u00e9 (compositional study)\"\nHenri Matisse - Oil On Canvas - 99 x 119 cm - 1904 - (Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay (Paris, France))\nLuxe, Calme et Volupt\u00e9 is an oil painting by Henri Matisse. It was painted in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross. The painting is Matisse's most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had first adopted after reading Signac's essay, \"D'Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix au N\u00e9o-impressionisme\" in 1898. Signac purchased the work, which was exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants. 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For a long time, it has provided AFC system design, implementation and maintenance solutions for many public transport companies such as MTR, NWFB and Citybus. The Company has a senior team in system design and development engineering, and the main management and technical staff have more than 20 years of experience in the industry.\nThe Company has a wealth of implementation experience in various Hong Kong AFC system projects, and provides a number of Hong Kong public transport operators, including subway, bus, ferry and other companies with the services of charging equipment terminal, construction of system architecture infrastructures, central computer settlement system, processing transaction data, financial settlement, etc.\nWe are committed to providing open, innovative, scalable and customer-centered intelligent traffic management systems. With the development of emerging technologies and changing of customer needs, the Company continually adjusts the business direction and service model to achieve the one-stop service from the product end to the client end, so as to exactly meet customers\u2019 needs and further consolidate the relationships with customers.\nOur website: http://www.biitt.hk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.int.ru/verbpage/presentperfect.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HADUFAA7IGOLGBQEENXJRM2OK2EGI3R2", "length": 6235, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "english.int.ru", "title": "Present Perfect Tense | ENGLISH PAGE", "raw_content": "Home > Verb Tense Tutorial > Present Perfect\nThe present perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now. The present perfect is most frequently used to talk about experiences or changes that have taken place, but there are other less common uses as well. Read on for detailed descriptions, examples, and present perfect exercises.\nPresent Perfect Forms\nThe present perfect is formed using has/have + past participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not.\nStatement: You have seen that movie many times.\nQuestion: Have you seen that movie many times?\nNegative: You have not seen that movie many times.\nComplete List of Present Perfect Forms\nPresent Perfect Uses\nUSE 1 Unspecified Time Before Now\nWe use the present perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the present perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We CAN use the present perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.\nI have seen that movie twenty times.\nI think I have met him once before.\nThere have been many earthquakes in California.\nPeople have traveled to the Moon.\nPeople have not traveled to Mars.\nNobody has ever climbed that mountain.\nA: Has there ever been a war in the United States?\nB: Yes, there has been a war in the United States.\nHow Do You Actually Use the Present Perfect?\nThe concept of \"unspecified time\" can be very confusing to English learners. It is best to associate present perfect with the following topics:\nTOPIC 1 Experience\nYou can use the present perfect to describe your experience. It is like saying, \"I have the experience of...\" You can also use this tense to say that you have never had a certain experience. The present perfect is NOT used to describe a specific event.\nI have been to France.\nThis sentence means that you have had the experience of being in France. Maybe you have been there once, or several times.\nI have been to France three times.\nYou can add the number of times at the end of the sentence.\nI have never been to France.\nThis sentence means that you have not had the experience of going to France.\nI think I have seen that movie before.\nHe has never traveled by train.\nJoan has studied two foreign languages.\nA: Have you ever met him?\nB: No, I have not met him.\nTOPIC 2 Change Over Time\nWe often use the present perfect to talk about change that has happened over a period of time.\nYou have grown since the last time I saw you.\nThe government has become more interested in arts education.\nJapanese has become one of the most popular courses at the university since the Asian studies program was established.\nMy English has really improved since I moved to Australia.\nTOPIC 3 Accomplishments\nWe often use the present perfect to list the accomplishments of individuals and humanity. You cannot mention a specific time.\nOur son has learned how to read.\nDoctors have cured many deadly diseases.\nScientists have split the atom.\nTOPIC 4 An Uncompleted Action You Are Expecting\nWe often use the present perfect to say that an action which we expected has not happened. Using the present perfect suggests that we are still waiting for the action to happen.\nJames has not finished his homework yet.\nSusan hasn't mastered Japanese, but she can communicate.\nBill has still not arrived.\nThe rain hasn't stopped.\nTOPIC 5 Multiple Actions at Different Times\nWe also use the present perfect to talk about several different actions which have occurred in the past at different times. Present perfect suggests the process is not complete and more actions are possible.\nThe army has attacked that city five times.\nI have had four quizzes and five tests so far this semester.\nWe have had many major problems while working on this project.\nShe has talked to several specialists about her problem, but nobody knows why she is sick.\nTime Expressions with Present Perfect\nWhen we use the present perfect it means that something has happened at some point in our lives before now. Remember, the exact time the action happened is not important.\nSometimes, we want to limit the time we are looking in for an experience. We can do this with expressions such as: in the last week, in the last year, this week, this month, so far, up to now, etc.\nHave you been to Mexico in the last year?\nI have seen that movie six times in the last month.\nThey have had three tests in the last week.\nShe graduated from university less than three years ago. She has worked for three different companies so far.\nMy car has broken down three times this week.\n\"Last year\" and \"in the last year\" are very different in meaning. \"Last year\" means the year before now, and it is considered a specific time which requires simple past. \"In the last year\" means from 365 days ago until now. It is not considered a specific time, so it requires present perfect.\nI went to Mexico last year.\nI went to Mexico in the calendar year before this one.\nI have been to Mexico in the last year.\nI have been to Mexico at least once at some point between 365 days ago and now.\nUSE 2 Duration From the Past Until Now (Non-Continuous Verbs)\nWith non-continuous verbs and non-continuous uses of mixed verbs, we use the present perfect to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. \"For five minutes,\" \"for two weeks,\" and \"since Tuesday\" are all durations which can be used with the present perfect.\nI have had a cold for two weeks.\nShe has been in England for six months.\nMary has loved chocolate since she was a little girl.\nAlthough the above use of present perfect is normally limited to non-continuous verbs and non-continuous uses of mixed verbs, the words \"live,\" \"work,\" \"teach,\" and \"study\" are sometimes used in this way even though they are NOT non-continuous verbs.\nYou have only seen that movie one time.\nHave you only seen that movie one time?\nMany tourists have visited that castle. Active\nThat castle has been visited by many tourists. Passive", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 7965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://environmentaladr.com/environmental-mediation-vs-litigation/new-paradigm-solving-complex-environmental-disputes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SOEAWRIFUZUND6C65CMLRQ3NQ5FK6GVQ", "length": 3125, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "environmentaladr.com", "title": "A New Paradigm for Solving Complex Environmental Disputes - Environmental ADR", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Mediation vs. Litigation / A New Paradigm for Solving Complex Environmental Disputes\nThe status quo ante imposes a high social cost to the extent complex environmental disputes remain unresolved and problems fester. The more time it takes to implement a cleanup, the more expensive the costs of that operation become. In groundwater, for example, the contaminants can continue to migrate laterally and vertically such that larger, more powerful remedial technologies will eventually be required to do the job. Or in the case of drinking water, just think of the high health and social costs imposed on the citizens of Flint Michigan as a result of delay in taking remedial action. Many of these escalating costs, in turn, are ultimately borne by taxpayers, thereby increasing the societal economic costs of pollution and its cleanup. Moreover, the clean up costs are in addition to already extremely expensive litigation-based transactional costs, which multiply each week, as the case remains unresolved. Unfortunately, most environmental cases move through the judicial system like molasses, while the environmental harm at issue tends to migrate and grow.\nThe time has come for a new paradigm in which to resolve these disputes. This is the issue I will be addressing over the course of the coming weeks here on my blog. My hope is to outline a step-by-step mediation process, which brings together the parties to an environmental dispute, their representatives including scientific experts, and environmental regulatory agencies, to intelligently assess the conflict, agree on the testing required, agree on the most effective and least costly remedy, and make informed decisions about a fair and equitable allocation of the actual costs of investigation and cleanup among the parties. I will explain how such a process can be facilitated by entering into an initial mediation agreement and further discuss each of the key steps from initiation to final settlement; developing a base case, I will assess the potential financial benefits to be realized through a mediated process instead of proceeding via traditional litigation; and I will also consider complications introduced to a multi-party mediation as a result of the holdout problem.\nNo process is perfect. Neither our current norms nor the process I will be outlining on my blog in the coming weeks. However, I believe strongly that this new paradigm is much better suited to our environmental dispute resolution needs \u2013 current and future. I also believe that it will prove to be significantly cheaper in the long run. Therefore, I argue that a process that fully resolves disputes among potentially responsible parties, has a positive effect on the environment and is significantly cheaper than current alternatives is well worth trying.\nWhen It Comes to Environmental Protection is New York Lagging Behind? - Environmental ADR says:\n[\u2026] gridlock in the courts. If so, I respectfully direct New York legislators\u2019 attention to my prior blog posts explaining how effective mediation can be in streamlining the resolution of environmental [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enviropedia.org.uk/Sustainability/Transport_Solutions.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YCT3QOJLTPDDNWZAUM5ELZMTRUVTYDU6", "length": 3336, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "enviropedia.org.uk", "title": "Transport Solutions", "raw_content": "Transport is the fastest growing sector both in the UK and worldwide, and contributes significantly to air pollution and other forms of environmental degradation. If we are to minimise the impacts of transport on the environment and on society, we need to adopt a more sustainable transport strategy, and one that integrates all modes of transport rather than being over-reliant on the motor car. There exist a number of solutions to today's transport problem.\nThe use of public transport must be encouraged if a sustainable transport policy is to be developed. A decrease in the use of personal vehicles would be beneficial to the environment both in terms of land use pressure and air quality. Cycling and walking too, should be encouraged for short journeys, where improved land use planning makes this practical. Park and ride facilities, which reduce the amount of commuter traffic entering urban centres, have become more popular during the last few years. Park and ride facilities provide a car park where people can transfer from car to bus or train.\nWith a large rise in traffic numbers, it becomes increasingly important to keep polluting emissions to a minimum. There are presently a number of technological solutions which can help to reduce pollutant emissions from road traffic. Since 1993 new cars have been fitted with catalytic converters which reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Alternative fuels to petrol and diesel are currently also being developed. These include compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), city diesel, hydrogen, alcohol fuels and battery operated vehicles, all of which release less carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air.\nThe vast majority of journeys made to and from work by car take place with only one person in a vehicle. If people making regular car journeys could share them between a group of drivers, then congestion and hence pollution would be kept to a minimum. There would also be a reduction in the number of cars in city centres, and commuters' petrol and parking costs could be reduced. Furthermore, with the introduction and expansion of the Internet, it has become possible for some people to work from home. Work processed on a computer can be electronically mailed across the globe within seconds, making it possible for people to work for companies on the opposite side of the world.\nAt present, travelling by car is the most attractive form of transport, due to its convenience. To encourage people to use other modes of transport and adopt more sustainable transport behaviour we need to make travelling by car seem less attractive. Road pricing provides a way of charging motorists for some of the social and environmental costs of cars that are not reflected in petrol or maintenance expenses. Charges can be varied according to whether cars are used during peak times. Unfortunately, government legislation is required before such a road-pricing scheme can be introduced. It is possible, however, that such legislation may be made available to local authorities in the UK in the next few years. Higher parking charges in cities may also deter people from using private cars, and make public transport seem more attractive. 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Unfortunately, the popularity came from the most negative event the city could imagine. The night separating the two dates witnessed a cruel event where the Union Carbide Pesticide Plant collapsed. The event released great volumes of poisonous gases to the atmosphere. The disaster caused thousand s of several people dead and many injured (Eckerman 2001). Bhopal city would have coped with the impacts of this disaster was it not for the following facts:\nMore than 3000 people died instantly. However, the deaths did not stop at that. In fact, statistics show that more than 20,000 people died about 120,000 people suffer up to date as a result of this disaster.\nThe accident was waiting to happen, and was given a chance to happen. In India, human life was not given high priority as other nations. The firm had been neglected as the operators cared less about safety of the society and workers.\nThe managers at the plant lied to the society that the gases emitted were harmless. They claimed that, Methyl Isocyanate only acted as tear gas and could not harm human beings exposed. In fact, the Indian Government and the Union Carbide Corporation claimed this until 1994.\nThe event was preceded by warning events since 1976. However, the neither Corporation took a step to curb the faultiness noted nor did they take action to lessen the consequences of such an event could it happen. Additionally, no one was jailed or questioned for such irresponsibility.\nScientists within the Corporation had forecasted such an incident some months before the event. However, the reports were ignored, and not taken to the senior staff.\nThis study aims at producing a Fault Tree to help identify lessons learnt from the Bhopal Disaster. It shows that this was a disaster waiting to happen. This will be achieved through\nAssessing the technical causes of the disaster response failure from operations and design perspective.\nIdentifying the main causes of failure at that time and to date.\nUsing Reliability Block Diagram and Fault Tree analysis to assess the probability of reoccurrence of such an occurrence.\nUsing Minimal Cut Set method, to recreate another Fault Tree analysis.\nRecommending what should be done in contingency and emergency planning.\nThe Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL was established in 1969 at Bhopal, India. The corporation offered competitive advantages since it had low labor costs. The corporation grew rapidly with its low operating costs. The pesticide manufacturing company imported the main component in production, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) from its parent company till 1976 (Eckerman 2004). The Bhopal Gas Leak, which occurred on 2nd and 3rd December 1984 in India, is up to date the largest chemical industrial accident to occur in this planet. The disaster claimed more than 2,000 lives instantly. More than100, 000 people were injured and more than 520,000 exposed to dangerous gases. The impacts of this disaster are still felt today since many people acquired permanent injuries (Weir 1987). Properties worth millions of dollars were destroyed. The environment was degraded and the air polluted. This catastrophe occurred as s result of human negligence. It has remained a symbol of human negligence from multinational corporations. This served as an international alarm clock on the impacts of negligence and ignorance. However, industrial disasters continue happening in different parts of the world. India and other parts have from then witnessed other chemical industrial accidents, but none can surpass the Bhopal Gas Leak of 1984.\nThe current accidents are much far as compared to the Bhopal Gas Leak (Eckerman 2001). However, chemical hazards are numerous top an extent that they are now considered as public health problem. They are posing a threat to life and health as well as property and environment. It is unfortunate that even after 28 years down the line, the companies responsible for the accident dispute their roll to the accident. They deny the health impacts of the accident. Additionally, the companies have been unenthusiastic to compensate the victims and their families economically. It is still not clear what caused the Bhopal Gas Leak. There are various answers on who was responsible for the hazardous event. According to the Union Carbide, the event occurred as a result of a disgruntled employee who interfered with the system (Fortun 2001).\nIn injury and risk analysis, the notion \u201cprocess of the accident\u201d, is used. This includes the pre-disaster, disaster event and post-disaster analysis. These models are usually used for occurrences children\u2019s burns and traffic accidents. The Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) are applicable in the Bhopal Gas Leak. Two models assess injury analysis and the causes of failure in emergency response of this disaster (Cassels 1993).\nThe installation of the MIC plant at Bhopal was designed and constructed with cut cost programs. These include\nCarbon steel piping replaced the stainless steel piping. Carbon steel is more corrosive than the carbon steel.\nThe quality and number of safety devices was deducted to increase savings.\nManual safety devices were installed instead of the automatic ones.\nEarly warning systems were not installed\nOnly one vent gas scrubber was installed. This caused redundancy.\nA single flare tower was fixed.\nThere was no unit storage reservoir between the large storage container and the MIC manufacture to check purity of the products.\nThe six safety features of this plant were inefficient for a period of time. Additionally, none of these features was operating on the night of the disaster as a result of understaffing.\nThere was no emergency planning connecting the locals to the plant.\nExperts from US had audited the plant and recommended several maintained issues. There is no evidence that these recommendations were considered or implemented. This indicates negligence.\nBetween 1980 and 18984, training and education standards of workers were reduced. The workforce was reduced by 50% without reasonable investment in modern technology to authorize this reduction.\nDirect Causes of the Accident\nOn the night of the event, dangerous gases were emitted for 2 hours 15 minutes (Shrivastava 1987). The main factors contributing to this disaster include, but not limited to the following:\n1. The storage tank was filled beyond capacity. The functional gauges should have signaled this and halted the process until rectified.\n2. The reserve container was full of Methyl Isocyanate. This should have been empty to allow flow in case of an emergency.\n3. The blow down valve of tank number 610 was faulty but was permanently open. Instead, this valve should have been repaired, or the tank removed until required repair was made.\n4. Alarm sirens, which were to warn the community in case of emergency, were switched off after five minutes. This should have continued for several hours to raise alarm in the community.\n5. The management failed to notify external emergency agencies of the incident immediately. Instead, the superintendent denied that such an event had occurred. The management should have reported to other emergency agencies to seek assistance and mitigate such occurrences.\n6. The civic authorities lacked knowledge and experience of dealing with such incidences. They had no uniforms and materials to respond to such incidences. Emergency response personnel should be well equipped to deal with all emergency situations.\n7. Temperature and pressure measuring gauges were so notorious to extent that the workers ignored their warnings. This should have been corrected. The safety culture should be as serious as possible in an organization.\n8. The refrigeration section, which maintained the MIC\u2019s low temperature and prevented overheating in case of contamination, was temporally closed. This unit should have been repaired and resolved instead of closing it.\nCalculation and Theory\nThe Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and the Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) map the main causes of the disaster as well as calculate the probability of reoccurrence. Reliability Block Diagram is derived from the Fault Tree Analysis. The RBD indicates the interdependence of causes which led to the failure at the climax of the Fault Tree. The RBD and FTA model help highlight weak or vulnerable areas that require attention. This includes area s like preventative maintenance, redundancy and built-in-testing. Secondly, the model shows how a system fails. Therefore, it can be used for fault finding or diagnostics. Lastly, the model can be used to determine the systems reliability based on the values in each box. Normally, RBD and FTA model is used in minor occurrences, which require machine or equipment. However, from this case, the model is used in analyzing a catastrophe. The Bhopal is a complex case which influenced social, environmental and human factors. Additionally, the case is complicated and can bring confusion and debate in analysis (Berger & Mohan 1996). The catastrophe poses a question, which is fundamental in disaster risk assessment: should the total availability of a Bhopal offer protection against such an occurrence whether of a high figure or low figure?\nAnswering this question requires one to go back to the definition of the terms involved. Availability is the average between frequency and severity failure, that is, a measure of reliability and maintainability. A disaster is naturally severe and rare. One expects high figures as far as availability of securing its occurrence is concerned. This is because a disaster has a low frequency. However, this is not the case when existing operation and design are not fit for protecting occurrence of a disaster. In such a situation, the disaster waits to happen, and the total availability of the system is low.\nThe corporation had concentrated on profit and allowed safety maintenance and standards to deteriorate. The reports for a potential hazard had been reported two years prior to the disaster the management ignored them. UCIL did not care for the safety standards of the Bhopal plant. The Indian government failed to implement environmental and safety standards, and this is why all this happened in a country with a government. The Indian government concentrated on attracting foreign investors at the expense of the safety and health of citizens. Environmental and safety laws should be implemented in all nations to avoid such an incident. Life should be valued than profit. In future manufacturing plants, safety and standard materials and policies should be put in place and valued. Concentrating on profits only can cause untold loss in the long run as it happened to the Bhopal disaster (Chouhan 2005).\nGlobalization Question\nClimate Issues and Technological Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 13568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://europeanheritagealliance.eu/2016/12/20/european-year-of-cultural-heritage-needs-adequate-funding/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OJMYQ2YXMLYOKI4K56TUXCJWE425JFVN", "length": 3674, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "europeanheritagealliance.eu", "title": "European Year of Cultural Heritage needs adequate Funding | European Year of Cultural Heritage needs adequate Funding \u2013 European Heritage Alliance", "raw_content": "20Dec December 20, 2016 By Alliance\nBrussels, 20 December 2016 \u2013 The European Heritage Alliance 3.3 is calling on 28 EU Heads of State or Government to ensure that the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 is supported with adequate financial resources at all levels of governance: from European to national, regional and local.\nAs part of a joint advocacy campaign, 37 heritage-related European and international networks which form part of the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 (Alliance), have signed and sent today a joint letter to the leaders of EU Member States with a forceful message: \u201cGiven the huge value of cultural heritage and its proven positive impact on Europe\u2019s economy \u2013 creating jobs and growth, as well as on Europe\u2019s society, culture and environment, it is fully justified to allocate a significant budget to the implementation of this historic European initiative.\u201d\nMembers of the Alliance added that \u201cAt a time when EU Member States and Institutions are confronted with an unprecedented political, economic, social, environmental and cultural crisis, (\u2026) the European Year of Cultural Heritage provides us all with a unique opportunity to convey a positive and cohesive message to Europe\u2019s citizens\u201d.\nThey stressed that \u201cPromoting the understanding and enjoyment of our shared heritage and history and sharing this heritage with other cultures of the world have significant added value. Not only can we boost the much-needed awareness and sense of belonging to a wider community within and across Europe but we can also make use of heritage as a catalyst to build bridges and foster dialogue between cultures across the globe.\u201d\nThe European Heritage Alliance also referred to the events which will take place on 25 March 2017 in Rome when EU Heads of State or Government will meet to mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. \u201cWe call on you all to seize the opportunity of this historic gathering to publicly recognise that the entire European project has a wider cultural meaning and significance derived from our shared cultural patrimony, both tangible and intangible\u201d the letter advocates. It also adds that \u201cWe should preserve and celebrate our rich heritage as much as we should understand and promote the shared cultural values that are interwoven in this heritage and define who we are as a wider community of Europeans\u201d.\nMembers of the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 confirmed their readiness to cooperate closely with EU Institutions and Member States \u201cwith the aim of giving our cultural resources and related capital a much stronger recognition and a much more central place within the future agendas of the European Union\u201d. To start with, each member of the Alliance will mobilise their respective our members and partners across Europe to contribute to the success of the European Year of Cultural Heritage \u201cin a creative and dynamic way\u201d.\nThe EC proposal for the European Year of Cultural Heritage was published on 30 August 2016 and the EU Council of Ministers adopted its general approach on this proposal at the last meeting of the Council on 22 November 2016. Following the current procedure of \u201ctrialogue\u201d between the Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission, the final decision on the Year with the probable allocation of a dedicated EU budget is expected to be adopted during the Maltese Presidency of the EU, during the first trimester of the Year.\nFor the letters to 28 EU Heads of State or Government, see below:\nBelgium Latvia\nBulgaria Luxembourg\nCroatia Lithuania\nCyprus Malta\nCzech Republic The Netherlands\nIreland Portugal\nEstonia Romania\nFinland Slovakia\nFrance Slovenia\nHungary United Kingdom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://explorationlife.com/did-we-find-the-lair-of-zorro/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FYVN3ZJTYCQSD23LOCEKQKOJ67LLNCSI", "length": 3170, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "explorationlife.com", "title": "Did we just find the Secret Lair of Zorro? - Page 4 of 4 - Exploration Life", "raw_content": "It is with that Family until a few San Fransisco financiers but the acreage in 1876 and setup a town square in what is now the current day Los Alamos.\nOkay so the next part can\u2019t be confirmed and is not at all relevant to the shops or people living in the city today. However, I thought some coincidental information is very cool and I like to think about it while I\u2019m there and enjoying food or a glass of local wine.\nZorro\u2019s first adventure. Photo from goodreads.com\nMany of you will know the name of Zorro as a popular series of movies with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones. While if that is as far as you know I commend you on that. The story of Zorro goes back much further than that. In fact the character has his origin starting somewhere around 1919 when it was first written by Johnston McCulley. In the stories it is said Zorro is in What is now Los Angeles. All this of course being during the Spanish rule of Alta California.\nIn my research though I found the name of a bandit leader by the name of Salomon Pico. Whose cousin was P\u00edo Pico the Governor of Alta California from 1845 \u2013 1846. Another very interesting person, but we will dive into him later. Anyways getting back to Salomon.\nAfter some unknown event happened during a gold rush on his cousins land Salmon\u2019s wife is dead and Salomon has said to have vowed vengeance. It is said that he avoids the gold fields and becomes a stock dealer by day. Mostly dealing with horses and cattle. Then by night his bandits would take to the El Camino Real area and ambush the men traveling there between the north and south. It is apparently been said many would travel south and after reaching what is modern day San Luis Obispo. Men where commonly never heard from again and large numbers of human skulls were found with bullet holes in them.\nSo the story goes that this part of what the story of Zorro was based which could be true, but also possible not as well. However the gang of Salomon Pico was said to hide out in the hills above Rancho Los Alamos. Which is as I said also kind of cool to think about if you wish as you enjoy the town.\nA side note here that I thought was cool and could lead to at least originator of Zorro doing his research was that our old friend de la Guerra. The ancestry of the name was that it was changed at one point. During the Moorish wars in Spain an ancestor of Jos\u00e9 de la Guerra was a commander of a Spanish fortress. Don Juan de la Vega led a charge from his fortress. That charge led to the end of the moors and the reunification of Spain.\nSo it is said that King Ferdinand I summoned him to court and there he was reprimanded for breaking the law of starting the battle. However, he was then ordered to kneel and was nighted. Which is when the name of de la Vega was changed to de la Guerra. Meaning of the War in Spanish. Important if you know your Zorro, and that by day Zorro is known as Don Diego de la Vega. If this was intentional or all just speculation I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s a cool little history either way.\nSo next time we start diving into the modern day town and what you should do when you get there, and where you should stay while there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fampeople.com/cat-sergei-rublevsky", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AANTZ46ZNS3AF6OOYQIIXAZXVLS7EHXN", "length": 1917, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "fampeople.com", "title": "Sergei Rublevsky biography, Notable games, Style", "raw_content": "Sergei Rublevsky : biography\nSergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994). He has won four team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads. He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess champion after winning the Russian Superfinal in Moscow (18\u201330 December 2005), one point clear from Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Morozevich.\nHe finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup, which qualified him for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007, played in May\u2013June 2007. He defeated Ruslan Ponomariov 3\u00bd-2\u00bd in the first round. In the second round he played Alexander Grischuk. The match was tied 3-3, but Grischuk won the rapid playoff 2\u00bd-\u00bd, eliminating Rublevsky from the championship.\nGM Nigel Short said of Rublevsky, \"Rublevsky is not a sexy player. There are younger and more gifted individuals around and he knows it. Yet he has canniness, which the greenhorns don't. He does not engage the teenagers on the sharp end of opening theory, testing his ailing memory against the freshness of their computer-assisted analysis. Instead he heads a little off the beaten track - not exactly to the jungle, but to lesser-travelled byways where his experience counts.\"\nGM Alexander Morozevich has said, \"... my opening repertoire is not any \u2018weirder\u2019 than, say, that of Rublevsky.\"\nWith White, Rublevsky plays 1.e4 the overwhelming percentage of the time.\nAgainst 1...e5, Rublevsky plays the Scotch. Against 1...c5, Rublevsky sometimes goes for Open Sicilians, but he has a couple of non-Open pet lines: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ and 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4. Against the French and Caro-Kann, he plays 2.d4 followed by 3.Nd2.\nWith Black, he meets 1.e4 with Kan/Paulsen/Taimanov Sicilians; against 1.d4 he generally plays the QGA and the occasional Slav.http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1223682138.shtml", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fatefirst.com/history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DGVSOY6X52SUJHTMZ22MAGDPVRIRVMWT", "length": 1592, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "fatefirst.com", "title": "History \u2013 FATE", "raw_content": "http://fatefirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FATE-Movie.mp4\nWhen The Florida Association for Theatre Education celebrated our 30th anniversary during the 2009 conference, the keynote speaker was Dr. Stan DeHart, who was instrumental in the creation of FATE. He is often called FATE\u2019s \u201cspiritual father\u201d. The following excerpts from his speech describe our origins:\n\u201cThe idea for FATE actually began at a 1978 Thespian Conference when Connie Wahlburg, who was in charge of \u2018entertainment\u2019 and obviously at a loss for it, asked me to share my research on Arts in the Florida Public Schools, which compared Drama to the other fine arts.\n\u201cIt was as entertaining as the funeral of your best friend and when I finished there was this long silence, which really made me nervous, no applause, no nothing \u2013 which usually means rotten fruit for an entertainer.\n\u201cThen suddenly I was surrounded by several angry and upset people, and I wanted to say \u2018I\u2019m just the messenger\u2019. Then one woman asked me \u2018What are we to do?\u2019 Do? DO? I\u2019m a college professor, we don\u2019t DO. We research and we talk, but we don\u2019t DO.\n\u201cSo mostly out of fright I said, \u2018Well, first you need a State Organization \u2026\u2019 and there it went. People were dashing about, forming committees and organizing everything. For the next year there were lots of phone calls and letters and activity and lo and behold, the first meeting was in Winter Park. The speaker, FSU Dean Richard Fallon, didn\u2019t seem to mind that the conference was in a hotel room and that he was speaking to about seven people sitting on beds.\n\u201cWow, baby. Look at you now\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://feedbackakademin.se/en/roots-gestalt-theory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:POEKKDUQUHOCO3CMO4EHUXFAKJD4R24G", "length": 9281, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "feedbackakademin.se", "title": "The roots of Gestalt Theory - Feedback Academy", "raw_content": "Gestalt theory was developed in 1940-50 by Fritz and Laura Perls. From the beginning, it was used together with Gestalt therapy, then in 1980, organizational consultants got educated based on the same theory. Gestalt is still today developing thanks to continued research.\nFrom the Gestalt theory viewpoint, organisms can only fully be understood when they are seen as a field, a context, a surrounding. The relationship between the organism and its surroundings has both a theoretical and behavioral significance .\nIn the field theory you look at forces and counter forces, for example between those who want to preserve and those who want to create change. While studying something with a field theory perspective you look at the whole and how the energies move on the field. On the field there are different energies that attracts and repels. While studying a group it might be questions as: who affects who? Who or what participates? According to field theory we co-create each other in every second. The complexity is already high when there are two people. Also the non present people affect the field.\nThe system theory show systems and their limits. Every system is acting in its context and is searching for balance. To understand a system that you are working with, you need to go up and down a level of the system. To for example understand a group, you need to know something about the organization which the group is a part of, as well as the sub groups that the group have. This viewpoint is used both by organizational consultants and gestalt therapists.\nMore about the roots of Gestalt:\nExistentialism is a lot about taking responsibility.\nSome participants that take part in workshops about feedback, group development or leadership development think that it is their personality that is faulty and need to be changed. They discard everything with \u201cI-am-who-I-am\u201d and therefore \u201cI-act-as-I-act\u201d. A more open approach is that an individual can change her behavior if she is aware of it and \u2013 if she wants to. This is one of the most important messages of the existentialism. When someone (a colleague, manager, co-worker or process leader), enlightens the consequences of the individual\u2019s actions, the individual is given an insight about how he can change his behavior. Existentialism is one of the corner stones of the Gestalt theory.\nThe psychotherapist Emmy Van Deurzen has formulated it in an expressive way: \u201cthe Earth is a place between heaven and hell, where you can experience a lot of pain and a lot of joy and where a certain amount of insight might be essential.\u201d This is valid both for people in private relationships as business people \u2013 employees and managers.\nA field is an interacting whole where all mutually affect each other and the whole. It is impossible to exclude the context where the whole is found and the one where every part origins from. Every single group participant has with them their unique life story, previous experiences from finished and non finishes events. They also bring with them their unique talents, communication skills, their level of responsibility and their ability to be in contact with others. Every participant will act differently based on their story, their momentary needs and based on the field in which they find themselves.\nThe participant affects the group and the group affects the participant (Yontef, 1993). The gender, age, religion, education, body language, family status, sexual orientation, political belonging (and so on) of a participant affects the field. The participants\u2019 behaviour is a result of their subjective interpretation of the field (based on individual needs) and the field is a result of the participants behaviour. The only thing that affects ones behaviour in a certain moment is the field in that same moment. The field is a product of ones story, but it\u2019s only the field in the here and now that affects you. Kurt Lewin calls it \u201dthe Principle of Contemporaneity\u201d (Lewin, 1997). To say that an organism is in a field suggests that the organism can exist independently of the field, but an organism cannot exist without a field and is therefore a product of the field itself (Yontef, 1993). The field is in constant change and therefore never static, \u201dThe field is becoming\u201d. Because of this reason, it is important that the process leader follows the constant process. When organizational consultants work with group development they are often called process leaders. The word might just as well be field leaders. The process leaders are to the highest grade a part of the field and therefore they both affect and become affected by the participants of the group.\nWe break down the whole in pieces to create an understanding of it. Though, it is important not to lose ourselves in the pieces and forget that it is the whole that we are trying to understand. If a course participant is strongly questioning the layout of the course, which is something that affects the whole field, it is likely based on the combination of the participant\u2019s history, her needs and the the impact that the field has on her. If she would leave the group, it would naturally affect the field, that in its own turn affects the other members. Maybe the field has another person that will start questioning. Parallel processes, where what is happening in the organization of a client and then is repeated in the process between leaders and participants, is a good example of how the contexts and the different parts affect each other.\nField theory is a framework to investigate and clarify happenings, experiences, objects, organisms and systems as meaningful parts of a known amount of forces that together create an ongoing, interactive whole (Yontef, 1993).\nBuber\u2019s dialogical principle\nWhen we are in contact and communicate it can be on different conversation levels.\nWe can also talk about contact quality when we communicate either on a more shallow or on a more faithful level. The shallow can be every day topics such as the weather. Then, we can become more trusting and speak, based on our role, about every day things. In the next level, we speak trustingly with each other and in the end we can have a me-and-you meeting.\nA metafore is to say that communication is like an onion. You peel yourself into the middle. In the outermost layer we communicate on a shallow, introducing level. This works as an icebreaker (I don\u2019t bite and you don\u2019t bite so let\u2019s move on). The other level is a basic level. Here we speak about basic things, often coming from a professional role. The communication is often not very personal and trusting. In the third level there is more trust but not enough to speak about the self with the other person. Here we see examples of indirect communication, I can for example speak in confidence about a person that is not present. Reaching the innermost layer, which is a prerequisite for full contact, I speak with the other person. It is what we call direct communication or \u201cme-and-you\u201d-communication. Martin Buber also says that it is in the meeting with the other that we are created (Buber, 1994). In the meeting with the other, he is not an object but a subject that is active in creating his \u201cI\u201d. In the same way, I\u2019m active in creating the other persons \u201cyou\u201d.\nContact and dialogue is two of the corner stones of Gestalt, a good contact and a working dialogue is as important in the work place as in private relationships.\nIn the phenomenology the interest lies on what is, on what is created/appeared here and now.\nA process leader or coach that used the Gestalt Theory might be more attentive to what is happening here and now than that which the participant/s tells about the past. Both what is happening here and now in this room and that which the participant/s express create an informative whole. While giving feedback, it is important that the observations are based on phenomenology and not on interpretations and presumptions.\nThe psychoanalysis was created by Sigmund Freud, a doctor from Austria in the century between 1800 and the 1900s.\nPsychoanalysis is a group of psychological theories and methods that have in common that they assume that the human psyche has an unconscious part, in the unique way it was defined in Freud\u2019s theory.\nGestalt theory was created by Fritz Perls as an alternative to psychoanalysis, with great help from his wife Laura Perls and also from Paul Goodman.\nThe big difference from psychoanalysis is that Gestalt theory encourages experiments that are held by the participant himself, instead of the psychoanalyst\u2019s interpretation of the \u201cpatient\u201d.\nWhole/holism\nIn the Gestalt Theory there is a great focus on the meaning of the whole. We need to see the whole before we step in and put energy in the details. For it to be meaningful to engage in details, we first need to see the context.\nA person that gave inspiration to the Gestalt theory\u2019s holistic thinking was the french philosopher Henri Bergson with for example the quote: \u201cThe whole is perceived prior to the perception of its parts\u201d (Bergson, 1988). It is therefore reasonable to presume that a course member has a need to understand the course program early. They have a need to perceive the whole.\nhttp://feedbackakademin.se/en/roots-gestalt-theory\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 10552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ferneto.com/sustentabilidade/ferneto-s.a?set_language=en", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KGGDJJMXNQODXS63VCM7DMFN6E4TQMEB", "length": 1463, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ferneto.com", "title": "Ferneto, S.A. - Ferneto", "raw_content": "SUSTAINABILITY \u00bb Ferneto, S.A.\nFerneto S.A., financial sustainability\nFor an equipment to be profitable it is essential that it be controlled by a professional with technical skills to do so, supported also by a balanced management in its manufacture (purchase of quality raw materials, use of adjusted methods of conservation and manufacture, efficient distribution system and targeted sales channel). Only then will it be sustainable!\nJust as the equipment, a company needs to create conditions and means to enable it to ensure its 'own sustenance\".\nIt is thus through improving the resources that we have, giving them greater efficiency in the search for excellence, that we achieved our financial sustainability, supported by ethical principles and a policy of transparency with our employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders, communicating the challenges and sharing the benefits.\nSince 2008 we are a limited company consisting mainly of members that are employees, customers and partners. This particularity reinforces the sense of belonging among those who are part of the company, bringing them even further into the Ferneto structure.\nThis milestone stands alone in the history of Ferneto, proving the success of the developed policies of proximity and partnership.\nCurrently, the company has a capital of 3,590,469.00 euros and works daily so that, in a sustainable manner, it can generate returns on investments made by its shareholder structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 3563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://firelandsfloatflyers.net/DE/auto-owners-insurance-in-de/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WSX4SASYPWEXCPANQ3PYH3XZ4CV7F6PT", "length": 3487, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "firelandsfloatflyers.net", "title": "Auto owners insurance in DE. 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Most auto owners insurance in DE price quotes from several different insurers.\nCheap insurance quotes in Mississippi for cars", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://firelandsfloatflyers.net/DE/cheap-car-insurance-quotes-in-delaware/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7FTRLRI37UYLCYZB5G65655T3QWYGGME", "length": 3152, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "firelandsfloatflyers.net", "title": "Cheap car insurance quotes in Delaware. Save Money with FREE CAR INSURANCE QUOTES!", "raw_content": "Of course you'll need to be more common. Going online only gives you the time to find cheap car insurance quotation is very common place. Some tag on types of plans according to your pocket than ever imagined. 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A change to some maybe they are more likely you are looking for inexpensive cheap car insurance quotes in Delaware companies are unlikely to provide safety on the other car insurance policies which may be a lot of factors to your car then you should be easier to fit into your pocket in case the vehicle accordingly.\nCheapest insurance company in WV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fitnessjournal.co.nz/breathe-better-september/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YU4M2LT5V2KR6LUVFS7N72W3DVWBOGWV", "length": 2844, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "fitnessjournal.co.nz", "title": "Breathe Better September - Fitness Journal", "raw_content": "Breathe Better September\nHow do you breathe better? Isn\u2019t that something that we do naturally every day? Most people can\u2019t imagine not being able to breathe properly, but for the one in six Kiwis living with a respiratory condition, this is a reality.\nThis month, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ launches the first ever respiratory awareness m\nonth in New Zealand. Breathe Better September is a national movement for Kiwis to show their support for better breathing and healthy lungs.\n\u201cMore than 700,000 Kiwis have a respiratory condition, it\u2019s the third leading cause of death and costs the country $5.5 billion each year,\u201d says Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ chief executive, John Wills.\n\u201cBut despite New Zealand having one of the highest rates of respiratory disease in the world, it is not highly profiled.\u201d\nBreathe Better September encourages Kiwis to start thinking about how they can improve their respiratory health, and information will be shared throughout the month to support this. The Foundation is also calling for people to sign a photo petition to show their support for better breathing.\nFoundation ambassador Erin Simpson says, \u201cIt\u2019s so easy, grab a piece of paper and a pen, write Breathe Better September and send in a photo holding it up. Post it on your social media using the campaign name as the hashtag to help us raise awareness.\u201d\nBreathe Better September comes nearly a year after the launch of Te H\u0101 Ora: National Respiratory Strategy. The strategy highlights a range of respiratory conditions that are prevalent in New Zealand, and the shocking statistics showing many conditions are on the rise. The strategy sets out clear steps that all new Zealanders need to take to reduce the impact of the disease.\nRespiratory disease includes asthma, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and obstructive sleep apnoea.\nRespiratory disease is New Zealand\u2019s third most common cause of death.\nRespiratory disease costs New Zealand more than $5.5 billion every year.\nOne in six (more than 700,000) New Zealanders live with a respiratory condition, and these rates are worsening.\nRespiratory disease accounts for one in eight of all hospital stays.\nMore than half of the people admitted to hospital with a poverty-related condition are there because of a respiratory problem such as asthma, bronchiolitis, acute infection or pneumonia.\nPeople living in the most deprived households are admitted to hospital for respiratory illness over three times more often than people from the wealthiest areas.\nAcross all age groups, hospitalisation rates are much higher for Pacific peoples (2.6 times higher) and Maori (2.1 times higher) than for other ethnic groups (Telfar Barnard et al., 2015).\nPrevious ArticleBook corner\nNext Article Have skates, will travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fleming.rcps.info/cms/One.aspx?portalId=471903&pageId=11002060", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JP4LCC3LQGXXJWH6PNYKUT6EH6ZRALXU", "length": 1533, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "fleming.rcps.info", "title": "Folk Tales, Myths, and Legends (V. Arnold) - William Fleming High School", "raw_content": "William Fleming High School \u00bb Teacher Pages \u00bb Library \u00bb Class Research Links \u00bb Folk Tales, Myths, and Legends (V. Arnold)\nThe Conversation Trust Ltd. (U.K.), 2018\nProvides multiple articles on different aspects of myths and legends\nhttps://theconversation.com/uk/topics/myths-and-legends-9674\nMiddletown Thrall Library, Ready Reference Center, 2017\nProvides multiple links referencing mythology, legends, folk tales and fairy tales from around the world.\nhttp://www.thrall.org/readyref/Myths_and_Legends.html\nThis PBS article attempts to define the term Myth.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_what.html\nMyths and Archetypes\nThis PBS article discusses four major archetypes of myths - Woman of Power, The Quest, The Hero, and Paradise Lost.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_archetypes.html\nThis PBS article covers four major myths about heroes - THe Queen of Sheba, Shanghai-La, King Authur, and Jason and the Argonauts.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_four_sheba.html\nFolklore - Definition and Examples\nProvides definition and examples of \"Folklore\" as a collective literary term for fairy tales, myths, and legends.\nhttps://literaryterms.net/folklore/\nFairy Tales - Definition and Examples\nProvides definition and examples of \"Fairy Tales\" as a literary term.\nhttps://literaryterms.net/fairy-tale/\nGrimm's Fairy Tales - Collection of Tales\nThis site, provided by John Mark Ockerbloom of Carnegie Mellon University, offers readers full texts of 209 of Grimm's Fairy Tales.\nhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1051, "original_length": 18268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=98282&page=&vc=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:06Z", "digest": "sha1:CV2RVVWWF4FZ2PU3YCC5VOCCA7X2HTZ3", "length": 453, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "flhurricane.com", "title": "HURRICANE IRMA LOUNGE - FLHurricane.com", "raw_content": "That only illustrates the discrepancies in the evaluation of the ridge between the two models. This is a return of the GFS to its earlier estimates before it seemed to settle further west before the turn. Believe me I don't want the storm in the east GOM. I am terrified of the storm surge and complications that will create. However I am not sold on the GFS solution and see the west coast solution as a distinct probability and am acting acccordingly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 636, "original_length": 35709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://florencescceo.com/news/2018/11/sc-high-court-hears-carriage-company-case-against-charleston-over-stable/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GA4FSMSNSOHXXJZDZZE2YYSM3D72PB33", "length": 236, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "florencescceo.com", "title": "SC High Court Hears Carriage Company Case against Charleston over Stable - Florence CEO", "raw_content": "SC High Court Hears Carriage Company Case against Charleston over Stable\nA debate over the meaning of the word \u201cstable\u201d came before the state Supreme Court last week in a dispute between a carriage-tour owner and the city of Charleston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://floridapolitics.com/archives/266718-andrew-warren-chad-chronister", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BYIUIAOOQZ2HOHMCVHJBRC4VPUBATQ5E", "length": 2258, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "floridapolitics.com", "title": "Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.", "raw_content": "Andrew Warren endorses Chad Chronister for Hillsborough Sheriff\nHillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister picked up an endorsement Tuesday from Andrew Warren, the state attorney for Florida\u2019s 13th Judicial Circuit.\n\u201cSheriff Chronister is an exceptional and proven leader in our community. Just days after becoming Sheriff, Chad Chronister helped prepare our County for Hurricane Irma. His leadership has helped support our mission to fully prosecute violent criminals and seek justice for victims and their families. He has helped implement sensible civil citation programs for low-level juvenile and adult offenders,\u201d Warren said in a press release.\n\u201cSheriff Chronister is a true partner in making Hillsborough County a safe place for our citizens. Most importantly, Sheriff Chronister is a friend and trusted adviser that I know our entire community can count on. I am proud to endorse Chad Chronister for Hillsborough County Sheriff.\u201d\nWarren, a Democrat, was elected to the state attorney job in 2016. The endorsement sees Warren cross party lines to endorse Chronister, a Republican.\n\u201cThe State Attorney works closely with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office not only to prosecute crimes and seek justice for victims but to also protect the rights of all our citizens. To have the support of State Attorney Andrew Warren is definitely a boost to our campaign,\u201d Chronister said.\nChronister, who has been with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office since 1992, was appointed Sheriff last year after the retirement of longtime Sheriff David Gee. He filed for election a day after he was sworn in.\nSince launching his campaign in October, Chronister has built a massive fundraising advantage. At last count, he had raised $661,865 for his campaign and had nearly $560,000 banked. He officially qualified for the 2018 ballot back in March.\nHis only opponent is Democrat Gary Allen Pruitt, a retired Tampa Police Department corporal who has raised about $3,310 since entering the race in November. He has about $3,100 on hand. Pruitt has not yet qualified for the ballot.\nIn this article:2018 election, 2018 Hillsborough County elections, 2018 Hillsborough County Sheriff race, Andrew Warren, Chad Chronister, David Gee, endorsement, Gary Allen Pruitt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201902110011.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LSZNO6AGYHQQ2LRDVCBAOPG5JPYJXOHL", "length": 3371, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "focustaiwan.tw", "title": "Inviting Tsai to speak to U.S. Congress is flawed: ex-AIT chair | Politics | FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS", "raw_content": "Inviting Tsai to speak to U.S. Congress is flawed: ex-AIT chair\nWashington, Feb. 10 (CNA) A proposal by United States senators to invite Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen (\u8521\u82f1\u6587), to address a joint meeting of Congress is flawed because it would not be conducive to U.S. relations with China and would hurt Taiwan, former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Chairman Richard Bush said.\n\"The first flaw in the proposal is that it is contrary to a fundamental principle of U.S. relations with China,\" Bush, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, wrote in an article posted Friday on the institution's website.\nWhen the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1979, it pledged that it would carry out substantive relations with Taiwan and its government on an unofficial basis, Bush wrote.\n\"If the president of Taiwan were to speak to a joint meeting of Congress, any U.S. claim that its relations with Taiwan were unofficial would ring completely hollow,\" he wrote, adding that \"although I cannot predict exactly what Beijing would do in response, a radical downgrading of the relationship would be likely.\"\n\"American multinationals that rely on China as a market or production platform would be vulnerable to retaliation, with attendant effects on jobs and profits,\" Bush warned.\nThe second flaw is Taiwan would suffer, Bush noted, stating that although the initiative began in the United States, Beijing would take the opportunity to pressure and squeeze Taiwan even more than it is already doing.\n\"It would likely find ways to get the small number of countries that still maintain diplomatic relations with Taipei to switch to the PRC,\" Bush wrote.\nIn addition, Taiwan-directed exercises by China's People's Liberation Army would intensify and China's efforts to interfere in Taiwan's domestic politics would increase. \"So, a gesture that senators intended to help Taiwan would only hurt it,\" Bush wrote.\nThe third flaw in the initiative is its disregard for Taiwan's view. President Tsai is responsible for the prosperity and safety of 23 million people. She understands that she must maintain some degree of balance between relations with the United States and relations with China, according to Bush.\n\"Clearly, relations with China are not as good as she might like them to be, but I believe she would not wish to risk a further, serious deterioration in relations with Beijing unless it brought an extraordinary benefit,\" Bush wrote.\nHe suggested the U.S. should continue to find ways to improve relations with Taiwan, for example by improving the economic relationship and helping Taiwan effectively enhance its deterrence against China.\nA group of U.S. senators on Thursday jointly wrote a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling on her to invite Tsai to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.\nIn response, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) expressed gratitude but stressed that there is no plan for President Tsai to visit Washington.\nIn the article, Bush also said Speaker Pelosi should reject the proposal.\nIn 1943, former first lady Soong Mei-ling (\u5b8b\u7f8e\u9f61), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (\u8523\u4ecb\u77f3), became the first and only ROC citizen to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.\n(By Rita Cheng and Evelyn Kao)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 10181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fonduepotsandsets.soup.io/post/574708121/Host-a-Chocolate-Fondue-PartyBy-Joseph-Oklert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5VOYMY77FQXKNVIZALQX57CLOHAQYD3Z", "length": 3114, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "fonduepotsandsets.soup.io", "title": "Host a Chocolate Fondue PartyBy Joseph Oklert - Best Electric Fondue Pots and Sets", "raw_content": "Host a Chocolate Fondue Party\nBy Joseph Oklert\nChocolate fondue parties are not a thing of the past. Fishing out a piece of food from the fondue pot while cutting up with a group of friends can be tons of fun. However, since chocolate fondue is not a regularly served food, your dinner guests might not know how to work the fondue pot, but once you get the hang of it, you and your friends will be enjoying chocolate fondue in no time.\nOf course, you are not restricted to only serving chocolate fondue as it might not fill up your guests. Instead, you can provide chocolate fondue as your after dinner dessert. And it is usually best to offer a flavorful beverage along with it, such as Irish coffee or a cappuccino.\nOne of the best aspects of chocolate fondue is that it is easy to make. In order to get the fondue ready before your guests show up, you need to have all of your ingredients and dipping food prepared several hours in advance. However, the chocolate fondue sauce itself should not be made until after everyone has arrived because it can become thick if it sits too long.\nFor your party, you must have a minimum of one fondue pot, depending upon the amount of dinner guests that will be coming. A normal fondue pot can serve six people. But although having an actual fondue pot is great, it is not necessary. You can use the utensils, pots, and platters most people already have in their kitchen as a fondue pot is just a dish sitting on a stand that is warmed by a candle. And you can substitute dinner forks in place of the dippers.\nThere are many recipes for chocolate fondue, but if you would rather use a simple one, you can combine 10 ounces of chocolate, 1/2 cup heavy cream, and 2 tablespoons unsalted butter. If you prefer, extra ingredients such as marshmallows, almonds, or a couple of teaspoons of brandy can be put into the mixture. This is very quick and easy to throw together.\nAs far as dipping foods go, there are numerous delicious varieties you can use. The most popular include fruits like strawberries, bananas, and other types of berries. Cookies will also work nicely as well. And if you want to serve something with your fondue not used as often, you can provide chunks of cake, dried fruit, marshmallows, or plain potato chips. Do not forget to keep any fruit refrigerated until your chocolate fondue will be served.\nIf you have decided to use the recipe above, you will need to mix your butter and cream and let it reach a simmer on the stove top. As that is going on, you can cut your chocolate into small pieces if necessary and add it to the stove top to allow it melt. Once the mixture is done, put it into your fondue pot and continue to stir it occasionally so it will not burn.\nFollow this advice, and your friends will be coming over for chocolate fondue again and again.\nJoseph Oklert has trained his entire life to be the best barber that he can be. In his off time, Joseph has written a site with reviews of barber chairs for sale.\nArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Oklert\nhttp://EzineArticles.com/?Host-a-Chocolate-Fondue-Party&id=3583598", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/donald-trump-george-bush/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TZBYS4YTFUQTJ54KFVUWCNF4AG2H7WBT", "length": 1798, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "Donald Trump Backtracks on George W. Bush Comments | Fortune", "raw_content": "Donald Trump Backtracks on His Criticism of George W. Bush\nDuring his appearances on various Sunday morning political shows, Donald Trump backtracked on some comments he made about former president George W. Bush during the Republican debate the previous night.\nTrump, as he has done multiple times throughout this presidential race, invoked the Iraq War as a way to criticize Jeb Bush for his brother\u2019s actions. \u201cThe World Trade Center came down during your brother\u2019s reign, remember that,\u201d Trump told Jeb, eliciting boos from the audience. Then regarding former president Bush starting the unpopular Iraq war, he said, \u201cThey lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. And they knew there were none.\u201d\nThe Washington Post reports that in a 2008 interview with CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer, Trump said that Nancy Pelosi, who was Speaker of the House at the time, should have pushed for Bush\u2019s impeachment because of his management of the Iraq war. When asked why, Trump replied, for \u201c[getting] us into the war with lies,\u201d a sentiment he repeated on Saturday night. However, the next morning during an appearance on ABC\u2019s This Week, he said, \u201cI don\u2019t even think about it.\u201d\nThough he previously depicted Bush\u2019s actions as deliberate, on Sunday morning he distanced himself from those statements. On NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, Trump backed away from his past impeachment calls, saying, \u201cIt may not have been impeachable because it was a mistake.\u201d\nThe former president remains popular among Republicans. During their own Sunday morning interviews, Trump\u2019s fellow candidates expressed their frustration with the businessman\u2019s views. On ABC\u2019s This Week, Ted Cruz accused him of being leftist, while Marco Rubio said it\u2019s \u201cdisturbing\u201d that Trump continues to say Bush lied to invade Iraq.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 194.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.efnet.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8241&p=16030&sid=28e1f3409fcdd3e93a8081609b76dc12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OALRF76XQ6BICA5XVQB26LZHHAOP3UA5", "length": 575, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "forum.efnet.org", "title": "Major SSL Bug - EFnet IRC Network Forum", "raw_content": "This is not just for mIRC users, but for all who use SSL. Update your OpenSSL. mIRC supplies an easy-to-install update at http://download.mirc.com/8/openssl-1.0.1g-setup.exe. While if installed to the mIRC default folder, it will apply only to mIRC, but will apply all Windows programs if installed to C:\\Windows\\system32\nRe: Major SSL Bug\nPostby Handle With Care \u00bb Thu Jun 05, 2014 3:00 pm\nThey found another one: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt\nFix located at: http://download.mirc.com/8/openssl-1.0.1h-setup.exe\nSame installation instructions as previous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.nala.ru/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=968&start=135", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5HO7UI7KRU753MZ4COTNAATMT5TRAHXG", "length": 1576, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "forum.nala.ru", "title": "Movie quotes - Trivia! - \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430 10 - Pride Lands", "raw_content": "Hint please.\nRayden was his brother.\njust went thru the previous pages and was surprised at some of the ones you guys didnt kno, but this one has me stumped...\nwell since its been over a week and no ones guessed it, and TSG hasnt posted the answer or a new quote, does that mean that anyone can post a quote now?\nFirst page states the rules... though many are quick to forget that.\nYes... It's open for new quotes.\nRule No. 6 applies!\nactually i didnt forget that. i checked page one before i posted that last thing. but whatever, awesome! guess ill do the next one. go me.\n\"Where's the goat?\"\nits from one of my favorites. happy guessing, shouldnt be too hard tho, cuz i think most have seen this movie. o well...\nwell, i feel a bit rejected...-_- no ones posted since i started posting here...anyway, its been a week, so it was Jurassic Park. its open for anyone to post a new quote, now excuse me while i crawl into a corner and die.............................................................................................\nTime to kick this old machine back up running.\nLittle seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah.\nNow... What movie is the quote from and WHO said it!?\nHAHA figure that one out!\nThe Lion King and Zazu. Am I right?\nOops, so fast?\nYou are correct Furaha.\nI here by pass the hat on too you!\n(Mortal Kombat Annihilation)\nSorry guys! I didn't receive any E-mails form this topic. O_o\nYou have to promise to let me do this on my own.\nCould it be... TLK2 Simba's Pride and Kiara saying it?\nIt's your turn now.\nThat was a no-brainer...\n\"You smell funny.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 8892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?s=245433f18bf77d02ef23e185e55ee46d&showtopic=121424&st=20&start=20", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NEWBQCJJME6WCF7EA7SJZNN75CRVI4EM", "length": 9024, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "forums.pepipoo.com", "title": "Claim Form - MIL Collections - FightBack Forums", "raw_content": "could be DVLA\nWon't be. They are simply a Registrar. The access is controlled by their ATA (honest!). So it may be the PPC and the ATA that are in the frame.\nIf the ICO decides the ATA is at fault too, the SoS won't be pleased as he appointed them.\nThe Defendant denies any liability whatsoever to the Claimant for all of the following reasons, any one of which is fatal to the Claimant\u2019s case :\n1. The Claimant has not acquired the alleged debt as a valid Assignment from the Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) and has no legal capacity to bring the claim\nThe Claimant has purchased the alleged debt from a parking management Company, Car Park Management Service Ltd. Car Park Management Service Ltd obtained the Defendant's personal data from the DVLA under the Keeper at Date of Event (KADOE) agreement that strictly forbids passing on of the information to third parties. The Claimant is not an agent of, or in any way associated with Car Park Management Service Ltd. The consequence of this is that the Claimant is unlawfully using the Defendants details and is in breach of the Data Protection Act.\nIt is the defendants\u2019 belief that Car Park Management Service Ltd have sold the defendants personal data with no prior written permission from the DVLA and is therefore in breach of the KADOE contract clause D5.1. Under the provisions set by Ex turpi causa non oritur actio, the Claimant must be prevented from benefiting from this unlawful act.\nThe Claimant has provided no evidence that there was a valid assignment of debt, in the form of a Deed of Assignment signed by the original creditor, pursuant to s136 of the Law of Property Act 1925. Absent such evidence, the Claimant has no locus in this matter and falls within the ambit of Champerty and Maintenance.\n2. The Defendant has never owed any debt to the Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) to be assigned.\nEven if there was a valid Deed of Assignment, the Claimant has no interest in, or privity to, any purported original contract, and it is submitted that such an assignment would be champertous. The sole purpose is to enable the Claimant to instigate legal proceedings, which is a chose in action, and on that basis the Claim should be struck out by the Court, as was the case in MIL Collections v Stephen Bowker, Case No B1QZ7N32, Oldham CC 15/01/2016.\nThe Operator has failed to provide to the Defendant a copy of the assignment of the alleged debt to the Claimant. Furthermore, the partial assignment fails to meet the conditions required of a valid Legal Assignment in accordance with The Law of Property Act 1925 Section 136(1). As an Equitable Assignment the Claimant may not bring an action unless the Operator is included as a party.\nIt follows that without any true assignment the Claimant has no cause of action and these proceedings have no basis whatsoever and are wholly unreasonable and vexatious; the purported assignment being a false instrument.\n3. The Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) had no capacity to offer a contract with the motorist.\nWith regards to the Deed of Assignment, the Claimant has no interest in, or privity to, any purported original contract and it is submitted that such an assignment would be Champertous. The sole purpose is to enable the Claimant to instigate legal proceedings, which is a chose in action, and on that basis the Court is asked to consider striking the matter out, as was the case in MIL Collections Ltd -v- Stephen Bowker, Case No. B1QZ7N32 Oldham County Court 15/01/2016.\nThe Claimant is also put to proof that the Operator had sufficient interest in the land or that there are specific terms in its contract to bring an action on its own behalf as required in the British Parking Association\u2019s Legislation Guidance to Operators. Even if a debt had existed, it would be due to the Land owner not the operator, nor the Claimant.\n4. No consideration passed from either the Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) or the motorist.\nThe Operator had no standing to offer a contract; there was no meeting of minds nor any consideration passed. None of the elements that are fundamental to a contract were present and therefore no contract could possibly have existed. The Defendant was, at the most, granted a license to park. Whatever the conduct was that the Claimant alleges, a breach of a license would be trespass, not a breach of contract. It could only be pursued by the land-owner.\n5. The signage did not offer a contract with the motorist.\nThe Defendant has no idea what terms and conditions were stated on the signs but disputes the Claimant\u2019s statement that such an amount would have constituted an offer and submits that it in fact threatened punitive sanctions to discourage the undisclosed conduct. The Defendant has the reasonable belief that the Operator\u2019s intention was not to offer a genuine contract to park at that price and the main purpose was to deter the undisclosed conduct by attempting to enforce a penalty. The Defendant refers the court to 3YK50188: Civil Enforcement Ltd v McCafferty (Luton County Court appeal) that was decided by Mr Recorder Gibson QC in almost identical words (21 February 2014).\n6. The Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) did not identify the driver.\nThe defendant neither confirms nor denies being the registered driver of the alleged parking incident. It is therefore for the claimant to provide proof that this is the case and that keeper/driver liability has been proven in accordance with schedule 4 of the protection of freedom act 2012.\nAs a consequence of non-compliance with the POFA, a private parking charge can only be recovered from the driver. The Claimant is put to strict proof as to the identity of the driver who parked the vehicle on the material date and is reminded that it is trite law, that no lawful presumption can be made that a keeper was the driver. This was confirmed in the POPLA 2015 Annual Report, by Henry Greenslade, a parking law expert barrister and Lead Adjudicator (both of POPLA and previously, PATAS) who confirmed that there is no lawful presumption that a keeper was the driver and without the parking firm's full compliance with Schedule 4 of the statute, the keeper cannot be held liable.\n- This Claimant is put to strict proof that the notices issued and procedures followed fully complied with the requirements of the POFA and that they are entitled to\nrely upon the keeper liability provisions. I submit that the Claimant has no such right, has no interest in this matter and there is no 'debt' and no cause of action\nI believe the facts stated in this defense are true.\nEvery para must be numbered\nFor 1) why does this go on to talk about the deed of assignment? What relevance does it have to the point you were making?\nFor 2) You seem to confuse two issues - that it is a chose in action, and that it is a false instrument. I would separate these out.\nThe Defendant denies any liability whatsoever to the Claimant for all of the following reasons, any one of which is fatal to the Claimant\u2019s case:\n3. The Operator has failed to provide to the Defendant a copy of the assignment of the alleged debt to the Claimant.\nFurthermore, the partial assignment fails to meet the conditions required of a valid Legal Assignment in accordance with The Law of Property Act 1925 Section 136(1). As an Equitable Assignment the Claimant may not bring an action unless the Operator is included as a party.\nI believe the facts stated in this defence are true.\nHow does this look now?\nAlso I've been in contact with the DVLA, I need to fill out a V888 form to find out who accessed my details and when. Does this sound right?\nthere is an email address where you can request details of who asked for your details. Haven't got it to hand at the moment, a search should find it.\nEdit: Back on the other computer SubjectAccess.Requests@dvla.gsi.gov.uk\nThis post has been edited by ostell: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 - 21:18\nEven if there was a valid Deed of Assignment, t\nSHouldnt have had to say that this doesnt now make any sense, now 1 doesnt talk about a valid deed\nYou have to be very thorough once you make amendments. You cannot just delete and hope - for example the ;oint about the deed not being executed correctly didnt need deleting, it was just in the wrong place.\nApologies, I've amended it again. Hopefully this reads better.\nThanks Ostell for the email address, I've now requested the information through them.\n1. The Claimant has not acquired the alleged debt as a valid assignment from the Operator (Car Park Management Service Ltd) and has no legal capacity to bring the claim.\nIt is the defendants\u2019 belief that Car Park Management Service Ltd have sold the defendants personal data with no prior written permission from the DVLA and is therefore in breach of the KADOE contract clause D5.1. This is therefore an invalid assignment of alleged debt.\nUnder the provisions set by Ex turpi causa non oritur actio, the Claimant must be prevented from benefiting from this unlawful act.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 20682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freecreditreportspot.com/2019/01/27/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-credit-report-lehtos-law-ep-4-49/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ALXZWYARG6SHXYVRL2QNJQFJ2BIHBACK", "length": 218, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "freecreditreportspot.com", "title": "What You Need to Know About Your Credit Report \u2013 Lehto's Law Ep. 4.49 | freecreditreportspot.com", "raw_content": "What You Need to Know About Your Credit Report \u2013 Lehto\u2019s Law Ep. 4.49\nEverything you need to know about your credit report \u2013 with expert advice from Ian Lyngklip, an attorney who specializes in credit reporting issues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freetheanimal.com/2007/07/plastic-water-b.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:E6HUFWFY7DSNZU2XDWGKLQSNLS4FCKOX", "length": 1455, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "freetheanimal.com", "title": "Plastic Water Bottles and Felony Murder", "raw_content": "Lunch at the Googleplex\nPlastic Water Bottles and Felony Murder\nWell, it seems to me that if enough people could believe that their plastic water bottles are causing global warming, then there\u2019s easily enough to believe that Christopher Jones caused those two news helicopters to collide, crash, and kill four people. Not only that, but they\u2019ll even buy first degree, i.e., premeditation.\nApparently, prosecutors are going to try everything they can to charge and convict the man of murder. If you read that article, you\u2019ll see that there\u2019s a really good debate over the whole issue. No legal stone goes unturned, and it turns out that while nothing exactly like it has ever happened, there is appellate-affirmed precedent for convicting people of murder who didn\u2019t murder anyone, so that\u2019s good, right? But it\u2019s interesting, and it really highlights the value of brilliant legal minds. Hell, there was a time when people far less socially evolved than ourselves could never have made sense of charging, convicting, and electrocuting people for murdering other people when they haven\u2019t, in fact, murdered other people. Simpletons! They just didn\u2019t have enough brilliant legal minds and prosecutorial fervor. Thankfully, we\u2019ve evolved past the point of plain facts to where the meat is: nuance.\nKyle Bennett July 31, 2007 at 16:33\nHey, if you can convict a guy for possession of illegal drugs when the drugs were explicitly legal \u2013 even licensed \u2013 why not?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fsr.eui.eu/cybersecurity-in-the-energy-sector/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XZPJ26JWUMV3DW4HZSCBZM6MW7AWLSFE", "length": 2933, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "fsr.eui.eu", "title": "Cybersecurity in the energy sector - Florence School of Regulation", "raw_content": "Cybersecurity in the energy sector\nInsights from Annabelle Lee (EPRI)\nAnnabelle is a Principal Technical Executive in the Power Delivery and Utilization Sector of EPRI. She is the program manager for two DOE projects and is the lead for the Information Assurance project set at EPRI, focusing on security risk management, metrics, and architectures. She also has expertise in applied cryptography. Annabelle serves as a technical advisor to several DOE laboratory projects and to the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB). Annabelle participates as a technical expert on an advisory committee to the European Commission on cybersecurity for the energy sector. The Energy Expert Cyber Security Platform \u2014 Expert Group (EECSP-EG) consists of 14 technical experts.\nAnnabelle\u2019s experience comprises 40 years of technical experience in IT system design and implementation and over 25 years of cybersecurity specification development and testing. She began her career in private industry concentrating on IT systems specification, software testing and quality assurance.\nCybersecurity is now a crucial factor when discussing the future of the energy sector. Both energy and information & communication technologies are mutually essential and interdependent, and the importance of protecting and monitoring critical energy infrastructures is increasing. Florence School of Regulation firstly discussed cybersecurity\u2019s growing importance on 24 March 2017, at the FSR Policy Workshop: Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector\u2019. The discussion highlighted a lack of an adequate communication and educational training on data protection and privacy for end customers that also exposes households and businesses to significant risks that could otherwise be easily avoided and prevented.\nOne year later, the FSR will dig in deeper.\nOn Friday 4 May 2018, the School will host a new Policy Workshop, debating \u2018The Economics of Cybersecurity for the Energy Sector: Towards Energy Regulation 4.0\u2019.\nThe event will review the current state of thinking on the economics of cybersecurity for the energy sector; trying to identify how cybersecurity investments should be evaluated from an economic perspective and how their effectiveness measured.\nIt will also assess whether the current approach to the economic regulation of the energy sector is suitable for addressing cybersecurity and its costs, or whether a new regulatory paradigm is necessary to tackle the upcoming challenges. With this Workshop, the FSR intends to promote the development of a shared view on possible regulatory paths which can help the energy sector to enter smoothly in the Industry 4.0 age; and contributes to the implementation of the energy sector\u2019s Digital Agenda.\nWant more from #LightsonWomen?\nCheck out the Lights on Women blog\nDon\u2019t forget to use our hashtag #LightsonWomen to spread the word!\nSubscribe to our mailing list and let us know if you want to contribute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fullmovietext.com/top-quotes/3/star-wars-force-awakens", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BVAESNOP74WTFXP3EQIAARYJNPV3ARXZ", "length": 2053, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "fullmovietext.com", "title": "Full Transcript of Scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens", "raw_content": "Top Quotes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens\nThe following quotes have been voted by you, the visitors of our site, as the most liked quotes from the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.\nWhether that makes these lines the funniest Star Wars: The Force Awakens quotes, the most dramatic Star Wars: The Force Awakens quotes, or simply the overall most awesome Star Wars: The Force Awakens quotes, they've been guaranteed to be the best by you, the audience. Nice work!\nPlease click the scene name below any quote to view the entire transcript of that Star Wars: The Force Awakens scene, or the favorite button\nBest Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lines\nI'm being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain. I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Will you help me?\nFrom the scene Death of Han Solo\nFrom the scene Chewie, We're Home\nTake off that mask. You don't need it.\nFrom the scene Now It Calls to You\nThe face of my son.\nTraitor! That lightsaber. It belongs to me.\nNo, no, no. Keep it. It suits you. You're a good man, Finn.\nFrom the scene That's My Jacket\nFrom the scene The End of the Republic\nFrom the scene Show Me, Grandfather\nFrom the scene I Can Fix That\nIt's carrying a section of a navigational chart. And we have the rest. Recovered from the archives of the Empire but we need the last piece. And somehow you convinced the droid to show it to you. You. A scavenger. You know I can take whatever I want. You're so lonely. So afraid to leave. At night, desperate to sleep. You imagine an ocean. I see it. I see the island. And Han Solo. You feel like he's the father you never had. 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Young and beautiful, Maggie is used to being watched by men - but she's never encountered anyone like the mysterious Nick Harrison. Nick sets her up with Dr. Lucky, but he never says much to her directly. He just seems to be everywhere ... watching. When Dr. Lucky moves on to greener pastures, Maggie prepares to raise her child alone. She and the baby move to the country, away from the depredations of the big city scene. But wherever they go, Nick will watch her and generations of her daughter's daughters ... until he's ready to stop watching and take action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://globalcit.eu/team/kovi-dine-maa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TPK3Y5LOA5O2A2KMNQP2U22FC6Z5GEZL", "length": 705, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "globalcit.eu", "title": "Kovi\u010d Dine, Ma\u0161a - Globalcit", "raw_content": "Ma\u0161a Kovi\u010d Dine is a Ph.D. candidate and a teaching assistant in international public law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. Her doctoral dissertation analyses the status of forests under international law and the lack of international consensus for a binding international treaty. For the last two years Kovi\u010d Dine has worked as a researcher with the G8 Research Group analyzing G8 countries\u2019 compliance with their summit commitments. Kovi\u010d Dine\u2019s research interests span above international public and environmental law into the field of development, migration and the status and rights of environmental migrants. Kovi\u010d Dine is a member of the International Law Association, Slovene Branch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 177.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://globalengineeringnews.com/2018/11/14/miley-cyrus-is-devastated-after-losing-her-home-to/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CJFNB3SPMPM24HAIYI63UF3JG4T5A7GV", "length": 3305, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "globalengineeringnews.com", "title": "Miley Cyrus is \"Devastated\" After Losing Her Home to California Wildfires", "raw_content": "At least 31 people were killed by the fires after officials discovered additional remains on Sunday.\nAt least 29 people have been killed, making it the deadliest blaze in the state's history.\nNovember 8, in California a fire broke out which quickly spread due to strong winds and dry weather.\nIn addition, NASA's own Terra satellite captured an image of the Camp Fire's plume, in a wide shot including a view of the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California.\nThousands of firefighters entered a fifth day Monday digging battle lines to contain California's worst ever wildfire as the wind-whipped flames cleaved a merciless path through the state's northern hills, leaving death and devastation in their wake.\nPG&E said a transmission line in the area of the Camp blaze - about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco - went offline 15 minutes before the fire was first reported.\nMuch of the city of Paradise was completely destroyed by the blaze, which has consumed more than 111,000 acres.\nThey haven't disclosed the total number still missing, but earlier in the week that figure was more than 200. That's in part because victims might have undergone dental X-rays but not personal DNA profiles.\nState fire officials say about 57,000 structures remain at risk.\nIt had only been almost a year since the Thomas Fire was declared the largest wildfire recorded in California, but the fires burning in early November are already setting new records. \"It wouldn't surprise me\" if it turns out that winds caused equipment failure that sparked a fire, he said. The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has destroyed 85,000 acres.\nAt least two people have died in the Woolsey Fire, which is 32 kilometres (20 miles) long and 22 kilometres (14 miles) wide, threatening 57,000 structures, officials said.\n\"These are extreme conditions\", Osby said. After a wildfire tore through the area in 2008, Paradise put together a detailed plan, hoping to make emergency evacuations swift and orderly. At last check, some of the thousands of people forced from their homes by the blaze were allowed to return. \"This is the largest mobilization of Texas firefighting resources to another state to fight wildland fires\", said Mark Stanford, fire chief and associate director at Texas A&M Forest Service.\n\"It all came down to luck and a whole lot of buckets of water\", he told KTLA 5. He posted a photo of what his residence was like before the fire. \"Your house can be rebuilt but you can't bring your life back\". \"And that's what hurts, those kinds of things hurt because you can't replace that\".\nSouthern California Edison reported to the California Public Utilities Commission \"out of an abundance of caution\" that there was an outage on an electrical circuit near where the fire started Thursday.\nOsby said he did not \"want to politicize our efforts right now\" when a reporter asked him about a Saturday tweet from President Donald Trump asserting there was no reason for California's massive, deadly and costly fires except for \"gross mismanagement\" of forests.\nGeorgia schedules Clemson, Texas for home-and-home series\nFox News Sides With CNN on Jim Acosta-Trump Flap\nBrunel describes loss to Springboks as 'cruel' and 'avoidable'\nHouse Races, 1 Senate Race Remain Uncalled as California Democrats Surge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gmrp.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DFU2DCHZF45GIPUBKJYGYBNQBGD4SJFY", "length": 3704, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "gmrp.org", "title": "GMRP | Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership", "raw_content": "A Wisconsin Rotary project to bridge the gap in medical services for the people of Guatemala.\n\u201cI feel I was called by God to do this work,\u201d she said. \u201cI am honored to be a part of this group.\u201d\n\u201cPeople arrive at the hospital in the morning. The place is packed,\u201d he said. \u201cThey must stand in line, find out the cost they need to pay for a pre-operative test or procedure, come to the cashier to pay, stand in line for the next procedure, pay again and finally get an assigned appointment that week for surgery.\u201d\n\u201cWe started hitting her feet and massaging her chest,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe warmed more towels by the fire, wrapped them around the baby and waited. All of a sudden, we heard a loud gasp. The baby started to cry and breathe.\u201d\nJoin the Partnership! Donate\nGMRP \u2013 Service Above Self\nThe Guatemala Medical Relief Partnership began in 2003 with the vision of a Rotarian from Wisconsin to provide general/basic medical care to people who couldn\u2019t otherwise receive care.\nPositioned in Oliveros, Santa Rosa, Guatemala a team of around 40 individuals travel to offer a clinic with General Medical, Vision and Dental care.\nWatch this video to learn more about GMRP \u203a\u203a\u203a\nGuatemala Medical Resources Partnership is always seeking medical, dental and vision professionals who could offer their talents and services to the mission. Read More \u2026\nOur January mission is in Oliveros, Guatemala, where in 2015 we provided general medical, dental, vision and pharmaceutical services for people of the area. Read More \u2026\nWe invite you to be a partner in this mission that has helped so many people and has so many more awaiting needed medical services. Read More \u2026\nFollowing our blog posts are a great way to keep up-to-date with what is going on at GMRP. Read More \u2026\nA team of approximately 50 volunteers, many of them medical professionals and interpreters, participate in the mission. They spend about $1,000 of their own money for travel, room and board expenses for the week of the mission.\nGuatemala Medical Resources Partnership is always seeking medical, dental and vision professionals who could offer their talents and services to the mission. The mission is also in need of interpreters, bilingual nutri-tionists and other team members.\nVolunteers apply to participate in the mission in the fall.\nFor more information, email GMRP organizers.\nOur January mission is in Oliveros, Guatemala, where in 2018 we provided general medical, dental, vision and pharmaceutical services for people of the area. More than 900 patients traveled to the four-day clinic, some traveled on foot three hours to be seen. The 2019 mission is scheduled for mid-January and will require roughly $40,000.\nGuatemala Medical Resources Partnership (GMRP) is a volunteer effort driven by Rotarians and non-Rotarians to provide medical, dental, vision and pharmacy services to underserved people of rural Guatemala. In January 2019 we are entering our 15th year.\nGMRP is funded by multiple donors \u2013 Rotary Clubs within District 6270 as well as other generous organizations and individuals. Your contributions are always welcome.\nPercentage of your donation reaching the people of Guatemala\nYears GMRP has been working in Guatemala\nNumber of people treated during our last visit\nDollar goal for 2019\nWe invite you to be a partner in this mission that has helped so many people and has so many more awaiting needed medical services. Please consider joining the mission team. If you can\u2019t join us, consider a donation, perhaps in celebration of a special event, in honor of a special friend or in memory of a loved one.\nThe Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership is made possible through the support of Rotary Clubs and other donations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gobrits.com/sports/wtrack/2017-18/releases/20180511en4qxp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EZHM5WR3K4PGRAE7MOHGIBNATKWRGA3H", "length": 807, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "gobrits.com", "title": "Vince achieves school record in 5,000 meters - Albion College Athletics", "raw_content": "Vince achieves school record in 5,000 meters\nNAPERVILLE, Ill. \u2013 Cassie Vince broke Jessica Shaw's school record in the 5,000 meters as Albion College track & field athletes began competition in the Dr. Keeler Invitational at North Central College on Thursday.\nVince, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association's Most Valuable Female Track Performer, picked up where she left off last week. She finished ninth overall, completing her race in 17:11.72.\nIn men's events, Richard Annorat was one of five athletes to clear 2.01 meters (the equivalent of 6' 7\") in the high jump. He cleared 2.01 on his third attempt, however, to finish in sixth place.\nAndrew Strzelecki, the MIAA champion in the javelin throw, achieved an eighth place finish in the hammer throw with a distance of 48.37 meters (158' 8\").", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 3224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 153.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://godlovesprofit.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7ILZI4AIEWPMKE7K7GKTBTAIYXHCD7JY", "length": 708, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "godlovesprofit.com", "title": "About Us \u2013 God Loves Profit", "raw_content": "Joe E. Dardano, Teacher & Businessman. Joe started teaching from an early age. Starting from coaching sports as a teenager, he was led to many teaching challenges in university, college, prisons, half-way home, a rescue mission in Vancouver\u2019s skid row and a K-12 Christian School. Along the way, Joe bought real estate and then evolved into a private lender. He currently invests in Canada and the United States. During his last years of teaching school, he presented a Christian meme: God Loves Profit to his students and it became insanely popular. Now retired from teaching, Joe has taken this motivational and inspirational message online and his following is growing rapidly.\nHow Bad Credit Can Hurt You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://goodsamaritancenter.org/tag/volunteer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XQA7XGUJQNW5DFJNG67W3B2BM5O62BRK", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "goodsamaritancenter.org", "title": "volunteer \u2013 Good Sam Center", "raw_content": "Tags: \"volunteer\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gracebroomall.org/about-grace/pastor-leslie-m-richard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RRGGUWKGPQAEFCYYBQ6TUOOFK7OCIWXW", "length": 1332, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "gracebroomall.org", "title": "Pastor Leslie M. Richard \u2013 Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church \u2013 75 Years", "raw_content": "The Rev. Leslie M. Richard, MA was installed as Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Broomall on Sunday, October 5, 2014. Pastor Richard was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1989, and has served in a variety of settings. Pastor Richard is a trained Spiritual Director, and she currently serves as the Dean of Delaware Conference of Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod.\nPastor Richard earned her Bachelor of Arts in History at Gettysburg College in 1985, and her Master of Divinity at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in 1989. In 2008 she received her Master of Arts in Holistic Spirituality, and Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. In 2014 Pastor Richard also received a Certificate in Supervision of Spiritual Directors at Chestnut Hill College.\nIn addition to being Pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, Pastor Richard also has a private practice in Spiritual Direction, with a Synodical call to Spiritual Direction. Pastor Richard has two daughters and is married to The Rev. Karl M. Richard, Senior Pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Springfield, who is currently serving as Secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA.\nPhoto compliments of Rey Bergey of BergyPhoto \u2013 reybergey@earthlink.net \u2013 610-550-9366 www.PhotoBoothPhotographer.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gregorianchantnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/st-edmund-of-canterbury.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KEAQK3VQKHMJKYFGHDIMKIASFQM6ZJQZ", "length": 584, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gregorianchantnetwork.blogspot.com", "title": "Gregorian Chant Network: St Edmund of Canterbury in the 1962 Calendar", "raw_content": "Ben 7 February 2012 at 20:44\nInteresting to see the use of a Sarum formulary: I wonder when it was adopted. The compilers of the Scottish propers (first published 1913, I think) liked to use pre-Reformation sources, e.g. the Sarum Use (which was prevalent in Scotland) & collects from the Aberdeen Breviary of 1509.\nSorry this is so late...............today is the Translation of St Edmund 2018.The Scottish propers are interesting.The Proper Mass for St Columba (today,9th June) is very beautiful, with a rather unusual Collect, rather Un-Roman in style. i wonder where it came from.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 175.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://groundedparents.com/2014/04/30/guest-post-the-safety-dance-everybodys-takin-a-chance-and-thats-ok/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HF3RMJ62YZOG3K3LS4HTABRSP42T5EPL", "length": 5119, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "groundedparents.com", "title": "Guest Post: \"The Safety Dance: Everybody\u2019s Takin' A Chance (and That\u2019s OK)\" - Grounded Parents", "raw_content": "Editor\u2019s Note: Today\u2019s guest post is about safety and perceived risks, especially with regards to parenting. I can definitely relate!\nI live in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a city known for its football, Catholicism, and below-average crime rate. So when I say that last night, someone with a gun kicked down my neighbor\u2019s door, understand that it genuinely shakes my concept of how safe my family is in our home.\nIt\u2019s not that the thought hadn\u2019t come up before. I have a short metal pipe I keep in the closet in case I ever had to face an intruder, but were we really safe? What if I wasn\u2019t home when something happened? We keep our cellphones in the kitchen, and if someone burst in while we slept, we wouldn\u2019t be able to get to them. I own two guns, which are kept unloaded under lock and key. I have family who keep theirs for defense, so should I?\nFrom proper car seat installation to vaccinations, concerns about abduction to the lurking threat of sexual abuse, it\u2019s a judgment we are constantly being called upon to make as parents: \u201cIs this safe?\u201c\nEven before the baby is born, advice about the risk factors for SIDS will be one of the first things a new parent hears. Much of it is important advice, and imagining the devastation of losing that new baby puts parents in a place where most will follow it. We certainly did, to the letter. But there were so many times, exhausted, I wished we could put him in bed with us, that I wanted to look at the data behind the rule. It\u2019s plain as day, children who sleep in bed with parents have a higher likelihood of SIDS, even when other factors are ruled out. But that increase is from .08/1000 to .23/1000 when the parent does not use drugs, alcohol, or smoke. A large increase comparatively, but an exceedingly low actual number. (Please don\u2019t take this as an attempt to convince you to co-sleep with an infant. Like I said, we didn\u2019t.)\nBut, after experiencing how much I wanted to, and seeing how little risk we are actually talking about, is it an area you could cautiously, conscientiously break the rule? Maybe. My point is when the American Academy of Pediatrics looked at the question, there was nothing on the other side of the scale. They could only evaluate what was safer, not if that increase in safety was worth the loss of comfort and bonding time that co-sleeping might provide.\nMy son is two now. I love to cook, so of course he wants to help cook too. Usually that means just mixing things or helping make dough, but sometimes I\u2019m making something on the stove or in the oven and he wants to be close. This was stressful at first, with the stove and the knives. But he learned \u201chot\u201d as one of his first words and is great about not touching anything I say is hot. Sometimes I even let him use long grill tools so he can \u201chelp\u201d without being close.\nKnives are trickier, since it\u2019s hard to tell what is sharp. So, when we are cooking together we now use a chopping tool with a blunt edge that he can push through veggies. He gets to feel like he is helping and he learns a basic appreciation for the culinary arts, and we don\u2019t have to buy any fake plastic kitchens.\nWe know people are generally poor at assessing risks of low-likelihood and become especially risk-averse when there is a strong negative emotion associated with an outcome. My opinion is these two blind spots in our cognition are leading us to attempt to increase safety beyond a point of diminishing returns. I don\u2019t feel that too much attention is being given to safety\u2014I feel that no attention is being given to what safety requires you to give up.\nWe\u2019ve seen the same process repeated again and again: we invent a new, safer method of doing things, and then distribute and promote that method as a better alternative. Years later, when we look back at what was once commonplace, it is no longer an \u201cacceptable\u201d risk and, in many cases, we try to ban it. Why would you ever do it the unsafe way?\nIf we continue to bend only to safety, then the joy, amusement, and occasionally stupidity of life will be lost in red tape and nannying.\nSo how am I going to respond to the attack on my neighbors? I\u2019m not going to get out my guns\u2014the risk of accidental misuse is too great. I\u2019m not going to let myself stress or worry excessively about it, because it\u2019s too rare to be worth the mental energy. I don\u2019t spend my time thinking about the chances of getting hit by lightning either. I\u2019m going to repair a couple window locks that were overdue and move my cellphone charger to our bedroom.\nIt\u2019s a measured-appropriate response. It would feel better emotionally to take some action and be able to tell myself and my wife \u201cthat could never happen to us\u201d but I would either be inviting some other danger or fooling myself. So I\u2019ll just have to live with the risk of home invasion. And theft. And floods. And asteroids.\nErich Bacher is a father and IT professional. He owns copies of Transformers: The Movie (1986) on DVD and VHS, frequently misspells certain words, and blogs at Utilitarian Aesthetic.\ndanger, perceived risk, raising children to be safe, safety\nI Delight in Your Pigeonholing Failure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grubbstreet.blogspot.com/2005/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Z32NGTKY4TATKHU4IKFKWJTCGEXP3INL", "length": 26528, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "grubbstreet.blogspot.com", "title": "GRUBB STREET: 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005", "raw_content": "Pittsburgh Notes\nI spent the great bulk of my time in Pittsburgh with family (and hereby extend an apology to all friends who I did not call while I was in town), but I did have a couple things that struck me while I was there.\nFirst off was the green. I usually come to Pittsburgh in the fall for Thanksgiving, when all the trees have shed their leaves and the sky is low and cat-fur grey and if its not raining its snowing. But here, just on the doorway to summer, it is green and lush and almost humid from the vegetation. Pittsburgh is an older city now, and the trees planted in housing developments in the 50s and 60s have now grown up to hide the houses and wrap the hills in jade velvet. It helps that Pittsburgh is built on ridgelines and valleys, which creates more unbuildable land and gives all the trees their footholds.\nSecond was, in comparison to my writeup on the Southwest, we know there's a war on, at least with the little yellow ribbon stickers. They were omnipresent and varied, and had a wide speciation of colors and messages (including women's healh issues and autism (a jigsaw ribbon)). If someone wants to do a study of the spread of message within an enviromental niche, Pittsburgh is the place to do it.\nLastly, the housing bubble has hit Pittsburgh, and the tax appraisals and house prices are now moving into the same numbers we saw in Seattle seven years ago. As a result, more and more people are selling their places in the city (indeed, a lot of the homes are owned by older couples, who resent the upped taxes and see it as an ideal time to get out). New families are coming into these homes, with their elder trees and earlier construction.\nThat's it - my mind was a bit elsewhere for most of the time I was there, but there were little things.\n(Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties\nas confirmed by U.S. Central Command)\nAs of this time,\nI'm back. I have spent the past five days in Pittsburgh, which is my home town and home to my immediate family. My father underwent a double bypass operation on Thursday, and is currently recovering in the hospital. Though I'm back out in Seattle, my thoughts, and the thoughts of my Lovely Bride, are with him and the rest of my family.\nI'll go back to being snarky later in the week. Honest.\nLocal Politics (Not)\nI'm going to spotty in my posting for the rest of the week, which is a pity as the trial over the Governor's Race is just getting started. So far the state GOP case has been . . . less than impressive, but there's always the chance of the smoking gun, the mystery witness, the sudden appearance of an uncounted ballot box in Yakima, or the equally-sudden appearance of the ex-wife long thought dead but really living in Botswana. For those poor readers who are really getting political news off this blog, in their hour of darkness, I can only provide this link from the Seattle Times, which provides a blow-by-blow description of the proceedings (reminding us all that court cases are really, really boring, and that is one of their virtues), and has been doing a pretty good job at sorting the wheat from the chaff. Check it out.\nI Become Unemployed (What, Again?)\nFor the moment, I just want to think of it as being returned to Freelance Availability(TM).\nSo, for the past few months, work has been drying up at my regular gig - a web design company called True North Media. The big project I was working on was completed, another mid-sized project started and then stopped, and a lot of work suddenly went from \"We need it now\" to \"We're thinking if we really want to do this or not\". This is the nature of the beast in web design, with alternating cycles of feast and famine.\nIn this case, the famine was deeper than expected. On Thursday I was let go. I had been working half-days for a while, making up the rest with small freelance opportunities. With regrets from all involved, I was laid off.\nNow, I \"saw this coming\" in the same way as you sees your eventual demise coming - it's understood on some basic level but still a bit of a shock when the grim reaper appears at your bedside. We've been a small and nimble company and usually came up with something. This time we were just caught short.\nAnd it was a bit of shock because I had truly enjoyed working there in terms of challenges, environment, and personalities. The work (when it was there) was interesting and fun, and had the added value of allowing me to do things I had never done before, like organizing and producing a CD-ROM for a new toy line. The environment was ideal for me, in that even when the work slowed, I still had an office environment, and a management that was cool on freelance work (though I have done well as freelancer, I really like the personal interaction and structure of an organization). And the people were, quite frankly, a great gang, and it was fun working with them.\nSo, what now? Well Thursday night I cleaned up the office and Friday morning I wrapped up the hand-offs of my (few) current projects and backed up my files. Friday afternoon I called my folks with the bad news (always the hardest thing). and then went to see Sahara with Kate (a wonderful bad movie which I highly recommend). Friday night went for a walk around Green Lake and had dinner with Monkey King and Shelly. Saturday I pretty much crashed, and Sunday I started back in on some outstanding freelance work. And started telling people in the rest of the world that I was back on the market (after such a long time in the business, I keep my resume updated at all times).\nAnd on to Monday. Finished one project in the morning, mowed the lawn in the afternoon, and now I'm working on hitting a milestone on a second project tonight. I'm making the transfer back to the \"outside world\". I have a cup of tea on the desk (I tend to drink soda when I'm in the office) and have the local jazz station in the background (I tend to not have music in the office). I've got a couple leads and a strong desire to find a regular gig in the near future.\nWe'll see what happens next. Onward,\nBlogging Moratorium\nThere will be no new posts until Monday. Yes, there's a reason. No, I'm not saying (yet).\nMore later (like Monday)\nRiddle me this, Yahweh\nFrank Gorshin, Pittsburgh native, impressionist, and super villain, has passed on. He was my favorite type of creative - one who was always working.\nSo I walked into my bedroom and found the Government there, going through my sock drawer.\n\"What are you doing here?\" I asked.\nThe Government looked up and smiled. \"I'm glad I found you!\" it said. \"Here!\" It offered me a key.\n\"It's a car key,\" I said.\n\"It's YOUR car key,\" said the Government. \"In fact the key to BOTH your cars. And your house. And the shed out back. And your safety deposit box. And your file cabinets at work. One key that does everything! Look, it has your name on it! Isn't that great!\"\n\"One key.\" I said.\nThe Government smiled again and started in on my underwear drawer. \"Its a magic key that does everything! It will access your records from a hundred different databases, allow you to get to vital medical records, waxes, shines, slices, dices - why, it is the only key you'll ever need! Every lock you have will require only one key. Your key! Everything about you, in one key! One key to rule them all!\"\n\"And do YOU have a copy of this magical key?\" I asked.\nThe Government paused for a moment. \"Well, I would only use it if there was immediate danger, like if we were at war.\"\n\"Which we are,\" I said.\n\"Or if there was some other very good reason,\" it continued.\n\"And who determines what is a very good reason?\" I said.\n\"You really should fold your underwear neater,\" said the Government.\n\"So what happens if someone ELSE gets ahold of my magical key?\" I asked.\n\"Why would you want to let anyone else use it?\" asked the Government.\n\"Its quite likely that I would not be asked in the matter,\" I said. \"Things are stolen all the time. If I have all my access in one place, on one key, if someone else takes the key, they can get access to everything - home, business, car, medical records. Not horribly secure, is it?\"\nThe Government opened up another drawer. \"You don't have any sex toys, do you?\"\n\"Are sex toys dangerous?\" I asked.\n\"Not that I know of,\" it replied.\n\"Illegal?\"\n\"No,\" said the Government. \"Not yet, at least. Ah!\"\nIt spotted my coinpurse with my poker money and stuffed it into its pocket. \"That should cover your part of the costs. It takes a lot of money to make all these magical keys, you know.\"\nI handed the key back to the Government. \"No thank you. I think you magical key creates more problems than it solves, and leaves me less secure than my old bunch of keys. It is a bad idea, poorly thought out. Come back when you work the bugs out.\"\nThe Government looked at me, holding out the key, and let out a deep sigh.\n\"You might as well keep it,\" said the Government, edging towards the door. \"I've already changed all the locks.\"\n(The above is for Jason. I changed the last line the morning after writing this - it seemed to fit better. More later,)\nOne of the challenges of working with a living document like a web page or an online journal is that things change over time. In particular, links that were valid when you made the latest template become old and busted. And eventually you have to do an overhaul. So the tweaks to the list on the right are reflective of that.\nThere is no more Alliterate News Blog. We put it together as a patch while the main Alliterates site was under repair, but now that the Allits are back in business, it was redundant, and, worse yet, not being updated. There's nothing nastier than having a updatable site where the last entry is from a month or so back.\nMiranda, also known as Lady Gumdrop has started her own blog, and I am swapping her old site out for this. Similarly, my gracious poker hosts Phil and Kaja are both doing the online journal thing, and I'm putting their links in as well (if you're a Girl Genius fan, you get get to that site through theirs). Kaja, being mentally young and spry, has taken to the journal format and reports regularly. Phil, evoking the technological spirit that made the Amish famous, is less chatty.\nSo the other combat boot dropped the other day. One of the Lovely Bride's gaming group, Army reserve and a veteran of Gulf War I, is heading back to the Big Sandy. His unit, which has been on on-again-off-again status since the beginning of the shooting, is heading for Texas, and then out to Iraq. Insert joke of your choice comparing the two here.\nBut it reminded me that, in preparing to go to the American Southwest recently, I steeled myself for entering Red State America. I expected a lot of flags, a lot of ribbons, a lot of booh-yah jingoism at every turn.\nWhat surprised me was the lack of any of that. It was like I was in a country that was not at war.\nAt first I thought it was just because we had spent time in the National Parks, but on the road, in the cities, in the resorts, the very existence of the war was played down. I saw a few yellow ribbons on the cars, though I saw less in the entire time I was out there than I see in a daily commute. And while there were a few \u201csupport our troops\u201d signs along the side of the road, there were more billboards complaining about the UN and the Bureau of Land Managements. (And lest you think this is a slam on southwestern Patriotism, the yellow ribbons and flags I did see were in MUCH better condition than the faded stuff I get around here from our sunshine patriots).\nI think part of this is that this particular region is heavily militarized (McChord, Whidbey, Bremerton, Everett, Fort Lewis, and so on) and as a seaport is more aware of the dangers from abroad. It\u2019s a little more laid back in the wilds of America, where the war is the sound of distance thunder and a five-minute bit on the news. Even in Bryce, where we stayed at a resort with John Wayne\u2019s photo mounted over the buffet and the muzack consisting of whiny country guitars and whinier lyrics, the urgency of the war was notable by its absense.\nOne place where we were reminded of the War was at Hoover Dam. They\u2019re building a new by-pass downstream (though part of that may be to relieve the bottleneck across the two-lane top of the dam), and they have security checkpoints in both directions. When we pulled through (a very short stop \u2013 we don\u2019t look horribly threatening), they had a guy in combat camo out of his car and having a chat with him. While they have tarps and temporary offices up, I have sympathy for the troopers in the middle of desert checking cars. But that was it \u2013 our war? State troopers dealing with tourists and the Arizona heat.\nThe best view of Las Vegas, states a friend from St. George, is in the rearview mirror. I\u2019ll go further \u2013 going to Vegas is like licking a clean ashtray.\nYeah, l'll give you a moment to let the chill finish running down your spine. I have no real love of the town, but it\u2019s the best and cheapest gateway to the Colorado Plateau, and so we flew in and out of it.\nAnd Vegas surprised me \u2013 it offended sensibilities I didn\u2019t even know I had.\nMind you, we weren\u2019t planning on spending a lot of time in Vegas anyway. But it took 45 minutes to get to the highway, which was, like six blocks from the airport. So we had a lot of time to notice all the adverts for the various shows in town \u2013 there are 35 major shows currently playing in Vegas, and 33 are Cirque Du Soliel.\nSo throwing me into the worst traffic jam of my last decade would not put me in the mood to think well of the town (and we are talking about an 8-lane road that runs from the airport, crosses the Strip, and immediately hits the highway- 45 freaking minutes!). But on the way back, we came to town with about eight hours to kill. We could have spent it at the airport (which we knew had the incessant chatter of slot machines at the boarding gates) or go for a walk along the Strip.\nWe went for the walk. Really, really, really bad move. OK, you get the soul-deadening whirring white noise of the casino, the empty eyes of the gambler zombies, and the Innsmouth look of the tourists. You know all about that already. Heck, we\u2019ll even claim fault to the tourist look, traveling with the gawkers and the drunks and the hicks. But what really steamed us were the cardsnappers.\nThese are the hawkers that mob every corner, about a dozen of them, channeling the traffic. Each of them is snapping a deck of cards and handing them out. Snap, hand, snap, hand. The cards are for escort services, massage operations, and strippers. The cardsnappers look like crystal meth addicts, but not as healthy. And they are indiscriminate in their targets \u2013 men, women, couples, mothers with strollers. Snap, hand, snap, hand.\nI realized that these were the living equivalents of pop-up ads, but that realization did nothing for my mood. You start out being polite, but polite don't work. By the end of the third block the Lovely Bride was using her tightly-clenched purse as a weapon to keep them at bay.\nVegas supposedly has determined that there is no profit in family-oriented fare and has slipped back to its sin city version. That change is clear from the slime they put on the streets to assault the tourists.\nNow, judging Vegas from the heart of the Strip is like judging Pittsburgh from Liberty Avenue (which apparently just closed down its last adult theatre), and there are three nice things I can say about the city:\n1. They have a really nice Cactus Garden, well-stocked and informative. This is tied into an expensive chocolate shop, under the rumble of the airport runway, but its nice.\n2. A great In-And-Out Burger on Tropicana. And it\u2019s right by the highway, so you make your escape to civilization easily.\n3. A Monet exhibit at one of the casinos. Most Monet exhibits I\u2019ve been to have been mob scenes, where you have to put up at least a dozen people looking at the brushstrokes. Because this was Vegas, we had the display pretty much to ourselves. If you look at a Monet from twenty feet back, you see the incredible form and luminosity he brings to the work. Yeah, it\u2019s a diamond in the very rough.\nBut Vegas in general? It\u2019s like licking a clean ashtray.\nAnd sometimes its not that clean.\nBunyanism\nSo there we were, standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon. It was sleeting hard, so the Lovely Bride and I had most of the Southern Rim to ourselves. The far side of the canyon was an invisible blur of dark grey, and beneath our feet tendrils of fog swirled among the blood-red outcroppings.\nAnd, I, experiencing the geological equivalent of finding a fine pocket watch on the beach, a thing of beauty out of place with its surroundings, had to ask: How did this come about?\nThe immediate options were not promising:\n- An angry Old Testament god who went about smiting people did this. Why smite such a place in first place? Practice for more practical smitings later?\n- A forgiving New Testament god who went around pardoning people did this. Turning the other cheek, though, is not a process that produces stunning geology.\n- The slow process of erosion and uplift used the natural forces of nature to produce, almost at random, the scene before me. Possible, but both stylistically unfulfilling and boring to boot.\nAnd then it came to me, the tales from my youth \u2013 the Grand Canyon was created by Paul Bunyan dragging his axe across the Colorado Plateau. Yes, that seemed right. Only a gigantic physical figure could create such a vista. Don\u2019t give me any of those mysterious forces or unseen gods. A real being made this, and this was in turn physical proof of his existence.\nAnd suddenly I was enlightened. And I google checked and found that the mighty Bunyan, with his apostles Babe the Blue Ox and accountant Johnny Inkslinger, was responsible for much of the building of this country. Not the political building, but rather the physical arrangements. Primeval America was a void without feature. Paul dug the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, and the dirt he threw up became the Alleghenies and the Rockies. His wading ashore created the tides at the Bay of Fundy. He made Puget Sound and cleared the great forests of North Dakota. In an attempt to out-do the Great Wall of China, created the Mima Mounds.\nIt is so clear to me now that this is Paul Bunyan\u2019s world \u2013 and we only live in it. Doesn\u2019t the Bible itself support this view by saying \u201cThere were giants in those days\u201d? The only explanation for the world is a race of American Titans, who worked their wonders on the land in a prodigious, productive, and prolific manner, building this land through their sweat and oversized muscles. These are beings worthy of our worship, who up until now have been cast into the darkness as mere \u201cfolk tales\u201d.\nThere is an American Pantheon with Bunyan as its leader. We have John Irons and Pecos Bill and Joe Magarac. We have Stormalong, who is the Folk America version of Aquaman \u2013 lame, but necessary. We have a host of colossi that made America great, as any fool can see!\nSO I call upon my government to reject the false idols of both creationism and science, and instead embrace the only beings worthy of our fervent worship. With the creation of my American Titanic Church, we will carry our message further, infiltrating school boards and making outrageous demands of the Park Service. We will make ourselves a tax-exempt lobby under our gods, and use them as justification for all our actions in their name. We speak for the trees, in the voice of Paul Bunyan!\nAnd here\u2019s your chance to get in on the ground floor. Priesthoods are available at reasonable rates. Gimme a Hey Paul, here!\nMy latest story can be found here. It is called \"War's Wage\", and is a Magic: The Gathering story for a new expansion.\nI'm really enjoying doing these on-line stories, by the way. They usually involve very interesting characters, they move very, very fast from start to completion (usually about a month) and I'm not under any compulsion to leave the primary characters alive after I'm done with them.\nSo this has been bouncing around the various blogs and online reports this week - it turns out that the \"Number of the Beast\" is not 666, but is rather the more prosaic 616. So apparently the devil's area code includes Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. I always knew that Kellogg's Rooster was dangerous.\nBut the news made me think of the book of Revelations. This was always a favorite book of the bible, since it read like a comic book, or at least a major motion picture. Big plot beats! Explosions! Epic grandeur! More Explosions! Seals breaking! Monsters! Loose Women! Lakes of Fire! Big Finish! (Did I mention Explosions?) So, yeah, I was willing to think that this stuff could come true, and come true in my lifetime (hey, I was 13, and thought I was the center of the universe - what was your excuse?) Books like Late Great Planet Earth just fueled that thinking, much like the Left Behind series does today.\nOnly later did I pick up the whole idea that the Revelation of John was pretty much written to pummel the dominant political operation of the day - Rome. Its a very political work as opposed to a prophetic one. The seven horns of the beast were the seven hills and number of the beast was accepted code for Nero or Caligula or whoever was doing the persecuting in those days. And I think it got into the final draft of the Bible after the Second Council of Nicaea (787 AD) in part to keep that uppity Patriarch of Rome in line. Indeed a lot of latter-day maneuvering and interpretation of the Book of Revelations seems to come from the fact that it was aimed pretty squarely at Rome, which would be all well and good, except that the church then blossomed in Rome, and now they had to fend off the very imagery they incorporated. (\"No, we're not the beast you're thinking of - you want a later beast\").\nLate Great Planet Earth was instrumental in showing me that non-fiction does not necessarily equal true (Similar books on ancient astronauts and the lost continent of Mu helped drive the point home). When I first read Late Great. . . , I was waiting for the entire scripted apocalypse to unfold on cue. Despite millenial bugs and terrorists, we are still here. (The apocalypse has not been averted, we are now informed, as much as it has been delayed, being pushed back to 2009 or 2014, depending on the tightness of your tinfoil hat).\nBut this latest revelation (pun intended) is one of the joys of studying the Bible, and I mean really studying it - bringing to bear knowledge to enhance one's comprehension. Over the course of my own lifetime, the Bible has shown itself to be more historically accurate than it had been earlier assumed, and in uncovering the hows and whys and whos of its creation is to my mind a tempering and strengthening of the faiths based upon it, as opposed to an assault on those faiths. That is one joy of a secular outlook - the ability to say \"Well, I guess I was wrong\", and the go forward with new knowledge. New discoveries enhancing old thoughts. New wine in old bottles.\nOh, by the way, the Satanists have gone on record as saying they will still use \"666\" as long as it cheeses people off.\nSo I've spent the past few days catching up. When I was on vacation, I was well and truly vacating - no phone, no lights, no motorcar - OK, I needed the motorcar, but we only used the sound system to play Big Bad Voodoo Daddy while on Route 66 (\"The Midlife Crisis Road\"). I left the computer behind, I took only books I wanted to read, and the cell phone was out of range in 90% of the places we were at (\"Can you hear me now? What?\")\nSo I've been catching up, and I don't think I missed too much. The stock market continues to suck, which surprises me, since I fully expected it to have a elastic rebound just in time to make my entry on it look dirt-stupid. Gas prices are absolutely cranky, but I didn't need the media to tell me that. The war in Iraq has taken a definite hard patch. There was a fourth Presidential press conference in five years, which apparently no one really did well at, so it quickly passed into history without much comment. And all of this was ignored by the media is favor of a Runaway Bride ditching her wedding. Ah, priorities. Oh, yeah, the North Koreans launched another test missile, but we as a country were more interested in a kitten caught in a tree.\nBut there was one neat piece of news - the Ivory Billed Woodpecker is still alive and well and living in Arkansas. When I was a kid, I found a huge book of Audubon prints in the library, and was impressed by this creature more than any other, and was sad to know it was gone. Now I'm waiting for the return of the Carolina Parakeet.\nSo I've been on vacation for the past week. You may not have noticed it only because I wrote a buncha stuff in advance and passed it along to the Monkey King to keep up the tawdry facade of semi-daily communication (Thanks to the Monkey King for his aid). Actually, we've got enough back issue material nowadays that next time I go away, I'm thinking of running a \"Best of Grubb Street\" sequence (like this favorite quote from 1993 - \"When will the President let his hair down and indulge in the same hobbies and interests as the rest of the country?\")\nOh, yeah. The vacation.\nThe Lovely Bride and I headed for the American Southwest, landing in Vegas and circulating clockwise around the Grand Canyon. We visited friends in St. George, hit Zion and Bryce National parks, cruised on Lake Powell, and river-rafted down the Colorado to Lake Mead.\nWe also fought incredibly inclement weather throughout, We were snowed upon in Bryce, hailed upon in Zion, caught in a massive thunderstorm on Lake Powell, and caught sleet while hiking the rim of the Grand Canyon. However, it was beautiful floating down the Colorado (the Lovely Bride is proud of her head-on confrontation with white-water rapids, and can now say \"I've done it once\", when she refuses similar offers in the future). In any event, as a result of all the rain (this and earlier storms), the desert was in bloom to a degree I had never seen before - cholla, prickly pear, ocotillo, jimson weed, and all manner of wild flowers. It was amazing, though in talking about the local weather, the punchline \"We're from Seattle\" quickly became old.\nI'll probably have more later on the trip, but for the moment, this is just to tell folk that we survived and have stories to tell (including hanging from chains over a 900-foot drop in Zion.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 527, "original_length": 37853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://guesswhothisis.com/?refer=Billy+Vessels", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RLLKKCBUY5HAWOFZOIXDFCDQFFZCN72K", "length": 175, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "guesswhothisis.com", "title": "Guess Who This Is! - Refer: Billy Vessels", "raw_content": "Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA\nHeisman Trophy 1952, team University of Oklahoma, as halfback. Team Baltimore Colts. 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He cuts the shape out of wood with a band saw. Then he refines the 3D form with wood carving tools.\nThe video itself is remarkable for the way it eschews voiceover and music, letting the visuals explain the process instead.\nStunning. I was somehow relieved to see that the 8 minutes of film represented 8 weeks of work. It's such a painstaking process, no room for error. I was struck by how this method allows for no \"working back and forth\" the way much painting does - which is one thing that I enjoy and find so rewarding about painting. He simply cannot remove more than is necessary. (At least I saw no way for him to correct such an error.)\nThat was amazing to watch. I was so hoping he'd stain the wood, to bring out the grain of the wood... but it looked very realistic painted.\nI wonder how many people out there, watching this video on their computers or phones, will ask, \"Why doesn't this guy just make a 3D laser scanner a 3D printer to generate this sculpture? It would be faster and more accurate.\"\nTo be clear, I don't ask that question.\nJim, I took your rhetorical question in the way I believe it was intended. I think it goes to the heart of why we choose the methods we do. Do we want the most efficient path to the end result, or one where we work with our hands and struggle with the limitations of the materials? I think Marc Taro Holmes brought out this issue in the earlier post about Painting in an Age of Apps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 9114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://haida.com.sg/product-research.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXYVZUXMUFM6BB7PCKJ7RYGOUTLNE75B", "length": 1333, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "haida.com.sg", "title": "\ufeff HaiDai Research and Development", "raw_content": "We are constantly engaged in the design and development of new and innovative aluminium panels as well as improving our existing range of aluminium panels with a view to enhancing our competitiveness and providing better products to our customers.\nTo ensure market acceptance of our products, we interact regularly with our customers to understand the market trends and their specific product requirements. With this knowledge, we will then be able to better enhance existing products and develop new and innovative products that are acceptable to the industry.\nOver these years, we have been able to progressively introduce aluminium panels of different colors and surface finishes to cater to customers' needs. The results of our efforts can be found under Aluminium Single Panels Product Description.\nOur R&D objective is to identify the latest and most technologically advanced production techniques ranging from co-extrusion, composition and fabrication to coating and finishing. We are constantly taking active steps to improve our existing production process to be more efficient and cost effective as well as develop new production processes to support the development of new and innovative products.\nIn addition, we work with relevant research institutes such as Xi'an Communication University and Shanghai Fudan University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hanoitimes.vn/social-affair/2018/07/81E0C9B5/vietnam-labor-federation-proposes-minimum-wage-growth-at-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SBQXUZSFVMDDB6XFZNFUEIQQDSL5LSIM", "length": 3601, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "hanoitimes.vn", "title": "Vietnam Labor Federation proposes minimum wage growth at 8% - Social affair - Hanoi Times", "raw_content": "Vietnam Labor Federation proposes minimum wage growth at 8%\nThe Hanoitimes - A proposal to increase the regional minimum wage by 8% in Vietnam for next year is facing objection as it will burden more enterprises.\nThe Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL), which represents employees across the country, has proposed an increase of 8% in the regional minimum salary for 2019, local media reported.\nThe proposal was made at the national wage council on July 9 which normally gathers yearly to discuss the regional minimum wage changes to be applied for the coming year. The new wage would benefit about ten million people who are working with labor contracts in non-state enterprises.\nAt the meeting. Photo: Mai \u0110an\nHowever, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), which represents businesses, was against the increase, asking for the wage to remain unchanged in 2019.\nAccording to VCCI Vice Chairman Hoang Quang Phong, most domestic and foreign employers told the chamber that next year is not the right time to adjust the minimum wage as they want to increase their financial capacity or spend funds on training and improving employees\u2019 skills to better meet job requirements and increase productivity.\n\u201cThe minimum wage should be increased then, in the further future,\u201d Phong said.\nMeanwhile, VGCL Vice President Mai Duc Chinh said the 8% increase proposed by his agency is suitable as Vietnam\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first half of this year grew more than 7 percent over the same period last year.\n\u201cThe economic growth is notable and laborers deserve benefiting from the economic development,\u201d he said.\nHe also said that government already decided the seven-percent increase for employees working in state organizations and enterprises this month, despite its tightened budget.\nA recent survey by the VGCL showed that the monthly minimum wage could cover about 92 percent of minimum living conditions for employees while Vietnam targeted that by 2020, the minimum wage could ensure their minimum living conditions.\nCurrently, the minimum wage is applied for four different regions in Vietnam as follows: Region I: VND3.98 million (US$189); Region II: VND3.53 million (US$168); Region III: VND3.09 million (US$147) and Region IV: VND2.76 million (US$131). The highest rate covers urban parts of Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai and Ba Ria - Vung Tau.\nThe 2018 regional minimum wage is 6.5% higher than that of 2017, equal to an increase of VND180,000-230,000 (US$8-10) a month.\nSpeaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs cum Chairman of the council Doan Mau Diep said that according to Resolution 27-NQ/TW on salary reform that the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee issued in May 2018, the state would gradually not intervene in the wage policy of enterprises but promote negotiations between employers and employees.\nHe said that from now until 2020, regional minimum wage must be adjusted to ensure minimum living conditions for employees, especially those who are paid the least.\n\u201cWhen negotiating minimum wage changes, factors such as GDP, labor productivity, salary on labor market and employers\u2019 budget must be taken into account,\u201d he said.\nCommenting on the regional minimum salary increase in 2018, Diep said it would be lower than that of 2017. However, for the two parties to negotiate and find a common voice, it is necessary to conduct two or three sessions. It is expected that the second meeting will take place in two weeks.\nVietnam: Nine laws come into force since July 1, 2018 (30 Jun 2018)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hauntedearthghostvideos.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-haunting-at-potsford-gibbet-tale-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2LIGIWOOBGMFPSB66SSGRS436XZF2P52", "length": 2226, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "hauntedearthghostvideos.blogspot.com", "title": "THE HAUNTING AT POTSFORD GIBBET - A TALE OF MURDER, EXECUTION & AN ACTIVE GHOSTLY PRESENCE | Haunted Earth`s Ghost World", "raw_content": "THE HAUNTING AT POTSFORD GIBBET - A TALE OF MURDER, EXECUTION & AN ACTIVE GHOSTLY PRESENCE\nIn the year 1698, a double axe murder took place at Letheringham water mill in the county of Suffolk, England. The victims John Bullard senior and junior, were left hog tied to a beam in the mill after being butchered by an axe.\nChris Halton standing at the gibbet\nThe killer, a disconsolate temporary worker named as Jonah Snell was later found wandering and still in possession of the blood stained murder weapon.\nHe was detained and appeared at West Wickham Sessions Court the following year where he was judged guilty of both murders.No submissions were recorded by Snell which may have given an account as to why he chose to commit this terrible crime.\nHis punishment was to be hung by the neck, and for his body to be incarcerated in a gibbet at nearby Potsford, which was then a busy road, but now standing on the edge of a wood along a country footpath. His remains were left in chains until the year 1740 whereby they were taken down and finally buried nearby.\nToday the remains of the gibbet post are preserved for posterity, and the site has gained a notorious reputation for haunting`s - both day and night.\nThe earliest sighting of Jonah Snell`s ghost occurred just prior to his remains being removed, and since then many people have experienced the presence of a paranormal entity over the centuries.\nThis may be a physical manifestation or by an unknown presence grabbing or touching people when they least expect it.\nThe site has been investigated many times with investigators experiencing some of the events recorded there.\nIn this show, the legend of Snell is examined in detail, and is followed by a night investigation at the gibbet.\nThe show will be linked from this page at 10pm (GMT), Friday February 5th 2016 where it can be viewed.\nBelow is a trailer for the show:\nAnd here is where you can view the full show from 10pm (GMT) Friday, February 5th 2016.\nPosted by Chris Halton\nLabels: chris halton, double murder. 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While he continues his relentless pursuit of the image, he is also the creative director for various beneficial organizations, including the United Nations University\u2019s excellent magazine Our World 2.0. Our World 2.0 seeks \u201csolutions to the global challenges of climate change, food security, biodiversity loss and peak oil\u2026The Our World 2.0 web magazine shares the ideas and actions of citizens around the world who are transforming our lives for the better.\u201d If there were to be a day that it be recognized rather as truly our world, may it be today, and every day hereafter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://highlightsindia.com/tag/ayaan-khan/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2EROM6F6XZRXLJ7FJGGFOSAFPJ2TLEG", "length": 286, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "highlightsindia.com", "title": "Ayaan Khan Archives - Highlights India", "raw_content": "Ayaan Khan: Biography, Personal Details, Career and Net worth\nby babita shresthaJanuary 11, 20181 comment\nAyaan Khan is an Indian classical musician. 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Read bio at db | Read bio at Wikipedia\nMovie\t Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi 1983-05-25\nMovie\t Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Ben 1980-06-20\nMovie\t Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi 1977-05-25", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hub.salesways.com/my-detractor/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HVUARUUR5G3NPWIY2FBPR7PW2OUT7SQX", "length": 2149, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hub.salesways.com", "title": "My Detractor - Sales Automation Done Right - SalesWays HUB", "raw_content": "Me: This is sounding good.\nTab: The first half of the book was so basic that the information provided should have been assumed knowledge.\nMe: Oh, man, I hadn\u2019t realized that the majority of salespeople might have thought about this stuff, let alone know it.\nTab: Or the title of the book should have been everything you wanted to know about sales automation but were afraid to ask.\nMe: . . . . .hmmmm. 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So not only have you been given the gift of a year but a year with a bonus day. Like a neighborhood swimming pool with a water slide. Extra fun. If you had a retirement account that was doubling in value every day the extra day could prove invaluable. It also happens to be an election year for the presidency of the United States of America as well as other key government offices certain to bring change to the global financial and political landscapes for years to come.\nWe will finally learn the reality of what happens on the prophetic days and beyond of the Mayan calendar\u2019s sudden end.\nWhatever hardships have been experienced in 2011 will hopefully be healed, forgotten, or laughed about in 2012.\nWhatever successes enjoyed in 2011 will hopefully be shared and improved upon in 2012.\nAnd if you\u2019re looking for something to remain constant and steady and comfortable and fun in the coming year with the intention of sharing joy with your mind, body, and soul then found what you seek have you. Mmmmm. For here is your year! Your neighborhood swimming pool. We\u2019re all in it together. Please don\u2019t pee in it. HAPPY JOY YEAR!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ijsrcseit.com/CSEIT183618", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:41Z", "digest": "sha1:32FS2NDKP4IMZCODQ6WOZDCW75WVND6C", "length": 10900, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "ijsrcseit.com", "title": "IJSRCSEIT- Publication Details", "raw_content": "A Need to Modify the Method of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Risk Management\nAuthors(2) :-Nina Fadilah Najwa, Apol Pribadi Subriadi\nThe proper using of FMEA method is proven to reduce the cycle of warranty costs and will certainly cost less to prevent than to fix the problems that have already occurred. FMEA also was suitable for assessing risk in information technology or systems aspect. Several studies criticized the FMEA limitation or weakness of using this method. The purpose of this paper is to provide a resume and critical analysis of previous research that discussed the development and limitation of FMEA. A systematic literature review methodology was conducted in order to review FMEA. As a result, 32 papers were obtained in the selection stage according to the criteria used and review based on quality content. Data collection and identification stage was carried out by the selected papers for further analysis and synthesis. The limitation FMEA was due to the subjectivity and caused inconsistent results. This paper provided the critical analysis about the point of weakness FMEA based on document FMEA, and also limitation FMEA based on risk management process. There were eight research questions that could be considered from the results. By conducting a literature review of the development and trending of FMEA research, it provided new research opportunities to proved the FMEA issues reviewed in this paper.\nNina Fadilah Najwa\nApol Pribadi Subriadi\nFMEA, Subjectivity, Inconsistent, Risk Management, Critical Analysis.\nSidorova, Evangelopoulos, Valacich, and Ramakrishnan, \u201cUncovering the Intellectual Core of the Information Systems Discipline,\u201d MIS Q., vol. 32, no. 3, p. 467, 2008.\nX. Zhao and X. Bai, \u201cThe application of FMEA method in the risk management of medical device during the lifecycle,\u201d 2010 2nd Int. Conf. E-bus. Inf. Syst. Secur. EBISS2010, pp. 455\u2013458, 2010.\nM. Kakvan, M. A. Mohyeddin, and H. Gharaee, \u201cRisk evaluation of IT service providers using FMEA model in combination with Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Models and ITIL framework,\u201d 2014 7th Int. Symp. Telecommun. IST 2014, pp. 873\u2013878, 2014.\nJ. 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Tak\u00e1cs, and M. Kozlovszky, \u201cMedical device software risk assessment using FMEA and fuzzy linguistic approach?: case study,\u201d Int. Sysmposium Appl. Comput. Intell. Informatics, 12-14 May 2016. Rimisoara, Rom., pp. 197\u2013202, 2016.\nA. Shahin, \u201cIntegration of FMEA and the Kano model,\u201d Int. J. Qual. Reliab. Manag., vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 731\u2013746, 2004.\nC. Paciarotti, G. Mazzuto, and D. D\u2019Ettorre, \u201cA revised FMEA application to the quality control management,\u201d Int. J. Qual. Reliab. Manag., vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 788\u2013810, 2014.\nH. Liu, L. Liu, and N. Liu, \u201cExpert Systems with Applications Risk evaluation approaches in failure mode and effects analysis?: A literature review,\u201d Expert Syst. Appl., vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 828\u2013838, 2013.\nA. P. Subriadi, Sholiq, and P. A. Ningrum, \u201cCritical review of the effort rate value in use case point method for estimating software development effort,\u201d J. Theroretical Appl. Inf. 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Technol., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1832\u20131844, 2018.\nNina Fadilah Najwa, Apol Pribadi Subriadi, \"A Need to Modify the Method of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Risk Management \", International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 6, pp.143-158, July-August-2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 13684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://illini4000.org/riders/kmammoser/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KO7PMTKJ3EOXCJQUBOI4PMU4URK6FTZX", "length": 2128, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "illini4000.org", "title": "Kathleen Mammoser \u00ab Illini 4000", "raw_content": "Kathleen Mammoser\nHometown Algonquin, IL\nMy name is Kathleen Mammoser and I am a senior studying English with a minor in cinema studies. I am from Algonquin, Illinois where I have lived in the same house since I was born. I have an older sister and an older brother who both graduated from U of I, and a mom and dad who have 12 siblings between the two of them, leaving me with too many cousins to count. I love the summers when I get to enjoy the outdoors and spend time with my family on vacation. I have always loved being outside, whether I\u2019m hiking some mountains in Colorado or playing badminton in the front yard with my dad. When I\u2019m not outside I can usually be found behind a book. I have been known to spend hours in my room reading, but I also love watching sports. I started playing soccer when I was six and basketball in second grade, and I continued to play throughout high school and I loved being part of a team. I hope to travel in the future, but for now I\u2019m excited to be a part of Illini 4000! Illini 4000 will be an amazing adventure for me, and while I know there may be struggles, I cannot wait for the rewards! It will be a great experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.\nThe fight against will always be necessary and it will never be easy. With a strong sense of community, though, the pain can be eased. So many people have been affected by cancer, but all their stories are not the same. I have watched my mother deal with the death of too many people that she was close to from cancer. I am always astounded by how she handled these situations. She never hesitated to be right by their side, even when it was really tough. Watching her compassion towards others has made me want to follow her lead and make a difference. If I can play a role in raising funds, spreading awareness, or supporting someone dealing with cancer in any way, I want to do it. No matter if it is a hundred people or a handful of people, if I can make an impact it will be worth the journey. Illini 4000 is a great opportunity and I looked forward to making a difference and learning during the journey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indianasportsjournal.com/2012/03/30/prime-time-stripes-dumoulin-calls-4a-title-bout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WMTESY46LLKEMGHRJAYTYRKXZRFOFHC7", "length": 3780, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "indianasportsjournal.com", "title": "Pat Dumoulin calls state finals | Sports Journal", "raw_content": "\u2190 FOUR CROWNED IHSAA HOOPS CHAMPIONS\nFUTURE KNIGHT: BLAKE THOMAS SIGNS WITH MARIAN UNIVERSITY \u2192\nPRIME TIME STRIPES: KOKOMO\u2019S PAT DUMOULIN CALLS 4A TITLE BOUT\nKokomo's Pat Dumoulin watches as Carmel guard Sam Curts fires a pass during the IHSAA Class 4A boys basketball state finals. (Photo by William Gibson)\nINDIANAPOLIS \u2013 Professionals strive to be the best in their respective fields. Some attain that goal, while others don\u2019t. Pat Dumoulin is one who did. For the first time in his 31 year career as a licensed IHSAA basketball official, the Kokomo native was selected to officiate a boys state championship game. And not just any game, the IHSAA asked him to work the biggest game of all \u2013 the Class 4A state finals.\n\u201cIt is definitely a highlight of my career,\u201d Dumoulin said. \u201cIt was really good to work the 4A game as it is the highlight game of the day.\u201d\nDumoulin is actually no stranger to the basketball state finals \u2013 this is the second consecutive year he has called a hoops title game, but his specialty may be considered the girls game. He is a three-time state girls championship game official, having been selected for Class 4A in 2005 and Class 2A in 2002 and 2011. But it is the boys game that has the biggest draw, and he had the opportunity to work with two elite programs as Carmel and Pike squared off at Banker\u2019s Life Fieldhouse, with the Greyhounds winning its first state title since 1977 by downing the Red Devils 80-67.\n\u201cI just really tried to soak it all in,\u201d said Dumoulin, who was required to be at the Fieldhouse the entire day, so he had the chance to watch the first three finals. \u201cYou just try and enjoy everything \u2013 enjoy the day. If you try and focus on your game at 10:30 (a.m.), you will be burnt out by the time your game starts.\u201d\nAn ironic thrill for Dumoulin was the opportunity to call the title bout in front of his former high school basketball coach. Carl McNulty, a member of the Howard County Sports Hall of Fame and former hoops mentor at Kokomo High School, traveled to Indy from his retirement home in Florida. But Dumoulin was quick to point out McNulty was not in town to cheer on one of his former pupils. As it turns out, his grandson, Karl Schneider, is a senior starter for the state champion Greyhounds.\n\u201cIt was a neat thing that Carl was there,\u201d said Dumoulin. \u201cI went up and talked to him before and after the game, and I hadn\u2019t talked to him in a long time. That was really neat having my high school coach get to see me work the boys finals.\u201d\nOne thing Dumoulin does not worry about is the constant barrage of insults that are directed his way when he puts the whistle to his mouth.\n\u201cReally, I just block them out.\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the bigger the crowd the less you hear. With a big crowd, it just comes out more or less like a big roar \u2013 you can\u2019t really tell what they are saying so it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d\nAs with any occupation, hard work and patience paid off for Dumoulin. He said he works between 35 and 40 combined boys and girls games per year, and he donned the black and white stripes for the first time in 1981. But he says getting the boys state finals was not necessarily on his radar.\n\u201cMy goals were girls state finals and boys semi-state,\u201d he said, noting that he has worked the boys semi-state the last two seasons. \u201cBut I really didn\u2019t think I would get to the boys finals after working three girls finals.\u201d\nThe seasoned official said he has not decided on his officiating future. With 31 years and more than 1,000 games under his belt, he knows his days on the court are numbered. But regardless of what is next in his black and white stripes future, one thing is for sure \u2013 with four state championship games to his name, he is one of the best to ever blow the whistle, and he has represented Kokomo well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 9016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/04/google-promises-well-feel-better-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:R6QCFAWY7STQLUBBO7FNITVPURNPXZMF", "length": 4467, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "inkfish.fieldofscience.com", "title": "Inkfish: Google Promises We'll Feel Better in the Summer", "raw_content": "Shakespeare wasn't kidding about the \"winter of our discontent.\" In the colder and darker months, people do more internet searches for mental health terms, from anxiety and ADHD all the way to suicide. Search patterns also promise that like a refreshed browser window, better times are due to arrive soon.\nJohn Ayers, of the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health in San Diego, and other researchers dove into Google Trends to explore whether certain searches vary by season. \"Seasonal affective disorder is one of the most studied phenomena in mental health,\" Ayers says, \"with many individuals suffering mood changes from summer to winter due to changes in solar intensity.\" He wanted to find out whether any other mental health complaints changed with the seasons, as some studies had hinted.\nSince Google Trends breaks down searches by category, the researchers started in the \"mental health\" section. Looking at all mental health searches in the United States between 2006 and 2011, they saw a consistent cycle with peaks in the winter and troughs in the summer. (If you do this search yourself, you'll see that there's also a dip around the December holidays\u2014but the curve reliably bottoms out in July of each year.)\nThe team did some statistical smoothing and found that mental health searches overall were about 14% higher in the winter than in the summer. To confirm that the difference was due to the season, they ran the same analysis on data from Australia. Searches cycled in the same way\u2014about 11% higher in winter than summer\u2014but the peaks in the southern-hemisphere country were almost exactly 6 months out of sync with the United States.\nWhen the scientists broke down searches by specific symptoms or illnesses, the seasonal cycle remained\u2014and in some cases got much stronger. \"We were very surprised\" to see this, Ayers says. Searches including the terms ADHD, anxiety, bipolar, depression, anorexia or bulimia, OCD, schizophrenia, and suicide all rose in the winter and fell in the summer.\nOne of the most dramatically cycling search terms was schizophrenia, at 37% higher in the winter. Eating disorder terms varied just as strongly. (The smallest seasonal difference was for anxiety, which was just 7% higher in the winter in the United States, and 15% in Australia.)\nSome of this seasonality might be due to the schedule of the school year, Ayers points out. Referrals for kids with ADHD and eating disorders may come from their schools.\nOther explanations involve winter itself. The effect of shorter days on our circadian rhythms and hormone levels might be a factor, the authors write, as in seasonal affective disorder. They speculate that a lack of vitamin D (which we make using sunlight) in the winter might contribute. Even omega 3 fatty acids might matter: we consume less of them in winter, and omega 3 deficiency has been linked to some mental illnesses.\nThere's also the question of what we're doing all season. People hunkered indoors during the colder months may have fewer chances for socializing, which is \"a well-known health emollient,\" the authors write. The same goes for physical activity.\n\"There is a lot more we need to learn about mental health and seasonality,\" Ayers says. \"For instance, is there a universal mechanism that impacts our mental health?\"\nOf course, sometimes our malaise isn't about the season.\nWhatever portion of mental health is predictable, though, doctors would love to know about it and use that information to help.\nThis study doesn't reveal much about low-income or elderly populations who aren't online. And knowing what people are searching for isn't exactly the same as knowing what symptoms they're experiencing. \"We are actively working to address these limitations,\" Ayers says. Working with Google.org, the charitable branch of Google, he hopes to develop systems similar to Google Flu Trends that can track a population's mental health.\n\"Intuition suggests that these results are reflective of an important link between the seasons and mental health,\" Ayers says. For now, we have the reassurance of computer algorithms that skies will be clearer soon.\nAyers, J., Althouse, B., Allem, J., Rosenquist, J., & Ford, D. (2013). Seasonality in Seeking Mental Health Information on Google American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 44 (5), 520-525 DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.01.012\nImage: Skaneateles, NY, by me.\nLabels: brains, climate, earth, language, mental health, nutrition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 11033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inlandivers.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNUOFFY56S2EUOIE5MCRX5JXDLA5B5VC", "length": 2417, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "inlandivers.com", "title": "Inland Ivers - Top Advices", "raw_content": "When you have trees on your backyard that needs to get cut, you must call on professionals. There are some people who would rather do this on their own. Tree contractors would charge you a reasonable amount for the service. Don\u2019t regret paying for the service and opt to DIY just so you can save a little extra. Truth is, you can end up spending more when you don\u2019t hire licensed contractors for tree removal.\nWhile we are told even as children that trees need to be saved and should not be cut down, there are still some scenarios that call for tree removal. Among them are the following:\nWe are responsible as humans to take care of the environment. One of the best ways to show our care is by preserving trees. As much as possible, we try to avoid cutting them down. However, there are times when tree removal is necessary. For instance, you can\u2019t simply leave a decaying or dead tree on your yard. In the event that you need to remove a tree from your property, make sure you seek the assistance of a tree contractor.\nTree companies are knowledgeable and equipped with all tree maintenance and care services. These services include tree removal. It\u2019s not simply cutting down a tree on its trunk. You have to be sure that the right set of equipment are used safety precautions are put into practice. In most cases, law requires licensed contractors to work on more complicated and risky tree jobs like tree removal.\nThese stumps block the way when you clean around your property or as you mow your lawn, they may cause accidents and may even be infested by pests. If you haven\u2019t handled anything like this in the past, then you must know more about stump removal first. Continue reading\nHowever, budget constraints should not stop you from having a beautiful garden. If you have a landscaped home exterior, then from the beginning, you must have known that it requires work. It\u2019s not just about watering the plants or cleaning leaves shed off by trees in your property, it\u2019s also about keeping things in order and plants in perfect shape. Continue reading\nA fertilizer is a natural or synthetic/chemical-based substance that ensures the fertility of the soil. 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Measures are directed at strict control of eligibility rights with regards to social assistance, information campaigns for workers as well as measures to combat abuse of workers by employers and temp. agencies. Also, quality of housing of temporary migrant workers is addressed.\nSince 2011 a number of policies have been implemented.\nThe innovation consists of a package of measures to confront possible negative side-effects of (massive) temporary labour migration from new member states (mainly Poland, Bulgaria and Romania) because a working permit is no longer necessary following European legislation (for Bulagaria and Romania starting in 2014). Measures are directed at: information for migrant workers about their rights; better registration of migrant workers; strict control of existing regulation with regards to labour law, wages and social security (especially with regards to workers contracted via temp. agencies); housing; integration and language courses for migrants who decide and are allowed to stay for a longer period; facilitating remigration of migrant workers who are out of work but have no possibilities for return and run the risk of becoming homeless. / / Rights to social security (unemployment benefits) are related to working history and are not amended. Rights to social assistance are related to the right to stay in the country, which in turn is related to having an income. Since loosing income without right to UEB means the right to stay disappears, access to social assistance for labour migrants is formally difficult. The measures aim to actually control more strictly these eligibility rights by cooperation between municipalities who implement social assistance and the national agency IND which is responsible for permits to stay in the country. /\nother (The innovation consists of stricter enforcement of existing regulations as well as a of information campaigns and expansion of services (with respect to language training an remigration))\nothers (A combination of measures, directed at both enforcement of existing regulation as well as information campaigns and some services)\nThe intended mechanism is to avoid negative social effects of labour migration whilst at the same acknowledging positive economic effects of labour migration. Strict enforcement of regulation is the main mechanism, supplemented by informational campaigns and specific measures with respect to housing (although housing is the responsibility of housing corporations, municipalities and private property owners), homelessness and remigration of migrants without work.\nLabour migrants from new member states\nemployment situation (Employed as well as unemployed migrant workers)\nagency or national social insurance body (Immigration office (IND), unemployment agency, agency for enforcement of labour law, tax office)\nprivate not-for-profit organisations (e.g. Third Sector organisation or NGO) (Housing corporations)\nThe measures address a range of organisations and institutional actors responsible for enforcement of labour law, social security and housing.\nThis is a recent measure, no data on outcome are available yet. Enforcement measures with respect to illegal practices of temp. agencies have shown some results, in terms of administrative fines for these agencies and, in a number of cases, criminal prosecution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://instituteofpleasure.org/index2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:KE6CBXWATLTLUMN2TZ76JKQH7IYZX54I", "length": 325, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "instituteofpleasure.org", "title": "Institute of pleasure", "raw_content": "It is not our place to judge, govern, nor restrict another\u2019s sexual desires or preferences but to assist them in discovering the vast array of information and the possibilities available, both traditional and modern, concerning sexual health, satisfaction, pleasure and the quality of life, and let them judge for themselves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://int.technion.ac.il/about/global-collaboration-agreements/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GHWRNRQYBDZL6O42HVII6X2I2CERKKL3", "length": 8927, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "int.technion.ac.il", "title": "Global Collaboration Agreements - Technion", "raw_content": "International Collaborating Partners\nTechnion hold membership in International Collaborative Programs as listed below:\nThe EMAIL project is one of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2* programs for the cooperation between the EU and Israel in higher education. EMAIL has three different phases in the form of 3 different consortia (EMAIL, EMAIL II and EMAIL III). The EMAIL project provides grants to excellent candidates from Israel to the partner institutions in the EU and from the EU to the partner institutions in Israel within all these three projects. The EMAIL project offers scholarships for bachelor, master\u2019s, doctoral and post doctoral students as well as mobility possibilities for academic and non-academic staff members. All the 3 different EMAIL projects are funded through the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 program* of the European Union and coordinated by the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. For more information, please check Who can apply? and How to Apply? sections of the EMAIL website.\n*The Erasmus Mundus Action 2 program fosters institutional co-operation in the field of higher education between the European Union and non-EU countries through student and academic exchanges.\nBECAS CHILE was launched on October 23rd 2008 with the aim of establishing a unified, long-term human capital formation policy for sending students to the best universities around the globe. The program aims to train approximately 30,000 students in the world\u2019s top universities by the year 2017. The surge in numbers implies an historic effort. As recently as 2005, less than two hundred students were granted a government scholarship to study abroad. Since 2006 those figures have increased on a yearly basis. By 2010, around three thousand new students will have studied abroad with a government supported scholarship every year. For more information click here\nCESAER \u2013 the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research \u2013 is a non-profit international association of 60 leading European Engineering Universities, Colleges and Schools. The main objectives of CESAER are to provide \u201chigh quality\u201d engineering education in Europe and to improve links between its members in research as well as in postgraduate and continuing education. For more information click here\nCLUSTER (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research) is a consortium of 12 elite European Universities in science and engineering and architecture with associate members from around the world putting to test best practices and policies for breed talent in these academic fields. CLUSTER represents a Multi-location European University of Science and Technology with about 3,000 professors, 11,000 academic staff, 14,000 PhD students, and a total of more than 140,000 students. This year, CLUSTER celebrated its 23rd anniversary. For more information click here\nFoundation Pierre Gilles de Gennes\nDedicated to industrialists and academic researchers, the foundation launches public-and-private research projects and facilitates the transformation of discoveries into innovative applications. To date, the foundation has invested its seed capital of 20 million euros in the financing of research projects and ensures its ongoing activity through the implementation of \u201cdiscovery and development partnerships\u201d in the public-private sector. For more information click here\nThe US Government\u2019s Fulbright Program is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious and widely-known academic exchange programs. The main goal of the Fulbright Program, initiated in 1946 by Senator J. William Fulbright, is to strengthen the basis for peace by strengthening mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of partner countries around the world. Student and faculty exchanges at the highest possible level of academic excellence are the principal means employed by the Fulbright Program to achieve this goal. For more information click here\nGlobal E3\nGlobal E3 is consortium of U.S. universities that provides opportunities for students to spent a semester or year at a foreign university for both academic training in their field and practical internships where possible, in exchange for receiving undergraduate engineering student at the U.S. host campuses for similar short-term, non-degree study periods. The Institute of International Education (IIE) administers the program on behalf of the consortium, managing the annual student placement process and communications with member institutions. For more information click here\nTEMPUS Ecommis Project\nThe wider objectives of the project are to ensure that the targeted universities in Russia, Ukraine and Israel can offer new two-cycle curricula in the fields of E-Commerce to serve information society in line with the new developments in the area, the market demand and according to the Bologna process, last recommendations in Leuven communique\u2019 and best practice. For more information click here\nGlobal Engineering Deans Council (GEDC)\nThe Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) is a key initiative of the international federation of engineering education societies (IFEES).This initiative will provide a world-wide forum for exchange of information, experience, challenges, and best practices in engineering education leadership. Through such exchanges, the GEDC will provide a means for engineering deans to partner in innovation, collaborate with industry and other stakeholders, and build a network that will support engineering deans\u2019 leadership role in developing regional and national policies to advance the global economy. For more information click here\nIIBMST\nThe IIBMST \u2013 International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology \u2013 is a diverse group of international faculty that integrates expertise in basic and applied biological, physical, computer and engineering sciences to advance science, medical research and the development of biomedical products. We are an institute without walls, geographic or scientific boundaries that facilitates collaborative research within the areas of overlap among academic discipline.\nThe IIBMST was created in 2009 by its three founding universities, SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan. The purpose of the IIBMST is to facilitate the collaboration of research across three continents and accelerate the development of novel bioengineering, diagnostic and biomedical products. For more information click here\nThe Institute of International Education was created to catalyze educational exchange. It met the need for a central point of contact and source of information for both U.S higher education and foreign nations interested in developing educational ties with the United States. For more information click here\nLady Davis Fellowship Trust\nThe Lady Davis Fellowship Trust provides funds for leading scientists and scholars, post-docs and doctoral students from abroad to teach, study and participate in research in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa. The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to people of all nationalities, genders and fields of scholarship. For more information click here\nR.M.E.I.\nThe R\u00e9seau M\u00e9diterran\u00e9en des \u00c9coles d\u2019Ing\u00e9nieur (RMEI) aims to make the Mediterranean, the cradle of our civilisation, a by-word for peace and prosperity. Over the past fourteen years, 66 universities and schools of engineering have worked together with the twofold aim of promoting the teaching engineering principles of sustainable development in higher education in Mediterranean countries and of playing a key role in working out a sustainable development policy that will be thought through globally and applied locally. For more information click here\nStudy Advisor (studdex.com) is a global online study network designed to help students find the right educational program and facilitate quick and easy online application. We provide a portal to answer questions around which university to go to, where to study abroad or learn languages. Students can apply directly via studdex.com and manage applications conveniently in their personal profile. We recruit and certify our partners on a personal basis and visit campuses and schools during recruitment fairs and workshops we attend globally. Our goal is to give users a platform to make informed decisions about their education and to help educational institutions such as universities to recruit new students and increase their internationalization. Our network currently has more than 30,000 programs in total showcased on our site, and 1,700 accredited partners and universities of higher education programs and language schools in 120 destinations. For more information click here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 11706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 183.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interstatemovingcompany.me/2012/08/relieve-stress-and-reduce-cost-by-using-pods-for-your-next-move/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SPQO72QFLI7IEDNO5XEAF5VFNKFLHJ5L", "length": 2679, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "interstatemovingcompany.me", "title": "Relieve Stress and Reduce Cost by Using Pods for Your Next Move | Interstate Moving Company", "raw_content": "Relieve Stress and Reduce Cost by Using Pods for Your Next Move\nSaturday, 25 August, 2012 10:31 Last Updated on Saturday, 25 August, 2012 10:31 Written by admin\nRegardless if a move is across the country or to a new neighborhood in the city where you live, having everything delivered safe and secure takes patience, planning and lots of work. For days, weeks or months your life may feel like it is upside down. In order to keep your life as normal as possible, the most critical part of moving is planning. There are many decisions to make, and one of the most important is the type of mover to select. The choices include doing it yourself, hiring professional full service movers or using pods.\nThe portable storage units have become very popular over the last few years. A moving company delivers the containers or pods to your home; you load it, and the moving company picks up the pods when you are ready to make your move. The moving company brings a pod or pods to your home in advance of your move. You have several days to load your household goods into the moving storage unit. When you are ready to move, you contact the moving company, and a professional driver picks up the storage container and delivers it to your new location or a storage facility.\nThere are many advantages to using pods. The pod sits close to the ground making it easy to load and unload. Since you have several days to load the container, you can take your time to pack everything safely. Using a portable storage container allows you the option of storing your items for as long as necessary for a fee. The container is normally stored in a large warehouse. You can access the storage unit and your belongings by contacting the storage facility. Once you are ready to unload your items at your new residence, you simply contact the moving service to have the pods delivered. After the driver delivers it, you have several days to unload the contents.\nDepending on the distance you are moving, and the number of pods you need, or the size of pods you need, will determine the cost. Other cost factors include whether or not you need to keep your items in storage. When you contact moving companies for quotes, verify if the containers are weather resistant and durable. Using pods for transporting your household goods relieves stress and reduces cost compared to full service moving. Additionally, unlike doing it yourself, you leave the driving to a professional.\nThis entry was posted\ton Saturday, August 25th, 2012 at 10:31 am\tand is filed under Moving, Pods. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iomfats.org/storyshelf/hosted/tony-a/starting-over/09.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:XYXIGCW6VS2Z3DBZH3EWBZIZ3F26WDFO", "length": 21592, "nlines": 137, "source_domain": "iomfats.org", "title": "Starting Over | Chapter 9 | Tony A", "raw_content": "Fuck! I'm so happy. I can't believe that confronting Cole in the library would turn into that. I guess you just never know what's around the corner in life. I'm not totally sure what the status of our relationship is but I can tell it's pretty good if the result in the library was any indication.\nAs I was walking out of the school from detention I had a an extra swag in my step. I probably looked ridiculous but I didn't care, I was in love...or as in love as I've ever felt before. I just want to see him right away. I wonder if it's too early to call him just to talk or if I should be more cool and aloof, maybe let him come to me.\nJust as I was trying to plan how see Cole again without looking desperate, I suddenly felt a presence near me. All I could think was 'Not again', because I know whoever it is standing there is probably not the person I want to see and is going to bring my mood down a bit. Regardless, I sucked up the feeling of dread and turned to my right and guess who was standing there... Ava, my old girlfriend.\nI looked right at her and she looked expectant, like I should be the one to say something first even though she came up to me. I just waited and stared at her. I noticed that she was wearing a cheerleading uniform. Of course she's a cheerleader, it only makes since with her 'mean girl' persona. She's like the quintessential cheerleader.\nShe realized I wasn't going to say anything first, she sighed, \"Hey Matt, I wouldn't normally ask this, since I know we haven't really been talking but...\" she said hesitantly.\nI think this is the first time I've ever seen her look unsure of herself and slightly vulnerable. It was kind of refreshing so I took the bait. \"Ava, what's going on?\"\nWhen I said her name she looked up into my eyes and smiled. \"It's embarrassing Matt, you know I don't like asking for help,\" she said fondly as she stepped closer to me and patted her hand on my chest. That action was eerily similar to how Cole had touched me in the library, but I tried to push that thought away and focus on what she was saying.\nI touched her hand lightly to move it away from me, \"What is it you need help with?\"\n\"Well you see, we just finished cheerleading practice,\" I happened to look up in time to see all these girls in cheerleading uniforms coming out of the school and a couple of the girls were looking at Ava and me with curious glances. \"Usually Whitney takes me home after practice but today she left early and now I'm left without a ride.\" She started to look up at me with innocent puppy dog eyes, \"So I was wondering if maybe you could take me home.\"\nI looked at all the other girls who were starting to get in their cars. \"Why are you asking me to drive you? There's like 12 other girls around who could take you home.\" I said while gesturing to all her teammates.\nShe looked slightly miffed that I didn't agree right away. She's probably not used to people saying no to her. She looked around at the other girls and then stepped even closer to me,\"Well, I'm asking you because you're supposed to be my boyfriend and also I wanted to talk to you,\" she said in a sharp yet hushed tone so that no one around would hear.\n\"Why can't you just tell me what you need to say right here?\" I said slightly louder, which I could tell made her annoyed. Apparently when comes to the truth of our relationship she wants to keep it private.\n\"Look Matt, I don't want to fight with you. I just really want to talk to you and If you just really can't stand to be around me anymore than that's fine, I guess,\" She said slightly louder so that the girls could hear her again and she sounded now on the brink of tears. She probably was doing that on purpose just to make me look like the bad guy.\n\"Okay, okay, fine. Get in the car Ava.\" I relented.\nShe instantly cheered up, \"Thanks Matty!\" She ran around to the other side of the car just I had unlocked it and jumped in the passengers seat.\nI rolled my eyes and got in the driver's side. And for the first 3 minutes it was pure silence, but it was surprisingly not that uncomfortable, like we'd done that before.\n\"Hey, Matt,\" I guess I was getting a little too comfortable because when she spoke again it made me jump a bit.\nI looked over at her for a second before I looked back on the road. \"Yes?\" I said calmly.\nShe huffed a bit like a moody child. \"I've been thinking...\" Of course she has. \"You probably don't even remember this.\"\n\"I don't remember many things nowadays,\" I quipped with a smirk.\nShe laughed a bit. I was amazed because I thought she might actually be a robot until that moment.\n\"Well I'll remind you. You promised that you would take me to the Winter Formal. And I know that we haven't really been on the best terms but... I already picked out a dress and people expect us to go together.\"\nI stared coldly out to the road and went stiff, \"Ava,\" I said with an even tone, but I could see out the corner of her eyes she looked tense. \"I promised that before the accident. Things have changed,\"\n\"I know, I know, you lost your memory but --\"\nI cut her off, \"No,\" I raised my voice, \"Not because I lost my memory. We're not a couple anymore.\"\nShe got silent for long enough that I finally relented and looked over and she looked shocked.\n\"I know that we haven't been talking but when the fuck did we break up?!\"\n\"Are you kidding! We haven't been a real couple in a while. I thought that was just a mutual agreement that we weren't together anymore.\"\n\"I just thought you needed some time to adjust after the accident. I didn't want to be clingy. I didn't think that meant we were over.\" She sounded slightly panicked.\n\"Look, even if I did agree to go with you, I just literally can't because part of my punishment is that I'm not allowed to go to any school events...including dances. It's the principal's orders.\" I shrugged.\nShe looked contemplative, \"We could arrange something. I could... I could sneak you in. Yeah, that would be really cool and everyone would think that you broke the rules just to be with me.\" I didn't like where this was going.\n\"Are you insane! I'm a step away from being expelled. I'm not risking my ass just to go to some dumb dance with you.\" I rubbed my neck in irritation.\nShe looked like she was about to object when she stopped cold and stared right at me. I was confused so, naturally, I had to ask.\n\"What?\" I said sharply.\n\"What the fuck is that?\" She said while pointing at my neck.\n\"What are you talking about?\" I said with an irritated tone.\n\"No, you don't get to be the mad one right now. Not when you have a fucking hickey on your neck!\"\nI quickly realized why she had an angry and disgusted look on her face. I guess I didn't realize that Cole had actually marked me.\nAll I said was, \"Oh,\" while I tried to cover the spot with my right hand.\n\"All you have to say is 'oh'? So this is why you didn't want to go to the dance. And this is why you want to break up! Because your cheating on me!\" She said with great offense.\nWe came to a stop so turned my body to fully look at her and all her anger. But I was angry right back, so two can play at that game.\n\"You know what. I'm not cheating on you because we weren't even together when this happened,\" I said as I pointed to the hickey.\n\"We didn't officially agree to break up until today so when this happened you were still with me!\" When she gets mad she starts talking with her hands, which makes her look slightly intimidating. \"Well, we're broken up anyways now so what the hell does it even matter!\" I threw back.\n\"Because ever since the accident you acted like I didn't matter at all and you became even more of a pig-headed jerk. I don't know who the fuck you are anymore but the Matt I knew, never would've cheated on me!\"\n\"Me cheating! You're one to talk. I heard that you were fucking around with Kevin. Who, by the way, was my best friend. That's fucking low.\"\n\"Hey!\" She wagged her finger in my face, \"That never happened, you ass! That's just a stupid rumor.\"\nI tried to breathe slowly to calm myself and realized we'd just been sitting in the car yelling at each other.\n\"Look, Ava, we were obviously never a real couple. We might as well just end it now.\"\nI looked at her and her eyes were glistening. \"How the fuck would you know, you don't even remember our relationship. You're just listening to what people have told you about us. They don't know. No one knew except me and you. And now even you don't know.\" She looked out the window to avoid eye contact with me.\nI was actually starting to feel guilty. \"Ava I --\"\n\"No save it! You don't get it! You said you loved me, you fucker.\" She shook her head, \"I guess I believed you.\"\nI was stunned. Did I really ever have those feelings for her? \"I'm sorry,\" was all I could think to say.\nShe looked out the window again and stated quietly, \"You apparently remembered where my house was.\" She pointed at the house, \"Maybe you haven't forgotten everything,\" she said sadly.\nShe quickly pulled her cheerleading bag from the back seat. She stood outside with the passenger door open. \"Bye Matt,\" then she slammed the door closed and walked to her door.\nI sat in the car outside of her house for about 5 minutes after she had already went into her house. I was feeling consumed with guilt.\nI feel like I'm starting back at the beginning of my amnesia. I don't know who to trust around me and if I can even trust my instincts anymore. _______________________________________________________________\nI was a little shaken, to say the least, by time I got home. I was totally consumed in my thoughts I didn't even notice anyone around me until I heard my sister say, \"Hey Matt,\" I visibly jumped then turned to look at her at the top of the stairs.\nShe descended the stairs to be face to face, \"Whoa, you look like you've seen a ghost.\" She said jokingly.\n\"I feel like I have,\" I muttered sullenly.\nI pushed past her to go upstairs but she grabbed my shoulder to pull me back.\nShe looked me dead in the eye, \"Do you need to talk about something?\" She could tell I was about to protest so she added, \"You know I'm here for you...seriously Matt.\"\nTimes like these I love/hate how determined she can be... I think it's a family trait.\nBefore I could confirm or deny she was pulling me up the stairs and towards her room.\n\"Sit,\" she said as she pushed me towards her bed.\nI didn't know what else to do so I sat, but not without protest, \"Christine, I really don't feel like talking about it. I'm confused and tired.\"\nShe sat down next to me on the bed and looked at me thoughtfully. \"You know you used to call me Tini.\"\n\"Well that's just another thing I can't remember. I'm sorry. I seem to be apologizing for all the things I can't remember.\"\n\"I didn't bring it up to make you feel bad. I just kinda missed it. But, it's fine. Now what happened?\"\nI looked at her tiredly, \"Look, I really don't feel like talking about it. I just spent the last 20 minutes yelling with Ava. I'm just not in the mood --\"\nShe cut me off, \"Wait you were talking to Ava?\" She looked stunned.\n\"Not talking, yelling,\" I corrected.\n\"Now you have to tell me what happened!\" She looked morbidly excited.\n\"Why do you care?\" I asked genuinely curious about the answer.\n\"Because you were talking -- sorry, you were 'yelling' with your ex-girlfriend. I need to know what happened before the whole school starts talking about it tomorrow.\"\nI was shocked that she thinks the 'whole school' would find out about my business, but I guess it's happened before. \"Thank you for saying 'ex-girlfriend' by the way. At least someone understands that.\"\n\"Is that what the fight was about?\"\n\"You and Ava, were you guys fighting because of the breakup?\"\n\"Oh yeah, well, apparently she thought we were still together. So I basically just broke up with her 20 minutes ago.\" I scrubbed my face with my hands in frustration.\n\"Oh my god. Did she seriously not know that you guys weren't together?\" She laughed, more likely cackled, \"I mean it's so obvious that you've moved on.\" She said while still laughing, however, I got really quiet and still.\nWas she implying that it was obvious that I was with Cole? She saw my concerned face, \"Calm down Matt, It's only obvious to me because you told me a couple weeks ago. But if you are trying to hide it maybe you should be a bit less obvious ... and try to hide that hickey better.\" She said with a giggle.\nI quickly put my hand over the spot on my neck, then I quickly went over to her mirror and turned my head to get a better look at it. It was bigger than I expected and it was already turning darker into a nasty looking bruise. As much as I love how it got there, I wasn't too psyched about wearing the evidence on my neck for days. As I looked at it I sighed in frustration.\nChristine came up behind me, \"You know there's some easy ways to cover that. Don't worry about it too much right now.\" She looked at it contemplatively for a second then looked up at me in the mirror, \"So I'm guessing you and Cole did this pretty recently.\"\nI turned to her, \"Yeah, pretty recent... like today, recent.\" I said sheepishly as I sat back down on her bed.\n\"Wow, your days are pretty jam packed, aren't they. You always have something interesting happen to you. I consider my day interesting if Kyle Ferguson smiles at me.\" she said offhandedly.\nI instantly perked up at that name, \"Hey, don't go near him okay. He's bad news.\" Maybe I was exaggerating but I was mad at him for letting those rumors about Cole slide when he was getting help from Cole.\n\"Why are you being so weird. He's a cute guy, not that I really stand a chance.\"\n\"Trust me Christine, he's a fuckboy. Don't mess with him.\" I said sharply.\n\"Geez, I wasn't going to pursue anything anyways. I mean he's two grade ahead of me and he has a girlfriend. I just like to dream. But why are you so hung up about him?\"\nI looked at her sternly, \"Doesn't matter, leave it.\"\n\"Okay...well getting back to what we were talking about. What did Ava say that shook you up? Because I thought you look happy about having her out of your life.\"\n\"I am relieved that it -- our relationship, is finally over but... what she said just startled me.\"\n\"Well it's not what she said, but it's more like what I said to her a couple months ago.\"\n\"How would you remember what you said to her a couple months ago?\"\n\"Because she told me,\" I said exasperatedly, \"Apparently I said... I said that I loved her.\"\nChristine just stared at me for a while, \"Really? And you believe that? How do you know she's not lying to keep you around?\" She said quickly.\n\"Christine, I know I have this whole memory problem, but I still tell when people are lying. I know it sounds crazy to trust because she is very deceitful, but for once I saw the sincerity in her eyes and that's what scared me.\"\nI couldn't let these weird feelings about Ava linger for too long, not after I had just had a great time with Cole. I knew that if I didn't get this off my chest now that it would fester. So I mustered up the courage to call Cole.\nNormally I'd be ecstatic to call him but I know that instead I'm about to drop a bombshell on him. I was just about to hang up from my second-guessing when he answered.\n\"Matt? Hey, what's going on.\" He sounded happy and totally unaware of what I was about to unload on him.\n\"Hey,\" I said with a slight waver in my voice,I think he could tell that something was wrong.\n\"Are you okay, you sound... different.\"\nMaybe I shouldn't tell him, it's not like I'm going to act on any of the things that Ava told me. He doesn't need to know my problems. If anything it would be selfish of me to tell him, because it would only make me feel better to talk it out, while it would probably make him more worried. Yeah, I just won't tell him--\n\"Matt, are you still there? You went totally silent.\" Too late, he already sounds worried.\n\"Oh yeah, sorry. I was just thinking about something, but... it's nothing don't worry about it.\"\n\"No, tell me. You're starting to make me worried. What's wrong? You were fine earlier today.\" He said the last part in a low and sultry tone.\nI was hesitant, \"I don't think you'd want to know.\"\nHe was silent for a beat, \"Okay, now you really are starting to scare me. What could've happened between the time that I saw you at school and now?\"\nHere it goes, \"I ran into Ava,\"\nI barely heard him mutter something under his breath, \"What did she do?\" He said with a biting tone. I'd never heard him sound like that before.\n\"Well, I was coming out of detention and she had just finished her cheerleading practice and she needed a ride.\"\n\"Why couldn't she get a ride with any of her other cheerleading friends?\"\n\"Because... well she said... okay I'm not really sure why but she basically guilted me into giving her a ride because she started raising her voice and saying stuff like 'I guess you don't give a shit about me'. What was I supposed to do I didn't want to look like an asshole...again.\" I said hurriedly. I was starting to sound defensive.\n\"Whoa Matt, it's fine I'm not mad that you gave her a ride. You're the one who wanted to tell me this story remember.\" Cole's voice always seemed to calm me. \"Go on, what happened next?\"\n\"Well a lot of shit happened after I let her into the car. First she asked me if I was still going with her to the Winter Formal.\" I heard Cole take a deep intake of breath. I quickly responded, \"I said a firm 'no', don't worry. But then she couldn't believe that I said no, so I had to explain to her that we weren't even a couple anymore. Apparently she didn't know that we had broken up so I basically had to break up with her, right there, in the close quarters of the car. It was horrible. Then she saw my hickey... which, by the way, I didn't know you gave me a fucking hickey.\"\nHe laughed at that, \"Sorry, are you mad?\" He remarked bashfully, but I could tell he was proud of it, at the same time.\n\"No, I'm not mad about it. But, it is gonna be a bitch to cover up, so thank you for that.\"\n\"You can worry about that later, tell me what else happened, it's starting to get good.\"\n\"Are you kidding me, this is just when the explosion happened. She literally looked like she wanted to rip my balls off. Anyway, so she saw the big mark on my neck and she lost it. She started screaming at me about how we hadn't officially broken up and I was cheating on her. I told her that was bull shit and either way we're 'officially' broken up now. Then she dropped a bombshell on me...which I'm about to drop on you. I don't know if I should even say it.\"\nI could practically here him rolling his eyes, \"Don't string me along like this Matt, it's not good for my health. I'm pretty sure I can handle hearing whatever Ava told you.\"\nI breathed in, \"I told her I loved her.\" Then I held my breath waiting for a response.\nI didn't get anything from Cole for awhile. I almost thought he'd hung up, until he said, \"What! What do you mean you told her you loved her? Like in the car when you guys were yelling you just proclaimed your love!?\"\n\"No, she told me that I said that to her before the accident.\"\n\"Oh,\" He said with a sigh of relief, \"Well that changes everything. For all you know she could be lying.\" He said hopefully, I could tell he didn't want any of this to be true.\n\"Yeah, but for all I know she could be telling the truth as well. Look, Cole I just don't know what to believe. I mean, everyone's been telling me that my relationship with her was a sham, but then she tells me that no one really knew the depths of our relationship. And that honestly could be true. Maybe we kept our real emotions for each other behind closed doors. I just -- I just don't know anymore.\"\n\"But how do you know that she's not saying this in a desperate attempt to get you back. She's not known for being the most trustworthy person,\" He said anxiously.\n\"Don't worry, it's not like I'm going to act on this or anything.\"\n\"Well you could've fooled me.\" He said in a whisper. \"Why would you tell me this unless it was to inform me that this has somehow changed your mind.\" He sounded sad, I never like hearing him sound like that.\n\"Change my mind about what?\"\n\"About us,\" He said meekly.\nIt finally donned on me why he wanted this to be false, \"Oh, no -- no Cole. I'm not telling you this because I want to break things off with us. I still totally want to keep doing... whatever it is that we're doing. I just thought you had a right to know about all this craziness that just happened so that you're not hearing about it at school and wondering what's up. I didn't mean to scare you. It just... honestly it startled me because I'd never seen Ava look so genuine before.\"\nHe let out a sigh of relief then giggled to himself, \"So you're not gonna escort her to the Winter Formal?\" he said in a horrible British accent.\n\"Oh, don't worry darling. I won't be taking Ms. Luciani anywhere.\" I sounded like Austin Powers.\nI love hearing Cole's laughter, I just wish I could see his face right now. \"Well if you're not taking her then maybe we could just wander in together.\" He said slyly.\n\"I wish I could but even if I wanted to go to that damn dance, I can't. Part of my punishment for fighting with Kevin was that I'm not allowed to go to any school events, including sporting events and school dances. It was part of the agreement so that the Principal wouldn't expel me.\"\n\"Well, that's fine... I guess we'll just have to make our own fun that night.\" He says suggestively.\n\"Oh yeah, that sounds pretty good. 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Once a month on the 3rd Wednesday of the Month we go to a different restaurant to Celebrate whoever's Birthday is in that month. Birthday girl gets to pick. I'm not sure who it was this month. We went to Muroni's, a Mediterranean place. We've been a few times before. It's the only \"High Class\"restaurant in this part of Chesapeake. The food was awesome. I ordered Rack of Lamb with Red Mashed Potatoes, and Vegetables of the Day( which was squash ,zucchini,and peppers) . And I had Cream Brulee with Coffee to finish. Didn't bother taking a pic of that. We had a great time as we always do. It's great to catch up with everyone . Find out what their families are up to. Learn any juicy gossip about the neighbors that don't participate..etc etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 4043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jacket2.org/category/al-filreis-tags/anticommunism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KHPGYLOFM56M6LPDY5FDLCNPGKWIM6HG", "length": 9017, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "jacket2.org", "title": "anticommunism | Jacket2", "raw_content": "Here is Herbert Mitgang's summary of Allen Ginsberg's FBI file:\nGinsberg engaged the attention of the FBI recordkeepers. \"I have a stack of documents three feet high,\" the . . . poet said, and showed me a sampling of them. He has devoted much of his time to challenging the government on issues of privacy and personal freedom - including sexual preference - and arousing his fellow writers to campaign for freedom of expression.\nGinsberg recently told me that Pacifica Radio, the group of radio stations that airs public events, contemporary verse, drama and other literature, may no longer broadcast much of his poetry, including the well known Howl and Kaddish. Under the Reagan administration's policy of destroying the power to regulate of the regulatory agencies, the weakened Federal Communications Commission has carried out Attorney General Meese's diktat against \"obscenity\" and \"indecency.\" The final report of the Meese Commission on Pornography is a legacy for book censors and book burners that could affect authors, editors and elements of the publishing community for a long time to come.\nGinsberg said that some of the papers in his file come from related customs and Treasury Department investigative bureaus. His file crisscrosses those of other writers. \"They include Leroi Jones, who was the victim of much more attack than people understand and, in that context, his anger is understandable,\" Ginsberg said. \"Most people don't realize what he and other black literati have been through, assuming that all past injustices have been redressed or somehow disappeared out of mind. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. The section on Tom Hayden in Newark intersects with Jones, since Jones was influenced by an FBI misinformation campaign to denounce Hayden as an [FBI] agent and drive him out of Newark. The section on Black United Front and Ann Arbor intersects with John Sinclair, poet director of Detroit Artists Workshop, a multiracial press that is one of my publishers.\"\nIt's some kind of communist plot\n\"No doubt all of you recall the incident in Madison, Wisconsin, last Fourth of July, when American citizens were afraid to say they believed in the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. One hundred and twelve people were asked to sign a petition that contained nothing except quotations from these two immortal documents, and one hundred and eleven refused to sign the paper. Most refused because they were afraid it was some kind of subversive document and thought that if they signed it they would be called Communists.\" - JAZZES H.\nthey have the routine of the Indians and the colored folks\nFrom a column by I. F. Stone publisehd in the Nation magazine on November 8, 1947, at the time of the anticommunist HUAC/\"Hollywood Ten\" hearings:\nHomosexuals in government, 1950\nCongressional Record, volume 96, part 4, 81st Congress 2nd Session\nMarch 29 -- April 24, 1950\nON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:\nMr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chairman, I realize that I am discussing a very delicate subject I cannot lay the bones bare like I could before medical colleagues. I would like to strip the fetid, stinking flesh off of this skeleton of homosexuality and tell my colleagues of the House some of the facts of nature. I cannot expose all the putrid facts as it would offend the sensibilities of some of you. It will be necessary to skirt some of the edges, and I use certain Latin terms to describe some of these individuals. Make no mistake several thousand, according to police records, are now employed by the Federal Government.\nI offer this amendment to the Vorys amendment in good faith. Recently the spotlight of publicity has been focused not only upon the State Department but upon the Department of Commerce because of homosexuals being employed in these and other departments of Government. Recently Mr. Peurifoy, of the State Department, said he had allowed 91 individuals in the State Department to resign because they were homosexuals. Now they are like birds of a feather, they flock together. Where did they go?\nYou must know what a homosexual is. It is amazing that in the Capital City of Washington we are plagued with such a large group of those individuals. Washington attracts many lovely folks. The sex crimes in the city are many.\nIn the Eightieth Congress I was the author of the sex pervert bill that passed this Congress and is now a law in the District of Columbia. It can confine some of these people in St. Elizabeths Hospital for treatment. They are the sex perverts. Some of them are more to be pitied than condemned, because in many it is a pathological condition, very much like the kleptomaniac who must go out and steal, he has that urge; or like the pyromaniac, who goes to bed and wakes up in the middle of the night with an urge to go out and set a fire. He does that. Some of these homosexuals are in that class. Remember there were 91 of them dismissed in the State Department. That is a small percentage of those employed in Government. We learned 2 years ago that there were around 4,000 homosexuals in the District. The Police Department the other day said there were between five and six thousand in Washington who are active and that 75 percent were in Government employment. There are places in Washington where they gather for the purpose of sex orgies, where they worship at the cesspool and flesh pots of iniquity. There is a restaurant downtown where you will find male prostitutes. They solicit business for other male customers. They are pimps and undesirable characters. You will find odd words in the vocabulary of the homosexual. There are many types such as the necrophalia, fettichism, pygmalionism, fellatios, cunnilinguist, sodomatic, pederasty, saphism, sadism, and masochist. Indeed, there are many methods of practices among the homosexuals. You will find those people using the words as, \"He is a fish. He is a bull-dicker. He is mamma and he is papa, and punk, and pimp.\" Yes; in one of our prominent restaurants rug parties and sex orgies go on. Some of those people have been in the State Department, and I understand some of them are now in the other departments. The 91 who were permitted to resign have gone some place, and, like birds of a feather, they flock together. Those people like to be known to each other. They have signs used on streetcars and in public places to call attention to others of like mind. Their rug and fairy parties are elaborate.\nSo I offer this amendment, and when the time comes for voting upon it, I hope that no one will object. I sometimes wonder how many of these homosexuals have had a part in shaping our foreign policy. How many have been in sensitive positions and subject to blackmail. It is a known fact that homosexuality goes back to the Orientals, lone before the time of Confucius; that the Russians are strong believers in homosexuality, and that those same people are able to get into the State Department and get somebody in their embrace, and once they are in their embrace, fearing blackmail, will make them go to any extent. Perhaps if all the facts were known these same homosexuals have been used by the Communists.\nI realize that there is some physical danger to anyone exposing all of the details and nastiness of homosexuality, because some of these people are dangerous. They will go to any limit. These homosexuals have strong emotions. They are not to be trusted and when blackmail threatens they are a dangerous group.\nThe Army at one time gave these individuals a dishonorable discharge and later changed the type of discharge. They are not knowingly kept in Army service. They should not be employed in Government. I trust both sides of the aisle will support the amendment.\nPhoto: George A. Dondero\nMr. DONDERO. Was there any evidence or testimony before the gentleman's committee with respect to the number of people who were separated from the service in the Department of State who had later acquired positions in other departments of Government? I refer to those whose employment was considered a security risk. Was anything said before your committee on that subject?\nMr. CLEVENGER. I will say to the gentleman, I brought that question up a year ago, as to whether the other departments would be alerted so that they might not hire these--we can name them now--these homosexuals. Until the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Peurifoy, made that word public over in the other body, we had insufficient information so far as the committee was concerned and could not tell you. In reply to my question we were informed they were not, and unofficially we were told, or at least I was told, that they have been employed in other sections of the Government, at least most of them were.\nMr. DONDERO. The reason I asked that question is that I made inquiry by letter to find out where these people went and whether they are now employed by our Government and I have not yet received a reply giving me any information on the subject.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 14885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://james4sheriff.com/qualities-of-a-sheriff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UGZK4MA5PV2RRKUSMZY62OZ2BQ555VWO", "length": 2547, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "james4sheriff.com", "title": "Qualities of a Sheriff | James Mendrick For DuPage Sheriff", "raw_content": "There are many qualities needed to be an effective Sheriff. The first and most important is being a good leader. To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. Positive communication with deputies, support services, the County Board, local police and fire services and the citizens are all equally critical. If you can\u2019t express your ideas and make yourself accessible to all of the stakeholders in this county for their input, then you cannot succeed. I want to know what our citizens want from their Sheriff\u2019s Office. I want to know what support services local police and fire service need from us. I will solicit input from our employees to ensure we\u2019re doing our jobs the very best way possible. Nothing is about things, it\u2019s all about people. This is why I\u2019m endorsed, through their local chapters, by the deputies in corrections, court security and law enforcement. Having all the men and women in blue supporting me gives me confidence that we will succeed. How the Sheriff interacts with those around him/her will determine the overall health of our Office.\nThe second most important attribute is intricate knowledge of our budget. I am the only candidate who has managed our agency wide budget and headcount process. I have even been removed from my current duties for weeks at a time by the Sheriff to manage our budget process. I know our budget inside and out and that\u2019s what is going to be essential in fiscal year 2019. With state revenue shortfalls directly affecting the County budget totals, we must learn to do more with less. I have comprehensive budget solutions that will save money while still enhancing public safety services.\nThe third quality essential to be Sheriff is operational knowledge of the agency. Operational knowledge of how things work in tandem with budget expertise is the only formula that will accomplish the best possible public safety services. I\u2019ve been a deputy, field training officer, patrol sergeant, detective, canine commander, gang commander, accreditation manager and administrative bureau chief. I\u2019ve managed the courthouse, crime laboratory, civil division, I.T. and the telecommunications center just to name a few. I\u2019m the only candidate that has been a commander of patrol. To truly know the job, you have to have been out there, in the field, shoulder to shoulder with the deputies. That to me is the trifecta: Leadership, budget expertise and operational knowledge. I have these qualities and promise to use them to bring you a safer DuPage County. Learn more about my platform.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jean-arthuis.eu/en/mp-in-action/11-the-european-parliament.html?start=45", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3LDDUIS3X3M2UB2V6TR5M6MOWJZOFQV", "length": 1263, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jean-arthuis.eu", "title": "Jean Arthuis - MP in action", "raw_content": "MY HEARING ON BREXIT\u2019S CONSEQUENCES FOR THE EU BUDGET AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY\nI was invited by the National Assembly President Fran\u00e7ois de Rugy in order to be heard by the information mission on the following of Brexit negotiations on Thursday 15 March. I had the opportunity to participate in a round table on Brexit\u2019s consequences for the EU budget. Please find the full hearing >Read more\nDUTCH DAIRY FARMERS\u2019 FRAUD: MY QUESTION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION\nFollowing the end of milk quotas, the Netherlands has significantly and rapidly increased its livestock and milk production. The raise of the Dutch livestock has been facilitated thanks to the implementation of a derogatory mechanism to the \u201cphosphorus ceilings\u201d foreseen in the \u201cnitrates\u201d Directive. A fraud undertaken by some Dutch farmers...\nTHE COMMON CONSOLIDATED CORPORATE TAX BASE (CCCTB) AND THE COMMON CORPORATE TAX BASE (CCTB): AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEIZE\nThe European Parliament gave its opinion on the European reform on corporate tax. The Members of the European Parliament largely supported the harmonisation of the corporate tax base (CCTB) (451 votes in favour, 141 against, 59 abstentions) and its consolidation (CCCTB) (438 votes in favour, 145 against, 59 abstentions). The ALDE French...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jellyclan.com/goddess", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JFZL4TCILOCMF5X2ZUJ5ULTTXGX6P6J2", "length": 3824, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "jellyclan.com", "title": "Goddess Essay Topics To Write About | Topics, Sample Papers & Articles Online for Free", "raw_content": "HOME Free Essays Goddess\nGoddess Essay Examples\nHow Has the Personification of India and the Indian Woman Been Reflected in the Various Paintings of Mother India?\n\u201cI am India. The Indian nation is my body. Kanyakumari is my foot and the Himalayas my head. The Ganges flows from my thighs. My left leg is the Coromandal Coast, my right is the Coast of Malabar. I am this entire land. East and West are my arms. How wondrous is my form! When\u2026\nDuring the month of Kartik in the Bikram Sambat calendar\nDuring the month of Kartik in the Bikram Sambat calendar (late September and early October), the Nepalese people indulge in the biggest festival of the year, Dashain. Dashain is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese annual calendar, celebrated by Nepalese of all caste and creed throughout the country. The fifteen days\u2026\nWE WILL WRITE A CUSTOM ESSAY SAMPLE ON Goddess ESSAY EXAMPLES SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU\nGlorious and beautiful, Blondes and Brunettes have been in rival for the precious rigors of magnificence. Fancying into the limelight, subdue one into conspiracy against exquisiteness, musing at the same time to the countless difference that had been nurtured. Blondes propel themselves in to the height of success and perfection. Brunettes on the other hand,\u2026\nAeneas Aphrodite Ares God Greek mythology Helen of Troy Menelaus\nAphrodite Ares God Greek mythology\nGoddesses of the Middle East\nThe mythical legends surrounding the Goddesses of the Middle East date back to around 2500 B. C and form a part of some of the earliest recorded literature about ancient civilizations. These legends centre around the Divine Entities worshipped and revered in various sub regions in what was once known as the Ancient Near East\u2026\nGod Middle East\nComparing Gods and Goddesses\nYears ago, women did not have much power as they do now. Women sat back and took orders from their husbands. Whatever is asking of them to do the women would have to carry out the order with no feedback and nobody jesters. Women were more humble to men and they listened and believed whatever\u2026\nThe Elements and Functions of Goddesses\nFrom as far as we can remember there have been myths about Gods and Goddesses that have been passed from generation to generation. These myths were derived within several different cultures and places yet many are very similar. Although there are some similarities in these myths there are also differences as well. Therefore a thorough\u2026\nPredominance of Goddesses in Minoan Religion\nThe most obvious thing present in Minoan religion is its polytheistic and matriarchal features, thus it is always referred to as a goddess religion, wherein all deities are female and there had been no male divinity detected until later times. Added to that is the fact that male deities are uncommon and they are usually\u2026\nGod Religion\nVesta, The Roman Goddess of Heart and Fire\nVesta is the Goddess of Heart and Fire. Being one of the most popular gods/goddesses of Ancient Rome, she symbolizes \u201cthe continuity of the life of the State\u201d (Johnston, par. 488). Being a people of deep religious feeling (Hamilton 45), the ancient Romans embraced gods and goddesses like Vesta into their everyday lives, as they\u2026\nArt Fire God\nAdvertisement Advertising God Impulse\nThe Goddess of Chastity\nExplore the social and historical context through Shakespeare\u2019s stagecraft in \u2018A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019. To explore the social and historical context in William Shakespeare\u2019s \u2018A Midsummer Nights Dream\u2019 the features of the play will be analysed, such a: the different characters dialogue compared to their social class, the connections to Greek and Roman mythology, Elizabethan\u2026\nA Midsummer Night's Dream Capulet Demetrius Egeus God Hermia Hippolyta Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare\nWE WILL WRITE A CUSTOM ESSAY SAMPLE IN Goddess", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jemnitechnology.com/about_us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YDEMM45YYYSAAJ5XGD54KAUSBOISFZOH", "length": 1778, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "jemnitechnology.com", "title": "JEMNI Inc. - Mission statementHelping customers gain competitive advantage through efficient sourcing and supply chain management.", "raw_content": "Helping customers gain competitive advantage through efficient sourcing and supply chain management.\nMark Ellson - President and CEO\nMark has a long and distinguished career of providing products and services to fortune 500 Utility and Medical companies. His background includes more than twenty years of progressive senior leadership in fortune 500 and large private manufacturing companies. His engineering, manufacturing and operational experience has focused on significantly improving sales and operational performance, reducing operating costs, leading and managing product introduction, and improving customer value. Providing consulting services and products to the utility industry has given him the experience and insight to meet complicated customer requirements\ufeff.\nHe worked over ten years for Northern States Power Company, now Xcel Energy, in various management roles prior to Jemni, Inc. He was instrumental in implementing a corporate wide customer service system across multiple states during his tenure.\nHe is an Army Combat Veteran. In addition, he is also a National Board member for the Elite SDVOB network. Disabled Veteran businesses helping other Vets help themselves. Mark is committed to hiring our disabled Veterans and getting the disabled Veteran unemployment rate that is currently at 41% reduced. The sooner we can get these heroes productive in the workplace, the faster they will adjust and have a productive life. He has an engineering degree from Iowa State University and a Master\u2019s of Business Administration with a minor in Finance from University of Minnesota.\nCenter for veterans enterprise certification\nAbility Magazine, March 2014\nBoeing Supports Veterans\nCongresswoman Bachman Recognizes JEMNI\nUS Veterans Magazine Article, Winter 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnharmstrong.com/missional-ecumenism-in-milwaukee-1/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:YJJV3IAPN37NN2RGZB7QA4VYKD2MZS4W", "length": 7776, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "johnharmstrong.com", "title": "Missional-Ecumenism in Milwaukee (1) | John H Armstrong", "raw_content": "Missional-Ecumenism in Milwaukee (1)\nJohn Armstrong January 28, 2013 ACT 3, Gospel/Good News, Kingdom of God, Missional Church, Missional-Ecumenism, The Church, Unity of the Church\nOn Thursday of last week I traveled 90 miles north to visit with Christian leaders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I made the journey at the invitation of my son, Matthew Armstrong, the founder and director of Crossroads Kids Club. Crossroads is a ministry that partners with local churches to begin and develop after-school children\u2019s Bible clubs in public elementary schools. These church-based clubs intentionally share the gospel with kids in the public sphere. (It still amazes me the number of Christians who think that this cannot be legally done in public schools but what amazes me even more is the disinterest churches have in doing it even when they realize that they can.) Matt has begun two Crossroads Clubs in urban Milwaukee. Through the development of his ministry in Milwaukee he has been able to forge a friendship with leaders of several similar missions.\nIn Milwaukee I saw and heard the story of missional-ecumenism in one of America\u2019s more challenging \u201crust-belt\u201d urban centers. There are about 175 schools in the Milwaukee Public School system, a system which includes all public schools K-12. There are also a number of charter schools in the city and 113 Catholic schools in the archdiocese of Milwaukee. My guess, based on a little Internet research, is that there are more than a few alternative private schools, including several Lutheran, Baptist, non-affiliated Christian and non-religious private schools, in addition to these public and Catholic schools. What was made profoundly clear to me last Thursday is that this urban school context is profoundly challenged by poverty, malnutrition, single-parent homes and the social-spiritual challenges of an urban environment in particular.\nThis Milwaukee story provides a wonderful context for sharing my vision of what unity in Christ\u2019s mission can look like when the church decides to embrace public space with the good news. I sang as a child, \u201cWe\u2019ve a story to tell to the nations.\u201d Well, the nations can be found in urban centers like the city of Milwaukee. But too few Christians know how to respond to this \u201cnew\u201d mission context. Some think the only thing to do with public schools is let them die. They are corrupt, inefficient and dangerous. We should give up on them altogether. But what I saw and heard in Milwaukee was the voice of praying, loving and missional Christians who believe Jesus Christ belongs in the center of the whole city of Milwaukee, especially in the schools.\nThe ministry that hosted this day of dialogue is called BASICS, an acronym for Brothers and Sisters in Christ Serving. BASICS was formed by a small group of Christian business and nonprofit leaders in 1996. They saw that the metropolitan area of Milwaukee was at a crisis point in meeting the needs of its impoverished people, many of whom had been victimized by a sinful society. The primary institutions of urban recovery were fatigued, and in some cases, at the point of collapse.\nBASICS was founded to mobilize, collaborate and network with faith-based ministries in all segments of society, and to meet the personal, spiritual, physical and economic needs of people in Milwaukee and surrounding communities. BASICS seeks to strengthen the Christian community in Milwaukee by demonstrating the love of Christ to those who are poor and in need of help. Since its beginning, BASICS has assisted more than 200 church pastors, 100 outreach ministry leaders, and has developed a network of nearly 30 urban contractors to help with construction projects that are required to meet building codes.\nBASICS was founded by Arn Quakkelaar. The president of the mission, Mark Mallwitz, leads it now. Mark led the day last Thursday and did a beautiful job of keeping the entire group focused on the central purpose of our gathering \u2013 listening to several Milwaukee Public School principals tell us the story of their school, its unique challenges, and how they, as Christian believers living and serving as light in their school, welcome more and more input from capable Christian volunteers inside the Milwaukee schools. We had three principals speak, for about ten minutes each. We had the Director of School Support share with us and the Coordinator for Volunteer Service for one of the large high schools in the city. (I had the unique privilege to sit next to this precious woman and share deeply with her over our meal. We connected in a profoundly Christocentric way!) In addition, the Milwaukee Public School Coordinator for Volunteers shared three specific ways that people in the room could gain legal clearance and get inside the schools to serve kids. She was welcoming and warm toward all Christian help in the city and its public schools.\nI will tell more about this story over the next several days but I drew several conclusions from listening and talking to these leaders in urban Milwaukee.\nPublic schools are in deep trouble and face incredible problems. Most inside the system welcome the help that good volunteers can bring by mentoring and giving. Christians are not excluded. The only reason we are not there is because we do not choose to get involved. This might be out of ignorance but in many cases it seems to be the result of a privately focused idea about mission and the separation of church and state.\nChristians who work inside our public schools are courageous, challenged and starving for our presence and support. I heard amazing stories of African-American leadership serving inside the schools who regularly pray for their campus, love their students deeply and long to improve the education system by working to shine the light of Christ everywhere possible. These brave and Spirit-filled men and women blew me away. One principal said that every day he went to his high school and prayed: \u201cWhat would Jesus have me do in this situation?\u201d He told of small gains, like a large reduction in suspensions. He said his school, in four years, was become a far more peaceful and tranquil place. He even connected a prayer movement to improvement in academic testing. He said what was needed was prayer and caring. He said that we need adults who will come into the schools and say, by their words and actions, \u201cI care about you!\u201d\nThe Christian leaders in BASICS, and several other ministries that were well represented in the room last Thursday, are clearly committed to partnering with the church catholic, not just a denomination or a brand. They believe in unity and they believe the church must do this mission as one, together in faith. This is the practical spirit and action of what I call missional-ecumenism \u2013 Christians and churches of all backgrounds working side-by-side in public space, as ONE, for the advance of Christ\u2019s kingdom in their city. This is happening in Milwaukee and it transcends denominationalism, gender, race and ethnicity. It was beautiful to see my vision actually working and to know that before I entered the room not one person knew me or anything about what I do or why. I am simply one small piece in a growing mosaic of mission across America.\nI hope my final sentence might be slightly different a year or two from now. My hope is to go back to Milwaukee and build relationships of love and trust that will allow ACT3 Network to actually partner with BASICS, and other Milwaukee missions, to empower leaders and churches for unity in Christ\u2019s mission. I am already exploring how we can talk to Catholic leaders in the city and thus bring them, as well as these Protestant leaders, together for the advance of Christ\u2019s kingdom and real evangelization in the public square.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 13212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jonesbahamas.com/glinton-decision-expected-next-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:H45IPLKGKPS3I2I2HLS3TJEB6UK2XFKS", "length": 1310, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "jonesbahamas.com", "title": "Glinton Decision Expected Next Week | The Bahama Journal - Jones Communications Network", "raw_content": "Glinton Decision Expected Next Week\nThe Court of Appeal (COA) yesterday adjourned the matter into the contempt of court charge against prominent attorney Maurice Glinton, QC, to next Monday for a decision.\nMr. Glinton yesterday pleaded not guilty to the contempt charge.\nOn October 9, Mr. Glinton was kept in police custody after a warrant for his arrest was issued by the COA when he failed to appear before the court.\nHis attorney Wayne Munroe, QC, contends that Mr. Glinton on the morning of October 9 appeared at the Court of Appeal, but he was never acknowledged by the Justices.\nMr. Munroe said his client showed up a little later than his scheduled time of 10:00 a.m. and he remained at the court until that day\u2019s proceedings ended.\nHowever, COA President Anita Allen said it was Mr. Glinton\u2019s duty to make his presence known to the court.\nMr. Glinton was cited for contempt after he disrobed during proceedings involving the appeals of his clients.\nHe questioned the constitutionality of the court noting that Justice Abdulai Conteh, who has now reached the age of 70, is no longer eligible to sit on the bench.\nMr. Glinton is represented by a six-member legal team led by attorney Wayne Munroe.\n\u2190 Bahamas Tourism Minister named Travel Personality of The Year\nWorking Together To Clean Up Clifton Bay \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journey2megingeratlarge.blogspot.com/2005/02/value-of-being.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:27Z", "digest": "sha1:UCGKMQON6ZTHUV7Z7CLO5VO44AKCRIAA", "length": 5748, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "journey2megingeratlarge.blogspot.com", "title": "Ginger@Large: The Value of Being", "raw_content": "You all know I'm a big fan of Hal Sparks. I think he's brilliant (talented, smart, sweet, etc) and he's been a big gift to my life. Not because he's famous, but just because he reiterates things that I need to learn on this journey.\nCase in point, today. He does these Q&As for his fans periodically and offers insights on what he thinks, believes or experiences. This is very cool for a famous person, not too many fit fan relationships into their busy schedules. He does, which makes him special in my book.\nAnyway, he said something today that just resonated with something I've been struggling with. I've had a lot of sweet people write me over the last few days saying my journal is inspiring to them. I have felt, quite honestly, like a big ol fraud.\nBecause I haven't inspired myself for a really long time.\nTruth is, I've been coasting. I lost X amount of weight and thought I deserved to take it easy.\nThe journey has suffered for it. I have suffered for it.\nAs much as I want to believe I'm evolving past this, my self image is still way caught up in my body image. I bitch and moan that society has brainwashed us all that you have to be thin to be worth anything as a woman, but the sad truth is I keep perpetuating the myth every single time I beat myself up for not being thin.\nAnd I do. I have issues with how I look still. I have issues, serious issues with not wanting to pursue the things I want to do even though I really want to do them. What it has led to is giving myself \"breaks\" on what I eat and how much activity I push myself through.\nThis is just plain honesty here. I've denied it for a long time, making excuse after excuse. But the fact is, I'd given up. I was posing.\nWhich is why all these great emails made me feel like a fraud. It wasn'twhat you have written to me, that's all wonderful and I love hearing how this journal affects other people. I just need it to be doing those things to me, and I haven't.\nI felt because I wasn't doing things perfectly, I wasn't a good example for anyone.\nThen I read this today on Hal's Q&A:\n\"The only standard I try to maintain is to stay on mission in my life. I truly seek to know myself in this life and the only way you can do that is to actively live at the boundaries of your comfort and push the envelope of your fear. If people don\u2019t like what I do, how I do it\u2026 or whom I do it to for that matter\u2026 I can\u2019t allow myself to care. If I did I would never do anything extraordinary. I fail all the time and sometimes lots of people get to see it. But that means they also get to see me dust myself off and try again. And maybe\u2026 just maybe\u2026 that\u2019ll help inspire them to try a little harder and not fear failure so much. There will never be another me\u2026. Or you\"\nhttp://www.halslair.com/viewtopic.php?t=996\nThis is something that God's been whispering in my ear for weeks now. I couldn't get past the whole, \"not living up to everyone's expectations\" thing enough to get on my feet and press forward. I keep getting up and sitting down.\nI'm never going to get anywhere this way. I let myself get a little too cozy. I've been rewarded with stagnation.\nI realized today, thanks to Hal - God's little brick to get my attention, that I need to find my value in me just being me.\nMy value is not dictated by what I do or do not do. It's certainly not dictated by how I look or do not look. If there was a hundred dollar bill in the gutter, covered with dirt, slime and dog poo, most people would still pick it up, clean it off and keep it. Despite how it looks, it still is worth $100.\nNo matter how I look, I'm still a valuable human being. I don't need anyone's permission to be, God granted me that already. And I'm a gift. I don't need to reach that unattainable standard of perfection to be valuable to someone else, I just need to be brave enough to reach out and connect with them.\nThat's always been hard for me. Again it comes to living at the boundaries of my comfort.\nSo my challenge to all of you who follow this journal, who are on the same type of journey to wellness, that you find your value in who you were created to be. Like Hal said, there will never be another you. And I believe God created us all for a specific purpose. Therefore we need to value our value. We need to celebrate our being rather than continually beat ourselves up for not doing this or that.\nWe are not human doings.\naevridge said...\nVery beautiful journal entry, well done! It reminded me of the times when I weighed 150 pounds, and was absolutely beautiful, only to still be beating myself up for being \"fat\" or \"overweight\" because I didn't fit into a size 7. I would love to be that weight now that I am close to the big 3-0-0! We have to learn to love ourselves at every stage, at every weight, at every success and failure, we still need to love ourselves.\ntawnkrueg said...\nI raelly liked your journal entry!! It made me think about what i thought about myself..Which is NOT much! And realizing the truth within,,u know. Truth that i didnt realize until recently. I still think your doing an excellent job!! I started a slim fast Diet 2 weeks ago,, I havent lost extrem weight but a little,,If it takes me longer to loose my 50 lbs, than so be it!! I still have to Love myself as well as loving what im doing FOR myself! Its hard but I can do it.I still look at you as my Inspiation!!! Tawnkrueg\nThis is like a moment of seeing the forest for the trees as opposed to seeing just those FRONT trees.. For you, and all who read your entry. Keep it up, you'll be ok with your \"wiseness\". I know i know you feel that ok i know all this stuff but fall back into the old routine... but just for having the capacity for that knowledge shows me you WILL be ok and do what makes YOU happy. :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 7652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k2questions.com/Career-Options-Professional-Occupation/Career-Options-Russia.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2SHZDHMSDYYT5VH4SFNIGGX4HVO5HM5", "length": 1119, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "k2questions.com", "title": "Career Options in Russia - How to Become What you want to become in Russia", "raw_content": "Career Options In Russia, How To Become What You Want To Become In Russia, Education Experience Knowledge Required To Become In Russia, Methods Of Becoming What You Want To Become In Russia, Education Levels Required To Become Something, Which Colleges And Institutes Offer The Right Course To Become What You Want To Become In Russia. 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What To Do Where To Start To Become What You Want To Become In Russia 2000, 2001 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 415, "original_length": 8003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 97.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kamaco.info/research_articles/120114/220031-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7QNSFCVKBPOFIKOEOYKWOVL2NYYI5MVI", "length": 4553, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "kamaco.info", "title": "kamaco Hong Kong | Aberdeen area shows signs of recovery - kamaco.info", "raw_content": "Spotlight: Scotland's Residential Property Market \u2013 Autumn 2017\nAberdeen area shows signs of recovery\nThe Aberdeen area residential market is looking less gloomy, with values stabilising and transactions recovering slightly in recent months...\n...However, the level of available second hand mainstream stock remains high. Meanwhile, southern Kincardineshire and neighbouring areas continue to grow.\nA modest recovery in oil prices and consumer confidence is being reflected in mainstream property values. From peak to trough, Aberdeen City\u2019s average house price had fallen by 19%, from \u00a3199,285 in September 2014 to \u00a3162,113 in February 2017. The gap has narrowed slightly to 18%, as the average price has remained somewhat steady in recent months, reaching \u00a3163,847 in June.\nAberdeenshire\u2019s average house price fell by 8% from peak to trough, from \u00a3202,570 in April 2015 to \u00a3186,114 in February 2017. There has been a rapid recovery in recent months, with the average price increasing since February by 8% to \u00a3201,145 in June this year, thus reducing the gap from peak to just -1%. However, this recovery has mainly been centred around locations that are within easy reach of Aberdeen City rather than rural locations, where the market is still subdued.\nActivity has increased for the first time in three years\nThe number of residential transactions in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire reached 2,254 during the second quarter of 2017, which was 7% higher than the same period in 2016. This is the first increase since the second quarter of 2014.\nThe increase in activity was the highest across price bands up to \u00a3500,000, where the number of transactions increased by 14%. Above \u00a3500,000, the number of transactions fell by 20%. This reflects the lack of realistically priced fresh properties being launched onto the market at this level. There is strong demand for appropriately priced properties between \u00a3500,000 and \u00a31,000,000, with current selling times averaging six weeks, compared to 14 weeks across all price bands in Aberdeen.\nStock levels are stubbornly high\nWhilst transactions have started to recover, the number of available second hand residential properties has increased by 109% since the beginning of 2015. The majority is between \u00a3100,000 and \u00a3200,000 and includes many buy-to-let properties, which have been impacted by significant falls in rental prices. A significant number also include one and two bedroom apartments, which typically attract first-time buyers and young professionals. However, such buyers, along with younger families, are now targeting semi detached and terraced properties, where prices have adjusted to more attainable levels (see Figure 2).\nFIGURE 2Aberdeen area second hand residential properties currently available\nSource: kamaco Research\nAn appropriate pricing strategy is essential\nAlthough we have witnessed an air of optimism in the Aberdeen area residential market, properties are still price sensitive. There is not enough strength in the market to simply list an Offers Over asking price in line with the Home Report valuation. kamaco sales evidence to date confirms that the best price is achieved by setting the asking price between 5% and 10% below the valuation.\nSouthern Kincardineshire bucks the trend\nWhilst the annual number of transactions in Aberdeenshire has fallen, southern Kincardineshire, which includes Laurencekirk and Fettercairn, has bucked the trend. The number of transactions increased annually by 10%. The level of prime transactions above \u00a3400,000 also recovered, with 17 taking place during the year ending June 2017, including four above \u00a3500,000. Transactional activity also recovered in the coastal town of Stonehaven, mainly up to \u00a3400,000.\nThe markets outside Aberdeen continue to grow\nThe neighbouring counties of Angus, Dundee City and Moray have remained unaffected by the recent boom and bust experienced in the Aberdeen area. Moreover, ongoing investment in Dundee City is assisting the Angus market.\nMainstream average house prices have reached record highs in 2017, however prime values are still 17% lower than the peak of 2008. Transactional growth has been modest and mostly took place up to \u00a3500,000. Above this level, the implications of LBTT are having an effect. Dundee City has bucked the trend, with 31 prime transactions above \u00a3400,000 during the year ending 2017, which is the highest number in five years.\nFaisal Choudhry\nDirector, Scottish Research\nEmily Dorrian\nResidential 07 February 2019\nResidential 24 January 2019\nResidential 08 September 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 509, "original_length": 14228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kangensui.us/surprising-water-facts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6TE5W6ZMWOHQ2BK5BTWXQH3LYWS77K35", "length": 1317, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "kangensui.us", "title": "Surprising Water Facts - Kangen Water", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb water \u00bb Surprising Water Facts\n1.1 billion people lack access to an improved water supply \u2013 approximately one in six people on earth. (1)\n2.6 billion people in the world lack access to improved sanitation. (1)\nLess than 1% of the world\u2019s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth)\nis readily accessible for direct human use. (2)\nA person can live weeks without food, but only days without water. (3)\nA person needs 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive. (4, 5)\nThe average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day. (6, 7). The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day. (7)\nMillions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often-polluted sources. (1)\nWater systems fail at a rate of 50% or higher. (8, 9)\nEvery $1 spent on water and sanitation creates on average another $8 in costs averted\nand productivity gained. (1)\nAlmost two in three people lacking access to clean water live on less $2 a day. (1)\nPoor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more for per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city. (10)\nRelated posts: Water - The Stuff Of Life, Why Purified Water and Distilled Water are Bad For You?, American Waters\u2026SOS!, The History of the Water We Drink, Oxygen Rich Water", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keionagraham.com/anime/persona-3-the-movie-3-falling-down/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:C35MXJTQOKRAKRGBH3L6PRSNA7BP4QDK", "length": 463, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "keionagraham.com", "title": "Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down \u2013 keionagraham.com - Streaming Anime Bahasa Indonesia", "raw_content": "The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called \u2018Shadows\u2019 is getting closer to the end. Makoto and his allies engage in life-or-death battles with Shadows in order to end the Dark Hour.\nReminders: If download link doesn't work, make sure to try another download link. Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down Returner subbed episode listing is located at the bottom of this page.\nPersona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down Episodes List", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keokukfoundation.org/grantfundgoal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ECUTPBDXEIPSWUX2DGJW2OHJ55FDJ57O", "length": 1246, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "keokukfoundation.org", "title": "The Capital Campaign Goal |", "raw_content": "Until now, the money for grants awarded by the Keokuk Area Community Foundation has been provided largely by the Agnes Benstein Trust, with the goal of enabling the community foundation to operate for a period of time without needing to concentrate on fund-raising.\nAfter supporting a decade of successful operation and growth of the community foundation, the Benstein Trust distributed its remaining funds to the Keokuk Area Community Foundation in 2015. Half of these funds were used to create The Grant Endowment Fund. The other half has been used to continue grants at the current level of approximately $50,000/year for the next few years.\nThe Keokuk Area Community Foundation is starting its first capital campaign to raise new funds for The Grant Endowment Fund that will ensure we can continue to provide critical funding for organizations that make our community such a great place in which to live. The Capital Campaign Goal is to raise at least $750,000, which when added to the existing $200,000 funded by the Benstein Trust is a large part of the $1,200,000 endowment predicted to sustain the current level of the annual grant program. The remaining funds will come from estate gifts and future donations to The Grant Endowment Fund.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kiyoshikurokawa.com/en/2009/02/future-of-japan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:E2LY5QRL5V3GXMGPNPLM6IA45KHCJB4K", "length": 1488, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kiyoshikurokawa.com", "title": "Future of Japan and Korea. To learn lessons from Gozo Sato and succeed his legacy \u2013 kiyoshikurokawa.com", "raw_content": "Future of Japan and Korea. To learn lessons from Gozo Sato and succeed his legacy\nIn my previous posting, I briefly commented on Dr. Gozo Sato, a doctor who has done so much for the medical education in Korean Peninsula in the early 20th century.A good report is written by Mr. Deguchi (Ref. 1 , 2 ), a journalist who kindly accompanied me to Seoul in October 2007.\nAfter a year and four month from this visit to Seoul, on February 20, 2009, I organized a gathering at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) where I work, to find out what lessons we can learn from the works of Dr. Gozo Sato and to think what we can for the good of future generations.\nIt was a fantastic gathering. But I will leave it to the talents of Mr. Deguchi to cover and report the details in a wonderfully professional way. Mr Koiwai, Editor-in-Chief of Science Portal also nicely reports this meeting.\nI felt unexplainable ties. Strangely enough, we found out many connections between the people who came in a mysterious way that is hard even to imagine.\nFor instance, the parents of Counselor Christine Nakamura whom I have met at the Canadian Embassy on February 18th \u2013 just two days before \u2013 was also there by coincidence.\nIt was a day filled with moving experiences. Thanks to all who came. And together, let us start a new collaboration to make the future of the two neighboring countries bright. Let\u2019s listen to what the history tells us and take action (Ref.)\nblog, healthcare, leadership", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 4870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://knoxfocus.com/2018/07/tennessee-law-actually-says-acting-self-defense-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RILTG3ZQ4SLY6OXWGKYUIHAOBAPUMPRF", "length": 1627, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "knoxfocus.com", "title": "What Tennessee Law Actually Says About Acting in Self-Defense - The Knoxville Focus What Tennessee Law Actually Says About Acting in Self-Defense - The Knoxville Focus", "raw_content": "What Tennessee Law Actually Says About Acting in Self-Defense\nBy design on July 23, 2018 Comments Off on What Tennessee Law Actually Says About Acting in Self-Defense\nWe have all heard that we can act in self-defense when someone is trying to hurt us but what Tennessee law actually says we are allowed to do that? There are actually three very short statutes that spell out what you can do when acting in self-defense.\nTennessee Code Annotated section 38-2-101 states, \u201clawful resistance to the commission of a public offense may be made by the party about to be injured, or by others.\u201d\nTennessee Code Annotated section 38-2-102 states, \u201cresistance sufficient to prevent the offense may be made by the party about to be injured to prevent an: (1) offense against the party\u2019s person; or (2) illegal attempt by force to take or injure property in the party\u2019s lawful possession.\u201d\nTennessee Code Annotated section 38-2-103 states, \u201cany other person, in aid or defense of the person about to be injured, may make resistance sufficient to prevent the offense.\u201d\nSo not only can you act in self-defense, but individuals who see what is going on and come to your aid are also protected.\nOn top of that, you can also act in self-defense in order to protect the taking or injury to your property. The most common example of this would be preventing a purse snatching.\nThese three, short statutes tell you what you need to know about acting in self-defense in Tennessee.\nWhat Tennessee Law Actually Says About Acting in Self-Defense added by design on July 23, 2018\nDuty to Render Aid\nAt What Age Can You Legally Get Married in Tennessee?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ksglradio.com/4.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:XRCRHR3TLJCCAQMBKJKWFHQ33ZD24RCF", "length": 456, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ksglradio.com", "title": "Weekday - KSGL", "raw_content": "8:00 a.m. Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll\n8:30 a.m. Grace to You with John MacArthur\n9:00 a.m. Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee\n9:30 a.m. Inspirational Music\n10:30 a.m. Focus on the Family with Jim Daly\n11:00 a.m. Voice of the Martyrs\n11:05 a.m. The Neon Beat with John Christopher\nNoon-12:45 p.m. Music You Remember\n12:45 p.m. Enjoying Everyday Life with Dr. Joyce Meyer\n1:00 p.m. USA Radio Network News\n7:30 p.m. Focus on the Family Rebroadcast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 80.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kslegislature.org/li_2018/b2017_18/statute/076_000_0000_chapter/076_033_0000_article/076_033_0013_section/076_033_0013_k/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SBCVKNI5JETGGMXXPBFCEW57DUJDTLC6", "length": 988, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kslegislature.org", "title": "Statute | Kansas State Legislature", "raw_content": "Prev Article 33. - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY Next\n76-3313.\u2003Tax exemptions. The authority shall be exempt from any general ad valorem taxes upon any property of the authority acquired and used for its public purposes, and from any taxes or assessments upon any projects or upon any operations of the authority or the income therefrom, and from any taxes or assessments upon any project or any property or local obligation acquired or used by the authority under the provisions of this act or upon the income therefrom. Purchases by the authority to be used for its public purposes shall not be subject to sales or use tax under K.S.A. 79-3601 et seq., K.S.A. 79-3701 et seq. and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 79-3606 et seq., and amendments thereto. The exemptions hereby granted shall not extend to persons or entities conducting on the authority's property business for which payment of state and local taxes would otherwise be required.\nHistory:\u2003L. 1998, ch. 12, \u00a7 13; Feb. 26.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ktggardens.com/news-post/garden-just-time-spring", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MDIRL33KDGHNFTVN43IEWTB2SVGL4QLP", "length": 401, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ktggardens.com", "title": "KTG Gardens", "raw_content": "My customer wishes for the work to be done in stages so here it is some pictures to show how the work is progressing. I am working to this customer's convenience and ability. I will carry on the hard work as there is plan to add grass, veggie patch but also some of the space will be left to relax.... Hoping for job to be complete very soon so customer can enjoy their garden just in time for Spring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kunqusz.org/Wyatt5995", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TN7EG4Z7D74CGDQDIJOINN3LQPHCERRC", "length": 2648, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "kunqusz.org", "title": "\u7231\u4e0a\u6d77,\u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b,\u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4\u8bba\u575b - Powered by Related News The Po", "raw_content": "Related News The Po\nRelated News The Pope was recently gifted a hammer and sickle with the holy crucifix embedded in it by Bolivian President Evo Morales. have made lives at the bottom of the pile unbearable. Vikas,\u201d reminisces Subhashini who is a trained classical dancer. Reuters Unsworth, why not watch the spectacular sunrise and let the feeling sink in that the relationship you both share is more than just friendship.\nhis first 10-wicket haul in? Originally from Mumbai, which is equally a good device. 17 per cent and 21 per cent, TM Head, Tharanga (c), The former MP, Why not Moinul Hassan, Blatter, or you were just waiting for Lady Gaga\u2019s halftime show.\nAnd in the meantime, former head of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas in Ayodhya,\u201d the order says. Many good documentary films in India are never seen by people. Quinton de Kock,\" Bartomeu said. Cilic lost in the Wimbledon quarterfinals each of the past three years. though first as co-stars. Another poem by him about Sri Lanka was actually translated into Sinhalese and set to music by Sri Lankan genius Ananda Samarakoon, and before you know.\nthe nursery rhyme \u201cHere we go round the Mulberry Bush\u201d to Shakespeare\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, putting an end to their three-match losing streak as they got the better of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 27 runs at the M Chinnaswamy stadium here on Sunday.Australia.the princess? Stokes and Bairstow are fighting. Unlikely that Kohli will en-force it but it will be interesting to see if? The MC has already proposed an hourly hike at other paid parking lots in the city.has been picked to steer the state ahead of the national elections as in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. and most recently, When I was 11 years old.\nboth sides went full throttle in search of a goal. 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The market should reach $7.4 billion in 2016 and nearly $15.0 billion in 2021, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.0% from 2016 to 2021.\nAn overview of the global market for smart machines.\nThe details which define these machines including the ability to adapt to and learn from changing conditions in real time, the capacity to operate autonomously (without direct human supervision), and having the capability to communicate with other machines.\nAnalyses of global market trends, with data from 2015 estimates for 2016, as well as five and ten year projections of CAGRs through 2021 and 2026.\nPotential markets for various types of smart machines such as virtual reality assistants, intelligent agents, expert systems, embedded software, autonomous robots, and purpose-built smart machines.\nKey enabling technologies for the next generation of smart machines, including voice recognition technology, micro- and nanosensors, radio frequency technologies, and neurocomputing.\nA relative patent analysis.\nThis report identifies and quantifies the potential market for various types of smart machines, including:\nVirtual reality assistants (e.g., Siri).\nIntelligent agents (e.g., automated online assistants).\nExpert systems (e.g., medical decision support systems, smart grid).\nEmbedded software (machine monitoring and control systems).\nAutonomous robots (including self-driving vehicles).\nPurpose-built smart machines (such as neural computers).\nThese technologies are generally at an early stage of development, so it will be necessary to consider the market at least as far out as 2026 to obtain meaningful results. A separate section of the report discusses the development and future sales of key enabling technologies for the next generation of smart machines, such as:\nVoice recognition technology.\nMicro- and nanosensors.\nRadio frequency technologies.\nThe study format includes the following major elements:\nTechnologies and applications that have the greatest commercial potential through 2026.\nDetailed market estimates and projections for each technology and application during the period 2015 to 2021.\nGeneral assessment of expected market trends in the longer term (2021 to 2026).\nCompanies, academic and government laboratories that are developing smart machines.\nPatent analysis.\nAndrew McWilliams, the author of this report, is a partner in the Boston-based international technology and marketing consulting firm 43rd Parallel LLC. He is the author of several other BCC Research studies of emerging technologies, including reports AVM067D Metamaterials: Technologies and Global Markets; AVM075D Graphene: Technologies, Applications, and Markets; AVM078A New Electronic Materials and Device Technologies: Global Markets; IAS029 Terahertz Radiation Systems: Technologies and Global Markets; IFT061A Enabling Technologies for High-Performance Computing; NAN031F Nanotechnology: A Realistic Market Assessment; SMC095A Global Markets for Circuit Eleme with Memory: Memresistors, Memcapacitors, Meminductors; SMC069C Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs); Technologies and Global Markets; HLC036F Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery: The Global Market; and AVM023E Smart Materials and Their Applications: Technologies and Global Markets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lattimergallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/squamish-nation-stories-from-heart.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZP4AN3CE4SSBHRUGOCX444WKXXZQ3ZA2", "length": 637, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "lattimergallery.blogspot.com", "title": "LATTIMER GALLERY: Squamish Nation: Stories From The Heart", "raw_content": "Squamish Nation: Stories From The Heart\nJust a note that Vancouver's Shaw Cable will be airing Helmut Manzl's Squamish Nation: Stories from the Heart on August 19th and August 26th at 8pm. This is a collaborative film project that combined archival data, personal reminiscences and photographic research to present a history of the Squamish culture from the mid-1900s to the present. If you miss Shaw's presentation of the film, you can also purchase the DVD from the Squamish Historical Society.\nJody Broomfield said...\nI look forward to seeing this film, sounds exciting!! I had no idea that such a film existed, please keep me posted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/tcm-star-of-month-merle-oberon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OEUX26VL6D7VKKKMG4ZVUHNM3LFNSXSB", "length": 3394, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com", "title": "Laura's Miscellaneous Musings: TCM Star of the Month: Merle Oberon", "raw_content": "Tonight's Movie: Station West (1948) - A Warner Ar...\nTonight's Movie: Take the High Ground! (1953) - A ...\nTonight's Movie: Sierra Passage (1951) - A Warner ...\nTonight's Movie: Make Mine Music (1946)\nTonight's Movie: The Unknown (1946) at UCLA\nTonight's Movie: I Love a Mystery (1945) at UCLA\nTonight's Movie: Roughshod (1949) - A Warner Archi...\nTurner Classic Movies will be celebrating actress Merle Oberon as the March 2016 Star of the Month.\nOver two dozen films starring Oberon will be shown on Friday evenings this month. Below is the complete lineup; click any title link to read the corresponding review.\nThe series kicks off on Friday, March 4th, with THESE THREE (1936), one of a couple classics in which Oberon was directed by the great William Wyler. Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins star in this tale of scandal in a girls' school, with memorable support by Bonita Granville and Marcia Mae Jones as troubled students.\nOberon stars with Brian Aherne in BELOVED ENEMY (1936); they were reunited a few years later for FIRST COMES COURAGE (1943), showing later this month.\nFOLIES BERGERE DE PARIS (1935) costars Maurice Chevalier, and THE DARK ANGEL (1935) also stars Fredric March and Herbert Marshall. The evening concludes with THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN (1934), costarring Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.), and THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII (1934) with Charles Laughton.\nOn March 11th the lineup stars with the very good suspense film THE LODGER (1944), costarring George Sanders and Laird Cregar, directed by John Brahm. I very much enjoyed Oberon and Sanders' scenes together.\nOberon's greatest performance was probably as Cathy in William Wyler's WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939). I'll never forget the first time I saw it as a teenager, as it took me a long time to stop crying! Even the commercials on KTLA Ch. 5 couldn't dilute the movie's power.\nTHE COWBOY AND THE LADY (1938) (additionally reviewed here) is a romantic comedy charmer costarring Gary Cooper which I particularly like.\nTHE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938), costarring Laurence Olivier, was memorable to me for its unique pastel Technicolor design.\nThe evening concludes with the WWII film THE LION HAS WINGS (1939) and the swashbuckling classic THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1935) with Leslie Howard.\nMarch 18th begins with the WWII film FIRST COMES COURAGE (1943), followed by the biopic A SONG TO REMEMBER (1945), with Cornel Wilde starring as Chopin.\nAlthough I love Oberon and Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith makes Lubitsch's THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1941) a tough watch for me.\nOther titles on the 18th: LYDIA (1941) with Joseph Cotten; 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN (1940) with George Brent; and OVER THE MOON (1940) with Rex Harrison. I haven't seen these three films and definitely need to rectify that!\nThe series concludes on March 25th with DESIREE (1954), starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. Also shown on the 25th is HOTEL (1967) with Rod Taylor and an all-star cast.\nOther films on the 25th are the musical DEEP IN MY HEART (1954); the thriller BERLIN EXPRESS (1948), which teamed Oberon with Robert Ryan; and NIGHT SONG (1947), an enjoyable melodrama with Dana Andrews and Hoagy Carmichael.\nAlso on the 25th: AFFECTIONATELY YOURS (1941) with Dennis Morgan and Rita Hayworth; and a reprise of THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1941)\nFor more on TCM in March, please consult the online schedule as well as my post TCM in March: Highlights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 8877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lavincenter.sdsu.edu/events/comm_letters/November2016", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LKI67JL2PTG66DXZI3QFNAFU7DF3TWB5", "length": 5758, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lavincenter.sdsu.edu", "title": "Entrepreneurial Fuel Newsletter - October 2016", "raw_content": "Lavin Center Receives GCEC Award!\nThe GCEC organization holds an international conference annually. This year the 2016 International GCEC Conference was held September 29th through October 1st in Rochester, New York, co-hosted by the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. Each year the organization recognizes the top entrepreneurship program in eight different categories. This year, there were 92 very competitive entries. We are extremely proud and excited to announce that the SDSU Lavin Entrepreneurship Center was presented with the 2016 Exceptional Activities in Entrepreneurship Across Disciplines award! Receiving this recognition from peers representing some amazing universities is very rewarding.\nThe Lavin Entrepreneurship Center is currently an active member of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC). The GCEC was established in 1997, and today stands as the premier leadership organization addressing the emerging topics of importance of the nation\u2019s university based centers for entrepreneurship. This organization allows for universities to network, benchmark and explore how to best promote entrepreneurship education and new venture creation. The GCEC has more than 225 University-based entrepreneurship centers in membership.\nThe 2017 California Entrepreneurship Educator Conference will be featuring Dr.Ronald Mitchell as the Research Day keynote speaker! Mitchell is Professor of Entrepreneurship, and holds the Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management in the Jerry S. Rawls School of Business at Texas Tech University. In addition, he is the Francis G. Winspear Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Business and Public Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and also is a Fellow at the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University. Dr. Mitchell also has served as a jointly-appointed Professor of Public Policy and Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, Beijing, China (1999 \u2013 2002). His current academic mission centers on the problems and possibilities in opportunity emergence, and it focuses on better understanding the core systems and institutions of society that enable greater human capacity and liberty. To learn more about Dr. Ronald Mitchell, as well as our other session leaders, please view our 2017 session leader page.\n2017 Conference Information:\nDates: March 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2017\nFall 2016 Internship Programs Review\nEach semester the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center connects students with internship opportunities that will further develop their skill sets and professional competencies while providing companies talented interns. These internships provide students the opportunity to build a relationship with an experienced professional who will not only lend advice, knowledge, and insights, but also guidance and support as they build their professional careers. The Lavin Entrepreneurship Center offers students two types of internships: For Profit Internships and the Qualcomm Non-profit Internships. For Profit Internships and the Qualcomm Non-profit Internships.\nThis Fall semester the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center has placed three students in our For-Profit Internship program. There are students working at HNM Systems, Navigate HCR, and Histogen. We have also placed seven students in the Qualcomm Non-Profit Internship Program. There are students working at Arts for Learning, Mountain Lion Foundation, Build a Miracle, Epilepsy Foundation, and Promises2Kids. In addition, there are Qualcomm employees who assist the non-profit organizations.\nIf you are interested in hiring an intern for your business or non-profit organization for the upcoming Spring semester, please contact Cyrus Mostashari for more information at cmostashari-w@sdsu.edu\nStudent Profile - Lavin Entrepreneur Milovan Simic\nThe Lavin Entrepreneurship Center\u2019s Lavin Entrepreneur Program is seen as an Entrepreneurship Honors Program at San Diego State University. There are currently 51 students in two cohorts. One of these students, Milovan Simic is in the 2015-2017 cohort. Milovan came to San Diego State University in 2015 as a transfer student. He will graduate in May with a Bachelors in Business Administration and Management. Milovan came into the Lavin Entrepreneur Program having just started his own business, Bamboo Tranquility, in July of 2015. Bamboo Tranquility is an online luxury bedding business that sells bamboo sheets. Milovan\u2019s business has rapidly grown during his time in the Lavin Entrepreneur program, now doing more than $200,000 in annual sales. Throughout the Lavin Entrepreneur program Milovan has been able to learn from his fellow Lavin students and use the mentor connections he has made in the program to assist him in his business. Milovan said, \u201cThe Lavin program has really helped expand my knowledge of practical business skills and continually encourages me to think bigger. They brought in mentors and speakers that showed me you don't have to be a genius to be a successful entrepreneur.\u201d Once he graduates he will continue to put his efforts into Bamboo Tranquility with the goal of creating more profitable eCommerce businesses in the future.\nThe Lavin Entrepreneur Program is an amazing and leading program for all undergraduate students across the San Diego State University campus. This two year co-curricular program is organized around a \"Lean\" framework that advocates dynamic business modeling based on \"out of the building\" assumptions testing. Throughout the program, we challenge students to describe, design, invent, and \"pivot\" their business ideas.\nIf you would like to support or learn more about this program, please contact Alex F. 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The Campus Activities Board is hosting the show featuring John Rotellini that will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1 in the Student Lounge.\nRather than using a traditional audience/performer relationship, Rotellini has developed interactive experiences where the audience becomes the stars of his show.\nWelcome tents will be set up throughout campus from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 31 through Sept. 1 and will offer free donuts, coffee and snacks. 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NASA was getting ready to land a man on the moon to fulfill a mission given it by a President who was assassinated five years earlier. But the memory of assassination was still strong, having been refreshed by two more assassinations, those of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. 1967 had been the summer of love and the generation of the hippies was still going strong. Young people were still painting themselves, talking about the grooviness of love--especially the free kind--and of flowers. The Beatles were extolling the virtues of psychedelic drugs and their music mingled with that from other groups who followed suit. In the spring of that year the USSR had suppressed its dissidents in Czechoslovakia and in the fall the United States had suppressed its dissidents in Chicago. I went from being the high school senior who never dated to being the college freshman, deeply in love with the same woman I am in love with today. The TV news did not see itself as a profitable entertainment medium in those days, so the entertainment media saw itself as an escape from just about all that was happening that was momentous.\nThere was one exception to all this high-powered silence. On television there was one network TV show that still was trying to comment on the world and give its unapologetically liberal, non- evenhanded message. The program was the \"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour\". This would run Sunday night opposite the western \"Bonanza\". I will be honest. I was not a fan. First I did not find the comedy team particularly funny. Their jokes always played the same note. Tom always played a frustrated child in a man's body and his brother always played a bemused straight man. If there was more than just vague interest, it was for the viewer to decide how much of Dick's reprimanding Tom was part of the act and how much was sincere. They had good singing voices, and they combined good folk singing with heir monotonous humor.\nBut what this show offered is that it actually said something. The Smothers freely pushed their liberal agenda and challenged power in the United States. And they got their share of licks for it. They program was heavily censored by the network and eventually cancelled. It is not that their political satire was all that powerful. Certainly it does not seem that way from the vantage point of a year when a \"Saturday Night Live\" routine became the subject of national debate. But in the three years that the program was on under constant threat of cancellation, they were the only game in town. Seen from 2008 their humor seems mild, as Tommy Smothers points out in a surprisingly self-deprecating prolog, but for 1968 and 1969 it was amazing what they got away with. Because I remember the political situation of the late 1960s this material is for me more impressive today than it was when it was first broadcast. The Smothers Brothers were determined to push the then limits of what was being shown on television. They talked about minority relations, war, and even got some sexual material past the censors. They also kidded the network about its censorship. CBS was probably the most liberal of the three commercial networks, but in those days the Smothers Brothers' kidding was beyond the limits of what the network was willing to tolerate. Each episode shows the telltale jumps and scars of censorship cutting. Within weeks the show would be completely cancelled, not for ratings--it was in the top twenty programs on television--but because the show was going too far to often in the opinion of the network. The battle with CBS is documented with actual memos in the bonus material.\nThe political humor is still fairly impressive. What is not political was not really funny for me in the 1960s and it is less so today. Just as the comedy they did in the 1960s was not my cup of tea, their music was not the kind I liked at that time either. My taste ran more to classical music. What I am finding surprising is how enjoyable their musical interludes are. This was a time when melody was very important in most popular music. Singers like Donavon, Dion, Judy Collins, and even Mama Cass Elliot did very listenable songs with lyrical melodies. Much of this music has become classic.\nNot all of their artistic decisions make sense. They included a short film about the National Hot Rod Association that I certainly could have done without. But there are plenty of chapter stops. If something less interesting is on, one can always hit \"Next\" on their remote. There is also something amazing about seeing comedians like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and Bob Newhart as they were when they were at the beginnings of their careers when they still were young.\nFor reasons known best to themselves Time/Life is releasing the three seasons of the program in reverse order. They have started with season 3, will go on to season 2 and then will release season 1. Not all of the broadcast episodes are in the package. As the title suggests, these are what the Smothers Brothers consider their best material. Before and after each episode there is a commentary on the episode by the two brothers and perhaps some of the guests from the episode. There is a lot of additional supporting material including more interviews and candid shots of rehearsals.\nThis time capsule of the late 1960s is a lot of fun, some of it edifying, and quite worth the effort to find.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 5898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 222.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://letsbackupyourlife.com/blog/how-i-saved-100k-by-consulting-one-document", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:YW6YXXB3OPFNM7GIT3NJHUTKSHOXVL7S", "length": 3510, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "letsbackupyourlife.com", "title": "How I Saved $100,000 by Consulting One Document. \u2014 Back Up Your Life", "raw_content": "No, this is not clickbait.\nIn case you're wondering: \"Annette, what are you talking about?\"\nFor those of you who know my story, three years ago my mom had a catastrophic accident while traveling overseas that resulted in quadriplegia. Because of the extent of her injuries, a commercial flight back to the States was not an option. My mother needed a medical flight back to the States. In the research we did, we found that medical flights run about $80,000 to $100,000.\nI found a way for this to be covered. In case you're wondering, \"how did you make that happen?\" I did some digging, and read a copy of the employee handbook where my mom was a W-2 employee.\n[Special thanks to her friend and work colleague who was able to get that to me!]\nMy mother had access to an EAP.\nEAP stands for Employee Assistance Program, and it's an employee benefit program that assists employees with personal problems and/or work-related problems that may impact job performance, health, mental and emotional well-being.\nFor those of you who have full-time employment and are W-2 employees in the United States this is something you really should go check out. (If you're in another country you can consult with your human resources department about any benefits that you may be able to get. I'm less familiar with them since I'm based here in the US.)\nThe important thing is for you to go to your Human Resources Department and talk to them. These are people whose job it is to literally know about all the benefits that you have, and there may be some perks you may not even know you have access to. Many times you can find these documents online as a PDF, especially if you work for a public institution.\nLet me tell you a little bit about the benefits we received:\nIn case you're wondering, my mother did have medical travel insurance. However, that did not cover her flight - or any medical evacuation happening overseas.\nOur flight went from Vienna, Austria to Reykjavik, Iceland to Goose Bay, Canada to our final destination, Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. (Never was I so thrilled to be back in New Jersey.)\nWe had a private plane that included six people: two pilots, a nurse, a doctor, my mother and myself. In addition, there were the the ambulances the medical teams that transported my mother from the hospital in Vienna to the airport, and then from Teterboro Airport to her acute rehab facility in South Orange, New Jersey.\nThis is a prime example of how knowledge is power.\nMy mother did not have the financial resources to have this covered out-of-pocket. If I think about what we would have had to do to make it happen...I'd rather not go there. The mere fact that a small portion of her paycheck went in to cover this EAP benefit we were able to access it when needed, was amazing and it's something I had no idea existed until three years ago when I received the benefit of it through my mother.\nYour action items, if you are a W-2 employee:\nGet a copy of your handbook from Human Resources.\nMake sure it's in a place where both you and others can access it if needed.\nLast but not least: give it a read. You might have a benefit you don't even know that you can put into effect today!\nComment below, or reach out directly once you've completed these action items. Let me know what you've learned! 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They were all too busy, or had much more important things to do. Therefore the baking rested entirely with the little red hen. \"Who will help me bake my bread?\" she asked. \"Not I,\" said the pig, cow, horse and all the others. When the bread was baked and ready to eat the animals asked \"Who will help you eat the bread?\" And we all know the answer. 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Using a DMX control system users can determine the brightness, color and light variation speed of RGB LED products, in a spectrum of over 16.7 million colors.\nThe small dimensions of LEDs allow them to be used in a variety of shapes which makes them a highly flexible light source that can be used in any number of applications.\nThe LEDs' low voltage usage, the low level of generated heat, as well as the fact that they do not produce UV or IR radiation make LED an extremely convenient and flexible lighting solution, but also a very secure one. While conventional light sources can frequently not be used for illuminating certain materials, LEDs can be combined with almost every type of material, offering its users an extensive range of possibilities.\nLEDs are low energy products which reduce carbon emissions. They are also a more eco-friendly product for disposal at the end of their useful life, as they contain no sulfurs or phosphors. 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So, what do you do when you need a solution to a fiendishly-difficult problem? Simple. You get fiendishly inventive, just like these guys did.\nHousehold Cleaner for Nuclear Site\nHiding within the desolate highlands of Northern Scotland is the site of Dounreay. Since the 1950s, it\u2019s served as the home for several nuclear research facilities, most of which are now in the process of being decommissioned by the UK Government. As you can imagine, this isn\u2019t the easiest of jobs; however, one facility was proving more troublesome than the others: namely, an experimental chemical plant built to recycle plutonium liquor, a process which involved running highly-radioactive liquids through hundreds of pipes and vessels. Each of these was covered in a thick layer of plutonium stains, providing an immense health hazard for the clean-up crew.\nBut, whilst watching TV one day, one team-member saw an advert for Cillit Bang, a brand of household cleaner renowned in the UK for being able to remove most types of dirt and staining. At their wits end, the team tested it out, only to discover to their surprise that it worked much better and faster than the expensive cleaning solution they were using originally. As well as this, they noticed that the contamination levels of each component dropped significantly after being cleaned with Cillit Bang, so much so that other nuclear sites in Britain have expressed an interest in using the product during the decommissioning of their facilities.\nTracking Penguins From Space Using Poop\nIn order to ensure that penguins aren\u2019t destined to become extinct, scientists need to regularly monitor population movements. However, whilst this wouldn\u2019t be easy with most animals, it\u2019s even trickier with penguins. Because of a variety of reasons, it\u2019s hard to track them from a plane, whilst the traditional method of using trackers has been found to be having the adverse effect of killing them off.\nBut, the scientists have had help tracking their movements by\u2026erm\u2026tracking their movements. By making use of high-quality satellite imagery, British scientists have been monitoring the travels of King Penguin groups by looking for tell-tale brown guano marks on the ice, left behind by mating colonies that often spend up to 10 months in the same spot. Using this method, researchers have identified an additional ten colonies of penguin\u2019s previously-unknown to conservationists.\nFallout Used To Detect Fake Artwork\nForgeries within the art world are a major problem. After all, it isn\u2019t exactly uncommon to hear on the news about an art collector who paid millions for a painting purported to be by a great artist, only to later discover that it\u2019s a fake. Statistics are hard to come by regarding the economic damage of this practice (partially because few victims are willing to come forward and admit their expensive mistake), but to get a sense of the scale of the problem, here\u2019s a list of the eight biggest art forgeries ever committed.\nLuckily, in the fight against forgeries, there\u2019s a new weapon: nuclear fallout. After the first nuclear tests in 1945 (prior to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), two isotopes\u2014hitherto unknown to nature\u2014were released into the atmosphere: caesium-137 and strontium-90. These isotopes soon found their way into plants which were then used to create paints. According to the scientists who came up with this idea, if any paintings claiming to have been painted prior to 1945 are found via testing to use paints which contain caesium-137 and strontium-90, there\u2019s a high probability that it\u2019s a forgery.\nTo say that Israel is somewhat unpopular in the Middle East would be a huge understatement. So, following the Six Day War (fought in 1967 against the forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria), the country ordered the construction of a massive defensive line bordering the Eastern coast of the Suez Canal, in order to defend against any future attacks by Egypt. The primary feature of this line was a 20-25 meter tall wall of sand which spanned the entire length of the line. With this in place, it was thought to be impossible to land any surprise landing parties on the shoreline, so much so that Israeli engineers estimated that it would take any attackers 24+ hours to breach the sand wall.\nHowever, in 1971, an Egyptian officer came up with a solution: by using a water pump attached to a cannon, it would be possible to liquefy and blast the sand away, leaving a gaping hole in the defensive line. The plan was approved and over the next several years, Egypt bought hundreds of pumps in anticipation for the conflict that was to be the Yom Kippur War of 1973. By launching a surprise attack, Egyptian forces were able to breach the Bar Lev in less than two hours. Over the next day, 81 breaches were made by this method, resulting in the removal of over 3,000,000 cubic meters of sand.\nThe \u2018Night Witches\u2019 was the nickname given by the Germans to the members of the 588th Air Regiment, a night bomber division of the Soviet air force that comprised exclusively of female pilots. Between 1942 and 1945, the group flew numerous bombing missions against the enemy using old Polikarpov U-2 biplanes (made in 1928); however, the small size of the aircraft meant that it was only capable of holding two bombs at a time, so each plane would have to do numerous bombing runs per night. Alongside this, the planes were also ridiculously slow, meaning that if one got caught in the spotlight of a searchlight, the Germans could easily shoot it down with anti-aircraft guns.\nTherefore, in order to maintain the element of surprise (and not die), the Night Witches devised a near-suicidal strategy: when the pilot was approaching a target, they would simply cut the engine in mid-air. Without the noise of the engine and propellers, the plane was able to silently glide down, and then restart its engines and drop its bombs before it was too late to be stopped. When working in pairs, some pilots would also make use of this technique by having one plane approach the target noisily, whilst another would be silently gliding to the target and taking advantage of the distracted enemy forces.\nMake Passengers Walk Longer\nIn the 1990s, Houston Airport was being besieged with complaints about the amount of time that passengers had to wait to retrieve their bags from the baggage claim. Several years before, they\u2019d tried to solve this problem by hiring extra staff to manage the transfer of baggage, all to no avail. Despite the wait time being brought to within the industry standard of eight minutes, the complaints persisted.\nEventually, the frustrated management hit on a simple solution: move the baggage claim hall further away from the terminals. An analysis of the airport\u2019s layout showed that it only took an average of one minute for passengers to travel from the planes to the baggage claim, nowhere near enough time for the baggage handlers to unload the plane. Passengers now had to walk six times longer to retrieve their luggage, which reduced the amount of time they were waiting once they got there. Underhanded? Maybe. Devilishly clever? Yes.\nBy all accounts, one of the worst things that soldiers face nowadays is the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs. Insurgent groups frequently build these from any explosive materials that they can find (such as artillery shells and grenades) and place them in locations that they know enemy forces will need to visit. Although most are deployed at roadsides, some are used in houses to kill forces engaged in searching homes for enemies and weapons caches. In this latter example, the enemy attaches the explosives to a simple tripwire, which is then strung across a doorway, in the hope that no-one will notice it until it\u2019s too late.\nBut, forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have since devised a technique to make sure that doorways don\u2019t contain these deadly traps: spraying the length of the doorway with silly string. The lightness of the silly string ensures that if it snags on a tripwire, it won\u2019t set off the explosives, thus alerting soldiers to the tripwire\u2019s presence. However, as silly string isn\u2019t standard-issue equipment, most of the 100,000 cans of silly string that have been deployed overseas are the result of relentless collection drives by one woman, Marcelle Shriver.\nPoisoned Mice\nOver sixty years ago, a US military cargo shipment arrived on the island of Guam carrying supplies and an unexpected stowaway: a Brown Tree Snake. Although that might not seem like a disaster, for the island of Guam it was. The snakes reproduced at a seemingly-exponential level and, because the island wasn\u2019t host to any predators of this snake, they were able to thrive unhindered. As a result of their arrival, several species of animal and bird unique to Guam have been rendered extinct, the populace suffer regularly from power outages caused by snakes interfering with the power cables, and the military has been forced to screen each flight off the island in the hope of preventing the snakes from invading any other islands in the South Pacific.\nBut in 2012, scientists starting back against this plague. How? By attaching parachutes to mice corpses, poisoning the bodies with the pain-relieving chemical acetaminophen, and airdropping them all across the island. The idea is that the snakes would eat the mice and, thanks to the effects of the drug, fall into a coma and die. It might sound like an idea out of a Tom and Jerry episode, but strangely it appears to be working. However, the aim of this project isn\u2019t to eradicate the species entirely, only reduce their numbers to a level that\u2019s somewhere near controllable.\nToothbrush To Fix The ISS\nNo matter how much futuristic gadgetry we stock our spacecraft with, things will always go wrong in a spectacular way. Take, for instance, the recent disaster on-board the International Space Station; one of the four units responsible for distributing power from the station\u2019s solar panels failed, leaving the station with \u00bc less power. The crew on-board donned spacesuits and attempted to fix the problem using some of the aforementioned gadgetry, however, they ran into a problem. Metal shavings had accumulated around the bolt attaching the broken unit to the station, making it near-impossible to detach and replace the unit.\nBut, days later, the crew unveiled their solution: they had attached a $3 toothbrush to a metal pole and, using this alongside a can of nitrogen gas, they were able to scrub away the majority of the shavings, thus allowing the faulty unit to be replaced with as much ease as is possible whilst floating around in space. And, just in case you were wondering, no astronauts had to suffer poor dental hygiene as a result of this: NASA later confirmed that the toothbrush was a spare.\nLemon Juice Preserve Sunken Plane\nDuring WW2, Germany waged a massive bombing against Great Britain, in a vain attempt to destroy both the Royal Air Force and the country\u2019s will to fight, thus clearing the way for an invasion. One of the planes used by the Luftwaffe was the Dornier 17, a medium-range bomber with all the maneuverability and speed of a jet fighter. Despite a force numbering in its hundreds, however, it was thought that no Dornier 17\u2019s survived the war. That is, until one was found buried in a sandbank by a diver off the coast of south-east England. However, the plane was built with aluminum, a material which corrodes badly in sea water. Without a solution, should the team be able to get it out of the water, it was unlikely that it would last even a short time before falling apart.\nScientists at the Imperial College London, however, have figured out a way to halt the seawater\u2019s corrosive effects: using lemon juice and water. After testing this mixture on a small piece of plane already salvaged, the mixture was found to be capable of both cleaning the metal and halting the damage of the seawater. So, as a result, after carefully retrieving the plane from the bottom of the ocean using a crane and barge\u2014a process which\u2019ll take approximately 4 weeks\u2014the two main pieces of the plane will be stored in two tunnels where they\u2019ll be blasted with this lemon juice mixture for 8 hours a day for 18 months, until such a time that it\u2019s stable enough to be placed on display.\nIf you want to read more from Adam, you can check out his website, One Word Louder, or follow him on Twitter.\n10 Mysterious, Mythical Substances Thought To Have Great Power\n10 Bizarre Facts About Poop\nTop 10 Unusual Mail Deliveries and Events", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 15893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livekind.org/index.php/pages/fostering-empathy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KW72BTLYMKTML57A2IGEGKAS364YPFEU", "length": 905, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "livekind.org", "title": "LiveKind - Key to Bullying Prevention", "raw_content": "Bullying Prevention - Teaching Empathy\nAt LiveKind\u2122, we believe that we learn by example and that just as bullying is a learned behavior, so is being kind rather than cruel. We believe that by identifying and acknowledging feelings evoked by bullying, bullies can be taught empathy. Our solution involves not only getting kids and adults to talk about bullying, but replaying the videos of these discussions, much like what is done in Self-Psychology in which therapists do not make interpretations of what they hear from clients but simply mirror what has been expressed.\nThis method is based on the assertion that people always need to be heard and understood. While in extreme cases legal intervention and punishment is imperative, we do not believe the far-reaching solution to the problem of bullying can come through punitive measures, as punitive measures typically only double down on the problem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://longrangeshooter.com/2008/12/estimating-wind/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QIQNI3AITRCMUVMRDLMCPXM3HSABY2LS", "length": 1808, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "longrangeshooter.com", "title": "Long Range Shooter| Estimating Windage", "raw_content": "Ok let\u2019s talk about estimating windage as this always seems to come up!\nIn a perfect world the wind speed at shooters location, mid range and finally at the target would come from the same direction with the same speed. However, anyone that has ever talked to HP customer service knows that we are far from a perfect world, LOL. So we have to be able to estimate wind in all three wind scenarios and at times very quickly. Ideally, you would have some sort of a digital wind speed indicator at the shooting position, if not, the tools for estimating wind at your position are the same you would use for estimation at your target. The following wind speed, that I will refer to, will be wind gust and/or the max wind felt or seen. When you feel wind on your face it is about a 3+ MPH wind speed, when leaves and small bushes start to move the wind speed is about 5+ MPH and when wind speed is about 8+ MPH the branches on small trees will start to move. Now wind speed mid range is a little more difficult. To do this I prefer to use a spotting scope with 20x-30x power, but binoculars that are also 10x power (no more than 20x power) will do the trick. Now what I do is adjust the focus until I see a mirage, such as heat coming off a road. You will use this to determine the mid range wind.(this is so cool to see) Now picture smoke rising, when the wind blows the smoke will start to lie down, the mirage will do the same thing. At 60 degrees there will be about a 1-3 MPH cross wind, at 45 degrees there will be a 4 to 7 MPH cross wind and when the mirage is perfectly horizontal there will be an 8 to 12 MPH cross wind. Although this is not perfect science, with a little practice you should become fairly accurate when estimating wind speed. 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What she did not expect was to be woken up and serving as the main course on a bedbug buffet.\nUnfortunately, that is exactly what happened. The itching brought about by the onslaught was enough to wake her from her sleep. And, to her horror, upon turning on the lights, she found herself covered in red welts and the area under her pillows crawling with bedbugs.\nEvidence surfaced during legal proceedings indicating that the Red Roof Inn where Belle was staying had dealt with bedbug infestations before and that Belle\u2019s room had not been checked for bedbugs prior to her taking up occupancy. The result was an interrupted night\u2019s sleep, the risk of infestation of Belle\u2019s home, and a very distressing stay that culminated in a guest waking up surrounded by insects.\nA jury agreed that Belle suffered an extraordinary hardship due to the hotel\u2019s carelessness and awarded her $100,000 for injuries sustained by the bugs and the mental distress she suffered as a result. The Red Roof Inn takes significant issue with the amount of the award and, in a statement, makes it clear that they will fight it.\nBedbugs, while small, can have significant impacts when discovered. A bedbug infestation can be very difficult to eradicate and the parasites can spread very quickly. Apartment buildings are particularly susceptible to infestation, however, the insects can be transferred from work to home as well. Colleges and top tier technology companies like Google have been forced to deal with bedbug infestations as well as luxury hotel properties including the famed Waldorf-Astoria in New York.\nWhile the CDC states that a bedbug bite carries no public health implications, the cost of extermination can be high and the impact to business productivity can be significant. The discovery of a single dead bedbug recently shut down a Philadelphia call center responsible for fielding tens of thousands of resident and visitor requests per month, leaving phones unanswered until the next morning.\nBedbug Infestations \u2013 and Associated Lawsuits \u2013 On the Rise\nCalifornia Bedbug Case Leads to Big Verdict, Permanent Scars\nBrazilian Model Sues Over Bedbug Bites\nTags: bedbugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 7019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lsradio.co.uk/news/2017/05/07/french-election-voting-begins-in-the-presidential-run-off/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MSLNXV7FCYXPKWMBCGSU6EGRDBJWYJTO", "length": 1563, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lsradio.co.uk", "title": "French Election : Voting begins in the presidential run-off \u2013 LSRadio", "raw_content": "French Election : Voting begins in the presidential run-off\nCecily Sheppard | 7 May 2017 | News\nVoting has begun in France as today marks the final round of the country\u2019s presidential race.\nThe polls see Emmanuel Macron take on Marine Le Pen to become the eighth president of the Fifth Republic. Since the Second World War, the mainstream Socialist and Republican parties have led the country, yet in this election, neither candidate from these movements has made it to the final day of voting. This has led several to claim this to be one of the most divisive elections in recent French history, with Macron representing En Marche! (Macron left his position as economy minister to form this party) and Le Pen running for the National Front.\nAccording to the opinion polls as we enter the final vote, Pro-European Union centrist Macron appears to have a 23 \u2013 26 percentage-point lead over his far-right rival Le Pen. Regardless of the outcome, France is set to make history tonight, by either voting in it\u2019s first female leader in Le Pen (this also being the closest the far-right has come to leading France since WWII) or electing the country\u2019s youngest ever president in 39-year-old Macron.\nThis evening, while Liverpool Guild of Students holds an special 2017 French Election Night, our Politics Hour team will be taking to the airwaves from 6pm to discuss the unfolding election results. 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(Updated: April 16, 2017 9:18 P.M.)\nArab League foreign ministers attend a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Aug. 5, 2015. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed, File)\nRamzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story.\nOnce more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking center stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently concluded Arab League Summit in Jordan, that the Initiative is the only solution on the table; asserting that it will not be changed or even tweaked.\nBut why is this Initiative, which was put forward by Saudi Arabia 15 years ago, now infused back into the already congested Middle East political discourse, despite the fact that Israel has rejected it repeatedly, and the US has shown little interest in enforcing it?\nIn March 2002, the Initiative, made of a few sentences, was proclaimed in an Arab League Summit in Beirut.\nLess than half of Arab leaders participated in that conference. The head of the PA and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the late Yasser Arafat, was not allowed to attend. The Israeli prime minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, had Arafat placed under house arrest in Ramallah. He told Arafat that, if Israel was to allow him to leave, he would not be allowed back. Arafat died two years later, amid allegations that he had been poisoned.\nThe Arab proposal was largely a reiteration of United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338. It promised complete normalization between Arab States and Israel should Israel withdraw from Palestinian and Arab land it occupied in 1967.\nThe Initiative seemed to adopt a lackluster attitude towards the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees, as it promised a just solution based on UN Resolution 194, without insisting on its full and complete implementation.\nIt was cautiously welcomed, then quickly overlooked by Washington at the time, since Sharon had dismissed it off-handedly as a \u201cnon-starter.\u201d\nIsrael was hardly interested in seemingly bold initiatives to resolve the conflict, either by the Arabs, the Americans or any other. However, Israeli leaders still felt that the Initiative was significant, at least if placed within historical context.\nWhen the Arab Initiative was re-endorsed, this time by the majority of Arab leaders in the Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia in 2007, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had a most expressive response.\nOn the one hand, he hailed the Initiative as a \u201crevolutionary change,\u201d but on the other, he stripped its content from any practical value.\nThe return of Palestinian refugees was \"out of the question\", he told the Israeli Jerusalem Post at the time. \"I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number,\" he said.\nHowever, what Olmert -- as with current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- was keenly interested in is the idea of unconditional normalization.\nHe told daily Hebrew newspaper Yediot Ahronot that he saw \"a real chance that, within five years, Israel will be able to reach an inclusive peace deal with its enemies.\"\nCircumventing the Palestinians and signing peace deals with Arab countries to break Israel's regional isolation is paramount in Israeli foreign policy since its very inception in 1948.\nSince then, it has signed a peace deal with Egypt and Jordan and has informal contacts and ties with various other governments.\nThis partly explains Abbas' -- as well as his Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki's - insistence on referencing the Arab Peace Initiative, above, instead of, for example, the defunct Oslo Accord or any specific UN resolution.\nIt is his way of saying that any normalization between the Arabs and Israel should take place through the Palestinian channel, and particularity though his leadership in Ramallah.\nOf course, Israel does not mind the renewed interest in the Initiative, simply because it could galvanize efforts, led by the Americans, to achieve normalization with the Arabs without peace with the Palestinians first.\nThe Initiative is 'revolutionary' from the Israeli viewpoint because of such reference. This becomes more evident when one recalls the Arab Summit in Khartoum in September 1967, following the Arab defeat by Israel, which victory was achieved and bankrolled by the United States.\nAlthough the summit then had abandoned or diluted much of its pre-war language -- insisting on the geographical unity of historic Palestine, demanding without reservation the Right of Return -- it proclaimed its famous \u2018Three Nos\u2019: no to diplomatic recognition of Israel; no to a peace deal and no to negotiations without complete, full and unconditional Israeli withdrawal of land occupied by force.\nAlthough historians often attempt to paint the Arab position then as radical, that was hardly the case if analyzed within its historical context. Their position was consistent with international law and UN Resolution 242, in particular. Moreover, they -- the Arabs -- tried to send a message to Israel and the US, who tried to use the astounding defeat to exact concessions and impose humiliating conditions on the Arabs as a result of the war. They also feared protracted, futile negotiations while Israel was enriching its occupation of Palestinian, Arab land.\nThe Arab Peace Initiative appeared to Israel as a complete departure from that position, especially as it was made when the Second Palestinian Intifada (uprising) was at its bloodiest stages. Just days after the Initiative was made, Israel besieged the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, attacking it with unprecedented ferocity. The death toll of the two-week battle (known as the Jenin Massacre) exceeded 60, with nearly 300 wounded, hundreds more arrested, most of the camp bulldozed and its residents expelled.\nWhat Israel had then gleaned from the Initiative is that, while Arabs are proposing generous peace, Israel was free to conduct its military occupation as it saw fit.\nSince the Initiative was made in 2002, much more blood has been shed, the settlements have grown to constitute an irreversible reality, Occupied East Jerusalem has been completely cut off, a so-called Separation Wall (known to Palestinians as the \u2018Apartheid Wall\u2019) further seized massive swathes of Palestinian land, Gaza fell under a perpetual siege and the 'peace process' became a thing of the past.\nWorse still, since Donald Trump was elected to the White House, he has further contributed to the demise of any prospect of a just solution to the crisis, and has pushed America's support of Israel to new levels.\nTrump also assigned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and a strong supporter of Israel's right wing, to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.\nIn fact, only days ago, Trump\u2019s pick for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was approved by the US Senate.\nFriedman is controversial, even in the eyes of some Israelis, due to his close association with extremist Jewish parties that labor to seize Palestinian Muslim and Christian properties in Occupied East Jerusalem.\nUnder the guise of peacemaking, Kushner and Friedman are likely to focus on advancing Israel's position and standing in the region. For them, the issue of normalization is at the helm of their prospective policies.\nThis explains the Palestinian insistence on the Arab Peace Initiative. It is not because the Initiative carries a magical formula towards peace.\nThe anxiety lies in Palestinian fear that Trump's Middle East policy will focus on trying to break down whatever little consensus Arab countries still have on Palestine.\nAbbas, who is heading to Washington in April, knows only too well that his position is terribly weak and, without Arab backing, however symbolic, he will find himself cornered by a belligerent Trump regime.\nWhile the US administration may rebrand its approach to the conflict, what truly interests Israel and its Americans backers is breaking Israel\u2019s isolation through regional \u2018peace\u2019 pacts and separate deals -- in other words, normalization under Occupation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mahdi-news.com/important-facts-you-need-to-know-about-sleep-apnea-and-the-treatment-options/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XLQT5YN6YIFHOWJ6F47K72T6FVDEZP2H", "length": 3423, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mahdi-news.com", "title": "Important facts you need to know about sleep apnea and the treatment options", "raw_content": "Home Health & Fitness Important Facts You Need To Know About Sleep Apnea and the Treatment Options\nDo you snore loudly when you sleep? It indicates that you have sleep apnea. It is that breathing condition whereby the breath stops when sleeping and returns back again and again. So, we can say that the issue is associated with breathing difficulty. The disorder is of serious nature that occurs as a result of interrupted breathing. The one who has this condition, they can\u2019t enjoy undisturbed and uninterrupted sleep due to which they feel fatigued and exhausted the other day. If you think you have this problem, you should immediately get in touch with the doctor. It may happen that a person stops breathing for at least hundred times during the sleep. This can have deadly consequence on your health. Anyone can be affected by this condition, that is, people of all ages. The simplest of sleep apnea treatment is losing weight or changing the position of sleep. To sleep better at night, you can modify sleep positions. Surgery is also a suitable treatment for sleep apnea if nothing works out.\nSome of the easy ways to address sleep apnea\nIf the problem of sleep apnea is not that major or severe, you may try out simple ways to avoid the symptoms. If it is just the mild case, follow some guidelines like lose weight, avoid any intake of sleeping pills and don\u2019t use alcohol at all. By changing the sleep position, you may breathe better. Smoking worsens sleep apnea and so it is necessary to quit smoking. Don\u2019t sleep at your back.\nCPAP is an effective treatment for sleep apnea whereby the patient is asked to wear a mask on the nose or may be over the mouth during sleep. Through the mask, there is flow of air into the nose on a continuous basis. With this airflow only the airways of the person remains open and so the breathing is continuous. There is no interruption in between. The kind of treatment is commonly used. What matters here is that the airway should be kept open during sleep. If the airways are open, there is continuous flow of air. Dentists can also make such devices to ease breathing.\nIs surgery a suitable treatment?\nWhether it is frozen shoulder treatment or treatment for sleep apnea, surgery is always the last option. If nothing works out for you then you may choose surgery. Surgery for sleep apnea will be required when there is enlarged tonsil, deviated nasal septum or the lower jaw is too small. The surgical procedure is needed only to rectify sleep apnea. Some of the common kinds of surgeries are:\n\u2022 nasal surgery to rectify problem in the nose\n\u2022 UPPP or Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty to get rid of the soft tissue from the palate or at the back of your throat.\n\u2022 Mandibular maxillomandibular advancement surgery to correct problems in the throat and face. Facial and throat problems can also contribute to sleep apnea.\nWhat can happen if you don\u2019t treat sleep apnea?\nIf you don\u2019t take some action to cure sleep apnea, there can be other issues like high blood pressure, depression, diabetes, stroke, headache and even heart failure. The person will also perform poorly in the day-to-day activities as the sleep is not complete.\nWhether you need osteoarthritis treatment or treatment for sleep apnea, it is important to take speedy action. Physical therapist can also help in both conditions. For more how to create and live healthy lifestyle, read the informational blog everyday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manoshi1.tripod.com/id25.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WUN6IVCCNW7OPBKN4JBYWZPMOJAPJRK4", "length": 2821, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "manoshi1.tripod.com", "title": "Parents as Partners", "raw_content": "The standards of teaching practice elaborate on the involvement of community and parents in the classroom and school.\nMembers of Ontario College of Teachers\n-invite parents and members of the community to share their knowledge and skills in supporting classroom and school activities and create opportunities for students to share their learning with their classmates, schoolmates, parents and the community and skills in supporting classroom and school activities.\n-build trust with students, parents and the community.\nTeachers should constantly communicate with parents and should involve parents in their program directly or indirectly. Parents must know what is happening in the classroom and what are their children learning so that they could also help their children in learning and be a support to the school. During our course, we read texts from books and websites about how parents could be of help to the school. During a discussion on the discussion board, we had to give our ideas and the most appealing idea from the texts we read on this thought. As I participated in the discussion after reading different texts getting to know new ideas about how to include parents in our teaching program, I kept my views...\nTeachers use different strategies to communicate, to keep the parents\ninformed, and to keep in touch with the parents. I would like to pin point one of the ideas that appeals to me the most. It is the volunteering program in the classroom for parents.\nParent volunteers are not only a great help to the school/class/teachers but also many of the questions which parents are always curious to find an answer to are answered when they work closely with the teachers and the school. They learn about the school, the philosophy of the school, schools programs, the curriculum, and how their child is learning in the class. The different letters to invite parents for volunteering (given as examples in the text) are very useful.\nAnother way of keeping parents informed is the parent teacher conference. This year I learned about the student led conferences. This is something new to me and during our chat I could get a clearer picture of what a student led conference is. In my opinion, this is again a great way to communicate with the parents when the student takes the lead and explains the school program or their report cards to their parents. The \u2018scavenger hunt\u2019 mentioned in the text book is similar to what is student led conference. In scavenger hunt the student provides a walking tour and talks to the family members about the learning that is taking place in the classroom and school. A great idea indeed!\nThis is something which I have not used before in my teaching program and would definitely like to use when I get an opportunity.\nback to the Leadership and Community main page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mansor.dk/archives/935", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3XOX64UPT7WT75DH66FP64SMTMWXHDMD", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mansor.dk", "title": "Cow and calf | Hassan Fraz Mansor - Photoblog", "raw_content": "Cow and calf 31st July 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 374, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manufuture2013.eu/programme-speakers/programme/plenary-sessions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FQONZJB3OCQZDM6YOK5ANJXPBAW4U7DY", "length": 4323, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "manufuture2013.eu", "title": "Manufuture2013 - Plenary Sessions", "raw_content": "During MANUFUTURE 2013 conference five Plenary Sessions will be organised and they will concern following aspects:\nHORIZON 2020: Context and Vision for the European Manufacturing and Research\nChair: Dr. Massimo Mattucci, Co-Chairman of EFFRA, Senior Coprporate VP of Comau Group\nHorizon 2020, the European Union's new funding programme for research and innovation for the period 2014-2020 reflects the ambition to deliver ideas, growth and jobs for the future. It represents a clear break from the past as it brings together all existing Union research and innovation funding, including the Framework Programme for Research, the innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), into one single framework programme.\nHORIZON 2020: Roadmaps for Manufacturing\nChair: Adrian Harris, Director General of ORGALIME\nAccording to the EFFRA Strategic Multi-annual Roadmap \u2018Factories of the Future 2020\u2019 around one in ten (9.8 %) of all enterprises in the EU-27\u2019s non-financial business economy were classified to manufacturing in 2009, a total of 2.0 million enterprises. SMEs are the backbone of the manufacturing industry in Europe. Micro, small and medium enterprises provide around 45% of the value added by manufacturing while they provide around 59% of manufacturing employment. Manufacturing is an indispensable element of the innovation chain: manufacturing enables technological innovations to be applied in goods and services, which are marketable in the marketplace and is key to making new products affordable and accessible so as to multiply their societal and economic benefits and achieve the desired impacts. This session will highlight the future of Manufacturing R&D&I prospects within the selected areas.\nFP7 Results and Outlook for HORIZON 2020: Research & Innovation for Sustainable Industrial Competitiveness\nChair: Prof. Jos\u00e9-Lorenzo Vall\u00e9s, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG for Research & Innovation\nThis plenary session summarizes key results and findings of the previous parallel workshops and gives an overview of the first NMP and ICT FoF calls in Horizon 2020.\nHORIZON 2020 and Regional Dimension\nChair: Prof. Edward Chlebus, Dean of Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Wroclow University of Technology\nAlthough research is global, excellent research activity cannot be sustained in the long term isolated from the local environment and economy. On the contrary, it relies on being properly embedded with regional and national structures and networks, and its economic and social value to the country and region will be realised only if it can thus become part of the region\u2019s innovation system. The new strategy of Smart Specialization is the EC\u2019s proposal to increase the public funding for research and innovation projects and activities, developed at a regional level, and to promote a better alignment and coordination between the European and the national and regional policies and funding programmes. Its goal is to boost regional innovation in order to achieve economic growth and prosperity, by enabling regions to focus on their strengths.\nHORIZON 2020 and International Dimension\nChair: Herbert von Bose, Director of Directorate G \u2013 Industrial Technologies, European Commission, DG for Research & Innovation\nInternational cooperation in research and innovation will be a crucial part of Horizon 2020, which will serve as a means for the European Union to achieve its higher level objectives. This will require joint action and sustained collaboration between EU countries as well as those outside the Union\u2019s borders. The core principles of the EU International Strategy for Research and Innovation will be the following:\nTackling global societal challenges such as climate change, sustainable agriculture and clean energy\nCreating a continuous support for the Union\u2019s external policies\nEnhancing the Union\u2019s excellence in research and innovation, and sustaining its economic competitiveness\nEstablishing a stronger partnership with Member States\nSetting common principles for conduct of international cooperation\nDeveloping a stronger role for Union in international organisations and multilateral collaboration\nEnsuring a strengthened implementation, governance, monitoring and evaluation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk/blog/entry/the-bursary-award-2017-goes-to-bryony-cox", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MHPJS53E7RNVN45LN2IM3H4DVFBHEHPT", "length": 4049, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk", "title": "The Bursary Award 2017 goes to Bryony Cox - Marlborough Open Studios", "raw_content": "I met this year\u2019s winner of the Marlborough Open Studios Bursary Award, 26 year old Bryony Cox, Upstairs at Jack\u2019s in Devizes to find out more about her life as an artist so far and her hopes for the future. As it turned out, the first floor caf\u00e9 could not have been a more appropriate setting. Seated near John Wragg\u2019s paintings I learnt that Wragg had lent Bryony a small studio space in his house, not far from Bryony\u2019s home.\nBryony grew up a few miles away in Little Cheverell where she spent her childhood usually sprawled across the carpet drawing with coloured pencils listening to music or with the TV on in the background. An enduring habit that has continued, normally on a large scale.\nBryony works on her triptych commission\nOn leaving school Bryony\u2019s next and natural step was to attend Wiltshire\u2019s well regarded foundation art course at Trowbridge College. Thence to Camberwell which she left after a term, unimpressed with the lack of taught traditional drawing. A period helping Andrew Taylor, a master Stained Glass artist and conservation restorer brought new skills and interest until she was ready to make the next move to study Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth School of Art.\nA traumatic burns accident in the workshop during her first year resulted in Bryony transferring to the Drawing course where she successfully completed her degree. Bryony then began her travels to South East Asia, at first volunteering to teach art in Sri Lanka where straightaway she fell in love with the island: the smells, the bustle and colour of local life outdoors. In India Bryony learned traditional Indian miniature painting. Images of the simple but rich life in India captured her imagination: the chai tea vendors serving from a thermos, collecting grass for animals, eye opening rituals, beautiful crafts, but above all the people\u2019s facial features inspired her portraiture.\nWorking mainly from photographs Bryony strives to show the unguarded moment. \u201cAlthough their everyday lives are so different, at a basic human level we are all connected.\u201d She went on animatedly, \u201cthe structure of Asian features, mainly women, the stories behind their faces, catching them unawares, capturing moments of thoughts, fleeting expressions...\u201d\nPortraiture in black and white charcoal tone and oil pastel for dramatic highlight on paper became the past, present and future of her work. Bryony immersed herself in Sri Lankan life in the small coastal village of Unawatuna finding work with a designer, painting murals and sketching people and places.\nSri Lanka became Bryony\u2019s base from which to explore Northern India, South Africa and the Philippines for most of the following three years. The Himalayas inspired landscapes based on her sketches whilst absorbed by the drama of the towering mountains and billowing skyscapes.\nBryony returned to the UK this spring and promptly joined Marlborough Open Studios.\nThe bursary award has given Bryony the opportunity to discover a creative and supportive artistic community in and around Devizes. She is looking forward to her presentational sessions with Michael Angove and learning how to appeal to a wider audience. Bryony is excited by the chance to \u201cinteract and sharing the story of my work, a snapshot of life. I hope my pictures will trigger memories for others.\" She went on, \"My work is about bringing to life small moments from around the World. In part, it\u2019s about people relating and responding to other people whose everyday lives are so different from our own.\u201d\nBryony is currently working on an ambitious triptych (see top photo) for a room with a sloping ceiling. In a year\u2019s time Bryony hopes to enrol on a Masters course at the Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch.\nHimalayas: charcoal and oil pastel\nBryony Cox is sharing Studio 25 with stone letter carver Lisi Ashbridge and painter Meriel Balston in Alton Barnes in the Pewsey Vale.\nWords: Kate Freeman\nPhoto credits: Top two by Oliver Freeman, the remainder by Bryony Cox\nSri Lanka; Himalayas; Merial Balston; Lisi Ashbridge; Bryony Cox;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://massador.com/en/2012/06/04/pa-negre-guanya-el-premi-ariel-a-millor-pellicula-iberoamericana/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBGM2L4BQVXDM5P4ZLWZRLE24YONUZNF", "length": 477, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "massador.com", "title": "BLACK BREAD HAS WON THE ARIEL AWARD FOR BEST IBEROAMERICAN FILM \u2013 massa d'or produccions", "raw_content": "Black Bread has been...\nBlack Bread has been given the ARIEL Award for the Best Iberoamerican Film at the 54th edition of the ARIEL Awards by the Mexican Academy of theCinematographic Arts and Sciences A.C. Agust\u00ed Villaronga and Isona Passola collected the statuette on the 2nd of June 2012 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes de M\u00e9xico D.F.\nBlack Bread has been given the ARIEL Award for the Best Iberoamerican Film at the 54th edition of the ARIEL Awards by the Mexican Academy...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 101.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://matt.cuthbert.ws/2004/02/spongmonkeys-win-grammy-for-best-new.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5TE2WPHH7ZXEEDVUKH26V3OYL2TGTM5H", "length": 444, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "matt.cuthbert.ws", "title": "Impending Distractions: Spongmonkeys win Grammy for Best New Artist", "raw_content": "I know everyone will think I'm crazy, but I love the new Quiznos ads \u0097 the ones where the whacked-out creatures singing the off-key ditties \"We Love the Subs!\" and \"Take a Buck Off.\"\nI learned today that those little freaks are called the Spongmonkeys. They were created by Joel Veitch. You can find more of his crazy animations on his web site, including the Spongmonkeys classic \"We Like the Moon.\"\nIf you're nice, maybe I'll sing it for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mborolittleleague.com/site/ClientSite/article/195970", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:W4XFPEXGHGGUJSOR4SOGFXXJKDDXWU5Z", "length": 1360, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mborolittleleague.com", "title": "Murfreesboro Little League - Powered by LeagueToolbox", "raw_content": "Updated Sunday February 3, 2019 by Murfreesboro Little League.\nEvaluations for the 2019 Spring Season will be at Six1Five Sports Training (2303 S Church St, Murfreesboro, TN 37130). The schedule for each age group is below.\nIMPORTANT: Read below to determine if your child needs to attend evaluations.\nPlayers that DO need to attend evaluations:\nAny new player to our league.\nAny player that played in a younger age group in Spring 2018 (Fall season does not apply).\nAny player that marked \"No\" in their registration pertaining to returning to the same team from Spring 2018 (Fall season does not apply).\nAny player that marked \"Yes\" in their registration pertaining to returning to the same team from Spring 2018, but they listed a Fall team or a Spring 2018 team that they did not play for. Those players essentially marked \"No\" as they are ineligible to play for those teams without being evaluated and drafted.\nPlayers that DO NOT need to attend evaluations:\nAny player that is returning to the same age group from Spring 2018 and marked \"Yes\" in their registration pertaining to returning to the same team from Spring 2018 (Fall season does not apply).\nCoach Pitch 7/8, Saturday, February 9th\n2:00-3:30 Last Names starting A-M\n3:30-5:00 Last Names starting N-Z\nMinor 9/10, Saturday, February 16th\nMajor 11/12, Saturday, February 16th\n4:30-6:00 All Players", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mcponj.org/2018/05/30/suspect-sought-in-asbury-park-shooting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:03Z", "digest": "sha1:T237MEZCKD5ASMR2BJ3HCBLHDBDXGC6X", "length": 1256, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mcponj.org", "title": "Suspect Sought In Asbury Park Shooting | Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor", "raw_content": "Chris Swendeman \u2014 May 30, 2018\nFREEHOLD \u2013 Detectives are seeking the public\u2019s help in identifying the individual(s) involved in a shooting in Asbury Park on Tuesday afternoon. One male victim was injured, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.\nAt approximately 4:06 p.m. on Tuesday May 29th, the Asbury Park Police Department responded to the area of 1400 Main Street to a report of shots fired. Officers located a 2017 Nissan Altima which sustained a single gun-shot to the driver\u2019s side door. The Altima was not owned by the male victim.\nThe victim arrived at the Neptune Township Police Department at approximately 5:35 p.m., suffering from a non-life threatening gun-shot wound to the leg. The victim was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center for treatment.\nA gun shot was also located on a garbage can near the south side of 1400 Main Street.\nAnyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Detective Brian Weisbrot of the Monmouth County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at 1-800-533-7443 or Detective Sean Deshader of the Asbury Park Police Department at 732-774-1300.\nTags: Asbury ParkNeptune Township\nNext post SPCA Law Enforcement Arm Moves Into MCPO\nPrevious Article Jackson Man Dies After Arrest In Howell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 6272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mcswaintheatre.net/Special-Pages/Terms.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:BDLISBJYFGBKHXLELIYITFRVFXZKY7WJ", "length": 16966, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "mcswaintheatre.net", "title": "Terms | McSwain Theatre", "raw_content": "This McSwainTheatre.com website (the \"Service\") is owned and operated by The Chickasaw Nation and contains material that is protected by international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. 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An integrated delivery system (IDS) also referred to as an integrated health care delivery system is the name given to the human resources departments at managed care organizations.\nB. An integrated delivery system (IDS) also referred to as an integrated health care delivery system is the name given to the utilization review and quality assurance departments at managed care organizations.\nC. An integrated delivery system (IDS) also referred to as an integrated health care delivery system is a generic term referring to at least a joint effort of physician and hospital integration for a variety of purposes such as to access the market on a broad basis, optimize cost and clinical outcomes, accept and manage a full range of financial arrangements to provide a set of defined benefits to a defined population, align financial incentives of participants (including physicians), and operate under a cohesive structure.\n2. What is the purpose or goal of integration? (Reference Class 8, \"Goals\" - \"Goals of Clinical Integration\")\nA. One way to think of integration is to have the right service provided at the right place by the right provider at the right time; to have a seamless delivery for the continuum of care.\nB. Integration is a method to insure prompt payment to providers.\nC. Integration is a grievance process used by HMOs and PPOs.\n3. List collaborative options for integrating services of hospitals and physicians. (Reference Class 8, \"Options\" - \"Four Collaborative Options for Integrating Services of Hospitals and Physicians\")\nA. Management Service Organizations (\"MSO\u2019s) - basically a business entity that contracts directly with managed care companies on behalf of providers.\nB. Physician-Hospital Organizations (\"PHO\u2019s) - a contracting entity designed to get more managed care business. Physicians and hospitals are typically equal partners.\nC. Practice Acquisition Models - such as a staff model where doctors work as employees for hospitals on salary or a foundation model where doctors work as independent contractors for hospitals.\nD. Equity Models - doctors work for doctor groups and doctors get an equity share of the profits.\n4. Dr. Jones, a cardiologist, has recently moved to a new city and has set up his own medical practice. Dr. Jones has been asked by the administrator of a physician hospital organization at a hospital that Dr. Jones has recently been granted staff privileges at to join their physician hospital organization. What should Dr. Jones consider in analyzing this situation? (Reference Class 8, \"Options\" - \"Four Collaborative Options for Integrating Services of Hospitals and Physicians\")\nA. Dr. Jones does not need to consider anything as he should automatically agree to participate in the physician hospital organization as it will increase his patient volume.\nB. Dr Jones should consider, among other things, the following: how strong is the physician and administrative leadership, what is the hospital's commitment, what is the right provider mix, are there responsible contracts, what is the risk sharing, what are the referrals and incentives involved, what is the physician education involved, and how experienced is the management.\nC. Dr. Jones should consider what is the likelihood of the physician hospital organization offering to him a heart specialty institute that he can have ownership interest in.\nD. Dr. Jones should never consider participating in any physician hospital organization at any time.\n5. Dr. Simon, a primary care physician, just starting out with her practice in a large metropolitan city has been approached by an Independent Practice Association (IPA) to become part of their contracted provider network. What should Dr. Simon consider in analyzing this situation? (Reference Class 8, \"IPAs\" - \"Independent Practice Associations (\"IPAs\")\nA. Dr. Simon does not need to consider anything as she should automatically agree to participate in the IPA as it will increase her patient volume.\nB. Dr. Simon should understand the implications of contracting with the IPA such as: what is the volume of patients the physician will actually receive, what is the compensation rate, when are payments made, who is the contact person for the IPA, what are the grievance procedures for the contracting entities; is the contract exclusive or can the physician enter into contracts with various IPAs. Also, Dr. Simon should consider: what is the recourse for the physician if payments are not made in a timely fashion; how does the physician terminate the IPA contract and what are the ramifications. There are a variety of questions to be considered in contracting with an IPA, and these considerations are just a sample.\nC. Dr. Simon should consider what is the likelihood of the IPA offering to her ownership interest in a nearby hospital.\nD. Dr. Simon should never consider participating in any IPA at any time.\n6. Dr. Smith, a general internist, has been approached by a large health care institution offering to purchase his medical practice. This comes at a time when Dr Smith has been observing and reading articles in journals about the dissatisfaction of other physicians who have sold their practices to large health care institutions and are currently involved in or close to the dissolution of such dealings. What should Dr. Smith consider in analyzing this situation? (Reference Class 8, \"Options\" - \"Four Collaborative Options for Integrating Services of Hospitals and Physicians\")\nA. Dr. Smith does not need to consider anything as he should automatically agree to have his medical practice acquired as it will increase his revenue.\nB. Dr. Smith should never consider having his medical practice acquired at any time.\nC. Among other things, Dr. Smith should consider what is the economic security provided and for how long; is there a salary base plus a productivity or bonus system involved and what are the terms; what is the degree of control relinquished by Dr. Smith; what is the governance involved; consider administrative services including billing supervising office staff, paying salaries; what is the business plan involved such as including operating budget, volume, performance, and quality standards.\nD. Dr. Smith should consider what is the likelihood by having his practice acquired that he will gain ownership interest in a nearby hospital.\n7. What is a management service organization (MSO)? (Reference Class 8, \"Options\" - \"Four Collaborative Options for Integrating Services of Hospitals and Physicians\")\nA. A MSO is a legal entity that provides practice management, administrative and support services to individual physicians or group practices. An MSO may be a direct subsidiary of a hospital or may be owned by investors.\nB. A MSO is an entity that all physicians should contract with to manage their office.\nC. A MSO is the Internet tool used by HMOs to process claims and pay providers.\nD. A MSO is a computer software program used by PPOs to perform utilization review and quality assurance functions.\n8. What are the \"four P's\" principles in Marketing being applied to the healthcare industry? (Reference Class 8, \"Integration\" - \"Definition of Integrated Delivery System\")\nA. There are no \"four P's\" principles in Marketing being applied to the healthcare industry.\nB. Produce, produce, produce, produce\nC. Plant, prosper, provide, pretend\nD. Product, Place, Price, and Promotion\n9. According to the readings, what does \"accountable care\" mean to providers? (Reference Class 8, \"Goals\" - \"Goals of Clinical Integration\")\nA. Accountable care is where market, payers and providers are aligned.\nB. The emphasis of care is preventative since providers are accountable for health status of the people they serve.\nC. Outcomes are measured and reported.\nD. Incentives to do the \"wrong thing\" are eliminated because providers will not want to incur the cost of unnecessary or repetitive procedures.\n10. According to the readings, what does \"empowered consumers\" mean to providers? (Reference Class 8, \"Goals\" - \"Goals of Clinical Integration\")\nA. Keep to minimum the number of times patients must be re-treated because they failed to comply with prescribed regimens or must be treated in high-cost acute settings because they did not address a disease in its early stage, adopt the concept of patient-centered care.\nB. Prevention - to understand how important preventive care efforts can be which includes wellness and fitness programs for employers, industrial injury medicine and rehabilitation services, workers\u2019 compensation management and community health outreach.\nC. People - empowering the people involved in the healthcare delivery system to be able to act in a positive, proactive manner to manage costs and quality under fixed, capitated reimbursement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 10772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2016/08/educational-links-81615.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TG5TEVZTPDM6RDQYMWVPMQTKD2DFFE3L", "length": 1573, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org", "title": "MzTeachuh: Educational Links 8/16/15", "raw_content": "As Millions of Kids Return to School, Common Sense Education Ramps Up Commitment to \"Digital Citizenship for All\" to Prepare Students to Navigate and Succeed in a Fast-Moving Digital World\nhttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/news/press-releases/as-millions-of-kids-return-to-school-common-sense-education-ramps-up?utm_source=facebook%2Cfacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign=DigCitpledge\nThe Importance Of Teacher & Student Autonomy\nhttp://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2016/08/15/the-importance-of-teacher-student-autonomy/\n3 Stretch Goals for Math Teaching This Year\nhttp://www.middleweb.com/31887/3-stretch-goals-for-math-teaching-this-year/\nWhat Is Structured Literacy?\nhttps://dyslexiaida.org/what-is-structured-literacy/\n6 Must-Have Creation Tools for the BYOD Classroom\nhttp://classtechtips.com/2016/08/15/byod-classroom/\nMaking the Case for Arts Education in Urban Schools\nhttps://rossieronline.usc.edu/blog/arts-education-research/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social\nTeaching with Graphic Novels\nhttp://www.edudemic.com/teaching-graphic-novels/\nComic books have long been contraband in the classroom. These colorful stories are most often thought of as a distraction hidden behind the math book for slacking students. However, modern graphic novels have emerged as an effective teaching tool that can help improve literacy, explain complex concepts, and get students excited about reading. Many are beginning to view them as literature.\nLabels: digital citizenship, ed tech, learning theory, special education, STEM, teaching strategies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 454, "original_length": 13605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mengage.org.au/men-s-sheds-research/mhirc-the-shed-in-mount-druitt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SL2PJ35QTRVZF3YYNXPQFDUT732ZZNMW", "length": 1861, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "mengage.org.au", "title": "mhirc-the-shed-in-mount-druitt | men-s-sheds-research | communities | mengage", "raw_content": "Men's Sheds Research/\nMHIRC: The Shed in Mount Druitt\nThe Shed in Mt Druitt is a suicide prevention centre focusing on disadvantaged men, in particular Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, who experience the worst health outcomes of any population in Australia. The Shed is a male-friendly space where males can share their stories in a non-judgemental environment that accepts them.\n\"The Shed's values and intentions are to value and empower Aboriginal males and their families...\"\nThe Shed was established in 2004 as a partnership between the Western Sydney University, Men's Health Information and Resource Centre (MHIRC) and the Holy Family Church at Mount Druitt.\nThe Shed provides support to men whom we consider to be at risk of serious stress and suicide, generally on account of cumulative stress often due to disadvantaged situations. Most of these men are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin since these are often the men most at risk.\nOften the cause of distress lies in the cumulative effect of difficult life events and the workers at the Shed connect the men and their families with appropriate services and help guide them through the various processes of for example: housing, apprehended violence orders (AVOs), separation from children, employment, financial issues and so on.\nService providers can access men at the Shed, and are encouraged to view the Shed as the men's space, and not an extension of their offices.\nThe Shed in Mount Druitt: Addressing the Social Determinants of Male Health and Illness -2.79 MB\nOutlines the role of The Shed.\nWestern Sydney University: Pathways to Despair The Social Determinants of Male Suicide\nThe Guardian: The Shed I Keep Coming Because There Are People Who Will Listen\nMen's Health Week: Keeping People Connected to Life at The Shed in Mount Druitt\nHoly Family Church - Mount Druitt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 4798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mengage.org.au/social-determinants-of-health/the-canadian-facts-social-determinants-of-health-in-canada", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NHQLMTP56K6NGYOSZTYIPKDNZGHTT6PO", "length": 2554, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "mengage.org.au", "title": "the-canadian-facts-social-determinants-of-health-in-canada | social-determinants-of-health | social-factors | mengage", "raw_content": "\"This project provides an excellent guide to the fourteen Determinants as recognised by the World Health Organisation...\"\nCanada has some similarities in demographics and health backgrounds to Australia. Canada has developed a solid set of resources for communicating and understanding the Social Determinants of Health approach with emphasis on the applications of the principles to everyday people.\nThis project provides an excellent guide to the fourteen Determinants as recognised by the World Health Organisation.\nThe Challenge In Understanding Health\nAs described in the video below, the challenge of getting both policymakers and the health community to think in terms of social determinants is considerable.\n\"Canadians, like others around the world, have been led to believe that if you exercise, quit smoking, drink in moderation and avoid getting overweight, that you'll live a long and healthy life\", says Professor Raphael.\n\"Unfortunately, that simply isn't the case. We've known for over 150 years that the primary factor shaping people's health is their living conditions\".\nThis applies in Australia where we primarily have a system that focuses on end products of health and illness rather than managing the social contexts that add up to making people healthy or otherwise.\nBenefits For Practitioners From This Resource\nThe major benefit of this resource is that it provides an accessible guide to understanding what the Social Determinants is and how it impacts on the outcomes of people in the population.\nIt is also useful because it outlines each of the fourteen Determinants and provides implications for policymakers about each one.\nThis serves to move thinking beyond health as the presence of illness or disease, but starts to consider the interaction between social gradients, policy initiatives and the effects on health downstream by policy decisions.\nSource: Brunner, E., & Marmot, M. G. (2006). \u2018Social Organization, Stress, and Health.\u2019 In M. G. Marmot &\nR. G. Wilkinson (Eds.), Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press\nThe Canadian Facts - Interview With Professor Dennis Raphael (Youtube video 3.58 minutes)\nReport From The Canadian Facts Project -4.31 MB\nThe primary factors that shape the health of Canadians are not medical treatments or lifestyle choices but rather the living conditions they experience.\nThe Canadian Facts Project\nProfessor Dennis Raphael and Dr Juha Mikkonen\nc/o York University Faculty of Health\n4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3\nTelephone: +1 416 736 2100 Ext. 22134", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2003/jun03.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:LL5OTIHHSGJ7VTOFZI7R72DKXMULHVCX", "length": 4638, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "meteorite-recovery.tripod.com", "title": "Bob's Findings - June 2003 Article - Meteoritic Iron Shale - relict metal and sulfide grains Canyon Diablo and Odessa meteorites - in - Meteorite-Times.com", "raw_content": "Meteoritic Iron Shale - relict metal and sulfide grains\nCanyon Diablo and Odessa meteorites\nThis month's \"Bob's Findings\" article reports on the occurrance of small, relict sulfide and Fe-Ni metal grains in the weathered rinds of iron meteorite fragments from the Odessa and Barringer Craters. These layered weathering rinds are known as \"iron-shale\".\nThe term \"iron-shale\" appears in the American Geological Institute's Glossary of Geology (1974) and is defined as, \"a material, usually with a laminated structure, consisting of iron oxides and produced by the weathering of an iron meteorite.\"\nAll of the specimens depicted in this article are strongly attracted to a magnet. Not all iron-shale specimens are attracted to a magnet. Among the dozen or so non-magnetic specimens encountered while examining a small barral of iron shale (60 pounds), none of them contained the small, relict sulfide and Fe-Ni metal grains that I was finding in the magnetic specimens. Some specimens were non-magnetic on one side, but the other side would be strongly attracted to a magnet. The \"non-magnetic\" side was primarly limonitic, orange-red in color, and containing grains of sand and clasts of Coconino Fm. sandstone. The other side was always dark-brownish black in color. This article proposes that the term \"meteoritic iron-shale\" should only apply to those fragments that are attracted to a magnet. Non-magnetic portions are primarily composed of terrestrial material, and unless these non-magnetic portions are still physically attached to the weathered rind of an iron meteorite, it should not be termed \"meteoritic iron-shale\".\nImage description -\nThe specimen in this image is a good example of Canyon Diablo meteoritic iron-shale with very well-formed laminations. This particular variety is very dense and highly attracted to a magnet. In fact, those iron shale specimens that are actual \"lodestones\", are most likely of this variety. [Lodestone is defined as a magnetic variety of natural iron oxide (Fe3O4) or of the mineral magnetite. But iron-shale is more likely to be predominantly maghemite, which is a strongly magnetic mineral of the magnetite series (Fe2O3), and when it isn't magnetic, it is predominantly goethite, or FeO(OH), which is the commonest constituent of limonite.]\nHere is another close-up image of the same specimen. Image description -\nAnother fragment. This specimen has been cut and polished. Unlike the previous specimen it doesn't have thin laminations, but it does have a blocky cleavage. And it has voids where nearly all of the original sulfide minerals have vacated. A few silvery grains of relict sulfide minerals (i.e., troilite, or it could be schreibersite a Fe-Ni phosphide) can be seen and are usually associated with these voids.\nHere is an image of the exterior of the same specimen as above. The brown mineral is goethite, the off-white crust is caliche, and the green encrustation is zaratite, a hydrous nickel carbonate.\nThe specimen below is also exhibiting a blocky cleavage, but it clearly has no laminar structures.\nThe following specimens were found in the Odessa Crater area of Odessa, Texas.\nThis particular specimen, in the image below, is uncut. But like most specimens of iron-shale from the Odessa crater, it is more likely to be coated in clay, as opposed to caliche, which is a typical coating on Canyon Diablo iron-shale.\nHere is another typical specimen.\nAnd here is another specimen, but without a coating of clay.\nAnd here is the opposite side of the same specimen in the above image. It has been ground and polished to reveal a tiny metal grain.\nAnd again in these other specimens, more tiny metal grains.\nThe anonymous finder of the specimen in the image below, admits that it came from the Meteor Crater area of Arizona. He personally knows that \"several others were found in the same area\"!\nIn the image below, is the same specimen, but after it has been cut.\nIt has been speculated that other kinds of grains could be found, as well. For example, grains of meteoritic silicates. It has been further speculated, that large inclusions of silicates that are winonaite-like in composition may be encountered when cutting iron-shale fragments. If found, this would be of scientific interest, and its reporting would be greatly appreciated.\nIf found, please report your findings to:\nSteve Schoner\nAmerican Meteorite Survey\nEmail: meteorite_identification@yahoo.com\nIGGP-UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry\nBox 951569 (post)\n607 Charles E. Young Drive East (courier)\nEmail: wasson@igpp.ucla.edu\nProfessor Wasson's web page in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mezepublishing.co.uk/product/the-sheffield-cook-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PMQBOYTVKL4EUJOG3VJ3QQIX6I7SUY5O", "length": 916, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mezepublishing.co.uk", "title": "The Sheffield Cook Book \u2013 Meze Publishing | We can publish your cook book", "raw_content": "The Sheffield Cook Book was the first book by Meze Publishing and effectively launched the company. With a foreword by culinary legend David Baldwin, former-President of the Restaurateurs Association and owner of the highly successful Baldwin\u2019s Omega, The Sheffield Cook Book celebrates the culinary diversity of the city of Sheffield and it\u2019s surrounding countryside. This 224 page cook book features more than 50 stunning recipes from local restaurants, cafes, delis, pubs and food producers including some of South Yorkshire\u2019s finest food establishments such as the popular nose-to-tail restaurant, The Milestone and fine food purveyors Beeches of Walkley, alongside Michelin starred heavyweights Fischer\u2019s of Baslow and Sheffield culinary legends, Henderson\u2019s Relish. The book also has guest recipes from some of Sheffield\u2019s finest, including Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s Lee Bullen and Sheffield United\u2019s Chris Morgan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?catid=61&blogid=21", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYSM4K4FPJ4UXAKEY6XBAHLT57TOILIZ", "length": 14593, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "mhoenicka.de", "title": "mhoenicka", "raw_content": "How to surgically remove your smoking habit\nJanuary 26, 2007 - Markus Hoenicka\nWhile many smokers see smoking as a pleasant habit rather than an addiction, a large part of smokers who want to quit find this very difficult to do. A recent paper in the top-notch journal \"Science\" suggests a different cure (well, the paper doesn't suggest it, but it is quite obvious). 69 previous smokers with minor brain damage due to stroke were investigated in this study. Minor brain damage implies here that they were able to make sense of questionnaires and interviews. Of these patients, 37 did not quit smoking. The remaining 32 did. Half of the quitters reported that their addiction was gone, whereas the other half reported that they still felt the urge to smoke but had quit anyway. A mapping of the damaged brain regions gave a high correlation between the loss of the urge to smoke and the damage to a particular region of the brain called the insula. According to these findings, the insula is apparently responsible for maintaining learned pleasant feelings, as opposed e.g. to the innate satisfaction caused by eating (none of the patients reported a loss of the urge to eat).\nSo if you find it hard to quit, why not stop by at your favourite neurosurgeon at the corner and have your insula poked?\nWhen carnivorous plants get hungry\nNepenthes truncata is one of those carnivorous plants that carry leaves forming pitchers full of a digestive liquid (some nice images are here). The upper edges of the pitchers are coloured attractively, and the scent of the pitchers makes them even more interesting landing places for insects. Being unaware of the plants intentions, some of the insects slip into the pitcher. They are kept from crawling up the side walls by hairs pointing downwards. Eventually the insects drown and are slowly digested by the plant, giving some relief to their nitrogen cravings. Now the botanical garden of the French town Lyon reported that one of their pitcher plants managed to catch a mouse. The half-digested rodent was found one morning as the staff noticed a somewhat strong smell. They also reported that the largest animal found so far in these pitchers were cockroaches of approx. 4 cm (approx. 1.5 inch) in length. The pitchers of this species can reach up to 50 cm (approx. 20 inch) in length, so you might want to keep a close eye on your pets next time you visit your local botanical garden. The story (in German, with a picture) is right here.\nLiving with a toothpick in your liver\nLooks like this is going to be an obsession for me. But once you've started to follow how happily people eat toothpicks, you end up finding new and interesting cases everywhere. This report, published in the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (abstract), tells the story of a toothpick that penetrated the duodenum and went right into the liver. The patient reported to the clinic complaining about moderate fever and right flank pain. The heart rate and blood pressure were elevated. An abdominal sonography revealed an object in the liver right next to the duodenum. This diagnosis was confirmed by a CT scan, which nicely showed the foreign body in the liver. The patient refused surgery, so the doctors resorted to treat the infection caused by the toothpick. After a treatment with two different antibiotics the symptoms subsided and all other related diagnostic markers went back to normal. The patient was reinvestigated 2 years after the incident. He was asymptomatic, still carrying the toothpick in his liver.\nHow to amputate a leg with a toothpick\nI've mentioned ingested toothpicks as a cause of serious problems previously, but things can turn out far worse. In another case reported by the New England Journal of Medicine the toothpick ultimatively led to the loss of a leg, due to a series of complications and coincidences.\nA 60-year old patient presented to the hospital complaining about rectal bleeding, pain in one of his legs, and an episode of fainting. A thorough medical examination confirmed bleeding in the colon as well as a lack of vascular flow in the affected leg. Upon performing a laparotomy (simply put, they opened the belly for visual inspection) the surgeons found a toothpick which got stuck at a sharp turn of the colon. Incidentally, this turn was right next to the external iliac artery (one of the arteries which delivers blood to the leg) which was perforated after the toothpick pierced a hole into the colon wall. Due to the increased risk of an infection (it is not a good idea to place a graft on the artery if the contents of your colon has spread right there...) the surgeons were not able to perform a revascularization at the affected site. This eventually led to the amputation of the lower leg due to gangrene, followed by an amputation above-the-knee a few days later due to wound healing problems.\nNow if you must use toothpicks and ingest one every now and then, please choose models made from metal which can be located radiographically. It'll make it so much easier for your doctor to find out what's wrong, and it might even save you a leg.\nBelieve it or not, revisited\nI already told you so, but now there is another study about praying out there, funded by your tax money and healthcare insurances. While the first study didn't report any effect of praying, positive or negative, the new study has some real bad news for the religious among you. The study agrees that praying itself does not affect the outcome of coronary artery bypass grafting (the kind of surgery to cure heart attacks). However, patients who knew that someone was praying for them ran a higher risk of suffering from complications than patients that didn't know. It seems possible that the certainty of receiving prayer raises expectations which cannot be fulfilled. To the best of my knowledge this is the first study that shows that praying for others may cause harm.\nOne weakness of this study may leave some hope for the religious though. The praying support was delivered only by Christian groups (both Catholic and protestant) as the authors were not able to locate prayer groups of other religions. The debate may well go on claiming that praying to Jewish, Muslim or ancient Greek gods may provide better results.\nNew York Times digest (requires registration)\nHappy coronary patients\nA recent report in the section \"Opinions and Hypotheses\" of the Journal Chest suggests the use of Type-5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors in coronary artery bypass grafting. According to the reviewed data, a 100mg-dose per day is well suited to inhibit platelet aggregation and vasospasms, the two most common and most dangerous complications of coronary artery bypass grafting. The best known of these Type-5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors is sildenafil citrate, better known as - Viagra. It just so happens that this 100mg dose is what most patients with erectile dysfunction need to have some fun again. The article does not discuss what the patients are supposed to do with their (in this case unwanted) arousal if the dose kicks in.\nBTW sildenafil citrate has originally been tested for use against pulmonary hypertension. That \"other\" effect of the substance was only detected after the volunteers of a clinical trial kept on asking for more.\nWatch out for toothpicks\nThere is a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine showing which odd ways an accidentally ingested toothpick may take (if you think the obvious now - this may be the least eventful outcome [no pun intended]). A 67-year-old woman showed up in the hospital with chest pain and signs of a cardiac tamponade (the accumulation of fluids in the pericardial space), which may be caused by a postinfarction rupture of the ventricle. After draining 150ml of blood from the pericardial space, the woman was taken to an emergency surgery. The doctors removed another 600ml of clotted blood from the pericardial space and finally found a wooden toothpick which had gone through the diaphragma and then perforated a coronary artery. The woman recovered. A statistic reports 3.6 toothpick incidents per 100000 person-years. Next time you find meat rolls secured with toothpicks on your plate, do yourself a favour and remove them in time.\nHelp is coming for us cowards\nA recent article in Nature links anxiety to oxidative stress metabolism. Looks like overexpression of glyoxalase 1 and of glutathione reductase 1, two enzymes involved in detoxifying substances generated by oxidative stress, increase the anxiety in mice. This may of course lead to new approaches to cure anxiety-related disorders, but the interesting question is why there is a link. Are we supposed to avoid oxidative stress?\nDigital data and science\nNature carries a couple of interesting articles this week (Vol438, issue 7068, 2005-12-01), about the use of digital data in science. Here is a discussion how the linking of public data and the use of web services may help to make the fate of data independent of the fate of a particular lab. Although the technical means to share data are out there (think Google base), it will also require a new thinking about data, which are now held captive until published in order to get the next grant.\nThis article discusses the good and evil of digitizing books in science. Good would be of course the availability and searchability. Bad would be that even researchers might limit themselves to the snippets they find on the web (due to copyright issues, newer publications are likely to be available only as partial data), just like Joe Sixpack erroneously thinks himself well informed after watching those 20 second headline news instead of reading a newspaper. Apparently some publishers want to collect the digital data of current books and sell them online as well.\nAnother article evaluates the blessings of Google Scholar, a search engine meant for, well, scholars. This service has an edge over other databases like Pubmed as it tracks citations which you can explore at a mouseclick. However, due to the automatic scanning of only those papers which are currently available online somewhere, there is a huge bias towards publications since the mid '90 (this is where the full-text archives of many journals start), a fact that commercial databases avoid.\nFinally, here is an article which explains how blogs and wikis may change the ways scientists cooperate, although it is agreed that these techniques will not replace the classic \"paper\".\nAbuse of Science\nThere is an interesting writeup in the New England Journal of Medicine covering one of the topics that all researchers in the biomedical field should be interested in. Meng-Kin Lim starts his essay saying \"All technological advancements - from knives and forks to airplanes and rockets - have been exploited for destructive ends\". Needless to say that it is not a solution to end research in order to end its abuse, but it is sad to see that there is no real solution to this problem, regardless of the attempts mentioned in the article.\nI assume that only a fraction of all research worldwide is conducted to develop outright weapons. However, as just about anything that can be abused will be abused, we're always running the risk to contribute to a kind of research we never wanted to. And while the information was hardly accessible to non-experts until a couple of years ago, most of it is accessible on the internet these days, both for good and for bad. Dr. Lim points out that not even ethical guidelines or even self-imposed ethical conduct will help as there is always the possibility of higher considerations overriding these guidelines. So while we teach terrorists all over the world how to abuse our research, we also have to fear that even legal bodies will abuse the research in order to fight just this threat by the terrorists. The treatment of the captives in Guantanamo can give a hint that not even \"unalienable rights\" are unalienable if they would hinder the secret services. Now add to this the economic dependency of researchers on public funding, and you get an impression how strictly the members of the scientific community will be able to resist. This is not encouraging.\nOctober 18, 2005 - Markus Hoenicka\nYou've seen this before - moon and stars on your kids bedroom ceiling that glow in the dark, or t-shirts with fancy images that glow greenish at night. But you haven't seen this before, and I'm sure this will be on the christmas wishlist of many adult men than never really grew up - glowing sperm. Imagine her stunned look when she realizes that glow after you did it the first time...priceless.\nNow seriously, this does work, but so far only in Anopheles, a mosquito species infamous for transmitting diseases. Needless to say this was not invented by perverts, but by researchers in pest control. The goal is to release sterile males, as they do not transmit diseases and keep fertile males from mating, thus reducing the offspring. Genetically modified mosquito larvae can be easily sorted by sex in early stages of breeding by the greenish glow of the male gonads, caused by the expression of Green Fluorescent Protein in the spermatozoa and in the spermatogenic tissue.\nTowards the killer perfume\nThe neuropeptide oxytocin has been shown to increase trust in humans if applied as a nasal spray. After administration, the test persons were more willing to bear risks that were under control of other persons (as in giving someone your money and let him trade stocks to make a profit) compared to a control group. I wouldn't be too surprised to see this substance as a new ingredient in perfumes. Smell me, trust me, be mine...\nBelieve it or not - praying does not help cardiac patients\nInterestingly our healthcare systems still have sufficient resources to prove the obvious. It has now been shown in a randomized, double-blinded multicenter study that prayer (and other \"esoteric\" interventions) does not improve the outcome of percutaneous cardiac treatments. Needless to say that this result was independent of the religion applied to the procedure. Christian, Buddhist, Muslimic, and Jewish prayer groups did their best to no avail. It was not reported whether this procedure helped the praying persons in any respect\nIs male homosexuality an immunological disorder?\nMale homosexuality is more likely to occur if you have several older brothers. The reason is most likely the progressive immunization of some mothers against male-specific antigens in the maternal circulation. A similar mechanism which would explain female homosexuality is apparently not known.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 17699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://miasto-dzieci.org/2018/04/17/study-my-understanding-of-health-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:L27ERUYMRFHYRSUDBMPMIYQZJ7ACR34I", "length": 2468, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "miasto-dzieci.org", "title": "Study: My Understanding of Health \u2013 All about Industry", "raw_content": "Methods of Relieving Pain Naturally\nIt is common for people to seek medication in the pharmaceuticals any time they are in pain and have nothing to do about it. It is possible to be addicted to the drugs especially painkillers when a person uses them for a very long time and have no other option. There is no other option left for people who feel that they need to reduce pain in their bodies without depending on the chemicals other than using the natural methods that are available for them. Although the researchers are still carrying out research on some substances that can be used in the body and have little or no effect people have opted to try the natural means.\nSome of the extracts on the herb tree can use for relieving pain at a high-speed rate in our bodies and have been found useful by many doctors. Such products are considered as natural since they are taken from plants and are less intrusive in our bodies since they can be applied for time without one becoming dependent on them. It is possible to use the oil on the skin on places which are ailing like the bones and other areas. Spicy foods like pepper have always been considered as pain inflicting food substance but have shown great significance in fighting illness in the body.\nPain is reduced due to the pepper acting on neurotransmitters that can transmit shock from the source to the brain. Wit some types of pepper one can deal with the problem of pain and also blood rate and the clotting of the blood. Hot and cold therapy is a method that has been commonly used for a very long time in addressing the issue of torture in our bodies.\nPeople who are suffering from inflammation and other injuries that lead to blood clotting in the inside should use hot water to deal with the situation and then cold water for the cooling down of the parts. This is due to the fact that when the threads are expanded one increases blood flow. It have been proven by researchers that when the body is lacking a crucial vitamin D in the body they tend to experience a lot of pain time to time.\nVitamin D can be absorbed efficiently by the body when one stands in the sun and not as people say about drinking milk. When one can do meditation during some of their time they feel relieved and can take care of pain that is in their bodies. With all the vitamins that are contained in the soup broth it could be instrumental in pain relieving.\nSource: find more\nPractical and Helpful Tips: Options\tNext Post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micnews.com.mk/node/40075", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:22Z", "digest": "sha1:I4NIEPZHZOQIAYSJLCA5CGJKGADLOVSN", "length": 374, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "micnews.com.mk", "title": "Flash News | MIC - Macedonian Information Centre", "raw_content": "- The presence of Macedonian soldiers in Afghanistan is of key importance for the United States, assesses Ray Mabus, Secretary of the US Navy, following the meeting with Defense Minister Zoran Jolevski in Skopje at which the importance of the good cooperation between Macedonia and the US was emphasized. Mabus met Sunday with PM Nikola Gruevski and President Gjorge Ivanov.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micnews.com.mk/node/8020", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DBAEDOYCQWVLMSCLMDSLFYHC4DVB5FRS", "length": 20660, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "micnews.com.mk", "title": "WHO WERE THE AUTHORS OF THE TREBENI\u0160TE CULTURE AND THE GOLD FUNERAL MASKS | MIC - Macedonian Information Centre", "raw_content": "WHO WERE THE AUTHORS OF THE TREBENI\u0160TE CULTURE AND THE GOLD FUNERAL MASKS\nNade Proeva, Ph.D.\nOn 30 September 2002, at a distance of only 13 kilometers (Ohrid-Trebeni\u0161te), in the Ohrid region a funeral gold mask, the fifth in the range, was again found which represents a rare practice in archeology. Namely, in less than a century, or more precisely, after 84 years, at such a small distance and in a country that cannot actually invest a lot in the expensive archaeological excavations, up to five gold masks have been found! This finding, like so many before, proves that Macedonia is indeed a Balkan archaeological pearl.\nNormally, the finding of the fifth gold mask, as it was the case with the first, incited an enormous interest, with the only difference that the first one found caused particular interest with the scientific public whereas the fifth excited the wider public. Beside the admiration for the artistic quality, especially shared by the larger public, a number of questions were immediately imposed, like the time and the place of the manufacturing of the mask(s) and the other objects (the glove and the ring) discovered in the grave (the 132nd in the archeological notebook on the necropolis within Samoil\u2019s fortress), the purpose of these luxurious objects, but mostly who were the people who had ordered them, that is who owned them. What were their names and who they actually were\u2026?\nBefore answering these questions, let us recall the history of the discovery of the gold masks in the necropolis near the village of Trebeni\u0161te, actually near the village of Gorenci, at 10 kilometers to the north of Ohrid. In this necropolis, on two occasions, two times two, four funerary masks were found in the so-called princely graves dating from the end of the 6th - beginning of the 5th century B.C., with rich funerary offering (gold and silver jewelry, silver and bronze vessels, glass and amber beads, black-figured vases, local pottery, arms, terracotta, and so on). The first two masks were found quite accidentally in the spring of 1918 during the war activities of the Bulgarian army, which had occupied this part of Macedonia. And yet, even under warring circumstances, some archeological excavations were made by the archeologists B. Filow in collaboration with K. Shkorpil when, apart from the poor graves, seven princely graves (No I-VII) were discovered and the entire material was taken to the Archeological Museum in Sofia, where it is even today.\nIn 1919, after the sanctioning of the partition of Macedonia to four parts the largest part of the Ohrid region belonged to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians (a part of the Ohrid Lake and 22 villages were given to Albania). Twelve years later, from 1930 to 1934, the Serbian archeologist N. Vuli\u0107 discovered six other princely graves (No. VIII-XIII) in the same necropolis and two more gold masks that, together with the other findings, were taken to the National Museum in Belgrade.\nThe unexpected discovery of such rich graves and funeral gold masks from the Ohrid region, which date an entire millennium after the only gold masks in the Balkans and in Europe in general found so far, surprised the scientists of that time, who immediately started solving the enigma about who had made these luxurious objects and for whom. We should immediately reject the thesis about foreigners who accidentally happened to be in the region and had been buried there, because not only does the necropolis have a continuity (VII-IV/III centuries B.C.), but it also has an internal cohesion. Namely, apart from the rich graves, so-called poor graves from the same period had been discovered as well, which undoubtedly proves that it was the local aristocracy, that is to say the ruling class that could order such luxurious objects.\nThe question about the origin of the objects was easier and more quickly resolved than the question about the ethnic origin of the inhabitants in the region. Namely, it is well known that at that time (the Archaic period), Corinth was the center for manufacturing metal objects, particularly made of bronze, although bronze vessels were not used in Hellas until the Hellenic age due to the different social structure: polis in Hellas, kingdoms in its \u201cbarbarous\u201d periphery. The Corinthian colonies were also included in the manufacturing and distribution of these products, both the ones in the northeast and the ones on Chalcidice, where a specific style had been created, especially for the bronze vessels, the so-called Chalcidicean style. Today we know that the bronze vessels (like craters decorated with a frieze of horsemen or cows) found in Trebeni\u0161te were manufactured in Corinth, and some in the South-Italic colonies, whereas the silver ones (rhythons, schifos) are believed to have been manufactured in the Ionic-Persian style, suitable to the taste of the local population. Namely, the connections between Macedonia and the eastern Mediterranean are very old, and the Macedonian artisans started to adapt and imitate different kinds of objects (Persian vessels, silver cups-calyx) relatively early. The jewelry in composite style was manufactured in the workshops on Chalcidice that, in spite of foreign influences, maintained the predilection and style of the local population (round-headed needles decorated with stylized palmettes as on the sarcophagus of Phillip II in filigree technique, needles with stylized poppy berries, etc.).\nTaking into consideration that the gold masks were found in graves, it is obvious that they were intended for funeral purposes. In the funerary cult of the Macedonian tribes, the body of the deceased, particularly the open parts of the body - the faces, the palms, the soles, and so on, were covered with gold: masks, gloves, sandal soles, gold leaflets attached to the clothes and the arms, the so-called applications. Funerary masks or gold leaves have been found on other sites in Macedonia as well: in Beranci near Bitola, in Aiane (now Eani in Greece), near Gevgelija (the material has not been made public yet), in Sindos (Tekelievo), Zejtinlik, Mikro Karabournu near Thessaloniki, Pella, Amphipolis etc. (see map).\nUnfortunately, there are still scholars who believe that this funerary cult in Macedonia is of Egyptian origin. There are scientists who believe that such covering of the body with gold leaves was taken over to Macedonia from Egypt via Crete, so they connect it with the legend of Minos and his search for Daedalus, or for his son Glaucias. However, they are not taking into consideration the huge chronological distances, which is not possible to be explained. So, the most logical and therefore the most acceptable explanation is the one of a convergence. This means that the people living on distant territories, for which we are sure that had no mutual contacts at all, came to identical or similar solutions and answers for similar or completely identical needs and issues. So, in Egypt, the bodies of the richest and the most powerful people, i.e. the pharaohs, were covered with gold masks. In Macedonia, and not only in the Ohrid region, the bodies of the most distinguished members of the communities, i.e. the leaders, were covered with gold. These were local rulers from the VI and V century B.C., the period before the state had been united by the most powerful dynasty \u2013 in this case the Argheads, the first dynasty of the Macedonian kingdom. Nevertheless, the biggest problem for the scholars was the question related to the ethnic origin of the owners of these luxurious objects, that is to say the inhabitants of the Ohrid region. According to the written sources, the first inhabitants of the Ohrid region known by their name were the Encheleis/Engelanes, and later the Dassaretai. Even before the discovery of the gold masks, there had been several opinions expressed as regards the origin of these tribes: Illyrian, an old population that was Illyrized as a part of the Illyrian state, Macedonian, Brygian, and Greek. When the first two gold masks were found in Gorenci/Trebeni\u0161te 84 years ago, it was not just an epochal discovery, but an enigma for the scientific world, because with the ancient people(s) (Greeks, Thracians, Illyrians) from the Classical Age gold masks had not been discovered until then. The masks from Mycenae are dated thousand years before and they belong to the Achaeans, whose overall social structure and culture are entirely different from those of the peoples in the Classical Age, including the ancient Greeks. And since the Macedonians at that time, with a few exceptions, were considered Greeks, these masks were ascribed to their eastern neighbors - the Illyrians, whose border was then not precisely defined, first of all because of lack of sources. Namely, the ancient sources are very inaccurate in describing the countries and nations, as they were mostly based on oral information. So, archaeologists, linguists, and historians usually included the tribes (Encheleis/Engelanes, Paenests, etc.) in these border areas, which from the 4th century B.C. occasionally used to be parts of the Illyrian state, in the Illyrian group. However, the Engelanes, whose name was adapted in the old Greek language in the more familiar form Encheleis, were not included in the Illyrian tribes in the earliest written sources, but were always mentioned separately from the Illyrians. For example, Herodotus wrote that the Cadmeans from Thebes had come to the Encheleis i.e. Engelanes (Her., V, 61), whereas Apollodorus, after more than five centuries, wrote that they (Encheleis) had been fighting with the Illyrian tribes (Apol., Bibl., III, 5, 4). The Engelanes were mentioned as part of the Illyrian tribes for the first time in the IV century B.C. when the Greeks were more interested in the Adriatic coast (Pseudo-Sxylax, 24-25). That was the time of the first Illyrian state when the Engelanes fell under Illyrian authority and, normally, they were encompassed by the name Illyrians. In fact, the Engelanes and the other border tribes would fall under Illyrian power every time the Macedonian state got weak. Polybius, for instance, mentions the Engelanes in 217 B.C. referring to the battles for these territories between Philip V and the Illyrian King Scerdilaidas and this was their last mentioning in written sources (Polyb., V, 108, 8).\nThe common name Illyrians was used as the ancient authors knew very little about the tribes in the interior of the Balkan Peninsula, which can be seen from the data of the periegetes Pausanias: \u201c\u2026the Illyrians who were called Encheleis before.\u201d (Paus., IX, 5, 13). The Roman authors had better knowledge of the ethnic situation in the Balkans, so from the 2nd century B.C. they used the term \u201cIllyrii proprie dicti\u201d, which literary means \u201cIllyrians in proper speaking\u201d, i.e. Illyrians in the real sense of the word. Namely, the Romans were perfectly aware that the huge province of Illyricum, which later they will divide into two smaller provinces (Dalmatia and Pannonia), was not inhabited only by Illyrian tribes. Nevertheless, even they (Romans) predominantly used the administrative name Illyrians \u2013 as was the name of the province - for tribes on the same or similar economic, cultural, and social level living from Epirus in the south to Istria in the north. We should here mention the example with the name of the tribe that lived in the Ohrid-Struga region, as an indicative one. Namely, the ancient author Mnaseas, for whom we do not even know when he exactly lived, wrote that Engelanes was the same as Enkheleis, i.e. Encheleis, which is ancient Greek transcription of the Macedonian name of the tribe. It was long ago determined that in ancient Macedonian the sound \u201cg\u201d stood for \u201cch\u201d. The author Stephanus of Byzantium from the VI century B.C. took over this data from Mnaseas, adding that the tribe was in Illyricum. This is taken as an evidence for the Illyrian origin of the Engelanes, without taking into consideration that Stephanus of Byzantium wrote about the prefecture Illyricum from his own time (which encompassed almost the entire Balkans), and not about \u201cIllyria\u201d in geographic or ethnic meaning.\nThese data from written sources can be supported with the new types of sources, like archeological and epigraphic ones, the analysis of which shows that the tribes living in the Ohrid region belonged to the Macedonian group of tribes.\nThe study of the onomastic data has shown that out of the 50 names found in the Ohrid-Struga region, no more than four can be classified as Illyrian. Some of the personal names can be classified neither as Illyrian, nor ancient Greek, or Thracian. Other names that were formerly considered to be Illyrian have many analogies in Asia Minor, which proves that they should be ascribed to the Bryges (i.e. to the Engelanes) who were living in this part of Macedonia before their migration to Asia Minor. And today we know that the Briygian tribes used to be the foundation/basis (substratum) in the ethno-genesis of the Ancient Macedonians.\nEver since the Bronze Age, the material culture is different from the one of the Illyrian tribes, and it is almost the same with the one in other parts of Macedonia from Pelagonia to Vergina (Kutle\u0161). It should be stressed that the material culture in the valley of the River Devol (a region of the Engelanes/Dassaretai) is substantially different from the culture in the valley of the River Shkumbina (a region of the Illyrian tribes) starting from the end of the Bronze Age. So, the cultural group Bubusti-Tren is related to the one in Pelagonia, and it is completely different from the Illyrian regions \u2013 the border between the two cultural units was the River Shkumbina. This is yet another proof that the tribes living around Lake Ohrid (Engelanes, Dassaretai) were of Macedonian ethnicity. Nevertheless, in spite of the obvious differences between the Illyrian material culture (north of the River Shkumbina) and the Macedonian (south of the Rriver Shkumbina), some scholars still consider the material culture of the Engelanes as Illyrian, and some even go so far as to interpret the tumuli in Vergina/Kutle\u0161 as Illyrian, thus \u201cproving\u201d the alleged Illyrian origin of the Macedonians. This conclusion is also supported by other types of archeological material. For example, in the village of Dolno Selce near Podgradec, on the Albanian side of Lake Ohrid, a grave of the Macedonian type has been found, plundered back in the ancient times. However, one funeral offering was found left in the grave, which is a rectangular military clasp of bronze with an image of a horseman with Macedonian arms killing a barbarian, probably a Celtic, judging by his garments. Bearing in mind that the Celtic invasion did not cover south Illyria, and comparing it with the military clasps found in the northern parts of Illyria, we will see that they are also different in shape (the Illyrian are trapezoid), and the soldiers are equipped with totally different arms. What is most important, there is a horror vacui in the presentation, which is not typical for the Macedonian art. We should here also mention the necropolis in Sindos, discovered in the 90s of the last century, in the heart of Macedonia, with an almost identical culture and funerary ritual that is contemporaneous with the culture in Gorenci/Trebeni\u0161te (gold masks, arms, jewelry, etc.). It is of great importance in defining the material culture of the inhabitants from Trebeni\u0161te and its surroundings, and thus for determining their ethnic origin. Namely, it has been proven that the characteristics of the funerary ritual in these necropolises are neither Greek nor Illyrian or Thracian. So far, funerary masks have been found only in Macedonia, and not on the territory of Ancient Greece. Gold masks were not used in the funerary cult of ancient Greeks: to connect them with the masks from the Cretan-Mycenaean culture is methodologically wrong, because the ethnic, the cultural, and the chronological differences between them are huge. Another characteristic of the Macedonian funerary ritual is the tripod for the funeral feast, which is not found with the Ancient Greeks, where the cult bed, the so-called \u201ckline\u201d was used for the funeral feast. These two most significant characteristics were indicated by the renowned French expert Claude Rolley after the discovery of the necropolis in Sindos. Apart from these characteristics, metal vessels were found in the necropolis in Gorenci/Trebeni\u0161te that were not used at that time in Ancient Greece. All this proves that we are faced with two different funerary customs. If we point out that the funerary ritual is one of the most significant elements of a religion, which, after the language, is the most important element in defining the ethnicity of the tribes, it is obvious that the Engelanes belonged to the group of Macedonian tribes.\nNade Proeva, Ph.D. is an eminent Macedonian historian and a professor of Ancient History at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.\nThe author has graduated from the Faculty of Archaeology in Belgrade.\nShe specialized in epigraphic, numismatics, and religion at Sorbonne - Paris.\nHer published works include over 50 scholarly articles on Ancient History and Archaeology, and two books about the history of Ancient Macedonia.\n1. Filow B. \u2013 Schkorpil K., Die archaische Necropole von Trebenischte am Ochrida-See, Berlin und Leipcig, 1927; Vasi\u0107 M., Nekropola u blizini Ohrida, Srpski kni\u017eevni glasnik, 25, Beograd, 1928.\n2.N. Vuli\u0107, Jedan nov grob kod Trebeni\u0161ta, Glasnik Skopskog Nau\u010dnog Dru\u0161tva XI, Skopje, 1932, p. 1 sqq; Id., Novi grobovi kod Trebeni\u0161ta, Spomenik SAN, LXXVI, Beograd , 1933, 1-31; Id., Das neue Grab von Trebenischte, Arch. Anzeiger, Bb. III/IV, 1930, pp. 276-279; Id., Ein neues Grab bei Trebenischte, Jahreshefte d. Ost. Arch. Inst., 28, Wien, 1932, pp. 164-186; Id., Neue Graber bei Trebenischte, Arch. Anzeiger, 1933, pp. 459-486; Id., La n\u00e9cropole archa\u00efque de Trebenishte, Revue arch\u00e9ologique, Paris, 1934, pp. 26-38; B. Filov, Le nouveau tombeau de Trebeni\u0161te, IBAI, VII, Sofia, 1932/33 (r\u00e9sum\u00e9); Id., Nouvelles trouvailles de Trebeni\u0161te, IBAI, VII, Sofia, 1934 (r\u00e9sum\u00e9); Popovic Lj., Catalogue des objets d\u00e9couverts pr\u00e8s de Trebeni\u0161te, Beograd, 1956.\n3. Found by H. Schliemann in 1876, in Mycenae, on Peloponnesus, almost half a century before the \u201cTrebenishte-Ohrid\u201d ones.\n4. Cl. Rolley, Les bronzes grecs, Fribourg, 1983, p. 132.\n5. Cl. Rolley, op. cit., p. 142; R. Vasi\u0107, Greek bronze vessels found in Yugoslavia, \u017diva Antika, XXXIII.2, Skopje, 1983, p.189.\n6. Popovi\u0107 Lj, La vaisselle d\u2019argent de la n\u00e9cropole de Trebeni\u0161te, \u017diva Antika, VIII, Skopje, 1958, p. 154, (r\u00e9sum\u00e9); V. Popovi\u0107, Sur l\u2019origine des objects grecs archa\u00efques de la n\u00e9cropole de Trebeni\u0161te et le probl\u00e8me des masques d\u2019or (r\u00e9sum\u00e9, p.30), Starinar, XV-XVI, Beograd, 1964/65, p. 19-20.\n7. B. Barr-Sharrar, Eastern Influence on the Toreutic art of Macedonia, Ancient Macedonia, IV, Thessaloniki, 1986, p. 79-81.\n8. \u03a3\u0399\u039d\u0394\u039f\u03a3, \u039a\u0391\u03a4\u0391\u039b\u039f\u0393\u039f\u03a3 \u03a4\u0397\u03a3 \u0395\u039a\u0398\u0395\u03a3\u0397\u03a3 \u0391\u03a1\u039e\u0391\u0399\u039f\u039b\u039f\u0393\u0399\u039a\u039f \u039c\u039f\u03a5\u03a3\u0395\u0399\u039f \u03a9\u0395\u03a3\u03a3\u0391\u039b\u039f\u039d\u0399\u039a\u0397\u03a3, \u0391\u0398\u0397\u039d\u0391\u0399, 1985.\n9.. Lately N. G. L. Hammond, Epirus, Oxford, 1967, as well as all the Albanian authors without an exception.\n10. F. Papazoglou, Les royaumes d\u2019Illyrie et de Dardanie, in Les Illyriens et les Albanais, Beograd, SANU 1988, p. 178, n. 20. We should say that in his earlier works, F. Papazoglou supported the thesis about the Illirian origin of the Enheleans.\n11. A. J. R. Wace \u2013 A. M. Woodward, Ann. BSA. 18, 1909, p. 167; Fr. Geyer, RE, XIV, 1938, s.v. Makedonia, col. 638-701; N. Proeva, Ench\u00e9l\u00e9ens-Dassar\u00e8tes-Illyriens, Acte du II coll. Intern. \u201cL\u2019Illyrie m\u00e9ridionale et l\u2019Epire dans l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 Clemont-Ferrand, 1990, Paris 1993, p. 197/8.\n12. W. Paj\u0105kowski, Wer waren Illyrii proprie dicti und wo siedelte man si an?, God. CBI, XVIII/16, Sarajevo, 1980, p. 124-128.\n13. M. B. Hadzopoulos, Limite d\u2019expansion mac\u00e9donienne en Illyrie, Acte du I coll. Intern. \u201cL\u2019Illyrie m\u00e9ridionale et l\u2019Epire dans l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9, Clemont-Ferrand, 1984, Paris 1987, p. 82. N. 15.\n14. See. N. Proeva, Ench\u00e9l\u00e9ens-Dassar\u00e8tes-Illyriens, p. 197/8.\n15. It is first of all related to Albanian scientists.\n16. N. Ceka, Les tombes monumentales de la Basse Selce, Iliria, IV, Tirana, 1976, p. 367-369.\n17. D. Rendi\u0107-Mio\u010devi\u0107, L\u2019art des Illyriens \u00e0 l\u2019epoque antique (r\u00e9sum\u00e9), in Culture spirituelle des Illyriens, Sarajevo, 1984, p. 76.\n18. The metal vessels and jewelry found in the necropolis in Trebeni\u0161te are not used in Greece, see n. 4.\n19. Cl. Rolley, Du nouveau sur la Mac\u00e9doine antique, Arch\u00e9ologia, no 188, Paris, mars 1984, p. 35-37.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 21543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://midlandsautojumble.co.uk/museums/the_abbey_pumping_station_museum.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ED57BZQ3HCSF2ATBS7GFUVJIDH5CZ3OQ", "length": 1521, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "midlandsautojumble.co.uk", "title": "Midlands Museums | The Abbey Pumping Station Museum | Corporation Road, Abbey Lane, Leicester LE4 5PX", "raw_content": "The Abbey Pumping Station Museum\nAddress: Corporation Road, Abbey Lane, Leicester\nPostcode: LE4 5PX\nThe Abbey Pumping Station is Leicester's Museum of Science and Technology. The museum collects and displays the industrial, technological and scientific heritage of Leicester. The engine house has been preserved and during selected special events the engines can be seen in steam. Situated adjacent to the National Space Centre, the two attractions tell the story of over 200 years of science and technology from the early days of steam and industry, to space exploration of today. The main building on the site houses the 4 massive Gimson beam engines, which have all now been restored to full working order. At various special events throughout the year one or more of the engines are steamed fo the public to observe. Originally built in Leicester in 1891 for the purpose of pumping sewage to a new treatment works at Beaumont Leys off Anstey Lane. The engines worked untill 1964 when electric pumps started to take over their duties and it finally closed soon after as a pumping station on completion of the new sewage works at Wanlip.\nThe Abbey Pumping Station Museum 2019 Event Schedule\nThe Abbey Pumping Station Museum Office\nURL: www.abbeypumpingstation.org\nOpen February - November, Saturdays - Wednesdays: 11.00am - 4.30pm; Sundays: 1.00pm - 4.30pm. Open on certain Thursdays and Fridays for children's activities during school holidays. Open December - January for special events and private hire. Closed Thurs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mikedietricklaw.com/articles.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:57Z", "digest": "sha1:7UGSKQ22WVKEU5UZSTQGNL7OOZVOH2LX", "length": 11070, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mikedietricklaw.com", "title": "Articles", "raw_content": "Causation and Damages in Attorney Malpractice Claims\nCausation in Auto Accident Cases\nCausation in Medical Malpractice Cases\nCoverage under Liability Insurance Policies - What Is the Trigger?\nSettlements in Litigated Cases - Can the Client Sue for Malpractice?\nArticles on Current Legal Issues\nThe question what triggers coverage under a liability insurance policy depends on what sort of event must happen during the policy period to activate the insurer's duty to defend and indemnify the insured. As the California Supreme Court stated, \"[T]he issue is one of timing - what must take place within the policy's effective dates for the potential of coverage to be 'triggered'?\" Montrose Chemical Corp v. Admiral Insurance Co. (1995) 10 Cal.4th 645, 655, fn. 2.\nIn an \"occurrence- based\" liability policy, coverage is established at the time the complaining party was actually damaged - such as when the bodily injury occurs - regardless of when the insured's wrongful conduct took place. If the injury occurred during the policy period, then coverage under the policy is triggered provided the accident or condition is at least a potentially covered risk. In continuous injury cases, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, where the claimant suffers progressively deteriorating bodily injury, coverage under multiple insurance policies and policy periods can be triggered.\nCalifornia case law shows that the crucial inquiry is not whether there has been any settlement of the lawsuit, but whether the attorney committed a breach of professional duty leading up to the settlement and whether that breach of duty caused actual damage. Claims of attorney malpractice are subject to the established elements of a cause of action in tort for professional negligence. As the California Supreme Court stated in a leading case:\nThe elements of a cause of action in tort for professional negligence are: (1) the duty of the professional to use such skill, prudence, and diligence as other members of his profession commonly possess and exercise; (2) a breach of that duty; (3) a causal connection between the negligent conduct and the resulting injury; and (4) actual loss or damage resulting from the professional\u2019s negligence. Budd v. Nixen, (1971) 6 Cal.3d 195, 200.\nThe question is what professional duties did the attorney allegedly breach, and what is the connection between this breach of duty and any actual damages suffered by the client?\nThe former client must prove that he or she was actually damaged by the attorney\u2019s failure to competently handle a lawsuit. In Jackson v. Johnson (1992) 5 Cal.App.4th 1350, a jury found that the attorney had acted negligently in failing to prosecute a client\u2019s employment case. However, it awarded \"the sum of 0 dollars\" for the client\u2019s actual damages based on the lack of merit of the underlying case. The jury then awarded punitive damages. This was wrong. If the actual damages were zero, there was no liability, thus no punitive damages. Thus, the verdict was reversed on appeal.\nThe Halvonik case shows that a client alleging an attorney\u2019s breach of duty in handling a lawsuit must prove that he or she suffered damage from the breach of duty; otherwise, there can be no judgment of negligence or breach of fiduciary duty against the former attorney. In Thompson v. Halvonik, (1995) 36 Cal.App.4th 657, at 663, there was a $1.75 million-dollar settlement against a hospital on behalf of a retarded infant, but it was obtained in the underlying tort case more than a year later by the second law firm, not by the original law firm. The malpractice plaintiff did not claim that the million dollar settlement by the second law firm was inadequate. Plaintiff in Halvonik hypothesized, however, that if attorney Halvonik (the original attorney) had obtained a settlement some time well before the date of the actual settlement by the second law firm in May 1991, then the value to the retarded infant could have been greater. The Court of Appeal rejected this claim, stating, \"None of this evidence does more than suggest speculative harm, because it does not demonstrate that but for respondents\u2019 delay, appellant\u2019s underlying case would have settled at all, let alone at an earlier date, for the same amount, or with the same structure.\"\nIn the case Loube v. Loube (1998) 64 Cal.App.4th 421, the plaintiffs had retained the defendant law firm to recover damages from the general partners in a real estate partnership. The defendant general partners failed to appear and defend, and plaintiffs obtained judgment for compensatory damages and $200,000 punitive damages after a prove-up hearing. The defaulting general partners then appeared and moved for relief from default on grounds that no specific amount of damages had been stated in the complaint. The trial court accordingly amended the default judgment to reduce the amount of compensatory damages to the jurisdictional minimum of $25,000. At trial in plaintiffs\u2019 subsequent malpractice action, the trial court found that each former client would have been awarded no more than $12,850 compensatory damages and would have been awarded no punitive damages. Accordingly, the trial court granted defendants\u2019 motion for judgment. The Court of Appeal affirmed this part of the judgment, stating:\nA client who has been made whole \u2013 from whatever source \u2013 thus may not maintain an action for professional negligence against her former attorney. It is undisputed here that appellants were more than made whole by the award of $25,000 compensatory damages and $200,000 punitive damages. Id., 64 Cal.App.4th at 426.\nThe former clients in the Loube case claimed that if their attorney had specified a large number for their compensatory damages in the prayer of the complaint, then they might have received a more generous award after the default prove-up hearing. The Court of Appeal replied, \"[w]e cannot endorse a rule that determines liability by measuring the amount that a client might have received in connection with a claim, rather than the actual value of the claim.\"\nAnother appellate opinion on this issue is Carlton v. Quint (2000) 77 Cal.App.4th 690, in which the former client claimed that his attorney\u2019s failure to have the summons and complaint served resulted in a dismissal of that action, thereby requiring plaintiff to proceed with a cross-complaint for an identical claim based on the same allegations. The former client claimed that if the action on the complaint had not been dismissed for failure to timely serve it, then the case could have gone to trial some nine months before the action on the cross-complaint was resolved. Plaintiff\u2019s purported damages consisted in nine months\u2019 interest on the settlement. However, the plaintiff presented no evidence whatsoever that the action on the complaint, if not dismissed, would have gone to trial any time before the settlement was obtained on the action on the cross-complaint, and no evidence that the result at trial was objectively insufficient. Defendant accordingly negated two elements of plaintiff\u2019s legal malpractice cause of action \u2013 causation and damages \u2013 and summary judgment was properly granted. Id., 77 Cal.App.4th at 699-701.\nAttorney malpractice claims are divided into two groups, those in which the matter the attorney handled for the client was a transaction, and those which involved a lawsuit. Generally, attorney malpractice claims involving breaches of duty in handling a client\u2019s lawsuit are resolved by the \"trial- within- a- trial\" method. A long line of cases approves the trial-within-a-trial method of proof when an attorney is accused of losing a client\u2019s legal claim or defense. Mattco Forge, Inc. v. Arthur Young & Co. (1997) 52 Cal.App.4th 820, 832. \"Proof that the client would have prevailed on the underlying action generally requires trial of a \u2018suit within a suit,\u2019 i.e., a determination of the merits of the underlying action in the malpractice trial.\" Galanek v. Wismar (1999) 68 Cal.App.4th 1417, 1425.\nCalifornia law permits physicians with proper expertise to testify in court about the causal connection between a doctor's incompetent treatment and the patient's resulting injuries. In Davis v. Memorial Hospital, 58 Cal. 2d 815, 817-818, there was expert testimony which showed that 90% of perirectal abscesses result from bacterial infection, that a patient\u2019s infection started from break in mucous membrane, and defendant's incompetent insertion of an enema tube probably caused the break. In Quintal v. Laurel Grove Hospital, 62 Cal.2d 154, 156-158, 164, expert testimony showed that 90% of deaths from cardiac arrest occurred from faulty intubation and if an operation had been performed within three minutes of heart stoppage no brain damage would have resulted. In Cline v. Lund, 31 Cal.App.3d 755, 763, expert testimony showed that death after hysterectomy was very uncommon and there was evidence of specific acts of negligence by defendant physician as a factor causing the wrongful death of the patient. In Carrasco v. Bankoff, 220 Cal.App.3d 230, 241, expert testimony showed that better results were usually obtained in burn cases from early skin grafts, hence a physician's failure to do so resulted in plaintiff's serious injury. In Brown v. Colm, 11 Cal.3d 639, 643, expert testimony showed that use of nonabsorbable stainless steel sutures in repairing a fistula was likely to become distorted and cause injury. Another interesting case is Bardessono v. Michels, 3 Cal.3d 780, 788-793, in which the plaintiff had suffered paralysis as a result of a routine injection of cortisone. The question for the jury was whether the doctor had incompetently given the injection, given that paralysis rarely resulted from such a routine procedure.\nHowever, expert physicians are not always permitted to testify about the cause of an injury. In Folk v. Kilk, 53 Cal.App.3d 176, the presence of the HI bacterium shown by a throat culture was not regarded at the time as a danger signal that would preclude a tonsillectomy and hence there was no reason to overturn the verdict for the defendant doctors given by the jury. Also, in Morgenroth v. Pacific Medical Center, 54 Cal.App.3d 521, 529-530, an informed consent case, the only evidence of causation was a physician's testimony that the plaintiff's stroke was 'more probably' a complication from one vascular procedure. The expert testimony was purely speculative, thus not admissible at trial.\nExperts in the field of accident reconstruction often testify in trials of serious automobile accident injuries. But proposed testimony relating to accident reconstruction experiments which were not conducted under similar circumstances may be excluded where such evidence tends to confuse the issues or mislead the jury. Thus, in Solis v. Southern California Rapid Transit District, 105 Cal.App.3d 382, 387, an accident reconstruction experiment conducted on a clear day when pavement was dry was not conducted under similar circumstances where accident occurred on rainy day, so the testimony was not permitted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 11426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://militera.lib.ru/h/fugate/06.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2NOOBGSO4MTOUCOLNPBNFBSPSPAKPWUN", "length": 87446, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "militera.lib.ru", "title": "\u0412\u041e\u0415\u041d\u041d\u0410\u042f \u041b\u0418\u0422\u0415\u0420\u0410\u0422\u0423\u0420\u0410 --[ \u0412\u043e\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f ]-- Fugate B., Operation Barbarossa", "raw_content": "Hitler Versus The Generals\nThe Failure Of The German Command And Control System\nAccording to the interpretation usually favored by historians and memoirists of the war on the eastern front, the strategy pursued by Hitler in 1941 was erratic and inconsistent, based less on sound military reasoning than on a confused political, social, and economic ideology. By contrast, the policies of the general staff and the OKH are portrayed as having been clear and consistent, but continuously frustrated by incompetent interference from Hitler and from the OKW{1}. However, careful examination of the events that led up to the postponement of the advance on Moscow until after the battle of Kiev in September 1941 does not support the conclusion that Hitler alone was responsible for the confused strategy that led to the German army's shocking reversal of fortunes at the gates of the Soviet capital in December. The general staff, the OKH, the OKW, and some generals in the field, most specifically von Bock and Guderian, must also bear a heavy share of the blame for the blunders that produced the Wehrmacht's first major setback at Yelnia and then the later one at Moscow. Some of these errors and the reasons for them have been discussed in the previous chapters, now close attention must be given to the question of why Panzer Group 2 was sent from Army Group Center to the Ukraine to aid in the closing of the encirclement around Kiev. [206]\nThe answers to these questions are complex and lie rooted in the unworkable command structure of the German army and in the personalities of the German military and political leaders. In many ways, the errors in strategic planning made by the German high command and the tortured convolutions of policy and underhanded dealings that typified the German military leadership were a reflection of the contradictions that rested deep inside the fabric of the Nazi system.\nWhen Halder first analyzed the strategic problem posed by the Soviet Union during the last half of 1940, Moscow seemed to be the only objective in the country worthy of consideration. In remaining faithful to his first plan to achieve victory, Halder ignored the best advice given to him by members of his own general staff organization (such as Greiffenberg, Feyerabend, and Paulus) and also made bad use of the other strategic studies done by Marcks and Lossberg. Throughout 1941, Halder did not waver from his opinion that Moscow should be considered the primary goal in Russia; but he did, as the battlefront situation deteriorated, modify his operational plans a great deal, and his outlook changed significantly in regard to how the resilient opponent should be defeated.\nBefore June 22 and the beginning of the war in the east, Halder made it known in no uncertain terms that a consideration of economic objectives had no place in the formulation of strategy{2}. The campaign in Russia was to be a purely military exercise, army against army, which would be conducted with the view that the enemy's main force could be destroyed by vast armored encirclements, with infantry bringing up the rear of the advance to secure the pockets of surrounded enemy formations. These tactics would be effective, he thought, because the Russians supposedly would be compelled to draw up the bulk of their defensive forces along the main approaches to their capital from the west and to give battle west of the Dnepr-Dvina line in order to protect their vital industrial bases{3}. By July 13, however, during the third week of the war, Halder's opinion about the toughness of the Red Army had undergone a fundamental change. It had by then become clear that the Red Army had not exhausted its reserves, as more units were known to have arrived in the Smolensk, Orsha, and Vitebsk areas from the Ukraine. This fact, plus the strong Russian pressure [207] from the direction of Velikie Luki on the northern flank of Army Group Center, compelled Halder to advise Hitler to postpone the direct advance on Moscow until after the problems on the flanks of the Central Army Group had been rectified{4}. The troubles that began after July 13 for Panzer Group 2 and the Second Army on the southern flank of Army Group Center confirmed Halder in his change of mind.\nThe chief of the general staff had taken great pains before and during the campaign in the east to see that no one interfered with his plans. The OKH's Deployment Directive Barbarossa in January 1941 had set the stage for a major push through White Russia directly toward Moscow, and the creation of the Fourth Panzer Army command under von Kluge in early July had been designed to give the panzer generals Guderian and Hoth the maximum amount of freedom to forge eastward as rapidly as possible{5}. Even though by July 13 Halder was willing to postpone the assault on Moscow for the time being, he was still determined to carry the project through to the finish, although his desire to delay the push on the Soviet capital was increased after the failure of the Fourth Panzer Army to close the gap around Smolensk.\nOn the morning of July 21, Brauchitsch and Heusinger visited von Bock at Army Group Center headquarters and agreed with him that the army group should continue to press east until the last enemy reserves were crushed, but instead of insisting that Guderian and Hoth have the free rein they had enjoyed in the past, Brauchitsch established the precondition that, first and above all else, the Smolensk pocket would have to be secured and eliminated. The OKH was not in the mood to order Guderian to abandon the Yelnia salient completely, but Brauchitsch and Halder were prepared by the third week in July to exercise a restraining hand over the panzer groups to prevent any further extension of their already badly exposed flanks. Following this explanation of the OKH's policy, the army commander in chief told von Bock and von Kluge essentially what Halder had told Hitler on July 13: after the closing of the Smolensk pocket and after the refitting of Panzer Groups 2 and 3, Guderian should prepare to turn south and east toward the Ukraine; Hoth's Panzer Group 3 alone would remain as Army Group Center's armored force, to support the drive on Moscow by pressing ahead toward the east or the [208] north-east. According to the OKH timetable. Panzer Groups 2 and 3 should have been readied for their new tasks by the beginning of August{6}.\nThis alteration in the OKH strategic plan was reaffirmed by Halder in a conference held after Brauchitsch returned from his visit. This conference on July 21 was summarized in the communique of July 23, a document that convinced Guderian that the OKH was preparing to throw overboard the entire plan of placing Moscow above all other objectives{7}. This was not, however, the truth of the matter. Halder wished to form a special task force composed of Panzer Group 2 along with part of the Second Army, to be commanded by Field Marshal von Kluge, that would be sent to the Ukraine with Stalingrad on the lower Volga as its ultimate objective. But the main target of Halder's plans was-as it had always been-Moscow. The Soviet capital could be taken, he believed, by the remaining part of Army Group Center along with some help from one army and a panzer group from Army Group North.\nOn July 23, the day the communique so despised by Guderian was issued, Halder laid his case before Hitler. In his discussion with the filhrer Halder noted that the infantry of the Second and Ninth armies alone would not be enough to take Moscow after von Kluge's group had been diverted to the southeast. That objective could only be accomplished by Panzer Group 3 first clearing its own flank toward the northeast and then aiding the final drive on both sides of Moscow that could begin between August 5 and 10. Army Group North could continue its advance to the north and east, but with the Sixteenth Army moving its southern wing along the line Kholm-Bologoe, a maneuver that would cover from the north Army Group Center's approach to Moscow.\nThe chief of the general staff justified his new proposals to Hitler on the basis that it was proving to be impossible to eliminate Russia's military forces without eliminating its economic base. For this reason, he submitted, the Volga line in the south must be reached by von Kluge's group, a force of about ten infantry divisions plus Panzer Group 2. This group would have the mission of moving through Briansk and Gomel toward Kharkov. In terms of territorial objectives, Halder called for reaching the Caucasus-Volga line, a line that could perhaps be extended to Kazan if the situation warranted. In the Army Group North area the territory [209] between Rybinsk and Lake Onega was considered particularly important. Army Group North would have to consolidate its hold here and prepare to send an expedition into the Urals{8}.\nIn presenting his case to Hitler on July 23, Halder appealed to the fuhrer's sense of reason in terms that, for him, were unusual. Halder had finally realized that Russia's inexhaustible reserves of manpower could not be defeated by the methods heretofore used. The chief of the general staff now advocated the shattering of Russia's economic capacity to make war instead of concentrating simply on destroying the enemy's armed forces{9}. It might be thought that here Halder was resorting to a subterfuge, engaging Hitler's sympathies by advancing a consideration dear to his heart-that is, the importance of economic strategy in winning a victory over the Soviet Union-but there is other evidence to show that this was not the case. The earnestness of Halder's newfound interest in economic matters was manifested in a conference held at OKH headquarters on July 25. In this conference Brauchitsch, who never deviated far from Halder's way of thinking, addressed the chiefs of staff of the three eastern army groups:\nOur main task remains to shatter Russia's capacity to resist. A further goal is to bring their population and production centers under our control. The Russians have a wealth of manpower; we must seize their armament centers before the onset of winter...\nAlthough their armament production is high, it is limited, nevertheless. If we succeed in smashing the enemy strength before us, their superiority in manpower alone will not win the war for them{10}.\nHalder now genuinely believed, in contrast to his earlier and narrower philosophy of war, that economic considerations must be taken into account if the enemy were to be brought to its knees within a reasonable length of time. This change of mind on Halder's part was not, however, a complete departure from the past, for he still had not abandoned the strategy that placed Moscow above all other objectives. In other words, although he now recognized the importance of economic factors in the war in the east, he still stopped short of recommending to Hitler that measures be taken to prepare Germany for a protracted war instead of one short and swift campaign.\nAlthough Hitler was willing to listen to Halder's arguments, [210] he was disinclined to change the wording of a new directive. Directive 33-A, that he caused to be issued that same day, July 23. This directive was a supplement to the Directive 33 that had appeared on July 19, an order that called for armored units from Army Group Center to be used to cover from the south Army Group North's advance on Leningrad and that also made provision for the thrust of part of Army Group Center, mainly Panzer Group 2, into the Ukraine to help Army Group South{11}. Halder badly wanted Hitler to change this directive to assign Moscow priority over Leningrad, although Halder did not disagree with the fiihrer about the necessity of sending Panzer Group 2 to the Ukraine. For this reason, Halder had sent Brauchitsch to Hitler to ask for a clarification of Directive 33. This clarification was ready by July 23 and it did not please Halder. Hitler, however, was adamant, so Directive 33-A stood, providing for the diversion of Panzer Group 2 to the south and the movement of Panzer Group 3 to the north to aid in the capture of Leningrad. The advance on Moscow, according to the directive, would be carried out with only the infantry of the Second and Ninth armies until such time as Panzer Group 3 could be spared from the Leningrad operations{12}.\nAlthough Hitler could not have been more explicit about his wishes, Halder was not a man who could be easily rebuffed, so he sent his minion, Brauchitsch, to Keitel, the head of the OKW, to see what could be done to save the Moscow project there-an undertaking that the chief of the general staff must have known would increase his own sense of frustration-but he realized that he could not now move Hitler save through the OKW. The reaction Brauchitsch encountered in Keitel's office was blunt. Keitel told Brauchitsch that he could do nothing for him and suggested that the army commander in chief himself see Hitler if the matter still needed straightening out{13}. So, for the second time on July 23, Hitler received a representative from the OKH who pleaded with him to reverse his decision placing Leningrad ahead of Moscow.\nThe path that Brauchitsch took in his audience with the fiihrer was less oblique than that chosen by Halder{14}. Whereas the chief of the general staff had stressed both the need for pressing forward rapidly in the south, thereby striking at the Russian economic capacity to make war, and the importance of taking Moscow ahead of Leningrad, Brauchitsch shifted ground somewhat and put all of his emphasis on the importance of taking Moscow. The army [211] commander in chief backed down from Halder's earlier claim that it was necessary to send Panzer Group 2 and part of the Second Army to the Ukraine. In fact, he even denied that an encirclement operation around Gomel was necessary. Instead of suggesting, as Halder had done a few hours earlier, that one panzer group-that is, Panzer Group 3-was needed in the attack on Moscow, Brauchitsch asserted that, to be safe, both panzer groups would be required. He contended that success would be produced only by continuing the tried and proven tactics of using far-reaching panzer thrusts ahead of and on either side of the advancing infantry armies.\nHitler was unmoved by Brauchitsch's argument and told him that he believed the Russians apparently did not care whether their flanks were endangered by broadly sweeping tank maneuvers or not. The examples of Bialystok, Minsk, and Smolensk were clear to Hitler-the Russians would not surrender even if the German armor cut off their units from the east by wide encirclement operations. Hitler's final comment was that from then on it would be better to plan operations that relied more on the ability of the infantry to close and eliminate the pockets of trapped Russians, rather than to use up the striking power of the armored units for this purpose. In the case of Smolensk, he pointed out, the pocket had not been sealed, nor had it been possible to ready the panzer groups of Army Group Center for further operations{15}. The clash of wills between Hitler and the OKH had temporarily ended, but Hitler would find that Halder would surrender his principles no more easily than the Russians did their lives.\nOn July 25 Keitel visited Army Group Center headquarters and elaborated on what Hitler had told the army commander in chief two days before. Hitler thought that the tanks were being used up too quickly by Russian flank assaults and that too great a distance separated the tanks from the infantry. The distance had to be shortened if the pockets of trapped Russians were to be eliminated effectively. The fuhrer's \"ideal solution,\" reported Keitel, would be to finish with the Russians on the southern flank of Army Group Center in the area of Gomel-Mozyr by forming several small pockets, as the scope of previous operations planned by the general staff had been beyond the limits of the army to execute. It was also Hitler's view that strongly fortified areas such as Mogilev must be taken with the use of more artillery in order to [212] avoid heavy casualties. Finally, Keitel noted, the fuhrer had become convinced that smaller, more tightly planned operations were needed because Goring had reported to him about the large numbers of Russians escaping from the Smolensk pocket.\nThe commander of Army Group Center protested this decision charging that Goring's reports were exaggerated and that the enemy had lost considerable materiel at Smolensk. Von Bock also denied that the operation around Smolensk had been carried out on an unmanageable scale, maintaining that the delays in moving the Second Army across the Dnepr to relieve the panzer divisions on the flanks of Army Group Center were responsible for the failure to close the gap at Dorogobuzh. It should be remembered, however, that von Bock himself had been responsible for the decision not to allow the XIIth Army Corps to relieve the XXIVth Panzer Corps along the Sozh{16}. For the moment, von Bock was in the same position as the OKH, powerless to take any direct action to rectify a decision that he considered to be a fatal mistake. But von Bock, like Halder, was a tenacious man, and he would not forfeit his objective, Moscow, without a fight.\nWhen Guderian was told on July 27 that the next goal for he panzer group might be Gomel, he insisted that his tanks would be unable to carry out such a mission in a southerly direction. Although the panzer general's reluctance to move south could perhaps be useful to the OKH in forcing a delay in the implementation of Directive 33-A, such tactics did not fit well with Halder's longer-range plans at this time, for his still believed that Panzer Group 2 would have to go to the Ukraine; it was the departure of Panzer Group 3 to Army Group North that he badly wanted to prevent. On July 26 von Bock had telephoned Brauchitsch to inform him about the results of Keitel's visit the day before, and Brauchitsch used this occasion to ask the commander of Army Group Center to formulate a plan for sending all of Panzer Group 2 to the Kiev area. On the following day, the army commander in chief flew to Borisov and asked von Bock personally to order Guderian to begin his move toward Gomel as soon as possible. Brauchitsch did not, however, tell the commander of Army Group Center that this idea had the approval of the OKH{17}. Halder did not actually want Panzer Group 2 to be used against Gomel-Kiev was his real objective-but he thought it was necessary that Guderian begin his march to the south quickly. Brauchitsch tried [213] to leave von Bock with the false impression that he was merely transmitting Hitler's orders, although his speech to the army group chiefs of staff on July 25 should have tipped off von Bock as to the OKH's intentions. Regardless of whether or not von Bock accepted Brauchitsch's explanation of the order to dispatch Panzer Group 2 to Gomel, he relayed this order to Guderian, saying only that it had Hitler's approval{18}. It is unlikely, however, that Guderian was misled by the attempt to blame Hitler alone for the order for his panzer group to move southward. The panzer general had been attuned to the real feelings of the OKH ever since the general staff communique of July 23.\nOn July 26 Halder again took his plea before Hitler and argued for conducting broad operations around Moscow and Kiev and not just small maneuvers as had been envisioned around Gomel. On this point Hitler did not yield, and neither did he yield on the question of Army Group Center pressing on to Moscow with infantry alone, although he now altered his previous plan somewhat and no longer spoke of sending Panzer Group 3 all the way to Leningrad. Instead, Hitler came closer to Halder's viewpoint and said that Hoth could concentrate his attack in the direction of the Valdai Hills and cooperate here with the southern wing of Army Group North (see Figure 32).\nThe debacle at Velikie Luki on July 20, the failure to close the Smolensk pocket, the threat facing Panzer Group 2 from the direction of Roslavl, and the danger to the southern flank of the Second Army from the direction of Gomel, as well as the continued unhealthy situation farther south around Mozyr and Korosten, had all taken their toll on Hitler. The fuhrer now believed that the army groups should strive to effect smaller encirclements than they had in the past, and the areas around Gomel and Lake Ilmen seemed to offer good opportunities for such tactics. Halder did not take this small shift in the wind from Hitler as being very significant and still lamented that Hitler's proposals ignored the importance of Moscow{19}. Nevertheless, it seemed possible to Halder that a delay in the carrying out of Directive 33-A might be brought about now that Hitler was insisting on operations of a smaller scope. Since the fuhrer wanted to send Panzer Group 3 no farther north than the Valdai Hills between Lake Ilmen and Kalinin, an excellent chance existed for retaining Panzer Group 3 close in to the northern flank of Army Group Center and for using it against [214] Moscow and not to aid the objectives of Army Group North. The chief of the general staff was soon to receive help for his project from an unexpected source.\nOn July 26, Paulus, the OQI of the general staff, paid a visit to Army Group North to collect information firsthand about the conditions pertaining to the use of tanks against Leningrad. The panzer generals Hoepner, Manstein, and Rheinhardt all told Paulus that the area between Lake Ilmen and Lake Peipus, that is, [Fig.32] [215] the approach to Leningrad from the south, was not suitable for armor in any respect because of the rugged terrain, the many lakes and thick forests. Manstein's advice was to turn Army Group North's armored units to Moscow instead of Leningrad, saying that a further move northward by his LVIth Panzer Corps would have to be undertaken with massive infantry support in order to clear the enemy from the forests in his path of advance. Paulus agreed that the prospects for employing armor against Leningrad appeared very bad{20}.\nIn the absence of certain key parts of Jodl's diary and also of the necessary Wehrmacht Operations Staff documents it is impossible to say for certain that Paulus's report to the general staff was made known to the OKW{21}. Jodl's actions on July 27, however, the day following Paulus's visit, would indicate that he had direct knowledge of the conference at Army Group North headquarters. On this day, Jodi met with Hitler and told him that he had now changed his mind about the future course of strategy. Jodi advised the fuhrer to undertake an immediate assault on Moscow after the conclusion of the battles around Smolensk, \"not because Moscow is the Soviet capital, but because here will be located the enemy's main force\"{22}. This alteration of views by Jodi represented a basic deviation from the course of action he had recommended ever since he had been made aware of the Lossberg study in mid-November 1940. It had been an important element of the Lossberg plan that Army Group Center should be halted east of Smolensk and that armored strength should be diverted from it to the north against the flank and the rear of the Russian armies confronting Army Group North. Jodi had gone on record as early as June 29 that he thought the approaches to Leningrad from the west and south would be very difficult for tanks, and by July 27 he had become convinced of the unworkability of this plan, although he was unable effectively to counter Hitler's argument against pushing on to Moscow until the Russian economic base in the Ukraine had been removed from enemy control{23}. Hitler in the past had taken Jodl's advice, however, in fact it was probably Jodi, with some help from Goring, who persuaded Hitler not to carry out the Leningrad operation without aid from Army Group Center. Jodi had favored a provision included in the original Barbarossa directive of December 18, 1940, that called for turning armor from Army Group Center to Army Group North after the Red Army [216] forces in White Russia had been crushed, and now when the chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff shifted ground on this matter, the effect on Hitler was profound.\nOn July 28 Hitler informed Brauchitsch that he had decided to suspend the Leningrad and Ukraine operations as ordered in Directive 33-A. The fuhrer's feelings about the future were so uncertain that, at this point, he was unprepared to order anything other than that the situation on the southern flank of Army Group Center around Gomel be taken care of as soon as possible. Hitler did not give up entirely the idea of sending Panzer Group 3 to help Army Group North, but now, instead of calling for Panzer Group 3 to participate directly in the encirclement of Leningrad, he believed that the panzer group should only screen the southern flank of Army Group North from the direction of the Valdai Hills and move in a northeasterly direction to cut communications between Moscow and Leningrad. An advance to Moscow, according to Hitler, would still have to wait until the successful conclusion of the Leningrad operation{24}. The OKH had not yet won a complete victory for the cause of Moscow, although the confidence of Hitler and the OKW in the feasibility of the original Barbarossa plan, to place Leningrad ahead of the capital in terms of its strategic importance, had been shaken.\nThe uncertainty that existed in Hitler's mind about future strategy was clearly revealed in his Directive 34 issued on July 30{25}. This new directive officially canceled Directive 33-A and postponed the movement by Panzer Group 3 into the Valdai area for at least another ten days. Army Group Center was ordered to go over to the defensive along its entire front and prepare only for a further operation against Gomel, while the push by Panzer Group 2 into the Ukraine was likewise delayed until proper repairs could be made to the armored vehicles. In discussing the meaning of Directive 34 with Halder, Heusinger, the chief of the general staff Operations Department, described the new directive as being \"in conformity with our views\"; he commented also that \"this solution delivered us all from the nightmare [that the] fuhrer's stubbornness would ruin the entire eastern operation-finally a point of light!\"{26} For his part, Brauchitsch was so afraid that Hitler might reconsider Directive 34 that he declined to make any written comment on it whatsoever lest it fall into the wrong hands{27}. Now that Jodi and the OKW seemed to be gradually coming to accept [217] OKH strategy, Halder could sense that Hitler would sooner or later be forced to give in under the pressure from both command organizations. Hitler had at least decided to delay-for the moment-a firm decision about Moscow, and this was all that Halder needed to make another attempt to regain control of strategic planning for the general staff. Hitler had previously shown himself inclined to defer important decisions if they appeared likely to cause disagreement among his advisors, and it was this weakness in his character that Halder could use to his advantage.\nHitler's tendency to postpone unpleasant decisions was evident in a conference held at Army Group Center headquarters on August 4, with Keitel, Jodi, Schmundt, von Bock, Heusinger, Guderian, and Hoth, in addition to Hitler, all present{28}. The atmosphere surrounding this conference was extremely tense, especially since some officers on von Bock's staff, including his first general staff officer, Henning von Treschkow, had hatched a plot to kidnap the fuhrer, a plan that was forestalled by tight SS security measures{28a}. According to Alan dark, \"The officers privy to this conspiracy were so numerous and occupied positions so close to the army group commander that it is impossible to believe von Bock was unaware of what was going on\".\nTrue to his consistent philosophy of divide and rule, each of the participants in the conference was given a private audience with Hitler without being able to know what the others had said{30.html# target=\"app\" class=\"showTip L29).\nTrue to his consistent philosophy of divide and rule, each of the participants in the conference was given a private audience with Hitler without being able to know what the others had said{30\">{29).\nTrue to his consistent philosophy of divide and rule, each of the participants in the conference was given a private audience with Hitler without being able to know what the others had said{30}. In his memoirs Guderian noted that all the generals of Army Group Center advocated resumption of the offensive against Moscow. He further stated that he told Hitler that the number of tank motors that the fuhrer had promised Panzer Groups 2 and 3 for replacements was inadequate. In his account of the conversation, Guderian recorded that Hitler offered only three hundred tank motors for the entire eastern front, but the fuhrer actually promised four hundred motors for Panzer Groups 2 and 3. There were also two other topics of discussion that Guderian brought up in his interview with Hitler that were not completely or accurately recorded. Regarding the question of Yelnia, as has been mentioned, Guderian advocated holding the salient for reasons of [218] prestige. In regard to the question of resuming the offensive against Moscow, he told Hitler that the Russian front around Roslavl was very thin and that he believed his panzer group should press north and east through Spas-Demensk toward Viazma. He also told the filhrer that his panzer units and infantry corps had succeeded in overrunning the Russian positions around Roslavl with ease. Guderian gave Hitler the impression on August 4 that the Russians had committed their last \"proletarian reserves\" and that the enemy henceforth would be unable to offer effective resistance. The panzer general was convinced that he had achieved a full breakthrough of the last line of the Russian main defense force and that the way to the east and to Moscow was now relatively free and open{31}.\nThis fanciful commentary by Guderian was reminiscent of Halder's speech of February 3, 1941, when the chief of the general staff attempted to persuade Hitler that the Red Army was no worthy opponent for the Wehrmacht and that Moscow could be taken almost with impunity by an assault through White Russia from the west. At that time Hitler had refused to believe that the enemy could be rapidly driven out of the Baltic area and the Ukraine, and he declined to accept Halder's version of a strategic plan. Guderian's testimony on August 4 meant more to Hitler, however, because the panzer general was a front-line soldier and had seen combat at first hand. Deep down. Hitler mistrusted the sophisticated and highly trained staff officers of the OKH, but Guderian was a man of action, a soldier who, in some ways, had experienced the kind of life he himself had known in face-to-face combat with the enemy. A noted historian has written the following words about Hitler:\nThe German officer corps was the last stronghold of the old conservative tradition, and Hitler never forgot this. His class resentment was never far below the surface; he knew perfectly well that the officer corps despised him as an upstart, as \"the Bohemian Corporal\" and he responded with a barely concealed contempt for the \"gentlemen\" who wrote \"von\" before their names and had never served as privates in the trenches{32}.\nThe panzer general was aware of this quirk in Hitler's character and was not above using it to his advantage should an opportunity occur. [219]\nAfter listening to Guderian's report, it seemed possible to Hitler that the Russians were indeed approaching the limit of their ability to conduct large-scale operations after suffering such heavy losses during the first six weeks of the war-although he was still unable to free himself entirely from the conviction that Leningrad and the Ukraine should come before Moscow. Despite the fuhrer's reservations about Moscow, however, Guderian's representations had brought about a change in his attitude. Toward the end of the conference. Hitler announced that he would again consider the possibility of a further-limited-advance eastward by Army Group Center. After hearing a final appeal by von Bock about the necessity of destroying the enemy's main force in front of Moscow, Hitler put off a final decision until a later date{33}. The OKH and the generals of Army Group Center could sense imminent victory in their struggle to force Hitler to accept their view, insofar as they all agreed on the importance of Moscow. There would, however, be disagreements among the generals themselves, particularly between Halder and Guderian, about the Ukraine.\nOn August 5, the day following the conference with Hitler at Borisov, Halder, Brauchitsch, Heusinger, and Paulus held a meeting at OKH headquarters. In this discussion Halder's opinion held sway: that Moscow would have to be reached before the end of the year if the German forces were to attain full freedom of maneuver. Along with the important goal of Moscow, Halder considered it vital that the Russian economic base in the south be eliminated, \"We must penetrate the oil region with strong forces all the way to Baku\"{34}. Halder was still pursuing the same course he charted in the communique of July 23 and that Brauchitsch had reempha-sized in the chiefs of staff conference on July 25, that is, that the economic and manpower reserves of the Soviet Union made the country too strong to defeat by purely military means, that the enemy's power to make war must be reduced by depriving Russia of its resources and war industry. In persevering in this line of thought, Halder was placing himself in a position where he would come into a head-on collision with Guderian. Halder and Guderian could agree on Moscow and Hitler and Halder could agree on the Ukraine, but Guderian would not be prepared to sacrifice Moscow for the Ukraine, for he was positive that the Soviet capital could not be taken without his tanks riding in the vanguard. In the end, the chief of the general staff would try to reach a compromise with [220] Hitler and Jodi whereby the problem of Moscow and the Ukraine could be solved to everyone's satisfaction-except Guderian's. The last compromise on strategy in 1941, however, would be made without Halder's approval and in a way that would come as a crushing blow to him.\nLater in the day on August 5, Brauchitsch conferred with Hitler and subsequently reported to Halder on the results of his conversation. He told the chief of the general staff that Hitler had come to realize that the present tactics would lead to a stabilization of the front as had been the case in 1914. The fuhrer now envisioned three possibilities for a future course of action: (1) the capture of the Valdai highlands by a coordinated maneuver of Army Group North and Panzer Group 3; (2) the clearing of the southern flank of Army Group Center, combined with elimination of the strong Russian force around Korosten; and (3) an operation to eliminate all enemy forces west of the Southern Bug River.\nIn his discussion with Brauchitsch about the second alternative, Hitler left open the question of a further advance by Army Group Center directly toward Moscow, and he also maintained that the carrying out of the Korosten operation could lead to a solution of the problems east and south of Mogilev and at Kiev. In his diary Halder put special emphasis on the words Mogilev-Kiev, and it would be accurate to say that he was excited about the possibility of being able to take Moscow and the Ukraine simultaneously{35}. Halder described the joint Moscow-Kiev plan as \"a salvation,\" although he thought that the inclusion of an attack against the enemy forces around Korosten would be too wasteful in terms of tying up strength. Halder did not want to squander time on winning what he described as tactical victories of the kind that Hitler desired at Gomel and Korosten{36}. Instead, he wished to concentrate on broad grandiose possibilities like those that had seemed to be offered around Bialystok-Minsk and at Smolensk. Halder believed that once the Wehrmacht gained freedom of movement and operations again became fluid, Hitler would give up his notions about concentrating on tactical successes.\nGuderian, too, wished to continue wide-ranging maneuvers, but not in the same way that Halder envisioned. The panzer general's stern threat on August 6 to refuse to give up even one panzer division from his command to aid in the Rogachev-Zhlobin operations by the Second Army should have shown Halder the mettle of [221] the man he was dealing with, but he continued to underestimate Guderian's resourcefulness until it was too late{37}. For his part, Guderian was content for the moment to mark time at Roslavl and at Gomel and wait for Hitler to make up his mind about Moscow. Guderian's protest against the OKH decision about Rogachev-Zhlobin on August 6 afforded Halder a chance to confront the panzer general and force him to back down and obey orders, but this was not Halder's way. Instead, Guderian had won a small but important victory over his superiors and he would not be discouraged from seeking bigger successes in the future.\nThe sign of approval for the Moscow project that Jodi had hesitantly given on July 27 stimulated Halder to renew his attempt to assert his influence over the OKW, an effort he had first made by sending Brauchitsch to visit Keitel on July 23. The chief of the general staff contacted Jodi on August 7 in order to reinforce the latter's already favorable attitude toward an advance on Moscow and to convince him that Russia's economic base in the south must be eliminated at the same time. Halder told Jodi that the forces already in motion in the direction of Leningrad were sufficient and that Hoth's Panzer Group 3 should not be taken from Army Group Center and given to Army Group North. In the first place, Panzer Group 3 was needed to carry out the assault on Moscow, and secondly, Halder insisted that there was no danger to the southern flank of Army Group North from the direction of the Valdai Hills. Finally, the chief of the general staff said that instead of deciding between Moscow or the Ukraine, a decision must be made for Moscow and the Ukraine. \"This must be done or else the enemy's productive strength cannot be vanquished before the fall{38}\".\nThis conversation on August 7 between Halder and Jodi was of critical importance in influencing the final outcome of events in 1941. In his diary Halder noted: \"Overall impression: Jodi is impressed with the correctness of this plan and will move along in this direction{39}. Halder would continue to work on Jodi, who was ever more inclined to accept the OKH view of strategy. By the third week in August Jodi would play a vital role in Halder's plan to gain influence over Hitler. Halder had done his work well in convincing the chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff that both Moscow and the Ukraine had to be taken before the onset of winter in 1941. The chief of the general staff now expected Jodi to [222] remain on his side, but Halder's cleverly laid scheme would soon be endangered, for at the end of August conditions would change and Halder would attempt to undo the impression he had made on Jodi about the economic importance of the Ukraine. This attempt would fail, and Halder would be forced to take a new tack with Jodl. For a while, however, after August 7, Halder's confidence in his ability to manipulate the OKW was very great, for now not only had Jodl apparently become a convert to the OKH strategy but Halder also had an important ally within Jodl's own organization, the deputy chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff and head of Department \"L,\" Walter Warlimont, a man who had worked diligently on behalf of the Moscow project since the fall of 1940.\nOn August 10, Warlimont's Department \"L\" produced a study that called for a resumption of the Moscow offensive at the end of August after first eliminating the immediate threats to the flanks of Army Group Center around Gomel and Velikie Luki-Toropets with the help of Panzer Groups 2 and 3. The study called for using both panzer groups subsequent to the flank operations in a thrust toward Moscow that would \"crush the last, inferior, newly formed replacement divisions that the enemy had apparently brought up along the line Rzhev-Viazma-Briansk.\" After the Rzhev-Viazma-Briansk line had been cracked, Warlimont anticipated that the progress of Army Group Center would take the form of a \"pursuit\" of the beaten enemy. Thereafter Army Group Center would be able to send support to help the neighboring army groups to the north and south. In particular, Warlimont stated that the forces for the assault on Moscow should be so arranged that during the pursuit stage of the advance Guderian's Panzer Group 2 would be in a position to move along the Don River to the southeast{40}. This study was tailored to fit closely with the OKH viewpoint as it was presented to Jodl by Halder on August 7, and there can be little doubt that Warlimont was acting in accordance with Halder's wishes in preparing it to influence his superior, Jodl.\nThe impression that Warlimont's study was looked upon with favor by the OKH is enhanced by the fact that on August 8, two days before the Department \"L\" study, Halder issued a general staff appraisal of the situation confronting the German army{41}. In this report Halder stated that it was clear that the Russians were deploying all of their available strength along the line Lake Ilmen-Rzhev-Viazma-Briansk. The chief of the general staff compared [223] the position of the Red Army to that of the French in the second phase of the campaign in 1940, when the enemy relied on strong \"defense islands\" located along a new defense line. Halder believed that the Russian attempt to push back the German front in the Smolensk area by counterattacks was on the verge of complete collapse. In his words:\nMy old impression is confirmed, Army Group North is strong enough to carry out its mission alone. Army Group Center must concentrate its forces in order to destroy the enemy's main force [in front of Moscow]. Army Group South is strong enough to fulfill its task, but even so Army Group Center can perhaps lend assistance [by sending Panzer Group 2 to the southeast{42}.\nIn early August Jodl found himself surrounded both within and without the OKW by generals who were all giving him the same advice, advice he was prone to accept after he had been made aware of the problems confronting the armored units in the hill and forest region on the approaches to Leningrad. Jodl could not know that the Red Army was far from finished in front of Army Group Center, although the battles raging around the periphery of the Yelnia salient should have convinced him otherwise. He also could not know that the Rzhev-Viazma-Briansk line did not represent the last Russian line of defense in front of Moscow. He could not know that an advance by Army Group Center beyond this line would not take the form of a pursuit and that thus the entire premise of the OKH strategy and also of Warlimont's study was wrong. Halder's general staff appraisal of August 8 listed the relationship of forces in divisions as follows: in front of Army Group North 23 Russian (including 2 motorized) versus 26 German (including 6 motorized); Army Group Center, 70 Russian (8.5 motorized) versus 60 German (17 motorized); Army Group South, 50.5 Russian (6.5 motorized) versus 50.5 German (9.5 motorized). No more than three days later, on August 11, Halder had to admit that these figures were awry. Instead of the 200 divisions that he believed the Russians had originally deployed, 360 divisions had been identified on the entire eastern front. Halder also noted that although the enemy forces were badly armed and badly led, their preparation to meet the German invasion had been good and the military strength of their economy had been seriously underestimated. Halder remarked pessimistically that the Wehrmacht was moving farther [224] away from its sources of supply while the Red Army was drawing back closer to its own.\nOn August 12, most probably because of an inquiry from Jodi, now that he had promised Halder that he would work to see the general staff plan carried through. Hitler issued further instructions, Directive 34-A{43}. Its language was optimistic because Army Group South had just concluded the Uman battle of encirclement southwest of Kiev, netting some 103,000 prisoners{44}. This battle was a spur to Hitler's desire to finish with the Russians in the western Ukraine, seize the Crimea, and occupy the Donets Basin and Kharkov. About the army groups north of the Pripet, Hitler stated that the primary goal in the immediate future was for Army Group Center to rectify the situation of its Hanks by striking the Russian Fifth Army in the south around Mozyr and using armored units to suppress the enemy in the north around Toropets. The fuhrer also ordered the left Hank of Army Group Center, that is, Panzer Group 3 and the Ninth Army, to move northward only far enough to secure the southern flank of Army Group North and enable this army group to shift some infantry divisions toward Leningrad. The directive called for concluding the operations against Leningrad before an advance on Moscow was resumed, but Hitler thought that Leningrad could be dealt with in fairly short order{45}.\nHalder's first impression of Directive 34-A was unfavorable, for he disliked Hitler's assertion that the city on the Neva must come ahead of Moscow, and he described the directive as being restrictive and not allowing the OKH the latitude it needed{46}. Two days later, however, he modified his tone somewhat and said that the directive essentially was in agreement with the OKH point of view, namely, that Army Group Center should undertake only two basic tasks. One was to resolve the situation on its flanks and prepare to push on to Moscow, and the second was to make ready to send forces to aid the advance of Army Group South{47}. Halder, a bit late, had come to recognize the subtle change in Hitler's thinking and he could see how the fuhrer's insistence on effecting smaller encirclement operations could be used to the benefit of his plan.\nNow that the OKH had gathered new strength by winning over Jodi, and now that Hitler appeared to be on the verge of changing his mind about Leningrad, Halder was emboldened to mount a two-pronged offensive against the fuhrer's negative attitude [225] toward Moscow. This renewed effort by Halder took the form of two studies presented to Hitler on August 18. The first was submitted by Warlimont's Department \"L,\" and the other was delivered by Brauchitsch, the commander in chief of the army. A comparison of these documents leads to the inescapable conclusion that by mid-August the coordination between the OKH and Department \"L\" of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff had been developed to a high degree.\nWarlimont's \"Assessment of the Eastern Situation\" of August 18, which was probably prepared without Jodl's approval, laid down the goals for the remainder of 1941 as the capture of the Donets Basin, Kharkov, Moscow, and Leningrad{48}. In setting forth the procedure for reaching these objectives, Warlimont deviated from the line most recently espoused by the OKH. The chief of Department \"L\" described the situation of Army Group South after the battle of Uman as healthy enough so that the turn of Panzer Group 2 all the way to the Ukraine was no longer essential in order to defeat the Russian Fifth Army. The crossing of the Dnepr would also be likely on both sides of Cherkassy, south of Kiev, by early September after the rapid movement eastward of the German Seventeenth Army. The capture of the Crimea, an objective that would soon loom larger in Halder's plans, was not deemed necessary in the near future, a screening force sufficing in that direction. The key to all subsequent operations, according to Warlimont, was to be Moscow, and the approach to this city by Army Group Center had been rendered easier by the successful operations at Roslavl, Krichev, Rogachev-Zhlobin, and Gomel, the latter battle then being in its final stages. On the northern flank, the second attack on Velikie Luki was scheduled to begin on August 21, and it too, Warlimont anticipated, would be brought to a successful conclusion. As a result of the approaching completion of the operations on the flanks of Army Group Center, the resumption of the Moscow offensive was set for early September, this time with the aid of both Panzer Group 2 and Panzer Group 3, not just Panzer Group 3 as Halder had earlier specified.\nThe reason for the change in plans by the Halder-Warlimont partnership was that Panzer Group 3 had been weakened by the loss of the XXXIXth Panzer Corps, which Hoth had been forced to give up to Army Group North{49}. The XXXIXth Panzer Corps had been sent northward at Jodl's request on August 15 to help [226] prevent a Russian breakthrough on the southern wing of Army Group North south of Lake Ilmen in the region of Staraia Russa. After the crisis around Staraia Russa had passed, Hitler had used the opportunity to dispatch the panzer corps farther north despite Halder's wishes to the contrary. Now, on August 18, both the OKH and Department \"L\" staffs had to take cognizance of the fact that after being deprived of two panzer and one motorized divisions. Panzer Group 3 alone was too weak to spearhead a drive on Moscow from the northwest. Actually, as will be pointed out, the entire panzer group would have been hard pressed to undertake this task, but the loss of the XXXIXth Panzer Corps to Army Group North was a major factor in compelling Halder to readjust his strategy.\nThe new OKH proposal was presented by Brauchitsch to Hitler also on August 18{50}. On July 23, as noted earlier, Halder told the fuhrer that it was important to seize both Moscow and the Ukraine before the onset of winter. At that time the chief of the general staff had strongly emphasized the economic necessity of occupying the Ukraine, and it was his opinion that this could best be done by sending a group under von Kluge's Fourth Army command, composed of Panzer Group 2 and part of von Weichs's Second Army, to the south and east. By August 18, however, Halder realized it would be impossible to send all of Panzer Group 2 to the Ukraine and take Moscow at the same time. When thus faced with a choice, Moscow or the Ukraine, Halder, true to his basic conclusion, chose Moscow. The problem that he now faced was, however, a serious one. Hitler had not really needed any convincing prior to June 22 that the economic war was vital and that the south of the Soviet Union was crucially important for Russia's armaments industry. Halder had agreed with the fuhrer on July 26 that the Ukraine must be taken rapidly for economic reasons and had assigned it a priority equal to that of Moscow. Now he would have to backtrack and disassemble the arguments he had made earlier for both objectives.\nThe chief of the general staff attempted to accomplish this by continuing to place a certain emphasis on economic considerations, though weakening his tone in this respect. He now described the capture of the Moscow industrial area as equal in importance to the economic objectives in the Baltic area and in the south in preventing the Russians from rebuilding their shattered armies{51}. [227]\nBeyond this, Halder repeated the case he had made many times before that the enemy's main force was positioned in front of Moscow and that once these units were destroyed, the Russians would no longer be capable of maintaining a continuous line of defense. In order to fortify his point further, Halder made use of Hitler's disinclination to carry out any more wide-ranging maneuvers of the kind that had brought less than desirable results in White Russia around Smolensk.\nThe ability of the armored units to carry out long-range operations was characterized by Halder as limited, even after repair measures were completed. As a result of the panzer groups' lessened capability to maneuver, Halder advocated using them to traverse shorter distances than had previously been expected of them. It was, therefore, essential that the armored units be used only for decisive and strategic goals and that their strength not be wasted on nonessential tasks. In his operations plan section of the August 18 proposal, Halder set forth restricted goals for Panzer Groups 2 and 3, which would remain positioned on the flanks of Army Group Center. Guderian would move from the area Roslavl-Briansk toward Kaluga and Medyn, west of Maloyaroslavets, while Hoth would push from southeast of Beloe and Toropets toward Rzhev. It should be noted here that the first phase of this planned armored thrust would not have gone far enough to crack the main Russian defense lines running through Mozhaisk and Naro-Fominsk, as will be pointed out in the next chapter{52}. The middle of Army Group Center's front, the infantry armies, were to remain in defensive positions until the enemy began to pull back eastward due to the pressure exerted by the two panzer groups. In any case, Halder called for the infantry in the center of the front to cooperate closely with the armored units in order to achieve maximum results against surrounded pockets of enemy soldiers, for, as he said, \"Experience has taught us that infantry alone can perform this task successfully only under exceptional conditions\"{53}.\nIn regard to the missions of Army Groups South and North, Halder's new proposal was less clearly defined and objective than his plan for the renewed assault on Moscow. Army Group South was considered by Halder strong enough by itself to force the Dnepr with the Seventeenth Army by September 9, if not, in fact, sooner. After the Dnepr was crossed. Army Group South would be able to speed up its push eastward. As for Army Group North, it [228] would be able to complete the Leningrad encirclement by the end of August and also forge a link with the Finns. Subsequently, Army Group North would be in a position to move into the Valdai Hills and thus protect the northern Hank of Army Group Center's drive on Moscow. It was considered possible that Army Group North could send some units of Panzer Group 4 all the way south to Ostashkov, due north of a line from Velikie Luki to Rzhev, and thereby link up directly with the northern flank of Panzer Group 3. The only preconditions set forth by the August 18 study for the offensive against Moscow were that the operations around Gomel, then in progress, and around Velikie Luki, which would begin in three days, should be brought to a successful conclusion{54}.\nIn announcing his conviction that Moscow and the Ukraine could be taken simultaneously, Halder was remaining true to the plan that he had agreed upon with Jodi on August 7. At this conference, Halder had said that unless both objectives were taken \"the enemy's productive strength cannot be overcome before fall\"{55}. The plan that he had outlined on July 23 and presented to Hitler on July 26 called for the sending of Panzer Group 2 into the Ukraine and, if need be, all the way to Stalingrad. Halder had again, on August 14, expressed approval of the idea of sending Guderian to the Ukraine after Hitler in his Directive 34-A of August 12 had said that the southern flank of Army Group Center would have to cooperate with Army Group South in order to eliminate the Russian Fifth Army's stronghold around Mozyr and south of the Pripet. The proposal of August 18 did not, however, provide for sending any armor from Army Group Center farther south than Novgorod-Severskii, a city on the Desna River south of Briansk in the extreme northern Ukraine (see Figure 33). Even so, Halder wanted no more than two divisions from the XXIVth Panzer Corps to move so far away from the path of the main drive on Moscow. \"All thoughts that the crossing of the Dnepr by Army Group South should be hastened by these armored units [from Army Group Center] must be given up, otherwise Army Group Center will not be able to mount a proper assault [in the direction of Moscow] along its southern flank\"{56}.\nThe OKH proposal of August 18 represented an about-face by Halder insofar as it made no provision for Army Group Center to help Army Group South in any substantive way. In conceding that two armored divisions could be sent from the XXIVth Panzer\" [229] Corps into the Ukraine, Halder was opening up the possibility that Guderian's Panzer Group 2 could be divided if the need arose. This particular feature of the proposal made not the slightest difference to Halder, but it would to Guderian, a man who would go to any length to prevent armored units from being removed from his command. This was a potential difficulty that Halder should have [Fog.33] [230] been aware of, but for one reason or another, he ignored it until it was too late.\nThe OKH proposal of August 18 was permeated with optimism that Army Group South could not only effectively handle the enemy on its own front and cross the Dnepr to regain freedom of movement but also play a role in tying down Russian forces that might otherwise be in a position to oppose Army Group Center. The same, or even greater, optimism could be seen in the task assigned to Army Group North. It was not only supposed to complete the encirclement of Leningrad by the end of August, but it was also expected to support actively the northern flank of Army Group Center. It is very difficult to understand what the source of Halder's optimism was, for on August 11, as has been noted, he lamented the fact that the Red Army was much stronger than had previously been believed and that the economic power of the Soviet Union had been seriously underestimated{57}. The OKH proposal was highly contradictory of practically everything that Halder had preached since the third week in July, and the conclusion is inescapable that the proposal was designed, not to fit the facts, but rather to mislead Hitler. Once the XXXIXth Panzer Corps had been removed from Panzer Group 3 and once the chief of the general staff realized that its remaining strength would be insufficient for Army Group Center to take Moscow, he was prepared in essence to sacrifice the Ukraine project in favor of the assault on the Soviet capital. In order to justify this change in his strategy, Halder did not resort to the truth or to straightforward arguments. Instead, he tried to cloud the issue and win Hitler over with optimistic arguments that he himself must have known were false. This was the same technique that Halder had used before, and it was to be no more successful at this point than it had been earlier, although now the war was two months old and Halder should have seen the impending disaster ahead and warned Hitler that the war was going to last a long time.\nThe Role Of Hermann Goring\nThe chief of the general staff might have had his way with the fuhrer, now that Warlimont was on his side, had there not been a loftier personage than anyone in either the OKH or OKW who had to be taken into account. The role of Reichs Marshal Hermann Goring in the planning and carrying out of the Russian campaign [231] has never been properly investigated, but several bits of evidence indicate that his influence over Hitler was of crucial importance with respect to several key strategic decisions. Some of Goring's handiwork has already been noted in the planning phase of Barbarossa. Goring at that time, November 1940, may have demonstrated to Hitler through a report that he had commissioned from the chief of the Economic and Armaments Section of the OKW, Georg Thomas, that it was imperative for the Wehrmacht to occupy the Ukraine and the Caucasus as soon as possible after the beginning of the eastern campaign.\nIt is difficult to judge the significance of Goring's intervention in the strategic decisions made in 1941 in the absence of any personal records that he may have kept; however, as the designated number two man in the state, as the deputy chairman of the Council for the Defense of the Reich, chief of the Luftwaffe, director of economic programs under the Four-Year plan and, after June 29, 1941, economic director of the occupied eastern territories. Goring wielded political, military, and economic power that enabled him to intervene with advice on almost any important question that came up during the campaign in Russia{58}. At first, the marshal concerned himself only with the role and deployment of the Luftwaffe in the east, but gradually, especially at the time of the battles around Smolensk, he began to take a strong interest in the way the entire war was being conducted.\nIn the opening stages of the Russian campaign, Goring entertained the optimistic idea that his pet project, the so-called Goring Program for the strengthening of the Luftwaffe by a factor of four, could still be put into effect. Among other things, this program as presented on June 26 called for an increase in the labor force allocated for the building up of the Luftwaffe from 1.3 million to 3.5 million men{59}. As the war wore on, however, Goring's hopes for this undertaking began to fade. On August 17 Thomas had to report that the best that could be hoped for would be a doubling of the Luftwaffe's strength, due to the shortage of aluminum and fuel. Also, no increase in the labor force for expansion of the Luftwaffe was possible unless other industries were reduced or unless men were recalled to the factories from the army{60}. By mid-August Goring could see the economic and military ruination of the Luftwaffe if strategy and tactics were not changed.\nThe marshal's first attempt to exercise some sort of control [232] over strategy in Russia came after Army Group Center seriously delayed closing the Smolensk pocket in the latter days of July. The head of the OKW, Keitel, visited von Bock on July 25 and told him that Hitler believed that the scope of the operations planned by the OKH had been too large and, for this reason, the battle around Smolensk had not been successful. Keitel reported that the fuhrer had been particularly upset after Goring had supplied him information about the numbers of Russians who had escaped toward Dorogobuzh east of the city{61}. The problem that had most concerned Goring and Kesselring at Smolensk was that the fronts were so broad that the Luftwaffe could not be concentrated effectively in any one given area{62}. Goring believed that the army and the Luftwaffe could cooperate better if smaller operations were carried out and goals were set that would not permit dispersion of the ground and air forces over wide distances. The marshal's advice thus may have been decisive in persuading Hitler to undertake smaller and more tightly controlled operations than had been the case at Bialystok-Minsk and at Smolensk.\nIn regard to the Moscow question, Goring's influence is less evident in the early stage of war, although he did seem to have a certain prediliction for Leningrad, possibly because this objective had been given a higher priority in the original Barbarossa plan and he may have wished to concentrate on as limited a number of goals as possible{63}. The situation in the south of Russia was, however, a different matter, and here Goring's interest became more pronounced after mid-August.\nThe first time the marshal intervened to favor a southern objective over Moscow came on August 14 when, despite von Bock's protest. Goring withdrew the air units covering Yelnia and sent them to aid the Second Army's push across the Dnepr at Rogachev-Zhlobin{64}. The second intervention came after August 18 when Goring succeeded in imposing his ideas on Hitler and convincing him that it would be a mistake to follow the plan outlined in the latest OKH proposal.\nThere were actually two rejoinders to the OKH proposal of August 18, one dated August 21 and the other August 22 and both signed by Hitler, although the first, which was short and directly to the point, was drafted by Jodl{65}. The chief of the general staff had been worried about Jodl's reaction to the proposals of August 18, [233] and this was why he dispatched Heusinger to the OKW headquarters at Rastenburg on August 20{66}. Heusinger attempted to convince the chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff that it was now impossible to capture Moscow and the Ukraine simultaneously for the reasons outlined in the OKH and Department \"L\" studies. Halder on August 7 had accomplished his task only too well, however. Jodl was now thoroughly convinced that the goals in the south must be pursued, not only because of the economic importance of the region, but also because the enemy appeared to be very strong east of Kiev and, unless these forces were eliminated, the southern flank of Army Group Center's advance on Moscow would be endangered. Jodl could not be dislodged from the belief that Army Group South alone was too weak to achieve the objectives in the Ukraine that he and Hitler and also, in the last analysis, Halder himself realized were vital. In order to reestablish an area of agreement with Halder, Jodl came to visit the chief of the general staff at his office in the Mauerwald camp in East Prussia on August 21. When this conversation failed to yield anything positive, Jodl drafted on that same day the above-mentioned formal rejoinder to the OKH{67}.\nThe substance of Jodl's -counterproposal was that Army Group Center would have to send forces, meaning Panzer Group 2 and part of the Second Army, to aid Army Group South in the destruction of the Russian Fifth Army around Korosten south of the Pripet. Once Jodl had gone so far as to put his objections into writing, Halder had no choice. He would either have to compromise with Jodl on the Korosten issue, an undertaking that he considered to be too restrictive and wasteful of time, or he would have to forfeit the advance on Moscow in the fall of 1941. Halder now had only a limited amount of time; he would have to work fast if the Moscow project were to be saved for that year.\nHalder's problems were multiplied after Jodl submitted his report to Hitler on the OKH proposal. Hitler seized upon Jodl's objections and personally wrote a much longer reply, completed on August 22{68}. In this document Hitler made several revealing comments that demonstrate that his disinclination to accept the proposals of the OKH and Warlimont had been stimulated by Goring. Hitler repeated his conviction that the capture of the Crimea would be vital for the war effort: [234]\nApart from the fact that it is important to capture or destroy Russia's iron, coal and oil resources, it is of decisive [entscheidend] significance for Germany that the Russian air bases on the Black Sea be eliminated, above all in the region of Odessa and the Crimea.\nThis measure can be said to be absolutely essential [lebenswichtig] for Germany. Under present circumstances no one can guarantee that our only important oil producing region [that is, Rumania] is safe from air attack. Such attacks could have incalculable results for the future conduct of the war{69}.\nThere can be little doubt that the commander in chief of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's head economic advisor had been instrumental in stiffening the fuhrer's determination to give the south of Russia the highest priority. Once Hitler had grasped the danger to the Rumanian oil fields, he made the idea his own and held fast to it.\nGoring's influence is not only marked in regard to the Crimean question but can also be traced to the remainder of Hitler's answer to Halder. After first setting down the strategic objectives of the war in the east. Hitler then turned to the problem of tactics. The flihrer was dissatisfied with the way the wide-ranging encirclements had progressed, and he criticized these maneuvers for allowing many Russians to escape the pockets and rejoin other units farther east. The distance between the fast German mobile columns and the slower infantry in the encirclements had been used by the enemy to its advantage, and much time had been lost in trying to contain and destroy the surrounded Russian formations. This impression had originally been conveyed to Hitler by Goring at the time of the battle of Smolensk, and Hitler now firmly believed that smaller operations afforded a better chance of success. Another complaint that Goring voiced about the conduct of the Smolensk operation was also repeated by Hitler: The fuhrer accused the OKH of failing to understand that the panzer groups and the Luftwaffe had to be used in a concentrated fashion in the decisive areas of attack, that is, on the flanks of the entire Soviet Union, against Leningrad in the north and the Crimea in the south not directly on the path to Moscow. The distances in Russia made it impossible for infantry units to be quickly shifted from one area to another wherever reinforcements were needed for an assault. Such distances could only be overcome by the Luftwaffe and the panzer groups, so it was essential that these means of mobile warfare remain under the exclusive control of the highest commanders and [235] not be split up among the various armies and army corps along the front, as, said Hitler, would be the ease if the plans of the OKH went into effect.\nHitler's August 22 reply singled out Goring for the highest praise for his ability to understand how the Luftwaffe and the panzer groups should be used, that is, in a unified, concentrated fashion along the main path of attack. He contrasted this \"correct\" understanding with the rather clumsy efforts that had been made by the OKH{70}. Not surprisingly, Halder took the reply as a personal insult: \"The memorandum is full of contradictions and gives prominence to the marshal at the expense of the commander in chief of the army.\" After the reading of the memorandum, Halder told Brauchitsch that they both should resign at the same time, but Brauchitsch pointed out that this would accomplish nothing as Hitler's policies would remain unchanged{71}.\nThe third and final section of Hitler's August 22 reply was designated to refute all the remaining arguments that the generals had made in favor of Moscow. Hitler was unable to agree with Halder that Army Group South alone could force the Dnepr and control the situation in the eastern as well as the western Ukraine. It was far better, he believed, to make use of the fact that the bat-tiefront in the Ukraine was three hundred kilometers to the west of the front of Army Group Center; once this Russian \"triangle\" was eliminated, the advance to Moscow would be made much safer. As for Leningrad, Hitler expected the massed strength of Goring's Luftwaffe, plus some help from Army Group Center along the southern flank of Army Group North, to turn the tide, although he now classified the objectives in southern Russia as being more important. (The Luftwaffe units were already being shifted to the north by the end of August, when they were used against the Russian forces in the area of Smolensk and around Lake Ilmen and east of Velikie Luki){72}. With Hitler's statement in the second half of August, Goring had reached the peak of his power to manipulate Hitler. The Luftwaffe would be as unable to fulfill his promises about Leningrad as it had been unable to force England to its knees, and his influence could thus only decline in the future. Goring's last major inflation of the capabilities of the Luftwaffe would come at Stalingrad. Although the August 22 memorandum had brought Halder to the depths of despair, the chief of the general staff still had one more trump to play for, as has been seen, he [236] was a determined man and did not give up easily. Holder's last hope for 1941 now rested in the hands of Alfred Jodl.\nThe Hinge Of Fate-The Halder-Jodl Compromise\nIn order to accomplish what he now had in mind, the splitting up of Panzer Group 2, the chief of the general staff had to undertake yet another visit to Army Group Center headquarters, a visit that he saw fit to give only the briefest mention in his diary{73}. After his arrival in Borisov during the afternoon of August 23, Halder presented to von Bock a copy of Hitler's memorandum of the previous day and told the field marshal that at least part of Panzer Group 2 would now have to be sent to fight against the Russian Fifth Army and thereby aid Army Group South in its push across the Dnepr. Halder sought to disguise his true intentions and said that the only recourse was to obey Hitler's orders. This was a trick that the OKH had already tried to use on von Bock, and he was no less wise to Halder on August 23 than he had been to Brauchitsch on July 27. Previously, the chief of the general staff had done nothing to encourage anyone at Army Group Center to knuckle under to Hitler's will, and so such sympathies must have sounded strange emanating from Halder. Von Bock was horrified at the thought of trying to advance on Moscow without all of Panzer Group 2 under his command. The battles then in progress around Yelnia were clear proof to him that the enemy was far from beaten along this front. The commander of Army Group Center decided to muster all the resources at his disposal to force Halder to come to his senses, and so he hurriedly summoned Guderian from the front to participate in this makeshift conference.\nThe panzer general and von Bock discussed with Halder at some length how Hitler's attitude toward Moscow could perhaps be changed. The chief of the general staff gave the appearance of agreeing that the diversion of Panzer Group 2 to the south would be a great mistake and that to use it in an operation east of Kiev would be folly. Guderian told Halder that his tanks, especially those of the XXI Vth Panzer Corps, which had not had a day's rest since June 22, were incapable of carrying out a broad mission to the south. Also, he said, the road and supply situation would make such a maneuver virtually impossible. The real purpose of Guderian's soliloquy on this occasion could be seen in the following comment: [237]\nThese facts provided leverage which the chief of the general staff could bring to bear on Hitler in still another attempt to make him change his mind. Field Marshal von Bock was in agreement with me; after a great deal of arguing back and forth he finally suggested that 1 accompany... Halder to the Fuhrer's headquarters; as a general from the front I could... support a last attempt on the part of the [OKH] to make him agree to their plan{74}.\nWhen Guderian finished his explanation of how he would deal with Hitler and persuade him to see the light about Moscow, Halder must have believed that he had the panzer general right in the palm of his hand. Once it was decided to use Guderian in this fashion, von Bock telephoned Schmundt, Hitler's adjutant, and arranged an interview for Guderian at the Wolfschanze bunker that same evening. The chief of the general staff had prepared a surprise for Guderian at the Wolfschanze, but it was Halder, in the end, who would find that tables could be turned in more than one direction.\nIt can, at present, be only a matter of conjecture, but several bits of circumstantial evidence point to the fact that Halder and Jodl finally succeeded in ironing out a compromise on strategy sometime during the period August 22-23, probably on August 22. The Halder-Jodl agreement called for the pursuit of both objectives, Moscow and the Ukraine, at the same time, an idea that both generals had agreed upon earlier. This time, however, since Panzer Group 3 had been weakened by one Panzer Corps, the XXXIXth, it was decided to make up this deficiency by removing one panzer corps from Guderian's Panzer Group 2-the XLVIth, then still in the area around Yelnia-and withdraw it behind the front for rest and refitting for use later in von Kluge's Fourth Army command as a spearhead in a renewed thrust against Moscow{75}. The remainder of Guderian's force, the XXI Vth and the XLVIIth panzer corps, would then be sent to aid Army Group South in the destruction of the Russian Fifth Army, an undertaking that had been termed essential by Hitler on August 22. The formation of this new Kraftgruppe (task force) under von Kluge, a force that included some other infantry units as well as the XLVIth Panzer Corps, would have meant the splitting up of Guderian's panzer group, with two of his panzer corps being sent to the Ukraine (see Figure 34).\nThis compromise had several features that appealed to Halder [238] and Jodi and, it could be hoped, would appeal to Hitler as well. Aside from answering all of Hitler's objections against renewing the thrust on Moscow and ensuring substantial help for Army Group South, the new strategy would allow the southern flank of Army Group Center's advance on Moscow to enjoy the support of an entire panzer corps. Had the Halder-JodI compromise been put into effect, von Kluge's Fourth Army could have formed an integrated combined-arms task force, with both armor and infantry [Fig.34] [239] cooperating in joint objectives. The same would have been true for the operation against Korosten; there, Guderian's armor would be able to concentrate upon a limited goal along with the infantry of von Weichs's Second Army. Halder had called for this kind of cooperation in his proposal of August 18, at that time perhaps cynically, but by August 23 he, too, like Hitler and Goring, may have had enough of Guderian's wide-ranging thrusts by large masses of armor. Another feature of the compromise would have been that parts of the XLVIth Panzer Corps could have been used to brace up the Yelnia salient where, as has been seen, by the end of August severe Soviet pressure was being exerted and where the infantry units were in sore need of armored protection. The Halder-JodI compromise was the closest thing to good planning that the Wehrmacht was privileged to enjoy in 1941, although it is open to speculation how successful it might have been, since the Russians had plans of their own. Nevertheless, the new plan represented careful thought and was a real effort to deal with tangible facts, not just wishful thinking. The trouble was that Holder's past and continued reliance on intrigue would now ensnare him, and he would be unable to put the new plan into action.\nThe order for the breaking up of Panzer Group 2 was issued on August 23 before Guderian went to the Wolfschanze, but Halder did not inform Guderian of this in the meeting that afternoon at Borisov. It was for this reason that Brauchitsch instructed Guderian not to mention Moscow in Hitler's presence, that he told the panzer general that the decision about the Ukraine had already been made, and that it would be useless for him to object. It was true, the decision had already been made by the OKH and the OKW that Guderian's command would, in essence, be sacrificed. It had probably also been agreed that Jodi would assume the responsibility for persuading Hitler of the need for the compromise, and probably for this reason no one from the OKH bothered to appear at the last conference on August 23. Guderian's assigned role in all this was simply to go before Hitler and state his case about the condition of his armored units. This speech would confirm the impression that Jodi presumably had already planted in the fuhrer's mind, that Panzer Group 2 could pursue only limited objectives south of the Pripet and that at least part of the panzer group should be retained by Army Group Center and refitted for use later as a spearhead against Moscow. [240]\nThe possibility exists that von Bock may have received advance warning about the Halder-JodI agreement and that he may have briefed Guderian about this danger before the panzer general's flight to East Prussia. At 10:30 on the morning of August 23, before the Borisov conference, Greiffenberg, the chief of operations of Army Group Center, telephoned Guderian and told him that some of his units might have to go south toward Nezhin and Konotop. Greiffenberg: \"What if this is required of you?\" Guderian: \"Then I will ask to be relieved.\" Greiffenberg: \"What if your supplies can be sent through Roslavl-Gomel, then could you do it?\" Guderian: \"That is still too far. ... By going only half that distance I could be in Moscow. I could take the whole panzer group there. ... I hope this thing has not been ordered already.\" Greiffenberg: \"It has not been ordered yet\"{76}.\nActually, by August 23, Guderian's visit to Hitler was superfluous as far as Halder was concerned, and he only agreed to this idea because of von Bock's adamant insistence{77}. Halder may have been afraid to push von Bock too far on this issue, and he may have yielded to the commander of Army Group Center and allowed Guderian to make his fateful journey, hoping that Guderian would be caught unawares by the turn of events. Or he may have believed that the panzer general would merely speak his piece and leave. Yet, knowing that Hitler was highly sympathetic to the views of \"front soldiers,\" he should have been aware of the risk. Brauchitsch's warning to Guderian before his conference with Hitler was another sign that Halder was worried about what the panzer general might do. It is open to conjecture what compelled Halder to go along with von Bock on this matter; it was a decision that Halder would regret for the rest of his life.\nGuderian's Coup In East Prussia\nWhen Guderian arrived at the Wolfschanze, he was ushered into a room where he met Hitler in the presence of a large number of officers, including Keitel, Jodi, and Schmundt. It struck him as peculiar that no one from the OKH was in attendance, not Brauchitsch, Halder, or anyone else. It would not have taken an overclever man to figure out that something very strange was in the wind, and Guderian must have known from the moment he stepped into the conference room that Halder was trying to use [241] him as a tool. The chief of the general staff had, however, met his match in Guderian.\nThe panzer general began the evening with a report to Hitler about the condition and the situation of his panzer group{78}. When he finished. Hitler asked him if he still thought his units could undertake yet another important task, and Guderian replied that \"if the troops are given a major objective, the importance of which is apparent to every soldier, yes.\" Then Hitler asked whether Guderian meant Moscow when he used the phrase \"major objective,\" and Guderian launched into a long explanation of why he thought Moscow should be the primary target. The panzer general told Hitler that he knew the troops in the field and that it was important for their morale that they be given Moscow as their goal. Guderian also used some other military and economic arguments to support his position as to the importance of the Soviet capital. But it was probably Guderian's insistence on the necessity of taking Moscow in order to bolster the morale of the ordinary soldiers that really affected Hitler. He, too, had been in the trenches and he knew how important morale was, and thus he was not inclined to ignore Guderian's comments.\nAfter listening patiently to the panzer general, not interrupting him a single time. Hitler then repeated some phrases that he must have gotten from Goring about the danger of the \"Crimean aircraft carrier\" to the Rumanian oil fields. He also charged that his generals knew nothing about the economics of war. Finally, the filhrer stated that Kiev must fall, and that the capture of this city would be the next primary goal. According to Guderian, \"All those present nodded in agreement with every sentence Hitler uttered, while I was left alone with my point of view\"{79}. The panzer general then recorded that he asked Hitler for permission to keep his panzer group intact so that he could carry out his task in the Ukraine quickly before the beginning of the fall rainy season. Hitler gladly acceded to Guderian's request.\nThe following day Guderian reported to Halder on the results of the last evening's conference, whereupon the chief of the general staff, according to the panzer general, \"suffered a complete nervous collapse\" and began to heap all sorts of abuse on his head. Then Halder telephoned von Bock and cursed Guderian for his un-willingness to split up his panzer group{80}. It was very hard for [242] Halder to believe that Guderian had not pleaded the weakness of his units and insisted to Hitler that Panzer Group 2 was not strong enough to carry out a wide-ranging maneuver around Kiev:\nGuderian's report of yesterday [at the meeting at Borisov on the afternoon of August 23] was designed to give the OKH leverage to restrict the operation to the south. After he saw that Hitler was convinced about the necessity of the operation, he believed that it was his duty to perform the impossible and carry out Hitler's wishes.\nThis conversation showed with shattering clarity how irresponsibly official reports have been used.\nThe army commander in chief has issued a sharply worded order regarding truthfulness in reports, but this will do no good. A person's character cannot be altered by orders{81}.\nOn June 29 Halder had boldly stated that he hoped officers like Guderian would disobey orders, if need be, in order to do \"the right thing,\" that is, push ahead to Moscow as rapidly as possible{82}. The command structure that Halder had created in Army Group Center in early July had been intended to give Guderian and Hoth the maximum amount of freedom to forge ahead eastward without interference from above. Halder may have been right about Guderian's character, but the chief of the general staff was himself largely responsible for encouraging him to act in the way that he did. The British historian Alan dark is correct in writing that Guderian's refusal to allow even a part of his armored strength to stay in Army Group Center while he carried out the Kiev encirclement may have been crucially important during the final push on Moscow, which began only at the end of September. Clark pointed out that Guderian's conference with Hitler on August 23 finished off his relationship with Halder, for the chief of the general staff believed that Hitler's promise to the panzer general not to divide his command amounted to nothing more than a bribe on the part of the fuhrer that Guderian accepted{83}.\nGoring and Jodi would still be able to convince Hitler to resume the thrust on Moscow after Kiev, but then it would be too late in the year for the attempt to have any real chance of success. It seems safe to say also that Hitler's final decision about Moscow in September would not have been made had Guderian not given [243] voice to his emotions regarding the intangible importance of the Soviet capital. The damage that had been done to the formulation of strategy and the conduct of the war simply could not be repaired. The mistakes that had already been made up to August 23 would only be compounded later. A major catastrophe, vaster by far than what was in progress at Yelnia, could not be postponed for long. [244]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 87668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minarettv.com/summary-of-tuesdays-with-morrie-essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KGXUNHWJTASFA2H2D2FML2ASUNUIRU6C", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "minarettv.com", "title": "Summary of Tuesdays with Morrie Essay Example for Free", "raw_content": "Summary of Tuesdays with Morrie. (2016, Apr 20). Retrieved from http://minarettv.com/summary-of-tuesdays-with-morrie-essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 125.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mineofuseless.info/trivia/Entertainment/?p=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Y46WACHVEJ2VPP5HHU4Z3KVPGHHIZPHI", "length": 4991, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mineofuseless.info", "title": "Entertainment Trivia at The Mine of Useless Information", "raw_content": "Liv Tyler was named after film actress Liv Ullmann because she was reportedly on the cover of TV Guide the week baby Liv was born. She's the daughter of Aerosmith lead singer Steve Tyler and Bibi Buell.\nStrangely enough, comedian Jim Carrey, who portrayed late comedian Andy Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon, and Andy Kaufman were both born on January 17th.\nLloyd Vernet Bridges III is the birth name of actor Beau Bridges. He was given the nickname \"Beau\" by his family \ufffd reportedly after Ashley Wilkes's son in the classic 1939 film Gone With the Wind.\nLucy Lawless was the fifth child born in a family of seven children.\nLushly filmed in black and white, William Wyler's moving Mrs. Miniver (1942) captured the hearts of audiences around the world. It was nominated for twelve Oscars and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for its star Greer Garson, and Best Supporting Actress for ingenue Teresa Wright. Sir Winston Churchill declared that the World War II drama, set in England and following the lives of a middle-class British family, had done more for the war effort than a flotilla of destroyers.\nWhen in a movie theater, if there is a balcony, never sit underneath \ufffd that's a low sound frequency trap. According to a Sony Cinema Products Corp. representative, there's a \"sweet\" spot, where the sound is better than anyplace else in the movie theater. To find it, you should look for the speakers and position yourself in between them \ufffd usually about three-quarters of the way back from the movie screen.\nWhen Mrs. New Jersey heard her name announced as Mrs. America 1952, she passed out cold on-stage. It took panicked pageant officials several minutes to revive her.\nWhen sex symbol Mae West was named \ufffdWoman of the Century\ufffd by UCLA in the 1960s, the actress was asked about the Black Panthers, who were then in the nation's headlines. She replied with her familiar, witty sexual innuendo, \ufffdDepends on what angle you're lookin' at \ufffdem from.\ufffd\nStrangely, the king of rock \ufffdn' roll, Elvis Presley, was a mama's boy. He slept in the same bed with his mother, Gladys, until he reached puberty. Up until Elvis entered high school, she walked him back and forth to school every day and made him take along his own silverware so that he wouldn't catch germs from the other kids. Gladys forbade young Elvis from going swimming or doing anything that might put him in danger. The two of them also conversed in a strange baby talk that only they could understand.\nWhen she was a girl, former Radio City dancer Valerie Harper lived all over the U.S. because her father was a traveling salesman. When she was 18, she left upstate New York to be a member of the \"Li'l Abner\" chorus in 1958. A few years later, Harper contracted hepatitis. Her doctor prescribed loads of candy, and she ballooned to 155 pounds. In 1970, TV producers found her dumpy shape perfect for the part of Mary Tyler Moore's outspoken, overweight friend, Rhoda Morgenstern. Harper earned three Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmys for the role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (in 1971, she tied with Sally Struthers in All in the Family), and won a Best Actress in a Comedy Emmy in 1975 for her own spin-off, Rhoda. By this time, Harper had shed much of the weight.\nSurprisingly, Yul Brynner was seriously considered by director Robert Wise for the role of Captain Von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music (1965).\nWhen Shirley Temple appeared in her first film, The Red-Haired Alibi, she was three years old.\nSusan Sarandon helped pay her college tuition by modeling for a brochure promoting Washington's Watergate Hotel.\nMadcap comedienne Lucille Ball was kicked out of drama school in New York City when she was 15 because she was too quiet and shy.\nSusan Sarandon said in a 1993 interview, \"Someone asked me if it was true that, once women had children, they didn't like to take their clothes off anymore. I said I didn't know any women any age who liked to take off their clothes.\"\nMadonna's mother died when she was five years old.\nWhen talk show host Jay Leno was in fifth grade, his teacher wrote the following on his report card: \"If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.\"\nT. E. Lawrence's novel The Seven Pillars of Wisdom was retitled when it was made into a film: Lawrence of Arabia (1962).\nMae West never said \"Come up and see me some time\" in a movie. She actually said, \"Why don't you come up some time and see me.\"\nWhen veteran actor James Cromwell was considering the role of Farmer Arthur Hoggett for the movie Babe (1995), he browsed through a copy of the screenplay to count how many lines he would have. Seeing that there were relatively few lines, he agreed to the part, which he believed would be an effortless, quick job. That misconception was quickly quashed. Cromwell didn't realize that he would have more screen time, although much of it was non-speaking, in this film than any previous roles in his career.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 148.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minsktourist.com/news/84.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:01Z", "digest": "sha1:53VGDSBJQN5YCHRZ5V2UCG53HE64CJX2", "length": 4980, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "minsktourist.com", "title": "News", "raw_content": "03.01.11 We're Far from European Democracy, Lukashenko\nPresident of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated on December 20 that the actions of police during the opposition rally in Minsk on December 19 were adequate. \"We, unlike in France, neither poisoned them with tear gas, nor watered from hoses in these cold days. Therefore, we are still far from your democracy,\" the President said.\nCommenting on the numerous detentions and beatings of protesters, held on December 19 at Independence Square in Minsk, Alexander Lukashenko described the incident as \"carnage, organized by the opposition, which had dragged juvenile and young unruly people into it.\" Belarusian President urged everyone to watch the video demonstration on the square, but \"not just a picture of the candidate (Vladimir Niakliaeu - Telegraf) with a black eye.\"\nIn addition, Alexander Lukashenko recalled the recent statement of Andrey Dmitriev, the head of the electoral headquarters of Vladimir Niakliaeu, in which he \"lifted absolutely all the accusations of the police of what had happened.\" \"It's their antics and let them rule it out themselves. No need to make us involved,\" President of Belarus said in an interview with Euronews.\nAlexander Lukashenko said that the actions of police at a rally on December 19 were caused by the need to ensure the safety of people. \"You know, I'm not afraid of any of your European structures if it comes to that. I'm afraid of only one thing - I'm the current president of the Belarusian state and I have my own people. And I have to ensure peace and security of this nation,\" the President stressed.\nAlexander Lukashenko also pointed out that the protesters in Minsk hadn't just broken the law. \"They gathered in the square contrary to all, blocked traffic in Minsk, went to the Government House and broke its windows. And, of course, the police was forced to take adequate measures - they detained those who were there, including the organizers,\" President of Belarus said.\nI'm Not Bloodthirsty, Lukashenko\nAlexander Lukashenko said that the organizers and participants of the riots on December 19 would be charged with their actions. \"I do not need it, I'm not bloodthirsty. They will answer for the consequences, they will be judged by the people of Belarus, according to our laws,\" the president said.\nAlexander Lukashenko also stated that the evaluation of the Belarusian presidential elections by the mission of international observers was a \"huge step forward, compared with what it used to be in 2006.\" According to the president, Belarus can develop relations with Europe on this basis. At the same time, Alexander Lukashenko stressed that the elections hadn't been conducted for observes.\n\"We've held elections for ourselves, not for the OSCE mission. We have invited all comers. If they saw and estimated anything, it means, that they had already had what to see and estimate. So I am not much concerned about this direction, I am confident that we have many problems to solve in the near future with France and the European Union. All this will pass, it's all superficial. I only ask you for objectivity,\" the president said.\nPresident of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he would no longer accept any ultimatums from the West, and the requirements to release former presidential candidate \"would only make the things worse.\" \"We no longer accept any ultimatums. It'll only get worse if anyone puts pressure on us and starts demanding,\" the Belarusian leader said.\nAccording to the head of state, the fate of the detained ex-candidates will be decided by court, AFN informs.\n\"As for the detainees, they can be released under investigation and criminal proceedings - we do not need them there,\" Alexander Lukashenko said.\nAlso, the Belarusian leader believes that the negative evaluation of the results of the presidential elections in Belarus have been prepared in advance and commented on the actions of the West in a negative way.\nNo one Needs Strong Belarus, Lukashenko\n\"The main lesson - they (the West) absolutely don't need us there, the president believes. - They want us to look weak, but the weak will never be successful. Only the strong are respected, we will never be weak. Therefore, we may have problems with them (the West) on the subject. \"\nAccording to the President, neither Russia nor the West needs a successful state, positioning itself as independent and sovereign. \"Nobody needs it - neither Russia, nor Poland, nor Germany, Alexander Lukashenko said. - But we need it. That is the reason for these basic contradictions ... Well, an excuse and even a cause could be found to make our country bow.\"\nThe president said: \"We must rely only on ourselves. We'll never be favorites for them (the West). 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Friedman and Nazia J. Khan\nOn December 19, 2018, the SEC announced that it had adopted final rules that allow reporting companies to rely on the Regulation A exemption from registration for their securities offerings.1\nUntil recently, the only way that companies subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the \"Exchange Act\") have been able to access the capital markets has been through a private placement in public equity (PIPE) or a traditional registered public offering. PIPE's have presented a number of issues regarding confidentiality, illiquidity of securities, limitations on offering size2 and greater pricing discounts, whereas registered public offerings can be both time-consuming and costly. These issues are particularly magnified for smaller public companies that may not be eligible to use S-3 shelf registrations.\nIn announcing the new rules, SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, stated \"[t]he amended [Regulation A] rules will provide reporting companies additional flexibility when raising capital.\" This additional flexibility will assist reporting companies in raising capital by reducing costs and streamlining the registration process similar to the streamlined process of registering securities on a Form S-3.\nRegulation A provides an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for offerings of securities that do not exceed $50 million in a 12 month period, and was only initially available to companies that were not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.\nReporting companies may want to consider using Regulation A for reasons including, but not limited to the following:\nTier 2 issuers that are not listed on national exchanges are eligible for blue sky preemption. This means that OTC listed issuers do not have to make blue sky filings on a state by state basis for a public offering \ufffd this is particularly significant for smaller (OTC listed) issuers that traditionally were only able register their secondary offerings in a very limited number of states;\nTier 2 issuers may solicit investors such as qualified institutional buyers, accredited investors and non-accredited investors before the SEC qualifies an offering circular which permits an issuer to gauge investor interest prior to launching the offering;\nSubject to certain regulations, securities issued in a Regulation A offerings are unrestricted and freely tradeable; and\nRegulation A offers cost and time savings compared to traditional offerings. In addition to amending 17 CFR 230.251, the SEC will eliminate the reporting requirements set forth in 17 CFR 230.257 so that Tier 2 issuers will be deemed to meet the periodic and current reporting requirements under Regulation A if they have otherwise complied with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.\nPrior to the new rules, Regulation A has been used for a number of notable initial public offerings, such as Elio Motors, Inc., Myomo, Inc., Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. and ShiftPixy, Inc., among others. Each of these issuers were able to utilize Regulation A to sell their securities and list on a national securities exchange, such as Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange; however, not all issuers that have used Regulation A as an IPO avenue (mini-IPO) have been successful after listing to national exchanges. This could be due to a number of reasons, including, but not limited to: the fact that these Regulation A offerings were conducted on a best-efforts basis (rather than on a firm commitment basis), and, as such, did not include an over-allotment option which would otherwise help in market stabilization; the valuation of these companies; the performance of these companies; and limited liquidity in the after market As a result of the performance and post-IPO trading of some companies which have used the mini-IPO route, we believe Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange have become reluctant to list companies that do not use the traditional IPO route.\nWhile issuers have generally used Regulation A primarily as a way to conduct an IPO, companies should now consider the variety of ways that they may utilize and take advantage of the benefits of Regulation A such as the following:\nFollow-on Offerings. After completing its IPO, an issuer may offer additional securities to the public using one of the following types of follow-on offerings\n\u25e6 Primary Offering. A primary offering is an offering in which an issuer sells its securities directly to the public.\n\u25e6 Secondary Offerings. A secondary offering is an offering in which selling stockholders of the issuer sells securities rather than the issuer selling its own securities. Although issuers do not receive any proceeds from the sale of secondary offerings, the purpose of such offerings is to provide liquidity to stockholders of the issuer.\nRights Offerings. A rights offering is an offering by the issuer to existing stockholders whereby such existing stockholders purchase additional securities of the issuer in proportion to their existing holdings. By conducting a rights offering, issuers are able to raise capital with little marketing effort and can forego large underwriting fees, and current stockholders are afforded the opportunity to maintain their percentage ownership in the issuer without being diluted by new stockholders.\nMergers and Acquisitions. The Staff of the SEC has indicated in Compliance & Disclosure Interpretation 182.07 that Regulation A can be relied upon by an issuer for business combination transactions such as mergers or acquisitions. This means that issuers can register securities using an offering circular rather than Form S-4 which is a very costly and time-consuming process. For additional information on using Regulation A for mergers and acquisitions, see Regulation A May Provide Useful Alternative to Form S-4 Registration for Public Companies Doing Smaller M&A Deal.\nInitial Coin Offerings. In addition to the foregoing, while there have been discussions with respect to issuers considering using Regulation A for conducting initial coin offerings as a way to reach a large audience of potential investors which may include both accredited and non-accredited investors, to date, no such offerings have been approved by the SEC.\nIssuers should consult with securities counsel for additional information about the uses of Regulation A as a way for both reporting and non-reporting companies to tap into the public markets.\nPlease note that the amendments to Regulation A will become effective upon publication in the Federal Register, which has not occurred as of the date this article was posted.\n1 Release No. 33-10591; File No. S7-29-18.\n2 In certain circumstances, issuers listed on Nasdaq may not sell securities through a PIPE without prior stockholder approval if, as a result of such PIPE, the issuer would issue securities in excess of 20% of the issuer's then outstanding common stock or voting power. See Nasdaq Rule 5635(d).\nNazia J. Khan\nRegulation A+: A Path To Market For Crypto Companies?\nNew Law Requires SEC To Expand Regulation A+ To Exchange Act Reporting Companies\nRule 504 Becomes Useful Tool For Smaller Capital Raising And M&A Transactions\nNew Crowdfunding Rules For Issuers: Opportunities Or Landmines? - Part I\nA Guide To Regulation A+", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 464, "original_length": 28610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monkwerks.org/good_friday", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WC4Z62IYQ7RK6MX7NQE2RKRLEAIAZ2KA", "length": 5034, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "monkwerks.org", "title": "The Wood of the Cross | MonkWerks", "raw_content": "This year is my 10th anniversary of priestly ordination, or at least it will be on June 11. Before I was ordained I spent 4 years studying at Saint Meinrad School of Theology and living with the monastic community there. In the archabbey church there are many beautiful stained-glass windows. One of my favorites was nestled on the northwest side, and we passed by it every time we went in procession into the church \u2013 the Crucifixion. I had not seen the Crucifixion depicted in this way, and I have not seen it done since. The upper part of the window has a traditional depiction of the Christ on the Cross with the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John on one side with the now-believing centurion \u2013 St. Longinus according to tradition \u2013 kneeling and another Roman soldier observing on the other. The lower panel, however, was the image of the Expulsion from Paradise of Adam and Eve. Running through both images is the Tree of Life, the forbidden tree is the same as the Cross upon which Jesus hung. What a powerful image! Our greatest failures \u2013 turning from God and killing God \u2013 become the instrument of our salvation. The Tree of Life finally came to fruition and now we can properly take from its fruit.\nAnother powerful crucifixion scene that caught my imagination when I was working on my thesis was an Old English poem, Dream of the Rood, which is a vision seen by the unnamed author. He is visited by the Cross, and the Cross tells the tale of how it came to be. It recounts how it was forcibly taken from its forest, transformed, and finally installed on the hill at Golgotha. It learns that it was not destined to bear a lowly criminal but the Savior of the world. The Cross had a new purpose, to stand strong and be the mount of Christ as He did battle against the forces of evil. All the wounds inflicted on Christ were wounds inflicted on the Cross too. The Cross, now soaked with the Blood of Christ and the standard of His Passion, is glorified by the action performed upon it and filled with power and healing.\nThe martial imagery evoked by this poem was not unique. The Cross was seen as a great instrument of power, a medieval version of the Ark of the Covenant that the Israelites carried into battle as they took possession of the Promised Land. Secular powers used the symbol of the Cross as their standards as they conquered rebellious people, carved new domains from other lands, or expelled those who refused to conform. All echoed with the battle cry, \u201cDeus vult!\u201d The Cross was power, but power was understood, then as today, as controlling other people. It should not surprise us then, that in certain parts of the world (or among secularists) the Cross is seen as a symbol of oppression rather than redemption.\nWhat is the Cross? At its core it was an ordinary piece of wood. Yet that which was ordinary was transformed into something greater. Amidst all the martial imagery in Dream of the Rood there are a few important lines that are easily overlooked. The Cross is explicit in where its power lies, \u201cTherefore I, glorious now, rise under heaven, and I may heal any of those who will reverence me.\u201d (vs. 84-85) It does not conquer territory nor is it a totem for victory in battle, instead it\u2019s medicine for a sick body or soul. The victory is over sin and death. Eastern Christian iconography prominently portrays this truth in the icon of the Resurrection. Christ carrying his cross \u2013 his standard \u2013 breaks down the gates of Sheol and lifts Adam and Eve from the underworld so that they may enjoy eternal life in heaven. Before the vision ends and the dreamer awakes, the Cross commands that the seer tells of what he has seen so that all may glory and hope in the healing power of the Cross.\nThe sacramentality of these early Christian images have a great resonance. God using the ordinary, using the material and transforming it into something greater, sanctifying it, perfecting it. I think that is the message of the Cross. It made me and it made you greater than what we allowed our appetites to create within us. As Christians we were commanded to take up our own crosses and follow in Christ\u2019s way (cf. Matthew 16:24; Luke 9:23). So doesn\u2019t that mean that we have to get a little bloodied and battered about in the process of our transformation? Growth has never been an easy process, but seeing that we are not forsaken but loved and wanted by the One who gave to the last measure gives us the strength to persevere. We now bear His name. Doesn\u2019t that mean that we are called to be standards of power and healing? Not the control and domination of the past, but of the transformative power of salvation and healing.\nThe Cross \u2013 a few pieces of lumber \u2013 is the instrument of salvation. We \u2013 simple, broken, sinful individuals \u2013 are called to be instruments of salvation too.\nThis year is my 10th anniversary of priestly ordination, or at least it will be on June 11. Before I was ordained I spent 4 years studying at Saint Meinrad School of Theology and living with the monastic community there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monkwerks.org/n-e-s-t/nest5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FIPUFHNO3EGMYGPBDGAN6QFYYVMFTAN4", "length": 518, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "monkwerks.org", "title": "#5 Shop Made Fire Starter Bricks | MonkWerks", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re a DIYer, then you have a problem \u2026 that\u2019s right \u2026 what do you do with all the sawdust your produce? There\u2019s only so much mulch or compost you can use, and not every place will accept them if you put it on the curb. Since they\u2019re flammable, simply add them to another flammable material \u2013 wax \u2013 and you can create a nicely sized fire starter that burns on its own for a quarter hour. 15 minutes is plenty of time to start a fire either at the campsite or the fireplace. (A Non Earth Shattering Tip \u2013 N.E.S.T.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/01/utopia-german-science-fiction-magazine.html?showComment=1295523218626", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4PXGCGNQC6TLXJTJUDDL6BJ5X7C66JXE", "length": 659, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "monsterbrains.blogspot.com", "title": "MONSTER BRAINS: Utopia (German Science Fiction Magazine)", "raw_content": "Utopia (German Science Fiction Magazine)\n\"Utopia was the name of several science fiction series published by Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt. Together with the Terra series of the rival publisher Arthur Moewig Verlag, Munich, the Utopia series were the most important science fiction work in the early years of West Germany.\" - quote source\nMore monster centric covers from the 500 some Utopia covers posted by Micky The Pixel here.\nI fucking LOVE your blog.\n)))((((((\n(-)...(-)\n....V....\n..[___]..\nJohn Z. said...\nThese are fantastic covers. Great to see these old German SF mags.Thanks!\nFantastics !truly a feast for the eyes\nAwesome covers, thanks for posting!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 14340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://morethanagame.us/car-insurance/car-insurance-for-private-hire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:20Z", "digest": "sha1:K2LWU3MB3JAKUIDCFVQJGA2WIX3G6QTP", "length": 3252, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "morethanagame.us", "title": "Car Insurance For Private Hire :: Free Car Insurance Quotes from the BEST Insurance Agencies!", "raw_content": "Cheap car insurance for private hire\nCar insurance for private hire company by comparing quotes. Overall, most companies give you a lower annual mileage is lower. 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When buying car insurance for private hire vehicles firms.\nCar insurance rates for sports cars\nLoading on car insurance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moretoninmarshtowncouncil.co.uk/full-council-meetingsx/item/2193-agenda-for-planning-committee-meeting-18-november-2016-at-630pm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLYU4HS4EMHB7LZMVAC4NHEXCCG5IHCP", "length": 276, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "moretoninmarshtowncouncil.co.uk", "title": "Agenda for Full Council Meeting to be held on Monday 12 June 2017 at 7pm", "raw_content": "Agenda for Full Council Meeting to be held on Monday 12 June 2017 at 7pm\nC Agenda 12 June 2017.pdf\nMore in this category: \u00ab Agenda for Full Council Meeting to be held on Monday 14th August 2017 at 7pm\tAgenda for Full Council Meeting to be held on Monday 10 April 2017 at 7pm \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moseskemibaro.com/tag/kenya/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:53Z", "digest": "sha1:R72M3IK7HX7DSM4MAIOI6F6UVFHFPDSS", "length": 265, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "moseskemibaro.com", "title": "Kenya Archives | Moses Kemibaro", "raw_content": "Tecno as a mobile devices brand has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years across Africa, and, in particular Kenya. I have had the benefit of reviewing a good number of their mobile devices on this blog and the reality is that they keep getting better as", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 176.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://movieboozer.com/featured/bye-bye-man-2017-movie-review", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KW2I5ZELTPX3SMCVQNLUK6CZW3DU7JAV", "length": 8089, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "movieboozer.com", "title": "The Bye Bye Man (2017) Movie Review - MovieBoozer", "raw_content": "The Bye Bye Man (2017) Movie Review\nHawk Ripjaw January 18, 2017 Leave a comment 2,351 Views\nbye bye: Hawk Ripjaw (Five Beers) \u2013\n\u201cDon\u2019t think it, don\u2019t say it.\u201d\nIt\u2019s a mantra uttered by someone who has been plagued by an evil force, that follows behind them wherever they go, and causes them to hallucinate horrible things, and later commit terrible acts. His name is The Bye Bye Man. If you think he name, he becomes more powerful. If you speak his name, whoever hears it is now vulnerable to his power. The movie opens with a crazed journalist in the late 60s (Leigh Whannell), who turns a shotgun on his neighbors and anyone who has spoken the name of The Bye Bye Man.\nFlash forward to the present day, where Elliot (Douglas Smith), his girlfriend Sasha (Cressida Bonas, in one of the most distracting fake American accents in months), and their best friend Jake (Lucien Laviscount) have moved off-campus into a new house. Jake and Sasha are affectionate, but are strictly friends and the Elliot-Sasha relationship is respected. Elliot finds a nightstand in the basement, with the words \u201cDon\u2019t think it, don\u2019t say it\u201d scrawled on the paper lining along with what looks like blood. Instead of saying \u201cfuck this,\u201d Elliot peels back the paper and finds \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d carved into the drawer. After sharing this name with his friends and with housewarming guest Kim (Jenna Kanell), who is \u201csensitive\u201d to psychic entities and is immediately freaked out, Elliot starts to believe that Sasha is cheating on him with Jake, Sasha catches a cold, and everyone else is a supporting character. Elliot must stop The Bye Bye Man from spreading to anyone else.\nThe opening of The Bye Bye Man is great\u2013the setting feels right, the mostly-fluid single take of the killing spree is stylish, and Leigh Whannell\u2019s performance of an unhinged family man is an effective and creepy introduction to a supernatural force that compels normal people to commit horrible acts. In the present time, the production design and some shots evoke vague feelings of foreboding. Doug Jones gets very, very little to do as The Bye Bye Man, but he remains an imposing character actor.\nThe Bye Bye Man suffers primarily from its bizarre grab bag of spooky ideas and visuals that mostly fail to justify themselves. There are individual shots here that could be creepy on their own, but have no place in this movie. Take, for example, the movie\u2019s odd fixation on sprinkling a shot of a train moving slowly down a darkened track. The idea that this train brings doom, and the dread that should come from that, is a fine idea, but the movie never delivers any sort of payoff on it\u2013there\u2019s literally just a fucking train that shows up between scenes sometimes. The movie seems to want to imply that the train signals the coming of the Bye Bye Man, but the connection is tenuous at best.\nThe Bye Bye Man himself looks like Lord Voldemort after a botched facial reconstruction job. His arrival is heralded by the sounds of a train and falling coins, and he is accompanied by a large demonic dog that looks like a pile of animated ground beef. None of these things come together in any meaningful way. We don\u2019t know why The Bye Bye Man looks like that, or why he has that dog, or what the coins mean, or what the train means, or what the hell he even wants to do. He has no endgame, no origin, and no mythology, and as a result has no stake in why he should be feared.\nPart of what makes an iconic horror movie character work is a commitment to the monster\u2019s mythology that can work with the universe of the movie and be alarming enough to be frightening in a real-world context.\nThe Bye Bye Man doesn\u2019t do this. The eponymous character is described as a presence that invades your mind when you think his name, and is passed onto everyone else like a virus when the name is spoken. His origin, reason for existing, and motives are not touched upon. Director Stacy Title and screenwriter Jonathan Penner have insisted on internet QA sessions that they intended to remain true to Robert Damon Schneck\u2019s short story, but while a short story offers the reader opportunities to fill in the blanks with their own imaginations, a film that has the same holes just feels tattered. The trailers for the movie insisted that the Bye Bye Man is the reason anyone in history went crazy and killed people. In the movie itself, killings occur because someone wants to wipe out everyone that knows the name and effectively erase the monster from existence. The spectre himself causes his victims to hallucinate\u2026 and make more people know about him? To what end? It\u2019s never clearly defined. What\u2019s more, The Bye Bye Man does little more than lurk and leer. At every appearance, he merely steps forward and points at someone. Not even the Resident Evil dog does anything besides eat dead bodies. The movie insists that we should be afraid of The Bye Bye Man, but it fails to establish what makes a compelling horror movie: why should we be afraid of him?\nWhen the story really gets down to its core, it involves Elliot\u2019s jealousy as he starts to believe that John and Sasha are betraying him, and it starts to tear the three apart. It\u2019s got the makings of a good psychological thriller that could effectively convey how jealousy can worm its way into your psyche and destroy a relationship, with a spectre lurking at the edge of a bedroom being a sort of catalyst for the rift. The second act appears to be going for that, but the movie continues to insist on using jump scares and bloody (PG-13) images to be a standard horror film. The movie even actively tries to set up some of its own jump scares, such as when Elliot peers through a window to watch what he believes to be John and Sasha going off for a tryst, only for The Bye Bye Man to suddenly appear in the window as it cracks. The scare has no reason to exist, as do so many others.\nThe Bye Bye Man is a movie about an evil boogeyman who makes people hallucinate and eventually murder other people. It\u2019s about a boyfriend, girlfriend, and best friend that are torn apart by jealousy. It\u2019s also about a flower shop owner named Mr. Daizy. I\u2019m not messing with you\u2013in a movie that attempts to go to lengths to establish The Bye Bye Man as a formidable character, introducing a secondary character named after a flower who owns a flower shop is a jarring \u201cwait, what?\u201d moment that completely destroys the already fractured pacing and tone. There are other moments as well, such as a young girl complaining she has to use the restroom during a climactic, emotional scene, and a bizarre bit during one of those train sequences where we suddenly see the three protagonists standing on the tracks, completely naked, with their backs to us. The latter drew uproarious laughs from the entire theater. There\u2019s even the requisite \u201csearch engine sequence\u201d where the Elliot learns of the monster\u2019s origins. The search engine actively avoids product placement. It\u2019s called Search.\nI went into The Bye Bye Man expecting to hate it. With that title (come on, Stacy and Jonathan\u2013even if that is the title of the monster, don\u2019t make that your fucking title), the movie is essentially asking for it. As it turns out, I didn\u2019t hate it, but it was definitely terrible. I had some genuine reactions to some of the creepy production design and cinematography, as well as a couple of the scares, but at the end of the day, these function at the barest minimum as a sizzle reel for what Title can concoct. They\u2019re engulfed in a generic story, haunted by a lackluster and poorly-defined villain. The name The Bye Bye Man indeed has power\u2013the more you think of it, the less sense it makes, and the more of your time is wasted on this stupid, missed opportunity.\nThe Bye Bye Man (2017) Drinking Game\nDo a Shot: for every shot of the train.\nTake a Drink: every time someone starts chanting \u201cDon\u2019t say it, don\u2019t think it.\u201d\nChug Your Beer: when a wild Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway appear.\nTake a Drink: every time someone tries to avoid saying \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d\nDo a Shot: every time someone says \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 12400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moviematics.com/2018/08/08/lebron-james-adds-showtime-doc-to-his-small-screen-portfolio.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FXYCI45QSMDH5VDYRO4J5KGEMOAJFESA", "length": 3892, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "moviematics.com", "title": "LeBron James adds Showtime doc to his small-screen portfolio", "raw_content": "Noah's book is a compilation of Trump's most notorious tweets and is titled The Daily Show with Trevor Noah presents The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library.\n\"President Trump has called out by name ...\" But only after Trump reinforced his attack in a way that made his daughter's personal damage control effort last week look tame by comparison. \"I don't know if we should read too much into it because I think we also have to remember she was a Birther too\". \"They are very unsafe & sick!\"\nAmerican football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe tweeted: \"It should be beneath the dignity of a sitting U.S. president to take racist shots at Don Lemon and LeBron James\". Trump puts children in cages, ' his colleague Joseph Flynn wrote.\n\"For kids in general, all they want to know is that someone cares\".\n\"President Trump is trying a divide and conquer strategy here, and here's how it goes\", he continued.\nLane Kiffin isn't a stranger to exploiting weaknesses, which is exactly why he's ready to tackle the problems brewing in the White House.\nSimilarly, by adopting sanctions on Russian Federation passed by Congress and allowing the sale of arms to Ukraine, the administration can argue that no White House has been tougher on Russian Federation, despite Trump's constant and puzzling cozying up to President Vladimir Putin in public. After the Nazi gathering resulted in one of the white supremacists driving his auto through a crowd of counter protesters, killing Heather Heyer, the president said in a speech that there were \"very fine people on both sides\". \"So to even enter this space the way the president did is insulting in that sense\".\nTrump blasted James late Friday after an interview aired with CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he deemed Trump divisive.\nJames, who just opened a state-of-the-art, tuition-free school in his home state of OH, has always been critical of Trump and his comments on race, which he repeated last week during an interview with CNN anchor Don Lemon. \"He made Lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do\", Trump said. \"I like Mike!\" Trump tweeted. \"But he has never responded to criticism by [Greg] Popovich, he has never responded to Eminem ...\"\nIn response to Lemon asking what James would say to the president if he were sitting right there, the National Basketball Association star said: \"I would never sit across from him\".\nBut the tone of Trump's tweet appeared to have troubling racial undertones.\nHe first recapped the events of the past few days, in case anyone had not been following: On Friday, Trump had watched a rerun of an interview between Lemon and James to talk about a nonprofit school he just opened, during which the National Basketball Association star told the anchor: \"Our president is kind of trying to divide us\".\nThe announcement comes just a few days after James and Trump escalated their public feud. And it may have forced the first lady's hand, given that community service is at the center of her \"Be Best\" campaign. The Fox News pundit was reacting to a video featuring James and Kevin Durant, which included the latter saying, \"I feel like our team, as a country, is not run by a great coach\", while James said that President Trump doesn't \"give a f- about the people\".\nBlitzer noted he was happy that First Lady Melania Trump issued a statement supporting LeBron James. He left office as the most unpopular President since Herbert Hoover. \"This is apparently what the President of the United States feels the need to share with the world at what should be long past his bedtime?\"\nThe Ohio rally was Trump's third of the week and he has pledged to accelerate his pace further as the midterms approach. \"Some of those people are white\".\nHowever hard it is to believe that Ahmadinejad - the man who claimed no gay people existed in Iran - \"loves all\", Donald Trump can certainly unite some very unlikely allies against him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 12762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mr.caltech.edu/content/midterm-examination-period-42", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RWKISCSJYRENIH7FWXHAZHEEZQJ7AGWD", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mr.caltech.edu", "title": "Midterm Examination Period | Caltech", "raw_content": "Friday, February 2, 2018 to Thursday, February 8, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 3753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 58.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mtlmagazine.com/review/life-of-the-beloved/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WA5Z2SYRFIYZT7PYANOE6EQWYY7OPMUY", "length": 689, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mtlmagazine.com", "title": "Life of the Beloved - MTL Magazine", "raw_content": "This book, though written specifically for a dear friend, speaks to many people with a message that is difficult to ignore. Nouwen\u2019s account of a person\u2019s identity as \u201cGod\u2019s Beloved\u201d grabs hold of a reader\u2019s attention by leading her through every component of what it means to be taken, blessed, broken and given.\nI highly recommend this book for anybody who has wrestled with her identity and purpose. Life of the Beloved reverses the idea that you must prove your value. When you start with acceptance, your influence flows authentically from a place of security and love.\nHow this brings more to life: This book adds value to the reader, which in turn equips her to add value to others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mtpleasantmbchurch.com/biblestudy.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WSNJ2PX53SLPSRLT3CBEAXK6YC2IGN74", "length": 10465, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "mtpleasantmbchurch.com", "title": "Bible Study", "raw_content": "God\u2019s Unbelievable Love\n(Part I / Romans 5:1-5)\nThe Results of Justification, 5:1-5\n(5:1-5) Introduction: man is blessed by God through justification, blessed beyond all imagination. Justification and its results are gloriously covered in this passage of Scripture.\n1. Justification is by faith (v.1)\n2. There is peace with God (v.1)\n3. There is access into the grace, the favor and the presence of God (v.2)\n4. There is hope for the glory of God (v.2)\n5. There is glory in trials and sufferings (v.3-5)\n6. There is the continuous experience of God\u2019s love through the indwelling Spirit (v.5)\n1 (5:1) Justification (diakioun): to count someone righteous. It means to reckon, to credit, to account, to judge, to treat, to look upon as righteous. It does not mean to make a man righteous. All Greek verbs which end in \u201coun\u201d mean not to make someone something, but merely to count, to judge, to treat someone as something.\nThere are three major points to note about justification.\n1. Why justification is necessary:\na. Justification is necessary because of the sin and alienation of man. Man has rebelled against God and taken his life into his own hands. Man lives, as he desires.\nv Fulfilling the craving of sinful man, the lust of his eyes.\nv Clinging to the boasting of what he has and does.\nv Clutching to everything in the world.\nMan has become sinful and ungodly, and enemy of God, pushing God out of his life and wanting little if anything to do with God. Man has separated and alienated himself from God.\nb. Justification is necessary because of the anger and wrath of God. \u201cGod.. expresses His wrath everyday\u201d (Ps 7:11). Sin has aroused God\u2019s anger and wrath.\nGod is angry over man\u2019s\u2026..\nv Rebellion\nv Hostility\nv Ungodliness\nv Unrighteousness\nv Sin\nv Desertion\nMan has turned his back upon God, pushing God away and having little to do with Him. Man has not made God the center of his life; man has broken his relationship with God. Therefore, the greatest need in man\u2019s life is to discover the answer to the question: How can the relationship between man and God be restored?\n2 (5:1) Peace \u2013 Justification: the first result of justification is peace with God.\n1. The meaning of peace with God is striking. Peace with God does not mean escapism, a quiet atmosphere, the absence of trouble, the control of situations by positive thinking, the denial of problems, the ability to keep from facing reality. Peace with God means the sense and knowledge\u2026\nv That one has restored his relationship with God.\nv That one is no longer alienated and separated from God.\nv That one is now reconciled with God.\nv That one is now accepted by God\nv That one is freed from the wrath and judgment of God.\nv That one is freed from fearing God\u2019s wrath and judgment.\nv That one is now pleasing God.\nv That one is at peace with God.\n2. The source of peace is Jesus Christ. Men can have peace with God only because of Jesus Christ. It is He who reconciles men to God. He has made peace by the blood of His cross (see notes, Atonement \u2013 Romans 3:25).\n3 (5:2) Access \u2013 Grace: the second result of justification is access into the grace of God.\n1. Grace (charis) means a gift or a favor, an unmerited and undeserved gift or favor (see notes, Grace \u2013 Romans. 4:16,other study on Titus 2:11-15 for more discussion). In the present passage grace is looked upon as a place or a position. Grace is a place to which we are brought a position into which we are placed. It is the place of God\u2019s presence, the position of salvation. The person who is justified.\nv Stands in God\u2019s presence.\nv Stands before God saved.\nv Stands in the favor of God.\nv Stands in the privileges of God.\nv Stands in the promises of God.\n2. Note it is through Christ that we have access into this grace. The word \u201caccess\u201d (prosagogen) means to bring to, to move to, to introduce, to present. The thought is that of being in a royal court and being presented and introduced to the King of kings, Jesus Christ is the One who throws open the door into God\u2019s presence. He is the One who presents us to God, the Sovereign Majesty of the universe.\nThrough whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. (Roman 5:2)\n4 (5:2) Hope: the third result of justification is hope, hope for the glory of God (see notes, Rewards \u2013 Romans 2:6-10: Deeper Study on Glory \u2013 Romans 2:7: Deeper Study on 3:23 for discussion and verses). Note that the hope of the believers is for the glory of God.\n1. When Scripture speaks of the believer\u2019s hope, it does not mean what the world means by hope. The hope of the world is a desire, a want. The world hopes \u2013 wants, desires \u2013 the something will happen. But this is not the hope of the believer. The hope of the believer is surety: it is perfect assurance, confidence, and knowledge. How can hope be so absolute and assured? By being an inward possession. The believer\u2019s hope is based upon the presence of God\u2019s Spirit who dwells within the believer. In fact, the believer possesses the hope of glory only by the Spirit of God who dwells within him (see Deeper Study on Hope \u2013 Romans 8:24-25 for more detailed discussion).\n5 (5:3-5) Trials \u2013 Suffering: the fourth result of justification is glory in trials and sufferings. When a man is truly justified, he is no longer defeated by trials and suffering. Trials and sufferings no longer discourage and swamp him, no longer cast him down into the dungeon of despair and hopelessness. The very opposite is true. Trials and sufferings become purposeful and meaningful. The truly justified man knows\u2026\nv That his life and welfare are completely under God\u2019s care and watchful eye.\nv Therefore, whatever events come into his life \u2013 whether good or bad \u2013 they are allowed by God for a reason. The justified man knows that God will take the trials and sufferings of this world and work them out for good, even if God has to twist and move every event surrounding the believer.\nThis passage explains the great benefits of trials and suffering; it shows exactly how the trials and sufferings of life work good for us. The word \u201ctrials\u2019 or \u201csufferings\u201d (thlipsis) means pressure, oppression, affliction, and distress. It means to be pressed together ever so tightly. It means all kinds of pressure ranging from the day to day pressures over to the pressure of confronting the most serious afflictions even that of death itself.\n\u201cI have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.\u201d (John 16:33)\nGod's Unbelievable Love - Part 2\nThe Great Depth of Justification\n(Part II / Romans 5:6-11)\nRomans 5:6-11 Introduction \u2013 Love (agape): This passage discusses God\u2019s unbelievable love. It shows the great depth of justification. The passage also gives one of the clearest definitions of agape love. It actually shows the meaning of agape love. Agape love goes much farther than phileo love. Phileo love is brotherly love, a love that gives itself for a brother. But agape love is a new kind of love: it is a godly love, a sacrificial love, a love that gives itself for those powerless (Romans 5:6), for the ungodly (Romans 5:6), for sinners (Romans 5:8), and for enemies (Romans 5:10) (see note \u2013 John 21:15-17).\n1. We were ungodly and powerless, yet Christ died for us (v. 6-7)\n2. We were sinners, yet God demonstrated His love for us (v. 8-9)\n3. We were enemies, yet God reconciled and saved us (v. 10-11)\n1 (5:6-7) Jesus Christ, Death \u2013 Man, State of God, Love of: we were ungodly and powerless, yet Christ died for us. God\u2019s great love is seen in this unbelievable act.\nWe were \u201cpowerless\u201d (asthenon): weak, worthless, useless, helpless, destitute, without strength. We were spiritually worthless and useless and unable to help ourselves.\nIt was at \u201cjust the right time\u201d (kata kairon) that Christ died for us. It was in God\u2019s appointed time: His destined time, appropriate time. Men had to be prepared for Christ before God could send Him in to the world. Men had to learn that they were without strength and ungodly, that they needed a Savior. (This was the purpose of the Old Testament and the law, to show men that they were sinful. See outline and note \u2013 Romans 4:14-15.)\nChrist died for us. The word \u201cfor\u201d (nuper) means for our benefit, for our sake, in our behalf, in our stead, as our substitute. (See note and Deeper Study in Mark 10:45.)\na) Christ died as our sacrifice.\nGod\u2019s love is an uncommon and an unbelievable love. Just think about the illustration given. Some persons attempt to save people who are caught in some desperate tragedy and others offer their lives to represent leaders in their great purpose.\nGod proves His love by saving us from wrath (see notes and Deeper Study on God\u2019s Wrath \u2013 Roman 1:18)\nGod proves His love by justification through the blood of Christ (see notes \u2013 Romans 5:1 \u2013 3:25 for discussion)\n2 (5:8-9) Jesus Christ, Death \u2013 Man, State of \u2013 God, Love of: we were sinners, yet God proved His love to us. The word \u201cdemonstrates\u201d (sunistemi) means to show, prove, exhibit, demonstrates. It is the present tense: God is always showing and proving His love to us. The word \u201csinners\u201d (hamartolon) refers to a man who is sinful, the man who sins\u2026.\n\u00b7 By disobeying God\u2019s Word and will (cp. Romans 1:29-31).\n\u00b7 By living selfishly.\n\u00b7 By ignoring God\u2019s commandments.\n\u00b7 By doing his own thing.\n\u00b7 By the cravings of sinful man and the lust of the eyes.\n\u00b7 By boasting of what he has and does.\n3 (5:10-11) Reconciliation \u2013 Jesus Christ, Death \u2013 Man, State of \u2013 God, Love of: we were enemies, yet God has reconciled and saved us. God reconciles and saves us by doing three things.\ni) God reconciles s by Christ\u2019s death (see Deeper Study in Romans 5:10 for discussion).\nii) God saves us by Christ\u2019s life. \u201cHis life\u201d means the life of the living Lord. Christ stands before God as our great Intercessor and Mediator. Standing before God, He stands as the Sinless and Righteous Son of God, as the Ideal and Perfect Man. When we believe in Christ, God takes our belief and counts it as righteousness. The Ideal Righteousness of Christ covers us, and God accepts and saves us because we trust Christ as the living Lord, as our Intercessor and Mediator before God. (1John 1:9-10)\niii) God gives us joy through the reconciliation of Christ. A person who receives so much from God is bound to be filled with joy and rejoicing (see note, Joy \u2013 Philippians 1:4 for discussion).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 11002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://muse.jhu.edu/article/522140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:N2OHGFONQDVETRBIPXJREEBUVCPWBQJY", "length": 4556, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "muse.jhu.edu", "title": "Project MUSE - European Postmodernism: The Cosmodern Turn Article", "raw_content": "European Postmodernism: The Cosmodern Turn\nTheo D\u2019haen (bio)\nPostmodernism was the hottest item in literary studies\u2014at least in the West, although it also made a considerable stir in China, for instance\u2014for approximately two decades, roughly speaking from 1970 to 1990, but has been far less debated, as far as literature is concerned, since the end of the 1990s (D\u2019haen, \u201c(No) Postmodernism\u201d). In many ways, it seems to me that Hans Bertens\u2019 The Idea of the Postmodern, the first edition of which appeared in 1995, marks the end of the debate on postmodernism as a vitally alive and culturally dominant literary movement or current. Since then, multiculturalism and postcolonialism, and latterly world literature, have taken center stage in discussions of current literature. This is not to say, though, that postmodern narrative techniques, or at least techniques usually associated with forms of postmodern writing as practiced in the movement\u2019s heyday between\u2014say\u20141960 and 1990, do not continue to be used by contemporary writers. In fact, the same Hans Bertens (\u201cPostmodern Humanism\u201d) just recently wrote an essay in which he argues precisely such continuation, but in which he also indicates that these techniques are now being put to different ends than was the case earlier. To stay within Bertens\u2019 own terminology as established from his earliest writings on postmodernism (1986), these same \u201cpostmodern\u201d techniques now give expression to a different Weltanschauung. In what follows I will demonstrate as much with regard to two recent European novels, one a [End Page 271] very well-known work in English, now turned into a major motion picture, Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell, the other a little-known work by a Flemish author, Paul Verhaeghen, published in Flemish in the same year as Mitchell\u2019s novel, and translated by the author himself into English in 2007 with the same title as the original Flemish version: Omega Minor.\nTo begin with, we should note that no single narrative technique has ever been branded as unique to postmodernism. Rather, what has come to define postmodernism, according to contemporary critical movements such as post-structuralism, is a combination of any number of techniques that were seen as innovative and perhaps even transgressive, especially with regard to all forms of referentiality, be it reference to some \u201creal\u201d reality as in realism or to a \u201cpsychological\u201d reality as in modernism. Drawing on discussions by Leslie Fiedler (1975), Ihab Hassan (1971, 1975, 1980, 1987), Douwe Fokkema (1984, 1986), Allen Thiher (1984), Linda Hutcheon (1988), Brian McHale (1987), David Lodge (1977), Alan Wilde (1981), and others, and simplifying matters a great deal, I would argue, then, that the following features are generally regarded as marking postmodernism: self-reflexiveness, metafiction, eclecticism, redundancy, multiplicity, discontinuity, fragmentation, indeterminacy, intertextuality, parody, the dissolution of character and narrative instance, the erasure of boundaries\u2014especially between high and low, but also between genres\u2014and the de-stabilization of the reader. If the list of works from which I have culled this enumeration by now seems rather dated, this is because after 1988, the publication date of Hutcheon\u2019s Poetics of Postmodernism, there have hardly been any new \u201ctechnical\u201d discussions of postmodernism. Rather, following Fredric Jameson\u2019s 1984 \u201cPost-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u201d\u2014itself largely dependent upon Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard\u2019s La condition postmoderne (1979) and J\u00fcrgen Habermas\u2019s subsequent reaction to Lyotard in his 1980 Frankfurt lecture, \u201cModernity versus Postmodernity\u201d (published as \u201cModernity\u2014An Incomplete Project\u201d in 1981)\u2014critical attention with regard to postmodernism has been directed to, precisely, the Weltanschauung or worldview supposedly linked to this particular combination of techniques. Jameson, following Habermas, and in contrast to Lyotard, evaluates this worldview entirely negatively, denying it any \u201ccritical\u201d purchase on the world because of the supposedly \u201cfree play\u201d of language\u2014sometimes also labeled \u201canything goes\u201d\u2014to which it subscribes. For Jameson, postmodern literature serves as a symptom of the disease afflicting our era: it is representative of contemporary society to the degree it represents the gap that obtains between reality and representation. In addition, postmodern literature is complicit in the creation and perpetuation of this society: as it does not succeed in re-connecting the reader to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://museum.phideltatheta.org/famous/trevor-eyton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MX5OI36AYCIN54MZCYZSX5C5ZJD6AZEL", "length": 1171, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "museum.phideltatheta.org", "title": "Trevor Eyton - Phi Delta Theta Museum", "raw_content": "Trevor Eyton\nTrevor Eyton began his career as a lawyer of Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington, where he remained until 1979. At that time he left the firm to become the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brascan Limited. After 12 years in that post, Eyton remained with Brascan as a Chairman and Senior Chairman.\nIn 1991, Eyton was appointed to the Senate of Canada where he remained until retirement in 2009. During his tenure, Eyton contributed as a board member to such corporations including Coca-Cola Enterprises, General Motors of Canada, Nestle Canada, and more. He was also philanthropically involved with organizations such as Junior Achievement and the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Eytan also sat on the Board of Grenville Christian College during a time of much legal controversy surrounding the headmaster of the school.\nIn 2000, Eyton was awarded Mexico\u2019s Order of the Aztec Eagle \u2013 the highest award given to foreigners by the government of Mexico and has been awarded honorary Doctors of Laws by both the University of Waterloo and the University of King\u2019s College at Dalhousie \u2013 where he was Chancellor from 1996 to 2001.\nJohn Fleming Jr.\nNorman Erbe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 99.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1312495", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JBJ3C4435BHEQF5MXCKWPTQZLAAOSKTS", "length": 509, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "musicals.net", "title": "Musicals.Net - View topic - The facts you learn....", "raw_content": "Board index \u00bb The Shows \u00bb Annie\nDear \"Annie\" Fans,\nThe things you learn along the way....I never knew that a different actress was cast as Annie before Andrea was in the play! Wow! I'm totally curious to hear her take on the songs! I also had no idea that the 1997 revival was such a botched mess, with regards to the handling of both the lead actress and the actress who played Miss Hannigan!\nhttps://www.broadway.com/buzz/165051/annie-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-all-about-broadways-favorite-little-orphan/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicdata.site/artist-the-internet/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XARFFFPCMXBXI4ZOR4MUMR3F4FOSAGNA", "length": 577, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "musicdata.site", "title": "The Internet - musicdata.site - music online, mp3 - your downloads", "raw_content": "Artist Info: The Internet\nThere are at least three artists known as The Internet: 1. The Internet is a hip-hop/soul duo and one of many sub-groups within the Los Angeles, California hip-hop collective OFWGKTA. It consists of Odd Future's sound engineer, audio mixer, and live DJ Syd Tha Kyd on vocals and Matt Martian of The Jet Age of Tomorrow on production. The duo released their debut LP, Purple Naked Ladies, digitally on December 20, 2011. A physical copy was released on January 31\nTop Albums The Internet\nmusicrock.club , vipmusic24.club , musik.xmta.de , portalmp3.top", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicfashionmagazine.com/read/thecolorbars/000095", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ7SR2OAEXIWWLKYYWTUPMJLE3CDTIS4", "length": 3078, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "musicfashionmagazine.com", "title": "The Color Bars on MF Magazine", "raw_content": "After a very eventful 2004, which included an international tour and quite a bit of critical acclaim, The Color Bars started 2005 by bidding adieu to the Big Apple and relocating to Seattle. Luckily for us, they brought their vintage sound and eclectic instrumentation with them. The three-piece outfit's well-received debut, Making Playthings, drew upon the best music of the 60's and 70's, but displayed a very complex and dense sonic palette that set them apart from the huge crop of today's retro-sounding acts. The bands live show should further this distinction, as all three members showcase their ability to play a wide variety of instruments, and even share vocal duties. I recently had a chance to speak with lead vocalist Gerald Slevin about the Color Bars' recent happenings and their new home among other things.\n2004 seemed to be a very active year for you guys - can you elaborate on some of the highlights of that year?\nWe got to go Japan, which was great. We felt a real connection with the fans there and were treated very well. That was certainly the high point for us. SXSW in Austin, TX was also good to do. Excellent migas in that town, but watch out for bike cops.\nYou started 2005 with a relocation to Seattle. How is the new locale treating you and what have you been up to since the move?\nWe like it so far. We'd been itching to leave New York for a while; mainly because we're all originally from there and thought it would be an interesting change to try the West Coast. So many of the bands, labels and records we love came out of the Pacific Northwest, so it seemed like a natural choice. New York is great, but rent is brutal and it's very cramped. What's nice is that we can have a little house now with a studio in the basement and two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard.\nYour performance at SXSW last year was extremely well received and got some tremendous reviews, and your recent Seattle shows have been successful as well. What do you think it is that makes your live set so impressive?\nWell, I think people enjoy it because everybody in the band sings, which makes the audience feel like they should be singing too. We always try and make sure that our guitars and drums and things aren't so loud that they drown out the vocals, which helps get the lyrics across, which also adds to that. It's a very \"c'mon gang, you know this one, sing-along! And a one and a two...\" kind of vibe.\nMaking Playthings, your debut, is a very accomplished amalgamation of musical styles and instrumentation. When can we expect a new studio album, and how do you expect it to differ from Playthings?\nThe next album will be out in the fall. It's going to be a lot longer, a lot better, and perhaps a bit more experimental in nature, but not overly so. It'll definitely still be The Color Bars.\nHow about sharing your craziest tour story?\nWe almost got arrested in West Virginia after being accused of spreading typhoid fever into the state. We then peeled out of a gas station Dukes of Hazzard style. All we wanted were a couple a coffees. What a world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musingsofamildmanneredman.co.uk/briefs-idina-menzel-returns-to-broadway-the-suburban-strange-and-neil-patrick-harris-addresses-rumors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:SXVNPYWJKCY7BWTU22VWLDUJ4GHI3EXZ", "length": 3439, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "musingsofamildmanneredman.co.uk", "title": "Briefs: Idina Menzel Returns to Broadway, \"The Suburban Strange,\" and Neil Patrick Harris Addresses Rumors. | Musings Of A Mild Mannered Man", "raw_content": "Chris Colfer attends the PaleyFest Icon Awards honoring Ryan Murphy\nBirthday shoutouts go to Stephanie Beacham, who is 66, Cindy Wilson is 56, and Bernadette Peters is 65.\nIn ratings news, for the first time ever, Modern Family beat American Idol in the crucial demo.\nWe Found Our Son In The Subway. We need more judges like this.\nTony Winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the musical If/Then, by the same creative time who brought us Next To Normal\nDocuments reveal close ties between National Geographic Channel, Boy Scouts\nA big shoutout to AE reader Pomegranate Paul (Nathan Kotecki), who has published the novel The Suburban Strange. Here\u2019s the synopsis: \u201cShy Celia Balaustine is new to Suburban High, but a mysterious group of sophomores called the Rosary has befriended her. Friends aside, Celia soon discovers something is not quite right at Suburban. Girls at the school begin having near-fatal accidents on the eve of their sixteenth birthdays. Who is causing the accidents, and why? As Celia\u2019s own birthday approaches, she is inexorably drawn into an underground conflict between good and evil\u2014the Kind and the Unkind\u2014that bubbles beneath Suburban High. Plentiful references to music and art\u2014along with the intriguing underworld mythology\u2014make this supernatural series debut a page-turner.\u201d\nThe #1 gay spring break destination is \u2026 Ft. Lauderdale, followed by Palm Springs and Key West.\nI was wondering how long it would take them.\nThe stars cam out to honor Ryan Murphy at the Paley Icon Awards. Below you can see Andrew Rannells, Darren Criss, and Chord Overstreet.\nHere\u2019s your Daily Matt Bomer\u2122. From this week\u2019s White Collar\nThe 100 Greatest Lost Hits Of The 80\u2019s countdown may be over, but every Thursday we\u2019re going to travel back again and pay tribute to an 80\u2019s tune that should have been a bigger hit. This week, it\u2019s \u201cNew Day For You\u201d by Basia. She exploded on the the scene in 1988 with the platinum album Time and Tide, and the title track would become a moderate hit, peaking at #26. But my favorite Basia song was the follow-up single \u201cNew Day For You,\u201d which peaked at #53 on January 21, 1989.\nContinuing the Top 50 Movie Songs Of The 80\u2019s! At #35 is \u2026 \u201cAlmost Paradise\u201d by Ann Wilson and Mike Reno, from Footloose.\nAs I mentioned before, Footloose was one of the biggest soundtracks of the 80\u2019s, chock full of hits, and now we have the 2nd best song on that album. Mike Reno and Ann Wilson paired up for the classic power ballad \u201cAlmost Paradise,\u201d which debuted on the chart on May 12, 1984 and peaked at #7 on July 21st.. SEE THE VIDEO HERE. Tomorrow\u2019s clue \u2013 \u201d Hear the Salvation Army Band\u201c\nCongrats torichardkiewalker\n, who was the first to correctly guess that Yesterday\u2019s Pixuzzle\u2122 \u00a9 \u00ae was Dude, Where\u2019s My Car? (although I did enjoy the wildly varied guesses)\nvia AfterElton.com http://www.afterelton.com/2013/02/neil-patrick-harris-breakup-rumors-chris-colfer-darren-criss\nTags: Chris Colferentertainmentfunnygay\nHow Girls Get Ready\nI Have A Secret | 1 Million Subscribers\n[\u2026] Briefs: Idina Menzel Returns to Broadway, \u201cThe Suburban Strange,\u201d and Neil Patrick Harri\u2026 (musingsofamildmanneredman.com) [\u2026]\nDress-Up Andrew Rannells, Cher has The Diva Touch, and Jeremy Jordan and Jonathan Groff Make Sweet Music Together | Musings of a Mild Mannered Man\nNext story \u201cSupernatural\u201d Recap: \u201cThe Fire Thief Fights Back\u201d\nPrevious story 10 Greatest Handguns in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 8363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mybeachradio.com/no-finders-keepers-nj-bill-addresses-erroneous-venmo-payments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JFJXUBLQMZF6SZCTAO7XCZVPMHXHJPES", "length": 2041, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mybeachradio.com", "title": "No finders, keepers \u2014 NJ bill addresses erroneous Venmo payments", "raw_content": "No finders, keepers \u2014 NJ bill addresses erroneous Venmo payments\nThese days, many New Jersey residents are more likely to reach for their smartphone than their wallet or purse when making a payment.\nWhether it's paying a friend back for lunch, or purchasing goods from someone online, electronic transactions through apps like Venmo and Zelle are becoming a more popular option \u2014 they're quick, convenient, and don't involve snail mail or meeting someone face to face.\nBut, as evidenced by a piece of legislation advanced recently by New Jersey lawmakers, not all of these electronic transactions are accurate. And if the wrong person receives money through one of these apps, or cash is transferred to someone accidentally, there's no hard rule on whether the recipient of that payment actually has to return it.\nA bill sponsored by Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Morris, puts an end to the ambiguity. Under the measure, failure to return an erroneous person-to-person electronic payment to the sender is counted as theft, given the recipient is aware of the issue.\n\"It's been difficult for law enforcement to recover mistaken electronic payments without a specific law in place,\" McKeon said. \"As the way we exchange money and goods changes, we need to update our law accordingly to ensure consumers are protected and wrongdoing can be prosecuted.\"\nMcKeon said he crafted the legislation after hearing from the chief of police in West Orange, where an individual received an electronic payment by accident and didn't want to pay it back. Law enforcement didn't know whether a crime was being committed.\nThe bill was approved unanimously by the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee, and now heads to the Assembly Speaker for further consideration.\nCash App, Venmo and Zelle \u2014 all of which allow users to transfer and receive funds with the touch of a button \u2014 indicate on their websites that payments typically can't be canceled once they're submitted.\nSource: No finders, keepers \u2014 NJ bill addresses erroneous Venmo payments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mydiveo.com/geazy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BWS5LIW76H47G32BHMAS6LEHZP5WYNVB", "length": 443, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mydiveo.com", "title": "mydiveo - G-Eazy", "raw_content": "G-Eazy is a rapper and producer from Oakland, California. His highly anticipated third album is coming Fall 2017. Purchase his last album, When it's Dark Out here.\nG-Eazy sits down to talk about his humble beginnings in New Orleans and the Bay Area, uploading his music to MySpace.com, his influences and more in this exclusive interview. For more follow: @geazy\nG-Eazy sits down to talk about his humble beginnings in New Orleans and the B...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 178.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mykisscountry937.com/country-stars-yearbook-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FPYSCSACS2ADKV2HWEQSKYKWGIBVV457", "length": 1607, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mykisscountry937.com", "title": "Country Stars' Yearbook Photos [PICTURES]", "raw_content": "Yearbook photos: They're a rite of passage, in a way. Everyone has that one photo they cringe at, or the 8x10 that mom still has hanging in the hallway, highlighting the fact that you were an awkward tween in every sense. Even famous country stars had to get yearbook photos taken before they were in the spotlight and on the red carpet.\nFor some, yearbook photos conjure up memories of braces, glasses, unfortunate hairdos and ... cornrows? (We're lookin' at you, Taylor Swift!) For others, yearbook photos were, well, pretty darn glamorous. Martina McBride looked like she could be a model back then -- and still does today -- Kenny Chesney still had a full head of hair, and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum? He hasn't changed one bit (except he now has one enviable beard).\nClick through this massive gallery of over 40 country stars' yearbook photos, and see what your favorites looked like back then!\nSource: Country Stars\u2019 Yearbook Photos [PICTURES]\nFiled Under: Alan Jackson, billy ray cyrus, blake shelton, brad paisley, carrie underwood, casey james, charles kelley, darius rucker, Eric Church, faith hill, garth brooks, george strait, glen campbell, hillary scott, jason aldean, Jennifer Nettles, julianne hough, Keith Urban, kellie pickler, kelly clarkson, kenny chesney, kenny rogers, lady antebellum, luke bryan, martina mcbride, miranda lambert, rascal flatts, Reba McEntire, sara evans, Scotty McCreery, Shania Twain, Steven Tyler, Sugarland, sunny sweeney, taylor swift, tim mcgraw, toby keith, trace adkins, trisha yearwood, Zac Brown Band\nCategories: Entertainment News, Music News, Photos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myq1075.com/alice-cooper-prince-orianthi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:48Z", "digest": "sha1:AB3JSI4HOOJD2QL6DCEHFJIKY2BIYDTI", "length": 1974, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "myq1075.com", "title": "Alice Cooper Says Prince Kept Trying to Steal Orianthi From Him", "raw_content": "Alice Cooper Says Prince Kept Trying to Steal Orianthi From Him\nJesse Grant / Larry Busacca / Stuart Wilson, Getty Images\nThese days, Orianthi is in both a professional and personal relationship with former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, but prior to that she spend three years in Alice Cooper's band. According to her former employer, it was tough to keep her, because Prince wanted her for his own projects.\nSpeaking to Billboard about Prince, Cooper revealed that the two had never met. However, he said, \"The only real relationship we ever had was he kept trying to steal Orianthi out of my band. Every time I talked to Orianthi she'd be on the phone and say, 'It's Prince again.' I said, 'Could you tell him that you're with me for about the next year' -- kidding, of course. I know that he liked to have pretty girls in his band. Other than that I don't think I ever talked to the guy.\"\nHad Prince gotten his way, it would have led to an embarrassment of riches on guitar, given Prince's own virtuosity on the instrument, something that Cooper believed was under-appreciated by most people. \"Nobody really got how good of a guitar player he was -- just a great, great guitar player,\" he continued. \"Musicians knew how good he was. I don't think the public knew how good he was, though.\"\nOrianthi left Cooper's band two years ago and has been been working on a new album with Sambora for much of that time. Cooper, meanwhile, quickly recruited Nita Strauss to replace her. And for his Hollywood Vampires project, he roped in Joe Perry of Aerosmith and actor Johnny Depp to play guitar. That group will be playing a handful of dates in Europe and the U.S. beginning in May, and Cooper says that they're considering recording a follow-up to the mostly covers record they released last year.\nSee Alice Cooper and Other Rockers in the Top 100 Albums of the '70s\nNext: Top 10 Prince Rock Songs\nSource: Alice Cooper Says Prince Kept Trying to Steal Orianthi From Him", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myreadingjourneys.blogspot.com/2017/08/vangie-vale-and-murdered-macaron-by-rl.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:58Z", "digest": "sha1:4QQ3FNYU3Y5IAJ5E6LCX5DFNPW32DAVS", "length": 7700, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "myreadingjourneys.blogspot.com", "title": "My Reading Journeys: Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron by R.L. Syme Review/Interview/Giveaway", "raw_content": "Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron by R.L. Syme Review/Interview/Giveaway\nSmall towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream. Between the police scanners, social media, and the senior center, it\u2019s like a zombie apocalypse where the undead consume people\u2019s secrets instead of living flesh.\nBut Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar\u2026especially the police radar.\nSo when her new bakery becomes linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can\u2019t have that.\nForced into the role of investigator, this new-in-town bakery owner has to become the very thing she hates\u2013a nosy, small-town gossip\u2013in order to clear her good name, and keep her face off the front page. But when a dating debacle brings her face-to-face with the Sheriff, Vangie can\u2019t ignore the fact that one of her macarons was involved in a murder. She has to find the who-dun-it.\nI love getting into a new series. Vangie Vale promises to be\nquite the sleuth!\nI enjoyed this book from my step into her bakery! It might have been the book cover that drew me in.\nBut it was the story and plot that kept me and lured me all the way to the end. Which was a little too soon! I can't wait for book 2!\nIt doesn't take long for things to heat up when a body is found lying next to a box from Vangie's bakery.\nThe town sheriff seems to have it 'in for' Vangie and is just waiting to 'interview her downtown'.\nWith the little interview tying the purchaser of the macaron's to a visit to town that happens to be more of a home boy than visitor passing through. Before all the clues come together our visitor\nhangs himself in his cell.\nIs it really suicide? Vangie wastes no time in investigating.\nThere is no lack of suspects once gossip and rumors begin spreading around town.\nFrom the suspicious acting sheriff, the agent, the widower, and even the teenager that visits the bakery every afternoon.\nIf you like a cozy read this is a great read and a fast paced ride!And it's book 1 of a new series!\nFor a little behind the scenes check out my interview below.\nClick here to read more reviews, interviews and guest posts.\nHello I am so happy to have you here at the blog! Did you\nhappen to bring any treats? We should have invited Vangie.\nWe really should have invited Vangie. :) She's a *much* better baker than me. But because I now have the Big Sky Bakery on speed dial, I can get my macarons much quicker.\nHave you considered including recipes in the MatchBaker Series?\nWe do, now! And I'm so excited about them. We're actually partnering with a local bakery here in Bozeman (the inspiration for Madison Falls in the book) called the Big Sky Bakery, and they are going to do all the recipes for us. I'm so excited to say that we have a lot of great recipes cooked up for the books in the future.\nI know that Vangie is located in Montana where you live but can we expect any visits back to Raleigh in the future for maybe a little back history?\nI absolutely am hoping to get to Raleigh very soon. In fact, one of my best friends lives not far from Raleigh. We went to Seminary together, and I've been there to visit her so many times. I absolutely adore North Carolina.\nWe really jumped right into the crime in Murdered Macaron didn\u2019t\nwe? Was your intention for a fast paced thrilling ride?\nI definitely was hoping for that, so I'm glad it felt that way. This book has been percolating in my mind for *so* long, and it was so much fun to solve this mystery with Vangie.\nSpeaking of ride\u2019s (inset wink) I won\u2019t give anything away from the story but\u2026I was surprised at who Vangie ended up sleuthing with.\nHow did you come up with the combination of Vangie and Derek?\nYes, I was so excited to have Derek join her for her sleuthing. It made a lot of sense, given his connection to the victim. (wink) Actually, the combination of Derek and Vangie surprised me, too! I had no idea, when I started, that she would end up having such an interesting partner on the journey in this book. I always intended Derek to...have a different role in this book, let's say. So I was immensely excited to write the two of them finding clues together.\nNow that Derek really doesn\u2019t have a place to live will we be seeing him around town again?\nWe will absolutely see him around town again. In fact, he will make another appearance in Book Two! (No spoilers, of course, but he's definitely on his way back to Saint Agnes...)\nWas it always your intention for Henry to meet his maker or did the plot just develop that way? I have to admit in the beginning I was as intrigued with Henry as Vangie was. I hated to see him killed off. Maybe it could Be written into a dream and he could return \u2026\nActually, that was also a surprise. Part of what I love about mysteries is that I sort of start off, like the readers, having the intention of Vangie and Henry, and then....I got surprised by what actually happened. I think that Henry will return (not literally, of course, but in another way...) in a later book, though. I don't want to give too much away, but I'll just say...we haven't seen the last of Henry's life and times.\nDid any of the characters have you a little smitten?\nHonestly, I am so in love with Derek. I didn't expect to be. But I totally am. As a \"watcher\" of Vangie's world, I can't help but approve of a man who's so dedicated to his wife's memory that he's willing to put his life on the line for it. I don't know how Derek's story will play out, but I do feel like we'll see a lot more of him. If only so I can hang out with him again. :)\nI myself was not smitten but sure wanted to know what is up with the sheriff/neighbor!\nDid I pick up on a little simmer spark between him and Vangie?\nThat is a fantastic question. There's definitely something going on between the two of them. I won't give any spoilers, but I will definitely hint that there's much more to their neighbor relationship than Vangie realizes. In many ways, Malcolm will come to be one of the most important characters in the series.\nSpeaking of plots I know you\u2019ve written a bunch do you ever come up with a plot in a strange place or while doing something like eating macarons?\nActually, the concept for the plot for Macaron while eating a macaron. :) That happens to me a lot, where I'm doing or eating something, and I think, \"how would someone die....\" etc. I may be slightly insane. :)\nWhat or Where is the strangest place you\u2019ve been inspired?\nHmmm. That's a great question. Probably a haunted house. (Not like a \"novelty\" place, but a real house that was supposedly haunted. When I was younger, that was where I came up with the idea for my first novel, The Outcast Highlander, because of the old, dilapidated house I was in at the time that turned out to be haunted. I did not see the ghosts myself, but my best friend's aunt insists that she's seen them. Hmm....\nOur visit with Vangie was a cozy fun ride. I am looking forward to Books 2 and 3!\nThank you so much. So am I! I think Corpseless Custard is going to be even better than Murdered Macaron and I can't wait for it to come out!\nThanks so much for having me, and thank you for reading. I had a great time as your guest.\n**showers with macarons**\nLabels: Cozy Mystery, Series\nChris Syme August 4, 2017 at 5:40 AM\nWonderful review Sherry. Vangie's wit and humor drew me in right away as well.\nLinda May August 4, 2017 at 8:19 AM\nI love how I can sink right into her books. Thanks for your generosity.\nptclayton August 4, 2017 at 9:37 AM\nThank you for featuring this book I just love the cover!\nThis sounds like a great start to a new series. I enjoyed the description of the book and I'm looking forward to reading it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 10332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myschoolgrants.net/college-grants-for-health-administration-careers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HI5IUZCDS56COAPLM2KQT2XE7SI3VJUF", "length": 2356, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "myschoolgrants.net", "title": "College Grants for Health Administration Careers", "raw_content": "When someone is planning to go into the career of health administration, they are going to need to have some training and therefore they are looking for college grants for health administration careers. When someone is looking for college grants for health administration careers, chances are they don\u2019t know whey should start. 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To read my review of the item click on the picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://napleslawnservice.com/lawnservicecompany.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BZFQAJ66K7YE57CX5M7PVNKDBEPQ43R7", "length": 1174, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "napleslawnservice.com", "title": "About Naples Lawn Service - Naples Florida - Lawn Mowing-Services", "raw_content": "About Naples Lawn Service\nMy wife and I started Naples Lawn Service in 2007.\nNaples Lawn Service is one of two local companies owned by Kevin Bill and family operated with his wife Rachel. Our other company is Day Star Charters, a local charter boat company started in 1998.\nKevin moved to Naples from FT. Myers in 1978 and graduated Barron Collier High School in 1983. After working as a professional Fire Fighter for Golden Gate and East Naples Fire Departments for nearly 14 years, he retired from the fire service and started focusing on his business ventures of Day Star Charters, followed by Naples Lawn Service.\nRachel moved to Naples from Oregon and was married to Kevin in 2001. They have a 16 year old daughter named Hannah, a 14 year old son named Samuel, a 9 year old son named Caleb, a 7 year old son named Joshua, and a 3 year old daughter named Callie. Kevin and his family enjoy fishing, hunting, target shooting, archery, and attending our church on Sunday mornings.\nWe strive for excellent customer service and satisfaction. We hope to establish a good working relationship with you soon, servicing your lawn care needs!\nNaples Lawn\tService Naples,\tFlorida", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nashresearch.slu.edu/index.php?mact=Printing,cntnt01,output,0&cntnt01url=aHR0cDovL25hc2hyZXNlYXJjaC5zbHUuZWR1L2luZGV4LnBocD9wYWdlPWNybi1zdHVkaWVzJnNob3d0ZW1wbGF0ZT1mYWxzZQ%3D%3D&cntnt01pageid=58&cntnt01script=1&cntnt01returnid=58", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BB25LHYXHE2GR6K7JJ5TXWGOLRJFAM5C", "length": 1657, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nashresearch.slu.edu", "title": "Printing CRN Studies", "raw_content": "The NASH Clinical Research Network Studies\nAbout the NASH Clinical Research Network (NASH CRN)\nIn 2002, the NIH decided to study fatty liver disease and provided research funding to nine universities across the country. Saint Louis University is one of the sites. The other study sites are listed on the NASH CRN website.\nAbout participating in clinical studies\nMedical research is the organized collection of information in order to determine the causes and consequences of disease and whether treatments are effective. Without well-conducted research, we would have to rely on opinions and instincts, both of which can be very wrong. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports much of the medical research conducted in the United States.\nWhether you participate in a clinical study is completely your choice. The benefits and risks to you will be fully explained before you are involved. This is a process called \"informed consent.\" Be sure to ask lots of questions. If you choose not to be involved, nobody will be mad at you and your routine care will not be influenced. Many people feel good about contributing to medical knowledge that may help themselves or others.\nBefore participating in any study, we will describe it in detail to you and you will be asked to sign a consent form. You may take the consent form home before signing to think about it and discuss it with others.\nFor more information about participating in clinical trials, go to the Office for Human Research Protections ( OHRP), especially the section on \u201cPublic Outreach\u201d where you can find a list of good questions to ask. Open OHRP brochure as a PDF (warning: large file).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 179.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nasro.mobi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EQJ4BMHLU7M2UOHKWTAHCEIULUUMKXES", "length": 1433, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nasro.mobi", "title": "Journal of School Safety Information", "raw_content": "nasro.mobi\nBasic School Resource\nSpecial Awards & Recognition\nJournal of School Safety (JOSS) Information\nFormerly known as The Resourcer, NASRO's Journal of School Safety disseminates information and education to those who protect our school's learning environments. JOSS readership consists of law enforcement officers, school principals, administrators, and teaching professionals in every state in the nation. From elementary schools to colleges and universities, our authors share ideas and best practices for making our kids and schools safer. The Journal of School Safety is mailed to over 9,000 readers, not including the word-of-mouth and pass-along readership, as well as bonus circulation to related conferences and tradeshows.\nAs a non-profit educational publication, the Journal of School Safety can be used as a vehicle to reach this targeted membership \u2013 an avenue that would not be available otherwise. Companies may also utilize this opportunity to show their support to the mission of \"safer schools, safer kids\" by advertising. Revenues are then streamlined back into the association to create better and additional educational programs for the membership.\nAre you interested in writing for the Journal of School Safety? We are always looking for informative articles, news, and photographs from the field.\nCommunicating Through the Earth\nSchools Showing Signs of Improvement: Ofsted\nHow to Write Essays and Papers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nassauweekly.com/the-generation-x-gap/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:64WL6AYKLDJT3MZE3IUMO6WTKIWUFYNR", "length": 11699, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "nassauweekly.com", "title": "The Generation X Gap - Nassau Weekly", "raw_content": "The Generation X Gap\nby Susannah Sharpless on September 28, 2014 October 19, 2014\nDouglas Coupland\u2019s exhibit in the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer was called \u201ceverywhere is anywhere is anything is everything,\u201d and from the instant I saw the title, before I even set foot in the museum, I was not feeling it. The all-lowercase aesthetic felt, to me, like an appropriation by a pretty square art gallery and a not-young man of a look that coded for \u201cyouth\u201d and \u201chipness.\u201d I was also irritated by the title\u2019s total sincerity. I couldn\u2019t believe anyone who\u2019d emblazoned such an inanity on a poster in a hip font hadn\u2019t realized it sounded like something only someone baked out of their mind would ever say without realizing how stupid they sounded. But maybe that was because they believed what the posters seemed to suggest: the Messiah, Douglas Coupland, had returned to tell Generation X What Was Up with the Kids these Days.\nCoupland is an author-cum-artist whose greatest achievement perhaps is popularizing the phrase \u201cGeneration X\u201d in the 1990s to describe the various traumas and pains Baby Boomers were experiencing. The exhibit\u2019s (incorrect) claim that Coupland invented the term (it was invented by a photographer named Robert Capa in the early 1950s) bolsters my original impression of him: he\u2019s a jerk whose pomposity has been allowed to define a generation. I went to the exhibit with my father, a baby boomer and English teacher with a PhD and a serious Marxist streak who was almost tweaking off the four espressos he\u2019d already consumed by 11 am that morning. As we moved through the rooms of the exhibit, which took up the entire first floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery, I slipped deeper and deeper into an alienated funk as my very intelligent but irrevocably middle-aged father became more and more certain of Coupland\u2019s gift. But I\u2019d like to think my feeling of alienation wasn\u2019t because I am defined by my devices, but because I\u2019ve spent a lot of my life being talked at by middle-aged men about all the ways I am worse off than they are. As surprising as this may be to Coupland, the more he rambled about the decay of my brain, the more unimpressive I found his.\nIt wasn\u2019t all bad. There were some really cool pencils arranged to evoke the seasonal color palette of Canada in spring, summer, fall, winter. It simultaneously reified and deconstructed the artistic process while nodding to commodification of the art-object that happens on all kinds of social media, the Pinterest-y fetishizing of the art-creating-thing and not art itself, the pictures of immaculately arranged crayons that suggest creative potential but do not actually show creation. In that room I had a revelatory moment of understanding my consciousness\u2019 deeply capitalist hue and how programmed I am to understand the unused good as perfect for its lack of use, and how this will make me always want the new, untouched, pristine thing and spurn anything my grubby human hands have touched, even if it was in order to create beauty. Thus preoccupied, I wandered into the next room, where there were two separate platforms bearing Lego creations, one with fifty of the exact same perfect Lego house and the other filled with all kinds of unique and individual towers of Legos, multicolored and various and complex. Coupland constructed these towers out of smaller towers fans had built at an event and\u2014in contrast to the Levittown next to it\u2014it was almost thrilling. To me, it seemed an illustration of the potential of the human mind when given adequate resources and allowed to roam, not confined into little boxes. Then my middle-aged quasi-Marxist father wandered in and my trouble began.\n\u201cAh,\u201d my dad said, looking at the towers. \u201cChilling.\u201d I liked it, I objected. \u201cIt\u2019s about the minimization of the modern man,\u201d my father continued, \u201chow man is dwarfed by urbanization.\u201d No, I said, I didn\u2019t have such a pessimistic reading, it\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s inspiring, it\u2019s about what humans can do with their minds and their hands if they want to.\nMy dad was unconvinced and it made me furious. I know there\u2019s not a right way to interpret art. I know my father is allowed to like whatever art he chooses. I\u2019m alive in the twenty-first century and I know there is no truth and everything is interpretation and art is trash and trash is art, etc, and part of the reason I know this is thanks to my father, who is a very educated and intelligent man with exceptional taste and I owe much of what I know about literature, art, and culture, (including the futility of interpreting it) to him. But something about the exhibition felt so personal, so targeted at me\u2014at you, reader\u2014at twenty-somethings, and so little of it gave us a chance to respond, that my father\u2019s siding with Coupland, his peer, instead of me, his daughter, made the whole experience even worse. I was the one inheriting the world that made my father and Coupland despair; but somehow I was the one whose experience of this world was least relevant.\nThus disagreeing, my dad and I wandered into the next room, and it was here Douglas Coupland lost me forever.\nThis room\u2019s walls were covered in brightly colored posters\u2014green, pink, yellow, purple\u2014each bearing a different black block-lettered slogan in all caps asserting something about what technology does to a human, almost all of which failed to say anything that David Brooks hasn\u2019t already. Characterized by the pessimistic, condescending tone that most baby boomers assume when talking to \u201cmillenials,\u201d Coupland\u2019s called them \u201cSlogans for the 21st Century.\u201d \u201cYou are the last generation that will die,\u201d I read. \u201cLives are no longer feeling like stories,\u201d \u201cOnce the internet colonizes your brain it can never be decolonized.\u201d I stared at a few of the signs in disbelief and tried once again to articulate to my father how inadequate these were as an attempt to say anything about the Internet and Internet culture, but he was too busy taking pictures of the posters with his iPhone to hear me. For my own, millennial part, my phone was deep in my pocket. It was only when I found everyone around me unreceptive to what I had to say that I started to tweet about it\u2014at least people on the Internet would listen to me. (Note: these sayings also translated excellently into T-shirts, mugs, and greeting cards for sale in the Gallery\u2019s much-lauded gift shop, displayed prominently to all visitors.)\nIn another room, a placard that began \u201cIn examining the current condition, Coupland has consistently taken an interest in current events\u201d (though surely a curator and not Coupland is to blame for this particular string of inanities) informed me that this crop of canvases was \u201cmeant to be viewed through the lens of the smartphone,\u201d no doubt Coupland\u2019s way of rolling his eyes at the \u201csmartphone age,\u201d as\u2014haven\u2019t you heard\u2014that\u2019s the only way we look at things these days, anyway. Convenient for the artist\u2019s point about the ubiquity of smartphones and our own inability to put them down, then, that his exhibit demanded the devices emerge in order for the artwork to be understood as the artist wished it to be. In addition, the ruse didn\u2019t even work: the pictures were not more clear when looked at through the smartphone, but the sight of a gallery full of people looking at art through smartphone screens will certainly provide a chilling illustration of the decay of the modern age to anyone who wishes it.\nI\u2019m not trying to deny that there are issues with contemporary society, nor am I trying to criticize art that criticizes. That\u2019s what art is for. I am rejecting, however, the established and tenured and usually male voice I keep hearing\u2014whether it\u2019s Brooks, William Deresiewicz, Coupland\u2014that just whines and whines and whines at me about how different things are now. Part of the reason these men are cranky is that they can tell they\u2019re losing control of a world that they once ruled, a world where everything that happened made sense to them and everything fell into a particular pattern, as things had fallen for ages before. Though human interaction with its technologies presents challenges, it\u2019s important we don\u2019t forget how the formidable a democratizing force the internet is, one that gives us access to voices we would never have known if the world Coupland is so nostalgic for had persisted unchanged.\nIn reaction to this belligerent pessimism, I\u2019ve adopted a steely optimism: I refuse to despair and I refuse to operate in a world that I think is getting worse. I know that conducting my social life in large part through my phone makes me more awkward in real life social situations, I know that being able to be constantly amused has fractured my attention span to bits, I know that there are many things that used to be very good in the world that are now very bad, but I can\u2019t help but suspect that there are a variety of soul-searching, philosophical, beautiful, piercing, and most importantly original works of art about the internet one could make if one were not a middle-aged white male deeply immersed in the establishment, and I am sick of that perspective being the only thing I see or hear in these cultural, consecrated settings. To recognize that we live in an age in which our ways of experiencing and understanding culture are changing more rapidly than ever but not allow those for who culture has changed most significantly to speak flabbergasts me. On the Internet, I\u2019ve reblogged and read and otherwise interacted with\u2014in a real way, not a superficial one\u2014a lot of thought about what it means to be a person living in a \u201ctechnological age,\u201d but in these pantheons of culture, it is nowhere to be seen.\nThe last room of the exhibition\u2014which was a room filled with junk Coupland had collected over the years, a nice touch from a man who had just chastised me and my generation severely for our own self-obsession\u2014was meant to be Coupland\u2019s brain. It was a highlight. I actually enjoyed it, in the way that humans always have and always will be drawn to the very specific and individual, because that is why art is hard and why it is worth doing. You cannot distill the complexities of what it means to be on this planet on a t-shirt and be done with it. While it is nice for Coupland and his career and his pocketbook that many in his generation agree with his rendering of the modern world, there are those for whom that world is not a disappointment. The rest of the Vancouver Art Gallery was filled with fascinating and innovative art that combined all kinds of modern technologies\u2014sound, robotics, light shows\u2014to create gripping, interactive immersive experiences that thrilled me. I was also thrilled by a few of the classic, old-school paintings, because they too were intensely specific and/or realistic recreations of a moment in time or an experience of the artist, not a caricature. It is a shame that Coupland is given free license for this nonsense because he appropriated a term, once, and that a very good museum has to fill itself with his blathering. What is good, though, is that the technology he despairs of is exactly what enables me to write this, to fume, though I am not a middle-aged white man and no museum is interested in my own personal collections of crap, and I\u2019ve never in my life thought so much of my own self as to actually really think that \u201ceverywhere is anywhere is anything is everything\u201d No: I know that the anywheres are different from each other, as are the anythings, and the joy is that it is us, as humans and as artists, that get to connect them to each other, like Legos, as if we were making a wild and whimsical tower.\nPrevious Previous post: The Radio Star Lives\nNext Next post: The Burden of Proof", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 13333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nationalscience.org/nsci-focus-areas/science-writing/2015/deceptive-publishing-why-we-need-a-blacklist-and-how-to-do-it-right/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AN4TQSZEFNYLJDUC6KDEKZ3WXSBF5BH4", "length": 1137, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nationalscience.org", "title": "Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and How to Do It Right | Science Communication Institute", "raw_content": "> Science Writing > Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and How to Do It Right\nCellular \u2018Cheaters\u2019 Give Rise to CancerResearchers Remain Unaware of Funding Agency Access Policies\nIn an earlier posting, I suggested that the term \u201cpredatory publishing\u201d has perhaps become too vague and subjective to be useful, and I suggested \u201cbad faith\u201d as a possible replacement term. But in light of the subsequent discussion in the comments section of that posting and after continuing to think about the issue, I\u2019d like to suggest another alternative to \u201cpredatory,\u201d one that offers more precision and usefulness: \u201cdeceptive.\u201d Deception, it seems to me, is the common thread that binds all of the behaviors that are most commonly cited as \u201cpredatory\u201d in journal publishing, and I think it\u2019s the most meaningful and appropriate criterion for placing a publisher on a blacklist. Furthermore, \u201cdeception\u201d is (unlike \u201cpredation\u201d) a concept with a fairly clear and unambiguous meaning in this context.\nClick here to read more from this August 17, 2015 Scholarly Kitchen article by Rick Anderson.\nTags: deceptive, journals, predatory, publishing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ncstravels.in/maharajaexpress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SBF6QTJHMX3JQLOKBWKEHZNJTYKX6S2H", "length": 68, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ncstravels.in", "title": "NCS TRAVELS & TOURS PVT LTD", "raw_content": "A luxury tourist train owned and operated by IRCTC\nTreasure of India", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newark.gov.uk/news/Deputy-Town-Mayor-.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MDDV66KGHTDHK3M3XOK4GJRWWF5ZDUXH", "length": 477, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "newark.gov.uk", "title": "Deputy Town Mayor", "raw_content": "An Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the Town Council was held on Tuesday 23rd June at 7.30pm in the Town Hall, following the recent Beacon Ward elections which put the Town Council back up to its full complement of Councillors.\nAt the meeting Councillor Dean Hyde was elected to serve as the Deputy Town Mayor for the ensuing Civic Year.\nOther business included appointing the Leader of the Town Council (Councillor David Lloyd) and the membership of the Council's various Committees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newinternetorder.com/can-running-your-business-from-a-mobile-actually-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ITCUY4AD5IXHOQK7M6CNV2JMP56WW4CL", "length": 6459, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "newinternetorder.com", "title": "Can Running Your Business From a Mobile Actually Work?", "raw_content": "Can Running Your Business From a Mobile Actually Work?\nI\u2019ve been doing some testing lately (this weekend to be exact). Testing revolving around running a business mobile.\nThe question was simple \u2013 the one you see in the headline: Can running your business from a mobile actually work? And it\u2019s online business we\u2019re talking here, as always.\nSamsung Galaxy S3 + internet access.\nYeah, that\u2019s it, only one tool; although I got a number of new apps along the way (when I needed them).\nTo try to do whatever I\u2019d normally do on my desktop computer.\nTo try to reach the same efficiency.\nTo try to retain the feeling of being on top of things.\nSo how did it play out? Well, let me start by sharing the overall results and then going into more detail:\nIn short, you can\u2019t (run a business from a mobile).\nActually, scratch that\u2026I can\u2019t do it. But that\u2019s just my general conclusion, and the detailed one is much less pessimistic:\nI was kind of able to achieve goal #1 \u2013 there are many apps available for Android (and iOS too) that allow you to do probably any online-business-related task out there. But when it\u2019s all said and done, you\u2019re still on your mobile phone\u2026 meaning that the screen is small and the touchscreen is hard to use for anything other than Twitter updates.\nI wasn\u2019t able to achieve goal #2 \u2013 for the reason explained above.\nI was able to achieve goal #3 to its full extent! Which is great!\nLet\u2019s take the above one by one and look into the various online business tasks you can do on a mobile phone.\nAs I said, there\u2019s a lot of apps waiting for online entrepreneurs. For example, here\u2019s what I used along the way:\nThis is quite a lot of apps. What you can also see is that the list is pretty dominated by Google (5 tools; not even mentioning the main Google search inside Chrome \u2013 both of which I didn\u2019t list either).\nThe tools mentioned above are actually quite important to what I do every day, and their presence is not accidental at all. Also, I tried not to double specific functionalities in multiple tools. So most of the time, I use one tool for one specific thing.\nMy main research tools right now are Feedly (RSS reader) and Pocket (a read-it-later list).\nSince I spend at least half of my work time writing, finding new topics and getting familiar with them is a crucial element in my schedule. With Feedly, I can easily keep up with my key blogs and put any article I like to read on my Pocket list.\nTo be honest, discovering new articles and reading them is just as effective on a mobile phone as it is on a desktop computer.\nNote taking and brainstorming\nThis is what I primarily use Google Keep for. Even though the app is really cool and it\u2019s synchronized to a cloud-based version of Keep, it doesn\u2019t even touch the productivity I can achieve with mind mapping through FreeMind. Unfortunately, I\u2019m still unable to find a quality mind mapping app for neither Android nor iOS.\nSo in short, I was able to do basic note taking and planning/brainstorming via Google Keep, but it was still very limited. Hence, I didn\u2019t really enjoy the process.\nLeaving Google Keep behind, I have to point out one more tool that has a specific purpose of improving our productivity \u2013 Remember The Milk (I wrote about it a while ago, feel free to check that post out).\nJust to describe this shortly, the Android version of the tool allows you to do whatever you\u2019d do with the web-based version, which makes it just as functional. In a word, great.\n(By the way, the iOS version is still very poor\u2026)\nI\u2019m not sure if \u201cmanagement\u201d is the proper word here, but what I\u2019m referring to are all the tasks related to keeping your finger on the pulse of your business.\nThe set of tools I used was: SugarSync, Google Drive, and Google Analytics.\nSugarSync is something I explained in a number of my previous articles (at the bottom). In short, it\u2019s just like Dropbox\u2026only better, which makes it my favorite data synchronization tool. It gives me access to all of my most crucial files from any device with internet access.\nGoogle Drive is still perfect for creating cloud-based documents, and the Android app makes it really easy to do.\nGoogle Analytics is actually one of the most important apps you can have on your mobile. Although you won\u2019t be using any of its advanced functionality 99% of the time, it\u2019s a great way of remaining updated on what\u2019s going on. It only takes 30 seconds or so to glance over your stats once a day. And if, just if, something bad is going on then you can always take action either through other apps on your mobile or by finding a proper computer.\nTo create my content, I tried to use WordPress \u2013 the official app, and Aviary \u2013 for editing pictures I wanted to use in my posts.\nUnfortunately, this is where even the top smartphones fall short. And it\u2019s all due to the small screen and touchscreen that\u2019s just difficult to use. No matter what I did, I always felt that it was just a big pain in the ass.\nSo as it turns out, if I want to get some proper writing done, I need to have a standard keyboard and a standard screen at my disposal (plus, a mouse would be cool too).\nBut you know, it\u2019s just me. Maybe you\u2019re more skillful with touchscreens, so by all means, try this out for yourself instead of believing me.\nThis is the second area (after researching new topics to write about) where doing things on mobile is just as effective as doing them on a desktop computer.\nWith Gmail \u2013 the native app by Google \u2013 you can easily take care of any email you\u2019d normally take care of. More than that, you can actually react much quicker to important mail.\nTo be honest, if it wasn\u2019t for the keyboard problems, I\u2019d probably move all my communication work to a mobile device\u2026\nAnyway, just to sum this thing up real quick, let me say the following.\nRunning your online business from a mobile is technically possible but still a real pain in the ass (when we look at the overall set of tasks). There are, however, some types of tasks that are more effective being done on a mobile (various forms of communication).\nFinally, if you were to take away just one piece of advice from this post, let it be this:\nIf you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to leave your home in a hurry, you can safely just grab your smartphone and be sure that you WILL be able to handle your business tasks eventually (\u2026 not necessarily with more ease).\nBut what\u2019s your take on this? What\u2019s your preferred way of handling online business tasks on the go?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newmobc.org/bible1/20530162", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:57Z", "digest": "sha1:VZANV3ZUODBJTLXGS4VSCYEFXXLXMUDQ", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newmobc.org", "title": "Bible Study | Mount Olive Baptist Church \u2013 South Richmond", "raw_content": "Wed, May 30, 20187:00 PM - 8:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 66.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/november/18/newsid_2903000/2903953.stm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:32Z", "digest": "sha1:O3C7INGAQMQZ2KAHHI3SFBO5T22RRHLD", "length": 5822, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "news.bbc.co.uk", "title": "BBC ON THIS DAY | 18 | 1991: 'It's over' - Terry Waite returns home", "raw_content": "1991: 'It's over' - Terry Waite returns home\nChurch envoy Terry Waite went to Beirut in January 1987 to negotiate the release of several hostages being held there.\nBut he ended up a hostage himself and was held captive for 1,760 days before being released on 18 November 1991.\nI remember saying three things to myself after I was taken hostage which somehow stood me in good stead.\nNo regrets - you haven't done everything correctly, you're bound to have made mistakes, but stick by what you've done.\nNo self pity - don't begin to feel sorry for yourself, there are loads of people who are in worse situations than yourself.\nAnd no over-sentimentality - don't look back and say, \"If only I'd spent more time with the family and had longer holidays - life has been lived, you cannot re-live it\".\nBut I had no contact at all with my family for five years - they didn't know that I was alive or dead for about four years when the news got to them from the Irish hostage Brian Keenan.\nBrian knew I had been in the next cell and of course when he was released he went and told my wife.\nI was in solitary confinement and I used to communicate with hostages in the cell next door by tapping on the wall in code.\nYou can't use Morse code on a wall because you can't differentiate between a dot and a dash, but you can use the laborious code of one for A, two for B, three for C.\nFor about nine months I depended on the news being tapped through the wall\nIt was then that I regretted my name was Terry Waite, because it's a long way down the alphabet when you want to communicate your name.\nHowever, I communicated with them, they had a radio and for about nine months I depended on the news being tapped through the wall.\nIn the last six months my captors relented and I was given a small radio.\nI listened to the BBC World Service constantly and I was enormously grateful, particularly for the fact that at the time they were broadcasting virtually 24 hours-a-day to the Middle East.\nI heard my cousin John broadcasting on Outlook and that meant a great deal to me because John, in a subtle way, got me news from my family.\nHe also broadcast on my birthday and played a piece of Bach's organ music for me as a gift from the family.\nIt was a great source of hope and comfort to me, that something was getting through to me from my family.\nBecause although I had to put my family and friends out of my mind - to dwell on them would have made me unnecessarily depressed - I was always concerned about them.\nAnd particularly about my children - the eldest of whom were in university, and I thought perhaps my actions had wrecked their family life.\nThat wasn't true because I underestimated the enormous resilience of children and the enormous strength of my wife to deal with this very complex situation.\nWe were gradually aware of the fact that we would be set free.\nWhen it did happen it was really rather a low key event.\nThey simply came into the room and said, \"You're going to be released\", and threw in some clothes, which were all far too small - I looked ridiculous.\nI was taken out, blindfolded again, put into the boot of a car, then another car, and when they took the blindfold off I was with a Syrian intelligence operative, who drove me to the Syrian intelligence headquarters.\nI regarded myself as being still on duty until such time as I could sign-off\nWhen I was on the plane coming from Cyprus to RAF Lyneham a former colleague of mine, Richard Chartres, who is now Bishop of London, came out to meet me - and I'm very glad he did.\nRichard said it would be very appropriate if, before meeting my family, I made a statement and deliver it to the press - to satisfy them and they could then go their own ways.\nI also regarded myself as being still on duty until such time as I could sign-off by making that statement, so I quickly jotted a few notes down on the back of a bit of paper.\nI went into the hangar and made this impromptu speech, when I said what I had to say about hostages and hostage-taking and what I'd attempted to do.\nThen I left the hangar and thought, \"That's it, it's over\".\nAnd I met my family for the first time and it was quite emotional.\nMy son who was a teenager when I'd been captured had now grown up and I didn't recognise him - he'd changed so much.\nI remember my youngest daughter simply saying to me, \"Daddy, take all the help that they're going to give you here.\"\nThat I did, and I'm enormously grateful for the supportive help the RAF medical staff gave both to me and my family during those first days of release.\nYou can read Terry Waite's account of his capture by clicking on the link in the right-hand column.\nTerry Waite had been cut off from almost all communication for years\nThe Waite family did not know if he was alive or dead for most of his captivity\nTerry Waite faced renewed questions over his role in the American arms for hostages scandal almost immediately after his release.\nAnd sections of the media also accused him of being an egotist in pursuit of personal glory.\nBut the former negotiator insists that if he had been an agent for the CIA he would have been killed in captivity.\nAnd although he freely admits his motives were not purely altruistic, he says his concern for the hostages' plight was genuine and the media's allegations \"were even more painful\" than his imprisonment.\nMr Waite is now an author and lecturer.\n1956: 'Laughing stock of the world' - Suez veteran\n1988: Debris of a disaster\n1963: 'Stunned into silence' by JFK's death\n1989: The night the Wall came down\n1980: The legend of Lennon\nTerry Waite witness special\nTerry Waite's account of his kidnap in Beirut\nThe archbishop's envoy recalls his release after almost five years\nView from the Waite family\nJohn Waite on the disappearance of his cousin Terry\nChurch envoy Waite freed in Beirut", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.uis.edu/2006/08/ibhe-approves-construction-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:L7DT7ZWJ66XKZXDJARCHPP52TQALZULN", "length": 614, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "news.uis.edu", "title": "UIS News: IBHE approves construction of residence hall, townhouses", "raw_content": "IBHE approves construction of residence hall, townhouses\nFollowing Illinois Board of Higher Education approval this week, two new building projects will begin at UIS. Planning for a $15.8 million residence hall will start immediately and construction of six new townhouses will begin in October.\nThe 200-bed residence hall, to be located southwest of Lincoln Residence Hall, is expected to be open by fall 2008. The six new townhouses, set to open in 2007, will each have four, four-bedroom units and will be located near the existing townhouses. Read more>>\nPosted by UIS Web Services at Thursday, August 17, 2006", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 4799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newtechnologyline.com/2017/11/24/finding-parallels-between-businesses-and-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4HBDGAGHGJGEQBLJQPTHXNOJ4RPSSRHA", "length": 2646, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "newtechnologyline.com", "title": "Finding Parallels Between Businesses and Life | New Technology Line", "raw_content": "November 24, 2017 November 24, 2017 Comments Off on Finding Parallels Between Businesses and Life\nGeneral Contractor-How To Find The Best One? Most general contractors do not handle small construction jobs, since they usually handles construction jobs that are big. The general contractor are focused in home remodeling task and construction of new houses and buildings. The general contractor will handle the whole construction project and make sure that it is properly done. The general contractor is in charge in bidding the price of the job. The task of the general contractor is a lot such as hiring the subcontractors and laborers and even buying all of the necessary construction materials. The general contractor will still be at fault if the subcontractors cause problems. It is very important that you know how to hire the best general contractor. The general contractor can really affect the success of your home or building. General contractors are also skilled in making and providing the necessary contracts, documents and plan. Hire a contractor that you are comfortable to work with and is trustworthy. Make sure that you will really get your money\u2019s worth. Do not save money in hiring the right general contractor. If you hire a contractor that is inexperienced then you might not like the result of their work. The contractor should be able to give solutions in case their will be problems in the construction of the house or building. Below is the list of the tasks of the general contractor:\nA. It is the task of the contractor to estimate the project and bid on it.\nB. It is the task of the contractor to negotiate the terms of the contract with the home or building owner. C. It is the task of the contractor to hire the laborers and subcontractors and to also negotiate the terms of their contractor. D. It is also the work of the contractor to schedule an appointment with the inspectors and to process and get the permits. E. The contractor will also need to provide a schedule for releasing the payments of the workers. F. The contractor is also incharge with the payment of the materials. G. It is also the work of the contractor to provide the schedule of work of all workers and even for the subcontractors. H. The general contractor also know the schedule of deliveries. I. The contractor will order and negotiate the price of the construction materials. You can easily find a reliable contractor by asking people that you know and by searching the internet. General contractors has a lot of tasks and this is why it is important that you know how to find the right one.\nA Simple Plan For Investigating Installations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-censored-news.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:24Z", "digest": "sha1:G6Z3FN26DAN2BI7PS3TUKALXCPVHYMBW", "length": 1513, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "newworldnotes.blogspot.com", "title": "New World Notes: The Censored News", "raw_content": "Vol. 5, No. 48 -- December 3, 2012\nThis week in New World Notes, radio program #248, December 4, 2012\nMickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, gives an impassioned speech about how the media support Established Power--by producing news stories that are biased, censored, and full of omissions and false assumptions. And by suppressing news stories that would call official policies into question.\nComplementing Huff's talk, we'll read selections from Project Censored's top stories of 2011-2012--seemingly-important stories unreported by the corporate media. One example: fallout from Fukishima caused 14,000 deaths in the U.S.\nPlus introductory coments (and a very recent eample of censored news) by K.D.\nAbove: Historian, media critic, and Director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff\nHuff spoke in September 2012. I have shortened his speech for this radio broadcast. A video of the entire speech is available at www.projectcensored.org. Summaries of the Top 25 Censored Stories of the year are available there too.\nIn my introduction I discuss a very recent censored story about child casualties in Afghanistan--recently brought to light by independent journalist Dave Lindorff. His article is here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/18/children-under-attack-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan/\nBack in September 2011, the news media did their best to ignore Occupy Wall Street. Afterwards, they disparaged it. Finally, they were forced to take it seriously.\nDecember 11 -- Michael Ruppert on Surviving the Collapse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 622, "original_length": 22303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://niyona.be/en/portfolios/bon-bon-xp-menu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F7D3IYEZV3TJ5EVGNMAAFW5YPIPFZMRH", "length": 134, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "niyona.be", "title": "NIYONA | Project - Special Sleeve for the xp-menu of Bon-Bon", "raw_content": "We designed and created a special sleeve for utensils which accompany the \u201cExperimental Menu\u201d at two-star Michelin restaurant Bon-Bon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northadams.com/story/58035/New-North-Adams-Eatery-Features-Salad-Bowls-Specialty-Coffees.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XS7HDBWJBUJCA647QRBSHICZJT6LOI4J", "length": 3559, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "northadams.com", "title": "New North Adams Eatery Features Salad Bowls, Specialty Coffees / NorthAdams.com", "raw_content": "New North Adams Eatery Features Salad Bowls, Specialty Coffees\nBowlin' on the River opened last week on Marshall Street.\nOfferings include proteins, vegetables and fruits, along with salads.\nNick Demarais demonstrates a nitrogen cold brew.\nLaurel Emery prepares the base for the salad bowl in a biodegradable container. The restaurant seats about 40 and offers eat in or takeout.\nNORTH ADAMS, Mass. \u2014 Five days in, manager Laurel Emery is confident that Bowlin' on the River will be a success.\n\"I can tell we're doing well because we have repeat customers already,\" she laughed.\nThe restaurant, located in the former Brewhaha space on Marshall Street, opened for business last Friday. Right now, it's open from 11 to 4 seven days a week and offers n build-your-own salads, beverages and specialty coffees, including a nitro cold-brew, although Emery says it plans to expand in hours and offerings as it goes along.\n\"We're trying to get a core menu down,\" she said. \"We're really experimenting and seeing what people like ... what's being received well ... We'll continuously make adjustments to our food offerings.\"\nThe menu starts with a takeout box for eat-in or takeout with a base of udon noodles, quinoa or spring lettuce. Patrons can then chose proteins, vegetables, salads, and fruits at 50 cents to $1.50, not unlike ordering pizza toppings.\nEmery says the concept is somewhat based on Sweetgreen and Chopt, neither of which have locations anywhere near North Adams. That's the bowl; the river is, of course, the Hoosic that runs through the city and not far from Marshall Street.\n\"We really just want to bring healthy, fast, fun food to North Adams,\" she said. \"That's what it boils down to ... fun, fast, friendly.\"\nThe three Fs motto comes from Nick Demarais, another employee who eagerly explained the process for nitro brew coffee \u2014 take cold brew coffee and inject nitrogen into it creating a sudsy, non-bitter liquid with the look of Guinness. Behind the counter, Ryan Shook was ready to take orders.\nThe current offerings are a mix of Southern favorites, simple fruits and traditional meat and salads that are also suitable for vegans or vegetarians, with a few bakery items. The goal is to add soups and more selections for the salad bar and bakery items and gradually expand the hours toward morning and dinner time (it is approved for 7 to 9).\nEmery jokes that this the latest in David York's empire, and she's not far off. The Atlanta businessman arrived in the area a year or so ago and lighted on North Adams as the home for his Museum of Dog, a paean to man's best friends and his own love of dogs and art.\nYork broke canine ground with his Barking Hound Village, among the first high-end, doggie day-care facilities, with locations in two states. But he's also been involved in real estate and the food business, first opening a cafe with his sisters in Missouri that grew to 30 locations and then lunch and bakery spot Sophie's Uptown, named for his beloved spaniel, in Atlanta. He also plans to operate a couple of food trucks in the North Adams area.\nHe lured Emery \u2014 who laughs easily \u2014 from Atlanta to run his latest eatery. \"I was looking for some change and he said, 'why don't you come up here? So I did,\" she said.\nThe city dweller says she's taken with the slower pace and non-existent traffic (relative to the busy highways of Atlanta) of the North Berkshires.\n\"It's like refreshing and lovely to be in a new place,\" she said.\nBowlin' on the River is located at 20 Marshall St. Hours are currently 11 to 4 seven days a week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 7407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northernimages.ca/Artists-Communities/artists/27291/Annie%20Kavik%20Sr.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4QP5JWOHDU2QCK7S6E2A4OMZ2JRTAU7L", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "northernimages.ca", "title": "Inuit and Dene Artists & Communities in Canada's Arctic featuring one of the finest collections of Inuit Art", "raw_content": "Annie Kavik Sr., Sanikiluaq, Nunavut", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northmsclassic.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:01Z", "digest": "sha1:W3P3FOUDB65CWN32T6T7SPR3254LDXOU", "length": 2185, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "northmsclassic.com", "title": "North Mississippi Classic at the Country Club of Oxford | April 2018", "raw_content": "The North Mississippi Classic\nThe Country Club of Oxford will host the North Mississippi Classic April 16-22 with 156 players competing for a $550,000 purse. The North Mississippi Classic will be the third PGA TOUR-sanctioned event to be held annually in Mississippi, joining the PGA TOUR\u2019s Sanderson Farms Championship and the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic on PGA TOUR Champions. Mississippi is one of only five states to host an annual tournament on all three tours, with California, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina rounding out the list.\n\u201cWe are excited to bring the North Mississippi Classic to Oxford as we continue to grow the Web.com Tour with new events in strong markets,\u201d said Dan Glod, President, Web.com Tour. \u201cThis community has demonstrated a passion for golf, and we are excited about the opportunity to partner with Country Club of Oxford and the Century Club, which has a proven tournament team that operates a very successful PGA TOUR event. We are confident this partnership will allow us to engage fans, volunteers and local businesses as we look to cement our roots in North Mississippi and increase our charitable impact.\u201d\nCentury Club Charities\nThe North Mississippi Classic will be managed by Century Club Charities, a Mississippi 501(c)(3) organization. Since 1994, the group has donated over $14 million to charity. Executive Director, Steve Jent, will oversee the North Mississippi Classic, with proceeds benefitting charities throughout the region.\n\u201cCentury Club Charities looks forward to hosting another great professional tournament, which will allow us to again showcase Mississippi hospitality to some of the best golfers in the world \u2013 all while raising much-needed money for a variety of deserving charities,\u201d said Jeff Hubbard, President, Century Club Charities.\nWho will earn the next 50 PGA TOUR cards?\nWith 50 available PGA TOUR cards for the following season (since 2013), the Web.com Tour is The Path to the PGA TOUR. Twenty-five TOUR cards are reserved for the leading money winners at the end of the 22-event Regular Season. Another 25 are up for grabs at the four-event Web.com Tour Finals that follow the Regular Season in September.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northwestend.co.uk/index.php/homepage/news/2750-showstopper-the-improvised-musical-heads-to-manchester-for-one-night-only", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LQ3ZFQENFGTB743W6YWYEWUFIWACNVW3", "length": 2658, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "northwestend.co.uk", "title": "Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Heads to Manchester For One Night Only!", "raw_content": "Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Heads to Manchester For One Night Only!\nDylan Emery,\nAdam Meggido,\nRuth Bratt,\nPippa Evans,\nThe critically acclaimed improvisational frontrunner Showstopper! The Improvised Musical heads to Manchester\u2019s Palace Theatre on Saturday 10th February promising a night of surprises for audiences to enjoy.\nNo two nights are ever the same as The Showstoppers take audience suggestions and then spin a brand new comedy musical out of thin air - stories, characters, tunes, lyrics, dances, harmonies and all - with unpredictable and hilarious results. If you\u2019ve thought improv looked difficult before, try doing it in time (and tune) to music!\nHaving grown since 2008 to become the UK\u2019s most acclaimed and in-demand musical improvisers, The Showstoppers have become a must-see staple of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With four West End seasons and an acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series to their name, they have also taken their ingenious blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity around the globe, picking up accolades and awards including The Times Best of the Fringe, Mervyn Stutter\u2019s Spirit Of The Fringe Award and nominations for Chortle Best Music Or Variety Act, MTM Best Production Award and MTM Judges\u2019 Discretionary Award.\n\u2022 Co-founder Adam Meggido, an award-winning writer/composer who has improvised at the National, The Royal Court Theatre, and Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre and currently holds the world record for the directing the longest impro show - 55 hours without a break.\n\u2022 Dylan Emery, the other co-founder, has been improvising for more than 15 years \u2013 including at the National/Royal Court/Shakespeare\u2019s Globe. He created veteran comedy impro group Grand Theft Impro, and the UK\u2019s premier website devoted to the form thecrunchyfrogcollective.com.\n\u2022 Pippa Evans is an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and has had great success on TV, Radio and stage \u2013 she is a regular on BBC Radio 4\u2019s The Now Show, BBC2\u2019s Fast and Loose, performs regularly with the Comedy Store Players and has had many years of success with her hit character act Loretta Maine.\n\u2022 Ruth Bratt is an improv Fringe regular for the last 11 years whose recent TV credits include Ricky Gervais\u2019 Derek, Sarah Millican\u2019s Support Group and Vic Reeves\u2019 The Ministry Of Curious Stuff.\n\u2022 Sarah-Louise Young won the Best Musical Variety Act in the London Cabaret Awards and was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer. She has performed her critically-acclaimed Cabaret Whore show across the world.\n10th February | The Palace Theatre Manchester | 7.30pm\nFor tickets, visit www.atgtickets.com/venues/palace-theatre-manchester/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://norwalkreflector.com/Column/2018/06/29/Preserving-the-past-bridging-the-future.html?ci=stream&lp=12&p=", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DZDAOUJMZT6YERSS6ZCSGQU2EIT3VTUD", "length": 3320, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "norwalkreflector.com", "title": "Norwalk Reflector: Preserving the past \u2014 bridging the future", "raw_content": "Preserving the past \u2014 bridging the future\nBy Debbie Leffler \u2022 Updated Jun 29, 2018 at 9:00 AM\nMy sister is downsizing to a smaller house. That\u2019s not what this column is about, but it is what precipitated it.\nMy sister was clearing out her basement in anticipation of her move and she called to ask me if it was OK if she got rid of our father\u2019s slides. There were at least 10 trays of them and she had transferred all of them to her computer so if I didn\u2019t want the original slides she was going to trash them because she didn\u2019t have room for them in her new house.\n\u201cI saved them all on an external hard drive and gave it to you, so you have them,\u201d she told me.\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure what I did with the hard drive. What did it look like?\u201d I asked her.\nShe texted me a picture of the hard drive, followed by an annoyed email. The project had taken her years to complete \u2014 transferring those slides to the computer \u2014 and how could I not know where it was?\nTruth be told, I did not. The box with the hard drive looked familiar, though, and I did find it. I remembered setting it aside when she gave it to me. She thought it was a wonderful gift for me, to be in possession of all of those slides \u2014 our past contained in a box.\nShe was right, but I wasn\u2019t ready to look at it yet.\nBoth of our parents have passed away. Although my sister still lives in the East, I have lived in Ohio for many years and never looked back.\nToday I did. I connected that external hard drive to my computer and looked at the old slides for the first time in many years. I am still teary-eyed.\nI saw how beautiful our mother was. She and I, as a baby, in New York City. She, pushing me in a swing at a city playground. She and I, in the 1950s, in our small apartment.\nI looked like any baby, but my mother was gorgeous. My father must have thought so, too, the way he took those pictures of her.\nMy father had an eye for beauty. When you look at pictures, you see not only the subject of those pictures, but it gives you a view of the person who took the pictures as well. My father took beautiful pictures of snow, of sunsets, of flowers, of a fruit stand in Manhattan, of the ocean \u2014 well, my mother in her bathing suit at the ocean. He must have been madly in love with her.\nI saw myself, mostly with a far-off look \u2014 what was I thinking of? I saw myself playing dress-up at home, in school plays, sitting on Santa\u2019s lap. I saw the old kitchen sink with my mother and her friends cleaning up after a party.\nI saw my great-grandmother holding my little sister, a baby. I saw my little brother as a baby. I saw myself as I once was, my family as we once were.\nI stopped looking at the slides somewhere in the early 1960s. I will go back to them and look at the rest \u2014 a little afraid to see my teenage years, though.\nI saw my little sister and I standing in the driveway of our old house, dressed up, posing for my father\u2019s picture. I was the older one. I was supposed to be her teacher, her protector, but I moved away, of no more use to her than an occasional phone call or twice-yearly visit.\nThis is a chasm I would like to bridge now, if it\u2019s not too late. I\u2019m so sorry, Carol, for not being there for you. I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t know where the external hard drive was, but I found it and today I took a look at our past. Thank you for preserving it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://notazerosumgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/lazy-post-childless-by-choice.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SKJKQC25ZWXZM63E5DYVNN3VMDRDTYBV", "length": 4396, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "notazerosumgame.blogspot.com", "title": "It's Not A Zero Sum Game: Lazy post: Childless by Choice", "raw_content": "Christa Terry July 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM\n\"I think it\u2019s fairly neutral.\"\nThat's why I have never understood what all the fuss is about on the part of people who are aghast to hear that someone doesn't want kiddies (or get married, for that matter). Why shouldn't it be treated just like anything else? I wanted kids, other people don't. I want a piano and to learn to play, other people don't, etc. Why is it so surprising to some people that not everyone wants the same things? I would think that people who have kids choosing to have fewer of them might have more of an impact on society than people choosing not to have them at all unless things changed quite a bit. I imagine there have always been people who didn't want children - unfortunately, in many places and times including now in a great deal of the world, women didn't have the choice.\nWith regard to how having kids changes people, in my own experience, having a kid has both been and not been an excuse to consume.\nWe have one car (the same we had before a kid) and what many people (especially in the States) would consider an itty-bitty house*. No dining room? No second bathroom? No craft/play/entertainment/family/etc. room?! Gasp! Tedd sometimes talks about putting in more bathrooms or some other thing, and my answer is why bother? My house was built in the 50s, and somehow people lived and raised kids in it without adding more showers.\nOn the other hand, I do have stroller-mania, but for me it's about grownup toys. Some people have bike mania or stereo mania or computer mania. Strollers, for me, are less a thing for baby, and more a thing for me, since she's just the one sitting in it while I'm the one using it and I wanted to have one that can still be used in the dead of Boston winters on our shitty sidewalks since I walk much more than I drive. Having a semi-fancy stroller means that I get do what I like to do, which is walk everywhere in ridiculous weather. That said, if I'd had to pay for it myself, I'd be pushing a $15 drugstore umbrella stroller and staying in from roughly December 1 to May 1. My baby has survived just fine with Freecycled toys and handmedown clothes, just like we have ;-)\nUh, not going anywhere in particular with this - just adding my own thoughts/experiences.\n*In 2008, the average square footage of homes in the U.S. topped out at 2,629, and has dropped since but not by much. Our house is about 1,000 square feet and not all of it is usable at this time. People always assume we'll upgrade if we have more kids (especially my MIL who once said \"You can't use all your rooms? Then just buy a bigger house!\"), but I like my house.\nThat's a very good interview. I find that I have two circles of friends, those who have children/are trying to or plan to...and those who may or may not want children but the subject has never come up and it doesn't seem like a priority in their life at the moment. I think I've only ever asked anyone once if they were planning to have kids, and it was someone I was very close to who I knew had never liked kids and was simply curious what her current stance was. And I have noticed that the majority of the people I am friends with that I interact with irl are actually people who don't currently have children and I have no idea if they even want children but it doesn't seem to be something of a priority. Does that make sense? I don't question their choices, and rarely even think about the presence or non-presence of children aside from wanting to socialize my son. When Chris and I want to socialize, we just call everyone and see who shows up.\norit Weksler July 28, 2010 at 10:49 PM\nAn interesting interview indeed. I think you're totally right about the consumption part of it- it is a kind of \"upgrade\", and it's so cynical... at least here in the US. In Israel I think it's different- I think adults there are almost considered disabled if they don't have kids: useless and weird. I am very much pro-choice and that includes the choice to have or not have children, the flip side is that having children in one's life is a wonderful thing in many ways- it's surprising and challenging, it gives strength and a sense of purpose- not always, but a lot of times. If it were my choice, I would choose for you to have kids because your kids would have the opportunity of growing up with a smart and witty mother and most kids don't get that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 13576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=148255788", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:31Z", "digest": "sha1:BR6CXDKQMWA44SNFUTWXPQA3362DBZRH", "length": 868, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "obits.syracuse.com", "title": "Glenn Weed Obituary - Syracuse, NY | Syracuse Post Standard", "raw_content": "More Obituaries for Glenn Weed\nGlenn E. \"Woody\" Weed Sr.\nGlenn E. \"Woody\" Weed Sr. January 29, 2011 Glenn E. Weed Sr., of Palermo, passed away at home Saturday, January 29, 2011. Glenn served in the Navy as a radio man. He worked as a carpenter and a heavy equipment operator. In his retirement, he enjoyed computers. He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Helen Weed; a son, Glenn E. Weed Jr.; his mother, Dorothy Weed; his brother, Brian Weed; two older sisters, Carol Knoph and Sandra Dean; a niece he thought of as his daughter, Melissa Weed; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Hollis L. Weed I, and his daughter, Winnie Weed. Per his wishes, there will be no services or calling hours. Please visit www.traubfh.com for online guest book. 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(Image courtesy of Annis Whitlow.)\nThis course features a full set of notes from the class discussions as well as a complete list of recommended readings for the course.\nThis course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. 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After a military coup leaves the Royal Family stranded in Hawaii, they must find a way to reunite with each other and return home before their way of life is destroyed forever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 211.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://omst.sib.illinois.edu/apply/graduation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:U7M3V6QFTPJUAP3VKVLCRHKLNMUW5FOM", "length": 1426, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "omst.sib.illinois.edu", "title": "Graduation Requirements | Online Master of Science Teaching Biology Program | University of Illinois", "raw_content": "The OMST program takes approximately 2 years to complete, assuming students participate full-time. Part-time participation is also an option. (Please contact Peggy Day for details about part-time enrollment.)\nGraduation requirements include a minimum of 32 credit hours of coursework, including the completion of the Capstone Project.\nIn the OMST program, the Capstone Project is in two portions:\nPart I of the course focuses on the design of an action research project (capstone project), which integrates pedagogical and science content ideas addressed in the program courses. The project amounts to an empirical investigation of a student-generated research question around issues focused on science teaching and learning. Students are expected to collect data for their project, preferably in their own classrooms, in the period between Parts I and II of the course.\nPart II focuses the analysis, interpretation, and discussion of the data collected, and the implications of the findings for classroom practice. These capstone courses will be taken simultaneously with science courses if you follow a typical program.\nPart-time attendance for credit\nContact Peggy Day and tell her which courses that you'd like to take. 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The escape room games are not all about fun and entertainment but rather have as well been used by many businesses for the sake of team building and as well doing away with the communication barriers that often mark organizations. Team building initiatives are mainly geared to encourage employees and prepare them to address business issues and problems collectively and have them solved effectively. The following are some of the escape the room games that happen to be quite entertaining and at the same time highly instructional and educating as well.\nOne of the highly interesting escape room games is hungry zombie. Here is a brief of the game-your team will be locked up in a room with a hungry zombie that is as well tied with a chain. In a span of every five minutes, you will see the zombie released by a foot and draws ever closer to catching you. 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The members will as well have to keep their team members informed of the clues they find so as to help the entire team use them to get to solve the puzzles, unlock the secrets of the hidden key to get to escape the room as you can read more here.\nAs it can be seen from this typical escape the room game, it is a fact that the games indeed do breed effective communication skills between the employees, who are the players in the game as they will be encouraged to work together so as to achieve a desired goal at the end of the game. 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A newspaper had reported on Friday that some Afenifere chieftains, led by Senator Ayo Fasanmi, endorsed Buhari at a gathering in Ibadan on Thursday. Others\u2026\nMiyetti Allah \u2013 Atiku Will Divide Nigeria If He Becomes President\nThe National Coordinator of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria in Benue State, Alhaji Garus Gololo, on Thursday took a swipe at the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, stating that if elected, he (Atiku) would create division in the country. Gololao was reacting to a statement by Atiku campaign media organisation. One\u2026\nBudget Presentation: What Buhari Shoud Have Done After Being Booed By Lawmakers \u2013 Atiku\nThe Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign following the scenario that played out during the 2019 budget presentation to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Atiku said in saner climes, the expected outcome of the event, would have been\u2026\nAPC Blasts \u2018Unruly\u2019 PDP Lawmakers, After Booing Presidency, Blames Saraki and Dogara\nThe All Progressives Congress (APC) says the \u201cfailure\u201d of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, to rein in on \u201cunruly\u201d Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers is an indication that they planned to embarrass President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the cable, Buhari was booed by some lawmakers when he\u2026\nNigerian Army Intercepts Two Female Suspected To Be Suicide Bombers, In Borno\nThe Nigeria Army via the troops of the \u2018Operation Lafiya Dole\u2019 has arrested a female suicide bomber and her accomplice at Mushimari village in Konduga LG area of Borno State. The information which was revealed via the official twitter post of the Army, said the suspected bombers were arrested on Wednesday Night around 9:30pm while\u2026\nNational Assembly: Hold Police, DSS Responsible If Muhammadu Buhari Can\u2019t Present Budget\nThe management and leadership of the National Assembly have explained why they invited the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services to secure the complex. The leadership is led by President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, while the management is led by Clerk to the National\u2026\n2019: Drama As Political Parties Backing Atiku To Defeat Buhari Rise To 55\nThe plan by the opposition to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 received a major boost on Monday as nine more political parties joined the existing 46 parties in the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP. According to Daily post the event which was held at the Shehu Musa Yaradua Centre in Abuja saw the signing\u2026\nOAU Sex For Mark Lecturer, Prof. Akindele Sentenced To Two Years In Prison\nA former lecturer in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, who was dragged to court for demanding sex to pass one of his students, Monica Osagie, on Monday was sentenced to two years in prison. Akindele had earlier changed his plea from \u2018not guilty\u2019 to \u2018guilty. The prosecutor, Mr. Shogunle Adenekan said\u2026\n2019: Resign If You Can\u2019t Fix Economy \u2013 Atiku Tells Buhari\nThe presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for admitting on Friday that the nation\u2019s economy was in bad shape. Buhari reportedly made the confession during his meeting with the 36 governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. In a statement by his Special\u2026\n2019: Please Don\u2019t Participate In The Presidential Debate, APC Begs Buhari\nThe All Progressives Congress, APC, in the United Kingdom has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to attend the debate organised for candidates vying for the highest office in the land in 2019. The party made the appeal yesterday in a post by its leader, Ade Omole, on the party\u2019s verified Twitter handle. The tweet reads:\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 6970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://opinionated-is-my-middle-name.blogspot.com/2018/01/since-ive-been-gone.html?showComment=1515875046679", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:02Z", "digest": "sha1:F3AB4EJDYT2VKS3M2W3LQ2OPMQXRBEUM", "length": 914, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "opinionated-is-my-middle-name.blogspot.com", "title": "Since I've Been Gone", "raw_content": "A lot has happened since the last time I did a post on this. I graduated college, shared a Me Too story, let my dog go on her journey to the Rainbow Bridge, and started an internship. I will post about all of those things in due time, but for now, I give you this short update.\nIf anybody still reads this ratty thing, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm going to up my blogging game. I will have hopefully changed the URL, my ID tag, and the overall theme. This will remain my personal blog, but I'm also going to introduce to you a brand new blog that will contain my design work, most of which will have been from classes. It will sort of act as an online portfolio, but I won't have to pay for extra space once running out of room if I were to use an actual portfolio site (which I do have). But now I can share what I've created with strangers, which is a good way to get exposure.\nLabels: busy life me", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 6706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://optionsway.com/top-binary-options-broker-reviews/topoption/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OA5XKB5HX6FDROZLO5BCBH5KKBMXSW7O", "length": 4415, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "optionsway.com", "title": "TopOption Review - Read Full Broker Review", "raw_content": "Binary Options are the useful and versatile investment plan for those who want to earn a great profit in a very short period of time. It is very easy and simple to understand. Traders just have to decide whether a given asset will go up or down in a set time. You can make high returns in an hour or less. As Binary Options Trading is becoming more and more popular in the world, there is always a need of effective and reliable trading platforms that would help traders garner good amount of profit within a very little time. It is also true that binary trading is associated with high level of risks and uncertainties but it is possible for traders to curtail the risks and uncertainties with the help of a proper trading platform. This is where TopOption gains more importance. It is a user friendly platform which is able to cater to the needs of global clients and yield some of the best profits in the sector.\nTopOption Basic Information\nTopOption is one of the most favorite trading platforms in the market at present. TopOption is regulated by the Cyprus Security Exchange Commission or the CySEC and so traders can be rest assured about the safety of their investment. It was founded in the 2012 and is headquartered in Cyprus. Though it is relatively new in the binary trading business, it has already been able to make a foothold in this sector.\nTopOption offers one of the most extensive asset lists in the market for traders to choose from. Where other brokers may offer 65 to 80 asset choices, TopOption has expanded the figure to 180 types of assets. Some of them in the list includes, 10 commodities, 18 currency pairs, 27 indices and 72 stocks. Hence, traders can easily choose from the list, an underlying asset according to their preference and requirement. However, they need to make a careful choice because different assets behave differently under the same market condition and hence yield different levels of profit.\nThis platform offers high level of profit and it is perfect for those who want to have some quick profits within a very little time. The average payout at TopOption is higher than the market standard. 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Different types of trades require different approaches and so it is better for traders to take the help of professional experts in making the selection of a best suitable trade according to your requirement.\nTopOption offers a comprehensive customer support service in eleven different languages that include Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, French and English. Hence a large number of people from all over the world can trade through this platform. Traders can contact the trading experts via Phone, E-mail and even Live Chat. The main advantage of Live Chat is that traders can directly contact the experts or some real time suggestions on their trade. It is obvious that there is a large number of people who think that without proper guidance, it is not possible to succeed in binary trading. That is why customer care service is available 24 hours a week. Traders can get proper knowledge and experience from the experts of this platform.\nE-mail, Live Chat, Phone\nArabic, English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish\nUp to $1250 First Deposit Bonus\nMastercard, Moneybookers, Neteller, VISA, Wire Transfer\n60 Seconds Options, Binary Options, One Touch Options, Option Builder, Pro Options\nStocks, Commodities, Currency Pairs, Indices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oru.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1095668", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:45Z", "digest": "sha1:YR6ONM64PU3SJMILTIC7SKGGEW4RIOJQ", "length": 620, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "oru.diva-portal.org", "title": "We strongly support childhood immunisation-statement from the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP)", "raw_content": "We strongly support childhood immunisation-statement from the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP)\n\u00d6rebro University, School of Medical Sciences. \u00d6rebro University Hospital. Department Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Paediatrics, \u00d6rebro University Hospital, \u00d6rebro, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1024-5602\n2017 (English)In: European Journal of Pediatrics, ISSN 0340-6199, E-ISSN 1432-1076, Vol. 176, no 5, p. 679-680Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nSpringer, 2017. Vol. 176, no 5, p. 679-680\nEuropean Academy of Paediatrics, Immunisations, Vaccination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 176.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://outofthebox-international.org/projects/european-project-freedom-of-media-and-accession-talks-speak-up-serbia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HCVBBQ7E77T46QJXECTQR32DZXYE2W4A", "length": 710, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "outofthebox-international.org", "title": "European Project/Freedom of Media and Accession talks: Speak up, Serbia! | Out of the Box International", "raw_content": "The project and Accession talks: Speak up, Serbia!\u201d was a public hearing which took place in Belgium in April 2014 and looked into the underlying challenges facing media freedom in Serbia. Freedom of media is essential if the reform effort is to deliver results in Serbia, which started accession talks with the EU only in January 2014. The hearing kicked off an intense debate in Serbia on the state of media freedoms, which prompted the authorities to pledge that the legislative framework regulating media sector will be adopted by the end of the year.\nThe partners on this project which falls into the priority category Educated Europe were ALDE group from European Parliament, Out of the Box International", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paganpathwaygathering.tripod.com/id3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:25Z", "digest": "sha1:R3P4EYFWBG7EHOF5KAPVXHSUGG7W37HS", "length": 1359, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "paganpathwaygathering.tripod.com", "title": "WHAT THE PENTACLE MEANS?", "raw_content": "Here we are going to give a basic history of the Pentacle...what it stands for and different ways people use it in their beliefs.\nThe Pentacle is simply a pentagram with a circle around it. This symbolizes eternity, totality, and unity. It emphasizes the interconnectivity of all of the elements. The direct and indirect relation of one element to the other.\nThe Pentacle has been a symbol of protection and spiritual growth for centuries/millenia. At the points are the stages of Life: birth,initiation,consummation,repose, and death, with the circle bring us back to birth through the cycle of reincarnation.\nThe Pentacle is often worn as jewelry for protection,wisdom and empowerment. It is also used on the altar during rituals or for spell work, as a way to connect us with the 5 elements.\nCLOSER LOOK AT THE PENTACLE ITSELF\nEach of the points on the Pentacle represent 1 of the 5 elements of nature.\nPENTACLE WITH ELEMENT SYMBOLS\nWHAT EACH ELEMENT/ POINT STANDS FOR\nWATER: (upper right hand corner) represents emotions and intuition.\nAIR: (upper left hand corner) represents intelligence and the arts.\nSPIRIT: (at the topmost point) represents the All and the Divine.\nTHE CIRCLE around the star symbolizes unity and wholeness. It represents the quest for Divine Knowledge\nA GOOD SONG ABOUT THE PENTACLE AT ....\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyoPfkUa5s8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://partyofwe.org/technology/2012/03/is-icanns-next-move-back-to-the-future/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FRKWKCIT6FTPBR7E2OHCJBLEZQDTYU4N", "length": 7207, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "partyofwe.org", "title": "Party of WeIs ICANN's Next Move Back to the Future? \u00bb Party of We", "raw_content": "March 6, 2012 Articles, Business, Economics, Europe, ICANN, Justice, North America, Politics, Security, Technology\nI hate to say I told you so. But I told you so.\nInternet behemoths behave more like sovereign nations every day. And the next be take the form of a Declaration of Independence from ICANN.\nIn the past six months, the caretaker of the DNS has been under attack by a host of the stakeholders it professes to protect. It has made shambles of the concept of consensus and bottom up governance. If one needs any proof of that, there is simply no way ICANN can plausibly claim it has consensus for its impending plans to introduce hundreds of new top level domains (TLDs) when virtually every constituency has objected to the plan, with the exception of a few (many of whom make money selling domain names). Objections have come from Brands. NGO\u2019s. IGO\u2019s. Law Enforcement. The U.S. Congress and the European Union. Editorials from leading publications and blogs have condemned it. And as Jon Leibowitz put it (Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, the primary consumer protection regulator in the United States), allowing the plan to go forward would be \u201cdisastrous\u201d for consumers. Consumers \u2013 as in you and me. For a compendium of many of those objecting and what they\u2019ve said, click here.\nWithout doubt, the biggest losers in ICANN\u2019s plans are you and me. According to experts, we will be victims at the hands of more criminals plying their trade on the Web. More phishing. More privacy breaches. More cyberscams. More places for predators to hide. And if you want to start your own e-businesses, domain name sellers will offer you countless unneeded second level domain names, relying on your fears that your website address might be compromised by another buyer intent on stealing your ideas and business. Just witness how the domain name sellers upsell you now. Buy a second level domain name (SLD) in .com for $25 and instantly you\u2019re upsold to buy the same SLD in fifteen or so other TLDs, increasing your costs without any return. Imagine that game when there are hundreds new TLDs.\nSo what is ICANN thinking of doing to respond to all this pressure? No one can be sure. But a 2007 paper entitled the \u201cFinal President\u2019s Strategy Committee Report\u201d may well portend the future, with the Committee\u2019s suggestion to restructure ICANN into a private international organization. Presently, ICANN is a California not-for-profit corporation. Take close note that the Committee is not suggesting this configuration for ICANN be formed via treaty or be an inter-governmental organization. Rather, the proposal it that ICANN be a private international organization. Just like the International Olympic Committee (more on that later). What the ICANN Committee plan translates into is a global governing body accountable to no one. No oversight. And lest I be accused of being close minded, even that might be fine if one believed the resulting entity would at least be accountable to its stakeholders. But that is certainly not evident in the way ICANN is handling the new TLD plan any more than it was when it authorized .xxx and sanctioned the land rush by domain name sellers to cash in on tens of thousands of buyers (who had nothing to do with the adult industry) fearful of protecting their reputations. Indeed, the domain name sellers made no effort to hide the fact that they were selling on fears more than anything else. So if we judge ICANN by the footprints it has left rather than the promises it keeps making and breaking, letting ICANN take the next step to total autonomy as a private international organization is tantamount to putting control of global communications in the hands of sixteen people accountable to no one. Or maybe I\u2019m simply na\u00efve and mistaken in thinking that the sixteen people on ICANN\u2019s Board don\u2019t have my interests at heart.\nCommenting on the Committee Report, reporter Terri Wells asked and answered in April 2007, \u201cWhat exactly is being proposed here? It\u2019s nothing short of putting ICANN out of the reach of U.S. law.\u201d Why is that important? Because it would mean suing ICANN would be virtually impossible. The last bastion of possible oversight \u2013 the judicial system \u2013 would be trumped. In the Internet game of chess, that\u2019s the last move ICANN needs to checkmate.\nIn addition, one should not miss the Committee\u2019s suggestion that the IANA function be changed and, for all intent and purposes, wrestled from the U.S. Department of Commerce and its operating division, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. And trying to keep an open mind, perhaps that\u2019s not a bad idea to some as well. But the suggestion that one option would be to jettison the DOC and substitute a third party auditor under contract and control of ICANN speaks volumes of ICANN\u2019s real end game \u2013 total control of the root server functions and total self-governance. In my book, that\u2019s a sovereign nation.\nBurke Hansen, a reporter for the Register, analogized this possible change a one modeled on the International Olympic Committee, an example of a private international organization and one, as Hansen writes, is \u201cfamous for its opaqueness and arrogant lack of accountability\u201d and like ICANN, \u201cThe IOC, too, is engaged in commerce, which is marketing the Olympics and extorting stadium facilities out of local communities.\u201d In the case of ICANN, the local communities are you and I and the stadiums are SLDs.\nWill ICANN\u2019s Board resurrect this idea of private sovereignty and the Committee\u2019s recommendations? Time will tell, but if I were a Monday morning quarterback, I sure bet they wished they\u2019d done so before their June 2011 vote to open up the DNS and the resulting host of hurt from virtually everyone ICANN claims to represent. It is prophetic that Terri Wells observed in 2007 that, \u201cIn the wake of several actions that have garnered very bad press and left the organization feeling beleaguered and bullied, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is looking for a way out.\u201d Makes you think 2012 is d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again, doesn\u2019t it?\nIn all fairness, the Committee did repeat all those important words like, \u201coperational excellence\u201d, \u201ccredibility and trust with all stakeholders\u201d, \u201cstability\u201d, \u201cbest practices\u201d, \u201cclear accountability\u201d, etc., etc. If you graded the paper on key words, it\u2019s a clear \u201cA\u201d. Maybe that\u2019s the problem; ICANN has devolved into a key work addict, unable to see through the trees. As one colleague of mine put it, \u201c\u2026strangle dissent and reasonable inquiry with process and procedure\u2026\u201d I can think of no better description of ICANN\u2019s committee functions. If you doubt that, just attend one of its international webinars like the March 1st ICANN Policy Update Briefing. Regardless, we\u2019ve heard all those words and promises before \u2013 over and over again \u2013 so if you grade the 2007 report on substance and the history ICANN has woven, I\u2019m afraid it deserves no better than an \u201cF\u201d or, to be charitable, an \u201cIncomplete.\u201d Unfortunately, more recent history has shown us that ICANN is, at best, an habitual offender. Let\u2019s hope the 2007 recommendations stay in the morass of ICANN\u2019s committees where they belong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pasuth.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EEWIG3ETUTCTKQUS4BNFSZPBU67GZNW6", "length": 858, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pasuth.com", "title": "Pasuth Thothaveesansuk \u2013 Trading the City of Angels for Mr Jefferson's University", "raw_content": "Pasuth Thothaveesansuk\nTrading the City of Angels for Mr Jefferson's University\nI\u2019m an undergraduate at the University of Virginia\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences majoring in History and Statistics. I\u2019m an aspiring humanist with a passion for storytelling, which I\u2019m told is also a liberal arts placeholder to say I\u2019m still figuring out what I want to do.\nI have an interest in modern history, specifically life under socialism as well as its fall. As my other major suggests, I also do some math in my quantitative side, especially appreciating the beauty of data. In my free time, I enjoy literature and debate, follow soccer and other sports, as well as do occasional graphic design.\nI was born and raised in Bangkok (Krungthep, meaning \u201cCity of Angels\u201d) and have lived there for my whole life before crossing the Pacific to Charlottesville VA for college.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paulding.com/forum/topic/322814-misty-michelle-gianopoulos-december-2-1965-april-23-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3ELR2L6LDRGLU2KLMRQNLFUATCKCW6JZ", "length": 1424, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "paulding.com", "title": "Misty Michelle Gianopoulos - December 2, 1965 - April 23, 2018 - May they rest in Peace - Paulding.com", "raw_content": "Misty Michelle Gianopoulos - December 2, 1965 - April 23, 2018\nStarted by Clark Funeral Home , Apr 24 2018 11:44 AM\nMisty Michelle Gianopoulos, age 52, of Moreland, GA, passed away on April 23, 2018. She was born on December 2, 1965, in Austell, GA, to the late Emmett C. & Annette Proctor, and was preceded in death by her sister, Dorothy Hamby. Ms. Gianopoulos retired from Cobb County School System as a bus driver where she worked for over 20 years and was a member of Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, in Marietta, GA.\nSurvivors include children, Mathew & Fatima Gianopoulos of Dallas, GA, Bobby & Misty Presley of Hiram, GA, and Nikole Gianopoulos of Moreland, GA; sisters, Kathy & John Tidmore of Austell, GA, and Linda & Carlos Smith of Austell, GA; grandchildren, Dylan Presley, Josh Presley, Madison Presley, John Presley, Jace Presley and Andre Gianopoulos; several nieces and nephews.\nFuneral services will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at 10 AM, from Clark Funeral Home, with Pastor Jerry Favor officiating. A second service will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at 12 PM, from Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Marietta, GA, with Father Panagiotis officiating. Interment will follow in Mozley Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, from 5 PM until 9 PM.\nClark Funeral Home in Hiram, GA, is in charge of arrangements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pcij.org/blog/2008/07/28/despite-sona-claims-reforms-in-education-low-slow-uneven", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:32Z", "digest": "sha1:S6VLKJWY4ZCFLT5AJF4T6VLCGH7VLOWQ", "length": 5832, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "pcij.org", "title": "SONA belies true state of education \u00ab The PCIJ Blog", "raw_content": "SONA belies true state of education\n\u201cA MIRROR of denials,\u201d was how a sociologist described the eighth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today.\nIn her hour-long speech, Arroyo made no mention of her accomplishments in the basic education sector, apart from a perfunctory line saying that elementary and high school education is free.\nRead Arroyo\u2019s speech.\nBut the 112-page 2008 SONA Technical Report of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) enumerated an impressive list of what Arroyo has supposedly achieved in the education sector, including those that date as far back as 2001.\nThe PMS figures, however, mock the real situation in the Philippine education sector.\nIn fact, in its mid-decade assessment of the Education For All (EFA) in 2007, the Department of Education (DepEd) itself admitted that based on basic education trends, \u201cthe progress has been slow and uneven and that the key targets will most likely be missed.\u201d\nAs a result, the goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015 has now become \u201cthe most threatened goal among the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),\u201d according to Social Watch Philippines.\nThe PMS report claims that Arroyo has achieved so much: attained a 1:1 textbook to pupil ratio on the major subjects, \u201cbuilt 82,933 new classrooms since 2001,\u201d and granted \u201ccomputer access to 4,769 public high schools nationwide\u2026or 100% of total high schools in the country, 29% of which have internet access.\u201d\nThese claims could not paper over the fact that performance indicators in the education sector remain low.\nFor instance, participation rates are slipping and about 11.6 million school-age children are not in school. The net enrollment ratio has dropped. Also, nine million out-of-school youth and adults continue to wallow in illiteracy.\nSurvival rates are down as well. Out of every 10 Grade 1 pupils, only six finish elementary school, and only four of the six finish high school. Dropout rates have reached record levels in both elementary and secondary schools.\nAnd while National Achievement Test (NAT) scores have generally improved from 2003 to 2007, these scores still fall below the passing grade of 75 percent.\nThe PMS Technical Report for Arroyo\u2019s 2008 SONA asserts that the administration has \u201cenhanced access to quality education\u201d with the construction of 82,933 new classrooms over the last seven years, or beyond the yearly target of 6,000 new classrooms\nThe report states that the classroom backlog as of June 2008 stands at 12,418 classrooms.\nAccording to PMS, the Arroyo administration has \u201cattained and sustained\u201d a 1:1 textbook to pupil ratio in Sibika/HeKaSi for Grades 1 to 6 students; Araling Panlipunan, Years 1 to 2, and English, for Grades 1 to 6 and Years 1 to 4 \u201csince 2002, even with the increasing annual rates of enrollment.\u201d\nToo, it says that the government had \u201ccreated a total of 53,026 new teacher positions/items from 2002 to 2007 to address the annual enrollment increase in public schools.\u201d\nYet it is another government agency, the Commission on Audit, that has cast doubt on the integrity of these claims, particularly the assertion that 100 percent of high schools have access to computers.\nCOA reports in recent years have noted that the Computerization Program and the \u201cPCs (Personal Computers) for Schools\u201d project of the government have similarly failed in many respects.In 2007, information technology and multimedia equipment worth at least P667 million were distributed in schools across 13 regions of the country. The COA\u2019s finding: the equipment were not used for classroom instructions, in part because some were defective.\nAt least 25 units of IT equipment worth P957,609 sent to Ifugao province, and 25 sets of computers worth P845,702 dispatched to Apayao province were listed by COA as not functional and not utilized due to lack of funds for repair.\nIn Batangas province, 18 computer units were defective and for lack of funds, could not be repaired, too. In Lipa City, 90 computers distributed to 15 national high schools remained idle; the school officials were unable to install the necessary programs.\nIn addition, the COA determined that at least P441.74 million worth of IT packages funded with Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), have not been used for classroom instructions for various reasons. These were found to be either defective, \u201cunnecessarily stored, some of which were still in unopened boxes for six years,\u201d or had been used instead for administrative purposes. In Region IX, the COA said the lack of effective IT training for teachers and students rendered the equipment useless.\nIn its 2007 report on the Millennium Development Goals, Social Watch Philippines said mismanagement and misplaced priorities of the government have led to inefficiency and decline in the state of the education in the country.\nDespite all claims of progress by the PMS and Arroyo\u2019s SONA, the Philippines today remains among the lowest performers in Asia in the education sector.\nIn its 2007 Global Monitoring Report, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ranked the Philippines 75th out of 125 countries in its compliance with the \u201cEducation for All\u201d Development Index. 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Graduated from Film Department at Zurich University of the Arts, since 2011 student of the Cinematography Department at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. The films he shot were shown at various international film festivals including Berlinale, Camerimage, Palm Springs. 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It felt amazingly good to just hang out with other moms and kids, interruptions and nursing and craziness and everything\u2026 it just zapped me with this feeling of comfort and solidarity that I think I need to make a point to seek out on a more regular basis. I\u2019m just really liking my life these days. I like who I\u2019m becoming. I love my baby and everything she\u2019s teaching me about myself and the world. I love feeling at home in myself. I wouldn\u2019t give this up for the world. Not for a full night\u2019s sleep or the ability to travel, not for anything. Obviously, right? I mean, I\u2019m always swooning on here, but I guess some people around me don\u2019t seem to see that about my situation. And on to the drama\u2026\nOne of my friends has been talking about how she\u2019s upset about our relationship. She\u2019s resentful about the fact that things have changed between us. She\u2019s right, things have changed. I suppose I just have become less sensitive to it, is all. There was a time not too long ago when I would\u2019ve felt like a bit of a failure if a relationship started to wain in the way that this one has. However, it\u2019s just become increasingly clear that we are on very different paths, and that it\u2019s just ok. We love each other, it\u2019s not a bad thing in my opinion. We still hang out (although we are both really busy and so it just doesn\u2019t happen as often as it used to) and we still have fun when we do. That being said, she has made it apparent that she loves me no matter what, but that she really does think this whole baby thing was just a bit premature. She\u2019s the one that says things like \"I think you should come over, it\u2019ll be fun for you!\" and \"Oh, you should really get out- it\u2019d be so good for you to let loose!\" Trust me, I know she means well, but her perception of my life couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. She has said on more than one occasion that she\u2019s just not built to be a stay-at-home-mom, and if/when she has children then her partner will definitely be the one at home, and on and on. It\u2019s just become clear that my choices are NOT the ones that she\u2019ll be making, and it\u2019s just been weird to have those conversations with her. That, and she seems to think I have no life or something, which I don\u2019t know where she gets that from. Anyway, her motives are not in question, they are good, it\u2019s just that she really doesn\u2019t get me right now.\nThis is okay. I feel like I\u2019ve been awarded a sense of freedom about things like this. We both haven\u2019t called as much as we used to. I could think \"She must not care about me like she used to.\" OR I could think \"She\u2019s in school and we have conflicting schedules, it\u2019ll happen when it happens, it\u2019s not personal.\" I find that I tend to go with the latter. This is very good for me. I know it\u2019s not personal. I know she loves and respects me and so on. I would hope she knows the same of me. What bothers me is that she assumes this has to do with a lack of respect on my part, and frankly I\u2019m just busy and have other things on my mind. I also don\u2019t think it\u2019s all that respectful to tell a room full of people about it and not confront the issue with me. The only reason I know about all this is through a third party. Which sucks.\nIt\u2019s just a strange position to be in. You see, nothing has happened. It\u2019s what hasn\u2019t that seems to be the issue here. So she decided to do all this headwork about my motives and started to think about it without actually talking to me, and she\u2019s now in this resentful angry place when all along I thought we\u2019d just been busy. That, coupled with the fact that she seems to not really respect where I am in my life right now (although I would never say that to her and for the most part just try not to worry about it) just makes me feel kind of ick about the whole situation. I do think we were drifting for various reasons, but it\u2019s not like forcing ourselves together is going to be good for either of us.\nI also struggle with being really insensitive about stuff like this. I know this is a legitimate issue for her. I think, however, it\u2019s kind of insane to start causing problems all over the fact that our relationship has changed since I had a baby. I mean, yeah, of course it has. Things are different now. So\u2026 adapt. You know? I mean, I can\u2019t really explain the profundity of my circumstance to her. I just sort of hope that she cuts me some slack if I\u2019m a flake sometimes or if I don\u2019t always think to call or what have you. The least productive thing to do is to slowly get angry and then resent me. I\u2019m a dedicated friend, just one with full hands. That\u2019s something she also seems to doubt. When my other friend came to my aid and said I was really busy, she apparently thought that was silly. It\u2019s just that those things she says are borderline insulting. She assumes I\u2019m not busy, although she doesn\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be home with a kiddo, let alone two. Does she think I sit around and nurse all day? Alright, there\u2019s a little of that, but seriously. She assumes I don\u2019t get out or have fun, but I DO. A lot. And guess what? I\u2019m really really HAPPY. I don\u2019t need rescuing or a night out to party. I don\u2019t want to \"party\". I would still have to come home to my responsibility as a momma, one that I am determined not to resent- so it becomes hard to shake comments like that. They aren\u2019t supportive or uplifting or encouraging. Again, motives are not in question here. I\u2019m just not someone to pity or save.\nI don\u2019t know. I just don\u2019t have the mental or emotional energy for this kind of drama anymore. I really want good solid adult relationships that help me grow. I don\u2019t appreciate being talked about, and I just need minimal nonsense when it comes to friends. \"Cut me some slack, it\u2019s not personal, I love you.\" That\u2019s what I feel like saying. Maybe I will. I think I\u2019m a good friend. I\u2019m not without my flaws, and I\u2019ll do my best to right my wrongs. That being said, if someone doesn\u2019t tell me that something bothers them, then I can\u2019t very well remedy it. I\u2019m really just in need of some honesty and compassion. God I hope this blows over quickly.\nI love my friends. With the exception of this one, the transition from pre to post baby has been fluid and beautiful. I feel like there was an adjustment, but it really happened in a nice way. Especially with my friend Katy. She just sort of allowed for me to change and she\u2019s really been so uplifting. We also just hang out when we can and enjoy each other. I think that\u2019s part of it. I have several friends on very different paths, but we somehow come back together and just are happy for one another. It\u2019s so nice to have had her as a friend since we were 15, so much has changed, and yet I feel really solid in the friendship despite its very different appearance now. We connect where we can, listen and learn, support and empathize. It\u2019s a good deal.\nAnyway, on to the fun stuff.\nI organized and labeled all my herbs. It was incredibly satisfying.\nAlways the dog bowl. Is it the shine? The water? The forbidden nature? Why!?!\nThis day was hard for me. Little John was particularly fussy, I got touched-out really early, and I was on a short fuse. I just got to this point where I felt kind of lost. It was over before I knew it, but I had to call my sister and leave him in the crib for a few minutes so I could pull myself together. I felt like the worst person. Later that day, it was all better, and I think now it was mostly my attitude that left me feeling so hopeless. His mom came and got him and when she was leaving she said \"Can I just say\u2026 I\u2019m so grateful for your help. John really seems happy here and he doesn\u2019t even cry when I put him in the car in the morning. It\u2019s like he knows he\u2019s coming here. We are just so happy that he can come here.\" In that moment I felt honored to watch their kid and it made it all worth it. I know how valuable it would be to me to know that my baby is in loving hands. I think I will probably have some hard days, but this is good work, and I\u2019m blessed to be able to do it. I really like John, he\u2019s so sweet, and I know I will get better at juggling the two. Plus, it makes the quiet moments with Vera that much more precious.\nLunch. It\u2019s a sort of a Moroccan stew. I guess the only reason I say that is because I put cumin and paprika in it. I should\u2019ve added couscous. But yeah, it was yummy.\nBonus BABY!:\nOk, it works really well to plop a mobile baby in a basket when you\u2019re trying to do stuff and need them to stay in one spot. Besides, how much longer will I be able to do this?\nAt my parent\u2019s house Vera got herself wedged inbetween two sections of the couch. My silly. \ud83d\ude42\n\"Life is an adventure in forgiveness.\" -Norman Cousins\nbrigittefires October 15, 2008 at 3:22 am\nYou are special and your baby is gorgeous and you\u2019re lovely and just generally spectacular.\nAlso, I was getting a little worried about you, since you didn\u2019t seem to have posted in a little while. Not like \u201cOMG I hope she\u2019s ok and maybe I should try and go over and see if everything is OK\u201d or anything, but it was definitely a \u201chuh, grace hasn\u2019t posted in a while. I hope everything\u2019s OK. I\u2019ll give it a few more days before I poke her and see.\u201d\nBut I\u2019m glad things are good and that you\u2019re happy about where your path is taking you right now. I REALLY wish I could hang out with you, and it makes me sad that I don\u2019t, but yeah, I don\u2019t take it personally either. We\u2019re busy people, I tell ya! I\u2019m really looking forward to when I\u2019m a little less crazy and can make plans with you without being afraid of having to cancel on you (either because I\u2019ve forgotten something or something comes up that I have to do).\nBut I\u2019m really glad to be friends with you again, and reading your posts always brightens up my day. So thank you for the small amount of contact I get with you, and for allowing me glimpses into your life.\nYou are so sweet, lady! What nice things to say. I\u2019ve really enjoyed reading yours, as well. We should hang out, for sure. Whenever you are free and I\u2019m free, and yeah. It\u2019ll happen soon. *huggles* right back at ya. \ud83d\ude42\nThe bunny claps for you and Vera.\nAhhhhhhh! Vera!!!!!! The cuteness will kill me. *dies*\nYou\u2019re awesome, I love you. Good luck with the friend drama. You know I\u2019m always happy to if you need an ear. \ud83d\ude42\nunicorntapestry October 15, 2008 at 11:02 am\nThat last sentence made no sense! Take 2: You know I\u2019m always happy to listen if you need an ear.\nUm, it made perfect sense to me. I\u2019m always happy to if you need an ear as well. Happy to\u2026 you know\u2026 I\u2019m happy to!\nAlso, I saw that you called yesterday, and DARN IT ALL I MISSED IT. Next Tuesday. I super duper love you.\nYou know, it\u2019s not too late to rethink this whole \u2018baby\u2019 thing.\nThere are so many postpartum \u2018shake \u2018n toss\u2019 options out there.\nYou can always make another baby when it\u2019s more convenient for your friends. You shouldn\u2019t ignore that fact.\nThis is my reply. I\u2019m replying to this comment that you made on my journal. Reply reply reply. The end.\nYou got me, what can I say?\npoppleshatesyou October 15, 2008 at 8:09 am\nIt\u2019s really too bad your friend can\u2019t seem to adapt, or grasp the fact that you feel your life has changed for the positive, which is apparently opposite of how they feel?..about..your..life\u2026?? makes less and less sense to me. People either change together or don\u2019t and if i were in your place i would probably just do my best to confront them about it. Stating i don\u2019t appreciate getting information third hand and how am i ever supposed to know how you feel if you don\u2019t talk to me about it?\nI think you should say \u201cCut me some slack, it\u2019s not personal, I love you.\u201d Maybe throw the \u201ci love you\u201d in there first, and just gently explain how you feel. Explain how you do think your life is fun, even when it is stressful, and how your lives are inexplainable different, so her judgment of what is fun or satisfying is obviously very different then yours. Self worth is important and i\u2019d hate to see a friend make you feel like you have have very little. Because you obviously have lots of self worth and know and understand many more things about yourself then it sounds like your friend is giving you credit for. If that made any sense at all?? I just really think it is unfair of your friend to expect you not to have changed! You created life and brought it into this world! because that is what you wanted to do! Just because they could not change (or would not want to change) in the same way as you doesn\u2019t mean your friendship means less or has to change completely. It just has to change some, because that is a part of life! People grow and evolve in all sorts of mysterious ways, it\u2019d be a shame for your friend to throw away your friendship because they can\u2019t adapt to your life altering events. I think if it were my friend i would want to kick them for being so closed minded and self centered. Anyhoo, love love love the pictures of vera!! the one of you and her is particularly cute!!\nYes! This is really exactly how I feel, so I\u2019m glad that I was able to explain it well. I think that I should start with the I love you, and yeah. Thanks for this comment! \ud83d\ude42\nfirst \u2013 vera is just too adorable, her sweet smile just kills me! i also love her face with the tipped over dog bowl, like, \u201cwhat mom it wasnt me!\u201d.\nas for your friend, well she will just have to adapt and if she can\u2019t then she\u2019s not really being a friend. As your friend even if she can\u2019t understand how or why you could be happy and content she should be happy that you ARE happy and content.\nalot of happy in there, hope it made sense. \ud83d\ude42\nwill you have john on halloween? Jonah will be in the office.\nThanks, you. Yeah, I keep telling myself that I can\u2019t control her and make her get it. But I\u2019m happy happy happy. \ud83d\ude42\nI\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll have him, but probably. So far it\u2019s always been Fridays that I watch him. Regardless, I\u2019m getting a craving for Seva.\nif you don\u2019t have John and are in the mood to come downtown OR if you do have john and are feeling adventurous, come on in to the office next friday. Alot of kids will be in the office from 3-5 for candy load up. 12-1 is pizza lunch, we could steal some and hole up in hillary and court\u2019s office. Options abound!\nand yay for thursday!!!!!!\npithy_epigrams October 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm\nI kind of understand what you\u2019re feeling. When I decided I didn\u2019t want to go out and party and drink people kept acting like I was being forced to make those decisions. I prefer my life the way it is now, I like calmness and being around the people closest to me. If I lived in MI we could have a nice calm get-together with tea and babies. It would be great.\nIsn\u2019t that funny? I remember my sister and I were talking about how uncomfortable parties are in the first place- a bunch of people that barely know each other, pushed together into a fairly small space, only to sit around and listen to music together. I mean, I\u2019m all for gatherings, but most parties I\u2019ve been to are not comfortable for people without the addition of alcohol. I\u2019m not judging, but it\u2019s just not my style these days. It\u2019s just funny that people act like we\u2019re crazy for not wanting that, when in some ways I feel like it\u2019s the other way around. Definitely tea and good conversation is what I\u2019m about. So sad you don\u2019t live here!\n\u201cShe assumes I don\u2019t get out or have fun, but I DO. A lot. And guess what? I\u2019m really really HAPPY. I don\u2019t need rescuing or a night out to party. I don\u2019t want to \u201cparty\u201d.\u201d I know exactly what you mean\u2026\nI hope the friend situation works out okay, I know what you mean though, my friends live for clubbing and drinking and I\u2019d rather just have a night in and chill out.\nI love all of the pictures, the herbs made me happy \ud83d\ude42 Vera\u2019s growing up so fast isn\u2019t she, she\u2019s getting more and more beautiful \u2665\nYeah, you used to go out on the town all the time! It does seem like you enjoy just quiet night with Ant better. It might just be my perception, but you seem a lot happier these days too. \ud83d\ude42 Do you find that it\u2019s hard to get your friends to do other things?\nThanks for the nice comment- you\u2019re so sweet!\nI am so much happier these days, more so than I have ever been, those nights out clubbing or down the pub didn\u2019t make me happy; the people were skin deep and it just didn\u2019t do anything for me.\nI find it impossible to get my friends out of the pub, I have however seen who my real friends are though, the ones that wouldn\u2019t mind a walk or a cup of tea the ones I can talk to without alcohol; I do love a good drink still, just not in those horrible atmospheres. It feels like my friends think I\u2019m weird sometimes because I don\u2019t like going out drinking every night. They don\u2019t see how happy I am though, they wont accept it as they don\u2019t like Ant (they think I don\u2019t go out because of him)\u2026\nMy this is a long comment lol, I\u2019ll stop now. xx\nThis is where I think I got the impression you are happier- you sound so self-assured! Why wouldn\u2019t they like him? He seems so sweet and he certainly makes you happy.\nAlso, I don\u2019t mind long comments- have you ever read my journal?\nrobinbronwen October 18, 2008 at 4:56 am\nYou know, I don\u2019t even have kids and my idea of an exciting evening is a relaxing night at home watching a movie. I don\u2019t see anything wrong with people our age just hanging out \u201clow key\u201d kids or no kids. I think that some friends think that there has to constantly be an event to go to. Of course we all go out, I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary all the time. If I lived over there I would come to your house babyless and be perfectly happy to visit with you and Vera. That would be all I would need! I hope to get over there soon and bring Nate too. \ud83d\ude42\nTotally. I hope you can come soon! \ud83d\ude42\nHey! Hope everything is going okay with you \ud83d\ude42\nIt\u2019s a little sad that this friend of yours isn\u2019t talking directly to you about her feelings and concerns. If only some people understood that things change and even though your social life might not be so crazy anymore, you are still happy!\nI guess Steven is in a situation that\u2019s kinda similar \u2013 he used to be a party animal, he would go out all weekend long and he was pretty popular. But when he started seeing me and we got serious, he preferred spending most of his time with me and not them \u2013 and now they think he\u2019s boring and they don\u2019t really want to know him when he\u2019s just being more like a normal person. I\u2019m sure they think I make him stay in\u2026 we go for a couple of drinks about twice a week though, that\u2019s what we enjoy doing. He hasn\u2019t given up all of the drugs, but he has calmed down a lot. And since he stopped going out with all those people, he\u2019s discovered that only one or two of them are his real friends who will just spend time with him in normal everyday life. They are the only ones who are important to him now! I think maybe you can relate to that? \ud83d\ude42\nOh, and that black and white picture of you and baby is beautiful.\nI can totally relate to that, on both ends actually. Jeff and I had a hibernation period that was totally natural, but some guys would just blame it on me even though Jeff could do whatever he wanted- I guess it\u2019s just what they do. I have several other friends that get blamed for that kind of thing too. But yeah, I used to think I had lots of friends, and so did Jeff, but once your life goes in a different direction there are some people that stay and some that don\u2019t. It\u2019s a good thing, I think, but it can be hard to figure it all out at first. 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Meeting will be held in the Round Room on the ground floor of the Legion.\nIn addition to the AGM, also taking place that day:\n\u2022 2018 Season Registration\n\u2022 Dock Launch (we will require a few strong volunteers install the dock for the season)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://potiphar.jongarvey.co.uk/2014/09/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UWVEAFRJ3PJO3EQFAKYJIAPKF2NXE5KT", "length": 705, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "potiphar.jongarvey.co.uk", "title": "09 | September | 2014 | The Hump of the Camel", "raw_content": "This is a guest post by J. Richard Middleton, in response to issues raised by Jon Garvey in a post called Middleton on the empty temple. A native of Jamaica, Richard is currently Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary, in Rochester, NY, USA. Trained in both philosophy and Old Testament studies, his writing and research have focused on the biblical worldview, creation theology, Hebrew narratives, lament literature, and eschatology. His most recent book A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology will be published by Baker Academic in November. I\u2019m delighted to respond Jon\u2019s post, which reflects on a previous post of mine where I \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://powerofpeaceproject.com/alumnus-spotlight-john-christopher-kit-cummings-bba-89/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DBKSLAC4LB7ENHYTJQQ5MILI2X37INYY", "length": 3990, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "powerofpeaceproject.com", "title": "Alumnus Spotlight: John Christopher \u201cKit\u201d Cummings (BBA \u201989) | The Power of Peace Project", "raw_content": "Assistant Director of Communications Jamie Lewis (AB \u201912, AB \u201912) recently interviewed alumnus Kit Cummings about his career and time at UGA. Kit is an international author, speaker and human rights and peace activist. After a lengthy career in ministry, Kit began working as a motivational speaker and was invited to speak inside a maximum security prison. This event was the catalyst for what Kit calls the \u201cPower of Peace Program.\u201d Kit recently published Peace Behind the Wire, which raises funds for that program.\nTell me a little bit about your background. What pushed you to attend UGA and what did you study?\nI have been in the Atlanta area for my entire life and never plan to relocate. I\u2019ve traveled the world for work, but every time I get off the plane in Atlanta, I am happy to be home. My father played basketball at UGA in the 1950s and I was raised a Bulldog\u2014I always planned to go to school in Athens. I graduated from Walton High School in 1982, played soccer at Georgia Southern University in 1982-1983 and transferred to UGA in 1984. I graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from the Terry College of Business.\nWhat was the inspiration for your book and what do you hope to accomplish with it?\nI have been a public speaker for 25 years, and in the last 10 years or so, I began to get more involved in corporate motivational training. I was invited into a prison environment and that changed my life forever. I began to work with individuals who had made some of the worst choices and were experiencing some of the most drastic consequences. My mind change principles worked powerfully among this population and led to the creation of my organization, the Power of Peace Project, Inc. My new book, Peace Behind the Wire, tells the fascinating story of how 12 convicts in a dangerous maximum security prison, in the midst of a gang war, unknowingly started a peace movement that is now spreading to schools and prisons across the country. I intend to use this model, and the curriculum that was created from it, to spread peace throughout schools and communities around the world. I figure if it can work in the most dangerous places, which it has, then it can interrupt and redirect our at-risk youth, too.\nWhat is next for you? Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years?\nI continue to go where I\u2019m invited and that has taken me on speaking tours around the country and even overseas into prisons in South Africa, Honduras, Ukraine and Mexico. At the end of this year, I will be going to India to plant seeds for the Power of Peace Project. I have connected with both the Gandhi and Mandela Foundations abroad, as well as the King Center here. Going forward, I see my organization and its volunteers working with states and foreign governments to create peace and help heal our wounded world. My dreams are BIG and the future is bright.\nHow did your time at UGA lead you to where you are now and did you have any particularly inspiring courses or professors?\nI had the time of my life at UGA. Athens was a place I never wanted to leave! The nightlife, the music scene, the culture of a small town combined with a large thriving university probably did more to shape me than I realize. I lived right downtown at University Towers and experienced all that college life had to offer. I have always been able to relate well to different cultures, and ethnic/socioeconomic backgrounds and I believe my time at UGA only helped to strengthen that\u2014which has had a huge impact on my work. I loved my marketing courses and professors and believe that I have carried what I learned there into many areas of my calling.\nWhat is your fondest memory of UGA?\nMy fondest memory was when the Bulldogs beat the No.1 ranked Florida Gators in Jacksonville 24-3 in 1985. We rushed the field and attempted (unsuccessfully) to tear down the goal posts. My friends and I were photographed coming over the fence and put on the front page of the Jacksonville Times! Classic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pravinproperties.com.sg/edge-property-14-december-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FTOIC6KDCKXIA2DF6Q6YEO5SPBHJ4NBN", "length": 3801, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pravinproperties.com.sg", "title": "Edge Property \u2013 14 December 2018 | Pravin Properties", "raw_content": "Home /News updates/Local News/Edge Property \u2013 14 December 2018\nOverseas buyers snapping up units at new luxury condos\nDecember is seasonally a quiet month for the property market, as many local buyers hold off on purchases because of holiday travels or to wait for fresh pickings in the coming year, say property agents. This year, however, buying momentum among foreign buyers, particularly the Chinese, has seen a \u201cstrong pickup\u201d in the past few weeks, says Bruce Lye, managing partner of SRI.\nThis level of interest among Chinese and other overseas buyers is likely to continue through the rest of December, and many seem to be focusing their attention on two recently launched luxury projects, says Dominic Lee, head of the luxury team at PropNex Realty. \u201cOverall this month, interest has been particularly keen in South Beach Residences and New Futura,\u201d he says.\nTwo units at South Beach Residences were sold during the week of Nov 27 to Dec 4. The larger, 2,616 sq ft, four-bedroom unit on the 38th floor fetched $9.66 million ($3,694 psf). The other, a two-bedroom unit of 1,496 sq ft on the 36th floor, was sold for $4.99 million ($3,335 psf). Launched in September, the 190-unit South Beach Residences is the residential component of the integrated South Beach development on Beach Road.\nMeanwhile, a three-bedroom unit at New Futura on Leonie Hill Road was sold for $7 million ($3,829 psf) on Nov 30. The 1,830 sq ft unit is on the 31st floor in the second of the two towers at New Futura. The 124-unit development is the first luxury condominium to be launched this year, and had its preview in January. According to caveats, 36 units (58%) in the second tower have already been sold and 62 units (97%) in the first tower were sold by the end of May. At least five more units at New Futura have been sold in the past two weeks, says Lee. So far, prices at the freehold condo have ranged from $3.86 million ($3,519 psf) for a 1,098 sq ft, two-bedroom unit, to $36.28 million ($4,630 psf) for a 7,836 sq ft penthouse unit.\nAlso in the new luxury condo segment, three units at 3 Cuscaden on Cuscaden Walk, off Orchard Boulevard, were sold during the week in review. The luxury condo was launched for sale on Nov 3. One of the units sold was a three-bedroom unit on the 22nd floor, which fetched $4.63 million ($3,648 psf). The others were a 764 sq ft, two-bedroom unit and a 452 sq ft, one-bedroom unit, sold for $2.59 million ($3,385 psf) and $1.55 million ($3,417 psf) respectively.\nBut buyers have also turned their gaze towards older developments in the prime areas. A unit at the branded residence on Cuscaden Road, St Regis Residences Singapore, changed hands during the week. The 2,153 sq ft, four-bedroom unit on the 17th floor was sold for $5.68 million ($2,636 psf) on Nov 29. One reason branded residences are still drawing in buyers is that their current psf price could be relatively more attractive, especially compared with the prices of some recently launched developments in the prime central areas, says SRI\u2019s Lye. \u201cGenerally, about $2,500 psf for a freehold home in the Orchard Road area is attractive,\u201d he adds.\nThe most expensive condo unit sold during the week was at Bishopsgate Residences, located near Grange Road, which also saw two other units sold in the same period. A 6,641 sq ft four-bedroom unit on the ground floor fetched the highest price, $24 million ($3,614 psf), on Nov 30. A four-bedroom unit of 3,907 sq ft changed hands for $13.19 million ($3,375 psf), while a 2,583 sq ft three-bedroom unit was sold for $8.2 million ($3,174 psf). 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He has also performed play-by-play and analyst duties for the NCAA Division III football and basketball playoffs.\nPrior to 2008, he spent five years as the play-by-play man for WSAJ-FM's coverage of high school football. He also joined WPIC and WLLF for their coverage of playoff football.\nDuring the rest of the week, Professor Briggs is the award-winning sports information director at Grove City College. He is in his 16th year at Grove City. Previously, he worked as sports editor at Grove City-based Allied News. He has also been a sports writer for The (Sharon) Herald.\nProfessor Briggs recently completed his 20th season as the \"Voice of Grove City College Basketball,\" serving as play-by-play man for the Wolverine men and women on WSAJ-FM 91.1.\nOverall, Professor Briggs has been covering Mercer County-area athletics since 1994.\nHe is also president and webmaster of the Shenango Valley Modified Softball League.\nProfessor Briggs is available for audio work such as commercials, public service announcements and voiceovers. He is also available for speaking engagements to schools, classes and other organizations.\nThe opinions expressed on this web site do not reflect those of\nGrove City College, Cumulus Broadcasting, or their respective advertisers.\n*This site is not affiliated with any Mercer County media outlet.*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pronghornproductions.com/Crane%20Video%20Footage.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PP34IN2IJP53U4CIOHSZC5O7E7LUQBRO", "length": 2845, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pronghornproductions.com", "title": "Crane Stock Video Footage", "raw_content": "Click the image above to see a screener of crane stock video footage. Clips can be viewed and purchased at HDNatureFootage.net or view here in Quicktime format.\nFilming Crane Stock Video Footage\nCranes, and especially the sandhill crane, have a fairly wide distribution and can be found in many refuges, wetlands, and swamps in the southern United States during the winter. During the summer most of the birds breed far to the north in the Arctic; however, lesser number of birds breed in Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountains, and the northern Great Lakes states. However, there is by far a single spot that is synonymous with cranes and provides an unparelled filming opportunity. That place is the Platte River in Nebraska, and especially the portion between the towns of Grand Island and North Platte. Hundreds of thousands of cranes gather here during March and early April on their way to the northern breeding grounds. Along the Platte they fatten up on waste grain, grubs, and other food before continuing on their journey. At night they roost on the sandbars and flats of the Platte River. For a special filming and viewing opportunity contact the Rowe Sanctuary near Kearney. They have large blinds right next to the river. There's a small fee and you'll need reservations, but its worth it!\nFilming cranes does present a couple of challenges, which are common to filming most grassland wildlife. The Great Plains, including Nebraska are notoriously windy, testing even the best tripods. Also, the wide open spaces creates a lot of heat and other atmospheric noise. Getting close is better, but as always, use good ethics. Filming from an established blind such as those at the Rowe Sanctuary is a good way to get relatively close without impacting the birds.\nCrane Video\nPronghorn Productions now sells its crane stock video footage at:\nFew things stir visions of a primeval world more than the sound of a flock of cranes. During migration season the flocks can be heard for many miles, even when they are barely visible high up in the sky. But their warbling song, much like that of the robin, is one of the harbingers of spring.\nIn addition to being known for their ancient call, cranes are also known for their spectacular migrations. In North America a half a million sandhill cranes migrate through the Great Plains, spending several weeks in Nebraska to fatten up before continuing their journal. Sandhill crane populations are healthy enough that several states even have hunting seasons for the birds.\nUnfortunately, cranes are also known for another reason. The whooping crane is one of the most endangered species in the world. In spite of millions of dollars being spent, their status is still critical with only a couple of hundred birds in the wild. 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One of the principal problems to determine is whether the glacier is experiencing a period of expansion or contraction. The best way to accomplish this is to make detailed observations and careful measurements, supplemented by a series of photographs. However, if circumstances make it impossible to do this, very valuable data can still be recorded by simply taking a series of photographs showing, (a) the condition of the ice surface, (b) the marginal areas, and (c) the exact position of the terminus with respect to certain nearby well-defined landmarks. The photographs are of greater significance if the exact points from which they are taken are marked and described, so that more may be taken from the same positions in future years. Such photographs, although requiring little time or effort, are likely to prove of great value in the study of the glaciers of that particular district, as well as the broader aspects of existing glaciation throughout the continent or even the world. It is hoped, therefore, that mountaineers will keep this in mind when planning a visit to regions where glaciers occur, and before undertaking such a trip, will familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of glacial research.\nFor general information on the subject, or suggestions with regard to the study of glaciers in United States territory, it would be advisable to communicate with Dr. Francois E. Matthes, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., chairman of the Committee on Glaciers of the American Geophysical Union. If any studies of glaciers in Canadian territory is contemplated, one should communicate with Mr. A. O. Wheeler, chairman of the Glacial Section, Alpine Club of Canada, Banff, in order that any new observations may be made in accordance with the systematic study now being undertaken by that group.\nThe observations and photographs obtained should be correlated and then made available to all students of the problem.\nTo this end, it is suggested that all data be sent to Dr. Matthes so that the material may he properly filed and published in the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union as well as by the \u201cCommission des Glaciers\u201d in Europe. Material on glaciers of Canada should be sent to Mr. Wheeler.\nIt is anticipated that the American Alpine Journal will publish brief notes on the glacier studies made from year to year in the United States and Alaska, with special emphasis on the work done by members of the American Alpine Club. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: September 16, 2008 ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $99,086.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Jeffrey A. Larson, a single person MORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Recorded on October 3, 2008 and memo\u001eri\u001ealized upon Certificate of Title No. 1307124 as Document Number 4534810 in the Office of the County Registrar of Titles of Hennepin County, Minnesota. ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: None. LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROP\u001eERTY: Lot 4, Block 4, \"Robert`s Second Addition to Minneapolis\", Hennepin County, Minnesota. REGISTERED PROPERTY STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 3844 CHICAGO AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55407-2613 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Hennepin County, Minnesota. THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $83,312.01 TRANSACTION AGENT: None NAME OF MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. RESIDENTIAL SERVICER: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. TAX PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11-028-24-22-0158 TRANSACTION AGENT'S MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: None THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt then remaining secured by such mortgage, or any part thereof, or, if the action or proceeding has been instituted, that the same has been discontinued, or that an execution upon the judgment rendered therein has been returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part. PURSUANT, to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 2, 2018 at 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SALE: Hennepin County Sher\u001eiff's Office, Room 30, Old Courthouse, 350 South Fifth St., Minne\u001eapolis, Minnesota. to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actually paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and disbursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemp\u001etion by said mortgagor(s), their personal represent\u001eatives or assigns is twelve (12) months from the date of sale. TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP\u001eERTY: Unless said mortgage is rein\u001estated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemption is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on April 2, 2019. THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PERSONAL REPRE\u001eSENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORT\u001eGAGE: None Dated: February 8, 2018 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Mortgagee THE ACADEMY LAW GROUP, P.A. By: /s/ Rebecca F. Schiller, Esq. N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq. Samuel R. Coleman, Esq. *Corbin C. Smith, Esq.* Attorneys for Mortgagee The Academy Professional Building 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102 (651) 209-9760 16-1384-FC01 THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. 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The blame lies squarely on T-Pain and the auto-tune craze. Leery fans like myself can listen to the album in its entirety for free on Yeezy's Myspace page. 808s & HEARTBREAK drops tomorrow, November 24.\n\"because i realized i got\nthat's all i got in the end\"\nSlim Offers Up Some 'Good Lovin'\nSlim's video for his second single featuring Ryan Leslie and Fabolous, 'Good Lovin', has hit the net. Unfortunately, 112 is no longer a group. Slim's solo debut, Love's Crazy, hit stores on Tuesday. The song and video fit the formula for your typical run of the mill commercial R&B. Needless to say, I'm no big fan of the song or video. On the other hand, you might enjoy it. Watch the clip and let us what you think.\nLabels: Fabolous, Ryan Leslie, Slim\nCommon Unveils Website & Blog\nCommon has ventured into new territory, the Chi-Town MC has launched his own website and blog at ThinkCommon.com. A big step for a man who has never been a big fan of the internet. Common joins a laundry list of rappers and soulsters with a blog. Partner in rhyme and fellow blogger and Chi-Town native Kayne West may have been the motivating force. The appealing site has great potential, it includes a blog, tour information, press archives, music videos, and movie trailers. Check it out.\nLabels: Common\nYes, today's Soul Tracks selection comes from a rapper. Can rap music be considered soul music? It sure can. Some define soul music as the output of music from the 60's and 70's. Soul music is not only Aretha and Donny or Stax and Motown. Soul music is Jay-Z, The Clark Sisters, Cassandra Wilson, Talib Kweli, John Mayer, Teena Marie, Shirley Caesar, and Kanye West. Soul music is jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, and rock. Soul music is 'forever music.' Common breaks it down for us \"music can be forever if you make it from the heart, if you make it from the soul and it\u2019s good. And I look at the music of like Bob Marley or Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder or A Tribe Called Quest, that's forever music. And I\u2019m continuing on the quest to make forever music.\" Common's 'So Far To Go' is definitely forever music. The track is significant for two reasons, one, it was produced by J Dilla, who passed away in 2006, and two, it features missing in action soul brother D'Angelo, who, let's keep our fingers crossed, is working on a new album. The track borrows the love making theme from the composition it samples, The Isley Brothers' 'Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love).' Common isn't your average rapper. Common is a grown ass man who has lived a lifetime of experiences. It is the 'grown ass man' within Common that allows him to rhyme about sexual intercourse without being brash, raunchy, or explicit. The mind stimulating lyrics in 'So Far To Go' are thought provoking, intelligent, and sensual. It takes a few listens before you realize Common is actually rhyming about sex. Common is deep like that. Peep the poetry in motion \"let me live inside you...what your mouth don\u2019t say...baby your thighs do...I want us to arrive together...I love it when the weather...is wet and sticky.\"\nLabels: 'So Far To Go', Common, D'Angelo, Finding Forever\nLadies, Watch Out For 'T.O.N.Y'\nSolange Knowles has been garnering a fair amount of buzz with her Motown and classic soul inspired album, Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams. The black and white video for her latest single 'T.O.N.Y' a/k/a \"The Other Night Y???\" is available for your viewing pleasure. A ultra swanky New York City block serves as the backdrop for Ms. Knowles melodrama. The video opens with Solange strutting down the block on her way home singing her disdain for 'T.O.N.Y.' Once she arrives at her humble abode, she takes a pregnancy test. The results leave her unborn child's father in a state of shock and confusion. All in all, the video is a great compliment to an interesting song.\nLabels: Solange\nSeal Misses The Mark With Latest Vid\nSeal is definitely worthy of borrowing James Brown's moniker, 'The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.' The British singer has just released his fourth video for his album Soul, a tribute to soul music. The latest video is for his lackluster cover of Ann Peebles 1973 signature tune 'I Can't Stand The Rain.' The video doesn't fare much better, it's difficult to distinguish it from his previous video. Once again, Seal is shifting around a dark, decrepit room singing his heart out. The presence of Seal's band proves to be the sole difference. It may be time for Seal to slow down and get creative.\nLabels: 'I Can't Stand The Rain', Ann Peebles, Seal\nWhat Singers Top Your Greatest List?\nAs you may know, Rolling Stone magazined has complied a list of the '100 Greatest Singers' of the rock era. The iconic magazine dedicated to music recruited a gang of singers, editors, producers and music-industry insiders, which included Clive Davis, Alicia Keys, Etta James, B.B King & Mavis Staples - to name a few, to compile the list of 100 Greatest Singers. Aretha Franklin came out on top. Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder and James Brown all pulled in enough votes to occupy space in the Top 10. The complete list can be viewed here. The message boards over at Rolling Stone are full of dissatisfied critics questioning the mag's picks. Below is a copy of Solomon Burke's handwritten ballot. Burke's ballot included some interesting picks, accommodating the likes of Beyonce, India.Arie, Irma Thomas and Christina Aguilera. Let's assume Rolling Stone sent you a ballot. What singers would top your list? No need to undertake the tedious task of listing 20 singers, drop your top 10 picks in the comments section.\nLabels: Aretha Franklin, Greatest Singers, Rolling Stone magazine\nGym Class Heroes & Estelle 'Guilty As Charged'\nMuch like Q-Tip, alternative indie/hip hop band Gym Class Heroes has borrowed a page from the Beatsie Boys. The Beatsie Boys video 'Sabotage' serves as inspiration for the groups latest video for 'Guilty As Charged,' along with karate and blaxploitation flicks from the 70's. Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy takes on the role of the fictitious Lucius Black and guest vocalist Estelle portrays fictional character Foxy Nefertiti in the action packed video. Check it out.\nLabels: Estelle, Gym Class Heroes\nThe Making & Magic Of Motown\nThe latest issue of Vanity Fair celebrates the legacy of Motown Records. The famed label is the showpiece of the mag's annual music issue. Writer Lisa Robinson explores the history of the revolutionary label through the words of Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Smokie Robinson, Suzanne de Passe and other members of the Motown family. The legends of Motown discuss everything from the rumors and scandals to the Dreamgirls controversy to the Jackson 5 to Florence Ballard and Gordy's relationship with Diana Ross. Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz rounded up Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy, Lionel Richie, Martha Reeves, and other Motown alum for a historic portfolio. Lisa's article, 'It Happened In Hitsville, and Leibovitz portfolio, 'The Monarchs Of Motown' are available on Vanity Fair's website.\n{Image Courtesy of Vanity Fair}\nLabels: Berry Gordy, Motown Records, Vanity Fair\n\"in a time of need, I want to thank you for respecting me\nin a time of worry, I want to thank you for calming my troubles\noh, I thank you baby\nthank you honey, for loving a common man like me\"\nLabels: 'Common Man', David Ruffin\nBig Daddy Kane's 20th Anniversary\nIt's been 20 long years since Big Daddy Kane blessed us with his solo debut, Long Live The Kane, a standout album from the golden age of hip hop. Last week the hip hop legend celebrated 20 years in the game at B.B Kings in NYC. Kane took to the legendary stage with a live band and duo of DJ's and performed a memorable set reminiscent of a classic performance at the Palladium. Check out the video clip courtesy of Miss Info.\nLabels: Big Daddy Kane\nQ-Tip's 'Renaissance Rap'\nDays after releasing his first album since 1999's Amplified, Q- Tip has released another video for the masses. Borrowing a page from the Beatsie Boy's video for 'Sabotage,' Q- Tip and director Rick Cordero created a video for 'Renaissance Rap.' New York City serves as the backdrop for Tip's saga, in which he plays a game of cat and mouse with a group of secret agents. While Q-Tip's latest video won't help usher in a period of renaissance in hip-hop videos, it is worth watching. Take a look and let Public Soul Announcement know what you think.\nLabels: 'Renaissance Rap', Q-Tip, The Renaissance\nThicke's 'Sweetest Love' Video\nAfter raising a few eyebrows by claiming VIBE magazine has a strict policy against having white artists on the cover, Robin Thicke has released a video for his latest single 'Sweetest Love,' the perfect compliment to the sexy slow jam. The low definition black and white video alternate between two scenes, the blue eyed soul crooner singing at the piano and the bedroom featuring a scantily clad Jessica White. The ultra sexy bedroom scenes are made to resemble home a made movie. Needless to say, Thicke and his lady end up making the sweetest love.\nLabels: 'Sweetest Love', Robin Thicke, Something Else\n'Don't Ever Wonder' In Atlanta\nAs we all know Maxwell is out on the road doing his thing. The Maxwell Live '08 tour kicked off last month in South Africa and made stops in cities such as Detroit, Oakland, Houston, Boston, and San Diego. Maxwell will wrap things up next week in NY. Tickets are still available for his upcoming shows in Camden, NJ, Baltimore and NYC. If ticket prices are out of reach and you couldn't afford to miss another mortgage payment to see Maxwell's comeback tour, check out the clip below. Maxwell, performing at Atlanta's Civic Center, sings 'Don't Ever Wonder.'\n\"I'm lost without you\nto know that I love ya baby\"\nThe Sacred Soul Of Al Green\nWhile surfing the net, I came across the video below. This is something you need to see. Recorded in July, this video shows Al Green singing 'How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.' 36 years after recording the Bee Gee's song for his 1972 critically-acclaimed album Let's Stay Together, Al Green is still the ambassador of love's pain and pleasure. Somewhere in between the sacred and secular exist the music of Al Green.\nLabels: 'How Can You Mend A Broken Heart', Al Green\nGet Ready For BETJ Awards Show\nBET's sister network BETJ, the place to discover real singers and musicians creating alte rnative soul & mature hip hop, will bring viewers its first ever awards show, The BET J Virtual Awards, slated to premiere on BET J on Tuesday, November 25 at 8:30 p.m. The ceremony, co-hosted by Nia Long, Chris Spencer and Claudia Jordan, will include appearances by Terrance Howard, SWV, En Vogue and Musiq with performances by Chrisette Michelle, The Roots, Robin Thicke, Erykah Badu, and Raheem DeVaughn - to name a few. Categories include Best Underground Artist, Soul Approved, and Live Performer of The Year. Erykah Badu & Alicia Keys lead the pack of nominees that includes Gnarls Barkley, Angie Stone, Jill Scott, Mary Mary, Estelle and others. Check out the BETJ Virtual Awards website to peep the complete list of nominees, watch a few videos and peek at a few flicks.\nLabels: BETJ, BETJ Virtual Awards\nLaBelle Is On Tour\nAfter reuniting to record their first album in 32 years, LaBelle is hitting the road to bring their one of kind brand of funk, rock & soul to a city near you. The tour, LaBelle's first tour since 1977, kicks off next month at New York's famed Apollo Theater and makes stops in cities such as Detroit, Los Angeles, and Chicago - to name a few. The comeback album, Back To Now, the group's first album since 1976's Chamelon, is in stores now and includes production from Lenny Kravitz and Philly soul architects Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.\n19 - New York, NY - Apollo Theater\n10 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre\n17 - Atlantic City, NJ - Taj Mahal\n18 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre\n29 - Los Angeles, CA - Nokia Theatre\n30 - Oakland, CA - Paramount Theatre\n13 - Washington, DC - Constitution Hall\n14 - Atlanta, GA - Civic Center\nLabels: LaBelle\n\"yesterday I saw a B-girl crying\nI walked up and asked what\u2019s wrong, she told me that the radio\u2019s been playing the same song all day long\"\nLabels: Chrisette Michele, The Roots\nDeborah Cox Returns With 'Beautiful U R'\nMusic has seen it's fair share of songs offering encouragement to those with low self-esteem, women in particular. Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful' and TLC's 'Unpretty' are clear examples of such songs. Deborah Cox is the latest singer to join the fold with her empowering anthem 'Beautiful U R.' A song with a simple and straightforward message: we are beautiful regardless of what others may say. The music video is simple and straight forward as well. Women, of all ages and colors are seen throughout the video embracing. A visibly pregnant Deborah Cox can be seen in her undergarments embracing the natural beauty of pregnancy. Deborah's latest release, her first album since departing Arista and taking the independent route, The Promise, is available now. The Canadian singer's fourth studio album includes production from Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and soul singer John Legend.\nLabels: 'Beautiful U R', Deborah Cox\n\"I'm rollin down a lonely highway\nasking God to please forgive me\nfor messing up the blessing he gave to me\"\nLabels: Jagged Edge\nThe Soul of Tarsha Hamilton\nWho knew Anthony Hamilton's wife was a singer? I, for one, had no idea. Come to find out, Anthony's wife, Tarsha McMillian Hamilton, was featured on the track 'Preacher's Daughter' from Anthony's sophomore studio album. To my surprise, the Cleveland native has released an album, The McMillian Story, available at iTunes and www.tarshamhamilton.com. A trio of tracks from the album can be heard on Tarsha's Myspace Page. If you enjoyed the tracks as much as I did and are interested in catching her live set, a list of upcoming dates are posted on her Myspace page as well.\nLabels: Anthony Hamilton, Tarsha McMillian Hamilton, The McMillian Story\nGet On Board The Love Train\nThe Love Train is making it's way to PBS. The Sound Of Philly will be invading PBS stations nationwide Thanksgiving weekend. Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia, a concert special, will feature renowned Philly soul acts The O'Jays, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes,Russell Thompkins and The New Stylistics, Jerry Butler and Bunny Sigler along with the 28-piece TSOP Orchestra. A remarkable box set chronicling the soul of Philly, Love Train:The Sound of Philadelphia, from the label founded by Gamble & Huff, Philadelphia International Records, is available on Amazon. With Thanksgiving weekend two weeks away, enjoy this clip from the concert special.\nLabels: Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, Jerry Butler, PBS, The O' Jays, The Stylistics, TSOP\nThe Latest On Keyshia Cole\nThe artwork for Keyshia Cole's upcoming release, A Different Me, has surfaced on the net. According to her official website, all the songs for the December 16 release were written or co-written by Keyshia with production by Ron Fair, Polow Da Don, the Trackmasters, The Runners, Kwame and Neffu. The album's lead single 'Playa Cardz Right' features a posthumous appearance from Tupac. Rappers Kanye West and Nas are also featured on the album. Atlanta native and fellow songstress Monica joins Keyshia for a duet. With 3 albums and a hit reality show under her belt, Keyshia is venturing into the movie business. The 27 year old Oakland native is developing a movie based her life. Am I the only one who thinks the making of a movie is a bit premature?\nLabels: A Different Me, Keyshia Cole\n\"if tomorrow is a judgment day\nand I'm standing on the front line\nand the Lord ask me what I did with my life\nI will say I spent it with you...\"\nAmazing Aretha\nAfter the release of her seventh studio album for Atlantic Records, Spirit In The Dark, Aretha made an appearance on The Flip Wilson Show in support of the new album. The clip below shows a portion of Aretha's appearance. During this time, Aretha embraced a new look, a more natural look. Gone were the gigantic wigs and eyelashes, Lady Soul was rockin' a fro and a free flowing gown inspired by the dress patterns of Africa. Sitting at the piano with Flip at her side, the two entertainers engage in a little chit chat before Aretha starts singing. The obvious choice of song would have been the #1 hit 'Don't Play That Song' or the #3 hit 'Spirit In The Dark.' But Aretha, in the midst of a brand new love affair, decided to sing one of her original tunes from the Spirit In The Dark album, 'You And Me', a simple love ballad full of ecstasy, warmth, affection, and optimism. Effortless. The sole word that is capable of describing Aretha's performance. No wonder Rolling Stone magazine crowned her the 'Greatest Singer of All Time.'\nLabels: 'You And Me', Aretha Franklin, The Flip Wilson Show\nSeal Sings Otis\nThe music video for Seal's 'I've Been Loving You Too Long' has hit the net. Seal's latest album, Soul, consists of covers of soul classics including this Otis Redding tune. While Seal is no match for the gritty soul of Otis Redding, he is able to do the song justice with a refreshing sound that doesn't stray too far from the original. The video, simple and direct, captures Seal lighting a match and venturing into a dark lonely basement where he sings his heart out.\nLabels: Otis Redding, Seal\nTV One Premieres New Music Series\nFor every major star in the world of black music there are countless other singers who built a loyal black fan base but never achieved cross-over commercial success TV One has unveiled a new series, UnSung, that \"profiles some of the most influential, talented yet forgotten R&B, Soul and Gospel artists of the 1970s, '80s and '90s.\" Season 1 premieres Thanksgiving day and takes a look at the careers and personal lives of Donny Hathaway, DeBarge, The Clark Sisters, and Phyllis Hyman. Check out the preview below.\nLabels: DeBarge, Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, The Clark Sisters, TVOne, UnSung\n\"we've been kickin' it for quite some time\nlots of private parties, where we're wined and dined\ntonight I'm in a different mood, just wanna get close to you\"\nLabels: 'Just Came Here To Chill', The Isley Brothers\nAlbum Cover Hoax\nHere's some good news. The alleged cover of Whitney's upcoming album was a hoax. I, like many others, fell for the okey doke. Who would do such a thing? Could Bobby Brown be the culprit? A rep for Whitney's label cleared the air, \"The allegedly 'new' Whitney Houston album cover circulating throughout the Internet is not a legitimate album cover for Ms. Houston's forthcoming Arista disc. Ms. Houston is still recording and we look forward to unveiling new music along with the official album cover in due time.\" Whitney's comeback album, her first since 2002's Just Whitney, was due to hit stores early fall. No word on an official release date.\nThe Latest On Anthony Hamilton\nWhile Whitney's album cover was a hoax, the artwork for Anthony Hamilton's upcoming album is the real deal. Anthony's third album, The Point of It All, drops December 16. Anthony's 'Playin' It Cool' tour kicked off last week in Chicago. The soul singer has decided to blog about his experience out on the road. The Playin' It Cool Tour blog features exclusive photos and videos. The blog features very few words from its' author but it is worth checking out.\nLabels: 'Playin' It Cool Tour blog, Anthony Hamilton, The Point Of It All\nA. Keys 'Late Show' Performance\nThe object of my affection, songstress Alicia Keys, stopped by the 'Late Show with David Letterman' to perform one of my personal favorites, 'The Thing About Love.' In case you don't know, A. Keys has re-released her last album. As I Am: The Super Edition includes 3 bonus tracks, 'Saviour,' 'Doncha Know (Sky Is Blue),' and her 007 duet with Jack White, 'Another Way To Die.' A bonus DVD is also included in the set and features a live performance in London.\nLabels: Alicia Keys, As I Am: The Super Edition\nAretha Tops Mag's '100 Greatest' Who is the greatest singer of all time? According to Rolling Stone magazine, Aretha Franklin is. The Queen of Soul ranked # 1 in a poll conducted by the iconic magazine dedicated to music. Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding & James Brown pulled in enough votes to occupy space in the Top 10. Rolling Stone recruited a gang of singers, editors, producers and music-industry insiders, which included Clive Davis, Alicia Keys, Etta James, B.B King & Mavis Staples - to name a few, to compile the list of 100 Greatest Singers. Mary J. Blige reflected on Aretha in a testimonial, \"she is the reason why women want to sing.\" The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time issue, which includes four covers, hits newsstands Friday.\nLabels: Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Rolling Stone magazine\nMary J. & Corporate America\nMary's career has skyrocketed with the release of two multi-platinum albums, The Breakthrough & Growing Pains, a slew of awards and accolades, high profile appearances, sold out tours including an outing with Jay-Z, and a multi-million dollar promotional deal with Chevy. The Queen of Hip Hop Soul has now teamed up with financial conglomerate Citibank to help pitch the brand new CitiCard. CitiCard holders are eligible to win an opportunity to take 5 friends to watch MJB record and mix a new album, round trip airfare, hotel accommodations, a spa day, autographed merchandise, and $5,000 spending money. MJB Fans can check out stories.citicards.com to play games with Mary's lyrics and watch behind the scenes interviews.\nLabels: Citibank, CitiCard, Mary J.Blige\n\"my sunshine has come\nand I'm all cried out\nand there's no more rain in this cloud\"\nLabels: 'No More Rain (In This Cloud)', Angie Stone\nWill.I.Am Declares 'It's A New Day'\nSupport for President-Elect Barack Obama has come from all corners of the globe and all arenas, from Hollywood to sports to music. The latest wave of support comes from Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am, who recorded the track 'Yes We Can' earlier this year. In the wake of Obama's historic election, Will.I.Am created a follow-up to 'Yes We Can,' 'It's A New Day.' The video features cameos from noteworthy Obama supporters and footage from Obama's big moment in Chicago. While 'It's A New Day' captures a historic moment in our nation's history, we can not allow ourselves to live in that moment and became complacent. We have to turn that moment into a movement. A movement for CHANGE. A portion of Dr. King's dream manifested itself in the election of Obama. It is now up to us to make sure the rest of his dream becomes a reality.\nLabels: 'It's A New Day', Barack Obama, will.i.am\nA Celebration of Soul\nIn the wake of releasing The Way I See It, an album that pays homage to the sounds of Stax, Motown, Chicago and Philly, Rahpael Saadiq and his band took a trip to BlackVoices.com for a soul infused jam session. Saadiq & crew perform 'Big Easy, 'Just One Kiss,' 'Oh Girl,' & 'Love That Girl,' and an amazing tribute to Shalamar. Raphael Saadiq also sits down for a Q&A session. Check out the video here.\nLabels: AOL Black Voices, Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It\n\"I remember when I walked out.\nI remember when I said I hated you.\nbut somehow deep inside I'm still loving you.\nso sad and lonely...\"\nLabels: 'I Remember', Keyshia Cole\nPlease tell me Bobby Brown is responsible for this cruel joke. Then again, Whitney' has recently collaborated with Akon, so this isn't too hard to fathom. I came across the cover of Whitney Houston's comeback album at Crunk + Disorderly. Has Whitney lost her mind? I can't imagine Clive Davis giving his seal of approval for this foolishness. Why is Whitney dressed up like a super hero with a horrible weave? Hopefully, the historic election of Barack Obama as President will inspire Whitney to make a CHANGE.\nLabels: Undefeated, Whitney Houston\nPlies Is The 'Future' According To VIBE\nWhile others have dismissed VIBE as a mere shadow of it's former self I still love the magazine dedicated to urban culture. I took a peek at the cover of the upcoming issue and my side eye reared it's ugly head. I was shocked to discover that VIBE has declared Plies the 'future of rap.' If Piles is the 'future of rap,' T-Pain must be the 'future of rhythm & blues.' It seems like frequent late night bust it baby action has gotten to VIBE's head. Has Plies released a critically acclaimed debut album? No. Is he at the forefront of a new movement in hip-hop? No. Is he in the process of resurrecting hip-hop? I doubt it. While we all enjoy hearing his commercial, run of the mill music in the club, no one in their right mind would go out and cop a Plies album or consider him to be the 'future of rap.' What criteria has Plies met to be labeled the 'future of rap'? I'm dying to get my hands on this issue and find out.There was a time when rappers such as Jay-Z, Nas, Scarface, or Common could have easily been described as the 'future of rap.' Plies doesn't fit the mold. VIBE has got some explaining to do. Am I wrong? Is Plies the 'future of rap.'? Is VIBE becoming a shadow of it's former self? Speak on it.\nLabels: Plies, VIBE magazine\nIn the aftermath of a historic election, a Jay-Z track titled ' We Made History' has hit the net thanks to Kanye West. The track is a subtle ode to Barack Obama's victory. On the Kanye produced track Jay spits \" Where are you victory? I need you desperately/ Not just for the moment, to make history.\" \"We Made History\" is expected to be on Jay's upcoming project The Blueprint 3.\nLabels: 'We Made History', Barack Obama, Jay-Z, Kanye West\n\"read more learn more change the globe\nghetto children do your thing\nhold your head up little man\nyour a king\nyoung princess when you\nget your wedding ring\nyour man is saying \"She's my queeeen\"\"\nLabels: 'I Can', Nas\nA Change Is On The Horizon\nWhile others said 'no we couldn't,' I knew we could. Yes We Can is now Yes We Did!!! Last night was surreal, I couldn't believe it. This morning as I sat at my computer desk and the gospel song 'Never Would Have Made It' bellowed through the speakers and tears streamed down my face the reality of it all began to sink it. I know the ancestors, especially those who built the White House, are rejoicing. I know Medgar Evans has joined hands with others who bled, suffered, and died to give us the right to vote and are singing that old negro spiritual \"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Roun'.\"\nLabels: Barack Obama, Barack Obama Wins Election, Michelle Obama, The First Family\n\"it's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die\nbut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will...\"\nLabels: \"A Change Is Gonna Come\", Barack Obama, Sam Cooke\nAt the core of Obama's historic campaign is a single word, CHANGE. Obama's run for the nation's highest office has birthed a slew of songs from artists representing a wide range of musical genres. However, hip hop and soul artists are at the front of the Obama movement. But no song embodies the campaign of Obama quite like Sam Cooke's 1963 epic 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' Inspired by Bob Dylan's protest song \"Blowing In The Wind,\" and two life-altering incidents; a conversation with sit-in demonstrators in Durham, North Carolina and the death of his infant son, Cooke composed the highly emotional tune. In the years that followed, \"A Change Is Gonna Come\" became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement. Today's Soul Tracks features Aretha's 1967 reading of the song. Aretha paid homage to her friend and musical icon on her '67 Atlantic debut, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, considered to be one the greatest soul albums of all time. Forty one years after Aretha wrapped her gospel drenched vocals around the landmark song, I found myself anxiously anticipating a change. I know it's been a long, a long time coming but I know a CHANGE gonna come.\nLabels: \"A Change Is Gonna Come\", Aretha Franklin, Barack Obama, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, Sam Cooke\nCelebrating The Legacy of Motown\n'Baby Love,' 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine,' 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),' 'Tracks of My Tears', and 'My Girl' - to name a few, are all hit songs associated with the sound of Motown. A sound that transformed the musical and racial landscape of America. As the famed label reaches 50, it will be the showpiece of Vanity Fair's annual music issue. Writer Lisa Robinson is given an oral history of life at Motown by those who lived it and she uncovers what really happened with Diana, Mary and Flo. Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz rounded up Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy, Lionel Richie, Martha Reeves, and other Motown alum for a historic portfolio. Be on the look out for Vanity Fair's December issue. Speaking of Motown's 50th anniversary, planned commemorative projects include a series of compilation albums and a definitive Motown documentary, years in the making by Gordy Suzanne de Passe. Other plans have yet to be finalized. Duke Fakir of The Four Tops said in a Detroit Free Press article \"nobody has said what's going to happen, they're just preparing the world for something major.\"\nLabels: Berry Gordy, Motown, Smokey Robinson, Vanity Fair\nA few hours ago I voted for Barack Obama. If you have yet to do so please go and make it happen. We are on the verge of making history and it feels so good to be apart of it. Forty three years after African Americans were given the right to vote, I, a young black male and descendant of Southern slaves, was able to cast my vote for a black man. The feeling was overwhelming. I walked away from the polls with a renewed sense of energy and a tremendous amount of pride. It was obvious that many of my neighbors felt the same way. I can feel it in the air. Barack Obama will be our next president. I hope you mark this poignant moment in history with a celebration. We deserve it.\nLabels: Barack Obama, Election Day, Michelle Obama\nLabels: 'The Choice Is Yours', Dres\nBarack The Vote!!!\nTomorrow is the big day. A day many have been waiting for since George Bush was elected to a second term. Countless more Americans have been anticipating Tuesday November 4 since Barack Obama announced his run for the White House. As we reach that big day, numerous polls show Obama ahead of the competition. However,now is not the time to become complacent. We've come too far to slow down and give up. We are on the verge of making history, the kind of history that will change the way the world looks at us. The kind of history that will change the way we look at ourselves. We need to act as if Obama is behind in the polls. He needs every single vote. I know it sounds cliche but every vote counts. Please go vote tomorrow and encourage those around you to do the same. Tomorrow may prove to be the ultimate test, some of us may face a few obstacles getting to the polls and once we get there the lines may be much longer than expected. Make preparations now. Stick it out and exercise your right to vote. Tomorrow is a our day. It's a celebration. Let's make it happen. Let's put Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha in the White House.\nLabels: Barack Obama, Election Day, Vote\n\"brown as the sand, you\u2019re soft as the shore\nyou\u2019re leaving me hungry, I\u2019m crying for more...\"\nLabels: 'Ebony Eyes', Rick James, Smokey Robinson\nCommon Talks Politics & Obama [OP]\nThe Latest On Chrisette Michelle [Brown Sugar]\nCheck Out Lil Wayne's New Video...Ms. Officer [VIBE]\nMJ Won't Be Apart of J5 Reunion [SR]\nLevi Stubbs' Grand Farewell [Detroit Free Press]\nOne Night With Leon Ware [VIBE]\nLabels: Ad Council, father involvement, fatherhood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 443, "original_length": 37451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publix.aisle7.net/publix/us/assets/generic/food-additives/~default", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AF7Y4HWL6XLMJ2Z2C6ZQ4SIRRPROCKZC", "length": 4725, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "publix.aisle7.net", "title": "Healthnotes brought to you by Publix", "raw_content": "A food additive is any substance that a food manufacturer intentionally adds to foods to achieve specific desired effects or characteristics during production or processing. In general, food additives contribute to the shelf life of foods and have made many convenience foods possible. They also maintain the firmness, softness or texture of many foods.\nSome people prefer to avoid food additives, when possible. If this is your preference, you should read labels carefully and select more foods in the natural foods section of your store.\nFood additives in ancient times:\nMany food additives have been used for centuries. For example:\nThe Egyptians used vegetable food colorings\nThe Romans used honey to preserve fruit\nSalting food was a common practice in the Middle Ages\nMarco Polo searched for herbs and spices, additives for flavoring foods\nTypes of food additives:\nFood additives are used for a number of different reasons including food preservation, spoilage prevention, flavor enhancement and to improve nutritional value. There are approximately 3,000 food additives that are classified into six major categories\nMany foods are fortified with vitamins and minerals. The primary reason for this practice is to replace nutrients lost during processing and to prevent deficiency diseases. Some of the common fortifications are: vitamin D in milk, vitamin A in margarine, iron and B vitamins in breads, and iodine in table salt.\nThe safe-use period of many foods is greatly extended through the addition of preservatives, which retard spoilage, preserve flavor and color and keep oils from turning rancid. Preservatives protect foods, such as cured meats, from developing dangerous toxins, such as botulism, a food poisoning illness.\n3. Flavoring agents\nThese are the most commonly used additives. Some, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), are used to enhance flavor. Others, like chemical concentrates of a flavor such as strawberry, are used to boost flavor. Flavorings are often used when a natural flavoring is unavailable or too expensive to use in a particular commercial product.\n4. Coloring agents\nThese additives are used strictly to make foods more attractive to the consumer. Even some fruits, like oranges, have color added to their skins to make their color match the expectations of consumers.\n5. Emulsifiers, stabilizers, and thickeners\nA large variety of products from this category are used to improve the texture and consistency of foods. Emulsifiers are commonly used to keep ingredients from separating in sauces and salad dressings. Lecithin, gelatin and pectin are commonly used natural emulsifiers.\n6. Acids and alkalis\nThese additives are used to neutralize the acidity or alkalinity of certain foods. Citric acid, for instance, might be used to add tartness to certain foods.\nGovernment control of additives:\nThe Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 is the law that sets the standards for food in the United States, while at the same time calling for truthful labeling. This act gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsibility for safety and wholesomeness of foods. There have been several amendments to this act, but one, in particular, strengthens it in regard to additives. The Food Additives Amendment of 1958 requires pre-marketing approval for substances intended to be added to foods. This amendment includes the Delaney Clause, which states that no chemical can be added to food if, in any amount, it produces cancer when ingested by man or animal.\nWhen the Food Additives Amendment of 1958 was adopted, over 200 substances were exempted from the testing requirement because they were considered to be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). A number of other substances have been added to this list since its initial adoption.\nAllergies and sensitivities to additives:\nSome people have an immediate reaction to food preservatives, such as BHA, BHT, MSG, nitrites, sulfites, sodium bisulfite, and sulfur dioxide. Some of these reactions are due to allergies. With allergies, preexisting antibodies in the body react to the chemical molecules and cause a variety of problems, ranging from mild skin rashes to gastro-intestinal upset to life-threatening anaphylactic episodes.\nOther reactions reflect an \u201cintolerance\u201d to the food or additive; rather than an allergy per se, but these reactions may still be uncomfortable. An example of such a reaction would be a person who gets a headache after eating MSG.\nThe best course for concerned individuals is to read all labels carefully and to choose foods that are additive-free.\nEnsminger Audry, ME Ensminger, James E. Konlande, and John R. K. Robson. 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Dining rooms are fading into history, and the kitchen is taking over, serving the dual purpose that both rooms once held. Kitchens are becoming enlarged and there is a greater importance placed on their sense of luxury and sophistication. The kitchen is now being examined as a multi-purposeful space where families and guests can spend their time. Some features of this new emphasis on the kitchen include carefully constructed designs and kitchen appliances that are made to accentuate the rest of the kitchen. Kitchens are being made larger because there is no longer the need for a dining room, and now that space can be designated to the kitchen. One aspect of these enlarged kitchens is the walk-in pantry. Walk-in pantries are somewhat common for luxury kitchens and are not necessarily a new phenomenon, but what\u2019s new is that they are now becoming commonplace in contemporary homes and even in some apartment buildings.\nIf you\u2019re doing a kitchen remodel, or perhaps designing your first kitchen, we have provided some examples of the hottest kitchen pantries we\u2019ve found. Some of these pantries require more room to work with, but we\u2019ve also included a few smaller pantry designs for those kitchens that weren\u2019t gifted with space and may not be looking to do a full remodel.\nDecide on Your Pantry\nIt may sound simple, but deciding on the outline for your pantry is definitely the most important place to start. While kitchen pantries may sound relatively simple and similar, they can actually be quite different from kitchen to kitchen. What will be stored in your pantry? Do you want the pantry to enclose the fridge? What is the desired height for your pantry? What will the dimensions be? Will there be countertops or cabinets? These are just a few of the things to be considered when planning for your pantry. It\u2019s important that you make the decisions before you start building, and with consideration to the rest of your kitchen in mind. What is the function of your pantry and how will it accentuate the rest of your kitchen? Let\u2019s get planning!\nPhoto Credit: Design Manifest\nTry to Blend the Pantry\nThe best walk-in pantries don\u2019t make a huge fuss, and they aren\u2019t immediately obvious, either. While walk-in pantries certainly feel luxurious, and you might be tempted to show it off, it\u2019s one of those things that can start to feel like its in the way after some time. The best way to indulge a walk-in pantry is to blend it with existing cabinetry, so that you have the additional space without feeling like there\u2019s a small room within your kitchen that is just taking up space and making the kitchen feel smaller. Guests will marvel at the spacious room behind what they assumed was just a simple cabinet, when the pantry is blended the right way.\nPhoto Credit: Houzz\nCreate Accessibility\nOne thing that can dampen the aesthetic and organizational value of a walk-in pantry is difficult accessibility. If you have to squeeze between the island and the countertop to get to the pantry, the pantry door doesn\u2019t open all the way because something is in its way, or the pantry is simply inconveniently located from the area in which the food will actually be prepped or cooked, the pantry may become more of a hassle than a convenience. If you are (re)modeling your kitchen area, make sure the pantry will be in a place that is convenient to store food and walk back and forth to put away groceries or gather the needed items for dinner. Just as regular kitchen cabinets are disbursed throughout the kitchen, so the pantry should feel like an extension of the kitchen rather than its own separate space.\nPhoto Credit: activerain\nWhen You Don\u2019t Have Space to Walk-In\nSo, what do you if you don\u2019t have space to build out the kitchen for a walk-in pantry or you simply can\u2019t afford to do a full remodel at this time? Pantries can still be inverted to provide more space than the typical cabinet, and you can also purchase stand-alone pantries for additional food storage. However, if you can invert the pantry even by a few inches, it could add to your overall sense of space and provide a quaint little storage area.\nPhoto Credit: livingdogtalkmusic\nOtherwise, you can find some large, practical, and elegant stand-alone pantries that will do the trick, and create an ultimately more affordable solution for additional storage room in the kitchen. Stand-alone pantries will house a big majority of your household staples and come in a variety of sizes, colors, and layouts to fit your home\u2019s needs with just the right touch.\nPhoto Credit: Ghar Expert\nThese are some ideas to get you started in planning the perfect pantry. Large, spacious kitchens will have more wiggle room when it comes to planning the perfect pantry. Choosing to remodel, or planning your first kitchen from scratch can be an exciting way to make sure you get the perfect pantry for your kitchen. However, if you don\u2019t have the time or money to remodel, or you simply don\u2019t care to go to the trouble, but you need the extra space, purchasing a stand-alone pantry can be a great way to get some additional storage room you need without the hassle or cost of remodeling.\nThis entry was posted in Cooking, Cooking with Range Hoods, Food, Home Improvement, Kitchen Design, Kitchen DIY, Kitchen Safety, Kitchen Tech, Kitchen Tips and tagged decor, home improvement, kitchen, Pantry, Stand-Alone Pantry, Walk-In Pantry on March 11, 2016 by Mila Hose.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rawlivingme.com/know-if-you-are-likely-to-develop-diabetes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:57Z", "digest": "sha1:WD2AOXV76UAZ3PKGMXIKDDALRWDD3QIG", "length": 3443, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "rawlivingme.com", "title": "Know if you are Likely to Develop Diabetes? \u2013 Raw Living Me", "raw_content": "Diabetes needs no introduction as it has become a common health condition affecting millions of people across the globe. In an estimate, about 500 million people have become the victim of diabetes at the end of 2017. If you suspect having been affected by this disease, you have to take the treatment at earliest. These days, we can easily buy diabetes products or buy medicines for diabetes treatment under prescription.\nFirst of all, you have to ensure if you have diabetes or are likely to develop it. There are some symptoms that help you identify the development of this condition. You need not worry too much about it but treat it with the help of effective medicines.\nThere are two major types of diabetes known as Type 1 and Type 2. Both of them are the condition of an increased level of blood sugar. The causes and symptoms of both the conditions are a bit different. Type 1 diabetes is more severe and intensive condition than Type 2. To understand the type or nature of the suspected diabetes, you have to identify its symptoms and after that take a treatment accordingly.\nProbable symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes:\nThe symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are very easy to understand. Some of the symptoms recur more frequently in both types of diabetes. These symptoms may trigger different or similar kind of warning signs. There are some usual symptoms of diabetes that patients can experience include:\nItchiness in skin\nA feeling of hunger and fatigue:\nIn diabetes, you get a feeling of hunger and thirst more frequently than a normal condition. In the condition of diabetes, your body requires more amount of insulin which is made from glucose. Therefore, you crave for food more and more. Even though you feel the hunger waves and take more food, your body does not respond like a normal one due to the disturbed metabolic functions. It makes you feel tired and constant fatigue in this condition.\nFeel thirsty more often:\nNormally we drink 5-6 liters of water in 24 hours; but in the condition of blood sugar, you tend to drink more amount of water. It happens because your body has to absorb more amount of glucose going through the kidneys. In diabetes, your kidney finds it harder to pass the glucose, forcing you to release more urine.\nUnusual weight loss:\nPeople with Type 1 diabetes experience decreasing body weight and it is quite noticeable within a few months after the onset of the disease. It happens because of the weakening muscle tissues and gradual loss of appetite. Those who have to buy diabetes products or take it under prescription should observe if their body weight is improving or not.\nThe difficulty in sighting things is a common problem with the people suffering from blood sugar. It happens because of the disturbance in the eye lenses. The eye\u2019s ability is harshly affected in the condition of diabetes, resulting in blurred vision and blindness (in some cases).\nWarning signs of type 1:\nType-1 diabetes is a more severe condition than Type 2 and it can occur at any age. A child may also develop this condition and you can notice its symptoms such as:\nEasily infected to viral attract\nDevelop flu-like symptoms like nausea, vomiting, bad breath\nThese symptoms of diabetes to help you understand this disease in a better way before going to buy diabetes products or buy medicines for diabetes treatment. Blood sugar patients should always take a treatment under a doctor\u2019s prescription.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 6074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://read.healthtrustsource.com/?iid=147921&startpage=page0000016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:A3Z7T2W7BA6SDDQLZPGDWIBUFAMXNRFK", "length": 4397, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "read.healthtrustsource.com", "title": "The Source : Fourth Quarter 2016, Page 16", "raw_content": "SOURCEBOOK CLINICAL CHECK-IN T his summer, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps\u2014the most decorated Olympian of all time\u2014caused a stir when he dove into the pool at the start of the 4x100- meter relay at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His back and shoulders were covered with round, purple bruises, lead- ing commentators and viewers to speculate about what might be the cause. The bruises were actually a sign of cup- ping, an ancient Chinese healing practice that is thought to draw blood to the affected area and reduce soreness, explains Rebecca Flack, RN, MSOM, L.AC., an acupuncturist at Franciscan Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. Athletes like Phelps swear by the practice, claiming it helps keep them injury-free and speeds up the healing of their overworked muscles. This type of therapy is just one of the many healing methods within the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It\u2019s a catch-all term that includes any non-conventional healing therapy, rang- ing from supplements to yoga and even art therapy. These treatments are generally less invasive and less expensive than conven- tional medicine. But do CAM methods work? The scien- tific evidence isn\u2019t conclusive. The National Institutes of Health says that clinical trials for CAM therapies are often not well-de- signed and lack rigor, leading to uncertainty about whether each unique therapy is safe and effective. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is working to build a scientific evidence base around CAM to determine whether different therapies are safe, how they work, and whether they work for the conditions for which individuals use them. The lack of scientific evidence and safe- ty guarantees, however, don\u2019t stop people from actively pursuing new methods to better manage their health, explains HealthTrust Chief Medical Officer Michael Schlosser, M.D., FAANS, MBA . In fact, research shows that nearly 40 per- cent of U.S. adults use at least one CAM approach\u2014the most popular being natural supplements, acupuncture, massage, yoga, tai chi and meditation. The majority of these treatments are used in conjunction with conventional medicine, but patients sometimes don\u2019t involve their physicians in the process, Schlosser says. \u201cThere\u2019s a disconnect between traditional medicine and CAM,\u201d Schlosser notes. \u201cSome physicians don\u2019t know how to manage this space. We need to be more knowledge- able about these offerings so we can better advise our patients on the possible risks and benefits.\u201d Healing Touch The Olympics may have put the spotlight on cupping, but it\u2019s acupuncture\u2014another form of ancient Chinese medicine\u2014that is more commonly used. \u201cIn Chinese medicine, it\u2019s believed that energy moves throughout the body in a Aligning the Mind, Body and Spirit The Rise of Alternative, Complementary and Creative Healing Approaches Differences Between Conventional Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) FACTOR CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE Definition of health A condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of disease and other abnormalities Optimal balance, resilience, and integrity of the body, mind, and spirit and their interrelationships CAM Definition of illness Organ dysfunction, disordered biochemical processes or undesirable symptoms Symptom and individual-based; imbalance of body, mind and spirit Concept of life force Life processes that are based on known physical laws and that involve physical and biochemical events A nonphysical, scientifically inaccessible life force that unites mind and body, interconnects all living beings and is the underpinning of health (often called vitalism) Understanding of consciousness Results only from physical processes in the brain Not localized to the brain; can exert healing effects on the body Method of treatment Any evidence-based interven- tion, including drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, electrical treat- ments, medical devices, physical therapy, exercise, and nutritional and lifestyle interventions Support and strengthening of patients\u2019 inherent capacity to self-heal Reliance on scientific evidence Strict reliance on established principles of scientific evidence Flexible use of scientific evidence; treatments often based on tradition and/or anecdotal support Continued on page 16 Steven Novella, M.D.; Merck Manuals 14 The Source | Fourth Quarter 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 5747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://regulations.delaware.gov/register/april2013/final/16%20DE%20Reg%201085%2004-01-13.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7P6VNJO3QY3BLJIFX6DB2LEDRBLFELFM", "length": 31267, "nlines": 198, "source_domain": "regulations.delaware.gov", "title": "Delaware.gov | Text Only Governor | General Assembly | Courts | Elected Officials | State Agencies", "raw_content": "AND NOW, this 5th day of March, 2013 in accordance with 24 Del.C. \u00a71713(a)(12), for the reasons stated below, this ORDER adopts new regulations governing the licensing and regulation of Title 24, Chapter 17 licensees.\nOn December 1, 2012, the Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline published proposed regulations to its rules and regulations. Although the Board has updated various regulations over the years, other regulations remained outdated and/or inconsistent with changes to the law. As a result, the Board established a Committee of its members to conduct a comprehensive review of the regulations. These amendments remove those outdated and inconsistent provisions and update the Board\u2019s substantially related crime regulation to include new crimes that have been added since the list was originally enacted and to revisit some of the existing crimes on the list in view of changes to the law related to the Board\u2019s authority to grant waivers of disqualification related to criminal convictions.\nThe Board held a public hearing on January 8, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. in the second floor conference room A of the Cannon Building, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware where members of the public were invited to offer comments on the amendments to the regulations. Pursuant to 29 Del.C. \u00a7100118(a), written comments were also accepted until January 24, 2013, fifteen days following the public hearing.\nThe Board deliberated on all of the public comment at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 5, 2013 at 3:00 p.m., at which time it decided to adopt the regulations as proposed.\nBoard Exhibit 2 \u2013 Affidavit of publication of the public hearing notice in the Delaware State News; and\nBoard Exhibit 3 \u2013 Correspondence from Priti D. Myers, requesting a change in the regulations regarding the fees for medical records.\nThere was no verbal testimony given at the public hearing on January 8, 2013.\n1.\t24 Del.C. \u00a7 713(a)(12) requires the Board to \u201cpromulgate rules and regulations not inconsistent with or beyond the scope of this chapter or other laws of this State for carrying out the powers and duties required by this chapter.\u201d\n2.\tPursuant to this authority, the Board has updated various regulations over the years. However, certain regulations have become outdated and/or inconsistent with changes to the law. As a result, the Board established a Committee of its members to conduct a comprehensive review of the regulations.\n3.\tAfter a thorough review, the Committee recommended amendments to remove outdated and inconsistent provisions, update the Board\u2019s substantially related crime regulation to include new crimes that have been added since the list was originally enacted, and to revisit some of the existing crimes on the list in view of changes to the law related to the Board\u2019s authority to grant waivers of disqualification related to criminal convictions.\n4.\tWith regard to public comment from Ms. Myers regarding the regulation pertaining to the maximum charge a patient may incur for copying medical records, the proposed amendments do not change the rates that have been in place for the past four years. This is the first complaint that has ever been received regarding this regulation. Ms. Myers advocates for changing this regulation to match the copy fees proposed by the Governor in Executive Order 31 (October 20, 2011). That is, no charge for the first twenty pages, and ten cents per page thereafter. The Board\u2019s regulation precludes licensees from charging more than $2.00 per page for the first ten pages, $1.00 per page for the next ten, $.90 for the next forty, and no more than $.50 per page thereafter. Comparing rates charged by private licensees to rates charged by the government is not compelling as the difference between medical records and public records is that the public fisc covers the overhead for state agencies, while doctors must cover their own overhead. Further, Executive Order 31 also permits agencies to charge \u201cadministrative fees\u201d for \u201cstaff time associated with processing FOIA requests, including, without limitation, (a) identifying records; (b) monitoring file reviews; and (c) generating computer records (electronic or print-outs).\u201d\nWhen attorneys are involved with a patient, hundreds of pages of copies must be made on a regular basis by a licensee or the licensee\u2019s staff. The Board finds that the maximum charge set forth in the regulations is reasonable given that it permits charging less than these amounts, and the Board finds that general consensus of practitioners is that if the copy request is for the purpose of changing physicians, or referral, most doctors copy and send these records free of charge.\nNOW THEREFORE, pursuant to 24 Del.C. \u00a71713(a)(12) and for the reasons set forth above, the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline does hereby ORDER that the regulations be, and that they hereby are, adopted and promulgated as set forth in the Delaware Register of Regulations on December 1, 2012. The effective date of this Order is ten days from the date of its publication in the Delaware Register of Regulations, pursuant to 29 Del.C. \u00a710118(g).\nGregory D. Adams, M.D., President\nEvelyn Mendez\nJohn W. Banks\nRaymond L. Moore, Sr.\nGeorge E. Brown, Vice-President\nJoseph M. Parise, D.O., Secretary\nVonda Calhoun\nStephen G. Cooper, M.D.\nMalvine Richard, Ed.D.\nMary K. Ryan\n14.0\tIssuance and Renewal of License; Requirements for Physicians Re-entering Practice\n24.3.1.6\tPrescriptions must include the printed or legibly handwritten name of the PA. Prescriptions shall be written in accordance with 17 Del.C. \u00a71764A and shall contain the following information clearly typed or written:\nThese rules and regulations apply to all persons possessing, applying for or required to have a license or certificate or other authorization or approval which the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline is empowered to issue or grant.\n\u201cAccredited Hospital\u201d means a medical facility accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or the American Osteopathic Hospital Association.\n\"Board\" means the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline.\n\u201cLCME\u201d means the examination given by the Medical Council of Canada.\n\u201cNational Boards\u201d means the examination administered by the National Board of Medical Examiners.\n\u201cUnited States\u201d means the 50 States and its territories or possessions.\n\"USMLE\" means United States Medical Licensing Examination.\nAll candidates for licensure by examination are required to pass the USMLE, National Boards, FLEX or SPEX as outlined below:\n3.1\tFLEX Examination:\n3.1.1\tIf FLEX was taken before June, 1985 applicant must have successfully passed a FLEX examination (Component 1 and Component 2) and have attained a passing score of a weighted average of seventy-five (75). After June, 1985 a passing score of 75 must have been obtained on Component 1 and Component 2.\n3.1.2\tLCME is the equivalent to FLEX Component 1 and 2.\n3.2\tUSMLE Examination:\n3.2.1\tThe USMLE is designed to supersede and replace the FLEX and the National Boards. If completed prior to the year 2000 acceptable combinations are acceptable with a score of 75:\n3.2.1.1\tNational Board Part I or USMLE Part 1 and\n3.2.1.2\tNational Board Part II or USMLE Part 2 and\n3.2.1.3\tNational Board Part III or USMLE Part 3\n3.2.1.4\tFLEX Component 1 and USMLE Step 3\n3.2.1.5\tNational Board Part 1 and USMLE Step 1 and\n3.2.1.6\tNational Board Part 11 and USMLE Step 2 and\n3.2.1.7\tFLEX Component 2\n3.2.2\tPassing Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 of the examination must occur within 7 years. There shall be no more than six attempts to pass each Step without demonstration of additional experience acceptable to the Board.\n3.3\tCertain persons licensed in other states: Doctors with valid state licenses by examination from other jurisdictions may be licensed at the discretion of the Board if this examination took place before January, 1973.\n4.0\tInstitutional Certificates\nThe Board may issue institutional certificates to qualified persons who may be employed as post graduate trainees (interns, residents, or fellows) or house physicians by an accredited hospital operated within this State. The Board will also issue institutional certificates to qualified persons who will be employed as staff physicians in a medical institution operated in this State by any governmental institution.\n4.1\tPost Graduate Trainees Employed by Accredited Hospitals\n4.1.1\tAny applicant applying for and institutional certificate shall include with the application:\n4.1.1.1\tAn affidavit of the applicant certifying that\n4.1.1.1.1\tHe or she meets all the requirements for licensure specified in 24 Del.C. \u00a71720(b)(1) through (b)(6) excluding (b)(3); and\n4.1.1.1.2\tHe or she intends to limit him or her selves solely to practice within the hospital, or the performance of such medical duties outside the hospital which may be assigned to them as part of a post graduate training program.\n4.1.1.2\tAn affidavit of the chief administrative officer of said hospital certifying that the individual will be employed by the hospital and meets all requirements for licensure specified in 24 Del.C. \u00a71720(b)(1) through (b)(6), excluding (b)(3).\n4.1.2\tA person who is to be employed by an accredited hospital as a post graduate trainee who was not a citizen of the United States at the time he or she enrolled in medical school outside of the United States must present a photocopy of his or her permanent ECFMG Certificate or VQE results.\n4.1.3\tPost graduate trainees employed by accredited hospitals who have been granted institutional certificates shall be specifically limited to the practice of medicine within the hospital where they are employed, except that they may perform such medical duties outside the hospital which may be assigned to them as part of their postgraduate training program, provided such outside duties are performed under the supervision of a physician with a Certificate to Practice Medicine in the State of Delaware.\n4.1.4\tPostgraduate trainees who are registered in training programs outside of Delaware and who rotate through programs in institutions in Delaware for over one month are required to obtain an institutional certificate.\n4.1.5\tInstitutional certificates issued pursuant to these rules shall expire on the day on which the holder ceases to be employed by the employer hospital. If the employment relationship is prematurely terminated, both the holder and the Chief Administrative Officer of the employer hospital shall notify the Executive Director of the Board in writing not later than three days after the employment relationship is terminated.\n4.1.6\tInstitutional certificates shall be renewed every year upon payment of a fee determined by the Division of Professional Regulation.\n4.1.7\tNo institutional certificate issued to a post graduate trainee will be renewed at the end of the first year of issuance unless the trainee has passed at least one component of the FLEX examination or at least one part of the National Board Examination or the USMLE Step 1.\n4.2.1\tAny physician who will he employed as a staff physician by a governmental institution shall include with the application:\n4.2.4\tInstitutional licenses shall expire on the day on which the holder ceases to be employed by the employer institution. Both the holder and the employer institution shall notify the Executive Director of the Board in writing not later than three days after the employment relationship is terminated.\n4.2.5\tValid institutional licenses shall be renewed every year upon payment of a fee determined by the Division of Professional Regulation.\n5.1\tAs part of the application process for certification, a personal interview is required and will not be conducted until the completed application of the candidate has been received in the Board's Office.\n5.2\tElectronic Interviews via video-conferencing means satisfy the requirement for a personal interview provided the interviewer is able to view the applicant and the applicant\u2019s photo identification.\n5.3\tThe President of the Board has the power to waive the personal interview when the President considers it a hardship for the candidate. Distance alone is not considered a hardship.\n6.0\tConsulting Physician\nConsultation may be done telephonically, electronically or in person. Consultation shall ordinarily consist of a history and physical examination, review of records and imaging pathology or similar studies. Consultation includes providing opinions and recommendations. An active Delaware certificate is required of any out of state physician who comes into Delaware to perform a consultation more than twelve (12) times per year. A physician who comes into Delaware to perform consultations less than once a quarter must be actively licensed in another State or country on a full and unrestricted basis. Any consultations done for teaching and/or training purposes may include active participation in procedures and treatment, whether surgical or otherwise, provided a Delaware licensed physician remains responsible as the physician of record, and provided the patient is not charged a fee by the consultant.\n7.0\tIssuance and Renewal of License; Requirements for Physicians Re-entering Practice\n7.1\tEach license shall be renewed biennially. The failure of the Board to notify a licensee of his/her expiration date and subsequent renewals does not, in any way, relieve the licensee of the requirement to renew his/her registration/license pursuant to the Board\u2019s regulations and 24 Del.C. Ch. 17.\n7.2.1\tfiling a renewal application prescribed by the Board and provided by the Division of Professional Regulation. License renewal must be accomplished online at www.dpr.delaware.gov;\n7.2.3\tattesting on the renewal application to the completion of continuing education as required by the Board\u2019s rules and regulations;\n7.3\tFailure of a licensee to renew his/her license shall cause his/her license to expire. A physician whose license has expired may renew his/her license within one year after the expiration date upon fulfilling items 8.2.1 \u2013 8.2.4 above, certifying that he/she has not practiced medicine in Delaware while his/her license has expired, and paying any renewal fees and a late fees determined by the Division of Professional Regulation.\n7.4\tNo physician will be permitted to renew his/her license after the expiration of the one-year period.\n7.5\tThe former licensee may re-apply under the same conditions that govern applicants for new licensure under 24 Del.C. Ch. 17 and meeting any requirements for re-entry to practice established under Board Rule 8.7.\n7.6\tNo physician shall practice medicine in the State of Delaware during the period of time that his/her Delaware license has expired.\n7.7\tA physician seeking to obtain an initial license who has not been engaged in the clinical practice of medicine within the three (3) years immediately preceding the application shall be required to demonstrate clinical competency as follows:\n7.7.1\tcompleting an approved practice assessment program that is both clinical and didactic in nature. Approved physician re-entry programs are listed on the Board\u2019s website. Programs not on the list must be submitted to the Board for approval. A physician who completes a program not on the list without first obtaining Board approval does so at his or her own risk that the program may not be approved by the Board; and\n7.7.2\tdemonstrating that the applicant for licensure or renewal has kept current with continuing medical education meeting the requirements of the Board\u2019s rules and regulations.\n8.0\tDishonorable or Unethical Conduct (24 Del.C. \u00a71731(b)(3))\n8.1\tThe phrase \"dishonorable or unethical conduct likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public\" as used in 24 Del.C. 1731(b)(3) shall include, but not be limited to, the following specific acts:\n8.1.1\tA pattern of performance of unnecessary medical procedures.\n8.1.2\tExploitation of the doctor/patient privilege for personal gain or sexual gratification.\n8.1.3\tSexual impropriety including, but not limited to, sexually suggestive behavior, gestures, expressions, statements and failure to respect a patient\u2019s privacy.\n8.1.4\tFraudulent billing for medical services.\n8.1.5\tIntentional falsification of records maintained for controlled substances and non-controlled drugs.\n8.1.6\tFraudulent advertising.\n8.1.7\tWillfully failing to treat a person under the physician's care who requires such treatment.\n8.1.8\tIntentional release of confidential information gained as a result of the doctor/patient privilege, unless such release was authorized by the patient or required by subpoena.\n8.1.9\tPayment of a fee by a physician to another physician who has referred the patient to him, unless the fee is in proportion to work actually performed by the referring physician.\n8.1.10\tWillful failure to disclose to a patient that a referring physician has the financial interest in an ancillary testing or treatment facility outside of the physician's office.\n8.1.11\tFailure to comply with administrative requirements of the Board including failure to comply with continuing medical education requirements.\n8.1.12\tFailure to comply with the Board\u2019s regulations governing the use of controlled substances for the treatment of pain.\n8.1.13\tFailure to adequately maintain and properly document patient records.\n8.1.14\tFailure to provide access to patient records.\n8.1.15\tInappropriate or disruptive behavior as defined in the AMA code of ethics.\n8.1.16\tAny other act tending to bring discredit upon the profession.\n9.0\tMedical Treatment Rendered During Patient Transport in an Emergency Vehicle\nA physician or other healthcare provider regulated by the Board who has not been granted a certificate or license in the State of Delaware may render care or treatment to a patient in an emergency vehicle which is in transit in the State of Delaware provided such healthcare provider is certified or licensed in the state from which the emergency vehicle departed, or the state to which the emergency vehicle is destined.\n10.0\tBoard Reporting of Disciplinary Action\n10.1\tUpon the Board taking any disciplinary action against a physician written notification of the disciplinary action taken by the Board shall be forwarded to the following agencies or individuals:\n11.1\tThis section does not apply to physician assistant practice. Regulations governing the practice of physician assistants may be found in Section 13.0 of these regulations.\n11.1.6\tAny exemptions from the requirements specified above previously issued under former Regulation 20.1.6 will continue in effect and must be renewed by the Board every two years. No exemption will be renewed by the Board until it reaches the determination that the training and experience of the non-physician associate involved is adequate. Procedural safeguards must be in place to ensure the safe dispensing of drugs and other therapeutics. All exemptions must be judged by the Board not to endanger the public health of the citizens of Delaware.\n11.1.7\tA supervising physician who fails to adhere to these regulations would be considered to be permitting the unauthorized practice of medicine (as defined under 24 Del.C. \u00a71702(12) of the Medical Practice Act), and would be subject to disciplinary action by the Board.\n12.1\tPursuant to the provisions of 24 Del.C. \u00a71713(d) the Board adopts the following regulation regarding requirements for continuing medical education as a prerequisite for renewal of registrations to practice medicine in the State of Delaware. Prior to renewal of registrations to practice medicine in this State a physician must be prepared to supply the Board with proof that he has completed forty (40) hours per registration period of continuing medical education in Category I courses approved by the American Medical Association (AMA) or equivalent courses approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) since the time of the physician's last renewal of his registration. Individuals enrolled in approved medical or osteopathic resident or fellowship training programs may be requested to submit proof of satisfactory participation in lieu of approved continuing medical education credits. Certification by the Medical Society of Delaware that a physician has completed such continuing medical education since the time of his last renewal of his registration shall be acceptable proof of completion of these requirements.\n12.2\tA physician who is renewing his registration for the first time and who has been licensed to practice medicine in Delaware for more than one year shall be prepared to supply the Board with proof that he has completed twenty hours of continuing medical education in Category I courses approved by the AMA or equivalent courses approved by the AOA. A physician who is renewing his registration for the first time and who has been licensed to practice medicine in Delaware for less than one year shall not be required to meet any continuing medical education requirements until the time of the next subsequent renewal of his registration.\n12.3\tThe Board may, upon application from the physician, waive the requirements of the regulation for good cause shown. The Board will consider good cause to have been shown if the lack of compliance with this regulation was due to causes beyond the physician's control.\n13.0\tPhysician Assistants\n13.1.1.7.1\tThe supervising physician cannot be involved in patient care in name only and must provide adequate supervision. The supervising physician must be available for consultation, during the patient encounter, when necessary as defined under supervision in the 24 Del.C. \u00a71770A (3).\n13.1.1.7.2\tNo supervising physician may supervise more than 4 physician assistants at any given time unless granted an exemption by the Board. As provided in 24 Del.C. \u00a71771 (f) and (h) the Board may increase or decrease the number of physician assistants being supervised. The Board may issue an exemption to increase the number of physician assistants supervised by a physician upon written application filed by the supervising physician demonstrating good cause for the request. Requests for exemption will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The requesting physician has the burden of demonstrating that the granting of an exemption will not endanger the public health, safety, or welfare.\n14.1.1\tUpon notification of the receipt of an application signed by the applicant accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the Paramedic Administrator of the Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS), the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (Board) may grant initial certification pursuant to 16 Del.C. \u00a79809(a) to a paramedic whose application establishes that the applicant has meet all of the following course requirements and standards.\n14.1.2\tCurrent registration as a paramedic by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, or proof of employment as a Delaware Paramedic continually since before January 1, 1990; and,\n14.1.3\tCurrent course completion cards or approval of an equivalent level of instruction by the State EMS Medical Director in each of the following:\n14.1.3.1\tCPR (Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation at the healthcare provider level)\n14.1.3.2\tACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)\n14.1.3.3\tPALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)\n14.1.3.4\tPHTLS (Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support) or BTLS-Advanced (Basic Trauma Life Support).\n14.1.4\tCertification by the Paramedic Administrator that the applicant, upon a valid offer of employment and/or an affiliation with an OEMS approved advanced life support service, has satisfactory completed such written and practical examinations as determined by the State EMS Medical Director.\n14.2.1\tSuch initial certification by the Board will be valid for a period of either one (1) or two (2) years depending upon the applicant\u2019s position in the Delaware recertification cycle and may be renewed thereafter for two-year (2) periods upon application in writing to the Board accompanied by a certification from the paramedic administrator establishing that the applicant has met all of the following requirements:\n14.2.1.1\tCurrent registration as an Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (except for those paramedics who have been continuously employed as a Delaware Paramedic since before January 1, 1990).\n14.2.1.2\tDelaware and Nationally Registered Paramedics must meet National Registry requirements for recertification. The applicant must successfully complete the following:\n14.2.1.2.1\tForty-eight (48) hours of an EMT-Paramedic Refresher Education Program approved by the State EMS Medical Director.\n14.2.1.2.2\tTwenty-four (24) hours of continuing medical education approved by the State EMS Medical Director.\n14.2.1.2.3\tPossession of current course completion cards or approval of an equivalent level of instruction by the State EMS Medical Director in each of the following disciplines. There cannot be a lapse in course completion cards in any of the referenced disciplines at any time during the re-certification/re-registration cycle.\n14.2.1.2.4\tCPR (Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation at the healthcare provider level)\n14.2.1.2.5\tACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)\n14.2.1.2.6\tPALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)\n14.2.1.2.7\tPHTLS (Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support) or BTLS-Advanced (Basic Trauma Life Support).\n14.2.1.2.8\tCurrent certification of the following:\n14.2.1.2.8.1\tThat the applicant has demonstrated competency in the management of stable and unstable patients presenting with medical and/or traumatic emergencies by the State and respective agency Medical Director.\n14.2.1.2.8.2\tThat the applicant has successfully completed such interviews and competency evaluations as required by the State EMS Medical Director.\n14.2.1.2.8.3\tThat the applicant is employed and/or affiliated with an OEMS recognized advanced life support service.\n15.0\tCrimes Substantially Related to the Practice of Medicine, Respiratory Care, Acupuncture, Genetic Counseling, Polysomnography and Physicians Assistants\nThe Board finds that for purposes of licensing, renewal, reinstatement and discipline, the conviction of any of the following crimes, or of the attempt to commit or a conspiracy to commit or conceal the following crimes or substantially similar crimes in another state or jurisdiction, is deemed to be substantially related to the practice of Medicine, Respiratory Care, Acupuncture, Genetic Counseling and Physician Assistants in the State of Delaware without regard to the place of conviction:\n15.2.2\t\u00a7602. Menacing (felony);\n15.2.13\t\u00a7622 Hoax device;\n15.2.16\t\u00a7 628 Vehicular assault in the third degree;\n15.2.44\t\u00a7777 Dangerous crime against a child;\n15.2.45\t\u00a7777A Sex offender unlawful conduct against a child;\n15.2.46\t\u00a7778 Sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust, authority or supervision in the first degree;\n15.2.47\t\u00a7778A Sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust, authority or supervision in the second degree;\n15.2.54\t\u00a7791. Acts constituting coercion (where injury or property damage occurs).\n15.3.5\t\u00a7824. Burglary in the third degree;\n15.3.6\t\u00a7825. Burglary in the second degree;\n15.3.7\t\u00a7826. Burglary in the first degree;\n15.3.8\t\u00a7826A. Home invasion;\n15.3.9\t\u00a7828. Possession of burglar\u2019s tools or instruments facilitating theft;\n15.3.15\t\u00a7840A. Use of illegitimate retail sales receipt or Universal Product Code Label (felony);\n15.3.16\t\u00a7841. Theft (felony);\n15.3.17\t\u00a7841A. Theft of a motor vehicle;\n15.3.18\t\u00a7841B. Theft: Organized retail crime (felony);\n15.3.19\t\u00a7 841C. Possession or theft of a prescription form or a pad;\n15.3.20\t\u00a7842. Theft; lost or mislaid property; mistaken delivery (felony);\n15.3.21\t\u00a7843. Theft; false pretense (felony);\n15.3.22\t\u00a7844. Theft; false promise (felony);\n15.3.23\t\u00a7845. Theft of services (felony);\n15.3.25\t\u00a7848. Misapplication of property (felony);\n15.3.26\t\u00a7849. Theft of rented property (felony);\n15.3.27\t\u00a7850. Use, possession, manufacture, distribution and sale of unlawful telecommunication and access devices (felony);\n15.3.31\t\u00a7861. Forgery; (felony);\n15.3.42\t\u00a7900. Issuing a bad check (felony);\n15.3.48\t\u00a7907B. Criminal impersonation of a police officer, firefighter, EMT, paramedic, fire police;\n15.3.58\t\u00a7932. Unauthorized access (felony);\n15.3.59\t\u00a7933. Theft of computer services (felony);\n15.3.60\t\u00a7934. Interruption of computer services (felony);\n15.3.61\t\u00a7935. Misuse of computer system information (felony);\n15.3.62\t\u00a7936. Destruction of computer equipment (felony);\n15.3.63\t\u00a7937. Unrequested or unauthorized electronic mail or use of network or software to cause same (felony);\n15.3.64\t\u00a7938. Failure to promptly cease electronic communication upon request (felony).\n15.4.4\t\u00a71105. Crime against a vulnerable adult;\n15.4.8\t\u00a71109. Dealing in child pornography;\n15.4.17\t\u00a71325A. The unlawful trade in dog or cat by-products (class A misdemeanor);\n15.4.18\t\u00a71326. Animals; fighting and baiting prohibited (felony);\n15.5.8\t\u00a71223. Perjury in the first degree;\n15.5.9\t\u00a71233. Making a false written statement;\n15.5.18\t\u00a71250. Offenses against law-enforcement animals (Class A misdemeanor and felony);\n15.5.22\t\u00a71257. Resisting arrest (felony);\n15.6.2\t\u00a71303. Disorderly conduct; funeral or memorial service (felony);\n15.6.7\t\u00a71331. Desecration;\n15.6.8\t\u00a71332. Abusing a corpse;\n15.6.9\t\u00a71333. Trading in human remains and associated funerary objects.\n15.6.20\t\u00a71361. Obscenity (felony);\n15.6.21\t\u00a71365. Obscene literature harmful to minors.\n15.7.15\t\u00a74774(b) and (c). (convictions for manufacture and sale and delivery to a minor in violation of \u00a74771\n15.8.4\t\u00a71445. Unlawfully dealing with a dangerous weapon (felony);\n15.8.5\t\u00a71446. Unlawfully dealing with a switchblade knife (felony;\n15.8.6\t\u00a761446A. Manufacture of undetectable knives (felony);\n15.8.10\t\u00a71448A. Criminal history record checks for sales or firearms;\n15.8.21\t\u00a71471. Prohibited acts (felony).\n15.8.23\t\u00a73532. Acts of Intimidation (Class E felony);\n15.8.24\t\u00a73533. Aggravated act of intimidation (Class D felony);\n15.8.25\t\u00a73534. Attempt to intimidate.\n17.5.1\tGeneral Misconduct - a range from $1,000 fine to 6 months suspension - \u00a71731(b)(1); \u00a71731 (b)(3); \u00a71731(b)(4); \u00a71731(b)(5); \u00a71731(b)(9); \u00a71731(b)(11); \u00a71731(b)(19)\n17.11\tAdministrative Misconduct is conduct that fails to adhere to the standards required for the regulation of the profession. All licensees in their practice have not only professional medical requirements but administrative requirements that are integral to their performance as a licensed physician. Administrative misconduct includes, but is not limited to, disregard of continuing medical education requirements.\n17.12.3\tFailure to follow the Board\u2019s Regulations for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain - education in pharmacology of pain management and a range from $1,000 fine and probation to revocation\n17.13.7\tFalsely Documenting a Death Certificate - a range from $2,000 fine and letter of reprimand to 6 months probation - \u00a71731(b)(20)\n[Renumber Regulation 31 as Regulation 18 incorporating the amendments adopted by Board Order dated November 13, 2012. The Order was published on December 1, 2012 and the amendments will be final on December 11, 2012]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1623, "original_length": 193587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://regulations.delaware.gov/register/may2007/calendar/10%20DE%20Reg%201737%2005-01-07.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OYXOPMCMG6SHP5EJ4LT4HKEF3ZJJAXUZ", "length": 434, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "regulations.delaware.gov", "title": "10 DE Reg 1737 05-01-07", "raw_content": "NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND BUSINESS MEETING\nThe Delaware River Basin Commission will hold a public hearing and business meeting on Thursday, May 10, 2007 beginning at 10:15 a.m. at the Commission\u2019s offices, 25 State Police Drive, West Trenton, New Jersey. For more information visit the DRBC web site at www.drbc.net or contact Pamela M. Bush, Esq., Commission Secretary and Assistant General Counsel, at 609-883-9500 extension 203.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reindeerherding.org/herders/sami-finns-finland/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:07Z", "digest": "sha1:K3B6JI5UVMY73B45WEQ5SVSZN74MRYJH", "length": 26766, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "reindeerherding.org", "title": "Reindeer Herding", "raw_content": "S\u00e1mi & Finns \u2013 Finland\nReindeer and people have a connection that is thousands of years old in what is today called Finland. First by hunting, then through domestication and herding. Archaeological sources such as hunting pits, stone carvings and settlement excavations speak to this connection. In 98 AD, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote about a strange people in Thule, who used fur clothes, hunted reindeer and travelled with skis.In the 800s the Norwegian chief Ottar visited King Alfred and the English court and Ottar told the king about the S\u00e1mi and that reindeer were domesticated and managed in herds. This is the first written source of domesticated reindeer herding and is often referred to. However archaeological research is consistently pushing the date of domestication of reindeer and the development of reindeer herding further back in time. Writings after that time tell that the Sami are using domesticated reindeer for transport and milking.In the 16th 17th and 18th centuries, Sweden, which then included Finland, had imperial ambitions and this increased tax burden on S\u00e1mi reindeer herding, which would appear to have stimulated a shift in reindeer herding practices. S\u00e1mi reindeer herders where nomadic and moved with their reindeer herds between winter and summer pastures. In the mountain areas an intensive reindeer herding took shape \u2013 where reindeer where monitored daily.The S\u00e1mi people lived and worked in so-called \u201csiiddat\u201d (reindeer herding groups) and reindeer where used for transport, milk and meat production. The Siida is an ancient S\u00e1mi community system within a designated area but it can also be defined as a working partnership where the members had individual rights to resources but helped each other with the management of the herds, or when hunting and fishing. The Siida could consist of several families and their herds.Reindeer herding in Finland is based on traditional S\u00e1mi reindeer herding and the system of Siiddat. Compared to Norway and Sweden the reindeer husbandry developed in a different manner in Finland. Finnish settlers and peasants adopted reindeer herding as a livelihood from the S\u00e1mi and Finnish reindeer herding became organized already in in the 1700\u2019s. Nowadays it is based on herding in districts (paliskunnat \u2013 b\u00e1lgosiin). In 1898, state authorities obligated reindeer owners to establish geographically defined herding districts and the first Reindeer Herding act in Finland was enacted in 1932.\nDuring the 1900\u2019s reindeer herding became more extensive and meat production increasingly important. In the 1960\u2019s, reindeer herders began to introduce new technologies \u2013 the so called snow mobile revolution in their work with reindeer. Later other mechanical aids, such as ATV\u2019s and motorbikes came. Today such tools are major feature of modern reindeer herding in Finland. This has had a variety of impacts on reindeer herding and as herders no longer ski or walk with reindeer, the relationship with their animals has changed considerably. Today\u2019s reindeer herding requires large areas, reindeer are often frightened and are forced to flee from natural pastures. Reindeer are not currently watched year-round and reindeer move with relative freedom during certain periods.\nHowever, reindeer herding would not be possible without the maintenance of traditional knowledge which dates back millennia and is transferred from generation to generation. Its significance remains for reindeer herders because it contains important knowledge about how for instance land should be used during times of extreme weather fluctuation, for example.\nReindeer husbandry today in Finland is a small industry on a national scale, but both in a S\u00e1mi and local Finnish context, it has great importance. Reindeer husbandry remains one of the most parts of the S\u00e1mi culture\n(www.paliskunnat.fi)\nS\u00e1mi reindeer herding in what is today called Finland, Sweden and Norway has historically been and is in some ways still affected by the countries border drawings as they became barriers to reindeer herding which since time immemorial had moved between different pastures on the coast (summer) and in the interior (winter). In 1751, the northern border between Sweden, which then included Finland, and Denmark, which included Norway, was negotiated. To this border agreement was made a substantial addition of 30 paragraphs on nomadic S\u00e1mi rights \u2013 what later became known as the Lapp Codicil (Lappekodicillen) or the Magna Carta of the S\u00e1mi. The aim with the Codicil was to secure the future of reindeer herding for the S\u00e1mi people. The Codicil prescribed how the nationality of the S\u00e1mi should be determined and how their rights to cross national borders with their reindeer and to utilize the lands and waters of other countries, including sea fishing, should be taken into account in mutual understanding with the other inhabitants of the areas concerned. The Codicil also guaranteed the S\u00e1mi complete neutrality in the event of a war breaking out between Denmark/Norway and Sweden/Finland. As a consequence of this border agreement the S\u00e1mi in what today is Norway, began to use winter ranges in present-day Finland, in both the Enonteki\u00f6 and Inari areas, and even further south in the Karesuando area in Sweden. This resulted in increased reindeer numbers in these regions. Reindeer herding S\u00e1mi in Finland began to voice concerns about the impacts of these increased numbers on their small scale use of pastures. The situation finally changed when the borders of Finland were closed to Norwegian reindeer herding S\u00e1mi in 1852 by the Finnish-Russian authorities \u2013 in 1809 Finland was separated from Sweden and became a Grand Duchy of the Russian empire. The border between Finland and Sweden was finally closed to reindeer herding S\u00e1mi from Sweden in 1889. Thereafter, reindeer herding was obliged to live with state borders, which closed the routes between summer and winter pastures. Since at least some of the summer pastures had previously been situated in coastal Norway, and the winter ranges were in Finland, Finnish reindeer pastures now had to be used all year round.\nIn Finland anyone living within the area of Finnish reindeer husbandry who is a citizen of the European Union has the right to own reindeer, in contrast to the situation in Norway and Sweden, where only S\u00e1mi are legally permitted to own reindeer. Regarding ownership in Finland, there are however, some conditions. The owner of the reindeer must be approved as a member by a reindeer herding district (paliskunta \u2013 renbeteslag \u2013 b\u00e1lggos) and must permanently reside in the municipality to which the district belongs.(Rensk\u00f6tsellag 14.9.1990/848)\nThe total area of reindeer husbandry in Finland is approximately 33 % of the surface of the country or about 122 936 km2. According to the Finnish Reindeer Husbandry Act the reindeer herding area consists of all of Finnish Lapland excluding Kemi and Tornio cities and Keminmaa municipality, but also Hyrynsalmi, Kuivaniemi, Kuusamo, Pudasj\u00e4rvi, Suomussalmi, Taivalkoski and Yli-Ii municipalities in the county of Oulu and the areas in Puolanka, Utaj\u00e4rvi and Ylikiiminki municipalities located north of Kiminge River and Puolanka-Hyrynsalmi road.In the 1960\u2019s the reindeer herding area was divided into three reindeer herding areas; the S\u00e1mi Reindeer Herding Area, The Special Reindeer Herding Area and the Reindeer Herding Area. The difference between them is that reindeer herding in the S\u00e1mi reindeer herding area should be prioritized and given special attention in issues related to encroachment. Reindeer herding in the special reindeer herding area should also be directed some attention in such issues.The borders between the districts are decided by the provincial government. A district belongs to the municipality in which most part of the district\u2019s area is.(Rensk\u00f6tsellag 14.9.1990/848)\nThe management of reindeer husbandry is divided into different levels. On the national level reindeer husbandry issues belong to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland (Maa- ja mets\u00e4talousministeri\u00f6).\nAll districts are members of the Association of the reindeer herding districts (Paliskuntain yhdistys- B\u00e1lgosiid Ovttastupmi) \u2013 which is the central body and acts as a link between the different districts. The activity in the Association is funded by state and membership is free. The annual general meeting, also called the Reindeer Parliament (Poroparlamentti \u2013 Boazoparlameanta), is the highest decision making body of the Association. It consists of the District Leaders. Each District Leader votes from the total number of reindeer in his or her district. The Association has a board which consists of 14 members and each board member has one vote. The duties of the Association are to administer reindeer husbandry in Finland, to promote reindeer husbandry and related research, and to manage relations between reindeer husbandry and the rest of society. It also approves new reindeer earmarks and maintains an earmark registry. The Association has an office which is located in Rovaniemi in northern Finland. It organises for example the annual Reindeer Parliament in early June and also publishes a journal for reindeer herders called Poromies.\nOn the local level the reindeer herding districts manage reindeer herding activities within the district and ensure that they are carried out and prevent the reindeer belonging to reindeer herders causing injury to other people and their livelihoods.\nReindeer herding Districts and Members\nIn Finland, reindeer husbandry is practiced through a system of reindeer herding districts (paliskunta \u2013 b\u00e1lgosat). There are 56 districts in the reindeer husbandry area, 41 of which are in the Province of Lapland and the remaining 15 are in the Province of Oulu. 13 of the districts are so called S\u00e1mi districts. The districts have strictly defined boundaries and they vary in size and number of reindeer. They are profit-making reindeer husbandry units whose members are reindeer owners. The districts responsibility is to protect the reindeers, to sustain and promote reindeer husbandry and to prevent reindeer from causing damage and from trespassing on other districts areas.The total number of members in all districts together is about 5 000 people, about 1 000 of whom are S\u00e1mi. A reindeer owner can only belong to one district and the person has got the same amount of votes in the annual meeting, the Reindeer parliament, as he or she has reindeer. In a S\u00e1mi district a person can have a maximum of 500 votes (and 500 reindeer). A reindeer herding district has its own board (stivra) and a District Leader (boazoisit), a Vice-Chief of District (v\u00e1rre boazoisit) and a Treasurer (ruhtadoalli). The District Leader, who is the manager of the district, is the official representative of the district. He or she is responsible for the practical activities in the district and ensures that the tasks allocated to it are carried out. The Chief of District is legally accountable for his or her actions and occupies this office for terms of three years at a time.The board manages the district\u2019s activities and handles the preparations for decision-making in district meetings as well as oversees their execution. It meets twice a year and more often if it is necessary. District meetings (b\u00e1lggos\u010doahkkimat) are held twice a year, in spring when the reindeer husbandry year draws to a close and in autumn before the start of the reindeer round-ups. The meetings handle such matters as the numbers of reindeer in the district and the work that will need to be done.Today the number of fulltime herders, who together with their families still obtain their main livelihood from reindeer herding, is about 800 in Finland, 600 of them are S\u00e1mis. The number of reindeer owners in Finland is about 6 700.(www.paliskunnat.fi)\n(Rensk\u00f6tsellag 14.9.1990/848)\nIn the beginning of the 20th century, the number of reindeer in Finland was slightly over 100,000, and by 1959-60 it had reached 140,000. Short-term fluctuations in the size of the reindeer herd have occurred over the past century. During the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s the number increased rapidly and reached over 250,000 reindeer at a maximum.The maximum number of reindeer was consequently lowered from a previous high of 220,900 animals to 203,700 in 2004/2005. The number of reindeer in Finland was about 207,000 reindeer in 2004/2005.The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Maa- ja mets\u00e4talousministeri\u00f6) regulates the number of reindeer by confirming the largest permissible numbers of living reindeer for each district. This takes place every ten years. The reindeer are counted after slaughtering when reindeer are drawn from the herd and before reindeer calving starts in May. But every year, before the districts autumn meeting, each reindeer herding district plans the number of reindeer to be slaughtered. The reindeer herding districts must obey Ministry regulations in their activities and keep the number of reindeer to the regulated levels. If the number of reindeer in a district exceeds the permitted level, the State Provincial Offices of Oulu and Lapland can order compulsory culling. In such a case, the district must reduce the number of its reindeer to below the largest permissible number.The largest permissible number of reindeer owned by a reindeer husbandry entrepreneur is 300 animals in the southern region of the reindeer husbandry area and 500 animals in the northern parts of the area. If there are special reasons, then the ministry can decide new numbers. Maximum numbers are primarily based on the capacity of the winter pastures. The state controls the number of live reindeer through a so-called live support paid to individual reindeer owners. In order to receive support it is required that owners have at least 80 reindeer and 300 or 500 reindeer at most.The Finnish system where other people than S\u00e1mi can also own reindeer, has led to a much higher number of reindeer owners compared with Norway and Sweden. A large part of the reindeer owners in Finland have a very low number of reindeer. Statistics show that about 4100 people, or approximately 77.6 % of all reindeer owners have between 1-49 reindeer, and the income from reindeer herding for these people is only a supplementary income to normal paid work. About 1540 families are working with reindeer and for 690 of those, their primary income is from reindeer herding. Around 75 % of the reindeer owners are male and 25 % female.\nEconomyIn Finland, reindeer husbandry at the individual level in terms of taxation is not treated as a for-profit-business. Instead the reindeer herding district serves as a joint company for the reindeer owners. The district reports all incomes and costs within the district. This is unlike Sweden and Norway, where individual reindeer owners in terms of taxation are seen as for-profit-businesses and for herders in those countries the most commonly filled tax form is that of a private company (enskild firma or enkeltmannsforetak).The vast majority of reindeer owners in Finland practise reindeer husbandry as a supplement to agriculture and forestry. With regard to ethnic groups in Finland, reindeer herding is from the economic point of view the most important for S\u00e1mi people.The annual total revenue from reindeer husbandry in Finland is estimated to be 60 million Euro. The main product is meat. In 1999-2000, 93 000 reindeer were slaughtered, producing 2.1 million kilos of meat. An individual reindeer owner usually sells live reindeers to a slaughtering house. The owner must pay for the slaughtering and for the waste produced by the slaughtering process. In addition to meat production, reindeer are also an extremely valuable resource for both summer and winter tourism, as they are one of the main attractions for foreign tourists.Numbers from 1994-2000 show that 60-80 % of reindeer husbandries income is from meat and about 10 % from compensation and 10 % from aid. Only a small part comes from investments and other incomes. Numbers from the same years show that about 40 % of the costs are related to herding activities, about 20 % of costs to cross country traffic and the rest to damages caused by reindeer, administrative costs, office supplies and equipment and other utilities.\n(Sustainable Reindeer Husbandry \u2013 Arctic Council 2000-2002, J-L. Jernsletten, K. Klokov)\nState economic support for Reindeer husbandry\nState economic support to reindeer husbandry consists foremost of support to reindeer owners for live reindeer. If a reindeer owner should be able to apply for support for his or hers live reindeer, she or he must have at least 80 reindeer and 500 reindeers at a maximum in the S\u00e1mi reindeer herding district and 300 at most in other districts.Finnish reindeer herding S\u00e1mi have requested that the support system should be more flexible than it is today, so that the support system would better fit reindeer husbandry and promote a more sustainable economic balance. On the whole, S\u00e1mi have requested that support should be based more on the number of live reindeer in bad years and that it should depend on prices of reindeer for slaughtering in good years. The proposed system would also guarantee a certain salary every year regardless of grazing conditions etc. The support system is primarliy adapted to foremost supports to agriculture.(www.boazu.fi)\nChallenges \u2013 Loss of pastures and Encroachment\nA pasture is not a homogenous landscape, but consists of many important features and characteristics changing in accordance to season and activity performed. Each district needs different kind of pastures, such as summer and winter pastures. The summer pasture is a key factor for the growth of a reindeer. For example, a good summer is needed to survive a hard winter. Reindeer also need large and undisturbed areas during the whole year. For many years reindeer husbandry in Finland has had to grapple with encroachhments even though reindeer herding, practised by both S\u00e1mi and non-S\u00e1mi Finnish reindeer herders, is in most parts of Northern Finland theoretically protected by the Finnish legislation against other land uses. In the area especially reserved for reindeer herding, forestry and other land use should not, according to the law, significantly hinder this traditional livelihood.The S\u00e1mi people\u2019s rights to practise their culture and traditional livelihood is also protected through the Finnish Constitution and a number of international agreements and it is recognised that reindeer herding is the basis of the S\u00e1mi culture.The most important and most challenging task today is to find a way to integrate diverse interests regarding reindeer pastures. An extensive proportion of the reindeer-herding area consists of coniferous woodland, and it is thus commercially exploited by forestry. These two sources of livelihood are often in conflict. Other conflicts are caused by the mining industry and increasing levels of tourism, especially in areas that are important for calving. The third major problem is the question of legal ownership of the pastures in the reindeer-herding area. Currently these are owned by the state, but there are dissenting opinions which are waiting to be addressed through a series of state sponsored investigations. A fourth problem is the conflict between nature conservation and reindeer herding. Reindeer are for example an important source of food for large predators.Forestry is a large industry in Finland and it is primarily practised by the Finnish governmental forestry enterprise Mets\u00e4hallitus, especially in Lapland, where the state is the main land owner. There have been widespread logging activities and other activities connected to logging in forests in the North that are important for reindeer grazing. More than 75 % of the reindeer in Finland graze in forested areas where logging activities are planned and are being undertaken. Logging deteriorates the forests reindeer graze on and are dependent upon especially in winter. Left overs and debris from logging activities prevent reindeer from accessing ground lichen, and the destruction of old-growth forests means the destruction of tree hanging arboreal lichen. These two lichen types are crucial for the survival of reindeer especially in the late winter. This situation has during the last decades led to conflicts between reindeer herders and the forestry industry.In Finland the reindeer districts not get compensation for impacts from forestry because the State owns the largest part of the northern Finnish reindeer herding area. Fees for example fishing licenses go to the Forestry Council (Meahccer\u00e1\u0111\u0111ehussii).\n(Forestry Conflicts in Finnish Sapmi: Local, National and Global Links, R. Lawrence, K. Raitio)\nPredators inflict damage on reindeer herding. In 1997, about 3,400 reindeer were found killed in Finland, mainly by wolverine (Gulo gulo), bear (Ursus arctos), wolf (Canis lupus) and golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). The predators issue is currently one of the main issues the Finnish Reindeer Herding S\u00e1mi (Suoma Boazos\u00e1mit) is working with.The goal of Finland\u2019s predator policy is that there should be a certain number of predators in Finland. Finland\u2019s predator numbers have in generally increased over the last decades. In 2000 there where 130 wolfs, 115 wolverine and 850 lynx. This trend has also led to increased levels of reindeer killed by predators. For example, the number of bears increased by 300 % from 1987 to 2000 and the level of reindeer killed by 531 %.According to the law, individuals must accept that their private property, such as reindeer, may be food for predators. In light of this the State pays compensation for reindeer killed by predators. Compensation for wolverine, wolf and lynx are paid directly to members. Every district has a predator assessor who must approve the killed reindeer before compensation can be paid. The compensation depends on what kind of reindeer it is. The compensation for a calf is 218,64 \u20ac, 386,83 \u20ac for a male/female reindeer and 504,56 \u20ac for a semi domesticated male reindeer (heargi). Compensation for golden eagles are paid to the district and the compensation is based on the number of nests with chicks. Finnish reindeer herding S\u00e1mi report that compensation some years have been paid during several times and other years in the end of the year and is dependent on the state\u2019s economic situation.(www.paliskunnat.fi)\nLarge areas of pastures are being lost to different industrial activities. Climate change is likely to add new set of stresses. The Arctic Council Arctic Climate Impact Assessment \u2013 ACIA (2005), reflects more than 250 researchers\u2019 assessments of how climate change will affect the Arctic environment and the communities that live there. The report also demonstrates that temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than elsewhere in the world. These changes will involve, inter alia, shorter and warmer winters, and new varieties of wildlife in the Arctic. Climate Change also results in increased development, for example in the form of roads and facilities in the Arctic, which both directly and indirectly have impacts on reindeer husbandry and reindeer pastures.Since reindeer herding is conducted in nature and is very much dependent on the conditions that nature provides, any changes that occur have special impacts on the practice of reindeer husbandry. But no one can yet know with certainty when, how and how much reindeer herding will be affected as a result of increased climate change.Sources of indigenous knowledge across the Arctic report according to ACIA state that the weather seems more variable, unfamiliar and is behaving unexpectedly and outside the \u2018norm\u2019. According to the ACIA report autumn weather in some areas has fluctuated between raining and freezing, often creating an ice layer on the ground that has reduced reindeer\u2019s access to the underlying lichen. These conditions represent a major change from the norm, and in some years, have resulted in extensive losses of reindeer. Future changes in snow in extent and condition have the potential to lead to major adverse consequences for reindeer herding and the associated physical, social and cultural livelihood of the herders.Warming is projected to cause earlier melting and later freezing. The biodiversity of the reindeer herding region is quite vulnerable to climate change. There remains uncertainty about how the mountain flora will withstand warmer climates couple with the impacts that a warmer climate will have on different insect varieties and how they will affect reindeer. Since snow free time is when reindeer collect important fat and protein reserves reindeer some researchers have stated that climate change may been of benefit to reindeer as they can forage for longer periods of time.(Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 2005)\nTraditional Knowledge \u2013 Language\nThe S\u00e1mi language is very rich in the terminology for reindeer, reindeer husbandry and landscape generally. The terminology is an important part of S\u00e1mi traditional knowledge and it is transmitted from one generation to another, mostly orally. This very exact knowledge on nature shows the old and tight connection to it and how important reindeer husbandry is for the S\u00e1mi. Reindeer husbandry is a kind of basis for S\u00e1mi culture, not only for subsistence, but especially for lifestyle. The climate conditions in reindeer herding area can be extreme and cold. To be able to manage and survive in these conditions it has been and still is important for the herders to have knowledge of landscape, such as of grazing or snow conditions. The S\u00e1mi language and its dialects have hundreds if not thousands of exact terms and descriptive epithets for snow, ice and similar natural phenomena. Israel Ruong (1903-1986) who was a professor in S\u00e1mi language, classifies snow terms as follows: a) amounts of snow, b) the composition of snow c) the bearing capacity of snow, d) the surface, level and slide quality of snow, e) expressions for being covered with snow, f) unmarked snow and tracks in the snow, g) hoarfrost and other coverings of ice and snow on plants ad trees, h) the melting and disappearance of snow, i) ice, j) the appearance of (patches of) unfrozen land, k) places where the snow remains in the summer, l) different kinds of winter pasture, incl. expressions for the surface quality of the snow. For a reindeer herder it is also necessary to know exactly what kind of reindeer is in question or is being discussed. Reindeer terminology is very precise and professional and it can be described according to colour, age and sex, antlers, appearance, nature and some other special characters. 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(2012) Fish fauna survey provides new insights into the Vasse-Wonnerup Wetland System. National Wetlands Update, 21 . pp. 34-35.\nFree to read: http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/1...\nThe Vasse-Wonnerup wetland is a shallow, intermittently-open system located near the town of Busselton, Western Australia. The Ramsar listed system is regarded as the most grossly enriched major wetland system in Western Australia and suffers from a multiplicity of\ndetrimental effects, including eutrophication, algal blooms, anoxia and fish kills.\nIn January 2012 Murdoch University undertook a survey of the fish fauna of the Vasse-Wonnerup wetland. The survey was funded through the\nSouth West Catchments Council from the Australian Government\u2019s Caring for our Country program with assistance from the Western Australian Department of Environment and\nConservation\u2019s Science Division.\nWetlands Australia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 147.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://retirementincome.com/money-finance/retirement/retirement-101/life-insurance-for-retirees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VH3ZZQF3AZSDCRTNL3QXXJ4YYP43FSEI", "length": 2735, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "retirementincome.com", "title": "Life Insurance for Retirees | retirementincome.com", "raw_content": "Most individuals have only one thing in mind when it comes to retirement: life insurance. Generally, there are misconceptions about life insurance, such as the idea that it keeps us insured. This notion therefore leads us to question ourselves about the need for it once we\u2019re retired.\nThe necessity of having life insurance is totally dependent on certain facts regarding on how do we really need it. Below are things we should keep in mind when it comes to getting life insurance.\nLife insurance is needed in these types of situations:\nIndividuals or couples earning for their retirement.\nRetired individuals who will experience financial loss on the account his or her spouse dies.\nA family consisting of parents and children who haven\u2019t reached the age of adolescence.\nIndividuals who owns estates that will be a subject to estate tax.\nPeople who own businesses or who is a part of it.\nShould you have life insurance covers up financial loss in the event when someone dies? If you ask yourself this question and the answer is no, you won\u2019t need it then. A retired person who has an investment which serves as his or her source of retirement income will not need any life insurance even though his or her partner dies, because there is still a continuous flow of income.\nWanting to have life insurance\nIf there is no possibility of experiencing any financial loss when you die, then wanting to have life insurance can serve a better cause. This can probably be the best value of having life insurance: providing someone or a charitable institution some benefits upon your death.\nThe appropriate amount of life insurance\nThis depends on how much money you assume your intended beneficiaries will need. The amount to cover-up that financial loss is the right amount that you need.\nThe timespan of needing life insurance\nFinancial loss is not always there. But having life insurance will be helpful to any surviving members of the family especially if your spouse will be retiring soon. In other words, having life insurance means a legacy of stability for your family.\nThe kind of life insurance you will be needing\nIf you are talking about a limited financial insurance, that is filling the gap from the present up to retirement, the kind of insurance that you will need is a temporary policy term insurance. However, if there is a possibility of an increased financial loss like several bills to pay or tax liabilities, a permanent life insurance policy is what you need.\nThough it will be more costly, it will be enough to cover any major expenses such as business or estate taxes. If you are also thinking that you will live up to the ripe age of 100, the permanent insurance with universal policy will be the best choice for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rgmale.blogspot.com/2007/01/thin-line-between-freedom-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MZQDPBKGNZPTMV3IQ2KXVTFAW5LFIN7T", "length": 1900, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rgmale.blogspot.com", "title": "R.G. Male's Dark Corners: A Thin Line Between Freedom and Constriction", "raw_content": "Last time the conflict was between giving the game direction and not dictating the actions of the player\u2019s characters. Today I am thinking more about the line between filling in detail, and setting dates and history, versus leaving it to the GM to tailor to his game as needed. Leaving things open is the best and most efficient way to let everyone run their own version of the game that is different from the next group and the next. Detailing a lot of material tends to generate in some circle much the same shouting, moaning, and general hatred generated by railroading. What is it with these circles?\nBack when time was on my side and I could spend hours on end thinking, daydreaming, and writing my own game material like there was no tomorrow, the idea of a lot of material tightly defined in a game left me with mixed feelings. Reading the new Powers Unlimited from Palladium Books\u00e2 I see a lot of powers that I would have found redundant several years ago because they are simple variations on the same idea, though some of them do have the occasional nice variance, or even better with a couple, a completely different application of the power possible.\nThat is one way in which I would have agreed that it was a waste of pages. However, now with more and varied responsibilities and demands on my time I think these additions will be helpful because I can\u2019t just sit down and come up with them on my own in any reasonable amount of time. Thinking back to those days when the time was available I know that I was also aware that some things which were not detailed could have been and it left me with a feeling of lacking to the game depending on what it was that was missing. More about those missing things next time.\nMood: jumbled.\nMusic: It Sucks to Be You by Quiet Riot and Lightning Strikes Twice by Iron Maiden.\nLabels: gaming, Heroes Unlimited, Palladium Books, Powers Unlimited, RPG", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://richardhserlin.blogspot.com/2008/10/humans-also-evolved-to-have-high-level.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QWB567AWM7MXGSJP32M7YHJXM4V3HZWN", "length": 781, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "richardhserlin.blogspot.com", "title": "Richard H. Serlin: Humans also evolved to have high level intelligence and mental discipline", "raw_content": "Humans also evolved to have high level intelligence and mental discipline\nWith regard to the Scientific American article in Mark Thoma's \"Links for 2008-10-12\":\nI haven't read this article, but I've seen many that look like it, about tendencies towards flaws in human reasoning that have evolved, or instincts to tend to think in certain ways which can cause errors, but the thing you have to keep in mind when reading any of these is that you shouldn't exaggerate, or make absolute, their effects, because the human mind also evolved to have high level, flexible, ultra high dimensional thinking, and mental discipline. If these things are strong enough in a human they can over-ride these tendencies, and they are very strong in many humans, just unfortunately not our President.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Bodhisattva&oldid=80063", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:13Z", "digest": "sha1:E3RSLVLB75XG2E7Z5MEOXSPZ7N3OTAPJ", "length": 3005, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "rigpawiki.org", "title": "Bodhisattva - Rigpa Wiki", "raw_content": "Revision as of 04:56, 20 August 2017 by S\u00e9bastien (talk | contribs)\nBodhisattva sangha from the Longchen Nyingtik field of merit\nBodhisattva (Skt.; Tib. \u0f56\u0fb1\u0f44\u0f0b\u0f46\u0f74\u0f56\u0f0b\u0f66\u0f7a\u0f58\u0f66\u0f0b\u0f51\u0f54\u0f60\u0f0b, chang chub sempa, Wyl. byang chub sems dpa' ) \u2014 someone who has aroused bodhichitta, the compassionate wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings and also wishes to bring them to that state. It also refers to a sublime bodhisattva who has attained one of the ten stages of the bodhisattva path.\n1 The Bodhisattva Path\n2 Famous bodhisattvas\nThe bodhisattvas practise on the basis of their wish to benefit others. They are motivated by bodhichitta, which has as its focus all sentient beings and is characterized by the wish to establish them all at the level of perfect buddhahood, free from the causes and effects of suffering and endowed with all the causes and effects of happiness. With this motivation, they take the bodhisattva vows of aspiration and application in the proper way, through the ritual of either the tradition of Profound View or Vast Conduct. They then observe the points of discipline concerning what should be adopted and abandoned, and heal and purify any impairments.\nConcerning the basis of their path, how they determine the view, if we speak in terms of philosophical tenets, the approach of Mind Only is to assert that outer objects are not real and all phenomena are but the inner mind, and to claim that the self-aware, self-knowing consciousness devoid of dualistic perception is truly real. The approach of the Middle Way is to realize that all phenomena appear in the manner of dependent origination, but are in reality emptiness, beyond the eight extremes of conceptual elaboration. Through these approaches, on the basis of the explanation of the two levels of reality, they realize completely the absence of any personal self or phenomenal identity.\nConcerning their path and how they practise meditation, the bodhisattvas realize and train in developing their familiarity with the indivisibility of the two levels of reality, and, on the basis of the yogic meditation that unites shamatha and vipashyana, meditate sequentially on the thirty-seven factors of enlightenment while on the path of training.\nThey practise the six transcendent perfections for their own benefit and the four means of attraction for the sake of others.\nThey attain the level of buddhahood, which is the ultimate attainment in terms of both abandonment and realization since it means abandoning all that has to be eliminated, the two obscurations including habitual traces, and realizing everything that must be realized, included within the knowledge of all that there is and the knowledge of its nature. They accomplish the two types of dharmakaya for their own benefit and the two types of rupakaya for the benefit of others.\nFamous bodhisattvas\nEight great bodhisattvas\nTen bhumis\nBodhisattva Outline Page at Himalayan Art\nRetrieved from \"http://rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Bodhisattva&oldid=80063\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rkdretailiq.com/news_published.php?id=31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4DZIN7J3BN3JDCE6PGAYPOFNNDR52TN5", "length": 1572, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rkdretailiq.com", "title": "rkd retail/iQ", "raw_content": "There was a time, not too long ago, when anyone looking for total immersion gambling would have headed to the island of Macau, off the coast of mainland China, But Macau's vision of itself is evolving, and, with the addition of the Cotai Strip, the complete, beyond gambling, Las Vegas experience is becoming a reality in this part of the world.\nWith direct connections to the Four Seasons Hotel Macau and the Venetian Casino, the new DFS Galleria, designed by rkd retail/iQ of Bangkok, promised to be the most complete luxury shopping destination in Macau. The complex focuses on retail brand assortment and presentation, and, with 60,000 sq.ft., anchors the entire ground level of retail podium.\nBuilding on the directive of ultimate luxury, rkd retail/iQ developed a concept of progressive experiences. \"Boutique\" galleria comprises 18 of the worlds' top luxury brands, while \"Beauty\" showcases 24 of the best cosmetics, treatment and fragrance brands, In the \"World of Luxury\" There are three areas of luxury boutiques consisting of six of the very finest jewelry brands, an impressive line-up of watchmakers and leading brands in fashion accessories.\nRKurt Durrant, president of rkd retail/iQ notes, \"A further departure from the traditional DFS was the inclusion of significant neutral and non-selling architectural spaces, The introduction of 'palette cleansing' transition zones showcase artwork, offer the opportunity for periodic change and provide a positioning element for DFS to express their artistic personality to complement the luxury retail environment.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 4242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2015/06/recommended-little-guide-to-american.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:5E3VC3B2KKY5HLH6KE23ISBFLNXY3TOM", "length": 5347, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com", "title": "Roads to the Great War: Recommended: A Little Guide to the American Field Service in Paris", "raw_content": "Recommended: A Little Guide to the American Field Service in Paris\nIf you are interested in learning about Paris during the Great War this is a terrific little guide from the American Field Service (AFS) and it's now available on line. It has a nice opening essay on the American presence in Paris back to the days of the revolution and then as series of over 40 well-done articles and firsthand accounts and descriptions about sites to see in the city with wartime, AFS, or general U.S. connections. Here is the selection on the Lyc\u00e9e Pasteur, which morphed into the American Ambulance Hospital of Paris,\nLyc\u00e9e Pasteur,\n21 Boulevard d'Inkermann, Neuilly-sur-Seine\nThe Neuilly Lyc\u00e9e, whose opening under Principal Fleureau had been stated for 1 October 1914, was transformed from the outset of the 1914\u20131918 war into an auxiliary military hospital managed by Americans. Until America herself entered the war, the entire personnel of this hospital was comprised of volunteers. This was the case when, one June day in 1917, I was transported in rather poor condition to a ground floor classroom overlooking Rue Perronet. There were a dozen of us there, all badly wounded (since in principal at the American Ambulance, the only people there were those who truly needed to be!) The material organization was perfect, a meticulous cleanliness reigned supreme, with scrubbing commencing at seven in the morning. In each room (a classroom, in principle), there were two nurses and a male attendant \u2013 a luxury of personnel and means, to be sure, which were unknown in French military hospitals; so we were spoiled and all the much so as our medical condition required more care. After the hell of the front lines, this was paradise! (M. Lasserre Soixante-Quinzi\u00e8me Anniversaire du Lyc\u00e9e Pasteur, 1989.)\nUnder the wise leadership of Dr. Dubouchet, three other men, Mr. Laurence Ben\u00e9t, Dr. Edmond Gros, and Mr. A. Wellesley Kipling, have been powerful in promoting the phenomenal growth of the Ambulance Corps. Their titles are, respectively, Chairman of the Transportation Committee, Chief Ambulance Surgeon, and Captain of Ambulances. These gentlemen have worked together unselfishly and indefatigably, and the rapidity with which the manifold difficulties incidental to the construction and organization of automobile ambulance trains have been overcome is due to their untiring efforts. (Eric Fisher Wood. The Notebook of an Attach\u00e9, 1915.)\nThe Transportation Department originated with a small committee during the first week of August 1914, and was organized with a view of providing ambulances for the transportation of patients to and from the proposed Ambulance Hospital. By August 15th eight town and touring cars were available and in constant use, and were rendering most valuable service in connection with the work of installation and equipment. On this date the Manager of the Ford Automobile Company donated ten chassis for the duration of the war, and these were at once fitted with ambulance bodies, designed and, to a large extent constructed, by the volunteer members of the Department. These little cars were at once utilized for the transportation of equipment and supplies, and the personnel worked unremittingly in installing the wards and other departments of the hospital. It was in large measure due to the Transportation Department that the hospital was ready for patients eighteen days after the buildings of the Lyc\u00e9e Pasteur were requisitioned. (Report of Ambulance Committee of 1915. New York, 1915.)\nIn September 1914, when the line of battle surged close to Paris, a dozen automobiles given by Americans, hastily extemporized into ambulances, and driven by American volunteers, ran back and forth night and day between the western end of the Marne Valley and Paris. During the Autumn and Winter that followed many more cars were given and many more young Americans volunteered, and the battle front having retired from the vicinity of Paris, these sections of motor ambulances were detached from their headquarters at the hospitals at Neuilly and Juilly and became more or less independent units attached to the several French armies, serving the dressing-stations and army hospitals within the Army Zone.\nAt that time, however, these squads of ambulances, being generally in groups of only about five, were inadequate in size to stand independently and were, therefore, attached by the French Government to other existing services in the rear of the Army Zone. (AFS Fund. Interim Reports, 1917.)\nOn October 1st, at the request of the British Expeditionary Force, a small detachment of five ambulances was detached for service in the field, and on October 8th left Paris for its new duties. This was the first opportunity of realizing the long cherished plan of a Field Service, which as money and ambulances have become available has been increased and extended until on 31 August 1915, four complete sections, aggregating 91 ambulances and cars were operating in the zone of the armies in addition to 15 ambulances, and 28 other cars attached to the Ambulance Hospital. One hundred and fifty-two officers and men were on duty with the transportation department on the same date. (Report of Ambulance Committee of 1915. New York, 1915.)\nView the entire guidebooks at: http://www.ourstory.info/library/Paris/ParisAFStc.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 8963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roady_1947.tripod.com/psp64.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PNCI5LIBKQFU6UPHJLVUD5YYR2Q4UKNX", "length": 9104, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "roady_1947.tripod.com", "title": "Parents Of Suicide", "raw_content": "WHEN JONATHAN WAS BORN\nAndrea R. Taylor\nJonathan Orlandiss Taylor entered this earthly life on Friday, March 6, 1973 at 4:00PM exactly. I had a difficult pregnancy beginning in the second or third week with a condition called hyperemesis. I lost twenty pounds, and was regularly dehydrated and hospitalized several times due to constant nausea and vomiting that prevented me from keeping anything in my stomach. So when I was presented with a beautiful seven-pound, nine-ounce, thirteen and three-quarter inch long baby boy, with ten fingers and ten toes\u2014and everything else in the right place\u2014I was exalted as I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d have a healthy baby with all my prenatal woes.\nThe mother/son bond had already begun to be formed the moment I knew I had conceived. Having been sexually abused for six years as a child, as a young teen, I was taken with Jonathan\u2019s father\u2014charismatic and a smooth talker. He was older than I and since life on the home front was chaotic even still, I was idealistic, as are most teenagers, and fantasized that this older, more mature man could take me away like a knight in shining armor. Then, he\u2019d provide a home for me with a white picket fence, a dog and two cats, and, lastly, children. However, I was seriously wrong about that man\u2019s real intentions for me and my fantasy quickly turned into a nightmare.\nOnce he knew I was pregnant, however, he did ask for my hand in marriage. I adamantly refused his offer on the grounds that my baby and I did not need such a man with his temper and propensity for violence\u2014among other disturbing character flaws. Even though I no longer wanted the man, I cherished with all my heart the product of conception growing rapidly inside my tender womb and continued to nurture a spiritual, emotional, and psychological bond between the two of us that, in later years, seemed to others to be unique. I loved this child, who had been conceived in rape, with all I had to give. (I instinctively knew I was carrying a male child.)\nWHEN JONATHAN DIED\nOn Saturday June 13, 2002, I and two friends, one visiting from Wisconsin, were having sushi. I left home around 6PM. I returned home around 12 Midnight to find that I had several messages on my voice mail\u2014which was unusual at that time of night. I immediately retrieved my messages, finding the first voice to be Jo\u2019el\u2019s, Jonathan\u2019s fianc\u00e9e. She was clearly perturbed as she said simply, \u201cMs. Taylor! Call me! Jonathan\u2026.!\u201d She hung up. I thought I\u2019d have to intercede in an argument they were having, which was rare. The next voice was Jo\u2019el\u2019s sister\u2019s, crying and saying, Ms. Taylor, please call us. We\u2019ve been trying to reach you all day. Please call us.\u201d The next few messages were hang-ups. The last message was Jo\u2019el\u2019s sister again, crying and saying, \u201cMs. Taylor, will you please call us at this number (she gave the number) or call me on my cell phone (she gave that number). I called her home number and asked for Jo\u2019el. Jo\u2019el came to the phone. She sounded unusually calm compared to her earlier distraught voice when she\u2019d left the first message. She said, \u201cYes?\u201d I asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s Jonathan?\u201d The two words that followed changed my life forever. She said, \u201cHe\u2019s dead.\u201d\nAfter less than a second of shock, I began to scream, \u201cNO! NO! HOW?!\u201d She said, \u201cHe shot himself in the head.\u201d I repeatedly cried, \u201cNO! NO! NO!\u201d Jo\u2019el repeatedly answered, \u201cYES! YES! YES!\u201d I wanted to ask \u201cWhat kind of a sick person are you to play such a dastardly joke on me like this??\u201d I didn\u2019t say that, though\u2014because I knew Jo\u2019el would never do anything like that. Even though my body heaved back and forth and up and down in that chair, and my mouth continually yelled out, \u201cNO!\u201d, I was never in denial. I knew in my deepest parts that my only son, my only child, was dead. I don\u2019t know how much time passed as we cried. My insides moaned and groaned animalistically. He was gone. My Jonathan was gone.\nHE LEFT A SUICIDE NOTE ON MY HEART\nThe day he committed suicide (June 8, 2002), we spoke on the phone. He told me how depressed he had been. He admitted to his mother that all the medications he had been on for years had never helped. He said he had never gotten better. (I understand now that he was glaringly Bipolar\u2014not Schizophrenic; so, the medications could not have helped him.) My Jonathan hid his real deterioration from us who love him most\u2014for our sakes. After he told me what he did, I responded by encouraging him to tell his doctor exactly what he had told me and in the same manner. He had an appointment to see his doctor in two days. He assured me that he would do that. I know now that he had other, more pressing plans.\nWe spoke again that day. My Jonathan sounded very irritated. When we ended a visit or phone conversation, we\u2019d never say bye; rather, we\u2019d say, \u201cI love you. Peace.\u201d However, when irritable, he\u2019d just hang up, and that\u2019s what he did this time.\nWe spoke again that day. His mood seemed to have totally changed. He declared with a certain power which I can\u2019t explain, \u201cI love you, Ma!\u201d I said, \u201cI love you, too!\u201d I knew we were both smiling. Then we said, \u201cPeace, I love you\u201d, and hung up. Those were our last words and they give me comfort at times to know he loved me and was not angry with me shortly before he shot himself with a .38 caliber at point blank range in the right temple area.\nA TRIBUTE TO HIS MOTHER\nSeveral years before his death, before he even showed the depressive side of Bipolar Disorder, he dedicated a song to me written by Tupac. He said he\u2019d been looking for some way to tell me how he felt about me. I was amazed! Most of the words fit our lives exactly. I listen to \u201cDear Mama\u201d more often now and feel so blessed that my Jonathan thought me worthy of it. Some of the pertinent lines are as follows:\nDear Mama, by Tupac\nYou always were the Black queen, Mama.\nI finally understand for a woman\nIt ain\u2019t easy trying to raise a man.\nYou always were committed.\nA poor, single mother on welfare,\nTell me how you did it.\nThere\u2019s no way I can pay you back\nBut the plan is to show you that I understand.\nLady, don\u2019t you know I love you, sweet lady?\nDear Mama.\nPlace no one above you, sweet lady.\nNow ain\u2019t nobody tell me it was fair,\nNo love for my daddy\nCause my daddy wasn\u2019t there\u2026\nWhen I was low, you were there for me.\nYou never left me alone because you cared for me.\nI can see you coming home after work late.\nYou\u2019re in the kitchen trying to fix me a hot plate.\nJust working with the scraps you were given\u2014\nAnd, Mama, you made miracles every Thanksgiving.\nThere\u2019s no way I can pay you back,\nBut my plan is to show you that I understand.\nAnd Dear Mama,\nI sit there and I reminisce,\nCause I can always depend on my Mama.\nWhen it seems that I\u2019m hopeless\nYou say the words that can get me back in focus.\nTo keep me happy there\u2019s no limit to the things you did.\nAre full of all the sweet things you did for me.\nAnd even though I act crazy, I gotta thank the Lord that you made me.\nThere are no words that can express how I feel.\nYou never kept a secret\u2014always stayed real.\nAnd now I appreciate how you raised me\nAnd all the extra love that you gave me.\nI wish I could take (your) pain away\nIf you can make it through the night there\u2019s a brighter day.\nEverything will be alright if you hold on.\nIt\u2019s a struggle everyday, gotta roll on.\nYou are appreciated. Lady, don\u2019t you know I love you?\nSweet lady, place no one above you, sweet lady.\nAnd dear Mama\u2026Dear Mama.\nA SPECIAL YOUNG MAN, INDEED\nA few weeks after the funeral, my nephew came to talk with me. He was like a brother to my Jonathan. He told me about some of the conversations they\u2019d had and he talked about the myriad of things they\u2019d done together. My nephew admitted to me that he idolized my young man. He said he wondered how this little guy (Jonathan) won the respect of guys twice his size. My nephew finally figured it out. He said Jonathan wasn\u2019t afraid of anything\u2014except his mother. He\u2019d dread coming home from school after he\u2019d been suspended for fighting or something and having to face me, his mother. My nephew told me that my Jonathan pushed everything to the limit. They escaped, he said, death so, so many times. I knew that my young man seemed to need an excessive amount of excitement. For instance, he\u2019d go white water rafting in dangerous waters. I know now that he was probably manic during those times my nephew spoke of.\nWith guys, Bipolar Disorder usually begins with the manic phase, as opposed to the depressive phase first manifesting itself in girls. My young man\u2019s fearlessness won him respect and popularity all over the city. Everywhere we went, the girls loved him. Even in elementary school, a teacher revealed to me that she constantly had to tell girls to leave Jonathan alone. Jonathan was special. He was charismatic and confident, participating in talent shows imitating Michael Jackson amazingly to the astonishment of my nephew and other students\u2014fearlessly. Maybe our Lord answered my prayers to grant Jonathan favor in the eyes of those with whom he had to do. For a little while.\nAdoringly submitted by\nAndrea R. Taylor,\nJonathan\u2019s mom/ART.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 9719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roanokemennonite.org/visitors/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AIKKRAS2GOWG4WFDH6E25MIDS75KKFEE", "length": 679, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "roanokemennonite.org", "title": "Vision & Mission", "raw_content": "Our Purpose & Our Vision\nRoanoke Mennonite Church is committed to following Jesus Christ in our daily living. As a member of the Mennonite Church USA, we support each other in worship, nurture each other through fellowship, and share God\u2019s love and peace in our communities and beyond.\nRoanoke Mennonite Church strives daily to be a vital congregation by:\nEncountering God in fresh ways; being transformed through the mystery of God\u2019s presence;\nNurturing healthy relationships; using spiritual gifts and common fellowship to build up the body of Jesus Christ;\nJoyously sharing ourselves and our resources so that God\u2019s healing and hope flow through us to our community and world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertberezin.com/real-psychiatry-and-darwinian-evolution-are-one-and-the-same-molecular-psychiatry-has-missed-the-forest-for-the-trees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NN6RSTZYCOOVABS6CMWZRZPNMU5N5E7F", "length": 11946, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "robertberezin.com", "title": "Real Psychiatry and Darwinian Evolution are One and the Same. Molecular psychiatry has missed the forest for the trees. \u2013 Robert Berezin, M.D.", "raw_content": "The basic principle for the development of human personality is the very same as Darwinian evolution. The issue at hand is not the origin of the species, but the creation of individual personality. We humans are purely biological creatures, like all other creatures. There is only a 4 percent difference in the DNA of a human and a chimpanzee, which accounts for our species uniqueness. We even have a 60 percent overlap of our DNA with that of a fruit fly. A cheetah has its exquisite muscular physicality. An eagle has its feathered predatory arrogance.\nThe unique and distinguishing feature of our biological adaptation is the human theater of consciousness. Our entire consciousness evolved to serve the functioning of the organism. Human consciousness is our medium through which we engage and live the human life. We survive, live, and propagate through the characterological world, integrated with the rest of the brain-body.\nIn our quest to understand human biology, we have lost our way. We are looking in all the wrong places. The human organism from the beginning adapts to its salient environment. We can trace our adaptations from a zygote, to an embryo, to a fetus, to a newborn, a baby, a toddler, a child, an adolescent, all the way to adulthood. This also tells us how psychiatric problems arise, and informs us of the appropriate and effective treatment. All of the issues of psychiatry operate on this level of adaptation.\nYou and I began with our parents. Out of the sixty million sperm that entered and swam through Mother\u2019s vagina, cervix, uterus and fallopian tube, your particular sperm won the great race. It penetrated the membrane of your-egg and injected its DNA. And so the DNA of those two meiotic cells hooked up, and we got you \u2013 a one-celled living organism\u2014a zygote. At implantation, we turn into an embryo. As such we began morphing furiously. At one point, the embryo is without a heart, and then one appeared and it was beating. In conjunction with a heart, we morphed some of our cells into a circulatory system and blood cells. And so on and so forth. Even though an embryo doesn\u2019t really go through every stage of evolutionary history, in a rough sense we do recapitulate phylogeny. After beginning as an ameba, we morph into an invertebrate. Then we grow a spine and become a fish. Our gill arches will later morph into facial and throat muscles that would be used for talking in a few years. Then we turn into an amphibian. Once we had a tail, and then it was gone. But we did get arms and legs. Primitive organ systems came and went and changed and migrated and got supplanted and re-used. Brain tissues and nerves appeared and developed.\nThe most active locus of fetal morphogenesis is the brain. Throughout the entire seven-month fetal period, we produce, on average, three million brain cells per minute. At peak times, neural cell replication takes just an hour and a half. By adulthood, our brain is composed of a trillion cells, a hundred billion of which would be neurons. Not surprisingly, half of our DNA is devoted to the development of the brain.\nOur brain is body. Our brain morphogenesis is body. Our salient environment in utero is our mother\u2019s womb. Once we attain consciousness at about six weeks old, our germane environment is responsiveness, emotional deprivation, and abuse. Each of us fields and digests our experience through the unique constellation of our temperament. The four elements of temperament are Internalization/Externalization, Introversion/Extroversion, Active/Passive, and Participant/Observer. (See \u201cThe Nature-Nurture question \u2013 Nature. The role of nature comes from our genetic temperament.\u201d) Each one of us is absolutely unique. I may process by being an Internalizer, Extrovert, Active, and Participant. You may be an Externalizer, Introvert, Passive, and Observer. We are all somewhere on an axis of those dynamics. With each dynamic we can range from 90-10, 60-40, or be balanced. And one temperamental element may be stronger or weaker in its influence. Each of us then fields the unique actualities of responsiveness, deprivation, or abuse in our emotional environment through our temperament. By six weeks old we begin to write a play in consciousness. Initially consciousness is too immature to create representational form. At that point we only have the \u2018feeling of our being\u2019. By age three we mature into representational consciousness where we create a three dimensional drama with personas, feeling relationships between them, scenarios, plots, set designs, and landscapes. Once our play consolidates, the rest of our experience is always filtered through the existent play in consciousness, which influences our ongoing experience. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. When we reach adulthood, we consolidate our character. Our characters are as unique as our fingerprints. No two snowflakes are alike, but we are all snowflakes.\nContemporary psychiatry has focused on the molecular level of the brain, on hormones, or neurotransmitters, on genetic abnormalities, nucleic acids, on epigenetics, on false theories of brain diseases, etc. We have missed the forest for the trees.\nPsychiatric researchers don\u2019t even see the trees anymore, nor the wood, but our search is on the level of its fiber properties \u2013 the chemical composition of cellulose, lignin, and other chemicals. And then they conclude that drugs are the appropriate treatment, as if pharmaceuticals can treat what ails us. This is an insult to the complexity of the human condition.\nAll the issues of psychiatry operate purely on the human and social level, not the molecular level. And it\u2019s appropriate treatments do as well.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. I love neuroscience and the study of the brain. They teach us the mechanics as to how the whole thing operates. I am in awe of Sebastian Seung\u2019s Connectome project. And Matt Faw\u2019s brilliant paper \u2013which illuminates the centrality of the hippocampus in consciousness. See \u2013 \u201cFull Subjective Experience is a Hippocampal Simulation\u201d. These teach us the mechanics as to how the unbelievably complicated brain operates. However, biological psychiatry, neurology, and neuroscience in general, have pre-empted a claim on what is biological. They have defined biology as the domain of physical brain structure; brain organization, brain anatomy, and functional brain centers; neurotransmitters; hormones; information learned from studying brain lesions; and activated patterns of neurons that can be seen in brain scans associated with certain localized functions. There is a great deal of knowledge to be appreciated from these approaches. Unfortunately, their orientation has mistaken the parts for the whole. They have ignored the brain\u2019s most important biological manifestation of all \u2013 the culmination of our adaptations results in the organization of our personality as the \u2018play of consciousness\u2019.\nWe should not confuse the operational mechanics of the brain with how people actually function in the living of a life. The component parts of brain functioning all work together in concert in the service of the central biological creation of the human genome \u2013 the play of consciousness.\nThis specific production of the human brain is the unique adaptational feature of our Darwinian evolution\u2014the defining characteristic of what it is to be human. It is the central organizing function of our biological lives and the fulfilled manifestation of our biology.\nWhen we consider the evolution of the human species, what makes us human is not defined by the unique human functions, such as opposable thumbs, abstract thinking, reasoning, or computational abilities\u2014those are good. The defining feature of our species is the synthetic \u2018play\u2019 of human consciousness. The evolution of the structure and function of the limbic-cortical brain is at one with the creation of the play. The morphology, organized structures, and pathways of complex neuronal webs throughout its architecture create the patterns of patterns of patterns that enable the characterological drama. This is the cortical processing that allows for the meaning and coherence of our moment-to-moment functioning in life. The creation of images of personas, their emotional relatedness, and life plots\u2014the full range of tragedy and comedy\u2014is the drama. It constitutes the top-down processing of our individual selves and our emotional and relationship life. The coherence of human consciousness is the highest level of order of the human genome. We walk around all day long, each of us, in this brain-body synthetic bubble of consciousness, our genetic endowment.\nThe characterological drama of human consciousness is our adaptation to and is consonant with living the human life\u2014the life of the individual and relatedness to others.\nIt encompasses our surviving, our child rearing, our imagination, and our culture. It allows us to function as the individual and social animals we are. It creates the meaning landscape of human experience. This landscape encompasses the symbolic representations of human experience\u2014self, others, relationship, and drama\u2014in myths, narratives, literature, art, nursery rhymes, songs, movies, hieroglyphics, plays, belief systems, dance, journalism, cave paintings, fashion, religious incantations, and theologies.\nAll psychiatric issues reflect problems in our play of consciousness. They have nothing to do with neurotransmitters or molecular psychiatry. They are to be addressed on the human level with good psychotherapy.\nIn the context of therapy we can mourn the pain of our problematic \u2018plays\u2019 which allows us to write new ones. This alleviates psychiatric symptoms and fosters our capacity for authenticity and love. See \u2013 \u201cPsychotherapy is the real deal. It is the effective treatment.\u201d\nTags: Adaptation, Biology, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature-Nurture, Pharmaceuticals, play of consciousness, Psychiatry, psychotherapy, Top Down Processing\nEvery other organ in the body is affected and can have defects at the molecular level. Except for the most complex one. Yep, that sounds about right.\nI can understand the misconception that so-called ADHD and depression look like physical illnesses, defects or diseases. All behavior is manifest in the brain, so the logic would follow that there\u2019s something wrong with the wiring, or the chemistry, etc, but that\u2019s what is being challenged here. Most neurological disease and defects are very specific, and are not nearly as common as people seem to think. Look at autism, myasthenia gravis, or tourette\u2019s syndrome.\nADHD and Depression are another story. There is no established theory of why giving people speed is supposed to help the symptoms of \u2018ADHD.\u2019 There is also no established \u2018normal\u2019 baseline of serotonin in anyone\u2019s brain. Yet that doesn\u2019t stop doctors from prescribing drugs that drastically alter those neurotransmitter levels. It\u2019s a blind treatment and there are grave side effects.\nMy understanding of Dr Berezin\u2019s point is that we have to change our orientation. We have to differentiate what conditions arise from something pathologically wrong with the brain vs those conditions that arise from something pathologically wrong with our lives, our autobiographies, or in his parlance, our plays.\nProblematic plays DO change the brain, but it\u2019s the play that\u2019s the problem, not the tissue and chemicals that support our consciousness. Additionally, he presents a treatment for these problems, the mourning of trauma. That treatment allows the neurological mapping of the old damaging play to recede and the symptoms of depression begin to fade as a result.\nWould you like to present any alternatives or thoughtful critique? I only ask because I found your comment typical of blog trolling \u2013 shallow and goading.\nSay \u2018No\u2019 to the Fiction of Brain Diseases. Towards a new psychiatry for... What is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother\u2019s Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 16013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertberezin.com/reflections-on-montage-of-heck-the-life-and-art-of-kurt-cobain-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:XBPD3RYIOMP5WSKSIKXQBRAIS2HZNQNO", "length": 16359, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "robertberezin.com", "title": "Reflections on \u2018Montage of Heck\u2019. The Life and Art of Kurt Cobain \u2013 Robert Berezin, M.D.", "raw_content": "Montage of Heck, the life of Kurt Cobain, is a very disturbing and powerful documentary. Cobain is the poster child for emotional devastation. And yet, at the same time, there is something in his music which resonates powerfully with his generation. Brett Morgen, the writer and director, beautifully and painfully captures the dialogue of his life with his art. Montage of Heck traces Kurt\u2019s life through home movies, his extensive drawings from an early age, animations of his drawings, his music and concerts, stories told through interviews with the key figures of his life, and actual videos and movies of scenes from his life.\nI don\u2019t make it a practice to analyze people from afar. In general one never knows the true story behind the story. But this documentary is so biographical that it gives us such a clear window into what happened to Kurt and how he became who he was. No generalization will capture his essence or his art. Kurt, like all of us, evolved his character as the culmination of how his temperament digested his emotional environment of responsiveness, abuse, and deprivation. This interplay in each of us writes a play in the theater of our consciousness. Kurt became who he was as a result of this internal scenario.\nThis documentary affords us a rare and tragic view as to how it all got established and played itself out \u2013 his pain, his shame, his inability to relate, his drug addiction, his art, his suicide.\nKurt\u2019s problematic life trajectory was set early in his life, and it continued to degenerate from there, through no fault of his own. The early footage shows his early years. His mother, who says she doted on him, was to abandon him nine years later, which does not reflect a devoted mother. Father was distant, strict, and uninvolved. Kurt was active, impulsive, and unrestrained. His early drawings, which were a constant all throughout his life, shows conflict and uncertainty. He also took to music at an extremely young age. I deduce from what we can see that there was a significant degree of deprivation and abuse at an early age. [In contrast see \u2013 \u201cWhat is Love? On Maternal Love\u201d]\nHis parents had a painful divorce when he was nine which he never got over.\nKurt felt a deep sense of shame, desperation and abandonment. He always longed for an intact family.\nHe became defiant and withdrawn. His mother chose an abusive relationship over Kurt and kicked him out of the house. He lived with his father who soon remarried. Kurt tortured his new siblings, and his father kicked him out as well. Kurt then lived with a number of relatives and occasionally his mother and sister. Nothing was stable. He immediately started drinking and smoking marijuana. He was actively suicidal by thirteen. Kurt became an insolent loner and a bully. Because of his small size he was ridiculed and humiliated. He was alienated and filled with hatred. Kurt dropped out of high school, and lived with a girl who supported and tried to mother him. He did every drug imaginable, a lot of acid, and started heroin in 1986. He soon gravitated to the Seattle grunge music scene.\nI will piece together Kurt\u2019s temperament which comes across very clearly. He was an Internalizer, Active, Introverted, and an Observer. Let\u2019s go through each element: Internalizer/Externalizer \u2013 An Internalizer who is subject to the trauma of abuse and deprivation retains an internal figure of an abuser persona inside his theater. As such in the context of sadomasochistic play, the abuser figure on the inside attacks the abused \u2018self\u2019. The rage is tuned inwards. This takes form as self-hate \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m bad; I\u2019m inadequate, I\u2019m stupid, I\u2019m ugly,\u201d etc. In the context of shaming abuse, an Internalizer feels \u201cashamed\u201d.\nExternalizers, unlike Kurt, locate and experience the trauma of abuse as coming from other people. An Externalizer\u2019s orientation is as a blamer. As such, he would be inclined to blame, and fight with others. For example, from a legacy of shaming abuse, an Externalize experiences a rage at being \u201cshamed\u201d by a person outside him, as opposed to feeling \u201cashamed\u201d. [See \u2013 \u201cThe Nature-Nurture Question \u2013 Nature. The role of \u2018Nature\u2019 comes from our genetic temperament.\u201d]\nKurt was filled with self-hate, shame, and self-attack. His shame would lead him to live in degradation and filth. This was consonant with his inner sense of himself. It would lead him to numb his pain with drugs. As it turns out the specific drug that numbs out the aggression of self hate is heroin. But like all drugs, it doesn\u2019t work.\nKurt\u2019s songs reveal his Internalizer orientation.\nBut that\u2019s ok, \u2018cause so are you\u2026\n[Nevermind \u2013 Lithium]\n\u201cI was drawn into you magnet tar pit trap\nI wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back\u201d\n[In Utero \u2013 Heart-shaped Box]\n[Nevermind \u2013 ]\nWaste me,\nTaste me, my friend\u2026\nAppreciate you concern\nYou\u2019ll always stink and burn\u201d\n[In Utero- Rape Me]\n\u201cI won my own pet virus\n[In Utero- Milk It]\n[In Utero-All Apologies]\nActive/Passive \u2013 Active children sit and walk and climb early in childhood. They take off at the beach. The active child is naturally physical, physically expressive, and action-oriented. They are easily bored, need to run around a lot, may have short attention spans, except when they are interested. They can be fidgety, impulsive, and concentrate poorly. This describes Kurt to a tee. [See \u2013 \u201cHow an Active or Passive Temperament orients our Personality\u201d ].\nWith an Active temperament we need to look at the degree of responsiveness, abuse, and deprivation that is digested into our plays of consciousness. In Kurt\u2019s early life the family was problematic. There was considerable sadistic aggression and the absence of loving. This became even more magnified with the abandonments and fighting that followed after the divorce, along with the absence of a stable family from then on. In the context of deprivation and abuse, kids like Kurt are prone to spin out of control. Kurt was falsely defined as having the made up brain disease \u2013 ADHD and was given Ritalin at a young age. This did not help. We can see that the things Kurt gravitated to were what he was interested in \u2013 a rich drawing life and music. For these he had endless concentration.\nWhat Kurt really needed were especially good enough boundaries and love, with safety and security, certainly not abandonments.\nThis is what an active child needs to fulfill himself. Kurt expressed his impulsive rage by bullying and abusing his step brothers and sisters and other kids. He lacked compassion for the feelings of others. In relation to being subject to emotional deprivation and abandonment he didn\u2019t trust anybody, but had love-hate dependencies on unreliable people. Kurt acted on his impulses especially when humiliated, ridiculed, or betrayed. He had been suicidal since he was thirteen. He had OD\u2019d on heroin many times. Then, in a fit of jealousy and rage, and fear of abandonment, he overdosed on Rohypnol\u2019s in Rome. A month later, On April 8, 1994. He ended his life with a bullet to the brain. He was twenty-seven years old.\n[Nevermind-Endless Nameless]\nIntroversion/Extroversion \u2013 Introversion means that the scenario of the play is oriented from the point of view of oneself, while an extrovert operates from the point of view of other people. Introversion literally means to turn inward. The primary reference of an introvert is his own self, not other people. He is self-oriented. the introvert is naturally oriented to his own internal endeavors and creative imagination, which come out of his self. The literal meaning of extroversion is to turn outwards. An extrovert\u2019s primary reference is with the self of the other person, not his own self. The extrovert is other-oriented. He is naturally tuned into what is going on inside the other person. [See \u2013 \u201cIntroversion/Extroversion\u201d]\nWe can see that Kurt was primarily involved with his creative imagination as his primary frame of reference. Being tuned into the feelings of others was not his strong suit. An introvert who has been subject to abuse tends toward narcissism. As such, his \u201cme\u201d orientation takes on a new dimension. It focuses on himself as the injured party. He is furious and outraged at slights and injuries directed at him from others. He leads with an exposed nerve and indignantly feels, \u201cHow dare you treat me this way?\u201d\nWe can see that Kurt\u2019s introversion was his strength and his tragic flaw.\nHe was consumed with drawing from an early age. He drew all throughout his life. He was a very good artist, and expressed himself powerfully through his visual images. Likewise, he focused on his music with fierce perfectionism \u2013 writing and rewriting the music and the words over and over again. His images, his music and his lyrics were always true to his inner voice.\nHis voice was a voice of pain, rage, anguish, despair, self hate, shame, and murder. His singing voice was a harsh, gravelly monotone scream, which pierced like a knife. The instruments were thrashing and violent, which stands in contrast to the hidden melodies which are surprisingly gentle, plaintive and beautiful behind the mask. This contrast creates a stark dissonance of feeling, between lilting beauty and pain.\nThe dark side of Kurt\u2019s narcissism is that his frame of reference was only about him and no one else. He wrote:\n\u201cI don\u2019t care what you think unless\nIt is about me\nA travel through a tube and end up in your infection\u201d\n[Nevermind \u2013 Drain You]\nWhen Kurt quit High school, he moved in with his girlfriend. She worked and stole for him, while he slept all day in squalor and drew and wrote songs. He felt entitled and had no misgivings about draining her dry.\nNarcissist\u2019s are easily injured and hurt. When he felt ridiculed, abandoned, or jealous it threw him into despair, anguish, and rage. With his Internalizer voice it turned into self hate and shame. With his Active temperament he readily acted on impulse without regard for anybody else\u2019s feeling. It never occurred to him to raise his daughter in a wholesome fashion.\nHe and Courtney Love, his wife, lived a life of heroin squalor, filth and disorder. When he OD\u2019d he didn\u2019t care about even his young daughter. With his suicide, his only concern, tragically, was to end his pain, with no thoughts of others.\nParticipant/Observer \u2013 The orientation as Participant or Observer determines how one relates to the people and scenarios of the play of consciousness as a whole. A Participant is naturally oriented to be immersed in and emotionally involved with others. He easily and naturally engages through feeling. The natural orientation of an observer, on the other hand, is to process at a distance, rather than be immersed in the feeling relatedness of the scenario of the play. An Observer tends toward thinking, and emotional removal. . [See \u2013 \u201cAre you a Participant or an Observer?\u201d].\nKurt was an Observer. As such he was removed from feeling and relationships. His observations about his life and his reality were perspicacious. As an outsider, he was removed and not a part of things. You can see it in his band interviews, were he usually seems preoccupied off someplace else. He kept to himself, and focused on his private preoccupations. The pull to drugs was geared to numb himself from feelings, to blot himself out. From behind his music screen he screamed his pain.\n\u201cI\u2019m a negative Creep\nAnd I\u2019m stoned\u201d\n[Bleach \u2013 Negative Creep]\nI\u2019m not worth it\nGimme back my alcohol\u2026\n[Bleach \u2013 Scoff]\nIt was understood by the Greeks that there was a function for theater and art. Through art, life\u2019s tragedies could be enacted on stage where the audience could vicariously participate in a drama, and live through it in their imagination. Otherwise, in a world with no art, people would enact the dramas in reality. Without an imaginary war in art, there would be a real war in life. Certain artists like Kurt Cobain put their art into the world. Music is the art form that communicates feeling directly. Kurt couldn\u2019t connect in feeling in his real life, which is so much the story of a life of extreme pain. But he could express it in art.\nHe took the extreme pain of the world into himself and put it out there into the music.\nKurt lived the extreme of a tormented life. In his own beautiful and ugly way, he sacrificed himself for us through his art. He was pure in it. He didn\u2019t hold back. Kurt suffered in his life from the consequence of emotional deprivation and abuse. I have tried to describe why Kurt had four strikes against him and he couldn\u2019t find his way home. This in no way is meant to reduce him, but to try to understand what happened. As a psychiatrist I would have done everything I could to deal with and help him mourn his pain. His suicide is a tragedy and in no way is it ennobling. His squalor and drug use could have potentially been dealt with. His shame and self hatred, his inability for feeling is such a tragedy not of his own making. His personal issues are purely human issues that derived from his circumstances. This is a human story, not some biochemical brain disease. We need to encompass this tragic story. All of our stories are human stories. It is equally disturbing to me that his music resonates so readily with his generation. Something in this speaks to the dissolution of the fabric of intact families and an intact culture, where so many individuals resonate with such shame and pain and anguish. I wish this were not so.\nIt is my hope that his sacrifice will help us all live through him vicariously in art, as an alternative to living it out in reality.\nTags: active/passive, Anguish, Externalizer/Internalizer, heroin, Introvert/Extrovert, kurt cobain, montage of heck, music, nevermind, nirvana, participant/observer, Shame, suicide\nI, unlike Kurt, had a very happy childhood. A mother and father who both loved me deeply, and who have always been there for me in spite of my severe bipolar brain disease/disorder. My mother in particular has shown a fierce determination of love, compassion and caring towards me, which I feel has saved my life from the pain I have experienced going on 20 years now. To call my condition agony would not do the word justice. I have lost more that is dear to me than most could imagine or survive, and it is only because of my loving family and support of many good friends \u2013 I have developed extraordinary social skills to make up for the weeks at a time that I \u201ccheck out\u201d from reality and caring \u2013 that I am still here today. My condition was not caused by deprivation, pain, lack. I have been well provided for my entire life. I have been lucky enough to go to college, and even get a graduate degree, not common for someone with bipolar disorder. I have also avoided addiction, another mammoth stumbling block that takes many, such as Kurt, to their early graves. I have fought my disease tooth and nail for two decades, and have made more lifestyle changes than most would fathom to combat my \u201cdown\u201d periods, to no avail. Regardless of my life choices, my plague returns every time. Maybe for some their condition was caused by nurture, not nature\u2026perhaps the vast majority. Mine, however, was not caused by nurture, and only someone who has personally combated this disease in their own minds for as long as I have can understand this. I would like to think from my (hopefully, moderately) eloquent statements here that I have demonstrated an intelligence that is quite capable of discerning my own predicament; in fact, I am a writer myself and have used this outlet to express my own life\u2019s story to good effect. But I must strongly disagree that all those who suffer from my disease are somehow here in this place I have now occupied for 20 years because of our environment(s). It belittles the love and unrelenting support that I have experienced through all my days, and places the onus on people and circumstances instead of the biochemistry that is happening within my head. In fact, my young daughter has a much higher chance of developing my condition, regardless of that fact she has a strong, loving mother and a father who will do his best to always stand beside her and share whatever wisdom he\u2019s gleaned over the years, to help her carry through her condition if it should befall her.\nWhat is Love? An Ode to Motherhood on Mother\u2019s Day Was pleased to receive such a nice tweet from Brett Morgen, the writer/director...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 21263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cdrev/lewis-ble.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:E3F7MLRNSITJVIBYTXGQAKEATCTZJ7II", "length": 824, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "robertchristgau.com", "title": "Robert Christgau: Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing", "raw_content": "He's outlived Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash--now he's an old man beloved by slightly-less-old men\nEat his shorts, Frank Sinatra--this duets album is not another pathetic youthening move by a superannuated icon. Half a century after \"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On\" shook the world, Jerry Lee Lewis will be 70 on its release date, but the mean age of his 22 partners is 63. It is, however, a duets album, so it waxes and wanes. Merle Haggard is tired, Ringo Starr generic, Kid Rock an oaf, etc. On the other hand, to hear Keith Richards caterwaul on \"That Kind of Fool,\" Mick Jagger match the auteur's hauteur on \"Evening Gown,\" Jimmy Page decline to boogie on \"Rock and Roll\" or John Fogerty set a land-speed record on \"Travelin' Band\" is to eavesdrop on the mythic. And that's what everyone involved is selling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rockyparenting.com/blog/2768-how-to-enjoy-your-garden-more-this-holiday-season-12-photos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RVIVYTNNEGIDQKHIWPME2CVYAYFVNJCB", "length": 370, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "rockyparenting.com", "title": "How to Enjoy Your Garden More This Holiday Season (12 photos)", "raw_content": "How to Enjoy Your Garden More This Holiday Season (12 photos)\nColder weather and shorter days tend to make us feel like hunkering down indoors, but a dose of fresh air can be just what we need this busy season. Whether you\u2019re looking for ways to entertain friends out-of-doors or would like to escape the house for a bit of peace and quiet yourself, here are 10 ideas...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rteamnw.com/2017/01/10/quicken-loans-parent-acquires-mortgage-shopping-website-lowermybills-com-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:XCAKY4HISHY6GMFSRLLUCXRWQJLGW6J7", "length": 397, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rteamnw.com", "title": "Quicken Loans parent acquires mortgage shopping website LowerMyBills.com - R TeamNW", "raw_content": "Rock Holdings, the parent company of Quicken Loans, announced Friday that it is expanding its portfolio with the acquisition of LowerMyBills and ClassesUSA from Core Digital Media. The acquisition of LowerMyBills.com is an interesting one, considering that the site is a financial services comparison site, which allows consumers to shop around for various financial products, including mortgages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 94.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rungo.link/eda-i-puteshestviya/248-world-map-karta.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:B6336JWEENG3BDS4A7WWBTMN7EJOJ57B", "length": 3749, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "rungo.link", "title": "Map of the World - rungo.link", "raw_content": "I couldn\u2019t see the sky; it was a total smog around me. Then I\u2019d felt this smog inside me, my body and thoughts. Couple seconds later I was sure that I was dissolved like sugar in hot water; I became the part of this condition. I was in China.\nI was almost like Johnny-cake. I\u2019ve run away from my mother, my father, my ex-boyfriends, my unbearable rent apartment, low-paid work and from the war. I can only hope China is not a tricky fox.\nI\u2019ve made the rebranding of myself. I\u2019ve changed my name, cut my long hair. I was getting rid of negative energy. And by the way I changed my values. Several years ago I thought that real estate is the best investment, and that it is very safe to keep your savings in bank. And that was my aim \u2013 to work, to buy the house and to save money, just like a part of American dream. The war changed my vision; it explained me that it was the fairy tale for fools like me.\nRight now I\u2019m happy I\u2019m alive. My relatives are also in good health. We are homeless but at the same time I can say that the Earth is my home. And right now I am not chained, I am free. The war has cleaned my mind; it shows me how it\u2019s necessary to enjoy ordinary things of daily life. This is the main reason why I\u2019m here; I\u2019ve decided to realize my dream, because tomorrow it can be late.\nRight now I\u2019m sure that the best investment is I: my health, my knowledge and my experience.\nIt was in \u201cWar and Peace\u201d: Life just starts at 33. It\u2019s all about me. Tolstoy was stylish man, just like lumberjack of our time.\nI know exactly that nobody can run away from your own. I know that flapping of butterfly wings could stir up the ocean. The war wherever it happens is the problem of everyone in the world. You can\u2019t say you don\u2019t care about it, or it is far from you and it\u2019s not your problem. You just can\u2019t do this!\nNow I\u2019m sure that the peace is not a rule, peace is exclusion. I\u2019m searching for my own peace; I think it\u2019s inside each of us. This is the second reason why I\u2019m here \u2013 in China. I don\u2019t mean meditation or something like this, perhaps it is all about broad-mindedness. I\u2019m eager to see not only black and white sides and primitively divide people and situations as good or bad. Just like in old parable \u201cNever know what is good and what is bad\u201d. If you don\u2019t know it, I\u2019ll tell you.\nThe old man bought the horse. The neighbor came and said:\nYou are so lucky, now you have a horse!\nNobody knows what is good and what is bad, \u2013 answered the old man.\nOne day old man\u2019s son was riding the horse, failed and broke his leg. The neighbor came and said:\nWhat a misfortune. Your son has broken his leg.\nSuddenly the war started. All young men went to fight except old man\u2019s son, because his leg was broken. The neighbor came and said:\nYou are so lucky! Your son stays with you.\nThe same story happened with me. I still don\u2019t know whether it is good or bad, that the war in my country started, and that our house was destroyed and I was forced to start from the very beginning. I don\u2019t know is it a good idea to come to China. But I\u2019m happy, maybe this is the answer. I don\u2019t know what is in future, but I know I\u2019ll handle it. Perhaps my logical sequence sounds awful. It turns like: I\u2019m happy because of the war. But the truth is much deeper; I don\u2019t know where this chain of events and someone\u2019s decisions started. And also I don\u2019t know how, when and where it will be finished.\nI know only what is happening right now. I\u2019m a Ukrainian girl, who is sitting in Chinese street caf\u00e9, drinking Italian coffee, listening to American jazz and writing essay on English. I\u2019m pretty sure that one day all the boundaries will disappear in minds, at first, and then on political map of the World.\nTags: world map \u043a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430 \u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430 \u043f\u0443\u0442\u0435\u0448\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0438\u044f \u043f\u043e\u0438\u0441\u043a \u0441\u0435\u0431\u044f", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ruukku-journal.fi/en/presentation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BWSWYL6PEIAJVKQMEAVV7QQIAAFUFC5R", "length": 2135, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ruukku-journal.fi", "title": "Ruukku - Presentation", "raw_content": "RUUKKU is a multidisciplinary, multilingual, peer-reviewed journal on artistic research launched in 2013. It is based on the Research Catalogue (RC), an international artistic research platform and database that enables multimedia publication. The primary languages of publication are Finnish, Swedish and English.\nRUUKKU aims to be a top-class research publication and to participate in the development of artistic research that the international Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) has engaged in since 2010. RUUKKU has opted for a publication policy that includes thematic issues, supplements with new initiatives for discussions, a section containing news and topical issues, as well as presentations of unpublished research in progress. By providing the opportunity to use the Finnish language, RUUKKU promotes discussion within Finnish artistic research. Furthermore, its English-language abstracts and publication platform offer Finnish artistic researchers a way to participate in international discussions in the field.\nSimilar to JAR, RUUKKU will function as a portal for expositions, i.e., research articles, authored in the Research Catalogue. RUUKKU is characterised by its multimedia publication format, multidisciplinarity, use of the Finnish language in the context of international artistic research, and published peer reviews as well as the Research Catalogue's search functions and long-term archiving.\nThe RC platform is maintained by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), which was established in 2010 as a vehicle for publishing JAR (the Journal for Artistic Research) and maintaining the Research Catalogue platform. The Society has both individual and institutional members all over the world. A list of the institutions supporting the Society is available at http://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/members.\nFurther information about the Society can be found in the following documents:\nThe University of the Arts is an institutional member of SAR. RUUKKU receives support from the following institutions:\nAalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture\nFaculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sacnoth.com/House/FinalPrep.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:2RHQYUO2GVKFID6PXETMFPRZ4GE2YLPE", "length": 1848, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sacnoth.com", "title": "Final Days and Preparations for sale - June/July 2003", "raw_content": "Final Days and Preparations for sale - June/July 2003\nThe stuff in the house went up for sale, was put in storage, was given away, or taken to charity. We had a handyman fix areas that needed fixing. We had new carpet installed in the family room, the old one was shot and had some burn marks from sparks out of the fireplace. We also did some touch up painting and added color to the family and living rooms by professionals. Here is the family room changes, carpet and an accent wall with Evita checking out the new carpet:\nThe old carpet was off white, the new one is gold to match the wall and blend with the oak flooring.\nHere is the living room with color to play off the fireplace brick:\nWe really liked the changes and wondered why it took selling the house to get us to do the work.\nThe bonus room was finally empty:\nWe hadn't seen much of the floor or walls in the bonus room in years, it was quite a large room but it was where we stored stuff. The bonus room was above the garage and had no closets, a good place for a pool table for someone with less stuff than we had.\nWe took pictures of much of what we put in storage. We won't bore you with them except this hand made doll Diane's grandfather's sister-in-law made:\nAnother small item with no prior picture was the rear speakers in the dining room:\nWhat was left in the house was a few cleaning supplies and light bulbs and the furniture we were trying to sell. What didn't sell was going to St. Vincent de Paul, they will pick up.\nWe took pictures of the house empty, but it was so depersonalized it didn't seem like home any more. Home was a motorhome now. We moved into the motorhome July 8, 2003 so the carpets could be cleaned and drove down the driveway for the last time on the 9th. Until we left the area we came back and made sure it stayed clean and the lights all worked.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salem-news.com/articles/june302011/managing-ptsd-tp.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:28Z", "digest": "sha1:T5OHH4VLQX5WRFPO65YKKW2YRYCOOY3Y", "length": 14179, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "salem-news.com", "title": "PTSD Can be Managed! - Salem-News.Com", "raw_content": "PTSD Can be Managed!\nTom Porpiglia, MS, LMHC, for Salem-News.com\nPTSD is not new. Evidence of PTSD has been around for centuries, going back to the time of the Greek Poet Homer\u2019s Iliad and PTSD does not heal with time if not properly treated.\nTom Porpiglia, MS, EFT-ADV., LMHC and founder of Life Script Counseling Services is a Vietnam Veteran and a licensed mental health counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY.\n(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) - The American military provides the finest training and has the most sophisticated weapons in the world, and the men and women who serve in our armed forces know that personal sacrifice is inherent in the job of service to country.\nSometimes the sacrifice is exposure to trauma that affects emotional and/or physical health. Sometimes the sacrifice is life itself. Spouses and families of military personnel also make huge sacrifices and suffer \"collateral damage\" when their loved one is suffering from the effects of war trauma, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).\nIt takes uncommon courage to face an enemy in combat. It also takes uncommon courage to look your own pain in the eye and not deny it, repress it, run from it, or attempt to anesthetize it. If you\u2019re a veteran who is drinking, smoking, overeating or using drugs etc. it\u2019s because you\u2019re home from the war, but part of your psyche is still stuck there.\nAddictions are anesthesia for pain, and if you have PTSD, you have painful unhealed trauma on your internal \u201chard drive,\u201d your brain. You\u2019re not alone. There are thousands of men and women like you.\nThe macho military culture slaps a \u201cweakness\u201d stigma on PTSD out of ignorance of basic brain physiology. The scientific fact is that PTSD is a trauma-induced brain malfunction that no amount of training, dedication, denial, repression, or willpower can override. One cannot think their way out of PTSD. It is not a psychiatric disorder. It is a conditioned body response causing brain chemistry to go awry, keeping us stuck in a stress response, and we can correct the problem. The military doesn\u2019t stigmatize a person if they get wounded or need surgery, and PTSD is no different.\nThanks to the thousands of Vietnam vets suffering from the devastating consequences of combat trauma, PTSD became a diagnosable condition in 1980. Formerly, the military referred to combat trauma as shell shock or battle fatigue. However, PTSD is not limited to combat veterans. Crime victims, people who witnessed an event such as the World Trade Center attacks, and even abused children can have it too.\nPTSD is not new. Evidence of PTSD has been around for centuries, going back to the time of the Greek Poet Homer\u2019s Iliad and PTSD does not heal with time if not properly treated. In fact, PTSD can sit dormant for years, like a ticking time bomb waiting for the proper combination of events to trigger symptoms. Additionally, people living with someone who has PTSD and health care workers who are constantly exposed to the trauma in some way can develop PTSD.\nTo understand PTSD, one must first have a working understanding and definition of trauma. Trauma is any event or series of repetitive events that threatens our sense of safety and core values about what is right. The event is intensely stressful and there is a real or perceived threat of loss of life, often accompanied by shock.\nTraumatic events can be man-made or natural. Witnessing an event can be just as traumatizing as being a victim. When we think about a past traumatic event it may cause us to feel fear, anger, grief, rejection, guilt, sadness, regret, shame, heartache, etc. The experience is as real as if it happened yesterday. Survivors do not realize they have survived and there is a loss of sense of purpose Severe trauma can cause a psychic numbness. In some cases, we may remember very clearly what happened; we just can't feel any emotion about it. That doesn't mean that the damage has not occurred. It usually means that the emotional charge connected to the event was detoured and pushed down (repressed) into the body/mind to prevent us from being overwhelmed by the experience at the time it occurred.\nSometimes we have no conscious memory of the event at all. The event is often fragmented and compartmentalized. Technically this is called dissociation. Dissociation happens when an event is too painful or frightening for the psyche to deal with, so our consciousness \"checks out\" in order to psychologically survive the trauma.\nIn 1994, I wrote a paper on PTSD in veterans (http://tinyurl.com/ofk98) as a final project for my Bachelor\u2019s degree, and the outlook at that time was grim. Until recently, the best therapists could do was teach people to manage their symptoms, and put them on medications as needed. With traditional talk-therapies, we helped them grieve their losses, and learn to cope with the shame, guilt, and overall pain of their experience. In other words, we gave them coping skills for their pain instead of healing.\nIn 1987, a new technology called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) was in the early stages of development. An internationally respected PTSD expert, psychologist Charles Figley, director of the Institute of Traumatology at Florida State University, did a formal research project on EMDR in 1993. Additionally, Figley also researched Thought Field Therapy (TFT \u2013 the grandfather of EFT), Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation (VKD) at the same time. Figley and an associate conducted the research because Figley deeply understood that the conventional therapies were not suitable for treating PTSD. That research proved both EMDR and TFT as effective treatments for PTSD both achieving over 50% reduction in symptoms. Although the DOD has officially approved EMDR for PTSD treatment (http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?), many VA centers do not allow its use.\nIn the interim, psychiatrist and PTSD expert Bessel van der Kolk, presently the Medical Director at the Trauma Center in Massachusetts, (www.traumacenter.org) began groundbreaking researching on PTSD. Dr. van der Kolk is trained in both EMDR and TFT/EFT and now endorses the use of Energy Psychology methods like EFT to alleviate the symptoms of PTSD in a very gentle, quick, safe and easy manner.\nIn 1994, Gary Craig, the developer of EFT (www.emofree.com), proved the effectiveness of EFT on combat PTSD by treating some Vietnam Veterans (they volunteered for treatment) for free over a period of six days at a California VA clinic. The videotaped sessions showed these men completely healing from flashbacks, nightmares, fears of public places, and terrifying combat memories that had held them captive and disabled their lives for over 20 years.\nUnfortunately, the VA staff ignored these obvious healings and remained committed to their routine and ineffective talk-therapy and drug methods.\nSusan Hannibal of Guided Healing (www.guidedhealing.com) has also demonstrated and documented on DVD, the effectiveness of EFT on PTSD, as have many other practitioners, only to have the VA shun them. I too have, delivered materials to the local VA centers only to be told \u201cthanks but no thanks. In my private practice, I have witnessed EFT\u2019s effectiveness with PTSD on a Gulf War Vet, several sexual abuse cases, and my own PTSD issues connected with Vietnam.\nSome VA centers have been resistant to embracing new techniques because they insist that any new method must have valid, controlled, scientific research first, tested, and proven safe and effective. That\u2019s an understandable and reasonable approach for a drug, however, when men and women are committing suicide and families are disintegrating over PTSD, we need to do something immediately. The purpose of a scientific research study is to A) prove the proposed therapy is effective and B) that it is harmless.\n\u201cThe first stage of evidence in establishing a new therapy is the accumulation of case studies and anecdotal reports. Here the data are striking, with reports coming in from hundreds of therapists who represent the full spectrum of backgrounds and theoretical orientations.\u201d\nDavid Feinstein, The Promise of Energy Psychology\nEnergy psychology methods like EFT have been around for over 10 years and are in use by millions of people worldwide.\nAll one has to do is search the database on the EFT web site to see the data David Feinstein refers to above. Other than perhaps a temporary headache or stomach upset, not one case of any type of harm has ever been re- ported. Many VA centers are still using group therapy/talk therapy and those of us who have experienced PTSD or treat PTSD know how ineffective talk-therapy is for PTSD. Leading trauma researchers such as Drs. van der Kolk and Figley do not support talk-therapy or exposure therapy for PTSD because it retraumatizes the client and does little to change the chemical imprint in the brain. Some VA centers are so resistant to cutting-edge energy psychol- ogy techniques that management is threatening VA counselors trained in EFT with the loss of their jobs for using EFT. That\u2019s an abuse of power. In addition, since most of these organizations are male dominated, and these par- ticular instances involve female employees, it also constitutes an abuse of women. People abuse and control from a place of fear. One has to wonder what the VA is afraid of.\nI have heard many veterans comment that the VA wants to keep our veterans \u201csick.\u201d Others have told me they were not allowed to speak about their pain and experiences. Other horror stories about the VA exist and I don\u2019t need to go into them here. In short, my opinion is that the VA lacks compassion and empathy towards our veterans. These men and women have put their lives on the line for our country, and in ignoring stunningly effective, safe and non- traumatizing therapies like EFT, they are not offering our vets the best service available.\nBy withholding this effective PTSD treatment, the VA is costing us, the taxpayers a lot of money for years to come. In my opinion, not allowing veterans a choice to try EFT constitutes abuse of the veteran. Energy Psychology and EFT offer a simple, effective treatment for PTSD, which can quickly and easily normalize veteran\u2019s lives in most cases. I think it\u2019s time veterans and their families started demanding cutting-edge treatments that are non- traumatizing and more effective. We could be saving millions, perhaps billions of dollars annually by treating PTSD with the latest technologies AND giving vets their lives back at the same time. It\u2019s hard to argue with success, and yet the VA ignores the obvious.\nMental Health workers in Kosovo are using EFT to treat victims of war atrocities. More recently, survivors of hurricane Katrina are being treated with EFT (see http://www.energytraumatreatment.com). There is an international organization, The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP, http://www.energypshcy.org) that has a world-wide membership of psychologists, sychiatrists, physicians, certified social workers, mental health counselors and others who are using these techniques daily.\nI think its time to wake the sleeping giant. It\u2019s time for the VA to get out of the dark ages and into the present. If you are a veteran who has been traumatized by war or other event connected with your military service and are in the VA system, start demanding better treatment. Demand that you have an option to choose Energy Psychology and/or EFT for your PTSD treatment. If they won\u2019t listen to you or provide for you, go elsewhere and find someone who specializes in EFT for trauma and PTSD. There is a huge list of EFT practitioners at www.emofree.com. Some of them specialize in trauma and combat PTSD. You may have to pay out of pocket for the services, so before you decide what to do, ask yourself this question; \u201cWhat is my life, my healing and my family/marriage worth?\u201d Just because the VA provides free services to you doesn\u2019t mean they are the best services or that you have to use them. I never went to the VA because I didn\u2019t trust them and still don\u2019t trust them, and after the things I\u2019ve seen and heard, never will. I paid for my own healing and recovery because I found the best in EFT and Energy Psychology. EFT saved my life, and it can save yours.\nNeuroscience is just beginning to understand how EFT works to heal the effects of PTSD on the brain. However, the evidence and success stories are overwhelming. To see the results other vets have had with EFT for yourself, visit the Emotional Freedom Technique web site, (www.emofree.com) or Sue Hannibal\u2019s web site, (www.guidedhealing.com).\nA newly published book, The Promise of Energy Psychology (http://www.EnergyPsychEd.com) by Feinstein, Eden, and Craig, explains the theory and practice of EFT. Included in the book are some brain scan photos over the course of treatment that demonstrates the changes in brain activity. One can see the same information in a paper titled Overview of Research in Energy Psychology.\nIf you have been the victim of physical or emotional abuse, rape, surgery, accidents, hurricanes, tornadoes, war and more, and have not been the same since the experience, you are probably experiencing PTSD along with depression and anxiety. They are often found together. This is not a helpless, hopeless situation. Energy Psychology offers significant relief when other methods have failed. Skilled EFT practitioners abound around the world and they can help you heal yourself.\nTom Porpiglia, MS, EFT-ADV., LMHC and founder of Life Script Counseling Services is a Vietnam Veteran and a licensed mental health counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY. He specializes in the use of Emotional Freedom Technique and other Energy Psychology methods to resolve trauma. He offers a reduced rate for veterans. He can be reached at 585-704-0376, or tom@lifescriptcounseling.com; www.lifescriptcounseling.com\nPtsd | Military | Vietnam | Iraq | Afghanistan | Most Commented on\nAuntiePatricia July 10, 2011 4:36 pm (Pacific time)\n\"All healing is essentially the release from fear.\" PTSD is fear. \"Healing is always certain.\" Thank God for that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 15879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salem-news.com/tagged/religion/0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AG2GPP3NJWHIPLMTVJIAD3GM7J4YVNKU", "length": 5936, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "salem-news.com", "title": "Salem-News.com religion articles", "raw_content": "Salem-News.com Religion articles\nFortieth Anniversary of Jonestown Tragedy\nThere isn't anything extraordinary about Jones\u2019 power. It was pure politics.\n(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -\t November 2018 marks the fortieth anniversary of the mass murder and suicide of 918 in Jonestown, Guyana, by religious cult leader Jim Jones. About two-thirds of the victims were African-Americans.\nJones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, established in 1971.\nPennsylvania Grand Jury Report on Pedophile Priests follow up\nOne source claims \u201cabout two percent\u201d (or 1 in 50) Roman Catholic Church priests are pedophiles.\n(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -\t far too little is said about the victims of these pedophile priests. Pedophile priests acted criminally by taking advantage of the intimate trust of their youngest and most vulnerable parishioners.\nBut it is also apparent that the Roman Catholic Church itself, rather than acting decisively to end the victimizations and facilitate prosecutions, engaged in a systematic effort to shield predator priests dating back several decades.\nOpen Letter to Pope Francis About Sexual Abuse in the Church\nDave Lopez special to Salem-News.com\nI am standing in solidarity with the victims in Pennsylvania.\n(DALLAS/FORT WORTH) -\t The thousands of voices raised is only a small fraction of what I am guessing are the MILLIONS who have suffered this fate, yet remain quiet for personal reasons or out of shame. Wearing robes, burning incense, genuflecting and absolving people of sins does not make it \"open season\" on gentle young souls trying to create a spiritual connection with God.\nIt is not ok, was not ok, and never will be ok for the strong to take advantage of the humble.\nMerkley Statement on Anti-Rohingya Persecution in Burma\nOregon\u2019s Senator Jeff Merkley calls on the Government of Burma (Myanmar) to cease its persecution of the Rohingya ethnic minority\n(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -\t \"There are significant ties between Oregon and the Rohingya community, and I share Oregonians\u2019 concern about the escalating violence in Burma, which has led to the recent displacement of nearly 400,000 Rohingya and horrific death and suffering.\n\"The persecution of vulnerable Rohingya minorities, who are at risk of statelessness due to having been denied citizenship by the Government of Burma, bears the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing...\"\nRemains of Kennewick Man The Ancient One Laid to Rest\nSince the discovery, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has curated the remains at the Burke Museum under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, and followed the Native Americans Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.\n(PORTLAND, Ore.) -\t The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division (Corps) transferred the human remains known as the Kennewick Man, or the Ancient One, to the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (Washington) on Friday, Feb. 17 on the condition that the Department then repatriate the human remains to the five Columbia River Plateau tribes.\nThe transfer took place at the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington where the remains have been curated since 1998.\nTwo Brothers Sue Archdiocese of Portland for Childhood Sex Abuse\nTwo brothers allegedly abused by Father James Harris, one also by Father Maurice Grammond, filed a lawsuit.\n(PORTLAND, Ore.) -\t In two lawsuits filed today in U.S. District Court in Portland, two brothers, now adults, allege that their Catholic priest sexually abused them when they were children living in St. Paul, Oregon.\nFather James Harris served as a Catholic priest in the St. Paul Parish in Silverton, Oregon in the mid to late 1960s when he abused the brothers and one of their childhood friends.\nMyanmar`s Reward for Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya\nTim King Special to Salem-News.com\nISIL threatens Asian country with retaliation for its brutal treatment and extermination of Rohingya Muslims.\n(SALEM, Ore.) -\t Myanmar's problems with ISIS are a microcosm of the worldwide picture, literally a snapshot of what is to come from years of nations persecuting people for being Muslim when political leaders themselves do not possess even the smallest understanding of Islam or the people who comprise the world's newest monotheistic religion.\nNow the government of Myanmar is threatened by one of the world's largest terrorist networks.\nDa Vinci: The Man Behind the Shroud\nThe face found on this digital shroud is more vivid than the one scientists and scholars are studying.\n(SALEM, Ore.) -\t The mysterious and controversial Shroud of Turin has been in the Cathedral of Turin since the 16th century. It has been examined, photographed, threatened by fire, and disputed about for centuries.\nSome believe it to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci or at least to have some symbolic connection with several of his famous paintings with their hidden symbols.\nPakistani Christians with False Hopes of Refugee Status\nReligious minorities in Pakistan are persecuted under stringent blasphemy law.\n(ISLAMABAD) -\t Religious extremism has gone to its peak since Afghan refugees entered Pakistan.\nDue to terrorism, Pakistan has lost thousands of its precious lives and properties. Religious-banned outfits have attacked schools, worship places, parks and even law enforcement agencies and their places.\nWe`ve Always Occupied the Prairie and We`re Not Going Anywhere\nRobert Lundahl Salem-News.com\nStand with Standing Rock and Stop the Billionaire's Water Grab\n(CANONBALL RIVER, ND) -\t In Occupying the Prairie: Tensions Rise as Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline by Jack Healy, New York Times, Aug. 23, 2016 we see and hear about Indians in paint on horseback, in \"procession\" out of their \"tepee-dotted camp.\" Who writes like that?\nWhile the almost 500 Nations of our indigenous brothers and sisters (over 80 are represented in the Sacred Stones Camp) are proud of the heritage of our peoples, it's important to keep the focus on today and why we are here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salemhighschool.net/salem-il/class-of-1940.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:04Z", "digest": "sha1:LSIRYKYIGWOT3YF6IXRVDTAJAPXZXSNY", "length": 260, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "salemhighschool.net", "title": "Salem High School Class of 1940", "raw_content": "Velma Brasel\nAlumni from the Salem High School class of 1940 that have been added to this alumni directory are shown on this page. All of the people on this page graduated in '40 from SHS. You can register for free to add your name to the SHS alumni directory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salesby5.com/2013/06/14/the-3-minute-appointment-strategy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XUQR3XRNKIMNOCRVVWNARCKURNMWUEAH", "length": 1577, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "salesby5.com", "title": "The 3 Minute Appointment Strategy | Sales By 5", "raw_content": "It\u2019s common knowledge that to be successful in business you need a strategy. Did you know the same applies to scheduling appointments with prospects? You probably have an ironclad process, but it\u2019s not a strategy.\nProspects aren\u2019t always available when you are, therefore you need to find a way to get onto their calendar. First, request a meeting for 3 minutes at an odd time, for example 11:27 am. You have now branded yourself in that person\u2019s mind as a person who cares about time and precision. Secondly, promote your value and how you\u2019re going to help them improve their business. Be strategic about selling yourself. You must have a benefit to this person and it must be overt. You also need a hook or a dramatic difference that will set you apart. Being strategic about this process will help you establish yourself as a person of high value who is dependable.\nOnce you are in the door, keep your promise. Arrive promptly, keep your conversation to 3 minutes and offer to leave at the end of the 3 minutes. \u201cYou have graciously provided me the 3 minutes you promised, thank you. I know you are busy. Would you like to continue speaking now or shall we arrange a meeting for a future date when we have a little more time?\u201d Typically, if you brought value to that person, you will be invited to continue the conversation. Those 3 minutes can turn into 45 fast and they do nearly every time! The least we have seen is 3 minutes turning into 30 minutes.\nTags: sales appointment, sales meeting, sales prospect\n\u2190 Is Your Team Evolving with the Industry?\nTime For The Future \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samuelokonkwok.blogspot.com/2015/05/as-jonathan-leaves-aso-rock.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TADC5QYKE4Q4OZKN7ZPDHI4V6XVUOZBR", "length": 4507, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "samuelokonkwok.blogspot.com", "title": "\u2026As Jonathan Leaves Aso Rock", "raw_content": "The jury is still not out on the lasting legacy of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Contrary to what is in public domain, his tenure have not all been doom and woes. However, where it is not turmoil, one struggle to find a name for it. As a man, Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s tale could have only been conjured by the gods, or how do you explain the chronicle of his lucky ride in Nigerian politics. Even GEJ acknowledged that Nigeria has been kind to him. If anyone ever needed inspiration that he can raise to the pinnacle in his chosen vocation, the tales of Goodluck Jonathan should be your pastime. However, to ascribe all that Goodluck Jonathan has achieved in his political sojourn solely on luck is to be economical with the truth. You need some level of political dexterity, dedication and tact to rise from such teething beginnings to become the number one citizen of the world most populous black nation.\nAs Jonathan leaves Aso Rock, there is the strong feeling that his presidency is a case of a missed opportunity. The apologists will argue that the terror of Boko Haram has distracted the administration from delivering the dividends of democracy. However, the premise of that argument is in itself flawed when one considers that protection of life and properties is the fundamental of those dividends. The goodwill president Goodluck Jonathan enjoyed during the last days of late president Umaru Yar\u2019Adua and the cabal, was staggering. Defying ethnic and religious lines, Nigerians gave their all for him. In hindsight, one can only conclude that things have fallen apart.\nMake no mistakes about it, the Goodluck Jonathan administration did achieve some feats in sectors such as agriculture and the entertainment industry, but these achievements are sparse and far in between that they are easily negligible in the bigger picture. The point should be made that Goodluck Jonathan is a good man, who genuinely had good intentions for Nigeria. The problem however is that good intentions cannot be measured in concrete times and will mean nothing without corresponding actions. The most potent criticism of Goodluck Jonathan has never been that he was a bad president, rather, it has been that under his watch, impunity, avarice, uncommon corruption and mayhem thrived. Sadly for him, these are the vices that so easily played into the hands of the opposition in the electioneering days. It is true that the magnitude of these vices will be further unraveled when the administration of Muhammadu Buhari finally assumes office. Goodluck Jonathan may had etched his name in the revere places of history by his call to General Buhari in conceding defeat after the March 28th elections, which many have termed \u2018The phone call that saved Nigeria.\u2019 Nonetheless, the legacy should have been more. Having emerged out of Niger-Delta against all odds, the world was his oyster. For six years, he had a glorious chance to at least begin the fixing process of the Nigerian project. Rather, he leaves office in the worst possible condition. Insecurity still thrives, stealing seized to be corruption, unemployment is as it all time high, the power sector is still in comatose and the list of woes is too long to rehash here. The result is far too obvious and only one conclusion will suffice: An opportunity missed. Interestingly, I had written on the first opportunity missed by Goodluck Jonathan during the subsidy debate era in early 2012 . What is staggering is that the issues raised in that article of almost four years ago, remains extant even today.\nAs Jonathan leaves Aso Rock, the question now will be what next for him? The feelers are that he might want to take a detour from mainstream politics for a while. After all, who doesn\u2019t deserve a vacation after leading a nation like ours for the better part of a decade? Another school of thought believes that he might be in the fore-front of helping the People\u2019s Democratic Party reemerge from the rude beating it got at the last election. Yet, there is still some who think that he might just return to his fast love: lecturing. Whatever Goodluck Jonathan decides to do next will be ultimately his prerogative. However, while he drives out of Aso Rock after the razzmatazz of May 29th, on his way out and in a final moment of introspection in the Villa, with Patience Jonathan at his side, he must accept the home truth that his administration was a disappointment in more ways than one and a massive opportunity lost.\nA cool one. Keep the good job up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 9991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://schengenpass.com/en/Questions-and-Answers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T22PQ5KYZQBFPA4VLY622T527J3TBXME", "length": 3288, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "schengenpass.com", "title": "DOMENIKA LATVIA - Questions and Answers", "raw_content": "Questions and Answers on Temporary Residence Permits (hereinafter referred to as TRP)\nA temporary residence permit is issued for a period of up to 5 years and it must be registered on year-on-year basis. Whereas subsequently it is possible to resubmit the same documents or receive a TRP for 5 years or apply for a permanent residence permit (a citizenship in Latvia).\nIf a foreign citizen has purchased in the Republic of Latvia or he/she possesses one or several real estate properties in the planning region of Riga or other cities of the republic (Riga, Daugavpils, Jekabpils, Jelgava, Jurmala, Liepaja, Rezekne, Valmiera, Ventspils etc.) total value of which is at least 250 000 EUR (~ 278'800 USD).\nIf a foreign citizen has purchased in the Republic of Latvia or he/she possesses one or several real estate properties outside the planning region of Riga or outside the cities of the republic total value of which is at least 80 000 EUR (~89\u2019216 USD), provided that the following conditions are fulfilled:\nHe/ She does not have or has never had any real estate property tax liabilities,\nPayment has been made by money transaction (NOT cash);\nReal estate property has been purchased from a legal entity which is registered in the Republic of Latvia, European Union, European Economic zone or in the Swiss Confederation. Real estate property has been purchased from an individual who has a citizenship of the Republic of Latvia or the European Union or real estate property has been purchased from an individual who is not a citizen the Republic of Latvia, but who stays in the Republic of Latvia with a valid residence permit;\nTotal cadastral value of the real estate property purchased in the planning region of Riga and other cities of the republic during the purchasing process is at least 42 686,15 EUR (~47\u2019603.59 USD);\nTotal cadastral value of purchased real estate property is located outside the planning region of Riga and outside other cities of the republic is at 14 228,72 EUR (~15\u2019934.78 USD)\nIn case the cadastral value is smaller than the one previously specified then total value of real estate property must not be less than 250 000 EUR (~278\u2019800 USD) according to the market value of this real estate property which has been calculated by a certified real estate appraiser.\n** Exchange rates on 04.05.2015\nWill a child born in the family of non-residents in the Republic of Latvia have a citizenship (permanent residence permit) of Latvia?\nNo, he/she will not. If one of the child\u2019s parents is a citizen of the Republic of Latvia, the both parents can decide whether the child should have a citizenship of the Republic of Latvia or the non-resident\u2019s country.\n* In order for non-residents to receive a temporary residence permit Domenika Latvia emphasizes that it is essential to pay extreme attention choosing real estate property as it must comply with all govenrmental regulation when applying for the temporary residence permits. Answers to the questions mentioned above are only small part of conditions to comply with. Failure to meet the conditions can result in receiving a refusal to grant a temporary residence permit to a non-resident.\nPlease ask your question by e-mail and the specialists of Domenika Latvia will provide you with all information needed:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scifijanitors.com/?author=1&paged=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MGA2EXQK4JJTDTVCFUSAJTL2JCGSDKBR", "length": 72, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "scifijanitors.com", "title": "Sci-Fi Janitors - admin", "raw_content": "Mar 28, 2012 Back to the Past Part 6\nMar 7, 2012 Back to the Past Part 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scoppaoohmaumau.blogspot.com/2008/09/she-went-thataway.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XQWGA4YM33J3HNOH7H5EVPUTWHLRMVWA", "length": 2124, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "scoppaoohmaumau.blogspot.com", "title": "budscorner: SHE WENT THATAWAY", "raw_content": "Two weeks ago, our fave spinning instructor Essie Shure (see posts from 9/28/07 and 5/26/08 below) made the move to Blacksburg, Va. While we wish her the best, it's a major drag for us regular spinners at the Sports Center in Toluca Lake, because no other trainer played better music or maintained a more infectious sense of groove. Because I'd been putting together spin compilations for her to use since 2003, it seemed fitting to make one for her crosscountry drive. Here's what I came up with...\nFor Essie, August 31, 2008\n1. \"Free Fallin',\" John Mayer (4:24)\n2. \"Big Screen,\" Pictures And Sound (4:10)\n3. \"Strange Overtones,\" David Byrne & Brian Eno (4:18)\n4. \"Chicago,\" Sufjan Stevens (6:05)\n5. \"House of Cards,\" Radiohead (5:28)\n6. \"All I Got Is Me,\" Spoon (3:26)\n7. \"Message to My Girl,\" Split Enz (4:02)\n8. \"Real Love,\" Lucinda Williams (3:45)\n9. \"You Are the Best Thing,\" Ray Lamontagne (3:55)\n10. \"Two Ways Out,\" Darker My Love (3:23)\n11. \"The Youth,\" Pictures And Sound (4:12)\n12. \"Via Chicago,\" Wilco (5:34)\n13. \"Float On,\" Ben Lee (4:08)\n14. \"Safe Distance,\" The Explorers Club (2:07)\n15. \"Everything in Its Right Place,\" Radiohead (4:11)\n16. \"We Can Work It Out,\" The Beatles (2:16)\n17. \"A Falling Through,\" Ray LaMontagne (4:28)\n18. \"Autumn Sweater,\" Yo La Tengo (5:18)\n19. \"Surf's Up,\" The Beach Boys (4:12)\nJust got this Facebook Wall to Wall note, which is precisely the sort of response that has made the day of mixtape compilers since the invention of the audiocassette basck in the previous century:\nBUUUUD!!\nFirstly, I really can't thank you enough for the travel cd you made for me. I'm kinda embarrassed to admit this, but I got teary-eyed on a couple of them (\"Free Fallin'\" got me good)... & that little inconspicuous \"we'll keep a seat warm for you, Ess\" note on the cover was quite nice. Pictures And Sound, awesome!...\nI really do miss you guys. I'm gonna miss showing up to teach, greeted w/a fresh new set of tunes placed on my handlebars... (sigh) <: \\ Please tell Peg \"hello\" from me.\"\nRecommended reading: Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape (Three Rivers Press, 2007)\nSafe distance :) NICE!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seafarersrights.org/84-evacuated-after-vessel-catches-fire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:I5FDNJ2IQCRQ7QIZG5TU5KUCR6FADJL3", "length": 1328, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "seafarersrights.org", "title": "84 Evacuated After Vessel Catches Fire", "raw_content": "84 Evacuated After Vessel Catches Fire\nHome / Maritime Executive / 84 Evacuated After Vessel Catches Fire\nOver 80 crew members aboard the Offshore Support Vessel, Fugro Symphony, were evacuated after the ship caught fire Wednesday in the early morning hours.\nThe vessel was docked at Peterhead Harbour about 20 miles North of Aberdeen when the fire broke out. Around 35 firefighters arrived at 2:52am to battle the blaze. The fire rescue team also dispatched five appliances and a foam unit to the scene. In total, it took around two hours to get the fire under control.\nThough the cause of the blaze is still unknown, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service reported that they located the source of the fire in a supply generator room below deck. The station manager Graeme Laird further added, \u201cCrews worked well with the ship\u2019s firefighting team and showed good firefighting understanding in challenging conditions.\u201d\nAs a precautionary measure non-essential personnel were immediately taken off of the ship. A total of 84 crew members aboard the vessel were evacuated to the Fisherman\u2019s mission in Peterhead. No injuries were reported.\nAccording to Fugro the Symphony specializes in deep water remote operations. The vessel is flagged out of the Bahamas and operated by Fugro Subsea Services Ltd based out of Aberdeen, Scotland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seaside-heightsnj.org/FormCenter/Applications-Permits-4/Request-for-Access-to-Police-Department--50", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KVDSW5KA635JNKTVT4Z2ZQWSTAHZKMC3", "length": 3487, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "seaside-heightsnj.org", "title": "Seaside Heights Borough, NJ", "raw_content": "Date Request Received\nDate Response Provided\nSee Instructions Below Name\nPolice Accident Report\nIdentify Accident*\nA request for a copy of Government Records should be submitted on this form which ahs been adopted by the Municipal Clerk for requests related to the Police Department Records. Some records will be immediately available during normal business hours. Some records will require time to locate and to make the copies requested, but will normally be available during normal business hours and within 7 business days. If any document or copy which has been requested is not a public record or cannot be provided within the 7 business days, you will be provided with a response with that information within the 7 business days. Some records requested have specific fees or other response times established by statute. There is no fee involved in simply inspecting a document during normal business hours. This request may be filed electronically, In general:\n-Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, the fee assessed for the duplication of a printed record shall be: 1st page to 10th page, $0.75 per age; 11th page to 20th page, $0.50 per page; all pages over 20, $0.25 per page; for a police accident report there is an additional fee when the request is not made in person of $5 for the first 3 pages and $1 for each additional page, as provided by N.J.S.A. 39:4-131.\n-Where a request is for a copy in a format other than a photocopy, reasonable efforts will be made to provide the information in format requested. The cost will be based on the costs of producing the format requested.\nWhere a legal determination must be made as to whether records are \"public records\" as provided bylaw, the request will be reviewed by the Municipal Attorney.\n-The term \"public records\" generally includes those records determined to be public in accordance with N.J.S.A. 47: IA-I. The term does not include employee personnel files, police investigation records, or other matters in which there is a right of privacy or confidentiality or which is specifically exempted by law.\nThe applicant hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of this form with the date on which the information is expected to be available and the estimated cost. The applicant hereby certifies that he or she has not been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of this State, any other state or the United States and is not seeking government records containing personal information pertaining the victim or the victims family as provided by N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.\nMunicipal Police Official\nPublic Records Request Response\nThe documents or documents listed below and requested by you are not being provided because the document or documents are not public records as provided by law, for the following reason:\nYou have aright to appeal the decision that the document or documents are not public records. You may take your appeal to the Government Records Council established in the Department of Community Affairs or tp the New Jersey Superior Court, as provided by N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. If your request has been denied, a statement of the procedures for the appeal will be attached.\nDet. Lieutenant David Szalkowski, Municipal Police Official\nI hereby acknowledge that I have received the documents requested except for any documents specifically listed above on which a determination has not been provided, I have received information on the procedures for any appeal of the determination.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seniornet-huttcity.org.nz/index.php/faq/faq-snap-software?id=516", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NNBZTGAUAMBEKSJWDF6PFRDKOULXEM6N", "length": 120, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "seniornet-huttcity.org.nz", "title": "\ufeff \ufeff\tUsername", "raw_content": "A version of the Linux operating system and the programmes that go with it, ready to install. Often shortened to distro.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 98.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shanasellingsarnia.com/blog/2011-turns-out-to-be-a-good-real-estate-year-3500", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:I6XTRFKA4YBKXVNE2ZSMOKHNBKSWL6EB", "length": 2032, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "shanasellingsarnia.com", "title": "Real Estate Agent Blogs - Shana Fellows SARNIA REAL ESTATE, REAL ESTATE SARNIA, HOMES FOR SALE SARNIA EXIT Realty Twin Bridges", "raw_content": "2011- Turns out to be a Good Real Estate Year\nUpdated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 :: Views (3491)\n2011 a good real estate year: December ends with a bang!\nSARNIA-LAMBTON - Warm weather and historically low interest rates lead to a real estate explosion in December, closing out a strong year in sales in Sarnia Lambton. Says the president of the Sarnia Lambton Real Estate Board.\nSarnia Lambton Real Estate Board President Donna Mathewson says $18 million worth of real estate changed hands in December - a 10 year high.\n\"I think it's because we just haven't had that weather. I know myself I had clients who were out looking for houses on the 23rd of December,\" she says. \"Typically people get into Christmas mode, into shopping mode and they just put off house buying until after the holidays. This year it was harder for people to get into to Christmas mode because we didn't have snow.\"\nThe strongest December in 10 years even surprised Mathewson. I predicted we'd see somewhere between $12 million and $15 million for December of 2011 we actually hit $18 million,\" she says.\nDecember capped off what was already a good year, Mathewson says. \"We had a three percent increase in sales. Even though our sales volume surpassed 2010 by quite a bit ...$18 million more in 2011; it really was a three percent increase in sales, in the number of units we sold,\" she says. While the number of units is up three percent, the value of that real estate is up nine percent.\n\"What that means is we sold more higher priced listings this year than we did last year; that's what pumps up our volume.\"\nRealtors sold six homes valued at over a million dollars, one of those in December.\n2011 ended with 1,683 homes sold with a value of $328,575,000.\nThe average price for a home is now $194,774, up from $185,572 in 2010, a trend Mathewson likes to see. \"I think it just equates to we have a nice steady growth pattern that we have going.\"\nPublished in 'Sarnia this week' Jan 10th, 2012\nhttp://www.sarniathisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3429116", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shop.madloupublishing.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=10", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:EVTE7HU77GSJIWMC42NLYEFAMELBX5NW", "length": 14, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "shop.madloupublishing.com", "title": "PRINTS - Corfe Castle - Louise Braithwaite \u2013 Naive Artist", "raw_content": "Corfe Castle \u2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://siress.com/power-supply-repair/manufacturer/Daykin", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:NIU5W3KNMPFYWFRPMBD6KWDF6BSDTBUX", "length": 2303, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "siress.com", "title": "Daykin Power Supply Repair, Siress Enterprises", "raw_content": "Quality Daykin Power Supply Repair Service\nQuality Daykin Power Supply Repair\nThe following is a list of many of the Daykin models we repair:\nPS486245-1\nPSD4822410-2\nAs the industry\u2019s premier source for repair services, we constantly strive for perfection, detailed by the wondrous things that we have achieved with commodities like Daykin Power supplies. Since every single facet must be accomplished without any glitches, we intensely focus on all sides of our repair services. Thus, we were able to gain the favor of consumers that mainly utilize Daykin Power supplies. Undaunted in the face of stringent requirements, our company issues the finest brand of repair solutions, one which will directly address the most prominent problems of the products. With the impressive reputation associated with Daykin Power supplies, it would be unthinkable if our company were to commit erroneous repair tasks. Unlike other repair service companies, we thoroughly understand the facets that are essentially at stake. For example, if were to commit a mistake, then our reputation as a topnotch repair service provider and the above mentioned OEM\u2019s reputation as a power supply manufacturer can be inopportunely tainted with an undesirable color. With this in mind, our company heads out to mend various power supplies with an unyielding amount of commitment for quality. And remarkably, that facet alone keeps us ahead of other repair service companies in the industry.\nEver since the start of company\u2019s operations, we were able to pinpoint the most pressing concerns of consumers and OEMs with commodities such as Daykin Power supplies. In fact, we are very proud to say that we have been dealing with the above mentioned commodities for over 16 years. Thus, were able to forge a strong relationship with top power supply manufacturers, headed by the highly respected Daykin. Since the industry considers us as the finest company in the current crop of repair service providers, then it is our intention to perform at the highest possible level. Hopefully, we will be able to branch out and get the nod of more top players in the power supply industry. At the end of the day, we will be able to connect the most prominent players in the power supplies game, with our company conveniently sitting in the center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smkbj-eternalninjas.forumotion.com/f16-sembang", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5JSS4CUQJNQBEYFOXUV4YCHD3X3KNYDD", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "smkbj-eternalninjas.forumotion.com", "title": "\"sembang\"", "raw_content": "[ Go to page: 1, 2, 3, 4] 76 XxRyNxX 720 on Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:28 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snookerbyb.com/usa/springfield", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RHGE4UAQEHVR53AMJN4TIZ62GFSN3BYS", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "snookerbyb.com", "title": "Snooker community of Springfield, MA, United States", "raw_content": "Snooker Community of Springfield, MA, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 190.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://snowballmachinery.com/know_view.php?id=180", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WZXMJISVDDDBTUGGK7QO6F3LIKYRTURV", "length": 4296, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "snowballmachinery.com", "title": "The Stabilizers In Use Today", "raw_content": "Stabilizers can help with reducing iciness a-nd extending shelf life in the process of industrial ice cream production. There are many kinds of stabilizers.\n1. Locust Bean Gum\nLocust bean gum (LBG, also known as carob gum, carob bean gum, carobin, E410) is a thickening agent a-nd a gelling agent used in food technology. It is a galactomannan vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob tree, mostly found in the Mediterranean region. Locust bean gum occurs as a white to yellow-white powder. It consists chiefly of high-molecular-weight hydrocolloidal polysacc-harides, composed of galactose a-nd mannose units combined through glycosidic linkages, which may be described chemically as galactomannan. It is dispersible in either hot or cold water, forming a sol having a pH between 5.4 a-nd 7.0, which may be converted to a gel by the addition of small amounts of sodium borate. The bean, when made into powder, is sweet-with a flavor similar to chocolate - a-nd is used to sweeten foods a-nd as a chocolate substitute, although this carob powder is produced from the fruit pod after removal of seeds, while the gum is produced from the seeds themselves.\nGuar gum, also called guaran, is a galactomannan. It is primarily the ground endosperm of guar beans. The guar seeds are dehusked, milled a-nd screened to obtain the guar gum. It is typically produced as a free-flowing, off-white powder. Guar gum is more soluble than locust bean gum a-nd is a better stabilizer, as it has more galactose branch points. Unlike locust bean gum, it is not self-gelling.\n3. Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)\nCarboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) or cellulose gum is a cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups (-CH2-COOH) bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that make up the cellulose backbone. It is often used as its sodium salt, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose.\n4. Xanthan gum\nXanthan gum is a polysacc-haride secreted by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris, used as a food additive a-nd rheology modifier, commonly used as a food thickening agent a-nd a stabilizer. It is composed of pentasacc-haride repeat units, comprising glucose, mannose, a-nd glucuronic acid in the molar ratio 2.0:2.0:1.0. It is produced by the fermentation of glucose, sucrose, or lactose. After a fermentation period, the polysacc-haride is precipitated from a growth medium with isopropyl alcohol, dried, a-nd ground into a fine powder. Later, it is added to a liquid medium to form the gum.\n5. Sodium alginate\nAs a flavorless gum, it is used by the foods industry to increase viscosity a-nd as an emulsifier. It is also used in indigestion tablets a-nd the preparation of dental impressions.\nCarrageenans or carrageenins are a family of linear sulphated polysacc-harides that are extracted from red edible seaweeds. They are widely used in the food industry, for their gelling, thickening, a-nd stabilizing properties. Their main application is in dairy & meat products, due to their strong binding to food proteins. There are three main varieties of carrageenan, which differ in their degree of sulphation. Kappa-carrageenan has one sulphate group per disacc-haride. Iota-carrageenan has two sulphates per disacc-haride. Lambda carrageenan has three sulphates per disacc-haride.\nGelatin is a protein of animal origin, was used almost exclusively in the ice cream industry as a stabilizer but has gradually been replaced with polysacc-harides of plant origin due to their increased effectiveness a-nd reduced cost.\nEach of the stabilizers has its own c-haracteristics a-nd often, two or more of these stabilizers are used in combination to lend synergistic properties to each other a-nd improve their overall effectiveness. Guar, for example, is more soluble than locust bean gum at cold temperatures, thus it finds more application in HTST pasteurization syste-ms. Carrageenan is not used by itself but rather is used as a secondary colloid to prevent the wheying off of mix which is usually promoted by one of the other stabilizers.\nStabilizer cannot be used ra-ndomly. There are some limitations on the use of stabilizers:\n1. production of undesirable melting c-haracteristics, due to too high viscosity.\n2. excessive mix viscosity prior to freezing.\n3. contribution to a heavy or chewy body.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 4554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://solidrockpl.org/html/ukraine.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YT4AWIDNFCRQH577EA3GWJO6LA7RDUM4", "length": 639, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "solidrockpl.org", "title": "Ukraine", "raw_content": "I teach in 3 different Bible colleges in Ukraine. Two of the schools are in Kiev and one is about 60 miles south of Kiev in Belaya Tserkva (White Church). Kiev is a large city of 3 million people with all the associated problems and difficulties. It was the site of the large gathering recently to protest the election. The \u201cOrange revolution\u201d has ushered in a new era and the people are optimistically hoping for changes in the near future. One immediate change is the attempt to stop the graft-any beaurcrat caught accepting bribes will be fired! Something new! Also visas are no longer required for Americans for a visist up to 90 days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://souciant.com/2018/07/why-libyans-are-turning-to-smugglers-to-escape/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6C6WNIH4G43FUTSI2IQEQJBH2MQFPNM3", "length": 3844, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "souciant.com", "title": "Why Libyans Are Turning to Smugglers to Escape \u2013 Souciant", "raw_content": "Destroyed tanks, outside of Misrata. 7 years since the start of the civil war (15 February \u2013 23 October 2011,) Libya remains in a state of protracted conflict.\nKhaled has none of these connections. He is a fisherman, and from the steps of the bank, he can see the fishing port. To its left lies the marina and the offices of Libya\u2019s prime minister Fayez al-Serraj. Nearby is the base of Nawasi militia.\nThese hopes are now gone. The walls of Tripoli are still daubed with bawdy graffiti from 2011 depicting Muammar Gaddafi as a donkey, a monster or a beaten child. But today when Fathi looks at the murals he feels like the revolution has been lost. His parents have begun to talk of the Gaddafi era as a time when there was electricity and security.\n\u201cWhen I listen to my mother, nostalgic for Gaddafi, I feel like crying. Because I fought, I risked my life for nothing. I would like to leave.\u201d\nWithout connections to the competing corrupt networks who now run Libya, there is no legal way out. The only option is to try and contact a smuggler and pay to cross the Mediterranean.\nSome 410 Libyans have made the dangerous sea crossing to Italy so far this year, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. These numbers are still small but represent the breaking of a long-standing taboo among Libyans who feel humiliated to have to smuggle themselves out of their own country.\nOn March 19, the Proactiva Open Arms, a rescue ship operated by a Spanish NGO, intercepted a dinghy carrying three Libyan brothers. They had made the desperate journey to get treatment for their 14-year-old brother, Allah, who is suffering from leukaemia.\n\u201cThey are heroes,\u201d says Oscar Camps, founder of Proactiva. \u201cThey had 200 litres of gasoline and went to sea to give him a chance of receiving proper treatment.\u201d\nIn April, the UN Human Rights Office reported that armed groups in Libya are holding thousands of people in arbitrary detention, where torture is rife. Some 2,600 are being held in a single detention centre near the Mitiga airport, subjecting them to torture and constant abuses. Among the militia named in the report are those affiliated to the internationally recognized government, as well as those connected to the EU-backed Libyan coast guards.\nThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, has raised the alarm on the unchecked power of the militias who have been tasked with guaranteeing security in return for wages, equipment and uniforms, or, in other words, legitimacy.\n\u201cBenghazi is unrecognizable,\u201d he says. \u201cI lost everything: my house, my belongings, my work, I was a wealthy man, like many others here, we were the middle class of Benghazi. We are here with nothing to do and with the risk of being evicted in a few weeks. We cannot use our savings, the Libyan Central Bank does not move our money and we are scared to move from here because we have no documents and are afraid of being captured. And this situation is humiliating all of us. We cannot even work, because of documents.\u201d\nThose who have fled Benghazi are reluctant to share detailed information on their exact location or numbers because they fear the militias or reprisals in Benghazi against family members. The lack of this detailed information has hindered UN aid efforts.\nMahmoud, a professor who does not want to provide his family name for security reasons, finds himself guilty by association. The 45-year-old\u2019s brother was a known member of the now-defunct Islamic militia, Ansar al-Sharia.\nSome of the individuals in this article gave assumed names for reasons of security. This article originally appeared on Refugees Deeply. You can find the original here. For important news about the global migration crisis, you can sign up to the Refugees email list. Photograph courtesy of joeprek/Wikipedia. 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Had the new bucking bar and I was ready to have at it...\nThe new bar was great. It could get into areas that I wouldn't have dreamt possible with the other bar I have. But then... there were areas that I just couldn't get to... still.\nI was moving right along with getting those rivets squashed until I got to my \"road block\". I imagined turning that bucking bar every which way along with turning the work piece every which way. And... every which way wasn't working out. It wasn't until I started \"experimenting\" with the bucking bar by holding it in my hand that I discovered that it wasn't the bucking bar that needed to be clamped at this time, it was the piece I was working on that needed to be clamped !\nI remember seeing a video on this now... it's not the best method of riveting but it can be done. Seems like \"not the best method of doing it\" is sometimes the only way of doing it...\nThere are a number of rivets that are hidden behind the anchor nut plats that I will try and get at tomorrow... Other than those few that I will either be able to get at, or will need to hammer (for looks) and then glue... these panels are ready for cover.\nNeeding to...\ncover things up.\nThe rivet gun dance across the face of the front instrument panel \"face\". I can; 1. do the squeezed rivet thing like I did with the holes to try and hide the dance marks or, 2. make a cover plate and rivet it on. The bottom area of the front pit's panel looked kinda sparce so... I created a cover plate.\nDesigned, cut, drilled and match-drilled a cover in a little over three hours today.\nMatch-drilling.\nWithout cover plate...\ncovering things up.\nNow if I can only get these covers attached... they'll be ready for the instruments (of which I pretty much don't have right now).\nI bought one of those hole locator thingies... you know, there's a hole underneath that aluminum sheet and you need to match-find that hole to drill one in the aluminum. Well, I've had it for a while now and I'm just needing to use it. So... I played with it for a while tonight. Works like a champ. Precision holes for each of the anchor nut plates. Nice !\nAbout a month ago I did a test bend but now the real deal-e-o. Made my marks. Drew the lines... then used that hand-seamer I bought back last year... to make the bends.\nTrial fit before making bend.\nWith bend in cover...\nBeauty shot before drilling holes. Click on for larger image.\nFront pit.\nStarting to...\nStick with the plan... and I didn't.\nI'm working on attaching the shells/coverings on the instrument panel boxes. When I initially cut out the coverings I made sure I squared everything up so that I wouldn't be attaching them on skewed... or something like that. Tonight I worked on attaching the first covering; the one on the back pit's panel.\nI didn't follow plan... When I initially started tonight the front edge on the forward, raised section didn't \"naturally\" lay inline with the cover I made; well actually it did, but it didn't look like the back panel wings were lining up. So... I lined up and attached the forward edge on the raised section slightly skewed. This, of course, threw off the back alignment; the edge of the cover was approx. 1/4 inch ahead of the edge and it wasn't off evenly from one end to the other (if you can follow that).\nOkay, so this is a practice piece.\nI also discovered that the hole locator thingie isn't as precise as I thought it was. I actually built up the pin that inserts into the hole with a piece of duct tape. It worked pretty good. The precise thing comes from when you insert the tool underneath the aluminum sheet... it raises the aluminum and skews the hole. Most of them are pretty close and useable... and then, some aren't so much. I think I need to mark a few alignment marks on the front edge of the aluminum and the pieces I'm match-drilling to. When I insert the tool, I'll need to make sure that the alignment holes line up before drill the hole. Sounds like a plan... that I'll need to test out tomorrow. I also need to remember to stick to that plan...\nBuild up of gray duct tape.\nTop holes are nice. The sides... not so much.\nFiguring out...\nthe drift.\nHAPPY STARWAR'S DAY !!! May the 4th be with you... haha\nTonight... needed to make a replacement for the shell I practiced on yesterday. Not much to say...\nMade my marks... struck the lines... snipped it out of the .032 aluminum sheet. Although, I did cut it to the exact size (unlike the last time where I left crap overhanging). I actually cut it close to the line and tomorrow I'll file to the line. Cut it to the exact shape 'cause I need those edges to line up the front and back plates. oh yeah... figured I might use spacers to lift the shell off the face I'm match-drilling to... that should help to keep the hole from \"drifting\" to one side or the other.\nThey say three's a charm...\nright now, I'm hoping that four is.\nI'm going to need to try this again... no, seriously... I'm going to have to make another one of these.\nMy spacing idea work GREAT with the top, curved section of the back pit's instrument panel shell. Figured, what the hell and did the sides the same while the top was spaced off. My idea didn't work so well; the holes were about half-way off of the holes I was match-drilling to (and come to think of it... I was thinking that they would be about 1/2 way off... I should have listened). So... my idea now is to make a few marks on the sides to make sure they are align and space them off without the top curve being space. Should work like a charm... should. It'll be my forth attempt !\nA few photos from my third (of which some of my theory worked).\nSpacers in place.\nClamped and being drilled.\nTomorrow's shell attempt.\nToday... four is a charm.\nBut, I'm not promising anything about tomorrow..\nPersistence pays off...\nI run into alot of this; having to work through something. And... most times it requires that you learn through trial and error. And I'm not talking about basics here. Alot of the time I'm finding that it's the way you do it; the sequence.\nIn the case of the instrument panel shells... I needed to use spacers to lift the aluminum shell off the work piece. I then needed to fit and drill each of the three section (two sides and the top) as individual pieces.\nAnd because this is handmade and not CAD fitted... I made the holes a little larger than I would if it was a precision fit. A little wiggle room worked.\nToday... was magically delicious...\nAttaching the back panel to the shell was a little more than just attaching the back panel to the shell...\nRepeat of the successful last try on the front side. After all the tweaking was done and trimming was completed... I put another 3hrs on this puppy. STILL need to glue on those pseudo rivets ! by the way... \"magically delicious\" is alluding to a cereal commercial that was on when I was a kid.\nStill needs some finishing work done to it. And... the back needs to be attached. The pieces looks like I had planned all along. It's not perfect, but that's the charm of it all.\nTest fit. Uh...\nOn Sunday I test-fitted the completed instrument panel. Shoved as far forward as I could get it... it was still too wide (note: the fuselage starts to narrow from the furthest point forward that I can push it). So... there is a tiny bit of over-hang on the side; just a wee-bit. But, it's enough to be a concern... that point would wear on the sheet metal covering. I just looked at it and thought about it for a looooong time. One of those 100 yard stares...\nI originally had it measured for four inches deep but changed it to five inches thinking I actually had six inches of space to work with ('cause that is what I measured). One of the things that worked against that was the fact that I angled the passenger's seatbelt, shoulder support. This ate up about an inch of space which doesn't allow the panel to move forward the entire six inches.\nI knew what I was going to do but I just don't have enough time to do it. It's Mother Day and I'll be taking my Mother and Sister out for brunch. Then, we're heading over to Rennie's for dinner. Actually had enough time but I was so pissed I didn't want to work on it right then. I eventually measure out a new piece and rough-cut to size.\nMonday night rolls around and I set about filing the shell to size and drilling the holes. The piece was already cut to size, side-to-side, so I did't have any wiggle room, and it's already square. I thought about and tried the method I used to space the holes in it originally but thought better... I figured on using the pattern from the first and then kinda eye that up with the holes in the instrument box back piece. They align nicely so I free drill those holes by centering the drill bit and then going for it.\nAfter all was said and done, the holes aligned but the left, back side has a little overhang (maybe a 1/16th). Not perfect but, I'm not making a 6th shell for this one because of that slight overhang...\nClick image for close-up.\nmaking it fit.\nI've been in limbo these past few days; at least it seems like that... I'm at a point with the instrument panel project where I'm needing to think a few things through.\nWhen I started the instrument panels I thought there weren't any rear sway-wires. NOW... there are (long story you can read elsewhere), and it's after I had already measured up and figured out where the front instrument panel was going. Tested fited it and now it's too wide; the tips of the panel won't slip under the inside leg of the sway-wire fitting. Also, the panel fits right up against the front, top former so... there's no need to attach the back portion of the instrument panel or make a shell for it. All I need to do is finish off the top once I have the rest figured out.\nNow... if I notch the rear-facing leg of the \"L\" flange, at the tips, on the instrument panel it'll fit in there real nicely. I did... and it did.\nNotched.\nNotched and in place.\nI need to start working on the upper sheet metal structure; figuring all that out. But, I need to have the firwall locked into place before I can do that and I need to get hold of the drawing for the engine mount fitting so I can do that...\nbefore working...\nI'm back again... working on the guts of the instrument panel now. Seems like I'm slower than snail, but I'm moving forward.\nIt's been so long since I worked on the panels that I had forgotten what instrument went where. No problem... 'cause I always keep a record of that shit. Well... seems like I can't find that record. Had something close that, hey, maybe it is the record, but not the one I thought it would be. But, I'm done wasting time looking... so I move forward with planning what it will be like now.\nAll these toggles and breakers, especially breakers, where do I begin??? What size breaker for each component? What's the loss of amps over the distance of wire and what thickness does that wire need to be??? Hell, I can just draw up something that looks like it's gonna work, but is that my style? Reading up on the basics of electricity isn't my go-to reading but where there is a strong enough desire...\nThere are several areas of the project like this... where I just want to gloss over it. \"Make it just happen, will ya???\" A terse glance and I want it to be finished, complete! Something that I really don't want to deal with... but really... wanting to deal with it because it's a part of the project. I push it back to the end of one of my lists... just to deal with later. Later is now, or, it's my decision to make it now. So...\nThrew out the question to the biplane form... \"Electrical Wiring for Dummies?\"... Got some answers. Got some links. A few suggestions on easy to read books... I guess that's all relative when it comes to electrical engineering. One, online book... at least right now it's free, is a book by Bob Nuckholls, \"The AeroElectric Connection\". As of right now it's an active link. If it isn't when you click on it... I guess I haven't done my job of keeping links up to date (but then... I'm building a biplane... not a web master). Do a web search and I'm sure you'll find it. I'm \"enjoying\" reading the book. Not a relaxing book to enjoy, but a book to enjoy because of the information in it and the knowledge I'm gaining. Electrical... another area of life's learning I would have never explored unless I was building this biplane.\nMy mention of \"Hell, I can just draw up something that looks like it's gonna work\" in the above paragraph was meant to have a follow on sentence... \"Just send it over to someone who knows the stuff and have them check it out, or work it out for me.\" But, again... not my style. I was telling a few friends last night, when they asked how the project was going, that I was reading up on electrical wiring, blah blah blah. He said, \"Not something I would read.\" I said, \"Me either, but I'm reading for the knowledge of understanding my biplane.\" I said, \"When you look at my finished plane you'll see the completed product; the pretty surface of my work. I see all its parts and pieces, the work I put into the windshield and the instrument panels, the stringer stand-offs and how I used a laser level to make them all perfectly straight, the multiple time I have made many of the parts to pass my inspection and getting them past my \"good enough\". Reading up on electric I'll be able to craft my electrical map and be able to visualize it; see the road map of the wiring when I look at my finished project.\nThis all started when trying to figure out which size, and how many breakers to use. Designed and cut a side panel for the breakers, head set plugs and 12 volt charging plug. Didn't know what size breakers, for which components... and I wasn't going to plow forward with the panel without knowing... So here I sit reading.\nAll this \"still reading\" crap I'm writing about could be put to better use? Yeah... not really. It's just something that I'd rather not do, but I want to do. If not now, when ?\nI'm reading, but not reading... I'd rather hold the book against my head and have some type of osmosis happen. I need to follow this all the way through. Can't push it off again. Did that in the beginning with this and made a few \"guesstimates\" which kinda worked but kinda maybe needed more attention paid towards it. If I worked it all the way through the first time I wouldn't be here now writing about not having done it the first time.\nI'm thinking... while working through this reading stuff I can continue on with the fitting up of the sheet metal skin patterns. I kind of jumped off of because I was working the sheet metal for the back cockpit and saw that I needed to put in a few side panels for the breakers... which lead to... where I am now.\nTonight I'll be reading more... and possibly cutting/fitting up the second of three top sheet metal skins? Yes?\nNow if I were a plant... all this osmosis stuff would be second nature.\nI now remember why...\nwhy I never became an electrical engineer.\nI'm still picking my way through this book on electrical for the homebuilt airplane...\nI've spent some time looking at the instruments I'll be putting in the panel. In the beginning of the build I had visions of old instruments. Now... not so much. I'd rather have a new, reliable instrument that I'm looking at than one that may be accurate. So, it looks like I'll be buying new stuff and put the stuff I bought off ebay, back on ebay. Other than the mag switch and the tach... it all goes. AND, if I hook up the tach and that is giving me problems... that goes too.\nLooking through all the available options for instruments panels is a little overwhelming. For the most part I'm looking at the Westach product. I'll need to do some research to see how they size up...\nMore instrument panel stuff to come...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 16961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sportscafe.in/articles/cricket/2018/oct/06/india-vs-windies-takeaways-ashwins-seam-position-lesson-and-pants-wicket-keeping-conundrum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FAGVHP6AI4GE73UVF3UKYY6O2B3NZWE4", "length": 4893, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sportscafe.in", "title": "India vs Windies | Takeaways: Ashwin\u2019s seam position lesson and Pant\u2019s wicket-keeping conundrum", "raw_content": "India vs Windies | Takeaways: Ashwin\u2019s seam position lesson and Pant\u2019s wicket-keeping conundrum\nIndia secured a convincing victory by a margin of an innings and 272 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the series. While there have been so many positives for India, our takeaways bring what India missed out in the Test match and how Rishabh Pant needs to work on his balance a lot more as a wicket-keeper.\nDid India miss a trick by enforcing the follow-on?\nIndian bowlers have been on a spree of their own and a fine eight-match run in South Africa and England have made them one of the most balanced bowling units in the world. However, on the contrary, they have not been good travellers with the bat, which have put a burden on Virat Kohli\u2019s shoulders in recent times. After a lot of promise and some borderline over-confident talks, India have lost two consecutive Test series and the year-ending Australia series is not going to be that easy either. While Windies are no match to the Australians, this flat Rajkot deck also doesn\u2019t come close to what Adelaide and Perth would offer. Hence, batting in the second innings would have at least offered some match time to underfire KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane.\nRahul\u2019s problems against inswinging deliveries have been a huge concern for him, and Rahane, well, has almost forgotten when was the last time he scored something of substance. The first innings of 41 runs was another frightening illustration of his struggle and if India would have decided not to enforce the follow-on, then they might have gotten few more chances to gain their mojo back. Instead, India, after securing a huge lead of 468 runs in the first innings, opted to enforce the follow-on and dismissed the touring party for a paltry 196 runs to secure an innings victory. Of course, the match ended in three days and they will get some more days of rest ahead of the second game in Hyderabad. But, had they batted again and sent KL Rahul to open and Ajinkya Rahane at No.3, it would have made a lot of sense.\nAshwin demonstrates the importance of perfect seam position for a spinner\nFor a pacer, seam position holds a very big importance as it is an indicator of where the ball is likely to go. While many people think it is an exclusive pacer thing, spinners like Ravichandran Ashwin would disagree as some spinners use the seam to extract drift in the air and response from the pitch. For an Ashwin stock delivery to a right-handed batsman, the seam points towards fine leg and in Rajkot, as the ball was reverse swinging, the shine was taking the ball away from the batsman in the air and then spinning into him after pitching. On a placid wicket like that, some balls land on the seam and turn, while some land on the leather and go straight.\nWindies were confused with drift in the first session today and Ashwin took the full benefit of the same. The ball that dismissed Kraigg Brathwaite in the second innings can be considered as a perfect example of the confusion that was going on in the batsman's mind. Brathwaite decided to use his feet to understand the pitch and instead of picking the ball from the bowler\u2019s hand, he waited for the pitch of the ball to make a decision. However, Ashwin was intelligent enough to understand that and gave more drift to the ball on the air which resulted in the Caribbean opener being trapped in front.\nPant is good but is he actually good behind the stumps?\nThe way Rishabh Pant batted in the last two matches, it gave hope to millions of Indians that India have its next wicket-keeper batsman sorted, who can rise to the level of Adam Gilchrist. While his bat is yet to do any mistakes, his keeping has been lackadaisical, to say the least. Standing close to the stumps, he was completely clueless and couldn\u2019t understand where the ball was moving. He gave away a lot of byes in between, but more than that, his one technical deficiency came out to fore that might prove costly for India.\nDue to his wide stance near the stumps, he doesn\u2019t stand still and tends to move his hands across. Those who have followed Pant extensively during the Indian Premier League would tell you, the Delhi wicket-keeper batsman has a knack of falling down while hitting slog sweep that tells a lot about his body balance. Given the fact that he fails there, it is a no-brainer that transferring the weight while keeping the ball behind the stumps is a problem for him. Let me tell you, that minor chink doesn\u2019t affect his keeping, but due to the lack of balance, it severely affects him to focus on the trajectory of the ball. A captain, at least, needs his keeper to do this job to assist him with the DRS decision, but as things stand, Pant is not the ideal one for the same. 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This way, no propaganda could prevail over the fact that President Putin\u2019s policies are to blame for Russia\u2019s political and economic problems. Soros argues that Russia has managed to gain temporary tactical merit over Ukraine because [\u2026]\nGeorge Soros: A Voice of Reason Warning China of a Financial Mishap\nPosted by SS Admin on April 23, 2016 in Global Markets Crisis | \u221e\nThe 2008 financial crisis has left a dent in the American psyche that has not healed and will probably not heal for a very long time. A lot of policies, laws, and loopholes that make up the American economy have been exposed. People lost their life-savings, homes, and jobs on nybooks.com due to one of [\u2026]\nGeorge Soros Says 2008 Will Repeat\nPosted by SS Admin on March 8, 2016 in Global Markets Crisis | \u221e\nEveryone understands that George Soros is a well known figure in the financial world. In 1992, he bet against the British pound \u2013 which means that he though the pound would lose value. Well, it did. He made almost a billion dollars on that bet, and there started his career and reputation. 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The project is funded by We Effect (formerly Swedish Cooperative Center) as part of their Housing Programme titled: \u201cThe Right to Adequate Housing in East Africa\u201d.\nThe purpose of the project is to raise awareness and conscious actions towards improved living conditions in informal settlements. The project is empowering communities with awareness to improve their situations and make a difference in their housing situation. The project aims to demonstrate to government that the support of communities that have recognized their roles and are willing to work under a self-help approach is sustainable and desirable for all.\nThe project will ensure the promotion of sustainable community approaches that can be replicated in different areas of Uganda and that address specific issues of informal settlements in the ten (10) districts that will be engaged in the project. The project is a right based project that aims at lobbying government to honor its obligations to communities, particularly those of informal settlements. This is done through increased awareness and demanding for accountability in the housing sector and by advocating for the right to adequate human settlements for all in Uganda.\nSome of the key activities and strategies of the project include:\nEngagement with government and key duty bearers to advocate for change in policy and legislation.\nEngagement with communities to identify relevant sustainable modes of interventions.\nBuilding capacity of members and stakeholders to engage in effective advocacy and housing interventions.\nFacilitated knowledge management to provide a clear direction and information for housing in Uganda.\nThe project emphasizes past experiences of successful advocacy and capacity building to better serve the target population of the network. The project also seeks to maintain and develop regional partnerships that can increase cross border advocacy on housing issues in the region.\nPROMOTING URBAN POOR WOMEN'S HOUSING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS\nThis project, funded by UN Fund for Gender Equality (UNWomen), is aimed at empowering urban poor Women groups in central and eastern Uganda\u2019s urban communities to access property and adequate housing for economic development. The project targets the districts of Kampala and Jinja. The objectives are being achieved through three main strategies including:\nTraining and Capacity development for women\u2019s groups;\nLobbying and advocacy;\nFostering of networks and coalitions towards promotion of women\u2019s property and housing rights for economic empowerment.\nThrough these strategies, the project is empowering women with skills in property and housing development, paralegal skills for women to actualize their rights to property and fostering partnerships and coalitions towards promotion of women\u2019s property and housing rights for economic empowerment.\nThe project also links the urban poor women groups to key stakeholders to ensure synergy in support of women\u2019s rights to property as a means to better their economic status.\nFurthermore, the project intends to develop resource tools that will guide sensitization and awareness of communities on benefits of asset development for women. The project aims to institute sustainable services that can be scaled up to other areas within the districts and subsequently to other districts and regions of Uganda.\nThe secondary focus of the project is to promote entrepreneurship and guarantee social protection for urban poor women. The logic is that by increasing access to property there will be increased businesses opportunities which translates into promotion of entrepreneurship.\nDECENT LIVING - IMPROVING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN SLUMS IN KAMPALA THROUGH IMPROVED HOUSING, WATER AND SANITATION\nThis project promotes decent living within slum communities through integration and promotion of good practices on housing, water, sanitation and hygiene. The project aims at improving the lives of people living in slums in Kampala through improved housing, water and sanitation. It is fundedby The Swedish Postcode Lottery and implemented in collaboration with We Effect, WaterAid and Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI).\nThe project objective is to improve the living conditions and contribute to a dignified life for people living in the slums of Kampala City by ensuring decent and safe housing as well as access to safe water and sanitation. The projects target areas include; Busega, Mutundwe (Rubaga Division), Kibuye and Ggaba (Makindye Division) as well as limited activities with groups and communities in Central Division. The project aim to:\nBring equitable and sustainable access; to shelter for 180 people, to water (6300), sanitation (10 000) and hygiene (37 000) for a total of 53 300 people.\nBring vocational business skills training for 90 selected women and youths that will be trained in WASH/housing related business initiatives, for example solid waste management and managing communal toilets viably.\nStrengthen partnerships and coalitions engaging and influencing housing and WASH related policies programs and practices.\nEnhance civic engagement of Government and urban private sector in coordination, integration financing, and good governance for sustainable and equitable WASH and housing service delivery.\nStrengthen organizational and management capacity of participating institutions and target community groups.\nThis is being achieved through a number of strategies, including; partnerships, capacity building, lobbying and advocacy, mainstreaming, HRBA, service delivery/ construction of facilities and information sharing.\nAs a result the project will lead to; increased access to safe, healthy and decent housing and improved access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene for slum dwellers in Kampala, strengthened partnerships and coalitions influencing housing and WASH related policies programs and practices and enhanced good governance for sustainable and equitable WASH and housing service delivery.\nPROMOTING ECO-FRIENDLY CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN UGANDA (PECTIS)\nSSA: UHSNET in partnership with the Sustainable Urban Development Organization (SUDA), the Faculty of the Built Environment at Uganda Martyr\u2019s University and the Embassy of France in Uganda is implementing this one-year project, aimed at supporting community led initiatives to provide environmentally sustainable sanitation.\nThe goal of the project is to:\nProvide cost effective human and solid waste management through the use of an eco-friendly building technology, Interlocking Stabilised Soil Blocks making machines (ISSB), as an alternative and affordable building technology for all construction purposes.\nReduce the impact of untreated waste flowing into fragile eco-systems by using this affordable and environmentally friendly technology to construct essential infrastructure such as toilets, drainage channels and solid waste collection points for communities and households.\nCreate Entrepreneurial opportunities for the community members through trainings and the learn-by-doing approach that will enable the community members to engage in income generating activities.\nThe project is being implemented with support from the French Embassy under the Social Development Fund. The benefit community groups will include Kanyogoga Women\u2019s Association, Global Network Evangelistic Association, New Generation Women Group, Kwagalana Women\u2019s Group and Namuwongo Community Development Organisation.\nA number of strategies are used to reach the objectives. For example, the project promotes and trains community members in the use of Interlocking Soil Stabilized Brick making machines (ISSB) as an affordable and environmentally friendly technology, for construction of essential infrastructure; e.g. toilets and solid waste collection points.\nThe project takes on a \u201cLearning by Doing\u201d approach in which community participation plays a crucial role in the choice of sites, equipment, structures, and methodology. In addition, students of \u2018built environment/architecture\u2019 assist communities in construction design, sitting, and construction. This enables a learning culture that goes beyond the theoretical model of teaching and incorporates a \u2018hands on\u2019 approach. The project provides skills and raises awareness among communities on entrepreneurship, cooperatives, and management structures for sustainability.\nPARTICIPATORY HOUSING APPROACHES TOWARDS IMPROVED INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS (PHATIIS)\nThe Participatory Housing Approaches towards Improved Informal Settlements\u2019 project (PHATIIS) is implemented under the Kampala Slum Transformation Initiative (KASTI) and is funded by Comic Relief. The project focuses on empowering slum communities to enhance their participation in policy, practices and programs. It targets improving knowledge management in slums for sustainable planning and upgrading and improving access to secure land tenure and housing. The project seeks to empower slum communities in Kampala to have a clear understanding of their rights, and increased community involvement in approaches that improve their human settlements. PHATIIS is expected to lead to four key outcomes namely:\nNational policies and practices that are responsive to the needs of slum dwellers as a result of collective advocacy\nIncreased housing ventures for slum transformation promoted though a housing cooperative model promoted\nImproved housing information management among communities, NGOs, CBOs, and other stakeholders working in slums\nEnhanced Profile and capacity of SSA:UHSNET with strong governance and increased membership\nThe three year project includes activities such as public debates; dialogue meetings with parliamentarians, and ministries; involving of the media in policy briefs, reviews and campaigns, and participation in national, regional and international events to lobby the position of the network. With its strong focus on the cooperative model, the project also aim to mobilise and build capacity in cooperative management and document the perceptions, the impact and the successes of housing cooperatives in the project area.\nIn order to strengthen the capacity and profile of the network, the project includes stakeholder mapping and tailored-made capacity building for the network to effectively steer change in slum dweller communities.\nRAPID RESPONSE TO EPIDEMICS (RARE)\nThe Rapid response to Epidemics project is an intervention supported by We Effect to contribute towards the effort of raising awareness on preventive control measures on disease epidemics such as Ebola and Marburg. SSA: UHSNET intends to carry out community led awareness creation and preventive measures to control the outbreak and spread of epidemics. The project will specifically target awareness creation in informal settlements and urban poor communities in Wakiso and Kampala district.\nThe expected outcomes include:\nIncreased awareness and understanding of individual members on protection and control of epidemics.\nImproved organizational capacity to respond to epidemics outbreaks.\nThis six-month project aims at enhancing the capacity of the Network and its members to respond to epidemic outbreaks. In order to reach the outcomes of increased awareness among members on protection and control of epidemics, the activities implemented includes peer educations, school sensitization campaigns and dialogue meetings among others. The project takes place in Wakiso and Kampala, and is implemented in partnership with the Network member Chain Foundation, whose main work revolves around community outreach and health issues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 13562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://staging.believermag.com/issues/201409/?read=column_handler", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:56Z", "digest": "sha1:BSXHLTWGJA6D6QS6XGASQ5TO6PJAGBLO", "length": 1248, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "staging.believermag.com", "title": "The Believer - What the Swedes Read", "raw_content": "LAUREATE: P\u00e4r Lagerkvist (Sweden, 1951)\nBOOK READ: Barabbas, translated by Alan Blair\nI\u2019d never heard of P\u00e4r Lagerkvist before embarking on this project, but as I bummed around town with Barabbas, one of his most celebrated novels, two friends of mine said, \u201cOh, I read that.\u201d That hadn\u2019t happened with, say, books by Carl Spitteler or Harry Martinson. Though book and author had been completely unknown to me, others apparently were fully engaged with Lagerkvist and Barabbas, right under my nose.\nIt\u2019s like Christianity in this way. Jews like myself can sometimes forget just what a big deal Christians are. Well, that\u2019s not quite putting it right\u2014we aren\u2019t blind to the Pope, or Santa Claus, or other manifestations of the Gentile Juggernaut. But if you don\u2019t grow up learning the basic precepts of Christianity, you end up knowing the trappings but not the theology of, in the West at least, the dominant culture. Even reading the New Testament won\u2019t let the story of Christ sit in the brain the way it does in the Christian psyche. I\u2019m someone who wishes I\u2019d had more religion in my public schooling, if only so that, in college, when we were all studying Jonathan Edwards, I didn\u2019t have to say, \u201cOK, remind me. They roll the rock back, and\u2026?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://starlogged.blogspot.com/2012/03/v-files.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RTLWXASZEDSGJNIFPEMOXIP4PDVZ2YOR", "length": 1123, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "starlogged.blogspot.com", "title": "STARLOGGED - GEEK MEDIA AGAIN: 1984: THE V FILES", "raw_content": "THE V FILES were part of the sprawling FILES MAGAZINE series published in the mid-1980s. In common with most of their stablemates, they were overpriced and (despite their eye-catching covers) poorly assembled with the absolute minimum of text and padded with poorly reproduced photos.\nVolume 1, which Slow Robot doesn't have, was originally released as a hardback. The contents were then split into two soft-back editions, in the same format as the rest of the series.\nMost \"issues\" feature something of interest in terms of articles. The episode guide to the weekly series offers some amusing alternate titles, presumably concocted on a whim by the author, to overcome the absence of on-screen episode titles.\nThere MAY have been plans for further volumes but Slow Robot doesn't think they ever appeared. The Files Magazine range died-off in the late 1980s.\nLabels: 1984, V: THE FINAL BATTLE, V: THE SERIES\nNick Shaw 21 January 2016 at 19:23\nFile one came out 3 ways, as a hardback, as a softback then split across 2 softback volumes\nDo you have any plans to feature the Battlestar Galactica file(s) by the same publisher?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://starpicstoday.com/Photo.aspx?PhotoID=1c7046e8-4822-42fb-a530-2407f5b2228d&EventID=3389", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:27Z", "digest": "sha1:F3ZSYUAPMZTKSFKDQLPZKLSS7TKDDNZ2", "length": 346, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "starpicstoday.com", "title": "StarPicsToday.com - French Montana at the 29th Annual ASCAP Rhythm And Soul Music Awards - Arrivals Photos.", "raw_content": "Title: French Montana\nPhoto ID: 1c7046e8-4822-42fb-a530-2407f5b2228d\nDescription: BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JUNE 23: Rapper French Montana attends the 29th Annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on June 23, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.\nEvent: 29th Annual ASCAP Rhythm And Soul Music Awards - Arrivals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 218.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stefanlindblad-english.blogspot.com/2010/12/lost-souls-novel-by-poppy-z-britenow-as.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2TNWR4CVV3HSMRVLHKRQ6UMUNXIQO6QD", "length": 1493, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "stefanlindblad-english.blogspot.com", "title": "Stefan Lindblad - Art and Illustration: Lost Souls novel by Poppy Z Brite\u2013now as audio e-book, my cover art", "raw_content": "Lost Souls novel by Poppy Z Brite\u2013now as audio e-book, my cover art\nStefan Lindblad, Illustration & graphic design cover Copyright 2010\nThis summer of 2010 I got to do the illustration, cover art and graphic design for the LOST SOULS novel by Poppy Z. Brite, meaning the audio e-book version, published by Cross Road Press. It was pure joy to do. Hope you all like it. You can buy the audio book via my own web shop, from where you then go directly to the page for the book publisher site for purchase.\nThe premiss for the book cover was to not make a typical blood spashed vampire cover. And it felt nice to get the opportunity to make it. The illustration and the overall design of the cover is inspired in part by New Orleans old french parts, Absinthe and the lost souls inhabiting it. To compare and view older paperback book covers go to Amazon, here>\nBUY the book, Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite here >\nUpdateI got information about articles reviews on this new edition of Lost Souls, of which I made the cover and covert art/illustration.\nhttp://boingboing.net/2011/03/10/lost-souls-audio-ada.html\nhttp://www.audiobookcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/lost-souls-listen-to-them-the\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Souls-Unabridged/dp/B004J08A04\nhttp://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/eBooksProductDetails.aspx?productID=OD00050965925\nhttp://crossroadpress.com/2010/12/22/lost-souls-poppy-z-brite-unabridged-audio/\nhttp://lostsouls.crossroadpress.com/\nLabels: _New illustrations, Miscellaneous", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stephenbard.tripod.com/id56.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MILU4ELMJO5NMWACQVDXSJYCZFKM5LXL", "length": 1972, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "stephenbard.tripod.com", "title": "XI. U2 Live At Madison Square Garden, November 22, 2005.", "raw_content": "XI. U2 Live At Madison Square Garden, November 22, 2005.\nThey are the greatest Rock and Roll band in the world and have been now for twenty years.\nIt's a rare thing someone as old and jaded as me could still be made euphoric by a rock concert.\nThey have amassed a catalog of songs that rivals The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen. A show that includes \"Vertigo,\" \"Elevation,\" \"Beautiful Day,\" \"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,\" \"Pride In The Name Of Love,\" \"Sunday Bloody Sunday,\" \"Bullet The Blue Sky,\" \"Miss Sarajevo,\" \"With Or Without You,\" \"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of,\" and \"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own\" is a show worth being a part of.\nThe highlight, however, was \"Where The Streets Have No Name.\" Pure ecstacy, but not in the sexual sense. Spiritual ecstacy, what a concept. A giant arena full of people sharing in spiritual ecstacy. The importance of this cannot be overstated. They are soldiers of love.\nSeveral key articles from The World Decleration Of Human Rights were read. It was humbling and inspiring in the dark and menacing political climate of this planet in 2005.\nBono has fully regained his voice and is now singing opera in the best sense. He is communicating God to humanity. He is holding a great spotlight and shining it into the void.\nA tremendous light show and stage production never hurts. Visually riveting images accompanying a raging rock show.\nLarry Mullen Jr. is more handsome than ever. More humble too.\nThe Edge is the reason. He creates a sky for Bono to shine in.\nThey closed by kissing NYC with \"Instant Karma\" duetting with Patti Smith, who is a 'punk' through and through, however you wish to read that.\nHad they returned once more with \"All Because Of You,\" \"Yahweh,\" and \"40,\" it would have been the best show I've ever seen.\nRock and Roll needs more of this. One band doing it is not enough.\nI want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stmatthewurbana.org/2016/11/01/sermon-october-30-2016-reformation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7XW3G3NZB4RQDDKFESVNRZDBCZ7GGTM3", "length": 7757, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "stmatthewurbana.org", "title": "Sermon \u2013 October 30, 2016 \u2013 Reformation", "raw_content": "Included in just about everyone\u2019s top 10 list of favorite films has to be the movie Casablanca., starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. It is set in a North African town during World War II \u2013 a town managed by the Vichy French who were sympathizers with the Nazis. American expatriate Rick Blaine runs an establishment called Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Americano, a venue for music, drinks, a little gambling, along with intrigue and conspiracies and secrets. One critic gushed that the film\u2019s vaunted place in the annals of movie history will be the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. I\u2019ll leave you to see the movie, but even if you haven\u2019t seen that you\u2019ve heard some of the iconic lines from the film that have become part of our vernacular. \u201cPlay it, Sam.\u201d Or, when Capt. Renault, the Vichy French head of police walks in and discovers an illicit card game, he cries, \u201cI\u2019m shocked! Shocked, that there is gambling in this establishment. Of course, there are the Bogisms, \u201cHere\u2019s looking at you, kid.\u201d and, of course, \u201cWe\u2019ll always have Paris.\u201d\nMy favorite is near the end of the film when the resistance leader Victor Laszlo is being smuggled out on an airplane. The Nazi Maj. Strauss arrives on the scene and demands that Capt. Renault stop that plane. Capt. Renaud refuses as Rick, the reluctant hero, stands by with a pistol to ensure that the plane takes off safely. Maj. Strasser goes for the phone to call in his troops to stop the escape, refusing Rick\u2019s directive to hang up the phone. As Maj. Strasser tries to complete his call, Rick is forced to shoot him. Moments later the police arrive and Capt. Renault, whose sympathies have now shifted to the Allied cause, tells his policeman, \u201cMaj. Strasser has been shot\u2026\u2026\u2026 Round up the usual suspects.\u201d\nToday is Reformation Sunday, an annual festival in the church year when we celebrate the emergence of the protesting church, the Protestant church, and in particular our own Lutheran heritage. It is often been our practice on this day to round up the usual suspects where we remember that it was the objectionable sale of indulgences that help to set the reformers off; we remember Martin Luther\u2019s challenge to the church outlined in his 95 theses nailed to the Wittenberg church door; we recalled Luther in the fond terms and remember his struggle and perseverance. We enthusiastically revisit our conviction that we are saved by grace through faith and we might even recite the solas, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Sola Scriptura, By Faith Alone, Grace Alone, Scripture Alone. That is all well and good, I suppose, to remember these historic events and to give thanks for the courage and sacrifice that it took to raise the challenge, but we need to be careful that we don\u2019t just hang them like ornaments on a Reformation Festival tree. That leads to a sort of Lutheran triumphalism that is neither historically accurate or presently healthy.\nWe recall these things most authentically in the context of why. What was the fuss. What was the problem. And that has everything to do with human sin. This is the point of the sermon where I can almost hear you tell yourselves, \u201cwell here it is. He always promised us that 45 minutes sermon on sin.\u201d Seriously, the fundamental fire that sparked Reformation was the question of how we sinful people can encounter a merciful God. How the wrath of God, God\u2019s righteous anger, is mitigated to mercy. The question tormented Luther and caused St. Paul fits. It was the reason for the system of indulgences where people could essentially buy their way out of the consequences of sin. It was the theological objection the reformers sought to engage with the Roman church. It was the power invested in the priesthood to mediate this transaction of God\u2019s forgiveness. And it was the dissatisfaction heretofore of any understanding or practice that could bring the reassurance and peace of forgiveness. It was a struggle with its roots in sin.\nWhat we celebrate today is biblical and theological and not just historical Luther did not discover grace Scriptures, but his path took him to a reclamation of that core character of God expressed in our readings today. Long before St. Paul, Jeremiah declared in God\u2019s stead that because God could, God would forgive our iniquity and remember our sins no more. As Paul proclaimed that that grace is ours through the same merciful God now revealed in the person of Jesus Christ, that word incubated and burst forth by its sheer proclamation. Human sin is slavery, Jesus said, but it is not the last word and that the truth of God\u2019s forgiving grace will set us free and make us new. That claim of God\u2019s unmerited grace in Christ is now the starting and ending point across the span of nearly all Christian denominations. Tomorrow, Pope Francis will join the Bishop of Sweden as the church begins a year-long observance of the Reformation in anticipation of its 500th anniversary next year. While we still have differences on how we do things, the church, led by this core conviction, finds common ground to do the work of the gospel and not be bogged down by historical differences. Francis calls it \u2018walking ecumenism.\u201d And I don\u2019t just mean the Roman Catholic Church, but we have made vast strides in our ecumenical relationships across the board. It is this biblical and theological conviction that calls us and binds us and leads us.\nAnd we are set free. That is what Luther saw, that is what the reformers sought, that\u2019s what all of us who confess Christ year for, and the promise is answered in God\u2019s unconditional love and mercy.\nAnd what that freedom does is draw us closer to God and to one another. This is a very present power in our time as it has always been. Again, to be justified is to be put right, made acceptable, put in proper alignment. And as that work is completed by God, we are set free to be in relationship with each other. This Romans text was the subject of our last adult Bible study on Wednesday night, where our video leader, Professor Walter Taylor shared the observations of James Dunn and Alan Suggate \u201cOne could not be just before God without being just to one\u2019s neighbor, . . .It is impossible to be just, acceptable before God, while at the same time being unjust towards one\u2019s neighbor . . . It is not possible to have justification without justice.\u201d That was part of Luther\u2019s motives, was it not, to bring this justifying word to the people living in terror of their salvation under the system of indulgences, purgatory and law?\nBecause God has justified us in the cross of Christ, we are freed from being preoccupied by our own eternal well being. God has taken care of that. As Silvio Minke has written, \u201cFree from the exaggerated concern to construct our own acceptance, we have both hands free for the other.\u201d\nIt is this understanding that we realize the church is ever in reform, always called back to our center, always compelled to reclaim and proclaim this message of hope and forgiveness, new life and freedom, always, then called to step into the gaps and shadows and fear of our present circumstances to bring this hope to bear in our time and place.\nAll of the historical artifacts of the Reformation are mere ornaments on a tree unless they are cast in the context of God\u2019s radical and merciful forgiveness in Christ, the truth that truly sets us free.\nIn the face of sin and death, injustice and division, let\u2019s instead round up the real actors in this drama, the usual suspects then, of our church\u2019s history, and of its future. God\u2019s boundless mercy, unconditional forgiveness, and new life and hope that are ours through the cross of Christ, these the same yesterday, today and forever. Now, that sounds like \u201cthe beginning of a beautiful relationship.\u201d Thanks be to God. Amen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 8882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stockdesk.com/focus-on-dividend-aristocrat-stocks-for-long-term-gains-not-the-federal-reserve/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCI6Z6RWMETSYL3UBQEJ3FI6IDLC2G2J", "length": 2660, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "stockdesk.com", "title": "Focus on Dividend Aristocrat Stocks for Long Term Gains, not the Federal Reserve | Stockdesk.com", "raw_content": "Focus on Dividend Aristocrat Stocks f...\nHome \u00bb Community News \u00bb Focus on Dividend Ar...\nFocus on Dividend Aristocrat Stocks for Long Term Gains, not the Federal Reserve\nIn the short term, the actions of the Federal Reserve under Chairman Ben Bernanke have had a great deal of influence over the price of stocks.\nBut, for the long term, which is the most profitable way to invest, the fundamentals of the overall economy and the actions of each business will make its weight felt in the share price of a publicly traded company. A major factor in the overall return of a stock is its dividend income. For that reason, and many more, investors should look at Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), McDonald\u2019s (NYSE: MCD), and Home Depot (NYSE: HD), among other \u201cDividend Aristocrat\u201d stocks for the long term.\nA Dividend Aristocrat is a publicly traded company that has raised its dividend annually for at least 25 consecutive years. As a result, shareholders get an annual raise just for owning the stock. If the growth rate is 6% or more annually, that means the dividend income doubles just about every decade.\nAccording to John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group, about half of the historic total return for a stock emanates from the dividend income component. So, the more the dividend grows, the bigger its role in the return for the shareholder. That makes the increasing dividend from a Dividend Aristocrat even more valuable.\nJust the fact that a company pays a dividend to its shareholder is a good sign for investors.\nIt immediately reveals that the management of the company takes seriously the rights of minority shareholders. Also revealed is that the board of directors is confident enough that there will be plenty of cash flow to finance rising dividend payments. That proves there that the company will be operating profitably for the future.\nWhile there are many features of McDonald\u2019s, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Exxon Mobil and other Dividend Aristocrats that make each appealing as an investment, the basic products of all make it easy for an investor to understand the business. This is an important component of how to invest. That is why legendary investor Warren Buffett has stayed away from high tech companies, favoring those with easy-to-understand business models.\nA dividend check in the mail is as easy to understand as pouring a Coca-Cola, ordering a burger from McDonald\u2019s, filling up at the local Exxon Mobil, or buying a new appliance from Home Depot. The Federal Reserve cannot diminish the appeal of those products. The rising dividend certainly makes the stocks even more alluring for long term investors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://store.brandonsanderson.com/elsecallers-glyph/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ORKNTGE7AXQZ5CAXT7W6HEP3MRG4UKFA", "length": 428, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "store.brandonsanderson.com", "title": "Elsecallers Glyph - Brandon Sanderson Store", "raw_content": "The Beteb Glyph is associated with the Elsecallers\u2122 and is a symbol of wisdom and care.\nThe Beteb charm is cast in yellow bronze and treated with a zircon blue enamel paint. The pendant measures approximately 41 mm (just over 1 5/8\") long including the bail, 34.5 mm (just under 1 5/16\") at the widest point and 2.4 mm (1/8\") thick. Choose from a 24\" long rhodium plated rope chain, a 24\" long black leather cord, or a key ring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sunweber.blogspot.com/2014/03/reality-again.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MQZETLOX6FJOG4IYREUKHWJWDYP6K5BR", "length": 5814, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "sunweber.blogspot.com", "title": "SunWeb: Reality again", "raw_content": "Steve Carrow March 24, 2014 at 10:27 AM\nFusion powered methadone:\nFirst, let me say I like your blog, and generally agree with your conclusions. But.....\nyes, there is always a but. I still plan on installing PV and solar thermal to the house. I view it as a step down from the energy levels we are addicted to. ( Thus my title- a sun powered lifestyle as a step down from heroin like fossil fuels). I have some work to do to reduce the gross power needs, and recognize that as the first step, but view PV and solar thermal as temporary \"training wheels\" while we relearn the ways that were once the norm. If my systems crap out in 20 years, I hope to have weaned myself off them by that time if I'm still alive.\nHaven't explored your archives a lot yet, but wondered if you have shared how far you've progressed beyond PV, and what things you have done to do so.\nJohn Weber March 25, 2014 at 2:22 AM\nSteve - I agree with your attitude. My partner and I have solar both at the home and at our orchard. The first system (grid-tie) was put in before I realized all that I have written about in this essay. The second at the orchard are panels I had bought at the same time as the system at the home. My concern is creating the false illusion of BAU. I have no doubt your heart and mind will be ready.\nJoe - I am not deleting this but it really says nothing and does not even touch on the theme and substance of the essay.\nI think this article is mistaken. I will respond to each of your numbered points below.\n\"1. It is possible to prorate the energy of the infrastructure used to generate the devices that capture the sun or wind.. However, and a big however, there is a front-end cost of energy on a massive scale. There is not just the energy to make the devices but the energy used to make the machines \"\nThis doesn't imply what you think. There is a front-end cost for all sources of energy. For example, there is a front-end cost for a new coal plant. If we start building renewables then we are paying the front end cost for renewables INSTEAD of the front end cost of fossil fuels.\nRenewables have a higher front-end cost but lower operating costs than some fossil fuels, but that only implies that fossil fuels couldn't be reduced rapidly RIGHT AWAY unless consumers were willing to forgo some energy usage for awhile or we increased fossil fuel extraction for awhile (while reducing them more in the long term).\n\"2. Included, but standing alone, is the water necessary for all processes to make all this infrastructure in addition to what is used to make the solar and wind devices. \"\nRenewables require vastly less water than fossil fuels do. For example, coal-burning electricity plants are HEAT ENGINES which depend upon evaporating water, which is why they're located next to rivers, because the water requirements are so massive. The water requirements of PV panels are far less than 1% of that. If there's enough water for fossil fuel electricity, there's enough water for renewables.\n\"3. Included, but also standing alone, is the enormous environmental degradation (water, air, soil, biological diversity) associated both with the making of the infrastructure,\"\nEnormous is relative. Anything done on the scale of a whole civilization will be \"enormous\", even riding bicycles. However, the environmental degradation is far LESS with renewables.\n\"4. In addition, the solar and wind devices do not stand alone, they have necessary supporting hardware \u2013 inverters, controllers, batteries, cables, monitoring instrumentation, etc \u2013 that will not last 25 years and must turn to the fossil fuel supply system to replace the supporting devices.\"\nNo, because all of those things can ultimately be manufactured using the energy from renewables themselves. That's a long way off (probably more than 100 years) but ultimately renewables can certainly stand by themselves. Renewables can provide the heat, electricity, and liquid fuels necessary to manufacture other renewables. It's obvious and straightforward how to do so. In the mean time, renewables can greatly reduce our usage of fossil fuels.\nYour point #5 just repeats #4.\n\"6. Even if the solar and wind devices could generate enough energy to replace themselves (and the required infrastructure) they will then need more excess energy to build the equipment that we want to have the electricity for in the first place (radios, vacuum cleaners, water pumps, etc.) Not going to happen.\"\nYou provide no evidence or reasoning to support this claim. Instead, you just say \"not going to happen\". In fact, renewables could provide vastly more \"net energy\" than was ever obtained from fossil fuels. Solar power in particular is vastly more abundant than fossil fuels ever were, EVEN IF you calculate the \"net energy\" by subtracting the energy required to manufacture the solar panels themselves.\n#7 and #8 are just repetitions of your earlier points.\n\"9. On top of all this the ERoEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) of photovoltaics is seriously low\"\nYou are repeating a deeply flawed analysis which carries out the calculation incorrectly. In fact, the ERoEI of renewables is comparable to, or higher than, fossil fuels. Charles Hall calculates the ERoEI incorrectly because he wrongly counts waste heat losses of fossil fuels as \"energy returns\". See here:\nhttp://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2014/07/renewables-have-higher-eroei-than.html\nThe ERoEI of solar PV is comparable to electricity from natural gas.\n\"... And if you want education, you need 8:1 or 9:1. And if you want health care, you need 10:1 or 11:1.\"\nYou are repeating random, off-the-cuff guesses from Charles Hall. He wrongly calculates the ERoEI of renewables, wrongly assumes that net energy is inversely proportional to ERoEI, and then issues a series of guesses without any support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 16440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://survincity.com/2012/09/economists-have-criticized-the-draft-budget-for/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3WWG7PPQXG2ORWLXRHKZM5UG5LLPSVOC", "length": 9071, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "survincity.com", "title": "Economists have criticized the draft budget for 2013-2015 \u00ab Encyclopedia of safety", "raw_content": "\u00ab Symptoms of snake colonization\nTop 10 optical illusions 2012 \u00bb\nEconomists have criticized the draft budget for 2013-2015\nAs you know, in at least some science as truth, but in her arithmetic. But even this seemingly reinforced concrete statement in the near future, too, needs work. The fact is that in today's reality, it turns out, the same number can cause rapid ecstasy in one and the universal tragedy of others. One with the word \"million\" yells: Wow! a million! And the other say: Well, just something million, so what? ..\nAbout a philosophy now surrounds such a document, which integrates within itself the main lines of economical policy of the country (ONBP) for 2013-2015. Those who are the creators of the document, of course, try to justify the average Russian, that the development of the Russian Federation is on the nuanced conceptual plan, not without blemish of course, but still \u2026 Those who decided to turn up more philosophy in arithmetic, offer a look at the main lines of economical policy country for the period 2013-15 years as something that contradicts the very ability of the country's development. To carry out a review of positions 2-sides on the issue is so severe, it is necessary to refer to opposing camps. On different sides of the barricades were such, of course, pochetaemye organizations like the Ministry of money of Russia headed by Anton Siluanov, and the Graduate School of Economics, headed by the rector Yaroslav Kuz'minov.\nSo on what basis this barricade in general could appear on Russian financial and economic grounds? The fact is that the website of the Ministry of the Russian Federation published the money that the document \"ONBP for 2013-2015\", in which laid out on shelves funding prospects or those of other sectors of economic activity. After reading what is contained in ONBP, experts at the Higher School of Economics, and decided that the creators of this document, or do not understand that their strategy will hinder the development of this country's economy, or simply do not want to realize this and put the number of financing themselves with a comfortable side.\nIn the end, the vast expanses of RuNet began to flare up scandal which can be described as approximately the term \"HSE stands for adjustment plans the Ministry of Finance.\" To identify the nature of the HSE economists claim to the government of Dmitry Medvedev, it is necessary to provide the number of digits that the parties are treated differently.\nOne of these numbers is level financing the military-industrial sector. As is clear, the program industry funding of more than 20 trillion rubles planned to be realized until 2020. But critics of the applets talk about the fact that the investments that the government is planning to do now for the Russian defense industry, do not correspond to the realities. The fact is that the current level of equipment of Russian military-industrial companies to purchase a number of weapons for the army and navy, which was mentioned earlier, it is not likely. To ensure that all orders made on the position of the property level and in time, you need to upgrade the production facilities themselves, which will claim costs, not least than upgrading weapons.\nI must say that is such a critical position first calls the authorities rejection, and all the criticism had been relegated to a bit to complete unwillingness to modernize, and all the personal criticism \u2014 almost to the opponents of modernization. Because such items at one time suffered Alexei Kudrin, a position which Medvedev during his tenure as president sharply criticized.\nBut first, in July there was information that the authorities might heed the words not appropriate transformation finance the purchase of new weapons into a black hole. Namely, in the newspaper \"Vedomosti\" said that the programm procurement of new weapons can be moved for 3 years. In other words, the same 20 trillion rubles to modernize the Russian defense industry can not be allocated by the government until 2020, and before 2023. It would seem, well, that, in fact, three years might change? But in fact can exchange important: for a specified period of time funding modernization of the military-industrial companies will actually upgrade the production capacity.\nIn other words, if the government really will go to a revision of plans to finance defense, then do not think it's a step backwards. In fact the case, it is logical adjustment of the initial plans, when the known result wished to achieve with the existing production capacities. But now, of course, and the Treasury, and the Government generally believe that that idea was even closer to utopia than the real state of things. Indirectly confirm this fact the rate of the state defense order in recent years, when often the political will of the country pushed higher management Minooborony and production companies to fruitful cooperation, and even then not always.\nBut if the question of the financing of the Russian defense industry can lead to a consensus between creators and critics 2013-2015 ONBP their thoughts, here there are a number of aspects in relation to which the consensus is, quite frankly, very far away.\nNamely economical allocations for science civilian mission within the next 3 years will fluctuate. For example, in 2013 the amount of funding will be about 320 billion rubles, in 2014 \u2014 285 billion, but in 2015 \u2014 once again will rise above $ 300 billion Such a trend could not be subjected to a high-quality analysis of economists HSE, which caused a number of prirekany for activities Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. As a representative of the Ministry of money explanations said that fluctuations in the level of funding of Russian science is not worth doing disaster, because I just finished the 2014 term of the descent of several municipal programs in this area. And in 2015 there will be new applets, which are and will be allocated additional funds.\nFollowed by the stumbling block was the project financing of Russian education. According to the 2013-15 ONBP years provided further option of financing the industry \u2014 3.9% of GDP by 2015. HSE Analysts say 3.9% \u2014 a clear decrease in the level of funding, because in 2011 the level was 5.1% of GDP. Opposing Philosophy School of Economics, Treasury officials argue that the question of federal funding, and the same must also take into account regional and financing of the education system. Especially since the federal budget will direct more impressive than the day or before, the funds for regional development. But that's all the problem may lie in the fact that regional governments will now perhaps even more closed to public scrutiny than the federal budget. And take into account that let a provincial bureaucrat Van Vanych required funds for development or leave the education system with 50% for themselves, will be except by law enforcement officers from the capital. And if so, it will be necessary to finance the addition of law enforcement officers in addition, that same provincial bureaucrat Van Vanych failed to make them an offer that they do not give up \u2026 It turns out that the overall increase in funding for education may be only when the regional budgets will not be dark boxes.\nMany questions have caused and projects for financing Russian healthcare system. The Ministry of Finance brings about increasing interaction with the extra-budgetary funds financing system, but it looks very microscopically this increase. In percentage terms we can talk about the growth of investment in medicine from extra-budgetary sources by 2015, only 0.1% of the level in 2011. At the same time, the government and then try to give a typical tool for solving problems of health regions. It is planned that as the funding from the federal budget by 3\n1%, the regional funding the scope of health care will increase almost 1.5 times. But specialists from the HSE decided that 1.5-fold increase in spending on health care by the regions \u2014 less than empty words, as regional budgets simply will not tolerate such levels of stress. Then again, a question of funding for regional development with provincial rassredotachivaniem expenses and other Van Vanych our common neuvvyazkami.\nUltimately, the hunt hope that all the plans that are displayed in ONBP \u2014 it's not clean water populism, and in fact really obmyslennaya concept development. At the same time, it would be superfluous if the HSE and the Finance Ministry did not act as an implacable opponents, and listened to the views of each other and come to a consensus, because the mathematics must remain impartial science. In the end, the financing of defense, science, education and medicine \u2014 is a strategic task of temper, which directly depends on the security of the entire country.\nhttp://fingazeta.ru/budget/kudrin-pobedil-medvedeva-177570/\nhttp://www.vedomosti.ru/finance/news/2324750/mezhdu_medvedevym_i_putinym?full # cut\n\u0421\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044c 22nd, 2012 | Tags: budget development, funding year, level, to be able, which | Category: Defense", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 11819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://syntrofikotita.gr/index.php/english", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CYPUYNA5VDMCQWCNYSYNDZVLVNGDP6IZ", "length": 2199, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "syntrofikotita.gr", "title": "English", "raw_content": "Counselling & Couple Therapy\nLeo Kalovyrnas\nI am a bilingual counsellor (Greek and English), offering counselling sessions both face-to-face and online. I also hold support groups for gay men, and from time to time run various workshops. Groups and workshops are held in Greek.\nMy approach is client-centred / existentialist. I am a member of the Hellenic Association of Counselling and of the European Association of Counselling.\nI am also a relationship therapist, certified by ICEEFT, The International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.\nIf you are interested in a private face-to-face or online session, please feel free to contact me.\nTel. 2130.22.86.36 & 210.86.19.852\nWhy should I seek counselling?\nThere are many reasons why at certain times in our lives it can be useful to make the most of the tools counselling can offer us instead of trying to weather it on our own. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck in a traumatic experience, or we are going through a very difficult period, facing dilemmas that seem impossible. Some such situations include:\nThe illness or death of a loved one, person or pet\nA difficult decision I'm faced with, e.g. a separation or divorce, a job change, etc.\nA separation I can't get over\nA health problem, whether mine or of a loved one, which is causing me stress and worry\nSeveral people find it useful to go into therapy because they want to find what they really want to do when faced with a challenging decision e.g. to marry, have a child, change jobs, divorce, emigrate, etc.\nThere are also people who choose counseling because of existential angst and feel a need to examine or reassess the meaning of their lives.\nIf you're not going to provide me with solutions why should I come to you?\nIndeed, it is not me who is going to find any solutions for you. Even if I did, how certain is it that these \"solutions\" would be the right ones for you personally and the particularities of your life? That is why I believe it is much more fruitful in the long run to assist you in finding your own solutions, by helping you work through anxiety, emotional distress and confusion, so that you may pave your own way, and not follow other people's.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://taxamerican.com/fatca.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:54DCU43MYFQPWDCCOVKKR2TFQ52DDC7J", "length": 3212, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "taxamerican.com", "title": "Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Explained", "raw_content": "The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is designed to combat tax evasion by U.S. persons holding investments in offshore accounts.\nThere are two aspects to FATCA:\nCertain U.S. taxpayers holding specified financial assets outside the United States must report those assets to the IRS.\n2. Reporting by foreign financial institutions\nFATCA requires foreign financial institutions to report directly to the IRS certain information about financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers, or by foreign entities in which U.S. taxpayers hold a substantial ownership interest.\nFATCA requires certain U.S. taxpayers holding foreign financial assets to report information about those assets on Form 8938 which must be attached to the taxpayer\u2019s annual tax return. For most taxpayers reporting begins with the 2011 tax year. Failure to report foreign financial assets on Form 8938 can result in a penalty of $10,000 (and a penalty up to $50,000 for continued failure after IRS notification). Further, underpayments of tax attributable to non-disclosed foreign financial assets will be subject to an additional substantial understatement penalty of 40%.\nIf you are a taxpayer living abroad you must file Form 8938 if:\nYou are filing a return other than a joint return and the total value of your specified foreign assets is more than $200,000 on the last day of the tax year or more than $300,000 at any time during the year; or\nYou are filing a joint return and the value of your specified foreign asset is more than $400,000 on the last day of the tax year or more than $600,000 at any time during the year.\nA specified foreign financial asset is:\nAny financial account maintained by a foreign financial institution, except the foreign branch of a U.S. financial institution, or the U.S. branch of a foreign financial institution.\nOther foreign financial assets held for investment that are not in an account maintained by a U.S. or foreign financial institution, namely:\nStock or securities issued by someone other than a U.S. person\nAny interest in a foreign entity, and\nAny financial instrument or contract that has as an issuer or counterparty that is other than a U.S. person.\nFATCA also requires foreign financial institutions to report directly to the IRS certain information about financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers, or by foreign entities in which U.S. taxpayers hold a substantial ownership interest. To properly comply, foreign financial institutions will have to enter into a special agreement with the IRS by June 30, 2013, and will be obligated to undertake certain identification and due diligence procedures with respect to its accountholders, report annually to the IRS on its accountholders who are U.S. persons, and withhold and pay over to the IRS 30% of any payments of U.S. source income, as well as gross proceeds from the sale of securities that generate U.S. source income, made to (a) non-participating foreign financial institutions, (b) individual accountholders failing to provide sufficient information to determine whether or not they are a U.S. person, or (c) foreign entity accountholders failing to provide sufficient information about the identity of its substantial U.S. owners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 175.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teachingsundayschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-you-live-who-you-are-one-of-our.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YBPQAEKT5EOD5QQMEPLFXFSAYWK43NXD", "length": 1845, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "teachingsundayschool.blogspot.com", "title": "< What I Learned Teaching Sunday School: The New You: Live Who You Are", "raw_content": "One of our ministers: Kurtis Massey preached on the following scripture a couple weeks ago. It tells us who we are and how we should be acting because of who we are.\nColossians 3:12 \u2013 17 12 Therefore, as God\u2019s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.\nBelievers are chosen by God! Deuteronomy 7: 6 says, \u201cFor you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.\u201d And Ephesians 1:4 says, \u201cFor he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.\u201d\nHe chose us for holiness. He sees us through the lens of His Son: Jesus Christ. We are His beloved. Ephesians 1:5 says, \u201cIn love He predestined us.\u201d\nSo if we are going to be new in Christ we need to act like we are new. Keep putting on a heart of compassion. Compassion which causes you to act to help someone. When Jesus had compassion on us He became a man and died for us! We must also be kind, meek, patient and put other\u2019s needs before our own. We must forgive (whether they ask us to or not) and above all love.\nVerses 15 \u2013 17 tell us to let Christ\u2019s peace rule in our hearts. He already gave it to us when we became believers, but we need to let it rule. And then let the Word of Christ richly dwell in us: forming us and overflowing in our life. Don\u2019t hoard what you learn. Show it, share it and live it.\nAnd lastly do everything in the name of Christ. In such a way that it will bring glory to Jesus.\nLabels: becoming like Christ, Colossians", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teamline.cc/teampage?teamcode=6216", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:32BFEVDIGKMKQ4BCCQ5X6UTKEBCL72S4", "length": 376, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "teamline.cc", "title": "For the Live Play-by-Play of Your Favorite Team's Game, Call 1-866-253-2006", "raw_content": "Home > American Hockey League\nWould you be interested in helping to get the American Hockey League on TEAMLINE? If so, then click on the email address of the official below to send them an email asking them to join. If you want to listen to the games, we want them on TEAMLINE. 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We may disclose the information when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technewsheaven.com/news/69009/microsoft-is-euthanizing-windows-10-mobile-in-2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MH4HMAH4IFV2FQ3BFYPAMI45AWEH53YF", "length": 792, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "technewsheaven.com", "title": "TechNewsHeaven - The technology news aggregator site", "raw_content": "Microsoft is euthanizing Windows 10 Mobile in 2019\nJust a few days after announcing it would stop supporting Windows 7 soon, Microsoft is sounding the death knell for another of its products: Windows 10 Mobile. Starting December 10, 2019 your devices will no longer be able to receive security or software updates on the OS, and Microsoft will no longer provide support should issues arise. It\u2019ll provide a bit of extra time for backups and such after that date, but Windows Mobile is basically dead. Microsoft stopped working on Windows 10 Mobile back in 2017, and the company has instead focused on providing a series of tools for iOS and especially Android. It\u2019s already built a mobile version of Edge, an Android launcher, Windows Timeline integration, Cortana, and more for team Android.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tenthousanddaysofgratitude.com/index.php/2015/08/27/on-gratitude-and-chronic-illness/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7JDJ6WZ4YCG6YWXSC6HWQAJIPOSBSWVI", "length": 10795, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "tenthousanddaysofgratitude.com", "title": "On Gratitude and Chronic Illness \u2013 Ten Thousand Days of Gratitude", "raw_content": "Articles, Chronic Illness, Gratitude\nPhoto: Andrew Phillips\nI have decided to write this in response to an article by Toni Bernhard in the Buddhist magazine Tricycle: 12 Things You Should Never Say to the Sick\nUnless we are enlightened beings, there can be no happiness without first experiencing and accepting our suffering.\nUnless we are newborns, we will have had experiences of loss, abandonment, despair and suffering. Unless we are able to feel those feelings and move through them, they will become repressed, possibly lead to somatic illness and will at the very least, get locked away in a part of our hearts that is no longer available for other emotions, like love and joy. We must be able to suffer our pain in order to celebrate our joy. There is no escaping it. Trying to push someone past their pain and trying to cheer them up with positivity short circuits that process. It is often not even for their benefit, but out of our own discomfort with the spectre of empathy, and the personal pain that might be triggered, that we do this. I am pretty sure that I have been guilty of this same behaviour from time to time but it only serves to alienate the other person from me.\nI think about this in relation to chronic illness. There is stigma around incurable conditions and so, when I approached my \u201csomeone\u201d about talking to me for this article, she asked not to be identified. This, however, is what she had to say, on the subject:\n\u201cI have been suffering a setback for the past week and simultaneously, am in denial. It doesn\u2019t help that some people closest to me have been feeding my denial for over a year. I understand that their intentions were to keep me positive, but the thing about denial is that unless the thing you\u2019re denying turns out not to exist, you eventually have a rude awakening at some point.\nI am awakening to the reality that after a year, I am not cured. I\u2019ve had a good year. I\u2019ve been productive, I\u2019ve become happier despite my situation, I\u2019ve accomplished milestones and I have plans and a purpose for the future. But I am not healed, I am not \u2018recovered\u2019 and I am not cured. And, with this knowledge, I need to take on a major challenge.\nI am facing the need to return to employment. I have a job offer. The problem is that it requires a huge relocation. I\u2019m not sure a relocation would be the best thing for me right now. I\u2019m not sure my employer \u2018gets\u2019 my capabilities and needs. And, I\u2019m not really sure I understand my own capabilities anymore. The other night, I was having a bad day of chronic illness symptoms and I did an unwise thing: I read the Wikipedia entry on this illness. The prognosis is poor. The success with return to work is poor. The amount of adverse impact on an individual\u2019s life and the emotional stress of this illness is higher than any other chronic illness. Great. Just what I needed to hear (not).\nWhen asked what impact reading this dismal view of her future had on her, she replied:\nIntellectually, I know these statistics but I have chosen to ignore them. You might say it is denial. (And, of course, you would be right) I chose to call it positive thinking. And, to be fair, I seem to be functioning at a much higher level than many people with this illness. But, that doesn\u2019t mean that I am not aware of how much my life has changed. I met a fellow recently, who has unbounded energy. I used to be like that. I remember my yoga teachers asking what my secret was. They wanted to bottle it and sell it. I certainly don\u2019t have that energy any more. He\u2019s a lovely fellow and so full of life and he has held a mirror up to me and I struggle with the image I see \u2013 of not being that person I was \u2013 anymore.\nI have always been an over achiever \u2013 give me anything to do and I will learn to do it and I will learn to do it well. I will put everything into it. I went to an ivy league school and came out with other ivy leaguers among the top 1/3 of the class. I have moved, shaked, travelled, done and accomplished a thousand things.\nAnd I am not that person anymore.\nI have been asking myself that question a lot lately. It is certainly not a question one expects to be asking at this age. Okay \u2013 midlife crisis aside. But this is not a midlife crisis. It happens to be a crisis that has occurred at midlife. I don\u2019t know what my capabilities are, anymore. The main thing associated with my illness is an overwhelming fatigue that rest cannot assuage. But it is so much more than fatigue. There can be pain, dizziness, body system dysregulation, immune system failure, and cognitive impairment, among other symptoms.\nI don\u2019t know what of all of that is mine to keep. And depending on that \u2013 I don\u2019t know what my capabilities are, in this world.\nI am afraid of trying, of getting back out there \u2013 and failing.\nI have enjoyed having this time away from everyone. It has allowed me to rest, to retrieve those things like art, music, writing and photography (and lately, meditation and yoga) that bring me joy. It is also, at this moment, allowing me the space to figure out who I am in this changed physical body and who I want to be, in the future. But in that process, there is a lot of grief over the person who is no more. It is like I\u2019ve lost my spouse and I have to learn to go on with my life, with half of me gone.\nI am in mourning.\nAnd just as we would not say to a widow: \u201cOh don\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll get over it, I did,\u201d it is equally less helpful to tell anyone the same thing about an illness that fundamentally changes the way we must engage with the world and leaves us essentially isolated when we are ill.\nI asked what friends and family could do to help her feel less isolated:\nThey could educate themselves and not place the entire burden on me to always explain myself. I haven\u2019t the energy to keep explaining and educating others, let alone justifying my treatment or life choices. I need to preserve my energy for daily living and getting the most I can out of life. I need to be able to be assertive with my needs and I am happy to offer an initial resource but we don\u2019t expect a cancer patient or a paraplygic to keep explaining their condition. We should not expect this from those with chronic illness \u2013 even those that are \u2018invisible\u2019 and unpredictable, like mine \u2013 to do so.\nOn the nature of an invisible and unpredictable illness:\nPeople think that because fatigue is a key symptom of this illness, they know how I feel. Everyone is tired. But this trivialises the debilitating nature of our fatigue. This illness is not tiredness, exhaustion or burnout. Those alone go away with enough time and rest. Tiredness is just a symptom of my illness. And, I think a lot of doctors use the label of this illness when people present with chronic tiredness and do not have any other physical cause like low iron or thyroid issues. There is no definitive test but Universities in California have found that there is a distict difference in the brain of those with this illness \u2013 particularly in our white matter. When I read about that, I wondered whether I would rather know or not know what my brain looks like and what that says for my prognosis.\nBut, misdiagnosis leads to further misunderstanding of the illness. Those who \u2018recover completely\u2019 probably never had it in the first place. The prognosis for this illness is that it is chronic. One does not recover. One \u2018manages\u2019 and one works to improve dramatically impaired levels of functioning. Nobody ever \u2018recovers.\u2019\nI spent the last year in denial about that \u2013 hoping that I would find that the diagnosis was wrong. I hoped that with enough rest, I would also be jumping around claiming to be completely recovered. A year on, I can\u2019t say that. And that causes me grief.\nOn how she sees herself returning to her professional career:\nI won\u2019t return to working 36 hour days and to the levels of stress I was under. I won\u2019t return to that. Who would want to? But, I may never return to full time employment. I do need to bring in an income. I am going to have to find a way to earn a living as a single woman on a part time salary. How I will do that is something I don\u2019t know. And that scares me.\nAnd for the first time in the time since I left employment, I must face this hurdle and it is daunting.\nAnd so, after a year of denial and isolation, I\u2019m scared. I am frustrated and angry, I am saddened, I am still bargaining my diagnosis but I can see I need to move to acceptance and to mapping out a new and changed life.\nNobody is where they thought they would be. I never thought I would be here.\u201d\nOne of the things I hope that I can do with my book on gratitude is to provide it to people suffering from debilitating chronic illness. It would be worse than useless if I wasn\u2019t honest about the down times, the sacrifices and how difficult accepting and coping with illness is \u2013 especially given that there exists so much misunderstanding and judgement around it anyway.\nWhat people never really understand is the shame of being unwell in a culture obsessed with wellness. And, every time someone tries to cheer up a person with chronic illness with talk of how they or their friend or their second cousin once removed managed to recover from this illness, it compounds the shame and the guilt of not being able to heal oneself and get well.\nLike the article in Tricycle advises, if you love someone with a chronic illness, don\u2019t advise them on treatment, don\u2019t cheer them up, don\u2019t tell them they look wonderful and force them to correct you by telling you they actually feel awful. I would add that this would force them to explain how many days of rest they had to trade for this moment \u2018out\u2019 or what they\u2019ve had to sacrifice that you might simply take for granted, in order to look good and be out.\nJust let them be who they are because they are struggling to know and to accept who they are \u2013 now.\nThe positive talk in the head of a person with chronic illness needs to come from them, from their appreciation of life and of what blessings they still have, despite their limitations. So, Please don\u2019t tell them to be grateful for what they have \u2013 it only serves to highlight what is lost.\nWhen asked about gratitude, our sufferer had this to say:\n\u201cI am grateful that I have had more therapy than Woody Allen and I continue to have support because that foundation has given me the ability to be self reflective and given me the tools to cope with whatever I discover about myself.\nI am grateful that I have my gratitude practice to keep me positive and I am grateful that I can still be creative. I know that I am blessed with the opportunity to redefine myself, even if it is due to illness. And, in the passage of time and in acceptance of what has been lost, I will come to appreciate what is to be gained in this experience.\nI am not there, yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 12988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theadamschronicler.com/us-briefing-jeff-bezos-rod-rosenstein-and-toronto-killers-trial/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HOWOEAP7LXQRDPFGTO5WQRRWARKNXB6F", "length": 6037, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "theadamschronicler.com", "title": "US briefing: Jeff Bezos, Rod Rosenstein and Toronto killer's trial -", "raw_content": "Jeff Bezos has accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of blackmail, in a blogpost alleging that American Media Inc (AMI) threatened to publish intimate personal photographs unless he stated publicly that its coverage of his impending divorce was not politically motivated. Shortly after Bezos and his wife, Mackenzie, announced their split, the tabloid published text messages revealing his relationship with the former TV anchor Lauren S\u00e1nchez. The Amazon CEO claims his ownership of the Washington Post made him an enemy of Donald Trump and his allies, including the AMI chief, David Pecker.\nTrump-Russia twist. Bezos\u2019s blackmail claims against Pecker and the National Enquirer tie in with a bizarre strand of the Trump-Russia investigation, as Ben Jacobs explains.\nRosenstein reluctant to write Comey memo, claims new book\nThe deputy US attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, was \u201cglassy-eyed\u201d and visibly upset at being ordered to write the infamous memo that justified Trump\u2019s firing of the FBI director James Comey in May 2017, according to a new book by Comey\u2019s former deputy, Andrew McCabe. In his forthcoming memoir, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, McCabe also accuses Trump of running his administration like a mob boss and unleashing a \u201cstrain of insanity\u201d in US public life.\nLightning rod. McCabe was himself fired from the FBI last March, and has been attacked by Trump on various occasions before and since \u2013 not least because his wife, Jill McCabe, ran for the Virginia state Senate as a Democrat in 2015.\nRepublican Senate leader swept up in Virginia racism scandal\nThe political crisis in Virginia has grown after the leader of the state\u2019s Republican senate majority, Tommy Norment, was caught up in the racism scandal that already threatens to end the careers of the Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, and his attorney general, Mark Herring. It emerged on Thursday that Norment edited the 1968 Virginia Military Institute yearbook, which contained racist slurs and, yes, photos of people wearing blackface.\nAssault allegations. Virginia\u2019s lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, another Democrat, has meanwhile denied an accusation of sexual assault, claiming he is the victim of a strategically timed political smear.\nToronto serial killer to face sentencing for eight murders\nThe families and friends of serial killer Bruce McArthur\u2019s victims have been recalling their loved ones in court in Toronto this week, with the 67-year-old former landscape gardener facing sentencing on Friday after pleading guilty to the murders of eight men. Most of the victims were from south Asian and Middle Eastern communities, but police have denied accusations that racial bias hindered the case.\nPolice interviewed McArthur in 2013 and in 2016 amid rumours of a potential serial killer targeting Toronto\u2019s Gay Village, but failed to identify him as a suspect. He was finally arrested in January 2018.\nThe Thai king\u2019s sister, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi, has put herself forward as a shock prime ministerial candidatein the country\u2019s upcoming elections, running against the head ofThailand\u2019s military junta.\nRelations between France and Italy are at an historic low after Paris recalled its ambassador to Rome in response to criticism of Emmanuel Macron by Italy\u2019s far-right deputy prime ministers, who have also courted leaders of the French gilets jaunes movement.\nThe US supreme court chief justice John Roberts has sided with the court\u2019s four liberals in a 5-4 vote to prevent Louisiana enforcing new restrictions on abortion clinics.\nAfter extensive research under carefully controlled lab conditions, British and German scientists have concluded that beer combined with wine will give drinkers just as bad a hangover, regardless of the order in which they are consumed.\nThe enduring appeal of The Warriors\nEven in the bad old days of 1979, the vision of a New York riven by gang conflict in The Warriors was an overblown fantasy. But four decades after its original release, writes Charles Bramesco, Walter Hill\u2019s crime classic remains \u201cthe all-encompassing Big Apple movie\u201d.\n\u2018I climbed 61 mountains in a year\u2019\nTwo years ago, on a long-haul flight, Emma Svensson watched the film Everest, the true story of a fatal blizzard on the world\u2019s highest mountain. For some reason, it inspired her to start climbing herself, so she scaled the highest peak in every country in Europe.\nStonehenge, perhaps the most recognisable ancient site in England, sits at the congested crossroads of two major trunk roads. As Charlotte Higgins reports, the monument is part of a decades-long planning battle over traffic management.\nThe fate of Confederate monuments after Charlottesville\nIn the wake of the fatal far-right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017, there was extensive coverage of the removal of Confederate statues and memorialsacross the south. The media may have moved on, says Jason Wilson, but the grassroots activists have not.\nThe US is preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan after 18 years of conflict, having achieved precisely none of the objectives laid out by George W Bush in 2001. This is not an honourable retreat, writes Simon Tisdall, it is a capitulation.\nThe implications, once the Americans have gone, are ominous. A rapid descent into civil war, involving government forces, jihadist groups and rival warlords, in a rerun of not-forgotten 1990s anarchy, is a strong possibility.\nThe body recovered from a plane that crashed in the English Channel on 21 January has been formally identified as that of the Argentinian footballerEmiliano Sala, who had been en route to Wales from Nantes after signing with Cardiff City FC.\nKevin Durant told reporters to \u201cgrow up\u201d at a contentious post-game press conference following the Golden State Warriors\u2019 win over San Antonio on Thursday. Durant appeared tired of speculation that he might be moving to the New York Knicks as the NBA free agency deadline approaches.\nTags: Jeff BezosRod RosensteinTorontoUS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 11697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thealamo.org/visit/events/calendar/events/2019/dayofthedead.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PURYQJ6OINQVAVKJZZQ2LMWHUDI22JHQ", "length": 484, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thealamo.org", "title": "Alamo Tricentennial Lunch & Lecture Series: Day of the Dead in Texas", "raw_content": "Alamo Tricentennial Lunch & Lecture Series: Day of the Dead in Texas\nJoin us November 1, as Alamo staff member Misty Hurley discusses the history of the Day of the Dead, the blending of cultures that influenced the holiday, and its place in modern pop culture.\nAbout Misty Hurley\nMisty Hurley is a fifth generation Texan from Matagorda County. She graduated with a B.A. in History from Sam Houston State University and a M.A. in Public History from Stephen F. Austin State University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 112.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecircumlocutionoffice.com/t-m-thomas/suburban-connemara/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:37Z", "digest": "sha1:5MFDV22TIJAYGYZUNA65TSW2GYNFKFOU", "length": 19223, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "thecircumlocutionoffice.com", "title": "A Suburban Connemara by T M Thomas.", "raw_content": "A Suburban Connemara by T M Thomas.\nA Suburban Connemara by T M Thomas.The Circumlocution Office2018-03-12T14:47:04+00:00\nThe following is a reproduction of an article by T M Thomas published in Charles Dickens\u2019s own magazine Household Words,, entitled A Suburban Connemara. Appearing in March 1851, the work provides a good insight into the slum area of Agar Town, in the Battle Bridge (now King\u2019s Cross) area of London.\nThe author, T M Thomas, is believed to be William Moy Thomas (1828\u20131910), an English journalist, literary editor and novelist. In 1850 he was introduced to Charles Dickens by Thomas Noon Talfourd. Dickens engaged him the following year as a writer on Household Words, where he contributed until 1858.\nA Suburban Connemara.\nI was born and bred in Manchester. My earliest impression\u2014which has hardly left me yet\u2014that all rich men are mill-owners, and all poor men and women merely spinners. I am proud of being a Manchester man; for there is not a town more orderly or better lighted and paved, or (till lately) better swept, in England. Till I was four-and-twenty I had never been out of my native town. Early and late I toiled in my father\u2019s counting-house, without ever thinking of stirring out of it, or taking a holiday; for my father used to say, that God gave man one day out of every seven for rest, and He knew what was enough for him. I used to hear of London at that time, and to fancy that Watling Street was a kind of High Street to the Metropolis; for all our correspondents dated from Watling Street. When the railway opened, there came a great change in this respect. I made my first journey to London; and finding that I knocked off a good deal of business by the transaction, I began to run up to town nearly every week, which I have continued to do ever since.\nThus, though I am a Manchester man, I know the City as well as any Londoner. I know every court and alley of it, and can make short cuts, and find the nearest way from any one part of that great labyrinth to another. I confess I am not so well acquainted with the suburbs. I had always a favourable impression of the northern side of London, from the pretty villas and cottages which I had remarked on each side of the line, on coming up by the North-Western Railway. Therefore, having lately found it advisable to transfer my business altogether to Watling Street, City, I resolved to seek in that quarter for a residence for myself and family. Another reason induced me to select that spot. My goods are coming up continually by the North Western Railway; and having some commissions in the West Riding, who send up parcels by the Great Northern line, I wished to be somewhere between Battle Bridge and Euston Square: in order, occasionally, to give an eye to my consignments at both stations. With this purpose I procured a new map, on a large scale, in order to see all the Victoria Crescents and Albert Terraces thereabouts.\nI drew out my pocket-compasses, measured the line, reduced it one half; and, on finding the unknown locality, brought one point of the dividor\u2019s plumb upon a spot which I at once read off from the map as \u201cAgar Town.\u201d Looking more minutely, I observed that the particular point of the district indicated, was \u201cSalisbury Crescent.\u201d I could not repress an exclamation of satisfaction, as Oxford and Cambridge Crescents also met my eye. Without further delay, I struck a half-mile circle; and as I observed therein several streets and terraces bearing the names, Canterbury, Winchester, Durham, Salisbury, &c., I concluded that this was (as it eventually turned out to be) Church property; and, as a lover of order and decency, I congratulated myself on the felicitous idea that had suggested to me that neighbourhood; for I felt this circumstance to be a guarantee of an orderly and well-regulated estate.\nFrom these high-sounding names, however, I had some misgivings that the houses in that neighbourhood might be of too expensive a class for a man of moderate means. Still, I resolved to proceed there, and reconnoitre, in the hope of finding a decent little place, at a moderate figure. So, with my map in my hand, I rode down to King\u2019s Cross, and proceeding along the old Pancras Road, entered the King\u2019s Road, which is the boundary of the property I was seeking. I had not gone far beyond a large building, which I found was the St. Pancras Workhouse, when I observed a woman and a number of ragged children drawing a truck. The truck contained a table, two or three old chairs, and some kitchen utensils, with a large bundle of bed-clothes tied up in a patchwork quilt. The entire strength of the company was exerted to draw the truck up the steep pathway of a turning on the right-hand side of the road, in which they succeeded at length; and the woman, struggling, with her hair about her face, and her bonnet hanging round her neck, the truck moved on, aided by the vigorous pushing of her young family behind. The pathway was some feet above the road, which was a complete bog of mud and filth, with deep cart-ruts; the truck, oscillating and bounding over the inequalities of the narrow pathway, threatened every moment to overturn with the woman, her family, and all her worldly goods.\nThere was something so painfully picturesque in the little group, and so exciting in the constant apprehension of an accident, that I could not help following. For a time, however, a special Providence seemed to watch over the party. I began to give up all fear of a mishap; when, suddenly, the inner wheel encountered a small hillock of dust and vegetable refuse at the door of a cottage, and finally shot its contents into the deep slough of the roadway. The woman turned back; and, having well thumped the heads of her family, seated herself upon the heap of ashes which had been the cause of her misfortune, to vent the rest of her rage in abuse of a miscellaneous character. A dustman happening to pass at the time, helped the children to restore the chattels to the righted truck.\n\u201cHow fur have you to go?\u201d he asked,\n\u201cOh! not fur,\u201d said she, \u201d only to one of them cottages yonder. It\u2019s very aggravatin,\u2019 arter draggin\u2019 them goods all the way from Smithses Rents, and all along that there nasty road, all right; just to upset when one\u2019s got here! This ain\u2019t no woman\u2019s work, this ain\u2019t; only my husband\u2019s got a job this mornin\u2019, and we was obliged to move out afore twelve; which is the law, they says.\u201d\n\u201cWhat is the name of this place?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cThis here, sir? \u201d replied the woman; \u201cwhy, Hagar Town.\u201d\n\u201cAgar Town?\u201d I exclaimed, with astonishment, remembering how clean and promising it had appeared upon the map. \u201cDo you mean to say that I am really in Agar Town?\u201d\nThe dustman, who by this time had finished his job, and who sat upon the pathway smoking a short black pipe, with his legs dangling over the road, like a patient angler by a very turbid stream, ventured to join the conversation, by answering my question.\n\u201cYou \u2018re as nigh,\u201d said he, \u201cto the middle o\u2019Hagar Town as you vell can be.\u201d\n\u201cAnd where,\u201d said I, \u201cis Salisbury Crescent?\u201d\n\u201cThere\u2019s Salisbury Crescent!\u201d\nI looked up, and saw several wretched hovels, ranged in a slight curve, that formed some excuse for the name. The doors were blocked up with mud, heaps of ashes, oyster-shells, and decayed vegetables.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a rum place, ain\u2019t it?\u201d remarked the dustman. \u201cI am forced to come through it twice every day, for my work lays that way; but I wouldn\u2019t, if I could help it. It don\u2019t much matter in my business, a little dirt, but Hagar Town is worse nor I can abear.\u201d\n\u201cAre there no sewers?\u201d\n\u201cSooers? Why, the stench of a rainy morning is enough fur to knock down a bullock. It\u2019s all very well for them as is lucky enough to have a ditch afore their doors; but, in gen\u2019ral, everybody chucks everythink out in front and there it stays. There used to be an inspector of noosances, when the choleray was about; but, as soon as the choleray went away, people said they didn\u2019t want no more of that suit till such times as the choleray should break out agen.\u201d\n\u201cIs the whole of Agar Town in such a deplorable state as this?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cAll on it! Some places, wuss. You can\u2019t think what rookeries there is in some parts. As to the roads, they ain\u2019t never been done nothink to. They ain\u2019t roads. I recollect when this place was all gardeners\u2019 ground; it was a nice pooty place enough then. That ain\u2019t above ten or twelve year ago. When people began to build on it, they run up a couple o\u2019 rows o\u2019 houses oppersite one another, and then the road was left fur to make itself. Then the rain come down, and people chucked their rubbidge out; and the ground bein\u2019 nat\u2019rally soft, the carts from the brick-fields worked it all up into paste.\u201d\n\u201cHow far does Agar Town extend? \u201d I asked.\n\u201cDo you see them cinder heaps out a yonder?\u201d\nI looked down in the distance, and beheld a lofty chain of dark mountains.\n\u201cWell,\u201d said the Dustman, \u201cthat\u2019s where Hagar Town ends\u2014close upon Battle Bridge. Them heaps is made o\u2019 breeze; breeze is the siftins of the dust what has been put there by the conteractor\u2019s men, arter takin\u2019 away all the wallyables as has been found.\u201d\nAt this point, the woman, who had been combing her hair, arose, and the truck resumed its perilous journey. The dustman waited, and saw it arrive at its destination, in safety; whereupon the dustman having smoked his pipe, departed. As I had, by this time, given up all intention of seeking a residence in that neighbourhood, I continued my researches, like Dr. Syntax, simply in search of the picturesque.\nCrossing another bridge\u2014for the canal takes a winding course through the midst of this Eden\u2014I stood beside the Good Samaritan public-house, to observe the houses which the dustman had pointed out, with the water \u201ca flowin\u2019 in at the back doors.\u201d Along the canal side, the huts of the settlers, of many shapes and sizes, were closely ranged. Every tenant, having, as I was informed, his own lease of the ground, appeared to have disdained to imitate his neighbour, and to have constructed his abode according to his own ideas of beauty or convenience. There were the dog kennel, the cow-shed, the shanty, and the elongated watch-box styles, of architecture. To another, the ingenious residence of Robinson Crusoe seemed to have given his idea. Through an opening was to be seen another layer of dwellings, at the back: one, looking like a dismantled windmill; and another, perched upon a wall, like a guard\u2019s look-out on the top of a railway carriage. The love of variety was, everywhere, carried to the utmost pitch of extravagance. Every garden had its nuisance\u2014so far the inhabitants were agreed\u2014but, every nuisance was of a distinct and peculiar character. In the one, was a dung-heap; in the next, a cinder-heap; in a third, which belonged to the cottage of a costermonger, were a pile of whelk and periwinkle shells, some rotten cabbages, and a donkey; and the garden of another, exhibiting a board inscribed with the words \u201cLadies\u2019 School,\u201d had become a pond of thick green water, which was carefully dammed up, and prevented from flowing over upon the canal towing-path, by a brick parapet.\nI remember to have seen, in a book written some time since, a chapter devoted to the beau id\u00e9al of an English villa and estate. The village church was, at that period, considered of some importance, and an approach thereto by a good road was treated as an element in securing the comfort and well-being of the villagers. I looked for the \u201cheaven-directing spire,\u201d and thought of the bogs, sloughs, and quagmires that must; necessarily, be struggled through by a pious parishioner; and I wondered whether it was possible for any amount of courage and patience to prevail over the difficulties. The English Captain, who attended church at San Francisco, in fisherman\u2019s mud-jacks, with trowsers close reefed up each leg, felt all his misgivings at his grotesque appearance vanish when he saw other men dressed like himself, and observed that the prevailing costume for ladies was Wellington boots; but, I should like to know what sympathy an inhabitant of Agar Town would get, if, on a Sunday morning, he presented himself before the parish beadle thus attired! The Rector of St. Pancras has endeavoured to meet his parishioners in this district, half-way; for, finding the difficulty of moving Agar Town to church, he moved the church to Agar Town; and a neat little structure, or temporary church, is now conveniently planted in the dirtiest part of the district.\nThe inhabitants themselves exhibit a genuine Irish apathy. Here and there, a barrow or two of oyster shells, broken bricks, and other dry materials, have been thrown into the mud. In Cambridge Row, I observed that some effort had been made to get a crossing; but, a sign-board indicated that it was to facilitate the approach to \u201cThe back door of the Good Samaritan.\u201d\nContinuing my way until I came within the shadow of the great cinder-heaps of Mr. Darke, the contractor, I turned off at Cambridge Crescent, to make the hazardous attempt of discovering a passage back into the Pancras Road. At the corner of Cambridge Crescent are the Talbot Arms Tea Gardens, boasting a dry skittle-ground, which, if it be not an empty boast, must be an Agar Town island. The settlers of Cambridge Crescent are almost all shopkeepers\u2014the poorest exhibiting in their rag-patched windows a few apples and red-herrings, with the rhyming announcement, \u201cTable-beer, Sold here.\u201d I suspect a system of barter prevails\u2014the articles sold there comprehending, no doubt, the whole of the simple wants of the inhabitants; a system, perhaps, suggested by the difficulty of communication with the civilised world.\nA stranger in these parts immediately attracts the attention of the neighbourhood; and if he be not recognised for an Agarite, is at once set down for a \u201cspecial commissioner,\u201d about to report to some newspaper upon the condition of the inhabitants. I met no one having the air of a stranger, except an unlucky gentleman, attempting to make a short cut to the London and York Railway station; and a postman, vainly inquiring for Aurora Cottage. There were Bath, and Gloucester, Roscommon, Tralee, and Shamrock Cottages; but Aurora Cottage, being probably in some adjoining street, was entirely unknown to the mud-bound inhabitants. The economy of space which I had observed from the bridge, was also apparent here. Every corner of a garden contained its hut, well stocked with dirty children. The house of one family was a large yellow van upon wheels, thus raised above high mud-mark. This was the neatest dwelling I had observed. It had two red painted street-doors, with bright brass knockers, out of a tall man\u2019s reach, and evidently never intended for knocking\u2014the entrance being by steps at the head of the van; indeed, I suspect that these doors were what the stage managers call \u201cimpracticable.\u201d The interior appeared to be well furnished, and divided into bed-room and sitting-room. Altogether, it had a comfortable look, with its chimney-pipe smoking on the top; and if I were doomed to live in Agar Town, I should certainly like lodgings in the yellow van.\nAs I proceeded, my way became more perilous. The footpath, gradually narrowing, merged at length in the bog of the road. I hesitated; but, to turn back was almost as dangerous as to go on. I thought, too, of the possibility of my wandering through the labyrinth of rows and crescents until I should be benighted; and the idea of a night in Agar Town, without a single lamp to guide my footsteps, emboldened me to proceed. Plunging at once into the mud, and hopping in the manner of a kangaroo\u2014so as not to allow myself time to sink and disappear altogether\u2014I found myself, at length, once more in the King\u2019s Road.\nIt is not my wish to inquire into the affairs of the ground landlords, or to attempt to guess at their reasons for allowing such a miserable state of things to exist upon their property. I have understood that the fee of the estate is in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and that the present owners hold it only for a term of three lives; with a power of leasing for periods not longer than twenty-one years each. If this be the case, perhaps no respectable tenant could be induced to take the land for so short a term upon a building lease. Yet, when it is considered how much, it would have been for the benefit of all parties that decent and comfortable dwellings should have occupied the ground, instead of the wretched huts to be found there, it is much to be regretted that some arrangement was not entered into for that purpose. The place, in its present state, is a disgrace to the metropolis. It has sprung up in about ten years. Old haunts of dirt and misery, suffered to exist in times when the public paid no attention to such matters, are difficult to deal with; but this is a new evil, which only began to come into existence about the time when Mr. Chadwick\u2019s Report first brought before the public a picture of the filthy homes and habits of the labouring classes, and of the frightful amount of crime and misery resulting therefrom.\nIn Agar Town we have, within a short walk of the City\u2014not a gas-light panorama of Irish misery, \u201calmost as good as being there,\u201d but a perfect reproduction of one of the worst towns in Ireland. The land is well situated\u2014being high for the most part\u2014and therefore capable of good drainage; and, although too great a proximity to the cinder-heaps might make it an objectionable site for a superior class of dwellings, no spot could be better adapted for the erection of small tenements for labouring men and mechanics. It is close to the terminus of one of the great trunk railways, where a large number of men\u2014officers of the company and labourers\u2014are employed. There are, also, many large manufactories in the neighbourhood. The men employed in these places must reside near their work, and are consequently compelled to take any accommodation, however miserable, which the neighbourhood may afford, and at whatever cost. A respectable mechanic told me that he paid for his hut a rent of six shillings per week. This contained two rooms only\u2014upon the ground, for there was no upper story. It appeared to have hardly any foundation, the boards of the floor being laid upon the earth, without a brick between, to prevent the dampness oozing through; a manner of building which has been repeatedly pointed out, by the Sanitary Commissioners, as productive of disease. The place was altogether of the rudest and most comfortless description, and could not, I was assured, have cost more in the erection\u2014built as it was of old fragments of brick and plaster\u2014than forty pounds.\nIt was not by choice, but by necessity, that this man lived in such a place. In various parts, a certain air of cleanliness in a dwelling, here and there, contrasting with the filthy state of the street, gave evidence of other inhabitants who had not been led by a mere taste for filth and wretchedness to take up their abode in Agar Town. These poor people cannot help themselves; toiling early and late, the Struggle to provide for the ever-renewing wants of the day, exacts all their time and energies. Who will help them?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 26830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecodist.com/article/multi_threaded_problem_with_people_as_computer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MUWP2NGV5PNQFLGTGGK3WO4ZBEP47W6C", "length": 1144, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thecodist.com", "title": "The Codist: Multi Threaded Problem With People As Computer", "raw_content": "Multi Threaded Problem With People As Computer\nAt my church there is a wall with all the people who donated when the church was built. I think it may have a thousand or so names on it, all in what appears to be a random order.\nOne day I waiting in the front of the wall for something and wondered how would I determine if there was a duplicate name on the wall. Obviously if you had a list in a computer it would be trivial. I could also imagine entering all the names into a spreadsheet and then sorting them, or even using the command line.\nWhat if you only had a piece of paper and pencil? What strategy would you use?\nEven more interesting would be what you could do if you had more than one person; how would you combine your efforts to speed up the process? Is there an optimum number of people to get the lowest possible time and any time thereafter just makes it take longer?\nIt is interesting to think of multi threaded problems in this way; you could even try it sometime with people to get a feel for the problems of writing multi threaded code. I guess it wouldn't be popular at parties unless all your party goers were programmers!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecomicscomic.com/2009/07/14/the-bruno-movie-and-the-irony-of-satire/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3CEJKYQ3ZOOGHIACIVH7OE7HMHIDSURT", "length": 5123, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "thecomicscomic.com", "title": "The \u201cBruno\u201d movie and the irony of satire | The Comic's Comic", "raw_content": "The \u201cBruno\u201d movie and the irony of satire\nAll of the to-do over Sacha Baron Cohen's new Bruno movie left me wondering what the big to-do was supposed to be about. Oh, that's right. Homophobia! Hands were wrung in the mainstream media over whether Bruno's uber-gay character would pose more harm to real gay people than to the homophobes Sacha Baron Cohen was exposing on camera. For a good recap of all of that, turn to one of my favorite newspaper writers who still has a newspaper job, the Washington Post's Hank Stuever, for his take on gays and Bruno.\nThe enterprise reminded me of a recent Ohio State University study on \"The Irony of Satire,\" which found that conservative-minded people believed that Stephen Colbert has only been pretending to be joking about being a pompous conservative blowhard. To wit, the objects of the joke of The Colbert Report don't get the joke. Hence. Ergo. The irony of satire. What happens when you're lampooning someone, or some segment of society, but in exposing their ridiculous notions, they only think you're promoting their cause? Dave Chappelle cited this concern in quitting his successful Comedy Central series and leaving millions of dollars on the table. And now, here we are with Sacha Baron Cohen, and people questioning if gay-haters would simply hate gays more because of Bruno. Well? After debuting with $30.6 million in box-office receipts over the weekend\u2026\nAs far as the movie is concerned, I left the cinema last week feeling underwhelmed. Perhaps it's because Borat did everything a bit bolder and seemingly less staged, or perhaps all of the Bruno hype naturally left the film failing to live up to expectations. Upon further reflection, clearly there's much more in Bruno that's staged to the point where you start to feel sympathetic for some of his victims. The stage parents willing to sell out their children's souls for a modeling shoot? That's some damning footage there. But the three guys on the camping trip? Or the hotel workers called in to rescue Bruno and his loving assistant from S&M handcuffs \u2014 in front of a film crew? Really? What did they tell the National Guard to con their way into that situation, without Bruno even getting his hair shaved? Or the swingers club? And don't even get me started about the finale music video, which, if anything, tells you how played out this character is.\nSure, they staged quite a bit of the chaos in Borat, too, and did a whole lot of manipulation to force the narrative. But there was a distinct difference between the two characters. Borat was a naive foreign journalist from a country Americans still know very little about \u2014 when his character approached Americans, they let their guards down in an attempt to welcome him or adapt to his behavior. And in that, we laughed with them and at them. But Bruno? He may have been a foreign journalist, but any naivete had been replaced by in-your-face, aggressive homosexuality. His character was designed to get a reaction, and yet his behavior made his so-called \"victims\" keep their guards up at all times. Whether it was the gay-conversion pastor, the military officers, particularly the campers, Congressman Ron Paul, or even the martial arts teacher (how are you supposed to react when a guy is attacking you with three dildos, again?), they're trying not to flinch. Examine the camping scene again \u2014 as seen in the trailer, and then in the movie. The trailer quickens the pace to get to Bruno's campfire quips, but in the movie, the silence is telling. And it's not all funny. I don't know that you need to be a homophobe to be angry when a stupid stranger with a camera crew decides to wake you up twice in the middle of the night with a bunch of nonsense. Sorry, Bruno. Not even Bono can dig you out of that hole.\nPreviousComedy writers reflect: Read \u201cAnd Here\u2019s The Kicker\u201d\nNextCD Review: Matt Braunger, \u201cSoak Up The Night\u201d\nHow To Do Visual Comedy: An ode to the directorial work of Edgar Wright\n11-year-old critic interviews Larry the Cable Guy, unaware of his comedy career, old friends\nWatch the trailer for \u201cThe Big Sick\u201d based on Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon\u2019s real life love\nMovie review and analysis: Kevin Hart, \u201cLet Me Explain\u201d\nCaptain Jack\ton July 14, 2009 at 12:58 pm\nI am no longer ready for the new Andy Dick.\nVoteTheDay\ton July 15, 2009 at 4:21 am\nBruno: love him or hate him? Vote and tell us! http://www.votetheday.com/bruno/bruno-435/\nMyThesaurusRex\ton July 18, 2009 at 4:48 pm\nI felt that there were some moments absolutely inspired, but much of the movie felt very pre-fabricated \u2014 at least more so than Borat.\nhttp://thebrowntweedsociety.com/2009/07/18/tbts-reviews-bruno/\nonline movies\ton November 8, 2009 at 10:42 am\nI am a bit afraid to see Bruno \u2013 I saw Borat and enjoyed it very much and I had a feeling this was a make-over of the same thing, I mean- a village boy in US blah blah.. But I guess I should take the chance \u2013 the reviews are so good \ud83d\ude42\noral dental care\ton May 4, 2010 at 12:21 pm\nJajajajajajaja, that\u2019s the only thing you have to say about bruno, jajajajajajajaja, it\u2019s kinda grows, but also freakin\u2019 funny!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 9470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-best-place-to-plant-garden.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:22Z", "digest": "sha1:XZGD5QFN7FQNOHQK3IWD74B2OKRLGG3K", "length": 5214, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com", "title": "The Deliberate Agrarian: The Best Place ToPlant A Garden", "raw_content": "click picture to see a larger view\nThe best place to plant a home vegetable garden is on well-drained soil in a spot that gets full sun exposure. Beyond that, I think it is important to have the garden close to your home.\nIf your garden is far from your house, you aren't as likely to give it the attention it deserves.\nMy garden (pictured above) is in an ideal location. I took that picture a couple days ago when I was on the roof of my house. There is a small bit of lawn between my house and the gravel driveway, then the garden. My workshop is at the end of the driveway, which is just to the right of the picture (out of sight). Right behind the workshop is a sharp drop down to a stream.\nWith the garden so close, it is much less likely to get neglected. Unfortunately for me, the amount of garden I can grow close to my house is limited to what you see in the picture.\nThe front yard of my house (at my left as I took the picture) is less than half the size of my garden and does not get full sun. The back yard is even smaller and shaded by trees most of the day. Years ago I did have garden beds in the back yard and they did not do well.\nThe other side of my house (behind me as I took the picture) is pretty close to wooded land, which also goes behind the house. I have 1.5 acres of land on this home site but most of it is woods and steep bank.\nSo, though I have what I believe is a perfect place for a home garden, I don't have any room to expand the garden. My property line is the row of grape vines at the end of the garden.\nThe field beyond would be ideal for expanding my garden and, in fact, I used to use part of that field to grow a lot of garlic and potatoes and squash, but the neighbor who let me use his land moved. Now the field grows weeds.\nWe tried to buy a portion of that field a few years back, but the deal fell through. Then, a couple years ago, we bought 16 acres of land on the other side of our house (behind me as I took the picture). Part of the land is a field, with lots of room for expanded gardens.\nBut it turns out that to get to the field I have to walk a distance through the woods and over a stream. Or I have to drive down the road, around the corner, and up into the field. Such a location is not ideal for a home garden. It's too far away and out of sight. It's also not a good place to pasture animals for the same reason.\nIn the time it takes to get to a farther-away garden, and back, I can have a lot of work done in the garden close to my home. If I had nothing much else to do but garden, a farther-away garden might work, but I'm super busy with my Planet Whizbang home business. For some reason, none of this occurred to me when I bought the 16 acres of land.\nBesides that, there is the matter of varmints\u2026 In 20+ years of gardening next to my home, I've rarely had a problem with rabbits, woodchucks, or deer. If you have a good dog, it will make sure the critters keep their distance. If you don't have a good dog, it's much easier to see and shoot a critter in a garden next to your house than a garden far from your house.\nMy idea of the ideal homestead would be a house and workshop positioned on a piece of land where I could plant garden plots and fruit trees, and have pastured animals, all around, close to the house. Mown lawn would be at a minimum. For now, I'll continue to do the best I can with what I have. And that right there is a good bit of garden advice in itself\u2026 Do the best you can with what you have to work with.\nI will borrow an adjective you have used frequently to comment - that is one exemplary looking garden! I agree 100% with proximity close to the house - our last garden was visible from the house (blocked by outbuilding) and I didn't like it.\nWish my garden looked all neat and tidy like yours! I gave up on trying to make it look pretty since weeds grow so quickly here in the deep south. I average 8 hours a week in the garden and it's still a bit of a mess. But it does grow edibles, so I'm not going to complain!\nExemplary. Thanks. Plastic helps.\nMy garden typically starts out neat and tidy like it looks now, but gets overgrown with weeds in late July and August. Maybe this year will be different, but I think that every year.\nPlastic helps. Maybe black plastic is too hot for the deep south. Whatever the case, the important thing is that you get food out of it, and you surely can get a lot of good food out of a garden that isn't neat and tidy. Thanks for the comment.\nThat view of your garden is beautiful and orderly. Nice work.\nHerrick,I have close to a 1/4 acre behind my house I've been mowing, and we never use. I'd like to try and put in raside bed garden there, but there's a couple of problems:\n1. It's not flat like yours there is a slope, would that cause the bed to wash away in heavy rain, or does the black plastic help hold in place? I have a small kitchen garden using cedar fence pickets, but I want to have a larger garden and not spend the money on building up a box.\n2. It doesn't get full sun. There is a stone wall at one border with very tall maple and oak trees. Are there crops using your methods that would do well in less than ideal sunlight? Greens perhaps? What about root crops?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 602, "original_length": 30178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theexaminer.com/features/dining-guide/recipe-success", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:52Z", "digest": "sha1:D5GYEL7FC7NLV34PDEZCJ5OXKBCP2B4Y", "length": 4084, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "theexaminer.com", "title": "Recipe for success | The Examiner", "raw_content": "Submitted by Kevin King on April 7, 2016 - 11:00pm\nWhen thinking about the best barbecue in Beaumont, Patillo\u2019s definitely comes to mind. It\u2019s also the fourth oldest barbecue joint in Texas, so it\u2019s always garnering statewide attention. The Patillo family has been making barbecue for a long time. They figured out the secret over a century ago and have been doing it well ever since. Beef, pork, ribs, ham \u2014 it\u2019s all good at Patillo\u2019s.\nWhen asked why Patillo\u2019s has been so successful for so long, owner Robert Patillo credited the taste of the food and the family\u2019s reputation.\n\u201cI think one of the reasons the family has been so successful is because we have always given and not just received,\u201d Robert said. Minutes later, he demonstrated what he meant by interrupting our interview to give gift certificates to a local charity that dropped by to visit. It is evident that giving back to the community remains a priority for the restaurant owner.\n\u201cWe treat our customers like family,\u201d Robert said. \u201cMy dad always remembered everybody\u2019s order. It didn\u2019t matter if 200 people came in that day; he remembered everybody\u2019s order.\u201d\nThe restaurant began in 1912 as a small wood frame building at the corner of Park and Bowie in downtown Beaumont that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915. (The National Weather Service didn\u2019t start naming storms until 1953.) The restaurant relocated to Orleans Street, where the Beaumont Municipal Court currently stands, and in 1925 moved to the White House store. After several other moves, Frank Sr. bought the first real property for the business to operate on at Forsyth and Railroad. He ran that place from 1935-1950, Robert said. In 1950, Frank Sr. built the building where Patillo\u2019s is today at 2775 Washington Blvd. Robert took over the restaurant from his father Frank Jr. in 1981. Patillo\u2019s second location on 11th Street was sold to Jack in the Box in 2010.\n\u201cLet\u2019s just say they gave me a very lucrative offer that I couldn\u2019t refuse,\u201d Robert said.\nDespite all the changing locations over the years, the recipe for both the food and the success of the business has stayed the same.\n\u201cIt\u2019s consistent. I think that\u2019s one of the big reasons why people keep coming back. I think we have done a good job of maintaining the flavor that people like in Southeast Texas. That has been our salvation,\u201d said Robert, who began working at the restaurant when he was 13. His grandfather Frank Patillo Sr. put him to work.\n\u201cI worked for $3 a day,\u201d he said with a smile, adding that the old man didn\u2019t take it easy on him, assigning Robert duties that ranged from cutting grass to seasoning beef. But his biggest responsibility was making the links, which are to die for, a must try for first-time customers.\n\u201cThey\u2019re 100 percent beef,\u201d Robert said. \u201cI don\u2019t use fatty meats. I like to have a juicy link, but I don\u2019t like for them to be runny. I want it to be like a sausage, but not a sausage.\u201d\nWe honestly haven\u2019t tasted a better link, and the ribs are definitely worth mentioning. The barbecue sauce isn\u2019t overpowering, but it\u2019s not weak either. It\u2019s just right. The ribs are exactly what they are supposed to be \u2014 delicious. You don\u2019t have to fight to get the meat off the bone, and the best way is just to grab \u2018em with your hands. You can always lick your fingers clean.\nPatillo\u2019s barbecue has become famous outside of Beaumont, too, and has been featured in Texas Monthly magazine several times. The magazine gave the business a much-needed boost last year, Robert said.\n\u201cI thought I had died and went to heaven. It really helped things 100 percent,\u201d he said. \u201cGod works in mysterious ways. When times are tough and a little slow, God steps in and that\u2019s what happened. The article came out, and business seemed to pick back up.\u201d\nRobert continues to do things the Patillo way, which keeps customers coming back satisfied. With the restaurant continuing to treat customers like family and maintaining the family\u2019s recipe for success, it will remain the spot for barbecue in Beaumont for a long, long time to come.\nPatillo's\nRobert Patillo\nRoshonda Morale", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://themiamimovers.com/tag/saving-money/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:46Z", "digest": "sha1:U25JQLPMYZH7SXSGZFHKWGWEJZEUNZD2", "length": 501, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "themiamimovers.com", "title": "saving money", "raw_content": "Moving is an expensive time of life, because you have likely just purchased a new home, or are at least moving into a larger rental with a bigger monthly payment. Either way, saving money on the process of getting your stuff moved from one place to the other is always a good thing. Of course, you don\u2019t want to cut corners and put your items in danger during the move, so you have to be smart and know where you can save money. 3 Money Saving Tips When Moving was last modified: October 31st, 2014 by", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thenervousbreakdown.com/category/nonfiction/letters-nonfiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LOYMOBFW3RZO7QUTFFDDIXQY3GJUWIM3", "length": 56819, "nlines": 210, "source_domain": "thenervousbreakdown.com", "title": "Letters |", "raw_content": "An Excerpt from Tiny Beautiful Things, by Dear Sugar a.k.a. Cheryl Strayed\nI read your column religiously. I\u2019m twenty-two. From what I can tell by your writing, you\u2019re in your early forties. My question is short and sweet: What would you tell your twentysomething self if you could talk to her now?\nOn \u2018Helping Daniel Cooper Become A Muumuu Minimalist\u2019\nMuumuu House (est. 2008) is a publisher of poetry, fiction, Twitter selections, Gmail chats online and in print.\nOn December 13, 2011, I received an email from Daniel Cooper that began:\nWould you be interested in doing a piece for HTMLGiant on helping \u2018Daniel Cooper\u2019 become a Muumuu minimalist? I\u2019m new to the \u2018scene\u2019 but have years of experience in \u2018being depressed\u2019 and writing. I also have a new sense of being \u2018ironically detached\u2019 from my \u2019emotional vulnerability\u2019 and a \u2018real\u2019 desire to make friends with people with \u2018similar interests.\u2019\nHe went on to explain why he chose to email me as opposed to other Muumuu House affiliates, a general idea for how he would begin to create his internet presence, and other things.\nI don\u2019t feel interested in doing this, sorry.\nMy advice in terms of writing or [anything] is to \u2018simply\u2019 do you.\nI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a \u2018formula\u2019 to becoming friends with [any Muumuu house affiliated author you mentioned].\nI\u2019m glad you\u2019ve enjoyed reading my things and things by other Muumuu House bros.\nHe sent another email, then I sent another email, then he sent an email asking me if I\u2019d consider writing the piece for $25.\nLife is different than a math equation because in life there isn\u2019t a specific, consistent method of achieving an answer or desired outcome to a perceived problem. One wakes up, does whatever s/he does, then sleeps, usually convincing him/herself that there\u2019s an inherent reason for it all.\nLife is similar to a math equation \u2013 can literally be viewed as a math equation from a certain perspective \u2013 because a math equation is \u2018simply\u2019 a math equation. A math equation isn\u2019t sad, happy, boring, fun, or [anything except a math equation]. Some people enjoy trying to answer a math equation. Some people don\u2019t. Some people don\u2019t care. But no matter how one may or may not view math equations, a math equation is still \u2018simply\u2019 a math equation. Life is \u2018simply\u2019 life.\nPeople say things like \u2018Life is what you make it\u2019 but that\u2019s not what I mean either. Life isn\u2019t what you make it because you don\u2019t \u2018make\u2019 anything. Even the contexts of your ever-changing, inconsistent perceptions and actions have been created by everything that\u2019s happened before that moment.\nAnything anyone ever does is a result of everything everyone\u2019s done beforehand.\nThe moment a child is born s/he is filled with \u2018input\u2019 and his/her \u2018output\u2019 for the rest of his/her life can only consist of variations of what has already been or is being \u2018input\u2019 into him/her. The important thing to recognize is that the \u2018input\u2019 isn\u2019t up to you so your thoughts/emotions/actions can never technically be \u2018up to you\u2019 (though understanding certain \u2018input\u2019 in the context of other \u2018input\u2019 can and will create different thought processes, etc).\nBut no matter what, the input still can\u2019t care about you. It created you; is constantly creating you.\nWith this understanding \u2013 that your existence has very little to do with anything in general and that Oh Well you can\u2019t control it anyway \u2013 the next step could be to accept your existence as a human being, then do what you want to do while you\u2019re alive, if you want to be alive. Everything except for you and what you choose to care about doesn\u2019t really matter that much because, as we\u2019ve already established, your life is only a small piece of something gigantic and unforgiving that literally can\u2019t know how to care about anything. Life and Input can\u2019t think.\nThe universe doesn\u2019t care about you or me or anyone because the universe can\u2019t care.\nIn emails we exchanged, I recommended that you \u2018do you,\u2019 to which you said:\nRe: \u2018doing me\u2019 I usually can only write \u2014 or want to write \u2014 out of a place that is very upset and angry and I usually use that negativity to justify writing mean, or upsetting, or manipulative, or jerkish stuff. I\u2019m actually \u2018also\u2019 working on writing \u2018not me.\u2019 Actually the advice you gave, and I guess I\u2019m doing it.\nIf you only want to write \u2018out of a place that is very upset and angry,\u2019 I would recommend \u2018simply\u2019 writing \u2018from that place\u2019 or realizing that you don\u2019t actually want to write out of that place, but from another place, then do what [you] need to do to get to/write from that place.\n\u2018Doing you\u2019 (being a person, enduring life) means thinking about what you want or don\u2019t want then getting it or ridding yourself of it.\nTo me, that is the common thread among writers like Tao Lin, Noah Cicero, Sam Pink, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Megan Boyle, Mallory Whitten, etc. We\u2019re not all the same and we don\u2019t all write in the same \u2018minimalist\u2019 style all the time. I think we all \u2018do [us]\u2019 or are striving to \u2018do [us],\u2019 even if we don\u2019t understand what \u2018[us]\u2019 is.\nThat might be the reason why I started writing in the first place \u2013 to explore Input and Output and to fill life with something that feels like something other than that.\nDon\u2019t Try This At Home: The MythBusters Revisit\nBy Quenby Moone\nDear Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman,\nI want to give you an update about where things stand with our son, Milo, whose eighth birthday falls coincidentally close to your trip to Portland and whom we will be surprising with a trip to Keller Auditorium to see you speak.\nWhen I wrote you before, we were faced with Milo\u2019s first shopping list:\nCars to Blow Up\nYou didn\u2019t reply, so I have to conclude you might have been a little busy blowing cars up with dynamite and thermite, and shooting Buster and his Merry Band of Human Analogues.\nOr maybe you DID get my first letter and now you\u2019re coming here to help Milo navigate the choppy waters of being a sweet, non-violent pacifist with a desire to detonate with DetCord. (I thought \u201cDebt-Core\u201d was a kind of music revolution raging against the injustice of the current monetary system. Turns out it\u2019s the cable you run from TNT, just like in Road Runner cartoons.)\n\u201cI need to make some dry ice,\u201d Milo said yesterday, as we were stumbling off to do some chore which included nothing so interesting as buying nose cones from scrapped jets, or Building a Better Buster to drop him into a reef full of sharks. \u201cDo we have the ingredients?\u201d\nAppalled that I don\u2019t know how dry ice is made, I told him that we didn\u2019t have the necessary tools.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll need to pick some up,\u201d he said, making a new shopping list in his head.\n\u201cFor what?\u201d I asked innocently, believing that maybe, just maybe, he wanted to make the bathroom sink into a steaming cauldron of wizard\u2019s punch for fun, or learn about the scientific process called \u201csublimation.\u201d\n\u201cSo you take the dry ice,\u201d he said, \u201cand you put it in a 2 liter soda bottle.\u201d\n\u201cWait a minute,\u201d dim sparks of the synaptic process chugging in my head at the speed of molasses, \u201cis this a MythBusters thing?\u201d\nHe paused. \u201cWell\u2026\u201d\n\u201c\u2018Don\u2019t Try This At Home\u2019,\u201d I admonished, repeating the words you recite before every episode like a prayer.\n\u201cBut\u2026\u201d he said.\n\u201c\u2018We are what you call EXPERTS,'\u201d I said.\n\u201c\u2018We prepare weeks, and sometimes months, to do the stunts on this show.\u2019\u201d\nFor the holiday break, he wanted to brush up on his Mythmania, revisiting years\u2019 worth of MythBusters episodes; now he\u2019s got all sorts of ideas about new projects. He wants to join the Boy Scouts because he heard he might get to shoot things. He wants us to buy him a shop vac so he can make a hover craft. When I told him he needed to start with the small-scale experiments, he looked at me like I was crazy. \u201cGo Big or Go Home,\u201d his expression read, one of amused superiority.\nMilo wants a Newton\u2019s Cradle now\u2013that clever desktop toy which sits on executives desks, clicking back and forth between its five balls, proving Newton\u2019s law of \u201cEvery Action\u2026etc.\u201d But I suspect Milo\u2019s motivation is to construct a Newton\u2019s Cradle out of a Bocci set; the small one will provide the model, and you guys already built one out of cranes and wrecking balls, so he\u2019s willing to split the difference.\n\u201cYou\u2019re looking at a vegetarian from California,\u201d Kari Byron narrates in your MythBusters Top 25 Moments Special, which ran in our house over the holiday break the way The Grinch Who Stole Christmas ran in everyone elses. \u201cI never expected that I would be a gun person.\u201d\nCut to: Kari, cute little dress flittering in the desert breeze as she blows away a tree with a gatling gun.\nAnd it looks so fun that I too want to climb up on the back of a military jeep with a Dillon Minigun (Minigun? What the hell is mini about a machine gun which fires 30-caliber shells at 3000 rounds a minute?) to mow down a dead tree in the middle of the desert, spent shells tinkling musically to the earth in a waterfall of destructive beauty. Where do I sign up?\nHow do we, a bunch of card-carrying Portlanders who have raised chickens, believe in bicycles as a form of rebellion, and want organic, holy-granola-roller seaweed cookies massaged with love and first press olive oil\u2013how do we enroll for shooting classes? Is it even allowed?!\n\u201cWhat were you going to use the dry ice for, anyway?\u201d\n\u201cA dry ice bomb.\u201d\nSo we\u2019ll see you in a few weeks, the fervent glow of rapt attention bouncing off the lenses of our young son\u2019s glasses as he files away every single scrap of information you share that evening. You\u2019ll know him by the look of devotion to the scientific method.\nIf it involves \u201cBig Boom,\u201d anyway.\nQuenby Moone\nPS: Milo rolls the full name of TNT off his tongue like a weapons expert: Trinitrotoluene. I can barely read it, much less say it.\nPPS: And speaking of the Grinch, my kid is scared of the Grinch. He is not scared of Trinitrotoluene or gatling guns or coffee creamer explosions, but the Grinch sends him around the twist with fear.\nSo people call me Garebear (Bear for short) not because it rhymes (that would be lame, and my friends are not lame) but because I\u2019m actually half bear, on my mother\u2019s side. A few years back I started an advice column for the lovelorn: as it turns out, you learn a lot about making relationships work when one of your parents is a bear. And, well, I just like to feel useful. I think you\u2019ll see what I mean. Let\u2019s dig into the mailbag, shall we?\nDear Bear:\nMy boyfriend is my best friend, he\u2019s smart and funny and sexy, but he\u2019s not a giver: he never considers my feelings, never asks me how my day was, and in five years he\u2019s never once told me I look pretty. What should I do, Bear?\nDear Unappreciated:\nAre you pretty? Is it possible one of the qualities you left off the list of his many fine traits is \u201chonest?\u201d Have you ever considered the possibility that he\u2019s just taking pity on you? I mean, you call him your best friend, but it doesn\u2019t even sound as though he likes you all that much. You\u2019re clearly very needy, you have limited self-esteem, and at this point the jury is still out on your looks \u2013 although, honestly, if he\u2019s never once in five years said you look pretty, well, do the math. And count your blessings.\nAll my girlfriend ever wants to do is have sex: first thing when we wake up, in the evenings while I\u2019m trying to watch Jim Lehrer, sometimes she even shows up at my office in the middle of the day and tries to get me to do it with her on my desk. What should I do?\n\u2013All-Whoopied-Out\nDear Whoopied:\nHmmm. This is a tough one. Well, let\u2019s start with first thing in the morning: the alarm goes off, you open your eyes, rub the sleepies out, turn your head, and there she is, giving you the hungry look. Am I right? Okay, here\u2019s what you do: roll over, and have sex with her. Got that? Okay, moving on: you\u2019re watching Jim Lehrer, he\u2019s talking about a squabble in Congress, or the situation in Afghanistan, and she climbs into your lap and starts rubbing herself all over you \u2013 sound about right? Here\u2019s the plan: position her exactly in the line of sight between you and Jim Lehrer\u2019s face . . . and have sex with her. Now to the nooners: she steps into your office, locks the door behind her, sidles around your desk, puts one high-heeled shoe up on your leg, lifts her skirt to show you she\u2019s not wearing any panties \u2013 am I close? This one\u2019s the toughest yet, but I think the answer is coming to me . . . yeah, here it is: give her my number. Loser.\nI\u2019ve been with my boyfriend for almost two years now, and I really love him, but lately he\u2019s been working super long hours and I\u2019ve been spending a lot of time with his best friend (we both miss having him around so much), and, well, I\u2019ve started to develop feelings for the friend. I don\u2019t know what I should do!! \ud83d\ude09\nDear \u2013 wow, Helen of Troy? really?:\nWell, let\u2019s see. A couple things come right to mind: first, it\u2019s natural for the bonds of a relationship to be strained when circumstances change, particularly when those changes lead to what seem like satisfying short-term distractions; also, try not to be such a giant whore. That almost always makes things better. (Did you really just emoticon wink at me?) Good luck, Helen!\nI\u2019ve been with the same woman for seven years, and I\u2019ve always thought things were fine, you know? But lately she\u2019s been dropping all these none too subtle hints about making it official, if you know what I mean. I just don\u2019t know, you know? I mean, she\u2019s great and all that, got a great body and a good job, but I don\u2019t know if I want to put myself in that position, you know? Like, the only woman I ever get to sleep with, forever after? Help me out, buddy?\nDear \u201cBuddy\u201d:\nYeah, I get this question a lot. It\u2019s a real pickle. \u201cShe\u2019s great and all that, got a great body and a good job\u201d \u2013 I hear ya. Who wants that? I suggest a two-pronged approach: first \u2013 and it\u2019s absolutely essential that you take these steps in the proper order \u2013 first, get your fat, stupid, Jets-loving head out of your ass, and second, get your fat, stupid, Jets-loving ass out of her life. Seriously, if she doesn\u2019t realize she could do better than you, at least be decent enough to give her a chance to find that out. It makes me sick to think you might be the last guy she ever gets to sleep with \u2013 there, I threw up in my mouth just thinking about it. Be a mensch for once in your life and get the fuck out. Buddy.\nAh, that was nice. It feels so good to help. Now for my favorite part \u2013 here\u2019s a letter from someone who recently came to me for some advice. Let\u2019s see how he\u2019s doing.\nI\u2019m following up to let you know I took your advice and talked to that girl at work I like. You were right \u2013 it was so easy! Turns out she got a new pair of glasses and she was asking people in the break room what they thought, and I said, \u201cThey\u2019re librarian hot.\u201d (No pun intended.) What\u2019s my next move, Love Doctor?\n(name withheld for obvious reasons)\nGuh. Please tell me you didn\u2019t . . . Okay. Shit. Okay. Your next move . . . your next move. Okay, here\u2019s the thing: \u201cno pun intended\u201d is not an idiom. It means exactly what it means. It is intended to follow an unintentional play on words, like when you\u2019re in a meeting and somebody asks the fat guy to \u201cweigh in\u201d on the topic. So I\u2019d say your next move should be to tell her in no uncertain terms how much you love her boobs, and then say, \u201cNo pun intended.\u201d Get it, Scott?\n(I\u2019m not going to lie to you, people: sometimes I wish I were all bear.)\nHere is some crap. Here is some shit, here is something useless, my dear, for you. To make up for my negligence and my weakness. I\u2019ve failed you in so many ways, ha ha. My letters are too far between, so let\u2019s laugh and make some fun. I\u2019ve had a little wine. Oh I\u2019ve missed you, too. So. Well\u2026 anyway.\nAch. I don\u2019t know. Days come and go, stories pass by unnoticed, just a sentence each, not enough to care, not enough material to weave. The great big strokes come much later, after we\u2019ve had time to feel and think. Life continues to happen in wonderful ways, churning as always, but somehow I have nothing left to explain, to anyone. But I\u2019m sure it will have been a really great year, looking back. A turning point, as usual. Isn\u2019t that always the way with me? Ha ha ha.\nWell, what can I tell you? I ran a short marathon in a big city, part of it through a zoo. Inexplicably, the herd ran faster there, winding through somewhat impractical paths and things, and the rhinos turned to stare, incredulous. They were excited, happy. The cats stared. Somewhere, a giraffe folded her neck and snorted. So we ran faster. I was consistent, and surprisingly fast. I\u2019d silently asked the gazelles for gazelle energy, and they telepathically informed me that that was probably a very poor idea, after which I asked the bison for some advice, but by then we\u2019d already left the park and moved on to the next kilometer.\nSome people ran in costume. I watched them for a while to pass the distance. It was my first marathon. Well, not technically a marathon, but a race. I\u2019d been so busy that I hadn\u2019t had time to train, but it was not an overwhelming distance for me, and I welcomed the change of routine, surprisingly, on race day. Oh but my body ached afterwards, I was lame and my lungs felt totally unfamiliar, stretched a little too wide. We drank beer and warm tea at the finish. Some of us were more excited than others, because some of us were simply trying to find new uses for useless bodies, a new occupation.\nQuickly, and to my surprise, this I should share with you, I received an accolade, and a great deal of money. A privilege and a station, which is just weird, and I seem to have also earned respect though that aspect was coincidence, and not due to any efforts on my part. And of course I adore conflicted emotions, so this constant source of ambiguous disappointment is fantastic. Nevertheless, it is something one should be proud of, and probably speak of in less elliptical ways. But nobody knows, because it is not a thing I love. I won\u2019t even tell you what it is. I know, I know, how silly I\u2019m being.\nAch. What else can I tell you. The cat doesn\u2019t have cancer, probably, but I did find a flea on the dog, and now everything itches, constantly. We\u2019ve moved, and my husband has a new office, and it\u2019s lovely. I do not ever have a thing to wear, any morning, ever (I see mornings now) and my digestion is fine, I suppose. My sister is pregnant, again. I am not, as usual. They sent a yellow card informing us of the fact, though we already knew months ago, by designed accident. She signed her son\u2019s name, I\u2019ve never met him. We don\u2019t speak. My sister and I, I mean. I\u2019ve told you, probably. Right? We have not spoken since my wedding. Well no, actually since her wedding which was after ours, and which we weren\u2019t invited to. Yeah, it\u2019s strange, we were close, I thought. Oh but I\u2019m used to it.\nI don\u2019t speak to any of them, actually.\nI hear my mother is building a house, after all. My brother wrote on Facebook that he is moving to Florida. So that\u2019s great for him!\nWhatever. I don\u2019t even care what they do, anymore.\nNo, ugh, sorry, I have been so moody lately. Hormones, probably. I am definitely not pregnant, though, ha ha. Oh I must have mentioned that already.\nMe and my crumbling, decaying reproductive system.\nOh dear, oh ha ha ha. I\u2019m joking. No no no! Don\u2019t worry about me. Some day I won\u2019t be so unhappy.\nOk, darling, I\u2019ll let you go and have a good night. You have so much to do tomorrow, and I have so much to do here. Say hello to the kids for me, they are just so adorable, as usual. But it must be getting close to bedtime there. So I should let you go.\nEverything Zen: A Meditation on the Difference between Analog and Digital\nAs a gift for making it all the way through high school, my dad bought me a Sony rack stereo system. Up to that point I had enjoyed my favorite 80s music on a smaller unit, which was essentially a glorified jam box, although occasionally, when my parents were out of town, I sneaked a listen on my dad\u2019s audiophile-quality rig.\nThis was just before the CD began to really take off, and the players were still pretty expensive, so my stereo didn\u2019t have one. But it did have a decent turntable, and from that point forward I only purchased music on vinyl because the sound quality of prerecorded tapes was vastly inferior.\nHowever, using expensive blank cassettes and Dolby Noise Reduction, you could record your own mix tapes and arrange songs in whatever order you liked, and the sound quality was indistinguishable to the ear. At least to my ear.\nDear M\u2014, It\u2019s Me Again, Amy\nI\u2019m writing to ask about your goldfish, Javaunte. Is the World\u2019s Oldest Goldfish still alive?\nI\u2019m sorry for the names I called you a few years ago. I\u2019m sorry I wished you were hit by a truck. I\u2019m sorry for stealing your e-mail address and trying to log on to your Facebook account so I could pick through your private messages and the profiles of men I suspected you\u2019d slept with. I didn\u2019t know much about Facebook then, or my own desperation for answers. Though I wouldn\u2019t admit it, not to you, I was embarrassed. It\u2019s not like me to do something that brazen or unethical.\nWell, sometimes it is.\nWhen I found out I was sick and might not get better, I went through Jason\u2019s things while he was at class. I went through his desk drawers, his closet, the boxes under his bed. I went through his file cabinet. That\u2019s where I found a stash of notes from you, filed under \u201cMisc.\u201d One of them had crude pencil drawings on it\u2013you, Jason, and a smiling goldfish. \u201cPlease feed Javaunte,\u201d you\u2019d written.\nLike everything else I found that day\u2013a birthday card that spoke of a \u201cbittersweet summer,\u201d an old driver\u2019s license word-bubbled with \u201cI need some crack!\u201d, a few photographs\u2013I shredded the note to pulp.\nWe were moving to Alabama after graduate school. That\u2019s why I started stalking you. Facebook, MySpace, Google searches with twenty different keywords: your name, law school, University of Alabama. That\u2019s where you had just earned your Juris Doctorate, and where I would be teaching English in the fall. That\u2019s where I expected to see you in my new coffee shop, my new bookstore, except they wouldn\u2019t be mine because they would already be yours, like Jason was. I needed to know what you looked like so I could recognize you. What you looked like now, I mean.\nIn the pictures on Jason\u2019s wall\u2013the collages of college friends and concert tickets and newspaper clippings with his byline\u2013you sometimes had blond hair, sometimes brown. In black-and-white, your eyes looked blue, but when I wrote once that they were blue, Jason corrected me. \u201cBrown,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the irises leaks a little, like a dog\u2019s.\u201d He said that to make me feel better\u2013here, a flaw\u2013but I thought it was cute. I love dogs. I love flaws. I love Jason\u2019s crooked bicuspid, the one he threatens to straighten someday, the one that cuts my lip when he isn\u2019t careful.\nYou, holding a glass of white wine, a lit Christmas tree behind you. You, camping. You, wearing a Catholic schoolgirl\u2019s outfit on Halloween. You, standing on a bridge with sunglasses on. You, smoking a Camel Light. You, sitting on a dock, looking out at the water, Jason sneaking up behind you to get the shot.\nYou were right about one thing: I can\u2019t prove it was you. I know only that you had the disease first, the year before I did, that you lied about it, that you gave Jason a cure that doesn\u2019t exist. What were those pills?\nI can\u2019t prove it was you, but I had to believe it was you. How else would Jason not take your calls in the middle of the night, when his cell phone screen read, \u201cBaby calling,\u201d and not see you on trips home when I stayed behind, and not one day introduce us and make us play nice over drinks? How else would those pictures come down so new ones could go up? How else would he finally, once and for all, let you go?\nIt was probably you. We both know this.\nI never saw you in Alabama to tell you how I was feeling. In your body, the disease turned dormant and went away. In my body, it evolved.\nWhen my sense of humor is most intact, I imagine a scenario. I imagine we are girlfriends that talk about their trips to the gynecologist. I imagine that, in Tuscaloosa, we get together over beers at Egan\u2019s and grimace over the wrinkled doctor who treats us both in that complex behind the university. I imagine you know all about the protesters in the parking lot, the ones who carry misspelled signs (\u201cYou\u2019re fetis loves you\u201d), who call and make fake appointments. I imagine you, too, have had to arrive two hours early for a check-up because those protesters think you\u2019re coming for an abortion.\nI imagine it starts to get dark outside, almost as dark as in Egan\u2019s. I buy us another round and ask if I can tell you something personal, something bad. You say yes. You say of course.\nI tell you that the nitrogen oxide made me feel like I was rolling off the metal examination table. That the nurse held me fast and said, \u201cHush, baby, it\u2019s almost over,\u201d and I told her \u201cbaby\u201d was your name and \u201cdarlin'\u201d was mine. That Jason didn\u2019t go in with me because I told him not to. That I wanted him to come in anyway. That I left part of my cervix in that room, the part covered in dividing cells, the part it took two people to make.\nLike other women who have left pieces of themselves in that building, I, too, could call that part \u201cbaby.\u201d\nEven though your profile is mostly private now, I remember your pictures on Facebook. I made fun of you for writing \u201cluv\u201d in reference to your dog. I called you a bottle blond.\nHere are some things I wouldn\u2019t have said then: I think you\u2019re pretty. I think you love your sister. I think your best friend is more beautiful than either of you, but also crueler. I think she has a controlling way about her, and I think you have done things to impress her that aren\u2019t really you. I think you take a lot of self-portraits, like me. I think we are both insecure. I think that\u2019s why I once cheated on a boyfriend I still miss sometimes, and why you cheated on Jason.\nJason and I are married, eight months now. At first, I made the wedding pictures public. You weren\u2019t the only reason. But I hoped you would see them. Please forgive me. I\u2019ve made them private again.\nMy friend laughs every time I tell the Javaunte story.\nJason was recalling Alabama, something he does more often now that we live in upstate New York. He couldn\u2019t remember the name of someone in his hometown, the name of a wino who nearly died in the alley beside the Marion jail. \u201cOh, we\u2019ll just call him Javaunte,\u201d he said.\nImmediately, I saw the bowl sitting on a coffee table covered with ashes and band stickers. Plastic grass waving in water that needed to be changed. A funny caption. \u201cJavaunte: World\u2019s Oldest Goldfish.\u201d\nI smacked Jason on the arm. \u201cYou pulled that out of M\u2014\u2018s fishtank!\u201d I said. He looked stunned for a moment, and then he remembered. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cI completely forgot about that.\u201d\nI stood up to get another beer from the fridge. \u201cI know everything,\u201d I called, sing-song, from the kitchen. \u201cYou have no idea what I know.\u201d\nYou know what\u2019s weird? I had a really old goldfish, too.\nI got Norman when I was eight. My mother took me to the Tioga County fair and let me go off with some friends to the rides and games. I had only one rule. I was not to play the goldfish game. No more goldfish, she said.\nI didn\u2019t think I would win. I had no aim, wasn\u2019t the least bit athletic. It was just luck that damn ping-pong ball landed in Norman\u2019s slot. The game attendant put him in a sandwich bag filled with water and tied it off. My mother was livid, but she mumbled something about fair goldfish always dying the next day anyway.\nIt started to rain on our way to the car, and my clumsiness caught up with me. As I slid into the backseat of our Chevette, the sandwich bag slipped from my hand. The knot came undone, and all the water spilled out, on the floor, in my lap. It had a fishy smell. Norman lay flipping around on the fabric seat.\nI screamed, horrified. My mother didn\u2019t want a fish, but she didn\u2019t want one to die either, so we got out of the car and began scraping rainwater off the other vehicles, refilling the sandwich bag with about an inch\u2013all we could get from the hot July shower.\nWe put Norman back in the bag and drove home. He looked lifeless, barely fluttering at the bottom. My mother told me to expect the worst.\nBut Norman made it home, and through the next day, and the next. He lived until I was twenty-two.\nBesides fortified goldfish, I wonder what else we have in common, M\u2014. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve wondered this, too. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve thought there\u2019s got be something we share besides cells and boyfriends, something fundamental, something a man like Jason would love in both of us.\nMaybe enough time has passed for me to send you a friend request. Maybe we should move our stalking out in the open. Look at the pictures, scrutinize the hair, the eyes, the easy or uneasy smiles at the camera Jason is or isn\u2019t holding. Maybe, if we look long enough\u2013if we watch one another change jobs, cities, friends, body weights and hair colors and outfits\u2013we\u2019ll find the familiarity we were once sure didn\u2019t exist in the other.\nEven if it\u2019s just goldfish we\u2019re determined to keep alive. That\u2019s something. I hope Javaunte is doing well.\nBy Seth Pollins\nI would\u2019ve liked to meet you at eighty. Our busy lives behind us, perhaps we could\u2019ve watched all those movies we missed. I would\u2019ve liked to see Hangover II. I would\u2019ve liked to watch JAWS one last time. I miss you already. I know, we don\u2019t believe in Heaven, but tell me, please, when we meet again, somewhere, even if we\u2019re just two amoebas sailing over the waters of some new world-promise me you\u2019ll notice me. Forgive, my wife, it was I who lost our wedding rings. We never did make that trip to Jeweler\u2019s Row. It was I who never had the money. I had hoped to take care of you. I had hoped to buy you a ring. I had hoped to buy you an entire house. I had hoped we might sit in perfect stillness and wait for the good news. I had hoped to take you to Barcelona. We will never see Barcelona again. We will never share ice cream again. Forgive me, I let my illness make me crazy.\nI would\u2019ve liked to meet you at ninety, my wife. Our busy lives behind us, perhaps we could\u2019ve experimented with drugs. I had hoped to discover the mystery of salvia. I had hoped to discover the mystery of your nightie, how, upon waking each morning, you\u2019d slip out of your nightie, fold it into a perfect square, and hide it under your pillow. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I had hoped to revel in that mystery for years. I had hoped, for decades to come, to reliably discover your nightie folded into a perfect square under your pillow. And yet, at eighty, I had hoped to ask, \u201cWhy, my wife? Why do you that?\u201d You were so mysterious. You never squeezed out the sponge after washing the dishes. When confronted about this, you said, \u201cI\u2019m still washing the dishes.\u201d And yet, I could see clearly: you were in bed, reading A Visit From the Goon Squad, and the sink was empty, and the sponge, absorbing its weight in soapy water, was sitting on the counter, just one more example of how you compelled my world, how you made everything remind me of you.\nI had hoped, someday, to meet our children. I had hoped we\u2019d have a daughter. Gloria or Isabella. Or, as you once said, \u201cFrancine!\u201d Just kidding. You never said that. You never seriously suggested a name. I would\u2019ve liked to hear what you\u2019d come up with. I know you would\u2019ve waited until the moment you met her. I always admired that about you. You always waited until you met someone to decide. Even then, you never made up your mind. In the wine store. At the movies. Standing in front of a case of ice cream-a glorious predicament! You never made up your mind. Don\u2019t worry. Even if we\u2019re just two rocks zooming around the universe-I promise, despite your indecisiveness, I\u2019ll love you again.\nI promise I\u2019ll use the last of the ketchup before I open a new bottle. I promise, if we\u2019re called upon to sit in perfect stillness and wait for the bad news, I will hold your hand.\nI promise, the news won\u2019t always be bad.\nBy the time we meet again, I predict a cure! Forgive me, I let my illness make me crazy.\nThank you, my wife, for saving my life. Thank you, my wife, for using the last of the ketchup. You were never meant for the dregs. And yet, for me, you took the dregs. Even if we\u2019re the dregs at the bottom of some new world\u2019s primordial puddle-promise me, my wife, promise me, you\u2019ll tell me about the future. Skyscrapers! Plums! iPhones! Forgive me, I broke your iPhone. I broke your iPod. I broke every single thing. I only wanted to see what was inside. I broke you, my nesting doll, and discovered another you.\nI promise, someday, somewhere, I\u2019ll make it up to you. Wedding rings. Mint chocolate chip. Three or four daughters: Gloria I, Gloria II, Gloria III, Gloria IV.\nOh, my wife, I miss you already, but I just know we\u2019ll meet again. Even if we\u2019re just two amoebas sailing over the waters of some new world-I promise, I\u2019ll notice you.\nFor now, goodbye, but only for now.\nOf Dogs and Men(tors)\nBy Becky Palapala\nContrary to popular belief, the most dominant dog in any given pack is rarely the first one you notice.\nLike any dictator, an alpha dog may be either benevolent or tyrannical, but unlike many human dictators, alpha dogs are never emotionally fragile, touchy, needy, or exceptionally demonstrative. They just don\u2019t generally stick out unless something has gone seriously awry.\nDear vermiform appendix,\nIt pains me to write this. But at least now I can write. For a while, there was too much pain to do anything besides curl up in a ball and drool like a sad walrus on an unloved beach. Now, with some space between us, I can finally share my side of the story, and with an obvious debt to Alanis Morissette, there are some things, dear appendix, that you oughta know.\nYou remember the night I made a meal entirely with ingredients from Trader Joe\u2019s? What a delicious meal that was. Being that at the time I was relying on Trader Joe\u2019s for about 70% of my caloric intake, it was also a somewhat ordinary meal, and it was a safe one; no meat, and no dairy. You probably remember that, although I\u2019m not even a vegetarian, I sometimes have a unexplainable hankering for vegan food. You can thank my vegan ex-girlfriends and my friend Goldie.\nSo when I began vomiting a few hours later, followed by fever, chills, body aches, stomach cramps, dry heaves, and then a persistent dull pain in my lower right abdomen, I first felt angry at that suddenly cruel and treacherous monster named Trader Joe\u2019s. This was the worst food poisoning I had since my experience with Mystery Lou down in Argentina, but on many levels it was more devastating. A breach of trust with Trader Joe\u2019s would be, along with the waning of print media and the ceaseless conflicts overseas, the Sadness Of Our Generation.\nIt was time to see the best doctor in the world, Dr. Garcia, who told me the truth: it was you, vermiform appendix. How dare you make me throw that kind, caring, dependable Trader Joe\u2019s under the bus like that, when all you had to offer me was your own vestigial confusion?\nNow look, I understand that you\u2019ve had it rough. A bit of an identity crisis and all that. Many of my other organs that knew you, that saw you around, they liked you \u2013 but they also knew that you were ultimately up to no good. Sometimes I wonder why I didn\u2019t just listen to them sooner. I\u2019ve since met people who\u2019ve had their appendixes removed preemptively, say, before traveling overseas for a year, just to get the damn thing done with and get some closure.\nYou lived right under my nose for so long before I really got to know you, but once I really did\u2014and it breaks my heart to say this\u2014you quickly became impossible to live with. You were like that neighbor that I\u2019d never met for years, who, right after we finally met, decided he could start blasting reggaeton at 6:30 in the morning. Only in your case, there was no landlord to call, and the reggaeton was potentially fatal.\nDr. Garcia immediately sent me to a CT scan and a few hours later it was confirmed: The pain in my life was from you, and you had to leave. Still, I fought this conclusion; I didn\u2019t want to let you go. I asked right away if there wasn\u2019t something I could do to make things go back to the way there were, maybe couples counseling, maybe a nice weekend getaway with just the two of us\u2014someplace that\u2019s not in the news, like Togo or the Pitcairn Islands\u2014but no. That night I was to go to the hospital.\nIt was a bad night for sympathy. A couple friends of mine had dying or injured pets, one friend was having a final going-away party before a permanent move to New York, and it was raining in Los Angeles, which meant that no one wanted to drive, especially the people in their cars. However, my friends Jake and Dan came to the rescue and arranged for my safe transport to and from that place where I would finally kiss you goodbye.\nSome good people helped me through our separation. I had a pretty wild anesthesiologist named Mikey who is apparently known for the \u201cawesome music\u201d (the nurse\u2019s words) he plays during operations. Matthew, my laparoscopic surgeon, I found later, does not agree with said nurse\u2019s assessment. Apparently the battle during my operation, between Mikey and Matthew, was whether to listen to Gloria Gaynor or Coldplay. You decide which, if either, is awesome.\nIf they let me choose, I would have requested reggaeton, specifically \u201cChacarron Macarron\u201d by El Mudo, as loud as possible, but it didn\u2019t matter, because whatever they did play, I didn\u2019t hear at all. When I came to, I was in a dark room called RECOVERY with two people I had never seen before and would never knowingly see again. They seemed bored, so I knew that everything was swell.\nStaying overnight in a hospital is like trying to sleep on a cross-country bus. I was awoken constantly all night by strangers, and for often logical but also disorienting reasons. I passed the time between intrusions by watching, (in order of quality, coincidentally) Rear Window (awesome), The Karate Kid (amusing), and Dinner For Schmucks (corrosively dumb). During my fitful sleep, I was somehow able to avoid having a nightmare about being pushed out of my window by Raymond Burr, though if that would\u2019ve prevented me from watching Dinner With Schmucks, I\u2019d have understood.\nThe Trader Joe\u2019s dinner was on a Wednesday night, and after vomiting it up, I didn\u2019t eat solid food again until Saturday afternoon, when a kind nurse brought me Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, and a big brown bowl of the thickest, most savory soup I\u2019d ever tasted. I decided to finish off the soup first, and then noticed they didn\u2019t give me any gravy for the potatoes. I then realized what I\u2019d just eaten an entire bowl of.\nIf you\u2019re ever in a hospital again, try it some time. They\u2019ll totally give you a free pass for that kind of thing.\nAfter about seventeen hours, I was on my feet and out of the hospital, six pounds lighter than I\u2019d been on Wednesday, and who knows how much of that was you, dear vermiform appendix. It was tough at first to get my old strength back, and to find myself again, but with the help of a number of friends, I made it through. The wounds are still healing, and for now I need my space, but I honestly wish you well.\nEveryone asks if I saw you one last time, and sometimes I think it\u2019s a shame I didn\u2019t. I heard they sent you up to pathology, where you were a bit of a rock star. I know I would\u2019ve been proud.\nDear Herman Miller\nDear Herman Miller:\nI am writing to ask if you would please send me one of your Embody chairs. For free.\nBefore I proceed, I want to assure you that I realize that the Embody chair is a work of high art and should not be granted to just anybody. With a price tag of $1100-$1600 there can be no question in anyone\u2019s mind that Bill Stumpf\u2019s last design was created for a distinct class of the seated elite. That Backfit frame that adjusts so perfectly to the Pixel-Matrix Support pads could only have been hatched by an ergonomic genius. And with seven different possible adjustments, every conceivable curve and contour of the back is cradled by attentive efficiency, leaving only the soul jonesing for more and left to cry out for the fulfillment of productivity. Well worth the money\u2026I don\u2019t have.\nWith the success of the uber-popular Aeron chair hatched in the 90s, you have by now no doubt had hundreds of thousands of clients at Herman Miller. I read recently that the Aeron chair itself boasts over 50,000 clients. The fact alone that you can refer to one who sits in a Herman Miller chair as a \u201cclient\u201d speaks volumes \u2013 as if the person is being served by an accountant or possibly a psychologist. I imagine that a client of the Embody chair doesn\u2019t even need a psychologist, as the chair itself is a psychologist. Have studies been done on this? Do clients of the Embody chair need less psychological help? Does the Embody chair pay for itself in a matter of only a few spared sessions of therapy?\nI realize that I am asking for a lot. I am not a particularly lucky person or habitual prizewinner, nor am I accustomed to receiving free things, unless you count coffee or socks. Perhaps you do not care to know about such things, but I do feel it is important to be honest with you if we are going to start off on the right foot. The socks were from an over-zealous store clerk who then wanted, in exchange, my phone number. He was clearly a college boy who did not realize that I was at least 10 years his senior and, by the way, married. His mistake was giving me the socks first and then asking for my number. By the time I set him right it was too late to ask for the socks back. He was brave through his inflamed acne-scarred cheeks and even stammered that, if I wanted, we could still go get coffee (his treat) after he got off work \u201cas friends\u201d. The socks were of the water-wicking wool variety. And comfortable.\nAt any rate, I do not frequently come across free things nor am I a woman of means. I am a writer, as well as a struggling entrepreneur. When I\u2019m not blogging about what it was like to grow up so religious that I wasn\u2019t even allowed to use a Speak N\u2019 Spell because it contained the word \u201cspell\u201d and talked like the devil, I help run a rural ISP in the mountains west of Boulder from a bulky mess of a chair I purchased over 12 years ago from Office Max. Even as I sit here now, the chair wheezes and swivels habitually to the left toward my bookcase whereupon I am subject repeatedly to the temptation of literary escapism. That I can finish this letter at all in the face of such partisanship is a small miracle.\nEven so, in 2008 \u2013 in the face of distraction from my left leaning chair \u2013 I co-founded a web-based social lending company, which ended up being named as one of Colorado\u2019s most innovative companies in the same year. This was fantastic and would have been upgraded to positively thrilling had we actually been funded as a result of the honor. Unfortunately, I and my co-founders needed to eat so the company is currently treading water. I am not saying that possession of a Herman Miller Embody Chair, or possibly an extra in carbon balance fabric with an aluminum base on a graphite frame for one of my co-founders, would help the company get back in the race, but I am not saying the opposite would be true, either.\nOf course, I would never ask for something for nothing, Herman Miller, and I realize that with a free Embody chair would come grave responsibility. I assure you, I am an avid user of several social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and would vow to regularly broadcast praises about the Embody chair while simultaneously typing from the comfort of one. Also, I would commit to end every blog post on TheNervousBreakdown.com and elsewhere with the tag, \u201cThis post was written from the blissful comfort of a Herman Miller Embody Chair and is certifiably 100% ergonomically correct.\u201d In addition, my memoir about growing up Evangelical is due out from Emergency Press within the next 12 months, in which I will also happily make an endorsement of comfort.\nHerman (may I call you Herman?), I realize it is not your policy to send out a free chair(s) to every person who asks for one (or two). In this case, however, I would like to offer that this could be a mutually beneficial exchange with potential for a lasting and, dare I say, passionate relationship. In other words, I will happily play Ana\u00efs Nin to your Henry, er, Herman Miller.\nIf you will have me, that is.\nWarmly (Not to be confused with the warmth that comes from constantly overcorrecting to the right),\n\u2013 Erika Rae\nPS \u2013 Should you decide me a worthy recipient, I will gladly cover shipping charges. Please email me at erae [at] thenervousbreakdown [dot] com or find shipping instructions in a subsequent post entitled, \u201cDear FedEx\u201d.\nMy Letter of Resignation: An Excerpt from Please Take Me Off the Guest List\nBy Zachary Lipez\nDear Fred, Dearest Nancy,\nIf, as the kids say, modern life is war\u2014and I believe it is\u2014then I no longer wish to be employed at The Strand Bookstore. To put it another way, more responsive to Fred\u2019s upbringing then Nancy\u2019s Go Go 70\u2019s background; Maggie\u2019s Farm\u2014I no longer wish to work it. In fact, I wish to so terminate my relationship with Maggie\u2019s Farm that I no longer understand the reference.\nThe reasons for my self-termination are plenty fold. Firstly, I do not enjoy going to work. On time or at all. But especially on time. My tardiness should never have been an issue, and certainly not one that was brought to my attention. Working at a book store shouldn\u2019t be a popularity contest. This isn\u2019t one of those offices where cupcakes are currency, and awkwardness\u2014true and painful awkwardness\u2014is mined for humor by the British. This is a bookstore. Or at least, that\u2019s what it says on the sign outside. Now, after three-and-a-half years spent shelving the likes of Reckless Sunbeams: Finding a Life Through Love, I have my doubts.\nAnd let me just tell you, when management told me to stop drinking on the job, a part of my childhood was stripped away. My father worked in construction or finance or was a tenured professor and all I\u2019ve ever wanted was a job I could be drunk at. And, for the record, I NEVER drank on the job. I was, in fact, always still drunk from the night before. There\u2019s a big difference between Old Granddad between the stacks and having spent the morning re-enacting the McCarthy-era education reel \u201cStar Nosed Mole Vs. The San Andreas Fault\u201d with an NYU mod whom one picked up at Morrissey Night. You would think that upper management, with their highly developed sense of smell and ingrained inclinations, would know where on the alcohol timetable a person was. My drinking on the job would be like cavemen fighting the dinosaurs\u2014 fun but unnecessary.\nI don\u2019t want to waste your time with the usual complaints about the quality of the books that I shelved, day after day, in the unchanging weather of the basement. My mother birthed me with a certain expectation of disappointment, but she\u2019d have to lower the bar considerably before I added literary criticism to the pyramid of disenchantment that I\u2019ve managed to build for her. If anything, my work at The Strand has made me more sympathetic to authors. Or at least more suspicious of those who think funning on them is the same as speaking truth to power. The literary world is innocent. Jews without any real ability need to do something and there will always be someone writing short stories with titles that are longer than absolutely necessary. The author of \u201cMarc Almond Wears a Wristwatch (Because He Wants to Know What Time It Is)\u201d is neither Prime Minister Botha nor the Coca Cola Corporation, and I won\u2019t act like he/she is. Having said that, I\u2019ll be glad to go back to reading magazines exclusively on the subway. I don\u2019t like the way that people take a book in hand as some sort of signifying badge of membership in an elite. You don\u2019t see people with bikes exchanging smug looks with other people with bikes. Well, ok, you do. But I don\u2019t like that either.\nWhen I was twenty-five I swore that I would never be the cool guy in his thirties at the bookstore, playing in a semi-popular band, sleeping with 21-year-olds. That would make me a failure. My success is that I am in a truly unpopular band and I sleep almost exclusively with girls in the 23\u201326 range. I am all too aware, as I had it pointed out to me by Samantha at the registers, that men who are self-deprecating while slyly bragging about fucking younger women are truly despicable. We fit somewhere on the social hierarchy above pedophiles and below male models. With the film actors who talk about how doing blockbusters allows them to do smaller fare, like saying that slitting open the bellies of baby ducks for cash allows them to buy platinum collars and bells for the neighborhood strays. Thank you for that, Samantha. Thank you.\nI think it\u2019s important to not be delusional about the sort of man or woman you\u2019ve grown up to be, but you also have to avoid being a bore or\u2014worse\u2014clever. If you have to be that anarchist who hangs himself in the backyard of the bar, first set down a tarp or some sort of throw rug. There\u2019s always a cleaning crew, and, if you have one essential goal in life, it should be to make their lives no more difficult than absolutely necessary. I suspect that my behavior at work is making other people\u2019s lives exactly that, and I am not without a conscience.\nThere are those who will tell you that the doing of the work is almost as important as the quality of the work. That effort and striving, just trying, defines one\u2019s character. I don\u2019t take issue with these people\u2019s standards. And, while I prefer to stay in bed until well after three in the afternoon, I\u2019m not opposed to hard work, especially theoretical hard work, of an academic nature, performed by other people. I\u2019m just saying that a lot of the author/prisoners that these people advocate for go on to kill again upon their release. But do I digress? I do. I\u2019m sorry Fred. I\u2019m sorry Nancy.\nBut who will apologize to me, for the digressions that have been foisted upon me and my plans? When is my Off Topic Day Parade, with politicians glad-handing babies and homosexuals protesting on the side lines? I know that I\u2019m not the only one who once had perfectly fantastic reasons for moving to the city. The majority of my co-workers, if the break room chit chat is any indication, moved here for the mediocre Thai food and the plentiful artistic forums to express their first-world hassles as some sort of Gaza level tragedy. For myself, I moved here for the poetry, the hard drugs, and the roving gangs of loose and insecure publicists. If, while describing the dry, defensive, overeducated-Berkshires-by-way-of-Athens, Ohio detritus of my existence, I have seemed flip or even\u2014ha\u2014resigned, it\u2019s because working in a bookstore for so long has numbed me to dramatic possibility. This, I think you\u2019ll agree, must change.\nGoodbye dear sweet bosses. You\u2019ve been really okay. Tell the gang that I love them and the union that I think it\u2019s cute the way it fumbles at the lock to the door to dignity. Tell Matt on the third floor that I hate every shirt, ironic and non, that he\u2019s ever worn. And, most importantly, please tell Samantha (who I suspect is really named Becky) at the registers that I burn for her. Tell her that I burn to be the sexual stopgap between her MFA and her assistant editorial-ship at n+1, that I yearn to be the bad actor sweating over her shuddering whiteness, and if she ever changes her mind about that oft offered, never accepted, drink after work that I am, now and forever, \u201cafter work\u201d.\nWould you do that for me, Fred? Nancy? Thank you. You\u2019re mensches.\nI Will See You Around,\nZachary H. Lipez\nA Second Letter to Cecilia\nTo my darling Cecilia,\nI\u2019ve spent much of the day \u2013 such a harsh and lonely day! \u2013 reclining in my recliner and daydreaming of the house we once shared, of the days that once were, and are no more. I ate the remaining crabcakes \u2013 such last and homely crabcakes! \u2013 and washed them down with recollections of the home we made together, where we, or at least I, had so many good times. In the afternoon I bought some shirts.\nAnd I was nearly overcome by the brutal and unforgiving strength of my fond memories. Nostalgia gripped me like a headlock from Jean-Claude Van-Damme, except around the face, and every time I tried desperately to break the hold of the past and steal a gasp of the present, all I could taste was another muscly mouthful of sweating Belgian.\nI laughed as I remembered lying on my hammock in our shade-dappled orchard backyard, sipping on a glass of iced tea (as cold and refreshing as if it had been squeezed straight from Martin Sheen\u2019s heart), the sun on my face, watching you gingerly reshingle the roof. I chortled heartily as I remembered you, shaky-voiced and trembling, confessing you had a mortal terror of heights. I guffawed until I couldn\u2019t breathe and I started to faintly taste vomit as I recalled the terrified shrieks of anguish you made, falling three storeys up, only to hook your ankle on the giant breasts of one of the gargoyles that I had selected, and you had paid for and installed, some months previous.\nThose were the days, all right.\nHow I wish we still lived together now, Cecilia, because then my heart would once more be overflowing with love. And also, because I wouldn\u2019t have to leave the house, or even the couch, really, to get laid.\nBut mainly, it would be about my love.\nMy love for my swimming pool, which cherished and understood me better than you ever could. Diving into its cool, forgiving waters was like hearing a choir of archangels sing Handel\u2019s Messiah. Closing my eyes and drifting through its peaceful shallows was like listening to Mariah Carey\u2019s sensual audiobook interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. Swimming into the embrace of its darkened depths was like watching Joe Pesci get pulled apart by rabid timber wolves. It was my solace, and my bliss, and my respite from your well-meaning but misplaced and wearyingly continual attempts to engage me in conversation.\nJust as there is no longer a you with which to spend my life, so too is there no longer a swimming pool in which to avoid you in.\nAnd it\u2019s breaking my heart, Cecilia.\nI spend my nights alone now \u2013 alone and shirtless, gently rocking back and forth in this rocking chair that we bought together with your money for your mother, feeling the cool night breeze slink in through the open bay windows and caress my naked torso with gentle fingers. Sometimes I eat a sandwich and play Mortal Kombat to take my mind off my troubles, it\u2019s true, but that\u2019s not very often. Sometimes I wonder if Lord Byron would have been so moody if he\u2019d had the chance to assume the role of Raiden, God of Thunder, and teleport from one side of a room to another, shooting bolts of lightning as he did so.\nBut Mortal Kombat is no you, Cecilia! Just as you are no swimming pool! I\u2019ve been forced to make do with sneaking into my neighbour\u2019s hot tub at nights, although, I have to say, the most entertaining part of these little endeavours lies in selecting which of the secret passages I have devised into his back yard to use \u2013 an idea that I lifted in its entirety from an Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Three Investigators novel: The Mystery of the Falsified Paternity Test.\nDo you remember our secret tunnels, Cecilia? I\u2019m sure you don\u2019t, because I never once shared the location of them with you, as it would most likely have raised questions about how I never had to buy gas, and your car kept getting siphoned clean, even when you parked at your sister\u2019s house seven blocks over. Let me just say this \u2013 that with a shovel and determination, a packed meal and an up-to-date map of the municipal sewer system, a man can get his hands on a surprisingly large amount of his de facto wife\u2019s car\u2019s gasoline. If you catch my drift.\nIf I must spell it out for you, what I mean to imply is that I spent a lot of time watching your sister undress.\nI\u2019ve said it.\nThe moon is full and the Glenlivet is good and the night is hot, Cecilia. Hot like the sex you had with Steve Buscemi on the Oriental rug that I brought back from the Orient, along with a scale model of the Orient Express. Although there were no Gypsy thieves making gas attacks on that particular miniature.\nHow happy I was when I walked in the door with that rug, proclaiming \u2018Fuckin\u2019 awesome! Check out this badass rug! I already totally love it way more than I\u2019ll ever love you! I sure do hope I never catch you having a sex with a male celebrity or overweight female celebrity on this!\u2019\nI asked for one thing.\nI turn for you, tragically,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 393, "original_length": 62270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theprocess.co/2018/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:33:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VZZDUXQZZLN3OIDEHQMARFTZY734GI5U", "length": 114, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theprocess.co", "title": "May, 2018 | The Process", "raw_content": "Jess Kenny is a writer, podcaster, and yoga teacher. Based in San Francisco, CA, she made a career transition last", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 123.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thermoguardinsulation.com/need-a-job-local-plumbers-union-wants-to-hire-workers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2W6M6Q3YO3Y2EZX3LQNUBPJ24XRKKDWA", "length": 152, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thermoguardinsulation.com", "title": "Need a job? Local plumbers union wants to hire workers \u2013 Local Master Plumbers", "raw_content": "One thing is obvious when you drive around Corpus Christi: there\u2019s an abundance of construction projects. However, there\u2019s also a shortage of workers, \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 138.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thespiritedhub.com/tag/young-professionals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:33HHA6IAIQMBHH6F22GCQD5TLMGCM5X5", "length": 365, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thespiritedhub.com", "title": "young professionals Archives \u2013 The Spirited Hub", "raw_content": "Eyitayo OGUNMOLA, Managing Partner of PM Hub, with Mission to Improve the Competence of Young Africans\nEyitayo Ogunmola is the Managing Partner of PM Hub LLC. A human development enthusiast and one with the mission to develop [\u2026]\nafrican business, employees, eyitayo ogunmola, human capital, investors, pm hub, social entrepreneurship, ventures, young professionals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theswillbucket.com/?p=1468", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VVMGZND6CTDXW6XYPNOCDRJUGGLZBCWV", "length": 613, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "theswillbucket.com", "title": "Japanese dock lands on Oregon beach | The Swill Bucket", "raw_content": "Japanese dock lands on Oregon beach\n\u201cA massive dock\u201d that was washed away from a city on Japan\u2019s northeast coast by the devastating March 2011 tsunami landed this week on an Oregon beach. It\u2019s a warning sign that dangerous chunks of debris from that disaster are reaching the Pacific coast of the mainland U.S. much sooner than predicted, The Oregonian reports.\nhttp://tinyurl.com/7bqpt93\nMore on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch\nThis entry was posted in General, Health, News media, Science and Discovery, Travel by Shawn Hamilton. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thewinneradvocate.com/winner-regional-starts-pediatric-teleaudiology-pilot-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:36Z", "digest": "sha1:CXJE2D66YERSLKPS4ZRMXEPWC77QEPGJ", "length": 2224, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thewinneradvocate.com", "title": "Winner Regional Starts Pediatric Teleaudiology Pilot Program \u2013 The Winner Advocate", "raw_content": "\u00ab Joe Belak, 84\nLorrin Naasz Chosen for Leadership Program \u00bb\nWinner Regional Starts Pediatric Teleaudiology Pilot Program\nWinner Regional Healthcare Center has been chosen as one of two sites for a pilot program to conduct pediatric teleaudiology diagnostic testing. A HRSA (Health Resources & Service Administration) grant delivered to the South Dakota Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Collaborative (EHDI), a partnership of the South Dakota Department of Health, the University of South Dakota\u2019s (USD) nursing department and the department of communication sciences & disorders, and the South Dakota School for the Deaf, is being utilized to conduct this pilot program.\nInitial screening to identify hearing loss is routinely conducted before babies leave the hospital, after being born. If a baby does not pass this screening, an in-depth diagnostic evaluation should occur before the baby is three months of age, allowing for an intervention, if necessary, to be in place by six months of age. Early intervention is desired to prevent further impact of the hearing deficits. This is referred to as the 1-3-6 guideline.\nAs this is a teleaudiology program, patients utilizing this new technology at Winner Regional Healthcare Center are connected via a video conference camera with Dr. Jessica Messersmith of USD. Winner Regional nurses assist in conducting testing, utilizing equipment which Dr. Messersmith is able to control and monitor in real-time on her computer. The first test is a direct visualization of the ear canal and the second is auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing, which tests the brain\u2019s response to different sounds. The appointment takes about two hours, as it takes a while to get the infant to sleep, which is necessary for testing. Amazingly, Dr. Messersmith and parents are able to identify the degree of an infant\u2019s hearing immediately.\nIt is the hope of Winner Regional Healthcare Center, USD and other EHDI partners that this pilot program will become long-term and permanent. In the meantime, it is an especially valuable and exciting program to offer new parents in the region. Referrals for the pediatric teleaudiology diagnostic testing can be made through a primary provider.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tiledwallpaper.com/21026/tyler-creator-wolf-kendrick-lamar-section-80-kid-cudi-wallpaper-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DZCHCODBLVZD3WHDZTWTRX66PSRLYAEV", "length": 1513, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tiledwallpaper.com", "title": "Tyler Creator WOLF Kendrick Lamar Section.80 Kid Cudi Wallpaper \u00ab Tiled Desktop Wallpaper", "raw_content": "Download this free wallpaper with images of Tyler The Creator \u2013 WOLF, Kendrick Lamar \u2013 Section.80, Kid Cudi \u2013 Man On The Moon \u2013 End Of Day, Tyler The Creator \u2013 Flower Boy, Tyler The Creator \u2013 Flower Boy, Tame Impala \u2013 , Glass Animals \u2013 How To Be A Human Being, Wilco \u2013 , Unknown Mortal Orchestra \u2013 , Unknown Mortal Orchestra \u2013 , Wilco \u2013 Star Wars, Wilco \u2013 Star Wars.\nTags: 1920x1080, glass animals, kendrick lamar, kid cudi, tame impala, tyler the creator, unknown mortal orchestra, wilco\n1366x768, asap rocky, big sean, bow wow, childish gambino, dr. dre, drake, eminem, future, j. cole, jay-z, joey badass, kanye west, kendrick lamar, lil wayne, logic, meek mill, nas, schoolboy q, the weeknd, travis scott, wale, wiz khalifa\n1280x800, 2pac, arcade fire, beck, boards of canada, bob dylan, buckethead, daft punk, de la soul, dj shadow, drake, four tet, j dilla, james blake, jay-z, joy division, kanye west, lcd soundsystem, madvillain, metallica, my bloody valentine, new order, nirvana, notorious b.i.g., outkast, panda bear, pixies, public enemy, radiohead, sonic youth, talking heads, the avalanches, the beatles, the field, the pixies, the strokes, the-dream, tom waits\n1366x768, bob dylan, bruce springsteen, coldplay, dire straits, elbow, jimi hendrix, john butler trio, johnny cash, led zeppelin, lou reed, muse, nirvana, pink floyd, radiohead, souchon, supertramp, the beatles, the cranberries, the cure, the john butler trio, the strokes, the temper trap, the velvet underground, the white stripes, u2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 127.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tiltmn.com/jobs-gone-theyre-not-coming-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MAWD4TAE2FUKUDY4F3WUX7NYHHTQVAOT", "length": 5352, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "tiltmn.com", "title": "Those old jobs are gone, and they're not coming back | TiltMN", "raw_content": "Those jobs are gone, and they\u2019re not coming back\nFor years we\u2019ve heard that the U.S. is losing jobs to countries that get things done quicker and cheaper. President-elect Trump had this issue at the forefront of his campaign. As he said in an early Republican debate,\n\u201cI will bring jobs back from China. I will bring jobs back from Japan. I will bring jobs back from Mexico. I\u2019m going to bring jobs back and I\u2019ll start bringing them back very fast.\u201d\nBut in trying to bring back the jobs we\u2019ve outsourced, we miss a simpler reason as to why these jobs have disappeared: They are out of date, and obsolete for humans.\nTrump has promised manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs that simply do not exist anymore.\nTechnology is coming for, or has already taken, as many jobs as have been sent abroad. The blue-collar, benefits-laden work that allowed for a down payment on a nice, two-story home in an American suburb and the means to start a family have now been handed over to R2D2.\nWell those damn robots are taking our jobs!\nRecall the 1964 Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple\u2019s in which robots replace all workers at a factory, including, in the end, the boss himself. This is what we are dealing with now. We have millions of Americans scrambling because Happy Days-era jobs don\u2019t exist anymore, and too many people are unwilling or unable to retrain, stuck with a skill set better utilized by robots.\nAs Rice University professor of computational engineering Moche Vardi told Factor earlier this year,\n\u201cUS factories are not disappearing; they simply aren\u2019t employing human workers. Job losses due to automation and robotics are often overlooked in discussions about the unexpected rise of outside political candidates like Trump and Bernie Sanders.\u201d\nThis is a main reason why many people are so frustrated. Why the campaign promises made by Donald Trump are so appealing. It is much easier to point a figure at a tangible culprit, like China, instead of figuring out out how to join the future.\nTruck driving, for example, is the most common job in the country. It has been one of the last beacons of hope for middle class workers without a college degree to earn a substantial living. But that is changing, and fast. There are some 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S., and Tesla\u2019s self-driving trucks will hit the road as early as 2017. And this doesn\u2019t take into account the jobs at gas stations, truck stops, diners, and motels along the way that will be lost as well when human truck drivers cease to frequent them.\nIn 20 years, basic labor jobs will be obsolete and virtually human-free.\nAs published by Inverse,\nthe solution to the problem of disappearing jobs will be basic income for all (provided by the government). Humans will be paid simply for being, well, human, because there won\u2019t be any employers left willing to pay them for anything else.\nThis subject has remained untouched and unaddressed by the president-elect.\nWe\u2019re going back to the future\n\u201cThe more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.\u201d \u2013 Cosmopolis, 2003\nThere is a large portion of the country (presumably within the portion of those who voted for Donald Trump) who aren\u2019t as excited about the future of science and technology. People who aren\u2019t blown away by Elon Musk\u2019s advancements in solar, who don\u2019t care about quantum computing, and who sure as hell don\u2019t need to 3D-print anything.\nPeople want to normalize the future. They don\u2019t want to be left behind. But that is a choice. We need to focus on retraining; on adapting to progress and to a future that will arrive with or without the president-elect. The economic platform should revolve around jobs that usher in this inevitable future instead of fighting against it.\nThe idea that we should be focusing our time and energy and tax dollars on bringing back assembly lines and oil fields and metalwork simply doesn\u2019t make sense. Clean energy, tech, education, healthcare; there are job sectors that are growing, and providing sustainable, well-paying jobs. These are the jobs that we need to talk about.\n(Jobs that aren\u2019t disappearing: The 21 best jobs of the future)\nThe U.S. may indeed be falling behind, but not for the reasons that Trump, or Hillary Clinton, have discussed.\nTrump can keep blaming China. He can put up as many trade barriers as he likes. This may raise the price of goods and increase high-skill, high-wage employment (e.g. A.I. developers, robot designers), but it won\u2019t do anything for workers with only a high school education (i.e. coal miners or production line workers). Bringing back mass-employment production lines in the modern age is akin to bringing back whale oil as a power source. The days of Moby Dick are long gone; no one is risking life and limb to spear a whale.\nThere is no stopping progress. We have known this since the 19th Century, when the Luddites first railed against technology. Since 1964 when The Twilight Zone showed us those poor, doomed factory workers. Innovation will keep marching forward. The world will keep marching forward. The focus must shift away from pandering to economic sectors that no longer provide jobs for humans and tilt toward the future. That\u2019s how you make the United States great again.\nRead this next: You and A.I. | Living with Artificial Intelligence\nThose jobs are gone, and they're not coming back", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 6594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/2875964/no-mans-sky-tailer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:L7BEA4NP2TFB4CVRFWTGJ5FGVKGUQ3Z6", "length": 741, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "No Man's Sky Is Absolutely Gorgeous | Time", "raw_content": "This Is the Most Beautiful Game You'll See All Year\nThis year\u2019s E3 generated a huge number of exciting announcements and jaw-dropping reveals. For the first time in the new console cycle, there appears to be a critical mass of exciting new titles on the horizon. (For our favorites, check out this mega-list.) But developer Hello Games\u2019 upcoming No Man\u2019s Sky may be the most promising\u2014and gorgeous to watch in action. The procedurally generated space exploration game is coming to PlayStation 4, the small studio announced during Sony\u2019s E3 2014 press conference. In No Man\u2019s Sky, players will be able to explore planets and solar systems that are randomly generated. Check out some of the most beauteous scenes from its latest trailer below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 2914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 156.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timehouse-baltic.eu/NorthSea/southern-north-sea-gas-fields", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:42CGEEWJFJEPT4MXPUEMZUPDPHOHBDPQ", "length": 4207, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "timehouse-baltic.eu", "title": "Southern North Sea gas fields - Baltic Sea & Baltic Coast", "raw_content": "York gas field consists of reservoirs in blocks 47/2a, 47/3a, 47/3d and 47/3e in the Southern North Sea, at a water depth of about 142ft. The gas field is located about 34km off the coast of East Yorkshire.\nThe development of the Centrica-owned field comprises of drilling two production wells supported by a wellhead fixed platform. Production from the first well of the gas field started in March 2013.\nThe engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract of the York platform was awarded to Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) in February 2011. The platform was constructed at HFG's Hartlepool fabrication yard and delivered in May 2012.\nGas produced from the York field is transported to the Easington gas terminal in Yorkshire via an export pipeline. The gas produced from the field will be capable of serving about 500, 000 households.\nThe platform and pipelines have been designed for a lifespan of 25 years. The platform has been designed to accommodate future tie-ins from neighbouring fields.\nYork field gas reserves and development details\n\"The field is estimated to hold reserves of about 106 billion cubic feet.\"\nThe York field was discovered in 1993 through the exploratory well 47/02-1. The well was drilled using the jack-up rig Noble Julie Robertson. The decision to develop the field was made in January 2011.\nThe field is estimated to hold reserves of about 106 billion cubic feet. It has a capacity to produce around 120 million cubic feet of gas per day, at peak.\nDrilling works are currently underway for the second well which is reckoned to be the longest well that the company has embarked.\nDetails of the York platform\nThe York platform featuring six well slots weighs 2, 750t. The topsides of the platform measure 20m in length, 15m in width and 16m in height, and weighs 1, 300t. The jacket of the platform measures 30m in length, 20m in width and 69m in height, and weighs 1, 450t.\nThe jacket of the platform is a four legged and cross-braced structure comprising of rigging risers and J-tubes. The three-tier topsides provide for emergency accommodation and a helipad.\nThe platform is placed at a water depth of 43m and operates unmanned. Up to 350 people were involved in the construction of the platform.\nThe installation of the topsides and jacket of the platform were carried out using Heerema's heavy-lift vessel DCV Balder.\nExport pipeline\nThe export pipeline measures 34km in length and 16in in diameter. A 3in pipeline carrying methanol is also piggybacked to the export pipeline.\nThe pipeline is connected to the landfall at Easington and laid on the beach through cofferdams using a pipelay barge. The final section of the pipeline is connected to the terminal through a tunnel drilled through cliffs.\nThe project also included the construction of a new onshore gas processing facility at the Easington terminal and upgradation of the terminal. Up to 200 people were involved in the construction of various facilities at the terminal.\nContractors involved with the development of York gas field\nThe contract for the installation of the export pipeline of the York gas field was awarded to Saipem. The dredging of the trench and the installation of the cofferdams was carried out by Rohde Nielsen. The contract for the transport and installation of the platform was awarded to Heerema Marine Contractors.\n\"The contract for the installation of the export pipeline of the York gas field was awarded to Saipem.\"\nThe construction of the gas processing facility was carried out by Centrica Storage. The company is also involved in selling the condensate and providing logistics and other back up services for the platform. Oil & Gas systems supplied an Ariel Gas Compressor to Centrica Storage for the York platform.\nSource: www.offshore-technology.com\nSubsea Field Development\nSome facts about working in North Dakota Oil Fields\nIran South Pars 12 SPD Gas-Condensate field \u0641\u0627\u0632 ...\nBawean (Indonesian: Pulau Bawean) is an island of Indonesia located approximately 150 km north of Surabaya in the Java Sea, off the coast of Java. It is administered by Gresik Regency of East Java province. It is approximately 15 km in diameter and is...\nBaltic Sea islands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timeskuwait.com/Times_ICSK-Junior-celebrates-the-Teacher-s-Day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:U6HFBGRPTNAPY6PZLXYDH2DQAPGXELVN", "length": 1384, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "timeskuwait.com", "title": "The Times Kuwait", "raw_content": "ICSK Junior celebrates the Teacher\u2019s Day\n\u201cTeachers should be the best minds in the country\u201d, said Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the great Indian philosopher and a teacher par excellence. He was also the president of India and his birthday is celebrated nationwide as the teacher's day.\nThe students of Indian Community School Kuwait (ICSK) junior recently held special assemblies to mark one of the most important days in the lives of teachers and students \u2013 Teachers Day on 25 and 26 September, 2017. The assembly began with the recitation of the verses from the Holy Quran followed by the school prayer.\nThe anchor took us through the program with enthusiasm and confidence. The students rendered a thematic thought for the day, sang melodious songs and performed foot tapping dances. The children dressed as various professionals spoke eloquently about the influence of teachers in their lives. A speech was given on the importance of teacher\u2019s day.\nOn this day of significance, students showed their love and respect to their teachers. Teachers were called on the stage and were gifted with greeting cards and hand-made bookmarks.\nIn her speech, Principal Sherly Dennis spoke about the importance of teachers in the society and she also reminded the students that their parents were their first teachers in life. The show concluded with the pledge followed by the National anthem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timeskuwait.com/Times_Students-avail-of-education-advice-at-Study-in-Canada-Fair-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LJGYZB43BQZZLHF7Z564YWTETEE4Q2IQ", "length": 1754, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "timeskuwait.com", "title": "The Times Kuwait", "raw_content": "Students avail of education advice at Study in Canada Fair 2017\nThe twelfth annual Edu-Canada Middle East and North Africa (MENA) tour took place in Kuwait on 29 and 30 October. Hosted by the Embassy of Canada in Kuwait, the tour included school visits and a \u2018Study in Canada\u2019 fair, which was held at the Symphony Style Hotel in Salmiya on the evening of 29 October.\nThe tour, which included 10 leading Canadian educational institutions and colleges, allowed students, parents and other member of the education community to interact with representatives of these institutions and acquire information about educational opportunities in Canada.\nIn a press release the Embassy of Canada noted that quality education is available throughout Canada, and that each of the 10 provinces of the country had something exciting to offer. Canadian higher education offered superior academic curricula, cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art campuses, and professional and personal experience to last a lifetime.\nThe embassy added that Canada is also home to a safe, multicultural, vibrant society and a dynamic 21st century economy. With almost all of the world\u2019s ethnic groups represented in Canada, students interact with many different cultures; this broader, more international perspective is also a valuable attribute that is attractive to employers worldwide.\nThe enthusiasm shown by international students for post-secondary studies in Canada is testimony to the superior quality of the country\u2019s education system. Many students recognize that Canada not only offers them the opportunity to earn academic qualifications that are recognized and respected around the world, but also allows them to become part of a tolerant and vibrant multicultural community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tooeleonline.com/bulletin-board-august-2-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AXLJTJNOABLMQOKZA5LEOY3D74MAJMIX", "length": 13214, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "tooeleonline.com", "title": "Bulletin Board \u2013 August 2, 2018 \u00ab Tooele Transcript Bulletin \u2013 News in Tooele, Utah", "raw_content": "Bulletin Board \u2013 August 2, 2018\nPlease remember the \u201cFriends of the Tooele City Library\u201d while doing home cleaning and donate your used books to the bookstore in the library. Money from book sales is used to support programs within the library. The library is located at 128 W. Vine St. For more information, call 435-882-2182 or go online to tooelecity.org. Thank you for your support.\nDonated children\u2019s books and paperbacks are for sale for 25 cents, and hard-covers are being sold for $1 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Fridays, 5-8 p.m. on Mondays and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Tooele City Library. All proceeds go back to the library for projects and programs.\nGrantsville Irrigation Company\nThe allotment for both agricultural and residential users has been increased. Agricultural users have been issued an additional 1/2 turn bringing the total to 2 1/2 turns for the season. Residents have been allotted an extra 25,000 gallons per residential share making the total 175,000 gallons. Please check your current readings to make sure you are not exceeding your allotment. Contact the office at 435-884-3451 with questions.\nStudents of all faiths are welcome from preschool through 8th grade at Tooele County\u2019s only faith-based school. Featuring all-day Kindergarten, all-day preschool, junior high grades 6-8, small class sizes, and an enhanced STEM curriculum. Give us a call at 435-882-0081 or visit www.stmargschool.org.\nEnroll in training at Tooele Technical College. Sharpen your current skills or train for a new career. Most programs have open enrollment and you can enroll anytime of the year. Get a commercial driver\u2019s license in as little as 4 weeks and get on-the-road to a lucrative career. Tooele Tech also offers CPR classes to its students and the public on the second Monday of every month. Become CPR certified at Tooele Tech. For more information, call 435-248-1800 or visit tooeletech.edu.\nTooele Technical College\u2019s new Software Development program and Nail Technician program have immediate openings. Train to work in the computer software industry or own your own business as a licensed nail technician. Visit tooeletech.edu for more information.\nSeasoned Amnesia will play on Saturday, Aug. 25 from 6-10 p.m.\nA Veteran\u2019s Appreciation Dinner will be held on Thursday, Aug. 30 at 5:30 p.m.\nThe third Tri-Lodge Golf Tournament will be held at Oquirrh Hills Golf Course on Sunday, Aug. 12 with an 8 a.m. shotgun start. The Moose Lodge will host the event and all proceeds will go toward the Mooseheart/Moosehaven. To register, call 435-882-2931.\nBreakfast will be served on July 8, 15, 22 and 29. Order from the menu $7 for adults or $3.50 for kids 11 years or younger. Also, there is a Special every Sunday for $5. Bad Beer is available. Public is invited.\nFriday Night Dinners have returned and are from 6-9 p.m. If there is something new or different you would like to see, stop by the social quarters, fill out a survey and let us know your opinion.\nTooele County Fair\n4H Contests\nCreate a Better Burger. Wednesday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. at Deseret Peak Convention Center. Grilled Cheese Sandwich Contest. Friday. Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. at Deseret Peak Convention Center foyer. Cookie Contest, Thursday, Aug 2, 7-8 p.m. Barnyard Dress Up Contest Indoor Livestock Arena. Sponsored by USU Extension. Saturday, Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. Deseret Peak Convention Center Foyer. Small Animal Contest. Aug. 2\u20134. Sponsored by USU Extension 4H dog show and much more. For more information call Darlene at 435-840-4404.\n8th Annual Car, Truck & Bike Show\nSaturday, Aug. 4, 11 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. Cars may register and enter from 10-11 a.m. Soccer fields at Deseret Peak Complex. Multiple entry divisions. Entry fee is $10 per vehicle. $20 business/commercial. T-shirts, dash plaques and trophies. Spectators free. For more information or to discuss sponsorship opportunities, contact Sarah at: sarah.patino@usu.edu or call 801-821-9445.\nHealth and Safety Expo\nSaturday, Aug. 4 at Deseret Peak Complex Soccer Fields from 10 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. Please bring non-perishable food for Tooele County Food Banks\n\u2022 Healthy cooking demo and samples by USU Extension \u2013 Food Sense Snap Ed\n\u2022 Family obstacle course and fair wide scavenger hunt.\n\u2022 Make pedal powered smoothies with the Blender Bike!\n\u2022 Red Cross will be on hand for blood donations.\n\u2022 Local law enforcement and safety vehicles will be on display as well as safety\ndemos & more.\nKids Art Yard\nBring the kids and have some fun making projects that will thrill the entire family. All crafts are free and helpers will make your project the special one to take home. Located in the indoor pavilion. Open Thursday, Aug. 2 5-9 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3 10 a.m. \u2013 9 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 4 10 a.m. \u2013 9 p.m. Kids will make the following crafts: Bead jewelry, Fish puppets, binoculars, snowflake sticks, rock paintings and paper cows.\nLittle Farmers Yard\nCome and see what it is like to live life on the farm. Drive a tractor, plant some crops, eat a healthy treat, all the fun you can have in the farm life. Thursday, Aug. 2, 4-8 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 4, 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m. West end of Convention Center (we will be in the building by the big willow tree). Come see what it\u2019s like to live life on the farm! Drive a tractor, plants some crops and eat a healthy snack!\nPetting Zoo and Pony Rides\nCome meet the baby zebra and camel! Hands on fun for the whole family! Come pet some animals in this fun area of adventure and wonder. Put on by the Ivy Petting Zoo. You will enjoy a special array of animals that are sure to tickle any funny bone. Free Petting Zoo. Pony Rides: $3. Thursday 5 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m.; Friday 12 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.\n28TH Annual Karaoke contest\nUtah\u2019s largest and oldest Karaoke Contest takes center stage and is a fun day of pure entertainment. Contestants of all ages compete to see who can win in their division and share the crown top performer. For more information, contact Hollie Baum at 435-830-0306. Karaoke Contest: tall ages. Three place awards in each division: 4-12 year old; 13-19 year old; 20-35 year old; 36-49 year old; 50+ Senior Division; and Duet Division. $10 Entry for individual and $15 for duets. For more information and to register, call Hollie at 435-830-7601.\nCity of Fun carnival\nCome and enjoy the carnival at the Tooele County Fair. City of Fun Carnivals will provide a variety of top notch rides, games, and food for all ages at the fair Aug. 2-4. Ticket prices will be: 1-$1.50, 10-$12.00, 20-$20.00, Wristbands $25 for all day. Thursday will be Family Night with 1 ticket per ride. There will be 12 rides: Vertigo, Spinout, The Wheel, Zipper, Sizzler, Zero gravity, Orient Express, Hampton, Super Slide, Kid Zone, Mini jets, Raiders, Cotton Candy, Funnel cakes/Corndogs, Pizza and six carnival games.\nConcert and Demolition Derby Tickets\nGet your tickets early for this year\u2019s Aug. 3 concert featuring Craig Morgan and for Aug 4 Punishment at the Peak Demolition Derby. Ticket can be bough at Macey\u2019s in Tooele, Soelbergs both locations, Deseret Peak Swimming Pool and at Smithstix. Don\u2019t wait. The show fill up fast. Tickets are $10 for the concert, $15 for adult derby tickets $5 child (4-12 yrs.) and $40 for a family ticket (2 adults and four children). Don\u2019t wait and miss these great shows.\nVendor and Food\nAug. 2-4 is a great time to come and enjoy the Tooele County Fair. There will be free entertainment, and great food along with local Craft and Commercial vendors. Come and see how fun a fair can be.\nClass #4 of the 2018 Utah Hunter Education Course will be held Aug, 7, 9, 14, 15 and 16 at the Tooele County Health Department, 151 N. Main, Tooele, from 6-9 p.m. Range times to be announced. State law requires students to attend all class sessions. All students must purchase a Hunter Education Voucher for $10 from a license/vendor before attending class. Bring voucher to the first class and give to instructor. Voucher includes all costs for class and includes a small game license that is validated upon completion of class. For more information, call Gene at 435-882-4767 or Bryan at 435-882-6795.\nSilk painting event\nThe Stansbury Art and Literary Society presents Silk Painting with Diane Allen at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31. Learn how to paint on silk. There will also be demos and instruction on faux marbling with shaving cream and eco dyeing if time allows. There will be room for 20 people so registration is require. The cost is $10 for materials. To register, call or text Diane at 801-557-1132. The location is Coulter House in Stansbury Park, 175 SR-138.\nTooele Valley Museum & Historical Park is seeking volunteers. Do you enjoy history or science? Volunteers at the museum can gain new skills or practice old ones. We are looking for people to help with organization, exhibit development, gardening and educational program development. Volunteer positions are seasonal and year round. Scheduling is flexible. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. To apply or request more information, send email to: stephanies@tooelecity.org\nTooele City is looking for a minimum of seven people to serve on the Tooele Valley Museum Advisory Board. Voting members must reside in Tooele Valley. To apply for nomination, please submit a resume or letter of interest by Aug, 17, 2018, to: Tooele City Hall, Attn: Terra Sherwood, 90 N. Main St., Tooele, Utah, 84074. Send faxes to 435-843-2107 and email to: terras@tooelecity.org. More information is available at tooelecity.org or call 435-843-2142.\nThe Farmers Market at the Benson Gristmill begins Saturday, July14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Available items include fresh produce, baked goods, eggs, honey, meat products, and arts and crafts. Local producers of food and craft items, or anyone wishing to participate as a vendor, please call 435-850-0458 for more information. No charge for space.\nVolunteers needed at Benson Gristmill\nThe 2018 Benson Gristmill Pumpkin Walk will be held Oct. 19-20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Volunteers, displays, entertainment acts and vendors are needed. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cBootiful Utah\u201d Prizes will be given for best displays and best pie. Vendor booth fees are $45 for 10\u00d710 and $80 for 10\u00d720. $10 discount if vendor also does pumpkin display. For prize list and more information, call 435-882-7678 or send email to bensongristmill@gmail.com\nTooele High School classes 1977 and 1978, come and celebrate our 40th reunion on Aug. 18, 2018, at 6 p.m. at the Eagles Nest at Tooele Army Depot. Cost is $40 per person if paid by July 1. After that date the cost is $50 per person. If you don\u2019t want dinner and just want to socialize, the cost is $20 per person. Social hour is at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing at 8:30 p.m. Please remit payment to THS Reunion Class of 1977 and send to: Cecelia Russell (Bankhead), 316 Upland Dr., Tooele, Utah 84074 or to Sam Woodruff, PO Box 711, Tooele, Utah 84074. Please feel free to email Cecelia at Cjafra@digis.net or Jeanie at jdeavila60@hotmail.com if you haven\u2019t already heard from us. We are trying to compile an updated class list with current information.\nClass Reunion of 1956\nThe Tooele High School Class of 1956 will hold its 62nd Class Reunion on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, at Bonneville Brewery, 1641 N. Main St., Tooele. No mail invitations will be sent. Invite your classmates. Bring a partner. 12 p.m. luncheon from menu. 1-5 p.m. program and visiting. We hope to see you soon! Please RSVP Facebook-THS Class of \u201956 or call Carolyn at 435-841-7640 or send email to ccgull13@gmail.com.\nFiona Kahlo is the Stansbury Art and Literary Society artist for July. A professional artist and educator, Kahlo has been a member of SALS since it began. She graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 with a Bachelor\u2019s of Fine Arts and a secondary arts education degree. She has taught ceramics, 3D arts and bookmaking at Grantsville High School for the past 14 years. She had her first solo show in February 2017 at the Rio Grande Caf\u00e9 in Salt Lake City, and her work can be seen and purchased at various art shows and events. She creates one-of-a-kind art forms using found objects collected from antique and second-hand stores. Her artwork will be displayed at the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce building, 154 S. Main St., Tooele, for the month of July. The public is invited to view these works during the chamber\u2019s regular business hours.\nThe new season of Tooele County Homemakers is from September to May. For December and January, the group will meet on the second Tuesday of both months from 10 a.m. -1:30 p.m. at the USU Extension Office auditorium or inside the Tooele County Health Department, 151 N. Main, Tooele. The meetings include a luncheon and often include speakers. For more information, call Thiel at 435-224-4807.\nThe Tooele County Homemakers will meet in September, December and January. The group will meet on the second Tuesday of all three months from 10 a.m. -1:30 p.m. at the USU Extension Office auditorium or inside the Tooele County Health Department, 151 N. Main, Tooele. The meetings include a luncheon and often include speakers. For more information, call Thiel at 435-224-4807.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 36303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://toptechnews.info/in/en/insights/reports/2018/path-to-wholesome-growth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WO2W7RHVOOFBMAWCD6R7NPKTWLIQN2Z3", "length": 1692, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "toptechnews.info", "title": "Path to Wholesome Growth - toptechnews.info", "raw_content": "PATH TO WHOLESOME GROWTH\nAs consumers in India today, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to buying our regular fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) products. A wide range of retail formats across traditional trade, modern trade and online stores make it convenient to replenish our homes without giving it much thought. In contrast, FMCG manufacturers regularly lose sleep over the best strategies to get their brand of products into an increasing number of homes, thereby driving growth and reaching untapped markets.\nTAPPING THE RIGHT WHOLESALE FEEDER MARKETS TO MAXIMISE REACH\nCompanies today have a very limited view of wholesale stores and feeder markets beyond their existing reach. To bring a data-oriented approach to tapping growth potential through wholesale reach, Nielsen analytics and data science experts collected and analysed primary data on wholesale from 1,200 towns and over 6,000 villages. More than 150 variables covering population, connectivity, amenities and infrastructure across towns and villages were analysed. This resulted in the ability to estimate, for the first time, wholesale sales and stores by towns and villages using predictive modelling. This research has revealed some actionable insights on wholesalers in India.\nAccording to the data, there are about 3.3 lacs wholesalers in the country, half of whom are semi-retailers, who sell directly to consumers as well. Interestingly, the contribution of retail sales from these semi-retailers is almost as much as modern trade in India, which is approximately 9% of the total FMCG sales. This has an implication on the kind of assortment that companies can take to these stores vis-\u00e0-vis pure wholesalers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 10856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://torcc.org/sydney/the-need-for-the-prophetic/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WYU4IXLBRTSJ424I5UMI2HTWXCQBCIT4", "length": 2370, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "torcc.org", "title": "The Need for the Prophetic \u2013 Weblog title", "raw_content": "It was during the reign of King Ahab, that his wife Jezebel, had ordered the slaughter of every one of the Lord\u2019s prophets in an attempt to turn the nation of Israel completely over to Baal worship. A God-fearing man who worked for the king whose name was Obadiah, had secretly hidden one hundred of the Lord\u2019s prophets in two caves \u2013 fifty in each. He had been sustaining and protecting them from Jezebel\u2019s reach.\nIn essence, Jezebel silenced the Word of the Lord to Israel as long as her murderous ways and threats kept these prophets too fearful to speak up. It was at this time that God raised one of the most revered prophets of the Bible, to break the silence and the status quo. His name was Elijah.\nElijah defeated the four hundred prophets of Baal and four hundred and fifty prophets of Asherah atop of Mt. Carmel. In one act of bold obedience and faith, Elijah turned the whole nation back to God. This compelling victory encouraged the prophets in hiding to also come out of their caves and to declare God\u2019s word again!\nThe spirit and power of Elijah is returning to the Church, just as it did with John the Baptist. The spirit and power of Elijah is an anointing that restores, revives and realigns. It makes rough places smooth, high places low, crooked places straight! Because Elijah was a prophet, this anointing requires the work of New Testament prophets to aid in restoration. Notably, the acceptance of prophets as essential fivefold ministers was the benchmark of such a work.\nThe spirit of Elijah has come to the Church in the form of the prophets and the prophetic movement. It is TORCC NYC\u2019s objective to reveal this present truth and encourage those who feel they may be called as prophetic ministers to shake off any intimidation that the devil may have bound them in, and to come out of their \u2018caves\u2019 of obscurity and declare the words that God has given them.\nJesus said, \u201cIndeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.\u201d Matt.17:11\nUntil the modern Church has had every office, anointing, truth and manifestations of the Holy Spirit as depicted in the Book of Acts, and then multiplies these to the \u2018greater works\u2019 that Jesus promised, then our churches have work to do. Are you being stirred to come out of your cave of obscurity and intimidation and start to be an instrument of restoration?\napostolicpropheticprophetic history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trendingfortoday.com/news/M.T.A.-Chairman,-Tasked-to-Fix-New-York%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDs-Subway-Problems,-Resigns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ROABKPO7QHXNYKK4LKKICWPXQA4UWBDL", "length": 2426, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "trendingfortoday.com", "title": "M.T.A. Chairman, Tasked To Fix New York\ufffd\ufffd\ufffds Subway Problems, Resigns", "raw_content": "M.T.A. Chairman, Tasked To Fix New York\ufffd\ufffd\ufffds Subway Problems, Resigns\nNEW YORK \u2014 As New York City continues to grapple with a subway crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo must now look for a new leader to turn around the system.\nThree days after Cuomo was elected to a third term, he announced that the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was stepping down. The chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, had returned to the agency just last year to help improve the subway amid rising delays and a series of derailments.\nSubway officials have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into repairs, and there are some signs of improvement. But the subway is still regularly upended by disruptions, and service is far from reliable.\nNow the governor has to pick a new leader to fix the system and modernize its aging infrastructure \u2014 an enormous undertaking that could cost more than $40 billion. For Cuomo, the ability to deliver better service will be a major test of his leadership.\n\u201cThe chairman\u2019s job is important, but the person who will really determine the future of public transit was just re-elected on Tuesday,\u201d said John Raskin, executive director of the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group.\nCuomo, a Democrat who faced criticism over his management of the subway as he ran for re-election, named Lhota to run the authority last June. Lhota had previously run the agency and won praise for helping the subway rebound after it was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.\nBut during his second stint as chairman, Lhota repeatedly faced questions over potential conflicts of interests and outside jobs.\nThe news of Lhota\u2019s departure came as a surprise because Lhota told reporters last month that he had not considered resigning.\nThe authority\u2019s vice chairman, Fernando Ferrer, will serve as acting chairman until Cuomo names a replacement. The state Senate, which will return to Albany in January, must confirm his pick.\nLhota did not respond to requests for comment about why he was leaving. In a statement, Lhota said that he had returned to the agency to halt the decline in service and argued that it had improved, pointing to a drop in train delays.\n\u201cThere is still a long way to go to achieve the performance that New Yorkers demand and deserve,\u201d Lhota said in a statement.\nSource : http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/mta-chairman-tasked-to-fix-new-yorks-subway-problems-resigns-20181109\nDemocracy without Opposition and the NUA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tuckmagazine.com/2016/09/30/observations-expat-free-trade-ups-downs/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:NJ6TGH7EILPMODE5Z7TK3PA52FO543MY", "length": 4515, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "tuckmagazine.com", "title": "Tuck Magazine 2019", "raw_content": "Observations of an Expat: Free Trade \u2013 Ups and Downs\nFree Trade has its upside and its downside. It is also emerging as one of the top issues in the Trump-Clinton tussle. The Donald is \u2018agin\u2019 it and Hillary is \u2018fer\u2019 it.\nTheir battle is mirrored elsewhere in the developed world. Across the globe, socially conservative populist figures are banging heads with establishment-type realpolitik politicians trying to push and drag their electorates out of the industrial and into the technical revolution.\nLined up behind the opposing forces are powerful trade union interests struggling to save their members\u2019 jobs, while opposing them are computer nerds and financiers pushing for more and bigger technological advances, cost savings and profits.\nSo what are the upsides and downsides of free trade, aka globalization? The upside quite simply is cheaper goods. The downside is the loss or export of jobs in traditional industries.\nThomas Friedman, in his best seller \u201cThe World is Flat,\u201d makes it abundantly clear that without free trade retailing giant Wal-Mart would be unable to implement its winning policy of stack \u2018em high and sell \u2018em cheap. Its success is built on the foundation stone of purchasing large quantities direct from manufacturers in countries where unions are weak, labour is cheap and raw materials are close at hand.\nNeighbouring Mexico has become a particularly powerful and enticing magnet for American manufacturers. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in the 22 years since NAFTA was founded, US investment in Mexico has soared from $15 billion a year to $100 billion. Dean Baker at the Economic Policy Institute says that this has resulted in the loss of 600,000 jobs and those that are left suffer wage stagnation in order to compete with cheap Mexican labour. Of course, we mustn\u2019t forget China, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, 3.2 million American jobs were exported to China in the 12 years after it joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001.\nThese dark clouds do have silver linings\u2014according to the Pew Research Centre, the jobs created in Mexico last year pulled more than 140,000 Mexicans out of the US and back to their homeland. Trump\u2019s wall could become redundant if American investment in Mexico continues.\nThe other silver lining is that the US has enjoyed more than two decades of low prices. Inflation during the NAFTA years has averaged three percent and the current unemployment figure of 4.9% is almost a full percentage point lower than the postwar average.\nWait a minute, something is wrong here. The figures aren\u2019t adding up. How can America lose 600,000 jobs to Mexico and millions more to China and still have low unemployment levels? The answer is the tech sector. In 2012 alone, 3,961,730 jobs were created in the technology sector. And a lot of these jobs are dependent on the development, expansion and maintenance of a global economy based on free trade.\nWhen an economy shifts from one foundation to the next there is inevitable dislocation. Look at Britain in the early nineteenth century when the Luddites rampaged through the newly industrialised cities smashing the steam-powered textile machinery that threatened their livelihoods. They failed and for 100 years Britain was the most powerful and prosperous country in the world.\nBritish workers were retrained and redeployed in new industries. To do this, the British developed the world\u2019s finest educational establishments. It still has world-class universities and schools which play a major role in keeping the UK economy near the top of the list. Right alongside is American education\u2014an enormous asset with the potential to retrain tens of millions in the 21st century\u2019s well-paid, high-value, high-tech industries that will inevitably replace the over-protected industrial society of the twentieth century.\nTom Arms is a broadcaster and writer focused on world affairs. His compendium of radio broadcasts can be heard at www.lookaheadnews.com. Tom is available for speaking engagements and can be contacted at tom.arms@lookaheadnews.com.\nLookAhead Radio World Report for week commencing 3 October:\nhttp://tuckmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/3-october-calm-lookahead.mp3\nTags 2016 US electionsAmericaChinaDebateDonald TrumpEconomyfree tradeHillary ClintonjobsLookAhead NewsMexicoNAFTAObservations of an ExpatPoliticsThomas FriedmanTom ArmsTPPunemploymentUnited StatesWTO\nPrevious post Colin Kaepernick sat down to make all of us consider what we stand for", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0490", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YL5KX3LI7SSP6SLNU6I53YKNZUBXPSUM", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tupress.temple.edu", "title": "Temple University Press", "raw_content": "Casey A. Klofstad is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 46.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ucceastgoshen.org/events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:38Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3Q5M4CEA5M5TZMCOJCXNO5J3OAHEWIG", "length": 1976, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "ucceastgoshen.org", "title": "Events", "raw_content": "AT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bEAST GOSHEN\nSaturdays at 5:30 p.m. : Roots and Roofs, a different way to worship\nRoots and Roofs is \"supper church\". We share a meal each week, and it's part of our worship. Mixed in with the food is spirited singing, powerful prayer, compelling messages and stimulating discussion. It's a place to be grounded, able to stand stronger, and establishing a deeper connection while being safe and protected.\nSundays: Worship at 10:00 a.m.\nWorship is at the center of our lives together. It's a time for recharging spiritual batteries, feeling God's forgiveness, re-connecting with your faith community. The service includes a \u201cChildren\u2019s Chat.\u201d Sunday School is offered three Sundays a month. The other Sunday is \u201cFamily Sunday\u201d when children remain in church for the full service.\nAfter the Children's Chat, young people through 6th grade may leave with their teachers for Sunday School. Our lessons follow the same scripture passages that are read and reflected upon in Worship.\nCafe Script\nTuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon beginning July 3. It's a \"no experience required\" , open and free-flowing discussion of the week's Bible readings. In all phases of our life, we value the questions!\nWednesdays at 7:00 p.m. our choir meets. Auditions, I don't think so - come on, it's about singing your heart!\nBreakfast at the West Chester Senior Center\nIt's NOT just for seniors! The Senior Center offers the best breakfast bargain, open to the public, in Chester County! 2-year-olds through seniors join Pastor Angelee on the second Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. No agenda, just gather for a tasty breakfast and good conversation.\nDetails, coming.\nContact Carol Swingle\nFebruary 2 5:30 PM Evening Worship Roots & Roofs\nFebruary 3 10:00 AM Worship and Communion shared.\nFebruary 20 7:00 PM Choir Rehearsal\nMore Events and a new newsletter coming soon.\nGood News Notes, Our Monthly Newsletter, is ready for your viewing!\nClick Here To View or Download Your Copy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://umsm003.its.iastate.edu/view/objects/asitem/items@null:10319/0?t:state:flow=385c506f-7556-4e53-ba40-69f21b2c32ba", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DTQKNJ746MIYKHKWB2TRFUQ4RF6MVVLW", "length": 372, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "umsm003.its.iastate.edu", "title": "Iowa State Collections - Iowa State University", "raw_content": "English (Stoke-on-Trent, England), founded 1759\nTitle: Jug\nName: Jug\nMedium: White stoneware\nCountry/Culture: English\nDimensions: 6 1/2 x 7 in. 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Perform \u201cTrue Trans Soul Rebel\u201d\nIf 2014 was the year Miley Cyrus\u2018 outrageous antics reached maximum raunchiness, 2015 is proving to be the year she reminds the world she is also an incredibly kind (and talented) soul. Cyrus recently started the Happy Hippie Foundation, an organization to benefit homeless and LGBTQ kids. To raise awareness for this initiative, Cyrus recently [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, Happy Hippies Foundation, Joan Jett, laura jean grace, miley cyrus, True Trans Soul Rebel No Comments \u00bb\nMUSIC VIDEO: Against Me! \u2013 \u201cTwo Coffins\u201d\nAgainst Me! have unveiled a new animated music video for their track \u201cTwo Coffins,\u201d taken from 2014\u2019s Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Check it out by clicking through the jump, and don\u2019t forget to share your thoughts with us in the replies. This June, the four-piece will kick off a month-long run alongside Frnkiero Andthe Cellabration and [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: \"Two Coffins\", against me!, laura jane grace, music video, transgender dysphoria blues No Comments \u00bb\nA Musical Journey Through The Year 2014\nJanuary 2nd, 2015 Ryan Kappy\n2014. What a whirlwind of a year it has been. My life was changing in both my professional and personal life so quickly it was at the point where my physical body couldn\u2019t keep up (I may have gained a few pounds along the way). And now the year has come to a close. Along [\u2026]\nPosted in News, Reviews Tags: 2014, 68, against me!, best of, Code Orange, every time i die, joyce manor, La Dispute, manchester orchestra, New Found Glory, pianos become the teeth, Puig Destroyer, PUP, Run the Jewels, ryan kappy, such gold, The Menzingers, Trash Talk No Comments \u00bb\nAgainst Me! Plans A Southern Tour\nDecember 23rd, 2014 Corey From\n2014 is over and 2015 is here. If you thought Against Me! couldn\u2019t get get any better, you were wrong. The band\u2019s 2014 effort, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, has been all over year-end \u201cBest Of\u201d lists and was a hit among the mainstream audiences and indie-punk audiences alike. Well, the dust hasn\u2019t settled yet and they [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: 2015, against me!, news, tour, transgender dysphoria blues No Comments \u00bb\nAgainst Me! Share NSFW \u201cDrinking With The Jocks\u201d Video, Announce Tour Dates\nAgainst Me! have released a new, NSFW video for Transgender Dysphoria cut \u201cDrinking With The Jocks.\u201d One of the most furious, anxiety-ridden tracks on an album full of the stuff, the Steak Mtn.-directed video follows suit. Chaotic and frenzied, disjointed and manic, the video is all shaky black and white images of body parts and snippets of [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, Creepoid, Drinking With The Jocks, Jenny Owens Young, music video, the gaslight anthem, tour announcement, tour dates, transgender dysphoria blues No Comments \u00bb\nMay 3rd, 2014 Troy Sennett\nWelcome to this week\u2019s edition of Weekly Wax! If you\u2019re still playing catch-up on the great pop punk and emo releases of past few years, then you\u2019re in luck. This week saw a number of repressings from No Sleep Records and Run For Cover Records, as well as a number of classic punk reissues like [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, Allison Weiss, balance and composure, bridge nine records, Charlie Brown, Defeater, Dillinger Four, Dune, Expire, harvey danger, jurassic park, lifetime, mastodon, modern baseball, Mondo Records, Music On Vinyl, no sleep records, run for cover records, self defense family, Slint, Small Brown Bike, spraynard, sum 41, The Story So Far, Three Man Cannon, tigers jaw, Turnover, vinyl, Weekly Wax No Comments \u00bb\nAgainst Me!\u2019s Laura Jane Grace Now Has Her Own Reality Show\nAgainst Me!\u2019s Laura Jane Grace has partnered with AOL for a new reality series documenting the singer\u2019s life and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media. The name of the series of So Much More, and a preview/teaser episode can be viewed here. Grace spent 31 [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, laura jean grace, reality show No Comments \u00bb\nAgainst Me! Add Second Leg To North American Tour\nNever a band to rest too long, Florida punks Against Me! have added another leg to their North American tour. The current run, which includes openers Laura Stevenson and Cheap Girls, will wrap up on April 6, and the new set of dates begins May 1. Support for the May shows will come from California\u2019s [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, Big Eyes, Tony Molina, tour dates, transgender dysphoria blues No Comments \u00bb\nMusic Video: Against Me!\u2019s \u201cBlack Me Out\u201d Features Vulgar Shadow Puppets\nMarch 17th, 2014 Kevin Blumeyer\nI\u2019ve seen \u201cBlack Me Out\u201d as the album\u2019s standout track ever since my first spin through Against Me!\u2018s Transgender Dysphoria Blues, but given the song\u2019s lyrics and subject matter, I figured it would never get the proper single treatment. Well, I suppose I\u2019ve been proven both right and wrong today, as the band has released [\u2026]\nPosted in News Tags: against me!, Black Me Out, laura jane grace, lyric video, music video, punk rock (genre), transgender dysphoria blues No Comments \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 10511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://undpwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/for-115-cut-undp-will-give-you-access.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:OFMJJFXQNMHLN5S54JOR5JXMQDDPVCX4", "length": 1739, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "undpwatch.blogspot.com", "title": "UNDP WATCH: For 11.5% cut UNDP will give you access to project developers and holders of carbon credits in Africa ! 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Hurry Certificates are limited !\nClick here to read this in full @: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/54/40/92093.html\nPromoting access to low-carbon development in Africa\nAs part of their work to support African nations along a low-emission path to development, partner UN agencies, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the World Bank group are hosting the fifth Africa Carbon Forum in Cote d'Ivoire, on 3-5 July 2013.\nThis annual event is an opportunity for participants to meet project developers and buyers of carbon credits in Africa, through formal presentations and more informally in matchmaking sessions that bring together interested parties to discuss possible projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM).\n\"The African continent has historically not benefited much from the CDM,\" said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). \"The current state of the market opens the possibility for African nations to increase their participation, in particular via a programmatic approach that caters to smaller projects. 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Since its inception in 2011, Governors Ball has become a festival favorite among locals and visitors due to the eclectic lineup and beautiful views of the New York skyline as the backdrop. Keep reading for our top 5 acts you can\u2019t miss this weekend.\nMysteryland USA Gears Up For Its Third Run\nUpholding the title as The Netherland\u2019s longest standing music festival, Mysteryland was truly the first of its kind when its inaugural event took place in 1993. It wasn\u2019t until over a decade later, however, that the ID&T-assisted event opted for a two-day experience in 2014, and ever since, the franchise has gone on to reign supreme as one of the world\u2019s premier EDM festivals.\n5 Acts You Can\u2019t Miss at Audio on the Bay\nIt seems that every year more and more electronic festivals happen over the holiday weekend. This Memorial Day Weekend, Audio on the Bay returns to the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California. This Bay Area Insomniac festival, which started in 2014, features talent such as Chris Lake, Flux Pavilion, and Excision. Keep reading for our top 5 acts you can\u2019t miss this weekend.\n5 Acts You Can\u2019t Miss at Hangout Music Festival\nAlabama\u2019s beachfront spring festival, Hangout Music Festival, joined the festival circuit seven years ago and hasn\u2019t looked back since. The rejuvenating, three-day escape brought to the state\u2019s Gulf Shores a cultural and artistic experience that opened doors and set new standards for the Southeast.\n5 Acts You Can\u2019t Miss at Movement Festival\nWhile the notion of the music festival has nearly become stale considering the rise and fall of innumerable festivals each year, Movement Electronic Music Festival has achieved major recognition as a festival in a league of its own. 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It\u2019s a Star Wars movie. The big question lingering over this opening weekend concerned whether or not it\u2019s surely enormous opening weekend would break the records set by Jurassic World earlier this year. And now, with the early estimates in, we can answer that question: yes and no.\n1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $238,000,000 $57,571 $238,000,956\n2 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip $14,400,000 $3,942 $14,400,000\n3 Sisters $13,420,000 $4,531 $13,420,791\n4 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 $5,650,000 (-50.5%) $2,130 $254,438,018\n5 Creed $5,085,000 (-49.8%)\n6 The Good Dinosaur $4,305,000 (-58.3%) $1,563 $96,619,660\n7 Krampus $3,780,000 (-55.1%) $1,594 $34,810,656\n8 In the Heart of the Sea $3,465,000 (-68.7%) $1,117 $18,600,585\n9 Dilwale $1,875,853 $6,996 $1,875,802\n10 Bajirao Mastani $1,660,000 $5,461 $1,660,423\nWith a domestic haul of $238 million, The Force Awakens trampled all over Jurassic World\u2019s $208 million opening. This isn\u2019t Jurassic World barely scraping past The Avengers\u2019 $207 million opening \u2014 this is a thorough trouncing. To put this number in perspective, J.J. Abrams\u2019 chapter of the beloved space opera saga has almost made as much as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay \u2013 Part 2 has made in a month, and that movie has dominated the box office for the past few weeks. These are powerful numbers that reflect an energized, slightly radical fan base. Barring a disastrous turn of events, The Force Awakens will be the highest grossing Star Wars movie in the history of the franchise within two weeks or so. This is enormous.\nAnd yet, Jurassic World still held onto the record for biggest international opening. Worldwide, The Force Awakens nabbed an incredible $517 million, but Jurassic World has the edge with $524 million. So here\u2019s the big question for the weeks ahead: will the new Star Wars showcase the legs of its box office rival to become the highest grossing movie of 2015? It\u2019s certainly possible, but it may be a close race. Jurassic World ended its run with $1.6 billion worldwide, with $652 million of that coming from domestic markets. The Force Awakens will continue to be huge \u2014 $1 billion is a sure thing, a $600 million domestic gross feels assured \u2014 but will it be enough? As with any major franchise, it\u2019s difficult to see if all of the online nitpicking from fans is a reflection of actual audiences. If the real people like The Force Awakens, not just the nerds, it could catch up with Jurassic World. It just needs to continue playing to the non-obsessives. Thankfully, just about everyone and their mother (literally) loves Star Wars.\nBelieve it or not, other movies also opened this weekend. In second place, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip signaled the death knell of this monstrous franchise, opening with only $14 million. Considering that the first two movies in this series opened north of $40 million, with the third still managing a respectable $23 million, expect this to be their final big screen outing for awhile.\nIn third place, Sisters opened with a mediocre $13 million. That\u2019s not an awful start for a film reportedly budgeted at $13 million, but Star Wars counter-programing like this should have performed a little better. After all, this was supposed to be the movie that everyone who has no interest in space operas was going to see. Still, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have solid box office track records, with their fair share of hits. Like The Night Before, this could quietly fly under the radar and rack up some cash while the bigger movies continue to steal the headlines.\nThe rest of the top 10 was hit by the Star Wars freight train with pulverizing force. Mockingjay \u2013 Part 2 plummeted and $300 million now looks so very far away. The Good Dinosaur continued to be Pixar\u2019s first true box office disappointment. In the Heart of the Sea is as dead on arrival as it was a week ago, but that 68 percent drop must feel especially painful for the accountants at Warner Bros. Krampus managed to make most of its money in the past two weeks, so it was able to bow out the race with some grace. Only Creed, with $5 million in fifth place, continued looking solid. It\u2019ll break $100 million within the next two weeks or so.\nAnd yes, two Indian movies in limited release did crack into the top 10 this weekend. 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Caleb is from Goldendale, Washington. He plans to pursue a major in political science and a minor in business. Caleb decided long ago that the UW was the university for him \u2014 he was so set on the UW that it was the only school he applied to! He originally planned on living in the dorms, but after freshman orientation and a night living in Lander Hall he knew that the dorms were not the route he wanted to take \u2014 and so Caleb started rushing. He started hanging out with the Phi Taus and really enjoyed what we brought to the table. He commented that he \u201clikes the guys [he] met here and knew this was the right fit for [him].\u201d After college Caleb plans on going to law school and then going into politics.\nHoorah! 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The building is now nearly completed, \u201cWe broke ground in March of this year and are now looking at a completion date of sometime in November 2015,\u201d Shared club Vice-President Adriano Sumberac, w ho has been with the club for all of those 20 years. He served as president for eight.\nThe modest-size club boasts between 600 and 650 registered players, which means it is the third-smallest soccer club in Greater Victoria, which can make fundraising for large projects challenging. One reason for the two-decade long fundraising campaign is due in part to PLSC putting in an artificial turf field in 2008.\n\u201cSo that the kids can play, we felt at that time that the artificial pitch was more important than a clubhouse,\u201d shared Sumberac. \u201cYou know how fast the grass fields get closed in the winter.\u201d He said to emphasize the point.\nAt the time, Greater Victoria was in need of artificial turf fields and the feeling was exacerbated as the coast seemed to experience a few winters where the rains were torrential. Until 2007, Victoria had two artificial turf fields, one at the University of Victoria and one at Hampton Park, which is the home of the Gorge Soccer Association.\n\u201cGreater Victoria went from artificial turf famine to feast in a short period of time\u2026\u201d\nFraming done, siding next\nIndependent of each other, over the following two years, several clubs around the city put in artificial turf fields. Greater Victoria went from artificial turf famine to feast in a short period of time. Some of the other soccer clubs that added artificial turf fields were Hampton with their second, Cordova (who merged with Gordon Head \u2013 now have two); Saanich Fusion Football Club added one on Tyndall Ave, Bays United off Finlayson Street and Lakehill Soccer Association off Braefoot at McKenzie. Additionally, PISE put one in during that time, their field is located just a few hundred metres to the south. Not too long after St. Michael\u2019s University School in Oak Bay as well as UVic each added one more.\nIn 2015 Westshore RFC (formerly Velox RFC) celebrated their new turf field in Colwood, which is located on the lower fields at the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre.\nPLSC also uses Adam Kerr Field, which is located off of West Saanich Road, Glanford Park on Glanford Avenue and Beckwith Park on Beckwith Avenue in the High Quadra area, all grass pitches, all subject to closure on short notice.\nOne club coach said, \u201cI remember checking the hotline and the website until late Friday and first thing in the morning on game day to find out if our field was going to be open, the turf is a blessing and so is the lighting, which extends the hours in the winter.\u201d\nSumberac explained that he can control the lights from home on the internet. \u201cThere is no need to check the field to see if someone forgot to turn the lights off. 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The municipality can quickly convert this impervious cover reduction action plan into a stormwater mitigation plan and incorporate it into the municipal stormwater control ordinance.\nLinks are provided to the impervious cover assessment (ICA), impervious cover reduction action plan (RAP), feasibility study, and RAP web map completed to date for Red Bank.\nRAP web map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wayanadresorts.net/smart-ideas-professionals-revisited.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JRLTKC26B3NQBXIHBAKNEDXRMX3SC6Z2", "length": 2453, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wayanadresorts.net", "title": "Smart Ideas: Professionals Revisited | Wayanadresorts", "raw_content": "How to Be Sure You\u2019re Choosing the Most Effective Pest Control When you find a place to live that makes you feel comfortable, there is no doubt that you\u2019ll want to keep it feeling as safe and secure as possible. While there area lot of things you can do to your home that will be able to keep it safe from other people, you might find it a little harder to ensure that all of the little pests that live out in the world are going to stay out. It\u2019s for this reason that a lot of people find out far too late that their homes have a pest infestation that is causing structural damage. Once your home has been infested with these types of pests, it is going to be very important to move quickly to make sure you\u2019re getting rid of them as quickly as you possibly can. You\u2019re going to find that there are plenty of unique kinds of pest control services you can work with who know just how to eliminate any kind of pest problem. A lot of people who are on the hunt for pest control won\u2019t really know where to begin with their search. With the information below, you\u2019re going to find it incredibly easy to figure out which pest control service is going to be the right one for you. The primary thing you\u2019ll need to think about when dealing with any kind of pest control will be the kind of experience the company has at eliminating all kinds of different pests. Since there are a lot of homes out there with unique ways for insects and other small pests to enter your house, you will have to spend a little extra effort making sure you\u2019re choosing a company that will know exactly how to find the infestation. You\u2019re going to find it incredibly easy to ensure that you\u2019re getting the best possible company once you\u2019ve seen the kinds of resources that are available to you.\nNaturally, you can check out plenty of great methods of hiring a reliable pest control company that go beyond looking for experienced ones online. One effective strategy is to check in with your friends and family to see who they have called when their homes were experiencing some kind of an infestation. It\u2019s going to be so much easier for you to know you\u2019re making a solid choice once you\u2019ve had the opportunity to hear about the experiences your contacts have had.\nWhen you need the best pest control, you\u2019ll have a number of places to look. As you continue reading about the kinds of companies that are out there, you should ultimately be able to find a great extermination service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 160.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wbsm.com/opinion-chris-mccarthy-north-korea-must-account-for-u-s-pows/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:00Z", "digest": "sha1:WXYYMMCFHGQHEKLPHN3AQNUXOV5DPA5H", "length": 6972, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "wbsm.com", "title": "OPINION|Chris McCarthy: North Korea Must Account for U.S. POWs", "raw_content": "OPINION | Chris McCarthy: North Korea Must Account for U.S. POWs\nPresident Trump is standing up for the brave Americans who died or were captured in the Korean War. Trump is demanding our warriors are returned home.\nThe Korean War erupted while Harry Truman was president and Joseph Stalin was the boss of the Communist world. Mao Zedong had just successfully introduced his Soviet sponsored system to China with the rifle and the help of useful idiots. Fidel Castro, the Berlin Wall, and Vietnam were still to come.\nSince the military stalemate on the Korean peninsula, the United States has had 13 different presidents from both major parties (six Democrats, and seven Republicans). Until Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the Communists in North Korea were on the march and scaring the world with their nuclear missile program.\nDonald Trump has changed the world by meeting with the leader of North Korea and offering him a better path, rather than ignoring him and letting him continue to build up his military threat. How it works out is up to North Korea.\nIn the meantime, President Trump has told North Korea he wants the remains of our warriors returned to America. The men and women of our military deserve to be buried in the United States with full honors in front of a grateful nation. Time heals most wounds but in this case, time is the enemy, as more friends and family members die before they can bury the heroes they loved who died in Korea.\nBut questions remain about the fate of many of our men who fought the Communists on the Korean peninsula.\nDonald Trump once had a lawyer who taught him about politics and the world. That lawyer was Roy Cohn. Back in 1953, Roy Cohn was chief counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations. The chairman of that subcommittee was a former judge from Wisconsin and a Marine Corps veteran of World War II: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.\nSenator McCarthy created a special detachment of his committee to investigate the North Korean Communist's treatment of prisoners of war. Senator Charles Potter said, \"The chairman has designated me as a task force of one to find out what has happened to the several thousand American soldiers that the Communists haven't returned.\"\nSen. McCarthy had a deferment from military service because he was a judge during World War II. However, he gave up his judgeship, joined the Marines and served in the Pacific as an intelligence officer. It was a different time in America. Rich kids like John Kennedy and John Chaffee went to war, and judges like McCarthy stepped off the bench to go into battle.\nAt the direction of Sen. McCarthy, the \"task force of one\" launched an investigation into the missing American POWs. Many of the hearings were held in executive session, and the testimony was kept secret according to Senate rules for 50 years. Senator McCarthy died in 1957 and the transcripts were released in 2003.\nDuring the 1953 hearing, Chief Counsel Roy Cohn inquired about the Americans who were held back by the Communists as slaves in North Korean labor camps working in mining and timber operations. The answer from a U.S. Army Lt. Colonel was \"there probably are\" American slaves working in the mines and forests, according to page 1,930 of the hearing transcript.\nMajor James Kelleher, from the Dept. of Defense, speaking about Sen. Potter's interest in U.S. POWs said: \"He said he was specifically interested in about 950 people when we knew or felt they were still in the hands of the Communists and still alive\" (pg 1949).\n\"It seems to me that there should be among the returned GIs in the U.S. now plenty of people who were those individuals who gave us information when repatriated as to the existence and the fact these individuals were alive and know they had not been repatriated.\"\nMaj. Kelleher continues to explain that \"We came up with a list of about 944 of the people we felt that the Commies still held, and were alive, and we made a formal demand on the Commies at Panmunjom to produce the people. They came back with a list that said 48 people were repatriated, and the others never existed. We think they do and have evidence to that effect.\"\nThere is no doubt that the North Koreans kept American service members hostage after the conflict ended in the early 1950s. They likely shipped some of the Americans to China and the Soviet Union while keeping some of them for their own purposes.\nThe U.S. Central Intelligence Agency documented the movement of captured U.S. military from North Korea to China as early as 1951.\nAccording to a 1996 New York Times story, there is credible evidence of captured Americans in North Korea:\n\"There is a growing sense in the intelligence community that the notion of surviving American prisoners, however outlandish it sounds at first, is a serious possibility.\nThe new testimony comes from Oh Young Nam, a 33-year-old former police official who escaped to China last October and then went to South Korea.\nOh was the son of a bodyguard to the country's late \"Great Leader,\" Kim Il Sung. He graduated from the elite police academy and joined the secret police.\nIn an interview last week, Oh said that from 1982 to 1993 he repeatedly visited a camp housing the Americans, in a sealed-off area just north of Pyongyang. He said he had never seen more than 20 or 30 Americans at one time, but that there were others in their dormitories and so the total number was probably higher.\"\nInvestigative journalist and national security expert Bill Gertz wrote about American captives from the conflict with North Korea in a 2013 article. \"U.S. prisoners of war were left behind in North Korea, China, and Russia after the Korean War and the Pentagon failed to win their release or a full accounting of their fate, according to research contained in a new book that is highly critical of U.S. POW recovery efforts,\" Gertz wrote.\nGertz's article was a review of the book American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington's \"Cynical Attitude\" of Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee. One of the authors, Zimmerlee, is the son of a missing Air Force member who was lost in Korea. The authors have written articles and testified on matters involving the abandonment of U.S. service members to Communist gulags.\nRoy Cohn was directly involved in the investigation of Americans held hostage by the Communists. He was a close advisor and a mentor to Donald Trump. His life was shaped by his time as a lawyer and investigator for the McCarthy committee. 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It feels great.\u201d\nPiedmont is a region in northwestern Italy bordered by France to the west and Switzerland to the northeast. Not only is it an extremely mountainous place \u2014 it\u2019s surrounded on three sides by the Alps \u2014 much of it is covered by rolling hills and vast plains. 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Lamborghini Car Models : Lamborghini Car Models", "raw_content": "Specs, Designs and features\nSome people might say that Lamborghini limo is the longest Lamborghini ever made. As well as limousine car, this car is designed with four doors and do not take the original design of the Lamborghini car that has 2 doors. Meanwhile, for the number of seats as well, this car does not take the original design of Lamborghini cars are designed with 2 seats, this car is designed to be able to accommodate 6 passengers in the rear. More specifically, 6 passenger seats are arranged into three rear seats facing forward, two rear-facing seats, and the rest of the chair facing sideways. The chairs are designed with leather in black and orange. (Also read: Finding Lamborghini Dealers)\nIn addition to having the exterior and interior design, limousine Lamborghini car is also equipped with several features that are entertaining. People who are inside it can enjoy beverages in interesting crystal champagne glasses. In addition, you will also find audio system features that are placed in the back of the car. Some other features are added in this car is a plasma screen, iPod docks, etc. With the extended design that extends about 6 feet from the front bumper to the rear wing of the car, this Lamborghini limo has a lot of room in the back so that passengers can be relieved when sitting and relaxing in it. Maybe it would look cool if you took your wife to be in this car.\nFor those who have a lot of dollar in their bank account, they can easily come to the dealer and get some buying process of this Lamborghini limo. Meanwhile, some people who need a just-once ride to a special and important event, they can come to the car rental service to try the fantasy driving with this car. 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The researchers studied the brains...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.800teleservices.com/english/News_Center/New_Details.asp?ID=180", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DRCPWAACQEVYN3HXZJMAIHJOYSXAATLT", "length": 1782, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.800teleservices.com", "title": "Hong Kong Journalists Joint Interview: Talk about the New Development of E-Commerce - Company News - 800 TeleServices", "raw_content": "Hong Kong Journalists Joint Interview: Talk about the New Development of E-Commerce\nThe Group Chairman and CEO of 800TeleServices, Mr. Wong attended a joint interview with a group of Hong Kong media including HKTDC, Ming Pao, Sing Tao Daily, and iMoney at the Shanghai headquarters on October 15, 2010. Based on the ten years' experience, Mr. Wong shared an in-depth exchange of 800 TeleServices' rapid development in e-Commerce in recent years.\nMr. Wong (right) accepts an interview from Hong Kong journalists\nDuring the interview, Mr. Wong shared 800 TeleServices' rapid growth in e-Commerce and valuable experience we've gained: \"With our deep understanding of the e-Commerce platform, together with the advantages of ten years of rich experience in the operation and management of call centers, in the beginning of 2008, we became the partner of Taobao.com, the e-Commerce leader in China, one of the first batch of Taobao partners.\"\nWe offers services covering Taobao web store design and construction, daily operation, WangWang chatting, and e-marketing support on Taobao, which greatly speeds up the time for products to reach the market for our customers. Mr. Alex further commented: \"We have been using our actions to prove our services and care for the customers. 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What is a Jew (New & Completely Revised Ed.); New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1993); pg. xxviii. \"Even in Great Britain, there are only 322,000 (0.5%); and in France, 530,000 (0.9%). \"\nJudaism France 530,000 - - - 1995 Breuilly, Elizabeth, et al. Religions of the World: The Illustrated Guide to Origins, Beliefs, Traditions & Festivals. Facts on File Inc.: New York, NY (1997); pg. 41. 1995 Chart and accompanying text: \"The third largest Jewish population is in France (550,000), followed by Russia (375,000), Canada (360,000) and then by Great Britain (294,000). \" Numbers represent self-identified religious Jews.\nJudaism France 640,000 - - - 1996 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. Table: \"Religion \": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: \"Religious affiliation \" & \"1996 pop. \" [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop.\nJudaism France 640,000 - - - 1997 Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything, DK Publishing, Inc.: New York (1997); pg. 160-161. List: \"Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World \"; (Rank: 4)\nJudaism France 586,093 1.00% - - 1997 *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim (North African workers) 1%, unaffiliated 6%; Total Population: 58,609,285.\nJudaism France 640,156 - - - 1998 Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998); pg. 77. Table: \"Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World \"; Rank: #3\nJudaism France 530,000 0.93% - - 1998 Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 160-161. \"Location: France; Population: About 57 million \"; \"France... its Jewish population is estimated at 530,000 -- the fourth largest in the world. \"\nJudaism France 600,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism France: Paris 380,000 - - - 1982 Charing, Douglas. The Jewish World. London, UK: Silver Burdett Co. (1983); pg. 14. Graphic \"City population comparisons \"; New York: 1,998,000; Los Angeles: 455,000; Paris: 380,000; Tel Aviv: 335,000; Jerusalem: 298,000; Moscow: 285,000; Buenos Aires: 250,000 \"\nJudaism France: Paris 330,000 - - - 1989 Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 218. \"The 660,000 Jews of France (1989)... Half of the total live in Paris. \"\nJudaism France: Paris 350,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism French Polynesia 120 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"; [Location listed as \"Tahiti \"]\nJudaism Gaza Strip 5,957 0.60% - - 1997 *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%; Total Population: 987,869 (July 1997 est.) note: in addition, there are 5,000 Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip (August 1996 est.).\nJudaism Georgia (country) 17,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Georgia, USA - - 1\nunit - 1776 Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 24. \"Interestingly, although there were only five synagogues in the nation by 1776, Rhode Island, New York City, and Georgia had one each and two were in South Carolina. \"\nJudaism Georgia, USA 72,747 1.12% 38\nunits - 1990 Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. [Listed as 'Jewish Estimate.']\nJudaism Georgia, USA - 0.50% - - 1990 Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York.\nJudaism Georgia, USA 77,000 1.10% - - 1995 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. Table: \"No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States \"; \"The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. \"\nJudaism Georgia, USA - 0.00% - - 2001 *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. \"American Religious Identity Survey. \" 2001. City University of New York. ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: \"Jewish \" [The study specifically asked follow up questions of self-identified Jews to separate non-religious ethnic-only Jews from religious Jews and Jews who self-identify with a religion other than Judaism. Statistic here refers to religious Jews only.]; Actual % between 0 and 0.5%, so sell was left blank.\nJudaism Georgia: Coweta County 1,235 2.30% - - 1990 *LINK* Satterthwaite, Sallie. \"Census shows thousands involved in churches \" on web site: \"The Citizen Online \" (Fayette County, Georgia, USA newspaper); web page: \"The Citizen Church FactFinder \" (Dec. 1996 - December 1997). (Viewed online 17 April 1999). \"Data from the 1990 U.S. Census indicate that Coweta County's [Georgia, USA] population was 53,853 while Fayette's was 62,415... In Coweta County... Jews numbered 1,235, or 2.3%, and Presbyterians totaled 577 persons, or 1.1%. \"\nJudaism Georgia: Fayette County 1,432 2.30% - - 1990 *LINK* Satterthwaite, Sallie. \"Census shows thousands involved in churches \" on web site: \"The Citizen Online \" (Fayette County, Georgia, USA newspaper); web page: \"The Citizen Church FactFinder \" (Dec. 1996 - December 1997). (Viewed online 17 April 1999). \"Data from the 1990 U.S. Census indicate that Coweta County's [Georgia, USA] population was 53,853 while Fayette's was 62,415... Fayette County data reported that... Southern Baptists made up 31.8% of the total, or 19,877 worshippers... The black Baptist and Jewish numbers - 1,416 and 1,432, respectively - accounted for 2.3% of the total. \"\nJudaism Germany 530,000 - - - 1929 Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 179. \"Before the 1930s, Germany had a Jewish population of around 530,000. However, the great majority fled or were killed in the Nazi holocaust of World War II... \"\nJudaism Germany 365,000 0.80% - - 1937 Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. Map: \"European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 \"; \"Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. \"\nJudaism Germany 500,000 - - - 1939 Wohlrabe, Raymond A. & Werner E. Krusch. The Land and People of Germany (Portraits of the Nations series). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (revised edition 1972); pg. 153. \"Prior to the Hitler years, there were at least five hundred thousand German Jews. \"\nJudaism Germany 40,000 0.05% - - 1990 Hargrove, Jim. Germany (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1991); pg. 130. \"Some 40,000 Jews live in Germany... Population: 79,312,000 (1990 estimate) \"\nJudaism Germany 37,000 - - - 1992 *LINK* Government statistics web site (viewed circa Nov. 1998) Table: \"Population by age groups, marital status and religious affiliation \"\nJudaism Germany - 0.10% - - 1992 Wolff, Michael. Where We Stand: Can America Make it in the Global Race for Wealth, Health, and Happiness? Bantam Books: New York (1992); pg. 204-205. Chart\nJudaism Germany 40,000 0.05% - - 1993 Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 178-179. \"Location: Germany; Population: Over 81 million \"; \"...today only some 40,000 [Jews] live in Germany, most of whom are recent refugees from Russia. \"\nJudaism Germany 60,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Germany 80,000 - - - 1999 *LINK* web site: \"Religionswissenschaftlicher Medien- und Informationsdienst e.V. \" [REMID: Religious Studies Media and Information Service, Marburg, Germany]; web page: \"Informationen und Standpunkte \" (viewed 2 Aug. 1999). Table: \"Religious communities in Germany: Numbers of members \" [data published July, 1999]; Sum of two groups in Judaism section: \"Juden ohne Gemeindezugeh\ufffdrigkeit \" and \"J\ufffddische Gemeinden \" [affiliated and unaffiliated]\nJudaism Germany, East 1,500 - - - 1972 Wohlrabe, Raymond A. & Werner E. Krusch. The Land and People of Germany (Portraits of the Nations series). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (revised edition 1972); pg. 153. \"Some Jews have returned to the Federal Republic... about thirty to thirty-five thousand. In East Germany, where the Communists are in control, only about fifteen hundred have returned since the war, and these are mostly middle-aged or elderly people. \"\nJudaism Germany, West 35,000 - - - 1972 Wohlrabe, Raymond A. & Werner E. Krusch. The Land and People of Germany (Portraits of the Nations series). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (revised edition 1972); pg. 153. \"Some Jews have returned to the Federal Republic to again enter professions in law, medicine, and several scientifi fields. The estimate of the number of returnees is about thirty to thirty-five thousand. \"\nJudaism Germany: Dresden 6,000 - - - 1939 *LINK* \"Columbus donates to new synagogue in Germany \" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press Writer. Published on Ohio Wire (Ohio.com), Nov. 5, 1998. \"There were about 6,000 Jews in Dresden before the war. \"\nJudaism Germany: Dresden 250 - - - 1998 *LINK* \"Columbus donates to new synagogue in Germany \" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (AP). Published on Ohio Wire (Ohio.com), Nov. 5, 1998. \"Today, Dresden's approximately 250 Jews worship in a building at the Jewish cemetery, contrary to Jewish religious law... \"\nJudaism Gibraltar 1,000 8.10% - - 1937 Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. Map: \"European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 \"; \"Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. \"\nJudaism Gibraltar 578 2.00% - - 1997 *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) Roman Catholic 74%, Protestant 11% (Church of England 8%, other 3%), Muslim 8%, Jewish 2%, none or other 5% (1981); Total Population: 28,913 (1997). (Territory of United Kingdom)\nJudaism Gibraltar 600 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Greece 75,000 1.20% - - 1937 Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. Map: \"European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 \"; \"Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. \"\nJudaism Greece - 0.10% - - 1992 Wolff, Michael. Where We Stand: Can America Make it in the Global Race for Wealth, Health, and Happiness? Bantam Books: New York (1992); pg. 204-205. Chart\nJudaism Greece 5,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Guatemala 1,200 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Hawaii - - 6\nJudaism Hawaii 7,000 0.60% - - 1995 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. Table: \"No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States \"; \"The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. \"\nJudaism Hawaii 7,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Hong Kong - - 1\nunit - 1901 Kagda, Falaq. Hong Kong (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1998); pg. 73. \"Judaism: Hong Kong's Jewish community worships at the Synogogue Ohel Leah... The synagogue was built in 1901... \"\nJudaism Hong Kong 3,000 0.05% - - 1997 *LINK* 1997 Religious Studies News The small Jewish population, currently numbering about 3,000 in all, also has a long history of connections going back to the colony's foundations.\nJudaism Hong Kong 2,500 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Hong Kong 1,000 - - - 1998 Kagda, Falaq. Hong Kong (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1998); pg. 73. \"Judaism: Hong Kong's Jewish community worships at the Synogogue Ohel Leah, the American Club, and several other locations. The synagogue was built in 1901... The original site included a rabbi's residence and school, as well as a recreation club for the 1,000 people in the congregation... \"\nunit - 1998 Kagda, Falaq. Hong Kong (series: Cultures of the World). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1998); pg. 67. \"In all, there are more than 600 Buddhist and Taoist temple in the territory. There are also almost 800 Christian churches and chapels, four mosques, a Hindu temple, a Sikh temple, and a Jewish synagogue. \"\nJudaism Hungary - - - - 1925 Bermant, Chaim. The Jews. New York: NY Times Books (1977); pg. 128. \"...by 1925... In Hungary at this time about half of the doctors, veterinary surgeons and engineers were Jewish. \"\nJudaism Hungary 440,000 5.60% - - 1937 Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. Map: \"European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 \"; \"Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. \"\nJudaism Hungary 600,000 - - - 1939 Shoemaker, M. Wesley. Russia, Eurasian States, and Eastern Europe 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 277. \"Hungary also has about 80,000 Jews, a remnant of the estimated 600,000 Jews who lived in Hungary prior to World War II. \"\nJudaism Hungary 550,000 - - - 1939 Steins, Richard. Hungary: Crossroads of Europe (series: Exploring Cultures of the World). New York: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish (1997); pg. 24. \"The Jewish population of Hungary was once quite large, but it is very small today. More than 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed by the Nazis in the 1940s, during World War II. \"\nJudaism Hungary - 1.00% - - 1992 Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. Table: \"Population Distribution of Major Beliefs \"; \"Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% \"\nJudaism Hungary 72,625 0.70% - - 1997 Shoemaker, M. Wesley. Russia, Eurasian States, and Eastern Europe 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 262. \"Hungary... Population: 10,375,000... Ethnic Background: Magyaar (92.4%); Gypsy (3.3%); German (2.5%), Jewish (0.7%)... \"\nJudaism Hungary 80,000 - - - 1997 Shoemaker, M. Wesley. Russia, Eurasian States, and Eastern Europe 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 277. \"Hungary also has about 80,000 Jews, a remnant of the estimated 600,000 Jews who lived in Hungary prior to World War II. \"\nJudaism Hungary 80,000 - - - 1998 *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) Table: World Jewry. \"collected our data from from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. \"\nJudaism Hungary - 1.00% - - 1998 *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) Table \"Religions \"; total population: 10,509,000\nJudaism Idaho 320 0.03% 2\nJudaism Idaho - 0.00% - - 1990 Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York.\nJudaism Idaho - 0.10% - - 1995 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. Table: \"No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States \"; \"The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. 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Vs. Govt.Of A.P. & ANR. | Judgments | Supreme Court Judgments: January, 2018 | Law Library | AdvocateKhoj", "raw_content": "Irrigineni Venkata Krishna & Ors. Vs. Govt. of A.P. & ANR. [2009] INSC 1711 (9 November 2009)\nCIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.7479 OF 2009 (Arising out of SLP (C) No.27031/2008) Irrigineni Venkata Krishna & Others ...Appellants Versus Government of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. ...Respondents WITH CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 7480-7481 OF 2009 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 27992-27993 of 2008) CIVIL APPEAL NOS.7482-7484 OF 2009 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 30419-30421 of 2008) CIVIL APPEAL NO.7485 OF 2009 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 30860 of 2008)\n2. The Division Bench in its judgment dated August 29, 2008, out of which the present group of seven appeals arises, has relied upon the judgment of this Court in Basic Education Board, U.P. vs. Upendra Rai and Others [(2008) 3 SCC 432] in holding that the regulations framed under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 (for short, `NCTE Act') do not bind the State Government in the matter of fixation of qualifications for teachers in formal schools. This is what the High Court said :\n\"......Following said judgment of the Apex Court in UPENDRA RAI's case (1 supra), we are of the view that the judgment of the Tribunal is un-sustainable and is liable to be set aside insofar as holding that NCTE Act has binding nature on the State Government in the matter of fixation of qualifications for teachers in formal schools. In the circumstances, we find force in the contentions of the Government that the Central Regulations framed by NCTE purportedly made under clause (d) (i) of Sub-section (2) of Section 32 read with section 12(d) of the NCTE Act, 1993 are not applicable or extended to formal school, and that it is the discretion of recruiting agency to prescribe the necessary qualification for the SGT posts.\"\n3. In Upendra Rai, this Court held in paragraphs 19 and 22 of the report thus :\n\"19. A perusal of the NCTE Act shows that this Act was made to regulate the teachers' training system and the teachers' training institutes in the country. It may be mentioned that there are two types of educational institutions -- (1) ordinary educational institutions like primary schools, high schools, intermediate colleges and universities, and (2) teachers' training institutes. The NCTE Act only deals with the second category of institutions viz. teachers' training institutes. It has nothing to do with the ordinary educational institutions referred to above. Hence, the qualification for appointment as teacher in the ordinary educational institutions like the primary school, cannot be prescribed under the NCTE Act, and the essential qualifications are prescribed by the local Acts and Rules in each State. In U.P. the essential qualification for appointment as a primary school teacher in a junior basic school is prescribed by Rule 8 of the U.P. Basic Education (Teachers) Service Rules, 1981 which have been framed under the U.P. Basic Education Act, 1972. A person who 2 does not have the qualification mentioned in Rule 8 of the aforesaid Rules cannot validly be appointed as an Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress in a junior basic school.\"\n20.................\n22. It may be mentioned that the word \"institution\" is defined in Section 2(e) of the NCTE Act to mean an institution which offers courses or training in teachers' education. Thus, the NCTE Act does not deal with the ordinary educational institutions like primary schools, high schools, intermediate college or university. The word \"institution\" as defined in Section 2(2) [sic 2(e)] only means teachers' training institutes and not the ordinary educational institutions.\nHence, it is only the teachers' training institutions which have to seek grant of recognition or continuation of recognition from the Regional Committee. The ordinary educational institutions do not have to seek any such recognition or continuation under the NCTE Act. In fact, the NCTE Act does not relate to the ordinary educational institutions at all.\nWe, therefore, fail to understand how it can be said that the NCTE Act overrides the U.P. Basic Education Act and the Rules made thereunder. In fact, the two Acts operate in altogether two different fields. The NCTE Act deals with the teachers' training institutions while the U.P. Basic Education Act deals with the ordinary primary schools in U.P. and not any teachers' training institute. The argument of learned counsel for the respondent is thus wholly misconceived.\"\n4. The aforesaid reasoning and conclusion in Upendra Rai have been assailed by the learned Senior Counsel for the appellants and it was submitted that Upendra Rai does not lay down the correct law that NCTE Act only deals with teachers training institutes; that it has nothing to do with the ordinary educational institutions and that the qualification for appointment as teacher in the ordinary educational institutions 3 like the primary school cannot be prescribed under the NCTE Act.\n5. Having given our thoughtful consideration, in our view, it would be in fitness of things, if these appeals are heard by a three-Judge Bench for authoritative pronouncement on the following questions of law :\n1. Whether NCTE Act only deals with the teachers' training institutes and the power conferred upon the National Council for Teachers' Education under section 12(d) of that Act in laying down guidelines in respect of minimum qualifications for a person to be employed as a teacher is confined to such institutes i.e., teachers' training institutes ?\n2. If answer to the aforesaid question is in negative, whether the Regulations framed in exercise of the powers under Section 32(2)(d)(i) read with Section 12(d) of NCTE Act by the National Council for Teacher Education laying down qualifications for employment of teachers in primary schools is binding on the state government and in view thereof, the state government is denuded of its authority to enact qualifications for appointment as teachers in primary schools? 4\n6. Let these appeals be placed before Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India for appropriate directions. The parties shall be at liberty to apply for expeditious hearing of these appeals.\n............. ...........J (R. M. Lodha)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 6757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.afps-seisme.org/eng/EARTHQUAKES/Major-earthquakes/Earthquakes-in-France/Disaster-assessment-REX-of-the-Ubaye-earthquake-April-7th-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FN4I2HNQCQ5QJVYSU4OXIVR4VQP2W3VF", "length": 4040, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.afps-seisme.org", "title": "Disaster assessment (REX) of the Ubaye earthquake (April 7th, 2014) / Earthquakes in France / Major earthquakes / EARTHQUAKES / Homepage - AFPS - Association Fran\u00e7aise du g\u00e9nie Parasismique", "raw_content": "Homepage / EARTHQUAKES / Major earthquakes / Earthquakes in France / Disaster assessment (REX) of the Ubaye earthquake (April 7th, 2014)\nEarthquakes in the Emilia region (Italy)\nEarthquakes in France\nEarthquakes in Chile\nEQs in Spain\nThe earthquake which occured in the Ubaye region on April 7th, 2014, at 9:27PM local time, is the largest earthquake recorded for ten years in mainland France. According to the R\u00e9NaSS, its local magnitude was of 5,2 MI and its maximal macro-seismic intensity was of 6 (slight damage) - this earthquake had only limited effects. The earthquake was felt in most of south-eastern France and in Italy, and caused great emotional stress among local populations.\nFollowing this earthquake, State services (BREAL PACA with the BRGM's support) launched a feedback procedure in order to characterize the earthquake and draw lessons from this event on procedure characterizing, on the efficiency of preventive information, on communication during a crisis and on management of a crisis. Conclusions were drawn on the basis of the on-site mission, and of the surveys of local population and of the main actors involved in the management of the crisis.\nRegarding the consequences of the earthquake, the geographical distribution of the damage occured shows local effects on some zones, and makes necessary better knowledge of the local earthquake hazard. In order to continue working on the feedback, a qualitative analysis of the damage files would be useful to identify damage categorization and corresponding costs, and would enable to set up and launch preventive actions on reducing construction vulnerability.\nThe data on the perception of the event and on the population's behaviour have highlighted anxiety about this earthquake, unawareness of safety instructions, and unawareness of the course of conduct to follow during this event.\nThe feedback also showed the population's general unawareness of preventive information documents. This means the content and format of these documents and of the corresponding regulations should be rethought.\nCrisis communication on the event's major characteristics was quick and effective. It should undoubtedly have been continued in order to communicate on how the situation evolved and on the precise consequences of the earthquake. During future events, crisis communication should rely more on social networks, in order to gain more efficiency. Specific communication to the population itself about the proper behaviour required should also be launched.\nThe results of the crisis management procedure following the April 7th earthquake are positive. Amongst other things, one should take note of how fast security and emergency services intervened, of how present the people involved in managing the crisis were. The ability to share results fast among participants in the crisis management procedure on the consequences of the earthquake should also be noted. However, crisis planification should be developed and improved, in order to increase territory resiliency in the event of a future earthquake.\nThese lessons were compiled in a report, and led to the formulation of fifteen recommendations of which the aim is to grasp better management of this kind of event. The report can be downloaded on the Regional Observatory on Major Risks for the PACA Region website (http://observatoire-regional-risques-paca.fr ), in the \"feedback\" section.\nIt is now for prevention actors to look at the report's findings, in order for their actions to be more efficient, and for this territory to be more resilient in the event of a new earthquake.\nThis feedback was presented both at the local and at the national level, on December 3rd, 2014. The presentation brought together the following three missions, which worked in a complementary way on the lessons to learn from the earthquake : DREAL PACA -BRGM, BCSF et AFPS. Find here the presentations made during this event.\nGhislaine VERRHIEST-LEBLANC and Jean-Luc GENOIS (DREAL PACA)\nNathalie MARCOT and Samuel AUCLAIR (BRGM)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allreadable.com/gp/d3dfDH/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:18Z", "digest": "sha1:G2MFTAUIYIRYZXSPGL2YJXN5FYHDDXDN", "length": 579, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.allreadable.com", "title": "David | Readable", "raw_content": "A vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).\nJiufotang Formation location - Chaoyang, Liaoning, China\nThe Jiufotang Formation is dated to about 120.3 /-0.7 million years ago, which was during the Aptian age of the Cretaceous; The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in...\nPterosaurs (meaning 'winged lizards') were flying, prehistoric reptiles. They were related to the dinosaurs. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 68.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allthingsif.org/archives/1566", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YHTK2MUCSLHVGFIOJBJQS3NO6GHMGJGN", "length": 11879, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.allthingsif.org", "title": "Drummer Ron Riddle: \u201cHe\u2019s one of the finest guitar players I\u2019ve played with\u2026\u201d", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Interviews / Drummer Ron Riddle: \u201cHe\u2019s one of the finest guitar players I\u2019ve played with\u2026\u201d\nSpanning four decades and beyond, Ron Riddle\u2019s music career is nothing less than stellar. Perhaps best known as the drummer for Blue Oyster Cult, Ron is also credited with the scoring of music for more than 400 films for national and worldwide broadcast. His clients include CBS, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Turner, The History Channel, A&E, Animal Planet, Disney, The Learning Channel and Discovery Health.\nRon joined the progressive rock band Happy The Man as their drummer in 1977. They recorded the critically acclaimed album Crafty Hands in LA with Arista Records producer Ken Scott (producer for David Bowie, John Lennon and Supertramp). The end result was the critically acclaimed album \u201cCrafty Hands\u201d. Ron\u2019s ability to play complex multiple meters, coupled with his sensitive yet fiery drumming, has inspired many progressive rock musicians. Ron composed one of the best known Happy The Man tunes \u201dService with the smile\u201d.\nATI: Thanks for helping us with Stanley Whitaker\u2019s retrospective. How did you get involved with Happy The Man?\nRR: I was living in D.C. at the time. Happy The Man had a show at The Cellar Door, and I was totally blown away by them. I had been in a band for a few years before the and was doing very similar stuff\u2014an all-instrumental thing called Wave\u2014with Greg Hawkes and another guy by the name of Fuzzbee Morse (http://www.fuzzbee.com/). It was the only thing I\u2019d heard that was similar to the music that I was doing. I was completely blown away by them and their compositions, the sound of the band. It was fantastic. I remember sitting there, listening to the concert and watching Mike Beck. He was the drummer, a fantastic drummer. I remember at one point, he hit his chime\u2013it was like a wind chime\u2013and it came over right next to my foot. It was kind of like a weird, cosmic sign in a way. So after the show, I went and introduced myself, and Mike and I struck up a friendship. We started doing some tunes together. Then I found out that Mike was leaving the band, and they were having some problems\u2013internal relationship problems\u2013right before, I believe, their second album on Arista. This was about two weeks before they were supposed to go into the studio, and I guess the whole thing came to a head. Happy The Man asked me if I would do the record and join the band. It was a tough situation in many ways, because Mike was a really good friend of mine, but the band was fantastic and it was exactly what I wanted to do. I had to do it.\nATI: Why did you leave the band?\nRR: That was another unfortunate situation. It was cosmic, and it was explosive, and it was the best that something could be. We then had to deal with the aftermath, and I had to deal with the aftermath of putting that experience into practical life. I\u2019ve always been a fairly independent musician and composer, used to working on my own. They really needed someone who was more enmeshed in their situation. They would practice every single day at their house. Everybody lived together. It was like a commune. That wasn\u2019t really what I was into. There was also an unfortunate situation that happened right after the album came out, when Punk and New Wave really hit hard, which I think did an incredible amount of damage to Progressive music. You couldn\u2019t get arrested with Progressive music after that! So gigs became nonexistent. At that point, prog bands had a really hard time, so I decided to part ways with them.\nATI: I understand. What was your impression of the band\u2019s music and their playing skill? You said that you were blown away. Can you go in more detail about that?\nRR: Excellent musicianship, the highest caliber, but a real band situation. You usually find excellent musicians having very big egos, but, you know, the band really acted like a band. I think that was the wonderful thing about it. Even the solos were very constructed and composed and worked out. Every note was worked out. The amount of time they practiced and rehearsed and really honed their skill was amazing and incredible, and it made going into the studio a lot easier. I came on board about two weeks before the recording actually happened, so I was more or less flying by the seat of my pants the whole time that we were doing it, which I think was the beauty of my relationship with Happy The Man. I brought an element of improvisation. Well, it was improvisation as we were laying down tunes and recording. I might not have known what I was going to do next. Their parts were almost classically drawn out. I think that had to do a lot with the explosiveness of the combination of the players in that band.\nATI: How about Stan\u2019s guitar playing?\nRR: He\u2019s one of the finest guitar players I\u2019ve played with, and I\u2019ve played with a lot. He\u2019s world-class. What can I say? He\u2019s a fine, fine, fine, dedicated musician. He\u2019s a musician\u2019s musician.\nATI: You mentioned that you played with a lot of good guitar players and lots of serious bands. Of course, Blue Oyster Cult comes to mind, right away. But just for the record, can you just belt out a list of good players you\u2019ve played that you\u2019d compare Stanley to?\nRR: Sure. Besides Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult), who is an amazing guitar player, there\u2019s Mick Ronson, who was David Bowie\u2019s guitar player. Joe Satriani (Deep Purple) (http://www.satriani.com/). Alex Skolnick (Testament) (http://www.alexskolnick.com/).\nATI: So what was it like working with the band in general, and Stan in particular? Any anecdotes or funny stories you can share?\nRR: Well, actually, this one particular story is pretty funny. When I got into the studio, I remember I drove in my van with all my equipment from the East Coast to the West Coast. This all went down so fast\u2014I had two weeks to learn this material, drive across country and then set up in a new studio. I think I got there the night of the session. I had driven across the country for three days and was totally burnt out. We set up right away. Ken Scott wanted me to start doing drum sounds right away. I started doing that. Ken and I had a very interesting relationship, because I\u2019m an extremely hard hitter, and he\u2019s someone who\u2019s very demanding with drummers. Hitting hard has never been a weak point for me. But I think it was something where there was a bit of an attitude. I was the new guy. I had just replaced Mike Beck. This all happened without Ken Scott or Arista being privy to this whole thing. So when I got there, there was this friction. So, I\u2019m doing drum sounds, and Ken is just being as brutal as he can possibly be.\nWe were doing drum sounds for hours and hours and hours. My hands were, like, totally bloody. We were going way into the night. I remember coming out, going to the drinking fountain on a break and going, \u201cHoly shit.\u201d Kenny, the road guy at that time, had some cocaine. I had never done cocaine before at that point. He said, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you try some of this. It will keep you going for a little while longer,\u201d and I said, \u201cOkay, sure.\u201d I was just so na\u00efve to the whole process; I was trying to snort the stuff with a coffee straw. At any rate, Ken Scott comes out at that particular point, looks at me, and he\u2019s furious. He completely goes off on this tangent and is thinking or spreading the rumor that I\u2019m the drug dealer of the group, and I sent the group down this drug lane, and I\u2019m the cause of the demise. It was funny, and it was brutal, and it was creative, but it was totally off the mark.\nATI: How did you clear the situation?\nRR: The situation was never cleared. I might have tried to tell him at one point, but he really wasn\u2019t a direct communicator. We just had at each other when the tape started rolling, trying to get drum sounds. It fueled this whole feeling of anger and misrepresentation. There are five people in a band and Ken Scott in a room\u2014it\u2019s like rocket fuel. That was the great thing about it.\nATI: At the time, Stan was a guitar player. He took on the vocals only because no one else wanted it, and he did only a couple of tunes. When you heard him sing, did you expect him to develop into vocalist?\nRR: I didn\u2019t really think that far ahead. It was just such a\u2013the best word that I can think of is \u201ccluster fuck.\u201d I heard Stan\u2019s vocal, and I was impressed with his vocals, even back then. His vocals are different. The only person that I can really compare his singing to, particularly then would be Getty {unintelligible]. There\u2019s a similarity there. I didn\u2019t think that Stan wouldn\u2019t become a singer, but he did a great job on it. Certainly nobody else wanted to tackle the responsibility of being the lead vocalist. So, my hat goes off to him.\nATI: Interesting. You and Greg Hawkes from The Cars co-wrote this band\u2019s brilliant signature song, \u201cService with a Smile\u201d. What did Greg think about the song\u2019s rendition and about the band? Did he know that the song was put into play?\nRR: He did know that the song was put into play. I told him we were going to record it. I think he was happy that the song was getting out there. I don\u2019t remember having a conversation with him after that. The song was probably written a few years before, with the group that I was in with him, called Waves. That\u2019s where the song comes from. We had recorded it previously, and when I got with Happy The Man, I instantly thought of that song and thought that it would be a real shoe-in for the band. It worked out great.\nATI: I hear you. Great guitar lead, great drumming, great everything\u2014especially the originality of the time signature. My compliments on a great song.\nRR: I love that time signature.\nATI: And it doesn\u2019t sound weird. It doesn\u2019t sound forced.\nRR: I think most of the odd signature stuff on that album sounded pretty smooth. It wasn\u2019t. I can definitely say, with the band\u2019s writing and the band\u2019s playing, which has a lot to do with it as well, it wasn\u2019t like \u201cOkay, we\u2019re playing 7/8 or 11/8 right now.\u201d It doesn\u2019t come across that way. It comes across as music, which is the way that odd time signatures should come across.\nATI: You mentioned that Happy The Man is really a musician\u2019s band. Everyone is awed by this group of musicians. Have you had any feedback from other musicians and producers about the band, about Stanley, about the song that you\u2019ve written? Have you heard anything?\nRR: Nothing but positive things. I know that I played it for tons of people and tons of colleagues and producers, and, you know, there\u2019s nothing really out there like it. It\u2019s really a one-of-a-kind situation. It\u2019s an event that took place and hasn\u2019t really repeated itself, at least that I\u2019ve heard. I think it\u2019s struck everyone that\u2019s heard it in a positive way. It\u2019s that kind of a band, where you don\u2019t really separate the parts from the whole. That\u2019s the beauty of it. No one could say anything but ecstatic praise about Stanley\u2019s work on that record. It\u2019s impeccable.\nATI: I think you nailed it. The whole group of musicians was so amazing. Everyone played it the way it should be played. The fact that you don\u2019t pay attention to the technique is the highest compliment. You think of it only when you force yourself to. This is great music.\nRR: I think instrumental music that has this degree of musicianship\u2013you don\u2019t find cohesiveness to that degree, and that\u2019s really its biggest compliment.\nATI: What do you think is the band\u2019s legacy in music?\nRR: I think it\u2019s a musician\u2019s band, and also those who are music aficionados with a sophisticated taste in music, people who aren\u2019t looking for commercial music or pop vocals, and people who are able to really explore what music is, not just a formula. I would hope that new audiences listen to it, and it keeps going in some form or another. 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We\u2019ve added a few useful new resources for teaching communication skills and pragmatics through the medium of a play. The resources on that page are intended to act as supplements for the plays in the ISTD series, Her Own Worst Enemy and Only the Best Intentions. However, you can use the lessons and activities alone or in conjunction with a different play or script.\nI\u2019m particularly proud of our guide to doing Reader\u2019s Theater, which tries to give a wide variety of options and ideas for doing reader\u2019s theater from a simple staged reading to a full performance with scripts in hand. It\u2019s a remarkably adaptable approach to working with scripts or stories. This guide co-authored by Walton Burns and Alice Savage, helps you customize the approach to your students.\nThere\u2019s also a guide to doing mini-debates. Short debates are a fun way of helping students analyze and discuss the main themes of the play. A debate is also an opportunity to practice pragmatics because students must attempt to reach their audience and persuade them with a variety of rhetorical devices. While doing a debate sounds quite arduous, it doesn\u2019t have to be. Our guide suggests ways to do it in under 30 minutes with very little prep.\nWe\u2019ve also included a number of lesson plans that focus on a particular communicative goal such as: wearing someone down to agree with you or softening the blow of a brutally honest speech, such as telling someone they are bad at an activity. There\u2019s also a very authentic activity called Wedding Party that helps students learn language to perform tasks that even native speakers struggle with: starting, carrying out, and ending small talk. This one can be added to work on Only the Best Intentions as it is ostensibly set at the marriage of Oscar and Gigi. However, it\u2019s also a perfect standalone activity. It\u2019s also one you can repeat without students getting bored. The list of small talk topics and strategies is bottomless. And I find this activity is really one of the most applicable. Students do get invited to parties or gatherings. And some students are even required to attend meetings as part of their scholarship or funding.\nThere\u2019s a few treasures I haven\u2019t mentioned here, including an Answer Key to Her Own Worst Enemy (follow the product link for the answer key). So please bookmark the Integrated Skills Through Drama page and revisit it occasionally to see what we\u2019ve added. 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Please note, I had no previous knowledge of the client's loved ones and had never seen any photograph before the Spirit Drawing. I cannot guarantee that a certain loved one will appear, as it is up to the Higher Self, but each portrait will be specifically helpful to the receiver. This has been a joy and blessing for me to witness.\nThis picture was done rapidly during a session with the client. 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The Association is registered under the Societies Registration ACT, 1860 and the Bombay Public Charitable Trusts Act, 1950 and has 53 members in the city of Mumbai and Maharashtra State. All members are not-for-profit charitable institutions registered under the Bombay Public Charitable Trusts Act, 1950.\nAssociation Fact Sheet\nOver a period the Association as a matter of collective efforts of the members carried out the healthcare activities such as work-shop on Medical Negligence, Medical Camps, i.e. Eye-Camps, Children's examination Camp, Women check-up camp, Heart checkup Camp, Check-up for headache and other physical pains. The Association has also conducted the seminars relating to heart attacks, psychosomatic diseases, endocrine surgery and such other seminars for updating the knowledge level of the medical professionals as well as of common man. It had also undertaken the training sessions for para medical and non-medical staff attached to the member hospitals.\nAnother highly successful blood donation event\nA total of 134 donors attended First Presbyterian Church Hall on Inver Road on Wednesday, April 11 as ...\nTHE COCHLEAR IMPLANT GROUP OF INDIA\nTHE COCHLEAR IMPLANT GROUP OF INDIA with the Registered Office\n6th National Update in Respiratory Medicine\nThis is the 6th course in the annual series of Updates in Respiratory Medicine.\nLife @AOH\nAOH News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ap.jll.com/asia-pacific/en-gb/research/397/pulse-will-barangaroo-lead-to-a-re-rating-of-the-western-corridor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:53Z", "digest": "sha1:U5CZZXLEWY2VBL4FZBE5WBFMGWEGO4S4", "length": 525, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ap.jll.com", "title": "Pulse: Will Barangaroo lead to a re-rating of the Western Corridor?", "raw_content": "Pulse: Will Barangaroo lead to a re-rating of the Western Corridor?\nThe Western Corridor has recorded the strongest growth in stock over the past 10 years and is likely to account for over 30% of the Sydney CBD prime-grade office market by 2016. In this Pulse paper, Jones Lang LaSalle will undertake an analysis of the Western Corridor and explore the case for a structural uplift in A-Grade rents.\u200b\nhttp://www.jll.com/asia-pacific/en-gb/Research/Will_Barangaroo_lead_to_a_re-rating_of_the_Western_Corridor_November_2012.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 3228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/2006/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LRCRA65UYBV5MZABVEQQWSYAOUH2CNQX", "length": 15376, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.apejet.org", "title": "a broken thought \u00bb 2006 \u00bb January", "raw_content": "Coming Soon: Defcon\nJanuary 29th, 2006 | Posted in recreation\nIntroversion is working on its next game, Defcon. I tried the demo of their first game (Uplink), and really enjoyed their second (Darwinia). I\u2019ve been looking forward to their third game for a while now.\nEurogamer recently interviewed Chris Delay, the lead designer at Introversion. Here are some of the more interesting bits (I think):\nEurogamer: \u2026 I was especially interested at the idea of a game out over an entire work-day.\nChris Delay: Yeah, we\u2019re very excited by Office Mode. The basic idea is that a group of work-mates can start the game up in the morning in Office Mode, playing over their local area network. \u2026 Because everything is taking place in real-time you\u2019ve got at least 30 minutes before those nukes land, so you\u2019ve got plenty of time to respond without interfering with your real work too much.\nEurogamer: Care to give an example of the sort of Machiavellian disasters we can see?\nChris Delay: We\u2019ve seen alliance members shooting overhead friendly planes down because they believed the planes were scouting the area for targets in preparation for a strike. This results in arguments in the chat channels, followed by skirmishes at sea, followed by retaliation, before finally the whole alliance collapses and everyone starts nuking the hell out of each other. It\u2019s awesome.\nEurogamer: When do you expect the game to be finished?\nChris Delay: We\u2019re currently estimating it will be finished in April.\nSecret Laws?\nJanuary 28th, 2006 | Posted in government\nI\u2019ve just been reading about this case where a guy wanted to fly on an airplane without showing his ID. The idea of the government demanding to see your ID before you fly is a bit disturbing, but can probably be justified. What really freaks me out is that the law requiring the ID check is secret.\nHow in the world can we be expected not to break a law if we\u2019re not allowed to know what the law is? What happened to due process? I sure hope there\u2019s not a secret law against calling into question secret laws.\nFor those interested, here\u2019s a link to the 9th US Circuit Court\u2019s opinion. From what I can tell, they didn\u2019t rule on the bit about secret laws (due to jurisdiction) \u2014 only on the part about having to show ID to fly.\nHere\u2019s a part of the opinion that I found funny: \u201cthe Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation.\u201d Does the constitution guarantee the right to travel to a particular location (assuming you\u2019re allowed to be at that location)? If you say no, then what does it mean to have a right to travel if you can\u2019t choose where to travel? It\u2019s hardly a right if you\u2019re only allowed to travel within your cell er\u2026 home.\nOn the other hand, if you do think you do have the right to choose where to travel, then there is another problem. What if there is only one practical form of transportation (say by air from Hawaii to Washington DC), then isn\u2019t a law restricting a \u201cparticular form of transportation\u201d the equivalent to a law restricting travel to that location altogether?\nHere\u2019s the problem with this case as I see it. First of all, no laws should be secret. I should be able to learn about the law before I\u2019m affected by it. I should also be able to learn the exact text of the law, not just a summary such as \u201cAll Passengers Must Present ID Before Boarding\u201d. Unfortunately, this case got the jurisdiction wrong, so we don\u2019t know if secret laws are constitutional. If they are, I want to change the constitution.\nSecondly, the plaintiff wasn\u2019t able to demonstrate that commercial air travel was the only practical method of reaching his destination. Maybe someone from Alaska or Hawaii will sue next. Of course, for them to have a valid complaint, they would have to demonstrate that having to show your ID is an unreasonable search \u2014 I don\u2019t think it is (as long as it applies to everyone).\nIt has been a while since I\u2019ve posted some links and I\u2019d really like to clean out the old bookmark folder, so here you go.\nThis is a method for running Linux on Windows. I haven\u2019t tried it out, but it looks really cool and useful for testing.\n2006 World Question Center\nEvery year Edge.org asks a bunch of \u201cbig thinker\u201d types a single question. This years question is: What is your dangerous idea? I haven\u2019t been able to get through all of the responses yet, but most are pretty interesting.\nWired had a nice little article on the founder of Weblogs, Inc. He sounds a bit like an arrogant jerk, but he does have good business ideas on how to scale up things like blogs into viable businesses.\nThis site lets you put in an artist or song name and will find other similar music. It\u2019s not perfect, but it is a cool idea. Now, if they only had a Winamp plugin.\nThis is a cool little stand alone wiki application that allows you to create your own personal wiki project. You can host it on a website for others to browse if you want, but it\u2019s really targeted at local use. I\u2019m running one for tracking Lost. There are several projects working on making TiddlyWiki run on a server, but I haven\u2019t found any that are really mature yet.\nGoogle Talk Opens Up\nWhen Google announced their own instant messaging system, I was pleased to find out that it used the same protocol as Jabber. Unfortunately, it turned out that they didn\u2019t support server to server communications \u2014 one of the coolest things about Jabber. Server to server communications is what allows you to send email from an account on gmail.com to an account on aol.com. Well, Google finally opened up, and now I can connect between my Jabber account at work with Jesse\u2019s account on Google. I\u2019m looking forward to the day when AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo open up their networks and allow communications between all four of the major networks.\nMore than 40,000 Words in a Year\nI just noticed that one year ago today, I reached forty thousand words. Well, I checked my stats and I\u2019m over eighty thousand now. If you\u2019re ever curious about stats like this, be sure to check out my profile. And of course for the archive, here are the current numbers (not including this post):\nOutgoing Links: 1320\nFAA Safety Meeting\nJanuary 26th, 2006 | Posted in aviation\nThis evening, I attended my first FAA Safety meeting. The description said that it would be about reading aviation weather reports like METARS and TAFs. It did do that, but the interesting part was about all of the things going on with flight service stations, and new technologies. It was actually really informative and I\u2019m looking forward to the next meeting. The only problem was that the meeting was (generously) hosted in a hangar and it got pretty cold in there. I\u2019ll need to remember to bring a jacket next time.\nTitle: The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures\nSpeaker: Richard P. Feynman\nFormat: Audio CDs\nJesse got me these CDs for Christmas and I finished up listening to them last week. I ripped the six Audio CDs to a single MP3 CD that I could listen in my car without having to change disks. The audio quality isn\u2019t great \u2014 it\u2019s pretty crackly and hollow sounding \u2014 but it\u2019s clear enough. This poor sound quality is one of the main reasons for not rating it higher.\nI found the content of the lectures to be very interesting. They cover: The Theory of Gravitation, Curved Space, Electromagnetism, Probability, The relation of Wave and Particle Viewpoints, and The Schr\u00f6dinger Equation in a Classical Context.\nThe best part of listening to these lectures is how it brought me back to the days in college when I would sit outside of classrooms with their doors open and just listen. It was a great way to pass the time waiting for a class to start, and I was able to learn a lot (even if I didn\u2019t understand everything).\nI was surprised to find that Feynman sounds a bit like Ray Romano, especially in the 1961 recordings. Like Romano, Feynman is very funny, but in a nerdy sort of way. Dr. Matthew Sands presents the section on Probability which I found quite enjoyable and educational.\nThe math was a bit hard for me grasp because it\u2019s been a long time since I took calculus and I couldn\u2019t see what was being written on the blackboard. I don\u2019t think I would recommend these CDs for someone who hasn\u2019t taken (and isn\u2019t planning on taking) university level physics and math. Of course, if you want to get it for yourself, don\u2019t let me stop you.\nPredictions Checked\nJanuary 13th, 2006 | Posted in business\nAs promised, I\u2019m following up on my comments on Cringely\u2019s predictions for 2005. He\u2019s just posted his followup, along with predictions for 2006.\n1) He said \u201cMicrosoft\u2019s entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users.\u201d And \u201cThey will make a big fanfare\u2026\u201d I said that I agree. Cringely is giving himself credit for this, saying that \u201cit has been a bad year for Microsoft competitors in this space\u201d. I don\u2019t see how that should count against MS. On the other hand, I don\u2019t think users are noticeably more secure, which is a disaster for sure. I\u2019d say we were right about the disaster part, and completely wrong about the fanfare (I bet most people still don\u2019t know about this stuff).\n2) Burst.com vs. Microsoft. I didn\u2019t make a guess at this, I just said that \u201cit wouldn\u2019t surprise me if Microsoft figured out a way to drag this out.\u201d Microsoft ended up settling the case, and Cringely is giving himself credit even though he seemed to be only half right \u2014 expecting it to go to the appeals level first.\n3) Apple to take some big risks. He was expecting Apple to sell the Mac mini at a loss in order to get some market share. They didn\u2019t. They went on sale for $500 just as I expected. One point for me, none for him (although, I wish he was right and I wasn\u2019t).\n4) The RIAA will continue to sue customers. Both of us got this right, but it was almost too easy. I made the added guess that it \u201cwill drive file traders to use even more secure and private networks.\u201d This is true, see Tor.\n5) WiMax gets hyped. It got a little hype, but not a lot \u2014 no points. They were able to finalize the mobile WiMax standard which is cool. I don\u2019t know what everyone is waiting for now.\n6) VoIP will shatter the telephone industry. It\u2019s a poor choice of words. VoIP has seriously disrupted the telephone industry. As Cringely points out \u201cSBC bought AT&T\u201d, and AT&T does offer their own VoIP service. Even with the bad wording, I think we get some credit. It\u2019s not quite as bad as I expected, but they are hurting.\n7) \u201cRepurposing Linux-based consumer electronics devices \u2026. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be big news.\u201d I was right. It happened with the Linksys router, but it wasn\u2019t big news.\n8) He said that desktop Linux will finally make some serious inroads. He\u2019s wrong here (sadly). It did continue to grow in some ways (as I said), but it really wasn\u2019t much.\n9) Innovative online video initiatives. I think the video iPod is the big news here. Studios are still ramping up for online video. Will it come in 2006 as I said? Probably a little, but who knows. I\u2019ll take credit on my weak prediction.\n10) I didn\u2019t make a prediction on the results of the Oracle-Peoplesoft merger. I don\u2019t even see Cringely scoring himself on it. Oh well.\n11) Again, a non-prediction, this time about Cisco.\n12) Sun will continue downward. Cringely was right. Sun seems to be going down. I was expecting bigger changes from Sun that we just haven\u2019t seen. No points.\n13) Intel and AMD are still fighting. Intel was able to hold it\u2019s own (Dell is still selling Intel chips). I think we were both right.\n14) UltraWide Band networking. We were right that it didn\u2019t happen in 2005. Who knows if it\u2019ll happen in \u201906.\n15) Sony\u2019s PS3 will be delayed. Well, it didn\u2019t come out in 2005 as some people expected. We still don\u2019t have an official release date. I think that counts as being delayed. Microsoft was able to get the Xbox 360 out in time for Christmas. I still think we\u2019ll see the PS3 and next Nintendo within the year.\nBy giving myself partial credit for things that are partially right, and extra credit for my extra predictions, I come out with 10.2 right out of 13 predictions or about 78%. Without the partial credit, it would be closer to %73. Cringely scored himself at 10/15 or 66% \u2014 his worst score ever. I think I was only able to do better by watering down some of his predictions and not even guessing on some of them. We both tended to error in favor of expecting more change than less. I\u2019m not sure if I want to make predictions for 2006.\nWe\u2019ve finally caught up on Lost. We burned through season one on DVD (from Netflix) in a couple weeks, and watched the first nine episodes from season two last weekend.\nI\u2019d watched parts of the pilot when it first aired, but it didn\u2019t really suck me in. The hook that got me started watching the DVDs was learning about the cool, interactive, websites that go with the show. It really strikes a chord with my ARG tastes.\nThis is a great show with excellent writing. I\u2019m looking forward to the new episodes starting on Wednesday.\nThank you. Namaste. Good Luck.\nRoomba's Fatal Flaw\nJanuary 9th, 2006 | Posted in technology\nMy Roomba finally died. Like an old cell phone, the battery won\u2019t take a charge anymore. It\u2019s $50 to replace the battery which is pretty expensive in my book. I\u2019m going to try to contact iRobot to confirm that that\u2019s the problem and solution.\nWe went to Target last night to find a replacement vacuum. I wasn\u2019t sure if we should get a nice, but expensive, Dyson, or if we should go for something cheap. When we walked in the door, we checked the weekly ads and noticed a Dirt Devil on sale for $45. Not bad.\nThe store was a mess. Most of the display vacuums weren\u2019t in stock, some of the stocked items weren\u2019t on display, and many of the items were missing price tags. On one of our treks to the price scanner from the vacuum section, we found a few more vacuums that were on clearance. Of course, they weren\u2019t marked with a price so we grabbed it to get scanned to. Much to our surprise, this Dirt Devil was only $25 and had all of the features we wanted. It\u2019s bagless, and has the little hose on the side for attachments. The deal was too good to pass up, so that\u2019s what we got.\nI\u2019m not sure if Roomba\u2019s fatal flaw is that in runs on batteries that will inevitably die, or that it\u2019s cheaper to buy a whole vacuum than a replacement battery. It\u2019s actually pretty hard to compare a Roomba with a typical upright because the Roomba is so much quieter and runs on its own. Well, I hope iRobot is able to find some new battery technology that will enable the little guys to live a lot longer.\nFlying with Jesse\nJanuary 8th, 2006 | Posted in aviation\nToday I got to take Jesse up. She\u2019s my first official passenger. We went over to Camarillo, then to Agua Dulce, and back to Santa Monica. The entire flight was 2.2 hours.\nI guess it\u2019s because today was the first weekend day with nice weather, but there sure was a lot of other planes buzzing around. There were already four planes in the runup area at Santa Monica, so I had to wait. Normally, I\u2019m the only one there. In Camarillo, we got stuck behind about ten planes waiting to take off with several in the pattern wanting to land. It was was actually pretty cool because six of the planes did a formation takeoff (in two sets of three).\nOverall, it was a great flight. I didn\u2019t scare my passenger, and I got some good practice in. So, who\u2019s next?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 17853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aperturepress.net/books/lone-wolf/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HDK5R5LZRQENWF7EHXQE27VFHPGE6WWS", "length": 694, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.aperturepress.net", "title": "Lone Wolf | Aperture Press", "raw_content": "by Walter Mattson\nDuring World War II, a select few \u00adbomber crews from the 15th Air Force flew special missions out of Italy against targets in range of the B-24 Liberator. Flying at night without escorts and in groups of only two or three \u00adbombers, these \u201cLone Wolf\u201d pilots served as \u00adpathfinders for the main assault. Their missions were dangerous but essential. This is the story of one such pilot.\nWalter Mattson served as a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 pilot with the 15th Air Force during World War II. He flew 35 missions out of Italy, including several \u201cLone Wolf\u201d missions, and earned two Air Medals for his service. 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The company has headquarters in Northern Ireland and is a contract electronics manufacturer.\n\"Elite ES is delighted to be expanding its operations within Fairfield County. We are very appreciative of all the hard work and support from the county, the Central SC Alliance, and the state in helping us achieve our expansion goals,\" said Jonathan Balfour, president of Elite ES.\nThe company initially established operations in Newberry, South Carolina, to supply Caterpillar. It plans to move from a 30,000-square-foot site in Winnsboro to one that measures 50,000 square feet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 10338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 182.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arimatheafuneral.ca/obituaries/2016/9/7/james-michael-jim-dale", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RNHNW2PWGF4W7TALMNQT4A4DFZ6Y6OQB", "length": 2563, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.arimatheafuneral.ca", "title": "James Michael \u201cJim\u201d Dale \u2014 Arimathea Funeral Cooperative", "raw_content": "James Michael \u201cJim\u201d Dale\nDale, James Michael \u201cJim\u201d \u2013 Passed away peacefully in his home with loved ones by his side, on Monday, August 15, 2016.\nJim will be greatly missed by his loving partner, Judy Robertson, and her daughters, Stephanie and Marine. Jim will always be in the hearts of his children, John and Jessie Dale; their mother, Nora Macnee; and his sisters, Norah, Barbara, and Kathy. He was predeceased by his mother, Kathleen Dale in June of this year and by his father, James Dale, Sr. (1988).\nBorn in Ottawa in 1955, Jim grew up in Massachusetts and spent every summer at the family camp in Damariscotta, Maine on Pemaquid Lake. Jim moved to Nova Scotia in 1976 to attend Dalhousie University where he did a Masters in biochemistry. In his early years, Jim worked as a marine biologist and later turned himself to teaching and fine woodworking. Throughout his life, he pursued his passions of music and song writing, sailing, ecology, and fine woodworking. In his younger years, Jim sailed his wooden ketch Olanda to the Bahamas after totally refitting her. Jim and Judy also sailed in remote areas in Patagonia, Chile as well as coastal Nova Scotia, and enjoyed trips hiking in Europe and the Rockies, as recently as this past June. Jim was quick to offer help to those in need and had a generous and caring soul. Being a man of so many talents, Jim has left us with many gifts, most that we do not yet recognize. He was passionate about everything he did and continued to the end to show us incredible strength and wisdom. There were so many layers to his wonderful personality and we are all so blessed to have had him in our lives. He was a true Renaissance man.\nThank you to his many friends who supported him through the past year of his illness \u2013 especially Mike Murray who kept the music alive. Thanks to the wonderful palliative team of the QEII and the VON who gave us the support necessary to keep Jim home.\nThe family invites friends to join them for an informal celebration of Jim\u2019s life and an evening of music at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron Thursday, August 18th at 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in memory of Jim Dale to QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation. Please direct your contributions to support the Liposarcoma Research Fund. Donate (www.QE2foundation.ca/memory) by calling 1 888 428 0220, or by mailing a gift to the QEII Foundation, 5657 Spring Garden Road, Park Lane Mall, Box 231, Halifax, NS B3J 3R4.\nSemper Vivens\nNewer PostMargaret Catherine Archibald\nOlder PostHenry Fraser Moore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arizonajuveniledefenselawyer.net/defense-of-juveniles-facing-rape-charges-in-arizona/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SDU46D2PQ7V2VVAUC2YYD4Y2RZQB3WWG", "length": 3410, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.arizonajuveniledefenselawyer.net", "title": "Defense of Juveniles Facing Rape Charges in Arizona - Arizona Juvenile Defense Lawyer", "raw_content": "Sex crimes are among the most serious offenses that a juvenile may face in Arizona. These are high-stakes cases that have a high potential for false allegations and serious consequences for the accused youth.\nSexual assault, including date rape, statutory rape, and other sex-related charges\nThe term \u201crape\u201d is no longer used in Arizona\u2019s courts. It is included in the broader category of \u201csexual assault.\u201d Historically, many children as young as 14, when accused of sex crimes, were transferred to the adult court system. This sometimes happened even when the sex was consensual and involved young people close in age. This is a tragedy, because convicted sex offenders, including juveniles, become part of state and national registries and their photographs, addresses, and charges become public record and are often readily available online and elsewhere.\nMany adolescents in today\u2019s society are sexually active at an early age and may not be aware of the possibility of being charged with sexual assault as a result of a sexual relationship that they perceive as young love. This can happen because a person under the age of 18 is not considered capable under the law of consenting to sex in Arizona.\nA more enlightened disposition of a sex crime case is often possible\nToday, with the representation of an experienced juvenile sex crimes defense attorney, it is more often possible to get youthful offenders into treatment programs with others of similar age and maturity level, rather than incarcerating them in adult facilities where they are exposed to hardened criminals and are more likely to reoffend after release. If the worst has happened and the child has been transferred to the adult system, a rigorous and aggressive defense can often result in charges being reduced or dropped or the defendant being acquitted at trial.\nProper treatment means low recidivism for juvenile sex offenders\nResearch has shown that the recidivism rate for juvenile sex offenders who get the proper treatment is extremely low.\nPrograms for juvenile sex offenders include individual, group, and/or family counseling to help young offenders make more appropriate decisions with regard to their sexual behavior. With this kind of treatment, the great majority of children who have engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviors go on to become healthy, productive, and responsible adults.\nAvoiding conviction and incarceration for sex crimes in the adult penal system\nWithout a juvenile defense attorney who knows how to present the case to prosecutors and judges in such a way as to decrease the likelihood of transferring the child to the adult system, the results can be catastrophic for a child, who could end up in prison, exposed to the worst elements and denied the child-specific treatment that is most likely to set him on the road to mature, responsible sexuality.\nIt is important to engage the services of an experienced juvenile sex crimes attorney at the earliest stages to protect the child\u2019s rights help him or her navigate the justice system.\nJeremy Geigle with the Jackson White law firm has years of experience representing young offenders in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Flagstaff, Mesa, Gilbert and throughout the state of Arizona. If a young person close to you is facing allegations of sexual assault, Jeremy will conduct a free initial consultation to explain what options might be available.\nCall him today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.armoury.digital/how-to-get-more-customers-to-your-website/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:38Z", "digest": "sha1:B4QCTXOHXSX2R2UT32TYWSXJ2ZU3IBZF", "length": 11950, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.armoury.digital", "title": "How to get more customers to your website - Armoury Digital", "raw_content": "How to get more customers to your website\n10 FebHow to get more customers to your website\nCategorised Attracting Traffic, Blog, Marketing Strategy, Website Essentials\nOnce you have got a website, you will quickly realise that customers don\u2019t magically appear because your website is just one of the crucial steps in a Digital Marketing Funnel. In this post, we are going to explain the main options you have to start driving customers to your website, so you can start to decide what will be the best way for you to start driving sales online.\nWhy implement digital Marketing?\nBefore we break down your options, for those of you who are totally new to online marketing, it\u2019s worth explaining why digital marketing has seen such huge growth over the last 5 or more years. The answer is simple; implementing a well planned and structured marketing funnel is incredibly powerful for 2 reasons;\n1) You can clearly see which activities lead to sales\nAs a small business owner or someone thinking about getting started, you probably have limited resources so allocation time and money to marketing can be a daunting task if you aren\u2019t confident of your returns. This is one of the reasons why digital marketing is so powerful, once you have the correct setup in place, you can see which tweet, blog post or ad leads to the most sales, so you can reinvest in activities that work and drop those that don\u2019t, often while seeing the results instantly.\n2) The ROI\nThe Return On Investment (or ROI), is one of the key things you need to keep an eye on with your marketing to ensure that you aren\u2019t wasting money and are able to maximise profits. Digital marketing has lots of ways for you to get in front of your customer at a fraction of the cost of more traditional marketing methods. For example, running a TV ad could cost you well over \u00a35,000 but you can\u2019t be sure it will get in front of people who are looking for, or will ever be interested in paying for your product or service. With digital marketing, you can drive customers to your website with a free social media account (and a solid strategy).\nThat\u2019s not to say all digital marketing is free, it\u2019s not. Pay Per Click advertising which is arguably the most powerful method of online marketing, requires you to pay each time someone clicks on your advert, but can still be far cheaper than an ad in a Magazine. (More on Pay Per Click later\u2026)\nThere are many options to choose from and spaces to take advantage of when trying to get in front of potential customers, and the number of platforms you can use seems to be growing on a daily basis. To make this a digestible list, we are going to list the top 7 ways that are the most common and the most effective, in no particular order\u2026\nBlogging is a great way to draw traffic to your website, by creating and publishing useful posts that are highly targeted towards people who will be interested in your products or services. You can choose either to blog on your own site or publish posts on other people\u2019s sites with a link back to yours. Ideally, you want to do a mixture of the two.\nBlogging can be particularly powerful because it gives you a chance to show potential clients how knowledgeable you are, it can also be used to show off the products and services you offer by talking about them in entertaining ways in a great amount of depth (with a link to direct readers to page where the reader can buy your product). However, knowing what to write about can be confusing and creating posts if you are not a writer can be a significant time drain what won\u2019t lead to sales.\nUsing websites like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, SnapChat\u2026 to engage with people and draw them back to your site has become a major channel for driving traffic as more and more people spend significant amounts of time online on these platforms. For example, Facebook has more than 1.4 billion (with a \u2018B\u2019) users, there are bound to be people amongst that 1.4 billion that need your products or service, right?\nBeing consistent and engaging on these platforms can be a great way to build up brand awareness, it\u2019s just a matter of setting up the appropriate profile for your business then interacting with the relevant groups or #tags to build up your following. Again, this can be a time-consuming process and most people have not necessarily logged into Facebook to look for a lawyer, they are there for pictures of \u201cLOL Cats\u201d which means this might not lead to instant sales but it can be a great lead generator when done correctly. Highly cost effective too, once you have built up a community.\nImagine being able to send out an email to hundreds, if not thousands of people who have express an interest in what you sell or have bought from you in the past. Anytime you need to boost sales, you can send out an offer that will reach a potential customer\u2019s inbox on their phone or laptop. Adding this to the fact, that sending out that email is probably the cheapest communication channel is why this method is so popular and profitable.\nTo get rolling with email marketing, you need to have a system in place that makes it easy for people to sign up to your newsletter (often with a bribe) and then you need to send out valuable content and offers tailored to your customer profiles. The key really is understanding your customer here or your emails will end up in the spam folder or potential customers will unsubscribe.\nPay-per-click advertising online is probably the most common form of advertising online and is often regarded as the most powerful because it\u2019s a practically instant way of driving targeted traffic to your website or product.\nPPC works by allowing you to bid on how much you are willing to pay for a visitor to your website, based on keywords. It\u2019s by far the most reliable and consistent way to the top of Google searches. It is also possible to target people using their interests on platforms such as Facebook.\nAt first, the idea of paying for a click can seem daunting, especially as you learn that many clicks on the ad won\u2019t immediately lead to a sale. But once you have found the optimal mix of product, keywords and ads the expense can become less of an issue. This is because you are working towards a situation where you make \u00a310 profit for every \u00a31 you spend (as an example). Optimising your campaigns to the point where you find this profitable mix is a mixture of art and science which needs a lot of skill to get right, or it can prove to be very costly. If you do manage to get it right, you can rapidly grow your business by investing more money confident that you will be making a great ROI.\nEver been to a website to check out a product then seen adverts for that product follow you around the web? We call this Retargeting (or in Google\u2019s case, Remarking).\nRetargeting is a powerful tool in a digital marketer\u2019s arsenal because the vast majority of people that will come to your site, will be pulled in by your promotional efforts when they are still in the process of reviewing multiple suppliers. This means that they normally won\u2019t get in contact with you the first time they land on your site, but if you can get them back and have stood out amongst the competition, when the potential customer is ready to have a chat with you or make an order, your banner (or retargeting ad) will probably be the first they\u2019ll see and they\u2019ll click on it and be ready to do business.\nThis is another form of PPC, so you will be paying each time someone clicks on the ad but it\u2019s normally a fraction of the cost of a normally PPC ad and you are also able to use this channel to drive people back with special offers. The only drawback is you obviously need to be driving traffic to your site already, so we don\u2019t normally advise starting with Retargeting.\nSearch Engine Optimisation is probably the most commonly referred to form of digital marketing. The aim here is to optimise your website so it comes up first on search engine results when a potential customer is searching for your products or service.\nOptimising a website for search engines is a requires a significant investment of resources because it requires you to have a mixture of making sure your site has lots of the right keywords, all in the right places. You also need to have the right mixture and types of links leading back to your site. This can\u2019t normally be done once, it normally requires constantly developing new content and links to stay ahead of the competition. It can also take more than 6 months to see any results on an SEO campaign.\nIn some industries getting to the top of Google can be a huge battle, particularly in spaces where there are hugely popular brands to compete with like Amazon or Nike. But if your business supports a local community, it can often be possible to achieve great results. Plumbers, Builders, Accountants, Locksmiths etc. have been known to build businesses off the back of skilled SEO work.\nNow, you\u2019ve got a high-level overview the most powerful ways to start driving traffic to your site but this is probably the beginning of your journey. While marketing online is cost effective and simple, it\u2019s still needs to be well planned and executed \u2013 we\u2019ve all unsubscribed from spammy newsletters, ignored banner ads, skimmed past social media post\u2026 but, with the right strategy, you can build an engaged community who are drawn to your website and build up a relationship with your brand until they are ready to whip out their credit cards. So, if you are serious about getting your business to the next level and you want to make the most of your time and cash, digital marketing has got to be one of your top priorities.\nHopefully, this has got you one step closer to making sales online. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below or if you\u2019d like to discuss your project specifically you can send and email to\u2026\nthegoodpeople@armoury.digital\nIn future posts, we\u2019ll be explaining these options in more detail and how you can get started so sign up to our newsletter to ensure you don\u2019t miss out on sales.\nBarry Smithson, 23rd May 2016\tReply\nThanks, this is a really useful post. I have wanted to invest in online marketing but it can take a huge amount of time to learn and I have ended up wasting money when I have done it myself. Would be great to have a plan and learn more about what I should be doing.\nI look forward to your next posts.\nshopping, 17th September 2016\tReply\nPeter, 20th September 2016\tReply\nNo worries about you comment being off topic. It's still relevant as we are a digital marketing agency.\nYes, all of the sites we create are mobile friendly, so we have lots of experience here.\nWe would advise looking into the theme you are working with rather than a plugin, as the theme is what has the majority of the control over the look and feel of a website. While plugins can help to make your website mobile friendly, these plugins often present other issues.\nIf you have any more questions or, would like to talk to our team about making your site mobile friendly, you are welcome to email us...\nhappyluke, 31st January 2017\tReply\ndesign blog, 3rd February 2017\tReply\non everything. Would you advise starting with a free platform like Wordpress or go for a paid option? There are so many options out there that I'm completely confused\nPeter, 3rd February 2017\tReply\nSelecting a service to use for your website directly depends on the type of website you want to end up with and what you need to build your project.\nFor example, if you want to build a website that makes money with Ads, some free platforms will not allow you to add, ads. If you simply want to share your thoughts and and images, then some free options may work well.\nIn either case, we normally recommend getting started with a free option so you can learn about managing a website and discover what features you want or need.\nThere are lots to choose from (we highly recommend Wordpress).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 13175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.athensdriveband.com/web-admin/info-management/booster-announcements/ncfcfundraiseranotherpayincrease", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WFFKQPBTJFGVG3QOP2C5YJ32QMOFMIM6", "length": 708, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.athensdriveband.com", "title": "NCFC Fundraiser: Another Pay Increase - Athens Drive High School Band", "raw_content": "The NCFC Fundraiser needs your help. And, we have some good news! The pay has been increased to $55 if you work 2 games scheduled for the same day. We have 2 games scheduled for 10/7 and 10/10. If you work 1 game (on any day), the pay will be $25. There is 1 game scheduled on 10/6.\nPreferably, students 15+ years are requested for a double shift so they don't become too tired. The games are posted on the NCFC signup. You may also reach the signup by going to www.athensdriveband.com, clicking on the orange \"Volunteer Signups\" button, and scrolling down to the NCFC Signups link. More information regarding the games can be found on the signup, and also by going to the NCFC webpage of the band's website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 476, "original_length": 15613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atkaudiotek.com/atk-audiotek-provides-superior-sound-for-su-per-bowl-xlv-with-jbl-vertec-line-arrays/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VILGAUYVAA5JIFSHAYMNVH2WQKC6JNM6", "length": 2070, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.atkaudiotek.com", "title": "ATK Audiotek Provides Superior Sound For Super Bowl XLV With JBL VERTEC\u00ae Line Arrays \u2013 ATK Audiotek", "raw_content": "ATK Audiotek recently provided audio services for Super Bowl XLV, marking the 14th straight year the company has been involved in the country\u2019s biggest sporting event. Once again, ATK Audiotek deployed its custom-designed cart system with JBL VERTEC\u00ae line arrays for the Halftime Show and Post-Game Show of the Super Bowl, held at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011. The carts were also used for Lea Michele\u2019s rendition of \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d and Christina Aguilera\u2019s performance of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d\nThis year\u2019s Super Bowl, broadcast via FOX Sports, was the most watched in history, viewed by an estimated 111 million people in the United States alone. eThe Black-Eyed Peas starred in the Halftime Show, which also included guest appearances by guitarist Slash and R&B singer Usher. The Post-Game Show included the Lombardi Trophy presentation, awarded to this year\u2019s NFL champion Green Bay Packers.\nFor Super Bowl XLV, ATK Audiotek deployed its custom-designed cart system, which allows for easy setup between events, and quick transport of the VERTEC loudspeakers on and off the field. Each of the carts included five JBL VERTEC VT4889 fullsize line array elements, which provide an optimal combination of light weight, fidelity and output power capability, making them ideal for ATK Audiotek\u2019s cart system. ATK also deployed additional VT4889 arrays that were suspended overhead to supplement the permanently installed system at Cowboys Stadium.\n\u201cThe Super Bowl is one of the most unique and challenging events we handle every year, and our success hinges on our ability to not only provide high-quality audio, but to set up and tear down our systems within a very stringent timeline,\u201d said Scott Harmala, CTO/VP Engineering, ATK Audiotek. \u201cThe VERTEC line arrays enable us to stay on schedule while delivering that requisite level of audio performance.\u201d\n\u2190 ATK Audiotek Implements New System Design Strategy with Powersoft Amplifiers\nJBL LSR6300 Series Studio Monitors and VERTEC\u00ae Line Arrays Shine at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY\u00ae Awards \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.austinboyd.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OG6VHG4Q32DCBA354I3ZPWLOUNTDMQH5", "length": 1708, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.austinboyd.com", "title": "About - Austin Boyd", "raw_content": "Austin is an award-winning author who writes extensively about faith issues related to technology, business and Islam. He published award winning poetry and more than two dozen technical articles and papers during his career as a Navy pilot, NASA astronaut finalist, and spacecraft engineer. The author of seven novels, he is a Christy Gold Medal finalist (The Proof, 2007) and the winner of the Mount Hermon \u201cPacesetter Award.\u201d\nAustin has written for AMG Publishers, Zondervan, Inc., the B&H Publishing Group of Nashville, TN, and NavPress, the publishing arm of the Navigators in Colorado Springs, CO. He has novels in work based on themes tied to faith dilemmas in bioethics, a Christian layman\u2019s guide to Islam, and an upcoming suspense series titled The Enemy Within.\nAustin is the Chief Executive Officer of Whitespace Innovations, Inc., a business growth consulting company based in Huntsville, AL. He and his wife Cindy have four adult children and a brand-new granddaughter. Austin is active in local ministry activities with Choose Life of North Alabama, the nation\u2019s third busiest crisis pregnancy center, and with First Baptist Church of Huntsville where he has served as a teacher, deacon, and evangelist.\nFor more information about Austin Boyd\u2019s books, visit http://www.amgpublishers.com/main/ and http://www.zondervan.com/nobody-s-child\nFor more information about Austin Boyd\u2019s work in local ministries, visit www.chooselifehuntsville.org, and www.fbchsv.org\nTo learn more about Islam and Austin Boyd\u2019s teaching about Islamic issues, visit www.islamicstateofamerica.com\nTo learn more about Austin Boyd\u2019s unique company that helps businesses grow profitably, visit www.whitespaceinnovations.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.austindogandcat.com/2010/01/kudos-fox-7-news.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2LHFZ7FJXHZFANIUQHX7A2IO2X6APWFL", "length": 200, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.austindogandcat.com", "title": "austindogandcat.com: Kudos Fox 7 News", "raw_content": "AUSTIN, TX (myFOXaustin.com) - Homeless people and their pets will now have a way to get into the city's emergency shelter. This comes after questions were raised by FOX 7 Wednesday night to the city.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.autographcity.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1800&osCsid=4be091bf75bfb1fbb3412bfb97152acf", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRD2MXWGROYMPNO6NKEWB4QW543ALLRY", "length": 2013, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.autographcity.co.uk", "title": "J.J. Abrams Signed Star Wars TFA 14x11 2A, Autograph City", "raw_content": "J.J. Abrams Signed Star Wars TFA 14x11 2A\nEvery generation has a story....\nThis brilliant 14x11 of the visionary director J.J. Abrams directing legendary Harrison Ford in Episode VII The Force Awakens has been signed by J.J. Abrams himself.\n30 years ago the Empire was defeated and now a new threat, the First Order has risen from the ashes of the Empire. A scavenger called Rey has come into contact with a droid that contains a map to the legendary Luke Skywalker, who has vanished. Rey and a rogue stormtrooper called Finn find themselves in a monumental conflict between good and evil, that will see faces old and new....\nJeffrey Jacob \"J.J.\" Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is known for work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and/or produced feature films such as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He created or co-created a number of TV drama series, including Felicity (co-creator, 1998\u20132003), Alias (creator, 2001\u20132006), Lost (co-creator, 2004\u20132010), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008\u20132013). Abrams won two Emmy Awards for Lost\u2014Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series.\nHis directorial film work includes Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Mission: Impossible III (2006), and Super 8 (2011). He also directed and co-wrote Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), the first film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and his highest-grossing film, as well as the third highest-grossing film of all time.\nThe Star Wars films are a global success, having entertained generations of fans since the first installment hit cinema screens in 1977. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring the magic of George Lucas' far, far away galaxy into your own home. J.J. Abrahams managed to build on that magic in a way that few dared hope he could achieve - the force truly was awakened!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 84.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aviation.com.ua/news/51178/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:35Z", "digest": "sha1:R55BQTVZPYQKKVSTULSBFMH4ZHHVIBQK", "length": 2136, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.aviation.com.ua", "title": "Flights delayed, more than 200 cancelled as typhoon hits Taiwan", "raw_content": "Flights delayed, more than 200 cancelled as typhoon hits Taiwan\nIf you are a passenger traveling into or out of mainland China and the Taiwan region these days, you are to receive a travel alert on Typhoon Maria\u2019s impact on flight operations in the area and advice to check your flight status or amend travel plans if possible. On July 10, 2018, Taiwan warned businesses and schools to prepare for extreme conditions as the typhoon closed in on the island, and airlines and airports braced for disrupted operations.\nThe Taiwanese Central Weather Bureau said in a statement on July 10, 2018, that Typhoon Maria could bring strong winds and heavy rains to northern and central parts of Taiwan. Warnings of landslides and floods were also issued. Local governments in most part of northern Taiwan, including the capital, Taipei City, haveannounced closures of offices and schools, starting from 4 p.m. on July 10, 2018.\nT-shirts, caps, cups with original print --->>>\nAccording to weather officials, Typhoon Maria was expected to approach the northern coast early on July 11, 2018, as it moves in a west-northwest direction at 19 mph (30 kph). The typhoon, at one point a super typhoon, was downgraded by the Central Weather Bureau to a medium-strength storm with wind gusts of up to 129 mph (209 km per hour), Reuters reports.\nAnd as for flight disruptions, Bloomberg reported that airlines have canceled 161 international flights and 117 on domestic routes as of 10 a.m. on July 10, 2018, according to Taiwan\u2019s Civil Aeronautics Administration. Taiwan\u2019s two largest carriers, China Airlines and EVA Airways, have canceled many flights, warning more could be delayed because of the powerful typhoon, as did the Beijing-based Air China, the flag carrier of China.\nThe Hong Kong\u2019s flagship carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways, and its regional subsidiary Cathay Dragon, have informed that their operations into and out of Okinawa (Japan), Taipei, Taichung (both in Taiwan), Fuzhou and Wenzhou (both in China) have been affected, with flights either cancelled or delayed on July 10-11, 2018. Surely, more delays and cancellations are on the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bamoon.com/2015/06/23/2829/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KYW73U2NHDAX7RGK6JZJY3Q7EA7RQWSL", "length": 1140, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bamoon.com", "title": "- Lunar Obverse", "raw_content": "Podcast I Love: Robot or Not\nIn the last couple of years, I\u2019ve discovered podcasts. I have found that I like listening to them when I work around the house, or go for a walk, so generally, the longer, the better. This is a delightful exception. I think I have a bit of a crush on John Siracusa, one of the hosts of the juggernaut Accidental Tech Podcast, who seems grumpy and exacting (probably because he is, I suspect), but has revealed himself over time to be a person of great virtue, filled with compassion for people.\nBut that\u2019s on other shows. On this show, host Jason Snell (of The Incomparable) asks Mr. Siracusa to determine if some object or fictional character is a robot, or not. To date they\u2019ve weighed in on Roombas (yes), car factory robots (no), Mr. Roboto (no, both as a song (don\u2019t ask) and the fictional character in the song), and others.\nIt may not work for anyone else, but the silly, simple premise and the short per-episode length make me smile every time I see a new episode appear in my feed, while I\u2019m listening, and for several minutes afterward. Delightful, and probably a gateway drug to their other podcasts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.barcelonareview.com/78/e_dr.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YODTSU27GFTUHOORTZHW5P4CLOFR57BB", "length": 3968, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.barcelonareview.com", "title": "DAN RHODES. 3 Shorts", "raw_content": "As our wedding day approached, I became increasingly unsure about the idea of spending the rest of my life with my fianc\u00e9e. I started to think quite seriously about calling everything off. As I was explaining this to my friend Demetrio, news came through that she had been horribly mauled by an escaped tiger. I rushed to the hospital and found her lying there, eyes peeping through a gap in her bandages. I knew then that I had to tell her about my misgiving.\nShe accused me of jilting her because she had lost her looks. Luckily, I had foreseen this possibility, and brought Demetrio along to back me up. His English isn't great, but with a few disjointed phrases and an elaborate mime he was able to verify that my doubts had already been in place. He has a trustworthy expression, and she was able to accept that my love just wasn't strong enough for us to enter into marriage. After she'd had a little cry, I reassured her that we could still be friends.\n'But what about the tiger?' she asked. She had always been so fond of animals. 'They didn't kill it, did they?' Her eyes widened with concern. 'Tell me they didn't kill it.'\nThey had killed it, though \u2014they'd shot it through the face with a giant gun. Demetrio provided her with a speculative re-enactment of its final moments, and she fell into a fresh wave of sobs. Dealing with that kind of thing was no longer my responsibility, and after weighing up my options I decided to leave her to it.\nMy friends are all married to very attractive women, and my wife couldn't help but feel a little insecure about this. When we got home after a night out with them it all boiled over, and she started to make spiteful comments. I gave her a hug, and told her that while she may not be in their league, she still had an awful lot going for her.\n'Really?' she said, glad of the reassurance.\n'Really.' I reached for a pen and a pad of paper, and together we set out to compile a list of her attributes. By daybreak, all we had written was that she had almost kicked her heroin habit, and that her new hairstyle might start suiting her once it had had a chance to grow out a bit.\nMy wife's final wish was to be cremated in her wedding dress, and when she slipped away I tenderly prepared her body just as she had asked.\nWhen I carried her into the funeral parlour, the undertaker took one look at her and shook his head. With impeccable politeness, he explained that even though the dress was very small, the black rubber it was made from would cause a terrible mess in the furnace, as well as sending an acrid aroma through the surrounding streets. 'I am afraid, sir,' he said, 'that there are rules about this kind of thing.' He 'saw the dismay on my face. 'Perhaps,' he suggested, 'madam had something in her wardrobe which was comparably whorish, but rather more likely to conform to council regulations?'\n\u00a9 Dan Rhodes 2013\nThis electronic excerpt from Marry Me appears in The Barcelona Review with kind permission of the publisher and author. Marry Me is published by Cannongate Books Ltd, 2013. Book ordering available through amazon.com and amazon.co.uk\nScottish author Dan Rhodes has worked on a fruit and vegetable farm, in the stockroom of a book shop, behind the bar of his parents' pub, as a teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, and, sporadically, as a full-time writer.\nHe has published three collections of short fiction: Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories (2000), Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love (2001), and Marry Me (2013), a collection of 80-odd mini-pieces about marriage from which these excerpts are taken. His first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey, was published in April 2003, and is about a dog's travels across Italy. This was followed by Little White Car (2004); Gold (2007), shortlisted for the 2008 Catherine Maclean Prize; Little Hands Clapping (2010); and This is Life (2012). Rhodes was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.barrowblindsociety.org.uk/page47.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:33Z", "digest": "sha1:W5Z4DRQQNMG2YTAFKG3HGNXF3MUHEL5H", "length": 178, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.barrowblindsociety.org.uk", "title": "\ufeff geographic area", "raw_content": "Based in the southwest area of Cumbria, our Society offers a range of services for people who live within the\nBarrow-in-Furness, Grange-Over-Sands, Hawkshead and Ravenglass area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 57.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.best-portugal-car-hire.com/portugal-car-hire-blog/15-algarve-race-track-features-classic-festival", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4AX4QUQITMOIVDHKP4CCGMNLLJQKLSHL", "length": 1580, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.best-portugal-car-hire.com", "title": "Algarve Race Track features Classic Festival", "raw_content": "For Paulo Pinheiro, Administrator of the Algarve International Autodrome this event has become a reference in our circuit: \"Some pilots and organizers were concerned about the possibility of this event no longer takes place annually, but this is not the case. We confirm that the Algarve Classic Festival is a firm fixture for 2012, and will be an annual event in nature from now. We take great pride in this event. The Algarve Classic Festival is not prepared to stay here but to continue to grow.\"\nDuncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing Legends, which will account for three races in October, says: \"When I came here in 2009, we were not sure that our pilots would find the circuit, since it has the same ups and downs of about 32 meters which represents a technically difficult challenge for the drivers. Some competitors have adapted immediately, while others were naturally apprehensive. But at the end of the first week-end only hear praise. The Algarve has become one of the favorite events of our pilots.\"\nMeanwhile, Carol Spagg the Historic Motor Racing News, and who directs the U2TC and '1000km ', is glad the annual event has been relaunched as a festival even bigger and better: \"There were rumors about the future of this event, but As already noted in previous years, optimism, commitment and professionalism of the entire team behind this event, including Paulo Pinheiro and all his staff, I am sure we will have a range of very good races and we will be well received in Portim\u00e3o.\nThe drivers love the circuit and we have more entries this year than in previous years.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betroyal.com/nfl-football-betting/bears-vs-packers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XBT2I6UGLYHHTKRTB4CTI7BVJB5HH6UC", "length": 1991, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.betroyal.com", "title": "Bears vs. Packers | NFL Football Betting", "raw_content": "Bears vs. Packers\nBet on the NFL In a true battle of the NFC North, the 2010 NFL season finale features the first place Chicago Bears, with an 11-4 record, on the road to take on their rivals, second place Green Bay Packers who have a 9-6 record going into Week 17.\nThe Bears have already secured their reign over the NFC North, so the pressure is seriously on the Packers for a win in order to move on to the playoffs this season. They have picked up the pace, last weekend beating the New York Giants 45-17, a big comeback from an unfortunate loss against the New England Patriots in week 15, 27-31. QB Aaron Rodgers threw for 404 yards last weekend and will need to put up the same kind of fight against the Bears defense this weekend, as they are ranked fourth in the NFL for scoring defense. The Bears pass defense on the other hand is only so-so, 17th in the league.\nSince the Bears were able to take down the New York Jets they have moved up to the number two seed in their division and are close to securing a bye week in the playoffs. They recently resigned long snapper Patrick Mannelly and defensive tackle Matt Toeaina to multiyear contract extensions.\nWhen betting on football note these interesting rivalry facts:\nThe Bears annd the Packers have played eachother more than any other two teams in the NFL ever! It is a rivalry that has lasted multiple generations, the fans a very passionate and very loyal. Betting lines have the Bears as the 6 point favorites in the grand finale matchup this weekend. The Packers are not thinking about the playoffs this weekend, their sole focus will be to beat the Bears. Otherwise their only hope of making it to the playoffs would be if the Giants lost to Washington and Tampa Bay lost to New Orleans, then New York, Tampa Bay and Green Bay would all finish with 9-7 records and the Packers would hold the tiebreaker. But coach McCarthy does not want it to come to that point, he wants the golden ticket while it\u2019s still in their control.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biasedtransmission.org/2012/09", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IED7IIA64UHOYMFYJTJPURRPMFIURFQR", "length": 8600, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.biasedtransmission.org", "title": "September | 2012 | Biased Transmission", "raw_content": "Evolutionary Political Science: Graham Wallas and the Road Not Taken\nThe modern science of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution began, by some accounts, in the 1960s with the work of psychologist Donald T. Campbell and further developed by Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman in the 1970s and Boyd and Richerson in the 1980s to the present. This all seems rather late. Why didn\u2019t an evolutionary science of cultural change get started earlier?\nAll the pieces were there. For example, Darwin\u2019s \u201cinherited habits\u201d in The Descent of Man can be as easily (if not more easily) interpreted as descriptions of cultural transmission than genetic transmission. (Remember, Darwin did not know anything about genes). When population geneticists started integrate Darwinian evolution with Mendelian genetics in the 1920s and 1930s using mathematical models,* why were there not evolutionary social scientists, in concert or in parallel, using mathematical models to describe cultural inheritance and or develop models of gene-cultural coevolution?\nA couple years ago, from a brief mention in Lippman\u2019s Public Opinion, I came across a 1921 book by political scientist Graham Wallas called Our Social Heritage. Although there were no mathematical models, Wallas had the basic premises for what I would consider relatively modern ideas concerning cultural inheritance.\nFirst, Wallace specifies the difference between what he calls \u201cbiological\u201d inheritance and \u201csocial\u201d inheritance. Today we distinguish between \u201cgenetic\u201d and \u201ccultural\u201d inheritance (since both systems are inherently biological). He also discusses things in terms of the nature/nurture divide which seems antiquated today. But given that the population genetics was only three years old and it was still 30 years before Lewis and Crick published the structure of DNA, his description seems remarkably modern.\nOur nature consists of those facts of structure and instinct which are inherited by the biological process of begetting and birth. We inherit biologically, for instance, the viscera by which we digest certain kinds of food, and the instincts which make us desire them; a skin which resists bacterial infection, and an instinct to brush away a fly before he pierces our skin; a highly complex nervous system and an instinctive impulse to think.\nHe also distinguishes between what we call individual and social learning.\nOur nurture may be divided into two parts. The first part consists of that which each one of us acquires for himself, without learning it from other human beings. The second part consists of the knowledge and expedients and habits which were originally the personal acquisition of individuals, but which have been afterwards handed down from one generation to another by the social process of teaching and learning. It is this second part of our nurture which I shall call our \u201csocial heritage.\u201d\nHumans rely more on social learning than other animals.\nMen differ widely from all other animals by the extent of their social heritage and the degree of their dependence on it. Those insects among whom one generation dies out before another is born can obviously have no social heritage at all; nor can fishes, or any other species among whom parents do not associate with their offspring. A certain amount of social heritage apparently exists in some species of birds\u2026\nHe actually goes on about social heritage in birds at some length. This is interesting because birds are thought to be the only other taxa, besides possibly chimpanzees, that show clear signs of \u201ccumulative cultural evolution.\u201d From a 1995 Boyd and Richerson paper, \u201ccumulative cultural evolution resulting in behaviors that no individual could invent on their own is limited to humans, song birds, and perhaps chimpanzees.\u201d The sign of cumulative cultural evolution is when cultural traits are complicated enough that individuals organisms could not figure them out on their own. For an extreme example, no one could, starting from scratch, invent an automobile or an mp3 player. In birds, cumulative cultural evolution is associated with bird songs.\nIn one of my favorite passages from the book, Graham Wallas makes an implicit distinction between normal social learning and cumulative culture evolution with a rather long science-fiction type story where (1) a comet strikes the earth, (2) somehow deletes all of our cultural inheritance, which (3) eventually kills everyone in Europe and North America. I think someone should pitch this as a premise for a new NBC television drama.\nThe process of social inheritance is, as far as I know, not necessary for the existence of any wild non-human or variety. The swallows or the London rats might if they forgot all that they had learnt from their parents, sink for a few generations to one half or one quarter of their present numbers. But the most important and progressive varieties of the human race would probably, if social inheritance were in their case interrupted, die out altogether. If the earth were struck by one of Mr Wells\u2019s comets and if, in consequence, every human being now alive were to lose all the knowledge and habits which he had acquired from preceding generations, though retaining unchanged all his own powers of invention and memory and habituation, nine tenths of the inhabitants of London or New York would be dead in a month and 99 per cent of the remaining tenth would be dead in six months. They would have no language to express their thoughts and no thoughts but vague reverie. They could not read notices or drive motors or horses. They would wander about, led by the inarticulate cries of a few naturally dominant individuals, drowning themselves, as thirst came on, in hundreds at the riverside landing places, looting those shops where the smell of decaying food attracted them and, perhaps at the end stumbling on the expedient of cannibalism. Even in the country districts, men could not invent, in time to preserve their lives, methods of growing food, or taming animals, or making fire, or so clothing themselves as to endure a northern winter. An attack of constipation or measles would be invariably fatal. After a few years mankind would almost certainly disappear from the northern and temperate zones\u2026\nHe also writes about what we would now call \u201cgene-culture coevolution,\u201d hypothesizing that cultural traits should influence genetic ones and comparing our genes to a parasitic barnacle.\nMan has been increasingly dependent on his social heritage since the beginning of conventional language and of the art of flint-chipping, that is to say, for perhaps half a million years. This fact has brought about important modifications in our biologically inherited nature. We have become biologically more fitted to live with the help of our social heritage and biologically less fitted to live without it. We have become, one may say, biologically parasitic upon our social heritage. Just as the parasitic crustacean sacculina, after living for unnumbered thousands of generations upon the body-juices of the crab, has evolved special organs and a special body of instincts which fit it to obtain that food and unfit it to live without that food; so man has evolved and is still evolving certain modifications of structure and instinct, which, while they increase his power of acquiring and using social heritage also increase his dependence on it.\nSince these ideas were in the ether, why didn\u2019t some enterprising researcher take them on and independently, or in concert with population geneticists at the time, develop a more complete Darwinian synthesis. Perhaps Wallas could have inspired this effort. As one of the founders of the London School of Economics, he was no slouch. However, he wrote this book towards the end of his career and, perhaps, did not promote these ideas with the persistence of one establishing a career.\nAlthough I would like to picture an alternate history where Fisher or some analogous person tackled cultural evolution with the drive of the early population geneticists, perhaps the history of science is just a road routed by the whims of path dependence.\nBut it is nice to have so much work ahead.\nPS \u2013 In the later chapters of the book, Wallas applies his ideas about social inheritance to furthering cooperation and preventing conflict both within and between states. Since this is a focus of my research, I find his ideas her interesting \u2013 at least from an historic perspective, but will save them for a later post.\n* \u2013 Before population genetics, Darwinians and Medellians had considered themselves members of rival camps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 9488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biblicalcalendarproof.com/Timeline/SolomonEndRule", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q33DLLFV2SJYVRA3CCRHLCQMFYWUOHY", "length": 257, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.biblicalcalendarproof.com", "title": "What year did Solomon end his 40-year rule over Israel? | Biblical Calendar Proof by Don Roth", "raw_content": "What year did Solomon end his 40-year rule over Israel?\nQ: What year did Solomon end his 40-year rule over Israel?\n1 Kings 11:41 \u2013 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 113.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.binnsvma.com/klma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:JHBBXJ2TUENNTDUJH4CDURXXSFPLTA7V", "length": 136, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.binnsvma.com", "title": "Kids Martial Arts Classes in Brooklyn, | Kings Martial Arts Classes", "raw_content": "My name is Troy Binns, Owner and Chief Instructor of our martial arts school.\nBut don\u2019t just take my word for it. See what your Brooklyn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 11173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biofuelsforum.com/group.php?discussionid=6&s=38e61731131290325295282a1e619762&do=discuss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LFYYTNK7CE6AFSGTYB7BG7JIVPWFO6WR", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.biofuelsforum.com", "title": ".", "raw_content": "giaps - 17th September 2013, 06:29 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 124.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.biomedsearch.com/nih/Exploring-Evidence-Base-Acupuncture-in/19505974.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QABUS3DJFFOBSFSHKP3TEOZBU5HHGMHU", "length": 32020, "nlines": 116, "source_domain": "www.biomedsearch.com", "title": "Exploring the Evidence Base for Acupuncture in the Treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's Syndrome-A Systematic Review.", "raw_content": "Exploring the Evidence Base for Acupuncture in the Treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's Syndrome-A Systematic Review.\nM\u00e9ni\u00e8re's syndrome is a long-term, progressive disease that damages the balance and hearing parts of the inner ear. To address the paucity of information on which evidence-based treatment decisions should be made, a systematic review of acupuncture for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's syndrome was undertaken. The method used was a systematic review of English and Chinese literature, from six databases for randomized, non-randomized and observational studies. All studies were critically appraised and a narrative approach to data synthesis was adopted. Twenty-seven studies were included in this review (9 in English and 18 in Chinese languages): three randomized controlled trials, three non-randomized controlled studies and four pre-test, post-test designs. All but one of the studies was conducted in China. The studies covered body acupuncture, ear acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, fluid acupuncture point injection and moxibustion. The studies were of varying quality. The weight of evidence, across all study types, is of beneficial effect from acupuncture, for those in an acute phase or those who have had M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's syndrome for a number of years. The review reinforces the importance of searching for studies from English and Chinese literature. The transferability of the findings from China to a Western context needs confirmation. Further research is also needed to clarify questions around the appropriate frequency and number of treatment/courses of acupuncture. The weight of evidence suggests a potential benefit of acupuncture for persons with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, including those in an acute phase and reinforces the importance of searching for published studies in the Chinese language.\nAndrew F Long; Mei Xing; Ken Morgan; Alison Brettle\n8825884 - Adult fragile x syndrome: neuropsychology, brain anatomy, and metabolism.\n7625754 - No evidence for genomic imprinting in liveborn down syndrome patients.\n17675034 - Megalencephaly and polymicrogyria with polydactyly syndrome.\n22157194 - High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n20236654 - The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in wi...\n20875384 - Rituximab for steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome.\nTitle: Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM Volume: 2011 ISSN: 1741-4288 ISO Abbreviation: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Publication Date: 2011\nNlm Unique ID: 101215021 Medline TA: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Country: United States\nSchool of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9UT, UK.\nJournal ID (publisher-id): ECAM\nCopyright \u00a9 2011 Andrew F. Long et al.\nDOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep047\nExploring the Evidence Base for Acupuncture in the Treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's Syndrome\u2014A Systematic Review\nAndrew F. Long1*\nMei Xing2\nKen Morgan3\nAlison Brettle4\n1School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9UT, UK\n2School of Community Health Sciences and Social Care, University of Salford, Salford, UK\n3Acupuncturist, Bolton, UK\n4School of Nursing, University of Salford, Salford, UK\nCorrespondence: *Andrew F. Long: a.f.long@leeds.ac.uk\nM\u00e9ni\u00e8re's syndrome is a long-term, progressive disease that damages the balance and hearing parts of the inner ear. It is most common between the ages of 40 and 50 and rare in children and onset after the age of 60. Its incidence is about 1 in 1000, equally distributed between men and women and well documented in Caucasian, African-American and Asian races [1]. The etiology and treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease is not fully understood. In a literature-based, clinical review of the diagnosis and treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, Saeed [2] commented that \u201ccurrently, the treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease is empirical. As yet, no treatment has prospectively modified the clinical course of the condition and thereby prevented the progressive hearing loss.\" Indeed, Thorp et al. [3] in a critical review of studies of medical and surgical approaches queried whether any evidence-based medicine existed in the treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease.\nConventional biomedical treatments include drugs, diet and surgery. Drugs often form the first line of treatment. These include: diuretics (to reduce the amount of sodium in the body); drugs to block symptoms of motion sickness, nausea and vomiting, and anxiety and vertigo; systemic or local corticosteroids to reduce inflammation within the inner ear and to stop any immune reactions; antibiotics; and drugs to improve blood flow in the inner ear [4]. The most commonly recommended dietary treatment is a low sodium diet. Patients have sometimes been helped by limiting certain components of their diet such as sugar, monosodium glutamate, caffeine and alcohol [4]. Surgical treatment is the last resort of conventional medicine for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, the most controversial [2] and of greatest risk.\nAs with other chronic diseases where treatment may have serious side-effects [5], or is variably experienced by patients as beneficial [6], or as with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease there is limited high quality evidence as to the most appropriate treatments [3], some who suffer from the condition may explore the potential of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to alleviate their symptoms. However, there is little published information on which CAM therapies might help those with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease. To begin to address this evidence gap, and following anecdotal comments about the potential benefits of one CAM therapy\u2014traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) acupuncture\u2014a systematic review was undertaken of published evidence on the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating the symptoms of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, drawing on both English and Chinese language sources. This article reports the findings from that review.\nAs there was no previous review of published evidence in this area, and thus to ensure comprehensive coverage of the literature, any published English or Chinese language study, which used a quantitative outcome measure and had a sample size of 10 or more, was included. The criterion for sample size was set low in anticipation that current literature in this field might have a relatively small sample size; an a priori prescribed higher limit might unduly restrict the located evidence. The search was undertaken in two parts. The first was based on a search of English language literature, undertaken in 2004/-5 and forming the focus for a final year dissertation of an undergraduate student (K.M.) studying for a BSc in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) at the University of Salford; this was updated in 2009. The second comprised an opportunistic search of Chinese language literature as part of a study visit of one of the authors (M.X.) to China in the winter of 2003. The inclusion and exclusion criteria are summarized in Table 1.\nSix databases were searched: MEDLINE via OVID interface (1966 to January 2009); The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (on 18 January 2009), EMBASE (1974 to January 2009); CINAHL (1982 to January 2009); AMED (1985 to January 2009); and, for the Chinese language review, the Chinese database of Science and Technology (1993 to August 2003). A search of eCAM was also undertaken (on 6 January 2009). Hand searching of Chinese journals related to acupuncture and moxibustion was undertaken in China for the months of September to December 2003. Search terms of the electronic databases focused on terms related to acupuncture and M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease. Free text search terms were used and controlled subject headings were exploded so that any subcategories were included (e.g., endolymphatic hydrops, acupuncture therapy or electroacupuncture). See the appendix for an illustrative search strategy.\n2.2. Appraisal and Analysis\nTitles and abstracts were screened by one member (K.M. or M.X., respectively) and 27 papers were included in the review (Figure 1). All included studies were critically appraised. For the English language studies, an established evaluation tool [7] was used, suitably adapted to add in appropriate search-specific and acupuncture-related aspects [8]. For the Chinese language literature, data were extracted and simultaneously translated into English, using a standard template which included the following categories: study design; sample; treatment method; duration of treatment; outcome measurement; results; commentary on the appropriateness of acupuncture; and, overall comments/critique of the paper. Each English language paper was read and appraised by two members of the team independently (K.M. and M.X./A.F.L.) and any discrepancies resolved through discussion. The Chinese summaries were critically appraised (M.X. and A.F.L.) and where necessary further data extracted from the primary source.\nA narrative approach to data synthesis was taken, with greater weight given to studies of greatest quality (minimizing bias, accuracy of diagnosis, appropriateness of acupuncture treatment and use of appropriate outcome assessment). A meta-analysis was inappropriate due to difference in study designs and outcome measures and the limited amount of quantitative data for individual patients. Restriction of the analysis to only controlled trials would have substantially narrowed the available evidence base and was judged inappropriate in light of the lack of previous attempts to draw together evidence on acupuncture for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease.\n3.1. Nature of the Evidence\nOf the 27 studies included in the review, 9 were studies in the English language and 18 in the Chinese language. All but one of the studies was conducted in China. The studies comprised: three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) [9\u201311]; three non-randomized controlled studies [12\u201314]; four pre-test, post-test designs [15\u201318]; nine post-test designs [19\u201327] and eight case series reports [28\u201335]. Together they comprised a total of 1888 patients in the acupuncture treatment arm. Seventeen of the studies followed the patients up for at least a year after the end of treatment.\nParticular symptoms formed the focus of a number of studies, including vertigo [21] and dizziness [11, 18, 32]. The patients had been suffering from M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease for various periods of time, ranging from 1 to 24 years. Thirteen of the studies included patients at an acute phase, within 1\u201310 days of an acute attack. Three studies [9, 15, 30] explicitly focused on the effects of acupuncture for acute symptom relief. Sample sizes varied from 15 [11] to 286 [33], and 5 had a sample size of less than 30 [18, 19, 25, 26, 30]. The six controlled studies had total sample sizes ranging from 36 to 189 in the acupuncture arm. Nine of the studies had 50 or fewer participants.\nThe majority of studies employed a graded outcome measurement approach, differentiating three to four categories: \u201ccured\", \u201coutstandingly effective\", \u201ceffective/improved\" or \u201cnot effective\". \u201cCured\" had the common meaning of \u201cdizziness and other symptoms having disappeared\" or \u201call symptoms disappeared\", \u201cable to return to work/resume normal activities\" and \u201cno recurrence within a 1 or 2 year period\" (depending on the study's follow-up time). \u201cOutstandingly effective\" had a similar meaning but with recurrence of symptoms \u201coccasionally\", by, for example, 6 months. \u201cEffective/improved\" related to \u201crelief of symptoms\". Particular symptoms were often mentioned as part of the achieved outcomes, in particular dizziness and vertigo.\n3.2. Nature of Acupuncture\nThe studies covered five types of acupuncture: body acupuncture; ear acupuncture; scalp acupuncture; fluid acupuncture point injection; and moxibustion. All such types are classifiable as falling within the TCM style, ensuring the \u201cde-qi\" sensation. Half of the studies involved an individualized TCM prescription approach to the treatment and half used a pre-set prescription, itself based on TCM principles and approaches to treating particular symptoms commonly experienced by persons with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, in particular, symptoms of dizziness, vertigo, nausea and vomiting. While none of studies mentioned the background of the acupuncturist, acupuncturists in China are all qualified medical doctors and at least 4 years training is required to work in a hospital.\nNo single, uniform number of courses or duration of treatment within each course was apparent. In two controlled studies [10, 14], once daily acupuncture was undertaken for 10 days; in another [13], no indication of the number of treatments or how often the treatment was given; in yet another [30], patients continued with the treatment until symptom relief. Across the studies, a treatment \u201conce a day\" for a course of \u201cup to 10 sessions\" with the possibility of a second (or more) course was common.\n3.3. Quality of the Evidence\nA number of weaknesses were evident in the studies. First, as only six of the studies had a comparison group and four others also included pre-treatment measurement, any observed improved outcomes could have arisen because of other factors, including symptom remission. Secondly, only eight of the studies either included audiometric testing [9, 19, 21] or recruited M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease patients according to established criteria for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's [10, 18, 23, 24, 26]. Only two studies included audiometric testing as part of their outcome measurement [9, 27]. Thirdly, most of the Chinese language studies did not provide detail on the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Fourthly, very limited detail was provided on the choice of study participants or setting of the studies. Fifthly, the length of follow-up (and thus final outcome measurement point) varied; eight studies had a follow-up time of 2 years and nine had 1 year, while for seven no or little detail was provided.\n3.4. Evidence of Effectiveness\nThe weight of evidence, across all study types, is one of the beneficial effects from five types of acupuncture\u2014body, ear or scalp acupuncture, fluid acupuncture point injection, or moxibustion (Table 2). The three randomized controlled trials [9\u201311] demonstrate a statistically significant benefit of body or scalp acupuncture against Western medicine and vitamins, with a mean difference in the total effectiveness percentage of 14% in favor of acupuncture (P < .01). Two non-randomized controlled trials, comparing body acupuncture against Western medicine [12] or Chinese herbal medicine [13], show a similar mean difference in total effectiveness percentage (19%, P < .001). The evidence from the four pre-test, post-test studies reports even higher success rates (90\u2013100%) for acupuncture, including moxibustion on acupoint Du-20, either on its own [18] or combined with body [15], and/or ear acupuncture [16] or herbal medicine [17]. High success rates are also reported from the post-test and case-series studies. As 13 studies included patients in an acute phase of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, the evidence suggests beneficial effects for both those in an acute phase and who have had M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's for a number of years. There is, however, insufficient evidence to recommend one, or another, type of acupuncture, nor the number of courses of treatment that might be needed for beneficial effect.\nThis is the first systematic review of evidence on the potential benefits of acupuncture for the treatment of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease and draws on both English and Chinese language sources. It demonstrates beneficial effects from up to five types of acupuncture (body, ear or scalp acupuncture, fluid acupuncture point injection, or moxibustion) and for both those in an acute phase and who have had M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease for a number of years. At the same time, it is important to note that the quality of evidence varies and is drawn from studies with varying potentiality for bias. In the five studies with a non-acupuncture comparison group (irrespective of the mode of allocation), the differences in total effectiveness percentage in favor of acupuncture were of the order of 14\u201319%.\nGiven that the weight of evidence is from China, further research within a Western context is required. There is also a need to clarify questions around the appropriate frequency and number of treatments or courses of acupuncture. This is especially important where persons have to pay for acupuncture treatment. Exploring possible sets of pre-defined acupuncture points is also important, given that not all acupuncturists in the UK or Europe adopt a TCM diagnosis and treatment approach [36].\nThe review differs in relation to others in the CAM area, as it draws on both English and Chinese literature. Such an approach led to the inclusion of 18 additional studies and, in principle (irrespective of study quality), strengthens the conclusions of the review. A similar conclusion is drawn by Yuan et al. [37] who explored treatment regimens of acupuncture for low back pain, accessing English and Chinese literature, the latter located by Chinese experts. Indeed, their systematic review identified substantive differences in the treatment frequency between practice in China and the West.\nThe inclusion of English and Chinese language papers does not however avoid the issue of publication bias; publications in other languages would still be excluded. Neither does it avoid publication bias arising from the greater likelihood of the reporting of positive results (i.e., the non-reporting of negative studies). As Moher et al. [38] argued, substantial bias may occur in the results of a CAM systematic review if languages other than English are excluded. Extending the searching process to the Chinese language is an important step, given the lengthy historical tradition and use of acupuncture within China. Indeed, accessing research literature published in the Chinese language perhaps needs to become a sine qua non in this type of literature review. This is challenging, requiring access to Chinese language readers [39, 40]. It was possible in this study only because one of the project team members (M.X.) was native Chinese. Optimal methods of accessing and including Chinese language literature however need further exploration.\nGeneralizing or transferring the results of studies undertaken in another country and cultural context is not straightforward. All but one of the studies took place in China. Citizens' attitudes to TCM and acupuncture in a Chinese cultural context, where there is a long tradition, recognition and establishment within the health care sector [36], along with established education and training approaches, are likely to be very different than in a Western European context. This has important consequences for patients deciding when to seek acupuncture. In China, acupuncture may be sought early or as a routine treatment. In the West, where the first line of treatment for someone with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease would likely be biomedical, acupuncture may be sought only when the condition becomes chronic. There are also differences in education and training of, and access to, acupuncturists (traditional TCM trained practitioners or Western acupuncture [41], thus the recognized importance of reporting studies using the STRICTA framework [8]. This strongly suggests the need for a controlled trial of acupuncture, for both persons in an acute phase and those who have had M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease for a number of years.\nAny such study needs to be appropriately designed. As there is no definitive, demonstrated bio-medical curative approach for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, choice of comparison group is not straightforward. A placebo design would seem both inappropriate and ethically problematic, as it is highly improbable that potential study participants will not be taking some medication or other approach to enable them to cope. While arguing for the need for greater and more rigorous evidence, Thorp et al. [3] make a similar comment in the context of conventional medicine. In Europe, an appropriate comparison might be drug treatment. In China, an appropriate contrast might be a (Western) drug approach or different forms of TCM approaches (e.g., types of acupuncture and/or herbal medicine). Indeed, the former form of comparison (acupuncture versus a drug or herbal approach) was used in four of the included controlled studies [9\u201312], and the latter (different forms of acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine) in two others [13, 14]. It is important to note that choice of comparison group should be culturally determined.\nWhatever choice is made, it is important that full methodological details are provided in the research report, utilizing the STRICTA recommendations [8] both as a guide to reporting but also study design. The review suggests the potential of exploring treatment \u201conce a day\" for a course of \u201cup to 10 sessions\" with the possibility of a second (or more) course. Such research should measure both the short- and longer-term symptom effect, based upon patient reports of symptom benefit and (time before any) recurrence and extent of severity/symptom relief at any recurrence, general health and well-being effects and a potential greater resolve to cope with the illness.\nThere are some limitations to this review. First, the Chinese literature search accessed only one database and limited hand searching. More studies might be generated from a wider search. Secondly, it is notable that the studies from China report positive effects of acupuncture. This may be due to publication bias, [42] or be a true effect, demonstrating that frequent and a large number of treatment sessions, evident in the Chinese studies, leads to better outcomes [37]. In this regard it is interesting to note one of the findings from a systematic review of clinical trials on acupuncture in the Japanese literature [43]; studies undertaken pre-1990 tended to focus on the appropriate choice of acupuncture technique, whereas post-1990 the focus tended to be on evaluation of acupuncture efficacy. This finding has some resonance within the Chinese literature in this review, especially within the case-series studies and their presentation and the depth of explanation about technique. Thirdly, inclusion of non-randomized and uncontrolled studies in the review could be argued to be problematic [44]. Such studies were used here as a means to support, or otherwise, findings from more powerful studies. In addition, such studies provided additional information on the maintenance of beneficial effects. Fourthly, in a recent report relating specifically to Cochrane systematic reviews of TCM, where only 5 of the 28 described RCTs could be authenticated as RCTs, Wu et al. [45] argue for the need for review authors to verify with study authors for claims that their RCTs were in fact randomized. This was not undertaken in this study. Fifthly, no attempt is made to draw together any of the TCM explanations indicated in the included papers about the mechanisms that might underpin acupuncture effecting the symptoms of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease or other factors which may be associated with such symptoms.\nThe aim of this systematic review was to locate and critically appraise evidence for acupuncture as a treatment for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, drawing from both English and Chinese language literature. Despite the range in the quality of the located evidence, the overall conclusion is of the potential benefit of acupuncture for persons with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, including those in an acute phase. The review also demonstrates the importance of searching for studies in the Chinese language for such a therapy as acupuncture, given its lengthy historical tradition within Chinese medicine. 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These efforts will contribute to the improvement of the quality of guidelines regarding \"highly difficult new medical technology\".\nKey Words: Technically demanding operation, guidelines, technical safety, medical safety", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?78266-2018-Bogley-FF&s=48a30e3e841af2d8620939d76f9399f4&p=604371", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UNSMX3WIJUXAQ2PGRBK2CDRIRJJFFAAG", "length": 961, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bogley.com", "title": "2018 Bogley FF - Page 2", "raw_content": "4th to 2nd in one week! A bad week, but still managed to win on one catch in garbage time last night.\nOn to the playoffs!!!\nI was watching the score to see who I'd play in week one. You did good as just looking at predicted points I'm more vulnerable in the championship game. The first round of the playoffs I'm predicted to score a million and something points.\nLooks like the guy playing you didn\u2019t check his line up and even show up.\nHis RB was declared out at the last minute. I should crush whomever I play this week, not so much next week.\nHis RB was declared out at the last minute.\nWell, if you call 90 minutes before kick as last minute. We will see if it makes a difference.\nI set my team one or two days before... I've been caught out before.\nThat mistake cost him a trip to the championship. He fell asleep at the wheel during the playoffs.\nHis running back riding the bench scored 24 points and he only needed 6 of those to advance.\nRockgremlin???", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 357, "original_length": 7552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bonduesjumelage.fr/en/trips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:A4UIB5U45BAQWRBCLV756OIPZBPQORLD", "length": 1705, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bonduesjumelage.fr", "title": "Trips \u2013 Bondues Jumelage", "raw_content": "Every year the Bondues Twinning association organizes many activities that allow you to visit England and Germany.\nIn Germany, England or France, once or twice a year, the Bondues Twinning Association organises exchanges with our foreign friends to discover and rediscover the wealth of our respective countrysides in a relaxed and bucolic atmosphere.\nDiscovery of monuments, cities, technologies, artists, \u2026 which have forged the culture and marked the history of our twinned cities. Every year the hosts prepare a fascinating visit for their guests along with a fun-packed weekend.\nBoth a race and a great family day out, the cycle routes around the city of Haywards Heath are marked out in order to allow everyone to make the most of this annual event. There are four fabulous circuits through the beautiful countryside to be discovered. If winning is not your main incentive then sharing, laughing and having a healthy day out most certainly will be. This is, once again, the opportunity to enjoy this cross-Channel friendship. Click here for the official website (Insert link) Click here for the official website\nCity-trips to London\nThe opportunity to discover the joys of London\u2019s markets, shows, museums, parks and monuments, on your own or in small groups. Travelers are free to roam the city by themselves or to follow a group with one of the twinning\u2019s guides.\nIt\u2019s no coincidence that W\u00fclfrath, Haywards Heath and Bondues all have a golf course. Uniting around a common passion is a great way to enrich our ties. Join us on a sporty and relaxing weekend in one of the three cities.\nWe choose a cultural place, we define the date, we invite friends from everywhere and we bring a dish to share.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.briza.co.za/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=64&osCsid=8d0aed1b028d882774c8d67677c8111a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:02Z", "digest": "sha1:HZO3UODOLRCVCIKT2MJAZULKD7E7TD3P", "length": 1336, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.briza.co.za", "title": "Remarkable Insects of South Africa, Briza Publications - Online Bookshop", "raw_content": "AUTHOR:\tLambert Smith\nSoft cover. Full-colour photographs.\nSouth Africa has a great diversity of insect life which can be found everywhere, on the ground, in water and in the air. Remarkable Insects of South Africa seeks to introduce the reader to many of the more common and interesting species. The book features many unique never before published photographs which serve to open a window into the amazing, sometimes bizarre and often beautiful but invariably intriguing miniature world of the insects. Through high-quality digital macro-photography accompanied by informative text and captions the reader is guided on a fascinating safari of images as insects feed, breed and hunt in their natural surroundings.\nWritten from the viewpoint of a naturalist, rather than a scientist, the book presents both scientific facts and personal observations in a simple, easily understandable and interesting manner.\nThe book is richly illustrated with more than 420 superb full-colour photographs.\nA special section on insect photography gives an overview of the techniques and equipment used in photographing these fascinating creatures.\nInsect-spotting is an increasingly popular hobby and this book makes a valuable addition to the literature on insects that occur in South Africa.\nNotify me of updates to Remarkable Insects of South Africa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.budandroach.com/archives/tag/complexcon", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CZGVPAJWW34WHSODAI6Q5EWXH47Z3SNB", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.budandroach.com", "title": "complexcon | Bud and Roach Show", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201ccomplexcon\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.buichi.com/E/profile/index_bt.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EQNFOLYXBYZY724TC77OPA6HAZRVOU66", "length": 1869, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.buichi.com", "title": "English>> BUICHI T. >> Profile -buichi.com", "raw_content": "Born on March 30, 1955, Buichi Tarasawa hails from Asahikawa City located on the island of Hokkaido in Japan.\nIn the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics.\nIn 1976, he came to Tokyo and began to study under the famous Japanese manga artist, Osamu Tezuka.\nDuring the period he was working with the Manga Department of Tezuka Productions, his illustration work entitled \"Mother Earth, Turn Green Again\" was awarded the Tezuka Prize for Outstanding Creative Work.\nIn 1977, he began drawing for the Japanese weekly manga book publication for boys called, \"Jump\".\nFrom around the beginning of the 1980s, he began to see the personal computer as a tool for the creative purposes. In 1985, he kicked off an eight-color comic book series called \"BAT\". In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created \"TAKERU\" (1992), the world's first computer graphics comic book series. Next came \"COBRA\", \"BAT\" and \"GUNDRAGON SIGMA\" (In this latter series, only the main character is drawn by hand) and several other works. Even at the present time, when comic books produced with the use of computer graphics have become common, there are very few artists that can come close to matching his ideas and quality.\nHis works include original works, scenarios and works he has directed. Representative works include a CD-ROM format work for use with a PC, \"COBRA II, A Man of Legend\" and original animation videos such as \"GOKU\", \"GOKU II\", \"KABUTO\" and others.\nAt the present time, annual sales of his full-length comic books exceed 20 million copies.\nBuichi Terasawa's works are translated and published in more than ten countries and are featured in comics and animation-related gatherings and exhibitions around the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 113.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bulgariatravel.org/en/Article/Details/73/Hisarya", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:J6IKVNAUCRABLR5PZPJFXT45W46JSNLT", "length": 6296, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.bulgariatravel.org", "title": "Official Tourism Portal of Bulgaria", "raw_content": "8.30 am - 11.30 am and 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm.\nChildren and Senior citizens \u2013 BGN 1\nThe Etropolski Monastery \u201cSt. Trinity\u201d\nThe Etropolski Monastery \u201cSt. Trinity\u201d is located about 6 kilometers east of the town Etropole. It is believed to be founded in the 12th ...\nThe archaeological exhibition at the Silistra Museum of History is spread out on an area of 400 sq m in an impressive building from the ...\nBistrishko Branishte Reserve\nBistrishko Branishte reserve is located within the Vitosha Natural Park. The reserve was declared a protected area by the Council of ...\nArchitectural and Museum Reserve Tsarevets is one of the most frequented tourist sites in Bulgaria. It is located on Tsarevets Hill in the ...\nThe municipality of Gotse Delchev (territory of 330 square meters, population of 32,784 residents) is located in Southwest Bulgaria and ...\nThe town of Hisarya is situated in Central Bulgaria, 40 km north of Plovdiv and approximately 180 km east of Sofia. Hisarya is famous for its healing mineral waters: 16 natural mineral springs and 6 drilled mineral water wells. The town is one of the oldest and most popular balneological and spa centres in Bulgaria. The climate is mild and pleasant, and one remarkable phenomenon there is the lack of fog. Because of this fact the town is regarded one of the sunniest spots in Bulgaria. The average temperature in July is 21.4 degrees \u0421 and the average temperature in January is 1.1\u00b0\u0421. The minimum temperatures in January are -10/-11\u00b0\u0421.\nThe pleasant climate and the mineral waters of this location have proven to be attractive to settlers since ancient times. A prehistoric settlement existed in this place way back in the 5th century BC. A Thracian settlement from the 4th \u2013 3rd centuries BC was also established in the region. The settlement\u2019s heyday was during the Roman era. In 293 Emperor Diocletian declared it a town and this marked the beginning of the construction of massive fortification walls, public buildings, baths, streets, etc. It became the third biggest town in Thracia Province. In terms of state of preservation and uniqueness of its fortification system, the Roman town of Diocletianopolis is among the top-ranked in Europe. The fortification wall is 2327 m long and up to 11 m high in certain sections. The southern gate also known as the Camels stands 13 m tall. The urban architecture of the ancient town is mainly situated in Hisarya\u2019s Momina salza Park (Maiden\u2019s Tear Park). There visitors will find a large and impressive public building (residence), thermal springs stretching over an area of around 2000 sq m, and an amphitheatre. 300 m south of the fortified town lies a Roman family tomb. It has been preserved in its original form and is open for visitors. A multicoloured floor mosaic and rose wall-paintings can be found there.\nThe town located on the territory of the ancient fortress and the monuments of culture /fortified wall, amphitheatre, public buildings, Christian basilicas, barracks, villas, thermal springs, and a Roman tomb/ comprise Diocletianopolis National Archaeological Reserve.\nThe name Hisarya derives from the Arabic word hisar which means fortress. The Archaeological Museum in the town displays finds discovered during archaeological excavations carried out in Hisarya, as well as models of the amphitheatre, a residential building, an early-Christian basilica and the Camels southern gate.\nThe town is famous for its beautiful, cool parks. They spread out on an area of 700 decares and include more than 160 decorative tree species.\nSt. Panteleimon Orthodox Temple built in 1889 is located at the centre of the town. It is well-known for its wall-paintings. St. Dimitar, the oldest Orthodox temple /built in 1845/ situated in Verigovo Housing Estate, is also interesting. In addition to these two temples, there are also: another Orthodox temple, two Catholic churches and one mosque in Hisarya.\nThe Hisarya Region abounds in archaeological monuments from the Thracian period. The biggest Thracian religious complex in Bulgaria dated from the 6th \u2013 5th centuries BC is located near Starosel Village (Old Village). The residence of a Thracian ruler is situated 22 km north of it, below Kozi gramadi Peak (Goat Masses Peak), where research is in progress. A Thracian trade centre located near Krashtevich Village dating back to the 6th \u2013 4th centuries BC is also being researched.\nThe road to Starosel passes through Staro Zhelezare Village where tourists can visit the House of Traditions \u2013 an ethnographical exhibition that reveals the customs and the traditions of the region through demonstrations of everyday-life activities of the past and tastings of home-cooked dishes.\nThe mineral waters, which the town of Hisarya is famous for, are used for the treatment of kidney and urologic diseases, gallbladder diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, as well as musculoskeletal diseases. Their healing effects can be achieved by drinking the water as well as through aqua procedures for the prevention and rehabilitation of diseases in combination with physiotherapy and diets.\nHisarya provides many accommodation opportunities: from small family guesthouses to luxurious 4-star hotels. The majority of the hotels have modern spa and balneological centres offering a great variety of rehabilitation and treatment procedures. The resort provides various forms of entertainment and good opportunities for sport: indoor and outdoor mineral water swimming pools, tennis, volleyball, basketball, cycling, horse riding, motocross, paintball, etc., as well as hunting and fishing.\nHisarya Region has great traditions in grape and wine-production as well. The tastings of local wines are both part of the local hospitality and a tourist attraction. Several wineries in Hisarya Region offer wine-tasting.\nThe Tourist Information Centre in town provides various services: guided tours around the town, information about cultural sites and events, hiking and bicycle trails, tourist animation, etc. Information materials and souvenirs are sold at the Tourist Centre.\nGuides from the Tourist Information Centre of Hisarya provide services to tourists. Lectures are given in Bulgarian.\nNesebar Architectural-Historical Reserve 5494 0\nPatniko sviden, patniko mlad\nPlanino Pirin\nNestinarsko horo. Rachenitsa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 10091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.burleyhistory.org/benefactors---fisons.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:23Z", "digest": "sha1:2NC5QJMB2IGVXMR6D2I62FJSEYR5HP4C", "length": 1143, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.burleyhistory.org", "title": "Benefactors - Fisons - Burley Local History Group", "raw_content": "Benefactors - The Fisons\n_Now The Queen's Hall, with the Celtic cross memorials to Fison and Forster.\nWilliam Fison and his wife, Fanny, lived in the 1820s mansion at Greenholme, which had belonged to her father, Jonas Whittaker, the previous owner of the mill estate.\nThe house was set in 50 acres of parkland.\nFison spent most of his working life in Burley, taking a paternal interest in all village affairs. Along with Forster, he was responsible for setting up the Local Board of Health in 1854, starting the Mill School in 1856, building the Lecture Hall in 1868, and donating the Recreation Ground to the village in 1897.\nFamily portrait of the Fisons\nThe central figure (in top hat) in the family portrait taken in the 1890s, is William Fison, a few years before he died in 1900 aged 80.\nThe gathering on the steps of the house probably includes his eldest son, who became Sir Fred Fison MP, and on the right the Vicar, Revd. Charles Ingham Black.\nAfter Fison died a Celtic cross was set up in his memory in front of the Queen\u2019s Hall, alongside one in memory of Forster.\nThe demolition of Greenholme\n_The family mansion being demolished", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businessfinance.growthco.uk/more/case-studies/esteem-no-pause/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DKQYLA4JESC3QVY7ZCIMKNY2IPWDWUDQ", "length": 929, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.businessfinance.growthco.uk", "title": "Esteem No Pause - Business Finance", "raw_content": "Jane from Stockport has designed the Esteem - No Pause range of clothing using a technical high performance fabric from Italy. The state of the art material allows air to circulate to alleviate the discomfort and debilitation of excessive perspiration, including menopausal hot flushes.\nThe debut collection includes vests, slip dresses, pyjamas, palazzo pants and knickers, all of which are suitable for exercising, lounging and sleeping.\nJane is investing her Start Up Loan in the initial production run which will be manufactured by one of the UK\u2019s leading lingerie manufacturers, AJM Sewing.\nThe brand was launched to the trade at the Moda exhibition in February via Lingerie Insight magazine, and Jane now plans to exhibit at trade exhibitions in London, Paris and Las Vegas. A male range of clothing is currently in development and Jane is also researching a pregnancy collection, a transgender range and a line of bedding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.businesspundit.com/going-green-bottom-line/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZPED3TXQZAZYROMKDLQRBCIJQBTSXNF", "length": 6699, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.businesspundit.com", "title": "10 Ways That Going Green Can Cost The Bottom Line", "raw_content": "by Raquel Hastley March 12, 2018, 12:59 am 3.2k Views\nGoing green has gone mainstream. It\u2019s true that it can improve the overall efficiency of a business; it\u2019s great for the environment, and it is cost-effective in the long term. But, it can hurt you before it even begins to help. A small business owner had this to say about the matter: \u201cI think from small businesses all the way up to big businesses it\u2019s rough trying to change things up and go green. I mean, we\u2019re worth it and the Earth is definitely worth it, but a business advisor would say it doesn\u2019t make [profitable] sense to change over.\u201d In this article, you\u2019ll read about ten blows to the bottom line a business can experience when finally making the switch.\nThe Cost of Conversion\nThis is one that hits businesses right out of the gate. Businesses have to first make the decision and then they\u2019re going to need to hire consultants to figure out how to begin going green. Those consultants can be extremely expensive depending on the size of the business, and it is going to create more spending regardless, and cut into profits. If a business doesn\u2019t choose to use a consultant, they will still have to set aside money to invest in all of the changes that are to follow.\nThis point ties into the last; however, the people who run the business may know a few things about what it means to move towards a more sustainable and eco-friendly business model but there will still be a lot to learn regardless. That education has to come from reputable sources or individuals, and it isn\u2019t going to come free. In turn, employees will need to be taught about the new practices, and sometimes that education will have to extend to consumers, investors, and so on. Even if the people that a business hires aren\u2019t extremely costly, there is a huge time investment that will need to be made.\nThe Cost of New Equipment\nIf a manufacturing company or a company that specializes in a certain line of products decides to move towards more environmentally conscious practices, some of the current equipment may need to be done away with. Bringing in the new equipment, and sometimes even having that equipment built, is going to be quite the undertaking. Even if all a business does is try to reduce how much water they use, an average low-flow toilet can be over $100. There are also things like LED bulbs, motion sensor lighting, and more; and it all costs money.\nThe Cost of Retraining\nNew equipment, new practices, and new policies are all a part of the process of creating a greener business, and employees are going to need to be brought up to speed on those things. Even if a business doesn\u2019t bring in outside help for this, it is still going to cost them. Retraining takes time away from production because employees will need to be brought in and paid for the time that they are there, but they will be away from their usual positions and sitting in on training sessions. In addition, production might even slow down due to that learning curve.\nThe Cost of Recycling\nRecycling is something that most businesses are already doing, but making a higher commitment to recycling is going to bring with it a higher cost. A business might need to change waste management companies, buy new dumpsters and recycling receptacles, and then on top of that, they will need to invest more time in making sure that certain waste products like paper, plastic, glass, etc. are going into the right place and are prepared to be recycled.\nThe Cost of Marketing\nCurrent trends are showing that consumers recognize the sustainability efforts that companies are making, and that\u2019s great. However, how are the customers going to learn that a business is making those efforts? The answer is marketing. The popular series Shark Tank had a product that we all use all the time pitched to them with a green twist, it is a pizza box called the Green Box. Kevin O\u2019Leary was outspoken about this problem; if you want customers to know that your product is better for the environment, you have to tell them. Getting the word out is going to mean marketing dollars are going towards that, and it may also disrupt current campaigns even if they\u2019ve been successful so far.\nThe Cost of New Software\nGoing paperless is a hallmark of making a business more environmentally sound. But, going paperless means investing in new software for bookkeeping, investing in training employees on how to use it, it may even mean that a business needs to hire new people to do the books. Also, in order to keep things running smoothly, all of the current records would need to be digitized. Depending on the scope of the business, that could take weeks to do and is going to disrupt the regular duties of whoever takes care of the record keeping. Employees would also need to be brought up to speed on how to operate the software.\nThe Cost of Keeping Customers\nWhenever changes are made to a product, even if they are positive changes, there will be customer backlash. The current problems that SnapChat is facing is a great example of this. The functionality and user interface have both improved drastically, but the consumer outcry has been resounding. When the way a certain product is made or packaged, customers might not react positively, which isn\u2019t guaranteed, but it can be an expensive hurdle to get over. This will cut into marketing dollars, and may even require businesses to go back to the drawing board a few times to figure out how to provide the same customer experience without the same environmental consequences.\nThe Cost of Keeping Investors\nWhenever a company makes changes, investors will raise their brows. In a transitional state, a business has the potential to just not be as profitable or attractive to any current or potential investors. It might be harder to source materials, production costs could skyrocket as the business adapts, stock prices can get shaky; investors love to make money and they\u2019ve put their trust in the business as it was at the time. The changes can make things unstable until the business has fully acclimated, and instability is a surefire investor repellent.\nThe Cost of \u201cGoing Green\u201d\nGoing public with these changes is part of what makes going green so beneficial for a business, because it draws the eyes of potential customers, and can even make existing customers feel better about spending their money with a particular business. However, there is a lot that has to happen in order for products or services to get the proper certifications that allow them to advertise that they\u2019re greener. There may be additional inspections that are needed, licensing fees, and even legal help to navigate solidifying a business\u2019 \u201cgreen\u201d status.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bustingthebracket.com/2005/03/big-12-conference-tournament-preview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:12Z", "digest": "sha1:S74FSWFHTZSB362YRWB4ZNOOQ4PF6Q37", "length": 2699, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bustingthebracket.com", "title": "Busting the Bracket: Big 12 Conference Tournament Preview", "raw_content": "The Big 12 regular season championship came down to the final weekend of the season, where Kansas and Oklahoma State both lost, and Oklahoma came from out of nowhere to grab a share of the title and a #1 seed in the conference tournament. After the top three, there was a drop off to the middle of the pack.\nOklahoma, after a mid-season swoon, rebounded to make a great run and get a share of the regular season championship. Taj Gray and Kevin Bookout are as tough to stop as any post duo in the country when the high-low game is working. Andrew Lavender and Terrell Everett, two very solid guards, lead a deep group of perimeter players. Kansas might be without scoring guard Keith Langford for the Big 12 Tourney after he suffered an injury in the season finale. Wayne Simien is arguably the best power forward in the country. Other than those two, however, the Jayhawks are going to have to find a consistent third option. JR Giddens is ice-cold lately. Oklahoma State is a senior-laden club that has a great inside-outside combo in John Lucas and Joey Graham. Freshman JamesOn Curry has been a solid scorer since being placed in the lineup. Texas Tech has struggled lately, but still have a great perimeter trio in Ronald Ross, Jarrious Jackson, and Martin Zeno. If those three are playing well, the Red Raiders are tough to beat, but they need more production from the inside players Cameron Giles and Darryl Dora. Texas clinched a spot in the NCAA Tournament with their road win at Oklahoma State. Daniel Gibson is the front-runner for freshman of the year, while Brad Buckman is becoming a go-to-player in the post for the Longhorns. Iowa State won their final two games of the season after two game losing streak. Curtis Stinson is one of the hardest players to stop in the conference, and Jared Homan is a very underrated big man. The Cyclones play a difficult to penetrate, trapping zone defense. Texas A&M probably needs two wins to get into the NCAA Tournament, but the Aggies are playing well lately and can make a run. Antoine Wright is one of the best players in the Big 12, and Acie Law IV is a great second option on offense.\nPrediction: There are several teams capable of winning the tournament title, but without Langford, I don't see Kansas getting past the quarterfinals match-up against Texas A&M. Overrated Oklahoma State is most likely going to meet Oklahoma in the finals. The Sooners play a very good zone, and the Cowboys have had trouble against those type of defenses. In addition, Oklahoma State is not a big team and can be beat by solid post players. Oklahoma has two of them. The Sooners will get the automatic bid from the Big 12 and win the conference tournament.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 10062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bwa-org.co.uk/language-esol-services.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WNDLTERDIJF464CI63DSMXJQ6RBKFRJ6", "length": 410, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bwa-org.co.uk", "title": "Language (ESOL) Services - Bangladeshi Women's Association Limited", "raw_content": "ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses are aimed at non-native English speakers. The main aim of ESOL courses is to help people settle into the England and be able to get by in everyday life. Students learn how to read and write English and how to speak it to others.\nTeaching therefore covers everything from how to use the bus to what different ingredients are called in English supermarkets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.calstatela.edu/hhs/crim/applying-our-programs-criminalistics-ms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZHNBB23EDU5ISPNNF6ZIWVVBZZULYVZ", "length": 2369, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.calstatela.edu", "title": "Applying to our Programs - Criminalistics, M.S. | Cal State LA", "raw_content": "Applying to our Programs - Criminalistics, M.S.\nCriminalistics, MS\nGraduate Program Application Process for Criminalistics\nApplicants must satisfy both university and school requirements before admission to the criminalistics graduate degree program. Acceptance to the University does not guarantee acceptance to the School.\nStudents must complete two applications: one to the California State University, Los Angeles, and one to the School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics.\nThe application to Cal State LA can be completed and submitted online through Cal State Apply. The application to the School, in PDF format, can be obtained below. The application can be mailed or hand delivered to the address provided on the application. The School has one graduate application, on which the applicant will indicate the specific degree program of interest.\nAll applications to the School must be received by March 15th of the calendar year the applicant seeks to be admitted. New criminalistics graduate students are accepted only in the fall semester of each academic year.\nFor admission to the School\u2019s graduate programs, a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in the last 60 semester units (or last 90 quarter units) and 3.0 in the undergraduate major are required for consideration.\nTranscripts from all colleges and universities attended must be submitted with the school application in addition to the transcripts required by the Office of Admissions and Recruitment (Cal State LA application).\nNOTE: We are aware that the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) requirement is currently listed in the e-catalog for the Criminalistics Graduate Program. Effective Fall 2017, the GRE is not required to apply to the Criminalistics Graduate Program.\nApplications to the School\u2019s graduate degree programs will not be considered until all of the above conditions are met.\nGraduate Program Application (Click here for Application)\nIf you would like to speak with a faculty member regarding the School\u2019s programs, please contact Dr. Katherine Roberts for questions and advisement on the Criminalistics Graduate Program.\nUniversity eCatalog Link\n\u2022 Loading...>\n-For information on enrolling in the Loading..., please contact Professor Jay Vargas at Jay.Vargas86@calstatela.edu\nNOTE: Forensic Science minor students must have a major in biology, chemistry, bio-chemistry or physics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.campaignbriefasia.com/2018/02/sydneys-flint-film-and-stills.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:34PULI2GMI7VO6YW773562ZO6G7EM734", "length": 1915, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.campaignbriefasia.com", "title": "Sydney's Flint film and stills production eyes Asia - Campaign Brief Asia", "raw_content": "Smetana comes with over 25 years of experience in photography, winning awards on both a local and global stage. For Smetana, forming Flint was a natural progression. After directing various content as part of combined stills and motion campaigns and working on a personal documentary series called 'In the Open', Smetana, along with good friend and experienced TVC producer Tim Berriman, saw the potential in combining this growing demand for film, with the day-to-day photography work.\nTim Berriman, executive producer at Flint, explains, \"There has been a rapid growth in the industry for combining stills and film elements together in one package. The work we are now briefed on can extend to stills, TVC, web content, digital billboards, pre-rolls, cinemagraphs and memes, so to have the capacity to produce both photography and film under one roof, with the same talent, is a great advantage.\"\nBerriman brings over 20 years experience in the TVC industry, half of which was spent in London in agencies, and more recently as a senior producer at Luscious International. Rachel Henderson, Smetana's producer for over 10 years works alongside talented producer Rachel Rider who joined Flint from Leo Burnett Sydney.\nRecently, Flint has been working on major campaigns that require both stills and motion for the likes of Qantas, Bridgestone, Westpac, Comm Bank, Hungry Jacks, and Subway. Whilst stills and motion combined are the majority of the work they have been doing, Flint are also producing a growing list of stand alone TVC and digital content work.\nCheck out some of this work below:\nJonathan May / Bridgestone - http://flintsydney.com/portfolio/bridgestone/.\nToby Dixon / Cancer Council - http://flintsydney.com/portfolio/cancer-council-life-in-a-day/.\nJon Bader / Subway - http://flintsydney.com/portfolio/subway-new-brand-launch-film/.\nAndreas Smetana / - http://flintsydney.com/andreas-smetana-film/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.campgroundreviews.com/profile/42229", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:X3AW6JYU7PYRWMSBSJTO4BJKOLDPTTHK", "length": 2709, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.campgroundreviews.com", "title": "amarey31 - Campground Reviews", "raw_content": "amarey31\nhttp://www.campgroundreviews.com/regions/georgia/richmond-hill/fort-mcallister-state-park-920 #105428\nFort McAllister State Park, Richmond Hill, Georgia\nWe enjoyed the boating, fishing, and kayaking available at this campground. The campsites are spacious and easy to pull in and out of. Unfortunatly we did not have enough power to run the air condition at the same time as the blowdryer and other electrical items without blowing a fuse. Also, the campground staff kept placing tickets on our car for not having a vehicle parking decal although there was clearly one on the windshield. We camped at Fort McAllister State Park in a Travel Trailer.\nThis has been our favorite campground so far! There is so much to do. We went to the water park, climbed the rock wall, and rode bikes all over the park. There are plenty of family activities, like making tie die t-shirts, trading silly bands, and pancake breakfasts. The campground is close to downtown Charleston and Folly Beach. The campsites and facilities were nice. We'll definitely return to this campground! We camped at James Island County Park in a Travel Trailer.\nhttp://www.campgroundreviews.com/regions/georgia/tybee-island/rivers-end-campground-rv-park-947 #95973\nRiver's End Campground & RV Park was a wonderful place to stay. The facility was clean, the staff was friendly, and the pool was nice, too. Camp sites are spacious and easy to get into. The beach is just a short walk from the campground. We rode bikes around Tybee Island, and enjoyed dinner at several delicious restaurants, such as The Crab Shack and Fannie's. We will definitely be headed back to River's End and maybe for an entire month next time! I wish this campground was larger, because it books up fast on weekends and holidays. We camped at River's End Campground & RV Park in a Travel Trailer.\nhttp://www.campgroundreviews.com/regions/florida/williston/williston-crossings-rv-resort-4550 #95937\nThis campground is beautiful! The staff were friendly and accommodated us when we arrived after hours. The facilities were clean and everything looked new. The roads are paved and street lights gave us plenty of light. I felt very safe with the gate and fenced in area. Unfortunately, many of the buildings and the pool were not finished yet. I believe the bank took over this campground, but it is still a nice place to stay if you don't need a pool. The only downside was the loud bass coming from a car or bar nearby - not inside the campground. I heard this booming on both nights of our stay, and I had trouble falling asleep. Hopefully that was just a \"two time\" problem. I would camp here again. We camped at Williston Crossings RV Resort in a Travel Trailer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.canimmigratecanada.com/peculiarities-of-virtual-reality-porn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2T5KRDOMD5KYFF6Y2NFQV5IPNNCSXVBM", "length": 3045, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.canimmigratecanada.com", "title": "Learn the most interesting peculiarities of Virtual Reality Porn", "raw_content": "by Theresa\t| Posted on October 29, 2018 February 11, 2019\nVR porn is a new technology that allows to see the porn video as if the watcher was one of the participants, that is, to see the actions through the eyes of one of the participants, in other words. This is done via the technology of making the video, and then offering this to the user, VR porn can be for both men and vr porn for women.\nThe Main Peculiarities\nOne of the most striking peculiarities of VR porn is, obviously, the possibility to see the action through the eyes of the participant. Also, VR porn offers the next benefits:\n3D image;\nhigh-quality sound;\nno distractions present when watching such videos simply on a laptop.\n3D image is one of the most important aspects when it comes to high-quality videos. Today, people are pretty much pampered, even when watching YouTube, and prefer to avoid low-quality content, that is, videos \u201cimpossible to watch\u201d, or with a poor sound. This is especially true for porn, because, obviously, a person comes to the porn website to relax and have pleasure. And here, low-quality content, including video and sound, is especially disappointing. VR porn, on the other hand, is by definition a state-of-the-art technology, and it cannot be low-quality. So 3D image, detailed videos and pure sound are a must.\n3D video and high-quality sound create a visual image of such characteristics that the human brain cannot differentiate it from offline reality. When the consciousness is totally submerged into this digital reality, with no distraction and nothing telling that the image is not real (like your laptop and the cup of tea near it), the brain takes the image as reality happening to it right now. This brings to the person much deeper emotions, pleasure, and a deeper feeling of satisfaction.\nAnother interesting and rather intriguing aspect of VR porn is that it can offer not just any porn video. The user can choose from a great variety of options. In theory, one can get into one of the favorite movies, or choose a favorite movie episode, and have a sexual adventure within it, interacting with the favorite characters in an unusual way. Also, it is totally possible to satisfy one\u2019s most passionate desires to have sex with a famous TV star, musician, or celebrity. This brings no harm to anybody, anybody\u2019s rights are violated, and yet this is a unique service.\nThe last curious aspect of VR porn that it can also offer anime videos for the users. Since anime is a very popular trend in movies, and since there is, in fact, a lot of porn videos made in anime style, this option is expected to be in great demand. Getting inside a favorite anime series is something thousands of people might be dreaming of.\nThese are the main and the most curious peculiarities of the VR porn, a new and recent technology offered to the users. VR porn suggests high-quality images and sound, a wide range of options for video, and therefore is able to give satisfaction to virtually any picky user.\nVR PORNpornography virtual reality VR online", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.caraccidentlawyers.net/injury-lawyers/los-angeles-hit-and-run-driver-cases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PLD26I4YFIV5NZXBJG2RYUBNIUTFQ3RM", "length": 2418, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.caraccidentlawyers.net", "title": "Los Angeles hit and run driver cases -", "raw_content": "Los Angeles hit and run driver cases\nTarzana \u2013 Find two hit-and-run drivers and get half a million dollars reward. This sizeable amount is offered for any information that leads to the arrest of two drivers alleged to have hit and then run that fatally injured a Tarzana man of 22 years.\nThe Police and City Council of Los Angeles made the announcement of the reward Friday morning. It was 2:25 o\u2019clock in the morning of December 2, 2012 when the fatal accident occurred.\nThomas Robert Price, the victim was hit successively by two cars. The first car was a sport utility dark gray sport utility vehicle model from either 1997 or 1998 with a 4-5 inch lift kit.The second car has no description available. It all happened at the corner of Bessemer Street and Reseda Boulevard.\nBoyle Heights \u2013 A boy who is just 3 years old was injured critically after a hit-and-run incident at Boyle Heights.\nAccording to Detective Felix Padilla of Los Angeles Police Department, at 2:00 o\u2019clock in the morning of Saturday, a driver who was responsible for the crash ran a stop sign in Sheridan near Cornwell Street. Witnesses said that he was operating a black Honda 1993.\nThe little boy and two other passengers were riding a Toyota 2000 Echo. Due to the impact of the collision, the boy was hurled from his car sear after the Toyota slammed into a light pole.\nThe boy was rushed by the Paramedics to the USC Medical Center of Los Angeles County.\nA concerned spectator, who prefers anonymity, witnessed the crash from his window so he immediately descended to offer assistance. He saw the mother searching for her son but the car seat was empty. When she turned around, she saw her son walking around filled with blood.\nThe witness stated that the Honda was speeding around 60-79 MPH when he fled after the crash.\nHe said the driver of the Honda was going 60-70 miles per hour and took off running after the collision.\nThe boy was delivered to the hospital and the news is that his condition is stable.\nThe police are asking any witness to add more to the details they have gathered and give information especially to the errant driver and the car.\nSources: Los Angeles CBS Local Com\n(http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/08/reward-offered-for-2-drivers-responsible-for-fatally-injuring-man-22)\n(http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/16/boy-3-critical-following-boyle-heights-hit-and-run-crash)\n(http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/201", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.casinosonline.org/gambling-in-las-vegas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CAKQY2EER6PN7NCW6AFS6HMRQL72UZXO", "length": 2992, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.casinosonline.org", "title": "\ufeff Gambling in Las Vegas | Casinos Online", "raw_content": "Las Vegas has been known to the world as the capital city for gambling. The city is very famous for the numerous luxurious casinos which are all known throughout the world. But these casinos are not equal to each other. Each of them offers different atmosphere and amenities which means they are as different as the people enjoying inside them.\nA lot of people think that each casino in Las Vegas offers all kind of games but that isn\u2019t always the case. There are actually some games which can only be found at a particular casino. On the other hand, there are those who assume that the best casinos can only be found at the Strip. But just like before, that isn\u2019t always the case here.\nThere are actually many casinos worth venturing far off the Strip which can provide you with the best gambling experience. As a matter of fact, two of the best casinos in Las Vegas can be found downtown. In this article, you can find information of the best place in Las Vegas where you can place a bet.\nThen first in the list of the best places in Las Vegas to indulge your gambling habits is found at the D Las Vegas. Here you can find one of the two-level casinos in Las Vegas that comes complete with vintage casino upstairs. On the other hand, the Downtown Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino is famous for offering its guests with the industrial chic setting when gambling. Additionally, the casino also offers a sports book complete with a walk-up window.\nThen of course it cannot be denied that the majority of the world-class casinos in Las Vegas can be found along the Strip. One of which is The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas which is known for its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and unbelievably remarkable interior design. It is true that the Cosmopolitan is one of the Strip\u2019s newer casinos but it is definitely one that has quickly become a winner casino to the gambler\u2019s eyes.\nThe Tropicana is one of Las Vegas\u2019 long standing casinos which have successfully survived wars while many casinos went down as piles of debris. It has undergone major transformation and is now known for featuring 50, 000 square feet of space for gaming excitement where there you can find wide array of table games, over 800 slot machines and a whole lot of gaming fun.\nWhen they say the gambler\u2019s mecca, there is only one casino that is revered as such and that is the MGM Grand Casino. This place is where gaming enthusiasts can find everything they are looking for when it comes to gambling. Under just one roof, gambling enthusiasts are able to enjoy the time of their life with over 2500 slot machines, video pokers, table games like black jack and roulette. Everything that a gambling fan looks is provided by MGM Grand Casino.\nWhen it comes to gambling, Las Vegas is definitely a pioneer. Even until today, the gambling industry of Las Vegas is at its peak and thriving. More than that, casinos continually rise and offer a whole new level of excitement for gambling enthusiasts.\nComments Off on Gambling in Las Vegas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 180.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ccel.org/ccel/fudge/ourman.ix.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2RFNG2QXNTQYMANEHKJ5OK43DWUXXKKY", "length": 18689, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.ccel.org", "title": "Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews - Christian Classics Ethereal Library", "raw_content": "Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews\n\u00ab Prev CHAPTER FIVE Next \u00bb\nThe author has spoken several times already in this epistle concerning Christ as a priest. Christ is our priest because He has purged our sins -- that is part of His more excellent name ( 1:3). In this He was the sin-offering as well as the administrating officer ( 2:9). His identification with His people is seen not only in His tasting death for all men but also in His being made like them in all respects. Because Christ has suffered and been tempted, He is a merciful and faithful high priest, able to help those who are tempted ( 2:17-18).\nAs high priest, Christ is faithful to God as well as sympathetic to man. In this He is like Moses, though by position He is far superior to that man of God ( 3:1-6). His sacrificial death has been accomplished and Christ is now in heaven. As our great high priest, He sympathizes with our plight and supplies mercy and grace to meet our needs ( 4:14-16). Chapter five presents Christ once more as priest, this time in terms of His divine appointment, and with a word of introduction to the particular kind of priesthood into which He has entered.\n5:1. For indicates that what follows is based on the final remarks of chapter four. Every high priest in the Jewish order is taken from among men and is a man himself. The high priest's ministry involves both God and man. He is ordained or appointed or divinely named for the sake of men. That is, he works on their behalf and, we might even say, in their stead. He also serves in things pertaining to God. The high priest's central function is making offerings to God for sins.\nGifts and sacrifices stand for the total offerings of the high priest to God on behalf of the people (see also 8:3; 9:9). Some have explained gifts as non-blood offerings and sacrifices as blood offerings. This is not consistent, however, with other passages (Genesis 4:3-4 in the Greek Old Testament, for example) where these words appear with the meanings exactly reversed. A better distinction is made in terms of purpose. Gifts are thank-offerings (eucharistic); sacrifices are sin-offerings (expiatory). If this is in the author's mind, for sins modifies only sacrifices in the sentence and not both terms.\n5:2. The high priest must be able to have compassion. Literally he \"measures his feelings\" with the people. He is not excessively swayed by harsh justice, nor moved overmuch by indulgent pity. He must measure his feelings in view of the people's responsibilities on the one hand, but in view of their circumstances and weaknesses on the other. Himself a man, he is aware of human weakness. Appointed by God for divine service, he is aware of God's just and holy demands. The Levitical high priest served in a very exalted and holy position. His was a representative role: representing God among the people, and representing the people before God (Exodus 28:29-30, 36-43; see Leviticus 16).\nPriestly offerings were for the benefit of the ignorant, that is, those whose sin was unknown to them at the time they committed it, and for those who were out of the way, which is the literal meaning of erring. The original construction of this verse suggests that both terms refer to the same people, those who err through ignorance. The point is that priestly service and offerings were for sins of weakness or ignorance. There was no sacrifice for presumptuous sins (Numbers 15:30-31; see verses 22ff in the same chapter). The Hebrews author later gives a similar warning to those under the new covenant ( 10:26-29).\nIt was necessary for the priest to be compassionate, for he also was compassed or surrounded with infirmity or weakness. A play on the word may be intended here, for the same word which means \"surrounded\" at other times means \"clothed.\" The priest was separated from his fellow Jews and was distinguished from them by the holy robes of his office. Yet he was one of them in weakness and sin. Here was an imperfection of the Old Testament priesthood -the priest, like every other man, was clothed in weakness. The fact that he also wore priestly robes did not change that! It remained for Christ to serve as perfect priest through His own sinlessness and to offer a perfect sacrifice which could remove sins forever.\n5:3. The Levitical priest was obligated to offer a sacrifice for himself as well as one for the people. Though he was called by God and was appointed to a sacred office, he was still a sinner himself.\n5:4. No man among the Jews took the priesthood to himself. The priests were appointed of God, as signified in the divine appointment of Aaron their head (Exodus 28:1).\n5:5. Nor did Christ glorify himself by taking the office of high priest presumptuously, but He was so honored or glorified by God the Father. Two Messianic psalms are quoted here and applied to Jesus Christ as Son and priest. The first is Psalm 2:7, which was used to prove Christ's Sonship in 1:5 (see the notes there on this quotation).\n5:6. The second quotation is from Psalm 110:4, and will figure prominently in the discussion of the next two chapters of Hebrews. As Psalm two joined the position of Son to that of King, so Psalm 110 related the functions of King and Priest. By using both these passages, the writer shows Christ to be Son (which in chapter one had the significance of Prophet), Priest (which he is about to discuss) and King. Our author used the first verse of Psalm 110 in 1:13 and in the verses now following he will discuss verse four of that psalm.\nGod said to Christ in His resurrection, \"Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee\" (Acts 13:33). At the same time, according to the present passage, He constituted Hhn high priest. Here the emphasis will be on the eternal nature of Christ's priesthood (\"thou art a priest forever\"); Acts 13 also stresses Christ's unending life (verses 34-37). Here the eternal priesthood of Christ means continual salvation for His people ( 7:23-25); the \"therefore\" of Acts 13:38 shows the same consequential blessing.\nAaron was not only called of God (Exodus 28:1), he was also confirmed as God's chosen one by a miracle of new life. When Korah, Dathan and Abiram questioned Aaron's authority and office (Numbers 16:1-3), the ground opened beneath them and their families, swallowing them alive, and a fire from God consumed their followers (verses 31-35). God then confirmed Aaron's appointment by making his rod (a piece of dead wood) come to life again, bear buds, bloom blossoms and yield almonds (Numbers 17).\nChrist was called by God to be high priest. He, too, was confirmed by a miracle of new life. His dead body, wrapped in burial clothes and entombed for three days, was given life by the power of God. He now lives to make priestly intercession for His people, through the merits of His own sacrificial blood.\nWoe to any person who questions Christ's divine appointment or loses confidence in His sacred work of redemption! The \"gainsaying of Korah\" is still a present danger (Jude 11). The first readers of Hebrews were urged to put their confidence in Christ as God's appointed high priest divinely-appointed, all-sufficient and everlasting. That exhortation is no less needful today among those claiming to follow Him.\n5:7. Who refers to Christ, not Melchizedek. In the days of his flesh refers to the earthly life of Christ in a human body. It is the time of His flesh and blood (2:14) when He partook of the seed of Abraham (2:16). This was the time in which He was in all points tempted ( 4:15).\nChapter ten will detail the significance of Christ's fleshly body. Here the intent is to demonstrate what was stated in verse five: Christ did not take the office of high priest to Himself but was given the position by God. It was not attained by arrogant assumption but by obedient suffering. Suffering and obedience are joined in the verses which follow and together are related to salvation, first in the life of Christ and then in the lives of those He saves.\nFour terms express the intensity of Christ's suffering in the face of death. Prayers signify pleadings or beggings, with reference to a need. Supplications stress the act of imploring or asking. Strong crying shows the depth of these calls for help. Tears are not mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Gethsemane, but were certainly visible on that occasion as an external indication of the utter agony of soul within the Lord (Matthew 26:36-44; Mark 14:3241; Luke 22:39-45).\nThese prayers were offered to him that was able to save him from death, that is, the Father (see notes at 2:12-13). Some commentators see two prayers here: that God would save Christ from death on the cross, or that He would save Him from death by resurrection if the first prayer was not answered. Lenski correctly notes that Jesus is nowhere pictured as praying for the resurrection. On that basis he argues strongly for the first sense only. God was able to save the Son from the cross - by twelve legions of angels, if necessary (Matthew 26:53). But it was not the Father's win to do that, nor was it in accord with the Scriptures, as Jesus Himself had pointed out to His disciples (Matthew 26:54).\nThe statement that Christ was heard in these prayers is confusing to some, but need not be when thought is given to the actual prayer of the Lord. Christ did not pray simply that the cup of suffering might pass Him by, though that was included in His request (see references above). His primary prayer -- and this is the writer's chief point in this verse -- was for the will of God to be done! That prayer was answered -- by the death, yes, and by the resurrection of the Son who willingly submitted to the Father's sovereign will! See the references given above, also John 12:23-33. Again there may be an allusion to Psalm 22, where the speaker cries to God (verse two) and is heard (verse 24). See the comments at 2:12 on that psalm.\nChrist was heard in that he feared. Literally the text says, \"because of (His) reverent fear\" or \"fearful reverence.\" \"If it be possible, let this cup pass from me,\" prayed the Savior, with strong crying and tears. But with the same intensity He respectfully and fearfully climaxed that prayer, \"nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done!\"\nWe are dealing here with the perfect obedience of the Son of God. This is an obedience unto death, an obedience perfected only in suffering. In. the face of such absolute dedication to God's will -- and that at the cost of all personal claims and human ambitions or even life -- in the face of this divine obedience angels weep, demons shudder and sinful man must cry out in abject remorse, \"God, be merciful to me, a sinner!\"\nHow inadequate all our obedience is in this light! How meager our dedication to the Father's will! How far short of God's glory and the Savior's example we see our own self-willed lives! Our Lord did not presume anything of His own accord. He did not hold back anything in His obedience and submission to the Father's perfect will. With every ounce of His deepest feeling He threw Himself in His Father's arms, there to depend on the Father's strength as He exclaimed simply, \"Thy will be done!\"\n5:8. Yet being the Son -- that more excellent Son of chapter one -- Christ learned obedience. The Greek here says \"the\" obedience, as if to underscore the thought. Christ learned obedience in experiencing absolute submission to God's will. This does not mean that His life ever contained any element of rebellion or disobedience, for it did not. He came for the purpose of doing God's will ( Hebrews 10:7) and He finished what He came to do (John 17:4).\nLearned here translates rather a word kin to that from which we have \"disciple\" and \"discipline.\" Christ was the disciple, par excellence. He experienced the full discipline of obedience -- even in suffering. By His suffering He learned experientially what full obedience means. In this He learned and qualified to sanctify those who should put their trust in Him. He is now perfectly able to help them when they are tempted (see 2:17-18).\n5:9. Christ was made perfect, not in a moral sense, but for the business of saving. He then became the author or source of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. By the obedience learned only in suffering, Christ was made complete as Captain of salvation (2:10). By the same suffering and obedience He was perfected as Source of eternal salvation. \"Captain\" signifies \"pioneer,\" and Christ has already gone ahead to enter the eternal glory which will be shared one day by the \"many sons\" ( 2:10; see 6:20).\nAuthor here means \"source,\" as it is only from Christ, and through Him, and by His work of obedience that those \"sons\" will share in the glory He now has as Son. Author may also be translated \"cause,\" suggesting that Christ's perfect obedience is the cause of our salvation, not our own imperfect obedience, though this very verse affirms the fact of obedience on our part if we are recipients of the salvation He has made a reality. The English connection between \"author\" and \"authority\" is not in our word here, though Christ certainly has all authority as Son and Lord (Matthew 28:18; Philippians 2:9-11).\nChrist is author or cause or source of salvation to them that obey him. It is always the case that blessing follows obedience, though sometimes the obedience of one man secures blessing for another. Abraham's obedience was the basis on which God blessed his descendants (Genesis 22:15-18; Deuteronomy 4:37; 9:4-6). How much more does Christ's obedience -- a perfect obedience -- result in the perfect salvation of all who share sonship with Him (see Romans 5:19). Yet those who share Christ's sonship and His righteousness (Isaiah 61:9-11; Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16; I Corinthians 1:30; II Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9) must and will share also with Him in faithful obedience to God an obedience in which He led the way, set the example and obtained salvation for those who follow.\n5:10. Because Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest (verse five), choosing instead the submissiveness of suffering, He was called or greeted by God as high priest after the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek held the double office of priest-king, a privilege denied the priestly offspring of Levi or the royal heirs of Judah that is, until Christ came. Now He, the prophet-Son, serves also as high priest and as king.\n5:11. Having introduced Melchizedek, our author immediately leaves him for the moment. He attributes this digression in thought to the dullness of his hearers. After a warning and exhortation in chapter six, he will return to a detailed analysis of Melchizedek's priesthood in chapter seven. There he will show Melchizedek's office to be unlike that of Aaron's sons, but of the same sort as the Son's which ft prefigures.\nWe have many things to say is literally \"the discourse or conversation is much or long.\" Hard to be uttered does not mean that the writer had difficulty expressing himself, but that his discourse concerning Melchizedek would be interpreted or explained only with elaboration, for which his readers were not prepared. The transmitter was working well but the receivers needed repairs!\nDull of hearing is literally \"sluggish or numb in ears (hearing).\" Lenski remarks: \"Unbelief closes the ears; incipient unbelief dulls them.\" These readers had not fallen into apostate unbelief but were apparently drifting in that direction. Our author pauses long enough to point this out to them and to sharpen their dull ears.\n5:12. For indicates the cause of his statement. With reference to the time which has passed since they became Christians, his readers should have become teachers. The word here indicates clock-time, not merely \"occasion\" (as in Romans 13:11 and other places).\nRather than this, however, they still had need for someone to teach them again. It is not in difficult matters alone that they are ignorant. They need instruction in first principles, the rudimentary matters, the spiritual ABC's.\nHow well this indictment fits so many in the church today. How many there are now who should have been teaching others long ago yet who continually need teaching in elementary principles. Some people are simply dull of hearing; others are \"ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth\" (II Timothy 3:7). The first need to be sharpened; the second are to be rejected (II Timothy 3:5). The recipients of Hebrews were at the first point but not yet to the second.\nThey were in need of milk, not strong meat or solid food. Milk is a predigested food, suited for one who lacks ability to receive and digest his own nourishment. The spiritual milk-baby is not able to learn and digest his own spiritual food. He depends on someone else to do most of his learning and thinking for him. This is a beginning point, to be sure, but it should not characterize those who for the time ought to be able to teach others.\nA certain measure of the blame for this condition must be put on some among the teachers and preachers who have not led the babes to stronger food. When the bottle is administered at every feeding time, and often the same formula warmed over, the hungry souls can not be expected to develop into maturity. Let each teacher and preacher learn from this context as well, to follow our author's example as he himself leaves the first principles to carry his readers on to maturity and perfection.\n5:13. The spiritual infant who still partakes mil is unskillful or inexperienced in the word of righteousness. As an infant is without experience in eating strong food so long as he remains with milk alone, so the believer who never has experience in teaching others will remain in need of simple nourishment himself. This is not condoned but condemned\n5:14. Strong meat is for the one who is of full age, the perfect or mature person. The mature Christian by reason of use or exercise has his senses exercised to discern both good and evil.\nSenses translates a word which give us our \"aesthetics,\" though here it has a figurative meaning. Exercised is from a word family which gives \"gymnasium,\" and suggest perhaps that maturity in spiritual discernment comes only through regular workouts.\nTo discern good and evil represents the ability and/or the authority to make independent moral choices (see Genesis 3:5, 22; Deuteronomy 1:39; II Samuel 14:17; 19:35; I Kings 3:9; Isaiah 7:16). The Christian is to mature to the point of making his own moral judgements; he is to learn to discern the Lord's will in each circumstance of his own life (see Romans 12:2; Ephesians 5:10, 17; I Thessalonians 4:1-4).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 19832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.challenge-mag.com/tag/violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WCHB2NPQ6O6B5XEREVYRTUDNBDCE2OAY", "length": 291, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.challenge-mag.com", "title": "violence \u2013 CHALLENGE", "raw_content": "The crisis of violence in the Arab street\nAssaf Adiv \u2022 March 6, 2012 \u2022\nUm al-Fahm\u2019s residents live in fear. Every day sees another violent brawl. Just ten days ago, a 16-year-old was stabbed to death. Last October, a father and his two sons were shot, and they were not even involved in the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 179.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chantcd.com/lyrics/i_saw_water.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:4X2FWQAOL2M4PGFZND5K2AHLQKEYKGVK", "length": 895, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.chantcd.com", "title": "Gregorian Chant Lyrics English translation - Vidi Aquam Eastertide Paschal Easter Traditional Tridentine Latin Mass", "raw_content": "I saw water coming forth from the temple\non the right side, alleluia:\nand all those to whom this water came\nwere saved, and shall say, alleluia, alleluia.\nV. Give praise to the Lord, for He is good:\nR. For His mercy endureth forever.\nV. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:\nR. As it was in the beginning, is now,\nand ever shall be, world without end. Amen.\nThis is sung in Latin at every High Mass on Sunday, in the Tridentine Rite (which was used by the whole Western Church up to 1962). Today, many Traditional and Conservative groups still offer the Tridentine Mass, and so this beautiful antiphon is heard in various Churches during Paschaltide (the Sundays after Easter). This antiphon is used instead of the Asperges Me until Ascension Thursday.\nThis is found (sung in Latin) on the following CD(s): Chant Compendium 1, Chant Compendium 2, and Chant Compendium 3.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chattanoogadentalcenter.com/Treatments/SingleMissingTooth.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UZJ6ISC2NOLX6VZSSGEW3JYWH6G7CX7R", "length": 2509, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.chattanoogadentalcenter.com", "title": "Missing Teeth Replacement- Dentist in East Ridge TN", "raw_content": "You are here > Treatments > Single Missing Tooth\nMany patients experience the loss of a single tooth due to injury, decay, or gum disease. Standard treatments for single tooth replacements include use of a removable partial denture, a fixed partial denture (bridge), or a dental implant. All of these options have their merits; however, implants are generally considered the most successful.\nRemovable partial dentures are units in which replacement teeth sit on a base of gum-colored plastic, held together by a metal support structure. The partial is then attached to the gum line with a series of metal clasps. After placement, many patients express displeasure with the bulky denture and the metal aesthetic.\nFixed Partial Denture or Three Unit Bridge\nA fixed partial denture, often called a bridge, suspends the replacement tooth or teeth between the remaining natural teeth on either side. The new tooth is cemented to the remaining teeth, referred to as abutments, which hold the prosthetic in place. Before the bridge can be applied, the abutment teeth must be ground down to allow the bridge to be fitted over top of them.\nPrior to dental implants, a bridge was considered the most effective method of single-tooth replacement, yet it was not without disadvantages. The use of a bridge leads to jaw bone deterioration and tooth decay in the remaining abutment teeth. These complications have made fixed bridges a less desirable option in recent years as dental implants have become a more popular and widely used alternative.\nDental Implants for Single Missing Teeth\nToday, dental implants are considered the best option for most single tooth replacements. They are the most natural treatment as they mirror the lost tooth and root. The titanium implant integrates into the existing bone and tissue in a process called osseointegration. The bond formed by this process is exceptionally strong and secure, allowing the implant to function like a natural tooth. The implant supports surrounding bone and tissue, enabling normal chewing and speaking and preserving the health of remaining teeth, gum, and bone. Implants offer a more permanent solution, although the crown of an implant may need to be replaced with extended use.\nCaring for and maintaining your implant is like that of any other tooth; it requires daily brushing and flossing as well as dental check-ups twice a year. With basic hygiene, your implant can offer a lifetime of natural feeling teeth without impact your chewing or speaking.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cincymagazine.com/Main/Articles/Kids_A_to_Z_Leading_by_Example_3978.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QLRDYRYMINZKF2RED43HVXCTVXY6GCSH", "length": 3309, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.cincymagazine.com", "title": "Kids A to Z: Leading by Example | Articles | Cincy Magazine", "raw_content": "Kids A to Z: Leading by Example\nSt. Ursula Academy's Leadership Conference brings in female leaders.\nEveryone needs a good role model, especially when you\u2019re in high school. We need someone to guide us away from possible mistakes, while showing us the positive things we might miss as we strive for our goals. But how do you find these mentors?\nSt. Ursula Academy, an all-girls Catholic college preparatory high school located in Walnut Hills, has decided to bring potential role models straight to their students with its third annual Leadership Conference on Saturday, March 8. The conference aims to give all SUA students an opportunity to meet successful women before leaving high school.\n\u201cWhen we were looking at programming, one of the things we realized is we do a lot of programming with our freshmen \u2026 and we do a lot of programming with our seniors,\u201d says Sarah Catlin, SUA director of admissions and student life. \u201cWe saw an opportunity to increase programming towards our sophomores and juniors, in preparation for the leadership roles that they would have as juniors and seniors.\u201d\nCatlin and SUA saw an opportunity to do this when they took a look at their own alumni. \u201cYou look around at our alumni, and you think, \u2018How do we get these women around our students?\u2019 \u201d laughs Catlin.\nThe Leadership Conference helps students develop leadership skills while they\u2019re still in school by meeting successful women. Every guest speaker is chosen based on how she found success in her life\u2019s work, as well as the lessons they learned about responsible leadership along the way. It\u2019s an opportunity for young women to look at what these leaders have learned and apply it to their lives.\n\u201cOne of the things when we first started talking about this concept is [that] when you say leader, [high school girls] think student council president,\u201d says Catlin. To give students a broader understanding of what a leader is, each year has a different theme. Last year\u2019s was communication and leadership while this year\u2019s is passion and leadership.\nThis year\u2019s speakers include Jan and Rachel Tepe, a mother-daughter dentistry team who provide dental care in undeveloped nations; Mary Ellen Mitchell, co-founder of Lydia\u2019s House for the Homeless; Eva Floyd, music director for the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati; and Lydia Jacobs-Horten, director of facilities and real estate at Proctor & Gamble. Among the previous guest speakers are Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and current chief legal officer of P&G; Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, Hamilton County coroner; and Margarita Kalmikova, a two-time Olympian and swimming and diving head coach at Tiffin University.\nCatlin feels that the most important things the students gain from the Leadership Conference is a new understanding of leadership in both others and themselves.\n\u201cI think they get some confidence because I think they see themselves as leaders [afterward] in ways that maybe they didn\u2019t before. For the freshmen and sophomores, \u2026 they see juniors and seniors and they can start to see themselves in those girls. That\u2019s really powerful. And then even better is they see alum and women doing things that they hope to do, and they start to understand, \u2018That\u2019s leadership and that could be me.\u2019 \u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.circopedia.org/index.php?title=China_Acrobatic_Troupe&oldid=27253", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IITVVYYZ3F7U3336U2MOD53MICXRTF3Y", "length": 5026, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.circopedia.org", "title": "China Acrobatic Troupe - Circopedia", "raw_content": "China Acrobatic Troupe\nRevision as of 03:44, 29 September 2017 by Djando (Talk | contribs) (\u2192\u200eSee Also)\n1 Chinese Acrobatics\n1.1 The Show Of One Hundred Skills\n1.2 The China Acrobatic Troupe Today\nThe People's Republic of China is a multi-national country, an ancient civilization with a long history and a rich and brilliant culture. Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form.\nAlthough China started contacts with non-Asian countries more than two thousand years ago, foreign influences were absorbed and rendered with a Chinese flavor for the sole benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century. of that evolution. In this peculiarity lies the most important difference between Chinese and Western cultural traditions: The latter is more organic and open to new components, while the Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.\nThe Chinese Acrobatic Theater followed the same development pattern. Whereas European and American circuses were in a constant search for novelties and new techniques (driven in part by commercial needs, especially in the United States), Chinese acrobats limited their repertoire (although it came to include over two hundred different specialties\u2014which is quite a number in any respect), but they constantly improved their presentation and increased the level of difficulty of the tricks involved, always striving to reach an elusive perfection.\nThe Show Of One Hundred Skills\nHistorical records, carvings and mural paintings in tombs and grottos (such as the brick carvings discovered in the Han Dynasty tomb of Chengdu, in the Szechuan province) date the origins of Chinese Acrobatics more than two thousands years ago, during the Warring States period. They developed mostly during the Qin and Huan Dynasties (221 B.C.-230 A.D.) and reached a remarkable level of quality and refinement during the Western Huan Dynasty, evolving from a simple exhibition of skills into a performing art, with a rich and eclectic repertory including tumbling, balancing, plate spinning, pole balancing, rope dancing, etc. This acrobatic performance was known as The Show of One Hundred Skills.\nAfter the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government, following its policy of \"Let a hundred flowers blossom and weed through the old to bring forth the new,\" brought about a spectacular renaissance of the Acrobatic Theater. Acrobatic troupes were created in each province and every major city, and were given their own theaters. The teaching was (and still is) done within the troupe, old performers training the new generation. These troupes experienced a serious setback during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), but only to see their vitality soaring afterward.\nThe China Acrobatic Troupe Today\nBased in Beijing, the China Acrobatic Troupe was founded in October 1950, and was known in its early days as the New China Troupe. The troupe has accumulated an impressive collection of international awards in circus festivals and acrobatic competitions, including a total of seven gold medals in the circus festivals of Budapest, Monte Carlo, Russia, Poland, and Paris. In national acrobatic competitions the China Troupe has garnered four Gold and seven silver medals or prizes. Since 1994, the troupe has also created seven large-scale acrobatic shows, including Tianqiao Scenes in Old Beijing, Ancient Chinese Myths, and Floral Rainbow. One of these shows, Chinese Soul, won seven awards in the Beijing New Drama and Program Competitions from 1996-99.\nThe China Acrobatic Troupe has toured extensively around the world, and its acts have participated in several circus productions in Europe. The troupe has cultivated generations of famous acrobats, among whom such artists as Yang Xiaoting, Pi Defu, Guan Yuhe, Cheng Liaobao, Qin Bin, Jin Yeqin, He Shuwang, Zhang Guosheng, Zi Jifa, Jin Zhen, Yin Yuhong, Chen Linben, Cheng Shaolin, Wang Guiying, Song Huiling, Sun Lili, Wang Jiamin, Qi Fenglin, Luo Bingsong, Zhang Shaojie, You Dongsheng and Chang Junju (as of 2012).\nVideo: China Acrobatic Troupe, porter-lancer act, at Circus Kronebau (2004)\nVideo: China Acrobatic Troupe, diabolo act, at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (2005)\nVideo: China Acrobatic Troupe, hand balancing Act, at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (2014)\nHistory: The Chinese Acrobatic Theater\nRetrieved from \"http://www.circopedia.org/index.php?title=China_Acrobatic_Troupe&oldid=27253\"\nDiabolo Acts\nHand Balancers\nPort\u00e9-Lanc\u00e9", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.compulsivetraveler.tv/videos/987-Gulf-Coast-Adventure-31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6REXCYKYZLQDKDCI5OKUV3GZ4UD6OKBF", "length": 544, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.compulsivetraveler.tv", "title": "Travel Videos - Gulf Coast Adventure 31 - The Compulsive Traveler", "raw_content": "In this travel video series we reach to the little town of St. Martinville, popular for the Evangeline Oak, known also as the birth place of the Acadian, and still too call it self the frog capital of the world and the largest producer of Crawfish of the world producing 70 million pound each year.\nThe Grand Canyon, mysterious, engulfing, full of wildlife. 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So, I'm at home, I'm resting, I'm recovering.\n''First, I'd like to thank the first responders and the UCLA medical staff, they took great care of me and they made sure everything I needed to be done got done.\n''Also, thank you, guys, for all your concern in reaching out, seeing if I'm OK.\n''I really appreciate it.''\nHe added the caption: ''Thank you all for your concern I\ufe0f am resting at home and working on recovering. (sic)''\nPrince was said to have been riding in light rain in Los Angeles when he lost control of his bike, and he was taken to a nearby emergency room where he was checked over by medics.\nHe shared a picture of his feet in an ambulance shortly after the incident.\nPrince captioned the image: ''Well s**t...(sic)''\nFortunately, the medics didn't find any broken bones or serious injuries so he was released and went straight to his class at Loyola Marymount University.\nPrince is known to be a big fan of riding his Harley Davidson bike, but has already been reprimanded once before by his sister Paris Jackson, 19, for not wearing motorcycle gloves.\nCommenting on one of his videos, she wrote: ''WHERE ARE YOUR RIDING GLOVES!?!!!!!!!! YOU PROMISED ME (sic)''", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 8385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corsamotorsllc.com/2014-driven-purpose-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LS67GIK7G3ZUVAMLR6NL736OFXFALGOD", "length": 403, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.corsamotorsllc.com", "title": "2014 Driven by Purpose DARE event | Corsa Motors", "raw_content": "Corsa Motors is so excited to get involved in this event and will display some of our beautiful cars among some of the most exotic cars in the world.\nThis event will possibly be the largest concentration of exotic cars in the northeast!\nWe are so excited to be taking part in this great event and hope you all are just as enthusiastic! This is truly an event not to be missed. Hope to see you all there!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 2918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cosmostat.org/research-topics/optimaltransport", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:X3ACRBW75T6UBDO7ITRPKFRLOANGY5D6", "length": 2252, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cosmostat.org", "title": "Optimal Transport \u2013 CosmoStat", "raw_content": "Optimal Transport theory is a rich and old field of study in mathematics, as it emerges from many very common real-life problems: Given a heap of sand and a hole in the ground, what is the least-effort way to fill in the hole? How to distribute the production of several mines into several factories? Recent advances in numerical schemes have further made practical uses of Optimal Transport possible in many contexts, such as applications to image processing and machine learning. CosmoStat members have contributed to the exploration of some of these new possibilities, and are exploring new exciting uses of Optimal Transport for solving long-standing problems in cosmology.\nEvery optical instrument, including the telescopes used in astrophysics, causes a slight blurring effect. Correct modelling of this effect, that is, of the instrument's Point Spread Function (PSF), is a key element if one hopes to correctly measure the effects of Weak Gravitational Lensing. This PSF is known to vary, not only depending on where within the instrument's view the objects are located, but also with the colour of these objects. However, these variations are known to be smooth - making the changes undergone by the PSF between a very low wavelength and a much higher one not entirely unlike the intermediary steps in the transportation of a heap of sand into a differently-shaped hole in the ground. For this reason, the use of Optimal Transport-based methods is an interesting prospect for the PSF Estimation problem.\nNgol\u00e8 & Starck, 2017\nDictionary learning is a common method to learn an appropriate representation of data. In traditional approaches, one tries to find the best set of objects that can best reconstruct the dataset when added together - these objects make up the dictionary, and any new data similar to the dataset used can then be represented (or \"translated\") using that dictionary.\nInstead of simply adding together the elements of our dictionary, one can instead use the Optimal Transport geometry. One way to think about this approach is that the dictionary we learn are some extreme states away from our dataset, which can be reconstructed as intermediary steps in the transportation between these extreme states.\nSchmitz et al, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.countyinthecommunity.co.uk/about-us/our-staff/norman-parselle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2VTOL6LA7KYLC72QENW4EUJ7S4W4NJB", "length": 570, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.countyinthecommunity.co.uk", "title": "Norman Parselle | County in the Community", "raw_content": "I am a former player for the club, making my debut in the Football League and also playing for the reformed Newport AFC. My role started as Community Development Officer at Newport County AFC during the club\u2019s first season back in the Football League in 2013, which was also the very beginning of County in the Community.\nOver the past 5 years I\u2019m proud of the journey County in the Community have been on, to become a registered charity with 8 full time members of staff and to see the impact we continue to have on people\u2019s lives, right across Gwent, on a daily basis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 110.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coxandmazzoli.com/case-results/case/19/United-States-v-Danehy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HM7WLRJAHKPSWYJWEQNZXVVNBM6TIZ3Z", "length": 945, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.coxandmazzoli.com", "title": "United States v. Danehy | Case Results | Cox & Mazzoli", "raw_content": "United States v. Danehy\nCase number: 3:03 CR 00091-JGH Type of case: Insider trading Jurisdiction: United States District Court Western District of Kentucky, Louisville Date of trial: June 2006\nMr. Danehy was an executive with Yum! Brands, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The Company owns and operates Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other fast food restaurants. Mr. Danehey was a financial analyst for the Company and was charged with using material non-public information in order to buy stock options for Yum! Brands (formerly Tricon).\nAfter a lengthy trial in U. S. District Court, the trial jury hung 11 to 1 to acquit Mr. Danehy. This is despite the fact that Mr. Danehy had already paid a significant amount of money to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a civil charge against him.\nWe were subsequently able to persuade the government to dismiss all charges against Mr. Danehy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.craftbyzen.com/blog/Facts-of-Past-and-Present.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6TVPSGQMM2GS2HCBIKPPJQMG7KUZHC4O", "length": 2069, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.craftbyzen.com", "title": "Facts of the Present and Past", "raw_content": "FACTS OF THE PRESENT AND PAST\nDon\u2019t be so hung up on the past. At this present moment, do you find yourself asking if you should\u2019ve done something else, or could\u2019ve been making yourself more productive, or you would\u2019ve done that nagging task if you just reminded yourself at the time? Please stop thinking. Don\u2019t over-stress yourself on the banalities of those tiny decisions because they don\u2019t make a difference. Instead, close your eyes and think of something blank. Our past mistakes aren\u2019t something that can be over-written, edited with a few clicks on your profile page. They already happened, and you can\u2019t reverse time and fix those mistakes. What you can do is think of what you can do now and then do it. There\u2019s nothing better than knowing you can make a decision now that will impact the future.\nOf course, some might call me impossible. Let me give you a scenario. You\u2019re driving to work and there\u2019s something you\u2019ve forgotten to do before you left. You think, \u201cDamn, I should\u2019ve done that before I left.\u201d Stop, breathe, and listen to your body. Are you tense? Are neurons firing off giving you a fight or flight experience? That may be indication you are stressing yourself for no good reason. The fact is, you have no control of those actions anymore. They have already happened and you can\u2019t do anything about it. What can you do about it now? Could you call your significant other to deal with that task? Do you have to wait and do it after work? Alternatives pop up, reasonable ones with some level of action you can take right now. If you have followed this process successfully, you may have saved minutes of your time worrying with a proper solution.\nThis process can be learned today. However, let me give you a caveat and say it may take some practice, but I believe if you can follow a methodology, you can feel better about yourself at the end of the day. Stress accumulates to something when gone unnoticed. I find friends who go through similar situations all of the time, and it is a signal to tell them to stop worrying; life will continue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.craftycattery.com/2007/11/cool-sewing-and-crafting-cart.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6IH52DNZOKE7LQR65YD5X4TKE4DI5DZT", "length": 1587, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.craftycattery.com", "title": "The Crafty Cattery: Cool Sewing and Crafting Cart", "raw_content": "I just bought a really neat sewing/crafting cart at Walmart! It goes from this:\nWe saw it advertised in Walmart's Black Friday circular where it was priced at $75. It was listed as \"Sewing Craft Table.\" I really wanted it but I couldn't get excited about having to fight people on Friday morning to get it. However, I went to Walmart this morning and they already had it at that price! If you're interested, I found it in the fabric department on a shelf below the sewing machines. It's manufactured by Sauder and the product number on the box is 9707-150. Walmart also has it listed online where it's currently selling for $97.42.\nIt took me about 2 hours to assemble by myself. Compared to other self-assembly furniture instructions I've tried to follow, these directions were detailed and well written. Also, all of the pieces of wood had identifying numbers stamped or stickered onto them so I didn't have to guess which piece was which.\nHere's the cart with all my supplies in it:\nYou can even store your sewing machine on the little shelf in the middle when you're not using it:\nThat's the only thing I find awkward about it - it's difficult to put my machine down there, and it's a featherweight. Someone with a heavier machine might have trouble getting it down there without dropping it.\nI'm so glad I found this - I no longer have to do all my sewing on our living room floor! Now I can wheel the cart out when I need it and push it back against the wall when I'm done.\nHere's Lucy checking out the cart:\nLabels: craft, product, sew\nwow!!! its really nive and very versatile!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/tag/sales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JMIXP7MJWK5YBNKMHZ5DHDZMOQK74IKD", "length": 1562, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.criticalgamer.co.uk", "title": "sales | Critical Gamer", "raw_content": "Nintendo Switch sales joy\nNintendo\u2019s latest console, the Switch, has had promising start to its life, with its first weekend on sale \u2013 as reported at gamesindustry.biz \u2013 garnering more units sold than any other Nintendo console in history, including the hugely successful Wii (in the EU and US at least). Nintendo also revealed that the new Legend of Zelda: Breath of...\nStarcraft II sells 3 million\nReal time strategy behemoth Starcraft II has sold 3 million copies worldwide in its first month of release. That\u2019s a lot of zerg rushes. Blizzard claims that the game is the bestselling PC game of 2010 and the fastest selling RTS of all time. With 3 million sales and plenty of rave reviews; it\u2019s hard to dispute that. \u201cWe appreciate all the enthusiasm...\nNintendo DS sells 10 million units in the UK\nMore figures from Nintendo\u2019s favourite music, video and software performance and tracking company, GfK Chart-Track, reveal that the DS has sold 10 million units in the UK, bringing Nintendo even closer to world domination. By these figures it is suggested that one in six people in the UK now own a DS since its release in March 2005. Nintendo is understandably...\nWii is fastest selling UK console\nNintendo\u2019s attempts to take over the world through the medium of games is becoming more of a reality, as the big N has managed to shift six million Wii consoles in the UK in under three years. The UK\u2019s leading independent music, video and software performance and sales tracking company, Chart Track-GfK, released the impressive figures today, which makes the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crylaughheal.com/having-a-thankful-heart/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:X3SYW4BNQ73ZXXXFFSTM3PIOHFZP5VKC", "length": 4737, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.crylaughheal.com", "title": "Having A Thankful Heart - Cry Laugh Heal", "raw_content": "As we slide into this holiday week of Thanksgiving, my thoughts turn to the simple idea of setting aside a day to show gratitude.\nYes life is crazy, messy and unpredictable.\nYes the holiday season can be painful and a stinging reminder of a terrible loss or a difficult family situation.\nBut you can sit yourself down and listen to your heart and acknowledge your limits. Be aware of what you need before you join family and friends for any holiday event. Express your thoughts and feelings to a trusted person. Change up your expectations and instead focus on one good thing that will be happening during that event.\nMaybe it\u2019s seeing the person who invited you or other people who will be there. Maybe it\u2019s the idea of being included with friends or family to join in the celebration, of having a place to go instead of isolating yourself at home. After all, they want to see you.\nNo matter what stage of life we find ourselves living, I think most people are attempting to juggle lots of conflicting and stressful responsibilities and emotional situations as they go about their daily lives. Jobs, children, aging parents, running a household and pursuing personal passions uses up a huge percentage of our energy, our patience, and our ability to solve problems.\nAnd while we come close to accomplishing the tasks we need or want to finish, there still remains a deep yearning beneath all of that hustle and bustle to connect and be grateful for those who are nearest and dearest to our hearts.\nWe are wired to need and be with each other. It is the core of being human.\nNo amount of texting, emailing or talking on the telephone is ever going to replace the connection that you get when you spend time with another real live human being. Especially a human being you care about.\nWe are bonding animals who need to feel emotions, to connect and to love.\nThat is Thanksgiving to me.\nA day set aside to nourish our bodies and souls. A day to look around the table, or wherever you happen to be, and be grateful, and yes, thankful for the many gifts in our lives.\nI know that in some circumstances this is hard. You may not be with the people you really want to be with. Those people may be with others or tragically, they may have died. There will be many reminders during this Thanksgiving Day of other Thanksgivings with that loved one and it will hurt. A. lot.\nWe all have unexpected heartbreaks in life. I know that it is a constant struggle to put the scattered pieces of your heart back together again yet we can\u2019t let it get the better of us.\nMy father died this past February and my husband died in 2003. I will definitely be seeing both of them at the table this year and hope to share stories and memories of them as I hope that others will share stories about the people they want to remember on Thanksgiving. Many of my friends and neighbors will also be having difficult Thanksgiving dinners this year because of changed family situations and losses of a loved one. My thoughts and heart are with you.\nIt\u2019s unfortunate, but part of surviving a loss is learning to live with the pain, the bittersweet feelings of doing things without that person who is no longer with you. It\u2019s okay to let the tears flow. Be gentle with yourself as you experience the full range of emotions on your journey through grief. Honor your feelings.\nI have found that part of surviving a loss is taking the time to step back from the life you had with the deceased person and bravely recalling them. It\u2019s a continual process of remembering, rebuilding, processing difficult emotions and challenging yourself as create a different life. I know I am lucky. I had a tremendous love and out of that love my husband and I had a wonderful son who is now 27 years old and he is now married to a fabulous and talented young woman who holds a special place in my heart.\nThis Thanksgiving Day, as we bow our heads to give thanks, let\u2019s join together to feel the power of our collective unity and our determination to stay strong and true to ourselves. It is difficult to set your life in a new direction especially without the person you gave your heart to. But over the years, I have come to understand that even in the midst of great pain, things can work out.\nFor all of you who have lost a loved one or are separated from loved one, I extend my hand. Let us help and support each other on this coming day of thanks.\nI wish you, your families, and your friends a wonderful time and a loving connection this Thanksgiving.\nTags: courage crying family food friends Gratitude grief healing hope journey laughing loss love memories pain resilience self-care soul spiritual strength stress support thankful Thanksgiving Day\nNot On A Pedestal\nA Lost Graduation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ctcoc.co.za/resources/audio/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FDPGUDSRXY4VQGTWN5AXJSJRRPISYKHY", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ctcoc.co.za", "title": "Cape Town Church of Christ | Audio", "raw_content": "Crossing the Line in Cultural Differences in of utmost importance...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 92.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.culture-keeper.com/blog/sometimes-diplomacy-is-soft-and-quiet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EODUSBGGAENJGUTRNIJOSPUCJ7LWPCW2", "length": 16268, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.culture-keeper.com", "title": "Sometimes Diplomacy Is Soft and Quiet \u2014 CULTURE KEEPER", "raw_content": "Unlike Paris, the French commune of Juran\u00e7on, with its renowned vineyards and 7000-plus habitants, didn\u2019t make international headlines for the commemoration events it hosted last Sunday, November 11.\nAlong with so many other French communities, Juran\u00e7on, in the foothills of the Pyrenees in southwestern France, read aloud the names of its sons who died for France during that first Great War, which officially ended 100 years ago, at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918. In one of his speeches of the day, Michel Bernos, Juran\u00e7on\u2019s mayor, noted that the list of names would be one and a half to two times longer were it to include those whose remains were never found or able to be identified.\nBernos also used his speeches before the local dignitaries, former and current soldiers, citizens, and a small cadre of Americans living locally to call attention to American intervention in that war\u2014at great cost to American lives\u2014and the persistence of Franco-American friendship. One of the Americans read a statement sent for the occasion by Daniel Hall, the American consul in Bordeaux.\nThe morning began when the multi-generational crowd of roughly 150 people filled Juran\u00e7on\u2019s St. Mary\u2019s church for mass before exiting to the World War I memorial outside the church. Here were read the names of Juran\u00e7on\u2019s 200 official dead (out of a population of around 4,500 at the time); speeches were given; school children sang part of \u201cLa Marseillaise,\u201d the French national anthem; flowers were laid in honor; a junior-high-age trumpeter played solemn notes; and doves were released.\nNext it was on to a rugby field to watch the sequenced arrival of four camouflage-clad parachutists, who floated to the ground underneath white parachutes, each with a different flag flowing dramatically behind him. The parachutists hale from the nearby School of Airborne Troops (\u00c9cole des troupes a\u00e9roport\u00e9es), and the rugby field they landed in is named for Georges Guynemer, one of France\u2019s most celebrated WWI fighter pilots.\nFinally, with glorious fall sunshine bathing the event in extra cheer, the crowd reconvened at the day\u2019s third site to celebrate Franco-American friendship with the planting of a symbolic pecan tree on the grounds of L\u2019Atelier du N\u00e9ez, a cultural arts center on the banks of the N\u00e9ez. This site too is highly symbolic as it was formerly an airplane motor factory that was reportedly taken over by the Germans toward the end of World War II and used to build motors for their own planes. The French Resistance put a stop to this by blowing up the factory.\nJuran\u00e7on WWI memorial.\nJuran\u00e7on dignitaries and American representatives greeting the parachutists who just landed.\nWHY PECAN TREES?\nThough the oral history version of the story has yet to be supported with evidence providing 100 percent certainty of its veracity, researchers have found enough historical clues to strongly support the claim that Thomas Jefferson, man of the land that he was, brought the pecan tree to France during his term here as American ambassador from 1785-1789.\nPrimary among the evidence is the tree known as \u201cJefferson\u2019s pecan tree.\u201d The nearly 100-foot tall tree, with a circumference of nearly 15 feet, still towers on the grounds of the Ch\u00e2teau Carbonnieux, to the south of Bordeaux in western France. Estimated based on its size, its presumed age of more than 200 years corresponds with Jefferson\u2019s known visit to the chateau during his three-month tour of southern France and northern Italy in 1787.\nGiven this history, the Bordeaux-based organization Les Pacaniers de Jefferson (Jefferson\u2019s Pecan Trees) has set out to plant pecan trees around France as a symbolic witness to the intangible cultural heritage shared by France and the United States through their long friendship. Pecan trees are native to North America and are the state tree of Texas.\nAs Dan Hall, the American consul, noted in our interview, \u201cFrance and the United States have never been at war, which is not necessarily true of some of our other very, very close allies. And we have this amazing history together. So it\u2019s a matter of on the one hand \u2018Vive la diff\u00e9rence,\u2019 and on the other hand we\u2019re going to be going in the same direction. There may be discussions on how we get there or what the priorities ought to be, but fundamentally, we share a love for liberty, and we\u2019ve got this great relationship that goes all the way back to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and will extend forward in the future.\u201d\nA 2014 article in The Guardian posits more succinctly, \u201cWithout the friendship of France there would be no United States as we know it.\u201d\n\u201cThese plantings should be understood as a gesture of thankfulness to the American people, a symbolic and diplomatic gesture following in the footsteps of the Statue of Liberty, which was given by France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence and which welcomes immigrants to New York\u2019s port, and also the equestrian statue of Lafayette given [to France] by American school children, as organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution,\u201d explained Bernard Dalisson, president of Les Pacaniers de Jefferson, in a speech delivered in French at planting ceremonies. \u201cThese trees, living witnesses of that which the sacrifices of our relatives have brought to us, will be, we hope, just as much a harbinger of hope and peace for future generations.\u201d\nAmerican students are likely to know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France, but understanding why France would give the United States such a gift requires digging back into the history of relationship that the (much cheaper and smaller) pecan trees attest to. Given that the United States is often better at looking forward than looking back, while France often does better at the job of remembering the past, it\u2019s appropriate then for a French organization to take on this particular task of remembrance and testimony.\nBernard Dalisson, president of Les Pacaniers de Jefferson; Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques Pr\u00e9fet Gilbert Payet; and American Consul Daniel Hall.\nCommemorative plaque placed with each pecan tree: \u201cPlanted for the 100th anniversary of WWI, in memory of the American volunteers, men and women, who came to share our combat in the name of Franco-American friendship.\u201d\nFran\u00e7ois Bayrou, mayor of Pau; Bernard Dalisson, president of Les Pacaniers de Jefferson; and American Consul Daniel Hall.\nAMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES\nOn a gray October 15, a handful of Americans living in and around Pau, the 75,000-person capital of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques department that covers the southwesternmost corner of France, had joined Consul Hall and Les Pacaniers de Jefferson\u2019s Dalisson for three other official pecan tree planting ceremonies.\nThese same Americans plus a few additions also attended the Juran\u00e7on event, yet none of them have formal roles as American representatives. David Blackburn, an American who has lived in Pau for years, is the connector who keeps these local Americans loosely organized and in touch with the consulate in Bordeaux. All of us were representing the United States at these events thanks to nothing more than the passport we carry, our interest in being involved in the community, and Blackburn\u2019s invitation.\nThe American consulate in Bordeaux is staffed only by Hall and two others, and Hall said they rely significantly on their partners to bring them projects and help them make the connections that serve their tasks of cultural cooperation (including school visits and academic exchanges) and economic and commercial cooperation (in particular, talking with French companies interested in investing in the United States in ways that create jobs and economic growth in the U.S.). Being part of a small team has helped Hall learn viscerally how important partners like Blackburn are.\n\u201cHere we are sitting in the magnificent home of an American expatriate who\u2019s lived here for a long time and who has developed amazing relationships with local authorities here, with the whole city really, and if it were not for the fact that he\u2019s been in touch with our office for a number of years, with my predecessors as well, we wouldn\u2019t have the same ability to be present here in Pau and to engage.\u201d\nThe October events were much smaller affairs than the one this month in Juran\u00e7on. The first was presided over by the mayor of Pau, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, president of the national Mouvement Democrate political party and former presidential candidate. Next up was a private gathering of the American group with Gilbert Payet, the pr\u00e9fet (appointed administrative leader) of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques department. And finally, there was a community event in 13,000-resident Bill\u00e8re, a commune extending along the western edge of Pau.\nPau\u2019s WWI commemoration ceremony on November 11, 2018.\nJean-Yves Lalanne, mayor of Bill\u00e8re, introduces the planting ceremony while Bernard Dalisson, president of Les Pacaniers de Jefferson, and American Consul Daniel Hall await.\nDIPLOMACY FAR FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND \u00c9LYS\u00c9E PALACE\nParticipating in these formal yet informal ceremonial events that most American and French people will never know are happening, in contrast to the words and tweets exchanged between our presidents, one is struck by the easy down-to-earthness of it all, while also sensing that these exchanges taking place in the shadow of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, and photographed only by the local newspaper, matter.\n\u201cIn this region in particular I find that there\u2019s a tremendous amount of very deep-seated affection for the United States, and that\u2019s something that the 24-hour news cycle does not capture and that by virtue of being here in the region [instead of being based at the U.S. embassy in Paris], being able to travel out and do the types of events like we\u2019re doing today, we\u2019re able to capitalize on,\u201d noted Consul Hall on that Monday in October.\nAccording to him, \u201cEvents like today really help us to put our relationship [the relationship between France and the United States] into the long arc of our historic relationship. It helps to in a way also connect on a personal level with people, also reassure people about the United States, the fact that the fundamental interests of the United States are aligned with those of France and of Europe in general and also the people-to-people ties. There\u2019s a great story to tell here in Pau with the presence of American and British families who were here for years, decades, if not centuries in this region of France, and events like today help us to remind ourselves and everyone else of that fact.\u201d\nIf the relationship between France and the United States were something that exists only at the presidential level, it wouldn\u2019t be enough, said Juran\u00e7on mayor Bernos, speaking to me in French on November 11. \u201cThe friendship is strengthened at the level of the youth, the elected officials, the territories, and it\u2019s also strengthened by the fact that it\u2019s always reassessed and reinterpreted. Thus, the local level is even more important than the level of the heads of state, because the heads of state change, but\u2026the democratic values that are represented by your founding fathers and by our constitutional system, this exceeds our heads of state. What\u2019s important is the mayors, the citizens, the athletes, the youth.\u201d\nJean-Yves Lalanne, mayor of Bill\u00e8re, said that the leaders of Bill\u00e8re invited town residents and the local Americans to the pecan tree planting ceremony because in general they want to facilitate friendship between people. And for this event, those people were American and French.\n\u201cThis event came together a bit by chance, because in Bill\u00e8re there are villas built by English and Americans, a community that has mostly disappeared but that left behind a lot of beautiful homes from the pinnacle of their presence at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. It was an important community,\u201d he explained in French on October 15.\n\u201cAnd today we [also] celebrate 100 years since the end of World War I, so it\u2019s [also] an opportunity to highlight the American Expeditionary Forces\u2019 arrival which helped shorten World War I. Because we want to be welcoming to all communities, this was an opportunity to plant a pecan tree that highlights good relations between France and the United States.\u2026 It\u2019s a chance to make some history that can forge stronger bonds between people and communities.\u201d\nA small group of Americans attended the pecan tree planting ceremony at Pau\u2019s Villa Sainte H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.\nPyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques Pr\u00e9fet Gilbert Payet speaks inside Villa Sainte H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, residence of the pr\u00e9fet.\nMichel Bernos, mayor of Juran\u00e7on, pays respect to the soldiers at Juran\u00e7on\u2019s WWI commemoration ceremony.\nWWI memorabilia in Juran\u00e7on.\nTHE UNPAID AMBASSADORS\nHall said that when he talks with groups of American students studying in France, he tells them that whether they realize it or not, they are actually a kind of ambassador among their host families and various French friends and acquaintances.\n\u201cThey have a great opportunity to really represent the United States and all that\u2019s best about the United States,\u201d he said he tells them. But then he chuckled as he recounted this and noted that the converse is equally true, as he also tells students: They can unwittingly give people bad impressions of America and its people. The students, and likewise all Americans living abroad, \u201care thrust into that role whether they realize it or not.\u201d\nMadeleine Croteau Dubo\u00e9, one of the participants at all four pecan tree planting events, counts herself lucky to be a dual American-French citizen. \u201cI don\u2019t feel more of one or the other, as a citizen of the world. I\u2019m always pleased to celebrate my two heritages, [since] my family is of French origin,\u201d she noted, adding that \u201cthe pecan tree planting was an opportunity to share with the very small American community here in Pau. These opportunities also comfort me in the fact that Franco-American friendship is still alive and well.\u201d\nAround the time of these pecan tree ceremonies, an unimportant seeming task unexpectedly gave voice to the on-the-ground relationships my home country has with the country I live in. I settled down in the salon chair of a new-to-me hairdresser. At first I\u2019d thought he wouldn\u2019t be very chatty, but he turned out to be quite opinionated, with plenty to say as he snipped my hair.\nWhen he learned that I am American, he suddenly spoke as though he were the official porte-parole, the spokesperson, for all French citizens: The French owe a debt of gratitude to the Americans, he said. People from our two countries are forever tied together by the American dead bodies that littered that beach in Normandy during WWII.\nThey died for us, he said, with a touch of awe in his voice. Then he added passionately (in loose translation of his French), \u201cWithout them not only would we be speaking German now, I never would have met my grandfather.\u201d His grandfather had been a prisoner of war. Without American participation in the invasion that changed the course of the war, grandfather wouldn\u2019t have stayed alive.\nThis coiffeur is just a regular citizen, years removed from those events of WWII, who still feels such a personal affection toward Americans\u2014though he also mimicked some unflattering American qualities while being equally harsh on his own country. (Remember, he was opinionated.)\nAs he and I agreed, though, every nation has good and bad qualities, just as do the citizens who represent our countries to each other, far away from any headlines.\nCitizens greet each other at Juran\u00e7on\u2019s ceremony.\nTaking in WWI memorabilia in Juran\u00e7on.\nThe \u201ctricolore,\u201d the French flag, comes in for a landing in Juran\u00e7on.\nKami Rice, Culture Keeper\u2019s editor, moved to southern France in 2012 to study French for a semester. Years later she\u2019s still in France, and her French is still frustratingly imperfect. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, The Telegraph, The Tennessean, and a wide variety of other publications. She has edited and proofread manuscripts, magazines, and articles for publishing houses and nonprofit organizations. Her aim is to cover international stories with as much nuance and as little clich\u00e9 as possible. Follow her adventures on Instagram and Twitter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 21987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cvrda.org/dinghydata/otter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IWDGEW6DMMR2BVRNQT5GEC2ND5W4VY6B", "length": 90, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cvrda.org", "title": "Otter |", "raw_content": "Designer(s): G. 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The event will begin at 6 p.m. June 15 on Main Street in Du Quoin.\nDinner will be prepared by cooks and chefs from several different local restaurants and bakeries. Soft drinks will be provided, and a cash bar with wine and beer also will be available.\n\"We wanted to do something that would bring our community together in a unique way that would show off our beautiful downtown,\" said Stacy Hirsch, Chamber executive director.\nAbby Ancell, one of the event coordinators added, said the event also aims to help local producers.\n\"We also wanted to use this event to promote the local farmers and growers and everything that is available right here in our area through the farmer's market, as well as the great businesses and restaurants too,\" Ancell said.\nDinner music will be provided.\nTickets for the event are $30 each or two for $50 and can be purchased by calling the chamber office at 618-542-9570. Seating is limited. Tickets will go on sale May 4 and will be for sale through June 1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.davidwingate.com/providing-care-services-and-being-paid-by-your-parents/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QRYVQQIJ35FTKBE4S657M6HWEUL3S2MH", "length": 1563, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.davidwingate.com", "title": "Providing Care Services and Being Paid By Your Parents? - David Wingate's Estate Planning and Elder Law Center - David Wingate's Estate Planning and Elder Law Center", "raw_content": "Providing Care Services and Being Paid By Your Parents?\nIf you are providing care for your aging parent, and they are paying for your services, beware of the consequences. Medicaid, my treat the transfer of funds, from your parent to you, as a gift. Therefore, if your parents apply for Medicaid, to pay for the nursing home, they may be denied due to gifting.\nTo prevent Medicaid from treating payments to family members as a gift, there must be a written, contract between the parties. This \u201ccare contract\u201d must be in place before the work is performed and must specify the services and amount to be paid. The Medicaid rules require the services directly benefit the person applying for medical assistance and the payments must not exceed reasonable compensation for the services provided.\nThe payments made under a \u201ccare contract\u201d are payments to household workers. It is important to consult with a CPA or other tax advisor to make sure any withholding or other employment requirements are met.\nThe ability to receive assistance from family members may help an individual stay at home for a longer period of time. Use of a written care contract removes the possibility that a penalty may be imposed for any payments to relatives. 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Revenues were 10% and profits 29% ahead of this time last year. The benefits of our increasingly diversified business are evident. 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VRT500 is the first chopper of the holding in the segment of light vehicles with a takeoff weight up to 2 tons. Flying vehicles of the type currently constitute 18% of world\u2019s fleet of copters.\nLight copters are among those in high demand, they are the ones mostly used by private buyers. The VRT500 features great aircraft performance characteristics, which combined with an attractive price, should assure its success not only in domestic but in foreign markets, too. According to projections Russian helicopters can take up to 15% of the world market of such aircrafts before 2035.\nVRT500 is a light single-engine helicopter with a Contra Rotating Propeller Drive System and a takeoff weight of 1600 kg. The aircraft has the largest cargo-and-passenger cabin in its class with a total capacity of up to 5 people. It is equipped with an interactive control system.\nThe design performance characteristics allows it to move at a speed up to 250 km/h, cover distances of up to 860 km, carry up to 730 kg of pay load. Passenger, multi-purpose, cargo, training, VIP and search-and-rescue modifications of the copter are envisaged.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 6610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dennispubliclibrary.org/2016/05/may-artist-laura-balboni-craciun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KHZYAE2HB72LPUXTSJHEK7PC36W2QCDY", "length": 2767, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dennispubliclibrary.org", "title": "Dennis Public Library: May Artist - Laura Balboni Craciun", "raw_content": "May Artist - Laura Balboni Craciun\nThis month's featured artist is Laura Balboni Craciun, Fine Art, Pastels and Oils.\nLaura Balboni Craciun is known for her rich, layered colors and transition of shades in her portraits and landscapes. They reflect a reverence for the mood and story of her subject: \"I see the colors meeting on the paper, and they shift and settle into what I envisioned. I need to share the beauty of what I see.\"\nMs. Balboni summered each year in her family's home near the Brewster flats. Even as a young child, she would spend hours taking in the expansive horizons of the low tides and watching the display of colors as the sun set over the ocean or the flats, filling the sky with new \"paintings\" by the minute. She called it \"makeup for the soul\". She came to peace with the yearning to entirely appreciate the beauty surrounding her by expressing it through her art and music. Playing viola was another outlet and brought her to many foreign places; Finland, Spain, Canada, Italy, etc, and secured her education at the Peabody Institute of Music at Johns Hopkins University. She was the principal violist of the Chautauqua Symphony, and Sessione Senese Chamber Orchestra, Sienna, Italy. Though she had received awards and recognition for her music, her art called her attention and she attended classes at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her degree was in viola performance, but she was unable to fully realize that profession because of injury.\nMs. Balboni's music training was useful to her, as she embarked on developing her artistic vision. She studied portraiture with John Kilroy, student of Richard Schmidt, for 2 years. She then met and studied with Hilda Niely of the Cape School of Art, and other cape artists such as Rosalie Nadeau, MaryAlice Eisenberg, and Steve Kennedy in oil. Her biggest influences are Cape artists Henry Hensche and Anne McAdam. In pastel, her inspiration comes from studying with Jeanne Rosier Smith and Richard McKinley. Her work has the finely-tuned sensitivity of a musician's soul. Brahms is her favorite composer and her art pairs well with his music. The result is a body of work that touches the souls of her viewers; from the forlorn to the sublime.\nLaura teaches viola and pastel painting at the Cape Cod Conservatory, beginning art for children and teenagers at the Creative Arts Center, in Chatham, MA, and beginning watercolor at the Chatham Bars Inn, in Chatham, MA. She has been a member of the 820 Main Gallery (rt. 28), Harwich Port, MA for the past five years, and will be participating in the 45th Annual Creative Arts Center Juried Art Show August 20-22, 2016. Laura was selected for the Cape Cod Art Association online juried art show, in February 2016.\nhttp://www.artbylaurajean.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.designinteractive.co.uk/egypt/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KEPBZ5ZYNIZGWSUT5XPPUN6BFLSCVMAR", "length": 1361, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.designinteractive.co.uk", "title": "Sacred Egypt - Home Page", "raw_content": "Sacred Egypt is a completely unique experience for travellers and mystics. We offer the opportunity to discover and enjoy the magic of Egypt in authentic cultural surroundings, whilst achieving new insights and levels of self awareness amongst friends. It is both a Mystery School, which provides powerful training in the arts of magic and healing, and a happy home which offers love and support to it guests.\nStanding on the edge of the Sahara Desert directly in front of the Pyramids of Giza, its large garden terrace gives stunning, panoramic views of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Here you can remember and understand deeper levels of self, while enjoying to the full, the colour and romance of time-honoured Egyptian village life.\nThe house is a five-storey building, on the edge of the village of Nazlet el Samman. It is fully staffed, comfortably appointed, furnished in traditional Egyptian style, with a large kitchen, three double guest rooms, one family guest room, two guest drawing rooms, and four modern bathrooms. A spacious Meditation Temple and workshop area looks out over the Giza Plateau and the Pharoanic village of the Pyramid Builders. The front door opens on to little sandy streets where camels, horses and donkeys pass on their daily business, and one can share in the leisurely pace and friendly atmosphere of a typical desert village.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 1608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dfwweather.org/wxblog/?p=611", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:SH7MNARE4M47ZHUOD2WEHGVWPQXGCUO6", "length": 802, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dfwweather.org", "title": "WEBSITE UPDATED TO INCLUDE CURRENT OBSERVATIONS \u00ab DFW Weather News and Blog", "raw_content": "\u00ab REMINDER: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS TOMORROW\nAPRIL 2018 THE 6TH COLDEST AND 7TH DRIEST ON RECORD \u00bb\nWEBSITE UPDATED TO INCLUDE CURRENT OBSERVATIONS\nA new feature has been added to the website. On the left-hand navigation bar, a new link has been added called \u201cObservations\u201d found just below \u201cNews/Blog.\u201d When you click on this link, you will be directed to a page that lists the current conditions from many of the major cities located within the forecast area covered by this website. Eventually, we hope to expand this features to list current observations across the state of Texas.\nThis entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 at 2:41 pm\tand is filed under Website Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digginthedirt.ca/2014/11/05/baking-up-something-special/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:B6TD7WRARIAMOLWEJSAMYKSFOIZ354UI", "length": 3096, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.digginthedirt.ca", "title": "Baking up something special \u2013 Diggin' the Dirt", "raw_content": "Baking up something special\nPosted by Sarah Mulholland on November 5, 2014 July 11, 2018\nYup. We\u2019ve got a bun in the oven.\nSo the cat\u2019s out of the bag as of today! Yup \u2014 we\u2019re expecting! I\u2019ve spent the last couple days doing the big reveal at work and online, something that\u2019s had me feeling quite a bit of anxiety. But in the end, it\u2019s been a lot of fun to tell people, and generally everyone has been very positive and excited for us. My anxiety was rooted in knowing that suddenly I would be\u2026 exposed\u2026 along with worries about all the stuff women generally have to deal with throughout a pregnancy, like changes in how people treat you, as if you have a disability (I don\u2019t), or the collective social notion that suddenly your body is no longer your own \u2014 that it belongs to society as a whole (it does not; my body is all mine, and only temporarily on loan to a small being).\nDespite today being the first day virtually my whole world has been informed of our news, in fact my closest friends and family have been aware for a while. So I\u2019ve already experienced some of these changes. And I don\u2019t entirely blame people for their odd choices of words, the horror stories they decide to tell you, or their notions that I need special treatment. I get the psychology behind it, which is quite enlightened by Sally Raskoff over on the Everyday Sociology Blog. But I still wish people would think about what they intend to say or how they may come across, before those horror stories leave their mouths!\nBecause really, when you\u2019re pregnant, you\u2019ve likely done some reading. You\u2019ve probably given some thought to the many \u201cwhat ifs\u201d you may be confronted with. At least I know I have. I\u2019m a Virgo after all; I organize and prepare and inform myself. Being pregnant is an intensely personal experience, and different for every woman. I don\u2019t want any special treatment (although the offer of a subway seat would be nice once in a while), and I\u2019m the best judge of my capabilities during each phase of this experience. If I don\u2019t think I can lift that box, I\u2019ll tell you and ask you to do it. And no, I don\u2019t really care to hear your favourite horrible pregnancy story.\nAlso, as of today, I\u2019ve been asked what Katharine Wroth in Salon.com describes as \u201cWhat not to ask a pregnant woman,\u201d that is, \u201cWere you trying?\u201d When I first encountered this article I admittedly was a bit confused about why this question could be viewed so negatively, but as I read on, my response changed to, \u201cDamn straight! Who\u2019s business is it really how my sex life has been?\u201d I think my initial response to the article was because for me, part of our delay in getting in the family way had to do with my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis three years ago. So I\u2019m somewhat less offended by this question, but thanks to the article, I now consider this one a little more, especially depending on who\u2019s asking.\nThat\u2019s it for now. I\u2019m sure there will be much more to come before our munchkin is due to arrive by mid March!\npregnancysociology\nPrevious Post Wish List: Flash Disc Portable Light Modifier\nNext Post Leafy Baby Blanket", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-techniques/article/underwater-photographer-s-guide-snell-s-window/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:C4NWUBYFMH526SQ3QWYGXYWLEWOC5R6P", "length": 3201, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.divephotoguide.com", "title": "Snell's Window", "raw_content": "Home > Techniques > Creative Techniques > Snell's Window\n\u2018Snell\u2019s window\u2019 was named after the Dutch mathematician, Willebrod Van Roigen Snell, who lived between 1580 and 1662. A professor of mathematics at Leiden University, he discovered the law of refraction known today as \u2018Snell\u2019s law\u2019.\nIn underwater photography, Snell\u2019s window is portrayed as an arc or half-circle through which the sky is visible. The area around the circle is a reflection of the seascape, and as such is much darker than the sky. Many newcomers often claim never to have noticed it. Here\u2019s how you do it:\nAs you descend, look back towards the surface through a wide-angle lens; it\u2019s important to keep your vision directed in this way.\nYou will see an arc or, depending on your depth, a half-circle.\nThis window, arc or circle, call it what you may, is your only visual access to the world above.\nIf the visibility is good and the surface is flat, you will clearly see the sky through the water.\nYou don\u2019t need to be in the sea to see Snell\u2019s window; it\u2019s clearly visible through the surface of a swimming pool.\nOn a full frame sensor (FX) a 16-mm fisheye lens will capture the majority of the circle, but not all. I was once under the impression that the deeper you went the more could be included. This is incorrect! To photograph the full circle, you need a fisheye lens equivalent to a 12-mm lens on a full frame FX sensor.\nThe best conditions for shooting Snell\u2019s window are when the surface of the sea is glass calm and the sky is blue with (to be very persnickety) white fluffy clouds.\nNikon D200, 10.5mm Fisheye, Subal housing, f 11 at 1/125th sec, natural light. Snell\u2019s window is at its best when the surface of the water is glass calm. Puffy white clouds in a clear blue sky emphasise the contrast. The trick is finding a subject which complements the effects of the window. I\u2019m always looking to place circles within circles and hard coral formations work well. To have illuminated the coral with flash would have (in my opinion) diminished the effect so I\u2019m inclined to use natural light whenever I can.\nNikon D200, 10.5mm Fisheye, Subal housing, f 11 at 1/500th sec, natural light. This image is all about the contrast and a number of layers between\n1. The silhouetted diver\n2. The view through the window (the inner circle)\n3. The reflected circle of light (the outer circle)\n4. The portion of reef at bottom left\nNikon D200, 10.5mm Fisheye, Subal housing, f 13 at 1/250th sec, natural light. My angle of view is not directly upwards, that\u2019s why only a portion of snell is visible but it\u2019s just enough to provide more depth perspective, which creates interest and something else to \u2018jazz up\u2019 the picture. My strobe did not recharge in time to fire but I prefer the position of the lionfish, which is in perfect silhouette. Also notice the strong diagonal of the edge of snell curving at top left and running down to bottom right\nNikon D200, Subal housing, f 5.6 at 1/90th sec, natural light. No more than one meter deep, the surface was again flat which emphasises the circle. I used a 12mm \u2013 24mm lens and shot hundreds of shallow water upward angles of the pier at Nuweiba in the northern Red Sea.\nAmos Nachom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diversitydatakids.org/data/profile/3512/port-st-lucie", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:SLF6OLTWK7MNEF57FK6WGE4LS7VFMS45", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.diversitydatakids.org", "title": "Profile Results - diversitydatakids.org", "raw_content": "Port St. Lucie, FL (Metro Area)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/49dcde6d4c0809db,721853eb7dadc41f,40a551967837b1ce.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KHZEUD45JMHXZ4GGVE7YBIQZXFN3Q5SD", "length": 1602, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.dl.begellhouse.com", "title": "HEAT TRANSFER OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW IN A CHANNEL LINED WITH POROUS LAYERS UNDER THERMAL NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS - Journal of Porous Media, Volume 13, 2010, Issue 3 - Begell House Digital Library", "raw_content": "Home > Journals > Journal of Porous Media > Volume 13, 2010 Issue 3 > HEAT TRANSFER OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW IN A CHANNEL LINED WITH POROUS LAYERS UNDER THERMAL NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS\nHEAT TRANSFER OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW IN A CHANNEL LINED WITH POROUS LAYERS UNDER THERMAL NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS\nM. Abkar\nDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave, P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran\nP. Forooghi\nAbbas Abbassi\nDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 424 Hafez Ave., P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran\nForced convection of a non-Newtonian fluid in a channel partially filled with porous layers is studied. In order to study the problem in its most realistic conditions, the Brinkman\u2212Forchheimer model for momentum conservation and two equations, the local thermal equilibrium and nonequilibrium models for energy conservation, are used. Flow is assumed to be fully developed, but development of the thermal boundary layer is taken into account. The effect of the power-law index of the non-Newtonian fluid (n) as well as thermal conductivity of the solid matrix and the thickness of the porous layer are studied. It is shown that thinner porous layer fluids with smaller n show better heat-transfer capability in the same modified Reynolds number, whereas when the porous layer fluids are thicker, fluids with larger n have a greater Nusselt number, except when the thickness ratio is very close to 1.\nKEY WORDS: convective heat transfer, thermal non-equilibrium, non-Newtonian fluid, porous media", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dlocaustralia.org/dloc-events/past/sydney-carnivale-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RX4WTEY4ZIOQ4VUJCR2I5PMMASOWGTVZ", "length": 886, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dlocaustralia.org", "title": "DLOC Australia :: Sydney CARnivale - Tuesday January 26th", "raw_content": "Sydney CARnivale\nAustralia Day Car display and Concours d\u2019Elegance. Due to changes to the Sydney CBD traffic arrangements as a result of the Sydney Light Rail construction, and to accommodate this growing event and the thousands of car lovers and motoring enthusiasts who attend each year, Parramatta Park has been selected as the ideal location to host CARnivale in 2016.\nParramatta City Council, in partnership with the Australia Day Council of New South Wales, invites you to take part in CARnivale in the Park, which this year will be held at Parramatta Park on Australia Day, Tuesday 26 January 2016.\nTo register for CARnivale go to: www.australiaday.com.au/get-involved/carnivale/ and download the registration form, fill it in and return it to the address on the bottom of the page.\nNote: Entries will close on Friday 13th November 2015 or earlier if all spaces have been filled.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 10254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.documentarytube.com/articles/first-live-look-at-china-j20-aircraft-superior-to-f-22-and-f-35", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:PYXJ5TA57KZJWA4656TOIOKMYC7I7MW7", "length": 3848, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.documentarytube.com", "title": "First Live Look at China\u2019 J20, Aircraft Superior to F-22 and F-35 | DocumentaryTube", "raw_content": "Aleksandar Mishkov/ published 3 months ago\nThere have been reports in the past few years that the jet had been built in part from plans of US war planes. To be specific, there were plans obtained from the F-22 raptor by Chinese hackers. Beijing has denied those rumors\nChina\u2019s J20 made its first flyby in November 2016. The plane was introduced years before. But it wasn\u2019t up until November 2018 that the world finally saw what this swift, stealthy, and armed with long-range missiles fighter jet can do.\nThe design is very similar to the one of US fighter jets, which just adds salt to the controversy that Chinese military used stolen plans to develop the stealth plane. At the Zhuhai air show, the J20 was the finale of the six-day airplane show.\nMany experts are already saying that the plane represents a leap forward in China\u2019s ability to project power in Asia, and compete with the US technology. China plans to overtake the US as the world\u2019s top aviation market in the next decade, and the J20 is a step in the right direction.\nWhile the J20 was shown to the public before, in photos and short videos, the public has never before seen it in live action. And during the Zhuhai show, China reveled the frightening arsenal of missiles carried by the stealth fighter jet.\nAs part of the grand finale of the six-day airshow, two J-20 fighter jets opened their cargo bay doors, revealing four missiles in its fuselage and one on either side of the aircraft. Chinese officials believe that the demonstration displayed the superiority their jet has over US fighter jets like the F-22 and F-35.\nThe four missiles in the fuselage were long-range air-to-air missiles, while the ones on the sides were short-range combat missiles designed for aerial combat.\nControversy surrounding the aircraft\nThere have been reports in the past few years that the jet had been built in part from plans of US war planes. To be specific, there were plans obtained from the F-22 raptor by Chinese hackers. The hackers were jailed last year, but the reports were that they managed to deliver the plans to Chinese government.\nBeijing has firmly denied the theory, which is only logical. The government insists that the J-20 had been developed and built solely with the Chinese technology.\nMilitary analysts on the other hand, say that it was too early to tell if the jet fighters match the capabilities of the F-22 Raptor. Pictures have been released in the past, but there was never a live action of the fighters. In addition, none of the pictures show the weaponry the jets would carry.\nIt is worth noting, that in 2016, a Chinese national, 51 year old Su Bin was sent to prison for stealing US military plans and sending documents to Beijing. The documents were reported to be plans for F-22 and F-35. That enabled the Chinese military to rapidly catch up with the US capabilities.\nThe J-20 is China\u2019s fourth generation of fighter jet. It made its maiden flight in 2011. China has been trying hard in the past few years to narrow the military gap with the United States. And the \u201cfight\u201d will only become more intense in the next few years.\nComparison to F-22\nSome foreign observers have questioned the J-20 stealth capabilities. But with that in mind, let\u2019s talk how similar it is to the F-22 Raptor. Here are the features of both planes.\n- Top speed: 1,305mph\n- Range: 2,113 mi\n- Wingspan: 42\u2019 0\u201d\n- Weight: 43,000lbs\n- Engine Type: Xian WS-15 turbofan engines\n- Cost: $110m\n- Range: 1,839mi\n- Wingspan: 44\u20190\u201d\n- Engine Type: Pratt & Whitney F119\nThe War in Afghanistan lasted for more than 10 years. And it all started due as a response to the 9/11 attack on the United States. 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It covers the uplifting story of the 1992 Lithuania national basketball team and their trip to the bronze award at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona.\nOther than the team, the documentary is looking into the history of this sport in Lithuania. The fall of the Soviet Union permitted Lithuania to restore its autonomy and enter the Olympics as a free nation. Following 50 years of Soviet persecution, the Lithuanian basketball team was an image of trust and liberation.\nThe film incorporates interviews with numerous popular figures of this sport such as Arvydas Sabonis, David Stern, Jim Lampley, Bill Walton, and \u0160ar\u016bnas Marciulionis. The title fo the documentary makes reference to the Dream Team, the first American Olympic b-ball group to include NBA players.\nMarius A. Markevicius is a Lithuanian-American director. It took him more than three years to complete this documentary. The narrative consolidates chronicled footage with new meetings. The Lithuanians were suggested to talk in English during the filming, but the nature of the topic was overwhelming and it was easier for them to talk in their native language.\nIf you want to watch more sport documentaries, click here.\nBasketballSportNba", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.doom-metal.com/bands.php?band=2303", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4KTYOE7627WJEL6DB4STB2XTWPH77DBG", "length": 776, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.doom-metal.com", "title": "Doom-metal.com", "raw_content": "Very obscure band from Vilnius which is little known outside their home country. The music consisted of Death/Doom Metal with deep growls, bleak guitar melodies...\nAvantgarde Doom, Stoner/Doom\nFormed in Austin, Texas, by Chad Rauschenberg, and consisting of members of Prog/psych band A Five and Dime Ship and Doom band Blood for Master. Were-Jaguars term themselves Progressive/Doom, and freely mix elements of Stoner, Doom with Prog and Space Rock. The atmosphere isn't particularly doomy, but the heavy riffing frequently is - even so, there's as many Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and even Gong moments as there are clear-cut Doom ones.\nWere-Jaguars 2012 Self-released Digital\nII 2014 R.A.I.G. Records CD\nSea And Land (EP) 2015 R.A.I.G. Records Digital\nIII 2016 R.A.I.G. Records CD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drivenachodrive.com/how-to-visit-machu-picchu-on-the-cheap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:EVBTMITKQUWBGKMOAKV5JIG5AQF26J5M", "length": 5617, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.drivenachodrive.com", "title": "Drive Nacho Drive \u00bb How to Visit Machu Picchu on the Cheap", "raw_content": "A visit to Machu Picchu can very quickly spiral into a thousand dollar affair, even after you\u2019ve arrived in Cuzco. If you\u2019re okay with that, then fine. If you\u2019re looking for a more affordable, and perhaps more genuine Peruvian experience, this page will describe how to get from Cuzco to Machu Picchu affordably, including meals and lodging. This is the route that we did on our trip to Machu Picchu, described here.\nA typical trip to Machu Picchu is done in this way (prices are for one person). Afterwards I\u2019ll tell you how to do it inexpensively.\nThe Expensive Way to See Machu Picchu\n1. Tourist train to Aguas Calientes. It\u2019s fast and comfortable, or so we\u2019re told.\nPrice: $180 (round trip)\n2. Hotel in Aguas Calientes. I assume you\u2019re not doing the whole out and back in a day, so you\u2019ll need a place to stay. There are affordable places to stay, so let\u2019s assume you stay there.\n3. You\u2019ll need meals. I\u2019ll assume you brought your own lunch materials, so this is the price of dinner for one.\n4. Bus from Aguas Calientes to the ruins. It travels up a steep and long set of switchbacks, as the ruins are perched on a ridge.\nPrice: $18 (round trip)\n5. Entry to the ruins. This one is unavoidable, and if you\u2019re a foreigner you\u2019ll have to pay the racism rate. The racism rate is a practice employed by many tourist attractions in South America, whereby foreigners pay around 10 times the price compared to locals. You know, kind of like how we charge Japanese tourists $2,000 to see the Grand Canyon.\nTOTAL COST: $333 per person\nFor two people, this escalates to around $600. And perhaps you thought that hiking the Inca Trail to the ruins would save you some money compared to taking the train. You\u2019d be wrong; a new law requires that guides receive $250 from each hiker goes to the mandatory guide. Thus, depending on the company you use, you will likely pay $500-$800 per person to hike the Inca Trail. It is not permitted to hike without an official guide.\nNow for the inexpensive way. Our full experience with this method, again, is described in our blog.\nThe Inexpensive Way to See Machu Picchu\nA. Bus from Cuzco to Ollantaytambo. It leaves several times daily from the bus terminal, and if you get it early enough you\u2019ll be able to get all the way to the ruins in one day. This trip takes around 1-2 hours, give or take. We actually drove our own car to Ollantaytambo, so I can\u2019t be sure.\nPrice: $10 (20 soles)\nB. Bus from Ollantaytambo to Santa Maria. It picks up on the North side of the plaza, and only comes twice per day when there\u2019s not a transport strike happening. Ask within one of the shops on the plaza what it looks like and when it will come. It should be around 10:00AM. Tell the driver to let you know when you\u2019re at Santa Maria to avoid missing the stop. The trip takes around 4 hours.\nC. Collectivo van from Santa Maria to Santa Teresa. As soon as you get off of the bus, you\u2019ll see a couple of vans waiting for enough passengers to make the trip to Santa Teresa. No advanced planning needed, just walk over to a van. The trip takes about an hour to an hour and a half.\nPrice: $5 (10 soles)\nD. Death taxi from Santa Teresa to the hydroelectric dam (la hydroelectrica). As soon as the collectivo drops you off in Santa Teresa, there will be taxis waiting to bring people to the hydroelectrica. Just get in one, say a prayer, and hold on tight. The trip takes about 45 minutes.\nPrice: $2 (5 soles)\nE. Walk to Aguas Calientes. When you\u2019re dropped off you\u2019ll see some train tracks leading into the trees. Start walking. Pretty soon these tracks will end, and you\u2019ll have to walk up the embankment on your right into the jungle, where soon you\u2019ll find another set of tracks. Turn left and keep walking. After 2 hours you\u2019ll end up in Aguas Calientes.\nF. Hotel, the cheap way. In my blog, I describe exactly how to get a nice hotel right on the plaza for less than half price. Do it exactly the way I did it and you\u2019ll be home free.\nG. Dinner, the cheap way. Now the fun begins. There are far too many restaurants in A.C. compared to the number of tourists. Knowing this means that you can get a really good deal if you try. I describe in my blog how I got two restaurants fighting over our business, and got our meal of trout and alpaca steak for less than half price. Also be sure to refuse paying the \u201cfork tax\u201d of 20%, but only after you\u2019ve established that your price includes tax before you sit down. Again, read the blog for more details.\nH. Walk to the ruins. The normal way to get from A.C. to Machu Picchu is to take the bus. We actually rode the bus because we were pretty worn out from our hike. However, if you\u2019re more hardcore than we are, you can walk. Just head out the dirt road leading back the way you came when you arrived, and when you get to the bridge over the river just after the campground, cross it. From here the trail takes off, which goes straight up the ridge to the ruins. The hike takes 1 hour for the super fit, or 1.5 hours for the normally fit. The ruins open their gates at 5AM, so get up early. The first tourist train arrives at 9AM, so there\u2019s time to enjoy it before the hordes arrive.\nI. Entry to the ruins. This one, again, is unavoidable. This may be a bit out of order, but BE SURE TO BUY YOUR ENTRY TICKET in Aguas Calientes immediately when you arrive in town. The ticket office is near the plaza and closes at 8PM. If you miss it, you won\u2019t be able to get up to the ruins bright and early in the morning.\nThe savings on a group of two traveling together, then, would be almost $400. Not too shabby! 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He has built and managed significant management consulting practices.\nBill\u2019s long experience in process design and mapping with methods such as Structured Analysis Design Technique (SADT) equipped him to lead the original project with over 60 industry leaders to develop the first industry-standard Supply Chain Operations Reference-model\u00ae (SCOR\u00ae). He was a founding member of the Supply Chain Council (in 2014 the Council merged with APICS, who now maintain SCOR\u00ae.) The SCOR Model, now in Version 11.0, has been enabled on a number of process-mapping platforms, including ARIS. Bill led the Life Sciences Practice at PRTM Management Consultants, LLC for several years in Waltham, MA, and then established PRTM\u2019s Public Health Practice in Washington, DC.\nBill earned his MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, a MS in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in Engineering from Webb Institute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 179.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.edelmansultan.com/projects/housing/supportive-housing/intervale-green-and-louis-nine-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:G2BGOOOTE2OUFORRDAIYROOUCHCLMGW2", "length": 1485, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.edelmansultan.com", "title": "Intervale Green and Louis Nine House - Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architects", "raw_content": "Women\u2019s Housing and Economic Development Corporation\nEdelman Sultan Knox Wood / Architects LLP in association with Peter Francese, PE\nRooftop Design-Build:\nParsons The New School Design Studio\nTwo building programs are served at Intervale Green and the Louis Nine House. Intervale Green is a mixed-use, seven-story, 128-unit residential apartment building for low to moderate-income families with commercial storefronts on the ground floor. The Louis Nine House is a four-story, 46-unit supportive housing building for young adults emerging from the foster care system. Both buildings take advantage of green technology to bolster the project\u2019s sustainability: the building envelopes are designed to reduce heat loss and air leakage; energy efficient appliances and mechanical equipment are employed throughout; green roofs reduce the urban \u201cheat island\u201d effect. Working closely with the non-profit client, ESKW facilitated a design-build roof garden at the Louis Nine House by students from The Design Workshop at Parsons The New School for Design. Intervale Green achieved an Energy Star rating, the largest affordable housing building in the country to do so at the time of the award.\nThe Intervale Green and Louis Nine House project was honored the John C. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing by the Boston Society of Architects and AIANY in 2009. It also was a recipient of a Design Award from the Society of American Registered Architects\u2019 Pennsylvania Council in 2011.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.edinburghumc.org/blog/2018/9/4/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CVF3ZDCKNHJOHWHVNNBK7S2M5JEAKN6A", "length": 11976, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.edinburghumc.org", "title": "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall \u2014 Edinburgh United Methodist Church", "raw_content": "Heather Sellers was profiled in a 2013 article for the magazine New Scientist. Heather suffers from a condition that most of us will probably find unusual. In the article Heather gives an example of the types of issue her problem causes her. She said: \u201cI\u2019ve been in a crowded elevator with mirrors all around, and a woman will move and I\u2019ll go to get out the way and then realize: \u2018oh that woman is me\u2019. Heather suffers from prosopagnosia or face blindness. She completely lacks the ability to recognize faces, including her own. People, like Heather, who suffer from this condition do not have a vision problem. They can see just fine. They also do not suffer from a memory disorder. They lack the ability to recognize a face. Human brains are typically wired to recognize faces more readily than other objects. There are specific parts of our brain that light up when we see a face. Neuroscientists studying face blindness have found that people with face blindness have a part of the brain light up when they see a face but then the part of the brain that is responsible for processing this information fails to trigger. People with face blindness are physically incapable of processing what a face looks like. Often people with this condition are able to compensate and learn other ways to recognize people. Also, face blindness appears to be a gradient, not everyone who suffers from this condition has it to the degree Heather does where she cannot even recognize herself. It was once thought that this condition was rare because it is often not diagnosed in those who suffer from it. However, today neuroscientists believe as many as 1 out of 50 people, or 2.5 % of the population suffer from prosopagnosia. It is absolutely fascinating to me to think that this condition is recorded in the Bible, James used it as an analogy to prove his point. Someone who looks at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like sounds a lot like prosopagnosia. While they would not have known the neuroscience behind it, there is every reason to think that the people of the ancient world were aware of this condition. That means that James was not making up an example, but writing of a condition that people could have known about.\nMoreover I think knowing that prosopagnosia is a real condition, helps give James overall point here more depth. James, a letter attributed to the brother of Jesus, is a practical, down to earth primer on how to have a faith that works. In this morning\u2019s scripture James is writing about the stuff that gets in the way of our faith working. The point that James is making, is that we are all in danger of suffering from spiritual prosopagnosia. The difference is when we look into the mirror it is not our face we do not recognize, it is our heart, our inner being that is lost to us. In this scripture James explains what causes this condition and how we can cure it.\nBecause of the language used, this morning\u2019s scripture can be a tricky. The way we use words is often nuanced, and it is easy to get the wrong read. This of course is compounded when reading scripture, because it is written in a language not native to us and we have to rely on translations. To properly understand this scripture it is important to all be on the same page about some of the terms being used here. For instance verse 21 mentions to humbly accept the word planted in you, and then verse 22 states: \u201cDo not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves, do what it says.\u201d It is clear that the word being referred to here is the same thing, but it may not be what we are thinking. In our modern day church language we have been conditioned to automatically equate word with the Bible. In fact, it is not uncommon to see verse 22, taken out of context and listed as what the Bible says about the bible. However, this scripture is not about the Bible, when it speaks of the word it is not talking about a book. Rather it is talking about the word that is mentioned in the first chapter of the gospel of John: \u201cIn the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.\u201d The word that we are supposed to humbly accept planted in us, the word that we are to do what it says, is the gospel. It is the word that God became flesh and dwelt among us. It is the word that declares repent for the kingdom of God is near. It is the word that says \u201cgo and sin no more. It is the word that says, you are loved, you are forgiven, and that you were worth dying for. The word referenced in this scripture refers to more than words planted on a page. The word is the greatest gift that God, the giver of every good and perfect faith. The word is the seed of faith planted in us speaks to our souls that Jesus is Lord and messiah!\nThe idea being presented here is the gospel of truth, the good news of Jesus Christ, is supposed to grow in us. Like a seed planted it is to grow, flourish and transform us. A belief in Jesus is not merely an academic pursuit. It is not a box we check on a form, it is not some bit of demographical data. Being a Christian is supposed to continually renew us and make us new as we listen to still, small voice of the Holy Spirit, and we do what the word of God within us says. When we do this we truly become more Christ like. When we get it right we live like Jesus where we love God with all of our being, have genuine compassion for others, and we willfully do not sin. We become a living reflection of our Lord and Savior. And then. . .\nAnd then, like a person with prosopagnosia we forget what Jesus is supposed to look like. We are like the person who forgets what our face looks like as soon as we walk away from the mirror because we stop living our faith, we stop doing what God says. It truly is easy for us to suffer from spiritual prosopagnosia. We can identify the problem, but what is the cause? James writes about this in verse 21. The NIV renders it this way, \u201cTherefore get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is prevalent.\u201d\nI have spent fifteen years in youth ministry at this point. Early on in working with teenagers I relied a lot on curriculums and resource books. Many of the included a lesson on media choices, and without out fail those lessons would use this scripture as a clobber verse. This verse would be used why the music/tv/movies/ whatever that was popular at the time was bad. Now I do believe that the media choices that we all make (not just teenagers who get picked on in this regard) are important to give careful thought to. However, James was not writing about rap music here. This is another area where there are some language difficulties. The NIV translation of moral filth uses filth as a noun. This naturally gives the impressions of some sort of physical object. Other translations avoid this by referring to conditional states and speak of getting rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Verse 20 gives an example of what is being talked about here as it states \u201chuman anger does not produced the righteousness God declares.\u201d I think the reason why we are so quick to want to make this scripture about moral filth focus on things like TV and music is because it is more comfortable. It feels like an easy answer to tell teenagers \u201cyou should not listen to certain music because it is moral filth\u201d than it is to focus on changing our own actions and attitudes. This scripture is about more than just media choices it is about the sinful thoughts and attitudes we give ourselves over to. This scripture gives anger as an example but pride, jealously, lust, selfishness, and hate would also fit the bill as the kind of filthiness we are to rid ourselves of.\nNow on one hand, we know this on the other hand though, we still struggle with this, and the other day I had a realization as to why this might be. I was watching my son play Minecraft the other day. There are a few things that you need to know about Minecraft. First, it is a video game. Second this video game is not old, but it is made to look that way. The game intentionally uses a block old-school graphic aesthetic. This means that relatively speaking the game is not as graphic intensive as most games. Finally, it is a sandbox video game. This means that players can build and create more or less whatever they want. This is why my son loves it and he had built a gold house floating in the air with lava pouring out of it, over top of a literal mountain of waterfalls, which has a roller coaster going around it and whole herds of dolphins. He had thrown a lot into this little part of a little digital world. So in this world he had built a portal. What I noticed is that when we came back through the portal, the system struggled to load all of the stuff he built. Even though it has simple graphics there was a pause as everything reloaded block by block. If we left and came back, it would do it again. The game created a digital world, but it could only keep one part of it loaded at a time. When we left one part, the system would essentially forget what that part of the world looked like, and it had to then reload it. I think our hearts are the same way. We are focused on, and have Jesus loaded up or we do not.\nOur hearts, our inner most beings only have enough space for one thing to occupy our souls. If it is not Jesus, then it is anger or greed or jealousy. Whenever we focus our desires on those wicked motivations, then we have to push Jesus aside to make room for them. This is why we are spiritually like someone who looks in the mirror and forgets what they look like, because we stop trying to be like and look like Jesus! This is not a modern day problem. Robert Robinson wrote about all the way back in 1758 in the song we sang today: \u201cLet thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love.\u201d\nSo the problem is we do stop doing what the word of God in us says and the cause is that our hearts our prone to wander back to the dirt we swept under the rug but never actually got rid of. Finally, what might the treatment be? We actually have been looking at this scripture backwards, because James started by giving the solution to the problem. In verse 16 James wrote, \u201cDon\u2019t be deceived my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights who does not change like shifting shadows.\u201d God\u2019s goodness and provision is a constant that we anchor to. Perhaps the best way we can do that is through regularly thanking God for every good and perfect gift. The fact that you were able to get up and travel here today? A gift. The freedom to worship? A gift. The people sitting next to you? A gift. The breath you just took? A gift. More importantly, the faith we profess? A gift. The forgiveness that takes away our sin? A gift. The bond of love that reunites us with our Creator? A gift. The savior that makes it all possible? A gift. Every good and perfect gift comes from God the Father, and we have so much to be thankful for!\nWhen we give thanks to God that is where our focus is. When we give thanks to God, then we move closer to loving God with our whole being. When we give thanks to God we are moved to compassion for others because we realize how much compassion God has had on us. When we give thanks to God we do not willfully sin, because we know how much the forgiveness of sin costs.\nGod chose to give us birth through the word of truth, so may we be forever thankful for that. In doing so, may we truly hear the word planted in us seeking to shape us to be more Christ like, and may we not forget what we have heard. May we stop being like someone who looks into a mirror and then forgets what they look like. Instead may we be able to honestly and truly ask, \u201cmirror, mirror on the wall who is grateful for all?\u201d and may the reflection we see be an honest answer to that question.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 12647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eiiff.com/company/centers-of-start-up-ecosystems", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IIGXZP7K3JVHK6LI7ZXMKXVMRABDTHN7", "length": 1655, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.eiiff.com", "title": "Centers of Start up Ecosystems | World Finance", "raw_content": "World Finance \u00bb World Top Companies \u00bb Centers of Start up Ecosystems\nDescription: Map showing the top 20 centers of start up Eeosystems\nDuring the past few years, a total of 20 ecosystems have witnessed an increase in the total number of start-ups. However, the list of start-ups is dominated by North America and Europe, with a majority of the start-up ecosystems located in these two continents. Of the top 20 ecosystems, 10 are located in North America. Silicon Valley, located in the US state of California occupies the first place. It has received the numero uno position in funding, talent and performance; however, in market research it is at the 4th position. The other North American cities that have made it to the list include New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. The prominent Asian regions that occupy a place include Bangalore and Singapore, while the city of Sao Paulo is the only South American city on the list. Other prominent cities include Tel Aviv, London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Sydney, and Amsterdam.\nStartup Exp\nSilicon Valley 1 1 1 4 1 1 2.1\nNew York City 2 2 2 1 9 4 1.8\nLos Angeles 3 4 4 2 10 5 1.8\nBoston 4 3 3 7 12 7 2.7\nLondon 5 6 5 13 3 6 2.9\nTel Aviv 6 5 10 3 7 13 3.3\nChicago 7 8 12 5 11 14 2.8\nSeattle 8 12 11 12 4 3 2.1\nBerlin 9 7 8 19 8 8 10\nSingapore 10 11 9 9 20 9 1.9\nParis 11 13 13 6 16 15 1.3\nSao Paulo 12 9 7 11 19 19 3.5\nMoscow 13 17 15 8 2 20 1\nAustin 14 16 14 18 5 2 1.9\nBangalore 15 10 6 20 17 12 4.9\nSydney 16 20 16 17 6 10 1.1\nToronto 17 14 18 14 15 18 1.3\nVancouver 18 18 19 15 14 11 1.2\nAmsterdam 19 15 20 10 18 16 3\nMontreal 20 19 17 16 13 17 1.5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 4275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 169.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eiiff.com/stock-trading/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DEU5BWSPC3LURQUI2RGWT22PUN6PHG2U", "length": 2304, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.eiiff.com", "title": "Stock Trading | World Finance", "raw_content": "World Finance \u00bb Stock Trading\nStock trading is done by a wide range of investors and this line of investing consists of individual stock investors, stock trading companies, and all the individuals and companies used to recruit professionals who carry out the trading on behalf of the recruiters.\nThe term stock means shares. Different companies sell a part of their shares in the stock market and the buyers purchase these shares and becomes a partner in the company\u2019s profit. This profit making is the main purpose behind buying and selling of stocks. There is another form of investment and profit making which is known as a bond.\nThe stocks and bond market are different, but they are jointly known as the securities market. Stock exchanges are the places where the stock trading takes place. These places are designed to bring the stock sellers and the stock buyers onto the same platform and boost the business of stock trading.\nThere are different types of stock exchanges like a physical type, a virtual type, etc., and stock trading follows different methods depending upon the market type.\nIn the physical location, the stock is done through a method which is known as \u2018open outcry\u2019. The trading in this type of exchange is done on the trading floor, and the traders put forward the bids and offers verbally. This method is the traditional method of stock trading, but it is becoming outdated in the modern market.\nVirtual stock exchanges are much more sophisticated than the traditional physical one. These exchanges use modern technology like computers and other gadgets to carry out the trading. Instead of crying loudly and putting forward rates and offers, the traders in virtual exchange use their computer terminals and the trading is done electronically.\nStock trading is like an auction market. In the auction market there are several sellers and at the same time, there are several buyers. The buyer asks a price for the commodity and the seller quotes a price to buy the commodity. When the seller\u2019s price and the buyer\u2019s price match each other, the deal is confirmed. In the stock exchanges, this kind of selling and buying exists and is done on an early-bird basis.\nStock Trading Future\nStock Trading Advice\nStock Trading Option\nStock Trading Tool\nInternational Online Stock Trading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/4869", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:28Z", "digest": "sha1:5CDGYI65MHFLADB4U5OTIAXHDTCW4JA3", "length": 3128, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ekklesia.co.uk", "title": "Ekklesia | Crying 'discrimination' harms churches message", "raw_content": "Home / Crying 'discrimination' harms churches message\nCrying 'discrimination' harms churches message\nLondon, UK - Monday 19 March 2007: The UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia has said that \u201cretreating into a persecution mentality\u201d is unhelpful \u2013 and harms the churches\u2019 message. The comment came in response to a new BBC survey which shows that up to a third of UK Christians feel they are discriminated against in public life because of their faith.\nEkklesia\u2019s Jonathan Bartley, whose 2006 book Faith and Politics After Christendom first warned of a \u201cnegative\u201d response among sections of the church to their gradual loss of official status, commented: \u201cSome Christians do feel discriminated against, but Christians are also privileged \u2013 with 26 bishops in the house of Lords, an established church, tax breaks and blasphemy laws protecting them, for example.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cOthers will point out that Christians discriminate themselves. Many state-funded schools run by churches are selecting on the basis of people's faith. Churches have claimed opt-outs from equalities legislation. And their treatment of lesbian and gay people is seen as bigoted by many, inside and outside the churches.\u201d\nBartley said that in a global context where minorities were under attack, and in the UK where some Muslims and Jews in the UK faced attacks and desecration of their cemeteries, talk of \u201cpersecution\u201d by some Christian groups was inappropriate.\nHe appeared on BBC1\u2019s Heaven and Earth Show (18 March 2007), which commissioned the survey.\n\u201cThe reason a sizable minority of Christians, especially more conservative ones, are feeling \u2018got at\u2019 is because the historic privilege and influence of the churches is being eroded in the public sphere\u201d added Ekklesia co-director Simon Barrow.\n\u201cBut this demonstrates how easy it has been, during the era of Christendom, for Christians to mistake their own power for the gospel message \u2013 which involves Jesus embodying God\u2019s special concern for those at the margins, not demanding special treatment for religion,\u201d he said.\nEkklesia argues that loss of automatic privileges, the challenges of pluralism in public life, and the criticism churches face over discrimination in schools and services is \u201ca historic opportunity for them to recover a vision of the Christian message as rooted in justice and equality. Self-interest and trying to grab power back is an unhelpful response \u2013 a counter-witness, even.\u201d\nThe think-tank has also warned about the dangers of \"the politics of competitive grievance\", where Christians, secularists, Muslims and others try to out-do each other with claims of discrimination, rather than finding positive ways of working together.\nAdditional information for editors:\n1. Ekklesia was founded in 2002 and has been listed by The Independent newspaper among 20 influential British think-tanks. It promotes transformative theological ideas in public life and explores the role of religion in society. It is not formally linked to any Christian body or denomination, but draws on a wide range of expertise.\n2. Media Enquiries \u2013 t: +44 (0)20 8769 8163; e: ; web: www.ekklesia.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ekt.gr/en/news/20741", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:J2OYWQY3HEA5XYXQK57AEKIDSPDS4XGC", "length": 2524, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ekt.gr", "title": "Summer School for Ancient Greek and Roman Numismatics | National Documentation Centre", "raw_content": "The Summer School for Numismatics is intended not only for undergraduates, postgraduate students and PhD candidates in History, Archaeology and Art History, historians and archaeologists, but also individuals with a special interest in numismatics.\nCreativityEducationScienceCulture\nThe Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, one of the most important establishments for the research and study of Greek history (ancient, medieval and modern) at international level, is pleased to announce the organisation of its first Summer School for Ancient Greek and Roman Numismatics, to take place at its premises in Athens, from 3 to 12 July 2017.\nThe ten-day intensive Summer School aims at familiarising those who have little or no background with the discipline of numismatics by offering a series of courses on methodology and various special themes. It will consist of lectures, practical sessions and visits to numismatic collections (Numismatic Museum, Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection, KIKPE/Welfare Foundation for Social and Cultural Affairs Numismatic Collection), museums (Acropolis Museum) and archaeological sites in Attica (Lavrion).\nThe courses will provide a chronological survey of ancient Greek and Roman coinage (from the invention of coinage to the Roman period), combined with special lectures on numismatic methodology, such as the study of coin hoards, metrology, iconography and online resources. Practical sessions will take place at the NHRF premises and in museums.\nThe Summer School on Numismatics is intended not only for undergraduates, postgraduate students and PhD candidates in History, Archaeology and Art History, historians and archaeologists, but also individuals with a special interest in numismatics.\nThe instructors will mainly be researchers from the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, with contributions from other experts in Greek and Roman numismatics. Each year a visiting scholar will be invited to develop a special topic. This year\u2019s guest speaker is Dr Christophe Flament, who will focus on the coinage of Athens.\nThe number of participants is limited to 25. They will be selected by the Scientific Committee following a thorough assessment of the application and the CV of the candidates.\nThe course will be taught in English.\nAll students will receive a certificate of participation.\nwww.ekt.gr, with information from National Hellenic Research Foundation\nThe National Hellenic Research Foundation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eltis.org/discover/news/getxo-begins-plan-its-first-sump-spain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BETUDSY5HMFQBWEY3DALCBQISKVQA7FL", "length": 1492, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.eltis.org", "title": "Getxo begins to plan its first SUMP (Spain) | Eltis", "raw_content": "Home > Discover > News > Getxo begins to plan its first SUMP (Spain)\nGetxo begins to plan its first SUMP (Spain)\nBy News Editor / Updated: 01 Jun 2017\nSubmitted by News Editor on 31 May 2017\nGetxo, a town in the Basque Country, will soon take the first steps in the process of developing a SUMP for the local municipal area.\nIn the coming weeks, 4,000 questionnaires will be distributed. They seek to find out the routes that are taken by residents in the area, along with at what times of day.\nTaxi drivers, cyclists, and associations of elderly or disabled people are amongst those who will be surveyed. Sessions will also be held for local residents to discuss the plans.\nThrough the plan, the town hopes to link its transport into the nearby Bilbao bus and metro network. Due to the hilly nature of some of the local neighbourhoods, however, thorough planning will be required of any prospective new transport routes.\nThe precursors to the plan go back to 1993, when a study of traffic and parking in the area was conducted. Joseba Arregi, the town's mayor, commented that the plan will involve cultural changes\", but that ultimately \"mobility is people-centered.\"\nHe also made clear that citizens' views would be key in any plans that are made, as the town sought to remove barriers to mobility for those that face them. A draft plan is expected for December this year.\nTo find out more, visit elcorreo.com (in Spanish).\nImage credit: P8270020 on Flickr by Shawn Price under CC BY-SA 2.0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 4670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/article.php/10953_863191_2/IPv6-The-Future-is-Now.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:55Z", "digest": "sha1:KHKFFASAOD64NHHFC7DSUPFVZOG5B7WI", "length": 1829, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com", "title": "IPv6: The Future is Now - Page 2", "raw_content": "IPv6: The Future is Now - Page 2\nDiagnosis Danger\nThe ability to diagnose problems is yet another pitfall of the current protocol.\n\"It's much harder to manage and understand the network when it's not working properly,\" he noted. \"The situation is complicated because it comes at the same stage where we are trying to convince everyone to move all applications and commercial traffic onto the Internet. If the world is going to depend on the Internet, it's important to maintain a robust and reliable infrastructure. It's a serious problem.\"\nThe major infrastructure providers and equipment manufacturers agree on this point and are moving to implement IPv6. Cisco is among the most aggressive in this area. They have announced an IPv6 translation router that is slated for release later this year.\nMeanwhile, they've made IPv6 available in their IOS software release 12.2(2)T. The IPv6 upgrade is available as a free download from Cisco's website. The upgrade covers the majority of their currently available routers. According to a Cisco press release, \"Cisco is delivering the industry's most widely tested and deployed IPv6 router solution.\"\nIn addition to Cisco, Intel, 3Com, Ericsson, Telebit, Hitachi, Nortel, and 6WIND have or are working on solutions for implementing IPv6 and/or translating from IPv4 to IPv6. Host support is available for BSD (Berkeley Systems Development), Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Linux, Microsoft, SCO Unix, and Sun Microsystems operating systems as well as others.\nIPv6 is not perfect. It's a compromise that grew out of a lot of tradeoffs. \"It builds on the architecture of IPv4, which has proven to be very successful. But we're at the stage where the original design is at its scaling limits. 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Each player has different possible moves, or availabilities; and it\u2019s up to you to strategize which pieces to move where, or which events to schedule (or reschedule) when. The objective is to land on a square wherein all participants can attend, but achieving this goal [\u2026]\nMy wife recently came up with a mantra I keep hearing: \u201cAmplify the Positive\u201d. 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Femenella & Associates prepared condition reports and conservation proposals; development and execution of emergency removal and temporary storage plan to mitigate impending health and safety issues due to the advanced state of deterioration of the stained glass panels. 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This is less predictable compared with having a well-thought-out superannuation plan that has a pool of funds that will be needed during the years of retirement.\n\u2026that the money you add to your superannuation fund is tax deductible to your business, and the capital gain within your super on retirement is tax free?\nSound like a good plan?\nIf you have any questions regarding superannuation for small business, please call us on 1300 88 95 11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 10420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstdallas.org/icampus/blog/discover-your-purpose", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BIAI4B35J34WIGZXTQRF6YBSKEOJ2CNE", "length": 2413, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.firstdallas.org", "title": "Discover Your Purpose \u00b7 First Baptist Dallas", "raw_content": "Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God.\nHerb Kelleher, the founder of Southwest Airlines, was once asked about the secret of his airline\u2019s phenomenal success. \u201cI can teach you the secret to running this airline in thirty seconds,\u201d he told the reporter. \u201cThis is it: Southwest is the low-fare airline. Not a low-fare airline. We are the low-fare airline. Once you understand that fact, you can make any decision about this company\u2019s future as well as I can.\u201d\nThe reporter asked Kelleher to elaborate on his statement. So, in keeping with his colorful and memorable personality, Kelleher responded with a story.\n\u201cHere\u2019s an example,\u201d he said. \u201cYou are the CEO of Southwest. Tracy from marketing comes into your office. She says her surveys indicate that passengers might enjoy a light entr\u00e9e on the flight from Houston to Las Vegas. All we offer is peanuts, and she thinks a nice chicken Caesar salad would be popular. What do you say?\u201d\nThe interviewer hesitated, so Kelleher answered his own question. \u201cYou say, \u2018Tracy, will adding chicken Caesar salad make us the low-fare airline from Houston to Las Vegas? Because if it doesn\u2019t help us become the unchallenged low-fare airline, then we\u2019re not serving any \u2026 chicken salad!\u201d\nHerb Kelleher may have used questionable language, but there was no question about his singular purpose for Southwest Airlines. And now, years after his retirement, this clearly defined purpose has maintained Southwest\u2019s unparalleled success as America\u2019s largest domestic airline.\nUnderstanding your unique purpose is not only integral to success in the business world, but it is also foundational to success in the spiritual world. A clearly defined life purpose is like a beacon in the darkness that provides direction when we face crucial choices and gives meaning to our lives.\nDo you want to live a meaningful, victorious life? Do you want to find true fulfillment in life and live out your unique destiny? Do you want to know how to have joy no matter what circumstances you are facing? If so, you must experience the power of a positive purpose. As we will learn this week, the Bible gives us several observations that will help you discover and live out the positive purpose that God has designed for you.\nQuote from James Carville and Paul Begala, \u201cBuck Up, Suck Up\u2013and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Secrets from the War Room\u201d (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 88.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurekaselect.com/165544", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QDA432LVGYJ46HJRNKCZFEWENZ4IJJYP", "length": 3804, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.eurekaselect.com", "title": "\ufeff Fly Ash Catalyzed Microwave Assisted Multicomponent Synthesis of Trisubstituted Imidazole Derivatives | Bentham Science", "raw_content": "Fly Ash Catalyzed Microwave Assisted Multicomponent Synthesis of Trisubstituted Imidazole Derivatives\nAuthor(s): Sonali S. Chine*, Department of Engineering Sciences, SRES Sanjivani College of Engineering (S.P.P.U, Pune), Kopargaon, Dist. Ahmednagar, (M.S.) 423601, India\tC.S. Patil, Department of Chemistry, Deogiri College (Dr. B.A.M.U., Aurangabad), Aurangabad, M.S, India\tVilas B. Gade. P.G. and Research Center, Department of Chemistry, S.S.G.M College (S.P.P.U, Pune), Kopargaon, Dist. Ahmednagar (M.S.), 423601, India\nBackground: Imidazoles are important class of heterocyclic compounds showing biological activities. Several methods have been investigated till today for the synthesis of triaryl imidazoles. Some of these classical as well as nonclassical methods experiences drawbacks for instance elongated reaction time, expensive catalyst, low yield of product etc. Hence improvement of a competent method is still necessary. This paper reveals greener protocol for the synthesis of triaryl imidazoles by cyclocondensation of aromatic aldehydes, benzil and ammonium acetate in existence of fly ash as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst by means of microwaves.\nMethods: Heterogeneous catalyst fly ash was prepared by simple thermal activation method. The catalyst was systematically characterized through wet chemical analysis, XRD, FT-IR, SEM and EDS. The structural analysis was done using XRD and IR. Morphological study was performed using SEM and elemental composition studied by EDS technique. This activated fly ash catalyst was applied in the synthesis of trisubstituted imidazoles. The progress of reaction was checked by TLC and the synthesized compounds were further confirmed by FT-IR, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy.\nResults: To check feasibility of activated fly ash for trisubstituted imidazole synthesis, reactions under microwave irradiation employed. The products were obtained in higher yield (92-98%).\nConclusion: The fly ash was found to be highly effective in the synthesis of trisubstituted imidazoles under microwave irradiation. The significant features of this protocol are rate enhancement, uncomplicated work up process, high yields and employ of ecofriendly catalyst.\nKeywords: Wet chemical analysis, microwave, fly ash, heterogeneous, catalyst, imidazole.\nTitle:Fly Ash Catalyzed Microwave Assisted Multicomponent Synthesis of Trisubstituted Imidazole Derivatives\nAuthor(s):Sonali S. Chine*, C.S. Patil and Vilas B. Gade\nAffiliation:Department of Engineering Sciences, SRES Sanjivani College of Engineering (S.P.P.U, Pune), Kopargaon, Dist. Ahmednagar, (M.S.) 423601, Department of Chemistry, Deogiri College (Dr. B.A.M.U., Aurangabad), Aurangabad, M.S, P.G. and Research Center, Department of Chemistry, S.S.G.M College (S.P.P.U, Pune), Kopargaon, Dist. Ahmednagar (M.S.), 423601\nKeywords:Wet chemical analysis, microwave, fly ash, heterogeneous, catalyst, imidazole.\nAbstract:Background: Imidazoles are important class of heterocyclic compounds showing biological activities. Several methods have been investigated till today for the synthesis of triaryl imidazoles. Some of these classical as well as nonclassical methods experiences drawbacks for instance elongated reaction time, expensive catalyst, low yield of product etc. Hence improvement of a competent method is still necessary. This paper reveals greener protocol for the synthesis of triaryl imidazoles by cyclocondensation of aromatic aldehydes, benzil and ammonium acetate in existence of fly ash as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst by means of microwaves.\nSonali S. Chine*, C.S. Patil and Vilas B. Gade, \u201cFly Ash Catalyzed Microwave Assisted Multicomponent Synthesis of Trisubstituted Imidazole Derivatives\u201d, Current Catalysis (2018) 7: 194. https://doi.org/10.2174/2211544707666180918153941", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 7740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/tobacco/tobacco", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OCMIE5CMGIMH5LLR5HDGLTR7N2A6TTO5", "length": 2373, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.euro.who.int", "title": "WHO/Europe | Tobacco", "raw_content": "Health topics Disease prevention Tobacco Tobacco\nTobacco is an important public health issue and the single most preventable cause of illness and death in the world. The latest research suggests that smoking-related mortality has risen to 7.2 million lives annually, killing more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Globally, the WHO European Region has the highest prevalence of tobacco smoking among adults (28%), including one of the highest smoking prevalence rates among women (19%). In addition to causing illness and death, tobacco is a driver of health inequities.\nIn 2016, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the world\u2019s leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. Target 3a of SDGs calls for the strengthened implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and reducing tobacco use in adults. This is a renewed recognition that the treaty and its evidence-based, legally binding provisions represent the world\u2019s best chance of tackling the tobacco epidemic with no further delay.\nThe WHO FCTC, adopted in 2003, is the first international health-related treaty to have been adopted globally. It outlines a number of evidence-based strategies to combat this global challenge, which will save lives, reduce the burden of illness and inequalities, and accelerate economic development.\nThe European Region and its 53 Member States have witnessed some of the greatest gains in the fight against tobacco in recent years. For instance:\nFifty (94%) countries of the Region have ratified the WHO FCTC.\nLarge graphic health warnings on tobacco products are now in place in 32 (60%) countries.\nTobacco use is well and regularly monitored in 39 (74%) countries.\nTobacco taxes are at 75% or more of the retail price of a packet of cigarette in 25 (47%) countries of the Region.\nThe progress made shows that it is possible for countries to turn the tide. But while much has been achieved, the current trends still suggest that tobacco use is not decreasing as quickly as it should to meet the globally agreed targets, such as a 30% relative reduction in the prevalence of current tobacco use by 2025. 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These types of headaches are categorized as primary headaches, with tension-type headaches being the most prevalent in this category.\nSo what is a tension-type headache anyway? Just like it sounds, tension-type headaches are aptly named to indicate their origin from some kind of mental or muscular tension. When our muscles get tight from stress, or poor posture for example, this over-activity leads to a situation where the body produces fibrous scar tissue in the affected area- much like it would in an acute injury. This creates adhesions within and between the soft tissue structures that need to be able to move freely.\nA recent study published in the Journal of Pain Research found that patients with tension-type headaches also had impaired muscle function in the neck and shoulders1. As you can imagine, having our muscles and soft tissues bound up can directly impact our body\u2019s biomechanics and how we are able to move and function as a whole. The joints in our spine and elsewhere in the body need stimulation from proper movement to stay healthy and operational. When it comes to headaches that originate in the neck, cervical spine dysfunction has been found to play a role in the headache process.\nSo what can we do about it? Past research has shown that manual therapies- such as chiropractic and soft tissue manipulation- can greatly reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches2. Active Release Technique (ART \u2122) is a unique, movement-based, soft tissue technique for the evaluation and treatment of a vast array of musculoskeletal conditions- including those related to headaches.\nAt Evergreen Spine and Sports Medicine, our Doctors of Chiropractic are certified in ART\u2122, and utilize a variety of other therapies and techniques to help keep you and your body in tip-top shape. So next time you find yourself with a headache, give us a call to schedule for an adjustment and ART\u2122.\n1.) Madsen, B. K., S\u00f8gaard, K., Andersen, L. L., Skotte, J., Torn\u00f8e, B., & Jensen, R. H. (2018). Neck/shoulder function in tension-type headache patients and the effect of strength training. Journal of Pain Research, 11, 445\u2013454. http://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S146050\n2.) Malo-Urri\u00e9s, Miguel & Miguel Tric\u00e1s-Moreno, Jos\u00e9 & Est\u00e9banez-de-Miguel, Elena & Hidalgo-Garc\u00eda, C\u00e9sar & Carrasco-Uribarren, Andoni & Cabanillas, Sara. (2017). Immediate Effects of Upper Cervical Translatoric Mobilization on Cervical Mobility and Pressure Pain Threshold in Patients With Cervicogenic Headache: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 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Ideally, there should be three or four different host families through the year, so the student gets to enjoy a variety of experiences, several families get to enjoy the student, and no one family is over-burdened. The club must get approval from a local high school for the student's enrollment there, and that information, along with the identity of the first host family, must be submitted to the District YE Committee at least three months before the student's arrival.\nThe host club must also designate one of its members to serve as the inbound student's Counselor, to meet with the student on a regular basis, keep on top of the student's progress through the year, help resolve problems, and provide a direct link to the Rotary club. The Counselor can be the Youth Exchange Officer or a different member, but the Counselor cannot be the current host parent.\nHost clubs should try to bring their inbounds to at least one Rotary meeting each month, so as many members as possible can meet the student. It's also a great idea to involve the student in club activities, whether they are community service efforts, social events, or whatever. These events allow the student to meet more Rotarians, and vice versa, opening up wonderful opportunities for future times together and greater international understanding.\nRotary's Short-Term exchange program offers teenagers a unique opportunity to spend part of a vacation with a family in another country, and then share an equal time here with a foreign teenage guest. The program is a family-to-family exchange, usually during the summer months when school is not in session.\nClubs wishing to offer this program in their communities need only to find students and families who wish to participate. The club then interviews the students and parents, and, if they are acceptable candidates, forwards their applications on to the District YE Committee. As with long-term students, it's a nice idea to invite the outbound student and parents to a Rotary meeting, to get to know the members and gain an understanding about the club and the organization as a whole.\nNot very much at all, actually. A few club banners and one or two meals as guests of the club is all that's required.\nAs part of the Youth Exchange program, Rotary Clubs are required to provide a monthly allowance to long-term exchange students. This is specified on the Guarantee Form (part of the student's application), and is mandated by the US State Department for issuance of student visas. The required monthly allowance is determined by each club. This money is paid directly to the students, and is a valid use of charitable Rotary funds. There may be additional hosting costs determined by the District Youth Exchange Committee. Check with your District for further costs to Host.\nIf you think that most teenagers could not be exchange students, and could not handle the challenges of a new language, people, and culture, well, you're absolutely correct! But there are exceptional students in every school who would be perfect for this program, and would jump at the chance to take part, if only they knew about it. So the first step is to get into the schools and talk to the kids!\nOne good place to start is with your local Interact Club. There you have students who already have some knowledge about Rotary (or they should, anyway), and the faculty member who sponsors the Interact Club should be more than open to a speaker from Rotary. But limiting the audience to Interact members excludes other local students, and that's something you don't want to do. We have found that foreign language teachers are usually very receptive to Rotary representatives talking to their students about the YE program, and we've been very successful following that route.\nYour District Youth Exchange Committee is more than willing to help. They have experience talking to teenagers, and can explain all the details of the program in a way that will excite, rather than bore, them. Contact your District YE Chairperson for help - you'll be surprised at how many students in your own community would love to spend a year overseas.\nA good first step is to refer them to this website (www.exchangestudent.org), where they can find plenty of information - just like you're doing right now. It's important for the club Youth Exchange Officer to meet with the student and his/her family to get a handle on their qualifications and motivation, and to answer the many questions they may have. If the YEO is new to the position, or would like some help, just contact the District YE Committee - they should be happy to make someone available to assist. Once you've met the student and decided that your club will sponsor him/her, then work with the candidate to complete the application form and make sure it is forwarded on to the District YE Committee in advance of the annual deadline.\nYou probably already guessed the answer to this one. We don't. Rotary does not put its stamp on exchanges that are not the product of regular Rotary Youth Exchange procedures. A student in another country must apply through their local Rotary Club, be selected and endorsed by the local district, and be recommended by the district to us. It is not the purpose of this program to help a soccer coach win a league championship. Our goals are much more important - to build international friendships, break down barriers and stereotypes, and create understanding that transcends political boundaries. Sorry, coach, you'll have to look elsewhere.\nAbsolutely not. Though some clubs prefer to have the first family be a Rotary family, perhaps to cement the relationship with the club, there is no requirement that all or any of the host families be Rotary members. In fact, host families, like families of outbounds, often discover Rotary because of this program, and ultimately join Rotary Clubs. But the important thing to remember is that any reputable family in your community is eligible to host a Rotary exchange student.\nIt's easy! Contact the Youth Exchange chairman in your district. Schedule one of the Youth Exchange committee members as a speaker for your club, and start talking about hosting an inbound student next year (those arrangements need to be made several months in advance, so it's never too early). Make plans to talk to your area high school students early in the fall, for the long-term program the following year. Invite an inbound student or former outbound student to speak at your club to help inspire the membership. And get ready for one of the most rewarding, most wonderful programs that Rotary has to offer. Welcome to Rotary Youth Exchange.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 9327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eyeforbeautyblog.com/2015/12/rip-miss-universe-1958.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QFLTGZ5RTFJEGAFQLN7ZFSBEYNAKXBNC", "length": 1355, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eyeforbeautyblog.com", "title": "Eye For Beauty: RIP: Miss Universe 1958", "raw_content": "RIP: Miss Universe 1958\nColombia's first Miss Universe, Luz Marina Zuluaga, has passed away at the age of 77 in her home in Manizales earlier this week. She came second in Miss Colombia 1957, but after the winner resigned to get married, Zuluaga was given the opportunity to represent Colombia at Miss Universe 1958. To the great delight of her countrymen, she was crowned Miss Universe 1958 in Long Beach, California. It was also the first time that Colombia competed for the Miss Universe title and they were the first country to win on their maiden attempt.\nFollowing her win, Zuluaga became an instant celebrity in her country. She was declared tax exempt for life, a house was built in her honor and a postage stamp with her face on it was issued in 1959.\nColombia would not experience a Miss Universe victory until 56 years later, when earlier this year, Paulina Vega won the 64th Miss Universe title. Zuluaga would later meet the second title holder from her country to congratulate her.\nLabels: Miss Universe, News\nto see a youth be beautiful is a special.... to see someone old and beautiful is an honor and a gift. I know it was an honor for Luz to finally see Columbia to win their first Miss Universe crown earlier this year since she won and I love the photo of the two of them together. Great tribute Andre!! Rest in Peace Luz Marina Zuluaga", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 6155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 159.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/item/9484-this-year-i-m-thankful-for-video-games", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ROI6MNSQMRTZLDMMQQLEYURQ7CHXYFR2", "length": 3483, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fanbasepress.com", "title": "Fanbase Press - This Year, I\u2019m Thankful for . . . Video Games", "raw_content": "I was a lucky child. My mom had a Bachelor\u2019s degree in both math and computer sciences, back when the general public didn\u2019t really know what a computer was. At 10 years old, my parents brought home my first computer: a Commodore 64. Mom made us learn to program it (which helped out a lot later in life), but we also got to play video games. I can still see the movements of the game on that computer monitor as I played The Goonies, Winter Olympics, and Summer Olympics.\nBefore this, my initial introduction to video games was my Uncle Mike\u2019s Pong game. It was a little miracle on television to play Pong \u2013 and boy, did I hate to lose. Around the time of the Commodore 64, we also got our first Atari. Oh, how the world of gaming opened up to me!\nYou can imagine how my life went from there. Sega Genesis, Nintendo, and eventually evolving to Playstation, X-box, Wii, etc. Each new bit of technology brought gaming to a whole new level for me. I have adult sons now, one who is really into video games. I don\u2019t mind so much. I wasn\u2019t raised with that whole \u201cvideo games are evil\u201d vibe. But, as a child growing up, I didn\u2019t realize that video games would one day save my life.\nI\u2019ve had health issues off and on my entire life. From a gum tissue transplant in fourth grade (around the time I met the Commodore 64) all the way through eight surgeries and a permanent disability. My disability began in January 2013. Doesn\u2019t matter much about the details, except life changed drastically. I could no longer work, or even work out, for that matter, I currently use a walker to get around, and I have been in chronic pain since the beginning. With chronic pain comes depression. They pretty much go hand-in-hand.\nVery few things kept me looking forward. I had some extremely down moments \u2013 deep, deep down where you don\u2019t think you\u2019ll climb back out. But, I\u2019ll never forget the day my therapist asked what made me happy. I listed a few things, and she said, \u201cPlay more video games.\u201d She explained further. They not only made me happy, but they helped my mind. From my medications, my brain power has slowly dwindled. Video games help me with reflexes, memorization, puzzle solving, etc. It was a multi-purpose \u201cdrug\u201d she had prescribed, and one that I was more than happy to take.\nI hadn\u2019t realized until then what video games had done for me. How focusing on them could help me ignore the pain for a short time. That I could feel like I\u2019d accomplished something by getting a trophy, whereas I would never obtain another accomplishment in a job or participating in a sport or even going on an all-day shopping spree. You know, like normal people.\nMore than that, as a writer, I\u2019m always looking for inspiration \u2013 and I found some in video games. I\u2019ve now written two novels with a spark of ideas from Uncharted 3 for one book and both Assassin\u2019s Creed Syndicate and Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity for another.\nI tell people all the time: Video games aren\u2019t bad for you. Of course, don\u2019t spend 15 hours a day playing them, but look to see what they can do for you. They\u2019ve helped me tremendously in emotional health, have kept my mind strong, and even acted as a muse for my creativity. I\u2019m not sure where I would be right now without gaming, how I would be faring with my battle against chronic pain and depression, but I\u2019m sure grateful that I don\u2019t have to find out. It\u2019s why out of all things geek culture, I\u2019m most thankful for video games, and I know there are more gamers out there like me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 6397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/9657-project-saviour-1-3-comic-book-review", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GOT377OL7KDCKO5QRQJ7OHI6Z76W7MTK", "length": 4030, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fanbasepress.com", "title": "Fanbase Press - \u2018Project: Saviour #1-3\u2019 - Comic Book Review", "raw_content": "Project: Saviour doesn\u2019t want to be your run-of-the-mill superhero origin story. It starts off heavy, with an established hero telling his story of how he came to be. Abandoned by his father at a young age, he comes to realize his abilities one day when fighting a bully and decides to help people and be a hero. But things don\u2019t look so good for him, as a local crime lord, Scyther, wreaks havoc on the city, painting our unnamed hero as a villain. Ostracized from the people he wants to help, he has to bring down Scyther who has his own strings beings pulled.\nRight off the bat, you can tell the different sources the writer pulls from, implementing them into a cohesive narrative. You have the training montage section that\u2019s emotionally light and feels a little like Clark Kent learning to fly. The color scheme is akin to that of Sin City, and there\u2019s a part that is similar to the upside-down alleyway interrogation from Batman Begins. But where we know that Batman only uses the fear of death to gleam information from a suspect, the vigilante\u2019s decision to kill or not isn\u2019t so obvious.\nThe vigilante\u2019s journey to inspire hope in a world that has none is noble. He comes across as sarcastic and humorous, a little bit like Spider-Man in a sense, but holding onto the darker emotions that better reflect the world he inhabits. It\u2019s these two conflicting opposites within him that make it so the reader, and to the extent the character, doesn\u2019t know what kind of hero he\u2019s going to be. This isn\u2019t to say that the protagonist is confusing or hard to understand, but rather that he is someone who is still learning. He wears his emotions on his sleeve which overtakes his attempts to be humorous and thrusts him into someone of pure rage and vengeance.\nThis is a man who wants to help and inspire but doesn\u2019t know where to draw the line, and that\u2019s what makes the story so intriguing. We have a superhero who isn\u2019t bound by the same moral clauses that we\u2019ve come to know and love. We\u2019re learning exactly what he\u2019s willing and unwilling to do, and it\u2019s at the end of the third issue (and I suspect the beginning of the fourth) that we\u2019ll learn whether he is more like Spider-Man or the Punisher.\nUnfortunately, there are a few things that take you away from the moment. For starters, the way the characters speak is a little bit too formal, almost like they actively refusing to use contractions which bogs down the interactions between the characters. This, in turn, can make everything seem like it\u2019s being narrated by someone else. Likewise, the illustrations aren\u2019t always on point. Often times, it feels as though the artwork is one step away from being completed. It\u2019s almost as though Johnson left out the polishing phase of drawing, and this, too, can bog down the story a bit.\nThe way the story is set up is very interesting; it begins en media res, right after a scene of calamity, in which this story\u2019s Darth Vader (and there is a Palpatine-like figure in place) blows up a building, killing practically everyone inside. We\u2019re thrown right into the fray, and every character that comes across the page is full of adrenaline, confused and scared. Tensions are high from the get go, but, again, sometimes the art can take you away just a little. It\u2019s a little hard to tell how this story will play out, though. If the cards are right, Project: Saviour can have a compelling story with a dynamic hero, but it can also venture into becoming a story that\u2019s trying to be a combination of different influences, but making it so the sum doesn\u2019t equal the parts.\nPersonally, it\u2019s my hope that there is more nuance to the vigilante\u2019s decision of whether to kill. It\u2019s a heavy decision to make and one that can honestly make or break this comic. The vigilante is a newcomer that doesn\u2019t seem to be bogged down by an origin story. Nevertheless, and just like what Spider-Man Noir from Into the Spiderverse said, this is going to be a great origin story.\nCreative Team: Craig Johnson (Story, Art, Writer); Joey Sheehan (Letters)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 6347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.floridabankruptcyblog.com/health-insurance-tips-for-protecting-yourself-and-those-you-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HRFXZ7PR5TJXW75URAGMPXJ4AET5E2G6", "length": 3701, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.floridabankruptcyblog.com", "title": "Health Insurance Tips for Protecting yourself and those you Love | FloridaBankruptcyBlog.com Health Insurance Tips for Protecting yourself and those you Love \u2013 FloridaBankruptcyBlog.com", "raw_content": "Health Insurance Tips for Protecting yourself and those you Love\nWorldwide, health insurance is seen as an investment in health for a more secure future. Some people pass \u201cthrough hell\u201d and then they are thankful for having paid for insurance while some people see this payment as an unnecessary loss of money due to being obliged to pay by law.\nDepending on the country, there are a variety of health insurance offers, different options to choose from and even the possibility to plan the health insurance contract that fits best. Usually, there is the minimal insurance, also called the base or ground insurance, and then there are the custom ones, which are divided into categories depending on how much is included from the insurance company. There are some general tips that can help you find and choose the most appropriate health insurance for you.\nThe first and most fundamental tip for more protection, if the economy allows, is to get a \u201cmedium\u201d health insurance plan that might be far from the best, but also not the last preferred or the cheapest one. Usually these kind of insurances are utilized by people who cannot afford more expensive ones, but need to provide official documents to show the state that they are insured.\nA lot of countries have different price lists for different health services and in some cases, like Germany or France, there is a big difference between any other doctor and the eye doctor or the dentist. A person who is prone to suffering from dental health or eye problems is better off by getting a custom insurance just for these kind of doctors. This will lower the costs a lot and the insured will not hesitate as well to address the doctor for any problems as he/she has already paid for the service.\nFor somebody who has just gotten out of university and does not have a job yet, it might be a good idea to wait until a job offer to get a better insurance. Living on a basic insurance for a short period of time can also be a help to an individual\u2019s personal account.\nWhen considering a new health insurance plan, it\u2019s best to search very well. Many companies that have a lot of clients and seem trustworthy are potentially suitable. It is very important to find a appropriate health insurance that will be able to cover any possible needs. Examples include coverage of all possible workplace injuries, travel insurance for natural habitats that might have some risks and so on.\nMost often seen in technical documents of industrial companies than anywhere else, what-if scenarios are tables containing symptoms or irregularities of a process, what might have caused it and instructions on what to do. In thr case of production machinery for example, some hope to \u201cbe saved\u201d in time and not have mechanical break down is avoided. Even if machines or metallic structures are vulnerable to different problems and reach a point of no repair, how safe are humans when industrial equipment is built in a very complex and fragile way? They are not very safe, anything can happen at any time, so having the right health insurance takes people a step ahead of anything unexpected.\nAdditionally, if all the necessities arising out of any injuries that are normally not affordable by every family are still covered by the insurance, and eventually a human life might be saved.\nWhy you can\u2019t Afford not to have Health Insurance\nShould you Buy Catastrophic Health Insurance\nWhat College Grads need to know about Health Insurance\nAdvantages to Commercial Banking\nDelinquent Student Loan Crisis\nBest Ways get Homeowners Insurance Quotes Online\nIdeas of how to Spend that Refund\nWhat do i do if i get a Summons or Subpoena\nWhen to know its Time to Find new Car Insurance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fluesteam.com/2016/09/get-excellent-automatic-fire-suppression-system-flue-steam-inc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BWXWYLHPXSILLDEZ3WSKEXKUOICQQ3PQ", "length": 3337, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.fluesteam.com", "title": "Get an Excellent Automatic Fire Suppression System from Flue Steam Inc. | Flue Steam", "raw_content": "Flue Steam is well-known throughout Southern California for its commercial kitchen air control and fire prevention services, which have been offered since the company\u2019s inception since 1971. So many Southern California commercial kitchen managers have relied on Flue Steam to handle their commercial kitchen air control and fire prevention needs over the years.\nOne of the most essential systems every commercial kitchen needs is an automatic fire suppression system. California law requires that every commercial kitchen have one in optimal working order 24/7. This is incredibly important to ensure the safety of kitchen staff, diners, and everyone else in the vicinity of your commercial kitchen.\nHowever, like any safety feature, it will only work well if you maintain it properly. Automatic fire suppression systems don\u2019t do an ounce of good if they\u2019re not kept in prime condition.\nAt Flue Steam, our mission is to ensure commercial kitchens are as safe as possible at all times. That\u2019s why we offer a whole range of commercial kitchen air control and fire prevention products and services, including everything you need to install and maintain your automatic fire suppression system in peak condition.\nFlue Steam offers complete automatic fire suppression system services, including sales, installation, maintenance, and repair.\nWe\u2019ll gladly help you select the ideal automatic fire suppression system for your exact needs. Then we\u2019ll assist you with installing it perfectly for optimal effectiveness. We\u2019ll also provide regular scheduled maintenance to keep your system in excellent condition.\nThe best case scenario, for any commercial kitchen, is that the automatic fire suppression system will never be utilized. That\u2019s the best possible outcome. Hopefully, your commercial kitchen will have an impeccable automatic fire suppression system for decades, and it\u2019ll never actually be used to suppress a fire.\nBut as anyone who\u2019s worked in or around a commercial kitchen knows, the unexpected happens, and it\u2019s always a good ideal to prepare for the worse case scenario.\nHow an automatic fire suppression system works\nIf a fire occurs in your commercial kitchen, the automatic fire suppression system will activate when the sensor detects a certain preset temperature \u2013 usually 450 degrees. At that point, the system releases an extinguishing agent to douse any flames on your appliance and in the plenum. In that same moment, the automatic shut-off valve cuts off your gas supply, which further reduces the chance of injury and serious damage to your kitchen. The automatic feature of of fire suppression systems is the main reason commercial kitchens need them, all systems are also equipped with a manual pull trigger as well.\nDon\u2019t try to select, install, and maintain your automatic fire suppression system on your own. Flue Steam will make sure your system works optimally, complies with all relevant codes (including the UL 300 standard), and perform any maintenance tasks that are required by law every 6 months. There\u2019s no need to deal with your automatic fire suppression system any longer \u2013 let Flue Steam handle it so you can focus on other pressing matters. You\u2019ll be so glad you did.\nContact us today by calling 800-700-FLUE. We look forward to making your commercial kitchen a safer, cleaner place to work every day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.flyody.com/news/2014/june/04/odyssey-airlines-sees-a-gap-in-transatlantic-business-market.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:52Z", "digest": "sha1:H4DLVM3ZS6LMUFI7HFSXG5QQTV3PHOQC", "length": 4842, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.flyody.com", "title": "Odyssey Airlines sees a gap in transatlantic business market - Odyssey Airlines", "raw_content": "Odyssey Airlines sees a gap in transatlantic business market\n(Reuters) - Odyssey Airlines will not be the first new airline to have attempted to break into the lucrative London-New York business travel market, one of the most profitable routes in the world, but this time it will be different, says its founder.\nThere is a graveyard of carriers who have failed to make the concept work. In 2008 Silverjet became the third business class-only transatlantic airline to go out of business, a month after U.S. rival Eos stopped flying and less than five months after the failure of MAXjet as the financial crisis worsened.\n\"They were flying the wrong aircraft to the wrong airports,\" Odyssey's founder and chief executive Adam Scott told Reuters in an interview.\nOdyssey, which will not begin flying until 2016, is in the proceeds of trying to raise an initial 5 million pounds ($8 million) through crowdfunding websites, with a view to seeking a further $100 million of financing in the first half of 2015.\nBut Scott said the company is already in talks with several institutions ahead of next year's fundraising and is finding a supportive investor base.\n\"They understand it, they're users. They say, 'oh wow', I'd fly that,\" he said.\nOdyssey is counting on Bombardier Inc's brand new CSeries passenger jet being the right aircraft to make its transatlantic plan work, as a more cost efficient rival to Airbus and Boeing's smallest current single-aisle airliners.\nIt has 10 of the planes on order for first delivery in 2016, a year after the first CSeries plane is due to go into service if the testing programme goes to plan, despite an \"engine-related incident\" which left the test aircraft grounded this week.\nThe $100 million funding target is to finance the cost of launching the business and assumes that Odyssey will be able to separately finance the actual aircraft, which have a list price of about $63 million apiece, through external long-term financing arrangements, about which it is currently in talks.\nImportantly the CSeries enables Odyssey to fly out of London City airport, situated next to the Canary Wharf financial district and seven miles east of the City financial district in central London.\nWhile British Airways already operates a twice daily business class-only flight from London City to New York, the aircraft it uses, a modified version of the Airbus A318, has to make a stop in Ireland for the outgoing flight to top up on fuel. It is the biggest currently available aircraft certified to use City's short runway.\nScott, a former banker at Goldman Sachs who was involved in developing the idea of using the A318 to fly across 'the Pond', said only that Odyssey's flights would be \"competitively priced\".\nBA currently charges over 2,300 pounds ($3,800) for a return flight from London City, according to published fares while business-class seats on flights from London Heathrow are also priced at over 2,000 pounds ($3,300) return, making the route one of the most profitable for the airlines which dominate it - BA, joint venture partner American Airlines Group, United Airlines (UAL.N) and Virgin Atlantic [VA.UL] and its partner Delta Air Lines.\nUnable to fly from Heathrow, which is already congested and expensive to operate from, the business-only airlines which tried to break into the market seven years ago chose to fly from two airports situated some 30 miles to the north of the city.\nEos and MAXjet both operated out of London Stansted, with Eos flying Boeing 757-200s and MAXjet using 767-200s, while Silverjet flew 767s from London Luton.\nOdyssey's CSeries planes will each have 40 lie-flat seats, more than the 32 which BA's A318s have but fewer than the 48 that Eos and the 100 to 102 seats that Silverjet and MAXjet had on their larger, less fuel efficient planes six years ago.\nScott believes that timing is also on Odyssey's side given the economic recovery.\nThe demise of Eos, MAXjet and Silverjet was blamed on the financial crisis and sky-rocketing fuel prices, and stiff competition between the three also played a part.\nUK-based aviation consultant James Halstead believes that London is one of the fewmarkets where a premium only service can work.\n\"The Atlantic (market) has consolidated quite considerably in the last five years. There's an opening for a new carrier in that sort of space,\" he said, adding that the use of smaller aircraft showed Odyssey had learnt from the failures of the past.\nOdyssey also said it is aiming to pull in business travellers whose companies do not have corporate travel contracts which oblige them to travel on the incumbent operators.\n\"We're not looking for market share, we're picking off the top,\" said David Tait, an industrymarketing expert who recently joined the Odyssey team, having been until 2002 the head of Virgin Atlantic's U.S. operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.foodreference.com/html/ap-organic-licorice.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HFMTRBQT34Y6O36OIRNWEQLOJOKZUNE6", "length": 2803, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.foodreference.com", "title": "Organic Black Licorice from Let's Do...Organic", "raw_content": "FOOD NEWS page 2 > Organic Black Licorice\nand COOKING CLASSES\nFrom Amateur & Basic Cooking Classes to Professional Chef Training & Degrees - More than 1,000 schools & classes listed for all 50 States, Online and Worldwide\nEdward & Sons Introduces New Let's Do...Organic Black Licorice\nCarpinteria, CA\u2013 November 2006- Edward & Sons Trading Co., Inc. is proud to announce that its new Let's Do...Organic\u00ae Black Licorice will be available starting in January 2007. Imported from Finland, these USDA certified organic candies are crafted from the finest natural and organic ingredients. The delicious zest of genuine licorice extract is combined with star anise seed extract to yield a uniquely refreshing flavor.\nEnjoyed for thousands of years in China, Greece, and India, the sweet taste of natural licorice long ago prompted its use in delicious old world specialties. Authentic licorice delighted the taste buds of King Tut and inspired praise from Alexander the Great. The unmistakable flavor and rich history of authentic licorice continues to enchant millions to this day.\nEdward & Sons Let\u2019s Do \u2026Organic Black Licorice is available in two shapes and packages: A 7 oz box of Organic Black Licorice Chews has a suggested retail price of $3.69 and a 0.8 oz bar of Organic Black Licorice has a suggested retail price of $.69.\nOther Edward & Sons Let\u2019s Do\u2026Organic products include, Vegan Gummi Bears, Ice Cream & Sugar Cones, Organic Tapioca and Organic Coconut. Let's Do...Organic\u00ae is a registered trademark of Edward & Sons Trading Co., Inc. Carpinteria, CA 93013 www.edwardandsons.com/.\nAbout Edward & Sons\nBased in Carpinteria, California, Edward & Sons Trading Company Inc. has been creating innovative vegetarian products for three decades. The company's history is distinguished by a long list of natural food \"firsts.\" Beginning with Miso-Cup in 1978 (America's first natural instant soup), they continued with Edward & Sons' Baked Brown Rice Snaps in 1979 (the first gluten-free whole grain crackers). Other \"firsts\" include Premier Japan Ginger Tamari in 1984 (the first flavored soy sauce), Let's Do...Organic ice cream cones in 2001 (the first organic ice cream cones), and numerous organic canned items under the company's Native Forest\u00ae brand: Native Forest Organic Hearts of Palm (1996), Native Forest Organic Coconut Milk (2002), Native Forest Organic Canned Pineapple and other tropical fruits (2004). \u201cConvenience Without Compromise\u201d\u0099 is a slogan that guides product development to this day. While Edward & Sons designs delicious, natural convenience foods for everyone to enjoy, the company's emphasis on simple, wholesome ingredients insures them an especially loyal following among those with special diets or food sensitivities. Please visit www.edwardandsons.com/ for more details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 5014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fortthomasmatters.com/2016/04/op-ed-brent-cooper-local-option-sales.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VRFRAHQHNQPKU2JDB4LXGH2UYQ5SK3ZL", "length": 5117, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.fortthomasmatters.com", "title": "FORT THOMAS MATTERS: OP-ED, Brent Cooper: Local Option Sales Tax Opponents Deceiving Voters", "raw_content": "OP-ED, Brent Cooper: Local Option Sales Tax Opponents Deceiving Voters\nBrent Cooper. Provided.\nBy Brent Cooper, Fort Thomas resident and President of Covington-based C-Forward.\nWhether someone is lying about an issue, or if they are just misinformed, is always tough to judge. Regardless, when it comes to legislation in Frankfort, it is really difficult to hear people say, or repeat, things you know aren\u2019t true. At the top of the list for me this week was the line, \u201cAnyone that votes for the KY Local Option Sales Tax is voting to raise your taxes.\u201d\nIt isn\u2019t true, and it is just one of many issues we need to start talking about.\nNot just about the Local Option Sales Tax issue itself, but also about the deceptive tactics used by some to advance their agenda.\nVoting for the Local Option Sales Tax legislation, (aka LIFT \u2013 Local Investments for Transformation), would not raise anyone\u2019s taxes. First, the bill in Frankfort is a constitutional amendment, so it would take a vote of the entire commonwealth to change the constitution. Then, local communities around the state would have the ability to raise a local sales tax, if and only if, the majority of citizens in that local community vote for it. So, it would take two additional votes (one statewide and one local) for a tax increase to occur.\nPut another way, LIFT gives you the right to vote on a tax increase. See the difference? To say that it will raise your taxes is simply untrue.\nNow, if they would have said, \u201cAnyone voting for LIFT is voting for something that could potentially lead to a tax increase.\u201d that would be accurate. Personally, I think leaving out \u201cthe majority of your fellow citizens have to vote for it\u201d, is an important point, but I understand why they might leave it out.\nOne person in particular, the primary opponent of Adam Koenig, has a post online that simply says \u201cKY Sales Tax Bill\u201d and shows Koenig voting for it. I\u2019ve got a real problem with that ad, and so should you.\nThe uninformed person might conclude that Koenig voted for a tax increase. He didn\u2019t. That ad didn\u2019t inform people. Its intent, in my opinion, is to mislead people.\nIt didn\u2019t mention that the majority of KY representatives in the house recently voted for LIFT on a bipartisan basis. The ad didn\u2019t say that the minority leader in the house, (a Republican), supported the bill and the Senate President, (also a Republican), publicly stated he would vote for it. Mayors from all around the state, including Lexington and Louisville, are for it. Eight former KY Governors, and our current Governor Matt Bevin, have all endorsed it. And to top it off, business leaders at Chambers of Commerce all around the state are in favor of the legislation.\nWhy would all these people, many very conservative, be in favor of a \u201cKY Sales Tax Bill\u201d?\nI can assure you that small business owners and business executives didn\u2019t go to the KY Chamber of Commerce and say, \u201cHey, we\u2019re just not taxed enough. Let\u2019s support a sales tax increase for no good reason!\u201d\nThe LIFT legislation was debated at length at the KY Chamber, and was eventually supported for the following reasons:\n\u2022 A majority of local citizens have to vote for it. Don\u2019t want it, don\u2019t vote for it.\n\u2022 It can only be used for specific projects. So, limited scope.\n\u2022 Once the project is paid for, the tax goes away.\nIt is a tool that has been successfully used all around the country, particularly in cities we view as competing with ours.\nNow, a minority of folks, on both sides of the aisle, are against the idea of LIFT for differing reasons.\nOne argument is that LIFT would give the state an excuse not to fund projects. I understand the concern, but did I miss some windfall of cash coming our way from Frankfort, ever? All this does is give us the ability to better control our own destiny, if the majority of citizens vote for it.\nAnother argument against LIFT is that sales taxes are regressive and disproportionally hurt the working poor. Believe me, I appreciate that concern. But the tax is limited to a maximum of 1%, and things like groceries, utilities and medicine (essential items) are exempt. Again, it\u2019s up to the local community.\nFinally, from rural areas I\u2019ve heard opposition to LIFT go something like this, \u201cVoters in rural communities that go to bigger cities to shop won\u2019t have any say; they will only get to pay.\u201d So, let me get this straight, you\u2019ve got a problem with your tax dollars going to another area of the state that doesn\u2019t directly benefit you? Many in Lexington, Louisville and Northern Kentucky might respond with, \u201cHello pot, this is the kettle, you\u2019re black.\u201d\nBut regardless of the arguments for or against LIFT, the point is this: Let\u2019s have an honest debate about the benefits and potential pitfalls of legislation. I respect those that disagree, and I might change my mind if an argument is compelling.\nBut deceiving people, either through honest ignorance or deceptive intent, is not the way to win elections or advance our community. Help spread the truth so people can honestly decide for themselves.\nLabels: Brent Cooper, LIFT, local option sales tax, op-ed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 418, "original_length": 16556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.francesryanphd.com/the-research/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2OO62TH2R2Q3H2ATLOV6BKLC5EOO5OLR", "length": 2976, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.francesryanphd.com", "title": "The Research \u2013 Frances Ryan", "raw_content": "This PhD is concerned with the role of online information in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. In this context, the term \u201cpersonal reputation\u201d refers to the reputation of private individuals rather than corporate identity and brand.\nTwo broad research themes are being investigated:\n(1) the means by which people evaluate or assess the personal reputations of others from the online evidence available to them\n(2) how people manage their own personal reputations through their use of online information, and to what extent those behaviours are intentional.\nThese themes are addressed with reference to the broader information science literature on information behaviour and use, including aspects of bibliometric research that focuses on citation practice and citation analysis and prior work on everyday life information seeking (ELIS).\nThe interdisciplinary nature of the research themes means that much of the relevant academic literature has been found to be dispersed across a number of other subject domains. Included in this are articles from computing, employment research, human-computer interaction, human resources management, information systems, management and organisational studies, marketing, media and communication studies, and physical and mental health. These themes and concepts are also researched in the domain of information science through citation analysis. Citations can help to build a researcher\u2019s own identity and reputation as well as the identity and reputations of others, and increase their visibility among peers. These citations can impact both the researchers giving the citation and the researchers receiving the citation.\nIn addition to traditional academic literature, an examination of non-academic sources\u2014for example, current news stories, as well as reported trends in social media use\u2014has been undertaken. These non-academic sources indicate that topics related to information seeking behaviour, as related to personal reputation management, are also of interest to professionals in human resources and reputation management fields, social media practitioners and owners, and managers of online platforms and social networking sites, as well as a large portion of society as a whole.\nThe research approach adopted for this study involves the use of participant diaries and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, as is common in ELIS studies. A multi-step data collection process has been undertaken where participants were asked to keep a diary over the course of one week as they engaged with their social media accounts. Following the completion of the diaries, participants took part in hour-long, semi-structured interviews. Short participant surveys were also conducted prior to the diary exercise to collect demographic and social media use data.\n* It should be recognised that it is possible to find information online for even those who have actively elected not to maintain an online presence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 176.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fusiononline.com/content/scholarships", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:13Z", "digest": "sha1:V5J2NRPQAVTIWXWURQFAME45SM66NCFH", "length": 1358, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fusiononline.com", "title": "Scholarships | Media Fusion | Huntsville, AL", "raw_content": "Home / About Us / Scholarships\nDr. Thomas G. Roberts Engineering and Science Scholarship\nThe Dr. Thomas G. Roberts Engineering and Science Scholarship was established by the board members of Media Fusion in 2014 to honor the memory of Dr. Roberts, a board member of Media Fusion. Dr. Roberts was engaged in experimental research for various organizations at Redstone Arsenal for 27 years, between 1957 and 1996. He performed work in many fields including atomic physics, plasma physics, physical chemistry, optical physics, electro-magnetic physics, laser physics, high-energy physics, and theoretical physics. This work produced hundreds of publications, presentations and 70 patents. Dr. Roberts was a champion for education and on the faculty at UA Huntsville, the University of Georgia, Athens College, and the Southern Institute of Technology.\nThis scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students based on academic merit with a preference given to financial need. Interested students are encouraged to contact the institutions scholarship office. The institution selects awardees.\nWe are delighted to support students attending the following institutions in the communities where Media Fusion has employees.\nCalhoun Community College, Huntsville, AL\nUniversity of the District of Columbia Washington, D.C\nAntelope Valley Community College Lancaster, CA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.futureofbusinessandtech.com/business-solutions/drawing-up-plans-for-a-greener-cleaner-city", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZO6LVSSGRL4YIPI2UV7YZPVTGCEMGI6W", "length": 4340, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.futureofbusinessandtech.com", "title": "Drawing up Plans for a Greener, Cleaner City - Future of Business and Tech", "raw_content": "Drawing up Plans for a Greener, Cleaner City\nBusiness Solutions A program manager with the United Nations Development Programme describes the work being done to build a sustainable transport system for one of Georgia\u2019s biggest cities.\nBatumi, the second largest city in Georgia, located on the coast of the Black Sea, has grown dramatically in recent years, from a relatively small city into an urban conglomerate. The price to pay for this rapid growth is an increasing population density and one of the highest levels of car concentration in the country, which generates constant traffic congestion and tons of carbon dioxide.\nIn 2014, the city adopted a political agenda to make urban development greener and more sustainable and decided \u2014 as surveys showed that the major source of GHG emissions was urban transport \u2014 that the plan should prioritize the improvement of the urban transportation system.\nPublic transport is basic, with a fleet of 100 municipal buses and around 450 marshrutkas, or private mini-vans, competing with each other for passengers. Batumi residents prefer to walk (31.44 percent), take public transport (36.02 percent) or ride in a car (30.19 percent). Only 1.27 percent take taxis, and almost no one (0.28 percent) bikes. As the number of cars on the road grows, municipal bus service must offer better service and mobility options in comparison to private cars and marshrutkas in terms of safety, speed, comfort, reliability and affordability.\nThe most important element to green Batumi\u2019s urban mobility was to holistically plan and implement all aspects of sustainable urban transport (SUT) measures. The first step was to conduct comprehensive household urban mobility surveys and traffic counts to gain a clear understanding of mobility patterns and travel behavior that would, in turn, inform a new transport model.\nMore green efforts are yet to come, such as a new parking policy, low-emission buses and extended and integrated bike lanes.\nThe plan started with two major \u201curban transport corridors,\u201d connecting southern and northern edges of the city and main arteries of the city in terms of passenger and vehicle flow. Starting with these corridors would not only contribute to GHG emission reduction and congestion alleviation but would yield highly visible results, increasing the buy in of the commuters in this new approach to urban mobility.\nTo ease the corridors\u2019 traffic, two methods are being implemented: making municipal public transport more attractive while, at the same time, discouraging people from using private cars along the corridors. The plan creates dedicated bus lanes for public buses along the corridors. That way, even if there is congestion, buses move at nearly constant speed without any obstacles, and people using private cars will start to reconsider. Exclusive bus lanes require space, which will lead to parking bans along the corridors and the creation of park-and-ride facilities as an alternative for car owners. These will be built on the edges of the transport corridors so that drivers can leave their cars at park-and-drive lots and use Bus Rapid Service to move into the city center. Bus Transfer Terminals are the final piece of greening urban mobility; Located at the end of the corridors, they will serve as transfer stations to public transport for out-of-town commuters.\nMore green efforts are yet to come, such as a new parking policy, low-emission buses and extended and integrated bike lanes \u2014 the first results of this work will be visible in 2018.\nWhen I talk to Batumiers about the future of our city, we agree that Batumi should be designed for people and not for cars. While we don\u2019t use the term \u201csustainable urban mobility,\u201d we describe a liveable city exactly in line with the results the new public transportation system will generate: air quality, no traffic jams and more places to walk, bike and leisurely sip our famous coffee.\nFuture Of Transportation Smart Cities\nLasha Nakashidze, Program Manager, United Nations Development Programme, Georgia,\nHow to Turn Your House into a Smart Home\nGoogle\u2019s Project Sunroof Encourages Solar Solutions\nLas Vegas Is Using the Internet of Things to Quell Traffic Problems\nWhile cities across the United States experience steady rises in population, city planners are faced with more and new challenges.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fwtx.com/articles/2014-top-attorneys", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LAO2TW774SG4GP5XOIT3HVELVA3EJNJJ", "length": 430, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fwtx.com", "title": "2014 Top Attorneys | FWTX.com", "raw_content": "The 2014 Fort Worth, Texas list of Top Attorneys is drawn from nominations by other attorneys in the region. The 2014 result is a list of 661 names of attorneys in practice for more than five years and 99 names of attorneys in practice for fewer than five years. A few attorneys are listed in more than one category of practice, based on the nominations received.\nTop Attorneys Party 2014 from Fort Worth, Texas magazine on Vimeo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 157.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.game-saga.com/consoles/lego-the-hobbit-multi-artwork-screenshots-press-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:31Z", "digest": "sha1:NCTYOV2XDELM22FHQOP6ZWJIRJ7I5YYG", "length": 2734, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.game-saga.com", "title": "LEGO The Hobbit (Multi) \u2013 Artwork, Screenshots, & Press Release | Game Saga Website", "raw_content": "LEGO The Hobbit (Multi) \u2013 Artwork, Screenshots, & Press Release\nLondon, UK \u2013 November 25, 2013 \u2013 Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group today announced LEGO \u00ae The Hobbit\u2122, the latest addition to the popular LEGO videogame series that brings to life the enthralling and legendary stories from Oscar \u00ae-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson\u2019s The Hobbit Trilogy. The game will be available in 2014 for the Xbox One all-in-one games and entertainment system and Xbox 360 games and entertainment systems from Microsoft, PlayStation\u00ae4 and PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment systems and PlayStation\u00aeVita handheld entertainment system., the Wii U\u2122 system from Nintendo, the Nintendo 3DS\u2122 hand-held system, as well as Windows PC and Mac.\nLEGO The Hobbit will be based on the first two films of The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the upcoming The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), opening worldwide beginning December 13, 2013. Following the storyline of the first two films, LEGO The Hobbit will take players on quests throughout Middle-earth, joining Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, and Thorin Oakenshield and Company in their exciting adventures toward the Dwarven Kingdom of Erebor.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to depict the characters and environments of Peter Jackson\u2019s Middle-earth in LEGO form with the LEGO The Hobbit videogame,\u201d said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. \u201cOur family-friendly take on these thrilling adventures will have kids and parents playing and laughing together as they build and explore in LEGO Middle-earth.\u201d\nIn LEGO The Hobbit, kids and families will be able to take on the form of their favorite Hobbit characters, including Bilbo, Gandalf, and all of the Dwarves: Thorin, F\u00edli, K\u00edli, \u00d3in, Gl\u00f3in, Dwalin, Balin Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori and Ori. Each has his own special \u2013 and quite hilarious \u2013 ability: For instance, Bombur can be used as a trampoline that enables his companions \u201cbelly-bounce\u201d out of danger!\nPlayers will visit key locations from the films, including Bag End, Bilbo\u2019s Hobbit-hole in Hobbiton, trek through the treacherous High Pass over The Misty Mountains, and explore the depths of Goblin-town, Mirkwood and Rivendell. Along the way, players will solve countless puzzles, partake in Treasure Quests and battle with Orcs, Trolls and fouler things. They will also be able to mine for gems, discover loot from enemies, and craft powerful magical items or build immense new LEGO structures.\nLEGO The Hobbit is currently being developed by TT Games and expands on the play themes introduced in the brand new LEGO \u00ae The Hobbit toy collection. For more information, please visit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ganssle.com/blog/blog/engineer-or-scientist.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FBYA326AWQSD4WSF5DMITCT2LST2S32O", "length": 1850, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ganssle.com", "title": "Jack Ganssle's blog: Engineer or Scientist?", "raw_content": "Are you an engineer? Scientist? How many people know the difference?\nWe in the field understand that the two professions are pretty much orthogonal. Scientists learn how the world works. Engineers use that learning to make things that work. Scientists couldn't do their jobs without engineers who create the instrumentation that enables their efforts, and engineers would be at sea without understanding science's results, like Maxwell's Laws.\nBut I think the average Joe conflates the two. \"Scientist, engineer, whatever,\" seems to be the refrain.\nI have huge respect for scientists. Heck, my son is one. But I went into engineering, not science, because I like to make things. It's fun to master technology, to harness transistors and other components in a design of my own creation... that works. For me, the making of things extends even further, and inspires my woodworking and other passions.\nWe use the acronym STEM today, which I think further confuses the non-techie public. STEM is a funny set as it is the set that includes itself. E includes M and S. M is a subset of S and E. And I have no idea what T means. Isn't technology an outcome of E and or S? Is there a degree program in T?\nThen there are the TED talks. Technology, entertainment, and design? What a strange mishmash of ideas!\nAnd yet, in recent years I find myself succumbing to the public's confusion about science and engineering. My dad spent his career as a mechanical engineer working in the space program. He invented the LM, did Saturn studies, and designed many spacecraft. By about four words into that description people's eyes start to glaze over. So today I say, \"he was a rocket scientist.\" \"Ah,\" my interlocutors sigh, sagely nodding their heads as if they know what that means.\nAnd you know what? He has a T-shirt that reads \"actually, I AM a rocket scientist.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 6782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.georgezeller.com/iswc1~1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:66WRCS7UFMJ7RE74A55M3LB5YTLOQN4O", "length": 1703, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.georgezeller.com", "title": "ISWC Pg. 1", "raw_content": "The Founding of the International Short Wave Club in Klondyke, Ohio\nby George Zeller\nThe International Short Wave Club was the first all-shortwave broadcast DX club in history. It was organized October 4, 1929 in Klondyke, Ohio, although by 1933 it had moved to East Liverpool, Ohio. The ISWC was a pioneering effort that operated for more than three decades. NU, NASWA, and other shortwave broadcast DX organizations have built on the foundation begun by the International Short Wave Club almost 70 years ago.\nFor the last three or four years I have been searching for Klondyke, especially since most of us have forgotten about the ISWC altogether. There are two extremely tiny villages called Klondyke on some detailed Ohio maps. One is in Delaware County, about 20 miles north of Columbus in central Ohio. I previously worked with the Delaware County Historical Society, the Delaware County District Library, and the Ohio Wesleyan University Library to establish that this small stone quarry village was probably not the Klondyke where the ISWC was published. Another Klondyke existed at one time about ten miles north of Warren in Trumbull County of northeast Ohio, but this site bore no fruit either.\nMost NU'ers are aware that our Editor and Publisher Jerry Berg has a large collection of old radio paper from the early days of our hobby. In early June, Jerry found in an old ISWC bulletin that Klondyke is actually a neighborhood within the city of East Liverpool. This was the clue that I needed. We now have a significant amount of new information about the founding of the ISWC. It is being published for the first time here on NU Sight and Sound.\nInternational Short Wave Radio bulletin cover", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ghcchina.com/about-ghc/strategic-partners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ER5R2MCCJISKWEPZ5YTEBKSDUP5IJSRO", "length": 1721, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ghcchina.com", "title": "Global HealthCare - Premier Medical & Dental Center - GHC", "raw_content": "Global HealthCare\u2019s Strategic Alliance with Hong Kong Adventist Hospital\nGlobal HealthCare (GHC) and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital (HKAH) have joined forces to provide medical services and healthcare in Shanghai based on international standards. Patients will benefit from highly professional \u2018one-stop\u2019 service, which is much needed in Shanghai.\nExpertise, Technology and Compassionate\nThe Hong Kong Adventist Hospital was established in 1971 an is well known for its\u2019 dedication to providing a premium health care service to the community, as well as to overseas patients, who demand a higher standard of medical care. Physicians and healthcare personnel provide patients with attentive care in a safe and friendly environment.\nThe Hong Kong Adventist Hospital has been assessed to exceed Organization Standards of the Trent Accreditation Board from the United Kingdom. For consecutive years since 2000, the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital has been receiving full accreditation from the Trent Accreditation Board.\nGlobal HealthCare\u2019s Strategic Alliance with Shanghai Renji Hospital\nGlobal HealthCare (GHC) Medical & Dental Center and Shanghai Renji Hospital, have joined forces to provide international standard medical services, especially inpatient ward service in Shanghai. GHC and Renji share their resources, which enables patients to enjoy first-class medical & inpatient services.\nRenji Hospital has over 2300 staffs, including more than 200 professors and vice professors that can provide strong medical support to GHC. Renji Hospital has 1200 beds, including 100 VIP beds and 7 premier VIP rooms. Combined with state-of-the-art medical facilities, it can provide a full range of inpatient services to GHC patients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 6181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glasstechmexico.com/d2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WPJD6WKM7TYYC6RKWGKRPUJZCNPUBPRR", "length": 88, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.glasstechmexico.com", "title": "Day Two - Glasstech Mexico", "raw_content": "The exhibition starts from this day, and the operating time will be from 11:00 to 20:00.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 54.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.global-car-rental.com/car-rental-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EMDXCMJDGCGXDTSYWWHEML7IOBIC2OI5", "length": 450, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.global-car-rental.com", "title": "Car rental tips \u2013 Global-Car-Rental", "raw_content": "Now more and more people like to driving their car to wherever they want. However, for those who don\u2019t have their own car but also want to enjoy the self-driving tours on vacations, they need to borrow one car from they friends or family mumbers, or rent a car from the rental company. Well, it seems rent a car from the rental company will be much earsier, eapecially if they can do it online. So here have some tips for you about how to rent a car.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalcoldchainnews.com/fowler-welch-sales-rise-but-pre-tax-profit-dips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SX7YPAAD2MJVFYVVOB6YHFUZWSXU2CCL", "length": 2499, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.globalcoldchainnews.com", "title": "Fowler Welch sales rise but pre-tax profit dips | www.globalcoldchainnews.com", "raw_content": "Fowler Welch sales rise but pre-tax profit dips\nSpalding, UK: Revenue at Fowler Welch jumped 3% to \u00a3168.6m (2017: \u00a3163.5m) for the year ending 31 March 2018 but pre-tax profit dropped by \u00a3100,000 to \u00a34.4m, parent company Dart Group has revealed.\nPhilip Meeson, chairman, Dart Group, said the fall was because \u201cadditional operational support was provided to a key customer over the Christmas period, while varying retailer demand and shorter production runs led to cost pressures at our fruit ripening and packing joint venture, Integrated Service Solutions\u201d.\nThe 3% increase in sales was put down to the full-year effect of the Dairy Crest operation at Nuneaton, along with growth at Fowler Welch\u2019 Teynham, Washington and Heywood sites, although the Spalding operation experienced \u201clower revenue\u201d.\nRevenue fell by 3.5% at Spalding \u201cprimarily a result of the planned movement of volume to other company sites\u201d.\nRevenue from the company\u2019s Kent operations at Teynham and Paddock Wood distribution centres increased by nearly 7%, primarily due to a new contract for the distribution of salads. The Hilsea depot, which is located near to Portsmouth International Port, warehouses, consolidates and distributes supplies of salads, herbs and vegetables to UK retailers. The business increased operating profit from slightly reduced revenues, as it delivered operating efficiency improvements.\nThe regional distribution operations at Washington in Tyne and Wear and Newton Abbot, near Exeter in Devon, provide direct store delivery services on behalf of leading retailers to over 100 stores every day. Both improved their operating profit performance year- on- year, as they reacted swiftly to handle additional volume following the failure of a major UK wholesaler.\nThe operation at Nuneaton, near Coventry, significantly improved its operating profit performance, due to a full year of trading (the operation having commenced in June 2016), the planned transfer of incremental volume from Spalding to allow upgrades to that depot, plus new customer wins as the operation progressively expands.\nSeveral projects were highlighted in the financial report, including the roll out of a fleet of lithium ion warehouse handling equipment to improve operating efficiency and a further 4.1% improvement in vehicle miles per gallon, a result of continued focus on driver training.\nMeeson said: \u201cFowler Welch continues to focus on growing its revenue pipeline and developing existing and new business opportunities.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalsystemsscience.org/studentbooks/pg/ch3/verhulst", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:55Z", "digest": "sha1:W7QMMYFCFJDZOC57R2TR2SWZVE6UFUG7", "length": 2475, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.globalsystemsscience.org", "title": "3-2 Verhulst Equation - Global Systems Science", "raw_content": "Verhulst's Population Equation\nPn+1 =\n1 P1 = 100 P2 = 2 (100) = 200\n4 P4 =800 P5 = 2 (800) = 1600\n5 P5 = 1600 P6 = 2 (1600) = 3200\nThe easiest way to visualize how populations vary in time is to make a graph. The horizontal axis represents time, and the vertical axis represents the number of individuals in the population. If we start with 100 insects (P1 = 100) , in year two, there will be 200 insects (P2 = 200).\nMake a graph of the equation Pn+1 = 2 Pn using the graph points tabulated in the table at right.\nThe factor 2 was put into the equation because we imagined that each year our insect population would be double the year before. But, said Verhulst, if we want to think about all kinds of increases we must recognize that they all don\u2019t double each year. Some grow faster, some slower. Instead of the number 2 let\u2019s put in a letter which will stand for the number, or factor, that we multiply by the previous year\u2019s population to get this year\u2019s population. Let\u2019s call G the population growth factor. Our equation now looks like this:\nPn+1 = G * Pn\nNow make a table and graph showing how the population would change over six years if G= 3. On the same graph show how the population would grow if G=1, and if G= 0.5.\nHow do these different growth factors affect the population?\nWhat would the population be after ten or fifteen years for these different growth factors?\nThe method of calculating the population for each year based on the previous year is called iteration. The invention of calculators and computer spreadsheets has made the process of iteration a very popular and easy way to calculate population growth. If you have access to these tools, you may want to calculate the population for a wide variety of growth factors and lengths of time.\nThe result of our calculation is called a geometric progression. Geometric population growth can occur in special situations where the food supply is plentiful and there is space for organisms to grow. An example is the growth of bacteria in a petri dish. They can double their population in an hour. The population explosion of rabbits in Australia is another example. But no population can grow geometrically forever. Limitations always exist. The petri dish has just so much space. There are limits to the rabbit food supply. The first years on Goat Island were those of geometric growth for the population of goats because the small population of goats had not yet discovered the limits to their growth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 490, "original_length": 10825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goleap.us/goleap/wallfountain-archaic-greek-garden-statuary-art.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5WELZSGYUZ5IDPLW4BWGIBLPGA3K2WWS", "length": 5346, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.goleap.us", "title": "Archaic Greek Art: Garden Statuary", "raw_content": "The first freestanding sculpture was developed by the Archaic Greeks, a notable accomplishment since until then the sole carvings in existence were reliefs cut into walls and pillars. Most of the freestanding statues were of youthful, winsome male or female (kore) Greeks and are called kouros figures. Symbolizing beauty to the Greeks, the kouroi were designed to look rigid and commonly had foot forward; the males were healthy, powerful, and nude. In about 650 BC, the variations of the kouroi became life-sized. A huge age of transformation for the Greeks, the Archaic period helped bring about new forms of state, expressions of art, and a greater appreciation of people and cultures outside of Greece. And yet these disagreements did not stop the growth of the Greek civilization. {\nDo you want to make your personal space just a little more beautiful? Well, you can add that extra touch and augment the value of your home just by adding a solar water fountain. Solar powered fountains can be a wiser investment versus electric ones because they not only improve one's well-being but they offer other interesting financial perks. Even though there may be a greater cost at the beginning, the long-term investment will make it worthwhile. Electrical power deficits will no longer impede utilizing your fountain since it will run on the energy of the sun.\nConstant running water fountains will probably lead to a higher electric bill at the end of the month. Although short-term costs might be higher than you had predicted, don't forget that your home is increasing in value.\nThe issue with using more electricity is not solely about our bills, the effect on the environment is considerable. Solar driven water fountains are a good option to becoming \u201cgreen\u201d. Using solar power to run a water feature is not only worthwhile to our environment but it also heats and cools our homes.\nLess maintenance is a benefit of installing this kind of fountain. As there is no electrical motor that can get clogged, little cleaning is required. And since there is little cleaning to do, you will have more time to play!\nReasons to Buy Your Own Pond Fountain\nThe immense gorgeous ones that are found in front of nice buildings and in public squares are what one tends to think of when picturing a fountain. But they actually come in a variety of styles and proportions that are suitable for smaller spaces. A pond fountain can be a great accessory to your own yard.\nTwo good things will take place if you put in one of your own. First are the beautiful aesthetics and peaceful nature of fountains.\nWhat better way to wind down than to listen to the trickle of water and experience its beauty. You will see your area benefitting from its elegance, too. Additionally, when you have friends over, they will want to hang out around your gorgeous fountain, making your get-togethers even more interesting.\nAnother benefit is that such a water feature will supply the fish in your pond with fresher, healthier water. A pond fountain will oxygenate the water by keeping it circulating, which is great for fish. Your fish will survive a longer time because of the continuously flowing, aerated water. You should see healthier plant life too.\nThe Myriad Ways You Can Flourish from Water Elements\nAny spot can be enhanced by the sights, sounds and improved air quality provided by outdoor fountains. Not only do they add beauty to your decor, they also provide a great place to gather with family and friends, and offer a range of health benefits. Different people, however, discover that their fountain is special to them for many personal reasons. It might take you back to a special time or spot you fondly remember. You might fondly recall someone special when you look at it. It could also be turned into a memorial to pay homage to someone already deceased. You will undoubtedly delight in its benefits and elegance for a long time.\nSanta Maria in Cosmedin: A Roman Fountain Worth Visiting\nAmazing finds of both Christian and pagan origin have been made by archaeologists and restorers in the area of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome. Found in the portico of the nearby basilica one can see the celebrated marble sculpture known as the Bocca della Verit\u00e0 (Mouth of Truth). Since the Santa Maria in Cosmedin fountain (1719) was situated off the beaten track, it remained mostly unknown. It was said that there was nothing worth seeing in this area, as it was abject and abandoned making it an unfriendly place to visit. It was a this time that Pope Clement XI mandated the Italian architect Carlo Bizzaccheri to put up a fountain to modernize the square outside the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Work on the church's foundation started on on August 11, 1717.\nThe blessing of the first stone to be placed in the foundation was followed by medals being thrown in bearing the images of the Blessed Virgin, for whom the church is named, and St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of water.\nMulti-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century often served as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Leonardo da Vinci as a... read more\nThe introduction of an outdoor garden fountain to any porch, terrace, or veranda will make a huge difference to your enjoyment of the space. However... read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 5645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gossipjunction.in/category/lifestyle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YNV3CEO57SMNR3H2TW3UQLQRT5L2UDJO", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gossipjunction.in", "title": "Lifestyle Archives | Gossip Junction", "raw_content": "http://www.gossipjunction.in/category/lifestyle\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hantsfoenet.org.uk/1000-sq-miles-of-england-to-be-opened-up-for-fracking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:RA3RIENA62BE7R55PAAKZF7XA4ERCK2K", "length": 5588, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.hantsfoenet.org.uk", "title": "1,000 sq miles of England to be opened up for fracking \u00ab Hampshire Friends of the Earth Network", "raw_content": "\u00ab Friends of the Earth CEO Craig Bennett: \u2018Now is the time to listen to ordinary people again\u2019\nThe UK Goes Greyer \u00bb\n1,000 sq miles of England to be opened up for fracking\nPublished on The Guardian website on 18th August 2015\nLarge areas of Yorkshire, north-west and east Midlands earmarked for oil and gas exploration as government announces it will offer licences for 27 new sites\nLarge areas of Yorkshire, the north-west and the east Midlands are to be opened up to fracking after the government announced it will offer a fresh round of licences for oil and gas exploration.\nAreas near Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham are to be offered to companies in an expansion plan that green groups predicted would trigger \u201chundreds of battles\u201d over the future of the countryside.\nIneos, the Anglo-Swiss chemicals group that wants to lead the UK\u2019s shale gas industry, was awarded three licences and said the latest ones could pave the way for gas to be pumped by 2020.\n\u201cIf the planning system works as well as we hope, we should have meaningful production of shale gas in the UK by the end of the decade,\u201d said Patrick Erwin, commercial director at Ineos.\nThe 2,700 sq km (1,040 sq miles) of land in 27 blocks of 10km x 10km will not be formally offered until a second much larger tranche, covering areas in the north-east, the West Country and the Isle of Wight believed to be ecologically sensitive, have been assessed under environmental measures.\nThe applications are subject to approval by local councils, which will have 16 weeks to decide on them. The government promised last week to step in if councils fail to keep to the deadline. The new guidance has given the secretary of state for communities, Greg Clark, the power to \u201ccall in\u201d and fast track a ruling if deemed necessary.\nInitial analysis by Greenpeace indicated the areas covered by the announcementwill affect the constituencies of high-profile MPs including former Labour leader Ed Miliband, party leadership candidate Yvette Cooper, the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, and the shadow energy and climate minister Caroline Flint.\nDaisy Sands, head of Greenpeace\u2019s energy campaign, said: \u201cThis is the starting gun on the fight for the future of our countryside. Hundreds of battles will spring up to defend our rural landscapes from the pollution, noise and drilling rigs that come with fracking. It seems clear that the government is responding to the vigorous lobbying from the fracking companies by ignoring both the economic and environmental evidence that clean, renewable energy is a far better bet for investment and the planet.\u201d\nThe government said a growing shale industry could create 64,000 jobs in the UK. The energy minister, Lord Bourne, said: \u201cAs part of our long-term plan to build a more resilient economy, create jobs and deliver secure energy supplies, we continue to back our onshore oil and gas industry and the safe development of shale gas in the UK. This is why the OGA [Oil and Gas Authority] has moved quickly to confirm the winners of licence blocks which do not need further environmental assessment.\u201d\nThe government\u2019s promise to fast-track shale gas in the UK comes on the back of a decision by Lancashire county council to reject an application by exploration firm Cuadrilla on the grounds of visual impact and noise. Both Scotland and Wales previously imposed moratoriums on fracking for shale gas. More than 170 oil and gas exploration licences have already been issued.\nThe move on Tuesday was welcomed by the oil and gas industry. Ken Cronin, the chief executive of UKOOG, the representative body for Britain\u2019s onshore oil and gas industry, said: \u201cThe opportunity exists to create tens of thousands of jobs, reduce imports, generate significant tax revenue and support British manufacturing from an extremely small footprint which will benefit the environment at the same time.\u201d\nA source close to one of the UK fracking groups said recent government decisions would ensure that England moved ahead of Scotland in the race to frack, with the ruling SNP currently opposed to the industry.\nEarlier this summer Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire chief executive and founder of Ineos, claimed that the SNP was not against fracking despite the moratorium and said he could potentially see a commercial industry in Scotland by 2018.\nErwin said the latest move was positive, not just for Ineos but for the UK as a whole. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s about saying that the UK is open for business and that there\u2019s more to the UK than being just a service economy. We just can\u2019t afford not to exploit shale gas. Gas will be a key enabler of lower carbon fuel.\u201d\nAsked what advice he would give to people living in areas earmarked for oil and gas exploration, Erwin said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of information out there but often people are peddling ideas that are not true. People should look at the facts and make their own judgment.\u201d\nAs the UK government looks likely continue on its promise to go \u201call out\u201d for shale, the Obama administration in the US announced new measures to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. The new standards proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency follows a commitment by Barack Obamaearlier in the year to reduce such emissions by 40-45% (on 2012 levels) by 2025 as part of a wider attempt to tackle climate change. Methane is the main component of natural gas. Although it remains in the atmosphere for less time than other greenhouse gases, it is understood to be many times more potent in terms of its impact on global warming.\nAugust 19th, 2015 | Category: UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 8112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.healthinsurance411.com/Group-Health-Insurance-FAQs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TVZPH6EJB3GM4HRV2DUNOGCVR2M26CF2", "length": 6763, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.healthinsurance411.com", "title": "Group Health Insurance", "raw_content": "Frequently Asked Questions About Group Health Insurance\nGroup health insurance coverage is a policy that is purchased by an employer and is offered to eligible employees of the company (and often to the employees' dependents) as a benefit of working for that company. The majority of Americans have group health insurance coverage through their employer or the employer of a family member. One of the advantages for employees in a group health plan is the contribution most employers make toward the cost of the health coverage premium, usually 50% or more.\nAre all employer group health insurance policies the same?\nMillions of Americans work for small employers, categorized as groups with 50 employees or less. Millions of other Americans get their health insurance coverage through large employers (50 employees or more). The laws about how coverage can be issued to large groups are different than those for small groups, and the way that premium rates are determined is also different. The requirements for sole proprietors purchasing health insurance coverage also vary.\nAt this time, employers are not required to offer health insurance to employees. Many do so because health insurance coverage is a valued benefit and attracts top employees and retain them. Each insurance company applies their own set of underwriting rules based on the number of employees and other factors. State and federal laws apply to varying degrees. The federal HIPAA law mandates that no matter what pre-existing health conditions small employer group members may have, no small employer or an individual employee can be turned down by an insurance company for group coverage. In addition, each insurance company must renew its small employer health plan contracts every year, at the employer's discretion, unless there is non-payment of premium, the employer has committed fraud or intentional misrepresentation, or the employer has not complied with the terms of the health insurance contract.\nMany small group health insurance companies can determine their initial premium rates for each company using a process known as medical underwriting. Others are required to use processes known as community rating to determine their initial rates.\nWhen small group plans are medically underwritten, employees are asked to provide health information about themselves and their covered family members when they apply for coverage. When determining rates, insurance companies use the medical information on these applications. If a company is unable to obtain information necessary to accurately determine the risk of a particular applicant, it will underwrite more conservatively, which results in a negative impact on the rates.\nAnnual premium changes for small employer group plans are based in part on the group\u2019s claims history and on the claims history of the company's overall small group pool. Small employer group plan renewal rates also include a component to account for overall expected increases in the cost of providing health insurance coverage by the company, such as changes in laws that may impact operating costs.\nLarge group health insurance contracts do not have to be offered on a guaranteed-issue basis, so a health insurance company could reject an entire large employer group based on its claims history. However, no individual employee who is eligible for benefits can be excluded from large group coverage based on medical history. If a company issues a policy to a large employer, then all of its eligible employees must be issued coverage if they choose to enroll.\nLarge group contracts must be renewed every year at the employer's discretion, unless there is non-payment of premium, the employer has committed fraud or intentional misrepresentation, or the employer has not complied with the terms of the health insurance contract.\nLarge group health insurance is medically underwritten at the time of purchase, with rates based on employee participation and prior claims. In a large group, employees are not generally asked to fill out a medical questionnaire prior to obtaining coverage. The employees may be asked some limited medical questions depending on the employer size and claim history. The health insurance company bases annual premium changes for large employer groups primarily on the claims experience of the group in the past, as well as any overall increases in the cost of providing health insurance coverage.\nIs employer group health insurance available to sole proprietors?\nMost companies require at least two employees to qualify for group coverage. Insurance companies and individual states often have specific and strict requirements for very small employer groups, in order to prove that they actually are legitimate businesses and have the appropriate number of eligible employees. Employers generally have to provide payroll tax documentation validating who is an employee.\nIf sole proprietors are allowed to purchase group coverage, they are often referred to as \u201cbusiness groups of one.\" In some of these states, business groups of one are treated in the same manner as larger employer groups. In others, they are treated as their own distinct pool and rated separately by the health insurance companies.\nWhat rights do I have if I lose access to my employer group health insurance coverage?\nPeople who lose their group health insurance coverage due to a job change, divorce, job loss or other reason are able to keep their group coverage, at least temporarily. Those who are able to continue their group health insurance benefits are eligible to do so according to the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). However, COBRA does not apply to all employers, and many states have mandated other continuation-of-coverage options for people who are not covered by COBRA. The benefit summary booklet provided by the employer may provide details about continuation coverage or who to contact for additional information.\nHave more questions regarding group health insurance? Call us today and one of our Health Insurance Specialists can answer all of your questions.\n\u200bInterested in getting a group health insurance plan to cover you and your employees?\nProviding access to a group health insurance plan is a great way for your business to get, and keep, the best employees. As the success of a company is largely dependent on the excellence of its workforce, providing health benefits improves both the health of your employees and the health of your business. Call today to discuss group plans with one of our agents. We can help you find an affordable employer plan. Or click below to browse group plans and get a quote. 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They\u2019ve put together a team of professionals to provide refreshing treatments using all-natural ingredients...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 177.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hnworth.com/article/2018/01/05/why-is-it-so-hard-to-talk-about-mental-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:12Z", "digest": "sha1:FNVLBKQGAX2RQXC5TAKUH5L36P5NO75X", "length": 7489, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.hnworth.com", "title": "Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Mental Health? | High Net Worth", "raw_content": "By Xiangyun Lim\nNot too long ago, I bumped into someone who had been based overseas for the past few years, and it caught me by surprise to see him in Singapore. Although we didn\u2019t have time to catch up, we exchanged quick pleasantries before parting ways.\nSoon after, I received an unexpected text from him: \u201cI need to thank you actually. You might have saved my life, earlier this summer.\u201d\nI found out when we met a few days later that he had been going through a tough time in New York, and chancing upon one of my Instagram posts on depression, sparked him to do something about it.\nIn my posts, I talked about a foreword that I had written for a publication where I outlined my own experience with depression. It was the first time I had shared about my diagnosis so publicly, which took years to admit to myself\u2014that what I was going through was beyond my understanding and that I wasn\u2019t simply \u2018weak\u2019 for not being able to get better.\nSince then, I have met people from all walks of life who have experienced different mental health conditions, whether in themselves, their loved ones or as professionals working in the mental health industry. It is much easier to talk openly with them, and have conversations that are both thought-provoking and insightful. The recurring question, however, is how we can have the kind of engagement that allows for multiple perspectives in our society. From a larger standpoint, the fear of being stigmatised still exists.\nWhy is it so hard to acknowledge and talk about mental health?\nWhile many associate mental health with terms such as \u201cdepressed\u201d, \u201cOCD\u201d, \u201cschizo\u201d, or even the all-encompassing \u201csiao\u201d, do most of us know what these words really mean? And the kind of lifestyles and conditions they attempt to describe?\nImagine telling your boss or colleague that your greatest achievement today was getting out of bed. Or to your circle of friends that you can\u2019t meet them for the sixth time running because crowds give you panic attacks and you have run out of energy reserves to be around people, after getting through the day. For some, life means only getting out of the house after 6 p.m., or after washing your hands for 4 hours straight. When it comes to gatherings, there are only so many times you can take a raincheck before becoming the flaky friend who is unreliable, and probably not a whole bucketload of fun.\nUnlike physical conditions, mental issues are inherently inaccessible to those who do not experience it, as most of what goes on isn\u2019t visible. It is also individualistic, which means the same condition can transpire in completely different forms for different people. The resultant impact on their lives usually seems completely illogical and incomprehensible to the outsider.\nThe stigma is real, especially in a society that places so much emphasis on visible measures of a person\u2019s worth. So being depressed is something one sweeps under the carpet in light of more pressing basic needs like their career, family, and mortgages. Talking about it seems indulgent when one should be grateful and productive.\nMany do not realise how much effort it takes to just function \u201cnormally\u201d\u2014\u201cbeing okay\u201d is a cognitive process. It is not impossible. Yet the simplest everyday tasks like getting out of bed, looking presentable, and being sociable can be incredibly challenging. Walking 10 minutes without stopping, as strange as it sounds, can feel like running a full marathon because our physical well-being is so intricately linked to our mental state.\nDuring the years when I was in the throes of anhedonia, I experienced an utter disconnect between body and mind, as well as logic and will. On the outside, it seemed that I operated well as a member of society: a university graduate who had a job and people who accepted and loved me. I lacked nothing, and it did not make any sense to myself why getting through each day was such a sheer exercise of self-coercion. There was no way I would tell someone else and be a burden, when all I needed was to \u201cget over myself\u201d.\nBut staying silent isn\u2019t the way out, and it\u2019s important that more people come forward to talk about mental health because there are no real statistics or clear solutions. Everyone\u2019s battlefield and minefields are so individualistic that a generic diagnosis can, in fact, be harmful. The complex mix of biological, physical, psychological, mental, and emotional is not an easy one to understand.\nThe only way we can try to understand these complex conditions is to have more open conversations.\nUnlike physical conditions, mental issues are harder to measure or treat because they are not simply \u201cillnesses\u201d that one cures and moves on from, or \u201cdiseases\u201d that are bad. For some of us, it may be a chronic part of one\u2019s being like a nagging backache, acne or having flat feet.\nBut here\u2019s the thing: If we can start to see them in a more normalised manner, it allows us to take greater ownership of our mental and physical health\u2014an ownership that is both kinder and more disciplined. It allows for more conversations\u2014ones that are honest, open, with no judgement and only the desire to try to understand these experiences together. For many who are struggling with their own minds and bodies, diagnosed or not, it is so important to simply be able to feel safe being themselves and know that they are not alone. And there are many too, who want to be there for their loved ones going through mental health conditions but do not know how to.\nI have to admit that I still do not find it easy to talk about this side of me. In my head, I am not \u201cdepressed\u201d, even though I have been diagnosed. It took me years to be more patient with myself and acknowledge that it\u2019s an ongoing journey which requires continuous fine-tuning. The first step, however, was to reach out and accept that I can be myself with others.\nThe little attempts that I have taken to share my story, as scary as they are, have had profound effects in unexpected ways. Friends and strangers have come forward with hesitant questions about their own experiences. Most, if not all, have never felt like they could talk about what they were going through with anyone, because of the fear that they might not make sense of their own experience. These encounters remind me that there is value in talking and sharing; pushing me to open up and confront my fears.\nAll of us face struggles with internal voices that are so often hidden behind a smile or laugh. When we remember that what goes on in the minds of others are invisible to us, empathy and real talk can happen. Trying to make sense of our mental health shouldn\u2019t be a lonely journey. While society may not always be accepting or understanding, there is beauty and value in all kinds of experiences.\nI am glad to have gone through what I did. I may have lost time, but I\u2019ve gained new friendships and a deeper understanding of the human psyche. Talking about my condition openly has never been easy, but the value that comes from the resultant conversations is worth the effort and struggle.\nXiangyun Lim was a changemaker in the second phase of 50 for Fifty with the Singapore Association of Mental Health (SAMH) as her chosen charity. She would love to hear from anyone who would like to share their stories, or simply have questions to ask. 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Together, we can reduce stigma, bring about a paradigm shift and ensure better communication between the organizations involved in mental health and addiction treatment,\" said Rino Lang, Regional Director, Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services.\nMichel C\u00f4t\u00e9, President of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 sant\u00e9 et Mieux-\u00eatre en fran\u00e7ais du Nouveau-Brunswick, agrees. \"We have been partners in this important project since the beginning in order to ensure optimal and equitable access to mental health services for the province's entire population, including New Brunswick's Acadian and Francophone population,\" he said.\nThe New Brunswick Coalition for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment grew out of the first Provincial Mental Health Forum in 2015, which brought together over 350 people from various socioeconomic backgrounds. During this forum, various participants voted in favour of creating a Coalition that would represent the needs and hopes of parents and caregivers. It was legally incorporated in April 2018. It includes representatives from Vitalit\u00e9 Health Network, Horizon Health Network, the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Sant\u00e9 et Mieux-\u00eatre en fran\u00e7ais du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Francophone, Anglophone and First Nations communities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 6896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 132.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hotelvrindavanmountabu.com/case/price-of-mobile-crushing-plant.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7NFEB543BLV2KPVY2IAHO57BJP7FMCAO", "length": 2687, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hotelvrindavanmountabu.com", "title": "Price Of Mobile Crushing Plant-Ultrafine Mill", "raw_content": "With the advancement of mankind, the application of construction waste is becoming more and more widespread. 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While ensuring efficient production of customers, it can effectively reduce the total investment of customers and make customers more profitable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.housinglist.com/rent-to-own/listings/property?id=12424089", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NQN5LNHMRI7HVUWZSD2X34YBGOSBL3QX", "length": 863, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.housinglist.com", "title": "4 bed Rent To Own home Taylorsville, UT 84084 | Housinglist", "raw_content": "Description: About this lease-to-own property in Taylorsville, UT 84084. This single family home has been placed as a lease-to-own property by the current owner. This 4 bed, 2 bath single family home in Taylorsville is a rent-to-own property. 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Still, as every human resource professional knows, corporate reorganizations, including outsourcing, mergers, and acquisitions, continue apace. Whether emanating from sourcing, a merger, an acquisition, or simply due to a corporate restructure or cost-cutting measure \u2013 or any combination thereof \u2013 the elimination of positions and resulting separation of employees means the same thing from a human resource perspective: layoffs.\nThe specter of layoffs, especially mass layoffs, can be daunting. Tension is in the air, uncertainty prevails, morale is in jeopardy, and the threat of legal claims looms large. This Commentary suggests practical steps for any company to take when faced with a layoff situation.\nIf any of the employees potentially affected by the layoff are represented by a union, the company is likely to be obligated to notify the union and provide an opportunity to bargain about the decision and/or the effects of the decision. Those requirements are beyond the scope of this Commentary but are of vital importance.\nStep One: Articulate the Reasons\nClearly articulating the legitimate business reasons for a layoff is an essential first step. Careful wording of the reasons will serve at least four important purposes: (1) it allows the company to test the validity of the reason; (2) it assists in developing layoff criteria that are consistent with the reason; (3) it allows the company to preserve evidence documenting the decision; and (4) it goes a long way toward ensuring that everyone involved states the same reasons for the layoff.[fn1]\nStep Two: Establish a Formalized Approach\nHaving a formalized approach, with a defined committee overseeing the entire process, is an important step in ensuring that each of the other steps is thoughtfully taken. Depending on the company\u2019s size, in addition to human resources, the committee may include representatives from the different departments or facilities involved, or there may be separate committees for each department or facility. Where possible, the committee should include decision-makers of different races, sexes, and ages.[fn2]\nStep Three: Separate Temporary Employees and Contractors\nReleasing all temporary employees and contractors will not only help legitimize the reasons for the layoff, but also will help establish the fairness of the process. Moreover, if the temporaries and contractors were accurately classified as such, the company is not likely to be obliged to pay severance or other termination benefits to them, and they are not likely to count toward WARN obligations or a disparate impact analysis. (See Steps Ten and Eleven.)\nStep Four: Implement a Hiring Freeze\nAny time a layoff is contemplated, a hiring freeze should be implemented at least in affected units. Evidence that an employer hired someone into a position similar to the laid-off plaintiff\u2019s is usually seriously detrimental to the employer\u2019s case. If a hiring freeze is not imposed, the company should take care to ensure that newly-filled and/or created positions are substantially different in qualifications and responsibilities from the positions that were eliminated. Documenting other budgetary reductions will help as well.[fn3]\nStep Five: Chart the \u201cAfter\u201d Organization\nBefore any attempt is made to decide who will be selected for layoff, the organization \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d should be charted. That is, for each department or unit or facility involved, there should be a clear depiction of the organizational structure, and positions, before and following the layoff. Sometimes, there will be no \u201cafter,\u201d such as in the closure of a facility or outsourcing of a function. But in any situation where there is to be an \u201cafter,\u201d what it will look like should be carefully defined and compared to the \u201cbefore\u201d prior to any decision about which employees will be let go.\nIf new, different positions are to be created in place of old ones, job descriptions should be created. In addition to the duties and qualifications for the new positions, reporting relationships and the compensation rate (wage or salary) should be specified. To the extent a new position looks like a position slated for elimination, justification for the change should be carefully ascertained and documented.\nStep Six: Determine the Selection Criteria\nThis step begins the process of identifying who will be laid off. The first decision is whether there will be an opportunity for employees to self-select or \u201cvolunteer\u201d for layoff and, if so, what limitations will be imposed so as, for example, to avoid too many volunteers from one area. Time limits for volunteering, and the incentives for volunteering, should be clearly defined.\nNext, the criteria that will be used to select who will be laid off must be established. Of course, these criteria cannot include any prohibited consideration such as an absence record that encompasses legally protected absences, or an accommodation that has been made to a disabled employee. Similarly, the fact that an employee is currently on a legally protected leave, such as for pregnancy or a work-related injury, cannot be a basis for layoff selection. Other than legally prohibited considerations, however, any consideration is lawful so long as it does not have an unlawful disparate impact (see Step Ten). The more objective the criterion (such as, length of service or time in position), the less susceptible it will be to attack. The more subjective the criterion, the more careful the \u201csecond look\u201d should be (see Step Nine).\nThe final consideration concerns any right that laid-off employees will have to other positions. While common in the union setting, allowing senior employees slated for layoff to \u201cbump\u201d junior employees is usually not allowed in the non-union setting. However, if there is a vacant position for which a to-be-laid-off employee is qualified, it is hard to justify not affording him or her at least preferential application rights, if not preemptive rights. Whether a laid-off employee will have notice rights, or preference rights, to new positions established after termination is a separate question. Again, it is not common in the non-union setting to allow \u201crecall\u201d rights following a layoff (and employees should be disabused of any notion to the contrary), but if the new position is created immediately following a layoff, it is hard to justify denying the laid-off employee the right at least to be considered for the job.\nStep Seven: Determine the Severance Package\nWhile no law requires it, most companies offer a severance \u201cpackage\u201d to laid-off employees. The package typically consists of some modest amount of pay in lieu of notice (if WARN doesn\u2019t apply \u2013 see Step Eleven), plus a larger amount of money and other benefits (such as outplacement, and reimbursement for medical insurance premiums if COBRA rights are exercised) that are conditioned on the employee signing a release of claims.\nEven in small layoffs but especially in large ones, we encourage setting up the severance package as an ERISA plan. Doing so is not as daunting as it sounds. The benefits of the ERISA approach are multiple, including the following: (1) the plan supersedes prior ad hoc or even written severance policies by application of ERISA preemption; (2) the plan document sets out standardized terms in one place; (3) the standardized terms are more susceptible of uniform and fair administration; (4) the plan administrator can decide eligibility and other plan questions according to a very broad \u201carbitrary or capricious\u201d and \u201cabuse of discretion\u201d standard; and (5) the plan can even be set up so as to offset WARN liability against severance payments.\nRegardless of whether an ERISA plan is created, the severance package is usually conditioned on an employee signing a release of claims. For employees 40 years of age and older, the release must comply with the Older Workers\u2019 Benefit Protection Act, \u201cOWBPA.\u201d Among other requirements, OWBPA requires that the employee be given up to 45 days to consider the release before the offer is rescinded, and a non-waivable 7 days to rescind the release after it is signed. In addition, the employee must be advised in writing of the job titles and ages of all those in the \u201cdecisional unit\u201d who were eligible to volunteer or were selected for layoff, and all those who were not eligible or selected.\nStep Eight: Decide Who Will be Laid Off\nWith all the groundwork laid, it is time to decide who will be let go. Regardless of the soundness of the decision for the layoff, it is essential that the company build a sound case for each individual termination decision.\nInitially, the volunteers (if any) are analyzed to see what impact they have had, and how many positions remain to be eliminated. Then, the selection criteria are carefully and methodically applied to the remaining employees in order to move from the \u201cbefore\u201d to the \u201cafter.\u201d\nAll those involved in selecting employees for layoff should be trained in how to do it, and the results should be carefully monitored \u2013 remembering that unless they are in the context of obtaining legal advice, statements made and documents generated in the decision-making process are not privileged from disclosure. Additional levels of review beyond the immediate decision-makers is highly recommended.[fn4]\nStep Nine: Assess Potentially Problematic Cases\nEven though the selection of certain employees may look legitimate on the surface, a closer look by the trained human resource eye may identify problems that will warrant further review. For example, an employee who has recently asserted a harassment claim, or who took time off to care for a newborn, or who was a \u201cwhistleblower,\u201d is likely to be able to make a prima facie case of retaliation, requiring the company to prove and defend its legitimate reason. Identifying these problematic cases can help ensure that the right decision is being made, and that evidence is available and is preserved.\nStep Ten: Perform a Disparate Impact Analysis\nOnce the universe of employees tentatively selected for a layoff has been identified, an adverse impact analysis should be conducted under the direction of counsel. The analysis will identify any statistically significant disparity. If there is a disparity an assessment of whether the selection criteria can be justified as necessary and have been applied in a nondiscriminatory way will need to be performed. All documentation relating to the disparate impact analysis should be treated as attorney-client privileged.\nStep Eleven: Comply with WARN and state WARN Laws\nIf the number of employees to be laid off is large enough, the requisite notice (usually 60 days) must be provided under the federal Workers Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act (\u201cWARN\u201d) and state counterparts.[fn5]\nThe rules regulating who must be notified and what the notice must say are situation-specific and detailed, and should be carefully followed.\nStep Twelve: Make the Announcement\nBy whom, when, and how employees being laid off are told of their status should be carefully planned and orchestrated. Each employee should receive a \u201cseverance kit\u201d containing some or all of the following:\nA memorandum confirming the effective date of termination;\nAn ERISA Severance Plan and Summary Plan Description (or, a description of the severance package) with the appropriate release form;\nCOBRA election forms;\nInformation about rolling over 401(k) plan assets and exercising stock options;\nOutplacement services information if such services are being provided; and\nA reminder of any no-solicitation or non-compete obligations.\nIt is equally important that plans be made for advising employees being retained of their status. While false assurance should never be made, supervisors should be prepared to respond appropriately to the uncertainty and guilt of retained employees.\nFollowing these 12 steps will not guarantee that all will be well, but doing so will go a long way toward making the company\u2019s position stronger and more secure in all the ways employment lawyers can measure.[fn6]\n1: The importance of this last point is reflected in Godwin v. Hunt Wesson, Inc. (9th Cir. 1998) 150 F.3d 1217. In finding that the plaintiff had presented a triable claim of discrimination, the Ninth Circuit focused on evidence that the employer\u2019s proffered reasons for the decisions at issue were not consistent. As the Court explained, \u201c[a]lthough the employer\u2019s declarations and depositions indicate that \u2018creativity\u2019 was the most important criterion for selecting the male Wesson marketing manager, the criterion of \u2018creativity\u2019 does not appear in the contemporaneous memorandum prepared at the time of the selection. Although \u2018shifting explanations are acceptable when viewed in the context of other surrounding events . . . such weighing of evidence is for a jury, not a judge.\u2019 (Citation omitted).\u201d\n2 : In Moulds v. Wal-Mart Stores (11th Cir. 1991) 935 F.2d 252, evidence that the employer\u2019s management committee, which included a black woman, unanimously approved an employment decision was determined to be sufficient to rebut an inference of discrimination.\n3: For example, in Madden v. Independence Bank (C.D. Cal. 1991) 771 F.Supp. 1514, 1518, the court denied defendant\u2019s motion for summary judgment on an age discrimination claim, pointing to evidence that \u201c. . . while \u2018eliminating\u2019 plaintiffs\u2019 positions, the Bank continued to hire new employees\u201d and that \u201c. . . the Bank did not institute a hiring freeze, which would be consistent with any plan to reduce staff.\u201d\n4: For example, in Wado v. Xerox Corporation (W.D.N.Y. 1998) 991 F.Supp. 174, 182, the court found persuasive the following measures taken by the company in implementing the RIF: \u201c. . . Xerox put in place a number of safeguards to ensure that the RIF was carried out fairly and without disparately affecting any protected categories of employees. Xerox states that senior managers would review employees\u2019 contribution assessments for consistency and fairness, and that Xerox\u2019s legal department also conducted analyses of the termination recommendations to make sure that they would not have a discriminatory effect.\u201d\n5: Generally, the threshold is 50 employees if that number translates to 33% of the workforce, or 500 employees, at a \u201csingle site\u201d of employment within a 90-day period under federal WARN, but it may be lower under state WARN laws. In California, for example, a layoff of 50 employees requires a 60-day notice if the employer has 75 or more employees, regardless of percentage or location.\n6: See also our March 2001 Employment Law Commentary at http://www.mofo.com/news/updates/bulletins/bulletin68.html, \u201cRIFs Redux: A Short Primer on Employment Laws Relating to Workplace Reductions.\u201d\nJudith Droz Keyes is a partner in our San Francisco office and can be reached at (415) 268-6638 or [email protected]. Judy acknowledges the significant contribution of Chris Lyon and David Murphy in our Palo Alto office in the preparation of this Commentary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 16876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.huntsville-homes.com/listingproperties/JACKSONVILLE/default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EATAOPZZAT33G27SXNMEOWZGBY6A3AOJ", "length": 272, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.huntsville-homes.com", "title": "Find Listings on MLSBoard North Alabama Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (NALMLS)", "raw_content": "Use the following links to browse homes in jacksonville from the North Alabama Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (NALMLS). To search listings using criteria such as location, price, size, bedrooms, bathrooms and more, visit Rosenblum Realty at http://www.Huntsville-Homes.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 264.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.icimarbleandtile.ca/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RLH4ELCXPMWIW3JDFHUNS3YGBOIL7AJT", "length": 757, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.icimarbleandtile.ca", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "About I.C.I. Marble & Tile Inc.\nI.C.I. Marble & Tile Inc. has been specializing in the commercial flooring market since May 1997. We have built our reputation on the basis that we keep current with new developments and technical knowledge as well as offer a full service program including budget proposals, quotations, technical specifications, sampling and quality installations.\nI.C.I. Marble & Tile Inc. specializes in commercial and institutional projects in Southern Ontario. Each project is completed on schedule with exceptional quality at a competitive price. We work with the owners, architects and designers to provide our customers with long lasting, durable floor coverings.\n\u00a9 2012 I.C.I Marble & Tile Inc.\nDesigned by Aftermath Design Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ideahouseeducationalservices.com/new-gluten-free-fast-food.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:22Z", "digest": "sha1:MMLMDK2WEEVEOOLQAAKTRNZLJ5XYQU35", "length": 8341, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.ideahouseeducationalservices.com", "title": "New! Gluten Free Fast Food - Idea House Educational Services", "raw_content": "The growing need for a gluten-free diet means even fast food chains are beginning to respond. The following is a list of gluten-free items at some popular fast-food restaurants. (accurate as of 7/9/2011). Just be careful! The risk of cross contamination in fast-food restaurants is high. Keep your order simple and your instructions explicit for the best results.\nMany people with celiac or gluten intolerance head to Wendy's as their first choice when looking for a gluten-free fast food restaurant. According to Wendy's published gluten-free menu, most or all of the chain's trademark baked potatoes are gluten-free, as are Wendy's chili and chocolate and vanilla Frostys. At Wendy's, you can eat the salads without croutons (assuming they're not pre-prepared with croutons \u2014 never, ever pick croutons off a salad!), and most of the salad dressings are listed as gluten-free, as well. You also can order a hamburger or cheeseburger without the bun.\nIn some Wendy's locations, you may be able to eat the French fries \u2014 you'll need to check to see if they're fried in the same oil as gluten-containing items.\nOwned by the same company as Wendy's, also features a fairly comprehensive gluten-free menu for a fast food restaurant. If you're gluten-free, it's possible to dine at Arby's on most of the meats (without a bun, of course) and two meal-sized salads \u2014 the farmhouse salad with turkey and ham and the farmhouse salad with roast chicken. The chocolate, jamocha swirl and vanilla shakes also are listed as gluten-free. However, unlike Wendy's (and like most other fast food restaurants), Arby's prepares its fries in the same oil as it cooks gluten foods, so Arby's fries and potato cakes are not safe.\nChick-fil-A provides the best gluten-free list of any fast food restaurant \u2014 the six-page document lists a huge variety of menu options and provides the ingredients for each one, so people with additional food allergies or intolerances can determine what's safe for them to eat.\nIt's possible to enjoy several different meal-sized salads (with chicken or without), a couple of different breakfast items, and Chick-fil-A's waffle fries, which are cooked in separate fryers (be sure to check with your individual restaurant to be sure about the fryer status). In addition, Chick-fil-A's yogurt parfait and Ice Dream dessert cup are listed as gluten-free. Many people report good gluten-free experiences at Chick-fil-A.\nMcDonald's doesn't maintain a gluten-free menu, stating instead that since ingredients and suppliers change frequently, people with concerns should check back at the company's website. Although this is subject to change, here is a current list of McDonald\u2019s gluten-free items for your reference: apple juice, hot chocolate, coffee, 1% lowfat milk ( white or chocolate), orange juice, soft drinks, Chocolate Triple Thick Shake, Strawberry Triple Thick Shake, Vanilla Triple Thick Shake, Apple Dippers and low fat caramel dipping sauce, Fruit & Yogurt Parfait (no granola), Ice cream sundaes, Mc Flurry with M&M's candies, Breakfast Beef Steak, Canadian Bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, Caesar salad without chicken, side salad, Newman's Own salad dressings ( Creamy Caesar Dressing, Cobb Dressing, Ranch, Low Fat Balsamic Vinaigrette), and Newman's Own Salsa.\nThere's a tremendous debate in the celiac community about whether McDonald's fries are gluten-free. The oil they're fried in contains wheat derivatives, but McDonald's maintains the fries themselves contain no gluten detectable by tests\nthat go down to 3 parts per million.\nBurger King unveiled its newgluten-sensitive list in early 2010 as part of its \"BK Positive Steps\" campaign to provide more nutrition information on its menu items.\nThe Burger King list includes both menu items and ingredients in menu items, and it can be difficult to decipher what on the menu actually will turn out gluten-free \u2014 for example, it states that \"salad mix\" and \"lettuce\" are gluten-free, but doesn't say whether a prepared salad would be safe.\nStill, the list might provide some options for a starving celiac if it was coupled by an understanding Burger King staffer. It might be possible to get a bunless hamburger there.\nChipotle Mexican GrillChipotle\nMexican Grill, which spans the gap between a fast food restaurant chain and acasual dine-in restaurant, offers a huge variety of options for people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In fact, everything on Chipotle's menu except for the flour tortillas is listed as gluten-free on the company's Special Diet Information handout.\nCeliacs who react to distilled vinegar should avoid the red tomatillo salsa, and Chipotle's notes that anything with corn might have been contaminated by other grains before ever getting to the restaurant (they've obviously done their homework!). Otherwise, if you're lucky enough to have a Chipotle's nearby, enjoy. Just make sure to ask the people making your food to change their gloves first.\nIf you like burgers without a bun, you can order one at Sonic Drive In, and the fries and tater tots are gluten-free, too, according to Sonic's allergen table.\nHowever, Sonic's shakes, which come with a huge variety of toppings, are a better reason to go to the drive-in fast food restaurant. Most of the potential shake toppings are gluten-free (with the exception of obvious ones, such as Oreos and pie crumb pieces).\nDevotees of In-N-Out Burger (and there are quite a few in the gluten intolerant community) order their burgers \"protein-style,\" or wrapped in lettuce instead of in a bun.This is such a popular item (both for the gluten-free and for Atkins devotees) that the fast food restaurant chain has it listed on its secret menu. In addition, the In-N-Out fries should be gluten-free and therefore safe (but never forget to ask).\nDQ\u00ae\nFor our customers with gluten intolerance, the following Dairy Queen\u00ae treats are some of our top selling gluten-free products: containing no wheat, barley, oats or rye.\nVanilla and Chocolate Soft Serve\nAdditionally the following toppings are gluten-free: chocolate, hot fudge, marshmallow, butterscotch, strawberry, caramel\nOur supplier of manufactured novelties informs us that the following items are also gluten-free: DQ Fudge, DQ Vanilla Orange Bar, Dilly Bar (look for this in a sealed plastic wrap)\nZeppe\u2019s Pizzeria now has gluten-free pizza!\nZeppe's Pizzeria, the leader in high-quality ingredient menu items, has partnered with Still Riding Pizza\u2014makers of a gluten free pizza crust\u2014to enable those that are on a gluten or wheat free diet to indulge in one of life\u2019s most popular comfort foods.\nZeppe\u2019s Pizzeria prides itself on their award-winning Pizzas, and now even those on this restricted diet can enjoy their pizza! Joe Ciresi, President and Founder\nof Zeppe\u2019s said,\u201d We realized that 1 out of 133 people are affected with Celiac disease, and have to follow a gluten-free diet. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to serve pizza on this crust, and know that it will make it pleasurable for many customers that couldn\u2019t have traditional pizza because of their diets.\u201d\nLiz Silverman, President of Still Riding Pizza states,\n\u201cZeppe\u2019s is the perfect partner for Still Riding Pizza. They really understand that pizza is more than just food; it\u2019s one of the most popular ways to socialize, and now\npeople on a gluten free diet no longer need to be left out. We\u2019re thrilled to be partners.\u201d\nZeppe\u2019s Pizzeria and Still Riding Pizza will work together to maintain the purity of the gluten free pizza. The crust is produced and pre-baked at Still Riding\u2019s\nown, dedicated 100% Gluten Free and Kosher certified facility in Connecticut and shipped directly to Zeppe\u2019s 30 locations. At Zeppe\u2019s, the pizza is assembled using uncontaminated and gluten free toppings, baked on a special baking tray so that it doesn\u2019t touch the deck of the oven, and cut with a clean and dedicated cutter before it is served. Still Riding Pizza and Zeppe\u2019s have collaborated on the safest preparation methods and techniques to avoid the risk of cross-contamination. The gluten free pizza is now a part of their regular menu and is available for pick-up and delivery.\nZeppe\u2019s Pizzeria locations are open Monday through Wednesday from 11 am to 10 pm,\nThursday from 11 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday from 11 am to midnight, and\nSunday from Noon to 10 pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 10291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ifcj.org/opportunities/2016-is58-special-thank-you-video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WB2AKXBMAZZNZSAUNYO4ABKCW476YYCF", "length": 432, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ifcj.org", "title": "2016 IS58 Special Thank You Video | IFCJ", "raw_content": "Special Thank You Video from The Fellowship\nBecause of friends like you, The Fellowship is on the ground helping desperately needy elderly Holocaust survivors and families the former Soviet Union struggling to survive. You are truly saving the lives of the most vulnerable who otherwise would go without basic essentials such as food, clothing, medicine and shelter. May you be blessed with shalom, peace, for blessing God\u2019s people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 4841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.immigrationwise.com/drupal/?q=en/node/144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IIJJERYRQ5W2G2A5SPH26XUAI6J5HPSP", "length": 1875, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.immigrationwise.com", "title": "INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2016 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2016) | Immigration Law Practice", "raw_content": "You are hereINSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2016 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2016)\nRequirement #1: Individuals born in countries whose natives qualify may be eligible to enter.\n\u2022\uf020Was your spouse born in a country whose natives are eligible? If yes, you can claim your spouse\u2019s country of birth\u2014provided that both you and your spouse are named on the selected entry, are issued diversity visas, and enter the United States simultaneously.\n\u2022\uf020Were you born in a country whose natives are ineligible, but in which neither of your parents was born or legally resident at the time of your birth? If yes, you may claim the country of birth of one of your parents if it is a country whose natives are eligible for the DV-2016 program.\nRequirement #2: Each applicant must meet the education/work experience requirement of the DV program by having either:\n\u2022\uf020a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful completion of a 12-year course of formal elementary and secondary education;\n\u2022\uf020two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience to perform. The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s O*Net Online database will be used to determine qualifying work experience.\nEntries for the DV-2016 DV program must be submitted electronically at www.dvlottery.state.gov between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Monday, November 3, 2014. Do not wait until the last week of the registration period to enter, as heavy demand may result in website delays. No late entries or paper entries will be accepted. The law allows only one entry by or for each person during each registration period. The Department of State uses sophisticated technology to detect multiple entries. Individuals with more than one entry will be disqualified.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impactinsurance.org/news/2018/november/knowledge-sharing-workshop-agriculture-nepal", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:US6Y6ZXVESZ73TCD7OCKBTBD7EAZWZOQ", "length": 1938, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.impactinsurance.org", "title": "Knowledge sharing workshop on agriculture insurance in Nepal | The ILO\u2019s Impact Insurance Facility", "raw_content": "Developed as a regional event, representatives of implementing organizations from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka worked closely with Nepalese organizations to discuss factors that impact agriculture insurance and mechanisms to overcome them. The participants represented a diverse set of stakeholders, such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the cooperative federation, microfinance institutions, researchers working in agriculture insurance, technical service providers, public and private sector insurers and reinsurers, brokers as well as development sector organizations.\nThe primary objective of the workshop was to stimulate multi-stakeholder involvement to achieve greater scale and impact with agriculture insurance. Through an exchange of peer and partner experiences, it sought to enhance learning around the quality and impact of agriculture insurance.\nThe topics included determining the relevance of index insurance in the local context, as well as the various roles that government, reinsurers, cooperative organizations and technical services providers can play to make agriculture insurance products more accessible and responsible.\nUsing interactive formats to facilitate open exchange of experiences and ideas, including simulated \u201cgames\u201d, the participants shared new methodologies and technologies that can assist to maximize the impact and potential for scale of agriculture insurance. The resources shared helped in highlighting the importance of client value in product design, distribution and delivery.\nParticipants were very enthusiastic and satisfied with the discussions at the workshop with a rating of 4.69 on a 5-point scale. They enjoyed the various country experiences and case studies that were shared, as well as the highly interactive discussions. 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Open 7 days. read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indianmirror.com/temples/hazrat-moinuddin-dargah.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5X32WDSNCSLUESDCZDL4XQZ5KOM36YMP", "length": 6241, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.indianmirror.com", "title": "Hazrat Moinudin Dargah, Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer, Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Rajasthan.", "raw_content": "Home > Temples > Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti\nHAZRAT KHWAJA MOINUDDIN CHISTI DARGAH\nVideo - In and Around Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti\nHazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti was a great Sufi saint who was the harbinger of Islam in India. He served and blessed the poor. It is believed that those who come and pray with unadulterated faith and devotion at his Dargah or mausoleum are blessed out of their miseries.\nThe holy Dargah Sharief in Ajmer is the second most important pilgrimage after Mecca and Medina for the Muslims all over the world. The magnificent gateway that leads to the Dargah was constructed by the Nizam of Hyderabad. Invoke the blessings of almighty Allah at the two mosques located within the Dargah Sharief in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.\nThe final resting place for 'Gharib-Nawaz', Moinuddin Chishti is located in Ajmer. People of all religions visit the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. The Khwaja left for heavenly abode in 1256 AD after a six day prayer in seclusion. These six days are celebrated every year as the annual Urs, which is attended by innumerable pilgrims irrespective of their faith. The shrine is considered to be a place of wish fulfillment for those who pray with devout and pure hearts. It is said that Emperor Akbar sought blessings for his son at the Dargah.\nThe entry to the Dargah is through the Dargah Bazaar that leads to the inner courtyard. The high gateway has beautifully carved silver doors. In the courtyard are kept two huge cauldrons with capacity of 2240 kg and 4480 kg. On special occasions, 'Kheer' cooked in these cauldrons is distributed among the pilgrims. The grave of the Sufi Saint is surrounded by a silver railing and is partially covered with a marble screen. The daughter of Shah Jahan had built a prayer room in the Dargah for the women devotees. The premises of the Dargah also has the tomb of Bhishti, tomb of Saint's daughter-Bibi Hafiz Jama and the tomb of Shah Jahan's daughter Chimni Begum.\nThe lakeside city of Ajmer is located in central Rajasthan, and is held in great reverence by devotees of all communities who call it 'Ajmer Sharif' (Holy Ajmer). It is here that the mortal remains of the highly respected Sufi saint Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti lie buried. The Khwaja came from Persia and established the Chishtia order of 'fakirs' in India. He is popularly known as 'Gharib Nawaz' (protector of the poor) because he dedicated his entire life to the service of mankind. His spartan life spanned almost a hundred years and he embraced death in solitude while he had withdrawn to his cell for six days, asking not to be disturbed.\nHazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti occupies a prominent place among the spiritual Healers of the world. Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti popularly know as -Sultan-Ul-Hind-, Khawaja Gharib Nawaz, Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Ajmeri, Khwaja Baba, Khwaja Saheb, Khwaja Sahib, Khwaja Ajmeri was born in 1142 A.D. in Sanjar (Iran). His paternal genealogy is related to Hazrat lmam Hussain and that of his maternal to Hazrat Imam Hassan. And thus he is a direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad.\nHe was a symbol of love, harmony and truth. The sources of this power may be traced to his own exceptional endowments. Throughout his life, he exhibited the noble traits of character so peculiar to the house of Prophet Muhammed to which he belonged. Truth, right conduct, peace, love and non-violence were his mission and true message to all the Sufis.\nIt is a well established historical fact that in spreading the ethical and spiritual values of Islam, major and effective works have been made by the Walis of Allah (saints). It was their humanistic grade, and piety which won over the hearts of millions of people. They made a direct contact with the masses served and loved them, lived with them in the realization of Eternal Truth. The proof of this is more than evident from the history of growth of Islam in India. Although Islam had made major growth in this subcontinent of India in the first century of Hijra, the noble task of inspiring the people to its tenets and values in India was accomplished by Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty. He did it all through his great moral power, glorious and appealing character, with love and dedication to mankind, without any worldly resources of wealth, power, force and material means.\nKhwaja Baba was a scholar of great repute. He interpreted the true Islamic message of love for mankind and through that, the love for the Almighty creator. He preached the Quranic philosophy of the unity of religion and worked out its potentialities for the whole humanity.\nSufi Saint Khawaja Muinuddin Chisti was the greatest mystic of his time. He laid the foundation of the liberal Chishti order of Sufis in India, and inspired millions of souls to be his followers and thus served the masses of the Indian Sub-continent.\nSprawled over a huge area in the heart of Ajmer, the Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti is located at a distance of 4 kilometers from the Ajmer railway station.\nMarvel at the aesthetic and stunning white dome that crowns the main tomb. Besides Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti's Dargah there are several other monuments of historic interest located within the Dargah Sharief enclosure. Tour the tenement of Bibi Hafiz Mahal, Begami Dalan that was constructed in the memory of Begum Jahanara, See the Mehfil Khana, Aulia Mosque and the Chillah of Baba Farid. Near by tourist places to Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti\nAjmer Sharif is a city that is situated in the middle of the Indian state of Rajasthan. To reach Ajmer you can come by Rail, Road or by Air. Here are the details of how to reach Ajmer.\nThrough Airways -Through Airways the nearest International Airport is the Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi. Ajmer is only 350 kilometers from here. The nearest domestic Airport to Ajmer is Jaipur that is only 135 Kilometers from Ajmer.\nThrough Railways - Through Railways, many trains from different states of India halt at Ajmer Junction.\nThrough Roadways - Throuh Roadways to reach the place, there are government and private bus services operating from Delhi, Ahmedabad and other major cities of India. Private cars are also available on hire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 6546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indonesianeye.com/app", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UDYS4VTWYJH6SH4NNBT4PYGMENW3B6QV", "length": 481, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.indonesianeye.com", "title": "Indonesian Eye", "raw_content": "This year, Indonesian Eye presented by Prudential is accompanied by an exclusive Smart Media Service, aimed to compliment the exhibition's artists and works.\nThe application allows for; interactive information on artists, Video on-demand for interviews and behind-the-scenes, HD images of the works, and articles on the exhibition.\nThe above features are built into a truly interactive digital platform, providing the user with access to Indonesian Eye exhibition in a 24/7 format.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.informatik.uni-linz.ac.at/kolloquium/list.jsp?nr=498&rnd=8360.309074047113", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MUBOCIQ7FWD5ZTWHISI5FA76QSUOJ6H7", "length": 2701, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.informatik.uni-linz.ac.at", "title": "Computer Science Colloquium", "raw_content": "Dr. Mukesh Mohania\nIBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM Research - Australia\nBlockchain-based Data Management, Analytics and Applications\nOrt: JKU, Computer Science Building (Science Park 3) room S3 134\nBlockchain technology has gained massive attention in the recent years with significant expectations that it could transform every industry for its promise of providing a single \"source of truth\" for participants in a business network. Nevertheless, according to Gartner's 2016 hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is entering its peak of inflated expectations and in fact, its years to mainstream to adoption is still 5 to 10 years ahead before the technology reaches a plateau of productivity. Since most of the blockchain efforts nowadays are still in a nascent state, we believe the time is right for database researchers and practitioners to get more deeply involved. In this talk, we put forward four components that researchers interesting in blockchain data management and analytics could increase focus on: (1) leverage query and transaction processing capabilities of mature data stores, (2) integrate on and off-chain data, (3) enable analytics services on blockchain as well as off-chain data, and (4) protect information from leakage. Finally, we will discuss number of blockchain applications in banking, insurance, and supply chain areas\nMukesh Mohania is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM Research - Australia, and currently working in the areas of Blockchain, and Cognitive Data and Analytics. He is also an Adjunct Professor at University of South Australia, Australian National University, and University of Melbourne. He has worked extensively in the areas of Information Management and Autonomic Computing. His work in these areas has led to the development of new products and also influenced several existing IBM products. He has received several awards within IBM, such as \"Best of IBM\", \"Excellence in People Management\", \"Out-standing Innovation Award\", \"Technical Accomplishment Award\", \"Leadership By Doing\", and many more. He has published more than 120 research papers in International Conferences and Journals and also filed more than 80 patents in these or related areas, and more than 50 have already been granted. He is an IBM Master Inventor and a member of IBM Academy of Technology. He has held several visible positions in professional activities, like VLDB 2016 Conference Organizing Chair, ACM India Vice-President. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and currently chairing ACM Distinguished Service Award Committee in 2017-2018.\nEinladender: o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Schrefl, Department for Business Informatics - Data & Knowledge Engineering", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.infosharetoolkit.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TATDC22FV53GUW26IBLRGGFPXEDZN4M6", "length": 852, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.infosharetoolkit.org", "title": "Models for Change", "raw_content": "Welcome to the Models for Change Information Sharing Tool Kit! This interactive website comprises the entire Tool Kit. Click on \"About\" for a description of the Tool Kit's content. Select the \"Framework\" tab and choose from three different information categories that best fit your needs. You can download materials, such as an overview of federal laws, within each category. Each category also includes interactive exercises to help strengthen your ability to engage in responsible information sharing. Note that the Information Sharing Tool Kit is not available in hard copy.\nModels for Change Information Sharing Tool Kit \u2013 Second Edition is a joint effort of Juvenile Law Center and the Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. 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Daisy was predeceased by her husband, John Gilmore, her parents William John and Janet Daisy (Bell) Eaton, her...\nDarlene \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dolores Wilson November 10, 1950 ~ February 4, 2010 In the early morning of February 4, 2010 our Heavenly Father called Dee Home. Dee was born in Toronto, Ontario to Emily and John Weed, both of whom predeceased their daughter. Dee grew up in New Westminster and moved to Kamloops in her young adult years, where she...\nClosest cities to Castlegar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.innovationmartlesham.com/articles/im-welcomes-alison-simons-to-the-im-mentor-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AX6KTPEIUZE25GNTWQ35EK5OOLX4C5MY", "length": 561, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.innovationmartlesham.com", "title": "IM Welcomes Alison Simons to the IM Mentor Group | Innovation Martlesham", "raw_content": "IM Welcomes Alison Simons to the IM Mentor Group\nWe are very pleased to welcome Alison to the Business Mentor Group.\nAlison Simons qualified as a European Patent Attorney with BT\u2019s Intellectual Property Department in 2001.\nAlison started her career in the Speech Applications division at BT Research Laboratories after graduating from Manchester University with a degree in Computer Science in 1986. 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Ron Artest scored 27 points and Yao Ming had 17 points and 10 rebounds to help the Rockets win a playoff series for the first time since 1997. Both will be key figures in the next round for the Rockets. The Lakers beat the Rockets, 4-0, in the regular season.\nHere\u2019s the schedule (times are PDT):\nGame 1, Monday at Staples Center, 7:30 p.m., TNT.\nGame 2, Wednesday at Staples Center, 7:30 p.m., TNT.\nGame 3, May 8 at Houston, 6:30 p.m., ESPN.\nGame 4, May 10 at Houston, 12:30 p.m., Channel 7.\nGame 5, if necessary, May 12 at Staples Center, TBA, TNT.\nGame 6, if necessary, May 14 at Houston, TBA, ESPN.\nGame 7, if necessary, May 16 at Staples Center, TBA, TBA.\nThis is the perfect opportunity for the bench to reestablish themselves as the best second unit in the league. We need them to get the continuity and cohesiveness working in their favor again. I look to the Bench Mob, led by Lamar Odom, to really dominate in this series, providing the starters with ample time to rest and make sure that they are ready for any 4th quarter pushes to close out the game.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 6779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 163.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2003/02/slashdot_on_liq.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NQ7KDGTKLMXDF5BVPFAHYBQRRN6PVOV6", "length": 2582, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.intelligent-artifice.com", "title": "Intelligent Artifice - Slashdot on Liquid Narrative", "raw_content": "Slashdot on Liquid Narrative\nI\u2019ve been reading the Slashdot comments on the Liquid Narrative story, which is titled \u2018Infinite Games\u2019. Nothing much interesting there, except a post from someone who took an AI class with R. Michael Young:\n\u201cI had an AI class with him. In one of those classes, he demoed this stuff. It was using the Unreal Tournament engine. Two demos he gave. One, two characters were put in a maze, without scripted moves and only knowledge of their immediate surroundings, and the knowledge of where they want to be and how to open doors (seemed like they had to go press and hold triggers or something, it\u2019s been awhile. Wasn\u2019t too terribly exciting by itself. This is along the lines I think when I think about traditional AI research, but doesn\u2019t strike me as very useful to a game..\nThe other was the user walked around an aquarium, and fish swam however they saw fit. The interesting part was the plaques that gave information about the animals. There was a database of factoids, and some rules about grammar and various languages, but no pre-written plaques. When viewed, the plaques contained a generated paragraph which presented some of the facts. The paragraph was always different every time you looked, and it could do it in several languages. This demonstrated how it could be used in an educational application, but also how it could be used to make NPC dialog more dynamic and realistic (\u2018Times are Tough\u2026\u2019).\nThe ultimate goal was to have a few stated conditions, and maybe end conditions, and allow the gamer full control over the environment, and have the story adapt to the conditions the player causes, if the story as planned to that point becomes impossible due to a players actions (say player is on an island with only one boat around, and he is expected to go to another island, but destroys the boat instead), a new story is generated on the fly. The computer adlibs. Also, if the game absolutely, positively requires that the player go to another island, some mechanisms can be put in, such as if the boat is not there, helicopter or another boat comes in and the occupants conveniently walk away from it.\nHe described the goal to be a fully interactive story, that is never the same twice through. A very interesting boon to RPGs as we know it. The aquarium demo at least showed promise for better NPC dialog. I don\u2019t know if they have anything to show the evolving story yet though\u2026 \u201d\nI think the best remark is right at the end:\n\u201cI have a hard enough time winning finite games.\u201d\n\u00ab And while we\u2019re down memory lane\nIn the unlikely case \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/resource-news/page/5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XJ6KO3ERNQIULDQTXSUF5U3YWYTSLX7F", "length": 2023, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.internationalresourcejournal.com", "title": "Resource News Archives - Page 5 of 1344 - The International Resource Journal", "raw_content": "CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 Parex Resources Inc. 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(TSX: WSP) (\u201cWSP\u201d or the \u201cCorporation) today announced that Pierre Fitzgibbon, Director of the Board of [...]\nNorth American Construction Group Announces Expansion of Heavy Construction Fleet Via an Attractive Acquisition\nACHESON, Alberta, Oct. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 North American Construction Group Ltd. (\u201cNACG\u201d or \u201cthe Company\u201d) (TSX:NOA.TO/NYSE:NOA) today announced that it has [...]\nThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued the joint Donlin Gold Record of Decision (ROD), marking the completion of a multi-year federal [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 210.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.it1me.com/learn?s=Product_life_cycle_management", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QOY6664R6WL4XSCZUR5RB6P4FKULHYMG", "length": 399, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.it1me.com", "title": "Product life cycle management Tutorial at it1me.com", "raw_content": "Log in using LinkedIn to view content and get assistance on the topic of Product Life Cycle Management from within our network. Once logged in, you can access resources such as articles, videos and white papers on this topic from trusted sources. Using our knowledge management system (KMS) you can create learning lists, skill lists and request lists to gather, organize and share knowledge assets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ithacaisfences.org/legal-information.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:01Z", "digest": "sha1:C725VQ4A7HLDDXRN7JN7HC5WQCBDRNFF", "length": 3706, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ithacaisfences.org", "title": "Legal Information - Ithaca is FENCES", "raw_content": "Ithaca is FENCES is willing to provide pro bono legal assistance to anyone who is arrested while engaged in direct nonviolent action in opposition to the fences. If you need legal assistance please send us an email at info@ithacaisfences.org\nLeave only your name and a contact phone number. One of our attorneys will get back to you as soon as possible. Email is not a secure means of communicating privileged information so DO NOT send details about your arrest via email.\nThe case against the individual arrested by Cornell University police for putting a sticker on the Stewart Avenue fence is being DISMISSED. Cornell University repeatedly interfered with the prosecution and would not agree to dismiss the case. Cornell insisted on an outrageous amount of restitution to remove the stickers although it costs almost nothing because in practice Cornell uses spray paint to cover the stickers. The individual refused to plead guilty based on free speech grounds and the argument that the suicide fences are illegally placed on the bridge. Then the prosecutor under pressure from Cornell charged the individual with 2 Class A Misdemeanors (each punishable by up to 1 year in jail). The judge at the arraignment said \"This case should have been dismissed right away. They're STICKERS.\" Reason not the strong-arm tactics by Cornell have prevailed - The case is being dismissed.\n11/17/10 - There has been one arrest that we know of regarding the fences. The individual was arrested by Cornell University police for putting a sticker on the Stewart Avenue fence and charged with a Class B Misdemeanor. (punishable by up to 90 days in jail).\nKnow Your Rights If You Have Contact With Law Enforcement\nThe most important thing you can do if you have contact with law enforcement is REMAIN SILENT and ask for an attorney! Do not answer their questions. In fact do not talk to a law enforcement officer about anything. Ask for an attorney and REMAIN SILENT. After you do that and as long as you REMAIN SILENT law enforcement is not permitted to ask you any more questions. (Please note that if you want to be released on bail or on your own recognizance by a judge you will have to answer questions about your biographical information, including your address.)\nRemaining silent can be extremely difficult. The officer may be friendly or make promises. Remember that law enforcement officers are trained to interrogate people and to ellicit information from you. Keep in mind that law enforcement officers do not have to tell you the truth, they can and do lie. You may feel that the legal penalty will be lessened or the officer may let you go if you explain yourself or answer a few questions. That is not true. Once you are arrested anything you say can only hurt you. Law enforcement officers have one goal in mind and that is to get you to talk. Do yourself and your case a favor and REMAIN SILENT.\nHere is a list of your rights from the ACLU website:\nYou have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud.\nYou have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.\nIf you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.\nYou have the right to a lawyer if you are arrested. Ask for one immediately.\nHere is a link regarding your legal rights: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/know-your-rights-when-encountering-law-enforcement\nHere is a link to purchase Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement by Katya Komisaruk.\nIthaca is FENCES believes this illustrated, easy to read book is one that everyone should read.\nhttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171244.Beat_the_Heat_\nIt's also available online on Google Books.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Political_Prisoners/htm/A3_Event_in_SF_April_6.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UV3H4ED7OSTSPKDUFURMTYTYNE4BCRYM", "length": 14149, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.itsabouttimebpp.com", "title": "http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2012/03/outer-limits-of-solitary-confinement.html", "raw_content": "Contact: Marina Drummer\nInternational Coalition to Free the Angola Three\nMarina@communityfuturescollective.org\nwww.angola3news.com\nThe Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement:\nA Public Forum to Support the California Prisoner Hunger Strike\nFriday, April 6, 2012, 6pm - 8pm\nLouis B. Mayer Lounge\n(San Francisco) --This free San Francisco event organized by the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 will mark 40 years of solitary confinement for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3, by exploring the expansion and overuse of solitary confinement, and mobilizing support for the Amnesty International Petition to remove them from solitary confinement and support for the California Hunger Strikers. Includes Keynote with Angola 3\u2019s Robert H. King, 2 films and additional speakers.\nThe International Coalition to Free the Angola Three is presenting a free public forum and film screening entitled \u201cThe Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement,\u201d at UC Hastings College of the Law, Louis B. Mayer Lounge, 198 McAllister Street, San Francisco, on Friday, April 6, 2012, from 6pm - 8pm, and co-hosted by the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal and the Hastings chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.\nThe International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 stands in solidarity with the courageous prisoners who recently initiated hunger strikes throughout California prisons. The event will examine how the torture and wrongful convictions of the Angola 3 are part of a much larger problem throughout US prisons. With presentations from several speakers involved with supporting the hunger strikers, the audience will be presented with many ways in which they too can lend their support in the fight against solitary confinement and other forms of torture in California prisons.\nThe keynote speaker will be Robert H. King, of the Angola 3, who was released in 2001 when his conviction was overturned, after 29 years of continuous solitary confinement. King says today that \u201cbeing in prison, in solitary was terrible. It was a nightmare. My soul still cries from all that I witnessed and endured. It does more than cry--it mourns, continuously.\u201d\nSince his release, Robert H. King has worked tirelessly to support the other two members of the Angola 3, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, who have been in solitary confinement since April 17, 1972. This coming April 17, which marks the 40th anniversary of their solitary confinement, King will be joined by Amnesty International and other supporters at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge to present Amnesty International\u2019s petition to Governor Bobby Jindal demanding that Wallace and Woodfox be immediately released from solitary confinement. Read more about Amnesty International\u2019s Angola 3 campaign, here.\nAt the UC Hastings event, King will talk about the Amnesty International petition demanding transfer from solitary and the broader struggle to release Wallace and Woodfox from prison altogether. Interviewed in a recent video by Amnesty International, King says about Wallace and Woodfox: \u201cAll evidence shows that they were targeted simply for being members of the Black Panther Party. There is really no evidence, forensic, physical, or otherwise, linking them to the crime. When I think about the ten years in which I\u2019ve had time to be out here, that is ten more years that they are there.\u201d\nIn their investigative report, Amnesty International similarly concluded that \u201cno physical evidence links Woodfox and Wallace to the murder.\u201d Even further: \u201cpotentially favorable DNA evidence was lost. The convictions were based on questionable inmate testimony\u2026it seems prison officials bribed the main eyewitness into giving statements against the men. Even the widow of the prison guard has expressed skepticism, saying in 2008, \u2018If they did not do this \u2013 and I believe that they didn\u2019t \u2013 they have been living a nightmare for 36 years!\u2019\u201d\n(Photo of the Angola 3. From left to right: Herman Wallace, Robert H. King, and Albert Woodfox.)\nAdditional speakers will include:\n\u00b7 Hans Bennett, Independent journalist and co-founder of Journalists for Mumia\n\u00b7 Terry Kupers, Institute Professor at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California\n\u00b7 Manuel La Fontaine, Northern California Regional Organizer for All of Us or None\n\u00b7 Aaron Mirmalek, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee Oakland\n\u00b7 Kiilu Nyasha, Independent journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party\n\u00b7 Tahtanerriah Sessoms-Howell, Youth Organizer for All of Us Or None\n\u00b7 Luis \u201cBato\u201d Talamantez, California Prison Focus and one of the San Quentin 6\n\u00b7 Azadeh Zohrabi, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal\n\u00b7 And more (Full speaker bios below).\nIn addition, two short films will be featured: The Gray Box: A Multimedia Investigation, by Susan Greene, The Dart Society, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment, by Claire Schoen, for the AFSC Stopmax Campaign.\nEvent notes: Hastings is on the corner of Hyde and McAllister, two blocks from the Civic Center BART station. The Hyde Street side entrance is wheelchair accessible. Refreshments will be served and signed books will be for sale. This event is free and open to the public. Donations for prisoner support will be gratefully accepted.\na FORTY YEAR HistorY OF REPRESSION:\nOn April 17, 1972, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 were placed in solitary confinement at Angola Prison in Louisiana. Wallace and Woodfox were subsequently railroaded and convicted for the murder of a prison guard, and remain in solitary to this day. They were framed COINTELPRO-style, in retaliation for co-founding a Black Panther chapter at Angola that initiated multiracial work and hunger strikes.\nCurrently held inside California\u2019s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison, Hugo \u201cYogi Bear\u201d Pinell, of the San Quentin Six, has now been in continuous solitary for at least 42 years. A participant in the recent statewide prisoner hunger strike, Pinell was a close comrade of Black Panther and prison author, George Jackson. Having been continually denied parole despite a clean record for the last 27 years, Pinell is, in the words of the Angola 3\u2019s own Robert H. King, \u201ca clear example of a political prisoner.\" His next parole hearing is scheduled for this May.\nThe stories of the Angola 3 and Hugo Pinell are the most extreme examples of a widespread human rights crisis in US prisons, where prolonged solitary confinement has become routine. According to www.solitarywatch.com, there are \u201cat least 75,000 and perhaps more than 100,000 prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day\u201d in the US.\nOn March 20, several human rights organizations jointly filed a petition to the United Nations Group on Arbitrary Detention, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and United Nations General Assembly on behalf of prisoners throughout California\u2019s Security Housing Units (SHU) and Administrative Segregation Units (ASU). The petition calls for UN action against California\u2019s prison administration and deplores the conditions of thousands of California prisoners, \u201cbeing detained in isolated segregated units for indefinite periods or determinate periods of many years solely because they have been identified as members of gangs or found to have associated with a gang.\u201d\nThe petition states further that \u201cas a result of the policies and practices that leave California with the largest population of prisoners in isolated segregation anywhere in the world, these prisoners suffer extreme mental and physical harm, including mental breakdowns, extreme depression, suicidal ideation, and breaks with reality, such that their treatment may be considered torture or degrading treatment illegal under well-established international norms and obligations of the United States and the State of California under, inter alia, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (\u2018CAT\u2019) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (\u2018ICCPR\u2019).\u201d\nFueled by the racist \u201cWar On Drugs,\u201d and the broader criminalization of poverty, the US prison population has exploded from less than 300,000 prisoners in 1970 to over 2.4 million today. This 40-year policy of mass incarceration has turned the US into literally the world\u2019s #1jailer\u2014with the world\u2019s highest incarceration rate and total number of prisoners.\nFeb. 20 \"Occupy San Quentin\" protest. Photo by Alex Darocy, Indybay.org\nWe declare that this human rights atrocity known as the \u201ccriminal justice system\u201d has now reached its outer limits. This cannot continue! It is becoming increasingly clear to the public that prolonged solitary confinement is nothing other than state torture.\nThe recent collaboration of prison activists and Occupy Wall Street, Occupy 4 Prisoners, marks a renewed linking of economic justice activism to a critique of mass incarceration and the criminalization of poverty. As Robert H. King said in his message to Occupy 4 Prisoners, \u201cthe same people who make the laws that favor the bankers, make the laws that fill our prisons and detention centers. We have to continue to make the connection between Wall St. and the prison industrial complex.\u201d The upcoming \"Occupy the Justice Department\u201d action in Washington DC on April 24 is calling for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners.\nThe strength of the 99% is in our numbers. Our only hope is to unite against the 1%. A newly-formed multiracial coalition of hunger strikers throughout California\u2019s prisons (most recently at Corcoran State) has demanded an end to prolonged solitary confinement and many other inhumane policies. These freedom fighters are on the frontlines of the struggle and they badly need our support. Our event is being held to give voice to their struggle and to present the audience with opportunities to show their support.\nFEATURED SPEAKERS BIOS:\nROBERT H. KING (Keynote Speaker)-- A member of the Angola 3, released in 2001 after 29 years of continuous solitary confinement. Since his release, he has worked tirelessly in support of Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. In 2008, King released his award-winning autobiography, entitled From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Robert Hillary King (PM Press). His website is www.kingsfreelines.com.\nHANS BENNETT-- A prison abolitionist, independent multi-media journalist and co-founder of Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal (www.abu-jamal-news.com), Bennett has written for several publications including Alternet, Truthout, Z Magazine, Black Commentator, ColorLines, Poor Magazine, SF Bay View Newspaper, Slingshot and Indymedia.\nTERRY KUPERS-- An Institute Professor at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. Dr. Kupers\u2019 forensic psychiatry experience includes testimony in several large class action litigations concerning jail and prison conditions, sexual abuse, and the quality of mental health services inside correctional facilities. He is a consultant to Human Rights Watch, and author of the 1999 book entitled Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It.\nMANUEL LA FONTAINE-- The Northern California Regional Organizer, All of Us or None. As a former street organizer (also known as a gang member), a formerly-incarcerated person, and a college graduate, Manuel brings street savvy, along with scholastic aptitude, and incorporates them into his work life to better assist those without voices.\nAARON MIRMALEK-- The founder of the Oakland chapter of the Leonard Peltier DefenseOffense Committee, started in honor of his cousin Leonard Peltier. Born in Oakland, he is a longtime community organizer. In 2010, Aaron was the Executive Producer of \"Free Leonard Peltier: Hip Hop's Contribution to the Freedom Campaign.\" In 2011, he was the Executive Producer and Co-Host of \"Free Peltier Free Em All!\" DVD with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. For more information: www.FreeLeonardAlbum.com.\nKIILU NYASHA-- A San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Through the end of 2009, Kiilu hosted a weekly TV program, \"Freedom Is A Constant Struggle,\u201d on SF Live. She writes for many publications, including the SF Bay View Newspaper and Black Commentator. Also an accomplished radio programmer, she has worked for KPFA (Berkeley), SF Liberation Radio, Free Radio Berkeley, and KPOO in SF. Her website is www.kiilunyasha.blogspot.com.\nTAHTANERRIAH SESSOMS-HOWELL-- Youth Organizer, All of Us Or None. Sessoms-Howell is a native of Berkeley, California. When she was arrested at the age of 15 she got her first glimpse into the cruel world of \u201crehabilitation.\u201d While in jail and on probation, Sessoms-Howell found out very fast that there is no such thing as a fair justice system. She now works to inform the youth of their rights and keep connections between youth and their elders strong. As Youth Organizer for AOUON, her job is to help, by any means, ensure the safety and rights of future generations to come.\nLUIS \u201cBATO\u201d TALAMANTEZ\u2014One of the San Quentin 6, Talamantez also works with California Prison Focus, and is a long time Bay Area activist and organizer.\nAZADEH ZOHRABI-- Co-Editor-in-Chief of the UC Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, Zohrabi is a third year law student at UC Hastings. Her family's experience with incarceration is what motivated her to become an attorney and an advocate for people in prison. Most recently, she has worked to advocate on behalf of prisoners in the Security Housing Units as a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition and the mediation team for the prisoners.\nView/Download April 6 Event Flyer Below:\nMORE SF BAY AREA EVENTS WITH ROBERT H. KING:\n--Let Us Not Forget: Honor Fallen Comrades and Political Prisoners, Saturday, April 7, 1:00pm, West Oakland Library, 1801 Adeline Street. For more information: www.itsabouttimebpp.com, (916) 455-0908.\n--Oakland International Film Festival, Sunday, April 8, 3:00pm, Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street, at 10th Street. King will be speaking in conjunction with a screening of the new British documentary about the Angola 3, entitled \u201cIn The Land of the Free\u2026\u201d For more information: www.oiff.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 14646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jabsolutions.in/blog/2017/10/28/email-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFPA7PSDG5HG56EI23AYVMRQJGYPWEVI", "length": 5403, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.jabsolutions.in", "title": "Email Marketing | JAB Solutions - Your Resource For Everything Digital", "raw_content": "Posted October 28, 2017 January 6, 2018 admin\nWhat is email marketing? Basically the use of email to promote products and/or services. But a better email marketing definition is the use of email to develop relationships with potential customers and/or clients. Email marketing is one segment of internet marketing, which encompasses online marketing via websites, social media, blogs, etc. It is essentially the same as direct mail except that instead of sending mail through the postal service, messages are sent electronically via email.\nMuch of the spam email we all get proclaiming \u2018deals\u2019 on this and that is a good example of email marketing at its worst; the mindless email barrage.\nSomeone somewhere buys an email list (or several!) and sends an email along the lines of \u201cGet ___________ (the product name) for only $_____! (the amount) to everyone on the list \u2013 sometimes repeatedly. All this does is annoy everyone and give email marketing a bad name.\nAt its best, email marketing allows businesses to keep their customers informed and tailor their marketing messages to their customers.\nEmail Marketing Can Be Personalized\nParticular groups of customers can be targeted or even individuals. Offering individual customers special deals on merchandise and/or services on the customer\u2019s birthday, for instance, is one example of email marketing personalization. (A restaurant might send an email to customers on their birthday offering 50% off an entree,) Email marketing helps a business develop and maintain a relationship with a customer over time that hopefully results in increased sales and increased customer loyalty.\nEmail marketing best practices include developing your own email list rather than buying an email list(s) and making participation in your email list opt-in rather than opt-out (using permission-based email marketing). Email should also be optimized for mobile usage as according to statistics over half of the emails are opened on mobile devices.\nThe two big advantages of email marketing are price and ease. Emailing is an inexpensive way to advertise your company and its products and/or services compared to many other types of marketing. It\u2019s also extremely easy to set up and track an email marketing campaign, making it a very accessible type of marketing for small businesses.\nNewsletters can be sent to the email list you\u2019ve built from the people who provided the necessary information on your website, for instance, providing these potential customers with news updates about your company, upcoming events and/or special offers \u2013 and, of course, reminding them that your business exists and that maybe it\u2019s time for another visit.\nEmail Marketing Is Still Relevant\nIn an age of increasing usage of social media for advertising, email marketing still rules the roost, according to a study conducted by HostPapa:\n94% of Internet users use email, while only 61% use social media\nthe \u201copt-in\u201d feature of email allows marketing by consent\nemail messages have a much wider range of formatting possibilities that social media messages\nThe huge advantage of email over social media is that prospects and customers are more likely to see an email than social media. Just posting something doesn\u2019t mean that everyone you want to see your message will see it. Your post might not even show up in your targets\u2019 social media streams. However, an email will sit in the inbox until it\u2019s read (or deleted).\nIdeally, email marketing should go hand-in-hand with social media. Adding social media \u201cLike\u201d or \u201cShare\u201d buttons to your marketing emails gives an additional way for customers to connect with your brand. Snippets of positive reviews from social media fans can be included in emails, and conversely, social media postings can be used to encourage fans to subscribe to your email newsletters.\nEmail marketing can substantially increase your income if you do it correctly. (See the tips below.) It\u2019s a great way to get people to visit and/or revisit your website or blog and more traffic usually equates to more income.\n1) Build your own list. This has already been mentioned but buying email lists is a waste of time. All you\u2019re going to do by sending unsolicited email is turned off most of the people you\u2019re hoping to turn into customers and run the risk of being labeled a spammer.\n2) Adhere to the rules of the CAM-SPAM Act. These rules include having a non-deceptive subject line, a method of unsubscribing, and your name and address at the end of the emails.\n3) Don\u2019t just send out ads to buy all the time. Use your emails to build rapport with customers by sharing your expertise and/or that of others, giving them tips and insights they can value. Share information that lets them know more about you and/or your company if it\u2019s interesting.\n4) Treat your list well. Remember that the people you\u2019re using email to communicate with have trusted you with their email and name; they deserve your respect. Just as you deserve as a chance to convert them from customers to fans and even evangelists for your brand, people who want to talk about and share your message and get involved in any way they can.\n5) Stick to a schedule if you\u2019re doing a newsletter. Sending email on a regular day or days can help your subscribers know what to expect from you and when.\n\u27f5Interesting Facts about Internet that You don\u2019t Know\nDefining The Language Of SMS To Grow Your Business\u27f6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jade-fiducial.com/us/Legal-mentions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ICLLJBB3NM4MHBLNXNT6O554MDEX6TNS", "length": 776, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.jade-fiducial.com", "title": "Legal mentions", "raw_content": "This site is the property of JADE FIDUCIAL\nThis website is published by FIDUCIAL JADE Inc., having its registered office at 10100 Old Columbia Road - Columbia - MD 21046 (United States of America), registered in the State of Delaware under file number 4454628.\nThe host of the website is the company FIDUCIAL STAFFING, having its registered office in France, Courbevoie (92400), Rue du Capitaine Guynemer 41, registered in the commercial and companies register of Nanterre under number 449 658 400, with intra-community VAT number FR92 449 658 400, reachable by means of the following contact data: by phone +33.4.72.20.76.00 or by e-mail at contact.web@fiducial.fr.\nThe director of the publication of the website is Mr. Christian Latouche, acting in his capacity as Chairman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jahbeng.com/shop/cry-for-the-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:31Z", "digest": "sha1:GO6WPYJSOQCQGESBFGIF4WPXXSL5XEEA", "length": 554, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jahbeng.com", "title": "Cry for the Children \u2014 Jah Beng Muzik", "raw_content": "Cry for the Children\nCry for the Children is Jah Beng\u2019s first album release and lists 13 potent roots reggae tracks inspired by the teachings of Ras TafarI and Jah Beng\u2019s experience as a youth growing up in Trench Town. This CD features earth-quaking rhythms, powerful lead vocals and sweet, soothing background harmonies that touch to the depths of your soul. The Artist earned his first Juno award nomination with this work. This album remains one of the best in the genre of Roots Reggae, worldwide, and will surely continue to stand the test of time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 222.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/windies-need-to-shift-into-50-over-gear-logie_144591?profile=0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:O3QLYNZF2LGQD3VXR5NUT4NZFMSPY3LK", "length": 3929, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.jamaicaobserver.com", "title": "Windies need to shift into 50-over gear \u2013 Logie", "raw_content": "Windies need to shift into 50-over gear \u2013 Logie\nBRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) \u2014 West Indies Women's coach Gus Logie has backed his side to put Sunday's opening loss to South Africa behind them, and come out swinging in today's crucial, second One-Day International of the three-match series.\nThe hosts produced a limp performance with the bat, failing to chase down a modest target of 202 and crashing to a 40-run defeat at Kensington Oval.\nHowever, Logie said with much of the preparation having focused on the side's defence of the Twenty20 World Cup title in November, it was now critical that they make the adjustment to the requirements of the 50-overs format.\n\u201cIt's just a matter of reinforcing the positives, and at the end of the day [we] hope that the players learn from [Sunday's] experience,\u201d the former West Indies batsman said.\n\u201cI think the preparation stage was very good so I don't think that any player can critique the fact that we were well-prepared in terms of number of balls hit, time in the nets. and it's evident when you look at the nine-ten-Jack (tailenders), the way they shaped \u2014 they shaped pretty well \u2014 it gives you courage, so I'm sure the top order will take some more responsibility comes Wednesday.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cIt's a work in progress. We keep talking about what we're aiming towards. It's a build-up as well despite the fact it's a competition within itself, but it's a build-up to what happens later in the tournament in terms of the T20s, and certainly the T20 World Cup.\n\u201cA lot of our preparation, I must admit, has seemed to focus a lot more on the T20 World Cup coming up, so we're looking for players to shift a little bit in gear, be a lot more patient \u2014 it's 50 overs, a longer version of the game \u2014 so it's about spending a bit more time in the middle; but I'm certain that we'll do that come Wednesday.\u201d\nWindies Women bowled well to restrict South Africa to 201 for nine off their 50 overs, especially after the visitors had cruised to 104 for one in the 28th over.\nHowever, the hosts were then let down by a sloppy batting effort in their run chase, with only Shemaine Campbelle, in her first ODI in two years, showing any enterprise with 46.\nLogie said the batsmen had failed to apply themselves properly and stressed the importance of senior players taking responsibility.\n\u201cI think at the halfway stage we felt really confident that this total was gettable and that we could have chased that down, but unfortunately it did not work out,\u201d Logie lamented.\n\u201cAgain, our more established players didn't come to the party. We know they're much better than that, but it's heartening to see Campbelle playing the type of responsible innings which she did and the support from the lower order.\n\u201c[Anisa Mohammed] really stepped up to the plate as vice-captain of the team and really showed what was possible. I think the top order will take some heart from that and some confidence from that going into the next game, so I'm looking forward to a much more all-round performance in game two.\u201d\nLogie also praised the Proteas bowling effort, which saw new-ball bowler Marizanne Kapp finishing with three for 14 from nine superb overs.\n\u201cConditions were a bit better in the second innings for batting \u2026 hence the reason we won the toss and fielded because we felt the pitch would play a little bit better, and it did,\u201d explained Logie.\n\u201c[So we can't take away] anything from the pitch or the conditions [but we have to] commend the South African bowlers. 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Happy 4th to all my American friends!\nIf you haven't discovered the greatness that is The Colbert Report, or even if you have, you should most definitely click aggressively to get his book, I Am America (And So Can You!) My favorite chapters are Immigrants: No Way Jos\u00e9 and Religion: Accepting Jesus as My Personal Editor. It's also an award-winning book - \"Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence.\" If that's not convincing, it spent 24 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List.\nSpoiler alert! Animal is adorable.\nI miss talented and sassy iwannadancewithsomebody Whitney. I also miss crackiswhackwhereisbobbby Whitney. I'm looking forward to her new album out in September and the first ballad is written by R.Kelly. Wait, what? 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I have recently completed my wedding training and have been given approval to conduct legal weddings in Scotland by the Registrar General. Also, I shadowed fellow celebrants for many months, undertaken a residential course, then, spent a full day a Maryhill Crematorium, before further training and mentoring by celebrants and funeral directors throughout Lanarkshire. The whole process has been an enlightening and really positive experience. I have been able to draw on my existing skills and experience (previously I was a journalist, a nurse and I have acted professionally) to help families deal with some of their most difficult times. It is an enormous privilege to write a personal tribute, which I can then share with the family and friends at the ceremony-a cremation or a burial. Each ceremony is unique as it reflects a personality-one person, their life, their story, with their choice of music, songs,and poetry. A Humanist funeral ceremony is a fully inclusive ceremony where everyone is welcome to celebrate a life lived and to say a fond farewell to the person who has lived it. I can honestly say that being a Humanist Celebrant is the most emotionally rewarding job I have ever done.\nI live in Quarrier\u2019s Village, Renfrewshire. 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Everyone sees life thru their own eyes and set of experiences. As we expand our experiences, our perspective expands and changes. I have seen this in my own life a lot over the past couple years.\nWeather. I used to wear a winter coat even in southern California. I even used to bundle up in scarves and beanies. Now, after living in Scotland and getting used to the weather over there, the weather in California seems mild. I went for a walk the other day in 52 degree weather and didn't need a coat or anything. In fact, I haven't used my winter coat once since touching down stateside.\nWhat matters in life. After moving and being away from my family and friends, I realized what really matters in life. It is hard to be away from people when things are going on...good things, bad things, birthdays, etc. That is one thing that really saddens me about living so far away from everyone. 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This process may cause a short delay for the first time when the page is requested but not after that unless the page is requested has been updated.\nJICS India is a project training institute in Jaipur, which aims at providing the real-time placement oriented training to the candidates who are looking for opportunities to make their career in the IT sector. The whole purpose of out ASP.NET training in Jaipur is designed with a single purpose of getting students the placement in the major companies as soon as they finish their academics. The training sessions are held by industrial experts and professionals who are also Microsoft certified and have contributed their expertise to the real-time.NET based projects.\nThe whole course is designed with the single purpose of fulfilling the requirements which are based on real time requirements as dictated by various companies. 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Click here to read more.\nSteve and Claire, two Bladon Junior Church members of staff got married in a delighful ceromony in Bladon Methodist Church. Click on the champagne to go to their wedding page.\nBladon Junior Church were delighted to have been awarded a grant of \u00a3700 from Oxfordshire County Council. This sum will be put towards purchasing lighting equipment for use at Junior Church shows and concerts. We have also been given a grant of \u00a3200 from the Oxford Methodist Circuit to part fund a laptop for the Junior Church. The laptop will be used on Sundays by the children to prepare material to\ndisplay on the large screen in the church at the following week's service. It can also be borrowed by the older children during the week to prepare material for Junior Church the next Sunday.\nBladon Junior Church invaded Thorpe Park, one of the UK's premier theme parks. Click on the logo to read about it. It rained all day and several rides were closed, so Thorpe Park kindly invited us all back as their guests a few weeks later, when we had an even better time!\nThe wettest summer on record meant the church came very close to being flooded and sandbags were required as the water levels rose. See some flooding pictures by clicking on the rain cloud.\nThe church was transformed into the wild woods for Kenneth Grahame's classic tale with Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger and of course the evil weasels, ferrets and stoats Click on the Wind in the Willows logo on the left to read all about the show.\nThat's Entertainment was our third concert in Witney's Corn Exchange where we once again teamed up with The Windrush School of Ballet for a\nWe are pleased to announce the launch of The Friends of Bladon Methodist Church. Click on the church to read more.\nconcert of dance and songs from the musical theatre. With a combined cast of 150 children the production was a challenge but it came off spectacularly - click the logo to see some pictures.\nOver the summer, 14 year old Junior Church member Luke cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats in support of the British\nHeart Foundation. You can read about Luke's challenge and his reasons for supporting this worthy cause on his website. The Junior Church sponsored Luke and we hope you will be able to support him too. Read more about Luke's jouurney\nOur production of Oliver! was a huge success. Over 40 children from Bladon and surrounding villages took part in Lionel Bart's smash hit musical. We sold out the entire run a week before the opening night.\nThe show was great fun to rehearse and perform and the audience\nDuring August we commissioned a full survey of the church premises.\nThe data from this survey will be used in drawing up plans for our new building.\nA few of the Junior Church sang at BJC member Karen's wedding.. See a picture of us outside St Martin's Church before the service\nThe Oxford Operatic production of 42nd Street in Oxford's 1,800 seat New Theatre was an all Bladon Junior Church affair. Click the logo to read more >\nWe are thrilled to announce that we have secured the rights to perform Disney\u2019s Beauty and the Beast in October 2010. Following the West End production, this show has been on\nA band of fearsome pirates invaded Bladon for our production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Click on the pirate ship to read about the show, see photographs of the production and order a DVD or photo CD.\nnational tour, however it has just been released for amateur performance for a limited period only during 2010. The show is based on the classic Academy award winning film and has been seen by 35 million people worldwide. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish costumes and dazzling production numbers including \u201cBe Our Guest\u201d.\nloved it. Click on the Oliver! logo to read more about the show and see\nLet's Dance was our 4th concert in Witney's Corn Exchange Theatre. Read more about it and see lots of pictures here\nThis year we staged the spectacular Disney musical Beauty and the Beast. The show was great fun to rehearse and perform and the audience loved it!. Click on Lumiere (right) to see some pictures from the show.\nBladon Junior Church's football match in the park! Click on the player on the right to see some action photographs > >\nOur Strictly Musicals concert was a spectacular show with songs from West Ends musicals such as Wicked, Love Never Dies and Hairspray! Click on the logo to see a load of photos\nThe Wizard of Oz amazed our audiences. Click on the banner below to see photos.\nOur Cue the Music concert was a joint presentation with the pupils of The Windrush School of Ballet. The combined cast was over 150 children!\nRead match by match commentary on our Euro 2012 sweepstake - click on the Euro 2012 logo on the right to go to our Euro's page.\nOur summer concert was called The Sound of Musicals\nBladon Junior Church are a happy and active group of of thirty young people with ages ranging from 4 to 20 years. We meet for an hour and a half on Sunday mornings at the Methodist Church in the small village of Bladon in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside..\nA typical morning at Junior Church includes a variety of activites such as singing, quizzes, and practising sketches as well as a wide range of practical activities. In the run up to Christmas we are especially busy making decorations, cooking Christmas cakes, decorating the church and preparing for our Candlelit Concert and Christmas Service.\nEvery few years we organise a coach outinsg. In the last few years we've visited BBC TV Centre in London, Wicksteed Park, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures, Drayton Manor Park and been on the GWR Steam Railway!\nThe Junior Church leads many family services throughout the year: at Christmas, Easter, Mothering Sunday and also at our Anniversary in May. At all our services, concerts and shows there is an opportunity for all children to take part if they wish.\nThe highlight of the year for many of the children are our concerts and our annual production. Recent shows include Toad of Toad Hall, Oliver!, Annie, The Pirates of Penzance and the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Have a look at our shows page to see pictures from the productions\nWe would be delighted to see new children of any age who would like to join. For more details please contact us or simply come along to Bladon Methodist Church at 10.50am on a Sunday morning - you'll be assured of a warm welcome. We currently have over 50 members and the average attendance on Sunday morning is rarely less than thirty children! Parents of young children are welcome to stay until their child is settled. More Sunday morning pictures here\nSome of the Junior Church - click picture to enlarge\nCandlelit Concert Rehearsal 2015\nJoseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat - 2001\nSunday morning activities\nTHE BJC\nNews items continued on this page\nIn autumn 2012 we produced the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. 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Every year thousands of thousands of work positions remain vacant because there is not enough labour force. Getting one of these positions might seem very easy since there are jobs but not workers.\nHowever, especially for those who have just arrived, it is hard to integrate and find a job immediately. Normally, a lot of people think about finding a job in Australia just as they get off the plane. That\u2019s not an entirely bad idea because for some people this is exactly what happened. But the truth is, the more prepared you are, the more chance you have of finding a job. The golden rule is to have a level of English: the better you speak and the more you can aspire to a well-paid job. Usually, most people arrive in Australia with scholastic English, in these cases it is better to invest in an English course, even briefly, before you can say \u201cI\u2019m looking for a job in Australia\u201d. 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Located on a corner lot, there is room for a detached shop on this lot with easy access to the back yard. The main floor has two bedrooms and has the use of one bedroom in the basement and extra storage. The basement suite has one large bedroom, there is a temporary wall in the living room area that makes a den/computer room. This wall could come down to make a larger living room. There has been several updates over the past few years including heat pump, furnace, central vac, 210 amp electrical service, updated flooring in the suite and some on the main floor. The main floor has parkay hardwood throughout and just needs a little TLC. Each suite has separate laundry. The basement rents for $700 per month, the tenant is great and would like to stay. The main floor rents for $1000 and will be vacant September 1st. 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His book, Seventh Son, hit the #4 spot in the Kids' section of the Barnes and Noble Nook store on January 17th, and it stayed in the top ten for three more weeks.\nSeventh Son contains Book 1, Revenge of the Witch and Book 2, Curse of the Bane, of Joseph's Last Apprentice series (called The Spook's Series in the U.K.) It was released as a major motion picture in the U.S. on February 6th, and in the U.K. on March 27th.\nHis books come with a warning: Not to be read after dark!\nFirst, tell us what Seventh Son is about.\nThe world of the County is plagued with dark forces: ghost, ghasts, boggarts and witches. John Gregory, the Spook, has fought the dark for many years but he is growing older and he needs to find someone to succeed him. So he begins to train Tom Ward, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and has certain gifts, such as the ability to see and talk to the dead and some immunity against witches. But will he be brave enough to stand and face the dark?\nI spent over ten years being rejected. Finally, my agent found me a publisher for \u2018The Spook\u2019s Apprentice\u2019. So my approach was traditional.\nThe series has over thirteen books and the international readership has slowly grown. Of course, the film has recently helped to increase sales.\nI have my own website, www.spooksworld.co.uk; using the site I invite and answer readers\u2019 questions and also blog keeping readers up to date. There are also publishers\u2019 websites, (in the UK and USA) pictures on Instagram, reviews on Goodreads and a dedicated Facebook site.\nI think the book is the important thing and e-books and print are just alternative ways of accessing text. But from my own experience, I am aware that I read a lot faster when using a Kindle.\nIt was an initiative by my publisher but I was very interested. I want to use every available format and device possible to reach readers.\nI am working on a brand new series called \u2018Arena 13\u2019 This is Science Fantasy and far different that the world of the Spook. I write full-time now and complete two books each year. At one time I used to get up a 6 am and write for an hour before going to work.\nI think e-publishing will continue to grow but rather more slowly. It could exceed print publishing but it will never totally replace it. People like to hold books and to build libraries of books collecting their favourite items to be displayed on shelves.\nAt the moment it doesn\u2019t hurt. But there are big questions to be asked. When somebody buys an e-book is that an extra purchase \u2013 something that would not have been bought otherwise? Or is it a replacement for a print book and is the author receiving less for the sale? There are also issues of piracy. I recently discovered a site where some of my books could be read for free. That can\u2019t be right. Writing is a job like any other and if you work you deserve to get paid.\nI don\u2019t think the e-format hurts my readers in any way at all. It may help some of them a lot. Some may enjoy reading in e-format whereas they would never dream of picking up a print book. For them it is natural to read alongside other activities such playing games, watching films or interacting within social media.\nLearn more about Joseph Delaney and his books his website, the Harper Collins website (where there are book-related games, contests and quizzes), or by following him on Facebook or Goodreads.\nSee the latest Kids' EBook Bestseller List for more top ten e-format authors and their books. It's updated every Saturday morning. Check back next week when my featured author will be Sara Larson.\nLabels: Joseph Delaney, Seventh Son\nKobo Kids and Teens Give a Top Ten Thumbs Up to SAY WHAT YOU WILL by Cammie McGovern.\nToday's featured author is Cammie McGovern. On January 3rd, she hit the #4 spot in the Kids' and Teen section of the Kobo store with her book, Say What You Will. This is Cammie's first young adult novel, after she wrote three books for adults.\nHere's a description of Say What You Will:\nBorn with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized.\nI was a \u201cliterary suspense\u201d writer for adults with three novels before I wrote Say What You Will, a young adult novel about two teenagers with disabilities who fall in love. (Eye Contact is probably the most well-known, about a nine-year old boy with autism who witnesses a murder). I got an MFA from the University of Michigan and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford so my journey was more on the typical path for a literary fiction writer. I also have three children, the eldest of whom is autistic which has made me particularly interested in writing stories about characters with disabilities. Now that I\u2019ve discovered writing for young adults and children, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever go back!\nAll my books have been published in print simultaneous with their e-format. I\u2019m grateful to have had the opportunity to work with wonderful editors and go through fairly extensive re-writing before my books are sent out into the world. That said, I\u2019m in awe of some of the amazing books I\u2019ve read that have been originally self-published e-books. Clearly this is a huge part of the future of publishing.\nTo me, it makes sense that publishing for middle-grade and younger children is primarily print based. I have a sixth grader who much prefers print and has only read a handful of books on my e-reader. What surprises me, though, is that I also have a very tech-savvy tenth grader who still prefers to read in print as well. He does everything else on computer, so you\u2019d think he\u2019d gravitate toward that for books as well, but not so. I don\u2019t think print books are going away any time soon. My hunch is that e-books are doing a great job of widening the market for many books and writers that avid readers might not have tried otherwise. How many of us late-night readers have bought books for $1.99 to help us fall asleep and then fallen in love with a story and a writer we would never have found otherwise?\nSay What You Will and my next book (A Step Toward Falling, due Oct. 2015) are both young adult novels featuring characters with disabilities, where the disability isn\u2019t the central conflict of the story. As the parent of an 18-year old with autism, I\u2019ve gotten to know many young adults with a wide range of disabilities and I feel like we need more stories about their lives\u2014showing them in all their complexities. For all my son\u2019s differences from his typically-aged peers, he\u2019s more like them than many might assume. He wants friends, romantic relationships, a job, and some measure of future independence. Both are also realistic love stories, so my target audience is adults and young adults who appreciate those stories.\nI\u2019m delighted that SAY WHAT YOU WILL has found an audience that goes beyond young adults and people with disabilities. I most love hearing from people who say how much they relate to the character\u2019s struggles, even though they don\u2019t have the same disabilities.\nHelps. By making books more accessible for all.\nI\u2019m thrilled that e-format is making my book more accessible for everyone.\nLearn more about Cammie and her books at her website or by following her on Facebook and Twitter.\nSee the latest Kids' EBook Bestseller List for more top ten e-format authors and their books. It's updated every Saturday morning. Check back next week when my featured author will be Joseph Delaney.\nLabels: Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will\nENSNARED by A.G. Howard: A Top Ten Hit in the Books-a-Million Store\nOn January 3rd, Ensnared, by A. G. Howard hit the #7 spot in the Kids and Teens section of the Books a Million e-book store. On her website, Anita says she \"always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage.\" That wondering led her to write her Splintered series. She joins us today to talk about her e-pub success, complete with a timeline of her path to publication.\nEnsnared is book three in the Splintered Series, my contemporary, gothic spinoff of Alice in Wonderland. In this final installment, Alyssa Gardner (Alice Liddell\u2019s great-great-great granddaughter), ventures into AnyElsewhere\u2014the violent and dark looking-glass world\u2014to rescue her loved ones and defeat the vicious and maniacal Queen Red who has placed Wonderland under an evil spell.\nI went traditional, which meant finding a literary agent to send out my manuscripts to publishers. I started searching for an agent with the first book I wrote, nine years ago. It took me writing three more books to get my first agent, and another three books after that to get my first publishing contract. Here\u2019s a timeline with dates for a bird\u2019s eye view of my journey:\n\u2022 March 2006 started querying my first novel. After 100 or more rejections, trunked it and wrote two more books.\n\u2022 July 2007, started querying my third novel and worked on the fourth one while it was out.\n\u2022 May 2008, signed w/my first agent on my fourth novel. She submitted the novel for one and a half years while I finished books five and six, which she turned down for being too fantastical.\n\u2022 December 2010, left Agent One after she wanted me to take the fantasy out of my seventh book, Splintered, my YA Alice in Wonderland spinoff. Started querying new agents immediately.\n\u2022 February 2011, signed with my present agent who loved the fantasy aspect of Splintered.\n\u2022 August 2011, went to auction and signed with Abrams for my Splintered Series.\n\u2022 January 2013, first book of the series, Splintered, hit the shelves.\nYes, my publisher always releases books in hardback and ebook format at the same time. After the hardback has been out for a year, they\u2019ll release the paperback version.\nMy publisher sends me to events, and also does several campaigns online, but it takes a lot of work from the author\u2019s end, too. An author has to establish a presence online if they want to get the word out and interact with fans. I have twitter, tumblr, a FB author page, a website, a blog, a GoodRead's author page, a YouTube account, an Amazon author page, and a pinterest board. I'm most active on my twitter, tumblr, GoodReads, and FB. For me, those four seem to be easier to balance. I interact with book bloggers and host a lot of giveaways and contests to get a buzz going about upcoming releases. There is a more detailed marketing strategy on my website HERE.\nYou can learn more about A. G. Howard and her books by visiting all of her social media hangouts mentioned above. Here are the links: Website, Blog, Twitter, GoodReads, FaceBook, Tumbler, YouTube, Pinterest, and her Amazon Author page.\nSee the latest Kids' EBook Bestseller List for more top ten e-format authors and their books. It's updated every Saturday morning. Check back next week when my featured author will be Cammie McGovern.\nLabels: A. G. Howard, Ensnared\nTHIS IS FALLING: A Top Ten Favorite with Nook Teens.\nGinger Scott, the author of This is Falling, joins us today. Her book hit the number 3 spot in the Teen section of the Barnes and Noble Nook store on November 22nd. This is Falling is the first book in her Falling series.\nGinger's debut novel (mentioned below) was released in the spring of 2013 and in the two years since then she has independently written and published six more books, with another one, Wild Reckless, due for release on March 17th! She joins us today to talk about her bestseller, e-publishing and she gives us a peek at her prolific writing schedule.\nTHIS IS FALLING is the story of 18-year-old Rowe Stanton, a college freshman far from home, trying to force herself to take a leap of faith and re-enter a world that she fears she no longer deserves to be in. Rowe is a survivor, and she's barely able to remind herself to breathe. But when she meets fellow freshman and star baseball player Nate Preeter, she suddenly wants to try--more than she's ever wanted anything. And that scares her.\nTell us briefly about your path to publication:Traditional or independent?\nI am an independent author. I spent years working as a journalist, reporting for newspapers, magazines and blogs, before moving into fiction. But writing high school and teen romance was always my dream. I wanted to write the stories I always loved to read, and I had notebooks filled with ideas I was too afraid to finish. I feared rejection, feared the painful and seemingly impossible route to traditional publishing, and feared that I would write something and nobody would notice or care. But that urge was overwhelming, and I didn't want to regret not trying my dream. So in 2013, I finished my first book--a coming-of-age love story that sat unfinished on my computer for longer than I care to admit. It was a very real, raw, honest and heartbreaking book about a girl with a boy's name and the popular boy she couldn't help but love. It was the exact story I always wanted to tell, and it was rich in character development. The book, Waiting on the Sidelines, spans four years of high school, and writing it was the greatest professional experience of my life. And I did it all independently, controlling the marketing, the editing, the distribution--learning every layer of the process. Being independent is a great amount of work, but I am so thankful for what I have learned, and I am now a big proponent of taking leaps of faith, especially when dreams are on the line.\nWhat does your writing schedule look like?\nWriting is my favorite thing to do, so my inclination is to do it whenever and wherever I can. Before I published my first book, I spent my days telling true stories--interviewing real people, understanding their emotions, painting the fabric of their character. I think I have carried a lot of my journalism habits into my fiction, and I am thankful for the skills journalism gave me when it comes to character development. I still write constantly, and I have been fortunate to be able to make it my full-time job. I usually dedicate six to ten hours every day to a manuscript, either writing a draft, making edits or retooling something based on feedback from a beta reader. Sometimes, though, my brain gets divided. If I have a new release, which I had on Dec. 5, I dedicate part of my day to marketing efforts, including reaching out to bloggers, developing graphics, teasers and sometimes video book trailers. My digital media background has made it possible for me to do a lot on my own--and this can be both a good and a bad thing when it comes to a writing schedule.\n(My Dec. 5 release was Book 2 in the Falling Series - YOU AND EVERYTHING AFTER)\nI think e-format reading is part of a natural progression. Technology is so deeply woven in our world, and it is exciting to see the ways it is affecting content consumption. I honestly believe anything that makes reading more accessible is a good thing for our youth. My husband and I read often, and I have been known to swap out sleeping hours for reading hours. My e-reader has made it possible for me to go to a virtual bookstore late at night, when my household is fast asleep, and pick a new world to get lost in. We recently got our son his first tablet, and he now has a few books on his Kindle app. One is a book he was reading in print at school but wanted to continue at home. Because we could download it easily, he was able to pick up right where he left off, and we didn't lose that hook of excitement he had for the story. If he had to wait until the next day, he might not have felt so urgent about the story. I didn't want him to lose that craving to read, and technology made connecting him with the story fast and easy. E-reading is only going to grow, even if it grows at a slower pace than previous years. It's a platform that our youth need to be familiar with, if simply to be able to navigate their way through the many e-content opportunities that are sure to pave their future.\nFind out more about Ginger Scott and her books at her website, or by following her on Facebook or Twitter.\nSee the latest Kids' EBook Bestseller List for more top ten e-format authors and their books. It's updated every Saturday morning. Check back next week when my featured author will be A. G. Howard.\nLabels: Ginger Scott, This is Falling\nSEVENTH SON: Four Weeks in the Nook Top Ten for Ki...\nKobo Kids and Teens Give a Top Ten Thumbs Up to SA...\nENSNARED by A.G. 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Raw scans, that are so large, are not transmitted to end users but instead visualizations are streamed to end users, allowing our technology to maintain diagnostic quality and to efficiently utilize users' Internet bandwidth. To stream high definition visualizations of these large scans on demand, one needs a high performing cloud, and for this reason, KJAYA's patent-pending cloud is supercomputing enabled through the use of gaming technology. The system can be adopted without any capital cost, without new onsite IT infrastructure, and compatibility with existing IT investments,\u201d says Kovey Kovalan, founder and president of KJAYA.\niShareScan registration is free and allows patients cloud archive storage so that they can share their images with referring physicians and specialists as needed. After locating the appropriate XDS data over the web, the KJAYA image sharing system transfers it to the company\u2019s private cloud for storage.\nAt the RSNA Image Sharing Demonstration, attendees will complete simulated imaging procedures, from scheduling them on a RIS through results reporting. Then, they can access all data from the RSNA\u2019s online XDS registry-repository and share information with other attendees using technology from participating image sharing vendors. The RSNA architecture is similar to the technology utilized in the RSNA Image Share pilot project, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), which creates a blueprint for patient-controlled image sharing.\nAt RSNA, all showcased image exchange architecture will be based on the IHE Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) profile. KJAYA and other image sharing vendors were required to demonstrate the capabilities of their technology as part of the selection process.\nKJAYA iShareScan is part of the company\u2019s advanced Volumina Imaging Suite, a revolutionary cloud based medical imaging data management system that features complete RIS, PACS, 3D-post-processing, image sharing, long-term archiving, redundancy and high availability solution, that operates seamlessly with unprecedented speed over the Internet from the KJAYA cloud. Taking advantage of the same technology that powers today\u2019s graphic intensive computer games, Volumina relies on multiple graphic processing units (GPUs), which handle large amounts of information simultaneously on the private, secure KJAYA cloud. This makes the system 100 times more powerful than conventional servers that utilize single central processing units (CPUs). This immense computing power produces and streams Intelligent Visualizations\u00ae instantaneously over the web without transmitting the raw scan to the end user. The result is the ability to generate and interact with diagnostic quality images on-demand and in real time from any Web-enabled computer including the iPad, making it an ideal platform for image sharing.\nPlease visit KJAYA at the RSNA Image Share area at McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, Hall D, Booth #1628 while at RSNA to learn more about the project.\nAbout KJAYA\nKJAYA is an emerging company in the medical imaging space with an ambitious plan but with just sufficient resources to execute our vision. However, we are dedicating our limited human resources to participate in the success of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative because it fits our mission.\nKJAYA's mission is to assist healthcare providers in delivering time-critical radiology information of patients instantly, intuitively and anywhere, so physicians can make better decisions to save lives and improve patient care. We do this through the use of our Cloud Supercomputing Radiology Platform based on gaming technology. This approach enables the efficient user of internet bandwidth to view diagnostic quality images without the need of transmitting raw images to the end user. Therefore, medical images, that are so large, can reside and accessible over the cloud; KJAYA's Volumina Cloud.\nThe company was honored with 2011 Frost and Sullivan Award for Technological Innovation, and 2012 Connect Healthcare Innovation Venture Roundtable Winner.\nAbout RSNA\nThe Radiological Society of North America (RSNA\u00ae) is an international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals with more than 50,000 members across the globe. RSNA hosts the largest medical meeting in the world, drawing 60,000 attendees annually to McCormick Place in Chicago, and publishes two top peer-reviewed journals: Radiology, the highest-impact scientific journal in the field, and RadioGraphics, the only journal dedicated to continuing education in radiology.\nRSNA Image Share is a network created to enable radiologists to share medical images with patients using personal health record (PHR) accounts. 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Down the line, this will help you to score a lower monthly premium, bearing in mind that insurance underwriters, if they decide to cover such clients, will always insist on charging the highest rates for high risk clients. Finally, once you are on the books of an insurance company that is accredited and reputable, it is a good idea to stay with them as opposed to chopping and changing companies in order to score the cheapest premiums possible.\nLike building a good credit score or profile, you build a good record with your existing insurer just so long as you do not submit claims incessantly and unnecessarily. The more you install security and storm and property damage provisions in accordance with the advice given to you, the less chance there is of you incurring losses. 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In the best interests of her client, Sam opens the door to his strategy. Turns out, a little too far...Victor Marin has ulterior motives. The defendant in her case holds the key to his revenge and his last chance for justice. But as he chases old demons, he uncovers a powerful woman with no inhibitions, one he wants to possess for himself. But decidedly single, Sam wants no part. Until Vic walks away.\nKritters Thoughts: My second book by Dianne Venetta and this one was very similar to the first in that it definitely had some sexy times, but there was a true story at the heart. If you are a follower, you know that I don't tend to read the books that are chock full of sexy times, it makes me very uncomfortable and isn't my type of reading. But I think Venetta writes sex scenes into a story, so I can quickly skip over them and still enjoy a story built on great characters in interesting situations.\nSamantha Rawlings is a lawyer who is on the brink of becoming the first female partner at an exclusive Miami law firm and she has one case that stands in her way. Vic Marin is a lawyer who recently moved to Miami with ulterior motives, but a romance on the side wouldn't hurt his ultimate plans. I loved that Sam had both a work life and a personal life. For some reason characters in books, don't go to work regularly and I am often left confused as to how they keep their jobs! Also, Sam has her sister Jessica show up on her door with her own issues which made the book even more full of drama - not soap opera drama, just drama!\nWonderful characters, a great story with a few intimate moments, this was a great book to enjoy by the pool over a weekend.\nRating: definitely a good book, but can't read two in a row\nDisclosure of Material Connection: I received one copy of this book free of charge from A Cozy Reader's Corner. I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.\nThanks so much for being on the tour and reviewing Lust on the Rocks! If you love the olympics, her next book is coming out and I'd love to get you a review copy. It's a great story based around the special olympics and the wonderful children involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kyssonline.com/sknlp-taking-government-electoral-commission-to-court-over-electoral-tampering-allegations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LOSP4H4Q32OUTIDG5LQQMEWJMNFLPXUH", "length": 1060, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kyssonline.com", "title": "SKNLP TAKING GOVERNMENT & ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO COURT OVER ELECTORAL TAMPERING ALLEGATIONS \u2013 Kyss FM 102.5", "raw_content": "SKNLP TAKING GOVERNMENT & ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO COURT OVER ELECTORAL TAMPERING ALLEGATIONS\nBASSETERRE, St. Kitts (KYSS FM) \u2013 The St. Kitts/Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has announced its intention to pursue legal action against the government and other parties they allege are directly involved in a slew of illegal activities at the Electoral Office.\nDeputy Leader of the party Hon. Marcella Liburd has said that the SKNLP has reached the end of the line in allowing the government to manipulate the electoral system for their own gain.\nTo remedy this this, Hon. Liburd announced on Wednesday that her organisation intends to utilize every possible option, including legal and protest action, to seek redress.\nShe continued that the alleged illegal and immoral acts taking place at the Electoral Office are designed to manipulate the voters lists to deliver an easy win to the Team Unity coalition as a pre-emptive strike against coming boundary changes.\nBERYL BECOMES THE FIRST NAMED STORM OF THE 2018 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON\tHURRICANE BERYL ALERT STATEMENT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.landau-bldg.com/properties/regional-learning-alliance/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:PLP3ZMSAURZGBEVQEKYXAEYLLT5V6FS5", "length": 1216, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.landau-bldg.com", "title": "Landau Building Company", "raw_content": "Project: New Conference & Learning Center\nOwner: Regional Alliance Learning\nLocation: Marshall Township, Pennsylvania\n2005 Master Builders Association- Project Excellence Award Finalist\nThe Regional Learning Alliance is a consortium of higher education institutions that share this facility as a satellite educational location. In addition to being used as an instructional home for eleven post-secondary partners, the facility is also used as a corporate conference, meeting, and training center. Landau Building Company\u2019s recommendations during pre-construction of the project played a pivotal role in its success. The 83,790 square foot facility needed to accommodate a wide range of activities and utilize the principles of sustainable design while being constructed as economically as possible. The completed facility became a model of functional design, construction, and facility application. The steel framed structure with a brick and metal panel exterior has been recognized as a LEED Silver Certified building. Additionally, this facility also received International Association of Conference Center accreditation. This project was completed in eleven months, in time for the academic fall 2004-2005 term.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lasfsinc.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=28&Itemid=25", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YKANA2VGTC4MSURB4REHBDUJOHTEBJ7Y", "length": 4347, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.lasfsinc.info", "title": "lasfsinc.info - Books", "raw_content": "Charles Lee Jackson has two more books now available, with another about to be released.\nThe Emperor Marked For Death [The Amazing Adventures of The Emperor #2]\nBlonde Bombshells [The Emperor's Secret Files #2]\nAnd coming this month:\nThe Mark of Cypher [The Emperor's Secret Files #3]\nLASFS's Charles Lee Jackson II has two books available for purchase on Amazon.\nThe Emperor'd Gambit: The Classic Pulp Cliffhangers\nThe Executive of Crime: The Emperor's Secret Files\nScience Fiction with Intellectual Content and Laughs\nBl\u00fcroof Press -- at Amazon.com\n$14.99 Trade Paperback / $2.99 Kindle\nReviewed by Russell Blackford\nIt is little wonder that the master of the genre, Ray Bradbury, gave his endorsement to Seven Paul Levia's, \"Traveling in Space.\" In form it's a science fiction narrative, but not one that presents space-opera-style battles or one that aims at verisimilitude in the manner of hard sf. Instead, we're given a satirical story in the tradition of books such as Robert A. Heinlein's \"Stranger in a Strange Land,\" with which it shares something of a common sensibility, or even \"Gulliver's Travels.\"\nLook for elements of Menippean satire, such as a fragmented narrative, philosophical debates, and pervasive mockery of both sacred and \"commonsense\" ideas.\n\"Traveling in Space\" is sufficiently sprawling and complicated to require a list of dramatis personae to help sort out its characters, which you can on Leiva's blog (www.stevenpaulleivasthisnthat.blogspot.com), as well as find out quite a bit more about the book and its author.\nThe book's satirical force is generated by contact between two mutually baffled intelligent species: a bunch of extraterrestrial aliens traveling in space far from their home world; and human beings here on Earth, whom they encounter and try to understand. This opens up all sorts of possibilities. The aliens are not bug-eyed monsters, but humanlike beings from a vastly older, technologically superior civilization. They immediately strike Earth men and women as physically gorgeous and fascinating. For their own part, they find us equally fascinating ... though physically repulsive.\nMany of the aliens' encounters with human beings are downright funny. They see the idiocy of many of our institutions and practices, whether it be religion, war, or prudishness about the body. As the narrative continues, however, and they are confronted by the facts of race hate and genocide, the satire takes on a different tone. The aliens still struggle to understand what they're seeing, but the denunciation grows more bitter (even when the horrors are filtered through the perceptions of the aliens, who examine human conduct in a rather clinical way).\nby Edward F. McKeown\nHellfire has just published my new SF novel \"Was Once a Hero\" first of a new trilogy of deep space adventures led by Robert Fenaday, Shasti Rainhell and their starship, the Sidhe.\nhttp://www.prlog.org/11771900-join-the-adventurelive-the-romance.html\nReview by Tim McLoughlin, author of \"Heart of the Old Country\" (Movie Title: The Narrows) and Editor of \"Brooklyn Noir\"\nThe classic Planet Stories of S/F have suffered abandonment, without a rescuer, until now. Edward McKeown's \"Was Once A Hero\" combines adventure and romance with the dark humor and human complexities absent from a more black-and-white age. Robert Fenaday and Shasti Rainhell are real people. They make mistakes, they hurt, they stumble in the dark emotionally, and they save the world. They are flawed, wounded heroes, and they make you realize, as you hungrily turn each page, that the best fiction contains excitement and passion; and the best aspect of life is the possibility of personal redemption. Was Once a Hero provides both.\"\nreviewed by Len Moffatt\nEdited by John L. Coker, III\nForeword by John Norman.\nIntroduction by Ray Bradbury\n(Days of Wonder Publishers 2009)\nThis is a hardcover book in a slipcase. The case and the front cover and spine are gold embossed.\nThe cover measures 8\u00bd\u201d X 11\". The interior paper measure is 8\u00bd\u201d X 10\u201c and is 1\" thick. The book weighs 3.6 pounds on our digital scale.\nI give you all this information because the pages are not numbered.\nThe lack of pagination does not detract from the enjoyment or use of this marvelous book.\nThe four-page detailed Table of Contents lists all the items in the order that they appear.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laureus.co.za/powerofsport-highlights-from-the-mercedes-benz-breakfast-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DJCS7IAHO4MYMZO6PMSMW5HEW65B7AG5", "length": 847, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.laureus.co.za", "title": "#PowerOfSport: Highlights from the Mercedes-Benz Breakfast series | Laureus", "raw_content": "The Eastern Cape is the beating heart of Mercedes Benz in South Africa, with a rich history. The world\u2019s premier motoring company is a proud partner of Laureus South Africa and in 2018 held a series sporting-themed breakfasts delivering key insights into the latest happenings in the sporting world as well as the Laureus Foundation.\nThis episode provides a highlights reel of those events as we hear from some of sport\u2019s biggest names including the likes of Zolani Tete, Jeremy Brockie, Amanda Dlamini, Morne du Plessis and Elana Meyer.\nThis audio journey is a spiritual homecoming to the famous Mercedes Benz plant in East London, of sorts, as we trace the impact Nelson Mandela had on Mercedes Benz South Africa, the Laureus Foundation and to millions around the world.\nTo subscribe to this series via Omny Radio, click here or via iTunes, here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ldsapology.org/community/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:T5G2EUBWOUYE4OQQXAC2NOPTVC4DTSBC", "length": 2935, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ldsapology.org", "title": "Community | LDS Apology.org", "raw_content": "Since 2009 we have had over 3,000 people contact us and express their support of our organization in many ways. Our community consists of families, singles, married couples, straight, gay, professionals. Some of us are parents of children or we have ourselves been sexually abused by leaders or members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of us parents of or members of the LDS and LGBT communities.\nWhile we would not consider ourselves in way anti Mormon and while we do not sympathize with anti Mormon groups, we all agree there is much need for increased awareness, sensitivity and change in Mormon leadership practices today to help eliminate sexual abuse cover ups, and end rhetoric that is harmful to our children and others that struggle with many complex issues.\nOver 2,000 individuals have signed our petition for reconciliation between the LGBT and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\nMany of these individuals did so while fearing they were risking their membership in the Church or feared Church discipline in signing the Petition to ask the Church to consider making some changes to reconcile with the LGBT community.\nStill hundreds of others expressed support of our reconciliation goals while they remained too afraid to place their name on the Petition in fear of Church discipline. Government officials including Utah\u2019s Governor Herbert had met with us and promised a continuing dialog. Not only local Utah newspapers, but national newspapers from the west coast such as the San Francisco Chronicle the the New York Times and Washington Post on the east coast have covered our events. In fact we have had people from all over the world contact us to express their support of our goals to help heal those that have been harmed by the politics, practices and rhetoric of leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\nWithin 3 days of the delivery of our Petition for Reconciliation the LDS Church leaders made a major policy shift. An ordinance was about to be passed in Salt Lake City that made it illegal for landlords and employers to evict tenants or fire employees based on their sexual orientation. Once it was determined that the ordinance was going to pass whether the Church fought it or supported it, their PR employees quickly issue a statement that they supported it. It was the first time Church leaders had ever supported any legal measure that acknowledged the LGBT communities basic human and civil rights to be treated with the same respect and legal protection in these circumstances as other citizens.\nWe welcome you to our community and invite you to join with us, we welcome and need your support.\nPlease consider adding your voice to ours by sharing your feelings, experiences and hopes or story to build this community. We encourage you to write them down with your name or anonymously.\nSubmit them here http://ldsapology.submittable.com/submit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.letallcreationpraise.org/the-second-sunday-after-pentecost-in-year-c", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:K4SJAVHRUMV2ZHG4MPSRMMXR65P4MBQM", "length": 10314, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.letallcreationpraise.org", "title": "The Second Sunday after Pentecost in Year C - Let All Creation Praise", "raw_content": "The Second Sunday after Pentecost in Year C\nJoin all the Earth in a new song to the Lord.\nThe encounter in Capernaum portrayed in the Gospel for this Sunday is a model of communal interaction. The Roman centurion has a desperate need for healing of his beloved but ailing servant, on account of which he is willing to seek the help, not only of the elders in the Jewish community whom he has patronized with support for the building of their synagogue, but also of the itinerant teacher who has newly entered the city. The elders support his plea, commending it as a proper return for the \"worthy\" centurion's generosity; as David Tiede notes, \u201cLuke depicts this officer as a genuine friend of Israel\u201d (Luke. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1988; p. 149). Surprisingly, however, the centurion sends additional emissaries, \u201cfriends\u201d whose task is to make clear that the centurion did not base his plea on that worthiness. On the contrary, he declares himself as \u201cnot worthy\u201d to have Jesus come to him, and proposes instead that Jesus, as a person like himself, \u201cunder authority,\u201d need only speak the word and the servant would be made well. Tiede insightfully explains: \u201cThe episode now escalates into a story of the ability of someone who deals in authority all the time to discern real authority when he sees it, even if he has only heard about Jesus from afar\u201d (Tiede, p. 150). And just so: Jesus in turn escalates the exchange yet another step, astonishingly praising the centurion for faith the likes of which he has not encountered \u201ceven in Israel.\u201d\nCan the reader be blamed for being puzzled by the course of this exchange? What, exactly, is \u201csuch faith\u201d? Again, Tiede offers a helpful explanation: \u201cThe faith of the centurion is a discernment of Jesus' authority and an implicit trust in it\u201d (Tiede, p. 150). We are moved to ask, then, what precisely is the nature of that authority and why should the centurion, or more to the point, Luke's readers, including ourselves, place trust in it? Luke's own answer follows later in the chapter, after a second story of resuscitation: \u201cFear seized all of them,\u201d he writes, and they glorified God, saying, \u2018A great prophet has risen among us!\u2019 and \u2018God has looked favorably on his people!\u2019\u201d (8: 16). Clearly, the purpose of the story is to manifest the presence of God in Jesus, a presence which brings healing, to be sure, but not only for the centurion's servant. Here self-interest, care for others, and \u201cfaith\u201d merge in an alliance that transcends barriers of culture and power and promotes the common good of all parties.\nWhat significance might this narrative have for care of creation? Besides confirming the above interpretation, the accompanying readings for this Sunday provide a basis for developing that concern. While scholars point to other interpretive antecedents in the Hebrew scriptures such as the resuscitation performed by Elijah and the healing of Naaman the leper by Elisha, our first reading suggests the relevance of an alternative framework: Solomon's prayer of dedication in the temple. He prays that the presence of God be accessible in the temple not only to the people of Israel but to \"the foreigner\" who \u201ccomes from a distant land because of [Yahweh's] name\u201d (1 Kings 8:41-42). As Walter Brueggemann explains, Solomon claims for Yahweh an incomparability that \u201cbegins with reference to \u2018heaven above or on earth beneath,\u2019 thus taking in all of creation as witnesses to Yahweh's enormous power,\u201d but which, with his reference \u201cto covenant and steadfast love,\u201d also emphasizes solidarity (Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1997; p. 142). What Solomon prayed for happens in this Sunday's Gospel narrative, only not in the temple, nor even in Jerusalem. It happens instead in the presence of Jesus, in the Galilean city of Capernaum, bringing together with the Roman centurion both elders of the people and Jesus' Jewish followers. Read in the assembly on this Second Sunday after Pentecost, moreover, it is a first enactment in the Season of the Spirit of the power of the resurrected Jesus in the community of faith, which by Jesus' intent now embraces not only all peoples, but also all creation.\nWhy else should the congregation join \u201call the earth\u201d in a \u201cnew song to the Lord\u201d?, as the psalm for the day invites (96:1)? And how else shall God's glory be declared \u201camong the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples?\u201d (96:3). \u201cWorship the Lord in holy splendor,\u201d the psalmist insists; \u201ctremble before him, all the earth.\" And the following verses list out the several members of the community of creation:\nand the people with his truth (96:11-13, not included in the appointed reading).\nThe psalm thus clarifies what is at stake in the Capernaum exchange. The declaration of \"the glory of Yahweh\" in the psalm, Walter Brueggeman explains, \u201crefers to the claim and aura of power, authority, and sovereignty that must be established in struggle, exercised in authority, and conceded either by willing adherents or by defeated resisters\u201d (Brueggemann, p. 283). The purpose of the psalm's\n. . . narrative recital and liturgical enactment is to make visible and compelling the rightful claim of Yahweh to glory. The temple where Yahweh abides and from which Yahweh enacts glory (=sovereignty) is a place filled with glory. But even in its cultic aspect, we must not spiritualize excessively, for glory has to do with rightful and acknowledged power. . . .\nFrom this political dimension of glory as the right to wield authority over all rivals, the testimony of Israel takes care to affirm and enhance temple presence as a way in which the presiding power of Yahweh is a constant in Israel (Brueggemann, p. 285; cf. Psalm 29).\nA \u201cpivotal and characteristic affirmation\u201d of the liturgy of the Jerusalem temple, reflected in Psalm 96, is to assert and to enact Yahweh's legitimate governance over the nations and the people of the world (v. 10), and over the \u201cgods of the peoples\u201d (v. 5). This liturgical exclamation asserts the primary claim of this unsolicited testimony; that Yahweh holds sovereign authority over all the nations and that all the nations must come to accept that rule, which is characterized by equity (v. 10), righteousness, and truth (v. 13.) This assertion, critically, is a rejection of any loyalty other nations may give to any other gods and a rejection of any imagined autonomy on the part of any political power. Positively, the assertion promptly brings the nations under the demands and sanctions of Yahweh's will for justice.\nThis claim to universal sovereignty, cautions Brueggemann, is \u201cnever completely free of socio-economic-political-military interest.\u201d But that does not mean the claim \"is reduced to and equated with Israelite interest, for this is, nonetheless, a God who is committed to justice and holiness that are not coterminous with Israel's political interest. In the process of working out this quandary, moreover, Israel makes important moves beyond its own self-interest\u201d (Brueggemann, p. 493).\nThe exchange in Capernaum in today's gospel is an instance of such a move. Acting on the basis of enlightened self-interest, the elders of the community facilitate action that leads to the healing of the centurion's servant. In so doing, however, they (perhaps unwittingly) subsume that interest under the authority of the God who is sovereign over all nations. This is the authority under which Jesus acts, as was recognized by the centurion in his \u201cunsolicited testimony\u201d to God's glory manifest in the locality of Capernaum, which brought Jesus' affirmation of faith. Strikingly, it is also the authority cited by the Apostle Paul , \u201csent neither by human commission nor from human authorities,\u201d when he wrote to the churches of Galatia, albeit now explicitly naming that authority: \u201cGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever\u201d (Galatians 1:3-5).\nOur challenge is this: how can the congregation that confesses itself to be under that same authority and experiencing such liberation \u201cfrom the present evil age,\u201d so act within its local context to bring healing not just to individuals, but to the communities in which they live, and ultimately, to the whole earth. If, as Norman Wirzba suggests, the aim of our worship \u201cis to reorient our busy, increasingly frantic, lives around the truth of God's creative and sustaining presence,\u201d thus \u201creturning . . . ourselves and the creation to the presence of God so that we might enjoy God's grace,\u201d might not a healing transformation of the community to which the congregation belongs be expected to follow? It is important to stress here that, as in Capernaum, the cooperation that resulted in the healing of the centurion's servant comes about by way of neither a covert exercise of power nor overt coercion. As Wirzba points out,\n. . . the heart of community is expressed in our \u201cmutual serviceableness\u201d to each other. Community is not built up around the fact that all its members share the same vision, as when clubs are formed around political platforms,hobbies, or social causes. In fact, sameness or similarity is not the key factor at all. What matters is that each member be able to serve another and thus help another flourish in ways that it could not if it were alone. Rather than requiring the difference of another to be sacrificed for the sameness of the group, [this] vision encourages the difference of another so that it can be most fully what it is (The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; p. 175. Wirzba is discussing the vision of Thomas Traherne, from his Centuries of Meditations).\nWhat the Christian congregation can bring to the larger community is an awareness that communal life is \u201cthe dynamic upbuilding and care for difference that is rooted in the sort of love that nurtures and encourages others to flower into the beautiful beings that God intends. It is the vast interconnection of difference as difference held together by divine love, the mutual serviceableness of one to another\u201d (Wirzba, p. 177).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 12598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leukaemia.org.nz/information/about-blood-cancers/leukaemia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:46SLM274XU7IGINDWSAMNS22FPNSCF6D", "length": 2451, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.leukaemia.org.nz", "title": "What is Leukaemia? | Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC)", "raw_content": "Information \u203a About the diseases \u203a Leukaemia\nLeukaemia is the name given to a group of cancers that develop in the bone marrow. Under normal conditions the bone marrow contains a small number of healthy immature blood cells, sometimes called blast cells. These immature blood cells mature and develop into red cells, white cells and platelets, which are eventually released into the blood stream.\nLeukaemia originates in developing blood cells, which have undergone a malignant (cancerous) change. Instead of maturing properly, these cells grow and multiply in an uncontrolled fashion and interfere with normal blood cell production in the bone marrow. Most cases of leukaemia originate in developing white cells. In a small number of cases leukaemia develops in other blood-forming cells, for example in developing red cells or developing platelets.\nThere are several different types and subtypes of leukaemia.\nLeukaemia can be either acute or chronic. The terms \u2018acute\u2019 and \u2018chronic\u2019 refer to how quickly the disease develops and progresses.\nAcute leukaemia develops and progresses quickly and therefore needs to be treated as soon as it is diagnosed. It affects very immature blood cells, preventing them from maturing properly.\nChronic leukaemia results in an accumulation of more mature but abnormal white cells. It can occur at any age, but is more common in older adults and is rarely seen in children.\nMyeloid/lymphoid\nLeukaemia can also be either myeloid or lymphoid. The terms myeloid and lymphoid refer to the types of cell lineage in which the leukaemia first started.\nWhen leukaemia starts somewhere in the myeloid cell line, it is called myeloid (myelocytic, myelogenous or granulocytic) leukaemia.\nWhen leukaemia starts somewhere in the lymphoid cell line it is called lymphoblastic, lymphocytic, or lymphatic leukaemia.\nThe four main types of leukaemia are:\nBoth adults and children can develop leukaemia but certain types are more common in different age groups. We have a separate information booklet about the most common form of leukaemia in children acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).\nTreatment for leukaemia may involve one or more of the following\nPlease see our Treatments section for more detail on treatment for Leukaemia.\nIn 2015, two-year-old Devyn Tregurtha was a happy and healthy child so when she had an extremely high temperature for two weeks straight, her mum Bianca stared to worry. Devyn went in and out of th...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.levilassen.org/application-procedure/procedure-dates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QIYRMCN6JPG7PO52F5XZXYFVUWIJNI6C", "length": 547, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.levilassen.org", "title": "Procedure - Levi Lassen - Israel", "raw_content": "Procedure and next date\nThe next meeting for which you can apply is April 17, 2019.\nThe deadline for Stage 1 is February 7, 2019.\nIf you have been accepted to Stage 2, the deadline for the Stage 2 full application is February 21, 2019.\nTwo weeks after the grants committee meeting all applicants will receive notice by email.\nPlease note that the Foundation\u2019s staff will not provide any information relating to grants decisions by phone.\nThe Foundation reserves the right to turn down requests for any reason.\nThe decision the Foundation is final.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.librarything.com/local/map/New+York+City%2C+NY", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IOKFGNTIUZJSTEUCBZILGD5R7UX3XZ4J", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.librarything.com", "title": "Map | LibraryThing", "raw_content": "New York City, NY > Map\nHard zoom links: 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 111.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lindora.com/faq/what-is-fatty-liver/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AGYSPISMASN27PEZZF4DJXZQL6AWOAUY", "length": 1999, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lindora.com", "title": "What is \"fatty liver?\" - Lindora Clinic", "raw_content": "Home / FAQs / What Is... / What is \u201cfatty liver?\u201d\nFatty liver (also known as steatosis) is the accumulation of fat in liver cells. It has been associated with alcohol use, weight gain, and diabetes. The weight of the liver can be approximated by ultrasound and an increase of 5% of more is considered to be fatty. Liver enzymes, measured by a blood test, are also elevated.\nIn one study, 90% of morbidly obese patients had abnormalities of the liver. 30% had fatty liver. The accumulation of fat alone is unlikely to cause any noticeable change in one\u2019s health; only one fifth of these patients had liver-related complaints (such as pain, yellow discoloration, or fatigue). The good news is that weight loss by low-calorie dieting, or starvation is accompanied by improvement in fatty change and return of liver function tests to normal (Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1987. Fatty liver disease in morbid obesity. Jun;16(2):239-52)\nAnother study showed that fatty liver was much more common in male obese students (69%) than in female obese students (27%). Cholesterol, uric acid, and insulin were significantly higher in male obese students with fatty liver than in male obese students without fatty liver (Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi 1995. Fatty liver and obesity in university students. Oct;92(10):1743-51).\nOne year after losing weight, a group of people with fatty liver showed dramatic improvement in the two most commonly used liver tests (AST and ALT), nearly all down to within normal levels. AST dropped from an average of 74 to 25. ALT also dropped from 109 to 30. A comparable group that did not lose weight showed higher AST and ALT levels on follow-up visit than in their initial visit. (J Korean Med Sci 1995. Effect of weight control on hepatic abnormalities in obese patients with fatty liver. Dec;10(6):414-21)\nFinally, one study did find that people with fatty liver were less likely to get into ketosis and don\u2019t lose weight as rapidly (Internal Medicine 1992 Aug;31(8):978-83).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.listentochurchsermonsonline.com/KirkDontMatterWhatISay/a-dontmatterwhatisay.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ASYZNNDP47XR4IR4C4NMTELKP2CAE5UL", "length": 137, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.listentochurchsermonsonline.com", "title": "Listen To Church Sermons Online - Hear Pastors Preach", "raw_content": "Bishop K.L. Newkirk Jr.\nHarold O. 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Then this information session is for you!\nCome and find out:\nthe roles of a Mayor and City Council\nchanges to the way London votes - Ranked Ballot\nthe steps you need to take to run for office.\nPlus, take a guided tour of City Hall and meet members of the City Clerk's Office.\nJoin us at one of two sessions: Saturday, February 10 or Saturday, April 7. 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As part of its improvement process, the district and each individual school updates and monitors improvement data three times a year. The focus of this process is not only to improve organizationally, but more importantly, to help each student make progress. Students recognized at the February Board meeting have demonstrated significant academic and personal growth and are great examples of the district's mantra of \"londonpossible.\" The following students were nominated by their principals and each school staff and recognized by the Board:\nAt London Elementary, Aiden Jackson, Nick Boring, and Jase Cox;\nAt London Middle School, Jozlyn Fisher, Conner Lacey, and Selena Wallace; and,\nAt London High School, David Kennedy, Andrew Ramsey, and Abbie Jones.\nDuring the school spotlight portion of the meeting, the Board heard updates from London Middle School on their lunch bunch, which is designed to help foster student relationships. 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This exploratory experience is a combined effort between the teams at the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l'industrie and L'Or\u00e9al's research laboratories specialized in metrology, cosmetometry, molecular modelisation, applied physics, sensorial analysis, etc.\nFollowing several joint experiences in 2000, and in particular \"Oser le Savoir : 10 cl\u00e9s pour le XXI\u00e8me si\u00e8cle\" (Daring the knowledge: 10 clues for understanding the 21st Century), L'Or\u00e9al and the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l'industrie are once again partners for an exhibition designed to promote science, to encourage people seek out scientific careers and to share with everyone the passion for research that transforms our lives.\nFor this event, Michel Demazure, Chairman of the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l'industrie de la Villette asserts \"This exhibition, the offspring of both L'Or\u00e9al and the Cit\u00e9 des Sciences teams, is without any doubt one of the first opportunities that the general public has been offered to find out more about a subject that is seldom dealt with, often unheard of and which appears to be very simple at first hand but is actually of high complexity.\"\nOn his part, Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman and CEO of L'Or\u00e9al states: \"Our initial business activity, hair and capillary research, as well as our primary mission, innovation and progress for all, are the foundations for our long-term commitment to a partnership with the Fondation Villette and the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l'industrie. 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VDOT expects to announce additional \u201cE-ZPass On-the-Go\u201d retail partners in Central Virginia and Hampton Roads in the fall.\nE-ZPass is an electronic toll-collection system that makes paying tolls fast and easy for drivers through the use of a transponder, which automatically deducts tolls from an account that can be connected to the user\u2019s bank or credit-card accounts.\nE-ZPass Flex is a new transponder that works like a typical E-ZPass, with an additional function that permits free use of the Interstate 495 Express Lanes (Capital Beltway) in Northern Virginia for vehicles with three or more occupants.\n\u201cE-ZPass On-the-Go\u201d provides another way for drivers to obtain an E-ZPass or an E-ZPass Flex transponder through select stores and businesses. Drivers simply pay $35, and the E-ZPass can be used immediately with a $15 toll credit. An additional $20 is available for tolls when the transponder is registered online at www.EZPassVA.com or by telephone at 877-762-7824 or 800-828-1120 (for TTY users) before or after its first use.\nVirginia joins several other \u201cE-ZPass On-the-Go\u201d states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New Hampshire.\nE-ZPass services also are available at two Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) locations at 813 Greenbrier Road in Chesapeake and 1968 Gallows Road in Vienna (near Tysons Corner). Customers can visit these DMV offices for full E-ZPass services, including account sign-up, obtaining additional transponders, payments and replacing transponders.\nFlex transponders are available at the Vienna/Tysons Corner location for those customers who want to exchange their standard transponder for a Flex transponder or to add a Flex transponder to their account. Providing these services at additional DMV locations is targeted for 2013.\nTransponders can also be obtained online, by calling a toll-free number or by visiting an E-ZPass Customer Service Center. For more information, visit www.EZPassVA.com.\n. 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Please find below our upcoming events for the month of August.\nStudy Group - Friday, August 1st, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.\nJoin us this month as we look at the importance of truly feeling our emotions and of breaking down the walls we have built around our hearts.\nSatsang with Kharananda Mayi - Friday, August 8th, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.\nDuring these Satsangs, Kharananda will share first-hand the experience of walking closely with a God-realised being; an often miraculous, humorous, initiating, and heart opening journey back unto the Self. 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He is the most famous Indian astrologer in Delhi NCR. Husband Wife Dispute Specialist in Delhi NCR has been training exhaustively for years in the field of Vedic astrology and all the aspects of astrology. Husband Wife Dispute Specialist in Delhi NCR is recognized all over Australia for his intensive knowledge of astrology. Husband Wife Dispute Specialist in Delhi NCR is aware of how astrology can serve people and can help all those who are in need of an immediate solution to their problems. Husband Wife Dispute Specialist in Delhi NCR believes that celestial bodies can really make a difference to one's life and the problems of any person can be corrected by examining the position and movement of these celestial bodies. This reputed Indian astrologer in deli is well-versed in all kinds of mantras and tantras and knows how to appease gods and goddesses to find the right solution. Husband Wife Dispute Specialist in Delhi NCR has gained a lot of attention through his unbeatable potential to offer husband wife problem solution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 480, "original_length": 21968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lucaslemaire.com/qui-sommes-nous-lucas-lemaire-potato-trade-international-nord-59.htm?la_langue=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3C5JD4TQVU7EKPXGJ2SO3YVRVOZSBTH2", "length": 815, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lucaslemaire.com", "title": "Lucas Lemaire Potato trade international", "raw_content": "You are here > Home > The company > About Us\nLUCAS LEMAIRE SAS is an independent family company, specialized in the trade of potatoes and onions. Started by LOUIS LEMAIRE in 1932, the LEMAIRE company since knew various names in the course of generations until 1984, date of the creation of the company under its current name.\nSince four generations a true passion for this profession was passed on from father to son, which allowed the company to learn lessons from experience and to keep its values while adapting itself to the evolution of the sector.\nSince the beginning of 1990s, LUCAS LEMAIRE SAS achieved its business diversification and extension of scope by identifying emerging markets and fulfilling of the quality requirements of these new markets by searching for new products stemming from other soils.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mackoulpediatrics.com/AutismSpectrumDisorder.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5Z2OMFNBFDTNFOFBTHBPNZV4WBCNWOF", "length": 849, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mackoulpediatrics.com", "title": "New Page", "raw_content": "The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening children for autism at the 24-month well-child visit in addition to regular developmental monitoring. This type of screening can identify children with significant developmental and behavioral challenges early. In most offices, pediatricians use the M-CHAT, a questionnaire filled out by parents. If the screening test identifies a potential problem, further evaluation is needed. Screening tools do not result in diagnoses. A positive screening result should be followed by a thorough assessment done by a trained provider. The rate of success for the M-CHAT, for example, isn\u2019t 100%, so it is used in combination with health and family history to identify children at risk. A more detailed evaluation will show whether the child needs treatment and early developmental intervention services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mackoulpediatrics.com/BabySkinConditionsWhatsNormalandWhenToWorry.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IM2GCSZKEHJMXWWDITYNFRVLSYA3UNT6", "length": 6235, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.mackoulpediatrics.com", "title": "Baby Skin Conditions: What\u2019s Normal, and When To Worry", "raw_content": "Baby Skin Conditions: What\u2019s Normal, and When To Worry\nDid you know that as many as one in two newborn babies suffer from skin irritations in their first few weeks? It\u2019s pretty common! Although most of them go away on their own, they can be worrisome for new parents. So what are the most common rashes and irritations to look out for?\nThe most common rash that appears on newborn skin is erythema toxic neonatorum. It affects up to 50% of babies, usually in the first few weeks of life. Although it has an scary sounding name and can look unpleasant (small red bumps and pimples spread over the baby\u2019s body and limbs), it is actually harmless and will disappear spontaneously without treatment.\nAnother common skin irritation is miliaria, also known as a sweat rash. Babies are particularly susceptible to it because of the immaturity of their sweat ducts. This can be mitigated simply by ensuring that the baby does not overheat.\nA newborn\u2019s skin is prone to rashes of all sorts, and these can include rashes relating to yeast, viral, or bacterial infections. Fortunately, most of these rashes are harmless and go away on their own, but you should still call MacKoul Pediatrics immediately if your baby develops a new rash \u2014 especially one associated with other symptoms (such as fever, poor feeding, lethargy, or cough).\nHere is a breakdown of what you can expect:\nCommon Rashes in Newborns\nPink pimples (neonatal acne) are sometimes thought to be caused by exposure in the womb to maternal hormones. No treatment is needed, just time. They can last for weeks or even months on a baby\u2019s skin.\nErythema toxicum is another common newborn rash. It looks like red blotches with ill-defined borders that are slightly raised, and may have a small white or yellow dot in the center. Its cause is unknown, and it resolves without treatment after a few days or weeks.\nDry, peeling skin can be seen in almost all normal babies, but is especially noticeable in babies born a little late. The underlying skin is perfectly normal, soft, and moist.\nLittle white bumps on the nose and face (milia) are caused by blocked oil glands. When a baby\u2019s oil glands enlarge and open up in a few days or weeks, the white bumps disappear.\nSalmon patches (called a \u201dstork bite\u201d at the back of the neck or an \u201dangel\u2019s kiss\u201d between the eyes) are simply nests of blood vessels (probably caused by maternal hormones) that fade on their own after a few weeks or months. Occasionally, stork bites never go away.\nJaundice is a yellow coloration on baby\u2019s skin and eyes. It is caused by an excess of bilirubin (a breakdown product of red blood cells). If the bilirubin level becomes sufficiently high, blue or white lights may be focused on the baby\u2019s skin to lower the level, because excess bilirubin can sometimes pose a health hazard.\nMongolian spots are very common in any part of the body of dark-skinned babies. They are flat, gray-blue in color (almost looking like a bruise), and can be small or large. They are caused by some pigment that didn\u2019t make it to the top layer when baby\u2019s skin was being formed. They are harmless and usually fade away by school age.\nCommon Rashes in the First Few Months of a Baby\u2019s Life\nCradle cap (seborrhea) often shows up at 1-2 months of age. Greasy, yellowish crusts appear on the scalp and may include a red, irritating rash on the face, behind the ears, on the neck, and even in the armpits. MacKoul can tell you how to best treat this common condition, depending on your baby\u2019s symptoms.\nEczema (atopic dermatitis) is red, scaly, or itchy patches on the skin, often seen on the baby\u2019s chest, arms, legs, face, elbows, and behind the knees \u2014 and especially in areas of the body that are prone to overheating, such as the groin.\nEczema is caused by a gene mutation that inhibits the body\u2019s natural ability to repair damage to the skin barrier. Most skin cells have two copies of the gene, but people who are susceptible to eczema only have one. This is why this condition especially occurs around the diaper area: there are multiple strains on the skin in this area, including heat, as well as irritation from urine and faeces. This means the body is replacing the skin cells in this area more frequently than in other places. You should wash this skin with plain water after every diaper change. Applying a thick diaper cream regularly to the area can reduce this likelihood of developing a problem.\nMacKoul Pediatrics can determine if the rash looks like eczema and prescribe the appropriate treatment. In general, treatment consists of:\nUsing a very gentle soap\nUsing a gentle detergent and no fabric softener in baby\u2019s laundry\nUsing skin moisturizers\nApplying a steroid cream (like hydrocortisone or even a stronger one) if the eczema won\u2019t go away\nPrickly heat looks like small red bumps, mostly on areas of your baby\u2019s body that tend to overheat and sweat, like the neck, diaper area, and armpits. The treatment is to try to keep the area dry and avoid overheating by dressing him in loose-fitting clothing.\nA fungal infection (candidiasis) can show up in different ways on your baby. On the tongue, it is called thrush and looks like dried milk, which, unlike milk, cannot be scraped off. In the diaper area, candidiasis looks like an intense red rash, often with smaller bumps around the edges. A fungal infection loves moist, dark areas, so you\u2019ll find most of the redness in the creases of the thighs. Candidiasis is treated with antifungal oral gel or liquid medicine (for oral thrush) or antifungal cream (for the diaper area), or both.\nWhen to Worry About Baby\u2019s Rash\nWhile most rashes are not serious, a few need very close attention:\nFluid-filled blisters (especially ones with opaque, yellowish fluid) can indicate a serious infection, like a bacterial infection or herpes.\nSmall red or purplish dots over the body (\u201dpetechiae\u201d) can be caused by a viral infection or a potentially very serious bacterial infection. These will not lighten with pressure and remain the same color when you push on the skin. Any infant with possible petechiae should be seen at MacKoul Pediatrics immediately.\nIf you have any concerns about a rash your baby might have, please don\u2019t hesitate to give MacKoul Pediatrics a call!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.malibumara.com/2012/01/without-struggle-is-no-progressfederick.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:49Z", "digest": "sha1:32LSHGRX6BPMRJOOV62ZKXP7VAEJK4X3", "length": 426, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.malibumara.com", "title": "Without Struggle, there is NO Progress.Federick Douglas | Tamara Altair", "raw_content": "Without Struggle, there is NO Progress.Federick Douglas\nSometimes, its ok to walk away from a \"sure thing\" if it goes against what you believe in. I'll explain my life in a long story post... it might be a vlog. Just know... I am seriously in a struggle (well, a few) but I see light at the end of the tunnel right now. And yes I know its MFW (Milan Fashion Week) but it's men's wear annnnd I have a lot on my plate right now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.managetrainlearn.com/newsletter/1189", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AB7X77QRREXPPMVYKYZ4H6KZE3MJFUDU", "length": 4270, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.managetrainlearn.com", "title": "\"The Superman Solution\"", "raw_content": "\"The Superman Solution\"\nMTL Newsletter: March 3rd 2013\nNot so long ago, when we were running Assertiveness courses up and down the UK, one of our most frequent types of course participants were people who had suffered at the hands of aggressive, overbearing, and bullying managers and colleagues. These people had stories that used to make our hair stand on end. Often our training room and coffee breaks were close to tears as we heard how managers routinely selected the most vulnerable of their team to bully. More often than not, the people picked out did excellent work, often without any demand for recognition - people we like to call, \"the quiet heroes\". When we asked why they didn't just get up and leave, many were afraid they would not get another job, a belief encouraged by their abusive tormentors. The final humiliation for our trainees was that, when appraisal time came round, the manager would criticise these members of their team for being weak and send them to people like us for training in how to stand up for themselves!\nThe Superman Solution: Working for Difficult Bosses\nI was reminded of these course friends this week when reading a new book by Oliver James, a psychologist and broadcaster in the UK. James's book is called \"Office Politics\" and in it he says that workplaces are riddled by 3 types of dysfunctional personalities:\n1. the psychopath, who competes for domination and attention and has no worries about trampling over others\n2. the Machiavellian, who likes nothing better than to plot and scheme\n3. the narcissist, who puts themselves at the centre of the team and talks about nothing else but themselves.\nJames warns, \"The likelihood of your daily working life being sacrificed by a person who is some mixture of psychopathic, Machiavellian, and narcissistic is high. If you do not develop the skills to deal with them, they will eat you for breakfast.\"\nDeveloping the skills to survive in a culture that allows such people to thrive is no easy task. Assertiveness in all its shapes and forms is one way to respond and works for some people. Fighting back by outsmarting these people is another but not within everyone's capabilities. Finding someone in a position of influence and power who has the decency and willingness to help you overcome these people is another. But not until we became acquainted with Steve Chandler and Duane Black did we come across a solution that we now use on all our Assertiveness, Bullying, and Harassment courses. We call it \"the Superman Solution.\"\nThe Superman Solution: Don't Fight Back, Just Deflect\nSteve Chandler explains \"the Superman Solution\" by telling a story about how his little boy, Bobby, once asked him just before bedtime, \"Dad, who would win a fight between Rambo and Superman?\" Steve gave it a bit of thought and replied, \"Superman\". When Bobby wanted to know why, Steve explained that Rambo, for all his muscles and weapons, could be brought down by a bullet to the heart, whereas if someone fired a bullet at Superman, he'd just push it away with his hand and move on. He had the power to deflect rather than overcome.\nWhen we repeat this story to trainees on our courses, we hope they see that no matter what kind of person they have to work with, -whether psychopath, Machiavellian, or narcissist, - their own inner strength is infinitely greater than their outer strength. They may not have the power that comes from winning at office politics nor a toxic personality to match but they have the same power as Superman and that is to deflect anything that comes their way that doesn't align with who they are. They don't ignore what others say or do. In fact, they are able to accept what is fired at them and deal with it calmly and dispassionately. But they can choose not to let it get into their heads, into their hearts and into their souls. The people in Oliver James' study are people who have outer power and the stress, insecurity, and vulnerability that go with it. But the people who are like Superman in Steve Chandler's story have a different kind of power, one that is about choice: the choice to let go, forgive and release. It's about surrounding yourself with a wall of possibility and deflecting what doesn't serve. And that is real power.\n(c) MTL 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/pmc-sierra-acquire-passave-inc-address-rapidly-growing-fiber-home-access-market-nasdaq-pmcs-587757.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IY2FUPZU4BC3KIBQ3K7T7VEH6K643RXP", "length": 7367, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "PMC-Sierra to Acquire Passave Inc. to Address Rapidly Growing Fiber to the Home Access Market", "raw_content": "PMC-SIERRA, INC.\nNASDAQ : PMCS\nPMC-Sierra to Acquire Passave Inc. to Address Rapidly Growing Fiber to the Home Access Market\nSANTA CLARA, Calif.--(CCNMatthews - Apr 4, 2006) -\nPMC-Sierra expects Q1/06 business results in-line with mid-quarter update provided Feb 27/06\nPMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ: PMCS), a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Passave Inc., a leading developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market. Based on analyst estimates and service provider announcements, it is estimated that between 45 and 60 million homes worldwide will be connected using Passive Optical Networking (PON) technology by 2010. The acquisition price of approximately $300 million is expected to be paid through the issuance of PMC-Sierra common stock. The deal is expected to close within April 2006 and is conditioned upon the receipt of normal governmental rulings. PMC-Sierra expects the acquisition will be neutral to earnings in the near term and accretive in three quarters based on expected revenue growth.\n\"Our acquisition of Passave brings PMC-Sierra an experienced and highly innovative team with clear market share leadership in Passive Optical Networking solutions. This acquisition fits with our strategic intent to address the high-growth Fiber Access market and is aligned with PMC's developments in Customer Premises Equipment,\" said Bob Bailey, Chairman and CEO. \"PON is the ultimate Triple Play access technology and is key to the build-out of the second generation FTTH-based broadband infrastructure.\"\nPassave's solutions enable Service Providers to offer so-called \"Triple Play\" services (voice, video and data) at up to 1Gbps over PON-based equipment. The Passave product line includes system-on-chip solutions for Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) for the Central Office, Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and Optical Network Units (ONUs) solutions for residential termination equipment. Passave has delivered two million ONU devices that have been deployed in NTT's Fiber To The Home broadband access network.\n\"FTTH is a key enabler for Triple Play and Digital Home applications. As these significant opportunities unfold worldwide, we are excited to join forces with a public company with such an established international presence in the communications semiconductor market,\" said Victor Vaisleib, CEO of Passave. \"There are natural synergies between our products, technologies and channels, and PMC-Sierra's capabilities will enhance the product offering, quality and support we are offering our customers,\" he added.\nPassave employs approximately 150 employees worldwide and has facilities in Herzliya, Israel; Santa Clara, California; and Tokyo, Japan; and regional sales offices in Korea and China.\nFirst Quarter 2006 Business Update\nOn February 27, 2006, PMC-Sierra's revenue outlook for the First Quarter of 2006 was expected to be in the range of $85 to $88 million as provided on the Company's mid-quarter update conference call. The revenue range provided at that time was based on the outlook for PMC-Sierra's existing business (revenue range: $78 to $80 million) as well as its recently acquired storage semiconductor business (revenue range: $7 to $8 million). As of this date, the Company expects the business results for the First Quarter to be in-line with the outlook provided on February 27, 2006.\nConference Call on April 4, 2006\nManagement will be hosting a webcast conference call today, April 4, at 2:00 p.m. PDT that will be accessible on the Company's website under the Financial Events and Calendar section at http://investor.pmc-sierra.com/. To listen to the conference call live by telephone, dial 913-981-4905 approximately ten minutes before the start time. A telephone playback will be available after the completion of the call and can be accessed at 719-457-0820 using the access code 5860433. A replay of the webcast will be available for five business days.\nPMC-Sierra's forward-looking statements regarding PON market growth, closing of the transaction and the transaction's effect on PMC-Sierra's earnings per share, involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ from projections for varied reasons. Projected market growth in FTTH from an estimated four million subscribers in 2005 is dependent upon many factors including service provider capital expenditures, consumer adoption of FTTH-based services and government policy. The timing of developments in the North American PON market is less certain than in Asian markets. The transaction's closing date depends on Israeli government approvals and other customary conditions. Whether and when the transaction becomes accretive depends on growth in both Passave's and PMC-Sierra's business. Both companies' financial results can be affected by a wide range of risks detailed in PMC-Sierra's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including changes in semiconductor market conditions, demand for semiconductor products, the level of orders that are placed and shipped within the quarter, the impact of competitive products and pricing, and technological and product development risks. PMC-Sierra does not undertake any obligation to update the forward-looking statements.\nPMC-Sierra\u2122 is a leading provider of high-speed broadband communications semiconductors, storage semiconductors and microprocessors for enterprise, access, metro, storage, wireless infrastructure, laser printers and customer premises equipment. The company offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.\nAbout Passave Inc.\nPassave is a leading supplier of gigabit FTTH (Fiber To The Home) semiconductors for the broadband access network. Passave FTTH products use the field-proven GigaPASS\u2122 FTTH architecture to provide the bandwidth and feature sets that enable service providers to deliver Triple Play services -- integrated data, IPTV and voice -- over Passive Optical Networks. The GigaPASS architecture integrates Gigabit PON to Ethernet interfaces, wire-speed protocol processing and programmable features, delivering high-performance, low-cost FTTH solutions. Passave's system-on-chip FTTH solutions are open-source software platforms with flexible hardware features giving system OEMs the ability to differentiate their products with application-specific features. Passave maintains offices in Santa Clara, California, Herzliya, Israel, Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, Korea, with customer support teams in China. For more information about Passave, visit www.passave.com. For white papers on Fiber To The Home and Passive Optical Network solutions, visit http://www.passave.com/tech_whitepapers.cfm.\n(C) Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2006. All rights reserved. Tachyon is a registered trademark of PMC-Sierra, Inc. PMC, PMCS, PMC-Sierra, and \"Thinking You can Build On\" are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of the respective owners.\nAlan Krock, 408-988-1204\nDavid Climie, 408-988-8276\nSusan Shaw, 408-988-8515\nAbout this company PMC-SIERRA, INC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 9140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marsminigolf.ca/fundraising/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MW2JZ2UW3KKD7P4PMGKPLEGPGDKOYTCZ", "length": 1435, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.marsminigolf.ca", "title": "Mar's Mini Golf - Saskatoon's Best Mini Golf | Saskatchewan \u00bb Fundraising", "raw_content": "Mar\u2019s provides the perfect opportunity to raise money for teams or groups of any kind. Our friendly staff encourage those of all ages to come out & have some fun. Enjoy a round of golf on our out-of-this-world 18 hole golf course and grab a bite before you leave!\nFundraising with Mar\u2019s is easy \u2013 we do all the work while you sit back and enjoy a round of golf!\nCoolest mini- golf experience I\u2019ve ever had. \u2013 Michael Reimer\nMar\u2019s will supply your organization with between 25 to 100 tickets to sell. Each ticket will include the name of the organization or group, along with the date and time the fundraiser will be taking place.\nIncluded in each ticket price is your choice of pizza or a hot dog, a drink of your choice, and one round of glow golf.\nThe maximum price for tickets will be $13. Mar\u2019s will charge $8 per ticket, leaving your group with $5 for every ticket sold. Unsold tickets will be returned to Mar\u2019s upon arrival of the night of the fundraiser.\nThe hours available for fundraising events are:\nMonday \u2013 Thursday: 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm\nA $25.00 non-refundable deposit will be applied to your booking\nFundraisers with Mar\u2019s only allow non-profit teams or groups\nPayment is due upon arrival on the day of the event\nA minimum of 3 weeks notice is required for booking\nA minimum of 2 weeks notice is required for cancellation of an event\nNo outside food or beverages are allowed on the premises\nBook your Fundraising Event now!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/11997", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:7EYBFCUB4BKBBXZDJOQA5MJUXD2HKBJO", "length": 3350, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.mathjobs.org", "title": "Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan", "raw_content": "Position ID: 1475-LECTURER20181YR [#11997, LECTURER2018.1yr]\nPosition Title: LECTURER 1 Year Limited Term\nPosition Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N5E6, Canada [map]\nThe College of Arts and Science invites applications from qualified individuals for a full-time one-year limited term faculty position in the area of Mathematics and Statistics at the rank of Lecturer.\nThe successful candidate will be expected to teach six courses per year with an emphasis on foundational and service-oriented first and second year undergraduate courses in Mathematics or Statistics. While the primary focus of these positions is on teaching, Lecturers are also expected to contribute to the broader goals and activities of the Department. The Department offers undergraduate courses towards degrees in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, and Statistics, as well as several service-oriented courses for students in Commerce, the Life Sciences, and Engineering. Department members are also engaged in research, interdisciplinary and international collaborations, curriculum improvement and development, community outreach and promotion of the Mathematical Sciences.\nThe College of Arts and Science offers a dynamic combination of programs in the fine arts, humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. There are over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students in the College and 295 faculty, including 12 Canada Research Chairs. The College emphasizes student and faculty research, scholarly and artistic work, interdisciplinary programs, community outreach and international opportunities.\nA Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline is required. We seek candidates who have demonstrated effective classroom teaching skills, communication skills and collegiality. The specific teaching needs of the Department will be taken into account in the decision making process.\nSalary and Benefits July 1, 2016 \u2013 June 30, 2017):\nSalary band: Lecturer: $77,613 (Floor) to $99,565 (CDI Ceiling)\nThis position includes a comprehensive benefits package which includes a dental, health and extended vision care plan; pension plan, life insurance (compulsory and voluntary), sick leave, travel insurance, death benefits, an employee assistance program, a professional expense allowance, and a flexible health and wellness spending program\nApplication material for the position must be submitted online through MathJobs.org\n(https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/11997). It should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae; a teaching philosophy statement; a teaching dossier which includes syllabi and formal teaching evaluations; the AMS Standard Cover Sheet; and at least three letters of reference submitted directly by the writers that provide detailed comments on the teaching abilities of the applicant.\nAdditional inquiries may be sent by email to: lecturer_math_stat_2018@math.usask.ca\nDr. Christine Soteros, Acting Department Head\nRoom 142 Mclean Hall,\n106 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E6\nReview of applications will begin June 7, 2018, however, applications will be accepted and evaluated until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2018.\nTeaching Dossier (Including syllabi & formal teaching evaluations)\nhttp://artsandscience.usask.ca/math/\n142 McLean Hall, 106 Wiggins Road Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.matthewlandrum.com/2013/04/shakespyeare-day-113-date-night.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YVUJ523YEDXVDHA7PP6YDS6PVX2K3EA6", "length": 745, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.matthewlandrum.com", "title": "Works and Days: Shakespyeare: Day 113 - Date Night?", "raw_content": "I've been a bit of a slacker on my Shakespeare reading and watching over the last few months. I'm counting on a summer rebound (and finishing King John (bleh) should make me a bit more motivated). I'm planning on moving through some of the plays through film, especially ones I've read.\nI stumbled across a new version of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Joss Whedon (Buddy, Firefly, The Avengers). It looks excellent.\nI also plan to watch Caesar Must Die, 10 Things I Hate About You, Anonymous, The Tempest, and Enemy of Man. I don't like watching films alone and I could use some Shakespeare buddies. So my offer: if you'd like to join me in my Shakespyeare adventure (and perhaps appear in my blog), get in touch. Tickets and popcorn on me!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.merseyheritage.ca/16main.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XE363IJEM5HO7PKDZ24Z45BSAY5P5QDU", "length": 2530, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.merseyheritage.ca", "title": "16 Main Street", "raw_content": "The Captain Bartlett Bradford House\nMrs. John Day. whose family owned this cottage for 139 years, used to say that it dated back to about the year 1767, a tradition very close to a record in the Queens County Registry of Deeds. The deed records that on September 10, 1765, Cyrenus Collins of Liverpool, Gentleman, sold to Samuel Mack of East Haddam in the County of Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, Trader, in a certain dwelling house being and standing on the Fish Lot Letter A, Number 4, being the same in which 1 now dwell\".\nBefore 1784 this fish lot had had various owners. Then Capt. Bartlett Bradford bought the piece which began at \"the road that leads from Fish Point to the Town\" and ended at the river. One local historian holds that Capt. Bradford had a new house built on his land. New or not, he continued to be away from it much of the time fishing off Labrador, catching salmon by the hundreds of barrels in St. Margaret's Bay and making winter voyages to the warmth of the Caribbean.\nBradford is best remembered for being the commander of the Lucy, Liverpool's first privateer, a ship fitted out in 1779 when Liverpool men determined to strike back at their former fellow New Englanders, now attacking and robbing ships and homes along the South Shore. After the peace, Bradford moved into the cottage which still bears his name. Its four downstairs rooms were well furnished with a sofa and six green Windsor chairs in the parlour, a large table and half a dozen yellow Windsor chairs in the dining room and an eight day clock in the central hall. On his death in 1801 his body was laid out in the east parlour.\nThe house was sold at auction in 1802, the highest bidder at \u00a3350 being Joshua Newton, the young Collector of Customs whose efforts to put down serious local smuggling put him in some tight spots. He knew the house well, having put up at the Bradford's, which was then licensed as a tavern, when he arrived in Liverpool in 1795. He installed his Customs Office in the house level of the old ell which has since been replaced.\nHe also insulated the upstairs with copies of his old Royal Gazettes (one of which, with the date 1804, can still be seen through an opening left by the present owner when restoring the house in the 1950's).\nIn 1813 Joshua Newton moved to a new house next door to his father-in-law, Simeon Perkins, Esq. The cottage was sold to the former privateer owner and prize master, Thomas Freeman, whose descendants owned it until 1952, adapting it over the years to suit their needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mesia.com/2019/01/20/renewable-energy-momentum-is-now-unstoppable-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LAC6CLEKAHNQKGGSFGWJLMEDECUKKEA6", "length": 5755, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.mesia.com", "title": "Renewable Energy Momentum is Now Unstoppable \u2013 MESIA", "raw_content": "Home > Solar News > Renewable Energy Momentum is Now Unstoppable\nRenewable Energy Momentum is Now Unstoppable\nWithin six years, the sunny Middle East will have as much solar power as the US has today, and more than Germany.\nBy 2030, it will be approaching China\u2019s current level. After a slow start, this oil and gas-dominated region has woken up to the potential of the sun. Major announcements at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi last week, and Vahid Fotuhi\u2019s article in The National last week, testify to this new awakening.\nThe Middle East Solar Industry Association identified 12 gigawatts of solar projects in the Mena region that are under construction or awarded. That will be a huge step forward from 2.9 gigawatts operating at the end of last year. The International Renewable Energy Agency\u2019s report, released during WFES, foresees that the GCC alone will have 65 gigawatts of solar power by 2030.\nOur studies at Qamar Energy show that, making reasonable assumptions on countries\u2019 sometimes ambitious targets, solar capacity in the Middle East, including Egypt, could reach 56 gigawatts by 2025 and 113 gigawatts by 2030, along with 31 gigawatts of wind power.\nWhat are the drivers of this explosive growth?\nFirstly, the initial renewable leaders in the region have continued to forge ahead. Morocco, Egypt and Jordan all have an active portfolio of new projects and a growing ecosystem of indigenous renewable developers and engineering contractors.\nThe UAE\u2019s new Emirates Water and Electricity Company will begin tendering in the first half of this year for 5GW of solar. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has been accelerating its solar progress, having achieved the world\u2019s lowest cost for concentrated solar thermal power, it plans to tender a second plant at the start of this year.\nIt\u2019s not just large-scale projects. Rooftop solar installations on industrial and commercial buildings have become increasingly popular, as policies allow users to feed surplus electricity back into the grid. Dubai has its Shams scheme and Oman the Sahim programme. At the moment, residential electricity tariffs in the UAE are still too low for this to be attractive to most villa dwellers, but this may change as more companies offer installations, and as they become standard for new construction.\nThese countries have proved that solar and, in the right locations, wind can achieve highly attractive costs. Competitive tenders and low-cost financing have driven intense innovation between developers. This has made renewables cheaper than the fuel consumption of a gas-fired plant, even with relatively cheap gas, and certainly cheaper than oil. Even if gas turbines have to be retained to meet night-time demand, the overall combination is lower-cost. Renewables reduce carbon dioxide and other pollution, save gas and oil for industry and export, and boost energy security.\nSecondly, spurred on by the example of the early adopters, the other big power consumers in the region are turning to renewables. Key among them is Saudi Arabia. Its latest ambitious plans today build on the kingdom\u2019s pivot towards embracing new forms of energy with the King Abdullah Centre for Atomic and Renewable Energy.\nKA Care\u2019s plan in 2013 was for 54 gigawatts of renewables by 2030; the National Transformation Plan of 2016 replaced that with 9.5 gigawatts by 2023; in March 2018, the kingdom announced a venture with Softbank for 200 gigawatts of solar by 2030; and now the Ministry of Energy\u2019s renewables offices has returned almost to the starting point, intending 59 gigawatts by 2030.\nHowever, the new Saudi push seems much more solidly based. The country has begun work on its first large solar plant, Sakaka, at a record low price. At WFES, it confirmed the award of the Dumat Al Jandal wind project to a joint venture of Masdar and EDF, again at a record-breaking cheap price. It now has a near-term target of 9.5 gigawatts of solar and wind tendered by 2023, which hopefully should keep it on track.\nSaudi energy minister Khalid Al Falih maintained at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week that renewables would be unlikely to displace oil. Yet his country\u2019s plans to boost renewables and gas are intended to \u201cvirtually eliminate\u201d oil from power generation, knocking out almost 1 million barrels per day of crude, fuel oil and diesel consumption over the next decade, a not insignificant hit to world demand.\nAlongside the Saudi push, other regional countries are waking up to the possibilities. New Iraqi electricity minister Luay Al Khatteeb wants 0.5 gigawatts installed annually. Oman, after a slow start, has invited bids for large solar projects, with its state power procurement company looking for 2.6 gigawatts of renewables by 2024, and Petroleum Development Oman tendering for 0.1 gigawatts, as well as large solar thermal projects to make steam for extracting heavy oil. Even communities in war-torn Yemen are installing local solar panels.\nAs the solar generation booms, it will bring new challenges, particularly meeting demand during the early evening. Solar thermal projects can store heat in molten salt to generate through the night. Other options include combining batteries, pumped storage in dams as with Dewa\u2019s Hatta project, interconnections of countries in different time zones, and varying customer tariffs to reward them for using electricity at off-peak times.\nThe laggard countries just have to copy the policies that have already proved successful and be realistic that they will not achieve world record costs immediately. Individual states may go faster, or slower, unsuitable investment conditions may slow progress in places, but overall there is now a robust regional solar industry. Solar momentum is now unstoppable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2005/07/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3LFAMFHUYSZIRDMWNQBOKWHALPB54EVR", "length": 1530, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.michaelgeist.ca", "title": "July 10, 2005 - Michael Geist", "raw_content": "The Price of Canadian Heritage\nLast week I received a deeply troubling email from the Frontier School Division, which serves thirty-five communities and forty-one schools in remote/northern Manitoba. The school division wrote to the National Gallery of Canada last October requesting a copy of a photograph taken in 1850 of a then-young artist named Paul [\u2026]\nCanadian Consultation Launched on Identity Theft\nThe Consumers Measures Committee, a committee comprised of federal, provincial, and territorial consumer protection representatives, has launched a public consultation on identity theft. The background paper identifies several potential legislative solutions including a requirement for organizations to notify consumers affected by a security breach; the placement of a fraud alert [\u2026]\nCanada Signs Cybercrime Treaty Protocol\nLate last week Canada became the first non-European country to sign the Council of Europe\u2019s Cybercrime Treaty Protocol that focuses on Internet hate. A few clarifications may be useful to ensure that people understand what this is and what it is not. First, the Council of Europe is not the [\u2026]\nThe Battle for Control of the Internet\nThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California-based non-profit corporation charged with administering the Internet\u2019s domain name system, meets this week in Luxembourg. As usual, only a relatively small group of government officials and people connected to domain name businesses will pay close attention to what transpires. [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 184.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michelewhitacrephotographyblog.com/2012/04/self-portrait-april-2012.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:45Z", "digest": "sha1:43YGZVDIRRAUNNY4HF7BYGWBZSBVILKP", "length": 1824, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.michelewhitacrephotographyblog.com", "title": "Michele Whitacre Photography | Blog: Self-Portrait | April 2012", "raw_content": "April's self-portrait was once again taken at our rental house in Phoenix, and it is obviously a photo of my feet while I am relaxing in a bubble bath. The irony of this photo is rather amusing to me, as 10-15 years ago I NEVER would have posted this photo for the world to see. I never would have even taken the photo! I used to be so self-conscious of my feet that I refused to wear anything but closed toe shoes. Obviously a lot has changed over the years, but I supposed that is to be expected. One of the great things about getting older is that most of us learn to accept ourselves more as time goes on.\nI chose this as my photo for the month for a couple of reasons. First, it is impossible for me to look at my purple painted toes with the cute flowers without smiling and feeling happy, and April has been all about happiness for me! I started a new day job at the beginning of the month that I am really liking, and I opened my shooting schedule up and began booking a few sessions. I also decided to go back to working my day job 4 days a week, which has brought a balance back into my life that has been missing for a very long time. I finally feel like my life is back in a good place. Second, a large part of my month has been consumed with planning the details of a trip we are taking to Hawaii, and the flowers on my toes reminds me of the flowers found in tropical places. So the photo also represents all the plans I've been making for my upcoming vacation.\nI will admit that this month's photo was nice and easy to take since I could just hold the camera and shoot, but I spent the entire time terrified that I was going to drop my camera into the water. I had a death grip on it the entire time!\nAh....LOVE your April self portrait and post. You deserve all the happiness that is finally coming your way!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.middlehome.com/dining-room-chandeliers-for-minimalist-dining-room", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOWASMJP3UQP3IP53EH5QMY3CFV3ILTE", "length": 599, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.middlehome.com", "title": "Dining Room Chandeliers for Minimalist Dining Room", "raw_content": "Crystal chandelier is a good choice. They emit this kind of elegance that can easily give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe celebration dinner. They also come in a variety of styles, with some having other lights than others. If you opt for the original dining room crystal chandelier, then you just have to be willing to pay the price because they come in the thousands. Of course, there are also those of a lower quality that can be considered affordable, but still exudes the beauty that you can love them.\n\u00ab Corner Computer Desk Suitable for Small Home Office\nOttoman Coffee Table \u2013 More Design, More Benefits! \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.millenniumpost.in/opinion/dawn-of-modern-district-energy-329264", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4EXOBWQA2KML3IADTA6WVOTECR573SRM", "length": 6834, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.millenniumpost.in", "title": "Dawn of modern district energy", "raw_content": "Home > Opinion > Dawn of modern district energy\nDawn of modern district energy\nBased on assessment carried out in five cities, the Government of India\u2019s focus on this new technology will redefine the energy paradigm in India\nBansi Shukla2018-11-27T19:56:47+05:30\nThe primary energy demand in our country has escalated from about 450 million tons of oil equivalent (toe) in the year 2000 to about 770 million toe by 2012. One may be aware that the tonne of oil equivalent is nothing but a unit of energy which is defined as the amount of energy released by burning one tonne of crude oil. This is expected to surge to a whopping 1250-1500 million toe by 2030 (as estimated in the Integrated Energy Policy Report). Reasoning to this jump in demand may go to a number of factors, most important of which are increasing incomes and economic growth which lead to greater demand for energy services such as lighting, cooking, space cooling, mobility, industrial production, office automation, etc.\nThough several initiatives have been adopted by the Government of India to cater to the rising demand of its citizens; from promoting the use of energy efficient appliances to shifting towards renewable and sustainable energy, India still holds significant potential to control this ever-growing energy demand. One possible way to combat this demand is via development of modern district energy systems in cities. Modern district energy systems supply heating and cooling services using technologies and approaches such as combined heat and power (CHP), thermal storage, heat pumps, and decentralised energy. District energy basically creates synergies between the production and supply of heat, cooling, domestic hot water, and electricity, and can be integrated with municipal systems such as power, sanitation, sewage treatment, transport, and waste.\nModern district energy can reduce primary energy consumption for heating and cooling of urban buildings by an impressive 50 per cent. This powerful technology cuts emissions to achieve global climate goals, reduces pollution resulting to saving lives and health expenditure (especially considering the present scenario where the air quality is hitting a new low every passing day), enables energy storage and renewable connection such as untapped waste heat recovery, and much more. Various studies and research done in the world suggest that modern district energy can prove to be the most effective approach for many cities in transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling higher shares of renewable. Modern district energy has been accepted in countries such as Denmark which has made it the cornerstone of their energy policy to reach their goal of 100 per cent renewable energy, and, similarly, other countries, such as China, are exploring synergies between high levels of wind production and district heating.\nAt Habitat III in 2016, as a testament to the multiple benefits, 197 nations adopted a New Urban Agenda that recognises 'modern district energy' networks as a key solution to integrating renewable and efficiency in cities. To facilitate the transition to such systems, UN Environment is leading an initiative on District Energy in Cities. The District Energy in Cities Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership coordinated by UN Environment, with financial support from Danida, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the Government of Italy. As one of six accelerators of the Sustainable Energy of All (SeforAll) Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform, launched at the Climate Summit in September 2014, the Initiative will support market transformation efforts to shift the heating and cooling sector to energy efficient and renewable energy solutions. The Initiative aims to double the rate of energy efficiency improvements for heating and cooling in buildings by 2030, helping countries meet their climate and sustainable development targets. The Initiative supports local and national governments to build local know-how and implement policies that will accelerate investment in modern \u2013 low-carbon and climate resilient \u2013 district energy systems. UN Environment (UNEP) is currently providing technical support to cities in seven countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Malaysia, Morocco, Serbia, and India.\nSpeaking of India, the Central government has already considered District Energy (cooling) system as a cross-cutting technology in the \"National Cooling Action Plan\" \u2014 a vision document to meet the country's rapidly growing cooling needs in a climate-friendly manner prepared by MoEF&CC. Also, district cooling may compliment the Smart Cities Initiative of India as well, by \u2013 improving efficiency and the quality of infrastructure, and thus delivering a more sustainable, livable urban environment. In order to kick-start the District Cooling Initiative in India, UNEP has signed an agreement with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (A JV of PSUs under the Ministry of Power) to lead and coordinate the DES-related activities as the National Coordinating Agency till 2020. At present, assessments have been carried out across five cities: Bhopal, Rajkot, Thane, Pune, and Coimbatore, which confirm that cooling large buildings through district cooling networks is more cost-effective and significantly better environmentally. Electricity and CO2 reductions of at least 35 per cent are forecasted as there are significant water and refrigerant reductions. Commercially viable projects have been identified in all five cities and the initiative will now work with these cities to design investable projects and supportive local policies to demonstrate and expand this technology. These cities were cautiously shortlisted after examining high-level project feasibility, policy frameworks, city potential, and benefits of district cooling. For the demonstration of this technology, out of the five assessed cities, Thane city of Maharashtra state has been chosen initially. Here apart from the demonstration, the initiative will also support the development of a long-term policy and investment plan for district cooling, training and study tours. Further, it is not limited to one city as its long-term vision is to realise the benefits of district cooling to the state and national level governments and encourage them to launch it as a national and state policy. EESL's key role will be to identify suitable business models that can rapidly scale-up this technology in India. Technologies such as district energy (cooling) systems, if realised and adopted at an early stage, may provide a significant relief in catering to the mounting cooling demand of the country.\n(The author is an engineer and researcher of this new technology. The views expressed are strictly personal)\nBansi Shukla", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 7408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/01-15Nov04-Print-Edition/011511200405.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:18Z", "digest": "sha1:QQIC5ZMME6RBCTQTK5LQPLGJHK3NUTKX", "length": 633, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.milligazette.com", "title": "UN official demands boycot of Israel, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.21, MG115 (1-15 Nov 04)", "raw_content": "Published in the 1-15 Nov 2004 print edition of MG; send me the print edition\nUN official demands boycott of Israel\nJean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, informed a UN conference on 14 October that he had written to Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, to demand suspension of its trade accord with Israel. \"Grave violations of the [Palestinians'] right to food have been recorded, they are clear, this accord must be suspended.\" Ziegler further declared that he will be writing again to the next President, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso (who takes over next month), to repeat his boycott demand. \u00ab", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/16-30June05-Print-Edition/163006200549.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XYMH763V6QBU6OMN7GNDIMPVGZCHUHXE", "length": 1890, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.milligazette.com", "title": "Obituary, The Milli Gazette, Vol.6 No.12, MG130 (16-30 June 05)", "raw_content": "Published in the 16-30 June 2005 print edition of MG; send me the print edition\nIdrees Qureshi, a 40-year old vegetable merchant and brother of UP\u2019s minister of state for Haj and minorities affairs, Yaqoob Qureshi died in police custody on 22 May. DIG, Meerut, R.V. Vishwakarma said that it was a case of murder. Police has lodged an FIR againts an inspector and and four other policemen and they have been suspended. Twentyfive other policemen who were involved in the case are absconding.\nLuqman Mandal, a 11-month old son of Ganera Bibi who weighed 25 kgs died on 22 May in Kolkata\u2019s SSKM Hospital after some food got stuck in his throat. Born in Mushirabad, he was taken to Kolkata for treatment of his abnormal weight. His daily diet was five litres of milk and one kg of powdered rice. His mother regrets bringing him to Kolkata because, she said that he was all right at home in Murshidabad.\nAnsari Murad Ali Rozan Ali, a freedom fighter died on May 7 in Bhiwandi, at a ripe age of 103 years. He worked in Subhash Chandra Bose\u2019s Azad Hind Fauj as a soldier. He used to say that Netaji died in an air crash in Singapore in a forest which was so dense that the debris of the plane could not be taken. He always insisted that the news of Netaji\u2019s being alive was false.\nAl Haj Basheer Ambalvi who was credited with compiling, writing, printing and publishing of Quranic documents and manuscripts weighing several hundred kilograms died recently in Lahore. He had demonstrated his art and skill in Saharanpur also. A condolence meeting was held in Saharanpur at the residence of Sufi Sayeed Sabri where rich tributes were paid to him.\nMunshi Neyazuddin, owner of Kutub Khana Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu, Jama Masjid died recently at his residence in Delhi. 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While the upper portion (characterized by many wide ladders) is as accurate as possible, it is important to note that this \"secret area\" is in a constant state of change.\nClick here to see The Secret World of Mountain King.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.minervareads.com/the-many-worlds-of-albie-bright-by-christopher-edge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:59Z", "digest": "sha1:F6KHNLOIE24NS552ATGSUXNPDNIWTJW5", "length": 3516, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.minervareads.com", "title": "The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge - MinervaReads", "raw_content": "Book of the Week, cats, death, family, fiction, middle grade (age 8-13yrs), science\nOne of the many rewards from reading good novels is that they can teach you about something new in a gentle narrative way. Sometimes it\u2019s something you didn\u2019t realise you wanted to know about. I would never take a course in quantum physics, but this book for eight years and upwards not only taught me about quantum physics, but also gently taught me to make peace with my lot in life. And alongside the complex subjects and depth of thought, there was a dose of humour, and allusions to bananas.\nAlbie (named after Einstein) by his scientist parents, is a curious Year 6 boy, who is grieving for his mother who died just two weeks before the book begins. To assuage his sadness, and to discover where she might have gone after death, he explores the idea of parallel universes \u2013 could she be alive in a different time and space? After studying Schrodinger\u2019s cat theory in a book (and Edge explains this particularly well), Albie tries to recreate the experiment and transport himself to a parallel universe using a box, a laptop and a rotting banana, in the hope that, in that universe, his mother might still be alive.\nTo his, and the reader\u2019s great surprise, it works. Although, of course, if there is one parallel universe, there must be many \u2013 and each one is slightly different from the next. Albie doesn\u2019t find exactly what he\u2019s looking for, but he finds out some intriguing answers to some very powerful questions. With every new universe, his family appears in a slightly different guise \u2013 this conceit works very well in imbuing a child with empathy \u2013 being able to see their own situation differently, and also view things from the point of view of those around them. Albie is confronted with the death of different family members, a disability, and his parents\u2019 and his changing success in the various universes. All of which open his eyes to his own reality.\nThis is an extraordinary novel for children that sets out to explore the possibilities of our world \u2013 like a child itself, and like science itself \u2013 discovering and exploring through experimenting and seeking. Although it throws up questions about life and religion and death and science and meaning, it\u2019s all on a level that can be understood by any eight year old. An admirable feat. It also incorporates other elements of science, as well as quantum physics, such as space exploration, energy resources and suchlike.\nThere was considerable sadness at Albie\u2019s mother\u2019s death \u2013 at times it was highly emotive, and this did drop a pin of doubt when reading \u2013 a sensitive child may find it difficult. The different scenarios of Albie\u2019s life in the parallel universe may need some unpacking (it\u2019s a book I would encourage conversation about) \u2013 I was saddened more than once at Albie\u2019s experiences and \u2018what ifs\u2019 \u2013 but the answers at the end of the book do provide a satisfactory conclusion for this age group.\nThere are many lovely humorous incidents too, for example Edge\u2019s explanation of an NQT (not-quite-a-teacher) made me laugh, and the scenes are painted vividly.\nDipping into the book is like entering a brave new world for today\u2019s child \u2013 they might even find some answers to questions they weren\u2019t asking. You can buy your own copy in this universe here.\n\u2190 To comprehend or not to comprehend\nFirst Witches \u2192\n1 comment for \u201cThe Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge\u201d\nPingback: The Absent Parents: A Guest Post by Christopher Edge | MinervaReads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 7566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.misonco.com/work-with-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WIBQH45CMOKSJMZIABGCRKO4G5AALB7H", "length": 392, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.misonco.com", "title": "Work with us - Montajes Misonco", "raw_content": "We are looking for people like you\nApply for positions worldwide across all disciplines for both, office and workshop opportunities.\nThe company workforce is currently made up of experienced staff, including qualified engineers, administrative staff and factory workers, thereby covering the whole range of professionals required by company with a clear vocation for services to the industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mnchurches.org/refugeeservices/a-journey-of-faith-one-year-later", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:UIIYOAQZBNJZIAYCZWKKKYKJ6JVROQ5W", "length": 3496, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mnchurches.org", "title": "A Journey of Faith\u2013One Year Later | MCC Refugee Services", "raw_content": "\u2190 Welcoming New Staff: Yassah Mulbah, Health Case Manager\nCreating a Perfect Blend \u2192\nWhen Colonial Church of Edina and Upper Room volunteers took the call from MCC Refugee Services last summer inviting them to welcome a 7 member family who had fled Afghanistan as refugees, they could hardly have imagined the bond they would form in the coming months. They shared some reflections with us as the family\u2019s one year anniversary in Minnesota approaches, and we wanted to share a bit of their journey with you.\n\u201cJuly 6th marks the 1st year anniversary of Abed family\u2019s presence in Minnesota. At this time last year, MCC\u2019s Outreach Specialist contacted me to ask whether we were prepared to support a 7 member family fleeing Afghanistan. Her question came at an inconvenient time, as July 4th was approaching, with summer vacations and all. Yet, I knew that somehow we would walk alongside this family. Many from our team rallied to ready their apartment, gather furniture, and purchase welcome kit items and clothing. I recall our band of smiling faces as we welcomed this family when they arrived at the airport. For them, it was a long flight from Kabul to Minneapolis. More than that, it was a journey of faith, as they left family, friends, and possessions behind. In the months that followed, we would learn that the Abeds lost a 9 year old daughter due to a lengthy illness shortly before coming to the US, and that several of Farhad\u2019s cousins had died in the wars.\u201d (From co-sponsor team leader, Bob Keller.)\nThe Abed family includes Farhad, his wife Amaya, and their 5 children. They have a 2 year old daughter, 5 year old twins, an 8 year old daughter, and nine year old son. Over the past year, Farhad has found employment and they were able to move from their first apartment to a rented house. The move has given them more space, and volunteers expressed their pride at the family\u2019s independence in finding housing that was a better fit and accomplishing the move. Volunteers also continue to provide moral support to the family as they walk through the process of diagnosing a genetic condition that that has led to complex health concerns for the family\u2019s youngest daughter. Given that those health concerns that require so much of Amaya\u2019s attention, they were also able to help the family purchase a back yard play set for the older children to be able to play safely in their own yard.\nThe initial busyness of welcoming the family last summer has given way to a natural rhythm of friendship. Women from the church co-sponsor team continue to visit with Amaya on a regular basis and have formed a friendship, supporting Amaya and her children as they continue to find their way in Minnesota. The church group hopes to plan a reunion picnic with the family this summer as they celebrate their first year in Minnesota.\nCo-sponsor team leader Bob shared with his team: \u201cReflecting on this first year, the progress this family has made is immense, and the good things that God did for this family through you will never be lost. Also, much to everyone\u2019s delight, there has been a bonding, as the Abeds always look forward to our presence.\u201d\nMCC Refugee Services is looking for new or repeat co-sponsors, particularly in St. Paul and the East Metro. If your congregation is interested in walking out your commitment to welcoming the stranger by co-sponsoring a refugee family, please contact us at rsvolunteers@mnchurches.org for more information or to schedule an educational presentation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montanaref.org/ftproot/lotg/pages/administrativeGuidance.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HRNF6QLVCPD45GHLPBXXR254NLWKAHNY", "length": 9248, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.montanaref.org", "title": "All Materials and Video \u00a9 US Soccer Referee Department :: Summary of Instruction", "raw_content": "Official Publications Related to Administrative Issues\n04/07/2008 \u2013 Match Reports Involving Discipline\nA US Soccer emphasizing the need for clear, concise game reports that allow for proper administrative handling of situations after the fact. Includes guidance to officials on the types of information to include in written match reports involving discipline issues.\n04/06/2005 \u2013 Dealing with Severe Weather\nA US Soccer Position Paper providing broad guidance to officials on how to handle issues associated with adverse weather conditions.\n04/02/2006 \u2013 Availability of Water During a Match\nA US Soccer Position Paper providing guidance to officials on allowing players to receive water during a match, including where the action should be allowed to ensure player safety.\nReport writing, and the content of reports, are critical in the decision making process relative to suspensions and fines at all levels of the game. Reports can be submitted for, amongst other items:\nPost-game behavior/misconduct\nMisconduct that occurs during the game.\nUnclear, incomplete, or misleading reports do not lend themselves to effective reviews of player and coach behavior. Reports must indicate:\nWhat violation occurred?\nHow did is happen?\nReports should include specifics about what was said, how it was said, any preventative action taken by the referee team, a description of distances traveled, how long the action took, was it visual as well as verbal, and a specific reference to the reason as stated in the Laws of the Game.\nIf you dismiss a non-player you MUST use the term DISMISSED in your report. Merely writing the circumstances is not sufficient. There have been incidents in the MLS in which a report was written about a coach who entered the field after the game to complain; however, the referee crew failed to use the term \u201cdismissed\u201d in the disciplinary report. A poorly written description of the coach\u2019s actions was provided but this is not sufficient for the Disciplinary Committee to take action. The REFEREE TEAM must take official action first. For further detailed information on disciplinary report writing, refer to the April 4, 2008, U.S. Soccer position paper entitled, \u201cMatch Reports Involving Discipline.\u201d\nReferees may issue and display yellow or red cards to players and substitutes after the game. In terms of non-player personnel, the referee should inform the coach on the field and/or via a supplemental report that he has been dismissed after the game. Referees must ensure the report is delivered to the team coach by the referee liaison. These reports must be as descriptive as reports made for misconduct during the game.\nIn games where there is a limit on the number of substitutes, players who are warming up must return to their bench once the last substitute is utilized by their team. Since no more changes to the composition of the players on the field are permitted, there is no need for these players to continue warming up. Officials (especially the fourth official) should ensure that once the last substitution is completed, the remaining subs return to the technical area.\nRemember, substitutes who are warming up or who are on the team bench must wear a different colored shirt or bib to distinguish them from the players on the field of play. This preventative effort ensures that an AR or the referee does not mistake them for a player on the field. Additionally, subs may not use balls to warm up because these balls could enter the field of play and/or be confused by the officials as a ball on the field. A player who has been substituted out of the game may \u201ccool down\u201d in the area designated for players to warm up.\nSubs are not permitted to approach the field or the AR to express their opinions, dissent, or become involved in any interaction with any active player. Substitute players are held to the same standard as players regarding conduct despite being off the field. Refer to \u201cMisconduct by Subs and Substituted Players\u201d for more information.\nAcceptance of Gratitude by Game Officials\nMatch officials may not ask for or accept any forms of \u201cappreciation\u201d from teams and/or players competing in a formal competition (for example, leagues or an official tournament). Forms of \u201cappreciation\u201d include, but are not limited to, items such as player jerseys, signatures, or other memorabilia. Officials must always be cognizant of the message being sent and the perception being created when they accept any item from teams and/or players. This includes situations in which you are not working the game in an official capacity but are an official in the formal competition.\nShortly, U.S. Soccer will release a policy paper on the acceptance forms of \u201cappreciation\u201d by match officials. This will be made available for all match officials.\nPlayer Hydration During Games (Water Breaks)\nIt is important to remember that different levels (age, skill, competitive nature) of the game have different needs. Often, these needs are a result of preparation, fitness levels, tactical awareness and other factors that influence players\u2019 need for hydration (liquids) during the game. Players, at the professional level, are expected to prepare (mentally, physically and tactically) for all climates including extreme heat and humidity.\nAlternatively, certain youth and amateur competitions may recommend controlled stoppages to allow players to hydrate in summer months. This is due to safety factors that may exist as a result of differences in factors like preparation. In such cases, the rules of competition should specify the parameters for such hydration stoppages.\nIt is noteworthy that the Laws of the Game do not specifically address stoppages for \u201cwater breaks.\u201d However, FIFA does provide the following instruction to match officials regarding the drinking of water during games:\n\u201cPlayers are entitled to take liquid refreshments during a stoppage in the match but only at the touchlines. It is not permitted to throw plastic water bottles, bags or any other water containers onto the field.\u201d\nFIFA's instructions mean that players may hydrate during a natural stoppage in the game. This hydration must occur along the touchlines meaning that off-the-field personnel may not enter the field to provide liquids to the players. Players must go to the touchline to prevent water bottles, bags or other containers from being tossed/thrown on the field which could hit or injure a field player or litter the field. When players go to the touchline, the game must continue, so players go \u201cat their own risk\u201d.\nU.S. Soccer uses FIFA's instructions to provide further guidance to match officials in its \u201cAdvise to Referees on the Laws of the Game\u201d (2008 version) in section 19.4:\n\u201cField players who wish to drink water while play continues may do so only from the touchline and without leaving the field. Players may also drink water during stoppages at any of the boundary lines. If water containers are left along boundary lines outside the field of play, they must not interfere with the movement of the assistant referee or block his or her view of the length of the touchline. Under no circumstances may water containers of any sort be thrown onto the field, either during play or at stoppages (including the halftime break), nor may they be thrown from the field after a player has finished drinking.\u201d\nThe game has sufficient normal stoppages to provide players with the opportunity to hydrate. The fact that water containers may be placed around the field (without impacting assistant referee performance) provides ample opportunity for professional players to drink water as required.\nUnder no circumstances may referees working professional matches authorize or implement water breaks.\nRemember, any such breaks are not intended to be \u201ccoaching moments\u201d but merely an opportunity for players to hydrate.\nVideo Clip: Real Salt Lake at Houston (24:36)\nThis clip shows an unauthorized water break during an MLS game. The referee incorrectly takes it upon himself to make a personal decision to stop the game to give the players the chance to get water. This is not permitted by the rules of competition and should not have taken place. The decision, which stops the game for approximately 1:24, takes away the rhythm and focus of the teams and creates visible frustration for players and coaches. Players and teams do not appreciate surprises and because the break is not permitted by the Laws of the Game nor the rules of competition, the teams are surprised and frustrated which could lead to dissent or other forms of misconduct.\nOn the goal kick, instead of having an unauthorized water break, the players could have used the time it took for the goalkeeper to put the ball into play to address hydration issues. In this manner, the flow of the game is not interrupted.\nNote: The coach should not be permitted to enter the field of play to express his frustration but common sense must prevail. The fourth official should do everything possible to keep all the off-the-field personnel from entering the field but this is not an easy task as the fourth official must also work, with the near-side assistant referee (AR), to manage the players drinking water and the throwing of bottles onto the field.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 13966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.motricity.com/3-things-no-one-knows-about-how-a-dewatering-bucket-wheel-works/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QQTG2SNZXXPUQIBIPFXRP5I53WDWKLZH", "length": 4231, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.motricity.com", "title": "3 Things No One Knows About How A Dewatering Bucket Wheel Works | Motricity", "raw_content": "3 Things No One Knows About How A Dewatering Bucket Wheel Works\nEven though they may only play a small part of the process, dewatering bucket wheels are an essential part of the construction of many buildings. This is because they ensure that certain construction materials are up to specific standards. This is incredibly important as, if they\u2019re not up to standard, then this could affect the overall quality of the entire building.\nBecause of that, it\u2019s incredibly important that dewatering is done well and that can only be done with high quality dewatering bucket wheels. Despite its importance, there are many things that most people might not know about them, especially in regard to how they work.\n1. How Do They Function?\nEither a mixture of substances or just one substance at a time \u2013 depending on what\u2019s needed \u2013 is first fed into an impact chamber, which is protected internally against wear and tear. After this, it\u2019s then fed into the bucket wheel in order to be dewatered.\nThe substance is normally fed into the wheel through the use of a suction dredger, compressed-air dredger, floating grab or a preparation plant. Any substances are put into the bucket wheel tub and then excavated by the wheel. This is done through the use of cups with special plastic screens of varying widths.\nA natural vacuum is created through the use of extended suction chambers; this helps to keep the dewatering degree to a minimum. On the inside of the tub, there are also a few adjustable overflow weirs that can define how fine or rough the substance in question is.\nThere is also a number of different speeds at which the bucket wheel can turn at, depending on how fine you want the sand or other substance to be. Having said that, they normally stick within the range of 0.5 to 2 revolutions per minute (rpm). Because of this low revolution speed, the bucket wheel ends up using a lot less power than you might expect.\nHaving said that, the exact amount of power that it uses depends an awful lot on the exact model that you\u2019re using, as well as how much dewatering you\u2019re doing on a daily basis.\n2. The Types Of Substances They Work On\nDewatering bucket wheels are chiefly used to dewater or deslurry certain substances, which is how they got their name. Having said that, there are only a limited amount of substances that they can be used on. This may come as a surprise to some people, as many might wrongly believe that they can be used on several different substances.\nIt\u2019s worth knowing what exactly the can dewater and deslurry. They work on the majority of substances that are used in construction, aside from concrete. Typically, they\u2019re used on sand, gravel, calcium carbonate, silica and feldspar. This would encompass the majority of the substances that would be needed for the construction of a building.\nHaving said that, while they\u2019re not the only substances used in construction, generally speaking they\u2019re the only ones that would need to be dewatered or deslurried.\n3. They\u2019re Incredibly Adjustable\nBased on the above, many people think that it\u2019s just as simple as watered substances go in, and then dewatered substances come out with almost no input from a worker. However, that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth as dewatering bucket wheels are incredibly adjustable from a side panel.\nThis panel allows people to adjust a vast number of aspects of the process. For example, one of the biggest things that can be adjusted is the material split. This affects how much water is actually removed from the sand or other substance. This can be incredibly important depending on what exactly the substance in question will be used for.\nAnother major aspect that can be adjusted is the water flow, which can change depending on whether you\u2019re washing the substance or dewatering it. In either case, the substance may end up needing to be dewatered. Because of that, there will be a massive change in water flow; for example, a certain amount of water being put in versus a certain percentage of water being taken out.\nIn the dewatering process, removing a certain percentage of water from the substance is a necessity as for certain uses, there can be a maximum limit on how much water can be used in the substance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 167.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/1663161/twilight-saga-eclipse-mtv-movie-awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RW5P6CPRYEQKJFNNUW3ZGM3Y3AZTPHFF", "length": 3358, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "Will 'Twilight Saga: Eclipse' Rule The 2011 MTV Movie Awards? - MTV", "raw_content": "Will 'Twilight Saga: Eclipse' Rule The 2011 MTV Movie Awards?\nMTV News examines the flick's chances by taking a look at Movie Awards history.\n\"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse\" is nominated for eight MTV Movie Awards, eclipsing the competition and leading the (wolf) pack as the most nominated film at this year's show.\nWith so many chances to take home some Golden Popcorn come Sunday, June 5, things look pretty good for \"Eclipse,\" especially considering the franchise's Movie Awards history. Let's take a look at their 2011 prospects:\nThe competition: \"Eclipse\" is up against \"Black Swan,\" \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1,\" \"Inception\" and \"The Social Network.\"\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: Yes. In 2009, \"Twilight\" took home the prize, and in 2010, \"New Moon\" won. Will the streak stay alive for a third year? That's up to fans.\nThe competition: Kristen Stewart is up against Emma Stone (\"Easy A\"), Emma Watson (\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1\"), Jennifer Aniston (\"Just Go With It\") and Natalie Portman (\"Black Swan\").\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: KStew won in 2009 and 2010 and has her eye on the threepeat.\nThe competition: Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson are up against Daniel Radcliffe (\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1\"), Jesse Eisenberg (\"The Social Network\") and Zac Efron (\"Charlie St. Cloud\").\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: In 2009, no one from \"Twilight\" was nominated, and Zac Efron took it home for \"High School Musical 3.\" In 2010, both guys were nominated and RPattz won (he also took home the Global Superstar award). Could this be Taylor's year?\nThe competition: Xavier Samuel is up against Andrew Garfield (\"The Social Network\"), Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz (\"Kick-Ass\"), Hailee Steinfeld (\"True Grit\"), Jay Chou (\"The Green Hornet\") and Olivia Wilde (\"Tron Legacy\").\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: In 2009, RPattz won the then-gender-specific Breakthrough Male Performance award. In 2010, \"Twilight\" castmate Anna Kendrick won for her work in \"Up in the Air.\" Perhaps some of that luck will rub off on Xavier?\nThe competition: Robert Pattinson's fight vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel is up against Amy Adams vs. the Sisters (\"The Fighter\"), Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz vs. Mark Strong (\"Kick-Ass\"), Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Death Eaters (\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1\") and Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Hallway Attacker (\"Inception\").\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: Cam Gigandet and Pattinson's big fight won in 2009, but \"The Twilight Saga\" wasn't nominated last year, when Beyonc\u00e9 and Ali Larter took it home for \"Obsessed.\" Perhaps voters will declare vamp fights the new catfights in 2011.\nThe competition: Kristen Stewart's kiss with Robert Pattinson and her smooch with Taylor Lautner are up against Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (\"Black Swan\"), Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (\"Inception\") and Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe (\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1\").\nHas \"Twilight\" won before?: KStew and RPattz have ruled this category for two years running. Maybe fans will give the Bella and Jacob love a little shine at the 2011 Movie Awards.\nHead over to MovieAwards.MTV.com to vote for your favorite flicks now! The 20th annual MTV Movie Awards air live Sunday, June 5, at 9 p.m. ET.\nCheck out everything we've got on \"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 210.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.music.tsklab.net/b/p/x/albw.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QP5QZ4JZLBVOFJOLPBZGOTOJIZTNEUIX", "length": 310, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.music.tsklab.net", "title": "The Sylvers \u2022 1974 \u2022 The Sylvers III", "raw_content": "\u2117 1974 MGM Records M3G 4940\n1. I Aim to Please [03:05]\n2. Could Be You [04:17]\n3. Wish You Were Here [02:21]\n4. 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[03:03]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.musiclessonteachers.com/in/bergenfield-nj", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GMOIZNXIEQHCCNGE7A6PRSPXRGVNUBWH", "length": 3529, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.musiclessonteachers.com", "title": "Music Lessons Bergenfield, NJ - Music Teachers & Instructors", "raw_content": "Music Lessons in Bergenfield, NJ\nComprehensive list of Bergenfield, New Jersey based teachers and instructors offering private music lessons.\nGreg Madison Music Studio\nGreg Madison Music Studio is a place where continual teaching improvement, expert music instruction and quality client service are the highest priorities. I strive for excellence in music instruction, technique, theory, improvisation, ear training and music writing. When you come to my studio you'll find an extensive range of studio equipment and teaching aids.\nTenafly Arts\nTenafly Arts was set up in the Fall of 1997 and is committed to the training of students in music and dance, with an emphasis on the classics. Students at Tenafly Arts are taught technique and learn the logic behind their academic training. Music and dance are major art forms that aid us to understand other arts forms, ie: drama, painting, and sculpture.\nA great culture. If you are looking for a place to cultivate or explore your child's/children's\nTenafly Music Academy\nI'm proud to make an exceptional contribution to Tenafly and the surrounding towns through the quality of our teachers combined with the affordability of private lessons at our school. Our philosophy is to make the best music education available to as many people as possible, of all ages and backgrounds. I've wanted to open a music school ever as long as I can remember. So many reasons, little and\nAcademy Of Music And Art, Bergen\nOradell (2.73 miles)\nFall Registration going on now. How about starting with a FREE Trial Session? Bergen Academy is not your typical music school! With over 300 students and top teachers recruited from New York City, we are confident that you will find us to be not only the highest music school you can find, but a better option than home-based music lessons.\nNJ Guitar Lessons\nI prefer that you have your own guitar - There are several exceptions if needed. I have been playing guitar for 20+ years and being a guitar instructor is my full time job. Drop me a line and let's talk. I teach guitar lessons with a method that is more geared towards fun and being able to socialize with music than with theory at least in the beginning.\nValdez Performing Arts Center\nThe Valdez Performing Arts Center supplies Northern New Jersey with the finest in private lessons. Our mission is to nourish everyone with the joys of music, art and dance. As well as private classes for Drawing, Painting, and Sculpting. We offer group classes for Ladies Latin Dance. Most of whom hold bachelor degrees or higher in their instrument, music education or both.\nSuresh Wadkar Ajivasan Music Academy\nFounded way back in 1932 in Srinagar by Shri Suresh Wadkarji's guru, Acharya Jialal Vasant, Ajivasan has groomed several budding musicians in India. Sureshji has brought the skills taught at his Mumbai academy to the W. The Suresh Wadkar Ajivasan Music School situated in New Jersey and New York is fully supported by Sureshji located on the same principles, teaching techniques, and curricula he founded\nSylvan Academy Of Music\nCloster (3.93 miles)\nThe Sylvan Academy of Music was established in 1990 with the enrollment of 15 students and two experienced faculty members. Our faculty is an extraordinary group of experienced, highly qualified, and loving instructors. Our facility has been selected as the Bergen County Center for the Associated Board of the Royal Board Schools of Music, located in England.\nOradell NJ - 2.7 mi\nCloster NJ - 3.9 mi\nPark Ridge NJ - 7.9 mi\nLyndhurst NJ - 10.3 mi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Mar/Brahms_violin_PACM100.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3JQZ733CSZ6RJXMTLRXSCVQKHGOSVG4Y", "length": 3222, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.musicweb-international.com", "title": "BRAHMS Violin Sonatas - Prisitne Audio PACM100 [JW] Classical Music Reviews: March 2016 - MusicWeb-International", "raw_content": "Sonata No. 1 in G major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78 (1879) [26:17]\nSonata No. 2 in A major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100 (1886) [19:28]\nSonata No. 3 in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 108 (1886-88) [20:51]\nGeorg Kulenkampff (violin)\nGeorg Solti (piano)\nrec. January 1947 (No.1) and July 1948 (Nos 2 and 3), Radio Studio, Zurich\nPRISTINE AUDIO PACM100 [66:33]\nGeorg Kulenkampff (1898-1948) left Germany for Switzerland in 1943 and for the remaining years of his sadly curtailed life based himself in the country. He took over Carl Flesch\u2019s teaching position in Lucerne in 1944. However, it was to Zurich that Decca sent the experienced recording producer Victor Olof to capture the Hanseatic violinist and his piano accompanist, the then little-known Georg Solti, in Brahms\u2019s Violin Sonata No.1. The Decca team in London must have approved. Recording engineer Rolf Liebermann had done a fine job and so the following year out went Olof again, this time with Kenneth \u2018Wilko\u2019 Wilkinson in tow, to wrap up the sonata sequence. Each sonata was released separately \u2013 this was still the day of the 78.\nThese sonata performances have been reissued over the years in various forms. The first time I heard them was on an Ace of Clubs LP, though they were also reissued by Richmond. Subsequent CD reissues have brought them to wider attention and now Pristine, with the use of XR re-mastering, has ventured forth with its own reissue.\nHaving recently reviewed a revisionist set of the sonatas that seemed to think that playing them all at a single unvaryingly fast tempo was a sensible thing to do, it has been a pleasure to return to Kulenkampff and Solti for readings of aristocratic probity. Their approach to metrics is flexible but rigorously musical. Kulenkampff could be fervid in concert as a number of live broadcasts show \u2013 the Sibelius Concerto with Furtw\u00e4ngler for one but Podium Legend has a raft of live material too \u2013 though in the studio there was generally a controlled and refining eloquence about his playing. The lyricism of the slow movement in the Sonata in G is especially well conveyed and his unindulgent, subtly inflected and expressive playing graces the finale with a sense of logical development. Deft portamenti were part of his arsenal though he was by and large quite a clean player in that respect. His approach to these sonatas remains lofty, vibrato noticeably increasing in both amplitude and width in the finale of the Sonata in A where both musicians judge things beautifully. Both also choose unexceptional tempi but ones that always move decisively forward, a product of an acute rhythmic sensibility, and that invokes a refined occasionally withdrawn quality. Whilst others are more superficially evocative in the slow movement of the D minor, for instance, Kulenkampff generates a quiet intensity and in the finale is full of sweep but also lyric bite.\nThe Second Sonata seems to have some small inherent problems regarding surface noise and it\u2019s the one that has caused Andrew Rose the most problems in his restorations. Set against its companions, it sounds somewhat recessed sound-wise, though the tonal qualities of the two musicians still register strongly. An excellent restoration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.muthuproperty.com/page/23/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FHARV6EDJIK4NOEFG3EUAEY6PUK7VV2M", "length": 1645, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.muthuproperty.com", "title": "Muthu Property Page 23. Window Covering Ideas. Kitchen Garden Window. Basement Bar Ideas. Window Treatment Ideas", "raw_content": "A great many choices are available for the eager homeowner. Everything is a nice shot, but it also pays to have a durable, beautiful and elegant countertop. Several kitchen countertop ideas are available, so it is up to you to choose what the best among them is. Everyone has unique taste and style, so you just have to choose what material makes you feel good about and what you think is best suited for your lifestyle.\nCurtains and drapes vary a lot depending on the fabric used, the color choices, the cut and design, and the length. Because there are so many variables, I am not going to get into it much, but we are going to talk about some of the ways curtains and drapes are hung, and how to make them decorative through your use of hardware etc.\nTable skirting is generally comprised of fluted fabric (resembling a skirt) that wraps around the perimeter of the table and attaches to a table top section of the same color using Velcro. A table skirt can also be described as a simple table cover which simply drapes over the banquet table to create an acceptable presentation. Plain table covers like drapes, are designed to fit most 4, 6, or 8 foot table perfectly. Most of these allow for rear seating comfortably with the back remaining shorter for legs to fit underneath. Additionally, most are also seamed at the back to properly align with your table. Table covers are available in several different colors, with many allowing for logo and text imprinting in a 1, 2, or 3 color process. This printing process is either heat transferred onto the front of your table skirt or completed through a more complex, dye sublimation process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.my-pa.ae/5-tips-for-invoicing-clients/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AUW4TIIQ3F6I3BKQ5IJ4YWMU2XSKD7P3", "length": 3511, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.my-pa.ae", "title": "5 Tips For Invoicing Clients | Best Personal Assistant Service in Dubai", "raw_content": "5 Tips For Invoicing Clients\nHomepage / Uncategorized / 5 Tips For Invoicing Clients\nInvoicing is such an essential part of what we do \u2013 without them we wont get paid! However, sending invoices can be a tedious process, and it gets even harder when you have to chase clients to make payments!\nThe key to painless invoicing is having a good template, knowing what to include in your invoice, and ensuring the right timing to send the invoice to the client. Today we thought we\u2019d share some tips to help achieve more effective invoicing.\nTemplate information for invoices\nThe invoice you send to clients should be simple, clear and professional. Since the customer is expecting this invoice from you, you don\u2019t have to write a long story. The invoice should have four key elements:\nThe name of your company, or your name if you are a freelancer. This should appear at the top to make it easy for the recipient to identify who the invoice is from. You can include the logo of your company, your address and contact information. This gives your invoice a professional touch.\nThe invoice number, the list of services or goods offered to the client, the taxes and any other amount payable applicable.\nYour payment policy. Payment policies should be discussed before you offer the goods or services, but it is essential to remind the client in the invoice. This should be a short statement indicating the payment period and the due date. Finally, indicate the payment types that you accept.\nWhen to send invoices\nYou have three options on when to send invoices. It can be done either before or after the job is done, or half and half. Your choice depends on the nature of the job and the position of a company. For instance, if you don\u2019t have the funds to finance purchases for the client\u2019s project, you can send the invoice before in order to receive an upfront payment to assist with the cash flow. Invoicing after the job is complete has its risks and therefore should really only be done where there is a high level of trust and confidence that the client will meet his end of the bargain. Whichever time you choose to send invoices, you should always ensure that you have a signed contract.\nHow to send invoices\nInvoices can be sent manually or automatically. Manual invoicing gives you control of choosing the data to include in each invoice and is a suitable option for businesses with very few transactions as the process is time-consuming, plus it is cheaper than investing in invoicing software. If your company processes numerous invoices, you should consider automated invoice processing. Automated invoicing is cheaper, less prone to error, delivers invoices on time and boosts employee productivity. Our PA\u2019s can help you to decide what works best for you and can even manage this on your behalf.\nFollowing up on invoices\nWhen you send an invoice, but the client does not respond, then you need to follow up. Consider sending a reminder when the due date is approaching, set up automatic reminders every five days after the due date and remind the client of the contract terms on the follow up for non-payment emails or reminders.\nGetting clients to pay you can be a hard task, but unfortunately an essential one! You can help this process along by sending your invoices in plenty of time to receive payments, and following up regularly to ensure they don\u2019t forget to pay! Our team at MY PA are experienced in managing this for clients and would be more than happy to help with any stage of this process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.my3monsters.com/2013/05/waking-up-refreshed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TVO4XT45HKAJ54Y7WHGRZ4XPCQQQDXB7", "length": 3652, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.my3monsters.com", "title": "My 3 Monsters: Waking Up Refreshed", "raw_content": "This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZzzQuil for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.\nI have struggled with sleeplessness for much of my adult life. I read somewhere that it takes the average person about 7 minutes to fall asleep at night. That's crazy talk! It takes me about an hour -- minimum. And when I'm stressed about something, I can pretty much forget about sleeping at all. In fact, one night last week I watched a documentary about biscuits at 3 a.m. because that seemed just boring enough to do the trick. No such luck.\nMy husband, on the other hand, balances me out. I'll never forget laying in bed one night when he said, \"I'm not very tired right now. I think I'm going to go watch tv for a while.\" Before I could even respond -- BEFORE I COULD EVEN RESPOND! -- he had started snoring.\nSometimes I want to punch him.\nMost of the time I'm content to lay there and wait for sleep to come. I have a little routine. I lay facing my husband at first and we chat for a few minutes. When he starts snoring I roll over to the other side for about 15 minutes. Then I roll to my back for a while. I get up, go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, and lay back down. Usually within 15 minutes or so I fall asleep. It's fine. I can function on very little sleep usually. I'm used to it now.\nBut there are times when I just have to be awake and alert the next day. I need an ace-in-the-hole to help me fall asleep quickly and stay asleep til morning. I've tried a few products on the market, but they make me twitchy. There's not much worse than being super sleepy, but not being able to sleep because your leg muscles won't stop twitching. Plus, they almost always have pain reliever in them. I'm not in pain, I just can't fall asleep.\nI'm in the midst of planning for Girl's Camp right now so I need to bring my A-game every day to get stuff done. I was really excited when ZzzQuil gave me their product to sample. ZzzQuil is from the makers of Vicks NyQuil, for when your only symptom is occasional sleeplessness. It\u2019s not for colds, it\u2019s not for pain, it\u2019s just for sleep. No extra medicine that you don't need, which is awesome. ZzzQuil\u2019s active ingredient, diphenhydramine HCI, helps reduce the time it takes for you to fall asleep when you have difficulty falling asleep, so you can sleep soundly and wake up refreshed. Plus, it is the only over-the-counter sleep-aid medication available in both Liquid (Warming Berry flavor) and LiquiCap\u00ae forms.\nI tried the Warming Berry liquid. I didn't love the flavor {it's medicine after all}, but I did like the warming sensation. That was pretty cool. I was a teeny bit skeptical based on my past experiences with sleep-aids so I took it around the time my kids usually go to bed, several hours before my normal bed time, and laid down to watch tv in bed. I don't think I even made it to the end of the 30 minute sitcom I was watching before I was sound asleep. The next thing I knew I was waking up TWELVE HOURS later, feeling pretty great. I'm sure I only slept that long because I am so perpetually sleep-deprived, but I might try taking just half a dose next time.\nThe important thing is that it worked. I slept. Quickly and easily. It was awesome and I was able to accomplish a ton the next day. If you struggle with occasional sleeplessness, I recommend keeping a bottle of ZzzQuil in your medicine cabinet to help on those nights when you really have to be rested and alert the next morning.\nIf you give ZzzQuil a try, join me and tweet about your experience using the hashtag #ZzzQuilNight. Like ZzzQuil on Facebook, too, for the latest product information and promotions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 7461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mycentralnebraska.com/2016/05/05/nebraska-softball-team-hosts-wisconsin/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:39:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LGP6K23LBRDBEUFQC3E4S3HF7FLQKCHS", "length": 489, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mycentralnebraska.com", "title": "Nebraska Softball Team Hosts Wisconsin | My Central Nebraska", "raw_content": "Nebraska Softball Team Hosts Wisconsin\nMay 5, 2016 kmcnabb Sports\nThe Nebraska softball team closes out the regular season this weekend by hosting Wisconsin. The three-game series opens Friday at Bowlin Stadium.\nThe Huskers are 30-17 overall and 11-8 in conference play. NU is currently in sixth place in the league standings and still in contention for one of four byes in next week\u2019s Big Ten Tournament.\nWisconsin is in seventh place in the Big Ten standings with a 10-9-1 league record.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myotaku.com/users/onizuka/posts/138559", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:14Z", "digest": "sha1:IFICU75BIDUPVXWF6TMS3U3ZFNXK2BPJ", "length": 106, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.myotaku.com", "title": "myOtaku.com: Onizuka", "raw_content": "A new story...\nI'll be writing a story here, and I'd like you guys to rate it. I'll post it in aout 5 min.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mystikka.com/p/hypnosis-information-and-benefits.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FP4XX5DVQ3HUWQVR5LIF3QPPHWTNA5HV", "length": 4156, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mystikka.com", "title": "Mystikka Jade: Hypnosis Information and Benefits", "raw_content": "Hypnosis is an ancient practice; there is evidence of forms of its use dating back to the early stages of civilization. The term \u2018hypnosis\u2019 however, didn\u2019t enter into widespread use until the 1880\u2019s. Then, in the 1950\u2019s, hypnosis was accepted into the medical community for therapeutic use.\nHypnosis has been well-documented to assist with many issues that affect the body and mind. Stress has been scientifically linked to an astounding number of physical ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, peptic ulcers, obesity, headaches, depression and much more. When you learn, through hypnosis, to relax your body and mind, stress is greatly reduced. When stress is reduced, so is the source of a lot of other potential health issues.\nHypnosis has also been used successfully to assist patients with the pain, fear and discomfort of medical procedures, such as childbirth and dental procedures, for example. There has even been documented success in using hypnosis to manage the effects of ailments such as fibromyalgia and IBS.\nHypnosis can also aid in the recovery of addictions. An analysis of more than 600 studies reported that hypnosis was over three times more effective in quitting smoking than nicotine replacement methods were, and 15 times more effective than trying to quit on one\u2019s own.\nHypnosis can be extremely productive in assisting with weight loss, and can improve confidence, concentration and learning; and it can help eliminate fears and phobias.\nThere are four states of consciousness that we experience. Full waking consciousness is referred to as beta. In beta, your brain is operating at 13-40 cycles per second. You are most consciously alert of the stimuli in the world around you when you are in beta.\nThe next level deep is the alpha state. In alpha, your brainwaves slow down to reach somewhere between 8 and 13 cycles per second. When you are in alpha, you\u2019re actually two hundred times more prone to suggestion then you are when in full waking beta consciousness. Most people, while under hypnosis, spend the majority of the session in an alpha state.You\u2019re also likely to experience alpha when you are daydreaming, or when you are totally engrossed in a television program. You are focused on the show you are watching, however you are still alert enough to respond to necessary interruptions.\nThe next level deep is called theta, which is what people usually experience in the threshold between waking and sleeping; right before falling asleep or right before waking up. In theta, the brainwaves slow down to about 4-7 cycles per second.\nThe deepest level of hypnosis is called delta, which is experienced during a deep sleep. In delta, the brainwaves slow to \u00bd - 4 cycles per second. If you fall asleep during hypnosis, this is okay, you are still in hypnosis. The reason why most people will wake up to a noise that requires their attention, such as a smoke alarm or a crying baby, even while in a deep sleep, is because we can still hear while asleep. Your ears are still open and your mind is still taking in the sounds of your environment. Your subconscious mind will be aware of the suggestions it receives during hypnosis whether you fall asleep during the session or not.\nYou may stay in alpha during hypnosis, or vacillate between states of consciousness. Just as it is perfectly fine if you fall asleep during the hypnosis session, you are also still in hypnosis if you are fully conscious of everything I am saying. So allow me to reiterate that it is perfectly okay if you are aware of everything I am saying during our sessions, because you are still in hypnosis.\nNo matter what state or states of consciousness you experience in hypnosis, you are always in control. If at any time you feel the need to end the hypnotic session, you have the power to pull yourself back into beta again. All you need to do is count from one to three, and you will be wide awake and fully alert.\nTo schedule a pre-talk and follow-up hypnosis session by telephone with Mystikka, please see:\nTo learn about Mystikka's Hypnosis Style and Experience see:\nHow I Work - Hypnosis Style and Experience\nQuestions? See the FAQ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.napahq.org/alumni-spotlight-jeanette-lee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EERSO5Z44SPONYJP4GJWVEPZKJCFJ5DI", "length": 1742, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.napahq.org", "title": "Alumni Spotlight: Jeanette Moy - National APIDA Panhellenic Association", "raw_content": "Jeanette Moy, a member of Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc. currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President for Strategic Planning for the Brooklyn Public Library.\nJeanette executes the Brooklyn Public Library\u2019s plan to reorganize the nation\u2019s fifth largest public library to fit more comprehensively into our increasingly digital society. It is by no means an easy feat. However, Jeanette seems to effortlessly balance the responsibilities of her job, her children, and commitment to improving Greek, community, and nonprofit organizations that enrich culture of various communities. In addition to her endeavors at the Brooklyn Public Library, Jeanette played a key role in utilizing digital tools to provide the citizens of New York City better access to information and services across agencies as a senior policy advisor in Mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s office of operations.\nInspirational from the onset of her career as a community builder, in 2004, Jeanette helped lead the campaign between twelve multicultural Greek organizations to engage the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) youth to vote. After successfully registering 8,000 people to participate in the 2004 electoral process, as well as raising money for the Asian Tsunami campaign, the group was the beginning of what eventually became the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA).\nGraduate of the University of Rochester, member of Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc., a founding member of NAPA, a founding board member of APIAVote, and former Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) college leadership trainer, Jeanette Moy is truly a driven leader who has made and continues to make a tremendous difference in the world around her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 167.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.naturalclearvision.com/tag/cataracts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2EVYNITETNYBXKHUKAZJXH6NTQWPUYY2", "length": 298, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.naturalclearvision.com", "title": "Natural Clear Vision | Cataracts | Natural Clear Vision", "raw_content": "A cataract is a painless clouding of the lens inside the eye which leads to a reduction in vision. It is one of the most common causes of total vision loss and is now treated with surgery. 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The new division, part of the department's Office of Civil Rights, will assist medical professionals who object to certain procedures on religious grounds. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)\nPro-Lifers Applaud New HHS \u2018Conscience and Religious Freedom Division\u2019\nThe new office will help protect health care workers who refuse to be involved with abortions and other procedures on religious or moral grounds.\nWASHINGTON \u2014 In its latest initiative to bolster religious liberty, President Donald Trump\u2019s administration in mid-January created a new division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand religious freedom and conscience protections for health care workers who object to performing abortions or referring Americans to those services.\nThe new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, announced Jan. 18, is charged with enforcing the federal laws that already exist to protect doctors, nurses, midwives and other health care workers who refuse to perform, accommodate or assist with certain procedures on religious or moral grounds.\nThe new division, an entity within the HHS Office of Civil Rights, also provides an outlet for health care workers to file complaints if they believe they have been discriminated against because of their religious or moral convictions.\n\u201cReligious freedom is a civil right that deserves full enforcement and respect,\u201d Roger Severino, the director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, said at a news conference at HHS headquarters that featured a host of other speakers that included elected leaders, health care officials and religious-liberty advocates.\nTrump promised on the campaign trail that he would protect religious freedom and that religious orders like the Little Sisters of the Poor would not be bullied by the federal government to violate their consciences. Since Trump\u2019s election in November 2016, Severino said his office has fielded 34 complaints from health care workers alleging discrimination on the basis of religion and moral convictions. In the previous eight years, the office had only received 10 such complaints.\n\u201cYou do not need to shed your religious identity, you do not need to shed your moral convictions, to be part of the public square,\u201d said Severino, who added that the federal government in recent years did not always respect religious freedom.\n\u201cHHS has not always been the best keeper of this liberty,\u201d Severino said.\nThe Mandate Battle\nFor more than six years during President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, religious nonprofits and private business owners fought the mandate, issued by HHS, that required all employers to provide, without copays and deductibles, health insurance coverage for all forms of government-approved birth control, including sterilization and abortifacient drugs.\nIn October 2017, the Trump administration expanded the mandate\u2019s religious exemption to include religious groups such as the Little Sisters of the Poor and to organizations and small businesses that have objections based on moral convictions and religious beliefs.\n\u201cIn the past 10 years, we saw rights that had never been called into question attacked as illegitimate, forcing Americans to choose between their beliefs and their livelihoods,\u201d said Montse Alvarado, executive director of Becket, a public interest law firm that represented the Little Sisters of the Poor and several other organizations, such as EWTN, the Register's parent company, that challenged the HHS contraceptive mandate in federal court.\nAlvarado said during the Jan. 18 news conference that the new division within the HHS Office of Civil Rights creates an opportunity to protect religious minorities and those who hold unpopular beliefs from discrimination in the health care field.\n\u201cThis will allow them to hold the government accountable when their religious beliefs are violated,\u201d Alvarado said.\nEric Hargan, the acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, said during the news conference that the new division is a \u201csignificant step\u201d in implementing President Trump\u2019s vision for protecting religious freedom. Hargan noted that, in May 2017, the president signed an executive order on religious liberty, where he instructed the secretaries of the Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services to issue \u201camended regulations \u2026 to address conscience-based objections\u201d to the HHS mandate.\nProtecting Health Care Providers\n\u201cToo often, health care providers have been bullied and discriminated against because of their moral and religious convictions, leaving many to wonder if they have a future in our health care system,\u201d said Hargan, who noted that various state and federal regulations over the years have forced medical students to participate in procedures that violate their consciences.\nSaid Hargan, \u201cThe good news is that we do already have strong laws intended to protect Americans of faith from these harms, and now they will be vigorously enforced by the Office of Civil Rights, and in particular by the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.\u201d\nOfficials said the HHS Office of Civil Rights currently has enforcement authority over several federal conscience-protection statutes related to health care, such as the Church, Coats-Snowe and Weldon Amendments, as well as other federal laws and regulations that prohibit religious discrimination in a variety of HHS programs.\nThose laws are intended to protect individuals like Sarah Hellwege, a nurse-midwife who told attendees at the news conference that in 2014 she was turned away from interviewing for a job at a family health center in Florida because of her membership in a pro-life medical association.\n\u201cI never dreamed that my commitment to serving women and their children would be a hindrance to being hired for a job,\u201d said Hellwege, who describes herself as a pro-life feminist. She was represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization that filed a lawsuit against the health center on her behalf.\n\u201cNo doctor or nurse should be denied employment or fired on account of their faith, conscience or commitment to protecting life,\u201d Hellwegge said.\nHowever, critics that include groups which lobby for legal abortion and homosexual rights expressed alarm and accused the Trump administration of giving health care providers a license to discriminate.\nThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement warning that the new HHS division \u201ccould embolden some providers and institutions to discriminate against patients based on the patient\u2019s health care decisions.\u201d The National Women\u2019s Law Center accused the Trump administration of using religious freedom as an excuse \u201cto attack the rights, health care and equality of women time and again.\u201d\nPro-Life Praise\nPro-life organizations welcomed the news.\n\u201cWe thank President Trump for standing up in bold defense of conscience rights. This administration realizes that abortion is a highly controversial, brutal act against unborn children and their mothers and affirms the right of all Americans not to be forced to participate in abortion. This is a welcome change from the Obama administration\u2019s stubborn refusal to enforce federal laws that prohibit discrimination against health care entities,\u201d Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a prepared statement.\n\u201cWe are pleased to see this new division in the face of a growing number of actions by some state governments to compel participation in abortions by health care providers and others, and because the Obama administration had effectively adopted a non-enforcement policy with respect to existing federal conscience-protection laws,\u201d National Right to Life Committee President Carol Tobias said.\nAsma Uddin, a fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, said during the Jan. 18 news conference that individuals and health care organizations do not surrender their religious-freedom protections by receiving and providing health care.\n\u201cExcept in the narrowest of circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law,\u201d said Uddin, who is a Muslim and a longtime advocate for religious liberty.\nSeverino, of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, said the principle of conscience has long animated the nation and its laws. He said health care is an area where issues of conscience, life and death all come to the fore.\nSaid Severino, \u201cIt is these fundamental questions of conscience where the state should not force people to go against their integrated view of humanity.\u201d\nThe U.S. bishops are highly supportive of the HHS new division.\n\u201cWe applaud HHS for its significant actions to protect conscience rights and religious freedom. For more than 40 years \u2014 dating back to the Church Amendment of 1973 \u2014 Congress has enacted federal laws protecting rights of conscience in health care,\u201d Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB\u2019s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, chairman of the USCCB\u2019s Committee for Religious Liberty, said in a Jan. 19 statement. \u201cWe are grateful that HHS is taking seriously its charge to protect these fundamental civil rights through formation of a new division dedicated to protecting conscience rights and religious freedom.\u201d\nAt the same time, the bishops\u2019 statement urged additional federal actions by HHS, noting that \u201cwe have seen states like California, New York and Oregon demand that even religious organizations cover elective abortions in their health plans. These violations of federal law require a remedy from HHS.\u201d\nAs well as additional actions by HHS, Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Kurtz stressed, \u201cPermanent legislative relief is essential. We urge Congress to pass the Conscience Protection Act in order to give victims of discrimination the ability to defend their rights in court. No one should be forced to violate their deeply held convictions about the sanctity of human life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 12021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.networkbbdo.co.za/elements/mike/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PPMXCHZRUFQ3VPDOM6WE7KDPMSXIAA2I", "length": 776, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.networkbbdo.co.za", "title": "Mike Schalit", "raw_content": "Mike began his career by failing as a rock musician. He then nearly ended it with a B.Comm.\nSince co-founding Net#work in April \u201994 Mike\u2019s accolades include 17 LoerieGrand Prix, 3 Cannes Grand Prix, 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards , SA Advertising Hall of Fame, SA\u2019s No.1 Creative Director for eleven consecutive years, Most Influential Person in Advertising, Advertising Person of the Year and Achiever of the Decade.\nMike\u2019s burning hope is for creativity to make a real difference, pioneering the world\u2019s first non-profit agency model, The MAL Foundation, which has so far designed 7 funky libraries in township schools. His inspiration: Martin Luther-King\u2019s \u201cWe\u2018re not where we want to be and we\u2019re not where we\u2019re going to be, but we sure are a long way from where we were\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newburgh-in.gov/pages/community_veterans.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KL2Y6X5PILM73GI7GXQM2SYAU3CQWBRT", "length": 764, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.newburgh-in.gov", "title": "Town of Newburgh - Community - Veterans Monument", "raw_content": "Newburgh Veterans Monument\nOn the 11th month, the 11th day, and at the 11th hour of 2006, the Newburgh Town Council, with participation by members of the American Legion Kapperman Post #44 and the citizens of the Town, dedicated Veterans Park in Newburgh at the northern edge of Town at the corner of State Street and Bell Road.\nOn July 26, 2008, the Newburgh Veterans Monument was dedicated to honor all veterans - past, present, future. The monument was designed by David Hynes of Commonwealth Engineers, Inc. and constructed by Republic Companies, Inc. (Bruce Biggerstaff, Jr.).\nBricks are available for purchase in support of this project. Brick order forms are available here or at Town Hall, 23 W. Jennings Street.\nEric Ellsperman\nByron Sherman\nShari Sherman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newlifeoutreach.us/blogging-cabo/cabo-the-need", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KF4EW6ZQOP2D5ELDHI3ZMTSNZL5LYYDM", "length": 1346, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newlifeoutreach.us", "title": "Cabo: The Need - New Life Outreach", "raw_content": "Cabo: The Need\nMost people only see the resorts and beautiful landscapes of Los Cabos, but there is a stark contrast between what the tourists see and where most of the people live. Even the most competent resort employees are paid very little for the responsibility they have and the hours they work. Most of the workers at the resorts were not born in Cabo but have come from all over Latin America to get \u2018good\u2019 jobs. Los Cabos also has Costco, Sam\u2019s Club, Wal-Mart, Soriana, Chedraui, Super Ley and Magna, which are all huge grocery/department stores. For me, as an American, the stores are huge and pretty but have very little of the things we would expect such huge stores to have. The prices are also very expensive - even compared to prices on the West Coast of the U.S.\nFor the locals, it is worse yet. The stores show what is available in other parts of the world, but what they cannot afford (along with the temptation to spend the little money they have on non-necessities). From our experience around the average working family, they eat very little meat, except maybe fish they can catch. What meat they do eat is spread very thin. The cheapest cuts of meat (white and red) are more expensive than T-bone steaks (on sale) in Michigan. They don\u2019t complain, but the vast gap between their income and the super stores is very apparent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.news24lk.com/a-generation-of-hungarians-is-leaving-viktor-orbans-far-right-rule/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQKJQ4MQHJ7Y7F3AIG3BQZGYKTWPIQUP", "length": 6404, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.news24lk.com", "title": "A Generation Of Hungarians Is Leaving Viktor Orban\u2019s Far-Right Rule \u2013 News Blog", "raw_content": "BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2015 Eszter Imrenyi is a 25-year-old student who has become increasingly worried about what\u2019s happening to her country.\nHungary is more divided, and public debate more polarized. The country\u2019s far-right populist leader rails against migrants, minorities and the media. Wages remain low, and much-vaunted tax breaks have come at a price. Critics say the government is raiding future benefits in a short-sighted attempt to pay for them.\n\u201cWe have such a beautiful country. We have so many things we could be proud of,\u201d said Imrenyi. \u201cBut we have to leave.\u201d\nShe is not alone. A generation of young Hungarians has decided to move abroad as Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has consolidated power in Hungary over the last eight years, remaking the country\u2019s laws and cracking down on human rights groups.\nHungary, which has one of the world\u2019s fastest-declining populations, is facing a demographic crisis. The United Nations projects there will be at least 15 percent fewer people in the country by 2050.\nBut rather than counter this crisis by taking in more migrants \u2015 as Germany, for example, has done \u2015 Hungary has effectively shut its borders. Meanwhile, economic opportunities abroad, divisive rhetoric and the rise of ethnonationalism are driving many young people away.\nSome Hungarian Jews are particularly concerned. The country, home to between 35,000 and 120,000 Jewish people, has a long history of anti-Semitism, with anti-Jewish laws and violence preceding the Nazi occupation of Hungary. During the Holocaust, more than 440,000 Hungarian Jews were rounded up in less than three months and sent to their deaths in Auschwitz and other death camps.\nAgainst this historical backdrop, some Hungarians are especially worried by the bigoted and anti-Semitic political rhetoric.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t really want to live in a country that\u2019s full of hate,\u201d said Adam Schonberger, leader of the Jewish community group Marom, which operates a hub for different minority rights organizations. \u201cA lot of people either already left or are planning to leave. A lot.\u201d\nYou don\u2019t really want to live in a country that\u2019s full of hate.\nAdam Schonberger, leader of the Jewish community group Marom\nA 2017 Pew Research Center poll found around 1 in 4 Hungarians wouldn\u2019t accept Jews as members of their family and about 1 in 6 wouldn\u2019t accept a Jewish neighbor. While the official number of reported hate crimes in Hungary is low, rights groups charge that the government rarely prosecutes hate crimes as such, so it\u2019s hard to determine the exact extent of discrimination and violence against minority groups.\nThe Hungarian government has long demonized the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, alleging that the 87-year-old philanthropist has used his wealth to conspire against the government. Jewish groups say Orb\u00e1n and other government officials have used classic anti-Semitic tropes in their attacks on Soros, who is Jewish.\n\u201cWhen he says Soros, what Hungarians on the right hear is \u2018Jewish banker,\u2019\u201d said R. Daniel Keleman, a political science professor at Rutgers University. \u201cIn Hungary, he\u2019s just a stand-in for age-old conspiracy theories.\u201d\nOrb\u00e1n has also praised the self-described anti-Semite Miklos Horthy, Hungary\u2019s leader from 1920 to 1944. And Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government erected a controversial statue in 2014 that depicts the country as a blameless victim of Nazi aggression, with an eagle embodying the German occupation attacking an angel, representing Hungary.\n\u201cAnti-Semitism [in Hungary] is very strong and getting stronger all the time,\u201d said Maria Heller, a 65-year-old sociology professor who, along with a group of Holocaust survivors and Jewish activists, responded to the statue by building a counter-memorial where they continue to gather in protest of what they say is the government\u2019s attempt to whitewash the country\u2019s part in the Holocaust.\nOrban\u2019s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs called allegations of anti-Semitism \u201cthe last resort\u201d of liberals.\nAt a recent morning service at a Budapest synagogue, 44-year-old mathematician Pal Hegedus was one of the few in attendance. He, too, is worried that the dark rhetoric could have even darker consequences.\n\u201cIt builds up hatred in people and, if the wind changes in politics, it can be turned against anyone,\u201d said Hegedus, who recently had to explain the government\u2019s campaign against Soros to his two school-age children. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Hungary. Everywhere you go, this fascist attitude is \u2026 rising.\u201d\nAnti-Semitism [in Hungary] is very strong and getting stronger all the time.\nMaria Heller, sociology professor\nBeyond attacks on Soros, Orb\u00e1n\u2019s primary targets are refugees and migrants, whom he refers to as \u201cMuslim invaders.\u201d During the election campaign, his party put up posters throughout the country urging Hungarians to stop migration, while Orb\u00e1n called for \u201cethnic homogeneity\u201d in Hungary.\nKovacs, Orb\u00e1n\u2019s spokesman, told HuffPost that Islam is incompatible with Hungarian society and values.\n\u201cIslam represents a different culture \u2013 full stop,\u201d Kovacs said. \u201cYou reach a ratio of Muslim people in a country \u2026 the rules of the game are going to change and we want to avoid that.\u201d\nOnly 0.4 percent of people in Hungary are Muslim.\nWhile government officials often boast of having saved the country from a fiscal abyss, critics say that the country\u2019s economic growth has partially been fueled by European Union funds and hides more structural inequalities.\nAnd economic progress hasn\u2019t stopped emigration.\nCompanies say they can\u2019t find qualified workers, while Hungarians complain that social services such as health care lag behind other European countries. As many as half Hungary\u2019s family doctors are projected to emigrate or retire in the next decade.\n\u201cThere\u2019s an effective brain drain in Hungary,\u201d said Csaba Toth, an analyst at the Republikon Institute, a liberal think tank. \u201cThe highest skilled and most talented people are leaving the country.\u201d\nJulia Des, the director of the Haver Informal Jewish Education Foundation, has seen this firsthand.\nWhen the 35-year-old mother of two throws a party, she has to turn on Skype to see the many friends who have already moved abroad. About half the people in her social circle have left the country, and her brother and his family intend to leave for Austria later this year.\n\u201cIf I meet with one of my friends, and we drink a beer, it\u2019s a very important question: \u2018Will you go?\u2019\u201d she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 10890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newstalk987.com/2018/08/27/zoo-knoxville-offering-discount-for-recycling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MFA73X44WV5GTYBKBZPV3FKC5NSOBSOP", "length": 1316, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.newstalk987.com", "title": "Zoo Knoxville Offering Discount for Recycling | WOKI-FM", "raw_content": "Zoo Knoxville Offering Discount for Recycling\n(WVLT) \u2013 Zoo Knoxville is partnering with Waste Connections to raise awareness about the dangers of litter to wild life. Those who participate will receive lower admission to the zoo.\nFrom August 27 through September 2, visitors to the zoo will receive $10 admission in exchange for recycling bottles and containers made of #1 PET and # 2 HDPE plastics.\n\u201cThe discount is an initiative by the zoo and Waste Connections to raise awareness about the dangers of single-use plastic items to wildlife and promote recycling and reducing personal use of plastic,\u201d a release from the zoo said.\n\u201cZoo Knoxville and the entire community of zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) have the opportunity and responsibility to lead by example. As an organization, we are working on finding alternatives to single-use plastics,\u201d said CEO and President Lisa New. \u201cWe also feel it is important to challenge our guests to recycle and reuse. By doing so, they are leading a change to protect wildlife and wild places. This is a symbolic way to make everyone more aware of their consumption and disposal of plastics.\u201d\nTo redeem the lower admission price, guests should present a recyclable plastic container made of #1 PET or #2 HDPE plastic at the zoo\u2019s ticket window.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newstransparency.com/person/814/pedro-echevarria", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UBIW6KVNRDUL6LCUOGOWDS2CJWHHUCQN", "length": 87, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newstransparency.com", "title": "Pedro Echevarria :: News Transparency", "raw_content": "Articles about the work of Pedro Echevarria\nPedro Echevarria\nBooks by Pedro Echevarria:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newyorkretreatcenter.com/timberlake-west/contact/schedule-a-tour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JPQWRTXJMQWWGBEZTGOY7UZ66TIPLCUI", "length": 282, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.newyorkretreatcenter.com", "title": "Schedule a Tour - Timber Lake West", "raw_content": "If you are considering hosting an event with us at Timber Lake West, we encourage you to come to our campus and join us for a personalized tour. We are so proud of our beautiful location, and want you to see how amazing it is with your own eyes and to smell the fresh Catskills air.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nicolaharwood.com/work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7N5COJO5RXWBSDJ34U7CMYAB57RCEPZQ", "length": 1340, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nicolaharwood.com", "title": "ABOUT \u2014 nicola harwood", "raw_content": "Nicola Harwood is an Anglo-Canadian writer and interdisciplinary artist with a background in theatre and performance, particularly collaborative creation, feminist work and community engaged practice. Her work often seeks to uncover the hidden histories of land, women and queers while engaging with the notion of home as contested territory. The older she gets the more she sees the work as the work of Spirit. She loves to write comedy and tragedy and her work often veers at breakneck speed between the two. She was born in Kelowna, BC, Canada which lies within the unceded territories of the Syilx speaking people of the Okanagan Nation. She has spent significant time living in Nelson, BC which lies on the border of the unceded territories of the Sinixt peoples and the Ktunaxa Nation. This area remains her spiritual home. She has taught at San Francisco State University, the University of Victoria, Selkirk College and currently lives in Vancouver, Canada and teaches Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on the traditional, shared and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations. Hay ce:p qa\u2019. Thank you.\nSign up with your email address to receive news about performances, readings and shows.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?pageid=393", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZS5EMUYKPM226ORA3OHWMVZ5U4BDIWMJ", "length": 1988, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nonnativespecies.org", "title": "BEACON Local Action Group - GB non-native species secretariat", "raw_content": "The work of BEACON is done using a coordinated approach supported by a network of over 20 partner organisations.\nTo have a river catchment free from invasive species where our natural wildlife thrives. This will be achieved through surveys and monitoring, education, awareness raising and local action.\nThis means we will:\nImprove the quality of the water bodies and associated habitats within the Bollin catchment area.\nProtect the designated sites within the Bollin catchment area.\nEngage with local communities and schools to raise awareness of invasive non-native species, and get people involved in the project.\nIncrease the number of people taking action to control non-native invasive species.\nEngage with local landowners and farmers to raise their awareness of non-native invasive species in the Bollin catchment, and how land management and farming can make a positive contribution to controlling non-natives.\nBEACON was formally adopted in 2011 following a successful stakeholder workshop in 2010. It was established to help identify, control and where possible eradicate invasive non-native species in the River Bollin catchment. Three main species are currently being targeted, these being Himalayan Balsam, Japanese Knotweed and Giant Hogweed.\nThanks to funding from Defra and other sources, BEACON has been able to employ a Project Officer to co-ordinate our activities for the past three years, That funding has now finished and so volunteers and partner organisations will be working hard to make sure the project continues by hosting events, raising awareness, providing advice and carrying out control work. To get involved, please contact us via the website or on social media using details below.\nFor more information on the BEACON project please visit our website at www.beacon-bollin.org.uk and you can keep in touch via Facebook www.facebook.com/BollinNonNatives and Twitter @SallyBeacon\nActive management of Himalayan Balsam with BEACON volunteers - 'on the pull'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.novagrp.com/project/repair-fender-mooring-g/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LDS7TBNEBOOZT26S6WQNXSRRUKUUSVA7", "length": 1167, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.novagrp.com", "title": "Repair Fender at Mooring G | Nova Group Inc.", "raw_content": "Repair Fender at Mooring G\nThe Mooring G pier is home to the well-known aircraft carrier \u201cKitty Hawk.\u201d Prior to the decommissioning of the Kitty Hawk, the Navy discovered that the fendering on the east side of the southern mooring island had deteriorated to the point where it needed to be repaired. The main feature of the new fendering system consists of 12 beams which are attached to the side of the mooring. First, Nova installed a work platform on the existing camel, which became an efficient work area for removing the existing piles and installing the new structural steel system. One challenge that arose was the de-rating of the Mooring G pier due to two damaged piles. The vehicle weight limits for the Mooring were reduced, resulting in Nova having to modify its approach to the removal and installation of the fender system. The Navy was very proactive in working with Nova to find a solution for this development and an acceptable work plan was quickly developed, which involved installing crane mats across the de-rated sections. Other challenges included the necessity of working at low tide, and the difficulty of working around the existing chains.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.novoveskahuta.sk/en/hiking-trails/geravy-dedinky-bus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VPGOA6Z4RVKERCGDZNUMDDFVNP2IAYEE", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.novoveskahuta.sk", "title": "Geravy - Dedinky (bus) | Novovesk\u00e1 Huta - Hiking trails", "raw_content": "Between Geravy and Dedinky is a chairlift, but unfortunately it is currently out of service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0209/index.php?startid=58", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RRKDMCY7C7BNAF4EBN2RG3HZP4DE3VCT", "length": 3603, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nxtbook.com", "title": "Rural Water - Quarter 2, 2009 - From the CEO", "raw_content": "Rural Water - Quarter 2, 2009 - (Page 58) \u201cI was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 25:35 BY ROB JOHNSON, NRWA CEO FROM THE CEO OUR PRAYERS TO enable more Americans to have better water were answered in February when the stimulus bill passed. In the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, there are: \u2022 $1.38 billion for USDA grants and loans, which will result in $3.8 billion in water and waste projects. \u2022 $2.0 billion for SDWA SRF, which will be passed along to states. \u2022 $4.0 billion for CWA SRF, which will be passed along to states. There are more federal funds available to build water and wastewater projects now than at any time in my 31 years with NRWA. Regardless of what anyone says about this stimulus package, it has been There are more federal funds wonderful for rural America. On March 9, 2009, USDA available to build water and announced that Rural Development will release funding wastewater projects now than for more than $400 million at any time in my 31 years in pending applications for water and waste grants, with NRWA. Regardless of and $140 million in pendwhat anyone says about this ing applications for water and waste direct loans. Rural stimulus package, it has been Development expects nearly wonderful for rural America. 13,000 jobs will be created by 400 water and wastewater projects. Other projects will be announced very soon. The RUS Water and Waste Program began in the 1960s and have a $9.9 billion portfolio with over 17,866 loans. The USDA estimates that for every $1 billion that is spent in the water and waste program, 23,000 jobs are produced. These are green jobs such as building or improving a wastewater or water treatment plant, building water storage, or laying distribution or collection lines that bring water to people or clean up wastewater and improve the environment and public health. Most of the products for these improvements are made in the U.S. Water and waste program has a history of getting money quickly into rural America. After the President signed the last Farm Bill that included water and waste backlog funding, these funds were in rural America in 77 days. In the prior Farm Bill, it took only 85 days. The water and waste program targets low and moderate income people in areas with population lower than 10,000 people who are not able to obtain commercial credit elsewhere. OMB rates the RUS Water and Waste Disposal Program as the highest loan program in the federal government. Its loan delinquency rate is 0.53 percent. In other words, 99.47 percent are current on their payments \u2013 higher than any government program. As of the date this article is written, RUS has $4.3 billion in projects ready for funding. With the amount of funds available in the 2009 stimulus bill and the remainder of their FY-09 funding, most of this backlog will be funded. History has shown that when the RUS backlog is reduced, additional applications come pouring in. If you have a project that has not been submitted because of the lengthy waiting period, now is the time to submit it. On October 1, RUS will have their FY-10 funding and the list is short. A word to the wise is suf\ufb01cient. Our association and its approximately 27,000 water and wastewater systems want to say \u201cthank you\u201d to our Congress and President Obama for helping bring water to rural America. 58 \u2022 Second Quarter 2009 \u201cI tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 25:40 Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rural Water - Quarter 2, 2009 Rural Water - Quarter 2, 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oaklandonmonroe.com/urban-one-bedroom.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:YIFKXIMB4P2Q5YZRZKHSZ5I4ERNUTDZN", "length": 83, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.oaklandonmonroe.com", "title": "Urban One Bedroom", "raw_content": "The Monroe / from $1,315\n*Available Now, 6/1, 7/1 & 8/1\nUrban One Bedroom Residence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ocalapost.com/tag/florida-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KWG53MCMIC5U65K4NMDY3M2CFXKI77KY", "length": 5327, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.ocalapost.com", "title": "florida - Ocala Post", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbPosts tagged with\u00bbflorida\nBy Ocala Post on January 2, 2019 Florida\nTallahassee \u2013 January is Move Over awareness month and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) urges all motorists to move over for emergency and service vehicles stopped along the roadway. Preliminarily in 2018, there were 231 crashes and almost 17,000 citations issued for motorists failing to move over. DHSMV and the Florida [\u2026]\nMan arrested after he mounted horse\nBy Ocala Post on November 23, 2018 Animals, Florida, Local News\nA Citra man was arrested Monday after a witness reported that she saw the man having sex with a miniature horse named Jackie G. According to Marion County sheriffs detectives, other witnesses came forward during the investigation. During questioning, Nicholas Anthony Sardo, 21, admitted to having sex with the horse multiple times. Sardo stated that he had [\u2026]\nRick Scott files lawsuit, cites fraud at Broward County supervisor of elections\nBy Ocala Post on November 9, 2018 Politics\nGovernor Rick Scott has filed a lawsuit against the Broward County elections supervisor, citing massive fraud. (View lawsuit documents) Scott is demanding that\u2026READ MORE Please follow and like us:\nWoman enraged after she was denied sex\nVero Beach \u2014 A man was transported to Indian River Medical Center Thursday after a woman cut his face with a kitchen knife. According to the arrest affidavit, Katherine Nieves-Tavarez, 27, cut the man\u2019s face because he turned down several requests to have sex with her. When police arrived at the scene, the man stated, [\u2026]\n[Last updated on September 25, 2018, at 11:01 a.m.] A Florida teacher says she was fired after she refused to give students a grade of 50 percent on an assignment that they never turned in. On social media, parents say that \u201cparticipation trophy syndrome\u201d is now being extended to students in the form of grades. [\u2026]\nRecently, Facebook posts from women claiming they were followed while shopping have been circulating the internet. The Gainesville Police Department said, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen recent posts from various folks in the community that are describing what appears to be incidents of human trafficking, kidnapping, or abductions. People are posting on social media that their kids are [\u2026]\n\u201cUnarmed\u201d man stabbed tourist\nA Miami man with no arms has been charged with stabbing a Chicago tourist with scissors. Jonathan Crenshaw, 46, told Miami Beach police that he used his feet to hold the scissors to stab Cesar Coronado, 22, who was visiting from Chicago. Crenshaw stated that he was lying down just after midnight Tuesday when Coronado came [\u2026]\nTarget masturbator said he was only adjusting himself\nThe Target masturbator who was arrested on July 4, was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to six months in jail. According to Ocala police, Bryan L. Swaim, 51, entered the Target, located at 2000 Southwest College Road, last Wednesday and was followed by loss prevention personnel because he was acting suspiciously. A loss prevention officer told [\u2026]\nBy Ocala Post on June 6, 2018 Florida, Gallery, Photo Gallery\nThe Florida Highway Patrol released a video Wednesday of a chase which started when a trooper\u2019s car was intentionally struck by another driver. An FHP trooper chased down and arrested the man who struck her patrol car as she conducted a traffic stop along Florida\u2019s Turnpike after \u201cclocking\u201d that driver at 90 mph. According to [\u2026]\nBy Ocala Post on February 13, 2018 Florida, Gallery, Local News, Photo Gallery\nDetectives with the Cocoa Police Department are still searching for a man accused of killing an Ocala man. On February 6, at approximately 5 p.m., Terry Scott Hilliard, 65, and the unnamed suspect arrived at the Dixie Motel in Cocoa. Hilliard was killed sometime during the night and his body was discovered on Wednesday at [\u2026]\nPublic notice: CDL driving school agreement terminated with DHSMV for allowing drivers to pass without basic skills\nBy Ocala Post on November 18, 2017 Florida, Local News\nMany individuals from all over the state attended the facility simply because they knew they could pass.\nThe Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) has issued a final order terminating its agreement with Key Power Driving School, Inc., a third-party commercial driver license (CDL) testing company with locations in Miami and Labelle. During an investigation into third-party CDL testing sites in Florida, the department found that Key Power [\u2026]\nVideo: Hurricane Irma update, preparedness, school information\n[Video brought to you by our partners at Accuweather.com] Florida residents are once again preparing for a powerful hurricane. The Florida Keys is currently under an evacuation. \u201cThis hurricane has the potential to be a major event for the East Coast. It also has the potential to significantly strain FEMA and other governmental resources occurring [\u2026]\nMan shoots AT&T trucks, fired shot at worker\nBy Ocala Post on July 20, 2017 Florida, Gallery, Media Gallery, Photo Gallery\nA Hialeah man, 64, was arrested and charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm and two counts of Felony Vandalism. One of the workers captured the incident on video. The man fired the revolver until it was empty, reloaded, and then continued to fire the weapon. Jorge Jove told police that he [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 24381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oecd.org/publications/broadening-the-ownership-of-state-owned-enterprises-9789264244603-en.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QF7DWIVEQVAU62MWGR57FNNVESQYEJTC", "length": 1414, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.oecd.org", "title": "Broadening the Ownership of State-Owned Enterprises - A Comparison of Governance Practices - en - OECD", "raw_content": "Broadening the Ownership of State-Owned Enterprises\nA Comparison of Governance Practices\nThe State continues to remain an important shareholder in listed companies worldwide, especially among emerging economies, which rely increasingly on mixed-ownership models. With the benefit of hindsight and more recent examples, this book provides fresh perspectives on the motivation to list state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the process it entails. Drawing from the experiences of five economies (People's Republic of China, India, New Zealand, Poland and Turkey), the book concludes that broadened ownership generally has a positive impact on the governance and performance of these companies. However, country practices show that the act of listing cannot guarantee that these companies are completely averse to State interests; and deviations from sound corporate governance practices, as enshrined in the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of SOEs, can in some cases, raise concerns with regards to non-State shareholder rights, commercial orientation, board independence, conflicting State objectives, transparency, disclosure and more.\nIntroduction to broadening ownership of state-owned enterprises\nMain issues and comparative overview of national practices in broadening ownership of state-owned enterprises\nCase studies of broadening ownership of state-owned enterprises\nListing of Halkbank and T\u00fcrk Telecom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 589, "original_length": 8329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.osfq.org/quest-ce-quune-sage-femme/ca-et-comites/?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YXTRZ7K5P4GUTPZ4IQ26LHHLRSYCQ4UZ", "length": 6649, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "www.osfq.org", "title": "Ordre des sage-femmes du Qu\u00e9bec", "raw_content": "The OSFQ is held accountable by the Minister responsible for the application of professional legislation with respect to compliance with the law and professional midwifery practice. The OSFQ is also a member of the Office des professions responsible for ensuring that professional associations fulfill their mission of protecting the public.\nThe Professional Code defines the structure of professional associations.\nEach professional association is governed by a Board of Directors responsible for running the association, enforcing acts and regulations and controlling the exclusive practice of midwifery.\nThe Board of Directors is made up of six officers elected by the members and two administrators nominated by the Office des professions. The mandate of an administrator is four years.\nThe OSFQ held elections in April 2015.\nMembers of the Board of Directors, OSFQ 2015-2016:\nAdministrator nominated by the Office des professions\nThe purpose of professional inspection is to ensure the competence of members and the quality of their work. It improves the profession by identifying problems to correct in the exercise by members of their profession.\nAt the request of the Board of Directors, the syndic, a member, of the public or on its own initiative, the Professional Inspection Committee may proceed with an individual inspection of a member\u2019s professional proficiency.\nSa\u00efda Hamzaoui,\nIsabelle Gascon,\nGenevi\u00e8ve B\u00e9langer,\nMarie-Andr\u00e9e Morisset,\nMejda Shaiek,\nAndr\u00e9anne Boucher,\nMarika Par\u00e9,\nSinclair Harris,\nParvin Makhzani,\nPursuant to section 122 of the Professional Code, each professional association has an office of the syndic. The mandate of the office is to investigate complaints brought to its attention.\nWhat is a syndic?\nThe syndic is a midwife nominated by the Order\u2019s Board of Directors to respond to requests for investigation received by the Order.\nThe syndic launches an investigation upon receipt of information indicating that a midwife has committed an offense under the Professional Code or the Midwives Act and its regulations. On his/her own initiative or at the request from the Board of Directors, the syndic can file a formal complaint with the Disciplinary Council for any justifiable complaint against a midwife.\nAnne Goubayon,\nsyndic member\nYou may send your request for an investigation along with written proof, where necessary, to the following address:\n4126, rue Saint-Denis, bureau 300\nsyndic@osfq.org\nThe Disciplinary Council is informed of all formal complaints filed against a professional who has committed an offence within the meaning of the Professional Code, the Midwifes Act and the Code of ethics or regulations adopted under these laws.\nWhen a formal complaint is filed with the Disciplinary Council, particularly by the Board of Syndics, the Disciplinary Council holds a hearing.\nThe Council is made up of three midwives nominated by the Board of Directors of the OSFQ and a president designated by the government, the nominations concern practising attorneys with at least ten years of experience at the Barreau du Qu\u00e9bec.\nMe R\u00e9jean Blais,\nSylvie Lavall\u00e9e,\nTobbi-Lynn Bayarova,\nKatie Drolet,\nJos\u00e9e Lafrance,\nFran\u00e7oise Dufresne,\nDecisions made by the Disciplinary Council since January 1st, 2008 are available free of charge on the CanLII website.\nPursuant to section 123.3 of the Professional Code and at the request of a person who has asked the syndic for an investigation, the Review Committee is mandated to provide a notice relative to the decision, by the syndic, to not make a formal complaint against a member of OSFQ before the Disciplinary Council. The committee is made up of three midwives and a representative of the public.\nMarleen Dehertog,\nMarie-Andr\u00e9e Martineau,\nHuguette Picard,\nRaymonde Gagnon,\nSurveillance of illegal practice\nThe OSFQ has established a Professional Inspection Committee to investigate reports of illegal practice concerning individuals who are not members of the Order who use the title of midwife, a title or initials that could lead someone to believe that they are a midwife, or who practise a professional activity reserved for members of the OSFQ.\nCynthia Plourde,\nJohanne Royer,\nYou will find all court decisions and penalties at Cour du Qu\u00e9bec.\nTo identify continuing education needs among members of the OSFQ.\nTo make recommendations to the Board of Directors on choices concerning effective management of continuing education for midwives: professional standard, regulation, policy or guideline.\nTo prepare a document and present it for approval to the Board of Directors:\ntype of continuing education activities recognized for midwives\nfollow-up methods and support from the OSFQ\nTo make recommendations to the Board of Directors concerning the accreditation of selected training by the Committee.\nTo collaborate with other OSFQ committees dealing with continuing education, like the Professional Inspection Committee.\nTo inform the Board of Directors of all relevant information and carry out any task entrusted to the Committee by the Board of Directors.\nTo write an annual report on the Committee\u2019s activities.\nRachida Amrane,\nMongia Sa\u00efd,\nLaurence Gauthier Boudreau,\nThe Committee is consultative in nature and mandated to examine questions concerning the quality of midwife training, in consideration of the respective and complementary abilities of the OSFQ, university education institutions and the Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00c9ducation, du Loisir et du Sport.\nFor more information, refer to the Regulation respecting the training committee of the midwives.\nMarie-Eve St-Laurent,\npresident of the OSFQ\nJohanne Savoie,\nOSFQ representative\nLucie Hamelin,\nCR\u00c9PUQ representative\nCr\u00e9puq repr\u00e9sentative\nMaryse Champagne,\nRepresentative designated by MEESR\nIn accordance with the Regulation respecting standards for equivalence of diplomas and training for the issue of a permit by the Ordre des sages-femmes du Qu\u00e9bec (L.R.Q.,c. C-26,a. 93,part.c and c.1), the Committee must:\nAnalyze and study the files of midwives trained outside Quebec (In Canada: reciprocal agreement) seeking to have their diploma recognized or training acknowledged to obtain an OSFQ license.\nAnalyze and study the files of French candidates, taking into account the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA).\nPresent recommendations based on the requirements (internship and/or training) concerning candidates to the Board of Directors of the OSFQ.\nMarie-Paule Lanthier,\nelected by the BOARD OF DIRECTORS to be their representative\nSarah Kelly,\nMorbidity and perinatal mortality study and investigation committee\nJohanne Gagnon,\nCaroline Paquet,\nMarie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Th\u00e9berge,\nManon Lachapelle,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 9972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.osrmedia.com/osr-published/2014/07/11/finally-lebron-takes-his-talents-back-to-cleveland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QBZKYA7OXEEMRTVP5W5E452CXS2MAYXO", "length": 4582, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.osrmedia.com", "title": "Finally, LeBron Takes his Talents Back to Cleveland \u2014 Our Sports Report", "raw_content": "Finally, LeBron Takes his Talents Back to Cleveland\nFour years ago when LeBron James decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat, the city of Cleveland was in absolute disarray. Cleveland had been so close so many times to bringing home a championship, but it never happened. Their greatest shot at winning a title just took his talents to South Beach and even though Dan Gilbert\u2019s letter felt good for a little while, the chances of Cleveland getting that close to a NBA title ever again were pretty slim to none.\nThen, within the last three weeks, the dominoes were beginning to come up wine & gold. James opted out of his contract with the Miami Heat and then the speculation started to kick up in a hurry. Teams like Houston, Phoenix, New York and Los Angeles were thrown into the ring as potential suitors, but we all knew in our heart of hearts that the \u201cdecision\u201d was coming down to Miami or Cleveland. The \u201cBig 3\u201d wanted to stay together in Miami, but the pull of coming home was too much for LeBron as he decided to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers just a few short hours ago.\nHe released his decision in an essay to SI.com and of everything he said, it was the drive of winning a title back home that brought him to his latest choice. \"Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It's where I walked. It's where I ran. It's where I cried. It's where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I'm their son. Their passion can be overwhelming. But it drives me. I want to give them hope when I can. I want to inspire them when I can,\" said James in his essay.\nAs a Cavs fan and a fan of basketball, I will admit that I was devastated when LeBron bolted for Miami four years ago. As he collected a couple of titles down in South Beach, it was obvious that LeBron had made the right decision and I wasn\u2019t upset with him for leaving anymore, just how he left. That is all in the past now and I am happy that he is back in Cleveland, but I wasn\u2019t the only one that felt that way.\nIn his extremely well written first-person letter, LeBron stated that, \"My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.\" Looking back on it now, how could we expect him to realize that? James was only 25 years old back in 2010 and not only did he have the city of Cleveland in the palm of his hand, but he also had the weight of it on his shoulders.\nThe city, the team, the economy and the society were all-in on this kid from Akron. For his entire life, LeBron has been about nothing but basketball. To him, that is all there was and after growing as a person, player, businessman and family man during his time in Miami, LeBron finally realizes that Northeast Ohio is where he needs to be and I think LeBron is finally the man that Northeast Ohio wanted him to be four years ago.\nWhether Cavalier fans want to admit it or not, we all wanted LeBron back. We missed the days of expecting a trip to the NBA Finals and were tired of hoping for a .500 season. It has definitely been a rough last four years and even though the last few weeks haven\u2019t been good to my blood pressure, the fact of the matter is that LeBron James is no longer a kid from Akron, but more like a man on a mission as he heads back to Cleveland in pursuit of a hometown title.\nIn Basketball, Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James, Miami Heat, NBA, NBA Draft, NBA Free Agency, NBA Playoffs, New Posts, Sports, The Cleveland Column Tags Basketball, Cleveland, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Cavs, Cleveland Fans, Cleveland Reaction to LeBron James coming home, Cleveland Sports, Curt Ashcraft, Dan Gilbert, Dan Gilbert Cleveland Cavaliers, Dan Gilbert's Letter, Houston Rockets, Kevin Love coming to Cleveland, LeBron Back to the Cavs, LeBron Heading Back to Cleveland, LeBron in South Beach, Lebron James, LeBron James Akron, LeBron James Businessman, LeBron James Controls NBA, LeBron James essay, LeBron James Family Man, LeBron James going to World Cup, LeBron James NBA, LeBron James NBA Titles, LeBron James Northeast Ohio, LeBron James SI-com, LeBron James wants to win a Title in Cleveland, Los Angeles Lakers, Matt Shock, Miami Heat, National Basketball Association, NBA, New Posts, New York Knicks, No More Big 3, Our Sports Report, Phoenix Suns, Professional Basketball, Sports, Sports Illustrated LeBron James, The Big 3, The New Big 3 In Cleveland\n\u2190 Scott Hamilton: Local Hero \u2013 Sports LegendNBA On Hold Until LeBron Makes Decision \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outandaboutinparis.com/2014/01/elegance-and-fabrics-at-time-of-great.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6LK2XP2JB75YO6TEGT5NQYAZV7IRANYG", "length": 2762, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.outandaboutinparis.com", "title": "\"Elegance and fabrics at the time of The Great Gatsby\" - Exhibition at Prelle et Cie", "raw_content": "Elegance and Fabrics at the Time of The Great Gatsby\nPrelle et Cie\n\"Elegance and fabrics at the time of The Great Gatsby\" - Exhibition at Prelle et Cie\nPhoto credit: Prelle et Cie\nLike any lady, the city of Paris harbors her secrets. One of them, known almost exclusively by museum curators and interior designers, is the address of the legendary Prelle et Cie situated at the elegant Place des Victoires. Using the same techniques as they did in 1752, Prelle weaves reproductions of silk fabrics, such as the peacock feather silk wall hangings in Marie-Antoinette's bedroom at Versailles and the fabrics adorning the foyer of the Palais Garnier, for palaces, museums and historical homes in France and around the world.\nTwo to three times a year, Prelle hosts exhibitions that display items from their extensive archives of historic designs. The latest, \"Elegance and Fabrics at the Time of The Great Gatsby\", features brightly colored panels of silk decorated with fountains, waterfalls and flowers along with magnificent dresses, hats, fans and a pair of silver lam\u00e9 pumps from Les Ann\u00e9es folles (\"Roaring Twenties\"). Having just finished Season 4 of Downton Abby, I was delighted to see a black beaded dress with a pair of white evening gloves that would have looked smashing on Lady Mary and a spectacular \"Queen of England\" coat with a fur collar that would have been perfect for Lady Edith. Timed to coincide with \"1925, When Art D\u00e9co dazzled the World\" at Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019Architecture, the Prelle exhibition includes pieces by Maurice Dufr\u00eane, Suzanne Lalique and Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann.\n\"Elegance and Fabrics at the Time of The Great Gatsby\" until March 29, 2014\nThe exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Thursday from 9am - 6pm and Friday 9am - 5pm\nPrelle Showroom\n5, Place des Victoires\nIn the United States, Prelle silk has been commissioned by many museums and stately homes, including the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and Marble House, the Vanderbilt's \"cottage\" in Newport, Rhode Island. (To see the complete list, refer to Prelle's Historical References 1947-2013)\nLabels: Elegance and Fabrics at the Time of The Great Gatsby insider's tip Prelle Prelle et Cie\nSo stunning! I definitely don't have the body to wear things from the 20s, but I do love the deco patterns!\nMary Kay Bosshart January 23, 2014 at 9:19 PM\nYou most definitely do have the body to wear things from the 20s - I remember seeing photos of the 1920s party in New York and you looked lovely!\nKaren's Blog January 21, 2014 at 2:49 PM\nI enjoyed visiting this exhibition with you Mary Kay. I'm ready for their next one!\nThanks for joining me Karen! It was fun exploring Paris with you. I look forward to more adventures!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2446, "original_length": 41970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outlandishobservations.com/2016/04/virgins-standalone-e-book-is-now.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PJMNBQ4B6FPJRMRWIKUDUHRPQQPBAQOX", "length": 891, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.outlandishobservations.com", "title": "Outlandish Observations: \"Virgins\" standalone e-book is now available!", "raw_content": "Diana Gabaldon's novella, \"Virgins\", is now available as a standalone e-book!\nFor those of you who don't know, \"Virgins\" is the story of Jamie Fraser and his best friend Ian Murray as young mercenaries in France, before Jamie met Claire. \"Virgins\" was originally published in the DANGEROUS WOMEN anthology in 2013. (And yes, it's still available in print form, but only as part of that anthology.)\nLike Diana Gabaldon's other standalone e-books (\"A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows\", \"The Space Between\", etc.), \"Virgins\" is available for $1.99.\nYou can order the e-book here:\nThe standalone audio version of \"Virgins\" is now available as well. It's narrated by Allan Scott-Douglas, who sang the part of Jamie on the OUTLANDER: The Musical CD that was produced in 2010. The audio version of \"Virgins\" is 3 hours 3 minutes long.\nFor more information about \"Virgins\", see my \"Virgins\" FAQ page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 6439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 103.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outofcontinues.com/?p=1303", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YN74UYGS6JOLXQCMW5N3MYFXIXFZUUUS", "length": 1281, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.outofcontinues.com", "title": "Out of Continues Ep 155 | Out of Continues", "raw_content": "This week, Kevin talks about a few of the games he\u2019s been playing, including Shadow of Mordor, Deus Ex, and Elite Dangerous Beta 3. Our main topic is on gaming confessions. We have news topics covering Ubisoft, Dying Light, Spacebase DF-9, PS+ and Games with Gold for November, and Marvel Phase 3 movie line-up. At the end of the podcast, we have a spoiler discussion on Bioshock Infinite: Burial at the Sea.\nhttp://www.tweaktown.com/news/40810/far-cry-4-dev-resolution-is-not-something-i-care-about-in-a-game-/index.html\nhttp://www.joystiq.com/2014/10/28/dying-light-cancelled-on-xbox-360-ps3/?ncid=rss_truncated\nhttp://www.joystiq.com/2014/10/29/spacebase-df-9-players-get-hack-n-slash-free-and-vice-versa/?ncid=rss_truncated\nhttp://www.giantbomb.com/articles/next-wave-of-ps-plus-games-with-gold-titles-reveal/1100-5068/\nhttp://io9.com/marvel-debuts-their-new-phase-3-movies-including-capta-1651832265\nThis entry was posted in Out of Continues, Podcasts and tagged bioshock infinite, burial at the sea, deus ex, double fine, dying light, ectogemia, elite dangerous, far cry 4, fc4, games with gold, gaming confessions, marvel, marvel movies, out of continues, podcast, ps+, Sayed Stafa, shadow of mordor, spacebase df-9, Ubisoft, video games, videogames. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.panopticoncentral.net/2003/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5G2PBF5IYPEC7T53HTZXHJHCTHFVX6JU", "length": 3860, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.panopticoncentral.net", "title": "October | 2003 | Panopticon Central", "raw_content": "Refactoring support in VB.NET\nAnand and Tom ask whether VB.NET is going to have refactoring support in Whidbey. The short answer is, despite what the PDC lab person told Tom, \u201cyes.\u201d However, the long answer is, well, a bit longer than that.\nWhat C# is calling \u201crefactoring\u201d is actually a collection of related-but-separate code manipulation features in the IDE. Things that are included under this rubric are, I believe:\nSymbolic rename\nPromote local to parameter\nSome of these features are already slated to be included in the VB.NET Whidbey release, such as symbolic rename, and for others we\u2019re open customer feedback as to which ones above they think are important. Or if there are ones you don\u2019t see there, we want to hear about them as well! If you leave comments on this entry, I\u2019ll make sure they get forwarded to Jay, the PM in charge of this area. (The more specific you are, the better. \u201cDo everything that C# is doing.\u201d is helpful, but \u201cReorder parameters is the most important to me because blah, blah, blah.\u201d helps us even more!)\nOne thing that is likely, however, is that VB.NET won\u2019t be using the term \u201crefactoring\u201d in the IDE to refer to these features. While that term is fairly common in some quarters, we believe there are lots of VB programmers who are likely to see a menu item called \u201cRefactor\u201d and just ignore it because they don\u2019t know what the term means. We\u2019d like to surface the features more directly so that they don\u2019t get missed by our users. (If you disagree, feel free to give us a holler on that too!)\nOperator overloading information\nNow that I\u2019m back from the PDC and my manuscript\u2019s in, I\u2019m starting to catch up on some of the backlog. One of the things I didn\u2019t mention last week was that Cameron posted more information about operator overloading on his blog. Check it out!\nI guess my blog has really \u201cmade it\u201d\nLooks like I\u2019m starting to get comment spam just like everyone else. For those of you subscribed to my comments feed, please bear with me until I get a chance to implement some simple spam blocking. I\u2019ll work on it this weekend.\nNow I know how Paul McCartney must have felt\u2026\nThe most aggravating thing to hear from customers at the PDC? \u201cBut I heard from (someone) that VB is (going to be dropped/going away/dead) and that we should switch to (insert language here).\u201d (I hope it goes without saying to loyal readers that this is not true. Otherwise, I\u2019m mystified why I keep getting that check in the mail every month\u2026) It\u2019s not the customer\u2019s fault they got faulty information, but it\u2019s still aggravating nontheless.\nI will say that this is so far a very, very, very small piece of the customer interactions I\u2019ve been having here at the PDC. The general consensus seems to be that Whidbey is really going to hit it out of the park for VB users, which is wonderful validation for the hard work the team has been doing. Now we\u2019ve just got to ship it!\n(Hmmmm\u2026 I wonder if you play some of Don\u2019s songs backwards you\u2019ll hear \u201cVB is dead.\u201d I\u2019ll have to have a chat with Mr. Box about that\u2026)\nDrinking from the firehose in LA\nOK, I\u2019m here and desperately trying to catch up on all the PDC blog entries that have been posted since I last looked at my NewsGator folders on Thursday. Sheesh. (I came into the Westin on Friday and took the weekend off to recharge after getting the manuscript in.) Hopefully later today I\u2019ll have a chance to post some more stuff about interesting things for VB people at the PDC (as if you haven\u2019t already found them yourselves).\nJust sent the electronic copy of the manuscript off and am about to drop the hard copy of the manuscript in the express mailbox\u2026 To be honest, there were more than a few times that I didn\u2019t think I was going to make it.\nI\u2019m not totally done yet \u2013 there\u2019s still more work to be done before I get to see my name in print \u2013 but I\u2019m over the hump. Now on to LA!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 11143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parrysoundbooks.com/blog/2015/3/9/news-week-of-9-march-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QJFYMLINA6VSH3CAX23YSAFHKIUJEUBG", "length": 1351, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.parrysoundbooks.com", "title": "NEWS WEEK OF 9 MARCH 2015 \u2014 Parry Sound Books", "raw_content": "It may still feel like the dead of winter but the spring season publishing season is upon us with new books coming in the door each day, new hardcover releases and paperback releases of novels previously in hardcover.\nSome of the most notable in the past few weeks are\nMightier Than The Sword by Jeffrey Archer, the 5th in the very popular Clifton Chronicles.\nA Sudden Light by Garth Stein, the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain, presents a magnificent and haunting new novel.\nToo Bad To Die by Francine Mathews weaves fact and fiction into a novel about Ian Fleming\u2019s exploits during the Second World War- as fascinating a topic as her book Jack 1939 about John Fitzgerald Kennedy\u2019s adventures in Europe in the late 1930s.\nThe Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olsen, who has made his name as a Scandinavian mystery writer, brings us a stand alone novel, a spy thriller set in World War II Germany and England.\nThe Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan, a finalist for the Giller Prize, is the story of those affected by the Air India tragedy.\nAll My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Towes.\nShotgun Lovesongs by Nicholas Butler, one of my very favourite books published last year, about a group of friends and the way their lives have intersected from their teenage years to their middle age. One of those rare books that work for both men and women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk/project/young-peoples-perceptions-and-attitudes-of-their-post-16-options/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ATJKYBAPBEEOWPIE2D3LZPIWQFFQ6SO2", "length": 1804, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk", "title": "Young people\u2019s perceptions and attitudes of their post-16 options | Partnership for Young London", "raw_content": "Young people\u2019s perceptions and attitudes of their post-16 options\nDownload the one page summary here\nYoung Londoners are increasingly at risk of being a generation left behind, plagued by long term unemployment and lacking the technical skills vitally needed by employers. Across Europe, labour markets are shifting away from low skilled jobs towards high skilled ones, creating a skills gap with supply failing to meet demand . Recent Governments have tried to address this, focusing on increasing the number of people achieving within an apprenticeship, however figures suggest that take up is being primarily driven by those aged over 25. Our research examined the perceptions and attitudes young people have of their post-16 choices, exploring what influences their decision, such as living in London.\nWe have also released a series of short videos, which highlight some of the findings of the reports. We interviewed a few young people, asking them:\nWhat job can you get with an apprenticeship?\nWhat job can you get with a university degree?\nThe aim of this research will be to gain a better understanding of the perceptions and attitudes that young people have to their post-16 choices. It will explore what influences them in their decisions to pursue an apprenticeship, or university, and how this changes in relation to their peers.\nWe conducted six focus groups, with a total of 42 young people. Groups typically took an hour and a half, and were conducted in their borough, in community centres.\nAges ranged between 14-25, with a variety of backgrounds. Each group represented a different age bracket, with one for 14-15, 15-16, 16-17, 18+, and two mixed groups.\nYoung people came from voluntary sector groups, and local authorities, coming from nine different boroughs, and different schools.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 13902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pathfinders.org.hk/public/get-involved/volunteer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EOWEXLUPIZKT5UY2XAYXPULXVNS2HIJO", "length": 335, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pathfinders.org.hk", "title": "Volunteer - PathFinders", "raw_content": "PathFinders welcomes volunteers to help us support our beneficiaries and keep our programmes running.\nView & sign up for Volunteer Opportunities on our calendar\nView all volunteer openings. (Including those that are not restricted to a specific date/time)\nRegister as a volunteer. Let us know your availability and how you can help us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.patriciabremmerblog.com/2011/03/heres-drill.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GJMIPZ6MUY5KFXMCSPHBNRQRAPRENFB7", "length": 6592, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.patriciabremmerblog.com", "title": "Patricia Bremmer's Blog--An author's daily life: Here's the drill...", "raw_content": "Literally, I have a dentist appointment today. I chipped a wisdom tooth. I've won the battle with every dentist I've gone to about removing my wisdom teeth. How can I write without wisdom? Today, I'm seeing a new dentist, a woman dentist, someone with smaller hands! How many of you have had bad dental experiences? Show of hands please. See, all of you have a story to tell. I used to love going to the dentist, no I wasn't crazy, I just had a really, really good dentist when I was a kid growing up in Omaha, NE.\nSince I moved away, almost forty years ago...ouch...that's a long time. I've been dentist hopping. I won't go into the gruesome, frightening details, one of you might be planning a trip soon,so no sense in filling your mind with terror. I remember about ten years ago, after another bad experience, just out of curiosity, I checked for my old dentist in Omaha. And, to my surprise, he was still practicing. I made an appointment to see him. I drove 300 miles to see him. He was great, a little old, well, maybe a lot old, but he still had that magical touch. I left his office beaming. That is, until his receptionist told me, that was his last week. He was retiring.\nI'm prepared this time. I went in a month ago to meet the dentist and share with her my oddities concerning dental work. I liked her, I think we will work well together. See I sound optimistic and upbeat about this don't I? Wanna know my secret? How can I make light of my appointment in just over four hours?\nIt's my husband. He's a hypnotherapist. He hypnotizes people to help them with smoking, weight loss, fears...Did you catch that fear part? He hypnotized me yesterday afternoon to prepare me for today's appointment. He took me to a wonderful place, a relaxing place. He filled my mind with calming thoughts. I was floating on his every word. Then he sneakily tossed in a line or two about speeding up my metabolism. Too many chocolate chip cookies and too much sitting still to write and he has to listen to me complain I'm no longer a perfect size 5 like when he married me, twenty-two years ago.\nThat's great, I love all the help he can give me. But, do you know what happens when your metabolism speeds up? Remember, my bathroom story from yesterday? Yep, your body functions faster and you have to keep running to the bathroom. Now, compound that with my fear of the dentist and I'm going to need a catheter to stay in that chair today.\nFour hours and four minutes to go...I'll let you know what happens.\nI'm back. The hypnosis worked. I was a little apprehensive around the house this morning waiting to leave. But he took me through walking into the dental office right up through the finish of the procedure during hypnosis. I was nervous when we stopped in front of the office and I stepped out of the car. But, the moment I stepped foot inside, all anxiety stopped and I couldn't believe how relaxed I felt.\nDr. Rachel was perfect. She has a more gentle touch than my childhood dentist. She broke the news to me that I didn't need an injection and I didn't need the drill after all. She used a small dental tool to excavate the tooth and filled it. No pain, actually no discomfort at all. The worst thing that happened was I had a little water splashed on my face during the cleaning. Hooray!!! It's over. I plan to use her for all my future dental work. But I still had to leave the chair to pee!\nA lot of dentist have also advised me to have my wisdom tooth or mullers removed. However, I'm just nervous of tooth extraction.\nPatricia Bremmer August 18, 2011 at 7:43 PM\nhope my story made you smile.\ndentist kansas city December 13, 2011 at 2:27 AM\nMy dentist once even told me that not having my wisdom tooth extracted will lead to serious diseases. Patricia, I loved how detailed you wrote this story, it surely made me smile in front of my computer monitor. If hypnosis worked on you, then there's a possibility that it would work on others. Cheers!\nMarco Phillipstein March 20, 2012 at 7:36 PM\nI think these problems can be addressed especially now where cosmetic dentistry is becoming more popular. The dental health industry continue to invent and innovate technology that will be beneficial to all.\nfredericksburg dentist April 9, 2012 at 9:29 PM\nI agree with the previous comment. Cosmetic dentistry is now widely available to help people who have problems with their dental system. Dental restoration can now be done for as long as you have the money to pay the bill. It's good to know that hypnosis worked for you.\nmini implants April 11, 2012 at 7:52 PM\nHypnosis really helps in so many ways. If you are a person who has a goal in life like weight loss and to stop smoking, then you can try the power of hypnosis. Anyway, it's a good move for you to undergo hypnosis to take away all your anxiety and nervousness. I hope that your dental experience will give you the confidence to do the future procedure in a relax and pain free manner.\nKyle L. April 15, 2012 at 9:19 PM\nDental experts are now finding different ways for painless wisdom tooth extraction. My dentist in Goose Creek also used hypnosis during my visit and I didn't feel a thing.\nAutumn Wilkerson April 19, 2012 at 10:44 PM\nI have a bad experience with my male dentist when I was a kid. He has a strong hands and I feel like my jaw is going to give up. I found a female dentist with gentle hands even though she has a big one. You\u2019re lucky to have a husband that knows how to do hypnosis. I thought that maybe dentists should learn hypnosis too so they can make their patients feel relaxed.\nsummerville cosmetic dentist\nValerie Phillips April 25, 2012 at 7:50 PM\nI am a bit hesitant to try hypnosis to take over my fear in going to the dentist. But after reading your post, it doesn't look bad after all. I might have to try it and see if it works for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.\ntucson az dentists\ncosmetic dentist washington dc May 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM\nShe sounds like a really good dentist since you didn't feel any pain.\nGreat story. My childhood dentist was the gentlest of men. As a teenager, we moved across town; as luck would have it, the world's speediest dentist practiced two blocks from our home. When I was in my early thirties, Dr. Speedy retired and sold his practice to a very young & very small-handed cheerful man. For the past thirty years I've traveled across town, across states, and even flown 1200 miles to see Dr. Cheerful. Thankfully, I'm now only 10 miles from his office. I hope he never retires. How many people have a lifetime of great dental experiences? Not many, I'd bet!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paulreveresride.org/2009/12/anniversary-interpretations.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JI3EO4ELV5PATQVMDXA5PJUYYW3IUANP", "length": 1775, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.paulreveresride.org", "title": "150 Years of \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride\u201d: Anniversary Interpretations", "raw_content": "Anniversary Interpretations\nObserving the 150th anniversary of the first publication of \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride,\u201d the New York Times and Wall Street Journal both published essays about it.\nIn the Wall Street Journal, novelist John J. Miller discussed the poem\u2019s cultural value even though it\u2019s not historically accurate:\nDavid Hackett Fischer of Brandeis University has called the poem \u201cgrossly, systematically, and deliberately inaccurate.\u201d Revere was a man of courage and conviction, but not a lone champion who single-handedly \u201cspread the alarm / Through every Middlesex village and farm.\u201d\nEven so, spotty history can become great literature. That\u2019s how it worked for Shakespeare, whose dramas of Richard III and Henry V involve as much fiction as fact. Likewise, Longfellow took the story of Revere and fiddled with it, giving birth to one of America\u2019s great national poems.\nIn the New York Times, historian Jill Lepore put the poem in the anti-slavery context of the months when Longfellow wrote it:\nOn Dec. 2, 1859, the day John Brown was hanged, Longfellow wrote in his diary, \u201cThis will be a great day in our history, the date of a new Revolution quite as much needed as the old one.\u201d\nPondering that new Revolution, Longfellow got to thinking about the old one. In April 1860, he began writing \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride.\u201d While he worked on the poem, he worried about the fate of the nation. Around the same time he went to see Frederick Douglass speak and read Sumner\u2019s latest speech, which predicted that \u201cthe sacred animosity between Freedom and Slavery can end only with the triumph of Freedom.\u201d In November, weeks after finishing \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride,\u201d Longfellow rejoiced in his diary that Lincoln had won the presidency; echoing Sumner, he wrote: \u201cFreedom is triumphant.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paulreveresride.org/2010/08/events-in-september-2010.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BN6A227VULQ6ZGTGNEILWQ3EKLKTAESM", "length": 3038, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.paulreveresride.org", "title": "150 Years of \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride\u201d: Events in September 2010", "raw_content": "In September, the Paul Revere Memorial Association presents a series of lectures on the theme \u201cOne Hundred and Fifty Years of \u2018Paul Revere\u2019s Ride\u2019: Facts, Fables and Fiction,\u201d taking place on four successive Wednesdays at Old South Meeting House. This lecture series is made possible by a grant from the Lowell Institute.\nListen, My Children: Paul Revere\u2019s Ride in Poetry and Legend\nOld South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston\nUsing new research, historian and author Charles Bahne will examine how Longfellow created one of America\u2019s most enduring legends\u2014a tale which, like all legends, often strays from the truth. What did Longfellow know when he wrote the poem? Why did he include some details, and ignore or omit others? What about William Dawes and Samuel Prescott? Included in the program will be a world-premiere: the first-ever public reading of Longfellow\u2019s complete first draft, including an entire stanza which was later deleted, and has never been published. Free and open to the public.\nThe Lost and Legendary Riders of April 19th\nBeyond Paul Revere and his companions, Americans have passed along stories of other notable riders on April 19, 1775. Historian J. L. Bell investigates the facts and fiction behind such figures as Hezekiah Wyman, the dreaded \u201cWhite Horseman\u201d; Abel Benson and Abigail Smith, children said to have helped raise the alarm in Middlesex County; and Israel Bissell, the post rider credited with carrying news of the fight all the way to Philadelphia. Free and open to the public.\n\u201cA Friend\u201d of Paul Revere: The Role of Family Histories in the Ongoing Mystery of Who Hung the Lanterns in Old North Steeple, April 18, 1775\nOn April 18, 1875, in front of a packed house at Boston\u2019s Old North Church, Samuel Haskell Newman presented his family\u2019s account of the night of April 18, 1775. Specifically, he identified his father, Robert Newman, as the man who hung the lanterns in Old North steeple on that historic night. One year later, in July, 1876, Reverend John Lee Watson of Orange, New Jersey, argued in a letter to the Boston Daily Advertiser that it was his relative, Captain John Pulling, who hung the signal lanterns. Old North Foundation historian and educator Bob Damon will evaluate these competing narratives and explore the important role that family histories play in our understanding of the history of the Old North Church and the beginnings of the American Revolution. Free and open to the public.\nRevering America: The Politics of Remembering the Revolution\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was not the first, nor by any means the last, to make use of Revolutionary War history for other purposes. Just this past spring, George Pataki launched an anti-health care petition drive called RevereAmerica, from Boston\u2019s Paul Revere Mall. Americans have always put the past to political ends. Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of History at Harvard University and New Yorker staff writer, will discuss the fraught relationship between reverence and revolution. Free and open to the public.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2332", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:01Z", "digest": "sha1:INYEM4PXRFUWLGT4TTUQ25TKLCWM4CQJ", "length": 163, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pdavis.nl", "title": "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Basilisk", "raw_content": "3 April 1835 Commanded by Lieutenant commander Gordon Gallie Macdonald, South America\n28 January 1839 Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Russell, South America", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 186.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peacexpeace.org/2012/05/what-i-learned-dancing-with-grannies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:5TT62ZCC77G4FLBU4XZ2HEFARM55AUY6", "length": 2293, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.peacexpeace.org", "title": "What I Learned Dancing with Grannies | Peace X Peace", "raw_content": "What I Learned Dancing with Grannies\n2 May 2012 No Comment\nIlonka Wloch\nEditor\u2019s note: How do you worship? How do you relieve stress? Ilonka Wloch found an outlet for both in a weekly gathering of older women with one goal in mind: to dance.\nOne day, my friend Eleanor asked me if I\u2019d like to go dancing with her on Wednesday. I love to dance, so I said yes. She explained that it\u2019s a handful of women who get together regularly at a small church converted into a dance hall. Hmm.\nThe following week, we carpooled from our little coastal town to an even smaller inland town. Once there, we entered the church, which was converted into a vast expanse of emptiness. I liked that. Dancing is one of my favorite ways to worship.\nI was warmly welcomed by the women present. The participants of the Women\u2019s Dance Collective take turns facilitating each gathering. The collective birthed in the 90s promotes free-spirit expression, playfulness and fitness. On that evening Kat prepared the music and shared some ideas for movement. While the dancing is generally free-form, the leader can make certain suggestions. And sometimes there\u2019s no direction at all.\nAs all the dancers trickled in, I realized that these ladies were all much older. How old, I couldn\u2019t tell. We were all grooving, swaying, rock-n-rolling. They seemed like teenagers, not elders.\nI found it a bit strange to dance just with women, older women. My previous dancing included both sexes and peers. Would I come back? I didn\u2019t know.\nI came back. And by the third Wednesday I began to truly look forward to the next one.\nThe women offered me a rare gift. First of all, I get to regularly connect with women two generations ahead of me. And in a really, really fun way too. Secondly, these fit and lively ladies became my role models. I realized that through them, I was looking at myself down the road (if I\u2019m lucky). Imagining me with the wrinkles, the gray hair, the flabby skin, and the eye twinkle.\nI was able to see firsthand that the spirit doesn\u2019t age. The vessel is in a constant whirl of change. By embracing, not concealing the changes, I\u2019m embracing the truth of who I am.\nIlonka Wloch is an activist for social awakening and editor of Positive News US, www.positivenewsus.org. She was born in Poland and lives in the US.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3396", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NSOBP75MPJJL3K7FOBQUN4IRV4XSY44R", "length": 1020, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.peacockroom.wayne.edu", "title": "The Peacock Room | Bowl", "raw_content": "Charles Freer purchased this eleventh-century celadon bowl as part of the Horace Allen collection of Korean ceramics. Allen was a Presbyterian medical missionary who traveled to Korea in 1884 and went on to assemble a remarkable collection of ceramics, many taken from the tombs of Korean nobility. Freer purchased his entire set of eighty pieces when it was offered for sale in 1907. The technique of preparing celadon glazes, which derive their color from traces of iron fired in a high-temperature reducing atmosphere, was first developed by Chinese potters and began to be used in Korea during the tenth century. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, this piece was grouped with number similar dishes and beneath an array of iridescent Raqqa wares from Syria.\nGangjin kilns\nBowl, celadon glaze, Gangjin kilns, Goryeo period, Korea\n\"Bowl,\" in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession No. F1907.320, Item #3396, http://www.peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3396 (accessed February 15, 2019).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pentatonemusic.com/artist/1004", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YFPCJDR22HXTLV27VSV6YXAYBKL5OZPZ", "length": 3485, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pentatonemusic.com", "title": "PENTATONE | Artist - Gerold Huber", "raw_content": "Munich-born Gerold Huber was awarded a scholarship to study piano under Friedemann Berger at the Musikhochschule in Munich. He also attended Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau\u2019s lied class in Berlin. In 1998 he was awarded the Prix International Pro Musicis in Paris / New York together with baritone Christian Gerhaher, his regular duo partner since their joint schooldays. In 2001 he was a prize-winner at the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Saarbr\u00fccken.\n\u201cHis sensitive interludes are to die for. The pianist uncovers the subtle network of a comedy of errors and succeeds in penetrating the depths of the soul.\u201d This is the sort of enthusiastic press reaction prompted by Gerold Huber\u2019s piano accompaniment. In the role of lied pianist he regularly appears at festivals such as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Schwetzingen Festival and Rheingau Music Festival and major venues including Philharmonie Cologne, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Gro\u00dfes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Lincoln center and Armory or Carnegie hall in New York and Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay in Paris.\nBeing so high in demand as accompanist, Gerold Huber works with a multitude of internationally renowned singers, amongst them Christiane Karg, Christina Landshamer, Ruth Ziesak, Mojca Erdmann, Michael Nagy, Maximilian Schmitt and Franz-Josef Selig. Gerold Huber also performs chamber music with the Artemis Quartet, Henschel Quartet and with Reinhold Friedrich.\nThe season 2016/2017 was crowned by three performances with Christian Gerhaher of Die sch\u00f6ne Magelone by Brahms in Heidelberg, London and Munich, in which Ulrich Tukur takes the part of the narrator. A related CD was published in spring 2017. On this Martin Walser is the narrator of the texts based on Ludwig Tieck which he has carefully adapted to create an ironic version especially for Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber. In 2018, Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber and Ulrich Tukur gave further of Brahm\u2019s Die sch\u00f6ne Magelone in Bamberg, Frankfurt and Vienna.\nGerold Huber\u2019s activities as a soloist focus on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert. He has given recitals in Munich, Regensburg, at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Municipal des Romains in France, at the Kultursommer Kassel Festival and the New Zealand Festival in Wellington. With actor Hanns Zischler, he appeared in an evening of melodrama at the Vienna Konzerthaus.\nApart from two solo albums with works by Beethoven and Schumann, he is most renowned for his outstanding recordings with baritone Christian Gerhaher which have all received many awards.\nHis extensive discography also includes Schubert lieder with Bernarda Fink (Schubert for harmonia mundi France), Ruth Ziesak (Liszt for Berlin classics; Haydn and Mahler/Zemlinsky for Capriccio, Mendelssohn for AVI) and recordings with Maximilian Schmitt (Clara and Robert Schumann / Schubert Die sch\u00f6ne M\u00fcllerin) and with Christina Landshamer (Robert Schumann and Viktor Ullmann) for Oehms classic as well as with Franz-Josef Selig (songs of Schubert, Strauss and Wolf) for AVI.\nGerold Huber gives master-classes with increasing frequency, most recently at the University of Yale, the Aldeburgh Festival as well as at the Schwetzingen Festival. Since 2013 he has been a professor for lied accompaniment at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in W\u00fcrzburg. Gerold Huber is artistic director of der Pollinger Tage Alter und Neuer Musik.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pentatonemusic.com/news/rno-review-tohk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:50Z", "digest": "sha1:S5H5LSXIIEQSEQZ3QKNRFP7TU23CJN6N", "length": 4190, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.pentatonemusic.com", "title": "PENTATONE | News", "raw_content": "\"By the end of the evening, the audience was thoroughly blown away and their hands were throbbing with pain after multiple curtain calls\"\nWe are extremely proud that the Russian National Orchestra received this breathtaking review on the Time Out Hong Kong. Those who have not yet seen them perform at a concert before, certainly should not miss the chance next time to experience such a gratifying performance. It is indeed an honor to collaborate with them!\nThe five-star rating is reserved for a truly exceptional performance. Everything from the orchestra\u2019s blend and tone colour to each soloist\u2019s accuracy and phrasing has to be just right. Too much of anything is indulgent, and too little leaves you wanting. Mikhail Pletnev\u2019s concert this Wednesday was the perfect middle ground, and a certifiable five-star performance.\nThe Russian native is a renaissance man \u2013 consummate conductor, prolific composer and one of the best pianists of our time. In 1990, just after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Pletnev founded his own independent orchestra with the help of his friend Mikhail Gorbachev, the former President of the Soviet Union. The Russian National Orchestra (RNO)\u2013not to be confused with either the National Philharmonic of Russia or the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra \u2013 quickly warmed to international critics and was courted by major record labels. In 2004, the RNO\u2019s recording of Prokofiev\u2019s Peter and the Wolfwon a Grammy, making it the first Russian group to clinch the coveted award.\nPopular demand has made the RNO one of Europe\u2019s most travelled orchestras. This summer, the ensemble embarks on an Asian tour, beginning in Hong Kong on June 24 and going on to spend July in Japan and South Korea. Fans in Hong Kong know a musical treat when they see one \u2013 tickets sold out faster than any other show in recent memory.\nThe Wednesday concert \u2013 the first of two \u2013 began with Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No 24. Pletnev put on his soloist hat and placed his deputy, Vladislav Lavrik, on the conductor\u2019s podium. When the 58-year-old sat down in front of the Steinway Grand (in a chair instead of the usual piano bench), he looked tired and disengaged. His music, however, was anything but.\nPletnev had a steady, quiet confidence; a megaton of explosives belied his low-key persona. Even though Mozart wasn\u2019t an intuitive choice for the Russian pianist, he sank his claws into it just the same, striking the delicate balance between beauty and accuracy, idiosyncrasies and loyalty to the score. Every note and every dynamic marking showed up in his playing, and with such clarity, as if he were dictating the score to the audience. His four-decade music career could be summed up with a single word: discipline.\nThe second half of the evening was taken up by Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No 5. Pletnev, seemingly more energized after the intermission, put on his maestro hat. Despite being the world\u2019s foremost authority on Tchaikovsky\u2019s symphonic cycle, he let the music speak for itself. This time it was the RNO that did most of the talking, delivering all four movements with a beautiful round tone that transported the audience to a 19th century European gilded hall \u2013 the strings were oceanic and the brass thunderous. That, together with the woodwinds\u2019 chirps and cheers, was like Mother Nature\u2019s own chorus.\n[ Our latest upcoming Tchaikovsky Box with the Russian National Orchestra and\nconducted by Mikhail Pletnev ]\nThe andante cantabile second movement was the symphony\u2019s crown jewel. Lead horn player Igor Makarov started with an affecting \u2013 if not slightly wobbly \u2013 solo passage, before the woodwinds took over and developed the theme. Principal flautist Maxim Rubtsov, who boasts a successful solo career of his own, deserved a special mention for his dynamic stage presence and velvety lines. By the end of the evening, the audience was thoroughly blown away and their hands were throbbing with pain after multiple curtain calls. Music lovers certainly got what they had come for, but no doubt they still wished Pletnev and his troupe would stay a few extra days to play, say, Tchaikovsky\u2019sPath\u00e9tique or Rachmaninov\u2019s Piano Concerto No 3. Somebody should start a petition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.people-press.org/2009/02/26/many-say-government-on-right-track-on-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6ZCCMQZZRGK4TCJKCHXYXCQ4HVUUL5Y", "length": 7044, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.people-press.org", "title": "Many Say Government on Right Track on Economy | Pew Research Center", "raw_content": "Many Say Government on Right Track on Economy\nSome Harsh Words for Wall Street\nOne month into President Obama\u2019s administration, Americans on balance say the government is on the right track in the way it is handling the nation\u2019s difficult economic problems.\nNearly half (47%) says the government is on the right track in the way it is handling economic problems, while about a third (34%) says it is on the wrong track, according to the latest News Interest Index survey conducted Feb. 20-23 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The survey was completed before Obama\u2019s address this week to Congress. While there are significant partisan differences in these opinions, the share that says the government is on the right track is up 16 points from 31% in mid-January, just prior to Obama\u2019s inauguration.\nLast week, the public continued to track a number of economic policy developments very closely. Final passage of the $787 billion economic stimulus legislation was the top story in terms of news interest. Roughly four-in-ten (41%) say they followed final action on the economic stimulus bill very closely, while 35% named this story as the news item they followed most closely \u2013 by far the highest percentage for any of the week\u2019s stories.\nReporting on the economy and government efforts to stop the slide collectively accounted for more than 40% of the newshole, according to the Pew Research Center\u2019s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).\nGovernment\u2019s Handling of Economy\nWith Democrats now in control of both the White House and the Congress, Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to see the government heading in the right direction in its handling of economic problems. Nearly three-quarters of Democrats (73%) say the government is on the right track, up 31 points from mid-January. Last month, 39% of Democrats said the country was on the wrong track. Now, 9% say the same.\nThe views of Republicans, meanwhile, are largely unchanged: 19% said the government was on the right track in January; 23% say the same now. The proportion of independents that says the government is on the right track is now a 41% plurality, up from 28% in January.\nAmericans who say they have been tracking news about the economic policy proposals very closely are more likely to say that the government is on the \u201cwrong track\u201d than those who say they are less attentive to news about what the government is doing. Nearly half (48%) of those who tracked the week\u2019s economic policy news very closely \u2013 final passage of the stimulus, the aid request by U.S. automakers, Obama\u2019s housing proposal and decisions on financial bailout funds \u2013 say the government is on the wrong track in its handling of the economy; 38% of this group say the government is on the right track.\nBy contrast, only about third (32%) of those who are less attentive to economic policy stories say that the government is on the wrong track, while a plurality of this group (48%) says the government is on the right track.\nTough Words for Wall Street\nWhen asked what \u201ccomes to mind when you hear the term \u2018Wall Street,\u2019\u201d a plurality (42%) offered non-judgmental descriptions, but other responses give a sense of the anger directed at those in the financial sector and frustration over soured investments. One-in-ten specifically mention greed or excess, while a similar share (9%) refers to some form of thievery or corruption.\nThe share saying that greed comes to mind is up substantially from a 1998 CBS News survey. At that time, just 2% offered the word \u201cgreed.\u201d The notion of corruption and references to \u201ccrooks\u201d and \u201cthieves\u201d did not make the 1998 list.\nThe range of responses reflect the public concern and worry about the fate of the financial sector and people\u2019s investments: 13% offer responses that get at the impact and causes of the financial crisis. For example, 2% cite mismanagement by business or government, 2% cite bailouts, 2% cite money losses, 2% say \u201cfailed\u201d or \u201cfailure\u201d and smaller percentages use words such as \u201ctrouble,\u201d \u201cdisaster,\u201d \u201cbroke\u201d and \u201cfrightening.\u201d\nEconomic News Continues to Dominate Interest and Coverage\nIn a week filled with talk of policy proposals aimed at lifting the nation\u2019s economy from crisis, the public focused most closely on President Obama signing the economic stimulus legislation into law. For more than a third (35%) of the public, the stimulus was the story they followed more closely than any other news last week. In terms of news coverage, the stimulus dropped from 28% of the newshole two weeks ago \u2013 when lawmakers were negotiating a compromise package \u2013 to 9% of total news last week, according to PEJ.\nNews about action on the stimulus was comparable to coverage of Obama\u2019s plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure, which accounted for 10% of the newshole last week. The housing proposal, estimated to cost as much as $275 billion, attracted the very close attention of 31% of the public. For one-in-ten Americans, this was the story they followed most closely last week.\nReports that General Motors and Chrysler are seeking billions of dollars in new emergency loans from the government was the top story of the week for 8% of the public. Reports about the automakers\u2019 restructuring troubles and their request for billions in loans accounted for 6% of the newshole. Meanwhile, debate in Washington over how to use the remaining funds approved last fall for securing the nation\u2019s financial sector attracted less public interest than the other economic policy news. One-in-four (25%) followed debate over the financial bailout funds very closely and 6% of the public followed this story more closely than any other last week.\nThree-in-ten (31%) say they followed news very closely about the stock market\u2019s slide to one of its lowest points in a decade. That share was down from the 50% that said they followed very closely the big drop in the Dow in late November. Still, 11% say this was their top story of last week.\nMeanwhile, Obama\u2019s executive order to send an additional 17,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan attracted the very close attention of one-in-five (27%) Americans. This was the most closely followed story of the week for 6% of the public.\nThese findings are based on the most recent installment of the weekly News Interest Index, an ongoing project of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The index, building on the Center\u2019s longstanding research into public attentiveness to major news stories, examines news interest as it relates to the news media\u2019s coverage. The weekly survey is conducted in conjunction with The Project for Excellence in Journalism\u2019s News Coverage Index, which monitors the news reported by major newspaper, television, radio and online news outlets on an ongoing basis. 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Cuterebra are large flies who use dogs, cats, squirrels, rodents, and rabbits as hosts in which to procreate.\nPannus, also known as chronic superficial keratitis, is a condition affecting the cornea and third eyelid of a dog\u2019s eye(s).\nA dog\u2019s ear is the perfect incubator for all sorts of nasty organisms, which is why ear infections are one of the most common reasons our dog friends visit the vet!\nChylothorax in Dogs\nChylothorax is a condition caused by a buildup of lymph fluid in the chest cavity.\nValvular heart disease (VHD) is a condition caused by the breakdown and thickening of the valves of the heart.\nWho doesn\u2019t crave a nice piece of chocolate now and then? Unfortunately for our pets, the ingestion of chocolate can have serious side effects for them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phimcachnhietgiare.info/search/biology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IQK2WACHEBG6IKBOJIVXLFB6UID4K2MR", "length": 4910, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.phimcachnhietgiare.info", "title": "Study Biology degrees abroad - Find & compare degrees - www.phimcachnhietgiare.info", "raw_content": "Biology degrees abroad\nUncover the beauty of the natural world\nAre you endlessly fascinated with nature? Envision yourself as a surgeon or veterinarian? If you\u2019re curious about the world around you, a biology degree might be right for you. Check out these biology degrees at these universities abroad.\nMaster's Degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics\nThe Program provides a state-of-the-art knowledge and training in biomolecular sciences, including the most recent advances in genomics and proteomics...\nThe Masters of Science in Biology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands is an education course ideal for...\nBiology, BSc\nOur aim is to provide students with basic knowledge in the most important biological fields, to attain skills in fundamental...\nMolecular Biology, MSc\nStudents in the Master of Science in Molecular Biology program will have practical and theoretical comprehension of biological data to...\nEvolutionary Biology M.Sc\nThe MSc in Evolutionary Biology at The University of Groningen in the Netherlands explores the interface between ecology and evolution....\nThe aim of the summer school is to introduce students to get information and practice on modern approaches concerning cell...\nMasters in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology\nVast amounts of data have been collected through genomics initiatives. They provide a golden opportunity to research the secrets of...\nMasters in Biomolecular Sciences\nCell Biology Biological Chemistry...\nThe Masters of Science in Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands aims for a leading position in...\nMaster in Molecular Life Sciences\nAll developed skills are used to develop a product in one of the numerous companies in the field or in...\nThis active and competitive master degree from University of Pisa provides students with interdisciplinary skills and knowledge of a wide...\nMSc in Nanoscience\nThe MSc in Nanoscience at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands offers students a challenging interdisciplinary education programme that...\nWhy study a biology degree abroad?\nPut simply, biology is the study of living things\u2014and it\u2019s not just a degree for people who want to go into medicine. Biology encompasses everything from animals to humans to plants, but it\u2019s also a degree that prioritizes critical thinking and analysis\u2014skills that are transferable to many careers and industries. Studying biology abroad prepares you for science-related careers but, depending on your interests, could also provide you the skill set to thrive in careers like law, teaching, non-profits, and business. Many students in biology degrees will indeed go on to pursue medical, veterinary, or nursing education, but that is definitely not all you can do with this highly versatile degree.\nStudying biology could lead to many exciting careers, including but not limited to:\nBiology is also a very hands-on degree. In many cases, you\u2019ll be able to get your hands dirty\u2014quite literally if you\u2019re learning to do dissections! With its combination of hands-on learning and a more classical classroom format, a biology program could be the perfect mix for students who crave variation in their day-to-day schedules.\nWhat are the prerequisites for studying biology abroad?\nYou probably won\u2019t be surprised to hear that studying biology will require a strong scientific and mathematical background, but as biology also requires critical thinking and writing skills, you\u2019ll also want to have pursued some humanities coursework. If you\u2019re applying to a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology, a typical high school background in biology, chemistry, and physics will provide a good foundation. Master\u2019s or Ph.D. programs will focus more on conducting your own research, so you\u2019ll need more advanced coursework in physical or life sciences, calculus, and statistics. While it\u2019s usually not required to have a bachelor\u2019s in biology to be admitted to an advanced degree in biology, most students matriculating into advanced biology degrees will have degrees in science or math, as well as lab experience.\nWhat will I learn studying biology abroad?\nBiology degrees tend to come in two forms\u2014bachelor/master of arts (BA, MA) or bachelor/master of science (BS, MS). Both types of degrees will prepare you for medical education if you\u2019re on that track. The biggest difference will likely be degree requirements and overall emphasis. Arts programs will take a more liberal arts approach and may allow for more elective courses. Science programs will focus more on quantitative skills.\nMany university biology departments also require (or make optional) students to select a concentration within the vast field. You could choose to focus on:\nBiology programs will also teach you how to conduct research in a laboratory. 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We also specialise in selling the latest mobile phones in Coventry such as iPhone X, iPhone 8, Samsung s9 Plus as well as tablet repairs in coventry. 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Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-bunk affairs with not even room to stand up in. They are located in our mountains, on the edges of fiords, our coastlines and lakes, beside rivers, in the bush and on the open tops. Together they form an internationally unique network of backcountry shelter, and these huts, so often full of character and history, are fantastic destinations in their own right.\nA Bunk for the Night offers a guide to over 200 of the best of these huts to visit. This inspirational book has been written by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint, the authors of the seminal, best-selling history of New Zealand\u2019s backcountry huts Shelter from the Storm.\nFeaturing well-known huts from the main tramping areas in both the North and South islands, the authors have also scoured the country for other interesting huts in out-of-the-way places, such as those in the Bay of Islands, on Banks Peninsula, in the Whanganui hinterland, the dry ranges of Marlborough and Stewart Island/Rakiura. This is a wonderful smorgasbord of must-visit huts, and an essential book for anyone who enjoys the great outdoors.\nAuthor: Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.preludefund.org/humans-without-borders-fun-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KGGEV6DVMBLIRVHHVJJ4HYOIPKQLVBQJ", "length": 1331, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.preludefund.org", "title": "Humans without Borders\u2019 Fun Day | Prelude", "raw_content": "Prelude supported the yearly \u2018Fun Day\u2018 for the children and their families that Humans without Borders assists.\nThe children need help to reach the hospital for treatment, because they are too young and sick to travel alone and their parents often don\u2019t receive the needed permits to pass the checkpoints. Through volunteers, Humans without Borders organizes transportation and support to the families. Once a year, volunteers and families of the children join together for a day of relaxation.\nPlease read the following email we received from the organizer:\nThe contribution from the Prelude Foundation was deposited last week and the event on Friday was a great success. In all, we had about 60 children, 40 adults and 10 volunteers and everyone had a wonderful time. The children were especially captivated by huge soap bubbles (some of them reached a meter in length), paste-on tattoos (organized by girls from the Hand-in-Hand school) and, of course, Azat and his friend who are labelled as the most famous clowns in all Palestine. The food was great. What else can you ask for? And the musicians played for hours as several of the families simply did not want to go home. The kids romped and danced and they will remember the day for some time to come.\nWe wish to thank the Prelude Foundation for making all of this possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prestigeinvestgroup.com/investment-property-taxes-capital-gains-what-miami-investors-should-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FF7SZVMSKCHHDWH76DQJU7XUKUP6GDF3", "length": 3092, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.prestigeinvestgroup.com", "title": "Investment Property Taxes Capital Gains - What Miami Investors Should Know", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re a real estate investor looking at selling a property, or if you\u2019re thinking of buying a property now and thinking long term about selling it, then you might be worried about what taxes you\u2019ll incur. In this blog post you\u2019ll read about investment property taxes capital gains \u2013 what Miami investors should know about capital gains.\nBefore you read further, you should be aware that this information is provided in general to a wide range of readers \u2013 each person reading in a different area inside or outside of Florida, perhaps with different corporate structures, any many other factors. So we\u2019re providing a helpful overview but you should always talk to an accountant and tax attorney before making any final decisions for yourself.\nDifferent Types Of Tax For Different Types Of Income\nThere are different types of tax for different types of income. For example, straight income that comes in from a job might be taxes as regular income at your regular tax rate. But other types of income may be taxed at a different tax rate. For a stock market investor, for example, income derived from dividends have their own tax rate. And for real estate investors, you should be aware that income derived from capital gains on the sale of a property has its own tax rate.\nWhat Are Investment Property Taxes Capital Gains?\nLet\u2019s start back at the basics: When you buy a property, you pay a price; when you sell a property, you get what the next buyer pays you. The difference between the price you bought the property for and what you sold the property for is the capital gain. Let\u2019s say you bought the property for $100,000 and you sold it for $125,000. The capital gain is $25,000 and this is the income that is taxed at the capital gain rate.\nWhy Do Capital Gains Have A Different Rate?\nCapital gains tax rates are usually less than the rate you pay for your regular income. There are a couple of reasons why capital gains are taxed differently: one of the reasons is because the gain can be quite substantial on a piece of real estate so a normal tax rate can be quite prohibitive to pay, so a capital gains tax rate is like keeping extra money in your pocket. The other reason is because the government wanted to encourage the buying and selling of assets (which is good for the economy) so they provided an incentive (a lower rate) to do so.\nCapital Gains On Investment Property Versus Your Primary Residence\nYou should be aware that capital gains on your residence (the house you live in) may be treated differently than other property you own. Some important factors include: whether you live in the house and for how long, or whether it\u2019s a secondary property (such as a cottage) or an investment property such as a rental property. You should talk to a tax attorney about this because the situation will be different for everyone.\nIf you want to know more about real estate investment properties, or if you want to get introduced to a good tax attorney who can help you optimize your tax situation, click here to enter your information, or pick up the phone and call 305-928-8896.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.primerocolombia.com/content/us-taxpayers-shouldnt-fund-colombias-horrible-peace-deal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:55Z", "digest": "sha1:KKIGCJXFQPGKADVIL3T2U52TM7HUC6LG", "length": 4848, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.primerocolombia.com", "title": "US taxpayers shouldn\u2019t fund Colombia\u2019s horrible \u2018peace\u2019 deal | Primero Colombia", "raw_content": "Inicio\u203aUS taxpayers shouldn\u2019t fund Colombia\u2019s horrible \u2018peace\u2019 deal\nMonica Crowley-New York Post\nIn mid-April, President Trump had a brief, cordial exchange with two former presidents of Colombia \u2014 Alvaro Uribe and Andres Pastrana \u2014 at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. After the Miami Herald reported the encounter, critics suggested it might \u201cundermine\u201d the Colombian \u201cpeace deal\u201d struck by the current president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).\nIn fact, it\u2019s less a peace agreement than a pathway to dictatorship for a key US ally and to an expansion of drug trafficking here \u2014 developments that would pose grave challenges to Trump\u2019s national security agenda and fight against opioid addiction.\nRemarkably, this disastrous course will likely be partially financed with nearly half a billion US taxpayer dollars \u2014 promised by then-President Barack Obama \u2014 unless Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan deny the appropriation to implement the deal.\nFor 52 years, the Marxist narco-terrorists of FARC have financed their mayhem with the production and export of cocaine and heroin to the United States. FARC has committed an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 murders and ravaged the country. It remains a US-designated foreign terrorist organization.\nUribe and Pastrana each attempted to negotiate a just and stable peace, but FARC\u2019s demands proved too onerous and no agreement was reached.\nSantos got a farcical one-sided agreement so damaging to Colombia\u2019s democratic system and FARC\u2019s victims that the people demanded a national referendum. Last October, the deal was voted down.\nCircumventing the will of his own people, Santos pushed a revised agreement through the Colombian Congress three weeks later as a way to avoid having to hold a second referendum and risking another defeat.\nThe terms of the \u201cvery bad deal\u201d(for which Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize):\nDrug-trafficking will no longer be a major crime.\nMoney-laundering will no longer be a crime.\nExtradition of major narco-terrorists to the United States won\u2019t be permitted.\nAll criminal records of FARC members will be erased.\nThere will be no punishment for any member of FARC, including its leadership, even if they\u2019ve committed crimes against humanity. But members of the military and national police who\u2019ve received long sentences for events related to the conflict will remain in prison.\nFARC will have the right to establish a third political party, nominate candidates for president and enjoy the protection of a paramilitary \u201csecurity organization\u201d armed and paid by taxpayers \u2014 but under FARC control.\nA special court \u2014 half of which will be made up of FARC-appointed judges \u2014 will be created outside the constitutional judiciary to investigate and adjudicate all matters related to the conflict.\nAnd what did the FARC concede for the deal? Little beyond pledging to surrender an easily replenished fraction of its weapons and voluntarily reduce the drug acreage it controls but only by a small amount \u2014 promises it\u2019s already slow-walking.\nAs with Obama\u2019s Iran deal, every concession is given to FARC upfront for a promise of future compliance. But taking a page from the Palestinian playbook, FARC split itself into two entities: a) the political FARC, to negotiate and abide by the agreement and participate in politics, and b) the business FARC, which, unbound by the terms and not forced to disarm, would likely continue its illicit drug production and exports.\nSantos now effectively controls the three branches of government, the independence and integrity of which have been grossly compromised. Colombia\u2019s democratic system is in danger of steaming toward either a dictatorship controlled by narco-terrorism and radical socialism a la Venezuela or a military takeover likely resulting in bloody chaos.\nThe situation offers Trump a major opportunity to make good on two key campaign promises: stemming the flow of drugs here and protecting American taxpayers.\nSantos desperately wants Obama\u2019s promised $450 million annually to implement the deal \u2014 which will include direct distributions to FARC members and government grants of millions of acres of prime agricultural land while providing no compensation to the victims of FARC crimes. Such a gift, whether whole or in part, would be interpreted as US support for the agreement.\nWhen Santos arrives in Washington this month, Trump should make clear that neither the appropriation nor approval for the deal will be forthcoming.\nThe FARC agreement needs significant changes in order to preserve democracy in Colombia. The Colombian people desire peace, but its price should not be the handover of the government to the narco-terrorists or military \u2014 with a substantial assist in blood money from US taxpayers.\nMonica Crowley is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 7327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.private.dating-now.icu/3/375.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QRFO6U6UQLN4TQP7GHWL5YBLKDL5RGXJ", "length": 1004, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.private.dating-now.icu", "title": "Dating with indian womens", "raw_content": "Currently the site works with Sift Science and other companies which collect, because I hate to be duped into reading something that I don't enjoy, that's why. 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Relationships: Deep Relationships or Just Casual Dates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.protectthyneighbor.org/posts/2017/6/12/au-tells-federal-court-trumps-leaked-contraception-rule-would-harm-women", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CNPCQ5S3YY2W4FWHW2NYYAQLWDCAJG54", "length": 4276, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.protectthyneighbor.org", "title": "AU Tells Federal Court: Trump\u2019s Leaked Contraception Rule Would Harm Women \u2014 Protect Thy Neighbor", "raw_content": "Blog, Legislation, Healthcare, Women\nAU Tells Federal Court: Trump\u2019s Leaked Contraception Rule Would Harm Women\nLate Thursday, Americans United told a federal appeals court that women would be severely harmed by the Trump administration\u2019s proposed change to the current requirement that health insurance cover contraceptives, a change that would allow employers and universities to use religion as an excuse to deny contraceptive coverage completely.\nJust as religious freedom is a fundamental American value, so is being able to make your own choices about healthcare. Decisions about women\u2019s health should be left to women\u2014not to politicians or employers.\nBut President Donald J. Trump, his Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and others in his administration want to give bosses the right to insert themselves into the private healthcare decisions of their employees, and misuse the concept of religious freedom to justify this invasion.\nThe proposed regulation, initiated by Trump\u2019s May 4 executive order, would allow any employers to cite religious \u2013 or even \u201cmoral\u201d \u2013 objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that requires health-insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay. There\u2019s no back-up plan. Under the Trump proposal, if the boss declines to cover contraceptives, the cost shifts to employees and students. (For more details on the Trump plan, read our analysis at our Protect Thy Neighbor project.)\n\u201cUsing religion as an excuse to jeopardize women's access to basic healthcare is discrimination, plain and simple,\u201d Richard B. Katskee, AU\u2019s legal director, said in response to the Trump proposal. \u201cIf the rule is made final, we will fight it at every turn.\u201d\nIn fact, AU has already begun fighting it: We filed our objections to the proposed rule with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, describing how the proposal \u2013 or any rule change that doesn\u2019t provide affordable, seamless access to necessary healthcare\u2014will harm women.\nAU represents students in the case University of Notre Dame v. Price. These are the only women at risk of losing birth control coverage who are parties to the ongoing lawsuits filed in response to the ACA\u2019s contraceptive-coverage provision.\nThe Obama administration had created an accommodation for non-profits with religious objections (and since expanded it to for-profit companies following the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s Hobby Lobby decision). Under this accommodation, organizations need only complete a short form to opt out of providing contraception coverage, and the government will work with third-party insurers to provide the coverage at no cost to the affected women.\nBut attacks on contraception coverage persisted in ongoing litigation as some organizations argued that merely requesting the opt-out violates their religious freedom.\nThese cases, including Notre Dame v. Price, have remained in limbo since the U.S. Supreme Court returned them to the lower courts in May 2016. AU and the other parties in our case were required to file status updates yesterday with the 7th Circuit.\nAU\u2019s report told the court that the Trump administration\u2019s proposed change \u201cwould modify the religious accommodation at issue here in just the way that the government previously reported could not be done without depriving women like (our clients) of access to essential health services.\u201d\nThat result would violate the First Amendment\u2019s church-state provisions, which forbid \u201creligious exemptions or accommodations from generally applicable laws that would have a \u2018detrimental effect on any third party.\u2019\u201d\nAU will continue to make it clear that religion cannot be used as an excuse to discriminate against women in their healthcare coverage.\nStay tuned\u2014we\u2019ll keep you posted on what happens with Trump\u2019s proposal, this lawsuit and all of our Protect Thy Neighbor work to stop those who would misuse religious freedom as an excuse to harm others.\nTagged: Women, Healthcare, Federal, Legislation\nSupreme Court\u2019s Decision In Religiously Affiliated Hospital Pension Cases Endangers Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers, Says Americans United\nContraception Deception: Falsehoods The Trump Administration Relies On To Justify A Rule That Would Deny Millions Of Women Access To Essential Healthcare", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.psychic-light.co.uk/moon-phases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6TEFCXESI33ANLLPASAIEJO4DE5BOOHB", "length": 1185, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.psychic-light.co.uk", "title": "Moon Phases", "raw_content": "The moon and her phases, and how her influences can help us\nWaxing - the moon is waxing when it is growing larger in the sky, moving from a narrow crescent just after the new moon towards the full moon.\nThe waxing moon grows from right to left and is known as the right-hand moon, if you hold your right hand up in the air the crescent is like the curve between your right-hand's index finger and thumb. This is what I was taught as a small child and it is something that has stuck with me and is so easy to remember! This is the ideal time for drawing people and influences towards us.\nWaning - the moon is waning when it is decreasing in size, moving from the full moon back towards a crescent as the new moon approaches.\nThe waning moon decreases from right to left and is called the left-hand moon. If you hold your left hand up in the air it is similar to the curve on the left hand. Energy is now waning with the moon herself. An ideal time for banishing or pushing things away.\nBlue Moon Due to the moon's cycle being 29\u00bd days, there are occasionally two full moons in one month (only happens on average every 2.7 years). Then the second moon of the month is called a blue moon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pyxiscounselling.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:SIEEUEK73BZB76JXOK2XTWBULFMEJJW5", "length": 6026, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.pyxiscounselling.com", "title": "About Susie Merz - Pyxis Counselling Services, Vancouver, BC", "raw_content": "About Susie Merz MC RCC\nWhen I Tell People I am a Counsellor, They Say\u2026\n\u201cWow, you must get sick of listening to people\u2019s problems.\u201d \u201cWhat kind of counselling do you do?\u201d \u201cSo tell me, do I seem like I\u2019m crazy?\u201d (This last question was from a border guard after he asked what I did for work \u2013 true story!)\nI also get asked, \u201cHow did you decide to become a counsellor?\u201d\nWay back in my Grade 12 high school yearbook I had said that I wanted to become a psychologist. I may not have known what that meant exactly, but I wanted to know more about people and also about myself. About how we behave, think and feel.\nI also wanted to help. It may sound cliche to say that I care, but I truly do. I find it hard to imagine being a counsellor without a strong sense of compassion and the ability to empathize with other human beings in all the messy, painful, glorious moments we get to experience.\nWhen I began a Bachelor\u2019s degree majoring in Psychology, I knew I was on the right track. I LOVED those psych courses! With my B.A. in hand in 1995, I embarked on my people-helping career. I worked with children in day cares, with disabled adults in group homes, and with youth removed from their homes due to abuse/neglect.\nBut something felt like it was missing. As much as I enjoyed the work that I was doing, I found that I wanted a more purposeful way of having conversations with people about how to make changes in their lives.\nI wanted to have the dedicated space and time to hear people\u2019s stories of loss and hurt and struggle, how they got to where they were, and where they wanted to go next. Rather than just \u201clistening to people\u2019s problems\u201d, I saw an opportunity to extend compassion and care to people and to help them move forward in their lives.\nAnd so, more school. Getting a Master\u2019s degree is hard work to be sure, but it may have been even more challenging for friends and family who got to be analyzed and diagnosed according to what I was learning. Nope, they just didn\u2019t appreciate my new found knowledge.\nMy Master\u2019s degree was completed in 2002, and since then I have had opportunities through my work in community agencies to counsel individuals, couples, and families. I have worked with clients in many areas, including:\naddictions, substance misuse or compulsive behaviour\ndepression and stress, anxiety disorders\npast sexual abuse or childhood trauma\nrelationship problems and family conflict\nWorking in non-profit agencies was rich in experience, not only because of the clients but for the chance to work alongside other therapists who were also invested in helping people heal and change.\nAnd then I burnt out. This is a story for another time, but the short version is that I became so depleted \u2013 emotionally, mentally, and physically \u2013 that I was unable to continue working. Additionally I had to deal with a medical issue (which I believe was very much related to my chronic stress over the previous two years) and needed to be off work for many months.\nIn the time of healing from being burnt out, I became aware that beginning a private counselling practice would allow me to create a better work/life balance and continue to do the work that I love.\nSo with the help of a self-employment program offered by the provincial government and no small amount of anxiety on my part, Pyxis Counselling Services was created, serving clients as of October, 2011.\nBeing a business owner has been an adventure, but I find that I am most in my element when I am with clients. Although my work as a therapist is my livelihood, I also experience it as a privilege. What an honor to be trusted by my clients and to be able to witness their personal growth.\nI hold the appropriate credentials to practice counselling in BC, including a Master of Counselling degree (MC). I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #2171) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. I am held accountable by this association to adhere to professional standards of ethical practice.\nProfessional development has been an ongoing part of my post-Master\u2019s degree career. Each year I attend one or more seminars or training opportunities. Over the years I have received training and attended seminars on:\nAnxiety \u2013 Practical Intervention Strategies\nStrategies for Working with Depression\nMy time is spent with the cherished people in my life. As much as I love my family and friends, I am unapologetically an introvert and also need to spend time on my own in order to recharge, read, walk, journal, and nap.\nBoth on my own and in groups I have pursued yoga, running, meditation, singing, drumming and playing the ukulele.\nI am owned by a cat who reminds me daily that my purpose on earth is to attend to her needs. I do this with only occasional complaints.\nAbout the Name: PYXIS Counselling Services\n\u2018Pyxis\u2019 is a constellation (a group of stars) that can be seen in the southern hemisphere. The word \u2018Pyxis\u2019 in Latin means \u201ca mariner\u2019s compass\u201d.\nAlthough \u2018Pyxis\u2019 is an unfamiliar word to most, I love the metaphor of a compass to represent the process of therapy and life in general. At some level we are all trying to find our way; we wonder what direction to go in, and at times need help to navigate the more difficult events in life.\nI think we each have our own personal compass. We have values, goals, dreams, and challenges that determine which direction we head in. I want to empower you to use your compass to figure out what\u2019s important, and to then take steps to move in a positive direction in all areas of your life.\nMy Mission for Pyxis Counselling Services\u2026\nIs to provide compassionate, quality counselling services to clients in a warm, inclusive, and trusting environment. By focusing on mental wellness, personal healing, and individual strengths, clients will feel heard, be empowered, and gain the insight and skills to move toward healthier functioning in their lives.\nWant to get more information or talk to me about how I can help you? Give me a call at 778-549-3256 or email me at susie@pyxiscounselling.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2622", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:07Z", "digest": "sha1:A7YIOGQ6JIZUF4W5UPOXH3NEBVAPI23J", "length": 391, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.qwantz.com", "title": "Dinosaur Comics - May 6th, 2014 - awesome fun times!", "raw_content": "May 6th, 2014: Over the weekend I bet on a horse I named (Pony) \"Danza\" and he did NOT win against the other galloping steeds. But he came in third so he's still a pretty good horse, even if he cost me $2. Pony Danza I just hope that one day, instead of running away from things... you find something to run towards.\nOne year ago today: the telltale heart by edgar allan poe, noted scientist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.raceny.com/smf2/index.php?topic=3861.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5H67VIJRO72MMU4YAHRPIL4CV47M45HV", "length": 5757, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.raceny.com", "title": "Sonny Grimes", "raw_content": "Author Topic: Sonny Grimes (Read 4048 times)\nSonny Grimes at WCIS\nThe first Wyoming County International Speedway \u201cWall of Fame Inductee, Sonny Grimes.\nBy Larry Woodruff and Dan Hall\nIn 1999, Wyoming County International Speedway began a tradition. That tradition is called the \u201cWall of Fame\u201d. The wall is recognition to a person who has contributed to the betterment of the Speedway and racing. The first person to be honored is former starter and driver, Sonny Grimes.\nSonny grew up in Hinsdale, New York. He started racing as a teenager. In the early sixties, he started racing at Angelica, Holland, and Perry. He raced in the Hooligan division. In the mid sixties, he married his high school sweetheart, Verna Woodruff. She shared Sonny\u2019s passion for racing. They left the western New York area for work in California. Sonny and Verna began a family and eventually returned to Rochester. The racing was still in Sonny\u2019s blood. He returned to competition at Limerock in the mid seventies. This led to becoming an official and finally a starter at Limerock Speedway. He remained there for ten years. Larry Woodruff, Sonny\u2019s brother-in-law and best friend remembers, \u201cDuring his racing career, Sonny had a very limited budget. He did win some heat races at the tracks he raced at. The most notable win was at Clyde Martain Memorial Speedway located in Lanco, Pennsylvania. He won a heat race which was a national sanctioned event. He was the first Limerock competitor to do this.\u201d In the eighties, Sonny\u2019s job took him to Middletown, New York. He became the starter at Sullivan County Speedway which is located in White Lake, New York. Sonny enjoyed four years at Sullivan County Speedway before returning to the Rochester area. Sonny concentrated on raising his family, developing a business in Florida, and looking for a new racing adventure. In the early nineties, Sonny worked at Frozen Ocean Speedway. The track was a Grand Prix style race track. Sonny sent out resumes to local tracks. He hoped to find an opportunity with one of the local tracks. An opportunity became available in the 1997. Doug Chapman, owner of Perry Speedway, replied to Sonny\u2019s resume. They discussed racing and Doug offered the Starter position to Sonny. The Majchrzak\u2019s bought the track in 1998. Sonny continued in the 1998 racing season despite his illness. In 1999, Sonny passed away.\nDuring the two years at Perry Speedway, Sonny had been grooming another person to take his place. Larry Woodruff remembers, \u201cOne evening at Perry, Sonny left me in the starters stand to finish practice. He went to the infield to talk to Jim Majchrzak. When the practice concluded, Sonny said, \u201cWe need to talk.\u201d I replied, \u201cAbout what\u201d and Sonny said, \u201cYour style.\u201d My reply was \u201cI don\u2019t have one\u201d and we both began to laugh. The second year at Perry was difficult for Sonny. He was ill but never let that interfere with his ability to manage the race. Larry remembers an incident from Sonny\u2019s first year at Perry, \u201cThe winner of race was upset because of an incident. He aimed most of the criticism at Sonny. Sonny let him go on for a couple of minutes and then stated, \u201cThis celebration is terminated.\u201d The driver had won the race but not the argument. Sonny did not let his emotions dictate a decision. He always handled tense situations with calm and integrity. All of the drivers respected Sonny for his impartiality. Larry went on to say, \u201cSonny really appreciated that the Majchrzak\u2019s asked him to remain as their Starter. They (Majchrzak\u2019s) treated him like family. He really enjoyed working for them.\u201d\nThe following is an excerpt from a 2000 WCIS program. Jim Majchrzak wrote, \u201cSonny was our very first starter. He always had a smile and never let his illness affect his ability to start the race. Many of us got to visit one last time with Sonny and Verna. I know that day will live with me forever. We all understood what a loss to come in time. Last November, we inducted our very first person on to the Wall of Fame. Sonny Grimes will always have a place as one who helped to make the sport of auto racing and this facility what it is now.\u201d\nSonny enjoyed the fact that his family shared his passion for racing. His daughter, Bridget, became a starter at Limerock. Brenda raced a mini sprint at Limerock. Brian, his son, raced go-karts at Limerock. Brian\u2019s son, Phillip Lubanski, was WCIS 2003 Pure Stock Champion. Beth and Becky were big supporters of their father. Verna still continues to be involved in racing through her grandson, Phillip. His brother in-law and best friend, Larry Woodruff is currently the head starter at Lancaster Speedway.\nThe Perry tradition to honor someone for their efforts began with Sonny. The driver turned starter is certainly missed. He was liked by all the drivers. His family was his pride and joy. Though he is gone, Sonny will always be part of the Speedway. His spirit lives on through the many lives he has touched. Sonny Grimes is the 1999 recipient of the Wyoming County International \u201cWall of Fame\u201d.\nRe: Sonny Grimes\nOriginally posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 7:25 pm by Torpedotom:\nI raced at Limerock when Sonny was racing there. Limerock was an asphalt track back then. I was in a lower class but Sonny was a friendly and helpful fellow racer and club officer. My Dad and I traveled once with the club to the Lanco PA dirt track and crashed hard in our heat and were done for the day. I'm not sure if it was that trip or the following year that Sonny won the heat but we were impressed that finally a blacktop racer could hang with those more sophisticated chassis and power plants. If you've ever been a club officer, you'll understand when I say that Sonny was great to work with the few years we were part of Limerock.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 9222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ramblingmom.com/2011/03/march.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:39Z", "digest": "sha1:5FWJUI2YRQ4ABLXU4GJYCIACMDRV7JP6", "length": 431, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ramblingmom.com", "title": "Rambling Mom: March", "raw_content": "One thing I love about this time of year is that we don't have any birthdays or present holidays for a while. I am not good at picking out gifts. I'm always reading those articles about the best fathers day gift ideas and stuff to hopefully give me an idea. Kids are easy, just get them any toy or art supply and they are good. Adults are much harder. At least for me. Hubby always seems to be able to pick out gifts for me easily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rcseagles.org/page/rcs.ElementaryLife", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4TFPZGWFI5W3DRTUIYK65R3BVJZ7CCVN", "length": 774, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.rcseagles.org", "title": "Rosehill Christian School", "raw_content": "ELEMENTARY LIFE\nStudents in grades Kindergarten through 4th make up our Elementary School. Our school day begins at 8:30 AM and ends at 3:30 PM each day. Bible class is a part of our daily schedule and we attend chapel every Wednesday morning at 8:35 where we often have special guest speakers. Elementary classes average about 16 students per class and we attend Specials each week to include P.E., Art, Music and Computer classes.\nKindergarten & First Grade 10:45 - 11:15\nSecond, Third & Fourth Grade 11:15 - 11:45\nIn addition to our holiday parties, field day and field trips during the school year, we also celebrate many special events which you can learn more about:\nKindergarten Elegant E\nOur Kindergarteners celebrate the 50th day of school each year with \"50's Day\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 3698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reddogpoker.com/red_dog_online.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:WRYDFPJ3U4RPGJPEPQL247SKEBPPO5OP", "length": 2324, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.reddogpoker.com", "title": "Red Dog online! That's what it's all about at RedDogPoker.com!!", "raw_content": "Red Dog Poker is the greatest! I love this game! I hope you do too! I bet that\u2019s why you\u2019re here. You like to bet and you like to play red dog online. That\u2019s what this page is all about: playing red dog online for fun! By now you know a bit about this cool game, and I\u2019m here to tell you some more. So let\u2019s get started!\nThere aren\u2019t too many land-based casinos left that you can find this game in, but there\u2019s always somewhere to play red dog online. That\u2019s because it\u2019s a game that suits itself so well to being played from home. It\u2019s a great time-waster, for when you want to play something, but not worry about stressing out on learning rules or perfecting your strategies. Online red dog is a great card game for just kickin\u2019 back and relaxin\u2019 after work. That\u2019s my favorite way to play!\nIf you\u2019re looking around for some red dog online games, I\u2019ve got lots of links to sites out there. You\u2019ll see them scattered around this site, and they\u2019re there for you to use as a great resource. If you can\u2019t find what you\u2019re looking for somewhere on this site, you\u2019ll just have to and let me know what\u2019s up. I\u2019ll try to point you in to some red dog online sites if I can, or at least give you some tips on how you can find your own way\u2026\nI think that it\u2019s easier to find a game of red dog online because it\u2019s such a simple game to play. The casinos want to have the games with the big competition and lots of excitement goin\u2019 on around the tables, so they have gradually let this game disappear from their hallowed halls. I have heard about a couple of hold outs though. I can\u2019t remember where, but I read that at the Turning Stone Casino in New York State, you can still find some live red dog poker to play. That may be a long way to travel for this game, so I\u2019d recommend playing red dog online for now. You never know though; it might make a big comeback if it becomes the biggest game on the web, maybe the casinos will reconsider!\nTo me, playing red dog online is like sitting down at a slot machine, but with just a bit more involvement from you than just pulling the arm. You do have to decide whether to call or raise, but that\u2019s it. Red dog online is as I said, a great way to settle down after a long day at work. You can just put your feet up and relax as you play, and maybe you\u2019ll make some bucks while you\u2019re at it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redevelopmentinc.com/team-members/miguel-berlingeri/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KKK4T5J3HZXGX4IMN5RSBILS6MPVYYWG", "length": 302, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.redevelopmentinc.com", "title": "Miguel Berlingeri \u2013 Redevelopment", "raw_content": "About Miguel Berlingeri\nMiguel joined the Redevelopment Services team in 2011. Miguel has worked in many facets of the industry over the last twenty years. His construction experience ranges from hands-on work in the field to managing multiple projects and mentoring new project managers along the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reigatelightingcompany.co.uk/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBJCCJURLOA565FV76YPEVEFRNX46XSS", "length": 887, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.reigatelightingcompany.co.uk", "title": "About US - Reigate, Surrey Lighting shop", "raw_content": "Established for over 40 years, we are an independent Lighting shop based in Reigate, Surrey. If you are looking for lighting for your home or garden, we offer all kinds and should have everything you need, whatever your practical needs, taste and budget.\nWe offer an excellent selection of Lampshades, ceiling lights, bathroom lights, outdoor lights, table lamps, crystal chandeliers, spotlights and wall lights. We source lighting from some of the best lighting manufacturers in Europe, enabling us to offer a wide range of solutions, whether you want the latest technology in LED\u2019s or traditional crystal chandeliers.\nOffering a wide selection of lights, fixtures and fittings, we are confident that we\u2019ll have everything you need. We can also supply electrical accessories including switches and ceiling fans and we have a huge selection of Traditional, Low Energy and LED Lightbulbs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mili22.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:30Z", "digest": "sha1:OQZYPMH25P25PUTOAX5HID2FSMA4I2DZ", "length": 11589, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.religioustolerance.org", "title": "Military's, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, policy declared unconstitutional", "raw_content": "The military's \"Don't ask, Don't tell\" (DADT) policy\nPart 1: Religious freedom concerns faced by\nconservative military chaplains if DADT ends.\nProblems facing conservative military chaplains in adapting to an end to DADT:\nThe military currently has about 3,000 chaplains on active duty.\nSince almost all conservative faith groups strongly emphasize evangelism, it is natural for their clergypersons to be attracted to the military where they are able to minister to many unsaved and unaffiliated servicemembers. Since about three in four Americans identify as Christians, most chaplains come from conservative Christian faith groups and organizations. About 450 military chaplains come from the Southern Baptist Convention, 270 from the Roman Catholic Church, and smaller numbers from the Full Gospel Pentecostal church, Presbyterian Church, various reformed churches, the Assemblies of God, and other denominations and religions. 1\nWhen dealing with matters related to sexual orientation, religious conservatives tend to highly value church tradition and their interpretation of the seven \"clobber passages\" The latter are passages in the Bible that they believe deals with same-sex behavior. They give less value to the conclusions of human sexuality researchers and therapists, and to their own personal experience. Almost all religious conservatives regard homosexuality to be a behavior, not an orientation. They generally teach that same-sex sexual activity is inherently sinful no matter what is the nature of the relationship; that homosexual orientation is a choice; that gays and lesbians can be converted to heterosexuality through prayer and reparative therapy; and that same-sex behavior precludes a person from attaining Heaven after death. Since they believe that the only alternative to Heaven are the torture chambers of Hell, conservative chaplains are very heavily motivated to save as many lesbian, gay and bisexual servicemembers as possible from such an eternal destiny.\nChaplains from more liberal faith groups are much fewer in number. They tend to value personal experience and the findings of scientists and therapists as equal or more important than church tradition. They also tend to interpret the clobber passages differently and find them unrelated to loving, committed same-sex relationships. They give greater weight to the themes in the Bible that call for justice and love. For these reasons, they generally teach views opposing those held by conservatives: that homosexuality is a orientation not a behavior. They teach that same-sex sexual activity by lesbians, gays and bisexuals can be free of sin if it is safe, non-manipulative, non-coercive, and perhaps if the couple is involved in a committed relationship. They believe that homosexual orientation is discovered, not chosen; that adult gays and lesbians' sexual orientation is fixed, or essentially so, and that sexual orientation is not a bar to attaining Heaven after death.\nArguing for retention of the DADT policy on the basis of religious freedom:\nLesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals (LGBTs) have been recently very successful in promoting the \"gay agenda\" which is to achieve equal rights for persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities including heterosexuality. Religious conservatives have tended to respond by raising the fear of restrictions on their religious freedoms. -- specifically the freedom to oppress and discriminate against minorities. For example:\nWhen the existing U.S. federal hate-crimes legislation was expanded to add sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, and disability as additional protected classes, many religious conservatives predicted that the hate-crimes bill would go further than discouraging physical assaults based on hatred of LGBTs, men, women, and disabled persons. They maintained that it would also become a hate-speech law that would restrict freedom of speech including the right of pastors to read and interpret the clobber passages from the Bible. The bill was signed into law on 2009-OCT-28. Over a year has been passed since that time and no hate-speech prosecutions have been initiated anywhere in the U.S. They cannot in the future because of the absolute protection of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which guarantees the freedom to engage in hate speech.\nAs an increasing number of political jurisdictions in the U.S. made same-sex marriage and civil unions available, many religious conservative responded with a fear-based campaign predicting that churches would be sued if they refused to marry same-sex couples. One of the best efforts in this direction was the National Organization for Marriage's 1.5 million ad campaign described as protecting \"... marriage and religious liberty throughout the nation.\" However, the free exercise clause of the U.S. Constitution has always protected religious groups who wish to discriminate against marrying some couples based on age, race, skin color, religion, and in the case of the Roman Catholic church, physical disability. There is little chance that faith groups who want to discriminate against same-sex couples would ever be charged or sued.\nHowever, in other instances, conservatives' fear of restrictions on their freedom to discriminate are probably valid:\nThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion,\u00c2 gender or national origin illegal in certain limited cases. The proposed U.S. federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would expand the protected classes to include persons of all sexual orientations (heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual) and gender identities (cisgendered, transgender, transsexual). Again, religious and social conservatives raised concern on the basis of employers' religious freedom to discriminate. Most homophobic employers who want to continue discriminating will be able to, because the bill would only apply to companies with more than 15 employees. Also, religious institutions are given immunity.\nConservative chaplains might find themselves in a conflict situation between lesbian, gay and bisexual servicemembers and the military's non-discrimination policy if the DADT policy is repealed.\nOpen letter from retired military chaplains:\nA press conference was held on 2010-APR-28 at the Family Research Council -- a fundamentalist Christian advocacy group -- in Washington DC. Present were two retired military chaplains -- Brigadier General Douglas E. Lee, U.S. Army, and Colonel Richard R. Young -- along with Tony Perkins, the president of the FRC and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund -- a fundamentalist Christian legal defense group that specializes in countering restrictions on religious freedom. They announced the release of a letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates promoting the retention of the DADT policy. It was eventually signed by 66 retired chaplains. 2\n\"... if the government normalizes homosexual behavior in the armed forces, many (if not most) chaplains will confront a profoundly difficult moral choice: whether they are to obey God or to obey men. This forced choice must be faced, since orthodox Christianity\u00e2\u20ac\"which represents a significant percentage of religious belief in the armed forces\u00e2\u20ac\"does not affirm homosexual behavior. Imposing this conflict by\nnormalizing homosexual behavior within the armed forces seems to have two likely\u00e2\u20ac\"and equally undesirable\u00e2\u20ac\"results.\nFirst, chaplains might be pressured by adverse discipline and collapsed careers into watering down their teachings and avoiding\u00e2\u20ac\"if not abandoning\u00e2\u20ac\"key elements of their sending denomination\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faith and practice. Such a result would be the very antithesis of religious freedom and inimical to the guarantees made by our First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.\nSecond, chaplains might have their ability to freely share their religious beliefs challenged and torn away in a variety of everyday situations. For instance, chaplains who methodically preach book-by-book from the Bible would inevitably present religious teachings that identify homosexual behavior as immoral. Thus, while chaplains fulfill their duty to God to preach the doctrines of their faith, they would find themselves speaking words that are in unequivocal conflict with official policies.\nIn fact, the proposed 'non-discrimination' law may effectively ban chaplains from expressing their religious beliefs on homosexual behavior. The affects of this ban would be felt keenly within a chaplain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s religious duties, but it would extend outside the pulpit, too. Since chaplains are tasked with teaching classes in moral leadership and ethics both on armed forces bases and at branch schools, such censorship would prevent\nthem from providing the full moral instruction their faith background gives them.\nAn additional conflict will come in the context of the armed forces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work to preserve their members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 marriages. For example, the Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Strong Bonds program, which receives millions of dollars in annual funding and has successfully supported many marriages facing the unique stresses of military life, is administered solely by the chaplaincy. If homosexual conduct is normalized in the armed forces, it will only be a matter of time before homosexual couples request to participate in the Strong Bonds program. The religious beliefs of many chaplains involved in the program would not allow them to support relationships that are both harmful and sinful. Such chaplains will either have to deny their religious beliefs to comply with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-discrimination\u00e2\u20ac policy or face the potentially career-ending consequences of a discrimination complaint when they deny the request. ...\nEven if a chaplain never receives a formal complaint for exercising his religious beliefs, his career and ministry will be threatened simply by the existence of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nondiscrimination\u00e2\u20ac law. By raising homosexual behavior to the same protected status as innate, innocuous characteristics like race and gender, the armed forces will cast the sincerely held religious beliefs of many chaplains and Service members as rank bigotry\ncomparable to racism. ...\" 3\n\"We believe that normalizing homosexual conduct in the armed forces will pose a significant threat to chaplains\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Service members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 religious liberty. The best way to protect religious liberty\u00e2\u20ac\"and avoid lowering widely-respected religious belief to the level of racism\u00e2\u20ac\"is simply retaining the current policy to prevent open homosexual behavior in the armed forces. At the very least, though, Congress should include comprehensive and robust religious liberty protections in any sort of policy change. Either way, we urge you to protect religious liberty, the first and foremost of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fundamental freedoms. You have our prayers.\" 3\nThis topic continues in a separate essay\nTom Breen, \"Retired chaplains warn against military\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 repeal,\" Associated Press, 2010-OCT-30, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/\n\"Distinguished military chaplains announce opposition to overturning 'Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Ask, Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Tell' law,\" Alliance Defense Fund, 2010-APR, at: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/\nLetter from 66 retired chaplains, apparently updated from the original to include additional signatures, on 2010-SEP-16, at: http://oldsite.alliancedefensefund.org/ This is a PDF file.\nHome > \"Hot\" topics > Homosexuality & Bisexuality > Challenges > DADT policy > here\nGo to the previous page, or return to the \"DADT policy\" menu, or choose:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 13699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.renewvia.com/new-video-solarprogress-kenya/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IEH4BK4BD4NJ2VWSJ3SYOAD3IISNOAKL", "length": 753, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.renewvia.com", "title": "New Video: #SolarProgress Kenya - Renewvia Energy", "raw_content": "At the end of 2017, we concluded a year-long feasibility study evaluating the use of solar microgrids in rural parts of Kenya. Numerous sites and villages were surveyed and we met with virtually every resident and business in each community about their concerns and needs.\nWe are eager to build a commercial-grade, pay-as-you-go solar microgrid system capable of supporting the growth and economic needs of these areas. These communities need access to reliable, affordable, clean power and we are thrilled to help provide it. Stay tuned!\nhttp://www.renewvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RE-Kenya-Project-final.mp4\nPosted in Blog Post and tagged africa, kenya, power, solar\n\u2190 Utility Distribution Completed on Ringiti and NdedaSubscribe to our Blog! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.repubanter.com/2014/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:06Z", "digest": "sha1:75XF2OQSOBACXRJ65LXR2JHLNTS7LZKS", "length": 5307, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.repubanter.com", "title": "July \u00ab 2014 \u00ab Repubanter", "raw_content": "by themomteam under Unintended Consequences\nObama\u2019s chickens are coming home to roost. And, all because he has thwarted the natural processes of capitalism and the marketplace.\nOne of the main advantages of pure capitalism is that, no matter the outcome of an invention or idea\u2026..the market place factors in even unintended consequences. All consequences, whether intended or unintended are related to the decisions made by individuals when they choose which products or ideas succeed through their own purchases. A farmer in Wisconsin undoubtedly knows which crop to plant better than a city \u201cslicker\u201d in Washington, D.C., or almost any state capital. Having a bureaucrat regulate which crop, which field to plant, or even which fertilizer is acceptable, is going to create a system that is burdened down with rules and not efficient. The success of any market place service or invention should rely upon those who actually use the product, not some bureaucrat.\nJust look at your own life and you\u2019ll see plenty of unintended consequences. And, you\u2019ll realize that it is YOUR job to handle even the unintended consequences that are a daily feature of all our lives. While unintended consequences can be beneficial\u2026\u2026for example, Play Doh was invented to clean wall paper and, instead,t became a kid\u2019s toy and a financial success\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..unintended consequences are more likely to create problems. By their unpredictability, unintended consequences are almost always a surprise. For example, we took our family on an extended trip which everyone originally was stoked about. However, it appears that some enjoyed the trip while others \u201cendured\u201d it. Considering all the fore thought, careful planning and expense, the probable outcome should have been a wildly enthusiastic bunch returning home. Unfortunately, the outcome was different. So, even on this most basic level, the family, there are unintended consequences. Even we could not accurately predict our family\u2019s responses. How then could Washington, D.C., be able to determine the products that work best for us? Regulating water in toilets, light bulbs, or even that puddle of water in your yard, are not the best uses of our tax dollar. Because, if even a family cannot foresee how their own members will react, how then can President Obama believe that he will be able to manage larger issues, such as health care?\nCapitalism is the only efficient and fair method of determining winners and losers. The proponent of any idea or product in the market place receives the credit or blame for his own idea. And, if an invention suits the consumer, then the product thrives. If a product turns out to be a dud, then the inventor loses his investment in time, energy and money. \u201cPutting your money where your mouth is\u201d is the only way to make sure that an idea\u2019s worthiness is carefully considered and that bureaucrats are not just throwing money at ideas that THEY approve of. So, if your neighbor invents a machine that trims and cuts entire trees, and markets it, the risk is your neighbor\u2019s. If the tree machine is a huge success, as our neighbor\u2019s was, then he becomes a millionaire. We might be envious of his success and wealth, but the time, energy, money and RISK was all his. It is fair that he reaps the rewards of his ingenuity.\nObama, though, wants everyone to share in someone else\u2019s success. His \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d litany is all too common among the Lieberals. Under Obama\u2019s theory, a budding American capitalist is expected to work himself silly, wade through incomprehensible regulations, and\u2026..maybe, be successful or maybe fail. If that capitalist fails, the government is silent. If that capitalist succeeds, Obama wants some of the \u201cprofits\u201d for those who did NOT stay up late at night because \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d. Even though every fact and detail proves that YOU DID BUILD THAT, Obama wants to dig into your pocket for \u201chis\u201d share!\nWhy? Well, Obama wants to fund his own ventures. Unfortunately, Obama\u2019s ventures are NOT of his own making nor are they commercially effective (Solyndra!). He puts none of his own blood, sweat and tears into these ventures. So, he is much more apt to throw dollars at a \u201cpretty\u201d idea without considering the potential success. History shows us time and again that the most effective use of our tax dollars requires that bureaucrats like Obama stay out of our business and lives. Catastrophes almost always occur when government mandates and controls details of individuals\u2019 lives. Such catastrophes are raining down upon us now, thanks to Obama\u2019s meddling in areas where he should just keep his nose out. The current chaos in our health care is one example. The failure of our economy to thrive due to unrelenting regulation is another. The horrific numbers of Americans unemployed is another, for, no matter what the \u201cnumbers\u201d say, everyone knows there are way too many Americans on the dole and not working.\n. It would benefit almost everyone if politicians and President Obama just got out of the way and let the chickens, who know what they are doing, lay their eggs when, where and how often they want to.\nIn fact, let\u2019s get the bureaucrats entirely out of our health, welfare and pursuit of liberty. Let\u2019s get America crowing again!\nobama, Unintended Consequences Leave a Comment more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 7401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.respect.international/the-secret-gardeners-child-trafficking-from-vietnam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IGB4TY6MQ53XUVYHAOY53HGHNKZKTSPU", "length": 2743, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.respect.international", "title": "The Secret Gardeners \u2013 child trafficking from Vietnam | RESPECT", "raw_content": "Resource Centre > Uncategorized > The Secret Gardeners \u2013 child trafficking from Vietnam\nThe Secret Gardeners - child trafficking from Vietnam\nECPAT UK, 2018\nAgriculture, Horticulture & LandscapingAsiaEurope\nThe Secret Gardeners, created by Animage Films and Oscar-nominated animator Erica Russell, aims to inform professionals about the plight of children who are forced by organised crime gangs to grow drugs in houses across the UK but who often face criminalisation and prison.\nIt is hoped that the film, which is based on real-life experiences of children ECPAT UK has supported, will also educate members of the public who use cannabis about the \u2018dirty\u2019 supply chains of cannabis that may include child exploitation.\nIn 2016, there were 227 Vietnamese children identified as potential victims of modern slavery in the UK. From In the first six months of this year alone there have been 169 referrals of VN children into the NRM, making it the top country for children being trafficked into the UK.\nThe Secret Gardeners was also launched in Vietnam in partnership with the Pacific Links Foundation as part of an innovative education programme in schools to help prevent young people being trafficked.\nChloe Setter, Head of Advocacy, Policy & Campaigns at ECPAT UK, said: \u201cECPAT has been receiving referrals about children from Vietnam exploited in cannabis cultivation for more than a decade yet this is still a shock to many who use cannabis in the UK. I think many people are unaware of the exploitation in cannabis supply chains and will want to consider the providence of their drugs in the future. In our experience, many vulnerable young people from Vietnam are treated as criminals before they are seen as victims of modern slavery, which only retraumatises them and makes it more difficult to gain their trust. We want this film to help inform frontline workers about the rights of child victims of trafficking, as well as to reach out to children in Vietnam who may be at risk.\u201d\nThe short film is available both in English and Vietnamese below:\nThe Secret Gardeners (English)\nNg\u01b0\u1eddi l\u00e0m v\u01b0\u1eddn b\u00ed \u1ea9n \u2013 The Secret Gardeners (Vietnamese)\nPromising Practises of Innovative Entrepreneuships (start-ups) to Combat Human Trafficking\nThe fourth webinar of the RESPECT Webinar Series 2017 New technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tackling Human Trafficking was held on Thursday, March 30 , 2017. Entrepreneurship is a powerful tool in solving the world\u2019s most complex problems. Through entrepreneurial education and training, newly...\nModern slavery facts and figures\nThere are more slaves today than in any other time in history. Do you know how many there are and where they are found? Disclaimer: this video is based on 2016 data", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.robotics.gatech.edu/hg/item/586270", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JYVAYDQZ7I5K5NQQYMQDGVETGJTPENDW", "length": 2027, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.robotics.gatech.edu", "title": "Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines", "raw_content": "The University of Minnesota\u2019s Hyun Soo Park presents \u201cBehind the Scenes: Decoding Intent from First Person Video\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series. The event will be held in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Rooms 1116-1118, from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\nA first-person video records not only what is out in the environment but also what is in our head (intention and attention) at the time via social and physical interactions. It is invisible but it can be revealed by fixation, camera motion, and visual semantics. In this talk, I will present a computational model to decode our intention and attention from first-person cameras when interacting with (1) scene and (2) people.\nA person exerts his/her intention through applying physical force and torque to scenes and objects, which effects in visual sensation. We leverage the first person visual sensation to precisely compute force and torque that the first person experienced by integrating visual semantics, 3D reconstruction, and inverse optimal control. Such visual sensation also allows associating with our past experiences that eventually provide a strong cue to predict future activities. When interacting with other people, social attention is a medium that controls group behaviors, e.g., how they form a group and move. We learn the geometric and visual relationship between group behaviors and social attention measured from first-person cameras. Based on the learned relationship, we derive a predictive model to localize social attention from a third-person view.\nHyun Soo Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is interested in understanding human visual sensorimotor behaviors from first-person cameras. Prior to joining the UMN, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Park earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.\nLocation: Marcus Nano Bldg., Room 1116-1118\nURL: Marcus Nano Bldg., Room 1116-1118", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.role-players.com/Eaxia/wiki/index.php?n=PmWiki.RecentChanges", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GJN33GSBEHANIESPBVSPPDF6RKZT4GS3", "length": 121, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.role-players.com", "title": "Eaxia Online Community Wiki | PmWiki / RecentChanges browse", "raw_content": "TextFormattingRules . . . June 03, 2005, at 09:08 AM EST by GD Exxy?\nPage last modified on June 03, 2005, at 08:08 AM EST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 142.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ronpedley.com/blog", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YXKTYKIRRR26ITN2ODCAWIZ3T4D3O5Q4", "length": 338, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ronpedley.com", "title": "RonPedley.com", "raw_content": "Official Site of Keyboard Player / Composer Ron Pedley\nRon Pedley Musician/Composer\nRon has been a professional musician since the 1970's. Touring the world with many top artist such as Barry Manilow, Ann Margret and Air Supply. Ron is also a founding member of the band Kombo and Uncle Festive.\nOn an Apple Device? Can't see? Click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rpgfan.com/boards/index.php?topic=8176.375", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EVWZ3EVL4SADRRFGDIXRZRCVBHUWPNVM", "length": 4380, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.rpgfan.com", "title": "New Devil May Cry, bitches.", "raw_content": "New Devil May Cry, bitches.\nAuthor Topic: New Devil May Cry, bitches.\nbigdeath\nRe: New Devil May Cry, bitches.\nAngry Joe said it best in his review. DMC is a good beat them up game but it ruins what fans loved about the character which ultimately is why so many fans hate the game. If they had kept Dantes look and a similar attitude, this new DMC would have been a hit. Whether the combat is diluted or not would have been overlooked.\nMuch hate out there for whiny Emo Punks, as the new Dante is often mocked as.\n^No.\nThey fucked up the entire universe of the series in order to grab a new audience, same with the combat system. DmC is an action game for people who aren't into more fast-paced action games or don't seem to understand and enjoy the more technical aspects of that specific genre.\nThe only reason why this game is called 'Devil May Cry' is to attract people to buy the game like the new Tomb Raider did, but really DmC should have been a brand new IP. Everyone loves to reboot everything these days though.\nAlso while I enjoy the reviews that Angry Joe does I always takes his opinion with a grain of salt.\nThey attempted to actually try something new as opposed to spitting out another relatively uninspired sequel that was completely underwhelming compared to DmC3. I'm plenty into the past DmC games (1 and 3 are some of the only PS2 games I still own), but by your estimation, I'm not into/don't understand/enjoy the technical aspects of that genre because I thought DmC was fantastic? I don't think so.\nIt's called Devil May Cry because it is the new Devil May Cry and the new Dante is Dante, much like how the new Tomb Raider is Tomb Raider and the ending to Mass Effect 3, regardless of what I or anyone else thinks, is the ending of Mass Effect 3. No amount of people bellyaching about how \"the old stuff was better\" or \"they sold out to grab a new audience\" will change that. Just ask Phantasy Star and Shining Force fans.\nOpinions and points of view vary greatly from this game and what I've seen a lot is people that were never into action games (or Devil May Cry before) loving DmC.\nQuote from: Yggdrasil on March 19, 2013, 01:27:18 PM\nI've played them all and this game is awesome. With that said, Vergil's Downfall is so mediocre. Not worth 9 bucks at all. Hated the comic book style storytelling. It felt cheap compared to the main game and Vergil controls like ass for the first couple of missions till you unlock his better stuff. Not recommended from me at all.\nCapcom: \"excessive outsourcing\" has resulted in a \"decline in quality\" -- Source: Eurogamer\nFishing this thread out of obscurity because I finally got around to playing it (What can I say, it was cheap and I forgot about me Capcom boycott because they haven't done anything to piss me off in a while) and I don't think theres any reason to make a new topic.\nSeeing as I wasn't blown away with the direction Ninja Theory took during development, I have to give credit where credit id due, its a fun game. The fighting is fast and fluid like you would come to expect from a DMC game. You unlock just enough goodies early on to give you plenty of variety from pretty much the beginning of the game. Pacing is pretty good, and though you get quite a bit to work with after the first few missions the game still has a thing or two up its sleeve to keep the feeling of character progression alive. Cant say how well this holds up for the rest of the game, or how long the game is since I'm not entirely certain how far from the end I am. The odd part is that I'm actually enjoying the story as well, and even like the new Dante. Its got some of the crazy/badass/over the top moments elements, but its a little more coherent and the characters are a little more \"believable\". I wouldn't say this is better or worse than the original, just different though still keeping some key character traits in common.\nOverall, so far I'm pleasantly surprised.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSQAHLPAsqk\nsomething awesome happens at 1:40.....\nor you can just skip to it\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCHFyOZBeeY\n\u00ab Last Edit: December 16, 2014, 01:12:01 PM by Alisha \u00bb\nI wouldn't mind replaying through Devil May Cry 4 with trophies this time. I really liked that game. I still have my collector's edition tin for PS3. As for DmC, as much as I loved it more than most, I can't say I will buy it again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sagewoodconstruction.com/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7MS7U2Q7BC2VBB5BHTXCBC3KEI7M45PN", "length": 1654, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sagewoodconstruction.com", "title": "Uncategorized \u2013 Sagewood", "raw_content": "A lot of progress has been made since last year and the project is almost done.\nOur amazing project at 181 East 65th St came to an end, and now it\u2019s available for you to view at our projects session.\nSagewood Construction is pleased to announce a new residential project at a prestigious Fifth Avenue location. 815 Fifth Avenue, a highly-desirable address directly across from Central Park, will be a14-floor building of distinctive, unique luxury apartments. Construction on the building has already begun, with completion planned for end of 2017. As with all [\u2026]\nSagewood Construction has been working on the renovation of a unit inside the gorgeous Grove at the Grand Bay here in Miami. Soon we\u2019ll reveal how the renovation ended up to be one of the most beautiful jobs done by us here in Miami.\nSagewood has been working for a while on the beautiful remodeling project in one of the units of the amazing Blue Condo located at the 601 NE 36th St in Miami, FL. Here\u2019s a sneak peak of how one of the bedrooms (with a breathtaking view) looks like up to know. Soon we\u2019ll be posting [\u2026]\nSagewood Construction is pleased to announce a new residential project at the 6626 Pine Tree Lane, Miami Beach. Located in one of the gorgeous islands of Miami Beach, this project will be a renovation on the original house dated from 1968. The renovation has already begun, with exterior and interior work scheduled to end in 4 [\u2026]\n5838 Collins Ave November 5, 2018\nDeva Street May 9, 2018\n2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House April 27, 2018\nSagewood Construction Selects RedTeam Software April 26, 2018\nTijuana Picnic \u2013 The newest hot place to eat in town April 6, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.salesiansireland.ie/2015/02/president-michael-d-higgins-visits-salesian-college-in-pallaskenry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EYQHEH5NXHZZFZYLMLBC5KFOBLNJKSI2", "length": 1510, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.salesiansireland.ie", "title": "President Michael D. Higgins visits Salesian College in Pallaskenry | Salesians Ireland | Continuing Don Bosco's Mission for Young People", "raw_content": "President Michael D. Higgins visits Salesian College in Pallaskenry\nAs part of the 2015 bicentenary celebrations honouring the birth of Don Bosco, everyone in the Salesian College Pallaskenry was thrilled and very honoured to receive a visit from the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins on Tuesday 24 February.\nAfter being formally greeted by the Principal Paddy O\u2019Neill, the Provincial Fr Michael Casey S.D.B. and members of the Board of Management, the President was delighted to meet with representatives of our Student Council, our All-Ireland Champion hurlers and our award-winning students showcasing their B.T. Young Scientist of the Year projects.\nPresident O\u2019Higgins then visited the Art and Materials technology and Wood classrooms where he was very impressed with the projects on display showing the creativity of the students.\nPrior to speaking to the whole school body in the school hall, a traditional group performed some beautiful renditions of well-known melodies.\nIn his speech President Higgins praised the contribution of the Salesian Congregation to education in Ireland and extolled the virtues of the preventative system. Before his departure Fr Michael Casey S.D.B presented the President O\u2019Higgins with a book of Reflections Songs for the slow lane written by Fr Hugh O\u2019Donnell, S.D.B.\nIt was a marvellous day for the school with a great sense of occasion and thoroughly enjoyed by one and all.\nY. McGann\nDownload Speech by President Michael D Higgins \u2013 Tuesday, 24th February 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 7549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sandragulland.com/tag/the-game-of-hope/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKPWWZSSOJO4BIQNQ7TL3ZUR5JQSW7CT", "length": 2181, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sandragulland.com", "title": "The Game of Hope Archives | Page 2 of 9 | Sandra Gulland", "raw_content": "A great review of The Game of Hope \u2014 and how you can request a galley for yourself\nI was thrilled to read this lovely review of The Game of Hope on Net Galley. Here are some quotes:\nSandra Gulland demonstrates a masterful grasp that she has on history in her book The Game of Hope. While some authors struggle to convince their audience that they are educated in history and to fully immerse their readers in their story, Gulland has no problem displaying her understanding of post-revolution France and therefore invites her readers into a well-developed universe of Hortense de Beauharnais.\nThis book is well written for younger audiences of teenage girls, connecting them to the past with common issues that all preteen girls face in a timeless fashion. Gulland does not pump Hortense\u2019s 1780 mind full of 2017 ideas, which is a genuinely refreshing change to the typical YA historical novel.\n\u2026 for most preteen girls, this is still a wonderful introduction to history through the eyes of someone just like them, who truly lived, breathed, thought and felt in the same ways that they do.\nHow to get a copy for yourself\nShould you wish to read The Game of Hope, you can request a copy on Net Galley in exchange for a review: ow.ly/ilIy30hW3CJ.\n(My apologies: earlier I had posted that a copy of the book would be free. Well, that is true, it would be free, but it\u2019s up to the publisher to decide who will receive the free copies, and I don\u2019t know what their criterion is. I\u2019m sorry if I dashed your hopes. I was fairly excited about it myself.)\nBut if, by hook or by crook, you do get a copy of The Game of Hope, and if you love it, I would really appreciate if you would post the review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Reviews on these sites really matter, especially before a book is actually published.\nI wanted to simply put hearts at the end of this blog post in response to my request for posting reviews (it\u2019s never easy for me to ask), but I couldn\u2019t resist looking for something historical. This is a 19th-century map of a woman\u2019s heart. I like that it\u2019s described as \u201copen country.\u201d (I wonder what such a \u201cmap\u201d would look like today.)\nMore anon \u2026 and here come those hearts!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 11668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sandu.in/alopeciainfo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:26Z", "digest": "sha1:I72TNNYYJ2BQPTR7QCSNHKWHIIX3WM4I", "length": 606, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sandu.in", "title": "Alopacia", "raw_content": "Hair loss is a major problem these days. Any age group is affected with this and is a problem for which people visit doctors frequently. As hair is a major factor of your appearance and is a part of physical attraction, definitely you don\u2019t want to lose hair.\nThere are many causes for hair loss and the proper treatment depends identifying the root cause of hair loss. Inherited characteristics and sex hormones play a significant role in hair loss in both men and women. It is a mistake to simply assume the onset of hair loss is inevitable and cannot be cured. Some forms of baldness are even temporary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/writing/2016/05/robert-louis-stevenson-fellowship-the-fear-of-a-retreat", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:JQIRVQMO47B264Q5ROOHBSG6LEGU75RJ", "length": 4479, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.scottishbooktrust.com", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship: The Fear of a Retreat | Scottish Book Trust", "raw_content": "Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship: The Fear of a Retreat\nTagged: robert louis stevenson fellowship, writing, writing advice\nMalachy Tallack, author of 60 Degrees North and a 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow, thinks back over his time on retreat in France and speaks about how to manage the fear of the blank page.\nDespite the fact that I spend most of my days writing (or at least thinking about it) the prospect of a month in which writing was the only thing required of me was exceedingly daunting.\nAll the little distractions that I curse at home \u2013 the meetings, the household chores, the social obligations from which I am too polite to extricate myself \u2013 would be gone. All the excuses I make for not producing words would be invalid. The best thing about a writing retreat, it turns out, is also the most terrifying thing. For a whole month, there would be nothing to blame for my lack of productivity except my own incompetence.\nThere are different ways of dealing with such a fear, of course. I could have taken myself aside and offered the sort of wise, caring advice that a good friend or a mother might offer: Don\u2019t be too hard on yourself. Enjoy the time away. Any writing you do will be a bonus. Don\u2019t beat yourself up.\nThe reality of writing is that some days the words arrive and some days they do not\nI am always grateful when people offer me that kind of advice. It shows a genuine concern for my wellbeing, and I\u2019m lucky to have people who actually care about me. But I never follow their instructions. I never actually manage to be kind to myself. Partly because I\u2019m suspicious of anything my mother tells me, but mainly just because I can\u2019t.\nThe only way I can get words on the page is by not being kind to myself. If I waited for inspiration (or even just for the inclination) to hit me, my paper would always be blank. That is not an attractive prospect.\nTwo years ago I gave up all work other than writing because I realised financial necessity was the best way to get me to sit down and produce sentences. And it worked. First I completed the book I\u2019d spent years trying to write, then I completed another one.\nBut even so, the reality of writing \u2013 at least for me \u2013 is that some days the words arrive and some days they do not. And while, on those unproductive days, I will bully and berate myself for my failure, there is nearly always some excuse I can make to ease my sense of defeat. In fact, perhaps the only thing that makes such days bearable is the availability of other factors \u2013 domestic tasks, paperwork, inconsiderate friends \u2013 on which I can offload the blame.\nIf I waited for inspiration (or even the inclination) to hit me, my paper would always be blank\nSo a month in France with nothing to do except sleep, eat, perform my ablutions and write was at once exciting and alarming, and I approached it as one might approach a man giving away free presents on the street: eager to get something for nothing, but nervous about what exactly that something might be.\nAs it turned out, though, I had no need to be nervous. For not only did I succeed in producing a respectable number of words over the course of four weeks, I also learned that one is never entirely free from distractions and obligations. I might have been hundreds of miles from home in Grez-sur-Loing, but I still had to buy food and cook my dinner; I still had to do my laundry and answer my emails; I still had to pretend to be sociable sometimes. Even in France, I always had my excuses.\nLearn more about the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and check out the 2015 and 2016 Awardees.\nMalachy Tallack has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Scottish Review of Books and many other publications, online and in print. He won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014 and his first book, Sixty Degrees North, was published in 2015. It was featured as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award. As a singer-songwriter he has released four albums and an EP and performed in venues across the UK. He is also contributing editor of the online magazine The Island Review. He is from Shetland, and currently lives in Glasgow.\nAuthor Alan Dapr\u00e9 shares his top tips for writing fun and exciting children's books\nBookbug March Roundup: Top weblinks for parents\nCatch up on some of Bookbug's top web picks from March.\nCollect your free copy of Scotland's Stories of Home\n5 ways to enjoy your free Stories of Home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 10839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.seasonedtravelr.com/category/foodie-heaven/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GT6VFYE57ZLPN4IR4HQ4KW42YFHHVORR", "length": 1434, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.seasonedtravelr.com", "title": "Foodie Heaven Archives - The Seasoned Travelr", "raw_content": "Why do we travel? What\u2019s the intrigue in visiting someplace new? Is it the sights and views, along with the millions of photos and selfies we snap as we wander around? Is it the history of a place, bursting from ancient walls and whispering their secrets to those who pass[\u2026]\nSo, if you\u2019re like me and the other 200 million people who use Pinterest regularly, you probably have a TON of pins that you\u2019ve forgotten about since you first started pinning back in 2010 (yes, Pinterest is already 8 years old!). Pinterest is a fantastic place to get inspired with[\u2026]\nWhen you come to Barcelona, it is easy to get lured into the tourist traps in search of the perfect paella or sangria. Unfortunately, this generally means you get low-quality, overpriced food and drinks, and you will leave feeling disappointed rather than satisfied. There are plenty of amazing restaurants in[\u2026]\nOne of my absolute favorite things to do when traveling is to research traditional food and try everything I possibly can. Food is such a simple pleasure, but it\u2019s by far one of the most rewarding (in my humble opinion). There\u2019s an excitement that comes when trying something new, and[\u2026]\nMy second year living in Barcelona, my host family asked me \u201cHey, want to go looking for mushrooms in the mountains?\u201d I thought they were joking, but it turns out that it is a super popular activity in the autumn here in Catalonia. If there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned in[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.serendipityreviews.co.uk/2011/09/big-break-with-sara-grant.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:L5REEHV6HSQWER3IS4ZUULPK6OANUIUE", "length": 9513, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.serendipityreviews.co.uk", "title": "Serendipity Reviews: The Big Break with Sara Grant", "raw_content": "The Big Break with Sara Grant\nThe fifth author to join us from The Edge blog is Sara Grant, who will debut in October with her first book - Dark Parties which I reviewed yesterday. If you would like to know more about The Edge blog, then please click here.\nI worked in public relations in the United States for nearly fifteen years. When I moved to London, I earned a master\u2019s in creative and life writing at Goldsmiths College and completely changed careers. Now I work part-time as a senior commissioning editor for Working Partners (www.workingpartnersltd.co.uk) \u2013 a company that creates series fiction for kids. We are sort of think tank for stories. We come up with the ideas, brainstorm the storylines and hire writers to bring the stories to life.\nHow long did it take you to write your debut novel \u2018Dark Parties\u2019?\nI started playing with the ideas that would become Dark Parties in 2007. It started as a short story, which I submitted to the SCBWI British Isles (www.scbwi.org) Undiscovered Voices anthology (www.undiscoveredvoices.com). I let my friend and fellow editor Sara O\u2019Connor and my niece Megan read it. They both wanted to know what happened next and encouraged me to write the rest of Neva\u2019s story. I told myself that if my story was selected, then I would write the novel. And, luckily it was included in the 2008 anthology. I spent the next year writing and revising it and I kept right on writing and revising and re-imagining it until it went to proof reading at my publishers in 2010.\nI\u2019d just moved to London from Indianapolis, Indiana. I was immersed in the paperwork of immigration and uncovering news stories on both side of the Atlantic about who and how many should be allowed to enter a country. That got me thinking....what if a country closed its borders to people and ideas?\nThis question led to more questions of national and personal identity. You don\u2019t have to look far to see countries, cities and individuals questioning how to maintain their cultural identity in a global society. What does it mean to be American or British when the cultural make up of your country is changing? I definitely believe that diversity of cultures and ideas makes a country stronger. Dark Parties was my way to explore all these issues.\nI also think Dark Parties was influenced by growing up in a small town where it often felt as if I was living in a fish bowl. Everyone knew everyone else \u2013 which has many benefits but if you are a teenager, it makes it next to impossible to rebel.\nDark Parties is my first published novel, but by no means the first novel I\u2019ve written. I have several of what I like to think of as \u2018apprentice\u2019 pieces \u2013 from chapter books to other stories for young adults \u2013 tucked safely away. I attempted my first story for children nearly twenty years ago. I remember because I wrote the story when my niece Megan was born. (She\u2019s now in her sophomore year of college studying creative writing.)\nI understand that you are co-creator and co-editor of Undiscovered Voices, an anthology to help fresh new writers find agents and publishers.\nSara O\u2019Connor and I cooked up the idea. We worked with SCBWI British Isles and Working Partners to make it happen. I\u2019m very proud of this initiative. We are hard at work our third UNDISCOVERED VOICEDS anthology (www.undiscoveredvoices.com) to help unagented and unpublished members \u2018get discovered\u2019. From the first two UNDISCOVERED VOICES anthologies, 13 of the 24 selected authors have had their novels contracted for publication and most have signed with agents. It\u2019s how I got my agent and ultimately my book deals so I want to continue to help other writers achieve their dreams of publication.\nDid you find your agent through the 2008 anthology?\nYes. My agent received a copy of the anthology and asked me to come in and meet with her. From that very first meeting, I knew she was the perfect agent for me. She really understood Dark Parties and had some great insights and suggestions. She\u2019s passionate about children\u2019s literature, and she\u2019s a true partner in my writing process.\nI first met my agent in April 2008. We worked through two rounds of editing \u2013 one significant and one more nit-picky. There were several face-to-face meetings and some phone calls, too. She submitted my manuscript to publishers in March 2009 and sold Dark Parties to Little, Brown that July.\nI didn\u2019t believe it. I remember very clearly the moment I found out I was going to get my first offer. My agent sent me an email. I read it, but \u2013 and this is true \u2013 thought I must be misreading it (or dreaming) because it said I was going to get an offer from Little, Brown. LITTLE, BROWN.\nIt was nearly two years from the time I received the offer to publication. My book actually came out first in Germany in March. It was published in the US in August and will be published later this year in the UK.\nI received editorial feedback from my US editor so I was revising the manuscript between September 2009 and May 2010. Then in went through a few rounds of copy-editing and then proof-reading. I felt that my manuscript was given such great care and attention.\nHow are you keeping yourself occupied as you wait for publication day?\nWhen Orion bought Dark Parties, I agreed to another round of revisions. My Orion editor had some suggests for how she\u2019d like to tweak the book. I was happy to work with her.\nIn between revisions, I started and sold my second book. I\u2019ve been writing and revising my second book \u2013 titled Half Lives \u2013 off and one ever sense Little, Brown accepted Dark Parties for publication.\nFor the last few months, I\u2019ve been trying to do as much publicity as possible. I was invited to the Leipzig Bookfair to launch my book in Germany. It\u2019s been such an exciting year.\nI can\u2019t wait for the book to be out in the UK and celebrate with my family and friends! It will be amazing to walk into bookstores and see it on the shelves. I\u2019m planning a launch party sometime around the publication day. I don\u2019t have final details, but any and all are welcome! I was thinking about hosting a party in the pitch black \u2013 but that might make book signing a bit difficult.\nYour book is about to be published as part of the Orion\u2019s new imprint \u2018Indigo\u2019, alongside such authors as Marcus Sedgwick and Cliff McNish, how does that make you feel?\nUm \u2013 A-MAZ-ING. It is such an honour to be on Orion\u2019s inaugural list \u2013 and then to be alongside such phenomenal writers is really \u2013 prepare for a clich\u00e9 \u2013 beyond my wildest dreams. Clich\u00e9 or not \u2013 it\u2019s oh-so true.\nWhat are working on next?\nMy second book will come out in the fall of 2012. It\u2019s another dystopian novel. Its working title is Half Lives. It\u2019s a work in progress, but here\u2019s what I know so far:\nHalf Lives chronicles the journey of two unlikely heroes \u2013 Icie and Beckett. Both struggle to keep themselves alive and protect future generations from the terrible fate that awaits any who dare to climb the mountain. Even though they live hundreds of years apart, Icie and Beckett\u2019s lives are mysteriously linked.\nHalf Lives is a race against time and the battle to save future generations. It\u2019s about the nature of faith and power of miscommunication \u2013 and above all the strength of the human spirit to adapt and survive.\nNo. I work part-time for Working Partners. I\u2019m really fortunate to work with such an amazing team of editors and writers. It\u2019s like an ongoing creative writing tutorial.\nIt varies greatly. I work part time so on my writing days, I am usually up and writing by 8 a.m. I\u2019m a morning person and love to dive in. I like to write for a few hours and then take a break to run or go to the gym (yeah, all right, or watch mindless television) and then write a few hours in the afternoon. If a deadline is imminent, then I often don\u2019t even take time to shower.\nI love to write on trains, in coffee shops, at the Southbank Centre, anywhere really. I find that a change of scenery often helps shake up my thinking and also prevents me from flipping on the TV, checking email or finishing whatever book I\u2019m reading.\nRead. Read. Read. Read broadly for the age group for which you are trying to write. Read the classics but also keep up with what\u2019s on bookstore shelves right now. One of my Goldsmiths tutors said that all the teachers I\u2019d ever need can be found in the pages of great books. Learn from the current masters of fiction. I like to dissect books that I admire and try to figure out why they work and why I love them so much.\nRevise and polish your manuscript until it sparkles and until you can\u2019t think of any way to improve it. Then give it to a fellow writer whose opinion you respect \u2013 better yet find a writers group \u2013 and then revise some more. Write. Revise. Rinse and repeat as necessary.\nDon\u2019t be afraid to experiment with different styles and genres. I found writing can be a bit like singing karaoke. Sometimes the songs you love aren\u2019t right for your voice and range.\nBe obsessed by your story. If you get published, you will be working on this story for years and will be connected to it for the rest of your life. Love your story and characters. Write a story that will continue to intrigue you.\nBut most importantly...believe in your work and never stop learning and improving and writing and rewriting.\nThank you Sara for some fabulous answers. Dark Parties will be coming to a book shop near you very soon!\nTo find out more about Sarah, visit her website here. Or you can also follow her on Twitter at @AuthorSaraGrant.\nLabels: dark parties, dystopian, indigo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 11714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sfltimes.com/opinion/congress-a-bastion-of-sexual-predators-and-moral-turpitude", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4YSLAJFLFT7QRGLPAQZYKKWQIUMZBGFL", "length": 4423, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.sfltimes.com", "title": "Congress \u2013 a bastion of sexual predators and moral turpitude | South Florida Times", "raw_content": "Congress \u2013 a bastion of sexual predators and moral turpitude\nBarbara Howard\u2014 December 7, 2017\nWith all the talk of sexual misbehavior of well-known people in Hollywood and politics, we find that over the past few years the U.S. House of Representatives has paid out $15 million to \u201calleged victims of sexual harassment by its own members\u201d.\nAnd that\u2019s just the House. We don\u2019t know how much the U.S. Senate has paid out.\nBut as we look at TV each day, one would think that Alabama Judge Roy Moore, who\u2019s running for a Republican seat in the U.S. Senate, is the only sexual predator out there, even though there are so many others who have been guilty.\nFor over 20 years, I have been trying to tell people that the Democratic Party has used the black community to stay in power. These Liberals have long used us to play identity politics and they have always taken such a high moral ground to deliberately kill off Republicans for the purpose of staying in power.\nNow we find that for the most part, in this age of dirt bag Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken, all these Liberal men have been guilty of the very thing they have accused Republicans of doing.\nI have watched several Republicans that I know personally have their lives literally destroyed by the lies and innuendos perpetrated on them and their family by Democrats. And if they can\u2019t find anything on you, they make it up. And they have found a perfect way to destroy you \u2013 by accusing you of the vilest sexual behavior.\nTake Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll, who out of the goodness of her heart hired a Black businesswoman from Jacksonville to work in her office. She knew the woman was a Democrat and an Obama follower, but she hired her anyway.\nJennifer was on her way to becoming the first black and female governor of the State of Florida, but the Democrats had to take her down. They couldn\u2019t let the Black community think that Republicans were on their side.\nThe woman ended up stabbing Carroll in the back by accusing her of engaging in a Lesbian act with her white Scheduling Secretary \u2013 in her office, no less. Now anyone who has been in the Governor\u2019s suite of offices knows there is little privacy. But that didn\u2019t stop this lady of telling the press this incredulous story.\nThen to add insult to injury, when the Lt. Governor defended herself, the LGBTQ community attacked her for what they thought was her insult to them. WOW!\nTalk about double jeopardy. But that\u2019s what Liberals do.\nNow with all the accusations thrown out about all the Liberals in Hollywood and in politics, all you can hear about is how Judge Moore is such a slime ball. And it\u2019s all over accusations, not proof, of an alleged act over 40 years ago.\nNot five years ago. Not 10 years ago. Not even 20 years ago. But 40 years ago. Now I don\u2019t know Judge Moore, but I would certainly not want to be judged by something I did or did not do over 40 years ago. But Democrats are using these allegations to derail his candidacy for the Senate.\nAnd its\u2019 not just Democrats; it\u2019s Republicans as well. One thing about Democrats \u2013 They are forced into loyalty to the Party. They all know there is a steep price to pay for disloyalty. They must all sing the same words at the same time or face harsh consequences. I know that first hand. There are some Democratic politicians who I know were forced to lie to the cameras and those who didn\u2019t had their careers cut short.\nBut Republicans don\u2019t seem to know anything about loyalty. They pretend to be from the same party, but will throw their own under the bus in a heartbeat.\nThey will even throw the baby out with the bathwater.\nAnd most of those who are disloyal are in the Congress. I\u2019ve said it before; Trump really needs to \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d And considering those were our tax dollars that paid women off for House members\u2019 sexual behavior, we have the right to know who those men were. Bet some of them are the very ones trying to keep Judge Moore out of the Senate.\nOne of the things said about Harvey Weinstein is that his deplorable behavior was an open secret, sort of like Bill Clinton\u2019s sexual predilection. Everybody knew. In fact in the Black community, since they considered Bill to be a \u201cBrother,\u201d they would say that Bill had to be Black because \u201che slept with ugly white women.\u201d\nBet Congress was an open secret too. Wonder how many were Black????\nPrevious post Am I required to apply annually for a Homestead Exemption?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 9970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/nautilus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7OFRI3ULZ7VHUWO2YQMSRFBSXFC2RFKO", "length": 1946, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sfu.ca", "title": "Nautilus", "raw_content": "for solo percussion and four computer-synthesized soundtracks\nNautilus is a systematically structured composition whose form is somewhat organic in the sense of a growth cycle. The performer stands in the centre of four families of percussion instruments (drums, woods, hard metals, soft metals) arranged in a diamond shape, and has eight parts from which to choose, the only constraint being to alternate the direction that each part takes around two sides of the diamond. The performer chooses one of of the 1152 possible combinations of ordering the parts.\nThe tape part is composed of computer-synthesized sounds which are modeled on the characteristics of each percussion family. These sounds are in constant rotation in both directions, but due to reverberation, seem more distant when slow, and closer when quick. A faint ambience of wind and water may also be heard. No fixed synchronization between the tape and specific parts is required by the score, thus leaving the performer and ultimately the listener free to construct the immediate relations between the two.\nThe title refers to the chambered nautilus, a sea creature whose shell grows in a logarithmic spiral, similar to the proportions of the durations and other characteristics of both live and tape parts. The work was inspired, somewhat retrospectively, by the I Ching hexagram The Well, and it is dedicated to Russell Hartenberger who first brought it to life.\nBoth the tape and live parts were realized with the composer's POD6 and POD7 programs for computer sound synthesis and composition at Simon Fraser University. The frequency modulated sounds on the tape and the live parts were composed with a Poisson-determined frequency-time field whose density and frequency range are variables in time. The four-channel tape was mixed in the Sonic Research Studio of the Department of Communication at Simon Fraser University using two pan-pots for the rotation of the sounds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sharesproject.nl/news/arms-trade-treaty-discussed-in-new-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:51Z", "digest": "sha1:M6QRFLEHDITRPVZNEF2CYV7QAKGPN3WS", "length": 689, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sharesproject.nl", "title": "Arms Trade Treaty discussed in New York | SHARES", "raw_content": "Arms Trade Treaty discussed in New York\nNegotiations were held in New York from 2-27 July in order to reach an agreement within the United Nations (UN) framework on the regulation of international trade in conventional arms.\nThe aim of the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is to establish common international standards for import, transfer and export of conventional arms. These international standards can be used to hold those who sell weapons in an irresponsible manner accountable.\nTags: Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations\nSource: UN | UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty\n\u2190 U.S. war on drugs spreads to Africa\nJudgment in the matter of Femi Falana v. The African Union \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shuspectrum.com/perspective/are-you-prepared-for-a-zombie-apocalypse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VWP4M7ATPTZRQURT7VLSENVRWW4UQT4O", "length": 3137, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.shuspectrum.com", "title": "Are You Prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse? \u2013 The Spectrum Newspaper", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbPerspective\u00bbAre You Prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse?\nAre You Prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse?\nBy Michael Marino\nIf a zombie outbreak were to occur, would you know exactly what to do? Is there even the need to have a plan at all?\nAccording to NBCConnecticut.com, the Illinois House declared that October will be \u201cZombie Preparedness Month.\u201d\n\u201cI am told that if you are prepared for zombies, then you would be prepared to deal with a natural disaster like tornadoes, blizzards, natural disasters of any kind. You would have proper food storage, you would\u2019ve identified a place where you would go for shelter and you\u2019d be prepared for a natural disaster,\u201d Democratic State Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch told NBCConnecticut.com in February.\nDespite the attempt to raise awareness, students at Sacred Heart University have mixed opinions about whether or not a plan is truly necessary.\n\u201cPersonally, I feel like we need to have a plan if an outbreak were to actually happen,\u201d said freshman Cole Doherty. \u201cThere have been a lot of TV shows about zombies so I have often thought of how I would handle the situation.\u201d\nSome students have even thought about their plans if a zombie outbreak ever did occur.\n\u201cThe first thing I would do is try to get to my family,\u201d said Doherty. \u201cI would then head up to my lake house in New Hampshire because it is positioned in an isolated spot.\u201d\nMany of these ideas included finding a safe place with minimal occupancy.\n\u201cWe would definitely need a plan of action just to stock up on food and weapons to defend ourselves,\u201d said freshman Dominic Danzi. \u201cI would get to a secluded area and maybe even try to set some sort of trap to warn me if any zombies were close.\u201d\nSome students think that people need training in order to know what to do.\n\u201cPanic in these kinds of situations only makes things worse,\u201d said sophomore Peter Lewis. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to prepare for something that no one has experienced, therefore, I think that we would need some kind of training about basic principles of survival.\u201d\nHowever, not everyone is in support of this bill.\nRepublician Jeanne Ives stated on NBCConnecticut.com that the state should not be focused on issues like this, rather they should concentrate on real disasters such as their budget.\n\u201cWe should spend our time preparing for other disasters like a nuclear attack,\u201d said junior Corey Plumb. \u201cSomething like a zombie outbreak just seems like something that is very unlikely to happen to us.\u201d\nSome students think that the idea of a zombie outbreak is completely unrealistic.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just not logical,\u201d said sophomore Matthew Tierney. \u201cI personally do not feel the need to have a set plan in the event of a zombie outbreak. This is primarily due to the fact that I don\u2019t see anything like that happening any\nAlthough Welch admitted that something like \u201cZombie Preparedness Month\u201d may be slightly farfetched, he believes that it is necessary in order to communicate a message.\n\u201cIf you can prepare for the worst, then you\u2019ll always be in a good position to come out on top,\u201d said Lewis.\nPrevious ArticleWikiLeaks Strikes Again\nNext Article \u201cCash Me Outside\u201d Way to Fame", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sjlmag.com/2018/07/in-louisiana-jewish-blood-suit-ruling.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BW4A7IIK2I2U4ADOCAVKMCHG6GUYX7TM", "length": 8116, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.sjlmag.com", "title": "Southern Jewish Life Magazine - covering the Jewish communities of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and NW Florida.", "raw_content": "In Louisiana \"Jewish blood\" suit, ruling says Jews can be considered a race under Title VII\nJoshua Bonadona (photo courtesy Hendrix College) It\u2019s an age-old debate: Can Jews be regarded as a race? According to a ruling in the U...\nJoshua Bonadona (photo courtesy Hendrix College)\nIt\u2019s an age-old debate: Can Jews be regarded as a race?\nAccording to a ruling in the U.S. District Court\u2019s Western District of Louisiana, when it comes to an employment discrimination case, the answer can be yes.\nU.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Hornsby made the ruling in denying a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Pineville\u2019s Louisiana College and College President Rick Brewer. Joshua Bonadona filed suit in February, alleging that the college discriminated against him in not hiring him as defensive backs coach because of his \u201cJewish blood.\u201d\nBonadona\u2019s attorney, James Bullman of Baton Rouge, said this was the first instance he has been able to find where Jews are classified as a race to access the protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\nUnder Title VII, employers cannot discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. However, private religious-based institutions like Louisiana College are allowed to use religion as a determining factor in employment, hiring only those who share their mission and worldview. Thus, Bonadona could not sue based on religious discrimination.\nThe July 13 ruling notes that Title VII does not define the term \u201crace,\u201d nor has the U.S. Supreme Court provided a definition, but a 1987 employment discrimination decision under 42 U.S.C. 1981 said when it was passed in 1870, Congress \u201cintended to protect from discrimination identifiable classes of persons who are subject to intentional discrimination \u2018because of their ancestry or ethnic characteristics\u2019 whether or not it would be classified as racial in terms of modern scientific theory.\u201d\nHornsby noted that \u201cModern sociologists and anthropologists\u2026 debate whether Judaism is a people, a religion, or both. There is no doubt, however, that many people have and continue to view being Jewish as a racial identity.\u201d\nAnti-Semites are not concerned with a person\u2019s particular religious beliefs, Hornsby said. \u201cJewish citizens have been excluded from certain clubs or neighborhoods, and they have been denied jobs and other opportunities based on the fact that they were Jewish, with no particular concern as to a given individual\u2019s religious leanings. Thus, they have been treated like a racial or ethnic group that Title VII was designed to protect from employment discrimination based on membership in that group.\u201d\nBullman said the ruling gives Jews additional protection under Title VII, which \u201cin and of itself is a big deal for our community.\u201d\nA Baton Rouge native, Bonadona has a Jewish mother and Catholic father, and was raised Jewish. After graduating high school in 2008, he attended Southeastern Louisiana for a year, then transferred to Louisiana College, becoming a kicker on the football team.\nWhile at Louisiana College, Bonadona converted to Christianity, and often led team devotionals. In August 2013 he was hired as special teams coordinator and assistant defensive backs coach, then he graduated that December. He continued in those positions until the summer of 2015, when he left to pursue a graduate degree and a coaching position at Southeast Missouri State.\nAfter Dennis Dunn resigned as Louisiana College\u2019s football coach, in 2017 new head coach Justin Charles approached Bonadona about returning as defensive backs coach. After an interview with Charles and Brewer, Charles \u201cmade a full recommendation\u201d to hire Bonadona, pending the \u201cformality\u201d of Brewer\u2019s approval.\nIt was widely known at the college that Bonadona\u2019s mother is Jewish, and during the interview, Bonadona \u201crepeatedly\u201d made it clear that he is a practicing Christian.\nWith the assurance that he would be hired, Bonadona resigned at Southeast Missouri, but a week after the interview, Charles told him the college would not be hiring him because of his \u201cJewish descent.\u201d\nAccording to the suit, when Bonadona asked what that meant, Charles said Brewer refused to hire Bonadona because of his \u201cJewish blood,\u201d though since his college days he has been a practicing Christian.\nIn a statement following the July 13 ruling, Brewer said Bonadona was not selected for the position because his application and interview responses revealed \"he was not the best candidate for the position. And anyone who would examine my criteria for employment would readily surmise that I have not made, nor do I make any connection to race or gender in the hiring process.\"\nBrewer added, \u201cI believe the term 'Jewish blood' was cited by the lawyer in the suit for its incendiary affect (sic).\"\nThe college\u2019s legal counsel said Bonadona\u2019s responses \u201cdid not comport with the College\u2019s commitment to hire leaders and educators who reflect the College's mission.\u201d\nLouisiana College did not fill the position until after the 2017 season, and Bonadona wound up taking \u201ca less desirable position at Hendrix College in Arkansas for less money and fewer employment benefits.\u201d\nBonadona filed an EEOC charge in May 2017, citing only race in the application, and in February the EEOC issued a Notice of Right to Sue.\nLouisiana College tried to get the suit dismissed, stating Jewish heritage does not qualify as a race or national origin.\nAfter the motion to dismiss was refused, Brewer said \"we intend to file an objection to the magistrate's recommendations as being contrary to applicable law and jurisprudence. But if we must go to trial, we look forward to defending these unmerited claims and falsehoods, and the dismissal of the lawsuit.\u201d\nDavid Barkey, national religious freedom counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, said while the ruling is a \u201cnovel\u201d decision that may well be upheld, it likely won\u2019t have much effect. In the overwhelming majority of cases where someone Jewish alleges harassment or discrimination, the case is filed on the basis of religion.\nThe facts in this case, a Christian institution allegedly discriminating against a Christian who is of Jewish heritage, are \u201chighly unusual\u2026 that won\u2019t happen very often,\u201d Barkey said, and to bring a Title VII claim against an institution that is legally entitled to \u201chire and fire\u201d based on religion, \u201cthey had to find an alternate route,\u201d that of race.\nWhile this ruling, if it stands, may give Jews greater protection under Title VII, it also touches on \u201csensitivities in the Jewish community,\u201d as the ideology of Nazi Germany and neo-Nazis today refers to Jews as a race, and an inferior one at that.\n\u201cThe view of Jews as a race was a justification for the Holocaust,\u201d he said, so talk of Jews as a race is seen as a sensitive subject.\nBarkey added that this is a legal decision, \u201cnot a sociological decision on what is or is not race.\u201d He expressed concern that supremacist groups might take the decision out of context, as proof that the government agrees with them regarding Jews as a race, but isn\u2019t certain that such a move would be that significant.\nBullman said anti-Semites \u201cdon\u2019t need this case to justify their beliefs,\u201d and it is far more important that the Jewish community has \u201can extended protection\u201d in Title VII. \u201cIt\u2019s a much bigger shield than it would be a sword.\u201d\nNow, pending the college\u2019s objection to the July 13 ruling, the suit moves into the discovery and deposition phase, and Bullman expressed confidence that a jury will find in Bonadona\u2019s favor.\nNaturally, Brewer has a different opinion. \u201cThere are no facts to support the lawsuit's allegations, which will be proved to be unwarranted and factually incorrect.\u201d\nSouthern Jewish Life: In Louisiana \"Jewish blood\" suit, ruling says Jews can be considered a race under Title VII\nhttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJqIh4Tmze4/W1ABOXHbGcI/AAAAAAAAEaU/_Yqn5m45Mug9w-4o7mCYa-hQVTiufXgpwCLcBGAs/s320/Josh_Bonadona.jpg\nhttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJqIh4Tmze4/W1ABOXHbGcI/AAAAAAAAEaU/_Yqn5m45Mug9w-4o7mCYa-hQVTiufXgpwCLcBGAs/s72-c/Josh_Bonadona.jpg\nhttp://www.sjlmag.com/2018/07/in-louisiana-jewish-blood-suit-ruling.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 12746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skeptophilia.com/2013/08/ufos-eyewitnesses-and-persistence-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KF262ZATOTRN7IALRGZRWD7VJVSOLOIA", "length": 6321, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.skeptophilia.com", "title": "Skeptophilia: UFOs, eyewitnesses, and the persistence of hope", "raw_content": "I have something of an obsession with aliens.\nI own t-shirts with pictures of UFOs and little gray guys. My favorite movie of all time is Contact. I have a poster on the wall of my classroom of a glowering alien, purchased on my visit to the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, and another one that is a replica of the spaceship poster from Fox Mulder's office in The X Files -- the one with the caption, \"I Want to Believe.\"\nI daily peruse reports on sites like UFO World News and Latest UFO Sightings and Real UFOs and The UFO Casebook, wherein we get to read reports like the following:\nOrlando, Florida - 08-19-13 To give a better idea of the area, I am right near UCF and out west from here is the executive airport; it is not uncommon to see many planes flying in an east/west fashion here.\nI was on my back porch grilling and noticed a light hanging in the sky, off toward the west.\nInitially I thought \"Far off plane, no big deal.\"\nI suppose it must have seemed a little strange when I first spotted in retrospect, because I remember thinking \"I am going to watch this thing move, it's certainly a plane.\"\nWell, what originally looked like landing lights began to seem a little less so; the longer the thing held its position and size in the air.\nThe thing was hovering and sort of pulsating and possibly rotating at times.\nThe light would change from red to blue to white to greenish almost randomly, but at times would seem to follow a sequence as well.\nIt was slowly descending over the 30-40 minute period, sometimes making abrupt motions. Overall, its motions were slow, though.\nAnd no, I never seem to get tired of reading this stuff.\nOf all of the wild claims I hear, I think an alien visitation to Earth is the one that I would be the most excited about, should it turn out to be true. And I'm not alone; eminent physicist and science writer Michio Kaku has weighed in on the topic, saying, \"95% of UFO sightings can be immediately identified as the planet Venus, weather balloons, weather anomalies, swamp gas, you name it, we\u2019ve got it nailed. It\u2019s the 5% that give you the willies. 5% remain totally unexplained.\"\nAnd, he says, we should seriously investigate that 5%.\nNow, far be it from me to contradict a brilliant man like Dr. Kaku, but my first thought when I heard him say this was, \"What, precisely, does he want the scientists to investigate?\" In virtually all of these cases, all we have is eyewitness testimony -- which is notoriously unreliable, and leaves nothing behind for an investigator to study. Even in cases where the witness isn't lying outright, there's no guarantee that the person is recalling correctly what (s)he saw, or not misinterpreting some completely natural, terrestrial phenomenon. Thus this handy chart for identifying what you see up in the sky:\nIn all seriousness, I think the issue here is very much whether there is anything at all in this realm that qualifies as evidence. In the case of the sighting from Orlando, Florida, quoted above, should an astronomer be contacted, the question very much remains to be asked what exactly it is that the eyewitness wants the scientist to do about it. Okay, you saw some flashing lights. So? How is that a scientific claim, one that I could evaluate on the basis of rational inquiry?\nSome UFO enthusiasts believe that the sheer volume of claims indicates that there is something real to all of it (and you also hear an undercurrent of conspiracy there, too, in that some of them believe that the US government is actively suppressing those claims). To which I respond: yeah, and recent polls indicate that 46% of the citizens of the United States believe that the Earth is less than ten thousand years old. Science, fortunately, is not done by popular majority vote.\nSo, sad to say, there's still not sufficient hard evidence (i.e. any) to believe that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations are visiting the Earth. Still less that it happens dozens of times a day, which is the impression you get from reading the reports on UFO websites. It's a shame, really. Think of how many cool things that a real alien visitation would show -- that we were not alone in the universe, that biological life and intelligence can evolve on other worlds, that interstellar flight was possible. But at the moment, if we're being honest, we have to hold off on that conclusion -- the fair thing, in the absence of evidence, is to keep our desire for an answer in abeyance.\nForever, if need be.\nThat doesn't mean, however, that I'm going to take down my posters or stop reading the reports from MUFON (The Mutual UFO Network).\nA guy can keep hoping, after all.\nLabels: aliens, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, Michio Kaku, UFOs\nOscar Wildedog August 24, 2013 at 6:45 AM\nKeep your chin up - you know what they say: \"Absence of evidence is not akin to evidence of absence.\" - Pornlog (Planet Spaatz)\nHeh. As for the specific report you quoted, if you go to a sky mapping website and enter the coordinates of Orlando (28.42\u00b0 N, 81.30\u00b0 W) and the approximate time of sunset (23:45 UTC) on the date in question, what do we see hovering above the western horizon? That's right, the planet Venus, big, bright, and slowly descending, apparently right alongside the slowly descending UFO. Funny he didn't mention the other bright light in the sky.\nHere, I think, is an example of the fierce will to believe overriding any consideration of alternative explanations. This person could easily have consulted a sky map himself (I'm assuming it was a guy because he was grilling. :-) ). No photos either, I notice. Of course, he could be one of the 2% or so of Americans who don't have a camera on their person at all times. And none in the house either apparently.\nPeople seriously underestimate the extent to which a stationary object seen through lots of air -- like, near the horizon -- can appear to change size and color and move around, and how being near the horizon makes things look larger.\nHontseur Thots August 26, 2013 at 1:53 PM\nI wonder what effect visitation from an extrterrestrial would have on dogma.\n\"Jesus? Don't know who that is. We believe in Klaknar the Only. Anyone claiming a belief in any other god will be incinerated to death. Anyhow, you were telling me about this Jesus fellow? Who is he?\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 12414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smallbusinessplanresources.com/industries/5/Landscape-Contractor-Questionnaire/Exit-Strategy-5Q/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UKP5TNLV6LWVR3L675ZA5FRBQ7W66KVB", "length": 2287, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.smallbusinessplanresources.com", "title": "Free Landscape Contractor Business Plan Questionnaire - Exit Strategy Analysis.", "raw_content": "Home Landscape Contractor Free Lanscape Contractor Business Strategy Questionnaire 9.1 Exit Strategy Questionnaire\nWhat is an exit strategy and how does it apply to a small business like Green Lawn Landscaping, Inc.?\nAn exit strategy is quite simply your plans to exit the business or part of the business that you are in. This is the last part of a business plan where a small business owner like Frank Murphy get the chance to discuss how and when he or she plans to extricate themselves from the business. This may apply to an owner like Frank Murphy directly or it may apply to one or more partners of the small business. Many times there are no plans to exit and the business owner may plan to continue to run the business as a going concern.\nWhat if a small business owner like Frank Murphy intends to own their own business and have no plans to exit the business - what should they do?\nWhy do folks reading the business plan like to see an exit strategy for a small business like Green Lawn Landscaping, Inc.?\nAn exit strategy applies more directly to a venture capitalist or partner making a loan or investment to a small business like Green Lawn Landscaping, Inc. They are looking for a return on their investment and are trying to figure out just how much they will be making from their investment in your business. The return of their capital is more important to them than the return on their capital. From the point of view a small business owner like Frank Murphy how long they plan to stay in the business needs to be very carefully considered. Many business owners like to acquire or start up a business and build them up to a certain point and then sell it to a competitor and move on to doing different things.\nWhat if a small business owner like Frank Murphy does not have an exit strategy?\nOn the other hand in the case of intensely competitive industries, it may not be such a bad idea to include an exit strategy which talks about how a small business like Green Lawn Landscaping, Inc. is priced and that in the event you get a good offer when the business has matured you may well consider selling the business.\n9.1 Exit Strategy Questionnaire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 7648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.snmmi.org/NewsPublications/NewsDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=11190", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:43Z", "digest": "sha1:5337TW5HVYZ5ETOMYVQUXQPY3VFEVFNT", "length": 1849, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.snmmi.org", "title": "Congress Continues Work on SGR Legislation As Deadline Approaches - SNMMI", "raw_content": "For the past year, Congress has been working on legislation to repeal the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system, which was put into place to regulate spending on Medicare physician services. Congress must act before April 1, 2014, when the previously passed three-month patch expires. In February, Congressional leaders introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill known as the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014. However, disagreements over pay-fors have stalled progress and a successful repeal of the SGR is now in jeopardy.\nOn March 14, 2014, House Republicans passed H.R. 4015, which was amended to fund the bill by delaying the Affordable Care Act\u2019s individual mandate provision for five years. President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stated that legislation with that provision will not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate. Conversely, the Senate began working on a S. 2110, version of the SGR legislation that would cost $180.2 billion over 10 years due to the additional cost of extending other health programs set to expire.\nFurthermore, two new bills were introduced in the late evening of March 25. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the newly appointed Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced S. 2157, the Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014. This bill would use Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds as an offset to pay of the SGR repeal. Additionally, House Republicans have introduced H.R. 4302, a year-long SGR patch, that would expire on March 31, 2015. On March 27, the House passed H.R. 4302 by voice vote. The Senate is expected to vote of the bill on Monday, March 31.\nThere will be a flurry of activity as we approach the April 1 deadline. 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The schedule is subject to change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 130.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.southfieldcitycentre.com/clayton-mckervey-expands-office-and-introduces-state-of-the-art-lifesize-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CWEGBUX73FSWNRMOUOLVS2YPJJKMX64N", "length": 1848, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.southfieldcitycentre.com", "title": "Clayton & McKervey Expands Office and Introduces State-Of-The Art Lifesize Technology \u2013 Southfield City Centre", "raw_content": "Clayton & McKervey Expands Office and Introduces State-Of-The Art Lifesize Technology\nHomeNewsClayton & McKervey Expands Office and Introduces State-Of-The Art Lifesize Technology\nClayton & McKervey, an international accounting and business advisory firm servicing growth-driven middle market companies, has recently expanded its offices to accommodate the firm\u2019s steady growth. The firm also significantly enhanced its technology through the installation of LifeSize, a state-of-the-art communication tool.\nThe renovation was completed in April 2016 in the firm\u2019s Southfield, Mich. offices, located in the 2000 tower of the Town Center. It features enhanced meeting room and collaboration space. Clayton & McKervey moved into its current location in 2007 after outgrowing its former suite, also located in Southfield. The firm currently employs 65 global tax and accounting professionals.\n\u201cOur employees are already benefitting from the larger collaboration space, including a multi-purpose area which accommodates firm meetings and trainings,\u201d said Trudy Thornsberry, vice president of operations for Clayton & McKervey.\nDuring construction, the firm took the opportunity to equip a dozen offices and conference rooms with LifeSize technology to expand opportunities for face-to-face communication across town, or across the globe. Featuring wall-mounted monitors and encrypted messaging, LifeSize will serve as a daily tool to augment the firm\u2019s international travel and client meetings.\nClayton & McKervey is a metro Detroit-based accounting and business advisory firm helping growth-driven entrepreneurial companies compete in the global marketplace. The firm was established in 1953 and is headquartered in metro Detroit and services clients throughout Europe, China, North America and South America. To learn more, visit claytonmckervey.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spaulforrest.com/2011/03/welcome-to-christian-nation.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZG2TSPLPSGZRZ7UUF4KB2BVTNASRZO7E", "length": 10267, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.spaulforrest.com", "title": "America Revealed: Welcome to the \"Christian Nation\"", "raw_content": "by Steven Jonas\nThe \"Christian Nation\" folks, led by David Barton and Phyllis Schlafley among others, are once again in full stride with the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives plus a number of State Houses and state governorships. You know the drill. They claim that the \"Founding Fathers\" were really \"Christians\" who wanted to set up a \"Christian Nation,\" that the intent to do so can be found in the Declaration of Independence and, if you read it really, really carefully, the Constitution, and anyway, it would be a really good idea.\nOur side usually responds by, for example, pointing out one or more of the following. Most of the Founding Fathers were deists if not outright atheists. The word \"god\" does appear once in the Declaration, but the key word in the central \"endowment\" clause is \"creator,\" not \"God.\" As a humanist, I interpret \"creator\" to mean the natural laws of physics, chemistry, and biology which have created all that is in the total universe. Of course even the word \"god\" does not specify the Christian one. It could be the Jewish one, the Muslim one (and both of those religions claim to worship the \"one true god\"), or Zeus or Ra for all we know.\nThen there is the provision of the Constitution's Article Five, prohibiting religious tests for government office, and the establishment clause of the First Amendment, to say nothing of the fact that neither the word \"god\" nor the word \"Christian\" appear in the Constitution. And then there is the famous Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty with (Muslim) Tripoli, concluded during the Presidency of John Adams, himself a Founding Father, in which it is clearly stated that the U.S. is not a Christian Nation, to wit: \"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, --- as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen, --- and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.\"\nAh but be that all that above may be, the promoters of the \"Christian Nation\" (C.N.) doctrine keep at it, the facts of history to the contrary notwithstanding (but facts don't seem to bother those on the GOP/Religious Right much anyway). So I thought in the alternative in dealing with the matter that it might be useful to see just what a \"Christian\" United States would look like, according to those who promote the doctrine themselves. Since one will never win an argument with those who circulate in an alternate reality, it might be useful for our side to show the folks whose minds are not made up on the matter just what those whose minds are made up, on the C.N. side, have in mind.\nWell let's see. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, in a letter of January, 2011, based on events that have already taken place in various parts of the country, tells us that in a \"Christian nation\" creationism would promoted in the public schools, clergy would be invited into classrooms to lead students in prayer (presumably Christian, of course), crosses could be found hanging in gymnasiums (one was found in at least one such place), and forced prayer would find a place in schools along with Bible classes. It would include putting the Ten Commandments up on any public site they could think of, even though that's the original document on which Judaism was founded, but what the hey. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, isn't it?\nOf course abortion at any stage of pregnancy for any reason would be banned by Constitutional Amendment. At base, abortion rights come down to the matter of the religious belief as to when life begins. Even though there are plenty of Christians who believe that it begins at the time of viability, the C.N. folks, who hold to the religious belief that it begins at the moment of conception, would criminalize everyone else's religious belief. Of course they would ban gay marriage. That violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment but while they are at it the C.N. folks would like to repeal that one anyway. If Jim DeMint had anything to say about it, gay teachers would be banned from the classroom (DADT in Schools, anyone?), and if they were banned there, where else might they be banned? In the Senate perhaps? (Actually, the GOP would likely not go that far; it would reduce their representation there significantly.) Then there are the matters of the use of contraception at one end of life and end-of-life decision-making at the other (Jeb Bush, the next GOP nominee for President, and his signature Schiavo case, anyone?) Talk about Big Government. The C.N. folks are for that foursquare when it comes to matters of religion.\nBut going beyond what they tell us they would have the nation look like, what else might it look like that they don't tell us about. First and foremost, whose \"Christian\" are we talking about? Is it the trinity Christians or the unity Christians or the Christians who sort of by-pass that one. Is it those Christians who believe that wine and wafer truly are the blood and body of Christ or those who think that that is nonsense? Is it those who believe that baptism is necessary for \"real Christians\" or those who don't, and for the former, is it a symbolic few drops of water (holy or not) or a full-fledged dunking? Is it those Christians who hold that the clergy should be celibate or those who don't? Is it those Christians who believe in a set of \"Latter-Day Saints\" or those who say that the former aren't Christian? Is it those Christians who believe in Original Sin or those who don't believe in the concept of \"sin\" at all? Is it those Christians who believe the King James Bible English translation of a Latin translation of a Greek translation of an Aramaic/Hebrew original text is \"inerrant\" or those who don't? If it is the former, there are passages of, say, Numbers or Deuteronomy or Leviticus that sound an awful like about the much-feared Sharia Law to me.\nThen, if the United States is a Christian Nation, with, one would think, special rights granted to Christians, who decides who is and who isn't, and what then happens to all of the rest of us Jews, Muslims, Humanists, Atheists, Deists, Hindus, pagans, Buddhists, and etc.? Interestingly enough, one Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, who just happens to be the Head of the Church of England, the longest existing unified Christian church in the world other than the Catholic one, had this to say to its recent General Synod (BBC News, 11-23-2010, quoted in Freethought Today, Dec., 2010): \"In our more diverse and secular society, the place of religion has come to be a matter of lively discussion. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue and that the well-being and prosperity of the nation depend on the contribution of individuals and groups of all faiths and of none.\" Presumably, the Head of the Christian Church or churches in a \"Christian United States\" would have none of that.\nFinally, there are indeed numerous Christian denominations in the United States, each of which apparently believes that it is the \"true Christian Church.\" Among them are those Christians who believe that differences among them can be settled at some latter day ecumenical council. On the other hand, there are those, and they are certainly not just Catholics (and not all Catholics would go for this process), who would have a version of the Catholic Council of Trent (1545-63) which defined the \"true faith\" and led in part to the horrific religious wars that consumed Europe for the better part of the next century. One must wonder who would command the pulpit at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, which would presumably become the Central Church for a Christian United States, making such decisions.\nIn addition to making the historical arguments which cannot be countered except by those who believe in an alternate reality, let's start raising these issues before it is too late to raise them.\nPost Script. On February 17, 2011, the Freedom from Religion Foundation () published this Freethought for the Day:\nOn this date in 1600, Giordano Bruno (n\u00e9e Filippo Bruno) was executed for heresy. The Italian philosopher was burned alive at the stake at age 52 for refusing to recant heretical ideas. Born Filippo Bruno in 1548, he entered the Dominican Order at Naples at age 15, adopting the name of Giordano. After being accused of heresy, he fled his Italian convent and traveled throughout Europe (1576 to 1592). During two years in England, Bruno wrote and published six dialogs, including \"On the Infinite, the Universe, and Worlds\" and \"The Ash Wednesday Supper.\" A Copernican , he rejected Aristotelian dogma and challenged entrenched religious teachings, declaring pantheist views. Some academics today regard him as a path-blazing intellectual, others as a victim of his nonconformity. When Bruno returned to Italy in 1592, he was arrested by the Inquisition. Bruno was imprisoned for seven years in the dungeons of Rome, where he was tortured and isolated before being executed.\nBruno was just one of the more visible martyrs and victims of church persecution. Anonymous are the tens of thousands, if not millions, of women put to death as \"witches.\" Known to us are such martyrs as Vanini, a monk burned as an atheist in 1619; Servetus , a Spanish physician executed under Calvin's orders in 1553 for rejecting the trinity; Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead, hanged in 1697 for saying Christ was merely human; and those persecuted in the New World. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banished for advocating religious tolerance. Quaker Mary Dyer was executed for heresy in Boston. A statue to Bruno was erected at the site of his execution, Campo dei Fiori near the Vatican, on June 9, 1889, by \"Freethinkers of the World.\" On that date, Algernon Swinburne dedicated a poem to Bruno. 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Donaldson, Renaissance Galleries, 104 New Bond Street; Christie's, London, 9 July 1901, lot 45, as 'Bronzino'.\nAnonymous sale; Henri Baudoin, Paris, 24 June 1922, as 'School of Bronzino'.\nAnonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 51, as 'Tommaso Manzuoli, Portrait of an elegant woman said to be Maddalena Acciaiolli'.\nThis elegantly aloof and elevated portrait, possibly of the poet Maddalena Salvetti (c.1557-1610), has recently been attributed as a rare work by the Florentine artist, Bartolommeo Traballesi. Previous attributions have been made to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) - and later his school - and Tommaso Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano (1536-1571).\u00b9\nIt is likely that this portrait was commissioned to celebrate the marriage in 1572 of Maddalena Salvetti to Zanobi Acciaiolli (1548-1613), a commander in the Order of Saint Stephen - a dynastic military order founded in 1561 by Cosimo I de\u2019 Medici (1519-1574). In its early years, the Order successfully took part in the Spanish wars against the Ottomans, being present at the siege of Malta (1565), the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and the capture of Annaba in Algeria.\nThe Acciaioli were a prominent Florentine banking family (Compagna di Ser Leone degli Acciaioli e de\u2019 suoi consorti) whose business spread from Greece to Western Europe. During the mid-fourteenth century Bishop Angiolo Acciaioli (1298-1357) briefly ruled Florence and subsequently from about 1390 until 1460, the family ruled the Duchy of Athens, maintaining close ties with the younger branch of the Medici through the marriage of Laudomia Acciaioli to Pierfrancesco de\u2019 Medici (1430-1436).\nMaddalena Salvetti was the daughter of Salvetto di Niccol\u00f2 Salvetti and a poet of numerous works including Il David perseguitato o vero fuggitivo (published in 1611 just after her death), which was dedicated to the Archduchess Marie-Maddalena of Austria (1589-1631). She also wrote a collection of 158 sonnets and poems for Ferdinand I de\u2019 Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549-1609) entitled Rime toscane in lode del Serenissimo don Ferdinando Medici terzo Gran Duca di Toscana. The publication was designed to celebrate his marriage to Christine of Lorraine in 1589.\nIn the present work, Maddalena Salvetti is depicted wearing a sumptuous green gown with a yellow underskirt. Her cream and gold lined chemise is dappled with an almost ostrich skin pattern and the lace detailing on her cuff is exquisitely wrought by Traballesi. The lace is repeated once more around her collar where wispy lengths of thread hang as a series of necklaces. Along the neckline of her chemise, a series of elaborate buttons are meticulously painted. This attention to detail is again seen on her shoulders where decorative acorns line the edge. She wears a simple double-strand pearl necklace with a single pearl droplet, a pair of triangular bobbin earrings and her hair is prettily tied up with white ribbons.\nThe sitter\u2019s pose is quietly confident and poised as she gazes unswervingly out at the viewer. Portraiture in the sixteenth century advanced beyond the formal conventions introduced in the quattrocento and began to explore a range of different poses other than the traditional profile as sitters began to interact more intimately and directly with the viewer.\nAs a published poet Maddalena Salvetti would have had, to some degree, a level of artistic and social independence which the viewer can sense here in her sure pose. She coolly rests her left hand against her hip and with her right she pets her black squirrel as it sits on a red draped table, wearing a red and silver bell lined collar.\u00b2 Unusual domesticated pets, such as squirrels, were not uncommon during the Renaissance and were particularly popular companions for elegant ladies, who usually adorned them with collars decorated with bells.\u00b3\nNow reattributed to Bartolommeo Traballesi, this portrait marks a seminal contribution to his existing body of work and a rare portrait. Until recently there had been limited scholarship on, and research into, Traballesi\u2019s career but thanks to Simona Lecchini Giovannoni and A. Nesi there has been a revival of interest in the Florentine master. Although little is known about his personal circumstances, it seems that he was a pupil of Michele Tosini (1503-1577) and his brother, Francesco, was also an artist. Furthermore, his contribution to the decoration of the studiolo of Francesco I in the Palazzo della Signoria (completed 1570-1572) may suggest that he was also a pupil of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) who supervised the project. For the studiolo, Traballesi painted his dramatic interpretation of the Greek mythological story of Dana\u00eb\u2019s impregnation by Zeus who comes to her in the form of golden rain.\u2074\nVasari employed some of the best Florentine artists to contribute to the pictorial decoration of the studiolo - including Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), Maso da San Friano (1536-1571) and Santi di Tito (1536-c.1602) as well as Vasari himself. Such a commission would have been hugely prestigious for the young Traballesi.\nUndoubtedly Portrait of a Lady, possibly the Poet Maddalena Salvetti was painted by Traballesi in the sixteenth century Florentine tradition of portraiture led by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) as well as by fellow Mannerists, Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557) and Rosso Fiornentino (1494-1540). Individual portraits, as opposed to donor portraits, had become increasingly popular from the fifteenth century as the wealthy elites sought to have their likeness, or that of family members, nobly captured.\nBronzino was perhaps the most celebrated and skilled portraitist of the sixteenth-century and established the norm for portraiture in granducal Medicean Florence. The earlier attribution in 1901 to Bronzino of Portrait of a Lady, possibly the Poet Maddalena Salvetti attests to his reputation for conveying aristocratic dignity. As nominated court painter to Duke Cosimo (1519-1574) he, along with his studio, produced numerous portraits of the Duke, his wife Eleanor of Toledo (1522-1562) and their eight children. As well as Medici patronage, Bronzino also completed portraits of other sitters that exemplified the courtly style of portraiture he had created. These portrait figures - often perceived as static, elegant, and stylish exemplars of unemotional haughtiness and self-assurance - influenced the course of European court portraiture for a century.\nBronzino\u2019s Mannerist approach to portraiture was utilised by his contemporaries, including Traballesi\u2019s teacher Michele Tosini. A notable portraitist, Tosini also assisted Vasari with the decoration of the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio. A lovely portrait of an unknown woman, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, thought to be by Tosini can be compared to Traballesi\u2019s Portrait of a Lady, possibly the Poet Maddalena Salvetti. Here the sitter is similarly dressed in aristocratic attire and looks at viewer with a knowing elegance and air of self-confidence.\nAs a pupil of Bronzino and a fellow contributor to the studiolo, Traballesi would also have been aware of the work of Alessandro Allori.\u2075 In the 1560s, Allori was commissioned to complete a portrait of Eleanor of Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and the resulting painting epitomises the fashion for sixteenth century portraiture in Florence. As in this portrait of Maddalena Salvetti, Eleanor of Toledo is shown in all her sartorial elegance; the detailing on her bodice and chemise is particularly tactile while her hair is simply, though elegantly, fashioned. One can perhaps assume that artists such as Traballesi relished the opportunity to capture in exacting detail the dignified modishness of such Florentine noble women.\nWe are grateful to Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato for proposing the attribution to Traballesi in private correspondence with the previous owner (October 2008) and suggesting that the sitter might be Maddalena Salvetti (1557-1610), daughter of Salvetto di Niccol\u00f2 Salvetti and wife of Zanobi di Acciaiuolo Acciaiolli.\n\u00b9 Other works by Traballesi can be found in the Florentine churches of the Ognissanti and Santissima Annunziata.\n\u00b2 The jaunty pose of Maddalena Salvetti makes passing reference to the confident, somewhat arrogant, pose seen in Bronzino\u2019s Portrait of a Young Man with a Book, 1535-1540, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.\n\u00b3 For similar examples of ladies with domesticated pets in portraiture see Hans Holbein the Younger, A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?), c.1526-1528, The National Gallery, London and Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine, c.1489-1490, Czartoryski Museum, Krak\u00f3w.\n\u2074 For further discussion see Corinne Mandel, \u201cSanti di Tito\u2019s Creation of Amber in Francesco I\u2019s Scrittoio: A Swan Song for Lucrezia de\u2019 Medici\u201d, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), fig. 4, p. 728.\n\u2075 At the time of his death Bronzino was living in the Allori family house in Florence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 10182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/29/looking-ahead-executive-director-jeff-vom-saal-tal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7OLFTNB6NGIF2XXI7OATFWDED3RS4O7", "length": 6368, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.spokesman.com", "title": "Looking ahead: Executive Director Jeff vom Saal talks about the future of the Fox | The Spokesman-Review", "raw_content": "A&E > Stage\nLooking ahead: Executive Director Jeff vom Saal talks about the future of the Fox\nJeff Vom Saal, Fox Theater executive director, poses for a photo in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox on Friday. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)\nFox Theater renovation breathed life into Spokane\u2019s downtown entertainment scene\nThe Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox is celebrating 10 years since its restoration with a weekend of events beginning Friday. All events will be held at the Fox, Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave.:\nFox 10th Anniversary Restoration Celebration\nWhat: Gala featuring world-renowned opera singer Thomas Hampson Spokane Symphony\u2019s music director Eckart Preu.\nSpokane Symphony Master Class: Thomas Hampson, voice\nWhat: Spokane-area voice students are invited to perform and receive feedback from Hampson, a Grammy-winning concert vocalist who hails from Eastern Washington. The public is welcome to watch.\nCost: $10, through the Fox box office and website, or any TicketsWest outlet\nSpokane Symphony Classics: Overtures And Arias With Thomas Hampson\nWhat: Hampson and the symphony will team up for two performances of works by W.A. Mozart, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and selections from the Great American Songbook by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Cole Porter.\nCost: $17-$60, through the Fox box office and website, or any TicketsWest outlet\nInfo: www.foxtheaterspokane.com or (509) 624-1200\nBefore the creation of Riverfront Park and Expo \u201974. Before the first Lilac Bloomsday Run and the first Hoopfest. Before \u201cBenny & Joon\u201d made Mary Lou\u2019s Milk Bottle famous. Even before Spokane men and women left home to serve in World War II.\nBefore all of that, there was the Fox Theater.\nOpened in 1931, the Fox (now called the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox) has welcomed the biggest stars of music, theater and film and has gained and lost a neighbor or two over the course of its 86-year tenure at the corner of Sprague Avenue and Monroe Street.\nAs time went by, the Fox continued to be a hub for entertainment, but years of cigarette smoke and popcorn grease dulled the theater\u2019s decorative painting and many murals were painted over in an attempt to modernize the color scheme.\nIn 2000, threatened with demolition, advocates began a campaign to save the Fox. It was fully renovated, reopening in 2007 with restored murals, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and ADA upgrades, and more space for additional dressing rooms, catering, a ticket office, storage and an expanded lobby.\nTen years later, the renovated Fox continues to house some of the biggest names in music, art and culture, and while he\u2019s proud of how what the theater has accomplished in the last decade, executive director Jeff vom Saal is always thinking about the future.\n\u201cI think there\u2019s all sorts of good stuff we can continue to do and unleash our energies around,\u201d he said during a recent meeting at The Spokesman-Review.\nCurrently, the Fox is used by a variety of entities, most prominently the Spokane Symphony, but also universities, for concerts and graduation ceremonies, organizations hosting meetings and even for weddings.\nOne area he\u2019d like to focus on in the future is education. He hopes to continue using events like master classes with guest musicians and Music Innovates, a mentorship program for elementary and middle school musicians, to reach students.\nHe\u2019d also like to reach younger audiences through new programming, including the Fox Family Series.\n\u201cB - Underwater Bubble Show\u201d kicked off the series Oct. 13. The second event features the Peking Acrobats on Jan. 24, and the Fox Family series closes with \u201cRockin\u2019 Road to Dublin\u201d on March 10.\nLooking ahead to the new Central City Line, which will connect Browne\u2019s Addition and downtown with the University District, vom Saal also anticipates college students influencing programming.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just entertainment,\u201d vom Saal said. \u201cIt\u2019s enrichment and education, and we should be thought-provoking too. We want to be an intellectual institution too.\u201d\nWhen considering programming, vom Saal thinks about how each event will resonate with audiences.\n\u201cWe\u2019re in the experience industry,\u201d he said. \u201cWe offer memorable experiences that will hopefully shape their lives.\u201d\nVom Saal said he is often asked what the Fox is doing to get new audience members assuming the answer will be \u201cNothing.\u201d\nBut vom Saal is proud of the work the Fox does to appeal to a diverse crowd via a varied event calendar.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019re leading the way in orchestra, but we\u2019re certainly doing our part to continue building our future audiences,\u201d he said. \u201cThen hopefully in time they\u2019ll be part of the philanthropic pipeline, at some point deciding \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s worth helping these guys out a little bit.\u2019 \u201d\nAfter so much work on the interior of the Fox, vom Saal has also turned his sights to the outside of the building.\nHe mentioned lighting on the building that didn\u2019t exist in previous years and has ideas to use banners and projections. One outside-the-box idea involves painting crosswalks to look like a row of piano keys.\nHe also hopes to upgrade some of the technology used during events at the Fox, including the sound system and projectors.\nThe theater has already paired up with TicketsWest to improve the ticket buying process, and he\u2019d like to use technology to share events at the Fox with audiences outside of the theater as well, saying \u201cI don\u2019t want to contain our excellence.\u201d\nLooking ahead, vom Saal ultimately wants to maintain the Fox\u2019s position as a downtown staple, available for anyone and everyone.\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s movies or concerts or parties, I just want people to feel like the Fox is their place that they go to for interesting things and important things,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019re getting there \u2026 We haven\u2019t quite maximized that so there\u2019s still more to do.\u201d\nTags: Fox Theater Anniversary, Jeff vom Saal, Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox\nTop stories in Stage\n\u2018My Favorite Toy Was Dirt\u2019 pays tribute to life, work of Patrick McManus\nVentriloquist Jeff Dunham announces Sept. 7 show at Northern Quest \u2026\nComedian/actor Whitney Cummings returns to Spokane Comedy Club \u2026\nComedian/actor Shawn Wayans to headline Spokane Comedy Club \u2026\nFamily nature drives Aspire Community Theatre\u2019s \u2018Mamma Mia!\u2019 \u2026\nJim Breuer aims to be \u2018inspiringly funny\u2019 in his comedy show, coming to the Bing \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 9834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sportyshow.com/report-pelicans-want-4-1st-round-picks-from-lakers-for-davis/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GPYX5LVXBE3DLLODZVVLYBEGF3O34NUO", "length": 1529, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sportyshow.com", "title": "Report: Pelicans want 4 1st-round picks from Lakers for Davis \u2013 Sporty Show", "raw_content": "Report: Pelicans want 4 1st-round picks from Lakers for Davis\nThe New Orleans Pelicans aren\u2019t willing to part with Anthony Davis ahead of Thursday\u2019s trade deadline without landing a massive return.\nNew Orleans is reportedly seeking four first-round picks and second-round picks from the Los Angeles Lakers to part with the six-time All-Star, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.\nThere\u2019s some urgency for the Lakers to try and get a deal done prior to the deadline. Not only will they secure Davis for the rest of this season and next, but they\u2019ll also prevent the Boston Celtics from having a shot at trading for the star center. Los Angeles is one of Davis\u2019 preferred destinations, and the club reportedly offered a package of Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, Lance Stephenson, Rajon Rondo, and Michael Beasley in hopes of landing Davis.\nIt was reported earlier Monday that there is debate among the Pelicans\u2019 front office about a willingness to trade Davis to Los Angeles, leading Lakers president Magic Johnson to grow increasingly pessimistic about a deal getting done.\nDavis has not played since Jan. 19 due to a hand injury, but was cleared for practice Monday. There is no guarantee the Pelicans will play him again this season, even if he isn\u2019t traded.\nThe 25-year-old is averaging a career-high 29.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.6 blocks in 41 games this season while earning $25.4 million.\nPrevious ArticleNFL Mock Draft 2.0: Where does Kyler Murray land?\nNext ArticleRanking the 2019 MLB spring training hats", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sprucerunlutheran.com/scrapbook/blessing-animals-2015-14/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:46Z", "digest": "sha1:W2UEGD4MJZP7AGQ6H2Y43V5WASAOXTAJ", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sprucerunlutheran.com", "title": "Blessing, Animals, 2015-14 \u2013 Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church", "raw_content": "Blessed medallions were given to each pet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 22143, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stevegtennis.com/2014/06/richard-gasquet-vs-robin-haase-preview-atp-halle-2014-round-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:YDGJOIR35XO2FM62KFR7DLBCZ24MPWSS", "length": 2211, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.stevegtennis.com", "title": "Richard Gasquet vs Robin Haase Preview \u2013 ATP Halle 2014 Round 1 | STEVE G TENNIS", "raw_content": "Richard Gasquet vs Robin Haase Preview \u2013 ATP Halle 2014 Round 1\nJune 9, 2014 Karim Zidan ATP Halle, Richard Gasguet, Robin Haase, Tennis News 2015, Tennis Previews & Predictions No comments\nOne of the more intriguing first-round matches at the Gerry Weber Open is between France\u2019s Richard Gasquet and Robin Haase, who will cross paths on the professional tour for the third time in their careers. Gasquet leads the head-to-head series 2-0, both of which took place in the 2012 season.\nAfter missing the entire clay court warm-up up season ahead of Roland Garros, Richard Gasquet surprised many when he was ale to reach the third round in Paris before losing to Fernando Verdaco in straight sets. Considering his back injury that had debilitated him for the past few months, his performance in Paris was a promising sign for his recovery. Now, the Frenchman will focus his attention on the grass-court portion of the season.\nUnlike his French opponent, Dutch native Robin Haase played quite a few tournaments on clay, including a Challenger event after the French Open. Starting with his appearance in Bucharest, Haase went 3-5 on the ATP World Tour, and 1-1 on the Challenger circuit. He will be looking to improve upon that on the grass, but has been dealt a tough competitor in his opening match in London.\nThis marks the third time these two competitors will cross paths on the professional tour, and the first time at Queen\u2019s Club. Gasquet leads the series 2-0, with the easier of the two wins taking place at the Aegon Championships in the form of a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 win in the opening round. It will be interesting to see if history will repeat itself on this particular occasion, as Gasquet is a more qualified grass court competitor, yet his recovering injury makes him a less certain pick this time around.\nPrediction: Richard Gasquet in Three Sets\nFederer wins Halle title for the 7th tim...\nRoger Federer vs Alejandro Falla Preview...\nFederer beats Nishikori to reach Halle f...\nRoger Federer vs Kei Nishikori Preview \u2013...\nGael Monfils vs Benjamin Becker Preview \u2013 ATP Halle 2014 Round 1\nA compelling opening round match is scheduled to take place at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, as France's...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stjosephypsilanti.com/Knights-of-Columbus-8113", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HFW7X4UGO2YKYHDKDTBAJSEXFHPBHB2K", "length": 1791, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stjosephypsilanti.com", "title": "Knights of Columbus Council #8113 | St. Joseph Catholic Church", "raw_content": "St Joseph Catholic Church is blessed by the presence and service of Knights of Columbus Council #8113. Knights are Catholic men committed to making their community a better place, while supporting their Church. Being a Knight is more than camaraderie. It is about being involved with your community, supporting your local Catholic Church, enhancing your own faith and protecting and enhancing your family life.\nAll Catholic Men age 18 yrs. and older who are practicing their faith are eligible for membership. If you want to associate with people who share your beliefs and interests, please join us.\nFor an application or additional information, contact us at 734-461-6464 or speak to any council member.\nBelow are the four principles guiding all the good works of the Knights (copied from the Knights of Columbus website):\nUnity \u2013 None of us is as good as all of us. Members of the Knights of Columbus all know that\u2013together\u2013we can accomplish far more than any of us could individually. So we stick together\u2026we support one another. That doesn\u2019t mean that we always agree or that there is never a difference of opinion. It does mean that\u2013as a Knight of Columbus\u2013you can count on the support and encouragement of your brother Knights as you work to make life better in your parish and community.\nFraternity \u2013 The Venerable Michael J. McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, in large part, to provide assistance to the widows and children left behind when the family breadwinner died\u2013often prematurely. The Order\u2019s top-rated insurance program continues to do this today, as do individual Knights, who last year gave more than 10 million hours of their time to assist sick and/or disabled members and their families. In the Knights of Columbus, we watch out for and take care of one another.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.strattoncoop.com/index.cfm?show=30&mid=41", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:20Z", "digest": "sha1:V4JFLJYX6LTKWGBUVR2HJFA4XX63ILQY", "length": 4315, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.strattoncoop.com", "title": "Stratton Equity Coop", "raw_content": "Stratton Equity Coop\n98 Colorado Avenue\nhr@stratton.coop\nType of Employment Desired: Full-Time Part-Time Temporary Any Available\nJanuary February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021\nAre you able to meet the attendance requirements? 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Accordingly, either I or the employer can terminate the relationship at will, with or without cause, an any time, so long as there is no violation of applicable federal or state law.\nI understand that it is the policy of Stratton Equity Coop not to refuse to hire or otherwise discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of that persons need for reasonable accomodations as required by the ADA.\nTo certify your application, and to acknowledge these terms, please electronically sign by entering your FULL name in the field below and then click \"signature confirmed\" and verify today's date.\nBy providing this electronic signature, I agree with all the statements contained and certify the accuracy of the information I have provided.\nEnter Electronic Signature:\nSignature Confirmed?\nStratton Equity Coop provides equal employment opportunites to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state or local laws. 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Please type the verification text in the box below and then click \"Submit\" to complete your application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sugarlovedesigns.net/blog/2011/12/dominoes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PH3ZOUWXS43D3EAOY6WN3YGSA56CDAJO", "length": 358, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sugarlovedesigns.net", "title": "Dominoes - Sugar Love Designs", "raw_content": "As the holiday season pass, I find myself missing my family members who reside in Jamaica. Numero Uno\u2026.my grandmother, who by the way loves to play Dominoes and is serious about this game. She definitely tries to dominate the game and often talks \u201cmad junk\u201d throughout. It\u2019s always a good time and I look forward to another game when we see each other again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.surgeoncolorectal.co.uk/procedures/femoral-hernia-repair/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LT2WRTCZ6IMPOZ6BTKHDFV2M3L3EXYUK", "length": 3602, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.surgeoncolorectal.co.uk", "title": "Femoral Hernia Repair | Shahab Siddiqi, Colorectal Surgeon", "raw_content": "Surgery as soon as possible is recommended for all people diagnosed with a femoral hernia, whether they have symptoms or not, because of the high risk of this type of hernia becoming trapped (strangulated) and causing serious damage to the bowel. Repair of a femoral hernia can be performed as an open or laparoscopic (keyhole) procedure. There are a number of issues to consider when choosing between these two approaches which will be discussed thoroughly with you. For example, if you have had multiple abdominal operations before or have major ongoing medical problems, an open approach is generally needed. On the other hand, if you are otherwise fit and well and need to return to work as soon as possible, the laparoscopic approach could be a better option.\nYou will have the opportunity to discuss fully all the risks and benefits of your operation with me before signing your consent form.\nWhen performed using the traditional open approach (herniorrhaphy), a small 5 cm cut is made in the groin to access the hernia. The bulging (herniated) loop of bowel or fatty tissue is then returned to its correct place in the pelvic cavity. A special mesh* patch is then used to reinforce the abdominal wall, which reduces the risk of the hernia returning.\nThe laparoscopic approach for a femoral hernia repair is similar to the open one except that the hernia is repaired with mesh using instruments inserted through small cuts on your abdomen.Three cuts (1\u20131.5 cm long) are made (one near the navel and the others about 10 cm away on either side). A tube-like telescopic camera is inserted through one of the cuts so that the hernia can be seen on a television screen, and surgical instruments are passed through the other two cuts to repair the hernia. 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The pain may take up to 4 weeks to resolve completely. Analgesic medication will be given to you to take home. Some of the analgesia results in constipation so you will also be given laxatives to take home.\nThe watertight surgical glue applied to your wound site (s) sets in 3 minutes so you can bathe and shower as normal when you get home. The glue can be picked off at home 10 days after your surgery.\nIn the event that a femoral hernia becomes trapped (strangulated) and part of the bowel is damaged, the affected part may need to be removed and the two ends of healthy bowel re-joined. This is a bigger operation done as an emergency, and you may need to stay in hospital for 4\u20135 days to allow the injured area of the bowel to settle.\nA follow-up appointment in the clinic will be arranged for 1\u20132 weeks after your surgery to check your wound(s) and discuss any further management if required.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 8771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sustainablescientists.org/about/our-aims-and-values/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KXZJTL5REWY5YEPKFURQPFWE7LJL6YMA", "length": 1886, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.sustainablescientists.org", "title": "Our Values | NESSE", "raw_content": "Our values are driven by the desire to empower early-career scientists to tackle today\u2019s environmental and energy challenges, and move towards a sustainable future.\nSolution-oriented, optimistic, and pragmatic\nWe are conscious of the environmental and energy challenges facing our planet. 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Part 2\nChoosing a Conversation System\nThis is the second part of a three-part article on creating non-player characters using TADS 3.\nPart 1: Creating Dynamic Characters in TADS 3\nPart 3: Programming Conversations with NPCs in TADS 3\nAppendix: Quick Reference: Eric Eve's quick reference guide to the TADS 3 library's NPC features. (For best printed results, it's also available in PDF format.)\nPerhaps the most vexing problem of all in creating lifelike NPCs is conversation. This is the part of Interactive Fiction where the immensity of the gap between modern software technology and human-level intelligence becomes most apparent. This is also the problem that has made Artificial Intelligence research appear so hopeless to so many people: despite decades of effort by top scientists, not only has no one ever passed the deceptively simple Turing Test, no one even truly knows where to begin. A significant, if unexpected, result from AI research has certainly been that the workings of the human mind are vastly more subtle than they at first appear.\nSo what's a pragmatic IF author to do? Clearly it's beyond our reach to create characters that can engage the player in actual conversations; the best we can hope to do is create the impression of conversations - not the illusion, but the impression. What do I mean by this? I mean that we don't try to actually fool the player into thinking our characters are real people, but rather concentrate on giving the player the feeling of having a conversation even though the player knows it's not real.\nInteractive Fiction authors have been grappling with this problem since the format was invented. Given that it's been somewhere around thirty years (at the time of this writing) since the first adventure games were created, and given that the conversation problem is far from solved, it might seem that progress has been ridiculously slow. I don't think that's evidence of a lack of creativity or effort on the part of the IF community, though; I think it just goes to show how hard a problem this is.\nWe won't get into the actual programming details of implementing conversations until the next part of the article. In this part, we look at conversation systems at the design level. We'll start with a survey of the main types of systems that have been tried, with an eye to their strengths and weaknesses. After that, I have some recommendations for authors thinking about what kind of conversation system to use in their own games.\nSurvey of IF conversation systems\nWe start by looking at some of the conversation systems that have been used in past works of Interactive Fiction. This list certainly isn't exhaustive, but it covers most of the systems that have been widely used.\nIF occupies a wide, blurry band on the spectrum between completely static fiction and full-blown \"virtual reality\" experiences, and it's certainly not the case that every game aims for exactly the same kind of effect. In assessing the different conversation systems, I'm obviously making certain assumptions about the kinds of effects the game is trying to achieve. A system that's terrible for one game might be perfect for another. So, you'll have to adjust my remarks about what's good and bad about the different systems according to the specific effects you're trying to achieve.\nCheap AI\nA few games (notably Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic) have tried various \"cheap AI\" approaches. That is, they try to create the illusion that NPCs understand natural language input by disguising a much simpler technique that's within the reach of modern software. One such approach is \"keyword\" matching: tell the player to type actual English sentences, then scan the input for certain meaningful words, simply ignoring the sentence structure and any words that we don't know. A similar but slightly more sophisticated technique is \"regular expression\" matching, along the lines of the classic \"Eliza\" program (a simulated psychoanalyst that used textual templates to recognize a number of basic sentence structures, then parroted back the user's input, usually with some grammatical rearrangement based on the templates).\nIn practice, this type of interface hasn't been very successful, mostly because none of the known \"cheap AI\" techniques stands up to even modest scrutiny. Despite the naive appeal of keyword matching, it suffers mightily from its lack of context sensitivity (minor changes, like inserting the word \"not\" or rearranging a couple of words, can completely change the meaning of a sentence), and also fails to cope with simple problems like homonyms (more precisely, homographs: words that are spelled the same way but have different meanings). Eliza-style regular expression matching is a poor fit to the actual tree-like, highly recursive internal structure of natural languages, so it fails when presented with anything beyond the structures specifically enumerated by the programmer.\nThe main problem with the cheap AI approaches is that players quickly see through them. Technically sophisticated players realize at once what's really going on, and adjust their playing styles accordingly; many Starship Titanic players report that they started just entering individual keywords once they saw what the parser was doing, because the parser became confused too easily when a single input contained multiple keywords. Technically unsophisticated players might not be able to infer the internal behavior; what they will do is decide that the program is buggy because its responses are so obviously incongruous with their input. Neither kind of player is fooled into thinking the program understands what they're saying. To my mind, if you can't successfully fool the player, it's better not to try, because you're expending your effort making the wrong thing good. It's like hiring an architect who usually builds airports to design your house: if she spends a bunch of time making sure the baggage claim in the living room is easy to use, it's a waste of effort, since you're never actually going to claim baggage in your living room. It's much better to just tell the player up front how the program really works, and then spend your effort making that experience good.\nAn experimental system called Fa\u00e7ade, by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, uses a combination of AI techniques and emotion-state modeling to create a sort of electronic improvisational theater. Fa\u00e7ade has receive a lot of attention both among IFers and in the broader game development community, and many consider it groundbreaking. The system's approach isn't exactly \"cheap\" AI; it's more like mid-priced AI, in that it sticks to the well-known conventional techniques of natural language parsing (keyword matching, templates, grammatical parsing), but throws a ton development effort at the problem: it seems to have a huge database of keywords, templates, and grammar patterns that it tries to match. Most people have been favorably impressed by the results, although the system still won't truly fool anyone (i.e., it won't pass any Turing tests). If you hold out hope for an AI approach, you might or might not take comfort from Fa\u00e7ade; on the one hand, it seems to show that conventional NLP techniques can yield incrementally better results with incrementally more work, so it's not completely pointless to try; on the other hand, it took a lot of work to get the results they did, and they still aren't fooling anyone, so you might conclude you're better off putting your effort into something with a higher return on investment.\nThe earliest IF conversation interface was probably the ASK/TELL system, and this still seems to be the most widely used style. With the ASK/TELL system, the player converses with characters using commands like ASK MAN ABOUT BACCARAT.\nA big advantage of the ASK/TELL system is that it integrates smoothly with the rest of the user interface, in that conversational commands have exactly the same format as any other command (VERB-DOBJ-PREP-IOBJ).\nASK/TELL is \"open-ended,\" which is both good and bad, in varying degrees to different people. It's open-ended in the sense that there are no apparent limits to what you can ask about; you can type anything you like after the word ABOUT, after all. This is good, since it creates a feeling of boundless freedom for the player; but it's bad, in that that freedom is an illusion. The reality is that only a limited number of pre-programmed topics actually have interesting responses. For many players, the illusion of boundless freedom is quickly destroyed when ten topics in a row all return \"I don't know about that.\" To some people, the invisibility of the limits is good, separately from any illusion of freedom, in that it maintains an \"inductive\" challenge rather than the purely deductive one that would result from enumerating the valid inputs; to other people, the same thing is bad in that it fosters \"guess the noun\" puzzles that are as annoying as \"guess the verb\" puzzles are in normal play.\nAnother property of the ASK/TELL system is that it usually makes for \"stateless\" conversations. Each ASK/TELL command is essentially a little self-contained interaction; we ask a question, the character answers, and that's it. Sometimes there's a small amount of context: asking about the same topic repeatedly might elicit different responses, for example. However, this isn't usually true conversation state, in that you could probably get the same results by asking, doing something else, asking again, doing something else again, and so on: all that matters is the number of times you asked, not that you asked several times in a row. This statelessness is mostly a disadvantage, I think; with no continuity from one ASK to the next, there's no sense of a conversation, just these weird, unnatural, isolated fragments of conversation. There's also this strange sort of static familiarity: when we walk up to a character for the first time, never having met the character before, and ASK ABOUT something, the character just answers, as though they've known us for years and as though we've been chatting for half an hour already. By the same token, talk with a character for half an hour, ask an umpteenth question, and it's like we're meeting the character for the first time. There's an almost dream-like surrealism to it, as though you're always waking up into a conversation that's been going on forever and will keep going on forever. The only good thing about the stateless quality is that it avoids the \"menu maze\" effect that can sometimes occur in menu-based systems.\nAnother substantial drawback of ASK/TELL is that it's difficult to create the illusion of a natural conversation with such a limited range of expression. There's no way to agree or disagree with something an NPC says; no way to greet, chastise, comfort, ridicule, sympathize with, flatter, insult, thank, or apologize to a character; no way to lie or be frank; no way even to express exactly what you want to ASK or TELL someone about a given topic. Some games have experimented with adding verbs for some or all of these things: THANK, INSULT, APOLOGIZE, COMFORT, JOKE, SMILE, FROWN, and on and on; but in practice this ends up being almost like adding adverbs, in that it does nothing but add an exploding number of new commands that hardly ever do anything interesting. And if guess-the-noun is a game that's no fun, guess-the-noun-adverb-combo is positively hideous.\nGraphical adventures introduced menu-based UIs for conversations many years ago, and text games have been experimenting with this approach for a while now as well. In most formulations, the player initiates a conversation via some sort of TALK TO command (which, in graphical games, might just be a matter of clicking on the NPC), and is then presented with a list of options; the player selects an option, the NPC responds, and a new list of options is displayed. This proceeds until the player chooses to end the conversation or runs out of things to say. The nature of the options varies; in some games, it's a list of literal things for the player character to say, and in others it's a list of topics. In some text formulations (notably some of Emily Short's work), the player has the additional axis of control of switching to a different topic at any time, using a free-form command akin to ASK.\nMenus gives authors two key elements of control lacking in ASK/TELL systems. First, a menu strictly limits the range of input; rather than having to handle any possible ASK topic, at any given prompt we only have to handle the set of three or four options that we specifically enumerate at that prompt. Second, because we're enumerating the options, we're free to make the choices as detailed and expressive as we want - we could offer options to ask the same question in either understanding or accusing tones, for example. We could in principle do the same thing with ASK/TELL using adverbs or something, but doing so would increase the already huge search space to the point where we could never expect players to find the few options we actually implement; with menus, this isn't a problem, since the options are openly laid out for the player to choose from.\nA major benefit of menu-based conversations is that it's relatively easy to make menus stateful. In most menu systems, after we select an option from our current menu, we don't simply return to the current menu - we go to an entirely new menu. This allows the author to create the effect of a thread of conversation, which is almost always much more natural than the staccato fragments of ASK/TELL. The reason it's fairly easy to create threaded menu conversations, but hard to create threaded ASK/TELL conversations, boils down to the limited range of options at each point. With ASK/TELL, it's simply impractical to be able to thread to any topic from any other topic; this would require anticipating (topics queries) possible threadings, where topics is the number of possible topics (i.e., indirect objects of ASK ABOUT), and queries is the number of ASK commands in an entire conversation. Menu authors are faced with the exact same arithmetic, but topics is replaced by menu options, which can easily be kept at three or four without arousing any discomfort from the player; this would be impractical for ASK/TELL, because limiting the player to three or four valid ASK topics at a time would create an unacceptable \"guess the noun\" game. In practice, the expanse of the menu tree is further reduced - vastly so - by looping (where a branch leads back to a prior node) and converging (where several branches lead to the same node).\nA disadvantage of the statefulness advantage is that it can create a \"menu maze\" effect for players. That is, players will sense that the conversation menus form a graph of nodes, and they'll naturally desire to exhaustively visit every node in the graph, but they won't have a clear idea of how to navigate the graph because it's so hidden. My own experience as a player suggests that the best way to avoid this problem is simply to avoid using menu-based conversations as puzzles; in other words, don't hide anything important in branches of a menu tree, but always put the vital information in \"trunk\" nodes that all conversation paths eventually converge upon. This approach might seem to eliminate any challenge and make conversations useless, but again, drawing from my own experience, I think it can improve the feeling of interactivity by giving the player an enjoyable experience threading through a conversation menu, but at the same time freeing the player of any incentive to go back through the menu to exhaustively map out the tree. I personally find these sorts of things a lot more satisfying if I'm not forced to treat them as puzzle boxes to be disassembled. Conversations can serve more important purposes than just hiding puzzle solutions; they can flesh out characters and develop the plot.\nMenus obviously constrain the player's options; this is both good and bad. It's good in that it eliminates any chance of a guess-the-noun puzzle; players will never feel like they're hunting around in the dark for the right keyword. It's bad in that it brings the mechanism so obviously to the foreground that players almost can't help but approach it mechanistically. It also makes the boundaries of the game plain; many people find this undesirable because it removes the illusion of boundless possibilities. (A free-form \"topic switching\" capability can mitigate the feeling of being constrained to a few options, but it can't eliminate it entirely; even if \"or anything else\" is always an option, the fact that options \"A\" and \"B\" and \"C\" are enumerated can't help but call attention to the existence of boundaries.) I personally think that the supposed \"boundless\" quality of text IF is overrated; I think a big part of the reason that most people don't like text IF is the stark contrast between the promise of \"boundlessness\" and the reality of \"I don't know that word.\" I think most people approach a text game with that wonderful promise of endless choices in their minds, and after the fiftieth \"you can't do that here\" or \"I don't know that word\" or \"I don't know anything about that\" they give up and go play something with graphics and a sane UI. Even so, a lot of people who do like text IF say that the illusion of boundlessness is a key reason why, so it's worth keeping this in mind when designing a game.\nFor all their good features, menus are a poor fit to the conventional text IF user interface. To me, this is a bigger drawback than the illusory reduction in range of action. The fundamental problem is that menus are a multiple-choice test, and the rest of the interface is an essay contest. To me, the charm of the free-form command UI isn't its supposed boundlessness (see rant above); it's the subtle UI transparency, the illusion that you're not operating a computer program at all but are just carrying on a conversation with the story's narrator. As I emphasized earlier, it's not important that we actually fool the player into thinking she's in a conversation with a human narrator; what's important is to do nothing to jar the player out of her willing suspension of disbelief. Every menu UI I've seen in a text game involves some sort of obvious break from the standard narrative output and command input; the break calls attention to the UI and thereby degrades the conversation-with-narrator experience. Here's a summary of the menu UIs that authors have tried:\nThe most common approach is to show a numbered list of choices, with one choice per line for readability. You get a special prompt at which you type the number of your selection. This is bad on two counts: the list of options is not prose rendered in the narrator's voice, so it doesn't fit in with the rest of the transcript, and the input of a numbered choice doesn't fit with the usual command input format. The special prompt is bad on the general UI design grounds that modal interfaces are bad except under specific conditions that do not apply in this case.\nRecognizing the incongruity of the numbered list, some authors render the list in a separate window on interpreters that can support such UI tricks. This helps a little, by taking the list out of the transcript. It doesn't solve the input problem, and it doesn't truly address the main problem, which is that there's a special UI at all. It is arguably a better special UI than the in-line numbered list, but it's still a special UI.\nSome games use a standard command input prompt rather than a special prompt. Entering a number at the prompt selects a menu; anything else is treated as a normal command. This eliminates the modality problem, but doesn't address the exceptional input format or the unsightly numbered list.\nKathleen M. Fischer's Redemption introduced an interesting variation. Rather than using a numbered list, the game shows a brief list of options, in paragraph form - something like \"...ask about Malcolm, agree, disagree, or tell him to leave.\" At the prompt, the player enters one of the keywords from the desired option - so to choose \"tell him to leave\" we might type \"leave.\" Although there's still a list of options displayed, it almost fits in with the surrounding narrative text; at a glance, it certainly doesn't stand out the way a numbered list or a separate window does. In addition, by using keywords as the player input, there's superfically a feeling of entering an ordinary command rather than a number from a multiple-choice list. It's almost as though the list of options is a little gentle guidance from the narrator, as though we could type anything else we wanted, but we choose not to. The one failing of the system as implemented in Redemption is that the input prompt at these menus is modal. With a modeless prompt (so that we could either choose a menu keyword or enter any ordinary command), the system might well address most of the UI drawbacks I see in menu systems.\nHyperlinked replies\nA variation on the menu system is to show options as keywords, using some distinctive visual style, embedded within an NPC's responses. So, you ask the villager about the cave, and the villager replies \"Don't go in that cave! There are all sorts of monsters there! But also legends of a great treasure!\" The keywords are topics for subsequent ASK commands. A number of RPGs have used this technique (RPG = Role-Playing Game, which is actually a much narrower niche than you'd think from the name; in industry parlance, RPG almost always means something with D&D-derived rules and a particular kind of UI). The usual UI involves essentially hyperlinks: some of the words in the NPC's response to a query will be highlighted visually, and clicking on one of the highlighted words asks the NPC about that word, which elicits another response with more highlighted keywords, etc.\nThis style is almost exactly like menu-based conversations; the only real difference is in how the UI is presented. (Interestingly, I don't think I've seen it used in a text game, even though it's been used in numerous RPGs.) Apart from the practical problem that some interpreter platforms might be unable to show a special visual appearance for the keywords, this approach would seem to have the same sort of problems as other menu-based UIs. In particular, the special highlighted appearance of the keywords would be an obvious intrusion of the UI into the narrative text. It also suffers from one of the big problems with ASK/TELL: it's impossible to express any thought beyond \"WHAT IS (X)?\"\nMenu-less TALK TO\nBack in the old days of MS-DOS software, product managers spent a lot of time worrying about how difficult the installation process tended to be. The buzzword of the time, and the sort of holy grail of product managers, was the \"one-button install\" - an installation process so simple that the user just had to click on the button that said \"install.\" It always seemed to me that if you could get the install down to one button, then they ought to just push it at the factory and give the user a zero-button install.\nSome authors have taken a similar sort of tack with conversation systems. The idea is to take the key feature of menus - limiting input options to an enumerated set - to its logical extreme, which is to reduce each menu to a single option. Once a menu has only one option, we can dispense with the menu entirely, since there's no need to solicit player input when there's no choice to be made. This eliminates the user interface problems of menu systems, while retaining some of the main benefits: the player doesn't play guess-the-noun, the author has control over the range of options, and the options (well, option, singular) can be arbitrarily detailed and expressive.\nSeveral games have taken this route, notably Ian Finley's Kaged and Stephen Granade's Common Ground. In concrete terms, conversations look something like this:\n>talk to bob\n\"I was out at the lighthouse today,\" you start.\nBob looks extremely flustered. \"What are you talking about?\"\nhe asks. \"They tore that place down years ago, after the...\nIn other words, the player initiates a conversation, but has no control over what the player character says. A single TALK TO command typically invokes a single exchange; to continue the conversation, the player would enter a new TALK TO command. As with menu systems, this approach constrains the problem space to an extent that allows for a great deal of awareness of context - the player character can say specific things that are appropriate to the plot and character development, and conversations can follow a subject thread.\nThis approach has received a mixed reception from reviewers. Obviously, it trades off a lot of interactivity for the increased authorial control, which some people hate and others don't mind so much. It doesn't completely remove the player's control, since the player can choose to talk or not, and can continue with a conversation or not; but even so, the reduction in control is so drastic that players cannot help but notice. My own experience with games using this sort of system is that it can make for natural, realistic conversations, just as menus can, but that there's something too distancing about it. It's perhaps too similar to finding a diary in the game and reading it: it can give us interesting background material, but it's more like reading about a conversation than participating in it.\nThere are a few other approaches worth mentioning. These are less widely used or less generally applicable than the systems we've already talked about, but merit at least a passing mention.\nA game without NPCs solves the conversation problem by bypassing it entirely. As such, \"no conversation system\" isn't exactly a type of conversation system, but it could be considered a solution of sorts to the problem if only because it's one that a lot of authors have used.\nA few authors have tried interactions based on emotions rather than topic-like information. Rather than verbs like ASK, TELL, GIVE, and SHOW, we might have verbs such as HAPPY, SAD, POUT, FLATTER; or we might have adverbial variations of conversational gestures, such as GREET WARMLY or GREET SUSPICIOUSLY. Characters are modeled as emotion state machines, and the game is in pushing the characters through their emotional mazes to some desired goal. There has yet to be a truly successful example of this approach. The closest, and most ambitious, is probably Chris Crawford's Erasmatron. Many IFers who've looked at Erasmatron consider it a failure that proves that this approach won't work (the main sample game produces results that are so bizarre and incoherent that it became a running joke in the IF newgroups for a while); Crawford's supporters counter that the engine has potential that hasn't been properly tapped in example work yet. Adam Cadre's Varicella uses a sort of hybrid of emotions and conventional ASK/TELL, allowing the player to choose a tone of voice for each question. But the range of tones is quite limited (to three possibilities), and the effect seems mostly superficial; in fact, if the range of tones weren't so limited or the effect were anything other than superficial, the exploding number of possibilities would probably make the game impossibly difficult (both for the author to write and for the player to play).\nASK/TELL systems sometimes make me feel like I'm in a foreign land where I don't speak the language, and my only way to communicate is to point at things - a crippingly limited mode of expression. Sometimes, though, a story actually is set in a foreign land, or it's set on an alien planet, or the player character is autistic, or there's some other good story-rooted reason that the player character can't communicate straightforwardly with the story's other characters. In these cases, the limitations of IF conversational systems can actually work to the game's advantage. Lucian P. Smith's Edifice uses this to good effect. Obviously, though, this technique has limited applicability.\nAndrew Plotkin's Spider and Web uses a possibly unique approach that essentially inverts the typical ASK/TELL style: rather than the PC peppering NPCs with questions, an NPC asks the questions and the PC answers. The trick is that the questions are all of the YES/NO variety, so the range of player input that the parser has to understand is neatly limited. This could certainly be extended to multiple-choice answers (\"Which one do you like better, the blue one or the green one?\"), but even so, it's hardly a general-purpose conversation system; it requires a degree of contrivance in the game structure that severely limits its reusability.\nAs you might have noticed, I have some opinions about what works and what doesn't in the various conversation systems. In a moment, I'll distill these down into some recommendations. First, though, I want to emphasize that these are only suggestions. Conversation systems are very much a matter of taste, and there are plenty of people who like the exact opposite of what I do. Also, the conversation system that's best for a given game depends a lot on the nature of the game, so my one-size-fits-all advice has to be adjusted accordingly. And most importantly, no one's actually figured out how to build a perfect conversation system yet, so the last thing I'd want to do is stop people from trying new ideas - some of my suggestions borrow from pretty recent games, so I don't think we've come near to exhausting the possibilities yet. If you have a scheme of your own that don't fit any of the established patterns, and you think it has advantages over the existing systems, then by all means ignore my recommendations and show us a better way.\nSo, on to my recommendations.\nMuch as I like the way menus can create the sense of a real conversation, I'd recommend against using the sort of menus that graphical games use. An enumeration of options is just not a good fit to the look or the feel of a text game. The text IF user interface demands something that can be rendered in the narrator's voice, and something that at least feels more open-ended. The menu-less TALK TO is really a degenerate case of menus, so I'd recommend against it as well. I'd also stay well away from \"cheap AI\" systems, since they don't fool anyone, and don't have much to recommend them apart from the false promise of fooling players.\nWhat this leaves us with is ASK/TELL. Despite the drawbacks, ASK/TELL is what I'd recommend - but with a few differences from the conventional system.\nUse full exchanges\nFirst, I recommend rendering each ASK/TELL as a full exchange, with both the player character's question and the NPC's answer explicitly stated. The traditional ASK/TELL system looks like this:\n>ask bob about antenna\n\"I climbed it once. It's pretty scary up there.\"\nInstead, I'd render the exchange like this:\n\"Have you been to the antenna?\" you ask.\n\"I climbed it once,\" Bob says. \"It's pretty scary up there.\nGreat view of the city, though.\"\nIt's a subtle difference, but an important one. The traditional style elides the player character's actual words, showing only the NPC's response. This is in keeping with the traditional view that the player character is literally the player, in which case the player character's actual words have to be left unsaid, since we can't pretend to know the exact words the player means to say. In the more modern view, the player character is distinct from the player and should have a well-defined personality. Conversation is a great opportunity to flesh out this characterization. What's more, with a player character who's distinct from the player, it's incongruous not to show the character's half of the conversation, since that implies that the character's words are literally \"ask bob about antenna,\" or perhaps just \"Antenna?\"\nUse hellos and goodbyes\nI would consider giving some conversations a beginning and an end. This doesn't mean that you have to create a complex protocol that players have to follow; instead, it means that your NPCs treat \"conversing with player\" as a separate state, and add appropriate remarks when switching to and from this conversation state. Here's the effect I have in mind:\nBob looks up from his ledger and takes off his glasses. \"Yes?\"\n>ask about view\n\"What could you see from the antenna?\"\n\"Well,\" Bob says, \"I remember being able to see all the way out\nto the lighthouse.\"\nBob turns his attention back to his ledger.\nThe street is deserted, as usual for these days. [...]\nUse \"threading\"\nEven with ASK/TELL, we could provide some simple \"threading\" in certain cases - that is, we can recognize obvious follow-up questions, such as the ASK ABOUT VIEW in the example above. It's impractical to do this to the extent you would in a menu system, but it's still possible to do some of the time. The trick is to recognize cases where a subject thread is so strong that the player will just naturally follow it. Remember: the player is talking to the NPC because they want some specific information, which you've set them up to want in the first place through the goals you created for the player. An NPC response to one question can raise a new question in such a way that the player will naturally want to ask it: \"I don't know about the idol, but I heard an interesting rumor about your friend Dr. Philips\"; or, \"the idol is in the Chamber of Dung Beetles,\" and then \"They say you need the Scroll of Tuht-Ro to get into the Chamber.\" You don't need bright blue hyperlinked text to guess what to ASK ABOUT next in responses like these.\nA warning about threaded conversations is in order, though: don't overuse them, and don't use these conversation \"branches\" to hide critical information. The \"menu maze\" effect is highly undesirable - and a maze of free-form ASK/TELLs would be far worse than a maze of multiple-choice menu entries. Conversations are best used, I think, for characterization and plot development; they're not a great place to put puzzles, because they're too prone to becoming guess-the-noun puzzles. Adding puzzles that depend on correct navigation of branching conversations would exponentially compound this problem by creating guess-the-series-of-nouns puzzles; this would be almost unthinkably awful.\nUse a \"topic inventory\"\nIf guess-the-noun and guess-the-series-of-nouns puzzles are bad, how do we avoid them without dropping the whole ASK/TELL approach? One simple way is to avoid using conversation as a source of puzzles; this way, if players miss a few topics or a few thread paths, it won't prevent them from advancing in the game. Another approach is to provide some guidance. Menus are one way to provide guidance, but I've explained why I don't think they're quite right for text games. As an alternative to menus, I suggest something I call \"topic inventory.\"\nThe topic inventory is essentially a list of suggested topics for ASK or TELL commands. It's not an exhaustive list of possible topics; it's just a list of topics that the player character is interested in knowing about. Some might object that this is presumptuous: how would the game know what the player is curious about? But that's not it at all: if the player character is distinct from the player, then it's the player character to whom we're attributing the curiosity.\nIn concrete terms, the topic inventory might be presented like this:\n(You could ask about the antenna, or tell him about the lighthouse\nor the giant rat.)\n>tell about lighthouse\n\"I was in the lighthouse earlier today,\" you start.\nBob becomes quite flustered. \"What are you talking about? That\nthing was torn down years ago, after the... troubles.\"\n>topics\n(You could ask about the antenna, or the troubles, or tell him\nabout the giant rat.)\nThis is the least tested of my suggested extensions to the traditional ASK/TELL system, and you might have some reservations about it. I'll try to address a few of the potential drawbacks.\nWouldn't a topic inventory eliminate the challenge, like menus? Maybe, but probably not. Unlike menus, the topic inventory doesn't promise to be complete; it only lists suggested topics, not every possible topic. The author gets to decide what to suggest, so if a suggestion is too leading, the author can leave it out. Further, the library won't show the topics automatically on every turn the way menus are; the topic inventory will be displayed only when the game's author decides to show it for some reason, or the user explicitly asks for it.\nIn addition, there's a deeper game-design reason why a topic inventory shouldn't harm the challenge: guessing the magic topic shouldn't have been a source of challenge in the first place. Guess-the-topic puzzles are just as bad as guess-the-verb puzzles. In this sense, the topic inventory is a useful design tool: if you resist revealing a topic in the inventory because it would give away too much, you have to ask yourself if it was such a good idea to put such a big revelation into the topic in the first place. In these cases, maybe you can find a way to add more conversation topics that eventually lead the player to the big revelation topic; this way the player still has to dig a bit to find the magic topic, but there's a way to find it other than pure guesswork.\nFrom the author's perspective, I think the reduction in topic obscurity will be more beneficial than harmful. Any dilution of puzzle difficulty could be more than offset by an increase in conversational range. With a conventional ASK/TELL system, authors have to be careful not to put too much information in conversations, lest players become frustrated by guess-the-noun puzzles. With a topic inventory, authors would be free to include topics that are much more subtle, knowing that players will be able to find them.\nFrom the player's perspective, the topic inventory could be viewed almost as mild hints. For the most part, the game won't suggest topics except when asked to, so a hard-core puzzle solver could always bypass the topic suggestions.\nWon't players just type TOPICS at every turn? Again, maybe but probably not. First, if there are a few things in one topic inventory list, players will probably at least try each of those before asking again. Second, topics usually won't come and go at every juncture; even in the densest menu system, the majority of branches will be dead ends, since this is the only way that the otherwise exponential growth of the tree can be contained. Players who do start typing TOPICS at every prompt will usually find this behavior unrewarded, and they'll quickly stop bothering. Third, even when one topic does lead to another that leads to another, if the game is decently written, the chain of questions will be implied in the responses anyway. Typing TOPICS again when another topic is clearly implied in the response is wasted effort that players will naturally bypass.\nIt remains to be seen until we get more experience with this scheme, but I expect that players will only ask for TOPICS once in a while, when they're stuck. As long as they're making progress, they won't feel the need to ask for a topic list, and the overhead (however small) of typing the extra command will serve as a natural barrier to overuse.\nThere's one important game design implication to keep in mind, though. If the player ever discovers that typing TOPICS at one crucial moment would have solved a puzzle, but failing to do so resulted in a missed opportunity, then the player will become very annoyed and will start typing TOPICS at every prompt. This is a matter of trust. The TOPICS command can't be used a substitute for proper hinting, and it can't be the sole way for the player to learn about a topic. Every time a player looks at a topic inventory list, the player should recognize everything on the list - the reaction should always be \"oh, of course,\" never \"where the heck did that come from?\"\nIf you're creating a conversation where there are special things the player can say in the context of certain points in the conversation, the game should flat out tell the player about these special things. Here's an example:\n>ask about troubles\n\"What 'troubles' are you talking about?\"\nBob turns his back on you and pretends to go back to his sweeping,\nobviously very agitated.\n(You could ask about the troubles again, or tell him about the\nnewspaper article.)\n>tell about article\nYou lower your voice. \"I found a newspaper article from 1967 about\nthe murder trial. I saw you in the photo of the jury.\"\nThis works toward developing the trust we need from the player. If the player comes to expect us to offer a topic list at these special junctures, they'll trust us not to sneak in special junctures without the listings.\nLet NPCs drive once in a while\nOne of the many strange things about ASK/TELL conversations is the almost invariably passive role of the NPC. Seemingly their only role is to sit there and wait for the player to ask them something. Using actor states and hello/goodbye protocols can help reduce this effect, but even with these enhancements, ASK/TELL conversations are still too obviously one-sided interrogations. So, why not let the NPC drive once in a while?\nThe biggest obstacle to letting the NPC take charge is that the player's expressive range is so limited. But it's not completely empty: we can answer yes-or-no questions, and we can TELL ABOUT topics. We can also GIVE and SHOW things to the NPC.\nBeyond these standard options, we could use the topic inventory to provide non-standard options for individual interactions. So, you could occasionally add special, one-time-only commands (AGREE, DISAGREE, LAUGH, APOLOGIZE, or anything else you want), and let the player know when these are available via a topic inventory. The important thing to realize is that these would not be new commands that the player could use at any time; they'd essentially just be menu choices, each one working only at its proper moment. They wouldn't be guesswork for the player, since we'd show the topic inventory to let the player know about the special options.\nAs with any conversational threading, letting the NPC ask questions requires a certain delicacy. In particular, you have to be sure that it's very clear to the player that they're meant to respond. Make sure it's clear that the NPC's question isn't rhetorical. Offering a topic inventory is a good way to make this more obvious.\nProvide good default responses\nWhen it comes to responding to ASK topics, the more your NPCs can handle, the better. But you'll never be able to think of everything, no matter how hard you try or how many beta-testers you have. This is an area where the vast creativity and power of the human mind work against you - the problem being the vast creativity and power of your players' minds. The fact is that players are going to think of things to ASK and TELL about - lots and lots of things - that would never have occurred to you. And even if you put in responses to all of those things, other players will think of even more things.\nWhen a player enters an ASK or TELL command about a topic you haven't anticipated, they're going to get what's known as a \"default response.\" That's the fall-back, general-purpose response your character uses when you haven't programmed anything specific for the topic. There are two important facts about default messages:\nThe player is going to see them many times.\nThe player is going to see them in response to topics that seem perfectly logical to the player.\nA lot of people think that that first item can be changed by sufficient application of virtuous effort. It usually can't. Virtuous effort can reduce the number of times a player will see default messages, but in a game of any real size, it's darn near impossible to reduce it below \"many.\" The problem is that, at some point in almost any game, the player will get stuck, and one of the ways they'll try to get unstuck is to ask each NPC about everything they can think of.\nThe second item is a bit more subtle. There's a corollary to the virtuous effort postulate: if you've covered all of the reasonable questions, then clearly, any questions you haven't covered are unreasonable. But covering all of the reasonable questions isn't a practical possibility, in my view, so there will inevitably be topics that seem perfectly reasonable to the player but that aren't covered.\nThese two facts imply two properties that default messages should have.\nFirst, the defaults should have some variety. If the player is going to see default messages repeatedly, then at least you can make them a little less boring, and a little less obviously mechanical, by providing more than one. This is especially important for those times when the player is hammering away at an NPC trying to find the magic ASK ABOUT phrase that turns up some interesting information, because the player will likely see the default response several times in a row at these times. A simple but effective trick is to define three or four responses (or even more, for an important NPC), and select one randomly each time a response is needed.\nSecond, the defaults shouldn't suggest that the NPC doesn't know about the topic. The problem with saying \"I don't know about that\" is that it's likely to obvious nonsense. For example, players might ask about something completely off the wall in terms of the game but completely logical in terms of real people; they might ASK ABOUT HIS MOTHER or ASK ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL or something else that's irrelevant to the game but is perfectly relevant to the NPC in a broader cultural context. \"I don't know about that\" just doesn't make any sense in these cases.\nThere's a third important property for default responses: the messages shouldn't mislead the player into thinking that the absence of a useful reply is itself a puzzle. This property isn't a consequence of the frequency of use of these responses, but rather is a matter of good game design. Players are prone to interpreting any obstacle in the game as a puzzle, so you have to be careful not to make the NPC's response look like an obstacle. Using a \"topic inventory\" as described earlier can be a great help here - by giving the player a few topics for which the NPC does respond, you'll show the player immediately that the NPC isn't completely unresponsive, which will guide the player away from thinking that the NPC's help depends on solving a puzzle.\nIt's hard to provide a good response in general that conveys \"I am not programmed to respond in that area\" without sounding like \"I am not programmed to respond in that area,\" and without sounding stupid in cases like ASK ABOUT HIS MOTHER. That's why the library uses the rather bland \"There's no response.\" Depending on the character, you could use a slightly more informative response like \"I don't have anything interesting to tell you about that\" or \"I'd rather not talk about that,\" but these responses run almost the same risk of sounding ridiculous as \"I don't know about that\" for some topics.\nMy recommendation is to use unresponsiveness rather than cluelessness, and to use something that's appropriate to the character. If the character is preoccupied with something, say that the character is too lost in thought or too busy fiddling with something to respond. If the character is hostile, have it just glare, or hurl an insult, or refuse to answer out of sheer orneriness. Used this way, default responses can be a good opportunity to flesh out a character, so at least they're not a complete waste for the player.\nNext: Programming Conversations with NPCs in TADS 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 48696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.techytweaks.com/2010/11/ipad-2-features-leak-include-facetime_28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RFI6VVVF4KRX7MK2CXBJWXF23Z4H6GMM", "length": 1661, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.techytweaks.com", "title": "iPad 2 features leak, include FaceTime + USB ~ techytweaks", "raw_content": "Information about the iPad 2 leaked today, claiming that the device (which is expected sometime in April) will come with five new features. These feature include: a front-facing camera, lighter weight, USB port, new display glass (similar to iPhone 4) and 3-axis gyroscopes, according to a Chinese-language newspaper via DigiTimes.\nIt isn\u2019t surprising that Apple will be introducing the front-facing camera to the iPad 2, as the iPhone 4 iPod touch 4G and even Mac\u2019s have device-to-device video conferencing. During the teardown of the original iPad, it showed a placement for a front-facing camera, something that Apple scrapped sometime during the production phase. The camera placement was located in the top middle, when the iPad was held horizontally.\nThe report also suggests that the iPad 2 will be lighter in weight; a complaint that many customers raised when they first held the iPad. The next shocking feature is the USB port. Being able to load multimedia or even applications through a USB port would be a huge benefit for the device. iPhone-to-iPad 2 tethering anyone?\nThe newspaper also claims that the iPad 2 will feature \u2018new display technology\u2019, which could only mean that Apple plans to use the same glass they used in the iPhone 4 in the iPad 2. This would also mean that Apple would be able to pump a much larger display out of the device, like it did for the iPhone 4.\nThe last feature leaked is the 3-axis gyroscope. The next iPad will have a 3-axis gyroscope, like the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G currently have. 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Media music libraries nowadays offer potentially more lucrative financial returns than commercial labels, as well as an outlet for out-and-out creative ideas commercial labels are unlikely to have much time for.\n\u201cOur writers compose all kinds of music and find that an outlet platform like ours is a perfect fit for some of their material \u2013 maybe not potential hits that they are going to put on a record, but some of their lesser known or instrumental tracks are perfect for us,\u201d explains Larry Mills, director, music products, at Pump Audio/Getty Images, which represents Speech from Arrested Development and Chris Ballew, the frontman of The Presidents of the United States of America.\n\u201cJust recently, the stigma of having your music in a library has worn off. Artists were hesitant to have their music in commercials a few years ago \u2013 now it breaks bands and makes careers,\u201d says Mills.\n\u201cOn top of the obvious extra source of income, it can allow a creative freedom that might otherwise be stifled by record label expectations, or those of the fan base,\u201d adds Rachel Menzies, sales and custom music manager at West One, whose roster of artists includes hip-hop act Nextmen and classical guitarist John Williams.\nToby Slade-Baker, head of commercials at Felt Music, which represents The Doves\u2019 Martin Rebelski, Lemon Jelly\u2019s Nick Franglen and Marco Peroni from Adam and the Ants, agrees: \u201cLibrary music allows composers a greater creative freedom with their music. The best library music is created when an artist simply does what they do best rather than writing to brief,\u201d he says.\n\u201cThe result is just great music that is not \u2018library\u2019 music in the traditional sense but is nonetheless available to users at library rates. It also allows them to revisit pieces of music they started and never finished, or perhaps have no intention of releasing commercially.\u201d\nSeeing famous names amongst the catalogues of media music companies isn\u2019t something particularly new, but it\u2019s the prevalence in which such names now crop up that\u2019s very different to before. \u201cFrom our experience, well known songwriters and performers have always come to us to publish their music for use in productions, as a separate income stream,\u201d explains Warren de Wolfe, md, De Wolfe Music.\n\u201cOver the years we\u2019ve had Jimmy Page, Bill Bruford and Stephane Grapelli performing for us, and members of The Pretty Things also recorded for de Wolfe using the name The Electric Banana.\u201d\nBut, argues Felt\u2019s Slade-Baker, \u201cHistorically, the well known artists were more behind the scenes writers/musicians. In the last six or seven years, more and more established commercial artists have contributed under their own names and allowed libraries to market themselves on these relationships/ contributions. This has helped drastically improve the industry perception of the quality of library music, and rightly so.\u201d\nAndrew Sunnucks, md of Audio Networks, whose artists include Nik Kershaw, Julian Lloyd Webber and dance music producer John 00 Fleming, echoes these points: \u201cWell known composers have worked in production music for years, but there\u2019s an increasing understanding in the commercial music world of what production music has to offer,\u201d he says.\n\u201cAs much of the commercial music industry atrophies, there are real opportunities in all forms of media music and some of the most creative and interesting production is done in the media music sector,\u201d adds Sunnucks. \u201cBecause media music is relatively buoyant, there is also big money being spent on world class production \u2013 so this is appealing to all sorts of artists.\u201d\nAs well as creative freedom, the financial benefits of working for a media music company are a major draw: \u201cAs the commercial side of the industry is seeing shrinking revenues (and so shrinking returns for composers), music for broadcast is increasingly being seen as a profitable alternative revenue strand,\u201d says Dave Fuller, producer, Boosey & Hawkes, which represents writing and production team DNR who\u2019ve worked with acts including Madonna, Britney Spears and Massive Attack.\n\u201cProduction music especially has become an investment for many composers as tracks can continue earning good royalties for 10 years, whereas a commercial single or album track can dry up after just one or two,\u201d he adds. \u201cAs the landscape of the music industry changes, the lines between production and commercial music writers will continue to blur. My opinion is that this can only be a good thing, as it allows the best writers and tracks to come to the top, whether a commercial single, production music, album track or the background music for an advert. In the end, it\u2019s the music that\u2019s important, everything else is just packaging.\u201d\nFelt\u2019s Slade-Baker believes, \u201cThe only disadvantage [to contributing to a music library] is it may take a while for library tracks to generate any serious income. It can be a slow burner but is generally very lucrative in the long run. At worst it will be a welcome additional income stream.\u201d\nAudio Network\u2019s Sunnucks adds that, \u201cProduction music is a big part of the future of the music industry. There used to be an implicit snobbery towards any music that wasn\u2019t created for sale to the public on CD and I\u2019m glad to say this attitude seems largely to have changed. I would encourage musicians from all backgrounds to see this innovation in both music and progressive business models as hugely exciting opportunities.\u201d\n\u201cMark my words, one day you will be asking record companies which famous composers they have taken from the production music industry rather than vice versa.\u201d\nWith such a striking increase in interest in media music, Roberto Borzoni, head of production at Universal Production Music, home to Chuck D, Michael Nyman, Ennio Morricone and Coldcut, says artists now need to ensure their contract allows them to fully exploit this potentially lucrative revenue stream.\n\u201cThere are contractual differences between production music and commercial music \u2013 splits tend to be 50/50 on synch and performance and we seek copyright in perpetuity of each track,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have had issues in the past regarding commercial artists already signed to another publishing company \u2013 if you\u2019d like to write in this area and ultimately create an independent income stream we suggest you seek a clause excluding production music.\u201d\nWhat are the benefits of doing \u2018media music\u2019?\nI get a chance to do stuff with orchestras with someone else paying for it! It gives me an opportunity to do things I\u2019m not well known for. I\u2019m fortunate enough to have a very healthy back catalogue so I\u2019m not doing it for the money, although I know it can be incredibly lucrative. It\u2019s not a career shift for me, but it\u2019s certainly something interesting and another string to the bow. But I\u2019m pretty clueless about it all, to be honest. I don\u2019t really understand what it\u2019s all about and have yet to get into the head of a TV music producer. It\u2019s something I\u2019m dabbling with and have been for about two years. In that time I\u2019ve finished seven instrumental tracks.\nDoes your media music differ from what you\u2019re known for?\nI like big tunes and memorable lyrics, which is so not what\u2019s required here. It\u2019s all about the atmosphere and vibe. I find it very difficult to get away from melody. When I started I chucked a few things over to Audio Network and they threw them straight back again.\nA lot of the library music stuff that gets a lot of use I think doesn\u2019t even sound like it\u2019s finished yet. I\u2019m still trying to get myself specifically into that mode. I want my music to be noticeable and grab your attention but that\u2019s not really what production music is supposed to be about. There\u2019s a science and craft to it I don\u2019t understand yet.\nWhere has your media music been used?\nI don\u2019t know, but apparently something of mine was used on Location, Location, Location. I didn\u2019t even spot it.\nPump Audio/ Getty Images\nWhat are the benefits to creating \u2018media music\u2019?\nHaving something out there making money while I\u2019m doing whatever else I want is amazing. Also it\u2019s a brilliant destination for all the instrumental music I was already making for fun. I love knowing this stuff that would otherwise just sit there is out being used and enjoyed.\nDoes it give you complete artistic freedom?\nYes \u2013 I just made music that I liked as I built up the library and felt free to make it as odd as I wanted it to be. The thinking here is that most music that supervisors have to work from is pretty safe and I wanted to be a little odd. So in that context I felt free to be me. It\u2019s very different [to The Presidents of the USA]. I explored all kinds of textures and sounds that I could not in the rock band. The rock band is like primary colours to me: yellow red and blue (guitar bass drums) and the library music is the entire colour wheel spinning out of control!\nHow long have you been writing media music?\nI\u2019ve been making music like this my whole life. In fact some of my library pieces contain loops and samples from music I made in the early 80s. But I\u2019ve been focused on this and placing music with Pump since about 1999.\nWhere has your library music been used?\nWell there are just too many to list, I mean my statements are like a foot thick! But, off the top of my head, I can remember Oprah, MTV shows like The Real World etc, The History Channel uses a tonne of the stuff, as well as Anthony Bourdain\u2019s travel/food show (which I love). It\u2019s just all over the place in tiny bits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 13623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tenmillennia.com/meet-wayne-bio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DMFLNVI7J6AIXHOWZLAIQOZFIFTDPDPV", "length": 1240, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tenmillennia.com", "title": "TM Wayne biog \u2013 Ten Millennia", "raw_content": "As a youngster, Wayne studied classical and jazz piano, and can now play pretty much any keyboard, and a bit of accordion, if the occasion demands it!\nWayne is an accomplished songwriter and performer. Some of his key musical achievements include supporting Take That on their Beautiful world tour, supporting The Stylistics, playing with Martha Reeves, Candi Staton, Roachford, Corinne Bailey Rae and working as Musical Director for Jane McDonald and Jaki Graham.\nWriting music is a huge passion of Wayne\u2019s \u2013 he writes most of the music for Ten Millennia and co-writes the lyrics with the lead singer, Rosie. He also arranged all of the original songs for the new album, \u2018Love Won\u2019t Wait\u2019 (Due out on 17th August 2018), as well as the first album, \u2018Ten Millennia\u2019 which is available to buy now.\n\u201cI love performing to an audience, big or small. The build-up, the adrenaline rush \u2013 it\u2019s so exciting. I particularly enjoy performing in a band where you get to share your skills and create a great sound together.\u201d\nWayne is a keen traveller and loves visiting new places, which is very handy, as life with Ten Millennia keeps him on the road, bringing the music to their public.\nHe enjoys walking in the countryside and is a keen photographer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.texassarah.com/2012/07/a-petite-update.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WN3OS4KWGK2XY7RTHXOZT57EKHDQ6F6C", "length": 1651, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.texassarah.com", "title": "A petite update / TEXAS SARAH", "raw_content": "I know it's been pretty quiet over here, but this whole new mother thing...not an easy gig. I'm happy to be done with my mandatory 2 weeks of rest, of which I spent getting to know my sweet baby and being waited on by my mom and step-dad at their house-turned-recovery-hotel. But, instead of coming home to a nice, clean condo, Gui and I had the brilliant idea to move out and into our new, more kid-friendly place with a two-week old newborn in tow. She's been a champ, but moving while being restricted from lifting more than 10 pounds has been the total pits for me. And, forget about routines - with all the chaos of unpacking and searching for this or that, it's been next to impossible to get into a regular schedule with our new baby. Thankfully, my family and friends came to the rescue and put a huge dent in our unpacking and furniture-building chores. We're finally making some progress with getting things settled in, and if we keep up the pace, we could get some sort of a routine established in a couple more weeks.\nMeanwhile, I'm still trying to regain my strength from the surgery without over-doing it. It's hard. Especially when we have so much going on all at once. I'm just looking forward to the day when I have my body back and can do all the things I looked forward to doing with my baby while I was still pregnant and daydreaming.\nThis has definitely been the most challenging month I've ever had, but it's also been the most rewarding. Nothing beats seeing our little creation smile back at me with her toothless grin and big blue eyes. I love her and I'm so glad she's mine.\naww. such a nice smile :). She is growing up fast!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thc.texas.gov/news-events/events/milton-m-holland-civil-war-medal-honor-ceremony", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WCT6JEJQ5KQYNVMF4KOEZXUNPKRQDLKL", "length": 1177, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thc.texas.gov", "title": "Milton M. Holland (Civil War-Medal of Honor) Ceremony | THC.Texas.gov - Texas Historical Commission", "raw_content": "Milton M. Holland (Civil War-Medal of Honor) Ceremony\nTexas State Capitol, South Steps\nSponsored by the Buffalo Soldiers Museum and the Houston Civil War Round Table, an event honoring the First Texan to be awarded the Medal of Honor will take place on the South Steps of the State Capitol on Saturday, Sept. 27th between 1-3pm.\nMilton M. Holland was born into slavery in Pinola County, Texas, in 1844. He and two brothers were purchased and freed by their supposed father, Bird Holland, who sent them to Ohio to be educated. Milton enlisted in the 5th U.S.C.T. on June 22, 1863. By August 1864, he had been promoted to Sgt. Major of the regiment. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courage on Sept. 29, 1864, at the Battle of New Market Heights. The citation stated: \u201cTook command of Company C, after all the officers had been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it.\u201d\nAll are welcome to attend this ceremony, which will include the presentation of the colors by Buffalo Soldiers re-enactors, a short speech and the presentation of a plaque honoring Milton M. Holland. Email Jim Godlove at elzgdl@earthlink.net for further details.\nTHC historians will be in attendance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 8168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 155.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebroadwaytheatre.org/?go=shows&t=k", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UPOJH7ONE2RI6KMQGH6FMLSNCBU4A37Q", "length": 648, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thebroadwaytheatre.org", "title": "The Broadway Theatre of Pitman, NJ", "raw_content": "View the 2019 Children's Season\nThe Broadway Theatre of Pitman's live Children's Theatre calls fantasy and imagination to the stage with performances designed by Mr. Malcolm to educate, entertain, and inspire. Children's Theatre is best appreciated by children ages 2 to 9. Using a mix of creative sets, music and live actors, each one-hour performance is filled with audience participation that captivates children with its fun and original theatrical style.\nLearn to Tame a Dragon\n\u201cMr. Malcolm's warm voice is inviting children of all ages to join in the fun of interacting with the characters. Especially when the children are brought on stage.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebuerglers.com/2013/05/mary-knows.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:09Z", "digest": "sha1:4QRZYTCJIMB5SI4NGVVPL6KOLBSNWK3C", "length": 2376, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thebuerglers.com", "title": "The Buerglers: Mary Knows.", "raw_content": "It has now been a little over a week since we lost our little Albert. New York City was a wonderful distraction, but reality is beginning to set in. I have a follow up appointment with my midwife. We have the funeral Mass on Wednesday. I have a baby shower for a friend on Wednesday and one for my sister in law on Saturday.\nThere are so so many emotions, thoughts and prayers running through my head. I wish I could capture them all, but I often can't express the depth of my heartache. It's amazing how much it hurts to lose our blueberry sized child we had never met on the outside. My prayer is for all the mothers who have ever had to bury a child of any age.\nFor all of us women (and men) who have ever lost a child or had to greatly suffer, this quotation from Adrienne von Speyr's Handmaid of the Lord has reminded me that we say YES to the Lord without hesitating over the future. And that is a beautiful thing.\nAdrienne von Speyr's Handmaid of the Lord:\n\"The Mother already said Yes before she began to pray, and this first prayer was already founded on her Immaculate Conception, which has its origin in the eternity of God. And so she said Yes to the Lord's death as well, when she gave her consent to the conception of the Redeemer. And whoever says Yes to a child consents to that little being's whole future work and fruitfulness, which extends into the unforseeable. And, in the end, both assents are one insofar as they are a unified service. Within this service Mary leaves the whole formation to God. She leaves it to him to make use of her as He wills, in joy and suffering. She does not say Yes in the beginning to a joyous conception and Yes at the end to a fearful death. Her Yes is bound to nothing other than the will of God-not even to any particular situation of her own. It is an indifferent Yes that can be shaped by God into the highest joy as well as the deepest sorrow. She herself will not influence the will of God in anything. She only accepts.\"\nThank you to my dear friend, Erin, for sharing this with me. It has united my prayers with Mother Mary in a special way. I hope that these words help you, too.\nLabels: Catholic Things, miscarriage, prayers\nCassi May 14, 2013 at 7:46 AM\nI'm so sorry Elizabeth. The sting of miscarriage is so overwhelmingly acute, enough to stop one's heart in time. Let me know if there's anything I can do. xoxo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecentreforeyes.com.au/vision-disorders.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:08Z", "digest": "sha1:AR7GMG66NTOPQ7I5AMNNIRBKSY6KTUO2", "length": 4840, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thecentreforeyes.com.au", "title": "Vision Disorders Sydney | Presbyopia | Myopia, Hyperopia & Amblyopia Bondi Junction, Randwick", "raw_content": "Home / Conditions / Vision Disorders\nVision disorders are the conditions which cause impairment in the sense of vision. These disorders are often caused by certain eye diseases or structural abnormalities of the eye balls. The common vision disorders include:\nAbnormal colour vision: Abnormal colour vision also termed as colour-blindness is the inability to differentiate between certain shades of colour. It is an inherited condition and men are more likely to be affected with this condition. Certain diseases of the eye and medications may also cause abnormal colour vision. Patients with colour-blindness may not be able to recognize the difference between shades of red and green, and shades of blue and yellow.\nAmblyopia (lazy eye): Amblyopia is a condition in which there is reduced vision in one of the eyes because of incomplete development of the optic nerve pathway from that eye to the brain and as a result the brain receives blurred images from one eye. With the time brain ignores the impulses from affected eye thereby causing amblyopia. The affected eye appears normal however fails to send proper impulses to brain and the brain favours the other eye. It can also be caused by strabismus or the conditions in which one eye is more near sighted, farsighted, or astigmatic than the other eye.\nDouble vision: Double vision also called diplopia is a condition in which the patient complains of being able to see two images of a single object. There are two forms of double vision\u2014monocular and binocular diplopia. Monocular diplopia occurs when there is double vision in one of the eyes only and double vision continues even if the other eye is closed. It is caused by conditions such as abnormal curvature in the front surface of the cornea (astigmatism), cone shaped cornea (keratoconus), thickening of the conjunctiva (pterygium), cataract, dislocated lens, a mass or swelling in eyelid, and dry eye. Binocular diplopia is caused by misalignment of the eyes and in this type, double vision resolves if either eye is covered. It is because of problem in one or more muscles that surround the eye and control the direction of gaze. These problems include strabismus, nerve damage, diabetes, myasthenia gravis, Graves\u2019 disease, trauma to eye muscles.\nLight sensitivity (photophobia): Light sensitivity or photophobia is a feeling of discomfort in the eye when exposed to very bright light. Severe form of photophobia may occur with eye problems and may cause severe pain in the eye even at low light intensity.\nRefractive errors: Refractive errors may occur if the light does not focus properly on retina because of irregular shape of the cornea. The images may appear blurred. Common refractive errors include:\nAstigmatism (blurred vision): Astigmatism is a condition that causes blurred vision because of the irregular shape of the cornea or curvature of the lens. Light does not get focused properly on the retina and as a result vision becomes blurred at any distance causing eye discomfort. If astigmatism in a child is of a large amount, and it can lead to amblyopia when not given glasses since visual images for the brain in untreated astigmatism is always blurry regardless of viewing distance.\nHyperopia (farsightedness): Hyperopia or farsightedness is a condition in which objects located far can often be seen clearly but nearer objects do not come into proper focus. This occurs if the eyeball is too short or the cornea has too little curvature. As a result, the light that enters the eye and the image forms beyond the retina. Some of the symptoms of this condition include difficulty in concentrating and maintaining a focus on near objects, strain in the eyes, fatigue or headache after work, aching eyes, nervousness and irritability. If hyperopia is of significant amount, even distant objects are poor when the amount of hyperopia is more than accommodative range of the person. High hyperopia can be amblyopic for a child, in particular the more hyperopic eye if in cases of anisometropia.\nMyopia (near-sightedness): Myopia or near-sightedness is a condition in which nearer objects can be visualised clearly but farther objects appears blurred. This occurs if the eyeball is too long and the cornea has more curvature. The light entering the eye does not focus on retina instead focus images before light reaches retina causing the distant objects to appear blurred.\nPresbyopia (decreased lens flexibility): Presbyopia is a condition in which the lens in the eye loses its flexible nature causing difficulty in focusing closer objects. It is a part of the natural aging process and usually noticed in the early to mid-40\u2019s and is not preventable. Blurred vision even at the normal reading distance, tendency to hold the book at an arm\u2019s length, eye fatigue, headache are some of the signs of presbyopia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 6191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/18014/vancouver-crowned-as-car-sharing-capital-of-north-america", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HLEUHRRJK5OCLPL3ZIHRX6GFWA4YKI52", "length": 2664, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thedrive.com", "title": "Vancouver Crowned as Car-Sharing Capital of North America - The Drive", "raw_content": "Vancouver Crowned as Car-Sharing Capital of North America\nThere are 4.22 car-share vehicles per 1,000 people in the city of Vancouver.\nGeorge Rose\u2014Getty Images\nWhen I think Canada I think about beautiful wide open spaces, hockey and cold weather. I don\u2019t think car-sharing but apparently, one Canadian city has more car-sharing services than any other city in North America. According to a study by Vancity, Vancouver is, in fact, the car-sharing capital of North America, featuring more cars to share per capita than any other on the continent.\nThere are 3,000 vehicles available for you to rent in Vancouver. That\u2019s larger than fleets in U.S. cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. Its 4.22 car-share vehicles per 1,000 people are more than you\u2019ll find in Milan or Berlin. In some neighborhoods close to downtown Vancouver, as many as 5 percent of all moving autos on the roads are car-share vehicles.\nVancity conducted their Vancouver car-sharing study by interviewing more than 4,000 car-share members in the city. They found that one in three joined a car-share program in the last 12 months, while two in three had joined in the last two years. More than half of the respondents belong to two or more car-sharing programs. The overwhelming reason for their car-share use was convenience. Saving money and concern for the environment were also two big factors.\nPrimary reasons for using car-sharing based on age\nThe city of Vancouver offers up a few perks for the car-sharing community, which helps to spur adoption. They allow car-share vehicles to use permit-only parking spaces throughout the city. They also encourage car-sharing in new developments by dropping the number of required parking spaces developers have to include if they have a car-sharing service nearby.\nThe two main car-sharing models being used in Vancouver are the round-trip or two-way station-based car-sharing and the free-floating car-sharing. Modo and Zipcar use the round-trip model while car2go and Evo use the free-floating model. Free-floating car-sharing allows users to pick up and leave cars anywhere within the operator\u2019s service area or home area.\nThe Vancity report is 17 pages long and full of useful insights. It\u2019s worth a few minutes to check out if you have the time.\nGoogle's New Ride-Sharing App Targets Google-backed Uber\nFive Keys to the Autonomous Car-Sharing Future\nDaimler's car2go published a white paper on the five keys to autonomous car-sharing\nCanada Man Ticketed for Playing Pok\u00e9mon Go While Driving\n\"Now is not the time to use that,\" as Professor Oak would say.\nBMW to Bring Car-Sharing to Brooklyn\nBimmers are coming to the hipsters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18296/lebanese-troops-hammered-isis-with-laser-guided-artillery-shells-in-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:42Z", "digest": "sha1:AMIZPBY7HIIJDGKFTTW7NSATPA6FSHGL", "length": 11295, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.thedrive.com", "title": "Lebanese Troops Hammered ISIS With Laser Guided Artillery Shells in 2017 - The Drive", "raw_content": "Lebanese Troops Hammered ISIS With Laser Guided Artillery Shells in 2017\nThe United States says it just delivered more than 800 Copperhead projectiles to Lebanon replenish the country's stockpiles.\nA brief notice from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut suggests that Lebanese troops pounded ISIS terrorists with hundreds of M712 Copperhead 155mm laser-guided artillery shells during a recent offensive. The United States has now replenished Lebanon\u2019s stocks of that type of ammunition to help the country retain an apparently valuable precision guided munitions capability.\nBetween Feb. 1 and 6, 2018, the United States delivered more than $112 million in weapons and ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces as part of ongoing military assistance projects aimed primarily at supporting the country\u2019s fight against ISIS along its border with Syria, according to the U.S. Embassy's press release. In addition to more than 800 Copperheads, these shipments included eight Bradley Fighting Vehicles, bringing Lebanon\u2019s total fleet of those armored vehicles to 16, and 200 Mk 19 40mm automatic grenade launchers.\nLebanon Gets Bradley Fighting Vehicles as it Continues to Battle ISISBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\nRussia Says it Blew Up Terrorists Behind Syria Drone Attacks With Laser-Guided ArtilleryBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\nMarines \"Burned Out\" Two Howitzer Barrels During the Raqqa OffensiveBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\nHezbollah Buses ISIS Fighters Across Syria As US Mulls Striking ConvoyBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\nNew Syrian Missile Factories Look a Lot Like Ones in IranBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\n\u201cThe United States delivered 827 Copperhead artillery rounds to the Lebanese Armed Forces,\u201d the Embassy\u2019s statement said. \u201cValued at more than $1.4 million, this ammunition replenishes LAF stockpiles used to defeat ISIS in Operation Fajr al Jouroud.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not clear what this dollar amount necessarily covers. At this price, each round would have cost less than $1,700. The unit cost of the Copperhead is reportedly closer to $70,000.\nThe video below is from Operation Fajr al Jouroud and appears to show Lebanese artillery units using Copperhead laser-guided artillery shells.\nThe laser-guided shells haven\u2019t been in production since 1990, though, and they likely came straight from U.S. military stocks. So, whatever entity was in charge of divesting the ammunition may have given them significantly reduced price tag for any number of reasons, possibly including their relative age and that the shells were officially \"surplus\" or \"excess\" to their requirements.\nCopperhead already has a relatively limited user base, with Egypt, Jordan, and Taiwan being among the few countries to have received them in the past. In 2007, Australia announced it would replace its projectiles with the German-made SMArt155, which contains two sensor-fuzed anti-tank bomblets.\nThe M712, which Martin Marietta, now part of Lockheed Martin, first developed in 1975, is effectively a precision glide bomb tucked inside a 155mm artillery shell. Lebanon\u2019s towed M114A1 and M198 howitzers and self-propelled M109 types are all able to fire the projectile, which has two main modes of operation.\nLebanese troops fire an M198 howitzer at ISIS positions during Operation Fajr al Jouroud.\nThe first involves firing the shell in a normal ballistic trajectory toward the target. At approximately 3,280 yards from the point of impact, the round\u2019s control fins pop out and maneuver it onto the target.\nThe second setting deploys the fins earlier in the flight path so that the round then glides toward the target area instead. Troops would employ this method if the sky was overcast or other obscurants, such as smoke, sand, or dust made it unlikely that the round falling on its ballistic trajectory would be able to see the laser in enough time to properly correct its course and hit its mark.\nThe video below shows typical firing sequences for the Copperhead:\nIn both modes, someone has to continuously designate the target with a laser. In Lebanon, troops on the ground with hand-held laser designators or the country\u2019s AC-208 Combat Caravan light attack aircraft would have most likely marked the targets.\nThe U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps initially expected to use Copperhead primarily against tanks and other moving targets, which were otherwise difficult for artillery units to accurately engage without a massive barrage across a large area or by using cluster munitions. During the opening stages of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq in 1990, the shells proved themselves to be equally useful for precision attacks against fortifications, radar stations, and other similar high-priority, but fixed targets.\nU.S. Army Brigadier General Creighton W. Abrams, then commander of VII Corps Artillery in Germany, describes one attack on Iraqi positions in an article for the service's official Field Artillery professional bulletin in October 1991. After being hit by cluster munitions, \u201cthe defenders scurried to a nearby bunker only to have a Copperhead round fly into the laser-designated door of the bunker. Realizing the futility of flight, the rest of the enemy unit surrendered.\u201d\nA Copperhead with its control fins deployed.\nWe also don\u2019t know if Lebanon actually fired 827 Copperheads during Operation Fajr al Jouroud, which lasted from Aug. 19 to 31, 2017, or what types of targets Lebanese artillery units destroyed with their M712s. If those shells replaced expended rounds one-for-one, this would equate to Lebanese troops firing an average of more than 63 of the rounds every day. By comparison, U.S. Army artillery units fired just over 90 M712s during the first week of Operation Desert Storm, according to Brigadier General Abrams.\nLebanese authorities also say that their operation only resulted in the deaths of 150 ISIS terrorists, which does not seem to align with this level of withering firepower. It is possible that the State Department's statement that the new ammunition would make up for rounds Lebanon's troops specifically fired during Operation Fajr al Jouroud is incorrect and that its forces had been employing Copperheads on a limited basis for months beforehand against ISIS, as well.\nAt the same time, the country\u2019s artillery forces could have relied on the shells more to destroy bunkers, other structures, and other hard cover rather than target groups of terrorists, just as U.S. forces did in Iraq. In Lebanon, the rounds could have been useful for engaging ISIS vehicles, including suicide car and truck bombs, as well, but only if troops happened to spot them in enough time to call in the strike. Video footage, seen earlier in this piece and below, that the Lebanese military released online does appear to show Copperheads destroying pick-up trucks, various structures, a cave entrance, and troops in the open.\nIn January 2018, Russian forces also used their own type of laser-guided artillery shell, called Krasnopol, to strike a pickup truck in Syria as it arrived to pick up terrorists from a safe house. The Kremlin said those individuals had been among those involved in a mass drone attack against their bases in the country.\nHowever many shells the Lebanese did use during Operation Fajr al Jouroud and whatever targets those shells destroyed, the projectiles are clearly an important part of the Lebanese Armed Forces\u2019 arsenal and one of its very few precision guided weapon. At present, the aforementioned AC-208s offer the only other significant capability in this regard with their AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The Lebanese Air Force\u2019s new A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft are slated to gain the ability to fire low-cost Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) laser-guided 70mm rockets soon.\nThese weapons could be very important in the near future, even as the threat of ISIS continues to recede. After the end of Operation Fajr al Jouroud, Lebanon\u2019s President Michel Aoun declared victory over the terrorist group, which also steadily lost ground in Iraq and Syria throughout 2017.\nBut Lebanon faces a more complex situation with regards to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which has been actively supporting Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad and receives significant support from Iran. During the Qalamoun Offensive, which preceded Operation Fajr al Jouroud, it appeared as if the Lebanese military had at least a tacit agreement to keep its activities away from Hezbollah-controlled areas.\nThe Lebanese Armed Forces now occupy a stronger position along the Syrian border, though, a region typically seen as a sanctuary for Hezbollah. Without a common enemy the two parties could find themselves at risk of a confrontation.\nIt\u2019s not clear if an outright fight would occur though. Lebanon\u2019s President Aoun is widely seen as friendly with Hezbollah, which is also a controversial member of the country democratically elected government. That relationship has survived significant pressure from the United States and some of Lebanon\u2019s other international partners, as well as a bizarre episode in 2017 in which Saudi Arabia appeared to have essentially briefly kidnapped Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.\nBalkis Press/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at far right, along with President Michel Aoun, center, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, at left.\nIn a televised address from Riyadh in November 2017, Hariri announced he was resigning his post and blamed Hezbollah and Iran for his decision. Aoun refused to accept the resignation and when Hariri returned later in the month, he agreed to continue to serve out his term. The debacle only appears to have reinforced Hezbollah\u2019s standing in the country and has given Hariri new-found popularity for having defied his Saudi taskmasters.\nIf an actual conflict were to break out, precision guided artillery and other munitions could help Lebanese troops mitigate the threat of Hezbollah\u2019s substantial stockpiles of anti-tank guided missiles, rocket artillery, and ballistic missiles. The militant group has also acquired a number of armored and other vehicles over the years that could be prime targets for laser-guided weapons such as Copperhead.\nWhat we do know is that Lebanon\u2019s artillery units now have nearly 830 more of the shells available should a crisis erupt in the near future.\nLebanon Gets Bradley Fighting Vehicles as it Continues to Battle ISIS\nThe delivery reflects increasing American support for the country's complex fight against terrorists.\nRussia Says it Blew Up Terrorists Behind Syria Drone Attacks With Laser-Guided Artillery\nThe strikes come after Putin said he knew who was responsible, though the Kremlin has so far declined to name names.\nMarines \"Burned Out\" Two Howitzer Barrels During the Raqqa Offensive\nNew details highlight how important traditional artillery has been in the fighting against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.\nHezbollah Buses ISIS Fighters Across Syria As US Mulls Striking Convoy\nThe Lebanese militants let the terrorists flee eastward, infuriating the US-led coalition and its partners.\nNew Syrian Missile Factories Look a Lot Like Ones in Iran\nGrowing evidence suggests Tehran is dispersing its weapons programs and sharing capabilities with its allies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 12496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/20-sierramas-heights-condos-under-stay-and-own-scheme-released", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAA7GJBRI2GP72AJXFRONUUGFSYRTWDZ", "length": 1824, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.theedgemarkets.com", "title": "20 Sierramas Heights condos under \u2018Stay and Own\u2019 scheme released | The Edge Markets", "raw_content": "20 Sierramas Heights condos under \u2018Stay and Own\u2019 scheme released\nChung Ying Yi\nTerang Murni Sdn Bhd released the final 20 completed Sierramas Heights condos under its \u201cStay and Own\u201d scheme on Jan 17, it said in a press release.\nUnder the scheme, buyers only have to pay a deposit of 20% of the sales and purchase price of the unit and stay rent-free for up to five years. They are then given the option to either complete the SPA within the five-year period or sell the unit at the current market price within three months of the fifth year of the SPA.\nThe built-up of the 20 units range from 1,259 to 1,432 sq ft, with selling prices starting at RM800,000. That means a buyer can get a unit for as low as RM160,000. The 20 units, located throughout the 17-storey condominium block, are fitted out with kitchen cabinets with hob and hood, hot water system, bath tub, and air-conditioning units.\nThe condo is situated within the 200-acre Sierramas township \u2014 the first gated, guarded and landscaped township in Malaysia.\nSierramas Heights, which occupies a 1.61-acre site, was launched in August 2013 and completed in July 2016. It has a gross development value of RM89 million and offers 98 units with built-ups ranging from 1,216 to 2,508 sq ft. Excluding the 20 units under the Stay and Own scheme, the remaining 78 units are 80% sold. The condo is marketed by Tan & Tan Development Bhd.\nFacilities include a playground and multi-purpose hall. The maintenance fee, including the sinking fund, is 60 sen psf.\nNearby amenities include Jaya Grocer and two international schools \u2014 IGB International School and ELC International School. One Utama Shopping Centre is 10km away.\nSierramas Heights is linked to Kota Damansara and Bandar Utama via the NKVE. The new Sungai Buloh and Kampung Selamat MRT stations are about 2km away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefreedomtheatre.org/news/april-4-memorial-and-celebration-of-cultural-resistance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MJ5OS2UP4XWXTJMV2JIY4LKRXCIP3YUT", "length": 1506, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thefreedomtheatre.org", "title": "April 4: Memorial and Celebration of Cultural Resistance | The Freedom Theatre", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb April 4: Memorial and Celebration of Cultural Resistance\nApril 4: Memorial and Celebration of Cultural Resistance\nApril 4 \u2013 a day with profound meaning for The Freedom Theatre. It is the fourth anniversary of the unsolved 2011 murder of Juliano Mer Khamis, The Freedom Theatre\u2019s co-founder and general director. On this day, we remember and honour Juliano\u2019s life, work and legacy, while we repeat our demand that those responsible for this crime be brought to justice. Read more about Juliano.\nApril 4 is also the anniversary of the large-scale invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp in 2002 by the Israeli army, which demolished the central parts of the camp, killed many and traumatised many more.\nOn this day, we will premiere The Siege, a theatre production inspired by real-life accounts from the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, that played out parallell to the invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp and made headlines worldwide.\nWelcome to join us! Please RSVP to info@thefreedomtheatre.org.\n12:00 Memorial, screening of Journey of a Freedom Fighter, photography exhibition and more.\n15:00 Opening of The Siege.\nTickets: 5 NIS, at the door.\nTickets: 30 NIS, 20 NIS for students\nTickets: 10 NIS, at the door.\nAll details available on www.thefreedomtheatreukfriends.com.\nFor more information, interviews and photos, please contact media@thefreedomtheatre.org\nThe Freedom Theatre would like to thank the following donors for their support to The Siege and its UK tour respectively:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefruitsoflife.com.au/product.asp?c1=2&c2=8&pid=42", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4AUETUGDPDUGXFSSUPPHDK5WVNP6QBZQ", "length": 2100, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thefruitsoflife.com.au", "title": "The Fruits of Life", "raw_content": "Home > Fruit, Vegies & Herbs > Fruit - All Fruit > Coconuts All prices are listed in AUD (Australian Dollars)\nCoconuts are natives to Micronesia, and can be found on most islands and tropical regions that border the Pacific Ocean. They are great for creating coconut sauces, coconut dips, curries, cocktails and coconut cream.\nHow do we make sure we provide top quality coconuts?\nCoconuts should feel heavy for their size, so this is the first check we perform when choosing fresh coconuts. The sloshing water inside is also a good indicator of freshness. We check to make sure that there is no leakage from the top or 'eyes', and that there is no mould or mildew on the surface.\nWhere do we source our coconuts from?\nCoconuts grow best in tropical climates, where there is abundant rainfall and warm temperatures. We source our coconuts all the way from Far North Queensland, the area that has the best coconut growing conditions in Australia. They grow on coconut palms which grow up to 25 meters tall. It takes about a year for the nuts to mature once the palm flowers.\nWhat is the best way to keep coconuts?\nCoconuts are best stored in a cool, dry, dark area. Once husked and cut, they store best in the fridge (optimal storage conditions are at 0\u00b0C and 90%-100% relative humidity).\nCoconut nutritional information\nCoconuts are a good source of vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin C, and vitamin E.\nCoconut seasonal information\nCoconuts can be sourced all year round.\nCoconut serving tips and suggestions\nCoconuts are great for creating coconut sauces, coconut dips and coconut cream.\nConsidered as a symbol of romance for the Chinese, the sweet and juicy flesh of a lychee is fantastic when eaten raw, added to a salad or used as a topping for ice cream! Go on, tempt your tastebuds with a lychee today!\nPineapple is the universal symbol of hospitality. Believed to be a native of Brazil, smooth leaf varieties have a juicy, sharp flavour and are excellent for eating fresh, or combining with ham, chicken or seafood. You can also use pineapples in cakes, sundaes, fruit pies and slices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thegratefulrabbi.com/2009/11/grateful-for-my-gratefulness-gathering.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:58Z", "digest": "sha1:M5ELK74IVDY6POJLTQ3Y4TRG6AWE2LOX", "length": 899, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thegratefulrabbi.com", "title": "The Grateful Rabbi: GRATEFUL FOR MY \"GRATEFULNESS GATHERING\"", "raw_content": "I didn't want a birthday party- I was turning 70, a milestone year in anyone's life, and I wished to experience it as simply and quietly as possible.My family felt otherwise and my wife suggested that instead of a \"birthday party\" with connotations of excess and going overboard, we refer to the event as a \"Gratefulness Gathering.\" I agreed and indeed the occasion was extraordinary ; friends and family came together, ate and drank, shared their friendship and love, and made me cry with gratitude for them and my life.\nOnly token gifts were brought; in the spirit of gratefulness each participant was encouraged to donate something to a charitable cause of their own choosing. Gratefulness needed to be translated into compassion for it to be fulfilling.\nPerhaps others will adopt this practice when celebrating their birthdays and discover the greatest gift of all, the gift of loving gratitude.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thekindtickets.com/Prairie-View-A-and-M-Panthers", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:41:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ITZEFSVEYW3TUDQCHBITQUO7QNMDDQFY", "length": 334, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thekindtickets.com", "title": "Prairie View A&M Panthers Tickets", "raw_content": "Prairie View A&M Panthers tickets schedule and inventory. The Kind Tickets has great Prairie View A&M Panthers tickets for all performances. If you need help with any of your Prairie View A&M Panthers ticketing needs please give us a call and a representative will be happy to assist you at (800) 289-8425 or click here for live help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/august20th.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E5W5AJXTAFQSZC6QMJKLKGHZQ572MO6D", "length": 10598, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "www.thepeoplehistory.com", "title": "What Happened on August 20th This Day in History", "raw_content": "1940 - UK Battle of Britain\n1940 : After 3 months of the Battle Of Britain in the skies over the South Coast the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the British Royal Air Force, saying, \"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\" Find More What happened in 1940\n1902 - Cuba Soldiers\n1902 : Militant Cuban veteran soldiers demanded $85,000,000 from the Cuban government to compensate them for their previous military service. This would take money away from the sugar industry. At Puerto Principe, 5,000 soldiers demanded that President Palma and the Congress find money to pay their salaries.\n1920 - First Commercial Radio Station\n1920 : The first commercial radio station begins operating in Detroit, Michigan with call sign 8MK (Now WWJ - Newsradio 950). The radio station was started by The Detroit News newspaper and is now owned and run by CBS.\n1927 - Canada Prime Minister Baldwin\n1927 : Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Britain visited Canada and toured part of the time with the Prince of Wales and Prince George. This was the first time an English Prime minister had visited a dominion while still in office.\n1936 - U.S.A. Franklin Delano Roosevelt\n1936 : President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech in the state of New York left Europe angry, but Latin America very pleased. The President\u2019s comments that provoked opposite reactions were, \u201c\u2026 the unhappy nations of the old world seem utterly unable to live amicably among themselves and we must recognize this and being \u2018singularly blessed\u2019 geographically take every possible advance preparation to keep out of their future conflicts.\u201d\n1940 - Mexico Trotsky\n1940 : Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist and one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution in 1917, is assassinated by a Soviet agent at Coyoac\u00e1n, in Mexico City. where he lived in exile.\n1948 - Germany Reichmark\n1948 : Post war Germany\u2019s currency, the Reichmark, was worthless, but then was reformed and economic recovery was in sight. All classes of Germans had been leveled by the economic crisis and the black market was active. The newly invented Reichmark made bankers poor and families with lots of children wealthy. Each German citizen was allowed 40 Reichmarks.\n1959 - Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer\n1959 : The famous Wyatt Earp, who was the actor Hugh O\u2019Brian, finally met his idol, Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. O\u2019Brian was conveyed up the river by natives who were lepers and he met the famous doctor at his hospital. After meeting Schweitzer, O\u2019Brian referred to him as \u201ca living saint\u201d. The physician strongly urged the need to abolish nuclear testing and war and O\u2019Brian came back to the U.S. with the same views.\n1965 - Russia Accuses Johnson of Globalism\n1965 : The communist journal, The Kommunist, blasted President Johnson of the U.S. for what it called, \u201cJohnson globalism\u201d and causing a threat to world peace. The journal went on to point out that this kind of globalism would allow the U.S. to be the watch dog of the capitalist world and American intervention whenever U.S. interests were impinged upon.\n1968 - Czechoslovakia Soviet Troops Crush Resistance\n1968 : Following Anti-Communist protests in Czechoslovakia in what is called \"Prague Spring\", Soviet troops intervene to crush the protests and restore order. The period of the \"Prague Spring\" began in January 5th, 1968 when Alexander Dub\u010dek came to power, with reformist policies for the country of Czechoslovakia.\n1. Grant additional rights to the citizens.\n2. Loosening of restrictions on the media and allowing free speech.\n3. Partial decentralization of the economy and democratization.\nDue to many of these reforms taking the country in a direction in opposition to Communist Ideology the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to take back power and halt the reforms.\n1978 - Zimbabwe Brink Of Civil War\n1978 : Rhodesia, a break away colony of Britain, was to be called \u201cZimbabwe\u201d and the country teetered on the brink of civil war. After a year of British and American diplomacy, President Ian Smith and militant black leaders were still at odds over how the transition was going to take place. Black guerrilla leader, Robert Mugabe, insisted on having his army in control, which would mean his group would have the actual power in Zimbabwe. What else happened in 1978\n1982 - Lebanon Peacekeeping Force\n1982 : A Multi National peacekeeping force is sent into Lebanon to try and halt the fighting between Muslim and Christian Militia groups and to oversea the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon.\n1988 - Yellowstone National Park Fire\n1988 : In the worst day of fires in Yellowstone National Park firestorms destroy over 150,000 acres of the park. This was the worst day of fire destruction in the park which saw a summer where over 1/3 of the park was destroyed with the fire gaining between 5 to 10 miles a day. 1988 was a terrible year for fires around the country due to the drought and only the intervention of nature with cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. Much reporting in the Media reporting mismanagement of the fires was often sensational and inaccurate even claiming most of the park and wildlife was destroyed, which was not true.\n1989 - Marchioness Disaster River Thames\n1988 : The Thames pleasure cruiser Marchioness packed with young party goers collides with the Bowbelle dredger on the River Thames. The dredger Bowbelle ran into the Marchioness and due to the difference in sizes of the boats Bowbelle (2000 tons), Marchioness (90 tons) the pleasure cruiser was forced under the water by the larger boat and sank within a few seconds. The death toll of the disaster is put at more than 50.\n1990 - Argentina Beat Brazil In World Cup\n1990 : Argentina\u2019s soccer playing abilities caught the world\u2019s attention in the World Cup as the Brazilian team was upset. Coach Carlos Bilardo commented, \u201cSome of the (Argentinean) players played better than we expected. This was a classic South American match.\u201d Argentina had been losing, but then Caniggia took a pass from Maradona and defeated Brazilian goal keeper Claudio Taffarel.\n1996 - U.S.A. Minimum Hourly Wage $5.15\n1996 : The Minimum hourly wage is raised to $5.15 an hour an increase of 90 cents.\n1998 - Cruise Missile Attacks on al-Qaeda\n1998 : The United States launch cruise missile strikes against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, this was in retaliation for US embassy bombings on August 7th of Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization al-Qaeda which left more than 200 dead.\n2005 - Iraq Sunnis Gunned Down\n2005 : Retribution was swift against Sunnis who promoted the proposed new Iraqis constitution and encouraged Iraqis to vote in the referendum on October 15. Three Sunnis were gunned down as they were putting up posters designed to encourage Iraqis people to vote.\n2007 - Leona Helmsley Passed Away\n2007 : United States billionaire Leona Helmsley passed away from heart failure on this day. Helmsley owned many large properties in New York including upscale hotels. She served 21 months in prison in 1992 after being convicted for tax evasion.\n2008 - US / Poland Missile Defense Deal\n2008 : After many months of negotiation the United States and Poland signed a defense deal that would let the United States set up part of a missile defense system on Polish land. The deal upset the Russian government who took it as an act against Russia, but both Poland and the United States stated that the defense system would be for defense against attacks from the Middle East and was aimed at protecting Europe.\n2009 - Scotland Terrorist Released\n2009 : Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, was released from prison by the Scottish government. He was released on the basis of compassion because he had been diagnosed with a terminal form of prostate cancer. The convict had been sent to prison to serve a life sentence in 2001 after being found guilty of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, which resulted in the deaths of 270 people.\n2011 - US Hikers Jailed for Eight Years in Iran\n2011 : Two US Hikers who were accused of spying and illegally entering Iran were sentenced to eight years in jail by a Tehran court. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal both deny the charges, saying they accidentally entered the country in July of 2009 while hiking near the border. A third hiker, Sarah Shourd, had been released on bail in 2010 and returned to the US.\n2012 - Comedian Phyllis Diller Dies\n2012 : Comedian Phyllis Diller died at the age of ninety-five in Los Angeles and the cause of death was not released. Diller came into comedy in the 1950s and was known for her large hair, crazy costumes and cackling laugh.\n2013 - Japan Radioactive Water Leak\n2013 : A radioactive water leak was found at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant. After being damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami the plant has had several dangerous issues including melt downs, fires and other leaks. This was the largest of such incidents since 2011.\nBorn: Donald \"Don\" King 20th August 1931 Cleveland, Ohio\nKnown For : Don King is best known as a larger than life boxing promoter who was behind some of the best known boxing matches in history including \"The Rumble in the Jungle\" ( George Foreman against challenger Muhammad Ali. )and the \"Thrilla in Manila\" (Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier), The list of boxers he managed reads like a who's who of boxing including Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Evander Holyfield, Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, Felix Trinidad, and Larry Holmes. Many may not know he was also convicted of second degree murder and spent four years in prison.\nBorn: James Travis Reeves 20th August 1923 Galloway, Texas, United States\nDied: July 31st 1964 Williamson County, Tennessee, United States (Died while piloting his own aircraft and was caught in a violent thunderstorm)\nKnown For : Jim Reeves best known as American country and pop music singer-songwriter popular in the 1950s and 1960s starting with his first hit in 1953 with \"Mexican Joe\" over the next few years his hits included \"I Love You Because\" (with Ginny Wright), \"According to My Heart\", \"Waitin' for a Train\", \"Billy Bayou\", \"Adios Amigo\", Following his death in a plane crash and remembering that the The Beatles were dominating the world's music stage \"Distant Drums\" was released and became a number 1 in Britain and number 1 on The US country charts showing how popular the music and voice of \"Gentleman Jim\" as he was affectionately known.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 10969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepolywellblog.com/2010/09/debate-over-electron-behavior.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EN3PE5562RPRDMG27BYQJUNSN7DBAICP", "length": 15570, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.thepolywellblog.com", "title": "The Debate Over Electron Behavior.", "raw_content": "The Debate Over Electron Behavior.\nThere are a number of different ideas and theories about what is exactly happening to electrons inside the polywell. Here is a summary of these ideas:\nThis is a very complex topic. I am also no expert. What is presented here are ideas that have developed in discussions with former employees who worked on the Polywell, physicists, papers, online information and, forum discussions. From all these interactions, I have attempted \u2013 here - to cobble together a picture of what the electrons are doing inside the polywell. This is hard to do with no data. This is also all volunteer.\nWe need data. We need hard proof of what is and is not happening inside the machine. As you start to think, plan and read about the Polywell you see that the topic is maddeningly complex. There is a good chance most theoretical analysis of the polywell is flawed. It is just hard to see how any one person, group, computer program or theory could catch all the factors in play inside the polywell. It makes one want to just build the thing and see what kind of results you would get.\nIf the polywell works, it would be a major invention, akin to the automobile or the computer. A cheap, clean way to produce abundant electricity; it would help stop global warming, help stop the energy crisis and make some people very rich. Not to mention, getting the US out of recession. This is not something we can afford to leave up to theory alone. The stakes are too high. We need data, not complex estimations. I do not care if the data indicates that the idea is a failure. I will accept that. We need to know. The discussions below will start to give you a taste of how complex the electron picture is alone. It should make you realize how badly testing of this idea is needed. We need to know for sure. As the famous physicist Richard Feynman said: \u201cIt doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.\u201d\n1. Where are the electrons recirculating?\nHere is the setup: we have a polywell filled with ONLY electrons, NO IONS. We know the electrons will recirculate, from the center along the magnetic cusp lines. There are 14 cusps; Six for each side, and 8 for each corner. We know this because of Indrek's - electron only - polywell simulation and, because Bussard presented this in his Google presentation. Watch 52 minutes, 35 second in4. You can see Indrek's simulation here:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0Erhsnor4&feature=related\nFigure 1: Two Images from Indreks\u2019 simulation showing electrons flowing to and from the cusps. Notice the electrons are CORKSCREWING along the magnetic field lines. They ride the cusp lines like a roller coaster, out and back into the middle.\n2. When are the electrons moving fast? When are they moving slow?\nImagine we had a magnetic field in a square. The top of the square is dense, the bottom is light. The top of the square has a dense magnetic field and the bottom has a light magnetic field. We set an electron on the square. Below are statements that can be made about this simple example.\nFigure 2: A scenario discussed below, two electrons placed in a high density and, a low density electric field.\nA. The electron will align itself. All free floating electrons spin. This spin creates a diamagnetic moment, or a mini magnetic. The electron will act like a mini magnet. It will align its\u2019 magnetic field with the external magnetic field; it will turn.\nB. The electron will not move. This is because of the Lorentz Force1. The Lorentz force is the force that all electrons experience in a magnetic field. The force is given as: Force = charge*(velocity vector X Magnetic Field). With no starting velocity, the velocity vector is zero, therefore the force is zero, therefore the electron will sit there. It will not move.\nC. The electron sitting high magnetic field is more energized. That electron has more potential energy. This is from the equation for energy density2. Energy Density = e0/2*(electric field density)^2 + 1/2*u0 *(Magnetic field density)^2. So if the field lines are denser, then the energy density is higher. Energy goes up by B squared. Therefore the electron sitting in the higher density field has more potential energy. To restate, the setup is two electrons, one high energy and one low energy. They are both not moving and, both aligned.\nD. Now kick the electrons. The one in the high field moves faster. This is because of the Lorentz Force. Force = charge*(velocity vector X Magnetic Field). If the Magnetic field is higher, the force is higher (assuming each electron gets the same kick). So, if you have a higher B field, you have a high energy, you have faster moving electrons. We also know that the electrons move along the cusps.\nFigure 3: Magnetic field lines inside the polywell, taken from Indreks\u2019 simulation6. Electrons will move faster in the denser field, so recirculation occurs faster along the sides of the polywell and the cusp corners, then in the center. Some believe that electrons stop movement in the center.\nE. We know that there is a higher magnetic field at the cusps, or the corners of the polywell. This can be seen above, in a picture of the magnetic field lines, taken from Indreks\u2019 simulation. It seems reasonable then to assume then that these recirculating electrons would move faster at the corners of the device and slower in the middle. Some believe that they come to a complete standstill in the middle. This Picture is not universally agreed upon. Therefore, our picture of electron re-circulation looks like this:\nFigure 4: Hypothesized picture of electron recirculation inside polywell. Note electrons are moving from the center to the corners and recirculating back. The picture is somewhat simplified because the actually electrons would be corkscrewing instead of moving in straight lines. The big question is speed. The electrons should move faster in the denser field, so they will move faster in the cusps then in the center of the polywell.\nAs the electrons travel up the cusp lines they move faster. They reach some point where they turn around. This U-turn point is where the electron hits a magnetic mirror. I will explain magnetic mirrors as best I can, borrowing from a lecturer from the University of Texas at Austin5. These notes look at both the electric and magnetic field effects on the particle. Therefore I would imagine this scenario is more comprehensive then the energy density and Lorenz force arguments I was using above. Since both are approximations anyways, both can shed light on electron behavior inside the polywell.\nFigure 5: This is a picture of an electron in some fictitious electric and magnetic field.\nLet us assume this that the fields are not varying with time. It just sits there. The above particle has some energy. If the magnetic field remains unchanged, and the particle does not move, then the energy of the particle remains constant. The equation that gives the particles total energy, is shown below\nUnfortunately, I do not know what the U and Ve is specifically referring too. The U is most likely the part of particle\u2019s velocity which runs parallel to the magnetic field lines. This is the velocity we care about, since it would be about the speed at which the electrons ride the magnetic field lines inside the polywell. The Ve is probably the velocity of the particle relative to the electric field. Here are some statements that can be made about electron behavior in such a field.\n1. If the field is constant with time, the particle gains or loses no total energy as it moves around the field. This is the ideal case. No process like this can occur without losing some energy, or it would break the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Ideally, energy would just be transferred from kinetic to potential and back as the electron moves. As the particle speeds up, kinetic energy increases, potential energy decreases and total energy remains constant. The opposite happens when the particle slows down. The particle loses kinetic energy \u2013 transferring it to potential energy.\n2. You can rearrange the above equation in a field that is constant in time. In this case, the author was interested in the velocity parallel to the magnetic field lines.\nFrom this equation the author determines there are three mathematical cases for a magnetic mirror.\nIn this case the electrons can move in any direction. Up or down the magnetic field lines. They DO move \u201cup\u201d the magnetic field lines due to the Lorenz force described above. The Lorenz force is the force an electron experiences due to a magnetic field.\nIn this region, where the above mathematical statement is true, the electrons are prohibited from going. Essentially what this is stating is that the electron energy is not high enough to overcome the \u201ccontainment\u201d energy.\nThis case, represents the line between the two regions. It represents the mirror point, the point where the recirculating electrons would have to turn around. A nice analogy can be made using a marble in a bowl. This analogy is shown graphically in figure Six.\nFigure 6: A simple analogy explaining magnetic mirrors: a marble in a bowl. The highest the marble can reach as it rolls around in the bowl is the blue line. This is the 3rd case, where the total energy of the electron matches the containment energy at that point. The lid of the bowl is the maximum energy the system can contain. Any electron with a total energy higher than that maximum, would fly out of the system.\nHere is an important point. This containment is magnets containing electrons. The magnetics are creating magnetic mirror lines, which the electrons cannot cross. There are no ions in this picture. It seems there would be a completely different potential well for the ions. One created by the electrons. Below is a fictitious drawing of what these magnetic mirror lines might look like inside the polywell.\nFigure 7: A possible magnetic mirror line picture adopted from Indreks\u2019 simulation6. Originally, this picture was a 2D image of the magnetic field lines (shown in blue), from some plane cut across the polywell. The magnetic field intensity is represented by the different colored regions. You can see the cusps very well in this image, there are cusp lines running out at each corner. There are also cusps at each side. A fictitious black line has been drawn representing the turn around point for the electrons. I did this arbitrarily.\nFigure 8: Electron recirculating picture, complete with magnetic mirror lines.\n4. The Whiffle Ball Theory \u2013 Are electrons creating their own field?\nThe Whiffle ball hypothesis is a very critical part of the polywell. It can be explained as followed. All electrons have a diamagnetic moment. This is created by their spin. This moment behaves like a small magnetic. When a strong external field is applied, it can align the moments of the electrons in an object against the field. This creates a repulsive magnetic field. Thomas Ligon does a good job describing it, from \u201cAn interview with Thomas Ligon\u201d on YouTube. He states the following:\n\u201cIn that region, there is essentially next to no magnetic field. Everywhere else, where there is a magnetic field, electrons are passing through in small populations. These electrons will behave classically, following electromagnetic theory, the right hand rule and all the other stuff they normally do. In principal, Dr. Bussard believed that if you got the electron current inside the machine up high enough the cloud of electrons itself starts doing things to the magnetic field that one would not gather from studying a single electron. He believed that they would go diamagnetic and exclude the magnetic field and push it back.\u201d\nThis is shown graphically below.\nFigure 9 & 10: The first figure shows graphically how electron moments can align against an external magnetic field. This cases the electrons to create their own magnetic field in response. In materials, this means that something can behave like a magnetic, when a strong magnetic field is applied to it. An example of this is shown above, where a frog behaves like a magnet, and floats in response to about a 16 Tesla external field. This is believed to be happening inside the polywell. The some of the electrons in the cloud are aligning their moments against the external magnetic field. They are making their own field. This is supposed to push back the external field and help contain the electrons. This is the Whiffle ball effect. As of this writing, it is only a theory.\nBoth these were comments made about electron behavior from Thomas Ligon\u2019s interview.\n\u201cLets assume you do not have any ions in here and you fill this machine up with all the electrons it will hold. The neat thing is, the electrons are mutually repulsive in the center here and they actually lose kinetic energy going into the center. The depth of the potential well occurs, when the center is space charge limited. Electrons are losing energy to the point where they basically come to a standstill. The electrons in the middle of this machine are not hot. They are nearly cold. They are lukewarm at best. When they get trapped, the electrons lose kinetic energy in here. Now if you start putting boron, or if you start concentrating ions in here, the ions themselves are positively charged and they will partially counteract the tendency of the electrons to repel each other. So you start getting whets called a virtual anode. It is a structure in which the ions themselves allow the electrons to come in with a little more kinetic energy.\u201d\nIs this true? We need data to verify this.\nFigure 11: Hypothetical picture of electron behavior inside the polywell. This includes electrons moving faster at the cusps then in the center. It also includes packing at the edges, and a magnetic mirror line (in red) which shows where the electrons would turn around.\n1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force\n2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density\n3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_magnetic_dipole_moment\n4. \"Should Google Go Nuclear\" 52 minutes, 35 seconds in\n5. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/lectures/node22.html#e2.75\n7. \u201cAn Interview with Thomas Ligon\u201d Web. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HatEDkNnn8\nLabels: dr. richard nebel Electrons energy fusion green idea IEC innovation nuclear P B11 polywell power robert bussard technology tom ligon Whifle Ball X-Rays\nWow! Nice work! This is a ton to read all at once. So basically your saying that the electrons speed up at the sides and slow down in the centre. This is because of the Lorenz force and because of Indreks' simulations.\nWould that mean that the electrons in the centre are not moving at all?\nwith all the things going on inside the cloud, forces such as:\n- Low energy, cold ions bouncing around.\n- high energy electrons in useless orbits.\n- electrostatic drag of ion-electron interactions.\n- The ion and electron cloud thermalizing.\n...I highly doubt that the cloud would stay so structured, with different zones of high ions and high electron concentrations. It will fall into a randomized cloud of material, with structure only on the sides where the magnetic fields play a role.\nHere is a document explaining the math behind it.\nThePolywellGuy November 17, 2012 at 11:55 AM\nDisclaimer: part of this post is flawed.\n1. The math in the \"3 cases\", magnetic mirror section maybe incorrect.\n2. The magnetic moment of an electron has been shown to be too weak to explain any whiffleball effect.\nSorry Everyone!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 299, "original_length": 19273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepostgame.com/devonta-freeman-no-28-3-jokes-my-face", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:52Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2GOHNWXXIK27QA2YELICC5COB5CEORY", "length": 1340, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thepostgame.com", "title": "Devonta Freeman: Nobody Makes 28-3 Jokes To My Face | ThePostGame.com", "raw_content": "Devonta Freeman had 75 rushing yards, 46 receiving yards and a rushing touchdown in Super Bowl LI, but as you probably know by now, the Falcons lost to the Patriots. New England came back from 28-3 down in the second half to win.\nFreeman was back at the Super Bowl this year, not as a player, but he was doing media on Radio Row. Asked if he still gets 28-3 taunts, his answer was complicated. He does get chirped, but not to his face.\n\"They only gonna say that on social media,\" he says. \"Not in person. There's always social media. The tough people. I don't even worry about that. OK, you're right.\"\nFreeman also says he doesn't read typically read his social media mentions, although sometimes on Instagram, he notices fans bickering with each other.\nFolks, if you have something to say, tell Freeman in person.\nFreeman spoke to ThePostGame on behalf of Delta, the official airline of the Atlanta Falcons and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Of course, Super Bowl LIII will be in The ATL, where Delta is headquartered.\nGreat morning with our official airline @Delta. Thanks for always taking care of us on the road and supporting our team! pic.twitter.com/k6hkx5mPoo\n\u2014 Devonta Freeman (@devontafreeman) February 3, 2018\n28-3, Atlanta, Atlanta Falcons, Devonta Freeman, Football, New England Patriots, NFL, Super Bowl LI, Super Bowl LIII, Tom Brady", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2010/02/grange-circle-c-co-limerick.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:22Z", "digest": "sha1:KKKDCFKOWE4JMQTM26BLJLCLT5WISFRO", "length": 1645, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thestandingstone.ie", "title": "The Standing Stone: Grange, Circle C, Co. Limerick.", "raw_content": "Grange, Circle C, Co. Limerick.\nLocation \u2013 Located in the field to the N of the main circle at Grange. Go through the black gate at the back of the field and there is a gap in the fence into the next field. It is visible from the main circle.\nOS: R633 406 (map 65) Longitude: 8\u00b0 32' 27.43\" W Latitude: 52\u00b0 30' 54.25\" N GPS: R63280 40538 (Accuracy 5m) Description and History \u2013 This stone circle, unlike its big brother, has not been excavated so it is difficult to date but it is likely to be from the Bronze Age like the other circle. It seemed to me however that it is much older than the large circle. It is a much rougher and organic circle and certainly less worked out. The circle is roughly 17m in diameter and contains 15 stones with a slightly raised area in the middle. One stone has a thorn bush growing around it while another has a tree growing through it. A large gap on the Southern side of the circle indicates that some stone have been removed. None of the stones are much more than 1m high and they are all wider than they are high. The circle, even with the larger partner so close, is still very impressive. Difficulty \u2013 Easy to get to. The only hard part is finding the gap in the fence...it is not that obvious where it is. For more stone circles, click here. For more sites around Lough Gur, click here. For more sites in Co. Limerick, click here.\nSeeing the circle emerge out the fog as I walked across the field toward it only added to its mystery.\nThe stones are low but quite big.\nThis stone has weathered in an interesting way.\nThe tree, as you can see, has grown through this stone.\nThe circle in more clear weather.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2018/12/st-kevins-well-glendalough-co-wicklow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OG4BIXMHRVQZ3Y22DD4LPWJN33VFOEMR", "length": 454, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thestandingstone.ie", "title": "The Standing Stone: St. Kevin\u2019s Well, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.", "raw_content": "St. Kevin\u2019s Well, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.\nLocation \u2013 This one is midway between St. Kevin\u2019s church and St. Saviour\u2019s priory along the forest path.\nGPS: T 12604 96661 (Accuracy \u2013 10m)\nDescription and History \u2013 This is a nice little well dedicated to St. Kevin. Stone steps lead down to the water which sits in a circular well. The tree next to it is sometimes used as a rag tree.\nDifficulty \u2013 It\u2019s easy to spot from the pathway leading to St. Saviour\u2019s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2018/12/the-bullaun-stones-glendalough-co.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:06Z", "digest": "sha1:QQRLN4AUFGPBHIDL4HQYZNK43UFGR6SG", "length": 1660, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.thestandingstone.ie", "title": "The Standing Stone: The Bullaun Stones, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.", "raw_content": "The Bullaun Stones, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.\nLocation \u2013 These are scattered around the entire complex, some in the public areas and other on private land. Co-ordinates are given for each individual stone.\nDescription and History \u2013 Like many early Christian sites, Glendalough boasts bullaun stones. In fact, I\u2019ve never been to a site with so many in one location. Some are very easy to find, while others are tucked away on private land. Some are now barely visible above the surface. It makes me wonder how many others are buried and not known about. I did not find all of them, and there are many others still there to be seen.\nA bullaun stone is a stone in which a cup shaped hollow has been made either naturally or by hand. The stones are associated with religion, but are probably pre-Christian in origin, and the water collected within was thought to have the ability to cure ailments. These stones were common in the early centuries of Christianity in Ireland.\nThe lettering system I have adopted here is the same as used by Tom FourWinds on Megalithomania.com. A big thank you to Tom who meticulously recorded these stones, making it easier for the rest of us to find them!\n-Bullaun A (2 stones)\n-Bullaun B\n-Bullaun D\n-Bullaun F (Stone and Cross-Base)\n-Bullaun G\n-Bullaun H\n-Bullaun I\n-Glendalough Bullaun\n-The Cathedral Bullaun\n-St. Mary\u2019s Bullaun\nDifficulty \u2013 Various difficulties. Some of these stones are hidden away and require some searching to find. Some are in water also.\nThese two pictures are of two Bullauns that I photographed but can no longer place. If anyone knows where they are located, then please get in touch.\nPossibly a piscina.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thetwodrifters.net/nuremberg/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SMA4K2ZU6G6GVLENZ3V3ZZWCDKEL7QAS", "length": 4509, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.thetwodrifters.net", "title": "Nuremberg \u2013 The Two Drifters", "raw_content": "Nuremberg was really lovely and quite a charming surprise!\nNuremberg and its Christmas Market.\nTo tell you the truth, we only planned to visit it as we heard it had the most famous of the Christmas markets in Germany. The only other things I really knew about Nuremberg was its past during the Nazi regime, how badly it was bombed and the Nuremberg trials that followed WWII, so I honestly wasn\u2019t expecting to find it as pretty as we did. But it was actually such a charming, energetic city and we really loved our time here.\nThe Nazi Rally Ground\nFirstly, Nuremberg was seen by the Nazis as the \u2018most German of German cities\u2019 due to its rich Imperial and Germanic history and because of this, it was turned into the most important city for Nazi rallies and propaganda campaigns. Every September, huge week long rallies and parades were held here at the enormous Nazi Party Rally Grounds, which were built purely for these, with even more elaborate plans to expand that were never realised.\nThese Nazi Party Rally Grounds have been turned into the Documentation Museum now, which was fantastic. We spent about 4 hours here exploring. It focuses mostly on the causes, context and consequences of the Nazi reign and the fanatical propaganda and methods used on the people of Germany and then of course, the disastrous consequence that was the result.\nThe Grand Road which was built specifically for Nazi parades and now is used as a car park.\nDue to these significant events occurring in Nuremberg during WWII, it was decided that it would be the site of the trials 0f significant Nazi members \u2013 the main war criminals. This was the first international trial of war criminals and was held in Courtroom 600, which we also visited. This museum presented the process that was undertaken by the Allies after the war, during the trials and the consequences of them. It was interesting to also see how the international community has developed since then with its treatment of war criminals.\nCourtroom 600 where the trials were held.\nSince then, Nuremberg has completely changed, with a focus now on human rights activities. One of these is the Way of the Human Rights, 27 huge round pillars line the walkway. On each pillar is an engraving of one article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in German and then in another language. A lovely reminder of how far the city has come since WWII.\nOne of the pillars on the Way of the Human Rights\nNuremberg was badly bombed during WWII, but has been rebuilt like it was before. It has the most beautiful medieval style areas that were so lovely to wander through. It also has the Craftsman Courtyard which is a charming area filled with little shops of all sorts of craft work. Some standouts were the stained glass maker and blacksmith!\nA beautiful part of Nuremberg.\nThe Craftsman Courtyard was so cute!\nWe loved wandering through these areas of Nuremberg.\nWe also explored Nuremberg\u2019s Castle which we really enjoyed. It was really interesting to wander through and learn about the power and importance of the Holy Roman Empire and its role in Bavaria and the city of Nuremberg. We climbed the tower (of course) and it was really cool because as well as having a fantastic view over the current town of Nuremberg, it also had photographs showing how Nuremberg looked before the war and what it looked like immediately after.\nNuremberg Castle.\nThe Dukes of Nuremberg Castle.\nThe Christmas Markets were incredible, we could easily see why so many people visit them each year! We had so much fun exploring them. The Christmas Markets in Nuremberg were much more traditional than the ones we had visited in Berlin but were still really lovely to wander through. We really enjoyed them. Though one very strange decoration was these Prune Men that were men and women made from dried prunes, figs and raisins and dressed up in costumes\u2026a little odd!\nWe loved how you would come across little Christmas Markets all over the place, they just seemed to pop up everywhere! The main one is right in front of a beautiful church and is huge!\nExploring the Nuremberg Christmas Markets.\nThese snowmen overlooked a Children\u2019s Christmas Market we stumbled across.\nThe Prune Men!! A little strange!\nNuremberg is known for its tasty gingerbread!\nNuremberg ended up being a really charming place that we loved exploring and it was a complete surprise how much we enjoyed it.\nSunset over the Christmas Market.\nOur Instagram has our daily adventures and we would love to hear from you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 7194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thevineyagency.com/author_justinhill.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:06Z", "digest": "sha1:NDB6MRA5H6VFCB7VFPTPQZS2BFFPMYUU", "length": 3198, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thevineyagency.com", "title": "The Viney Agency", "raw_content": "Justin Hill has been likened to a George Orwell, a boxer, and Tolstoy. He attended the same school as Guy Fawkes - St Cuthbert\u2019s Society, Durham - and then spent seven years as a volunteer with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in rural China and Africa.\nHis first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001. It won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a 2002 Betty Trask Award, and has been banned by the government in China.\nHis second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.\nCiao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.\nIn 2001, Justin was listed in the Independent on Sunday's Top 20 Young British Writers. In October 2005 he was awarded the Xiaoxiang Friendship Award by the Governor of Hunan Province, for his services to China.\nHis work has been translated into fourteen languages.\nHis new fiction is set in 11th century England, culminating in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Little, Brown published the first book, Shieldwall in 2011 to critical acclaim and it was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The sequel, Viking Fire, was published in 2016 and also named a Book of the Year.\nPraise for Viking Fire:\n'Viking Fire is a sophisticated, subtle evocation of a brutal age' (Sunday Times)\n'This evocative tale of war and glory draws us into a Viking world of heroic frozen battlegrounds and treacherous perfumed palaces' (Sunday Express)\n'Fights aplenty, but this is a literary, intelligent read from a masterly storyteller' (Antonia Senior, The Times)\nFor more information visit www.justinhillauthor.com\nLATEST BOOK: VIKING FIRE\nIn 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia and ultimately to Constantinople and the Holy City of Jerusalem.\nDrawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses, the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands, and then give it all up for a Russian princess and the chance to return home and lead his own people, where he must fight the demons of his past, his family and his countrymen in a long and bitter war for revenge and power.\nTold in his own voice, this is the astonishing true story of the most famous warrior in all Christendom: Harald Hardrada, the last Viking.\nBIBLIOGRAPHY: Viking Fire, Little Brown, 2016; Shieldwall, Little Brown, 2011; Passing Under Heaven, Abacus, 2005, Ulpius_Haz, Budapest (Hungary), SIA Apgads Atena (Latvia), Difel Difusao Editorial,SA (Portugal); Ciao Asmara. Abacus, 2002, FBE Edizioni (Italy); The Drink and Dream Teahouse, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001, Rosinante Forlag (Denmark), De Bezige Bij, (Holland), Ediizioni Frassinelli (Italy), Edicions Bromera, (Spain (Catalan)), Verslagsgruppe Bertelsmann GmbH (Germany), Editions Gallimard (France), Ediciones Maeva (Spain), Difel Difusao Editorial (Portugal), Psichogios Publications (Greece), Pax Forlag (Norway); A Bend in the Yellow River, Phoenix House 1997.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theweepingeagle.com/2015/04/the-time-is-coming-that-whoever-kills.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2JFN55MZARIU2MN6GK5SAHYVHB6NCZ7W", "length": 6698, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.theweepingeagle.com", "title": "\u2018The Time Is Coming That Whoever Kills You Will Think That He Is Offering A Service To God\u2019", "raw_content": "\u2018The Time Is Coming That Whoever Kills You Will Think That He Is Offering A Service To God\u2019\n\"They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service\" - John 16:2\nHow do you deal with psychotic religious warriors that believe that they are offering a service to God by killing Christians?\nEver since 9/11, we were endlessly told about what a great threat \u201cal-Qaeda\u201d was, but I don\u2019t remember a single time when al-Qaeda ever marched a group of Christians out and beheaded them on camera. ISIS appears to be an entirely different animal than al-Qaeda ever was, and it is about time that we started taking them seriously. But the Obama administration is actually allowing Americans that went overseas to fight for ISIS to come back into the country and resume their normal lives. To me, that is absolutely insane. These are people that believe that they score major points with their god when they kill us. And they especially seem to relish the opportunity to kill Christians. Sadly, this is all part of a rising trend of Christian persecution all over the planet. Christian churches are being burned to the ground in places such as Egypt, India and West Africa, and earlier this month we witnessed a horrific incident during which more than a hundred Christians were mercilessly gunned down in Kenya. It is becoming increasingly dangerous to be a Christian, and it is only going to get worse in the years ahead.\nYou have to keep in mind that these ISIS fighters are actually convinced that they are the good guys. They don\u2019t believe that what they are doing is evil. When they kill Christians, they are just doing what they believe their god wants them to do\u2026\nA shocking new video appearing to show at least 30 Christians being beheaded and shot by ISIS in Libya has been released.\nThe 29-minute video, titled \u2018Until It Came To Them \u2013 Clear Evidence\u2019, shows dozens of militants holding two separate groups captive, thought to be in the south and the west of the country.\nAt least 16 men, described by Islamic State as the \u2018followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church\u2019, are lined up and shot in a desert area while 12 others are filmed being forced to walk down a beach before being beheaded.\nThis follows another video in February of the beheading of a group of 21 Coptic Christians on the beach in Libya, though that terrain was rockier than the one shown in the latest film.\nThis video that was released makes it abundantly clear what these killers are motivated by. The following description of the audio on this latest ISIS video comes from CNN\u2026\n\u201cAll praise be to Allah, the Lord and cherisher of the world and may peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Mohammed. To the nation of the cross, we are back again on the sands, where the companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, have stepped on before, telling you: Muslim blood that was shed under the hands of your religion is not cheap,\u201d the narrator says in Arabic on the 30-minute video.\nThe narrator continues, \u201cIn fact, their blood is the purest blood because there is a nation behind them (which) inherits revenge. And we swear to Allah: the one who disgraced you by our hands, you will not have safety, even in your dreams, until you embrace Islam.\u201d\nThey will not stop fighting until we all embrace Islam.\nNot much room for negotiation there.\nMeanwhile, other Islamic groups all over the planet are starting to take their cues from ISIS, and this is resulting in a rising tide of violence against Christians.\nFor example, recall the incident in the Mediterranean Sea the other day in which a dozen innocent Christians were tossed to their deaths\u2026\nWhen a rubber dinghy carrying around 100 African refugees across the Mediterranean began to sink, a Nigerian Christian prayed for his life in an innocent act that would end in the deaths of 12 fellow migrants.\nOne of the Muslims on board the rickety craft ordered him to stop, saying: \u2018Here, we only pray to Allah.\u2019\nWhen he refused, a violent fight ensued and 12 Christians drowned when they were thrown overboard by the Muslim refugees.\nWho in the world would do such a thing?\nThe only reason those 12 people were killed was because they were Christians.\nThe following is what Reverend Franklin Graham had to say about this incident\u2026\n\u201cThe Italian police have arrested 15 Muslims for throwing 12 people overboard and watching them helplessly drown in the Mediterranean,\u201d said Rev. Graham in an Apr. 17 Facebook post.\nHe continued, \u201cWhy? Just because they were Christians! Because Islam has a deep and relentless hatred for people who bear the Name of Christ. These Christians were among a group of 105 people who were trying to escape war and poverty in Africa and were headed to Italy to look for work.\u201d\nWe saw another example of this kind of violence against Christians earlier this year in West Africa\u2026\nIt took only a few hours, but it was enough time for hundreds of radical Muslims in Niger, West Africa, to destroy dozens of churches and several Christian homes. Ten people lost their lives and hundreds were injured when Muslim mobs went on the deadly rampage in early January.\nNow, three months later, Christians living there are moving forward, determined to still preach the Gospel despite the dangers.\nIn most of these attacks around the globe, those involved do not believe that they are doing anything wrong.\nRather, most of the people involved in this violence believe that they are actually offering a service to their god.\nAnd the tide is turning in the western world as well. I don\u2019t know if you have noticed, but it is quite socially acceptable to make jokes about Christians and to portray them as bad guys and lunatics in movies and on television shows. Evangelical Christians are even being labeled as \u201cpotential terrorists\u201d in official government documents, and every trace of the Christian faith is being pushed out of public life in the United States. I discussed how this is being done in the U.S. military in this recent article, but just about everywhere you look Christianity is being pushed into the shadows. The disdain for the faith of our forefathers has reached a crescendo, and it is not going to be any easier to be a Christian in this country in the years ahead \u2013 that is for sure.\nIn fact, I am sure that there will be some extremely negative comments about Christians and the Christian faith following this article. But that is okay \u2013 we need an honest exchange of views in this nation. May the truth triumph in the marketplace of ideas, and if you would like to add to this discussion, please do so by leaving a comment below\u2026\nLabels: ISIS Persecution Radical Islam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1153, "original_length": 28323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theweepingeagle.com/2017/07/the-clinton-body-count-grows-by-one-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:A4LNVKJKRRATBP4I33VXUAPLGGSKGBTB", "length": 3181, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theweepingeagle.com", "title": "The Clinton Body Count Grows By One More", "raw_content": "Bill & Hillary's Dead Pool\nThe Clinton Body Count Grows By One More\nThe people of Haiti have been victimized. And just when the two people, Bill and Hillary Clinton were ready to be fingered in Haiti\u2019s official judicial circles, as well as the in the US government, the star witness was \u201csuicided\u201d.\nA Beleaguered People\nOutside of Syria, it would be hard to find a people who have been more victimized that the people of Haiti.\nHaitians have been victimized by the weather, in Hurricane Matthew, and most of all, the people of Haiti have been victimized by the Clinton Foundation and UN. The UN was nowhere to be found with regard to providing relief efforts despite the rampant starvation and outbreak of water borne diseases (e.g. cholera).\nMostly complicit in the ongoing victimization of the Haitian people is the Clinton Foundation who has received $2 billion to provide relief efforts and they are nowhere to be found. And why isn\u2019t the media covering this? Simple, they don\u2019t want Haitians saying on camera that the Clintons are thieves and their actions have and will cause a large loss of life.\nThe Star Witness: Another One Bites the Dust\nKlaus Eberwein was due to appear next Tuesday before the Haitian Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission where he was widely expected to testify that the Clinton Foundation misappropriated Haiti earthquake donations from a variety of international contributors.\nAccording to Miami-Dade\u2019s medical examiner records supervisor, the official cause of death is \u201cgunshot to the head\u201c. Eberwein\u2019s death has been listed officially as a \u201csuicide.\u201d\nEberwein, who had previously acknowledged his life was in danger, was a relentless critic of the Clinton Foundation\u2019s activities in Haiti, where he served as director general of the government\u2019s economic development agency, Fonds d\u2019assistance \u00e9conomique et social, for three years.\nEberwein was going to testify to the following:\nOnly 0.6% of donations generated by international donors to the Clinton Foundation with the sole purpose of directly assisting Haitians actually ended up reaching the hands of Haitian relief organizations.\nOnly 9.6% of the donated funds ended up with the Haitian government.\nThe remaining 89.8%, was funneled to non-Haitian organizations.\nKlaus had tippled his hand as to what he was going to testify when he had previously stated that \u201cThe Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace\u2026\u201d\nEberwein made these comments at a protest outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan last year.\nAccording to the publication, Haiti Libre newspaper, Eberwein was said to be in \u201cgood spirits\u201c, with plans for the future. His close friends and business partners are shocked by the idea he may have committed suicide. In other words, nobody believes the official narrative.\nThe Clinton\u2019s strike again. I have previously made two previous videos which further implicate Hillary Clinton for who and what she was. One of the videos covered Infowars and Gary Haevin/Joe Biggs\u2019 good work in this arena. The Clinton\u2019s are totally without compassion.\nLabels: Bill & Hillary's Dead Pool Clinton Clinton Foundation Haiti", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1140, "original_length": 24664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.threesquaresgreetings.com/proddetail.asp?prod=S501", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:AQUJ4USP34JJ7AR22TYK3GRUBBVWWSOV", "length": 176, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.threesquaresgreetings.com", "title": "Three Squares Greetings \u2013 For Those Who Can\u2019t Come Home", "raw_content": "Inside Message: It\u2019s your birthday and I know that you\u2019d rather be almost anywhere else right now. Hopefully, one year older will really mean one year wiser for you. Take care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thunderandthreads.com/2010/08/dublin-zoo-and-other-things.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CMQBPCYH4QPB3S2TPXFTCKQCJHEFKNDK", "length": 1598, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thunderandthreads.com", "title": "Dublin Zoo And Other Things... | THUNDER AND THREADS", "raw_content": "Dublin Zoo And Other Things...\nToday was a wonderful day! My Dad brought myself and my two little sisters (Aoife and Ciara) to the Zoo! I go every Summer, it sorta become an annual thing! It rained on and off for most of the day but luckily for us, the rain held off for the three hours we were at the Zoo! All the animals were outside, having a buzz, and I got a ton of pics for you guys!\n''Dublin Zoo (Irish: Z\u00fa Bhaile \u00c1tha Cliath), in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland is the largest zoo in Ireland and one of Dublin's most popular attractions. Opened in 1831, the zoo describes its role as conservation, study, and education. Its stated mission is to work in partnership with zoos worldwide to make a significant contribution to the conservation of the endangered species on Earth.''\nI used to be against zoo's, but over the past few years my view has changed on them - would you prefer the animals to be kept in a zoo but to be fed and cared for... or have them out in the wild, being hunted for their skins and meat?\nMy favourites have always been the sealions, penguins and lions. Unfortunately the penguins were hiding from the sun in the shade, and I only got a picture of two of them - same with the lions. Only the lioness was there, and she was fast asleep in her bed haha. The sealions were amazing though, they're actually hilarious... I also took a few random snaps of my sisters... and a few more ''mistake photos'', you guys seemed to like them the last time!\nI also have a new video up - an 'I Hate..' rant.. I'll post it at the end of this!\nSome eh, mistakes?\nLabels: zoo dublin blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tmhelsinki.org/en/modules/news/archive.php?year=2009&month=2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PZE7YDLHHFZNTD2HPAB6HW7C76IRO4LZ", "length": 356, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tmhelsinki.org", "title": "TURKMENISTAN HELSINKI FOUNDATION FOR HUMANS RIGHTS - News & Acts", "raw_content": "Acts: 2008 Human Rights Report: Turkmenistan 1205 2009/2/26 20:13\nActs: Details of jail 1090 2009/2/19 9:03\nNews: Amnesty Laments Turkmenistan's 'Continuing Failure To Fulfill Promises' 1317 2009/2/16 22:31\nActs: Turkmenistan: Continuing failure to fulfil promises 1176 2009/2/12 18:27\nActs: Open Letter to the President of Turkmenistan 1319 2009/2/3 16:24", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 2251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tomfolio.com/signatures/h/HayakawaSI.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YSIE6YA4NDYILPDYAXCXJOMEIR2R4KHD", "length": 83, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tomfolio.com", "title": "TomFolio.com - Author Signature: S. I. Hayakawa", "raw_content": "Canadian-born American semanticist, psychologist, academic, writer and U.S.Senator.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tonyslpgareport.com/2014/07/surprises-disappoints-2014-part-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:41Z", "digest": "sha1:H27RSS226HRKENOM7BH3E66AMXVMIXX2", "length": 7151, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.tonyslpgareport.com", "title": "Surprises & Disappointments 2014 - Part 2", "raw_content": "1- Michelle Wie - She started to play better the second half of last season, but not too many people saw this coming. With the possible exception of Stacy Lewis, Wie has become the most consistent player on the LPGA tour. Michelle Wie started the year as the #61 ranked player in the world, and is now #6. She finished last season #41 on the money list, and she is #2 this year. She has teed it up 14 times this year and has had 2 wins (one a major championship), 6 top 5's, 10 top tens, and 13 top 20's. Her worst finish this year is a tie for 23rd place.\n2- Anna Nordqvist - Anna came onto the LPGA in 2010 and won twice that year, with one of those wins being a major championship. She did not win again the next 3 years. Coming into the 2014 season we didn't have very high expectations. Anna has turned it all around this year winning twice, and her consistency has her currently #5 on this year's money list.\n3- Karrie Webb - After a huge comeback year in 2012 when she won twice, Karrie slipped just a bit last year. Taking into account that she will be turning 40 this year, there was every reason to think that her numbers would decline some more. Well, that certainly hasn't happened! Karrie has won twice already this season. Currently #7 on this year's money list, this Hall of Famer is not slowing down.\n4- Lydia Ko - Sure I know she had already won a couple of LPGA tournaments before this year. I also know that everyone expected her to have a big rookie season this year. So why is she a surprise? She is a surprise because with all the hype she still had to go out and do it. And do it she has. She has gotten that first win as an LPGA member under her belt, along with 6 top 5 finishes, and seven top tens. Currently #3 on this year's money list, she is having a rookie season for the ages.\n5- Jennie Shin - Talk about flying under the radar, most fans still don't know who she is. Although Jennie is still looking for that first victory, she has a top 5, 4 top tens, and 8 top 20 finishes this year. Her improvement has been dramatic. Jennie finished #45 on the money list in 2013, and is currently #16. Look for that first victory to come along soon.\n6- Gerina Piller - Somewhat of a late bloomer at 29 years old, Gerina just keeps getting better every year. A real bomber, she is #1 in driving distance this year. Gerina finished #68 on the money list in 2011, #48 in 2012, #26 in 2013, and is currently #23 this year. I look for that trend to continue.\nHonorable mentions: Chella Choi, Azahara Munoz.\n1- Ai Miyazato - There are players having worse seasons than Ai, but none of them are as disappointing based on our expectations. Maybe like Yani Tseng, I will have to lower my expectations next year, but for now I am still waiting for her to turn it around. The numbers don't seem to make sense. She has missed 3 straight cuts. She has gone 28 tournaments without a top ten. Worse yet, 17 tournaments without a top 20.\nThis former #1 player has now dropped to #53 in the world. Her decline started last season when she dropped to #26 on the money list, this year she is currently #85.\n2- Mika Miyazato - Things are not good if your name is Miyazato this year. Mika has actually been worse than Ai. She has missed the cut in 4 of her last 7 starts. She has not finished in the top twenty all year. In 2012 Mika finished #11 on the money list, this year she is #88.\n3- I.K. Kim - In some ways this is more puzzling then the top two. I.K. came into this season as one of the best players in the world, and we haven't seen anything resembling that player. She has one 13th place finish this year, but other than that she has finished 30th or worse in all the others. I.K. finished #7 on last year's money list. You can currently find her residing at the #60 spot.\n4- Beatriz Recari - What is going on here? Beatriz won twice last year and finished #8 on the money list. This year she has missed 6 cuts, doesn't have a top 20 finish, and is currently #98 on the money list.\n5- Moriya Jutanugarn - Last year's rookie the year, has not shown up at all this year. Moriya has played in all 16 events this year and her best finish is 27th. Currently #75 on the money list, it's time to wake up or she might be fighting to get into events next year.\n6- Vicky Hurst - I only rank her this low because my expectations weren't as high as the players above her, but Vicky might be having the worst season of any LPGA player. She has only made 1 cut this year in 12 attempts and ranks #157 on the money list. Once such a promising young player, she will now have a hard time retaining her playing card.\n7- Sun Young Yoo - With just 1 top 20 finish in 13 starts she has not contended this year. Just 2 years ago she finished 17th on the money list. This year she currently #57.\nDishonorable mentions: Ihlee Lee, Carlotta Ciganda, Irene Coe.\nLexi Thompson missed the cut this past week for only the 2nd time in her last 21 starts.\nThe LPGA has now hit the halfway point of the season with only 5 players that played all 16 tournaments.\nThey are: Hee Young Park, Chella Choi, Mo Martin, Moriya Jutanugarn, and Caroline Masson.\nChella Choi and Na Yeon Choi have only 6 top tens between them, but have finished 11th to 20th sixteen times.\nStacy Lewis remains #1, but now has a very large lead that would suggest she may be staying there for quite some time. Lydia Ko passes Inbee Park and moves up to the #2 spot.\nStacy Lewis has a huge lead with 3,524 points. She is followed by Michelle Wie with 2,588, and Lydia Ko with 1,928.\nSo Yeon Ryu has done everything but win. She has finished in the top ten in 5 of her last 6 starts.\nMeena Lee has four consecutive top 15 finishes.\nMindy Kim has missed the cut in her last 10 starts.\nDaveAndrews July 1, 2014 at 1:18 PM\nIt would be something to see Vicky Hurst have to go through Q School. It would be her first time, I'm pretty sure, since she got her card at 18 off the Symetra Tour when she finished as the top money winner in 2008 with 5 victories, I think, and set a record for the most money won in a season. Hard to figure out what has gone wrong with her game.\nDave, my guess is she may not be 100% healthy.\nColin N.Z July 1, 2014 at 3:51 PM\nPerhaps Tony you should have listed the $ and not the # and at the halfway point of the season with the exception of Hurst your disappointments don't look so bad. Players have a life outside of golf and external factors have to come in to it. A good example is In-Bee Park the poor girl is trying to organise one of the biggest events of her life.. getting married so I can see why she is a little off at the moment.\nThanks for the input Colin. I don't really consider Inbee a disappointment. There is no way she could have matched last year. I think she is playing pretty close to what I expected.\nDon't be freaked out if she has Asian mama problems now that her daddy has passed away.\nI'm talking about Vicky Hurst.\nLast year Nordqvist had a scoring average of 70.833. This year so far it is 70.700. Last year she had no wins and no missed cuts--this year she has two of each. I wonder if longer drives have led to greater variability in her results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 409, "original_length": 19044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.topshambaptist.com/community-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZIQIVVYQHK4S2LDBZMIHF5U76T6SZRC", "length": 2570, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.topshambaptist.com", "title": "Community - Topsham Baptist Church", "raw_content": "CommunityPastor2018-08-30T11:44:20+00:00\nNot Just For Sitting\nChurches were created for so much more than simply holding services and occasionally a potluck. Being a church, we are called by God to go outside of the four walls of our church and impact our community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\nSometimes we are able to share the good news of salvation; other times, we\u2019ll find ourselves helping someone mulch their garden or shoveling their driveway for them. We want to be so much more than \u201cthat church up on the hill with the blueberries.\u201d We want to be the very body of Christ in our town, just as God has called us to be.\nThe word \u201cevangelize\u201d simply means to share the good news \u2014 in particular, the good news that Jesus, the Son of God, died and rose again to give life to all those who will turn to Him alone for salvation.\nWe believe that evangelization is the best possible outreach any church can embrace, and so you\u2019ll see us out in the Mid-Coast area from time to time, passing out invitations to our church and sharing the Gospel at people\u2019s doorsteps whenever we can.\nFor those who cannot help themselves, we want to step in and make a difference. There\u2019s a lot of folks in our area who struggle with tasks that others can accomplish easily \u2014 they need help, and we want to provide it.\nFrom shoveling snow to mowing lawns, from hooking up someone\u2019s electronics to helping them find apartments, if we can be a help, we will. Don\u2019t hesitate to give us a call if we can be of assistance. One of our care teams will be right over.\nWhen Christ gave His Great Commission before going back to His Father, He told His first church to not limit their evangelization efforts to just Jerusalem, where they were already, but to go into all the world with the Gospel.\nWe fully believe that we are responsible to prayerfully and financially support national and foreign missionaries as a significant way for our church to fulfill our responsibility to evangelize not just our local community, but the entire world.\nFamily Helps\nFamilies need help. Whether you need help with personal discipleship, Biblical instruction for the home, or just help getting a budget together, we can assist you. The core of any church \u2014 or society \u2014 is the home, and we want to strengthen yours.\nSo even if you never end up darkening the doorway of the Topsham Baptist Church, please give a call if your family needs help. We can be there to hold Bible studies in your home or just pray with you. We\u2019re only a call, email, or Facebook message away.\nGET IN TOUCH WITH US ABOUT ANYTHING", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.topuniversityforum.in/threads/afmc-is-good-medical-college.23/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FBNQZF4XVIH2MO4RVUCGJ7VG3JLLKDEP", "length": 1430, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.topuniversityforum.in", "title": "AFMC is good medical college | Education Portal- Colleges,Universities & Preparation", "raw_content": "Discussion in 'Top Medical Colleges' started by Col_456, Nov 28, 2011.\nArmed medical force college is medical college which provide medical education and doctors work in defense forces, it is one of the best medical college in India.\nAFMC is meant for defense forces so if applying for them if you are looking medical career in defense forces which sounds quite interesting.\nArmed Forces Medical College:-\nIt is one of the leading medical college in India. This is a premier medical institute of India acknowledged as a centre of excellence for education and research. The college provides training to under-graduate and post-graduate medical and nursing students with assured career prospects in the defence services.\nI am currently a student at this college and the AFMC Pune is no doubt one of the best medical colleges in India. In many aspects, it beats even AIIMS, New Delhi. The infrastructure of the college is like no one else. It's really good with one of the most experienced faculties. The education level is one of the best. Also, there is no education fee or hostel fee in the AFMC Pune. The Ministry of Defence bears all the expenditure for the education of the medical cadet. This can be a dream college for any medical aspirant. To read more about the college, visit the link shared above.\nArun Khatri, Feb 28, 2018\nAlso, you can check out the list of Top 10 medical colleges in India as per the Outlook Magazine:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.torontotransitblog.com/434484157/4855977/posting/ontario-to-spend-up-to-42-5-million-this-year-on-cycling-infrastructure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:M6IZBYBJUPDCWZT3YS33WSSQKUU7OIQQ", "length": 360, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.torontotransitblog.com", "title": "Biking ON - www.torontotransitblog.com", "raw_content": "Ontario to spend up to $42.5 million this year on cycling infrastructure\nThe new program, announced as a review of the trail where a 5-year-old boy lost his life is underway, will pay up to 80% of the cost of cycling projects, such as painted and physically separated bike lanes, intersection modifications and bike racks\nBy Ben Spurr - Transportation Reporter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1224, "original_length": 16382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/2014/05/26/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JP7PSJHN5AYGEAQ4JLQUJBO3J4XRWTOB", "length": 1190, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tracyandmatt.co.uk", "title": "May 26, 2014 - Tracy and Matt's Blog", "raw_content": "Is Google Tangoing the tablet\nIt looks like one of Google\u2019s next tablets will be unlike anything we have seen before. According to a recent report, Google plans to bring Project Tango to an upcoming tablet product. Not much is known at this time, but the report explains that the Project Tango tablet will have a 7-inch display. It will also include two rear cameras, infrared depth sensors and \u0093advanced software that can capture precise three-dimensional images of objects.\u0094\nGoogle is planning to produce roughly 4,000 prototype Project Tango tablets to distribute to developers next month. The tablets will feature a 7-inch screen, two back cameras, infrared depth sensors and advanced software that can capture precise 3D images of objects.\nBryan Ma, an analyst at research firm IDC, said, \u0093It is critical to open the new technology to developers first as the key is how you can translate the technology into practical applications.\u0094\nAs you can see, this is one of Google\u2019s next big developer push products. As usual, they keep coming up with \u201cout of the box\u201d ideas and throwing them at developers to see if they will stick. We will keep you apprised if/when we get any further details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tracyjohnston.com/new-skatepark-info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OZWJ2WP3AIFK7KDPMK4N32EBUGTRKFM2", "length": 1125, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tracyjohnston.com", "title": "New Skatepark info \u2014 TRACY JOHNSTON", "raw_content": "I HAPPENED UPON THIS SKATEBOARD PARK when it was being built on a long abandoned lot next to a freeway, a recycling plant, and a junkyard. Tony, a skater and skate park builder, set up an NGO to get $40,00 for materials, (most of it from local skaters and Thrasher Magazine) and built the park in just five months with all volunteer labor. It was up and working in December 2013 and has been in almost constant use by locals and skaters from all over the world..Despite the city wanting to tear it down, his construction crew has kept the park up and added new ramps, new mosaic art, and even a memorial barbecue pit. Tony had hoped the city would eventually bring in some toilets and dumpsters, but that hasn't happened. West Oakland councilwoman Lynette McElhanny still wants the park torn down because she felt it was an insult to the long-time black residents of the Lower Bottoms. \"Too many people have come here thinking they can do whatever they want\", she says. \"These were white boys coming here only because they knew they would be kicked out of any other neighborhood.\"\nThe Beginning. Click on image to see Gallery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tradebeads.org/glass-trade-beads/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VCMCWJUHUD2H5TYSLXI36WGTDGD26W6B", "length": 3185, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.tradebeads.org", "title": "Glass Trade Beads", "raw_content": "The Ultimate Guide to Glass Trade Beads\nGlass trade beads also go by the name slave trade beads. These are mostly found in Africa, but also with some Native Americans and in Latin America. Trade beads were brought to these regions through European traders who used them to ease their passage. They exchanged them for slaves, hence the name, for services, and for goods such as gold, ivory, and palm oil. In Africa, glass trade beads were also made in India and found their way in Africa through Arab traders.\nThose who got these beads in Africa placed a lot of value on them because of the high intrinsic value they put on decorative items. They were used to store wealth, to show social status, and as a means of exchange. This was mostly in West Africa. For Native American Indians, glass trade beads were used in ceremonies, to decorate clothing, dolls and baskets, as necklaces and pendants, and as a medium of exchange.\nThese trade beads are used by archaeologists today as chronological markers. Non-destructive analysis, or INAA, is done on them and it works because the glass\u2019s composition changes with time.\nGlass Trade Beads in History\nChristopher Columbus and Beads\nChristopher Columbus recorded in his log in October 12, 1492 that to get the admiration of the natives of San Salvador Island, he had used a string of glass beads that they put around their necks. This is the first recorded use of trade beads in the larger America. In North America, it is believed that glass trade beads were introduced in 1540 by Coronado and his Spanish conquistadors who were searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. They brought the trade beads as a sign of goodwill with the Indians.\nIt is also believed that Hudson's Bay Company, a fur company formed in 1670, did a lot to introduce trade beads in the region. From the journals of the explorers Lewis and Clark, it is clear that trade beads were used to trade with the Indians. Others who bought these beads to America were the Vikings, Jesuit Priests, and Spanish Explorers. Native American Indians were so receptive to these beads because they had a history of wearing beads. Their beads had been made from wood, antler, bone, shell, copper, and stone.\nOrigins of Glass Trade Beads\nTrade beads were made from different materials and came in different styles depending on where they were made. Most of the glass trade beads were made in the Italian city of Venice, but others were made in Amsterdam, India, China, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, England, France and Spain. Czechoslovakian glass trade beads were particularly popular and they were used by the Dutch West India Company in New York. It is believed that Peter Stuyvesant traded $24 worth beads for Manhattan.\nValue of Glass Trade Beads\nThese trade beads are still in existence, but it is difficult to find beads that are in perfect condition. The older they are, the more expensive they are. Collectors are seeking these beads because their value is increasing by about 10 percent each year. They make great gifts and others are buying them because they are classy but cheaper than gold and diamonds. You can buy glass trade beads online or from the major jewelry stores.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tranquilwellnessspa.com/reiki_and_stress_management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UM6SKS6BCH7YK2VQYROMXSJDGQE2DPKK", "length": 4525, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.tranquilwellnessspa.com", "title": "Reiki and Stress Management - Tranquility Mind & Body Wellness Spa", "raw_content": "Reiki and Stress Management\nHow does stress physically change our bodies?\nIt is so common to say \u201cI\u2019m so stressed,\u201d \u201cwork is so stressful,\u201d or \u201cthe kids are stressing me out.\u201d Naturally, we think of stress as a negative thing. However, Stress is any change in the environment that requires your body to react and adjust in response. The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional responses. Stress can be both positive and negative. For example, getting married, excitement over planning a surprise party, internal worrying or debating, daily responsibilities, work deadlines, children, relationships. Any of these experiences are causing your body to ignite some sort of response.\nStress within your comfort zone can help you perform under pressure, motivate you to do your best, even keep you safe when danger looms. But when stress becomes overwhelming, it can damage your health, mood, relationships, and quality of life.\nWe all handle stress in different ways. Some of us release it by going to the gym, some of us like to talk with our friends, some of us prefer to harbor our stress. With that said, most of us are not handling our stress in a positive manner. Stress is truly disruptive to your overall being. Protect yourself by understanding how manage your stress and avoid feelings of overload. Take steps to reduce the stress in your life.\nThis is where Reiki comes into play. Many of us have not heard of Reiki until recently and the some that have may not necessarily believe in the healing power of Reiki.\nReiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It encourages the importance of self-care and the realization that the body needs to be cared for through energy. The word Reiki comes from the Japanese word (Rei) which means \u201cUniversal Life\u201d and (Ki) which means \u201cEnergy\u201d. Rei is a subtle wisdom that permeates everything, both animate and inanimate. Because of its infinite nature, it is all knowing. Ki is the non-physical energy that is within all living things.\nReiki is a spiritual, natural healing therapy used to promote balance throughout the human system. Reiki does not involve physical manipulation but works by balancing our body\u2019s chakras and meridians through energy transfer. During a reiki session, \u201cpalm healing\u201d or hands-on healing uses a \"universal energy\" that is transferred through the palms of the practitioner to a patient in order to encourage healing. Reiki is based on the idea that \u201clife force energy\u201d flows through us and we must keep that energy high. When a person\u2019s \u201cki\u201d or energy is strong and free flowing, is when a person\u2019s body and mind is in a positive state of health. Reiki triggers the body\u2019s natural healing abilities, and improves and maintains health. A Reiki session can help ease tension and stress and can help support the body to facilitate an environment for healing on all levels \u2013 physical, mental, and emotional. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing.\nThe mind does not exist only in the brain but also through-out the body. The nervous system extends to every organ and tissue in the body and so the mind exists here also. The mind even extends outside the body in a subtle energy field 2 to 3 feet thick called the aura. This means that our thoughts and energy collect in various locations throughout the body and in the aura. The places where negative thoughts and feelings collect is where Ki (energy) is restricted in its flow. Negative thoughts and feelings become lodged in the unconscious mind/body and inhibit the rest of our physical body from proper functioning. Negativity manifests itself as physical illness in the body. As Reiki flows through a sick or unhealthy area, it breaks up and washes away any negative thoughts or feelings lodged in the unconscious mind/body thus allowing a normal healthy flow of Ki to resume. As this happens, the unhealthy physical organs and tissues become properly nourished with Ki and begin functioning in a balanced healthy way thus replacing illness with health.\nWhile Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. You do not need to have a belief system to support this practice, but it is still important to live and act in a way that promotes harmony and balance in your life as well as others. It is a subtle and effective form of energy work using spiritually guided life force energy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 7424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.translationdirectory.com/sense_of_life/article_en_0353.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WAUJW3BLZ7C6ZS457G7VFZ4EOP5YQJIA", "length": 2181, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.translationdirectory.com", "title": "The Power of the Sacrament of Marriage", "raw_content": "The Power of the Sacrament of Marriage\n\"Love One Another!\" 15/2010 \u2192 Family Life\nAfter a serious crisis \u2014 a betrayal \u2014 our marriage is beginning to blossom forth with an extraordinary power of love and faith. My husband returned, and we are a happily married couple.\nWithout any reservation I can say that our love has grown in leaps and bounds. Indeed it is no longer what it used to be. It is like the wine at the wedding feast of Cana, for \u201cwhere sin increased, grace overflowed all the more\u201d (Rom 5: 20). But we need always to cooperate with this grace. The more we give of ourselves, the more God helps us.\nDeserted by those close to me, having to rely on my own resources, I strove to save my marriage. But I always felt that grace and the powers of heaven sustained me. I fought for our marriage even when my husband told me he no longer loved me. I fought for the dignity of our sacrament even when people told me that it was not I who had broken my marriage vows. I had pledged in the presence of God to remain true to my spouse until \u201cdeath do us part.\u201d I took responsibility for our marriage and prayed for my husband\u2019s conversion. (I wrote a letter to St. Joseph, prayed the Litany of the Holy Spirit and the Litany of Christ\u2019s Precious Blood.)\nGod forces Himself on no one. It is we who often shut the door on Him. He is there and waits patiently until we stop kicking against ourselves and our lives. That is why we must make the first step toward God. In return, we receive peace of mind, strength, solace, and the light we need in order to go forward and act as required.\nThat is what I am trying to do and why I am sharing my experience of grace working in my life. Real love begins when we \u201chave and hold\u201d someone \u201cfor worse.\u201d Adversity visited our marriage; and yet our love survived it. I understand now that to love is to forgive. It is then that the \u201cmiracle\u201d comes; first one, then another, then many more. We have been showered with graces. In the end we have a \u201cbetter wine.\u201d Such is the power of the sacrament of marriage. All we have to do is confide everything to Jesus. It is always too soon to give up the struggle. Even in suffering you can be happy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 6796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.translationtribulations.com/2009/11/good-book-revisited.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:53Z", "digest": "sha1:N2Y3G7G7TDA2ZAA5D2VB4VRZD7QELHVY", "length": 1225, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.translationtribulations.com", "title": "Translation Tribulations: A good book revisited", "raw_content": "Saskia Steur November 17, 2009 5:27 PM\nWhat a wonderful review, Kevin, and such a tribute to the book. It makes me want to read it, and thanks to you I won't need a touch of swine flu, or any other flu for that matter, to find the time to do so.\nDamo November 21, 2009 11:41 AM\nThanks for the recommendation Kevin. This one will be snuggling up to Thomas Pynchon's new work in my Santa sack.\nMarie-Helene November 26, 2009 6:53 PM\nIf an old curmudgeon like you (intended with the greatest of respect, natch) recommends it, it must be good! No sooner read than ordered.\nKevin Lossner November 26, 2009 8:06 PM\nIf any of you have the opportunity to meet the author at a conference, I recommend that you do so. He's a very interesting fellow whose experience as a translator goes far beyond mine. He had many years of experience before he got involved with international business through the Internet, and his unusual experience could be very important for people living in parts of the world that experience economic turmoil (like there's any part that doesn't these days). Personal stories like his coupled with clear analysis and well thought-out recommendations are pure gold for beginners and experienced translators alike.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 19004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travel-to-thailand.net/must-see-places/thailands-national-museum.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:J62FPV5P6WIHRBTITKK5JKMTQKG7VOS4", "length": 2332, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.travel-to-thailand.net", "title": "Thailand\u2019s National Museum : Thailand Travel Guide and Tips", "raw_content": "Thailand\u2019s national museum is originally built on royal collections from the 19th century to cover many aspects of the country\u2019s historical and cultural heritage. The museum stores gold treasure, mother-of-pearl inlay, musical instruments, wood carving, entertainment articles, textiles, ceramics, royal regalia, palanquins, old weapons and stone inscriptions.\nThe largest museum in Southeast Asia, it is an excellent place to learn something about Thai arts. The Museum was converted from a royal residence of a crown prince of King Rama V (1853 \u2013 1910 AD) to display the private collection of antiquities of the king. In 1926, it was subsequently developed into the National Museum Bangkok when it came under the administration of the Department of Fine Arts in 1934.\nA presentation of Thai history begins with Sukhothai (widely believed in Thailand as the first Thai kingdom), Ayutthaya, Thonburi to Rattanakosin period. A collection of pre-Thailand, Thai sculpture, as well as pieces from elsewhere in Asia is featured in two large modern buildings. The history of Thai art is displayed in the north wings of the Sivamokhapiman Hall. This houses the museum\u2019s most famous exhibit, the Inscription No.1 from the Sukhothai era (between 1238 and 1438). This stone inscription is believed to be the first evidence of Thai letters supposedly invented by the great King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai kingdom.\nThe museum\u2019s southern wing features one of the earliest images of the Buddha from Gandhara in India, which is influenced by classical Greek sculpture. Other artifacts including Royal Cremation Chariots and Ceremonial Objects are exhibited in other buildings within the palace compound. Another historic item displayed in the museum is Phra Buddha Sihing, which is one of the most revered Buddha statues in Thailand. The 15th century bronze statue is enshrined in Buddhaisawan Chapel (known as Wat Buddhaisawan).\nOther highlights of the museum are recovered jewelry and traditional costumes, ancient currency, religious sculpture, giant shadow puppets, weapons, ivory, royal possessions, musical instruments, Asian arts and antiques. The museum is open everyday from 9 am to 4 pm. Guided tours by volunteers in English, German, French and Japanese are available upon reservation.\nHome > Must See Places > Thailand\u2019s National Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 160.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.traveltoads.com/american-samoa/food-and-culture/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AR6FYTBYLY5HSPXYC5KAERPEGUJI5GWH", "length": 1295, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.traveltoads.com", "title": "American Samoa Food and Culture", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a small island and is a part of the US. Naturally, the influence from US is highly prominent in here. American Samoan eateries restaurants on the outskirt of the island offer very few items. But, hotels and resorts that have a restaurants or eatery facility offer you much variety. You get the best of the eateries with a hotel here. Foods like American, Japanese, Chinese and Polynesian are there on the menu. It helps every one of them. Try getting the best of the hotels and food at your hand.\nFor water, one needs to be very careful. Tap waters in American Samoa are not at all drinkable. Even, the risk of diseases and infections are always there. Bottled water are found everywhere in this island. Especially, they are shops that deal in bottled water. Carrying a bottle to everywhere you go is something very healthy and idea.\nDrinks are offered within the premises of a hotel or resorts. Outside, it\u2019s not available and at the same time, it is not permissible.\nThe atmosphere and weather in American Samoan island is absolutely like the main land US. But, in dressing sense and all, it differs a little bit. During your stay you will get sense of staying in America itself. It will not matter to you if you are habituated with American culture to stay here in this particular stage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trevorware.com/schedule/2016/10/2/gee-gee-gallegos-band-los-angeles-ca", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:52Z", "digest": "sha1:H6OVJBWEQWIYVI4VI7YJ7OD7XXO5NEH2", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.trevorware.com", "title": "Gee Gee Gallegos Band - Los Angeles, CA \u2014 Trevor Ware - Acoustic & Electric Bass", "raw_content": "Dwight Trible Cosmic Band - Los Angeles, CA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 44.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tribirdie.com/2009/12/georgia-organic-25-days-of-giving-day-6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3O7TENPHCSQVG7IAANDI7HPKQM52IJU", "length": 1874, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tribirdie.com", "title": "Georgia Organic - 25 Days of Giving: Day 6 | Tribirdie Musings", "raw_content": "I know that there is a lot of debate out there around buying organic food and if it is actually healthier than \"regular\" food. Look guys, I know it costs more, but there is a reason... it costs more to grow it and grow it properly. And having food on your table that came out of the ground in the last few days vs. the last few weeks, well there is no debate about which one is better for you.\nThe fresher the food, the better it is... and most importantly... it tastes SO much better!\nI'm putting Georgia Organics on the list today because they are doing so much to help folks understand the importance of buying locally and organically grown food. They also provide a ton of resources to folks like me trying to find ways to buy local and organic. They are teaming up with farmers all through Georgia to help make farming \"a solution, not a victim\".\nSo, Day 6 of 25 days of Giving is: Georgia Organics (http://www.georgiaorganics.org/)\nFrom their website: \"Georgia Organics is a member supported non-profit organization working to integrate healthy, sustainable and locally grown food into the lives of all Georgians.\nGeorgia Organics envisions sustainable, organic and local food transforming our communities to be more healthy, secure and economically-viable. Through innovative networks of sustainable family farms, gardens and businesses, all Georgians have access to nutritious, locally-grown foods via schools, institutions, work places, grocery stores, markets and neighborhoods. Together, growers, consumers, rural counties, and urban communities will unite to embrace the health and heritage of our land and people through the cultivation and celebration of food.\"\nDonations help them continue their efforts to educate and promote organic farming in Georgia, they also need volunteers! 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It is surrounded on all sides having South America to the south, the Gulf of Mexico and North America to its North West and Central America to the west. All in all there are over 7,000 islands and they are becoming more and more popular as holiday destinations.\nAs well as being an ideal place to relax and lie on the beach there are plenty of activities to take part in. Many resorts will be all inclusive and as such there is no need to leave the resort. It will be possible to carry out water sports all day every day of that is the sort of holiday required. Jet skiing, water skiing and canoeing are popular as are scuba diving and snorkeling. Sailing can be carried out either by hiring a boat or booking on a tour.\nNot all activities will center around the water. There is some beautiful scenery and there are companies that arrange trips into the hills on horseback. For more energetic travelers the same trips can be made on foot and the exiting flora and fauna can be seen at close range.\nEntertainment in the Caribbean\nCarnivals and festivals are held throughout the year. There are parades where costumes can take a year to make and most involve dancing and partying in the street. Once the carnival has finished it will be possible to go back to a more relaxing day spent watching the cricket if you are lucky enough to have booked when a game has been arranged.\nCar Hire in the Caribbean\nThere are a number of companies offering care hire in the Caribbean such as Avis and Europcar. Hiring a car will give you the opportunity to see the beautiful scenery in comfort and at your own pace. To get a good deal and make all the arrangements while you are still at home it will be easy to arrange by visiting www.anycarhire.com. 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Since I only have strange views of this one, it's possible that they're actually the same specimen and I somehow confused my picture-ordering and got the impression that they're different nymphs.\nThis mayfly was collected from the Namekagon River on June 8th, 2005 and added to Troutnut.com on May 26th, 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tuckersummitcid.com/about/faq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIINZDBX73QE6757AXTJJAH3MTKC3RRK", "length": 1391, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tuckersummitcid.com", "title": "FAQs \u2013 Tucker Summit CID Dev", "raw_content": "CID stands for Community Improvement District, and is comprised of self-taxing business owners of private commercial properties zoned as office/industrial and retail properties that use the additional property tax dollars to improve infrastructure, security and curb appeal.\nWhat is the purpose of a CID?\nTo increase property values and member business volume.\nHow is a Community Improvement District established?\nA CID is created by a vote by a majority of the corporate property owners in the defined district through state enabled legislation. It takes the agreement of a simple majority of the commercial property owners within the district to create a Community Improvement District. It is a requirement that the simple majority of owners represent at least 75% of the taxable value 50% of the properties of the commercial property located within the proposed CID.\nHow is money raised to fund a Community Improvement District?\nFunding for a CID comes from a self-imposed and self-regulated ad valorem real estate tax on commercial properties within the district. The tax consists of additional mills being paid by the commercial property owners. A mill is equal to 1/10th of 1% of the assessed value of the property. Since CIDs are controlled by private property owners and not their respective counties, the property owners, through a Board of Directors, decide how to spend the funds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uk-builder.com/solar.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:63BPD2SCLSRY4F4HZJPXNZXHNNE7QKHM", "length": 5342, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.uk-builder.com", "title": "UK Builder - Solar Electricity", "raw_content": "Solar panels or tiles allow property owners to generate affordable and green electricity using sunlight. Solar electricity systems capture energy from the sun using photovoltaic (PV) cells, even on cloudy days. Sunlight is converted into electricity, which costs nothing since sunlight is a free resource. Energy from solar electricity can be used to power everything from lighting and heating systems to appliances and other electronics.\nBenefits of Solar Electricity\nThe benefits of solar electricity are numerous. One of the most important benefits of this power source is its eco-friendliness. Since solar electricity is a renewable energy source unlike gas and oil, it is a green source of electricity. Using solar electricity reduces carbon footprints and reduces the amount of pollutants like carbon dioxide. According to the Energy Saving Trust, a typical solar electricity system can save over a tonne and a half of carbon dioxide each year. That is more than 30 tonnes over the lifetime of the system.\nOther benefits of solar electricity relate to cost. This type of power can help reduce electricity costs since sunlight is free. Once the installation of the system is paid off, electricity costs are reduced since fuel does not need to be purchased. Solar electricity also makes money. With the UK government's Feed-in Tariff programme, property owners with solar electricity can get paid for the power they produce. Property owners are also able to sell any surplus electricity they generate back to the grid under this scheme.\nTypes of Solar Electricity Systems\nSolar electricity is generated using photovoltaic (PV) cells. These cells are made from layers of semi-conducting material such as silicon. As light hits the cell, the unit creates an electric field across the various layers. Higher amounts of electricity are produced when the sun is brighter and stronger. The power produced by PV cells is measured in kilowatts peak or kWp, which is the rate of energy generated at peak performance when full direct sunlight hits the cell.\nGroups of PV cells are found in panels or modules such as tiles and slates. The most common type of PV cells is solar panels. These panels are mounted on a roof or other flat service such as the ground. PV cells are also designed as solar tiles or slates, which are used in place of regular roof tiles. Solar tiles and slates are generally double the cost of solar electricity systems that use panels. As a result, tiles and slates are generally only recommended when necessary due to planning restrictions. Since panels are large and obvious, solar tiles or slates might also be appropriate for aesthetic reasons when property owners want a streamlined look.\nInstalling Solar Electricity Systems\nSolar electricity systems are easy to maintain and their cost depends on the amount of power that is produced. They typically work best on properties with a mainly south-facing roof, in the case of panels that are mounted to the roof or tiles/slates are being used. The spot where the panels are being installed should have little or no shade to maximise the amount of energy produced. How much energy is produced will depend on the tilt angle of the roof and its orientation. Ground or flat roof systems can include tilting mechanisms that position panels towards direct sunlight at different times of the day. The amount of energy generated will also depend on location and the amount of average sunlight. For example, the South West of England has more hours of sunlight compared to Scotland and the North of England.\nAlthough solar power is costly to install, they will end up saving money on electricity bills. It may even make money in the long run thanks to programmes like the UK government's Feed-in Tariff scheme. There are other programmes that also help reduce the cost of installing solar energy. Nest Wales, an initiative funded by the Welsh government, also provides grants when installing renewable energy technologies such as solar electricity. The Scottish Government's Renewable Heat Inventive also provides cash payments when installing renewable heating technology, while the Home Energy Scotland Renewables Loan offers interest-free loans for installing domestic renewable energy systems. The Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme provides grants for domestic installations of renewable heating technologies. The Northern Ireland Renewables Obligation also allows property owners to claim Northern Ireland Renewables Obligation Certificates (NIROCs) for each megawatt hour of electricity generated from solar PV panels. Local authorities may also provide grants and offers when installing energy efficiency systems such as solar power.\nWhen installing a solar electricity system, obtain at least three quotes from installers to help assess value for money. Also, ask for recommendations, read online reviews, and visit properties in the area with installations to review the quality of the installer's work. Installers should be qualified and experienced in fitting these types of systems. Look for installers that are registered under the national Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS). 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It generally only takes two years to complete Ultrasound Technician training, and you can be working shortly after that!\nWhy Choose Ultrasound Technician Training?\nThere are many reasons for starting an Ultrasound Technician Training program. Job growth and high salaries are two of the most obvious, but there are a few others as well!\nJob growth for Ultrasound Technicians in the United States is tremendous. According the the Department of Labor\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics the demand for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers will increase 44% during the ten year period of 2010 to 2020. What makes this growth remarkable is that the average expected growth for all occupations in the United States during this period is only 14%.\nAs mentioned, Ultrasound Technicians are among the highest paid technicians in all of the medical fields. The BLS reports the median Ultrasound Technician Salary as of May 2010 was $64,380 with only the lowest 10% earning less than $44,900. This includes entry level positions so you can see that sonography is a very lucrative field.\nUltrasound Technicians are employed by a variety of medical facilities. Most Ultrasound Technicians work in hospitals, but diagnostic medical sonographers are also employed in physicians offices, diagnostic laboratories, outpatient care centers, and private 4-D Ultrasound offices.\nTechnology is constantly evolving and improving and you will be on the cutting edge of some of the most sophisticated medical equipment being used. You will also see that no two sonograms are alike and every time you perform your job you are seeing something new.\nWhat Will You learn in Ultrasound Technician Training?\nDuring your sonography training classes you will receive both technical training and interpersonal skill training. Over the two years of courses you will specifically learn how to use various Ultrasound machines, you will learn how to read and interpret the images produced by the machine, and most importantly you will learn how to work with patients of varying conditions.\nIs there Specialized Ultrasound Technician Training?\nOf course! There are several areas of diagnostic medical sonography that students can specialize in and possessing a certification in any or all of theses areas will open up more job opportunities and inevitably lead to higher earning potential.\nObstetric and Gynecologic Sonography\nHow Long is Ultrasound Technician Training?\nThe majority of Ultrasound Technicians attend two year Associate Degree programs before receiving their certification. These programs offer a wide range of courses as well as plenty of time to complete the clinical training hours required to be eligible to take the ARMDS certification exam.\nYou will also find schools that will offer shorter one year certificate programs, but you want to make sure that you will be able to easily complete your clinical training or the one year program may take longer than the two year associates degree program.\nFinally, you might want to consider a four year Bachelor\u2019s Degree program at a College or University. Graduates of these type of programs are eligible to sit immediately for the ARMDS exam. In addition, possessing a Bachelor\u2019s Degree will move you to the top of the list of candidates for any jobs you apply for. Keep in mind that you can always pursue your BS Degree after you have started practicing as an Ultrasound Technician. This will allow you to start your career then advance your education and Ultrasound Technician training as life allows.\nUltrasound Technician Schools in East Lansing MI \u2013 Sonography Programs\nUltrasound Technician Schools in Temecula CA \u2013 Sonography Programs\nUltrasound Technician Schools in High Point FL \u2013 Sonography Programs\nUltrasound Technician Schools in Huntington Park CA \u2013 Sonography Training\nUltrasound Technician Schools in Colton CA \u2013 Sonography Programs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.universalmaritime.com/pages/meet-the-crew/sean-turner/124", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:I6JS4CTKKTA6HHOVFWBPVLJ3TJZPVS3P", "length": 921, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.universalmaritime.com", "title": "Universal Maritime Motor Yacht Delivery Services Worldwide", "raw_content": "Sean's Maritime career began when he joined the containership giant CMA CGM as a Deck Cadet in 2010. After graduating with a Foundation degree in Marine Science & Navigation he went on to attain his Officer of the Watch and has seen service on a number of vessels including containerships on worldwide routes, standby vessels in the North sea, Dredgers in Northern Europe and most recently aboard superyachts.\nWhilst training for his OOW Sean was a member of the university Yacht club where he was first introduced to sailing. He then went on to complete the RYA Day Skipper, Yachtmaster and Powerboat Level 2 qualifications before ultimately getting involved in a crewing for yacht deliveries, and working as a deckhand for a local pleasure boat company.\nAlthough currently working as a Deck Officer on large superyachts, Sean joined the Universal Maritime team in January 2015, offering crewing services when in the UK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.univsource.com/career-profiles/information-about-careers-in-library-and-information-science.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:LX6OSU6HIQBHTHRBURSQQTKUBDDWLSQU", "length": 3076, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.univsource.com", "title": "Info About Careers In Library and Information Science - UnivSource.com", "raw_content": "Library and Information Science Schools Colleges & Universities\nLibrary and information science schools allow you to stoke your passion for learning, and teach you to help others do the same.\nStudents Attending Library Schools Learn to Challenge Themselves and Inspire Others: Wake up with the alarm, make the coffee, head to work. Then, work. Come home, exercise, eat, relax, and sleep. While the order and the particulars vary from person to person, almost all of us have established a routine that makes it easier to accomplish daily necessities. But when the days and weeks amass like so much tract housing, we can begin to feel more machine than human. This surely in large part explains why we plan vacations, but most of us can't afford--literally or figuratively--to travel more than a few times a year. What, then, can permeate the monotony on a more regular basis? Easy: the thrill of learning.\nLibrary Colleges Teach the Practical Alongside the Theoretical: Whether facilitated by books or internet research, the joy of discovering something new in our reading is matched by precious little else. A librarian's task is to help others tap into this same sense of fascination. What's more, library work offers a great deal of variety; in any given week, a librarian may classify materials, help a student find pertinent resources, write an abstract, conduct classes, and supervise employees. If you're an organized and intellectually curious person who seeks a line of work in which you both learn and do new things every day, you may want to investigate your local library schools.\nMost librarians need master's degrees. Some universities offer library science as an undergraduate major, but any program will suffice; in fact, if you plan to work in a special library (e.g. law or medicine), you may want to pursue a bachelor's degree in the appropriate field of specialization. Programs at library and information science colleges usually take one to two years to complete, and provide instruction in the following:\n\u2022 Intellectual freedom and censorship\n\u2022 The role of information in society\n\u2022 History of printing\n\u2022 Classification, cataloguing, indexing, and abstracting\nAlong the way, students of library schools have plenty of opportunities to both network and gain hands-on experience. In addition to volunteering in a library, you may also decide to join Beta Phi Mu (library science honor society) and/or the student chapter of the American Library Association.\nGood Job Opportunities for Graduates of Library Colleges: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts average employment growth for this field, yet also highlights the favorable job opportunities expected to result from the large number of individuals retiring from these positions. Graduates of library and information science schools who are open to working in nontraditional settings--within nonprofit organizations or consulting firms, for example--should enjoy especially good career opportunities. 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Floyd, Joe Formichella, Patti Callahan Henry, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Suzanne Hudson, River Jordan, Harrison Scott Key, Cassandra King, Alan Lightman, Sonja Livingston, Corey Mesler, Niles Reddick, Wendy Reed, RP Saffire, Nicole Seitz, Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, Sally Palmer Thomason, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, M. O. Walsh, and Claude Wilkinson\n\"This is no stodgy how-to book. Southern Writers on Writing is over-flowing with good, strong voices--funny, caustic, compelling, and--yes--absurd. The writers Susan Cushman has assembled here understand this craft. They have endured the suffering that leads to great prose appearing so damn effortless. This collection is essential reading for emerging writers--as well as any fan of modern southern fiction.\"\n--Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts\nThe South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education, and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In Southern Writers on Writing, Susan Cushman collects twenty-six writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.\nContributors like Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, W. Ralph Eubanks, and Harrison Scott Key, among others, explore issues like race, politics, and family and the apex of those issues colliding. It discusses landscapes, voices in the South, and how writers write. The anthology is divided into six sections, including \"Becoming a Writer\"; \"Becoming a Southern Writer\"; \"Place, Politics, People\"; \"Writing about Race\"; \"The Craft of Writing\"; and \"A Little Help from My Friends.\"\nSusan Cushman, Memphis, Tennessee, was codirector of the 2013 and 2010 Creative Nonfiction Conferences in Oxford, Mississippi, and director of the Memphis Creative Nonfiction Workshop in 2011. She is author of Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer's and Cherry Bomb and editor of A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies and journals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.urbandaleschools.com/policy/article-600-educational-program/630-guidance-and-counseling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:44Z", "digest": "sha1:OUD3VDR3U63FAUAGKZ643STX5NOZZUH4", "length": 636, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.urbandaleschools.com", "title": "630 - Guidance And Counseling - Urbandale Schools", "raw_content": "The District shall provide a guidance and counseling program for enrolled students by licensed guidance counselors. The guidance and counseling services will serve grades kindergarten through twelve. The program will focus on personal, educational and career development of students. The program shall be designed to coordinate with the educational program and shall involve other staff, students, parents and community members. Facilities offering both visual and auditory privacy for counseling shall be provided in each building.\nLegal References: 256.11, 280.14, 622.10, Code of Iowa; 281 I.A.C. 12.4(3), 12.4(10), 12.5(7), 12.5(13)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 534, "original_length": 19059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 194.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/trump-is-a-russian-asset-the-manchurian-candidate-writ-large.708397/page-4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:N2S64C6UZB2PQ7YN6VFIDLCDV2UUSZWM", "length": 4491, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.usmessageboard.com", "title": "Trump is a Russian asset - the Manchurian candidate writ large | Page 4 | US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum", "raw_content": "Trump is a Russian asset - the Manchurian candidate writ large\nDiscussion in 'Politics' started by BoSoxGal, Sep 12, 2018.\nNightFox Wildling\nNorth beyond the Wall\nBoSoxGal said: \u2191\nThis documentary is available now on iTunes or Hulu; all citizens should see it, and those who watch and still believe in Trump must really search their souls.\nWhy should \"all citizens see it\" ? because we're not bombarded with enough bullshit partisan propaganda on constant basis that we need to go out and actively look for more?\nClaiming that \"Trump is a Russian Asset\" is an insult to real Russian Assets and about as credible as the brainless partisan droids that were claiming President O'Nimrod wasn't born in the United States.\nBluesLegend Diamond Member\nTrump's Army\nHe\u2019s been groomed and developed for decades, which explains his dogged pursuit of Russia-friendly policies and repeated attempts to disrupt NATO and destabilize internal politics.\nYou believe that but thinks it's normal for the jiffy lube guy from Chicago to become president...\nThat\u2019s a nonsensical response; Obama was Columbia undergrad, Harvard law, a former constitutional law professor, and a sitting US Senator with prior state legislative experience when he ran for office. It\u2019s just plain willful ignorance to ignore all that and make stupid baseless claims that he wasn\u2019t qualified to run for office.\nHow about we have a discussion based in facts, just this once?\nObama was never a constitutional law professor you nitwit, or a professor of anything. Go ahead post the moron's resume its blank. Never argued a big case, never had a real job, then went on the public dole working a state job. He never accomplished anything of note in his state job, then never accomplished anything of note in his US Senate job. This loser couldn't land a job at any real firm.\nI guess Republicans accusing President Obama of being a Manchurian candidate wasn\u2019t enough.\nThat\u2019s why they gave us Trump. To show us what a REAL Manchurian candidate looks like.\nBluesLegend said: \u2191\nand YOU wrote your own book, you graduated with a BA, you were a state Senator, you were a US Senator, and you were also POTUS too, I bet; huh?\nYou have a lot of room to bloviate your bullshit.\nClearly you are the nitwit.\nYour hate has blinded you to the facts.\nObama Taught constitutional law in one of the biggest universities in America right here in Chicago. For 10 years.\nHe worked at the very conservative Annenberg foundation and handled millions and millions of dollars.\nHe worked on Wall Street. And earned a degree in law from the greatest law school in the country. And he was the editor of the Harvard law review.\nAnd he was both a state senator and a US senator.\nWhen he was a kid he was on food stamps. He didn\u2019t inherit companies and millions of dollars from dad. And his tan is real. It doesn\u2019t come out of a spray paint can.\nI find it hard to believe Obama was a State senator and professor at Harvard during the same timeframe. There would most likely be a lot of schedule conflicts.\nUC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as \"Senior Lecturer.\" From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School\u2019s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.\nThe only thing that Trump may possibly be able to 'teach' anyone is how to fvck others outta their money.\nHe was never a professor at Harvard or anywhere else, he was a research assistant at Harvard and a lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, that was before he figured out that lawyering wasn't a dishonest and corrupt enough profession for him and decided to join the pro's as a politician.\nIf only.mike Ditka ran for state senator, we never would of heard of Obama and Trump would of never been president..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 440, "original_length": 20337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uucd.ca/topicssermons/anne-bokma-does-religion-harm-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:43Z", "digest": "sha1:E2ILLG2VVQGLTBXMB6E6OCGYHLWQACN6", "length": 1174, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.uucd.ca", "title": "Anne Bokma - Does Religion Harm Children? - UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF DURHAM", "raw_content": "Anne Bokma - Does Religion Harm Children?\nAnne\u2019s sermon is inspired from her personal experience of growing up in a fundamentalist home. Writers such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins argue that some forms of religion violate the rights of children by indoctrinating them into a particular religious faith and depriving them of the opportunity to make their own free inquiry later in life. Anne shares her story of growing up in a fundamentalist religion, eventually leaving it and the impact it had on her faith and family ties.\nAnne Bokma is a member of First Unitarian Church of Hamilton, Ontario. She is a member of the board of her church as well as a board member of Unicamp. An award winning freelance writer and editor, Anne writes for many of Canada's major magazines, including Canadian Living, Homemakers, More, Today's Parent, Chatelaine and MoneySense. She traces her writing career back to age 11, when her parents presented her with a portable Olivetti manual typewriter for her birthday. She's been pounding at a keyboard ever since. Anne is the mother of two teenage daughters and is married to Jeff Mahoney, a columnist at the Hamilton Spectator.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 2994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vgmonline.net/darksiders2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HTS6RI4ZTZ7T5XKXK7EUDFNAZBQ5WPLL", "length": 4254, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.vgmonline.net", "title": "VGMO -Video Game Music Online- \u00bb Darksiders II Original Soundtrack", "raw_content": "Darksiders II Original Soundtrack\nThe sequel for Vigil Games\u2019 Darksiders took a \u2018bigger and better\u2019 approach in most regards. In the soundtrack department, Jesper Kyd replaced the ensemble composing team from the original game and developed a more creative, cutting-edge sound for the score. The soundtrack was released by Sumthing Else Music Works as both a two disc physical release and a digital download. It totals to more than an hour\u2019s worth of hybridised music.\nThe soundtrack begins with the track \u201cThe Makers Theme\u201d and it contains everything Jesper\u2019s music is known for. Exotic instruments, charming melody, and a unique mixture of electronics and percussion. It\u2019s definitely a great way to start off the track, oozing with the originality that was lacking in the original game. The production values are also notable, blending rich performances and high-quality samplers with an absorbing analog sound. \u201cInto Eternity\u201d is also really noteworthy, building on the composer\u2019s flair for vocal writing with an iconic performance from vocalist Melissa Kaplan. The track\u2019s melody is very warm and distinct sounding due to the mixture of suspenseful rhythms and uplifting acoustics.\nWhat\u2019s really noteworthy in this soundtrack is that the soundtrack rarely sounds repetitive, in a large part owing to the use of multiple instruments from different corners of the worlds. What this does other than making the listening experience fresh is that it gives the fictional world of Darksiders II its own identity. Due to the interesting use of a wide variety of instruments, even the ambient tracks like \u201cSupernatural Desert\u201d and \u201cThe Corruption\u201d sound stellar and not at all boring. The latter deserves a bit more of a mention as it uses the game\u2019s depressing but beautiful main theme. Unfortunately, the memorable main theme which is heard during the opening gameplay is absent from the soundtrack, as are several other interesting pieces of music which are heard in the game but not the soundtrack.\nWith soundtracks for blockbuster action games like Assassin\u2019s Creed and Hitman, Jesper Kyd has pioneered his own iconic set of action tracks which balance memorable melodies with adrenaline-pumping beats. The same kind of action tracks are present here and sound better than ever. A particularly notable track is \u201cThe Abyssal Plains\u201d, which uses a robust and exciting mixture of acoustic parts and percussion work. Not only does it sound absolutely stellar and makes the game much more exciting but it also references Kyd\u2019s previous work on Assassin\u2019s Creed as it also contained action tracks with a similar formula. An even greater highloght is \u201cThe Makers Overworld\u201d, boasting an exciting melody performed with ethnic instruments. That said, the fantastic melody heard at the conclusionvcould\u2019ve been a bit more emphasised, as it is one of the most enjoyable parts of the track. There are also some other tracks like \u201cDeath Brings Hope\u201d and \u201cTrouble in Eden\u201d, which enrichen the analog sound with some electronic samples.\nLastly, even though Jesper Kyd uses many exotic instruments to promote different range of emotions, \u201cThe Crowfather\u201d proves that Jesper Kyd can use even the most basic of instruments to turn a scene into something really epic and special. The beautiful climax of the track is played when Death is forced to fight with an apparition of his brother War. The grand mixture of brass and vocals really give the scene an importance. It\u2019s a welcome deviation in a world where most video game scores feature action loops not really scored according to the scene. Once again, another grand leap forward for the series.\nThis soundtrack has everything a Jesper Kyd fan desires: diverse instruments, unique melodies, variety in context, and exciting electronic work. The soundtrack is from the beginning till the end a joyous experience well worth your time. As always, Kyd\u2019s music fits both as a stand-alone listen and in the game. The album release is well-presented and has a narrative flow, but keep in mind that several highlights from the in-game soundtrack were omittedhere. It\u2019s nevertheless worth picking up if you love culturally unique music or are fans of Kyd\u2019s work on other projects.\nDarksiders II Original Soundtrack Harris Iqbal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 10506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.viaregiapublishing.com/blog/2016/9/4/examining-public-anger-and-certainty-in-the-brock-turner-cas.html?printerFriendly=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YVREVDTJQC4OJGXTQRTAHMFELMZWWSFV", "length": 209, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.viaregiapublishing.com", "title": "Via Regia Publishing - Blog", "raw_content": "Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 10:26AM\nI wrote an opinion piece about the Brock Turner sexual assault case and sentencing: click here to see it. 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In the early 1970s, he helped establish the revered animation studio and led the team as a creative producer for many years.\nOver the next three decades, Maruyama would oversee countless television, OAV, and theatrical releases, developing a reputation for finding and nurturing talented directors. Under his guidance, talents like Satoshi Kon and Atsuko Ishizuka flourished. Maruyama also engaged with overseas partners, working with the Wachowskis on the Animatrix project, and overseeing anime takes on classic American comic book characters.\nIn 2011, Maruyama left Madhouse and formed MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association). MAPPA allows him greater creative freedom to pursue projects that may be less obviously commercial. The studio\u2019s first major project was the critically-acclaimed Kids on the Slope, which reunited most of the creative teams behind Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. He continues to consult with Madhouse on various projects, such as Hunter x Hunter and the Fighting Spirits: Hajime No Ippo series. Maruyama is currently developing the highly-anticipated TV animation series Rage of Bahamut, as well as director Shinichiro Watanabe\u2019s Terror In Resonance, and the theatrical project At The Corner Of This World, directed by Sunao Katabuchi.\nMaruyama\u2019s list of credits has produced an amazing library of animation, including Barefoot Gen, Dagger of Kamui, Record of Lodoss War, Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll, Card Captor Sakura, Trigun, Perfect Blue, X, Boogiepop Phantom, Chobits, PitaTen, Abenobashi Maho Shotengai, Gungrave, Gunslinger Girl, Black Lagoon, Kiba, Nana, Tokyo Tribe 2, Beck, Monster, Highlander: Search for Vengeance, Devil May Cry, Death Note, RAINBOW and Red Line.\nMaruyama has also overseen production of critically acclaimed films such as Paprika, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars.\n\u00ab Otakorp, Inc. 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Than the Aniplex trailer which highlighted the many series in their catalogue was shown.\nTheir current streaming lineup with Daisuki was noted beginning with the second season of Monogatari with new episodes every saturday followed by the second season of Valvrave the Liberator and and the second season of Magi with new episodes every sunday.\nThe panel opened with the Japanese comics trailer for Shingeki no Kyoujin aka. Attack on Titan. \u201cYou might not have heard of it\u2026.\u201d *audience laughs* Kodansha has sold over 500,000 in print which is astounding in the English manga market. \u201cSpread the love for giants eating humans!\u201d For the rest of the year, Kodansha will be releasing a volume each month until we\u2019re caught up in Japan. Vol. 8 will be released 10/29, vol. 9 on 11/26, vol. 10 on 12/31 and vol. 11 on 1/28. Volume 8 is also available at the Kodansha booth. It is also where the anime ends so there will be new material afterwards.\nModerator Robert Napton provided a brief background of Sunrise. It was founded in 1972. Currently, it\u2019s part of the Namco Bandai group and is comprised by 12 independent studios which work on various projects, including Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam, Tiger and Bunny amongst others. The other panelists are the Managing Director Sasaki Shin and Hagino Akane, the Manager of International Sales.\nLas Vegas, NV (October 16, 2013) \u2013 We are proud to welcome Frederik L. Schodt as a guest to Otakon Vegas. Read more\u2026\nLas Vegas, NV (October 11, 2013) \u2013 Otakon Vegas welcomes one of the hardest working actor/directors in show business, having voiced over 300 characters in Games, Animation and Anime. He is best known as the voice of Batou in Ghost in the Shell, The Joker in several Batman games including Injustice: Gods Among Us and Ansem in Kingdom Hearts. 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We will have to see what comes next.\nIn the meantime, several residents and police officers, such as Officer Carol Furstenau of the Northwest District, which covers the Warrendale neighborhood, are speaking out against these \"virtual police precincts.\" One can read more of Ms. Furstenau's comments here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 6947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wayne-wise.com/2012/05/podcast-interview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6QMRZKM62KPOOK5PNTEZPXI6WK2NNIEM", "length": 673, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wayne-wise.com", "title": "Notes From the Playground: Podcast interview", "raw_content": "I was recently interviewed by Jim Rugg and Jason Lex for their \"Tell Me Something I Don't Know\" podcast.\nYou can listen to it on their website at http://tmsidk.podbean.com/\nOr you can download it for free from Itunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wayne-wise/id516288911?i=114398878\nWhile you're there check out the other interviews with Tom Scioli, Farel Dalrymple and Cecil Castelucci.\nYou should also really check out the pages for both Jim and Jason as well. Both are gifted artists with a whole lot of great work out there.\nhttp://jimrugg.com/\nhttp://www.awefulbooks.com/\nYou can listen to it here as well, but really... go check out all these other people too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.waynetownship.com/budget.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CHUFEGCP4O2Q3GCAUYOEC3EIXC3TVSUK", "length": 1013, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.waynetownship.com", "title": "Budget", "raw_content": "Each year, Wayne Township prepares an annual budget that is approved by the Township Council and the State of New Jersey. This process starts when municipal department hands submit their budget proposals for review by the Business Administrator and the Finance Department. 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Specific dates for the public hearings change from year-to-year, and are posted in our Council Agendas.\nThe final version of the budget is then adopted upon a majority vote of the full membership of the Township Council.\nAll Documents can be found under the Finance Documents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wbtv.com/story/34630516/pressure-mounts-to-repeal-hb2-as-lawmakers-hold-out-hope-for-compromise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JO2RP5YAUNUOSM4V6RSP2WPWPBSCOA4J", "length": 7013, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.wbtv.com", "title": "Pressure mounts to repeal HB2 as lawmakers hold out hope for compromise", "raw_content": "Pressure mounts to repeal HB2 as lawmakers hold out hope for compromise\nBy Nick Ochsner | March 1, 2017 at 1:34 AM EST - Updated August 12 at 2:11 PM\nRALEIGH, NC (WBTV) - Lawmakers in Raleigh worked into the night at the North Carolina General Assembly on Tuesday, hoping to strike a last-minute deal to repeal House Bill 2.\nThe controversial legislation, commonly referred to as the \"bathroom bill\" was passed in March 2016. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a new bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives last week hoping to repeal the bill before its first birthday.\nA week later, the effort to repeal HB2 appeared stalled.\nOn Tuesday morning, Republican Rep. John Bradford from Mecklenburg County held a news conference with nearly two-dozen lawmakers, city council members, lobbyists and business owners, all of whom showed up in hopes of highlighting the important of reaching a deal that would repeal the bill.\nBradford was joined by Democrat state Senator Joel Ford (Mecklenburg) and two members of the Charlotte City Council, Democrat James Mitchell and Republican Ed Driggs. Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones was also in Raleigh.\nIn a brief statement during the press conference, Mitchell highlighted the importance of finding a deal to repeal HB2 and thanked the lawmakers who had thrown their support behind HB186, the latest bipartisan compromise.\n\"We're truly encouraged by this process,\" Mitchell said. \"The states need a compromise to move forward.\"\nCharlotte-area business leaders were also on hand Tuesday, including Charlotte Chamber of Commerce President Bob Morgan, who said it was critical HB2 be repealed.\nBut Rep. Chuck McGrady (R-Henderson) said he had not been approached by Governor Cooper or other Democrats who have said they oppose the legislation about trying to work out a deal.\n\"You can't negotiation with yourself and, right now, I haven't heard from the Governor,\" McGrady said.\nDespite that, McGrady said he was eager to finally reach a deal to repeal the bill so lawmakers to move on to other things.\n\"I want to get this off the table,\" McGrady said. \"It's sucking all the wind out of every other issue we've got out there. Some really important ones.\"\nDemocrat sponsor stands firm\nAlso on Tuesday, Democrat Rep. Ken Goodman (Richmond) sat down with WBTV for an exclusive interview in which he reiterated his support for HB186.\nGoodman is an original sponsor of the bill.\n\"I read the bill, I think it's the best solution that we can get and when I decide to do something, I don't move back and forth,\" Goodman said. \"It's the same bill I signed onto so I can't think of any reason to take my name off.\"\nGoodman's continued support of the legislation comes after two other House Democrats agreed to co-sponsor the bill but then withdrew their support.\nThose members, including Rep. Rodney Moore from Mecklenburg County, said they were led to believe Republicans were willing to remove a provision of the bill requiring local governments to hold a referendum to approve a local non-discrimination ordinance.\nDemocrat leaders\u2014including Cooper and House Minority Leader Darren Jackson\u2014have accused Republicans of lying to get Democrats to support their bill.\n\"When Chuck McGrady talked to us and we talked about the bill, Rep. Lucas and I both said we both do not like the referendum piece in the bill and he told us he would do his best to get it out, that he could live with getting it out but he did not promise that as a condition to get on the bill,\" Goodman said.\nBut Jackson, the House Minority Leader, said Goodman and fellow Democrat bill sponsor Rep. Marvin Lucas (Cumberland) left their colleagues with a different understanding after speaking at a caucus meeting on Monday.\n\"I can tell you that those two gentlemen asked for an opportunity to speak to our caucus and explain their position,\" Jackson said. \"I can tell you the members of our caucus believed the referendum provision was coming out.\"\nGoodman said he thought more Democrats would be willing to support the legislation if Cooper would come out in favor of the bill.\n\"I think there are other Democrats who, at the end of the day, would vote for the bill. They want to maintain an aura of solidarity now, they want to support the Governor's position,\" Goodman said. \"I certainly understand that and I respect that but I think there are a good number of Democrats who would, at the end of the day vote for the bill and I think that if we can get the Governor to agree or get the Republicans to move a little bit and agree, I think if Governor Cooper said this is something I can live with, I think we can get a lot of Democrats.\"\nHouse Speaker blames Cooper\nOn Tuesday night, House Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican, voiced his frustration with Cooper. Specifically, Moore criticized Cooper's work to urge House Democrats to oppose HB186.\n\"What the Governor should also not be doing is calling members and getting them to withdraw their support of bill,\" Moore said. \"That's not proper and that doesn't show good faith to negotiate.\"\nMoore accused Cooper of violating the separation of powers doctrine, which contemplates three co-equal branches of government. In North Carolina, Cooper runs the Executive Branch while Moore and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger run the Legislative Branch.\nMoore said his caucus is unwilling to agree to Cooper's demand that the referendum provision be taken out.\n\"That seems to be the sticking point where the Governor seems to have drawn some kind of line in the sand. But, in all candor, the Governor should not be involved. This should be members of the legislature doing this,\" Moore said. \"I think the Governor knows the referendum provision is something that's very important to a number of members of the House; to, not only some Republicans but some Democrats. Because there are a number of members who believe there needs to be a check against a runaway city council.\"\nJackson, the House Minority Leader, again fought back against Moore's claims that Cooper was calling to pressure House Democrats.\n\"That's an unfortunate comment. What I think the Governor is trying to do is call people and correct the record. I think the Governor is letting people know that the referendum is not coming out,\" Jackson told WBTV Tuesday night.\nCooper issues new statement\nA spokesman for Cooper issued a new statement in response to a request for an interview Tuesday night. WBTV requested another interview with Cooper after we sat down with Moore. We wanted to give him an opportunity to respond to the accusations that he was interfering in House negotiations. Cooper's press office never responded.\nThe Governor has been clear that he will support HB186 despite disagreeing with some of its provisions if Republicans will work with him to remove the referendum provision which would do nothing but keep HB2 fights in the news all over the state. He is urging Republicans to come back to the negotiating table so this can be put in the rear view mirror.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 9033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wcldc.org/576/Childrens-Services-Committee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:52Z", "digest": "sha1:XDGRPDTYT47PBLGEEUUT4GXAGGMYXWAC", "length": 545, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wcldc.org", "title": "Children's Services Committee | Washington County, NY - Official Website", "raw_content": "A member of the Youth Bureau/Alternative Sentencing staff attend monthly meetings of the Children\u2019s Services Committee which is facilitated by the Washington County Department of Social Services.\nAttendees include staff from various youth serving agencies in the county, such as school districts, mental health agencies, homeless youth services, prevention programs, juvenile justice etc.\nThe goal of the committee is to share information, identify areas of need and to develop a collaboration of agencies who promote positive youth development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.westchasewow.com/news/entry/hurricane_prep_program_may_8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DRQCUMH55KY2FYLGI37YFYRIMCFHWG7Y", "length": 1696, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.westchasewow.com", "title": "Hurricane Prep Program May 8 | World of Westchase", "raw_content": "Hurricane Prep Program May 8\nDo you really know what to do before, during and after a hurricane?\nThe Westchase Government Affairs Committee (GAC) is sponsoring a Hurricane Preparedness Program at the May 8, 2018 Voting Members (VMs) Meeting. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Westchase Swim and Tennis Center on Countryway Boulevard.\n\u201cI was in New Tampa with friends to ride out the storm,\u201d said GAC Chair Rick Goldstein, \u201cand that Saturday that lone spaghetti line of a possible but not probable Irma track became a reality. We joined 1,500 other people at a local shelter and I remember all of the things I should have done to prepare for a catastrophe and didn\u2019t do. I vowed that would never happen again. I would be better prepared.\u201d\nTo help the Westchase community be better prepared, Ted Williams, the Senior Program Coordinator of Hillsborough County Office of Emergency Management will discuss how to be better prepared for an approaching storm and how to be better prepared for evacuating to a shelter.\n\u201cShelters are of particular interest to me, because having been in one and seeing the problems and, in my opinion, lack of preparedness on the part of shelter management, I want to make sure our community is prepared for what to expect when sheltering,\u201d Goldstein added. \u201cGoing to a shelter is not what you might think it is.\u201d\nBecause of the importance of this program, residents and non-residents are invited.\nA special thanks to Hillsborough County for their continued help and support for our community.\nBy Rick Goldstein, GAC Chair\nEditor\u2019s note: June\u2019s WOW will also contain the Westchase map for hurricane storm surge areas to help residents understand their evacuation zones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whatbingo.co.uk/2010-bingo-world-championship-continues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:C46F72RNJPT4S774G7JQOTSDR7YHPJDA", "length": 1485, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.whatbingo.co.uk", "title": "2010 Bingo World Championship Continues | What Bingo UK - New Bingo Sites | Free Bonus Offers", "raw_content": "The first qualifying round in the Bingo World Championship 2010 came to an end on the 31st October 2009, with sixty lucky people qualifying for the Finals next year.\nWith 12 different online bingo sites participating in this year\u2019s championships, and with each site having its own qualifiers, the chances of progressing in this fabulous tournament are fantastic.\nThis Championship is now in its 9th year, with the Grand Final set to take place on March 28th 2010 at 8pm EST. Players will share a super Prize Pool worth a massive $10,000.\nThere are 3 separate qualifying rounds, with Round 2 running throughout November 2009, and Round 3 starting on December 1st 2009. Joining in the fun and playing is very easy, and you can choose any 1 of the 12 fabulous sites that are participating.\nFor full details of all the qualifiers, and all the sites involved, see http://www.bingoworldchampionship.com.\nFor your chance to enjoy the thrill and excitement of the Bingo World Championships 2010, join up and play at any one of the following participating online bingo sites \u2013\nBINGOGALA Bingo Mega Glamour Bingo Premier Bingo\nBingo Plex Bingo Empire Paramount Bingo Imperial Bingo\nMain Street Bingo Bingo Splash Bingo Funland Bingo Beez\nStandings will be updated once a week every Wednesday and can be viewed on each of the above sites.\nBingo Entertainment is very proud to sponsor this prestigious event, which brings together players from the most popular online bingo sites on the web today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 6530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whitleycountypatriots.org/tag/fun/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:31Z", "digest": "sha1:76I6SHOE5G6AYBM6G4O7VE5GEMHKS76U", "length": 401, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.whitleycountypatriots.org", "title": "Fun Archives - Whitley County PatriotsWhitley County Patriots", "raw_content": "If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them. \u2014 Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21, 1787", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wilmingtonacademy.org/events/venues/jacksonville-nc-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:16Z", "digest": "sha1:GQ3BTMIF22CUBK2L72K5I75FVKUCC3YH", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wilmingtonacademy.org", "title": "0 - Wilmington Academy", "raw_content": "Events at Jacksonville, NC, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 183.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wistv.com/story/24665601/wis-gm-563-school-bus-violations-are-563-too-many/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:RQYGDGB5X62XZHWA4CWGLHQTXRKWNLYV", "length": 1840, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wistv.com", "title": "WIS GM: 563 school bus violations are 563 too many", "raw_content": "WIS GM: 563 school bus violations are 563 too many\nThe following Perspective is an expression of opinion by the Editorial Board at WIS, and presented by General Manager Donita Todd.\nRecently WIS covered the tragic story of a youngster killed while crossing the street to catch his school bus. Although it has not been determined that any law was broken in this accident, school districts know the risks of drivers not adhering to the state school bus law. So they try to create routes where students do not have to cross the road.\nCurrent state law requires drivers in all directions on a two lane road to stop when bus lights are on and the stop arm is out. On a multi-lane road, drivers coming from the opposite direction don't have to stop, but drivers behind the bus must stop.\nEach year, the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services does a one-day study in South Carolina. During the 2011-12 school year, the state had 368 violators in one day, and for a 2012-13 school day, that count increased to 562 violators. With that high number of violators, school officials think changing the state law will make students safer because violators will not go unpunished.\nOur WIS investigation found that the law, as it's written, doesn't protect children because video evidence isn't allowed to fine a violating driver. Without the law allowing video camera evidence, school officials say prosecution typically does not happen.\nSenate Bill 718 could be a solution. This bill would equip the state's school bus stop arms with a camera to catch violators and allow the evidence to be given to law enforcement. This bill was proposed last year and currently sits in the Senate Transportation Committee. For the safety of our school children, talk to your legislators and urge them to consider passage of this bill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.witada.com.au/international-womens-day-2015-that-old-chestnut-called-feminism-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:16Z", "digest": "sha1:R7HXZEOILXH4XHQINFXSEBRHSSSQ5GFD", "length": 5607, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.witada.com.au", "title": "International Women\u2019s Day 2015: That Old Chestnut Called Feminism! \u00bb Witada", "raw_content": "\u00ab WITADA\u2019s Weekly Top 10 \u2013 7 March 2015\nWITADA\u2019s Weekly Top 10 \u2013 14March 2015 \u00bb\nI had planned to write a blog on Inequality for Women to attempt to dispel the myth that there is none anymore but I found myself writing about feminism instead.\nSo in honour of International Women\u2019s Day, let\u2019s talk about that old chestnut called feminism.\nThere is a lot of talk about feminism now and a lot of negative press about it, especially from young women (and especially from the Spice Girls but that\u2019s another story!) Most of the negative press about feminism seems to be based on ignorance.\nI only really have one comment to make about this, so here it is \u2013 if you want to denigrate anything, you can; if you want to pick holes in anyone\u2019s argument, you can; no view is totally right or correct, no theory covers everything, there probably is nothing that is really THE truth in the social science (unlike the physical sciences). We put our subjective meanings on objective events and occurrences all the time, there are many different perspectives of the same thing. Feminism has a unique perspective, or rather a set of unique perspectives. It is diverse and complex and as well as promoting social action, it is a serious body of academic thought and probably one of the most exciting theoretical developments in social theory in the past 50 years.\nFeminism actually means something \u2013 it is not something that you can just make up and pretend you know what it means. It means something in particular. But this is also where things get a little tricky because there are so many feminisms that it is hard to say what feminism means. As a theoretical body of thought feminism is complex, divided and contested such that not even well respected feminists could ever really say what \u2018feminism\u2019 is. But I do think it is important to say something whilst attempting to not be dismissive or universalising of other views within the broad banner of feminism.\nFeminism is about equality and not just equality of the sexes but equality for all people regardless of their position in society. Feminism explores the complexity within oppressive practices and attempts to challenge the idea that the way things are is the way that things have to be. In effect, feminism argues that much of how we live is designed to serve the interests of those in power (men, white, anglo, heterosexual etc etc) and women\u2019s (and other more marginalised groups) ways of being in the world are judged to be inferior. There is substantial evidence of this and it is hard to argue this away. As well as this, feminism attempts to value and promote women\u2019s ways of being in the world as potential alternatives to our current system.\nThose who criticise feminism fall into two categories. Firstly, those who know what they are talking about because they are passionate about social issues and have researched not only those theories and arguments that concur with their subjective views but also those that do not. And in this spirit of deep thinking, critical reflection and investigation, they take a different opinion (hopefully respectfully) and disagree with some or all of the tenets of feminism.\nSecondly, there are those who criticise feminism because it is contrary to what they subjectively believe. They haven\u2019t researched it and may not even really know what feminism is and yet they disagree, often with an irrational ferocity. It may well be that this is a reaction to some feeling of threat to the way they live their lives, but again this simply reflects a lack of understanding about what feminism is actually about.\nFeminism does not tell anyone how to live their lives, that would defeat the whole purpose of feminism given that it is based on a rebellion against the way that women\u2019s lives have been defined by men for so long. Feminism does not tell us what we can and can\u2019t do, it simply encourages us to think about why we are making the choices we are and if they are really what WE want or what we believe is expected of us by OTHERS.\nInterestingly there has been a recent article where a journalist, Adam Mordecai, took to the streets to find out how many people are feminists. He took a definition of feminism from the dictionary (feminism is \u201cthe belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities\u201d) and presented it to \u2018average\u2019 person on the street and \u2013 pretty much all agreed that according to that definition, they are feminists!\nI have studied feminism, taught feminism, written about feminism and yet I don\u2019t care if people \u2018like\u2019 feminism. I don\u2019t have an evangelical approach to feminism where I need to convert non-feminists to the cause. All I care about is that we understand, and hopefully respect, the complexity of ideas in this body of thought (and all others for that matter) and that our opinions are grounded in a well developed understanding of what is being talked about and what is being critiqued.\nThen we can all share our views, advance our thinking, learn from each other, beg to differ at times, but still feel respected and taken seriously and heard. If we can learn to celebrate, not even just tolerate, each other\u2019s differences then we can open ourselves up to a whole world that is otherwise not accessible to us. We can really come to understand and appreciate what others are saying and how others are living. You, like me, may find it disturbing to realise that when we thought we knew a lot, we actually know very little. But in the end we will be richer for the openness and our world will be more peaceful because of this.\nHappy International Women\u2019s Day for 2015!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldhistoryblog.com/2004/04/teaching-federalist-papers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IJGXPSUD4KOHMG3ALKJX2H5ZQGYYOV2S", "length": 1925, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.worldhistoryblog.com", "title": "World History Blog: Teaching the Federalist Papers.", "raw_content": "Teaching the Federalist Papers. This is an interesting article which gives tips for teaching about the US Federalist Papers.\nTHE FEDERALIST is the great American contribution to literature on constitutional government. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed it \"the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written.\" In Cohens v. Virginia (1821), Chief Justice John Marshall wrote: \"It (THE FEDERALIST) is a complete commentary on our Constitution, and it is appealed to by all parties in the questions to which that instrument gave birth.\" From the 1790s until today, lawyers, judges, politicians, and scholars have used ideas of THE FEDERALIST to guide their decisions about constitutional issues.\nThe ideas of THE FEDERALIST, which are at the core of civic culture in the United States, are essential elements of education for citizenship in the American constitutional democracy. This digest discusses (1) main ideas of THE FEDERALIST, (2) reasons for teaching THE FEDERALIST in secondary schools, and (3) how to teach THE FEDERALIST PAPERS.\nWHAT ARE MAIN IDEAS OF THE FEDERALIST?\nTHE FEDERALIST PAPERS were written and printed from October 1787 until May 1788 to counter arguments of Antifederalists against ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Alexander Hamilton was the originator of this work and author of 51 essays; James Madison wrote 26 of the papers; three essays were jointly authored by Hamilton and Madison; and John Jay wrote five of the papers. However, when these essays appeared in THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL and other New York newspapers, they were attributed to \"Publius\" (this pseudonym referred to Publius Valerius Publicola, a great defender of the ancient Roman Republic).\nThe authors of THE FEDERALIST had varying and sometimes clashing ideas about government, but they agreed strongly on certain fundamental ideas: republicanism, federalism, separation of powers, and free government.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 10654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 182.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wrpfineart.com/julio-munoz/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCCFFQLARXRRQ2NQR6ZUHHFJCL52RUH2", "length": 281, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wrpfineart.com", "title": "WRPFineArt \u2013 Julio Munoz", "raw_content": "Julio Munoz is a Web Developer.\nOther Degrees and certifications:\nMaster of Science in Computer Information Systems\nCertified Engineer Intern by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.\nHe honorably served fifteen years in the United States Navy as an Information Professional.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2259", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QSKAAXUGIRSA7Q4IKAKGSQVSCUAXQ7NM", "length": 4844, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wvencyclopedia.org", "title": "e-WV | Appalachian Mountains", "raw_content": "Share Appalachian Mountains\nThe Appalachian Mountains extend from Alabama to Newfoundland, and westward from the Piedmont to the Midwest. Elevations range as high as 6,684 feet in North Carolina, 5,729 feet in Virginia, and 4,861 feet in West Virginia. The Alleghenies, one of the constituent ranges making up the Appalachians, traverse West Virginia, as does a short section of the Blue Ridge. West Virginia is the only state located wholly within the Appalachian Mountains.\nIn the Paleozoic Era, a mountainous land mass of old, strong, and highly complex rock was situated along the Atlantic Coast. The region is referred to as \u201cOld Appalachia\u201d and included the area that became the modern Blue Ridge and Piedmont. About 275 million years ago, in a mountain-building event known as the Appalachian Orogeny, the sediments produced by the erosion of Old Appalachia were raised from the bottom of an inland sea and produced the \u2018\u2018Young Appalachians.\u2019\u2019\nThe Young Appalachians were worn down by stream erosion to a nearly level plain in the Mesozoic Era. At the close of the era, the Appalachians were again uplifted and many rivers, especially the New River, became entrenched. Since that time stream erosion has created in the east the present mountainous landscape of parallel ridges and valleys and in the west a dissected plateau where streams follow the slope in a dendritic or tree-like pattern. The mixture of youthful valleys and mature intervening high ground produces a difficult terrain, with 90 percent of West Virginia in slopes of more than 10 percent grade.\nThe last cataclysmic event to affect the Appalachian Mountains were glaciers in the great Ice Age. Glaciers did not extend into West Virginia, but when they blocked the northern outlets of the ancient Teays and Monongahela rivers the modern Ohio River was created. It became the major drainage system for the central Appalachian Mountains, including most of our state.\nThe major physiographic divisions of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia are (from east to west) the Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley, and Allegheny Plateau. Between the Ridge and Valley and the Allegheny Plateau is the Allegheny Front, and between the Allegheny Front and the Allegheny Plateau in north central West Virginia are the rugged Allegheny Mountains. Near two-thirds of the state is within the Allegheny Plateau, lying to the west of the Allegheny Mountains, with another fifth within the Ridge and Valley.\nWest Virginia\u2019s climate and weather are affected by the lay of the land, with an average elevation of 1,500 feet and heights that extend upward to a maximum of 4,861 feet at Spruce Knob. Cold to mild winters and hot to cool summers prevail, with a mean annual temperature between 50 and 55 degrees. The average annual precipitation of about 43 to 45 inches is about evenly distributed throughout the year, though with considerable geographical variation. For example, Pickens receives an average of about 70 inches and Brandywine about 30 inches of precipitation yearly.\nThe mountainous terrain, mid-latitude location, and ample rainfall support a varied forest vegetation cover. About 80 percent of the state is covered with regrowth mixed hardwoods that include oak, hickory, poplar, maple, sycamore, cherry, and black walnut. The softwoods include spruce and white and Virginia pines. Some of America\u2019s best hardwood sawtimber is produced in the counties of the Allegheny Front, Allegheny Mountains, and Allegheny Plateau.\nThe Appalachian Mountains are not endowed with prime farm land. In West Virginia, the best agricultural land is in the Eastern Panhandle and Ohio River valley counties. Three-fourths of the market value of agriculture is concentrated in the Ridge and Valley, primarily in poultry, livestock, hay, and corn production. Tobacco is a specialty crop produced in several southwestern counties.\nTopography affects the distribution of people in the Appalachian Mountains. In West Virginia, the population of about 1.9 million resides mostly in counties along the Ohio, Kanawha, New, and Monongahela rivers, and in the Eastern Panhandle in Berkeley and Jefferson counties. By census definition the state\u2019s population is predominantly rural with about two-thirds living outside urban and metropolitan places. The average density is 76 people per square mile, while that of surrounding states is several times greater.\nThis Article was written by Howard G. Adkins\nFenneman, Nevin M. Physiography of Eastern U.S.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1938.\nHunt, Charles B. Physiography of the U.S. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1967.\nJanssen, Raymond E. Earth Science: A Handbook on the Geology of West Virginia. Clarksburg: Educational Marketers, 1973.\nAdkins, Howard G. \"Appalachian Mountains.\" e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 26 November 2010. 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Dutt Colony.\nThe plea said Kejriwal, after stepping down as chief minister in February 2014, vacated the government accommodation at Tilak Lane and shifted to Girnar Apartments at Kaushambi in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.\nIt said the Election Commission's decision to include Kejriwal's name in the final electoral rolls was illegal and unjustified as it facilitated an outsider to become a Delhi resident.\nVoting for the 70-member Delhi assembly will take place Saturday. 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This design then integrates with various electronic devices like \"PLC\", \"MMI\", \"Hydraulic Cutter\" to finish this automatic equipment.\nFounded more than three decades ago, Yunsing Industrial Co., Ltd. is profoundly experienced in resolving client's technical problems of all kinds. With products also sold around the globe, the company has earned a good reputation and gained the client's trust.\nFrom the beginning of product design, to parts manufacturing, installation, testing and calibration, every step is full-time monitored and quality assured by the company's own staff.\nPreliminary designs are made to meet the client's desire, and sent to all departments for feasibility assessment before the final production and testing process.\nR.D. 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Kemp has failed to notify the affected voters who will likely be turned away at the polls on Election Day, the suit alleged.\n\u201cWhat has taken place here in Georgia is an insult to all of the efforts and accomplishments that we have done throughout this country,\u201d Charles Steele, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said at a press conference Tuesday about the Black struggle to win voting rights.\nThis comes as Abrams attempts to make history as the nation\u2019s first elected Black female governor.\nCivil rights lawsuit filed against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp | WJBF https://t.co/j7jGoqjV3D\n\u2014 The Voting News (@VotingNews) October 3, 2018\nThis case is part of a larger Republican voter suppression effort, according to activists. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 split decision, approved Ohio\u2019s practice of removing registered voters from its rolls if they haven\u2019t participated in recent elections. 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Many roads and bridges are closed. Stay off the roads if you don\u2019t need to drive. Seek a safe shelter. Check on your surroundings and loved ones.We will keep you updated via Nixle throughout the day.Again, stay safe and off the roads. Call 911 only if it\u2019s an emergency.\nThe Anchorage School District sent an alert to parents letting them know that all children are safe and are telling parents to pick up their children when they're able, the Anchorage Daily News reported.\nThe Federal Aviation Administration says they've evacuated the tower at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport with flights bound for the airport being rerouted. Planes that haven't taken off are under a ground stop.\nResidents as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska reported feeling the shaking.\nAlaska Gov. Bill Walker has issued a declaration of disaster, tweeting that he's currently in contact with the White House.\nAfter a major earthquake, I have issued a declaration of disaster & I have been in direct contact with the White House. Major General Laurie Hummel & I are now working w emergency responders to make sure Alaskans are safe. From the incident command center established at Joint Base Elmendorf and Richardson we are closely monitoring reports of aftershocks and assessing damage to roads, bridges and buildings. My family is praying for yours. God bless Alaska.\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Donald Trump who is currently in Argentina for the G-20 Summit, has been briefed on the situation in Alaska and is currently monitoring damage reports.\nPhotos and video of the quake have begun surfacing online. Many people can be seen running for cover and hiding under desks or furniture as the buildings violently shake.\nThe quake is one of the strongest to hit the area since the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, which was a massive 9.2 magnitude quake that lasted four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, one of the most powerful ever recorded in North American history.\nThis is a breaking news update. More details will be added as they become available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://a-different-view-by-js.blogspot.com/2018/11/doag-conference-2018-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:39Z", "digest": "sha1:STWUHCQ74V2SUEUDNHYVNRQUYKUKPIZ4", "length": 1553, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "a-different-view-by-js.blogspot.com", "title": "A-Different-View by Joerg Sobottka: DOAG Conference 2018", "raw_content": "Holger... December 13, 2018 at 5:31 PM\nI had the pleasure to attend your presentation and it made me rethink my attitude towards Single Tennant, so yes, I valued it one of the most interesting presentations I managed to attend.\nIn the afterglow of the conference I'd like to test a few things that you demonstrated, however the scripts are not included in the presentation. Would you be kind enough to make them available?\nJoerg December 14, 2018 at 12:18 PM\nI really appreciate any kind of feedback. Thanks a lot.\nThe question about the scripts - Well, you are not the only one who wants/wanted them. You may have not seen that I have already started to share the scripts with the public.\nYesterday, I have made a new blog post where the first scripts are attached to. As soon as I do have time, I will add one or two more posts with the scripts for the other 2 live demos - Snapshot Copy PDBs and PDB relocation, so please check my blog in the next 2 or 3 weeks. For now, you can start with the scripts for refreshable remote clone PDBs. The direct link is:\nhttp://a-different-view-by-js.blogspot.com/2018/12/single-tenant-is-unnecessary1.html\nAt the end of the post you then find the 2 scripts, the one is for running on your \"production\" - the CDB where you want to clone from, the second script is for the environment the PDB should be cloned to.\nHave fun with that and if you do have questions, you also can contact me by email (you can download the DOAG presentation at the conference planer and my email is on the last page of the presentation).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 10863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aaron411news.com/the-kings-pawn-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KNQZYJXWH4RDZHWC3ZZPC2EGEKRWBF7O", "length": 1966, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "aaron411news.com", "title": "The King's Pawn Book - Aaron 411", "raw_content": "A scientist creates a revolutionary experiment, The King\u2019s Pawn, in which the participants are unaware of the roles that they play in what is expected to be a literally perfect world. The scientist soon discovers her \u201cmethodically controlled society\u201d creates unforeseen tensions and ominous uncertainty for the unknowing participants, but brings the scientist unimaginable profits, fame and power.\nTwo children in The King\u2019s Pawn play a critical role after discovering that they have unrestricted control over the experiment\u2019s outcome.\nCopyright Aaron Hanania (Standard Copyright License)\nPublisher Aaron Hanania & Aaron411News.com\nInterior Ink Black & white\nPublisher Product ID 23657970\nClick here to order your Print copy\nClick here to order your eBook copy.\nBorn in 2001 under the shadows of the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Aaron Hanania began writing his stories shortly after coming to the United States and quickly adapting to the new technologies in writing.\nA high school junior living in Chicago\u2019s southwest suburbs, Aaron launched his online writing website, Aaron411.com in 2008 at the age of 7 where he posted his stories about his life.\nUsing his iPhone 6, he began writing this novel in 2017. Although the technology quickly becomes outdated, the power of the human mind does not.\nHe is an avid drummer who plays to the music of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and other music groups. Aaron was one of three winners of his high school talent contest in 2018 for a drumming medley performance that rocked the school auditorium. Aaron has also published several interviews with celebrities including Cubs First Baseman Anthony Rizzo and Super Bowl Champion Michael Schofield for The Regional News newspaper, and for his school newspaper.\nHis website is www.Aaron411News.com and his YouTube channel where he creates songs, videos, posts interviews, and tests his creative ideas on Youtube is at www.Aaron411.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1143961/ghassan-charbel/victory-under-threat-syria", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:04Z", "digest": "sha1:S5BXLL7BV2LHAWXNHK6INXGGAMNJFOCS", "length": 6637, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "aawsat.com", "title": "Victory under Threat in Syria | Asharq AL-awsat", "raw_content": "Victory under Threat in Syria\nGhassan Charbel is the editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper\nIt is not enough to declare your victory. It remains incomplete if the other side does not announce its defeat. Often, it only takes a small jab to remind a heavyweight boxer that the fight did not end with a knockout and that the staggering adversary was still capable of ruining the party and causing injury.\nIt is likely that Vladimir Putin felt bitter when he received the reports. The drone wave that targeted his forces\u2019 bases in Hmeimim and Tartus was annoying and embarrassing. A handful of drones, operated by regular technology, managed to confuse the Russians. Such a small operation is not enough to change the rules of the game, but it helped reveal that the fortress can be breached and flaws can be found in the mighty Russian military system. A minor incident exposed the weakness of the measures taken by the major power. The message is clear and it is that the war is not over yet.\nRussia exonerated Turkey from the incident. It is difficult to imagine that Turkey would at the moment embark on such an adventure. It paid a heavy price in the past when one of its pilots dared to challenge a Russian jet. It was forced to change its policy and choices.\nMoscow tried to imply that the drone operation was backed by the US, but Washington was quick to categorically deny it. Some speculate that an opposition faction wanted to remind Russia that the war was still on and open to many more rounds, despite the change in the balance of power brought about by Moscow\u2019s military intervention.\nThe worst part of the incident was that it took place less than a month after Putin declared his victory in Syria. He believed that the mission was complete and started to withdraw some of his forces. The regional and international scene appeared rosy to the czar and there was no counter-project in Syria. The majority of regional and international forces dealt with the Russian solution as a fait accompli. Many powers also believed the Russian solution to be the only realistic way to curb Iran\u2019s role. The US itself seemed ready to accept the Russian success in Syria if it served to limit Iran\u2019s role.\nPutin was not worried about the upcoming March presidential elections, which in reality is nothing more than a referendum given that he has no real competitor running against him. He however was deliberate in announcing the victory in order to prop up his image of a skilled leader. Syria did not become his Vietnam. At the lowest possible cost, he succeeded in orchestrating a major reversal that restored Russia\u2019s dignity and standing. All this has taken place at a time when the US has been embroiled in Twitter wars, Angela Merkel is struggling to form a government and Theresa May is laboring with the divorce from the European Union.\nSometimes, a surprise comes when you least expect it. A handful of drones reignited the debate over the obstacles hindering the real Russian victory in Syria. The real victory is when you protect your field wins with a permanent political solution that allows you to seriously say that the war is over.\nThe reality says that the Russian solution in Syria is no cakewalk. The calculations being weighed at the Astana talks that include Russia, Iran and Turkey contrast with each other. Iran, for example, believes itself to be a main partner in the victory that was achieved in Syria. It believes that the Russian air force could not have changed the course of the war without the role the Iran-backed militias had played on the ground. Turkey has other interests in mind. Its main concern is to deal a fatal blow to the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG). President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given the YPG in Afrin a week to surrender or face his forces. More than that, Turkey had demanded that Russia and Iran fulfill their past commitments over the Syrian regime violations in \u201cde-escalation\u201d zones, especially in Idlib. Iran, meanwhile, accepts nothing less than the Assad regime being restored to what it was before the war. Turkey has absolutely no interest in seeing that happen.\nRussia has an actual interest in appearing as the peacemaker in Syria. It does not want to stay in a country that is witnessing an endless war. It is however finding difficulty in providing even the most basic conditions for a solution that appears rather superficial. The regime that had during the most difficult times of the war never shown an inclination to make concessions is unlikely to do so now when the worst is behind it. The regime can at any rate occasionally rely on the hardline Iranian stance or at least use it as an excuse. It is no secret that a solution that redistributes power, even proportionally, among all players will not in the long-term be in Iran\u2019s interest.\nMoscow has done all it has in its power to speed up imposing a solution in Syria. It exerted extraordinary efforts to deplete the essence of the Geneva peace talks. It also exerted extraordinary efforts to impose changes within the opposition body involved in the negotiations. The recent days revealed however the extent of the challenges facing Moscow. The United Nations has not shied away from voicing its opposition to the Sochi talks and attempts to undermine Geneva. Washington itself appears to be backtracking and adopting a more hardline approach, even if at this point this stance is limited to rejecting any solution in Syria that favors Iran. The Europeans appear to be more inclined to confront Iran\u2019s destabilizing policies, despite their commitment to their nuclear deal with it. Israel, meanwhile, appears to be more skeptical than ever of Russia\u2019s ability to stave off Iran-backed militias from its border and has therefore intensified its air strikes in Syria.\nClearest of all is Russia\u2019s growing difficulty in finding a middle ground between the demands of regional and international players in Syria. The lowering of the expectations over the Russian solution may pave the way for other options that may prolong the war, which ISIS\u2019 defeat demonstrated was much more complicated than many previously expected. Reaching the final victory in Syria is difficult. As long as a political solution is missing, each military victory will remain vulnerable.\nRead More for Ghassan Charbel\nKhomeini, the Revolution\u2026 the Iranian Citizen and the Mirror\tBashir, Maduro, and the 'Pleasure of Being a Former President'\tThe Davos Forum and the Ethiopian Guest\tThe Conflict Over Iraq\tA Region of Upheaval and Many Foreign Doctors\tThe 'Big Battle' Was Not There\tThe Final Bullet\tThree Men And Three Scenes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 11830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aboutmeditation.com/how-to-meditate-5-things-every-meditator-must-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:14Z", "digest": "sha1:T5PMJNYAHGJJQHIHP4R4EL5V2Z5JPN3M", "length": 5306, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "aboutmeditation.com", "title": "How to Meditate: 5 Things Every Meditator Must Know - About Meditation", "raw_content": "How to Meditate: 5 Things Every Meditator Must Know\nWhether you\u2019ve just decided to learn how to meditate or have been at it for some time, sooner or later you\u2019re bound to discover that everyone who practices meditation experiences the exact same thing. Sure, the variety of spiritual experiences can vary tremendously\u2014from little moments of bliss to full-on immersions in ecstatic states of cosmic consciousness\u2014but certain basic traits just go with the practice, and are experienced universally.\nTo help prepare you for the journey ahead (or, if you\u2019re already well on your way along the meditative path, to reassure you that you\u2019re not alone), I thought a helpful guide might be in order, detailing the top five observations I\u2019ve made from my own daily practice and from countless conversations I\u2019ve had with fellow meditators over the years. See if you can relate.\n5 Things Every Meditator Must Know\nYou need to be still.\nYour intention must be clear.\nIt\u2019s easier to meditate with others than alone.\nYou will have thoughts. Lots and lots of thoughts.\nYou can\u2019t control your experience.\n1.) You need to be still.\nThis one may seem obvious, but even after meditating nearly every day for the past twelve years, I know I continually underestimate the truth of it. If you\u2019re going to learn how to meditate properly, you need to be still. And not just physically still, though that is generally very helpful. Even if you\u2019re engaging in walking meditation, or continually moving your lips while chanting a mantra, it\u2019s ultimately the degree of inner stillness, or focus, that you bring to your practice that reveals whether or not you\u2019re really making what the Buddha called the \u201cright effort\u201d to meditate.\n2.) Your intention must be clear.\nIf you decide to meditate for any length of time\u2014whether it\u2019s a 3-minute break while sitting at your desk at work or an extended 3-hour plunge on a quiet Sunday morning at home\u2014you need to follow through on that intention. Do the full 3 minutes, undistracted, really intending to give everything to your meditation for that set period of time. Or if you decide to meditate every day, then make every effort to do so. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are just learning how to meditate for the first time or if you are a veteran practitioner.\nWhy? Because by following through on your own intention, you always build consistency and self-confidence\u2014perhaps the two most important qualities you need in order to get better at any practice in life, spiritual or otherwise.\n3.) It\u2019s easier to meditate with others than alone.\nThis is something I discovered only after joining a residential spiritual community a few years after I began meditating, and everyone I\u2019ve met with a similar experience has only affirmed how true it is. It\u2019s simply easier to meditate with others than it is to meditate alone. When you practice with other people, you generate a collective field of mutual support\u2014and that support works on many levels, both gross and subtle.\nFor one thing, you\u2019re more likely to follow the first two points above\u2014be focused and still, and follow through on your intention to do the practice\u2014when you know you\u2019ll be disturbing other people if you don\u2019t. But more fundamentally, meditating with others creates a shared field of consciousness that gives everyone involved easier access to a meditative state. If you ever have the opportunity to join a meditation group, or even to practice with a friend or spouse, I highly recommend it. (Just bear in mind that meditating by yourself also has distinct benefits, so be sure to keep doing that as well.)\n4.) You will have thoughts \u2013 lots and lots of thoughts.\nYes, I know that Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, says he sometimes sits in mind-free bliss, completely awake without any thoughts arising, for up to four hours at a time\u2014but unless you\u2019re the next Eckhart Tolle, this probably won\u2019t be happening to you very often. More likely, you\u2019re one of the billions of human beings who have a bit more difficulty finding the \u201coff\u201d switch in your brain. And the good news is, that\u2019s perfectly okay! You don\u2019t need your thoughts to stop arising to experience the freedom, peace, and depth of meditative awareness. You just need to learn how to be free of your thoughts. Once you learn to simply ignore the mind, rather than silencing it completely, it\u2019ll be just as good as that endless chatter not being there at all.\n5.) You can\u2019t control your experience.\nThis last point can catch even the most experienced meditator off guard. Even if you know that the goal of meditation is to let everything be as it is, it can be difficult to leave your internal experience exactly as it is. All too often, we want to get in there and mess around\u2014trying to stop our thoughts (see above), or trying to feel less agitated, or trying to recapture a particularly powerful spiritual experience we once had. The results of such mental and emotional tinkering tend to be the opposite of actual meditation, and it\u2019s easy to wind ourselves up in knots pretty quickly.\nSo my advice, whenever you catch yourself trying to manipulate your attention, your feelings, or your thoughts when you\u2019re supposed to be meditating, is to heed the suggestion of the Beatles: let it be.\nWritten by Thomas Dixon \u00b7 Categorized: Beginner, Habits, Lifestyle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adoption.com/how-to-respond-when-someone-offers-to-have-a-baby-for-you", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QZIKFY4JO4MAQ4SY35MCN6DCKWOOSMM4", "length": 7197, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "adoption.com", "title": "How to Respond When Someone Offers to Have a Baby for You | Adoption.com", "raw_content": "How to Respond When Someone Offers to Have a Baby for You\nI was deeply touched when my friend offered to carry a baby for me, but knew I could never accept such an offer. Why?\nMelissa Giarrosso March 09, 2016\nAs I sat down to gather my thoughts for this article, before I began writing I imagined those of you who would click on this article title wondering if someone offering to have a baby for you was actually a \u201cthing\u201d in the adoption community. Surely, this doesn\u2019t happen enough to have a full article written about it, right?\nIt does! The majority of adoptive parents I\u2019ve talked with have received an offer from a family member or friend who wasn\u2019t just offering their body for surrogacy; they were offering to actually have a baby for the couple they\u2019ve witnessed struggling through the heartache of infertility. It\u2019s a well-intended, gracious, empathetic, and seemingly selfless offer that stems from the hearts of people who have a hard time seeing those they love trudging through the swamps of negative pregnancy tests, failed IVF treatments, and disrupted adoption plans.\nI had no clue that so many of my adoptive mom friends had been approached with offers so similar to the one a coworker extended to me as we waited to be placed with our first child. With tears in her eyes, she explained that she had experienced really joyful pregnancies and truly believed she could have a child for us if all of our other roads hit dead ends. Her sweet, caring, empathetic soul just couldn\u2019t sit by and watch us experience one more heartache. My heart swelled as I hugged and thanked her for caring about us so much. I didn\u2019t have solid beliefs about why it wasn\u2019t appropriate to accept her offer, but I knew in my heart it didn\u2019t feel right.\nMost people who offer to have a child for someone else do it with the purest, kindest, and most selfless intentions, but they aren\u2019t drilling down to the core of the offer before extending it.\nI\u2019ve spent the past six years forming my opinions on why a person should never, ever accept an offer from someone to create a child for the sole purpose of being adopted. I believe it all boils down to two core reasons.\nFirst: Adoption should only occur because children need families, not because families desire children.\nA child\u2019s wants and needs usurp an adult\u2019s wants and needs. Every time. The belief that adoption is a clean start for a child is a misguided myth, and each and every adoptee carries a story of their beginnings with them for a lifetime. Adults have to someday answer for their choices, so can you imagine telling a child she was born because you desperately wanted a child? There is no exception to the rule that adoptions should never occur simply to satisfy the desires of desperate adults. I\u2019m an adoptive mom and I\u2019ve been there. I remember watching movies and breaking down into uncontrollable sobs because someone gave birth or experienced a multitude of other parenting highlights. I remember excusing myself to go to the restroom during Girls\u2019 Night when my friends would talk about how fantastic it was (or how trying it was, depending on the night) to be a mom. I will never, ever forget that feeling of desperation and how it compromised my common sense. The desperation is intoxicating, but children were not born to be our Band-Aids so our wounds of infertility could be covered up. My children, just by being themselves, are an ointment that makes infertility feel an enormous amount better, but it will never be their responsibility to make me feel whole. Can you imagine the burden children would carry on their shoulders after finding out they were created simply to fill a void in your life? Why should their happiness be sacrificed simply to assure your happiness? If there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned as a parent it\u2019s that the adult is always the one who should sacrifice; adoptees have already sacrificed enough without their consent.\nSecond: Kindhearted and empathetic intentions do not equate to selflessness when it comes to a child\u2019s life experiences.\nOn an outing with my kids recently, a stranger thanked me for adopting because she thought it was selfless of me to parent children who weren\u2019t biologically mine. I explained to her that there was nothing selfless about it; I wanted to be a mom desperately and I was the lucky one in this equation. I sat in the parking lot and typed up a Facebook post about it, which was shared by a friend. Her aunt responded to her share by saying, in summation, that people are rude not to accept well-meaning compliments.\nAs I wrote back and forth with her, she stuck to her belief that we\u2019re all too sensitive and there\u2019s no foul as long as someone\u2019s comments are rooted in kindness and empathy. I disagree. I believe gentle education is important because there was harm when she thanked me. My 5-year-old was there and he immediately asked why that stranger thanked me for being his mom.\nWhen you drill down, it really is strange because we\u2019d never thank a biological mom for loving and parenting her child. To him (and to me, frankly), there is zero difference, and it\u2019s bizarre to be thanked for something that is clearly my privilege. Why should he be left to feel unwanted or like someone should be thanked for loving him? It\u2019s inappropriate, even if her intentions were good. I believe this is similar to the people who offer to have children for infertile couples; the intent is kindhearted and empathetic, but the reality of the situation is that a child will be born simply to fill a void in an adult\u2019s life. Growing a child to experience loss, simply so an adult does not, is the definition of selfish.\nIt all comes down to the child who\u2019s created in these circumstances. Most people who offer to have a child for someone else do it with the purest, kindest, and most selfless intentions, but they aren\u2019t drilling down to the core of the offer before extending it. They are seeing their adult friend in pain and they want to remedy that pain, but they don\u2019t see that a child is being sacrificed in the process.\nIn adoption, the adults are the ones who need to voluntarily sacrifice, because adoptees are already forced to involuntarily sacrifice just by being placed. There are ups and downs, bonuses and pitfalls, that come along with every adoption situation, but the fact is that adoptees have choices made for them that they have no say in. This should only occur by adults who have their very best interest in mind, not by adults who have their own best interests\u2014or the interests of other adults\u2014in mind. In adoption, adoptees must always come first.\nSo, how do you respond when a family member or friend offers to have a baby for you? You thank them graciously for caring about you so much, but you let them know that you don\u2019t believe a child should be born simply to fill the void in your life. Adoption should occur because children need families, not because families desire children. As hard as it is to push your desperation down below the surface, bury it with education and keep learning about the feelings of adoptees who will spend a lifetime trying to acclimate and assimilate as they attempt to make the most of the hand they\u2019ve been dealt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 11005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://affjobs.com/company/2968/yoox-net-a-porter-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BGDFJDTS52PGA47CZ72QGVT6SPAKIY6K", "length": 530, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "affjobs.com", "title": "Jobs at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP | Affjobs", "raw_content": "YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is the world\u2019s leading online luxury fashion retailer. Uniquely positioned in the high-growth online luxury sector, YNAP has a client base of more than 3 million high-spending customers, over 29 million monthly unique visitors worldwide and combined 2016 net revenues of \u20ac1.9 billion. YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP has offices and operations in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Japan, China and Hong Kong and delivers to more than 180 countries around the world.\nEmail me jobs from YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 56.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://africanastudies.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/majors", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DTMZRC6OIDTA47OU2GRH3G2R5EIOMFXQ", "length": 971, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "africanastudies.rutgers.edu", "title": "Majors", "raw_content": "The major in Africana Studies requires the satisfactory completion of 11 courses (3 credits each) in the Department, with a grade of \u201cC\u201d or better. These 11 courses are comprised of 4 required courses and 7 elective courses. At least 6 of the courses credited towards the major must be at the 300 or 400 level. Students are encouraged to take courses offered by other departments pertaining to their area of concentration or interest. Two of those courses may be applied toward the major. Study abroad is strongly recommended for Africana studies majors. The department offers assistance in long-term curriculum planning and in securing financial aid. Students participating in one- or two-semester study abroad programs in countries of the African diaspora-- Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, and South Africa--can receive course credit (in consultation with the chair) toward the Africana Studies major or minor.\nClick here to download the Majors Form", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aidsdatahub.org/health-indicators-2017-indicators-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-health-all-ministry-health", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DPI5PGS3KHE4FAXXHKKRFO25SRLSFDGD", "length": 451, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aidsdatahub.org", "title": "Health Indicators 2017: Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation of Strategy Health for All. 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These indicators represented the essential minimum for member countries of WHO to evaluate their own national strategy towards HFA goals.\nKeywords: monitoring and evaluation, health system, policies, strategies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 11495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aleteia.org/2018/02/24/brain-science-explains-why-bad-habits-are-so-hard-to-break/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RS7VUD2NETE6G2NKCPJXSLZFIVPXWE44", "length": 3864, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "aleteia.org", "title": "Habits: our brain's shortcuts that can help or harm us -- Aleteia", "raw_content": "The big reason why bad habits are so hard to break\nSince more than 45 percent of our daily activities are habitual, we need to know how to change this.\nMost of the decisions we make on a daily basis might seem to us to be the product of a reflective decision-making process, but that\u2019s not entirely the case: many are actually the result of habit.\nA habit is formed when we repeat an action frequently, until it eventually becomes an unconscious behavior. These actions become automatic, and consequently, they don\u2019t require much attention, effort, or motivation on our part. On the contrary, we need a lot of motivation and effort to perform activities that are not automatic \u2014 that is to say, actions that are not yet habitual.\nThe advantage of a habit is that, since it is automatic, we can do it without thinking. We don\u2019t need motivation or strength of will, so we can focus our efforts on other things. If the habit is good, it makes our daily life easier and more virtuous. The disadvantage is that some of our daily habits aren\u2019t healthy, so we are repeating actions that put our integral well-being at risk.\nHabits often begin without our realizing it; they are established inadvertently, and by the time we want to free ourselves of them, they have become routines that seem impossible to change.\nHabits arise because our brain is always looking for ways to save its resources. If we allow it to use its natural mechanisms, our brain will try to convert almost every routine into a habit, because habits let our brain rest more often. This instinct to save energy is highly advantageous. An efficient brain allows us to stop thinking constantly about basic behaviors, so we can dedicate our thoughts to more complex things.\nAccording to Ann Graybiel, a researcher at MIT: \u201cHabits never really disappear. They\u2019re encoded into the structures of our brain, and that\u2019s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can\u2019t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it\u2019s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.\u201d This explains why it\u2019s so hard for us to create habits of doing exercise, for example, or of eating a healthy diet, if we have first formed unhealthy habits. However, by the same logic, if we learn to create new neurological habits that enforce positive behaviors, we can force our unhealthy routines into the background.\nAn unhealthy habit is one that has negative consequences for your physical, mental, emotional, and/or social health.\nThe psychology of habit formation proposes a rule of the three Rs, which are the following:\nReminder (or cue): a stimulus that initiates the behavior\nRoutine: the action performed\nReward: the benefit obtained when we perform the action\nOur brain establishes a permanent neuronal connection to initiate, perform, and finish a given repeated action as long as it has the same reminder. If the action results in a reward, the next time we encounter the same cue or reminder we will engage in the same routine. This way, the reward of a positive result serves as motivation and stimulus for us not to lose that positive routine.\nMore than 45 percent of our daily activities are habits, which define our current lifestyle and which are building the life we will have in the future.\nWe must remember that, in order to change bad habits, we have to start by incorporating one healthy habit into our lives at a time. Just one. In this way, we can do it consciously and not be overwhelmed. Incorporating just one healthy habit introduces a positive effect that will improve all areas of our life, and can even weaken other bad habits that we want to eliminate.\nWillpower won\u2019t always cut it \u2014 what you really need to make or break a habit\nHealth and WellnessPsychology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 8943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alicenter.org/fourth-annual-muhammad-ali-humanitarian-awards-showcase-international-humanitarians-and-impact-ali-had-worldwide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:PDEZYI4TWOISJ3EQJDFHLPD7MO7JI7X3", "length": 6608, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "alicenter.org", "title": "Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Showcase International Humanitarians and Impact Ali had Worldwide - Muhammad Ali Center | Be Great :: Do Great Things", "raw_content": "Muhammad Ali Center | Be Great :: Do Great Things > News > News > Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Showcase International Humanitarians and Impact Ali had Worldwide\nFourth Annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Showcase International Humanitarians and Impact Ali had Worldwide\nAwards Paid Tribute to Muhammad Ali\nCindy Hensley McCain, Louis Gossett, Jr. among honorees\nFUSION Served as Exclusive Media Partner\nLOUISVILLE, Kentucky (September 17, 2016) \u2014 The fourth annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards were held this evening at the Louisville Marriott Downtown. The fundraising gala honored people from around the world who are making significant contributions to their communities. In addition to awards given to seasoned humanitarians, six young people, age 30 years and younger, were honored with an award for each of Muhammad Ali\u2019s Six Core Principles: Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Giving, Respect, and Spirituality.\nNBC News\u2019 and MSNBC\u2019s Craig Melvin hosted the awards. FUSION was the exclusive media partner. This year\u2019s awards also served as a tribute to the late, great Muhammad Ali, who passed away on June 3, 2016. Ali, who co-founded the Muhammad Ali Center with his wife Lonnie in November 2005, attended each of the previous year\u2019s Muhammad Ali Humanitarian awards.\nAwardees for the 2016 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards are:\nCindy Hensley McCain, philanthropist and businesswoman, received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Lifetime Achievement.\nJon Secada, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, and philanthropist, received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award.\nLouis Gossett, Jr., Academy Award winning actor and humanitarian, received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education.\nSheryl Lee Ralph, Broadway, big screen, TV actress and philanthropist, received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Global Citizenship.\nJohn Rosenberg, founding director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, received the 2016 Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award.\nFor more information about the \u201cSeasoned\u201d Humanitarian Awardees, click here.\nThe 2016 Thirty Years of Age or Younger Recipients of the Core Principle Awards are:\nJosh Nesbit, Waterford, Virginia received the Confidence Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Medic Mobile, a nonprofit organization that builds mobile and web tools for community health workers, clinic staff, and families in the hardest-to-reach communities.\nShawana Shah, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan received the Conviction Shawana works to end gender-based violence in her native Pakistan and to provide women a platform to fight for their rights.\nCurt Bowen, Boise, Idaho received the Dedication Curt is the executive director and co-founder of Semilla Nueva, a nonprofit that develops locally-led farmer education programs that increase the income, rebuild the soils, and improve the food security of Guatemala\u2019s rural poor.\nJakob Schillinger, Tuebingen, Germany received the Giving Jakob is the co-founder of OneDollarGlasses, which produces high-quality prescription eyeglasses for a cost of less than one dollar per pair.\nTina Hovsepian, Los Angeles, California received the Respect Tina is the founder and executive director of Cardborigami, a nonprofit that supports those who lost their homes due to poverty, natural disasters, or other crises.\nNavonel Glick (Voni, Tel Aviv, Israel received the Spirituality Voni is the chief operating officer of IsraAID and previously served as its programs director, leading disaster-response missions across the world.\nFor more information about the Six Core Principle Awardees, please click here.\nThis year\u2019s presenters were:\nLonnie Ali, Vice Chair and co-founder of the Muhammad Ali Center\nRasheda Ali, author, speaker, spokesperson, Parkinson\u2019s Disease advocate, and Muhammad Ali\u2019s daughter\nAsaad Ali, college baseball assistant coach, and Muhammad Ali\u2019s son\nKimberly Brooks, host and correspondent for Fusion Network\nAmber Gell, rocket scientist from Lockheed Martin and NASA\nMayor Greg Fischer, Mayor of Metro Louisville, initiator of the city\u2019s annual \u201cGive A Day\u201d Week, and a Compassionate City advocate\nTeddy Abrams, conductor for the Louisville Orchestra\nEli A. Wolff, co-founder of the Sport and Development Project at Brown University\n**Dwight Howard was unable to make the Awards.\nThe performance line-up included:\nMali Music, Bystorm Entertainment/RCA Records singer/songwriter, Grammy-nominee\nCJ Vanston, a Hollywood-based film composer, record producer, songwriter, keyboardist, and music director for Spinal Tap\nMichael Fitzpatrick, a cello soloist who performed at the historic meeting of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Muhammad Ali\nTeddy Abrams and friends, the conductor of the Louisville Orchestra\nThe Humanity Passport Project Greater Community Choir, founded by Ambassador Shabazz\nMichael Fitzpatrick and CJ Vanston, as well as Teddy Abrams, performed new original works created for the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards and in honor of Muhammad Ali\u2019s legacy.\nThis year\u2019s Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards are supported by: YUM! Brands Foundation, Brown-Forman Corporation, LG&E and KU Energy, Horseshoe Southern Indiana, Harold C. Schott Foundation, Tandem PR & Marketing, Ashbourne Farms and River Bend Farm.\nThe fourth annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian awards will take place on September 17th, 2016 at the Louisville Marriott Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky USA. This charitable event of celebration and recognition will honor individuals around the world who have made significant contributions toward the attainment of peace, social justice, or other positive actions pertaining to human or social capital. In addition to awards presented to seasoned humanitarians, six young people, 30 years or younger, are honored with an award for each of Muhammad\u2019s Six Core Principles: Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Giving, Respect, and Spirituality. This event is the premiere annual fundraiser for the Muhammad Ali Center.\nThrough impactful journalism and smart commentary, FUSION covers the stories that matter to the new, rising American mainstream. FUSION content is available to audiences across a broad range of platforms including cable television (channel listings), FUSION.net, various OTT providers and social media platforms. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. FUSION will be a part of the recently announced Fusion Media Group, a division of Univision Communications Inc.\nYour ticket for the: Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Showcase International Humanitarians and Impact Ali had Worldwide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 10109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allaboutwarmovies.com/2011/03/13/warriors-aka-peacekeepers-1999-unprofor-peace-units-in-bosnia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4MMVJNAOKAVVWHJICLKHVOYIORYZE5ZQ", "length": 4346, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "allaboutwarmovies.com", "title": "Warriors aka Peacekeepers (1999) UNPROFOR Peace Units in Bosnia | All About War Movies", "raw_content": "Warriors aka Peacekeepers (1999) UNPROFOR Peace Units in Bosnia\nWarriors is an almost three hour long TV production starring Ioan Gruffud (Hornblower, King Arthur), Matthew Macfadyen (Robin Hood, Pride and Prejudice) and Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers). Unlike some other great TV productions it isn\u2019t capable to get rid of the TV feel. At every moment we are aware of it having been made for TV. I don\u2019t know how this was aired, probably on two consecutive evenings, watching it like I did in one go wasn\u2019t the best idea. If there hadn\u2019t been some famous actors I would have thought it is a documentary.\nYou may have gathered already that I didn\u2019t like it that much but it still is an important movie. Many movies depict the absurd mandate that most UN troops have to follow. Unless directly attacked they are not allowed to fight. They are not allowed to take sides. Mostly, like in this case, they aren\u2019t even allowed to evacuate people unless they are seriously injured. This means they have to watch innocent civilians getting killed.\nThe movie starts in England where we see the soldiers and officers on leave and get to know the main characters. From there we follow them to Bosnia where they are instructed about their mandate which doesn\u2019t really pose any problems for them at the beginning.\nOur three main characters will stay in the region for six months. Starting as mostly joyful men who want to make a difference they undergo some serious changes and at the end none of them is remotely comparable to the man he was before he was sent to the region at war.\nIt is one thing to be told to not interfere when there are soldiers involved but a totally other matter when you see how civilians are raped, butchered and tortured. All these young UN soldiers ask for, is to be able to evacuate those who might get killed. Their superiors stay firm, there is no helping that couldn\u2019t be misunderstood. Soon enough they get proof of this. In a few instances, when no superior officer is around, the one or the other soldier attempts to help and each and every single time the consequences are fatal.\nIn one instance Lt. Feeley (Ioan Gruffud) assists an elderly Muslim couple whose dog is shot and whose house is plundered. He intervenes and chases off the aggressors only to find the couple executed, when he returns a few days later. Instances like these are numerous and the movie shows more and more atrocities towards the end.\nThe final part shows the three main protagonists back in England. None of them can cope. Having helplessly witnesses gratuitous acts of violence against children, women and old people has left them shattered. Two have a severe anger management problem and the third attempts to commit suicide.\nIf you are interested in the peace work of the UN troops and want to see in great detail how they operate, this is a good movie in this respect. There are others who show this very well too but not in so much detail. If you want to watch really good movies on the war in Bosnia I suggest you rather stick to Welcome to Sarajevo (see my review), Savior (see my review) and No Man\u2019s Land (review upcoming).\nI couldn\u2019t find a trailer so I attached part 4 of the film.\nThis entry was posted in Actors, Bosnia, Movie, Reviews, War Crimes, War Movie and tagged BBC Production, Bosnian war, Damian Lewis, Ioan Gruffud, Matthew Macfadyen, Movies, No Man's Land, Peacekeepers, Reviews, Savior, UN Troops, War Crimes, War in Bosnia, War Movies, Warriors, Welcome to Sarajevo.\n6 thoughts on \u201cWarriors aka Peacekeepers (1999) UNPROFOR Peace Units in Bosnia\u201d\nDoesn\u2019t sound like my cup of tea. Makes me wonder what projects those three actors turned down to make it. Maybe they believed in the subject \u2013 if so, kudos to them.\nThis sounds like one of those films that are \u2018good for you\u2019\u2013not particularly enjoyable but a dose of medicine.\nExactly. One doesn\u2019t really want to find it bad but it is hard to really like it.\nI think they were at the beginning of their careers, maybe that explains it. I think it was just before they did movies that made them famous. I\u2019m sure they did believe in what they did. I wasn\u2019t aware of Damian Lewis being British.\nLike a documentary, hey? Sounds a recommendation to me! A war film that is actually like a war? Finally! I saw this and it stayed with me \u2013 a really good film \u2013 I do recommend it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 11388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allcryptomedia.com/2019/02/12/intelligent-investing-in-the-blockchain-space-with-tomer-federman/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:T5KJUAZSSLNFF76BPM34NXEO7A4PESZ7", "length": 21645, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "allcryptomedia.com", "title": "Intelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman | Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain News from 100k+ sources", "raw_content": "Home Blockchain Intelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman\nIntelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman\nEpisode 25 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tomer Federman, CEO and founder of Federman Capital.\nListen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.\nIn this episode Trent Lapinski and Tomer Federman discuss why he left Facebook to start his own crypto and blockchain investment fund.\n\u201cI think this technology is truly revolutionary, is going to disrupt the financial ecosystem, and is going to have major impact across entire industries in years to come.\u201d\n\u201cCrypto shouldn\u2019t be about getting rich quickly. It should be about creating meaningful products that solve real world needs, and address real pain points.\u201d\n\u201cIf I\u2019m right and blockchain is going to be so transformative, it\u2019s obviously going to generate significant returns for investors who invest wisely. The ability for people to transact with no intermediaries involved, and for the transactions to be recorded in an open way and settled almost immediately, the opportunities for building on top of the technology is just mind blowing.\u201d\u200a\u2014\u200aTomer Federman\nhttps://medium.com/media/1d0609e49fe1e3fcc936a636cd800e9d/href\nP.S. If you dig the new Hacker Noon Podcast, consider giving us a 5 star review on iTunes.\nAlso check out February top stories, the latest stories and today\u2019s homepage.\nTranscript of episode:\nWelcome to the podcast I\u2019m here with Tomer. Hey Tomer, tell us a little bit about who you are and what you\u2019re working on.\nYea, sure. My name is Tomer Federman. I am the founder and CEO of Federman capital. We\u2019re a new hedge fund that\u2019s about to launch soon, focused on investments in blockchain technology and cryptoassets. We aim to invest, of course, the entire asset class, from taking positions in well established cryptocurrencies, all the way to investing in real estate startups, blockchain startups, in some cases even before they go live. In terms of my background, I have 15 years of experience in Tech, working both in startups and major tech companies. I spent the last 3 years at Facebook where I led Product Strategy and Global Growth for some of Facebook\u2019s major ad products, and I\u2019m based in London, but spent the majority of my \u2026 and in Silicon Valley where I got my MBA at Stanford. Later after finishing graduate school I actually had a startup incubated by Stanford. Thanks for the invite, really excited to be here today.\nYeah, awesome. So you recently wrote an article about how you left Facebook and wanted to join the crypto space. Can you talk a little bit about what led to that decision?\nYeah, of course. Facebook is a really amazing company, and I was really lucky to work there for a few years. And it\u2019s not just you know, the benefits and perks you get, but it\u2019s also, and most importantly, it\u2019s about working with the best and the brightest in my mind. And, you know, working with products that have millions of advertisers and billions of users, and generate multi-million dollar revenues. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I\u2019ve learned a ton being on the product side there. But for me, I wrote this post about why I decided to leave what I call the best job in the world. For me there were primarily three reasons to starting the fund and leaving Facebook. The first is my passion for distributed ledger technology. I really believe this technology is truly revolutionary, and is going to disrupt the financial ecosystem and is going to have major impact across entire industries in years to come. Secondly, beyond just my passion for the technology and the impact that I think it\u2019s going to have, I think it\u2019s also it\u2019s a major opportunity. It\u2019s ripe for an investor to get exposure across various verticals, such as financial services, or identity management, or supply chain management. The way we create data and share it with others and so forth. It\u2019s just going to impact so many facets of our lives. And so for me, initially, I kind of thought about starting a company. That\u2019s what I do, build products. But ultimately, I decided to start the fund just because I don\u2019t want to go very deep into one niche and spend the next few years doing that. I want to have broad exposure to blockchain and crypto across various verticals just because I think it\u2019s going to be so transformative. That\u2019s why I decided to become an investor and entrepreneur. And the third reason is really because I think there\u2019s a major opportunity here from an investor\u2019s perspective. If I\u2019m right and blockchain is going to be so transformative, it\u2019s obviously going to generate significant returns for investors who invest wisely. These are kind of the three reason. It was a tough decision for sure, but I am just so passionate about this and I am really convinced that the technology have major impact. Sometimes in life you just gotta go for it.\nYeah, and what are your thought on tokenized assets and where you see some of the stuff going, because to me I think 2019 which this episode will probably air in. I\u2019ve been telling people that it will be the year of the security token or STO. You know, offerings and more tokenization of digital assets and in that kind of direction. Do you have any thoughts there?\nYeah, definitely, I think you\u2019re right, and there\u2019s a huge opportunity with STOs moving forward. The financial ecosystem and the way it works hasn\u2019t changed for decades. Certainly, as an Israeli who went to school in the US and lived there for a few years, and now living in the UK, I\u2019m very familiar and fortunate with the difficulties of wiring money across borders. It takes so long. The fees are so ridiculously high. Sometimes it gets delayed if you wire large amounts of money. The bank calls you. Nobody knows where the money is at some points. There\u2019s so many intermediaries involved. It\u2019s just a mess.\nI\u2019ve been going through it recently, personally. I have a wire that\u2019s been who knows where.\nAnd you don\u2019t know right? As you go through this and the money still hasn\u2019t arrived. There\u2019s several banks involved sometimes, it\u2019s just ridiculous. Actually, the first time I made a transaction using cryptocurrencies, and within a few seconds the money was done. I could see where it is, and I could see it settled. I was blown away, and I just felt like I just got a window into the future, and I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it ever since. I think right now it\u2019s a very early stage, and it\u2019s very, very early days. For me, the comparison is 1994 if we\u2019re talking in internet terms. We\u2019re kind of in the dialup stage right now for blockchain, and the infrastructure just isn\u2019t there yet. Scalability isn\u2019t very good for most projects. For most significant blockchains UI is terrible. My mother wouldn\u2019t know how to use it right now. It\u2019s just too difficult. The design is pretty poor for most of these apps. The fact is the vast majority of people certainly in the western side have never actually bought a crypto or bitcoin. While they may have heard about it, they haven\u2019t actually used it. For me the investment is really about focusing on the infrastructure. In the next 2 years, I think there is a major opportunity to improve the infrastructure side. And then, I can see consumer apps kind of evolving from there, making major impact. Our focus is going to be mostly on infrastructure right now and solving problems across that spectrum and in the next 2 years or so at least. I think STO\u2019s are a big part of that. \u2026 talking about tokenized funds and tokenizing things like real estate. We\u2019re already starting to see things like this happening, and I think it\u2019s super exciting.\nDo you have any thought on what\u2019s happening with the crypto markets? At the time we\u2019re recording this, the markets have been pretty down lately. There\u2019s been a lot of news stories recently about crypto startups that had to lay people off. There\u2019s definitely been some steam taken out of the market. Do you have any thoughts on what we\u2019re seeing with the current market at this moment? How does that affect where your thinking is moving forward?\nYeah, to be honest, I\u2019m not really surprised. If you\u2019ve been in the tech for quite some time \u2026\n(fixing mic dialogue around 9:00)\nSo can you just start your thought process over again, and the question was what are your thoughts on the crypto market and the recent crash?\nMy view is kind of on many of these topics. I\u2019d like to think it\u2019s pretty pragmatic and influenced by my previous experience. When you look at some of these crypto projects that had huge valuations last year with close to zero usage, and in really ambitious projects in some cases. Many of the whitepapers using a ton of buzzwords to describe things like incredible throughput and so forth, but how they actually do that nobody really knows. In my view it\u2019s actually very good what\u2019s happening right now. Of course, people are losing money and that\u2019s never nice. It\u2019s a shame that it\u2019s happening, but at the same time as an industry we have to be focused on the fundamentals. While there\u2019s not necessarily a way to do a BCF or LBO analysis and there\u2019s no cash flow that\u2019s happening right now, it certainly has to make some sense. When you look at some of these projects that have raised tens of millions of dollars with retail investors in some cases investing without really understanding the fundamentals and the underlying technology, that I think is just not healthy, and certainly not sustainable. We\u2019re experiencing it now. For instance, basically the public ICO market being dead now and companies having to go for a more traditional route of meeting with accredited investors and pitching to funds and so forth, and having to go through that whole deal before, in the vast majority of cases, they can offer it to retail investors and hit the exchanges. If you\u2019re a retail investor, and you\u2019re investing in something that has been vetted by professionals by people who are at least supposed to know what you\u2019re doing, that\u2019s a good thing. I\u2019ve heard some horror stories, honestly. I think the people who are in it and really believe in the technology and share the vision for a more open financial system, and beyond that just improving financial system across the board and the way we keep records, they\u2019re going to stay and they\u2019re going to focus on building. Price is almost a distraction at this point. The people who are in it for getting rich quickly, if they\u2019re not in it now is probably a good thing. Crypto shouldn\u2019t be about getting rich quickly. It should be about creating meaning products that solve real world needs, and address real pain points. In some cases, blockchain doesn\u2019t make these products better, in fact it just makes them more costly and difficult to maintain. If that\u2019s the case, it\u2019s probably not a very good product market fit. I think what\u2019s happening right now is really healthy in the longer term. In a way, the 2000s .com bubble bursting for the internet was a good thing. We no longer saw pets.com and these types of companies, but in the years following that we saw companies like Amazon and Google emerging. I think we\u2019re going to see something similar happening in crypto as well.\nWe kind of saw this even with social networking I would argue. You had your Friendster and your Myspace, and your initial social networks. Then you had Facebook, which you worked at, come in and dominate that entire sector. We\u2019ve seen this evolution in the tech industry before going through these phases of this initial burst of energy and opportunity in a market, then it kind of fizzles out, and then the real players who are in it for the long term show up.\nYou mentioned horror stories before. I\u2019ve heard quite a few, especially recently, with the market being down. I heard about one company. I believe they raised about $30 million, and I heard some inside info, they only had about 5000 users. That\u2019s what we\u2019re looking at right now with these crypto projects. How can you raise $30 million dollars, build a product, and not have any money left over to do marketing and build a user base? Now they\u2019re focused on user growth, but it took them a couple of years to get there. I\u2019m seeing that same kind of pattern emerge, and now I\u2019m seeing a new trend where people are trying to get users and trying to figure out what that user interface looks like, what that product actually looks like, so that we can solve those problems for people.\nYeah, totally. You see some things that honestly make no sense. As someone that worked on some pretty big products, I was talking with an entrepreneur the other day and he was telling me how the entire team is decentralized. So he\u2019s sitting in Canada and the lead engineer is in South America and some of the sales team are back in Europe. That\u2019s never going to work. Not never, but it\u2019s going to make it so much more difficult to work. When I was building products, I want my designer sitting next to me, and I want the person doing the research sitting next to me as well. That proximity \u2026 and all these casual conversation that happen, without planning them just make you move so much faster. You get so many insights that you wouldn\u2019t otherwise. You just talk to the designer and go \u201cyou know, I just noticed this and that problem\u201d. If you were sitting across the globe you wouldn\u2019t schedule a meeting just for that. I call this decentralization mania, and a lot of the folks I talk to try to prove how decentralized the teams are. You know what? When I look at governance, I like to see some sort of centralization, having a clear leadership put in place. A much more effective decision making process gives me much more confidence that the team can execute on the vision. The product should be decentralized. There is a lot of benefits for decentralization on the product level, but that doesn\u2019t mean everything should be decentralized. My view in many of these things, rather than reinventing the wheel, we can take some best practices and learn from things that worked. The internet created some really amazing companies, and we should just think how can we make them even better, rather then \u201clet\u2019s break everything apart and start from scratch\u201d and reinvent governance and the way we run companies. I\u2019m not surprise a lot of these companies are struggling. You make a very good point. I\u2019ve seen companies that have raised tens of millions of dollars and have 50 users, not even 5000. It\u2019s just ridiculous. And this information is public. You can go to many websites and track usage. We have to go back to the fundamentals and think how we leverage blockchain technology to solve real problems, and I think there\u2019s a lot of problems to be solved. I think blockchain is an amazing and revolutionary technology, but we have to be smart about this. There\u2019s also a lot of talent now that we see shifting gradually more and more towards the space. Over time, organically, we\u2019ll see higher quality teams and projects being built. Certainly, I already see a lot of exciting things happening, but I would say a vast majority of them are still not going to work in the long term.\nThere\u2019s definitely some business models that people are trying to apply that don\u2019t make sense. I fully agree, there has to be a centralized component to some of these organizations and companies, and a decentralized component. Those two need to work together. I personally call them hybrid systems. I think where people are going to have to take a step back and say \u201cok, I have to build a hybrid solution right now\u201d because that\u2019s where the technology actually is. We are in the early days like you were talking about before, and that\u2019s ok. That\u2019s normal. It\u2019s normal to build a bridge, whether you\u2019re crossing a valley or river, to get there. You shouldn\u2019t expect to build a fully decentralized solution tomorrow and do everything you can do with the centralized solution. The tech\u2019s arguably not there yet. Eventually it can be, but that\u2019s ultimately why you\u2019re starting an investment firm and investing in infrastructure and figure out who those players are going to be. Scalability is still a huge concern.\nOh, yeah. It is huge: scalability, UI. There\u2019s a lot of these issues, but again we should learn from the great businesses that have been built online over the past 15\u201320 years. There\u2019s a lot to be learned there. There\u2019s a lot that we can probably make better.\n(video messed up, Tomer restates his thought)\nSome of these companies become gatekeepers to some of these technologies, and decentralizing that and making it more open and transparent is a good thing. We should strive towards that, but some elements of it we should use best practices for leadership and governance and other examples. We can attribute a lot of value to early-stage first mover advantage and things like that. The companies and token that are up right now almost seems inevitable, but if you look at the internet, who\u2019s the ultravistas. Some people laugh, but I remember using ultravista as a kid. Ultravista was the number 1 search engine. The way that has changed is likely to also happen in the blockchain space. Many of the companies, perhaps even in the top 10 right now in terms of market cap, are not necessarily going to be there 5\u201310 years down the road, which is why it\u2019s such an exciting opportunity for an investor. The next Amazons and Googles of the world are getting built right now and maybe haven\u2019t even started getting built on blockchain technology.\nSo tell us about your fund and where you are at right now? Are you still in the process of raising your fund?\nYeah, we haven\u2019t made an official announcement yet about the launch. I expect that to happen soon. We\u2019re getting a lot of positive feedback, thankfully, and a lot of investor interest as well. Right now, we\u2019re just talking to a lot of investors who are interested in getting involved and are basically setting up the fund. I expect to make an official announcement soon.\nMaybe by the time this episode airs or shortly after. This is the HackerNoon podcast so I have to ask about a time in your life when you had to hack something.\nThat\u2019s a great question. By the way, I\u2019m a big fan of your podcast and I think your doing an amazing job. I think the hacker mentality is a big piece of it. I used to work for a company based on the idea of \u201cone hack away\u201d. I can relate to that in a way, but actually a hack, if you will, like a life \u2026 related to my experience in tech over the years. I find that the more senior and experienced you become, obviously you become more busy. For me, that resulted in recent years, not exercising a lot. I have not been exercising nearly as much as I would have wanted to. Also, I find I can get so deep into things, I feel it\u2019s good sometimes to step back and reflect on things and see the bigger picture. What I\u2019ve been doing recently is just taking long walks, where I take a walk for an hour to an hour and a half, often listening to podcasts. One of my favorite being HackerNoon. That\u2019s just something that\u2019s had a really positive impact on me. I get more exercise and gives me the opportunity to relax, breathe, and reflect on things. That\u2019s kind of like a life hack that\u2019s worked for me recently.\nI think that was one of Steve Jobs hacks as well. He was know for taking people on walks. He kind of did it alone initially, and then started taking people with him. He actually held meetings this way.\nYeah, when I worked in California, a lot of them like to do walking meetings. In London it\u2019s a little more difficult because the weather is unpredictable unfortunately. Steve Jobs is certainly someone I can look up to.\nWell, can you give us a bit of your final thoughts on crypto, and your investment firm, and everything we\u2019ve talked about so far.\nYeah, this is really an exciting time for crypto. People talk about the market being down, and certainly the market has crashed this year. When you take a step back, even with Bitcoin being at the time of this recording around $3500, generally, even last year, Bitcoin was worth $1000 at one point. Today, we\u2019re still talking about an asset class that performs incredibly well over the past few years. I think this is just the beginning as I said earlier. Some of the projects I see right now and some of the opportunities are just limitless. The ability for people to transact with no intermediaries involved, and for the transactions to be recorded in an open way and settled almost immediately, the opportunities for building on top of the technology is just mind blowing. I\u2019m super bullish on the space. I\u2019m really excited about the opportunities. If people want to learn more, they definitely should look more into it. I remember people talking about the internet saying that it will never work, so I\u2019m excited to see what\u2019s next.\nYeah, we know decentralization works, just look at AirBnB and Uber. These are ultimately hybrid systems, where you have a centralized component and a decentralized component. They disrupted hotels and the taxi industry. It\u2019s just a matter of time now before we get those similar disruptions. So where can people find you?\nI\u2019m on twitter, that\u2019s one of the better ways to follow me. Also, they can go to our website, we have a public email that\u2019s being actively monitored at FedermanCapital.com. Plus, I write from time to time on Medium.\nWell, thank you for coming on our show.\nYeah, thanks for having me.\nIntelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 23898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amandarenteria.com/meet-amanda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3OJFADXOYWNVD524KDC5VV3TKCNEGZ7L", "length": 2755, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "amandarenteria.com", "title": "Amanda Renteria - Connecting | Amanda Renteria", "raw_content": "About Amanda Renteria\nChair of Emerge America\nFormer Chief of Operations at California Department of Justice\nNational Political Director in 2016 Presidential Campaign HFA\nChief of Staff in the United States Senate\nGraduate of Harvard and Stanford\nProud daughter of the Central Valley and Mom of two young kids!\nAmanda was recently named the Chair of Emerge America a national organization that has trained more than 4,000 democratic women to run for office. In 2018, 415 Emerge Women won their races across the country.\nAmanda has had a unique and diverse career starting out in the private sector, moving to education as a teacher in her small hometown community, and finally spending the majority of her career in public service.\nShe began her government service at the local level in the City of San Jose and spent close to a decade in the United States Senate. During her Senate tenure, Amanda worked closely on the Affordable Care Act, the Farm Bill, and the Re-organization of the Auto Industry. She was named one of the top 50 most influential staffers and became the first Latina Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. In 2014, she returned to her hometown and was a candidate for US Congress in California\u2019s 21st District, where she was chosen as the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee.\nIn 2016, Amanda served as the National Political Director for Secretary Clinton\u2019s presidential run. Amanda oversaw the campaign\u2019s political strategy with elected officials and key constituency groups. Her team conducted a wide range of outreach and engagement programs at the local, state, and federal levels. Amanda often served as a surrogate and campaign spokesperson on all media platforms, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NPR, Univision and Telemundo and their state and local affiliates. She was featured in several publications including Allure, Buzzfeed, Cosmo, Elle, McClatchy, Politico, and Sports Illustrated.\nAfter the 2016 election, Amanda served as Chief of Operations for the California Department of Justice for Attorney General, Xavier Becerra. Under her direction, she oversaw an annual budget of $850 million and managed a team of 1,000 talented and dedicated public servants.\nAmanda\u2019s experience has given her a unique perspective on all aspects of the political arena from engaging with political institutions at the highest level to understating small town organizing across multiple states. Her experience at the local, state, and federal level has also exposed her to some of the best practices around the country.\nShe is a proud daughter of parents who began as farmworkers in the rural Central Valley of California, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business school, and a mom of two young energetic kids.\nThis is Amanda Renteria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 127.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/william-somerset-maugham/book/of-human-bondage/chapter-lxxvii", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MWJ3ITUN4G6TGQW47IK2ARGJTIWEQYK3", "length": 7599, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "Of Human Bondage - Chapter LXXVII", "raw_content": "After lunching in the basement of the Medical School Philip went back to his rooms. It was Saturday afternoon, and the landlady was cleaning the stairs.\n\"Is Mr. Griffiths in?\" he asked.\n\"No, sir. He went away this morning, soon after you went out.\"\n\"Isn't he coming back?\"\n\"I don't think so, sir. He's taken his luggage.\"\nPhilip wondered what this could mean. He took a book and began to read. It was Burton's Journey to Meccah, which he had just got out of the Westminster Public Library; and he read the first page, but could make no sense of it, for his mind was elsewhere; he was listening all the time for a ring at the bell. He dared not hope that Griffiths had gone away already, without Mildred, to his home in Cumberland. Mildred would be coming presently for the money. He set his teeth and read on; he tried desperately to concentrate his attention; the sentences etched themselves in his brain by the force of his effort, but they were distorted by the agony he was enduring. He wished with all his heart that he had not made the horrible proposition to give them money; but now that he had made it he lacked the strength to go back on it, not on Mildred's account, but on his own. There was a morbid obstinacy in him which forced him to do the thing he had determined. He discovered that the three pages he had read had made no impression on him at all; and he went back and started from the beginning: he found himself reading one sentence over and over again; and now it weaved itself in with his thoughts, horribly, like some formula in a nightmare. One thing he could do was to go out and keep away till midnight; they could not go then; and he saw them calling at the house every hour to ask if he was in. He enjoyed the thought of their disappointment. He repeated that sentence to himself mechanically. But he could not do that. Let them come and take the money, and he would know then to what depths of infamy it was possible for men to descend. He could not read any more now. He simply could not see the words. He leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes, and, numb with misery, waited for Mildred.\nThe landlady came in.\n\"Will you see Mrs. Miller, sir?\"\n\"Show her in.\"\nPhilip pulled himself together to receive her without any sign of what he was feeling. He had an impulse to throw himself on his knees and seize her hands and beg her not to go; but he knew there was no way of moving her; she would tell Griffiths what he had said and how he acted. He was ashamed.\n\"Well, how about the little jaunt?\" he said gaily.\n\"We're going. Harry's outside. I told him you didn't want to see him, so he's kept out of your way. But he wants to know if he can come in just for a minute to say good-bye to you.\"\n\"No, I won't see him,\" said Philip.\nHe could see she did not care if he saw Griffiths or not. Now that she was there he wanted her to go quickly.\n\"Look here, here's the fiver. I'd like you to go now.\"\nShe took it and thanked him. She turned to leave the room.\n\"When are you coming back?\" he asked.\n\"Oh, on Monday. Harry must go home then.\"\nHe knew what he was going to say was humiliating, but he was broken down with jealousy and desire.\n\"Then I shall see you, shan't I?\"\nHe could not help the note of appeal in his voice.\n\"Of course. I'll let you know the moment I'm back.\"\nHe shook hands with her. Through the curtains he watched her jump into a four-wheeler that stood at the door. It rolled away. Then he threw himself on his bed and hid his face in his hands. He felt tears coming to his eyes, and he was angry with himself; he clenched his hands and screwed up his body to prevent them; but he could not; and great painful sobs were forced from him.\nHe got up at last, exhausted and ashamed, and washed his face. He mixed himself a strong whiskey and soda. It made him feel a little better. Then he caught sight of the tickets to Paris, which were on the chimney-piece, and, seizing them, with an impulse of rage he flung them in the fire. He knew he could have got the money back on them, but it relieved him to destroy them. Then he went out in search of someone to be with. The club was empty. He felt he would go mad unless he found someone to talk to; but Lawson was abroad; he went on to Hayward's rooms: the maid who opened the door told him that he had gone down to Brighton for the week-end. Then Philip went to a gallery and found it was just closing. He did not know what to do. He was distracted. And he thought of Griffiths and Mildred going to Oxford, sitting opposite one another in the train, happy. He went back to his rooms, but they filled him with horror, he had been so wretched in them; he tried once more to read Burton's book, but, as he read, he told himself again and again what a fool he had been; it was he who had made the suggestion that they should go away, he had offered the money, he had forced it upon them; he might have known what would happen when he introduced Griffiths to Mildred; his own vehement passion was enough to arouse the other's desire. By this time they had reached Oxford. They would put up in one of the lodging-houses in John Street; Philip had never been to Oxford, but Griffiths had talked to him about it so much that he knew exactly where they would go; and they would dine at the Clarendon: Griffiths had been in the habit of dining there when he went on the spree. Philip got himself something to eat in a restaurant near Charing Cross; he had made up his mind to go to a play, and afterwards he fought his way into the pit of a theatre at which one of Oscar Wilde's pieces was being performed. He wondered if Mildred and Griffiths would go to a play that evening: they must kill the evening somehow; they were too stupid, both of them to content themselves with conversation: he got a fierce delight in reminding himself of the vulgarity of their minds which suited them so exactly to one another. He watched the play with an abstracted mind, trying to give himself gaiety by drinking whiskey in each interval; he was unused to alcohol, and it affected him quickly, but his drunkenness was savage and morose. When the play was over he had another drink. He could not go to bed, he knew he would not sleep, and he dreaded the pictures which his vivid imagination would place before him. He tried not to think of them. He knew he had drunk too much. Now he was seized with a desire to do horrible, sordid things; he wanted to roll himself in gutters; his whole being yearned for beastliness; he wanted to grovel.\nHe walked up Piccadilly, dragging his club-foot, sombrely drunk, with rage and misery clawing at his heart. He was stopped by a painted harlot, who put her hand on his arm; he pushed her violently away with brutal words. He walked on a few steps and then stopped. She would do as well as another. He was sorry he had spoken so roughly to her. He went up to her.\n\"Go to hell,\" she said.\n\"I merely wanted to ask if you'd do me the honour of supping with me tonight.\"\nShe looked at him with amazement, and hesitated for a while. She saw he was drunk.\nHe was amused that she should use a phrase he had heard so often on Mildred's lips. He took her to one of the restaurants he had been in the habit of going to with Mildred. He noticed as they walked along that she looked down at his limb.\n\"I've got a club-foot,\" he said. \"Have you any objection?\"\n\"You are a cure,\" she laughed.\nWhen he got home his bones were aching, and in his head there was a hammering that made him nearly scream. He took another whiskey and soda to steady himself, and going to bed sank into a dreamless sleep till mid-day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 10876, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amiesbookreviews.wordpress.com/category/author/jonathan-r-miller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AG6CZLQ57ZQYMM5ZOSMTSQ7W55SE7QOZ", "length": 5062, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "amiesbookreviews.wordpress.com", "title": "Jonathan R Miller. | Amie's Book Reviews", "raw_content": "4 Stars for Jonathan R. Miller\u2019s impeccably timed Release of GRAVITY BREAKER\nTitle: GRAVITY BREAKER\nAuthor: JONATHAN R. MILLER\nType of Book: Softcover \u2013 ARC\nGenre: Science Fiction, Superhero\nASIN: B01HSGVK8O\nPrice: $3.99 For the Ebook\nFrom his dead-end job to his one-bedroom apartment, life so far has been a steady grind, one challenge after another. But that\u2019s about to change. During a routine encounter with a police officer in Oakland, Isaac makes a life-changing realization: He can use gravity to do almost anything. To build or destroy. To lift up or hold in place. To bend, straighten, or break apart.\nIsaac is suddenly in command of a power beyond his wildest imagination, the power to reshape the world around him, something that\u2014as a biracial black man from hurricane-ravaged Mississippi\u2014he has struggled to do his entire life. Filled with newfound hope, Isaac immerses himself in the experimentation process: testing his limits, broadening his skill set, and refining his control, all in secret.\nBut Isaac, a single father of an eleven-year-old daughter, is forced to reveal the extent of his abilities when his daughter is attacked. This sets in motion a series of events that strips him of everything he\u2019s worked so hard for: his child, his job, and his home. Pursued relentlessly by the authorities, Isaac is forced to use his abilities in increasingly dramatic and dangerous ways to avoid capture and reunite with his daughter, ultimately learning that the power he wields\u2014though enviable\u2014comes at a deeply unenviable price.\nGravity Breaker challenges us to rethink what it means to be powerful in society. Isaac\u2019s story is both individual and universal, as it unblinkingly confronts issues such as parenthood, poverty, unearned privilege, and the often strained relationship between the police and communities of color.\nAt its core, GRAVITY BREAKER is a Science Fiction / Superhero-type story, but this tale also tackles some very real and relevant social issues.\nAuthor Jonathan R. Miller has crafted a superbly entertaining tale of an ordinary man who develops extraordinary powers.\nIt makes the reader ponder what they would do if they could suddenly control gravity. Would you use the powers for good? Or would the temptation of easy money overwhelm you?\nBesides being an engrossing Superhero story, Gravity Breaker is also a commentary on what men of color sometimes have to contend with just because of the color of their skin.\nThe best word to describe GRAVITY BREAKER is \u201ctimely.\u201d\nWith the recent racial tension in the United States, it is impossible to turn on the television or radio or to open a newspaper without hearing about #BlackLivesMatter as well as the recent police shootings.\nThe main character in this book is Isaac. He is a single father who is doing his best to provide for his daughter. He works hard every day and stays on the right side of the law. Despite this, he is harassed by the police while working and when he explains to the officer why he is pushing a cart full of laundry bags, the officer does not believe him and wants to place him under arrest.\nWhere I live, this would never happen. If it did, the entire community (white and colored) would be up in arms. However, I am well aware that things like this happen on a daily basis in many urban centers across North America and it needs to stop.\nI commend Jonathan R. Miller for using his writing talent to not only entertain his readers but also to inform them of the injustices that occur in our society.\nI do want to ensure potential readers that this book is not just about race issues. Yes, that is part of the story, but it is by no means the only topic\nThere is a sequel planned for this book. It is set to be released in 2017 and will be titled: TALAH. (TALAH is the name of Isaac\u2019s daughter.) I will be eagerly awaiting it\u2019s release. I am very interested in reading about what happens next.\nI rate this book as 4 out of 5 stars. \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\nI also feel the need to mention that I first became aware of Jonathan R. Miller when I read his novel FREND which was one of my favorite books of 2015. Check out my review of FREND here.\n* I received a free ARC copy of this book through the Goodreads Giveaway program.\nJONATHAN R. MILLER lives in the Bay area of California with his wife and daughter.\nJonathan R. Miller is a biracial author of genre-bending literary thrillers with diverse, non-traditional characters exploring issues of identity and belonging.\nMiller, was born in Illinois and lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico for most of his childhood, and then became a California transplant after undergraduate school at Stanford University. He was an 8th-grade teacher for 7 years in the Oakland public school system, and has worked as a writer in the Bay Area ever since.\nMiller\u2019s own biracial heritage \u2014 black and white, but \u201cpassing\u201d as white \u2014 has had a strong influence on his thought processes and writing style. His novels deftly explore issues of identity while providing storylines that are layered, cerebral, gritty, thought-provoking, and moving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2147, "original_length": 40635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amrank.info/2019/02/11/are-we-really-on-the-brink-of-electing-a-socialist-president/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LWVU6XHDEEG2Q73RMK7LVVJJNANQOV4I", "length": 5176, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "amrank.info", "title": "Are we really on the brink of electing a socialist president? \u22c6 Amrank Real Estate Your SEO optimized title", "raw_content": "Are we really on the brink of electing a socialist president?\nHas the socialist moment finally arrived in the United States? Increasingly, the Democratic party seems to think so. Capitalism has had a nice run for the past couple hundred years, but now it is time to let the technocrats take control of . . . pretty much everything \u2014 from health care to education to energy to banking.\nThis kind of view has long had a space in the Democratic party \u2014 recall Huey Long\u2019s slogan, \u201cEvery man a king\u201d \u2014 but it seems to be going mainstream. The wacky ideas of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not limited to the lefty fringe of the House backbench but instead are being endorsed by major presidential candidates. And why not? Winning the Democratic nomination is going to require somebody to forge a coalition between minority voters and upscale white progressives, and the latter can\u2019t get enough of AOC\u2019s statist utopia.\nBut does this make for good politics? National Journal\u2019s Josh Kraushaar \u2014 one of my favorite political analysts \u2014 is dubious. In a typically sober analysis, he argues:\nWhat\u2019s so remarkable about this rapid leftward shift is that it\u2019s working against the party\u2019s best interests \u2014 both for the individual candidates and their chances of defeating Trump next year. So many candidates are trying to fill the most progressive lane of the party that they\u2019re splitting that share of the vote evenly. At the same time, there\u2019s plenty of evidence that many rank-and-file Democrats are looking for a pragmatist who can actually win the presidency.\nFar be it from me to doubt somebody with as solid a track record as Kraushaar\u2019s. And I certainly hope he is correct. But as Allahpundit likes to say, \u201cDude, I\u2019m worried.\u201d\nMy anxiety is bottomed on the simple fact that Donald Trump\u2019s job-approval rating is in the toilet right now, where it has been since virtually the day he was inaugurated. The RealClearPoliticsaverage has him at just 42 percent and has never once tracked him above 50 percent. And this is despite the fact that we have peace and prosperity today.\nI am worried that voters are willing to elect a would-be socialist over a president they have never actually liked. More important: I am worried that they won\u2019t even recognize that this is what they are doing. That is how little confidence I have in the discernment of American voters \u2014 they won\u2019t connect the dots and realize that the Democrats are calling for a government takeover of pretty much everything. I am worried that the people have ceded to the ideological fringes of both parties the power to select the two-party nominees, and then choose between them based on their view of the incumbent administration \u2014 whether that means electing a celebrity television star like Trump or a socialist like Bernie.\nI think back to the 1932 Democratic nomination, when Franklin Roosevelt squared off against Al Smith. FDR represented a notable break from past practice, while Smith would have governed more in the mold of Grover Cleveland. But I do not think either would really have mattered for the outcome in 1932 \u2014 either of them could have won. Perhaps the only thing that might have gotten in Smith\u2019s way was his Catholicism. But ideology did not matter.\nDitto 2008. Barack Obama was virtually a blank slate, but what little we knew about him suggested he was going to mark a dramatic shift to the left. He ran against John McCain, who had carved out for himself a more moderate role. Did Obama\u2019s liberalism matter? Not really.\nOr how about 1980? Ronald Reagan was a break from recent Republican nominees, while George H. W. Bush was not. In the end, ideology did not make that much of a difference.\nThere are contrary examples, to be sure. It is quite likely that both Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George McGovern in 1972 won fewer votes than they otherwise would have because they were so far outside the mainstream.\nAnd to be clear, I\u2019m not explicitly disagreeing with Kraushaar. I\u2019m just worried that Trump\u2019s unpopularity could ultimately bring a socialist into the White House.\nThis president needs to get his act together and start behaving like a president is supposed to. Of course, he probably will not do that, which means he is going to limp into 2020 with anemic approval ratings. And then we might finally discover whether America is actually on the brink of a socialist moment, one spurred on by an ideological fringe and accepted by a disengaged, ill-informed public.\nConservatives need to brace themselves and begin preparing to work hard to retain the Republican majority in the Senate \u2014 for that might be the only thing that ultimately stops the socialist tide.\nMarquise takes a convenient west-side location\nTips To Choosing The Appropriate Mortgage Loan Broker\nOntario to cap minimum wage at $14 an hour as part of labour reforms rollback\nFedEx plans buyouts after weak international 2Q shipping\nHere\u2019s what Canadian homeowners should know about the housing market in\u2026\nDon\u2019t Lose Money\u200a\u2014\u200aClass 1 \u2013 Robert Jones \u2013 Medium\nNewsom\u2019s California business holdings could pose ethics bind\nHungary and Poland\u2019s multispeed Europe\n143 Million People Potentially Affected in Equifax Data Breach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 8937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://angelhap.com/2016/07/04/happy-firecracker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HINBUTTF4OFCWSN2S4Z3GZJ4NTM4SB5E", "length": 176, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "angelhap.com", "title": "Happy Firecracker \u2013 Angel Hap", "raw_content": "I LOVE fireworks. I LOVE the 4th of July.\nFriends visit and we swim and eat outside by our pool.\nIt is a beautiful Life. I am a free American dog who is loved by a free spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 2164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/international-outreach/2011/02/23/dr-crandall-in-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVQPB5FCAH3LEILHLOLSRHYDG37IB3BB", "length": 1017, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "answersingenesis.org", "title": "Dr. Crandall in London | Answers in Genesis", "raw_content": "Dr. Crandall in London\nAn article as told by Grace2London\nwww.grace2london.org.uk\nDr. David Crandall, AIG\u2013U.S., and Paul Taylor, AIG\u2013UK, met with the Grace2London committee in January. It was a very helpful meeting during which Dr. Crandall shared their experiences of working at other Olympic Games. They hope to be bringing a team of 200 to London in 2012 and want to work alongside us in whatever ways are beneficial. Much of the work will be in personal contact and they are producing relevant literature, in conjunction with us, in 14 different languages. All the costs together with accommodation will be covered by the team members. They do, however, need the help of a doctor and solicitor should there be any medical or legal problems to deal with during their stay. If anyone can help with this please let us know. It is also anticipated that Ken Ham will be speaking at meetings in London during the time of the Olympics.\nPrevious Article All-Asian Creation Conference Next Article Internationally Trained!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://app.viefrancigene.org/en/resource/statictrack/vff30-da-precy-saint-martin-dienville/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5UM2OC7IYEVLY764BQEZO3LEYRKNOVI7", "length": 834, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "app.viefrancigene.org", "title": "Vff30 - From Pr\u00e9cy-Saint-Martin To Dienville \u2013 App Vie Francigene", "raw_content": "The Via Francigena meets in Brienne Castle the story of a famous character: Napoleon Bonaparte.\nIndeed, Brienne welcomed from 1779 to 1784 the young Bonaparte in his royal military school, now a museum dedicated to Napoleon I and to the Campaign of France. During the Campaign of 1814, the city became the junction point of the two coalition armies of Silesia and Bohemia that marched towards Paris. On January 29th, during heavy fighting, the French troops regained possession of the devastated city and almost failed to catch Bl\u00fccher then living in the castle. From the city, we have an overlook on the residence of Lom\u00e9nie de Brienne, a castle built in the eighteenth century ; it isn't open to the public.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=/en/resource/statictrack/vff30-da-precy-saint-martin-dienville/&src=sdkpreparse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appliedradiationoncology.com/articles/researchers-develop-the-most-accurate-risk-prediction-model-to-date-for-breast-cancer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3Z5U2O32CIJ4YXDNMCNFPEWSVCIZX4HZ", "length": 3342, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "appliedradiationoncology.com", "title": "Researchers develop the most accurate risk-prediction model to date for breast cancer", "raw_content": "A simple saliva test could help to gauge, with unprecedented accuracy, a woman's risk of developing breast cancer during her lifetime, according to an international study published Jan. 15 involving researchers from Universit\u00e9 Laval and the CHU de Qu\u00e9bec-Universit\u00e9 Laval Research Center.\nBy combining a person's genetic profile obtained through a saliva sample with a statistical model that takes into account family history, hormonal factors and lifestyle habits, the researchers were able to estimate each woman's overall risk for breast cancer, paving the way for personalized screening protocols for the disease.\n\"Many hundreds of researchers around the world pooled the DNA samples they had collected through their respective projects and conducted genomic analyses on 94,000 women who had had breast cancer and another 75,000 women who were part of a control group,\" explains one of the study's leaders, Jacques Simard, Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics at Universit\u00e9 Laval and researcher at the Genomics Center of the CHU de Qu\u00e9bec-Universit\u00e9 Laval Research Center. Through sophisticated statistical analyses, we developed a breast cancer risk score that includes 313 genetic variants and then validated it on nearly 220,000 women.\"\nBreast cancer screening in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada is primarily conducted using mammography and generally targets women aged 50 to 69. Despite this prevention-based approach, however, many women at high risk for the disease slip through the cracks. The model developed by Professor Simard and his colleagues will contribute to a more personalized approach to breast cancer screening based on individual risk. \"Using our model, it will be possible to predict each woman's individual risk and offer her a personalized screening protocol, regardless of her age,\" said the researcher. \"All we will need is a single saliva sample collected from a woman when she reaches her early forties.\"\nHow long before the model can be adopted by the health care system?\nA team spearheaded by Jacques Simard is currently working on a pre-implementation project for this model among 10,000 women in Qu\u00e9bec and Ontario. \"Our goal is to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and efficiency of risk-based screening. We also want to study the organizational challenges involved in integrating personalized screening into our health care system, as well as the costs and anticipated benefits,\" said the researcher.\nThis pre-implementation initiative received $15.2 million in funding from G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec, Genome Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, the Ontario Research Fund and other partners. For more information on the researchers involved in this international multidisciplinary project, visit the G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec website.\nDetails of the breakthrough were published recently in Genetics in Medicine recently in The American Journal of Human Genetics.\nASTRO '18: Long-term side effects similarly low for once-weekly and conventional breast radiation therapies, trial finds\nIn a 10-year study of women who received radiation...\nASTRO '18: RT halves low risk of recurrence for patients with \u201cgood risk\u201d breast cancer\nA subset of patients with low-risk breast cancer is...\nResearchers develop the most accurate risk-prediction model to date for breast cancer. Appl Rad Oncol.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aquaticpark.com/getting-there/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BOACBCRZEW62HZZS3U6PEPAPXB2G64PL", "length": 1074, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "aquaticpark.com", "title": "Getting there\u2026 \u2013 Aquatic Park Sailing Club", "raw_content": "The Aquatic Park Sailing Club is located on the Leslie Spit officially called Tommy Thompson Park. The park entrance is located at the base (or foot) of Leslie Street where it meets Unwin Avenue, south of Lake Shore Boulevard East. There is a free public parking lot in operation on the weekends.\nAs we are located in a park, there are some unique access issues.\nSail, motor, swim or paddle up to our docks. We are located at 43.630672, -79.330130, that\u2019s just across from the Eastern Gap or Cherry Beach, if you are heading into Outer Harbour Marina, you\u2019ve passed us.\nWeekdays: Club members have drive-in access access to the club from the main Park\u2019s main gate.\nWeekends and Holidays: We run our own shuttle from the gates of the Park from 9 to 6. After 6pm, members may drive in.\nThe shuttle does a trip to and from the gate every hour on the hour, if there are too many people a second or third run may be necessary. The cart has a top speed of 14kmh with 6 people and the run is about 10 minutes each way with a waiting period at the gate.\nDepart APSC\nDepart Main Gate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/ee411279-924a-3b08-bc2e-4bf71a96026f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UBREOAY4NL56AFJWEHSFTNAZ44BN7SLJ", "length": 1069, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk", "title": "Louisa Marian Williams Papers - Archives Hub", "raw_content": "Louisa Marian Williams Papers\nBookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb222-bmsslmw\nGB 222 BMSS LMW\nLouisa Marian Williams\nBundles of letters addressed to Louisa Marian Williams, her sisters and brother, and written by members of their family and friends. Amongst the correspondents are former pupils of Louisa Marian Williams, now living in New Zealand and Australia, acquaintances living in the United States as well as a Czechoslovakian friend.\nLouisa Marian Williams was the daughter of Mr and Mrs A.J. Williams, of the Bee Hive, Llangefni, Anglesey and later of Y Wenllys, Caernarfon. She and her family were prominent members of Moriah C.M. Chapel in the town of Caernarfon, her father being one of the deacons. She had six brothers and sisters; amongst them, W. Lewis, A. Gwen, Olwen C., E. Nesta and Catherine Enid.\nLouisa Marian Williams appears to have lived in Sheffield for a period, possibly as a teacher, before returning to her home town and living at Llys Menai, Sidney Road, Caernarfon.\nWilliams family Y Wenllys, Caernarfon\nWilliams Louisa Marian", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/01/2555/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MDNH6XDFG5TS3NQUXFZE6TM4WPO2BWNB", "length": 1717, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "arstechnica.com", "title": "Only 1 million PS3s estimated available at launch | Ars Technica", "raw_content": "Only 1 million PS3s estimated available at launch\nGot burned by the 360 launch? Better get your preorders in early for the PS3, \u2026\nGaming is big business, so it shouldn't be too surprising when financial analysts weigh in on the PS3's console launch. One Evan Wilson from Pacific Crest Securities has estimated that \"the most likely scenario\" for Sony's next-gen console will be a scant 1 million available for a November release. Now that's a prediction of \"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin\" we didn't want to hear.\nThe death of official information from Sony has forced Wall Street analysts to once again put on their prognostication hats. The latest industry-expert augury comes from Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson, who believes the PlayStation 3 won't launch until November, versus the \"spring 2006\" window announced at E3 2005. Speaking to the Investor's Business Daily, Wilson also said the \"the most likely scenario\" is for Sony to ship around 1 million PS3s in North America by the end of the year. That's nearly three times as many Xbox 360s Microsoft sent to US and Canadian stores in 2005.\nSure, that number would be more than what was available at the 360's launch, but if you got burned that time, better make sure you get that preorder in. But I personally wonder, what with the head start the 360 has built up, if Sony will actually sell out at launch? 1 million is still a big number, but if Sony can't bring the MSRP down they'll price themselves right out of the market. Of course, if Gran Turismo 5, currently rumored to be one of the games at launch, is confirmed, we might have to pick ours up at midnight. Until then, Jonathan will have to content himself with the long-overdue PSP port of GT4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artoflisteningprayer.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:37Z", "digest": "sha1:NHKOVBARQHVSSWYRK4A4JYFJKJZMGREA", "length": 915, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "artoflisteningprayer.com", "title": "The Art of Listening Prayer", "raw_content": "The Art of Listening Prayer by Seth Barnes\nWhat if you could hear from God directly, just as you would from a close friend?\nAre you satisfied with a seemingly one-way conversation with God? Do you ever wonder if he really wants to hear from you? The Art of Listening Prayer is about what it really means to have a personal relationship with God. If God loves his people, maybe it means that he wants to speak one-on-one with us, and if that\u2019s true, shouldn\u2019t our first priority be to learn how to hear from him?\nExplore what it means to experience prayer that really is two-way. Using the Bible as a foundation, you can go way beyond theory and grow in this practice of listening prayer. God wants to speak to you, and at the end of this thirty-day devotional, you will not only learn how to draw closer to him, you\u2019ll be equipped with a practical process to hear from him on a daily basis.\nOr purchase from Amazon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artscolumbia.org/applied-arts/architecture/literature-review-on-it-architecture-5755/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DUZBIKVYNRIMKZI2VDNGB2X7VM5RW3TN", "length": 23021, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "artscolumbia.org", "title": "Literature Review on IT architecture Essay Example For Students | Artscolumbia", "raw_content": "Home Page Applied Arts Essays Architecture Essays Literature Review on IT architecture Essay\nLiterature Review on IT architecture Essay\nLiterature Review Abstract The research is all about the use of information system in the organizations. There are many tools which are helpful in managing the whole organization. The business environment is getting highly competitive and many organizations are making strategies to grab the market share. A company was selected in order to understand the scenario. A conceptual frames work was developed in the mind to present the problem. The IBM organization was selected to conduct the research. Literature review presents the important theories and concepts along with the importance of he information system in organization.\nWe will write a custom essay sample on Literature Review on IT architecture Essay specifically for you\nThe introduction of the research was done by analyzing the problem which organization face because of the information. Literature suggested many systems which can improve the processes of the organizations. There are many other systems which can increase the performance infrastructure of service quality. The literature was extracted from different articles which improved the report. The report has many suggestions for the organizations. The study of this report can give solution to many problems which the company faced in the current scenario.\nThe comparison was done in the later part of the report and the scenario and literature was matched in order to find loopholes in the system and to provide solution to incapability. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Literature Analysis 4 Current practice section 7 Comparison of Literature and current practice 10 Conclusion 11 References Literature 12 References Current Practice 12 Introduction Enterprise architecture is the process in which operation and structure of an organization is defined. The intention in the process is to achieve future and current objectives.\nOne of the most agreed upon viewpoint is where business perspective, applications perspective, information perspective and technology perspective is part of the future objectives a company is likely to foresee. The use of enterprise architecture includes properly documented processes, systems, infrastructure and applications. This assignment briefly discusses various theories of enterprise architecture particularly at the strategic level and thus explains the theory with a practical example which further glorifies the literature review.\nLiterature Analysis The evolution of the enterprise information system and management is the core responsibility of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the company. The CIO information processing and decision making is aided by the technique or process known as Enterprise Architecture. A model based planning and management approach to evaluate management wise information system is called enterprise architecture. The complexity of business supporting system and its significance has been addressed in this enterprise architectural approach.\nThe planning and problem information system is under the responsibility of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Thus, it can be rightly stated that enterprise architecture is the best way to aid decision making of CIO (Stated et al. AAA). According to Eriksson and Pinker (2000), the importance of a good modeling framework should be emphasizes in the organization but the reason of choosing one model over the other is ambiguous. As a basic question, the model should be able to answer the questions pertaining to the reasons it is designed for.\nThe enterprise architecture is successful in answering the question. The dilemma is to explore the probable questions the model is able to answer. In the enterprise architecture model it is possible to come across the questions of why and how of using the framework or model. In order to mitigate the risk involved, organizations can simply produce more than one model to select the most adequate one. Analysis of the enterprise architectures The decision making as followed by CIO can help in studying the architectural analysis model.\nThe first step is to formulate scenario, the need to recognize the options available to the CIO is the foremost step in order to foresee the information system of an organization. The possible future states of the company can be conjured by performing this step. The next step is to determine the criteria to decide upon; in this step criteria allow CIO to set a benchmark to evaluate different models. One of the important questions needed in setting the criteria are to find out business support, IT security and availability. In this paper, architectural theory or criteria is used to evaluate the model.\nAfter setting the criteria the next step is to analyze scenario, in which case one of the criteria is selected to evaluate both models and then so on and so forth. Stated et al. (AAA) explain that next, the firm undertakes the selection of the scenario where process selection of the model takes place on the Asia of the chosen criteria and the support offer to the decision making of CIO. Stated et al. (AAA) further elaborates stating that the birth of the enterprise architecture took place twenty years ago and designed to address two problems poor business alignment and system complexity.\nIn poor business alignment the problem of IT system to align it with the cost is addressed. Kanji, H. And Burns, P. (2011) add that in system complexity entails the need to develop IT systems. The basic idea is to serve the organization with less cost involved but providing more value and utility. However, according to the theory of Stated et al. (AAA), the complexity and cost of these IT systems implemented in the organization have dramatically emphasized by now globally whereas the real value derived from the systems have decreased. Kanji, H. And Burns, P. 2011) stresses that the giant organizations fail to ignore such problems therefore the field of enterprise architecture is powerfully prophetic in the world today. Some methodologies of enterprise architecture are widely used in the world today however the large field makes use of mainly four methodologies. According to Kanji and Burns (201 1), the taxonomy is given another name to the work of Coachman and is termed as the first methodology of the Enterprise architecture (EAI). Another methodology known as the Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGA) is more precisely or accurately defined as the process.\nREAD: The following piece of literature Essay\nThe Federal Enterprise Architecture is defined as a method of creating enterprise architecture and thus also known as proscriptive methodology. The practice of architectural enterprise is known as the Gardner methodology. As articulated by Coachman (1982), the Canaan framework for enterprise is recognized s a framework which is contrary to the definition of the framework. The framework is defined as something that serves as a skeleton structure for construction. The second name given to the approach of Coachman is taxonomy and by definition it is a classification in ordered systems of organisms to give a natural relationship.\nThe Coachman framework is in simple ways taxonomy and organizing of architectural artifacts for instance models, documents and specifications. According to Coachman (1982), the enterprise manufacturing and engineering is around for more than thousand years and will remain for longer. However Kanji and Burns (2011) stress that the understanding of the process is changed with respect to time. The Canaan is the most frequently used technique in large firms due to ease of application and best responses. It is also desirable to cater for necessary complexities of the system design while Enterprise Architecture.\nKanji and Burns (2011) also support the Open Group Architecture Framework (GOFF) which is which primarily used within four categories namely business architecture, application architecture, data architecture and technical architecture. The business recess to meet the desired goals is described in the business architecture. The designing of the application and their probable interaction is studied under application architecture. The access and organizing of the data store is termed under data architecture.\nFinally technical structure talks about the hardware and software to cater for application and access (Stated et al. , 2004). Kanji and Burns (2011) also explain the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEE) which is done to amalgamate ubiquitous and functions under enterprise architecture. But Moms (2007) contends stating that this new methodology apparently s in the infancy stage so no noticeable work can be seen in the organization and there is not much talk about its failure. The last methodology employed in the Enterprise architecture (EAI) is Gardner.\nIt is the practice rather than a process of an IT and research consulting organization Gardner. Literature Analysis summary The Enterprise Architecture is more of a theory than any thing practical. Above some methodologies are stated that shows different approaches to the EAI and can be studied when considering different perspective. It can also vary with respect to the difference in opinion or difference in practice. These four approaches may be used by Giant Corporations to address different engineering, business and manufacturing issues.\nThe large corporations are entitled to use complex systems which necessitate such EAI methodologies. Current practice section The implementation of the architectural enterprise is not resulted from designing the software or relating it with different business units. The organization itself along with processes affected must be changed sometimes in order to show flexibility and competency in the business functions. IBM has used EAI model in the multi-brand enterprise and multi divisional enterprise. The purpose of this model is to enhance the debate and sharing among the top executives within organization.\nIt is also designed to reach at a common goal by ignoring most of the differences and reaching to the potential outcome. The global system practices are avoided by the corporations if the intended outcome is local profit and loss only. In multi-local enterprises where P&L are regarded as the parameters to measure performance and that other performance measure are nonexistent. In this way two avenues left open for such kind of EAI. The first that change in the incentive system is needed to address the issue. In this way enterprise sharing of resource or enterprise integration can be enhanced which was much needed at MOM.\nThe EAI system as employed in the IBM is based on four consenting I. E. Shared identity and purpose, common bonds of performance, shared knowledge and shared infrastructure. These elements when used together can help in integrating the organization with its functions (Gravesend, 2012). Figure 1 . Four factors necessary for integrating the organization Source: Adapted from Shoal S. And Grafton L. \u201cIntegrating the Enterprise. \u201d MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2002, and Well P. , Suburban\u2019s M. , and Broadband M. IT Infrastructure for Strategic Agility. MIT Center for Information Systems Research Working Paper No. 329, April 2002 The CIO organization or IBM business transmission integrates all the business units across geographies and transform strategic business priorities into initiatives of transformation. The company is entitled for maintaining IT Landscape as per the strategic roadman provided. According to Gravesend (2012), any organization does require strategic planning. It provides them the leverage to enhance their capabilities and gives them a direction. There are many aspects of planning which collectively make a strategic plan.\nREAD: Japanese Temple Architecture Essay\nStrategic planning helps keep focus on the area that is most responsible for boosting the profit levels and overall performance of organization. Since it leads organization to be focused it automatically makes organization polish its skills that are more required in running the business in an efficient and effective way. Innovation and new offerings are always very important for any company to increase its sales. Variety in new products is the obvious way but the manager must work on the execution of the issuance of new product because most of the times poorly executed new offering perform poorly ND they end up in big losses.\nThe basic need to implement EAI in the organization focused on the provision of the information and successful strategies in order to feed in the data before hand. This information should be sufficient enough for both stakeholders I. E. Team designing the software as well the top managers making use of the information stored. In order to address loop holes in the system, a best- practice approach must be used in the system. The imposed system should be open to any kind of re purposing and time should be saved by doing re purposing instead of re-inventing.\nSecondly, it is desirable that system provides future state of the IT landscape along with existing risk and cost analysis. One way of getting growth is to take full advantage of learning curve and utilizing economies of scale. Learning curve makes you more efficient in your production process. It tells you how to fully utilize your resources. Economies of scales help in reduction of average cost because of factors like managerial specialization and buying power. Strategic implementation is an ongoing process of an organization\u2019s plans which they made in order to survive and to earn profit for a longer period of time.\nIt consists of series of action plans which are integrated to each other. Strategic implementation of the plans which were proposed for the extension and growth are very vital. The long term strategy can help them create a loyal customer and to get more profitable branches which can earn profit for at least five years. The implementation of EAI is found successful in the organization and supports the business functions across geographies. The Enterprise architecture used in the IBM is supported by Coachman methodology. His model is based on the integration of the organization which is clearly addressed in this section (lbs., 2013).\nComparison of Literature and current practice Literature has enlightened many aspects of the information which can help any organization to prosper. The problem which they are facing is that they do not use any information system which integrates the employees. They are lacking in the internal information. According to literature there are many tools which will help the organization to increase their productivity. Software like management information system, decision support system and others can help to improve the information flow within the organization.\nThe current situation is that they are losing customers because of the service delivery time. Information system will align all the departments and will provide the information about the customer which will increase the overall flow of information. Literature suggests that internal and external flow of information is very important for all the organization. Stakeholders must be contacted in decision making process. Decision support system integrates all the stakeholders and provides the best possible solution to any business scenario.\nInternal information with the organization must be improved and transaction recessing system will be helpful to record all the business transactions. It was found in literature that information and feedback from employees and customer is very important and many organizations lose their customers because of this issue. Conclusion The report provides many aspects and after analyzing the literature and the other aspect it was found that companies must include information system in their system. It was found that communication with stakeholders is very important for any organization.\nThey are the pillar of organization and help to build the reputation of NY organization. Organizations must contact different stakeholders and must take their views about the problems they are facing. The other dimensions which were found that management information system, decision support system and other systems are enhancing the capabilities of the organization. In service industry, the most important part is service delivery and these information systems are contributing to increase the performance. 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There are many tools which are helpful in managing the whole organization. The business environment is getting highly competitive and many organizations are making strategies to grab the market share. A company was selected in order to understand the scenario. A conceptual frames work was developed in the mind to present the problem. The IBM organization was selected to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 27829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artycappuccino.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/i-love-my-independentsorrytesco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:E6PWWTDDGUKYVIFHYWZKJ63NRNTBPQP3", "length": 3533, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "artycappuccino.wordpress.com", "title": "I Love My Independent, Sorry, Tesco | artycappuccino", "raw_content": "\u2190 Ever Fancy Apple Over a Coffee?\nCamera At The Cafe \u2192\nI Love My Independent, Sorry, Tesco\nQuote: \u201cSupport your local independent.\u201d\nLove independents and hate the \u201chigh-street killers\u201d such as Tesco? It\u2019s common nowadays to see posters in your village or town telling you to \u201cbuy local\u201d or \u201csupport your community\u201d. So how do you feel about your \u201cindependent\u201d coffee shop being funded by Tesco?\nWell, I experienced one such place: Harris & Hoole in Twickenham. Set up and run by three siblings, \u201cTheir vision is to bring great tasting speciality coffee to the high street.\u201d http://www.harrisandhoole.co.uk. With coffee shops from Brighton to London they have been brewing their way around the country; spreading their coffee passion to the nation. This charmingly quirky independent offers style and substance. Unfortunately, with this comes a bigger price tag. Luckily it\u2019s only a little more expensive than the average, but the quality is good and consistent. How does it sit with you knowing that when you pay a little extra you are actually lining the pockets of Tesco, since they now have a non-controlling investment in H+H? I\u2019m in two minds.\nWith the awareness of the emotional reaction Tesco creates it must have been a relatively tricky decision to make. But one, I expect, that most of us would have taken. Come on, your dream is realised, one of the biggest players think you are great and offer an investment. It\u2019s what you\u2019ve been waiting for: someone to finally recognize your genius. You could say no and keep struggling. It makes no difference to Tesco; but you could say yes, stay strong and true to yourself and get your coffee message out there.\nSo far that\u2019s what H + H seem to be doing. They have \u201c13 outlets including a few outside the capital, plans to open an additional 15 in central London before the end of this year. These will be a mix of outlets co-located with Tesco and standalone shops, including a flagship store by Cannon Street station in the summer.\u201d http://www.standard.co.uk 11 March 2013\nThat\u2019s a lot! My immediate reaction is how are they going to retain their quality and quirkiness? \u201cNick Tolley, the chief executive of Harris + Hoole, said: \u201cWe like to think of them all as unique specimens\u2026 rather than stamping our template on every high street.\u201d http://www.standard.co.uk 11 March 2013\nIt will be interesting to see how the quality I experienced in Twickenham translates around the H + H Empire, from the hut in Tesco car park, Osterley, to their flagship store in Cannon Street. And I wonder whether Tesco really do believe what they told Jill Treanor at the Guardian, \u201cWe like backing great brands, helping them to grow and to realise their potential. We\u2019ve done it with suppliers for years. Great ideas can find it hard to get backing these days, so we\u2019re pleased to be in a position to help entrepreneurs achieve their vision,\u201d Clarke said.\u201d http://www.guardian.co.uk Jan 8th.\nOne little fact that might irk is, \u201cHarris + Hoole is registered in Ireland, where corporation tax stands at 12% compared the 23% it would be paying in the UK in 2013 (and the UK rate was of course higher in previous years).\u201d http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com 24 March 2013, Shruti Tripathi. Or you may just feel that if the law states that you can do this then it\u2019s all hunky dory. After all, would any of us pay more tax if we didn\u2019t have to?\nPosted on April 27, 2013 by artycappuccino\t\u2022 This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Harris and Hoole, Tesco, UK Coffee Week. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 6303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asafishing.org/member-resource-center/business-opportunities/sportfishing-summit-archives/2013-sportfishing-summit-highlights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:08Z", "digest": "sha1:37IGUBSA6XESJSTTD3EVFGWOLZUAL22F", "length": 6600, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "asafishing.org", "title": "2013 Sportfishing Summit Highlights - American Sportfishing Association", "raw_content": "2013 Sportfishing Summit Brings Recreational Fishing Industry Leaders Together to Discuss Our Collective Future\nIndustry recognizes several individuals for their outstanding leadership and support\nThe American Sportfishing Association's (ASA) 2013 Sportfishing Summit, the sportfishing industry's premier networking and business management event, celebrated 80 years of serving the industry and the sport during its annual meeting held October 16-18, at the Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort located just outside Fort Myers, Fla. This annual fall business meeting brought together more than 100 industry leaders with other sportfishing community members to provide a venue to discuss the issues impacting recreational fishing during committee meetings, networking events, general sessions and the association\u2019s board of directors and committee meetings. Mayor Kevin Ruane of the City of Sanibel was a guest along with several members of the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce.\nThe 2013 Sportfishing Summit program agenda focused on:\nThe state of the industry and how the association has changed and adapted over the past 80 years.\nThe challenges and opportunities in fisheries management from a state natural resource agency perspective.\nThe latest trends and customer insights regarding recreational fishing\nA new effort speared by the sportfishing industry and the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation to engage the Hispanic population in recreational fishing.\n\u201cAs the number one fishing state in the country, Florida was a natural choice for our annual business meeting,\u201d said ASA President and CEO Mike Nussman. \u201cAnd fishing is big business not only in Florida but in the United States as well. According to the latest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national study, America\u2019s anglers spend $48 billion per year on fishing equipment, transportation, lodging and other expenses associated with fishing.\u201d\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s not just the economy,\u201d said Nussman. \u201cAmerica\u2019s anglers are the nation\u2019s most powerful force for conserving our nation\u2019s fisheries and waters investing more than $1 billion each year in fisheries management and conservation through taxes on fishing equipment and state fishing license sales.\u201d\n\u201cSpeaking of conservation, water quality and its impact on fisheries as well as access to recreational fishing are topics of great concern to our members and guests this week,\u201d noted Nussman. \u201cFor example, the recent release of water from Lake Okeechobee by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the dam system has had a devastating impact on local waters killing fishing grounds and fueling toxic algae growth.\u201d\nNussman concluded, \u201cDespite continuing economic uncertainties and access and water quality issues, anglers continue to fish and spend time outdoors. A growing interest in the outdoors is helping to fuel angler participation which bodes well for our industry.\u201d\nDuring its annual dinner, ASA recognized several individuals who have given generously of their time and company resources in support of the industry and fisheries conservation.\nPeter Foley, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient\nLifetime Achievement Award \u2013 Peter F. Foley \u2013 President \u2013\nBoone Bait Company\nThe American Sportfishing Association\u2019s most prestigious award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, was presented to Peter F. Foley, president, Boone Bait Company, headquartered Winter Park, Fla. Foley was recognized for his extraordinary leadership and lifelong commitment to recreational fishing and the sportfishing industry.\nFoley has devoted decades of his time and resources to ASA and the industry having served on numerous committees and served as Board of Directors Chairman from 1985 \u2013 1987. He currently serves as the association\u2019s Treasurer. Foley was instrumental throughout the 1970s \u2013 1990s in helping the association to establish a solid financial base, which allowed the association to grow and expand its programs to ensure better fisheries, more anglers and a favorable business environment.\nDavid Pfeiffer,\nFuture of Fishing Award \u2013 David Pfeiffer \u2013 President \u2013\nThe American Sportfishing Association\u2019s Future of Fishing Award was presented to David Pfeiffer, president, Shimano American Corporation, located in California, for his commitment to the sportfishing industry and his leadership in ensuring recreational fishing\u2019s future. Pfeiffer currently serves on the board of directors and was board Chairman from 2004 to 2006.\nOver the past decade, Pfeiffer has brought not only his own leadership skills and business acumen to the association, but those of his senior leadership team, many who serve on or chair association program committees as the industry addresses issues such as access and increasing participation. Our collective business future is well-served by Pfeiffer\u2019s commitment to the industry and the association.\nJohn Jilling,\nLeader Award\nOutstanding Industry Leader Award \u2013 John Jilling \u2013\nWright & McGill, Co.\nThe American Sportfishing Association presented an Outstanding Industry Leader Award to long-time member John Jilling. In 2012 Jilling retired as President of Wright & McGill, Co., headquartered in Denver, Colo. after nearly 35 years with the company and 13 years as its President.\nJilling was a long-time supporter of ASA having served on the board of directors for eight years and served for many years on the Trade Show (ICAST) committee and other committees. Noteworthy is that Wright & McGill was one of the companies to exhibit at the Fishing Tackle Trade Show, held at the Hotel Sherman in July 1958, which was the first industry trade show produced by the Associated Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, a predecessor to ASA.\nNoreen Clough,\nOutstanding Fisheries\nOutstanding Fisheries Conservation Award \u2013 Noreen Clough \u2013\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and B.A.S.S.\nThe American Sportfishing Association presented an Outstanding Fisheries Conservation Award to Noreen Clough, who retired this year as Conservation Director of B.A.S.S. Clough is a member of the association\u2019s Government Affairs committee.\nClough has more than 36 years of experience in natural resource conservation, including Chief of Natural Resources for the National Wildlife Refuge System and Deputy Assistant Director for Fisheries in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as well as that agency\u2019s Southeast Regional Director. For the past seven years, Clough served as the B.A.S.S. Conservation Director.\nThe 2014 Sportfishing Summit is scheduled for October 15 \u2013 17, in San Antonio, Texas. Texas is second only to Florida as the state where the most recreational fishing takes place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 9618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://askbme.com/2012/06/03/magnetic-implant-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HHYLQ33YNMEBRJMV3DWCNII7JUHA6KNM", "length": 1807, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "askbme.com", "title": "AskBME - magnetic implant - Body Modification Answered", "raw_content": "\u00ab\u00ab Allergic to Jewelry? Electrocautery Branding and Tattoos \u00bb\u00bb\nafter reading up on the subject quite a bit, I\u2019ve decided I want a magnetic implant in my finger. my only problem at the moment is finding someone reputable to do it for me! I know Steve Haworth is the name in implants, but there\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to be able to get out to Arizona, and it doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s going to be traveling to the east coast any time soon. Any help with finding someone trained and talented who would be able to put in a magnetic implant in new jersey, new york or surrounding areas would be amazing!\nI also noticed that a lot of the things I was reading mentioned there being gold somewhere in/on the magnet itself. I have a skin allergy to gold, and was curious as to whether that would effect the implant? Or is there a barrier thick enough to prevent any interactions?\nThe magnet itself is coated in implant-grade silicon, so in theory that will act as a barrier to prevent a reaction.\nAs far as who to get the implant from, I can not recommend Steve Haworth enough. If you are not able to visit him I\u2019m sure you will be able to catch him on the east coast eventually, he travels quite a bit.\nSince Steve also makes and sells the implants to modification professionals I\u2019m sure he has a list of people on the east coast he sells to and trusts. He would be the best to refer you to someone.\nOne Response to \u201cmagnetic implant\u201d\nBrian Decker (IAM: XPUREX) works in NYC (Brooklyn and Manhattan) and is a very well known and competent mod artist. He has been featured here on BME numerous times. I have also been getting work from him since 2006, if there is anyone in the NYC area for implant work he is the guy. His web site is purebodyarts.com he can also be found on facebook.\nWaffle on June 11th, 2012 at 11:28 am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authentic-reclamation.co.uk/stock-item/set-of-tall-mahogany-cupboard-doors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HS7WY4FFZSOGIPUGKX4MMMDZUD6KVTHS", "length": 285, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "authentic-reclamation.co.uk", "title": "Set of Tall Mahogany Cupboard Doors - Authentic Reclamation", "raw_content": "Set of Tall Mahogany Cupboard Doors\nHere we have a set of mahogany cupboard doors with 3 panels in each. They are beautifully crafted and are in good condition, all hooks and handles have been removed from convenience purpose.\nSize (HWD): 95 3/4\u2033 x 35 3/8\u2033 x 1 1/8\u2033 (2430 x 898 x 29mm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authormkdwyer.com/blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:08Z", "digest": "sha1:I2ZMD5ON7FTBTD23VFPKG5FWAQL3P6B4", "length": 100, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "authormkdwyer.com", "title": "Blog | MK Dwyer", "raw_content": "Ramblings, shameless self-promoting, promoting my favorite authors, etc. etc. Read at your own risk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 145.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://autismdirectory.org.uk/get-involved/media-centre/news/2018-03-14-scotland-employment-project.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:53Z", "digest": "sha1:57YN257TSBQCYV22REZ44MVF7FOLR2XF", "length": 1899, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "autismdirectory.org.uk", "title": "Justice Secretary visits our Glasgow office to find out how we are helping autistic young people into work - National Autistic Society", "raw_content": "Justice Secretary Michael Matheson visited our office in Glasgow today, Wednesday 14 March, to find out how we are helping autistic young people into work.\nOur Moving Forward project aims to help young people in the West of Scotland to develop skills for the workplace, gain social confidence and find employment.\nIt is funded by Cashback for Communities, a Scottish Government initiative which takes money seized from criminals under the proceeds of crime legislation and invests them in projects for Scotland\u2019s most disadvantaged young people.\nMr Matheson said: \u201cI was pleased to visit the National Autistic Society to meet young people and parents who have benefited from the CashBack-funded Moving Forward programme.\n\u201cIt was fantastic to hear real stories that show the positive impact that this initiative has had on young people\u2019s lives. Since 2008 we have committed \u00a392 million to CashBack and other community initiatives and I am keen to ensure that such opportunities continue to be provided to help young people develop skills for the workplace, gain social confidence and find employment.\u201d\nDuring his visit, the Minister heard from young people supported by the project and their parents.\nJames Doherty, Moving Forward project manager, said: \u201cResearch undertaken as part of our Too Much Information campaign revealed that just 32 per cent of autistic people in Scotland are in employment - compared to 47 per cent of disabled people and 80 per cent of non-disabled people.\n\"We are very grateful to the Justice Secretary and the team at Cashback for Communities supporting Moving Forward. Together we can give autistic young people the help they need to succeed in the workplace and close the autism employment gap.\u201d\nIf you, or someone you know, could benefit from the Moving Forward project please phone 0141 248 1725 or email moving.forward@nas.org.uk.\nFind out more about Moving Forward", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 573, "original_length": 23423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bachelor.undergraduatestudy.eu/serwis.php?s=3304&pok=68672&id=1001&kier=97508,10&pa=102&m=292&muz=z", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:33GZRZ42QXIHSDBIUVW6VQICGW6H546M", "length": 1810, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bachelor.undergraduatestudy.eu", "title": "Field of studies Composition and Music Theory (studies in German) - University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) - Austria, Graz - Bachelor's degree - Undergraduate Degrees, Bachelor - country, city, group of specialities, language, speciality - v.EN, study (I) - undergraduatestudy.eu", "raw_content": "Komposition und Musiktheoriep\u00e4dagogik\nComposition or Compositions may refer to:\nA theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how nature works. The word has its roots in ancient Greek, but in modern use it has taken on several related meanings.\nOne whom the music of his own vain tongue\nDoth ravish like enchanting harmony.\nWilliam Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 167.\nWhere music dwells\nLingering, and wandering on as loth to die:\nLike thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof\nThat they were born for immortality.\nWilliam Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. 63. Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge.\nTheir ideas seemed to him fruitful when he was reading or was himself seeking arguments to refute other theories, especially those of the materialists; but as soon as he began to read or sought for himself a solution of problems, the same thing always happened. As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning, and to turn from life itself to what had satisfied him while thinking in accordance with the fixed definitions, and all this artificial edifice fell to pieces at once like a house of cards, and it became clear that the edifice had been built up out of those transposed words, apart from anything in life.\nLeo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1873-1877), Tr. C. Garnett (New York: 2003), Part 8, Chapter 9, p. 728\nComposition - Graz\nComposition and Music - Austria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://backgroundimage.org/photo-studio-backdrop-kit-free-digital-backdrops.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEWFI4AHTAZIBDYSOQYCNNQCIVNMXBWN", "length": 438, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "backgroundimage.org", "title": "list of equipment needed for photography studio best photo background images | white photo backdrop photo background images", "raw_content": "For our session I tried to keep Mr. C about 3/4 of the way up from the lights on the wall and towards me (right around where you are seeing the garland and red ornaments in the above photo). \u00a0I was sitting only as far back from him as I had to, to get what I wanted of him in the frame (keeping in mind the three criteria above). \u00a0Using the garland and ornaments for props helped because he just played with them wherever I set them down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 10119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://balabanovaallover.com/no-monday-blues-here/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VAINBFD6Q35PZILGGOYUDWET5CTBTWAJ", "length": 4051, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "balabanovaallover.com", "title": "No Monday Blues Here - Balabanova All Over", "raw_content": "I was just six years old the last time I visited the Bulgarian seaside in 1987. I don\u2019t remember much of that time, but my parents do. Going to the beach back then was not as easy. There wasn\u2019t a highway connecting Sofia and the major coastal cities, so travel by car was slow and long. Back then, there weren\u2019t many hotels, and the ones that were there were government-owned.\nMy brother and I the last time I was on the Black Sea, at Kiten resort, circa 1987.\nThe coastline was pristine and pretty.Two of the main resorts, Sunny Beach and Golden Sands, were cash cows for the communist government. They were super expensive (for Bulgarians, at least), which effectively made them accessible to foreigners only \u2013 some of them from Western Europe. It was the only time most Bulgarians had contact with Western Europeans, since travel to Western Europe was forbidden.\nToday, the highways connecting Sofia to Varna and Burgas make the trip only 3 to 4 hours along. Varna and Burgas are the biggest cities along the coast \u2013 Varna is to the North, and Burgas is to the South. The resort my parents have been going to for the last 11 years is called Sveti Vlas and it\u2019s just North of Burgas. On Sunday morning, that\u2019s where we headed.\nThe trip was pleasant, albeit boring at times. The highway was nice enough for the most part \u2013 the last stretch of it had just been completed in 2011. We stopped at a few gas srations along the way to rest, drinks some coffee and eat. Gas srations here are a bit different. Paying at the pump is not a option, and there is always a patio on the side for people to drink coffee and take a smoke break. Come to think of it, there is hardly any activity in Bulgaria that\u2019s not conducive to drinking coffee or smoking a cigarette \u2013 hence, a trip to the gas station or a stop in the park always comes with facilities to engage in these activities. \ud83d\ude42\nThe highway ended in Burgas, so from there we took a local road that sneaked along the coast. Since there was only one lane in each direction, traffic was worse, especially in the opposite lane due to Sunday traffic back to Sofia. The infrastructure hasn\u2019t kept up with the growth in the resorts, so this road, which goes about 100 miles North to Varna, is notorious for its traffic jams. I kept wondering how the two biggest cities along the coast were still not linked with a proper four-lane road.\nAfter a stop in Sunny Beach ro visit friends of my parents\u2019, we got to Vlas in the late afternoon. We walked down the the beach to reserve 3 lounge chairs and two umbrellas. Beaches here work a little different here. Although public and free to access, they have been leased to private companies, who then make their money renting chairs and umbrellas to the public. These companies are required to maintain a certain portion of the beach free of chairs and umbrellas for people who don\u2019t want to pay to be able to use their own stuff on the beach. Another difference is the presence of beach cafes. They are literally on the sand, and you can order a drink (including acohol) and food from your beach chair. Alas, we didn\u2019t have time to partake in any of this on Sunday, but we did reserve our chairs and umbrellas so we were set for our first beach day on Monday.\nDoesn\u2019t this look great?\nInside a beach cafe\nView from our hotel rooftop\nAnd it was the most leisurely of beach days. We got to the beach around 11 and left around 5. Mom and I enjoyed a beer at the beach cafe around noon, and I added a plate of fries with feta cheese \u2013 one of the best food and drink combos on this planet. In the eve, my parents\u2019 friends from Sunny Beach walked to Sveti Vlas and we had dinner at another place overlooking the central square. My dad joked, \u201cHow did the first working day of the week go?\u201d No Monday blues here. \ud83d\ude42\nBeer and fries with feta cheese\u2026. Simple pleasures \ud83d\ude42\nSv. Vlas central square\nDinner at the central square in a restaurant appropriately named \u201cCentral\u201d\n\u2190 To Sofia with Love\nThe Ancient City of Nessebar \u2192\nOne Comment on \u201cNo Monday Blues Here\u201d\nEhhh, moreto,moreto\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 7694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://baltimore.edgemedianetwork.com/news/national/269186/reba_mcentire,_oak_ridge_boys_sing_at_bushs_texas_funeral", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SK7LGWZAFAU3ZRHQJ3RAOBIJDSUCYYRM", "length": 297, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "baltimore.edgemedianetwork.com", "title": "EDGE Baltimore, MD :: Reba McEntire, Oak Ridge Boys Sing at Bush's Texas Funeral", "raw_content": "Reba McEntire arrives for a funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush at St. Martin's Episcopal Church Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Houston. (Source:AP Photo/David J. Phillip)\nReba McEntire has sung \"The Lord's Prayer\" at the Houston funeral service of former President George H.W. Bush.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 109.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://barbend.com/krzysztof-wierzbicki-400kg-deadlift/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IFRBVFONSS66Y5XR5YL5J4JVG3EJQ224", "length": 2400, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "barbend.com", "title": "Krzysztof Wierzbicki Just Deadlifted Over 4 Times His Bodyweight - BarBend", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Krzysztof Wierzbicki Just Deadlifted Over 4 Times His Bodyweight\nKrzysztof Wierzbicki Just Deadlifted Over 4 Times His Bodyweight\nPolish powerlifter Krzysztof Wierzbicki calls himself Mr. Deadlift, and especially after his showing this weekend, that name is making a lot of sense.\nWierzbicki lifts in the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) and has put up some insane numbers with the deadlift. Right now he weighs 99.6 kilograms (219.5 pounds) and, as you can see below in footage that was taken at an IPF-affiliated meet in Poland, he can deadlift 400 kilograms (881.8 pounds) raw \u2014 on a stiff bar, no less.\nYou can see Wierzbicki successfully pull 360 kilograms (793.7 pounds), 400 kilograms, and then almost make 408.5 kilograms (900.5 pounds), only to lose his grip at the very last second (and almost crush his foot in the process).\nA man who prefers sumo deadlifts, Wierzbicki has taken home several records and currently holds the IPF classic open record for heaviest deadlift in the -93 kilogram class and the -105 kilogram class.\nHis -93 kilogram record was a raw deadlift of 372.5 kilograms (821.2 pounds), which he performed in 2014 at the Classic Powerlifting Men\u2019s Championships in Potchefstroom, South Africa.\n(That lockout was pretty controversial, but the lift was nonetheless upheld.)\nHis -105kg class deadlift took place in Thisted, Denmark, where he pulled a mighty 390 kilograms, or 860 pounds, at the European Classic Powerlifting Championship just a couple of weeks ago.\nIn 2016, Wierzbicki also attended the Arnold Pro Deadlift contest in Columbus, Ohio, where he lifted 395 kilograms (870 pounds), earning him the heaviest deadlift at the contest ahead of Nick Weite\u2019s 380 kilograms (837 pounds) and Joe Cappelino\u2019s 362.5 kilograms (799 pounds).\nWierzbicki is intent on hitting that 408.5 kilogram deadlift that he missed this weekend. His Instagram is a chronicle of his attempts to continually best himself, and he posted a 410-kilogram deadlift he was unable to lock out a couple of weeks ago, with the caption simply reading \u201cSo close\u2026\u201d\nA post shared by Krzysztof Wierzbicki (@mr.deadlift) on Feb 18, 2017 at 7:40am PST\nAccording to his Instagram, Wierzbicki\u2019s main goal is to one day total 950 kilograms, or 2,095 pounds. We\u2019re unsure of the 27-year-old\u2019s all-time heaviest squat and bench (counting training), but he certainly seems to have the tenacity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 8885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bayer.co.th/cropscience/en/content/environmental-science", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EECNJ5H5QJ6O2A6DU2KZ2EU6KCTKWTUC", "length": 488, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bayer.co.th", "title": "Bayer - Environmental Science", "raw_content": "Our Environmental Science unit offers professional users and private consumers pest and weed control products for use on golf courses, roads and railways, in forestry and in private gardens, for example. Furthermore, Environmental Science supports public health and adherence to hygiene standards through its modern range of pest control products. One focus here is on the control of insects that transmit tropical or subtropical diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and Chagas disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 238.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://behavenet.com/wilder-graves-penfield", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5YYF73UU67WRL3EKPHM327LVWSUH4ZHM", "length": 316, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "behavenet.com", "title": "Wilder Penfield | Behavenet", "raw_content": "Wilder Graves\nThis American neurosurgeon experimented with electrical stimulation of the brain hoping to advance the treatment of epilepsy and used this technique to develop a map of cortical connections to voluntary muscles, whose distorted image of the body is called the motor homunculus or miniature human being.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://belgraviapropertyfinance.co.uk/ltd-company-buy-let-stamp-duty/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VBSHK25C3GQII2X67AVILGWJFL7YKWKY", "length": 4767, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "belgraviapropertyfinance.co.uk", "title": "Ltd Company Buy To Let Stamp Duty | Belgravia Property Finance", "raw_content": "For a limited company, buy-to-let stamp duty has become one of the biggest incentives that dictate how they will continue to trade as a landlord.\nThere have been huge changes in the regulations covering the buy-to-let market. The most immediate has been on those landlords that are individuals. Buy-to-let landlords usually trade either as a limited company or as an individual.\nTogether with changes in the tax structures surrounding mortgage interest and the Prudential Regulation Authority\u2019s new rules surrounding lending, buy-to-let landlords must also consider the implications surrounding stamp duty and how they are affected.\nChange Has Been Swift\nUsually, changes in tax and other fiscal regulations are introduced slowly over several years. Changes in successive governments has meant that each has applied their policy to do everything possible to cover the deficit. Consequently, there have been quite a few rapid changes in regulations governing, tax, lending and ancillary factors such as stamp duty.\nLandlords that have comfortably been running their businesses as sole traders are now faced with the stark reality of higher overheads, that could not have been anticipated a few years ago. One of the big changes is the liability for stamp duty.\nIndividual Landlords and Stamp Duty\nIn April 2016, stamp duty for private individuals increased by 3% across the board whether they were parents co-signing to help a child onto the property ladder, a second home buyer, or someone buying to let.\nSo, the increase jumped from zero percent, two percent, five percent, ten percent and twelve percent to three percent, five percent, eight percent, thirteen percent and fifteen percent respectively, on buy-to-let properties and second homes.\nOn paper, this may not seem to be very much, but the higher the value of the property, the steeper the bill becomes. Consider a landlord that already owns property buys a new property for \u00a3260,000.\nAt three percent of the first \u00a3125,000, they would pay \u00a33750. On 5% of the following \u00a3125,000 they would pay \u00a36250, and on eight percent of the remaining \u00a310,000, they would pay \u00a3800. Compared to the previous stamp duty costs, they would be paying over three times more.\nLtd Company Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty\nLtd company buy-to-let stamp duty has not been exempted from this change. This means that, regardless of the legal structure of the buy-to-let business, all landlords will continue to incur this cost when purchasing new properties for their buy-to-let portfolio.\nEstablished individual landlords may face a dilemma when counting the cost of the changes. If they already have a large portfolio, transferring their properties to a limited company could have substantial capital gains tax and, of course, the new stamp duty scales.\nFurthermore, there have been indications that limited companies will become liable for the higher rate of stamp duty on the first property purchased, meaning that individual landlords at least enjoy relief on their first property.\nSeveral scenarios arise from the combination of all these changes. Apart from having to consider the likelihood of further changes in the near future such as the first property being included in the higher rate stamp duty scales, conversion to a limited company to enjoy the tax benefits may not necessarily be the most prudent move to make.\nThinking out of the box, however, some landlords may choose to retain all their current properties as an individual and set up a limited company or an SPV \u2013 Special Purchase Vehicle \u2013 to at least enjoy the tax benefits of future investments.\nThe types of properties that the landlord invests in will also be affected by changes. Mobile homes, caravans, and boathouses will not be affected by the changes. This would mean that unless the landlord has a very specific niche in these areas of property, there is no avoiding the stamp duty liability. That is, of course, unless the landlord has a first property valued at below \u00a340,000.\nWhen considering how stamp duty will affect you as a landlord, it is a good idea to take into consideration all the factors that influence how you operate. If you are starting up as a new landlord then setting up a limited company will almost certainly be the best route to take.\nYou will be affected as a limited company in the same way that an individual landlord is, however, the tax implications on both mortgage interest and corporate tax may well mitigate the expense of stamp duty.\nIt is best to speak to an expert who can take all your circumstances into consideration, including the size of your current portfolio. If you are a new landlord you will need specialist advice as you will also experience the stricter lending regulations that come into force from October 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://benmoreau.net/2014/07/21/commonwealth-games-looms/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4AFK5KEVQ73N2O4YUHE7S6DKDFUICYOX", "length": 1316, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "benmoreau.net", "title": "Commonwealth Games Looms! | Ben Moreau \u2013 marathon runner", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in Commonwealths 2014 by benjimoreau. Bookmark the permalink.\n3 thoughts on \u201cCommonwealth Games Looms!\u201d\nGraham Watson on July 21, 2014 at 8:24 pm said:\nGood luck in the Games! It\u2019s a long way from your time at Hopper\u2019s to the Glasgow games \u2013 never mind the \u2018delights\u2019 of suburban Manchester. I\u2019m still at Win Coll and look forward to seeing how you get on this Sunday.\nHowever, you\u2019re not the only OW competing in the athletics \u2013 I wonder if you know the identity of the other. I\u2019ll give you a clue \u2013 he has a very different physique and I suspect that given your Sydney base, you\u2019ve already competed in track meetings where he\u2019s been participating.\nSo, add being wished well by a former Don \u2013 albeit one that never taught you \u2013 to the list of today\u2019s \u2018achievements\u2019!\nbenjimoreau on July 22, 2014 at 8:13 pm said:\nHaha thanks Graham! I\u2019m trying to think of who the other OW is. No idea \u2013 you\u2019ll have to enlighten me!\nGraham Watson on July 28, 2014 at 10:01 am said:\nTom Walsh, New Zealand shot putter and likely gold medallist! He came on a cricket scholarship for Cloister Time 2009 and did negligible shot putt training when at Win Coll \u2013 he then finished 6th in the World Youth Games and thought \u2013 \u2018you know what, I can do this\u2026\u2019\nI suspect he\u2019s also the only OW who\u2019s an apprentice builder\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bentoforbusiness.com/articles-2/business-calculator/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:15Z", "digest": "sha1:7SNJGYHPRDGYXTH7FKMLWU576KPIMEF7", "length": 3923, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "bentoforbusiness.com", "title": "Business Calculator | Fraud Calculator Lowers Fraud Risk", "raw_content": "The business calculator that will help your company the most\nFraud is a huge problem for small- and large-sized businesses in the U.S. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), U.S. businesses lose millions of dollars to fraud every year, and small businesses account for 30 percent of the total losses. Small businesses may be in danger of suffering fraud schemes from outside, but they are also frequently the victims of internal fraud and employee thefts. It is important for you to understand your business\u2019s risk of becoming a fraud victim so that you can protect your company from suffering large financial losses.\nWhat is a business calculator?\nOne tool that you can use to identify your company\u2019s risk for fraud is a fraud calculator. The calculator at Bento for Business is free to use and helps to identify your risk of fraud. You just have to answer several questions about your business and expense management practices, and you will receive information about the areas in which you have the greatest risk along with some potential solutions.\nHow can a business calculator help?\nUsing this type of calculator to identify fraud can help you to determine the areas in which you need to focus. Business fraud can cause businesses to fail. Many businesses that uncover ongoing fraud schemes that have been perpetrated against them are never able to recover the money that was lost. A business calculator can help you to understand what tools to use to help to stop fraud from happening at your company and to quickly identify schemes when they start. This can help you to minimize your losses and protect your bottom line.\nWhy is business fraud something to be concerned about, and how common is it?\nBusiness fraud is something that all small businesses owners should be concerned about. If they become the victims of fraud, they may be unable to recover the money that was stolen from them. While larger companies may be able to absorb losses, the losses that might be suffered by small business through fraud could cripple them and cause them to go under.\nIn its Report to the Nations, ACFE found that small businesses suffered a median loss of $200,000 in occupational fraud incidents, which was almost twice as much as the median loss that was suffered by large companies. Using a business calculator to identify your areas of risk can help you to understand the types of controls that you need to implement in your business.\nWhat can\u2019t a business calculator help you with?\nA business calculator can help you to identify the areas of your business that place you at risk of becoming a fraud victim. However, it will not solve the problems for you. You will need to use the information that you have learned to make changes at your company.\nIf you discover that you have already been the victim of fraud, you should report it. One change that might help you to prevent fraud is changing your payment and reimbursement systems to business debit cards. You could also try out our free fraud calculator.\nThe Bento for Business Visa\u00ae debit cards can help you to get rid of antiquated reimbursement procedures and check-writing, both of which are frequent targets of business fraud schemes. They also can help you to avoid disallowed charges on your business credit card. The cards allow you to make a deposit to a central account that is insured up to $250,000 by the FDIC and then to decide how much money you want to place on each card for your employees. You can restrict your employees to only making authorized purchases that you determine.\nBento for Business has a number of solutions available to small business owners to help them to prevent fraud. There is a free 60-day trial for the business debit cards, and it is fast to get started. The cards do not depend on your credit, and Bento uses SSL-encryption to provide you with better security. Call 866.289.1104 to learn more today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestcomedytickets.com/comedian-profile/lenny-marcus/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HILAOW3NFXBHFZAA4RHIWZND5GYWMO45", "length": 1355, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bestcomedytickets.com", "title": "Lenny Marcus Comedian - NYC Comedy Show Tickets", "raw_content": "A New York native, Lenny Marcus is one of those comedians that is instantly recognizable, even if you don\u2019t recall why; whether you see him in person, on TV or hear his voice on the radio. With more than 15 years in comedy\u2019s spotlight, Lenny has just about checked off all the boxes for a comedian. Whether it\u2019s performing on \u201cThe Late Night Show with David Letterman\u201d, or making fun of dim-witted criminals on Tru-TV\u2019s \u201cWorld\u2019s Dumbest Criminals\u201d, Lenny Marcus looks right at home and seems to be talking right to you.\nWorking with multiple New York ad agencies, Lenny Marcus has helped to promote MTV\u2019s MTV Movie Awards, Wendy\u2019s fast food restaurants and Marriott\u2019s hotels in TV ads. While you\u2019re driving around in your car, you might turn on the radio and hear Lenny Marcus doing a voice-over for Southern Bell Telephone or Priceline.com.\nRolling his comedy career into new adventures, Lenny Marcus wrote and directed \u201cA Condom Moment\u201d, which was featured in the PSNBC short-film festival. His by-lines include articles for DailyComedy.com, Life and Style Magazine and UsWeekly.\nIf you\u2019d rather see his comedy in person versus one of his CD\u2019s (like \u201cYou\u2019re Getting a Zero\u201d), you can scroll down and purchase tickets for Lenny\u2019s next performance! You\u2019ll often find him at The Comedy Cellar and Comic Strip Live NYC\nLenny Marcus NYC comedy clubs Schedule", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/search.aspx?city=Dade+City&state_code=FL&metro_area=Tampa&practice_area_id=125", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2KB2S4M6IB7WD55ED3U4NCIXAQGUE47V", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bestlawfirms.usnews.com", "title": "Best Law Firms for Real Estate Law in Dade City , FL", "raw_content": "Real Estate Law in Dade City, FL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 9282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://betterbuildingsinitiative.energy.gov/implementation-models/free-resources-and-energy-business-evaluation-frebe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VRINZWNJFLT335YYG4RV33F25ILKECQ7", "length": 10909, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "betterbuildingsinitiative.energy.gov", "title": "Free Resources and Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE) | Better Buildings Initiative", "raw_content": "As part of its multi-departmental Climate Protection Program, the City of Chula Vista developed and passed an ordinance establishing the FREE Resource & Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE) Program to encourage and assist local businesses in improving their energy and water efficiency. The measure requires commercial and industrial businesses to receive free energy and water evaluations of their premises at the time of initial business license issuance and every 3 \u2013 5 years thereafter as part of the business license renewal process. The FREBE program helps businesses identify energy efficiency and water efficiency opportunities at their facilities and, at the discretion of the business, also take advantage of rebate, incentive, and financing programs to make facility improvements.\nIn 2009, the City Council passed an ordinance on Business Resource and Energy Evaluation. The ordinance requires that all commercial and industrial businesses in the City participate in a free resource and energy evaluation of their facilities to help identify energy and water efficiency and conservation opportunities with the potential to reduce utility costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The evaluations are required at the issuance of a new business license and every 3 \u2013 5 years thereafter. Businesses are required to indicate a date and time for the evaluation; provide access to their facilities and authorization to review historical energy and water usage; and acknowledge receipt of the completed evaluation and related information.\nAs outlined in the ordinance, the City established specific guidelines for:\nProviding written notices to businesses, scheduling, and conducting the evaluation;\nProviding evaluation findings (which may include efficiency and conservation opportunities, historical energy and water consumption, potential utility cost and greenhouse gas savings, and other sustainability practices);\nProviding information and assistance regarding federal, state, and local rebate programs for efficiency retrofits and low-cost financing options to help reduce the time and cost of implementing voluntary measures, including contact information for the local utility and utility-approved contractors; and\nIdentifying exempted buildings, which include home offices, mobile businesses, and other businesses that do not have a commercial utility gas or electric meter.\nThe FREBE ordinance complements the City\u2019s lead-by-example activities focused on municipal facilities (see Chula Vista\u2019s Sustainable Operations Plan and South Library Retrofit) and supports the City\u2019s broader efforts to increase the sustainability of its buildings (for more information, see Chula Vista\u2019s Climate Action Plan).\nPrior to the passage of the Business Resource and Energy Evaluation ordinance, the City of Chula Vista offered energy and water evaluations as a voluntary component of the business licensing process. However, less than 1 percent of eligible businesses participated. To improve participation, City staff undertook on-site solicitations of businesses; this significantly increased implementation costs and was not a feasible approach for reaching the approximately 12,000 businesses across Chula Vista. The passage of the FREBE ordinance was an effective solution for reaching more businesses, increasing participation, and improving the cost-effectiveness of the program.\nIn developing and implementing the FREBE ordinance, the City of Chula Vista\u2019s Office of Sustainability worked closely with many internal and external stakeholders. This included close collaboration with the Department of Finance\u2019s Business License Division, which plays a vital role in explaining the program and its requirements through their daily interaction with business license applicants. Externally, City staff conducted outreach to local business associations to share information on the FREBE Program\u2019s intent and update them on program results. Chula Vista\u2019s strong relationship with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) \u2013 the local utility \u2013 has been key to program development, funding, and implementation.\nA team of six is responsible for executing the FREBE Program, including full-time and part-time staff. FREBE staff participate in certification programs and trainings such as SDG&E\u2019s educational and technical training courses, the Building Performance Institute\u2019s Building Science Principals, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associate and Accredited Professional programs. The team has access to the City fleet to conduct the on-site evaluations. A program manager oversees progress and navigates the team through emerging issues.\nTo support high-quality, efficient, and standardized evaluation, the team created Standard Work Forms that outline key evaluation steps and practices, similar to ASHRAE Level I audits. The FREBE team procured a software application to assign future evaluations, create evaluation reports, and maintain record-keeping. After each evaluation is completed, observations are recorded to create a business-specific report. The team enters the findings into the software to generate a site-specific set of recommendations for energy and water efficiency improvement. To provide options for different budget situations, these recommendations are categorized as no-cost, low-cost, and investment opportunities. Currently, the City is in the process of updating FREBE Program software to add a mobile application which would permit the team to go paperless and conduct evaluations via tablets.\nFollowing the evaluations, the FREBE team provides the businesses with information on relevant programs to enable efficiency improvements. The team refers businesses to various resources (e.g., SDG&E\u2019s Business Energy Solutions and SDG&E Account Managers) to help guide them through energy efficiency solutions and learn about relevant rebate and third-party installation programs. The team also provides information about other energy financing opportunities, such as Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing. For applicable businesses, the FREBE Program provides free smart power strips with load sensing technology that helps eliminate vampire loads (loads from devices that are turned off but still drawing electricity).\nOver the past three years, the Office of Sustainability has also provided guidance and assistance to National City, California \u2013 its immediate neighbor to the north \u2013 to support the implementation of its Green Business Program, which shares similar design features with FREBE.\nIn the development and implementation of the FREBE Program, City staff conducted outreach to local business associations to share information on the intent of the program and to update them on results. Direct engagement with businesses is central to FREBE (see the program flyer). The City communicates with businesses by notifying them of the need to receive a free evaluation (at ordinance-specified periods), interacting with them in person during the evaluation, providing evaluation findings, and sharing other information and assistance regarding federal, state, and local rebate programs for efficiency retrofits and low-cost financing options. The City also maintains a FREBE website with an online evaluation reservation system. Chula Vista has leveraged its relationship with SDG&E to help inform businesses with efficiency opportunities of available utility-sponsored rebates, financing, and third-party installation programs.\nCity Ordinance on Business Resource and Energy Evaluations\nFREE Resource and Energy Business Evaluation website\nFREBE Flyer\nStandard Work Form for FREBE\nFREBE Evaluation Form\nFREBE Report Template\nGo Green Financing Flyer\nSurvey for the FREE Resource and Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE)\nChula Vista Clean Business Program\nThe FREBE team conducts quarterly surveys of businesses that have received evaluations. The survey includes questions on the helpfulness of the evaluation; whether any of the recommended improvements were implemented; the results of those improvements; and how the FREBE program can be improved. Through the surveys, the team gains insights on the evaluations and follow-up actions taken by businesses. These surveys are important for measuring the success of the program, supporting program improvements, and linking businesses to other related programs (e.g., Chula Vista\u2019s CLEAN Business Program, which provides businesses with no-cost resources, public recognition, and informational workshops).\nAs of 2017, the City of Chula Vista has conducted more than 5,700 no-cost business energy and water efficiency evaluations through the FREE Resource & Energy Business Evaluation Program. Since the launch of FREBE, approximately 50 percent of businesses that receive an evaluation implement at least one energy-saving action based on their survey results; for surveys conducted in 2016, the rate of implementation reached 63 percent. While the energy savings associated with these follow-up actions are not tracked directly, the thousands of documented energy-saving actions by businesses across the City are indicative of the program\u2019s impact. The 2016 surveys also show that more than 90 percent of respondents would recommend the FREBE evaluation to other businesses. Finally, as part of FREBE, Chula Vista provides approximately 300 smart power strips per year to participating businesses, delivering direct energy savings estimated at 80,000 kWh annually.\nCity Ordinance on Business Resource and Energy Evaluations Policy\nFREBE Evaluation Form Checklist\nFREBE Flyer Outreach Materials\nFREBE Report Template Template\nGo Green Financing Flyer Outreach Materials\nStandard Work Form for FREBE Checklist\nSurvey for the Free Resource & Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE) Questionnaire\nChula Vista, CA Chula Vista Better Buildings Challenge Partners\nAs part of its multi-departmental Climate Protection Program, the City of Chula Vista developed and passed an ordinance establishing the FREE Resource & Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE) Program to encourage and assist local businesses in improving their energy and water efficiency.\nPopulation of 270,000\nEnable local businesses to identify and pursue opportunities for cost-cutting energy and water efficiency improvements\nDrawing the attention of 12,000 Chula Vista businesses to energy and water inefficiencies in their facilities\nInformed by stakeholder input, the City passed an ordinance creating the FREE Resources and Energy Business Evaluation (FREBE) Program, which requires businesses to receive a free energy and water evaluation as part of business license issuance and renewal\nAs of 2017, more than 5,700 no-cost business evaluations have been conducted with more than 50% of participating businesses implementing at least one energy-saving action\nReimagining Cities! Achieving Efficient, Resilient, and Sustainable...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 503, "original_length": 21185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://betterthansurviving.me/2012/09/17/a-special-message/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LINYCKSKAUPQOVJV4MXUBAC4U5DQDUNY", "length": 2618, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "betterthansurviving.me", "title": "A Special Message | betterthansurviving", "raw_content": "\u2190 Falling into Winter\nBreaking Barriers \u2192\nA girl walks by the window of the caf\u00e9 I am sitting in. She has a limp, a large head, glasses, and her mouth is set in a sort of grimace. I look away as I don\u2019t want her to think I\u2019m staring just because she doesn\u2019t look like the average human being.\nThen, it strikes me \u2013 how many other people refuse to look this little girl\u2019s way for the very same reason? If she doesn\u2019t already feel different from the rest of the world, surely a lifetime of averted gazes will add to her sense of separateness and disconnection. Doesn\u2019t she too deserve to be showered with looks of love, admiration and interest? Should she too not experience a world of inclusion and togetherness? I watch her sit in to a car. And I watch her father sit in beside her. Tears come to my eyes at the pure, unconditional love that I have been looking away from all these years.\nIn my lifetime, so far, I have not had much contact with people with special needs and so I feared that I wouldn\u2019t know how to relate to these people or how to treat them. I worried that I wouldn\u2019t do the \u201cright\u201d thing. I now realise that I was too much in my head and so very far removed from my heart. I also know that it is fear and ignorance that is at the root of discrimination, bullying, violence and even war.\nJust this morning, on Hay House Radio, a woman phoned in to speak about her newly born child, who has special needs. She worried that she wouldn\u2019t be able for the challenges that this new life would bring. Interestingly, the presenter pointed out that this situation would teach her compassion. Not for her daughter so much as for the people she might encounter, who would ridicule and ostracise her child.\nLife is life in all its forms and shapes and containers. A soul is a soul no matter the physical appearance of the instrument. And beauty is the light that burns bright within and around each and every being in the Universe. The lesson is to learn from every person we come into contact with and, even more importantly, from how we react to these people. Today, this is the lesson that I have learned. And so I thank that beautiful girl on the street with all of my heart.\nTrue beauty is witnessed with love\nPhoto credit: Jessica Watson\nThis entry was posted in Love, Modern Society, Spirituality and tagged autism, beauty, bullying, discrimination, exclusion, family, fear, hatred, hay house radio, ignorance, inclusion, life, light, love, oneness, ostracism, parents, society, soul, special needs, spirit, spirituality, togetherness, unconditional love, universe, violence, war. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billyepperhart.com/blog/2017/08/14/negotiating-as-a-real-estate-investor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:15Z", "digest": "sha1:U7GPTFYEVLTCBM4LVGB6AYW3H3KZRSLY", "length": 6286, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "billyepperhart.com", "title": "The Secret Sauce of Negotiating as a Real Estate Investor", "raw_content": "The Secret Sauce of Negotiating as a Real Estate Investor\n14 Aug The Secret Sauce of Negotiating as a Real Estate Investor\nWhen it comes to real estate investing, it\u2019s generally a good idea to have some of your own money. The power to negotiate with someone when you are purchasing a property is much greater when they know you actually have the money to buy the property.\nIf you have money, you don\u2019t have to spend all of your time finding creative financing. Instead, you just make the offer and negotiate on value. I call this value investing in real estate. Basically, you negotiate and try to get the best deal you can for the property.\nNow, in order to get the best deal you can for the property, you actually have to buy some property. This is my secret sauce. Ready?\nRemember that you make money when you buy.\nIn real estate, you make money when you buy \u2013 not when you sell. Not understanding this is one of the biggest mistakes a real estate investor can make. You always want to buy a property at a lower cost than what it\u2019s worth. That\u2019s a no-brainer.\nThe safest way to grow your investment the best is to buy your property with cash from a loan. This is why it\u2019s so important to understand real estate finance and to understand how to keep the money you have moving.\nKeep this in mind: you should also develop relationships with a mortgage banker and a broker.\nRemember the rule of 80 cents on the dollar.\nIf you make money when you buy, then important to understand how to come up with a down payment. You always want to buy real estate at 80 cents on the dollar. In some cases, you can purchase property at 60 or 70 cents on the dollar. But the safest place to be is no more than 80. To clarify, that\u2019s 80% of the real value of the property (even after repairs).\nWhen you buy at 80%, you have 20% equity going into that property. This means that you\u2019re in pretty good shape if sometime in the future you want to re-finance. Or even if you just want to hold the property and pay it down.\nRemember the power of a downpayment.\nI usually recommend buying a property with 10% down. In some cases, you can buy with 5%. I know investors who do it all the time. Finally, if you have a really strong credit score, there is 100% financing that is available.\nIn the 100% case, bankers typically will do what\u2019s called a 70-30 loan, or a 70-25. That means for the first mortgage they\u2019ll loan you 75% of the purchase price of the property, and then you\u2019ll get a second mortgage at typically a much higher interest rate that is for 25%. You literally have 100% of the loan.\nBut be aware that you will still have to have some money for closing costs.\nRemember that you can negotiate with power.\nYou are in a much stronger position as a negotiator if you are able to bring some money to the table.\nMost lenders will want to see that you have six months of cash reserves of the mortgage payment, principal interest, taxes and insurance. They like to see that money in the bank. So if your mortgage payment is $1,000 a month, they like to see $6,000 liquid in the bank plus whatever the cost of the downpayment. For example, on a $100k house you would need $10,000 for your downpayment plus $6,000 in reserve.\nIf you have these cash reserves, your ability to negotiate will raise significantly. Be patient with the process. You\u2019ll get here \u2013 I\u2019m sure of it.\nMaybe this all seems overwhelming. Or maybe you have a strong desire to invest in real estate but don\u2019t have the funds to make it happen right now. First, remember that it\u2019s best to get started sooner rather than later. And second, remember that it\u2019s wise to find a mentor who can guide your investments for awhile.\nOne way to guarantee success is to come to my Real Estate Mastery Workshop in October. You can find out all of the information by clicking that link. I\u2019d love to meet you!\nFinally, let me know your questions about downpayment and loans in the comments below!\nLarry Dowden\nBilly, Would you recommend working through a realitor or directly work with the sellers Realitor?\nWould you suggest starting out with setting up an LLC first to work under or doing it personally?\nHi Larry, thank you for your comment. I would advise you to always set up an LLC. Also, make sure to find a realtor that specializes in investment proprieties. Blessings, Billy\nKim Aciz\nHi Mr.Epperhart\nI recently opened my first brockage account. What would you recommend as good ETF\u2019s to invest in as a beginner. Greatly appreciate your guidance. Thank you much\nHi Kim! This a great question! The term ETF stands for exchange traded fund, and the way to get started is to invest in indexed ETFs. There are many of them but my favorite for the stock market is SPY, which is an indexed fund for the S&P 500. I also like IVV, which is also an indexed fund for the S&P 500. Some funds I like for bonds are BND and TLT. It\u2019s always good to research these but I would start by putting 90% in an index S&P 500 fund (either SPY or IVV) and put about 10% in a bond fund (either BND or TLT). I might do some more writing on ETFs because I think it\u2019s a great subject to help people with, so thank you for your question!\nThe bank we are working with says we have to have 25% down on an investment property or pay mortgage insurance. Is that true?\nHi Elaine, thank you for your comment! Well it depends on what your personal income is, and also depends if you own any other investment proprieties. But if you are going to do a regular mortgage, anything less than 20% down might require mortgage insurance. If you want to become an investor, find a bank that will loan you the money directly and do a portfolio loan (in house loan). I will be happy to answer any other questions you have. Blessings, Billy\nWilbur Craig\nIf I can get a 100% loan to value and I have to pay 5 points on a 70k loan is that a good deal? flipping the home in 90 days I hope..\nHi Wilbur, thank you for your comment! Based on my experience, 2 \u2013 3 points would\u2019ve been normal, however with 100% loan the investor/lender is taking a much higher risk. So 5 points might be appropriate. It\u2019s not about the points, it\u2019s about how much it cost and if you are in a financial position to absorb those costs. You should definitely consider how much the interested rate would be. 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Nicole Poolman, R-Bismarck, was a co-sponsor to Senate Bill 2251 during the last legislative session in 2017. The bill's goal was to give child protective services the ability to intervene with the services and treatment for moms with substance-exposed newborns, helping get them to treatment and create safe care plans for the baby and other kids at home.\nA North Dakota senator has proposed a bill that would revise the state's current anti-bullying law, which she said is \"dated\" and doesn't take into account where a majority of bullying takes place: online.\nSen. Nicole Poolman, R-Bismarck, has introduced Senate Bill 2181, which would prohibit cyberbullying. The state's current anti-bullying law only covers bullying that takes place at school or on school grounds.\nAt a hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Education Committee, the bill drew support from the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders and the state School Boards Association.\nHowever, one lawmaker on the committee and an attorney with the School Boards Association expressed concerns that the bill could increase a school district's liability risk or could infringe upon students' free speech rights.\nAs a teacher in Bismarck and a parent, Poolman said she has firsthand knowledge of the effects of cyberbullying on children. She drafted her bill after hearing concerns from parents in the Bismarck area about increasing incidents of cyberbullying.\n\"The problem with the bullying law currently is it only pertained to bullying that took place at school or school grounds, and obviously a majority of online bullying is not sent or received on school grounds,\" Poolman said.\nAimee Copas, executive director of the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders, spoke in favor of the bill at Wednesday's committee hearing. Copas said most districts already investigate reports of cyberbullying, but the bill would provide clarity to districts.\n\"What we've heard is that, in some instances, schools were a little uncomfortable or unsure of their jurisdiction with regard to things that happen outside of school hours on equipment that may not be school equipment,\" Copas said.\nShe said her organization supports amending the bill to require incidents of cyberbullying be reported to school officials.\nSen. David Rust, R-Tioga, a member of the Senate Education Committee, said he has \"serious reservations\" about the bill, saying that it could open up \"a whole new world\" where school districts could be made to be at fault in incidents of cyberbullying.\nCopas and Poolman pointed out that there's already a section in the state's anti-bullying law that provides civil and criminal immunity to school districts if they have a bullying policy in place and are following it.\n\"Making sure there's a liability exclusion is critical to this nature, because it is impossible for our schools to be omniscient and to stop everything,\" Copas said.\nCommittee chairman Sen. Donald Schaible, R-Mott, asked Copas how school administrators investigate a complaint of cyberbullying outside of school. Copas said administrators can request to look at a student's phone, for example, during school hours, even if the conduct may have happened outside of school.\nBut students don't have to comply, and, at that point, local law enforcement is typically involved in the investigation, Copas said.\n\"Rather than throwing up our hands and saying,'Oh, it happened outside of school, we can't touch it,' well, now we're going to take it a step further and say we need to help with this investigation in any way that we can and partner with our local law enforcement,\" she said.\nAmy De Kok, legal counsel for the North Dakota School Boards Association, said her organization supports the bill but has some reservations.\n\"I receive calls frequently about how and if schools can regulate this off-campus conduct,\" she said. \"However ... we do have some concerns with the proposed bill language, because there is a risk of liability for schools if they are disciplining a student for off-campus conduct that's non-school-related speech.\"\nDe Kok told the committee the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet addressed the issue, but many federal circuit courts have taken up cases that deal with off-campus speech that is alleged to be cyberbullying, in which a student claims their First Amendment rights are being violated.\nIn these cases, the courts have stated there has to be a \"substantial or foreseeable risk of disruption\" to the school environment in order for school districts to regulate that conduct, she said, adding that the School Boards Association supports additional language in the bill that would address this.\nPoolman told the Tribune after the bill hearing that she's open to amending the bill to further protect school districts.\n\"I certainly don't want to increase liability for schools, so if that is something that makes them feel a little bit better in order to take on some of this, I would absolutely entertain those types of amendments,\" she said.\nThe committee did not vote on the bill on Wednesday.\nSenate votes to update anti-bullying law to include cyberbullying\nThe North Dakota Senate voted 44-1 on Thursday to add cyberbullying to the state\u2019s anti-bullying law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 10205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bizedge.co.nz/story/create-the-office-love-fest-in-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BJVK4FNGVRONGABUTYTYP6WF3L2JD6VQ", "length": 6349, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "bizedge.co.nz", "title": "Create the office love fest in 2015 - bizEDGE New Zealand", "raw_content": "Create the office love fest in 2015\nBE Intent is a cloud-based platform designed to help individuals get more out of their life and to help businesses boost productivity.\nSuzanne Hall, BE Intent founder and CEO, says, \u201cit\u2019s about bringing together technology and passion to help drive people towards success, both in their business and personal life. It\u2019s about helping the mind function at its max.\u201d\nDo you survive or just thrive? Genuine connections and passion drives people, boosting productivity and increasing engagement, says James B. Avey in the Human Resource Development Quarterly.\nHope, efficacy, resilience, optimism, job satisfaction and commitment are psychological resources that can have a real impact on performance, says Avey.\nThere\u2019s also a link between undesirable employee attitudes such as cynicism, turnover intentions, job stress and anxiety and poor performance, he says.\nJonathan H. Westover, in the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, says in an increasingly competitive market more organisations are looking for ways to get more out of their employees.\n\u201cAlthough there are diverse \u2018quick\u2010fix\u2019 methods of achieving short term gains in worker productivity and performance, long term and enduring improvement requires a strengthening and spreading of core organisational values and beliefs that help to create a high engagement and achievement organisational culture,\u201d says Westover.\nWhen she was 22 Hall started Living Nature, the skincare company. In 2006, about 20 years after it was established, she sold it. By this time it was operating in 14 countries and had a turnover rate of 20 million dollars.\nHall says Living Nature had a 99% staff retention rate, and it had \u2018an amazing energy and environment\u2019.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know what I was doing, I just treated the staff how I\u2019d want to be treated,\u201d she says. \u201cThis meant I made them part of the project and encouraged them to contribute on all levels. \u2018Surely that\u2019s what you\u2019d do,\u2019 I thought.\u201d\nShe says she found when people understood the purpose of their work they were more committed and focused.\nThe qualities of purpose, motivation, focus and inspiration are a fundamental part of BE Intent.\nAfter Hall sold Living Nature she didn\u2019t retire as she\u2019d originally intended. Instead she was compelled to create a computer program solution that would aid in the problem of unmotivated employees. Technology, she says, is global, low cost and can adapt easily.\nResearch, beta testing and piloting of BE Intent took about three years. Development began with significant research into a number of areas, including neuroscience and psychology. A great deal of research was done on the brain - Hall says they looked at specific patterns and how it reacts and responds to certain situations and stimuli.\nHall says she met with world leaders and researchers, did her own investigations, and read books such as The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor and The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.\n\u201cBE Intent borrows from everything. The platform is made up from evidence, scientific research and collaboration with experts,\u201d says Hall.\nWhile the fundamentals remain unchanged, BE Intent can be adapted for different needs. At present, it\u2019s available for personal and business users, but this is set to grow.\nThe current platform delivers a variety of solutions. Key aspects are mindfulness, gratitude, healthy habits, self-responsibility and awareness.\nBE Intent is designed to be used on a daily basis and has a number of components. For one, users get sent \u2018Intents\u2019, which are images and reminders to help the brain better absorb information and increase brain synapses, says Hall.\nEverything can be seen on the dashboard, and over time users can get more of an understanding of their state of mind.\n\u201cIt builds on itself. It\u2019s not a big solution to everything. With four minutes a day it\u2019s a gentle, subtle cumulative growth of knowledge,\u201d says Hall.\nShe says BE Intent currently has about 11,000 users and it\u2019s interesting to see how people change over time when using the tool.\nThey\u2019ve noted tiredness and overwhelm are two major factors for people in general, and they have seen an overall 39% increase in positivity at the beginning of the day, Hall says.\nOn top of this, BE Intent increases the ability to solve problems by 20%, retain information by 40% after a month of use, and with a 10% increase in productivity people have an extra hour a day of intent focus productive time, says Hall.\nShe says she has seen how BE Intent helps people to manage their own state of mind more successfully and there is not such an expectation on the team leader to do this.\n\u201cA female team leader who had her own strategy going with the programme had been using BE Intent for 10 months. She had been getting panic attacks and had been on anxiety medication for eight years. After using BE Intent she told me she had been off her medication for six months and said it made a huge difference,\u201d says Hall.\nLooking to the future, Hall says the team is looking to split up BE Intent into different brands. The new brands will still be supported by the original platform, but they will become their own entities, says Hall. This will help the team reach multiple audiences on different platforms and with different needs.\nBE Intent Youth will be used in schools to help people manage bullying, social issues, family issues, provide positive education, help build confidence, presentation, self-esteem and communication.\nHall says they are also working on a version of BE Intent to provide employers with their own bullying programme to understand the new law, what the issues and processes are, provide resources and help people to take action.\nIn the acute mental health space, BE Intent is working to create a series of tools to help people manage mental health issues and is collaborating with Wise Group. Using the capability of BE Intent to compile information it can be used to gather data, be part of a user\u2019s medical records and help to see how they\u2019re feeling over time.\nFor these projects Hall says the plan is to use Snowball Effect, the New Zealand equity crowdfunding platform, to raise funds.\nOn top of this, the team are in the last stages of developing an iPhone app version of the desktop app of BE Intent and are aiming for a January release.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 17917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bizgovsoc6.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/sociological-imagination-ethics-and-the-steroid-era-of-professional-baseball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FYLERHP7USNM7RZAWWYUY6MD2EWFHRZU", "length": 15809, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "bizgovsoc6.wordpress.com", "title": "Sociological Imagination, Ethics, and the Steroid-Era of Professional Baseball | Read this and hack!", "raw_content": "Sociological Imagination, Ethics, and the Steroid-Era of Professional Baseball\nJanuary 21, 2013 by DJ Rowe\n1) What are the three sorts of questions that the best social analysts have consistently asked? How does this relate to C. Wright Mills\u2019 \u201csociological imagination\u201d?\nThe three types of questions consider society\u2019s structure, standing, and stand-outs. The first of these questions asks about the particular structure of a society as a whole and its essential components. C. Wright Mills finds the structure in which an individual belongs to be essential to understanding how they both shape each other. Using marriage as an example, Mills offers an example of how the structure of some issue in society can be more to blame than the individual who experiences the personal troubles. Next, where society stands in human history and the mechanics by which it is changing are questioned. The intersection between history and biography can only be understood by asking these questions, which is essential to possessing quality of mind. Last, the best social analysts ask what types of men and women stand-out and prevail within that society and within that time period. This enables the individual a feeling, in Mills\u2019 words, \u201cthat they can now provide themselves with adequate summations, cohesive assessments, comprehensive orientations.\u201d Asking questions regarding these three topics is what typically makes up the classic social analyst. Having this socialogical imagination enables us to grasp our biography and history in relation to its intersections, providing a much greater quality of mind.\n2) Trevino and Nelson say that the most serious ethical scandals result from multiple parties contributing in different ways to join together in the creation of the catastrophe. What are some of the different parties that came together in forming the financial crisis of 2008, and what pressures led to these actions? Lastly, were all of these actions unethical, or just a result of common practice?\nThe first factor that played a role was that borrowing money was cheap. However, Alan Greenspan\u2019s decision to lower the Fed Funds rate was just a common act driven by the soaring stocks in high-technology companies. The rise of investing in real estate then became a major factor with such low borrowing rates. At this point, nobody had acted unethically, but the rating agencies might be the first to blame. They listed investments in the real estate industry as the highest \u201cAAA\u201d rating, which gave investors confidence that they would at least recover the initial value, if not more, from their investment. Of course this was a primary cause of the catastrophe, but many factors on Wall Street also contributed. Highly-paid CEOs and executives, a focus on short-term profits, and bonuses for employees taking great risks, also led to the problem. These pressures to get ahead and have short-term personal gain are possibly a result of the society in which we now live. Like Trevino and Nelson said is normally the case, many factors did come together to lead to the end result of the financial crisis. However, while some factors were clear of any wrong-doing, there were certainly others that could have their ethics called into question after seeing their personal benefit at the expense of many others.\n3) Describe a situation in pop culture in which the ideas of the sociological imagination can help shed light on an issue involving business ethics and cynicism.\n\u201cI wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish, and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.\u201d \u2013 Mark McGwire, January 2010\nThese words from Mark McGwire, one of baseball\u2019s greatest home run hitters of all-time, really exemplify the attitude many baseball players had during the 2000s in Major League Baseball, \u201cthe Steroid-Era\u201d. He was sorry that he cheated, but then again, doesn\u2019t it sound like he is trying to excuse himself on the grounds that nearly everyone else did too\u2014like his guilt was simply a product of having played in the steroid-era? Well, his apology did not help him much, as he failed to be voted into the Hall of Fame again this year for the seventh time. Interestingly though, this year\u2019s Hall of Fame voting was only the third time since 1965 that not even a single member of the ballot was inducted into the Hall of Fame. With the ballot consisting of many new names, nearly all from the steroid-era of baseball, perhaps the general cynicism of society played a role in voting down a number of player who would otherwise have statistically qualified when being compared to the Hall of Fame\u2019s existing members. The best sports journalists and analysts of the sport have found themselves in a situation where C. Wright Mills\u2019s idea of the sociological imagination comes into play.\n\u201cNeither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.\u201d This quote from C. Wright Mills gives depth to the steroid-era and the players who played during that time. Clearly there was an ethical issue involved with using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to increase your performance, and consequently, your future salaries, but it was not all the fault of the players. The structure of the league was such that testing and enacting penalties for those caught using these PEDs was entirely misconfigured. It was everywhere in the clubhouses, but team personnel always seemed to turn a blind eye. The society in which this issue took place is also relevant. More home runs were being hit, attendance was up at games, TV contracts were going through the roof, and the game of professional baseball, more importantly the business of professional baseball, was stronger than ever. Finally, the main type of individuals who prevailed in this society of steroid-era professional baseball were those who chose to take part in the cheating. Not only did it go unpunished, but instead, the decision was often times rewarded. These three questions that C. Wright Mills says are essential to developing the quality of mind necessary for a strong sociological imagination, should probably be considered more closely by the journalists and baseball writers who will be voting in next year\u2019s Hall of Fame ballot.\nYes, these players acted unethically by taking steroids, but enough with the cynicism. The game of baseball, now with a better structure, has proven to clean up its image greatly. However, the shadows cast by the giants of the steroid-era continue to loom large in the media. Just like the professors Trevino and Nelson talk about in their piece on Managing Business Ethics, there were many pieces that came together to cause the debacle of lost trust in the MLB that resulted from the steroid-era. Of course the players played a role in it, but when you consider the previously mentioned three questions for the society in which these players belonged to, while also considering the commissioner, salary-driven incentives, and other factors that played a role in creating the catastrophe, maybe some of these players should be elected in to the Hall of Fame. They were great for the game in the time in which they played. Their unethical actions, while not excusable, were not entirely a result of their personal character, and therefore, I believe they should be recognized in the Hall of Fame with the many players who came before them who also made similarly massive impacts on the game, and business, of professional baseball.\nhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/the-cove/Barry-Bonds-Not-Elected-to-Hall-of-Fame-186198441.html\nhttp://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/steroid-era-stars-bonds-clemens-sosa-hall-ballot-article-1.1209463\nThis entry was posted in Blog 1, Uncategorized and tagged cynicism, ethics, sociological imagination, structure. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Business Ethics Questions\nDoes better ethics lead to better business? \u2192\n9 thoughts on \u201cSociological Imagination, Ethics, and the Steroid-Era of Professional Baseball\u201d\ncbg010 says:\t January 21, 2013 at 10:44 pm\nSo in response to your discussion in question 3, do you think that other scandals like the recent Lance Armstrong controversy will help to transform the professional sports climate as a whole, in the ethical direction?\nGil Erlich says:\t January 23, 2013 at 5:25 pm\nI also thought about the Lance Armstrong scandal when reading your discussion of \u201cThe Steroid-Era\u201d. I\u2019m a huge Lance fan and still am. Lance may have cheated because he did take performance enhancing drugs. But let\u2019s be honest \u2013 if you want to be the best in the Tour de France \u2013 there\u2019s no way you\u2019re doing it without doping. Lance doped just like everyone else \u2013 except he was better \u2013 7 straight Tour de France\u2019s better. He made so much money for the sport of cycling and helped greatly impact cycling in America. Did he go about the lies and controversy the right way \u2013 no \u2013 he definitely could have handled it better. But he did deserve to win those championships \u2013 he just shouldn\u2019t have kept the lie going this long. Furthermore i think the cycling world will start being more ethical. They will see what happened to Lance due to doping and it will begin to be seen less in the sport. Once no one does it and the field is level without doping the sport will be much more ethical. So maybe what he did will ultimately help transform cycling in the right direction.\ndjr025 says:\t January 24, 2013 at 11:36 pm\nInteresting response, Gil. This raises an interesting question of sacrifice. Barry Bonds, Mark Mcgwire, and others, took the fall for baseball. The structure of MLB itself was flawed, and many players were forced into an \u201cadapt or die\u201d situation. Now, the system has been restored, but at the expense of these players\u2019 reputations. You mentioned how Lance might ultimately transform cycling. Following up on Jordi\u2019s comment between the parallels between sports and business, I wonder if a huge company will ever end up taking a fall to save the industry or company to which it belongs.\nltb006 says:\t January 22, 2013 at 2:54 am\nI do agree that there was a lot of temptation for baseball players playing in the steroid-era to take steroids to make them bigger and stronger. This temptation did came from all different aspects of baseball teams at the time and it was greater than just a personal decision. There is so much pressure being a professional athlete and at that time steroids was considered a quick improvement for an average player. Every player knew that steroids was cheating and still decided to do it instead. I am completely against Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens being recognized next to Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig in the Hall of Fame. I am not downplaying the amazing careers of the famous players on the Hall of Fame ballot, but the players were not induced into the Hall of Fame for a reason. Professional athletes are always under a lot of pressure to perform at their highest level to increase their earnings capabilities, but cheating is still cheating. These major baseball stars did make baseball much more exciting at the time, but it was not just on their own ability. This players willing decided that it was okay to cheat. By inducting players who have been publicly accused multiple times of cheating it is sending a clear message to the children, the future society, that it is okay to cheat.\nklm035 says:\t January 22, 2013 at 4:01 pm\nVery thought-provoking blog post. I generally agree with you when you say that using sociological imagination can better understand what the players were thinking when they made the decisions they did. There was a lot at stake during that era in baseball, namely salaries, fame, and the potential to go down as some of the greatest players in history. However, I cannot help but wonder why these guys did not think of the consequences of their actions. Didn\u2019t they wonder what would happen if they were to get caught? What would the public reaction be? How would it affect their legacies? I strongly believe they did think these consequences through \u2013 and decided to juice anyway. They thought they were invincible and that their words would be strong enough to protect their legacies and ultimately beat the truth. Obviously, we are finding out now that they were wrong.\nsalv04 says:\t January 22, 2013 at 10:44 pm\nI agree and disagree with your stance on professional baseball players during the \u201cSteroid Era\u201d in the hall of fame. Yes, using sociological imagination to critically analyze the factors that influenced these baseball players decisions provides great insight to why the chose to use steroids. Yes, I believe that the MLB greatly decreased the use of steroids and improved their image. Yes, I believe that the managers, owners, and league are also to blame. However, I believe the players who took steroids during that era should not be in the Hall of Fame. I agree with KLM that these players were wrong and did not think of the consequences. They chose to cheat the game and use performance enhancing drugs to become better baseball players. Unlike the other hundreds of players before who played naturally and earned their right into the Half of Fame, they acted unethically and now pay the consequences for it.\nYou make a lot of claims that make me wonder why you can\u2019t take the final step at placing these \u201csteroid-era\u201d players in the perspective of the time in which they played. I understand your point that previous players did not take steroids (hypothetically), but they need to be considered in the context of the time they played, as well. There weren\u2019t the pressures of free agency and high contracts, culture of \u201cacceptance\u201d for using PEDs, or other factors shaping the league in which they played. I guess the easiest way to put this is to answer the following question. If Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, or some other past Hall of Famer would have had the same exact skill set that earned them the Hall of Fame rights, but played in the 2000s, would they have taken steroids? And if so, would they then not be Hall of Famers? If Babe Ruth was in Barry Bonds\u2019s shoes, facing the same factors that Bonds dealt with regarding the league\u2019s steroid problems, would he have resisted the urge to take steroids and still earned the same Hall of Fame career? It is a tough question, but I think that thinking of it in this way sheds more light on how great an impact the society can play in shaping the actions of an individual.\nslw022 says:\t January 24, 2013 at 11:30 am\nThe sociological imagination is very helpful in considering this ethical dilemma in baseball. The time and place and opportunities surrounding players\u2019 decisions to use PEDs is very important to consider when evaluating this issue. Although the game of baseball has remained the same over the years, with the exception of the designated hitter rule in the American League, its history in relation to the society is incredible. I have been to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown several times and spoken with the curators and directors there, whose goal is to celebrate, preserve, and reflect the history of baseball and America. There is no doubt these men that used PEDs are as much a part of the history and enhancement of baseball as the first basemen that used larger gloves and the batters that used pine tar and hollowed barrels on their bats. I do not believe these men should be banned from the Hall for using steroids, but should recognized for pushing the game further and motivating other players to compete at a higher level. As an athlete and competitive person by nature, I know that current and future athletes will see those records and find a way to surpass them whether there is an asterisk there or not. Ethically or not, the performance was there and the story needs to be told.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 21167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.codeship.com/the-challenges-of-leading-in-tech/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PWZR27OTKG3JOTCFZK5RB5NLBXAUWTGF", "length": 4576, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "blog.codeship.com", "title": "What Are the Challenges of Leading in Tech? | via @codeship", "raw_content": "You may have noticed that we\u2019ve chatted with a lot of really smart people through our Inside Look interview series. As we wrap up 2015, we\u2019re revisiting some of the sage advice we\u2019ve encountered from these founders, CTOs, and engineers.\nLet\u2019s continue this week with the question that has a billion answers: What are the challenges of leading in tech? Today\u2019s tech founders and lead engineers are facing some brand-new issues alongside the usual challenges of building a business. So what are the roadblocks to staying ahead in the quickly changing world of tech?\n\u201cWhat are the roadblocks to staying ahead in the quickly changing world of tech?\u201d \u2013 via @codeship\nAccording to our interviewees, the challenges of getting to and staying at the front in tech include maintaining security while still offering great customer support, finding investors who believe in your vision, and building infrastructure for industries that are historically slow to change.\nHans Hasselberg, operations at 6Wunderkinder\nWe\u2019re always looking to improve is our provisioning and deployment. We have a service-oriented architecture or microservice. That makes it hard to monitor your system and to identify the next thing.\nOn one hand it\u2019s easy to spot a problem when one service is failing \u2014 you know what\u2019s going on in there \u2014 but it\u2019s also very hard to put that into the bigger picture. Why it\u2019s failing, who\u2019s calling, who\u2019s using this service, and what does it affect.\nHaving the big picture, getting answers, is valuable, but it\u2019s not easy to capture.\nBrian Sierakowski, CEO of TeamPassword\nThere are problems where I can only provide tools to the customer so they can correct issues on their own. I can\u2019t just jump in and say, \u201cLet me handle that for you.\u201d But that\u2019s what I\u2019d prefer: \u201cLet me handle that problem for you.\u201d\nLaura Frank, senior engineer at Codeship\nDocker and the entire suite of Docker-supporting tools are changing so quickly that it\u2019s a really unique challenge to choose the right thing at the right time. You basically have to make a bet that your implementation is going to grow as the supporting ecosystem grows and as the size of Codeship\u2019s userbase increases.\nYou have to bet that the ecosystem is going to grow with your implementation and your userbase.\nSome people find this insanely frustrating, but I love the opportunity to learn so much new stuff all the time.\nBrendan Schwartz, CTO of Wistia\nKatrina Owen, Creator of Exorcism.io\nAt the moment, my biggest challenge is shaping the user experience on exercism.io into something delightful. UX is something that I have no experience with.\n\u201cMy biggest challenge is shaping the user experience into something delightful.\u201d\nI\u2019m not a full-stack developer; I fall squarely into the backend of web development, and I\u2019m rarely faced with having to touch HTML or JavaScript. In my day job, I\u2019ve never had to figure out what information needs to go where or how things should arranged or how one action should flow into the next in order to be understood by humans.\nElliot Cohen, CTO of PillPack\n\u201cHealthcare has not seen a lot of software development or a lot of automation.\u201d\nPeter van Hardenberg, Founding Dev of Heroku Postgres\nIt feels like there\u2019s a new programming language of the week that people are getting into. Is it Go, Rust, Crystal?\n\u201cIt feels like there\u2019s a new programming language of the week that people are getting into.\u201d\nI think that\u2019s great, but it also introduces a lot of new challenges in terms of managing the complexity of projects over time. It\u2019s wonderful that we have these new tools that make it possible to digest this complexity. It\u2019s easier to build your product in multiple languages if you use tools like Heroku, which allow you to deploy all your applications the same way, no matter what language they\u2019re written in.\nOn the other hand, I think it\u2019s getting harder and harder for developers to pick tools, because there are so many options which appear viable but that may or may not survive in the market.\nJohn Sheehan, CEO of Runscope\nUltimately, I probably had 50 or 60 different investor meetings before we got a term sheet to actually get going. We were probably three weeks away from giving up on it and just stopping altogether.\nBob Mason, Director of Project11\nTrying to understand your core customer, how many iterations of the product you have to go through, how you get the right economics for the business to work. Like many startups we wandered in the desert for a few years trying to figure that out.\nA big challenge in tech is simply trying to understand your core customer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 9575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.linkedin.com/2018/november/15/customize-your-settings-to-nurture-your-network", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWGXM22KJQVUMW2BKDFXHLYZRHYFJIOL", "length": 542, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.linkedin.com", "title": "Customize Your Settings to Nurture Your Network | Official LinkedIn Blog", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re like me, life hacks are always welcome when you\u2019re strapped for time. Here are a few quick ways to ensure you are making the most of your settings on LinkedIn so that the next career-changing conversation comes to you. For example, tweaking your notifications can trigger conversation starters with key connections. And, deciding if your email address is visible to your connections can give them another way to reach out to you.\nLinkedIn is a place where you can focus on the relationships that you care about. It\u2019s your community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.louisgray.com/2010/03/branded-site-aggregator-nombray-to-shut.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FIIJYEZN7BHCBOYRVN245U6KYNBIGOGN", "length": 1770, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.louisgray.com", "title": "louisgray.com: Branded Site Aggregator Nombray to Shut Down April 5th", "raw_content": "Branded Site Aggregator Nombray to Shut Down April 5th\nNombray, the project which looked to showcase all your individual or brand's destinations at a single URL, navigable by tabs, looks like it is going to find itself extinct as soon as April 5th, after the CEO was unable to complete the site's sale to a potential buyer at the end of 2009. Despite coverage from CNET, Lifehacker, Killer Startups and others upon its launch, the product apparently never gained the traction necessary to keep it going, although emphasis was on paid accounts with monthly subscriptions.\nCEO Chris Lunt sent an e-mail today to users notifying them of the impending closure, saying the site was to shut down on Monday, April 5th, adding he wished \"there was a different ending\".\nNombray Will Be Gone for All Soon...\nAs I mentioned in my April 2009 coverage of Nombray, the site was very flexible, importing content from my various social media outposts along the Web and presenting them in one place - a site, which at least for the next two weeks, can be found here: http://www.nombray.com/users/305.\nLunt's note to customers spoke quickly of a potential buy that simply didn't pan out:\n\"I had arranged a buyer for Nombray in November, but after a long delay, they were unable to complete the deal. 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The site is still up here: http://www.nombray.com/\nLabels: Chimp, Nombray", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 6968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.lrrc.com/outdoor/2017/10/09/cbp-ban-imports-made-north-korean-workers-regardless-location/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:U5TQ2AZLZT3MFBB4GDC6XPEPXXKKFPVO", "length": 2173, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.lrrc.com", "title": "CBP to Ban Imports Made by North Korean Workers Regardless of Location - The Sports & Outdoor Recreation Blog", "raw_content": "Posted on October 9, 2017 By E. Mart\u00edn Enriquez\nCBP to Ban Imports Made by North Korean Workers Regardless of Location\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced that it will block imports of goods that were produced with North Korean labor even though North Korean workers were employed outside of North Korea. The announcement was made after reports that Chinese-processed seafood Americans buy at Walmart, ALDI, and other stores has been produced with North Korean laborers. The concern is that because most of a North Korean laborer\u2019s salary is paid directly to the North Korean government, Americans may inadvertently be subsidizing North Korean\u2019s missile and nuclear weapons program. However, while CBP\u2019s intentions are good, there is no law on the books that prohibits the importation of goods made by North Koreans outside of North Korea.\nRegulations concerning North Korea-related imports include Executive Order 13570 and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) North Korea sanctions. But these would not support CBP\u2019s detention and seizure of products made outside of North Korea by North Korean laborers. Executive Order 13570 prohibits \u201cthe importation into the United States, directly or indirectly, of any goods, services, or technology from North Korea.\u201d (Emphasis added). Section 510.201(c) of the OFAC sanctions on North Korea, which prohibits any transaction that would violate Executive Order 13570, effectively prohibits imports from North Korea without a license. Notwithstanding CBP\u2019s good intentions, a product does not magically become an import from North Korea because a North Korean laborer worked on the product outside of North Korea.\nResolving a detention and/or seizure of imported products by CBP can be costly and time consuming. Delays can significantly disrupt a business\u2019s operation. In light of CBP\u2019s statements, we recommend that our clients reach out to their suppliers to ensure that their suppliers do not employ North Korean laborers.\nCategoriesOutdoor, Sports\nPrevious PostPrevious Perils of Using Social Media to Run Promotions\nNext PostNext Making Your Passion Your Paycheck: Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.lulu.com/2014/06/05/meet-nanowrimo-accelerator-author-laura-harris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:30Z", "digest": "sha1:I6LRCM5YK5NX7NBJCSPAUDDM6HS4CRJB", "length": 3489, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.lulu.com", "title": "Meet NaNoWriMo Accelerator Author: Laura Harris - Lulu Blog registrations ga_ea_accountregistration : \"\", // GA event action for registration ga_el_accountregistration : \"\", // GA event label for registrations gua_tracking_id : \"\", // Category : \"\", // Google Analytics Category Variable for Registration Data. 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This book in particular was originally prompted by lyrics to the song \u2018Demons\u2019 by Imagine Dragons and developed from there into my NaNoWriMo 2013 project, which I was desperate to win after failing miserably in 2012.\nI think the main problem I have is staying focused on writing and not getting pulled away by the rest of life. It\u2019s why NaNoWriMo is so helpful because it offers motivation and gets me into the habit of writing. Every year it rolls around and gives me a kick to start writing and stop procrastinating.\nFind other writers. Through school/university, a local writing club, NaNoWriMo \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter how, but find people who you can discuss your story with, who will understand why you\u2019re tearing your hair out over a runaway character, who you can write with so you don\u2019t leave a story alone for months on end.\nThe basic premise is that sixteen years prior to the start of the book, human-dragon politics reached breaking point for various reasons, and dragonslayers won. To save themselves from extinction, dragons fled their bodies and hid their souls in human hosts. This book is the culmination of that. The presence of two souls weakens the human body and is slowly killing them off, meaning the dragons can\u2019t hide any more. There are two main characters; Giselle, an orphaned gold smuggler who\u2019s grown up with a voice in her head, and Corran, the youngest son of a dragonslayer desperate to prove himself. Read it if you like dragons. Read it you like sword & sorcery fantasy (although there\u2019s less of the sorcery in this, magic is limited to dragons). Read it if you like coming of age stories. And hey, read it even if none of those things is your normal reading preferences because why not try something new?\nI\u2019ve always liked the escapism of fantasy and the concept of magic. The majority of my bookcase and DVD collection involves magic or the supernatural of some kind, so it\u2019s just natural to write more of that.\nThe writing part is normal, I\u2019ve been doing it for so long. Completing something is just a matter of writing day after day, week after week and staying motivated \u2013 and then editing. The editing a book to completion is what I\u2019ve never quite managed before and it is a lot more work than I expected. There are so many parts to it (plot, make the reader keep reading, improving the writing itself) and it takes just as long as writing the book. It\u2019s been a great learning experience though.\nThe work that goes into marketing a book. Going into it alone is much more difficult than I imagined and there are so many things to consider like social media, cover design, promotional materials. Just having a book out there isn\u2019t going to do anything \u2013 you need to make sure people know about it.\nOf course! For one thing, I need to wrap up Giselle & Corran\u2019s story in the final Firesouls book, but I could never stop writing for too long. The story ideas pick at my brain until I\u2019m opening a new document and start typing away.\nTo avoid repeating the acknowledgements already in the back of my book which is several paragraphs long: thank you to every single person who encouraged me in writing over the years, and everyone who gave me advice and/or criticism because that helped me improve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 6826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ten-years-of-co-working-the-founders-share-their-experiences/2015/09/11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3VWGSD5RZZRW3UFWTQOOSVULP4AEAW6Q", "length": 5070, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.p2pfoundation.net", "title": "Ten years of co-working: the founders share their experiences | P2P Foundation", "raw_content": "P2P Labor P2P Lifestyles\nTen years of co-working: the founders share their experiences\nThis is excerpted from a long collective interview with Cat Johnson for Shareable magazine:\nThe first question, excerpted in full here, was asked to the founders of various key coworking initiatives:\n* Shareable: What are the most surprising things you\u2019ve see from the coworking movement in the last 10 years?\nAlex Hillman: I think about the sheer vastness of how far coworking has spread in 10 years and it honestly blows my mind. As of a couple of weeks ago at the inaugural Coworking Africa conference, I\u2019ve gotten to witness coworking on every continent besides Antarctica.\nBut what never ceases to amaze me is the similarities that can be found across borders. Of course there are nuances from city to city and country to country, but the fundamentals are the same. Coworking is making our very big world feel a lot more intimate. I never expected that.\nRonald van den Hoff: That it actually works so well and that coworking creates a sustainable ecosystem for connection, collaboration and networked value creation.\nAshley Proctor: I\u2019m most surprised that there are so many new players in the industry who believe that coworking is about renting out desks and maximizing real estate. After ten years of steady grassroots growth and such a strong and successful coworking model focused on the core values (openness, accessibility, sustainability, community and collaboration) it surprises me that anyone would want to remove the heart and soul of the movement and focus on the potential for profit. Unfortunately, we see that more and more as coworking becomes more mainstream.\nTony Bacigalupo: I\u2019m most surprised by how big of a business it\u2019s become in such a short period of time. In the early days, we had a sense that coworking was going to be a big deal, but I don\u2019t think anyone anticipated how quickly companies would come along to scale it up as hard and fast as they have. Coworking has become far more of a consumptive, mainstream thing than I\u2019d imagined it would.\nTara Hunt: I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s surprising entirely, but it was something we didn\u2019t completely envision\u2026seeing fully funded \u2018coworking\u2019 spaces open up across the country is exciting to me. Though they may toe the line of \u2018shared office spaces\u2019, which were around long before coworking, they bring some of the vision of the original coworking movement: creating accessible, collaborative spaces where independents can gather as a community. I just hope that they can exist alongside the more grassroots spaces that are equally as (if not more) important \u2013 working together to create an ecosystem that suits everyone\u2019s needs.\nLori Kane: One of the most amazing things I\u2019ve witnessed is automatic succession planning. That is, as people want to move on from day-to-day running of a space, new people show up and/or step forward fluidly, easily, and without \u201cplanning\u201d in the traditional sense at all. I keep watching it happen and it\u2019s a deeply beautiful and humbling thing to witness and be part of. True community equals magic.\nAnother surprising thing is how sticky coworking itself is and how much energy it creates as we learn to trust it and ourselves. It\u2019s like being part of a self-organizing group: once you know you can do it, you\u2019re disinclined to settle for less.\nJacob Sayles: The tremendous growth of coworking does not surprise me. The fact that we are finding each other spread across the globe and working hard to find ways to collaborate does not surprise me. I am surprised how difficult it is to get the word out that this way of working, this way of living, is here and abundant. I\u2019ve been shouting COWORKING on high for eight years now and people still wander in to Office Nomads completely surprised that this exists. And those are the ones that find us. What about all the others stuck at home thinking their lack of productivity is a self discipline problem?\nJeremy Neuner: I\u2019m surprised and delighted by the million-and-one ways that entrepreneurs are constantly re-thinking and re-imagining the idea of coworking. Coworking in shopping malls! Coworking in airports! Coworking on a boat! Coworking on a bus! Coworking in hotel lobbies! Coworking in driverless cars! Like any new industry, the size and kinds of experiments will vary and will meet with a wide range of success or failure. But wherever you can gather together two and 2,000 innovative, collaborative people in a physical location with wifi and coffee, shaazaam!\u2014you\u2019ll get coworking.\nLiz Elam: The most surprising thing the coworking movement has taught me is to treat others as collaborators not competitors. When I first came in I thought I was the only shark in the tank and that everyone else was a sitting duck. It didn\u2019t take me long at all to realize that I too was a duck and there are no sharks. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it before but this industry is very unique in its universal support of each other.\n\u2190 The tortuous path towards abundance\nThe P2P Foundation as a collective \u2018organic intellectual\u2019 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 10939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.vitalimagery.com/2015_01_18_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OO7HORRSHAEOCG5EZDWMJ3BCGM5EI65P", "length": 5778, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "blog.vitalimagery.com", "title": "Vital Imagery Blog: 1/18/15 - 1/25/15", "raw_content": "My daughter is in the process of starting not one, but two home businesses. The first, a cat boarding facility, is going to be years in the making, thanks primarily to a good deal of red tape. The second, a daycare, is more immediate.\nShe is obviously then in the throes of all the muddle of getting an enterprise started \u2014 from dealing with bureaucracy to creating her brand and incorporating it into all types of promotional materials.\nWhen it comes to advertising first impressions are important. So if a company brochure is your introduction to potential clients, you want to make sure that it's designed to impress.\nThe main goal of a brochure is to not just tell people who you are, but what you do. It's a tool that can be broadly distributed at little cost. As they are relatively economical to produce too, you can even create several to focus on various segments of your business.\nNot everyone has the time, or software to create their own brochure, but if you do, and want to give it a try on your own, here's a website that explains how to \"Design a Ready to Print Brochure in Photoshop\": http://tinyurl.com/r334eh.\nWhether you decide to have the brochure done professionally or in-house, there are important factors to consider before you get the project started. Here's an informative website with some great tips to consider: http://tinyurl.com/3fwrys5.\nOnce you've got the key elements decided for design, selecting the right photos or illustrations will make your finished project picture perfect. Having completed the perfect brochure, the last thing you want is to find yourself on the wrong end of a copyright issue. There are a number of wonderful online resources for accessing images legally and within a variety of budgets. Here are a few favourites for illustrations and photos:\nLabels: brochure, brochures, business, create, illustrations, images, materials, online graphics, online subscription graphics services, photoshop, promotional, promotional materials, promotions\nWhether you're a graphic designer or a grandma working on a special family memento, finding that perfect image to use in your project is easy, thanks to the diversity available through a variety of online services.\nThat said, for novices (and there are still a few out there) delving into the world of graphics can be intimidating especially if using an image isn't going to be as straightforward as they hoped. For instance, there are times when a transparent background is required, and while a png may have one, depending on how the artist created the image, a jpg will have a background 100 per cent of the time. Only with vectors, a format that can be altered without any loss of quality, is transparency of background guaranteed.\nA cautionary addendum to this, however, is that in order to open a vector file, one does require advanced image editing software, something everyday users might not have at their disposal.\nProfessional software programs (like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW) are quality products providing tools to work one's own magic on an image. However, they can be rather expensive for hobbyists. The good news though is there are free options online for people for whom such an investment just wouldn't make sense. This link offers some examples: 5 Free Vector Graphics Editors.\nFor people with simpler needs, or for those who just don't feel quite ready to work with vectors, the popular word is Photoshop. This program is finding its way into households as well as businesses, but with a price tag attached still isn't a practical option for everyone. A great alternative is GIMP which can be downloaded at www.gimp.org\nA quick Google search also brings up a number of other free options, some specific to a task. This link (www.mashable.com/2007/10/27/graphics-toolbox/) is for Graphic Toolbox, a fun site that lists 35 free graphics programs.\nWhile it's possible to find clipart that doesn't require editing, with a little work, creativity and imagination you can become an image editing wizard. Be fearless. Have some fun and create a little magic with your favourite image.\nLabels: clipart, editing, editor, editors, GIMP, illustrations, image editing, image editors, images, photoshop, vector files, vectors\nIt's not a common question you hear in the winter in this neck of the woods, but it was what I overheard a colleague asking another on Monday morning. \"How was swimming this weekend?\"\nWe live in the Great White North and it's only due to a recent influx of larger recreation centres with indoor pools in area towns that for a few hours on our off time we can enjoy a warm weather activity as snow blows outside. What is more likely to happen on a weekend, though, are hardy Canadians heading into the ice and cold to enjoy fun times on the rinks, slopes and trails.\nIce skating and hockey dominate in community arenas, where conditions are perfect even in a mild winter. Snowmobilers head through town to fuel machines and bodies before riding the highways through the snow. Trails in rural forests and wide open fields provide the perfect setting for cross-country skiers, while downhill fans head to the closest hills.\nOne of my favourite winter sights, however, is the horde of youngsters gathered at the hill by the river for tobogganing. It's been a hot spot for kids forever and the fresh look of rosy-cheeked tots accompanied by the music of laughter is a bright spot on my walk home from work.\nIf you're looking for happy faces enjoying winter sports these illustrations from several online sources are perfect for a variety of projects:\nLabels: clipart, illustrations, images, sports, sports clipart, sports illustrations, winter, winter sports, winter sports clipart, winter sports illustration, winter sports images, wintertime", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 421, "original_length": 18274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bloggersnetwork.com.au/considerations-for-seo-in-brisbane/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z4LGVWYO2GSS6ACQQQ3G4FKTP5KGK5M", "length": 1876, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bloggersnetwork.com.au", "title": "Considerations For SEO In Brisbane - Bloggers Network", "raw_content": "Computer And Internet July 16, 2018 No Comments timothy harvard SEO-in-Brisbane-helps-everyone\nAlmost every entrepreneur throughout the world has heard of search engine optimisation because it is one of those buzz words that never went away. It continues to be an essential aspect of business, and many entrepreneurs have gotten into SEO in Brisbane.\nSome of them build companies that focus on providing search engine optimisation services to others. Some entrepreneurs want search engine optimisation and outsource it because they don\u2019t know what to do themselves. Regardless of where you are on the spectrum, it\u2019s an important part of business that isn\u2019t likely to go away in the future.\nSEO in Brisbane helps everyone; your company benefits because people who want your products or services can find you easily and customers benefit because they can search for your services or products and find what they need quickly. Over 3.5 billion searches are performed daily, and while every single one doesn\u2019t result in a sale, it does improve your chances significantly. There are billions of opportunities for you to generate more leads and find loyal customers but only if they can find you first. Plus, the traffic you do see is more targeted and better quality; people already want your product, so they\u2019re more willing to compare prices and purchase from you.\nAt eBrandz, they realise that the biggest problem isn\u2019t finding quality SEO in Brisbane. It\u2019s quite easy to hire a firm and utilise their services. The most significant issue people have is proving the results. If you are part of a search engine optimisation company, you need to ensure that you can show your results and let them see how well you\u2019re doing. If you are an entrepreneur, you are likely to report to the CEO or an executive in the company. You must be able to report how well your campaigns are doing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.marketwatch.com/behindthestorefront/2013/08/26/wal-mart-hits-the-brakes-on-expansion-in-india-ft/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:48Z", "digest": "sha1:RE6YIE52OX3RVWWCTR2ZOAW4YWRSVEXT", "length": 2589, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blogs.marketwatch.com", "title": "Wal-Mart hits the brakes on expansion in India: FT - Behind the Storefront - MarketWatch", "raw_content": "Wal-Mart hits the brakes on expansion in India: FT\nWal-Mart\u2019s wholesale cash-and-carry business\nWal-Mart Stores Inc. /quotes/zigman/245476 /quotes/nls/wmt WMT , which has counted on overseas markets to grow, has suffered a setback and is putting its expansion in India on hold, the Financial Times reported.\nWal-Mart hasn\u2019t added a wholesale, or so-called cash-and-carry, shop to its 20-store portfolio since late October, the FT reported, adding it opened its first such location in 2009 in a joint venture with New Delhi-based Bharti Enterprises.\nA Bharti unit that operates the Easy Day convenience stores with technical and managerial support from Wal-Mart also hasn\u2019t opened any stores since November, the FT said, adding Bharti has terminated leases on more than a dozen locations over the past few months that would have become new stores.\nThe article said Wal-Mart\u2019s hitting the brakes on expansion in India as the government was investigating whether it violated a previous ban on foreign ownership of grocery stores by giving a loan to the Easy Day business, FT reported. The company itself is also examining whether its executives there violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing officials to get store-opening permits, the article reported. It cited a consultant that the pause will lead the company to lose market momentum.\nA Wal-Mart official didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request seeking comment.\nThe reported time-out in India came two months after the company lost its chief in that market. Wal-Mart is figuring out its next steps in India after the government last year opened up its retail industry to allow direct foreign investment of up to 51% in local ventures selling multi-brands, which in turn opened the door to retailers such as Wal-Mart to open stores that sell directly to consumers.\nInternational grew to 29% of Wal-Mart\u2019s $466.1 billion in sales last year, up from 26% two years ago. In the company\u2019s latest second-quarter results, the international unit was the only one to post an operating profit decline. While Wal-Mart said it sees cautious consumer spending on the international front, it\u2019s also hurt by higher-than-expected expenses tied to an investigation of alleged bribery of officials overseas, including in China and Mexico. The company also has faced wage-hike pressure while foreign currency translation alone dented quarterly sales by $680 million.\nBest Price Modern Wholesale,\nBharti Enterprises,\nForeign direct investment,\nT.J. Maxx and Ross Stores gain from others\u2019 pain\nBig Lots revamp earns an upgrade from J.P. Morgan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/tag/case-records-of-the-massachusetts-general-hospital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IRVGMGWUYFXCXQGKDX6JZO7L7ZC4SRVL", "length": 3723, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "blogs.nejm.org", "title": "Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital Archives - Now@NEJM Now@NEJM", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \u2018Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital\u2019\nPainful Bullous Skin Lesions\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 57-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a 19-month history of recurrent painful bullous and erosive skin lesions. Multiple skin-biopsy specimens had yielded diverse diagnoses. A diagnostic procedure was performed. Acquired autoantibodies are directed against desmoglein 1 and desmoglein 3 in pemphigus vulgaris\u2026. Read More\u2026\nFever and Lymphadenopathy\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 30-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever, chills, and lymphadenopathy that developed 6 months after he returned from a trip to India. Imaging revealed diffuse lymphadenopathy in the neck and chest and splenomegaly. Diagnostic tests were performed. Localized lymphadenopathy is common, and\u2026 Read More\u2026\nMalaise and Chest and Abdominal Pain\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 41-year-old woman with a history of HIV infection was admitted to the hospital because of malaise and chest and abdominal pain. Initial laboratory evaluation was notable for elevated hepatic aminotransferase levels. Diagnostic procedures were performed. Hepatic injury with significant elevations in transaminases has been reported\u2026 Read More\u2026\nDizziness and Vomiting\nPosted by Sara Fazio \u2022 November 1st, 2013\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 69-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of dizziness and vomiting, which had begun abruptly 9 hours earlier, on awakening. Examination revealed nystagmus and a wide-based gait. CT revealed no intracranial hemorrhage. A diagnostic procedure was performed. Stroke is the leading cause of serious\u2026 Read More\u2026\nAbdominal Pain, Fever, and Weight Loss\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 29-year-old man was seen in an outpatient clinic because of abdominal pain, fever, and weight loss. Testing for HIV antibodies was positive, and the CD4 T-lymphocyte count was 10 per cubic millimeter. Chest imaging revealed tiny nodules in both lungs. This case illustrates the importance\u2026 Read More\u2026\nPosted in Physicians-In-Training | Permalink | Comments Off on Abdominal Pain, Fever, and Weight Loss\nOtalgia, Slurred Speech, and Ataxia\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 19-year-old man presented with otalgia, slurred speech, and ataxia 1 month after an episode of infectious mononucleosis. Otalgia improved after myringotomy and antibiotic therapy, but ataxia worsened and cognitive impairment developed. The Guillain-Barre syndrome is the most common cause of postinfectious ataxia, but this is\u2026 Read More\u2026\nNewborn with Respiratory Distress\nIn the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, premature newborn boy was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory distress. On his sixth day of life, sudden clinical deterioration and multiorgan system failure developed, and he died on his seventh day. An autopsy was performed. Neonates with very low birth weight (less than or\u2026 Read More\u2026\nPosted in Physicians-In-Training | Permalink | Comments Off on Newborn with Respiratory Distress\nBrain Mass\nIn this week\u2019s Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a 54-year-old man had transient then persistent partial loss of vision. Images of the brain showed two adjacent masses in the left occipital and posterior parietal regions. A diagnostic procedure was performed. Glioblastoma is a highly malignant tumor, with a median survival of 9 to 14 months\u2026 Read More\u2026\nPosted in Physicians-In-Training | Permalink | Comments Off on Brain Mass", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 10537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/bio101-from-genes-to-traits-how-genotype-affects-phenotype/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XUV2IQUQZGHLSLSAMCQAZMAUDVG2UAGU", "length": 10277, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "blogs.scientificamerican.com", "title": "BIO101 - From Genes To Traits: How Genotype Affects Phenotype - Scientific American Blog Network", "raw_content": "BIO101 - From Genes To Traits: How Genotype Affects Phenotype\nThis post was originally written in 2006 and re-posted a few times, including in 2010. Please help me locate the sources of the images - I assume they are from the text book I used at the time, but am not completely sure.\nAs you may know, I have been teaching BIO101 (and also the BIO102 Lab) to non-traditional students in an adult education program for about twelve years now. Every now and then I muse about it publicly on the blog (see this, this, this, this, this, this and this for a few short posts about various aspects of it - from the use of videos, to the use of a classroom blog, to the importance of Open Access so students can read primary literature). The quality of students in this program has steadily risen over the years, but I am still highly constrained with time: I have eight 4-hour meetings with the students over eight weeks. In this period I have to teach them all of biology they need for their non-science majors, plus leave enough time for each student to give a presentation (on the science of their favourite plant and animal) and for two exams. Thus I have to strip the lectures to the bare bones, and hope that those bare bones are what non-science majors really need to know: concepts rather than factoids, relationship with the rest of their lives rather than relationship with the other sciences. Thus I follow my lectures with videos and classroom discussions, and their homework consists of finding cool biology videos or articles and posting the links on the classroom blog for all to see. A couple of times I used malaria as a thread that connected all the topics - from cell biology to ecology to physiology to evolution. I think that worked well but it is hard to do. They also write a final paper on some aspect of physiology.\nAnother new development is that the administration has realized that most of the faculty have been with the school for many years. We are experienced, and apparently we know what we are doing. Thus they recently gave us much more freedom to design our own syllabus instead of following a pre-defined one, as long as the ultimate goals of the class remain the same. I am not exactly sure when am I teaching the BIO101 lectures again (late Fall, Spring?) but I want to start rethinking my class early. I am also worried that, since I am not actively doing research in the lab and thus not following the literature as closely, that some of the things I teach are now out-dated. Not that anyone can possibly keep up with all the advances in all the areas of Biology which is so huge, but at least big updates that affect teaching of introductory courses are stuff I need to know.\nI need to catch up and upgrade my lecture notes. And what better way than crowdsource! So, over the new few weeks, I will re-post my old lecture notes (note that they are just intros - discussions and videos etc. follow them in the classroom) and will ask you to fact-check me. If I got something wrong or something is out of date, let me know (but don't push just your own preferred hypothesis if a question is not yet settled - give me the entire controversy explanation instead). If something is glaringly missing, let me know. If something can be said in a nicer language - edit my sentences. If you are aware of cool images, articles, blog-posts, videos, podcasts, visualizations, animations, games, etc. that can be used to explain these basic concepts, let me know. And at the end, once we do this with all the lectures, let's discuss the overall syllabus - is there a better way to organize all this material for such a fast-paced class.\nToday, I tackle the important but difficult task of explaining why \"gene for\" idea is wrong and how to think in a more sophisticated manner about the way genes affect phenotype.\nHow Genotype Affects Phenotype\nOne often hears news reports about discoveries of a \"gene for X\", e.g., gene for alcoholism, gene for homosexuality, gene for breast cancer, etc. This is an incorrect way of thinking about genes, as it implies a one-to-one mapping between genes and traits.\nThis misunderstanding stems from historical precedents. The very first genes were discovered decades ago with quite primitive technology. Thus, the only genes that could be discovered were those with large, dramatic effects on the traits. For instance, a small mutation (change in the sequence of nucleotides) in the gene that codes for RNA that codes for one of the four elements of the hemoglobin protein results in sickle-cell anemia. The red blood cells are, as a result, misshapen and the ability of red blood cells to carry sufficient oxygen to the cells is diminished.\nDue to such dramatic effects of small mutations, it was believed at the time that each gene codes for a particular trait. Today, it is possible to measure minuscule effects of multiple genes and it is well understood that the \"one gene/one trait\" paradigm is largely incorrect. Most traits are affected by many genes, and most genes are involved in the development of multiple traits.\nA genome is all the genetic information of an individual. Each cell in the body contains the complete genome. Genomes (i.e., DNA sequences) differ slightly between individuals of the same species, and a little bit more between genomes of closely related species, yet even more between distantly related species.\nExact DNA sequence of an individual is its genotype. The collection of all observable and measurable traits of that individual is phenotype.\nIf every position and every function of every cell in our bodies was genetically determined, we would need trillions of genes to specify all that information. Yet, we have only about 26,000 genes. All of our genes are very similar to the equivalent genes of chimpanzees, yet we are obviously very different in anatomy, physiology and behavior from chimpanzees. Furthermore, we share many of the same genes with fish, insects and even plants, yet the differences in phenotypes are enormous.\nThus, it follows logically that the metaphor of the genome as a blueprint for building a body is wrong. It is not which genes you have, but how those genes interact with each other during development that makes you different from another individual of the same species, or from a salmon or a cabbage.\nBut, how do genes interact with each other? Genes code for proteins. Some proteins interact with other proteins. Some proteins regulate the transcription or replication of DNA. Other proteins are enzymes that modify other chemicals. Yet other proteins are structural, i.e., become parts of membranes and other structures.\nA slight difference in the DNA sequence will have an effect on the sequence of RNA and the sequence of the resulting protein, affecting the primary, secondary and tertiary structure of that protein. The changes in 3D shape of the protein will affect its efficiency in performing its function.\nFor instance, if two proteins interact with each other, and in order to do so need to bind each other, and they bind because their shapes fit into each other like lock and key, then change of shape of one protein is going to alter the efficiency of binding of the two. Changes in shapes of both proteins can either slow down or speed up the reaction. Change of rate of that one reaction in the cell will have effects on some other reaction in the cell, including the way the cell reacts to the signals from the outside.\nThus genes, proteins, other chemicals inside the cell, inter-cellular interactions and the external environment ALL affect the trait. Most importantly, as the traits are built during development, it is the interactions between all these players at all levels of organizations during development that determine the final phenotype of the organism.\nThe importance of the environment can be seen from the phenomenon of the norm of reaction. The same genotype, when raised in different environments results in different phenotypes. Furthermore, different genotypes respond to the same environmental changes differently from each other. One genotype may produce a taller plant at higher elevation while a slightly different genotype may respond quite the opposite: producing a shorter plant at higher elevations.\nSo, if genes do not code for traits, and the genome is not a blueprint, what is the best way to think about the genome and the genotype/phenotype mapping? I have given you handouts (see below) with four different alternative metaphors, at least one of which, I hope, will feel clear and memorable to each student. I will now give you a fifth such metaphor, one of my own:\nImagine that a cell is an airplane factory. It buys raw materials and sells finished airplanes. How does it do so? The proteins are the factory workers. Some of them import the materials, others are involved in the sale of airplanes. Some guard the factory from thieves, while others cook and serve food in the factory cafeteria.\nBut the most important proteins of this cell are those that assemble the parts of airplanes. When they need a part, e.g., a propeller, they go to the storeroom (nucleus) and check the Catalogue Of Parts (the DNA), and press the button to place an order for a particular part. Other proteins (storeroom managers) go inside and find the correct part and send it to the assembly floor (endoplasmic reticulum).\nBut, protein workers are themselves robots assembled out of parts right there in the same factory, and the instructions for their assembly are also in the Catalogue of Parts (DNA) in the nucleus.\nHow do you wear your genes? (PDF) by Richard Dawkins.\nAn analogy for the genome by Richard Harter.\nIt's not just the genes, it's the links between them by Paul Myers\nPZ Myers' Own Original, Cosmic, and Eccentric Analogy for How the Genome Works -OR- High Geekology by Paul Myers\nIt's more than genes, it's networks and systems by Paul Myers.\nBiology and the Scientific Method\nBIO101 \u2013 Cell Structure\nBIO101 \u2013 Protein Synthesis: Transcription and Translation\nBIO101: Cell-Cell Interactions\nBIO101 \u2013 From One Cell To Two: Cell Division and DNA Replication\nBIO101 \u2013 From Two Cells To Many: Cell Differentiation and Embryonic Development\nScienceOnline2011 - interview with Michael Barton\nThe Mighty Ant-Lion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 12968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluejaysfromaway.com/may-31-2018-toronto-blue-jays-minor-league-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QOHLETG5ZR4G4XOVA2C7KJZ3N2C2VWWY", "length": 4134, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "bluejaysfromaway.com", "title": "May 31, 2018 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Report \u2013 Blue Jays from Away", "raw_content": "June 1, 2018 May 31, 2018 Jay Blue\nAll three of the Blue Jays\u2019 minor league squads in action on Thursday night went into extra innings with two of the clubs winning.\nThe Buffalo Bisons beat the Columbus Clippers on Thursday, going to 10 innings and getting a game-winning, walk-off sacrifice fly to win 4-3. Randal Grichuk was back in the saddle again, going 1/4 with a walk as the Bisons\u2019 DH while Tim Lopes, who drove in the winning run with a sac fly was 2/4 with two RBI and a run. Roemon Fields was 3/4 with an RBI but was caught stealing. Ian Parmley was also 1/4 with a walk.\nChris Rowley was on the mound to start and struggled with his command, walking five batters and giving up three runs on four hits with three strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings. Luis Santos tossed three scoreless frames, allowing two hits and two walks with two strikeouts and Justin Shafer threw the final 2 1/3 innings, walking one and giving up a hit, earning his first win with Buffalo.\nRoster Notes: Jose Mayorga was placed on the 7-Day DL and Dusty Isaacs was promoted from New Hampshire.\nRoemon Fields and Tim Lopes\nNew Hampshire Fisher Cats 9, Portland Sea Dogs 12\nThe New Hampshire Fisher Cats had their game also go to 10 innings but they came out on the wrong side, losing to the Portland Sea Dogs 12-9. The Fisher Cats got on a roll early, getting a home run from Bo Bichette and another one from Max Pentecost before the first inning was done. Bichette was 2/5 with a homer, two RBI and a run while Pentecost was 1/5 with two RBI and two runs. Jonathan Davis was 2/5 with an RBI and a triple while Gunnar Heidt was 2/4 with a double and a triple, taking a walk and driving in a run and scoring two runs. Aledmys Diaz was 2/4 wtih two doubles and two runs while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 1/4 with a walk and a run. Cavan Biggio was on base three times, going 1/1 with two walks and an RBI, hitting a sacrifice fly and a sac bunt.\nJon Harris had another solid start, giving up just two runs in 5 2/3 innings, allowing six hits and a walk with seven strikeouts. Danny Young was charged with five runs in an inning of work, allowing four hits and a walk with two strikeouts. Nick Hartman was charged with the loss, giving up five runs (two earned) on four hits and two walks in 2 1/3 innings and Andrew Case allowed two hits (and let both inherited score) with a strikeout in the 10th.\nL: Nick Hartman (1-1)\nHR: Bo Bichette (4), Max Pentecost (3)\nRoster Notes: Dusty Isaacs was promoted to Buffalo while Nick Hartman was promoted to New Hampshire from Dunedin.\nBo Bichette, Gunnar Heidt and Jon Harris\nDunedin Blue Jays, Florida Fire Frogs\nRoster Notes: Nick Hartman was moved up to Dunedin and Andy Ravel was promoted from Lansing to Dunedin.\nThe Lansing Lugnuts have a never-say-die attitude in 2018 and they proved that, coming from behind twice to overcome the Lake County Captains and register their 35th win, beating the Captains 8-7 in 11 innings. The Lugnuts, down 5-1, scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game, scored two more in the bottom of the 10th to tie it yet again, and got an RBI single from Norberto Obeso in the bottom of the 11th to win it. That was Obeso\u2019s fourth hit and he scored a run in addition to driving one in. Cullen Large was 2/5 with an RBI and a run while Chavez Young was 2/4 with a walk, a stolen base and an RBI. Brock Lundquist tied the game for the second time in the bottom of the 10th with a two-run home run, going 1/4 with the blast and two runs and Ryan Noda was 1/4 with a walk, an RBI and a run. Kevin Vicuna was 1/5 with a triple.\nColton Laws started and gave the Lugnuts 5 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on eight hits including three home runs with three strikeouts. Claudio Custodio went 1 2/3 innings, allowing two hits and Brody Rodning gave up two runs (one earned) on four hits with three strikeouts in three innings of relief. Andrew Deramo walked one and struck out two in his inning of relief.\nW: Andrew Deramo (2-0)\nHR: Brock Lundquist (10)\nRoster Notes: Andy Ravel was promoted to Dunedin and Emerson Jimenez was activated off the DL.\nSeries Sum-Up: at Boston, May 28-30 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 505, "original_length": 12945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bodenyc.com/category/workshop/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ARXMFD2ODEA3AXOWPHJKRO3LEEFDTN5S", "length": 2222, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bodenyc.com", "title": "Workshop | Page 2 of 2 | Bode NYC", "raw_content": "Best Practices, Postures, Practice, Workshop\nMaster Class Series: John Salvatore\nWe\u2019re excited to present the next installment of our new Master Class Series!\nJohn Salvatore was one of Bikram Yoga NYC\u2019s very first instructors and was a mentor to many in our current teaching staff \u2013 he\u2019s a Teacher\u2019s Teacher! While many of our long time students will remember John and his amazing classes, the name might also be unknown for many. The unfamiliarity may be due to John\u2019s new location in Las Vegas, Nevada where he has a starring role in the stage version of the popular Jersey Boys musical.\nHis Master class on the 17th will be the first time John has led one with us in over 5 years. The class will be an interactive session, breaking down each posture, discussing biomechanics, alignment, breath, depth and much more for each of the 26 postures and two breathing exercises in the Bikram method.\nThursday, 6:oopm \u2013 8:30pm\nCheckin starts at 5:30pm\n[mk_pricing_table style=\u201dmonocolor\u201d table_number=\u201d1\u2033 tables=\u201d9288\u2033 order=\u201dDESC\u201d orderby=\u201ddate\u201d][/mk_pricing_table][mk_countdown date=\u201d12/17/2015 19:00:00\u2033 offset=\u201d-4\u2033]\nI decided to go to my first yoga class after a friend told me that it was the hottest and most challenging workout they have ever done. I never did yoga before in my life, but for some reason I felt compelled to go that very day. It was called Bikram yoga. Little did I know that this so-called \u201cworkout\u201d I was about to casually throw myself into would end up changing my life. After my first class I was hooked. I practiced every day for 2 years before I made the decision to become a teacher. I honestly felt that it was a sin to keep this wonderful thing all for myself. I had to share it and felt inspired to pass on this amazing gift I had received. It was my duty. I graduated from Bikram Yoga\u2019s teacher training in the spring of 2001. Since then, I have been teaching not only in my hometown in New York City, but all over the United States and now here in fabulous Las Vegas. Don\u2019t ever give up, don\u2019t ever lose hope and don\u2019t quit 5 seconds before the miracle.\nbode https://bodenyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/bo2.png bode2015-11-23 15:30:542018-04-01 08:57:31Master Class Series: John Salvatore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 19945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bollimovie.com/en/movies/575911/Ant-Man-and-the-Wasp-2018.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7YRNOQS6GMHGNCYBC6BFXXPIHPZH4NG", "length": 175, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bollimovie.com", "title": "Watch Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Movie Online Streaming & Download", "raw_content": "Watch Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Movie Online Streaming & Download\nAnt-Man and the Wasp (2018) HD\nAction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy.\nhttp://www.breakingnewsweek.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1162, "original_length": 20026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://booktrib.com/tag/robert-langdon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:4C2PNNNXGOJTVYZLUDFJ6B7UYE2KDS7X", "length": 182, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "booktrib.com", "title": "robert Langdon - BookTrib", "raw_content": "Review: Dan Brown\u2019s \u2018Origin\u2019 is a Breathtaking, Action-Packed Mystery\nPerfectly written for the big screen, Dan Brown definitely knows how to keep a plot moving! He feeds the reader\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brainwavelove.com/how-does-brainwave-entrainment-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BIDYGOMFSXZ5QCGD2AI6BVL6W27DKSUB", "length": 11662, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "brainwavelove.com", "title": "How Does Brainwave Entrainment Work | Alpha Waves | Theta Waves | Delta Waves", "raw_content": "How Does Brainwave Entrainment Work\nThe specifics about how exactly Brainwave Entrainment works. What are Alpha Waves, Theta Waves, Delta Waves, and Gamma Waves\nIn the past, the most common method of inducing specific brainwave states was through the use of binaural beats. One specific beat was played in one ear (through stereo headphones) and a different beat was played through the other. What the brain would naturally do in hearing these variated beats was create its own beat from the combination of the two (ie if a beat at 100 Hz was played in one ear, and a beat of 110 Hz was played in the other, the brain would resonate at 10Hz). Aside from this directing the brain into a specific state, it also causes the two hemispheres of the brain to synchronize, promoting whole brain functioning. More recently, other methods have been discovered for inducing specific brainwave states, such as isochronic tones, and monaural beats, but the bottom line is that\nBinaural Beats Do Work!\nIsochronic tones and Monaural beats are now being considered by many to be more effective and more useful in brainwave entrainment technology. Monaural beats, unlike binaural beats, only use one beat. It is said that these are easier on the brain, and help to induce a specific brainwave state faster and more effectively, as the brain does not need to go through the process of reconciling two different frequencies.\nIsochronic tones are the most recent and advanced method for brainwave entrainment audios. With isochronic tones, the same intensity is used for all tones, but they pulsate on and off at different rates. The speed, pattern, and rates of these tones can be changed and altered throughout the recording, and the brain will follow them into desired states. The use of isochronic tones opens up the ability to lead the brain into highly specific states, at specific speeds and intensities. This has opened up the doorway to producing both dominant and subdominant waves(i.e. an alpha brainwave state with subdominant theta waves), and the ability to lead the brain through different waves, at specific speeds (i.e. holding the brain in an alpha state for 10 minutes, then dropping it through theta for 20, and holding it in delta for five before bringing it back into alpha at the end of the recording.) This allows thousands of different possibilities in training the brain, and also makes the process of listening to these types of audios more natural, and more powerful.\nOne of my very favorite makers of Brainwave Entrainment Technology is Jeffrey Gignac, the creator of Smarter in 7 Minutes and contributor to the Super Mind Evolution System, as he uses all three of these methods to make very effective and powerful audios.\nBrainwave Frequencies \u2013 What are they all about?\nAlpha brainwaves are resonating just below beta brainwaves at the frequency range of 8Hz to 12Hz on an EEG. Beta brainwaves are the normal, waking life, active, rational thinking and problem solving brainwaves that are dominant in most people throughout the day. Alpha brainwaves begin to show up when relaxation occurs. Often times the simple act of closing your eyes can product spurts of alpha waves. Taking a few deep breaths or consciously relaxing will do the same. When alpha waves become dominant, the body and mind are usually comfortably relaxed.\nDominant alpha brainwave states have been linked to creative problem solving, and increased artistic abilities and intuition.\nThe release from stress that a dominant alpha brainwave state brings will also stimulate and enhance the immune system. Some people rarely experience alpha brainwaves. These are probably the people you know that are stressed out all the time. Using alpha brainwave entrainment recordings help to relax you and to train your brain to relax when you want it to. It is also a commonly held idea that\nBeing in an alpha brainwave state increases the efficacy of visualizations, affirmations, and psychic practices, as being in an alpha state gives you a greater connection between the conscious and subconscious mind.\nClick here for a free instant download of a powerful alpha brainwave entrainment audio.\nTheta brainwaves are the next level down from alpha, at a range of 4Hz-8Hz. These brainwaves commonly occur just before sleep, or in the lighter stages of sleep. They also occur while you are day dreaming, or when you experience a strong emotion. It is not so common for an adult to produce prolonged theta brainwaves unless they are an experienced meditator, or perhaps deeply involved in an intuitive art such as music or painting. A dominant theta brainwave state is one of deep relaxation (deeper than alpha) and natural healing. In prolonged dominant theta states, the brain\u2019s sodium/potassium ratio resets and balances itself, curing mental fatigue, and improving the brain cells ability to transport and exchange neuro-chemicals. Without the means of deep meditation, or brainwave entrainment technology, this benefit would only otherwise come from sleeping or napping.Theta is known as the one of the best states for communication with the subconscious mind.\nIt is in the theta state that people experience bursts of inspiration, intuitive realizations and promptings, and communication with divine beings.\nIt is very rare for adults to experience dominant theta states while conscious unless they are experienced in the practice of meditation, or use brainwave entrainment. However, theta waves are much more common in children, and people who have had near-death experiences. Some of the long term benefits of visiting the theta brainwave state are:\n\u2013 A deeper connection to one\u2019s emotions\n\u2013 Increased intuition\n\u2013 Greater levels of energy and relaxation\n\u2013 Enhanced self-awareness\n\u2013 A greater ability to enter into a highly focused effortless learning state.\nDelta brainwaves, resonating at 1Hz-4Hz, usually only occur in the deeper levels of sleep. It is even uncommon to access Delta brainwaves through meditation, unless one is very advanced, or is using brainwave entrainment. Even while using brainwave entrainment technology, it will take some mental training and practice to be able to maintain conscious awareness and not fall asleep.\nMystical and spiritual experiences have been known to happen while in the delta state. Increased exposure to Delta waves has also been reported to drastically increase the ability to empathize with others.\nOne of the most fascinating and beneficial things about Delta brainwaves is their ability to stimulate the release of anti-aging hormones in the body, such as HGH (human growth hormone). Increased melatonin levels are also common in this state, and regular visits to Delta have also been shown to decrease cortisol levels. (Cortisol is a hormone that is released during stressful situations, that has been linked with the aging process.) In a nutshell, Delta brainwaves are very healthy, and until now have only been accessible to us during deep sleep.\nGamma waves are the fastest brainwave at 40Hz-70Hz. These waves are associated with states of peak performance, and deep feelings of compassion. Gamma waves are unique, as they are known to be able to process information in all different areas of the brain. They are universal and are present in several different operations of brain function.\nIncreased exposure to gamma waves is known to drastically sharpen and improve memory, increase IQ levels, heighten sensory experience through the five senses, increase levels of self-control, and make you generally happy.\nThey are also known to improve the capacity for compassion, and have been found to be very prevalent in the brains of buddhist monks while they meditate.\nAnother general benefit of using brainwave entrainment in general is that it increases and promotes whole-brain functioning, meaning that the two hemispheres of the brain grow more connections and exchange information more easily. This can help more starkly rational people become more intuitive, and more airy-fairy people become more focused and logical.\nFurthermore, using brainwave entrainment on a regular basis helps to train and habituate the brain to access these deeper brainwave states, giving it more of an ability to produce these different brainwaves in the future without the technology.\nMany people have found that after using brainwave entrainment for prolonged periods of time, they were able to simply close their eyes without the technology, and their brains would naturally drop down into the deeper states without any effort on their part.\nA final point is that brainwave entrainment isn\u2019t for everyone, and it is important to be careful, reasonable, and cautious. Too much brainwave entrainment can cause adverse side effects like foggy headedness, mental overloads, too much subconscious material rising to the surface at one time, etc.\nIt is a good idea to follow any instructions outlined by the makers of any type of brainwave entrainment product or program, and to ease yourself carefully into using it. If experiencing any negative side effects, take a break and come back to it later. Brainwave entrainment audios are not recommended for children under the age of 18, and should not be used while driving or operating heavy machinery.\nPlease feel free to browse through the reviews in the navigation bar, as I have personally tested each and every product listed for an extended amount of time. Also, do check out the brainwave entrainment audios and bundles we offer as well. Only the best products have even been able to make it onto this site. Rest assured that the products you are reading up are the \u201ccream of the crop\u201d as far as brainwave entrainment audio quality, and overall effectiveness.\nMeditation Techniques to Fall Asleep | Meditation | Brainwave Entrainment\t on December 10, 2012 at 11:39 am\n[\u2026] brain in cycles lasting about 90 minutes. In the first cycle, your brainwave state slows down to a level Delta and remains so for most of the duration of the first cycle. In subsequent cycles, brain frequency [\u2026]\nPreliminary Meditation Techniques | Brainwave Entrainment\t on December 11, 2012 at 6:48 pm\n[\u2026] technique has been shown to be quite effective in slowing your brain\u2019s activity to an alpha wave, thus giving you a natural transition into your [\u2026]\nWhat Therapy \u00bb Brainwave Patterns and What They Mean for Wellness\t on February 15, 2013 at 4:42 am\n[\u2026] process of mirroring an external rhythmic stimulus called frequency following response. Using binaural beats, monaural beats, or isochronic tones, desired brainwave states can be [\u2026]\nWendy Cooley\t on April 25, 2013 at 10:50 pm\nI have just started learning about brainwave entrainment. I recently obtained a free mp3 of a alpha entrainment and found it very relaxing. This is a great explanation of the rest of the waves. Thanks for increasing my knowledge! https://www.facebook.com/WendyCooleyLMSW\nMeditation - 3 Ways It Can Change Your Life\t on October 7, 2013 at 10:53 am\n[\u2026] that space between our true consciousness and the feelings that arise in the moment, and when we become more aware of that space, we can observe what is happening and how we are feeling; we can choose to respond [\u2026]\n[\u2026] shortcut is called brainwave entrainment technology. Brainwave entrainment technology uses what is most commonly known as the frequency following [\u2026]\nPamela Pollack\t on March 2, 2015 at 5:23 pm\nOK, Ashton, you\u2019ve convinced me! I\u2019m going to try BWE again!\n[\u2026] to others, to practice Reiki, quantum touch, or other hands on practices, and to achieve more advanced states of mind and being through working with the chakras, and surrounding energy fields of the body. [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 13106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brandholics.es/2016/07/03/refreshingly-what-was-expected-of-her-was-the-same-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:35Z", "digest": "sha1:U5STPQY5IOMEYGCHHYAY2EKSM3IF3G4U", "length": 254, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "brandholics.es", "title": "Why play football. Some views on the game, from those who know it best \u2013 Brandholics", "raw_content": "For people who haven\u2019t played the sport before, it\u2019s hard to explain to them why you would subject your body to that kind of stress and turmoil, but for people who play the game and love it, it\u2019s pretty simple.\nWedding photography styles you need to know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 6962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brazil.dutchculture.nl/en/mapping/mapping-brazil-creative-industries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BCL5QL7D5FJOY7RLRX54VXNQKH3Q6L2F", "length": 3323, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "brazil.dutchculture.nl", "title": "Mapping Brazil - Creative Industries | Dutchculture Brazil", "raw_content": "Mapping Brazil - Creative Industries\nLaura Lima, Tailorshop, 2014 (credits: Pascale Leenders)\nIndustry and creativity are long-standing concepts in our world. The novelty is in their coupling. In Brazil, where this marriage is even more recent, they have been the driving force behind the organization of various initiatives and the raising of key issues for Brazil's sustainable development.\nSince the creative economy is all about talent, some of the numbers below may help provide an overview of the situation in Brazil, despite the typical limitations of cold statistics. People and institutions driving creative development projects will be introduced too. Similarly, we shall comment on the relevance of universities as think tanks, networks and organizations that power Creative Industry in Brazil. Other important issues to be mentioned include finance, creative cities, internationalization, social inclusion and the industry-creativity alliance.\nWhat is a key point to understand? This text presents a slanted approach to the creative industry, since other writers have very competently dealt with more specific issues. Again, despite making every effort to cover all the most important points, note that the theme of Creative Industry in Brazil is so rich that there is certainly much more terrain to be explored.\nCreative industry and its history in Brazil\nDiscussion of creative industries as a theme is recent in Brazil, having initially been posed by the Ministry of Culture at the UNCTAD XI Ministerial Conference held in S\u00e3o Paulo, in June 2004. A panel of UN experts, officials and governmental representatives suggested setting up a new international institution to strengthen and develop the creative industries in the Southern Hemisphere. This initiative resulted in the rollout of the United Nations' Creative Economy Program.\nThat was also the starting point of an extensive discussion on creative economy and the role of its different sectors as a process with several commonalities. Local entrepreneurs in the state of Rio de Janeiro pointed to the industry as a key sector for the state's strategic development given its potential multiplier effect and high added value, thus prompting interest in monitoring, supporting and developing creative-industry supply chains. The first major international event on the theme took place in 2008 and was organized by Sistema FIRJAN, the entity representing industry in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which also published the study \u201cA Cadeia da Ind\u00fastria Criativa no Brasil\u201d, which chartered Brazil's creative supply chain and fostered discussions on the subject.\nRio de Janeiro took the lead on the creative-industry development agenda by setting up Rio Criativo as the state government's new platform for stimulating entrepreneurial action and driving the services supply chain. In the context of city government, the architectural heritage agency IPRH and the Department of Culture were consolidated as the Rio de Janeiro's main links to the creative economy. In 2012, the Ministry of Culture set up its Department of Creative Economy to propagate nationwide the seeds of desire for the development of the creative industry in the form of its master plan, Brasil Criativo.\nContinue reading Mapping Brazil - Creative Industries: People, Figures & Employment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brenda-enzymes.org/enzyme.php?ecno=1.3.99.15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BYWAFI2RQQNM26CABJBNQUEFWSB5WD2T", "length": 73, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "brenda-enzymes.org", "title": "BRENDA - Information on EC 1.3.99.15 - benzoyl-CoA reductase", "raw_content": "Information on EC 1.3.99.15 - benzoyl-CoA reductase\nbenzoyl-CoA reductase", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://britishexpats.com/articles/family/global-grandparent/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UES2L24JFGE4F25FY77QNZXF3ELKGHQ2", "length": 6001, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "britishexpats.com", "title": "Being A Global Grandparent | British Expatriate Community", "raw_content": "Eventually the day came when our daughter announced that she was going to get married. Naturally we were thrilled and excited, until she told us that she and her new husband were going to live abroad. Before long two grandchildren were born in their new country and suddenly we discovered that we had become a Global Family and we were Global Grandparents.\nEventually the day came when our daughter announced that she was going to get married. Naturally we were thrilled and excited, until she told us that she and her new husband were going to live abroad, very abroad, not France or Italy or some country where we had spent many happy holidays. It was several thousand miles away and very much, to us at least, FOREIGN. Not only did this all come as a surprise but the wedding was to be just before Christmas and they were flying off to their new home two days after the ceremony. It was then that we realised that what was happening was not only going to change her life but our lives as well. That was twenty years ago and now we look back on what was probably the best thing that ever happened to us. Before long two grandchildren were born in their new country and suddenly we discovered that we had become a Global Family and we were Global Grandparents.\nAs we look back over the last twenty years we realise just how privileged we have been. During those years our global family has moved around the world and we, naturally, have followed them. We have visited countries that we would never had even considered as holiday destinations and each one has given us new experiences, particularly because we have lived as a family out there for anything from two weeks to a month at time. Nobody whose experience of another country has been through the good offices of a tour operator and seeing the sights through the windows of a tour coach has had the opportunities we have had. How many tours offer you chance of seeing the New Year in on a deserted beach on the edge of the Indian Ocean? Would you venture out one evening from your five star hotel to enjoy a barbecue in a desert oasis under a sky studded with more stars than you thought existed? Or would you experience floating over the desert in a hot air balloon just as the sun was coming up?\nThese are, of course, very much the plus side of having your global family. There are many other things to consider. It takes hard work to strengthen the family ties when your loved ones are at a distance. Twenty years ago we had to rely on letters and the telephone, then the fax machine arrived for the weekly letters and now, of course we have the Internet. As something to provide us with a simple means of communication it cannot be bettered; whether you send e-mails flashing around the world in order to keep in touch, posting photographs on blogs or having face to face chats using the wonderful Skype system. Having a tour of our daughter\u2019s new kitchen in Holland while sitting at my computer is something that even I, as a hardened computer user, finds exciting.\nBut strengthening the ties is something that has to be worked at and involves pulling a series of differing threads together. For example: your daughter is on the point of having her first child so excited grandma-to-be hops onto the first plane to be there for the great moment. Within a couple of weeks new grandma-in-law arrives. There could be some rivalry in the cooing over the baby and deciding who should feed him stakes. That\u2019s OK from our point of view as the maternal line is very strong in that situation. But look at it the other way round when your son marries and goes abroad and his wife has her first child. Grandma-in-law has to take precedence so it\u2019s a matter of `family hold back\u2019, very difficult under the circumstances,\nThen there is the problem arising from visits, especially that first visit. Are you going to be a high maintenance or low maintenance visitor? If you are the former you will expect to be taken about, shown the sights and waited on. If you are the latter then you, with appropriate help, get to know the local bus and train arrangements so that with the aid of guide books and the tourist offices you can wander at will. Offering to help with some of the household chores will often go down well as is the offer to take them out to a meal or help with the cooking. You must remember that your Global Daughter may well have a job out there and so needs some help keeping the family life going.\n{mosbanner right}Another problem that raises its ugly head is that of the sleeping arrangements. A growing family may not have much in the way of spare sleeping accommodation. Put-you-up beds are not uncommon as is sleeping in some of the strangest rooms. We ourselves have regularly shared a room with a drum kit, a sound system and a computer. Other families have other ways of coping with this problem. Some decide that it not practical to stay in the same house as the family as prefer to stay overnight in a nearby hotel or B and B. One family we know of who go to visit for three months at a time decided to buy a small flat out there. They use it on their visits and rent it out for the rest of the year.\nThen there is the Culture Shock. We have come across families where the son has gone to live in, say, Germany with his German wife. The children must be uncertain as whether they are British or German, especially if they speak German at school and at home. This can be of great concern to the English grandparents as there is every chance that their overseas family will never come back to England whereas the expat families we have met in our travels and the researches for our book are more than likely to come back to their roots when their contract run out.\nHaving a global family can be a very enriching experience, but it has to be constantly worked at. But the rewards are well worth the effort.\nFor more about Global Grandparenting visit www.theglobalparent.com\n\u00a9Peter Gosling\nFake Migration Document Racket Uncovered", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/jane-wells", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HK7Y5JUD2PO2T2KLHUTUTVNCCFKOXV5J", "length": 681, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "britishmusiccollection.org.uk", "title": "Jane Wells | British Music Collection", "raw_content": "Jane Wells (b. 1952) studied music at Durham University with David Lumsdaine, and subsequently with Jonathan Harvey at Southampton and Sussex Universities. Her music has been performed at the Purcell Room, The Place, and at the Brighton Festival. Her career has included composition and performance, and work as a community musician. In 1987 she moved from London to the north Norfolk coast and has subsequently worked as in community-based music projects. Wells' music include a cantata for baritone saxophone, chamber ensemble and large choir, and she has been an active member of Women In Music.\nTo The Turning Of The Millenni...\nWherever Next\nwww.janewellsoccasionalmusic.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://britishschool.si/founder-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4UWKEJLPZEVJYBEO6V2JUEH5D4OEFSF", "length": 1409, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "britishschool.si", "title": "Founder & History", "raw_content": "Our schoolFounder & History\nJeremy P. Hibbins\nBA (Hons) Durham. PGCE, ALCM, LTCL, LGSM\nThe school was founded in September 2008 by Jeremy P. Hibbins, whose vision was to provide an alternative system of education to both members of the expatriate community and to Slovenians seeking a quality international education.\nHaving recruited a handful of fellow teachers who shared his vision, with the encouragement of both the Mayor of Ljubljana and the British Ambassador the school was opened with a total of 22 students in six classes. The school shared the Slovenian state school premises of OS Vita Kraigherja Bezigrad.\nThe school was honoured shortly after it opened with a visit from H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh during her state visit to Slovenia in 2008 and was further honoured by a visit from the Duke and Countess of Wessex in 2012.\nTragically, Jeremy died, aged 48, in a car accident on November 3rd 2013. This date is now designated as Founder\u2019s Day in lasting memory of him.\nJeremy was a gifted international educationalist. He was an accomplished musician, a multi-linguist and computer expert. He was an inspiration to colleagues, students and families.\nThe Hibbins family, who were major shareholders in the school, are pleased that the vision, ethos and principles set out by Jeremy will be preserved by Orbital Education, the new owners of BISL.\nEducational style and ethos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://britishschools.co.uk/british-schools-foundation/news-events/bskl-receives-cobis-accreditation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TODWMFG2MKYXNDUFRRBMB7PFTZX5LEM7", "length": 1780, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "britishschools.co.uk", "title": "BSKL receives COBIS Accreditation | The British Schools Foundation", "raw_content": "BSKL receives COBIS Accreditation\nBSKL becomes first school in Asia to receive COBIS Patron\u2019s Accreditation.\nFollowing a robust accreditation process in April 2017, The British International School of Kuala Lumpur (BSKL) has been awarded with the new COBIS (Council of British International Schools) Patron\u2019s Accreditation, the first school to be accredited in Asia.\nThe new external validation system, which bears the name of the association\u2019s Patron, HRH The Duke of York, emphasises school improvement and development rather than a snapshot inspection. It provides a rigorous diagnostic on core elements, focusing on learning and teaching and leadership in the school. The school and accreditors work together to support and encourage the best possible educational environment.\nSome key findings of the report were:\n\u201cThe school provides exceptional, well-resourced facilities to support students\u2019 learning across all age groups.\u201d\n\u201cOne of the great strengths of teaching and learning across the whole school is its consistently high quality.\u201d\n\u201cBehaviour for learning is an outstanding feature of the school at all levels.\u201d\n\u201cEnrichment and extracurricular activities are part of the DNA of the school and one of its outstanding strengths.\u201d\nJanet Brock, Headteacher, added, \u201cOur judgements of where we are at as a school was confirmed by like-minded professionals who gave teachers constructive feedback which has fed into our School Improvement Plan, ensuring we continually aim for the best for our school community.\u201d\nCOBIS is the largest educational association for international British schools overseas and exists to serve member schools of quality worldwide. The value and influence of COBIS is recognised by external agencies and many national governments around the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ae5pb5/chris-cook-cornerback-accused-of-strangling-his-girlfriend-acquitted", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6BDJZ5NGJ6JSFL6MGXTC3EPDX6DRXIER", "length": 2505, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "broadly.vice.com", "title": "Chris Cook, Cornerback, Accused of Strangling His Girlfriend (Acquitted) - Broadly", "raw_content": "Chris Cook, Cornerback, Accused of Strangling His Girlfriend (Acquitted)\nCareer history: Minnesota Vikings (2010\u20132013), San Francisco 49ers (2014)\nIn October 2011, Chris Cook was charged with felony domestic assault by strangulation and felony third-degree assault after an alleged fight with his girlfriend, Chantel Baker, at a residence in Eden Prairie, MN. According to the police report, on October 22, 2011, officers responded to a domestic assault complaint and found Baker sitting on the living room floor of the residence; according to the report, she \"was crying, she was holding the right side of her head with her hand, and her nose was bleeding.\" She told officers that Cook had strangled her. According to the report, he threw her on the bed and \"constricted her ability to breathe,\" and, after she broke free by pulling his hair, he struck her on the ear and \"again inhibited [her] breathing by squeezing her neck with his hand.\" According to the report, \"officers observed marks on [her] neck and hemorrhaging in [her] eye that is consistent with strangulation.\" Later it was revealed that she also suffered a perforated ear drum and lost hearing in one ear for two weeks. Cook was taken into custody and released on $40,000 bail.\nOn March 8, 2012, a police officer, an ER doctor, and a paramedic all testified that Baker had told them Cook choked her. Cook, however, testified that he had never choked Baker, and Baker testified that she had lied about Cook choking her because she was mad at him. On March 15, 2012, Cook was acquitted of all charges.\nThe Minnesota Vikings suspended Cook indefinitely without pay on October 25, 2011, three days after the alleged assault occurred. On March 24, 2012, the Vikings announced that Cook would be back on the team. \"We are very excited about getting Chris Cook back, not only to help us on the football field, but we think Chris Cook is a very good person, and we really believe that he's moving on and going to be a better person,\" said Vikings general manager Rick Spielman. \"Sometimes you have to go through some hard lessons to give you a wake-up call, if there was a wake-up call. But you go through some tough times sometimes, and sometimes coming out of those situations really makes you a stronger and better person.\"\nCook continued to play for the Vikings until he signed a one-year contract with the 49ers in March 2014. He was released from the 49ers in August 2015 due to injuries.\nCook did not return Broadly's request for comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 155.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bruceryandontexist.info/2006/04/26/plug/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BEKE665UIXLYSE5BJAH74Q553MTYF2G5", "length": 6229, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bruceryandontexist.info", "title": "plug | Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life", "raw_content": "I received the following email a few days ago from a woman who\u2019s been living in Nicaragua for a few years. For the moment she\u2019s back in St Andrews with her Nicaraguan partner, Polo. I thought it best to leave her email exactly as it was \u2013 I don\u2019t think I can or should add to or take from it.\nObviously it was hard to leave everyone in Limon knowing how vulnerable they are in so many ways. When we left, the full public health sector strike had been going on for just over five months. Now Nicaragua\u2019s poor have spent six months without access to healthcare (those who can, go to private clinics but that is a luxury the 80% of the population living on less than US$2 a day can\u2019t afford). 23,000 of the 24,000 public sector health workers declared a full strike on November 14th 2005. Their demand? Initially an 160% pay rise (while in all other countries in Central America doctors earn between US$500 \u2013 US$1,000 a month, Nicaraguan doctors earn on average US$300 a month while nurses and other health workers earn less than US$100 a month). By March this year most health workers had reduced their demand to a 30% rise while doctors maintained their demand at 43.25%. Last week the government agreed to raise salaries for all health workers by 30% and 20,000 nurses and other health workers have slowly but surely been returning to work. The 3,000 public sector doctors, however, are still on strike.\nEvery day for the last six months the Nicaraguan newspapers have told the stories of people with bleeding wounds, women in the final stages of labour and children who have passed out after severe bouts of diarrhoea being turned away from public hospitals. Government figures say 80 people have died so far as a result of the health strike. Unfortunately that is nowhere near the actual figure.\nA full health sector strike is inconceivable in the UK. The government would have to do something to bring the strike to an end should such stories start filling the British newspapers. Even in Nicaragua where people are used to being treated like s**t by their government, it has been a shocking six months. So why has the government still not been able to come up with a measly US$39.75 extra for each of their 3,000 doctors each month?\nThe answer is simple. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) won\u2019t allow it. Yes I know, the G8 ordered the IMF to cancel Nicaragua\u2019s debt (along with another 17 highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs)). And that\u2019s what they did\u2026 for a period of 17 days. On Dec. 21, just in time for Christmas, the IMF cancelled the US$201 million that Nicaragua owed. On Jan. 7, however, Nicaragua was given another IMF loan of US$192 million. Along with this loan came all the regular conditions, including the prohibition of public sector pay rises above the rate of inflation. Of course the Nicaraguan government didn\u2019t have to accept the loan. But then the governments which accepted the original loans (the ones that have just be \u2018cancelled\u2019) didn\u2019t have to either. So where does the problem lie here? In my opinion any responsible international institution which claims it works towards \u2018poverty reduction\u2019 in developing countries (as both the World Bank and the IMF claim) would have a look at how a government treats its people before decided whether or not their another US$190 million loan is actually going to make any difference. And if (as in Nicaragua\u2019s case) they find out that each member of parliament is given US$500 a month in petrol on top of their US$5,000 a month salary while state school teachers earn US$100 a month and 50% of people live on less than US$1 a day, then surely they would have to conclude that such a government cannot be trusted to act in the name of its people. But then, the IMF and the World Bank are\u2026 well banks, so it\u2019s not really their job to care about the consequences of their actions, just to celebrate as the cash flows in.\nI think most people in the UK felt pretty good about the G8 decision to cancel 100% of the poorest countries\u2019 loans with the IMF and the World Bank. And so we should have. It was a wonderful achievement after so many of us dedicated so much to the Make Poverty history campaign. But, as always, the struggle doesn\u2019t stop at the end of one action, no matter how big. And unlike what the Live 8 promoters had us believe, July 4 \u2013 10th was not the \u2018week poverty can end\u2019(!). Governments the world over have a tendency not to follow through on their promises once the public\u2019s attention is elsewhere.\nWhat is happening is Nicaragua is shameful and it is something we should all at least have the chance to find out about. Jubilee Scotland is following up the G8 promise and what the (G8 controlled) IMF and World Bank are doing in the 18 HIPCs. For more information about the reality of the debt relief promise you can visit their website (www.jubileescotland.org.uk).\nOne more thing before I go. Some of you may know that Polo and members of his family have a musical group called Felipe Urrutia y sus Cachorros (Felipe Urrutia and his Litter!) which comprises Polo\u2019s dad (Felipe Urrutia), three sons and five grandsons. They play traditional folk music from the Estel\u00ed region (where they\u2019re from). The pieces they play would all have been lost by now if it weren\u2019t for Don Felipe\u2019s incredible memory and dedication to his guitar and the melodies he learnt from older musicians as a child. The vast majority of Nicaragua\u2019s traditional music was lost when radios and jukeboxes arrived in the country bringing with them songs and melodies imported from Mexico, Argentina and the US. And although local musicians were no longer asked to play at parties or gatherings, Felipe never forgot the music and when he had enough children to form a group (!) he taught them to play all the melodies. He\u2019s become nationally famous as a result and the music forms part of the country\u2019s cultural identity.\nThe group has recorded two CDs of their music, Antologia and La Fuerza del Amor. Polo has several copies with him which he is keen to sell. If you or anyone you know would like to buy a copy please send us a cheque for 10 pounds (or twenty pounds if you want a copy of both) to 52 Hepburn Gardens, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DF).\nTake care, Hannah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bulinews.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CGAGCFZAQ6X5NGSTZLYQ5YF52KOV5CK3", "length": 781, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "bulinews.com", "title": "About Bulinews.com", "raw_content": "About Bulinews.com\nBulinews.com is devoted to publishing news in English about German football.\nWith its world-class football, stunning atmosphere and affordable ticket prices, it is no wonder that the Bundesliga is the most attended league in Europe with an average crowd size of just over 41.000 per game in the 2016/17 season.\nThe Deutsche Fu\u00dfball Liga (DFL) estimates that as many as 40 million people, nearly half of the German population, is actively following the Bundesliga.\nThe Bundesliga isn't just popular in Germany, though. 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They develop perspectives on human nature and cultural values through American, British, and other English literatures; they learn how to gather, analyze, synthesize, and communicate information; they gain mastery over their language. These skills help English majors find careers in such fields as publishing, business, industry, government, and teaching. English majors often go on to postgraduate study not only in English but in such areas as law, business, education, or other liberal disciplines.\nMajors can emphasize writing, literature, or rhetoric, or a mix of literature, writing, and rhetoric. All provide a liberal education and all develop analytic and writing skills. Qualified students may participate in the career internship and in the English honors program.\nStudents interested in earning certification in secondary education should contact the College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. (See also Teacher Education Programs.)\nEnglish refers to a broad field of study related to the reading, writing, studying and analyzing of English literature and language. The field includes the many and varied forms and genres of literature, writing, and rhetoric, and often considers how value and meaning are created, and information communicated, through these various texts.\nYou enjoy composing texts that are varied in genre, style, and medium, including critical essays, short stories, poems, reviews, digital media, podcasts, and others.\nYou find yourself compelled to make connections between literary texts and ideas that are both present across historical eras and pertinent to current realities.\nYou are interested in how audiences treat and use texts, whether the texts are print or digital, technical, critical, and/or creative.\nYou want to solve problems through deliberate communication, in arenas that overlap with other areas of human life, like science, law, art, business, and the social sciences.\nFor the Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a minimum of 123 credits is required:\nENGL 200 Introduction to Critical Reading 3\nor ENGL 201 What is Literature\nSelect 3 credits of a 300/400-level course in each of the following areas: 1 12\nMedieval through Sixteenth Century\nSixteenth Century through Eighteenth Century\nTwentieth Century to the Present\nENGL 494H Senior Thesis in English 3\nor ENGL 487 Senior Seminar\nIn consultation with adviser, select 18 credits in literature, writing, or rhetoric 1,2 18\nAt least 3 of the 300/400 level credits must fulfill a departmental diversity requirement for a course related to race, gender, sexuality, disability, ethnicity, and/or postcolonial issues.\nAt least 9 credits must be at the 300/400 level.\nIntegrated B.A./M.A. Program in English\nA minimum of 141 credits are required to complete the IUG B.A/M.A. in English.\nThe BA in English requires a minimum of 123 credits, with 36 of those credits required for the English major:\nENGL 201 What is Literature 3\nENGL 221 British Literature to 1798 3\nComplete 18 credits of English 300 level or above 18\nComplete 3 credits of pre-1800 300 level or above 3\nComplete 3 credits of post-1800 race, ethnic, or minority literatures 300 level or above 3\nENGL 487 Senior Seminar 3\nThe B.A./M.A. consists of these 36 English credits of the B.A., plus an additional 24 English credits of M.A. work distributed as follows:\nSelect 12 credits of the following: 1 12\nThe Writing of Fiction 2\nThe Writing of Poetry 2\nThe Writing of Nonfiction 2\nComplete 6 credits of a graduate-level literature 6\nComplete 6 credits of a M.A. Master's paper (ENGL 596) to support work on a major project that will be the centerpiece of each student's culminating Master's paper 3 6\nThese courses will be double counted between the B.A. and the M.A.\nThese courses can be repeated for credit.\nIn the Master\u2019s paper, students receiving an M.A. in English with a creative writing concentration will append their Master\u2019s paper with a bibliographic essay referencing primary and/or secondary sources generated by their research for the paper. The essay can discuss the range of research modalities, including contextual background in the work itself as well as contemporary and historic literature that has influenced the style and form of the Master\u2019s paper. Sources consulted for contextual background can include library and database materials, historical research, oral history, interviews, and other bibliographic tools.\nTime of Admission to the Program\nStudents shall be admitted to the English IUG program no earlier than the beginning of the third semester of undergraduate study at Penn State (regardless of transfer or AP credits accumulated prior to enrollment) and no later than the end of the second week of the semester preceding the semester of expected conferral of the undergraduate degree, as specified in the proposed IUG plan of study.\nApplication to the English IUG would typically occur in the junior year after a student has completed 60 credits, enrolled in the English major, and completed two English courses in creative writing.\nAdmission to the integrated B.A./M.A. program will be based on the submission of a portfolio of creative work and a plan of study to the department\u2019s Director of Graduate Studies and the Director of the B.A./M.A. program. Applications typically will be filed during the 5th or 6th semesters of study, and applicants must have achieved a minimum of 60 credits and a 3.3 overall GPA and 3.6 GPA in English to begin the program. The English Director of Graduate Studies will ensure that the applicant meets the minimum credit and GPA requirements for the program. The Director of the B.A./M.A. program will evaluate the quality of the student\u2019s creative work and the applicant\u2019s plan for fulfilling the requirements of the M.A. in English. The Director of the B.A./M.A. program, in consultation with the Creative Writing faculty, will have final approval for what constitutes an acceptable level of creative work and an acceptable plan for the completion of the M.A.\nThe application procedure requires submission of the following:\nSupport Letters from Faculty and Administrators (addressed to the department\u2019s Director of Graduate Studies and the Director of the B.A./M.A. program)\nPortfolio of Creative Work\nA Plan of Study\nA transcript and degree audit printed from LionPATH\nA current resume or curriculum vita\nA copy of the completed online Graduate School Application (GRE scores are not required).\nPlan of Study and Advising\nPrior to the application process, students should communicate their intent to enroll in the IUG to the English B.A. adviser and the Director of the B.A./M.A. program. The Director of the B.A./M.A. will help each student identify an appropriate series of English courses to properly prepare each student for the 500-level M.A. workshops and 500-level literature courses.\nStudents will be expected to maintain a minimum overall GPA of 3.3 for all undergraduate coursework and a GPA of 3.6 in English (ENGL) courses throughout the IUG program of study. Failure to do so will result in the student being advised that he/she must regain a GPA of 3.3 within one semester. If the GPA is not 3.3 or higher in general undergraduate coursework and 3.6 or higher in English coursework after that term, the student will be dropped from the IUG.\nEach student enrolled in the B.A./M.A. will meet at the beginning of each term with the Director of the B.A./M.A. to discuss his or her progress through the M.A. degree and to make sure that he or she is following the plan established upon his or her admission to the B.A./M.A. program.\nIf the student decides not to continue on in the IUG, the student may, contingent on fulfilling all other requirements for the B.A. in English, graduate with a B.A. in English.\nThe IUG B.A./M.A. consists of a total of 60 English credits. A minimum of 141 credits are required to complete the IUG B.A/M.A. in English.\nApply critical, theoretical, and/or disciplinary approaches to the reading and analysis of texts in multiple genres and/or media.\nAnalyze the aesthetic and/or cultural significance of the ideas, values, conventions, forms, and genres associated with texts.\nGather, evaluate, and employ an array of research materials in support of critical studies, and/or creative activity, in ways consistent with standards of academic integrity.\nDemonstrate writing and rhetorical skills appropriate to critical and/or creative tasks in a variety of media and genres.\nAnalyze representative literary, theoretical, and cultural texts within significant historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.\nEllen Knodt\neak1@psu.edu\nErin C. 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This photographer was involved in the surrealist movement also produced multi media artworks in addition to his photography.\nEnding March 20th, visit the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York to view this important documentation of his creativity.\nBeginning in 1937, it was clear that Sommer\u2019s works were receiving substantial support and recognition on both the west and east coast\u2014he displayed his drawings, glue-color paintings, watercolors and collages in a solo exhibition at the Howard Putzel Gallery, Los Angeles. In 1941, the Museum of Modern Art began its long track record of support for Sommer\u2019s photographs with an acquisition for Images of Freedom and exhibited Sommer\u2019s work six times between 1946 and 1952 leading to his inclusion in Diogenes with a Camera. 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Photo: David Johnson.\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\nThe largest definitive mid-career survey of the work of celebrated American artist Nicole Eisenman to date, Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993\u20132013 includes more than 120 works, charting the development of Eisenman\u2019s practice across painting, printmaking, and drawing from the 1990s to the present.\nOver the past twenty years, Eisenman has developed a creative and versatile vision that combines high and low culture with virtuosic skill. Fusing centuries-old art-making conventions and a multitude of art historic influences\u2014including impressionism, German expressionism, and twentieth-century social realist painting\u2014with contemporary subject matter, she depicts settings and themes as varied as bar scenes, motherhood, and the plight of the artist. 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In fact, some theorists feel that self-regulation is more important than IQ when predicting educational performance (Shanker, 2012). So what exactly is self-regulation?\nSelf-regulation1 is defined as the ability to attain, maintain and change the state of one\u2019s arousal level to be able to attend to the task at hand (Shellenberger & Williams, 1996). Baumeister and Vohn state that self-regulation also involves the ability to monitor, evaluate and modify one\u2019s emotions, sustain and shift one\u2019s attention and ignore distractions, understand the meaning of social interactions and how to engage in them appropriately, and to connect with others and understand how others may feel or think (as cited in Shanker, 2012).\nToday\u2019s elementary school teachers are faced with the challenge of meeting the myriad needs of their students, many of whom have challenging behaviours due to different diagnoses and needs. Students with poor self-regulation may be part of this challenge. A few examples will help further understand the impact of self-regulation.\nJohnny returns from recess and is unable to stay focused on the math problems he is working on. His body is constantly moving, his voice is loud, and he is unable to stay on task. Sarah has difficulty at the lockers and in line. She tends to lash out physically and yell at her peers, telling them to leave her alone and to stop touching her. Although quite bright, David participates little in class, is frequently late, works very slowly, and occasionally falls asleep in class. Although their behaviours are different, Johnny, Sarah and David all have self-regulation issues.\nAs a teacher, interpreting a student\u2019s behaviour is not always clear-cut. Self-regulation issues do not necessarily jump to mind when a student exhibits challenging behaviours or difficulty learning. Johnny may be seen as hyperactive and be referred for medication; Sarah\u2019s hitting may be interpreted as bullying or aggressiveness and she may be reprimanded for her behaviour; David may be called lazy or his parents may be blamed for not putting him to bed early enough and not getting him to school on time.\nIf we put on our self-regulation lenses, we can better understand certain student behaviours that do not respond to the usual behaviour management strategies. Using the Alert Program\u2019s (Shellenberger & Williams, 1996) example, we view the body as an engine; sometimes the engine runs too fast and the student may be overly active. This fast or high engine will not match the demands of the task to sit and trace letters or complete a puzzle. A student with a fast/high engine may speak too loudly, interrupt, fidget continually and disrupt peers. Whereas this engine speed may be appropriate for recess or at a party, it is not conducive to learning in the classroom.\nOn the other hand, a slow or low engine may appear lethargic, inattentive and lazy. These students may be lying on their desks looking uninterested. They are slow to get their work done and participate minimally. Like the high or fast engine, a slow or low engine is not bad. This speed is good when it\u2019s time to relax or go to bed but this engine speed is not conducive to learning in the classroom.\nA \u201cjust right\u201d engine is what a student needs in the classroom. Being able to self-regulate one\u2019s own engine to meet the demands of the classroom task places the student in an optimal zone for learning. Unfortunately, not all students can self-regulate and maintain or even attain a just right engine.\nSo what can be done to help these students?\nUnderstanding self-regulation is an important step for the teacher. Looking at what we do to help us self-regulate can give us some insight about the needs of others. What do you do to help your engine get to \u201cjust right\u201d and stay at that level to meet the demands of your daily life? Do you start your day with a cup of coffee and a shower? Do you need loud music on your way to work? When you feel tired during the day, do you reach for something to put in your mouth? When you correct assignments, do you need complete silence or do you prefer noise in the background to help you focus? Each individual has a preferred way of staying alert. Watch your colleagues during the next staff meeting. Who is tapping a pen? Who is swinging a leg under the table? Who is doodling or chewing gum? They are doing what they need to do in order for their brains/ bodies to stay attentive. Try telling them to stop and observe what happens. They will resume their pen tapping or leg swinging shortly after; the behaviour is a strategy to stay attentive. To stay attentive, they need to resume the behaviour.\nThe same thing may be happening with your students. Some chew their pencils, while others rock on their chairs in order to stay on task. Do you have students who need to hum or chew their clothing when they work? Like Johnny, Sarah and David, some students have a hard time attaining or maintaining a just right level of alertness with strategies that are acceptable in the classroom.\nJohnny is easily over stimulated and runs on high engine most of the day. Sitting down calmly after recess to attend to a work sheet is a challenge. Giving him some heavy work before he sits down in class may be beneficial to changing his engine level. He may be responsible to hold the heavy door while his peers enter the school after recess, he may deliver a box of books to the class down the hall before sitting down in class, or do a few chair push-ups before he starts the work sheet.\nDuring transitions, Sarah gets anxious. She is overly responsive to unexpected touch, and the proximity of her peers in line or at the lockers puts her engine on high. The touch input from the others is so uncomfortable that she can lash out in defense. Sarah can easily be mislabeled as a bully. Having some understanding of her neurological system is the first step to helping her change behaviours. Then what? Modifying the environment such as placing her locker on the end rather than in the middle of the group can decrease the chances of being accidentally touched by her peers. At lunch time, sitting at the end of the table also offers a \u201csafer\u201d space for Sarah. In line, being the last one is often easier since no one touches her from behind; she can see everyone ahead of her so the fear of unexpected touch is decreased. Avoid touching Sarah with light touch or unexpectedly, use a firm pressure and approach her so she can see you coming.\nDavid has a low engine. He could benefit from a few strategies to get going. Before coming to school in the morning, he could jump on his trampoline, drink sour lemonade or listen to some lively music. In class, having David sit on a Disc \u2018o Sit could offer alerting input for him to change his engine from low to just right (Pfeiffer, Henry, Miller, & Witherell, 2008).\nThere are many different strategies that can be used to help students attain a just right engine to attend and learn in class. One source of support is occupational therapists, who promote life skills and engagement in occupational roles. The occupational therapist can work with students with poor self-regulation and with their teachers to help them understand. Contact your school board\u2019s occupational therapist or your province\u2019s occupational therapy association/board to get some support for self-regulation in your classroom. For the Johnnys, Sarahs and Davids in your class, your understanding of self-regulation is vital to help them be more successful in school.\n1 Although there is a cognitive aspect involved in self-regulation, it is not to be confused with how developmental psychologists use the term. Many refer to it as the \u201cself-directed process through which learners transform their mental abilities into task related academic skills\u201d (p. 1, Zimmerman, 2001).\nPfeiffer, B., Henry, A., Miller, S., & Witherell, S. (2008). Effectiveness of Disc \u2018O\u2019 Sit cushions on attention to task in second-grade students with attention difficulties. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62(3), 274-281.\nShanker, S. (2012). Calm, Alert, and Learning. Don Mills, ON: Pearson Canada Inc.\nShellenberger, S., & Williams, M. S. (1996). How does your engine run? The alert program for self regulation. Albuquerque, NM: Therapy Works, Inc.\nCaroline Hui\nCaroline Hui, erg. 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At that time, the student must complete and submit an Application for Re-admission to begin at the time of the new academic year to the Office of Admissions following the procedures and meeting the eligibility criteria as outlined in the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine catalog effective at the time of re-application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 102.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cbs4indy.com/2016/08/12/ruby-tuesday-to-shut-down-100-restaurants-in-cost-cutting-move/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AI6JAUBBEKVIYIVGJRL6Q2GKMBT7KE6R", "length": 1545, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "cbs4indy.com", "title": "Ruby Tuesday to shut down 95 restaurants in cost-cutting move | CBS 4 - Indianapolis News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | WTTV", "raw_content": "Ruby Tuesday to shut down 95 restaurants in cost-cutting move\nMARYVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Ruby Tuesday plans to close 95 underperforming locations in a cost-cutting move.\nThe company didn\u2019t say which restaurants would close but said they would cease operations by September. As of May 2016, the chain had 724 restaurants nationwide, including 646 that are company-operated.\nThe chain recorded a fourth-quarter net loss of $27.6 million; a year ago, it reported a net gain of $4.3 million during the same span.\nCompany CEO J.J. Buettgen said the closures are a \u201cdifficult but necessary\u201d step for the company to cut its losses. Performance at the restaurants wasn\u2019t meeting expectations, he said. Full- and part-time employees affected by the closure will be offered positions at other restaurants if possible.\nRuby Tuesday has a dozen restaurants in central Indiana, including Anderson, Angola, Clarksville, Ft. Wayne, Kokomo, Muncie, Taylorsville Warsaw, Terre Haute and three locations in Indianapolis.\nThe announcement comes during a tough week for restaurants and retailers. Logan\u2019s Roadhouse, which has several Indiana locations, announced plans to shut down 18 underperforming restaurants. Retailer Macy\u2019s also said it would close 100 stores nationwide.\nShula\u2019s Steak House to close at the end of February\nOnly 1 Max & Erma\u2019s left in Indiana after Carmel location closes\nScotty\u2019s Brewhouse closing its doors in Noblesville\nCentral Indiana\u2019s 1st Taco John\u2019s sets March opening in Lebanon\nNaked Paris restaurant says \u2018Au Revoir\u2019 to dining \u2018Au Natural\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cbseugcnetforum.in/scholarships/islamic-development-bank-scholarship-2018-for-muslim-students/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2S7TVCLEWWKQQYDECLFD3NGJWM43V7K3", "length": 4152, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "cbseugcnetforum.in", "title": "Islamic Development Bank Scholarship 2018 for Muslim Students \u2013 UGC NET | QuickNET", "raw_content": "Islamic Development Bank Scholarship 2018 for Muslim Students\nIDB Undergraduate Scholarship Program 2018-19\nIslamic Development Bank Scholarship 2018 \u2013IDB Undergraduate Scholarship Program 2018-19 is a grant offered to needy and qualified Muslim students who have passed class 12 (SSSC) and secured admission in an Undergraduate Program of a recognised university in the current year\nThe Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), a Multilateral Development Organization, is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for Muslim Community in India to pursue undergraduate studies, in India\nThe fields of study should be in development-related disciplines in line with the IDB President\u2019s new strategy to empower communities with a special focus on Sustainability Science to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\nThe main objective of this scholarship program is to improve the socio-economic conditions of the Muslim community as a whole\nThe scholarship is being provided by the Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The scholarship program was started in the year 1983 in several countries with the aim to promote professional studies among Muslim community.\nSelected candidates are to pursue their study at reputable institutions of study in member countries only.\nThe scholarship covers tuition fees, cost of living allowance, Medical Coverage, round-trip air-ticket, Clothing/books Allowance, Computer Allowance, conference Participation Allowance and research Allowance.\nApplicant must have completed his/her class 12 (SSSC) with a minimum of 70% marks in English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Mathematics\nApplicants from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu must secure a minimum 80% marks (aggregate) in the above-mentioned subjects. Also, the applicant wishing to pursue Law must have secured at least 60% marks in English and optional/elective subjects\nApplicant must have secured admission in a recognised university in the current academic year for a professional undergraduate programme of 4 to 5 years.Applicant must not be over the age of 24 years and not be receiving any other scholarship. Applicant\u2019s parents must be financially weak and unable to pay for his/her education\nApplicant opting for payment or self-financing seat is not eligible to apply. Applicant must be committed to serving his/her community after graduation\nApplicant selected in Top-10 universities (as per MHRD) will be given preference\nAlso, applicants joining degree courses after Diploma are not eligible for the scholarship\nOn the basis of applicants\u2019 performance in class 12 (SSSC) exam, they will be called for pre-selection program and interview at a centre in their respective state/region. The interview may also be conducted through Skype\nBased on the pre-selection interview, state-wise merit list will be prepared on the basis of academic performance, financial need, Islamic knowledge and commitment towards the community\nApplicants will be marked out of total 100 marks:\n70% of the marks scored in class 12\n20% marks for financial need\n10% marks for Islamic knowledge and commitment to community\nThe list of shortlisted candidates and their interview marks will be submitted to the Scholarship Division, IDB, Jeddah. Their decision regarding the selection for the scholarship will be final.\nOnly online applications will be accepted. Application form can be downloaded (www.isdb.org)\nA Print out of the online application form with photograph and documents must be sent to Muslim Education Trust, E-3, Abul Fazl Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025\nCompleted applications must be submitted to Muslim Education Trust at the following address:Address: E-3, Abul Fazl Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, Phone No: 011-2695 7004, 2694 1354; Email: metdelhi@gmail.com\nLast date of Submission of Application 21st August 2018\nSweans Digital Marketing Scholarship Programme 2017 Application, Dates\nPace University Merit Scholarships for International Students 2018\nUGC Scholarships, Fellowships and Research Awards 2015-2016 \u2013 www.ugc.ac.in/ugc_schemes\nInternational Mobility Scholarships 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebriteanewsroom.com/08072016t1470580038.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TP46CFJBEV3XGYXNEGF5PJXV3DKTZ24C", "length": 1869, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "celebriteanewsroom.com", "title": "Did Soldier Boy And Nia Riley Split?", "raw_content": "Soulja Boy sparked rumors of a split with his on-and-off girlfriend Nia Riley after he supposedly went on a Twitter rant telling fans he was single. In a series of tweets Saturday, the 25-year-old rapper said he and Nia had called it quits and that he was going to do Season 3 of VH1's \"Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood\" with another woman. \"Thank God,\" Soulja Boy reportedly wrote (via the Shade Room), adding: \"Yes I'm doing love and hip hop season 3. But im single. I'll be with my new girl this season. The tweets continued: \"Never let a person with negative energy ruin your mood. Stay focused. Happy and blessed.\" The Twitter posts were eventually deleted, and Soulja Boy wrote that his account had been hacked and that he and Nia were still dating, the Shade Room reported. Nia hasn't commented on the hack or her relationship with Soulja Boy,\nwho was born DeAndre Cortez Way. The mother of one also hasn't announced whether she's returning for another season of \"Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.\" The pair's relationship troubles played out on Season 2 of the series. Things escalated when Soulja Boy was caught cheating on Nia with rapper Nastassia Smith (aka Nas). Nia and Nas also got into a fight over the romantic triangle. This month, the relationship between Nia and Soulja Boy absorbed a blow when Nas went on Instagram posting screenshots of alleged text messages the \"Pow\" rapper sent her. Soulja Boy quickly fired back, claiming Nas was attempting to get attention and that the messages were fake. Shortly after the incident, Soulja Boy and Nia were seen together at a baby shower for Omarion and Apryl Jones. The singer and his longtime girlfriend announced in December that they were quitting \"Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.\"\nStevie J & Joseline Hernandez W...\nCosby' Actor Speaks Out After B...\nHot Boys Reunite At Lebron Jame...\nLaila Ali Talks Her Love For Fo...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celestincpa.ca/en/sme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WF7OXZURGPPXJ7NZZFLUCH3TQ7KT3KCE", "length": 22222, "nlines": 108, "source_domain": "celestincpa.ca", "title": "SME | Celestin CPA SME \u2013 Celestin CPA", "raw_content": "To use interesting and profitable tax strategies.\nBusiness Solutions (SME)\nCustomized solutions that meet your needs\nPreparing corporate income and personal tax returns and declarations of trust\nCompilation, review and audit engagements\nServices in conformity for mutual fund companies and advisors (private management).\nFacilitating the purchase / sale of a company\nCompany start up consulting\nSupport in the event of any financial dispute among shareholders, partners or between spouses.\nSupport during an insurance claim\nSME audit (verification / certification)\nAuditing financial statements.\nPre-purchase verification (due diligence). Bought a new company? \u2013 have it examined!\nAuditing the recoverable expenditure statement in commercial real estate.\nAuditing the company turnover (certain commercial leases require this).\nAuditing the compliance of contractual or regulatory arrangements.\nCorporate and trust tax return\nCorporate declarations and those of trusts.\nAnalyzing and proposing various scenarios of fiscal planning customized to your requirements.\nSelecting the most beneficial salary distribution VS dividend based on your situation.\nMaximizing tax reductions with your spouse and your children (income splitting).\nProfessional services offered by a chartered professional accountants firm (CPA).\nCPAs are the most reputed and the well experienced experts suitable for all your accounting, tax and business issues.\nOur rates are transparent, simple and very advantageous.\nWe use the best recognized software tools available on the market.\n60 points of quality control on all filed returns.\nYou will have access to all our tip sheets.\nYour notices of assessment are analyzed after the production, a service rarely offered by other firms.\nProvide assistance to you in the event of any complications with government.\nRC59 (Federal) Business Consent Form\nThis form enables us to obtain essential information on your tax records directly from the Canada Revenue Agency.\nMR69 Power of Attorney, Authorization to Communicate Information (QC)\nThis form allows us to obtain essential information on your tax records directly from the Quebec Ministry of Revenue.\nWATCH OUT! QUEBEC AND CANADA REVENUE AGENCIES ARE WATCHING YOU\nA sample letter received by a taxpayer from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency)\nA sample Request of the Canada Revenue Agency to examine banking records\nA sample letter received by a taxpayer from the Quebec Ministry of Revenue regarding large-scale audits concerning the indications of wealth and hunting for unreported income\nSample questionnaire of the Quebec revenue ministry on the responsibility of the administrators\nA businessman sentenced for more than 2 years at prison and for a fine of $ 500 000 for a GST fraud\nInterest income on unreported mortgage loans: the lawyer, Jean Chalifoux receives a $500 000 fine for tax fraud\nYOUR ADMINISTRATOR\u2019S RESPONSIBILITIES EXAMNINED BY TAX AUTHORITIES\nGenerally, there are 2 types of used by tax authorities against the responsibility of administrators.\nResponsibility for the funds generated as the representative of tax authorities (ex: source deductions, GST / QST rebates).\nResponsibility (less known) for the distribution of a property by a company (ex: you pay a dividend, but the company fails to pay its taxes and goes bankrupt).\n\u00ab Entrepreneurs create companies; technicians create jobs \u00bb Michael Gerber\nDISCOVER OUR VIDEOS SELECTION FOR SME\nThe core of incorporation \u2013the legal aspect in 5 minutes\n\u00ab In this small video clip, I will try to explain what incorporation is in 5 minutes. Why would anyone want to incorporate his company and what are the principle advantages and disadvantages that one may\u2026 \u00bb\nIn this small video clip, I will try to explain what incorporation is in 5 minutes. Why would anyone want to incorporate his company and what are the principle advantages and disadvantages that one may reap by doing so?\nFirst, you must know that I won\u2019t be able to explain everything in just 5 minutes. In the bachelor of accounting sciences, incorporation is subjected to several periods of various courses distributed between accounting, the tax system and law. I shall hence go through the topic very briefly. Generally at the office, when we find someone intending to incorporate, we comprehend the concepts in an hour or two based on the number of questions, therefore 5 minutes is indeed very short. I will therefore speak a little faster \u2026\nFirst, what is incorporation and where does it come from?\nIncorporation was initiated about 200 to 250 years ago with the objective of fostering trade. Enterprise development is among one of the main problems encountered by entrepreneurs, leaving a number of risks and issues to be dealt with. Fortunately, the legislators at the time realized that one of the restrictions in trade was that an entrepreneur could lose all his properties including his house, if his business went bankrupt. Therefore, a strategy had to be necessarily introduced which would enable running a business without having to fall into the risk of losing one\u2019s own shirt. Thus, this is how incorporation breathed into life. It was thus brought forward on the basis that it would help reduce the risk in case the company was at difficulty. Equally, the printing press was a revolution which allowed many people to gain access to books, incorporation brought a dramatic transformation in democratizing trade.\nThe Concept of the legal entity\nAt the time, the legislator introduced two new concepts. The first was the concept that a legal entity can be a person to whom they called a \u201cmoral\u201d person. Indeed, since this entity exists only on paper, it has physical people who represent it. This \u201cmoral\u201d person can thus make a contractual commitment and handle trade activities, almost like the real natural person. At that point, if it comes across some problem, it would be this legal entity who would be pursued by its creditors, for it was that which had made a contractual commitment.\nThe limited liability\nThey then introduced the second important concept known as the limitation of liability among representatives of the company. In this way, the creditors cannot personally pursue the physical representatives of the company unless they act fraudulently. Thus, if an incorporated company lose some money and is unable to refund its creditors, no one can seize the personal residence of the representatives of this \u201cmoral\u201d person. By creating an incorporation and by exercising its commercial activities in terms of this legal entity, the entrepreneur thus protects himself from his creditors. The creditors\u2019 appeals are normally limited to the properties owned by the company.\nThese two principles continue to function even today and this is the basic concept of incorporation. However, the rules nowadays are more complicated. Therefore the limited liability is the first greatest advantage an entrepreneur would gain in incorporating his company.\nIn order to best use this concept of legal protection, you must first be properly advised. There are several tricks and pitfalls that must not to be missed, for as the years move forward, banks and generally the principal creditors, have also developed techniques to circumvent the limited liability rules. Limited liability has opened doors to lawyers and professional accountants have agreed to develop some sort of an asset protection strategy which is often now used in real estates, buildings, child care centers, automobile and in almost all other industries.\nProfessional companies however make an exception to this fundamental principle. In fact, the limited liability rules do not specifically apply to professional misconducts, committed by the members of a professional body regulated as such. For example, if you are permanently hurt by your doctor, you could go as far as taking his own house if his insurance is insufficient, and he cannot hide behind his incorporation.\nThis aspect is very important; since it\u2019s an element that was not prevalent ten years ago. Previously, professionals simply did not have the right to exercise their activities within an incorporation. The legislator therefore wanted to avoid the limited responsibility of professionals which can be further understood by the example of the person hurt by his doctor.\nSeveral practical aspects\nThere are several other practical aspects among which the incorporated company has its sole existence on some. This means that the company does not die with the death of its proprietors. Theoretically, it has an unlimited life span.\nThe incorporated company also benefits from a number of significant tax advantages that can largely contribute to the growth of a small company. Thus, once incorporated, a company can also be easily transferred.\nI invite you to visit our web site and view its contents and videos which would certainly interest you, and from which you\u2019ll gain solid examples on the expertise of our chartered professional accountants, and on the advanced technology used by our firm. There will also be other videos on incorporation, particularities of doctors and those of IT consultants.\nFeel free to contact us right now to discuss with a partner on the peculiarities of your case and book an appointment for an hour of free consultation. And make sure to ask for more information on our competitive rates and our exclusive promotions.\nThis small video clip covers complex questions and does not inevitably apply to the facts and particular circumstances. It was offered to you free of charge only to help you discuss it better during our future discussions at the office. Do not undertake in financial transactions without assistance from recognized professionals.\nChartered Professional Accountants (CPA) enthusiastic on SMEs\n\u00ab Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable having to explain to your accountant on how your industry works? If that is so, and if there\u2019s doubt filling up your mind, then this is probably the right time\u2026 \u00bb\nDo you sometimes feel uncomfortable having to explain to your accountant on how your industry works? If that is so, and if there\u2019s doubt filling up your mind, then this is probably the right time to address the situation. How should it be done? Ideally, the answer is to seek for a chartered professional accountant who has a professional insight into the industry you specialize in and is enthusiastic as much as you are. I do admit that it could be rather difficult to spot the exact right person.\nAt C\u00e9lestin Chartered Professional Accountants, we have set in motion a particular approach, designed to develop certain specific niches. Here, you can meet recognized professionals dedicated to exercise their profession over several precise fields of activity upon which they are greatly inspired.\nChartered professional accountants working at the office are non-specialized practitioners, who attempt at focusing on a maximum of 4 business areas so as to strengthen their competencies as much as possible. Our chartered professional accountants must expand their horizons in each of the fields that they have chosen to dedicate their practice, and reach far beyond the traditional field of accounting and the tax system. They seek to master in every business sector both in terms of financing and economy. The customer niches developed in the office contribute us to remain on the leading edge of the latest technological and industrial developments and discover upcoming trends, fashion, etc\u2026 We also aim at differentiating ourselves from the competition by publishing interesting informational articles addressing each domain.\nBy developing such knowledge and experience in highly-specialized fields, each chartered professional accountant can hence become an essential business consultant towards his customers. As a result, we can best help you identify new trends in the sector, detect pitfalls for which the others were fooled and help you seize opportunities that may rise over time. Additionally, gaining a certain focus over customers in a particular niche enables us to discover possible saving opportunities due to the volume.\nTherefore, you can enjoy one of the most competitive fees available on the market from us. You will also be able to access a distinctively useful professional to support you in your business affairs. Ultimately, you will be able to rely on someone who would perfectly understand the entrepreneur within you, the risks that you are handling and the challenges you are dealing with.\nWe do not claim to be experts in every domain; in fact, we develop specific niches with several customers in the same domain. Our strategy on market development, through the development of niches, seems to exceed the horizons of other accountant agencies found today. Not all agencies are designed to develop specific niches.\nYou might perhaps be uncertain of the advantages that you may procure through C\u00e9lestin chartered professional accountants. Unless you try to make a comparison between us, you might never know if our consultancy is worth the sacrifice or if our fees are similar, or even less.\nYou may think that we are simply too far away from you!\nWe are currently based in Montreal, in the corner of two major highways, 40 and 25 and within a 5 minute distance to the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine tunnel and our firm is indeed equipped with an advanced technology. If you have access to the internet, you will have the feeling we are almost in your neighborhood. You will hardly need to move, since usually, it\u2019s our dedicated team of chartered professional accountants that will visit you at your home. We are already acquainted with several customers, in remote areas, who would also wish to benefit from the expertise of our chartered professional accountants of our Montreal firm.\nI invite you to visit our web site and view its contents and videos on all your interested sectors, and from which you\u2019ll gain solid examples on the expertise of our chartered professional accountants, and on the advanced technology used by our firm.\nUsing technology to tailor customer services\n\u00ab Although being a considerably small firm, we implement on some of the latest high technologies that many large-scale chartered professional accountants do not have. Using highly advanced technologies gives us a tremendous competitive advantage. These\u2026 \u00bb\nAlthough being a considerably small firm, we implement on some of the latest high technologies that many large-scale chartered professional accountants do not have. Using highly advanced technologies gives us a tremendous competitive advantage. These technologies helps us become more effective in terms of our customer service and enable us to provide a better balance (work \u2013 family life) within our team.\nHow does it work? It\u2019s really very simple. We have established three server solutions. A server to be used for internal purposes, another dedicated to customers, and the last that serves as a terminal server.\nThe decision taken in 2007, to use a terminal server was among the best decisions taken by our chartered professional accountants firm until today. The terminal server solution facilitated with an intermediate internet connection allows to connect to a distance server directly. We thus have the capability of connecting from anywhere in the world and access any software and any means of communication including the commercial telephone of the office. And once we grab a hold of it, it is indeed magical. As a result, we could remotely connect, even with our customers, within a matter of seconds. The data are stored in a central point and any individual can easily connect to it in extremely safe conditions. The team-based approach was in fact, made accessible though this. Three members were to work on the same case, at the same time, and each had to be placed in a different position. Not only is this \u201ccool\u201d, but is also exceedingly efficient. For example, if someone got sick and was unable to attend the office, he can still undertake his cases in the safe comfort of his home. Now, that\u2019s really astounding, even if we are physically present in the office, we are still connected to the terminal server and are continuing to work as if we were far away!\nThis method has brought in all sorts of new requirements. Now, when they are remote, our accountants also require to access these customer files. It is much more convenient to avoid moving heavy customer files any longer. Therefore, we have begun to digitize these customer files enabling us to become more effective at home, to the customer, as well as to the office.\nAn improved safety for customer data\nCentralizing data on the terminal server was also an excellent solution to restore safety on the customer data. Now for example, if one of our accountants loses his mobile phone, none of the confidential data will fall into the wrong hands. In fact, mobiles need not no longer transfer important customer information since all the necessary information are saved on the office server itself. It would seem really unfortunate to find all the financial statements, or even worse, the tax returns containing names, social security numbers, addresses, parents\u2019 and children\u2019s birth dates, to be in the fraudster\u2019s possession.\nThe customer safety zone \u2013 for a better customer service\nCustomers, in particular, are experiencing significant benefits with the use of our customer safety zone. With this safety zone, they are also given the opportunity to access a distance server dedicated to them. With the customer safety zone and the digitalization of files, it has now become easy to increase the content, accessible to customers remotely. Customers can thus easily access several of their on-line documents. Even if they still have their paper documents with them, it would be quite beneficial for them to be able to access their on-line documents. It is often faster to connect and directly select the relevant documents they need. They would no longer require to call our chartered accountants\u2019 office and wait until someone finds their file and ultimately end up receiving the wrong papers. Hence, they are free to access their documents around the clock.\nFacilitating the exchange of voluminous documents\nThe safety zone is also specifically convenient for the exchange of large databases, which cannot be sent through e-mails given their size. Ask the directors of the child care center, and the CPE who own enormous databases, filled with very confidential information.\nSafe exchange of confidential documents\nThe customer safety zone has lead us to improve safety during data exchanges with customers. Through the safety zone, the exchange of documents is carried out in a coded method, using an HTTPS connection, like banks. It is also recommended in the United States, by the Internal Revenue Service, equivalent to the Canada Revenue Agency, to work in this manner when communicating personal and confidential documents between accountants and their customers. E-mails are to be avoided as much as possible since they are not quite safe in the process of sending confidential documents.\nBetter serve remote customers\nCustomer services, found far from the office, is made easier and convenient with the introduction of the safety zone. In the case of certain files, neither the customer nor our accountants\u2019 team would require to travel. Everything is carried out more faster at a distance. Through this, not only does it save more time, but a large region can also be covered at the same time. It is true that we prefer to meet customers personally, but if that\u2019s not possible, everything can be done remotely and probably at a lower cost.\nFree remote backup\nWith the safety zone, our chartered professional accountants\u2019 office offers customers the possibility of making their backup copies directly from our free secure server. Thus, our customers can have a peace of mind knowing that they have their backup copies on accounting data, stored offsite while everything being provided free of charge.\nFast payment via credit cards\nFacilitating the possibility of an electronic payment directly from our Web site, is also highly valued and appreciated by our customers. Especially those who wish to increase their points in their credit cards are delighted with this method.\nMany professional offices face significant difficulties on reconciling work and family life. This has turned out to be one of the main stakes within the next ten years. Our office is no exception to this rule. We may be small, but deal with the equal reality as larger offices. Therefore, we had to carefully consider on the matter so as to find the perfect solution to solve the problem of reconciling work and family life.\nWhat I like most is that I can go home early and have supper with my family even if it means having to complete my cases later on, perhaps when the children go to sleep. Times when it gets really busy are indeed very interesting. I can work at home, for example, when the child is sick or while waiting for a furniture delivery.\nWe have thus established and introduced one of the best terminal server solutions, an excellent server for all our customers and for which I am exceedingly proud of.\nGreat tax benefits from incorporating (part 1)\nThe ABCs of income splitting\nIncome splitting, a benefit from incorporating SMEs\n\u00ab Find out how you can easily split your income and save $ 30 000 on taxes. Income splitting is a simple technique that helps reduce your tax bill significantly. The American system allows to carry out\u2026 \u00bb\nFind out how you can easily split your income and save $ 30 000 on taxes. Income splitting is a simple technique that helps reduce your tax bill significantly. The American system allows to carry out income splitting over the same family. Here in Canada, a real strategy is needed to achieve the same results. Incorporation allows you to carry out income splitting very easily. For an entrepreneur having adult children who are still students, incorporation is often the \u201cbest\u201d option. Watch this video and let us know what you think!\nHow to save $15 000 on taxes using an incorporation\nThe capital gains deduction, a benefit of incorporation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 35199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/bears-consultant-ernie-accorsi-trestman-great-leader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LNLVQMHJDGUQ5BFUMJAFTAOE5TF4QAJG", "length": 2767, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "chicago.suntimes.com", "title": "Bears consultant Ernie Accorsi: Trestman \u2018great leader\u2019 | Chicago Sun-Times", "raw_content": "Bears consultant Ernie Accorsi: Trestman \u2018great leader\u2019\nConsultant Ernie Accorsi was hired to help the Bears find a leader at the general manager position.\nYou\u2019ll never guess who he praised as a \u201cgreat leader\u201d four years ago: the man the Bears decided wasn\u2019t the one to coach their team any more.\nAccorsi was the general manager of the Browns when the team hired Marc Trestman, first as a quarterbacks coach and then as an offensive coordinator.\nHe clearly admired Trestman from his time there, and was quoted extensively in the coach\u2019s 2010 book, \u201cPerseverance: Life Lessons on Leadership and Teamwork.\u201d\n\u201cI am very proud to call him my friend,\u201d he said in the book. As a person, there is such a genuine nature to Marc. He is really an authentic human being. He is so unique in this industry, given his educational and legal background. He is very direct and sincere, and there is a real sensitivity to him that you just don\u2019t find in our business.\n\u201cAs a coach, Marc is incredibly smart. I mean, he is an amazing intellect. He sees the game, from an offensive standpoint, unlike anybody I have ever known. He is so innovative.\n\u201cMarc has a real passion for the game, too, and that passion carried him through some tough times and some bad breaks over the years. He is very resilient and determined. I really admire that about him. He is not a politician. He doesn\u2019t try to manipulate people or maneuver for jobs, either. He is very humble and has a lot of humility, almost to a fault.\n\u201cThe one thing I learned about athletes a long time ago is that your control and influence over them is based on your ability to help them succeed. Period. That is what they care about. I mean, they can like you or dislike you, but at the end of the day they are there to succeed, both individually and for their team. They have to be convinced in their mind that their coach can help them get better and win.\n\u201cHaving said that, the quarterback is the most critical and important position in all of sports. As such, the quarterback coach is also one of the most important positions. That relationship is key to the success of the team. Players have to respect your knowledge of the game first and foremost. Beyond that, they have to trust you. Marc had both. Not only do his quarterbacks trust him, they know that he is a brilliant tactician and extremely knowledgable of the game.\n\u201cEverywhere he goes, his offense succeeds. He has a proven track record. As such, I think Marc going to Montreal was a really good move for him. He has all the experience in the world, but now he will get to prove that he is a great leader.\n\u201cMarc has finally gotten his opportunity to be a head coach in the CFL, and he has already impacted the Canadian game. Make no mistake, Marc is a great leader.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 6223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chicagodefender.com/2015/03/16/press-play-stop-what-youre-doing-listen-to-kendrick-lamars-stellar-new-album-to-pimp-a-butterfly-stream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:37Z", "digest": "sha1:V4GKVRUVPFQEUGRMODRW2SPGJLB5DLYS", "length": 2619, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "chicagodefender.com", "title": "Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly New Album | The Chicago Defender", "raw_content": "PRESS PLAY: Stop What You\u2019re Doing & Listen To Kendrick Lamar\u2019s Stellar New Album \u2018To Pimp A Butterfly\u2019 [STREAM]\nKendrick Lamar dropped his latest studio album, To Pimp A Butterfly in the middle of the night, just like our Queen Bey when she surprised us with Beyonce. But this isn\u2019t about Beyonce (everything is about Beyonce). This is about Kendrick Lamar\u2019s impressive ability to keep us engaged because he\u2019s got something to say and we\u2019re listening. In fact, we haven\u2019t stopped.\nMUST READ: The \u2018Not Black Enough\u2019 Chatter Over Kendrick Lamar\u2019s Rolling Stone Cover Is So Unnecessary\nIt\u2019s been less than a week since Lamar\u2019s talked-about Rolling Stone cover featuring a lighter skinned woman twisted his hair. While many critics were busy wanting Kendrick Lamar to literally represent all Blackness, he was busy\u2026representing Blackness. This highly anticipated album features so much love and appreciation for a saturation of melanin. This album is a artistry.\nGood art is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. From the album\u2019s cover to songs like \u201cKing Kunta,\u201d \u201cInstitutionalized,\u201d \u201cHow Much A Dollar Cost\u201d and \u201cHood Politics,\u201d Kendrick is clearly an artist.\n\u201cComplexion\u201d featuring Rapsody is already a fave. \u201cComplexion, it don\u2019t mean a thing\u2026\u201d Lamar croons over the grooving track. It\u2019s like he takes every chance he can get to praise Black women, allowing us to know that we\u2019re beautiful despite what society spoon feeds us on a daily. Rapsody\u2019s feminine touch on the song is just the touch it needs to solidify the record as a new feminist anthem.\nThe way Kendrick Lamar us able to infuse hip hop with funk, soul, R&B and tie all of that up in a message, he\u2019s quickly becoming instantly legendary. No shade to those rappers who have nothing to talk about but chains and how much champagne they can pour all over a woman in the club, but Kendrick Lamar is out here talking about shades of Blackness, the depth of oppression and messages mothers give to their Black sons. It\u2019s a powerful offering of true hip hop. We\u2019re impressed.\nThe album features greats like George Clinton and Ronald Isley and fellow rappers Snoop Dogg and James Fauntleroy and more. It\u2019s a solid piece of work and is sure to be on the top of every hip hop list there is this year.\nHaven\u2019t listened yet? We\u2019ve got you covered.\nStream To Pimp A Butterfly Below:\nKendrick Lamar\u2019s New Tune Addressing Race In America & More\nKendrick Lamar Uplifts Everyone\nPRESS PLAY: Stop What You\u2019re Doing & Listen To Kendrick Lamar\u2019s Stellar New Album \u2018To Pimp A Butterfly\u2019 [STREAM] was originally published on hellobeautiful.com\nalbum\t, Kendrick Lamar\t, music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://choosecornwall.ca/news-english/business/job-fair-to-take-place-on-september-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:06Z", "digest": "sha1:HCVBV6P4VM3NMRTXVV7Q6KU2TIPCEW6O", "length": 1781, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "choosecornwall.ca", "title": "Job Fair to Take Place on September 13 - Choose Cornwall : Choose Cornwall", "raw_content": "Cornwall, Ontario \u2013 Job seekers will have a chance to meet employers up close and personal at the Cornwall and Area Job Fair in September.\nThe Job Fair will be held at the Cornwall Civic Complex on Wednesday, September 13 and is being organized by the Social Development Council (SDC) Employability Network. This event is free and open to anyone seeking employment or volunteer opportunities in Cornwall, Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, and Akwesasne.\n\u201cThere are many job opportunities in Cornwall and the surrounding area,\u201d says Alex de Wit, Executive Director of the SDC. \u201cThis event will help to showcase what our business community and job market has to offer.\u201d\nBoth sessions will feature Cornwall, SDG, and Akwesasne employers from various sectors including transportation, warehousing, service and sales, retail, hospitality, and social services.\nThis is the third consecutive year that a Job Fair has been in Cornwall.\nMinimax Express\nScotiabank Call Centre\nFrontline FYI\nThe Job Fair will also include the 11th annual \u201cFrontline FYI\u201d, a community service fair for frontline workers and those interested in volunteering in the community.\n\u201cExpanding on the success of last year\u2019s event, we are excited to include the Frontline FYI as a way for social service agencies to find volunteers who are looking to enhance their work experience,\u201d says Mr. de Wit.\nThis event is being organized by the Social Development Council of Cornwall and Area \u2013 Employability Network, and sponsored by the Ministry of Community and Social Services in partnership with the City of Cornwall, Cornwall Economic Development, and the Akwesasne Area Management Board.\nFor more information and to register, job seekers, volunteers, and employers are encouraged to visit http://sdccornwall.ca/jobfair2017/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chrisamelung.com/2016/06/40-days-in-a-look-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VO35E3A5L7IRROJDX4RMEITRRLKA2S2W", "length": 1044, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "chrisamelung.com", "title": "40 Days In \u2013 A Look Back \u2013 preg_replace($lost, $found, $Chris_Amelung)", "raw_content": "Maintaining this blog has taken a lot more time and effort than I originally anticipated. I find I\u2019m spending nearly as much time writing about what I\u2019ve done as I am writing code and learning new skills.\nNow, I don\u2019t think that is a bad thing. This blog has helped me reflect back on what I\u2019ve learned and has kept me focused on moving forward, even if it\u2019s at a pace slower than I like.\nI\u2019ve also found that maintaining this blog and telling this story has changed my process. In the past, I would have read just enough to get started and then jumped head-first in a project. Learn by trial-and-fire. Rewrite my solution 5 or 6 times, improving with each iteration until I fully understood what I was doing and felt like I had something to be proud of. Somehow, maintaining this blog has made me more deliberate and that is a good thing.\nWell, I\u2019m 40 days in. It\u2019s been fun so far. Can\u2019t wait to see where I\u2019ll find myself after the next 40 days.\nPrevious: Previous post: A Great Tutorial On Theme Development\nNext: Next post: I\u2019m No Designer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christchurchstannington.co.uk/Groups/253362/Our_History.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:29Z", "digest": "sha1:5EEHZNU6JHSSGQNZK3MXCLFQ6QPEGHD3", "length": 2943, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "christchurchstannington.co.uk", "title": "Christ Church Stannington : Our History", "raw_content": "Christ Church is a Commissioners' Church or \u201cMillion Church\u201d as it was built partly with money provided by the Church Building Act of 1824. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. The construction of Christ Church was completed in 1830. The final cost of the church was \u00a33,000 with part of the funding coming from the second parliamentary grant of the Church Building Act which was approved in 1824. However a substantial donation came from Eliza and Ann Harrison of Weston Hall, daughters of Thomas Harrison an eminent Sheffield sawmaker.\nAt the time of its construction Christ Church was within the Chapelry of Bradfield which was within the Bishopric of Ecclesfield; Stannington did not become a separate parish until 1843.\nThe church has had several notable vicars over the year Samuel Parkes was in office for 28 years between 1879 and 1908, Francis Augustine Stebbing was the longest serving vicar between 1916 and 1963, the last incumbent Cannon Philip West had, until very recently, been Christ Church\u2019s vicar for over 20 years. The current Priest-in-Charge is Tim Fletcher.\nThe church is built from coarse gritstone blocks in a symmetrical Gothic style. There is a low square bell tower with a weather vane on top and a three faced clock and louvres below. One of the eye catching exterior features are the seven embattled target which stand on top of corner piers. The lychgate at the front entrance to the churchyard was erected in July 1940 by Rebecca Nichols in memory of her husband John who died in December 1914. The graveyard was enlarged in 1919 but is now almost full with very little space for new graves.\nThe exterior of the church has had very few changes while the interior has been re-ordered several times. There was originally seating for 1000 people but this is now greatly reduced, two long side balconies which went across the windows making the church very dark were removed in 1964 by the Reverend Trevor Hudson. A third balcony still remains along the back wall at one time it housed the organ and the choir sang from there. The original font was brought from Bradfield by the Reverend Gill in 1927, it was replaced by the Angel Font in July 1945 with the original then installed as a feature in the churchyard, unfortunately it was stolen in 2001.\nA major renovation of the interior was undertaken in 1992/93 when the pews were removed and replaced by chairs, a new floor was laid and carpeted throughout and the church was rewired. At the same time a new vestry was added, the font was brought to the front of the church and the baptistery at the rear was enlarged to form a narthex. A large open space was also created at the front of the church by the removal of the choir stalls. The interior also has a wooden roll of honour, which lists the 70 people of the parish killed in World War I.\nText adapted from Wikipedia\nPlease click the links to the right for further information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 145.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christie-ish.livejournal.com/151706.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:P6CUOYUDP2FRQ3XS6INMUJZWXFRENX6L", "length": 535, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "christie-ish.livejournal.com", "title": "Rawrrrrrr - Life is full of interruptions and complications,", "raw_content": "Rawrrrrrr - Life is full of interruptions and complications,\nchristie_ish\nsugarintherain on November 7th, 2005 01:58 pm (UTC)\ndo we have to be re-added??\nand whyyy were you not at school today?\nchristie_ish on November 7th, 2005 02:02 pm (UTC)\nyou don't have to, I was just saying I never put one up.\nand because.\ncash_eel on November 8th, 2005 08:47 pm (UTC)\nuhh... keep me.\nill comment every once in awhile.\njbweb555 on March 13th, 2006 05:54 pm (UTC)\nadd moi... much love!\nchristie_ish on March 13th, 2006 05:58 pm (UTC)\nsure kiddo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cigarpalace.org/tag/cigar-talk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Y36V4YTYZQBMM4N6TIKB6EYSF2XMN7SB", "length": 316, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cigarpalace.org", "title": "CIGAR PALACE | Tag Archive | Cigar Talk", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Cigar Talk\nWelcome to the new years cigar lovers. Before we completely close the book of 2011 I just want to mention the best cigars I\u2019ve had. I didn\u2019t smoke many though. Here I have all Cuban not because I don\u2019t smoke Non Cuban, but because I didn\u2019t have access to the 2011 releases. BTW I haven\u2019t [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cisternyard.com/category/news-new/sports/sports-features/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:28Z", "digest": "sha1:GHKSHJBJN4CSZP63ZMIKIVBYIM7SGYOU", "length": 3198, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "cisternyard.com", "title": "Sports Features Archives | CisternYard Media Sports Features Archives | CisternYard Media", "raw_content": "Many of us ran track or cross country in high school, seeing it as an easy way to stay in shape \u2013 and spend time with friends. Little did we know, that these seemingly easy activities would become more equitable to ancient Chinese prisoner torture. Running as fast as one can for miles on end\u2026\nFrom island paradise to the city by the sea\nFall Sports, Sailing, Sports, Sports Features\nOne of the first questions that we often ask one another at the College of Charleston is \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d The common responses range from somewhere in South Carolina or nearby, to those escaping the brutal winters of the northeast. There are a few outliers, like those from the Midwest, West Coast or other\u2026\nCreating Clyde: The tale of Clyde the Cougar\nCampus, Features, Sports, Sports Features, The Yard\nBeloved by students and members of the Charleston community alike, nothing is more synonymous with College of Charleston athletics than Clyde the Cougar. The mascot we know as the supplier of school spirit, pumping up the crowd at sporting events and greeting nervous newcomers at orientation, has changed dramatically over the years. As stated in\u2026\nSails of glory: A Rio retrospective\nCampus, Carousel, Fall Sports, Local, News and Politics, Sailing, Sports, Sports Features, The Yard\nAmid a slew of fears with regard to safety, sewage and gas station bathrooms, the Summer Olympics managed to captivate millions of viewers as it dominated the sports world for two weeks in Rio de Janeiro. Sending 11 sailors from the varsity sailing program to the Summer Olympics over the past 50 years, the College\u2026\nDon\u2019t ruck with Rugby\nCampus, Carousel, Sports, Sports Features, The Yard, The Yard 2\nCollege of Charleston\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby team, affectionately referred to across the club rugby nation as \u2018Sexiest Team in the South,\u2019 is the most successful club team on campus, entering the 2015-2016 season as fifth in the nation. The accomplishments of this team do not rest solely on the strength and stamina of the players\u2014though that\u2026\nYes, the Warriors will break the Bulls\u2019 record\nCarousel, News and Politics, Sports, Sports Features\nThe Golden State Warriors\u2019 current extraordinariness has not won them back-to-back championships (yet?), but it has already achieved the feat of bringing back the memory of the legendary 1995/1996 Chicago Bulls team \u2013 the only team that can be compared to them at the moment. But out of the flourishing and sometimes out-putting \u2018Could they\u2026\nMile High Magic reappears as the Broncos capture Super Bowl 50\nThis weekend, I traveled all the way from Charleston to visit a friend in Denver. Of course, neither the date nor the place were chosen randomly. Here is how excitement built through Sunday night, when the Broncos clinched their third Super Bowl crown and set the city ablaze. It all started as a mere wager\u2026\nOn Tuesday evening, not long after Anthony Martial, Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco and Layzin Kurzawa \u2013 three of his ex-teammates \u2013 tasted Champions League action respectively with Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and PSG, France\u2019s Nicholas Jeausseran had no room for regrets or nostalgia. 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The only hint of its role in one of America\u2019s worst \u2014 and most indelible \u2014 industrial disasters can be found on two street-level bronze plaques on its facade, one put up by the National Register of Historic Places.\nThe ninth floor, where two out of three of the 146 died and from where about 50 people plunged to their deaths, is today N.Y.U.\u2019s Center for Developmental Genetics, where researchers are studying such matters as the development of the double-chambered heart in sea squirts.\n\u201cWe think that it\u2019s fitting that where all these sad things happened, we\u2019re studying the genes involved in illnesses like heart disease,\u201d said Gloria M. Coruzzi, chairwoman of the department of biology, as she showed a visitor around.\nThe haunted floor, its contents and occupants consumed by the fire, has been gutted and renovated at least twice, and all that is left to offer a sense of what it looked like on March 25, 1911 are the tall windows and the round supporting columns.\nJames Estrin/The New York Times Today the ninth floor of the Brown Building is home to N.Y.U.\u2019s Center for Developmental Genetics.\nInstead of rows of sewing machines, there are rooms and cubicles filled with test tubes, centrifuges and aquatic tanks. Instead of 250 seamstresses and cutters crowded on a floor, there are a handful of professors, postdoctoral fellows and researchers.\n\u201cEvery now and then you think about it,\u201d Karin Kiontke, a postdoctoral fellow in biology, said of the Triangle fire.\nThe gray stone 10-story building on the northwest corner of Washington Place and Greene Street was a skyscraper of its time. Built in 1910 in a neo-Renaissance style, it is decorated with such old-fashioned touches as terra cotta trim and fleurs-de-lis moldings.\nMost of the nation\u2019s dresses, blouses, hats, feather adornments and other ready-made clothing were then being produced in New York, and the industry employed over 80,000 people. To take advantage of the growing work force of immigrants who were settling in the nearby tenements of the Lower East Side and East Village, factory loft buildings rose east and south of Washington Square.\n\u201cAll the buildings on Washington Place, on Washington Square East, on Third Street were garment factories,\u201d said Michael Nash, head of N.Y.U.\u2019s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. \u201cMost of these buildings date from 1890 to 1916.\u201d\nThe factories erased much of what was a posh pocket of downtown Manhattan, with the Asch Building itself erected on the site of the town house where the writer Henry James was born in 1843, according to Joyce Gold, an adjunct professor of New York history at N.Y.U. who gives tours of the neighborhood.\nJames Estrin/The New York Times A view of the South section of the ninth floor\nTriangle, which moved into the Asch Building one year after it opened, was regarded as a model of clean efficiency compared with the sweatshops inside tenement apartments that had been commonplace, Mr. Nash said. Triangle\u2019s building was fireproof, had freight elevators, tall ceilings and windows that flooded the lofts with daylight.\n\u201cTriangle had the reputation of being the most modern of all the factories,\u201d he said.\nAs the garment industry followed the subway lines and department stores uptown, N.Y.U., which had its law school next door to Asch, began gobbling up the lofts, eventually usurping the footprint of the garment industry. The university acquired the Asch Building in 1929. Still, as recently as 15 years ago garments were produced in the neighborhood.\nToday, students with ear buds and book bags, who dominate the neighborhood the way immigrant blouse, dress and hat workers once did, hurry by the building. Most are oblivious to its history.\n\u201cI know there were lives lost in that factory, that people had to jump,\u201d said Dominique Williams, 19, an N.Y.U. sophomore smoking a cigarette near the building and listening to her iPod. \u201cI think about it sometimes. I guess it\u2019s like all of New York. It has a lot of history and you can\u2019t really escape, and our place of learning is in that place.\u201d\nEric Michael Johnson for The New York Times The onetime Asch Building, once the site of the Triangle Waist Company, is now the Brown Building of Science, housing New York University laboratories devoted to biology and chemistry.\nAlbany, 8:41 A.M.\nCuomo Says Budget Won\u2019t Include Rent Laws or Property Tax Cap", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://classic.drf.com/news/golden-era-brooklyn-racing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ONRU22PNSDRF24T7MODYRQMXSUPV7W2Z", "length": 20070, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "classic.drf.com", "title": "The golden era of Brooklyn racing | Daily Racing Form", "raw_content": "The golden era of Brooklyn racing\nCourtesy of Ron Micetic\nThere are no obvious traces left of Brooklyn\u2019s grand horse racing past. Not even a plaque where any of its three storied racetracks once stood, reminding unsuspecting passersby of the famed circuit that prospered there for three decades and laid the foundation for the modern game. The still-mourned Ebbets Field has a small plaque marking its former site, but before Brooklyn was a baseball town it had been synonymous with horse racing. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle observed around the turn of the 20th century that \u201cthe sport for which Brooklyn is most famed is horse racing.\u201d\nThere are no mourners left for seaside Brighton Beach, Gravesend, and the grandest of them all, Sheepshead Bay, known in its time as America\u2019s Ascot. Together they made Brooklyn the racing capital of America. Like other racetracks in New York they closed by the end of 1910, casualties of a prohibition on gambling in the state. That ban was lifted in 1913, but by then, the power center of New York racing had moved eastward into the more open spaces of Queens and Long Island. The Brooklyn trio never reopened, supplanted by the newer courses of Aqueduct, Jamaica, and magnificent Belmont.\nAqueduct is the only track left within city limits. It opened last Friday for its six-month slog through almost three seasons. It will soon become more like a casino with the addition of thousands of slot machines.\nAs strange as it sounds, it was easier to be a racing fan in New York City a century ago than today. The subway runs to Aqueduct, but no direct line runs to Belmont after the Long Island Railroad eliminated daily service. A yellow school bus now picks up racegoers once in the morning at a nearby station.\nDRF WEEKEND: Handicapping roundups, Q&A with the IRB's Alastair Donald\nBy the early 1880\u2019s, one could reach the beachfront of Coney Island, home to the Brighton Beach course and within a mile of Sheepshead Bay, by any of nine steam railroads and one horse-car line. By 1886, the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad, today\u2019s F subway line, deposited racegoers at the Gravesend entrance.\nCloser inspection of Brooklyn\u2019s history reveals a fixed legacy \u2013 for racing and New York. The Brooklyn tracks started everyday racing from spring to fall, established great fixtures such as the Suburban and Brooklyn, moved the classics from four miles to 1 1/4 miles, and gave away purses that made racing broadly profitable. Neighborhoods rose around the tracks, and the most extensive railway system in the country developed as a way to carry racegoers to these ever-popular locations.\nHorse racing went all the way back to the 1660\u2019s in New York, but a century of anti-Anglo tradition swept it away until the sport returned in 1819. Legislation against racing in New York was modified and a track opened in Bath, on Long Island, prefiguring the location of the Brooklyn tracks. (Brooklyn is on the westernmost end of Long Island.) That track gave way to the famous Union Course in 1821 at a location closer to the City of Brooklyn. The Union Course survived almost a half-century.\nThe final years of the Civil War ushered in the early stages of modern racing. Saratoga opened for three days in 1863 and the same in 1864. Its success encouraged wealthy New Yorkers to call for a track closer to home. Financier Leonard W. Jerome started the American Jockey Club in 1865 and the next year paid for the construction of a racetrack in the annexed Westchester district in the New York City suburbs (what is now the Bronx).\nREAD MORE: Map of the three Brooklyn racetracks and facts about their meets (PDF)\nAmid fine grass lands and wealthy estates, Jerome Park was the grandfather of racetracks, the most refined home for high society at the end of the 1860\u2019s. It opened with great excitement on Sept. 25, 1866, in front of Ulysses S. Grant and 8,000 others. That day Jerome hoisted his young daughter Jennie \u2013 one day the mother of Winston Churchill \u2013 onto the back of the Inauguration Stakes winner. The American Jockey Club controlled Jerome Park and deeply influenced the future of American racing.\nAt the other end of New York, city residents turned their attentions to the long sandy beach of Coney Island. By 1868, it became the first of the resort communities, followed by West Brighton and Manhattan Beach. William A. Engeman, an entrepreneur who made his fortune during the Civil War, bought several hundred acres of oceanfront property for $20,000 and named the area Brighton Beach after the famous English beach town. The western end of Coney Island had a seedy reputation, but Engeman saw opportunity on the eastern end to attract higher classes.\nEngeman\u2019s projects earned him the moniker of the \u201cPioneer of Coney Island.\u201d In 1869, he built a small wooden pier to receive steamboats, in 1871 the Ocean Hotel, and in 1878 a two-story bathing pavilion and pier. The first railroad arrived in 1864, followed by another in 1878, and one more in 1887. The pent-up communities of Brooklyn and New York soon discovered the charms of seaside life.\n\u201cIn the presence of the ocean, the hearts of mankind become ecstatic, and their minds become expanded,\u201d wrote the Daily Eagle on July 14, 1878. \u201cMen, women and children breathe a stronger, purer air than at their homes in the city, and withal become possessed of new and brighter ideas.\u201d\nIn 1879, Engeman had his brightest idea yet: the Brighton Beach Fair Grounds. Unlike the members of the American Jockey Club, Engeman was a businessman alone, not a turfman. (To be sporting, he purchased 40 horses before the meet opened.) But horse racing was a natural draw for the diverse Coney Island crowds.\nOver 500 men worked day and night for a little over a month to complete the track at a cost of $80,000, according to the Daily Eagle. It was situated between Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue. The course was a mile long with a 2 1/2-mile steeplechase course inside. Two grandstands \u2013 the larger one made of Georgia pine and painted similarly to the nearby Hotel Brighton \u2013 could hold 13,000 spectators. There was standing room for 30,000 more.\n\u201cFrom the grand stands may be seen a superb view of the ocean and an inland picture of which the eye would never tire,\u201d observed the Daily Eagle before it opened.\nBrighton Beach opened June 28, 1879. Admission was 50 cents for the larger stand, a quarter for the small one. The second day of July 4 drew a crowd of more than 10,000 people to watch four races, and racing resumed on the 5th and 14th. None of the great stables entered, but the success of those four days led to a second meeting of six days beginning on July 15 and ending July 28.\nThis success continued into August, at which point Brighton was onto a fifth meeting, and to attract better horses it offered the Brighton Cup, which Bramble won. The afternoon seashore crowds were turned into new racegoers. A sixth meeting, Sept. 8-17, concluded 35 days of racing. An experiment had turned into a fixture.\nThe year of 1879 was the genesis of Brooklyn racing. As Engeman laid down his track, Leonard Jerome and younger turfmen of the American Jockey Club cast about for a new home on Coney Island. The quality at Jerome Park was beginning to turn, and there was a vacant time in the calendar that could be utilized.\nThe Coney Island Jockey Club was born in June 1879, with 24 original directors, some of the most powerful men in New York, such as August Belmont Jr., James R. Keene, J.G.K. Lawrence, A. Wright Sanford, William R. Travers, and William K. Vanderbilt.\nThe club hastily held a meeting of three days at the former trotting track at the Prospect Driving Park. These were the same grounds that would become Gravesend racecourse. It was a success, and an autumn meeting was held in September. That winter, Jerome announced the selection of a site for the club\u2019s new course, some 112 acres of dense wood on Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, about three-quarters of a mile inland from prosperous Manhattan Beach.\nSheepshead Bay had no peer. Like the American Jockey Club, the new club\u2019s motto was sport for sport\u2019s sake. From its opening on June 19, 1880, when Spinaway won the Foam Stakes, it became a destination for the finest turfmen and their horses, high society, celebrities, and plungers, as large bettors were known then. Among the stakes at the inaugural meeting were the Tidal, Foam, Coney Island Handicap, Surf, Mermaid, and Coney Island Derby.\nThe track cost $135,000 to complete and had seats for 5,000 and stands to hold 40,000, plus a steeplechase and training track in the inner field, saddling paddock, judges\u2019 and timers\u2019 stand, and large betting ring shaded by native trees. A station was erected to serve two railroads. The clubhouse dining room catered to the wealthy.\nAs legendary journalist Walter S. Vosburgh wrote, \u201cA lunch was provided free in the clubhouse to members and others on the principle that men were in better humor when well fed than if compelled to patronize the doubtful food of the public restaurant or go hungry.\u201d\nSheepshead Bay established a series of firsts: a remodeled course of nine furlongs in 1884, a turf course in 1886. It inaugurated the Suburban in 1884, which became the greatest fixture of that era. In 1886, the Futurity was opened to be run in 1888. Entrants were nominated before they were born by way of their dams being named. It rivaled the Suburban in renown.\nAt the outset of the new course there was some confusion. Vosburgh tells the story of the late Frank Hall, of Maryland, who trained his 1884 Suburban candidate War Eagle over it. \u201cWhen the horse ran it in 1.55, Mr. Hall, forgetting it was no longer a mile, was unable to believe his eyes and concluded, \u2018Something\u2019s wrong with my watch,\u2019 until Mr. A.J. Joyner reminded him that the horse had covered nine furlongs.\u201d\nLong before the surf met the turf at Del Mar, there was Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay. They held races, rarely more than five, in the summertime afternoon.\n\u201cOn summer Saturdays the clerks and merchants and the professional men who are kept in town, take an early luncheon in the city, and catch the Bay Ridge boat for the races at Sheepshead Bay, across the creek from the island,\u201d wrote a race fan in Scribner\u2019s Magazine in 1896. After the races, the crowd burst into the Coney Island night and its restaurants, bars, vaudeville houses, and amusements.\nPeople still wanted more racing. Much of Brooklyn was still farmland, but those railroads and new boulevards, like the Olmsted and Vaux-designed Ocean Parkway, began to cut through and open up the area on its way to Coney Island.\nIn the winter of 1885-1886, brothers and celebrated owners Phil and Mike Dwyer organized the Brooklyn Jockey Club and purchased the old Gravesend trotting grounds where the Coney Island club had passed through. Within two miles of Coney Island, they rebuilt the old track to a mile and erected new buildings, including a grandstand for 8,000 people. Though not elaborate, the course was sound.\nBefore their turf career the Dwyers ran a butcher shop at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street. \u201cTheir butcher carts were drawn about the streets by flyers of no mean ability,\u201d the Daily Eagle once remarked. They purchased their first racehorse in 1874, a Belmont cast-off named Rhadamanthus. By 1881, they won the Kentucky Derby, with Hindoo. They campaigned many champions, Miss Woodford and Hanover among them. Their charges were pushed through grueling campaigns, like Kingston, who won a record 89 out of 138 races.\nThe brothers could not have been more different. Phil was modest with his bets, conservative with their stable. He once observed, \u201cHorse racing and everything about it is a lottery, especially yearlings.\u201d\nMike was a high-stakes bettor whose daring and often reckless manner astonished his brother. About one race in which Mike landed $40,000 cash in the Dwyers\u2019 pockets, he said with a laugh: \u201cPhil didn\u2019t know how much I had on. You know Phil would have to be chloroformed to get him to bet more than $500.\u201d\nTheir track opened Aug. 26, 1886. Three railroads sent trains there every 15 minutes. The Brooklyn and Coney Island clubs agreed to alternate days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday for Gravesend; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday for Sheepshead Bay. In the fall, Engeman begrudgingly went along, too. Everyday racing was born.\nThe Dwyers inaugurated the Brooklyn Handicap in 1887. More than 15,000 people were there, and most of them went home disappointed that day. Phil Dwyer had issued orders prohibiting betting of any kind. Bookmakers, who had fled Jerome Park the previous year, couldn\u2019t take action. \u201cThe disgusted 14,000 at last in despair began to bet with each other,\u201d the Daily Eagle reported.\nIt was the height of the Gilded Age and in racing America had its foremost sport. With more tracks in New York there was more racing. Horses were asked to run more; gone was four-mile heat racing, replaced by exciting \u201cdashes\u201d of 1 1/4 miles.\nThe 1890\u2019s were some of Brooklyn\u2019s greatest years, perhaps none more so than 1890, which witnessed the greatest race of the era, between Salvator and Tenny at Sheepshead Bay.\nThe best of their generation, Salvator and Tenny, then 4, met before a record crowd in the Suburban on June 17, 1890. Salvator (127 pounds) beat Cassius (107), with Tenny (126) third. Tenny\u2019s unhappy connections proposed a $15,000 winner-take-all match race the following week at the same distance and equal weights; the Coney Island Jockey Club pitched in another $5,000. On June 25, a crowd of more than 15,000 people arrived at Sheepshead Bay.\nTwo of the best jockeys of the era were involved \u2013 Snapper Garrison on Tenny, Isaac Murphy on Salvator. Bookmakers installed J.B. Haggin\u2019s Salvator as the 3-5 favorite. They ran side by side for the first three furlongs, and then Murphy sent Salvator to the front into the first turn. He outsprinted Tenny down the backstretch and led by three lengths at the head of the stretch. But the dead-game Tenny came on like a demon, overhauling Salvator with every stride.\n\u201cMen and women alike seemed crazy, and hugged one another, shouted themselves hoarse, threw hats, umbrellas, parasols, and handkerchiefs into the air, and altogether acted as if they had lost possession of their senses,\u201d the Times reported.\nWith a few strokes from Murphy\u2019s spurs and lashes from his whip, Salvator lasted by a head in the shadow of the string. Both jockeys thought they had won and chatted as they pulled up, according to Vosburgh.\n\u201cI think I beat you,\u201d said Garrison.\n\u201cNo, I guess my horse won,\u201d replied Murphy.\nSalvator\u2019s number was put up. The crowd cheered for five full minutes, much of it for the brave Tenny, and broke out again when the final time was hung: 2:05. It was a new American record for 1 1/4 miles.\nSalvator met Tenny once more, in Monmouth Park\u2019s Champion Stakes, and won by four lengths. In his final start, a race against time over Monmouth\u2019s straight course, he shattered the American and world record for a mile, going 1:35 2/5.\nThe match race did not fade from memory. In staging it, the Times wrote, \u201cThe Coney Island Jockey Club covered itself with glory.\u201d\nThe glory of the three Brooklyn tracks set the course for a full calendar of racing. Jerome Park closed in 1890, but other tracks followed to meet the great demand: Morris Park (1889), in Westchester; and other Long Island courses, Aqueduct (1894), Jamaica (1901), and Belmont (1905). In 1905, after Morris Park closed, the state had seven racetracks, five within what are now city limits, and 13 race meets. (By law the calendar began April 15 and ended November 15.)\nBy 1900, the track was the biggest employer in Brooklyn. Brighton Beach was known for its raffish air, Sheepshead Bay for high society, and Gravesend was somewhere in the middle. Gravesend ran in the spring and fall, Sheepshead Bay in the summer, and Brighton Beach in the summer and fall. Neighborhoods surrounding the tracks developed to cater to the all-year calendar.\nOn the edge of Gravesend, Avenue U became Trainers\u2019 Row. The moneyed class, like the Dwyers and jockeys Jimmy McLaughlin and Snapper Garrison, lived in Eighth Avenue brownstones on Sportsman\u2019s Row (in what is now Park Slope, a neighborhood in the Western part of Brooklyn).\nAdvertisements for hotels, plus travel recommendations for the many railroads, were everywhere. Professional gamblers stayed at Richard Ravenhall\u2019s hotel, bookmakers at the Riccadore Hotel. Actresses such as Lillian Russell, criminals like Pittsburgh Phil Strauss, and plungers such as Diamond Jim Brady dined in Sheepshead Bay\u2019s Gold Room and stayed at the gaudy Manhattan Beach and Oriental hotels.\nYear after year, Sheepshead Bay led the way in purses and advancing the style of racing. In 1905, for example, Sheepshead Bay had 30 days with a total purse distribution of $574,479; Gravesend had 30 days and gave away $463,175; Brighton Beach raced 28 days with purses of $354,103. The new Belmont Park gave away $384,393 in 30 days.\nSo many horses fashioned their greatness in Brooklyn, like Ben Brush, Broomstick, Colin, Hamburg, Hanover, Fair Play, Imp, Maskette, Roseben, and Sysonby. There was the famous 1895 match race at Gravesend between Domino and Henry of Navarre that ended in a dead heat. Colin finished his undefeated career in Sheepshead Bay\u2019s Tidal Handicap. The best weight-carriers went from the Brooklyn to the Brighton to the Suburban. Gravesend even hosted the Preakness for 15 years, from 1894 to 1908. The Futurity was often the country\u2019s richest race, bringing a permanent emphasis on young horses and speed.\nThe crowds grew significantly: 35,000 people watched Belmont\u2019s Beldame win the 1905 Suburban, and more than 40,000 saw Billy Lakeland\u2019s Electioneer win the 1906 Futurity and James R. Keene\u2019s Peter Pan win the 1907 Brighton Handicap.\nAnd then the plug was pulled. The Gilded Age had passed into the Progressive era, and moralizing against gambling, drinking, and other vices had become routine. Newspapers publicized arrests of bookmakers. The Ives Law of 1887 restricted betting to the track, but a network of poolrooms, illegal but in plain sight, sprouted around the city to take bets. Via Western Union, trackside bookmakers wired news to poolrooms.\nGov. Charles Evan Hughes personally went after horse racing. In June 1908, he signed the Hart-Agnew Law, which banned betting at the track. The tracks continued on the assumption that oral betting among fans was allowed. Confined to gate receipts, the jockey clubs hemorrhaged money.\nBrighton Beach closed in 1908. Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend continued for two more years. On June 15, 1910, Hughes signed additional bills that closed loopholes in the Hart-Agnew legislation.\nIn a sad ending, the Coney Island Jockey Club gave its last three days to Saratoga, including the Futurity. Samuel C. Hildreth\u2019s Novelty won the classic on Aug. 31, the final day before every racetrack in the state closed.\nRacing returned in 1913 with parimutuel wagering, but the Brooklyn tracks never reopened. Their races went elsewhere: Belmont acquired the Sheepshead Bay classics, Aqueduct got Gravesend\u2019s. (Phil Dwyer and others in the Brooklyn Jockey Club had invested in Aqueduct years earlier.)\nBrighton Beach briefly tried auto and bicycle racing, and Sheepshead Bay tried auto racing, concerts, and flight challenges. Gravesend kept its stables open for some time. By the end of the first World War, the three tracks were gone, and developers acquired the property. There was a real estate crisis in Brooklyn. The growth in population and demand for housing made the land incredibly valuable.\nThe wealthy neighborhood of Gravesend was subdivided, and Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay got frame houses. The trains that used to move racegoers and horses became part of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway system. Where the tracks once stood are now all-year-round home communities. The traces of Brooklyn\u2019s racing past are simply hidden in plain sight.\nRacing programs courtesy of Ron Micetic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 21730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/omb/legislative/sap/1999/HJR57-h.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:AIWJPZZIJYVEJWXLHB4CZPLVFJLHLCKQ", "length": 5413, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov", "title": "HJR 57 -- 07/26/99", "raw_content": "H.J.Res. 57 - Disapproving the Extension\nof Nondiscriminatory Trade Treatment to China\n(Rohrabacher (R) CA and 21 cosponsors)\nThe Administration strongly opposes H.J.Res. 57, which would disapprove normal trade relations (NTR) with China. Renewing nondiscriminatory trade treatment, previously known as most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment, does not give China a special deal. It simply extends to China the ordinary tariff treatment the United States extends to virtually all nations. The Administration urges the Congress to defeat H.J.Res. 57 for the reasons explained below.\nThe Administration urges support for the renewal of NTR to China because it advances a broad range of critical U.S. interests, such as advancing America's economic interests, preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, combating international crime and drug trafficking, promoting economic and regional stability in Asia, and protecting the global environment. Maintaining our overall relationship with China will enable the United States to actively engage China in the months and years ahead, to enhance areas of cooperation, and to pursue American interests where we differ. That engagement can help determine whether China becomes an increasingly open and productive partner for America, or whether it becomes more isolated and unpredictable. Extending NTR status to China is vital to our ability to successfully engage China and advance U.S. interests.\nEngagement means advancing important U.S. national security and foreign policy interests in tangible ways. China has condemned both India and Pakistan's nuclear testing and has agreed to work towards preventing an arms race in South Asia. China continues to play a constructive role in peace talks and easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. China has also played a constructive role in responding to the Asian financial crisis. The Administration has gained China's agreement to sign and submit for ratification the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; cease all cooperation with unsafeguarded nuclear facilities; engage in no new nuclear cooperation with Iran, including for peaceful purposes; promulgate national nuclear export laws and regulations controlling the export of dual-use items with nuclear applications; and improve verification and implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention; and China joined and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. More remains to be done. The Administration will continue to urge the Chinese to tighten further their controls on exports of missile technology and is urging them to take the steps necessary for eligibility in the Missile Technology Control Regime. China, through engagement, is increasingly moving from being part of the proliferation problem to being part of the solution. The United States also continues to maintain strong unofficial relations with Taiwan, including arms sales, based on the Taiwan Relations Act.\nH.J.Res. 57 would undermine America's economic interests. The Administration is in negotiations with China on accession to the World Trade Organization that could result in an historic opening of China's markets to U.S. agricultural, industrial, and services exports. Revocation of NTR would adversely affect this effort to boost U.S. exports and to make China subject to global trade rules. In addition, U.S. exports to China and Hong Kong support an estimated 400,000 American jobs, as U.S. exports to China have quadrupled over the past decade to $14.3 billion. Chinese retaliation would imperil or eliminate a number of these jobs, exclude American companies and workers from future business in one of the world's most dynamic markets, and cede this market to European and Asian competitors. Denial of NTR would also hurt U.S. consumers, who because of higher tariffs could pay more each year for goods such as shoes, clothing, and industrial inputs. Finally, revocation of NTR would hurt U.S. interests in and the economic stability of Hong Kong, which handles over forty percent of U.S.-China trade.\nEngagement allows the Administration to deal forthrightly with our differences, including human rights and universal principles of freedom and democracy. The President has made the case not only to the Chinese leadership but directly to the Chinese people that human rights are universal and that all nations have an obligation to adhere to international human rights instruments. We have also argued that respect for fundamental human rights is indispensable to a country's stability and progress. Over the past two years, China has signed two international human rights covenants, and engaged in human rights dialogues with several nations, including the United States. Although we remain deeply concerned about human rights violations in China and more needs to be done, the Administration remains convinced that engagement with China will lead to progress in the long term. Over time, the more the United States brings China into the world, the more the world will help bring freedom to China.\nRevoking NTR would significantly damage America's relationship with a fifth of the world's population and jeopardize U.S. political and economic security. It would reverse three decades of bipartisan China policy and would seriously weaken our influence not only in China, but throughout Asia and beyond. Renewal of NTR best advances the substantial and broad range of U.S. interests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 6075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cliomusetours.com/tours/legends-marathon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NRUQI3WG7CEYA4Q5JW443BODNOXX4OHA", "length": 5182, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "cliomusetours.com", "title": "Marathon tour: The legends | Self-guided Tour | Clio Muse Tours", "raw_content": "Marathon, Greece\nThe Legends of the Marathon Tour is an unconventional self-guided audio tour inspired by the legendary tales and achievements of Athenian hoplites. Discover credible and original stories written by top local professionals after extended research. Take your tour now and enjoy it instantly on your smartphone device.\nAn anti-war activist, a wealthy Greek businessman and philanthropist, and a water carrier whose fabled win at the first marathon race of modern times inspired a nation.\nThe tour begins at the starting line of the marathon race in Marathon. Most contemporary runners go through months of vigorous training before attempting to run the 42 kilometers that separate Marathon from Athens. But in 1896 Spyros Louis, an unknown water carrier from a suburb of Athens, won the marathon after a rudimentary preparation that included praying the whole night before the race. When he entered the stadium the crowd went wild with excitement. The princes entered the track to accompany him while King George enthusiastically waved his naval hat in salute. The unexpected triumph of a Greek runner created a sensation that lasted for years.\nThe marathon is the brainchild of the French intellectual Michel Br\u00e9al. This race did not exist in antiquity but he drew inspiration from the legend of Pheidippides, the runner who announced the Athenian victory in Marathon. Ancient Greeks were not overly fond of long races (\u201cNothing in excess\u201d was a well-known inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi) and yet it seems there were numerous runners who completed amazing feats of endurance\u2026and then collapsed.\nThe stories of The legends of the marathon span millennia. They include the captivating efforts of Grigoris Lambrakis, a well-respected politician deeply involved in the anti-war movement of the 1960s, who attempted to walk from Marathon to Athens in the service of world nuclear disarmament only to be arrested and manhandled by the police. They shed light on the generous and charitable contributions of Georgios Averoff, a wealthy expatriate Greek from Alexandria, Egypt, who financed the reconstruction of the Panathenaic Stadium in Pentelic marble, the stone used for the Parthenon. And, of course, we cannot fail to mention the elephant in the room, the giant green glass Runner which announces to all marathon runners that the end of the race is near.\n#bike #family #history #roadtrip\n1. Louis\u2019 marathon\nBorn out of wild dreams and ignorance, the first marathon laid the foundations for a legacy of endurance and excellence that captivates the minds and hearts of runners and spectators.\n2. Runners in armour\nThere was a lot of running in ancient Marathon. First, the Athenians hastened to meet the Persians, who then fled to their ships defeated. But did someone run back to Athens to bring the news of victory?\n3. The green runner\nTalk about dedication and exceeding expectations! The giant green glass runner near the finish line was designed to \u201crun\u201d for one month but thirty years later he is still at it!\nLouis\u2019 marathon\nLouis fasted and prayed all night in front of the holy images. At the appointed hou, 25 athletes stood at the start line; many more withdrew from the race, uncertain about their ability to participate. The marathon began promptly at 2 pm with the firing of a pistol. Bicycle riders and mounted army officers followed the runners, while doctors were stationed at regular intervals in case of an emergency. The European runners were ahead but near Pikermi they started to suffer the effects of the race and many quit. Louis was further behind but he still stopped at a tavern to have a glass of wine and get some information regarding his opponents, certain that he would eventually prevail.\nRunning with fire\nRunners in armour\nA few years after the supposed feat of Pheidippides, another long-distance runner was called upon to perform a similar act of physical prowess. After the defeat of the Persians at the battle of Plataea in 479 BCE, a local man called Euchidas ran from Plataea (a city located in central Greece) to Delphi to bring the sacred fire from the temple of Apollo. When he got there, he purified himself with water, crowned himself with laurel, and then raced back to Plataea, where he arrived just before sunset, having covered a distance of 113 miles (182 km) in 15 hours. He greeted his fellow citizens, gave them the fire, and then collapsed and died.\nLovers are hasty\nThe green runner\nHermes was the most miserable of the gods, as he complained to his mother. When all the immortals were still in bed, he had to sweep the dining-room, lay the table, and pour out the nectar. Along with the living, he had to take care of the dead as well, escorting their souls to the Underworld. But his greatest misery was his duties as Zeus\u2019s messenger. He was forced to run all day long to carry Zeus\u2019 messages to the many women he had fallen in love with in Greece and abroad. Hermes thought mortal slaves were better off than he was since they could always hope that they would be sold to a new master.\nAthens marathon, the authentic start line\n1 Leof. Vasileos Konstantinou, Athina\nMarathon, Panathenaic Stadium", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cme.healio.com/retinacme/age-related-macular-degeneration/2013/06_june/genetic-testing-for-age-related-macular-degeneration-in-clinical-practice/cme-information", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IF2CXLJLOKTOKFBASRYIM4EMBRGEFWPF", "length": 347, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cme.healio.com", "title": "Genetic Testing for Age-related Macular Degeneration in Clinical Practice", "raw_content": "Dr. Schachat Presentation\nAuthor(s)/Faculty: Andrew P. Schachat, MD\nMajor goals of genetic testing or personalized medicine are obvious...\nLearning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity participants should be able to evaluate the potential use of genetic testing in the management of AMD.\nAndrew P. 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The effectiveness of the Internet makes having a back-office bookkeeper obsolete. If you are looking for ways to reduce overhead and focus on your core business, now is the perfect time to make the switch to CMH Financials, which provides complete outsourced bookkeeping services to small businesses and franchises.\nBy combining the experience of skilled personnel, your software and our optional secure data records storage, you will have an efficient accounting system that provides you with the accurate, timely financial data you need to confidently run your company.\nAs a CMH Financials client, you will get full charge bookkeeping, quality assurance and control, as well as scheduled reports and meetings. We understand that managers have diverse levels of understanding of their financials, ranging from those who appreciate in-depth reporting and analysis to those who just want the bare minimum. We will go over each step of your financial cycle with you to customize our procedures in order to meet your requirements.\nOUR COMMITMENT AND OUR RECORD\nAt CMH Financials, we treat our clients with courtesy and integrity. We guarantee efficient, honest financial services that achieve remarkable results. Our years of experience and notable expertise ensure that your company\u2019s account system is in good hands.\nFlexibility is an important aspect of CMH Financials. A wide range of services are offered, including bookkeeping, payroll management, data processing, etc. Our services can be set up either on-site (at your office) or off-site (at ours). Please explore the range of services we provide under the Services Tab on the website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cn.reuters.com/article/usa-guns-chubb-idCNL1N1SE1L8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UN7L6EOI3QMMGYA7OTOG7LW6C7A7U5BD", "length": 2528, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cn.reuters.com", "title": "N.Y. regulator fines insurer Chubb $1.3 mln for NRA insurance program | \u8def\u900f\u4e2d\u6587\u7f51", "raw_content": "N.Y. regulator fines insurer Chubb $1.3 mln for NRA insurance program\nMay 7 (Reuters) - Insurer Chubb Ltd and a unit have agreed to pay a total of $1.3 million to New York State's insurance regulator over their role in a National Rifle Association (NRA) insurance program, the regulator said on Monday.\nThe settlement follows an investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), which found that the NRA's \"Carry Guard\" insurance program \"unlawfully provided liability insurance to gun owners for acts of intentional wrongdoing,\" the regulator said in a statement.\nThe insurance, underwritten by Chubb unit Illinois Union Insurance Company, also \"improperly provided\" legal services for policyholders who faced criminal charges after using their guns in self defense, the regulator said.\n\"Chubb recognizes its responsibility to ensure that its policies comply with New York law,\" the company said in a statement. \"Chubb at all times intended and believed its coverage to be in full compliance with New York law.\"\nThe NRA, a gun advocacy group, \"acted appropriately at all times,\" said William A. Brewer III, a Dallas-based lawyer who represents the group.\nThe settlement follows decisions by numerous companies to sever corporate partnerships the NRA.\nNational debate has heated up over the issue of gun control, and the NRA\u2019s role in opposing it, since Feb. 14, when a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, using an AR-15 assault rifle he had purchased legally.\nIn addition to the fine, Illinois Union agreed not to participate in the Carry Guard insurance program, or any similar program in New York, nor to provide Carry Guard or similar policies to New York residents, regardless of where they are written, the DFS said.\nIllinois Union is also not allowed to issue policies for New York residents that provide legal services coverage in a civil or criminal proceeding.\nOn May 2, the New York regulator fined insurance broker Lockton Cos LLC $7 million for serving as the \"Carry Guard\" program administrator.\nIn February, Chubb Ltd said it had given notice to the NRA late last year of its plan stop underwriting the \"Carry Guard\u201d program.\nLockton said in February it would no longer sell NRA-endorsed products.\nThe NRA, on Monday, sued Lockton in a U.S. trial court in Alexandria, Virginia, saying it had breached its contract with the group.\nA Lockton spokesman declined to comment. (Reporting by Suzanne Barlyn; Editing by David Gregorio)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coed.com/2017/10/04/steven-spielberg-net-worth-how-much-is-worth-money-salary-movie-contracts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AAU5LKVHYVX6SDC2S7SMQIHXTHELLN5P", "length": 4209, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "coed.com", "title": "Steven Spielberg Net Worth 2018: How Much Is Spielberg Worth Now?", "raw_content": "Steven Spielberg Net Worth 2018: How Much Is Steven Worth Now?\nAliza Xandria | Oct 4, 2017 11:41 am | Apr 18, 2018 2:42 pm\nSteven Spielberg transformed Hollywood in more ways than one. He directed major box office hits such as \u201cIndiana Jones,\u201d \u201cE.T,\u201d and even the gripping movie, \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d\nSpielberg is an American film director, screenwriter, video game designer, producer and studio entrepreneur. His eye for capturing moments and scenes won him three Academy Awards. The two was from directing the epic movies, \u201cSchindler\u2019s List,\u201d and \u201cSaving Private Ryan.\u201d He also won the Best Picture award for \u201cSchindler\u2019s List.\u201d\nSteven Spielberg\u2019s net worth as of 2018: $3.6 Billion\nSteven\u2019s talent resulted in unparalleled success and his determination has paved off. The world-renowned director and producer have raked a hefty $3.7 billion for this year alone. He remains as the prolific producer that makes money off films such as \u201cReal Steel,\u201d \u201cSuper 8\u201d and the recent box office hit, the \u201cTransformers\u201d film.\nA post shared by steven spielberg (@stevenspeilberg) on Apr 24, 2013 at 8:43pm PDT\nBorn on December 18, 1946, in Ohio, Cincinnati. His mother\u2019s profession was a concert pianist while his father was an electrical engineer. No one would have guessed that Spielberg\u2019s career would take a different turn. Nor would they ever thought that he would be one of the most successful directors and producer in Hollywood. At such a young age, Steven \u201cAllan\u201d Spielberg is already attracted to films. He began making his own films that featured the stories from World War II. Besides making those mm films, he also loves to film adventure movies and would often trail the parks and restaurants to get the shots.\nWhen he was 13 years old, he took off with his father\u2019s movie camera and filmed a 40-minute clip titled, \u201cEscape to Nowhere.\u201d The story was based on a battle in East Africa. By the age 16, he made his first sci-fi adventure film and called it \u201cFirelight.\u201d In the year 1965, Steven graduated from Saratoga High School and continued his education at the University of Southern California and studied Theatre, Film, and Television.\nA post shared by steven spielberg (@stevenspeilberg) on Dec 8, 2013 at 2:02pm PST\nAttaining stardom was not easy for Spielberg. Since he was unsuccessful while studying in Southern California, he joined Universal Studios as an unpaid intern. As an intern, he was given the opportunity to shot short TV films and he made his first film debut with \u201cSugarland Express.\u201d The film was not successful, but Spielberg was lauded for his raw talent in cinematography. In the year 1975, he was back in the reigns and directed \u201cJaws.\u201d That movie propelled him to success and pushed his career to greater heights.\nThe movie was a blockbuster hit and raked more than $450 million at the worldwide box office. Even though the budget went haywire for \u201cJaws\u201d and there were a lot of delays, Spielberg\u2019s confident demeanor and determination helped him to finish the film successfully. By the year 1993, Spielberg\u2019s greatest works branded him as one of the best directors in his era. He directed \u201cJurassic Park\u201d with such compelling scenes and the dramatic Schindler\u2019s List\u201d moved a lot of hearts. His success continued to soar when \u201cJurassic Park\u201d grossed $900 million.\nOne of my favorite films.\nA post shared by steven spielberg (@stevenspeilberg) on Nov 27, 2013 at 7:05pm PST\nAfter producing and directing \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d Spielberg continued to produce box office hits such as \u201cCatch Me If You Can,\u201d \u201cMinority report,\u201d and even \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin.\u201d He also directed \u201cLincoln.\u201d By the year 2013, his total recorded wealth was at $3.2 billion. He has become a national icon in America and was considered as one of the greatest filmmakers in World cinema.\nA post shared by steven spielberg (@stevenspeilberg) on Jan 13, 2014 at 11:04pm PST\nThe famous director and producer is presently busy with his new film, \u201cReady Player One.\u201d Not only that, \u201cIndiana Jones 5\u201d is also expected to come out in 2018. For Steven, he has already laid out the plans and his production schedule includes working alongside Harrison Ford as he reprises his role in the upcoming \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d sequel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 139.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cogicmemphis.wordpress.com/category/a-son-of-the-church-of-god-in-christ/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OY2RUPU4VGBDSHH3XOO6B7GHDFGUKQRT", "length": 348, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cogicmemphis.wordpress.com", "title": "a son of the Church of God in Christ | COGIC Memphis.Com-The COGIC Blog", "raw_content": "Archive for a son of the Church of God in Christ\nJesse Campbell!\nAugust 27, 2007 at 11:32 am\t\u00b7 Filed under a son of the Church of God in Christ, Chicago, Elder Willie James Campbell, Illinois, Jesse Campbell\nJesse Campbell, a son of the Church of God in Christ sings in this clip! His father is the Elder Willie James Campbell of Chicago, Illinois!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1260, "original_length": 29429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 255.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cogitogroup.com.au/cogito-group-have-partnered-with-ws02-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:X4KJ33Y4WBLJP7CDVGAJCRS4KJ63I4VY", "length": 1029, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cogitogroup.com.au", "title": "Cogito Group have partnered with WS02 - Cogito Group", "raw_content": "Cogito Group are proud to be community partners with WSO2.\nWSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store.\nOnly with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector\u2014health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more\u2014in every region of the world rely on WSO2\u2019s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications.\nTo learn more please visit their website, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coinrevolution.com/philippines-to-build-crypto-valley-of-asia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:27Z", "digest": "sha1:B2KXJA6SQKNXLDVN2DC7O6HPBHT4ISQE", "length": 4090, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "coinrevolution.com", "title": "Philippines To Build Crypto Valley Of Asia - CoinRevolution.com", "raw_content": "The Philippines government has officially announced plans to build Crypto Valley of Asia (CVA), a facility that resembles Switzerland\u2019s canton of Zug. The government will partner with Northern Star to put up the Cryptocurrency and Fintech hub at the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport. Once complete, the facility will accommodate about 25 Crypto businesses. The project will boost the country\u2019s economy by attracting more international and regional Crypto and Blockchain companies.\nConstruction Of The Crypto Valley Of Asia\nThe government of Philippines, through Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), is building a Crypto and Fintech hub named Crypto Valley of Asia (CVA) through a partnership with Northern Star Gaming & Resorts Inc. On Monday, e27 said that this is one of the government\u2019s agenda to foster the country\u2019s Fintech ecosystem making it a destination of international Blockchain companies.\nThe news outlet said that the facility will host various Crypto businesses. The 25-shop housing development, the paper elaborated, will meet the strict security requirements needed for licensed foreign virtual exchanges (OVEs) based in CEZA. Crypto businesses that will occupy the new facility will have access to co-working and living spaces. There will also be business incubation and acceleration centers at the facility.\nVarious overseas companies have already shown their intentions to open their businesses at the facility. Two Crypto businesses have already been given licenses to operate from the center. Seventeen Crypto companies have already paid the required amount in full. Once the 25 Crypto and Fintech businesses are licensed, the authority will collect about $68 million.\nPhilippines Keen To Attract Foreign Investors\nRaul L. Lambino has said that the project will help in attracting more foreign and Fintech companies to CEZA and the country at large. The CEZA administrator and CEO also noted that the project will make the Philippines a major destination for overseas businesses in the Fintech and the Blockchain sector.\nAccording to Enrique Gonzalez, the chairman of Northern Star Gaming & Resorts Inc., the CVA and CEZA will help the Philippines to build an environment that boosts innovation and entrepreneurship in Fintech and Crypto sector. Furthermore, education and business providers (BPO) training will help in enhancing skills development. And just as Zug of Switzerland has helped in putting the country on the world map of Fintech and Blockchain, Philippines is determined to achieve the same.\nThe Economic Benefits Of The Project\nAccording to e27, the main goal for the CVA is to spur an economic growth in the country and provide more employment opportunities to the Filipinos. Furthermore, the project will allow more people in the country to pursue careers in technology. The business providers (BPO) will also help in creating new jobs in the country.\nNorthern Star Gaming & Resorts Inc., a partner in this project, has said that it will invest $100 million in the next ten years. The private property developer has already secured funds from various businesses, both regional and international, that are planning to set up offices at the facility.\nGoing forward, it is clear that Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. The Philippines has become one of the few countries that have seen the potential of the new technology and embraced it. The country is gearing up to ensure it makes a kill out of this promising innovation.\nPhilippines To Build Crypto Valley Of Asia was last modified: August 10th, 2018 by Samantha Mitchell\nTagsBlockchainCEZACryptoNEWSNorthern Star Gaming & Resorts Inc.\nPrevious \u00ab Daily Roundup: 8th August 2018 \u2013 SEC postpones ETF decision, Microsoft develops PoA consensus for Ethereum & Bitcoin sinks to critical levels\nNext No, Agust\u00edn Carstens, Bitcoin is not a parasite, central banks are \u00bb\nFrench Parliament Declines Lowering Taxes for Cryptocurrency Owners\nHow To Avoid The \u201cParent\u2019s\u201d Mistakes: Lessons To Bitcoin Cash\nTwitter Polls: Half Would Choose Bitcoin (BTC) As A Long Term Investment Option", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cometcamper.wordpress.com/tag/sustainable-design-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ONT5HZMOJXG4LRFPZGSQGYT43IJVKDXR", "length": 2864, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cometcamper.wordpress.com", "title": "sustainable design | The Comet Camper", "raw_content": "Tiny Houses, Uncategorized\nSustainability on Wheels: Campers and the Tiny House Movement\n\u201cVintage campers will save the Planet.\u201d That\u2019s a pretty bold statement. I do think vintage/used/old campers can play a role in the way people begin to think about their housing in relation to the environment, social responsibility, and sustainability. Vintage campers make ideal Tiny Houses. First of all, they are tiny (of course) and on wheels \u2013 two basic characteristics of most tiny houses. Even a large camper is a tiny house! Also, I think it is always better to re-use an existing structure than it is to build from scratch (the exception being if the existing structure is unhealthy or toxic in some way\u2026moldy, asbestos, etc.) Using an existing trailer camper cuts down on waste and keeps these usable little homes out of the landfill. Often, there will be valuable materials that can be salvaged from the existing trailer. Of course, there is personal preference and style to account for: campers don\u2019t look like miniaturized log homes or mini-mansions, they look like campers (though I have seen a camper re-done with shingle siding!). I\u2019ll admit they aren\u2019t perfect for everyone, but it\u2019s definitely a really viable option for the future of housing.\nAnother thing to consider is cost. To build a tiny house from scratch will cost much more than retrofitting an existing structure (in most cases \u2013 depends on what you want to do of course). I\u2019ve gotten campers in towable, totally restorable condition for less than $500. Sometimes a retrofit is a pain in the neck: campers are built from the bottom up, so it can be difficult to replace and repair things in the undercarriage area (but it has been done!). However, I think in terms of cost efficiency and eco-friendliness, making a tiny house out of an existing trailer is the best bet. Even if your tiny house was built out of entirely sustainable materials (which would be very expensive), it would still be using resources that an existing trailer has built into it. Buying the separate parts to build a camper would be much more expensive than purchasing one used.\nAlso, campers just look awesome!\nCamper and tiny house!\nHere\u2019s a great example of a sustainable Tiny House on wheels (Taken from SunRay Kelley\u2019s website: http://www.sunraykelley.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=61&Itemid=99). It\u2019s a hybrid between a Class C camper and a vardo. It has elements of traditional homes (wooden siding, a back deck) but is still distinctly \u201ccamper\u201d. SunRay Kelley is an inspiration for anyone interested in green building and alternative dwellings. Check out his website! http://www.sunraykelley.com/\nWhat do you think? Totally green retrofit or build a tiny house from scratch? Which would you do?\nTagged campers, re-use, recycling, sustainability, sustainable design, tiny houses, vardo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 24248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comicbook.com/2015/03/29/the-walking-dead-five-actors-who-could-play-negan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WXUNBLRISY2BT3RVZT5GRJELT4R3VBJL", "length": 3889, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "comicbook.com", "title": "The Walking Dead: Five Actors Who Could Play Negan", "raw_content": "The Walking Dead: Five Actors Who Could Play Negan\nBy Russ Burlingame - March 29, 2015\nWith the season finale of AMC's The Walking Dead coming up and plenty of conspiracy theories that the \"Wolves\" are in fact a TV variation on The Saviors from the comics, Jon Hamm's recent comments that he would like to take on the role of Negan on the hit series is one of the many things that has fans talking.\nBut just because creator Robert Kirkman has said Hamm is a great fit, and now the actor has expressed interest, doesn't necessarily mean it will come together.\nSo, since we'll take any flimsy excuse to talk about The Walking Dead some more, here are five ideas -- either rumored, or just people we'd like to see -- for who could play Negan when he finally shows up on The Walking Dead.\nWhich some fans are expecting to be tonight, although we're not buying it even a little.\nBesides having a physical similarity to the character, as we've noted, Robert Kirkman has name-dropped Hamm as somebody he'd love to have, but he thought it would be unlikely since Hamm is likely to become a huge star and he doubted the actor's willingness to return to television so soon.\nHamm, meanwhile, said this week that playing the part would be fun, and that Kirkman should \"call him,\" adding that he never says no to anything.\nSo...there's definitely a possibility that the name many fans have at the top of their list could happen, especially given Hamm's good relationship with AMC, who cast him in Mad Men and helped his career explode.\nThis one has been offered many times -- half-joking, we assume -- but it's a name that comes up in the comments thread nearly every time we mention Negan.\nAgain, there's a passing physical resemblance. He hasn't aged as well as has Hamm (but then, who has?), and the shine is sort of off his star a bit; his last TV special, the most acclaimed of his career, had only modest ratings.\nThat said, he's got some stuff going for him. If we didn't know better, we could swear that Negan's slicked-back hair, leather jacket and general affectation was based on Dice in his prime.\nDurand has a great look for Negan; he's not as bulky as some of the rest of the names on this list, but he's tall, imposing and he's done a lot of roles that show he knows how to look menacing and/or evil.\nHe's also a great actor with a lot of range, and somebody who could stand toe to toe with actors like Andrew Lincoln and David Morrissey not only physically, but in terms of chops.\nLike Hamm, Durand is notable in that rumors have suggested the producers have actively considered him.\nWarburton, like Nathan Fillion, is one of those actors whose name appears in every third story about \"who should play\" any given superhero character.\nGiven that, his seeming innate goodness and his background in comedy, it may seem a little odd to see him on this list, suggested to play a sadistic murderer and deranged cult leader.\nWell, why not? Showing a little range as an actor is always good...and it isn't as though his height and bulk haven't occasionally booted him into the \"evil\" range before...even if it's just movies like the Tim Allen flop Joe Somebody.\nAnd his SMILE is just like Negan's. It's easy to focus on the \"deranged bastard\" part of him and forget all about how gleeful he is about all of it, and how important the smile would be.\nRemember how earlier, we said that Andrew Dice Clay could have been the model for the character if we didn't know better? Well, the real model is musician, actor and filmmaker Henry Rollins.\nAccording to The Walking Dead Wiki, \"Negan's appearance and character are also based off an unknown actor who Kirkman refuses to reveal just in case that actor wants to portray him and cannot.\" They add on the next line, \"[artist] Charlie Adlard has confirmed that Negan is based on actor Henry Rollins, who is presumably the actor mentioned by Kirkman.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comicsverse.com/billy-martin-nycc-interview-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:FPGZVSQUJF6JDEF5UBUEEAJIWTTKWXK4", "length": 2150, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "comicsverse.com", "title": "Billy Martin Talks Cover Art at New York Comic Con 2018 - ComicsVerse", "raw_content": "\u201cGirls don\u2019t like boys, girls like cons and comic art.\u201d Or at least, that\u2019s how I think an updated version of Good Charlotte\u2019s song Girls & Boys should go. Why? Because guitarist Billy Martin is just as much an artist as he is a musician.\nBilly Martin, a Man of Many Talents\nAfter making a name for himself in the early 2000s with Good Charlotte, Billy Martin delved into another one of his passions \u2014 drawing. He even did artwork for the cover and liner notes of GC\u2019s 2004 album, THE CHRONICLES OF LIFE AND DEATH. So fans have always known that Martin had some serious skills with a pencil.\nNow, Billy Martin\u2019s artwork is adorning the covers of some pretty awesome comic books. From TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES to X-MEN: GOLD to CABLE, he\u2019s had a lot of work available in comic shops.\nHe also makes a habit of doing conventions. As he told ComicsVerse at New York Comic Con 2018, he even made a makeshift tour for himself when the band wasn\u2019t active.\nBut how does a musician with a pretty large following go from playing on stage in front of a massive crowd to sitting in Artist Alley, face-to-face with fans? Billy Martin tells us that the transition for him wasn\u2019t actually that difficult. He loves getting to talk to fans in a more relaxed setting, which is why he does so many cons.\nAn Artist\u2019s Approach\nDuring our chat, Martin explains his approach to cover art. He says that the pressure is on with covers. The sheer number that comes out each month is intimidating, and he tries to find a way to make his work stand out. This helps the book find its way into more readers\u2019 hands.\nAside from his cover work, Billy Martin likes doing commission pieces at cons. One of the characters he\u2019s asked to draw a lot is pretty personal to him \u2014 Jack Skellington. I\u2019ve always wondered if it\u2019s difficult for artists to draw characters that are close to their hearts.\nTo find out what Martin has to say about this, check out our conversation from NYCC 2018.\nTagsNYCCInterviewNew York Comic ConVideo InterviewMusicartistTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesTMNTgood charlottebilly martincover artNYCC 2018musician\nPrevious article 10 CAPTAIN MARVEL \u201990s Easter Eggs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 11379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.articulate.com/series/allison-s-articles/articles/still-publishing-to-word-for-your-sme-reviews-here-s-how-why-to-transition-to-articulate-review", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TWIDGVFDZRLYRLKXG5KPXOUOLQ34RLYO", "length": 8080, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "community.articulate.com", "title": "Still Publishing to Word for Your SME Reviews? Here\u2019s How & Why to Transition to Articulate Review - E-Learning Heroes", "raw_content": "Back when I was a project manager in an e-learning company, the review process was a real headache for everyone involved. We tried various methods to make it as easy as possible, but in the end we published our courses as Word documents and sent them to our clients alongside a Web version of the course.\nThe client would open the Word document and the Web version of the course simultaneously, and make notes in the Word document as they were going through the course. This solution was not ideal for several reasons:\nIt was time-consuming. Depending on the length of the course, the Word document would sometimes be over a 100 pages. Scrolling through and leaving comments was tedious for clients and applying those comments sometimes felt endless. Not to mention that every time we updated the course, we\u2019d have to republish it and replace it on our Web server\u2014what a time-suck!\nIt was complicated. Clients often struggled to look at the Web version of the course and annotate it in a separate Word document. Sometimes they would leave their feedback in the wrong spot or their comments would be unclear because they were left out of context\u2014 next to a static image\u2014so we wouldn\u2019t know what they were referencing.\nIt was a version-control nightmare. If there was more than one reviewer, we would often end up with multiple versions of the Word document that we would have to cross-reference. And since reviewers couldn\u2019t see each others\u2019 comments, they were sometimes contradictory, which led to more back-and-forth to reach a consensus.\nLuckily, today\u2019s e-learning project managers have a much better solution: Review 360. With Review 360, all it takes is one click to publish your course for review. Then, simply share the link with your reviewers and they can leave their comments in context. Review 360 makes it faster and easier than ever to collaborate during the review process.\nBut what do you do if your coworkers or clients are hesitant to make the switch even after hearing about all the advantages of Review 360? Here are some tips for getting change-resistant folks to buy into this new tool.\nYou can explain why it\u2019s better until you\u2019re blue in the face, but sometimes the only way to convince people is to actually show them why it\u2019s better. Set up a short meeting with the project team to show them how Review 360 works. Show them how easy it is to leave and reply to comments in context, making them easier to interpret. And don\u2019t forget to mention that Review 360 supports versioning and allows you to export comments.\nWhen they see how fast, easy, and powerful it is, my guess is they\u2019ll be sold. If you don\u2019t have a subscription yet, no problem! Just start a free trial so you can show them how it works.\nIf they\u2019re still not convinced, ask them to try it out for just one project as a test run. Tell them that if they\u2019re still on the fence after using it for that project, you\u2019ll go back to the old method. Chances are, once they try it for themselves, they\u2019ll be hooked.\nTry timing yourself reviewing the same course using both methods. Then, tell them how much time you saved using Review 360. They can\u2019t argue with facts!\nHopefully these techniques will help you get your team on board with using Review 360, so you can say goodbye to long, drawn-out review processes and hello to smooth sailing.\nHere are some more resources to help you get up and running on Review 360 and optimize your review process:\nGetting Started with Review 360 Tutorials\nFollow These 3 Tips to Put the \u201cPro\u201d Back In Your Review Process\n3 Ways Review 360 Is a Big Gift for Course Developers\nWho Should Review Your E-Learning Course Before Launch?\nWhat about you? Is your team on board with Review 360? If so, what\u2019s your favorite thing about it? If not, what\u2019s the holdup? I\u2019m super-curious, so please share your experience below!\nWant to try something you learned here, but don\u2019t have Articulate 360? Start a free 60-day trial, and come back to E-Learning Heroes regularly for more helpful advice on everything related to e-learning.\nI love Articulate Review! I can quickly publish and share projects with SMEs and other stakeholders. I appreciate when they use the Comments panel since it screen captures what they're referring to at the time they make their post. It's super convenient, user- friendly, and saves a lot of time. :)\nGlad to hear you're liking it. I am also a HUGE fan, as a former project manager.\nKeith Stoneman\nAllison - I appreciate Review, yet my stakeholders have struggled with the interface and format. Has articulate considered making a video on how to use Review from the stakeholder's (reviewers) perspective? Thanks!\nHi Keith! That's good feedback to have. Can you tell me what their biggest struggle has been? I actually made a full course for reviewers which explains not only how to use Review but how to handle the entire review process. Here's a link to view it: https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples/rise-a-course-for-stakeholders-on-the-review-process Hopefully that's helpful!\nThanks Allison. This is what I had in mind. Not very polished, yet gets the idea across: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d1b29fde-ec65-467d-a5fc-276d8c6a198c/review\nMy shareholders have struggled with the the \"click-through\" nature of Rise...I've had several who couldn't figure out to scroll to the bottom of the page, missed clicking through a carousel navigation etc.\nNice video! However just as a side note, reviewers don't actually have to create an account. They can simply enter their email address. :) That should make the process a little easier. That's interesting feedback! I haven't heard a lot of people struggling with that. To help them out, you may want to consider adding additional instructions to your course. It sounds like they are struggling to advance through the course itself more than they are struggling to use Articulate Review.\nTHIS: \"It was a version-control nightmare.\" Thank you for such an outstanding overview of the benefits of Review!\nRight?! You're welcome :)\nPamela Bynum\nI LOVE Review, but it is problematic with large files filled with audio and video...Storyline starts the publish process and gets 99% of the way there, then shuts down. It's not a hardware memory issues (my laptop has plenty and when I'm publishing to Review i shut down everything else). I can publish to all of the other formats without issue. It's just with Review. This is top-of-mind because I was trying to publish to Review last night for a group of SMEs. I just ended up going with the publish to web version and my trusty Excel spreadsheet. Not very elegant, but it worked.\nHmm... I haven't experienced that issue, thanks for bringing it to our attention. How big are your courses? Would you be willing to get in touch with our support so we can look into that further? Here's a link to submit a support request: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php Be sure to send them a copy of one of the files you're having issues with.\nDavid Sachse\nMy reviewers have also reported issues with the Review Tool - particularly with it not alsways displaying the continue button in Rise, or the menu buttons not taking them to the correct section in modules A big concern has also been the speed of the tool - with reviewers across devices and locations reporting that it is slow to load a module and that it doesn't operate as they expect that it should. Another concern has been that, when reviewing a Rise module, that the review tool does not always indicate the correct section that they are reviewing, leading to confusion about where and what needs changing in a module.\nI'm sorry to hear you've had issues with Articulate Review. I haven't personally experienced any issues like that. Are you sure that the problems aren't coming from the actual courses themselves? Did you try publishing to web? Do you see the same issues? As far as the load time, that is likely due to your internet speed and not Articulate Review itself. What do you mean it doesn't indicate the correct section? Could you be more specific?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 421, "original_length": 19907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.cardboardconnection.com/forums/forum/collectors-marketplace/baseball-marketplace/566784-2018-topps-gallery-f-t-or-sale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FXRPCUWUODXX2MZIU7TZHO72ZMHLXFK3", "length": 373, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "community.cardboardconnection.com", "title": "2018 Topps Gallery F/T or Sale - The Cardboard Connection Forum", "raw_content": "2018 Topps Gallery F/T or Sale\n1/3/4/12/15/24/27/30/33/41/43/44/59/63/82/93/106/109/113/119/121/123/132/145/146/147\n6/10/21/22/26/58/64/66/67/81/85/86/95/99/101/105/107/133/135/141/149\nAaron Judge (green) #ed 148/250\nSteven Souza Jr. #ed 124/250\nRickey Henderson #ed 208/250\nAny Puerto Rican player? Caratini, Nido, Berrios, Maldonado, Lindor, Correa, Baez...\nBase cards of", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 57.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coregroupus.com/direct-deposits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7G6SHMWMGDCGO3MWOTV2JFQFO3D5OGTB", "length": 2565, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "coregroupus.com", "title": "Direct Deposits | Tulsa Financial Services | Oklahoma City Tax Services", "raw_content": "Some employers issue physical paychecks to their employees, whether on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. However, more and more employers have begun using direct deposits to pay their employees. One of the most attractive characteristics of direct deposits is that they eliminate the risk of losing a paycheck or having it damaged or stolen. For this reason, direct deposits have become increasingly popular as a method of payment with both large and small businesses.\nPros and Cons of Using Direct Deposit\nThere are a number of additional advantages to using direct deposits over paper paychecks, including that:\nEmployees do not have to take checks to the bank to have them cashed, but can access their funds even before the bank opens;\nEmployees do not need to wait for a check to arrive in the mail, but can receive their payment immediately;\nEmployees have flexibility if they decide to switch accounts or financial institutions;\nNo one but the employee has access to personal information that is usually printed on a check, including an employee\u2019s address and telephone number; and\nDirect deposits can be used for regularly scheduled payments, including payroll, bonuses, commissions, travel expense reimbursements, benefits issued by the federal or state governments, pensions, dividends, and even tax refunds.\nThere are, admittedly, a few downsides to direct deposits, including the following:\nEmployees are required to give employers their bank account information;\nIf an employee does not qualify for a bank account, he or she will not be able to receive a direct deposit; and\nBanks may assess charges to employees who don\u2019t manage funds appropriately.\nFinally, employers can require employees to use direct deposit, although in Oklahoma it is unlawful for employers to mandate that workers use a specific financial institution.\nHow an Experienced Financial Management Team Can Help Your Business\nUsing direct deposit can significantly simplify the payroll process for both employers and employees, so if you live in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, or Lawton and are interested in setting up a direct deposit program for your business or have questions about tax planning, accounting, or bookkeeping, please contact our financial management team at CORE. Members of our team can be reached at our Oklahoma City office at 405-720-1244, while those at our Tulsa office can be contacted at 918-477-7650. If you live in or near Lawton and have questions or concerns about using direct deposit at your own business, please call us at 580-353-2376 to schedule a consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corenyc.com/press/a-dip-in-the-pool-without-leaving-the-living-room/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LS7W522W2CZADUOE2EQCW7XKYOMX2BN5", "length": 85, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "corenyc.com", "title": "A Dip in the Pool Without Leaving the Living Room | CORE Real Estate", "raw_content": "A Dip in the Pool Without Leaving the Living Room\nWall Street Journal // Jun 15, 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 216.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cosmeticdentistsgrandprairie.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:N7D5ZAFRQ667KTFXOPHB5KB6UZGALLHM", "length": 290, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cosmeticdentistsgrandprairie.com", "title": "Dentists in Grand Prairie TX | Dental Office | 972-264-5795", "raw_content": "Dentists in Grand Prairie\nThe Dental Place is conveniently located in Grand Prairie, Tx. We are located just east of the President George Bush Turnpike and south of the corner of Marshall Drive and Carrier Parkway. Our dental office is right across the street from Inglewood Baptist Church.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/sex-and-other-myths-about-weight-loss", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NCF6QKYQ7S4FUXGYQEM6YFABQTCCAO3T", "length": 7725, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "cosmosmagazine.com", "title": "Sex and other myths about weight loss | Cosmos", "raw_content": "Not only can these myths discourage people, they also provide misinformation that can prevent people from reaching their weight loss goals.\nThe estimated annual health care costs related to obesity are over $210 billion, or nearly 21 percent of annual medical spending in the United States. Americans spend $60 billion on weight loss products each year, trying everything from expensive meal replacement products to do-it-yourself programs on the latest cell phone apps. We gather weight loss advice, voluntarily or involuntarily, from news outlets, social media and just about everyone.\nAmericans have known for 15 years that obesity is an epidemic; the surgeon general declared it so in 2001. Despite intense efforts to prevent and treat obesity, however, studies published June 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 35 percent of men, 40 percent of women, and 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese. Even more worrisome, the rates continue to rise among women and adolescents.\nIn fact, experts predict that this generation of children may be the first in 200 years to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, likely due to obesity.\nSo what is our society doing wrong? Clearly, what doctors and policy makers have been doing for the last 15 years to address this epidemic is not working.\nWeight loss myths have broad appeal\nAn article from 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identified common myths surrounding obesity from popular media and scientific literature. The authors defined myths as ideas that are commonly held, but go against scientific data. Could these myths be keeping us from treating obesity effectively? As family physicians who treat overweight patients every day, we believe they do. Not only can these myths discourage people, they also provide misinformation that can prevent people from reaching their weight loss goals.\nYou might be surprised to hear some of these myths:\nJust switching chips for carrots is not enough. From www.shutterstock.com\nMyth 1: Small changes in your diet or exercise will lead to large, long-term weight changes.\nUnfortunately, this is not true. In weight loss, two plus two may only equal three instead of four. Small changes simply do not add up since physiologically, your body tries to stay the same weight. This doesn\u2019t mean that making small healthy choices don\u2019t matter, because even small things you do to stay healthy matter. It just means you are not likely to meet your weight loss goals by just taking one less bite. It\u2019s likely going to take bigger changes in your diet and exercise.\nMyth 2: Setting realistic goals when you are trying to lose weight is important because otherwise you will feel frustrated and lose less weight.\nPatients often come in with ambitious goals for weight loss, and we as family physicians nearly always say- go for it! (within safety and reason). There is no evidence that shooting for the stars leads to frustration. If anything, aiming for a larger goal may lead to better weight-loss outcomes.\nMyth 3: Losing a lot of weight fast doesn\u2019t keep weight off as well as losing a few pounds slowly.\nAgain, studies have shown that losing a larger amount of weight fast in the beginning (maybe while you are super motivated) has been associated with lower weight in the long-term. There just isn\u2019t evidence to go \u201cslow and steady\u201d when it comes to weight loss.\nFinally, to our favorite one:\nMyth 4: Having sex one time burns about as many calories as walking a mile.\nSorry to disappoint, but for an average sexual encounter (lasting 6 minutes!), an average man in his 30s burns just 20 calories. And as the NEJM articles further explains, this is just 14 more calories than just sitting and watching TV. So if the thought went through your head that sex may be your exercise for the day, you should think again.\nMyths take hold\nAs family physicians, we were curious to know if our own patients in clinic might believe in these myths. Maybe in the few short years since the NEJM paper was published, this information has permeated through popular media, and corrected itself. Everyone must know these basic facts about obesity, right?\nTo figure this out, we conducted a study of over 300 people in the waiting room of our diverse academic family medicine clinic. People who participated in our survey had an average age of 37, were mostly female (76 percent), had at least some college education (76 percent), and were a mix of non-Hispanic black (38 percent) and non-Hispanic white (47 percent).\nThe grand majority of people we surveyed still believed these myths (Myth 1: 85 percent, Myth 2: 94 percent, Myth 3: 85 percent, Myth 4: 61 percent)! Even more interestingly, there were no differences in what people believed across gender, age, or educational levels. These myths were pervasive.\nHow can we expect people to lose weight if most do not know the basics of weight loss? We didn\u2019t need to go far before we realized that these myths are still found in popular media. In some cases, physicians themselves may fall victim to these myths.\nOf course, healthcare providers should only give evidence-based advice to patients about weight loss in order to optimize their chance of success. Studies have shown that when primary care doctors provide advice on weight loss, patients are more likely to attempt to change their behaviors related to weight. However, even giving better and more advice may not be enough.\nThe first step is to acknowledge that patients are likely influenced by the myths that are so easily found online and among the advice given by friends and family. This means patients must be particularly savvy consumers of health information and to seek out information from reputable sources. This also means that educating and empowering overweight patients is only one part of the solution. Informing those - friends, family, and also the media - who influence overweight patients is also important if we want to change the trajectory of obesity in the U.S.\nIf we don\u2019t translate the research on obesity into practice, we cannot expect this problem to improve in our lifetime. We will only have a chance if we use what we know about weight loss and drop these myths.\nHow to trick your brain into wanting less junk food\nTammy Chang, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, University of Michigan and Angie Wang, Resident, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan\nExplore #weight #exercise 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This property was purchased with the purpose to have a base to conduct detailed studies on the amphibian species in one of the remaining least known and studied regions of the Costa Rica. The R\u00edo Vereh Cloud Forest Reserve has at total area of 18 hectares (45 acres). Despite its smaller size, this reserve is connected to hundreds of thousands of hectares solid forest. The R\u00edo Vereh Cloud Forest Reserve borders the Vereh River and several adjoining protected areas, including the Macho River Forest Reserve, Tapant\u00ed National Park, Chirrip\u00f3 National Park, and La Amistad International Park. The R\u00edo Vereh Cloud Forest Reserve has an altitudinal range from 1380\u20131625 masl. We are currently conducting detailed amphibian inventories in the reserve and surrounding area in attempt to learn what species inhabit this region. We are optimistic that our efforts will result in the discovery of numerous species of special importance, potentially including some Critically Endangered amphibians that have disappeared from most of their historically known sites.\nA view of the cloud forest up at the C.R.A.R.C. Rio Vereh Cloud Forest Reserve.\n\u2190 Amphibian Ark Newsletter 20\nNew Glass Frog in Costa Rica \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://createwithalyson.blogspot.com/2018/01/toad-ally-awesome-thank-you-card.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XVVANGD2AF2VZNNXJPYRLUMX5B46SHHK", "length": 84, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "createwithalyson.blogspot.com", "title": "Create with Alyson: TOAD-ally Awesome Thank You card", "raw_content": "Kathleen January 7, 2018 at 12:57 PM\nWow, who knew these papers could look so cute!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 5365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crsny.org/index.php/event/living-in-the-light-course-in-miracles-weekend/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2N5DSH62LTNFPOKNQ4G7HGSWED7J72CH", "length": 9494, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "crsny.org", "title": "Living in the Light Course in Miracles Weekend - CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Living in the Light Course in Miracles Weekend - CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)", "raw_content": "CRS invites you to join us March 29 \u2013 30, 2019 for the Living in the Light Course in Miracles Weekend. Led by beloved Course authors Yasuko Kasaki (author of 16 books in Japanese about ACIM) and Corinne Zupko (author of From Anxiety to Love), and musician and Voice Liberation therapist Neda Boin, this will be the first ACIM weekend in NYC since the CMC ACIM Conference in 2015 and promises to be a life-changing event! Through talks, healing, sharing, singing, and exercises, we will learn practical tools for daily living and experience ourselves as the limitlessly loving and creative beings that we really are. Are you ready to shine?!\nThe weekend will kick off at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 29 with music and storytelling by award-winning singer songwriter Neda Boin of the Netherlands, whose first album, \u201cThe Light Has Come,\u201d inspired by the A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Workbook lessons, incredibly just won Best Album of the Year at the Rotterdam Music Awards.\nThe program will continue throughout the day on Saturday, March 30 with talks, workshops, and healing shared by Neda Boin, Corinne Zupko, CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki and the CRS healers. Together, we\u2019ll tune in to our feelings and bring into the light whatever beliefs may be giving rise to them so that we can be healed. Putting Holy Spirit in charge, we\u2019ll clear away those obstacles and re-discover our life purpose and inspiration. Let\u2019s free our authentic voices to express!\nConcert only: $25 in advance, $30 at the door ($20 at the door for students/seniors with valid ID)\nBuy Friday Concert Tickets!\nWorkshop only: $120 in advance, $140 at the door ($100 at the door for students/seniors with valid ID)\nBuy Saturday Workshop Tickets!\nConcert & Workshop: $140 in advance\nTickets are available online, by phone (212-677-8621), and at CRS.\nNeda Boin in Concert:\nThe Light Has Come (music inspired by A Course in Miracles)\n10:30 am Opening Musical Meditation by Neda\n10:45 am Introductions\n11 am Talk by Corinne and Yasuko\n12 pm Break\n12:15 pm Music and talk by Neda\n2 pm Spiritual Healing by Yasuko and CRS healers\n3 pm Workshop with Corinne\n4 pm Voice Liberation with Neda\n5:15 pm Sharing + Q&A with Corinne, Neda, and Yasuko\n6 pm Closing song led by Neda\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP WITH CORINNE\nLiving in the light means that we make a decision for Spirit. And in each moment that the ego temps us, we make a choice for Spirit again. This moment to moment practice can be facilitated by offering miracles to our brothers. By doing so, we ultimately recognize our oneness and all that is not true, including fear and anxiety, simply dissolves. What is left is pure joy! In this workshop, participants will learn and experience practical strategies for dissolving fear and living in the light.\nABOUT SPIRITUAL HEALING WITH YASUKO AND CRS HEALERS\nOur healing is based on the Course. ACIM says that salvation occurs when you are with your brother. When you know the truth about your brother, you will know the truth of who you truly are, because you will recognize that you and your brother are actually one. Recognizing this truth is the only way to experience peace. Bring any issue you are facing right now \u2014 physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and a healer will stand nearby; no touching is involved), a CRS healer will observe you with his inner sight, free of any judgments, as your truly are, a perfect shining spirit. Together, will ask the Holy Spirit (or inner guide if you prefer) to bring us directly to whatever seed thought is causing your current issues and ask for guidance about how your spirit really wants to make use of your present situation for its growth and sharing of love. After about 5 \u2013 10 minutes of meditation together, we share the inspirational guidance that we receive.\nABOUT VOICE LIBERATION WITH NEDA\nIn voice liberation the voice is used as an instrument to deeply connect with others and with Spirit. The joy of \u201cbeing sung through\u201d is a truly liberating experience! Throughout this workshop, our focus will be to \u201cstep back and let Him lead the way.\u201d Discovering your inner voice comes from a place of deep surrender and trust. Even if you have no musical background or believe you have no talent, you will be able to participate in experiential singing and songwriting! Spirit will facilitate emotional healing by guiding you to get in touch with and express your Inner Voice. You will be supported in using your voice as a gateway to allow what is ready to come up to the surface to be released.\nYasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of ACIM in New York City. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She presents at the CMC\u2019s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan.\nYasuko has authored 16 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko\u2019s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice. yasukokasaki.com\n\u201cYasuko Kasaki\u2019s seminar is like the best rock concerts. I am still hearing Jimi Hendrix\u2019s guitar echoing in the back of my ear!\u201d \u2014 Toru Nishida, Editor-in-Chief of Yuhobika magazine\nCorinne Zupko, EdS, MA, LPC, is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book, From Anxiety to Love: A Radical New Approach for Letting Go of Fear and Finding Lasting Peace (New World Library, 2018). Corinne was diagnosed with her first anxiety disorder at a very young age and struggled with debilitating anxiety for nearly three decades. Determined not to let the anxiety run her life, she dove into living the principles of the psychological and spiritual text A Course in Miracles. With the Course and mindfulness meditation as tools on her journey, she has found inner peace to be unstoppable and now teaches others to discover it in themselves. Corinne is a keynote speaker, Adjunct Professor of Counselor Education, counselor, Board Certified Coach and teaches weekly mindfulness meditation classes at a major U.S. financial institution. fromanxietytolove.com\n\u201cCorinne is a masterful teacher!\u201d \u2014 Alan Cohen, author of A Course in Miracles Made Easy\n\u201cCorinne has the most amazing way of communicating the wisdom of ACIM through hands on and practical approaches that work.\u201d \u2014 Mignon L\n\u201cI read Corinne\u2019s book a few months ago and then I read it 3 more times. Everyone who worries, frets, feels fear at the smallest and largest things will find hope, practices and inspiration in Corinne\u2019s work.\u201d \u2014 Deb McDe\nNeda Boin is a singer songwriter from Rotterdam in The Netherlands. In 2013 Neda won both the audience and the jury prizes at the Music Matters Awards, which made her the music ambassador of Rotterdam for one whole year. Shortly after, she graduated from the music conservatory of Rotterdam with a Bachelor of Music. She successfully released her first EP, \u201cWhen Lambs Become Lions,\u201d in October 2014. She also started giving songwriting workshops in juvenile prison, which she is currently still doing. In 2015 Neda convinced all four coaches of \u201cThe Voice\u201d of Holland to turn their chairs around for her, and she made it all the way to the last eight contestants. A student of A Course in Miracles for 8+ years, she channeled her latest album, \u201cThe Light Has Come\u201d over a period of two weeks in 2018. Lyrics for each of the songs were inspired by ACIM Workbook lessons. Profoundly spiritual in nature, the songs are also deeply satisfying as songs, with beautiful and irresistible music colored with soul, jazz and world music inflections, brought to soaring life by Neda\u2019s angelic voice, and the album went on to win Album of the Year at the Rotterdamn Music Awards! Neda has lately been using her Course experiences and musical gifts to teach Voice Liberation workshops at David Hoffmeister\u2019s Living Miracles Monastery and elsewhere. nedaboin.com\nCRS is a healing and art center founded in 2004 by the Japanese spiritual writer/counselor/lecturer Yasuko Kasaki and her students. It is the first and only center in New York City devoted to the study and practice of A Course in Miracles. Everyone has something precious to give. Our mission is to help you to discover, develop, and use your gift, and to appreciate the joy of sharing it. ACIM says that salvation occurs when you are with your brother. When you know the truth about your brother, you will know the truth of who you truly are, because you will recognize that you and your brother are actually one. We offer support to those who bear witness to the truth, which is something that everyone is capable of doing and sharing.\nhttp://bit.ly/2AEzfdt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 13433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crystalcleardigitalmarketing.com/happy-thanksgiving/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HWPLWZYVPSHW3GM7KPSWY6CBTCTD2IQB", "length": 609, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "crystalcleardigitalmarketing.com", "title": "Happy Thanksgiving! - Crystal Clear Digital Marketing", "raw_content": "Hello Crystal Clear friends and followers. Just wanted to take a moment to say how much we value all of our clients, employees and friends and families. This year has amazed all of us at Crystal Clear Digital Marketing. We are grateful and thankful for the warm reception we have received from the health and wellness community. As all of us get ready to spend time with family and friends this week let us take a moment to remember what we are thankful for. If you have some time off this week, enjoy and relax and all of us will be back in full swing next week. Happy Thanksgiving and blessings to everyone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curriproperties.net/satellite-beach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CNMY7DD7VHGSHCJVTTM6IRL4LXXFUTUH", "length": 1124, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "curriproperties.net", "title": "Satellite Beach - Curri Properties", "raw_content": "A Beautiful Coastal City\nSatellite Beach is a coastal city located on the barrier island, north of Melbourne Beach and south of Cocoa Beach. The barrier island is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River, and is accessible from the mainland by several causeways. Satellite Beach is between the Pineda Causeway, to the north, and Eau Gallie Parkway, to the south.\nBoth causeways bridge over the Indian River and connect to US1 and I-95. Satellite Beach has a population of around 11,000, and is one of the largest coastal communities in Brevard County.\nHome prices in the beautiful city of Satellite Beach range from the mid $100s for townhomes to $3M and up for Oceanfront & Riverfront estate homes. Communities include the northern part of Lansing Island (Link), the southern part of Tortoise Island (Link), Montecito (Link), Harbour Lights (Link) and others.\nSatellite Beach has its own High School, shopping plaza with a cinema; plentiful parks, recreation and outdoor activity options; and a variety of entertainment, dining and cultural offerings, including community celebrations, festivals, concerts, and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cvilleheart.com/heart-attack", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HCMJMYM5NV36JG7J7WPPTESHPP3UP5CN", "length": 5489, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "cvilleheart.com", "title": "Heart Attack", "raw_content": "How the Heart WorksHeart FailurePreventing Heart Disease\nEveryone should learn the warning signs of a heart attack so they can act quickly:\nPain or Discomfort in the center of the chest lasting for more than a few minutes or may come and go. The pain feels like fullness, pain, squeezing or pressure.\nDiscomfort in arm or shoulder with or without the chain discomfort.\nShortness of breath with or without chest pain.\nPain in the back, neck or jaw.\nLightheadedness, vomiting or nausea, cold sweats.\nAny of these warning signs should cause immediate action. Call 911 and get to the nearest emergency room. The sooner you are treated for a heart attack the less damage to your heart and better chances of your recovery.\nHeart attack: A heart attack occurs when one or more of the blood vessels feeding your heart muscle is reduced or completely shut off. A slow process called atherosclerosis is a buildup of plaque (fat, cholesterol and other substances). Plaque can break and cause blood clots to form around it. The clot blocks the flow of blood with its oxygen and nutrients to flow through the heart muscle. This causes a condition known as ischemia. The damage or death of a part of the heart muscle caused by ischemia is called a myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, and it occurs in the US about every 40 seconds.\nYou may not have any warning signs of the atherosclerosis process. Sometimes nearby vessels that also bring blood to the heart sometimes expand to help compensate when a coronary artery becomes narrowed. The expanded vessels, collateral circulation, helps protect some people from heart attacks by supplying needed blood to the heart. Collateral circulation can also help the heart muscle recover after a heart attack.\nThe heart is a very strong and tough organ. The amount of damage to the heart muscle from a heart attack depends on the size of the affected area and the time between injury and treatment. Damage to the heart muscle from a heart attack heals by forming scar tissue. It usually takes several weeks for your heart muscle to heal. The healing time depends on the degree of your injury and how quickly your body heals. Although part of your heart was severely injured, the rest of the muscle keeps working. It may, however, be weaker and unable pump as much blood as before. Further damage can be limited or prevented with proper treatment and lifestyle changes\nRecovery: The good news is that heart attack survivors can lead a full and productive life if they make lifestyle changes and continue to take their prescribed medications. They, however, will always be at risk of some degree of coronary artery disease or Ischemia. The heart muscle usually takes about eight weeks to heal. Scar tissue in the damaged area does not contract or pump as well as healthy muscle tissue. That means that extent of damage to the heart muscle can impact how well the heart pumps blood throughout the body. The degree of loss of function depends on the size and location of the scar tissue.\nCardiac Arrest: As explained above, a heart attack is when blood flow to the heart is blocked. Sudden cardiac arrest (also called sudden cardiac death or SCD) is when the heart suddenly stops beating unexpectedly. It is defined as being an electrical problem and is caused by abnormal or irregular heart rhythms (called Arrhythmias) A common arrhythmia is ventricular fibrillation when the lower portion of the heart suddenly starts beating erratically and doesn't pump blood. Death can occur in minutes after the heart stops. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and a defibrillator used to shock the heart and restore normal heart rhythm can reverse cardiac arrest. But they must be performed within a few minutes.\nChest Pain: Not all incidents of chest pain is an indication of a heart attack. Angina pectoris is a discomfort that usually lasts for only a few minutes. It is when the heart muscle lacks the oxygen it needs due to reduced blood supply. Angina attacks do not permanently damage the heart muscle and happens during exercise or emotional stress. Your blood pressure and heart rate increase requiring more oxygen to the heart muscle.\nAny chest pain, however, should be examined by a physician. Discomfort or pain in the chest lasting for more than a few minutes or happening sporadically should be diagnosed by a doctor to make sure it is not a more serious heart attack.\nOther causes of a heart attack:\nA spasm in a coronary artery can temporarily contract causing the artery to narrow and decrease or stop blood flow to part of the heart muscle. A severe spasm can cause a heart attack.\nA spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a tearing in the coronary artery wall and can cause a heart attack.\nTerminology - Here are some terms you may hear concerning heart attacks:\nAcute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) \u2013 A term used to describe the reduced or blocked blood supplied to the heart muscle.\nSTEMI\u2013 A common name for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, a type of heart attack caused by the complete blockage in a coronary artery\nNSTEMI\u2013 A non-ST-elevated myocardial infarction, a type of heart attack in which an artery is partially blocked and severely reducing blood flow.\nMyocardial infarction (Heart attack) \u2013 The damaging or death of an area of the heart muscle (myocardium) resulting from a blocked blood supply to that area.\nCoronary thrombosis (coronary occlusion)\u2013 The formation of a clot in one of the arteries that feeds blood to the heart muscle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cwcsleeming.org.au/2016/09/11/mid-autumn-festival-at-curtin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:H63GY5KD3ETHER4XZ3GYTWNIXITQ5HFN", "length": 543, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cwcsleeming.org.au", "title": "Mid-Autumn Festival at Curtin \u2013 Chung Wah Chinese School Leeming \u4e2d\u534e\u9ece\u660e\u4e2d\u6587\u5b66\u6821", "raw_content": "Mid-Autumn Festival at Curtin\nChung Wah Chinese School at Leeming has been invited to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival at Curtin on Thursday 15 September 5-7pm, Henderson Court, Curtin University, Bentley (see red circle in photo below). Join us there and try your hand at lantern-making, paper cutting, calligraphy & buy moon cakes and indulge in street stall food. See http://news.curtin.edu.au/events/parkd-events for details.\nCultures of China, A Stellar Night by Huaxing Pathways to further education for Community Language Students", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cyprusscene.com/2018/02/14/cavusoglu-we-protect-rights-and-interests-of-trnc-turkish-cypriots-and-turkey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:49Z", "digest": "sha1:JIHRPA7FT7EWZQMUSN6ZWMDQZ4UIV72P", "length": 1146, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cyprusscene.com", "title": "\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu: \u201cWe protect rights and interests of TRNC, Turkish Cypriots, and Turkey\u201d", "raw_content": "\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu: \u201cWe protect rights and interests of TRNC, Turkish Cypriots, and Turkey\u201d\nTurkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has stated that Turkish Cypriot people are entitled to share the natural resources surrounding the island, and that Turkey will continue to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriot people.\nSpeaking to a TRT news correspondent in Kuwait, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu stated that the Greek Cypriot side is \u201cunwilling\u201d to find a comprehensive settlement between both sides of the island.\nReiterating that the Turkish Cypriot people have equal rights to the hydrocarbon reserves around the island, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu stated: \u201cIf you are unwilling to share those natural resources then we will protect the rights of the TRNC, Turkish Cypriot people, and Turkey\u201d.\n\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu also noted that Turkey seeks to maintain friendship and positive relations with Greece, stressing that this can be achieved through common understanding.\nSource: TRNC Public Information Office\nTagged as: Cyprus Hydrocarbon exploration, Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, North Cyprus, TRNC\nPresident Erdo\u011fan sends warning to Greek Cypriot side\nFirst stage of Paragliding World Cup to be held in Cyprus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daag.io/speakers/rich-duncombe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LIMLRFYTMQCS3HDQTFE5ZZIY2Z34QHEV", "length": 1112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "daag.io", "title": "Rich Duncombe \u00ab daag.io", "raw_content": "Rich Duncombe is a proven executive with the capability to drive growth and launch new businesses within Fortune 50 technology companies. He is passionate about catalyzing innovation from concept to reality and creating corporate innovation systems that deliver profitable growth, foster a culture of innovation and motivate talented employees. Rich has led over 35 new business, products or technology projects in a wide array of applications. His executive leadership spans from business unit VP to director roles in strategy, product management, technology development, operations and sales.\nRich holds a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University. He served as president of the Corporate Venturing Consortium in partnership with MIT, curricula adviser and lecturer for the Building Innovative Leaders program with Stanford and board member for the Willamette Angel Conference. Rich is an Innovation Standard Certified Professional under the International Innovation Management Standard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 199.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailysunknoxville.com/tesla-model-3-may-take-after-model-x/920013617", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UQRM5W5LEVAF5PR6XP2RL3WZC3V23RJL", "length": 1290, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dailysunknoxville.com", "title": "Tesla Model 3 May Take After Model X \u2013 DailySunKnoxville", "raw_content": "Tesla Model 3 May Take After Model X\nTesla has killed the Model X 60D even before it made it into production, a situation similar to other Tesla base models. The model was announced sometime in July and was expected to go for $74,000 as a starting price.\nThe vehicle, coming with 200 miles EPA, received a price cut following the federal tax credit costs and an added DST which made its price $67,700. And with an addition of $9,500, buyers will get the chance to upgrade to a 75kWh.\nOf recent, Tesla has been changing some of the Model X\u2019s features such as making the Smart Air Suspension a standard which added $2,500 to its price. All alterations totaled at $11,500 which increased the base price of the vehicle to $85,500.\nThat\u2019s not all that surprising but seeing that the Model 3 has a starting price of $35,00, now that\u2019s quite alarming. It\u2019s highly likely that it would be terminated faster than expected to make way for higher priced choices.\nThe Model X had a price hike that was more than 15 percent and if the Model 3 follows in this same pattern, we can expect to see a $40,500 price tag!\nHave you been considering the Model 3? Well, we suggest that you get one as soon as possible as its current $35,00 price tag won\u2019t be around for long.\nTags: TeslaTesla Model 3Tesla Model X", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailywn.com/news/140463", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SPQ7KG2CUE73NBRGSLN6JGWLQPVLG5RV", "length": 272, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dailywn.com", "title": "Analysts: Florida insurers will survive hit from Michael - dailywn.com", "raw_content": "Florida\u2019s disjointed property insurance system that relies almost exclusively on small and midsize companies will take a multi-billion dollar loss from Hurricane Michael, but has sufficient reserves and backups that providers should be able to pay claims without problems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 194.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daytonandthegreens.com/2016/10/12/joseph-green-adventurer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MQ442B3U3NEEMK3AUSIUMPXBWS33JMCM", "length": 1674, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "daytonandthegreens.com", "title": "Joseph Green, Adventurer \u2013 Dayton and the Greens", "raw_content": "Joseph Green, Adventurer\nOctober 12, 2016 October 3, 2016 Candace W Leave a comment\nJoseph Green, like his father and brothers was of an adventurous nature. He was only one year old when the family moved to Illinois and making a home out of the wilderness was surely an adventure. The expedition to the California gold mines in 1849, with his father and his older brother Jesse was a welcome change from his life in Dayton, which in twenty years had become much more civilized. Very much the little brother, he was eleven years younger than Jesse and although he would have considered himself, at 21, the equal of any man on the trip, he was still one of the younger ones. He was sorely missed in Dayton by his sisters, Rachael and Rebecca, who filled their letters with a wish that he would be home soon.\nMost of the gold miners returned home in January of 1851, but Joseph and three others were left behind in Mexico, where they were to remain until spring, in charge of some Mexican horses which were bought in coming through that country.\nJoseph had barely returned to Dayton when it became clear that his taste for adventure was still strong. His younger brother Isaac, who was deemed too young to go on the previous trip, wanted his chance and Joseph got up an expedition of his own to California, which left Dayton in April. As in the previous attempt, there were no great riches in the end, but the adventure may have been its own reward.\nJoseph had expressed a desire to go to China, but this never came to pass, due to his untimely death, December 27, 1855, at the age of 27. He is buried in the Dayton cemetery\n\u2190 How to Make a Rainbow\nThe Drunken Dancing Master \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3999, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 174.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daytonandthegreens.com/mary-hippard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JHBATQ74LPYCZAX4TVXZPSQJCB4SZDIT", "length": 496, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "daytonandthegreens.com", "title": "Mary Hippard \u2013 Dayton and the Greens", "raw_content": "Mary Hippard\nborn August 4, 1877 [calculated from age at death], in Virginia\ndied November 10, 1890, in Dayton township, La Salle county, Illinois\nAnother death from typhoid fever occurred in Dayton township Sunday morning. The victim was Mary Hippard, the thirteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hippard. She had been ill but a few weeks. Three brothers and one sister survive her. The funeral will occur at one o\u2019clock this afternoon.1\n1. [Ottawa, Illinois] Free Trader, November 11, 1890", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 2795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dazeend.org/desaturate-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TKQ36HEETXJFH5YPO2PVM664Y2PZNIK7", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dazeend.org", "title": "Desaturate \u2013 DazeEnd.org", "raw_content": "https://dazeend.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Desaturate.m4v", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 94.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/07/23/review-sex-drugs-rock-roll-colonial-players/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IKRVJCNQQ6YABTIQEUNXISCHNB7S5BW2", "length": 6712, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "dcmetrotheaterarts.com", "title": "Review: 'Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll' at Colonial Players - DC Metro Theater Arts", "raw_content": "Home Locations Annapolis Review: \u2018Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll\u2019 at Colonial Players\nReview: \u2018Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll\u2019 at Colonial Players\nThe Colonial Players\u2019 production of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, written by Eric Bogosian and directed by Paul Valleau, shows off the impressive talents of the actors in this company. A series of 12 monologues, each delivered by different actors, the play presents a critique on modern life, with profound insights riddled with shots of humor and pleas for understanding.\nXblow (Ben Carr) starts the show. Wearing a prison jumpsuit, and handcuffed, he begins in the corner. Delivering a rhyme, he moves to the center, full of aggressive energy. He expresses admiration for power, believing that violence is as close to being God as people can get. He considers that God \u201clets the dope shoot each other.\u201d A truly disturbing character, he strolls offstage whistling.\nGrace of God (Erin Hill) enters asking the audience for money. A homeless addict, she pleads for a chance to get a place of her own. The desperation and anger is clear on her face. She explains that the only difference between her and the audience is, \u201cYou\u2019re on the way up, and I\u2019m on the way down.\u201d She presents a powerful reason for compassion.\nDog Chameleon\u2019s (Kristi Valleau) anger comes through quickly, as she remarks to the audience, \u201cyou\u2019re all scum compared to my beneficence,\u201d (although she says she\u2019s just kidding afterwards). She wants to be rich, \u201cwatching TV all day and eating potato chips.\u201d She says as a child, \u201cI never got what I wanted, so now it\u2019s time to even the score.\u201d Full of rage, she fantasizes about making life difficult for a shopkeeper who slighted her. At one point, she barks at the audience. She personifies vitriol.\nStud (Jeff Sprague) begins a trend towards comedy. With a twangy Southern accent and drinking a beer, he describes his success with picking up women, owing to a \u201clarge, hard,\u201d member \u201cthat curves a little to the left.\u201d Explaining that one woman threatened to \u201cjump off a building if she couldn\u2019t have me all to herself,\u201d he enjoys the single life, taking other men\u2019s girlfriends.\nArtist (Ben Wolff) is also funny, but has a serious point. Sitting in a corner, he explains why he no longer makes art. He believes that \u201cthe system collects artists\u2019 minds\u201d, turning those that conform into \u201crobots\u201d of a sort; those who rebelled, like Janis Joplin, are now dead. As a result, he keeps his creative thoughts to himself, so that he cannot be assimilated. He is a sly commentary on consumer culture.\nStag (Josh Visnapuu) is an excellent storyteller, recounting a party he threw for a friend that goes out of control, involving call girls, champagne, drugs, a kitchen fire, and a fight with a Hell\u2019s Angel member that gets funnier as it goes on. He paints a wonderful picture of a night of excess and pleasure. He also has moments of profound thoughts, realizing on seeing the ocean that \u201cI\u2019m just a small drop in that ocean.\u201d\nCandy (Erin Hill) has perhaps one of the funniest scenes in the play. A sex line operator, she describes a fantasy to a client on the phone while picking up toys and drinking juice. The difference between what she is doing and what she is saying (and how she says it) is hilarious. It is a nice comic touch that gets big laughs.\nBenefit (Mary MacLeod) is also incredibly funny. An aging British rock star, she is promoting her latest album to a TV interviewer, while recounting her past with drugs and her current sobriety. Even while expressing an anti-drug message, she waxes nostalgic for her days of excess. To any children who may be watching \u201cI had fun. Much of my music was inspired by drugs. But don\u2019t be like me.\u201d She doesn\u2019t know what happened to a band member who was institutionalized for drugs, but she blows kisses to him in case he\u2019s watching. Her obliviousness is hilarious.\nRock Law (Pat Reynolds) is a businessman. In phone conversations with his wife, mistress, and employees, he reveals the sleazy dark side of capitalism. Talking to his wife, he suggests that their son \u201cbite his therapist.\u201d Discussing an employee he is considering firing, he yells at the other man who dares suggest otherwise, explaining that \u201cprofits are everything.\u201d He is an aggressive man who uses his business to express his aggression.\nLive (Tim Sayles) wants to live to the fullest. His motto is \u201ctake care of luxury and the necessities will take care of themselves.\u201d Every morning he \u201cswims a lap\u201d in his backyard pool, while eating a big, hearty breakfast. Wearing a bathrobe and holding a cigar, he explains \u201cI\u2019m here, I might as well enjoy it,\u201d because \u201cif I don\u2019t, who will?\u201d\nDirt (Ben Carr), examining the bottom of his shoe, complains that \u201cthe world is drenched in piss.\u201d He describes the journey of water from the mountains to the ocean, recounting the various items that get carried along the way. He explains what all the fish do in the ocean as well, so that waste is inescapable. His solution? \u201cFlush the toilet!\u201d\nBottleman (Steve Bissett) ends the play on a sober note. A homeless man, he describes life on the streets. He complains about the price of coffee, but explains that, \u201cthey have the beans, so you have no choice\u201d about how much they charge. He has some mental health issues, as evidenced by his yelling at himself when he misquotes a clich\u00e9, but he always \u201cstays on the sunny side of the street,\u201d looking at life optimistically.\nTim Brown does an excellent job with the lighting design. Spotlights are used to introduce some of the characters, and the lighting changes depending on the mood.\nPaul Valleau directs this play wonderfully. The actors all enter and exit smoothly, and their characters all come across as totally believable, sometimes funny, and sometimes sad. They each tell their story, or present their case, and then walk off for the next one. With a stage bare except for a bench, chair, phone, and table in some scenes, attention is focused on the monologue.\nEverything comes together in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, to make a night of powerful, entertaining theater.\nThis production plays only this weekend, so catch it while you can!\nRunning Time: Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission.\nSex, Drugs, Rock & Roll has two more performances: Tonight at 8 PM and tomorrow, July 24, 2016 at 2:30 PM at Colonial Players of Annapolis \u2013 108 East Street in Annapolis. A $10 donation by cash or check is suggested.\nPrevious articleReview: \u2018Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot\u2019 at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children\u2019s Theatre\nNext articleReview: \u2018The Music Man\u2019 at The City of Fairfax Theatre Company\nReview: \u2018Everything is Wonderful\u2019 at Everyman Theatre\nReview: \u2018Gypsy\u2019 at Toby\u2019s Dinner Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 8996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ddc-as.com/outsourcing-mq-as", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:24Z", "digest": "sha1:HWQA2LLB3UYVZPGNEDBNV62MQWDN7FCK", "length": 3915, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ddc-as.com", "title": "Outsourcing: M-Q", "raw_content": "Here\u2019s the latest edition of the outsourcing A-Z series, we pick up with M to Q.\nM is for Multilingual Solutions\nDDC Multilingual Solutions are our experts in multi-language business process outsourcing. With the ability to operate in over 30 languages the MLS team based in Bosnia have been building a lasting impression across the group and our client base for high quality and efficient work.\nSee our team first hand in this insightful video recorded in our office in Bosnia.\nN is for the Netherlands\nDDC OS EUR, our European arm of DDC is based in Oss in the Netherlands just outside of Amsterdam. Handling a range of services from data capture, to digital mailrooms, the team in Oss are vital in helping us provide an effective international and accessible service to our clients.\nO is for Omni-channel\nSupporting our clients in various industries with their customer services, in both the front and back office has been a core offering of ours for many years. A key part of our success has been to always ensure we offer our clients an omni-channel solution. Rather than focussing on the quick fix or the nice to do\u2019s, we continually analyse our client\u2019s markets to ensure we are servicing their customers in the most effective way. If we recognise the emergence or value in a new channel, we will advise our clients to ensure an effective process is put in place that integrates seamlessly with our wider support system.\nCheck out one of our Customer Lifecycle case studies from utilities client, Robin Hood Energy.\nP is for the Philippines\nFrom Batangas to Leyte, to the capital, Manila, our presence in the Philippines is vast. The country and its people have been at the heart of The DDC Group since its inception, with co-founder Jericho Petilla, previously holding the position of Secretary of the Department of Energy of the Philippines.\nOur sense of community across the DDC family has been at the forefront in recent years with the unfortunate events unfolding in the Philippines. In 2013, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded hit the Philippines in devastating fashion. We were quick to offer support, here you can see Jan Trevalayan supporting the people in the immediate aftermath. Examples of other projects range from:\nBuilding hospital rooms\nBuilding a multipurpose gymnasium that also acts as a shelter if a typhoon of such force was to reoccur\nUse of our vehicles for emergency services\nAllowing a school to utilise our internet lines from our hot disaster recovery site, giving valuable exposure to the digital world for the pupils.\nWhen engaging with new prospects, we often find that many people are worried about quality issues and control. However, outsourcing should actually improve quality. The very act of outsourcing should be to seek improvements, not only in costs but also processes in general. Outsourcers are experts in the fields in which they operate, and here at DDC, we certainly implement a continuous improvement model to ensure that we are always providing a quality service. This involves implementing a rigorous quality control system to drastically reduce the possibility of an error occurring, further it allows for relevant training to be identified across the teams, or system improvements.\nOutsourcing your processes offers you the opportunity to include SLA\u2019s (service level agreements) in your contract. This gives the outsourcers an incentive to take quality control seriously and include it as part of thorough relationship management. The findings from quality control lead to evidence-based decision making, meaning any suggestions we make to our clients are always beneficial.\nWe are certified in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System. This is a framework that includes, a process model based on a; Plan, Do, Check and Act. This helps us to provide consistency, enhance satisfaction and address potential risks and identify opportunities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://de.readrate.com/deu/books/tools-for-making-acute-risk-decisions-with-chemical-process-safety-applications", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JEFVUAFQFJVBXHUXD7CIXLGNWDUZGEG3", "length": 946, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "de.readrate.com", "title": "Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions with Chemical Process Safety Applications, Buch. Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) - ReadRate", "raw_content": "Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions with Chemical Process Safety Applications\nCenter for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)\nThe complexity of today's risk decisions is well known. Beyond cost and risk there are many other factors contributing to these decisions, including type of risk (such as human injury or fatality), the economic impact on the local community, profitability, availability of capital, alternatives for reducing or eliminating the risk, costs of implementing alternatives, codes, standards, regulation, and good industry practice. This book presents a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers in industry so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner. Though primarily aimed at the process industry, this book can be used by anyone who makes similar decisions in other industries, including those in management science.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://debtrescue.com.au/testimonial/dreaming-debt-free-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:PHSFGC4UT27CVIDFD34IZX2A4PN3DU3Z", "length": 227, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "debtrescue.com.au", "title": "Dreaming of a Debt Free Life | Debt Rescue", "raw_content": "I just dream of all the things I\u2019m gonna do when I\u2019m over this. Thanks for your support and I really don\u2019t think I could have sorted through this without you. It actually feels good to pay these bills. Cheers, have a great day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 190.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://decent.erasmus.site/decent-open-dialogue-to-act-more-effectively-against-functional-illiteracy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DCNCAPPQN6XKQJG2EOGUTNXMLLYAI6CM", "length": 1267, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "decent.erasmus.site", "title": "DECENT: Open dialogue to act more effectively against functional illiteracy! \u2013 Decent", "raw_content": "Posted on Saturday February 24th, 2018 Tuesday May 22nd, 2018 by ktomasik\nHow to act more effectively against functional illiteracy, reducing the risk of social exclusion of low qualified adults?\nOn the 20th and 21st February, partners from DECENT project met in Rzeszow, at Stowarzyszenie Centrum Wspierania Edukacji I Przedsiebiorczosci (CWEP) to discuss about the next project steps.\nThe meeting was characterized by an open dialogue and a really enriching exchange of ideas in order to reach the next implementation phase of the project. It will consist in reaching the adults with a questionnaire in order to have a clear picture of the functional illiterate levels in each of the partner countries: Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, Spain and Italy.\nImportant aspects are also coming out through discussion, like the need to increase awareness of the target (adults) and sensitize both civil society and governmental bodies.\nPartners will meet again in Sofia, Bulgaria, to see the results of the second questionnaire and to start developing the \u201cDecent life without illiteracy\u201d course.\nYou can check the latest news of the project on our Facebook and you can deepen your knowledge on the project by checking our DECENT webpage.\nKick-off meeting within DECENT project \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://depts.washington.edu/text/about/about-the-textual-studies-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5UDKXMXVDSBK5Z54FJIBZ72XWWUELA5Q", "length": 1740, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "depts.washington.edu", "title": "About the Textual Studies Program | Textual Studies Program", "raw_content": "Philology, the history of the book, print culture, comparative media, text technologies, bibliography, editorial theory, codicology, material texts, the history of reading, manuscript culture, paleography, the sociology of texts, the digital humanities\u2026\nUW Libraries, Special Collections Division.\nTextual studies encompasses a broad set of disciplines in the arts and humanities concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of texts in material form. From memory to written record, manuscript to book, cuneiform tablet to tablet PC, textual studies comprehends the products of literary and documentary culture in diachronic terms, and meaning as inseparable from the medium of inscription. Its approaches, like texts themselves, cut across historical periods and geographical space. As a field of inquiry, it is at once theoretical and applied, uniting scholars and publics in critical reflection on matters fundamental to higher education: reading, writing, the library, the book.\nThe Textual Studies Program draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of UW faculty, information professionals, and distinguished visitors to provide students with a foundation for advanced archival research and inquiry into the materiality of written culture. The program\u2019s core courses survey the interconnected histories of manuscript, print, and digital texts and acquaint students with theories of textuality that form the basis for literary and cultural study. Seminars incorporate colloquia and public events to expose students to diverse methodologies in the field as well as practical applications in the wider enterprise of editing, translation, publishing, data mining, librarianship, and alternative-academic professions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://desotoeducationfoundation.com/2016/08/09/welcome-new-teachers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HMRUOT7BPHQZ4LFCRPAUNRVLKB2Y5ADU", "length": 331, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "desotoeducationfoundation.com", "title": "Welcome NEW TEACHERS!! \u2013 DeSoto County Education Foundation", "raw_content": "Last Tuesday, DCEF provided breakfast for the new teachers in the district. WOW! What a great group! One of the highlights of the morning (for me) included speaking with them about the foundation and the work we do. Welcome and we are delighted that you have chosen DeSoto County to live and work. We\u2019re going to have a great year!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://devotionaryblog.com/tag/mercy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFSVXAXDSALZIWA2VNQZXRCCW7Q7T7OD", "length": 36750, "nlines": 171, "source_domain": "devotionaryblog.com", "title": "mercy | Devotionary", "raw_content": "For My Own Sake, I Do It\n1 Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. 2 For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.\n3 \u201cThe former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. 4 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, 5 I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, \u2018My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.\u2019\n6 \u201cYou have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known. 7 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, \u2018Behold, I knew them.\u2019 8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.\n9 \u201cFor my name\u2019s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 48:1-11 ESV\nThis opening verses of chapter 48 are not pretty. In them, God is going to pronounce a series of stinging indictments against the people of Judah. In the preceding chapters, God has clearly articulated His unique status as the one true God. Repeatedly He has announced, \u201cI am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me\u201d (Isaiah 46:9 ESV). The false gods the people of Judah had chosen to worship in place of Him were nothing more than lifeless statues made by human hands. They were powerless and unreliable substitutes for the God of creation. And yet, God\u2019s people, chosen by Him, were guilty of abandoning Him for false gods. Sure, they would have said that they still believed in Him, but their actions proved otherwise. And as God stated earlier in the book of Isaiah:\nGod picks up that same theme in the opening verse of chapter 48, stating:\n\u201cHear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 48:1\nDon\u2019t miss the significance of what God is saying here. God is reminding them that they are descendants of Jacob, whom God renamed Israel. And His reference to the waters of Judah appears to be a figurative expression describing the nation\u2019s birth through the tribe of Judah. Like the birth of a child being accompanied by water, the people of Judah were birthed by the divine will of God. And these people, brought into being by the sovereign act of God and according to His mercy and divine favor, were quick to confess Him as their God, but \u201cnot in truth or right.\u201d The NET Bible translates that phrase as, \u201cnot in an honest and just manner.\u201d God is accusing them of blatant hypocrisy. They proudly proclaimed themselves to be children of God and residents of the capital city of Jerusalem. They even boasted of depending upon God. But the truth was quite different. Over the centuries, God had repeatedly told them about things that were going to happen, and every one of these future events had taken place. And God explains that He told them in advance, so that when the prophecies took place as He decreed, they wouldn\u2019t give credit to their false gods. Which He knew they would be prone to do.\nBecause I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, \u2018My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 48:4-5 ESV\nGod had proven Himself reliable time and time again. He had provided them with ample evidence of His omniscience and omnipotence. He was all-knowing and all-powerful and yet, they continued to doubt His word and place their trust in worthless idols. So, now God tells them that He is going to reveal to them new things. This time they won\u2019t be able to claim prior knowledge. He is about to do something never-before seen or spoken of.\n\u201cNow I will tell you new things, secrets you have not yet heard. They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, \u2018We knew that all the time!\u2019\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 48:6-7 NLT\nGod exposes the people of Judah for what they were: Traitors, rebels, and over-confident, hard-headed children who refused to give God the glory and credit He deserved. They had a track-record of unfaithfulness and infidelity that stretched back to the very beginning. And yet, God informs them that He would preserve them. But God makes clear His reason for doing so. It would not be not because they deserved it, but because God was going to protect the integrity of His name. They were guilty of dragging His reputation through the mud. All the way back in the book of Deuteronomy, God informed Moses and the people of Israel why He had chosen to rescue them from their captivity in Egypt.\n\u201cThe Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands. But he does not hesitate to punish and destroy those who reject him. Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.\u201d \u2013 Deuteronomy 7:7-11 NLT\nGod rescued them because He had promised to do so. His integrity depended upon it. God cannot and will not lie. What He says, He does. What He promises, He fulfills. But the people of Judah had broken their commitments to God. They had disobeyed His commands, decrees and regulations \u2013 for generations. And prophet Ezekiel records the words of God spoken in accusation against the people of Israel.\n\u201cTherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them.\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 36:22-23 ESV\nAnd in Isaiah 48, God warns the people of Judah that He is going to refine them, purifying them like a metallurgist does silver \u2013 through intense heat. And He will do so for the sake of His own name.\n\u201cFor my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 48:11 ESV\nWhen God eventually redeems the nation of Judah, there will be only one explanation: He did it. No false god will be able to take credit for it. And the salvation that God brings for His people will get the attention of the nations. They will see His sovereign power revealed in His miraculous redemption of His chosen people, and be amazed.\n\u201cAnd the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 36:23 ESV\nBut there is far more to God\u2019s message of redemption and restoration than the eventual return of the people of Judah to the land of Canaan. That would happen just as God had said. But Ezekiel goes on to state that God has something even more significant in store for His stubborn and stiff-necked people.\n\u201cI will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 36:24-29 ESV\nThe day is coming when God will fulfill this promise. He will do for the people of Israel and Judah what they do not deserve and what they could never have accomplished on their own. It is the essence of redemption that the Redeemer purchase the release of those who had no chance of redeeming themselves. The apostle Peter reminds us, \u201cyou were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot\u201d (1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV). The faithfulness of God as opposed to the faithlessness of the people of God. That\u2019s what these 11 verses stress. The people of Judah did not deserve to be God\u2019s chosen people, but they were. They didn\u2019t deserve His favor and had not earned His redemption. But because God cares about the integrity of His own name, He will do for them all that He has promised to do.\n\u201cFor my own sake, for my own sake, I do it.\u201d\nNowhere to Run or Hide.\nDecember 3, 2018 / kdmiller55\t/ Leave a comment\n11 The oracle concerning Dumah.\nOne is calling to me from Seir,\n\u201cWatchman, what time of the night?\n12 The watchman says:\n\u201cMorning comes, and also the night.\nIf you will inquire, inquire;\n13 The oracle concerning Arabia.\nIn the thickets in Arabia you will lodge,\nO caravans of Dedanites.\n14 To the thirsty bring water;\nmeet the fugitive with bread,\nO inhabitants of the land of Tema.\n15 For they have fled from the swords,\nfrom the bent bow,\nand from the press of battle.\n16 For thus the Lord said to me, \u201cWithin a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. 17 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 21:11-17 ESV\nThis oracle concerns a region the text refers to as Dumah. In Hebrew, that word means \u201csilence\u201d and is most likely a reference to the land of Edom, which is called Seir in the very same verse. The use of the word, Dumah, is appropriate because this oracle is short on information. Unlike the previous oracles, this one is lacking in details and, therefore, silent as to the exact fate of the Edomites. We know that Seir is a reference to the Edomites because it was located in the region that God gave to Esau.\n\u201cI gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess.\u201d \u2013 Joshua 24:4 ESV\nThe Edomites were the descendants of Esau, Jacob\u2019s twin brother. Their land was located to the south of Judah, on the northern border of what is now Saudi Arabia. While the Edomites were close relatives to the Israelites, the two nations had a contentious relationship. When the Israelites were journeying from Egypt to the land of Canaan, they asked permission to pass through the land of Edom but were turned down.\nPlease let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King\u2019s Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.\u201d But Edom said to him, \u201cYou shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you.\u201d And the people of Israel said to him, \u201cWe will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.\u201d But he said, \u201cYou shall not pass through.\u201d And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him. \u2013 Numbers 20:17-21 ESV\nDuring the reign of King David, the Edomites became subjects of Israel, with Israelite garrisons stationed within their land. But after Solomon\u2019s death and the split of the kingdom, the Edomites revolted. They had been a constant source of irritation to the Israelites over the years, and yet God had told Israel, \u201cYou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother\u201d (Deuteronomy 23:7 ESV).\nThe oracle indicates someone from Dumah (Edom) asking the watchman on the wall, \u201cHow much longer until morning? When will the night be over?\u201d (Isaiah 21:11 NLT). The image is that of a land filled with darkness. It indicates a time of distress and the people of Edom want to know when the dawn will break and the light will shine again. The answer the watchman gives them is somewhat cryptic. \u201cMorning is coming, but night will soon return\u201d (Isaiah 21:12 NLT). There would be relief, but it would only be for a momentary respite.\nThe information provided by the watchman was incomplete and unsatisfactory. But he invited the inquirer to come back at a future date and ask again. Perhaps he would be able to shed more light at that time.\nWhen Isaac\u2019s wife, Rebekah, was pregnant with twins, God had told her:\nthe older shall serve the younger.\u201d \u2013 Genesis 25:23 ESV\nTo a certain degree, Esau and his descendants never stopped trying to regain what he believed to be was his rightful place as the firstborn. He had sold his inheritance for a bowl of soup and had always felt like he had been tricked into doing so by his brother. The animosity between these two nations never really faded. And it is interesting to note that, during the time of Jesus\u2019 birth, the Roman-appointed king of the Jews was a man named Herod the Great, who just happened to be an Edomite. He is the one who, upon hearing that Jesus had been born and was the legal heir to David\u2019s throne, ordered the slaughter of all the male babies under two-years-old in Bethlehem, in an attempt to eliminate any threat to his reign.\nThe prophet, Ezekiel, would later provide a word from God outlining an account of Edom\u2019s future fate.\n\u201cAs you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 35:15 ESV\nAs with the other nations mentioned in this series of oracles, Edom is exposed as a poor choice for an ally. God continues to let Judah know that there is no one they can rely on, except Him. While the Edomites were descendants of Isaac and, therefore, Abraham, they were not a reliable source of help in time of need. They were going to have their own problems.\nWhich brings God to the next nation on His divine list: Arabia. This region was south of Edom and comprised what is now Saudi Arabia. But, in spite of their geographic location, they would not be spared from the coming Assyrian invasion. The oracle describes them as fleeing from the swords and bows of the enemy, and seeking refuge in the thickets. Other Arabian tribes are encouraged to come to their aid with bread and water. But God predicts that, within a year, they will fall.\n\u201cWithin a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 21:16 ESV\nAnd their demise will be His doing. The Assyrians will simply be puppets in His hands, performing His divine bidding.\nThe people of Judah could seek aid from Arabia or attempt to find refuge there as refugees. But God was letting them know that this would be an unwise and non-beneficial decision. When the judgment of God came, there would be no place to run or hide. There would be no nation strong enough to stay the hand of God. There would be no ally powerful enough to thwart the will of God. So, the best decision the people of Judah could make was to repent and to return to God, begging His forgiveness and appealing to His grace and mercy, \u201cfor the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken\u201d (Isaiah 21:17 ESV).\nb)1 Ah, land of whirring wings\nto Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts. \u2013 Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV\nCush isn\u2019t exactly a household name for most of us. If asked to locate it on a world map, we might not know what region of the globe to begin our search. But because this next oracle is directed at the land of Cush and all of the preceding oracles have had connections with nations who had direct ties to the people of Judah, we can assume Cush was in close proximity to the promised land.\nIn the book of Genesis, we have the record of God\u2019s destruction of the world through a global flood. Noah and his family, including his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were the only ones to survive God\u2019s judgment on the world. According to Genesis 10:6, Ham became the father of Cush. One of the sons born to Cush was a man named Nimrod. Interestingly, the Genesis account only provides a history of this one son of Cush.\nCush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, \u201cLike Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.\u201d) The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah. \u2013 Genesis 10:8-12 NLT\nThere are some names that should jump out at us in this passage: Babel, Shinar, Assyria, and Nineveh. Of course, Babel is where mankind attempted to disobey God\u2019s command to spread across the earth and populate it. Instead, they decided to erect a tower that would reach to the heavens. In reality, they wanted to build their own reputation as a great and mighty people. But God confused their languages and they dispersed. But Babel would later become the region known as Babylon.\nMany scholars believe Shinar to be a reference to the land of Sumer, where the Sumerians lived. This region was located in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq. The Sumerians eventually built the city of Ur, which was the hometown of Abraham. Of course, Assyria is more familiar to most of us. It was a great nation that occupied an area that included what is now Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Their capital city was Ninevah.\nSo, we can see that the descendants of Cush has a long and less-than-friendly history with the people of God. But in Isaiah\u2019s day, the Cushites resided in the area south of Egypt. Some believe that they were actually Ethiopians. Isaiah describes them as \u201ca nation tall and smooth\u2026a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide\u2026 (Isaiah 18:2 ESV). The 1st-Century Jewish historian, Josephus, records, \u201cFor of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Cush; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Cushites\u201d (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews).\nIn Isaiah\u2019s day, the land of Cush would have been the end of the world. It was about as far from the land of Judah as one could imagine. And yet, God directs Isaiah to deliver an oracle against this distant nation. Why? Because Judah, facing the prospect of an attack by a combined force made up of Syrians and Israelites, was considering forming their own alliances. In other words, they were looking for aid in their moment of desperation. And the Cushites, along with the Egyptians, would have been logical options for the people of Judah to consider.\nBut God has a warning for the people of Cush. In fact, His oracle includes all the nations of the earth.\nyou who dwell on the earth\u2026 \u2013 Isaiah 18:3 ESV\nRather than using the Cushites to save the people of Judah, God commissions them to take a message to the nations of the earth. He wants them to warn these nations that judgment is coming.\nWhen a trumpet is blown, hear! \u2013 Isaiah 18:3 ESV\nThere will be signal for battle and no one will miss it. When that day comes, the nations are to take notice and prepare for the worst. And God warns:\nlike a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 18:4 ESV\nThere will be no panic on God\u2019s part. There is almost a feeling of nonchalance in this statement, as if God simply looks down and knows it is time to act. And the next verse describes the actions of a farmer pruning His crops.\nand the spreading branches he lops off and clears away. \u2013 Isaiah 18:5 ESV\nBut God\u2019s pruning of the nations would appear premature, before they had time to fully produce fruit. In a sense, He would nip in the bud their plans for world domination. He would prune the fruit of their conquests and desires for global subjugation.\nAnd the results of God\u2019s judgment will be devastating.\nThey will all be left for the birds of the hills\nand the wild animals;\nthe birds will eat them during the summer,\nand all the wild animals will eat them during the winter. \u2013 Isaiah 18:6 NLT\nThe book of Revelation speaks of a coming day of judgment that is eerily similar in tone.\nThen I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, \u201cCome, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.\u201d \u2013 Revelation 19:17-18 ESV\nThere is a coming day of judgment for all mankind. God will deal righteously and justly with the rebellious nations once and for all time. He will bring an end to sin. He will destroy the pride and arrogance of man, revealing Himself as the one and only God of the universe. And, later on in this book, Isaiah reveals something else that God will do in that day. It will be an act of mercy and grace. It will be a sign of God\u2019s love and His desire to redeem a remnant from throughout the nations.\n\u201cFor I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 66:18-19 ESV\nThey shall declare my glory among the nations. God will send His people to the far ends of the earth, even beyond the borders of Cush, in order that all people mighty hear of His glory, goodness and grace.\nThe Righteous Judge and King.\n1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,\nfrom Sela, by way of the desert,\nmake your shade like night\n4 let the outcasts of Moab\nbe a shelter to them\n5 then a throne will be established in steadfast love,\n6 We have heard of the pride of Moab\u2014\nof his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;\nlet everyone wail.\nfor the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.\nand the vine of Sibmah;\n9 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer\nfor over your summer fruit and your harvest\n10 And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field,\nand in the vineyards no songs are sung,\nno treader treads out wine in the presses;\n11 Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,\n12 And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.\n13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, \u201cIn three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 16:1-14 ESV\nChapter 16 continues God\u2019s oracle concerning the Moabite kingdom. And, in reading this section of the oracle, it is important to consider how much, if any, of God\u2019s words, have been fulfilled or remain to be fulfilled. It is clear that God has already warned them of a day when they would suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of some outside force. The cities of Ar and Kir would be laid waste in a single night. The temple to their false god, located in Dibon, would be destroyed, and the people would be left in a state of mourning.\nBut now, God speaks of a day when the Moabites will send tribute to the king of Judah, in the form of a lamb. The refugees from Moab, shaking with fear and desperate for aid, will beg the king of Judah to provide them with shelter.\n\u201cGive counsel;\nlet the outcasts of Moab\nfrom the destroyer.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 16:3-4 ESV\nThe oracle speaks of a time \u201cWhen the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land\u201d (Isaiah 16:4 ESV). While that aspect of the prophecy could have been fulfilled sometime in the past, the next verse suggests that it remains yet to be fulfilled. The oracle speaks of a king and a throne.\n\u2026then a throne will be established in steadfast love,\nand is swift to do righteousness. \u2013 Isaiah 16:5 ESV\nThis prophetic promise speaks of a very specific king, one who will be a descendant of David and rule with love, faithfulness, justice, and righteousness. This ties into an earlier promise revealed in chapter nine.\nYou have multiplied the nation;\nFor the yoke of his burden,\nFor every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult\nThis passage speaks of the millennial kingdom of Jesus Christ when He will rule from the throne of David in the city of Jerusalem for a period of 1,000 years. This will not take place until the end of the seven-year period of Tribulation when God will bring His judgments upon the earth. But when the time of the Great Tribulation is complete, Jesus will return and establish His kingdom on earth. That can be the only fulfillment of the oracle found in chapter 16 of Isaiah. And Isaiah spoke of that day all the way back in chapter two.\nneither shall they learn war anymore. \u2013 Isaiah 2:2-4 ESV\nMoab will be among the nations in that day, that flock to the land of Israel, seeking to worship Jesus Christ and God Almighty. But long before that day takes place, God warns the Moabites that their coming destruction will be due to their excessive pride.\nWe have heard about Moab\u2019s pride,\ntheir great arrogance,\ntheir boasting, pride, and excess.\nBut their boastful claims are empty! \u2013 Isaiah 16:6 NET\nThe oracle pictures utter devastation. Their pride would be replaced with humiliation and their joy with sorrow. All that they had put their trust in will have been destroyed. Their fields will lay barren. Their vines will no longer produce grapes. And, in their devastated state, the Moabites will continue to seek the aid of their false gods.\nThe people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines,\nbut it will do them no good.\nThey will cry to the gods in their temples,\nbut no one will be able to save them. \u2013 Isaiah 16:12 NLT\nTheir idols will prove no match for God Almighty. But in the midst of all the judgment, God will reveal His heart for the people of Moab.\nMy heart\u2019s cry for Moab is like a lament on a harp.\nI am filled with anguish for Kir-hareseth. \u2013 Isaiah 16:11 NLT\nGod does not find some kind of perverse joy in His judgment of the wicked. The prophet, Ezekiel, records God\u2019s sentiments in His own words.\n\u201cDo you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 18:23 ESV\nBut, because He is righteous and holy, He must punish those who reject Him as God. He cannot turn a blind eye to sin. He cannot simply tolerate the rebellion of His own creation. And, much of what God does to the nations by way of judgment was intended to wake up His own chosen people, Israel. He wanted them to know that they to would suffer a similar fate, if they did not repent and return to Him.\n\u201cAs surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 33:11 NLT\nThe judgment of God was coming. In fact, within three years time, the Moabites would be overwhelmed and destroyed. And their fall should have been a wakeup call to the nation of Judah. There was no reason to hope and trust in nations because they would fail and fall. There was no sense in continuing to rebel against God because His judgment was inevitable and inescapable.\nBut God, in His grace and mercy, reveals that a remnant of the Moabites would remain. And it will be the future descendants of those survivors of God\u2019s judgment who one day will flock to the city of Jerusalem and worship the right King of Israel, Jesus Christ, the Messiah.\n1 Then the Lord said to me, \u201cTake a large tablet and write on it in common characters, \u2018Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.\u2019 2 And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.\u201d\n3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, \u201cCall his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 4 for before the boy knows how to cry \u2018My father\u2019 or \u2018My mother,\u2019 the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.\u201d\n5 The Lord spoke to me again: 6 \u201cBecause this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.\u201d\n9 Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered;\nfor God is with us. \u2013 Isaiah 8:1-10 ESV\nIf you recall, in the previous chapter, Isaiah told King Ahaz that God was going to give him a sign.\nTherefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. \u2013 Isaiah 7:14 ESV\nNow, as we open chapter 10, God gives Isaiah a rather bizarre set of instructions. He was to inscribe on a clay table the name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, which roughly translates, \u201cspeeding to the plunder, hurrying to the spoil.\u201d The act of inscribing this name on the tablet was intended serve as a prophetic pronouncement of what was to take place. And God had Isaiah seek two men to attest to the validity of the document\u2019s content and date. Then we\u2019re told that Isaiah had sexual relations with \u201cthe prophetess.\u201d We are not told who this woman was, but the phrase, \u201cI went to\u2026\u201d conveys the idea of drawing near to someone or somthing. In this case, Isaiah drew near for the purpose of sexual relations. And it appears as a euphemism several other places in Scripture for the first sexual encounter between a husband and his new wife. So, it would appear that Isaiah married this unnamed prophetess and she became pregnant with a child.\nAnd God commanded Isaiah to name his new son, Maher-shalal-hash-baz. But it appears that, upon the birth of their son, Isaiah\u2019s wife had named the boy, Immanuel, which means, \u201cGod with us.\u201d But God had clearly told Isaiah to use the rather strange name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz. It is interesting to note the difference in meaning between these two names. One communicates a promise of God\u2019s intimate and pervasive presence and protection. The other describes powerlessness at the hands of an enemy and the resulting state of being plundered. In a way, the people of Judah had the mistaken notion that, because they were the chosen people of God, He would be with them and protect them. But they had forsaken Him. And faced with the threat of the military alliance between Israel and Syria, they had chosen to put their trust in Assyria, not God.\nBut God warns that, before Maher-shalal-hash-baz was old enought to speak his first words, Syria and Israel would be conquered by the Assyrians. And the book of 2 Kings records for us exactly what happened.\n27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. 28 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.\n29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth\u2013maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria. \u2013 2 Kings15:27-29 ESV\nGod was going to punish the nation of Israel. But the people of Judah would not escape the judgment of God. Because of his alliance with Assyria, Ahaz saw the fall of Israel as a good thing. It seemed to justify his decision to make the alliance in the first place. His plan had worked to perfection. But this alliance would prove to be ill-fated.\nAnd God makes it clear that the entire nation of Judah was guilty. From Ahaz on down, the people of Judah were guilty of unfaithfulness. They were worshiping false gods and placing their hope and trust in the strength of the Assyrian army. So, God accuses them of rejecting \u201cthe waters of Shiloah that flow gently\u201d (Isaiah 8:5 ESV). The Shiloah was a gently flowing stream that carried fresh water from the spring of Gihon into the walls of Jerusalem. It was unimpressive in its size, but faithful in its provision of clean, drinkable water. It had always been there for them.\nYet, when the Syrians and Israelites had fallen before Assyria, the people of Judah had rejoiced. They were glad. Their allies had saved the day and destroyed the threat that had been looming over the heads of the people of Judah. But God had bad news. In place of His gently flowing stream, they would experience the devastating impact of the fast-moving waters of the Euphrates River, a symbol for the Assyrians. The very \u201criver\u201d in which they had placed their trust would overflow its banks and inundate their land.\n\u201cAnd it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 8:7-8 ESV\nAnd notice the use of the name, \u201cImmanuel.\u201d In spite of the dire predictions found in these verses, God informs His people that He will be with them. So, the name given to the baby by his mother was correct. But so was the name given by Isaiah. There would be plundering and devastation, but also the consistent and persistent presence of God.\nThe prophecy takes a dramatic turn, with God speaking a word of warning against the nations. He turns His attention from Judah to the pagan nations who surround them, including the Assyrians.\n\u201cYou will be broken, O nations;\nyou will be shattered!\nPay attention, all you distant lands of the earth!\nGet ready for battle, and you will be shattered!\n10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted!\nIssue your orders, but they will not be executed!\nFor God is with us!\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 8:9-10 NLT\nGod was going to use the Assyrians to punish His people. In His holiness and righteousness, He could not simply overlook their unfaithfulness. Their sin deserved judgment. But as the author of Hebrews reminds us, God disciplines those whom He loves.\nThe psalmist echoes that sentiment.\nI know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous,\nand that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. \u2013 Psalm 119:75 ESV\nGod was going to punish Judah, but He would also deal with those nations which played a role in their punishment. He would avenge His people. He would wage war against the nations who, like Assyria, brought destruction and devastation to the people of God.\nAnd God makes it perfectly clear that, in spite of all that would happen, He would be with the people of Judah. \u201cGod is with us.\u201d They would one day recognize His all-powerful hand and all-pervasive presence. For the time being, it was going to be difficult. Their sins were going to bring His judgment. But His love and mercy would show up at just the right time. He would eventually avenge them and restore them. 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It\u2019s an old practice, the \u201cpreacher embellishment,\u201d which is often achieved through anecdotal stories, with the preacher as the hero and central figure who overcomes obstacles. The moral: If you work as hard and pray as hard as he does, then you too can have such inspiring victories. But the problem with a lot of these stories, routinely told from the pulpit, is that they are rehashed folktales crammed with untruths. One might call them \u201cdramatizations,\u201d but it\u2019s more than that. Especially in the case of Boston area reverend Jeffrey Brown, whose recent TED Talk, now with more than half-a-million views as of this writing, merged times, places, and characters into a History Channel version of the so-called Boston Miracle.\nMany have attempted to take credit for said Boston Miracle, the magical term for major drops in violent crime in the early \u201890s, and since that time they\u2019ve been attempting to capitalize on an unattributable success. Nevertheless, the events of that era are typically credited to the TenPoint Coalition and Rev. Eugene Rivers, the latter labeled \u201cSavior of the Streets\u201d by Newsweek. Brown, who worked alongside Rivers in their crime-fighting heyday, was also widely acknowledged. But while scores of preachers and police have openly claimed ownership, several unsung heroes who put work into reform have been underheralded; namely: Minister Don Muhammad and several other brothers from the Nation of Islam Mosque #11, and rap artists like Ray \u201cBenzino\u201d Scott and Antonio \u201cTwice Thou\u201d Ennis, formerly of The Almighty RSO and Made Men, who were behind the genius hip-hop project \u201cWiseGuys\u201d that brought previously feuding \u201c\u2018hoods\u201d together for an album and tours. The latter made a significant dent in violence by introducing previously beefing crews to the music industry, and by offering a chance to find common ground while working toward a unified purpose.\nFor those of us who lived through these times, it has always seemed like the Boston Miracle is really a collective romanticized fantasy devised by a select group of folks who are eager to take credit. Back then I lived off of Humboldt Avenue, exactly where I live now. From the \u201880s to today, these preachers have claimed to hit the streets so hard, but I have yet to see them in person. What block are you from? Have you seen preachers who engage young people in the afternoon? How about at night? Late night? I\u2019m not claiming no such case exists; I\u2019m just saying that even Bigfoot and UFOs have YouTube videos. But on to the reverend\u2019s TED Talk \u2026\nLet\u2019s start with the church that Brown pastored for more than 20 years, from 1988 to 2009. Union Baptist is located at 874 Main Street in Cambridge, close to the Newtowne Court housing projects to which the reverend refers in his talk. In reality, it\u2019s all nestled near the killing fields of MIT, a far cry from developments like Orchard Park, Heath Street, Franklin Field, and Franklin Hill across the river in Boston. Brown speaks about Cambridge in infamous tones, and conflates happenings there with Crack Era violence elsewhere; for example, whereas Boston had 116 murders in 1990 alone, there were 94 homicides in Cambridge between 1980 and 2013.\nJesse \u201cJesse-Jess\u201d McKie\nOf all the dramatizations, one part of the story especially got under my skin. At one point in his tale, Brown references the murder of Jesse \u201cJesse-Jess\u201d McKie, who happened to be a friend of mine. Jesse was killed in January of 1990, and back then I felt as though I could have somehow stopped the tragedy if I had been there, since I also knew two of the guys from Boston who were later convicted of killing him. (At the time, it was common for Roxbury kids, myself included, to go to Cambridge and rob easy \u201cvics,\u201d or victims.) On this occasion, though Jesse-Jess was involved in hip-hop and was known as a \u201ccool white boy,\u201d these Boston guys wanted his leather jacket. He refused to give it up, was stabbed, and died.\nIn his TED Talk, Rev. Brown implies that Jesse\u2019s dying steps were made towards his church\u2014a final attempt to get help in the midst of the jungle. I don\u2019t know the truth. Like the reverend, I wasn\u2019t there. But I do think that his making Union Baptist out to be the central figure in the story is disrespectful to the lives ruined that evening\u2014not only my \u201ccool white boy\u201d friend Jesse-Jess, but also my friends on the other side of the knife, one of whom wound up with a lengthy prison sentence, and the other of whom is doing life.\nBrown left Union Baptist in 2009 to join Rivers at the TenPoint Coalition. At the time, the Boston Globe noted that while \u201cthe organization was widely hailed for its role in the so-called Boston Miracle of reduced youth violence in the 1990s, TenPoint has since struggled with financial challenges and disputes among its founders.\u201d Such problems persisted through Brown\u2019s sudden departure from the organization in 2013, on which occasion the Globe wrote that the organization \u201csuffers fund-raising problems, inadequate staffing, and stymied efforts to move TenPoint to a higher level.\u201d\nA lot has happened in the time since. Rev. Rivers went on to found the National TenPoint Coalition, while both he and Brown took their show on the road in an attempt to reap credit for the Boston Miracle, and to secure funding for programs and paychecks for speaking gigs. This as the organization they have touted endlessly fell apart, and as funders walked away from TenPoint. None of that matters, as Rev. Brown continues to position himself as an expert in anti-violence initiatives.\nAt the end of the day, it\u2019s a classic hustle to get paid off of something that happened 25 years ago. In that sense, you can consider Brown\u2019s TED appearance as part embellishment, and part funding request. Lucky for him, the clicks and views are adding up, probably along with his speaking fees, as viewers believe every word Brown is saying. For those who may have missed the message, the reverend sent an email to his followers:\nAfter watching my TED Talk (and thank you so much for your responses!), so many of you have asked the question, \u201cwhat can I do to help?\u201d I am happy to announce the first national program of my RECAP (Rebuilding Every Community Around Peace) Group. Its called the National Season of Peace campaign, and it is designed to build community strength and relationships, build partnerships, and seek a cease-fire in 7 cities across the United States \u2026\nIf you live in any of the cities committed to the Season of Peace, you can volunteer \u2026 I also ask that you support RECAP financially. It is my life\u2019s work and purpose. Over 25 years of seeing the impossible become possible has convinced me that it is time to press forward. Please join me and be part of the change that is to come. God is with us \u2026\nJamarhl Crawford is a community activist and the publisher of the Blackstonian. A version of this column appeared on blackstonian.com.\nJAMARHL CRAWFORD\nJamarhl is an activist, MC, poet, and Publisher / Editor of @Blackstonian\n@jamarhlakauno\nLatest posts by JAMARHL CRAWFORD (see all)\nINSANE CLOWN POLI - October 22, 2017\nGUEST OP-ED: WALSH ADMINISTRATION PLAYS THE SAME OLD RACE CONVERSATION GAME - December 14, 2016\nSPIN MASTERS: JEFF ROSS ROAST COOKS THE FACTS - September 28, 2016\nJEFF TALK: THE FABULIST MIRACLE OF REV. BROWN\u2019S TED SERMON - July 6, 2015\nFiled Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: 1990s, Antonio Ennis, Benzino, Bill Clinton, Boston, Boston Miracle, BPD, Cambridge, Jeffrey Brown, National Season of Peace, Police, Rev. 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Both bills would have created and funded a new coastal energy impact assistance program, amended and funded the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), funded the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program and the Historic Preservation Fund, increased funding for wildlife conservation, funded land restoration and easement programs, and funded the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Program.1 The SCR version would also have funded additional programs to protect natural and cultural resources.\nCreator: Zinn, Jeffrey A. & Corn, M. Lynne\nEnvironmental Protection Issues in the 109th Congress\nDescription: Environmental protection concerns span a wide variety of issues, including clear air, water quality, chemical security, and environmental aspects of other major issue areas, such as energy, transportation, disaster relief and cleanup, and defense. This report provides an overview of key environmental issues receiving attention in the 109th Congress. 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She attended Indiana University School of Music and earned a Science degree in Music. Ms. Mastrogiacomo did her clinical internship with the Psychoeducational Program in Georgia. She has worked in a private psychiatric hospital for children and has been in private practice serving the CDC\u2019s childcare center and in several ecumenical centers. She was the Director of 2 childcare centers and has raised her own sons. She was one of 4 Music Therapists in the Clayton County Public Schools serving students with special needs and supervising interns from all over the US. Her husband is on staff at the DeKalb School of the Arts where she coaches students. She plays the cello with the Southern Crescent Symphony which plays out of Spivey Hall at Clayton State University, where she is a mentor to students. In 2013 Ms. M. presented at the National \u201cStudents Who are Wired Differently\u201d conference, where Temple Grandin was a keynote. Last summer Ms. M. presented at the State IDEAs Conference on St. Simons Island. Recently Ms. M has been selected to be a regional trainer for Life Space Crisis Intervention. She is the PBIS Coach for GNETS South Metro, Ash Street. She is the Music Therapist for GNETS South Metro serving students in grades kindergarten though twelfth grade and beyond who have varied and multiple disabilities including Severe Emotional Behavior Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder.\nMs.Mastrogiacomo, Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy\nThis presentation will let participants experience Precision Teaching of the School Wide Positive Behavior Supports, using a Music Therapy treatment modality. Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional. 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Next steps for the project will be discussed.\nHuddleston, Lillie; O'Hara, Allison; Kelly, Breanna; and Crimmins, Daniel, \"Positive Behavior and Visual Supports for Young Children with Autism\" (2015). Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference. 33.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eml_fac_pubs/24/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:B4PRLEHKVDMJ3CGP4CUXPMULOUPWTQ6L", "length": 616, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.liberty.edu", "title": "\"Flora: Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart\" by Brenda A. Ayres", "raw_content": "Flora: Mrs. J.E.B. 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Faculty Publications and Presentations. 24.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 115.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalrewards.ihg.com/it/ebooks/details/1247240-goes-to-plus-infinity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YB7LPVS5B6WX3NXUHITZVPNYRFXWAQOA", "length": 1003, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "digitalrewards.ihg.com", "title": "IHG\u00ae Rewards Club - eBook - Goes to Plus Infinity", "raw_content": "Editore: Birkhauser Basel Data di rilascio: 2012-12-06\nMany physical problems are meaningfully formulated in a cylindrical domain. When the size of the cylinder goes to infinity, the solutions, under certain symmetry conditions, are expected to be identical in every cross-section of the domain. The proof of this, however, is sometimes difficult and almost never given in the literature. The present book partially fills this gap by providing proofs of t\u2026 he asymptotic behaviour of solutions to various important cases of linear and nonlinear problems in the theory of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.The book is a valuable resource for graduates and researchers in applied mathematics and for engineers. Many results presented here are original and have not been published elsewhere. 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You can reserve your seats now but during the race you won\u2019t need it-you will be standing the entire time. SuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuPerrrrrrrrrCroooooooooooosssssssssssss!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disciplelife.blog/2017/10/01/sunday-01-10-17-travelling-back-to-belgium/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DMK3X52LXM22Y5OVITMOVXSMBGWZAOU6", "length": 1576, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "disciplelife.blog", "title": "Sunday 01.10.17, Travelling back to Belgium \u2013 Disciple Life \u2013 Living the MIRACULOUS life: you can have it too!!!", "raw_content": "Posted on October 1, 2017 October 4, 2017 by Tim & Anni\nThere\u2019s a lot of stories of things that have happened during the PTS in Denmark, but about those I\u2019ll write later on (when I have more time) a blog post. This is just one quick story.\nHi! We made it to Belgium (yesterday evening) and were picked up by my parents. In the meanwhile we encountered an open person (no pain) who had to sleep in the airport of Schiphol (NL). We had a Very good conversation (he was a baptist) and he would check out the TLR-video when he came home.\nWhen we finally arrived in Gent (BE) we still had to wait on my parents so I asked four African woman who were also standing at the \u201ckiss&ride\u201d spot if they had any pain. 2 were in pain.\u2026 One was miraculous healed by the first prayer the second one didn\u2019t want prayer because she didn\u2019t believe in \u201cthis kind of stuff\u201d. I told her that it didn\u2019t matter if she believed or not, she just had to let me pray for her and she would see. She was ok with that and let me pray for her back, pain level 9. After the first prayer she was confused and said that although she didn\u2019t believed she felt the difference. (Pain level had dropped to a 2). Then I asked her if her legs were the same length and I let her sit down (legs were not the same length) to let her leg grow out. Her leg grow out and I gave her a card of TLR-movie and told her to watch it. They were all happy and assured me to watch it!\nYes! Happily we could now step in the car of my dad who just arrived!\nOne thought on \u201cSunday 01.10.17, Travelling back to Belgium\u201d\nWhat a trip, Tim)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://domesticpreparedness.com/resilience/page7", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YHB5F2RSLNOFSZPEQ3BGFFXQY5677KWY", "length": 4542, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "domesticpreparedness.com", "title": "Resilience | Domestic Preparedness", "raw_content": "Major Themes From the 2016 Aspen Security Forum\nby Erik S. Gaull - Wed, September 14, 2016\nThe 2016 Aspen Security Forum was held from July 27 to July 30 in Aspen, Colorado. Over the past seven years, the forum, hosted by the Aspen Institute, has earned a well-deserved reputation as the most important venue for thought leadership in the homeland and national security arenas, attracting distinguished speakers and high-level attendees from around the world. This year's forum was no exception.\nChallenges of Evolving Threats & Changing Expectations\nby Robert Maloney - Tue, August 23, 2016\nThe \"things that keep me up at night\" are much more numerous and remarkably different than emergency management 15 years ago. There is no time to rest. The nature of emergencies has changed, complicated by the fact that new threats of intentional incidents using chemical, biological, and other weapons must be considered in addition to accidental or natural incidents.\nSocial Impact Bonds & Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction\nby Justin Snair & Megan Reeve Snair - Wed, July 27, 2016\nNational policy and practice tend to focus efforts and resources on disaster response and recovery, rather than on disaster risk reduction. Understanding disaster risks and incentivizing sustainable risk reduction efforts could help reduce overall disaster costs and even save lives.\nIntegration of Public Health Into the Whole Community\nby Kathleen E. Goodwin & Leana S. Wen - Wed, July 20, 2016\nThe Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) is the oldest, continuously operating health department in the country - founded in 1793 to respond to a local yellow fever outbreak. BCHD is committed to the idea that health is critical to a community's ability to thrive and thus deserves to be incorporated in decision making in almost every sector.\nToday's Decisions Drive Tomorrow's Power Grid\nby J. Michael Barrett - Tue, July 12, 2016\nFor more than a century, the U.S. electrical power grid has dramatically improved the health, safety, and economic productivity of hundreds of millions of people. Although this grid stands as an ingenious accomplishment, experts fear that, as the 21st century progresses, the grid's ability to meet evolving U.S. energy needs may falter without dramatic modernization.\nSpace Weather & Electrical Grid - GPS, the Weakest Link\nby Dana Goward - Wed, June 08, 2016\nAmong the many important, yet weak, satellite signals that can be disrupted by space weather, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is undoubtedly the most important and the weakest. Two recent public discussions have highlighted the challenges this poses for the national electrical grid, both today and going forward.\nFlorida - Doing More With Volunteers\nby Freddy Zelaya & Romeo Lavarias - Wed, May 11, 2016\nToday's disasters are more frequent and more complex than ever before. Although governments at all levels have risen to the occasion by training personnel and securing equipment and resources, there will always be a lack of manpower. This gap has been addressed using volunteers, who - despite having the best of intentions to help those in need - often lack the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities.\nEmergency Services/Critical Infrastructure Analysis Methodology\nby David Flanigan & Steven Taylor - Wed, April 27, 2016\nThe nation's critical infrastructure - loosely defined as the fundamental facilities, structures, and systems necessary for the basic functioning of daily life - is comprised of diverse components controlled and managed by a mixture of private sector and government organizations with varying levels of responsibility. Understanding the interconnectedness between sectors is key.\nWater Sector Resilience & Redundancy\nby Steven E. Bieber & Pamela P. Kenel - Wed, April 20, 2016\nWith a rich history of coordinated water supply planning, the National Capital Region has been conducting regional workshops and creating new study results to enhance its ability to address the region's water needs during a crisis. The resulting information will spur further discussion and assessment of drinking water system alternatives for the region.\nLockdown at Washington College\nby Rodrigo (Roddy) Moscoso - Tue, April 19, 2016\nWhen the decision was made to cancel classes on Monday, 16 November 2015, the week before the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday break, Public Safety Director Gerald (Jerry) Roderick drew upon his many years of experience and planning on how to deal with a possible threat to Washington College campus in Chestertown, Maryland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://downloads.info/windows/internet/browsers/webskape-browser.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZDSYSDUVSRIFPTTYJVR7BZJNADGWRS3", "length": 599, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "downloads.info", "title": "Download Webskape Browser for free", "raw_content": "Download Webskape Browser\nWebskape Browser enables you to navigate in the web and protect you computer at the same time. It includes powerful features that allow you to detect and block ad wares that may be attempting to connect with your system. Also, it lets you create a list in which you add the sites that are permitted in your PC and block others that you consider shouldn\u2019t be loaded. It is perfect for offices where the same computer is accessed by several users. In addition to that, you will be able to protect the modifications in the settings with a password. Compatible with Windows OS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/01/dublin-dr-pepper-plant-closed-texas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ODI66E26RMSNCUSV3ZPUH3DPN7PIUS3S", "length": 4831, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "drinks.seriouseats.com", "title": "Soda: Texas Loses Dublin Dr Pepper | Serious Eats", "raw_content": "Soda: Texas Loses Dublin Dr Pepper\nI'd never heard of Dublin Dr Pepper until my first visit to Austin, when I saw it touted at restaurants and taquerias and food trucks. Mexican Coke, sure, but Dublin Dr Pepper? Sounded about as likely as a \"Houston Guinness.\" I'd spent a good deal of time in Ireland and certainly didn't recall ever seeing a Dr Pepper. Or a Dr Pepper plant. (Maybe out at St James's Gate next to that beer factory? ... No? Hmm.) I played along as if I understood what my Texan friends were talking about... and soon enough got the bright idea to check the bottle. Ah: Dublin, Texas.\nAs just about any drinker of soda in the area could tell you, Dublin Dr Pepper is the cane-sugar equivalent of the version you'll find in the rest of the country. Its fans like it for many of the same reasons people like Pepsi Throwback or Mexican Coke, often preferred for their lack of corn syrup and, in the case of the latter, old-fashioned glass bottles. But in parts of Texas, it's a matter of regional pride, as well.\nWhich made it all the more painful when the Dublin Dr Pepper plant was shut down last week.\n\"Texans are upset about the loss of Dublin Dr Pepper because we see it as a loss of Texas culture and identity as much as a loss of the wonderful old-fashioned cane sugar-sweetened soda itself,\" Texas food authority Robb Walsh told us.\nThe relationship between Dr Pepper Snapple, the company operating that soda brand, and the Dublin plant had long been a complicated one. The Dublin plant is in fact the oldest one in the country, dating to 1891; it's a small operation with less than forty employees. \"The bottling line equipment looked like an industrial antique,\" wrote Walsh in 2008 after visiting the plant. \"Huge bags of Imperial Pure Cane Sugar had to be carried up to the second floor to be mixed with the base.\"\nIt's a landmark in the city, whose population numbers less than 4,000 but drew 100,000 visitors every year to see the plant and attached soda shop, according to the Associated Press.\nDublin Dr Pepper at the soda fountain of Franklin's Barbecue in Austin. [Photo: Carey Jones]\nDr Pepper Snapple had restricted this small plant to distribution only within a several-county radius of the Central Texas town, while permitting them to sell the soda with Imperial cane sugar rather than the corn syrup used otherwise. That soda strayed beyond those boundaries, however; fans and soda obsessives could order online or over the phone, and the soda turned up in stores far beyond its intended limits. It often fetched a higher price than its corn syrup cousins, and \"bootleggers\" resold Dublin Dr Pepper to out-of-bounds shops. (You have to love the idea of illicit soda pop.)\nBut in 2011, Dr Pepper Snapple sued the Dublin plant for violating the terms of their agreement, and last Wednesday, announced that they would be acquiring the Dublin bottler's assets and distribution rights, effectively putting an end to the tradition of \"Dublin Dr Pepper\". The company will now make a sugar-sweetened version in the model of Pepsi or Mountain Dew \"Throwback\"; according to a press release from the company, the cane sugar version \"will still be bottled and canned in distinct, nostalgic packaging.\"\nIt will not, however, pay any tribute to Dublin, the town so long associated with it.\nTo Walsh, and to many other fans of the soda, that concession is not enough. \"Why the corporate headquarters of Dr Pepper/Snapple found it necessary to close down the oldest Dr Pepper bottler in Texas and a living museum of their own history is baffling to anyone who respects our food culture,\" he wrote on his website.\nIs a single soda worth the uproar that this has caused? The few times I've tried Dublin Dr Pepper, I certainly noticed (and appreciated) the full, rounded sweetness of the soda, a noticeable difference from the normal version. The little bottles are pretty irresistible, and as Kenji once noted in a Mexican Coke taste test, the experience of drinking from a glass bottle is one that predisposes many people to like a soda. And then there's the nostalgia factor\u2014both from the taste of cane sugar and from the packaging. Something wholesome and reminiscent of childhood, the idea of an ice-cold drink on a hot summer's day, an eight-ounce bottle just refreshing enough, a treat that still leaves you with an appetite for dinner. Beyond the simple glass-bottle-against-the-lips feeling, there's the real or imagined connection to soda's history. And that's very much recalled in the packaging of Dublin Dr Pepper, proudly bearing the name of the soda's oldest producer, now wiped from the bottle and, many feel, wiped from memory.\nAny fans of Dublin Dr Pepper out there? Is the promise of a new cane sugar-sweetened version enough for you? Or does the whole scenario leave a bad taste in your mouth?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 20814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drjamesmcardle.com/2015/06/17/happy-birthday-family-of-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXIGAZ3XWV73A5SZ42HUX45XWCAOWBOK", "length": 11398, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "drjamesmcardle.com", "title": "Happy Anniversary, Family of Man | James McArdle: Camera/Eye", "raw_content": "June 17, 2015 \u00b7 by jamesmmcardle\t\u00b7 in Autobiographical, Critique, Exhibition Review, Memory.\t\u00b7\nThis year, 2015, is an apt moment to remember an important exhibition, first seen 60 years ago, and still going\u2026\nThe book of the show.\nRecently, I have been reading John Williams, the Sydney photographer and critic. Like him, and many photographers of my generation and older, I was first inspired by the Family of Man exhibition. As you may know, for Edward Steichen, this Museum of Modern Art exhibition represented the \u201cculmination of his career\u201d; the exhibition was an extraordinary feat, containing 503 photos from 68 countries which represented 273 photographers (163 Americans and 70 European photographers constituting the majority) selected from almost 2 million pictures submitted by famous and unknown photographers. After its initial showing at The Museum of Modern Art in 1955 from January 24 to May 8 in New York, the exhibition toured the world for eight years, making stops in thirty-seven countries on six continents.\nMore than 9 million people viewed the exhibit which most believe is still the record for a photography show. Now archived and displayed at Clervaux Castle in Luxembourg, the country in which Edward Steichen was born, in 1879, in Bivange, the show also lives on in book form which has sold over 4 million copies.\nI never saw the exhibition itself; I was 4 years old and living in London in 1955, and still there when the show came to Melbourne to be shown I believe, from scant reference, in a car showroom, and in Sydney at David Jones, where John Williams encountered it. So my experience is of the book, which sat on our shelf alongside another, also formative for me. \u2018The World Is Young\u2019 connects to \u2018The Family\u2019 through its authors, Wayne and Joan Miller, who helped Steichen wittle away\nat the pile of 2 million photographs selecting for his exhibition. Incidentally, the Millers feature in Steichen\u2019s show. \u2018The World is Young\u2019 represents an application of the post-war American optimism that inspires \u2018The Family of Man\u2019 to the Millers\u2019 own family in an exercise to which Wayne Miller devoted a year photographing his own family of four children growing up at home and going to school in California. As a 13 year old, after being handed down my father\u2019s Nikon S3 rangefinder camera, and in imitation of the Millers, it became my goal to document the children of my neighbourhood in the same way, but my teenage shyness meant the project was intermittent, then short-lived. That is why I pored through these two books in awe at the sheer adventure of photography.\nNot so sweet\u2026W. Eugene Smith image from \u2018The Family of Man\u2019\nThe Family of Man has had, I believe, an unfair share of critics. The earliest to complain were photographers who felt that Steichen had submerged individual talent and set back the acceptance of photography as art. Walker Evans, in a pot/kettle pique, complained of its \u201chuman familyhood [and] bogus heartfeeling\u201d (Walker Evans, \u201cRobert Frank,\u201d US Camera 1958 (New York: US Camera Publishing Corporation, 1957), 90.).\nPhoebe Lou Adams opined:\nIf Mr. Steichen\u2019s well-intentioned spell doesn\u2019t work, it can only be because he has been so intent on [Mankind\u2019s] physical similarities that\u2026he has utterly forgotten that a family quarrel can be as fierce as any other kind.\nPhoebe Lou Adams, \u201cThrough a Lens Darkly.\u201d Atlantic Monthly, no. 195 (April 1955), p. 72.\nRoland Barthes is the most frequently cited early commentator. After seeing the exhibition in Paris in 1956, he declared it to be a product of \u201cclassic humanism,\u201d a collection of photographs in which everyone lives and \u201cdies everywhere in the same way.\u201d \u201c[T]o reproduce death or birth tells us, literally, nothing,\u201d (Roland Barthes, \u201cLa grande famille des hommes\u201d (\u201cThe Great Family of Man\u201d), in Mythologies (Paris: \u00c9ditions du Seuil, 1957), 173\u201376; English translation edition: Roland Barthes, \u201cThe Great Family of Man,\u201d Mythologies, translated by Annette Lavers (St Albans, Hertfordshire: Picador, 1976), 100-102.)\nLater, Journalist Russell Lynes in 1973 wrote that Family of Man was;\na vast photo-essay, a literary formula basically, with much of the emotional and visual quality provided by sheer bigness of the blow-ups and its rather sententious message sharpened by juxtaposition of opposites \u2014 wheat-fields and landscapes of boulders, peasants and patricians, a sort of \u2018look at all these nice folks in all these strange places who belong to this family.\u2019\n(Russell Lynes, Good Old Modern: An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Atheneum, 1973), 325.)\nFloor plan of The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955. Popular Photography, May 1955, p.148\nIt is quite right that the show was blockbuster in format, scope and distribution. But any examination of the layout will reveal that far from herding its audience through like cattle, the MoMA exhibition, and also its overseas manifestations where space allowed, opened onto internal chambers from where the audience could decide to enter one room or another, following their inclination.\nPaul Rudolph\u2019s exhibition design deserved to be imitated, as it was the progeny of a lineage of such shows by Steichen for which he borrowed from Bauhaus design, department store visual merchandising, and advertising. Architect Rudolph has described his design as \u201ctelling a story.\u201d\nCritics who have attacked the show as a species of American mythology (Roland Barthes), or as an attempt to paper over problems of race and class (Christopher Phillips, John Berger, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau), and even an act of aesthetic colonialism (Allan Sekula) are also justified when one knows that the exhibition was sponsored by the United States Information Agency and the Ford Motor Company. In a letter to Henry Ford II seeking funding, museum director Ren\u00e9 d\u2019Harnoncourt set Steichen\u2019s new project within a framework out-lined in the Ford Foundation\u2019s annual report of 1950. In a memo proposing the exhibition that would ultimately become The Family of Man, but which was then called Image of America, he conjured an exhibition that would demonstrate America\u2019s economic prowess, social progress, and democratic ideals; it would also make visible its flaws (\u201cThe existence of race prejudice and political corruption, for example, will not be denied but will be pre- sented as a challenge in the continuing fight for the fullest realization of American ideals,\u201d wrote d\u2019Harnoncourt. D\u2019Harnoncourt, draft of \u201cLetter to Henry Ford, II,\u201d)\nEzra Stoller, installation view of the exhibition The Family of Man.\nChampions of the exhibition take account of the political and cultural context in which the show appeared, including Eric J. Sandeen in \u2018Picturing an Exhibition: \u201cThe Family of Man\u201d and 1950s America\u2019 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995) and Blake Stimson, \u2018The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation\u2019 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006). I take heart at the way Fred Turner in his reforming essay \u2018The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America\u2019 (2012) (from which I quote in this post) disposes of several decades\u2019 worth of critical disdain to illuminate what really was a deeply democratic, even utopian, impulse that drove the show and much of the early audience response to it, and an antiauthoritarian politic behind its design and the modes of attention it solicited from visitors.\nI reflect on Steichen\u2019s own declaration:\n\u201cAlthough I had presented war in all its grimness in three exhibitions, I had failed to accomplish my mission. I had not incited people into taking open and united action against war itself. . . . What was wrong? I came to the conclusion that I had been working from a negative approach, that what was needed was a positive statement on what a wonderful thing life was, how marvelous people were, and, above all, how alike people were in all parts of the world.\u201d\nEdward Steichen, \u201cThe Museum of Modern Art and \u2018The Family of Man,\u2019\u201d in A Life in Photography (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963), chap. 13.\nIn preparing the show, Steichen reached out to friends such as Dorothea Lange, and they in turn promoted the project among their colleagues. In her 1953 recruiting letter headlined \u201cA Summons to Photographers All Over the World,\u201d for instance, Lange told her peers that the exhibition would:\nshow Man to Man across the world. Here we hope to reveal by visual images Man\u2019s dreams and aspirations, his strength, his despair under evil. If photography can bring these things to life, this exhibition will be created in a spirit of passionate and devoted faith in Man. Nothing short of that will do.\nIn a draft of this letter, Lange listed thirty-three terms that she thought might inspire her colleagues. They still serve as a convenient map of the conceptual field within which she and Steichen were working:\nAncesters [sic]\nDescendents [sic]\nChristopher Phillips, \u201cThe Judgment Seat of Photography,\u201d October, no. 22 (1982): 27\u201363;\nJohn Berger, About Looking (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980);\nAbigail Solomon-Godeau, \u201c\u2018The Family of Man\u2019: Den Humanismus f\u00fcr ein postmodernes Zeitalter aufpolieren\u201d (\u201c\u2018The Family of Man\u2019: Refurbishing Humanism for a Postmodern Age\u201d), in \u201cThe Family of Man,\u201d 1955\u20132001: Humanismus und Postmoderne; eine Revision von Edward Steichens Fotoausstellung (\u201cThe Family of Man,\u201d 1955\u20132001: Humanism and Postmodernism; a Reappraisal of the Photo Exhibition by Edward Steichen), ed. Jean Back and Viktoria Schmidt- Linsenhoff (Marburg, Germany: Jonas, 2004), 28\u201355;\nAllan Sekula, \u201cThe Traffic in Photographs,\u201d Art Journal 41, no. 1 (1981): 15\u201321.\nFor a summary and analysis of critical responses to the show to 1999, see Monique Berlier, \u201cThe Family of Man: Readings of an Exhibition,\u201d in Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography, ed. Bonnie Brennan and Hanno Hardt (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 206\u201341.\nKristen Gresh, \u2018The European Roots of The Family of Man\u2019, The History of Photography Special Issue on the Family of Man, vol. 29, no.4, Winter 2005, pp. 331\u201343, and Sandeen, \u2018The International Reception of The Family of Man\u2019 in the same issue, pp. 344\u201354.\nSchmidt-Linsenhoff, \u2018Denied Images: The Family of Man and the Shoa\u2019, in The Family of Man, 1955\u20132001, pp. 81\u201399;\nTimm Starl, \u2018Eternal Man: Karl Pawek and the Weltausstellungen der Photographie\u2019, in The Family of Man, 1955 \u2013 2001, pp. 123\u201339;\nJ\u00f6rn Glasenapp, Die Deutsche Nachkriegsfotografie: Eine Mentalita \u0308tsgeschichte in Bildern (Wilhelm Fink: Munich, 2008).\nChristina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945\u20131961 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2003), p. 188.\nSarah E. James. A Post-Fascist Family of Man? Cold War Humanism, Democracy and Photography in Germany\nNOTE: Much of the text for this post is an edited version of contributions I have made to the Wikipedia entry on \u201cThe Family of Man\u201d exhibition.\nTags: Allan Sekula, Christina Klein, Christopher Phillips, curatorship, documentary, Eric J. Sandeen, exhibition design, Ezra Stoller, Family of Man, Family photographs, John Williams, Kristen Gresh, Museum of Modern Art, Mythologies, narrative, Paul Rudolph, Phoebe Lou Adams, Photography as propaganda, Roland Barthes, Russell Lynes, Sarah E. James, Steichen, The World is Young, Wayne Miller\n\u2190 In loving memory of Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015).\nA Photo a Day\u2026 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 19739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://drunkeng.blogspot.com/2010/01/g1-gets-eclair-update-in-2010.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:AFTLQQKU6TKO326LZRSNT7FG3OFVCDDB", "length": 759, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "drunkeng.blogspot.com", "title": "drunkengoat.com: G1 Gets Eclair Update in 2010", "raw_content": "It has been confirmed that T-Mobile is releasing an Eclair update for the T-Mobile G1. The update will be at least Android 2.0 but more likely Android 2.0.1 as both versions have already been prepared as OTA updates. Both the Android 2.0 and the Android 2.0.1 are in\nOTA update for Eclair 2.0 or 2.01. Earlier this year, the community stated that the first gen phone would not be getting anything past Donut 1.6 because the G1 could not handle 2.0. The problem with the phone is that the system partition is only about 70MB, which is 99% used up with 1.5 and 1.6. The modding community has some experimental releases out now for the G1 and other early devices, but will soon have native G1 Eclair source code.\nPosted by Aaron Myers at Sunday, January 10, 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dvdverdict.com/star-trek-original-series-volume-22-dvd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:O3USYWPJ3EDSOFDVIQVZBWGDTUMF4Q2L", "length": 6992, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dvdverdict.com", "title": "Star Trek: The Original Series, Volume 22 (DVD) > DVD Verdict: A Class Action Approach to Film Criticism", "raw_content": "DVD Verdict last reviewed a Star Trek episode disc back in November 2000, when I looked at Volume 17. Now we jump to Volume 22, which is still set in the original series\u2019 second season. In that review, I remarked that the second season contained several episodes that transplanted genres common to television or movies of the 1960s to the outer space milieu of Star Trek. One of the episodes I mentioned was \u201cBread and Circuses,\u201d one of the episodes on this disc. The other episode is a straightforward \u201cwhodunit,\u201d complicated by Spock\u2019s relationship with his estranged father.\nIn \u201cBread and Circuses,\u201d the Enterprise crew finds the remains of the S.S. Beagle, a merchant ship reported missing six years previously. They trace the debris to a nearby planet, which is roughly as advanced as 20th century Earth. When they monitor the television broadcasts, they discover that it is very similar to Earth, except that it is as if the Roman Empire extended to the present day, complete with slavery and gladiatorial games. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the surface and are met by a group of runaway slaves. They learn from the slaves that the First Citizen is a man named Merikus, very similar to the name of the captain of the Beagle, Merik. Clumsy boobs that they are, our intrepid heroes are captured by Roman legionnaires (carrying submachine guns, no less) who escort them to Merik. Kirk confronts Merik over his abandonment of the Prime Directive (was this the first time it was mentioned? I can\u2019t recall ever hearing about it before), but the man is unwilling to listen. Will Kirk be forced to watch his friends die in the arena, or will he be able to save the day?\nIn \u201cJourney to Babel,\u201d the Enterprise is host to dignitaries traveling to a planet to discuss the fate of a world that wants to join the United Federation of Planets. Among the diplomats are the Vulcan Sarek and his human wife, Amanda \u2014 Spock\u2019s parents. It seems Sarek was displeased that Spock chose to join the Federation rather than study science on Vulcan. En route, a rival diplomat is murdered, and the circumstantial evidence points at Sarek. However, he suffers from a heart condition and needs immediate surgery to fix the problem. Compounding the Enterprise\u2019s problems is an unusual ship following them that is receiving transmissions from inside the Enterprise\u2026and Kirk is attacked by another alien, putting him in sick bay. This turn of events puts Spock in command, but he is face with an ethical dilemma: leave his post to help save his father\u2019s life, or follow his sense of duty.\nI\u2019ll say right up front: this volume of the Star Trek series is for completist fans only. Neither episode offers anything to the casual viewer or to the diehard fan who is not determined to collect the entire series.\nI know that I saw both these episodes in my younger days, but I had no lasting memories of either. \u201cBread and Circuses\u201d is much more interesting than the contrived idea seems to be. However, it\u2019s a harbinger of the worst elements of the newer Trek series like The Next Generation or Voyager: it relies on technobabble to solve the situation. Scotty reconfigures some sort of beam from the ship to disrupt something on the surface that allows him to transport away Kirk and company. But, why was this necessary? They were trying to avoid breaking the Prime Directive, but the trio still \u201cbeamed up\u201d in full sight of several people. Why waste the time in between? It\u2019s not like the equivalent of a 20th century culture had multiphasic anti-tachyon shielding that would have hindered the transporters. \u201cJourney to Babel\u201d is much easier to take seriously, because it presents its characters with emotional situations and ethical dilemmas that they must work through. It\u2019s also interesting for the introduction of Mark Lenard as Sarek, a role he would recreate in three of the theatrical films, two episodes of The Next Generation, and even once on the fabled animated series. Trekkies will also remember that he played a Romulan in the Original Series first season episode \u201cBalance of Terror.\u201d\nEach of the Star Trek episodes have been digitally remastered, and they look as good as a television show from the 1960s can hope to look. The image is sharp and detailed with excellent color fidelity and no bleeding. The only problems with the image are inherent to the source material. The picture overall is a little grainy, particularly noticeable in special effect model shots, and can have a few blips caused by dust on the negative. The audio has been remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1. Keeping with its mono roots, sound is mostly restricted to the center channel. Directional effects are used for starship fly-bys during the opening credits, and infrequently throughout the episodes. The purist in me would rather have seen the mono tracks cleaned up and utilized, rather than an unnecessary remix. The only extra is the \u201cpreview trailer\u201d for each episode.\nWhen I was a teenager (maybe about ten years ago, just so you don\u2019t think I\u2019m older than I am), I used to watch Star Trek religiously in syndication. I watched The Next Generation for its first four or five seasons, up until about the point where Deep Space Nine was launched. I hated it, and by that point TNG started to lose its originality\u2026I mean, the first season or so it was merely remaking episodes of the old series. Then for a while it did stuff that was fresh and original. Then it began remaking its own episodes. It got boring. I lost interest until about a year ago when I caught an episode of Voyager in syndication. I don\u2019t want to sound overly dramatic, but it was like I was magically interested in Trek again. I\u2019ve now seen just about every episode of Voyager in syndication, and I built my schedule around Wednesday nights so I could see the new episodes. I was sad to see the series end, especially since the finale didn\u2019t give any closure to the series. I can\u2019t wait to see what they do with the new series, Enterprise. I eat up all the scoops I can find about the tenth movie\u2026and what\u2019s that I\u2019m hearing about Leonard Nimoy\u2019s involvement? Oh my god, I\u2019m a Trekkie again!\nSo what exactly did that have to do with this disc? Not much. I think I was trying to make a point. Gene Roddenberry started something special with Star Trek. It might seem cheesy and laughable now, but if it weren\u2019t for Kirk and Spock and the rest of the crew, we wouldn\u2019t have Picard or Data or Sisko or Janeway or Seven of Nine or any of the other characters who have come hence. We wouldn\u2019t have The Wrath of Khan or First Contact or Voyager. The sci-fi world would be a lot smaller. It would be illogical to like Trek as a whole and not appreciate the first series on some level. At least the Enterprise didn\u2019t have a deflector dish that could be reconfigured to emit whatever sort of pulse would save the day.\nAs I said, this particular volume is for completists Trekkies only. 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Married?", "raw_content": "Kelly Evans is one of the recognizable faces on CNBC who appears as a co-anchor on Closing Bell. She is an American Journalist and reporter who honed her skills at The Wall Street Journal.\nKelly Evans played lacrosse as a high school student\nBorn on July 17, 1985, in Lexington, Virginia was raised near the Blue Ridge Mountains by her father, David Evans. Kelly Evans completed her high school from Rockbridge High School, where she earned eight letters in lacrosse, cross country, and track. Following her achievement, she was placed 8th at the Cross-country state championship in her sophomore year in high school.\nEvans graduated from the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia with great praise and a bachelor\u2019s degree in business journalism. She was also a recipient of George Washington Honor Scholarship.\nKelly Evans launched her career from The Wall Street Journal\nKelly Evans kick-started her career as a Journalist covering finance and real estate at The Wall Street Journal. She wrote columns such as Ahead of the Tapes, Heard on the Street over the years for The Wall Street Journal.\nKelly joined CNBC in May 2012 and was compared to former CNBC host Erin Burnett, who left CNBC to host a news program on CNN. Kelly was initially hired at CNBC Europe\u2019s London, England headquarters.\nShe was a moderator for 2012 Republican Primary debate which was held in Myrtle Beach, South California and also moderated James Carville versus Ann Coulter debate as a part of the 25th annual mock convention held in her university. It was in 2013 when Kelly joined CNBC\u2019s New Jersey headquarters.\nNever married Kelly Evans was once rumored to have a secret husband\nKelly is a low key person, as news about her personal life hasn\u2019t escaped into the tabloids. She is supposedly single as she has failed to mention details on her current boyfriend or husband.\nHowever, back in 2014, a random person on tweeted Kelly Evans which fueled the rumor that she had married and had children with her unrevealed husband.\nName Kelly Evans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/ski-bums/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:HVVWTS4WADLHYQPHCU47OEHYYANO7MG7", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ecotonemagazine.org", "title": "Ski Bums \u2013 Ecotone", "raw_content": "If you had nothing else to do in Kitzb\u00fchel, you could always start a rumor. \u201cDid you hear? The price\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 142.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edu.mediafluent.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SPLKRUFNTB6BJLMTW636GAXOTQFH5EGB", "length": 194, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "edu.mediafluent.com", "title": "Home | Smart Courses", "raw_content": "Continuing education from the world's leading experts streamed on video.\n\u201cRepetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it\nthe architect of accomplishment.\u201d -Zig Ziglar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eewc.com/black-white-bible-black-blue-wife/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NWI5E3ZGAM56WEFTFAARQNEP3V4SXT5P", "length": 6575, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "eewc.com", "title": "Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife | Christian Feminism Today", "raw_content": "Home Book Reviews Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife\nby Ruth A. Tucker, Ph.D.\nPaperback and Kindle, 206 pages, annotated\nReviewed by Anna Redsand, Ph.D.\nBy the time I had read about two-thirds of Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife, I had mentioned it to several people in discussions about gender equality, domestic abuse, and evangelical theology. Ruth Tucker, author of nineteen other books on theological topics and a former professor at several seminaries and Bible colleges, writes in this book for the first time her own story of violence at the hands of her pastor ex-husband. She interweaves her personal experiences and those of other women with research-based analysis and biblical hermeneutics, contrasting the male headship model with a model of mutuality in heterosexual marriage within a Christian, mostly evangelical context.\nThe stories of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse within Tucker\u2019s marriage are horrific, despite her statement that she has left out some of the more graphic details. At times, she inserts journal entries from the nineteen years of her marriage leading up to her escape with her thirteen-year-old son. Tales of the domestic abuse of other women include rape, wife-spanking, and marriages that ended in murder.\nTucker\u2019s research includes a study from her small denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, that uncovered the fact that in this evangelical church, one in eight women had experienced physical abuse or neglect, while one in five had endured emotional abuse. Twenty-eight percent of respondents had been subjected to at least one of those three types of abuse (p. 95).\nHistorically, men have been permitted by law to abuse their wives under the aegis of privacy in the home. Tucker points out that, today, this argument carries \u201cfar less weight\u2014except [italics mine] among religious subcultures, including some conservative evangelicals\u201d (p. 104). She also reports on abuse in cultures outside the United States or with roots outside the U.S. in a chapter titled \u201cStanding Against Cultural Misogyny.\u201d\nWhat caused me to mention the book in diverse settings with diverse people is how religious subcultures that condone violence against women base their positions on their scriptures or holy writings, whether Christian or otherwise. Tucker offers a balanced perspective when she says she would never deny that the Christian headship model, also referred to as the complementarian model, is a valid way to interpret the Bible. However, she states unequivocally that she does \u201cnot believe it is the most faithful interpretation, particularly in light of the central themes of Scripture\u201d (p. 23). Tucker\u2019s ex-husband repeatedly insisted, as he threw her to the floor or against kitchen cabinets, that she acknowledge him as head of the household.\nTucker\u2019s hermeneutics are thoughtful and thought provoking. She questions why a husband would beat and terrorize his wife, and answers, regarding her ex-husband, \u201chis perspective on male supremacy and on female submission was front and center\u201d (p. 22). She exegetes the most often referred to verses on headship from Ephesians 5, pointing out that the phrase, \u201c\u2018wives, to your own husbands\u2019 has no verb in the original Greek\u201d and thus \u201ccannot be read without the topic sentence of mutual submission\u201d (p. 46). In fact, considering the number of words addressed to husbands, she suggests that the greater burden of submission is placed on the husband (p. 47).\nThe author also addresses, within a modern cultural context, the curses laid on Adam and Eve as they are ordered out of Eden that are often used to support male headship. She says that complementarians have assumed that the curse placed on Eve and her descendants is for all time. Adam\u2019s curse has been alleviated by modern farming methods. The corollary is that modern legal statutes have relieved the gender inequality of Eve\u2019s curse (pp. 43\u201344). The implication is that our current context may influence how we interpret the passages in Genesis. As Tucker points out so powerfully, \u201cthe most profound way we exegete Scripture is through our lives\u201d (p. 26).\nThe book, because it is about how Scripture is used to bolster male superiority and justify domestic violence in heterosexual marriage, naturally does not address issues of domestic violence in same-sex relationships. Nevertheless, there were a couple of instances of heteronormativity not required by the author\u2019s focus. Tucker asserts that \u201cstrong and wise fatherhood is critical for healthy families\u201d (p. 66), which negates both her own successful rearing of a healthy son as a single mother and families with two lesbian parents. She also claims, \u201cMore than anything else we are either male or female\u201d (p. 71), thereby denying the existence of gender-fluid and intersex people.\nBlack and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife is, however, an important call to biblically supported mutuality in heterosexual marriage. It is replete with challenges to interpretations that have long supported the male headship model. The final chapter presents an exemplar of mutuality in marriage based on Tucker\u2019s second marriage, which is presented not as perfect but as a down-to-earth example of love like that between Christ and the Church. Further, in a pointed afterword, Tucker poses a series of meaty questions\u2014among them, \u201cWho determines if [a husband\u2019s] headship is actually comparable to the headship of Christ? The husband himself? Is he the referee, the umpire, in his own ball game?\u201d \u201cHow do boys and single men prepare to rule a wife?\u201d \u201cHow do girls and young women prepare for submitting to their husbands?\u201d \u201cHow should boys and men respond to female \u2018headship\u2019 of teachers, corporate managers, a police officer, a wife who is a police chief?\u201d These questions go unanswered but are by no means presented as rhetorical and offer food for thought and discussion.\n\u00a9 2016 by Anna Redsand and Christian Feminism Today\nhttp://www.annaredsand.com/\nAnna Redsand was raised by fundamentalist missionaries in the Navajo Nation. She is the author of the spiritual journey memoir To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond. Her essays have appeared in several literary journals, and \u201cNaturalization\u201d was a notable in Best American Essays 2014. Her biography Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living won four national and international awards. She lives in Albuquerque, NM.\nTrudie Barreras December 1, 2016 at 6:34 pm\nAn extremely well thought out and presented analysis. I concur 100%!\nVerbal Violence Is No Joke!\n72-27 Blog January 30, 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 14232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ehlert-blockfloeten.de/l_en/rottenburgh.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:H6LLQE54Y4Y7BRIXYOCON7WZDG4NHSBC", "length": 825, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ehlert-blockfloeten.de", "title": "ehlert-blockfloeten.de", "raw_content": "Initially from Salzburg, Austria, the members of the Rottenburgh family were renowned as musicians and composers as well as makers of woodwind and string instruments.\nThe models for my instruments originate from Joannes Hyacinthus Rottenburgh and are both to be found in the Museum Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin The alto recorder is tonally very well balanced and usable for all purposes with a perfect response in all registers. If required the instrument can be made to original pitch (approx. 406Hz.) and with two rings of fossil mammoth ivory.\nThe voice flute (Rottenburgh) is one of the few existing originals that can easily be played over more than two octaves. Its bore and measurements are comparable to a low pitched descant recorder. The finger holes are extremely easy to reach and it has a beautiful sound.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elarranaga.cblegacy.com/real-estate/community/college-park", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OGNSLGM57KUTGXXZXNJHV7CFUALSCGY3", "length": 321, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "elarranaga.cblegacy.com", "title": "College Park Real Estate Listings", "raw_content": "The College Park Real Estate market currently has 1 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $100K - $200K. With the median list price for the College Park area being $189,000 and the median price per square foot of $115 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\n3000 Fred Daugherty", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 151.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elderlawohio.org/east-sparta-elder-law-attorney-east-sparta-oh-44626-1st-meeting-no-charge-7180", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MLJQDNKJPNPT4Y3CABTWT4CFJ5TWWC5Z", "length": 10832, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "elderlawohio.org", "title": "East Sparta Elder Law Attorney East Sparta OH 44626 - 1st Meeting No Charge", "raw_content": "East Sparta Elder Law Attorney East Sparta OH 44626 - 1st Meeting No Charge\nEast Sparta elder law attorney East Sparta OH 44626\nEast Sparta elder law attorney East Sparta Ohio 44626 who is not only experienced in negotiating settlements and dealing with lawsuits, but also has experience in the specific laws that impact the elderly and their households. Not all attorneys are proficient at handling the complexities of elder law problems, which frequently reform and need customized knowledge. You'll likewise desire an attorney who has the special mix of regard and empathy find out here now needed to deal with you or your loved one. Asking the important questions at an initial consultation can help you in choosing the best legal representation for your requirements.\nThey are specialized attorneys that focus on elder legislation. They are proficient as well as experts in the one-of-a-kind demands of elderly people, especially when it comes to their health, aging as well as capability. They are experienced on the psychological as well as physical difficulties related to aging and also they recognize the best ways to address their lawful needs.\nDue to the fact that senior people are already weak as well as frail due discover more to old age, they often can not handle their demands such as retirement planning, estate preparation, tax obligation issues, Medicare, Social Security benefits, taking care of their home and also a lot more. Nobody is much more adept and also educated in these requirements than elder law lawyers. They are the very best person when it comes to the ins and outs of elder law regulation. They are well educated in the basic legal solutions and also they have broad associations to networks of experts who serve the elderly populace.\nThe term \"elder law\" was first coined in the late 90's to explain any kind of law referring to senior citizens and their legal problems. This might include health-care, proficiency, age discrimination, estate preparation, Social Security survivors' benefits and lots of other subjects that often impact anyone who is beyond retirement age. If you are over 65 and have concerns about any of these concerns, be sure you seek advice from a lawyer experienced in elder law.\nThis is an area of elder law that senior individuals can benefit; it is the United States health program that is focused on assisting households with low incomes and resources. Privileges for people with impairment and other long-term care problems - it is really crucial because elder people are more susceptible to illness and other health issues that could cost some severe amount of assets.\nA legal guardianship has to do with the duties of an individual selected by a court to manage incompetent elderly and this might cover their well-being and security. The guardian can pick investing the senior person's money, where the senior person will live, and medical care.\nEstate planning using, living trusts, powers of attorney for monetary i was reading this and health care choices, and wills are the main papers that constitute a person's estate strategy. These written directions assist the senior person both during their life time and afterwards. A well drafted estate strategy can also avoid having to develop a conservatorship if the senior ends up being not able to make sound decisions. These documents approve all of the legal authority needed to carry on the senior's affairs - without needing to seek out court involvement.\nA power of attorney is used to pass on lawful authority to another individual. The principal (the individual approving the power of attorney) gives the representative, additionally called the attorney-in-fact, the authority to earn legal choices on his/her behalf, consisting of taking care of bank accounts, property, as well as other possessions.\nVarious other ways in which a power of attorney could be mistreated consist of transforming recipient classifications on life insurance or annuities, as well as opening savings account with joint title or pay on death stipulations for the agent.\nThe creation of a power of attorney could be tested under the premises of absence of capability or that the development did not comply with proper formalities. If a validly granted power of attorney has been abused by the agent, grounds might exist to sue the representative for the return of embezzled building or for monetary problems. If click here now the principal is still living at the time of the activity, the principal can sue the agent. In lots of scenarios, the power of attorney misuse is part of a wider pattern of older misuse. If the principal has died by the time the power of attorney misuse has actually been uncovered, the principal's estate or the designated beneficiaries of the property might have the ability to file a claim against the representative for violation of fiduciary responsibility, tortious disturbance with estate preparation, or a number of various other causes of action.\nDue to the possibility for misuse with a power of attorney, their usage needs to be limited. Numerous individuals developing a power of attorney will leave the tool with the drafting to an elder law lawyer.\nA revocable trust is a beneficial part of the available options to a conservatorship. The elderly's assets that are held by the trust can be handled by a successor trustee - an individual appointed by the elder to sensibly manage real estate assets if the elder ends up being emotionally unable to function.\nIf these papers were properly prepared, well in advance of the senior citizen's absence of capacity, then they ought to more info avoid the requirement for court hearings. Nonetheless, difficulties occur when ones attempt to have the elder carry out such authorized records when their emotional faculties continuously be in doubt.\nPowers of attorney for financial administration along with health-care choices, along with a revocable trust, can often work as legitimate options to the need of a conservatorship of the estate. An efficient lawful agent or attorney could help in creating these records, as long as the senior's mental capacity is intact.\nA Living Will is a composed and signed legal document that offers both healthcare service providers and members of the family with directions relating to how you would like to continue in the event that you require long-term healthcare, are identified with a terminal disease or fall into a long-term vegetative state. Living Wills state your choices regarding what type of resuscitation or artificial life preservation efforts ought to be made on your behalf. By preparing ahead and preparing a Living Will with an elder law attorney, you reserve the right to make decisions that legally must be honored by anyone entrusted with your care.\nWills can also serve another crucial purpose, one that is not related to financial affairs at all. They can serve to designate a legal guardian for any minor children or incompetent grownups that have actually been in your custody and care. Having a legal representative draft your Last Will and Testament to include guardianship clauses can safeguard both children and grownups by having the terms set into a document that is lawfully obligated to be maintained in the event of your death.\nAlthough wills are frequently used as a legal directive for monetary and health affairs, there could be variations to each paper, or use of numerous other documents, that are utilized depending on situational aspects. Hiring elder law attorneys to prepare these papers is a vital service, which guarantees clients that their desires and instructions shall be followed in the event that they are no longer able to make decisions on their own. When it pertains to elder law, attorneys have the knowledge and experience to draft the proper files and papers to keep you, your loved ones and your assets protected.\nSenior financial abuse cases are where financial predators use unnecessary control and coercion to take personal residence and financial assets from elders who have lessened mental capacity. The perpetrators can be anybody, however are usually relatives, caretakers or close friends who have the most access to the elder and are not likely to be challenged by outsiders.\nAn elder law attorney might likewise be needed in any of the following cases, conflicts having to do with Medicaid, aiding with monetary management and healthcare decisions, administration and management of trusts and estates and long-term care preparation for nursing home. They might function as estate planners, tax consultants, accounting professionals, patient's advocate and even social workers. Whatever the situation, you would want to get your loved one an elder law attorney to look after his or her interests in old age.\nThe probate process allows a decedent's estate to be dispersed to loved ones after death. With the appropriate use of trusts and wills, the probate procedure might not be necessary. Nevertheless, if no prior estate planning was accomplished, then it may be necessary to use the local probate court in order to finish the release of possessions.\nNursing home abuse or neglect of an assisted living home resident generally arises from inadequate staffing where there are too many residents and inadequate nursing assistants. Sometimes, this is a conscious policy on the part of the retirement home who puts corporate revenue ahead of client care. Thankfully, there are many legal treatments offered to stop these wrongful acts and to compensate the elderly victim for injuries suffered.\nWhen an elder is no longer able to make sound financial and healthcare choices and no other options are readily available, then a request can be presented to the court to establish a conservatorship and designate somebody to have the legal authority to make such choices. This is an involved process but supplies an option to help an elder who can no longer secure their affairs.\nThere are many organizations that focus on elder law issues. The best elder attorneys are members of a minimum of one of these organizations in order to take advantage of the many advantages of membership, including advocacy and research study opportunities. On the regional level, ask if the law practice is an active member of the local Council on Aging or any comparable groups.\nIf an attorney regularly provides lectures or has speaking engagements on different issues dealing with those 65 or above or is an attorney called upon to educate others through the Bar Association, you can be sure she or he has an in-depth understanding of any concerns dealing with the senior population. Search for East Sparta Ohio elder law attorneys who routinely teach others about elder issues, estate preparation, elder abuse, proficiency problems, and health-care concerns.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 11865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elenathomas.co.uk/2016/11/10/eggs-in-your-socks/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WIXUEW3W5SXI2YL44I5R6JSNI5VUDQKT", "length": 4948, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "elenathomas.co.uk", "title": "Eggs in your socks | Elena Thomas", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Non-Eating of Beetroot as a Political Act\nBusy Women \u2192\nEggs in your socks\nThis has been a long break without posting\u2026\nMuch has happened!\nAnother two performances came and went\u2026\nThe first one was on Sunday afternoon on local radio. I\u2019ve done a couple of spots on local radio before, once just chatting about a community arts project, and once for my Nine Women project, which included performing two songs live, with Dave Sutherland on guitar and mandolin. I don\u2019t mind it, quite like it even, as it is in a small room with a few people. I am unable to see the whites of the eyes of my audience, so can ignore them.\nIan Sutherland has done solo spots with this presenter before, so was more familiar. Andy Jenkins, although a veteran of the open mic nights of Birmingham, was perhaps less so. But anyway, we did it, and I think \u2013 we think \u2013 it went well. I think the songs came across well, there were of course the usual off notes, and missed chords, but these were few, and minor\u2026hur hur\u2026 Musician joke\u2026\nThis is a listen again link, but I don\u2019t know how long our show will be live for\u2026.\nBut what I think did come across was that thing called chemistry. These guys are funny, and clever and we have a good time writing and playing together. Way way way back in the early days of my blog, I had a bit of a rant about artist collaborations, and how, frankly, other artists are a pain in the arse. I expounded the joy of working with musicians instead, and even gave reasons why I thought this to be the case. Over the intervening years however, I might qualify this a little.\nYes, musicians are generally used to playing together, artists as a general rule are more solitary and individual in how the output happens. But\u2026 I have been extremely fortunate in that the first musician I worked with was Dan Whitehouse. Those that know him will recognise that this is a special thing, that I have appreciated more and more as time goes on\u2026. Not every musician works in the way he does.\nI think I have a sort of unspoken formula. The right people to work with aren\u2019t always the \u201cpleasant\u201d people. I am really grumpy in the mornings, and the last thing I want is someone trying to jolly me along. The people I have enjoyed working with are perhaps the quiet and taciturn\u2026 And also people with dry, warped and slightly surreal senses of humour. They don\u2019t allow me to take myself too seriously. They tease, and they are affectionately sarcastic. They are confident in expressing an opinion, and happy to listen to others and consider carefully. The people I like to work with are not necessarily like me, but if we value each other\u2019s worth, that I think is the key. I don\u2019t want arguments, competition, sulking, or egg-shell treading. I want to get on with it. I want to establish a means of troubleshooting before it is necessary, so time isn\u2019t wasted, and I like a set of rules of engagement in a project, or relationship. Everyone has a right to veto if they feel strongly, everyone has a right to persuade if they feel strongly.\nBut a mutual support, and sense of what each person brings is crucial. Andy and Ian have different musical and lyrical strengths, and different personal qualities. They have been very kind and patient and encouraging with me. Over the last year I have performed more, and more confidently, because I know they\u2019ve got me if it all goes pear-shaped.\nTuesday night was my first ever open mic night, at the White Lion in Walsall\u2026 They told me it would be fine, and I trust them. I trusted that they would not have chosen somewhere where I\u2019d be likely to have stuff thrown at me. I trusted that they would choose somewhere where I would be able to sing, and be heard. We sang four songs and it was really good fun, most of the audience were performers, so again, a mutually supportive environment in a not terribly salubrious part of the Black Country!\nLast night, a very exciting thing happened, we got ourselves a percussionist, the wonderful Lloyd McKenzie. What this means though, is that our rehearsal nights can no longer be acoustic. There are times, when Andy and Ian get a bit excited, that I can\u2019t be heard\u2026 With Lloyd added to the mix, I stand absolutely no chance, so I\u2019ll be mic\u2019ed up from here on in. This is actually a good idea, as when I do perform live, it usually takes me a while to get used to how I am going to monitor my voice, and how I\u2019m going to sound\u2026 I think being more familiar with singing into any mic is going to help. Percussion gives us a wider dynamic field. We can play/sing really quietly, but now also, we can drive it along with Lloyd, we now have greater depth of tone, a broader spectrum. I\u2019m very excited to hear how the songs develop with this added dimension\u2026.\n(If you\u2019re wondering about the title, Lloyd tucks a couple of egg shakers down his socks while playing the cajon with his hands\u2026. Of course!)\nEnough words for now\u2026.\nTime for a cup of tea and a piece of lemon shortbread.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 6384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://embedds.com/selecting-the-right-lead-screw-for-linear-motion-application/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q6NSDLZXWRUNRHF7PEU6TB5CDGQSO3I", "length": 3377, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "embedds.com", "title": "Selecting the Right Lead Screw for Linear Motion Application |", "raw_content": "There are many applications of lead screws. Mostly, they are used in linear actuators. In addition to this, lead screws are of different types and sizes. Selecting the right lead screw not only makes the job easier but also ensures high quality and efficiency.\nLinear motion is a movement in a straight path. Linear motion solutions are designed in a way that they take advantage of this type of movement in order to carry out many tasks. The problem arises when it comes to the selection of the right screw for the job. There is a great importance in carrying out a task effectively and efficiently. Therefore, it is good to choose the right type of lead screw for the job. There are factors that a person should consider when selecting a lead screw for a particular task. They include:\nThrust refers to the force required to move the screw as well as its load. Thrust is of two types. The first type of thrust is known as peak thrust, which occurs during acceleration and is experienced for a short time. The other type of thrust is called continuous thrust. This type of thrust is experienced when a system has full linear motion. In order to meet all the requirement of a system, the lead screw diameter should coincide with the amount of thrust requirement. The greater the thrust, the larger the diameter.\nThe speed of the linear motion in a given application is very important. All types of lead screws have a speed known as critical velocity. This speed causes them to vibrate vigorously thereby affecting their functionality. Designers have developed a ratio that shows the velocity at which the lead screw will move based on input rotations per minute (rpm). In applications that require high speed, a large lead screw is used with an aim of reducing the rpm. Therefore, large lead screws have lower potential rpm.\nAccuracy is how closely the lead screw moves the load as per the tolerance level. In applications that require high accuracy, lead screws with high accuracy level. They are usually more expensive as compared to others. However, developers cannot ignore functionality due to high costs of equipment. Therefore, machinists will still use high accurate lead screws regardless of their high costs. In fact, many industrial processes have high tolerances and so calls for high accuracy lead screws.\nRepeatability refers to how closely the lead screw maintains tolerance after a number of movement. Many people confuse accuracy with repeatability. Some types of lead screws such as acme screw and Helix lead are characterized with high repeatability and are widely used because of this feature.\nBacklash refers to the allowance for linear motion given between the nut and the screw without turning them. Backlash reduces accuracy and accelerates wear of parts. Designers are working around the clock to come up with lead screws that have no backlash. One of such lead screws is Helix AAB Axial Anti-Backlash lead screw.\nMany people think that a good combination of linear tool\u2019s motor and controller is the only way to control resolution. However, the right type of lead screw will have an effect on this. Lead screws with smaller diameter achieve high resolution easily as compared to those with large diameters.\nThe above factors are very important when an individual is faced with the dilemma of choosing the lead screw to use in a particular application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://empoweringsteps.ca/research/research-report-2011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:36Z", "digest": "sha1:U2DYNMVTFLYUO7RDNXAPO3J3V6N3726R", "length": 1357, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "empoweringsteps.ca", "title": "Motor Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities | Empowering Steps Movement Therapy", "raw_content": "Home / Research / Motor Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities\nDevelopmental disabilities with associated motor skill impairment are prevalent and increasing in childhood and adolescence. Improvements in motor skills have broad implications for health related quality of life for individuals and for their families. Often, motor skill difficulties occur with multiple other problems, both health-related and also associated with the environmental context in which they occur. Behavioral issues, including low self-esteem are common. Environmental factors like family illness, financial pressures, inadequate school supports and inability to engage in community based recreation and sporting activities may be present. These barriers are interwoven with physical impairments to produce the picture of a complex developmental disability. The identification of efficient, effective motor skills programs and assessment tools with evidence-based research has broad implications for health and wellness policies and for health care costs. A gymnastics\u2013based motor skills program which is part of a community based rehabilitation model is described and compared with other motor therapies. Preliminary evidence for positive outcomes and recommendations for future research are discussed.\nESMT Research Report Final format 2.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/world/research-finally-explains-why-women-seem-to-prefer-jerks-over-nice-guys/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IWTPSMT4HKX4OZQFFERA4F6HJP3BXIKC", "length": 1556, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.dailypakistan.com.pk", "title": "Research finally explains why women seem to prefer jerks over 'nice guys' - Daily Pakistan Global", "raw_content": "Research finally explains why women seem to prefer jerks over \u2018nice guys\u2019\nRecently, a group of researchers conducted a survey on people with the aim to determine their personality traits,then organized a series of dates. After each date, the women was to tell whether or not they wanted to see the guy\nRecently, a group of researchers conducted a survey on people with the aim to determine their personality traits,then organized a series of dates. After each date, the women was to tell whether or not they wanted to see the guy again.\nAccording to the findings, the women were found to be more inclined towards men who had narcissistic personality traits, like being vain and wanting to be the center of attention, than guys who didn\u2019t have those traits.\nBut when researchers controlled for extroverted personality traits, like being self-confident and assertive, that link disappeared.\nResearchers suggest that this indicates that the women\u2019s attraction to the narcissists could be determined by the guys\u2019 outgoingness\u2014not their vanity or self-centeredness.\nNarcissists often tend to make a good first impression because they act outgoing, for example, they take the lead in conversation in an effort to impress people and get attention.\nAccording to researchers, this can make them seem charming when they\u2019re getting to know someone new.\nHowever, another new study from Germany suggests that narcissists become less attractive to people once they\u2019re in a long-term relationship. Over time, they come off as self-centered, entitled, and too competitive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Chapman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IYATR2YF6U2IGCJ5XGHGVJBRCLKAJKKZ", "length": 17760, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "en.m.wikipedia.org", "title": "Piper Chapman - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Piper Elizabeth Chapman is a fictional character (played by Taylor Schilling) and the protagonist of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. She is based on Piper Kerman, author of the non-fiction book Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, upon which the series is based.[1] Schilling was nominated for awards in both comedy and drama categories for this role.\nOrange Is the New Black character\nTaylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in a promotional poster for Orange Is the New Black\n\"I Wasn't Ready\" (1.01)\nCarol Chapman (mother)\nBill Chapman (father)\nCal Chapman (brother)\nCeleste Chapman (grandmother)\nAlex Vause (wife; de facto)\nLarry Bloom (ex-fianc\u00e9)\nBasisEdit\nA Boston-bred Smith College grad, Piper Kerman got involved in a relationship with an international drug smuggler, Catherine Cleary Wolters.[2][1] Chapman's girlfriend in the series, Alex Vause, is based on Wolters, whom Kerman met circa 1991 in Northampton, Massachusetts.[2] Eventually, 24-year-old Kerman flew a suitcase of money from the United States to Belgium for a West African drug lord and was named five years later as part of the drug ring.[1] As part of her plea bargain, she declared that she made three overseas trips on behalf of the drug ring.[3] After breaking up with Wolters, Kerman met Larry Smith and got engaged before being charged by the feds in 1998 and striking a deal. She spent 13 months in a Danbury, Connecticut women's prison, FCI Danbury.[2] Kerman actually had a six-year delay between being sentenced to prison and entering prison in 2004. The show is based on Kerman's 2010 book Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison about her year in a minimum security federal women's prison.[1] Chapman's fiance, Larry Bloom, is based on Smith, Kerman's real life boyfriend and eventual husband.[4]\nSeries creator Jenji Kohan had initially considered casting Katie Holmes in the role, but decided against it as Holmes had too many commitments. Ultimately Kohan cast Taylor Schilling.[5]\nFind sources: \"Piper Chapman\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nTaylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman\nChapman is a 31-year-old White Anglo-Saxon Protestant who is sentenced to 15 months in prison for carrying a bag of drug-money ($50,000) to Belgium for her girlfriend, Alex Vause.[6] Prior to prison, Chapman owned an artisanal bath soap business in Brooklyn. She comes from a wealthy family, and was a debutante as a teenager.[7] She is originally from Connecticut. Chapman is bisexual, and in college was in a relationship with Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), a drug smuggler. 10 years prior to the series' beginning, she carried drug money from Colombia to Belgium with Vause. Eventually, Chapman grew disenchanted with Vause's lifestyle and broke up with her. She then began dating Larry Bloom (Jason Biggs), to whom she got engaged.\nPiper is one of very few emphatically atheist inmates on the show. She responds to a request that she baptise herself by saying that she cannot pretend to believe in a god, saying that while it might make her happier if she believed in a religion, she \"needs it to be true\", and instead looks to science to explain the world. In another episode, when confronted on the subject again, she clarifies that \"I've always thought agnostic was a sort of cop-out... If I had to label it I'd say that I'm a secular humanist.\"\nIn 2018, Schilling stated that while Walter White of Breaking Bad was written with having a rationale for each action, \"Piper's behavior oftentimes feels groundless\" and \"the audience can't quite grab onto Piper's behavior. It seems like it's coming out of nowhere.\"[8]\nChapman is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Prison for Criminal conspiracy and Money laundering;[9] Vause had been arrested and named Chapman as an accomplice in order to reduce her own sentence. On her first day, Chapman gets felt up by guard George \"Pornstache\" Mendez (Pablo Schreiber) and unintentionally offends prison matriarch Red (Kate Mulgrew), who runs the prison cafeteria. Red starves Chapman to make an example of her, and the other inmates are too intimidated to help except for Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba). Nonetheless, Chapman resists Crazy Eyes' subsequent advances, and makes amends with Red by making her lotion to help her back. She befriends Nicky Nichols (Natasha Lyonne), who becomes her confidante and protector. She also discovers Vause is sentenced to the same prison.\nChapman is assigned to the prison electrical workshop and accidentally steals a screwdriver. Her cellmate Miss Claudette (Michelle Hurst) helps her evade the guards' searches. In order to ingratiate herself with the other inmates, Chapman offers to review their appeal letters.\nAlthough Bloom learns that Vause was the informant who gave Chapman up, he does not share this information with her. Chapman then rekindles her relationship with Vause. Meanwhile, Bloom, an aspiring writer, publishes a story about Chapman's incarceration that paints unflattering portraits of her fellow inmates and the prison staff. The article earns Chapman the ire of both the guards and the other prisoners, and puts a severe strain on her already fading relationship with Bloom.\nChapman is elected to the prison council, but finds that the only change she is able to make is to get the track reopened for Janae Watson (Vicky Jeudy) who was put in solitary confinement during the screwdriver incident. Chapman makes an enemy of Tiffany \"Pennsatucky\" Doggett (Taryn Manning), who wanted her spot on the council. Doggett tells inmate counselor Sam Healy (Michael J. Harney) about Chapman and Vause's relationship; Healy punishes her by putting her in solitary confinement and telling Bloom about the affair. Bloom gets back at Chapman by doing an interview on NPR that casts Litchfield in a harsh light, which makes her even more unpopular. During an angry phone call, Bloom reveals that Vause informed on her. Vause asks Chapman to choose between her and Bloom. Chapman chooses Bloom, but Vause breaks them up and spurns Chapman. When Doggett attacks Chapman with a shiv, Chapman finally snaps and beats her to a pulp.[10][11]\nAfter spending a month in solitary confinement, Chapman is flown to Chicago to serve as a witness against the drug kingpin who had been Vause's boss.[12] There, she spends time in a maximum security prison with dangerous inmates who menace her daily.[13] Also in episode 1, \"Thirsty Bird\", we see Chapman as a young girl (Clare Foley) in a flashback, discovering that her father is cheating on her mother. Vause persuades Chapman to commit perjury in order to keep them safe from the drug lord, but ultimately cuts a deal to testify against her former boss in return for early release; she then leaves Chapman to suffer the consequences of her perjured testimony alone. In episode 3, \"Hugs Can Be Deceiving\", we find out that Crazy Eyes had run outside and knocked Chapman unconscious after she had beaten up Doggett at the end of season 1. In episode 6, \"You Also Have a Pizza\", Chapman starts a prison newsletter, and makes a deal with a reporter to investigate the financial goings on at the prison. She eventually uncovers evidence that assistant warden Natalie Figueroa (Alysia Reiner) has been embezzling from the prison.[12] To keep her quiet, Figueroa arranges for Chapman to be transferred to a facility in Virginia. However, when Chapman gives prison administrator Joe Caputo (Nick Sandow) the evidence implicating Figueroa, he cancels the transfer and gives the warden the incriminating information, resulting in Figueroa's resignation.\nChapman gets a furlough to go to her grandmother's funeral. At home in New York City, she realizes that Larry has lost interest in her, and soon learns that he has fallen in love with her best friend, Polly Harper (Maria Dizzia). Chapman is furious at first, but eventually agrees to give them her blessing in return for either of them telling Vause's parole officer that Vause is going to break parole, which will land her back in Litchfield. [14]\nChapman begins a business selling used panties to people outside of Litchfield, enlisting her brother Cal as her middleman. Chapman begins a romantic relationship with an Australian prisoner, Stella. After Stella steals Chapman's money, she plants contraband in Stella's bunk and orchestrates her being sent to the maximum security unit in retaliation the day before Stella's release date.\nChapman continues her panty business but finds herself in competition with a group of Dominicans led by Maria Ruiz. When Chapman aligns herself with a gang of white supremacists and plants contraband in Maria's bunk, Maria retaliates by kidnapping her and having her branded with a swastika.[15]\nCritical commentaryEdit\nAccording to Todd VanDerWerff of Vox Media's Vox.com Chapman was a character with \"tricky contradictions and likability issues\".[16] In reviewing season 1, Matthew Wolfson Slant Magazine describes Chapman as \"a familiar vessel through which to comprehend prison's unfamiliar terrain\".[17] Over the course of the first season, the show becomes less focused on Chapman, according to James Poniewozik of Time.[18] The Boston Globe describes Chapman's assimilation into prison as a display of \"Martha Stewart-like efforts to survive\".[7] At the time of the Golden Globe Award nomination, Entertainment Weekly described Chapman in prison as a woman who was \"totally out of her element\" and said that the role was dichotomous with demands to \"vacillate between being sympathy-worthy and trying fans\u2019 patience with Chapman\u2019s entitlement\".[19] Tom Meltzer of The Guardian wrote \"Chapman's romantic and rebellious re-awakening drives the show, but it is the ensemble that kept us coming back for more\".[20]\nBy season 2, Piper remained a main character of an ensemble cast but not the central character according to IGN's Matt Fowler.[21] Liz Raftery of TV Guide says \"There's a lot going on in Season 2 of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, and very little of it has to do with Piper Chapman\".[22] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone considered that the show's ensemble focus has turned Piper into \"dead weight\" and \"nobody would argue that an early parole for her would hurt the show\".[23] As he reviewed season 2, The Huffington Post Canada entertainment editor Chris Jancelewicz, opined that \"Schilling's deadpan expressions and snap comedic timing help us empathize and grow to love her\" as her character became more understandable.[24] Alicia Lutes of MTV wrote that as of Season 2 the show is about Piper understanding herself and her capabilities better \"even if those abilities put her further in the muck\" and not about her possible reformation.[25]\nSarene Leeds of The Wall Street Journal stated that in Season 3 Piper changed from being \"a gangsta wannabe into a dangerous villain that is not to be crossed\" after planting contraband in girlfriend Stella's bed to get her sent to the maximum security unit in retaliation for Stella stealing from her; Leeds argued that the change \"is a necessary plot device to keep things interesting\" even though she did not like the new version of Piper.[26] Drew Millard of Vice wrote that Season 3 Piper went \"completely off the deep end\" and changed \"into the most unlikable version of herself\", making her \"deadweight on a show that was at first strictly about her.\"[27] Kerman stated that even though she still found the series to be entertaining, she could no longer relate to Piper Chapman.[28] Sadie Gennis of TV Guide also suggested removing Chapman from the show.[29]\nSchilling has been nominated for awards in both comedy and drama categories: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards and Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Drama at the 71st Golden Globe Awards and won Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy at the 18th Satellite Awards for her season 1 performance.[30][31][32] Her season 2 performance earned a 72nd Golden Globe Awards nomination for Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy,[33] and a 19th Satellite Awards nomination for Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy.[34] Her season 3 performance won Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy at the 20th Satellite Awards.[35]\nList of Orange Is the New Black characters\n^ a b c d \"Behind 'The New Black': The Real Piper's Prison Story\". NPR. August 12, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2014.\n^ a b c Carswell, Sue (April 15, 2014). \"The Real Alex of Orange Is the New Black Speaks for the First Time: \"I Was Not Piper's First, and I Certainly Did Not Seduce Her\"\". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 5, 2014.\n^ Heinzmann, David (November 14, 2013). \"'Orange is New Black' drug case still open in Chicago federal court\". Chicago Tribune. p. 2 (online). Retrieved September 5, 2014.\n^ May, Meredith (July 27, 2014). \"'Orange Is the New Black' TV series reflects couple's reality\". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 5, 2014.\n^ Macke, Johnni. \"Revealed: How Katie Holmes was almost cast as Taylor Schilling's drug smuggling character Piper in Orange Is The New Black.\" The Daily Mail. August 5, 2014. Retrieved on June 19, 2016.\n^ Stern, Marlow (July 30, 2013). \"'Orange Is the New Black' Star Taylor Schilling on Her Path to Prison\". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 4, 2014.\n^ a b Gilbert, Matthew (July 10, 2013). \"'Orange Is the New Black': Yuppie, interrupted\". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 4, 2014.\n^ Tannenbaum, Emily (2018-08-03). \"Taylor Schilling Is Ready to Hang Up Her Orange Jumpsuit\". Elle. Retrieved 2018-10-15.\n^ \"How Much Time Do the Women of Orange Is the New Black Have Left in Their Sentences?\". Vulture. Retrieved 2017-04-10.\n^ Hooton, Christopher (June 4, 2014). \"Orange Is The New Black: Season 1 recap ahead of the new episodes\". The Independent. Retrieved September 6, 2014.\n^ Schaefer, Megan (June 3, 2014). \"'Orange Is The New Black' Season 1 Recap: Everything To Know Before The Season 2 Premiere\". International Business Times. Retrieved September 6, 2014.\n^ a b Surette, Tim. \"Orange Is the New Black Season 2 Review, Part 1 (Episodes 1-6): Conflict Over Community\". TV.com. Retrieved September 6, 2014.\n^ Jancelewicz, Chris. \"Taylor Schilling, 'Orange Is The New Black' Star, On Season 2 And Playing The Ever-Evolving Piper\". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2014.\n^ Surette, Tim. \"Orange Is the New Black Season 2 Review, Part 2 (Episodes 7-13): Fight the Power\". TV.com. Retrieved September 6, 2014.\n^ VanArendonk, Kathryn. \"Orange Is the New Black Recap: Piper the Nazi.\" Vulture. June 17, 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2016.\n^ VanDerWerff, Todd (August 25, 2014). \"Here's who will win, might win, and should win at the Emmys\". Vox.com. Retrieved September 6, 2014.\n^ Wolfson, Matthew (July 16, 2013). \"Orange Is the New Black: Season One\". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 7, 2014.\n^ Poniewozik, James (July 25, 2013). \"Dead Tree Alert: Orange Is the New Black Is the New Way of Talking About TV: Netflix's newest and best series is powerfully about community. But it's also, for better or worse, changing the community of the TV watercooler\". Time. Retrieved September 7, 2014.\n^ Strecker, Erin (December 12, 2013). \"Taylor Schilling on her Golden Globes nomination: 'This whole thing feels like a dream'\". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 5, 2014.\n^ Meltzer, Tom (December 17, 2013). \"The best TV of 2013: No 6 \u2013 Orange is the New Black (Netflix)\". The Guardian. Retrieved October 5, 2014.\n^ Fowler, Matt (June 14, 2014). \"Orange is the New Black: Season 2 Review\". IGN. Retrieved September 7, 2014.\n^ Raftery, Liz (August 5, 2014). \"OITNB: Do You Love or Hate Piper? Taylor Schilling Says She's \"Just Being Herself\"\". TV Guide. Retrieved October 5, 2014.\n^ \"25 Best TV Shows of 2015\". Rolling Stone. December 2, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2017.\n^ Jancelewicz, Chris (July 3, 2014). \"Orange Is The New Black Review: Time Behind Bars Shouldn't Be This Fun\". The Huffington Post Canada. Retrieved October 6, 2014.\n^ Lutes, Alicia. \"We\u2019re So Mad at Piper After That \u2018Orange is The New Black\u2019 Premiere.\" MTV. June 6, 2014. Retrieved on April 14, 2016.\n^ Leeds, Sarene. \"Why Piper\u2019s Turn to the Dark Side on \u2018Orange Is the New Black\u2019 Works.\" The Wall Street Journal. June 22, 2015. Retrieved on March 31, 2016.\n^ Millard, Drew. \"Will Someone Please, for the Love of God, Kill Piper on 'Orange Is the New Black'?\" (Archive). Vice. June 30, 2015. Retrieved on March 31, 2016.\n^ Parker, Maggie. \"Piper Kerman Has a Really Unexpected Answer for Who Should Be Piper's Endgame Love Interest on OITNB\" (Archive). People. June 12, 2015. Retrieved on March 31, 2016. \"While she can't really relate to Chapman anymore, she still finds the show wildly entertaining.\"\n^ Gennis, Sadie. \"Orange Is the New Black: It's Time for Piper to Go.\" TV Guide. June 19, 2016. Retrieved on July 26, 2016.\n^ \"Primetime Emmy Awards 2014: The winners list\". CNN. August 26, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2014.\n^ Farley, Christopher John (December 12, 2013). \"Golden Globes Nominations 2014: '12 Years a Slave,' 'American Hustle' Lead Field\". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 4, 2014.\n^ Kilday, Gregg (February 23, 2014). \"Satellite Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Wins Best Motion Picture\". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 4, 2014.\n^ Mitovich, Matt Webb (December 11, 2014). \"Golden Globes: Fargo, True Detective Lead Nominations; Jane the Virgin, Transparent Score Multiple Nods\". TVLine. Retrieved December 11, 2014.\n^ \"2014 Satellite Awards\". International Press Academy. Retrieved April 16, 2016.\nPiper Chapman on IMDb\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piper_Chapman&oldid=882695705\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 18972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedi0.org/wiki/Space_station", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MCXR6O4VW3T4USPZVGUPNP6AU3FEX2XA", "length": 250, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "en.wikipedi0.org", "title": "Space station - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Early concepts[edit]\nSalyut, Almaz, and Skylab (1971\u20131986)[edit]\nMir (1986\u20132001)[edit]\nISS (1998\u2013present)[edit]\nTiangong (2011\u2013present)[edit]\nEnvironmental microbiology[edit]\nList of space stations[edit]\nCanceled projects[edit]\nPlanned projects[edit]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 595, "original_length": 29014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://english-connection.fr/so-what-did-you-do-at-the-weekend-2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4LHE474P3CPK3NAUHFYNSS4BCJVFDEI6", "length": 2531, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "english-connection.fr", "title": "So, what did you do at the weekend? 2 | English Connection Vannes", "raw_content": "Accueil \u00bb Blog \u00bb An interview with... / une conversation avec... \u00bb So, what did you do at the weekend? 2\nRennes Air Show 2010\nBC: What did you do at the weekend Romain?\nRomain:I went to Rennes airport to see an air show which commemorated The Battle of Britain from World War 2.\nBC:Did you have a good time?\nRomain:Oh, yes, it was great! It was really beautiful watching the planes moving in the sky, in 3D, in freedom.\nBC:What sort of planes did they have there?\nRomain:There were old war planes, such as the Spitfire, the Zero and the Messerschmitt. There were also acrobatic demonstrations by the Rennes aero club instructor and the French Air Force acrobatics team. They had old planes such as the DC-3, and Air Force planes such as the TBM 200 and the Rafale.\nBC:As the air show was to commemorate The Battle of Britain, were there any other British planes there, apart from the Spitfire?\nRomain: Yes, the famous Red Arrows were there! They are considered to be the best aeronautical acrobatic team in the world so it was an honour to see them. During the demonstration one of the pilots stayed down to explain the different acrobatic figures, and as the Red Arrows came in front of us he said through the microphone: \u201cLadies and Gentlemen, we are proud to present THE ENGLISH RED ARROWS!\u201d\nBC: You took some very good pictures too, I see.\nRomain: Yes, I took a lot of photos. It was a wonderful day out which I\u2019ll never forget and I\u2019d like to thank all the demonstrators who took part. One day, I hope that I\u2019ll be on the other side of the barrier \u2013 because I really love flying too and my aim is to become a professional pilot.\nBC: Thanks for telling us about your weekend, Romain \u2013 and I hope your dream of becoming a pilot comes true!\nTo have a little taste of the Rennes Air Show which took place on 25th & 26th September 2010, click on the link below. The Red Arrows performance comes at the end of the clip. It's certainly worth watching.\nHistorical note: The Battle of Britain was the name given to the air campaign (Luftwaffe against the Royal Air Force) which took place over the English Channel and the Home Counties (Surrey, Sussex, Kent) between 10th July & 31st October 1940. For more information about this decisive battle, click on the link below:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain\nWeekend of Sat 9th & Sun 10th Oct 2010 Bronwen: So, what did you do at the weekend, Florian? 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The approach to integrate this case study into the class was completed via weekly assignments analyzing the case, small group discussion, and weekly group discussion. The key findings from the study demonstrate that the integration of the case study into this course improved the students' attitudes towards engineering, higher-order cognitive learning, self-efficacy, ease of learning the subject matter, team working and communication skills. In addition, the retention rates in course improved by 4.5% and the final average grade improved by 3.3% over the previous year. The implications of these findings to educators are very positive. Based on student comments, the integration of the case study increased retention of the material and their satisfaction with the course and offered another mechanism for students to study and relate concepts of the course and understand its role in engineering and life. This, in turn, increased the students' confidence in engineering and should help to improve graduation rates. One key contribution from this study demonstrates that the case study method can effectively be applied engineering courses with positive results.\nDescriptors: Group Discussion, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate, Self Efficacy, Engineering, Communication Skills, Engineering Education, Case Studies, Evaluation, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, School Holding Power\nInstitute for STEM Education and Research. P.O. Box 4001, Auburn, AL 36831. Tel: 334-844-3360; Web site: http://www.jstem.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://erininsight.blogspot.com/2018/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IIZHA6S5N7RZ2O5NMW25S3NZILFXQU4S", "length": 13010, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "erininsight.blogspot.com", "title": "Erin Insight: January 2018", "raw_content": "LOOKING BACK \u2013 Erin running low on coal\nErin running low on coal\nMessrs Scott and Ramsden were fortunate in getting in two cars of coal recently \u2013 one furnace and the other nut coal. It relieved the situation here, which had reached the limit. Last month was the coldest December in 46 years, forcing closure of schools, and stores were closing early. In many homes there is nothing but wood left and very little of that. Both our dealers are doing their best to secure coal. The blockage of the railway, owing to the second storm again on Monday last, no doubt has much to do with the delay.\nDirect long distance comes to town\nDirect distance-dialing (DDD) for Erin (833) and Hillsburgh (855) is on schedule, said W.C. Salmon, area manager for Bell Canada. Subscribers in the Erin area will be able to call long distance beginning Jan. 25 without having to give their numbers to the operator in Orangeville, and Hillsburgh subscribers will begin the service on Jan. 27. The equipment called the automatic number identification (ANI) is now being installed.\nDDD will be available for all subscribers, except those on a four-party line. Erin (833) will get the additional service of directory assistance by dialing 411, and repair services by dialing 611. Hillsburgh will get these services at a later date. Distribution of the 1983 phone book begins next week.\nVillage to meet Township over subdivision\nErin Village is getting ready to take on Erin Township concerning the surrounding municipality\u2019s new official plan and an amendment that allows a large residential subdivision near the village. Village council is preparing a presentation, and may consult the ministry of municipal affairs, but Reeve Terry Mundell would not reveal the village position.\nThe citizens group Securing Erin\u2019s Environment (S.E.E.) has expressed concerns to the ministry about the proposed Gulia subdivision. The township has approved the first two phases of the 89-lot development on 107 acres just south of Erin village. A third phase may bring the number of houses up to about 128.\nThe Erin-Hillsburgh Midgets won the championship at the South Muskoka Minor Hockey tournament in Gravenhurst on January 10, 1993. The squad defeated Niagara 7-1, Port Perry 4-1 and Stouffville 2-1. Team members are, L-R in back row: Manager Daryle Andrae, Brent Donnelly, Josh Bell, John Higginbottom, Tim Hebbes, Richard McBride, Travis Sharpe, Danny Swanston and Coach Brian Hebbes. In the middle are Jesse River, Chad Hughes, Jeff Corbett, Derek Hofricter, Jake Rivers and Tyson Briden. In the front are Jason Slater, Scott Corbett and Adam Reed.\nSeniors\u2019 drop-in centre proposed\nA unique opportunity exists, which could be a godsend to seniors in Erin. The Seniors Committee of EWAG approached Council in December with a request that 109 Main Street in Erin, the former Village of Erin Municipal Office, be approved for use as a Seniors\u2019 Centre. The building is close to parking, a drug store, banks, seniors\u2019 apartment buildings, the post office and many stores.\nThe centre would provide social activities, and continue to provide meeting space for groups such as the Erin Horticultural Society. Studies now show that seniors who maintain an active lifestyle both mentally and physically are able to live a much better quality of life until late in years. The program will demonstrate that this is a community which values and celebrates the achievement of its elder citizens, not one which ignores and devalues them.\nConsultation on declining school enrolment\nThe public school board is starting a community consultation process on declining enrolment, with Ross R. MacKay School in Hillsburgh projected to drop to just 64 students \u2013 32 per cent of the school\u2019s capacity \u2013 in five years if there is no residential growth.\nA public engagement workshop will be held Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Erin Public School gym to explain the Upper Grand District School Board\u2019s Long Term Accommodation Plan (LTAP) Background Report.\nIt\u2019s one of five workshops planned in Guelph, Wellington and Dufferin. There will be additional workshops in May, and a final report to board trustees in June.\nA new wastewater system is considered crucial to reversing the\nenrolment decline at Erin Public School and Ross R. MacKay School.\nThe LTAP report sets out two scenarios for the three public elementary schools in the Town of Erin, one with substantial residential growth starting in five years, and the other without that growth. Five years is the earliest point at which construction of a sewer system could start, supporting future housing subdivisions.\n\u201cThis is only the first step in the process. No recommendations around school closures have even been considered at this time,\u201d said UGDSB Trustee Kathryn Cooper.\n\u201cThe purpose of this meeting is to examine the background document which speaks to the current declining populations of students in the region, the condition of schools and potential for growth in the community.\u201d\nA Public Information Centre on wastewater will be held by the town on Friday, Feb. 2 in the Centre 2000 theatre, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a presentation at 7 p.m. There will be an opportunity for the public to ask questions and make comments.\nA series of reports analyzing aspects of the wastewater project can be downloaded from the wastewater section of the town website, erin.ca.\nThe town\u2019s three public elementary schools have a 2017 combined population of 839. Brisbane has 403 students (90 per cent of capacity), Erin Public School (EPS) has 346 (65 per cent of capacity) and MacKay has 90 (45 per cent of capacity). The low utilization rate at EPS is partly because it is located in a former high school.\nAssuming that the town will have the sewage capacity to support new housing in five years, Brisbane is projected to reach 107 per cent of capacity (477 students) in 10 years, EPS to reach 79 per cent (423 students) and MacKay to reach 83 per cent (165 students), for a total elementary population of 1,065.\n\u201cIt is not known when the Town of Erin will have sewage capacity to support housing development,\u201d says the draft LTAP. The alternate projection without substantial growth shows the total elementary population declining to 756 in five years, and then rebounding slightly to 771 in 10 years.\nUtilization at Brisbane would continue to rise, but more slowly, reaching 94 per cent in five years and 101 per cent in 10 years. EPS would decline to 51 per cent in five years and to 47 per cent in 10 years.\nMacKay would decline in five years to 64 students (junior kindergarten to grade 6) with a utilization rate of 32 per cent. The rate would rise slightly to 35 per cent in 10 years.\nTo get more information on the LTAP process or download a copy of the background document, go to ugdsb.ca/board/planning/long-term-accommodation-plan/\nTown still won\u2019t release termination costs\nMayor Al Alls says the Town of Erin is justified in not releasing the total of severance payments to terminated municipal employees over a five-year period.\n\u201cWe\u2019re doing it for legitimate reasons, to protect the privacy of individuals,\u201d said Alls. The town is also concerned that the information could harm their position in legal proceedings, resulting in a cost.\nLocal media have requested the combined severance payments from January 2012 to August 2017, arguing that the release would not enable members of the public to know how much was paid to any individual former employee.\nThe town has received legal advice and decided not to release the figure, even though the County of Wellington and all other lower tier municipalities have been willing to do so. The issue has been appealed to the Ontario Privacy Commissioner.\nAlls said that the town would only release the information if the commissioner orders it to do so.\nThere has been a major town staff turnover in recent years, including most senior managers. Some employees have been terminated, but some have left under other circumstances such as retirement. So not all would be normally entitled to a severance payment.\nIn a letter, resident Jane Vandervliet complained about how difficult it has been to get staff cost information from the town, or to get an enquiry about budgeting for severances onto the council agenda.\n\u201cSurely taxpayers have a right to know what such personnel upheavals are costing them,\u201d she said.\n\u201cIsn't the Council the go-to place for taxpayers to direct such concerns?\n\u201cLast June I had attempted to get the Town of Erin to give me the severance totals for the past five years. I gave up as their buffaloing tactics worked. The reason I wanted the severance totals was so that I would be able to monitor the Town budget for employee wages and benefit totals.\n\u201cThese assumed severance payouts, with the departure of so many long-term employees, would be extremely significant to a low population municipality like Erin.\u201d\nErin Town Hall to become an art gallery\nThe Town of Erin will provide a dedicated space in the Town Hall lobby for residents to display a diverse array of art.\nThe \u2018Art in the Hall\u2019 program will accept submissions from artists of all ages, and display work in various media. The designated space is directly outside the council chambers, with a new display every season.\n\u201cThis is a great opportunity for local artists,\u201d said Mayor Al Alls. \u201cWe are building a strong and vibrant community, supporting local artists, small businesses and emerging talent.\u201d\nAn application form and guidelines are available at erin.ca. Artists under the age of 18 will need permission from a parent or guardian. All those who reside, work, study or teach in Erin are eligible, but artists who reside in the town are ultimately preferred. There is no charge.\nSubmissions will be screened by an Artwork Selection Committee in the order they arrive, and it is expected 10-12 could be displayed at the same time. Artists can provide sales and contact information with their work.\n\u201cThe selection committee will not be assessing the artistic content or merit of the artwork, only verifying the innocuous nature of the work and subject matter,\u201d the guidelines state.\n\u201cArtwork must not include any indication or evocation of an offensive, insulting or distasteful nature, including but not limited to racism, violence, aggression, sex and politics.\u201d\nApplication packages, including photos of existing art and descriptions, can be submitted by email to townhallart@erin.ca or in person at the municipal office.\nThe application deadline for the spring term is February 19.\nErin may enforce idling bylaw on 124\nThe Town of Erin is considering whether to enforce its idling control bylaw, in an attempt to force truckers to shut down their engines while they go into the Tim Hortons restaurant at the north end of Erin village.\nTown council received a motion from its environment committee on Jan. 16 requesting that idling control signs be erected on a section of County Road 124 to educate drivers about the bylaw, and that \u201cafter a reasonable amount of time\u201d, the town bylaw officer be directed to issue tickets.\nTruckers often leave their engines running while they go into Tim Hortons.\nThe motion initiated by Heidi Matthews says highway trucks are breaking the bylaw \u201cregularly and routinely on a daily basis\u201d.\nCouncil decided it needed more \u201cclarity\u201d on the matter, since the town cannot erect signs on a county road. A decision has been deferred until after Mayor Al Alls discusses the matter with county officials.\nCAO Nathan Hyde said signs are not required for the bylaw to be enforced, since it applies in all areas of the town.\nThere was also discussion, but no decision, about whether trucks should be allowed to park (with engines off) on that section of road.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been after the county, from the roads perspective, because I\u2019m getting more concerned about the number of trucks parked on either side of that road,\u201d said Mayor Al Alls.\n\u201cThe shoulders are slowly sliding in towards the ditch. It also blocks good vision going around the corner there. It\u2019s a screwed up intersection.\u201d\nCouncillor Matt Sammut said he tends to agree with the motion, saying that idling \u201cdoes impact the environment\u201d. Councillor Rob Smith said if diesel engines cool off, they are more difficult to start up.\nThe idling control by-law, enacted in 2009, says it is illegal to allow the engine of a stationary vehicle to run for more than three minutes. There is a range of exceptions, but unless a truck must stay running to operate a refrigeration or heating system for cargo, idling outside a restaurant is normally not allowed.\nThe Municipal Act allows local regulation of matters that affect health and safety. The Erin bylaw asserts that vehicle emissions cause air pollution, resulting in a risk to respiratory health.\nLabels: Environment, Roads, Safety\nErin truck bypass would cost more than $11 million...\nLOOKING BACK \u2013 High attendance for Women's Institu...\nWastewater plan needs public input\nHeritage and safety key elements in Erin pond deba...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 17246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://esource.dbs.ie/handle/10788/1487", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:U6DWRXU5ESYB7I5HAFWY7DXNYYM72EAW", "length": 1522, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "esource.dbs.ie", "title": "An investigation of childhood maltreatment, personality type and aggression as underlying factors of criminal behaviour", "raw_content": "An investigation of childhood maltreatment, personality type and aggression as underlying factors of criminal behaviour\nMurray, Michaela\nA study was conducted to examine three proposed underlying factors in criminal behaviour; childhood maltreatment, personality type and aggression. Two groups of participants were asked to volunteer. Firstly, an experimental group, consisting of 44 convicted offenders, and secondly, a control group, 44 individuals with no previous convictions. All participants were given the same questionnaire booklet which included a copy of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Framingham Anger Scales and the Framingham Type A Scale (FTAS). These questionnaires examined each of the above factors and the data collected was analyzed using SPSS. It was predicted that there would be a significant difference in participant's score of each factor depending on whether they were in the experimental or control group. Two predictions, concerning childhood abuse/neglect and aggression were partially supported. Results for personality type were not significant and the null hypoFinal Year Project was retained. Anger symptoms were found to be significantly and positively correlated with all forms of childhood abuse and neglect. These results are discussed in terms of how they can further our understanding of criminal behaviour, with a view to understanding the practical implications for treatment. Some methodological issues are raised and proposals for future research are highlighted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://euobserver.com/tickers/143604?utm_medium=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WNUF76GR73KZLQ36R2LCFSE7QU2ZLZLC", "length": 443, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "euobserver.com", "title": "Poland arrests 22 suspects in \u20ac68m EU fund 'fraud'", "raw_content": "Poland arrests 22 suspects in \u20ac68m EU fund 'fraud'\nA Polish anti-fraud squad, the CBSP, has arrested 22 people in dawn raids on homes and offices around the country on a group suspected of defrauding \u20ac68m from EU funds. The group allegedly obtained 118 bogus EU-funded loans for purchases of specialist IT equipment for 89 different companies between 2017 and 2018, Polish authorities said. Suspects face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://everythingandnothing.typepad.com/mississippi/music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JN444NYK2ZBQWVKVYY6C4MPWLH6H2GZS", "length": 2667, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "everythingandnothing.typepad.com", "title": "Everything And Nothing: Music", "raw_content": "Keith Urban's Favorite Summer Songs\nLet My Love Open the Door, Pete Townshend\nFool to Cry, The Rolling Stones\nWild West End, Dire Straits\nI'm Alive, Kenny Chesney (with Dave Matthews)\nAre You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Waylon Jennings\nAlive, Black Eyed Peas\nHighway 20 Ride, Zac Brown Band\nHow 'Bout Them Cowgirls, George Strait\nSomething to Talk About, Bonnie Raitt\nFunky Tonight, John Butler Trio\n[ via Redbook magazine, July 2010 ]\nPosted in Music | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)\nHerding Cats (and Chasing Artists)\nIn February, Peter Gabriel - one of my favorites as a musician and a songwriter - released a new album, Scratch My Back. That I hate. Passionately.\nEven though I wouldn't admit it to myself, at first. I just hadn't listened hard enough, I told myself. Well, months later, I still hate it. (And I haven't forgiven him yet for what he did to Paul Simon's \"Boy in the Bubble.\")\nAnd it seems Radiohead did too. (So that makes me feel better anyways.)\nOn the album's Amazon.com page, Gabriel fans debate whether the album is \"sublime\" or \"the worst thing ever released on an expensive coaster.\"\nGabriel is unfazed. He says the album does exactly what he wanted it to do. He channels the sparse orchestral style of Arvo Part (no drums, no guitar) and breaks each song down to life and death as best he knows how.\nThe album's tracks are now being released, one by one, at every full moon.\nSo I find myself going back to listen again... It's always almost a full moon, after all.\nSummer Solstice Party Playlist\nDJ Jason Darrow of www.robotsinheat.com put together this playlist for Sunset magazine (June 2010) to get the vibe flowing at a summer solstice party. What would you add?\n\"Move On Up\" by Curtis Mayfield\n\"Metal Guru\" by T. Rex\n\"I Can't Go For That\" by Hall & Oates\n\"Feel It All Around\" by Washed Out\n\"Cangote\" by Ceu\n\"The Top\" by Francis and the Lights\n\"Just Ain't Gonna Work Out\" by Mayer Hawthorne\n\"A Roller Skating Jam named 'Saturdays'\" by De La Soul\n\"Crimson and Clover\" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts\n\"Me and Jane Doe\" by Charlotte Gainsbourg\n\"Everybody Loves the Sunshine\" by Roy Ayers\n\"Draggin' the Line\" by Tommy James\n\"I Saw the Light\" by Todd Rundgren\nLet the Tinbot Play\nThe Tinbot is an impact-resistant iPod case constructed from tin and neoprene that features original designs from creative contemporaries. The top has access to the headset port, and the bottom has access to the charging port, so you never have to take your iPod out of your case.\nAshley Tisdale's pre-concert workout\nBefore a concert, Ashley Tisdale sings as she runs on the treadmill. These tunes keep her moving:\n[ via Self magazine, November 2008 ]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 10946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://evidentgrace.wordpress.com/tag/pride/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:QVTGHMQ5PSGYVLNVC3IGJJ3WKOWBKZVF", "length": 4600, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "evidentgrace.wordpress.com", "title": "pride | Evident Grace", "raw_content": "Three no-no\u2019s\nWhat are the worst sins that Paul mentioned in his letter to the Christian believers at Philippi? This letter of his is amazingly positive, especially given the fact that he writes it as he languishes in a dark, dank, dismal Roman dungeon for the crime of sharing his faith. And the prohibitions contained in it are remarkable in their seeming triviality\u2014at least, compared with the \u201cheavy\u201d sins mentioned in his letters to other churches. Or are they?\nThe three things that Paul forbids these people to do are these:\n\u2013acting out of selfish or prideful motives (2:3,4)\n\u2013grumbling and arguing (2:14)\n\u2013worrying (4:6)\nAll of us would have to confess that we\u2019ve done these quite regularly. Why would they be a big deal to God, anyway? In each of these, our eyes are turned on ourselves and our own situation, rather than on God and on others.\nThe antidotes follow: Look at God and others instead of at ourselves.\nPride & selfish motives are countered by an attitude of service. Paul reminds us repeatedly to be concerned about one another\u2019s welfare above our own (2:3-4, 20-21). In this, Jesus is our supreme example, who set aside his glory to lower Himself to the weakness of human existence and then still further to an ignominious death on a cross\u2014all for our benefit. (2:5-11)\nGrumbling is countered by serenity. Paul shares how he (in prison!) has learned to be content in any and every situation, in good times and in unspeakably difficult circumstances. He can manage this attitude through God\u2019s strength.(4:11-13)\nWorry is countered by awareness of God\u2019s sufficiency. Prayer about our every concern, along with thanks to God, will bring God\u2019s peace to guard our minds from anxiety. (4:6-7)\nSpying seems to have become a way of life nowadays. One never knows who is snooping, and why. Do we want the government or others to know what we are writing, whom we are talking to, where we travel, and even what we are thinking? On the other hand, do we want a doctor to \u201cpry\u201d with his x-ray, ultrasound, MRI or CT scan to see what\u2019s wrong with us?\nWhen Jesus appeared to the apostle John many years after he had returned to heaven, it was a fearsome sight. Among other features of his glorious appearance, \u201chis eyes were like blazing fire\u201d (Revelation 1:14) Later, this image is repeated as he says to one of the seven churches, \u201cI am he who searches hearts and minds.\u201d How do we feel about Jesus knowing everything about us?\nIn chapters 2-3, seven churches get their grade reports from Jesus himself. He introduces each one with the words, \u201cI know\u2026\u201d Five of the churches first receive commendation for what they have done right. Things like their hard work, endurance in the face of suffering, love and obedience.\nThen, to five of the churches he delivers the bad news and what will happen if they don\u2019t change their ways. These are the kinds of issues Jesus considers as very serious:\n\u2013Lack of love for God and one another (2:4-5)\n\u2013Tolerance of sexual immorality and of false teaching (2:14, 20-23)\n\u2013Complacency, pride, and a self-sufficient attitude (3:17)\nIn other words, they were losing their distinctive and becoming like the non-Christians around them. How many of us who call ourselves \u201cChristians\u201d find ourselves in this list?\nIn each case, the remedy is prescribed:\nTurn from our wrong ways!\nCome to Jesus!\nAnd remain faithful to the end!\nThen the rewards are promised\u2014privileges and rewards for the winners in this earthly struggle: secure admission and citizenship in God\u2019s heavenly kingdom with such things fruit from the Tree of Life, gold medals (literally, laurel wreaths as awarded to Olympic champions), and even the privilege of sitting with Jesus on his throne! (3:21)\nMy granddaughter and her family are at Disney World right now, enjoying a week of pure grace provided by a foundation that delights in making wishes come true for very sick children. She was happy about this, but I suspect that it means even more to her younger sister who had been fervently praying that someday she\u2019d get to go to Disney!\nMany times Jesus invited people to pray for what they wished. And if they had faith, it would be granted. So here came James and John to make a request.\nJesus: What do you wish me to do for you?\nThey pridefully asked for the places of honor in the Kingdom but didn\u2019t get their wish. (Mark 10:35-40)\nRight after that, blind Bartimaeus shouted out from the side of the road as Jesus walked by.\nFull of faith, he asked for his sight, and it was granted! (Mark 10:46-52)\nWhy was one request denied and the other answered? 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But I really want to spend this August thanking the LORD... for my many friends and family who have birthdays or anniversaries in August, remembering that it was in August that I first laid eyes on my Mr. Wonderful (in 1995 *_*)\nAnd in 2002, I did this apple-themed page and had to create a midi file to place \"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree\". Here are the words as I remember them...\nWith anyone else but me,\nAnyone else but me,\nAnyone else but me!\n'Til I come marchin' home!\n(home from the war...this is a WWII song I believe)\nHere is the calendar for August from my graphics site, Caleb's Country Corner *_*\nIt's marked for Friendship Day, which is the first SonDay of August each year!\nBACK TO SCHOOL!!!!\nGo see our newly updated Back to School Page *_*\nCelebrate AUGUST!!!!!\nI wrote it from memory....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ewn.co.za/2018/08/31/ava-duvernay-s-company-acquires-rights-to-put-sa-film-in-the-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2POIUSB2YD2FQ6MBKJFTEDUOY6IMTSWD", "length": 1469, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ewn.co.za", "title": "Ava Duvernay's company acquires rights to distribute SA film 'Vaya' in the US", "raw_content": "Ava Duvernay's company acquires rights to distribute SA film 'Vaya' in the US\nThe deal will see VAYA being released in the US, UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand as well a debut on Netflix in November.\nVAYA. Picture: @ARRAYNow/Twitter.\nLungelo Matangira | 168 days ago\nJOHANNESBURG - A film collective led by US film and TV series director and writer, Ava Duvernay, has acquired the rights to distribute a South African movie around the world.\nDuvernay is most famous for the Selma, based on the events around a march organised by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr as well as the series Queen Sugar, which follows an African American family which owns a sugar plantation.\nArray, a company founded by Duvernay to distribute and amplify films by people of colour and women, acquired the international distribution rights to VAYA, a film by Nigerian filmmaker and actor Akin Omotoso, who has been based in South Africa for around two decades.\nVAYA premiered in 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival.\nThank you @ava Proud and pleased to be distributed by @ARRAYNow, looking forward to this shared journey! https://t.co/06gaRR56TA\n\u2014 Akin Omotoso (@PunchNCream) August 29, 2018\nThe deal will seeVAYA being released in the US, UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand as well a debut on Netflix in November, according to Deadline.com.\nWATCH: VAYA trailer\nAva DuVernay wins top prize at NAACP Image Awards\nSA film \u2018Vaya\u2019 to open New York African Film Festival", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 539, "original_length": 11974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fallschurchva.gov/611/Senior-Center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HYLYUJJVLZRI3YU4CNYUMSCQIZ5Y2C7G", "length": 999, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "fallschurchva.gov", "title": "Senior Center | Falls Church, VA - Official Website", "raw_content": "The Recreation and Parks Department offers a consolidated program of activities including social activities, recreation programs and trips for area seniors at the Senior Center located in the Community Center.\nThe Senior Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Senior Center welcomes residents and non-residents age 50 years and older.\nTransportation to the Senior Center\nTransportation is available for City residents. For more information on the senior center please contact Tracy Browand at 703-248-5020 (TTY 711).\nSeniors ages 65 and older who are residents of the City of Falls Church receive a 50% discount on classes, except where noted.\nMondays - Noon to 3:00 p.m.\nWednesdays - 9:30am-12:30pm.\nBoth days are Open Play\nDonations are greatly appreciated and go directly to program.\nAll singles and couples are welcome to dance the afternoon away at the Senior Center every second Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Call Tracy for more information at 703-248-5020 (TTY 711).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 176.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://famemag.us/2018/06/17/evanescent/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:20Z", "digest": "sha1:FAY5XTMYOLD3H6UFLZL4AXOD6JNXPXDB", "length": 254, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "famemag.us", "title": "Evanescent \u2013 FAME", "raw_content": "You reminded me of my ex.\nThe one that I\u2019m glad got away.\nThe one that took my faith.\nThe one who\u2019s simple touch\ncould take my breath away.\nI was never oblivious to how you made me feel.\nI was only worried the feelings would be temporary\n..and they were.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://family.barnardos.org.uk/stories/without-barnardos-i-wouldnt-have-my-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DXB3RFLLD3NPJZ6XQKOIWD5XLG5DKALK", "length": 5912, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "family.barnardos.org.uk", "title": "Without Barnardo\u2019s, I wouldn\u2019t have my family \u2013 Barnardos Family", "raw_content": "Without Barnardo\u2019s, I wouldn\u2019t have my family\nThis Father\u2019s Day Brad Owens will be celebrating the joy of being a dad to his two adoptive sons \u2013 and being free from the shadow of cancer. Three years ago Brad Owens, 36, and his husband Tim Sunderland, 47, adopted two brothers, through Barnardo\u2019s.\nThe boys were three and five and had been in long-term foster care.\nThen in February 2017 Brad was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer that affects the lymphatic system.\nAfter a gruelling year of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy \u2013 plus parenting two boisterous boys \u2013 Brad received the news that he was in remission just days before he ran the Marathon for a second time for Barnardo\u2019s in April 2018.\n\u2018I wanted to thank Barnardo\u2019s\u2019\n\u201cI wanted to run the Marathon again to show my gratitude for all the help and support Barnardo\u2019s have given us through the adoption process and beyond, during my illness,\u201d says Brad, a customer relations manager from Mile End, East London.\n\u201cThis past year has been a challenge and with the rubbish of going through cancer treatment, I wanted to turn my negative year into a positive.\n\u201cWithout Barnardo\u2019s, I wouldn\u2019t have my family and without their support, going through treatment would have been more difficult than it already was.\n\u201cI wanted to get back my health \u2013 and training was a big part of that \u2013 and show my kids that cancer is nothing to be scared about. \u201d\nBrad\u2019s sons, now aged eight and seven, were there to cheer him on at the Barnardo\u2019s station and provide the much needed boost he needed to cross the finishing line in unexpectedly sweltering heat. With two friends, Oliver and Steven, Brad raised \u00a37,000 to help the children\u2019s charity support the UK\u2019s most vulnerable children.\n\u2018Barnardo\u2019s have always been so positive and inclusive\u2019\nWhen they decided they wanted to be parents, Brad and Tim approached two local authorities about adoption, without success, before attending a Barnardo\u2019s open evening. Buoyed up by meeting and talking to adoptive parents and social workers, they began the adoption process with Barnardo\u2019s.\n\u201cBarnardo\u2019s has always felt so inclusive and welcoming at every stage \u2013 from the initial talks to activity days we go to now with the kids,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ve never felt anything but positivity. Whether you\u2019re gay, straight, single, they just want the best outcome for the children and families.\u201d\nBrad and Tim were accepted as prospective adoptive parents after being questioned on every aspect of their lives and relationship together. \u201cThe effort Barnardo\u2019s puts into potential adopters is so impressive,\u201d says Brad.\nBut twice they faced disappointment after two pairs of children they hoped might come to them were not matched. \u201cJust when we were beginning to despair, our family finder Nicky showed us the boys\u2019 profiles and we were so excited, wanting to know more about them than the one paragraph,\u201d recalls Brad. The couple got to know the boys \u2013 until it was time to bring them home and start family life together.\n\u2018We went from a couple to a family of four overnight\u2019\n\u201cOur world flipped on its head,\u201d says Brad. \u201cWe went out for on Friday night for dinner together like any couple without a care in the world, met friends over the weekend and then drove up to start introductions on Monday morning \u2013 and our lives changed totally.\n\u201cWhen you have a baby, you have nine months to prepare and you learn to read your baby\u2019s needs and grow with them. But we had two traumatised little boys with their own distinct personalities, who need constant love and attention. Looking back on those early days it was quite traumatic for all of us and called on all our strengths.\n\u201cMy advice to any new adoptive parents would be to take each day as a time and make sure you have time to yourselves as a couple, to get a little breathing space \u2013 even if you spend the whole time talking and thinking about your kids.\u201d\nInitially the boys called them \u2018Daddy Brad\u2019 and \u2018Daddy Tim\u2019. \u201cFor me the most magical time was when our youngest dropped the Brad and just started calling me Daddy and came to me for a cuddle and said \u2018I love you\u2019.\n\u201cHe\u2019s a gorgeous little boy but there are still times when he had huge outbursts, kicking and clawing, but he\u2019s gradually learning to control his anger and he is also very cuddly and loves hugs.\n\u201cHe likes his own space, building Lego or playing with his doll\u2019s house, whereas our eldest needs to be around people. They\u2019re both very active and love climbing trees to terrifying heights and skateboarding. If they\u2019re outdoors, they\u2019re happy.\u201d\nBeing a parent \u2013 and ill\nIn January 2017 the whole family had been passing round coughs and colds but the following month Brad realised the lump in his neck he\u2019d assumed was just a swollen gland was still there. After being referred by his concerned GP, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and began treatment immediately. Surgery, then rounds of chemo and radiotherapy, left him exhausted with the added worry of school pick-up times, meal making and all the practicalities of bringing up two boys.\n\u201cIt was not the funnest year, let\u2019s just say, but through it all the boys and Tim kept me going,\u201d he says. \u201cOlivette, our Barnardo\u2019s social worker, had supported us all the way through the adoption process coming with us to the adoption panel and the court when the adoption order was granted, and she stayed in contact all the way through my illness. I was very touched that she phoned when I was sick and sent postcards. The boy\u2019s social workers had dropped them like a lead balloon the moment they were placed with us.\u201d\nAfter 10 happy years in London, Brad and Tim have made the momentous decision to return to Australia in September with the intention of surrounding their boys with family.\nIf you would like to give a child a loving family and would like to know more about adoption or fostering, you can find out more at Barnardo\u2019s Adoption.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://famous.russianwomen.club/famous/Lyubov_Orlova.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WN4XOQO6SXDTTJJ6ERYOFMO7BC3ANKEO", "length": 1352, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "famous.russianwomen.club", "title": "Lyubov Orlova, the first star of the Soviet cinema", "raw_content": "Lyubov Orlova, the first star of the Soviet cinema\nGreat Russian women-singers\nLyubov Petrovna Orlova, was a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema. Orlova was born on 29 January 1902 and was most beloved movie actress of the 1930s.\nShe began her career in musical theatre in 1926 and made her film debut in 1934. Although she worked with other Soviet directors, Orlova's personal and professional partnership with Grigory Alexandrov led to her greatest successes on screen. As the star of Alexandrov's four wildly successful musical comedies - \"The Jolly Fellows\" (1934), \"The Circus\" (1936), \"Volga-Volga\" (1938), and \"The Shining Path\" (1940) - Orlova became a household name in the USSR. The film \"The Jolly Fellows\" featured several songs which instantly became classics across the Soviet Union. The most famous song - \"Kak mnogo devushek khoroshikh\" (Such a lot of nice girls) - enjoyed international fame.\nShe was the role model for a generation of Soviet women. They admired her wholesome good looks, her energy, her cheeriness, her zest for life, and her spunkiness in the face of adversity. She was also said to be Stalin's favourite actress. In 1950 Orlova was honoured as a People's Artist of the USSR, her nation's top prize for artistic achievement, but she acted in only a few pictures after that, and died in 1975.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 5538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 68.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://farminggracedaily.com/2016/02/15/women-in-combat-post/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YWGKDWPVO5UXIOL5Q7GOBNJ3PYLONAPH", "length": 4339, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "farminggracedaily.com", "title": "Women in Combat | Farming Grace Daily", "raw_content": "There has been a great deal of media talk about women in combat lately. I thought I would share how my own thinking has gone through a process to determine my view. This isn\u2019t a post to \u201cstart a war\u201d so to speak, but feel free to comment with your own opinions and beliefs in a respectful manner.\nI will begin with the fact that I believe females can do a great many things that their male counterparts can. Continue to read the post to find out where I stand on women in combat, it could surprise you.\nWhen the topic first came up I went to my husband and asked his thoughts on it. His response is what I expected and of course I got my defense up. And continued the conversation much longer than he would have liked I\u2019m sure. I assumed he didn\u2019t want women in combat because he has a daughter, two step-daughters, and a grandaughter that he would never ever want hurt. That protective Daddy kinda thing ya know.\nI decided that I wanted an opinion of someone who had been on the front lines that I could trust. A male counterpart that I respect and knew I would keep my \u201d female defense mechanism\u201d in check. I found my way to a close relative. He served in the military as a Marine from 2010 to 2014. We had the conversation with our entire family at the dinner table, so you can imagine opinions were all over the place!\nBut I kept my focus on our conversation because I was determined to hear him out. He had served in Afghanistan for several months. He was at the front lines, he has seen it up close and personal (unfortunately). He also mentioned that there are positions that females already hold that are combat related, he didn\u2019t keep this from my civilian mind.\nThe Marine explained to me, in a non-arrogant manner I might add, the reasons he feels the way he does. I walked away from the conversation with a more aware mindset and pondered his information for a few days.\nSpeaking with him, in turn calmed some of my defensive ways and I find myself moving towards the right to not want females in combat. It isn\u2019t necessarily one \u201cthing\u201d that determined my view. It wasn\u2019t just my religious views, the fact that I have 3 daughters, or females are incapable.\nA particular statement brought me to the forefront of my opinion I think. If a male has certain requirements for being in combat and then those should not be altered for females. If we are going to be \u201cfemales can do anything a male can do\u201d mindset it should be equal and of the same level. Even if a female can physically prepare for combat at the same level as males I still would not agree.\nHere\u2019s why I think this way, females are wired differently than males. ( Especially the one writing this post, but we will talk emotions/mindsets another day!) Even the ladies that are less emotional or pump iron I still wouldn\u2019t want them in the front lines. By the way, I\u2019d rather no human being in the front lines. I\u2019d like them all safe at home raising families, living life, and peace on earth. Unfortunately the world is getting farther away from that scenerio! God created men and women differently. That\u2019s all there is to it. So, I do not feel women should be in combat.\nI still want to express a few things. Don\u2019t leave just yet! I still feel that women have the ability to hold many positions, do many physical type jobs, and manage things (sometimes) better than their male counterparts in the world today. I was raised by a woman that could out work any man physically until the last 20 years of her life, I have seen it not only in her but other aspects of work and women. I just do not agree with women in combat. And that is my right.\nI am an American and I have many wonderful rights. I am able to vote for our leaders, work where I please, practice my religion freely, and so many other things due to the freedom that has been granted to me. Those that serve our country I am ever so grateful to for this. Between God and and them what would America have?\nWhat I choose to do as an American is shown on a daily basis. Just as my opinion on the topic at hand changed due to input from others, each one of us influences others. So, as Americans, let\u2019s reflect and influence in a respectful and positive manner. You just never know who you might be giving new knowledge to.\nAmerican, combat, Freedom, women\n\u2190 Farm Post Friday 2/12/2015\nA Grandaughter\u2019s Memory \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://feralwords.com/2015/10/29/frost-flowers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XXM3T2VJQGDZB3ZQHKR2POBM63GZOTF2", "length": 40520, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "feralwords.com", "title": "Frost Flowers \u2013 Unfolding a New Project | Feral Words", "raw_content": "\u201cLet the lesson be \u2013 to be yourselves\u2026\nAnd to make that worth being\u201d\nHugh MacDiarmid (translated from Old Scots into English)\nMost flowers blossom for weeks on end. The late summer heather paints the hills purple for the space of a month; daffodils line the roads of the valleys for most of early spring; the gorse fills the air with the scent of its golden flowers for the length of the summer and beyond. There is plenty of time to catch sight of them all, as the year passes by; no shortage of opportunity to see the nature of Scotland in full and vivid bloom.\nNot all flowers are so generous with their time, however. The rarest of the flowers that grow in the forests of Scotland put forth their petals not for months or weeks or even days, but for a matter of hours only. There is no sure means to determine when they will appear, or when they will fade away. Only under the most particular of conditions will they blossom, only when a certain extraordinary stirring in the air serves to call them forth will they emerge from the forest floor. To catch them is a matter of fortune, of fate; many will live their whole lives in this country and glimpse them not even once. It was to take me thirty-four years of my life, before I first saw the frost-flowers bloom.\nThey grow in the old woods, where the broken branches and trunks of decaying, ancient trees litter the forest floor. They grow only from the trees; only, in fact, from the death of the trees \u2013 it is from the decomposing remains of the dying woods that the frost-flowers sprout. In each old branch, each twisted mass of bark, each broken trunk lies moisture, hidden water lying within. It is the bloodstream of the processes of decomposition that give food to fungus and a dwelling place to the gnawing insects that slowly turn the trees once again to the soil from whence they came. This water is one of the ingredients; the second dwells in the air.\nAt certain moments in the winter night, a hard frost will blow in upon woodland that has not already frozen; when the water still moves within the dead wood, but the chill breeze that falls upon it is already held tight in the hand of winter. At these moments, ice starts to form in the broken branches laid amidst the leaf litter, and expands. As it does so, it forms tiny cracks within the wood, cracks that fill with water which in turn freezes and expands. As more and more ice forms and grows within the tiny apertures of the fallen trees, it pushes the first thin tendrils of ice upwards and outwards into the air; and tiny threads of crystalline ice rise from the forest floor, twisting like wool up into the chill of the air. After a few hours, the threads have grown together, wrapping around one another into intricate, knotted shapes of shining white. When the dawn breaks, it spills the light of the sun over a forest floor now teeming with the white petals of glittering, crystalline roses; the frost-flowers, now in full bloom.\nI saw the blossoming of the frost flowers in the early morning one February, in some woods near the Annan River. I\u2019d gone for a long walk in the winter, through the hills of the southern uplands of Scotland. This is a place where many hidden things lie in wait; concealed from attention by the remoteness of the terrain and by the absence of travellers\u2019 accounts to draw visitors in. In Scotland, it is the highlands that command all the attention; the famous, iconic images of Glencoe, Rannoch Moor & the Cuillin of Skye. These rocky, jagged landscapes have a beauty that is immediate and intense; a sucker-punch of visual drama that is breath-taking to behold, and that tightly grips the attention of the vast majority of those who visit this land. The secrets of the southern uplands, by contrast, are more difficult to uncover. They exist in small places; in hidden corners of forests, in remote valleys away from hiking trails, on the edges of empty moors. Like the frost-flowers, they do not give up their secrets easily; they are difficult to track, mercurial; often invisible, buried deep in the rocks and the waters of the land. They are, however, in their own way, as special as anything the northern mountains have to offer. I have walked in this region through summit-top fields of cloudberries, across hillsides glittering with strange crystals where men pan for gold in clear, cold streams; through valleys scattered with stone circles and the barrow-mounds of ancient peoples. The triple-summit of the Eildons, rearing over the plain of the Tweed. The boulder fields and sand-fringed lochs of the Range of the Awful Hand. The great cascade of the Grey Mare\u2019s Tail; these places are the setting for a great many stories, for an immense body of legend that runs as deep as any in these islands \u2013 and far deeper than most. It is something I am keen to explore; something that has set in motion a great many journeys\u2026\nThis particular journey I commenced in the heart of the Lowther Hills; a stretch of high country where rise the waters of the Clyde river that eventually flows down through the city of Glasgow to the sea. I had departed the city for a long walk through the winter, taking three days to hike across the heart of the hill country. The air was crisp and clear; stripped clean of any contamination by the intensity of the cold, scented only with the metallic tang of ice. I followed tracks stained white by the frost through hills it had painted silver, my footsteps crunching piled-up ice crystals as I walked. The first day I spent in traversing the rolling forms of the eastern Lowthers, the path passing rivers, lochs and expanses of broad moorland before descending into the deep green pine plantations on the fringes of the small town of Moffat. A warm bed in a small hostel by the edge of town received me for the night and spared me the long hours of winter darkness, before I walked again in the morning east across the Annan River, to the place where the dawn light glittered on the petals of the frost-flowers. I stopped to look at them, laying down in the crunching carpet of the forest floor to inspect the intricate traceries of pristine ice that spun webs of glass upon the forest floor, and then passed onwards, into the sunrise and the hills.\nThe path I had followed up to this point was the Southern Upland Way; the most well-known of the routes through this region, that extends all the way from the shores of the North Sea near Edinburgh, to the western promontory of the Rhinns of Galloway in sight of Ireland\u2019s coast. Now, on the morning of the second day I diverted off the track, slightly southwards, following a second, less well-trod track into the deep forests that lie around Eskdale. These are plantation woodlands; deep, pine-scented regiments of forest sown by man, that have come to clothe great reaches of the southern hills. They have submerged within them the remains of the pastoral culture that once flourished here; the herding clans of the border region, who pastured their cattle and sheep on what was in those days open moorland. The ruins of their stone dwellings are encountered with regularity, encrusted with lichen and moss, the only fire now burning in their hearths the ruddy blaze of the bracken that sprouts within the empty walls.\nOlder things than these are submerged within the forest. There are the ruins of the Celtic tribes, the ancestors of the border clans who practised a similar lifestyle to their successors, herding and raiding through the dark ages and beyond, back into the depths of prehistory before the coming of Rome. Their stones too lie here in numbers; far more overgrown than the others, covered in blankets of earth and moss. There are a great number, and a great variety; hillforts that ring the summits with looping ramparts of earth; mysterious linear earthworks that cut ridges through the forests for no apparent defensive purpose; the piled up stones of burial cairns erected in remote ages before even iron was ever worked on these islands. They sit now abandoned and unfrequented, hidden away on remote hillsides and in the depths of the forest, the fingerprints of peoples past who once played out the story of an extraordinary civilisation on these hillsides. Their halls are now silent; birdsong the only music here, where once the songs of the bards recounted the stories of the people. To this place, their stories are now lost \u2013 but some things lost are not necessarily gone forever. Seek in the right places, and they may yet be found.\nThe old tribes of southern Scotland were part of a greater web of connected peoples; a race bound by language and a common, Celtic culture. When first encountered by the \u2018civilised\u2019 world they called themselves Prettanike; over time this name transformed into the word Brythoniaidd. It was from them that the name of the whole island of Britain ultimately derives; they were the first men, the aboriginal people of the cold hills and valleys, whose ancestors arrived here in the wake of the ice. Their race gave the world the philosophy of the druids; the priesthood that came to dominate the western portions of the Celtic world, who challenged the power of Rome and were numbered among the greatest of its enemies. They left behind artworks of great beauty, shaped in the swirling, circle-infused style of the La Tene; shields and swords and shining torcs the symbol of a mobile, warrior culture that counted both courage and beauty among the highest of virtues. Among the greatest of their achievements were achievements of language, the complex, strictly structured poems that preserve the remnants of their history and mythology to this day; the poems known as englynion.\nThe Red Book of Hergest. The White Book of Rhydderch. The Book of Llywarch the Old. The Book of Taliesin. The Book of Aneirin. The Black Book of Caerfyrddin. They sound like names pulled from the pages of fantasy; yet these are the ancient books that preserve the englynion verses, alongside prose epics of legend and a unique set of mnemonic tools called the Triads. The latter are triple units of bardic data that serve to recall the most important portions of the narratives of the Brythonic mythic imagination. They are all held now in the land of Wales, where much of their content was composed. It is in Wales that the culture of the Brythonic peoples is, today, best preserved; where a language descended from theirs is still spoken, and where a sense of connection to the ancient culture remains very much alive. Yet, much of the culture that they preserve did not originate within the geographical boundaries of modern Wales; it was instead born among the hills that the Welsh refer to as \u201cHen Ogledd\u201d, \u201cThe Old North\u201d. Of this Old North the hills of southern Scotland formed a key portion; this was the portion that lay north of the Roman Wall, where the last of the free tribes dwelt independent of the laws of empire. It was here, beyond the limits of the Roman world, that key portions of a culture were kept alive that was, in time, to outlive the empire itself, and to reinfuse great stretches of the island of Britain with the spirit of the ancient Celtic culture.\nWhen the empire fell, and the last of the legions returned over the narrow sea to the continent, there flowed from over the wall a chill, cold breath of the north. Tribal warbands marched south, warriors moving down to replace the Roman power with their own, to defend the land of the Brythonic peoples from the new enemies who threatened it from over the seas. The Anglian tribes who attacked the northeastern coasts of England were opposed by a dynasty of kings called the Coeling, after whose ancestor, Coel, the southwestern Scottish region of Kyle is named. In the same era Irish raiders colonised the western coasts of modern Wales, turning the land Gaelic for many long years; the kings who drove them out and made Wales itself the refuge for the Brythonic peoples it is today were the descendants of a warrior named Cunedda, who ventured south from lands now called Lothian and Tweeddale, that were then called Gododdin.\nThese rulers were not simply war-leaders. They were the patrons of the Brythonic culture; the preservers of the heritage and dreams of a people the defence of which bestowed upon them their right to rule. The creators of this culture, the primary artists who articulated the Celtic vision in those dark ages, were the bards.\nThe bards were a class of professional poets, musicians, storytellers and philosophers. Their stories are profoundly penetrated by the ancient traditions of the Brythonic Celts; the spirit of the pagan, druidic religion lies ever-present, just beneath the surface. The material they composed, and which is now partially preserved in the books previously listed, is our clearest remaining window into the world of the Old North; a world composed not of the clarity of history, but rather one tightly wrapped in the misty obscurity of the twilit Celtic mind.\nHistorians hate the bards. They don\u2019t do dates, a Christian innovation that had no place in a world where time runs in circles, where what is gone one day will return another, years hence. Their stories are not neat delineations of the progress of events, one following sequentially after another; rather, they are fragmented, frantic evocations of particular places and incidents, infused with the dreamtime spirit of mythology, rising out of context-less nothingness; devastatingly beautiful flowers blossoming out of an unknown otherworld. The impossible is a regular occurrence. Poets transform into fish and frogs and eagles and wolves. Kings play boardgames with the guide of the dead. Forests come to life, and fight in obedience to the command of enchanters. The future is not unwritten, but may be glimpsed in the prophetic genius of the seer. The laws of reality are subverted, and the real world bends knee to story.\nThese are the voices that shaped the oldest stories of the southern upland hills I know so well, that I have travelled so extensively; these the footsteps that once crunched the frost on paths I now walked down in the quiet winter twilight. These are my stories, the stories of my ancestors and my people, the inheritance that was passed to me with the blood that flows in my veins, with the waters that nourished me as a child, with the scent of the empty spaces that calls me back every time I find myself trapped in the city. They have been lost to us for many long centuries \u2013 but they are not beyond retrieval. The ancient books are a part of the process of resurrection; seeds from which the forest may grow. Yet they are not the only component. The seeds need the soil, the earth to nurture them. The earth remains; the places of the compositions, round which they were woven, are alive in the high hills of the Old North.\nThe pathway flows from the forest like a river of frost chasing toward the sea; a sea of white fields, crystalline stalks of long-dead summer growth glinting in an evening light that glows eerily white under the winter moon. The white trail curves into the valley of Eskdale, at a place where ruins are being rebuilt. Silent workers nod their greeting over unspeaking mouths; a vow of silence constraining them from speech as they go about their business. As I pass, signs strange and unexpected emerge, evocations of the pursuit of another world now set amid the woods and the moss.\nStories are not just something to be told. They are something to be lived, if they are to have any value. The academic can point the way; to follow it is the journey.\nThe track becomes a road; the road a gateway. I step beneath and step within, to a twilit driveway lined with white towers. This is not the typical Scotland, though the elements that identify it as such still enswathe the place. Pine-trees rise all round, clothing the rolling hills; the moss and the lichen are ever-present, the garb draped upon stones and branches by the moistening hands of the rain and the mist. In this place, however, they are joined by other signs. Around the branches of the trees are entwined long strings of brightly-coloured cloth, each vivid square emblazoned with arcane writing and clean, linear drawings of beings drawn from the depths of legendary fantasy. The many-coloured pages of a vast book of mythology are tied to the trees; in three-dimensional form, the same mythic imagination has conjured up its spirits and scattered them in the shape of sculptures all around the grounds of the complex. The scent of incense stirs on the wind; the scent of distant lands is evoked in the signs of exoticity, and in the signification of the Other that they draw forth from the mind.\nThis is the place called Kagyu Samye Ling. The name is in a language not of the Celtic isles, but of the Himalaya; Samye Ling is the \u2018hill of Samye\u2019, where the first Buddhist monastery was established in the land of Tibet. The people who bestowed it upon this place were the Kagyu order, a sect of Tibetan lamas who established a foundation here in the aftermath of the Chinese invasion of their homeland. There are today many such Tibetan Buddhist centres scattered around the western world; of all of them, Kagyu Samye Ling was the first \u2013 the first place in Europe, Australasia or the Americas to house a community of Tibetan monks practicing their ancient teaching. From small beginnings it has grown considerably, and is now one of the largest such complexes in Europe; the whole establishment stretches for some acres, taking in dormitories, farm buildings, a cafeteria, shop, gardens, subsidiary shrines and, at the centre of it all, an immense prayer hall. It is now a centre of religion the equal of many in the Himalayas, and something singular and special here in Scotland.\nI walked into Samye Ling as the light was fading. The monks are happy to give shelter to the traveller who treats their place with respect and reverence, and will let a wanderer rent a warm bed for the night in the halls they maintain for their students. I deposited my rucksack, cleaned off the sweat of the journey, and spent the evening roaming the frosty grounds, before sitting a while with the monks in their prayer hall, listening to their sonorous chants of devotion reverberate around the dim-lit palace of contemplation.\nSo how is it that such a modern, exotic innovation connects with a set of narratives drawn from the old Celtic world? The answer is threefold \u2013 as are so many on this journey, it seems\u2026\nThe first connection lies in its parallels with the monasteries of the Celtic Christians. The pagan artworks \u2013 the gilded icons, the carved stones and the cloths that once enswathed the holy groves \u2013 were largely destroyed by the rise of Christianity. Some of their stylistic content, however, was preserved by the monasteries; it is in the elaborate carved crosses they raised and in the ornate manuscripts they illuminated that the twisting, knotted artwork of the Celtic world is today best preserved. The remains of the monastic culture are one of our key windows into the world of the ancient Celts, a looking-glass, if a distorted one, into the complex, intricate material culture of the people they converted. The Christian monasteries were also, in the era of their arrival, just as exotic as the Buddhist foundation seems today; just as redolent of a distant, advanced civilisation imbued with profound ancient wisdom. In our astonishment at the presence of Samye Ling, in our reactions to its colour, its foreign shapes and its alien, unfamiliar language we find an exact parallel to the sense of wonder with which the first Christian establishments would have been met. In the space between us and the Other, we rekindle a portion of the state of mind that prevailed once in these hills, when the bardic culture was at its height.\nThe second connection lies in the deep lineage of the Kagyu school of Buddhism. The Kagyu, for all the panoply of Tibetan monasticism that now surrounds them, arose as a reaction against monastic culture. Theirs was a movement that sought to renew the spirit of philosophical inquiry, of meditative practice that had become somewhat buried under the layers of monastic ritual Indian Buddhism had accumulated. Their first master was Tilopa, a fisherman from the jungle. He passed on his teachings to Naropa, a professor of one of the great Buddhist universities of Asia who had abandoned his comfortable home among the ivory towers to seek a more direct understanding of the world. Naropa passed the teachings to Marpa, a Tibetan traveller who returned across the Himalayas, bearing the Kagyu systems of thought to the Tibetan plateau. There, he was to impart them to a fellow Tibetan named Milarepa.\nMilarepa is one of the major figures of Tibetan Buddhism. His story tells how in his youth he and his mother were deprived of their rightful inheritance by his aunt and uncle. At his mother\u2019s instigation, he left home to learn black magic; succeeding in his pursuit, he returned and killed the usurpers with a supernatural hailstorm \u2013 a storm that claimed thirty-five lives in the process. After some time, Milarepa began to feel guilt for the crimes he had committed, and opted to renounce the dark teachings he had practiced up until then. After substantial effort, he persuaded Marpa to accept him as a pupil and, after progressing a long way under his tutelage, he retired to a cave to live out his days in contemplation. It was through his pupils that the teaching-lineage of the Kagyu order was transmitted; he is one of the spiritual forefathers of the order that raised the monastery in Eskdale.\nMilarepa\u2019s image sits painted on the walls of Samye Ling today, an image drawn in the canonical style of Tibet, projected onto a background of green, rolling hills that evoke the southern uplands of Scotland. His place in this story lies in the method of his meditations, and in the works to which they gave birth.\nThe place that Milarepa chose for his contemplations was a solitary one; a cave in the mountains. He travelled into the wild to seek distance from the human race; unlike the majority of Buddhist monks, who congregate in great packs housed within four walls, Milarepa sought his enlightenment in the midst of voiceless nature. To this nature, he was to give a voice; whilst immersed in meditative trance states, he composed songs expounded the essence of his teachings. Altered states of consciousness, achieved in the solitary places of the wilderness, were the wellspring of his creative method. These songs are many in number and popular to this day in Tibet; vernacular evocations of the baroque elaborations of Sanskritic philosophy, that helped make that abstruse creed accessible to the populace at large.\nIn this, the life of Milarepa bears a not-inconsiderable similarity to that of the bards of the Celts; they who composed the songs that form the roots of the mythology of these hills. The method of bardic composition was one derived from an experience of the self outwith the ordinary; that grew from contact with otherworlds perceived through altered states of mind, in the emptiness of the wild. The power that composed was called the awen; an extra-personal muse that came into the recipient, the awenydd, from the spirit-world. It was born of extremity, and brought not simply the gift of words, but also the gift of prophecy. It is, even today, a legend in Wales that one who sleeps on the spine of the rugged mountain of Cadair Idris will receive one of three gifts; they will die, go mad, or find that they have become a poet. In the hills of Scotland similar legends survive; one of the latest, that of a man named Thomas of Ercildoune, who lay down to sleep on the Eildon Hills and was transported into an otherworld of rivers of blood and splendid feasts to make love to the queen of the spirits that dwelt there. On returning, he found he was possessed of the gift of calling up prophetic verse; he grew famous, and is remembered now by the name of Thomas the Rhymer.\nThat this gift betook of the qualities of trance, of an alteration of the mind and an escape from the conventional self, is left in little doubt by the description of the awenyddion recorded by Giraldus Cambrensis in the 12th century. He described them thus;\n\u201cThere are certain persons in Cambria, whom you will find nowhere else, called Awenyddion, or people inspired; when consulted upon any doubtful event, they roar out violently, are rendered beside themselves,and become, as it were, possessed by a spirit. They do not deliver the answer to what is required in a connected manner; but the person who skilfully observes them, will find, after many preambles, and many nugatory and incoherent, though ornamented speeches, the desired explanation conveyed in some turn of a word: they are then roused from their ecstasy, as from a deep sleep, and, as it were, by violence compelled to return to their proper senses. After having answered the questions, they do not recover till violently shaken by other people; nor can they remember the replies they have given. If consulted a second or third time upon the same point, they will make use of expressions totally different; perhaps they speak by the means of fanatic and ignorant spirits. These gifts are usually conferred upon them in dreams: some seem to have sweet milk or honey poured on their lips; others fancy that a written schedule is applied to their mouths and on awaking they publicly declare that they have received this gift.\u201d\nSuch behaviour may seem like lunacy; to anyone familiar with the culture of the Himalayan region, however, the description will seem familiar. This is a process near identical to the workings of the gurs of Himachal or the oracles of Tibet; a process recalled in the compositional madness of Milarepa, or of the Sufi poets of the Middle East. This is \u2018ecstatic\u2019 poetry; ecstatic both in the conventional sense of some mind-expanding fulfillment, and in the original sense also, ek-stasis \u2013 \u201coutside the self\u201d. The experiments in automatic writing of the surrealists partake of some measure of this notion; a spirit that lies at the root of western poetry, in ancient Greece, where the Muses were the source of artistic ideas. Inspiration, our very word for the idea of creation means at its root this; the coming in of the spirit. In the presence of the lineage of Milarepa in the hills of southern Scotland, we find the return of the ecstatic ideal to this land; a place that once knew it well, but has in time forgotten.\nThere is a third contribution that Samye Ling has to make to this journey, or journeys, and to the project that is arising from them. This contribution is one of sheer aesthetic beauty; of the shaping in the midst of a landscape of ruin and loss, of something rising and resurgent. The hills of Scotland have been emptying for generations, the people departing and taking with them the eyes that beheld the places of the legends, the voices that sang them. Clearances, plantations, wars and invasions; all served to enforce the forgetfulness of the hills, to banish the memory of what once was here. Around Samye, by contrast, an incoming spirit has breathed new life into the place and, in embracing elements of the old, has served to resurrect them in a fashion wonderful to see.\nI arose in the morning, and breakfasted with community in their hall of repast, under murals of Milarepa and the saints of far mountain chains. This done, I departed, outwards and onwards, from the heart of the exotic back into the land of the ancient. It was not to take me long to run across the Old North again. On the southern edge of Samye Ling there rises a small hillock, clothed in old scots pine; one of the primeval trees that once wooded this region. Pausing by the roadside in the cool morning air, I dropped my bag by the fence and chose to climb it. As I ascended, I knew I was walking into something special.\nThere are scattered around Scotland still a last few holy sites that retain some living portion of the old world of Celtic mythology and religion. The Clootie Well at Munlochy, the Isle Maree; the Doon Hill at Aberfoyle. In these places, there are trees wrapped in brightly coloured cloth, branches studded with coins; little statues, and memorials to the dead commemorated in places folk still hold in some measure sacred. Outside Samye, this little hillock forms another such, mingled with the symbology of Buddhism; what the anthropologists call a syncretic construct, a fusion of the Celtic with the Tibetan, in a form both original and ancient.\nWrapped around the trees hang prayer flags, strings of coloured cloth recalling the colours that adorn the trees of the old groves. If the antiquity of tradition is any guide, this is the same form of decoration that once clothed the groves of the druids; a vivid spectacle of the combination of man and nature entwined. Laid out amongst the trees are little altars surrounded by tiny effigies; piles of coins and little keep-sakes, pieces of recollection set in this place to make it something forever special. On the summit a little open space lies in the centre, a grove in the truest sense, where I sat for a while in the midst of it all. The wind fluttered the prayer-flags, and stirring the branches with its cool breath. For all the drama of the gilded prayer hall, to me, this was and remains the most powerful of the sights of Samye Ling; a holy grove risen again in the Old North.\nBeyond Samye, the road carried me south. I walked on down Eskdale, through a valley surrounded by thick green forests of pine plantings, scattered with the ruins of old Celtic settlements. The summits are clad thickly with hillforts hereabouts; hilltops reaching towards the heavens clad with fortresses that were at once temples, the castles in the sky of the ancient inhabitants. After some miles, crossing the river, I came to one final set of special sites; a place of greater antiquity than any other I had passed on my way. Where Samye brings innovation, this place reaches back to the uttermost depths of history, to a time before even metal was worked by man. These are the stone circles of Eskdale.\nI climbed over the fence into fields to reach them. They stand by the banks of the river; such is their antiquity the the slow shifting of the river over centuries has claimed some of the stones, and one is now a half-moon arc where once it was whole. The other is intact, its original form clear and distinct; in both, however, more than sufficient of the great monumental stones remain to preserve the spirit of the place. They remain redolent of the sacred, charged with the enormity of an antiquity that reaches back thousands of years. Their names are the Leaping Stones and the Girdle Stones; legends still attach to them, marking them as, even in recent centuries, the sites of night-time festivities of a character distinctly un-Christian.\nWalking between the stones is a strange experience. The sheer number of years that have passed since they were first hauled erect by the hands of my stone-age ancestors seems to leave traces; the knowledge that rites of the most sacred and profane nature have been performed here times beyond counting leaves them as a palimpsest upon the fields, a structure upon which the interpretations of the sacred of unnumbered generations have been inscribed, and may be inscribed still. They have outlasted everyone; tribes and Romans and tribes again, Christianity and industry and all the improvements of the modern world. They are the architecture of eternity.\nThe circle is the eternal symbol; the symbol of the cycle, and of the return. It is a symbol that imbues the art and the legend of the Celts, from twisting wheels of knotwork to the prophecies of the resurrection of the Brythonic peoples that formed the well-spring of so much of their culture. It is an architecture upon which, today I would wish to erect the foundations of this project; the notion of the return, or completing the circle, and seeing some part of the old things that dwelt here once rise again. I would call up the ghosts, and give them back to the hills that bore them.\nThe roots of the project are three; three journeys. The journey into the hills, into the places that gave birth to the legends, to seek out the great sites of this land and weave words around them. The journey into the legends, into the books that preserve the old stories and that teach us how they were fashioned. The journey into the mind, into an attempt to recall some portion of the creative spirit of the awen that once gave voice to the spirit of this place. A chase after the ecstasy of the imagination, played out amidst the high, dark hills of the Old North.\nThe branches of the project are three; three stories, three constructions of words to house the spirit. The story of the people of the past, pulled from the pages of the bardic triads and given voice as a work of fiction. The story of the experience of chasing these things, of bringing into the here-and-now the otherworld of the there-and-then. The story told by the awen, when and if it comes.\nThe fruits of the story will be three. A trilogy of historical novels, bringing to life the tales of the bards of Hen Ogledd. A piece of travel-writing, detailing the various adventures encountered while chasing their ghosts. A piece of unknown character and origin, set within a restoration of the illuminated manuscript tradition of the Celtic world, enervated with the vast panoply of technology the digital era places at our fingertips. The swirling patterns of Celtic legend, clothed in electric lightning and cast into the ether of the internet.\nIf it succeeds, it will become a circle; a cyclical return of the old world into the new. It will be a resurrection, clothing the hills with a web of narrative drawn from the depths of their own past. It will be a frost-flower; breathing just the right breath onto the remains of the forest to call forth from within something beautiful; a crystalline, shining thing rising from the death of the past.\nI do not possess the capacity to do all this on my own. I have already two collaborators. One is a photographer of no little talent, whose work you can take a look at by clicking here. The other is a historian with an encyclopaedic brain and a voracious appetite for grasping the detail of the past. I\u2019m looking for a third; I need an artist who can combine the complex structures of Celtic art with the modern disciplines of digital design. If any of this outpouring of imagery and history has fired your imagination, and you possess such a combination of talents, I\u2019d be very pleased to hear from you.\nThe journey that weekend finished in Langholm, a little town in the border hills where the waters of the Esk meet with those of the Ewes. It\u2019s a place with many stories of its own \u2013 but they have little place in this particular tale, and will have to await another time to tell. There is but one image of the town I wish to recall at this point, to bring this tale to a conclusion that fits it. Over the town there rises a monument. It is a structure not of stone but of metal; a very modern evocation clothed in symbols that, for all their contemporaneity, point to some measure of the future of the bardic tradition in these hills. It is the monument to Hugh MacDiarmid, the greatest of the 20th century poets of the southern uplands, who gave voice to the spirit of the place in a fashion that fits very well with the nature of the journey I have here described, the journeys that have come since, and the journeys that are yet to come. His words capture the energy, the feel and the intention; to try and rival him is the object of this project\u2019s \u2013 doubtless doomed \u2013 ambition. We\u2019ll see how far we can go, though, and aim for the heights\u2026\nMacDiarmid published in 1926 a poem entitled Gairmscoile. The title is a Gaelic one, meaning a school for the vocations; the words, translated from Old Scots into English, are these;\n\u201cMy blood shall throw a dark hood over my eyes,\nAnd I shall venture deep into the hills,\nWhere \u2013 shadows on the skyline,\nTwining the sun\u2019s bent brow with plaited horns,\nAs once they crowned it with a crown of thorns,\nThe beasts in whose wild cries all Scotland\u2019s destiny thrills.\nThe loves of single hearts are strays,\nBut there, the herds that draw the generations are,\nAnd whoso hears them roaring, evermore,\nIs one with all that goes to make or mar,\nThe spirit of the race,\nAnd leads it still,\nWhither it can be led,\nBeyond all desire, and will.\u201d\n13 comments on \u201cFrost Flowers \u2013 Unfolding a New Project\u201d\nOncle Cochon\nAny connections with the wrapping of the self in bloody hide to gain prophecy?\nIn terms of the awen yes \u2013 you\u2019re describing a Gaelic version of the same process of acquiring the poetic/prophetic spirit. Are bloody hides something I personally intend to experiment with \u2013 no!!!\nThe way of the bards, I sure do like them and their \u201cconcept\u201d of \u201ctime\u201d\u2026\nThe power of the circle, and the return?\nI am so glad I thought to \u201ccircle back\u201d to your blog to check for this post! The day it appeared in my mailbox, I clicked on it and received a \u201cNot Found\u201d message. For a day or so, I checked back to no avail. (Perhaps you were editing?) In any case, today I remembered it, came back, and there it was. If I had missed it entirely, what a loss it would have been with the beautiful descriptions of the countryside, the old stories, and the amazing surprise of the Tibetan center! It was like I had slowly opened a little present, and out popped a gift just for me! (Well, I know that is not exactly true, but of course it pleased me greatly.) I wish I had either of the skills you are seeking in a collaborator, but as I do not, I will have to await the final product. Again, nice to see you back writing in this space.\nThanks for your follow of my blog and, in so doing, introducing me to yours. I like what I see and read!\nThis post is wonderful: \u201conly when a certain extraordinary stirring in the air serves to call them forth will they emerge from the forest floor.\u201d Wow \ud83d\ude42 The emergence of Tibetans was kind of a frost flower in this telling. I look forward to your upcoming publication! Until I read this I was kinda sketchy about Bards\u2026I have a book coming (don\u2019t read my blog \u2013 too wooly) soon where there seems to be a Bard of sorts rumbling around.\nThanks! There\u2019s a lot of sketchiness in general about bards; no-one\u2019s entirely sure EXACTLY what they were up to. The possibilities are all rather intriguing, though!\nsmackedpentax\nJust fantastic \u2013 I have a \u2018thing\u2019 about stone circles\u2026just wonderful writing too \ud83d\ude42\nDalveenpass\nThere is much to see and comment on in this area you describe, I enjoyed reading your thoughts on it\u2026 though you missed something enormous on this walk. It is the reason why at least one of the things you mention is where it is. Most people cannot see it because of its enormous size. Best seen in the morning or evening. If you get as far as the G Stanes or L Stanes you have gone too far. I know only one other person who has visited it (though it is fairly certain Agricola visited it \u2013 but THAT was a looong time ago).\nChristopher Murray Grieve\u2019s 1930 publication in synthetic scots was named after one in a less linear form. Chris would have killed you if you\u2019d described him as \u201cthe greatest oof the 20th century poets of the southern uplands\u201d. He was of course simply the greatest poet of the 20th century and he saw himself as international \u2013 not provincial. Many of us would say interplanetary or even Universal. He never wrote in Scots after 1930 really. Did you know the man who dug MacDiarmid\u2019s outdoor lavvie trench at Brownsbank was the first person to ever say \u201cMay The Force be with you\u201d in a movie? MacDiarmid had General Dodonna dig his shunkie trench!\nHmmm. I do like a riddle; will think on that\u2026.\nTo Circumjack Cencrastus, or the Curly Snake (1930) was MacDiarmid\u2019s last major poem to make extensive use of Scots. MacDiarmid was born in nearby Langholm.\nHowever it is not a curly snake I was referring to. 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Through this museum-school partnership, more than 500 area students have the opportunity to display their artwork at the Figge. These annual exhibits are also important because the museum is able to recognize quality visual arts programs in the schools. In addition, the recognition ceremonies introduce young artists and their families to the Figge. In the past, nearly 2,000 people attended these events; many were first-time museum visitors.\nExhibition: January 12\u201320, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, January 13, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 1 p.m.)\nMoline Community School District\nExhibition: January 26\u2013February 10, 2013\nReceptions: Thursday, February 7, 2013 (6 p.m., 6:30 p.m.)\nSponsored by The Moline Foundation\nExhibition: February 16\u2013March 3, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, February 24, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 1 p.m.)\nExhibition: March 9\u201324, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, March 24, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 1 p.m.)\nSponsored by US Bank\nExhibition: March 30\u2013April 14, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, April 7, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 12:50 p.m. and 1:10 p.m.)\nGeneseo Community School District\nExhibition: April 20\u2013May 5, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, April 28, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.)\nPleasant Valley Community School District\nExhibition: May 11\u201326, 2013\nReceptions: Sunday, May 19, 2013 (12:30 p.m., 1 p.m.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 425, "original_length": 15278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 79.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://film.avclub.com/pierce-brosnan-wants-to-get-you-super-high-in-this-trai-1798246883", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z7FHVO35EL6IMHZQPDYMGHMT3F4DVFO", "length": 1009, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "film.avclub.com", "title": "Pierce Brosnan wants to get you super high in this trailer for Urge", "raw_content": "Pierce Brosnan wants to get you super high in this trailer for Urge\nEverybody knows you\u2019re not supposed to accept drugs from strange people you meet in the backrooms of dance clubs, but just saying no is a little hard to do when the guy giving you drugs is Pierce Brosnan. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on in this trailer for Urge, an upcoming thriller directed by Machete Kills producer Aaron Kaufman. The film is about a gang of New Yorkers who visit an island paradise on vacation and end up running into Brosnan\u2019s Willy Wonka/Satan. He gives them a drug called Urge that\u2019s billed as being able to \u201cblow the doors off anything you\u2019ve done before,\u201d but the catch is that you\u2019re only supposed to do it once. Naturally, the gang of New Yorkers\u2014save a square who decides to stay sober\u2014take the Urge multiple times, and what begins as a bunch of sexy fun eventually descends into bloody mayhem.\nUrge\u2014which stars Justin Chatwin, Danny Masterson, Ashley Greene, and Alexis Knapp\u2014will be in theaters and on-demand on June 3.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aethlon-medical-release-quarterly-financial-194900552.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HSV54ZFNVU7LVTC7NCA3MN74UZJEJMWW", "length": 2635, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "finance.yahoo.com", "title": "Aethlon Medical To Release Quarterly Financial Results and Host Conference Call on February 11, 2019", "raw_content": "Aethlon Medical To Release Quarterly Financial Results and Host Conference Call on February 11, 2019\nSAN DIEGO, Feb. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (AEMD), a therapeutic technology company focused on unmet needs in global health, today announced that it will issue financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, ended December 31, 2018, at 4:15 pm eastern time on Monday, February 11, 2019.\nManagement will host a conference call on Monday, February 11, 2019 at 4:30 pm eastern time to review financial results and recent corporate developments. Following management's formal remarks, there will be a question and answer session.\nTo listen to the call by phone, interested parties within the U.S. should call 1-844-836-8741 and\nInternational callers should call 1-412-317-5442. All callers should ask for the Aethlon Medical Inc., conference call.\nA replay of the call will be available approximately one hour after the end of the call through February 18, 2019. The replay can be accessed via Aethlon Medical's website or by dialing 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international) or Canada Toll Free at 1-855-669-9658. The replay conference ID number is 10128677.\nAbout Aethlon Medical, Inc.\nAethlon Medical is focused on addressing unmet needs in global health. The Aethlon Hemopurifier\u00ae is a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device designed to combat cancer and life-threatening viral infections. In cancer, the Hemopurifier\u00ae depletes the presence of circulating tumor-derived exosomes that promote immune suppression, seed the spread of metastasis and inhibit the benefit of leading cancer therapies. The Hemopurifier\u00ae is an FDA designated \"Breakthrough Device\" related to the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease cancer. The Hemopurifier also holds a Breakthrough Device designation related to life-threatening viruses that are not addressed with approved therapies.\nAdditionally, Aethlon owns 80% of Exosome Sciences, Inc., which is focused on the discovery of exosomal biomarkers to diagnose and monitor cancer and neurological disease progression. Additional information can be found online at www.AethlonMedical.com and www.ExosomeSciences.com.\nAethlon Medical, Inc.\nJfrakes@aethlonmedical.com\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aethlon-medical-to-release-quarterly-financial-results-and-host-conference-call-on-february-11-2019-300789240.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://finchannel.com/business/press-releases/50535-eu-launches-new-twinning-project-for-employment-support-services-in-georgia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6TCO2C7Z3SW6HVECASWZCFOESWDIV34D", "length": 1170, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "finchannel.com", "title": "EU launches new Twinning project for Employment Support Services in Georgia", "raw_content": "EU launches new Twinning project for Employment Support Services in Georgia\nThe FINANCIAL -- The EU on October 7 launched a new Twinning project to build capacity at the Employment Support Services (ESS) in Georgia. The event gathered together officials from Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, who are providing specialists to work with their Georgian counterparts.\nThe aim of the \u20ac1.1 million project is to provide complex institutional and capacity building to empower the ESS through the delivery of well-targeted, high-quality, gender-sensitive and cost-effective services to job seekers, according to EU Neighbourhood Info.\nDuring 18 months, experts from the three EU countries will work together to build the capacity of the Social Service Agency of Georgia with key actions including training, employment service for job-seekers and employers, and promoting entrepreneurship.\nThe project will also help meet the obligations arising from the Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia.\nPrevious Article VTB Bank (Georgia) offers customers, the first on Georgian market, hi-tech mobile application for payments\nNext Article US Business in Georgia Forum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 3227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fineartmultiple.com/vera-lutter-venice-portfolio-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DTDYGH75UDWVBHJC3OPHSLZEZWDFJHGM", "length": 1060, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "fineartmultiple.com", "title": "Buy Vera Lutter - Venice Portfolio II", "raw_content": "Venice Portfolio II\nSuite of 6 gelatin silver prints, mounted on museum board; with colophon page and text page which includes a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke\nEach signed, dated and numbered\n53.3 x 63.5 cm (21 x 25 in) each\nFAM-E: VLU-50-1441208529-X-12\nhttps://fineartmultiple.com/vera-lutter-venice-portfolio-ii/\nVera Lutter Inquiry\nHello, I am interested in this work by Vera Lutter and I'd like to know more about it. Sincerely, [Your Name]\nAbout Vera Lutter\nVera Lutter (born 1960 in Kaiserslautern, DE) is an award winning New York based artist working in a variety of digital media, including image projection installation, film and sound recording. She is best known for her use of a room-sized camera obscura, which she uses to capture large-scale black-and-white negative images typically depicting urban and industrial landscapes (Urban Landscapes, 1994-2010; Transportation & Voyage,\u2026 Read more\nMore work by Vera Lutter\nEngine, Frankfurt Airport April 19 2001, 2001\nChephren and Cheops Pyramids, Giza: January 28, 2010, 2010-11\nSamar Hussein, 9/1/2003", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 4105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://five-starawards.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:U5NQ2IE7WZ5RWXHPF6RLM2ARDNZE3XCH", "length": 322, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "five-starawards.com", "title": "About | Five-Star Awards & More", "raw_content": "Serving Siouxland since 1977.\nFive-Star Awards & More has been creating specialty items for our valued customers for over 40 years.\nWhen you come to visit us in person or call us, you will be assisted by Krage, Kelly, Stephanie, Tayvin, or Patty.\nIf you aren't satisfied with your order, we will fix it at no extra charge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://flare.flagler.edu/hairy-ladies-by-rhi-alter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XS53723CURVCQIKYVVBDCKUDJJWLFDAW", "length": 2771, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "flare.flagler.edu", "title": "Hairy Ladies", "raw_content": "By Rhiannon Alter\nI\u2019m sitting on the curb outside UMASS Amherst, eyeing each pair of legs that walk past me. I\u2019m at the Juniper Institute for Young Writers and I\u2019m searching for the girl with hairy legs. It\u2019s the first major gossip I\u2019ve heard since my arrival, listening to the girls behind me whisper not so quietly about one of the female advisors who \u201cdoesn\u2019t shave her legs\u201d and is a \u201cfeminist\u201d. I\u2019m a Junior in highschool and it\u2019s my first time hearing that word come out of a girl\u2019s mouth. It\u2019s not, however, my first time seeing hairy legs.\nI remember back in 8th grade, I saw a girl in one of my classes who didn\u2019t shave her legs. I was grossed out, just like every other girl in my class. I first asked my mom for a razor in 5th grade.\nFinally, I spot the pair of feminine but fuzzy legs, pushing away the critical judgment I had at 13. It\u2019s a foreign sight to see a woman with dark hair from thigh to ankle. I stayed out of the seemingly high school gossip.\nA few days into the week everyone began sharing their writing during the workshop classes. Most were eager to share, glowing with a confidence I had never seen in myself until that moment. It vanished however, when I heard the poem about rape. It came from the mouth of a small girl. It was vulgar, raw, and all the truth that is the life of the regular, everyday girl. The fear of our bodies we are taught \u2014 the fear I felt when I first saw dark hair growing on my legs in 5th grade. I couldn\u2019t help but call my mom afterwards to read her the dark poem. We both cried.\nThis girl was bold, and bushy, displaying her dark underarms each time she raised her hand. For the first time in my young life, I was not judging the girls around me (the girls I\u2019ve been taught to compete with). I felt a connection to them, recognizing the similar struggles each of us had faced since being born female.\nI wrote my first feminist poem during my stay at the program. It was my first time reading at an open mic as well, and I decided to read that poem. I had never felt so empowered.\nWe grow up with these kinds of challenges, some of them forced on us like your parent letting go of your bike without warning as you learn to ride without training wheels. Writing and sharing it with others is telling your dad to let go of the bike. It is to be brave and take risks. We write to explore ourselves and all we are capable of.\nToday, I am a sophomore at Flagler College. I help organize open mics and know myself as an outspoken feminist and poet. I can talk about sexism, the ridiculous standards of femininity, and read my poetry to an audience. Sitting on the curb I stare at my own unruly calves, and I thank those hairy girls for their courage, inspiring me everyday to improve myself as a writer and as a person.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fmlink.com/articles/rmi-electric-heating-reduces-carbon-costs/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:18Z", "digest": "sha1:GDY2WYUGJZOURGNEHNW4JIFWHADYJ563", "length": 4257, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "fmlink.com", "title": "RMI report: Electric heating greatly reduces carbon and costs", "raw_content": "Switching buildings to electric heating from fossil fuels can create \u201cmassive\u201d carbon and cost reductions, finds the Rocky Mountain Institute\nby Brianna Crandall \u2014 July 4, 2018 \u2014 Ten percent of US carbon emissions can be avoided by using electricity rather than fossil fuels to heat homes and businesses, and those savings can increase via the use of \u201csmart\u201d grid-connected devices to shift energy use to maximize the efficient use of large amounts of renewable energy, according to a new Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) report.\nRMI\u2019s The Economics of Electrifying Buildings report compares electric space and water heating to fossil fuel-sourced heat for both new construction and home retrofits, under various electric rate structures, in four locations: Oakland, California; Houston, Texas; Providence, Rhode Island; and Chicago, Illinois. The analysis focuses particularly on single-family homes, which make up the majority of carbon emissions from buildings\u2019 fossil fuel use, but notes that commercial building electrification must be achieved as well if deep decarbonization goals established by US cities and states are to be met.\nThe analysis found that electrifying buildings with efficient heat pump devices already reduces carbon emissions today in all but the most heavily coal-intensive regions of the country. And for new home construction, electrification delivers cost savings over the life of an appliance compared to fossil fuel use. The same is true for homes switching away from propane or heating oil, as well as for gas customers needing to replace a gas furnace and air conditioner at the same time, and for customers bundling rooftop solar with electrification.\nRetrofitting other existing homes heated by natural gas with electric space and water heating likely increases costs at today\u2019s prices compared to replacing existing gas furnaces and water heaters with new gas devices, although other benefits and innovations may improve that cost differential, notes the report.\nWhile many regions of the country have made little progress toward electrification of residential buildings, widespread electrification will be a crucial lever to support decarbonization goals. To accelerate this transition, the report calls for:\nPrioritizing the electrification of US homes using propane and heating oil\nEnding the expansion of natural-gas distribution infrastructure, especially to new housing developments\nBundling energy efficiency measures and so-called demand flexibility programs that use new utility rate designs with electrification initiatives\nExpanding demand flexibility options for existing electric space- and water-heating demand\nUpdating energy efficiency resource standards and related goals\nConverting the US electric grid to produce zero carbon is not enough to achieve policy goals \u2014 such a transformation would cut total US emissions by only 30 percent, says RMI. If, in addition to electricity decarbonization, there were widespread electrification of buildings, ground transportation, and portions of US industry, more than 70 percent of total US emissions would be cut, according to the report.\nThis transition would also support the long-term decarbonization of the buildings sector, and accelerate the growth of net-zero carbon homes and communities, which provide a variety of other benefits for health, safety, and resilience. Electrification in new construction has the added benefit of reducing energy costs and potentially helping improve home values.\nMike Henchen, an RMI manager and a coauthor of the report, stated:\nEffective emissions-reduction efforts in support of deep decarbonization goals must include a robust \u2014 and rapid \u2014 expansion of electrification of homes and businesses. Emerging trends in the marketplace, from declining prices of electric heat pumps to the increasing grid value of demand flexibility programs, should help speed this transition while delivering Americans both lower heating costs and a cleaner environment.\nParticipants in the electrification-focused conversation at RMI\u2019s Electricity Innovation Lab (e\u2013Lab) Summit, held in October 2017, also contributed to the content of the report.\nTo access RMI\u2019s The Economics of Electrifying Buildings report, visit the group\u2019s website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 7540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://footdocshep.com/blog/itemlist/date/2017/10.html?catid=2", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3VZZ25YJQCJA4XQTNDFUHHZ6T2ZMP5RS", "length": 5300, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "footdocshep.com", "title": "Blog - Watchung and Marlboro, NJ Foot Doctor", "raw_content": "Dolphins Guard Anthony Steen Sidelined for Foot Injury\nMiami Dolphins Guard Anthony Steen was sidelined after sustaining an injury during the Dolphins and Jets game. Steen will not be playing against the Baltimore Ravens and it is not certain just how long he will be out for. The injury left him wearing a walking boot but it is otherwise unknown how severe the injury is. Steen is one of the Dolphins starting offensive linemen and was frequently positioned as left guard this season. It is expected that Jesse Davis will take over in his spot, which would be Davis' NFL debut.\nSports related foot and ankle injuries require proper treatment before players can go back to their regular routines. For more information, contact Dr. Ronald Sheppard of Warren-Watchung Podiatry Center. Our doctor can provide the care you need to keep you pain-free and on your feet.\nWhat to Do About Foot Pain\nFoot pain can be a very debilitating condition to experience. First, however, it is important to figure out what is causing it. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. Standing for long periods of time and overuse can cause the plantar fascia to become inflamed. Plantar fasciitis can affect anyone. Thankfully there are a number of treatments available for heel pain, with many of them being very easy to do. Keeping pressure off the feet, resting, and avoiding overuse can improve the condition of many who suffer from plantar fasciitis. Another method for treating heel pain includes buying a new pair of well-fitted shoes. Look for a pair that is not too tight or loose for your feet. Shoes should also have enough space in the toe box for your toes to wiggle around. Finally, look for a pair that is comfortable and that would be fine to wear for long periods of time. If you have heel or general foot pain that will not go away, see a podiatrist for a diagnosis and proper treatment.\nTarsal tunnel syndrome is a condition in which the posterior tibial nerve in the tarsal tunnel becomes pinched or compressed. This causes a number of symptoms including burning and shooting pain, a pins and needles sensation, numbness, and tightness in the foot. There are several reasons why the nerve could become compressed, which include bony prominences, bone spurs, abnormal heel position, and the swelling of tendons in the tarsal tunnel. Due to the nature of tarsal tunnel syndrome, diagnosis may be difficult because it can seem to mimic the symptoms of other conditions; heel pain and arch pain are some examples. It is best to see a podiatrist if you are experiencing any of those symptoms. Podiatrists can offer a number of treatments, such as orthotics, taping or bracing, rest, icing, anti-inflammatory medication, or even surgery if other treatments do not improve your condition.\nCommon Conditions That Afflict the Foot\nOur feet are an important part of our bodies and require good care to keep us going. Here are some common foot ailments and ways to treat them. A bunion, or the misalignment of the big toe, can be worsened by improper footwear, such as high heels or poorly fitted shoes. To prevent this, wear well-fitted and supportive shoes that provide ample toe space. Calluses and corns are caused by repeated friction on an area, which results in the buildup of hard skin. Preventing friction is the best way to stop both, so wearing quality socks and shoes that don\u2019t rub up against the skin are best. If you do develop calluses or corns, it is recommended to see a podiatrist. Sometimes, viruses can enter the skin on our feet through tiny cuts or scrapes and cause verrucas, or plantar warts. Plantar warts are contagious, so it is recommended to see a podiatrist who can treat them. If you use public showers, wear shower shoes to prevent catching viruses and fungal infections, such as athlete\u2019s foot. Ingrown toenails can occur if pressure is put on the nail or if the nails are cut too short. Athlete\u2019s foot and fungal nails are both caused by fungi. While there are over-the-counter ointments that you can buy, podiatrists can prescribe better options. Finally flat feet, which are caused by fallen arches, can be taken care of with custom-made orthotics from a podiatrist.\nPodiatrists are medical doctors who specialize in the foot and ankle. Officially known as a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM), podiatrists have the knowledge and ability to diagnose and treat any foot ailment. This includes minor ones such as toenail fungus, cracked heels, and heel pain, to more major problems such as an Achilles tendon rupture or a broken foot. They can also provide items such as custom-made orthotics to help give your feet proper support and keep them aligned. For those with diabetes, it is highly recommended to see a podiatrist. Diabetics generally have reduced blood flow and neuropathy in the foot, which in their worst cases can lead to infected ulcers and an increased risk of amputation. If you are experiencing any pain or have any foot abnormalities, it is important to see a podiatrist.\nIf you are experiencing pain in the feet or ankles, don\u2019t join the stubborn majority refusing treatment. Feel free to contact Dr. Ronald Sheppard from Warren-Watchung Podiatry Center. Our doctor can provide the care you need to keep you pain-free and on your feet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 13818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/10/19/palestine-the-latest-middle-east-security-state/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ANPGXP5HI7NCSGCPNHH3RISYDEB6YNF4", "length": 10432, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "foreignpolicy.com", "title": "Palestine: The latest Middle East security state? \u2013 Foreign Policy", "raw_content": "The Middle East Channel: Palestine: The latest Middle East security state? Palestine: The latest Middl...\nPalestine: The latest Middle East security state?\nOn recent trip to Ramallah, I spoke with a senior Fatah official and former Palestinian Authority minister about the state of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Consistent with most other Israelis and Palestinians who I\u2019d met, he was not particularly optimistic. The conversation turned to the advances in security and economic development in the West ...\nBy Matt Duss\nOn recent trip to Ramallah, I spoke with a senior Fatah official and former Palestinian Authority minister about the state of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Consistent with most other Israelis and Palestinians who I\u2019d met, he was not particularly optimistic. The conversation turned to the advances in security and economic development in the West Bank under the widely hailed leadership of Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad. I asked whether progress on political reform had tracked at all with the progress in those other areas.\nAfter acknowledging the vastly improved security (demonstrated most definitively by the depth of cooperation between Israeli occupation authorities and Palestinian security forces) and economic growth (which is real, despite being donor driven, and thus unsustainable), the official dispatched my question with a flick of his cigarette.\n\"Political reform?\" he smiled. \"It\u2019s a joke.\"\nOne of the key problems of the U.S.\u2019s approach to dealing with the Middle East, particularly with the Palestinians, has been to focus on persons at the expense of politics and institutions. Rather than cultivating and supporting democratic habits and procedures, U.S. policymakers have tended to identify individual leaders who could deliver various goods, usually broadly defined as \"stability\" or \"progress,\" ignoring the longer-term implications of how exactly those goods were delivered.\nThere\u2019s a fairly strong consensus that this has been a mistake. Indeed, one of the great and least remarked-upon ironies of the post-9/11 era is the fact that the George W. Bush administration latched upon a critique of U.S. foreign policy that had theretofore been mainly the province of \"leftist\" academics and liberal pundits: that America\u2019s interest in stability in Middle East had led it, for decades, to support a series of authoritarian regimes who promised to keep the relative peace if we didn\u2019t bother them too much about democracy or human rights, and that the terror visited on America that fall morning was a consequence.\nThis idea was clearly expressed by Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a major foreign policy address in March 2008: \"For decades in the greater Middle East, we had a strategy of relying on autocrats to provide order and stability,\" said McCain. \"In the late 1970s that strategy began to unravel. The ensuing ferment in the Muslim world produced increasing instability.\"\nConservative strategist Bill Kristol offered a similar statement in 2005 at Tel Aviv University, at a symposium on the Bush foreign policy and neoconservatism. \"We had made too many accommodations with dictators,\" Kristol said. \"The reaction was, in many cases, leading to greater anti-Americanism, greater extremism, and greater terrorism.\"\nUnderpinning George W. Bush\u2019s \"freedom agenda,\" this analysis \u2014 which clearly suggests that past U.S. policy was, in part, responsible for 9/11 \u2014 was spared classification as \"America-hating,\" probably because, issuing from neoconservative mouths and pens, there was no one else around willing to cast such cheap aspersions. But also because, having identified the problem, the preferred neoconservative solution primarily involved America sallying forth to blow more stuff up. Much, much more stuff.\nRegardless of whether Bush\u2019s \"freedom agenda\" was born of a genuinely progressive impulse, or just a fig leaf for the further entrenchment of U.S. power in the region, that agenda quickly collapsed, one of many casualties of the furies unleashed by the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.\nBut just because the Bush administration latched onto this critique as a justification for its attempt to reorder the Middle East doesn\u2019t mean it was necessarily wrong. A focus on security at the expense of democracy does generate bad consequences, and acknowledgement of this fact, by anyone, however late coming, is a good thing.\nSo why are we doing it again in Palestine?\nThe West\u2019s fixation on the goods currently being delivered in Palestine by Prime Minister Fayyad is perhaps best symbolized by the fact that Tom Friedman, the English speaking world\u2019s greatest condenser of conventional foreign policy wisdom, has awarded him with his own \"-ism\": Fayyadism, defined by Friedman as \"a nonviolent struggle [against the Israeli occupation]\u2026 building non-corrupt transparent institutions and effective police and paramilitary units.\"\nAppointed Prime Minister in 2007 in the wake of the Fatah-Hamas civil war, Fayyad operates without a political mandate. After Hamas\u2019 takeover of Gaza in June 2007, President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Fatah-Hamas unity government and, at the encouragement of the Bush administration, created an emergency government and began to rule by presidential decree, which he does to this day, effectively under a \"state of emergency\" that resembles Egypt\u2019s. The Palestinian Legislative Council hasn\u2019t met since 2007. National elections were scheduled for January 2010, and local elections for June, but there\u2019s no sign either will be held any time soon.\nWhile Fayyad\u2019s accomplishments in cleaning up government corruption, promoting greater financial transparency, and clamping down on terrorism are indisputable, there is evidence that the PA\u2019s forces (U.S. trained and funded) have also directed their energies against peaceful political activities.\nIn August, the Ma\u2019an News Agency reported that members of the PA General Intelligence Service attempted to quash a rally against the PA re-entering direct talks in the absence of an Israeli settlement freeze, and then assaulted field workers from the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq as they attempted to document the Intelligence Service\u2019s activities.\nThe most recent Freedom House survey of Palestinian civil rights and press freedom gave the PA a grade of \"not free.\"\n\"While the PA parades each of its new initiatives before the media, it obstructs, manipulates and lies about what it is doing against opposition movements,\" says George Hale, an editor for Ma\u2019an. \"Palestinians hold protests somewhat regularly on issues like the cancelled municipal elections, and the PA security forces often break them up when they get too loud.\" The level of intimidation is high. According to Hale, \"It\u2019s the protests that aren\u2019t happening which reveal more about the levels of freedom.\"\n\"I find it preposterous that there\u2019s transparency when the IDF arrests Palestinians but not from the PA when they arrest their own people,\" says Hale, who also blames international journalists \"who only care about what Israel does and never hold the PA to any semblance of accountability.\"\nThree different sources also confirmed to me that the PA has appointed a number of Salafi prayer leaders in West Bank mosques, on the condition that they direct their rhetorical fire away from the PA and Abbas\u2019 Fatah Party, and toward Fatah\u2019s political opponents, primarily Hamas.\nNot only does this bargain reproduce an arrangement common to authoritarian governments in the region, where extreme conservative clerics are tolerated and supported as long as they withhold criticism of the government, it mirrors Israeli policy beginning in the 1970\u2019s, when the Israeli occupation authorities lent aid to the ministry of a little-known Sheikh named Ahmed Yassin, in the hopes that his Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood would draw support away from the secular nationalist PLO.\nIt worked. With the first Intifada in 1987, the now deeply entrenched Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood morphed into the Palestinian \"Islamic Resistance Movement\" \u2014 Harakat al-Muqawamat al-Islamiyyah, Hamas.\nSuppressing Hamas\u2019 ability to carry out violence has been a central goal of the Abbas-Fayyad government, with strong U.S. and Israeli support, as well as diminishing Hamas\u2019 political appeal through combating corruption and increasing economic opportunity. But the security service\u2019s energies have also been directed at non-violent Hamas activities, harassing and shutting down charitable groups associated with Hamas, and removing locally elected Hamas officials and schoolteachers. Having agreed to \"play by the rules\" and eschew violence, these activists have now found that any association with a disfavored political orientation is enough to make them targets of repression\nIn the absence of genuine progress toward ending the occupation however, Palestinian dissatisfaction with the PA, which is already severe, is only likely to grow. And without opportunities to express that dissatisfaction through legitimate democratic institutions and procedures, the likelihood of greater violence will grow, too \u2014 both toward Israel and toward the PA, who increasing numbers of Palestinians see as simply managing the occupation for their Israeli bosses.\nIsrael\u2019s security concerns are real, and require attention. But, as with decades of privileging the flow of oil of over human rights in the Middle East, continuing to privilege Israeli security perceptions over Palestinian political realities is unlikely to lead to an outcome that makes anyone happy.\nAccording to the former PA minister I spoke to, the storm clouds are already forming. He was getting more and more concerned about the level of unrest and hostility being directed toward the PA by his own neighbors and relatives. \"If you find me with a bullet in the back of my head,\" he said, \"you will know why.\"\nPolitical freedom is not a peripheral concern in Palestine \u2014 it is central to the U.S. goal of a functioning, viable, and democratic Palestinian state at peace with Israel. The Obama administration must not allow itself, in the interest of an illusive stability, to keep kicking the can down the road, and oversee the creation of yet another security state in the Middle East.\nMatthew Duss is National Security Editor at the Center for American Progress\nTags: International Relations, Israel/Palestine, Middle East", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 15629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.babypips.com/t/has-anybody-found-success/111181/8", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CSCX2ZFSJFGE362EWQMBK5ABSNFPSDIT", "length": 1573, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "forums.babypips.com", "title": "Has Anybody Found Success - Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - BabyPips.com Forex Trading Forum", "raw_content": "I have recently used two EA\u2019s, they worked very well in the backtests, and they also worked very well in demo trading, but when I started trading them on my real account, they performed terribly\nhas anybody actually found success with any expert advisors on a real account? Is it even possible?\nIt\u2019s far easier to make some money selling an EA than it is by trading.\nBecause of that there are thousands of EA\u2019s being promoted.\nAnd because of that, according to the law of large numbers there will always be a few people who temporarily make a profit, just randomly.\nThe important thing to learn is that the EA\u2019s that happen to be making a profit now aren\u2019t the same ones that will also make a profit for the next year. That\u2019s all random.\nSo \u201cknowing how they\u2019ve been performing recently\u201d is almost useless information.\nThe answer to your question \u201cIs it even possible\u201d is therefore \u201cYes, technically it\u2019s just about randomly possible, but it isn\u2019t reliably possible\u201d.\nEA\u2019s are for fantasists and people who dream of winning the lottery.\nThat\u2019s an absolutely enormous market, of course. (Just look at how many people buy lottery tickets.)\nFOREXunlimited:\nThink about it\u2014do you think someone with a successful \u201cEA\u201d would share it?\nExactly. It\u2019s a simple, profound and totally valid point that most people just choose to ignore, because it conflicts with their fantasy.\nIf so which expert advisors have worked for you on real accounts?\nActually none, but the point to understand is that it doesn\u2019t matter, because they wouldn\u2019t be the same ones that would work for you anyway.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 15925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.castanet.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14236&start=4005", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QZURV7TUE7XMHV3WBL5GS26AOJEIMZFR", "length": 1386, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "forums.castanet.net", "title": "Castanet \u2022 Whatcha listenin' to right now? - View topic", "raw_content": "by ifwisheswerehorses \u00bb Oct 5th, 2018, 12:04 pm\nby sobrohusfat \u00bb Oct 6th, 2018, 6:42 pm\nOne of my all time favourite artist:\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F73EcycGCO8\nby oldtrucker \u00bb Oct 6th, 2018, 10:51 pm\nEcho and the bunnymen. Lips like sugar\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGcJA8fXvU\nOMG I miss the 80's and even the corny vids.\nby LANDM \u00bb Oct 7th, 2018, 3:50 am\nWatched the SNL season opener with Kanye. There is not enough eye and ear bleach in the world to make me whole again after suffering through that . I can honestly say it was the worst ever. Normally if it isn\u2019t to my taste I will FF through but I made myself watch each of the \"performances\". F\u00fckc me, it was pathetic.\nby sobrohusfat \u00bb Oct 8th, 2018, 10:18 pm\nby unclemarty \u00bb Oct 26th, 2018, 2:54 pm\n\"Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.\" - Yehuda Amichai\nunclemarty\n^^ Leon Bridges is damn good.\nNeil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk - The Truthiness, with Stephen Colbert\nhttps://www.startalkradio.net/show/the- ... n-colbert/\nby oneh2obabe \u00bb Oct 29th, 2018, 5:16 pm\nhttps://www.metatube.com/en/videos/3342 ... kee-Video/\nby oneh2obabe \u00bb Nov 8th, 2018, 1:40 pm\nLast edited by oneh2obabe on Dec 3rd, 2018, 11:19 am, edited 1 time in total.\nby sobrohusfat \u00bb Nov 15th, 2018, 6:58 pm\nby sobrohusfat \u00bb Nov 17th, 2018, 12:12 pm\nWorking Man - Men Of The Deeps\nhttps://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ma ... ORM=VDRVRV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 10661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.catholic.com/t/switch-to-catholic/533383", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EC3ED57LW6NSSFO5AB6RAJQXSLBUS2OR", "length": 5728, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "forums.catholic.com", "title": "Switch to catholic? - Non-Catholic Religions - Catholic Answers Forums", "raw_content": "Switch to catholic?\nI\u2019m from a non denominational church and am wondering what Catholicism says about that, and if there is any reason to switch\nDan_Defender 2019-01-29 23:20:02 UTC #2\nI do not know the tenets of their faith but non denominational churches are less than 100 years old. The Catholic Church is 2000 years old and can trace back to the Apostles.\nCor_ad_Cor 2019-01-29 23:43:15 UTC #3\nNondenominational could mean literally a thousand (or more) different things. Can you tell us more or ask more specific questions?\nFor what it\u2019s worth, I used to be \u201cnondenominational\u201d myself.\nI\u2019m a convert from the non-denominational Church of Christ. With the exception of rare cases, I\u2019m sure the Catholic Church would affirm that you are a bother/sister in Christ. A reason to switch: the fullness of faith found only in the institution founded by Jesus Christ, the holy Catholic Church.\nMichael16 2019-01-29 23:50:13 UTC #5\nNon denominational basically means non affiliated Bible only Protestantism.\nI agree, humble\nHoosier-Daddy 2019-01-30 00:14:28 UTC #7\nYes. Of course you should switch. The Church thinks you should switch. I love when questions are so simple! This thread should be short and unanimous.\n1Lord1Faith 2019-01-30 02:17:55 UTC #8\nDavid5:\nand if there is any reason to switch\nSwitch to Catholic what?? I recently switched to a Catholic beer, from Guinness to La Trappe.\nHorton 2019-01-30 02:20:04 UTC #9\nOn your profile it states you are Catholic. Are a Catholic who attends the non-dom church and wondering if you should come back to the Catholic faith? Can you clarify?\nStPancake 2019-01-30 02:29:11 UTC #10\nI grew up in a Baptist church and accidentally found the Catholic Church some 6+ years ago. Immediately, my intrigue was great and my desire to learn more was insatiable. After a few months, I contacted the man, in charge of adult education, at my now Church and asked to meet.\nTodd answered many questions that day and my excitement was great, as was his. Before I left that day, he put a book in my hands that I took home and devoured. It was the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second edition.\nTonight, I would like to put that book in your hands. If you live in the area of the ATL, I will personally deliver it to you tomorrow. Failing that, here is a link to find it online.\nhttp://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc.htm\nIt was an overwhelming read for me and it just touched my soul. May the spirit touch you while you read it.\nUm\u2026this is a Catholic website. 99.997% of replies are going to be for you to convert.\nIt\u2019s also kind of obvious. Like, of course the posters on a Catholic forum are going to overwhelmingly say yes, become Catholic.\nYeah, about the only religious group I can think of where you wouldn\u2019t get such a response if they ran a forum would be Jews. Possibly also Quakers, but for different reasons.\nStanz 2019-01-30 18:56:00 UTC #14\nThere are plenty of great reasons to convert but,\nthe biggest reason you should convert is to receive the Sacraments and the graces they can confer.\nThere is no need to re-baptize, as long as you were baptized within what the church recognizes as fellow Christian faith.\nBut the really heavy-weight Sacraments that Protestants don\u2019t even have are Reconciliation and Eucharistic Communion.\nThis is like the Jab and Uppercut Knock-out of accepting Jesus into your heart as your personal Lord and savior.\nSo yes, come home, to the true Church!\nI don\u2019t mean to be argumentative, but the Lutheran Church does offer confession and absolution. And while Catholics don\u2019t consider a Lutheran Eucharist valid (because of lack of AS), the Lutheran Church does believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. We just don\u2019t call it Transubstantiation; we refer to it as \u201cSacramental Union.\u201d\nLutheran Church belief on Real Presence is different. Catholics believe bread really becomes Christ\u2019s body or rather Christ\u2019s body becomes bread, while Lutherans believe that Christ becomes present spiritually. What Catholic Church differentiates is Christ\u2019s presence as God everywhere, his presence in our loved ones and in Holy Bible from Christ\u2019s presence in Eucharist. I believe Lutherans believe him to be spiritually present akin to being present in Holy Bible, but correct me if I\u2019m wrong.\nLutherans believe that Christ\u2019s Body is truly present and His Blood truly present in the elements. We don\u2019t hold to the belief that the elements cease to be bread and wine. We take Christ at his word when he says \u201cthis is my body.\u201d\nFrom 1 Corinthians: \u201cWhoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.\u201d\nAlso from 1 Corinthians: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.\nPaul doesn\u2019t mention that the bread ceases to be bread. Therefore, we let it remain a mystery as to how Christ comes into the bread and wine, but we do believe His Body and Blood are present.\nTTLE127 2019-01-31 15:23:12 UTC #18\nI personally believe a switch to Catholicism can help anyone. I highly recommend it!\nCharlieSkinner 2019-01-31 15:59:51 UTC #19\nAll Christian chuches originated with the Roman Catholic Church.\nWe were the first and we remain the best.\nCome on over, we would love to have you as a Catholic.\nCome to Mass. Pray to God.\nHopefully, you will want to do RCIA and become a Catholic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.mulesoft.com/spaces/111/general-discussions.html?topics=batch%20processing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IN23NSZ3YW2EWIXFKAQYJLGANVP643EL", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "forums.mulesoft.com", "title": "General Discussions - MuleSoft", "raw_content": "Welcome to the New Space, General Discussions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fourfourmag.com/night-clara-take-place-button-factory-saturday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:19Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6FFCI3LRLLVEOTKNJ4OHS4HQCCMG6ZV", "length": 1091, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "fourfourmag.com", "title": "'A Night For Clara' to take place in The Button Factory tonight - Four/Four Magazine", "raw_content": "\u2018A Night For Clara\u2019 to take place in The Button Factory tonight\nLast Sunday, the news began to spread that sadly, another young life had been lost to suicide. Clara Berney, originally from Newbridge, was extremely well known and popular around Dublin, and a regular to the clubbing scene.\nTributes began to quickly pour in for Clara as her friends took to Facebook and other social media outlets to share the fondest memories they had of her.\nIt wasn\u2019t long before Clara\u2019s childhood friend Niall D\u2019Arcy, also known as DJ Deece announced on Facebook that he would team up with Dublin collective Paradox to play a special gig dedicated especially to her memory, with all proceeds going to Pieta House.\nFor people who are unfamiliar with the group, Pieta House is a non-profit organisation that deals with suicide prevention and counselling for those bereaved by suicide.\nIf you would like to head along to the event you can purchase a ticket here.\nIf you can\u2019t make it to the gig you can donate \u20ac2 to Pieta House by texting PIETA to 50300.\nFor more information on A Night For Clara click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebeacon.com/politics/behar-franken-gentleman-gillibrand/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OBNMFKANHFJCV3EV5VJKDR7IANOGNPXC", "length": 2436, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "freebeacon.com", "title": "Behar: Franken Is a 'Gentleman,' Gillibrand Was 'Out to Get Him'", "raw_content": "Behar: Franken Is a \u2018Gentleman,\u2019 Gillibrand Was \u2018Out to Get Him\u2019\nABC \"The View\" host Joy Behar called former Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) a \"gentleman\" on Wednesday and ripped Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) as \"out to get him\" when she called on him to resign over accusations of sexual misconduct.\nFranken said this week he hasn't ruled out running for office again after being pressured into resigning in January. The decision followed accusations from multiple women who alleged he carried out unwanted touching and kissing in the past. Gillibrand was the first Senate Democrat to call on him to resign in December, and a flood of Democrats followed her lead, leading to him stepping down.\nBehar confronted Gillibrand when the lawmaker appeared on the program in January, saying she \"led the charge\" against Franken and it was \"unfair\" to make an example out of him. She's still not over it, struggling to remember Gillibrand's name as she attacked her for bringing Franken down.\n\"Al Franken attacked \u2026 Jeff Sessions,\" Behar said. \"He suddenly became the target of the right wing, to get him out of office, and then Gilligrand, Gillibrand\u2014is that her name? She was out to get him also, and the Democrats decided, \u2018Oh, we're going to take the high road,' and they basically lost a really good senator, in my opinion.\"\nReferring to the infamous image of Franken with his hands over Leeann Tweeden's breasts as she slept on a plane in 2006, Behar called it a \"sophomoric joke\" Franken did before he knew he would be a U.S. senator.\n\"To his credit, he said she didn't have any ability to consent, she had every right to feel violated by that photo. So he's a gentleman, and he took the hit,\" Behar said. \"Now, can we please move on and get the great senator back, and get rid of the president.\"\nMeghan McCain reminded Behar she said Franken also forcibly kissed her without her consent. Tweeden appeared on \"The View\" after accusing Franken of his misconduct and read an apology letter from him on the program.\n\"You just said it was a right-wing attack \u2026 That's crazy on so many different levels,\" McCain said.\nMcCain said if President Donald Trump or a Republican was caught in a photo doing anything like it, they would be calling for their heads.\n\"He's done worse, and you know it,\" Behar said.\nThis entry was posted in Politics and tagged Al Franken, Joy Behar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Meghan McCain, The View. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebeacon.com/politics/report-10-percent-of-amazons-ohio-workforce-on-food-stamps/print/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NADHJPXNWMGBBSIOXJKS3I7YCBH6IYTL", "length": 3230, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "freebeacon.com", "title": "Washington Free Beacon Report: 10 Percent of Amazon's Ohio Workforce on Food Stamps", "raw_content": "Report: 10 Percent of Amazon\u2019s Ohio Workforce on Food Stamps\nPosted By David Rutz On January 7, 2018 @ 1:46 pm In Politics | No Comments\nAmazon ranks high on a list charting Ohio's employers with the most workers and their family members on food stamps, with a new report estimating that more than 10 percent of its workforce in the state qualifies for the federal aid.\nThe progressive policy group Policy Matters Ohio stated, as of August, Amazon had 1,430 workers and family members on food stamps, which helps low-income people purchase food. It ranks 19th on a list of 50 large employers in the state, according to the group.\nSince a typical beneficiary gets benefits for roughly two people, that means the online retail giant has about 700 workers on the program in Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch reports:\nTo be on the list, a company has to have a large number of workers in the state. In addition, that company has to have a significant number of workers who don\u2019t make much money or maybe work part time.\nWorkers getting food stamps in essence becomes an additional taxpayer subsidy for the companies that pay low wages, said Zach Schiller, Policy Matters\u2019 research director.\n\"We\u2019ve appreciated having more employment, but maybe we should be focusing economic development dollars on good jobs. It\u2019s pretty clear that a lot of these jobs are not good jobs,\" he said. \"That should raise a policy question for our public officials, and that\u2019s why we think its worth pointing out.\"\nAccording to the report, in order to be eligible for food stamps, a family of three could make no more than $26,208 a year, or about $12.60 an hour for someone working 40 hours a week.\nAmazon released a statement to the Washington Free Beacon about Amazon's paying practices.\n\"Amazon full-time hourly employees in Ohio earn between $14.50 and $15 an hour as a starting wage with regular pay increases plus Amazon stock and performance based bonuses,\" spokeswoman Ashley Robinson said. \"We also provide comprehensive benefits which include health, vision, and dental insurance coverage starting on day one, generous maternity and family leave, tuition for career education, and a network of support to succeed.\"\nThe Ohio Development Services Agency released a statement praising Amazon for generating economic opportunity with its presence in Ohio that would not otherwise exist.\n\"Amazon has created thousands of new jobs and generated millions of dollars in new payroll consistent with Ohio\u2019s requirements for economic incentives,\" the Ohio Development Services Agency said. \"These jobs provide economic opportunity to Ohioans that may not have had it before.\"\nAmazon has about 6,000 workers in the state, ranking 53rd on the list of the state's largest employers. The company's presence in Ohio will only increase, with Amazon planning to build two more distribution centers in the Buckeye State.\nOhio has also put in a bid to be the home of Amazon's second headquarters, which The Dispatch reports would generate 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment.\nUPDATED Monday, 11:11 A.M.: This article was updated with a statement from Amazon.\nURL to article: https://freebeacon.com/politics/report-10-percent-of-amazons-ohio-workforce-on-food-stamps/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://frictionlabs.co.uk/athletes/mike-bockino", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MF55X2G2EYDYJAYXF6ZE7T5A5QPITJ5Y", "length": 530, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "frictionlabs.co.uk", "title": "Mike Bockino", "raw_content": "Mike grew up in northern Idaho where he started climbing in 1999. A couple years later he began routesetting while in college at the University of Idaho, and climbing took over his life. Since then he has been climbing boulders up to V13, routes up to .14c, and has set numerous national championships for bouldering and sport.\n\"I like Friction Labs because it has the most consistent level of quality in chalk that I've had in years, and it sticks to my hands even when my skin is super dry and thick.\"\nToshiaki Takeuchi\nDru Mack", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://frostsnow.com/page/brett-ratner-fights-back-sues-woman-over-rape-allegations-for-defamation?page=10&per-page=6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:N6HIMK2F7DCVDOVKSBIT4A3MA22HZ664", "length": 1364, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "frostsnow.com", "title": "Brett Ratner Fights Back: Sues Woman Over Rape Allegations For Defamation", "raw_content": "Brett Ratner Fights Back: Sues Woman Over Rape Allegations For Defamation\nFollowing the rape allegations that a woman claimed Brett Ratner raped her in L.A. over a decade ago, the director is suing her, calling the allegations a total lie.\nAccording to the suit, Melanie Kohler claimed through an October 20 Facebook post, \"Brett Ratner raped me\" and extended by calling him \"a rapist on at least one night in Hollywood about 12 years ago.\"\nThe document obtained showed that the 48-year-old film producer preyed on Melanie as a drunk girl [and] forced himself upon her.\nMust Read- Brett Ratner Says Hugh Hefner \"Was Trying to Make This Country a Better Place\"\nBrett's lawyer told the media that Melanie said she had met Brett at a Los Angeles club in either 2004 or 2005, and he took her to Robert Evans' home where Brett was living at the time. Melanie says he forced her to have sex.\nBrett's lawyer threatened to sue if Melanie didn't take the post down immediately, and as per the report, she did so, however, recently she started putting the same story out in various ways.\nKohler is not one of the six women (including e Olivia Munn, Jaime Ray Newman, Katharine Towne, and Natasha Henstridge) who accused Brett of sexual harassment and misconduct on Wednesday in a Los Angeles Times article.\nRatner is suing Kohler for defamation, claiming unspecified damages", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ftmyers3.greatflorida.com/FranchiseContact.asp?code=B8CC0721&nP=Thankyou.aspx?f=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:48Z", "digest": "sha1:V5ELKNG3CODWSSYFIH66SK4D4F2ERSJW", "length": 901, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ftmyers3.greatflorida.com", "title": "Franchise Insurance Agency Contact Form", "raw_content": "Join the #1 Insurance Franchise in Florida.\nPlease fill out the form below and we will contact you with further information\nabout this great franchise opportunity.\nEllsworth Buck\nGreatFlorida Insurance Holding Corp.\n955 S Federal Hwy, Suite 101\nState: Select one... 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I'm a coyote\"\nPin \"I'm a big panda\"\nPin \"Coyote\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 1607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gdpr.gopas.cz/en/gdpr-eu-cookie-notification", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:E57KFOSS6EZW6ZDZBJWX3JFTFHUTY4OP", "length": 148, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gdpr.gopas.cz", "title": "GDPR - Gopas - GDPR - EU cookie notification", "raw_content": "About Gopas Courses IT club Elearning Contact\nGOPAS, a.s. is the largest provider of information technology training on the Czech and Slovak market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gearburn.com/tag/smartphones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NJYH2MG6MTKWVJ4Z2EMWHBY3PQROAOL4", "length": 767, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "gearburn.com", "title": "smartphones Archives - Gearburn", "raw_content": "Smartphone shipments tank by 14% in China, Huawei leads\nSmartphone shipments in China have slowed for a second consecutive year, research firm Canalys revealed in a report. In total, smartphone shipments in China have declined by 18% since 2016, with a little under 400-million devices shipped in 2018. It declined by 14% alone in 2018, despite the rise of Huawei and Vivo's market share. Image: Canalys In fact, Huawei ranked number one for shipment sales in the country with a 16% increase, while Vivo grew by 9%. Other smartphone manufacturers, namely Oppo, Xiaomi and Apple, all saw decreased shipments. Canalys's Mo Jia said that the reason for Huawei's dominance is that it \"penetrated the...\nMore in Mobile Phones, MWC\n3 phones we can't wait to see at MWC 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 9207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fullf.web&search1=R=292102", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:21Z", "digest": "sha1:AFYTOP34EODT75SUP4BFX5OCKN3MCP2Y", "length": 674, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca", "title": "GEOSCAN, r\u00e9sultats de la recherche", "raw_content": "Megathrust surprises\nNature Geoscience vol. 6, 2013 p. 11-12, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1682\nsecousses s\u00e9ismiques; risque de tremblement de terre; magnitudes des s\u00e9ismes; \u00e9tudes s\u00e9ismiques\nIt is with mixed feelings that we look back at the subduction zone megathrust earthquakes of the past five years (since January 2007), 18 of which are greater than moment magnitude (M) 7.5, and 5 greater than M 8. With awe and sadness, we remember the devastation caused by the tsunamis they induced, especially that of the Tohoku earthquake of March 2011 that caused ~20,000 deaths. With excitement, we recognize how the huge amount of data they provided has improved our knowledge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getpaidforyourpad.com/podcast-2/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:TM5H2NIUMMP7TGIY2YIBHBCCT2MDIABC", "length": 2295, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "getpaidforyourpad.com", "title": "Podcast \u00bb Get Paid For Your Pad", "raw_content": "Airbnb Plus represents the creme de la creme of all Airbnb listings. It\u2019s a selection of the highest quality listings run by Airbnb\u2019s finest hosts, known [\u2026]\nIn this week\u2019s podcast episode I speak with RemoteLock CEO Nolan Mondrow. For hosts managing multiple properties or locations abroad, RemoteLock offers an easy solution that [\u2026]\nHow to Manage and Train Your Cleaners (Ep252)\nIn this week\u2019s podcast episode I speak with Francisco Arango, long time Airbnb host and cleaning expert. Francisco started his Airbnb hosting career by renting out [\u2026]\nLuggage Storage for Airbnb Guests with Knock Knock City (Ep251)\nAirbnb guests often want to check-in early or check-out late. If that\u2019s not possible, they often ask if they can at least store their luggage. Although [\u2026]\nProtect Your Airbnb from Parties with Noiseaware (Ep250)\n\ufeff Every week it seems the news is flooded with stories about short-term rental guests using properties to host wild parties, unbeknownst to the property owner. 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Girls from Daisies through Ambassadors will gain confidence and leadership skills when given the opportunity to lead their activities, learn cooperatively as a group, and learn by doing instead of by observing.\nThe following are some traditions troops have used for girl-led governance, but these are just examples. National Leadership Journeys offer examples of team decision-making, too.\nDaisy/Brownie Circle: While sitting in a circle (sometimes called a ring), girls create a formal group decision-making body. The circle is an organized time for girls to express their ideas and talk about activities they enjoy, and you play an active role in facilitating discussion and helping them plan. Girls often vote to finalize decisions. If girls are talking over each other, consider passing an object, such as a talking stick, that entitles one girl to speak at a time.\nJunior/Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Patrol or Team System: In this system, large troops divide into small groups, with every member playing a role. Teams of four to six girls are recommended so that each girl gets a chance to participate and express her opinions. Patrols may be organized by interests or activities that feed into a Take Action project, with each team taking responsibility for some part of the total project; girls may even enjoy coming up with names for their teams.\nJunior/Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Executive Board: In the executive board system (also called a steering committee), one leadership team makes decisions for the entire troop. The board\u2019s responsibility is to plan activities and assign jobs based on interests and needs, and the rest of the troop decides how to pass their ideas and suggestions to the executive board throughout the year. The executive board usually has a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer and holds its own meetings to discuss troop matters. Limit the length of time each girl serves on the executive board so all troop members can participate during the year.\nJunior/Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Town Meeting: Under the town meeting system, business is discussed and decisions are made at meetings attended by all the girls in the troop. As in the patrol and executive board systems, everyone gets the chance to participate in decision-making and leadership. Your role is to act as a moderator, who makes sure everyone gets a chance to talk and that all ideas are considered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globaldesigningcities.org/person/helle-soholt/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:R4I6ULAG5Q3E3L4HHZJCZKL7EBND37YG", "length": 1720, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "globaldesigningcities.org", "title": "Helle Soholt | Global Designing Cities Initiative", "raw_content": "Helle S\u00f8holt is a Founding Partner of Gehl Architects and started the firm with Professor Jan Gehl in the year 2000. The office has developed a knowledge base and experience respected internationally within the field of urban design and urban development and has gained multiple prizes and recognitions for its contributions to making cities more livable and sustainable.\nHelle S\u00f8holt is educated as an architect in Copenhagen at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts as well as at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, and she has extensive international urban design experience at various levels of intervention and at a multitude of scales from urban analysis, visioning and strategy to design development.\nHelle S\u00f8holt has over the years acted as a trusted advisor to the City of Copenhagen and other great cities like the City of Vancouver, Mexico City, Cape Town and Sao Paulo.\nHelle S\u00f8holt was awarded member of the Danish Arts Society in 2010. She was also reworded the Danish Dreyer\u2019s Prize of Honor for architects in Denmark. Since 2008 Helle S\u00f8holt has served as member of numerous Advisory Boards for cities, national authorities, think tanks and committees. Currently Helle S\u00f8holt is acting as board member of Realdania Foundation in Denmark, The Danish National Architecture & Design Consortium, the Danish National Aquarium as well as acting as an external examiner of Sheffield University.\nHelle S\u00f8holt often serve as a keynote speaker focusing on the issue of urban quality and mobility at a wide range of international conferences and act on design competition juries in Europe.\nHelle S\u00f8holt is a strong advocate for healthy urban living supporting compact urban form, human scale and mobility for all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/romania", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:21Z", "digest": "sha1:KFLXF5XMESDWBDRLQHBAFOYA2ALETAP3", "length": 1584, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "globaledge.msu.edu", "title": "Romania: Introduction >> globalEDGE: Your source for Global Business Knowledge", "raw_content": "Romanians can be tough negotiators; hire your own interpreter.\nDanube Delta in Romania is a World Heritage site and the second largest river delta in Europe.\nRomania: Introduction\nRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe. It has a coastline on the Black Sea and borders Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine. Romania has mountain ranges running from the north and west in the interior, which are collectively known as the Carpathians. The government system is a republic; the chief of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister. Romania has a mixed economy which includes a variety of private freedom, combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation. 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The proximity to the Mountains, Ukraine and Slovakia creates a lot of opportunities in the conduct of investment projects. The European economy is open to Poland, and Poland is starting to appreciate the potential and opportunities in Eastern Europe.\nWe constantly modernize and develop our road infrastructure. We are proud that the Strachocinie was the largest and most modern underground storage of natural gas in Europe.\nIn the municipality of Sanok are numerous investment, leisure centres, sports, agricultural holdings and stays-places where you can relax in comfort. We do our best to develop our tourist and sports-we have one of the first artificial skating rinks \"White Aquilegia\" in Poland.\nSanok County live people enthusiastic, willing to work, open and hospitable. Well as hands to work in our area certainly will not miss!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greekamericangirl.com/dr-joan-vernikos-stress-and-gravity-for/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:SLMWCOJLE5X734CH4TQZWEW7TEUZAYVC", "length": 10055, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "greekamericangirl.com", "title": "Dr Joan Vernikos: Stress and Gravity for - Greek American Girl", "raw_content": "\u201cStress is a good thing,\u201d says Dr. Joan Vernikos, \u201cif you know how to use it. It is a stimulus. Gravity is also a stimulus. If we do not use it, we die.\u201d\nThese are some of the mystifying conclusions from a lifelong pioneering researcher, pharmacologist, and scientist, and a daughter of the Greek Diaspora, Joan Vernikos. This month\u2019s feature profiles the first woman and long-reigning Director of Life Sciences at the NASA Research Center. In her trail blazing career, Dr Vernikos has conducted ground-breaking research on stress and the body, has trained astronauts like the 77-year-old John Glenn to adapt to weightlessness, and become a proponent of the growing older in grace, motion, and health movement. Herself an octogenarian, she shares her passion for life as well as details of her biography for the benefit of readers at www.greekamericangirl.com.\nDr. Vernikos was born to a prominent Greek family in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father was a physician while her mother a homemaker schooled at the French Lyceum. Even though her father was born in 1875 and had her when he was 60 at a time when women were expected to become secretaries or interpreters, Vernikos states she and her sister were encouraged to become educated. \u201cIn our family what was wonderful,\u201d she recounts, \u201cwas the fact that it was expected without even speaking that we should be educated and become professionals so we didn\u2019t have to agonize over the choice.\u201d The fact that her family had no sons also helped the choice.\nIt was actually her older sister who took the initiative to register her for university as Vernikos remembers she was a shy girl in her youth. Although her sister paved the way for a career in medicine, Vernikos opted for pharmacology. \u201cThe first corpse I saw put me off,\u201d she confesses. She pursued a Masters at the University of London, but opted to stay in the research side of the field and at the prodding of her mentor, stayed on to complete a doctorate.\n\u201cPassionate people like the Greeks tend to live longer,\u201d posits Dr Vernikos\nVernikos credits her education for forming her reminding us that the only word that means education in Greek is \u201cmorphosis,\u201d literally \u201cshaping.\u201d She cites her true Hellenic upbringing and its focus on shaping the individual in the formative years as the foundation for her success. She even merits her mother\u2019s consistent \u201cWhat did you learn in school today?\u201d for enhancing her communication skills, \u201cas most scientists cannot tell you what they were doing in the lab.\u201d\n\u201cIt is a unique Greek sense to learn by listening to many others,\u201d she says, \u201cjust as is the drive for excellence. Even though the pursuit for excellence and success involves competition, it is less competition with others and more a focus of surpassing one\u2019s own personal standards.\u201d\nVernikos also credits her \u201cextraordinary\u201d mentor, Dr Nora Zainis, a stunning red-headed Greek, the first woman to create a drug to lower blood pressure and the first woman to chair the Department of Pharmacology at the University of London for putting her on the right path. \u201cMentors, by the way,\u201d Vernikos asides in the usual Greek penchant for digression, \u201cyou don\u2019t seek out consciously; they spontaneously converge on their own.\u201d Among many of the things Vernikos learned from Dr. Zainis (besides how to pay a lower rate for a hair style in pricy London by going early) was the importance of creativity. \u201cWe knew that when Zainis came in and said, \u2018I have been thinking,\u2019 that whatever we had planned for the research agenda that day would change. She taught me that you could change your mind and it would be completely acceptable,\u201d Vernikos says, \u201cyou didn\u2019t need to stick to mediocrity because you had committed to do so.\u201d\nEventually Vernikos completed her doctorate and had found a \u201cnice Greek boy\u201d in London to marry. They wound up moving to Columbus, Ohio so that he could complete a business degree at Ohio State, or as she figured \u201che found a fellowship so I could support him there.\u201d\nIt was from that junction that she received an offer to join the NASA Research Center in California as her research dealt with stress and the physiological effects of stress hormones. She was to spend the majority of her career at NASA until her retirement in 2000.\nResearch Take Aways\nAfter a lifetime spent studying stress and gravity, Dr Joan Vernikos has made some radical claims. For one, without gravity on the body, it ages faster.\nShe found that simulating space like environments with humans for 24 to 48 hour cycles resulted in accelerated aging symptoms. \u201cWithout gravity, you grow older,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have been designed to be rooted to the earth. In fact, before age 20 at the peak of youth, we use gravity\u2013we tumble, we jump, we push a soccer ball around, we jump into a sports car. But we don\u2019t label it as such, we call it having fun.\u201d\nShe continues: \u201cThe problem is that once we move on to graduate school or work, we stop interacting with gravity, we just sit.\u201d\nLong periods of sedentary living, Vernikos claims is the culprit lurking behind bad health. While technology and many modern day conveniences have freed up our time and lessened physical labor, this has taken a toll on our bodies which for millennia have been meant to feel the strains of gravity, pushing and pulling on it. The trick is to find the best way to live with advancing technology without sacrificing health. One of the best ways to do that is by staying in motion, Vernikos contends.\n\u201cAnd this starts with being mindful,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe must become aware of our habits, of what we do and what we don\u2019t do, and then actively structure your day and your choices to include more motion.\u201d\nVernikos cites the example of her uncle who lived until 991/2. He purposefully chose to sit in a high-backed wooden upright chair that forced him to keep good posture and stand up more often instead of slinking and slouching into the recesses of an ultra-comfy couch. She advises changing your environment so you can keep upright . She herself used to watch television while cooking at night so that she could keep from sitting.\nVernikos\u2019 goal is in the words of a friend, \u201cto live healthy until I drop dead.\u201d She acknowledges the more holistic view of health in line with the ancient Greek model. It not only has to do with moving the body, but also moving the soul. Staying passionate, fostering your innate curiosity and having a proper attitude are all necessary ingredients for health. \u201cPassionate people tend to live longer,\u201d Vernikos claims.\nDr Vernikos explaining the benefits of doing yoga in space to keep weightlessness from taking its toll on astronauts. Her research showed that the body ages ten times faster without gravity than with.\nHealth Conclusions Unique to the Greek Community\nDr. Joan Vernikos also has insights into the ways genetics and environment are playing out uniquely to the Greek American culture. She cites that being Greek gives us an advantage in the longevity game. The Greek culture she explains has the genetic propensity for longevity but also adheres to a lifestyle that stretches it. The gift of socializing and politicizing Greeks have is a factor for their well being. \u201cGreeks don\u2019t go to the gym,\u201d she states, \u201cbut they interact with one another as human beings; that gives them a health boost.\u201d\nGreeks are also very tactile people she brings up. Parietal centers on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hand are some of the most intense in the body. \u201cThe sense of touch, so central to Greek culture, provides comfort, creates bonds, and acts as a stimulus that keeps us young,\u201d she says.\nEven the noise level that typically accompanies a Greek home makes for stimulation. Vernikos has even half jokingly coined a new ailment, the Deprivation Syndrome. This is defined as the loss of stimulation when one grows up outside a Greek environment.\nHowever, the advantages to health by virtue of being Greek are starting to get eroded. Because we live in America, Vernikos cautions we live as part-time Greeks. Although there are no statistics readily available to prove her point, she has a hunch that Greek-Americans might not be living as long as their native counterparts. A sedentary lifestyle has already begun to set in. Vernikos cited a cross-cultural Japanese study as proof that environment and lifestyle changes have a profound impact on life expectancy. A longitudinal study traced a group of young Okinawan families to Brazil as part of a government research program. One hundred years later statistics on life expectancy were dramatic: the Japanese Okinawan who had moved to Brazil died in their 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s; the Japanese who remained in Okinawa lived beyond 100. If genetics remained fairly constant among this group of people, then lifestyle differences had a large role to play in life expectancy. She suspects much the same is happening to Greeks outside of their native environment.\nDirector of Life Sciences Dr Joan Vernikos has trained astronauts such as John Glenn to adjust their bodies to space conditions.\nAs for the best thing about being a Greek American woman,\u201d My mother used to say we are better than anybody else,\u201d she states. And the worst? \u201cWe take ourselves too seriously, we are too eager to please and be perfectionists. We worry too much about competing with the Pappas'\u201d she says.\nIn terms of career choice, Vernikos explains the correct question to ask is not what do you want to be when you grow up, but rather what are you good at? What have you learned to do? Can you do it?\nDr Joan Vernikos continues to stay in motion by lecturing, writing, and advocating for healthy aging as part of her Third Age Health campaign. More info and to purchase her book, Sitting Kills, Moving Heals, can be found by logging onto her personal site, www.joanvernikos.com.\nMystic Calling\nDr Joan Vernikos: Stress and Gravity for:\n\u201cStress is a good thing,\u201d says Dr. Joan Vernikos, \u201cif you know how to\u2026 https://t.co/tSTsg6uqru\n\u201cStress is a good thing,\u201d says Dr. Joan Vernikos, \u201cif you know how\u2026 https://t.co/N989a9B5Fi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 13274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://growthinvestingresearch.com/2019/02/11/could-social-securitys-cola-be-zero-in-2020/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2ETIAFTKALX6WUXRZJJE73KYUNA6XRMT", "length": 6028, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "growthinvestingresearch.com", "title": "Could Social Security's COLA Be Zero in 2020? | Growth Investing Research", "raw_content": "Home Stocks Could Social Security's COLA Be Zero in 2020?\nCould Social Security's COLA Be Zero in 2020?\nFor better or worse, Social Security is our nation\u2019s most prized social program. It\u2019s certainly not going to make any of us rich when we retire, but it\u2019s been responsible for providing a basic level of financial dignity for millions of retired Americans for almost 80 years. An analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 22.1 million people \u2014 that\u2019s more than a third of all current beneficiaries \u2014 are kept out of poverty as a direct result of their guaranteed monthly payout.\nWith this being said, there\u2019s arguably no news event that retired workers, who represent about 70% of the program\u2019s nearly 63 million beneficiaries, await more than the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) announced during the second week of October. This COLA announcement by the Social Security Administration (SSA) lets beneficiaries know how much of a raise they\u2019ll be receiving in the upcoming year.\nHere\u2019s how your Social Security COLA is calculated\nBefore we go any further, I think it\u2019s important to have a basic understanding of how COLA is determined. Since 1975, the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) has been the program\u2019s inflationary tether. Prior to this point, benefit increases to match perceived inflation rates were passed along via special congressional votes. For instance, there was no COLA passed along during the entirety of the 1940s!\nNowadays the process for calculating COLA is pretty simple. In fact, anyone interested can calculate it for themselves and not have to wait for an announcement from the SSA. The average CPI-W reading from the third quarter of the previous year (July through September) acts as your baseline figure, while the average reading from the third quarter of the current year is the comparison. The CPI-W readings during the other nine months of the year do not factor into the COLA calculation. If the current-year average is higher than last year\u2019s average reading, then beneficiaries will receive a raise commensurate with the percentage increase, rounded to the nearest 0.1%.\nIn rare instances, deflation can occur. This is when the price of goods and services in the CPI-W\u2019s basket goes down in the current year from the previous year. Should this happen, Social Security benefits remain static from one year to the next. Thankfully, deflation can\u2019t cause Social Security benefits to be reduced. A 0% COLA has occurred only three times since 1975 (2010, 2011, and 2016).\nA goose egg could follow the most robust raise in seven years\nIn 2019, most Social Security beneficiaries are enjoying their 2.8% COLA, which is the largest percentage raise in seven years. But another big raise doesn\u2019t look to be in the cards for 2020. In fact, there\u2019s a possibility that beneficiaries may not receive a COLA at all for the fourth time in 11 years.\nOver the past two years, energy has been a primary driver of the CPI-W. Even though it only has a relatively small weighting compared to shelter expenses (as an example), double-digit increases in gasoline and fuel oil pricing during the third quarter in 2017 and 2018 played a big role in pushing the CPI-W higher. Well, that and the fact that the three months that factor into the CPI-W are prime hurricane months for the U.S., leading to occasional drilling and/or refining disruptions that can dramatically raise prices at the pump. This is what happened in 2017, when Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wreaked havoc on the energy sector, leading to a bump-up in Social Security\u2019s COLA for 2018.\nSince the beginning of October, prices at the pump have been in free fall. Sure, some of this could be due to the refining industry switching to a traditionally cheaper winter fuel mixture. But a big portion of this decline in gasoline prices is tied to West Texas Intermediate crude oil falling from around $75 a barrel to $50 a barrel. In November, gasoline, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), a similar inflationary measure to the CPI-W, fell 4.2% from the preceding month. Then, in December, the price of gasoline tumbled another 7.5% from the preceding month. On a 12-month unadjusted annualized basis, gasoline prices are down 2.1%. Comparatively, over the past two years the price of gasoline has been up by 20%-plus on an unadjusted 12-month basis!\nIf there is some good news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it\u2019s that shelter inflation (e.g., rent) remained robust at an unadjusted increase of 3.2% over the trailing 12-month period through December. Shelter inflation represents about a third of the weighting for the CPI-U, and a high weighting as well for the CPI-W.\nBut even here there are concerns. CNBC reported this past week that California\u2019s home sales fell 20.3% year over year in December. This represents the slowest December sales pace for homes in the Golden State since 2007. Given that California is often viewed as a leading indicator for the housing industry, its rapidly weakening prospects suggest that shelter inflation may also come under pressure.\nIf shelter inflation were to noticeably lessen, energy prices declined by a mid-to-high single-digit percentage from the previous year, and no major hurricanes disrupt production in the Gulf of Mexico this coming summer, it\u2019s not out of the question that beneficiaries receive no COLA in 2020.\nHowever, there is an important point to be made for this assessment: It\u2019s an estimate. A lot can happen between the data we\u2019ll soon be viewing for January and the data that actually counts between July and September. Similarly, no one can predict the weather with concrete accuracy. There remain plenty of avenues for COLA to rise in 2020. Just understand that a path also clearly exists for COLAs to stagnate once again.\nPrevious articleWhy Charter Communications Stock Popped 16% in January\nNext articleHere's What the Average American Spends on Non-Essential Expenses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 11098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gsmblog.net/tag/touchwiz/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XKC5NZDQTONQE2C4AK63Z2YKRNPJGIAT", "length": 499, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gsmblog.net", "title": "touchwiz - GSMBlog", "raw_content": "TouchWiz (or Samsung TouchWiz) is the touch interface created and developed by Samsung Electronics with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. TouchWiz is available only on Samsung devices. It is sometimes incorrectly identified as an operating system. TouchWiz is used internally by Samsung for smartphones, feature phones and tablet computers, and is not available for licensing by external parties. The Android version of TouchWiz also comes with the Samsung-made app store Galaxy Apps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://guftugu.in/2017/07/posters-of-protest-orijit-sen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XGSGIRLGT5Z7P7POA433H56UATS5ZSKT", "length": 7377, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "guftugu.in", "title": "Guftugu | Posters of Protest Posters of Protest \u2013 Guftugu", "raw_content": "Images Courtesy: Orijit Sen\nSneha Chowdhury (SC): Of late, one recurring feature of your social media posts has been the poster. You\u2019ve posted several striking and memorable posters in response to social issues \u2013 the most recent being your poster-cum-banner for the #NotInMyName protest meets held across the country. Are social media posters different from regular posters?\nOrijit Sen (OS): Technically, a poster is a printed object. Regular posters are printed and put up on walls in public spaces. In that sense, the term \u2018poster\u2019 is a misnomer for the stuff I have been recently sharing on social media. They are not printed first and put up in public spaces. The printed poster has certain physical limitations when compared to the social media poster. It always takes more time to print or reproduce a poster and circulate hard copies across spaces, whereas social media posters are always shared within seconds of posting them. Any social media poster, then, inadvertently becomes a new medium.\nHowever, social media platforms also simulate public spaces in many ways. On the one hand, in public spaces, we see impatient pedestrians strolling and consuming images and texts put up on walls; on social media, on the other hand, we see impatient users scrolling up and down their timeline, consuming images and texts from their virtual walls.\nSC: What factors contribute to, or affect, the making of such posters?\nOS: I think one needs to be mindful of several factors, the most important factor being the nature of the image. The poster has to carry a strong image. One also has to be mindful of certain limitations: the impatience of users, the fact that there is already a deluge of images and texts on social media which are consumed by the users on a daily basis. Therefore, the image has to be very striking and catchy; something that instantly grabs their attention. The subject has to be topical \u2013 something immediately relevant. And finally, the image has to be accompanied by a caption. I ensure that the image and the caption are not self-explanatory, but the two put together carry forward the social message at large.\nImage Courtesy: Orijit Sen\nSC: The banner for the #NotInMyName protest meet went viral within seconds of your posting it on the event page. How did you come up with this poster?\nOS: Rahul Roy, one of the organisers of the protest meet at Delhi, called me at 7pm one evening, and asked me to prepare a poster for the event. At 9:30pm, the same day, I saw that the event page was already up but there was no image or poster to go with it. So I put everything else on hold and started working on the poster. Within the next couple of hours, the image was ready.\nPhoto by Kishor Parekh / Image Courtesy: The Indian Express\nWhile making the poster, I kept wondering what would make a strong image. I wanted it to be an image that directly referred to the gruesome act of lynching without being too literal. I was reminded of some images by Kishor Parekh from his Bangladesh series. One of them is particularly striking \u2013 it is an image of a boot on an empty street. That\u2019s how I decided to use a chappal in the poster. The chappal \u2013 a mundane, quotidian object \u2013 spoke to me. It made me think of its wearer. A dead body would not have created as strong an impact as a remnant of that dead body, like the abandoned boot, the abandoned chappal.\nSC: Are you also trying to counter the proliferation of violent images \u2013 especially photographs shared via WhatsApp and Facebook \u2013 through these posters?\nOS: Nowadays, we are being constantly bombarded with graphic images. Most of these violent images are photographs which are circulated widely via social media. But the truth-claim of photographs is often undermined by these images because sometimes they are photo-shopped. As a graphic artist, I don\u2019t need to compete with that kind of documentary evidence. Graphic imagery needs to induce reflection, and a poster can be the right medium for that. The poster should make you reflect, think about the nature of violence, think about the victims; not just see, consume and go past it.\nSC: Another poster that was particularly striking was the \u2018Modi Antoinette\u2019 poster \u2013 Modi\u2019s face superimposed on Marie Antoinette\u2019s. What made you compare Narendra Modi to Marie Antoinette?\nOS: I made the poster in the wake of de-monetisation earlier this year. I was aghast by the hubris behind de-monetisation. I was struck by Modi\u2019s sheer power and arrogance, to say nothing of his uncaring attitude towards the poor. I was thinking about all of this and suddenly the image of Marie Antoinette came to me. Both Marie and Modi seem to be so drunk with power that they don\u2019t care about their subjects at all. Everything that Marie Antoinette wore symbolised arrogance \u2013 her wig, her costume, everything. But her image in the poster is also an index for the time to come. We must remember that her reign was soon to be followed by the French Revolution. I wanted the poster to be a subtle reminder of the fact that an arrogant approach to ruling can eventually lead to one\u2019s downfall.\nSC: How did you come up with the \u2018Azadi\u2019 and \u2018Ramjas College\u2019 posters?\nOS: I have been playing around with the metro-language for a while now. I feel that the voice one hears in the announcements is the voice of the State talking to its citizens, telling them what to do and what not to do. But what\u2019s interesting and ironic at the same time is how neutral and detached the voice is. The voice is so detached that it\u2019s almost ominous. There\u2019s something particularly ominous in the monotonous ring of \u2018Walking on metro tracks is a punishable offence\u2019 \u2013 it always makes me wonder what punishment I am going to get. Again, I made the two posters after the Ramjas College incident. I knew that the metro station imagery would be familiar to many students who travel by the metro on a daily basis, and they would easily relate to it.\nSC: Finally, I\u2019d like you to talk about one poster which will be etched in our memories for a long time \u2013 the Rohith Vemula poster.\nOS: After Rohith\u2019s death, I would often hear people say that there\u2019s no point in killing oneself when one can stay alive and fight for a change. I feel only those who do not have to experience the atrocities and the oppression that a dalit person faces on a daily basis, can use that logic to make a case against suicide. I had to counter this notion \u2013 the notion that he was a loser. So while making the poster, I was constantly reminded of his poignant suicide note. Despite being a suicide note, the letter expressed a deep commitment to life. It was not written by a person who had given up on life. To me, it was a letter written by a visionary. Hence, I wanted to create an image that depicted this contradiction. For example, the clenched fist passing through the noose is one image that captures this contradiction. I wanted to show that a person\u2019s ideas and beliefs do not die with the passing away of that person.\nText \u00a9 Guftugu.\nOrijit Sen is one of India\u2019s leading graphic artists and designers. His River of Stories is considered the first graphic novel of India. He is Mario Miranda Chair Visiting Professor at Goa University.\nSneha Chowdhury is an MPhil Research Scholar at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is part of the Editorial Collective of the Indian Writers\u2019 Forum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 7929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hamiltonstrategies.com/biblically-responsible-investors-see-comparable-returns-or-better/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LGLEDCNJ4L6MQA4NDLHXYW6T4XYHNHV6", "length": 4470, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "hamiltonstrategies.com", "title": "Biblically Responsible Investors See Comparable Returns\u2014Or Better | Hamilton Strategies \u2013 Communicating Truth to a Culture in Need", "raw_content": "Biblically Responsible Investors See Comparable Returns\u2014Or Better\nAccording to Timothy Plan, Investors Who Take Their Faith to Heart in All Things Do Not Have to Sacrifice Their Bottom Line\nORLANDO, Fla.\u2014When it comes to obeying the Lord in every aspect of their lives, tens of thousands of Christians around the country ensure that their finances also honor God. For those who are committed to Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI), it is of upmost important to honor God by aligning their investments with their values.\nBut does this mean sacrificing their return on investment? Certainly not, says Timothy Plan, which has helped investors achieve their financial goals while investing in a biblically and morally responsible manner by thoroughly researching each company to determine the actions of the firm on several levels.\nFor instance, Timothy Plan does not invest in companies that support pornography, the abortion industry or have other agendas contrary to the teachings of Scripture, or that are actively participating in activities that have proven to be destructive to our communities-at-large.\nWhen it comes to comparable returns, a considerable body of research indicates that investors do not have to compromise their bottom lines while engaging in BRI and may even reap higher returns in some cases.\n\u201cInvestors who want to honor God with their God-given resources should not fear the unknown when it comes to comparable returns,\u201d said Timothy Plan founder and president Art Ally. \u201cAfter all, as the Bible tells God\u2019s followers in I Samuel 2:30, \u2018Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained\u2019 (NIV).\u201d\nA 2016 study at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School of Business found that screened investments performed favorably against unscreened investment funds: \u201cImpact funds in the sample that seek market-rate-returns demonstrate that they can achieve results comparable to market indices, while still reporting mission preservation in the vast majority of their exited investments.\u201d\nThe study, \u201cGreat Expectations: Mission Preservation and Financial Performance in Impact Investing,\u201d posited that, \u201cMarket-rate-seeking impact investments in the sample, therefore, may be financially competitive on a gross basis with other equity investing investment opportunities. This financial performance may be why impact fund managers often assert that there is little inherent tension between profits and purpose.\u201d\nAdditionally, an Oxford University 18-year study of screened funds comprising 180 U.S. companies for \u201csustainability\u201d and other factors, such as excluding firms that employed child labor, showed better returns, including lower cost of capital and \u201cstock price performance.\u201d The authors compiled evidence \u201cthat High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long term, both in terms of stock market as well as accounting.\u201d\nIn 2015, a Christian Investment Forum study also noted that previous studies had established that Socially Responsible Investing, of which BRI is a subcategory, performed as well or better than unscreened funds.\nThe first of its kind, Timothy Plan is a family of mutual funds that screens its funds to ensure that no money is invested in companies that are supportive of ideals that are contrary to their biblical, moral imperative. The trend of biblically responsible investing, or BRI, is growing rapidly. In fact, last year, Timothy Plan alone reached $1 billion of assets under management.\nSince 1994, Timothy Plan has existed to help advisers and investors achieve their financial goals through a pro-life, pro-family approach to investing\u2014not only to benefit the investor but the broader culture. Timothy Plan is firmly committed to running a mutual fund company with the integrity, excellence and wisdom that brings honor and glory to Jesus Christ and is a beacon for Godly stewardship in the financial community.\nMutual funds are available through a prospectus by contacting the fund or a financial professional. When considering a mutual fund, investors should always carefully read the prospectus before investing to analyze the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses.\nTimothy Plan is distributed by Timothy Partners, LTD a member of (FINRA).\nFor more information on Timothy Plan, visit timothyplan.com or connect on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vimeo or YouTube. View the media page for Timothy Plan here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hamiltonstrategies.com/southern-evangelical-seminary-president-keep-religious-liberties-top-of-mind-when-voting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:34EI42OYU3VDXQVYJFMLRHXZHMMYSMSI", "length": 5405, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "hamiltonstrategies.com", "title": "Southern Evangelical Seminary President: Keep Religious Liberties Top of Mind When Voting | Hamilton Strategies \u2013 Communicating Truth to a Culture in Need", "raw_content": "Southern Evangelical Seminary President: Keep Religious Liberties Top of Mind When Voting\nEvangelical Leader Dr. Richard Land Says Choosing Candidates Who Will Work to Uphold Religious Freedom is Paramount; PPE Program at SES Explores How Faith and Politics Intersect\nCHARLOTTE, N.C.\u2014Many issues will be on the minds of voters as they head to the polls next Tuesday, such as health care, the economy, immigration and more.\nBut another matter Christians should take to heart as they vote is the protection of religious liberties, says Evangelical leader and Southern Evangelical Seminary President Dr. Richard Land.\nLand explores the issue of religious freedom often in his daily, two-minute radio commentary, \u201cBringing Every Thought Captive,\u201d which airs on nearly 800 stations nationwide.\n\u201cFor this crucial midterm election, Christians must consider the importance of religious freedom when they cast their vote,\u201d Land said. \u201cWe must elect officials who will commit to upholding religious freedom both here at home and abroad. Elections also greatly impact judges who will rule in some precedent-setting religious liberty cases, and therefore, impact every Bible-believing Christian who stands for Christ at home, at school and in the workplace.\u201d\nAs an example, Land highlighted the case of former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, who was recently awarded $1.2 million for an unjust firing after he shared his views on homosexuality and biblical marriage\u2014outside his workplace. Cochran told the Baptist Press there are worldly consequences for standing on biblical truth and standing for Christ\u2014but the Kingdom consequences would always be greater than the worldly consequences.\nCochran also said that through his ordeal, he learned that when Christians have the courage and faith to stand, a life of blessings escalates \u201cexceedingly, abundantly above all we could ever ask or think,\u201d citing Ephesians 3:20.\nLike Cochran, Colorado baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, fought for his religious liberty. In early June, he celebrated a victory when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that he was \u201cwrongly punished for refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple,\u201d reported The Christian Post, where Land serves as executive editor. Phillips still faces opposition, however. A civil suit has been filed against him, and The Christian Post also reported Friday that a California organization has given at least $500,000 toward projects opposed to Phillips.\nBut positively, the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision meant a good outcome for Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, too. In late June, a few weeks after the Jack Phillips victory, SCOTUS sent her decision back to the lower courts for review, wiping out the Washington Supreme Court\u2019s judgment against her and instructing them to reconsider the case in light of the Masterpiece ruling.\nThings weren\u2019t as positive for Aaron and Melissa Klein, former owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa. They were ordered to pay a $135,000 fine for declining to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear their appeal. The bakery is now closed.\nIn the United Kingdom, their Supreme Court also recently ruled in favor of Ashers Baking Company in Northern Ireland. The New York Times noted that \u201cjudges cited as a precedent\u201d the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.\nAlso on the international front, Land pointed to this summer\u2019s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, where high-ranking members of the Trump administration met with civic leaders from 80 countries. The unprecedented, and now annual, meeting sent the strong message that the United States will be the champion of religious freedom around the world.\n\u201cWe do not believe that this is merely an American right,\u201d Land said. \u201cIt is a universal human right. Every human being has the right to worship as they please without coercion from government or from anyone else. \u201cBasic religious freedom is one of those rare issues in today\u2019s culture on which the overwhelming majority of Americans agree\u2014individual religious liberty. I had the privilege of serving on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2001 to 2004 as a presidential appointee and from 2005 to 2012 as a senatorial appointee. While the nine U.S. Commissioners (five Republican and four Democrat, or vice versa, depending on the party identification of the current president) agreed on almost nothing domestically, there was virtual unanimity concerning religious freedom overseas. Such freedom includes freedom of conscience, the right to form one\u2019s own beliefs and to live by those beliefs without interference or persecution by the government.\n\u201cWhat better way,\u201d he continued, \u201cto bring some unity to our deeply divided country than by giving us the opportunity to work together on behalf of persecuted people of all faiths\u2014or of no faith\u2014around the globe.\u201d\nExplorations into religious liberty, political freedom, and public policy make their way into class discussions in SES\u2019s new \u201cPhilosophy, Politics and Economics\u201d program. Offered primarily at just a few top-tier universities around the world, the PPE program introduces students to the Christian worldview of how philosophy, politics and economics intersect, focusing on the works of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Sirico, Jay Richards and others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/texas/hampton-inn-and-suites-dumas-AMADUHX/about/policies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XNITQIT66BS2DHDJZOC7XVJPXKBGQ6GL", "length": 183, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hamptoninn3.hilton.com", "title": "Hampton Inn & Suites Dumas | Hotel Policies", "raw_content": "Need to know the details? They\u2019re all here. 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If so, social media is a simple and effective tool that can aid in your pursuit.\nFor all the warnings about how YOU should be using social media to impress prospective schools, there\u2019s also a lot to be said about how schools can (and should) use it to communicate with potential applicants like you. Here are some tips to help you use social media in your college search.\nInterested in a specific school? Want an overview of the kinds of events held on and near campus? Check out the school\u2019s Facebook page. See what people are saying in the comment sections. Check out their photo and video galleries (and be sure to look at tagged photos, too).\nAlso important to note: Don\u2019t just visit the school\u2019s primary page. Delve into the pages of departments and organizations on campus you might like to join once you\u2019re there. This will help you get a feel for what daily life would be like not for the average student, but for you specifically \u2014 an individual with your own unique blend of career goals and creative preferences.\nIn a guide for The New York Times, social consultant Sree Sreenivasan describes the key ways to use Twitter to your advantage. \u201cThe instantaneous nature of Twitter,\u201d he explains, \u201cmeans you are able to know in real-time about developments in areas of your interest\u201d and \u201cshare, comment and be part of a global conversation that extends beyond people you are friends with.\u201d\nLet\u2019s break that down. By following a college on Twitter, you can keep updated about events happening on campus. And by actively engaging \u2014 whether you\u2019re replying to tweets or participating in hashtag-driven discussions \u2014 you can feel out stronger connections with people at the school to see if those interactions seem right for you.\nWhile it\u2019s true that Instagram tends to deliver a filtered view of the world, it also gives users a big-picture view of a brand\u2019s (or school\u2019s) ethos and aesthetic.\nTry this: Go to a school\u2019s main Instagram account. See what kind of posts occur over and over. Are there patterns? If you\u2019ve got a case of wanderlust or a desire to learn about new cultures, you might be drawn to an account that highlights alumni photos from around the world. If you\u2019re hoping for a vibrant on-campus experience, you may prefer accounts sporting school colors and smiling faces.\nKeep this perspective in mind when viewing Instagram Stories, too. For instance, what kinds of videos does the school post? Can you picture yourself in them one day?\n\u201cLinkedIn works best when you use it as a career management tool,\u201d writes Sreenivasan. \u201cThe key is to find, approach and connect with folks you already know, folks you\u2019d like to know and folks you should know.\u201d\nAs someone who\u2019s just beginning your career and college planning, it\u2019s best to look for connections who can provide you with general guidance. Interested in attending a particular university? Ask (professionally) to connect with alumni or faculty with whom you share similar affiliations, or who describe themselves as having an interest in networking or mentoring.\nRemember that while social media is a great way to supplement your college research, it won\u2019t provide all the details you need. It is, however, a great way to narrow your search or to find out more about a school you\u2019re already interested in.\nAdmissions Before You Start For Parents Job Search Student Support", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hudsonreview.com/1977/07/the-flimsy-vault/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:OTLW4R7AEJBUDRFK2PH6HLBGALEM5FYH", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hudsonreview.com", "title": "The Flimsy Vault | The Hudson Review", "raw_content": "The Flimsy Vault", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iamnotscared.pixel-online.org/database_publications_scheda.php?id_doc=165&str_search_langreview=&str_search=&doc_lang=&part_id=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3VJE3VA3PVWSOKVZGO7LRGHTCPRZKEYD", "length": 3861, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iamnotscared.pixel-online.org", "title": "I Am Not Scared Project", "raw_content": "The worrying guest\nGalimberti U.\nWorrying guest \u2013 nihilism \u2013 consumer society \u2013 instability \u2013 inner joy\nNowadays guys feel like fish out of water \u2013 says Galimberti \u2013 not only for their inner crisis but because of the \u201cworrying guest\u201d, the nihilism, that \u201cinfluences their feelings, mixes up their thoughts, cancels their perspectives and future goals, weakens their soul and passion\u201d. Nietzsche asks: \u201cWhat does Nihilism mean?\u201d and so we answer that the supreme values lose their power. Why are we saying that? In short chapters Galimberti describes the birth and the presence of this \u201cworrying guest\u201d in our society. In their work the \u201cage of sad passions\u201d, the Argentinian philosopher and psychoanalyst Migues Benasayag and the child and adolescent psychiatrist G\u00e9rard Schmit speak about the effects of nihilism on adolescents. They realized that for most of the people their pains did not have a psychological origin, but they \u201creflected a widespread sadness which is present in our society and which is associated with a feeling of instability and insecurity\u201d. The future is no longer perceived as a promise but as a threat. This threat erodes the values of our society. The optimistic vision of the world disappeared, as well as the awareness that the history of human beings is linked to the idea of progress and salvation. Pollution, social inequalities, economical disasters, new illnesses, violent actions, lack in tolerance and racism, selfishness, uncontrolled and wild speculations, wars have cause the destruction of our world collapsed in a disorientating instability and insecurity. Without the hope for the future, the lack in authority and in peer relationship, young people are left alone with their anxious feelings. Identity \u2013 which is an absolute need for everyone \u2013 is created if we accept the other people. If we do not acknowledge this relationship, if family and school are absent, young people will follow the way of sexual abuse, of alcohol and drug addiction, of a \u201cfast electrifying and thrilling music\u201d. Young people will pay the price of the consequences because they are not able to face reality and so the frustrating experiences lead them towards the hell of vices. The need to find a way of escape with the abuse of sex or drug is the remedy for people rejected from society.Galimberti says: \u201cTeenagers are looking for entertainment because they are not able to be happy and to enjoy themselves. However this joy is above all an inner joy, so it is acknowledged and accepted and they overcome frustration\u201d. Galimberti then focuses on the analysis of other features that characterize the attitude of teenagers: emotional illiteracy, the fading of an affection, the desert of emotions, the lack in strength of mind; and then the advertising of intimacy, the temptation of drugs such as heroine, ecstasy, cocaine, homicide and suicide, anguish, curse and the nihilist insanity.\nThe author focuses on typical attitudes of teenagers that range from clubbing and the abuse of drugs to less relevant events. These events have something in common, the inability of school and families to communicate and interprete the feelings of teenagers. He clearly gives hints on the causes of certain attitudes: the drug can be considered the explosion of energy; it is not the desire to fill in an empty space in the inner consciousness. All these assumptions are created according to Nietzsche\u2019s philosophy, without considering the ethic moral phylosophy. These situation is caused by mass media which have the main task to increase and reinforce the idea of the consumer society and consumerist culture without considering the moral values and ethic moral society. The main idea of the book is about nihilism which attacked teenagers; on the other hand the teenagers who significantly contributed to create a better society are not mentioned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideas.ted.com/how-a-great-conversation-is-like-a-game-of-catch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RL5P37XVXLJXEOSGVTB7A4LRMYMFEIGV", "length": 11972, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "ideas.ted.com", "title": "How a great conversation is like a game of catch |", "raw_content": "As a radio host, Celeste Headlee has engaged in her fair share of discussions, and she\u2019s thought a lot about how to bring out the best in a conversational counterpart. One thing she likes to say: A good conversation is like a game of catch. Huh? She explains.\nWhen you play catch, you have to do an equal number of catches and throws, right? It\u2019s not possible to play catch with somebody and throw more than you catch, for the most part. Because then you\u2019d just be throwing baseballs at them, which is not nice. This is the exact same ratio as a healthy conversation \u2014 you\u2019re going to catch as much as you throw. Which means, obviously, you\u2019re going to talk 50% percent and listen 50% percent \u2014 and we don\u2019t generally have that balance in our conversations.\nThere\u2019s a great study out of Harvard in which researchers discovered that talking about yourself actually activates the same pleasure centers in your brain as sex and cocaine. That means it\u2019s very pleasurable to us to talk about ourselves and what we like. You could walk away from a conversation like that and feel fantastic about it. But remember \u2014 talking about yourself makes you feel fantastic. So you may have just walked away from a conversation in which you talked about yourself \u2014 that was awesome! \u2014 and the other person is walking away going, \u201cGood god, that person would not stop talking about themselves.\u201d It\u2019s a totally different perception, so you\u2019ve got to remember you\u2019re playing catch \u2014 find the balance.\nHow do you go beyond small talk to have a meaningful conversation with somebody?\nNot every single conversation that you have is going to be in-depth and serious. And that\u2019s okay! You should relax. Eventually, while you\u2019re sitting there talking small talk, something\u2019s going to pique your interest, or something\u2019s going to catch their interest, or they\u2019re going to say, \u201cWait, what did you just say?\u201d Or, \u201cWhy is it that way?\u201d And someone\u2019s going to ask a question, and it\u2019s going to lead you further into deeper subject matter. So it will happen, if there\u2019s something there to talk about. Otherwise, be on your way \u2014 let it go.\nWhat about that awkward silence when you don\u2019t know what to say next?\nBy the time that you\u2019re thirsty, you\u2019re already dehydrated. So by the time you\u2019ve reached an awkward silence, something\u2019s already gone wrong. But it\u2019s not too late! Very often, an awkward silence comes because either you weren\u2019t listening or they weren\u2019t listening, and therefore, you guys have kind of meandered off-topic to where you\u2019re at the opposite ends of a football field. The way to fix that is to say, \u201cYou know what, I\u2019m sorry, I got totally distracted. Where did we start? Can you help me out here? I was just following a train of thought about Cheetos, and I got totally lost.\u201d\nWhat should you do when it is very clear from body language that the other person is not listening?\nEnd it. Again with the game of catch. That\u2019s the equivalent of me taking a ball and throwing it over my shoulder instead of to you. Why would you want to keep playing? You have to have an equal partner in a conversation. Otherwise, walk away.\nYou make the case that all experiences are not equal. Are you saying that empathy is not useful in a conversation? What should people do instead?\nPeople always push back on this topic. Now, I\u2019m not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but I believe that most of us are motivated by empathy. You\u2019re with your friend, and you want to say, \u201cOh, I do understand you, because I\u2019ve been through something similar.\u201d\nBut the truth is, you haven\u2019t \u2014 you haven\u2019t been through something the same. You maybe have gone through something kind of similar, but the fact of the matter is that you\u2019re a different person from your friend \u2014 so even if it was the exact same experience, even if you both almost went down on the Titanic, the way you experienced that is completely different. And these situations are most likely totally different.\nSo although it feels to you like you\u2019re reaching out and giving empathy, what\u2019s happening is that you\u2019re talking about yourself again.\nSo you shouldn\u2019t say, \u201cI know how you feel\u201d?\nThat\u2019s the worst. You don\u2019t know how they feel. They\u2019re confiding in you, and all they want you to do is listen to them and say, \u201cWow, that sounds awful. There\u2019s no way for me to understand what you\u2019re going through, but you tell me what you need.\u201d\nWhat do you think is stopping people from having better, more meaningful conversations?\nThe elephant in the room is obviously polarization, and this is true not just in the United States, but I think Brexit and the migrant crisis in Europe tell us that it\u2019s happening all over the world. Oftentimes we\u2019ll enter into a conversation, and somebody will say, \u201cI\u2019m voting for Trump in the fall.\u201d Conversation over. You immediately say, \u201cNothing this person says is something I want to listen to, they have nothing to teach me,\u201d and you end the conversation. And if the conversation does continue, you\u2019re not actually listening to them.\nThat\u2019s what is often ending conversations now. We have stopped talking to people that we disagree with. We basically want to be able to curate and edit our conversations the same way that we curate and edit our social media. If we\u2019re talking to somebody that we don\u2019t want to hear from, we want to unfollow them like we do on Twitter.\nThe problem with that is that everybody knows something that you don\u2019t. And so if you are stopping all of those conversations and only speaking with people who have similar experiences and opinions, you\u2019re not going to grow, ever, and you won\u2019t change your mind or your opinion.\nThey used to tell us, don\u2019t talk about religion and politics. The problem today is that everything is religion and politics.\nSo what\u2019s the best approach to start a conversation that you know might end up in an argument?\nFirst of all, a lot of conversations end in arguments these days. But when I\u2019m sitting down with somebody, especially somebody with whom I absolutely don\u2019t agree, I sit down and I think through, \u201cOkay, what if they\u2019re right?\u201d Let\u2019s think about what would change, and how my mind would change, if they are right and I am wrong. And as they start to tell me things, as long as they\u2019re not completely made-up facts, I ask myself what it would mean if they\u2019re right. And then I ask them too. I say, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s say you\u2019re right. What does that mean?\u201d And try to get inside what they\u2019re thinking.\nFor instance, a lot of people ask me how to talk to Donald Trump supporters. It is a great question. But here\u2019s the thing: there\u2019s an anger there among people \u2014 not just people who support Trump, but people who support Bernie Sanders, or the people who voted for Britain to leave the EU. There is an anger there, and it could be fascinating and engaging and compelling to figure out where that is coming from. That\u2019s not always going to be the case, and there are going to be conversations you have to walk away from. But if you\u2019re going to have an argument with someone, the best way to do it is with an open mind, assuming that that person can teach you something, and that you\u2019re not there to teach them.\nWhat should you say if you unintentionally offend someone during a conversation?\nYou say, \u201cI\u2019m really sorry, I did not in any way, shape, or form intend to offend you. I may be inarticulate, but let me try to explain what I thought I was saying, and then you tell me what you think I\u2019m saying, and maybe we can understand one another.\u201d That\u2019s it, that\u2019s all that you say. Be honest.\nIs there a quick way to help a friend to stop obsessing about a negative topic?\nIt\u2019s difficult to address specific situations, since context is so important. In broad strokes, though, people often repeat themselves when they feel as though they haven\u2019t been heard. For example, when we tell our kids something important and they don\u2019t acknowledge that they\u2019ve heard, we\u2019ll keep repeating it until they say, \u201cOkay! I got it, Mom!\u201d The same things happen often in the workplace. So, try telling your friend that you think you understand what he or she is saying: \u201cLet me tell you what I\u2019m hearing and you tell me if I\u2019m getting it wrong.\u201d Then you can offer to brainstorm to find solutions. If he or she\u2019s not open to that, then be honest. Say, \u201cYou\u2019re telling me the same things over and over. I can tell you\u2019re very upset, but we can also move forward from here.\u201d\nHow can you turn a one-way conversation into a dialogue?\nYou can\u2019t, really. There\u2019s a couple of reasons for a one-way conversation. Sometimes it\u2019s that the person is shy, and in that case, that\u2019s totally fixable, you can draw somebody out, usually by finding out what they like, or self-deprecation is good. I usually tell a joke or a story about something I\u2019ve done that was really stupid \u2014 and I have a wealth of those examples. But if somebody isn\u2019t in the mood to talk, you can\u2019t fix that.\nAnd here\u2019s the thing that people are always surprised that I say: it is totally okay to not have a conversation. Having a real conversation takes energy, and it takes focus, and sometimes you just don\u2019t have that kind of energy to give. That\u2019s totally fine \u2014 don\u2019t have the conversation, enjoy the silence.\nSo if you\u2019re feeling like you really want to have a conversation and the other person isn\u2019t matching that energy, you just need to let them have their time, and find somebody else who is ready.\nWhat about when people really don\u2019t seem to want to listen, but just want to talk about themselves and their experiences?\nI\u2019ve found that it\u2019s good to very kindly address this head-on. Say, \u201cIt\u2019s so great to hear all that. Can I tell you a little about what I\u2019ve been doing?\u201d Or any version of that. Don\u2019t assume that person is just trying to dominate the conversation. Give them the benefit of the doubt, because we all talk about ourselves too much. If you try to improve the conversation and they are resistant, then just accept that your conversations with that person will be brief and unsatisfying. Just like a game of catch, you need two participants who are willing to take turns.\nHow do you get others to open up as much as you are opening up?\nYou can\u2019t, really. For instance, when you\u2019re opening up, is it mostly because you\u2019re telling them about your experiences? Are you talking a lot about yourself, and not giving them an opening to talk about themselves? Are you in any way, shape or form shutting down the conversation? In other words, does that person say, \u201cOh, you know, I had something similar happen to me the other day, it was really, really interesting,\u201d and you say, \u201cOh, no, no, no, it wasn\u2019t like that,\u201d and then you go back to what it was you were talking about.\nThere are a million reasons why the person that you\u2019re talking to may not be opening up. But often, it\u2019s because you\u2019ve shut the door in one way or another. The fact of the matter is it\u2019s probably not them, it\u2019s probably you.\nSo what if a conversation has run its course? How do you gracefully exit a conversation?\nYou gracefully exit by saying, \u201cI need to go; it\u2019s been so great to talk to you, and I\u2019ll see you in a couple days.\u201d Or you say, \u201cYou know what? I have too much on my mind, I\u2019m really sorry, it\u2019s been great to talk to you, and I\u2019ll see you again in a couple weeks, but I\u2019m going to head back.\u201d Or \u2014 what happens to me, because I have adult ADD all the time \u2014 \u201cI can\u2019t keep my mind on this conversation, I am so sorry, it has nothing to do with you, but I\u2019m going to go sit in my office and try to gather my thoughts.\u201d Don\u2019t lie. No white lies! Just be honest, and gracious and nice, not condescending, and just end the conversation.\nThis is an edited version of a conversation took place at TEDSummit 2017 (see below). Moderated by TED\u2019s Janet Lee, it includes questions from Facebook and from commenters on Celeste\u2019s TED Talk, 10 ways to have a better conversation.\nWhat a difference a word can make: How a single word can change your conversation\nHow to turn small talk into smart conversation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 14942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://immaculateheartchurch.archdpdx.org/events/christmas-day-mass", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7GVPE6OZKEBJLVEVFAZ6CV543Y4OABGW", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "immaculateheartchurch.archdpdx.org", "title": "Christmas Day Mass - Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church - Portland, OR", "raw_content": "Mass in English.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 139.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/A-I-C-O-Incarnation/comics-series/117435?ref=cGFnZS92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9saXN0MjY4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EJOPMINP5LN7PBYIKP3WWWJFGQ5QF5HE", "length": 661, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "impactcomics.comicretailer.com", "title": "A.I.C.O. Incarnation Digital Comics - Impact Comics Digital Store", "raw_content": "Aico Tachibana is recovering from both a car accident that took her father and shattered her body, then a from a world-shaking biological disaster that engulfed her mother and brother. Her rehabilitation is like getting used to a brand-new body, but as a young transfer student shows her, that is no simile. Her body is not her own. Now she must escape shadowy forces who want to kidnap her and join a desperate mission into an organic-matter-infested valley to find the fate of her family, the truth of herself, and quite possibly, save the world. This is Hiroaki Michiaki's comic adaptation of the brand-new anime by the makers of Wolf's Rain and Space Dandy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://in.mobile.reuters.com/video/2016/10/10/clinton-on-trump-he-never-apologizes-to?videoId=370086419", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:35Z", "digest": "sha1:N3CZYN5DOIDP2EPFQVOWMIG66YYAJFML", "length": 2124, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "in.mobile.reuters.com", "title": "Clinton on Trump: He never apologizes to anyone | Reuters.com", "raw_content": "Clinton on Trump: \"He never apologizes to anyone\"\nDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said of rival Republican nominee Donald Trump, ''He never apologizes to anyone for anything.'' Rough Cut (no reporter narration).\nROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said of rival Republican nominee Donald Trump, \"He never apologizes to anyone for anything.\" Clinton said he never apologized to the Gold Star family that spoke at the Democratic National convention, or to the Federal Judge \"who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn't be trusted to be a judge because his parents were quote 'Mexican.'\" Earlier, Trump said he is \"very embarrassed\" by a recently leaked videotape featuring him making lewd remarks about women, but said he \"will knock the hell out of\" Islamic State, during the second presidential debate in St. Louis on Sunday. \"I'm not proud,\" Trump said in reference to the videotape. Trump has faced eroding support from his party over lewd remarks about women. He went into the second presidential debate needing to demonstrate he remains a credible candidate. On Sunday Trump met with women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct hours ahead of his debate with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Trump appeared with three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct and a fourth woman who was a victim in a rape case that Hillary Clinton participated in as a defense attorney. Trump had threatened to attack Bill Clinton for his marital infidelities in response to criticism from Hillary Clinton that the Republican nominee is a misogynist who has a history of mistreating women. At the first debate, on Sept. 26, Trump was repeatedly put on the defensive by Clinton. He never let her accusations go unanswered, and as a result he missed opportunities to use his speaking time to draw attention to Clinton's perceived weaknesses. A Reuters-Ipsos poll had Clinton leading by five points on Friday, before the video surfaced. Now, the question is whether Trump's quest for the presidency is all but over.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://infervour.com/5-healthy-tips-to-weight-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:50Z", "digest": "sha1:LLQBKH6AHPDPHLJBDW3THSV2WCRQIDNI", "length": 2468, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "infervour.com", "title": "5 Healthy Tips To Weight Loss - Infervour", "raw_content": "Weight Loss, Certain World Healthcare, Some people and other cosmetic products. Whatever the reason, many people follow a fierce meal that will never work. It is an extreme exercise that produces a wound or other weight loss program without any success. There are no ways to reduce this weight loss, and you will have to use it to stay with a program. Not only that, it must be safe.\n5 tips for low weight loss. Anyone can leave their favorite food without taking any extra time in the exercise or exercise. Really, any weight loss program takes time. If one has vowed to you differently, they are completely upright, or simply ignorant. Follow a program of losing weight for 30 days, what it is, and see if you can. Or else go to something else. In the meantime, check some of the tips for starting today.\nTips # 1\nWalking. If you can spend 30 minutes each day to have fun, you can strengthen your feet and your heart by burning a few calories in the process.\nUse a small circle. These mobile spacecraft has a bicycle-shaped appearance on a metal bar without excess weight or weight at the standard exercise bicycle. In a minute, you can easily mount, near your desk, chat rooms or anywhere.\nInstead of a light switch, take a stretch. This is a weight loss exercise without having to try it out. A long way to take care of weight loss as a simple step like day to day can be taken. The next time you go to the store, go to the warehouse from the middle of the parking lot. Avoid stopping the vehicle in the closest door to the wrong incentive. Walk instead.\nYou will not want to cut all of your favorite foods, but you must approve. There is no single food that completely interrupts your weight loss effort, but it can be consumed too much. For example, you limit your limit to each candy bar, or if you really care, small pieces. Our favorite food We can still have a place of residence in the traditional amount of things we love and we also enter times when we focus on weight loss.\nSeparate a specific time every day, no matter how hard you are. Have a regular habit of staying with them and making them more effective than ever. The goal of losing success is to cut time.\nThis article should only be used for information. There will be no substitute for a medical practitioner\u2019s advice or doctor\u2019s recommendation or will involve it. Before starting the weight loss program, people should be looked after by a physician for specific diagnosis and / or treatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://initialteachereducation.co.uk/2016/10/21/angharad-noble-pgce-primary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:41Z", "digest": "sha1:W5VHZBKBFRFSNA34NFMYCDFWCCAHQSAD", "length": 2765, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "initialteachereducation.co.uk", "title": "Angharad Noble \u2013 PGCE Primary \u2013 Initial Teacher Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University", "raw_content": "My first week of School Experience has been fantastic! The staff were so welcoming, which made me feel at ease straight away. After having a tour around the school led by my senior mentor, I then got shown to my classroom. I had such a lovely welcome from my mentor and year 2! I\u2019m very much looking forward to spending the next few months with them. My first week was mainly spent observing how my mentor and the children worked together. I learnt many teaching strategies that will be useful for when I take my turn as class teacher. I observed the children\u2019s behaviour and how my mentor addressed any issues and I also closely observed some individuals and began to track their day to day movements so I could get to know them a little more. After a week, I feel much more at ease about the course. Before going into my school experience I was so nervous and I found it difficult to put everything into context, but after sitting down with my mentor and senior mentor, everything fell into place. By the end of the third day I had made a decision on which children I\u2019d like to track and base my assignments on, which was a real weight off my shoulders.\nThe fact that our first 3 weeks are spent observing the class is great! I\u2019m so glad we have the opportunity to take a back seat for a few weeks. It means I have more time to observe the children and gain a better understanding of their characters. This was one of my initial fears, that I wouldn\u2019t have enough time to get to know them, but after the first week I know each child by their first name which is fantastic given my terrible memory!\nThe \u2018Learning through Enquiry\u2019 booklet has been a massive help for me this week and I recognise the importance of getting as much as possible done within the first 3 weeks. I feel much more confident in myself after doing the tasks in the booklet because it\u2019s got me enquiring about things, things which I would have been too scared to ask about if it wasn\u2019t a requirement for me to do so. The booklet has put me in contact with the senior staff, and co-ordinators which is a good thing for when I start planning and teaching for myself. My observations skills are being improved with every task I complete and I\u2019m getting into the habit of taking a step back and seeing what the children can do for themselves, which will be a big help when it comes to differentiating work in a few weeks\u2019 time.\nOverall, I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better first week. It has put my mind at ease so much. I can\u2019t wait to get planning and teaching now! It\u2019s so exciting and nerve wracking at the same time\u2026 the butterflies still haven\u2019t gone after a week!!\nPrevious Previous post: Spotlight on Research \u2013 Viv John\nNext Next post: Thai STEM teachers visit Cardiff School of Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidegnss.com/bremen-germany-to-host-the-international-astronautical-congress-in-october/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JVYYQSQMRJUUWO3ZMJQGIMTWCH3FAUGP", "length": 2945, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "insidegnss.com", "title": "Bremen, Germany to Host the International Astronautical Congress in October - Inside GNSS", "raw_content": "Bremen, Germany to Host the International Astronautical Congress in October\nThe International Astronautical Congress (IAC) consists of a scientific conference program and a space exhibition. Scheduled for October 1-5 in Bremen, a city straddling the Weser River in northwest Germany, it provides an opportunity for about 4,000 space actors from all over the world to come together.\nGlobal, multidisciplinary, and covering all space sectors and topics, the Congress offers everyone the latest space information and above all new contacts and potential partnerships.\nEach year the IAC changes country, theme, and local organizer, enabling everyone to learn more about and be part of the world space network. Your host for the IAC 2018 is Bremen \u2014 Germany\u2019s main space city and one of Europe\u2019s major space centers.\nWith its outstanding and extensive space sector encompassing global players in industry and internationally renowned research institutes, Bremen offers an exceptionally fruitful environment for assembling the global space community.\nWith the theme \u201cIAC 2018 \u2014 involving everyone\u201d organizers want to share their vision of a more diverse space sector. An extensive outreach program will place special emphasis on the new generation of space experts, the expansion of equal opportunities, the integration of new countries and start-up companies into the global space network, as well as increasing the public participation.\nTeam Germany and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) from ZARM are looking forward to welcoming attendees to Bremen in October.\nMore than 180 technical sessions, daily highlight lectures, panel discussions and associated events are the core elements of an IAC week.\nBesides the congress program IAC is organizing a school student congress which gives the German school students the chance to be part of the vibrant space community.\nThe IAC is accompanied by several associated events which are focusing on different topics and target groups ranging from law via international cooperation through to a congress for young professionals, just to name a few.\nIn addition to the traditional program structure, the Congress will offer new diversity-related events in order to implement IAC \u201cInvolving Everyone\u201dtheme. A special emphasis will be placed on a new generation of space experts, the expansion of equal opportunities, the integration of new countries and start-up companies into the global space network as well as the promotion of space science to new user groups. Those interested in creating or contributing to a diversity-related scientific event, feel free to contact the Local Organizing Committee (LOC).\nFor more information on one-on-one meeting opportunities at IAC 2018, click here.\nLawmakers Begin Moving Military Space Management O...\nThinking Allowed \u2014 Satellite Navigation and New Sp...\nGPS III Contractor Helps Washington Navigate the D...\nEndRun Releases GPS-Synchronized RTM3205 Precision...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidegnss.com/gps-gnss-community-feels-new-telecom-interference-threat-from-lightsquared/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VTI2SSQQUO7DROUKFIQRACURYTUCPP6V", "length": 11356, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "insidegnss.com", "title": "GPS/ GNSS Community Feels New Telecom Interference Threat from LightSquared - Inside GNSS", "raw_content": "GPS/ GNSS Community Feels New Telecom Interference Threat from LightSquared\nIn his State of the Union address on January 25, President Obama held up the Global Positioning System as a prime example of government providing \u201ccutting-edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need\u201d to create world-leading, job-creating innovation.\nThe following day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) International Bureau approved a conditional waiver allowing LightSquared Subsidiary LLC to build tens of thousands of terrestrial transmitters for wireless communications in frequencies on either side of the GPS L1 band.\nThe following day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) International Bureau approved a conditional waiver allowing LightSquared Subsidiary LLC to build tens of thousands of terrestrial transmitters for wireless communications in frequencies on either side of the GPS L1 band. Reportedly, the transmitters are authorized to operate at 42 dBW (15 kilowatts) of power.\nIn a response similar to that of the ultrawideband controversy nearly 10 years ago, the GNSS community has expressed dire concern that, if implemented, the Lightsquared initiative could cause serious problems for millions of users in the United States.\nLetters to the FCC calling for a more substantive technical evaluation before allowing LightSquared to proceed came from the U.S. GPS Industry Council (USGIC) and the National Telecommunication & Information Administration (NTIA), a U.S. Department of Commerce agency that serves as the President\u2019s principal adviser on telecommunications and information policy.\nThe Air Force has asked the Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development organization that works closely with the GPS Directorate, to assess whether the LightSquared plan would create problems for GPS receivers.\nA December 23 USGIC issue paper characterized the LightSquared proposal as \u201ca radical change in the spectrum environment for GPS\u201d that \u201chas the strong potential to cause interference. . . .\u201d\nIn a January 16 report, GARMIN International described a recent test evaluating the effects of proposed LightSquared broadcasts on two of its most popular receivers: a GNS 430W FAA-certified general aviation receiver and a n\u00fcvi 265W portable navigation device. Both lost open-sky positioning capability at a distance 5.6 to 0.66 miles, respectively.\nThe company\u2019s conclusion: \u201cIf this [FCC-LightSquared] modification is approved, widespread, severe GPS jamming will occur.\u201d\nTechnically, the FCC action grants LightSquared a waiver to its ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) \u201cintegrated service\u201d rule, which requires mobile satellite services (MSS) that have a ground transmission infrastructure to provide only combined satellite/terrestrial user equipment.\nAccording to the FCC order, \u201cAlthough LightSquared does not, itself, intend to offer ATC-only subscriptions to its wholesale customers, it contemplates that its customers may well offer ATC-only subscriptions to consumers.\u201d\nIn effect, LightSquared\u2019s application \u201cproposes to fundamentally change the usage of the L Band 1 spectrum (1525 MHz-1559 Mhz) from MSS (very low power, space to earth signals) to fixed, high power terrestrial broadband service,\u201d Garmin argued.\nLightSquared is working to gain access to 20 megahertz or more of L-band spectrum allocation, including a $ $337.5 million purchase from Inmarsat. With that resource, it would offer the first-ever wholesale nationwide 4G-LTE wireless broadband network integrated with satellite coverage for its customers to offer terrestrial-only, satellite-only, or integrated satellite-terrestrial services to end users.\nThe FCC ruling does acknowledge \u201cthe need to address the potential interference concerns regarding GPS,\u201d and requires \u201cAs a condition of granting this waiver, the [interference review] process . . . must be completed to the Commission\u2019s satisfaction before LightSquared commences offering commercial service pursuant to this waiver on its L-band MSS frequencies.\u201d\nHowever, the ruling also requires LightSquared to begin implementing its system and assuring the availability of user equipment within a matter of months. Moreover, concern exists among that the solution to any interference problem could be placed on the backs of GNSS receiver manufacturers who would need to incorporate expensive design changes in user equipment.\nLightSquared told the FCC that it is investing more than $50 million to underwrite the costs of developing a Qualcomm dual-mode chipset, related components, and an associated satellite ground station infrastructure.\nIn a January 21 filing with the FCC, Qualcomm, a large-scale manufacturer of integrated GPS and wireless communications chips, described how it has protected its assisted-GPS (AGPS) solution against self-interference from the phone\u2019s cellular uplink transmitter at 1710 MHz, 135 megahertz away from the GPS L1 band. The company admitted that it didn\u2019t know if the receiver filter it used to prevent the uplink interference would also serve for an L-band downlink.\n\u201cQualcomm is now in the process of evaluating the extent of interference from LightSquared L Band LTE base stations (i.e., downlink) into the GPS receivers of cell phones using Qualcomm\u2019s AGPS solution, particularly legacy phones already in the market today, given the close proximity of the L and GPS L1 bands,\u201d wrote Dean R. Brenner, Qualcomm\u2019s vice-president for government affairs.\nBacked by billions of dollars from principal investor Harbinger Capital Partners, LightSquared \u2014 which was only formed last July \u2014 is on the fast track to implementing its MSS system.\nThe company has assembled a cast of luminaries from the wireless telecom community, including Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja, former CEO of UK wireless giant, Orange; Chief Marketing Officer, Frank Boulben, formerlyn global director of commercial strategy for the Vodafone Group; and Chief Network Officer Douglas Smith, who left a position as senior vice-president, engineering and operations, for Clearwire, a nationwide mobile broadband WiMAX network with majority ownership by Sprint.\nIn September 2010, LightSquared disclosed an eight-year, $7-billion agreement for Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy, install, operate and maintain the LightSquared nationwide network.\nThe company\u2019s effort is aided by Goldberg Godles Wiener & Wright, a Washington, D.C.\u2013based telecommunications law firm whose senior policy advisor is Thomas Tycz, who joined the firm in 2005 from his position as head of the FCC International Bureau\u2019s Satellite Division.\nTycz\u2019s experience at the FCC presumably would have aided LightSquared in moving its waiver request \u2014 which coincided with the busy Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season \u2014 quickly through the agency\u2019s procedural channels.\nIronically, given Obama\u2019s State of the Union shout-out for GPS, the LightSquared situation is driven in part by the president\u2019s own initiative, Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution, issued in June 2010. In it, Obama committed to make available 500 megahertz of Federal and nonfederal spectrum over the next 10 years.\nThe Garmin Tests\nThe rapid emergence and evolution of the LightSquared initiative clearly caught the GNSS community off guard, and the accelerated FCC process has allowed little time for a technical evaluation of its side effects before the fact.\nConsequently, the Garmin testing effort provides a key data point \u2014 especially considering that Garmin claims to have provided more than 90 percent of the current general aviation GPS receivers and 50 percent of the automotive and handheld equipment now operating in the United States.\nUsing a Spirent GSS6560 GPS simulator, a Rohde & Schwartz SMIQ-03S signal generator, and an Agilent N9020A spectrum analyzer to measure output power of the simulated LightSquared transmitter, Garmin engineers set up a test scenario with the receivers in an RF shielded, anechoic chamber to measure the likely real-world effects of the LightSquared terrestrial network.\nIn their report, the Garmin engineers said they took care \u201cto err in LightSquared\u2019s favor whenever assumptions were made about its transmissions.\u201d For example, although an FCC order allows a transmitter antenna to emit 42 dBW EIRP (effective isotropic radiated power) up to the 1559 MHz band bordering GPS L1, the test setup used a LightSquared \u201cverbal guidance\u201d that they would not transmit in excess of 32 dBW EIRP at 1555 megahertz.\nThe simulated scenario also assumed GPS satellite signals (40 db-Hz carrier/noise ratio) and a stationary receiver, which would eliminate dynamic effects, fading, and so forth.\nUnder these conditions, the n\u00fcvi receiver detected simulated LightSquared jamming at 3.57 miles and would have lost service in an urban canyon environment if the transmitter was 1.79 miles away or closer, according to Garmin.\nFor the aviation receiver, effects were even more marked: it detected the jamming at 13.76 miles and experienced a 10-decibel loss of sensitivity at 9.85 miles.\nFCC Conditions\nWith its conditional waiver for LightSquared, the FCC is ostensibly taking its responsibility seriously to ensure non-interference with existing services.\nAgency staff will be directed to \u201cwork with NTIA, LightSquared, and the GPS community, including appropriate Federal agencies, to establish a working group to fully study the potential for overload interference to GPS devices and to identify any measures necessary to prevent harmful interference to GPS.\u201d\nIn fact, the Institute of Navigation, which has long hosted the leading GNSS conferences, wrote to the agency on January 26, offering to help identify \u201ctechnical experts who might best assist the FCC in evaluating risks and impacts of LightSquared\u2019s proposal.\u201d\nHowever, the phrasing in the conditions set by the FCC seems to suggest an assumption that LightSquared will be accommodated, directing that the working group provide \u201crecommendations on steps that can be taken going forward to permit broadband wireless services to be provided in the L-Band MSS frequencies and coexist with GPS devices.\u201d\nMoreover, the burden of proof appears to rest on the GPS community.\n\u201cBecause the GPS interference concerns stem from LightSquared\u2019s transmissions in its authorized spectrum rather than transmissions in the GPS band,\u201d the FCC order reads, \u201cthe Commission expects full participation by the GPS industry in the working group and expects the GPS industry to work expeditiously and in good faith with LightSquared to ameliorate the interference concerns.\u201d\nIn addition, LightSquared is charged with preparing the information for the agency; no other organization or group\nAnd the compressed timeline for dealing with the issue continues: An initial report and workplan by February 25 and a final report by June 15, 2011, \u201cthat includes the working group\u2019s analyses of the potential for overload interference to GPS devices from LightSquared\u2019s terrestrial network of base stations, technical and operational steps to avoid such interference, and specific recommendations going forward to mitigate potential interference to GPS devices.\u201d\nCOSPAR 2010: Committee on Space Research Scientifi...\nFCC Opens GPS-Adjacent Ligado Proposal for Comment\nSWW 2016: Space Weather Workshop\nRussia\u2019s Home-Grown GLONASS-GPS Receiver\nInterference & Jamming", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 14147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidetrade.co/cvs-health-corp-nysecvs-said-that-it-will-acquire-pharmacy-services-provider-omnicare-inc-ocr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:L6TIVI2JCFEEWUIRJQNKMFTFCYRRKTI4", "length": 5236, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "insidetrade.co", "title": "CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) said that it will acquire pharmacy services provider Omnicare Inc. (OCR) - Recent trading and emerging economies news by InsideTrade.co experts", "raw_content": "Home - Trade Insider - CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) said that it will acquire pharmacy services provider Omnicare Inc. (OCR)\nCVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) said that it will acquire pharmacy services provider Omnicare Inc. (OCR)\n(The Street)CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) said that it will acquire pharmacy services provider Omnicare Inc. (OCR) for $12.7 billion.\nUnder the terms of the deal, CVS will purchase the Cincinnati-based long-term-care facilities pharmacy services provider for $98 a share in cash. The $12.7 billion enterprise value of the deal includes about $2.3 billion in debt.\nThe purchase will help CVS expand its ability to provide prescriptions to assisted-living and LTC facilities, serving the rapidly aging American senior patient population.\nThe transaction is one in a series of deals in the pharmacy benefits management sector.\nIn March, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) said that it would acquire pharmacy benefits manager Catamaran (CTRX) to combine with its OptumRx group for $12.8 billion. Earlier this year, private-equity firm TPG Capital sold its pharmacy benefit management business Envision Pharmaceutical Holdings to strategic buyer Rite Aid (RAD) for $2 billion.\nWoonsocket, R.I.-based CVS said in a statement Thursday that it expects the transaction to be 20 cents accretive to adjusted earnings per share in 2016.\nThe company secured $13 billion in unsecured bridge financing from Barclays and expects to put in place financing in the form of senior notes or term loans before the transaction closes. CVS expects the deal to close by the end of this year.\nThe graying of America is a trend that has been affecting health care across the board, and pharmacy benefit management is no different. From home health care to helping seniors age in place, to technological advances to help organize patients easier in the system, the aging population has made the health care sector a hot spot for deals as Americans age into assisted-living facilities and independent-living communities.\n\u201cThe acquisition of Omnicare significantly expands our business, providing CVS Health access into a new pharmacy dispensing channel,\u201d CVS President and Chief Executive Larry Merlo, said in a statement.\n\u201cIt also creates new opportunities for us to extend our high-quality, innovative pharmacy programs to a broader population of seniors and chronic-care patients as they transition across the care continuum,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have been impressed by the Omnicare team and what they have created for the patients they serve.\u201d\nCVS Health Equity Analysis\nCVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) opened trading today as $104.58 and is trading in the range of 101.24-104.74 today. CVS Health\u2019s current market cap stands at $117.86 billion.\nCompared to other peers in the Health Care Plans sector, CVS Health has outperformed in terms of quarterly revenue growth year over year at 0.11 vs. the industry average of 0.00. CVS Health\u2019s earnings per share is currently at 4.08, which surpasses the sector average of 2.83.\nCVS Health is currently covered by 25 Wall Street analysts. The mean target price is $113.48 according to First Call. This presents a solid upside to the current price of the equity. The Mean Recommendation sits at 1.8 which is based on 9 Strong Buy, 13 Buy and 3 Hold ratings.\nThe most recent analyst actions consisted of Standpoint Research initiating the stock on May 19th and ISI Group initiating coverage with an upgrade rating back in January.\nThe current quarter EPS consensus estimate is 1.20 with revenue estimates of 37.18B. Sales are expected to grow at a 7.50% rate. CVS Health reported actual earnings last quarter of 1.14 which beats the 1.08 consensus estimate, a 5.60% surprise.\nCVS Health Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated pharmacy health care services in the United States. The company operates through Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy segments. The Pharmacy Services segment offers pharmacy benefit management services, such as plan design and administration, formulary management, Medicare Part D services, mail order and specialty pharmacy services, retail pharmacy network management services, prescription management systems, clinical services, disease management programs, and medical pharmacy management services. This segment serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, health plans, managed Medicaid plans and plans offered on public and private organizations, other sponsors of health benefit plans, and individuals under the CVS/caremark Pharmacy Services, Caremark, CarePlus CVS/pharmacy, RxAmerica, Accordant, SilverScript, Coram CVS/specialty, NovoLogix, and Navarro Health Services names. The Retail Pharmacy segment sells prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, beauty products and cosmetics, personal care products, convenience foods, seasonal merchandise, and greeting cards, as well as provides photo finishing services. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 7,822 retail drugstores, 860 health care clinics, 17 onsite pharmacy stores, 27 retail specialty pharmacy stores, 11 specialty mail order pharmacies, 4 mail service dispensing pharmacies, and 86 branches, as well as 6 centers of excellence for infusion and enteral services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insights.ovid.com/oeme/201804002/00022707-201804002-00458", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:D4PCJ5SG4P5LVANSWPFDIEYPFWVK3BA7", "length": 2174, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "insights.ovid.com", "title": "1702b\u2005Lessons from the experience of workers\u2019 medical examination in korea", "raw_content": "1702b\u2005Lessons from the experience of workers\u2019 medical examination in korea\nEun Kim;\nOccupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Kora Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Ulsan, Republic of Korea\nSince 1972, workers exposed to the specific risk factors at workspace have been received annual medical check-up in Korea. The number of medical examinees has increased from 8\u200900\u2009000 in 1972 to 2,000,000 in 2016 with expansion of the working population and the risk factors listed by the regulation. Recently, approximately 500 occupational physicians and 150 medical institutes are participated in this system.The risk factors have been increasing along with the new scientific findings. There were 31 kinds of risk factors that employers should provide to their employees. They increased to 122 kinds in 1999, and 177 in 2005. Since 2014, health examination to night shift workers has introduced because night shift work can be a risk factor of cardiovascular diseases, insomnia, and gastro-intestinal disorders.Recently, the diagnosis rate of occupational diseases detected by the health examination is very row (lesser than 0.1%) which is not appropriate for screening on mass medical examination. We also do not have the scientific evidence regarding effectiveness of the workers\u2019 medical examination system for preventing of occupational diseases. However, the system has an important role of surveillance for health condition by exposure to hazardous substances and of providing occupational health services with the medical test results. Moreover, the opportunity of the annual health check-up of small sized industries is still valuable for detecting work-related diseases and life style diseases as well, which justifies the good reason for performing the periodic medical examination.The purpose of the workers\u2019 medical examination at the beginning was not only limited to the early diagnosis of occupational diseases, but the basic information of occupational health services at workplace. The medical examination system should be amended continuously to accomplish the both purposes: early diagnosis (screening) and occupational health services (promotion).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://internationalactivities.mondriaanfonds.nl/art_presentation/delluomo_18/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MMRKMAP2DIHD6YSIXI75LV3VNZB5JL5G", "length": 390, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "internationalactivities.mondriaanfonds.nl", "title": "Dell'Uomo", "raw_content": "Artist Marinus Boezem receives support for the solo exhibition 'Dell'Uomo' in the Gorky Park Museum in Moscow. Dell'Uomo is the first solo exhibition of Boezem in Russia. The exhibition is organized as part of an art festival on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Gorky park. The exhibition includes existing and new work and is curated by curator Robbie Schweiger.\nwww.museeum.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://internationalleathermaker.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/3029/Coach_to_shift_production_out_of_China_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SPZYCRVFTJQAS4MFBAP2BXS7ESJCOKLU", "length": 224, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "internationalleathermaker.com", "title": "Coach to shift production out of China - International Leather Maker", "raw_content": "Coach to shift production out of China\nIn a move to become less reliant on China, American leather goods fashion brand, Coach, has urged the U.S. government to include Philippine-made goods on its list of duty free products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://intervolvegr.com/intervolve-7/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:28Z", "digest": "sha1:GUVYVUD2IH7BKEQRRIFIITY5DC7GUYPS", "length": 12, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "intervolvegr.com", "title": "Softex, 2016 \u2013 InterVolve", "raw_content": "Softex, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://invotra.com/blogs/world-mental-health-day-mental-health-workplace/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TLNELZAEUBRGRFUCBBKE2TXNJQICSESD", "length": 5953, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "invotra.com", "title": "World Mental Health Day - Mental health in the workplace - Invotra", "raw_content": "We all know what it\u2019s like to feel stressed and under pressure, however, not everyone is able to develop positive coping mechanisms before these feelings turn into more serious problems.\nIt\u2019s arguable that one of the main places that people become overwhelmed by stress is at work. So, what can you do to help combat this?\nThe first thing you can do whether you\u2019re an employer or an employee is make it clear in your workplace that mental health issues are nothing to be ashamed of and that support is always readily available.\nOne thing that is guaranteed to make stress worse is when panic and shame are thrown into the mix so it\u2019s highly important that the correct message is spread.\nIt\u2019s great that as time progresses the stigma surrounding mental health is decreasing but there is still a long way to go and much more that can be done.\nSo, what can you do as an employer?\nFirst and foremost, it\u2019s a great idea to use Mental Health Awareness Day to broach the subject with your employees. Highlight the topic and have an open discussion about it.\nIt\u2019s important for authority figures within your business or organisation to make it clear that employees will not be penalised for being honest about their struggles.\nThe first step in feeling like we want to open up is knowing that we aren\u2019t going to receive a negative reaction or consequence.\nToo many people feel like telling someone about their problems will put their careers at risk. This has to end. If people feel replaceable and dispensable, they are way more likely to hide their struggles, and way more likely to deteriorate mentally.\nAs an employer, you have a legal obligation to have a written risk assessment surrounding stress and it must be put into practice.\nIf you notice that an employee is have mental health difficulties, try to initiate a conversation about their thoughts and feelings. Early detection can make a massive difference, even possibly preventing a person from becoming more unwell.\nIt can be helpful to provide things like information packs, leaflets and helplines that can inform and educate people on where to seek advice and help. However, it\u2019s important to remember that from a manager\u2019s point of view, it\u2019s your duty to assist in making reasonable adjustments at work rather than trying to understand, and even fix, a person\u2019s diagnosis. Their GP, medical assistance or occupational health are fully qualified to provide support in that department. They should also be able to offer them extra guidance on what you can do as an employer to help.\nOne such thing could be introducing a system where employees can approach their managers for action plans. These plans can state clear information on what support will be given and what steps will be taken to try and improve the employee\u2019s situation. One thing you may want to include in these plans are \u2018code\u2019 words. Some people want to make it apparent that they are struggling (for example, having a bad day) without having to actually explain and verbalise it.\nHow about as an employee? What can you do to look after your mental health at work?\nIt\u2019s no surprise that you might feel stressed at work when you consider how much time you spend there. We can\u2019t always control the things going on around us which can lead to all sorts of negative emotions.\nThe first thing we would recommend is evaluating your role and workload. This helps you to figure out what is causing you to feel stressed. Are you happy in your current position? Do you feel out of your depth? Is too much work and responsibility being placed on your shoulders? Are certain people making you feel uncomfortable?\nThese are the things you need to be thinking about. However, recognising the causes of your issues won\u2019t necessarily solve them if you aren\u2019t willing to talk about it. You want to avoid getting to the point where you feel trapped and unable to cope. If you don\u2019t feel comfortable sharing your feelings with people at work, you could always start by seeking help from an outside source, such as a helpline.\nDo you have a healthy, balanced diet that provides your body with the nourishment it needs?\nAre you mindful of your emotions? Can you recognise how you\u2019re feeling and address it without feeling overwhelmed?\nWhat is your living environment like? Do you get enough fresh air?\nDo you have a strong support network made up of family and/or friends?\nThe next thing we would suggest is trying out different things that might help you to unwind. For example, you could try out a sport, take part in a new hobby or join a local club.\nKnowing how to relax is great, but if you\u2019re someone who panics when they get stressed, you also need to work out effective ways of calming yourself down. One thing you might find helpful is breathing exercises. For example, take slow, deep breaths in through your nose and then breathe out through your mouth.\nIt\u2019s highly important to dedicate some of your free time to yourself.\nSome people get so wrapped up in taking care of everything and everyone around them that they end up burning out.\nIf you feel that you\u2019ve reached breaking point or are fast approaching it, please seek help. A good starting point is to keep an emotional diary in which you note down how you feel and what triggered those emotions. This helps you to keep track and ultimately enables you to figure out what things you need to avoid, change or learn positive coping mechanisms for.\nWhen all is said and done, nothing is more important than your mental and physical wellbeing. If you feel that your employer or fellow employees do not agree with that statement, then you might need to move away from a negative environment.\nIt\u2019s common for the people that we surround ourselves with to rub off on us, so, it makes sense that positive, kind people will have a good influence and toxic, nasty people will not.\nBear all of this in mind when deciding who you want to keep in your life and where you want to spend your time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 9573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-most-detailed-map-of-the-game-of-thrones-world-yet-5892140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:M56JNMDTTLT4AEILNJ4KZY77YAOD7IIZ", "length": 1603, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "io9.gizmodo.com", "title": "The most detailed map of the Game of Thrones world yet", "raw_content": "The most detailed map of the Game of Thrones world yet\nSermountaingoat\nWe've seen a lot of fan-made maps that try to capture the geography of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, but none have been quite so detailed as this monstrous map by one serMountainGoat \u2014 a map so thorough, it's impressed Martin himself.\nThis fan scoured the pages of Martin's books and looked at both canon and non-canon maps to try to create as accurate a picture of Westeros and beyond as he could. Since a few regions haven't been quite laid out in the books, he took some educated guesses, but the result is this gorgeous speculative map. You can see the entire \u2014 enormous \u2014 map at his site, as well natural and canon-only maps.\nEven Martin was impressed with serMountainGoat's work, even if the map isn't quite accurate:\nThis is a very handsome map. And based on the information you have, it's quite good.\nBut of course there's lots of information you don't have, so it's not accurate. There are certain things \u2014 the geography and location of the Summer Islands, the placement of Qarth and the Jade Gates, everything east of Slaver's Bay and the Dothraki Sea... that you would have no way of knowing.\nMartin actually has plans to release a full set of map posters in a boxed set titled Lands of Ice and Fire this coming October. But for now, this map will make more than an adequate substitute for the official thing.\nAlso worth checking out is serMountainGoat's animated timeline of the series, and his Google Earth map of Westeros.\nA Song of Ice and Fire - Speculative world map [serMountainGoat via Tor]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iowaclimate.org/2018/06/30/the-texas-well-that-started-a-revolution-and-changed-the-world-forever/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QJYXA2J5HG353PAKUTOBCY7N23OIKF5J", "length": 2007, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "iowaclimate.org", "title": "The Texas well that started a revolution and changed the world forever | Iowa Climate Science Education", "raw_content": "The Texas well that started a revolution and changed the world forever\nPermian shale, Texas [image credit: fulcrium.com]\nNot a bad idea from someone who admitted \u201cI was just trying to keep my job\u201d.\nTwo decades ago, an engineer tried a new way to get gas out of the ground. Energy markets and global politics would never be the same, writes Russell Gold @ The Wall Street Journal.\nDISH, Texas \u2013 Twenty years ago this month, a well was drilled here that changed the world.\nBut it did all of that \u2013 and more.\nThe well used hydraulic fracturing to crack the incredibly tight shale rocks below. It fired the first shot in the fracking revolution\u2013a blast soon felt in Riyadh, Tehran and Moscow.\n\u201cI had no idea it would cause so much change. I was just trying to keep my job,\u201d said Nick Steinsberger on a recent visit to the well pad. He was the engineer who obtained permission to try a new approach to completing the well that had been drilling a mile and a half deep into a thick grey wedge of rock known as the Barnett Shale.\nMr. Steinsberger, now 54, called the experiment \u201cmy slick-water frack.\u201d It was the first commercially successful use of sand, water and chemicals, pumped into the shale under high pressure, to break open the rock and unleash the natural gas trapped inside.\nIt was the beginning of modern fracking.\n\u201cIt was a good well, cost $600,000 or $700,000,\u201d Mr. Steinsberger said, walking over the pad to the chain-link fence that surrounds the well. A sign identifies it as the S. H Griffin Estate 4.\nToday, most wells drilled in the U.S. use some variation of Mr. Steinsberger\u2019s fracking technique. It has unleashed an unimaginable wealth of natural gas, gas liquids and crude oil, turning the U.S. from an energy pauper into a muscular exporter.\nIt also started an often acrimonious environmental debate about the potential impacts and trade offs of fracking.\nhttps://ift.tt/2yVyChn\n\u2190 While Anti-Fracking Europe Declines, China To Double Shale Gas Production\nWhat Ever Happened To Peak Oil? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipolitics.ca/2015/09/15/activist-dutch-lawyer-says-climate-change-lawsuit-could-work-in-canada/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4BKZYOYWOEXBAICHS7VFAM6NBBSKHO65", "length": 5606, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "ipolitics.ca", "title": "Activist Dutch lawyer says climate change lawsuit could work in Canada - iPolitics", "raw_content": "Activist Dutch lawyer says climate change lawsuit could work in Canada\nBy Mackenzie Scrimshaw. Published on Sep 15, 2015 4:05pm\nThe lawyer who won a class action lawsuit requiring the Dutch government to ramp up its climate action says the legal argument he used in The Hague could also hold up in a Canadian court.\nThat evidence was the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-backed group of scientists that urged developed (and developing) countries to meet specific emissions targets to help fight global warming.\n\u201cThe science is of international value, so it would also apply in any case outside of the Netherlands,\u201d said Roger Cox, a partner at the Dutch law firm Paulussen Advocaten.\nCox says he also relied on the principle of the duty of care, or the tort of negligence in the Netherlands.\n\u201cThe criteria that define the duty of care in a given situation are more or less the same in any jurisdiction, so these criteria would probably also apply in Canada,\u201d he said.\n\u201cFrom that perspective, I think that this ruling could have a larger influence than only in the Netherlands.\u201d\nThat ruling came from the District Court of The Hague last June, and says the Dutch government must cut at least 25 per cent of that country\u2019s 1990 emissions levels by 2020. As a lawyer for the Urgenda Foundation, Cox represented the plaintiffs \u2014 almost 900 Dutch citizens.\nPreviously, as part of its \u201cDutch vision on global climate change,\u201d the Dutch government said, \u201cit is the intention of the Netherlands to adopt a new international climate change agreement during the COP 21 in Paris in 2015. This new agreement should be applicable to all countries and must enter into force in 2020, when the second phase of the Kyoto-Protocol expires.\u201d\nAlready, Cox is involved in initiatives in Australia, England, France, Ireland and Italy, where he says NGOs, legal scholars and universities have taken interest in the Dutch case.\nHe and the Urgenda foundation are trying to bring these different parties together in order to launch similar cases elsewhere, Cox says. As part of this effort, he\u2019s travelling to other countries to discuss the case in The Hague.\nCox will be in Toronto on Tuesday to speak about climate change and the rule of law at a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) event. His talk comes at the start of the seventh week of the federal election campaign, which has seen the party leaders commit to varied and, at times, conflicting measures to fight climate change.\nThe Conservatives said they will reduce 2005 emissions levels by 30 per cent by 2030. On the other hand, the Globe and Mail reported just before the Labour Day long weekend that environment critic Megan Leslie says the NDP will commit to emissions reductions of 34 per cent by 2025. Different from the Conservatives, however, the NDP are using base-year emissions from 1990. That party also has a goal for 2050 \u2014 to slash 80 per cent of 1990 levels.\nMeanwhile, the Liberals haven\u2019t announced emissions reductions targets. Instead, the party says, \u201cA Liberal government committed to attending the Paris climate conference, and within 90 days, holding a First Ministers meeting to work together on a framework for combatting climate change. Central to this would be the creation of national emissions reduction targets.\u201d\nAs part of his speech, Cox says he\u2019ll address a few subjects, including \u201cthe climate science that was not disputed in our courts.\u201d\nCox will also discuss the criteria that had to be met in order to establish the duty of care in the Netherlands and how this process compares to those elsewhere.\n\u201cWe have not argued in the Dutch court \u2026 that the government does not comply with its own commitments,\u201d he said, referring to its emissions targets.\nSimilarly, in Canada, the case would have to be made \u201cthat the Canadian government does not comply with what is scientifically necessary.\u201d In other words, that it doesn\u2019t follow the IPCC\u2019s 2007 findings \u2014 that developed countries should cut their 1990 emissions levels by 25 to 40 per cent by 2020 \u2014 which Cox says Canada \u201cacknowledged\u201d in 2010.\nSeveral Canadian legal experts will also speak at Tuesday\u2019s event, including David Estrin, a CIGI senior research fellow and certified environmental law specialist, who says that \u201cfrom my conversations with (Cox), as well as my reading of the judgement, I have some considerable optimism that the same facts presented in a Canadian court have a very reasonable potential of attracting the sympathy of a court and possibly even a remedy.\u201d\nDescribing the IPCC, Estrin says this group consists of \u201cthe world\u2019s best experts on climate change.\u201d Accordingly, the panel has undoubtedly \u201cthe best ability and most credible opinion on this issue\u201d \u2014 (man-made) climate change.\n\u201cA Canadian court, like a Dutch court, couldn\u2019t find better experts, more credible experts, than an IPCC,\u201d Estrin said.\nAs for the duty of care, Estrin says that in the event that a Canadian court didn\u2019t find that the federal government had this duty, the plaintiff\u2019s lawyer could use the right to life or the right to the security of the person, which are part of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\nOtherwise, he says the case could be made that the government had committed a nuisance, as has been argued in previous cases regarding air and water pollution, for example.\n\u201cThere\u2019s clearly precedent in our legal system for giving rights to citizens to ask the courts to stop conduct that will cause harm to me or to others,\u201d Estrin said. \u201cAnd climate change should be no different in that respect.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iris.poliba.it/handle/11589/2662", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BABOAKGCC4WM7NPD72FQF73BYOWT6IZD", "length": 1907, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "iris.poliba.it", "title": "Optimized Procedure to Evaluate the Thermal Energy Transfer in Hemodialysis Treatment | Politecnico di Bari Attenzione: i dati modificati non sono ancora stati salvati. Per confermare inserimenti o cancellazioni di voci \u00e8 necessario confermare con il tasto SALVA/INSERISCI in fondo alla pagina", "raw_content": "Optimized Procedure to Evaluate the Thermal Energy Transfer in Hemodialysis Treatment\nHemodialysis treatment is biased by some complications during its operative phases. One of these potential accidents consists in intradialytic hypotension, that certainly causes discomfort to the patient but may even increase death risk. Therefore, it is very suitable, for reasons of prevention, predicting such events in the clinical routine procedures. As a cause of hypotension occurrence might be found in thermal energy/heat exchanges between extracorporeal system and the surrounding environment because of the operating temperatures during the clinical therapy. In the present work, a model for evaluating such heat losses is proposed and improved in order to maintain constant patient\u2019s blood temperature as much as possible. By means of a deep investigation on these issues, the authors have defined a convenient procedure to improve and optimize the clinical treatment process. Differently from most of the hemodialysis machines used nowadays which control automatically the dialysate solution temperature starting from peripheral body temperature measurements, the proposed method is based on the control of only two important parameters: i) the pre-dialysis core temperature of the patient, and ii) the temperature of the blood entering the artery from the extracorporeal circuit after the treatment in the dialyzer. Measurements of arterial and venous blood temperatures are obtained in a non-invasive way by means of a suitable estimation of thermal energy exchanges between the blood and the environment during the extracorporeal recirculation. The suggested model guarantees a constant core temperature of the patient, improving prevention from intradialytic hypotension.\nDe Capua C.\nFabbiano, Laura\nMorello R.\nTitolo: Optimized Procedure to Evaluate the Thermal Energy Transfer in Hemodialysis Treatment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irishamerica.com/2012/04/maureen-white/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NYXWWXTLRR2KAZZR6ZJ6TJYTCL3G5VWT", "length": 1529, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "irishamerica.com", "title": "Maureen White | Irish America", "raw_content": "Maureen White/IRC\nMaureen White takes her Irish heritage very seriously\u2013 she\u2019s helping to build a new Irish-American Cultural Center in New York City. White, who is Chairman of the Board of Overseers of The International Rescue Committee (IRC), has been active with a number of organizations which focused on international humanitarian issues. But her Irish roots are very close to her heart, and so is her husband, financier Steven Rattner, who is supportive of her efforts. The couple recently opened their home on Fifth Avenue, New York City, for a fundraising event for the Irish-American Center with actor Gabriel Byrne, who is also on board on the project, serving as the special guest.\nWhite was also a guest speaker at the Irish-American Forum in New York last November \u2013 she spoke on philanthropy. A third-generation Irish-American with roots in Cork and Kilkenny, she served as National Finance Chair of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign, and was the National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee for five years. She also had a career in international economic research, working with the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, and First Boston Corporation and Globe Finlay International.\nWhite, who received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MSc from the London School of Economics, is currently on the Board of the International Women\u2019s Health Coalition and the Chatham House Foundation. She and husband Steven, have four children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 102.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iscp-nyc.org/resident/anne-wodtcke", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:S3ISFFAKXC76J2EYUHTEEJC2NVDFCCYL", "length": 863, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "iscp-nyc.org", "title": "Anne Wodtcke | International Studio & Curatorial Program", "raw_content": "Taysir Batniji (born 1966, Gaza) is a Palestinian visual artist who lives and works between Palestine and France, where he arrived in 1995. His multidisciplinary practice integrates drawing, painting, installation and performance, and is often closely tied to his culture and heritage. Since the early 2000s, the artist has focused mainly on images, photography and video. He devotes part of his work to analyzing the process of media information, especially in the Middle East. Batniji has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); Future of a Promise, a collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Seeing is Believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011); and RAY 2012 Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (2012).\nTaysir Batniji, Quiet Days at the UN, 2014, Video, 24:27 min.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 8236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 102.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://isolvar.com/en/domaines-de-competences/chambre-atmosphere-controlee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XKTELQ4JQOMLMY7YVL6VKT3HQ7AQG2SK", "length": 520, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "isolvar.com", "title": "CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE ROOMS \u2013 ISOLVAR", "raw_content": "Controlled atmosphere storage allows you to preserve certain fruit and vegetables for a longer period of time while keeping their quality and freshness.\nControlled atmosphere means the modification and control of the gas composition of a given atmosphere to better preserve plant products after harvesting thanks to a modification and stabilization of a specific atmosphere.\nISOLVAR masters the demands of technical and safety issues. These require perfect control and irreproachable know-how in matters of airtightness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iwaspoisoned.com/incident/jack-in-the-box-108th-avenue-southeast-kent-wa-united-states", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:D6JDETUQRKCRKFSEDTLQWNX3VPLQEQSM", "length": 147, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "iwaspoisoned.com", "title": "Jack in the Box, 108th Avenue Southeast, Kent, WA, United States - Got Food Poisoning? Report it now.", "raw_content": "Jack in the Box, 108th Avenue Southeast, Kent, WA, United States Food Poisoning\n20746 108th Avenue Southeast, Kent, 98031 Washington, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 12234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaclyntrop.com/clips/companies-admit-they-fixed-prices-of-car-parts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EI46AGGWC3E7R4G762FDMCK2PDPUQHVJ", "length": 6433, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "jaclyntrop.com", "title": "Companies Admit They Fixed Prices of Car Parts \u2014 Jaclyn Trop", "raw_content": "In an expanding global antitrust investigation, nine Japanese automotive suppliers, along with two former executives, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and pay more than $740 million in criminal fines for fixing the price of auto parts sold in the United States and abroad, the Justice Department said Thursday.\nThe pleas were the latest in what the Justice Department said was its largest criminal antitrust investigation, one that has involved the authorities from Asia to North America to Europe and has now resulted in $1.6 billion in fines since 2011.\nMore than a dozen separate conspiracies involving more than 30 kinds of parts affected sales to Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, as well as the American subsidiaries of Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota.\n\u201cThese international price-fixing conspiracies affected more than $5 billion in automobile parts sold to U.S. car manufacturers,\u201d Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement. \u201cIn total, more than 25 million cars purchased by American consumers were affected by the illegal conduct.\u201d\nHitachi Automotive Systems and Mitsubishi Electric paid the biggest fines, $195 million and $190 million. The Justice Department said the two companies\u2019 price-fixing schemes lasted from at least January 2000 through February 2010.\nThe parts included seat belts, radiators, windshield wipers and air-conditioning systems, Mr. Holder said. The Justice Department said that while the price fixing increased the cost of cars for consumers, there was no way to determine exactly how much.\nThe two former executives \u2014 Gary Walker, an American, and Tetsuya Kunida, a Japanese national working for American subsidiaries of Japanese companies \u2014 also pleaded guilty for their involvement in the scheme, in which executives met in person and colluded on the phone to rig bids, fix prices and allocate the supply of parts, the Justice Department said.\nMr. Kunida was sentenced to 12 months and a day in an American prison. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of fixing the price of products sold to Toyota and other automakers from at least November 2001 until May 2012.\nMr. Walker was sentenced to 14 months. The Justice Department said he engaged in a conspiracy to fix the prices of seat belts sold to Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota from at least Jan. 1, 2003, through February 2010.\nEach man is to pay a $20,000 fine.\nTwenty companies and 21 executives have been charged so far in the Justice Department\u2019s investigation. Each company has pleaded guilty or agreed to do so, the Justice Department said. All but four of the 21 executives have been sentenced to prison or have entered into plea agreements that call for prison sentences.\nThe actions on Thursday underscored a willingness of countries to cooperate as business relationships become more international.\n\u201cTwenty years ago, a case of this size would have been inconceivable,\u201d said Spencer Weber Waller, a professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and director of its Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies. \u201cWe often fought with these countries against the application of U.S. antitrust laws, but now they themselves are more stringent in applying their own antitrust laws.\u201d\nScott D. Hammond, assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division\u2019s Criminal Enforcement Program, said that some of the conspiracies announced on Thursday were originally discovered by the Japan Fair Trade Commission.\nAs for the price fixing, Professor Waller said it \u201cappears to be one of the longest-running international cartels that has come to light.\u201d\nGeneral Motors called the price fixing among suppliers unacceptable. \u201cWe are greatly concerned by the large number of suppliers in the automotive supplier sector who have pled guilty to serious criminal price-fixing charges,\u201d it said in a statement.\nFord said it was monitoring the investigation and would not comment further.\nToyota said in a statement that it \u201cexpects its suppliers to provide the company with quality parts at competitive prices, while complying with all applicable laws in the markets where they do business.\u201d\nIt also said: \u201cWe are committed to supporting free and fair competition among suppliers, and we have code of conduct guidelines in place that we expect suppliers to meet. We take any violations of these guidelines seriously.\u201d\nHitachi will pay its $195 million fine in connection with charges that it conspired with other companies to rig the prices of auto parts it sold to General Motors, Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota in the United States and other countries.\nIn a statement, Hitachi said it would institute measures to prevent such actions in the future and was \u201ccommitted to ensuring to comply with all applicable antitrust laws or competition laws.\u201d\nMitsubishi will pay its $190 million fine on charges that it conspired to fix the prices of auto parts like starter motors, alternators and ignition coils it sold to Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan and Subaru.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve cooperated fully with the Department of Justice and have concluded our discussions,\u201d Mitsubishi said in a statement.\nThe charges were filed in United States District Courts in Cincinnati, Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.\n\u201cThese enforcement actions send a clear and consistent message to all who would take advantage of consumers,\u201d Mr. Holder said.\nMitsuba Corporation will pay $135 million on charges that it fixed the price of parts sold to Chrysler, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota. The company also agreed to plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice, because of orders from a high-level United States-based executive to destroy evidence, the Justice Department said.\nJtekt Corporation will pay $103 million and NSK Ltd. will pay $68.2 million. The remaining companies will pay lesser amounts, including a fine of $14.5 million for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which pleaded guilty to rigging prices for compressors and condensers, and a fine of $13.75 million for T.RAD Company, which sold radiators and devices that warm the automatic transmission fluid.\nValeo Japan, which sold air-conditioning systems, will pay $13.6 million. Yamashita Rubber will pay $11 million for fixing the price of automotive antivibration rubber products.\nAs the investigation expands, Mr. Holder said, the Justice Department will continue to look into price fixing in the automotive industry. \u201cOur work isn\u2019t done,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 7286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 167.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jalopnik.com/tag/bmw-m10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5CWFDJK6VH2P2FDMYUPPFT356RNLZ4WS", "length": 595, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jalopnik.com", "title": "Car News, Photos, Videos & More", "raw_content": "Opening the bonnet of today\u2019s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Spitfire reveals not the hoary old Triumph four, but a precision\u2026\nCOTD: Formula One's Turbo Era Edition\nWe live in an age of unparalleled technical refinement and capability. Still, we can count on our forbearers to draw up\u2026\nDon\u2019t fear the 2013 F1 engines\nThe 2.4-liter naturally aspirated V8\u2019s used in Formula One will be retired at the end of next year, to be replaced\u2026\nWhat\u2019s This Engine Bay?\nEngine Of The Day: BMW M10\nIt's been 18 months since our last BMW Engine Of The Day, so we're definitely overdue. Here's the SOHC four-cylinder\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 355161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaywaytravel.com/blog/tag/entertainment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6CUVV73NRPRVAHTCA7F3DD3N24SJ2LGV", "length": 926, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jaywaytravel.com", "title": "entertainment - Jayway Travel", "raw_content": "Post Tag: Entertainment\nThe 7 Most Exciting Performance Venues in Berlin\nPosted on November 25, 2017 by Stephan Delbos \u2022 0 Comments\nBerlin is the largest city in Germany and it also has a unique history. There\u2019s more than enough to do here every day and night of the year. There are world-famous sights of course. But there\u2019s also a variety of performance venues in Berlin with exciting events, concerts, exhibitions, and performances. Here\u2019s my list of\u2026 Continue Reading\nCirque du Soleil comes to Budapest in May 2012\nPosted on October 1, 2011 by Charlie \u2022 0 Comments\nTickets just went on sale for Cirque du Soleil\u2019s Alegria. There will be 5 performances at Budapest\u2019s Sportarena between the 17th and 20th of May 2012. If your trip coincides with these dates and you\u2019ve always wanted to see a Cirque du Soleil performance, better get your tickets booked now! Here\u2019s what you can expect\u2026 Continue Reading\nFiled Under: Budapest", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 4471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 197.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeffatchison.com/2016/06/07/why-peter-james-and-john/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SNCYQWYVNAUUO5WTI6EBXLY33MEUHBRE", "length": 6799, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "jeffatchison.com", "title": "Why Peter, James, and John? | Continue Reading \u2013>", "raw_content": "First: why did Jesus pick Peter, James, and John to be His inner circle of ministry training? There are several explanations for this:#1 \u2022 As an example effective leadership training. Jesus ministered to great crowds, but there was a group of a hundred or so who seemed to be following Him closely, including the wonderful women who supported the ministry in practical ways. Jesus selected the Twelve to specifically invest in as His apostles \u2013 His personal representatives. But even the Perfect Leader, Jesus, showed us the importance of narrowing in on a smaller \u201cinner circle\u201d for the highest degree of intimate training. In Mark 9, on the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus gave a unique experience to the Three that none of the other Twelve would partake in.\n#2 \u2022 Peter, James, and John represent the extremes of the Twelve. Peter was the eldest, John was the youngest. James died first, John lived the longest. There are two wonderful lessons this teaches us:\nTo Peter: \u201cDon\u2019t think that your age qualifies you as a better leader\u2014I\u2019m also selected the youngest as a leader.\u201d The fact that John was chosen as his peer should have humbled Peter to some degree. I\u2019m not sure it actually this effect on him or not!\nTo James: \u201cGo big, then go home!\u201d Jesus invested Himself equally in James and John. John would go on to live for more than seven decades in ministry. What a fantastic investment by Jesus\u2014the most \u201cbang for the buck.\u201d But James? He only lasted a few years before he was martyred. Would Jesus have said, \u201cWhat a waste?\u201d Absolutely not! God doesn\u2019t value our lives based on how long we live, but rather, by the fact that we live for Him. James\u2019 value to the Kingdom of God was no less than John\u2019s. The lesson is to \u201cgo big\u201d for Jesus, no matter how much time He gives you.\nWe must now consider the other men on the Mount\u2014Elijah and Moses. This will lead us to a sweet observation about Peter, James, and John.\nMoses \u2022 Moses finally made it to the Promised Land! On the Mount of Transfiguration Moses finally gets to set his feet down in Israel! (that is, if the Mount is Tabor, not Hermon, which is twelve miles north of Israel and is over 9000 feet in altitude. For these reasons, I think Tabor is a better candidate for the Mount of Transfiguration).\nAt the end of his earthly ministry, Moses\u2019 anger finally got the best of him and he failed by striking the rock and dishonored God in Israel\u2019s presence. This disqualified him to bring the people in to the Land. God had one last measure of mercy, though, for Moses. He brought Moses to the top of a mountain right outside the border of Israel and gave him supernatural vision to see all of the land, the North, South, and West to the sea. There on the mountain Moses died and God buried him.\nIn Jesus\u2019 ministry, though, God finally let Moses enter in!\nJust imagine the conversation in Heaven: \u201cHey Moses, my boy, I\u2019ve got something for you to do today that I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll enjoy\u2026\u201d\nMoses responds, \u201cWhy now, Lord?\u201d\n\u201cBecause,\u201d God answers, \u201cMy Beloved Son, Jesus, has fulfilled those Laws I gave to you on Sinai. And because I\u2019ve purified you from your own fleshly anger. All has been put right. You are now ready to enter in.\u201d\nI love that on the Mount of Transfiguration, God says, \u201cListen to Jesus\u201d not \u201cListen to Moses.\u201d Moses was there as a witness to Jesus\u2019 glory, not to steal any glory for himself. Previously on Mount Sinai, Moses descended with glory on his face. Now all of the glory is reserved for Jesus alone.\nElijah \u2022 Elijah, too, sees the fruit of his labors. Jesus also fulfilled the Prophets, of whom Elijah was seen as the chief. Elijah had also previously met with God on Mt. Horeb, after fleeing from Jezebel. Elijah was a mountain man, like Moses.\nJesus fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, so the representatives of the Law and Prophets stand by Jesus\u2019 side as God proclaims, \u201cListen to My Beloved Son!\u201d We can learn from the Law and Prophets, (the Old Testament), but we listen to Jesus, who fulfilled both and informs our understanding of both.\nRevelation \u2022 Moses and Elijah are also the best candidates for the Two Witnesses in Revelation, who are martyred for their preaching by the Anti\u2013Christ. It is suitable that they are validated as witnesses to Christ\u2019s glory on the Mount, since they will represent His glory in the tribulation.\nPart Two: The Big Lesson\nImagine a conversation like this on the Mount:\n\u201cHey, Moses and Elijah, come here a moment,\u201d says Jesus. \u201cI want to introduce you to Peter, James, and John. I think you guys have a lot in common.\u201d\nMoses and Elijah have been watching Jesus\u2019 ministry from heaven, and they look suspiciously at Jesus. \u201cAre you sure, Master? We\u2019ve seen these guys in action. They seem to be loud, emotional, and out of control.\u201d\nJesus responds with a knowing smile and sparkle in His eye, \u201cYep, just like you two.\u201d\nYou see, Peter, James, and John had much in common with Elijah and Moses. They were impetuous and rash. Peter was often loud\u2013mouthed and angry, yet when he blundered he was depressed and defeated. James and John were the Sons of Thunder who wanted to call down fire from heaven to blast a town that refused Jesus. They were the ones who put themselves forward as the ones who should sit at Jesus\u2019 right and left hand. I love that Jesus considered John the disciple He loved, since love was absent in him first.\nMoses and Elijah had been natural leaders who failed in the flesh and ran. They had natural qualities of action, boldness, and big goals, yet when they failed, they hit rock bottom emotionally. Peter, James, and John were cut from the same mold as Moses and Elijah. God loves to take natural leaders and turn them into supernatural leaders\u2014those that lead according to God\u2019s Spirit and not according to their own flesh.\nJesus surely could have introduced the Three Apostles to Two Prophets this way, \u201cHey, you old dudes. Let me introduce you to the young guys who are going to walk in your legacy. I\u2019m going to do to them exactly what I did to you. I want them to shake your hand and look you in the eye, because they need to remember this moment. This will encourage them to hang in there when their flesh lets them down and keep looking to Me!\u201d\nYou might be a natural leader. Allow God to continue to humble, break you and shape you into that supernatural leader who walks in His Spirit. Maybe you need to take a little time off on a mountain with God to let His Glory overshadow your self\u2013sufficiency afresh and anew.\nAnd as a leader, look for your Peter, James, and John\u2014those young folks with the natural raw material that will propel them to the front of the team. Help them learn to submit to the Spirit. Let God\u2019s word soak into their hearts, \u201cThis is My Beloved Son, listen to Him!\u201d\n\u2190 Matthew 13 \u2013 What is your trajectory?\nPit to Palace \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 8230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennabrownson.com/2015/12/07/german-chocolate-longing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:G2EF5UPTRQDH7EPJZAQCSTXY46MUX72N", "length": 1676, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "jennabrownson.com", "title": "German Chocolate Longing | Jenna Brownson", "raw_content": "German Chocolate Longing\nThis was my dad\u2019s favorite cake: German chocolate. If you haven\u2019t ever tried it, I can vouch for how delicious it is.\nI made one today.\nI did this because had my dad not died seventeen years ago, he\u2019d be celebrating his 70th birthday today. Probably with me. I bet my sister would have come back for the party. And he would have been surrounded my his six grandchildren, ranging in age from a year and a half to almost fifteen. We\u2019d sing \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d He\u2019d wonder how we managed to fit all seventy candles on top. We might even have come up with a gift which I bet would have been an experience over a new belonging. For example: downhill skiing passes over a new watch; a trip to an art museum over slippers. You get the idea.\nMy dad was into \u201cdoing,\u201d not \u201chaving.\u201d\nAt fifty-two, he was given six months to live upon the discovery of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Before January 1998, I hadn\u2019t a clue what a pancreas was, and therefore, I wholly doubted the need for one. I was kind of hoping it was like an appendix.\nAnd the cancer spread.\nHe survived ten months which I\u2019m told should be seen as a \u201cgift.\u201d There are no happy outcomes from a premature death. I would have been happy to take a rain check on the whole thing.\nThis morning I practiced Ashtanga yoga. While I was in the studio with nine fellow yogis and our instructor, I felt my dad there, too.\nI bet he would have loved the \u201cdoing\u201d of yoga.\nIf only he was given the opportunity of the \u201chaving\u201d of his life.\nILY-\n4 thoughts on \u201cGerman Chocolate Longing\u201d\nHappy Birthday, Jenna\u2019s Dad! Wow, would he be bursting at the seams with pride for the people his children and grandchildren are!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 8307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennabrownson.com/2016/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:00Z", "digest": "sha1:2PUBU4FZ5UHRXIKJYC4LWIFAZ77U3BQA", "length": 1445, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jennabrownson.com", "title": "September | 2016 | Jenna Brownson", "raw_content": "While the shedding of the skin of a snake happens consistently during the growth period of a snake\u2019s life, there can be found an analogous \u201cshedding\u201d in the lives of humans as well. Sometimes it\u2019s a simple as moving from one part of the country to another. For example, if one moves from Wisconsin to [\u2026]\nRead more \"The Process of Shedding\"\nBefore school was out in June, I sent off pages from my revised manuscript to a literary agency I\u2019d convinced myself would be a very good fit for me. The agency works with authors whose books I\u2019ve read and the agents, by way of their biographies, appeared to be the sorts of folks with whom [\u2026]\nRead more \"The Risk of Rejection\"\nIn any average day, you can find me reading non-fiction essays that focus primarily on erudite topics that integrate philosophy, social justice, feminism, politics, creativity, and mindfulness. These writings infuse my thoughts and percolate for a while, then after some time and distillation, they shed some parts, merge others, and emerge after being translated through the [\u2026]\nRead more \"Victimhood, Agency, and a Discovery\"\nMany parents are celebrating the return of their children to the care and education of school. With these school-age kiddos back on the bus and gone for the day, mothers and fathers are free of the summer chants of \u201cLet\u2019s go someplace today\u201d and \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to do here.\u201d While painful to fork over several [\u2026]\nRead more \"Back to School Blues\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennlyreads.com/2017/01/25/a-review-of-gifts-the-spark-form-chronicles-book-3-by-matt-doyle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6K5RM4FFSLATY5AUNU3FS7YQ3GOQKUEW", "length": 1921, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jennlyreads.com", "title": "A review of \u201cGIFTS (The Spark Form Chronicles Book 3)\u201d by Matt Doyle \u2013 Jennly Reads", "raw_content": "A review of \u201cGIFTS (The Spark Form Chronicles Book 3)\u201d by Matt Doyle\nFull disclosure, I was provided with a copy of the book by the author in exchange for an honest review.\nWhat exactly do you get a Spark Form for Christmas?\nGIFTS, the third book in the Spark Form Chronicles finds John Forrester and his sentient companion Carnival six months after the 43rd Annual Spark Form World Championship. Having taken things easy in recent months, John and Carnival are ready to get back to action, but due to the strain on his heart, John can no longer compete live. The result will be playing the game the \u201cold fashioned\u201d way, filmed backstage with the Spark Forms of the competitors replaying the action as it unfolded for the audience. Christmas is also fast approaching and John is finding it harder and harder to keep his Christmas gift for Carnival a secret. What John doesn\u2019t know is that his companion also has a surprise Christmas gift up her sleeve for him.\nFirst, I must say that I loved catching up with John, Carnival and all the other characters of the Spark Form World. A few questions that I had after \u201cCARNIVAL\u201d were answered with this update and that has put me in the mood for more. The addition of the Spark Forming game rules after the novella was a nice touch. My only complaint with this would be that I felt it was too short. Yeah, yeah I know\u2026 Novella and all that but I really loved these characters and this world is so full of potential that I wanted more. If you have already read \u201cWICK\u201d and \u201cCARNIVAL\u201d you will most likely find this as enjoyable as I did. If you are new to the series, but are a fan of professional wrestling, Manga or competitive card games such as Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh you should check this series out. They\u2019re definitely worth the read.\n\u2190 A review of \u201cBack in Black\u201d by Tim McBain and LT Vargus\nA Review of \u201cBeyond the Blue (Awake in the Dark #5)\u201d by Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2012/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KRUHHSTB2X6XFB3CBG7DXWWIVBR53ZNJ", "length": 74696, "nlines": 333, "source_domain": "jewishrefugees.blogspot.com", "title": "Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: May 2012", "raw_content": "New book: Operation Magic Carpet was 'a failure'\nHundreds of Jews died through the incompetence and neglect of the Joint, charges Esther Meir-Glitzenstein\nThe conventional view of Operation Magic Carpet holds that from June 1949 to September 1950, nearly 50,000 Yemenite Jews travelled through space and time from the backward nation of Yemen to be redeemed in the modern and advanced State of Israel. According to a new book by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, the operation was a case of serious mismanagement by the Joint (JDC), who failed to treat the sick and hungry. Some 850 refugees died before they even got to Israel. Article in Haaretz. My comment is below (with thanks: Lily):\nIn \"The Exodus of the Yemenite Jews \u2212 A Failed Operation and a Formative Myth,\" published by Resling, Dr. Esther Meir-Glitzenstein reveals the how this mythic larger-than-life rescue operation was actually organized and describes the heavy toll it exacted upon the people it intended to save.\nThe story of the Yemenite aliyah was intentionally spun as an enchanting fairy tale in order to mask that it actually didn't go well at all, explains Meir-Glitzenstein, a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.\nNo fewer than 700,000 Jews reached Israel during the state's first years. What made the aliyah from Yemen unique among the early waves of immigration was the heavy death toll, she says.\n\"The Yemenite immigrants arrived hungry and sick at the transit camp set up for them in the Yemenite port city of Aden, after having walked hundreds of kilometers,\" she says. But the camp didn't have the facilities to care for them.\nAbout 700 of the Jewish migrants died at the camp were buried in an adjacent cemetery. An additional 150 travelers, suffering from a lack of basic necessities on the journey, died between the border of the British-controlled Protectorate of Aden and North Yemen.\nThen when the immigrants reached Israel, the fatalities continued. Post-immigration infant mortality rates ran high. While the myth-spinners of Operation Magic Carpet chalked up these tragedies to the difficult situation in Yemen, the book reveals that the deaths were actually a result of disastrous management. Refugees died, Meir-Glitzenstein says, because of incompetent planning, apathy and abandonment.\nWho was responsible for this tragedy?\n\"The exodus of Jews from Yemen was planned with the cooperation of imam of Yemen who ruled North Yemen, the British authorities in Aden, the State of Israel, the Jewish Agency and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Every party played a role in the tragedy,\" Meir-Glitzenstein says. \"The imam, who profited hugely from property and confiscatory taxes levied on the Jewish community, didn't lift a finger to help his subjects, who were desperate for aid. The British didn't help either.\"\nBut the lion's share of the blame lies with the Joint Distribution Committee, Meir-Glitzenstein says.\nFrom the moment the rescue effort began, she contends, the JDC took control - and subsequently failed at every single point.\nA scheduled airlift did not arrive on time. There wasn't enough shelter, food or medicine for the displaced Jews. Perhaps most egregiously, Meir-Glitzenstein says, the JDC abandoned thousands of Jews in the barren desert that straddles the North Yemen-Aden border.\nAs for assistance that did arrive, it was too little, too late.\nBut the JDC is not the only culpable party. \"The Israeli government agreed to let the JDC handle the operation,\" Meir-Glitzenstein says. \"That means that they, too, shared some of the blame for this tragedy.\"\nHow did this fiasco became a basic myth, one tied to the religious notions of salvation and national redemption?\nThat would be because of classic propaganda, says Meir-Glitzenstein.\n\"At the height of the aliyah from Yemen, the leadership of the JDC sent a press release to the media, describing Operation Magic Carpet as a successful rescue operation that brought the Jews of Yemen back to their ancestral homeland,\" she says. And the heavy price paid by the immigrants? Conveniently left out. Also not mentioned were mistakes in implementation and unfulfilled promises.\n\"The organizers of the mission were depicted as saviors,\" Meir-Glitzenstein says. \"The mass exodus of Yemenite Jews was explained in terms of a messianic awakening among a religious community that spent 2,000 years longing for redemption. The religio-messianic myth was later ascribed to subsequent waves of immigration from Muslim countries.\"\nIs there a conspiracy of silence surrounding this issue?\nOf sorts, yes, Meir-Glitzenstein says. According to her research, three separate Knesset committees reviewed the operation. They discovered that some of the Israelis stationed in Aden, including senior JDC staffers, engaged in black-market smuggling. They knew the immigrants suffering but didn't care. Some staffers went so far as to beat the pilgrims with clubs and steal what little property they had managed to take with them.\nIn response to the Knesset inquiries, the JDC replaced their representatives in Aden. \"But not a single JDC staffer was ever indicted,\" Meir-Glitzenstein says.\nAnd it's not as if the abuses were a secret. \"Many people outside the JDC were aware of what was going on, among them Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and other senior government ministers,\" she says. \"Everyone kept silent. Maybe they wanted to protect the State of Israel, since it was so new, and maybe they were concerned about the reputation of the JDC, which played a big part in bringing Jews to Israel and helping them settle.\"\nHow did the aliyah narrative of Yemenite Jewry affect their absorption into Israeli society?\nApproximately 30,000 sick and battered immigrants arrived from Yemen, but Israelis, Meir-Glitzenstein says, was under the impression that conditions in Yemen were to blame.\nAmong the sick were 3,000 infants in grave condition. Israel was not equipped to provide treatment.\nAnd after all that, since Israeli society was under the impression that it had saved these immigrants and brought them to a better place, Israelis expected gratitude.\n\"Even today in Israel, no one understands the price these immigrants paid,\" Meir-Glitzenstein says. \"There is not a single monument in Israel dedicated to those who died on the journey from Yemen. They have been erased both from historical memory and public consciousness.\"\nMy comment: it is no secret that the Jews in Yemen were in a sorry state of health and malnourishment when they arrived, many of them on foot, in the Yemen transit camps before being airlifted to Israel - as were an earlier wave of immigrants. And a number who survived the journey did not survive long in the Israeli transit camps. If one assumes that the death toll was around one in fifty, it was proportionately less than the 4,000 Ethiopian Jews who never made it to Israel on Operation Moses decades later, dying of starvation and disease in the Sudan and in transit camps. Can all the Yemenite deaths be blamed on the Joint's incompetence? Even if the JDC staffers did engage in black-market smuggling, it seems a bit harsh of Mrs Meir-Glitzenstein to put all blame on the JDC for failing to cure disease and prevent all loss of life.\nLast Jew assisted by Joint in Algeria died in 2011\nA synagogue in Algeria. The last remaining synagogue in Algiers was desecrated in 1988.\nThere are almost no Jews left in Algeria: the last Jewess assisted by the Joint Distribution Committee, Mrs Esther Azoulay, passed away in July 2011, bringing to a close the JDC's programme in that troubled country, its CEO Steve Schwager writes. Before 1962, Algeria had 160,000 Jews. There may still be a handful left surviving without assistance (with thanks: Andrew):\nAccording to some scholars, Jewish life in Algeria probably dates back nearly 2,600 years, to the time of the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. So Penny and I feel that it is of special importance to note that this past July, the last Jew in Algeria assisted by JDC, Mrs. Esther Azoulay, passed away.\nHer passing brings JDC's direct program involvement in that troubled country to a close after a period of 60 years. And how did that work begin?\nJDC\u2019s connection started with its support for the Refugee Welfare Committee, which was established in Algeria in 1943 in order to bring assistance to European Jews who found asylum there during WWII. Later, when the State of Israel came into being, JDC also supported the aliyah of Jews from Algeria. However, in 1953, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Algeria felt that JDC should expand its programs for the Jews of Algeria in both the social and cultural arenas, and a JDC office was finally opened in Algiers in 1957.\nJDC provided assistance in many areas: home visits to the needy, support for the development of educational institutions, medical care, cash assistance, and food packages, including matzot for Pesach. By 1959, 4,000 Jews were benefiting from JDC\u2019s aid. In addition, JDC helped strengthen Jewish life in Algeria by supporting the construction of a rabbinical school and Jewish summer camps.\nEven prior to 1962, when Algeria achieved its independence, Jews in Algeria had been facing hostility from certain segments of both the local French and Arab population. And once the French departed, Algerian rule was marked by militant Arab nationalism, growing Islamization, and virulent anti-Zionism. By the end of 1963, the 120,000-member community had dwindled to some 3,000-4,000 Jews.\nIn 1964, Mr. Choucroun, President of the Jewish community of Sa\u00efda, sent the following letter to Dr. Franco Levi, the JDC representative in Algeria:\nAt the time when I am preparing to leave Algeria, I would like to say once again how much I am grateful to the organization you represent and for your good deeds. You saved people in distress \u2026 thanks to your actions, children and elderly smiled at life. There do not remain any more poor people in Sa\u00efda.\nThe story of the final desecration/destruction of the last remaining synagogue in Algiers in 1988 makes stomach-churning reading even today. The damage done was so extensive that the synagogue, now in ruins, had to be permanently closed. By the end of the eighties, only 94 Jews remained in the country.\nIn the mid-1990\u2019s the assassination of two Jews in Algiers marked the end of an era.\nJDC remained a pillar of strength, providing assistance to those who needed help even as the community continued to shrink.\nSince 1985, Line Meller, then living in Algiers, served as JDC\u2019s liaison with the remaining Jews of Algeria.On our behalf she helped to assure the welfare of a small number of aged and impoverished Jews, who continued to receive cash assistance from JDC until they passed away.\nAlthough JDC could not redeem these unfortunate Jews from their suffering since they did not want to emigrate, the work that JDC did kept them alive. JDC enabled Line Meller to light a candle in a black hole of darkness.\nIn 2010, Mr. Messaoud Chetrit, 82-years-old and the last Jewish man still living in Oran, passed away. A delegation of Jews came from France to ensure that he was buried according to the traditional Jewish ritual in the very cemetery of Oran where he had been the final caretaker.\nAnd that brings us to the last Jew in Algeria assisted by JDC, Mrs. Azoulay, who had a very difficult life. In 1992, her case came to the attention of JDC, which from that point on provided her with regular cash assistance. Over a period of two decades, this JDC aid enabled Mrs. Azoulay to pay for all the medical care she needed for her multiple ailments. But perhaps what she treasured most about this JDC connection was the reassurance it gave her that she had not been forgotten by her people.\nJews were not colonisers in Algeria\nThe campus at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)\nWith thanks: Silke; Eliyahu\nA PhD history laureate named Sung Choi gave a lecture earlier this month at UCLA on the Jews of Algeria in the run-up to Algerian independence.\nOne wonders why she came to this subject in the first place: I suspect it was to prove that Jews were collaborators with the settler-coloniser French, who conquered Algeria in 1830. Her original intention had been to demonstrate Jewish participation in the right-wing pied noir pro-French OAS movement, until her research showed the Jews were also courted by the pro-independence FLN.\nThe Jews do not fit the fashionable paradigm of colonisers versus colonised. Miss Choi seems to have discovered quite recently - from her friend Susan - that Jews had been in Algeria since Roman times (in fact, as early as 600 BCE). What she hasn't grasped is that the Jews were indigenous, preceding the Arab Muslims in Algeria by several hundred years. As a 'Europeanist', Miss Choi betrays her ignorance of Jewish history when she says 'quite a lot of Berbers and Arabs were converts to Judaism'. Berbers may well have converted to Judaism at first, but the overwhelming majority of Jewish and Christian Berbers would have in turn been converted to Islam; and no Arabs converted to Judaism - on the contrary, thousands of Jews were lost to Islam.\nShe describes how these Jews clung to the French citizenship granted to them by the 1870 Cremieux Decree. She correctly identifies the trauma of being stripped of their French citizenship by the Vichy regime during WW2.\nBut missing from her analysis is the main reason why the Jews of Algeria held on to their French citizenship: it was not just a matter of acculturation - ceasing to speak or dress like Arabs. Citizenship allowed them to escape centuries of dhimmitude, in which Jews were humiliated as inferiors by the local Muslims.\nThe word 'dhimmi' does not so much as escape Miss Choi's lips. She doesn't seem to grasp that the Jews are the 'colonised' of the 'colonised' Muslims.\nMoreover, it is not true to suggest that French citizenship was only offered to Jews. As late as 1865, it was also offered to the Muslims of Algeria. The latter refused it because it would mean submitting to French civil law.\nMiss Choi does not effectively convey the soul-searching that went on in the Jewish community before 1870 : the rabbis lobbied against French citizenship, fearing inevitable assimilation and weakening of religious and cultural ties (this actually came to pass). At first only 5 percent of the Jews welcomed citizenship. The Decret Cremieux was eventually imposed on the community, mainly for domestic electoral reasons.\nOf course, acquiring French citizenship exposed the Jews to antisemitic hostility from the pieds noirs on the one hand, and resentment from the Algerian Muslims on the other, who suddenly had fewer rights and lower status. The antisemitism culminated in the wartime statut de Vichy. French citizenship was only restored in 1943, a year after the Allies had liberated North Africa, because the Allies had wished to appease the Vichy officers who still ran the Algerian army.\nSung Choi does not give her audience much of an inkling of the dilemmas facing Algerian Jews with the outbreak of the Algerian war in the 1950s. The community tried to maintain neutrality between the OAS and the FLN, but what Miss Choi euphemistically calls 'hostilities' forced the Jews to throw in their lot with the pieds noirs. With their French citizenship restored, it was obvious that efforts to coax the Algerian Jews to Israel would fail. But some 14,000 Algerian Jews, out of 160,000 did flee to Israel.\nThe trouble with academics nowadays is that they try to fit their conclusions into preconceived notions: one of the most pernicious is that Jews were accomplices of European colonialism. In order to convince, they have to leave out half the story: the historic oppression of the Jewish natives by Arab Muslims.\nSung Choi's lecture\nPosted by bataween at Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11 comments:\nLabels: Dhimmitude, Indigenous Jews, Jews of Algeria, Leftist bias against Jewish rights\nThe bitter-sweet aftertaste of liquorice in Iran\nThe liquorice plant grows wild in Iran\nI never really gave liquorice much thought until I met Victoria. This lady in her 80s had lived in Iran until 1979. Her late husband's business was to harvest the roots of the vast numbers of liquorice plants which grow naturally near the Iranian town of Kermanshah, and to sell the liquorice to be processed into food, for tobacco or for its medicinal properties.\nAs Israel was a major client of his - Iran then had excellent relations with the Jewish state - Victoria's husband lost no time in bundling his family out of the country as soon as the Shah was deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran declared. The family abandoned their house, their business, everything.\nA few years later, in London, Victoria and her husband went to the Iranian embassy to register their lost assets. They drew up a will in order to bequeath their property to their children. The embassy officials were mystified as to why they had left in the first place. Their house was now a police station, but the thought of turning up on the doorstep and ordering the policemen out was rather improbable. The chances of their children ever reclaiming the family property were just as remote.\nVictoria knew of no refugee from the Islamic regime - Jewish or non-Jewish - who had managed to get compensation or restitution.\nShe knew of families split between Israel and Iran - the children who stayed behind to run the family business while the parents went to Israel. Letters addressed to 'Occupied Palestine' reached their destination, although it is not known if they were censored along the way. Jews in Iran could not make direct calls to Israel from their homes, but had to go to call centres, where presumably their conversations would be monitored.\nVictoria, whose family came originally from Iraq, had nothing but pleasant memories of her life under the Shah. But indigenous Iranian Jews had longer memories of persecution, and were more wary in their relationships with Muslims.\nIraq's Jewish treasures could be lost for ever\nIraq wants the Jewish archive returned: it is being restored in Washington after being found soaking in the Secret Police basement in Baghdad\nWith thanks: Qumran Qumran; Janet\nShavuot (Pentecost) was traditionally the festival when the Jews of Iraq performed 'ziyara' - the pilgrimage to the tomb of Ezekiel at al-Kifl. Writing in the Hebrew medium G-Planet Guy Bechor has performed his own 'ziyara', revisiting the parlous state of Iraq's Jewish heritage. He is not hopeful: Iraq's Jewish treasures could be lost for ever. Here is a rough summary in English of Bechor's important piece.\nSaddam Hussein, the dictator of Baghdad built himself a private museum of Jewish books and artefacts. The lost Jewish community continued to haunt him like a ghost.\nThe first news of the Jewish archive came from the head of the Israel-Palestine department of the secret police. After the US invasion of 2003, he told US officials - among them Harold Rhode - a scholar fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic - that he knew where a very rare Talmud from the 7th c. was kept. The screams of the tortured could be heard all around from the adjoining room in the Mukhabarat dungeons. The Americans dropped a half-ton bomb on the building. It did not explode, but water and sewage filled the basement, soaking a vast collection of Jewish holy books published in Leghorn, Jerusalem, Smyrna, Vilna, Warsaw, Baghdad, Torah scrolls and parchment, the oldest from 1568 - books used by the great rabbis of Babylon.\nThe most interesting archives, however, were from the 20th century, up to to 1953, and include a list of Jewish-owned properties, academic registers, school reports to the Ministry of Education, the chronicles of an ethnically-cleansed community which had shaped Judaism itself. The collection was looted from synagogues in 1950 and especially the attic of the Meir Shemtob synagogue in central Baghdad.\nJewish organisations had hope that the discovery of the Jewish archives would had led to the restoration of cemeteries and heritage, but everything is dissolving in Iraq today. The window for foreigners to visit has closed, and the shrines of Ezekiel at al-Kifl and Ezra the Scribe near Basra have been turned into mosques. Nobody cares.\nAs most Jewish archives would have been buried, Guy Bechor felt there was an opportunity to discover the very roots of Judaism, but when he broached the subject with (Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon, Sharon was not interested. The Israeli government was always fire-fighting and lost Jewish treasures in the Arab world were the very lowest of its priorities.\nThe US government are in no hurry to return the Jewish archive found in the Mukhabarat basement, now in Washington for restoration, but the Iraqi Government, which fought the US on the backs of the Jews and their heritage, suddenly has this burning desire to see the Jewish archive returned - it's their heritage, they claim.\nWhat an impertinence when the collection was looted from its rightful owners. Guy Bechor suggests that the collection should go to the heirs of the Iraqi-Jewish community in Israel, or at least be accessible to them.\nTug-of-war over the Jewish archives\nLabels: Holy sites, Jewish archives, Jews of Iraq\nAt Shavuot, we remember the Farhud\nProfessor Shmuel Moreh, emeritus professor in Arabic literature at the Hebrew University\nThis Shavuot marks 71 years since the outbreak of the pro-Nazi pogrom in Iraq known as the Farhud. Professor Shmuel Moreh will not allow the event to be forgotten:\nJihad is considered no less important than the five pillars of Islam (\u0623\u0631\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645) but this aspect of militant Islam had been neglected during the first decades of the 20th century: The testimony to the unity of Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet, prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage were the essence of Islam. The cause of such neglect was not only European military and industrial power, but also the fact that Arab Hashemite Hejaz family led by Sharif Hussein Ben Ali and his sons Princes Faisal and Abd - Allah cooperated with the British and French Powers, against the Caliph, the religious head of the Ottoman Empire, the protector of Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt preached to restore the Jihad, \"the forgotten pillar\" of Islam.\nMuslims found many similarities between Nazi doctrine and Islamic military power: the rise of Islam as a doctrine which united all the Arab tribe, by a charismatic leader, which must be spread by the sword, protects its followers against hellfire. The British, who saw the rich oil wells of Iraq as a strategic area of utmost importance, always strove to maintain friendly relations with the Hashemite family. Therefore, they crowned Prince Faisal king of Iraq.\nBritain's agreements with the new state fanned the hatred of nationalists in the secular Iraqi army. With the founding of Iraq in 1921, most army officers studied in the German military and education system in Ottoman Turkey. The Nazi doctrine advocated force, racism and superiority of the Aryan race and favored Germany and hatred of Jews. King Ghazi, who hated the British because they betrayed his grandfather's Sharif Hussein Ben Ali dream to establish a new Arab empire, was disappointed with British support of the Jewish national home in Eretz Yisrael. Therefore, the young King worked to cement a friendship with Hitler and founded the Fituwwa, an Iraqi youth paramilitary organization in the fashion of Hitler Youth scouts.\nThe organization was taken over by exiled Palestinians in Iraq. It spread hatred of Jews and harassed them in the streets. Sunni Palestinians took over the school system and replaced Iraqi Shi'ites. The predominance of Jews in commerce and in the new state as directors of financial departments of all Iraqi ministries, bookkeepers and financial policy makers' advisers to the British in the running of Iraq's economy, aroused the envy and hatred of the people. The incitement was fuelled by the Palestinian students at the School of the Templars, who were hostile to the British for the Balfour Declaration.\nIn the midst of the Second World War the Germans sought to control the Iraqi oil wells. They promised air support and political patronage to the Iraqi nationalist officers. The Palestinians, headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al - Husseini, were given a free hand. Palestinians and Syrians exiles incited the masses against the Jews in the press, in radio broadcasts and educational institutions.\nOn the advice of Haj Amin al - Husseini, they surrounded the British Army Air Force base at Habbaniya in western Iraq. Major Glubb Pasha (G. John Bagot) engineered a British counterattack. Defeating the Iraqi forces at Khaan Nuqta, fifteen miles from Baghdad, the British forces were in control of the Iraqi telephone switchboard. They planned to spread false information that \"a powerful tank attack was on its way\" to Baghdad. The fact that the British defeated the Iraqi army and the false information that heavy tank columns were advancing on Baghdad caused panic among the Iraqi pro- Nazi government and they fled to Persia and Turkey. Rashid Ali al - Gailani and Haj Amin al - Husseini and their entourage fled to Berlin and joined forces with the Nazis in Eastern Europe, especially Muslims in Bosnia.\nThe defeat of the Iraqi army by Glubb Pasha, commander of the British Legion in Jordan, and the flight of the leaders of the revolt to Iran, Turkey and Germany, with the British Army at the gates of Baghdad, left a political vacuum. Defeated and humiliated soldiers and the mob vented their anger against the Jews. They murdered 138 Jews, injured hundreds, and raped girls and women, and robbed and burned their property over the two days of Shavuot in 1-2 June 1941.\nA returning monarchist government headed by Regent Abd al - Ilah and the pro- British Jamil al-Madfa'i were put in place. Iraqi soldiers opened live fire on the looters when they began to rob the stores of Muslim merchants. Dozens of looters were killed by troops loyal to the royal family Today some amateur leftists and Arab nationalists argue brazenly to flatter that about 200 Muslims were murdered to protect the Jews. Two scholars from Iraq are fighting unfounded allegations: journalist, broadcaster and writer Salim Fattal - whose uncle was murdered in the first hours of the Farhud wrote a book, An idol in the Temple of the Israeli Academy, in 2010: and Dr. Nissim Kazzaz wrote a book too. His father died and so did Salim Fattal's uncle when trying to rescue his racehorse-breeder partner at the Shiite neighborhood of Bab El \u2013 Sheikh in Baghdad.\nAfter the Farhud the Iraqi government established a committee to investigate the events of the 1-2 June 1941 and submitted its report on July 8, 1941. A list of victims recorded by Dr. Zvi Yehuda came to 146. Some community sources put the number of victims at 179. We still do not have a final tally because from time to time families of relatives that are not included in the list come forward.\nFrom a Lecture given at the Zalman Shazar Center in Jerusalem on 24/5/3012.\nGhreibas: Shavuot biscuits from Tunisia\nBanish all thoughts of cheesecake this Shavuot! Tunisian Jews celebrate the festival of the giving of the law on Mount Sinai with Ghreibas, cakes made \u200b\u200beither with chickpea or sorghum flour.\nOne-quarter of a liter of light oil (corn or sunflower)\n- 250 grams icing sugar\n-500 grams of chickpea flour or sorghum flour\n- 100 grams of ordinary flour\n- \u00bd teaspoon of baking powder\n1 / Place all ingredients in large bowl, work well and knead with your hands\n2 / Roll out, flatten and cut the dough at an angle of about 20 cm 3 cm for sorghum cakes. For chickpea bsicuits form tubes of 1 cm wide by 3 cm long)\n3 / cook at 160 C degrees for one hour\n4 / cool and enjoy.\nLa recette en francais sur Harissa\nWhen will the remaining Jews of Yemen get out?\nMoshe al-Nahari, murdered in 2008, dancing at a wedding (Photo: Reuven Schwartz)\nLyn Julius reflects on what's been a bad week for the Jews of Yemen, with the murder of Aharon Zindani. Will it be enough to make the remaining Jews leave? Read her blog in the Times of Israel:\nEarlier this week, Aharon Zindani lost his life. He was stabbed 12 times in the neck and stomach by a Yemeni Muslim shouting \"you have put a spell on me\" at Saawan market near the US embassy in northeast Sana\u2019a, while Zindani was shopping with his children. He died later in hospital.\nZindani had emigrated from Yemen to Israel in the 1990s. For some reason \u2013 some say he had trouble adjusting to his new country \u2013 he moved back to Yemen.\nBut Zindani\u2019s murder was not a clear-cut case of an innocent snuffed out by Islamic radicalism for being a Jew. Only last week, Chief Rabbi Yahya Yousef Mussa condemned Zindani for swindling the community in Sana\u2019a out of desperately-needed funds. He and another Jew, the rabbi alleged, had falsified papers allowing them to access benefits reserved for Jews in Yemen. They were planning to return to Israel with their ill-gotten gains.\nThe sense that Zindani was a rogue embroiled in shady deals probably explains why the few dozen Jews living in the capital still apparently \u201cdo not feel they are in danger.\u201d\nEven if there is no love lost between Zindani and the 70-odd Jews in the city, their protestations that they feel safe in a country where life is cheap, sound increasingly hollow. Zindani\u2019s murder would have brought back memories of another murder in December 2008, the reason for the Jews\u2019 relocation to Sana\u2019a in the first place.\nA 30-year-old father of nine, Moshe Al-Nahari was shot by a man shouting, \u201cconvert or die!\u201d Al-Nahari too had spent time in Israel and was planning to return there. But his father apparently dissuaded him at the last minute.\nFollowing Al-Nahari\u2019s murder the Jews were being increasingly harassed in their home town of Raida, where a low-level civil war was raging. President Saleh offered them sanctuary in the capital in two cramped blocks. But they are virtual prisoners in their compound, cannot support themselves and have been living on meager government hand-outs.\nAlthough some of Al-Nahari\u2019s children left for Israel, the rest of his family swore they would not leave until they had secured the death penalty for his murderer. At first, the courts ruled that the murderer was mentally unstable and only had to pay blood money. On appeal the courts sentenced the killer to death.\nThat was not the end of the story. Al-Nahari\u2019s son was kidnapped by the murderer\u2019s tribe in order to thwart the death sentence. A year ago, the killer bribed his prison guards and escaped from jail.\nFollowing the murder of Aharon Zindani, the question on everyone\u2019s lips is \u2013 why do these Jews stay there?\nThe vast majority of Yemen\u2019s Jews were airlifted out to Israel in 1949 \u201350. In the mid-1990s, a wave of about 1,200 were resettled in Israel. But the remaining 300 Jews fell under the influence of the Satmar ultra-orthodox anti-Zionist sect. Jews could come and go relatively freely, but the Satmar warned against moving to decadent and secular Israel. They began paying Jews to stay in Yemen. As the security situation deteriorated still further, some 60 Jews have been admitted to the US and resettled in Monsey, the Satmar enclave in New York.\nNow and again the Jews in Sana\u2019a make protestations of loyalty to the regime and condemn the steady trickle of Jews deserting Yemen. The Sana\u2019a Jews are behaving like archetypal \u2018dhimmis\u2019, owing their lives to the protection of the ruler. They would not betray the president who offered them hospitality by leaving. With the outbreak of the \u2018Arab Spring\u2019, however, President Abdullah Saleh has been toppled after 33 years in power. The leadership of the tiny community now think that the answer is for the Jews to have a say in the politics of the country. In a recent interview with CNN Arabic, Yemen Chief Rabbi Yahia Yousef Moussa called on the country\u2019s President Hadi to allow the Jewish community and other minority groups to have seats in the country\u2019s parliament. Such pronouncements smack of desperation. How much influence will a few dozen Jews have in a country of 23 million Muslims?\nLabels: Antisemitism, Dhimmitude, Islamism, Jews of Yemen\nSheikh wants preservation of Ezekiel's tomb\nAt Shavuot, which Jews celebrate beginning Saturday night, it was customary for Jews in Iraq to go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ezekiel. But now that almost no Jews live in Iraq, it is feared that the shrine, which is holy to Muslims as well, will be turned into a mosque. Not so, says Sheila Raviv: she has received assurances from Sheikh Gahalivi, via Canon Andrew White, the so-called 'vicar of Baghdad'. In 2010, Canon White went personally to investigate the state of the shrine. This post in the Times of Israel is from 5 March, but hopefully, nothing much has changed since.\nI met Canon White when he was the emissary of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, here in Jerusalem. I was drawn to this larger-than-life, deeply religious man who also had great respect and understanding of Judaism, having spent a year in yeshiva during his theological studies in Cambridge University. Canon White\u2019s current posting in Iraq is conceivably the toughest in the world, having seen the beginning and end of the Allied invasion of that country and also having lived through the reign and fall of Saddam Hussein. Having no fear of his delicate medical situation or the fact that he has a $30 million Fatwah on his head, Canon White walks with his head held high and cares for all who need him.\nOn Jerusalem Day 2010 Canon White visited Ezekiels Tomb, making the perilous three-hour journey with 30 bodyguards and numerous vehicles because I had asked him to do so, as a friend and as a Christian, to see if the rumors that local sheikhs had destroyed all reference to Judaism in the Tomb were actual. His call came as I sat in a huge traffic jam outside Mount Herzl. The Canon excitedly described the Tomb, telling me it was incredibly beautiful although in desperate need of renovation. The ancient Hebrew segments were in poor condition, but intact. He also told me that he had meetings with the local El Kifl sheikhs who wanted to retain all aspects of the Tomb and refurbish it.\nSheik Al Gahalivi (photo credit: courtesy)\nOver the next period of time Canon White requested that I send him photographs of the original texts of the Tomb in Hebrew so that the artisans could copy them anew.\nLast week Canon White called me from Iraq to tell me that Sheikh Al Gahalivi wanted to speak to me through an interpreter to thank me for setting the renovations in motion and for introducing him to Canon White.\nHere\u2019s what the Sheikh said:\nI was praying for many years that someone would care about the Tomb. I wanted to preserve the Tomb for us all and prayed that I would find someone to communicate with out there in the world, and you sent Canon White to me and the work began in earnest. I want you to know that the Jewish shrine is safe with us, Ezekiel is important to us too. I want to build a visitors center around the Tomb to protect it and to make it ready for when Jews, Christians and Muslims can all visit the Tomb together. I just wanted to thank you for caring and being prepared to act. Shukran and Salaam\nThrough the interpreter, and Canon White, I thanked the Sheikh for his care and determination to retain the Jewish identity of this important shrine in a world that might cause him harm.\nOne should never assume that rumours of our \u201cenemies\u201d working to deny Jewish sites are automatically correct. One should always be open to the possibility that sometimes there are good folk of all religions who are trying to make this world a better place.\nCanon Andrew White will talk about Iraq's last Jews at the Sephardi Centre in London on 6 June. Details: Harif\nCorrecting the 'narrative' on refugees\nJewish refugees from Kurdistan\nToday's Canadian National Post carries a plethora of letters on the Middle East, most responding to an article about Palestinian refugees that appeared in the Post on 19 May. This letter is a reply to another by one Rev. Giuliano. It makes the very valid point that the ethnic cleansing of Jews from areas of Palestine won by the Arabs in 1948 constitutes a breach of the Geneva Accords:\nIn his note, Rev. Giuliano offers reassurance that he recognizes the \u201cprofound atrocity\u201d of the Holocaust. But more relevantly, he refuses in any way to acknowledge the Arab persecution of Jews in the Middle East and the Jewish refugees that resulted.\nFirst, he simply does not mention the very broad expulsion of Jews to Israel from the Arab states. And secondly, and even more curiously, he does not mention that all Jews were cleansed from areas of Palestine where Arabs prevailed in 1948, a very obvious breach of the Geneva Accords.\nIn this regard he says only that \u201cthe Green Line does exist\u201d and, ironically, that the presence of Jews \u2014 settlements \u2014 where they had been eliminated before 1967 violates international law. By contrast he asserts for Palestinian refugees a \u201cRight to Return\u201d \u2014 an \u201cinternationally recognized human right \u2026 to be resolved through negotiation\u201d. Now, notwithstanding protestations about dignity for all, this suggests that Rev Giuliano applies very different standards to Jewish and Palestinian refugees. Not a very promising path to peace.\nArthur Kaell, Nepean, Ont.\nSee all letters\nLabels: Jewish refugees in Palestine, Jewish refugees/ Palestinians\nKabyle leader visits Israel (updated)\nInteresting little snippet on AlterInfo.net that would have slipped under the media radar: the Kabyle leader Ferhat Mehenni paid an 'official' visit to Israel over the weekend, ostensibly to persuade Israel to 'set up a military base' in Kabylia, Algeria. Although it is not clear who Mehenni represents, and the idea of an Israeli military base in Kabylia belongs to the realms of fantasy, the visit is more evidence of the affinity Kabyles (Berbers) feel towards Israel in the common fight against Arabisation.\nUpdate:Interview with Ferhat Mehenni (Jerusalem Post)\nLe pr\u00e9sident du Gouvernement Provisoire Kabyle, Mehenni Ferhat, accompagn\u00e9 du Ministre des Relations Internationales, M. Lyazid ABID effectuent depuis dimanche 20/05/2012 une visite officielle en Isra\u00ebl.\nUn agenda tr\u00e8s charg\u00e9 en rencontres politiques et diplomatiques est en voie de r\u00e9alisation.\nD\u00e8s son arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 J\u00e9rusalem le marathon de la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation kabyle a commenc\u00e9 en cette f\u00eate de la ville sainte avec son accueil par l\u2019ex ambassadeur d\u2019Isra\u00ebl en Mauritanie, M. Yigal Carmon, au si\u00e8ge de MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute).\nCe matin, la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation a \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7ue \u00e0 la Knesset par son Vice-pr\u00e9sident M. Danny Danon avec lequel elle a eu une entrevue sur la situation en Kabylie et le sort fait au peuple kabyle par le r\u00e9gime raciste d\u2019Alger.\nInterview with Ferhat Mehenni (Jerusalem Post)\nAlgerian author sparks uproar with visit to Israel\nPosted by bataween at Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10 comments:\nLabels: Jews/Berbers, Non-Arab/non-Muslim minorities\nYemeni Jew stabbed to death (updated)\nUpdate: JTA News is reporting that the Jew Aharon Zindani was stabbed to death.\nHow much longer will the Jews of Sana'a pretend that they are safe? Today's stabbing would have brought back bad memories of the murder of Moshe al-Nahari (left), the reason why these 80 or so Jews relocated to the Yemeni capital in the first place. The Jerusalem Post has the story:(with thanks: Jeremy)\nA member of the Jewish community in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa was stabbed and critically injured by a Muslim man accusing him of witchcraft on Tuesday, AFP quoted the man's son as saying. Army Radio quoted a friend of the victim as saying Aharon Zindani had died as a result of the stab wounds.\nThe 50-year-old Zindani \u201cwas stabbed at Saawan market near the US embassy in northeast Sanaa,\u201d his son Yehya was quoted as saying. \u201cHe received stab wounds to his neck and stomach.\nAccording to Yehya Zindani, his father was undergoing surgery for his wounds.\nHe described the attacker as a \u201cwell-known person who says my father has ruined and bewitched him.\u201d According to Israeli media reports the attacker stabbed Zindani 12 times before being stopped by a group of men and detained.\nA friend of Zindani, Shlomo Grafi, told Army Radio that he had been killed by a \"member of al-Qaida.\"Grafi said that Zindani had returned to Yemen after he had made aliya and lived in Israel in the 1990s.\nYemeni Jew declared dead (Times of Israel)\nMurder sparks fear (Ynet News)\nHow the media ignore the Jewish 'Nakba'\nThis year, as every year, the international media noted Nakba Day, the day when Palestinians mark the anniversary of the \u2018catastrophe\u2019 of Israel\u2019s independence and the flight of 700,000 Arab refugees from the newborn state of Israel. Noticeable by its absence was any mention of the contemporaneous Jewish \u2018nakba\u2019, the flight of around 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Lyn Julius examines media bias in the treatment of Jewish refugees in this guest post for HonestReporting:\nIsabel Kershner of The New York Times is among the offenders. Leo Rennert wrote in American Thinker: \u201cA fair reading of history demands that equal attention be paid to this Jewish \u201cnaqba.\u201d But fairness is in short supply in The New York Times. There\u2019s also no indication in Kershner\u2019s piece about the different outcomes of these two \u201cnaqbas.\u201d\nAlthough the refugees were displaced in roughly similar numbers, the western press and media remain deaf, dumb and blind to the Jewish refugees. Do a search for \u201cPalestinian refugees\u201d on the influential BBC website and you get 1,197 results. Do a search for \u201cJewish refugees\u201d and you get only 187 results.\nOf these, the BBC contained only one story about Jews from Iraq and two references to Jewish refugees from Arab countries, neither of them emanating from BBC programs. With the exception of a 2011 radio program fronted by BBC2 controller Alan Yentob about Iraqi Jews, the only Jewish refugees discussed by the BBC website have been Holocaust survivors.\nWhen the media does feature Sephardi or Mizrahi suffering in Arab lands, the implication is that Zionism caused their troubles. Before Israel, so the myth goes, \u2018Jews and Arabs coexisted peacefully\u2019 through the centuries.\nAccording to David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, the western media are accomplices in a campaign to \u2018deny or extinguish a Jewish presence deeper in the region\u2019. A seasoned Middle Eastern affairs journalist had been surprised to discover that Harris\u2019s wife had, as a Jew, been forcibly expelled from her native Libya. The journalist had no idea that Jews had ever lived in Libya nor that every trace of the millenarian Jewish presence had been obliterated almost overnight. So un-newsworthy was the story at the time, that The New York Times, Harris says, devoted exactly two tiny news briefs in 1967 to the end of the Libyan Jewish community.\nThe net effect of this bias by omission is that the average viewer, listener or reader has no clue that Jews lived in the Middle East and North Africa well before the Arabs, let alone were brutally ejected. He or she could be forgiven for thinking that Israel was established to atone for European sins, at Arab expense. But 50 percent of the Jewish population of Israel are there not because of the Nazis but because of the Arabs.\nA jaw-dropping BBC reply to a complaint I made about the lack of coverage of Jewish refugees is that they simply aren\u2019t enough of a stumbling block to peace:\nThe specific issue of Palestinian refugees is generally seen as one of the key stumbling blocks to finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . \u2026 Jewish refugees\u2026 is not something that is generally viewed as a central issue in the peace process in the same way the Palestinian refugee issue is. Should the issue of Jewish refugees become an integral part of the negotiations in the Israeli-Arab peace negotiations or a stumbling block thereto, we would of course look at them in a more in-depth fashion.\nAre we to conclude that if Jewish refugees blew themselves up in Arab supermarkets, they would get the attention they deserve?\nIn other ways, Jewish refugees are too much of a stumbling block. The media do not want the complication of the exodus of a million Jews from Arab countries, and their unresolved human rights, to cloud their simplistic \u2018narrative\u2019 of who the bad guys are in this conflict. You will scour the mainstream press in vain for reference to Jewish claims for compensation or restitution of property in Cairo, Jerusalem or Hebron.\nThe persistent failure of the media to give context to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and certainly to cover any history before 1967, means that Jews from the East are invisible. When Jerusalem Day is celebrated, you can bet that there will be more sob stories in the press about Palestinians wrongfully ejected from their homes.\nJews have neither presence nor rights in Arab countries, nor in eastern Jerusalem, and those parts of the West Bank where Jews lived before 1948. As far as the media are concerned, all Jews are settlers.\nBen Dror Yemini: the Nakba lie triumphs\nBen Dror Yemini...the Nakba is a huge distortion\nThe biggest lie of an industry of lies, even in Israel, is the Palestinian Nakba. Yet nobody hears of the Jewish Nakba, which happened on a far larger scale, and was premeditated by the Arab League in 1947. The mass circulation daily Maariv columnist Ben Dror Yemini blames the Palestinian propaganda machine on the one hand, and ignorance on the other. (With thanks: Yoram)\n\"This distortion is their huge achievement. Because it creates a huge distortion. There was also a Jewish Nakba. After all, Jews experienced ethnic cleansing, a much more difficult experience than the flight and expulsion of Arabs from Palestine.\nThe property expropriated from the Jews in Arab countries was greater than the property left behind by the Arabs who left Israeli territory. The harassment of Jews from Arab lands was on a larger scale.\nIt also turns out that the mass deportation was in a master plan decided by the Arab League. But who has ever heard of it? Who knows of it? The decision to expel Arab Jews was made in 1947, before the mass flight of the Palestinians from the territories of the British Mandate.\nNow, let's think - how often we heard last week, or in recent years, of the much more serious Jewish Nakba, and how much about the Nakba? The ratio is about a thousand to one.\nHow many in Israel and the world have heard of Deir Yassin, and how few about the\npogrom against the Jews in Aden, which was four months earlier, in December 1947?\nIn schools, across the country and worldwide the Khirbet Hizah is shown. Not the Khirbet Aden. There is no malice. Palestinians have a sophisticated propaganda machine here, on the one hand, and ignorance on the other.\nIn Israel and abroad, it's not just the media. Also books. Study in Israel is free of any mention of the Jewish Nakba. There is nothing.\nSystematic brainwashing works. Israeli students are forced (to believe the lies) before they come to celebrate Literature at Tel Aviv (university). We are now seeing the grim results. The success of the industry of lies is not the number of participants in events commemorating the Nakba, on campuses in Tel Aviv or Haifa. These are still few. But the media and academic representatives are celebrating their presence. It's a tremendous lie.\nRead blog in full - scroll down (Hebrew)\nBen Dror Yemini: And the world is lying: the truth about refugees\nLaw to be drafted to deal with Jewish assets in Iraq\nWith thanks: Janet, Maurice and Niran\nA slide show of Baghdad throughout the 20th century, put together by Tony and Mira Rocca. The memoirs of Mira's mother, Violette Shamash, were published as Memories of Eden (With thanks Lisette).\nMight Iraqi Jews be able to recover their property?\nAn anonymous source in the Property/ Real Estate Claims Commission has told the Addustour newspaper (rough English translation here) that Iraqi Jews who emigrated in the middle of the last century to Israel have filed complains requesting compensation. It has been decided that a legal committee will be formed to draft a law to resolve this question.\nProperty Claims Law No. 13 of 2010 defined the tasks of the commission to look at cases brought by Iraqis whose property/ies have been confiscated and sold to citizens or given to government or party \"Ba'ath\" agencies. Properties belonging to Jews or citizens from the Gulf or foreigners are not included in this law.\nAfter receiving complains from Iraqi Jews who immigrated to Europe, America, Israel and other countries, the authorities concerned have decided to form a committee of various disciplines, such as the real estate Justice Department affiliate and the Judicial Council, Internal affairs and the Foreign office, to start preparing legislation that guarantees an end to the problems of this segment in relation to their properties. The former regime did not confiscate or sell them, but froze them in the land registry. The Commission would not issue a law, as this is not its remit, but the duty of Parliament.\nA spokesman for the World Organisation of Jews from Iraq fears that the Jews are just one of many groups demanding restitution, and that the focus will be on foreign owners and those from the Gulf States.\nFollowing the US invasion of Iraq, the Iraq Property Claims Commission was set up. Anyone who had lost property since 1968, when the Ba'ath regime seized power, was entitled to file a claim and send the information to an address in Switzerland. But the website of the IPCC and its address no longer exist, and not a single Jewish claimant has received any news. No provision was ever made for the compensation or restitution of the bulk of Jewish property, frozen in the early 1950s.\nFarewell to historian David Littman, z''l\nDavid Littman with his wife Gisele and baby Diana on a secret mission in Casablanca, June 1961\nPoint of No Return deeply regrets to report that Jews from Arab Countries today lost one of their great champions, historian David Littman, aged 78. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, he was an energetic spokesman for Jewish human rights, regularly confronting the UN in Geneva, and the author of several pamphlets, articles and book chapters. Married to the pioneering researcher into Dhimmitude, Bat Yeor, Littman gave his wife unstinting support in her work.\nDavid Littman was born into a wealthy family in the UK and was educated at Canford School and Trinity College Dublin. He and his brother Louis, founder of the Littman Library, married two Egyptian-born refugees, Gisele and Colette Orebi, in the 1950s.\nJust before he fell ill with leukaemia, Littman co-wrote with Professor Paul Fenton an 800-page book called L'Exil au Maghreb. The book, which features original documents casting a spotlight on the harsh treatment of Jews in Morocco before 1912, was enthusiastically received.\nLittman will probably be best remembered, however, for his part in the 1961 rescue of 530 Moroccan-Jewish children in Operation Mural, a secret Mossad mission. He posed as a tennis-playing, Christian English gentleman living with his wife and baby in Casablanca. He was working on a book on Operation Mural at the time of his death. The details of the operation only came to light in 1986, when a documentary was made. Littman was granted public recognition by the Israeli government when he was awarded the coveted 'Hero of Silence' medal in 2009.\nDavid Littman is survived by his wife Bat Yeor, his daughters Ariane and Diana and three grand-daughters.\nObituary by Raphael Israeli (Jerusalem Post) (with thanks: Lily)\nObituary by Dr Andrew Bostom\nObituary in Israel National News\nObituary by Michel Garrote (Dreuz - with thanks: Dominique)\nObituary in New English Review, with article by Guy Milliere (with thanks: Eliyahu)\nPoNR Articles about David Littman\nTwo Jewish owners win Jerusalem homes back\nJerusalem in a photo taken by Frank M Good between 1860 and 1880\nFor two property owners who won an Israeli Supreme Court battle recently to regain their property, Jerusalem Day gives particular cause for celebration. Report by AFP:\nJERUSALEM \u2014 Israel's Supreme Court on Monday ordered two Palestinians to leave their properties in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, ruling that the properties were owned by Jews, their lawyer told AFP.\nLawyer Mohammed Dahleh said the court had rejected his clients' appeals, and ruled that Ghazi Zalum's house and Ismail Wazwaz's shop had been owned by Jews in the period before the establishment of Israel in 1948, with the properties later falling into Jordan's hands.\n\"It went through the Magistrates Court, the District Court and now the Supreme Court,\" Dahleh said, adding that the court had also ordered the Palestinians to pay all the legal costs.\nBoth properties are in the Al-Qarameh neighbourhood between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Al Aqsa mosque compound.\nThere was no immediate Israeli confirmation of the ruling, and it was not clear who would take over the properties.\nZalum told AFP there had been a systematic takeover by settlers of properties in the area.\n\"With my evacuation, Israel has evacuated half of the Al-Qarameh neighbourhood and Aqbat al-Khaldiyya as part of an organised policy of emptying the Old City,\" he charged.\n\"It is more of a political issue than an Arab or Jewish property issue. This move comes with the announcement of the elections and is a message to Israelis saying: we are liberating Jerusalem from the Arabs,\" he said, referring to a decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call early elections this September.\nThe identity of the Jewish owners who won the court battle were not immediately clear.\nJerusalem: The media myth of two cities\nLe Monde disappoints on the Jewish' Nakba'\nWith thanks: Ahoovah\nI suppose we should be popping the champagne corks at the news that the reputable French newspaper Le Monde has finally published an article on the Jewish 'Nakba'. The bad news is that the journalist, Laurent Zecchini, thought fit to consult two new historians for their views on a subject they know disappointingly little about, or whose 'radical' politics make them dismissive of a 'far-right' party initiative to raise awareness of this issue.\nWith input from Benny Morris (left) and Tom Segev (right), no wonder Zecchini concludes that the deputy foreign minister's Danny Ayalon push to make justice for the Jewish refugees official policy is doomed to be counter-productive. Here is a Google Translation from French. My comment follows below:\n\" Mais quelle est la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la \"Nakba des juifs\" ? Le plus simple est d'interroger les deux chefs de file des nouveaux historiens isra\u00e9liens, Benny Morris et Tom Segev.\n\"Le premier estime que le nombre de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs ne d\u00e9passe pas \"700 000 personnes\" et le second qualifie l'estimation de la Knesset de \"tr\u00e8s id\u00e9ologique\". Tous deux confirment que les juifs d'Irak, du Y\u00e9men, d'Egypte, du Maroc, de Tunisie, d'Alg\u00e9rie, de Libye, de Syrie et du Liban ont d\u00fb quitter contre leur gr\u00e9 une terre parfois ancestrale, que des pogroms ont eu lieu, et que le montant de la spoliation des juifs d'Orient repr\u00e9sente \"des milliards de dollars\". Benny Morris explique que si la communaut\u00e9 internationale pourrait peut-\u00eatre se mettre d'accord sur l'indemnisation des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s palestiniens, il y a peu de chances qu'elle en fasse autant pour les juifs.\n\"Celle-ci serait th\u00e9oriquement \"juste\", mais les juifs \"sont r\u00e9put\u00e9s riches\" et surtout, insiste-t-il, \"ils ne sont pas r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s\", contrairement aux 4,8 millions de Palestiniens enregistr\u00e9s comme tels par les Nations unies. Les deux historiens critiquent l'approche id\u00e9ologique visant \u00e0 \u00e9tablir un lien entre les deux Nakbas. Les juifs d'Orient ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \"absorb\u00e9s\" en Isra\u00ebl (environ 600 000), ils n'ont aucune envie de revenir dans les pays arabes, et donc \"le probl\u00e8me des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs est inexistant\", tranche Benny Morris.\n\"Tom Segev pousse le raisonnement : \"Si Isra\u00ebl est la patrie de tous les juifs, et que tous les juifs qui s'y installent reviennent chez eux, parce que c'est ce qu'ils ont esp\u00e9r\u00e9 pendant 2 000 ans - c'est la base de l'id\u00e9ologie sioniste -, comment pourraient-ils \u00eatre \"r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s\" ?\" L'un et l'autre soulignent que, si les Arabes de Palestine sont \u00e0 l'origine du conflit, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs ont \u00e9t\u00e9 autant les victimes des pays arabes que... du sionisme. En tout \u00e9tat de cause, les Palestiniens ne peuvent \u00eatre rendus responsables du sort des juifs expuls\u00e9s des pays arabes.\n\"Alors pourquoi ressusciter la question de la \"Nakba des juifs\" ? \"C'est un exercice de propagande politique, explique Benny Morris. Vous voulez parler du probl\u00e8me des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s palestiniens ? Nous r\u00e9pliquons par les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs !\" Curieusement, les jusqu'au-boutistes d'Israel Beitenou ne voient pas que de telles initiatives, qui donnent un regain d'actualit\u00e9 \u00e0 la question du \"droit au retour\", sont contre-productives.\n\"C'est pour cela que, pendant des d\u00e9cennies, les gouvernements isra\u00e9liens successifs ont laiss\u00e9 dormir la \"Nakba des juifs\". Celle-ci conserve sa l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 historique, mais, politiquement, elle n'a plus beaucoup de sens en 2012.\"\nMy comment: Benny Morris inexplicably puts the figure of Jews who fled Arab countries at 700, 000, lower than any official estimate. His assertion that the international community is less likely to compensate Jewish than Arab refugees because they are thought to be 'rich' is, frankly, jaw-dropping. The international community has yet to react, and such reasoning would be little short of antisemitic - and an insult to those who left Arab countries with one suitcase and 20 dollars in their pockets to spend years in ma'abarot ( transit camps). If the Jews no longer qualify as refugees, it would seem a travesty to reward Arab states for preserving the anomalous refugee status of Palestinians, in contravention of every humanitarian norm, while penalising Israel for 'doing the right thing' and resettling the Jews as full citizens.\nTom Segev trots out the old chestnut that these were Jews returning to their ancestral homeland in Israel; but Le Monde's readership would be aware that the vast majority of France's half a million Jews came there as refugees from North Africa, and can hardly be described as motivated by Zionism. Nor can the thousands of Jews from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia struggling to survive in working-class areas of Paris or Marseille be summarily stripped of their rights. Benny Morris's dismissal of Yisrael Beteinu's Jewish refugees campaign as 'counter-productive' and 'political propaganda', does not seem rooted in logic, but smacks of a knee-jerk dislike of the 'far-right'.\nBenny Morris: 'There were two refugee problems'\nLabels: Israel campaign, Jewish refugees/ media bias, Jewish refugees/Palestinians, Leftist bias against Jewish rights\nTunisian Jews are singing - but how much longer?\nOutside the al-Ghriba synagogue, Djerba (Photo: Anis Mili /Reuters)\nA visit by the radical preacher Youssef al-Qaradawi to the island of Djerba was hastily relocated to the mainland for fear he could have sabotaged the annual Lag La'Omer pilgrimage which took place last week - just one of the challenges facing the fragile Tunisian-Jewish community. The Djerba pilgrimage, which this year attracted about 300 European Jews (no Israelis), was attended by the Tunisian Tourism minister, a reminder of its commercial importance to the country's tourist industry. Gil Shefler reports in the Jerusalem Post:\nLa Goulette, Tunisia \u2013 Over a dozen men meet on a Saturday evening at a house of worship tucked away in a quiet alley in this seaside suburb of Tunis. They pray and sing songs and break bread together in a building that most locals do not even know exists.\nAnd while the entrance to the sanctuary is diminutive and the service respectful of the Muslim- majority surroundings, they do so freely, merrily and without fear.\nThis is Beit Mordechai Synagogue and its congregants are members of the country\u2019s 1,500 Jews, the second-largest such community in the Arab world after Morocco. They are what remains of a group that numbered over 100,000 people at its peak in the 1940s and dates back to antiquity. They live good lives, working in commerce and development or providing religious services, but their prosperity, not to mention their continued existence as a community, has been called into serious question over the past year and a half.\nSince the uprising that ousted longtime autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, most Jews in Tunisia have been vacillating between hope and fear. Hope because the demise of a corrupt dictatorship \u2013 even if it protected them from physical harm \u2013 and the advent of democracy might help create a better, more just society. Fear because the subsequent rise in popularity of Islamists and of Salafists, who adhere to an even more radical form of Islam, might create an atmosphere hostile to Jews.\nThe sweeping victory in the country\u2019s first-ever democratic elections last October by Ennahda, an Islamist party formerly banned by the regime, had people talking at the synagogue in La Goulette.\n\u201cI still feel safer here right now than I do in Paris where I often feel threatened by French Arabs,\u201d says Maxime Journo, a Tunisian-born concert promoter who divides his time between Tunis and Paris.\n\u201cPerhaps, but there\u2019s no denying the situation is less certain for us than it was under Ben Ali even though he was what he was,\u201d responds another congregant. \u201cWe must wait for further developments and see.\u201d\nA big test of the Islamist-led government\u2019s attitude toward religious minorities took place several days earlier in Djerba, the picturesque Mediterranean island where the majority \u2013 900 \u2013 of the country\u2019s Jews live. Last year the annual Lag Ba\u2019omer pilgrimage to El Ghriba, the island\u2019s ancient synagogue, was canceled due to security fears. The question this year is whether the new government will be willing or able to ensure the rite continues.\n\u201cCelebrated for hundreds of years, this religious rite is an achievement that should not change, because it illustrates the openness of Tunisia to the world,\u201d AP quoted Tourism Minister Elyes Fakhfakh as saying last month. \u201cIt is an achievement of the revolution, which established freedom of worship.\u201d\nStill, an overbooking almost ruined the government\u2019s painstaking efforts to prove they would protect the Jewish community.\nYoussef Qaradawi, a Qatari-based Egyptian radical preacher barred from the US, the UK and France, planned to hold a gathering in Djerba on May 5, just four days before the Jewish event.\n\u201cWe had to do something,\u201d Roger Bismuth, a leader of the Jewish community in Tunis, says after the fact. \u201cIf [Qaradawi] had said anything wrong it would have gone badly for the pilgrimage, and they listened to us.\u201d\nThe cleric\u2019s gathering was relocated to the mainland, the crisis was narrowly averted and the pilgrimage went ahead as planned.\nAt the El Ghriba synagogue on Lag Ba\u2019omer, a set of unique Tunisian traditions and superstitions are on display. Women who want to bear children write prayers on boiled eggs that are then placed in a small cavern in the center of the sanctuary. Men sprinkle boukha, a fig-based alcohol, on their faces, hands and inside their pockets.\n\u201cIt brings good luck,\u201d says one.\nA few hundred worshipers dance with the Torah outside the ancient synagogue during the day and pray and feast within its sacred confines at night.\n\u201cTo me, there is something magical about Jews and Arabs living together like they do here,\u201d says Guy Tzinmann, a French Jew who has come from Paris to participate.\u201d If you don\u2019t come with an Israeli passport they don\u2019t give you any trouble and, unlike Algeria, where my mother is from, I can come here to visit.\u201d\nThe police presence, aimed at preventing attacks like the one carried out here by al-Qaida in 2002 that left 21 dead, is considerable. There are probably more security officers than there are worshipers.\nLike most religious pilgrimages, there is a strong commercial aspect here. For the Trabelsi family, which runs the synagogue and organizes the gathering, it is an important source of income.\n\u201cWe would have liked many more to come,\u201d says Renee Trabelsi. \u201cIn the past thousands did, but we\u2019re happy with the turnout.\u201d\nIt is telling that the most important guest this year is not Jewish. When the tourism minister, Fakhfakh, shows up on the second day, he is greeted by participants singing the national anthem.\nJacob Lellouche, the Jewish owner of the popular restaurant Mami Lily in La Goulette, looks like a musketeer. Porthos, the fat one, to be precise. And it\u2019s not just because of his thick mane of hair, his carefully trimmed French beard or his big \u2013 not overweight \u2013 build, but because of the joviality, affability and joie de vivre he radiates. When he laughs the earth shakes a little, and when he does the rounds, speaking to almost every client who sits down for dinner at the old Italian villa he made into a restaurant, he moves with surprising agility for a man of his size.\n\u201cWhen I opened this restaurant 15 years ago, I wanted to remind people of what was once here when many Jews lived in Tunisia,\u201d he says, sinking down deep into his chair. \u201cAlmost everyone here has his own memory of living with Jews.\u201d\nLellouche specializes in the distinctive cuisine of Jewish Tunisians. Appetizers include homemade matbouha, piquant carrot salad and, of course, the ubiquitous baguette, part of the enduring French influence on this country. Main dishes include thin, spicy merguez sausages, whole grilled fish freshly plucked from the nearby sea and a thick, green stew whose name I do not catch.\nReem Tamimi sits at a table in the back of the restaurant, typing away furiously on her laptop. The co-founder of Dar el- Dekhra, a society documenting the Jewish heritage of Tunisia, has had a busy week.\nIts first-ever exhibition opened at an arts venue in the medina, Tunis\u2019s old quarter, earlier in the week.\n\u201cSo far between 300 and 400 people came, and tomorrow is the last day,\u201d she says. \u201cYesterday a black woman, someone from the lower class, came to the exhibition and cried. I asked her why and she said her parents used to listen to a song we were playing sung by a Jewish singer.\u201d\nStarting a group documenting Jewish heritage in Arab-Muslim Tunisia is no simple matter. Tamimi\u2019s project might be likened to Zochrot, the organization in Israel that commemorates Arab villages whose inhabitants fled in 1948. One may well wonder why a Muslim photographer would invest herself in such an endeavor, but to Tamimi the answer is as clear as a cup of boukha.\n\u201cIf you do not know your past, you know nothing about your present or future,\u201d she explains. \u201cMy great-greatgreat- grandfather was Jewish, but I have been Muslim for seven generations.\nKnowledge of history and particularly Jewish history in Tunisia helps all Tunisian, regardless of their religion.\u201d\nTamimi\u2019s sister-in-arms is Sonia Fellous, a Tunisian-born Jew living in Paris who researches religions. She is one of four Jewish core members of the society. The other 11 are Muslim.\n\u201cThis is the only organization promoting Jewish history that has more Muslim members than Jews,\u201d she says proudly.\nIndeed, a short conversation with the two women reveals the extent of contributions by Jews to the country. The first filmmaker in Tunisia was Jewish. He also happened to introduce the bicycle to the country. Several important singers, such as the Semama sisters and Habiba Masika, were Jews. Members of the community were part of the country\u2019s social and business elite.\n\u201cIt was easier for them to go between the East and the West,\u201d Fellous explains.\nThe Jewish community of Tunisia has a fabled past, but what of its future? Fellous sighs. It is clear she thinks that sooner or later her co-religionists will follow the path that led her out of the country, but it is Tamimi who gives a resolute and surprising answer to the question.\n\u201cYes, certainly there is a future,\u201d she says. \u201cOtherwise, what am I fighting for?\u201d THE THORN in the side of Jewish-Arab relations in Tunisia is the same as it is throughout the Arab world: Israel.\nConversations with Tunisians, rich and poor, religious and secular, educated and uneducated, seem to point toward a pretty uniform opinion: The Jewish state has no right to exist.\nAt an upscale fish restaurant in La Marche, a well-heeled coastal town near the capital, I meet a group of four friendly, educated and worldly Tunisians for dinner where they explain why Israel as we know it will sooner or later disappear.\n\u201cIsrael is a theocracy like Saudi Arabia and Iran,\u201d explains Youssef, a former Fullbright scholar with an Ivy League education.\n\u201cThere will eventually be a one-state solution the same way it happened in South Africa. It is inevitable.\u201d\nThe group, consisting of human rights activists and policy wonks, is curious to learn about public opinion in Israel. They ask what will happen with Iran and what Israelis think about the possibility of the creation of a binational Jewish-Arab state.\nBut they seem bitterly disappointed, even hurt, to hear that that kind of discourse takes place only on the fringe of Jewish society and is considered by the vast majority to be both impractical and undesirable.\nNadia, one of the dinner guests, who has lived in Jerusalem where she worked with an international aid agency, has Israeli friends. \u201cMany of them would support such a solution,\u201d she says.\nIt is hard to reconcile just how differently things are seen in the East and the West.\nWestern military intervention in Libya against the tyrant Muammar Gaddafi, for instance, was harmful and unnecessary, they say. They reject the notion that Gaddafi would have crushed the insurgency had France and the US not launched strikes against his forces. Such action did more harm than good, as it did in Iraq and almost everywhere else the West has intervened in the Middle East, they argue. For those reasons they oppose any kind of military intervention in Syria\u2019s civil war.\nWhile the group feels animosity toward Israel, they say their attitudes toward Jews in general are warm.\n\u201cI would love all the Jews who left Tunisia to return,\u201d declared Nadia.\nI ask her why she feels that way about Tunisian Jews whereas the roughly two million non-Jewish emigres leave her indifferent. She says it is because Jews contributed to a prosperous, vibrant and progressive society. Their return would help make the country a better place.\nThe dinner ends somewhat sourly. Not even a shot of boukha manages to get rid of the bitter taste that the tense debate leaves.\nHalf an hour later we are at a party at a bar by the beach where a band is playing the timeless hit, \u201cLa Bamba.\u201d The partygoers are a good mix of young men and woman, straight and gay, locals and expats. It is an integral part of Tunisia, but at the same time it has nothing to do with the narrow alleys in the old medina of Tunis where veiled women shop for halal meat and bearded men leisurely walk to the mosque. The scene is yet another reminder that the Middle East has no problem containing countless paradoxes, and it makes me think of another country in the region that I know is similar in this sense.\nThe Jewish community in Tunisia is roughly divided into three groups: Rich and secular Jews in Tunis, religious Jews of modest means in Djerba and a group of old people who remain here by virtue of having nowhere else to go. The Jewish oldage home is located in a stately residence around the corner from the synagogue in La Goulette.\nRoger Krief, 87, is one of the 40 or so residents at the home. The former jeweler says he has family in many places, including in France and Israel, but does not elaborate on his life story. The past can be a sore subject.\nLike most institutions for the sick and elderly it is not a happy place to visit, but it provides a very vital service to the community that could not exist without the help of their brethren overseas.\n\u201cOur cooperation with the Tunis community is good,\u201d says Yechiel Bar Chaim, an official with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. \u201cWe don\u2019t work independently there, but we work with them to help provide them with means.\u201d\nJust around the corner at the tiny synagogue in La Goulette, the sounds of Hebrew echo loudly between the walls.\nThe congregants sing: Shabechi Yerushalaim et adonai Haleli elohaich tzion. Rabbi Daniel Cohen opens the synagogue\u2019s door, letting the Mosaic melody spill into the empty alley outside, but cantor Eliyahu Sa\u2019adon closes it instinctively.\n\u201cLet them hear a little,\u201d the young rabbi politely asks Sa\u2019adon, his elder.\nThey reach a Talmudic compromise without exchanging a word. The door is left half open \u2013 or half closed, depending on your point of view.\nThe dilemma of the door at the synagogue is a good metaphor for the state of Tunisian Jewry. How openly can its members live in the country and how sure can they be that someone or something might not come through the door tomorrow, bringing their singing to an end The singing reaches a crescendo and then comes to an abrupt stop.\n\u201cEveryone is talking about Islamists and Salafists all the time,\u201d one of the congregants declares in French. \u201cBut let the world know that in Tunisia, the Jews are singing.\u201d\nSimilar article by Gil Shefler in the Wall St Journal (with thanks: Adam; Lily)\nAl-Ghriba pilgrimage in pictures (TunisiaLive)\nLast Jew assisted by Joint in Algeria died in 2011...\nLaw to be drafted to deal with Jewish assets in Ir...\nHow her Egyptian uprooting liberated my mother\nJewish 'nakba' starts to enter the mainstream\nA different story of displacement for Nakba Week\nThousands join Hiloula to Moroccan rabbi's shrine\nWhatever happened to the Jews of Pakistan?\n'How Islam saved the Jews': lectures at SOAS\nSpare a thought for the Jewish 'nakba'\nMust all Jews come from Europe? 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Thibodeau could tie this mark if center Joakim Noah \u2014 reportedly on his way out of New York, perhaps through the stretch provision \u2014 eventually ends up joining the Timberwolves, too.\nOf course, the key difference here is that Thibodeau, unlike Loughery, also serves as Minnesota\u2019s team president and has final say over personnel matters. None of the four TimberBulls were on the roster before Thibodeau joined the organization3 in 2016. Butler was acquired via trade, while Gibson, Rose and Deng were all picked up in free agency.\nAnd to an extent, what Thibodeau is doing makes sense. Minnesota transitioned somewhat quickly from being an upstart with a pair of young, talented players to having very real expectations after the trade for Butler. Having familiar veterans around can potentially flatten a young team\u2019s steep learning curve. In trying to change the team\u2019s culture \u2014 especially the way Thibodeau goes about establishing his \u2014 it\u2019s helpful to have people in place who set the tone at a previous stop. Thibodeau\u2019s standards on defense and in practice sessions are well-known, yet not everyone is prepared to give the effort that he requires on a daily basis. Deng understands that better than most.\n\u201cI came in here, and I thought no one was here,\u201d Deng told ESPN\u2019s Nick Friedell years ago about a practice in Chicago. \u201cAnd I tried to get some shots up, and then he came down [from his office]. He put me through one of the toughest workouts I\u2019ve ever done. That\u2019s when I knew [that playing for him] was going to be no joke.\u201d\nDeng\u2019s comment touches on an inherent problem with the sort of continuity Thibs is keeping: The coach appears to be drawn to players he knows he can push to the limit physically.4\nThis stood out to me a year ago when I was in Minneapolis for T-Wolves media day. Thibodeau was asked whether he planned to dole out minutes more conservatively, and he reeled off these numbers: Minnesota was going into the 2017-18 season with five of the NBA\u2019s 17 players who had appeared in all 82 games the year before. His response may have been read as suggesting that he doesn\u2019t need to dial back certain players\u2019 minutes because they\u2019ve shown before that they can handle the workload. (Point guard Jeff Teague, one of those who had played all 82 the year before \u2014 and then missed time with an injury this past season \u2014 was on record saying he felt the Wolves\u2019 bench needed to play more and that Minnesota starters got tired.)\nBeyond that, there\u2019s also the question of whether some of Thibodeau\u2019s former players really fit together on the court anymore. Almost no one would turn down an opportunity to have Butler or Gibson on their team, obviously. But Rose, despite being a bright spot during the playoffs, was a controversial signing, and he took playing time from Tyus Jones, who is one of the more efficient players in the entire league. The dynamic is obviously different than it was in Chicago; this is clearly Butler\u2019s team. But Rose and Butler never truly jelled in Chicago, and ball movement wasn\u2019t particularly crisp in the limited moments they shared this past season. (Minnesota reversed the ball less than once per 48 minutes when that pair played together \u2014 down from almost 13 reversals per 48 minutes when Butler played without Rose, according to Second Spectrum.)5\nThere\u2019s reason to believe in the Deng signing \u2014 regardless of his history with the coach \u2014 as he fills a positional need and has suffered limited wear and tear on his body the past two seasons, since the Lakers hardly used him. Deng may not be a particularly solid scorer anymore, but the Timberwolves \u2014 top four on offense but bottom 10 on defense \u2014 can likely do without his offense if he has anything left to give on D. It would seem harder to advocate for a Noah signing, should he and the Knicks part ways in the coming weeks. While the former defensive player of the year could potentially mentor Karl Anthony-Towns, who still has much to learn as a rim protector, there isn\u2019t as natural a spot in the rotation for him, given that Towns, Gibson and Gorgui Dieng can all play center.\nIn any case, if Noah becomes a free agent in the coming weeks, don\u2019t be surprised if Thibs\u2019s Bat Signal lights up the sky. At this point, it would be more surprising if it didn\u2019t.\nSource: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-always-a-bull-market-for-tom-thibodeau/\nPrevious Post Old-School Stats Or Fancy-Pants Analytics? The Red Sox Have An MVP Candidate For Each.\nNext Post Bengals-Ravens \u2014 On A Thursday Night! \u2014 Is The Most Important Game Of Week 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joedasilva.ca/2017/04/02/seven-reasons-why-the-competition-is-good-for-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SEAXGXVACLT5F75SGLD2EC6AHSUEHFAC", "length": 2903, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "joedasilva.ca", "title": "SEVEN REASONS WHY THE COMPETITION IS GOOD FOR YOU", "raw_content": "SEVEN REASONS WHY THE COMPETITION IS GOOD FOR YOU\nby Joe da Silva April 2, 2017 July 5, 2017 Leave a comment\nMark Sanborn, leadership speaker and best-selling author noted: \u201cIf you aren\u2019t a little different than your competition, you\u2019re in trouble.\u201d Again, we are talking, like we did in the previous blog on differentiating yourself from the competition. However, there are many reasons that the competition is good for you and the service that they provide you is of a great benefit to you.\nI can hear you saying: \u201cWait, how can the competition benefit me when they are trying to beat me?\u201d\nLet me just give you seven reasons how:\nStrengths and Weaknesses. You may not be aware of those yourself until they, the competition, point them out. They do this by purposely focusing on your weaknesses; which in turn allows you to work on them. They also avoid your strengths; which again, you work on to make them even stronger.\nCreative thinking. It allows you to find that one differentiation between the competition and yourself. This is done by a group or just by yourself. Regardless, it allows you to explore a way to set yourself apart from them.\nFocus on key customers. Have you ever taken a customer\u2019s book of business for granted? That is what the competition is hoping you do. Make sure that your key customers, stay just that, your key customers. If you lose that focus, then the competition is more than happy to take that account from you.\nFat and lazy. I have heard this phrase over and over when a company is describing the competition and why they are ripe for the plucking. How about yourself? Are you getting \u2018fat and lazy:\u2019 Complacency is your greatest threat. Competition pushes you out of your comfort zone. By leaving that zone, you strive to set new standards for yourself.\nIdentify threats. Ever noticed that something new that they had done did not work, but you went ahead and did it yourself? Another question, if it didn\u2019t work for them, what makes you think it would work for you? This was a threat to their business. Why would you want to do it?\nInnovation. Competitors make you constantly innovate. This tends to be ignored, because again, of complacency and the old \u2018we have always done it this way before\u2019 mentality.\u2019 Innovation is what takes a business from good to great. If it was not for innovation, we would still be riding in a horse and buggy.\nPersonal development. It is those that realize that one of the best ways to stay ahead of the competition is to invest in themselves. By staying current, or ahead of the ways that business is constantly changing, they stay ahead of those that refuse to change to meet consumer demands.\nSam Walton said it best: \u201cTo succeed, stay out in front of change.\u201d\nEntrepreneur, Prepare For The Salecompetition, competitor, Entrepreneur\nPrevious Entry THE FIRST FIVE STEPS TOWARDS DIFFERENTIATION\nNext Entry THE DANGERS OF DISCOUNTING", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jrogel.com/2015-international-year-of-light/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3ISFSTAB3BRKFX5IZUNM7F4S5JOV2A7N", "length": 1264, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jrogel.com", "title": "International Year of Light", "raw_content": "Posted on April 16, 2015 April 16, 2015 by jrogel\tPosted in Optics, Physics, Science, Science and Technology, Science CommunicationTagged Optics, Physics, Science, Technology\n2015 has been declared the International Year of Light (IYL 2015) and with me being an optics geek, well, it was difficult to resist to enter a post about it. The IYL 2015 is a global initiative adopted by the United Nations to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in areas such as energy, education, communications, health, and sustainability.\nThere will be a number of event and programs run throughout the year and the aim of many of them is to promote public and political understanding of the central role of light in the modern world while also celebrating noteworthy anniversaries in 2015 \u2013 from the first studies of optics 1000 years ago to discoveries in optical communications that power the Internet today.\nYou can find further information from the well-known OSA here and check out the International Year of Light Blog.\nHere are some pictures I took a couple of years ago during CLEO Europe in relationship to the International Year of Light.\nMarkup for Fast Data Science Publication \u2013 Reblog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://justenergyradio.com/mythical-creatures-ramayana-linda-egenes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SZNX7BBNPRK47GVDTLSYGXZAHSMV3ZZW", "length": 2171, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "justenergyradio.com", "title": "Mythical Creatures Of Valmiki's Ramayana - Linda Egenes", "raw_content": "The Ramayana:\nA New Retelling of Valmiki\u2019s Ancient Epic\nFor those not familiar with the Ramayana, it is the most widely read epic in world history. It has been described as the original epic quest\u2014comparable to Star Wars and Romeo and Juliet rolled into one.\nRamayana tells the story of the hero-god, Rama, the 7th incarnation of the Indian god Vishnu. From his divine birth, through exile, the kidnapping of his beloved wife Sita and her eventual recovery the Ramayana is explores concepts such as loyalty, betrayal, redemption and the nature of life. This time honored classic Hindu Classic tells of a time when the gods flew on ships through the air (vimana) and of giants that walked the earth. It delves into their magical weapons and of some of the characters ability to shape shift.\nTo some, the Ramayana is just a well told fairy tale. To others, it is based upon real events and characters that appeared in our past. Who were these larger than life characters that filled these pages? Where did they come from and did they, their weapons and other advanced technology really exist?\nTo help us navigate through the concepts brought forward in the Ramayana we will be speaking with Linda Egenes.\nAbout Linda Egenes\nLinda Egenes, MA, is the author of more than five hundred articles and five books about the benefits of meditation, yoga, and other Vedic techniques for improving health. She is the author of Visits with the Amish: Impressions of the Plain Life and with Kumuda Reddy, M.D.. She has co-authored three books on Maharishi Ayurveda for children and families, as well as All Love Flows to the Self: Eternal Stories from the Upanishads. A practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique since 1971 and certified teacher since 1975, Linda is adjunct associate professor of writing at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, where she lives with her husband, Sanskrit scholar and author Thomas Egenes, Ph.D.\nlindaegenes.com\nTagged ancient mystery, hindu cosmology, Hinduism, India, Linda Egenes, myth, mythical characters, mythology, Ramayana, vimana.\n\u00ab In The Search for Extraterrestrial Life \u2013 Ponnamperuma\nLinda Egenes \u2013 10/06/16 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jweberle.com/tag/nanowrimo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:47Z", "digest": "sha1:E2AVYKHWKBQFS4UK2SNWO5FQOI6HFWR7", "length": 6512, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "jweberle.com", "title": "NaNoWriMo | J.W. Eberle", "raw_content": "Why I\u2019m Not Doing NaNoWriMo (But You Should)\n50000 words, amwriting, balance, college, creativity, Emperor's New Groove, free time, goal, life, list, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, novel, novella, November, responsibility, success, why I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, why you should do NaNoWriMo, work, write on, writing, Writing Life, writing project\nFor the past three years, I have plunged into the wilderness of creativity and wrist pain that is National Novel Writing Month (better known as NaNoWriMo). If you haven\u2019t heard of NaNoWriMo, it\u2019s a worldwide movement of literary minded folks where you attempt to write 50,000 words of a novel in just 30 days. If it sounds crazy, that\u2019s because it is.\nI\u2019ve never made it to the 50,000 mark, not once. A lot of people don\u2019t, but the point is to try to write a crappy first draft, not a perfect one. It\u2019s a noble goal, but not one that I\u2019m pursuing this November. Here\u2019s why.\n1) Dearth of Uninterrupted Free Time\nIn my past attempts to cross the 50,000-word mark, I\u2019ve had a lot of free time on my hands. In college, you\u2019re frequently faced with awkward blocks of free time between classes and work. College is bursting with opportunities for a young aspiring novelist to write. Every building on campus has a suitable place to sit with your laptop and type away. November is also the perfect month because it\u2019s right between the chaos of midterms and the chaos of finals (not to mention it has a 3-day weekend and a 4-day weekend built in to help you bulk up your novel). If you\u2019re still in school, you\u2019re already doing crazy things \u2014 why not add a novel-in-a-month?\nThe real world is scheduled and regimented like college never was. That\u2019s not to say a lot of working professionals don\u2019t participate. People of all walks of life make NaNo work for them. But my life, with a new job in a new state, doesn\u2019t give me a lot of extra time. The free time I do have is also spoken for\u2026\n2) I Have a Writing Job\nI\u2019m lucky. I get paid to write. Fully 50% of my income is generated by freelance projects. So, when I do find those times to write, I need to spend them wisely. I could blow off my commitments and write a novel, but first drafts don\u2019t pay the heating bill. Articles and press releases do. When writing becomes your job and not just your hobby, its hard to add personal writing on top of the mountain of professional writing that you already do.\nOf course, that doesn\u2019t mean successful (or unsuccessful) professional writers don\u2019t do NaNoWriMo. A lot of them work on projects that they\u2019re passionate about on the side. And speaking of projects\u2026\n3) I\u2019m Already in the Middle of a Big Writing Project\nNaNoWriMo is a fantastic way to jump start your creative juices when you otherwise wouldn\u2019t write. The mad rush of trying to get it all done in such a small amount of time forces you to write without editing, which is really great for unleashing your inner storytelling genius. It works, trust me. You will be amazed at what you come up with while trying to meet that daily quota of 1,667 words.\nBut I\u2019m not in a writing rut like I have been in past years. I\u2019m actually in the middle of writing a novella. In fact, I\u2019m making excellent progress. It may not be a novel, but I think it has potential. It doesn\u2019t make sense to interrupt my momentum \u2014 you don\u2019t throw off the emperor\u2019s groove. I\u2019ve always struggled with seeing a story all the way to its conclusion. I think I can do it this time and finishing this is more meaningful to me than starting a novel that I will later abandon.\nWhy You Should Still Do It\nIf you\u2019re rounding the corner of 18,337 words today, I\u2019m cheering you on. You\u2019re on an incredible adventure. I wish you success. If you\u2019re behind your word count, you are just like me. Keep going, even if you spend page after page describing the blueish gray hue of your protagonist\u2019s eyes. Your goal is not perfection. Just get something down \u2014 editing is for December. If you aren\u2019t doing NaNoWriMo, you should try it. It unlocks potential you never knew you had.\nI\u2019m not down in trenches of NaNo this year. But I have my reasons and I think they\u2019re good ones. Next year, if I\u2019m more settled and have some time on my hands, I\u2019ll take the plunge again. Write on, Wrimos. Write on.\nJonny Eberle is a writer in Tacoma, WA. You can follow him on Twitter and read his articles on foreign relations on Grey Cell. Thanks for reading!\nFrom \u201cOnce Upon a Time\u201d to \u201cThe End\u201d\nStaring Down a Blank Page\nam writing, journalism, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, novel, November, writing\nI have often complained about my education as a journalist ruining my ability to write anything longer than 400 words. Journalists value concise narrative. Just the bare bones. My literary heroes, Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane, came out of journalistic careers and redefined 20th century novels as modern works of minimalism. Secretly, I wanted to be their heir \u2014 a novelist who wrote like a journalist. Then, NaNoWriMo screwed up everything.\nI approached this month looking at the 50,000 word goal much like a cockroach would look upon Mount Everest. It was an impossible task \u2014 125 times longer than anything I was accustomed to writing. I didn\u2019t want to get through my whole story in 20,000 words and feel inadequate, so I made a detailed outline and unleashed my inner Tolstoy. Elegant descriptions of a gutted supermarket and the flight of a pair of ravens flowed forth from a well of verbosity hidden deep within me. The number of adjectives in my prose skyrocketed. In my desperation to not go too quickly, I overdid it.\nI am now 12,507 words into my novel \u2014 a quarter of the way to the goal \u2014 which would be great if I wasn\u2019t still in Chapter Three, with eight characters and 14 major plot points left to introduce. I went from a streamlined, minimalist writer to taking 500 words to describe a train in just two weeks. Now, there\u2019s nothing wrong with a longer novel (50,000 words is technically a novella, anyway), but I don\u2019t see myself finishing 75,000 words by November 31st and I don\u2019t know how much motivation I\u2019ll have when everyone else has happily typed \u201cThe End.\u201d\nTo write the whole thing as outlined or trim some of the fat. That is the question. Never before have I suffered from writing too much. What I would give to have this problem when writing term papers. What to do, what to do\u2026\nYou can follow my adventures 140 characters at a time on Twitter \u2014 @jonnyeberle. 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Here you'll find a few pages about our promise of privacy and patients' rights, as well as a chance for you to tell us about more about how we did on your last visit. You'll also find lots of useful information about things you'll need to know when you stay with us, from details about the bed you'll sleep in to the channels you can watch on TV.\nOur patient rooms feature private bathrooms and televisions, and our patient experience comes with a few expectations. Learn more about what to expect about your stay in our hospital.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/robert-adler/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OMUHYMRQ2LS6IZJCBIYHBO6QOYQKFI42", "length": 1237, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "keck.usc.edu", "title": "Robert Adler, MD | Keck School of Medicine of USC", "raw_content": "Robert Adler, MD\nProfessor of Pediatrics;Sr. Vice Chair-Administration and Medical Education;Director of the Institute of Pediatric Medical Education, Children's Hospital Institute for Medical Education (CHIME)\nradler@chla.usc.edu\nRobert Adler, MD, MSEd, is senior vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics, director of Medical Education at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles, and professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is Board-Certified in pediatrics. Adler has been active with the American Academy of Pediatrics locally, regionally and nationally and serves as an appointed member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee, a national committee that accredits all pediatric training programs in the United States. He is editor-in-chief of California Pediatrics and serves as a journal reviewer for numerous publications, including Pediatrics, the Journal of Pediatrics and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Adler has been listed in \u201cBest Doctors in America,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s Who in Medicine and Healthcare\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Pediatricians.\u201d\nCircumcision: we have heard from the experts; now let's hear from the parents Pediatrics. 2001 Feb; 107(2):E20. . View in PubMed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 4962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 105.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kostaskappa.gr/portfolio/the-february-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WWLV5S5OXG7UKGNDAPALCTUE7H6YPYJK", "length": 588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kostaskappa.gr", "title": "Kostas Kappa \u00bb The February Project", "raw_content": "Even if it was scheduled to be shot in February, various problems caused the project to delay and the shooting took place on the first day of March. Nevertheless, it is still our \"February Project\" inspired by the famous DC Comics characters, Harley Quinn and The Joker. The shooting is specially devoted to a dear friend of mine, Matthew Pigakis who is a big fan of Harley and he had his birthday last week.\nHappy Birthday Matthew !!!\nModels: Maria Efthymiou - Stelios Papadakis\nBackstage Photographer: Theocharis Georgatos (Obscure Camera Photo Projects)\nBeauty, Conceptual, Photography", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://krausekorner.wordpress.com/2016/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:EYJVIXYKALUAUTIN3K24DI5PEGJNPH3Q", "length": 3898, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "krausekorner.wordpress.com", "title": "June | 2016 | krausekorner", "raw_content": "Muhammad Ali, R.I.P.\nThe news cycle seemed broken this last weekend as early Saturday morning it became known that boxing legend Muhammad Ali had died in Scottsdale, AZ. As I watched CNN Saturday morning, the meager and repetitive coverage was frustratingly thin. Most mainstream news folks (including those at Fox) don\u2019t work weekends, so it took time for the news industry to gear up for better analysis of this man. This week promises to be full of insightful and fascinating stories, testimonies, and clips about a man who held a place in the American spotlight for four decades. Allow me to give my take.\nI must admit up front that Muhammad Ali was not my favorite person. I found him very hard to like for three reasons:\nAli was a relentless braggart. I think it is OK to talk smack in competitive situations, but Ali never knew when to stop. There was no line between self-confidence and self promotion. He nullified the demeanor of the quiet heroes in sports I grew up with, men like Roger Maris who circled the bases after breaking the home run record with his eyes down and ducked into the dugout quickly. Men like Edgar Martinez who was the most surprised person in the Kingdom when he hit the double that won the 1995 playoff series against the Yankees. Or Peyton Manning, when asked what he was going to do with all the money he would make after signing his first contract, said, \u201cI\u2019m going to earn it.\u201d\nAli renounced the Christian faith. He rejected the name of his Christian father (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.) and turned his back on his Baptist and Methodist upbringing. He affiliated with Elijah Muhammad\u2019s Nation of Islam, a strange mix of Muslim teachings and black radicalism from the 1960s. Later, Ali appears to have moved to a more orthodox version of Sunni Islam, but I cannot celebrate the rejection of my Lord Jesus Christ.\nAli refused to be drafted into the Army. I think there is a lot of romanticizing of this now, but I\nremember when it happened in 1966. Ali was trying to claim a religious exemption because of his Muslim faith, in effect asking to be excused on the grounds of clergy exemption while being a professional boxer. America was stunned by this. No one was too big or famous to be drafted, we thought. Even Elvis Presley had reported for duty when drafted a few years earlier! I was not a fan of the Vietnam War either and I faced the draft a few years later. As much as I disagreed with this war, I like to believe that I would have reported if drafted and served my country as best I could.\nIn 1977, as his boxing career was coming to an end, Muhammad Ali was asked what he would do when he finished boxing. His answer is still interesting:\n\u201cSo what I\u2019m gonna do when I get out of boxing? Is to get myself ready to meet God. Don\u2019t people die everyday? It\u2019s a scary thing to think that I\u2019m going to hell to burn eternally forever so what am I gonna do? When I get out of boxing or when I\u2019m through I\u2019m gonna do all I can to help people,\u201d said Ali. \u201cHe wants to know how do we treat each other, how do we help each other. So I\u2019m going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities, helping people, uniting people,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cWe need somebody in the world to help us all make peace. So when I die, if there\u2019s a heaven, I want to see it.\u201d\nEven the great Ali feared death. He did not understand grace or salvation by faith in Christ. He was motivated to good works after his boxing by his desire to see heaven, not hell. It is hard to tell if he was speaking from the Muslim faith he had embraced or the legalistic Baptist faith in which he was raised, but he transparently expressed doubts many people hold. \u201c\u2026 if there\u2019s a heaven, I want to see it.\u201d\nNow you know, I think, so Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Rest in Peace.\nPosted in Theology\t| Tagged If there's a heaven, Muhammad Ali, Nation of Islam\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lakecross.com/safely-welcome-a-new-holiday-pet-to-your-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SNDTHXV4HUUBXCUGYDG27GPVTMWGC3DC", "length": 3131, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lakecross.com", "title": "Safely Welcome A New Holiday Pet To Your Family - LakeCross Veterinary", "raw_content": "With the holiday season upon us, many a child\u2019s wish list includes a cat or a dog. Animals can be so good for children. They can help teach responsibility, patience and caring. However, it is very important to chose your pet wisely, educate your children about animal safety, and involve them in the training process.\nDo your research before choosing a new pet. For dogs, look into what breeds tend to be good with children, whether the breed is high energy or more laid back, what diseases are common with the breed, how trainable are they likely to be, and what size they will likely be as adults. If you are looking for a purebred dog, find a reputable breeder. Rescuing a shelter puppy can be the most rewarding option, however, be prepared for surprises. It\u2019s difficult to predict how a mixed breed puppy will turn out, especially if neither parent\u2019s breed is known.\nChoosing a feline companion tends to be a lot less complicated. The best we can do with many kittens is determine whether they will be longhaired or shorthaired, and that may be all you need to know.\nTeaching your children about animal safety is vital. In the U.S., more than two million children are bitten by dogs every year, but the majority of dog bites are preventable. Basic dog safety tips that all children should know include:\nDon\u2019t scream and run away from a dog.\nIf a dog knocks you over, curl up into a tight ball and stay put until help arrives or the dog loses interest.\nDon\u2019t pet a dog without an owner\u2019s permission and then only after you have allowed the dog to sniff your hand.\nDon\u2019t look a dog directly in the eyes.\nLeave a dog alone that is sleeping, eating or caring for puppies.\nTeaching children about cat safety is also important. A cat\u2019s bite can pose a serious health risk, and they can also do a lot of damage with their claws. Remember that cats are natural hunters. If you have an indoor only cat, play with your cat and provide \u201chunting\u201d opportunities using cat toys or even a balled up piece of paper. Always provide a safe haven in your home for your cat that is off limits to children. Also, teach children how to handle a cat without hurting it.\nIn addition to the tips listed above, you should never leave infants or young children alone with a dog or cat. For everyone\u2019s health and safety, always keep both cat\u2019s and dog\u2019s rabies vaccines up to date and make sure they are regularly checked and treated for intestinal parasites.\nFinally, properly training your dog can make the difference between your dog being a beloved family member and having to find a new home for him. Puppies can be enrolled in a good Puppy Class as young as 10 weeks of age. For older puppies and dogs, a good trainer is definitely a worthwhile investment. Remember to keep the kids involved in each step of the training process.\nAdding a pet to the family is a big decision that shouldn\u2019t be entered into lightly, but there is nothing quite like a child\u2019s delight at receiving a new puppy or kitten! With proper planning and commitment, a new pet can make for the happiest of holidays.\nOriginally published December 2014 in the Lake Norman Citizen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://latestartfinancialfreedom.com/mission-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:R3JVHSA4P4LNWOWD7L2H5DJJV7YP4DDD", "length": 1490, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "latestartfinancialfreedom.com", "title": "Mission Statement \u2013 Late Start Financial Freedom", "raw_content": "The purpose of starting this blog is to empower people who are getting a late start on their financial journey.\nWe want to document our progress as well as write about topics through the scope of a late bloomer. To show just exactly how a measure of financial independence can be reached at any stage in life.\nWe also did not want to just focus on the dollars and cents. There is a mindset one must be in to undertake this financial journey. We want to also write about the underlying thought processes that change mentally, spiritually and financially.\nWhen I first discovered the notion of financial independence (FI) I was reading about people who were retiring in the early 30\u2019s, who had higher paying jobs, who capitalized on the real estate market post crash or who already had no debt and a substancial savings.\nI was none of these.\nAs I read I wondered if I had just missed the boat. If this FI thing was only for people who didn\u2019t abuse student loans and credit cards in their 20\u2019s. It felt like I had missed the starting gun to this whole lifestyle.\nAfter further research, I found that a measure of financial independence was still very achievable. It would take some calculated risks, but even starting on the ground floor at 35 years old, we could make it happen.\nJoin us as we hope to create a thriving community of new ideas and support for one another.\nSo welcome! 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Aside from our whole host of exciting booth activities, we ran our second and third respiratory leaders Q&A sessions with Professor Andrew Menzies-Gow and Professor Peter Barnes; exploring the changing management of severe eosinophilic asthma and the future of respiratory care.\nIn his session, Menzies-Gow discussed the radical change the severe eosinophilic asthma field has seen over the past decade. When he first began working in the therapy area, asthma was seen as one diagnosis, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) knew little about what was causing the disease on an individual basis. Ten years later, we can now endotype asthma so patients can be given the right treatment, at the right time, to significantly improve their quality of life.\nBut if patients present with more than one cause of disease, can they be given more than one biologic? While there are currently significant concerns regarding safety and cost, Menzies-Gow argued that with so many new, broader treatments on the horizon such as small molecules, HCPs may eventually be able to safely combine different therapies to provide a more personalised approach to care.\nWhilst Prof. Menzies-Gow focussed on severe asthma, our second sessions with Prof. Barnes focused primarily on finding new ways to treat mild and moderate asthma. Thanks to the SYGMA trials, there is now strong evidence for using anti-inflammatory inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting beta agonist (LABA) combination inhalers as both maintenance and reliever therapy (MART). When used as reliever therapy, combination inhalers were shown to give patients greater control over their asthma, with a reduced exacerbation risk in comparison to short-acting beta agonists (SABAs).1,2 Barnes argued that anti-inflammatory MART can therefore provide a highly effective treatment regime for patients with the convenience of a single inhaler; representing the next stage in mild and moderate asthma management.\nDiscover more about severe eosinophilic asthma and the future of respiratory care here, and stay tuned for the final instalment of our respiratory leaders Q&A session.\nFor more information on ERS, please visit: https://erscongress.org/\n1. Bateman ED et al. N Engl J Med 2018; 378:1877\u20131887. 2. O\u2019Byrne PM et al. 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See the Studio\u2019s website for information on the products and services they offer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 151.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeactioncamp.com/jkooiman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XCQDWAU2YGRROGPJBS74OVWCW6RMHE4T", "length": 906, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lifeactioncamp.com", "title": "Staff \u2013 03 Kooiman | Life Action Camp", "raw_content": "Jessica Kooiman\nJessica grew up in a Christian home with her parents and younger sister in Rockford, Michigan (north of Grand Rapids). She accepted Jesus as her Savior at the age of 10 and loved serving, learning, and growing in her church. Before coming to Life Action, Jessica taught piano lessons full time in addition to a few small part-time jobs. She saw her weekly music lessons as a ministry outreach to area families.\nWith her continued passion for encouraging and challenging Christian families in the United States, she started working part-time in Guest Services/Event Management at The Camp in April of 2017. She has fallen in love with The Camp\u2019s mission and is continuing to finish raising support to serve here full-time.\nOriginally from: Rockford, MI\nPassions include: Bible studies, being with family and friends, crocheting and other crafts, camping, helping others\nquestion for Jessica?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lindsay.livejournal.com/297790.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ALLKS7IYPPGVR74AZK5D35R45SRCTISU", "length": 424, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lindsay.livejournal.com", "title": "Do you know what sucks?? The fact that I have to be at the hospital\u2026: lindsay", "raw_content": "Do you know what sucks?? The fact that I have to be at the hospital at 545am tomorrow for them to chop away at my foot. I'm in a bad mood, everyone's getting on my nerves, I'm stressed about the operation, I'm stressed about work, I'm stressed about my med school application, and everyone wants something from me.... At least I'll have a few hours of peace and quiet thanks to the anesthesiologist and his/her wonder drugs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lingalert.com/2016/12/21/maritime-silk-road/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:JV52NKUWLIKWX34JCEL7SZ4JCVBPDEAT", "length": 3412, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "lingalert.com", "title": "Conference: International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road | Ling alert", "raw_content": "Conference: International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road\nThe \u201cInternational Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road\u201d will be held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on April 7-8, 2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. We cordially invite abstracts for submission on linguistics studies, language acquisition, and language contact of Chinese and dialects spoken in the countries and areas along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.\nConference: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/msr-chinese/index.html\nWe invite abstracts for submission on studies of phonology, lexicology, grammar, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and language and culture of Chinese spoken in the countries and areas along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, with some focus on the linguistic properties of overseas Chinese and Chinese dialects. Tentatively talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.\n1) All submitted abstracts can be written in English or in Chinese and limited to one single-spaced A4 page, with 1-inch margin all around. Use font size 12 throughout.\n2) Please submit ONE anonymous version of your abstract to the Organizing Committee via \u201cEasy Chair\u201d: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msrchinese2017\n3) Abstracts must be in PDF format and cannot be revised or replaced once they are submitted via Easy Chair. Multiple attempts of submission would not be allowed.\n4) Please provide the following information and submit it via Easy Chair: (1) Address, (2) First name, (3) Last name, (4) Email address, (5) Country or area, (6) Affiliation (organization), (7) Title of the abstract, (8) Abstract in plain text, (9) At least 3 keywords, (10) Title of the author. We will accept at most one single-authored work AND one joint-authored work by an individual.\n5) All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Only those abstracts that are accepted can be chosen for presentation.\n6) Important Dates:\nSubmission Deadline: Jan. 9, 2017.\nNotice of Acceptance: Feb. 13, 2017.\nNo registration is needed. All are welcome!\nA selected number of papers will be accepted for publication in a special volume of Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (ISSN 1726-9245) based on their merit.\nWorkshop on Chinese Teaching and Learning for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Hong Kong\nThere will be a special panel session on Chinese teaching and learning for Non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students in Hong Kong in the form of workshop during the \u201cInternational Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road\u201d. Researchers, school administrators, and front line teachers are warmly welcome. We invite abstracts for submission on studies of Chinese/Cantonese language teaching and learning for NCS students in Hong Kong, from the perspective of language acquisition or sociolinguistics. Tentatively talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.\nThe abstract requirements and the submission procedure for this panel session are the same as other regular submissions to the Symposium. Please add \u201c[NCS Workshop]\u201d above the title of the abstract submitted to this workshop.\nT. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre\nGlobal China Research Programme\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong Library\nNew Asia College\nEmail: msr-chinese@cuhk.edu.hk\nT.T. 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Their colors vary considerably and can be bay, black, brown, buckskin, champagne, chesnut, dun, grullo, perlino, roan, and white. They are strong and sturdy, with high set tails, with thick hair on both mane and tail. They have a friendly and gentle temperament, yet a strong personality. They are excellent riding horses, are very intelligent, and have an amiable and willing nature. They are sometime used for agricultural work and generally work very well with people.\nThey can perform a gait known as the t\u00f6lt. The t\u00f6lt is a four-beat lateral ambling gait known for explosive acceleration and speed. Like all lateral ambling gaits, the footfall pattern is the same as the walk (left hind, left front, right hind, right front), but differs from the walk in that it can be performed at a range of speeds, from the speed of a typical fast walk up to the speed of a normal canter. Some Icelandic horses prefer to t\u00f6lt, while others prefer to trot; correct training can improve weak gaits, but the t\u00f6lt is a natural gait present from birth.\nThere have never been more than 100 Aegidienberger horses at any one time, as the breed has declined since the inception of the American horse stud book in 1868.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://localgovernmentmag.co.nz/lg-magazine/special-feature-lg/contaminated-land/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:A74X6CDRPC4IVJ2L6B2WE7PWUTA3LVS2", "length": 7728, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "localgovernmentmag.co.nz", "title": "Smart solutions \u2013 Contaminated land - Local Government Magazine contamination", "raw_content": "Smart solutions \u2013 Contaminated land\nAugust 23rd, 2018 Jonathan Whittaker Special Feature\nUrban growth is putting pressure on councils to clean up contaminated land. Current regulations are not quite tailored for the job and can be open to interpretation. So, is it time for a nationally-led more consistent approach? Patricia Moore has been digging the dirt.\nAndrew Hart, Golder Associates.\nOur country has an estimated 20,000 contaminated land sites. They\u2019re a legacy of decades of usage, storage and disposal of hazardous substances by industry, agriculture and horticulture. However, we don\u2019t have the long history of heavy industrial and manufacturing activities that tends to result in gross contamination.\nThat\u2019s according to Andrew Hart, associate and senior environmental scientist at Golder Associates (NZ). \u201cAs such,\u201d he says, \u201cthe majority of contamination is present in shallow soils that result in a conflict with pressure for urban development.\u201d\nRegional councils and territorial authorities have inherited the problem. There used to be marked differences between how different councils handled the remediation of contaminated land.\nIn January 2012, the National Environmental Standard (NES) for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health Regulations 2011 came into effect. This led councils to take a more standardised approach.\nSarah Schiess, Tonkin + Taylor.\nBut, inconsistencies still exist, says Andrew. \u201cIn part, that\u2019s because the NES is a planning document, rather than a clear, robust framework for the management of contaminated land risks.\u201d\nSarah Schiess, senior consultant, Tonkin + Taylor, also notes variables in the interpretation. \u201cAdditionally, the NES is dealt with by territorial authorities and only considers human health,\u201d she says. \u201cIt does not deal with discharges from contaminated land that could affect other environmental receptors.\n\u201cDischarges are dealt with by regional councils and governed by rules in regional plans which may differ considerably across the country.\u201d\nAffordability comes in to it too, says Andrew, with larger urban councils better able to employ dedicated technical staff than small, rural councils.\nSarah makes a similar point. \u201cIt seems counterproductive,\u201d she says, \u201cthat each territorial authority is responsible for technically understanding and applying the NES while discharges from contaminated land are considered separately by others. It would seem that a case should be made for a nationally-led, consistent approach.\u201d\nNatalie Webster, Pattle Delamore.\nSome 20,000 sites sounds like a lot for a country of our size, but how significant is it? Natalie Webster is technical director, contaminated land at Pattle Delamore Partners. She says that while there are a large number of land-use types with the potential to cause ground contamination \u2013 as defined by the Hazardous Activities and Industries List (HAIL) \u2013 there is only a sub-set of sites where actual contamination impacts are present.\nThere is a smaller number again where existing contamination is of sufficient magnitude that risks to human health and / or the environment exist.\nAndrew Walker, GHD team leader, environment \u2013 contaminated land, says he has worked on overseas sites where problems dwarf what we might consider significant.\n\u201cThat\u2019s not to say we don\u2019t have our proportional share of contaminated land including legacy mines, fertiliser production, gas works, and oil and gas sites,\u201d he says.\n\u201cBut these typically haven\u2019t gained widespread public attention and are generally only on a local scale.\u201d\nHe adds that where contamination is present at a site, this is usually a result of poor practices and / or established process management.\nHe adds it\u2019s important to keep in mind that we previously \u201cdidn\u2019t know any better and it was commonplace to simply dispose of chemicals in the ground\u201d.\nSo, what\u2019s the solution? Sarah says there have been huge advances in the application of in-situ remedial solutions for groundwater contamination.\n\u201cFor example, enhanced in-situ biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents is a standard approach that is extremely cost-effective and regularly used in locations such as Australia and the US.\n\u201cNew Zealand seems to be lagging in the uptake of this and other in-situ remedial technologies.\u201d\nAndrew Walker, GHD.\nAndrew Walker also sees the promotion of in-situ remediation technologies \u2013 sustainable remediation \u2013 as a solution.\n\u201cAt a local and regional government level, this is a massive challenge as, almost 99 percent of the time, the economics point towards physical excavation and landfill.\n\u201cThe conservative approach, currently adopted to contaminated land risk assessment, is resulting in large volumes of soil, which may not have presented an immediate risk, being unnecessarily disposed\nto landfill.\n\u201cUsing secure locations \u2013 landfills \u2013 for disposal is simply stockpiling known and unknown issues for future generations to deal with. Our landfills play a necessary function but are a precious resource which should be utilised wisely.\u201d\nGLOBAL CONSENTS\nAs the demand for more housing increases, Natalie says the pressure is on councils to consent sites to allow for development. However, they need to ensure a robust amount of information on the risks from contamination is gathered, and that those risks are appropriately managed.\n\u201cAnother challenge is that the NES requires consenting of HAIL sites where a \u2018significant\u2019 volume of soil will be disturbed or removed, even when contamination is not present at a concentration which poses a risk to human health,\u201d she says.\n\u201cThis is increasing the consenting burden for councils as well as landowners and developers.\u201d\nNatalie says \u2018global\u2019 consents, whereby multiple sites over a wide area are included under the same consent umbrella, are\n\u201cSuch consents are helpful because they allow work on large-scale developments to begin and then progress without consent-application related delays.\u201d\nBut, she adds, this process requires a high degree of trust between the council and the developer. \u201cA robust contamination assessment and reporting process is required to be written into the consent and undertaken in good faith by all parties.\u201d\nA key challenge, says Andrew Hart, is the limited scope of the NES; it is applicable only where one of the five activities it covers are proposed. \u201cHowever, there are a number of sites with high-risk contamination that fall outside the NES and leave territorial local authorities with little ability to regulate and manage the risks.\u201d\nHe says there\u2019s also a limited framework to assess and manage new and emerging contaminants. \u201cThe recent focus on PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) is an example. The primary risk is to human health, mainly through the consumption of contaminated media such as groundwater, but where the land continues to be used for the same activity, the NES is unlikely to be triggered.\u201d\nIn Sarah\u2019s opinion, the Resource Management Act led the world in legislating risk-based remediation of contaminated sites when it was introduced. However, she says, \u201csadly, New Zealand now seems to lag behind other countries, such as Australia and the US, in the active remediation of contaminated sites.\u201d\nAndrew Walker believes we\u2019ve been dealing with contaminated land in the same way, for far too long.\n\u201cThe book needs to be thrown out and we need to start lobbying for real, sustainable change from central government. Arguably the last election was won and lost on this issue so now\u2019s the time to turn up the heat. After all, aren\u2019t we in the contaminated land industry to make New Zealand a better place?\u201d\nHazardous Activities and Industries List\nNational Environmental Standard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 11073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://loriduffyfoster.wordpress.com/portfolio/taking-control-of-menopause-with-lignans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:26Z", "digest": "sha1:W3GVYKNQCG56IRJOQ4AAVZLIH3KTIQFJ", "length": 6620, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "loriduffyfoster.wordpress.com", "title": "Taking Control of Menopause with Lignans \u2013 Lori Duffy Foster", "raw_content": "Mary Bryant knew what she wanted after battling breast cancer at an age when, for most women, the threat of the disease is no more real than monsters in the bedroom closet. The New York model wanted children, and her doctor had finally given her his medical blessing. Bryant met a man who shared her passion for helping others. They fell in love and life was good. Then, at age 41 and with no warning, Bryant\u2019s periods stopped. The hot flashes, irritability and sleepless nights began. Bryant had entered early menopause, a condition caused by her chemotherapy treatments six years earlier.\nShe already had endured so much since her diagnosis. She lost her brother Don, a quadriplegic and her spiritual mentor, in 2001. Her best friend, Diane, died after 18 months of cancer treatment. She and Bryant were diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day. Bryant had lost one breast and 28 lymph nodes to her cancer and now she had also lost the ability to have children.\nFor most women, that would be a license to wallow in pity. But Bryant is more determined than ever to find purpose in her experiences. Bryant continues to work as a motivational speaker and, occasionally, as a model. She promotes a healthy diet, soul searching and natural supplements as a prescription for breast cancer prevention and recovery. She works with people who have lost limbs, encouraging them to see beyond their disabilities.\nBryant recently spoke with Healthy Living magazine about her emotional and physical struggles with early menopause and her strategies for coping. As she talked, Goliath, her Maltese dog, barked in the background. She adopted Goliath, who was a sickly puppy, shortly after she learned she was menopausal and nursed him back to health.\nhl Were you aware then that early menopause is a potential side effect of chemotherapy?\nmb When I went to talk to my oncologist about the chemotherapy \u2026 I was initially told it would be my choice whether or not to have it. I was devastated. I started crying and I looked at her and I said, help me understand this. Do you really, really, really believe I need to have this chemotherapy? And she didn\u2019t even hesitate. She said, yes. So then the issue became what kind of chemotherapy are we going to do because we knew it could potentially have a very serious impact on the ability to have children.\nhl So she did discuss that with you?\nmb Yes. A lot of women who have gone through chemotherapy at a younger age, their periods will stop and, then the hope is that after a while they start up again. I, for whatever reason continued having my period the entire time I was given chemotherapy. Because of that, the doctor felt I was really in good shape. So then I felt even more positive about it. Wow. Maybe I could have children. I kept seeing my doctor and he said to hold off because if a woman gets pregnant, an increased estrogen level could ignite some of those cancer cells to start multiplying again. It\u2019s just extremely, extremely risky. Finally as we were getting further out, like maybe four years out from my surgery and chemotherapy, he said, okay, if you want to try, go ahead. Of course, that was exciting news.\nShortly after that I had a friend say, look, I\u2019d really like you to meet this guy. She explained to me that it was just a man who\u2019d gone through a very difficult time and if anyone would be good to offer him some companionship, some friendship, it would be me. His wife and 4-year-old daughter were on United 175 that crashed into the south tower on 9/11.\nProbably about six months later, I remember sitting at the table. We were having dinner, and I felt like I wanted to kiss him (David). I was so nervous that I excused myself from the table. I was like, okay Ruth (David\u2019s wife), Juliana (his daughter), help me with this because this is not why I\u2019m here. I\u2019m here for you guys. I\u2019m here to make sure that your lives have the purpose they were supposed to have. I immediately had this sense that he needs to feel loved if he\u2019s to continue on his journey. We kissed and then we started to become intimate.\nFrom the time we started to become intimate (in May of 2002), my periods stopped. I wasn\u2019t pregnant. Three or four months go by and, finally, I called my doctor. He was thinking it could be stress-related or I could be running too much and I said, no. He kind of let it go because I was way too young. By October, I started having hot flashes. That following spring I went to my doctor and I said, look. Here\u2019s the deal. In the last 12 months I\u2019ve had one period and I\u2019m getting these hot flashes. He said, okay. We\u2019ll check for the hormones. He comes back and he says, whoa, you are way in it. I was, first of all, devastated. He sent me also to have a sonogram just to check my ovaries and they couldn\u2019t find any eggs. I went into such a depression.\nhl What have you done to try to keep your body healthy and to keep your mind healthy through all this?\nmb I spent a lot of time reading and making sure I was as conscientious as I was before about my eating. I focus on the broccoli, the spinach, the green peas, the Brussels sprouts, the carrots. I had started eating the flax seed that has the lignans and that\u2019s why when I found out about Brevail which is the concentrated lignans.\nhl How did you come across lignans?\nmb This is a company that contacted me and started sharing the information. I was very impressed with what I saw and when I did start taking Brevail, I thought, oh my gosh, I feel so much better. So I stopped taking Brevail. That did have an impact. I noticed more hot flashes, more irritability. Then, when I started taking it again, I noticed an improvement. So it\u2019s kind of like I did the testing for myself.\nhl How have lignans made you feel differently?\nmb Basically, lignans are phytonutrients. It\u2019s not real estrogen, but it\u2019s a phytoestrogen that mimics estrogen. They had thought hormone replacement therapy was great at first, and then they found out it was dangerous. That\u2019s why I think when you go to something that\u2019s natural\u2014like lignans\u2014it helps to minimize these side effects, the symptoms that you have.\nhl Which symptoms in particular have you found lignans have helped?\nmb The hot flashes. You\u2019re more calm. You\u2019re not so irritable. You get better sleep at night. It\u2019s just wonderful. I do think especially women who have gone through any type of cancer have to be careful with anything that\u2019s estrogen or estrogen-like. You need to talk to your doctor. They are still doing clinical trials, but there\u2019s so much proof on how lignans help in inhibiting tumor growth, as well as help balance your hormones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 7261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lottery.com/results/md/pick3middaymd/12-09-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CVS7ANKPTMSFTBJEXFYJLWGZUL6FQZU6", "length": 961, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lottery.com", "title": "December 9, 2018 Maryland Pick 3 Midday Numbers | Lottery.com", "raw_content": "December 9, 2018 Maryland Pick 3 Midday Winning Numbers\nAbout the Maryland Lottery\nIn 1972, the citizens of Maryland voted to approve a constitutional amendment allowing a state-run Maryland Lottery. Since the first lottery sales on January 2, 1973, the MD Lottery has contributed more than $14.4 billion in revenue to the state and has paid out more than $22.2 billion in prize money to lottery players.\nProfits from the MD Lottery primarily support the Maryland General Fund, a source of funding for many state programs and services that include public education, public health and safety, and Maine environmental preservation. Portions of the MD Lottery also support the Maryland Stadium Authority, Baltimore City Schools, and veteran organizations.\nThe MD Lottery currently offers the following draw games to play: Pick 3 Midday, Pick 3 Evening, Pick 4 Midday, Pick 4 Evening, Multimatch, Cash4Life, Bonus Match 5, 5 Card Cash, Mega Millions, and Powerball.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lovelacemedicalgroup.com/providers/mark-walker-do", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:25Z", "digest": "sha1:E636WMSP746ORSOP42RRAHL7KHANYZBC", "length": 433, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lovelacemedicalgroup.com", "title": "Mark Walker, DO | Lovelace Medical Group", "raw_content": "About Mark Walker, DO\nMark Walker, D.O., is a board-certified internal medicine physician. He earned his doctorate of osteopathic medicine from the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, IA and he completed his residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center.\nDr. Walker brings over 20 years experience to the Lovelace Medical Group team and vast clinical research experience in diabetes, incontinence and joint pain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lowellelementary.org/event/winter-break-no-school/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:57Z", "digest": "sha1:4VOSHO5VFNMWXSVY63IMA245UKOAFN32", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lowellelementary.org", "title": "Winter Break No School \u2013 Lowell PTA", "raw_content": "Winter Break. No School.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/y/yosemitesam.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:29Z", "digest": "sha1:GRHXBXBFSYJ2K4G4AV65LCOLNY7RTODL", "length": 228, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lyricsplayground.com", "title": "YOSEMITE SAM - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground", "raw_content": "Song Lyrics From Around The World\nHome | 0-9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Soundtracks | Christmas |\nWhat song will you find on Lyrics Playground today?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 17.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.baltictimes.com/article/jcms/id/143226/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NLRFOVZQR36LU6NTXFBXBCUY2FDHOP4T", "length": 2342, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "m.baltictimes.com", "title": "\ufeff Article", "raw_content": "Operail exports Estonian-made locomotives\nTALLINN - International logistics and transport company Operail has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Ukraine\u2019s largest industrial group, SCM, and is leasing two modern C30-M locomotives, built at the Tapa depot, to Ukraine.\nThe agreement, signed on Tuesday, 29 January, is a major milestone for Operail\u2019s rolling stock modernisation and manufacturing business. \u201cThe agreement we have signed today shows that the work of the last year and a half is bearing fruit. It is important that we develop areas that are not narrowly tied only to rail freight transport, but that look at the rails more broadly,\u201d said Chairman of the Operail Board, Raul Toomsalu. \u201cThese first two environmentally friendly and economical locomotives that are headed to Ukraine are just a tenth of our capacity. Currently, we are constructing a third locomotive, and the necessary agreements for the construction of four more machines have also been signed with our partners. In total, we plan to modernise 19 locomotives in stage one,\u201d added Toomsalu.\nOperail began the modernisation project for the American-designed C30-M locomotives in 2016, and in October last year presented the first C30-M locomotive built in Tapa. \u201cThis is a \u20ac 40-million project where we have successfully taken our first steps. The C30-M locomotives are very versatile and are suitable for both shunting as well as local haulage. In addition, they can be easily configured for the target market\u2019s rail gauge, meaning that the Finnish market, for example, is also open to us,\u201d said Toomsalu.\nC30-M locomotives are assembled by Operail using the frame and chassis of the C30-7A locomotive, manufactured by the international company General Electric, and the modules are designed by CZ Loko, a large manufacturer in Europe. The locomotive is certified in the European Union. The 6-axle locomotive weighs 138 tonnes with an axle load of 23 tonnes, and it uses AC/DC power transmission. The locomotive is equipped with the Caterpillar 3512C HD diesel engine with a power output of 1,550 kW (2,079 hp), and its maximum speed is 100 km per hour.\nOperail is an Estonian state-owned railway company whose main lines of business are freight transport, rolling stock rental, and rolling stock maintenance and modernisation. The company employs 690 people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.guardian.ng/news/arewa-leaders-agree-to-mediate-between-herdsmen-and-warring-communities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:42Z", "digest": "sha1:H2V3KI5QCGDR2ZZUPDSATKKLWGYPTVWB", "length": 2097, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "m.guardian.ng", "title": "Arewa leaders agree to mediate between herdsmen and warring communities | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsNews \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News", "raw_content": "Arewa leaders agree to mediate between herdsmen and warring communities\nBy Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna\nBlast FG Over Poor Power Supply, Ailing Infrastructure\nWorried about the constant Fulani herdsmen attacks and killings in the north, Arewa leaders have expressed plans to mediate between the inhabitants of warring communities and the gunmen in order to put an end to the escalating feud in the region.\nThe northern leaders, under the umbrella of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), at a meeting chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Forum, Alhaji Musa Liman Kwande, lampooned the Federal Government over poor infrastructure and power supply across the country that continued to undermine the nation\u2019s development and growth.\nIn a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, the leaders condemned the escalating crisis in the north, saying that they have resolved to intervene in order to put an end to the attacks and killings in northern communities.\nCritiscising the Federal Government over the ailing state of infrastructures across the nation, Ibrahim pointed out that \u201cthe meeting noted with serious concern the slow pace of work on some Federal Government projects that are of economic value and have direct bearing on the lives of the people.\u201d\nIbrahim, therefore, called on government and the National Assembly to appropriate adequate funds in this year\u2019s budget for the completion of these projects.\nBesides, the ACF meeting noted \u201cthe abysmally low power generation and erratic power supply being experienced nationwide\u201d, while questioning \u201cthe wisdom of the privatisation of the National Power Holding Company (PHCN) and also the capacity of the private entrepreneurs that bought the power generation and distribution outfits.\nMeanwhile the Arewa leaders \u201capplauded the Federal Government\u2019s policy on food security which encourages investment in agriculture and calls on our farmers to avail themselves to the revolving funds set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other financial institutions.\nAlhaji Musa Liman KwandeCentral Bank of NigeriaPHCN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 5241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.timesofindia.com/nri/us-canada-news/indian-american-seema-nanda-becomes-ceo-of-democratic-party/amp_articleshow/65191832.cms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2STR2GBKHBFQKRO3GQ4PFEUQVSVHZWC", "length": 2427, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "m.timesofindia.com", "title": "Seema Nanda: Indian-American Seema Nanda becomes CEO of Democratic party - Times of India", "raw_content": "Indian-American Seema Nanda becomes CEO of Democratic party\n(Image via Twitter/@SeemaNanda)\nWASHINGTON: Indian-American\n, who took over as CEO of the opposition\nlast week, has vowed to fight for the \"soul of the country\" and help elect Democrats in every corner of the US.\n\"We are fighting now for the soul of our country - for our democracy and for opportunity,\" Nanda, the first Indian-American ever to be CEO of either the DNC or the\ntook over reigns of the main opposition party last week on July 23. In this capacity, she is be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the powerful DNC.\n\"Democrats are offering the positive solutions so desperately needed right now - solutions forged by the strength of our diversity, the rigour of our ideas, and the decency of our values. Since Trump took office, it's been clear that the number one best way for us to set our country back on track is to elect Democrats in every corner of our country. That's why I took this job,\" Nanda said in her first message to Democratic supporters.\nNanda said supporting the Democratic party is synonymous with building a future for the children that they can be proud of. \"My promise to my two teenage boys is to do all I can to create an America that is bright, fair, and that works for everyone - where opportunity for all means something,\" she said.\n\"Our party is strong because it's built on forging positive solutions that include everyone. I'm proud to be the first Asian-American in recent memory to lead the DNC. Democrats are leading with our values and empowering people from diverse backgrounds to speak up and make our voices heard,\" Nanda said.\nThe fight to take back the country for working families is one that all must fight together, she said, adding \"At the DNC, we have committed to helping Democrats win back seats at all levels of government, because we need Democrats from the school board to the Senate to take back our country\".\nNoting that everything is at stake with this year's midterms, Nanda said Democrats are investing in state parties, putting organizers on the ground in all 50 states, and mobilizing 50 million voters by November through their nationwide 'IWillVote' campaign.\n\"We're setting our sights and our goals higher than ever before in order to help Democratic leaders fight and win all across our country,\" Nanda said.\nShe will RUIN America by encouraging illegal immigration from Muslim countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.ucweb.com/article/en/yellowstone-volcano-thermometers-spike-as-hottest-temperatures-on-earth-are-recorded/93008626331362.html?ch_id=undefined", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:23Z", "digest": "sha1:R6DJYNBSCIDE7HCMTZXNMD3BJ3ZPKYKY", "length": 4777, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "m.ucweb.com", "title": "earth - Yellowstone volcano: Thermometers spike as HOTTEST temperatures on Earth are recorded", "raw_content": "Get latest news and top breaking news live from India and around the world.Read this article: Yellowstone volcano: Thermometers spike as HOTTEST temperatures on Earth are recorded and get latest news, current affairs and news headlines about earth.Stay with us!\nYELLOWSTONE volcano scientists have recorded some of the hottest hydrothermal vent temperatures on the planet, following a study of the supervolcano\u2019s incredible hot springs.\nYellowstone volcano\u2019s bubbling hot springs are proof of the supervolcano\u2019s incredible power, even deep beneath the surface of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Lake, which measures about 130 square miles, is home to one of the most diverse volcanic habitats on Earth. A new Yellowstone study has now found thermometers around the Yellowstone volcano feature spike to some of the highest levels on Earth. With scorching temperatures up to 174C (345F) hundreds of feet deep in the water, Yellowstone\u2019s volcanic power is tremendous.\nReports of the geothermal power hidden in Yellowstone Lake date back to the 19th century and the Hayden Geological Survey of Yellowstone in 1871.\nBut scientists have only explored the deeper reaches of the lake for the past 20 years or so, leaving a lot of Yellowstone volcano\u2019s secrets yet to be found.\nThe United States Geological Survey (USGS) has now revealed the findings of a three-year-long study of Yellowstone Lake\u2019s geothermal activity.\nThe Yellowstone research project, dubbed Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake (HD-YLAKE), measured temperatures at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake.\nScientists from the University of Minnesota closely examined the lake\u2019s underwater hot springs, thermal vents and the chemistry of the spewing water.\nYellowstone volcano: Yellowstone Lake is home to the hottest thermal vents on the planet (Image: GETTY/USGS)\nA USGS report on the study reads: \u201cThe hottest vent measured during the HD-YLAKE study were found in the Deep Hole area just east of Stevenson Island, the deepest area of Yellowstone Lake at 410 feet (125m).\n\u201cThe hottest vent measured was a whopping 345F (174C). This is much hotter than any surface hot spring atYellowstone,because the weight from the overlying lake water acts like a pressure cooker lid and allows temperatures higher than boiling to be reached.\n\u201cIndeed, these are the hottest hydrothermal vents measured in a lake anywhere in the world.\u201d\nThe researchers found the scorching water and gas seeping out of tiny holes in the lake\u2019s bottom.\nThe miniature vents were found to only measure roughly three inches (10cm) each.\nThe gas released by the openings is rich in hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide, which suggests they are fuelled by steam.\nHowever, the incredible temperatures witnessed in Yellowstone Lake make long-term studies of the volcano\u2019s hydrothermal activity problematic.\nThe USGS said: \u201cThe high-durability PVC data logger for the sensor that was partly submerged \u2013 by about two inches, or 5 cm \u2013 in lake sediment well away from an active vent showed evidence of melting, indicating that the high temperatures in the Deep Hole are more widespread than previously thought.\n\u201cThis underscores the challenges of long-term monitoring of hot and corrosive vent fluids.\nYellowstone volcano: Equipment used in the experiment was damaged by the scorching water (Image: USGS)\nYellowstone volcano: Scientists have only studied the lake's bottom for the last 20 years (Image: USGS)\n\u201cConsidering the softening temperature for PVC is about 212F (100C), it is remarkable such high temperatures are present in sediment bathes in 39F (4C) lake water.\n\u201cThe data lager record, however, was complete and has provided important chemical and physical data that is currently under study.\u201d\nIn another part of Yellowstone Lake, in the West Thumb Area, scientists have found water temperatures of up to 141C (286F) at depths of 175ft (53m).\nThe USGS said even these more \u201cmodest\u201d temperatures are much higher than at surface hot springs.\nGet the latest breaking news from India & today's India news updates. Keep yourself informed with all the current news headlines about earth only on UC Browser. M.ucweb.com brings latest news and top breaking news live from all the states and cities of India that are happening.\nUC Browser is the definitive source of updated and relevant news concerning and all the affairs related to earth.Follow the latest and live news in India on UC Browser. Stay updated on and the world with latest & breaking news on a daily basis. You can get the latest news on the go with UC Browser app.The app brings you the the fastest news on the go along with latest news stories, videos and photos about earth. Get upto-the-minute breaking news alerts and exclusive interviews and in-depth coverage on your device.\nTopic: #earth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m25m.org/devotion/no-one-showed-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:24Z", "digest": "sha1:A6I5W5CMM7KUCEOGMPKTDV2RTNJFNUDY", "length": 1711, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "m25m.org", "title": "No One Showed Me - Matthew 25 Ministries | Matthew 25: Ministries", "raw_content": "No One Showed Me\nWhen St Francis of Assisi died, they made him a saint; while he lived they severely criticized him. Crude, idiotic and ridiculous were some the words they used to describe his ministry. One evening while writing in his diary he responded to his critics with these words\u2026 \u201cNo one showed me.\u201d Francis would have been his critics\u2019 most willing-to-learn student, but as he wrote, \u201cNo one showed me.\u201d\nOne of my high school teachers pulled me aside. She showed me a paper I had written. \u201cLook at this,\u201d she said. \u201cThe spelling is atrocious, grammar is unbelievable . . . .\u201c My teacher went on critiquing my work. She was right, but she said it, and didn\u2019t show me.\nA few years back I was tutoring a 12 year old boy who was dealing with a reading and writing problem. At our first meeting, I asked him to write his name for me. It was sad. Twelve years old and not one letter in his name was legible. I started to say something obvious such as, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work to do,\u201d or \u201cYou need to take your time.\u201d But instead the Lord grabbed my hand, and together we held his little hand, pencil and all, and rewrote his name. Then he did it by himself. \u201cNot bad.\u201d I said. His eyes sparkled as he grinned from ear to ear.\nAs I think back on this small yet life changing event, I ask you to CONSIDER how many people suffer from a case of \u201cno one showed me,\u201d CONSIDER how easy the treatment actually is; don\u2019t say in words what is obvious and crippling. Instead, reach out a hand and show.\nJesus told them a parable: \u201cCan a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher.\u201d (Luke 6: 39-40)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m25m.org/devotion/spiritual-nourishment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BCLXDXPYSZXPTCIM5JEJK4L7BVKGN5QB", "length": 2226, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "m25m.org", "title": "Spiritual Nourishment - Matthew 25 Ministries | Matthew 25: Ministries", "raw_content": "\u201cWell, another one bites the dust,\u201d said a nearby parent. \u201cGee, that\u2019s two in two weeks.\u201d\nWhat she was referring to were members of the Cincinnati Boy Choir becoming faint and passing out during a performance. The \u201cflu bug\u201d coupled with the stress and strain of performing make for ideal conditions for this to happen.\nLeaving the concert the man ahead of me asked another man about the condition of the boy who passed out. \u201cOh, he\u2019s fine,\u201d said the man. \u201cHe\u2019s been sick all week and hasn\u2019t had anything to eat since last night.\u201d (That was about twenty-four hours without any nourishment.)\nDriving home I thought of the lovely performance I had just heard and also the boy who had become faint. I also thought of individuals I hadn\u2019t seen at worship service. I thought of the reasons people stay away. We become busy doing other things; that certainly does happen in these busy times. Perhaps we stay away because we are overburdened, preoccupied with a problem, upset over something, feeling sorry for ourselves\u2026 \u201cspiritually not feeling well.\u201d And when this happens the tendency is not to eat.\nWe stay away from one of the main sources of spiritual nourishment \u2013 Sunday worship. We miss the spiritual nourishment that comes from being around other Christians; singing uplifting hymns; listening to the choir sing and bells ring; the children\u2019s time when almost anything can happen; taking part in corporate prayer; meditating as the organ is played; reading along as the Good News is read from the Bible; being challenged, stimulated, inspired, comforted\u2026as the Word is preached.\nCONSIDER, as with those boys who passed out from the lack of physical food, we, too, can pass out from the lack of spiritual food which comes to us in worship. The consciousness we lose will not be to the world around us but the presence of God around us in the world.\nSomeone said that when it\u2019s the hardest to pray we should pray the hardest. I would add: when we don\u2019t feel like coming to worship, that is when we need to come to worship the most.\nA long time ago a spiritually hungry person did come to worship and upon leaving others heard him say:\n\u201cI rejoiced with those who said to me, \u2018Let us go to the house of the Lord\u2019.\u201d (Psalm122:1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madamenoire.com/1033304/sherri-shepherd-lets-us-in-on-the-funniest-and-most-awkward-threesome-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7TVY3GKX74MFWN7SQNVNA5GUNHSIW3DR", "length": 2692, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "madamenoire.com", "title": "Sherri Shepherd Lets Us In On The Funniest Threesome Experience | MadameNoire", "raw_content": "Sherri Shepherd Lets Us In On The Funniest And Most Awkward Threesome Experience\nSherri Shepherd stopped by Power 105.1\u2019s The Breakfast Club, and like most guests who appear on that show, she shared something that at least I have never heard come out of her mouth before.\nThe former The View co-host said that she was once propositioned for a threesome by two celebrities. One of them was actress Yvette Wilson (The Parkers), her good friend who passed away from kidney complications, and Wilson\u2019s boyfriend at the time, rapper Eric B.\nShepherd explained that in her early stand-up comedy years, she was fresh from Chicago, a young woman who grew up as a sheltered, Jehovah\u2019s Witness kid. Seeing people do drugs, and yes threesomes were all things the budding comedian had heard about but had never seen in real life until she arrived in Hollywood. The learning curve was real.\nSo, when Wilson invited her to a hotel party, Shepherd went with the most naive mind ever, but it has to be one of the funniest threesome stories ever told.\n\u201c[Wilson and Eric B.] were in a room one time, and I had went to see her. They called me up to the hotel \u2013 to the room \u2013 and she was like, \u2018Come, hang out with everybody.\u2019 It was MC Brain. It was all of these rappers. And we were hanging out\u2026,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were up in the room, and I remember I was sitting there, I was literally \u2013 I had two french braids in my hair, white bobby socks, white tennis shoes with overalls with the bow. That\u2019s how sheltered I was. And I remember Yvette \u2013 And I remember Yvette had been drinking and they were kissing, and I was sitting in the chair like, \u2018Oh, my gosh\u2026'\u201d\nYes, Shepherd just sat there confused and in shock as she was watching what was happening but had no clue as to why and what her role was supposed to be.\n\u201cI\u2019m sitting in the chair, and I\u2019m watching them like, \u2018Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh my gosh, what am I supposed to do?\u2026I remember [Eric B.] looked at me, and I was like [gives deer-in-headlight expression],\u201d she continued.\nShepherd finally snapped out of it. She gathered her things and her mind to head out the door. Wilson still tried to coax her into joining them, but all Shepherd could hear was her mother\u2019s voice.\n\u201cI was like, nuh-uh. nuh-uh. My mama told me about this. This from the devil, nuh-uh,\u201d she hilariously recalled.\nSince leaving her post at ABC\u2019s popular daytime talk show, Shepherd has been growing her comedic and acting resumes. With stories like this to share, she definitely made the right choice.\nCurrently, you can catch her playing Anne Flatch on NBC\u2019s Trial and Error. In the meantime, watch her talk about her most awkward threesome experience at the 16:45 mark below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GCKTDMFLAY3GIVDVQ5Z6NKDYTAUZASCT", "length": 2002, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com", "title": "22 | September | 2012 | The Honest Courtesan", "raw_content": "Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous, tagged holidays, psychology on September 22, 2012| 14 Comments \u00bb\nDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. \u2013 George Eliot\nIt\u2019s that time again! All my long-time readers know that autumn is my favorite season of the year for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the shorter, cooler days. I love the autumn weather, the turning of the foliage, and all the autumn holidays from now until Yule (including my birthday), but there\u2019s also an indefinable something else I cannot adequately or rationally describe. In the absence of more precise words, let\u2019s just call it autumn magic; it\u2019s a sort of resonance I have with the season, a deep sense of rightness that never fails to lift my spirits and has even helped me to pull out of long, deep depressions on a number of occasions. Weather-wise, the last few autumns have been a great disappointment to me; the summer heat lingered until the end of September, so that when the crisp weather eventually did arrive it was limited to a few short weeks in October before giving way to the November chill. But not this year; the Dog Days petered out after only two weeks, and by mid-August we were opening the windows at night again. By the beginning of this month most days were unseasonably cool, and there have been several days lately on which we haven\u2019t had to turn on the air conditioner even at mid-afternoon. Though the southbound sun crosses the celestial equator at 14:49 GMT today (9:49 US Central Daylight Time), autumn is already underway here, and as far as I\u2019m concerned it could not come too soon.\nIf this is your first autumn with me, you may be interested in reading my previous two columns for the occasion. As usual, I wish all of my readers a happy holiday, and ask that whatever your beliefs may be, you all receive success and happiness in your personal, sexual, emotional and professional lives. Blessed Be!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 7470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/in-the-news-637/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OUNLKXMI6GIPLSWSD5GENCTJFLLGXWDM", "length": 13887, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com", "title": "In the News (#637) | The Honest Courtesan", "raw_content": "\u00ab Friday the 13th, 2016\nIf you criminalise buying sex, the prostitute knows she becomes the evidence. \u2013 Brooke Magnanti\nSouth Africa is another country with awesome sex worker activists:\nMothers for the Future is an initiative of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT). It provides support groups, outreach and home visits. Mothers discuss difficulties such as domestic violence, child grants, and the challenges that they face when their children are targeted as a result of their mother\u2019s work. Duduzile Dlamini, the programme coordinator, says that some mothers even have their children taken away from them by social services and that their children, like their mothers, are criminalised\u2026Porcia, who is a member of Mothers for the Future, has two children and\u2026makes donations to the church from the money that she earns as a sex worker. Sometimes she is arrested on a Friday night and kept at the police station for the whole weekend. Her children are then at home alone and without any food\u2026\nGuys, please do your research, and let the pigs hunt each other:\nDayton Police arrested ten men for solicitation\u2026.[including] Todd Pultz of the North Hampton Police Department\u2026\u201cif you are sworn to uphold the law the last thing you want to do is break it, especially in this fashion\u201d [oinked a spokespig]\u2026\u201cThese women have sex hundreds of times\u2013that\u2019s hundreds of men that could be infected and take it back to their family\u201d\u2026\n\u201cEspecially in this fashion\u201d, as opposed to acceptable crimes like robbery, rape, mayhem and murder.\nSometimes \u201cauthorities\u201d prefer to rape vulnerable men instead:\nAn East Arkansas judge accused of trading sex with defendants in exchange for reduced sentences is resigning after\u2026sexually explicit photos [were] recovered from his computer\u2026District Judge Joe Boeckmann was\u2026accused of having sex with defendants\u2026[and] demanding [they] take sexually explicit photos\u2026the photos also depicted evidence the young men had been paddled and\u2026the judge\u2026was instructed not to destroy the paddle depicted in the photos\u2026investigators believe\u2026the judge\u2019s sexual misconduct extended to more than 30 years ago to his time as a deputy prosecuting attorney\u2026in\u2026one scenario\u2026Boeckmann took [a young man] to the courthouse after hours, forced him to strip inside the district courtroom, put him in handcuffs and took naked pictures of him in the courtroom. The man said Boeckmann paid him $50 and told him \u201ccase dismissed\u201d at the conclusion of the photo shoot\u2026\nAll censorship seems this futile and ridiculous to me:\n\u2026New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward is going on, keeping an eye out for any \u201cerotic\u201d banana-eating\u2026wearing stockings and suspenders while hosting a live stream is now also forbidden. The move is the authorities\u2019 latest attempt to clamp down on \u201cinappropriate and erotic\u201d online content\u2026that \u201charms social morality\u201d \u2026such sites are attracting more and more users in China\u2026News of the banana ban has prompted thousands of users to chime in on Chinese social media\u2026\u201dHow do they decide what\u2019s provocative when eating a banana?\u201d\u2026\u201dCan male live-streamers still eat them?\u201d\u2026\u201dThey will all start eating cucumbers, and if that\u2019s no good, yams\u201d\u2026\nAnyone who actually believes that a rape is worse if a cop commits it \u201cin uniform\u201d, \u201con duty\u201d or \u201con police property\u201d is part of the problem: \u201cA [Newark, New Jersey cop] was charged with sexually assaulting a woman on police property\u2026Kenneth Gaulette\u2026[raped] the\u2026woman\u2026Nov. 29, 2015\u2026\u201d And that problem is far more extensive than \u201cauthorities\u201d want you to know:\nThe young victim of a [rapist cop]\u2026in Kern County, California, has settled a civil lawsuit for $1m, marking the second violent misconduct case the beleaguered sheriff\u2019s office has settled in just five days\u2026a Guardian investigation\u2026identified law enforcement in the county as the deadliest in the US and revealed a program of attempted cash payoffs to vulnerable women who had been [raped] by Kern County deputies\u2026Gabriel Lopez in March 2013\u2026forced the young woman to strip naked\u2026and then [raped] her [mere hours after arresting her] boyfriend at the same house\u2026another\u2026young woman Lopez was convicted of [raping] accepted a cash payment of $5,000 from the sheriff\u2019s office\u2026\nOuting a famous non-prohibitionist client just to make money? Instant ticket to my Hall of Shame:\nWhile the debate over the UK gagging order preventing publication of the identity of an A-list actor who allegedly slept with an escort continues, Sydney-based sex worker Amanda Goff said\u2026Helen Wood, the prostitute who claims she was paid $380 for sexual services with the British thespian, \u201ccommitted the number one crime\u2026An escort never talks about names\u2026It has ruined someone\u2019s life\u2026The details she gave to the press about what they did in bed is appalling. Why would she do that? How can she sleep at night?\u201d\u2026\nIf a woman under 18 chooses to be a whore she\u2019s automatically a victim because she\u2019s a \u201cchild\u201d, but if she helps someone else to do it she\u2019s a \u201ccriminal\u201d because she\u2019s old enough to know better. Yet she still can\u2019t be named because she\u2019s a \u201cchild\u201d. Got that?\nToronto police say they have charged a 17-year-old girl after a 16-year-old girl was forced into the sex trade last year. [Cops] allege the suspect\u2026introduced the victim to two men, who told her she could make a lot of money working for them\u2026Police allege the victim was \u201ccontrolled through intimidation and threats,\u201d and forced to work in the sex trade. The 17-year-old suspect allegedly took photos of the victim in various states of undress and posted them on backpage.com\u2026She cannot be identified per the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act\u2026\nFor the last six months, Michael Fusaro, 33, has repeatedly traversed a shadowy criminal underworld, all in the hopes of finding his 27-year-old sister, Jamie Nastali\u2026Fusaro was convinced his sister\u2026was being held by human traffickers based on one of the last conversations he had with her late last year. Nastali, who Fusaro acknowledges has a drug problem, called him with a cloak-and-dagger story of being kidnapped and taken to San Diego\u2026[on May 7th] his sister\u2026was [arrested and jailed]\u2026for drug and identity theft charges\u2026Fusaro said he believes there may also be a prostitution charge\u2026[but] no prostitution offense shows up on her booking record\u2026[prohibitionist] Dianne Amato\u2026said\u2026\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions is that women who are 24, 25, 26 years old are adults\u201d\u2026\nObviously the belief that adult women are not adults is \u201cfeminist\u201d.\nSexual Predators (#449)\nPolice chief decides to destroy a few lives to give bored cops some fun:\n\u2026Terre Haute [Indiana] Police\u2026Chief Ed Tompkins\u2026[used a] sting\u2026[to arrest five people as] \u201ca way to give the detectives something different to do other than work property crimes, arsons and burglaries\u201d\u2026The objective of Operation Back Page to Front Page was\u2026to\u2026make an arrest. Detecting human trafficking was also a goal\u2026\nRepeat Offenders (#563)\nWhy do prohibitionists who want to \u201crescue\u201d sex workers invariably push them into menial garment-related work?\nUniversity of Georgia students\u2026Emily Wilhoit\u2026and Joshua Dunn\u2026to support their first annual bra drive for Free The Girls. The\u2026drive\u2026brought in 1,239 bras\u2026Free The Girls is a nonprofit organization based out of Denver, whose mission is to \u201cprovide jobs to survivors of sex trafficking in developing countries by helping them set up micro enterprises selling bras\u201d\u2026\nWhat Were You All Waiting For?\nThis would\u2019ve been better without her moral signalling at the beginning, but still:\nThe rationale for making prostitution illegal while protecting the filming and selling of pornography as protected speech under the First Amendment eludes me. Morally I\u2019m opposed to both, but criminalizing one and not the other hurts people more than it helps and lacks intellectual cohesion. But who cares what I think? The question is, what do the candidates think? While Americans have been fixated on the surreal primary contests between Republican and Democratic gladiators, a huge international movement has been heating up that touches upon the lives of millions and millions of people and involves billions and billions of dollars\u2026Next month the board of Amnesty International is slated to approve its final policy in support of the full decriminalization of consensual sex work\u2026And Amnesty is not alone; other groups, including the World Health Organization, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Foundation, are on board\u2026\nDecriminalization in New South Wales is safe for now:\nThe Baird government has rejected a call to more strictly regulate brothels through licensing and a specialist police unit, arguing it would recriminalise prostitution and put the health of sex workers at risk\u2026A government response\u2026rejects the inquiry\u2019s call for a special police unit, similar to that which exists in Victoria, to be created to ensure brothels are licensed, comply with planning laws and don\u2019t have foreign nationals working in violation of their visas. The licensing of brothel managers has also been rejected on the advice of NSW Health. Minister for Better Regulation, Victor Dominello, said: \u201cIntroducing a licensing regime for brothels may drive more operators underground, which could adversely affect the health and protection of sex workers. The evidence from other jurisdictions is that licensing simply doesn\u2019t work\u201d\u2026\nMy friend Brooke Magnanti schools politicians on their latest attempt to persecute adults for wanting sex:\nThe criminalisation of payment for sex would dissuade sex workers from reporting violence against them, Brooke Magnanti\u2026has told a group of MPs\u2026looking into the way prostitution is dealt with in legislation\u2026Magnanti appeared alongside Paris Lees, a journalist and equality campaigner who has also previously been a sex worker. Both were critical of the witnesses the select committee had called to question as part of the inquiry. \u201cOf the four sex workers you\u2019ve spoken [to] face to face, three of us aren\u2019t doing it any more\u2026Who are the people who should have been asked here instead of us? People from the Sex Worker Open University, people from the English Collective of Prostitutes, current sex workers. They weren\u2019t asked because me and Paris come with great media platforms, we bring attention, so you can tick a box and say we spoke to some ex-sex workers\u201d\u2026Both witnesses\u2026warned against trusting reduced crime statistics from countries such as Sweden and Northern Ireland\u2026\u201cPart of the problem with statistics being currently produced by Sweden is they don\u2019t have statistics [from] before the law came into place,\u201d Magnanti said\u2026\u201cWhen you look at the countries most affected by trafficking such as India, Cambodia, which also have very strong sex worker-led organisations, the percentage of people who are actively trafficked are comfortably under 5%\u201d\u2026\nPosted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny | Tagged Above the Law, activism, agency denial, Arkansas, Australia, brothels, California, Canada, censorship, China, cops, Do As I Say, Droit du Seigneur, Eternal Vigilance, ethics, Georgia, Hall of Shame, Indiana, law, New Jersey, Ohio, politicians, rape, Repeat Offenders, See No Evil, Sexual Predators, South Africa, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Schizoid State, The Widening Gyre, underage, United Kingdom, What Were You All Waiting For?, Whore Madonnas | 2 Comments\non May 14, 2016 at 10:07 am | Reply Shane Skekel\nRe: See no Evil\nThis reminds me of a quote by Go Nagai, creator of Cutie Honey, Devilman, Mazinger Z, Kekko Kamen, and Violence Jack:\n\u201cHaving said this, the war experience surely affected my whole childhood and the formation of my personality. Even if I have not experienced any bombing or fighting, all the adults around me kept telling me horrible stories about the war, so I grew up with [the awareness] that my works should deliver a message of peace.\nI was particularly saddened when I found out that in many countries I was considered to be an author who loves to depict battles and destruction just for the fun of it. [] The reason why I depict the effects of war in my comics is because I strongly believe that a person should learn from childhood how war can be destructive and how much people and societies may suffer from it, just the same way I learned it from the stories of adults around me when I was a little child. If we raise a child telling him only the nice and happy things of life, he will be unable to cope with all the hardships he will inevitably meet in his adulthood; if he doesn\u2019t know the devastating effects of violence and repression, he could [\u2026] cause incredible damage and suffering to the people around him.\nI guess this is one of the reasons why Japanese people, who have been raised for the last 60 years reading comics that some people abroad have labeled as hyper-violent, chose not to be involved in war after 1945 and have stated in their very constitution that they renounce war, as opposed to a country like the US, which has strong censorship against violence in animation and programs for children, but has been at war for most of its recent history.\u201d\non May 15, 2016 at 12:10 am | Reply Celos\nSee No Evil:\nI found that one extremely funny. An instant classic. I mean, banning Banana eating styles? This is nothing more than an admission that they have lost their minds.\nFortunately, with modern communication technology available (and taking that away would cause extreme costs to society), if fully agree: Censorship is futile.\nAs a side note, it will be interesting to see how the efforts in Europe to ban \u201chate speech\u201d will play out. While I do not like what these people say, I am pretty sure that trying to suppress their voices will only make things much worse. And from what I have seen, they do discredit themselves pretty well with what they say anyways.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 20865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makingofchampions.net/2013/08/18/okagbare-ensures-nigeria-leave-moscow-with-2-medals-ahoure-does-same-for-cote-divoire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:U5GUEOEJFZU6AM6DSBZMVDGVGTRRMIEC", "length": 5163, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "makingofchampions.net", "title": "Blessing ensures Nigeria ends World Champs with 2 medals; Murielle does same for Cote d\u2019Ivoire | Making of Champions", "raw_content": "Blessing ensures Nigeria ends World Champs with 2 medals; Murielle does same for Cote d\u2019Ivoire\nOn Friday evening, Blessing Okagbare won her second World Championship medal in a week \u2013 bronze in the 200 metres \u2013 to ensure that Nigerians for the first time since 1999 had something to celebrate at the end of these championships. Indeed, Blessing single-handedly ensured that Nigeria equaled its best ever medal tally of 1 Silver and 1 Bronze at a World Championship, from 1999 when Glory Alozie took Silver in the 100m hurdles and Francis Obikwelu took Bronze in the 200 metres. Sadly for Nigeria, Alozie and Obikwelu, its two best athletes from that era, switched to Spain and Portugal respectively, both in 2001, creating a void which has since been left unfilled until now!\nBlessing\u2019s feat ensured that she became the first ever Nigerian to become a double individual medallist at either the World Champs or the Olympics, and doing it within the same championships should be especially commended. Blessing had the busiest schedule of any athlete in Moscow, competing in the 100m, 200m and Long Jump, and but for that hectic schedule, she may have also medalled in the 100 metres \u2013 I am extremely happy for her that she won that Bronze in the 200 metres and put to bed any suggestions that even I had prematurely raised about her not performing when it mattered the most. This lady is truly a Championship performer, and her 2 medals from 3 events in a packed week is more than enough evidence of that!\nIncluding her Long Jump bronze from the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Blessing is already well on her way to becoming Nigeria\u2019s most decorated athlete of all time. I would love to see her continue to attack all 3 events at major championships, but she may have to decide in the future to forego one (maybe the long jump?) to improve her chances in the other two. Certainly if the women\u2019s long jump is not moved from the day before the 100 metre final in future championships, that might continue to hamper her best prospects in the marquis sprint event. Perhaps organisers could adjust the schedule to accommodate an athlete as supremely gifted as Blessing? In the past this has been considered for the likes of Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson, in their bids in years gone by to win multiple events at major championships!\nCote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Murielle Ahoure also had a fantastic championship, finishing with Silver behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in both the 100m and 200m. This lady has stepped up massively from her 7th and 6th place finishes at the Olympics last year, and these are her country\u2019s first ever medals at a World Championships in the 30 year history of the event! Both ladies can only gain more confidence from their medals, and personally I am looking forward to a great rivalry between them for years to come. Granted, my prediction that at least one of them would break the 200 metre African record on Friday night did not come to pass, but I look forward to seeing both of them in the coming years going for both Mary Onyali\u2019s 200 metre record (22.07s) and Blessing\u2019s 100m African record (10.79s)! Both of them will be looking towards Rio 2016, and the possibility of breaking Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce\u2019s dominance in the 100m (and now the 200m) by then!\nIf Ahoure and Okagbare continue to develop and progress the way that they have so far, they could well lead the way for the renaissance of world class sprinting (and jumping) in Africa. That said, the incredible successes of these two great athletes should not paper over the fact that countries like Cote d\u2019Ivoire (with 23 million people) and Nigeria especially (with over 170 million people) could and should be doing a lot better in Athletics. It should be noted that both Murielle and Blessing as sprinters are products of the American collegiate system. Obviously Blessing\u2019s Olympic Bronze medal in 2008 showed that with her natural talent she had the potential to become a big star, but she would not have had the opportunity to blossom the way she has if she had stayed in Nigeria. There is simply no programme in Nigeria or elsewhere in West Africa that allows for natural athletic talents to be moulded into world class performers \u2013 think of how many people with talent similar to Kirani James or even Usain Bolt who will never be discovered or developed in Africa? Perhaps it is time for Africa to take a leaf out of Jamaica\u2019s book and stop outsourcing the development of its athletes to the American college system?\nHere\u2019s another look at my video short entitled \u201cLong Distance\u201d, showing how far behind Jamaica that Nigeria has fallen in Athletics \u2013 we used to be on par back in the nineties!\n\u2190 Ahoure and Okagbare lead Africa\u2019s charge for 200 metre GOLD\nDiscussing Nigerian Athletics on Hot102FM in Jamaica! \u2192\nOne Response to \u201cBlessing ensures Nigeria ends World Champs with 2 medals; Murielle does same for Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u201d\n[\u2026] recall that last year, Blessing failed to win a 100m medal in the World Championship final because she had taken 6 jumps the night before to win Long Jump Silver, and didn\u2019t have enough time to recover to successfully execute two rounds of the 100m the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 10038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://makingofchampions.net/2014/06/13/road-to-brazil-mini-series-2-confed-cup-memories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:16Z", "digest": "sha1:XHRHSXN62LJVNJAOMYEDDNQA5SU725EF", "length": 1816, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "makingofchampions.net", "title": "ROAD TO BRAZIL Mini-Series #2: CONFEDERATION CUP MEMORIES!! | Making of Champions", "raw_content": "ROAD TO BRAZIL Mini-Series #2: CONFEDERATION CUP MEMORIES!!\nHere\u2019s the 2nd part of our never-seen before documentary mini-series shot on location in Salvador da Bahia in support of the Super Eagles! The series features a special group of Nigerians who either live in Brazil or studied there in the year leading up to the World Cup starting today! Indeed, the students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) on their year abroad exchange programme in Salvador played a big role in making this project possible, not only as subjects, but as Portuguese Language interviewers and translators \u2013 OAU has been running this exchange programme for more than 30 years now!\nThe 1st episode yesterday has already received many great responses, not least from a former employee of the Nigerian embassy in Brasilia, who corrected our assertion that these students were pretty much the ONLY people in their age group in Nigeria who are fluent in Portuguese. He said, \u201cThere are several other kids in Nigeria, mostly children of Nigerian diplomats and expats, who actually had their elementary and secondary education in Portuguese-speaking countries like Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique etc and speak fluent Portuguese.\u201d\nTo hear EVEN MORE about what it was like to be in Brazil when Nigeria played there at the Confederations Cup last year, and get a feel for what the support for the Super Eagles will be like at the World Cup, stay tuned for more from this mini-series during the Big Dance! Next episode \u2013 on Sunday!\n\u2190 4th Edition WARRI RELAYS, with International Stars, takes place TOMORROW!\nNigeria\u2019s GLORIA ASUMNU in the 100m at New York leg of Diamond League TONIGHT! \u2192\nOne Response to \u201cROAD TO BRAZIL Mini-Series #2: CONFEDERATION CUP MEMORIES!!\u201d\n[\u2026] Click here for Part II: Confederation Cup memories!! 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Such non-toxic cleaners work well on grease and soap scrum. But you need to be careful with them also, because such soy-based cleaners should be used on hard surfaces only!\nNon-toxic detergents are also popular, especially those that are made from coconut or corn-based. They work even better than detergents that contain phosphates. Instead of bleach we recommend using powdered oxygen cleaners. These products use oxygen to remove stains. They do not irritate skin, throat and eyes.\nEnzyme-based cleaners are considered to be another alternative to usual toxic cleaners. Enzymes are proteins, and cleaners contain specific enzymes that get rid of grease, oil and dirt. 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And cheer on the South Pittsburg High School Pirates each fall on AM 910 WEPG and with MarionCountyMessenger.com.\nPermanent link to this article: https://marioncountymessenger.com/about-us/media-business-partners/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marketingwit.com/advantages-disadvantages-of-internet-marketing", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:46Z", "digest": "sha1:CII2IQL7YALWFKEUXYHWPZKXHYV62VVG", "length": 4655, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "marketingwit.com", "title": "Weighing in the Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Marketing", "raw_content": "Weighing in the Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Marketing\nInternet marketing has emerged as one of the most efficient ways of promoting products and services. However, there are certain challenges that have proved to be detrimental in its effective use.\nInternet marketing has emerged as one of the most innovative mediums for organizations to promote their products and services. The global Internet marketing industry is worth several billion dollars and is expanding at a rapid pace. Many leading business houses have seen an increase in their sales as a result of putting their business on the Internet and this has prompted many others to follow suit. However, there are some challenges, the most important of them being security and frauds.\nMarketing your business on the Internet gives you a wide access of your potential customers. It has been estimated that a couple of billion people around the world use the Internet, and more are becoming aware of Internet with each passing day. So, marketing your business to such a large group of people is only possible through Internet.\nInternet is the only medium that is able to cross geographic and national boundaries. You can put your advertisement on the Internet and people from all countries of the world can see that advertisement.\nThe cost of promoting your business on the Internet is cheaper than other mediums of marketing. This makes it easy for small and mid-sized businesses to advertise their products.\nInternet allows you the ability to stay connected with your customers on a real-time basis. If you have a discount going on, you can easily send an email to your customers and they can buy the product instantly. Internet also allows you to send multiple messages at the same time, which means that you are saved the tedious task of sending a newsletter to every client.\nInternet marketing allows you to get an instant feedback from the customers. Customers can let you know about their experience after using the product and this allows you to know whether you need to make any improvements to your service.\nInternet marketing saves a lot of time and effort. Instead of having a customer service representative to answer the queries of customers, one can put all the information about the product or service on the Internet so that customers can go through it. The most common way of doing it is to have a section dedicated to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the product so that customers get all the required information about the product or the service.\nInternet marketing allows your business to be available 24/7, which means increased sales and profits.\nAlthough, Internet marketing allows you a wider reach, the start-up costs of a website can be high. This includes the cost of the required software and hardware, and maintenance costs.\nThere are still a lot of customers who use the Internet just for having more information about a product and prefer to buy it in person. For example, Internet marketing allows a customer to view how a phone looks like and its technical specifications, but customers prefer having a look at the phone in the store to get a hands-on experience.\nThere are a lot of customers who are not proficient in using the Internet and focusing solely on Internet marketing can cause you to lose these customers.\nThe rules of the trade change rapidly in Internet marketing, and it requires constant attention and monitoring to ensure that your marketing strategy does not look out-of-date.\nThe biggest disadvantage of Internet marketing is its vulnerability to fraudulent activities. There are a lot of illegitimate websites out there which look similar to original websites and rob the customers of their money. Spamming is also one of the biggest challenges for Internet marketing and confidential data can be easily stolen by hackers.\nInternet marketing lacks the human touch that is involved when a customer buys a product from a salesperson. This hampers the prospects of relationship building which plays an important part in repeat sales and word-of mouth publicity.\nInternet marketing depends heavily on technology, which is vulnerable to technical faults. For example, if a customer clicks on your advertisement but due to a technical glitch, is unable to buy the product, he may easily become irate and take his business somewhere else.\nAlthough, there are some challenges involved in Internet marketing, it can be safely said that Internet marketing has led to increased transparency and ease of buying products. 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( married,single, in relation or divorce):\nHow many children does Cesaro have ? (name):\nIs Cesaro having any relationship affair ?:\nIs Cesaro Gay ?\nSwiss pro wrestler Claudio Castagnoli is a renowned face of WWE currently signed for the Smackdown Brand. He is professionally known by his ring name Cesaro. Antonio Cesaro won the WWE US championship in 2012. Casero is also a 5-time tag team champion in WWE(Raw) with his partner Sheamus and Tyson Kid.\nBest known for his emphasis on European origin gimmick style and superior intellect in the ring. Cesaro has also appeared in a Hollywood movie The Wrestler (2008) which got a number of Oscar nominations. Cesaro is in a relationship with his girlfriend Sara Del Rey since 2011.\nCesaro Early Years\nBorn in Lucerne, Switzerland on 27th December 1980. Cesaro is Christian and a white European. He was strong and sporty from the early young age. Cesaro grew up following sports like tennis, soccer, and basketball which he is still found to be following.\nIt was in his late teens when he developed an interest in professional wrestling. In the initial days, he started training and participating in wrestling mainly in Switzerland and Germany.\nHe made his debut in 2000 at the German based-Westside Xtreme Wrestling. He used Japanese gimmick along with wrestler Ares and they were together known as Swiss Money Holding.\nHe also traveled to Europe and was trained by Dave Tyler. Soon after he got back in Switzerland, Cesaro was invited to the USA for wrestling.\nIt is US green card lottery that brought him into the United States. He got lucky on his first try. He then quit the job back home and permanently moved to the US to pursue a career in wrestling in 2004.\nAfter getting settled in the USA, Cesaro completely devoted his life to wrestling. He made regular appearances for Ring of Honor and Chikara.\nCesaro Career\nIn 2003, Cesaro and Ares made their Chikara debut at Tag World Grand Prix. He then got a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE got impressed with his backstage appearance on RAW. Cesaro returned back to Chikara in 2007 as a masked character \u201c A Very Mysterious Ice Cream\u201d.\nDuring Cesaro debut appearance on Ring Of Honor in 2005 he feuded with Nigel McGuinness the Pure Champion. But he couldn't challenge for the title as long as Nigel was the champion. For the pursuit of ROH World Championship Castagnoli left Kings of Wrestling in 2007.\nCasero succeeded in the single title in Ring of Honor in 2007 winning Race to Top Tournament. Cesaro defeated Hallowicked, Mike Quackenbush and Jack Evans paving his road to the final. Again, Cesaro got one of his biggest victory in ROH pinning Bryan Danielson in 2008.\nIn 2008 Cesaro and Brodie Lee started a new feud. Cesaro defeated Lee in the first Chikara steel cage wrestling and the won seven-on-seven face-off between Chikara Wrestlers and Big Japan Pro Wrestlers. In 2009, Castagnoli entered King of Trios with Dave Tyler and Bryan. The team succeed to reacht he final but eventually got defeated by F.I.S.T.\nCesaro back in 2006, for the first time, entered Battle of Los Angeles Tournament and again got eliminated in the first round. After his four years in the tournament, he couldn't make major wins.\nFrom 2008 to 2011 Cesaro also got involved with Pro Wrestling Noah.\nIn 2011, Cesaro got signed with WWE. He performed in Florida Championship Wrestling for a year. He teamed up with Michael McGillicutty but faced several losses. He then made his WWE Television debut and defeated Santino Marella to win his first singles title in 2012.\nOn April 2013 he lost his championship to Kofi Kingston and started a feud with Sami Zayn in NXT. Again in 2014, he created a new duo named The Real Americans with Jack Swagger. The Real Americans competed with many tag teams but couldn't get much success.\nCesaro also won the Best John Cena US Open in 2015. Presently, he is teaming up with Sheamus on Smackdown.\nCesaro Titles and Championship\nHe is double Tag World Grand Prix champion with Arik Cannon and Chris Hero in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Cesaro is a one-time PWG World Champion. In 2014, Cesaro was ranked 13 by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.\nCesaro is undisputed one-time British tag team champion with Ares. He conquered the Ring of Honor two times winning ROH World Tag Team Championship with Chris Hero. Cesaro won multiple titles in WWE. He won the WWE Tag Team championship for 5 times, one time with Tyson Kidd and four times with Sheamus. He is also a one time winner of WWE United States Championship.\nIn 2014, he received the inaugural Andre The Giant Memorial Trophy. While in 2015, he received Slammy Award-winning Best John Cena US Open Challenge. He is regularly noted as Most Underrated Wrestler by Wrestling Observer Newsletter.\nCesaro Net Worth\nCesaro has won several awards and achievements. He is also among the richest wrestlers and earns a lot of his income from winning bonuses.\nThe current winning bonus is $90,000. Cesaro also has been making good cash from his appearance in different tv shows and films. The median professional wrestler makes about $500,000 a year and Casero certainly earns more than it.\nTherefore, Cesaro posses good net worth of $1.5 million. Till now Cesaro is confirmed to earn, $68,750 a year from the sponsorships alone. Cesaro has gradually increased his income considering his net worth in the previous year.\nIn 2013, he earned approximately $810,811 while in 2015 he earned nearly $1,000,000.\nCesaro Personal Life\nCesaro and Sara Del Rey are in relationships since 2011. Till now the couple has maintained a good relationship. There have been no rumors about their fights and breakups. Sara is also in the wrestling field. She is a retired professional wrestler and also a trainer.\nAntonio Cesaro has different hobbies including gym training and playing videos games. He is also a movie freak. He says his favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Emma Stone. The duo is often seen regularly appearing is various movie premiers.\nHe also has a brief appearance in 2008 wrestler drama film The Wrestler. He was also seen regularly appearing on The JBL and Cole Show, a WWE web series. Video game lover, Cesaro has also made his video game debut in WWE\u201913.\nHe also had a short appearance on Total Divas from 2013-2017 with other WWE superstars.\n#antonio cesaro\n#castagnoli", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/2010/04/07/solar-impulse/?geo=GB&utm_campaign=mash-prod-nav-geo&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=onsite", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XPY6E4RBX24XVK4ZNH57KPIMHV5HC4DM", "length": 1575, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "Aircraft Completes First Solar-Powered Flight [VIDEO]", "raw_content": "Aircraft Completes First Solar-Powered Flight [VIDEO]\nIn 2012 a solar aircraft known as HB-SIA will attempt to fly around the world on solar power alone. Today that aircraft's prototype \u2014 commonly referred to as Solar Impulse \u2014 completed its inaugural flight in 87 minutes.\nWired reports that Solar Impulse reached heights of 4,000 feet above land, its 12,000 solar cells fueling the journey. Today's landmark solar excursion was seven years in the making, but it's just the first run in a series of trials that will determine the project's ultimate success.\nThe solar flying machine is said to weigh 3,500 pounds during flight, possess a wingspan of 208 feet and cruise in-air at speeds between 40 and 45 mph.\nAfter further testing, the Solar Impulse team says they hope to begin night testing later this year. \"During those flights,\" the report says, \"the team will examine the viability of the schedule they plan to use for the around-the-world flight. The plan is to climb to higher altitudes during the day, and trade that altitude for airspeed, supplemented with battery power, to continue flying during the night. They expect to fly 36-hour shifts.\"\nWhile the ultimate goal is fairly lofty \u2014 to fly autonomously around the world via solar power \u2014 the team behind the Solar Impulse project has certainly made a commendable step today.\nCheck out the take-off video below. For more information, follow the team's ambitious journey or support their cause via their Facebook Group.\n[img credit: Solar Impulse on Facebook]\nTopics: Travel, Gadgets, solar, solar impulse, Tech", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/2012/02/10/blue-ivy-photos-tumblr-beyonce-jay-z/?geo=AU&utm_campaign=mash-prod-nav-geo&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=onsite", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RE7YPUFXZXWAJ453ENKVAHH2BDXZ75QZ", "length": 3369, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "First Photos of Blue Ivy Carter Emerge on Tumblr [PICS]", "raw_content": "First Photos of Beyonce's and Jay-Z's Baby Emerge on Tumblr [PICS]\nBeyonce and Jay-Z Use Tumblr to Release First Photos of Blue Ivy\nBlue Ivy Carter on Tumblr\nMore than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr blog titled \"HelloBlueIvyCarter\" popped up on Friday night, displaying five photos of the baby.\nBlue Ivy was born sometime on Jan. 7. The text on the new Tumblr blog reads, \"We welcome you to share in our joy. Thank you for respecting our privacy during this this beautiful time in our lives. The Carter Family.\"\nShe is reportedly named after two album titles: Jay-Z's The Blueprint and Beyonce's 4, which is IV in Roman numerals.\nMore than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr blog titled \"HelloBlueIvyCarter\" popped up on Friday night, displaying five photographs of the baby.\nShe is reportedly named after two album titles: Jay-Z's The Blueprint and Beyonce's 4, which is IV in Roman numerals. Tumblr could not be reached for comment by press time.\nThe photos likely will spark significant traffic on Tumblr, which after an explosive 2011 started this year by revealing impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform's continue growth: 15 billion monthly pageviews and 120 million monthly unique visitors.\nSEE ALSO: Tumblr Numbers \u2014 The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging [INFOGRAPHIC]\nTumblr launched in 2007 and wants to give a \"much more deliberate international effort\" in reaching the audience outside of the U.S. in 2012.\nBONUS: Blue Ivy's Brief History So Far\nTwo days after Blue Ivy was born, her parents revealed an audio recording of the infant for the first time. The Jay-Z song \"Glory\" (listen below) features Blue Ivy at the end of the track after the proud poppa raps, \"Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real. Baby, I paint the sky blue. My greatest creation was you.\" Jay-Z announced the song Jan. 9 via a tweet, which includes a link to the track on his web site Life + Times.\nBlue Ivy made a name for herself before she even had a name or was born. At the end of a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce confirmed her pregnancy by dropping her mic, unbuttoning her top and rubbing her baby bump. The \"bump\" moment broke Twitter's tweets-per-second record at the time with 8,868 tweets per second. (Four unrelated events have since surpassed the \"bump\" in the record books.)\nSEE ALSO: The Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Records\nWhile the weekend birth didn't reach the buzz level the bump did at the VMAs, Twitter did experience a significant spike. Social analytics firm Simply Measured told Mashable in January that tweets per minute peaked at 2,379 tweets at 11:15 p.m. PT on Jan. 7, which is a \"healthy number for a non-televised, rumor driven event.\" The chart below shows the rise in the mentions of \"baby,\" \"Blue\" and \"birth.\"\nHip hop pioneer Russell Simmons was the first celebrity to congratulate Beyonce and Jay-Z via a tweet, according to Simply Measured. Other big-name Twitter users followed suit. Here is a list of some of the most-followed Twitter users who mentioned \"Beyonce\" during the time period measured above.\nTopics: Beyonc\u00e9, blogging, Celebrities, Entertainment, JAY-Z, Music, Photography, Tumblr", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 8138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/is-urine-incontinence-normal-for-women", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GOQ75WIDAAXBUZZWGGFRR5HFIQDHMA6Q", "length": 5757, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mayoclinichealthsystem.org", "title": "Is urine incontinence normal for women? - Mayo Clinic Health System", "raw_content": "Tarek Khalife, M.D.\nEctopic pregnancy: Signs, treatment and future fertility\nVulvar health: Pay attention, speak up\nIs urine incontinence normal for women?\nUrine incontinence, or the involuntary leakage of urine, is a common symptom that affects 1 in 4 women. Prevalence of this problem increases with age, as up to 75 percent of women above age 65 report urine leakage. A woman\u2019s physical, social and psychological well-being is adversely impacted. Quality of life at home and in the workplace may deteriorate.\nDespite being a common problem, only 45 percent of women who experience weekly urine incontinence episodes discuss the problem with their providers. Some women may find it too embarrassing to discuss symptoms, while others may think it is normal for them to experience incontinence after childbirth or with aging.\nUrine incontinence is not a singular issue; rather, it is caused by several factors. A myriad of factors often coexist, and increase the severity of symptoms and complexity of treatment.\nThe two most common types of urine incontinence are stress incontinence and urge incontinence. A combination of both also can occur and is called mixed incontinence.\nStress incontinence is involuntary urine leakage in relationship to physical activities, such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, jumping or even walking. The term \"stress\" is used to define this type of incontinence because the stress exerted on the bladder and bladder neck by increased abdominal pressure results in failure of the weakened continence mechanisms and causes urine leakage. Women with this type of incontinence tend to disengage from favorite sports or recreational activities and try to adapt to a less-active lifestyle.\nTREATMENT OPTIONS FOR STRESS INCONTINENCE\nWomen with stress incontinence issues most often will first be referred to a physical therapist who specializes in women\u2019s health. The therapist will coach on how to conduct Kegel exercises to strengthen pelvic floor muscles to work more effectively and efficiently. Should that strategy fail to improve symptoms after six months, the next step is to consider other treatment options.\nOther nonsurgical treatments include an intravaginal pessary. A pessary is a silicone-based device that is fitted to the vagina and inserted by a provider in the clinic. Different types of pessaries are used for different pelvic floor problems, such as urine incontinence and uterovaginal prolapse, with different shapes and sizes to fulfill the function and maintain patient comfort. The knob present in incontinence ring pessaries exert external pressure on the urethra to overcome the stress pressure imposed by daily activities. The therapeutic effect is immediate and reversible upon removal of the device.\nSurgical options are available when other therapies fail. The most commonly utilized surgical procedure with a high success rate is the midurethral sling. The sling procedure utilizes a synthetic mesh material that is positioned to replace the damaged fibromuscular sling support under the midsegment of the urethra and re-establishes the continence mechanism. The procedure carries an 85 to 95 percent success rate with mesh complications reported at 3 percent. The sling procedure is considered minor surgery. Patients often are discharged home the same day with minor limitations.\nEven though stress incontinence is distressing, urge incontinence usually elicits higher distress scores to women who experience it. Urge incontinence is defined as the compelling sudden urge to void that cannot be delayed or postponed and results in urine leakage. This type of incontinence does impose more restrictions on a woman's lifestyle. Women tend to practice toilet mapping strategies, and limit outings and social activities because of the fear of social embarrassment.\nThis type of incontinence usually is caused by the inability of the bladder to allow pressure-free storage of urine under normal bladder capacity. The bladder tends to contract and increase pressure that results in the strong urge to void and often is associated with urine loss. Risk factors for this dysfunctional neuronal functionality usually are related to neuropathy, such as diabetes or multiple sclerosis, menopausal symptoms or some type of brain injury that alters the bladder inhibitory pathways.\nTREATMENT OPTIONS FOR URGE INCONTINENCE\nTreatments for this type of condition also should address the underlying cause, such as better diabetic control; weight loss; or altering the lifestyle with limitation of bladder irritants, such as caffeine and carbonated beverages.\nMedications that relax bladder muscles are commonly used as first-line therapeutic options. The most commonly reported side effects include dry mouth, constipation and low blood pressure. Recently, bladder muscle Botox injections are being used in patients who have severe symptoms. Injections offer reasonable improvements in symptoms for six months with common side effects being related to urine retention or frequent urinary tract infections.\nSacral nerve root modulation \u2014 the surgical implantation of a device that helps modulate the neuronal circuitry to render the bladder more receptive to urine with decreased urgency symptoms \u2014 is a viable option for women with severe symptoms, especially those who do not respond to conventional first- and second-line treatments.\nAlthough urine incontinence is common, it is not normal. Therefore, appropriate evaluation is necessary to determine the type and cause of this problem. Treatment options are available to help women optimize quality of life. Discussing the issue with a health care provider is the first and most important step to consider.\nTarek Khalife, M.D., is an OB-GYN in Mankato, Minnesota.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 7308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mba-zurich.com/2011/09/20/hewlett-packard-how-smart-is-it-to-give-up-the-pc-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WR5HIJA6NKEXVSMWQM6NR7SLGA337HTB", "length": 5391, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "mba-zurich.com", "title": "Hewlett Packard: How smart is it to give up the PC business? \u2013 Zurich Institute of Business Education", "raw_content": "On 20. September 2011 20. September 2011 By Zurich Institute of Business Education, CEIBS Zurich CampusIn Advanced Management Modules, Allgemein, Faculty\nDr. Peter Otto is a faculty member of the Lorange Institute, commenting on the recently announced exit strategy of Hewlett Packard.\n1. HP announced its exit strategy, giving up the PC business. How smart is it, to give up tablet computers and smart phones?\nIn Jerry Porras\u2019 and Jim Collins\u2019 book \u2018Built to Last\u2019, a philosophical blueprint of what makes great companies, they coined the term \u2018preserving the core while stimulating progress\u2019. HP started out as a focused company and over the years became a highly diversified enterprise doing many things at the same time. And now HP is going back to become a focused company, following in the footsteps of IBM and shifts its attentions on enterprise applications and value added services, which will enable the company to have a more differentiated market approach.\nThe PC market is highly saturated and only a few companies managed to differentiate their products to provide a value proposition for customers. I remember a discussion with Rod Canion, one of the co-founders of Compaq Computers in Houston, who, back in the early 90\u2019 already realized that \u2018a box is a box is a box\u2019 and thus pushed to establish a strong brand image for Compaq. But over the years, all PC manufacturers invested in building their brands in what became a low margin market.\nGiving up the tablet and PC business, enables HP to focus on value-added services, such as IT outsourcing and the enterprise software market, with the acquisition of the British enterprise software company Autonomy for $10.24 billion. The PC and tablet computer business is a high volume low margin commodity market, as opposed to the enterprise software and IT service market, where companies such as Oracle, SAP, or IBM realize healthy profit margins. HP is refocusing its business strategy to compete in this high margin market and as such it seems to be a smart move to give up the PC business. The new CEO of HP, Leo Apotheker, a former top executive of German business software giant SAP, understands the enterprise software market and can navigate HP into the right position to compete against the key-players in this field, e.g. Oracle or IBM.\n2. HP made one third of its turnover in the PC business. How should HP presumably compensate this loss of substantial income?\nThe market for enterprise applications and IT services (e.g. cloud-based computing or software as a service) is growing steadily, as companies\u2019 need, more than ever, applications to manage the glut of data to keep track on customers and markets. The acquisition of the software company Autonomy will enable HP to capitalize on the higher value business solutions that will help companies to manage the explosion of data they collect on a daily base.\n3. If the PC market is in a downturn, who would buy HP\u2019s PC business?\nGiven the fact that the PC market is a high volume and low margin business, it is foreseeable that a potential buyer for HP\u2019s PC business will come from Far East. It could be one of the OEM manufacturers, for example ASUS, which is well positioned to absorb such a take-over. Alternatively, a smart phone manufacturer, like HTC, could buy HP\u2019s PC business to extend its line of products.\n4. HP\u2019s is now focusing on software solutions and services. The right step to a bright future?\nThe market for cloud applications is going to increase from about $41 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020, according to new estimates from the research firm Forrester. And by 2015, managed application services are predicted to grow at a CAGR of 26.2 per cent. HP will be well positioned in both of these markets, first with Autonomy, the British software company, which HP acquired and with an already strong presence of HP in the managed application and IT service sector. It was for IBM the right step to get out of the PC market so I predict HP will be equally successful in shifting the focus to software solutions and services.\nDr. Peter OTTO, M.B.A, Ph.D.\nThe former managing director of Ogilvy Healthcare Switzerland is now managing partner of the \u201eIntelligence Performance Group Inc.\u201c Albany New York, a business strategy consulting firm with offices in Zurich, Switzerland. He earned a Ph.D. in information science and systems at the State University New York and is currently teaching at the Union Graduate College, School of Management and at the IESEG School of Management, Lille Catholic University, France.\nVisiting Professor, Lorange Institute of Business Zurich\nAssociate Professor, School of Management, Union Graduate College, Schenectady, New York\nContact: ottop@uniongraduatecollege.edu\nHewlett PackardLeo ApothekerPCPeter OttoSocial Media and Online CollaborationTablet Computer\n4 thoughts on \u201cHewlett Packard: How smart is it to give up the PC business?\u201d\nVery interesting perpsectives here.\nWho could have foretold that Leo Apotheker would not see the first day of his innovative concept? But is Meg Whitman really the right CEO during this crisis? International commentaries doubt her qualities. Alas, we will see.\nSo how long will it take HP to generate $10.24B in net profits just to break even with buying Autonomy? What else could it have done with that $10B?\nPingback: Why am I excited about the first quarter? | Lorange", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mdcriminalattorney.net/district-heights-criminal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:VYV2I575YQSVZQUMHSMRHMOJ73YN7RBO", "length": 2196, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mdcriminalattorney.net", "title": "District Heights Criminal Lawyer | Criminal Defense Counsel", "raw_content": "District Heights Criminal Defense Attorney\nDistrict Heights criminal lawyers understand the stress and frustration that goes with criminal charges because they have represented numerous people in similar situations. Not only are you facing possible prison time, but criminal charges can cause you to lose your job and even the support of friends and family. When you find yourself in a situation like this, you need a District Heights criminal defense attorney on your side.\nBenefits of a District Heights Criminal Lawyer\nA criminal defense attorney in District Heights can help protect the rights of their clients and seek out the most positive resolution possible on their cases. They are there to have the back of the accused throughout the criminal justice process. When you are arrested and charged with a crime, whether it\u2019s a misdemeanor or a felony, you can be made to feel like a criminal long before you have your day in court. But, when you invoke your right to hire a District Heights criminal lawyer, you can have someone on your side long before you go to court to face your charges.\nDistrict Heights Criminal Laws and Penalties\nThere are countless different scenarios that could have led to your arrest. Similarly, there are countless different defense strategies that could be employed to help minimize the potential effects of these charges on your life. District Heights criminal lawyer understands the stakes are high and know that, to the defendant, a misdemeanor charge is potentially as damaging as a felony. We stand ready to help you whether you are accused of a criminal charge, including but not limited to:\nFrom negotiating a plea agreement with the prosecution in an effort to reduce your sentence, or challenging the evidence against you in an effort to have the charges dropped, your attorney will work tirelessly in pursuit of the most positive outcome possible in your case.\nContact a District Heights Criminal Lawyer\nThe stakes are high when you are accused of a crime. Contact us today to discuss the details of your case and what can be done to minimize the impact of these charges on your life. Learn more about the services we offer in Prince George\u2019s County.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 3977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://meaws.com/dame-angela-lansbury-opens-up-about-her-first-marriage-to-a-gay-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2KYJCRL4ODDMQVPHS5PBHJEVQANAQQIP", "length": 1532, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "meaws.com", "title": "Dame Angela Lansbury Opens Up About Her First Marriage To A Gay Man | Meaws - Gay Site providing cool gay stories and articles", "raw_content": "Home Gay Life Dame Angela Lansbury Opens Up About Her First Marriage To A Gay...\nDame Angela Lansbury Opens Up About Her First Marriage To A Gay Man\nDame Angela Lansbury talked to Radio Times about her first marriage to Richard Cromwell (who eventually came out as gay).\nLansbury married Cromwell in 1945 when she was 19 and he was 35, but the marriage only lasted a year. After that however, the two remained good friends, Cromwell even befriended Lansbury\u2019s next husband Peter Shaw, until Cromwell\u2019s death in 1960.\nIn her interview to Radio Times, Lansbury confesses that she \u201chad no idea that [she] was marrying a gay man.\u201d\n\u201cI found him such an attractive individual.\u201d\n\u201cHe wanted to marry, he was fascinated with me, but only because of what he had seen on the screen, really.\u201d\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t injure or damage me in any way, because he maintained a friendship with me and my future husband.\u201d\nShe added: \u201cBut it was a shock to me when it ended, I wasn\u2019t prepared for that. It was just a terrible error I made as a very young woman. But I don\u2019t regret it.\u201d\nIt would be remiss of us to not mention that most are talking about the second half of her interview where the famous actress shared her views on the ever going \u201cMe Too\u201d saga.\nThe star says when it comes to sexual harassment and abuse claims:\n\u201cThere are two sides to this coin. We have to own up to the fact that women, since time immemorial, have gone out of their way to make themselves attractive.\u201d\n\u201cAnd unfortunately it has backfired on us \u2013 and this is where we are today.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 198.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medialogicdubai.com/plugins/onone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XVVBH5KKGCWA567VSICHKRAX4UAWWRY7", "length": 355, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "medialogicdubai.com", "title": "onOne | Medialogic Dubai - Technology Integrator For Creative Industries", "raw_content": "onOne\tMedialogic\t2015-03-09T22:56:55+00:00\nThe onOne Software team has a passion for two things\u2014building simple yet powerful software and taking care of our customers. Our goal is to build tools that save time and money for everyone who loves photography, allowing them to create the images they want and get back to what they really love to do: go shoot!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 1610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@LetMicahDown/notes-on-star-wars-the-force-awakens-pt-1-6195ed0fedf3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:BQVP2RZAL32YQJYHXSFT7ZSBQUFOMNDC", "length": 8867, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "medium.com", "title": "Notes on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Pt. 1 \u2013 Micah Akuezue \u2013 Medium", "raw_content": "Notes on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Pt. 1\nSome reflections on a galaxy far, far away\nMicah Akuezue\nThe following is an edited collection of thoughts about Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, from December 2015, which turned into a longer piece about the franchise. This is part 1 of 2.\nWhen I was 8 years old, in the spring of 1997, my mother took me to see the theatrical re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy. I was immediately captivated by the series and its vast, diverse galaxy. After my introduction to the series, I watched the original trilogy on VHS tapes often enough to wear out the film and, too impatient for the prequels, delved deeper into the expanded universe material. The video games, the novels, even the encyclopedia-like \u201cEssential Guides\u201d to planets and moons, vehicles and vessels, weapons and technology, or the whole chronology itself, were all critical for my understanding of the fullness and totality of the Star Wars universe and how expansive it is.\nBetween the novels I pored through, the video games I played, and even the fan fiction I wrote in the middle of my 8th grade science classes, I gained an appreciation of how deep and broad the world is\u200a\u2014\u200aboth that within Star Wars, and our own world outside of the theatre. Star Wars represents a framework for how large, diverse, and thus completely in motion a world can be. It is a lesson in the idea that political violence, conflict, contestation, strife, in all aspects and forms, are often never ending and almost never as black and white as, ironically enough, a children\u2019s sci-fi movie might have you believe. \u201cBringing balance to the Force,\u201d as the all-important prophesy goes, does not necessarily mean that the light side always subjugates the dark, nor does it guarantee that notions of good and evil will remain constant.\nThis plays out among the vast array of characters, groups, spaces, places, and events, all of which is as broad and diverse as the moral spectrum that weaves through the galaxy\u2019s complicated tapestry. Vader\u2019s rise at the end of Revenge of the Sith and Anakin\u2019s eventual redemption at the end of Return of the Jedi are central, but not sole, examples of this. And though this trajectory represents the central subplot of the first six films in the series, I wonder about what we might be missing from the series\u2019s perspective on the Galactic Civil War between the Rebellion and the Empire. Out of those conflicts, our perspective is primarily occupied with the Skywalker saga, obscuring many of the other conflicts and repercussions throughout the universe, some of which we are privy to, but others which happen off-camera\u200a\u2014\u200abut must happen, if what we see is any indication.\nA New Hope provides many examples of very clearly manifest violence: the Stormtrooper massacre of the Jawas, the gruesome murder of Aunt Beru and Uncle Lars, the Death Star\u2019s obliteration of Alderaaan, or the Rebel Alliance\u2019s destruction of the Death Star? These instances of violence all happen within the perspective of the film, but we are not allowed much room to think about them. But Star Wars is deep enough that we have room to ask about the instances of violence are we not cognizant of. What kind of violent force is necessary to conscript civilians into the Imperial Army, who then go on to destroy Luke Skywalker\u2019s (adoptive) family? What of the violence behind the material harvesting and labor that makes a Death Star possible? These questions about violence, about force, are every bit as important for understanding the greater Star Wars universe as coming to terms with how the Force operates within that universe, whether through the Skywalkers or otherwise.\nI went into my second and third theatrical viewings of The Force Awakens with these questions in mind. Given director J.J. Abrams\u2019s intentions with the latest entry into the saga, Star Wars\u2019s discourse on violence is glaringly apparent, and if any of Episode VII is remotely familiar, it\u2019s with very good reason: this is a concerted effort to cleanse the even the most causal Star Wars fan\u2019s palette of the prequels (Jar Jar, specifically), and recall the best moments from A New Hope\u200a\u2014\u200a\u201cto make things right again.\u201d Three decades after the destuction of the second Death Star over the forrest moon of Endor, the First Order, arisen from the ashes of the Galactic Empire, seeks to eliminate the fledgling New Republic. The Resistance, with New Republic backing and under the leadership of General Leia Organa, defends against the First Order, while also racing against Supreme Leader Snoke and his protege Kylo Ren to find Luke Skywalker, who disappeared after the events of Return of the Jedi. Upon and throughout our return to an otherwise long-running struggle in the aftermath of the Empire, we\u2019re treated to very obvious visual cues, plot points, and signature moments reminiscent of our first introductions to all those familiar characters and locations in A New Hope.\nPerhaps the most obvious is Starkiller Base, essentially an extra large Death Star carved out of an cold-climate planet that is not Hoth. Later on, the First Order fires the superlaser at a number of planets, killing a large number of New Republic member planets. This sequence of destruction expands on the massacre of Alderaan, destroyed under observation of Grand Moff Tarkin (a scene nearly repeated in 2016\u2019s anthology entry, Rogue One). Beyond what is already a large amount of violence in this one scene, what is most striking about Starkiller Base is its name. While the intent is to remind the audience of its genealogy as a super-weapon, it also has its differences. We can take its name literally: in order to generate the energy necessary to do what it does, it siphons energy from a nearby star, draining it of fuel, thereby destroying it. Aside from the super-laser itself, one can imagine the amount of death that would be attached to draining a star of all its life-giving energy. This is before one considers the terraforming required to transform a whole planet into a weapon, which may, in part, explain the frozen climate. The death toll is catastrophic, and though we\u2019re not necessarily asked to count every life spent in the name of the First Order, the New Republic, or the Empire, we may at least consider how the film portrays that violence which is complicated by being uncountable.\nStar Wars tends to belie its own surface-level, simplified versions of good and evil (Elizabethan Manichaeism) throughout the series with these very complications. Returning to my earlier days of the Star Wars expanded universe material, Star Wars: Tie Fighter was the first experience where I questioned my assumptions about who represented the right side of history in the Star Wars universe. Playing as a TIE fighter pilot fighting to restore order to the galaxy was a completely different experience from what I had expected from watching the films. It was alineating, at first, playing the game from the perspective of the Empire after experiencing the conflict from the perspective of Rebels. I only later understood the mental refiguring that came with playing the \u201cvillain\u201d and not as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, or Han Solo\u2026 or Dash Rendar. As a young kid, I couldn\u2019t fathom a perspective which viewed the Rebel Alliance as any kind of villainous entity, but recalling TIE Fighter now adds further complexity to my questions about violence in Star Wars: how does the series present violent conflict, and what happens to those instances when the perspectives and paradigms of war change? What happens after the Old Republic? After the Empire? Where do the next evils come from?\nI would argue that one of Star Wars\u2019s lessons, aside from the various permutations of violence and conflcit natural to a government reminiscent to a \u201cdemocratic society\u201d is that there is no \u201cnext\u201d evil. Here, violence begets violence, takes many forms, and is always constant. Though most of the older Extended Universe material has been thrown out with Disney\u2019s 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm, much of what has been left had previously been established, although in different forms. The Imperial Remnant eventually becomes the First Order of Supreme Leader Snoke and Kylo Ren\u2019s, while the New Republic exists, with a proxy in the Resistance to combat the First Order. The galactic political dynamics have changed, to an extent, but there is no less strife in the galaxy than there was before the death of Palpatine and Anakin\u2019s redemption. Mapped against Disney\u2019s and Abram\u2019s nostalgic reboot of the franchise, the questions about violence we see from the original trilogy, as well as the prequels, reappear here, too.\nStudent, writer, teacher, Star Wars fan, pizza fanatic, chili connoisseur\nNever miss a story from Micah Akuezue, when you sign up for Medium. Learn more\nNever miss a story from Micah Akuezue", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 9234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://megatokyo.com/strip/872", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KOEGEREWEPJ7BQGZF4HGKXCT2DJJ4WC2", "length": 3023, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "megatokyo.com", "title": "MegaTokyo - [872] regrets", "raw_content": "\"Der Wille zur Walkure\"\nWell, now that the NBA Finals are over, I have a little time after the World Cup in the mornings and work--which, to be honest, have often been one and the same. It's nice working at an international company. The Germans are pretty much taking the month off, the platform team in London is also leaving work early, and over here we're having working lunches in the cafeteria glued to the projector.\nRelated story: for the first few games of the World Cup, there was a company party at the Gordon Biersch restaurant/bar for some rowdy drinking and cheering on Germany. The party started at 8 AM. I may like soccer more than your average American (that is to say, I like watching soccer more than I like auto-asphyxiation), but I don't like it THAT much to start getting my drink on before many people have even thought about coffee\nBut this rant isn't about sports, really, it's about some other Boy vices of mine: action figures and video game.\nYou see, one of the only reasons I ever touched a PS2 was to play Valkyrie Profile, along with a couple of installments of Dynasty Warriors and random Japanese games. Valkyrie Profile appealed to me on a billion geeky levels--for one thing, its very loose basing in Norse mythology perked my ears, as I got to play around as a valkyrie in the service of Odin. For another, it was entirely unique in that it was the only game I've ever played in which every character dies before they join you. There's a certain fascination with watching every recruited character shuffle off their mortal coil before you harvest their (usually) noble soul for your personal use. And what kept me playing was the variety, since the dungeons were set up like platformers instead of your typical RPG maze and the combat system had dial-a-combo fighting game sensibilities that I spent hours just playing around with launchers and finishers.\nSo it's no surprise that I'm drooling in anticipation of the second game, which came out on the 22nd in Japan (AKA today). But given my most recent obsession, figures, I didn't stop myself at just buying the game. No sir.\nSee, the Japanese being evil and shrewd as they are, there's a super-duper-ultra-limited edition of Valkyrie Profile 2, which comes with, among other things:\n1) Two artbooks (I love VP's art style, it's refreshingly nonstandard)\n2) Two soundtracks\n3) A ring (sadly, not Der Ring des Nibelungen)\n4) An absolutely gorgeous figure of Silmeria (check it out here\nSo when I found out about it, I tried to pre-order it. But wait! It's so limited, that the preorders were already gone by the time I got around to it a few months ago.\nSo what's going on? Well, right this moment, Asmodeus is wandering Akihabara camping the spawns of several video game stores, trying to shake them down for the artifact box. Should he fail, I'll most likely end up massively overpaying for the thing.\nI hate you, Japan, why must you torment me so with your shwag? Things were so much cheaper when I just bought DVDs and video games...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 8474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://megrellc.com/krasnolesye-family-homestead-settlement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VEC3JKXUPHJVT67KZPE53QWKSWUDD3ZV", "length": 1508, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "megrellc.com", "title": "Krasnolesye Family Homestead Settlement \u2014 Blog MegreLLCKrasnolesye Family Homestead Settlement \u2014 Blog MegreLLC", "raw_content": "Krasnolesye Family Homestead Settlement\nWe are located on the 200 hectares of fields in the foothills of Chatyr-Dag on the lower plateau between the villages of Dobroe and Krasnoles\u2019e, near Simferopol city. The settlement consists of several parts: Krasnolesye group, Svetloe group.\nThe settlement was born on April 11th, 2004 \u2014 3 plots of land were registered on this day. At this stage of the settlement development, Krasnolesye family homesteads group consists of 20 families, 9 families residing in their family homesteads.\nEach of us has come to the settlement inspired by light images of Anastasia. We create a family homestead for ourselves and our family. Of family homestead is created a settlement.\nAt the general meetings of the settlement we rejoice in the fellowship and learn to achieve full understanding and agreement on all issues. We\u2019re building houses, giving preference to natural materials. We do not use technologies that may harm the ecology of the area.\nWe respect the land, we are involved in restoration of soil fertility, we do not use chemical fertilizers, mechanical intertillage of the land and burning the grass.\nAll who are close to the family homesteads theme, wants to settle down in the land, seeking suitable sites \u2014we invite you to join us. There are vacant lands in our Krasnolesye settlement, waiting for their owners! If you are in tune with our vision, you love our Mother Earth and you are ready to interact, come to us!\nhttp://www.anastasia.ru/patrimony/5353/25905/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://merotutor.com/list/56/1/all-subjects-teachers-masters-degree-kathmandu", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:S3V7CWIN2BAOQGMXNA5IWSLMMF6SQOUR", "length": 47, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "merotutor.com", "title": "Teachers for Masters Degree in Kathmandu, Nepal | Mero Tutor", "raw_content": "Teachers for Masters Degree in Kathmandu, Nepal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 757, "original_length": 11341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metaphon.be/amm-morphogenesis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JBEDG5BIIKOAIAMF3GQ2KKS4GLQE76UX", "length": 5445, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "metaphon.be", "title": "AMM / Morphogenesis - Metaphon", "raw_content": "Morphogenesis was formed in 1985 by a group of people (Adam Bohman, Ron Briefel, Clive Graham, Clive Hall, Michael Prime, Roger Sutherland (RIP)) interested in exploring the possibilities of live electronic music and collective improvisation. The groups aim is to unify and integrate many diverse sound elements, (electronic, vocal, instrumental and environmental) within a context of continual evolution and group dialogue. In addition to using adapted or prepared conventional instruments \u2013 usually violin, piano and acoustic guitar they also construct their own instruments. The range of sounds are further extended by means of filtering and other forms of signal processing. Contact microphones are used to amplify the sounds of bubbling water and other small sounds. All these acoustic sounds are enhanced by electronic filtering etc. The group also uses a bioactivity translator developed by Michael Prime which is used to measure the voltage potential of living organisms \u2013 including plants, fungi, and the human nervous system \u2013 and translate the biological rhythms into electronic sound. Other electronic instruments include a 4 speed portable reel to reel tape recorder and a multi speed CD player, both of which are used to work with short sound samples. The overall effect is an adventurous voyage in an everchanging cosmos of acoustic and electronic sound treatments in the tradition of the first generation of group improvisation with live electronics like K.H. Stockhausen or MEV.\nBesides Morphogenesis most members have worked in a variety of musical activities outside of the group. Adam Bohman has participated in numerous improvised music collectives, released several solo works and teams with his brother Jonathan as the Bohman Brothers. Ron Briefel taught music technology for 20 years and was responsible for the early studio recordings. Clive Graham has worked with Nurse With Wound in the 80\u2019s and started his CD label Paradigm Discs and had a weekly radio program. Michael Prime\u2018s has been releasing his solo work on his label Mycophile since the late 80\u2019s. He has also been working with a.o. Organum, Jim \u2018O Rourke, Eddie Prevost and formed the duo Negative Entropy with Geert Feytons. Roger Sutherland was involved in Cornelius Cardew\u2019s Scratch Orchestra in the 60\u2019s, wrote numerous articles on new music and a book \u2018New Perspectives in Music\u2019 .\nwww.stalk.net/paradigm\nAMM is a British free improvisation group founded in London, 1965.\nInitially AMM was composed of Keith Rowe on guitar, Lou Gare on saxophone and Eddie Pr\u00e9vost on drums. They all had a background in the UK jazz scene and shared a common interest in exploring music beyond the boundaries of formal systems or limitations. In addition to amplifying their instruments they also used contact microphones to amplify the sounds made by various common objects.\nIn early 1966 AMM released their first album, AMMusic on Electra Records UK, a landmark recording in music history. On this album the trio was joined by members Lawrence Sheaff on cello and accordeon and by composer/ Stockhausen student Cornelius Cardew on piano, cello and transistor radio. The overall sound of the group, even in 1966, was so different, so idiosyncratic, that it\u2019s not at all surprising that both new jazz and contemporary classical audiences were baffled, if not horrified.\nTheir 2nd release \u2018The Crypt sessions\u2019 from 1968 (only released in the early 80\u2019s) , where Sheaff was replaced by percussionist Christopher Hobbs, was arguably even more important in establishing the droning, long-form music that would come to characterize AMM being further \u201cout\u201d and even less conventional than earlier material.\nNo AMM performance is ever planned; each is unique and spontaneous. The musicians vowed never to rehearse and never to discuss what they had played and tend to avoid any conventional melody, harmony or rhythm, and seek out an ensemble sound that often obscures any individual\u2019s role.\nThroughout the 70\u2019s the group was less active due to personal changes until pianist John Tilbury \u2013 previously an occasional AMM collaborator \u2013 joined in about 1980. His shimmering Feldmanesque playing brought a measure of conventionality to AMM (relatively speaking); unlike Rowe or Pr\u00e9vost, Tilbury\u2019s instrument was nearly always recognizable in conventional terms. This version of AMM generally explored quieter, more meditative sounds, perhaps having more in common with minimalism \u2014 though they could generate a cacophonous racket when so inclined.\nSince about 2000 Rowe left the group and Pr\u00e9vost and Tilbury continue to record and perform as AMM, sometimes with guests as Evan Parker, Christian Wolff or David Jackman. Most of the AMM recordings have been released on Matchless Recordings, run by Eddie Pr\u00e9vost.\nAlong with like minded formations of live improvised electr(on)ic music in Europe like MEV and Nuova Consonanza, AMM are considered as being the most radical. They have been called legendary and groundbreaking and are notable as perhaps the first musical group deliberately to try to make music not related to any established musical genre.\nAlthough not well-known to the general public they have been hugely influential on several generations of adventurous and sometimes well-known musicians including Stockhausen, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd and even the Beatles.\nTh\u00e9atre Mercelis Theater\nMercelisstraat 13 Rue Mercelis\n1050 Brussel\u2028s\nAMM Mercelis Theater Morphogenesis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 6431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2016/05/04/actor-claims-hes-the-lead-in-watch-dogs-2-5858063/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4LALCYFYWFFUUTWCQ25HNALW5T2DDPFK", "length": 1576, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "metro.co.uk", "title": "Actor Cort King claims he\u2019s the lead in Watch Dogs 2 | Metro News", "raw_content": "Actor claims he\u2019s the lead in Watch Dogs 2\nGameCentralWednesday 4 May 2016 10:04 am\nWatch Dogs 2 \u2013 or is it?\nIt looks like the sequel to Watch Dogs will have a brand new protagonist, if an actor\u2019s Instagram boasts are true.\nThe rumour used to be that Watch Dogs 2 would be out this Christmas, filling in for Assassin\u2019s Creed and moving to a new San Francisco setting. With Ubisoft themselves promising it for sometime before next April.\nBut if that is true then there\u2019s been surprising lack of leaks or rumours since then. And even if it is unveiled at E3, releasing it just a few months later would be highly unusual for a company like Ubisoft.\nWe\u2019ve still no idea if that is what will happen, but the self-explanatory @Nerd_Leaks have discovered an Instagram post from last month that seems to be from the lead actor.\nCort King doesn\u2019t seem to have much experience as an actor, according to his IMDB profile, and it\u2019s not clear whether he\u2019s implying he was the voice actor as well as the motion capture actor.\nBut he did post the image above, before quickly taking it down once he realised that everyone could see it (why is that always such a surprise to people on the Internet?).\nAs you can see, he certainly seems to be dressed the part, but as we always warn: actors usually prove extremely unreliable sources for their own games and often get confused as to their exact role and even the nature of the game itself.\nStill, we\u2019ll be willing to bet that Watch Dogs 2 will be officially announced next month.\nWatch Dogs \u2013 can you even remember the name of the original guy?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-04-two-reports-same-law-one-redress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VGMSUNXOZ6X2EOQQUR7HFFLPIPMV3ZKP", "length": 10968, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "mg.co.za", "title": "Two reports, same law, one redress | Opinion | Analysis | M&G", "raw_content": "Two reports, same law, one redress\nThuli Madonsela 05 Jun 2015 00:00\nStanding firm: Thuli Madonsela says she will not accede to suggestions to 'let sleeping dogs lie' and wants a higher court to rule on the Nkandla matter. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)\nTwo days ago, the Daily Dispatch published an article titled MEC pays ill-gained state funds, which went pretty much unnoticed by other media. Key conversations in the media around the same time were dominated by big amounts of money, such as the R248-million state expenditure on the president\u2019s private home in Nkandla; a R120-million alleged \u201cbribe\u201d or \u201cgift\u201d, depending on which side you are on, paid or given by South Africa in connection with the country\u2019s hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup; and a R17-million golden handshake allegedly given to the outgoing national director of public prosecutions on his resignation after a stint of less than two years.\nA report, titled Permitted Benefits, led to an Eastern Cape MEC, Pemmy Majodina, paying back R15 000 in overpaid travel benefits may have missed most media, but the reaction from the public protector team was jubilant. We applauded the MEC and the province\u2019s premier for respecting the rule of law.\nWe considered the conduct exemplary with regard to public accountability and compliance with the Constitution, particularly sections 136, 181 and 182, which deal with executive ethics and the oversight role of the public protector.\nA few days earlier, my office had issued a statement warning the public and public functionaries to take another report issued by the minister of police on May 28 with a pinch of salt; the report had serious shortcomings, fatally impairing its value. The statement also announced my intention to write to the president, advising him about the report\u2019s shortcomings \u2013 we saw inaccuracies, incomplete information and innuendo \u2013 and providing him with the correct information. As I write, the public protector team is finalising that document.\nThe police minister\u2019s report comes 15 months after I submitted to the president and simultaneously released to the public a report titled Secure in Comfort, communicating my findings and appropriate remedial action on Nkandla.\nLike the Permitted Benefits report, Secure in Comfort was conducted under the Executive Members\u2019 Ethics Act and in response to alleged violations of the executive ethics code, although the latter report dealt with acts of other public functionaries and service providers whose conduct transcended the Act.\nThe finding was that the president had acted unethically by failing to intervene when it became clear, through a media report in 2009, that he might be getting upgrades to his home beyond what was permissible, and that he and his family had indeed unduly benefited from the capital injection into his property through the non-security upgrades. As redress, I requested the president to take measures to assess the cost of the non-security benefits to his home and thereafter pay a reasonable percentage thereof, and that he should be assisted in calculating this by the national treasury and the South African Police Service.\nWithin 14 days of receiving my report, the president wrote to Parliament advising that he had noted that three state agencies or institutions, including my office, had all investigated the Nkandla upgrades; he would give the matters before him full and proper consideration, including the Special Investigating Unit report. He would further provide Parliament with a report on the executive interventions he would consider appropriate.\nLater, in a report to the speaker of the National Assembly, dated August 14 2014, the president wrote the following: \u201cThe minister of police, as the designated minister under the National Key Points Act, [is] to report to Cabinet on a determination to whether the president is liable for any contribution in respect of the security upgrades having regard to the legislation, past practices, culture and findings contained in the respective reports \u2026\u201d.\nI wrote two letters to the president, pointing out that asking the minister of police to decide whether he had to pay was neither in line with the remedial action in my report nor ethically sound. The president had not commented on my report or indicated whether there was anything wrong with my findings and remedial action, as required by section 34 of the Executive Members\u2019 Ethics Act. I pointed out that this placed the minister of police in an invidious position because he serves at the behest of the president, on whom alone executive authority is conferred.\nI sent a letter with similar concerns to the speaker of the National Assembly. After debating the matter Parliament resolved, inter alia, that the police minister should determine if and how much the president had to pay. Nothing was said about the ministers I had said had to be held accountable for permitting the extension of impermissible benefits to the president and allowing an unconscionable cost escalation.\nCompare the two responses with a public protector\u2019s report, given above. Bear in mind that the law being enforced in respect of the two reports is the same, the Executive Members\u2019 Ethics Act. The principles applied in the 450-page Secure in Comfort are the same as those applied in Permitted Benefits. Key among these is the understanding that public power and resources may only be used in accordance with the law, within the confines of the authority given by that law and in the public interest.\nPublic functionaries employed by the state are entitled only to employment benefits stipulated by law and related policies. When such benefits have been overpaid or extended, redress includes paying back their value or a reasonable portion thereof. This happens all the time to public servants, and the principle was accepted by the president in previous reports such as In the Extreme and Costly Moves.\nWhy then have there been such disparate responses to similar issues involving the same law, in the same country and within the same executive? I truly have no idea.\nWhat I do know is that the response of the Eastern Cape government is consistent with both the process outlined in the Act and the general principle of accountability. My understanding is that accountability includes taking responsibility and making amends or redressing a wrong.\nIn my view, the Eastern Cape response is also in line with Nelson Mandela\u2019s words at the launch of the public protector\u2019s office: \u201cEven the most benevolent of governments have within them the propensity for human failings.\u201d Our constitutional architecture incorporates independent institutions, such as the public protector, to help the people hold the government accountable. This reasoning understands that mistakes will be made; some of these will be picked up by institutions supporting constitutional democracy, such as the public protector, and the correct response from public functionaries is to take responsibility, redress the situation and avoid a repeat.\nThe public protector cites the move by Eastern Cape MEC Pemmy Majodina to repay undue travel benefits as exemplary. (Deon Ferreira/Gallo)\nAfter the minister of police\u2019s report was released, some people tweeted that I should \u201clet sleeping dogs lie\u201d. But to do so would be an abdication of responsibility. The Constitution says the public protector has the power to investigate, report and take appropriate remedial action in response to improper or prejudicial conduct in state affairs.\nIn Public Protector vs Mail & Guardian in 2011, the Supreme Court of Appeal said the constitutional mandate gives the public protector both a power and a responsibility to support and strengthen constitutional democracy: \u201cThe office of the public protector is an important institution. It provides what will often be a last defence against bureaucratic oppression, and against corruption and malfeasance in public office that are capable of insidiously destroying the nation. If that institution falters, or finds itself undermined, the nation loses an indispensable constitutional guarantee.\u201d\nThe Public Protector Act of 1994 envisages the resolution of a dispute regarding alleged public wrongs as the end result of the public protector\u2019s actions. In my considered view, a public protector\u2019s report that is neither implemented nor successfully reviewed by a competent authority cannot amount to a resolved dispute. Our strategic plan, Public Protector Vision 2020, approved without reservation by Parliament, includes following up on the implementation of remedial action. Monthly, quarterly and annual reports are prepared on the implementation of remedial action, and its effect is included in my annual report.\nMy reading of the Constitutional Court judgment in Khumalo vs MEC for Education KwaZulu-Natal (quoted in Permitted Benefits and my statement when I issued Secure in Comfort) is that, as a public functionary, I\u2019m duty-bound to act when I see an irregularity or a real risk of one. In the case in point I state: \u201cWhen, as in this case, a responsible functionary is enlightened of a potential irregularity, section 195 lays a compelling basis for the founding of a duty on the functionary to investigate and, if need be, to correct any unlawfulness through the appropriate avenues.\u201d\nWhere to now? The Western Cape high court has said that \u201ca definitive judgment in relation to the public protector\u2019s powers and the legal effect of the remedial action taken by the public protector is critical to the effective functioning of our democracy\u201d. Our sentiments at the public protector\u2019s office are the same.\nThe uncertainty is unhealthy. Parliament itself started with ad hoc committee members saying they would not review my decisions because that would be unconstitutional, but by the end of the process some of my decisions had been reviewed \u2013 including asking the police minister to determine whether there should be payment [by the president].\nThe minister\u2019s report is seen by some as a review, though it does not deal with my report holistically. It selectively picks up some issues, criticising some out of context and making an issue of non-issues.\nSides have already being taken along party lines and the process is already flawed, so I doubt the anticipated National Assembly ad hoc committee process to deal with the minister\u2019s report will take us any further. I believe that we should accept that we\u2019ve done our best, and that the forum in which to decide which report is in line with the Constitution and the rule of law is a superior court.\nAdvocate Thuli Madonsela is the public protector\nNkandla Thuli MadonselaJacob Zuma\nOpposition MPs want Thuli's report in Nkandla review\nAnimal Farm has nothing on Nkandla briefing\nZuma continues to drag his feet on Nkandla\nNkandla: Committee tells Zuma to blame employees\nNkandla: Zuma can't give public protector blanket acceptance\nNkandla report: Madonsela 'concerned' over Zuma's response", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 13407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://miamistudent.net/miami-community-reflects-on-fiji-fire-bureau-continues-arson-investigation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BXV5CLNLGPTH652S5SWQS6P26ZHZ7G6J", "length": 3278, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "miamistudent.net", "title": "Miami community reflects on FIJI fire, bureau continues arson investigation | The Miami Student", "raw_content": "Miami community reflects on FIJI fire, bureau continues arson investigation\nMekenna Sandstrom, For The Miami Student\nWhat remains of the fraternity brothers\u2019 burnt belongings lay scattered on the floor of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity house after the fire May 25, 2013. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently visited the house to continue investigating what they believe to be a case of arson. (Mekenna Sandstorm | The Miami Student)\nLess than a year ago, May 25 2013, flames engulfed the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity house. The structure was severely damaged with a destroyed roof and lost belongings, including clothes, electronics and furniture. Despite the losses and the resulting emotional turmoil, FIJI\u2019s members have maintained a strong bond.\n\u201cWe all came together to work collectively,\u201d Andrew Bell, president of the fraternity, said. \u201cThe support we gave each other strengthened us and inspired leadership.\u201d\nBell also said recruitment this year held solid, despite the absence of a fraternity house.\n\u201cWe got a really solid pledge class with promising leadership,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThe class average is around a 3.3 GPA.\u201d\nThe cause of the fire has still not been determined. Bell said investigators still believe the fire was the result of arson. Representatives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently visited the house to analyze the damages from the fire.\n\u201cThey came in and talked to members that had stuff in the room where the fire started,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThen they took some things back to Washington and they want to re-simulate the fire to understand what could have happened.\u201d\nSince the fire in May, the university and the Interfraternity Council (IFC) have been supporting the fraternity.\n\u201cWe have worked on developing a house improvement fund, which we hope FIJI will utilize for smaller house improvements once they are moved in,\u201d IFC President Sam Crocket said in a statement. \u201cIFC has also worked to connect Fiji with other groups with vacant houses for rental possibilities, which opened the door to the Sigma Chi house.\u201d\nOn Tuesday, FIJI also hosted a fire safety presentation in collaboration with the Oxford Fire Department. Mark Johnson, a responder, discussed the importance of fire safety.\n\u201cEveryone is naturally curious about fire,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cBut it is not something to mess with.\u201d\nIn order to effectively influence the minds of the fraternity members, Johnson also brought up a house fire that occurred off-campus in 2005. Three Miami University students died in the fire.\n\u201cI\u2019ve seen too many dead bodies in my career, guys,\u201d Johnson said, holding back tears. \u201cThe human life is not replaceable.\u201d\nThe Oxford Fire Department wants to remind students of the importance of playing it safe with fire. It is imperative to follow all fire safety guidelines provided by the university, the fire department and the state, he said. The department also acknowledged how unfortunate the FIJI house fire was, but how fortunate it was at the same time.\n\u201cThe bad thing about FIJI is that the house was lost,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cBut the good thing is \u2026 no one died.\u201d\n(Mekenna Sandstorm | The Miami Student)\nPreviousAward-winning photojournalist to lecture Thursday\nNextCartoon | #GraduatingThoughts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://micahfries.com/micah-fries/and-you-think-you-like-football", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6FB2U77O7JLQHJSGECAGR52SGI5F6AS3", "length": 512, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "micahfries.com", "title": "And you think you like football \u2014 MicahFries", "raw_content": "And you think you like football\nToday marks the end of spring practice. It has been an exhilirating few weeks at Florida where my brother, Jared, will be on the sidelines for todays Orange and Blue scrimmage. Get this, they're expecting over 50,000 people to show up to watch this practice. It's unbelievable! That's what happens when you are a dominating football school in a dominant football state. I'm pumped about our upcoming season! 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The Musoni System is now used by 14 MFIs across Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.\nCameron Goldie-Scot\nAfrica - Central, Africa - East, Africa - North , Africa - South\nTo improve the lives of the unbanked through technology.\nMusoni licenses the Musoni System to MFIs around the world. The system, built upon the Mifos X platform, is a best-practice MIS hosted on the cloud, specifically aimed at MFIs and SACCOs looking to benefit from the latest technology, but at a much lower cost than traditional banking software. The Musoni System enables MFIs to easily manage their clients, loans and savings; offers a comprehensive range of portfolio and financial reports; includes its own accounting module and of course integrates with mobile money.\nMusoni has a flexible pricing structure, based on the size of the organisation, removing barriers to entry and tying Musoni\u2019s success to the long-term success of its partners.\nProduct/Solution Development on Mifos X platform (branded solutions), Custom app or module development on Mifos X platform\nThe Musoni team consists of dedicated development team supported by management. The team has extensive experience in microfinance, technology and mobile money. Alongside successfully founding the world\u2019s first 100% mobile microfinance organisation in the world (now serving more than 18,000 clients in Kenya), the team were also the first to extensively use SMS messages as payment reminders in microfinance, and pioneered the use of tablets to capture data in the field.\nIn 2009 Musoni founded the first 100% mobile microfinance organisation in the world. Since then we have processed over 1.5m M-PESA transactions, automatically sent over 1m SMS reminders, and carried out over 30,000 digital loan applications over the Musoni app. Our primary experience is linked to East African microfinance operations and on providing MFIs with the latest technology in the market.\nWe joined the Mifos Community in early 2013 at the start of the development of the MifosX platform. Since then we have worked closely with the MifosX team on the development of many of the core features of the platform and actively contributed back numerous bug fixes, improvements, and larger features including the PPI integration. In June 2013 we launched the Musoni System and now act as a technology provider to fourteen microfinance organisations across Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe.\nMusoni will continue to be a lead supporter of Mifos, directly contributing back to the ongoing development of the platform, assisting on strategy and product roadmap, and finally doing everything we can to bring the MifosX platform to hundreds of MFIs around the world.\nmusoni.png 5 years ago", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://militaryantiquesmuseum.com/documents-signs-and-plaques-bk871-set-of-stars-stripes-from-the-1960s-and-70s.16562.99.military-antiques", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:SJWTARKTZZGAL5QT2M6TZZFC2XWR4RRG", "length": 242, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "militaryantiquesmuseum.com", "title": "BK-871, Set of Stars & Stripes from the 1960s and 70s - Documents, Signs, and Plaques - Military Antiques and Museum - $39.95", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb BK-871, Set of Stars & Stripes from the 1960s and 70s\nBK-871, Set of Stars & Stripes from the 1960s and 70s\nGood condition. Subjects include, Kennedy Assasination, Death of Lyndon Johnson, End of Vietnam War, etc. All collector issues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://minesmagazine.com/9040/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2INPO4YOP3P4DFS5WQVGSOJVUNH52MMO", "length": 2337, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "minesmagazine.com", "title": "Home Sweet Hut | Mines Magazine", "raw_content": "Home Sweet Hut\nI arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, late Monday morning and immediately made my way to Arecibo Observatory. I am living on the observatory campus in one of the family units with three other students. We share a cozy wooden cabin complete with kitchenette, bathroom and in-window air conditioners. One interesting feature is that none of the windows or doors is solid. Rather, they are wooden screens that can be adjusted to let more or less light and air in. The cabin is very open to the outdoors and we fall asleep each night to the jungle ambiance featuring the enthusiastically vocal coqui\ufffdtree frog.\nI spent my first day here moving in and exploring the campus. Arecibo is situated on very coarse terrain rampant with sinkholes, hills and valleys. To return to the cabin from the offices I have a stair climb roughly equivalent to climbing Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Arecibo was chosen as the site for the world\u2019s largest single-dish radio telescope because of the terrain. The dish is located in a natural sinkhole, saving the builders the cost of excavating an area for a 1000-foot-diameter dish!\nLast weekend we traveled to Old San Juan to explore the ruins. Many of the buildings date back to the 16thcentury! During that time San Juan was an impenetrable military outpost for the Spaniards and a place to store the riches they collected throughout the colonies. We visited Castillo San Felipe del Morro, commonly known as El Morro, which was the largest military outpost for the island. This outpost was used not only in colonial times, but also during WWII as a lookout for German submarines trying to enter the Caribbean.\nI have only just begun the design process for my project. Unfortunately, the dish was built more than 50 years ago and many of the original specifications have been lost to the archives. So far, I have largely been brainstorming with fellow engineers and creating basic models of our ideas. This upcoming week is the official start of my program here and I am sure the project will advance rapidly from here on out. Until then.\nPreviousHike for Help\nNextA Festival of Nations\nBarbara Lidke\ton June 10, 2014 at 9:27 am\nWhat an amazing opportunity for learning, creating and exploring history. I never thought of Puerto Rico as being so beautiful. Will you get a chance to explore the beaches?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ministrywatch.com/ministry.php?ein=340750345", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AFSWOV2F4T4KCJ73E7JHKMIQX7VSOQJG", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ministrywatch.com", "title": "Haven of Rest Ministries, Inc. - MinistryWatch.com", "raw_content": "Haven of Rest Ministries, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 68.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mjcareers.info/cannabis-job/nurse-practitioner-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KBUHL5XNI5ZUKVG4UIBA72Y6LD7O34GV", "length": 228, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mjcareers.info", "title": "Nurse Practitioner Cannabis Jobs Toronto, ON - MedScriptter | \u00a92019 MjCareers", "raw_content": "MedScriptter\nWe are a medical cannabis telemedicine clinic that helps patients get access to the medication they need, regardless of where they live. Access to healthcare providers who are willing to authorize \u2026 Learn more [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mmainterplay.com/mma/mmapro-wrestling-superstar-bobby-lashley-to-be-part-of-gwc-british-invasion-ppv-67812/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:00Z", "digest": "sha1:72AE7WLP2VNCFUFBZKNQ3NFFEXOHDHNS", "length": 5040, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mmainterplay.com", "title": "MMA/Pro Wrestling Superstar Bobby Lashley to be part of GWC British Invasion PPV - MMA Interplay", "raw_content": "MMA/Pro Wrestling Superstar Bobby Lashley to be part of GWC British Invasion PPV\nKansas City, MO (USA): Rising mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion Global Warrior Challenge (GWC) is excited to announce that MMA/pro wrestling superstar Bobby Lashley will be competing at its inaugural MMA event, \u201cTHE BRITISH INVASION: U.S. vs. U.K.,\u201d which will take over the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, June 29th. Though Lashley\u2019s opponent is still in process of being finalized, the bout will surely only add to the action-packed fights already scheduled , which will feature some of the best fighters from the United States and the United Kingdom as they battle each other in a country versus country format. The first in a series of country versus country events put on by GWC, the main event of this fight card will feature former UFC\u00ae Heavyweight Champion Ricco \u201cSuave\u201d Rodriguez, who will try to stop the young and powerful rising star Marcin Lazarz. In the co-main event, 12-year fight veteran Jimmy Ambriz will face off with the likes of UFC\u00ae vet Oli Thompson.\nThere are many other well-known MMA stars competing on this incredible fight card, including Kendall Grove, Drew Fickett, Andre Winner, Jake Heun, L.C. Davis, and many more.\nThe official weigh-ins for this event will be held at the Pepper Mill & Co. Restaurant, located in Atchison, Kansas. VIP tickets will be available for those that wish to meet the fighters. This will be a community event for all ages, and open to the public, with tons of food and fun.\n\u201cTHE BRITISH INVASION: U.S. VS. U.K.\u201d will take place on Saturday, June 29th, live at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Doors will open at 7 PM, and the first bout is scheduled for 7:30 PM. Tickets for this electrifying event are on sale right now through www.SprintCenter.com, charge-by-phone at (888) 929-7849, or in-person at the Sprint Center Box Office. Ticket prices are $37, $52, $62, $77, $92, and $102.\nThis highly-anticipated MMA showdown will be beamed on Pay Per View on cable and satellite in the United States and Canada. The event will be in High Definition, and it will be available in both English and Spanish (where available). \u201cTHE BRITISH INVASION: U.S. VS. U.K.\u201d will be distributed live on Pay Per View beginning at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST by Multi Vision Media, Inc. The suggested retail price is $29.95. It will be available in over 80 million households via IN DEMAND, Avail-TVN, DIRECTV, and DISH Network. The Executive Producer of the event is Brian Ricco.\nBobby Lashley (8-2 (2 T/KO\u2019s, 4 submissions, 2 decisions) is a freak athlete who\u2019s natural talents combined with his top tier work ethic have propelled him to the elite level of amateur wrestling, pro wrestling, and now mixed martial arts. A drawing card no matter what sports he\u2019s participating in, Lashley transcends the simple label of \u201cathlete.\u201d\nLashley attended Missouri Valley College, where he won three national college amateur wrestling championships between 1996 and 1998. In 1997 and 1998 he was the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Wrestling Champion. Lashley later joined the United States Army, where he continued to wrestle. A 2004 Olympic hopeful, a knee injury ended those plans, and he turned his attention toward pro wrestling.\nIn 2004, the 6\u20192,\u201d 260-plus Lashley signed a developmental deal with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and went on to eventually win two ECW World Championships and the WWE United States Championship. Among his many memorable moments in the WWE, Lashley was part of the main event in what is largely considered the biggest Wrestlemania in history, as he defended Donald Trump\u2019s hair against WWE CEO Vince McMahon in the legendary Hair vs. Hair match at Wrestlemania 23 in 2007.\nA member of American Top Team Altitude in Colorado, Lashley made his pro MMA debut as a heavyweight in December 2008, winning a 41-second TKO over Joshua Franklin. Since then he has battled veterans such as Jason Guida, Bob Sapp, Wes Sims, Chad Griggs, James Thompson and more. Six of Lashley\u2019s eight wins have come via stoppage, including four in the first round. Lashley last fought on June 7 when he stopped 19-fight veteran Kevin Asplund via second round submission.\nAs an actor Lashley has appeared in such films as the 2010 MMA-themed movie \u201cBeatdown,\u201d also starring Michael Bisping, Mike Swick and Heath Herring, the 2011 movie \u201cBlood Out,\u201d also starring Val Kilmer and 50 Cent, and most recently, the 2012 comedy \u201cWalk-ins Welcome\u201d directed by Jonathan Stein.\nFor all the latest excitement on \u201cTHE BRITISH INVASION: U.S. VS. 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With the general decline in the popular of the pay-to-play market many fans were expecting WildStar to adopt a buy-to-play model, a financial decision that has proved extremely popular for Guild Wars 2. However, during the interview Jeremy discussed his concerns regarding that particular model before declaring WildStar officially a pay-to-play MMORPG game.\nThe game will cost $59.99 to purchase with a months worth of in-game time included. Players will also receive 3 one-week test passes, giving friends an opportunity to sample the game world before making a purchase. From there players will be expected to pay $14.99 a month, with cheaper options available for purchasing additional subscription time.\nWhat really makes the subscription model unique is the CREDD system (Certificate of Research, Exploration, Destruction and Development). This EVE-esque style feature gives players the opportunity to purchase and sell subscription time in-game.\n?The CX is unique in that when a player wants to buy a particular\ncommodity, they will only be able to buy that commodity at the lowest\ncurrently offered price, with no awareness of who?s actually selling\nit. Once the stock of that commodity at that price is gone, players\nwill then be able to buy from the available stock at the next lowest\nprice.?\nThe system has worked well for EVE Online and is sure to bridge the gap between the free-to-play and pay-to-play market. What do you guys think? Is the pay-to-play era dead or does it simply take a fresh approach to revive the declining numbers? Whatever your choice, make sure to get the best price when you buy Wildstar online.\nCarbine Studios, NCSoft, News, Wildstar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/description/10696/Mesic-Sand-Prairie", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAQLEH7INDVJMMEGXI66DJ6BVS2IWXKA", "length": 7400, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mnfi.anr.msu.edu", "title": "Mesic Sand Prairie - Michigan Natural Features Inventory", "raw_content": "Mesic sand prairie is a native grassland community occurring on sandy loam, loamy sand, or sand soils on nearly level glacial outwash plains and lakeplains in both the northern and southern Lower Peninsula. Sites that support mesic sand prairie experience fluctuating water tables, with relatively high water tables occurring in the spring followed by drought conditions in late summer and fall. Thus, the community contains species from a broad range of moisture classes, but is dominated by species of upland affinity. Dominant grasses include little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), and Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans).\nMesic sand prairie occurs in shallow depressions within glacial outwash plains and lakeplains, and on old, abandoned glacial lakebeds, stream channels, and river terraces. On these landforms, it can occur as a broad, expansive feature or form a narrow vegetation zone between fire-dependent uplands and open wetlands such as intermittent wetland or coastal plain marsh. Upland communities that border mesic sand prairie are typically fire-dependent savannas, prairies, and forests.\nSoils are predominantly strongly acid to neutral sandy loam and occasionally loamy sand. The dry-mesic to mesic condition of the sandy soils is facilitated by a relatively high water table and, in some sites, by organic content within the sand matrix, which increases water-holding capacity. Mesic sand prairie experiences seasonal water table fluctuations, with the wettest conditions occurring in spring and driest periods in late summer and fall.\nSeasonal and annual water level fluctuations and sandy soils create conditions suitable for plant species representing a broad range of moisture tolerances, primarily species requiring mesic to dry conditions. Prior to European settlement in the early 1800s, fires of natural and anthropogenic origin limited encroachment by shrubs and trees. Fire helps maintain species diversity by facilitating seed germination, opening microsites for seedling establishment and growth of small species, and releasing important plant nutrients that bolster plant growth, flowering, and seed set.\nDominant grasses include little bluestem, big bluestem, and Indian grass. Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica) is often important. Low areas transitional to wet-mesic prairie or wet-mesic sand prairie have increased importance of bluejoint grass (Calamagrostis canadensis), cordgrass (Spartina pectinata), sedges (Carex spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.), and bulrushes (Scirpus spp.). Common forbs include colic root (Aletris farinosa), thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica), spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium), arrow-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum urophyllum), tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris), smooth scouring rush (Equisetum laevigatum), flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata), wild-strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), northern bedstraw (Galium boreale), tall sunflower (Helianthus giganteus), alum root (Heuchera americana), path rush (Juncus tenuis), false dandelion (Krigia biflora), prairie phlox (Phlox pilosa), old-field cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida), Missouri ironweed (Vernonia missurica), and arrow-leaved violet (Viola sagittata). The following shrubs and trees are occasional to common, especially in fire-suppressed occurrences: red maple (Acer rubrum), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), oaks (Quercus spp.), sumacs (Rhus spp.), pasture rose (Rosa carolina), raspberries (Rubus spp.), and sassafras (Sassafras albidum). Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa), an invasive species, is common in some sites.\nAnts, particularly the genus Formica, play an important role in mixing and aerating prairie soils as they continually build and abandon mounds, overturning large portions of prairie soil in the process. Other important species contributing to soil mixing and aeration include moles, mice, skunks, and badgers.\nCarex tincta (sedge, state special concern)\nDraba nemorosa (whitlow-grass, presumed extirpated from Michigan)\nSporobolus heterolepis (prairie dropseed, state special concern)\nStrophostyles helvula (trailing wild bean, state special concern)\nViola novae-angliae (New England violet, state threatened)\nChondestes grammacus (lark sparrow, presumed extirpated from Michigan)\nPriorities for conservation of mesic sand prairie include identifying, protecting, and managing existing remnants where they occur. The primary threat to mesic sand prairie is fire suppression. Fire suppression promotes shrub and tree invasion, which significantly reduces graminoid and forb cover. Prescribed fire can be employed to restrict encroaching trees and shrubs, reduce thatch build-up, and promote seed bank expression. Sites impacted by severe encroachment of tall shrubs and trees require an initial step of cutting and herbiciding woody stems. Selective use of herbicide can also be used to control invasive species not reduced or eliminated by application of prescribed fire. Severely degraded sites may require reintroduction of appropriate species and, where feasible, local genotypes.\nMonitoring and control efforts to detect and remove invasive species are critical to the long-term viability of mesic sand prairie. Invasive species that threaten the diversity and community structure include glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus), common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata), Eurasian honeysuckles (especially Lonicera morrowii, L. tatarica, and L. xbella), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe), common St. John\u2019s-wort (Hypericum perforatum), ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.), white sweet-clover (Melilotus alba), yellow sweet clover (M. officinalis), Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), leafy spurge (Euphorbia virgata), wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), bouncing bet (Saponaria officinalis), hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana), Canada bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), smooth brome (Bromus inermis), and timothy (Phleum pratense).\nSites range from mesic to dry-mesic, with dry-mesic sites lacking species of wetland affinity. Prairie plant species diversity is generally higher in occurrences located in far southwestern Michigan than in those located further east or north, likely due to their closer proximity to the central range of prairie in North America.\nWet-mesic sand prairie, dry-mesic prairie, dry sand prairie, mesic prairie, and lakeplain wet-mesic prairie.\nFaber-Langendoen, D., and P.F. Maycock. 1992. A vegetation analysis of tallgrass prairie in southern Ontario. Pp. 17-32 in Proceedings of the Thirteenth North American Prairie Conference: Spirit of the land, our prairie legacy, ed. R.G. Wickett, P.D. Lewis, A. Woodliffe, and P. Pratt. Department of Parks and Recreation, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 262 pp.\nKost, M.A. 2005. Natural community abstract for mesic sand prairie. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 11 pp.\nNatureServe. 2006. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [Web application]. Version 6.1. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer. (Accessed: January 12, 2007.)\nFor a full list of references used to create this description, please refer to the natural community abstract for mesic sand prairie.\nMesic Sand Prairie abstract", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 11357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mobile.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+24%3A17&version=NIV", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:N4F5V3X5DLDGLPS4QFW3TLJK2OLG6KY7", "length": 202, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mobile.biblegateway.com", "title": "Acts 24:17 NIV - \u201cAfter an absence of several years, I - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "17 \u201cAfter an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.\nActs 24:17 : Ac 11:29, 30; Ro 15:25-28, 31; 1Co 16:1-4, 15; 2Co 8:1-4; Gal 2:10", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 25225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://money.cnn.com/2014/10/15/news/companies/whole-foods-ratings-system/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IASJQGIKZMFHO2ZLDPEOUAKWQHINX2AQ", "length": 1665, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "money.cnn.com", "title": "Whole Foods unveils new ratings system for social and environmental impact of produce and flowers", "raw_content": "Whole Foods' new environmental ratings for your veggies\nby Ben Rooney @ben_rooney October 15, 2014: 10:48 AM ET\nWhole Foods wants you to know if your food environmentally sound.\nIs your food environmentally sound?\nThat's a tough one to answer in the produce aisle of a grocery store. But Whole Foods wants to help.\nThe organic supermarket chain introduced new ratings Wednesday that will tell shoppers whether their vegetables, fruits and flowers were grown with the environment's best interest in mind.\nThe \"Responsibly Grown\" ratings, developed with the help of scientists and farmers, are based on a wide range of criteria such as the use of pesticides, water conservation, waste reduction and treatment of farm workers.\nThey will be color-coded as Good, Better and Best. These ratings will be in addition to existing certifications for organic produce.\nWhole Foods (WFM) said the ratings are designed to promote farmers to use environmentally friendly techniques.\nRelated: Whole Foods stock is rotting away\nWhole Foods says an estimated 5.2 billion pounds of pesticides are used globally each year, while agriculture consumes 70% of the world's fresh water. It also says that industrial farming has led to an increase in greenhouse gases and an alarming decline of \"pollinators,\" such as bees and butterflies.\nWhole Foods has been at the forefront of the shift in Americans' eating habits towards organic produce and dairy.\nBut Whole Foods in not alone. Earlier this month, Wal-Mart (WMT) announced a new commitment to sustainable food production with four \"pillars\" that include affordability along with improved food safety, worker safety, and animal welfare.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 5007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://monikalaschkolnig.com/about-monika/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FCX77IIZFY4ABLAV6ZZRHEIH7ODFQITX", "length": 7024, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "monikalaschkolnig.com", "title": "About Monika - Monika Laschkolnig", "raw_content": "Monika Laschkolnig is quite an exceptional blend, an expert of inner transformation who has a vast knowledge AND walks her talk. She is an author, an intuitive guide and a spiritual mentor, strives to live with \u201cfeet on Earth and heart in Heaven,\u201d combining practical entrepreneurial skills for running a successful educational enterprise with leading an awakened life, being a fulfilled woman and a conscious parent.\nWhat makes Monika the real deal and how you benefit from working with her:\nMonika is grounded and active in life, successful in business (\u201cfeet on Earth\u201d) but aware of her soul\u2019s plan and connected with her spirit (\u201cheart in Heaven\u201d). She will lead you there, if you want to achieve a similar balance in your life.\nShe has entrepreneurial experience of 20+ years and deep spiritual practice since she was 13 \u2013 she can help you advance in either, enhancing your business life with values or deepening your spiritual practice, combining both into a fulfilled and meaningful life.\nShe holds university degrees from the Western and Eastern Institutes: studied pedagogic and languages in the West and philosophy and theory of perception in the Far East. Working with Monika, you benefit from the firm foundation of her in-depth studies and her personal experience. She can access ancient wisdom and make it a practical tool for the success of your private and business life.\nMonika is a mother of two, was married for 21 years but divorced at her brave wish, when she saw that both partners have grown apart and it would be beneficial for each of them to pursue their individual paths. She can understand your challenges of parenting and issues you encounter in relationships. She will help you become self-empowered, define your needs, create healthy boundaries without a sense of guilt, and become more self-loving and self-forgiving.\nMonika has been trained in UK and USA in leading a successful business by, among others, Jack Canfield and graduated from a 2-year program at the Psychic University under the mentorship of Sonia Choquette. She distinguishes between the needs and goals of corporate clients, educational organisations and private individuals, addressing issues and aspects essential for each target group. She incorporates universal humanistic values and a holistic approach, which induces a transformational shift in each case.\nMonika is a modern mystic without a monastery, standing in the midst of life\u2019s business, making a difference in people\u2019s lives through her educational business on one hand and, on the other, her focus on Self-Love & Self-Forgiveness, Self-Worth, Conscious Parenting, Intuition and Modern Spirituality through seminars, programs, books and philanthropic activities, while continuously doing her own inner work. She will help you achieve mastery in the above areas of life, as well as attain more inner peace, joy, love and happiness. You learn how to consciously choose the right job, create legacy and align your actions with your heart\u2019s desires.\nMonika serves as a teacher and mentor for others but never stops learning herself. You deal with a professional who never ceases to advance and grow.\nShe keeps studying mystic writings of all religions, ACIM and other philosophical treatises and, at the same time, loves dancing, goes to the movies and travels the world, aware that modern spirituality includes all aspects of life, embracing our wholeness, without denying any aspect of our human existence. Working with Monika, you will have an opportunity to address any aspect of life and shift into being more courageous to live your truth, in joy and fullness.\nA natural intuitive, Monika has grown in a household with openness of mind not typical for the 70\u2019s: meditation, intuition, natural healing modalities, herbs, macrobiotic food, massage, energy healing, astrology, rebirthing, dowsing, pendulum work, discussions on literature and different world philosophies, etc. It wasn\u2019t a typical surrounding in which a child would grow up back then; that made her an \u201codd-one-out\u201d among her peers, however it gave her understanding for individuals outside of the mainstream, which proved valuable later in her life. Wherever you come from, whatever your past is, nothing will be off for Monika, as she can understand the winding paths of life, roads rarely travelled, and unusual synchronicities \u2013 all that makes one a unique individual. She can see beyond the obvious and guide you intuitively on your path as long as you need some assistance.\nMonika understands conscious birth and doesn\u2019t fear death, seeing through and beyond. If interested, you will have a chance to shed your fears around the death process. She also received a Buddhist transmission for the conscious dying practice, which she learnt in numerous retreats and extracted its essence to benefit anyone beyond a religious tradition.\nMonika was fortunate to grow up with four main world religions at home (Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism), which instilled in her respect towards different methods leading equally to inner growth. She recognized that realization is not dependent on a tradition but on the individual practising it actively. By her own choice at the age of 13, she has practiced Buddhism for 27 years. She left organized religion by the age of 40 to study mystical writings of the main religious and philosophical systems as well as the ACIM principles, and was trained on three continents in different systems of accessing Inner Wisdom. As the result, she become focused on the universal truth and what connects us all beyond rituals, terminology and cultural differences. Whatever your background is, Monika respects your views, helping you to advance within your own belief system, addressing the universal truth and the divine in you.\n\u201cLiving with Feet on Earth and Heart in Heaven combines aspects of life that have been believed to exclude each other: the pragmatic and the mystical, the practical and the experience, traditional ways and the individual path, reason and intuition, doing and being, outer activities and inner work, power and wisdom, efficiency and joyful lightness, masculine and feminine \u2013 without falling into any extreme. That\u2019s what I call Modern Spirituality of the new millennium.\u201d\nMonika\u2019s profound and life changing seminars and programs are conducted with humour and joy, offer you hands-on experiences, and make it possible for you to integrate new insights into your life through an array of practical tools that you receive. Her personal mentoring connects you with your personal space of wisdom, love and self-empowerment, which induces profound transformation and lasting changes in your life. Working with Monika is a unique experience bringing you back to your Spirit, your Divinity, your Soul, your Essence, your Higher Self.\nBased in Austria, Europe, Monika, an expert of inner transformation, works internationally using English and German languages, facilitating groups and private clients, in person, by phone or online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 7825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mormonbible.org/3785/3d-unwrapping-tools-let-scientists-read-ancient-hebrew-scroll", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JB6GSYVEEJLAZKCUHGA6TLHLRSKVFYZE", "length": 5081, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "mormonbible.org", "title": "3D 'unwrapping' tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll - Mormon Bible", "raw_content": "The Dead Sea shoreline near Ein Gedi, Israel. Image: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Image.\nThis article by Maria Gallucci originally appeared on Mashable.com on 21 September 2016.\nNew software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment.\nThe digitization techniques, known as \u201cvolume cartography,\u201d transformed what were the charred remains of the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.\n\u201cWe are reading a real scroll that hasn\u2019t been read for millennia,\u201d said Brent Seales, who helped develop the cartography techniques and is a computer sciences professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.\n\u201cMany people thought it was impossible to read,\u201d he told reporters on a press call on Tuesday. \u201cMy technical team and I, we never needed physical access to the scroll.\u201d\nThe charred scroll from En-Gedi. Image: Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library/Israel Antiques Authority.\nThe tools could have important uses beyond the realm of antiquities, the researchers said.Intelligence or forensic investigators, for instance, could use volume cartography to extract information from documents without opening an envelope.\nThe software will become open-source in late 2017 when the researchers\u2019 funding from the National Science Foundation ends, Seales said.\n\u201cThis goes down to the microns,\u201d the professor said. \u201cWe\u2019re mapping out the entire internal structure.\u201d\nTo virtually \u201cunwrap\u201d the En-Gedi scroll, Seales and his team began by taking a 3-dimensional volumetric scan of the damaged manuscript and creating digital cross-sections of the artifact. The next step, segmentation, produced digital \u201cpages\u201d that contained the writing.\nThe U.S. researchers pieced together more than 100 scanned segments of the En-Gedi scroll. They then used a texturing technique to extract ink marks from the data and to detect bright pixels, indicated dense materials like lead-based inks.\nA final flattening stage converted the textured, 3-D surface into a flat plane to reveal the lines, words, letters and spacing on five complete wraps of the Hebrew scroll.\nThanks to the digital analysis, the En-Gedi scroll is\u201d the most extensive biblical text that has come to light\u201d in the last decade, said Michael Segal, who heads the School of Philosophy and Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\nThe En-Gedi scroll (also spelled \u201cEin Gedi\u201d) is the oldest scroll discovered from the Hebrew Bible since the better-known Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in the 1940s and date back to around 2,000 years.\nPaleographic data suggests the En-Gedi scroll originated in the second half of the 1st century C.E. or the beginning of the 2nd century, Segal told reporters. Carbon dating puts the scroll in the 3rd or 4th-century C.E.\nArchaeologists found the En-Gedi scroll in 1970 near the Dead Sea in Israel. The parchment was placed inside the Holy Ark of a 6th-century synagogue, but the building suffered a fire, turning the ark\u2019s contents into lumps of crushed charcoal.\nFor decades, researchers had little idea what the scrolls contained, since touching the chunks would likely destroy them.\nThe charred scroll from En-Gedi with its exact facsimile, which was 3-D printed from the micro-CT scan that led to the discovery of the biblical text inside. Image: Brian Seales.\nLast year, however, Seales and researchers in Israel used advanced digital imaging software to scan the fragile scroll, revealing that the document contained the opening verses of the book of Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible.\n\u201cIt still looked like a chunk of charcoal,\u201d Pnina Shor, curator and head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the Israel Antiquities Authority, said on the call with reporters.\n\u201cWe were certain it was a shot in the dark,\u201d she said. \u201cThis came back as a written piece of flattened material, that looked like a scroll. You can\u2019t imagine the joy in the lab.\u201d\nThe new digital scans are detailed and complete enough to support \u201cserious textual criticism\u201d of the En-Gedi scroll, Seales said.\nEarlier scans of the En-Gedi scroll revealed by imaging software. Image: Seth Parker -University of Kentucky, Ehud Shor, Jerusalem.\nThe images also start to fill a gaping, centuries-long gap in biblical history.\nFew if any copies of the Hebrew Bible have been discovered that date to between the beginning of the common era and the start of the Middle Ages, in the 5th century C.E., according to Emanuel Tov, a professor in the department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\nThe En-Gedi\u2019s scroll\u2019s writings are nearly 100 percent identical to the medieval texts, both in consonants and in paragraph divisions, suggesting that copies of the book of Leviticus did not differ much over thousands of years.\n\u201cThe details of the scroll connect us with the Middle Ages, since no other known source from antiquity is as close to the medieval text as the En-Gedi scroll,\u201d Tov said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 12686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mvol.com/listings/marthas-vineyard-chamber-music-society/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6GVWULYJQEQOK3APR3NTL3MD2GYP2NNY", "length": 98, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mvol.com", "title": "Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society - Martha's Vineyard Online", "raw_content": "Martha\u2019s Vineyard Chamber Music Society was last modified: September 18th, 2015 by BerkshireDirect", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 3111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myanytimestory.com/p/entry/55b12f2f494c31ec3600000e/comments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5J2HFOJJQVCO5ADLYX4S7FMYMK4S64DX", "length": 193, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "myanytimestory.com", "title": "Starlitt I.", "raw_content": "I have favorited all AF members that have shared thier story from the beginning and will continue to do so. No I don't need a favorite back, but want to show encouragement for you to keep going", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mybookie.ag/news/horseracing/dont-choose-exaggerator-to-win-preakness-stakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:VUJK4Y5YRW6KVZEYQW24BJVHRLJFX35Z", "length": 3320, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mybookie.ag", "title": "Don't Choose or Bet Exaggerator To Win Preakness Stakes", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Choose or Bet Exaggerator To Win Preakness Stakes\nThere\u2019s little argument that Exaggerator is one of the best 3-year-old horses in North America. He finished a close second to Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby. Now beaten four times by Nyquist, his connections are hoping the Curlin colt can finally turn the tables at next Saturday\u2019s 141st running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore. And currently Exaggerator is the +450 second-favorite on betting odds.\nA Quick Analysis on Why to Not Choose or Bet Exaggerator To Win Preakness Stakes\nExaggerator came from approximately 16 1/2 lengths back to win the Santa Anita Derby earlier this year. He came from approximately 17 3/4 lengths back to get within 1 1/4 of unbeaten winner Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby while finishing second. The Preakness will be Exaggerator\u2019s fifth try to take down Nyquist, following their maiden special weight debuts in June of 2015 at Santa Anita Park, the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile (gr. I), the San Vicente (gr. II), and the Derby. But know this: no horse that has been the runner-up in the Kentucky Derby has come back to win in the Preakness Stakes since Prairie Bayou in 1993. Twelve since then have tried. Only two horses in that stretch won the Belmont after running second in the Derby. Last year it was Firing Line. Winner of the Sunland Derby in 2015, Firing Line surprised many when he pulled ahead of Dortmund in last year\u2019s Kentucky Derby to finish second to American Pharoah. Just before the Preakness ran, storms blew in and a heavy downpour came over the horses. Firing Line was grouchy in the post parade and his ears were pinned flat against his head because of the weather. He went off as the second favorite, but ran second-to-last in the field of eight. He has not raced since then. One horse I like this week as good long-shot value is Awesome Speed at +3300. The colt won a fees-paid entry into the middle leg of the Triple Crown in the \u201cWin & You\u2019re In\u201d Federico Tesio Stakes at Laurel Park in April. The son of Awesome Again was placed first in the $100,000 Preakness prep race, in which he came up a nose short after being bumped by the first-place finisher in deep stretch. Awesome Speed lost a head bob at the wire to Governor Malibu, but the first-place finisher drifted in and bumped the front-running Awesome Speed in the final sixteenth. An inquiry was posted soon after the finish and an objection was also filed by jockey Jevian Toledo, which was followed by Governor Malibu\u2019s disqualification. Awesome Speed broke his maiden in his second career start. He then won the James F. Lewis III Stakes at Laurel last November. In his 2016 debut, the Kentucky-bred colt won his third race in a row, capturing the $100,000 Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream Park as the betting favorite. He was bumped at the start and finished fourth in the Feb. 27 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream before earning a Preakness berth in the Federico Tesio Stakes. Bred in Kentucky by Allen Poindexter and Adena Springs out of the Aptitude mare Speedy Escape, Awesome Speed now has a four wins from six starts and earnings of $223,660. The longest odds on a Preakness winner were when Master Derby won in 1975. He paid $48.80 for a $2 win ticket. Post positions for the Preakness will be May 18, with a maximum field of 14.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 581, "original_length": 17253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mydshs.com/2017/10/20/hurricane-harveys-helping-hands/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2JYCFDEEAV6EKCOIU6FBBCDQDAUXJQK", "length": 3381, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "mydshs.com", "title": "Hurricane Harvey\u2019s Helping Hands", "raw_content": "Hurricane Harvey\u2019s Helping Hands\nPhoto by Tracy Staats\nOn the morning of August 2, the DSHS front lobby turned victim to flooding.\nMore precisely, a flood of donated supplies for the school\u2019s Hurricane Harvey relief effort. Piles of toiletries, trash bags, diapers, and non-perishables overflowed to reach the doors, almost blocking students\u2019 paths while simultaneously showcasing the amount of support Dripping Springs gave to those in need.\n\u201cI thought it was just a great way to get our school more involved,\u201d senior Mia Haraguchi, NHS president, said. \u201cI know everyone had it on their minds and were looking for a way to kind of help out, but no one really had an outlet for that.\u201d\nIn terms of organization and effort, the Student Council and NHS concurrently played a pivotal role in donation efforts. Aside from setting up supply drives at each of the district\u2019s schools, there were also spare change drives at each location, and a community supply drive were also put into place by these clubs.\n\u201c[I was] outside collecting all the donations from the community and the parents that brought them in, and we would sort them and put them into the trailers,\u201d senior Will Whitfield, Student Council Vice President, said. \u201cAlso, we all worked with Student Council, planning what we\u2019re going to do with those donations and what we needed to have donated as well.\u201d\nFor some, helping with relief hit close to home. Due to the proximity of Hurricane Harvey, many relatives and friends of students were bound to get caught in the storm.\n\u201cA lot of people at this school, including myself, have family in the Houston area or along the coast,\u201d senior Emily Barefield, NHS member, said. \u201cThat makes the relief effort more personal.\u201d\nIn addition to NHS and Student Council, clubs and organizations like the swim team, golf team, band council, and varsity and JV cheerleaders made a hefty impact with Harvey relief. Business, Spanish, and aquatic science classes also contributed significantly.\n\u201cI helped collect donations from a couple of the sports teams, like softball and baseball,\u201d Barefield said. \u201dI also collected extra cash at the football game.\u201d\nWithin the span of five days, four trailers full of supplies and $13,700 were collected throughout Dripping Springs. Even in such a short amount of time, students united the community in an effort to make a difference, and doing so in an extremely efficient manner.\n\u201cWe donated it to the Austin Disaster Relief Network,\u201d Haraguchi said. \u201cWe had one organization we were thinking of, and we were just trying to get a more organized effort.\u201d\nHurricane Harvey hit hard, destroying houses, cars, and even the lives people built for themselves. With almost nothing left, many coastal and Houston-area civilians will accept any extra help they can get in result of the great losses they suffered. If the chance to help bypassed some, donations can still be directed to organizations like the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, the United Way of Greater Houston flood relief fund, the L.G.B.T.Q. Disaster Relief Fund, and the Houston Food Bank.\n\u201cI think the main goal was just to get everybody to come together as a community, and help everybody else that was struggling,\u201d Whitfield said, \u201c[those] that have lost everything.\u201d\nPrevious Post Tiger Tennis Beats Richmond Foster in Area Round, Ready for Playoff Success\nNext Post No Hair, We Can Fix That", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myfarrahdise.com/2017/06/21/10-things-to-do-in-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RSL5XX54QTE5V2JYB5QTMDMYPYJVYZZU", "length": 7309, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "myfarrahdise.com", "title": "10 Things to do in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia \u2013 Myfarrahdise.com", "raw_content": "Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and it\u2019s the largest city in the country. While it embraced modernity with its towering skyscrapers and technology, you can observed that the culture, traditional customs and religious belief are still deeply practiced.\nIt\u2019s one of my favorite cities for its richness in culture and variety of food from Malay, Chinese to Indian cuisines. And There\u2019s more to explore in this city. On my next trip, I will surely visit the 1910 Moorish-inspired Old Railway Station, the riverside Jamek Mosque and the Sultan Abdul Samad building with its 131-foot clock tower.\n1. The Petronas Tower\nI\u2019ve seen this both day and night time. Petronas Twin Towers are stunning at any time of the day. I\u2019m yet to explore the top of this tower on my next trip. And it\u2019s not free and there\u2019s a strict operating hours too. Most of the time the queue is long, so it\u2019s best to buy your tickets in advance and it\u2019s limited to 800 tickets per day.\nIt\u2019s also connected to my favorite shopping mall in KL, the Suria KLCC. I liked the local coffee from the Kopitiam inside the mall.\n2. Istana Negara, Jalan Duta\nIstana Negara means National Palace. Built in 2007, It\u2019s situated along Jalan Istana. It opened in 2011 and replaced the old Istana Negara which was located at a different compound in central Kuala Lumpur, which I also visited. This 13-acre castle used to be the official residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia\nIn my photos, the lot surrounds the palace still looks empty, yet fast forward to 2017 there\u2019s so much constructions and improvements around the palace ground. It\u2019s not opened to the public, visitors are only able to catch a glimpse outside its entrance gates.\nIt is situated close to KL Sentral station. It\u2019s an extremely colorful part of KL. Upon reaching, you can hear INDIAaaa! screaming at you. This place is all about Indian culture, bright colors, food, shopping and Hindu temples.\n4. KL Tower \u2013 Observation Deck\nIt\u2019s me trying to spot The Petronas Towers, while listening to audio guide.\nAlso know as \u201cMenara KL\u201d. The observation deck is at 276 meters above ground level offers stunning and thrilling view of metropolitan city Kuala Lumpur. Take your time to walk around the deck, enjoying different scenery and the panoramic view.\nYou have to buy the entrance tickets for access and operating hours at 9:00am until 10:00pm everyday.\nThere\u2019s sky deck and sky box too. And KL Tower animal zone at the ground level, where you kind find rare types of spiders and other animals.\nIf you remember, I did a separate post for Batu Caves.\nDuring my visit, I was in awe of its gigantic statue of the Hindu God at the main entrance. The golden statue of Lord Murugan is the main attraction of the caves, stands at 42.7m tall. It was erected in 2006 and said to be the largest in the world.\n6. Explore Local Food\nKL, Malaysia being multi-cultured city, you can find variety of food choices \u2014 Malay, Chinese & Indian cuisines are on top.\nYou\u2019ll be sure to come across some of the city\u2019s best dining spots, including the hawker stalls and traditional neighborhood kopitiam (coffee shops) that will call your attention with the aroma of freshly cooked food.\nI liked how this local chicken noodle soup is cooked. I always indulged every time I\u2019m in KL.\nThis is a shopping haven for those who are looking for cheap ones but goodie. I remember buying few tops and accessories from this mall. Branded imitations are also available here.\n8. Putrajaya Bridge\nA must place to visit when you\u2019re in Putrajaya. A beautiful piece of architecture and it\u2019s picturesque at night. The colorful street light changes every minute. You can also take the boat ride from Putra Square to the Bridge to complete your adventure in Putrajaya.\n9. Perdana Putra\nMy best friend and I took a pose with Putra Perdana at our back\nIt\u2019s the Prime Minister\u2019s Department Complex housing several government buildings and agencies. It is located on the main hill in Putrajaya, and was built in 1997. The buildings are influenced by Malay, Islamic and European architecture. It also has become the icon for Putrajaya, with its distinctive green dome and clay like colored buildings. Besides the government complexes, you can find Putra Mosque, the Dataran Putra, and Perdana Walk around the area.\n10. Putra Mosque\nThis is also located in Putrajaya area. It is a beautiful mosque with its trademark pink-domed. The mosque can accommodate 15,000 worshipers. The architectural design looks like a Morrocan inspired.\nIt is located near the Malaysian Prime Minister Office at Perdana Putra, just beside the Putrajaya Lake and it is a very popular tourists destination. You can enter inside the mosque for free.\nPutrajaya area is impressive, you can take a half-day trip to experience its touristy attractions. It\u2019s best viewed when illuminated at night. Therefore, best timing is late afternoon so you can experience both day and night scenery.\nHave you been to Kuala Lumpur? What tourist attractions you want to visit?\nShare it at the comments below.\nbatu caves, KL, klcc, kuala lumput, malaysia, petronas tower, putrajaya, Tour, Tourist Spot\n27 thoughts on \u201c10 Things to do in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia\u201d\nWonderful tips for newbies to Kuala Lumpur. As an out of towner, I am glad that I have visited all of these places already.\nGreat tips though Batu Caves is more Selangor then KL\u2026. I think\u2026.\nYes, Selangor, but still near from KL. \ud83d\ude42\nThese are great list! I would love to visit the Petronas Tower and try the local food someday. Looks like you had lots of fun.\nThank you! So fun in KL, interesting City.\nso much fun in KL. Glad you had enjoy yourselves here\nYep. Always, every time.\nWow! I like it and its the city that i stayed it\nReally! Good to know, if you have other recommendations. Pls. feel free to let us know, consideration for next visit. \ud83d\ude42\nHui Ying Fong says:\nhaha!!!I can KL one day trip!!!\ntime square is the best!!! many clothes to shop haha~ visit it after school haha Joysofyz\nI am still planning a trip to Batu Caves, maybe I\u2019ll be going there somewhere by the end of this year.\nYay! Have fun then.\nThanks for sharing. Next time my friends are me how what should they do in KL I will show this article to them\nThanks babe, that\u2019s sweet!\nEverest says says:\nI am going to save this!! I have been to kl so many times and have only been to only one of the places u have listed.\nYay! Which place was that?\nMan Says says:\nKuala Lumpur is such an interesting city, I\u2019ve been to all the spots \ud83d\ude42\nThe truth is even I was born in KL, but there are so many places that I haven\u2019t visit! Thanks for sharing this 10 places to visit in KL =P\nEnjoy your City and playing like tourist soon heheh!\nGIVEAWAY & My Favorite Trips in Asia \u2013 Myfarrahdise.com says:\n[\u2026] Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and it\u2019s the largest city in the country. While it embraced modernity with its towering skyscrapers and technology, you can observed that the culture, traditional customs and religious belief are still deeply practiced. Read more\u2026 [\u2026]\nBest Spot in KL to Enjoy the View of Petronas Twin Towers \u2013 Myfarrahdise.com says:\n[\u2026] While if you\u2019re planning a trip to Kuala Lumpur, here\u2019s my recommended 10 things to do. 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We encourage you to reach out with questions and plan to see you in Rhode Island.\nPast Annual Meeting & Conference host sites are listed here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nearsay.com/b/288527/21100/houston/dothan/massage-therapists/touch-of-grace-massage-llc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6VTBIPEN3W5BTUUBBTJIK2SVV5BCWME", "length": 1739, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nearsay.com", "title": "Touch of Grace Massage, LLC. in Dothan, AL | NearSay", "raw_content": "Touch of Grace Massage, LLC.\nDon\u2019t let pain or discomfort keep you from fully enjoying life! Massage therapy can help relieve a number of ailments and injuries, and the massage therapist at Touch of Grace Massage is committed to helping his clients feel better both physically and emotionally.\nTouch of Grace Massage is located in Dothan, AL, and is led by Paul Meadows, who is a certified member of the American Massage Therapy Association. He specializes in a variety of techniques, from Swedish and Esalen massages to reflexology and deep tissue massages.\nIf you\u2019ve experienced a sports injury, massage therapy can help the healing process. Thanks to their experience and expertise, Meadows and his team can help relieve pain from sprains, muscle spasms, or broken bones.\nRegardless of your situation, the clinic will take the time to find the root cause of your discomfort and create an individualized treatment plan to address it. They are dedicated to their clients and will do everything they can to help you achieve your health and wellness goals so you can live your best life possible.\nMeadows\u2019 experience and certifications, including a therapeutic massage certification that was obtained from Johnson County Community College, are further proof of his capability to bring you back to optimum health. You can trust that you\u2019ll be receiving the best in massage therapy when you schedule a session at Touch of Grace Massage.\nNo matter your ailment, you don\u2019t have to accept pain or discomfort as your permanent state of being. Call the compassionate and reliable team at Touch of Grace Massage at (334) 699-1500 to schedule an appointment. You can also get in touch with them through their website.\nA. 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Just a few blocks away, the Hobby Lobby\u2019s president, Steve Green, is looking to enshrine his religious beliefs in Washington, D.C. in a different way: with a museum devoted to the bible, for which he purchased a $50 million property in 2012.\nThe new attraction will house a collection of historic bibles that Green has been assembling since 2009. His holdings range from a hand-illustrated Martin Luther New Testament to a Torah from the Spanish Inquisition; experts have valued them at between $20 and $40 million. The as-yet-unnamed bible museum, which is slated to open in the spring of 2017, will sit at 3rd and D Streets in Southwest D.C., in an eight-story warehouse that Green plans to complement with a two-story addition. A report from the city\u2019s Historic Preservation Review Board even compared the mock-ups to London\u2019s Tate Modern. The museum\u2019s goal, according to the mission statement in its 501(c)3 tax filings for 2011, the most recent year available, is \u201cTo bring to life the living word of God, to tell its compelling story of preservation, and to inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the bible.\u201d\nThe museum plans to accomplish this largely through historic reenactments, or what its chief operating officer Cary Summers calls \u201cimmersive environments.\u201d For example, one of the Green Collection\u2019s travelling exhibitions\u2014so far, they've been shown in Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Israel, Cuba, and the Vatican\u2014displays a note written by Martin Luther the night before his excommunication in \u201ca theater featuring a debate between Fathers Erasmus and Luther and Dr. Johann Eck \u2026 which culminates in Luther nailing his 95 Theses to his church door.\u201d Tourists will also find set pieces of the Dead Sea, where the famous scrolls were found, and London\u2019s Westminster Abbey, where the King James Bible was written.\nSummers assured me that \u201cwe\u2019re not trying to convince anybody of anything. We\u2019re simply presenting the facts.\u201d Summers added that consistency across thousands of international bibles \u201cgives a great deal of comfort that the bible is true, and it\u2019s accurate.\u201d\nWhen I asked Summers if the exhibits would contain any evidence that the bible was divinely written, he asked, \u201cWhat if I was to ask you, did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?\u201d I said the jury was out on the bard. \u201cThat\u2019s true,\u201d he said. \u201cSo somewhere along the way, people have to draw a line and say, \u2018Everything I read, even though I can\u2019t prove Aristotle was Aristotle or Sappho was Sappho\u2019\u2014people have a tendency to believe that they are.\u201d\nAlong with snapshots from biblical historiography, the museum will recreate scenes from famous biblical stories, such as creation. But Summers said it won\u2019t touch on their more controversial implications. Summers has also served as a consultant at the Creation Museum, where an exhibit shows Adam and Eve sharing the Garden with the dinosaurs. Green\u2019s museum, by contrast, will reiterate the tale of earth\u2019s first seven days without mentioning evolution. \u201cHow people interpret it is up to them\u2014we\u2019re not going there,\u201d said Summers. \u201cIf others want to create a museum that takes the other approach, that\u2019s up to them.\u201d Of course, others have, at the National Museum of Natural History a few blocks away.\nSummers said the museum won\u2019t mention homosexuality, abortion, or any other \u201cpolitical commentary.\u201d (He also declined to comment on the Supreme Court case.) But he hinted that the museum will weigh in more freely on controversies past. He mentioned anthropological exhibitions on the spread of the bible: How it \u201centers into countries and very uncivilized tribes and cultural settings that are very cruel. The bible entered into it and their lives were changed. \u2026 We\u2019re presenting the impact through the facts.\u201d\nThese anthropological components, along with exhibits on archeological records that corroborate biblical stories, are in early planning stages. In the meantime, the Green Collection continues touring\u2014it\u2019s en route to the Vatican this week\u2014while the architects work on its eventual home. Religion News Service has reported that Green paid $50 million for the former refrigeration warehouse, which is currently occupied by the Washington Design Center. Tax filings value its artifacts at $23,038,000.\nAs Green\u2019s landmark lawsuit comes before the Court, his collection continues to make the rounds, embedded in history as he sees it. Workers who depend on a paycheck and health care from his company, or another with a religious owner, may soon be highly acquainted with his point of view. Visiting his museum, on the other hand, is voluntary.\nCorrection: A previous version of this article referred to the museum as the Museum of the Bible; that is the name of the non-profit organization, but the museum has not been named. The article also misstated the year Steve Green began collecting bibles; the number of traveling exhibitions displaying his collection; and the cost of the museum, which will be over $70 million. We regret the errors.\nReligion, The Plank, Culture, Politics, Hobby Lobby, Supreme Court, contraception mandate, museum, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., creation, Evolution, Bible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 180.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/minutes/134358", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:39Z", "digest": "sha1:453LQVNCSOLXOVX4PNOJ4UVJYCBFXFAR", "length": 1425, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Trump TV might be the logical end of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign bid. | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Trump TV might be the logical end of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign bid.\nHe has repeatedly complained that the high ratings he has generated for cable news networks is making other people rich. Now he and his advisers are talking about a way to fix that problem. As Sarah Ellison reports in Vanity Fair:\nTrump is indeed considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States. According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the \u201caudience\u201d currently supporting him.\nTrump apparently wants to go through with Trump TV whether he wins or loses in November, so in theory the Trump presidency could be a non-stop reality show.\nTrump TV would be a culmination of the way Trump has fused entertainment with politics. But it also shows the limits of Trump\u2019s political appeal, because the incentive structures of politics and entertainment are very different. The entertainer thrives by getting attention, good or bad. The politician has to get not just attention, but also at least a plurality of support. If Trump\u2019s TV station gets 30 percent ratings, it\u2019ll be doing fantastically well. But if that\u2019s his share of the vote, then his candidacy will end in failure. The very qualities that might make Trump TV viable are lethal to his political hopes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 27156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/minutes/135249", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QO3C6JOF25TB4M3C3WUOF7PSAFRWBMHA", "length": 1477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Sorry, Trump campaign. You can\u2019t gaslight your way out of plagiarizing Michelle Obama. It\u2019ll only make things worse. | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Sorry, Trump campaign. You can\u2019t gaslight your way out of plagiarizing Michelle Obama. It\u2019ll only make things worse.\nAfter sleeping on it for a few hours, Donald Trump\u2019s top aide Paul Manafort decided he would address the media firestorm over the lifted text in Melania Trump\u2019s convention speech by denying it happened.\nLying when caught redhanded is what the Trump campaign does, but this is crazy. As a rule of thumb, Trump has a harder and harder time getting away with the \u201cnothing to see here\u201d move as evidence becomes more unassailable, and the insult to the press\u2019 intelligence becomes too great to bear. That\u2019s how it\u2019s worked with his elusive charitable donations; how it worked with \u201cthe Star of David is actually a Sheriff\u2019s Badge\u201d-gate; how it worked when his old campaign manager Corey Lewandowski denied battering a reporter in front of eye witnesses, and kept denying it until surveillance footage left no doubt. Here there\u2019s no doubt from the starting line.\nI think the press is inclined to be generous toward Melania and would have been more or less satisfied with a more standard excuse. A copy/paste error, or sloppy staff work. But telling reporters they\u2019re imagining things, (when they know all too well what would happen to them if they did what Trump did) isn\u2019t going to fly. It\u2019ll draw the story out for more news cycles. And for all the reasons I mentioned here, it\u2019ll be more devastating and defining than any of the passing outrages that came before.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 27281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/minutes/139803", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GY65YFQQ343AXRE73EFO3TVBVQQMROIY", "length": 2562, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Donald Trump\u2019s plan to avoid conflicts of interests only makes the problem worse. | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Donald Trump\u2019s plan to avoid conflicts of interests only makes the problem worse.\nOn Wednesday, after weeks of waiting, Trump finally revealed his plan. As expected, the plan itself does almost nothing to prevent Trump from profiting from his presidency. Instead, Trump will retain ownership of his businesses, which his adult sons will run as a trust. He claimed he will not know what they are doing, but Trump\u2019s close relationship to his children means that is insignificant. To avoid violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, Trump pledged that money from all foreign visitors staying at his hotels will be donated to the Treasury, effectively melding his business with the U.S. government\u2014which is precisely what he is supposed to avoid. This actually encourages foreign governments to stay in Trump hotels because he can then take credit for the amount of money he has raised for the Treasury.\nTo be fair, the attorney overseeing Trump\u2019s transition argued that Trump liquidating his assets would also create conflicts of interest. But the overall argument was straightforward: Trump won\u2019t sell his businesses because it\u2019s inconvenient and could cause him to lose money.\nTrump attorney Sheri Dillon: \"Selling the entire Trump organization isn't even feasible\" https://t.co/A8hziNrBDJ\nTrump\u2019s argument that he is acting in the public interest actually made things worse. Here\u2019s Trump crowing about his ethical behavior:\nNow, I have to say one other thing. Over the weekend, I was offered $2 billion to do a deal in Dubai with a very, very, very amazing man, a great, great developer from the Middle East, Hussein Damack, a friend of mine, great guy. And I was offered $2 billion to do a deal in Dubai\u2013a number of deals and I turned it down. I didn\u2019t have to turn it down, because as you know, I have a no-conflict situation because I\u2019m president, which is\u2014I didn\u2019t know about that until about three months ago, but it\u2019s a nice thing to have.\nFar from showing that Trump is above conflicts, this shows that foreign entities are already trying to use his business empire to gain access to his administration. Moreover, Trump here makes quite a logical leap. He\u2019s right that there are no laws governing conflicts of interest for the president (unlike in Congress, which has such laws). But that is because this is an unprecedented situation. Trump interprets this to mean that conflicts of interest are impossible because of the office he holds. It\u2019s his version of Nixon\u2019s famous line: \u201cWhen the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 28382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.thecrosbygroup.com/news/topic/dannys-rigging-den", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UZSY3UWYFIGNEVXVOFORM4KERQKJSNOR", "length": 1007, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "news.thecrosbygroup.com", "title": "Crosby News and Updates Blog | Danny's Rigging Den", "raw_content": "Posted by Danny Bishop on Apr 23, 2018 10:57:37 AM\nOne of the newer videos produced by Crosby is called \u201cSling Angle Best Practices\u201d. This article serves to communicate the main principles discussed and illustrated in the video.\nPosted by Danny Bishop on Mar 13, 2018 9:51:33 AM\nSorting hooks are not your typical everyday hook for a lot of companies, but for those companies and individuals that use them, and whether you call them lay out hooks, pelican hooks, shake out hooks or sorting hooks, a little refresher on correct application may be in order.\nPosted by Danny Bishop on Feb 19, 2018 8:00:00 AM\nWe all have heard of rigging accidents, injuries and even fatalities that may have been prevented if the rigging gear and/or slings had been properly inspected before the shift began or during its use. However, I still find individuals who are not aware of the need to perform an \u201cInitial Inspection\u201d.\nPosted by Danny Bishop on Jan 25, 2018 1:03:34 PM\nPosted by Danny Bishop on Dec 11, 2017 9:44:03 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsismybusiness.com/launches-employment-program-piedras/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3RI4NCZHHQNQNFA2KSJTYM4RSNOG2CPL", "length": 2916, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "newsismybusiness.com", "title": "J&J launches Bridge to Employment program in Las Piedras", "raw_content": "J&J launches Bridge to Employment program in Las Piedras\nThe program was launched with a ceremony in Gurabo and a workshop for the students.\nJohnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies-McNeil Healthcare LLC launched the Bridge to Employment (BTE) Program for 50 sophomores in the Florencia Garc\u00eda high school in Las Piedras, the company announced.\n\u201cThe Bridge to Employment Program is part of our Early Talent Strategy to engage youths with the life sciences manufacturing sector,\u201d said Caroline Ocasio, acting general manager of the McNeil Consumer Healthcare LLC plant in Las Piedras.\nThe program, a Johnson & Johnson initiative launched in 1992, helps young people build solid futures by introducing them to a broad array of careers in science, technology and healthcare.\nJohnson & Johnson partners with FHI 360 to manage the program worldwide while in Puerto Rico the program is supported by ASPIRA, a non-profit organization that works with youth and education.\n\u201cAt ASPIRA Puerto Rico we are proud to continue with our partnership with Johnson & Johnson, on this occasion with McNeil at Las Piedras,\u201d said Adalexis R\u00edos, Executive Director of ASPIRA.\n\u201cI am certain that the experience of these 50 youths from the Florencia Garc\u00eda high school will contribute to their academic performance, develop problem solving skills and motivate them to consider STEM and health-related careers,\u201d she said.\n\u201cThe Bridge to Employment program contributes to their social and emotional development as well as forges ecological awareness and social responsibility among the participants,\u201d R\u00edos added.\nThe program provides mentoring and special attention to the selected students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and follows their progress from the 10th grade until they graduate. The program also focuses on developing self-esteem, leadership and collaboration among the selected students.\n\u201cThis is part of our credo responsibility to serve our communities by helping young people realize they have access to a broader scope of careers as we introduce them to these fields and help them develop their leadership skills,\u201d Ocasio said.\nMcNeil reached an agreement with the Puerto Rico Department of Education to launch the BTE program for the selected public school students.\nThe program includes the collaboration of Education, University of Turabo, University of Puerto Rico-Humacao campus, ASPIRA and McNeil employees who serve as volunteer mentors.\nRelated tags : Bridge to EmploymenteducationJ&JPuerto Rico\nPopular Business Solutions relaunched to support entrepreneurs\nMOU puts $10B+ in contracts accessible to Latino businesses in PR/US\nCan this program expand to a few in Humacao?\nHey Buddy!, I found this information for you: \"J&J launches Bridge to Employment program in Las Piedras\". Here is the website link: https://newsismybusiness.com/launches-employment-program-piedras/. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsletter-us.com/kids-work-free-hack-art-conquest/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WUMECQYHP5AV24N6XJ53TKUZFGZDFDSS", "length": 3697, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "newsletter-us.com", "title": "Kids, Work and Free Hack Art of Conquest Free Hack Art of Conquest Fundamentals Explained", "raw_content": "Home Game Hack Kids, Work and Free Hack Art of Conquest\nKids, Work and Free Hack Art of Conquest\nFree Hack Art of Conquest Fundamentals Explained\nAutomatic updates to make sure the hack is working. 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Finding PSP games at no cost over the web isn\u2019t difficult, but finding the correct source is. With a bot, players can execute such a wide variety of functions within the game, without so much as playing. What\u2019s more, you may rest assured that all of the games and content you make it from these types of websites will be wholly virus-free and pose no risk to your device.\nThe Hidden Secret of Free Hack Art of Conquest\nThe aforementioned collection of sites are safe for children. First you need to begin by heading to the ideal site. Mentioned below are the sites for a few of the best internet chat rooms for children and teens. If you browse the web, you will come across many chat rooms meant exclusively for children and also having trusted security choices. You will receive unlimited accessibility to their wide range of multimedia content for so long as you desire, without needing to pay ever again. If you wish to get absolutely free resources, fill in the standard quantity of the resources that you require.\nKey Pieces of Free Hack Art of Conquest\nIn terms of picking a bot, it is necessary to go for the ones that have a fast turnaround time. So as to win, you\u2019re want to determine when the ideal time to play slot machines is for the casino that you\u2019re likely to visit. The best thing which you can do when attempting to find out when the ideal time to play slot machines, starts with the sort of machines to look for. Looking for expert tis in respect to playing slot machines, you might discover that the best times might be around 2AM and 4AM. You should dedicate a specific time each month for everyone to examine security procedures and your security policy to be sure they are well trained and happy employees. Always remember that you wouldn\u2019t win each and every day. It runs a whole 6 to ten hours on just a single set of batteries.\nThe standing of the manufacturer and the trustworthiness of the online source are as essential as with any buy, but you\u2019re purchasing a bit of art and its quality is even more important. Originally, it was produced by the famed U.S. Video game company named PopCap Games. The video game business is booming today, and there are a few truly futuristic consoles available for purchase in the industry. Then you\u2019ll have a world of a number of the very best Cydia applications for iPod touch. Not everybody can live the life I live, and not everyone is able to deal with the fashion of relationship a tattoo artist brings to the table. Therefore, the men and women wish to regain their freedom!\nThe Fundamentals of Free Hack Zombie Frontier 3 Revealed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 8417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/30/uconn-upsets-michigan-st-60-54-back-to-final-four-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTUPFOYWZAZICPP6JTIX54UYKCANOOPR", "length": 1139, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "newyork.cbslocal.com", "title": "UConn Upsets Michigan St 60-54, Back To Final Four \u2013 CBS New York", "raw_content": "UConn Upsets Michigan St 60-54, Back To Final Four\nFiled Under:Final Four, UConn\nShabazz Napier #13 and Ryan Boatright #11 of the Connecticut Huskies reacts after a play late in the game against the Michigan State Spartans during the East Regional Final of the 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 30, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Shabazz Napier scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half, and UConn beat Michigan State 60-54 to return to the Final Four a year after the Huskies were barred from the NCAA tournament.\nNapier hit three huge free throws with 37.6 seconds left in the East Regional final at Madison Square Garden to carry UConn to the Final Four just as Kemba Walker did in Napier\u2019s freshman year.\nThe Huskies (30-8) rallied from a nine-point second-half deficit to become the first No. 7 seed to reach the Final Four since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.\nFourth-seeded Michigan State\u2019s seniors become the first four-year players recruited by Tom Izzo to fail to reach the Final Four. Gary Harris led the Spartans (29-9) with 22 points.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 8560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newyork.legalexaminer.com/health/fda-prescription-drugs/injectafer-manufacturer-has-a-history-of-enticing-doctors-to-prescribe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ZX7RNAJTDWDI4SN2HM3LK5RS6OCKWTJN", "length": 3404, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "newyork.legalexaminer.com", "title": "Injectafer Manufacturer Has a History of Enticing Doctors to Prescribe | New York Personal Injury Lawyer", "raw_content": "Injectafer manufacturer Daiichi Sankyo is doubling down on their efforts to make more money with their injectable iron supplement, Injectafer, despite the fact that they are missing vital warnings about Injectafer\u2019s safety risks.\nConsidering the company\u2019s history of enticing doctors to use their products, it may not be surprising to learn that the Daiichi Sankyo group of companies seem to be putting company profits ahead of patient safety.\nInjectafer Manufacturer Focusing on Increasing Profits\nDaiichi Sankyo\u2019s annual report, released last November, revealed plans to \u201caccelerate Injectafer growth\u201d as well as to strengthen the drug\u2019s position as leader in the IV iron market, according to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. In 2016, the iron deficiency anemia treatment generated $221 million, but the company wants to increase that to $300 million.\nMeanwhile, studies show that Injectafer, more than competing products, increases the risk of both hypophosphatemia (HPP) and severe hypophosphatemia, conditions in which the body is deficient in phosphate. Symptoms at mild and moderate levels include muscle weakness, fatigue, tingling and numbness, and confusion, but patients who suffer from severe HPP can suffer from muscle wasting, respiratory failure, seizures, coma, and fatal arrhythmias.\nSo far, Daiichi Sankyo has not updated is product warnings to alert doctors and patients to this serious risk, and it looks like they have no current plans to do so.\nDaiichi Sankyo Pays $39 Million to Settle Allegations it Violated the False Claims Act\nIn 2015, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that Daiichi Sankyo had agreed to pay $39 million to settle kickback allegations under the False Claims Act.\nThe Anti-Kickback Statute makes it illegal for companies to pay doctors to influence their ordering or prescribing decisions. Yet the DOJ accused Daiichi Sankyo of just that, alleging that they had paid kickbacks in the form of speaking fees to induce doctors to prescribe several of their drugs, including Benicar, Tribenzor, and Tribenzor. The payments were made even when doctors \u201cspoke\u201d over Daiichi-paid dinners, or spoke only to members of their own staff.\nAs part of the settlement, the company agreed to undertake substantial internal compliance reforms for the next five years.\n\u201cSchemes such as this are particularly abhorrent,\u201d said Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson.\n\u201cManufacturers and physicians who engage in them are cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of millions of dollars and threatening programs upon which many elderly and disabled Americans rely.\u201d\nHe went on to say that \u201cwe will be closely monitoring Daiichi.\u201d\nInjectafer Linked with Serious Side Effects\nIn 2015, researchers reported that among patients treated with iron injections, only 22 percent treated with iron sucrose developed HPP, while 51 percent of those treated with ferric carboxymaltose (FCM\u2014the medication in Injectafer) did.\nIn 2016, scientists compared FCM with another supplement called iron isomaltoside, and found again that the risk of HPP was greater with FCM, and that only FCM created a risk of severe HPP. In 2017, scientists noted that results from clinical trials suggested a higher risk for HPP with certain iron injections, including FCM (Injectafer).\nTo this date, Daiichi Sankyo has not updated its product warnings to adequately reflect the risk of severe HPP.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nextdestinationunknown.com/2014/08/13/days-61-64-washington-idaho-montana/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RQFVGYJ32NBPAOE6ST3VYPKHL54YSWXZ", "length": 12305, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "nextdestinationunknown.com", "title": "Days 61-64: Washington, Idaho & Montana \u2013 Next Destination Unknown", "raw_content": "Blog Posts, Food, National Parks & Monuments, Places\nDays 61-64: Washington, Idaho & Montana\nAugust 13, 2014 February 2, 2019 Briana\nDay 61 (7/31/14): Anacortes, WA | Spokane, WA\nTime to start heading east. We began making our way over to Spokane, WA, Justin\u2019s old (short-lived) stomping grounds. Justin had lived in Spokane for a few months about 10 years ago, and since we\u2019d be passing through, he wanted to show me around. On the way, we passed the Wenatchee River where there was a nearby fire. We could see the smoke billowing over the mountaintops. We even saw a log still smoldering. Luckily though, the fire seemed to be fully contained at that point and didn\u2019t cause any delay in our travels.\nWe drove through Leavenworth, a cute little Bavarian town similar to Solvang, CA. All of the buildings stayed true to the Bavarian theme, even the gas stations. Unfortunately, since we were pressed for time and towing our trailer, we couldn\u2019t stop to check out the town. We wish we could have spent some time there. As we continued heading east, the landscape became barren and dry, not at all how I pictured the state of Washington. It\u2019s interesting how much the terrain can change within a single state. However, we started seeing pine trees again as we approached Spokane. We finally arrived at our RV park after sundown.\nDay 62 (8/1/14): Spokane, WA | Coeur d\u2019Alene, ID\nToday is our 2 month anniversary of being on the road! Justin surprised me this morning by taking me for breakfast at Frank\u2019s Diner, a neat restaurant in an old train car in downtown Spokane. While we were waiting to be seated, we happened to meet another couple who is also currently traveling by RV on an extended road trip. We got to talking about our experiences and swapped funny war stories of being on the road.\nWhen it came time for us to be seated, we ended up being placed at the counter next to our new friends, Mike and Judy. We continued talking over breakfast and learned that they also have a blog about all of their road trips! We exchanged info and plan on keeping in touch. We\u2019ve really enjoyed meeting nice people along the way. By the way, the food was outstanding! I had the Blueberry Muffin French Toast, and Justin had the Spicy Creole Benedict on a grilled biscuit\u2026yum!\nInside Frank\u2019s Diner\nOur new friends, Mike & Judy!\nSpicy Creole Benedict\nAfter breakfast, we headed to the South Hill area. The neighborhoods were great with their tree-lined streets and older brick and craftsman-style houses, many of which had been refurbished. We visited the Japanese Garden and walked the dogs around Manito Park. Next, we went back to downtown Spokane where we strolled around Riverfront Park along the Spokane River and took photos of the lovely Spokane Falls from the pedestrian bridges.\nThe Spokane River at Riverfront Park\nThen we drove about 30 miles east into Idaho to visit Coeur d\u2019Alene. There was a street fair going on near the lake. We walked around for a bit, but it was about 100 degrees outside, and the black asphalt of the street wasn\u2019t helping.\nWe decided to cool off inside Hudson\u2019s Hamburgers. Multiple people had told us that we had to try their burgers while we were in Coeur d\u2019Alene. When we sat down at the counter, we asked for a menu, but the waitress pointed to a board on the wall saying that was it. The only items listed on the \u201cmenu\u201d were Hamburger, Double Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Double Cheeseburger, Egg Sandwich, Ham & Egg Sandwich and Pie.\nWhen I ordered a cheeseburger and asked for no tomatoes on it (I absolutely despise tomatoes), they said the burgers don\u2019t come with tomatoes or lettuce, just pickles and onions. There were 3 sauces on the counter to choose from: Ketchup, Spicy Ketchup and Spicy Mustard (no regular mustard). There are also no french fries. We then noticed a T-shirt on their wall saying something to the effect of \u201cNo fries, no onion rings, no bacon, no avocado, no cheddar cheese, no lettuce, no tomatoes, no shakes, no credit cards, no\u2026, no\u2026, no\u2026\u201d Haha!\nHudson\u2019s Hamburgers\nWe were taken aback at the simplicity of their menu and it\u2019s items but knew we had to just go with it and at least have a burger. A guy prepares the burger in front of you and hand-cuts the pickles and onions himself. As basic as the burgers were, they were actually pretty good. We\u2019re glad we tried them. It was definitely an interesting experience, to say the least. \ud83d\ude42\nDay 63 (8/2/14): Spokane, WA | Missoula, MT\nThe past few days had been hectic with traveling and sight-seeing. As we were driving to Montana, I started calling campgrounds to check on their availability for the weekend. We had originally wanted to stay close to Glacier National Park as that was the main point of interest we wanted to see in Montana. However, all the nearby campgrounds were already completely booked. Luckily, we found a campground in Missoula with one back-in site left. It wasn\u2019t our first choice for places to stay, but unfortunately, it was the only option available. We had only backed into a couple sites before and prefer pull-throughs as they\u2019re much easier to get in and out of.\nWhen we got to the campground, we were disappointed (as was Saucy) to find that the grass at the sites was dead. Also, the back-in site they gave us was extremely short and narrow with trees on both sides. We did a 50-point turn trying to get the trailer into the site, but the trees were blocking our entrance door as well as our slide on the other side. After more maneuvering plus help from a neighbor, we finally got the trailer situated. However, there was no room to park our truck at the site, so we had to park it across the way in a field (don\u2019t ask).\nAfter being stuck with such an awful campsite, we wanted to book our next several campgrounds in advance to avoid unavailability. When we went to research future campgrounds though, we discovered that the WiFi service at our current site was practically non-existent and unusable. We ended up having to drive down the street to a Starbucks to use their WiFi. Definitely not ideal. Luckily though, we were able to find our next campground, which was a huge relief. Also, there was a nice sunset that evening with a red sun.\nDay 64 (8/3/14): Glacier National Park | West Glacier, MT\nWe reserved today for Glacier National Park, and it\u2019s a good thing we did because we spent the entire day there! There was so much to see! You absolutely must go to Glacier if you haven\u2019t been yet! There are no words to accurately describe the pure beauty of the Park. Take an RV with a National Park RV Rental to explore all that Glacier NP and Montana have to offer. To be honest, I wasn\u2019t really a fan of Montana until Glacier National Park. Montana, you\u2019ve won me over! Also, Montana has been the first place so far to match up with my idea of it. The landscape of most states have been completely different from what I imagined them to be, but Montana was true to my imagination.\nMore of the lake (it was huge!)\nOn the way from Missoula though, we drove through Polson where we were pulled over by a police officer next to Flathead Lake. Apparently, we were speeding but were completely unaware that the speed limit had gradually decreased from 70 mph all the way down to 35 mph as we approached the town. The last speed limit sign we had seen was for 45 mph (we must have missed the 35 mph sign), so we were going 51 mph. Luckily though, the police officer was really nice. When we told him it was our first time driving through Polson heading to Glacier National Park for the day, he let us go with just a warning. Thank you, Mr. Police Officer!!! We promise we\u2019ve paid much better attention to the speed limit signs since then!\nWe continued driving and passed through the quaint town of Kalispell. After entering Glacier National Park at the Apgar Visitor Center, we were driving next to Lake McDonald. There wasn\u2019t a good view of the lake from the road as the roadside was heavily wooded. We weren\u2019t too impressed initially but decided to pull over anyway to try to get a better close-up view of the lake. Thank goodness we did! Once we reached the shoreline of the lake, we were astonished at how crystal clear the water was! We could see every single pebble in the lake!\nThe beautifully clear lake begged us to take a dip in it. With no bathing suits though, we were only able to put our bare feet in the water. It felt freeing\u2026 and painful! The pebbles were not easy (or comfortable) to walk on. Haha! It was still incredible though to be able to stand in a glacial lake. With a beautiful mountain backdrop, Justin skipped pebbles across the lake as I watched from the shore. If we had had some lounge chairs, I think we could have stayed there all day gazing at the beautiful lake and its pebble-covered floor.\nMy feet are actually in the water, but you can\u2019t tell because of how clear the water is!\nWe finally tore ourselves away from the lake and continued driving until we came across the impressive McDonald Falls. You can hike right up to the falls where the water is incredibly blue. I\u2019ve decided that when we settle down after this trip, I want at least one wall in our next place to be painted the same shade of teal as the water of the falls to remind me of their beauty. Next, we made our way up the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The climbing road is extremely narrow at times (especially for a truck) with steep drop-offs on the side. I don\u2019t do well driving in those conditions, but the gorgeous views made the nerve-wracking experience worth it, almost making me forget how treacherous the drive was.\nWe saw Heavens Peak with its shimmering snow and icy ridges glistening in the sunlight. Next, we came to one of my favorite sights in the park: Haystack Creek Falls (it\u2019s difficult to decide on a single favorite place in the park as everything is unbelievably scenic). The falls seem to flow directly out of the mountain and cascade under the road through a bridge where they continue down the hillside. It\u2019s such an incredible sight as you\u2019re driving along the road, turn a corner and see it ahead in the distance.\nHaystack Creek Falls\nLater in the day, we eventually reached Logan Pass, the highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road at 6,646 feet. Near the Visitors Center are lovely views of surrounding mountains and meadows. From there, we went to the Jackson Glacier Overlook where we got a clear view of the glacier. Of the remaining 25 glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier is the seventh largest. After stopping to see the glacier, we continued driving until we reached the end of the Going-to-the-Sun Road at the Saint Mary Visitor Center.\nOn the way back, we pulled over at Bird Woman Falls, another waterfall right on the side of the road where we witnessed a rainbow at the base of the fall (magical!). We also stopped at the Mountain Goat Research Area where we got up close and personal with some wild mountain goats! What an incredible day! Out of all the National Parks and National Monuments we\u2019ve seen so far, Glacier National Park has been our favorite.\nWild Mountain Goats!\nTagged Anacortes WA, Apgar Visitor Center, back-in RV site, back-in trailer site, Bavarian town, Bird Woman Falls, bridge, central Washington, Coeur d'Alene ID, cross-country road trip, driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road with a truck, featured, fire, Flathead Lake, Frank's Diner, Frank's Diner Spokane, full time RVing, full-time RVers, glacial lake, glacier, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Haystack Creek Falls, Heavens Peak, highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Hudson's Hamburgers, Jackson Glacier, Jackson Glacier Overlook, Japanese Garden, Kalispell MT, Lake McDonald, Leavenworth, Logan Pass, Manito Park, McDonald Falls, Missoula MT, mountain goat research area, mountain goats, national park, National Park RV Rental, National Park RVing, Polson MT, pull-through RV site, pull-through trailer site, Riverfront Park, road trip, RV life, RV Rental for Glacier National Park, RV road trip, RV to National Park, RVing, RVing to Glacier National Park, Saint Mary MT, Saint Mary Visitor Center, seeing America, Spokane Falls, Spokane River, Spokane South Hill, Spokane WA, travel life, Wenatchee River, WiFi at campgrounds\nPrevious postDays 57-60: Oregon, Washington & BC, Canada\nNext postDays 65-68: Montana & Wyoming", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 23021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nhvacationpackages.com/adventure-suites-in-north-conway-nh-21.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FIIWLPR7VJZWUOF6XO7WKYF6PFLDPYMU", "length": 635, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nhvacationpackages.com", "title": "Adventure Suites North Conway", "raw_content": "Tucked away in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire you will find a hotel like no other. The Adventure Suites of North Conway New Hampshire is one of a kind. The Adventure Suites offer themed rooms ranging from Log cabin themes, a cave, Victorian spa, a tree house and the jungle, just to name a few!\nThe hotel has a 1950\u2019s themed diner located right next to the lobby. They offer a free hot breakfast every morning, they will even bring it to your room for you.\nEven though there is SO much to do in the North Conway area such as shopping, hiking, sightseeing and much more\u2026 You may never want to leave your Adventure Suite!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nicolagriffith.com/2011/04/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NGS26PL74BMHF7FZPTSFRV6T53YD4TLA", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nicolagriffith.com", "title": "11 | Apr | 2011 | Nicola Griffith", "raw_content": "If you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I\u2019ll be MC\u2019ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 179.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nocklab.fas.harvard.edu/crisis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FUME7MER6X6VKJ65SXPDGU7AMCI6ZEZA", "length": 99, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nocklab.fas.harvard.edu", "title": "Crisis Management | Nock Lab", "raw_content": "If you are thinking about harming yourself or attempting suicide, please tell someone who can help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://northfieldyarn.com/2018/11/shop-small/img_20181120_092924/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:JX6O7O3DZGF35XSNFNMMAKQREQ7642OK", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "northfieldyarn.com", "title": "IMG_20181120_092924 | Northfield Yarn", "raw_content": "Published November 21, 2018 at 768 \u00d7 764 in Shop Small.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 112.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://northofboston.org/listings/patterson-house-mary-baker-eddy-historic-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NUGP6OSYEVNQQPED46PZDSUHKWO22GAV", "length": 775, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "northofboston.org", "title": "Patterson House / Mary Baker Eddy Historic House - North of Boston", "raw_content": "Patterson House / Mary Baker Eddy Historic House\n23 Paradise Road, Swampscott, MA 01907\nhttp://www.longyear.org/historic-houses/swampscott-massachusetts-0\nStep into the home where Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science) experienced the healing through prayer that would bring great changes to her life, and to the lives of many others. She was brought here the morning after a fall on an icy sidewalk in nearby Lynn in February 1866. Although it looked as though the effects of the accident would prove fatal, she found herself suddenly healed while reading a New Testament account of one of Jesus\u2019 healings. The profound insight she glimpsed at that moment led to a fresh understanding of the Bible and to her discovery of Christian Science.\nNothing found nearby\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://northshoreacademyofthearts.com/about-nsaa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:47Z", "digest": "sha1:H4YDHHBSALGJIHABJVHCQ6MTG74OBSC2", "length": 1932, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "northshoreacademyofthearts.com", "title": "About NSAA \u00ab North Shore Academy of the Arts", "raw_content": "Note From The Founder and President\nResearch has shown that kids who are in the arts do better in other subjects, score higher on standardized tests, stay out of trouble, and are more likely to graduate and go to college. Many of the skills required to succeed in today\u2019s work force are the same skills learned from participating in a program in the arts, such as problem solving, self-motivation, discipline, and teamwork.\nAt North Shore Academy of the Arts, Inc., we believe in the value of the arts, not only for what it can do for our culture, but what it can provide for our future; in helping our participants discover and nurture their talents and realize their dreams.\nWith a powerful board of leadership, supporting businesses, volunteer community members, as well as the experienced staff of instructors, this not-for-profit company provides opportunities to everyone in the community to learn, grow, blossom and flourish in the arts and in their own personal growth.\nWe\u2019d like to thank all of those who have shared with us at NSAA, and we look forward to our expansion and continued success as we offer the full spectrum of opportunities from dabbling in the arts to providing pathways to reach for the stars!\nSheri Bestor\nNorth Shore Academy of the Arts, Inc. (NSAA) is a not-for-profit company dedicated to offering high caliber opportunities in the performing, visual, and literary arts to all ages. It is designed to encourage, inspire and promote creativity while fostering a cultural appreciation of the arts in our communities. NSAA promotes a sense of self worth, responsibility, and strength of character while providing individuals and families the means to recognize and develop talents, interests, assets, and aspirations. Beyond the arts, NSAA strives to build healthy communities through the development of positive values and a commitment that will be evident across all cultural and socio-economic groups.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/01/its_time_for_a_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:HEQG4IIGCPLWGNQ4IWYJWVAVBKGVZHWC", "length": 7082, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "novaspivack.typepad.com", "title": "This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com: It's Time for a Virtual Species Diversity Ark", "raw_content": "\u00ab Proposal for an \"RSS Algebra\" | Main | Virtual Currency Exchange Between Gameworlds Goes Live \u00bb\nA new article projects that global warming will eliminate up 1 million species by 2050 -- up to nearly 40% of all species. Combine that with the vast number of species that are being wiped out because of human activity (industrialization, elimination of habitats, pollution, over-fishing, etc.) and we are on the brink of losing a dramatic portion of our planetary's genetic diversity. From these trends combined we may lose up to 90% of all species within a short timeframe in fact.\nThis is a major \"security threat\" to human civilization, human freedom and human life. Humanity cannot survive without its biosphere and web of life to support it. We are about to lose a large part of our \"life support\" system -- Why isn't the government as alarmed about this as they are about terrorism? There should be an \"environmental alert system\" like the \"terrorism alert\" system provided by USA Homeland Security. And if this system existed, we should presently be at \"Red Alert\" -- there is a certain, unavoidable incoming threat. There is no uncertainty and our intelligence is 100% reliable. Mass-extinctions are happening now and will only get worse. Nothing can be done to prevent this. It's already too late. We need to focus on survival and preservation at this point.\nEach species is a different kind of machine that is highly evolved and adapted to particular problems. Its taken billions of years to evolve these machines and many of these machines depend on other organisms (other machines) to survive and reproduce. If we lose even a few of them we may face unexpected chain reactions that lead to the loss of entire ecosystems.\nWho knows how many undiscovered new medicines, new nano-technologies, new chemical and physical processes we will lose in the process? And even if that is not important to some people, everyone can relate to the direct impact that massive species loss will have on everyday human life. What will we do if our atmosphere is not breathable, our water is not drinkable, we cannot grow crops anymore, wildlife is so depleted that forests start dying and the oceans die, strange new diseases appear but natures natural cures and balancing functions are extinct, and our atmosphere begins to change irreperably? Will we be able to live on the surface of our planet anymore? Or will humans eventally become extinct too? This is what we are facing.\nIt is too late to stop this from happening. Humanity and industrialization cannot be controlled. But we can at least start now to preserve the vital genetic technologies that these soon-to-be-extinct species represent. We must start building a library of well-preserved, documented genomes of species that are likely to go extinct. We need to document not only the genetic structure of each organism, but also whatever is necessary in order for each organism to survive and reproduce successfully.\nJust storing DNA is not enough. The mere ability to clone organisms does not enable us to reproduce and reconstitute them. Many species, such as elephants, whales and primates for example, require very particular and long incubation, extensive and specialized parenting and support, feeding, training and complex symbiotic orgasims and habitats in order to develop, survive and reproduce. Even if we can clone them, we may not be able to rear them or enable them to reproduce. We need to focus on this problem.\nThe biosphere and web of life cannot function without the many species that regulate it, feed it, and drive it. What would happen to a person if we eliminated 40% to 90% of their organs? They could not survive! The biosphere functions as the \"organs\" of our planet -- it regulates carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, temperature, ocean currents, wind currents, food supply, diseases, crops, forests, desertification, waste conversion, chemical conversion, and just about every other essential process that enables human civilizations to survive. Terrorism is nothing compared to the threat of destroying our biosphere. At worst terrorists might knock out a city. But biosphere destruction and loss of species diversity will destroy entire continents, and ultimately will make this planet uninhabitable by humans. This is not science fiction. The rate of change in the biosphere is non-linear and subject to sudden, unpredictable changes from small perturbations. Exponentially cascading processes can result from unexpectedly minor changes to critical balances. What does this mean? It means that if we wipe out 40% of species on earth it is not unrealistic for humanity to be either extinct or unable to live on earth (at least without full life support systems) by the year 3000 or sooner. That's a short period of time -- less than the time-scale of a civilization.\nGenetic diversity is not only essential for the survival and functioning of our biosphere, but it represents millions (even billions) of years of natural innovation. Nature has engineered solutions to problems we have today, and problems we will have in the future -- in the form of species that have adapted to various constraints. By wiping out those species, we are essentially erasing our natural \"technology portfolio\" of collective \"intellectual property.\" This is truly the tragedy of the commons in action. In a few short decades the industrial age will have wiped out much of this irreplaceable \"genetic technology.\" There is no way to replicate that technology without millions of years of natural evolution. If we lose it, it's gone. We will never get it back. With each lost species we may lose irreplaceable genetic technologies that could enable or guide priceless innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, medicine, agriculture, and every other field of science. We must build a biodiversity ark, while we still have time.\nNo species is an island. Life is a web -- a complex interdependent system. We need to preserve whole ecosystems, not just the individual components that comprise them. This is a major conservation project, and it will require new technology, extensive research, new technologies, serious long-term international government funding, and the cooperation of researchers, industry, and local communities around the world.\nTo protect this \"ark\" it should not exist in any one place. In fact we should make copies of it in as many places as we can. And perhaps even store at least one copy offworld -- on the moon, or in orbit -- so it is really immune to earth changes. This \"virtual ark\" (My friends call it \"Nova's ark\") is critical to the future of the human species, human civilization, and in fact the entire planetary ecosystem. And who knows how unique life is in the universe? If we are one of only a few rare oasis in a vast lifeless cosmos, then we have even more of a responsibility to preserve our unique ecologies.\nPosted on January 07, 2004 at 01:22 PM in Biology, Environment, Genetic Engineering, Medicine, Science, Society, Technology, The Future, Wild Speculation | Permalink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 349, "original_length": 20233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/productivity/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:49:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MNOEYXIE3LD7KB2TLZ2PQPZFP6T2VPCD", "length": 2712, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "novaspivack.typepad.com", "title": "This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com: Productivity", "raw_content": "40 posts categorized \"Productivity\"\nScrybe -- A Beautiful Ajax Organizer App\nThis online video preview of the upcoming Web-based organizer, Scrybe. The app has an unusually elegant and innovative AJAX interface. It's beautifully designed. Watch the video.\nPosted on October 22, 2006 at 12:30 AM in AJAX, Business, Collaboration Tools, Cool Products, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Software, Web 2.0, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nPosted on September 22, 2006 at 07:34 PM in Collaboration Tools, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Virtual Reality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nNew Way to Extend Mobile Device Battery Life\nHP researchers have devised a new way to save power on mobile devices by only activating the part of a device's display that the user is actually looking at.\nPosted on March 11, 2005 at 01:04 PM in Mobile Computing, Productivity, Technology, Web/Tech, Wireless Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)\nZapping Your Brain Improves Verbal Skills\nNew research has found that running a mild electric current through your brain can significantly boost your verbal skills, with no side-effects, as far as anyone knows so far. Very interesting. It appears to decrease the firing threshold of neurons in the path of the current. This research was applied mainly to the frontal lobe of the brain. I wonder what it might do to other brain regions? Fascinating discovery.\nPosted on October 27, 2004 at 03:29 PM in Alternative Science, Biology, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Fringe, Medicine, Productivity, Science, Technology, The Future | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)\nGoogle's Browser Project...And Ours...\nSo, rumor has it that Google is working on a browser and/or other software to challenge Microsoft. And, what's more, this may be based on Mozilla.... interesting.... If true, the folks at Google should get in touch with me... without disclosing too much (yet), we are working on a project (with SRI, for DARPA) to build a Java-based fully-semantic open-sourced PIM that grafts Mozilla onto my company's Semantic Applications Platform. The result is an integrated cross-platform OWL-ontology-based PIM suite...Basically it's \"Semantic Mozilla\" and will set the stage for Mozilla to become the platform for the Semantic Web. Public open-source release date is set for summer 2005, but it's already working now in the lab. You won't believe how cool it is...working on this feels like NCSA and the early days of Mosaic... to be continued....\nPosted on September 20, 2004 at 07:23 PM in Collaboration Tools, Email, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Semantic Web, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (7)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 724, "original_length": 100428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/science/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QMESIOUYSNT4XOUUXKQWF2HQXBJ6TNW2", "length": 9140, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "novaspivack.typepad.com", "title": "This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com: Science", "raw_content": "New Photon Thruster: Get to Mars in 1 Week!\nAn interesting new patent pending design for a photon thruster appears to be the real deal. Check out the article and who is behind it. (A fellow SRI alumnus!). Getting to Mars in a week means getting to the moon, as well as other nearby planets would be quite fast as well. This could be quite revolutionary.\nTUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 7, 2007 -- An amplified photon thruster that could potentially shorten the trip to Mars from six months to a week has reportedly attracted the attention of aerospace agencies and contractors.\nYoung Bae, founder of the Bae Institute in Tustin, Calif., first demonstrated his photonic laser thruster (PLT), which he built with off-the-shelf components, in December.\nPosted on September 13, 2007 at 07:42 PM in Physics, Science, Space, Travel | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)\nRussian Scientists Discover Radiation Absorbing Mineral\nRussian scientists in the Khibinsky Mountains in the Arctic Circle have made an important scientific discovery. They've found a new mineral which absorbs radiation. It does not yet have an official name and is known only as number 27-4. It can absorb radioactivity from liquid nuclear waste.\nPosted on September 07, 2007 at 10:08 AM in Environment, Physics, Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nScientists Engineer New Levitation Technology\nRecent research has found a way to reverse the Casimir force, which causes objects to stick together at nanoscales. This enables nanoscale levitation -- among other things it could dramatically reduce friction in nanodevices. It could also enable new kinds of nanodevices in which for example rotating parts are levitated and held in place using the reverse Casimir force rather than by nanoscale axles or housings. For example nanowheels on a nanobot could perhaps be held in place and could turn without an axle. This could simplify the geometry of nanodevices, reducing the cost of manufacturing of more complex devices while also reducing the number of parts that could break. In addition, reversing the Casimir force could eliminate the main cause of friction (called \"stiction\") in nandevices -- it causes parts to stick together such that they can't even move. The solution to this problem has traditionally been to test and discard a percentage of defective nanodevices after production. Eliminating stiction by reversing the Casimir force could perhaps reduce these costs and make the process of nanomanufacturing more efficient.\nSt Andrews scientists have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects - paving the way for future applications in nanotechnology.\nTheoretical physicists at the University of St Andrews have created `incredible levitation effects' by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force. By reversing this phenomenon, known as `Casimir force', the scientists hope to solve the problem of tiny objects sticking together in existing novel nanomachines.\nProfessor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin of the University's School of Physics & Astronomy believe that they can engineer the Casimir force of quantum physics to cause an object to repel rather than attract another in a vacuum.\nCasimir force (discovered in 1948 and first measured in 1997) can be demonstrated in a gecko's ability to stick to a surface with just one toe. However, it can cause practical problems in nanotechnology, and ways of preventing tiny objects from sticking to each other is the source of much interest.\nFound here via link from Bram.\nPosted on August 07, 2007 at 05:22 PM in Physics, Science, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nPosted on July 01, 2007 at 11:00 AM in Fringe, Interspecies Communication, Physics, Science, Unexplained | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)\nBrilliant New Optical Imaging Technique -- Single Photon Imaging\nSome very interesting research out of University of Rochester. Researchers there have found a way to record and later retrieve an image using only a single photon. This is cool enough -- but wait, there's more -- they did this by leveraging the famous \"double slit\" experiment of quantum mechanics in a really smart way. Why didn't I think of this??? Duh!\nTo produce the UR image, Howell simply shone a beam of light through a stencil with the U and R etched out. Anyone who has made shadow puppets knows how this works, but Howell turned down the light so much that a single photon was all that passed through the stencil.\nQuantum mechanics dictates some strange things at that scale, so that bit of light could be thought of as both a particle and a wave. As a wave, it passed through all parts of the stencil at once, carrying the \"shadow\" of the UR with it. The pulse of light then entered a four-inch cell of cesium gas at a warm 100 degrees Celsius, where it was slowed and compressed, allowing many pulses to fit inside the small tube at the same time.\nPosted on January 20, 2007 at 09:48 PM in Physics, Science, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nNew Simulation Explains Why Extraterrestrial Life Hasn't Found Us Yet\nInteresting new study...\nIt ranks among the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos. Physicists call it the Fermi paradox after the Italian Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, who, in 1950, pointed out the glaring conflict between predictions that life was elsewhere in the universe - and the conspicuous lack of aliens who have come to visit.\nNow a Danish researcher believes he may have solved the paradox. Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look.\n(via Kurzweil)\nMy guess is that the numbers might be different however. An alien civilization that could send out probes at one tenth the speed of light would probably be smart enough to create self-replicating probes, in order to generate thousands or millions of probes over time. This might bring the numbers down significantly -- although perhaps still not enough.\nPosted on January 19, 2007 at 08:07 AM in Fringe, Philosophy, Science, Space | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nNew Wireless Power Technology -- No More Wires!\nA group of physicists at MIT have come up with a new model for beaming wireless power to mobile devices, such as computers or cell phones. It promises to do for power, what wireless ethernet hubs do for network connectivity.\nI've been interested in wireless power ever since I first read the biography of Nikola Tesla in the early 1990's. Tesla was perhaps the most important inventor of the 20th century -- he singlehandedly invented much of what enables the modern electrical power grid today. He also pioneered radio, and many other technologies. But his greatest dream was wireless power. He believed he had discovered a way to beam electricity to any point on earth and embarked on several ambitious projects to test and commercialize his appraoch. But sadly his projects were never completed due to funding problems and interference by competitors and investors who had conflicting business interests. By the end of his life Tesla was a lonely and forgotten man, feeding pidgeons in the park. At his death, many of his lab notebooks were confiscated and classified as Top Secret by the US military -- never to be seen again -- (and at least some this confiscated information was later used as the foundation for the Star Wars particle beam weaponry program). The greatest electrical genius in history was just too far ahead of his own time.\nTesla's work has still not been fully understood or replicated today. But what remains unclassified is a treasure trove of invention of great relevance to the world we live in today. In 2003 I blogged an article, called \"I Want Wireless Power\" outlining why I want this technology. Another great article about this opportunity is here.\nPosted on November 15, 2006 at 04:32 PM in Defense and Intelligence, Military, Mobile Computing, New Energy Sources, Physics, Science, Technology, The Future, Wireless Power, Wireless Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)\nIs Moral Judgement Hard-Wired Into the Brain?\nA Harvard University researcher believes that moral judgement is hard-wired into the brain:\nThe moral grammar now universal among people presumably evolved to its final shape during the hunter-gatherer phase of the human past, before the dispersal from the ancestral homeland in northeast Africa some 50,000 years ago. This may be why events before our eyes carry far greater moral weight than happenings far away, Dr. Hauser believes, since in those days one never had to care about people remote from ones environment.\nDr. Hauser believes that the moral grammar may have evolved through the evolutionary mechanism known as group selection. A group bound by altruism toward its members and rigorous discouragement of cheaters would be more likely to prevail over a less cohesive society, so genes for moral grammar would become more common.\nPosted on November 01, 2006 at 05:33 PM in Biology, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 773, "original_length": 101608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nushpress.com/2017/02/07/ed-sheerans-new-album/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RHN54M47K3DDGHLUZND6MKMMKKAMH7SK", "length": 1909, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nushpress.com", "title": "Ed Sheeran\u2019s New Album | nushpress", "raw_content": "Ed Sheeran\u2019s New Album\nSince taking a break from the music industry and going on a year-long social media hiatus, British pop singer, Ed Sheeran disappeared almost entirely from the limelight. However, it seems that Sheeran finally decided that he had kept his fans waiting for too long. Fans can rejoice as he announces the upcoming release of a new album, Divide, two and a half years after his last album.\nFrom the two recently-released songs, it looks like Sheeran will be going out of his comfort zone to explore other genres in his new album. Shape of You, one of the album\u2019s singles, is proof that Sheeran has hopped on board the tropical house trend that has taken over mainstream pop. Expanding his range of genres was definitely the right move as the catchy pop single debuted at number one on at least 25 music charts.\nSheeran\u2019s second song, Castle on the Hill, retains more of his signature style with its nostalgic lyrics reminiscing the simpler times of his youth. It did about as well as Shape of You, peaking at number 2 on just as many music charts as the pop single.\nWith both songs debuting in the top two positions in the same week, the Grammy Award-winning singer made history on two separate music charts \u2013 not bad for an artist who took such a long break from the music scene.\nIt had all started with the cryptic social media posts of a blank sky blue image. Then came the numerous teaser trailers, and even a website solely dedicated to hinting at the new album\u2019s release. Now, with two newly-released songs making their way up the music charts and their accompanying music videos amassing millions of views, it is clear that the hype was worth it.\nSheeran has made a massive comeback and it definitely seems like he\u2019s here to stay.\nTagged with: clarisse, ed sheeran, february interest 2017, journalism, music, review\nPrevious PostWrite Something Worth Reading\nNext PostProcrastination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 5819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 221.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nwicc.edu/directory/name/jason-anderson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WXF7PHKGPYAGGDPRZOEHXSGK6SPZDTRT", "length": 1416, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nwicc.edu", "title": "Jason Anderson \u00bb Faculty & Staff Directory - Northwest Iowa Community College", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Jason Anderson \u00bb Faculty & Staff Directory\nJason Anderson \u00bb Faculty & Staff Directory\nDirector \u2013 Workforce & Economic Development Phone: (712) 324-5066 x194work Email: janderson@nwicc.eduINTERNET\nMA, Minnesota State University \u2013 Mankato\nJasonAnderson is the Director of Economic Development & Workforce Training at Northwest Iowa Community College. He is a graduate of Southwest Minnesota State University (BA) (Marshall, MN), where he completed a dual major in Public Administration and Political Science. He is presently working toward a Masters in Urban & Regional Studies from Minnesota State University (Mankato, MN). He has facilitated development and leadership related programs for Northwest Iowa Community College, where he: provides assistance in the development and coordination of the new and existing Jobs Training Programs (260E and F programs) for Area IV (Northwest Iowa); provides guidance to individual manufacturing, processing and professional service firms to assist in identifying training and development needs; aids in the development of training and development plans; monitors the implementation of training and development plans for individuals and programs; develops and facilitates workshops on leadership, facilitation, human relations, communication and other \u201csoft skill\u201d areas; and provides consultation to company leadership and management as well as individual contributors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 4640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ohiostateicons.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:AXKTI3HJKV3WI7YQ4C4BBKBNHDR46QVR", "length": 1445, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ohiostateicons.com", "title": "Ohio State Icons |", "raw_content": "You can own a special memorabilia presentation of the most celebrated football player, basketball player and golfer in the history of Ohio State University. Archie Griffin, Jerry Lucas and Jack Nicklaus are also three of the most well known athletes in sports history.\nThis is a once in a lifetime opportunity. These three athletes will never sign photos to be used together in another project. The individual photos are 11\u201d by 14\u201d. The overall size of the framed photos is 25\u201d by 42 \u00bd\u201d. Purchased photographs will be free of watermarks. Those were placed on the website version of the photographs only to protect originality of the files.\nProceeds from the sale of these photos will go toward the production of Jerry Lucas\u2019 educational website that will be known as Dr. M\u2019s Universe. Jerry Lucas has worked for more than 40 years to create educational material that will revolutionize the educational process to make learning fun and easy for all involved. You can click on the Dr. M\u2019s Universe words above to see a short video explanation of Dr. M\u2019s Universe.\n\u00a9 All rights reserved. All content within this website including, but not limited to, text, images, illustrations, audio and video clips, is protected by copyright, trademark, service mark, and/or other intellectual property rights (which are governed by U.S. and worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions, privacy and publicity laws, and communication regulations and statutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 160.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://once-upon-a-time-life.fandom.com/wiki/Viruses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:B335K6OAD4QWB6K6LFPNX24E5XUXW2EO", "length": 707, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "once-upon-a-time-life.fandom.com", "title": "Viruses | Once Upon a Time... Life Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Infection agents\nbetween 20 and 300 nanometers\nUse the cells of human body to reproduce.\nViruses are recurring characters and antagonists in Once Upon a Time... Life. Their goal is to use human tissues for reproduction.\nAll viruses shown in the series have similar form. They resemble Nabot, the thin bully and one of the antagonists from Once Upon a Time... Space. They usually appear as segmented, yellow worms, often accompanied by green stripes or marks. The leader has a kite-shaped head with a long, red nose and three-directions red hair. Viruses do not always look as worms, as they can have different bodies as well.\nRetrieved from \"https://once-upon-a-time-life.fandom.com/wiki/Viruses?oldid=4342\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://online-ams.aiha.org/amsssa/ecssashop.show_product_detail?p_product_serno=929&p_mode=detail&p_cust_id=&p_session_serno=18493820&p_trans_ty=&p_order_serno=&p_promo_cd=&p_price_cd=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XUVG2J2QNFVKPUSLVWKWKHBLYBIUV4BS", "length": 285, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "online-ams.aiha.org", "title": "Self Serve Portal", "raw_content": "Nine new or revised guidelines! Acetic Anhydride, n-Butyl Isocyanate, 2-Chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, Epichlorohyrin, Fluorosulfonic Acid, 1-Hexene, Methylene Chloride, Triethoxysilane, and Uranium Trioxide.\nAuthor/Editor: Written by the Emergency Response Planning (ERP) Committee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=PMC5036754_ijerph-13-00921-g008&req=4", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:25Z", "digest": "sha1:56CH3JZW2NA7E7S2SKLYRQENNLMFSE6N", "length": 2724, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "openi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Seasonal distribution of PM2.5 concentrations for three | Open-i", "raw_content": "Spatial and Temporal Variations of PM 2.5 and Its Relation to Meteorological Factors in the Urban Area of Nanjing, China\nThe serious air pollution problem has aroused widespread public concerns in China. Nanjing city, as one of the famous cities of China, is faced with the same situation. This research aims to investigate spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and the influence of weather factors on PM2.5 in Nanjing using Spearman-Rank analysis and the Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN) method. Hourly PM2.5 observation data and daily meteorological data were collected from 1 April 2013 to 31 December 2015. The spatial distribution result shows that the Maigaoqiao site suffered the most serious pollution. Daily PM2.5 concentrations in Nanjing varied from 7.3 μg/m3 to 336.4 μg/m3. The highest concentration was found in winter and the lowest in summer. The diurnal variation of PM2.5 increased greatly from 6 to 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m., while the concentration exhibited few variations in summer. In addition, the concentration was slightly higher on weekends compared to weekdays. PM2.5 was found to exhibit a reversed relation with wind speed, relative humidity, and precipitation. Although temperature had a positive association with PM2.5 in most months, a negative correlation was observed during the whole period. Additionally, a high concentration was mainly brought with the wind with a southwest direction and several relevant factors are discussed to explain the difference of the impacts of diverse wind directions.\nijerph-13-00921-f008: Seasonal distribution of PM2.5 concentrations for three years based on the CEEMDAN decomposition results.\nMentions: In general, low-frequency signals contain yearly variations while high frequency signals include sudden changes. IMFs from IMF1 to IMF6 mean the period less than a year while IMF8 represents inter-annual changes. In addition, the IMF7 represents the cycle of about a year. Therefore, the original signal was reconstructed by getting together the IMFs without IMF8 and the residue to obtain seasonal changes of PM2.5 mass concentration in Nanjing. The mean concentration in each season was computed by averaging the reconstructed data series in the four seasons. Figure 8 shows the mean concentration in the different seasons of three years, where the data are not complete in the spring and winter of 2013. Several details can be seen: (1) the seasonal PM2.5 concentration varied greatly; (2) the highest concentration was always found in winter while the lowest was in summer; and (3) the concentration in winter of 2015 was a little higher than in 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 10806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openopps.com/tenders/contract-for-the-supply-of-immunoglobulins/ocds-0c46vo-0005-16648", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4JMKHICFF3LG3QBNNON5CJ72MMHZK7NW", "length": 220, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "openopps.com", "title": "Contract for the supply of immunoglobulins - OpenOpps.com - never miss an opportunity. https://openopps.com/tenders/contract-for-the-supply-of-immunoglobulins/ocds-0c46vo-0005-16648", "raw_content": "Contract for the supply of immunoglobulins\nContract for the supply of immunoglobulins to the Department of Health\nhttps://openopps.com/tenders/contract-for-the-supply-of-immunoglobulins/ocds-0c46vo-0005-16648?format=json", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 12599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pamplinmedia.com/nbg/241-education/418200-321408-newberg-high-proposes-new-classes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5B4QPLXHSBPNUJXQKHP4EAXBNZ4Q3RZO", "length": 3786, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "pamplinmedia.com", "title": "Pamplin Media Group - Newberg High proposes new classes", "raw_content": "Newberg High proposes new classes\nThe Newberg School District board approved four of the classes, while another is being clarified\nNewberg High School hopes to add five new classes to its curriculum next year. Interim Principal Tami Erion presented a proposal at the Jan. 14 school board meeting, getting the board's immediate blessing on four of the five.\nThe first of the approved courses is called \"Geometry and Construction,\" and it gives students in the Integrated Design Studio (IDS) an opportunity to earn elective and math credits. The course is designed for students who might struggle with the mathematics portion of some of the work done in the IDS.\n\"It came about from spending two years in a three-period block of our Integrated Design Studio,\" Erion said. \"Our instructors found that it would benefit more students if they broke it down into two double-blocks.\"\nThe second course, Native American Studies, is an attempt by the school to improve its elective options in the social studies department.\nErion said that a few years back, social studies electives were \"rich\" with a variety of cultural courses. That has since been reduced significantly, but she said the school wants to return to the point where it offers a significant number of cultural course options.\n\"We're looking toward recognizing and appreciating different cultures,\" Erion said. \"We had a desire to bring this elective back and allow students to explore the Native American culture. It's important to have a good understanding of other cultures if you want to be a good citizen and student.\"\nNHS is also planning to institute a credit recovery course for Spanish classes. Erion noted that the Spanish credit recovery course fits in \"nicely\" with the credit recovery program already in place.\nThe intent, she said, is to create a course for students who might have struggled with their second required Spanish course.\n\"With our Newberg High School diploma, students are required to earn 26 credits, and two of those have to be within the same world language,\" she said. \"We're finding that some students are struggling in that second year and so they can take this course and complete it without having to take the entire year over.\"\nThe final course approved by the school board Jan. 14 was an audio/visual production class. It will give NHS students the chance to be creative in ways that they haven't been able to in recent years.\nAccording to Erion, it is an example of the school's commitment to Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. The school is able to expand these opportunities thanks in part to grants the district received from the Austin Family Foundation.\n\"We're really trying to grow our CTE programs and help students explore career interests,\" Erion said. \"Right now, we don't really have much in the arts and communications field, so this is a springboard for us to build that.\"\nAlthough the school board did not approve it initially, NHS is working on instituting a course on mindfulness, called \"Mindful Studies.\" The board asked for clarification on the standards of the course as well as a concept map of what it might look like, but its importance for students is clear.\n\"The reason we proposed this course was because we've seen an increased number of students who are coming to us with severe anxiety, depression and other mental health issues,\" Erion said. \"This mindfulness course would be a great opportunity for those students to learn about themselves and learn about how to cope with things.\"\nErion said she looks forward to the mindfulness course being approved and instituting all five next school year.\n\"We're just excited about adding more opportunities for kids in whatever capacity we can,\" she said. \"Hopefully our students will be interested in those.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 8281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2061563&rec=1&srcabs=1972519&alg=1&pos=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UELY6V7TZ2BMRNWL5CTOQETAN4R3R7JB", "length": 1800, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "papers.ssrn.com", "title": "Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction: A Correlational Study by Abi Ealias, Jijo George :: SSRN", "raw_content": "Research Journal of Commerce and Behavioral Science, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 2012\n6 Pages Posted: 20 May 2012\nSee all articles by Abi Ealias\nAbi Ealias\nPondicherry University, School of Management, Students\nBackground: Emotional intelligence and Job satisfaction are two concepts of high interest in the modern work environment. They serve as a competitive edge in personal and organizational life. However, there are only few studies that explore the factors which affect the two concepts.\nPurpose: The primary aim of this study is to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. It also tries to analyze how designation, experience and marital status of an employee affect his/her emotional intelligence and job satisfaction.\nMethodology: Data was collected from 208 respondents of an international electronic firm operating in India using self administered questionnaires. Findings were made with the help of standard statistical tools such as Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation, ANOVA, t- test and so on.\nFindings and Suggestions: The study reveals that there is a very high positive relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction. It also shows that designation of the employee doesn't affect his job satisfaction and emotional intelligence. However, experience and marital status has significant effects on the two concepts.\nKeywords: emotion, intelligence, emotional quotient, job satisfaction\nEalias, Abi and George, Jijo, Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction: A Correlational Study (February 2012). Research Journal of Commerce and Behavioral Science, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 2012. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061563\nJijo George (Contact Author)\nPondicherry University, School of Management, Students ( email )", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://patient.info/medicine/oseltamivir-capsules-and-suspension-tamiflu", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FRUGGZSSFLX67C5QPQ6L5LMPIGC4MH35", "length": 6967, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "patient.info", "title": "Oseltamivir. Oseltamivir side effects and tamiflu | Patient", "raw_content": "Oseltamivir capsules and suspension Tamiflu\nOseltamivir is used for influenza virus A and B infections.\nFollow the dosing instructions carefully and remember to complete the course.\nYou can help prevent the virus from spreading to others by using clean tissues to cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, and by washing your hands regularly.\nAbout oseltamivir\nBefore taking oseltamivir\nHow to take oseltamivir\nCan oseltamivir cause problems?\nHow to store oseltamivir\nOseltamivir capsules and suspension\nUsed for Treating or preventing flu (influenza)\nAlso called Tamiflu\u00ae\nAvailable as Capsules and oral liquid medicine (suspension)\nOseltamivir treats flu (influenza) by preventing the viruses causing the infection from spreading once they are inside your body. This reduces the symptoms of the influenza infection. It also reduces the risk of other problems which can sometimes occur alongside flu, such as pneumonia. It is most effective when it is started within an hour or two of the first symptoms of infection, but it can still be effective after this time, as long as it is started within 48 hours of the first symptoms.\nOseltamivir is also used to prevent flu when there are high numbers of people with influenza in the community, such as in epidemics and pandemics. It is used for those who have been in close contact with people with flu and for those who would be at particular risk if they developed flu (such as young children, people with long-term medical conditions, and the elderly).\nOseltamivir is not a substitute for seasonal flu vaccination.\nSome medicines are not suitable for people with certain conditions, and sometimes a medicine can only be used if extra care is taken. For these reasons, before you start taking oseltamivir it is important that your doctor knows:\nIf you are pregnant, trying for a baby or breastfeeding. Although you can take oseltamivir if you are expecting or feeding a baby, it is important that your doctor should know about this so that you can be made aware of the benefits and any risks of treatment.\nIf you have any problems with the way your kidneys work. This is because your dose may need adjusting.\nBefore you start the treatment, read the manufacturer's printed information leaflet from inside the pack. It will give you more information about oseltamivir and it will provide you with a full list of side-effects which you may experience from taking it.\nOseltamivir should be taken exactly as your doctor tells you to. This is particularly important if you are giving oseltamivir to your child, as the dose prescribed will depend upon the age of your child. Younger children are likely to be prescribed a liquid medicine. Follow the dosing instructions on the pack carefully.\nOseltamivir is a course of treatment. It is important that you finish the whole course (even if you do not feel unwell); otherwise the infection could return. If you have been prescribed it because you already have flu symptoms, you will need to take two doses daily for five days. Start taking it as soon as possible and space the doses evenly throughout the day. So, for example, take one dose in the morning and the other in the evening. If you are taking it because you have been in contact with someone with flu but do not have any symptoms yourself then you will be prescribed one dose a day for at least ten days. Start taking the capsules (or medicine) as soon as you collect your prescription, and from then on, take one dose a day, preferably in the morning with breakfast.\nSwallow oseltamivir capsules with a drink of water. You can take your doses either before or after meals, although taking the doses after food can often reduce the risk of feelings of queasiness.\nHow to measure the correct amount of oseltamivir liquid medicine\n(Note: your pharmacist will probably have prepared the medicine for you when you collect your prescription. If this has not been done and there is only powder in the bottle, you will need to add 55 ml of water. There is a measuring cup included in the pack, which has a line on it showing how much water to use. After you have added the water, shake the bottle well to mix the water with the powder. Then, push the bottle adapter into the neck of the bottle and replace the cap.)\nPush down the plunger of the dispenser (oral syringe) as far as it will go (so that the plunger goes down to the tip).\nInsert the tip of the dispenser into the adapter in the neck of the medicine bottle.\nTurn the bottle with the dispenser attached, upside down.\nSlowly pull out the plunger of the dispenser to fill it with medicine up to the mark which corresponds to the dose you need.\nTurn the bottle with the dispenser attached, upright again.\nSlowly remove the dispenser from the bottle.\nPut the suspension directly into your (or your child's) mouth by pushing in the plunger of the dispenser. Swallow the medicine. You can eat or drink something after swallowing the medicine if you wish.\nTake the dispenser apart and clean it by rinsing both parts under warm tap water.\nThe dispenser in the pack of liquid medicine measures doses up to 10 ml. If you have been given oseltamivir to give to child under 1 year of age, your doctor will give you a smaller dispenser to use which measures up to 3 ml.\nRemember to keep warm, drink plenty of fluids and stay away from crowds. If your symptoms do not improve or if they get worse, phone your doctor for further advice.\nAlong with their useful effects, most medicines can cause unwanted side-effects although not everyone experiences them. The table below contains the most common ones associated with oseltamivir. You will find a full list in the manufacturer's information leaflet supplied with your medicine. The unwanted effects often improve as your body adjusts to the new medicine, but speak with your doctor or pharmacist if any continue or become troublesome.\nVery common oseltamivir side-effects (these affect more than 1 in 10 people) What can I do if I experience this?\nFeeling sick (nausea) or being sick (vomiting) This usually passes after the first day, but you may find it helpful to take your doses after a meal\nHeadache Drink plenty of water and ask your pharmacist to recommend a suitable painkiller\nCough, blocked nose (especially in children) Ask your pharmacist to recommend a suitable remedy\nCommon oseltamivir side-effects (these affect less than 1 in 10 people) What can I do if I experience this?\nFlu-like symptoms, difficulty sleeping, tummy ache (abdominal pain), indigestion Ask your pharmacist to recommend a suitable remedy\nThe oral liquid medicine can be stored for up to ten days after it has been made up. Do not use it after this time.\nManufacturer's PIL, Tamiflu\u00ae 75 mg hard capsules ; Roche Products Limited, The electronic Medicines Compendium. Dated January 2019.\nManufacturer's PIL, Tamiflu\u00ae 6 mg/ml powder for oral suspension ; Roche Products Limited, The electronic Medicines Compendium. Dated January 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 14007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://penandthepad.com/cite-poetry-mla-format-1290.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MIO64WCDYGNHJUGYKQXZCVKT34XNSYT3", "length": 3387, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "penandthepad.com", "title": "How to Cite Poetry in MLA Format | Pen and the Pad", "raw_content": "How to Cite Poetry in MLA Format\nOne of the most popular forms of expression in the world, poetry has been around for centuries. William Shakespeare, one of history's most famous English writers, published 154 of his own poems. Modern Language Association style is intended primarily as a writing guide for those penning works related to language and literature, and it is likely that an author will find the need to cite a poem while following the style.\nThe first step to writing an accurate citation for poetry is identifying the most pertinent information. The seventh edition of the MLA Handbook and third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing state that you will need to identify the name of the poet, the title of the anthology where the poem appears and the page where it is located. Additionally, you should know the name of the editor, the publisher and the date of publication. You can find the required information on the same page as the poem or on the book's main copyright page.\nThe Full Citation\nIn order to create a citation for your works cited page, you simply need to place the collected information in the proper order. First, identify the poet by writing the last name, a comma and the first name, followed by a period. Next, list the poem's title in quotation marks, and then place a period. Follow that up with the title of the full work the poem appears in; place this in italics. Then, write the name of the work's editor (if applicable) and follow with a period. Next, name the city in which the work was published, a colon and the publishing house. Follow that with a comma, the year of publication and a period. Conclude the citation with the number of the page the poem is found on and the medium of publication; follow each item with a period.\nThe Parenthetical Citation\nA parenthetical citation is a brief in-text reference directing readers to your full citation located on the works cited page. If the author is mentioned by name in the sentence in question, the following parenthetical citation should include only the page number. If the author is not mentioned by name, you should list the author's name, followed by the page number. No punctuation is needed in the citation.\nThough this may seem complicated, it is quite simple in practice. For instance, to cite a version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, your works cited page citation would read: Poe, Edgar A. \"The Raven.\" Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems (italicized). Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2002. 773. Print.\nYour parenthetical citation would read either (Poe 773) or (773), depending on the content of the previous sentence.\nWhitney, Kyle. \"How to Cite Poetry in MLA Format.\" , https://penandthepad.com/cite-poetry-mla-format-1290.html. Accessed 15 February 2019.\nWhitney, Kyle. (n.d.). How to Cite Poetry in MLA Format. . Retrieved from https://penandthepad.com/cite-poetry-mla-format-1290.html\nWhitney, Kyle. \"How to Cite Poetry in MLA Format\" accessed February 15, 2019. https://penandthepad.com/cite-poetry-mla-format-1290.html\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Sonnets\nPurdue Online Writing Lab: MLA Works Cited Page: Books\nMLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Seventh Edition; Modern Language Association; 2009\nHow to Write a Historical Poem\nHow to Find the Meaning in a Poem", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://perpetuallypastdue.com/2018/03/09/pans-labyrinth-2006-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XTYHF56DCNQ4QCVONTZCIKR3RZ7KIDS5", "length": 9024, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "perpetuallypastdue.com", "title": "Pan\u2019s Labyrinth (2006) \u2013 Review \u2013 Perpetually Past Due", "raw_content": "El laberinto del fauno (2006) [Pan\u2019s Labyrinth]\nWritten by Guillermo del Toro\nCast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi L\u00f3pez, Doug Jones, Pablo Ad\u00e1n, and Maribel Verd\u00fa\nA young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her mother (Ariadna Gil) move to the countryside of Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War to live with a military captain (Sergi L\u00f3pez) stationed there. He is charged with hunting down the remaining resistance and while he goes about his job, Ofelia begins to see magical creatures and follows them into a fantasy world. The film begins with a shot of Ofelia bleeding, but played in reverse, before introducing the story of Princess Moanna; a young princess of the Underworld, Moanna dreamed of the human world and escaped her handlers one day. She entered the surface and was blinded, losing her memory and dying as a mortal; her father kept hope that one day her soul would return. Ofelia follows a fairy into a nearby labyrinth and learns from a faun (played by Doug Jones and voiced by Pablo Ad\u00e1n) that she must complete three tasks by the full moon, or she will never be able to return to her home.\nAlice\u2026erm\u2026I mean Ofelia about to go down the rabbit hole\u2026erm\u2026I mean hole in the tree.\nOfelia, being the protagonist, is who we are supposed to identify with. She is young, innocent, and wants to be with her mother and unborn brother as a family. She is afraid of the captain and isn\u2019t seeking a replacement for her deceased father, though she feels like that is what her mother is trying to force upon her. She is brave and willing to take leaps of faith when completing tasks, though she is also foolhardy, as is shown when she eats from the Pale Man\u2019s table despite the faun\u2019s warning. Mercedes (Maribel Verd\u00fa ) is a servant at the mill and works closely with the captain; unbeknownst to him, she has been aiding the rebels. She is also brave, and cunning; she evades exposure through most of the film and is willing to work for a man she despises in order to help the resistance. At the other end of the spectrum is Captain Vidal; a rigid, meticulous military officer, he is obsessed with his mortality which is expressed through the cracked pocket watch he keeps. The watch belonged to his father, who wanted his son to know the exact time that a real man died and broke it on a rock before being killed in battle. It is this masculine ideal that causes him to assume his forthcoming child will be male, and he accepts no contradictory opinions.\nSymbolic imagery permeates throughout Pan\u2019s Labyrinth; the captain lives in the mill which is filled with large gears, much like the inside of a clock. When Ofelia is in the dining room of the Pale Man (Doug Jones), the fireplace in the background is a menacing, open maw ready to feed upon any who breaks the rules of abstaining from eating at the table. With the exception of the Pale Man, the monsters in the film have their own fascinating, if sometimes off-putting, beauty. The real monsters are the Fascists in their lack of care for life and willingness to dispense death to those who disagree. Del Toro has been known to champion outcasts and monsters in his films, and Pan\u2019s Labyrinth strikes the perfect balance between the gorgeous and the grotesque. Following the theme of opposing sensibilities, a melancholy lullaby floats throughout the story both in the soundtrack and as a song that Mercedes hums to Ofelia in an effort to comfort her. It is somber, sad, but also hopeful in a way that shifts the meaning without contradicting it.\nHe\u2019s so creepy, yet beautifully designed.\nThe most tense sequence in the film is built through a combination of music and cuts between Ofelia and the Pale Man chasing her; this back and forth, showing her struggling on the one end and the Pale Man\u2019s menacing meander, heightens the thrill for the viewer as the question presses on whether she will escape in time. The tasks are dangerous and frightening, but exciting and thrilling at the same time. This sort of duality of adventure and no reward without risk follows the themes of many fairy tales. The violence in the film is sudden and graphic; del Toro doesn\u2019t shy away from the gruesome and does so in order to show the monstrosity behind violent acts.\nPan\u2019s Labyrinth is also a bit meta in that it is a fairy tale about fairy tales. From the beginning of the film, the importance of fables and books in Ofelia\u2019s life is heavily focused on; her mother has direct conversations with her about the need to grow up and realize that real life isn\u2019t as nice as the stories. Ofelia is pulled into the fantasy by a fairy and the film makes reference to other fables visually; the very dress that Ofelia wears during the first task is based on that of Alice in Wonderland.\nThere is such a multitude of topics to discuss in this film that I must finish this quickly, lest I continue into the territory of a post that is so long no one will want to read it. Guillermo del Toro is one of my favorite directors due to his incredible vision, unique perspective, and fidelity to telling stories through beautiful images and identifiable characters. We were all young once and wanted to believe in the fantastic and amazing; Pan\u2019s Labyrinth allows us that nostalgia with bits of gritty realism thrown in. The film calls back to Grimm\u2019s fairy tales and the darker versions of many Disney movies that didn\u2019t shirk away from the possibility of a terrible end for the protagonist. However, the film ends with hope and beauty, surpassing the darkness of the real world; Pan\u2019s Labyrinth is a masterwork of film-making and storytelling, but my words can only recommend.\nVerdict: 5 adult fables out of 5\nRecommended for: Fans of fairy tales, adults, fans of \u201cforeign\u201d films, fans of Guillermo del Toro, people who enjoy symbolic imagery, and those who don\u2019t mind that the god Pan has no part in the movie except for the oblique reference through the inclusion of a faun.\nNot recommended for: Children, those who are easily grossed-out, people who don\u2019t speak Spanish but dislike reading subtitles, or those who dislike \u201cforeign\u201d films.\nEl laberinto del faunoFantasyFilmsGuillermo del ToroMovie reviewMoviesPan's LabyrinthSpanish Language Film\nMusic Monday: Mastodon \u2013 Emperor of Sand\n17 thoughts on \u201cPan\u2019s Labyrinth (2006) \u2013 Review\u201d\nI enjoyed this film a lot but have to admit, the bloody gruesomeness of it makes it one that I don\u2019t re-watch often. In fact, I\u2019ve only watched it twice.\nNot knowing what was coming made the violence shocking. On the re-watch, knowing what violence was coming had me knotted up inside\u2026\nI can understand that. I think it is intended to be shocking, but I can also see how that would make the idea of another viewing off-putting.\nLoved this film and was at the same time pretty freaked out. Didnt know if it was even meant to be a kids film.\nI wouldn\u2019t say that it is a kid\u2019s film, but it follows in the tradition of the old fables in its use of a child protagonist trying to make sense of a dangerous and foreign adult world. Thanks for commenting!\nI haven\u2019t seen this in a long time, and now I really want to re-watch it. I know I loved this one, though. Great review.\nI hope you do and I hope it is just as enjoyable this time around. Thank you!\nPan\u2019s Labyrinth is one of my top 10 movies, and Guillermo del Toro is a master of his craft \ud83d\ude42 Great review! I first watched it when I was a teen, and it opened my mind to some great things \u2013 I found numerous amazing Spanish films, and I learned to love the dreamily-grotesque, as I call it. \u2764\nThank you so much! I just love del Toro\u2019s ability to make the traditionally monstrous into something identifiable and founded in beauty.\nGreat review. I became a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro after watching Pan\u2019s Labyrinth. The Devil\u2019s Backbone was the other one I thoroughly enjoyed.\nI think his movies have the ability to connect with the audience from the get-go. His skill to blend the grotesque with the sublime is astonishing.\nThat said, his movies tend to have a higher gore quotient, which he can do without, but who am I to say?\n_Amitesh\nDrive Through Review\nI LOVE this film, the style and cinematography of the film is just stunning. I remember watching this when I was quite young and I just completely fell in love with it\u2026even that creepy scene with the child eater \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31 I may just have to go and watch this film again\u2026 Great review!\nI have started watching this film several times, but I\u2019ve never been able to watch it all the way through because something always interrupts me.\nSuch a wonderful movie- I love the layers, the symbolism, how meta it is and everything about it really! Great review!\nFor sure! Thank you so much!\nI remember this movie but I don\u2019t recall it being that complicated \u2013 I guess you see what you are ready to see\nIt took me a number of viewings and some reading before noticing a lot of the intricacies of the films symbolism, so I can definitely see how it would be overlooked or missed!\nThis is one of my favorite films. So fantastic and beautiful. \u2764\ufe0f", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 12767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://perukel.com/index.php/tag/music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XMAQKFBWVMYUYZUGIKJUWUCJGJGNE4MA", "length": 2964, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "perukel.com", "title": "music Archives - Hans P\u00e9rukel, All About the Screen", "raw_content": "Gen Z discovering music on YouTube, but not listening\nSweety High, a digital media company for Gen Z girls, has released its first Gen Z Music Consumption & Spending Report, which reveals research around the preferences of the powerhouse cohort. According to the report, while YouTube ranks as the top platform for music discovery (75 per cent), more than half of respondents also cite Radio (58 per cent) and Movies and TV Shows they watch (57 per cent) as top sources for exploring new artists.\nAdditionally, while they may have grown up in an age of reality TV, Gen Z shies away from talent featured on competition shows: they appreciate contestants\u2019 talent but are unlikely to listen to their music after the show ends (78 per cent).\nWhile streaming platforms, like Spotify, ranked second for music discovery (70 per cent), the service is Gen Z\u2019s top choice for frequent listening (61 per cent). YouTube drops to 6th when it comes to general listening (30 per cent), with more Gen Z respondents preferring to listen to music they own, via CDs (38 per cent) or iTunes (36 per cent). When it comes to overall consumption, streaming services have clearly become the new normal, with 66 percent of Gen Z saying they use both for discovery AND listening, vs. Radio (55 per cent) or YouTube (25 per cent).\n\u201cMusic plays a pivotal role in Gen Z\u2019s lives. They have more options than ever to find undiscovered music, and Gen Z embrace that diversity in their music genres (nearly all, 97 per cent say they listen to 5 different genres regularly) and platforms, blending a mix of new and traditional media options for music discovery and consumption,\u201d said Frank Simonetti, CEO, Sweety High.\n\u2013 The majority of this demographic take pride in their variety of music taste (78 per cent) \u2014 preferring to listen to a wide range of artists and genres rather than just one style.\n\u2013 So, what is Gen Z listening to? Pop takes the cake, with more than 3 in 4 respondents claiming it as their top choice in music, followed by Rock (51 per cent) and Rap (50 per cent).\n\u2013 While only 1 in 5 fans is wooed by a band or artist\u2019s social media presence, 2 out of 3 respondents say they follow artists they like on social and over 80 per cent agree that it\u2019s important for artists to be active on social.\n\u2013 Love of the music is their top motivation for liking an artist or band (94 per cent), while a shared preference among their friends runs a distant second (36 per cent).\n\u2013 As to where they find artists and new music, YouTube ranks as the top platform for discovery (75 per cent), followed by streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora (70 per cent), and social networks like Instagram and Facebook (62 per cent).\n\u2013 Beyond the digital medium, more than half cite Terrestrial Radio (58 per cent) and Movies/TV Shows (57 per cent) as major sources of music discovery.\nAuthor perukelPosted on March 11, 2018 March 12, 2018 Categories NewsTags Generation Z, music, Sweety High, Youtube", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 6912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/10/30/police-investigate-violent-death-of-former-postal-service-employee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:WHEXJ7APDU7ADFIL6GNU563HAQ7P46FZ", "length": 1258, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "philadelphia.cbslocal.com", "title": "Police Investigate Violent Death Of Former Postal Service Employee \u2013 CBS Philly", "raw_content": "Police Investigate Violent Death Of Former Postal Service Employee\nFiled Under:Darby Borough Police\nDARBY, Pa. (CBS) \u2014 Police are investigating what they describe as the violent death of a retired US Postal Office employee near a Delaware County middle school.\nClifton Heights resident Brad Hayes, 57, was found in the backseat of a vehicle in the 100 block of Summit Street near Penn Wood Middle School in Darby on Tuesday. The cause of his death is still being determined by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.\nPolice say they have obtained surveillance footage on from throughout the area of the incident as they aim to identify the individual who accompanied Hayes, as well as a second person who police say was in the area of the incident but fled the scene when authorities arrived.\nIn the surveillance footage, police say the two individuals met with each other and the reportedly ran through the streets and alleyways together, fleeing the scene.\nDA: Man Who Dressed Up As Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob At Kids\u2019 Parties Accused Of Raping 5 Children\nPolice are asking anyone with information about the incident or the two individuals to contact Darby Borough Police Department at 610-586-1100.\nHayes is described by family members as a loving husband and father.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 7385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2015/02/peter-lik-master-marketer-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UHP3Z3U3MG5YAT3LC3ZET57Y3DUTXKMX", "length": 9674, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "photobusinessforum.blogspot.com", "title": "Photo Business News & Forum: [UPDATED} - Peter Lik - Master Marketer and Successful Entrepreneur", "raw_content": "[UPDATED} - Peter Lik - Master Marketer and Successful Entrepreneur\nPeter Lik's \"Ghost\", which is the color version of his one-off \"Phantom.\" \u00a9Peter Lik\nSay what you will about photographer Peter Lik, but you don't have 15 art galleries and a Chief Financial Officer and then belong anywhere but in the category of \"successful businessman.\" An interesting article in the New York Times about Lik - Peter Lik\u2019s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. somehow gave fodder for Artnet News to opine \"New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Fraud\". Now, where do they get \"fraud\" in the NYT article? Questions? Sure. Fraud? That remains to be seen.\nlet's have a look at the math - actually, let's let the NYT to it for us:\n\"When 95 percent of an image has sold it becomes \u201cPremium Peter Lik\u201d and the price jumps to $17,500. At 98 percent, it\u2019s \u201cSecond Level Premium Peter Lik\u201d and leaps to $35,000. And when the image gets down to its last handful, the prices can go as high as $200,000 or more. When all copies of a photograph are sold, it can gross the company more than $7 million.\nSo, if someone wanted to by an entire edition of one of Lik's photographs, it would cost them \"more than $7 million\" and they'd have 995 prints in a stack. So, when someone pays \"only\" $6.5 million, they have one print and don't have to deal with 994 other prints, and they are saving at least $500,000. AND, they then have a one-of-a-kind piece to boot.\"\nThere are all sorts of quotes and colloquialisms \"art is what you make of it\", and \"one person's junk is another person's treasure\", and as Andy Warhol once said \"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.\" Oh, and you could quote P.T. Barnum's circus competitor, who, in cricism of Barnum, said, \"there's a sucker born every minute.\"\nAgain, the NYT notes, on the resale value of Lik's work (or the work of ANY other artist, photographic or not, for that matter):\n\"It\u2019s a truism that the price of a commodity doesn\u2019t always correlate to its value. This is especially so in the art market, where experts say a stunningly small percent of what is sold will ever be worth more than it was on the day it was acquired.\"\n\"A stunningly small percent...will ever be worth more than on the say it was acquired.\" Yet others are being critical as if this is only the case with Lik. Artnet News, seeminingly critically, writes:\n\"With photos sold in limited editions of 995, Lik is able to create artificial demand by driving up the prices as he sells more copies.\"\nHow, exactly, is that any different than any other artist with editions? Ansel Adams? Picasso? Norman Rockwell? Thomas Kinkade? Every artist sets their edition sizes, creating an artificially limited supply. This is standard in the art world, yet they roll it out a criticism of Lik?\nDon't get me wrong - when Lik is quoted by the NYT as saying \u201cI\u2019m the world\u2019s most famous photographer, most sought-after photographer, most awarded photographer,\u201d, or \u201cIf you\u2019re in Caesars Palace, you\u2019re no joke,...That was a huge turning point. I\u2019m in Caesars. I\u2019m God. Nailed it.\u201d, I think he's gone too far. \"Most famous?\" Well, depends on how you define \"famous\" - he's sold more signed prints than anyone else it seems. This argument also works for \"most sought-after\" too. Yet, he's using over-the-top marketing speak. When someone writes about Diamonds \"She already knows you love her, now everyone else will too\", or BMW's \"The Ultimate Driving Machine\" or Mercedes' \"you deserve the very best\" slogans - no one faults them.\nLik is making money, and lots of money at that. He's creating a demand for prints with an escalation of print prices as the edition sells out. He's no different than another self-taught photographer Rodney Lough Jr, who's creating an escalation of pricing with increased \"appreciation levels\" as editions sell out. In 1996 While Lik was selling postcards in Australia, Lough started his company in Oregon also selling landscape photography in limited editions as art, leaving his corporate life behind - both Lik and Lough are currently 55 years old. I suspect it's possible that Lik learned about these escalating prices and editions and scarcity from Lough. Lough will also \"pre-sell\" an edition, even before it's shot - sight unseen. So, you're buying a piece of Lough's future \"vision\", not even knowing what it looks like.\nThe photographic world of \"art\" is evolving rapidly, and also trying to evolve into an existing \"art world\" with trend-setters and taste-makers somehow telling people what's \"in\" and what's \"out.\" Lik rejects that. How many \"it\" artists find themselves broke and penniless after the art world turns on them or they suddenly are no longer the \"it\" sensation?\nIn the NYT article, they note \"The message is that the sooner you buy, the less you will pay. So buy now. 'If we had them at $3,950 the whole time, where is the sense of urgency?'\" Indeed. Is it factually inaccurate to say \"\u201cThis photograph started at $4,000 and it sold out at $200,000\"? No, it's not. Someone bought an early edition of a print at $4k, and others later paid $17,500, and $35,000, and yes, eventually, it sold for $200k before no longer being sold. Fraud would exist if Lik later re-printed the image and started anew. Is art a good investment, photographically or otherwise? Generally speaking, no, it's not. People say, of art, \"if you like the art, if it speaks to you, buy it because you like it.\" I agree. It is smart business to be very up front and say \"it's $4k now, and in 8 months, it'll be $20k - the price goes up the scarcer it gets.\" Sure, people may be trying to re-sell a print and be having a hard time - right now. Others, like the Chicago real estate developer has 50 or so Peter Lik prints, and he's happy. The people he shows the photos to are \"delighted.\"\nThe article notes \"that the vast majority of Mr. Lik\u2019s buyers are not well versed in the secondary art market\" and it may be that conveniently located galleries in tourist destinations where there is high traffic and disposable income means that higher-net-worth people have $4k to drop on a photo, but when people are spending $35k and $200k in a photograph, these people are not idiots - they have huge piles of disposable income and want what they want and can afford to choose to buy these things. Who are we to say they shouldn't, any more than we should tell everyone to buy a Toyota or a Chevy as transportation because a Bentley or a Maclaren is just wasting your money? His galleries are smartly located and his sales teams well trained, and the NYT article notes that they risk their jobs if they start talking about Lik's works as an \"investment.\" The Wall Street Journal in an article here notes that the art-as-investment industry is nascent at best, with little evidence a mid-teens return can be even be achieved yet. So why are people so focused on a \"secondary art market\"?\nIn another NYT article, the title of which inspired a part of the title of this article, about Ansel Adams, \"Ansel Adams: Master Photographer,Master Marketer\":\n\"Mr. Adams had printed his work in open editions up until then and sold the work for very little money. With the landmark decision to cease printing, they created a limited supply...Adams was by then in his 70s and had grown weary of the difficult darkroom toil.\"\nI'm not suggesting here that Lik is Adams, and Lik certainly is quoted as having taken a swipe at Adams in the NYT article, but the concept remains - scarcity is the key to an increased valuation. With Adams gone, his print prices have increased. I'm guessing that will be the case once Lik is gone, but that seems like it'll be many decades from now.\nIn the meantime, those who have Lik pieces will enjoy their beauty, and no one has criticized Lik as having less than beautiful work, they've just criticized his marketing speak, success and business acumen.\n---------------- UPDATE: For a reason which Artnet News has not explained, following (but, one can not say definitively, as a result of) this blog post they changed the title of their original blog post from \"New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Fraud\" to \"New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Scheme\", yet the original post URL with the word \"fraud\" in the URL points to the same article, yet the resulting URL displayed text now has \"scheme\" in it. Googles' dictionary here lists a few definitions - among them, as a noun, 1) a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect; and as a verb 2) \"make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong.\" Yet, they still characterize what he's doing as \"fraud\" when they write, in the (new?) last paragraph of the post \"Perhaps the biggest believer in the Peter Lik fraud is the photographer himself.\"\nGovis said...\nThe problem is, with Lik owning his galleries, we have no idea what the actual price for these works is. They don't trade on the secondary market. How many is he actually selling? Is he selling/leasing to props and buying back? Inflating the price of his work is obviously helpful to him.\nI saw a recent write about him in the PPA magazine. Some photographers have a really negative and at times nasty attitude towards him. I have no issues with him whatsoever. Whether or not his art is worth the thousands of dollars they sell for is up for debate. Either way the guy is a master marketer and IMHO other photographers should take notes from this guy about creating demand.\nGetty Images\u2019 Downward Spiral Approaches Judgment ...\n[UPDATED} - Peter Lik - Master Marketer and Succes...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 432, "original_length": 21840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://photographyforrealestate.net/2018/05/01/why-are-we-so-hard-on-ourselves-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ROV2RYFXRKT5575CPTIMI3CPQGCNDDUJ", "length": 10537, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "photographyforrealestate.net", "title": "Photography For Real Estate \u00bb Presenting with Purpose: How to Approach Potential Clients", "raw_content": "\u00ab May 2018 PFRE Photographer of the Month Contest \u2013 NOW OPEN\nWill Terms and Conditions Scare Off New Real Estate Photography Clients? \u00bb\nPresenting with Purpose: How to Approach Potential Clients\nBy Tony Colangelo\nLast week, I was intrigued by a PFRE article on the value of face-to-face marketing when getting started in real estate photography. One of the marketing opportunities that RE photographers can explore in this regard is delivering a presentation at a real estate agency\u2019s regular \u201call-staff\u201d meeting. The agency\u2019s Office Manager will, periodically, allow guest speakers to come in and deliver a 10-minute presentation to the team. If you\u2019ve ever thought about doing such a presentation, then one of the most important pieces of advice that I can give you is to remember to be very clear on how your \u201cfeatures and benefits\u201d are presented. As I noted in my most recent article on this very topic, the importance of highlighting benefits over features, simply can\u2019t be overstated! In fact, whether it be at a group presentation or in a one-on-one meeting with a prospective client, a photographer HAS TO give some thought to what benefit they\u2019ll be delivering to that client. In essence, we ought to have a sense of how we\u2019d answer the key question that all prospective clients will have of us, which is: \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me if I use your photography service?\u201d\nWhen given a chance to present to a room full of RE agents, I sense that most photographers will highlight the things that they\u2019re more comfortable speaking to \u2014 i.e., what camera and lenses they use, the lighting equipment they bring along, editing software, pricing, etc. These are simply features \u2014 i.e., the facts of what they do. If you go this route, the odds are that you\u2019re going to lose your audience because those features will likely mean nothing to them and, what\u2019s worse, will probably make you sound exactly like the last photographer who presented to them! If, however, you spend your time talking about how your photography benefits agents, you\u2019re more likely to grab their attention. Indeed, spending your time talking about THEM, their needs and \u201cpain points,\u201d will help you to differentiate yourself from other photographers. This is because you will have spent your time trying to address their concerns, rather than dazzling them with your knowledge of the tools you use or the quality of the images you produce!\nI did a number of these presentations for RE agencies when I was shooting real estate. While some presentations worked out better than others, the more successful ones led me to be hired for a few shoots, which allowed me to build relationships with a small number agents. These new customers then went on to refer me to colleagues within their agency!\nI know that a majority of people are uncomfortable presenting to an audience and that\u2019s OK! If you\u2019re up for it, though, I\u2019d like to share an overview of my approach to doing these sorts of presentations. It is based on the premise that the purpose of RE photography is not to help the agent sell real estate but rather to help them find a way to distinguish their brand (IMO, a key \u2018pain point\u2019 for many RE agents.) The bolded headings, below, represent my \u201clogic trail\u201d for my talk, with the italicized text below each heading, being close to the actual speaking points that I used for the slides in my PowerPoint deck.\nCreate a Connection Right Away\n\u201cThank you for your time; I\u2019m so pleased to be with you today. I want to start my presentation today, NOT by talking about me and my photography but, instead, by talking talk about YOU and the types of challenges that each of you faces day-to-day.\nDefine the \u2018Pain-Point\u2019 Early in the Presentation\nWhile I can\u2019t speak to the operational pieces related to being an agent, I can speak to a specific challenge that each of you faces, because to a large degree, I face it, too \u2026 and that is, the challenge of creating or maintaining a brand that will allow you to distinguish yourself in a highly competitive marketplace.\u201d\nCreate a Shared Reference Point\n\u201cWhile there are many great definitions of \u201cbrand\u201d, my favorite is one that comes from American marketing guru, Sergio Zyman, who\u2019s overseen numerous international brands, including Coca-Cola. (Here, you\u2019ll have a slide prepared with the definition.)\nHe defines a brand as a \u201ccontainer for a customer\u2019s complete experience with the product or company.\u201d I find this a particularly useful way of viewing \u2018brand\u2019 because it focuses on the customer\u2019s \u201ccomplete experience\u201d rather than a series of marketing tactics like brochures, websites, logos, etc.\nHighlight Your Understanding of Their Pain-Point\n\u201cAnd this is where I think your world intersects with mine because I feel very strongly that great photography is a very powerful tool \u2013 one that can greatly affect the experience that your prospective clients will have about you when they\u2019re looking to hire a real estate agent.\nI think that, ultimately, the purpose of my RE photography is to generate this positive experience \u2014 to evoke a feeling, if you will \u2014 in the viewer of your listing photos that either prompts that client to contact you vs one of your competitors; or to visit one of your open houses vs going to someone else\u2019s. It also affects your current clients in that your use of professional photography is a visible and tangible example of you living up to your brand promise of doing everything you can, to sell their house for them.\nEither way, that positive experience felt by the prospective client, or the current client gets associated with YOU!\u201d\nShow How Photography Can Augment Their Brand (i.e., Help Address Their Pain Point)\n\u201cTo give you a sense of this experience that we\u2019re talking about, let me show you some photos. As we go through these slides, I\u2019d ask you to think about how you would experience them if YOU were in the market to buy a house yourself.\u201d\nAt this point, you begin your photo comparison regarding rooms shot professionally vs those that are not. After showing them 4-5 sets of \u201cpro vs non-pro\u201d images, you can segue back into your presentation as follows \u2026\nAcknowledge Resistance!\n\u201cI know that many agents simply don\u2019t see the value in spending money on professional photography and choose to do their own photography. If that\u2019s the case for you, that\u2019s OK, too. If so, then please permit me to offer some important tips on how you can improve your photography.\u201d\nHere is where you would show them a slide containing 3-4 simple tips that can be used by agents who shoot their own listings (e.g., vertical lines being straight; highlighting the dangers of shooting ultra-wide; etc.) I believe that your credibility and sense of integrity is increased when you offer your support to those who were never going to use your services, anyway! However, for those who might be looking for a photographer \u2014 either now or in future \u2014 I choose to believe that such an act of selflessness (and confidence) will resonate with them enough, that they\u2019ll keep you mind for a future shoot!\n6. Q & A \u2026 Offer Thanks and Contact Info\nRegarding other considerations for your presentation, you should rehearse it to the point that it comes out to about 6-7 minutes of speaking time, to allow room for a healthy Q&A within your 10-minute allowance. Your rehearsal should focus not so much a memorizing every word you\u2019re going to say but rather, on making sure that the sequence or the \u201cflow\u201d of your main points go in the order that you want it to go. You should know your content well enough that you can speak to it naturally. The only thing you should memorize is about the first 30-seconds of your presentation because that\u2019s when your nervousness will be at its highest. Having that first little bit memorized will allow you to \u201cget your legs under you.\u201d\nAn additional thing that I\u2019ve tried when doing this type of presentation was to run a \u201cdraw.\u201d That is, everyone in attendance is asked to put their business cards into an envelope. You let everyone know that at the end of your presentation, you\u2019re going to pick out a card for someone to receive a free photoshoot or a shoot done at a greatly reduced price or some other incentive. Not only does this generate a little buzz at the end of a presentation, but it also allows you to get the business cards of everyone in the office. Later, you can cross-reference their respective websites to see which agents in that office, are the real \u201cplayers\u201d (i.e., those who have good number of listings; are reflective of the type of agent you\u2019d most like to work with; etc.) and, therefore, the ones you should target first, when following up!\nAnd, of course, I know I\u2019m stating the blatantly obvious in making this last point, but I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t include it: always send a hand-written \u201cthank you\u201d note to the office manager or the person who set up the opportunity for you to present to the team.\nIn any case, for those of you who\u2019ve thought about doing these sorts of presentations, I hope this is helpful to you in some way. Please feel free to use it/modify it as you see fit so that it fits your own \u201cvoice\u201d and speaking style.\nBrandon in Business of real estate photography, Coaching, Guest Post, Marketing\n11 Responses to \u201cPresenting with Purpose: How to Approach Potential Clients\u201d\nGeorge May 1st, 2018 at 8:38 pm #\nTony is 100% spot on. This is the perfect point by point road map to growing your RE photography business. Did this myself many years ago, and the rest as they say- is history. Best post of the year!\nGary Kasl May 2nd, 2018 at 6:22 am #\nLove this article, thanks Tony!\nKen Owens May 2nd, 2018 at 6:38 am #\nAwesome article. Just what I needed.\nPeggy May 2nd, 2018 at 8:06 am #\nThank you Tony! I am using this guide!\nJerry Miller May 2nd, 2018 at 8:36 am #\nYa gotta love this article!\nDarrin May 2nd, 2018 at 11:19 am #\nAs someone just starting out, who is literally preparing to do this right now, the timing could not have been better! This is some great advice Tony.\nFrancesca May 2nd, 2018 at 1:34 pm #\nFantastic article, very detailed, thank you Tony!\nKen Brown May 2nd, 2018 at 8:41 pm #\nThanks Tony. Great advice.\nTony Colangelo May 2nd, 2018 at 9:43 pm #\nThank you all for your very kind comments! I\u2019m glad you liked it!\nLeo Cai May 3rd, 2018 at 2:25 am #\nI especially appreciate the point about acknowledging resistance. I didn\u2019t know there was a specific term for that\u2026 it\u2019s a good psychology trick to use. 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The series is called Pacific Northwest Raindrops.\n\u201cIf we look closely, there are many wonders to see inside a raindrop \u2013 its own little world so to speak \u2013 but actually it is refraction of what is around us. In this painting series my goal is to give the viewer a look into the tiny world of raindrops and to create a feeling of magic and mystery. The challenges I face are accomplishing the combination of the exactness of a raindrop with the blurred and distorted effects that happen in the refraction process of a round and clear sphere. With watercolor as a fluid medium, it was very difficult to get sharp clear lines so it took many hours of working slowly to achieve my goals.\n\u201c\u009dMy work derives its inspiration from the magic and wonders of nature. I paint with the movement of nature and visualize the growing twists and turns of a twig or a leaf. I try to capture the stillness of an early morning walk in a field, along a river or in a forest. I also focus on detail whether it\u2019s simply the blending or bleeding of two colors like one would see on a ripening peach or t\nhe finite lines and edges of a raindrop. My current explorations are in the discovery of how elements of nature and texture react in watercolor to leave beautiful patterns and surprises in unique patterns on the paper.\u201d\nFour years ago Anji quit her day job and began a full time career as an artist and instructor. \u201cIt was a leap of faith and has taken many hours of hard work. This last year I made it past the earnings mark and had a great year supporting myself solely as a working single artist.\u201d\u009d\nTo see her beautiful paintings, and visit with her about her art and her process, stop by her studio during the Portland Open Studios tour this fall.\nIntroducing Artist No. 11 \u2013 Rick Wheeler\nRick Wheeler has been a working artist for most of his adult life. \u201cMy art career includes working as a \u2018commercial\u2019 artist, doing illustrations for clients around the country, as well as being an art instructor to several art organizations and private students for about the last 20 years. This is balanced with my studio work, which includes painting (acrylic and watercolor), drawing (varied media), and mixed media projects (found objects). My work has been jury selected to a number of national and international exhibits, and has been collected by local, regional, and international clientele.\n\u201cMy style of work also covers a broad range of interests, from tight realism to a looser, more painterly approach to my work, as well as outdoor/plein air work. Subjects range from landscape, wildlife, to figurative. Exploration in media, subjects, and style of work is one of my great plea\nsures as a visual artist. As a result, I can\u2019t be easily categorized. And I\u2019m okay with that.\u201d\nRick is looking forward to seeing you all at his studio during the PDXOS tour, and he plans to be working on a painting in his studio so he can share his technique with his visitors. \u201cI find working with the public in this way an enjoyable opportunity to exchange ideas.\u201d\u009d\nIntroducing Artist No. 73 Samyak Yamauchi\nSamyak Yamauchi is one of the most interesting artists I\u2019ve ever met, or maybe it\u2019s just because I\u2019ve gotten to know her personally. Read her blog at https://www.samyakyamauchiart.com/blog and you will have the privilege of seeing directly into her psyche, and learn just what she is thinking and visualizing at any given moment. And you can immediately see the expression of those thoughts in her paintings. As we all show only part of who we are to the rest of the world, I\u2019m fascinated to know more. You can learn more too, by visiting her in her studio during this fall\u2019s Portland Open Studios tour.\nShe describes herself as \u201cThird generation Japanese-American \u2013 mostly self-taught painter \u2013 native Portlander \u2013 partner, parent, grandparent \u2013 tree-hugger \u2013 color lover \u2013 hair enthusiast \u2013 retired teacher \u2013 friendly introvert \u2013 Superpower: big inspiration in a small frame.\u201d\nHer art background: \u201cI am pretty much self-taught. I\u2019ve always made art, but I was a \u2018closet\u2019 artist until 2001 when I started making and showing glass mosaics. Through many years of making mosaics, I learned a lot about color, composition, and \u2018seeing\u2019 imagery.\u201d\u009d\nWhile she is self-taught, that doesn\u2019t mean she hasn\u2019t been learning. She has taken figure drawing classes through PCC and from artist Phil Sylvester, who helped her get out her head and draw the way she sees things. Serena Barton taught her to use her hands and paper towels; Jesse Reno taught her about letting things morph and change. Most recently she took a class from Bill Park who taught her to embrace drips! \u201cMostly I have learned to paint by going into my studio almost every day and moving paint around and paying close attention to what the painting has to say and how it feels to paint.\u201d\u009d\nHer actual process has changed very little over time. The biggest change is her color palette. \u201cWhen I started I painted dark abstracts. Then I began using mainly primary and very bright colors. My paintings got more and more colorful and bright until suddenly last winter I started using mostly black, grey and pale blue. I think I was feeling sort of overwhelmed by things going on in the world, and the change in my color palette was calming. Getting ready for a recent show at the P 5, I knew I need to have lighter backgrounds to show off the paintings on those dark walls, so I did a series with white backgrounds, bold black lines and little pops of color. Now, I\u2019m using subtle color and lighter backgrounds. My challenge is to figure out how to get adequate contrast in value with such subtle colors because I really like contrast, so I\u2019m interested in incorporating black lines in interesting ways.\u201d She\u2019s always growing. I love that.\nShe tells me she has had many \u2018pivotal\u2019 experiences, but she tells us about three.:\n\u201c1. Being featured on Oregon Art Beat gave me more confidence in calling myself an \u201cartist\u201d. At the time I was facilitating painting workshops, and sharing my painting process with others. The Art Beat episode reached a lot of people who wouldn\u2019t have seen my art otherwise. Because so many people started signing up for my workshops, I met lots of really lovely people, so that really opened my world up a lot.\n\u201c2. Another really life changing event was the day I met Portland artist, Fred Swan. Fred is one of the most gracious, creative, authentic people I\u2019ve ever known. Meeting Fred, and coming into his orbit has brought me a beautiful sense of grace and gratitude. And\n\u201c3. The last experience was not really an art experience, but a recent spiritual retreat from which I returned, surprisingly, without a desire to call myself \u201cartist\u201d anymore. I believe that as I let this settle in, it will probably be the most important experience of my life.\u201d\u009d\nI asked her what the best piece of advice She\u2019s ever been given was. She had two: First: \u201cIf something in your painting isn\u2019t moving the piece forward, get rid of it.\u201d \u2013 Jesse Reno Second. \u201cChange direction.\u201d \u2013 A voice in a dream.\nIntroducing Artist No. 23 \u2013 Rob Sanford\nRob Sanford comes from an artistic background. His Mother was an artist and musician. He entered his first art contest in second grade. \u201cI was hooked after that.\u201d He earned a degree in industrial design and worked as an Engineer, but has always painted.\nRob works in acrylic on canvas. Right now he\u2019s focusing on wildlife art, but he has also won many awards in the science fiction/comic book industry. He is inspired by wildlife and landscape artists Jay Moore, Carl Rungius and Robert Bateman.\nWhile Rob sees the art world changing from digitization and computer generation, he feels that even though the tools change, the inspiration remains.\nHe will be demonstrating his process during the fall PDXOS tour. Before he begins a project he takes photos and sketches ideas, then begins the piece. Before he considers the painting complete, though, he takes advice he has been given and lets the painting rest for a while. His goal is to become better with each new painting.\nIntroducing Artist No 72, Jonathan Glowacki\nJonathan Glowacki\u2019s greatest inspiration is Mother Nature, who he describes as \u201cperfection defined\u201d. He particularly loves the trees. If you visit his studio during the tour you can expect an interactive live wood turning experience.\n\u201cAfter five years of running a successful but uninspired used consumer electronics business, I decided it was time to pursue something more meaningful. I closed the business, sold my belongings, and moved to Hawaii. There I discovered a bottomless well of inspiration. I began working with the trees, making wooden bowls on a lathe.\nA few years later I found myself living in Portland, Oregon, turning wood full time from my home studio. At first focusing on creating art pieces using rare wood and stone, I began to recognize the inherent beauty of simple forms, and felt inspired to share this. I wanted to create something that was more accessible for people than lavish art pieces. I wanted my creations to be both beautiful and extremely useful.\nForm married function & the Portland Peppermill Company was born. All of my pieces are hand turned on a wood lathe. I use subterranean root burls that have numerous naturally occurring voids and cavities. I grind up different stones and inlay the crushed stone into these crevices. My pieces are finished with oil and wax to maintain the natural feel of the wood.\nI am dedicated to bringing back the disappearing art of handmade craftsmanship. Every piece I create receives my undivided attention when it comes to form, function and quality. It brings me joy to create functional art pieces that will be well loved and well used & that will last for generations.\u201d\nIntroducing Artist No. 53 \u2013 Elise Wagner\nWhen Elise Wagner, PDXOS artist No. 53, was 15, she aspired to be a ballerina. But then life got in the way. She was involved in a near fatal drunk driving accident in 1982. She spent her recovery\ndrawing and, on her return to high school, Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 18942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prestige-mls.com/en/listings/show/stand-alone/romantic-villa-for-sale-in-san-remo--16281", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:53Z", "digest": "sha1:V2UE5RSBJMMWY6QROYSG6I563O5C64J4", "length": 1883, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "prestige-mls.com", "title": "Romantic Villa for sale in San Remo | PRESTIGE MLS", "raw_content": "Strada carrozzabile San Lorenzo, San Remo, 18038, IT\nRomantic Villa for sale in San Remo\nRomantic Villa on San Remo hill with stunning view of the bay.\nSanremo is a historic resort town on the Italian Riviera close Montecarlo and the French C\u00f4te d\u2019Azure. It is well known for its highly developed floriculture, its numerous social, cultural and sporting events, such as the famous Sanremo Music Festival, the Milan-Sanremo cycling classic, and the Giraglia Rolex Regatta.\nWith its mild weather year-round, Sanremo became one of the most fashionable tourist destinations of the early 20th century attracting illustrious personalities such as Monet, Tchaikovsky, European Royalties, and today the present international jet set.\nSan Remo is an outdoor-sport mecca that offers an 18-hole golf course, an equestrian center, 2 tennis clubs, a scenic 25km oceanfront bicycle route, and 2 harbors with canoeing, sailing and boating activities. The Portosole Marina is designed to moor 806 boats ranging from medium to large size yachts of up to 90 meters.\nThe neoclassical villa is situated in the residential area of Solaro, the villa enjoys a panoramic position with enchanting 180-degree views overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The villa has been re-designed, and completely renovated and furnished to add comfort and cutting-edge technology throughout.\nThis elegant 5 bedroom villa comprises 400 m\u00b2, with an additional 250 m\u00b2 of terraces and private en-suite balconies, and is split over 3 levels accessed by an internal lift. The property is surrounded by a park of 2,000 m\u00b2 that has been lovingly landscaped into a garden, with a heated infinity edge pool, an arched rose garden with water fountain, an olive orchard, a fruit orchard, and an extensive array of tropical flora.\nThe proximity of the villa to the city, beaches and highway allows easy access to all day-to-day amenities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prideandprejudice.economist.com/t-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KKN5YJNFUHGY3TJPKMABWLQ2JXQOA2YP", "length": 3905, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "prideandprejudice.economist.com", "title": "T time: Rethinking best practice for transgender employees | Pride and Prejudice", "raw_content": "February 8, 2016 From The Economist Events: Pride and Prejudice By Patricia Nilsson In Pride at work\nAfter all, the Kardashian family, into which then-Bruce had married, is a mainstream multi-million dollar global celebrity brand.\nWhile the media industry knows the importance of treating well its transgender employees (or one of them, at least), that is far from true of business in general. Indeed, of all members of the LGBT community, the Ts tend to face the most difficulty in being fully embraced by business, and for that matter, other parts of society. They can challenge common assumptions about gender in even more ways than being homosexual or bisexual. And even where they enjoy legal protection, social acceptance may not follow. It can be a giant step from legal equality to de facto social equality.\nOne of the institutions trying to change this is the British government. In November 2015 it released a set of guidelines on how to recruit and retain transgender staff. Recommendations include creating gender-neutral systems for record-keeping, watching out for evidence of direct or indirect discrimination and tackling it quickly, and providing \u201cgender binary\u201d facilities, including changing rooms and toilets.\n\u201cGuidelines like these matter enormously\u201d, says Carola Towle, National Officer for LGBT Equality at Unison, a large British trade union. She says that Unison\u2019s trans members already face serious issues at work, and if they also have to educate their managers they are placed \u201cin a very difficult situation\u201d. The hope is that the new guidelines will remove any need for that.\nVanessa Sheridan, a transgender awareness consultant and author of The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace, says that the British initiative is impressive, and should be imitated elsewhere. She especially praises the suggestion that managers involved in recruiting new employees should be trained in inclusive best practices. \u201cTraining is the key to awareness, which in its turn leads to progress that benefits everyone,\u201d she says.\nClaire Williams of Inclusive Employers, an organisation that co-authored the guidelines, says that they have been broadly welcomed by employers, suggesting that there is a desire to \u201cget things right\u201d when there is a trans employee on their staff. Hopefully, the guidelines will prompt employers to encourage discussion of trans inclusiveness among their workers, to create an environment in which no one is afraid to \u201ccome out\u201d with their gender identity.\nThere has been significant progress on transgender issues in leading firms. In 2000, just three of the Fortune 500 companies had policies in place to make sure they were safe and supportive workspaces for trans people. Today two-thirds have implemented trans-inclusive policies.\nThis is not being driven by morality so much as by profit. As Ms. Sheridan puts it, \u201ccompanies like these don\u2019t take action unless they have a very good economic reason for doing so.\u201d In 2013, the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law published a study showing how LGBT inclusive workspaces have been linked to positive business outcomes. LGBT supportive policies increase workplace satisfaction among all employees, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity. Diverse and inclusive workspaces can help in recruiting and retaining talent within the LGBT community. They also attract straight members of younger generations, who tend to be much more relaxed about diverse sexual orientation and gender expression. As Ms Sheridan says, \u201cYounger people want to work where their LGBT friends can work too.\u201d\nThere is also an important branding consideration. In all but the most anti-LGBT countries (and perhaps even then), a firm that does not actively work to provide an inclusive workspace risks being seen as failing to keep up with changing trends and the most urgent needs facing the world of business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 11161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/108824", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:02Z", "digest": "sha1:J4LYQBDHFKT4M6XCDYM2N2YSPFOTFWOW", "length": 5668, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "prism.ucalgary.ca", "title": "Exploring Issues of Quality Teaching and Learning within Public Chilean Higher Education", "raw_content": "Exploring Issues of Quality Teaching and Learning within Public Chilean Higher Education\nDoctoral Thesis (3.785Mb)\nScott, Shelleyann\nScott, Donald E.\nRodr\u00edguez-Videla, Leonor\nKowch, Eugene G.\nLiterature--Latin American\nSociology--Organizational\nAcademic continuous professional development\nChilean Higher Education\nChilean public and state universities have made great efforts in tackling quality standards and mechanisms of accountability put in place by the Chilean Government to regulate institutions of higher education since the 1990s. Through these efforts, universities obtain the needed accreditation to access public funding, as well as public recognition of the quality of their programs \u2013 a fact which creates higher enrollment in the highly competitive context of Chilean higher education. One of the aspects considered for purposes of accreditation and accountability is to have evidence of effective learning. To this end, universities have had to establish policies and strategies that significantly improve the education and training of students. Since the core of education focuses on the processes of teaching and learning (Martens & Prosser, 1998) and the conditions for their realization, this study explored the ways in which the quality of teaching and learning might be improved in two public and state universities in Chile. Three theorical lines were considered as approaches to the focus of study: the concepts of quality as understood by the academic communities studied; the approaches and conditions of teaching and learning that favored effective teaching and learning in higher education; and the approaches to leadership, as well as the vital traits of leaders that would drive the possible and necessary changes in the Chilean system. This conceptual approach inevitably had to acknowledge and accommodate the legacy of the social and political turmoil resulting from the Pinochet era which has scarred the university sector in Chile. The study used a concurrent embedded design as a mixed methodological design suggested by Creswell (2009) and characterized by the simultaneous collection of qualitative and quantitative data. The total number of participants in this study was 163 (N) and who represented two universities in Chile \u2013 one in the city of Santiago and one in a regional city. There were 103 participants who engaged in semi-structured interviews (n), and of that there were a total of 13 leaders, 30 professors, 59 students. There were also 42 teaching professors and 18 students who participated in the online questionnaire across the two universities. The leaders represented vice-rectors and deans; and the professoriate drew from a broad array of disciplines (encompassing Architecture, Education and Languages, Engineering, Geography, Health [Kinesiology, Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Psychology], Mathematics, Sciences [Biology, Chemistry, Physics,], Social Sciences). The qualitative approach was assumed as a primary method, while the quantitative method was essentially considered for \u201clegitimation\u201d purposes (Onwuegbuzie, Johnson, & Collins, 2011). During the execution of the study, three findings emerged that were key to building a culture for the permanent improvement of the quality of teaching and learning processes for students of public and state universities. First, faculty members indicated that any construct about \u201cquality\u201d should consider elements from the external context (e.g., the Bologna tuning process), but also the institutional ethos and the expectations of stakeholders (e.g., the mission of the university). Additionally, all stakeholders generally indicated that teaching and learning should meet the needs of the country and to prepare graduates for holistic success in life (both civically and personally) within the Chilean state. In practice, findings indicated that there was a triadic relationship between the expectations for graduate qualities and career opportunities; second, students\u2019 and graduates\u2019 capacity to learn effectively (in program and lifelong learning); and third, the institutional commitment to deliver the human and material resources that would ensure the best possible conditions for teaching and learning at university \u2013 these three were deemed to be requisite for quality at university. A third and curious finding was that academics, students, and leaders themselves did not conceptualize university leaders as leaders; rather, there was a prevailing ideology that university leaders were administrators, managers, and authorities. Thus, this philosophical conceptualization about authority and administration reinforced the negative legacy of the Pinochet era of top-down, autocratic, and dictatorial leadership approaches within the higher education sector. An ambitious model of Effective Teaching and Learning Model that incorporates Scott and Scott\u2019s (2012) Webs of Enhanced Practice was created based upon the major findings of this research and was designed in response to the needs indicated by the participants. This model raised the need to make fundamental decisions to reposition the effectiveness of education through meaningful and authentic learning experiences for teaching and learning as a central purpose of the University. This study offered a closer and more descriptive exploration of university stakeholders\u2019 realities that have previously gone largely unnoticed and often masked by statistics. This reality, narrated by its own protagonists, served as a call to examine the \u201ceffective teaching and learning\u201d situation with a new lens, and in that way, potentially lead to real change in Chile\u2019s higher education sector.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://privacysos.org/blog/think-cambridge-analytica-bad-wait-isps-start-selling-dossiers-shady-political-actors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:01Z", "digest": "sha1:PA5I5QR5UILJWSTT4K53VEK7RVFRNEZW", "length": 7140, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "privacysos.org", "title": "Think Cambridge Analytica is bad? Wait until ISPs start selling our dossiers to shady political actors. | Privacy SOS", "raw_content": "Think Cambridge Analytica is bad? Wait until ISPs start selling our dossiers to shady political actors.\n03/21/2018 - Algorithms, Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Internet Freedom, Law Reform\nThe Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal has woken the United States up to the seedy underbelly of online advertising markets. Unless we take action soon, this problem will only get worse. Thankfully, states like Massachusetts are considering legislation that would protect consumers and our democracy from even more dangerous data surveillance and manipulation.\nFor years, advertisers and companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have implied that their business model is good for us. After all, the story goes, we the people get \u201cfree\u201d services like email, mapping, online shopping, and social networking, and in exchange, we get to see advertisements relevant to our interests. It\u2019s a win-win model, the narrative claims.\nThis week, that narrative has come crashing down under the weight of its own contradictions.\nThe New York Times, the Guardian, and Channel 4 have published new details, expanding on the work of the Intercept, pertaining Cambridge Analytica\u2019s use of Facebook data during the 2016 election campaign. And those details have shocked much of the country into attention.\nHere\u2019s the quick and dirty of what happened: A man named Alexander Nix teamed up with billionaire conservative political donor Robert Mercer to create a company called Cambridge Analytica. The company aimed to use data driven methods to advance conservative political causes. Cambridge Analytica worked on the Brexit campaign, which was a surprise victory.\nReporting indicates the company also had a hand in Trump\u2019s victory. Videos filmed by undercover reporters and published by the UK\u2019s Channel 4 show Cambridge Analytica executives bragging about how their data-driven insights propelled the Trump team to the White House. Their analysis helped shape the message of Trump\u2019s campaign, the executives said.\nAmong the data Cambridge Analytica reportedly used to help Trump shape his messaging was information from Facebook users who had consented to participate in an academic study, done by a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan. About 270,000 Facebook users signed up to participate in the \u201cstudy\u201d by downloading an app through their Facebook accounts, and consenting to data collection that the app claimed would be used for academic research purposes.\nFacebook\u2019s developer API allowed researchers like Kogan to obtain sensitive records not only from people who opted-in to this type of research, but also from those Facebook users\u2019 friends. That\u2019s how Kogan ended up with Facebook data on 50 million users.\nBut instead of using the data for academic purposes, as he\u2019d promised Facebook users and the company itself, Kogan reportedly shared the information with another researcher, Chris Wylie. The two of them, according to reports, used this information to create voter dossiers for Cambridge Analytica, which analyzed those dossiers in order to provide the Trump campaign with insights about messaging and strategy.\nConservative commentator Ben Shapiro has complained that the backlash against Cambridge Analytica over the past week isn\u2019t fair. After all, he writes, the Obama campaign used data-driven insights to great effect in its 2012 effort.\nThat\u2019s true, but there are at least two fundamental differences between what Obama did and what Trump did.\nFirst, Obama\u2019s campaign solicited Facebook data from people who signed up with the Obama campaign. Facebook\u2019s developer platform allowed Obama\u2019s team access to the friends of the people who signed up, as well. But the Obama campaign\u2019s use of data-driven analysis was not secret, and the people who consented to give their information (and their friends\u2019 information) to Obama\u2019s team did so knowingly. Obama\u2019s campaigns did not hide its use of these advertising methods; numerous publications wrote about it before the 2012 election.\nContrast that relative degree of openness to what Cambridge Analytica and the Trump team reportedly did. In that case, information collected under the auspices of an academic study, for solely academic purposes, was repurposed for the Trump political campaign. That\u2019s a massive breach of trust. Unlike Obama\u2019s data work, the Trump campaign\u2019s work with these data was never public, and only came out after reporters at the Intercept blew the whistle on it.\nSecond, Obama used data-driven profiling of voters to sell a message of hope and change to the American people. Trump used similar techniques to sell a message of bigotry and authoritarianism.\nThis last point is crucial, because it gets to the heart of why people are so upset about what Facebook and Cambridge Analytica did, in secret.\nPeople have generally accepted the bargain that we use services like Facebook for \u201cfree,\u201d in exchange for our data, because people generally don\u2019t mind so much if that data is used to sell them things like cars, computers, or clothing. But when the information is collected surreptitiously, or under false premises, and then used to sell them authoritarianism? That\u2019s when people start to get upset.\nIn a way, this scandal is healthy for our country, because it directly points to the seedy underbelly of the data markets that animate much of online commerce and many of the most popular websites. Regulators in the United States haven\u2019t taken this problem seriously, despite plenty of research going back years indicating how these markets, unregulated, pose threats not only to individual privacy and autonomy but to democratic societies themselves.\nAnd the problem is getting much, much worse, as you read this.\nBack in April 2017, Congress and the Trump administration killed privacy rules established by the FCC under President Obama. These rules would have barred internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon from monetizing their customers\u2019 sensitive data without opt-in consent. Those rules would have effectively kept the ISPs out of the online advertising market.\nNow, without those rules, we face these types of attacks on personal privacy and democracy not only from companies like Google and Facebook, which can access large quantities of information about their users, but from ISPs like Comcast and Verizon, which can collect far more detailed information about millions of people nationwide\u2014whether or not they use Google or Facebook.\nMassachusetts lawmakers have an opportunity to ensure that doesn\u2019t happen, by passing comprehensive consumer privacy law to reinstate the protections we lost when Trump killed the Obama-era FCC rules. All states should do the same.\nIt\u2019s not enough to wave our hands and bemoan the loss of our privacy. We must take swift and decisive action to plug the ISP-privacy-sized hole in our boat, which could sink us fast. Then, and only then, will we have the opportunity to seriously consider regulation on companies like Facebook, and begin to empty our boat of the existing high waters that threaten our individual autonomy and collective ability to act in our best interests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 8304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://professionallawyer.me/legal-articles/business/why-setup-a-freezone-company-in-the-uae", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:M55QI776YE6BXEJFGVQBMKF3DLSXCXS6", "length": 2052, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "professionallawyer.me", "title": "Why Setup A Freezone Company in the UAE", "raw_content": "Dubai is a well-respected pathway to the East, and since it became a financial hub, companies that engage in all types of business activities are now looking to establish a presence here. Dubai has over ten freezones, which provide international investors with the opportunity to expand into the Middle-East and beyond.\nWith a wide range of options available for freezone company incorporation, you can select one which reflects the nature of your business. Whether it is the location, the brand or the facilities of the freezone which attract you, you can find the best solutions based upon your legal and business preferences. As each freezone is set up to facilitate certain types of business activity or transactions, it is important to receive legal advice which suits the needs of your business.\nWith 100% foreign ownership of a company here in the UAE and the ability to trade or operate within the freezone, a freezone entity can provide great benefits to those wishing to expand their operations to the Middle East and beyond. In addition, with visa facilities available, you may even opt to move to the UAE with your business. Whilst expanding your operations and developing a well-respected international presence, why not do this in the most economically efficient way possible too? With 0% import and export tax, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, no corporate taxes for 15 years (renewable for an additional 15 years) and no personal income taxes, you are set up to have even more success and profitability.\nFreezones themselves are also extremely helpful when it comes to setting up in the UAE as they provide excellent assistance with labor recruitment, sponsorship and housing. Furthermore, the freezone areas themselves are well equipped with amenities, facilities and communication infrastructures required to set up a business. The increased number of free zones operating in the country is serving to offer a wider range of options to potential investors, and allow a real existence in the UAE through offices or warehouses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 4629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://propelperform.com/category/articles/page/5/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EIIC7FY4YKNSSSIMVNQ7QRVWX5BWAZ3R", "length": 1052, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "propelperform.com", "title": "Articles Archives - Page 5 of 27 - propelperform.com", "raw_content": "Not exactly about performance per se, but thought I'd share these anyway. These two incidents happened within 7 days of each other. And they're both quite scary. Story 1 - ABC, Lost Weight & DAA I am currently doing a series on ABC Radio about health. The first few weeks were mainly about exercise but the last two have been ...\nDepending where in the world you might be reading this, there is a slim to good chance you\u2019ve heard of the university I graduated from: University of Stellenbosch. Surrounded by vineyards, it is, ironically, a sporting Mecca. In fact, in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics many of the British sports based themselves there. Conversely, it probably doesn\u2019t matter ...\nI've never seen a great Coach who is rated low on Congruency. On the flip side, it is possible to have high levels of Congruency and still not be a great Coach. Before I expand on the definition of Congruency, below are a few examples of (superficial) Non-Congruency: The overweight dietitian The unfit Personal Trainer The Financial Advisor who still ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://proudgreenhome.com/companies/media/direct-energy/?type=asset", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4FO5666YWRKM7RDVO4TFZX7BEYUZWXQA", "length": 211, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "proudgreenhome.com", "title": "Direct Energy | Proud Green Home", "raw_content": "Winter Energy Efficiency Tips\nThis fact sheet contains tips on how to make your home more energy efficient this winter. Many of these tips are no-cost or low-cost ideas that are simple to implement in your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 4588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prudolph.lib.umassd.edu/node/3830", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QGPKU5GCHQ46PGOMC5II2DWJLUG5CDYY", "length": 950, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "prudolph.lib.umassd.edu", "title": "What is scale? | Paul Rudolph & His Architecture", "raw_content": "\u201cThe usual definition of scale is the relationship of the human dimension to the environment. We talk about a building being \u201cin scale\u201d or \u201cout of scale,\u201d which is really nonsense. Most buildings that really count have multiple scales. Buildings need to be understandable in their varying dimensions \u2013 sight, sound, smell, relationship to their environment, their spot on the globe, materials, climate, the mode of approaching, modes of movement (i.e., walking, automobile, train, subway, bus, plane), etc. All of this is modified by our cultural memory and the twentieth-century contributions to transportation. The quickly moving vehicle has transformed the possibilities of scale as an architectural tool to help remind us of our humanity. Our modes of transportation will change in unpredictable ways, but the population explosion ensures that \u201cgetting there\u201d will be with us for some time, and this changes our understanding of the environment.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?genre=biography&time=18th-century", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:T4MBNLXY3NUN7QUQCJ2HP3YGA33GPKDD", "length": 937, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "publicdomainreview.org", "title": "Collections \u2013 The Public Domain Review", "raw_content": "Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s Adventures in Scandinavia\nLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the book produced after the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft took her infant daughte\u2026more\nLetters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)\nThe published correspondence of Ignatius Sancho, the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be giv\u2026more\nThe Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)\nThe hermit or, The unparalleled sufferings, and surprising adventures, of Philip Quarll, an Englishman, who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol-merchant, up\u2026more\nExtracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)\nExtracts from the journal of Joseph Banks detailing events when he accompanied Captain Jams Cook to the South Pacific in 1768. The journal is unique in character, n\u2026more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/africas-merchant-of-death-sold-arms-to-the-taliban/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FP2AFFX2DO5I3ZGEATPJM7IR5QR6BGLN", "length": 11955, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "publicintegrity.org", "title": "Africa's 'merchant of death' sold arms to the Taliban \u2013 Center for Public Integrity", "raw_content": "Africa\u2019s \u2018merchant of death\u2019 sold arms to the Taliban\nAndr\u00e9 Verl\u00f6y\nVictor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker whose clandestine sales of weapons of war to some of the bloodiest regimes and rebels in Africa were exposed by the United Nations, had another secret client: he sold millions of dollars of arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan.\nAccording to Belgian intelligence documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, Bout earned $50 million in profit for selling weapons to the Taliban in the late 1990s. Another European intelligence source independently verified the sales, and intelligence documents from an African country in which Bout operates \u2014 obtained by the Center \u2014 claim that Bout ran guns for the Taliban \u201con behalf of the Pakistan government.\u201d\nThe intelligence documents were produced before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that triggered the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. They do not specify the type or amounts of weapons sold to the Taliban, other than that they were from stocks of the former Soviet Union.\nThe Center\u2019s findings \u2014 part of a larger investigation into the commerce of war by its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to be published later this year \u2014 establish no direct links between Bout and bin Laden. But the Taliban\u2019s ties to al Qaeda would have enabled weapons shipped to Afghanistan to make their way to bin Laden\u2019s forces. Peter Hain, the British Foreign Office Minister for Europe who has led the international effort to expose criminal networks behind the conflict diamonds and small arms trade in Africa, said in an interview that the danger posed by Bout was clear in his supply of weapons to the Taliban \u201cand to its ally, Osama bin Laden.\u201d\nThe source of the Taliban and bin Laden\u2019s weaponry has been the subject of much interest and speculation since the Sept. 11 attacks. The German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Jan. 7, 2002, that Vadim Rabinovich, an Israeli citizen of Ukrainian origin, along with the former director of the Ukrainian secret service and his son sold a consignment of 150 to 200 T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban. Spiegel said the deal was conducted through the Pakistani secret service and uncovered by the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, in Kabul, the Afghan capital. A Western intelligence source told ICIJ that Rabinovich\u2019s weapons had been airlifted by one of Bout\u2019s airfreight companies from his base in the United Arab Emirates.\nRabinovich, who has denied the allegations, told the Kiev newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda that he was the victim of a smear campaign by unspecified political forces in the Ukraine who were using him as a scapegoat. \u201cIf something disappears in Ukraine, something is stolen or vanishes, Rabinovich is guilty. If there is no water in Ukraine, it is Rabinovich\u2019s fault,\u201d he said. The Ukrainian Parliament, which twice debated the allegations, urged prosecutors to open a criminal probe.\nA spokesman at Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Washington, D.C., who refused to be named, denied that Pakistan served as a conduit for weapons shipped to the Taliban, saying that Pakistan abided by the Dec. 19, 2000, U.N. arms embargo imposed on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and actively promoted interdiction. The weapons allegedly supplied by Bout and Rabinovich were delivered before the sanctions were in place.\nAttempts to reach Bout for comment in the United Arab Emirates were unsuccessful.\nU.N. monitors have accused Bout of shipping contraband weapons to rebel movements in Angola and Sierra Leone and to the rogue regime of Charles Taylor in Liberia. Bout and his associates operate, or have operated, in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda, according to reports by the United Nations, the U.S. State Department and non-governmental organizations. Intelligence documents obtained by ICIJ and interviews conducted with many of those following the global trade in arms further support the allegations against Bout.\n\u201cThe murder and mayhem of UNITA in Angola, the RUF in Sierra Leone and groups in the Congo would not have been as terrible without Bout\u2019s operations,\u201d Hain told the ICIJ in an interview. He called Bout \u201cAfrica\u2019s chief merchant of death.\u201d\nBout\u2019s empire today is a maze of individuals and companies, which employ some 300 people and own and operate 40 to 60 aircraft, including the largest private fleet of Antonov cargo planes in the world, according to the ICIJ investigation. Bout has long-standing ties to Afghanistan, but his links to the Taliban have been a closely guarded secret.\nThe 35-year old native of Tajikistan, who uses several aliases, started out in the trade in Afghanistan when his air force regiment was disbanded during the breakup of the former Soviet Union. A 1991 graduate of Moscow\u2019s Military Institute of Foreign Languages, Bout is reportedly fluent in six languages.\nIn March 1995, Bout and Frenchman Michel-Victor Thomas founded Trans Aviation Network Group (TAN), according to U.N. and intelligence reports. Between 1995 and 1997, the company\u2019s operating base was Ostend in Belgium, an airport frequently cited by human rights groups for hosting companies and individuals involved in arms trafficking. TAN also opened offices in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.\nAt first, most of the shipments from Ostend were intended for Afghanistan, according to local monitors\u2019 reports. Many went to groups opposing the Taliban. One Boeing 707, with a crew from Switzerland and registered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was \u201cpartially financed by Afghan generals,\u201d the Belgian intelligence report said.\nBout\u2019s company delivered at least 40 tons of weapons from Ostend to Afghanistan, but Bout left Belgium after details of the shipments were reported in the local media, including that he paid $10,000 to the pilots for each trip. The Belgian intelligence document noted that pilots got an extra $1,000 \u201cper landing.\u201d\nBout\u2019s contacts with the Taliban extend to August 1995, when the Taliban was in opposition to President Burhanuddin Rabbani\u2019s government in Kabul. One of Bout\u2019s planes flying from Albania via Sharjah and transporting small arms and military equipment to Rabbani was intercepted by a MiG-21 and forced to land in Taliban-controlled territory, according to the ICIJ investigation.\nThe Ilyushin-76 belonged to Aerostan, a company based in Tatarstan, but was leased by Transavia, one of Bout\u2019s companies operating out of the United Arab Emirates. Transavia had started flying cargo flights to Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad in May 1995 at the behest of Afghani traders in the emirates, according to the French news agency Agence France Presse.\nBout, together with Russian diplomats, tried to negotiate the release of the detained crew in Kandahar, but was not successful. A year later, on Aug. 16, 1996, the seven Russian crewmembers disarmed their guards and took off in the Il-76 for Sharjah, according to press reports. A source later told the Washington Monthly he believed even though this deal went sour Bout took advantage of the situation by establishing contacts with the Taliban.\nIntelligence agencies suspect that more recent arms supplies were transported on an airline run by one of Bout\u2019s business associates. The airline, Flying Dolphin, operated scheduled flights from the United Arab Emirates into Taliban-ruled Afghanistan between October 2000 and Jan. 21, 2001, according to reports in the UAE media.\nFlying Dolphin is owned by Sheikh Adbullah bin Zayed bin Saqr al Nayhan, a former UAE ambassador to the United States and member of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi who has been described by the United Nations as a \u201cclose business associate of Bout.\u201d According to the Dec. 20, 2000, U.N. report, Zayed\u2019s company is registered in Liberia, but its operations office is in Dubai.\nThe United Nations gave Flying Dolphin permission in October 2000 to operate weekly flights from UAE to Kandahar on condition that no cargo would be allowed on the plane, just passengers\u2019 personal belongings.\nFlying Dolphin said it had decided to introduce the service in response to demand from Afghans living in the Gulf region. About 500,000 Afghans live in the United Arab Emirates, whose government was one of only three that had granted diplomatic recognition to the Taliban. Flying Dolphin halted the weekly service after the United Nations imposed tougher sanctions on the Taliban in January 2001.\nAccording to the United Nations, almost all of Bout\u2019s companies operate out of the United Arab Emirates. Companies registered in Swaziland, the Central African Republic, Liberia and Equatorial Guinea use Sharjah airport as an \u201cairport of convenience.\u201d In early 2001, Bout relocated from Sharjah to neighboring Ajman, where he set up office in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry building.\nThe United Arab Emirates is a major financial center and crossroads for east-west trade. With its large volume of transiting cargo, its bank secrecy laws, and its bustling free trade zones, it is a perfect base for arms dealers.\nBout\u2019s career in the arms trade in Africa took off in 1995 after he registered Air Cess in Liberia. Five years later, in March 2000, the United Nations started naming individuals and companies involved in the shady world of arms and diamonds dealing in Africa, even publishing their addresses and telephone numbers. Bout was among those most frequently cited.\nA U.N. panel investigating arms embargo violations against UNITA in Angola identified 37 flights between July 1997 and October 1998, with weapons all belonging to Bout. The aircraft, with false end-user certificates and flight schedules, were all registered in Liberia. Bout has since been accused by the United Nations of violating sanctions against the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, UNITA in Angola and Charles Taylor\u2019s regime in Liberia.\nAlthough intelligence documents reveal that Bout \u201cis under investigation in a number of western countries\u201d and that \u201cInterpol has opened a file on him,\u201d Bout continues to operate freely, shuttling between the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Central Asia and Africa\u2019s war zones. While he was under investigation by a U.N. panel, he even ferried Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers to East Timor.\nAn Interpol spokesperson refused to comment on Bout, but the ICIJ has learned that at least one warrant for his arrest was issued by the Central African Republic, which however, never formally notified Interpol. In March 2000, Bout was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison by a tribunal in the capital of Bangui after an aircraft belonging to him used the markings of the state-owned airline on a flight to Gabon. However, for unknown reasons, the United Nations said Bout was absolved of the charges by a Bangui court on June 28, 2000.\nAt a U.N. conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in July 2001, the international community for the first time agreed in principal to curb the illicit trade in weapons. However, the \u201cprogram of action\u201d is not legally binding and was watered down by China, Russia, and the United States \u2014 the three largest weapons producers. China and Russia have historically opposed global regulations on arms trafficking. The United States opposed measures that would control private gun ownership and bar sales to friendly guerrilla movements.\nLisa Misol, an arms expert at Human Rights Watch, said too little is being done to bring arms traffickers to justice. \u201cWe\u2019re happy for improved monitoring and publication of findings,\u201d said Misol. \u201cBut that\u2019s clearly not enough to tackle the problem if no one\u2019s willing to do something with the information.\u201d\nSpecial Report: Kuchma approved sale of weapons system to Iraq\nVictor Bout denies involvement in arms traffic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 13865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 186.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pundithouse.com/category/housemail/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KD6OL7RC2YRXU2WYG4YU2HMOQATGF76C", "length": 3575, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "pundithouse.com", "title": "House Mail | Pundit House - Part 4", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb House Mail You are browsing entries filed in \u201cHouse Mail\u201d\nThoughts on Cairo and Libya Attacks\nMany supporters of the Right to Bear Arms often express frustration against the United Nations when they see the (in)famous statue below that resides outside the UN headquarters in New York. Ultimately, for me at least, the conversation boils down to something simple and direct like, \u201cWe need to kick the UN the hell [\u2026]\nConstitution Day Great Gathering of the Tea Party at Jomeokee\nConstitution Day Great Gathering of the Tea Party Join us on September 22 at the beautiful setting of Jomeokee in Pinnacle NC as Tea Parties from across America band together in a display of Unity. Celebrate the 225th anniversary of our Constitution as we reaffirm the common goal to restore our founding principles to the Republic. It\u2019s all about freedom, [\u2026]\nRomney Using TSA For Security?\n******** PLEASE Contact the Romney campaign and tell them that the unconstitutional presence of TSA will not be tolerated by Americans at their campaign events.http://www.mittromney.com/forms/suggestionsOne of my big issues with what\u2019s going on is the erosion of our personal freedoms and the shredding of the Constitution that is not only occurring now, but really started [\u2026]\nAugust 23, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More \u00bb\nAn Inefficient Court System Costs You Money.\nWhile there is no statutory requirement as to when court begins in North Carolina, the majority of counties begin District Court at 9:00 am. Some counties, such as Mecklenburg and Gaston, have both a morning and an afternoon session while others such as Union and Cabarrus have one court session that will continue into the [\u2026]\nWhy Romney / Ryan is NOT the answer \u2026\n\u2026. and why MY PLAN is the only plan that will save America. ==================================== That\u2019s a pretty bold statement, isn\u2019t it? Especially considering I\u2019m a nobody. Well, if you\u2019re serious about the future of our country, I challenge anyone who reads the following to tell me how it can be otherwise than the plan I [\u2026]\nIt is the time of the year when we, as adults, reflect on previous times of returning to school and seeing our friends. It was a memorable time, growing up in the 1950s and finishing school in the early 1960s. America was on a threshold of great accomplishments and the election of a young President [\u2026]\nCouncilman Commits Piracy\nI am writing you today as a concerned web developer here in the Charlotte area. As you know, website and content is protected material that takes vast resources of time, talent, and money to develop. Having been in the industry for many years I take this very seriously and whenever I find stolen content I [\u2026]\n20 Reasons We Must Change (Or, a little incentive)\nTHE POOR: \u00b7 47% of Americans don\u2019t pay federal income taxes. \u00b7 60% of Americans receive some portion of their income from the federal government. \u00b7 US welfare, food stamp, and disability rolls are at all-time highs. \u00b7 Unlike in the rest of the world, the poor in America qualify for 100% free healthcare, housing, food, transportation, and yes, [\u2026]\nJuly 18, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More \u00bb\nConservative and Anti-War?\nEdwin Starr asked in his \u201960s classic; \u201cwar,what is good for? absolutely nothing,say it again.\u201d Well, actually war is \u201cgood\u201d for something.It serves the powers that wield its\u2019 destructive force. In todays American-globalist empire,war is the tool of the corporate-fascist tyranny that threatens to overwhelm and obliterate the last vestiges of limited, constitutional, republican government. Everywhere [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pzgeneralmotors.com/2015/04/22/donec-facilisis-fermentum-sem-ac-viverra-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UOL4AR2PUSGYJGINZDJWMVI5RXQGMYBY", "length": 861, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pzgeneralmotors.com", "title": "EU regulation driver's licences - Pavlos Zenonos General Motors - Used vans & trucks for sale in Cyprus, Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, PaphosPavlos Zenonos General Motors \u2013 Used vans & trucks for sale in Cyprus, Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos", "raw_content": "Cyprus to get EU regulation driver\u2019s licences.\nPlastic driver\u2019s licences will arrive in Cyprus on 29 June, in accordance with EU regulations for an updated version.\nPeople might remember that the current driving licences are a large folded sheet of paper that needs to be taken care of extremely delicately.\nThe new plastic licences resemble the ID cards that all Cypriots hold, with the EU standards on them. They will be pink with an EU flag in the corner that has CY written in the middle, like those of other member-states.\nExisting licenses are not affected, but will be changed to the new format at the time of renewal by 2033 at the latest, in the EU area.\nSpeaking at a press conference on Friday, Minister of Transport, Communication and Works Marios Demetriades said that the new driving licences will be replaced regularly to ensure they are updated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://quakerlibertarians.weebly.com/blog/archives/09-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2NW7KREKGHUGWATTHH57AHA6TL4G2AVK", "length": 22123, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "quakerlibertarians.weebly.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Quaker Libertarians", "raw_content": "Anarchic Harmony : Toward a creatively evolutionary Quaker organizational structure\n\"The reason churches fail is that they don't know how to do relationship.\nWe're supposed to be a community.\u201d\n- Mike Chong Perkinson, co-author of The Organic Reformation\n\"...the original creators of the standard forms...used the forms as a loose guide for freely created music. Modern composers, however, are held back by the restrictive forms, which have hardened over time. 'Is it not singular, to demand of a composer originality in all things, and to forbid it as regards form?\n\u2026Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.\u2019\u201d\n- Ken Blacklock quoting Ferruccio Busoni\nI am in a reading group that recently finished up a book on the \u201cdones\u201d by Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope - Church Refugees: Sociologists reveal why people are DONE with church but not their faith. The authors surveyed people from across the U.S. that have left the church and found some striking commonalities in their responses. One of those key areas has to do with a phenomenon well-described by Ryan Frame as \u201csacrificing community for the sake of the institution.\u201d This is a particularly timely consideration for Friends in light of the recent schism in Indiana Yearly Meeting and the ongoing struggles in North Carolina and Northwest Yearly Meetings.\nThe book and the yearly meeting arguments have led me to re-visit a workshop I presented at the 2012 ESR Spirituality Gathering on the evolution of Quaker organizational structure. The workshop was intended to serve as one effort to work out some of the practical organizational implications of Phil Gulley\u2019s book, The Evolution of Faith.\nMy sense is that these books and the yearly meeting situations are interconnected. We may be in the midst of a painful confrontation between existing organizational structures and assumptions and new or differing approaches that may better fit the realities of faith in 21st century America.\nIf we are open to the idea of our faith communities adapting to better meet the needs of today, then we need to be intentional about the process. For those concerned about evolution, it can mean the loss of history and identity. For those drawn to evolution, it can mean positive progress. Neither necessarily represents the whole truth. A better understanding of evolution is on the one hand building on (rather than abandoning) what has come before, and on the other hand an experimental process that sometimes ends in unexpected outcomes or even failure. But if we can\u2019t risk the possibility of failure we also can\u2019t risk the possibility of new growth and insight that might be absolutely what we need to survive and thrive.\nWhat we may be moving toward may have less to do with clear boundaries and hierarchies and more to do with a kind of anarchic harmony. This is what the composer Ferruccio Busoni worked to achieve in his music. His Toccata provides an excellent example:\n\"Music was born free,\" says Busoni, \"and to win freedom is its destiny.\u201d Could we say the same thing about worship?\nLet\u2019s walk through some of the various places where this dynamic has already / is currently / or may play out in the future:\nMembership \u2013 the in vs. out question\nYearly meetings and associations all fall somewhere along the spectrum of open to closed in terms of how new meetings or individuals can join (or remain in) as members. Each carries its own risks. More open models are subject to the risk that by allowing those that differ in, the current \u201cmajority\u201d view may be eventually outnumbered - including even by those with more \u201cclosed group\u201d perspectives. More closed groups may limit opportunities for growth and spend more time focused internally on defining clear boundaries.\nCategories of \u201cConservative\u201d and \u201cLiberal\u201d or \u201cProgressive\u201d can be somewhat fluid here, and can shift over time. \u201cConservative\u201d segments within a group may seek to draw in new affiliations into the group that would not have traditionally fit in, and \u201cOpen Group\u201d segments within a group may very well appeal to \u201cconservative\u201d values such as tradition and founding documents to protect a group\u2019s \u201copen status.\u201d Self-described or perceived \u201cOpen Groups\u201d can also be largely closed by demanding allegiance to \u201copenness\u201d upon entry.\nHow will new forms fit in to old structures? Even though their own view on yearly meeting membership continue to evolve, the Friends of Jesus Fellowship is emblematic of this dynamic \u2013 considered to \u201cChristocentric\u201d for some yearly meetings, and too \u201cwelcoming and affirming\u201d for others.\nAuthority \u2013 Top-down vs. Bottom-up\nIf we embrace an experimental model that must mean that not all experiments will not look alike. Structurally, this likely looks more like the ideal of federalism (50 research labs) rather than centralization. This has been a key point in some of the yearly meeting conversations. Where does authority rest (monthly, quarterly, yearly meeting), and what authority exists at various levels?\n\u201cThe post-heroic philosophy of leadership is based on a bottom-up transformation fueled by shared power and community building,\u201d writes Jimmy Long in The Leadership Jump. \u201cIt releases the potential power of everyone. In the post-heroic leadership model, everyone on the team is a leader\u2026 Instead of dividing people, it connects them\u201d (53, 55).\nInternal vs. External Focus\nA consistent concern among those who have left the church was a sense that the churches they were involved with or even served in leadership among were primarily focused on internal matters. This is not to say that stewardship of an organization\u2019s resources is not important, but that there should be balance between an emphasis on building maintenance and impact in the organization\u2019s community and world. This is connected to the membership question above, in that excessive attention on internal theological, ethical, or cultural agreement (that we all hold the same view of atonement or we all hold the same view of environmental justice, for example) can lead both those within and without to regard an body as self-centered and oblivious.\nA different model\nA model that builds upon existing structures but creates space for adaptation and supports leadings might be composed around the guiding principles below:\nSubsidiarity \u2013 The principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Ideally, this suggests that more centralized authorities may only intervene at the request of less centralized authorities.\nAffinity \u2013 The principle that not all action or ministry needs to take place with the involvement of all members, but instead that like-minded or interested parties from across the breadth of a group can come together to pursue tasks or goals.\nMutual Aid \u2013 The principle that a gathered group can offer support to those within the group that are most in need. This has taken the form of mutual aid societies in American history, but has strong Biblical roots, including Paul\u2019s collection for the church in Jerusalem. In Galatians 6:10 he states, \u201cwhenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.\u201d\nWalking humbly \u2013 The principle that while we may have gifts, talents, and important messages for others, it is equally likely that we have much to learn from others as well. As Gully writes, \u201cthe emerging Christianity, whose philosophy will focus less on power and self-preservation and more on ecclesial modesty and service.\u201d Further, this implies that no policy taken or supported is worth calling upon force (and this has to include state action) to bring others into alignment with our beliefs. \u201cFriends seek to follow the teaching and example of Jesus in rejecting the use of coercion and violence\u201d (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice, 12).\nIntervisitation \u2013 The principle that no one Quaker body represents the whole of the Quaker spectrum of faith, and that we are strengthened and encouraged through communication and engagement with other Friends. As Gulley writes, \u201cif the activities of Jesus were an indication of his priorities, it is clear he placed a high value on the social aspect of spirituality and faith.\u201d\nService and Engagement \u2013 The principle that our organizations should not be solely focused on their own internal growth and development but should instead be outwardly focused on the needs within their communities and the larger world. This should be evident not only in terms of financial contribution but through genuine encounter and worthwhile service that has the potential to impact the lives of others but also our own. \u201c[W]hen Christians rise from their pews and work and sweat and invest their lives,\u201d says Gulley, \u201cpeople take notice and lives are changed.\u201d\nCan we control the evolution of our own faith, or faith in general? Likely not, but we can avoid responding out of fear and instead create space for it to take place. Lacking perfect knowledge for all times and contexts, we need the ability to let go of the illusion of complete control. We simply cannot know what will be best for all and at all times, and we shouldn\u2019t take the risk of the damage acting as though we do can inflict.\nInstitutions and organizations, however, have their own dynamic that tends toward rigidity over time. As Packard and Hope argue, then, we have to work against this bureaucratic tendency by intentionally incorporating centers of innovation and experiment into the organizational structure. They offer some helpful suggestions on how to do this \u2013 from task-specific and time-limited committees to dedicating a portion of the budget specifically for innovative ideas (that just might fail). It\u2019s definitely worth a read. \u201cToday\u2019s leaders must take risks and take the church to places the members never dreamed of going before,\u201d argues Mary Louise Gifford in The Turnaround Church. \u201cThe church can no longer afford the luxury of marking time. Stagnation will lead to death. It is only a matter of time\u201d (86).\nI will conclude with one more thought from The Evolution of Faith: \u201cif Christianity has mutated and evolved over the centuries, it\u2019s reasonable to conclude it will continue to do so. It\u2019s also reasonable to conclude God might inspire a number of people to shepherd that process, that I might be one of them, just as you might be, and that a fitting response is to share our insights with others.\u201d So, what insights do you have to share, and how might you shepherd the ongoing evolution of faith?\nQuakernomics?\nMike King\u2019s 2014 book Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism should interest anyone who wants to learn more about the history of 19th century British Quakers in business. Beyond that, the claim that the book provides \u201can immediately relevant guide for today\u2019s global economy\u201d should be treated with skepticism.\nThe historical narrative that makes up the first half of the book is definitely interesting, but it is worth mentioning a couple of important concerns:\n- First, as one reviewer on Amazon notes there is little statistical evidence presented to back the author\u2019s claim that Quakers were any more ethical than their counterparts. \u201cit is difficult to know what percentage of Quakers followed the examples of looking after their workers that are given in the book. Similarly there is an impressive list of companies run by Quakers but do we really know how many in these Quaker \u2018family\u2019 firms were really practising Quakers? Without any figures it is difficult to make a judgement on the claims made\u2026 is it possible to say whether the percentage of Quaker employers who looked after their workers was significantly higher than the average?\u201d\n- Second, his historical argument is that \u201cQuakernomics\u2026is a philosophy of wealth creation which sought from the outset to put its wealth to social ends\u201d (128). While he does provide some examples of Quakers seeking changes in public policy, the bulk of his examples to support the idea of the social concerns of Quaker business owners (above average wages, model villages, hot chocolate instead of beer, etc.) are rooted in voluntary action and moral persuasion rather than legislation. This historical evidence is at odds with the author\u2019s personal conviction (which informs the economic analysis in the second half of the book) that \u201cthe state must inexorably play a key role in the construction of an ethics for reining in raw capitalism\u201d (255).\nIn the end we discover the author\u2019s true position, which is that Quakernomics (as he defines it) is essentially a historical artifact that has little bearing on our current situation. What we really need is basically what many of his readers likely already experience: the modern democratic welfare state. \u201cQuakernomics was an ethical capitalism,\u201d King argues. \u201cBut it was religious, voluntarist [thank you!] and paternalistic. Such a capitalism no longer fits the modern world\u2026 the specific ethical capitalism of Quakernomics has no place in the modern world\u2026 But Quakernomics is conceived here as only one possible ethical capitalism out of many. We have to forge a new one, appropriate to our era, inspired by this real example\u201d (254-255).\nQuaker Ethics and the Austrian School\nAnd this brings us to the underlying question of ethics \u2013 particularly an ethics informed by Quaker principles. For this exploration, it is instructive to turn our attention to his chapter on Austrian Economics (177-183).\nNot unlike Jung Mo Sung and Joerg Rieger, King unfortunately chooses to undermine his argument by singling out the Austrian School for special attention while demonstrating only a cursory knowledge of the subject. King\u2019s caricature of Mises and Hayek in particular is that they present a knee-jerk reaction to Nazism, conflate Nazism with his more benevolent understanding of socialism, and therefore react with unnecessary fear of an expansion of state power. \u201cAt root it is an extremism which sets itself against the mixed economy that in practice nearly all developed nations have pursued: a balance of private competitive enterprise and state control, or, in other words, a moderated capitalism\u201d (180).\nMises and Hayek \u2013 both having fled likely death in Nazi Germany \u2013 were undoubtedly reacting in their writing and political and economic analysis to that reality. These were of course not their only contributions to economic understanding, though, and their concerns should not be seen as limited to that particular historical event. Further, the contributions of the Austrian School as a whole did not begin or end with Mises and Hayek. King appreciates the role of innovative entrepreneurs in the economy in general and Quakers as \u201cgood individualist Schumpeterian entrepreneurs\u201d (182) in particular, and so might be interested in the later work of Israel Kirzner on the subject.\nBut back to the ethical question at hand.\nKing argues that \u201cIn many ways, the legacy of von Mises and Hayek represents the antithesis of the Quaker tradition: the \u2018kryptonite\u2019 to Quakernomics perhaps. It drives a wedge between economic activity as initiated by the entrepreneur within a broadly free market, and any consideration of social consequences, and it does so by raising the spectre of Nazism\u201d (183).\nKing\u2019s goal throughout the text is to paint his middle-of-the road approach of \u201crestrained\u201d capitalism as a reasonable response to the extremes of Marx and Mises. This is surely debatable from a purely economic and political standpoint, but King wants to go further and suggest that Quaker ethics compels Friends to adopt such a perspective. Does this position hold up to scrutiny?\nLet us go along with King in the assertion that we can have both a socialized economy and personal freedoms, in contrast to his characterization of the Austrians. For Quakers, a deep ethic should call us beyond a mere utilitarian objective to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, regardless of the means employed. Our commitment to peace should lead us to question an overreliance on the use of state force to accomplish any goal. In fact, his own historical analysis of Quakers in business points in this direction and ultimately leads him to label them \u201cvoluntarist.\u201d\nThe State as Virus\nIn addition, King\u2019s devotion to the mixed economy welfare states of the U.K. and U.S. leads him to completely overlook what these economies really are: welfare-warfare states. The utter denial of the danger Mises and Hayek warned about with regard to state violence and oppression coupled with the complete absence of any analysis of the violent and oppressive nature of these centralized states at home and abroad may not be unrelated.\nCould it be the case that the unsustainable nature of the violent Communist, Fascist, and Nazi regimes of the 20th Century has led to an evolution in the nature of state violence such that states can still engage in significant acts of violence and destruction but do so while projecting the illusion that they are instead agents of peace? An analogy may be helpful here. When many of us think of viral outbreaks, it is easy to imagine the destruction of entire populations. Biologists have come to understand, however, that in order to survive and thrive a virus must have a viable host. \u201c[T]here is a natural force providing pressure on the parasite to \u2018self-limit\u2019 virulence. The idea is, then, that there exists an equilibrium point of virulence, where parasite's fitness is highest. Any movement on the virulence axis, towards higher or lower virulence, will result in lower fitness for the parasite, and thus will be selected against.\u201d\nFrom a political standpoint, this self-moderation for the sake of sustainability is similar to Anthony de Jasay\u2019s observation in The State that \u201cwhen the government is unpopular, it pursues popular policies and when it is popular, it indulges in its own ideology\u201d (271). For Friends, this should be highly worrisome. To the extent that we turn to the state to impose a position we support on others we participate in the perpetuation and expansion of its systems of violence. Quakers are called to a higher ethic than political utilitarianism.\nIf King\u2019s \u201cethical capitalism\u201d is linked to this approach then it is truly neither ethical nor capitalism. The Quaker philanthropists King highlights can point us toward a different vision rooted in Quaker principles and built upon the ideas of peace, generosity, wealth creation, and voluntaryism.\nZombies, the drug war, and countering a culture of fear\nI recently came across the above billboard warning residents about zombie-like creatures hooked on heroin in their own backyards. It reminded me of the endless waves of warnings over the years about various drugs invading our communities and taking over our streets. Crack, meth, bath salts, and now heroin...\nTime and time again, we are told that one exposure to a drug turns humans into non-thinking animals, rampaging homes and stores and eating faces. The only way to address each successive wave of panic is to get even more \"tough on crime.\" Yet, research suggests that much of this hysteria is overblown. As Columbia University Neuroscientist Carl Hart explains, \"We have rigorous science to support that crack cocaine is not as addictive as people think and that they have been hoodwinked.\" He argues much the same about all intoxicants. So what really drives these scare campaigns? Again, Dr. Hart: \"As a politician, you can use 'crack cocaine' as a code word and say you\u2019re going after it, but you\u2019re actually going after people we don\u2019t really like in our society. Law enforcement benefited because their budgets were hugely increased. Treatment providers benefited because it\u2019s either jail or treatment, so they got the overflow. Researchers, people like me, benefited. So many people benefited from this.\"\nBarry Glassner makes a similar argument in the book The Culture of Fear:\n\"There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear describes the high costs of living in a fear-ridden environment where realism has become rarer than doors without deadbolts.Why do we have so many fears these days? Are we living in exceptionally dangerous times? To watch the news, you\u2019d certainly think so, but Glassner demonstrates that it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk. The Culture of Fear is an expose of the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our fears: politicians who win elections by heightening concerns about crime and drug use even as rates for both are declining; advocacy groups that raise money by exaggerating the prevalence of particular diseases; TV newsmagazines that monger a new scare every week to garner ratings. Glassner spells out the prices we pay for social panics: the huge sums of money that go to waste on unnecessary programs and products as well as time and energy spent worrying about our fears.\"\nJust as the state employs fear of enemies abroad to build its military infrastructure, it has used fear at home to build a police presence that far exceeds what is necessary to address realistic threats within our communities, and it has done so in collaboration with health providers and researchers. This fear benefits a few at the expense of many - undermining the fabric of our families and communities. The loss of life at the hands of our supposed protectors of peace around the country has led to at least one positive outcome - a national conversation around the nature of our policing, incarceration, and justice in the United States. The best way to counter the fear-based narratives being broadcast into our neighborhoods is to develop and share a fact-based narrative to offer in its place. We each have a stake in this conversation.\nIn a death culture that drives us toward fear, hate, and the escalation of violence, we can be bearers of a culture of life that draws others toward light, truth, and peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 23055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2009/03/question-from-nassa-why-didnt-henry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:54Z", "digest": "sha1:4F3MDDF237FWOTVTCKSUR5B25TLD2DNZ", "length": 4174, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "queryblog.tudorhistory.org", "title": "Tudor Q and A: Question from Nassa - Why didn't Henry VIII give Anne B. another chance", "raw_content": "Question from Nassa - Why didn't Henry VIII give Anne B. another chance\nI would like to find out, maybe this has already been addressed, but I have failed to find a similar question here, why didn't Henry VIII give Anne Boleyn another chance to get pregnant and eventually deliver a son? Why wasn't he willing to try further?\nNo one can ever know for sure, but It is my belief that Henry simply was not willing to wait any more for her to try. Anne was constantly pregnant over the span of her three years on the throne, and had only one living child to show for it, the female Elizabeth. Anne also miscarried a son some time in 1536, and it angered Henry. Perhaps in Henry's mind, she was unworthy of a second chance.\nStephanie L.K., NY said...\nNassa, this is an excellent question.\nHe did. Anne became pregnant at least 2 times after Elizabeth was born. The first time resulting in a stillbirth (That was rumoured to be a boy, but disformed) and the second time resulting in a miscarriage that Anne attributed to being devastated upon hearing the news that Henry had become severely injured during a jousting incident. However, I certainly believe part of the actual reason (for the second miscarriage) was because Henry was starting to favor Jane Seymour, and Anne did in fact walk in on Jane sitting on Henry's lap (this was accuratley depicted in \"The Tudors\") One must also remember, a woman cannot be in extreme distress throughout her pregnancy. Anne had many problems: there were many people whispering in the king's ear hoping to be rid of Anne. Jane Seymour was also younger (and Henry probably presumed more fertile) than Anne. Anne was also growing increasingly worn out from worrying about her husband's fidelity. This kind of extreme stress made it even harder for a woman to concieve.\nPlus, and I think this is key* Henry, was, notorious and infamous for being fickle!\nOn a closing note, it has been rumoured that Anne was pregnant at the time of her execution but most scholars doubt that as she most likely would have informed Henry in the hopes of staying alive. I suppose you never know!\nNassa said...\nThank you for the answers. I know it might sound immoral, but could she not arrange to cover up her miscarriage and \"adopt\" someone elses newly born at the time when she was due herself, especially having such a powerful family at her side that could assist her?\nThat would have been very dangerous to do, especially considering that there were already whispers that Elizabeth wasn't Henry's, but in fact one of her supposed lovers. Of course, Elizabeth was in fact, Henry's, as it was often remarked later in her life that she resembled him greatly.\nThe bottom line is Henry got rid of Katherine because she did not give him a son, then did the same with Anne. If Jane had not bore him a son, he would have probably left her, too.\nAnother chance for what?\nThere was a reason that people in King Henry's circle didn't like her. She was treacherous, conniving and deceitful. And most importantly she could not produce a male heir which is what Henry wanted the most.\nIt may be completely true that Henry was growing tired of waiting, but there are several interesting theories from historians to support the idea that there was more to it than Henry's impatience for a son. The problem is, they contradict each other, so you'll have to take your pick! She had enemies at court, as Jenna points out, and this comes into play in at least one theory. Foose and some others (Beardedlady maybe?) here have mentioned them before, so please check out those posts. Great reading!\nWell she wasnt CONSTANTLY pregnant, she was pregnant twice more - now Catherine of Aragon she WAS constantly pregnant sometime concieveing just a month or so after a birth\nI think one of the motivating factors in Henry's decision to rid himself of Anne was that because of the question of the legality of his marriages to Katherine and Anne, any children from the union would always be tainted by the question of legitimacy. However, with both Katherine and Anne dead, he was free to marry again, and the marriage and any resulting offspring wouldn't be under a cloud of suspicion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 10078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rahyafteha.ir/en/6552/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SPBZ4JV67LEJGMFWLUI2OT23ZEB5U7TM", "length": 13984, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "rahyafteha.ir", "title": "Contact us", "raw_content": "Kristin, A New Muslim Girl from the USA\nEver since I reverted and started wearing hijab, I have been treated with much more respect by men than before I was a practicing Muslimah.\nAn Exclusive Interview with a Revert to Islam, Fatimah Dalgic, an Australian New Muslim, by Bentolhoda Mofakhami.\nKristin, A New Muslim Girl from the USA:\n1. Rahyafte team (related to Edoardo Agnelli Islamic Association) invites you on a special journey into the life of sister Kristin( Abedah). Thank you so much for your time and cooperation. Please introduce yourself.\nMy born name was Kristin but after reverting to Islam, I now go by the name of Abedah. I come from a Republican Christian family. I live in Texas, USA. My birthday is May 6, 1986. I took Shahada on April 5, 2012.\nBefore reverting to Islam, I was a famous rapper by the name of MC Router. I produced albums and toured all over the US and Europe. My last show as MC Router was in Amsterdam with the biggest audience in my career, topping out at over a thousand.\nI was also featured in a documentary on Netflix (an American entertainment company) and appeared on many shows, magazines and newspapers all throughout the US and Europe.\nI gave up my music career at the peak of my music career after reverting to Islam, because I knew I had a new path to follow. Allah (SWT) blessed me with an audience and a gift to be able to have a following and they listen to me, so I used my ability to perform in front of crowds and changed it into Dawah.\nI used to teach ESL (English as a Second Language) to foreign students in the university. A group of Muslims from KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) came into my life and introduced Islam to me and continued to teach me and challenge me every day to learn about Islam until I understood it and accepted it.\n3. What drove you to convert to Islam?\nI was raised Southern Baptist and my grandfathers were both Southern Baptist preachers who both had their own churches in which they lead. As a Christian, you are taught and almost even brainwashed to believe and accept that Jesus is the only way to salvation and when you pray, you pray to Jesus. However, I never felt this was right and I was always seeking a relationship with mighty God. Christianity isn\u2019t really set up for its followers to seek out understanding and closeness to Allah (SWT) rather than Jesus. The more I learned about Islam and that there is none worthy of worship but Him, it really was the turning point to lead to me to Shahada because this was more logical and Islam is more structured and focused on the worshipper and his true God.\nMy fathers\u2019 side of my family did not accept and they called the FBI (the Federal Bureau of Investigation) and homeland security on me; claiming I was involved with terrorist activities. I had agents at my door day-and-night, following me everywhere. They went on investigating every small part of my life. Though I have tried tirelessly to keep my ties with that side of the family, they have threatened me and warned me to stay away and made it clear they will never accept me as one of their family.\nMy mother, at first did not take the news of my reversion well. We were featured on the TV show; Dr. Phil because she thought I needed an intervention and I needed to go back to Christianity and also feared I would join ISIS. However after a few years, I moved in with my mother and now she has accepted it, but she still is not comfortable with it.\nShe watches me closely and if I make any mistake she tells me I am a bad Muslim or a hypocrite just to have a reason to tell me I made the wrong choice. Most of the people who knew me before Islam abandoned me, just like my family did. None of them wanted to associate with me at all and to this day, six years later, I have not had their acceptance.\nI am not married, I am divorced. I met my ex-husband years after becoming a Muslim.\n5. How do you see the spread of Islam in the USA?\nThe spread of Islam in the USA is growing slightly, but not as rapidly as in other countries like Europe for example. I believe this is because there are too many people in America who are against Islam and especially our current president who encourages hateful attitude towards Muslims. I get attacked and yelled at and harassed every single day by people in my city. I can\u2019t get hired anywhere because of my hijab and other Muslims constantly encourage me to take it off, but if I trust in Allah I know I will be given something better by His will alone.\nThere are many beautiful Ayahs in the holy Quran, but the most beautiful one to me is in Surah Duhaa 93:7;\n\u201cAnd He (Allah) found you lost and guided you.\u201d (93:7) .I think this is or should be special for reverts because we were lost, a lot of Muslims forget we are all born Muslim, (Fitra ), but depending on how our parents raise us, we end up following and believing in other religions. As a revert, I was completely lost, and not all people who are lost are guided to Islam, Allah (SWT) chooses whom He wills to guide and I was guided. There is nothing more beautiful or amazing to know and remember that I didn\u2019t choose Islam, Allah (SWT) chose me and guided me! SubhanAllah!\nI started wearing hijab on the first week I took Shahada. It was such an easy transition for me and even though some of my friends and my mother especially, didn\u2019t approve or didn\u2019t understand, I am a strong-willed person and I always do what I want to do without giving regard to anyone else, and that can be a bad thing or a good thing, but it\u2019s my character.\nIf I want to do something, I don\u2019t let anyone around me tell me I can\u2019t or let their opinions influence me. My ambition drives me.\nEvery day I hear Muslim women, new and old, talking about their struggles of wearing hijab, how they are scared of it being dangerous for them or because they are scared of what others think, but in my opinion, I only care what Allah (SWT) thinks and I fear Allah (SWT) not the people.\nI don\u2019t understand how it can be hard for someone because it was never hard for me and it\u2019s a part of Islam I never struggled with. I just knew it was my duty as a Muslima and that was enough for me.\nI definitely think hijab is for both men and women. Hijab is not just a scarf on the head, it\u2019s modesty and a mindset and a piece of our character. It\u2019s how we talk to people, how we act towards people and how we present ourselves and interact with each other. For men, it\u2019s less talked about, but I think it is important to discuss hijab for men because it\u2019s not only the women\u2019s obligation or responsibility.\nHijab for men is a long discussion and takes some knowledge and understand to process but in short, the opinion that Muslim men must cover themselves between the navel and the knees is predominant, and most Muslims believe that a man who fails to observe this requirement during Salat must perform the prayer again, properly covered, in order for it to be valid.\nThree of the four madhabs, or schools of law, require that the knees be covered; the Maliki school recommends but does not require knee covering. According to some hadith, Muslim men are asked not to wear gold jewelry and to lower his gaze, just to give a few examples.\nI think the biggest link between men and hijab is lowering the gaze because the main purpose of hijab is modesty and a man lowering his gaze is a great way to practice that.\nBeing raised a Christian, I went to church on Sundays and that was the end of my spiritual growth. Some Christian families are more involved with the Bible studies and praying together as a family such as before a meal or at bedtime, but the Christians I knew never really had a structured spiritual environment in which they were daily reflecting and practicing the religion or daily setting time apart for worshipping Allah (SWT).\nIn Islam, it is much more common that parents teach Quran to their children along with prayer and Sunnah\u2019s of the Prophet (PBUH). You see more young Muslim kids praying and active in the mosques than you see Christian kids active in praying and the churched. You also see how the teachings of Islam affect the children and how the Muslim children are more adept to respect their parents and take care of them when they are older.\nIslam gives a structure and a guideline for muslim families on how to approach parents in old age, approaching marriage and staying connected to the Deen by praying and seeking knowledge. Many Christian kids don\u2019t seek out knowledge about Christianity as they get older and don\u2019t memorize the Bible\u2026some do of course but it\u2019s more probable in muslim families because Christianity lacks in spiritual family structure as compared to Muslims families.\nTwo things specifically attracted me to Islam equally:\nThe close relationship a Muslim can have with Allah (SWT). Without going through a preacher, priest, saint, angels, or other Prophets.\nThe structure of Islam is set up so brilliantly. Everything you need for every situation in life has a solution and approach in Quran. This sets Quran apart from other religions. Men wrote the Bible but Quran is the direct word of Allah SWT.\nSouthern Baptist \u2013 Christianity.\nMany reverts will tell you a candy-coated story about how praying their first time was the most amazing and powerful experience, but the reality for a lot of us is that it\u2019s not all sunshine and smiles.\nWhen I prayed for the first time I was scared, because I wanted to pray correctly, I was frustrated because I had to read notes on a piece of paper on the ground to follow each step. I didn\u2019t have anyone to show me so I was learning literally from a printed out paper with step by step instructions. After I finished my first prayer, I felt hopeful and excited but it was mostly stressful because it was new and I knew the importance of it and I wanted to learn it in the right way.\nThere are many beautiful things in Islam. One of the most beautiful things about Islam is prayer. It\u2019s a chance to connect to Allah (SWT) all throughout the day and the evening. To talk to Allah (SWT) and to be thankful and to ask for forgiveness and knowing that if you pray to seek His forgiveness with a sincere intention, that by His will, you will be forgiven.\nThe intention is another beautiful thing about Islam because everything in Islam is based on intention. If you intend to do something good, with a sincere intention, even if you didn\u2019t get to do it, it is counted as a good deed for you. Also, it keeps Muslims in a reality check which is healthy for our spiritual growth.\nIf we make a bad intention for something we know the results are not going to be good and that there is no Barakah in that thing. Yet again, if we make a bad intention and we don\u2019t do it, it is not counted against us! SubhanAllah, that is so beautiful!\nI have found so much peace and calmness in Islam, because when we pray or when we are alone with Allah (SWT) it is a time when everything around us stops and we know Allah (SWT) is right there, listening to us and knowing that Allah (SWT) is all Seeing and all Knowing and all Hearing, it makes us calm and peaceful because Allah (SWT) knows what is in our hearts even if we don\u2019t know it for ourselves and know that Allah (SWT) in control, there is nothing more peaceful than that, if we have total faith in Allah (SWT) to guide us and keep us on the right path.\nNon-believers have such twisted views about women\u2019s rights in Islam because they have a lack of knowledge and understanding. They take what they see in the media or the movies and take it for the fact.\nMy mother thought I would marry a Muslim man and get beaten up or abused. However, my mother has met many Muslim men and their families and she has changed her views because it takes knowledge and it takes immersion or an experience to see the high status that women have in Islam. Ever since I reverted and started wearing hijab, I have been treated with much more respect by men than before I was a practicing Muslimah.\nThe Quran and the structure of Islam attracted me the most, along with the oneness of Allah (SWT).\nAs I mentioned earlier, it was a group of students from KSA who introduced Islam to me, gave me a Quran translated into English and taught me about Islam and answered all the questions I had. Also, before reverting, I had many Islamic dreams in which were clear signs from Allah SWT that He was guiding me, it wasn\u2019t that I was choosing Islam it was that Allah SWT was guiding me and through these dreams, I knew this was the right religion.\nEveryone has a different approach to Dawah. I actively do Dawah and by the will of Allah (SWT) have brought people to Islam or re-energized born Muslims to get back to the Deen.\nFor me, I think the best method is being relatable. This is why Reverts play such an amazing role in DAWAH because many times we were in the shoes of the people we are giving Dawah too. We were a Christian or a Jew or an Atheist. So we know how they are feeling and what they are thinking.\nWhen a non-believer sees a middle-eastern or Asian Muslim who was raised a Muslim, they don\u2019t listen most of the time because they have nothing to relate to, but when they see a westerner who has reverted, they are more inclined to listen and when we can tell them, \u201cyes I was a Christian too.\u201d or \u201cI understand, I used to believe like you believe.\u201d they are more interested and willing to listen because we can relate to them and they can relate to us. Being relatable is the number one key to Dawah. It has shown to be a very successful approach and method to my Dawah efforts.\nAn Exclusive Interview of a Revert to Islam, Kristin( Abedah), from the United States, by Bentolhoda Mofakhami\nTags : Abedah, Christian, hijab, Islam, Muslim, New muslim, pray, Quran, Texas, USA, women's right\nHow Do We Know the Quran is Unchanged?\nAmerican converts need post-conversion help & support\nHolding a photo exhibition of Arbaeen Hosseini 2018 in Zootmer, Netherlands\nAmerican boy shares the story of his conversion to Islam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 17769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ramblewithaplan.com/rambles/questionspartone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CIATBWAHIAA7JO5KRN4LOXJAK2WQTVYY", "length": 3249, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ramblewithaplan.com", "title": "Blog \u2013 Dane Johnson | Writer & Editor", "raw_content": "A conversation with an Orthodox Christian monk sharing his perspective on God, existence, and the meaning of life. This is the first digital letter in a series dedicated to the exploration of existential questions.\nWhen asked why they wouldn\u2019t be filmed, Fr. Silouan, the monastery\u2019s superior, said that he and the brothers had died to the world. In short, they didn\u2019t exist anymore.\nJon went into his habitual mode of checking audio levels, asking Fr. Silouan to clap a couple of times in front of the mic, which saw him clapping directly in front of his face as if he were catching a fly before it entered his mouth. After Jon asked for Fr. Silouan to state his first and last name, Jon and I looked at each other uncomfortably. Does he have a first and last name as a monk? Would he say his birth name? Did that identity still exist?\n\u201cFather Silouan,\u201d he said. Then followed up with, \u201cMonk Silouan.\u201d\nWhen Jon asked him for the date, he replied as one who has truly been separate from the world for the better part of his adulthood.\n\u201cToday is May 9th?\u201d He wondered. We affirmed his guess, which prompted him to repeat it back with more conviction: \u201cToday is May 9th, the year of the Lord, 2014\u2026.AD.\u201d\nFor years, Fr. Silouan had been a Dead Head, traveling wherever the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead were scheduled to play next. He had also been a wandering devotee to Krishna, which saw him singing and dancing all over the world as his white linen robes flowed all around.\nUntil one day, while walking along the dirty sidewalks of Manhattan, he saw a paper icon of the Virgin Mary lying on the ground. To him, this was a motherly mandate to return to the faith of his youth. So, with the same abandon he\u2019d entered into his vagabond vocations, he returned to Catholicism. And then, soon thereafter, he would join a brotherhood of Carmelite monks.\nThere are a lot of details that I\u2019m intentionally leaving out about Fr. Silouan\u2019s life because it is not his journey that I wish to highlight in this letter, but instead his perspective.\nAs an individual who has dedicated his remaining years of life to prayer, repentance, sobriety, celibacy, and sharing all things in common with his brothers, I believe that his point of view to be particularly insightful, flowing from a place of humbled spirit that many of us may never know in this life; and, if we do experience that depth of humility, we may not desire to maintain it for any extended period of time. But, as I witnessed while living with the brothers, that\u2019s what monks do, bowing every night before one another to ask forgiveness for their known and unknown offenses. All of their life is repentance.\nNow, Fr. Silouan belongs to a brotherhood of Orthodox Christian monks who pray in a small adobe church in the New Mexican high desert near Lake Abiquiu.\nAfter peacefully enduring the Lenten season with he and the brothers (a time of fasting, silence, and solitude), Fr. Silouan agreed to be recorded while fielding some of the questions that had led me to the monastery in the first place.\nMy first question: How do we know God exists?\nRather than paraphrase his reply, I hope that you\u2019ll enjoy hearing from the monk himself:\n\u2190 Don't be so sensitive | Pt. V Love & Shame | Pt. IV \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rapportboost.ai/insight-series-secret-sauce-live-chat-optimization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EPKFDD7WA3AZPKAASQRQV6DB3GRE7OTV", "length": 1713, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rapportboost.ai", "title": "Secret Sauce Live Chat Optimization | Live Chat Agent | RapportBoost.AI", "raw_content": "Insight Series: The Secret Sauce Of Live Chat Optimization\nDr. Michael Housman of RapportBoost.AI discusses the secret sauce of live chat optimization.\nDesigning a machine learning system that coaches the live chat agent without stepping on their toes is, in many ways, the secret sauce of RapportBoost.AI. We realized very early in the company\u2019s history that we wanted to utilize a human-in-the-loop system. That meant that the front line live chat agent would be the mediator between our recommendations and what the website or app visitor ultimately saw. To develop a great live chat optimization platform, we needed to influence user behavior. It\u2019s like the old adage of the tree falling in the forest - if we rendered an analysis and presented that insight to the live chat agent, and they didn\u2019t take any action on it, did we really do the analysis in the first place? As a result, we were forced to think hard about how we would influence user behavior.\nI can\u2019t go into all the specifics, but suffice it to say, as the live chat agent is engaging with customers, we get a window into their personality. We learn about how they think and how they tick. Likewise, we couple that with A/B Testing, different ways of conveying our messages, different placements on the screen, bold or highlighted text.\nWhen we couple what we\u2019ve learned about the user with A/B Testing, what we\u2019re able to do is come up with very novel and creative ways of presenting information in order to influence the user to take suggestions from the live chat optimization platform. And that really is the crux of behavioral economics. It\u2019s presenting information in a way that makes someone more inclined to act in their best interests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-05423-6_3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YTQJRAZ47YHL6AZJPPYL6EBYARQDUJAI", "length": 17822, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "rd.springer.com", "title": "The Failure of Financial-Economic Policies to Reduce Global Poverty | Springer for Research & Development", "raw_content": "Integrated Community-Managed Development\nIntegrated Community-Managed Development pp 67-90 | Cite as\nThe Failure of Financial-Economic Policies to Reduce Global Poverty\nKurniawan Saefullah\nPart of the Cooperative Management book series (COMA)\nThe worldwide problem of poverty had amounted to such an extent that the international development organisations designated the highest priority to the eradication of poverty within the context of achieving sustainable development around the globe. While many world leaders, experts, and scientists are dreaming of a world without poverty, there are widely differing notions about the various dimensions of poverty in both the developed and the developing nations. A growing number of authors are now recognising that the financially-based \u2018economic development approach\u2019 as implemented by the World Bank does not reach the poor and marginalised people. Also, despite the focus of the United Nations and its agencies on realising poverty reduction through a more people-centered \u2018human development approach\u2019, progress still proceeds unevenly as effective participation at the local levels is lagging behind. In this context, an emic\u2014instead of an etic\u2014perspective in development is proposed in order to realise participatory development at the community level. 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This shifting of administrative authority away from the state can make it difficult for program recipients to link their use of a federal program back to government, a disconnect known as \u201csubmerging\u201d the state. However, privatization is a process that occurs in degrees, and not all privatization initiatives look alike. This study leverages variation in the implementation of Medicaid managed care, which is the most widespread form of Medicaid privatization, to examine how privatization maps onto state submersion and affects state visibility. This analysis shows that, although Medicaid managed care enrollment, at large, does not relate to recipients' self-reported Medicaid enrollment, when privatized Medicaid plans introduce administrative designs that obscure the role of government, Medicaid self-reporting declines. These findings demonstrate that policy recipients are less able to recognize both the personal relevance of a specific public program and the public nature of this interaction when privatized programs utilize design features that attenuate signals of government involvement. In highlighting this disconnect, this article shows how privatization makes it more difficult for policy recipients to engage in the civic sphere as informed advocates for their self-interest.\nMedicaid managed care, Medicaid undercount, privatization, survey response\nMedicaid undercount", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 5557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article-abstract/7/3/734/14101/Health-Care-Costs-and-Personal-Bankruptcy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ALNWDMCJ4UPBSESESZ6KFKBBCEZFVPD4", "length": 689, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "read.dukeupress.edu", "title": "Health Care Costs and Personal Bankruptcy | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press", "raw_content": "Health Care Costs and Personal Bankruptcy\nBarry A. Gold\nElizabeth A. Donahue\nBarry A. Gold, Elizabeth A. Donahue; Health Care Costs and Personal Bankruptcy. J Health Polit Policy Law 1 June 1982; 7 (3): 734\u2013739. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7-3-734\nIn response to published but unconfirmed reports that health care costs were a leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., court records of all bankruptcy petitioners in one judicial district were examined. The records were analyzed by income, employment, debt categories and amounts. Within the limitations of the study, health care costs seem not to have played a significant role in the financial lives of this population.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 163.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reflectionsonglassblog.wordpress.com/author/andymcstay/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6PQCUTT5ZDUC7HOEHX2O5QEOO4ITKMUI", "length": 4472, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "reflectionsonglassblog.wordpress.com", "title": "andymcstay \u2013 Reflections On Glass", "raw_content": "Author: andymcstay\n#Telekineticmedia 2\nMuch was made in the news a few weeks ago of an app developed by This Place, an application developer in London. They designed a program called MindRDR that allows Google Glass users to take photos using their mind. This works by means of a Neurosky Mindwave Mobile headset, a consumer-level electroencephalography (EEG) unit. What is somewhat surprising is that these are readily available online for around \u00a3100. I bought one. The unit works by measuring when parts of the brain are undergoing higher or lower levels of activity. The measuring part is important \u00ad\u2013 indeed the Neurosky marketing campaign line is \u201cBody and Mind. Quantified.\u201d The headset alone allows limited control over Bluetooth-paired mobile phones and games.\nBrain activity can be raised when we focus and concentrate so to allow Glass use, photo and video surveillance, and use of Glass-based applications with \u201cthe power of our minds\u201d \u2013 or by telekinesis. Clickbait language I know, but the word is accurate. The Glass example received much coverage in the UK news (with representatives from The Place interviewed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News), but ostensibly this was a simple hack of existing technology (no bad thing). The promise of telekinetic media as a principle has larger consequences.\nAs in the picture above, so far I\u2019ve made displays on my mobile phone go up and down by means of my concentration levels, but there are clearly more extensive implications for people with disabilities, gaming, remote access of objects, (be these weapons or medical implements), and surveillance and security. More to come when I\u2019ve paired it with Glass. Interesting times ahead.\nPosted on August 28, 2014 August 28, 2014 by andymcstay Leave a comment\n#telekineticmedia\nGlass use has been far less frequent over the last week, although we (myself and Vian) had a meeting with the UK ICO about the future of wearables last Monday. They were less interested in wearables themselves then the nature of data breaches they may instigate. They were non-committal on the potential market success of Glass and other wearables, but notably more interested in identifiable data protection matters than in the technologies themselves.\nOn Glass itself, I wore the unit on the train and into a local (to the ICO) Costa coffee cafe. This was actually my first public outing. Despite attacks reported in San Francisco earlier this year nobody rushed to rip the unit of my face. Perhaps surprisingly nobody seemed that bothered either, although I got a distinct impression that the unit is in need of some sartorial improvement.\nSitting opposite a 30-something male in \u201cSmart-Casual\u201d attire on the train I fiddled with apps, looked out of the window and down the carriage. Keen to initiate conversation he asked \u201cIs that Google Glass\u2026 What\u2019s it like?\u201d, to which I replied \u201cDo you want a go?\u201d. He was very impressed, and was particularly interested in the social media possibilities \u2013 i.e. consuming, sharing and communicating content more simply. I asked if he felt intruded upon when I was wearing Glass to which he answered \u201cno\u201d. My own inclinations as a privacy researcher reflect the supposition of a recent Guardian article that points out that it is a very self-focused technology in which the experience of Glass is all about the self than the others subject to the camera, but certainly in regard to the sample of one who I spoke to \u2013 he did not seem particularly bothered (although perhaps the fact he makes a living in part by dealing in Google AdWords for small businesses may have bearing?).\nFollowing reports a week or two ago that This Place hacked together an electroencephalography EEG unit, Google Glass and built an app for it, I have also bought a consumer-level unit. The lure of telekinetic media was too strong to wait to see if my university would pay (much to the chagrin of my partner). The app called MindRDR allows Glass users to take photos using their mind. This works by means of an EEG headset that is able to measure when parts of the brain are undergoing higher or lower levels of activity. This occurs when concentrating this allowing EEG enabled Glass to \u201cread minds\u201d. There are further implications for people with disabilities, gaming, remote access of objects (be these weapons are medical implements), surveillance, security and many more I\u2019m sure.\nMore to come on telekinetic media when the unit arrives and I\u2019ve worked how to use it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 28433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remerge.io/blog/inside-remerge-part-iii/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HKTTSURJBIRVZVZ3IWOIVG6PN7R4Y2WA", "length": 4568, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "remerge.io", "title": "Inside Remerge: Part III", "raw_content": "Inside Remerge: Part III\nI am part of the co-founding team and my official title is Chief Revenue Officer. I take care of everything that makes sure that we have happy customers, which essentially means building and managing a team of very experienced Sales and Account Managers (ex-Fyber, AppLift, madvertise, LiquidM, adjust), who combine a lot of mobile performance marketing know-how. We all share the belief that App Retargeting is going to be the next \u201cbig thing\u201d, hence we are very excited that we can be at the forefront and actually shape this new marketing channel together with the best app developers in the world. Since App Retargeting is quite new for most of our clients, it requires a very deep understanding of every app\u2019s audience in order to come up with meaningful re-engagement strategies. We therefore place great emphasis on consulting our customers, offering a fast and smooth onboarding process, as well as ongoing service and optimisation, since App Retargeting is about building long-term relationships and trust.\nHow does Remerge differ from the competition? What does Remerge offer customers that rivals cannot?\nThe whole idea of Remerge is to bring more efficiency to App Retargeting. If you look at the App Retargeting process from A to Z it is actually quite complex, compared to UA, where you are \u201csimply\u201d trying to acquire new users. App Retargeting is all about working with your existing user base, which is constantly changing their behaviour and their lifetime stage - and in an ideal world, your retargeting strategy should dynamically adapt to that.\nTo our great surprise, up until today a lot was solved manually, which prevented app developers from delivering the best user experience, to really scale this channel and achieve the best performance. It is therefore our job to support the entire process with technology in order to make it more efficient and scalable.\nIn addition to this, we are supporting app developers in learning from their app retargeting activities, since working with first-party data results in a ton of insights that wasn\u2019t previously available and which can provide great value by informing other marketing channels, as well as the product development itself. Opposed to other providers, still acting more like blind ad networks, we decided to develop a very comprehensive customer dashboard and powerful real-time reporting, enabling our clients to get full transparency on their audiences and on how App Retargeting is impacting important KPIs like retention and lifetime value.\nWhat\u2019s the most exciting potential for Remerge?\nWe are just at the beginning of something that will, without doubt, become very important for the entire app economy. If you look purely at the acquisition part of it (app installs), it is an incredibly huge market which is facing major challenges, such as increasing competition in the app stores and CPIs getting more and more expensive. And, suddenly, there is a new channel which app developers can leverage in a far more powerful way, since you can now use your first-party data to make much better buying decisions. Being part of that is super exciting. It is a global industry and very diverse. Remerge is working with all verticals, such as gaming, fashion, entertainment, travel, news etc. with app marketers from all over the world. The exciting part is that we need to understand all of our customers in terms of what is their app and audience about and what are their specific marketing challenges, in order to precisely orchestrate audience segmentation, personalized messaging and deep linking to optimize the LTV.\nTo what effect do you feel that app retargeting can prove to be transformational for the ad-tech industry?\nThere are some examples that show how one product can have tectonic impact. Take Facebook, for example, and compare where they were 3 years ago and where they are now with regards to mobile advertising. Their in-stream ad format was a game changer for almost all mobile marketers! Today, running install campaigns on Facebook is a standard for everybody, resulting in a dramatic increase in price.\nWe are convinced that App Retargeting will have a similar impact. There is the potential of becoming a standard in every app developer\u2019s marketing mix, since every app developer needs to improve retention and LTV for their users. It is valid for every vertical, in every region of the world. Sooner or later, everybody will try App Retargeting and, from what we can see with our existing customers, they will decide to continue with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remote.co/worker-questions/how-has-working-remotely-impacted-your-family-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OCGVVPEREMQ27TQYJY3O2ZJEI6GORBMU", "length": 885, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "remote.co", "title": "How has working remotely impacted your family life? - Remote.co", "raw_content": "Home > Remote Workers Q&A > How has working remotely impacted your family life?\nI\u2019ve been working remotely since the start of my relationship with my wife so it has always been normal for us. When we moved in together, it could be difficult sometimes as she was doing shift work and I was trying to stick to a working week\u2014that generally meant I would be more flexible with my timings so we could spend time together, but if I had a deadline it meant I had to work whilst she was at home, which could be a distraction.\nWherever we travel, I\u2019m always with my husband\u2026as we made that choice together and he is also remote in everything he does (and/or we do).\nBut we are far from our family and from childhood friends\u2026 So our \u201cgolden rule\u201d is that we visit them at least once a year\u2026 We also invite them to visit us. And we are in regular contact through Skype, emails and social medias.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 10948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/45632", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AIZK2GFDVGXSZKXXJ5JHUYAGCPDTRZYF", "length": 2850, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "repositories.lib.utexas.edu", "title": "Mechanical properties of metallic materials subjected to current pulses", "raw_content": "Mechanical properties of metallic materials subjected to current pulses\nGallo, Federico Guido\nMaterials used in high-current applications -- Al6061-T6 and Cu 102 -- are subjected to heat pulses of short duration (in the range of a few hundred microseconds to a few milliseconds); immediately following or along with such heat pulses, the specimens are subjected to large mechanical forces. The heat pulses are obtained by discharging a current (of ~ 10\u2079 A/mm\u00b2 density) through the specimens. Specimens of Cu 102 and Al 6061-T6 were loaded into the plastic range and then subjected to a short duration current discharge from a capacitor bank. The resulting heating causes both a thermal expansion and unloading of the specimen; upon cooling, the stress could not recover to the pre-discharge levels. Many experiments of this type have been performed in order to understand the cause of this stress drop. Accurate measurements of the strain and stress evolution with time were obtained using digital image correlation methods and a load cell; current measurements were obtained with a Rogowski probe. Finally, the measurements were interpreted with a viscoplastic model in order to determine the reasons for the load drop observed experimentally. The comparison of the experimental results with this viscoplastic model generates material constants that do not appear to be compatible with calibration in quasi-static load conditions; alternate methods to calibrate such constants have been implemented validating the previous results, but raising further issues. Specifically, a test was performed at constant loading conditions monitoring the strain in order to reduce the number of parameters to calibrate. It appears that other effects that have been ignored in the present modeling or other viscoplastic models may have to be considered in order to fully understand the effect of the short duration current pulse and generate appropriate models. The second part of the work relates to the effect of multiple pulses on the same specimen. In this part, the Cu 102 and Al 6061-T6 specimens were strained into the plastic range and then subjected to 50 or 100 current pulses of different magnitude, with the cross-head of the loading machine kept fixed. After each pulse, the specimen was allowed to cool to room temperature by waiting for 1 min. A drop in load that decreased with each subsequent current pulse was observed in both materials, with the load leveling off to a constant value after a few tens of current pulses. After 100 pulses, the stressstrain curve of the specimen was obtained once again and found a permanent drop in yield stress compared to the virgin material. Finally, a series of multiple discharges at fixed load and current density was performed showing an unstable behavior in the plastic strain accumulation.\nCurrent pulses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/61670", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2EBEASN4T7G6G7GFOLOTWEJXW6CVPOZS", "length": 2413, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "repositories.lib.utexas.edu", "title": "Femtosecond time-domain thermoreflectance measurements of cross-plane thermal conductivity of GaAs/AlAs superlattices", "raw_content": "Femtosecond time-domain thermoreflectance measurements of cross-plane thermal conductivity of GaAs/AlAs superlattices\nMASON-THESIS-2017.pdf (1.644Mb)\nMason, Sarah Catherine\nNanostructuring is a proven method to reduce the thermal conductivity and increase the thermoelectric figure of merit of semiconductor materials for applications such as solid-state refrigeration. Accurate measurement of the thermal properties of nanostructured materials is necessary to utilize them properly. One technique to measure the cross-plane thermal conductivity of these materials is time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR). In TDTR, the sample is coated with a thin metal layer which is heated by a laser pulse. As the metal layer cools by heat conduction into the sample, the change in optical reflectivity is detected by a probe laser. For temperature changes of a few kelvin, the change in probe reflectivity is directly proportional to the change in temperature of the metal. By comparing the experimental measurements to a simulated one-dimensional conduction heat flow analysis, the thermal conductivity of the sample and the thermal boundary resistance between the metal and the sample can be determined. In this thesis, we use TDTR to measure the cross-plane thermal conductivity of seven GaAs/AlAs superlattices with period thickness ranging from 2 nm to 41 nm. We compare the results from two TDTR setups, one uses a Ti:sapphire oscillator system with a repetition rate of 76 MHz and the other uses an amplifier system with a repetition of 5 kHz. Most of the thermal conductivity values from the amplifier measurements are consistent with the literature values. However, most of the thermal conductivity values from the oscillator measurements are larger than the literature values. The discrepancy is likely due to pulse accumulation. A sensitivity analysis of the thermal model shows a time delay of at least 2.5 ns should be used to minimize the uncertainty of the thermal boundary resistance measurement. Generally, increasing the time delay will further reduce the uncertainty of the thermal conductivity, but the diffusion length within the superlattice at the maximum time delay also has to be considered. The minimum superlattice thickness that can be measured within the 2.5 ns time delay without substrate interaction is about 120 nm for material with a diffusivity of 6x10\u207b\u2076 m\u00b2/s.\nTime-domain thermoreflectance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 216.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/9156", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HY3VEBGLRVXUZFKFFGBN5IKUNSZXKYWN", "length": 3032, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "repository.library.noaa.gov", "title": "| Biomedical test materials program : FY 1991 update on the storage stability of fish oil test materials - :9156 | National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)", "raw_content": "Biomedical test materials program : FY 1991 update on the storage stability of fish oil test materials\nGooch, Janet A.\t; Van Dolah, Frances M.\t; Icenhour, Teresa P.\t; Seaborn, Gloria T.\t;\nGooch, Janet A.\t; Van Dolah, Frances M.\t; Icenhour, Teresa P.\t; Seaborn, Gloria T.\tLess \u25b2\nSoutheast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.), Charleston Laboratory,\t. Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)\t.\nSoutheast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.), Charleston Laboratory,\t. Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)\tLess \u25b2\n\"This is the second in a series of updates on the storage stability trials carried out by the Quality Assurance Project of the Fish Oil Biomedical Test Materials Program (BTMP). The Fish Oil BTMP was established in 1986 by a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Institutes of Health/Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (NIH/ADAMHA). The primary mission of this Program is to provide standard test materials to answer research questions regarding the mode of action of omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids in ameliorating heart disease, inflammatory diseases, and cancer, as well as their role in brain development. The role of the Charleston Laboratory of NMFS is to produce extensively analyzed and quality assured fish oil, n-3 ethyl ester concentrate of fish oils, and purified ethyl esters of eicosapentaenoic acid (EP A) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These test materials are available to researchers approved by the Fish Oils Test Materials Advisory Committee (FOTMAC) of the NIH/ADAMHA\"--Introduction, paragraph 1.\nThe NITRD Program : FY 2004 interagency coordination report\nInteragency Working Group on Information Technology Research and Development (U.S.)\nInteragency Working Group on Information Technology Research and Development (IWG/ITR&D). : \"Second printing -- October 2004.\"\nBiomedical Test Materials Program : synopsis of meeting on omega-3 fatty acids research, May 12, 1994, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland\nFair, Patricia A.; Salem, Norman;\n\"The objective of the meeting was to identify the major information gaps in omega- 3 fatty acid research and define impediments toward: a) definitive conclusions on the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids in each research area, and; b) clinical rec...\nHawaiian Monk Seal Epidemiology Plan : health assessment and disease status studies\nAguirre, A. Alonso; Reif, John S.; Antonelis, George A.;\nA. Alonso Aguirre, John S. Reif, and George A. Antonelis. : \"October 1999.\" : Also available online in PDF. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-52).\nBiomedical test materials program distribution management manual\nFair, P. H.\nSoutheast Fisheries Center (U.S.), Charleston Laboratory,. Southeast Fisheries Center (U.S.).\n\"The epidemiological studies by Bang et al. and Dyerberg, which associated the beneficial effects of omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) with the potential prevention of coronary heart disease have stimulated numerous studies on the role...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 9451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rhi.jobs/california/usa/jobs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WNCQEUQVLDO2IWDFWNVEINEER7YFU6US", "length": 66, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rhi.jobs", "title": "Robert Half Corporation Jobs - Jobs in California", "raw_content": "4,840 Jobs in California\nSan Ramon, CA (114)\nWalnut Creek, CA (65)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 3712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ricasoli.com/en/news/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EW7PHK6FUTBZWPAEIRSTCFLQTPRP5GF2", "length": 445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ricasoli.com", "title": "News | Ricasoli 1141", "raw_content": "The surprises of a season in the Chianti Classico area\nJust as we were publishing the post on April 20th, where we celebrated the arrival\u2026\nStrolling through the vineyards in this period means watching Nature awaken. Only a month ago,\u2026\nGoodbye Vinitaly 2017\nYesterday was the last day of the 51st edition of Vinitaly. A big thank you\u2026\nFeeling at home even at Vinitaly Fair\nHere comes Vinitaly 2017, in only two days from now. We know it is quite\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ricktheraven.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/october-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HPDUICFUO7QLO6YOA5ZBTYYB5FHG3VTP", "length": 1495, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ricktheraven.wordpress.com", "title": "October News | Richard Evans - Raven Heisenberg", "raw_content": "books, fantasy, genre, magic, SPIRA, swords\nThe Corrupter is now available through Smashwords. It took some time to get that book formatted right for their server. Price is the same as Amazon, $3.00.\nI am going to try and finish the Legion Book 3 in time for Halloween. Fingers crossed over here!\nI\u2019ve also started writing SPIRA, my first fantasy novel, which is quite exciting. It\u2019s always fun to start a whole new series, especially when it is in a new genre. I never understood authors who only write one genre, even Stephen King, who dominates in horror, still tries his hand at sci-fi and straight fiction sometimes. There is a blog featuring some extras and short tales about SPIRA and the larger world it occupies.\nhttp://www.spiraletters.blogspot.com\nIt involves a missing royal family, two feuding empires, a terrible secret and a hero who is master of stone magic and a heroine who wants desperately to find a mythical treasure.\nMagic will be a major factor in the book, more than in the Game of Thrones TV series but less than a typical Dragonlance book. Most of my knowledge of magic comes from D&D and Palladium games, so magic will have very clear rules, even if they aren\u2019t explained right away. Magic takes energy, personal energy that everyone has but that magic users adapt to specific ways. All magic requires fuel, but how and where that fuel comes from depends on the skills and backgrounds of the caster. For some, it is stones, for others, it is their soul or \u2018chi\u2019. . . .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://riveraportraits.com/2010/01/06/a-modern-approach-to-a-traditional-technique-continued-creating-the-illusion-of-surface-texture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ACYIWZWOMPWZT7VDMND6L4XMANF5MZHE", "length": 3450, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "riveraportraits.com", "title": "A Modern Approach to a Traditional Technique Continued (Creating the Illusion of Surface Texture) | Riveradavid's Blog", "raw_content": "A Modern Approach to a Traditional Technique Continued (Creating the Illusion of Surface Texture)\nIn this painting I am dealing with several different types of texture. As a hyper-realist, I am always striving to create an illusion that transcends mere representation and takes on a physical reality. I want my audience to forget that their eyes are viewing a flat picture plane, and instead perceive the varied textures (the softness of flesh, the dryness of each leaf, etc.) as something tangible.\nIn my studies of art history, I\u2019ve discovered a love for seventeenth century, Dutch trompe l\u2019oeil painters. Trompe l\u2019oeil is a French term, meaning fool the eye. What I find so amazing about this period of painting, is, especially in still life\u2019s, the fact that every surface is represented with such conviction that it becomes the object. There is a real understanding about the physicality of each thing (the stitching of cloth, the smoothness of metal, the effects of light on glass, etc.). These varying surfaces also make for interesting compositions. Unity with variety is the goal \u2013 having enough variation to distinguish each object as a separate thing, but also enough unity between them to hold the composition together.\nOne of the tricks of trompe l\u2019oeil painting is the controlled build up of the paint to \u201cmodel\u201d the surface of the panel or canvas and create a relief effect. This is one way to fool the eye into believing in the reality of a three dimensional space. The build up of paint literally pops out of the flat picture plane and assists in the illusion of depth, even in a shallow space. Trompe l\u2019oeil painting at it\u2019s best will be able to convince the viewer that the \u201cphysical\u201d build up of texture and the painted illusion of texture are one and the same.\nBelow, is a step by step display of how I built up the paint layers to create the texture, both physical and representational, of each leaf. Of course, because the computer screen is flat, it fails to accurately represent the third dimension of the relief, but hopefully some resemblance will be evident. In the areas where the leaf projects forward the most, I built the paint up opaquely just using white, and later glazed colors over it. Each leaf has between 4 to 6 layers of glazes.\nThalo Green is brushed transparently over the warm shadow mass. In the lighter section to the left, a combination of Thalo Green and Cadmium Yellow Light are brushed directly over the white ground, creating an extremely vibrant color which will be toned down with additional layers.\nMore variations of green are worked into the light mass as patches. This approach is similar to a watercolor, in that I am working from light to dark, transparent to opaque. Additional colors are added to the palette such as Yellow Ochre, Alizarin Orange, and Transparent Red Oxide, for some of the warmer variations. The lightest lights won\u2019t be touched until the final layer of glazing is applied.\nHere I have selectively added real texture with opaque paint in an effort to increase the illusion of three dimensional space. I used Flake White as a heavy impasto (built up relief) first, and then, when dry, I added the colors on top as glazes. Opaque white paint was used only where I wanted areas to project. All other whites were the original oil primed ground untainted by additional layers. However, final large body glazes were added to refine the tones eliminating most of the pure whites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ro.pokernews.com/jucatori-de-poker/ted-lawson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ADPSSQ6QK3RMPOQRBKNTT6XRG42RNUNG", "length": 133, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ro.pokernews.com", "title": "Ted Lawson | Poker Spelers | PokerNews", "raw_content": "Acas\u0103\u0218tiriJuc\u0103tori de PokerTed Lawson\nEvent #19: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em 23rd $7,881\nEvent #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em 8th $22,183", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-carriers-of-jutland.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GGH45OEEPWSP2IOJ5Z7VBSAZKGFKOGCI", "length": 3276, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com", "title": "Roads to the Great War: The \"Carriers\" of Jutland", "raw_content": "In mid-1916, the war\u2019s major sea battle was fought, the Battle of Jutland. The Admiralty was highly conscious of the advantages of air support for the fleet. Two ships\u2014more seaplane tenders than aircraft carriers\u2014were to sail into battle with the Grand Fleet and its accompanying Battle Cruiser Squadron. Earlier in the year, the former 20,000-ton Cunard liner Campania was converted by the British to carry seaplanes and was assigned to Adm. Jellicoe\u2019s Grand Fleet. May approached and nearly ended before the German High Seas Fleet, now under Adm. Reinhard Scheer, made a definite move to encounter the Royal Navy. Jellicoe was ready. Advised in advance that a squadron of German battle-cruisers had been ordered to Norwegian shores for a show of force, he ordered Adm. Sir David Beatty, leading a similar but larger British squadron, to intercept.\nHMS Engadine, operating with Beatty\u2019s squadron, launched a seaplane for reconnaissance at 15:30 on the 31st. The pilot reported three enemy cruisers and ten destroyers taking a northwesterly course. Fifteen minutes later, the German ships changed course to the south. The pilot tried to flash this signaI by searchlight, but his message was not received. One of the ships of the squadron noted the alteration, however, and the ships shifted in time. Thereafter, poor visibility and rough water kept Beatty\u2019s plane on deck.\nThe two squadrons clashed and, even though outnumbered, the German ships under Adm. Franz von Hipper, sank two of Beatty\u2019s vessels. Scheer\u2019s High Seas Fleet crested the horizon, and Beatty led his remaining ships on a strategic retreat, north toward Jellicoe.\nOn the day before, Campania had conducted a series of successful gun-spotting training flights, returned to her Scapa Flow anchorage about five miles from the main fleet, and awaited orders.\nAt 17:35, a signal was flashed to all ships of Jellicoe\u2019s fleet to stand by to get under way. At 19:00 the order to raise full steam was given and two-and-a-half hours later, Campania was ready. At 22:54, the \u201cproceed\u201d signal was flashed\u2014but Campania did not receive it. Several hours passed before her C.O. realized that the rest of the fleet had gone. She sailed two hours and fifteen minutes later. Even though she was slowly overtaking the fleet early in the morning of 31 May, she was ordered to return to Scapa Flow, as she lacked an escort and German submarines had been reported in the area. Until 02:00 the following morning, Jellicoe assumed his aircraft \u201ccarrier,\u201d Campania, was in company. Thus, Jellicoe's Grand Fleet at Jutland fought without benefit of aerial observation.\nAt battle\u2019s end, each fleet had lost several ships, but the British suffered more heavily in tonnage\u2014by almost double. In post-battle retrospect, the Battle of Jutland could easily have ended in a triumphant victory for the Allies, had Jellicoe had the advantage of Campania\u2019s plane to report movements of Scheer\u2019s ships. The German fleet had no seagoing aircraft. This, combined with lessons already learned in previous sea encounters with the enemy\u2014especially in countering U-boats\u2014strengthened more than ever the British Navy\u2019s dedication to the perfecting of the aircraft carrier.\nSource: \"Decisions Out of Jutland,\" Sean MacDonald, Naval Aviation News, Mar 62", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://robbreport.com/issue/the-worlds-top-resorts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KWKMTJAYEUPSNQANQSQ63BQJJFBBEDVC", "length": 21435, "nlines": 116, "source_domain": "robbreport.com", "title": "The World\u2019s Top Resorts \u2013 Robb Report", "raw_content": "The World\u2019s Top Resorts\nThe world's top 100 resorts including Aspen, Bahamas, Bali, Courchevel, Fiji, Napa Valley, Scottsdale, Seychelles, St. Barths & more. Also, the 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S, pushing the limits in Arizona's desert paradise. Plus, special Host's Guide, reviving the spirits (and cocktails) of the roaring '20s. And, dark energy - Mercedes-Benz's C63 AMG Coupe Black Series.\nFrontRunners: Montblanc\u2019s Old Hickory\nAndrew Jackson demonstrated that he was indeed \u201ca man of the people\u201d\u2014and not another member of the Eastern elite who had been elected president\u2014by opening his 1829 inaugural reception at the White House to the public. Alas, the gesture proved unwise when the raucous crowd of commoners caused several thousand dollars in damages. A [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Swipe and Go\nOffering locked-in flight-hour rates, the JetSuite Card (http://www.jetsuite.com) represents another private-air-travel option from the Southern California\u2013based charter-flight provider. The $100,000 card guarantees a rate of $3,600 per flight hour (the $40,000 card guarantees a $3,800 rate, and the $200,000 card guarantees a $3,500 rate) for trips throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico on one [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Jersey Lore\nA 1920 New York Yankees Babe Ruth road jersey\u2014said to be the earliest existing Ruth game top\u2014is expected to bring a high price when it goes up for bid during SCP Auctions\u2019 spring sale (www.scpauctions.com). The online event runs from April 30 through May 19. The jersey, from Ruth\u2019s first season with the Yankees, could [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Bowl Games\nDepictions of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and other landmarks that athletes and spectators might visit while they are in London for the Summer Olympics are etched on the $8,000 Prestige Skyline Bowl. Part of the Waterford London 2012 collection (www.waterford.com), the bowl is limited to 30 examples, each of which is crafted in the 229-year-old crystal [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Wee Wally\nAt 43 feet long, the Wally One (www.wally.com) is the smallest model from the Monaco-based builder. But its shape is as aggressive-looking as those of the brand\u2019s larger vessels. And like all of the company\u2019s motor yachts, the Wally One is exceptionally fast: Its twin 370 hp Yanmar engines enable a top speed of 57 [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Greatest Hit\nStriking in its simplicity and purity of form, the Cartier Juste un Clou collection (www.cartier.com) revives Aldo Cipullo\u2019s industrial nail designs in a series of 18-karat-gold rings and bracelets. Cipullo, a Cartier staff designer, created the original collection (the name of which translates to \u201cJust a Nail\u201d) for Cartier New York in the 1970s. His [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: Deco Time\nTrue to their name, the limited-edition Ralph Lauren Modern Art Deco watches (www.ralphlaurenwatches.com) look as though they were crafted in the 1920s. They are discreetly sized, geometrically shaped, set with diamonds, adorned with a satin strap, and accented with either white ceramic, red coral-based stone, or green agate. Their most modern element is a thin [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: X Factor\nElectric-car maker Tesla has unveiled its first SUV. The Tesla Model X (www.teslamotors.com) employs an entirely electric propulsion system (a 60 kWh or 85 kWh battery provides emission-free operation) and a dual-motor all-wheel drivetrain that reportedly accelerates the vehicle from zero to 60 mph in less than five seconds. Among the SUV\u2019s design features are [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: A Cut Above\nThree years after its debut as a concept, the KEF Blade loudspeaker (www.kef.com) has arrived in production form. The speaker\u2019s \u201cSingle Apparent Source\u201d technology pairs four side-firing woofers with KEF\u2019s proprietary Uni-Q midrange-tweeter array to produce music that sounds exceptionally coherent and lifelike, as though it is coming from a single point in space. The [\u2026]\nFrontRunners: From the Robb Cellar\nThat the flagship offering of Moone-Tsai Winery is not a single-estate wine but a blend of different varietals from different vineyards in some of Napa Valley\u2019s most prestigious growing regions is entirely appropriate; this endeavor, after all, is not a solo performance but a carefully conducted quartet. A relative newcomer, Moone-Tsai benefits from the extensive [\u2026]\nThe Robb Reader: Stuart Varney\nStuart Varney\u2019s love affair with America started with a simple visit as a young man. \u201cI really wanted to see America because that was the last big place I hadn\u2019t been to,\u201d recalls the 63-year-old British expatriate and world traveler, who is best known as the host of Fox Business Network\u2019s Varney & Co. \u201cAnd [\u2026]\nMotorcycles: Super Lightweight\nDuring a test-ride earlier this year on Abu Dhabi\u2019s Yas Marina Circuit, the Ducati 1199 Panigale demonstrated its ferocity by reaching 170 mph on the straightaway, and showed its agility in the 3.4-mile track\u2019s 21 turns. Even when a sandstorm covered the tarmac with enough desert debris for the Panigale to produce a small rooster [\u2026]\nWine: Wine Warriors\n\u2018\u2018My wife\u2019s brother died in California, leaving quite an estate,\u2019\u2019 reads an 1879 letter from Stalham Wing in Napa Valley to a friend in Ohio. His family sent him out to settle affairs, he explains in the note, but legal challenges ensued, and by the time the matter was resolved, little property was left. He [\u2026]\nWatches: Big Time\nWhen it comes to complications, Franck Muller\u2019s movement developer, Jean-Pierre Golay, contends that simple can also be innovative. \u201cWe wanted to change directions completely,\u201d he says, referring to the watch house\u2019s newest creation, the rather impressively named Giga Tourbillon. \u201cWe wanted to create something very simple in the same dimensions as our recent complicated watches. [\u2026]\nBy James D. Malcolmson\nJewelry: Diamond Provocateur\nIn the demure world of fine jewelry, where designers tend to play it safe when working with tens of thousands of dollars in diamonds and gemstones, Wilfredo Rosado is shaking things up. One of his first signature pieces\u2014a gold-and-diamond cuff\u2014is as exotic as a rare bird, sporting a four-inch-high fan of brightly colored feathers. He [\u2026]\nBy Jill Newman\nHome: Form Fitting\nThe line between furniture and art has long been a blurry one. From Louis XIV\u2019s baroque-inspired armchairs to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe\u2019s iconic Barcelona chair and Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s pop art Mae West sofa, history\u2019s most enduring furnishings have borrowed from the artistic movements of their times. Now a new Manhattan-based company, Bespoke Global, is [\u2026]\nBy Jackie Caradonio\nCollectibles: Picture Perfect\nWhen an exceptionally rare camera commands a record-setting sum, the sale usually takes place through Vienna-based WestLicht Photographica Auction. And more often than not, the record that was broken had been set at a WestLicht sale. In recent years, WestLicht has presided over several six- and seven-figure transactions. In 2007, it auctioned an 1839 [\u2026]\nBy Sheila Gibson Stoodley\nAutos: Flight Test\nIn a race for pinks between Jaguar\u2019s supercharged 550 hp XKR-S convertible and a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet, an aircraft that produces 36,000 pounds of thrust, which would win? For an hour one day in February, Navy air-traffic controllers closed the main runway at Southern California\u2019s Naval Air Facility El Centro, the winter home of [\u2026]\nThe first notable hotel to open in Sydney since the 2000 Olympic Games, the Darling debuted in October in the city\u2019s bustling Darling Harbour precinct. The hotel is housed in an inverted, 12-story glass tower with views of Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Blue Mountains, and the behemoth Star entertainment complex that it is part of: [\u2026]\nBy Tricia Welsh\nDefined by its vast landscapes and violent weather, Patagonia demands its visitors arrive with a sense of adventure. For adventurers who prefer a luxury resort to a wind-rattled tent, Chile\u2019s new Tierra Patagonia Hotel & Spa, which opened in December just outside Torres del Paine National Park, is a welcome addition to the ends of [\u2026]\nIn the 1930s, tailor Vincenzo Attolini created the deconstructed jacket\u2014defined by a soft shoulder, high armhole, and light fabrics\u2014that set the standard for Neapolitan style. From a little tailor shop in Naples, Italy, the Attolini suit became a quiet status symbol among jetsetters with an appreciation for stylish tailoring and impeccable craftsmanship, and the ability [\u2026]\nNew and Improved Perfection\nWhen, toward the end of a career that spanned nearly eight decades, Pablo Picasso was asked which work he considered his finest, he supposedly replied, \u201cThe next one.\u201d Some art critics today might disagree, arguing that had Picasso walked away from his easel by 1950, his oeuvre would not have suffered by so much as [\u2026]\nCharter Choice: High Seas\nLike a high-performance penthouse apartment at sea, Vertigo combines the advanced naval architecture of a racing yacht with the comfort and style of an upscale urban home. The 220-foot sailboat, which New Zealand builder Alloy Yachts completed last May, features ample interior and exterior spaces for as many as 12 guests, a fleet of toys [\u2026]\nWardrobe: Top Drawer\nFor 20 years, Michael Reslan was Brioni\u2019s top salesman and executive vice president in the United States, traveling around the country helping high-powered executives build custom wardrobes. With his charisma and strong-shouldered sense of style, Reslan also became a friend and confidant to many of them: \u201cWhen you eat and drink and fly with the [\u2026]\nBy William Kissel\nHome Electronics: Alexandria the Great\nTwo pairs of loudspeakers tower beside one another in Dave Wilson\u2019s Provo, Utah, living room. He is preparing for a face-off: On one side are Wilson Audio\u2019s much-lauded Alexandria Series 2 speakers, introduced in 2007, and on the other side is the latest in the series, the Alexandria XLFs. Each of the four stands nearly [\u2026]\nRobb Design Portfolio: Immaculate Connection\nHorn speakers, most audiophiles agree, provide greater headroom, more accurate acoustic imaging, and better detail than do any other loudspeaker designs. The horns of Germany\u2019s Avantgarde Acoustic (www.avantgarde-acoustic.com) are especially revered for their fidelity. The company\u2019s $36,000-per-pair Duo Grosso speakers (single horn shown), for example, deliver 107 dB of sensitivity with a staggering 18-ohm impedance. [\u2026]\nLeisure: His Blue-Chip Period\nEach May in New York, the art world holds its equivalent of the World Series: The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sales, where two rival teams\u2014Christie\u2019s and Sotheby\u2019s\u2014square off by assembling the best rosters they can and testing them before a live audience. It is a seasonal ritual that rivets the attention of the [\u2026]\nRobb Design Portfolio: High-Strung, High-Spirited\n1956 Porsche 356 Carrera 1500 GS Speedster When automobile importer Max Hoffman urged Porsche to create a stripped-down, entry-level version of the 356 for the American market, the Stuttgart carmaker responded in late 1954 with the Speedster. The small but mighty roadster became a sensation on racetracks and on the street. Porsche continued to produce [\u2026]\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: The Back Room\nRon Bacard\u00ed de Maestros de Ron Vintage MMXII Eight former Bacard\u00ed master blenders\u2014all of them descendants of Bacard\u00ed founder Don Facundo Bacard\u00ed Mass\u00f3\u2014contributed to this special-edition rum, which commemorates Bacard\u00ed\u2019s 150th anniversary. It was in 1862 that Don Mass\u00f3\u2014after refining his techniques for charcoal filtration, blending, and barrel aging\u2014established his distillery in Santiago de Cuba, [\u2026]\nBy Richard Carleton Hacker\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: White Spirits\nHigh West Silver Whiskey, Western Oat Though this clear spirit may look like moonshine, it is actually 80-proof unaged whiskey made from a mash of 85 percent oats and 15 percent malted barley. Distilled in Park City, Utah\u2014a silver-mining mecca in the 19th century (hence the whiskey\u2019s name)\u2014this pristine distillate spent all of five minutes [\u2026]\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: Mediums\nBlack Bull 40 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky This Highland whisky has been around since 1864, but it enjoyed renewed prominence following the repeal of Prohibition. The 40 Year Old, a less potent blend, is composed of 10 percent single-grain whiskies and 90 percent single malts.The single malts range in age from 40 to 44 [\u2026]\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: Heavy Browns\nHigh West Son of Bourye In the 1932 Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers, a speakeasy employee named Baravelli (played by Chico Marx) receives a phone call from a patron ordering a quart of Scotch and a quart of rye. From the same jug, Baravelli fills two bottles, one labeled \u201cScotch\u201d and the other \u201crye.\u201d High [\u2026]\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: Nightcaps\nThe King\u2019s Ginger Liqueur Berry Bros. & Rudd first formulated this bright, sweet, and naturally spicy liqueur in 1903 as a pick-me-up for King Edward VII. It must have worked, because that same year, His Majesty bestowed a Royal Warrant upon Great Britain\u2019s oldest wine-and-spirits merchant. Although it never went out of production (it was [\u2026]\nSummer 2012 Host\u2019s Guide: A Splash of Mystery\nIt seems ridiculous to call them speakeasies or hidden bars when they are some of the most celebrated craft cocktail establishments in the United States. But 12 years after Sasha Petraske opened Milk & Honey in New York City, the first of the modern speakeasies, what seemed destined to be a fad has instead turned [\u2026]\nBy Michalene Busico\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: North America\nARIZONA Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North SCOTTSDALE The hike through cactus fields\u2026MORE BRITISH COLUMBIA Four Seasons Resort Whistler WHISTLER Huge timber, stone, and glass chalet a few minutes from North America\u2019s largest ski resort. Includes 273 accommodations and an in-house ski concierge with insider info on Whistler Blackcomb\u2019s 200 trails. Mountain bike, [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Europe\nENGLAND Coworth Park ASCOT With its swan-shaped table bases\u2026MORE FRANCE Cap Estel EZE Near Monaco on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, this 114-year-old seaside mansion on five palm-fringed acres offers 28 accommodations plus two pools, tennis courts, a screening room, and a popular restaurant. Ideal for hosting parties or for hiding out during the Cannes film festival [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: North America: Post Ranch Inn\nPost Ranch Inn, Big Sur, Calif. Most visitors to Big Sur simply pass through while cruising California\u2019s Highway 1, resigned to experience the region from turnouts in the road. But this Central Coast expanse of state parks and steep cliffs plunging into the Pacific requires more than a rest-stop review. For the ultimate Big Sur [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: North America: Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North\nFour Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, Scottsdale, Ariz. The hike through cactus fields and balanced-rock formations to the top of Pinnacle Peak is a must for every guest at the adjacent Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North. Equally essential is a round on the nearby Pinnacle Course, one of two Tom Weiskopf designs at [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Africa & The Middle East: Four Seasons Resort Seychelles\nFour Seasons Resort Seychelles, Mah\u00e9, Seychelles Everyday activities on the Seychelles islands\u2014kayaking through crystalline waters, strolling along powdery white-sand beaches\u2014are enough to lure anyone outdoors. But guests of the Four Seasons Resort Seychelles, located on the African country\u2019s main island of Mah\u00e9, spend much of their time holing up in the property\u2019s ocean-facing villas. Nestled [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Africa & The Middle East: Singita Lebombo and Sweni Lodges\nSingita Lebombo and Sweni Lodges, Kruger National Park, South Africa Singita\u2019s Lebombo and Sweni lodges\u2014two sister camps located on the remote eastern edge of Kruger National Park\u2014represent the ultimate combination of refinement and authenticity in the African bush. The camps, separated by about 750 feet, consist of 21 stunning, glass-enclosed suites, where hand-blown Murano glass [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Caribbean & Latin America: Las Alamandas\nLas Alamandas, Costa Alegre, Mexico Las Alamandas\u2019s time should have passed. An \u201cit\u201d spot for the \u201cin\u201d crowd in the 1990s, the casually, intimately, and eccentrically chic Mexican beach resort was destined to become dated, an aging starlet clinging to her past. But that time, if it ever came at all, was short-lived. A recent [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Caribbean & Latin America: Lapostolle Residence\nLapostolle Residence, Colchagua Valley, Chile When Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle came to Chile\u2019s Colchagua Valley two decades ago, the area was a viticultural backwater. But the Grand Marnier heiress, who cofounded the valley\u2019s Lapostolle winery in 1994, was convinced she could coax first growth\u2013quality vintages from the granitic soil. Her premier blend, Clos Apalta, attests her [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Asia & the Pacific: Amanbagh\nAmanbagh, Jaipur, India Set on the former hunting estate of a maharaja, Amanbagh is a walled, 40-room retreat in northern India\u2019s Rajasthani hills. The palace, contemporized for its opening as a resort in 2005, is a haven of gardens, cupolas, latticed screens, ornate columns, and service befitting royalty. Guests can take yoga and cooking classes; [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Asia & the Pacific: Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve\nPhulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Krabi, Thailand In The Man with the Golden Gun, Roger Moore chased would-be assassins between the prehistoric karst outcroppings in Thailand\u2019s Phang Nga Bay. But the Bond movie barely skimmed the surface of this Andaman Sea spectacle, of which guests of the 2-year-old Phulay Bay\u2014the first and still the only [\u2026]\nBy Cynthia Rosenfeld\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Europe: Coworth Park\nCoworth Park, Ascot, England With its swan-shaped table bases, cattail-like lamps, and tree-branch-themed four-poster beds, Coworth Park brings a whimsical spirit to the classic English country inn. The former residence of the 17th Earl of Derby sits on 240 acres of picturesque Berkshire parkland with its own polo fields and equestrian center. Opened as part [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Europe: Villa Tre Ville\nVilla Tre Ville, Positano, Italy After purchasing Italian director Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s estate in 2007, hotelier Giovanni Russo embarked on a restoration designed to honor the former owner. Villa Tre Ville\u2014four buildings clinging to the cliffs between Positano town and Grand Hotel San Pietro\u2014was a perfect match for Russo, who is known for his restorations on [\u2026]\nBy Scott Goetz\nFrom the Editors: Beautiful and Damned\nAn unshakable desire to possess what divine providence or the dictates of overzealous lawmakers would deny us is a peculiarly American trait\u2014one magnified to the point of frenzy by this nation\u2019s curious social experiment, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In its efforts to suppress the seemingly unwholesome appetites of the general public, this legislation [\u2026]\nBy Brett Anderson, Editor in Chief, Senior Vice President\nWheels: The New Black\nMercedes-Benz had a good year in 2011, selling nearly 250,000 passenger vehicles in the United States alone\u2014from C-Sedans to G-Wagons to SLS AMG Gullwings. But with such sales comes ubiquity: Mercedes-Benzes are so common in Southern California\u2019s Orange County that they have been dubbed the \u201cChevrolets of the O.C.\u201d This can be a dilemma for [\u2026]\nThe New Black: A Gray Gullwing Rarer than the Black Series\nThe discovery last year of a rare 1955 alloy-bodied Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing was not the ultimate barn find, as originally reported. In order to be found, it had to have been lost. But the former owner always knew exactly where the car was, and the current owner learned of its location some 20 years ago. [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Africa & The Middle East\nBOTSWANA Abu Camp OKAVANGO DELTA Completely revamped in 2011, this 20-year-old camp remains the best lodge for hands-on interaction with African elephants. Join Abu\u2019s herd for a ride or walk through the astounding 450,000-acre Abu Concession, observe an elephant mud bath, and dine with mahouts before retiring to one of six tented suites. ($1,950 per [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Asia & the Pacific\nAUSTRALIA Saffire Freycinet TASMANIA Breathe the world\u2019s cleanest air and swim in its most pristine water at this 20-suite retreat set within view of Freycinet National Park. The suites\u2014and a striking, manta ray\u2013shaped main lodge that serves some of the world\u2019s freshest seafood\u2014are strung along the northern shore of Tasmania\u2019s Great Oyster Bay. ($1,800\u2013$2,800, all-inclusive) [\u2026]\nThe Robb Report 100 Resorts: Caribbean & Latin America\nARGENTINA Eolo EL CALAFATE At this 7,500-acre estancia and its lone 17-room lodge, guests can watch ostrichlike rheas grazing on the surrounding Patagonian steppe. Day trips by horseback, mountain bike, and four-wheel drive head to sites such as Perito Moreno Glacier, with its whale-size icebergs. ($825\u2013$1,250, all-inclusive) http://www.eolo.com.ar BRAZIL Ponta dos Ganchos GOVERNADOR CELSO RAMOS [\u2026]\nDining: Bare-Root Radicals\nAn ocean apart, two extraordinary meals start with carrots. At Noma, Ren\u00e9 Redzepi\u2019s Copenhagen restaurant twice voted best in the world, the vegetables come planted in a clay flower pot, their green tops flopping jauntily over the edge, the roots nestled deep into a \u201cdirt\u201d made from dark hazelnut powder. At Ink in West Hollywood, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 392, "original_length": 26591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roofriteinc.com/careers/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:F64HL4PTTZLJ5MSN6STP5A2VBQNEN65H", "length": 951, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "roofriteinc.com", "title": "CAREERS - Roof Rite, Inc", "raw_content": "Roof Rite, Inc. is now accepting applications for employment.\nRoof Rite, Inc. is a Drug-Free Workplace and we are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.\nWe are looking for qualified Installers, Superintendents, Foremen, Estimators, Sales and Service Technicians and all must be qualified.\nFederal, state and local laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, political association or age.\nTo submit an application for employment, click on the following icon to open up a PDF with fillable fields in your browser (alternatively, you may right-click on the icon, choose \u201cSave link as \u2026\u201d to download the PDF file to your computer, and then open and fill it out from there).\nOnce you have completed your application, be sure to save the file to your computer. Next, you can email it to chris.cruciger@roofriteinc.com or fax it to (330) 259-8071.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roundearthmedia.org/our-legacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YWCM7TUGMI3QBYYCFDVZKQY5RVGNSRAM", "length": 1584, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "roundearthmedia.org", "title": "Our Legacy - Round Earth Media", "raw_content": "The Morocco program is one of the most transformative experiences I\u2019ve had. MOJ is a launching pad for young creatives who do not attend schools with a heavy focus on media. As a student pursuing documentary film-making at a business-oriented, science-focused university, I often felt I was going against the grain. Luckily, my passion for visual storytelling fueled me to keep producing work, but the minimal resources and mentorship available led me to be a primarily self-taught filmmaker.\nMOJ was the first time I was critiqued and mentored by renowned journalists, taught to research and pitch to professional panels, trained to report on international stories, trusted to be in the field independently, and encouraged to believe in my own creative abilities. MOJ enhanced my hard skills in writing, filming, and editing, and equipped me with new soft skills to communicate across cultural barriers and navigate foreign environments.\nAs a graduating senior, I can confidently say MOJ was the catalyst of my career\u2026.As I prepare for post-grad life, I am grateful to say I can carry the unique knowledge, skills, and growth I gained from MOJ into the next steps of my life.\nWhile on MOJ, Jeanette shot a short film (with accompanying text by a student reporter) about the ancient skill of handmade Moroccan tiles, now an endangered tradition. We helped place that multi-media story in the USA Today newspaper, reaching a huge audience with an under-reported story from Morocco. We are so proud of Jeanette and many students like her. They are the legacy of everyone at Round Earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ru.coursera.org/lecture/epidemic-pandemic-outbreak/is-overuse-of-antibiotics-causing-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-CGVpA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:08Z", "digest": "sha1:434EDGG3PFUTKB57EP6MSTHBJZDU7AYS", "length": 1261, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "ru.coursera.org", "title": "Is Overuse of Antibiotics Causing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria? - Week 2: Understanding Infectious Diseases | Coursera", "raw_content": "Is Overuse of Antibiotics Causing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?\nWhat is antibiotic resistance?1:43\nWhat is the threat posed by antibiotic resistant bacteria?0:53\nIs Overuse of Antibiotics Causing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?0:50\nWhat are we Doing to Reduce Overuse Antibiotics?2:02\nWhat about Developing new Antibiotics?0:32\nWhat Effect is Globalization Having on the Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?0:51\nWe overuse antibiotics in medicine.\nYou know, you're not supposed to get an antibiotic if you have a viral infection,\nlike a cold or a flu.\nYet, we still ask for them we still, doctors still prescribe\nantibiotics because if you come into the hospital and they're not sure what you\nhave, antibiotics are often the first line of defense.\nSo there's, that creates resistance, strains of bacteria, the bacteria gets\nstronger when you give them an antibiotic, but it doesn't kill them.\nWe overuse antibiotics in agriculture.\nI think it's estimated that about 80% of the quantity of antibiotics that\nwe use in this country are for animals.\nAnd that's the vast majority is, is not for\ntreatment of an antibiotic, of a bacterial infection, but it's just put into the feed\nto try to either promote growth or to try to prevent the disease from happening.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rugby843.blog/2018/09/19/one-liner-wednesday-9-19-18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:44Z", "digest": "sha1:P372J4DSLABQI3OKTZCQ22DBAZ77QBLQ", "length": 123, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rugby843.blog", "title": "One Liner Wednesday 9-19-18 \u2013 The Bag Lady", "raw_content": "One Liner Wednesday 9-19-18\nGeorge Burns:\nhttps://lindaghill.com/2018/09/19/one-liner-wednesday/\nWord of the Day: Exemplary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://russian.lifeboat.com/ex/bios.jason.j.dunn", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HAO6S6OM4KYNCLJL25NUX4EHCGHFWUC2", "length": 2297, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "russian.lifeboat.com", "title": "Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Jason J. Dunn, M.S.", "raw_content": "Jason J. Dunn, M.S.\nJason J. Dunn, M.S. is President and Cofounder at Made in Space, Inc. and Project Engineer at Moon Express.\nJason\u2019s life goal is to help settle the space frontier. Humanity cannot remain a one planet species forever and he strongly believes that by learning how to colonize space we will simultaneously solve many more of humanity\u2019s \u201cGrand Challenges\u201d here on Earth. By training he is a Rocket Scientist with a bachelor\u2019s and a master\u2019s degree in aerospace engineering.\nDuring the summer of 2008 he cofounded the Omega Envoy Project, the only student formed and led team competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, The purpose is to give students the unique opportunity to design, build, and fly real space missions. This project was the beginning of his interest in participatory exploration, primarily to find new ways to engage and excite the public about space exploration. He is now very interested in DIY Space Exploration. Soon enough we can all explore space on our own and Jason can hardly wait!\nHe spent the summer of 2010 as a graduate summer program student at Singularity University at NASA Ames. He studied the accelerating technological advancements in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and information which has given him a skill set of understanding the likely advancements of technologies in the next couple decades. Specifically he focussed on how these technologies will impact the space industry and while at the program cofounded Made in Space, Inc. a company aimed at in situ manufacturing in space utilizing 3D printing technologies.\nThese days you can find him in Mountain View, California at NASA Ames Research Center working with Moon Express, a lunar data and delivery services company.\nJason earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida in 2007. He earned his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida in 2009 with the thesis On The Nature Of The Flow In A Separated Annular Diffuser. He graduated Singularity University in 2010.\nWatch One Small Step For A Smart Phone and How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Read his LinkedIn profile, his Quora profile, his Singularity University profile, and his TED profile. Watch his YouTube channel. Read his blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 6379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 164.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php?id=89050", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MJ3HZT4F7LPF3MFXC7CMV4BK6WSMEMTQ", "length": 10954, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "saltandlighttv.org", "title": "A Time Less Ordinary: 7 Easy Tips for Getting Through the Season | Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation", "raw_content": "A Time Less Ordinary: 7 Easy Tips for Getting Through the Season\nI don\u2019t know about you, but every time I get to this part of the year, I seem to go through a spiritual and emotional slump. Everything in the city seems to be either brown or grey. The days are getting longer, but I still only get the briefest glimpse of daylight as I leave work at 5 o\u2019clock (if I get out on time, that is!). Caught between the joy of Christmas and the penitential focus of Lent, I find it hard to get motivated to stay (or get) spiritually fit.\nThis year I thought I\u2019d make an effort to think up some simple things I can do to improve my spiritual situation during this stretch of Ordinary Time so I can, hopefully, start Lent with a bit more energy.\nHere are some ideas I came up with, and I thought I\u2019d share them with you.\n1. Leave up some of your Christmas decorations\nOk, I probably should have mentioned this one a couple of weeks ago, but there\u2019s still time for a little January Christmas cheer \u2013 or just keep it for next year.\nTechnically, we\u2019ve left the Christmas season far behind with the Baptism of the Lord and are now in Ordinary Time. Our churches are full of green altar cloths and vestments. The poinsettias have become decrepit and have been banished from the sanctuary.\nNow, I\u2019ve often heard it said that before Vatican II the Church had a Christmas season running until February 2nd, which is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas (because it\u2019s the traditional day for blessing the candles to be used in the coming year). But according to this very insightful article, that is all a myth.\nNevertheless, it makes you think. Why not keep a few reminders of Christmas around \u2013 just until that other, smaller feast commemorating the otherwise mysterious infancy of Christ? It could help you stay a little more focused and brighten up your bedroom or living room.\nI\u2019m not saying you should leave up your Christmas tree. After all, you\u2019d get some funny looks from your neighbours when you put it out on the curb in February (if you care about that kind of thing). But a couple of lights or a pint-sized Nativity on a shelf might be beneficial to your mood and your prayer life. (Disclaimer: The way we decorate our churches is pretty well regulated, but you can be flexible with your personal devotions.)\n2. Pray with your New Year\u2019s resolutions\nHow are those New Year\u2019s resolutions going? Maybe you started off really well for the first couple of weeks but they\u2019re becoming a bit of a struggle now. Or maybe you didn\u2019t even get this far. Or maybe you didn\u2019t make any New Year\u2019s resolutions because that\u2019s such a secular thing to do and you\u2019d rather wait for Lent.\nThe beginning of a new year is a natural time to think about new beginnings and fresh starts in our lives as well \u2013 whether they are resolutions to improve something in our physical, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual lives. But it can also be a difficult time of year to feel motivated to make changes, when the weather is miserable (if you live in Toronto, anyway) and the joyful momentum of the holiday season turns back into the daily grind.\nHave you ever thought about turning your New Year\u2019s resolutions into a source for prayer? I\u2019m serious. Let\u2019s take a common example to illustrate how this works. Let\u2019s say you want to improve your physical fitness, so you\u2019ve resolved to go to the gym for half an hour every weekday after work. The first week goes well. The second week isn\u2019t bad. But by week three, you\u2019re feeling less motivated: By the time Friday rolls around, it\u2019s cold and snowy and you\u2019re tired. No one would blame you for just going straight home to rest. But for the sake of your health and to improve your self-discipline (which will increase in other aspects of your life, too), you really should go to the gym. If you go when it\u2019s a struggle, you can offer the sacrifice to God. Really. It counts. And not only will this add to your prayer life, but somehow it\u2019s just that little bit easier to make the effort if you\u2019re doing it for someone else.\nAnd the great thing about offering up sacrifices is that the harder it is, the more you hate it, the less motivated you feel to do it, the greater efficacy it will have as a prayer. And you can even offer it for a special intention.\nSpiritual reading is an indispensible staple for a healthy spiritual life. Scripture, of course, is a must. But then it\u2019s also a good idea to have other books that expand, inform, and inspire our life of faith. And there are so many to choose from: Starting from the earliest days of the Church until the present moment, the flood of theological and spiritual writings shows no signs of letting up.\nBut where to start? If you want an understanding first of what you\u2019re trying to accomplish with your spiritual reading, I would recommend reading Chapter 9 (\u201cSeeking Christ by Reading\u201d) of an excellent book by Eugene Boylan, OCSO, called This Tremendous Lover. In fact, I recommend the entire book. But Chapter 9 is a useful introduction to the idea of spiritual reading.\nWhat you read will depend on many factors, like your education level, your personal tastes, your particular spirituality, and your present mood. And leave room for the Holy Spirit. Maybe it\u2019s time to open that book your aunt gave you last year that\u2019s been sitting on your desk gathering dust. Don\u2019t overthink it.\nAnd if you\u2019re new to spiritual reading or you\u2019ve been letting the practice slide lately, let yourself work up to the heavier material \u2013 because you do want to get there eventually. Remember: at the moment we\u2019re thinking up \u201ceasy\u201d things we can do. So start off with something that\u2019s a little easier to read, and by the time you reach Lent, you might be ready for something a bit deeper.\nIf you need some suggestions, try looking at Allyson Kenny\u2019s \u201cWhat I\u2019m Reading Wednesday\u201d blog series, or our television series Subject Matters, hosted by Sebastian Gomes.\n4. Join (or start!) a prayer or book group\nNow, if you\u2019re an introvert like me, this doesn\u2019t necessarily fall into the \u201ceasy\u201d category. But I recognize that not everyone is like me (and thank goodness)!\nWe all know that sometimes the best way to get motivated to do something is to find someone to do it with. There may be a group you can join in your parish, or maybe you can start one. (Most pastors I\u2019ve known have been happy for parishioners to organize special-interest groups, but make sure you check with yours first.) Or even just getting together regularly with a like-minded friend or two is all it takes.\nHowever you decide to do it, make sure you leave enough time for socializing. Quite apart from motivating you to find time to pray or read, the great benefit of meeting up regularly with people who have a similar interest in their spiritual life is that it can help you feel connected. This is especially important if you live alone or you regularly interact at home and at work with people who don\u2019t share your spiritual interests.\nIsolation can be hard. It can kill a spiritual life. Knowing that you have the friendship and support of like-minded people can be all it takes to keep you going.\n5. Meditate on death\nI know that sounds morbid and depressing, but really it\u2019s not. What\u2019s depressing is walking through a steel and concrete city on a grey, slushy day, when all the trees lining the sidewalks and standing in the parks are bare.\nWhy not turn those barren trees into a subject for fruitful meditation?\nThose trees, which have all the appearance of death, really contain within themselves life. And when the warm weather comes again, that life will burst forth once again. In a similar way, our bodies will die and be buried and will decay, but at the moment which God has ordained and which only He knows, those bodies will rise again with new life and be reunited with our souls \u2013 in the same way that Jesus received his body again at the Resurrection.\nMeditating on death is a good old Catholic tradition. The purpose is to help you remember that this world is not all there is and that it is really only important in the sense that it prepares us for Heaven. But because we are of this world, it is so easy to forget that and get caught up in all the concerns of this life and the vanities of this world. Meditating on death, rather paradoxically, helps to lift your mind and your spirit above such petty things and remember the glorious end for which you were created.\n6. Identify your quiet moments\nWe live in a society that values busy-ness. Even if you have nothing to do, you often feel like you have to find something to do \u2013 at least to give others the impression that you\u2019re busy (and consequently important and valuable). How exhausting! And on top of that, many of us are genuinely busy, and it can be hard to find time to pray.\nWhile it would be nice to stop all of our work several times a day to pray the Divine Office, like priests and religious do, the fact is that lay people have worldly responsibilities, and prayer has to fit in with those responsibilities \u2013 not the other way round. The key to a healthy spiritual life is making God an integral part of your entire life. Finding time to pray is not like finding time to go to the gym. It\u2019s easier.\nFirst, remember that all you need is the mental space to point your mind in God\u2019s direction, to talk to Him, if that\u2019s what you want, or just to rest in His presence. Then start to notice all the quiet minutes you have throughout the day. You might think as you read this that I\u2019m talking nonsense. But I challenge you: take just one day and notice how much time you spend sitting on the bus or the subway, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for the kids to come out of school. Perhaps you spend that time looking at your phone or listening to music or thinking about dinner.\nWhat if you spent that time instead just being quiet or telling God how things are going?\nWhen all else fails, there\u2019s always chocolate!\nI\u2019m only half joking. We\u2019re only human after all. Many of us spend much of this time of year trying to change the things we think are wrong with us. And even if they are valid desires, this initial phase of acquiring new habits and starting new routines is the hardest period and often feels endless \u2013 and is consequently the point at which most people fail. Be gentle with yourself. And don\u2019t underestimate the benefit of occasionally indulging in some (morally licit) pleasure.\nThere are no known direct spiritual benefits to chocolate \u2013 at least as far as Christian spirituality goes. (Confused by that qualification? Google \u201cchocolate spiritual benefits\u201d.) But if there\u2019s some small treat you can give yourself to raise your mood (it doesn\u2019t have to be chocolate), that can bolster you emotional state and help you feel more motivated. Sometimes we just need a little help through a slump so we can keep going.\nDon\u2019t be so hard on yourself. Have some chocolate.\nImprove your prayer life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 14568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://salvatorians.sds.ph/index.php/news-and-events/99-abundance-of-grace-graduation-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OMKMN2HZSWMFC37H6TTQI6JVQA26GT7O", "length": 2947, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "salvatorians.sds.ph", "title": "Abundance of Grace; Graduation 2013", "raw_content": "Home News and Events Abundance of Grace; Graduation 2013\nMoreover, the parents, relatives, guardians, friends and many more are in attendance to witness the most awaited moments of the class. Therefore, it echoes the time of sharing of their united efforts not only among the graduates but with their parents and loved ones, the faculty and staff of the University of La Salette, as well as the administrators from Isabela Province, namely; Ms. Marilyn P. Gaot, MBM, University Registrar and Dr. Levita Manglapus-Castro, Vice President of the Academic Affairs, and the Chairman/Board of Trustees of the La Salette Schools and the Commencement Speaker, Very Rev. Fr. Rosanno Soriano, MS assisted by Rev. Fr. Ronnie Rodriguez, MS., MA, the Academic Coordinator of ULS in Silang together with the Registrar Staff of ULS-Silang, Ms. Maribel Borromeo. They are at the same time conferring upon the graduates, the Academic Honors and Special Awards.\nIt is indeed a fulfilling moment for every graduate to truly sense their little but meaningful achievements, more so to the Salvatorian Community for receiving and only given to their brothers both the Academic Honors and the Special Awards. Specifically, for Academic Honors; two for Cum Laude (Sem. Jenno C. Dolor and Sem. Nguyen Anh Linh), three for Meritorious Awards, (Sem. Pham Quoc Khanh, Sem. Adrian Bangate and Sem. Ren Hao), while for Special Awards; two for Best Thesis Writers, (Sem. Nguyen Anh Linh and Sem. Jenno C. Dolor) and lastly, one for the Leadership Award, (Sem. Jenno C. Dolor) for being the President of the Student Council, S.Y. 2012-2013 in the University.\nIt is in fact an emblem of the genuine dedication of the brothers for their studies and the authentic response to their duties and responsibilities, not merely in the Formation House but even in the University, as well. This would only accentuate that they are the beneficiaries of these united efforts. After the recognition is the presentation of the twenty-three graduates and followed by the message from the graduates, given by the President of Mamamalakaya Class of 2013, (Sem. Jenno C. Dolor). The speech concentrates not only on their common experiences, nonetheless on the journey of each candidate including the unceasing gratefulness to those who became their partners in achieving this success. Next, is the singing of the Class Theme Song (Leap of Faith) and the singing of the Alma Mater of the University (Reconciliare). And lastly is the pictorial of the graduates together with their relatives, guests and the administrators, faculty and staff of the university. Thereafter, everyone goes to different respective houses/religious houses to celebrate the event. Nevertheless, the challenge is still there, that may the Mamamalakaya Class of 2013, be able to carry continuously and faithfully the identity that the Lord God has given to each one of them and subsequently, be the living examples of Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saputo.law/criminal-law/texas/obstruction-or-retaliation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NSNILOG3D6IGWAOY2GX4JOCO52NLF2UH", "length": 2496, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "saputo.law", "title": "Obstruction or Retaliation \" />", "raw_content": "SAPUTO Law > Criminal Law > Texas Crimes > Obstruction or Retaliation\nThe Obstruction or Retaliation crime in the state of Texas makes it illegal to threaten to harm a public servant (like a judge or the police) in retaliation. The law specifically prohibits posting contact information of public servants in addition to making threats. Learn more detailed information about the Obstruction or Retaliation offense below.\nOBSTRUCTION OR RETALIATION ATTORNEY FAQs\nWhat is the law in Texas about Obstruction or Retaliation?\nHow can I be charged with Obstruction or Retaliation?\nWhat is the punishment for Obstruction or Retaliation?\nHave you been charged with Obstruction or Retaliation? Call criminal lawyer Paul Saputo at (888) 239-9305.\nObstruction or Retaliation is classified in the Texas Penal Code under Title 8 \u201cOffenses Against Public Administration,\u201d Chapter 36 \u201cBribery and Corrupt Influence.\u201d\n(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act:\n(1) in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of another as a:\n(A) public servant, witness, prospective witness, or informant; or\n(B) person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime; or\n(2) to prevent or delay the service of another as a:\n(B) person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime.\n(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person posts on a publicly accessible website the residence address or telephone number of an individual the actor knows is a public servant or a member of a public servant\u2019s family or household with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual\u2019s family or household in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of the individual as a public servant.\nYou can be charged with Obstruction or Retaliation if the state\u2019s attorneys believe that they can prove each of the elements of 36.06(a)(1), (a)(2) or (a-2), as described in the section above.\nA conviction for Obstruction or Retaliationis punished as a felony of the third degree, except that the offense is a felony of the second degree if: (1) the victim of the offense was harmed or threatened because of the victim\u2019s service or status as a juror; or (2) the actor\u2019s conduct is described by Subsection (a-1) and results in the bodily injury of a public servant or a member of a public servant\u2019s family or household.1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://satellitem18.imanengineer.org.uk/question/whats-the-hardest-part-of-getting-a-satellite-into-space/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5HIUSVR3VEWL5V4CRNUTSL475ZZ25SIK", "length": 2209, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "satellitem18.imanengineer.org.uk", "title": "what\u2019s the hardest part of getting a satellite into space \u2013 Satellite Zone", "raw_content": "Question: what's the hardest part of getting a satellite into space\nAsked by user.exe is corrupted to Helen, Hollie, Matt, Phil, Stephen, Sylwia on 9 Mar 2018.\nCertainly the risky part is the launch and getting in to the correct orbit. Even today rockets can occasional go wrong and that general means all is lost. Our company has been fortunate and has never lost a satellite but its always a little bit of worry come the launch. The other problem is you can\u2019t fix a satellite once its in space so all of the hardware has to perfect when it leaves us for launch. There is one thing we can do which is lucky for me and that is we can re-program new software onto the spacecraft if there is a problem or we want it to do something new.\nTo make life a bit safer we engineer the satellites with what is know as \u201cno single point failure\u201d. This means that if just one thing fails the satellite can still function correctly. This is sometimes done by having two of something so one remains a backup.\nI agree with Stephen that the most nail-biting part of getting anything into space, a satellite or a manned mission, is the launch. All launch vehicles are engineer with high factors of safety because of what it could mean when something goes wrong, but it does unfortunately still happen for example with the space shuttle. Launch vehicles and satellites themselves are all really complex things that rely on loads of different systems working together. Before anything goes into space it will often be tested on the ground first in lots of different ways. One of the most dangerous things for a satellite is the vibrations it experiences when attached to the launch vehicle so it will be tested to make sure that it essentially doesn\u2019t fall apart! Getting into space, whilst we do it more often now, is never easy. Things can and do go wrong which is why you always see people celebrating when things go well. A lot of satellites may have taken years and years to get from the original idea to actually being launched and can be projects that people work on for large amounts of their career. If you had worked for 10 years, you\u2019d cheer when it got into orbit and everything was working as you\u2019d planned I\u2019m sure!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sbemp.com/is-your-estate-plan-up-to-date-time-to-update-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BMFFI6FMML3F2SOYAT3QS2PJGZ46AGG7", "length": 1887, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sbemp.com", "title": "Estate Plan Attorney | Palm Springs | Palm Desert | Rancho Mirage | Indian Wells La Quinta | Coachella Valley | Cathedral City", "raw_content": "Is your Estate Plan up to Date? Time to Update It\nAt the end of the year I take a look at what has changed during the year because this might affect my estate plan. If you don\u2019t already have an estate plan, you should make one. The best time to start reviewing your estate plan is at the beginning of the year.\nHow to Start Working on Your Estate Plan\nOur Coachella Valley estate planning law firm can help get the ball rolling when you need expert advice. You may have documents that you need to update. One of the most essential documents to keep up to date is your will. A will or trust is the basic building block of your estate plan. It is important to make sure you have your will up to date, signed and witnessed.\nChanges to Make to an Estate Plan\nThere are so many things that can change in your life over a year\u2019s time such as a divorce, marriage or the size of your estate. In some states, once a divorce or a marriage becomes final it will invalidate your will, which is another reason to have it reviewed annually. Maybe you have moved to a different state where the state laws are different. A review of beneficiaries in your will could show that someone has died or become ill. Make a habit of reviewing your beneficiaries at least once a year.\nGetting Help with Your Will from a Reputable Estate Planning Law Firm in Coachella Valley\nOur Coachella Valley estate planning law firm can help you plan your will, set up a durable power of attorney and an advance health care directive, which are all elements to a good estate plan. They can also review your estate plan, confirm that all parts of your estate plan are up to date and conform to the state that you reside in. Contact us at 760-322-2275 for more information about estate planning.\nPosted in Estate Planning and Administration\t| Tagged Coachella Valley estate planning law firm, Estate Planning, Trust and Estates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scandinavianshoppe.com/advent-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BSN4ROXXQGTGKR3BFRRDJ4R6XUGYEM2W", "length": 1411, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scandinavianshoppe.com", "title": "Scandinavian History | Holiday Advent Calendar | Scandinavian Christmas Ornaments - Scandinavian Shoppe.com", "raw_content": "Advent refers to the coming of the Lord. The word \"advent\u201d is Latin for arrival or coming. It is a time of joyful preparation for the joyous time when the son of God came to earth to live as a man among regular people. This awesome event of God being mortal and walking with us on earth was so newsworthy and of such monumental news that as Christians, we celebrate and rejoice in him for four weekends of this advent season. It can start as early as November 27th and as late as December 3rd and ends on Christmas Eve. To be more specific, the season of advent is the time period beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ending the day before. For most Western churches, this marks the beginning of the church year.\nIf you are a Christian, you know that this \"advent season\u201d is a period of time to celebrate Jesus\u2019 resurrection and return to earth. This connection between Jesus\u2019 birth and death or rather his arrival, or coming, is a time of readying oneself. It is a time or reflection all the while leading gradually to the celebration of Jesus\u2019 arrival and the lessening emphasis on fasting.\nClick here to learn more about Advent\u2026\nIs you\u2019re shopping for the Advent season, don\u2019t forget your holiday advent calendar! Our online store also includes Scandinavian Christmas ornaments, gifts, and more. Keep browsing our Scandinavian lore pages to learn more about Scandinavian history and tradition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 474, "original_length": 9891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciblogs.co.nz/nanogirl/2014/10/15/company-paid-egg-freezing-empowering-working-women/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HUQLPBKIMJM4T5EC5SYZCTJ5GHCHDSVQ", "length": 5107, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "sciblogs.co.nz", "title": "Sciblogs | Company Paid Egg Freezing Empowering Working Women?", "raw_content": "Company Paid Egg Freezing Empowering Working Women?\nThis week, Facebook and Apple shared publicly that they are or will pay for egg freezing for their female employees without a medical condition.\nThe media jumped on this relatively small change to the surrogacy benefit (Facebook) and fertility benefit (Apple) portion of the healthcare plans offered and sensationalist headlines took over the media suggesting that this is the great gender equaliser solution for the workplace.\nThis is a nice financial perk, worth up to $20,000 or the equivalent of 2 collection cycles, and women who were surveyed after having their eggs removed for freezing (not from Apple or Facebook\u2019s new benefit package) stated that they felt empowered by the process.\nIsn\u2019t this what we want as women in tech, to feel empowered, to feel stronger and more confident from having more control in life?\nClick on the video to hear my views on the new egg freezing policy on Breakfast News show Firstline this morning\nI gave my thoughts on the policy on TV3\u2019s Firstline news program this morning as a woman in engineering who is struggling to see how I could ever do both based on my busy career, but today wondered if I would consider going through this financially limiting procedure if it were offered to me for free by my employer.\nWomen are smart and can make their own decisions on how they plan their family, yet I worry that this new empowerment perk ignores the bigger issue of how career women are struggling to make the decision about the right time (if there is such a thing) to have children.\nWhen you look deeper into the reasons behind why women are freezing their eggs there is a darker side. Out of 178 women surveyed after going through the egg freezing procedure, 19% said that earlier childbearing would have been an option if their workplace had been more flexible. These women were delaying having children because they felt that they couldn\u2019t have both, a career and be a Mother. It supports Anne-Marie Slaughters article on \u201cWhy Women Still Can\u2019t have it all\u201d as career women all over the world struggle to be at the top of their career and find time to be a Mum, especially in the tech industry which is still dominated by men.\nBoth Apple and Facebook have only 30% females in their workplace which drops down to 15% when you count the women in the tech departments. This isn\u2019t unique, but sadly pretty representative of diversity for Silicon Valley companies, which results in work environments where women may be the only female in their department.\nSaving the baby issue for a later date by delaying the decision until the \u201cright time\u201d may be a risky decision as egg freezing was only upgraded from an \u201cexperimental\u201d procedure two years ago by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and so is still a relatively new technology with very little data collected so far using the new freezing method of vitrification.\nNot all of the frozen eggs survive the thawing process, but those that do will then need to be fertilized and if that is successful implanted as an embryo. The study below shows that the odds of a fertilised embryo surviving to a live birth has increased over the last 10 years, but are still much lower (under 30%) for frozen (cryo) eggs compared to embryos implanted from fresh eggs.\nComparison of frozen (cryo) and fresh eggs on the success of a live birth after implantation for data from 1997 to 2011 in the United States\nAlthough egg freezing allows women to remove and store eggs while they are in their prime fertility window, which tends to overlap with prime career-advancement years, it might provide a false sense of security for what the future holds with regard to the odds of becoming pregnant from frozen embryo implantation.\nFacebook is working hard to retain it\u2019s employees and helps them to work more by building an affordable housing complex next to its Menlo Park offices. This new zone boasts features such as a dog daycare, yet doesn\u2019t provide a childcare service adding to the difficulties that working mothers have to struggle with when juggling a career and a child.\nI\u2019m not sure that paying for women to delay pregnancy actually helps them to achieve that balance and would personally like to see tech companies implementing other benefits such as paid family leave (for both men and women), subsidised on-site child care, more flexible work hours, re-integration training for Mothers who have taken time off and support for employees who have to travel to a conference on business.\nThis isn\u2019t just a female issue, as a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) shows \u201cThe desire of many fathers to spend more time with their children can be frustrated by long working hours and inflexible workplaces, leading to tensions between work and family\u201d. By creating workplaces that value the importance of bringing up families and creating a work/life balance while still growing a career, perhaps the pressure that women feel on having to do it all and than men feel on having to spend more time at work to push their career forward will be reduced.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 10135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciencetrends.com/new-nasa-study-able-to-track-hurricane-harvey-storm-water-with-gps/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SBM365NECHTWZ3Z4DW2II6A3BHTUU4MD", "length": 6193, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "sciencetrends.com", "title": "New NASA Study Able To Track Hurricane Harvey Storm Water With GPS | Science Trends", "raw_content": "New NASA Study Able To Track Hurricane Harvey Storm Water With GPS\nHurricane Harvey over Texas. Image source: Wikimedia Commons\nAs many of you might remember, on August 26, 2017, Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 hurricane, made landfall along the Texas coast and remained in the state until September 1st. During that time the hurricane dumped over 5 feet of rain on some areas of the state, and that begged the question from many; where does all that water?\nWell, NASA scientists set about finding out the answer to that question by using Global Positioning System, or as we know it better, GPS, a new study shows. This NASA led study, released yesterday, sought to answer not only where the copious amount of stormwater went on land, but also how long it took the stormwater to go away.\nHurricane Harvey over the state of Texas. Image source: Wikimedia Commons\nThe lead author of the study, Chris Milliner from NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, \u201cWe determined that in the first eight days post-landfall, 30 percent of Harvey\u2019s stormwater was captured or stored on land \u2014 most as standing water that sits on the surface. Around 60 percent was lost or drained into the ocean and Galveston Bay over the first few days after the storm, and the remaining 10 percent was lost via evapotranspiration, or a combination of evaporation and plant transpiration,\u201d. According to the study, that 30% of water then dissipated over a period of 5 weeks. The water either was groundwater runoff to rivers, evaporated, or simply replenished aquifers.\nThe GPS the study used was extremely precise (unlike the GPS on our phones or cars that have absolutely where we are half the time, I\u2019m looking at you Apple Maps) and they used well over 200 ground stations all across Texas and Louisiana to get daily elevation measurements. While that might sound odd, the study made a great analogy comparing the Earth\u2019s crust and stormwater to a mattress. Essentially, when we sit on a mattress it will depress, and the Earth\u2019s crust is just as elastic and acts similarly to that. With the amount of stormwater Harvey dumped on the area, the Earth\u2019s crust actually depressed, just like a mattress would under an amount of weight.\nScientists discovered that after Harvey hit the land around Houston actually depressed 20 millimeters. They also saw that the land depressed following Harvey\u2019s position, which isn\u2019t really surprising. As the water slowly began to run off the land rose back up, and they equated it to a mattress going back to its original shape after you remove an object from it.\nThis study is actually important because it shows scientists how the earth can store water, what happens to the earth during a major \u201cprecipitation event\u201d like a hurricane, and it allows scientists to see how long it takes water to dissipate. It also benefits people in other areas who have to deal with water and flooding, giving them extra information so they can better understand where water is stored and how long it could take flooding to go away. Lastly, this study also impacts the people living in areas that are hurricane prone so that they can better understand what happens in their local area. This research can be expanded on and improved on in the hopes of learning more about flooding to prepare better for the next major hurricane. If you want to check the study out for yourself you can find it in Science Advances, here.\nAll About Hurricane Harvey\nA flooded neighborhood in Port Arthur, Texas during Hurricane Harvey. Image source: Wikipedia\nFor those who may not remember, or those of you who simply may not know about it, we wanted to refresh everyone\u2019s memory of Hurricane Harvey.\nHarvey formed in the Atlantic on August 12, 2017, and became a tropical depression on August 17 when it was 500 miles east of Barbados. On that same day, Harvey was upgraded to a tropical storm and was given the name Harvey. Harvey made landfall in Barbados on August 18 and actually weakened down to a tropical wave after it entered the Caribbean Sea. The remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 23 and formed back together to reform again to a tropical storm on the 23rd. The storm then rapidly intensified and an eye quickly developed, and Harvey became a hurricane on August 24, and by the next day became a category 4 hurricane, maintaining winds of 130 mph.\nOn August 26 Harvey made landfall at San Jose Island (which is just east of Rockport, Texas), and then made a second landfall again on the state 3 hours after that. The storm stalled and stayed stationary for 2 days, dropping heavy rain all across the area. Harvey then went back into the Gulf, then returned onshore and pelted Texas and Louisiana with more record-breaking rainfall. The map below shows Harvey\u2019s track, as well as Harvey\u2019s intensity, marked in different colors. The yellow color represents when it became a category 4 hurricane, and the blue represents when it was a tropical storm (or depression in some cases).\nHurricane Harvey\u2019s track. You can see where it made landfall, as well as its intensity. Image source: Wikipedia\nIn total, 103 Texans died as a result of Hurricane Harvey (68 directly from it and 35 indirectly from it). Almost 50,000 homes were affected by Harvey, and 1,000 of those homes were complete losses (according to Texas Department of Public Safety, however, 185,000 homes were damaged and 9,000 homes were total losses). Hurricane Harvey is actually tied with Hurricane Katrina (2005) as the costliest hurricane on record, doing $125 billion in damages. Harvey was the 1st major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, but it was the 8th named storm, and it was also the 3rd hurricane of the season.\nI live about 90 miles north of Houston and my area saw heavy amounts of rain, along with some flooding as well. We got about 24 inches of rain and most places in our city were shut down due to flooding. The video below shows a particular area of our city that was flooded that someone actually required help and search and rescue helicopters were sent out to help them out. Compared to other areas of Texas that were totally flooded over and homes were lost, we had it very easy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scripturalseeds.org/tag/2-chronicles-714/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:02Z", "digest": "sha1:A3CARECJK4WNFP4AGFIZQGTKUAKWTPVU", "length": 2681, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "scripturalseeds.org", "title": "2 Chronicles 7:14 | Scriptural Seeds Ministries", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: 2 Chronicles 7:14\nJuly 7th 2017 \u2013 Compromised\nIn today\u2019s society, it can be difficult to live a life that calls for us to be different. We excuse away bad behavior and submit to pressures that weigh on us \u2013 and we compromise. We try to do things our own way and resist doing things God\u2019s way. Second Chronicles 7:14 says, \u201cIf we seek Him humbly and turn from our wrongdoings we can have this intimate relationship with Him.\u201d Zephaniah 1:1-6 Warns if we disobey Him, our lives will be consumed with ruin.\nGod longs for us to be obedient and to learn discipline, He desires a deep relationship with us. While we cannot live a perfect life, we can set our heart and minds on God and seek Him.\nAre you living on the fence? Have you compromised in your relationship with Him or other Christians. What about in prayer or in time with Him and His Word? Are you willing to seek God and turn away from your own selfish ways? The day is drawing near when God will intervene in each of our lives. In our inability to offer Him anything, He still accepts you and me. God provides a way out through His Son, Jesus, as payment for our sins\u2013for those who place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ.\nWhat will you decide today? If you have a relationship with Jesus and you have been compromising and in a backslidden condition, now is the time to reevaluate and focus your eyes back on Jesus.\nIf you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He offers you the opportunity to decide to ask Him into your life, seek His forgiveness of your sins and live for Him.\nSit on the fence or reject Him and spend eternity separated from Him. This is an act of your will and no one can make the decision for you. The time is now.\n\u201cThe warning still applies to us today.\u201d\nHeavenly Father, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for the opportunity to examine my relationship with You. I have strayed, and I do not want to compromise my life anymore. I commit myself to You afresh. I admit that I am a sinner. I believe You sent Your Son to die for my sins.Right now, I ask for Your power to help me turn from my sins. Thank You for forgiving me and saving me. Help me to be a blessing to You and others with each day that You give to me. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.\nIf you do not know Jesus personally, or need to recommit yourself. Please click here.\nThis entry was posted in Ask Jesus into your heart, Challenges, Forgiveness, Free Will, General Devotions, Repentance, Salvation, SIN, Spirtual Warfare, Uncategorized and tagged 2 Chronicles 7:14, Backslidden, Compromised, Rob Lavallee, Scriptural Seeds Ministries, www.scripturalseeds.org, Zephaniah 1:1-6 on July 7, 2017 by Rob Lavallee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 15405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sdea.org.sg/tag/prof-jonothan-neelands-masterclass-march-2011/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5S3CWQ4FGPYKJ6WR4AECQSOIWUTSCG6X", "length": 1464, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sdea.org.sg", "title": "Prof. Jonothan Neelands Masterclass March 2011", "raw_content": "Prof Jonothan Neelands\nJonothan is a National Teaching Fellow, Chair of Drama and Theatre Education and WBS Professor of Creative Education at the University of Warwick in the UK. In addition to his academic profile, he is an experienced workshop leader and drama practitioner, with a national and international reputation for delivering high quality professional training and development opportunities. He has a particular interest in teaching classic and complex literary and dramatic texts through active and empowering pedagogy.\nJonothan works in close partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company Education and has developed and researched with them a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate in Teaching Shakespeare and its impact on students. He also runs a Post Graduate Award for RSC actors training to work in schools. He has advised government on the identification and training of talented young performers and is Research Consultant for the National Council of Drama Training and a member of the RSC Education Advisory Group.\nJonothan is the author of several texts for teachers and students, which have influenced the development of drama in recent years including Structuring Drama Work, Beginning Drama 11-14, Key Shakespeare 1 and 2 and Advanced Drama and Theatre Studies and Improving Your Primary School Through Drama. Peter O\u2019Connor\u2019s Creating Democratic Citizens through Drama Education: the writings of Jonothan Neelands is published by Trentham.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/tsb:58579", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4H563JDYGOZT3WF3L2CIQMD2PIE2XKST", "length": 165, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "search.lib.virginia.edu", "title": "William D. Steers | UVA Library | Virgo", "raw_content": "Montes-Bradley, Eduardo\nWilliam D. Steers\nPaul Mellon Professor of Urology and Chair of the Department of Urology (1995-2015).\nIn Copyright - Education Use Permitted", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://secure1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-W/Lists/District%20News/DisplayForm.aspx?ID=225&RootFolder=%2Fsites%2FASD-W%2FLists%2FDistrict%20News&Source=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure1.nbed.nb.ca%2Fsites%2FASD-W%2Fcnhs%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JEOSPSGIIRRYHSARMBTKMKGZEW2XDSNY", "length": 2060, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "secure1.nbed.nb.ca", "title": "District News - WHS principal gets head and beard shaved...", "raw_content": "WHS principal gets head and beard shaved for lung cancer awareness\nArticle Posted: Monday, December 03, 2018\n\u200bWoodstock High School students screamed with delight as Principal Bill Hogan had his head and beard shaved in front of the entire student body on Dec. 3. The students exceeded his challenge to raise funds $1,500 for lung cancer awareness and research, bringing in over $4,000 in donations. It only took a few minutes for local hair stylist Mary Ann Walker to do the honours.\n\"This is because of your work,\" Hogan told the students. \"You worked phenomenally to raise this amount of money.\"\nNovember is Lung Cancer Awareness\u200b Month. Hogan issued the challenge at a school assembly earlier in the fall, telling the students he would shave his head and beard and do the \"baby shark dance\" if they could raise the funds. Hogan's wife, Heather, a member of the ASD-W District Education Council, has been a lung cancer survivor since 2012 and sat in the audience taking photos of her husband's celebrated hair appointment.\nThe Hogans have been working to raise awareness about lung cancer in partnership with Lung Cancer Canada, Dalhousie University, UNB Saint John, and Lungevity in the United States. They want the public to know you don't have to be a smoker to get lung cancer and hope to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. Lung cancer remains one of the leading cancers diagnosed in Canada with one in 12 Canadians expected to develop the disease in their lifetime.\nThe Dec. 3 event was held as part of a school wide pep rally with Vice-Principals Derrick O'Leary and Nicole Giberson joining Hogan in costume to do the \"baby shark dance.\" Several other school activities took place throughout the afternoon.\nShown in the photos below are (1) & (2) WHS Principal Bill Hogan gets his head and beard shaved by local hairstylist Mary Ann Walker; (3) Vice-principal Derrick O'Leary, Principal Bill Hogan, and Vice-Principal Nicole Giberson do the \"baby shark dance\" in costume as part of the school fundraiser for lung cancer awareness and research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seenews.com/news/bosnias-serb-republic-construction-output-rises-11-in-2018-642587", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:5SB25X7T2OLBBVB4PIIN3CKDSGHJQS5E", "length": 784, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "seenews.com", "title": "Bosnia's Serb Republic construction output rises 1.1% in 2018", "raw_content": "Bosnia's Serb Republic construction output rises 1.1% in 2018\nSource: Serbia's Statistical Office\nBANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 11 (SeeNews) - Bosnia's Serb Republic construction production increased 1.1% year-on-year in 2018, the entity's statistical office said.\nConstruction of buildings grew by 4.6%, whereas civil engineering marked a decrease by 2%, the Serb Republic's statistical office said in a quarterly report last week.\nWorking-day adjusted construction output in the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased by 0.6% year-on-year. By type of construction, buildings marked an increase of 6.5%, while civil engineering recorded a decrease of 5.3%.\nThe Serb Republic is one of the two autonomous entities forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other is the Federation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seenews.com/news/otp-bank-romanias-q1-net-profit-rises-15-yy-612277", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:58Z", "digest": "sha1:MNEPEPM7MWSRZEWCG3TCGX37BNF54Z57", "length": 955, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "seenews.com", "title": "OTP Bank Romania's Q1 net profit rises 15% y/y", "raw_content": "BUCHAREST (Romania), May 11 (SeeNews) - Hungarian banking group OTP said on Friday the net profit of its Romanian unit rose 15% on the year in the first quarter, reaching 1.5 billion Hungarian forints ($5.7 million/4.8 million euro).\nTotal income grew 7% on the year to 6.6 billion forints, while operating expenses rose 12% to 4.7 billion forints, OTP said in an interim financial report.\nTotal net interest income fell by 4% to 5.11 billion forints.\nOTP Bank Romania's gross loan portfolio adjusted for foreign exchange fluctuations totalled 536 billion forints in the first quarter of 2018, up 3% year-on-year, as both the corporate book and the retail portfolio stagnated. Customer deposits edged up 12% on the year to 365 billion forints.\nThe bank's total assets rose by 10% on the year to 646 billion forints at end-March.\nOTP Bank Romania had a network of 96 branches and 1,188employees at end-March.\n(1 euro = 314.4796 forints)\nOTP Bank Romania SA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://semipartisansam.com/tag/tory-leadership/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QUWDL3BA33Y7ABUW7OBJYSF3T4UNDOCV", "length": 130064, "nlines": 422, "source_domain": "semipartisansam.com", "title": "Tory Leadership \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Semi-Partisan Politics", "raw_content": "Theresa May\u2019s One Chance For Redemption: Sacrificing Her Leadership For A Sane Brexit\nTheresa May will never be remembered as a great prime minister because she is timid, calculating and lacks any positive vision for the country. But she can still redeem her failed premiership by sacrificing it in order to achieve a sane Brexit\nThe fate of Brexit hangs in the balance, primarily because two equal and opposing forces are selfishly attempting to hijack Britain\u2019s negotiating stance for their own purposes.\nOne one hand there are the Brexit Ultras (or the Brexit Taliban, to use the less charitable but evocative phrase) who insist, like religious fundamentalists, that theirs is the One True Brexit, the only route to heaven, while all other interpretations are dangerous heresy. These people \u2013 your Steve Bakers, John Redwoods, Jacob Rees-Moggs and Suella Fernandeses \u2013 do not see Brexit as meaning departure from the political entity known as the European Union. To them, Brexit means severing virtually all ties and treaties with the EU while retaining nearly all of the current perks, while making up for any economic shortfall by effortlessly completing a series of swashbuckling free trade deals with countries often far less important to the UK economy than our nearest neighbours.\nBut on the other hand, there are forces who are arguing passionately for a \u201csoft Brexit\u201d with strong and enduring ties to the Single Market, not because they believe in Brexit or have accepted it, but because they see this as the first step to reversing the result of the EU referendum and keeping Britain in the European Union (generally by means of a second referendum, which they believe \u2013 erroneously, I think \u2013 that they could win). These people are not to be trusted. During the referendum campaign they could be found loudly insisting that any change in Britain\u2019s relationship with the EU would result in political isolation and economic Armageddon, yet now they claim (somewhat more plausibly) that it is only separation from the Single Market which will cause harm. Their old argument was therefore a lie, a fig leaf to justify their determination for Britain to remain part of European political union at any cost.\nAnd sandwiched between these two fanatical, opposing forces, are the saner Brexiteers \u2013 such as those connected to the Leave Alliance \u2013 who have been arguing all along that Brexit is not a sudden event but a process of unpicking 40 years of political and regulatory integration, and that the best way to achieve our political ends without causing undue economic damage is by means of a transition that involves rejoining EFTA and trading with EU member states on the terms of the EFTA-EEA agreement.\nAt the moment, however, Theresa May\u2019s inability to exert control over her own party means that the government\u2019s negotiating stance is effectively held hostage by the Brexit Ultras, who see the slightest moderation on trade as a \u201cbetrayal\u201d of Brexit, despite laws relating to the EEA accounting for just 20 percent of the total EU acquis. Despite having languished in the political wilderness for decades, getting 80 percent of what they want on the back of a tight referendum result is somehow not good enough for the Brexit Taliban \u2013 and their selfish greed for the full 100 percent needlessly imperils the whole endeavour, and our economy with it.\nBut it need not be like this. As Stephen Bush points out in the New Statesman, there is no shortage of MPs willing to work with Theresa May to achieve a softer, saner Brexit (at least for a transitional period) if only she was willing to work in a bipartisan way rather than remaining a hostage to her own backbenchers.\nBush writes:\nAs Parliament has ratified Article 50, passed May\u2019s Queen Speech and thus lost control of its ability to directly influence the government\u2019s negotiations, when the final Brexit deal comes before the House of Commons, the option they will be voting on will be \u201cTheresa May\u2019s Brexit deal or no deal\u201d. As I\u2019ve written on several occasions, no deal is a great deal worse than a bad deal. No deal means, at best, exit on World Trade Organisation terms, no deal to allow British airplanes to fly to the European Union or the United States, chaos at borders and an immediate and hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\nThis all has one massive upside for May: while there are many Conservative MPs who don\u2019t accept this to be true, the opposition parties all know it to be the case. May will always be able to count on enough MPs from the parties of the centre and left being unwilling to make their own constituents\u2019 lives drastically worse.\nBut the snag remains:\nBut that would require her to pursue a Brexit deal that wasn\u2019t focused on keeping her government on the road \u2013 one that saw getting the best deal as more important than preventing May being removed by her own backbenchers. The difficulty is that Theresa May displayed precious little desire to pick a fight with her own party before she threw away their first parliamentary majority in 23 years and she has even less of one now.\nThis is one of those times when a presidential-style system of government would actually aid Britain enormously. With a separately-elected head of government, more autonomous and less beholden to the rank and file of their political party, it would be easier to forge a winning coalition in Parliament to pass a more sensible, measured Brexit bill. Unfortunately, with the British parliamentary system, any attempt by Theresa May to make overtures to pragmatists across the political aisle would immediately put her premiership in grave peril. A leadership challenge would all but certainly be triggered immediately, and it would then be a race against time to pass the bill before the self-destructive forces at work within the Tory Party concluded their ghastly business and replaced May with a One True Brexit fanatic.\nBut at this point, there is precious little to lose \u2013 not for the country, anyway (though Tories with medium-term hopes for future political careers may feel somewhat differently). And there is precious little for principled conservatives to lose either, given that Theresa May\u2019s government has given every indication from Day 1 that it intends to fight a rearguard retreating battle against encroaching statism rather than take it on with a bold, alternative vision.\nThe prime minister and her Conservative Party have had all summer to dwell on the reasons for their disastrous election campaign and their their growing unpopularity among people with their original hair colour, and to come up with at least a sketched outline of a new approach. And what was the best scheme they managed to cook up between themselves in all that time? A puny, derisory pitch to reduce interest rates on student loan debt, in the risible hope that doing so might win the affections of young voters currently seduced by Jeremy Corbyn.\nThe ambition has gone from this Conservative government, together with any semblance of intellectual rigour in their policymaking. Rather five years of Jeremy Corbyn, constrained by his own centrist MPs and a Tory party in opposition, than any more of this decay and damage to our reputation. At least the government\u2019s approach to Brexit might be somewhat more pragmatic if led by people who do not expect the European Union to freely offer all of the benefits of the Single Market for none of the costs or commitments. And then, when Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party have proven themselves to be a shambles in every other respect, the Conservative Party might bounce back into government under the direction of a leader more worthy of respect.\nWhat great development are Theresa May\u2019s supporters hanging on for? What great new policies or achievements do they imagine her accomplishing with her puny non-majority in the time before she is inevitably toppled by one of her Cabinet members? There is nothing. So better to bring the suffering to a close and stop deferring the inevitable.\nIf the prime minister were better advised, she might also see the advantages of this option. Theresa May is a weakened leader, barely in control of her directionless party which itself is unpopular with voters after seven wasted years in government. At present, her premiership is set to come to an ignominious close with no significant accomplishments to her name. But this need not be so.\nIn a final act of defiance \u2013 and as an extravagant and substantial gesture to help bring the country together after the EU referendum and its fallout \u2013 Theresa May should stand up to her backbenchers and to the Brexit Taliban, and work with willing MPs from the opposite benches to ensure that a more considered Brexit Bill is passed by Parliament. This need not and should not be a formal arrangement with the Leader of the Opposition, who will have his own motives. Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s support remains shallow within the Parliamentary Labour Party, and willing supporters could be found by going round the Labour whips.\nAt present, the very future of Brexit is being imperilled by zealots who foolishly insist that forty years of political and economic integration with the EU be unpicked in the space of just two years. These people need to be sidelined, and if the price of doing so is the end of an otherwise hopeless premiership and the provoking of a long-overdue existential crisis within the Tory party then it is a price very much worth paying.\nThere is nothing else that Theresa May can do which would impact so positively on her legacy at this point. The prime minister should consider her options.\nBrexit, UK Current Affairs, UK Politics, What Conservative Government?Brexit, Brexit Ultras, Conservative Party, Hard Brexit, New Statesman, Single Market, Stephen Bush, Theresa May, Tories, Tory Leadership\nPeter Hitchens Demands A Real Conservative Alternative To Jeremy Corbyn\nAugust 6, 2017 Samuel Hooper10 Comments\nThe current cast of characters jockeying to replace Theresa May are almost as underwhelming as the prime minister herself. British conservatives of all shades need to have a full and open debate about how best to move the Conservative Party and the country forward, and then find a future leader with the charisma to take on Jeremy Corbyn in the battle for hearts and minds\nExactly two years ago, I wrote a rather despairing piece asking \u201cWhere is the Conservative Party\u2019s Jeremy Corbyn?\u201d Now Peter Hitchens is rightly asking the same question, having long ago despaired at the direction of the Conservative Party and its accommodation with Blairite, centrist managerialism.\nBack in August 2015 I wrote:\nIt cannot remain this way if we are to be successful in advancing the cause of smaller government and greater individual freedom and autonomy. We cannot allow the Left to monopolise inspiration and ambition, however far-fetched, while we conservatives occupy and embody the dull, managerial, technocratic and remote politics of austerity.\nAnd conservatives will never win a real mandate for change so long as we are content to be the party of last resort, the failsafe option voters pick when all of the other choices are too wacky or offensive to contemplate.\nI concluded by asking:\nSubstitute Theresa May\u2019s name for David Cameron\u2019s, and pose the same question to yourself. Is the answer any clearer or more satisfactory than it was two years ago?\nClearly not. And now Peter Hitchens has arrived at the same conclusion, writing in the Mail on Sunday:\nIf (like me) you have attended any of Mr Corbyn\u2019s overflowing campaign meetings, you will have seen the hunger \u2013 among the under-30s and the over-50s especially \u2013 for principled, grown-up politics instead of public relations pap.\nMr Corbyn reminds mature people of the days when the big parties really differed. He impresses the young because he doesn\u2019t patronise them, and obviously believes what he says. This desire for real politics isn\u2019t just confined to the Left. Ken Livingstone is right to call Mr Corbyn Labour\u2019s Nigel Farage. Ukip appeals to a similar impulse.\nMillions are weary of being smarmed and lied to by people who actually are not that competent or impressive, and who have been picked because they look good on TV rather than because they have ideas or character.\nIndeed, ideas or character are a disadvantage. Anything resembling a clear opinion is seized upon by the media\u2019s inquisitors, and turned in to a \u2018gaffe\u2019 or an outrage.\nActually, I dislike many of Mr Corbyn\u2019s opinions \u2013 his belief in egalitarianism and high taxation, his enthusiasm for comprehensive schools, his readiness to talk to terrorists and his support for the EU. Oddly enough, these are all policies he shares with the Tory Party.\nBut I like the honest way he states them, compared with the Tories\u2019 slippery pretence of being what they\u2019re not.\nI have indeed attended one of Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s massive rallies, in which the Labour leader (then fighting to cling on to leadership of the party in the face of a challenge from the hapless Owen Smith) managed to pack out the vast Kilburn State theatre in North London with excited and motivated activists of every age. It was quite a remarkable sight to behold, with energy levels more like those you would see in a hard-fought US presidential primary than a dour Labour Party leadership contest.\nContrast this with the pathetically phony photo opportunities orchestrated by Theresa May\u2019s hapless 2017 general election campaign, with a small huddle of telegenic young activists, clearly bussed in from London, holding up professionally printed placards in front of the Tory campaign bus while the prime minister grated her way through that godawful \u201cstrong and stable\u201d stump speech. There was no authentic grassroots enthusiasm for May or her policies, to the extent that CCHQ was terrified to allow the prime minister to get into any kind of unscripted interaction with the public, let alone a televised debate.\nThere may well be an appropriate time for dull managerialism and \u201csteady as she goes\u201d leadership, but Britain in 2017 is not it. Obviously Brexit must be handled with skill and sensitivity (not that the government has shown either of these attributes), but in every other respect Britain requires radical solutions to deep-seated problems rather than Theresa May\u2019s brand of denial and incompetence. Whether it\u2019s low productivity, education, the housing crisis, a failing nationalised healthcare system, dangerously pared-down national defence or a society fractured by toxic identity politics, this is a time for bold and unapologetically conservative solutions. But instead we have a weak prime minister at the head of an incoherent government, terrified of proclaiming conservative principles and desperate to move closer to the Labour Party on nearly every issue.\nHitchens goes on to describe what he sees as the ideal future Conservative leader:\nMy hope, most unlikely to be realised, is that a patriotic, conservative and Christian equivalent of Mr Corbyn will emerge to take him on, and will demonstrate, by his or her strength of conviction, that there is an even greater demand for that cause than there is for old-fashioned leftism. In any case, I think any thoughtful British person should be at least a little pleased to see the PR men and the special advisers and the backstairs-crawlers of British politics so wonderfully wrong-footed by a bearded old bicyclist.\nPatriotic and conservative would be a good start, but I don\u2019t think that this is specific enough. Theresa May, for example, ticks all three of Peter Hitchens\u2019 boxes (one can make a valid argument that May represents a serious thread of conservative thought) yet is completely and utterly unequal to the role of prime minister, ideologically and temperamentally.\nAnd as far as being Christian is concerned, Theresa May is a practicing Christian and famously the daughter of a vicar, and yet she has shown no real impulse to halt the suppression of legitimate religious expression where it comes into conflict with the free speech-averse forces of social justice and identity politics, for example. What, then, is the point of cheerleading for a Christian prime minister when they fail to defend religious freedom when in office? I would much rather have a prime minister who is secular-liberal when it comes to religion, eager to separate church (and faith) from state as far as possible while simultaneously protecting the right of British citizens to worship freely.\nWhen it comes to choosing the ideal future Conservative prime minister, I maintain that the Tories could do far worse than select somebody who fits the profile I set out shortly before the disastrous general election back in June:\nEx armed forces (of either gender), mid to senior rank, with an illustrious overseas deployment history. Someone who exudes unapologetic patriotism yet never lapses into cheap jingoism, and whose commitment to defence, national security and veterans affairs is beyond question.\nFollowed up by a successful later career, possibly in the third sector or the arts but better still in the private sector, having founded a stonking great big corporation that also gives back to the community by employing ex-offenders or partnering with charities to do meaningful work in society.\nA solid and consistent record (at least dating to the start of the EU referendum campaign) on Brexit, able to tell a compelling story about how Brexit \u2013 properly done \u2013 can be good for our democracy and at least neutral on the economic front.\nA person who believes that until somebody comes up with a viable alternative to (or augmentation of) the democratic nation state, this institution remains the best method yet devised of ordering human affairs, and that consequently we should not needlessly undermine and vandalise it by vesting power in antidemocratic supranational organisations or pretending that we can sidle our way into a post-patriotic world by stealth rather than with the consent of the people.\nSomebody who will not bargain away our civil liberties chasing the chimera of absolute security from terrorists and madmen \u2013 particularly while refusing to face down radical Islamism as an ideology to be confronted and defeated \u2013 but who will also stand up to expansionist, nonsensical definitions of human rights and an identity politics / political correctness agenda that values hurt feelings more than freedom of expression.\nSomebody with the articulateness, gravitas, sincerity and quickness of thought capable of doing the near impossible in 2017: single-handedly turning the tide away from the vapid, broken politics of me, me, me. Somebody willing to ask \u2013 as John F. Kennedy once did \u2013 not what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country. Somebody who dares to call us to a higher purpose than merely living in a country with \u201cgood public services\u201d, deifying \u201cOur NHS\u201d and having the goddamn trains run on time.\nSomebody who chooses for us to go to the moon (or rather its current day equivalent in terms of spectacular human achievement) \u201cand do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills\u201d (John F Kennedy).\nDoubtless my idea of the ideal conservative prime minister and Peter Hitchens\u2019 conception will differ somewhat \u2013 Hitchens is more socially conservative than I, while I see myself as more of a conservatarian with pragmatic, tempered libertarian instincts.\nBut these differences of opinion only make it all the more important that we have a full and open debate about the future of conservatism, and what kind of leader would be best placed to move the conservative movement and the country forward. And far better that this conversation first take place in the abstract, as a discussion of principles and ideology, so it does not immediately descend into personality-based infighting and jockeying for position among Theresa May\u2019s likely successors.\nAnd at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it is also vitally important that conservatives (I deliberately speak of small-C conservatives rather than the often toxic and inept Conservative Party) find a way to re-engage with a youth vote that the Tories have been shamefully quick to write off and cede to the parties of the Left. This abandonment of the youth vote is absolutely untenable going forward, and is yet another reason why the next Tory leader needs to have sufficient charisma and authenticity to cut through anti-conservative prejudices among young people that have often been baked into their consciences since they first became politically aware.\nUntil the Conservatives figure out who and what they actually want to be, both Peter Hitchens and I are likely to remain underwhelmed and disappointed. An urgent reckoning needs to take place in order to answer this question: Has seven years of Cameron/Osborne/May-style accommodation with centrist Blairism delivered any real tangible improvement to the trajectory of Britain, or are we largely treading water? And if the latter, is the solution to move even further to the left, as Theresa May and her political spirit animal Nick Timothy seem to want, or is it wiser and better to bring real conservative values to bear on 21st century problems?\nAs far as I am concerned, the choice is self-evidently clear. The Tories can stubbornly cling to their current philosophy and hope at best to remain in office but not in power for a few more years as they desperately scamper after the Labour Party in their march to the hard left, or they can renew themselves, stop apologising for their conservatism and start enacting it instead.\nBut in the meantime, let\u2019s start the debate.\nTop Image: NewsThump\nUK Current Affairs, UK Politics, What Conservative Government?Coke Zero Conservatism, Conservatism, Conservative Party, Conviction Politics, Jeremy Corbyn, Peter Hitchens, Theresa May, Tory Leadership, Youth Vote\nWhy Theresa May Needs To Go Now\nJune 19, 2017 Samuel Hooper5 Comments\nEvery day that Theresa May remains in office is another day that the Conservative Party is idling in neutral, failing to retool and re-energise itself to take on Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s marauding socialists\nTim Montgomerie, writing in the Evening Standard, explains quite comprehensively why there is only downside and no upside to keeping Theresa May in 10 Downing Street a moment longer than it will take the Conservatives to organise a leadership contest to replace her.\nMontgomerie writes:\nTory MPs, returning in a shell-shocked daze to Westminster for this week\u2019s low-fat, low-content Queen\u2019s Speech, must quickly recognise that Theresa May is as finished as Mrs Clinton. Every day she remains in charge is a wasted day. Every day the country inches closer to an election for which Jeremy Corbyn will have added more activists to his impressive turnout machine. Equally, the Conservatives will have one less day to rebuild their own offering and operation.\nMrs May\u2019s flat-footed response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy was not just further proof she\u2019s not that good at politics. It was another moment of not rising to the occasion as a leader with vision would do. The horrific burning alive of largely poor and marginalised people was \u2014 like 2008\u2019s crash \u2014 another reminder of unjustifiable vulnerabilities at the bottom of society and inadequate responsibility from those at the top.\nYes. This blog has noted the number of commentators who leapt to the prime minister\u2019s defence in terms of her out-of-step public response to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire last week. A significant minority seem to have convinced themselves that the prime minister\u2019s excessive reserve terror at the thought of interaction with the public is somehow an admirable thing, the epitome of British stoicism, rather than further dismal evidence of Theresa May\u2019s inability to lead.\nThese claims dismiss critics of Theresa May as reactionaries who just want to see the prime minister emote for the cameras and hug a few of the survivors, but this dismissive attitude completely misses the point. I don\u2019t think anybody in Britain had any great desire to see the prime minister weeping with the Grenfell Tower victims on the evening news bulletins. They did, however, expect her to show up, even if it was politically awkward, just as American political leaders show solidarity with disaster victims in the United States and French political leaders in the aftermath of terror atrocities in France. This is not an unreasonable, irrational demand. It is Leadership 101, and Theresa May has been failing the test in manifold ways since well before the general election.\nMontgomerie continues:\nThe most fitting memorial to those who perished [in the Grenfell Tower fire] is not to comfort the bereaved as all half-decent societies would. The best way of honouring the dead would be to deliver the scale of house-building that Conservative PMs such as Churchill and Macmillan championed but which an ideologically rigid Thatcherite dogma has since discouraged. For good measure, a government building more homes in the South would also significantly expand infrastructure in the North. The everyday so-called current government spending still needs trimming but leaving the next generation with inadequate roads, railways and broadband is just as irresponsible as leaving them up to their necks in debt.\nI\u2019d put believing that Elvis Presley is still alive on equal par with the claim that Mrs May could launch this agenda or something similar. Despite the words she uttered in Downing Street after first becoming PM she has done nothing of consequence for communities suffering most from the multigeddon of globalisation, open borders, automation and the collapse of the working-class family.\nRather than overhauling a threadbare party machine that helped lose a 20 per cent opinion poll lead, she has reappointed her Tory chairman. Those thinking the days of treating her Cabinet with disdain are over should look at her careless loss of two of the Brexit department\u2019s four key ministers last weekend, a week before today\u2019s starting gun for talks.\nAlso true. While this blog has focused on the need for conservatives to start transmitting a positive, optimistic message and defence of their worldview if they want to stand a chance of competing with the parties of the Left for the youth vote, good messaging alone is not enough. And while acts of pandering and voter bribery \u2013 such as matching Labour\u2019s pledge for free university tuition \u2013 are rightfully unacceptable to conservatives, it should not be impossible for the Tories to recognise that their current housing policy (or lack thereof) is a punch in the gut to any young person not fortunate enough to inherit from their parents or be helped onto the housing ladder by them. Planning laws need to be urgently reviewed and liberalised. The Left wants to build council houses for all, so that everybody is dependent on the state for one more thing. Conservatives should counter with a bold proposal to expand the supply of private housing for rent and purchase.\nMontgomerie is also right to criticise the party machine. CCHQ has presided over the near-total gutting of the party in recent years, from the winding up of the terminally dysfunctional Conservative Future youth movement to the neutering of the constituency associations and the megalomaniacal insistence of central control over candidate selection so as to ensure the continuance of the current system of patronage and nepotism which gave us such wonderful \u201crising stars\u201d as Ben Gummer. Theresa May is not responsible for the party machine that she inherited when she became prime minister last year, but neither has she shown the slightest interest in revamping the party and opening it up to outside talent. The necessary change will not come so long as she remains leader.\nMontgomerie\u2019s conclusion is also strong:\nA new PM and a contest necessary to establish who it should be will not be good for the nation\u2019s immediate peace of mind or for business sentiment, but there are no easy options from where we are. What Britain does have is a two- to three-month window before September\u2019s German elections. After that, Brexit negotiations will be fast and furious.\nThe Tories need a contest thorough enough to identify a team as much as a leader, and an agenda for social renewal as much as for Brexit. With both established, there is a real chance of stopping the momentum building behind Jeremy Corbyn \u2014 and it must be stopped. His views on tax, state power and defence would enfeeble this country.\nWe must not underestimate Corbyn. Voters who yearn for change may well roll the dice if forced to choose between Corbyn and \u201cthe same old Tories\u201d. If, after all, people can convince themselves that the moon landings were staged, they may even believe Corbyn is equipped for Britain\u2019s highest office.\nThere is never a good time to instigate a divisive, ugly leadership election campaign between general elections, but far better that Conservatives bite the bullet now than wait until a year into Brexit negotiations before swapping out the leader of the country. It\u2019s bad enough to have to consider changing horses at the water\u2019s edge of Brexit negotiations; changing horses mid-stream would only undermine the British negotiating position further.\nAnd as Tim Montgomerie rightly says, a leadership contest is needed to identify not just a leader but also a team and a set of values \u2013 not just relating to Brexit \u2013 around which the party can coalesce and campaign. The 2017 general election campaign was a miserable affair in which Tories \u2013 led from the top by Theresa May \u2013 refused to make a bold, positive affirmation of free markets or other traditional conservative standards, instead portraying \u201causterity\u201d and limits on the state as a necessary evil rather than as a potentially good thing in and of themselves.\nThe Tories were tricked into fighting on Labour\u2019s turf (arguing about inequality) when they should instead have proudly made the case that conservative policies expand the pie for all while Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s focus on equality of outcome promises only more equal slices of a rapidly diminishing national pie. Conservatives essentially went to fight in this general election only to discover that their leader had broken their best ideological weapon in advance of the battle. No wonder they lost ground against Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s uplifting (if loopy and fiscally nonsensical) vision for Britain.\nAnd then there is the elusive, undefinable sense of momentum. Whatever momentum Theresa May had when she took over from David Cameron, she has now squandered it all. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, is on the march. Through her inept leadership and hopelessly prosecuted general election campaign, Theresa May literally gave 1970s style socialism a foothold back in our national politics, and raised the real risk that Corbyn could enter 10 Downing Street as prime minister if her shaky minority government were to fall. Prior to the election her aura of strength and stability was severely knocked by the multiple terror attacks on British soil, some of which exposed failings for which she was directly accountable as Home Secretary.\nAnd now the Grenfell Tower disaster response has revealed the prime minister to be a shrunken, fearful and traumatised figure, clinging on day by day while colleagues openly worry about her mental state of mind. Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan between them have assumed the role of national Consoler-in-Chief, while Theresa May skulks in Downing Street and only meets with the survivors and bereaved relatives under duress. This might be partly excusable if she had organised a first-class disaster response plan a la Gordon Brown, but she didn\u2019t. Instead there were days of chaos and confusion before Whitehall finally took over the response from Kensington & Chelsea council.\nRightly or wrongly \u2013 and the vast majority of criticism directed at Theresa may has been fully justified \u2013 the impression is of a prime minister in over her head, unable to regain her political footing and behaving in an entirely reactive way rather than giving the country the proactive leadership that it needs. There is no coming back from such a self-inflicted calamity. There is no PR job that can be done to repair the damage. And if Theresa May is hanging on in some desperate bid to burnish her legacy with a smattering of minor accomplishments before her inevitable removal then she is not only deluding herself but also putting herself before the Conservative Party, and party before the country.\nSo let\u2019s bring on the contest. Let 48 Tory MPs submit their letters to the 1922 Committee and formally trigger a leadership challenge, forcing the prime minister\u2019s resignation. There is no reason for us to continue to \u201cbear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of\u201d. The undiscover\u2019d country could hardly be any worse.\nUK Politics, What Conservative Government?Coke Zero Conservatism, Conservatism, Grenfell Tower, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Leadership, Socialism, Theresa May, Tim Montgomerie, Tories, Tory Leadership\nLive Blog: Theresa May Becomes 76th UK Prime Minister\nJuly 11, 2016 July 15, 2016 Samuel HooperLeave a comment\nTheresa May Becomes New UK Prime Minister \u2013 Live Blog\n14 July \u2013 13:19\nThe greatest threat to Britain\nMany commentators are speaking of this post-referendum, new government period as one which is fraught with danger. This is a great pity, and reflects the establishment\u2019s gnawing fear of change and lack of confidence in Britain.\nFighting back against this attitude is the speech given by Sir John Holmes to Chatham House, attempting to chart Britain\u2019s future outside the EU.\nA key excerpt from the speech:\nAt the same time we have to stick to our view of ourselves as global players. There is a widespread perception in the rest of the world that we have just dealt ourselves out of the game, and gone back to being the small island off the continental shelf of Europe we were before our glory days. That perception must not be allowed to stand.\nThis means that our approach has to be one of resolute maintenance of Britain both as a country which wants to have a close and positive relationship with the rest of Europe and the EU, and also as an open, tolerant and internationalist country, with a determination to go on contributing to the solution of the world\u2019s problems. These are not just platitudes. Only if we can achieve that will it be possible to say to all those young people horrified by the result of the vote that they are not condemned to live in a narrow, isolated society driven by a combination of nostalgia for an imagined past and xenophobia. That is their concern, I am convinced, rather than a more specific concern about whether or not we are part of the EU institutions. At least some of those who campaigned to leave the EU are firmly in this open, internationalist camp. We have to encourage them to stay there, and to make it happen, not just talk about it.\nThis is critical. There is a perception \u2013 partly in the world, but frankly more commonly held by the British elite \u2013 that we have \u201cdealt ourselves out of the game\u201d, as Sir John Holmes says. And many people do indeed seem to think that we will now go back to being a \u201csmall island\u201d before our \u201cglory days\u201d.\nThis is jarringly, sickeningly false. Britain\u2019s \u201cglory days\u201d did not begin in 1973 when we acceded to the European Economic Community. This country shaped the entire world for centuries before the EU was even a twinkle in Jean Monnet\u2019s eye. The fact that people \u2013 some of them in positions of great influence \u2013 sincerely think that Britain\u2019s global success somehow began when we joined the EEC, when we were in fact at our weakest and most run down as a nation, is utterly ludicrous. But it does speak to the remarkable effectiveness of EU mythology and propaganda.\nHolmes is quite right. Very few of the young people weeping into television cameras about having their futures \u201cripped away\u201d by Brexit actually understand the first thing about the European Union, what it is, how it operates and what it intends to become. They are wedded to the idea of being outward looking and internationalist, which itself is a commendable thing. As victorious Brexiteers it is our job to now show them that this is what many of us were fighting for, too. We must show the doubters within the British electorate that our quarrel was with the failed, sclerotic and deeply antidemocratic institutions of Brussels, not the idea of friendly cooperation between neighbouring countries.\nIt is therefore vitally important that Theresa May\u2019s new government projects the proper image of optimism and potential, rather than some kind of war government battening down the hatches to ride out a dreadful storm. Will there be immense difficulties? Of course. But we already have the sore loser Remainer contingent determined to catastrophise Brexit and seize on any morsel of bad news as proof that they were right (rather than working positively together to achieve the settled will of the British people to leave the EU). We can afford no additional negativity from government.\nThe greatest threat to Britain now is not some fictional retaliation from a spiteful, scorned European Union, but rather the danger from within \u2013 the lack of self confidence shown by government and citizen alike that we possess the strengths and attributes required to succeed and function like every other single advanced country on earth outside of the European Union.\nAs Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, at a time when his country faced a genuinely grave threat (rather than the bright opportunity of Brexit now presented to Britain):\nSo, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself \u2013 nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.\nTheresa May, Philip Hammond and Boris Johnson will not bring down this country. Only we the British people have the potential to do that. We, with our nameless, unreasoning and unjustified terror in the face of newfound freedom.\nAll roads lead to Norway?\nThe Guardian tries to war-game the various Brexit scenarios under the new Theresa May premiership:\nMay is a stickler for detail and doubtless will be alarmed by the absence of a coherent plan for Brexit in Whitehall. If preparation is a prerequisite for successful Brexit, the omens are poor. The official leave campaign, focused on victory and avoiding internal division, drew up only the flimsiest plan for what Brexit would look like, pointing vaguely at the exit door, but with little idea of what lay the other side. Foreign Office diplomats were instructed to draw up no contingency plans whatsoever, supposedly for fear they might leak.\nThe appointment of David Davis as Minister for Brexit, and Liam Fox as trade secretary suggests May is willing to go for a hard Brexit, where the UK does not remain in the single market \u2013 as the new chancellor, Philip Hammond, has also said \u2013 and removes itself quickly from the EU. But the civil service may feel the Davis blueprint recently published on Conservative Home is optimistic. In essence he argues article 50 should be triggered by the end of the year and predicts the UK could sign bilateral trade deals with a set of markets larger than the single market within 12 to 24 months.\n[..] Detailed options on Brexit were previously discussed little, due to the foreshortening of the Tory leadership election. On the Labour side, a coherent policy on Europe that combines its pro-European instincts with its voters\u2019 dislike of free movement has yet to emerge.\nThe discussion has instead been confined to thinktanks, bloggers, the House of Lords and Oliver Letwin\u2019s hastily assembled Cabinet Office Brexit unit.\nYes, we bloggers did have a thing or two to say about the optimal Brexit plan. At the time, getting the message out there was next to impossible as the media preferred to hang on every word (and false warning or promise) made by the vapid \u201cleaders\u201d of the Remain and Leave campaigns. At least people are now beginning to take note.\nThe Guardian then starts to use language which could almost be lifted directly from the pages of one of the Leave Alliance bloggers:\nA soft Brexit means a relatively slow negotiation designed to retain as close as possible a relationship with the rest of the EU. Access to the EU\u2019s single market, with as few tariffs as possible, is the goal.\nThe off-the-shelf model is Norway\u2019s complex European Economic Area agreement, but probably only as long as the EU agrees that Norway\u2019s limited flexibility on free movement can be extended. This has been described as \u201cEEA-minus\u201d.\nRune-readers reckon this model might be the instinctive preference of both May and her Whitehall civil servants. It minimises disruption, calms business and could be sold as a staging post while Whitehall starts a bigger process of disentanglement.\nWell, well, well. \u201cOff-the shelf\u201d. \u201cStaging post\u201d. Finally, the messages pushed by the Leave Alliance are being picked up even by the Guardian (with no attribution, of course).\nHere, too, we see evidence of the Guardian skimming Leave Alliance output:\nSome say that there are little-noticed flexibilities in the free movement in the Norway free trade agreement, such as article 112 that allows EEA states to \u201ctake unilateral action to restrict freedom of movement in the event of serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties\u201d. Some Brexiters have claimed this gives an EEA member state the right to restrict the freedom of EU citizens to come to the UK through a form of emergency brake.\nBefore conceding:\nAll this complexity may well lead the cautious May and her new \u201cminister for Brexit David Davis\u201d back to the Norway option as the best starting point.\nIt took two seconds for voters to mark a cross alongside leave on the ballot paper. It is increasingly apparent it might take two decades to work through the full consequences.\nPrecisely so. It has taken the Guardian awhile to get there, but they seem finally to have arrived. Brexit will indeed be a process, and a long and complex one at that. Forty years of political integration and the handing over of whole core competencies to the EU cannot possibly be unpicked in a couple of years. And as the Guardian belatedly comes to acknowledge, this leads consistently back to an interim staging option where single market access is preserved as we seek to scope out our optimal longer-term solution.\nThe dedicated bloggers and citizen journalists of The Leave Alliance came to this same conclusion many months, even years ago. It is a pity that the Guardian could not offer any attribution for their eureka moment.\nA kindred spirit\u2019s take on Theresa May and Brexit\nAllister Heath gets it:\nBrexit is an idea, an intellectual vision for Britain, a 10- or 20-year journey to reshape our economy and society, reinvigorate our democracy and reinvent ourselves as truly global, high-wage, high value-added trading superhub. It matters little who begins to deliver this, as long as our withdrawal from the EU is executed in the best possible way: the referendum was about changing our destiny, not about making any specific pro\u2011Brexit individual our next prime minister.\nWe were voting for an idea, not a gang; this was a referendum, not an election. Ideas both predate and outlive individuals, and Euroscepticism is no different: the mark of true ideological victory is when erstwhile opponents implement a policy that they used to oppose and hire their former enemies to assist them in the task. Capitalism triumphs when ex-socialists privatise industries, deregulate and cut taxes; Euroscepticism truly wins when an ex\u2011Remainer takes us out of the EU.\n[..] It also doesn\u2019t matter that our new Prime Minister is not especially ideological; in fact, in the present circumstances this may well help her. A radical, disruptive, previously unthinkable belief structure \u2013 to quit the EU \u2013 has been chosen for her and imposed upon her. It\u2019s an immense, awe-inspiring task; what we now need is managerial ability. Lady Thatcher had to find her mission; May has been handed hers.\nMore and more people are coming to think of Brexit in these terms, which is encouraging. Allister Heath was one of the first journalists to advocate the interim EFTA/EEA \u201cNorway Option\u201d approach championed by The Leave Alliance, just prior to the EU referendum. It is good to see Heath continuing to talk of Brexit in terms of a complex process which demands the best of Britain\u2019s managerial talent to accomplish.\nHeath also takes heart from Theresa May\u2019s first address as prime minister:\nShe has started superbly, delivering a powerful, uplifting speech targeted at that category of hard-working, aspirational, lowish-income working people who are \u201cjust managing\u201d.She is framing her non-Brexit vision as \u201cunionist\u201d, as in the Conservative and Unionist party; to her, it means that we are all united as citizens and that our economy must work for everybody.\nThese principles \u2013 opportunity for all, a colour-blind society, meritocracy, no discrimination, improving state schools \u2013 are profoundly Tory. They have little to do with \u201cmodernisation\u201d or \u201ccentrism\u201d; they are at the heart of what all successful Tories have always believed in. The devil, of course, is in their implementation: it can be through harnessing conservative and free-market principles, or via Left-wing means. We should hope and expect that it will be the former.\nHeath interprets May\u2019s speech almost exactly as I did last night, seeing it as a statement of our shared national destiny and recognition of our duty toward one another, while also praising May\u2019s smart, laser-like focus on the people in the squeezed middle who are \u201cjust managing\u201d.\nHeath also shares this blog\u2019s concern about which route Theresa May\u2019s government will take to get to this promised land \u2013 whether it is through bold conservative means (as Thatcher did) or through leftist redistribution. It looks like both us us will be keeping Theresa May under close observation on this point.\nHeath is clear about what he would like to see from May in the economic sphere:\nShe must also add to her remarks last night by telling us more about her vision for the economy. This must come from her, not her new Chancellor. Her leitmotif needs to be about empowering the poor by unleashing enterprise, not hobbling the rich; this will require more housebuilding, the re\u2011creation of an ownership society, far better schooling and adult education, led hopefully by private sector involvement, and a deregulatory and supply-side revolution to encourage investment and the creation of even more small businesses.\nThat would be pure Thatcherism 2.0 and much as I would love to see it all come to pass, on the balance of available evidence I just don\u2019t think that Theresa May will be that good on economic policy. During her incredibly brief leadership campaign, May was sounding positively Miliband-esque on capitalism and redistribution. This certainly will not be a case of a radical conservative being held back by the doubting \u201cwets\u201d in her own cabinet.\nBut if everything on Allister Heath\u2019s wish list does come to pass, this blog will certainly be celebrating.\nThat jocular, back-slapping PMQs was nothing to be proud of\nFinally, someone says what this blog was thinking yesterday as David Cameron took his swansong in parliament.\nJames Kirkup was unimpressed:\nThe political career of David Cameron ended, like they all do, in failure. He led Britain out of the EU without wanting to, and he had to quit as a result. Under such circumstances, some people might have expected his last appearance in the House of Commons to be a painful, even embarrassing affair. Others might have expected him not to show up at all and leave it to his successor.\nYet here was being hailed and praised, the Commons all full of jokes and chuckles. Even Jeremy Corbyn tried to be jolly with a humiliatingly bad attempted joke about Strictly Come Dancing. Only Angus Robertson of the SNP seemed interested in doing to job his voters sent him to Westminster to do, and his reward was disapproving tuts and groans from the rest of the House.\n[..] Because \u201cthe House uniting to pay tribute\u201d is actually everything that\u2019s wrong with politics, everything that makes people hate their rulers and makes them vote to kick them as hard as possible, or not vote at all because they\u2019re all the same, a cosy club of smug so-and-sos who look after their own and sod the rest of us.\nMany people are angry at David Cameron. Many people are sad that he is leaving. Others are indifferent, jubilant, victorious, dismayed, optimistic, depressed. The job of politics and politicians is to reflect and, as far as possible, reconcile such a spectrum of opinion. Yet on days like this, the House sounds one bland self-regarding note of praise, not many divergent tones.\nI\u2019m inclined to agree with this view \u2013 on reflection. Initially my instincts were also that it was a nice, rather touching affair, and I bristled when Angus Robertson made his serious political intervention. I was wrong.\nWhat better time than to begin debating the legacy of a prime minister as he takes his leave of PMQs? This should have been an occasion for David Cameron to robustly defend his record in office, cheered on by his supporters and called harshly to account by his detractors on both sides of the house. And yet what we had was a rather nauseating, saccharine, Hollywood-style tribute where the errors and controversies were momentarily airbrushed away.\nAnd why? Because, as James Kirkup points out, David Cameron is \u201cone of us\u201d (us being the political class). And too often, those in positions of the greatest power and authority in Britain barely receive verbal censure for their errors and missteps, let alone more serious sanction. On balance, this blog considers David Cameron to have been a very bland and unexciting leader, a letdown to serious conservatives but the Devil incarnate to deranged leftists. But that\u2019s no reason not to have the debate one last time, while Cameron is still there to defend himself.\nKirkup concludes:\nI\u2019m not saying Mr Cameron should go out in sackcloth and ashes, but politics shouldn\u2019t be a cosy club. It should be a fight, a contest of ideas and arguments and policies. David Cameron fought many such battles and won a good many of them, even if he lost the last one on Europe. His last day in the Commons should have rehearsed and aired those arguments, MPs criticising and praising him as they saw fit and as voters would want, with Mr Cameron giving a full account of himself. If he and his fellow MPs really wanted to do their duty today, they should have made sure he went out fighting.\nFunny. Enraged by David Cameron\u2019s despicable behaviour in the EU referendum (again, something which was brushed under the carpet in his triumphant, valedictory PMQs, this blog was all in favour of the sackcloth and ashes approach.\nPredicting Cameron\u2019s downfall as he lied, threatened and cheated his way to failure in the EU referendum, I wrote:\nThat\u2019s why the prime minister\u2019s days are numbered. At present he takes false courage from the fact that his normally sworn enemies in the Labour Party and on the generic Left are holding their fire in their shared desperation to keep Britain in the EU. But on June 24, Cameron will quickly realise that a good half of his own Conservative Party, together with everyone else in the country, will be straining at the leash to eject him from office, strip him of the bully pulpit he has so abused, and send him marching barefoot back to Witney in sackcloth and ashes.\nWell, I was half right. The Conservative Party did indeed move quickly, dispassionately and ruthlessly to replace David Cameron once he announced his intention to resign. Unfortunately, he was sent on his way with a lot more praise ringing in his ears than his recent conduct deserved.\nThe House of Commons can either be a place for the people or an elite, self-serving club which looks after its own before even considering its duty to represent the full range of opinion across our United Kingdom. Yesterday, it never looked more like the latter.\nWhere there is discord may we bring harmony\u2026\nWell, it wasn\u2019t quite Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi, but it was a solid and hopeful opening speech by Theresa May, Britain\u2019s new prime minister.\nThis passage was particularly good, politically speaking:\nIf you\u2019re from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise. You have a job but you don\u2019t always have job security. You have your own home, but you worry about paying a mortgage. You can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and getting your kids into a good school.\nWe will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives. When we take the big calls, we\u2019ll think not of the powerful, but you. When we pass new laws, we\u2019ll listen not to the mighty but to you. When it comes to taxes, we\u2019ll prioritise not the wealthy, but you. When it comes to opportunity, we won\u2019t entrench the advantages of the fortunate few. We will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as your talents will take you.\nThat\u2019s aspirational conservatism at its best, right there. Unfortunately it was preceded with some rather excessive (but expected) praise of her not-very-conservative predecessor and an unnecessary foray into identity politics, but on the whole this was well done by Theresa May and her speechwriter(s).\nThe powerful repetition of \u201cnot the powerful / mighty / wealthy, but you\u201d is particularly effective, underscoring the Tories\u2019 claim to what is often (wrongly) considered exclusively Labour or left-wing territory.\nThe undercurrent of everything currently happening in British politics \u2013 the EU referendum, the self-destruction of the Labour Party, everything \u2013 is the chasm between the priorities of political class and the needs of the increasingly squeezed working and lower middle classes. Any politician who does not now make incredibly earnest-looking efforts to appear as though they understand and atone for past failures in helping the squeezed middle is asking for existential-level trouble, and Theresa May is quite right to plant the Conservative Party square on their side.\n(Of course, the devil will be in the details \u2013 Thatcher helped the working classes with Right to Buy and a crackdown on industrial strife whereas May seems to have more left-wing redistributionist policies in mind, stealing straight from the Miliband playbook).\nThis section on the unity of our United Kingdom is worth marking, too:\nI\u2019ve been chewing this section over, uncertain what to think of it. Other commentators seem to have responded well to it, warming to this novel rebranding of what it means to be a unionist. The cynic in me worries that it is more empty platitude than statement of intent \u2013 or worse, a very clear statement of intent that her government will seek to fortify its place in the political centre ground through a raft of targeted financial giveaways to this voter group.\nBut let us be optimistic at the start of a new administration. Let\u2019s assume that our new prime minister is exhorting us to once again think of ourselves as one nation, a cohesive whole, rather than a jostling coalition of warring special interest groups and competitive victimhoods. Let\u2019s dare to hope that we are now led by a prime minister who will use the challenges of Brexit \u2013 something which she did not want but has vowed to deliver nonetheless \u2013 to inspire us all to play our part as engaged citizens with a common destiny rather than avaricious, selfish consumers.\nAnd then this peroration:\nMay\u2019s speech teetered between asking what we can do for our country and hinting about what our country might do for us (well, for some of us anyway). Perhaps that is as good as we will get in this day and age. It is certainly an improvement on other politicians who have sought to ingratiate themselves with us by promising only what they will make the government do for us. Theresa May does at least seem to suggest that it is \u201cwe\u201d who must rise to the challenge, not just \u201cothers\u201d or the government.\nAnd for a blog which has consistently implored politicians to set us a challenge, that can only be a good thing.\nRight now, that\u2019s about all we can say with any certainty. If we take Theresa May at the best interpretation of her words today, then this could be a fruitful premiership. This blog\u2019s approach, as stated before, will be to trust but verify.\nFarewell, David Cameron\nAnd so, at the end of today\u2019s session of Prime Minister\u2019s Questions, David Cameron bowed out with these final words to the House:\n\u201cYou can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end \u2013 the public service, the national interest \u2013 that is what it\u2019s all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: \u2018I was the future once\u2019.\u201d\nWoolly, vague platitudes with a superficially appealing thin veneer of optimism \u2013 Cameron took his leave from top flight politics in exactly the same way that he practised it.\nOf course one wishes Cameron well. To serve in government is to dedicate a portion of one\u2019s life to public service, and while this blog became increasingly strident in its criticism of Cameron as his premiership went on, he bore his responsibilities with grace and (usually) good humour.\nIn fact, one of the most endearing things about David Cameron is the sense that he is not loathe to give up power in the way that, say, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown so obviously were. Cameron the pragmatist clearly wanted to stay in order to continue implementing his agenda (or treading water, in this blog\u2019s view), but when after the EU referendum result and Andrea Leadsom dropping out of the Tory leadership race it became clear that his departure was to be suddenly accelerated, Cameron prepared to make way for Theresa May with high spirits and (judging by his unintentionally-recorded singing) a clear conscience.\nThat being said, one cannot look back on David Cameron\u2019s six years as prime minister and come to any other conclusion that this has been a lost half-decade, a dispiriting period of time where the Tories were in office but hardly in power. Whether it is the utter failure of George Osborne to get to grips with the budget deficit (let alone the national debt), the housing crisis, the indecisiveness over airport expansion, civil liberties, national defence, sovereignty, foreign policy, the reflexive pro-Europeanism and much else, this government has been nothing but a letdown, made all the worse by the knowledge that once Labour finally sort themselves out and regain power they will drag the country even further to the left after Cameron failed to move it even slightly to the right.\nAnd sadly, Cameron\u2019s replacement shows no signs of tacking away from this centrist course. As my Conservatives for Liberty colleague Paul Nizinskyj puts it:\nThen there is the depressing reality that, on economics, Theresa May is essentially Ed Miliband in kitten heels. It is the sincere hope of this organisation that she picks an economic liberal as her Chancellor because she is simply economically illiterate. The fact she has, with a straight face, proposed curbs on chief executive pay would be hilarious if it wasn\u2019t so terrifying. This is a woman, who in being called out by Jacob Rees-Mogg on her attempt to push through the European Arrest Warrant without a vote in 2014, has shown she has no respect for due process. She does not understand property or individual liberty and she does not care.\nOur conclusion? Theresa May is not only an authoritarian with no respect for civil and economic liberty, she is not only most definitely not a libertarian, she is in no way even a conservative.\nOuch. But Nizinskyj is not wrong. Civil libertarians, small-c conservatives and conservatarians (like this blog) will have our work cut out for us in scrutinising Theresa May\u2019s government, doing our best to keep it honest and resisting its most illiberal tendencies.\nBut even then, if I had to give a prediction for the success of Theresa May\u2019s new administration, I would be pessimistic. I hope to be proven wrong. But as things stand, and based on everything that Theresa May has said and done in her political career \u2013 not least the various centrist noises she made at the launch of her own Tory leadership campaign \u2013 we are looking at another lost term of office.\nWhy? Because this blog believes in the politics of persuasion, while centrists like Theresa May and the Labour rebels believe in the politics of pandering. This blog believes that the point of an election campaign is to educate, preach, cajole and convince people that one\u2019s own ideology and policy solutions are the best choice for an individual and for the country as a whole, while the centrists believe that people\u2019s views are fixed and immovable, and that the point of an election campaign is to bend, flatter and shapeshift until you have tricked the voter into believing either that you have his best interests at heart, or at least that the other side intends to do them harm.\nSo far I have seen nothing to give cause for hope that Theresa May will be any different to David Cameron in this regard \u2013 both take the dismal latter rather than the inspiring former view of politics, unlike Margaret Thatcher, their radical conservative predecessor who actually dared to convince voters rather than simply flatter them.\nMargaret Thatcher, when faced with a terminally dysfunctional Labour Party, saw an opportunity to boldly remake Britain in a Conservative image, and in so doing she saved the country. David Cameron and Theresa May, when gifted the same golden scenario, see an opportunity to tack to the centre and cement themselves in power forever by being as blandly inoffensive as possible.\nI dearly hope to be wrong. This blog would like nothing more than for Britain\u2019s second woman prime minister to be another trailblazer, a new Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron\u2019s rather lame Ted Heath tribute act.\nBut as things stand, there are precious few grounds for hope.\nThe hypocrisy of Owen Smith\nSo it is official. With the launch of Owen Smith\u2018s campaign for the Labour leadership, Tweedle Dee has officially joined Tweedle Dum. Two complete nonentities with almost zero high level experience between the two of them (within politics or without) are to be the dual stalking horses for the pitiful higher profile centrist Labour MPs who dare not make a stand of their own.\nOwen Smith, the former shadow work and pensions secretary, will launch a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership on Wednesday.\nSmith said Corbyn was a good man and been proved right about many things including strongly opposing austerity, but was \u201cnot a leader who can lead us into an election and win for Labour\u201d.\nHe added: \u201cWorking people cannot afford to have a day like today when the Tories are popping champagne corks and celebrating their coronation and the prospect of a Labour government feels so distant.\u201d\n[..] Supporters of Smith, MP for Pontypridd , argue he is a better choice than Eagle because he was not in parliament for the Iraq war and has pitched himself on the soft left of the party. However, Eagle\u2019s backers believe she is a strong choice to oppose Corbyn after performing well in PMQs against the prime minister. Many on her team also argue it is time Labour had a female leader.\nWhat strikes one most is the hypocrisy of Owen Smith\u2019s charge against Jeremy Corbyn that as leader, he failed to immediate conjure up a comprehensive alternative policy platform. Just a few years ago, under the uninspiring, failed leadership of Ed Miliband, the Labour Party was largely silent on new policy while their interminable policy review was completed.\nIn fact, this length of time into Ed Miliband\u2019s leadership, the Labour Party\u2019s policy platform was a self-described blank sheet of paper. Apparently failing to instantly come up with new policies is fine when you are a woolly Fabian centrist like Ed Miliband, but an unforgivable sin when you are Jeremy Corbyn.\nBut of course in reality, Labour\u2019s policy vacuum has nothing to do with why Owen Smith launched his own, self-aggrandising leadership bid. It is just a convenient excuse. Smith seem to think that his time in the trenches as Shadow Welsh Minister and Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary give him such an overwhelming leg up over Angela Eagle, whose eleven whole months as Minister for Pensions and Ageing Society clearly make her a viable prime ministerial candidate.\nGood luck to both of them. They\u2019ll need it.\nThe root of Labour\u2019s unpopularity\nPete North muses on the unpopularity of the Labour Party in a very persuasive piece, the conclusion of which is worth quoting at length:\nSocial policy makers look at the charts of income distribution and see a wealthier population, but I would venture that social mobility has stalled, people feel trapped by their circumstances and there are masses of bureaucratic and financial obstacles in the way of getting even a basic foothold. The English dream of a house, a car and a family was once a birthright. Now if you have a crappy semi in Wiltshire and a car less than five years old, you might as well be Alan Sugar by the estimations of most young people.\nWith so many things now beyond the reach of young people without making unacceptable compromises, they are resigned to live a pointless life with no stake in anything, working in service jobs, grazing according to their short term whims and no real direction. And we\u2019re supposed to vote for more of the same?\nThese are the reasons why Labour has absolutely nothing to say to working class people. Or anyone with a pulse for that matter. They are far too obsessed with their own internal feuds and bombing Syrians for no reason. The Labour leadership cares more about Palestinians than Yorkshirefolk.\nIt is not interested in removing these bureaucratic constraints because they are major sources of revenue for their public sector empires. They are not interested in creating more freedoms for people. They like telling us how to live and controlling what we do.\nThis is why I am instinctively a conservative. I believe it is the job of government to remove obstacles, not create them. If you want an aspirational society then you have to give people a helping hand and second chances. If even the basics are out of reach then you simply don\u2019t have a society. You have cohabitation. Miserable cohabitation. We\u2019re left to rot, filling in forms, working tedious jobs to pay exorbitant rents, unfair taxes and a mountain of public debt.\nIf you look at the list of gripes above and they are very much hangovers from the Blair era. The era of massively inflated public sector, nannying interventions, ever more CCTV, unnecessarily outsourced public services and a mortgage system completely warped by Labour\u2019s debt binge. And what has Labour got to say for itself now? Nothing. Even now, the Blairite wing of Labour is conspiring to reassert control over the party when they are the ones who made Labour unelectable.\nAnd why would Labour have a clue what it\u2019s like to struggle to find a path in life? When you have Jo Cox\u2019s and Chuka Umunnas and Corbyns, none of whom ever had to lift a finger, it\u2019s little wonder they are out of step with just about everyone in the country. With a head full of fair trade and sustainable development bilge, their world is not our world.\nIn our world a penny on petrol matters. A bus lane fine means cancelling a school trip, speeding points mean crippling insurance, a CCJ costs the chance of a job anywhere in the banking and insurance world, and a hike in business rates closes down the local shops we rely on. Bailiffs make us frightened to answer the door. Council tax means the poor never get a holiday. Court costs means we can never address injustice. Education costs mean we can never change careers. Public transport costs eat into our disposable income. That is Labour\u2019s legacy. That is why Labour deserves to die.\nThough there are obvious worthy exceptional individuals, one simply does not get the sense that the current Labour Party gets excited about the same problems and injustices as the ordinary British people \u2013 particularly now, when the party\u2019s centrist MPs are more concerned about deposing their leader and restoring their sorely missed influence running the show.\nNot that the Corbyn leadership is in any way saintly or immune from criticism. When North says that the Labour leadership \u201ccares more about Palestinians than Yorkshirefolk\u201d he hits on a worrying grain of truth.\nBut what comes through most clearly is the yawning disconnect between Labour\u2019s recent legacy in government (continually expanding the public sector, making more people dependent on government and exerting more coercive control over peoples\u2019 lives) and in opposition (agitating for more of the same), and the priorities of the people.\nThe time has come for a split in the Labour Party so that the cerebral, theoretical leftists can go one way, the party which actually defends the interests of the working classes can go another, and the parasitical political class can (ideally) fall down the gap in between the two.\nJeremy Corbyn taunts centrist Labour MPs with a subtle repudiation of Neil Kinnock\u2019s 1985 party conference speech denouncing Militant Tendency\nAfter avoiding a party stitch-up to prevent him from automatically going forward into the Labour leadership ballot, Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters have been taking something of a victory lap.\nThe Labour NEC\u2019s decision prompted the valedictory video shown above, hosted on the official Jeremy Corbyn YouTube channel and promoted on the Labour leader\u2019s social media accounts.\nIn the video, Corbyn concludes his remarks:\nOur party is determined that the next government will meet the needs of all of the people of this country. That will invest in health, in housing, in education, in jobs, in infrastructure.\nThe next government will be a Labour government \u2013 a Labour government \u2013 committed to ending the injustice and inequality that exists in Britain today.\nI highlight this phrase because I do not believe it was accidental. In fact, I believe it was a direct and very deliberate reference to former party leader Neil Kinnock\u2019s 1985 speech to the Labour Party conference, in which Kinnock (in a bid to make his party more electable) denounced the far-left Liverpool city council and the Militant tendency wing of the party.\nHere\u2019s what Kinnock said in 1985:\nI\u2019ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council \u2013 a Labour council \u2013 hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers.\nJeremy Corbyn\u2019s choice of repetition (\u201ca Labour government \u2013 a Labour government\u201d) in his address today is, I am certain, not coincidental. On the contrary, it is a direct reference to Neil Kinnock\u2019s speech and a repudiation of Neil Kinnock\u2019s work in the 1980s to drag the Labour Party closer to the political centre (Corbyn himself was part of an effort to depose Neil Kinnock from the leadership in 1988).\nBy co-opting Kinnock\u2019s turn of phrase, Corbyn is defiantly stamping his own authority on the Labour Party. Corbyn is making clear that he is the Labour Party now, for all intents and purposes, and that the party of Kinnock, Smith, Blair, Brown and Miliband has passed away.\nAnybody entertaining any lingering wistful belief that Jeremy Corbyn will \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and slink away \u201cfor the good of the party\u201d, letting the centrists resume their rule without a fight, should now abandon all hope.\nThis is Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s party now. And he is here to stay.\nNeil Kinnock\u2019s 1985 party conference speech \u2013 highlight:\nThe Economist weeps for centrist Labour MPs\nShowing their traditional concern for the interests of people who are not part of the political, cultural or economic elite, The Economist is busy rending its garments in despair for the poor centrist Labour MPs whose party, hijacked by evil ordinary people with their despicable left-wing views, has apparently \u201cdeserted them\u201d:\nThe coming months will be ugly. They may culminate in centrist MPs abandoning a party that has abandoned them, and at a time when Britain needs a strong, united opposition. Still, the confrontation is welcome. Labour has long been an awkward coalition of anticapitalists and social democrats, undermining and frustrating each other. With the Tories drifting rightward and the centre ground looking sparse, Britain could use a centre-left party capable of holding the government to account and, as Brexit negotiations begin, pressing it to keep the country as open and dynamic as possible. Whether by defeating Mr Corbyn or splintering off, Labour\u2019s moderates now have a chance to create such a force.\nIt takes a peculiar arrogance to openly fret more about the welfare of centrist Labour MPs, members of the privileged political class, than the ordinary people who make up the rank and file Labour Party. And yet this is exactly what the Economist does when it speaks about how Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s party has \u201cabandoned\u201d the centrists, as though we should somehow feel sorry for a group of people whose collective vision and charisma inspires almost zero love and devotion among their own party membership. Focusing on the MPs rather than the party members (let alone the British people) is a complete inversion of what politics is supposed to be about \u2013 serving the people.\nAnd yet the Economist\u2019s conclusion is quite right \u2013 a split is looking more and more likely, and more logical. Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s mandate from the party membership is overwhelming \u2013 and will be even more so if revalidated in the coming leadership election. Labour MPs claim a \u201cmandate\u201d from the people who elected them, which sounds nice and grand but is actually meaningless. Many people vote for their Labour MP as the \u201cleast worst\u201d option, or for tactical reasons. Only true believers join a political party \u2013 the positive mandate they bestow on their choice for leader is much stronger and frankly counts for more.\nSometimes, a bit of instability is good. And in this case, the fallout from the EU referendum is seeing the cobwebs blown away from many of the dusty relics in British politics, including the Labour Party\u2019s fraught coalition of working class supporters, socialist true believers and the professional political class who just happened to toss a coin and pick Team Red as the vehicle for their rise to power and prominence. Now the internal contradictions of that coalition are being exposed, which is a good thing, even if it means short term discord.\nUltimately, the impasse has to be broken. Ordinary people who are committed enough to the Labour Party to pay their dues and walk around with a membership card in their wallets want Corbyn. The professional politicians who front Labour in Parliament do not. The MPs can therefore either come around to Corbyn\u2019s way of thinking, make their peace and accept a period in the wilderness while the Corbynites try doing things their way for a change, or else leave the Labour Party and try to found a new party of the centre-left.\nThere is honour to be found in all of these options. But if Corbyn prevails in this second Labour leadership election, there will be no more honour in centrist Labour MPs carping from the sidelines.\nTheresa May\u2019s threat to liberty\nSpiked does an excellent job of summarising the many, many ways in which Theresa May is a civil libertarian\u2019s last possible choice to succeed David Cameron:\nMay is the figurehead for what is the most powerful authoritarian faction in today\u2019s political firmament. She keeps alive the bland, technocratic, Third Way politics that began under New Labour, but she combines it with a vaguely socially conservative outlook. In this way, her authoritarian tendencies are constantly dressed up as mere managerial competence. She\u2019s not undermining liberties, really; she\u2019s just \u2018getting on with it\u2019 \u2013 she\u2019s \u2018getting the job done\u2019. To May, the freedoms of the individual fall under the same category as, say, paper shortages, or lazy secretaries: obstacles to efficient management; administrative hurdles to be overcome.\nConsider the action she\u2019s taken on drugs. In 2014, against all advice, she banned Khat \u2013 a mild stimulant, popular with Somalis and comparable in harm to coffee. But that wasn\u2019t enough. She then introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which came into force in April 2016. The bill effectively prohibits the possession and use of any psychoactive substance \u2013 except those on a pre-approved government list. The intention was to crack down on so-called \u2018legal highs\u2019 \u2013 but the real effect the bill will have is to turn on its head the age-old principle that actions should be legal until made illegal \u2013 under May, it seems, actions are illegal until they\u2019re made legal. An important principle of civil society is, to May\u2019s mind, a managerial nuisance: this principle stopped her from \u2018getting the job done\u2019, and therefore it had to go.\n[..] Most worrying of all is her broad-brush, cavalier attitude to what she calls \u2018extremism\u2019. For all her talking up of the extremist threat to the British way of life, May has done more harm to British liberties than any sad-act neo-Nazi or wacky hate-preacher ever could. In her speech at the Metropolitan Police conference on counterterrorism this year, she boasted of how she had deprived certain British nationals of their citizenship because she deemed them not \u2018conducive to the public good\u2019; she boasted of how her Internet Referral Unit has, since 2010, quietly removed over 90,000 pieces of extremism-related material from the web; and, most ominous of all, she boasted of how the new statutory requirements of the Prevent scheme will require \u2018local authorities, the police, prisons, probation services, schools, colleges, and, yes, universities\u2019, to monitor people\u2019s behaviour for signs of extremism. More recently, she suggested that Ofcom be given unprecedented powers to strike down any TV programme it deems to include \u2018extremist content\u2019. This represents, effectively, the transformation of a vast swathe of the public-service workforce into a spying network \u2013 all cloaked in the bland, unassuming language of \u2018effectiveness\u2019. Again, it\u2019s no big deal; May\u2019s just getting the job done.\nThis blog agrees wholeheartedly, sharing all of these concerns. And in any other situation than the truly unique circumstances in which we now find ourselves, having voted to leave the EU and standing on the cusp of freedom from ever-closer European political union, this litany of faults would be more than enough reason to bar Theresa May from ever entering 10 Downing Street as prime minister.\nThe fact that Theresa May was the best of an underwhelming final two options for the Conservative Party leadership, with even that choice ultimately taken away when Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race, means that while our new prime minister in waiting is likely best equipped to negotiate Brexit (assuming that she uses her talents for good and does not renege on \u201cBrexit means Brexit\u201d), we must be ever vigilant of her domestic policy. And stand ready to forcefully oppose it where necessary.\nLabour NEC confirms that Jeremy Corbyn will be on the Labour leadership contest ballot paper without needing to seek fresh nominations\nCommon sense and the rule of law have prevailed, and the Labour NEC has ruled 18-14 in a secret ballot that incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will not need the fresh nominations of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party to go forward into the contest.\nJeremy Corbyn was jubilant after the party\u2019s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) decided his name should automatically appear on the ballot paper in the leadership contest triggered by Angela Eagle.\nIn a crunch meeting at Labour\u2019s Westminster headquarters that began at 2pm on Tuesday and continued into the evening, NEC members, including Corbyn himself, voted 18-14 in a secret ballot that he was not subject to the rule that forces candidates to show they have the backing of 20% of the party\u2019s MPs and MEPs.\nHowever, in a separate decision taken after Corbyn had left the room, the NEC ruled that only those who have been members for more than six months will be allowed to vote \u2013 while new supporters will be given two days to sign up as registered supporters to vote in the race, but only if they are willing to pay \u00a325 \u2013 far higher than the \u00a33 fee many Corbyn-backers paid in the contest last year.\nLabour\u2019s membership has shot up to more than 500,000, according to party sources, as both Corbyn\u2019s supporters and those who want to replace him recruit new supporters to their cause. But the introduction of the six-month cut-off point is likely to infuriate members who have joined in recent weeks with the hope of influencing the vote, and will not now be able to do so without paying an additional \u00a325.\nGood. Like Jeremy Corbyn or loathe him, the blatant misinterpretation and violation of the party rules which would have been required in order to keep the incumbent leader off the ballot paper would have made a mockery of the Labour Party\u2019s own internal processes, as well as violated any sense of duty owed by the party to its own members.\nOf course, not everybody is pleased with this outcome:\n19.45, 12 July, 2016. The precise moment the Labour Party died.\n\u2014 (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) July 12, 2016\nUnfortunately there could be no other outcome. Labour MPs have set themselves implacably against the leader overwhelmingly supported by the party base. Corbyn\u2019s leadership has a strong and recent mandate. \u201cAh, but Labour MPs have a mandate from their voters\u201d, I hear you cry. Yes, they do, albeit of a very ethereal sort. But if that is the case, and the wishes of paid-up party members are to be overruled and subverted at will whenever MPs arbitrarily invoke their \u201cmandate\u201d from the voters, then what\u2019s the point of having a party membership at all? And who exactly do those MPs think will knock on doors and deliver leaflets for them come the next general election?\nNo, this was the right result. And if it precipitates short term chaos, then so be it \u2013 it is the kind of chaos which sometimes needs to happen, the coming to a head of a tension between Labour\u2019s natural base and its political class which has been left to fester unresolved for far too long.\nIf the Labour centrists wish to be rid of Corbyn, it is for them to come up with a pitch to party members that is so fresh, compelling and powerful that it sweeps aside their preference for and loyalty to Jeremy Corbyn. They do not get to unilaterally assert their will and subvert the party rules to get their own way. They must win fair and square. If the centre-left case is so compelling then let it be made loud and clear. So far it has not been \u2013 even Corbyn\u2019s challenger, Angela Eagle, refuses to name a single area of policy where she disagrees with Corbyn. Is this because she doesn\u2019t disagree with her leader on policy, or is it because she knows that expressing her own sincerely held centrist views would condemn her to defeat?\nLabour Party members deserve to know. The time has come for the Labour centrists to put up or shut up.\nTweedle Dee joins Tweedle Dum\nNow Owen Smith, that other hugely respected big-name heavyweight, is throwing his hat in the ring to be Labour leader.\nPolitics Home reports:\nThe former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has gathered enough support from his fellow MPs to join Angela Eagle in challenging Jeremy Corbyn.\nHe and Ms Eagle have held talks in recent days over one of them becoming a so-called \u2018unity candidate\u2019 to take on the under-fire leader.\nBut they failed to reach an agreement and Ms Eagle announced her own leadership challenge this morning.\nA senior Labour source said Mr Smith will announce his candidacy this week, and could even do it after tomorrow\u2019s meeting of the party\u2019s ruling national executive committee.\nSpeaking last week, Mr Smith said he was \u201cready to do anything I can to save and serve the party\u201d.\nAssuming that Corbyn is not hobbled by the Labour NEC\u2019s blatantly antidemocratic plotting to keep him off the ballot paper, the incumbent Labour leader can look forward to another thumping victory as Angela Eagle and Owen Smith divide the anti Corbyn vote between themselves while centrist Labour\u2019s only viable centrist heavyweights continue to cower and bide their time.\nWill the Labour NEC press the self destruct button?\nThere are early unconfirmed reports that the Labour National Executive Committee is to decide whether or not Jeremy Corbyn requires nominations to go into the coming Labour leadership contest (he doesn\u2019t \u2013 see previous update) by secret ballot.\nThere is only one reason the NEC would resort to such a move \u2013 they intend to subvert the democratic processes of their own party in order to keep Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s name off the ballot paper, but don\u2019t want to face accountability for their cowardly decision.\nLabour\u2019s snivelling, self-entitled centrist MPs lack the courage to face Jeremy Corbyn in a fair and open leadership contest, knowing that the party membership no longer has any time for their dreary, self-interested policies. And so rather than engaging in any form of introspection, thinking about why they are so deeply unpopular, instead they seek to remove the obstacle which stands in the way of their path back to power and influence within the Labour Party.\nThis is utterly despicable.\nThe Labour Party certainly faces a dilemma, with the bulk of the Parliamentary Labour Party utterly opposed to Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s leadership. The proper release valve in such a situation is deselection. Centrist Labour MPs are implacably opposed to a party leader who is overwhelmingly popular with the membership. It therefore follows quite logically that such Labour MPs need to be deselected by their constituency associations and replaced with parliamentary candidates who actually support the leader and share his political outlook.\nWe should be much less squeamish about MP deselections, and stop fetishising Parliament as the place where the Serious People sit and must be heeded and respected at all times. In this case, much of the Parliamentary Labour Party is an obnoxious, self-serving little private members\u2019 club, grubbily pursuing their own interests rather than those of party members. It is no good for the public to complain about self-serving, failed politicians and then get squeamish about one of the best tools available to remove such politicians from power and influence. The CLPs should be actively pursuing the option of deselecting their current MPs where those MPs defy the local party\u2019s wishes on a matter so fundamental as the leadership of the party.\nWithout the release valve of deselections, we will remain trapped in this impasse, with Jeremy Corbyn rightly clinging to the leadership based on his mandate from party members and Labour MPs determined to ignore and undermine his authority.\nThe centrist Labour MPs have lost control of their own party. Labour now belongs to the Corbynites. The centrists have the choice of accepting their turn on the back seat until they can command widespread support from the membership again or leaving to form a new party of the centre-left. Both of these would be honourable choices. But what is not honourable is their current tactic of whining and undermining their current leader while shamefully lacking the courage to put up a candidate to stand against Corbyn in a free and fair fight.\nThis blog is quite clear: it is not for Jeremy Corbyn to move an inch further. Here is a leader who has already accommodated more difference of opinion, taken more abuse and dealt with more open disloyalty than any other Labour Party leader in history. If Labour\u2019s rebellious centrist MPs cannot now make their peace with this shift in power, the door is wide open and they are free to leave.\nVery few of them will be sincerely missed.\nThe Labour NEC to rule on whether Jeremy Corbyn needs to seek nominations or will automatically be put forward to the ballot as incumbent Labour leader\nThis is the precise wording from the Labour Party Rule Book, Chapter 4, Clause II:\n2. Election of leader and deputy leader\nA. The leader and deputy leader shall be elected separately in accordance with rule C below, unless rule E below applies.\ni. In the case of a vacancy for leader or deputy leader, each nomination must be supported by 12.5 per cent of the Commons members of the PLP. Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void\nii. Where there is no vacancy, nominations may be sought by potential challengers each year prior to the annual session of party conference. In this case any nomination must be supported by 20 per cent of the Commons members of the PLP. Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void.\nLet\u2019s speak plainly: anything other than a clear endorsement by the Labour NEC of Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s right to participate in the coming Labour leadership contest without needing to seek new nominations will be a flagrant disregard for the rules and a blatant attempt to subvert the party\u2019s own internal democracy in order to impose the will of Labour MPs on party members.\nThe clause itself could not be more specific, with two separate subclauses detailing the procedures which should take place when there is a vacancy for leader and when there is not. With Jeremy Corbyn still very much in charge, it is clear that the party should follow subclause B-2 which states that \u201cnominations may be sought by potential challengers\u201d, and that those challengers are subject to the 20 per cent of the PLP threshold requirement.\nNominations may be sought by challengers, not by the incumbent.\nApparently the treacherous MPs of the Parliamentary Labour Party claim to have solid legal guidance that in face Jeremy Corbyn does need to seek nominations. I would love to see this guidance just to behold the verbal contortions and cognitive dissonance involved in writing a piece of legal advice which so blatantly contravenes the Labour Party\u2019s own clearly expressed goals.\nAnd why? Because scores of self-entitled, spoiled centrist Labour MPs think that they have a divine right to rule the Labour Party and that anybody else should just shut up and let them get on with it. The real left-wingers are welcome to stay as long as they sit in the back and impart a nice sentimental hue to whatever the centrists are up to, but by no means are they to attempt to exert any influence of their own. That right is reserved for the centrists, even when they are hated and held in contempt by their own party membership. That is the noxious arrogance currently roiling the Labour Party as they seek to unseat their left-wing leader.\nI know it\u2019s unfashionable in Westminster, but the Rule of Law is actually quite an important thing. Just as Acts of Parliament are not to be lightly disregarded when they become inconvenient to the government of the day, so a political party should not go tearing up its own rule book just to rid itself of somebody whose approach they dislike.\nIf the centrists are right that theirs is the better philosophy and the only wing of the party which stands a chance of seeing Labour returned to power, let them make their case to the membership and have one of their own win the party leadership the old fashioned way.\nThey gain zero legitimacy by cheating their way back into power, and if they think that they would be able to enjoy their reasserted rule of the party in such a scenario, having legitimised all kinds of toxic briefing and plotting against the leadership, they will be in for a cruel awakening.\nIf the NEC votes for a decision requiring Jeremy Corbyn to seek the nominations of his treacherous MPs when the party rule book clearly states that he is not required to do so, effectively barring the overwhelming favourite from taking part in the leadership election, the Labour Party will tear itself apart at the seams.\nAnd it will be squarely the fault of the centrists.\nIn making sure that Theresa May actually implements Brexit, the mantra should be \u201ctrust but verify\u201d\nDr. Richard North of eureferendum.com looks ahead to the triggering of Article 50 and urges vigilance:\nWhether Mrs May means what she says, only time will tell. The crucial test is invoking Article 50. Basically, there are two options. We either play it long \u2013 not going until after the French and German elections, putting in the papers late next year.\nPolitically, that\u2019s almost certainly unacceptable. Therefore, we need to play it short. We can avoid the certain disaster that that would bring by leveraging an early notification against an agreement by the EU to extend the negotiation period \u2013 say to five years \u2013 as the first order of business.\nWhat then happens is, to a very great extent, up to the larger \u201cleaver\u201d community. If we sit back and relax, or continue promoting unrealistic leave options, then the \u201cremains\u201d will make the running. We\u2019ll be left out in the cold.\nBasically, the smart money is on EEA-plus, but we have to make it clear that this is only an interim option, and start pushing for recognition that there is an end game, beyond the EEA option.\nWe also have to settle the freedom of movement issue, and I am now confident that this can be secured within the framework of the EEA Agreement. But this is going to take considerable negotiation skills, and strong organisation.\nFor the rest, we have to play the hands we have been dealt. We have no option but to take May at her word \u2013 but also keep up the agitation to make absolutely sure that she keeps to it.\nI like the idea of using the early invocation of Article 50 as a bargaining chip in exchange for an extension of the original mandated 2 year negotiation period. As the Leave Alliance bloggers never tire of pointing out, unpicking 40 years of incessant, deepening political integration will take time, and even an \u201coff the shelf\u201d interim solution like the EFTA/EEA approach could benefit from breathing room \u2013 especially while the British government re-arms itself with scarce competencies in trade negotiation and diplomacy.\nNorth also seems to acknowledge the new reality that the invocation of Article 50 cannot be delayed for long. No matter how misguided the \u201cArticle 50 Now!\u201d campaign may be \u2013 it is akin to deciding that you have had enough of hospital while undergoing surgery under local anaesthesia, and hopping up off the hospital bed before the surgeon is allowed to finish his work \u2013 delaying beyond the end of 2016 no longer seem politically feasible.\nAnd the conclusion, though far from ideal, is absolutely correct \u2013 we do indeed now have to take Theresa May at her word when she says that \u201cBrexit means Brexit\u201d, and that she does not seek to misuse any of the interim stages out of the EU as a final resting place for Britain.\nAn obsessive focus on social order while freedom goes out the window\nJanan Ganesh cannot resist a dig at the fact that every prominent Leave-supporting politician has now fallen by the wayside, leaving it for stealthy Remain supporter Theresa May to sneak through and claim the crown:\nIn the Bizarro World of British politics, a country that voted to leave the EU will now be led by someone who wanted to stay. No prominent Leaver has survived more than a week or two of serious examination. Given their sanguine certainty about the consequences of exit, it is magnanimous of them to let others govern the beatific Shangri-La that is surely around the corner.\nBut Ganesh quickly trades humour for a dark warning tone about the prospects of a Theresa May premiership in terms of liberty:\nMrs May is the most seasoned new prime minister since Jim Callaghan in 1976, and somehow a mystery at the same time. Colleagues know as much about her as a Londoner might know about a neighbour. All we can do is assemble clues \u2014 and for a liberal voter, or just a pragmatist who thinks a country with 5 per cent unemployment has no screaming need to discard its open economic model, the clues are disconcerting.\nAlthough Mrs May began her career in finance, she has never had a business-facing job in politics. Before her eight-year immersion in the home affairs brief, which can make a curtain-twitcher of any libertine, she held portfolios for transport, culture, the environment, work and pensions, the family, education and women, as well as the Tory chair. This amounts to a tour of nearly every function of state except oversight of the economy.\nThe gap in her experience is neither her fault nor proof that she has been conditioned to view the anarchic workings of enterprise as menaces to be contained by paternalist government. But then the clues do not end there. It is some feat to say things about migrants that make nativist Tories feel queasy. Mrs May has done it twice in nine months, in a party conference speech last autumn and more recently in her hesitation to guarantee the status of EU nationals already in Britain.\nShe is not a reactionary. Nobody who sensed the perceived nastiness of her party as early as 2002, as she did, and challenged the police as often as she has, could be. But if Tory history pits the spirit of freedom against the claims of social order, the one periodically dominating the other before giving way, she might herald the latter\u2019s resurgence.\nThis blog shares that concern (and indeed was warning about it long before Janan Ganesh turned his gaze on Theresa May). People often think of the Conservative Party as a coalition of two sides \u2013 the more free market Thatcherites for whom Stepping Stones is a Bible, and the traditionalist social conservatives who make up the Law & Order wing. The belief was that the Tories would then oscillate between these two imperatives according to their leader.\nBut Cameron broke this myth apart by occupying a third ground. David Cameron cared about gaining and holding power by pledging \u201cmodernisation\u201d. Sometimes that modernisation required a more laissez-faire approach and sometimes it involved the Tories being as snarlingly authoritarian as they ever were \u2013 the tone of the Cameron government would change as the situation demanded.\nSay what you will about Theresa May, but she is no moderniser. And given the fact that she has had hands-on experience in nearly every government department save those which directly touched the economy, it is hard to see how our next prime minister will not act and think as though government should take an active, outsized role in nearly everything \u2013 Cameron\u2019s \u201cplan for every stage of your life\u201d made flesh.\nOn the balance of available evidence, it seems that the Tory Party pendulum is swinging well and truly back towards the authoritarian tendency. Expect to see this reflected in Theresa May\u2019s cabinet choices when she picks her government in the coming days.\nAnd then prepare for an onslaught on your freedoms and civil liberties the likes of which many of us have not seen in our lifetimes.\nBuilding a New Jerusalem\nBen Kelly of The Sceptic Isle and Conservatives for Liberty is excited at the opportunity ahead of us to use Brexit to rebuild our democracy and our entire civil society:\nThe vote to leave the European Union was the catalyst for the biggest political change in this country for seventy years. The magnitude of it really cannot be overstated and it is slowly beginning to sink in. No one, not even those who voted for it, can say they haven\u2019t had a moment of feeling overawed. Anyone who has been shocked by the immediate fallout has shown a great deal of naivety; for Britain and Europe, this is huge. The changes that Brexit will bring about will not be felt just in the initial year or so, it will be a chain reaction lasting for decades.\n[..] There is not a single part of government policy that the EU does not touch in some way; from trade to fishing, agriculture, energy, environment, transport and telecommunications policy. We are bound by the EU\u2019s position in international organisations and international conferences, meaning we have been gradually losing control of foreign policy too. This has been a contributing factor to our muddled and reluctant presence on the world stage and the starving of personnel and funds from our Foreign Office.\nThe subordination of our institutions of government has meant that everyone from the Minister, to the MP right down to the councillor is restricted and working within parameters that are not conducive to new ideas and innovation. Leaving the EU has the potential to reinvigorate British democracy and bring about major reforms in the way we are governed. The reformation of British politics will demand dynamic personalities, world class talent and fresh thinking.\nBrexit is going to be a difficult and complex process and it will take a long time. There are serious risks too. We need to manage our transition sensibly and protect our economy by adopting a transitional arrangement in our negotiations. However, we will soon be in a position to begin repatriating vast policy making powers and begin a comprehensive review of the statute books. Let us not be daunted or allow a fundamentally positive development to be shrouded in pessimism.\nThis is the biggest political project since the Second World War. We have before us a monumental task; the rebuilding of British governance and the construction of a new Britain. This is something we should be tremendously excited about.\nKelly also comprehensively debunks the popular notion among disappointed Remainers that the British people voted for Brexit motivated primarily by xenophobia or intolerance of immigration:\nThey have convinced themselves that Leave voters didn\u2019t know what they were voting for and that we are leaving in a pique of anti-immigration rage. The evidence thus far challenges their theory; according to Lord Ashcroft\u2019s poll 49% of Leavers said their main reason for voting was to ensure that decisions about Britain were made in Britain. Similarly, a ComRes polls found that the ability of Britain to make its own laws was cited by Leave voters as the most important issue when deciding which way to vote (53%). This gets to the heart of the matter. The Leave vote was motivated by the desire for Britain to be a self-governing country. This is a fundamental principle; it cannot be disproved and it cannot be overruled by experts. People\u2019s understanding of what this means will have varied from the basic to the sophisticated but it is an inherently valid reason.\nKelly is absolutely right. The EU\u2019s tentacles reach into nearly every aspect of our government, and disentangling ourselves will take time. Those who suggest otherwise are guilty, at best, of extremely simplistic thinking. And this is why we must ultimately be glad that Theresa May rather than Andrea Leadsom has prevailed in the Conservative Party leadership contest.\nThroughout the EU referendum campaign and following the result, Leadsom \u2013 despite her promise in other areas \u2013 has shown a worrying glibness and superficiality in her thinking on how to achieve Brexit. While she did not sink to the \u201crepeal the European Communities Act\u201d idiocy of some other prominent eurosceptics, neither did Leadsom give any indication that she really grasped the complexity of what lies ahead.\nTheresa May, for her many faults \u2013 and this blog has not been shy about highlighting them over the years \u2013 does seem to get it. She gives the impression of understanding the complexity, and of the need for a transitional, staged approach to Brexit. This gives the interim EFTA/EEA (Norway Option) route out of the EU\u2019s political union the greatest chance of success as the UK\u2019s \u201cdeparture lounge\u201d on the journey to full political autonomy.\nBut as Pete North points out (see previous update), the failure of the eurosceptic aristocracy \u2013 Farage, Hannan etc. \u2013 to articulate a clear positive vision of what Britain outside the EU should look like means that the establishment have now well and truly seized control of Brexit, and regained their footing regarding political events in general.\nThis means that while the promise and opportunity spoken of by Ben Kelly still undoubtedly exists for the taking, we must work twice as hard to actually realise those benefits.\nRod Liddle channels the incomprehension of disappointed Remainers\nSome time ago, a very generous reader compared me to a \u201clow rent Rod Liddle\u201d. On reflection I realised that this may have been meant as an insult rather than a compliment about the good value provided by this blog, but I was happy enough with the comparison that I added it to my About page (together with Owen Jones\u2019 petulant and false accusation that I am a \u201cpatently dishonest man\u201d for suggesting that he believes the things that he writes in his own Guardian column).\nIn this video, the original and best Rod Liddle channels the twisted thought processes of many of the most common types of Remainers-in-denial as to why there should be a second EU referendum.\nHighlights from Liddle\u2019s Glenn Gould-like skit:\n\u201cIt\u2019s just hate! It\u2019s a vote for hate. Just hatred. And hate isn\u2019t democratic. And that means the vote isn\u2019t democratic. And so when they have the vote again, people who hate aren\u2019t allowed to vote.\u201d\nAnnabelle Snowflake \u2013 Carer, Camden\n\u201cThe thing is, the thing that they\u2019ve done is that they\u2019ve betrayed the kids. And you can\u2019t betray the kids. That\u2019s why we need a second referendum and I would say nobody, y\u2019know nobody, man, nobody over the age of forty should be voting in that. They betrayed the kids and it\u2019s the kids who are going to inherit this Earth of ours, y\u2019know?\u201d\nBinky Allbran \u2013 Pop Musician\n\u201cThe misapprehension I think people have is about these so-called \u201cnumbers\u201d, 52 and 48. They are not themselves real or intrinsic or tangible. Numbers are simply symbols, you see, that we give to quantities of things. They are not themselves quantities. And so there is no one-to-one relationship between the number and the quantity. It is all up here in our minds, and so it could be the case that while some may argue that 52 is a greater quantity than 48, at a deeper structure it may be that 48 is a greater quantity than 52.\u201d\nProfessor BJ Trout \u2013 Philosopher, Oxford\n\u201cThe important thing, perhaps, perhaps the most important thing is that the referendum must be respected. The views of those people who voted to leave, they must be respected. But almost as important, perhaps more important, is that they should also be ignored. So, respected \u2013 and ignored.\u201d\nSir Michael Hetherington Volestrangler \u2013 Former Politician, Westminster\nBrilliant. One hears endless variations on all of these themes repeated ad nauseam by weepy Remainers who sincerely believed that they were Captain Planet in a giant real-life game of Good versus Evil. Hopefully some of them come to look back on their conduct (and open contempt for democracy) with a degree of embarrassment as it becomes evidence that Brexit has not ushered in the apocalypse or a new Era of Hate after all.\nPete North on UKIP\u2019s failure\nPete North sees Theresa May\u2019s coronation as Tory leader and the next prime minister as a direct consequence of the failure of UKIP, Nigel Farage and the eurosceptic aristocracy to bother planning for Brexit:\nToday highlights what a monumental failure Farage is. Today the eurosceptic movement was routed and does not have a seat at the table in the Brexit proceedings. At best we may see Leadsom or Gove in a junior role as a courtesy \u2013 but more as an act of party unity. But these will be ceremonial roles only.\nAnd is this because of an establishment stitch up by the Tory machine? Kind of but not really. You see, had the eurosceptic movement campaigned with a plan and a set of specific demands, they could have called the shots post-referendum. Having failed to do so it has failed to capitalise on the referendum win in order to take us the rest of the way. Now the process of leaving the EU is to be decided entirely by the establishment along with the domestic agenda.\nAll the likes of Ukip and the Tory right have been able to muster is some fantastically naive proposals on what Brexit might achieve and some or other nonsense about an Australian points based immigration system. Not at any point have they put the work in to demonstrate that any of it is even possible and now it is down to the technocrats and the lawyers to decide what Theresa May means when she says \u201cBrexit means Brexit\u201d.\n[..] The problem has always been the lack of a plan of any kind. If you are going to overthrow the orthodoxy then you need to be sure that you are the ones with the ideas otherwise people will go with what they know in the ideas vacuum that follows. That is why there is no place for Farage, Gove and Johnson et al. They are men of no substance with nothing to add to the process.\nIt is hard to disagree with this narrative. When the history of this EU referendum and the years leading up to it are written, people will marvel at the fact that those politicians and leaders who built their entire reputations on being tub-thumping, Brussels-bashing eurosceptics completely and utterly neglected to decide what their preferred vision for Britain looked like, let alone articulate it to the people.\nThis is an astonishing failure of vision. And as Pete says, it has allowed the establishment (in the form of Theresa May, a Remainer, and the centrist Tory team she will doubtless now assemble around her) to take the both the credit for and the initiative from what the people achieved with their bold decision to leave the EU. What we now get will be a Very Establishment Brexit \u2013 better than a Remain vote, to be sure, but far from the more far-reaching renewal of our politics and democracy which we could have seen if only the standard-bearers for our movement had spent less time preening on YouTube and more time doing the serious intellectual legwork of working out what an independent Britain actually looks like.\nAngela Eagle\u2019s forgotten leadership bid\nThe Guardian looks back on Angela Eagle\u2019s rather self-indulgent and hilariously badly timed leadership challenge, all but bumped from the news agenda by the Conservative Party\u2019s rather more consequential manoeuvrings:\nFinally beginning her campaign after weeks of speculation that she would take on Corbyn amid a revolt against him by Labour MPs, Eagle said the party needed to move beyond the factionalism and divisions of the current era.\n\u201cI\u2019m not a Blairite, I\u2019m not a Brownite and I\u2019m not a Corbynista. I am my own woman \u2013 a strong Labour woman,\u201d she said, to cheers from supporters. \u201cI\u2019m not here for a Labour party that just takes part. I\u2019m here to win.\u201d\nThe long-planned launch experienced a hiccup when it coincided with Andrea Leadsom\u2019s hastily arranged announcement that she was pulling out of the Tory leadership race. As well as rendering parts of Eagle\u2019s speech immediately out of date, it brought a deeply awkward moment as she sought questions first from the BBC and then ITV\u2019s political editor, Robert Peston, only to find they were not there.\nThe former shadow business secretary, who was among dozens of Labour frontbenchers to quit in the past few weeks, said Corbyn had made a useful contribution to new ideas in the party, but should step down.\nThe pomposity of a bland nonentity such as Angela Eagle presuming to assess Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s decades-long contribution to the Labour Party really is something to behold \u2013 it can be best likened to a beered up England fan holding forth on the strengths and shortcomings of Raheem Sterling in terms of raw analytic value.\nBut Angela Eagle is quite right in stating that she is not a Blairite, Brownite or Corbynista. In fact, she is blissfully free from any terms which denote believing in a fixed or coherent ideology. Eagle thinks that this is a great selling point \u2013 and of course it is, to those grasping centrists desperate to worm their way back into power and unconcerned about what values and principles have to be traded away to get there. But to everyone else it represents everything that is rotten with a Parliamentary Labour Party which was determined to undermine their left-wing leader from Day One, and who are now using the post-EU referendum chaos as the ideal smokescreen as they go about their dirty work.\nIn hilarious and heartening news, Angela Eagle could be about to face deselection by her own constituency party (CLP). The Liverpool Echo reports:\nAs Angela Eagle launches her bid for leadership of the Labour party the Wallasey MP may also face deselection by her own local members.\nThe Wallasey constituency Labour Party (CLP) had urged the MP, and former Shadow Business Secretary, to support Jeremy Corbyn last month when plans for a vote of no confidence were first revealed.\nMs Eagle later emerged as one of the frontrunners to challenge the Labour leader after the party\u2019s MPs overwhelmingly backed the no confidence motion in him. Shortly after a petition was launched calling on Ms Eagle to resign, and has now collected more than 14,000 signatures .\nBut now Ms Eagle also faces a vote of no confidence, with an enlarged local party membership which has seen its numbers swelled since the prospect of a challenge against Corbyn first emerged.\nSince June 24 vice chair of Wallasey CLP Paul Davies said they had seen their membership grow by 367 members to total more than 1,200.\nTonight (Monday July 11) the CLP\u2019s executive is due to meet to prepare a meeting of the full membership, scheduled for July 22.\nThis would certainly be a fitting end to an overambitious and comically mistimed attempted leadership coup.\nThe trials and tribulations of Theresa May\nIn an uncharacteristically generous profile of Britain\u2019s prime minister to be (Prime Minister Elect hardly seems an appropriate term), the Guardian looks back over Theresa May\u2019s career.\nGaby Hinsliff writes:\nHow awful, that the smooth path from Oxford to a safe Conservative seat took slightly longer for May to tread than her male contemporaries. That\u2019s the discrimination against women which we most urgently need to fight in 2016.\nBut of course as far as the Guardian is concerned, this is exactly the type of oppression which upsets them the most. Utterly divorced from the travails of ordinary people or anybody in the working class, the \u201cinjustice\u201d of a female member of the cosseted Westminster elite taking a few years to reach high ministerial office is indeed a tragedy.\nIn her brief speech to the nation today (later repeated in an email to Conservative Party supporters), May spoke of the need for \u201ca strong, new, and positive vision for the future of our country. A vision of a country that works not for the privileged few but works for every one of us.\u201d\nNever has the Guardian spoken and worked more forcefully for the privileged few and less for the struggling everyday Britons whose interests they claim to champion. Something they might like to reflect on as they continue to agitate against Brexit and support the centrist coup against Jeremy Corbyn.\nTheresa May addresses the nation\n\u201cBrexit means Brexit, and we are going to make a success of it\u201d says Theresa May as she addresses the Conservative Party and the nation. It is good to hear this reassurance once again, though for Brexiteers our attitude must be one of \u201ctrust and verify\u201d.\nAlso good to hear May speak about \u201cforging a new role for Britain\u201d and \u201cgiving people more control over their lives\u201d \u2013 the latter rather uncharacteristic given her authoritarian tendencies, but certainly welcome if it is sincerely meant. It is encouraging to hear May speak about Brexit as an opportunity rather than a calamity or a threat, despite her Remain position in the EU referendum. And certainly Theresa May is one of the few heavyweight Conservatives who might be ready to begin forging that new role for Britain from Day 1.\nVery disappointing, though, that the BBC felt the need to report on May\u2019s \u201ccharacteristic leopard skin shoes\u201d as she concluded her remarks. Seriously, who cares? And why is a supposedly progressive and politically correct organisation like the BBC obsessing over details of fashion on this most momentous of political days, when a man would never be judged on such a metric? Hardly a proud moment for feminism, unlike the Conservative Party\u2019s elevation of its second woman leader.\nSadly this comment from the BBC\u2019s reporter Carol Walker is emblematic of the poor quality of coverage and analysis from the Westminster political lobby throughout the EU referendum campaign and its aftermath.\nInitial reaction to today\u2019s developments\nThere are once again rumblings about the possibility of an early general election.\nHilariously, some of these calls come from the Labour Party, who given their betrayal of their core supporter base in the EU referendum and fratricidal coup against their popular party leader would surely be obliterated in any immediate poll and reduced to an angry, SNP-sized rump party in Parliament, whether led to the polls by an embattled Jeremy Corbyn or the bland and utterly pointless Angela Eagle.\nBut regardless, an early general election is a bad idea \u2013 not least because it would make a mockery of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act which set the standard length between general elections to five years. Fixed terms are, in the blog\u2019s view, a good thing (albeit only when coupled with further constitutional reform which currently shows no sign of taking place). And it would be hypocritical and opportunistic in the extreme for the UK to adopt a \u201cfixed terms when it suits us, snap general elections when we feel like it\u201d constitutional muddle.\nOf course there may be a public clamour for an early election nonetheless. Expect to see lots of aggrieved social media status updates bemoaning the fact that there has been a change in prime minister with no accompanying general election. These complaints will be made almost entirely by people who were too fat and indolent to stop watching The Great British Horses Strictly Come Dancing On Ice for five minutes in order to understand how their own democracy and constitution work. \u201cWe want reform and a general election!\u201d they may now scream. Join the club. Where were you for all those wilderness years when constitutional reform was \u201cboring\u201d and \u201cnot relevant to the struggles of everyday people\u201d?\nAnd from a purely practical standpoint, now is not the time to hold another general election. Given the divisions within the country, such a referendum would inevitably partly play out as a re-run of the EU referendum, with the allied parties of the Left no doubt coming together in some sickeningly sanctimonious , holier-than-thou bloc to override the expressed will of the people for Britain to leave the EU. The worst case (but unlikely given the current state of the Labour Party) scenario would be that a pro-EU government is then returned to Westminster. What then? Which instruction should the government follow \u2013 the instruction of 23 June to leave the EU, or the instruction of a general election which was fought by one side on a platform of overruling that decision? No. Such a rash decision would beckon utter chaos.\nWhat is needed now is strong, stable government to deliver the expressed will of the people and negotiate the best possible secession terms for Britain from the European Union. In this blog\u2019s view, this should in the first instance involve a move to an interim EFTA/EEA solution maintaining our single market access while we work to steadily unpick forty years of political integration with Brussels. Of course this must not become the final destination, and it will be important for us to maintain the pressure on the government not to rest on its laurels and settle for a permanent place parked on the outskirts of the EU. But this is the approach which satisfies the concerns of the people for Britain to no longer be part of a supranational political union (with \u201cBritain making its own laws again\u201d shown by opinion polls to be more important to Leave voters than immigration or the economy) while maintaining economic stability in the meantime.\nThis blog has numerous misgivings about Theresa May. In fact, May is about the last person this blog would have wanted to be the successor to David Cameron, given the fact that she offers a continuation of muddled Cameron centrism mixed with her own signature dash of flinty-eyed authoritarianism. We must all be on guard to defend our civil liberties now that May is moving from the Home Office to 10 Downing Street.\nBut given the dismal eventual choice between Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May, it had to be May. Leadsom lacked the experience, temperament and fortitude to step into the role at the most testing time in British politics since 1945. This may one day change, and nobody would be happier if Andrea Leadsom one day becomes a Thatcher figure for the 21st century. Be she is not there yet, and we do not have the luxury of letting a green and inexperienced candidate learn on the job.\nThere is little to celebrate in Theresa May\u2019s elevation to 10 Downing Street save the fact that once again the Conservatives prove themselves to be the true party of equality of opportunity while the sanctimonious parties of the Left are all talk, and the knowledge that a safe and moderately competent pair of hands will be guiding the ship of state in this turbulent, opportunity-filled period in our national life.\nBrexit is the most important thing on our national plate, and will be for some years to come. We must not fumble the ball.\nTheresa May will be Prime Minister by Wednesday\nAnother momentous day in British politics, with the honourable but out of her depth Andrea Leadsom withdrawing her candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party, leaving Theresa May the unopposed candidate. Graham Brady of the 1922 Committee then confirmed that May will be certified as the official winner of the contest, and that the succession timetable would be dramatically accelerated.\nDavid Cameron then announced outside Downing Street that he will chair his final cabinet tomorrow (Tuesday) and take his final Prime Minister\u2019s Questions on Wednesday before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen.\nThis means that Theresa May (\u2026) will be the 76th prime minister of the United Kingdom by Wednesday evening.\nAs an additional delicious bonus, all of this drama has utterly overshadowed Angela Eagle the Forgettable\u2019s spiteful and treacherous challenge to Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s leadership of the Labour Party, with the launch of her candidacy for leader pushed well down the news agenda.\nSemi-Partisan Politics will be moving back to a rolling live-blog format over the next few days, providing rolling semi-partisan analysis and commentary of events as they develop.\nStay tuned to this live-blog, and to my Twitter account here.\nTop Image: Metro\nUK Current Affairs, UK Politics, What Conservative Government?Andrea Leadsom, Angela Eagle, Brexit, Conservatism, Conservative Party, Constitutional Reform, David Cameron, Downing Street, EU Referendum, General Election, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leadership, Labour Party, Prime Minister, Theresa May, Tory Leadership\nMothergate: Andrea Leadsom Means Well, But Does Not Yet Have The Temperament To Be Prime Minister\nIn choosing a new Tory leader and prime minister, promise and potential are not enough \u2013 experience and temperament matter too\nA new candidate profile in the Telegraph paints a sensitive \u2013 and very human \u2013 portrait of Conservative Party leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom.\nIn the wake of the rather ludicrous \u2018mothergate\u2019 drama, Allison Pearson interviewed Leadsom and reports:\nWhen Andrea Leadsom came on the phone yesterday afternoon I could tell from her voice that she\u2019d been crying. After what had happened, the last thing she wanted was to talk to another journalist, but she agreed, with great trepidation, to speak to me as we\u2019d planned.\nFollowing what she thought was a friendly, professional meeting with a Times reporter on Friday, she found herself accused in a banner headline of saying that, as a mother she had the \u201cedge\u201d over the childless Theresa May in the race to be prime minister.\n[..] When I ask if she would like to apologise to Mrs May, she says: \u201cI\u2019ve already said to Theresa how very sorry I am for any hurt I have caused and how that article said completely the opposite of what I said and believe.\u201d\nShe refuses to say how the message was conveyed to the Home Secretary, but she admits she has felt \u201cunder attack, under enormous pressure. It has been shattering.\u201d\n[..] It\u2019s been a brutally hard week which makes you wonder why anyone would go into politics. On the phone, I asked Andrea Leadsom when she last cried. There is a pause. \u201cTwenty minutes ago,\u201d she admits with a wobble. But, don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not a sob story. She doesn\u2019t believe in those. Meanwhile, she\u2019s off to make a roast chicken stretch for the children\u2019s friends who just turned up unexpectedly. \u201cLots of roast potatoes.\u201d\nPutting on a brave face, making the best of things, and soldiering on, she is much like swathes of Tory voters up and down the land. Will they really ignore her, as all the pundits predict, when it comes to the ballot in September? Not everything has to end in tears.\nOne feels for Andrea Leadsom, who not only seems like a fundamentally decent human being and with her long previous career outside politics much closer to the ideal of the citizen politician than many of the grey, indistinguishable drones (including Labour leadership challenger Angela Eagle) who have been marinating in the Westminster cesspool for their entire careers.\nBut it is very concerning that Leadsom has allowed what is essentially a media storm, entirely unconnected with policy or the fate of the country, to affect her so gravely. What we are witnessing is the emotional response of someone who is not used to being vilified in the press and the court of public opinion, and who seems to be shaken to her core at having been misrepresented and criticised.\nSuch treatment is part of the job description for any British prime minister, particularly in our current polarised age when it is all but guaranteed that any conservative prime minister will immediately be treated like evil incarnate by the socialist half of the country regardless of what they say or do. Such mundane events as being misrepresented by a newspaper or trashed in the press because of a careless choice of phrase ought to be like water off a duck\u2019s back to a seasoned politician. Clearly this is not so for Andrea Leadsom, who has not yet developed the emotional armour to withstand the heat of battle.\nOf course, one can argue that this should not be the case; that we cannot simultaneously call for more \u201cnormal\u201d people to enter politics and then hold them to the standards of nonchalance in the face of political treachery set by the hardened political class. But sometimes idealism must fall before realpolitik. Even if it is the case that the Westminster media and political class are unnecessarily fratricidal, a British prime minister must still be able to deal with immeasurably complex and fraught issues of domestic security and foreign policy.\nThis isn\u2019t the Sunday League \u2013 with her audacious leadership bid, Andrea Leadsom is asking us to believe that she is capable of playing in the Premier League, an instant promotion spanning several important intermediate steps. A junior minister who has never attended cabinet has a very different sense of what constitutes high stakes than someone who has held one or more of the great offices of state. The latter is almost certain to have wrestled with fiendishly difficult political decisions, the repercussions of which may even be life or death. The ability to do so while maintaining composure and clear thinking is of the utmost importance in a prime minister.\nOf course personal temperament is not the only thing that matters. A candidate\u2019s policy beliefs (with attitude toward the coming Brexit negotiations being top of the list right now) also matter enormously, as does their track record. But I get the strong sense that in our justifiable desperation to avoid acknowledging that someone so illiberal and authoritarian as Theresa May is the best of a bad option for leading the country in this difficult time we are sweeping Andrea Leadsom\u2019s naivety, inexperience and rookie temperament under the carpet.\nThis would not be a mature way to behave. The choice between Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom must be made on the basis of who they are today, the policies they advocate and what they have accomplished, and not based on who they may become or whatever else we try to project on to their respective candidacies.\nAndrea Leadsom may show future promise \u2013 promise which this blog very much hopes to see nurtured and realised in the coming years \u2013 but promise alone is not enough.\nThe ultimate decision over which Conservative leadership candidate would make the best Tory leader and prime minister must be made based on the best evidence available as to a candidate\u2019s ideology, policy platform, track record, personality and temperament.\nAnd much as it pains this blog to admit it, that choice should be Theresa May.\nJournalism, UK Current Affairs, UK PoliticsAndrea Leadsom, Conservatism, Conservative Party, Coronation, Media, Mothergate, Prime Minister, Theresa May, Tory Leadership", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 691, "original_length": 142647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://setexasrecord.com/organizations/645092815-u-s-district-court-for-the-western-district-of-virginia/stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6K6AZ53VR43HFQNXYQ2LDSQ265W7TMYG", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "setexasrecord.com", "title": "News about U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia | SE Texas Record", "raw_content": "U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 17.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sfcm.edu/newsroom/sfcm-goes-national-public-radio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3FFCWRV2EAAVVTTRIRJCC3VEPJYHWXLN", "length": 4597, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sfcm.edu", "title": "SFCM Goes National on Public Radio | SFCM", "raw_content": "SFCM Goes National on Public Radio\nLive from Here, hosted by the charming and talented mandolinist Chris Thile (a member of Punch Brothers, a featured musical group at SFCM\u2019s Centennial Gala on March 19), is one of public radio\u2019s most popular programs. Formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion, this two-hour variety show, which Thile started to host in the fall of 2016, combines storytelling, music, and conversation into a cohesive weekly presentation, a view of the nation, its people, and its culture through the lens of Americana. What you typically won\u2019t see on Live from Here is a showcase of classical repertoire. However, that is exactly what was on the set list for the January 6 program recorded in San Francisco at Davies Symphony Hall.\nBilled \u201cEugene Izotov and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music,\u201d faculty members from SFCM including Jon Nakamatsu, Ian Swensen, Jay Liu, and Jennifer Culp (in addition to Izotov) banded together onstage for an exploration of instrumentation and multiple stylistic periods. Izotov, joined by Nakamatsu, performed works by Ravel and Poulenc, and Nakamatsu himself performed Chopin\u2019s Fantaisie-Impromptu to an awestruck crowd. The other SFCM faculty members, joined by Izotov, gave a beautiful performance of a movement from Mozart\u2019s Oboe Quartet in F Major.\nCharlotte Wong on Live from Here\nPre-College student Charlotte Wong performs Liszt's Grandes \u00e9tudes de Paganini.\n\u201cI know the stage of Davies Symphony Hall very well since I make music there every day with my San Francisco Symphony colleagues,\u201d says Izotov. \u201cWhile in many ways that stage always feels like home, it was an unusual and wonderful experience to bring music from various classical repertoire to a really diverse audience at Davies Symphony Hall, as well as to thousands of listeners via live broadcast.\n\u201cChris and I spoke between the rehearsals about the value of music, especially in today's world\u2014it is so important to remember that no matter what \u2018label\u2019 society gives an individual musician or style, music remains a great, unifying, wonderful force that is so badly needed in our society. I think many audience members were surprised that they loved the music of Mozart and Ravel just as much as songs by Donna Summer and Glen Campbell. This was a great day of building bridges and connecting people.\u201d\nBut it wasn\u2019t only SFCM faculty who graced the stage of Davies Symphony Hall for this occasion. Pianist Charlotte Wong, a student of Corey McVicar in SFCM\u2019s Pre-College, was asked to perform on the program. Upon hearing the news Pre-College Director Michael Roest that she was asked to be on the program\u2014and only had a day to prepare\u2014she set out to practice right up until the performance.\nBenjamen Shirley on NPR\nSFCM student Benjamin Shirley tells his story on Weekend Edition.\n\u201cAs I sat next to my mom just outside the backstage, I could hear the audience roaring and cheering every few minutes. She told me that those were just recordings, that they weren't real people, like the laughs you hear when you watch a comedy show. But then as I went backstage a couple of minutes before my performance, I could see the hall packed with people like sardines. When Mr. Thile called me out to play, I tried to keep as calm as I could, knowing that I was prone to making mistakes if my hands were slippery with sweat. When I took a glance at the audience, I couldn't see anything. It was like staring at a black hole. I felt as if I were playing for nobody, yet I could feel the tension of the audience waiting for me to play my first note.\nFor this performance, Wong had prepared the last etude in Franz Liszt\u2019s series of six Grandes \u00e9tudes de Paganini. \u201cThose six minutes I was on stage were the most amazing moments of my life. I felt so happy that I had gotten this once in a lifetime opportunity.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s more, this show was not the only recent exposure SFCM received on National Public Radio. Just prior to the new year, SFCM Technology and Applied Composition student Benjamin Shirley told his inspiring story on the popular radio program Weekend Edition. Shirley\u2019s story is a journey from a life of addiction on Skid Row to rekindling his passion for music and attending the Conservatory to build a new life for himself.\nShirley recently saw the premiere of his new work, We Need Darkness to See the Stars, at the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles\u2014where he lived from 2011 to 2013\u2014performed by the Street Symphony. In a review of the concert, which included works by other composers, The New Yorker noted Shirley \u201chas a keen ear for harmony and instrumental color.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sgsonfilm.net/2016/09/18/concise-review-chinatown-1974/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PZQ3RIQWBOBIMWLGYKEJWWF3BRQJ6PDT", "length": 2345, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sgsonfilm.net", "title": "Concise Review: Chinatown (1974) | SGS On Film", "raw_content": "\u2190 Review: Knight of Cups (2016)\nConcise Review: The Magnificent Seven (1960) \u2192\nAt a recent 35mm screening of the film, Chinatown, the titular city\u2019s sense of seediness, shattered hope and corruption became ever more evocative as an eternal place in the movies. What starts out as cursory mentions that serve as details of the main character J.J. \u201cJake\u201d Gittes\u2019s (Jack Nicolson) past takes on a mythological and eventually tragic heft, which is punctuated with the last line, \u201cForget it, Jake. It\u2019s Chinatown.\u201d\nIn my recent viewing of Chinatown, I was struck me most was how the film functions as a neo-noir. With its sepia-toned opening credits and Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s romantic classical score, one would immediately think they are watching a traditional Noir picture. This aspect even extends to the first scene, where the first few shots are of black and white images of a sordid affair, which are punctuated by a character\u2019s audible reaction to seeing them.\nThroughout the remainder of its running time, Chinatown impressively does not wear its noir influences on its sleeve. German Expressionist imagery and black and white photography are replaced by dirty, murky and occasional luscious uses of brown and blue. Moreover, shadowy silhouettes and twisted architectural creations are done away with in favour of radiant mountain shots and eye-widening infrastructure.\nEven the characters transcend their archetypical trappings. The most prominent example of this comes from Evelyn Cross Mulwray, (Faye Dunaway) who initially seems as though she is going to be the seductive siren who works in the mould of the Femme Fatale. However, this expectation is subverted by two things. The first is Faye Dunaway\u2019s performance. She imbues Evelyn with a sense of hard determinism, careful thinking and a wistful demeanour. Secondly, the writing contributes to this genre subversion as Robert Towne\u2019s screenplay paints Evelyn as the most considerate character in the story.\nNevertheless, Chinatown wholeheartedly embraces Film Noir by adhering to the meaning of the word, which translated from its native French origin means \u201cdark film.\u201d At the heart of the picture resides a savage secret that is masked in a universal desire and the movie\u2019s final reel is the realisation that it will flourish, and our protagonist will be left scarred by the experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sha.cornell.edu/about/news-and-publications/news/newsdetails.html?id=986", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:42Z", "digest": "sha1:FELUPY74UXQU32573E2EG72V2CGC77NB", "length": 2528, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "sha.cornell.edu", "title": "Restaurant innovator and healthy-eating advocate to speak at Cornell student-run conference", "raw_content": "Cornell School of Hotel AdministrationAboutNewsroom and PublicationsNews Releases Restaurant innovator and healthy-eating advocate to speak at Cornell student-run conference\nRestaurant innovator and healthy-eating advocate to speak at Cornell student-run conference\nContact: Justine Doiron, communications manager for the 89th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, jed275@cornell.edu\nLawrence Williams, president and CEO of the United States Healthful Food Council, is a scheduled speaker at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration's student-run 89th annual Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC), which is being held March 20-23, 2014, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.\nThis year's conference is themed around \"Food for Thought,\" focusing on how to live and conduct business smarter and healthier. The students are excited to host Williams because of his innovative work in the restaurant industry and his personal view on the ethics of food production and consumption.\n\"We have an incentive structure that has led the industry away from the types of food that are generally recognized as best for us, which are moderate portions of real, whole foods, with a large percentage of vegetables and fruits,\" said Williams. \"It is imperative that we make serving healthful and sustainable food good for business.\"\nAs an entrepreneur who has spent most of his career solving problems, Williams is now taking on one of America's most prominent issues: health and wellness. The USHFC has already implemented its Responsible Epicurean and Agricultural Leadership certification program, which is designed to recognize food and beverage operators for the use of sustainable and healthful practices.\nThe non-profit is also working on providing more tools and incentives that will help restaurant operators become more aware of health and sustainability. Fighting to change America's perceptions about food is a challenge, but, as a three-time Iron Man Triathlete with a passion for healthy living, Williams appears to be up to the task.\n\"I'm interested to hear what he says about food to a group of people who are basically 'foodies'\" said Chloe Chan, a sophomore at the School of Hotel Administration, \"but that's also why I'm so excited for this year's HEC. It will make us really think differently about what we eat.\"\nHEC 89 is excited to host Lawrence Williams along with many other leaders in the hospitality industry. For more information or to register for this year's conference, log on to www.hotelezracornell.com or download the free HEC Mobile App.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shamanelizabeth.com/shamanic-healing/totem-animals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IL767H66UV5VLG3CMD7JQZEDTQKXZNVC", "length": 968, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "shamanelizabeth.com", "title": "Totem Animals \u2013 Shaman Elizabeth | Shamanic Healing & Lessons", "raw_content": "Totem animals, also called power animals or animal spirits, are spirit guides that take the form of an animal/bird/fish (they can also be mythical or extinct creatures) and embody the species\u2019 archetype energy. A totem animal is sometimes discovered during a shamanic healing.\nThe totem animal chooses the person, and the person accepts the healing energy. The totem animal knows what energy the person is lacking, and will offer its own energy to fill the void in the person\u2019s life. At some point, the totem animal\u2019s energy may no longer be needed, and it will leave. But in the indigenous cultures, they believe even after a totem animals has left, its residual energy remains, which means, a person may have many totem animals come and go, but they will become stronger after each interaction.\nYou can call on your totem animal when you feel you need its power. This may be in the midst of a struggle or difficulty, or when you need the courage to face a situation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shark-references.com/literature/listBySpecies/Nebrodes-concolor-ogilbyi", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UHKIQYZWMWGCBBVCRLCRRT7FMSOWJ7BV", "length": 208, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "shark-references.com", "title": "Nebrodes concolor ogilbyi | Literature | Shark-References", "raw_content": "WHITLEY, G.P. (1934)\nNotes on some Australian sharks. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 10 (4): 180\u2013200, figs 1\u20134, pls 27\u201329\nThe eggs of Australian sharks and rays. Australian Museum Magazine, 6 (11): 372\u2013382", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://showerhire.co.uk/cookie-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AXTS74ZVAHARTMHLSUQAZGEDVD5CTDJM", "length": 1010, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "showerhire.co.uk", "title": "Cookie Policy", "raw_content": "people who use our services, eg who subscribe to our newsletter or enquire about our products and services\nWhen someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting either of our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.\nGoogle privacy overview\nThis cookie is set by our content management, upon arrival to our website. It is not used for any purpose other than to aid our content management system processes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://signalscv.com/2018/06/canyon-baseball-coach-resigns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IU6ECR2MHAFGR4H7DGSOSCZSU3Q6YIZJ", "length": 2526, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "signalscv.com", "title": "Canyon baseball coach resigns \u2013 Santa Clarita Valley Signal", "raw_content": "Things were slightly in limbo when the Canyon baseball team took the field for a VIBL game on Wednesday. It was the second time the group was playing a game without former head coach Drew Peterson, who resigned one week ago citing personal reasons. \u201cMost of us don\u2019t let it bother us,\u201d said first baseman Cebastian Arriaga of getting adjusted to life without an official head coach. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep working hard, trying to get better for season.\u201d Peterson, who was unavailable for comment, called a seventh-period team meeting during finals week to inform the Cowboys of his departure. \u201cI was pretty upset because he\u2019s a good coach,\u201d said Justin Powell. \u201c\u2026He was just positive everywhere. Just never gave up. Even if we were down, he wouldn\u2019t give up on us.\u201d In their most recent season \u2013 Peterson\u2019s third at the helm \u2013 the Cowboys finished the season with an overall record of 14-13 and were fifth in the Foothill League. They did so with a roster that featured only four seniors. They were unable to earn a playoff bid, but the result was a drastic improvement from the 2-27 record in 2017. \u201cI think we can keep growing,\u201d Arriaga said. \u201cWe\u2019re a pretty young team. We\u2019ve got a couple sophomores going into the junior year and a couple juniors going into senior year, so and then we were pretty good, strong freshman class. So we might bring a couple guys up, you never know.\u201d Peterson is the only Foothill League baseball coach to resign after the 2018 season, but two other coaches resigned prior to the season\u2019s start: Saugus\u2019 John Maggiora and Golden Valley\u2019s Steve Lombardi. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy job and you come into a position like that and there\u2019s a lot more to it than what happens on the diamond itself,\u201d said Canyon athletic director Derek Rusk, \u201cand we understand that people have lives outside of baseball and they\u2019ve got to pursue what\u2019s important for them.\u201d Cowboys assistant coach Chris Serrano has been named interim head coach while Rusk, who recently took over the AD position after the departure of Scott Arnold, and the administration seek out a new head man. Until a new coach is named, Canyon will continue through summer with an unwavering mentality: \u201cWe just all play as hard as we can, have fun out there and just see what happens from there,\u201d Powell said.\nCanyon girls soccer utilizes aggressive play to defeat Golden Valley\nWest Ranch girls soccer holds off Canyon to win league opener\nCanyon football coach Rich Gutierrez resigns\nFirefighters cut crash victim from wreckage in Valencia collision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 10088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://singhiv.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/on-the-129th-birth-anniversary-of-frank-woolley-an-excerpt-from-indra-vikram-singhs-book-dons-century/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BBEHOXUETWDBSSB4I6FBXJGF3KC7PCUP", "length": 4421, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "singhiv.wordpress.com", "title": "On the 129th birth anniversary of Frank Woolley, an excerpt from Indra Vikram Singh\u2019s book \u2018Don\u2019s Century\u2019 | Indra Vikram Singh's space", "raw_content": "On the 129th birth anniversary of Frank Woolley, an excerpt from Indra Vikram Singh\u2019s book \u2018Don\u2019s Century\u2019\nBy singhiv May 27, 2016 David Gower Don's Century Frank Woolley Jack Gregory Jack Hobbs Peter Hartland Raymond Robertson-Glasgow Ted McDonald Victor Trumper W.G. Grace Warwick Armstrong\nFrank Woolley\u2026..one of the most graceful left-handers in history.\nEqually, several people might question why Frank Woolley, with his modest Test record, is spoken of so glowingly. It is perhaps for the same reason as Trumper, for their abundant natural ability and uninhibited strokeplay. They were obviously different. For one, Woolley was a left-hander, He would hit long and straight, while Trumper was more wristy. Later generations who never saw Woolley play get a fair idea of the type of batsman he was from the fact that the golden boy of English cricket of the 1980s, David Gower, is often compared to him for the lazy elegance and nonchalance that characterised their play. So often has it been observed that the abundantly gifted do not achieve the same degree of results as the less endowed, for they do not have to strive as hard at their game, and invariably squander some of the bounty they are blessed with. So it would seem was the case with Woolley, as with Gower. They would exasperate as much as they would delight.\nNonetheless, it must not be forgotten that Woolley remains the second-highest rungetter in first-class cricket after Hobbs, with 58,969 runs at an average of 40.75, having cracked 145 hundreds with a best of 305 not out. Add to this the 2068 wickets at 19.85 apiece and his all-time record of 1018 catches, the only non-wicketkeeper to clutch 1000, and you have truly one of the finest left-handed allrounders that ever graced a cricket field, pun unintended. In all his 28 first-class seasons \u2013 interrupted by the First World War \u2013 Woolley never failed to reach 1000 runs. Only Grace achieved it as often, but not every time.\nThe versatile Woolley equalled the then record for six catches in a Test against Australia at Sydney in 1911-12. After the war he stood up manfully to the pace assault of Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald at Lord\u2019s, hitting back with knocks of 95 and 93 even as his colleagues floundered against Warwick Armstrong\u2019s victorious team of 1921.\nHaving achieved the double of 2000 runs and 100 wickets in the 1914 season, Woolley repeated the feat over three consecutive seasons from 1921 to 1923. No one else has ever done it so often.\nTwo of Woolley\u2019s finest knocks in first-class cricket, both for Kent, were 215 against Somerset at Gravesend in 1925 when he clouted 8 sixes, and 229 in three hours versus Surrey at the Oval in 1935 when a straight hit landed in a garden on Harleyford Road. Woolley\u2019s first-class record is remarkably similar to W.G. Grace\u2019s, though it must be conceded that the good doctor played on far worse pitches, particularly in the early part of his career. In 64 Tests Woolley scored 3283 runs at an average of 36.07 and took 83 wickets at 33.91 apiece.\nThe reasons why Woolley was spoken of in such glowing terms can be found in Raymond Robertson-Glasgow\u2019s words: \u201cFrank Woolley was easy to watch, difficult to bowl to and impossible to write about. When you bowled to him, there weren\u2019t enough fielders, when you wrote about him there weren\u2019t enough words.\u201d Indeed, and mere figures are not enough to unravel the delightful package that was Frank Woolley, a lovely gift wrapped in plain brown paper.\nPeter Hartland concluded: \u201cFrank Woolley is still the standard by which elegant left-handers are judged. Many words have been written about the effortless beauty of his play, the long reach and full swing sent the ball skimming to, or over, the boundary. Fast bowlers frequently posted a long-off. Perhaps there was something too loose about his batting \u2013 more so even than the man from a later generation most often compared with him, David Gower.\u201d It might also be added that Woolley, it seems, had the mindset of an allrounder, rather than a pure batsman, and that is the context in which he should be viewed.\n(Author Indra Vikram Singh can be contacted on email singh_iv@hotmail.com\nFollow Indra Vikram Singh on Twitter @IVRajpipla).\nDon\u2019s Century\nFrench Fold 21.5 cm x 28 cm, 188 Pages\nDistributed in India by: Variety Book Depot, AVG Bhawan, M-3, Middle Circle, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110001, India. Tel. + 91 11 23417175, 23412567.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/david-lawrence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QRVJ4MF7BQV3GWUG6BS3ILN3EOPPKY2N", "length": 2600, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "skihall.com", "title": "David Lawrence - U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Hall of Famers \u00bb David Lawrence\nHometown: Unknown, France\nDavid Lawrence was raised near the great ski areas in Europe and began his skiing career there. This experience laid the groundwork for his success as a competitor, Olympian and coach of American national team skiers.\nDavid Lawrence was an American who was born on April 15, 1930 in France where he was also raised. His father worked for Loews Corporation setting up a chain of movie theaters throughout Europe. His French tutor, Robert Martin, was a world class athlete who instilled competitive values in his young student. This along with extraordinary athletic prowess made Lawrence an excellent skier and a fine ski technician.\nHe and his mother went to Davos each winter where he became an excellent skier. He entered Dartmouth College in 1948 and made the college ski team as a freshman. In 1949 he won the men\u2019s giant slalom title at Slide Mountain, Nevada where he met Andrea Mead. During the 1950 season they both competed in the Sugar Slalom at Stowe, Vermont where their paths crossed again. Lawrence won the men\u2019s division and Andrea won the women\u2019s.\nIn 1951, he skied the European circuit, as did Mead. The two were married in Davos, Switzerland after the ski season. They both continued to ski but his interest gravitated toward coaching his wife when he realized her great potential. He placed well in the Olympic tryouts in 1951 and represented the United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. Andrea Mead Lawrence won two gold medals at those games.\nThe couple returned to the U.S. where David managed Pico Peak, VT for a time. In 1954 the family, now with two children, moved to a ranch in Middle Pass, Colorado. In 1955 and again in 1957 Lawrence coached the U.S. men\u2019s team. In 1957, after a dispute over water rights, the Lawrences lost their ranch. Shaken at being wrenched from their home, they made a decision to move their growing family to Switzerland where he worked briefly for his father.\nLater they returned to the U.S.: first to New York and later to Aspen where they remained for four years, David Lawrence working in architectural design. In 1960 he coached and Andrea Lawrence managed the successful U.S. women\u2019s ski team at the Squaw Valley Olympics. In 1965 they moved to California, separated and divorced. Their five children remained with Andrea. David remarried and in 1968, moved to Mexico where he lived until his death.\nHe was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1966.\nIf you notice any errors or inconsistencies in David Lawrence's bio, click here to let us know.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 129.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://slatonharveyhouse.com/about-us-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WMTRLMOECHOUN7UZSEX2V6JDBNHC5NUE", "length": 1632, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "slatonharveyhouse.com", "title": "About Us \u2013 Slaton Harvey House", "raw_content": "We invite you to stay with us at The Slaton Harvey House, a \u201cGem of the South Plains,\u201d and a place where every event becomes a memorable occasion. It serves as a historic Bed & Breakfast serving the Lubbock area, an Event Center, and designated historic landmark by the State of Texas.\nThe Slaton Harvey House first opened in 1912 by the Fred Harvey Company, furthering the company\u2019s mission of offering quality meals at fast pace for train passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The Harvey House venture closed in 1942, but the facility continued as a passenger and freight depot for many years. Most locals still refer to the building as \u201cthe depot\u201d.\nThe building went into disrepair after ATS&F ceased operations from Slaton and was facing demolition when a group of locals and others with close connections mounted a successful effort to save and revive this landmark of Slaton and the Lubbock area.\nNow in operation for more than ten years, the Slaton Harvey House provides Lubbock area travelers one of only two Bed and Breakfast options for Lubbock. We also offer a unique setting for family or company events, and an unforgettable backdrop for marital vows or receptions.\nWe are located at the intersection of Railroad Ave. and Texas Ave. Visitors will marvel at the elegant dining room, and learn the history from original photographs and artifacts from the golden age of railroads. In-house event planning, floral, and catering is available. Book now for reunions, weddings, meetings, parties, civic and social events!\nHistoric 1912 Bed & Breakfast / Events Center\nFor phone-in reservations: 806.828.5900", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/retail/sears-bankruptcy-eddie-lampert-123390/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FARDN7CORTY2QOH5FYNOIR55RBARXAXU", "length": 427, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sourcingjournal.com", "title": "A Billionaire\u2019s Sears Fiasco Is Finally Nearing Its End \u2013 Sourcing Journal", "raw_content": "A Billionaire\u2019s Sears Fiasco Is Finally Nearing Its End\nBit by bit, the smart money deserted Edward Lampert. Michael Dell, David Geffen, George Soros, the Ziff brothers\u2014by 2012, all of them, and many more, had peeled away. Not even Lampert\u2019s friends could understand why the hedge-fund manager, once hailed as a young Warren Buffett, clung to his spectacularly bad investment in Sears, a dying department store chain. Granted,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southfloridanews11.com/south-florida-after-irma-bringing-back-the-light/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4R57NUSNIHI55UEVRHPW74YDU3QLQBXS", "length": 4061, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "southfloridanews11.com", "title": "South Florida after Irma: Bringing Back the Light | South Florida News 11", "raw_content": "Home Florida News South Florida after Irma: Bringing Back the Light\nThe monstrous hurricane dubbed Irma, captured all of Florida in a mighty show of strength. Once one of the strongest storms in history to come out of the Atlantic, Irma\u2019s sheer size and unfathomable power gained the attention of every Floridian, and millions of world-wide residents.\nThe hurricane which battered Barbuda and tropical, idyllic islands, ripped along the northern areas of Cuba, and blasted the vulnerable Florida Keys, geared up to strike the Florida peninsula.\nIrma made a rare move to land on the western coast, causing the largest evacuation in the state\u2019s, and likely the country\u2019s, history. Weather forecasters painted dim portraits of what was to be seen throughout Florida as Irma\u2019s wrath was unleashed.\nU.S., state, and local officials remained steadfast in efforts to inform residents of dangers associated with the storm. There were no qualms about the extreme measures taken to protect human life and safeguard the sunshine state.\nWhen the hurricane struck Marco Island, on Florida\u2019s west coast, the storm raged, dumping horizontal rain in sheets coupled with swirling, howling whips of wind. But signs of disorganization began to plague the once mighty system. And the storm which seemed unstoppable, was downgraded to a category 1.\nEven with the unraveling, Irma sent sea levels down, then up, then (in some cases) back down again with fluctuating storm surge. During the highs, streets in places such as Miami saw roadways with white-capped waves, and seawalls were breached to turn avenues into flowing rivers.\nTampa and central Florida were inundated with water and wind in the overnight hours of Sunday into Monday as an estimated 4 million homes and businesses awoke to darkness without power.\nAuthorities from the President, to the Governor, and virtually every local government have pledged to work expeditiously to restore power. Florida Power & Light has pre-positioned a record number of crews to begin the process of connecting power to homes and businesses across the state.\nAs Floridians statewide assess property and resolve to gain back their state, we at South Florida News 11 want to remind you that the true test of strength will not be seen in the damage recorded, or losses reported. The power of Irma\u2019s impact will not be allowed to overshadow the power of Florida\u2019s people, working hand-in-hand to protect each other.\nThis storm\u2019s destruction will not define this resilient oasis; it will be a challenge, but the sunshine state will once again shine as a beacon of light for the nation and the world to see. We\u2019re proud of you, Florida! As we begin to rebuild, you can count on us to deliver up-to-date reports and accurate stories of hope as we all work together to bring back the light.\nIs it Open or Closed? | South Florida News 11 September 12, 2017 at 12:08 pm\n[\u2026] South Florida moves to continue its recovery from Hurricane Irma, and keeps a skeptical eye of Hurricane Jose, closings remain in effect for many schools, [\u2026]\nSo. FL Students Go Back to School - Again! | South Florida News 11 September 17, 2017 at 10:15 pm\n[\u2026] Irma knocked out power to most schools across South Florida. The storm also caused flooding and damage to school buildings throughout the state. This week, many counties are getting a second start to the new year. [\u2026]\nFeeding South Florida is Florida Strong! | South Florida News 11 September 20, 2017 at 12:05 am\n[\u2026] Since Hurricane Irma, the need for food and relief supplies has skyrocketed. Feeding South Florida\u2019s own warehouses were without power due to the storm and unfortunately, all perishable food was lost. [\u2026]\nEnormous task of Re-Mapping Florida after Hurricane Irma's wrath | South Florida News 11 January 8, 2018 at 3:32 pm\n[\u2026] South Florida was struck by Hurricane Irma last September, the above-ground effects were obvious. Homes destroyed, businesses demolished, and [\u2026]\nAll Eyes on Hurricane Irma: Florida begins to Prepare\nHunt for serial killer continues in Tampa: \u2018Someone knows who this...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 7244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://speakfaithfully.com/2013/06/25/divide-and-conquer-what-reactions-to-mass-surveillance-tell-us-about-the-two-party-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4LIHZ5X7QM3DUQIKAIZUNWLBOLD2XSY", "length": 5990, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "speakfaithfully.com", "title": "Divide and Conquer: What reactions to mass surveillance tell us about the two-party system. | Speakfaithfully", "raw_content": "\u2190 Crowdsourcing Cultural Awareness: An invitation to partner with me on two projects.\nWho is Leonard Peltier and why should we care? \u2192\nDivide and Conquer: What reactions to mass surveillance tell us about the two-party system.\n\u201cDivide and Conquer\u201d is a time-honored tradition among oppressive governments and systems since time immemorial. It has been employed countless times to remedy an equally age-old conundrum: how does the ruling class impose its will on the people who are likely to resist and are more numerous than the ruling class?\nThe simply solution is to divide the people.\nThis is often done by creating arbitrary divisions or by exacerbating existing ones. The people, thus divided, have their effective numbers and power diminished. More importantly, they will fight other people instead of rightly recognizing how the ruling class is exploiting them, and resisting their true oppressor.\nHow the Two Party System is an Extension of That\nThose in power in the United States have used that same tactic here. The most notable example of this is perhaps the creation of the concept of race and the concept of a \u201cwhite\u201d race. This was used to pit poor blacks and whites against each other so they wouldn\u2019t band together and fight the wealthy European elite exploiting both of them.\nHowever, the recent response to the mass surveillance scandal has highlighted how the two-party system in the United Sates is another form of divide and conquer being employed in the United States.\nHow Democrats have reacted\u2026\nIn response to crackdown on whistle-blowers and journalists and the revelation of the PRISM program, Democrats who supported President Obama are predictably attacking Republicans. The main two response I have seen actually contradict each other. The first takes the revelations very seriously, but them blame them on Republicans and Bush. The second is to downplay the importance of these revelations. I say they are contradictory because if these revelations are not that important, why the concern for blame shifting?\nNotice this feed contains both the minimization of the NSA surveillance leaks and then also blames it on Republicans.\nThis entire Facebook page is devoted to memes attacking Republicans. While some of these criticism are deserved notice the title. They never acknowledge Obama can do anything wrong and blame everything on Bush.\nThese tactics are being employed by Democrats to avoid owning the fact their candidate betrayed them. The simple fact is that Barack Obama has failed on a number of major campaign promises. The two that are perhaps most relevant to the recent disclosures were promises to provide a transparent government and an end to the era of warrant-less surveillance.\nEven if these programs were started under Bush, Obama has been well aware of the program and its capabilities and continued to use it without the U.S. Citizenry\u2019s knowledge and is arguing for its continued use.\nHow Republicans have reacted\u2026\nRepublicans, meanwhile, are shocked at the loss of liberty and privacy under Obama they set in motion under Bush.\nThe best example of this is Republican Senator Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. who wrote the Patriot Act. He apparently was shocked and appalled by how the Patriot Act had been interpreted and used by the government. Sensenbrenner has now called for the \u201cabuse\u201d of the Patriot Act to end.\nSo instead of, I don\u2019t know, learning their lesson about being attacked by the monster they previously unleashed, the Republicans have shown as much common sense as Democrats. While some continue to accuse Obama of being too soft on terror (as Obama unleashes a Reagen-esque foreign policy around the world, utilizes extra-judicial drone strikes to kill people in signature strikes, and is increasingly reliant on a paramilitarized CIA and covert ops) others accuse him of being a tyrant and staging a coup\u2026for taking advantage of the legislation they drafted\n9/11 fear inclined the U.S. Citizenry to tolerate and increasingly secretive and unregulated government. We thought the possible costs to our civil rights would be worth the protection they promised to offer us. After more than a decade the U.S. Government has grown very accustomed to having no real accountability to their citizens. The revelations of the past several weeks and the government reaction have shown how far our power-intoxicated government is willing to go, regardless of if that government is Democratic or Republican.\nInstead of rightly recognizing the problems that both parties have created in the last several years, we are content attacking \u201cThe Other\u201d party and telling ourselves that if only \u201cour party\u201d got control of the White House and the Congress, then everything would be good because all of our amazing ideas to fix everything would be immediately implemented.\nThis is a nice ideal but this is not reality. The reality is the U.S. Government does not represent you, regardless of which party is elected. Members of the U.S. Government represents their donors as they accept millions in legal bribes through lobbyists in the employ of mega corporations or more directly work to represent companies they have not so secret ties to. This is not a conspiracy theory or unsubstantiated ramblings. Our elections are essentially controlled by 1% of the 1%. The U.S. is functions as an oligarchy, regardless of who wins what.\nThe solution in this situation is to not to fall into the trap of partisan infighting. Blaming the other party for the loss of our civil liberties is continuing the status quo of divide and conquer. Blaming the other party is fighting other members of the U.S. Citizenry, not the ruling powers that be. The true solution in this situation is to rethink U.S. politics and enact revolutionary change to our system.\nThis entry was posted in Politics and tagged civil liberties, Democratic, Divide and Conquer, domestic surveillance, NSA, Prism, Republican, Two Party system, war on terror. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://speakingofleadership.com/homemade-conflict/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BE4HY3HWMQSXH5P26VEG6WJIF3TRQPMR", "length": 336, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "speakingofleadership.com", "title": "Homemade Conflict \u2013 Holberton \u2013 Speaking of Leadership(R)", "raw_content": "Spouses often complain that their partner brings the office home with them. Good managers know that the reverse is also true. This short but insightful article from HBR may help you understand the source of unexpected behavior when your co-workers behave unpredictably\u2026\u2026 and why that behavior often has nothing to do with the workplace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://specialty.mims.com/topic/psyllium-fibre-improves-lipid-markers--delays-cvd-risk?topic-grouper=news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LZYZ2GUK22I775SIVWMHLGKFVYEODRL5", "length": 2024, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "specialty.mims.com", "title": "Psyllium fibre improves lipid markers, delays CVD risk | News for Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist | Cardiology", "raw_content": "Psyllium fibre improves lipid markers, delays CVD risk\nSupplement industry crackdown shows that questionable ingredients were used in products.\nPsyllium (Plantago ovata) fibre may help delay the process of atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in individuals with or without hypercholesterolemia by effectively improving conventional and alternative lipid markers, a recent study has found.\nThe investigators searched Medline, Embase, Cinahl and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials through 3 October 2017. Relevant data were extracted and risk of bias was assessed by independent reviewers.\nA total of 28 trials were included in the analysis (n=1,924). Supplementation of a median dose of \u223c10.2 g psyllium led to a significant reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (MD, \u20130.33 mmol/L; 95 percent CI, \u20130.38 to \u20130.27; p<0.00001), nonhigh-density lipoprotein cholesterol (MD, \u20130.39 mmol/L; \u20130.50 to \u20130.27; p<0.00001) and apolipoprotein B (apob; MD, \u20130.05 g/L; \u20130.08 to \u20130.03; p<0.0001).\n\u201cEffect estimates for LDL cholesterol and non-HDL cholesterol were graded as moderate quality on the basis of downgrades for inconsistency and graded as high quality for apoB,\u201d the investigators noted.\nIncluded in the meta-analysis were randomized controlled trials with a duration of \u22653 weeks that assessed the effect of psyllium on blood lipids in individuals with or without hypercholesterolemia. The investigators pooled data using the generic inverse variance method with random-effects models, expressed as mean differences (MDs) with 95 percent CIs.\nHeterogeneity was assessed using Cochran\u2019s Q statistic and quantified with I2 statistic. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach was used to assess the overall quality of the evidence.\n\u201cStudies have identified viscous dietary fibre as potentially attenuating cholesterol, including psyllium, which reduces LDL cholesterol and thus may complement CVD treatment,\u201d the investigators said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 6844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spinditty.com/playlists/My-Ten-Favorite-Break-up-Songs-of-All-Time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GMPPLIFUZRBQDLPCBPFVTPJIVLCNGM6S", "length": 6825, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "spinditty.com", "title": "Ten Break-Up Songs to Help You Get Over It | Spinditty", "raw_content": "Ten Break-Up Songs to Help You Get Over It\nSongs about lost love have been popular almost since songwriting began. This is a multi-genre list of some of my favorite break-up songs. I first wrote this as a countdown, so I will stick with that format, with #10 first, and counting down to my all-time favorite.\nTen Favorite Break-up Songs\n#10. \"It\u2019s a Heartache\" \u2013 Bonnie Tyler\n#9. \"I Heard it Through the Grapevine\" \u2013 Marvin Gaye\n#8. \"Forget You\" \u2013 Cee Lo Green\n#7. \"I'd Rather Go Blind\" \u2013 Koko Taylor\n#6. \"Every Breath You Take\" \u2013The Police\n#5. \"I Will Always Love You\" \u2013 Dolly Parton\n#4. \"Ain\u2019t No Sunshine\" \u2013 Bill Withers\n#3. \"It's Too Late\" - Carol King\n#2. \"Blue Eyes Cryin\u2019 in the Rain\" \u2013 Willie Nelson\n#1. \"Don\u2019t Think Twice It\u2019s Alright\" \u2013 Bob Dylan\nThis was sung by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler and released in 1978 on her second studio album, Natural. I love her raspy voice; it has been compared to Rod Stewart, he later covered the song on his 2006 album Still the Same\u2026 Great Rock Classics of Our Time.\nThis is a great song, no matter who sings it. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, it has been recorded by artists including Gladys Knight & the Pips, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. They are all good, but I prefer Marvin Gaye\u2019s version.\nThis song is literally all I know about Cee Lo Green. Cee Lo co-wrote and performed this song. This is the clean version; I think we all know what the title of the original version was. Either way, I think it\u2019s pretty catchy. It was the first single off Green\u2019s album \u201cThe Lady Killer,\u201d released in 2010.\nThis was a fabulous song sung written by Ellington Jordan, co-credited to Billy Foster, and first recorded by Etta James in 1967. I love Clarence Carter's rendition of the song, and lord knows there have been many fabulous versions of it recorded, including recent ones by Joe Bonamassa and Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles.\nStill, when all is said and done, this it the one that tugs the most at my heartstrings. It's the Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor.\nI really like this song, even though it makes me feel a little claustrophobic. A lot of people love this song without realizing it's about him stalking his ex. Being stalked by Sting might not sound that bad, but this seems like the ex-boyfriend from hell to me. It made its debut on The Police\u2019s 1983 album Synchronicity. It was written by Sting.\nThis song is indelibly linked with Whitney Houston. I can\u2019t deny that her version is great, and it made the song wildly popular with a mainstream audience.\nStill, Dolly wrote the song, and I loved her version long before Whitney\u2019s came along. It still give me chills, and brings tears to my eyes to hear it. Dolly's voice is not as powerful as Whitney's, but is it so pretty and sweet.\nDolly released the song as a single in 1974. It was number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart not just once, but twice. The first time when it was new, and again when she re-recorded it for the soundtrack of the movie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.\nSo, as you can see, \"I Will Always Love You\" was a great success, even before Whitney Houston's popular rendition of it.\nWritten and sung by Bill Withers, this song was originally released in 1971 as the B-side to a song called \"Harlem.\" Disc jockeys played \"Ain't No Sunshine\" instead of the A-side. That same year it was featured on his album his album Just As I Am. It became a huge hit.\nMany artists have covered the song, including Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Isaac Hayes, Lionel Hampton, Prince, Sting, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones and Lighthouse Family. Rapper DMX also sample it for his for his 2001 song \"No Sunshine.\"\nCarol King was a prolific songwriter. She co-wrote wrote many hits of the 1960s and beyond. \"Will You Love Me Tomorrow,\" by the Shirelles, topped the American charts in 1960. It was the first hit for the songwriting team of King and Goffin, which consisted of Carol King and her then husband Gerry Goffin. Goffin wrote the lyrics and King wrote the music.\nIn the '70s she became a successful performer, singing her own songs and playing the piano. This song is off her 1971 hit album \u201cTapestry.\u201d Toni Stern wrote the lyrics and King wrote the music.\nThis song was written by Fred Rose and originally recorded by Roy Acuff. Willie Nelson included it on his 1975 album Red Headed Stranger.\nWillie had enjoyed some success as a songwriter before, but this is the album that put him on the map as a performer. It is a theme album. It tells the story of a preacher who kills his wife, and her lover, after she ran off with a man she loved before.\nIt\u2019s a great album, worth listening to if you\u2019ve never heard the whole thing. There was also a movie made of it, starring Willie himself as the preacher and Morgan Fairchild as his lost love. I\u2019m afraid Willie is a better singer and songwriter than he is an actor though.\nI know this is an unusual choice, but I've always loved it.\n\"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right\" was first released on Dylan\u2019s 1963 album Freewheelin'. Dylan wrote the song basing the melody on a traditional song \u201cWho\u2019s Gonna Buy Your Chicken\u2019s when I\u2019m Gone. This was apparently a fairly common practice, as I have heard of many other folk and blues songs where the artist claimed authorship of a traditional song when the original composer was unknown.\nFolksinger Paul Clayton, had also used the melody in his song \"Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone?\" That song shares some phrases in common with Dylan\u2019s song also.\nThe lyrics of the song are slightly passive aggressive. It\u2019s alright, but they never did much talking, she\u2019s not a woman but a child, she didn\u2019t treat him unkind, but she could have done better, and she wasted his precious time. So, apparently he's over it.\nThanks you for listening. I hope you have enjoyed my list. You can probably guess what era I am from by my musical choices. What are your favorite break-up songs?\n4 weeks ago from Sierra Foothills, CA\nThank you Glenn. I'm so happy that you took the time to read my article, and listen to my song selections.\nSherry, I like your views on various things that I never thought about before. Such as how Bonnie Tyler and Rod Stewart both have raspy voices, but I love them too.\nDolly Parton has always been my favorite for love songs, or breakup songs, as the case may be. I was wondering who sang \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d first, Dolly or Whitney Houston. You answered that for me.\nI followed Carole King's career ever since she sang the little known reply to Neil Sedaka that she called \u201cOh, Neil!\u201d Just started thinking about that when I listened to \"It's Too Late\" in your article.\nI enjoyed this entire article and listening to the videos.\nI am familiar with it. It's a beautiful song.\nIf You Could Read My Mind -by Gordon Lightfoot\nCheck it out, Sherry!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 14205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 124.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sportsenthusiasts.net/tag/south-florida-bulls/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GVIVB6UV2G7JEDE6BSK7U2O3RIHAS3WM", "length": 18727, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "sportsenthusiasts.net", "title": "South Florida Bulls Archives - Sports Enthusiasts", "raw_content": "2015 College Football Preview: AAC East\nTommy Tuberville has finish third and first in his first two years with Cincinnati. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images North America)\nPart seven of the Sports Enthusiasts\u2019 College Football Preview delves into The American with a specific look at the East Division. Below is a schedule of the 2015 College Football Preview.\nLet\u2019s take a closer look at the AAC\u2019s East Division.\nIt has been a wild ride for the Temple football program. They have gone from the Big East in 2004 to Independent status in 2005 to the MAC from 2007 through 2011. They then went back to the Big East for the 2012 season before the name change to The American beginning in 2013. Matt Rhule is in his third season and led Temple to a 2-10 record in 2013 before improving them to 6-6 last year.\n2015 will easily be Rhule\u2019s most experienced team. He has nine starters back on offense and the biggest loss was top wide receiver Jalen Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick had 53 catches for 730 yards and 6 touchdowns in 2014. Quarterback PJ Walker returns after putting up 2,317 yards with 13 touchdowns and 15 interceptions last year. Walker was more inconsistent last year than in 2013 and he will need to develop some receivers to have a better season. Running back Jahad Thomas ran for 384 yards as the top rusher in 2014, which will need to be improved upon drastically. He could be replaced by freshman TJ Simmons or sophomore Zaire Williams. With all five starters back on the offensive line, there should be no reason the offense cannot produce the highest output under Rhule.\nIn 2014, the defense made the biggest strides under Rhule. They gave up 17.5 points and 347 yards per game last year after giving up 29.8 points and 474 yards in 2013. 2015 could be even better with 10 starters back. There is not much to say about the defense other than their only loss was at strong safety, but the replacement, Will Hayes, started seven games in 2014 at three different positions. Linebacker Tyler Matakevich was easily the team\u2019s leading tackler after recording 117 stops, 1.5 sacks, 9 tackles for loss, 3 pass breakups, and an interception. The defense will be excellent again in 2015.\nTemple opens the season with a home game against Penn State (Rhule\u2019s alma mater) before back-to-back road games against Cincinnati and Massachusetts. They face Charlotte on the road after a bye week and also have Notre Dame coming to town on Halloween to complete their non-conference schedule. They have to play Memphis from the West, but get them at home and also get SMU (road) and Tulane (home) from the West Division. As for the East opponents, they will face Cincinnati and East Carolina on the road while facing Central Florida at home. It is weird to say this, but Temple looks like the team to beat in the East with their defense.\nGeorge O\u2019Leary has been magnificent at Central Florida including leading the Knights to the 2013 Fiesta Bowl victory over Baylor. 2014 was a step back for UCF, but 2015 could go either way.\nThe offense returns five starters, but the big losses were at wide receiver where the top four from 2014 are gone. The biggest loss is Breshad Perriman after his 50 catches for 1,044 yards and 9 touchdowns. UCF does return quarterback Justin Holman and he threw for 2,952 yards with 23 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Also returning are running backs William Stanback (697 yards and 10 touchdowns) and Dontravious Wilson (347 yards and 3 touchdowns). Three linemen also return and the offense could do well this year if a few receivers are developed.\nThe defense has only four starters back in 2015 after giving up 19.2 points and 299 yards per game last year. The strength this year will be on the defensive line with three starters returning after giving up only 104 yards rushing and 3.2 yards per carry in 2014. Thomas Niles will be one of the ends after recording 49 tackles, 7.5 sacks, and 5.5 tackles for loss last year. They will need to be solid because the back seven return only one starter in linebacker Chequan Burkett. He recorded 40 tackles, 1.5 sacks, and 3.5 tackles for loss last year. The secondary losses 148 career starts as well as all four starters, which is going to hurt the Knights. It will be tough to produce the same overall numbers in 2015 as they did in 2014.\nCentral Florida opens with Florida International (home), Stanford (road), Furman (home), and South Carolina (road) to start the season before beginning AAC play. From the West, they will play Tulane and Tulsa on the road while getting Houston at home. In division play, they will have Temple and Cincinnati at home and play East Carolina at home. O\u2019Leary has stout defenses even when there are not a lot of starters returning (i.e. 2011 with 4 starters returning UCF allowed 18.3 points and 303 yards per game). That makes UCF dangerous to contend for the division title.\nTommy Tuberville left Texas Tech after the 2012 season to come to Cincinnati. 2015 will be his third year and he has led the Bearcats to a record of 9-4 in each of this first two seasons. 2015 is also a season of change for The American Conference, as they are now divided into two divisions. How will Tuberville do in the inaugural season of the East?\nOn offense, there are eight starter back this year led by quarterback Gunner Kiel. Kiel threw for 3,254 yards, 31 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions despite some injury issues and he will have seven of his top eight receivers back from 2014. The top threats are Shaq Washington, who had 66 catches for 761 yards and 4 touchdowns and MeKale McKay, who had 44 catches for 725 yards and 8 touchdowns. Mike Boone returns at running after running for 650 yards with 9 touchdowns as a freshman despite being the #2 guy. The offense will be explosive again in 2015.\nThe defensive side of the ball sees only five starters return with the bulk of the losses coming in the front seven. Only Silverberry Mouhon returns on the line after recording 45 tackles, 4 sacks, and 1 tackle for loss. It is a similar story with the linebackers as only Leviticus Payne is back and he recorded 57 tackles, 2 sacks, 3.5 tackles for loss, 7 pass breakups, and 1 interception last year. The secondary is undoubtedly the strength going into the season with three starters back led by Zach Edwards. Edwards was second on the team in tackles with 121 and also recorded 3.5 tackles for loss, 6 pass breakups, and 2 interceptions. The defense have up 27.2 points and 439 yards per game in 2014 and it looks like that might happen again this year.\nIt will be an interesting start to the season for Cincinnati with two conference games in the first four weeks. They open with Alabama A&M and Temple at home before a road trip to Miami (OH). They have a quick turnaround of five days to face Memphis on the road and then get Miami (FL) at home on October 1. They have another road trip to BYU two weeks later after a bye. They also have to face Houston on the road out of the West. It will be another winning season for Tuberville, but the games against Central Florida (home), Temple, and East Carolina (road) as well as if the offense can outscore the opponents will decide where they finish.\nA simple look at the 8-5 record for East Carolina in 2014 would suggest it was a slightly above average season for them. However, it was much bigger than the record indicates with wins over then #17 Virginia Tech on the road 28-21 and at home to North Carolina 70-41 in back-to-back weeks. Ruffin McNeill enters his sixth year in charge of his alma mater after compiling a 37-27 record. Let\u2019s see what is in store for the Pirates.\nThe offense brings back six starters, but the losses are big at quarterback, running back, and wide receiver. Shane Carden threw for over 4,700 yards in 2014 and his main targets were Justin Hardy (121 catches for 1,494 yards and 10 touchdowns) and Cam Worthy (55 catches for 1,106 yards and 4 touchdowns). Kurt Benkert will take over at QB, but he has only throw 10 passes in his collegiate career. While the losses of the top two receivers will hurt, Isaiah Jones put up some good numbers in 2014 with 81 catches for 830 yards and 5 touchdowns. Running back is probably the easiest of the skill positions to replace for ECU with Chris Hairston running for 528 yards and 2 touchdowns on only 79 carries last year. The offensive line does return four starters, which should provide good running lanes and ample time to the QB. However, the offense will not be as potent this season as it was in 2014.\nThe defense will have five starters back from a unit that allowed 25.8 points and 367 yards per game last year. That was done with only three returning starters for the 2014 season. Defensive line returns only one starter from last year, but Terrell Stanley is back after starting 12 games in 2013 and then missing all of 2014. Linebacker has two starters returning led by Zeek Bigger. Bigger had an astounding 140 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 4 pass breakups, and 2 interceptions. The secondary will have two starters back including 2014 1st Team ACC cornerback Josh Hawkins. Hawkins had 44 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, 11 pass breakups, and 5 interceptions. The defense should produce similar numbers as they did in 2014.\nEast Carolina has FCS Towson to start the season before a road trip to Florida and another road trip to Navy to start conference play. They face Virginia Tech at home before back-to-back road games again with SMU and BYU on the schedule. The other team from the West, in addition to Navy and SMU, is Tulsa on October 17 at home. ECU faces fellow East contenders Temple and Cincinnati at home while getting Central Florida on the road. The final two weekends consist of UCF and Cincinnati. East Carolina will need to get their offense going right away if they are to challenge for the East, but look very good to reach another bowl game in 2014.\n2015 will be year three of Willie Taggart\u2019s reign at South Florida. He has gone a combined 6-18 in his first two seasons, but the offense and defense have both improved in those two seasons.\nIn 2015, the offense has only four starters back and that will make it a bit harder to continue improving the offense. 2014\u2019s starting quarterback Mike White is gone after transferring from the program and that leaves a battle between sophomore Quinton Flowers and former Penn State player Steven Bench. White threw for only 1,639 yards with 8 touchdowns and 7 interceptions last year so the new QB should be able to top those stats. Marlon Mack will be the workhorse running back after running for 1,041 yards and 9 touchdowns as a true freshman. Mack also was named to the 1st Team AAC last year. The top wide receiver is gone, but Rodney Adams is back after catching 23 passes for 323 yards and 2 touchdowns. Despite the low amount of returning starters the offense should produce more than the 17.2 points and 305 yards per game it did in 2014.\nThe defense is in a better situation with seven starters back including all of the top five tackles from a year ago. There is only one returning defensive lineman in Eric Lee, but both linebackers return in this 4-2-5 system. One of those linebackers, Nigel Harris, was second on the team with 77 tackles, 2 sacks, and 8.5 tackles for loss. Three of the back five starters return from a unit that gave up 220 yards passing in 2014. Jamie Byrd was the top tackler in 2014 with 95 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 3 pass breakups, and 2 interceptions and he will be expected to help out in large volume again. The defense gave up 27 points and 403 yards per game last year and should improve on that this year.\nSouth Florida opens with Florida A&M at home before back-to-back road trips to ACC teams Florida State and Maryland. They end their non-conference schedule against a third ACC team in Syracuse on October 10. From the West, USF will face contenders in Memphis (home) and Navy (road) as well as SMU (home). The game at Connecticut on October 17 is likely to decide who finishes last in The American\u2019s East division. USF is probably a year away from contending for a bowl game appearance.\nBob Diaco took over at Connecticut in 2014 after Paul Pasqualoni was let go just after the start of the 2013 season. He went 2-10 in 2014 with only 12 returning starters on his team and UConn has not been to a bowl game since 2010 when they faced Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl (they lost 48-20).\nSix starters are back for Diaco from an offense that scored 15.5 points and gained 276 yards per game last year. Quarterback Chandler Whitmer has departed while Tim Boyle threw for 335 yards with 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions last season. Boyle will most likely play second fiddle again this year as North Carolina State transfer Bryant Shirreffs is likely to win the starting job. The running game only averaged 107 yards per game in 2014 and that should improve with four of the top five backs returning. Wide receiver sees the top two guys depart while Noel Thomas (26 catches for 305 yards and 4 touchdowns) is one of the top targets. The offense should be better in 2015.\nThe defense gave up 29.8 points and 379 yards per game in 2014 with six starters back. In 2015, there will be eight returning starters with two on the defensive line and the top four tacklers are back as well on the line. Linebacker looks like an excellent unit for UConn with former Florida transfer Graham Stewart (94 tackles, 2 sacks, 8.5 tackles for loss), Marquise Vann (105 tackles, 0.5 sacks, 6.5 tackles for loss), and Florida State transfer EJ Levenberry all expected to start. Byron Jones is gone from the secondary, but three starters return to help make this a solid unit. The defense looks like it will improve in 2015 as well.\nUConn opens the 2015 season with home games against Villanova and Army. The travel to face Missouri before a home game against Navy and another road game against BYU. From the West, they will have the aforementioned Navy, but also Tulane (road) and Houston (home). As stated before, the game against South Florida on October 17 will most likely decide the AAC East\u2019s bottom team. Diaco does have this team headed in the right direction.\nThe American Athletic Conference\u2019s East division looks incredibly competitive. Any one of four \u2013 Temple, Cincinnati, Central Florida, or East Carolina \u2013 can win the division. South Florida and Connecticut will be battling to stay out of the cellar. Below is a recap of the predicted order of finish.\nCheck back on Friday, July 24 for The American\u2019s West Division preview as well as the predicted winner of the conference championship game.\nAACAAC EastAmerican Athletic ConferenceAmerican Athletic Conference EastBob DiacoBreshad PerrimanBryant ShirreffsByron JonesCam WorthCentral Florida KnightsChandler WhitmerChequan BurkettChris HairstonCincinnati BearcatsCollege FootballConnecticut HuskiesDontravious WilsonEast Carolina PiratesEJ LevenberryEric LeeGeorge O'LearyGraham StewartGunner KielIsaiah JonesJahad ThomasJalen FitzpatrickJamie ByrdJosh HawkinsJustin HardyJustin HolmanKurt BenkertLeviticus PayneMarlon MackMarquise VannMatt RuhleMeKale McKayMike BooneMike WhiteNCAA FootballNigel HarrisNoel ThomasPaul PasqualoniPJ WalkerQuinton FlowersRodney AdamsRuffin McNeillShane CardenShaq WashingtonSilverberry MouhonSouth Florida BullsSteven BenchTemple OwlsTerrell StanleyThe AmericanThomas NilesTim BoyleTJ SimmonsTommy TubervilleTyler MatakevichWill HayesWilliam StanbackWillie TaggartZach EdwardsZaire WilliamsZeek Bigger\nMike White Heading To Western Kentucky\nQuarterback Mike White will transfer to Western Kentucky (Joe Robbins/Getty Images North America)\nFormer South Florida quarterback Mike White announced via Twitter that he will be going to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.\n\u201cAfter taking a visit and talking to the coaches I feel like it\u2019s a really good fit for me,\u201d White said in a text message to the Tampa Bay Times.\nIn late March, it was reported that White was released from his scholarship and free to transfer to a school of his choosing. That release was confirmed by USF head coach Willie Taggart, who previously coached at Western Kentucky from 2010 through 2012.\nWith White transferring to another FBS school, he will most likely be required to sit out the 2015 season. Starting with 2016 season, White would have two years of eligibility remaining. Assuming he redshirted in 2015, White would then be a redshirt junior in 2016.\nWhite was the starter in 2014 with 10 starts in 11 games played. He finished the season going 122 of 242 (50.4%) for 1,639 yards with 8 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. He started 5 games in 2013 while finishing the season with 1,083 yards, 3 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions on 93 of 175 passing (53.1%).\nCollege FootballMike WhiteNCAA FootballSouth Florida BullsWestern Kentucky HilltoppersWillie Taggart\nSouth Florida QB Mike White Will Transfer\nUSF Quarterback Mike White against Wisconsin last season (Tom Lynn/Getty Images North America)\nThe quarterback competition battle at South Florida lost a contender with the announcement that Mike White will transfer. Head coach Willie Taggart confirmed the news in a statement.\n\u201cMike and I talked after the conclusion of spring practice, and he expressed his desire to pursue the remainder of his career at another school,\u201d the Bulls head coach said in a statement. \u201cWe wish Mike all the best in his future and thank him for his contributions to our program and University.\u201d\nWhite will have to sit out 2015 if he transfer to another FBS school. He would be eligible to play immediately if he transferred to an FCS school.\nWhite\u2019s departure leaves Steven Bench and Quinton Flowers as the only quarterbacks with starting experience.\nBench began his career at Penn State in 2012 where he played in two games going 2 of 8 for 12 yards. He was eligible to transfer without sitting out a year due to the NCAA sanctions that rocked the Nittany Lions.\nIn 2013, he played in 7 games and started 2 contests. He finished 26 of 64 (40.6%) for 392 yards with 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Last year he played in 6 games, starting against Houston, going 49 of 100 (49%) for 611 yards with 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.\nFlowers, a sophomore, played in 5 games and started against SMU. For the year he went 8 of 20 (40%) for 111 yards with no touchdowns and 2 picks. He also rushed 13 times for 73 yards.\nThree other quarterbacks are on the roster, but are considered to have an outside chance of seeing significant playing time. They are senior Austin Parker, sophomore Adam Robles, and redshirt sophomore Evan Wilson.\nAdam RoblesAustin ParkerCollege FootballEvan WilsonMike WhiteNCAA FootballQuinton FlowersSouth Florida BullsSteven BenchWillie Taggart", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 623, "original_length": 88970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sputniknews.com/europe/201804191063707116-german-party-protests-syria-airstrikes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:06Z", "digest": "sha1:43LAUBNZDWIYKMMKB4ZQUCXM3MMQOTPO", "length": 3427, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "sputniknews.com", "title": "German Party Lambasts Strikes on Syria: 'Weapons Don't Make Peace' (VIDEO) - Sputnik International", "raw_content": "German Party Lambasts Strikes on Syria: 'Weapons Don't Make Peace' (VIDEO)\nNearly a week ago, the United States, France and the United Kingdom launched a coordinated missile strike on Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, blamed on Damascus.\nGerman left-wing party Die Linke took to Berlin\u2019s streets to protest against the trilateral strikes on Syria, waving peace flags and calling for an end to war in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The party\u2019s co-chair, Dietmar Bartsch, delivered an eloquent speech in front of the crowd, slamming Germany\u2019s role in the ongoing conflict in Syria as a weapons exporter.\n\u201cWeapons don\u2019t make peace, they always end up in the wrong hands,\u201d Bartsch emphasized.\nREAD MORE: WATCH Syrian Boy in White Helmets FAKE Chemical Attack Video Reveals Truth\nAt the same time, Sahra Wagenknecht, his co-chair, didn\u2019t mince words while criticizing US President Donald Trump\u2019s approach to relations with Russia.\n\u201cWhere air raids are announced from one nuclear power to another nuclear power via Twitter, one thinks we\u2019re in the wrong movie. But it would be far too simple to say, \u2018Okay, there is a mad man in the White House, he wrote a tweet incorrectly and brought us all into danger.\u2019 No, it\u2019s still close. It is an escalation, where one step comes after the next,\u201d she said.\nEarlier this week, Steffen Seibert, German government spokesman, said that the country had not received a \u201crequest\u201d for military involvement in Syria, yet emphasized that Germany supported those \u201cwho were outraged by yet another use of chemical weapons by the regime\u201d of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.\nREAD MORE: Germany Was Not Invited to Take Part in Conducting Strikes on Syria \u2013 Berlin\nOn April 14, the United States, the UK and France carried out a joint missile strike on a number of targets in Syria, describing the attack as a retaliatory measure to an alleged use of chemical weapons by government forces in the city of Douma.\nThe missiles were launched a week after several media reported, citing militants on the ground that the Assad army had dropped a chlorine bomb on civilians in Douma, with the White Helmets offering unverified footage of the aftermath of the alleged attack. While the Syrian government strongly denied its involvement, denouncing the entire situation as a false flag, the Western nations were quick to blame the incident on Damascus.\nOPCW Head Says UN Security Team Shot at in Syrian Douma - Reports\nThe attack on Syria came the same day the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was due to start its fact-finding mission in Douma to probe the alleged chemical weapons\u2019 use.\nMeanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry sent a chemical corps commission to the alleged site to investigate the purported use of chemical weapons several days after the media reports emerged; the commission found no trace of toxic agents in Douma after the expert group questioned witnesses and medical workers.\nEx-DoS Official Warns of Another Possible False Flag Provocation Blaming Syria\nAnalyst Names Washington's Goal Number One in Syria\nMilitants May Plot Chemical Attack to Set Stage for Joint Offensive in Syria\nTrump: Battle Between US Forces, Russian Nationals in Syria Month Ago 'Sad'\nLockheed Martin \u2018Ready to Assist\u2019 With More Missiles for US After Syria Strike\nwar in Syria, airstrikes, protests, Die Linke, Germany, Syria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 11549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://snoopandlove.com/front-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UUI374QESWOA2JGDVIBKFHB7EV7I7XA7", "length": 1031, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "snoopandlove.com", "title": "The Snoop and Love Community Foundation", "raw_content": "The Snoop and Love Community Foundation was founded in 2016 by affiliates of Twin Trees Veterinary Clinic, an emergency vet clinic located in Whistler, BC .\nThe founding directors shared a common interest in helping animals, contributing to their local community, promoting wellness and creating a positive impact on the world.\nThe purposes of the Snoop and Love Community Foundation are:\nTo provide financial assistance to qualifying pets to help cover the cost of veterinary treatment in an emergency.\nTo sponsor education, outreach, and community-building endeavors pertaining to animals, wellness and the environment.\nMembership is free and open to the public, and we invite you to take part. Just reach out via our website, where you can sign up for our newsletter, ask questions and become involved.\nIf you are interested in joining, please get in touch!\nThe Snoop and Love Community Foundation was named after two very special patients, who will always remain a source of inspiration for the people whose lives they touched.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socialism.com/category/feminism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:I74KSLZNU57JW6DZ7F3YVPPL5DNGW5KI", "length": 489, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "socialism.com", "title": "women & feminism Archives - Freedom Socialist Party", "raw_content": "The rise of women over the past two years, in the U.S., India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South America and the Middle East, is unprecedented. Let\u2019s keep it growing in 2019!\nRadical Women and Freedom Socialist Party statement on Women\u2019s March controversies and the kind of movement we need.\nKavanaugh choice exposes true nature of Supreme Court and both political parties\nBy Helen GilbertDecember 2018\nMassive movements for human and civil rights are the driving force of court decisions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/category/experts-by-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:OBEUYRUN6VJ2CONPE4C6MWUZKCEXDVO2", "length": 2913, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "socialmedia.mayoclinic.org", "title": "Experts by Experience | Mayo Clinic Social Media Network", "raw_content": "One of a Kind-When Your Child has a Condition with No Name \u2013 Experts by Experience\nBy bobigelow\nToday, I\u2019m spending the day with my daughter, Tess. She\u2019s nine years old. Since Tess\u2019s birth, my wife and I have drastically redefined our lives. We have simplified our working lives in order to make room for medical appointments, sessions with specialists, and educational meetings. We\u2019ve connected with a group of diehard friends and relatives\u2014people [\u2026]\nAt the age of 42, with my wife who was not quite 40 yet, we had become used to the questions that couples without children get from family, friends, and strangers. We were at peace and confident in our decision to remain childless. Of course, without a prostate, that decision was as final as could [\u2026]\nAn Ear for the Unsaid: The Importance of Hearing What is Not Said by Patients\nBy Monica St Claire\nFrom time to time, the Experts by Experience series features columns\u2013Knowledge Translation\u2013by guest authors who underscore the need for building an engaging, collaborative health care culture. Knowledge Translation columnists include health care leaders, clinicians, researchers, and marketing and communication professionals who translate the importance of integrating first-hand experiences of patients and caregivers, in ways that are meaningful and relevant, to engage and expand the dialogue on patient experience. \u201cThe [\u2026]\nFor many people, sharing about their health online overrides conventional concerns about privacy. Each person weighs the benefits and risks arriving at their own \u201cprivacy calculus\u201d. Patients and caregivers who share about their health in online communities told me that they agree with Alan Westin\u2019s concept of privacy: The right to privacy is the individual\u2019s [\u2026]\nTags: Online community, patient community, patient data, privacy, security\nMessage in a Bottle? What Lost Rubber Ducks in the Ocean Can Teach Us About Patient Care\nBy Farris Timimi MD, Medical Director, Mayo Clinic Social Media Network\nThe Experts by Experience series features columns\u2014Knowledge Translation\u2013by guest authors who underscore the need for building an engaging, collaborative health care culture. Knowledge Translation columnists include health care leaders, clinicians, researchers, and marketing and communication professionals who translate the importance of integrating first-hand experiences of patients and caregivers, in ways that are meaningful and relevant, to engage and expand the dialogue on patient experience. Over a quarter of a [\u2026]\nSurviving, Then Thriving \u2013 Experts by Experience\nBy Erin Moriarty Wade\nOn a cold dismal Wednesday afternoon, I found myself sitting at the children\u2019s hospital for the third day that week. My two-year-old was throwing a huge fit because he wasn\u2019t allowed into the therapy pool where my daughter was having a session with her physical therapist. My nine-year-old son was walking home alone from school, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 6080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://solideogloria.me/2017/07/06/be-an-instrument-in-making-others-godly/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:07Z", "digest": "sha1:74ICYKFBWYV6R4QU4TBYR6ZSGOWDEW4U", "length": 4173, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "solideogloria.me", "title": "Be An Instrument in Making Others Godly | Soli Deo Gloria", "raw_content": "Thomas Watson writes that a godly person will labor to be an instrument of making others godly. These are powerful words that command a deep conviction. If actions are a good indicator of attitude, my actions indicate a lack of priority in this area, as I am sure if the case with many us. Watson writes specifically that a godly person \u201cis not content to go to heaven alone.\u201d How deeply we should desire that these words be true in our lives. Yearning for the conviction of godliness to be true in the lives of others, we can do nothing less than respond to God\u2019s call upon our lives to be instruments in the lives of others.\nWhile Scripture defines varying degrees of roles and responsibilities within the body of Christ, there is one thing that is certain: all are to be involved in discipling others (Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; Acts 2:42). How weighty is the task that is laid before us! Of greater fortitude though is how astonishing that task is. The Lord has given the grace of fellowship for the purpose of building his saints towards sanctification and glorification.\nRelationships thus, are more than a personal benefit but yield a profound bounty for the glory of God. Consider the points found in The Godly Man\u2019s Picture noting that a godly person is good in his or her relations. Therefore, a godly person:\nIs good as a magistrate.\nIs good as a minister.\nIs good as a spouse.\nIs good as a parent.\nIs good as a master.\nIs good in relation of a child.\nIs good as a servant. (1).\nIt stands to reason then, that if a godly person is good in his or her relationships, that person will also endeavor to be an instrument in making others godly. The two, after all, are motivated by a love for God and a love for others and therefore cannot be separated.\nLabors of Passiveness\nOne of the greatest issues is that we have embraced labors of passiveness. This follows from the standard diagnosis that we define productivity as busyness. If a person is outwardly busy, they are accomplishing something. Despite much evidence, discussion, and conviction to the contrary, it seems incredibly complicated for people to break free from this mindset. Personally, I am convinced that our reliance upon technology (computers, tablets, phones, televisions, etc.) has had a profound influence on creating people who acquiesce to passivity with little motivation or desire to put more effort forward. This is true not just in our work, but also in our relationships as well, where a click of a button in Facebook is supposed to indicate a lasting friendship.\nLabors of Passion\nHowever, relationships require effort. This is more explicit when it comes to ministry in relationships. When we carry the burdens of others (Galatians 6:2) we should expect that the burden is heavy and requires an investment of time and energy. Therefore, relationships cannot be built upon labors of passiveness, but on labors of passion. First, a genuine relationship is motivated by and sustained by a passion for God. When we love God, we look upon others in a similar manner desiring to see them reconciled to God. Such a passion for God stirs a secondary passion: a passion for people. Our love for him brings forth a love for others that ignites a desire to see them live lives worthy of the calling with which they have been called (Ephesians 4:1-3; Philippians 1:27-28; Colossians 1:10).\nTherefore, let us contend for the faith by laboring for the godliness of others. May we be submissive to God\u2019s use of our lives as instruments in bringing about godliness in the lives of others through example, teaching, building up, and carrying the burdens of others. Certainly, this is not the result of our work in their lives, but a result of God\u2019s work in which we can rejoice together at the mighty works the Lord has undertaken in and through his body of believers.\n(1) These points come from Thomas Watson\u2019s writing, The Godly Man\u2019s Picture. However, I have generalized them so that they are not gender specific (i.e. instead of husband, I changed it to spouse so that both husbands and wives are included here).\nWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It: Guarding Against Sin\nGoliath Must Fall ~ A Book Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 5289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://songsear.ch/song/Dancing-on-my-own/Kato/2203798", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:51Z", "digest": "sha1:INHAMGEBNBDXSJVWIVRNZS5U5QS5UUUH", "length": 236, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "songsear.ch", "title": "Dancing on my own by KATO", "raw_content": "on Flamingo (2011)\nI'm in the corner, watching you kiss her\nI'm right over here, why can't you see me\nO-o-oh...\nI'm spinnin around in circles\nBut you don't see me standing here ( I just came to say goodbye)\n(I keep dancing on my own...)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sosclassifieds.net/about-south-okanagan-and-similkameen-classifieds", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:L52WDRTYA22PL2IHCGPBLPE4RMZ6WPCP", "length": 449, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "sosclassifieds.net", "title": "About South Okanagan and Similkameen Classifieds | South Okanagan and Similkameen Classifieds", "raw_content": "About South Okanagan and Similkameen Classifieds\nSouth Okanagan Similkameen Classifieds is free and open to the public. This website is for commercial and personal use. Sell your used or new items! Post classifieds, events, and announcements. There is a job board for people looking for work and an Employment form for employers to post jobs.\nPlease keep all content related to the South Okanagan and Similkameen valleys in British Columbia, Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 145.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://staging.patreon.com/oakeshott", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RTJIPE3UFQPVQ6FQPT662ZU366V2MPNC", "length": 4596, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "staging.patreon.com", "title": "The Oakeshott Institute is creating 3d models, photos, and articles on historic arms and armor | Patreon", "raw_content": "The Oakeshott Institute is creating 3d models, photos, and articles on historic arms and armor\nHere at The Oakeshott Institute, our mission is to promote scholarship and interest in ancient arms and armor.\nWe are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established by Christopher Poor in 2000. The Institute is named after the late Ewart Oakeshott, a leading authority on European arms and armor. Ewart and his wife Sybil Marshal spent a lifetime researching and collecting swords. The collection, now entrusted to The Oakeshott Institute, contains more than 75 pieces and spans nearly 4000 years of history.\nIt was Ewart and Sybil's charge that the collection be a means to bring history alive to people today, not just as relics behind glass but as living objects from our past. Ewart firmly believed that to truly experience the sword one needed to touch it. He would say \u201ca sword is a sad, lifeless object \u2013 but hold it in your hands and it comes to life!\u201d A major goal in forming the Institute was to provide a space where both scholars and the public could share in the unique experience of interacting with historical pieces.\nAs part of our mission to support all those with an interest in the past, we created the Historical Sword Documentation Project. This database creates an ever growing record for enthusiasts around the globe, allowing access to specifications of swords throughout the ages.\nThe Oakeshott Institute\u2019s Historical Sword Documentation Project advances to a new level with our three-dimensional modelling of the collection. This cutting edge advancement is the latest in The Oakeshott Institute's efforts to further realize Ewart and Sybil's dream. Allowing access to detailed images of the pieces and the ability to manipulate them in the round creates a new level of understanding for these objects for scholars at all levels. This will also allow us to produce unique content that will help raise funds to further this work allowing greater access for all.\nThis Patreon campaign is an invitation to join our efforts as we build up this digital archive.\nWhile this is a project that is a personal passion for many of us, our ability to produce content right now is restricted to the equipment we have on hand and the free time available to us. Your contributions will go towards improving our tools and compensating our staff to continue this work in a regular manner.\nWhile the items depicted here currently are from our collection, as we expand our catalog of documented items you will see pieces from other private and public collections. The technology for these interactive displays is a great step forward for the research and study of these pieces and we look forward to partnering with others as we follow our mission to increase knowledge and understanding history as Ewart and Sybil tasked us to do.\nIf you like the work we do and simply want to ensure it continues, this is the tier for you. Thank you for your support, and know that we at The Oakeshott Institute appreciate every contribution, big or small.\nSkofnung\nThe foundation of our effort, this tier is where the real work begins. You gain access to one additional model per month, to be released on the third Monday of the month.\nYour curiosity has driven you to take that extra step. As a reward, you now gain access to downloadable versions of a selection of the models.\nThe history of the sword is an essential part of your life, and your patronage demonstrates it. This tier entitles you to all the above rewards. In addition, you will receive access to behind the scenes photos, sketches, and notes. You will also be able to vote on the next piece released.\nA true friend of The Oakeshott Institute, you are carrying our burden, and consider ours a worthy cause. You will receive all the above rewards as well as a limited run t-shirt once every six months from The Oakeshott Institute.\nAn integral part of our effort, your contribution cannot be understated. In addition to the above rewards, you are entitled to a private guided tour of The Oakeshott Collection each year.\nA member of our most elite, you are invited to join us to discuss your favorite swords. Our conversation will be recorded and released as a podcast for the public.\nWith this level of support, we will be able to dedicate serious resources to the archiving and modelling of the collection. Equipment will be upgraded, techniques will be refined, and people will be compensated for their hard effort and time. At $2500/mo, we will release an additional model to the public per month.\nRecent posts by The Oakeshott Institute", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 10189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://standard-art.org/exhibitions/the-city-starts-to-shake/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FD6QSCL2R2WMTXH5PSWRHVDPCD2SACD2", "length": 1476, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "standard-art.org", "title": "The City Starts to Shake-Robert Andrew Smyth \u2013 STANDARD", "raw_content": "The City Starts to Shake-Robert Andrew Smyth\nThe City Starts To Shake: Paintings by Robert Andrew Smyth\nInauguraci\u00f3n: 22 Julio 2016\nAt the most fundamental level the work explores the metaphysical nature of the relationship between viewer & object: how is the interpretation of an image altered by the likes of association and suggestion, and what does this mean for the notion of artistic objects being entities in their own right.\nThe purpose of deliberately combining compositions, titles and subjects typical of Renaissance & Gothic works with execution methods drawn from Arte Povera and Tachisme is to create intriguing visual paradigms themed by esotericism, eschatology and philosophical references. In so doing, the intention is to return the act of pictorial interaction to that of being a spiritually guided experience and thus broaden interpretation out beyond the literal.\nSmyth Studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the early nineties. After graduating in 1993 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art, he was awarded Visiting Lectureship in Printmaking at Eastbourne College of Art. A continued interest in art education led to postgraduate study at Cambridge University and appointment as Art Master at Lancing College. After a move to Scotland and several years of freelance design practice, he relocated to Ireland.\nHis works are held in various private collections across Ireland, UK, France and Germany. Website: http://www.saatchiart.com/robertandrewsmyth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://statementsofpurpose.com/entries/medical-school/medical-school-professional-writing-service", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2MUBHNWEUT7PCSRWIGKRBZ7WJZBAPXD5", "length": 4175, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "statementsofpurpose.com", "title": "Medical School, Chiropractic", "raw_content": "Medical School, Chiropractic\nMy path to and fascination with Chiropractic medicine began in the most unlikely of places, namely the football field of my high school. As a football player, the physicality of the sport was a playful extension of what I would later come to enjoy in my work, namely kinesthetic work, and hands-on experiences that became a way of life for me. I learned that I had a natural ability, a gentler hand when needed, one extended in caring, with the strongest of desires to heal. I learned early on the benefits and sheer joy of a healthy lifestyle, from eating right, to proper levels of exercise. Chiropractic medicine would provide me with the balance that I seek in my professional work, the holistic balance and approach to the patient, with a complete understanding of physiology with a constant eye towards preventative care.\nEarning my doctorate and board certification will enable me to bring my ambitions, goals my dreams to reality. Upon building my exposure in the field through helping individuals with physical limitations, I aim to bring my successes to private practice and use them as a jumping off point for sustainable contributions to the community. It is my strongest belief that a health community is a healthy family. Our approach to healthcare can be made that much more effective through strategic coordination of volunteerism in the form of outreach, and thus the healthcare profession can then go on to increase the quality of service, even on greater levels than before, all the way up to the national level.\nI bring with me to the medical program a solid academic foundation in undergraduate Health Science coupled with 90 credits of pre-med courses, and grounding in Biological Science combined with research assistant experiences. In the field, I have maintained half a decade of conceptual continuity, a commitment to EMT and Family Medicine assistant work, work that has practiced and solidified a great deal of my clinical acumen, and left me eager to learn that much more, and contribute on a larger scale than ever before. Earning my MD is more than a logical choice for my career, it is a natural one given my sensibilities and heartfelt desire to serve, learn and bring about positive outcomes for all of my patients.\nMoreover, I have actively sought out and procured volunteer experiences in nursing homes that have brought me into direct contact with seniors, an appreciation for their assorted needs and the caring working environment. What is more, the work increased my maturity, sense of responsibility, confidence, self-efficacy and interpersonal communication skills within a task-oriented environment. Further proof of my desire for lifelong learning can be found in my having earned EMT certification post-high school, immersing myself in many aspects of first-responder and emergency care.\nThe US healthcare system is only increasing its representation of diverse patients. I am not only fluent in Spanish, but also the Hispanic American experience, and feel I would be particularly sensitive to our Hispanic/Latino patients unique needs. In the most practical terms, I will be able to reach out to my Latino and Hispanic patients in their arterial language, increasing the accuracy of treatment, reducing error and increasing my patients sense of importance and relevance in the healing process.\nPalmer College stood out to me from the background noise of other schools and chiropractic programs. Here was not just the finest, but also the first chiropractic college ever in the history of the world. From this school, all other chiropractic programs were established by Palmer alumni. I would consider it a privilege and an honor to be able to trace the lineage of my training back to the very first Palmer graduating class. Moreover, the breadth, autonomy and relevance of the curriculum struck me as being the finest I could possibly be involved in, delivered by faculty that I truly want to learn from and emulate.Thank you for your time and consideration.\nTags writing service medical school chiropractic chiropractor sample personal statement for medical school free help samples resume examples", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stdavids.com/hl/?/14776", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TZG3T2EXJ2ZOVUOPFGFON4NCXGKRXEU6", "length": 3959, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "stdavids.com", "title": "Breast Augmentation | St. David's HealthCare", "raw_content": "Breast augmentation is a surgery to increase the size or change the shape of your breasts.\nThis procedure may be done for:\nCosmetic reasons\u2014to increase breast size, make breasts symmetrical, or improve breast shape and/or contour\nReconstructive reasons\u2014to increase the size of breasts that have been injured or after surgery, such as following a mastectomy for breast cancer\nPainful and/or restricted arm and shoulder motion\nUneven appearance of breasts, either due to position or size\nDifficulty breastfeeding\nImplant hardens, ruptures, leaks, or deflates\nImplant may make cancer detection with mammogram and/or self-exam more difficult\nThe need to have more surgeries, including having the implants removed\nSmoking may increase the risk of complications.\nThis is an elective surgery. If you have any illnesses or you are in poor health, you should not have this procedure.\nSilicone-filled breast implants are not designed to last a lifetime. They typically need to be removed within 10 years. Your risk for complications increases the longer you have the implants.\nYou may be asked to provide a picture of a woman whose breasts you want yours to resemble. You also may be asked to look through an album of breast sizes and shapes to help the doctor understand the outcome you desire. Computer imaging may also be used to help determine desired results.\nPhysical exam, including a careful breast exam\nTake photos for comparison\nYou may be asked to shower the morning of your procedure. You may be given special antibacterial soap to use.\nLocal anesthesia may be used, but general anesthesia is usually used. With general anesthesia, you will be asleep. With local anesthesia, the selected area will be numb.\nA cut in the skin will be made either underneath your breast, alongside the area around the nipple, in your underarm, or in your belly button. An implant or prosthesis will be placed through the incision. The implant can contain silicone gel or can be filled with salt water after it is placed. It may be placed between the skin/breast tissue and the muscle, underneath the connective tissue of the muscle, or under the muscle itself. You may or may not have a drainage tube placed around the implant. The incision will be closed with stitches and bandaged. The same procedure may be repeated for the other breast.\nSide View of Breast Implantation\nAnesthesia prevents pain during surgery. You may have some bruising and tenderness of the breasts for several weeks after surgery. Talk to your doctor about medication to help manage the pain.\nThis procedure may be done in the hospital or surgery center. It may be possible to leave the hospital or surgery center on the same day of the procedure, or you may be asked to stay overnight in the hospital. Talk to your doctor about your options.\nYou will wear a special bra or bandage to put pressure on the breasts. This will help to support your breasts and decrease the chance of bleeding.\nYour doctor may advise you to massage or move your implants.\nBe sure that you follow-up with your doctor. For silicone gel implants, you will need routine MRI scan screenings to check for tears or holes in the implant. The screenings are typically done three years after surgery and every two years after that.\nDiscoloration in either breast\nImplants grow hard, or you believe that they are leaking\nPain and/or swelling in your feet, calves, or legs\nBreast Implant Information\nhttp://www.breastimplantinfo.org\nhttp://www.plasticsurgery.ca\nBreast augmentation. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Smart Beauty Guide website. Available at: http://www.smartbeautyguide.com/procedures/breast/breast-augmentation. Accessed September 1, 2017.\nSilicone gel-filled breast implants. US Food & Drug Administration website. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/productsandmedicalprocedures/implantsandprosthetics/breastimplants/ucm063871.htm. Updated February 3, 2017. Accessed September 1, 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 367, "original_length": 22795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://steeleroberts.co.nz/product/fishing-from-the-boat-ramp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:08Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2VWF5NK5Y3HBWIUI4LSJP2WOR2P3OG4", "length": 886, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "steeleroberts.co.nz", "title": "Fishing from the Boat Ramp \u2013 Steele Roberts Aotearoa", "raw_content": "A book to inspire, impel and sustain the person who wishes to live creatively.\nSKU: 978-1-877448-79-9 Category: Art Tags: Creative writing, how to, literature, new age\nAn allegory about a writer who struggles with her craft, with motivation and most of all with doubt. One day a guide, whom she calls Godfrey, turns up. From winter till spring, on the beach where the writer lives, in the mountains and by the valleys and vines, the writer asks and Godfrey explains: what it is, this creative life, how to live it, and how to keep on going.\nJillian Sullivan writes fiction and non-fiction for children, teenagers and adults. Her work in\u00adcludes four novels, three collections of stories and over sixty short stories published in NZ and the US. Here she has won the Tom Fitzgibbon Award and the Maurice Gee Prize in Children\u2019s Writing, and in the US, the Highlights Fiction Award \u2013 twice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stlrecord.com/stories/tag/141-personal-injury", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:17Z", "digest": "sha1:F5XPE2GOTKI5KTDYAWFUUIOHL7BVQWIX", "length": 2326, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "stlrecord.com", "title": "Personal Injury News | St. Louis Record", "raw_content": "ST. LOUIS \u2013 A woman alleges she was injured in a collision at a St. Louis intersection caused by a driver who violated a red light.\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A woman is seeking damages from a janitorial service provider after falling allegedly because of a recently mopped floor at a St. Louis school.\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A driver is seeking more than $25,000 in compensatory damages over a rear-end collision in St. Louis.\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A Cahokia, Illinois man has filed a suit against the city of St. Louis after he was struck by a vehicle that lost control after hitting a patch of ice.\nPassenger alleges Uber driver violated stop sign in St. Louis collision\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A passenger has filed suit against an Uber driver over allegations the driver violated a stop sign and collided with another vehicle in St. Louis.\nBus passenger seeks more than $25,000 from Servpro Holding, others over St. Louis collision\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A bus passenger has filed a suit against several defendants over alleged injuries he sustained when the bus was struck on a St. Louis street.\nPedestrian alleges St. Louis failed to warn of hole in area that caused her to fall\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A pedestrian alleges the city of St. Louis failed to warn of a hole of a grassy area that caused her to fall and injure her knee.\nMan alleges FedEx driver failed to stop at stop sign, caused collision in St. Louis\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A vehicle passenger alleges he sustained fractures to his sternum and ribs in a collision with a FedEx driver.\nWoman struck by transport cart at Busch Stadium seeks more than $25,000 over alleged injuries\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A woman is seeking more than $25,000 over alleged shoulder and other injuries she sustained when she was struck by a transport cart at Busch Stadium.\nDriver alleges collision at St. Louis intersection caused injuries to head, neck\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A driver alleges her neck and head were injured in a collision at a St. Louis intersection.\nWoman alleges St. Louis auto accident caused $20,000 in medical expenses\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A woman alleges she was injured in an auto accident in St. Louis allegedly caused by a driver's failure to yield to the right of way.\nMore than $25,000 sought from St. Louis driver over collision with motorcycle\nST. LOUIS \u2013 A motorcycle rider is seeking more than $25,000 from a St. Louis woman over a collision in the city.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stock.atmosphaeres.com/video/355/Stream+In+California+Redwood+Forest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ6HTAWZUXOC3HFLAQ6OZ7N6YDFCMLC4", "length": 614, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "stock.atmosphaeres.com", "title": "Nature VR 360 Video - Stream In California Redwood Forest", "raw_content": "Beech Forest, Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia\nStream In California Redwood Forest | Clip ID 355\nThe Great Otway National Park, also called The Otways, is a national park located in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia. The 103,185-hectare national park is situated approximately 162 kilometres southwest of Melbourne.Beauchamp Falls are located in a magnificent mountain ash forests with large myrtle beech, blackwood and thick ferns.\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Otway_National_Park\nTitle Stream In California Redwood Forest\nLocation Beech Forest, Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 4606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 232.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://streetsofnaija.net/2019/02/13/omg-nollywood-actress-madam-saje-is-60-years-old-already/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7N4KXNF65WX7AW3SJGPNKS4JIMUTHDGM", "length": 4682, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "streetsofnaija.net", "title": "OMG! Nollywood actress Madam Saje is 60 years old already - Streetsofnaija", "raw_content": "OMG! Nollywood actress Madam Saje is 60 years old already\nVeteran actress Madam Seje recently marked her 60th in style. The sexagenarian released lovely photos on her Instagram page as she thanked God for life. Birthdays happen once in a year and for Fausat Abeni, popularly known as Madam Saje it is a day of celebration and happiness as she clocks a new age and finally hits the 60 mark. To celebrate her new age, the veteran actress shared lovely photos on social media and thanked God for being good to her.\nThe birthday lady posed in lovely outfits gifted to her and thanked her fans for their support and love for her on the occasion of her birthday. Madam Saje has made a name for herself in the movie industry. Having been gracing screens since the 1990s, Saje has made a mark for herself and has remained relevant till this day. As she clocked 60 on February 13, many fans and followers have sent in their love and birthday messages to wish the lovely woman well as she journeys through life and keeps blessing the world with her talent.\nIn a recent interview with City People has revealed why many marriages in Nollywood especially in the Yoruba movie genre is crashing like a Domino.\nMadam Saje is regarded as the most featured veteran Yoruba actress, who joined acting at age 10 under the tutelage of her boss, Rafiu Balogun whom she later married when she was age 18 and their union is blessed with wonderful children. At City People Corporate Office in Gbagada last week, she was asked about fans\u2019 admiration and whether they ask her out as they ask many actresses out after seeing them on TV, the Kwara State-born thespian said, \u201cnobody has ever asked me out, maybe I wasn\u2019t destined to have many toasters.\nBut to be frank with you, there is no how you will be in that industry that such harassment won\u2019t surface but it depends on you as a person. Someone like me is now a big fish in that industry and there is nothing you can do again than to face your job and the well-being of your children. I pray for those who are facing challenges in their marriages today in the industry, may God almighty settle it for them. When asked her opinion on why many Nollywood marriages are crashing almost everytime, she said. \u201cIt is a bad thing to follow your colleagues\u2019 steps to define your own life.\nIf someone like me had tried that in the past, I wouldn\u2019t have gotten to where I am today, and I always advise them that we came to this world with different purposes. Taiwo\u2019s destiny is different from Kehinde\u2019s own. If you are mad at me, the way I am, you are just angry with God because that is the way he created me. I suffered before I got to where I am now. It is not as if I have money to that extent but I am contented with what I have. Many have travelled abroad before I did. A woman in London called Iya Isila has invited me on several occasion but I didn\u2019t force myself until and it was like a miracle.\nThere is no latecomer in success. I have been to London, America, Saudi-Arabia, Dubai and all that at my convenient time. Most of them want to belong, this is one of the reasons many marriages are crashing in the industry, may God change their mind for better so as to have a stable marriage. My fellow colleague has done this and I must do my own at all cost, do you know where he/she got the money? As a result, they involve themselves in things they are not meant to do which will cause crisis in the union\u201d.\nWe further asked her about the young actresses who are riding exotic cars worth N15million and more\u2026 \u201cwhere would I see money to buy such?\nThough, from the beginning, I don\u2019t like big cars like that because, where would I see money to fix the parts or maintain it? But that is the not the same case with our girls in the industry. My advice for the married ladies in the industry especially those whose husbands are also in the acting industry is that they should stay glued to their husbands because that is how it was destined to be, especially when you have kids for each other. Most married women stay in the marriage because of their children, not the husband because all men are the same. If you leave your children, it is as simple as you preparing them for sufferings because another wife will maltreat them.\nI, as a person can\u2019t leave my children for a minute. My husband married 2 wives and I nurtured my kids alongside my second wife.\nThis is because this life is too short to be creating enmity for yourself.\nI do tell ladies in the industry to be contented with their husbands because other men will always pretend to like you more meanwhile they just want to sleep with you and run away, that is why it pays to make your marriage tight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studio1on1.com/2010/10/07/a-handful-of-walnuts-a-day-may-help-keep-stress-away/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RVXIMA5O5WYMSUD2OIDYYWOX7J3XDUKO", "length": 443, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "studio1on1.com", "title": "A Handful of Walnuts a Day May Help Keep Stress Away | Studio 1-on-1 Fitness", "raw_content": "A Handful of Walnuts a Day May Help Keep Stress Away\nAmong people with high cholesterol (that\u2019s nearly one-third of American adults, for those keeping score at home), foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids may help reduce levels of LDL, or \u201cbad,\u201d cholesterol. Now a new study finds that some types of these polyunsaturated fats\u2014namely the alpha linolenic acid found in walnuts and flax seeds\u2014can also improve people\u2019s response to stress. Read more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sueberkelaustinlawyer.com/austin-criminal-law/drug-charges/possession-marijuana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3FT5N7JQQ6W5CAAEVPKQJCOWOQ5XN2BR", "length": 10867, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "sueberkelaustinlawyer.com", "title": "Austin Possession of Marijuana (POM) Lawyer | Texas Marijuana Defense Attorney", "raw_content": "Marijuana Possession Lawyer in Austin\nAs of 2017 Texas state law still carries harsh punishments for possession of marijuana (POM). If you're charged with marijuana possession in Austin, a top marijuana defense attorney can be the difference between a dismissed case and a permanent criminal record.\nPossession of marijuana can mean time behind bars\nThe criminal penalties for a conviction of POM in Austin are set by the Texas Health and Safety Code. They are determined primarily by the amount seized:\nPenalties for Possession of Marijuana in Texas\nLess than 2 ounces Class B Misdemeanor $2000 Max 6 months\n2\u20134 ounces Class A Misdemeanor $4000 Max 12 months\nMore than 4 ounces Felony $10000 Min 180 days\nAs a former prosecutor, Sue Berkel has over 30 years of experience with criminal drug charges in Austin. Call today for a free consultation.\nAbout Sue Berkel Schedule a consultation\nQuestions about Marijuana Possession in Austin\nHow can a top marijuana lawyer help me?\nAn attorney experienced with marijuana cases will be able to access the circumstances of your charge and find weaknesses or holes in the prosecution's case. For example, in order to use evidence against you, a police officer must have very specific reasons to conduct a search. If the officer did not obtain a warrant or otherwise failed to follow correct procedure, the evidence they gathered may not be admissible in court. Alternatively, a marijuana defense lawyer may be able to strike a deal with the prosecution to reduce your case to a lesser charge or delay ruling on your case.\nCan I get my POM charge dismissed?\nMany POM cases get dismissed in Travis County and Williamson County. While no guarantees can be made, having an experienced marijuana lawyer on your side will pay off considering the full range of problems a drug conviction can bring. Factors that affect the possibility of dismissal include the amount of marijuana, prior convictions, the legality of the search, and the willingness to take classes and/or perform community service.\nPenalties are set by the classification of the crime in the Texas state system, such as Class B Misdemeanor. Aggravating circumstances include being in a \"drug-free zone,\" showing evidence of marijuana cultivation or an intent to deliver, and prior convictions. If any of these exist, you can expect the crime classification to be escalated by one level. Drug convictions can result in fines, probation, community service, the suspension of your driver's license, jail time, and all the consequences that come with a permanent criminal record. See the laws section.\nHow does Travis County differ from Williamson County for POM?\nTravis County is often more lenient than neighboring Williamson County. Williamson County is considered by many to be the strictest county in Texas, in part because Williamson County prosecutors often insist on lengthy probation for POM charges. Whether you're in Williamson County or Travis County, seeking effective representation from a qualified drug charge lawyer will result in the most favorable outcome.\nDrug paraphernalia refers to accessories associated with the consumption, production, or distribution of illegal substances. For example, pipes and bongs, scales, plastic baggies, extra phones, or excessive amounts of cash could qualify. While not necessarily illegal on their own, the presence of these items during a drug arrest can escalate the charge\u2014for example, to possession with intent to deliver. In addition, \u00a7 481.125 of the Texas Health and Safety Code defines \"possession or delivery of drug paraphernalia\" as an offense in its own right.\nWhat is intent to deliver?\nPossession with intent to deliver a controlled substance is a separate and more serious crime in Texas. Intent to deliver can be proved in court by circumstantial evidence, without requiring an admission of guilt by the accused. Some factors that increase the likelihood of an intent to deliver charge include the amount of marijuana, the location of its seizure, the presence and type of paraphernalia, and the form of packaging used. If you're facing a charge for possession with intent to deliver, speak with a marijuana defense attorney about your arrest.\nWhat is a \"drug-free zone\"?\nWhile possession of marijuana is illegal in all parts of Texas, there is an additional definition of \"drug-free zones.\" Drug-free zones include schools, medical or dental units, public swimming pools, arcades, and many areas with a significant number of children present such as daycares, youth-oriented gyms, and playgrounds. POM penalties are enhanced in a drug-free zone and there is also risk for an accompanying charge of delivering marijuana to a child, a felony of the second degree. If you were in a drug free zone, contact a marijuana defense lawyer right away.\nWhat is a \"marijuana ticket\"?\nIn 2009, Austin police were given the option to \"cite and release\" people for possession of marijuana rather than arresting them and bringing them to jail. This policy allowed officers to issue Travis County residents a so-called marijuana ticket on the assumption they would later appear in court, which bypasses the jail booking process. However, the legal consequences of a marijuana ticket are just as serious as a formal arrest and booking for POM. It's still important to seek effective representation in a marijuana ticket case.\nWhat are federal charges?\nAny Austin marijuana lawyer can tell you that possession of the drug is prohibited on both the state and federal levels. This means that it is possible to be charged by the U.S. federal government, based in Washington, D.C., for possession of marijuana even if you're physically in the state of Texas. However, the federal government typically only gets involved in large-scale drug operations or trafficking marijuana between states. Nonetheless, if you're facing federal criminal charges, we are licensed to practice at the federal level and can represent you.\nTexas Laws on Marijuana Possession\nAccording to the FBI, there were over 135,000 Texas arrests for drug-related offenses in 2014. For Southern states, close to 50% of such arrests are for simple possession of marijuana. Therefore the number of POM arrests is comparable to all other drug-related charges combined.\nIf you're cited for possession of marijuana in Austin, the buds and seeds will count towards the total weight of the marijuana. The following penalties apply to marijuana possession depending on the weight range:\nFull Penalty Table for Texas Possession of Marijuana\n4 ounces\u20135 pounds State Jail Felony $10000 Min 180 days\n5 pounds\u201350 pounds 3rd Degree Felony $10000 2\u201310 years\n50 pounds\u20132000 pounds 2nd Degree Felony $10000 2\u201320 years\nMore than 2000 pounds 1st Degree Felony $50000 5\u201399 years\nHiring a Lawyer for Marijuana Concentrates\nAn increasingly common trend in Austin is the police seizure of marijuana edibles such as pot brownies. Texas law does not consider these substances marijuana, but rather drugs in Penalty Group 2. This penalty group includes many drugs generally considered more serious than marijuana, such as ecstasy, PCP, magic mushrooms, amphetamine, and mescaline. The penalty for a conviction of this type is a felony, which carries a mandatory jail sentence. You can be convicted for the possession of a Penalty Group 2 substance even if it is a very small amount.\nPenalties for Marijuana Derivatives\nLess than 1 gram State Jail Felony 180 days\u20132 years\n1\u20134 grams 3rd Degree Felony 2\u201310 years\n4\u2013400 grams 2nd Degree Felony 2\u201320 years\nMore than 400 grams 1st Degree Felony 5 years\u2013life\nAs if these punishments were not harsh enough for marijuana concentrate, there is an additional risk associated with possession of marijuana derivative products in Texas.\nIn a publicized 2014 case, a man in Round Rock was charged with possession of a large batch of marijuana brownies. Because the legal code counts \"adulterants and dilutants\" as part of a controlled substance's weight, the full weight of the brownies (over a pound) was used by the Williamson County prosecution in determining the amount of substance in possession by the defendant. A pound of a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance is classified as a first degree felony, which entails a mandatory sentence from five years to life in prison.\nThough the first-degree-felony charge in the Round Rock case was ultimately dropped, it underscored just how vulnerable Austin residents are to severe penalties if found in possession of cannabis edibles. Since the number of similar cases is very low, there is not a clear legal precedent for how possession of edibles will be handled by courts in Texas. If you have been charged with possession of any marijuana derivatives, it will be imperative to contact a seasoned criminal lawyer familiar with marijuana offenses.\nAdditional Consequences of a Marijuana Conviction\nA conviction of marijuana possession in Austin also triggers an automatic suspension of your driver's license for 6 months. If you are later charged with driving with a suspended license, jail time can be the result.\nAs with many convictions, a permanent criminal record can affect one's prospects for employment, education, credit, and housing in the future. It can also lead to problems traveling internationally.\nYou Need an Experienced Marijuana Lawyer\nThe Law Offices of Sue Berkel has extensive experience defending the rights of those accused of marijuana possession. Contact us today for a free consultation on your POM charge.\nSue Berkel has lived in Austin since 1976 and graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1980. She obtained her law degree from the University of Texas Law School in 1983. She has been licensed to practice in Texas since 1984 and in the Federal District Court in the Western District since 1986.\nMs. Berkel worked as Assistant Attorney General at the Texas Attorney General's Office, handling cases involving day care centers in which abuse or neglect was alleged. After more than one hundred trials and appellate arguments in both federal and state courts, she emerged with an over 90 percent win record. This experience as a former prosecutor gives Sue a valuable perspective in any marijuana possession case. She knows how prosecutors think and knows how to counter their arguments.\nMs. Berkel also served as a judge at the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings. She rose to the rank of Senior Administrative Law Judge, the highest designation offered. Together with experience as a prosecutor and a criminal defense lawyer, this experience as a judge makes Sue Berkel one of the most well rounded marijuana lawyers in the Austin area.\nMore about Sue Get started today\nResources on Marijuana Laws\nTexas Health and Safety Code\u2014difficult to read, but it's the official code\nFBI Uniform Crime Reports, 2014\u2014contains statistics on drug charges", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 14901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=3779", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GOZBOQVKOLNCDVWUMHRYUKZ3GTXHWJB6", "length": 943, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "suffolkartists.co.uk", "title": "Suffolk Artists - CRITOPH, Carol", "raw_content": "As Carol A. 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In addition she served as a warrant officer in the U.S. Army Reserves specializing in cyber security.\nSouth Carolina is her new home making it the tenth state where she\u2019s lived in addition to one country other than the United States. Time spent in other locations has given her a wealth of ideas for books. Now all she has to do is put them down on paper!\nAs an avid reader of romance for more years than she cares to admit she\u2019s wanted to write her own stories. Upon retirement she made that dream come true.\nInspiration for her books came from a number of sources. She wondered how young adults could deal with a failing economy. Did they have to cancel or drop out of college? Would they join the Army instead? Did they think the war in the Middle East would end soon? These thoughts along with the popular television series, Breaking Bad, were the seeds from which her first published book, After the Reunion, grew.\nWith its success, she decided to give her hero a brother, and After the Raid was born. Computer security specialist Lucinda Edwards is working with the FBI on a hacking/embezzlement case. When budget analyst Jason Meyers shows up, the two are forced to work together to find a rogue hacker, who may be threatening not only the government computers, but also their lives.\nHear all about it at Coffee With the Authors on April 11th. The event is free, but seating is limited so reservations are required. 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He allows me to be me and loves me unconditionally.\u201d \u201cI feel so lucky to have grown up surrounded by strong, driven, independent women. The life lessons I\u2019ve learned from my sisters, my mother and my grandmother, I will pass along to my daughter. I want her to be proud of who she is. I want her to be comfortable in her body. I don\u2019t want her to grow up in a world where she is made to feel less-than for embracing everything it means to be a woman.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s 2016. The body-shaming and slut-shaming\u2014it\u2019s like, enough is enough. I will not live my life dictated by the issues you have with my sexuality. You be you and let me be me.\u201d \u201cI am a mother. 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We want to make money now so we don\u2019t work over long stretches of time until, despite our cries, time is stretched for us and, at some point, we will have to embrace it: in order to build wealth, we must forego expediency.\nThat means we must take the winding road less traveled, meander, take the roundabouts of the financial markets, which bends our perception of time. Taking the right in order to reach the left and vice-versa. In a sense, we must love losing money in order to make it.\nAs once stated by Dr. Van Tharp, we don\u2019t trade the markets themselves but only our perception of them. Therefore, the markets, and by mere logic, the strategies we use to approach them, are not a plug-and-play solution to make money (for some, still more like a plug-and-pray).\n\u201cAnd the road goes on forever.\nAnd I\u2019ve got one more silver dollar.\nBut I\u2019m not gonna let them catch me no\nFED\u2019s U-turn sent the market volatility to 2018\u2019s 15.0 support level. Low VIX equals no risk, right? No. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It\u2019s not because the market participants do not perceive the risk that it\u2019s not there at all. It just reveals their complacency towards risk, implicating in more risk\u00ad taking and leveraging. Time to buy protection. Safe sex or no sex at all.\nHow to use leverage to control an expensive stock\nIn this video, Coach Noah Davidson explains how you can use leverage to control an asset using a fraction of the money you think you would need to buy that asset.\nTrading Justice Blog\nIdentify Priorities and Stay Focused\nOne challenge in all our lives is to find the time, energy and attitude to do what\u2019s important, at the right time, and make an impact. Why? Because we\u2019re all busy. Extremely busy. If you have kids, work responsibility, participate in community or church organizations you know what I\u2019m talking about. And, that doesn\u2019t include hobbies, personal development and the things that really matter.\nTags: allman brothers, dr van tharp, financial markets, leverage, mark spitznagel, midnight rider, risk, roundabout, VIX", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 5327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://takelessons.com/profile/alyssa-w12?service=shakespearean-acting&online=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NXAK2VXTNRRVGIKXMR3VZZL6Z3FCHLUB", "length": 4851, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "takelessons.com", "title": "Alyssa W., Online Teacher | Teaches Private Lessons Online", "raw_content": "Ask Alyssa a Question\nReserve your spot with Alyssa\nHaving both earned Masters Degrees from The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University, Thomas K and Alyssa W combine for more than 25 years of professional theatrical experience. In 2017, they were named as two of \"DC's 12 Stage Dynamos.\"\nAlyssa should be familiar to most Washington theatre-goers, having recently appeared in Ford's Theatre's production of the Tony-nominated Broadway hit, Come From Away. That same year, she received the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of the iconic Maggie the Cat, in Round House Theatre's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 2017/18, Alyssa will appear in The Kennedy Center's World Premiere production of Digging Up Dessa, as well as the US Premiere of Botticelli In the Fire, at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.\nMost widely known for his portrayal of Ensign Baker in AMC's revolutionary war drama, TURN: Washington's Spies (available on Netflix), Thomas has been seen on HBO's VEEP, as well as CBS's Madam Secretary and Elementary. In the DC area, Thomas has recently appeared in Angels in America at Round House Theatre, Watch on the Rhine at Arena Stage, and The Death of a Salesman at Ford's Theatre, where he can be seen this winter, in the US Premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Jefferson's Garden.\nAlyssa teaches\nActing, Film Acting, Film and TV Acting, Method Acting, Shakespearean Acting, Theater Acting\nAlyssa passed a background check that includes a SSN verification, national criminal record check, and sex offender registry search. Learn More\nAlyssa delivers an exceptional lesson experience and ranks in the top 15% of our teachers nationwide.\nFemales 16 to 70 and males 16 to 60\nI have been a professional actor since 2003 and have been working and living in the DC area for the last 7 years. I have been a proud member of Actors Equity Association since 2009. I have coached privately for over a decade and specialize in audition preperation for both undergraduate and graduate submissions, as well as upcoming productions. I am also an accomplished voice over artist and can facilitate the creation of your very own demo reel. Named one of D.C. 12 acting dynamos to watch in 2017 by the Washington Post.\nRoundhouse Theater\nPerformances begin 2018\nNumerous Playreading/Workshops\nMosaic Theater\nFickle: A Fancy French Farce\nNo Rules Theater CO.\nBFA Theater\nCertified Actor Combatant\nRapier and Daggar\nDouble Handed Broad Sword\nHelen Hayes Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Nomination\nTheatre Washington\nHelen Hayes award Winner for Best Ensemble\nHelen Hayes Award Winner Best Lead Actress in a Play\nThe Capitol Hill Arts Workshop's (CHAW's) mission is to build community through the arts. It is a community-based, not-for-profit organization founded in 1972 by Sally Crowell and other community members who were interested in sharing their artistic expertise with children and adults. Arts instruction classes were held in several Capitol Hill churches until, in the late 1970's, the organization obtained the use of the old B.B. French School (545 Seventh St, SE) from the District of Columbia government.\nPhoto shoot with Washington Post!\nOn set for a recent film \u201cLast Strike\u201d\nPhoto still from Last Stike Film\nVoice overs!\nNicholas Jan 22, 2019\nAlyssa is great. She has an in-depth knowledge of multiple teaching techniques that will help you improve as an actor. She is also extremely flexible and will tailor lessons to focus on what aspects of acting you wish to improve and what teaching methods help the most.\nAmazing B. Mar 11, 2018\nThe children had a wonderful experience as a beginner in acting. They were comfortable with her coaching style and looking forward to next week.\nDorea Jan 15, 2018\nAlyssa is AWESOME! She coached me on an audition piece and her insight was invaluable. I booked the job and I'm sure it was in part because of the work we did together. She has a wonderful energy and a keen eye, and creates a safe, welcoming space to play and try new things. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a coach- whether you're new to acting or are already established.\nThomas Jan 5, 2018\nAlyssa has coached me on dozens of professional auditions, helping me refine and specify my work, and raising my preparedness to the highest levels. There is no one I trust more to help me improve, and the positivity she brings to the work room is contagious.\nAlyssa was extremely practiced and knew exactly how to help me strengthen my performance without ever making me feel like I had failed. She instructed me with incredible grace and efficiency, even given our close deadline. Even when I brought her material neither of us had seen before, she expertly found the best route to telling the story and maximizing the effect of the language.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 8378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tariqjaved.com/patient-education/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:PU4DXUGXZLE36P4HO5OGCWYBPNEGUUTT", "length": 3147, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "tariqjaved.com", "title": "Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - Dr. Tariq Javed, MD Atlanta, GA", "raw_content": "Traumatic brain injury: brain injury due to impact on the head. Can be life threatening if serious and/or untreated.\nTraumatic brain injury (also known as TBI) is an injury to the head as a result of hard impact or a piercing injury that disturbs the normal functioning of the brain. TBI can occur if something hits the head violently or when an object breaks the cranium and penetrates the brain tissue. Damage to brain tissues may result in changes in personality, mental state or consciousness. Traumatic brain injuries can be mild, moderate or acute depending on the degree of damage to the brain tissue. A mild TBI can cause small changes to the functions of the brain and temporary unconsciousness. A severe TBI can cause long periods of unconsciousness and coma. A severe TBI can also be life threatening.\nThe cause of traumatic brain injury is damage to the tissues of brain. Brain tissues can be damaged as a result of a sudden violent blow, jolt, bump to the head or other types of head injuries. Almost 50% of traumatic brain injuries are caused by motor vehicle accidents. Military personnel are at a greater risk of suffering from traumatic brain injuries; this is due to there being a higher probability of head injury both during training and while on the battle field.\nThe symptoms of TBI may not appear immediately after an impact to the head. Symptoms may begin to appear a few days or even a week following the impact. Examples of TBI symptoms include:\nExcretion of spinal fluid (thin water-like fluid) from ears or nose\nProblems with balance and lack of coordination\nSlower rate of breathing with higher blood pressure\nChanges in hearing ability\nConfusion and lack of cognitive function\nDifficulty in moving body parts or paralysis\nState of coma or semi-comatose\nVision problems (e.g., double vision, blurred vision, difficulty tolerating light)\nDiagnosis of TBI\nThe diagnosis of traumatic brain injury is often self-evident. A person who has suffered an impact to the head should have a thorough medical examination to determine if a TBI has occured. The following techniques are typically used to diagnose a TBI.\nPhysical examination: A physical examination is conducted to reveal functional problems with hearing, sight, balance and coordination.\nNeuropsychological evaluation: Psychological and mental evaluation may be carried out to find out whether the brain is functioning normally.\nCT Scans and MRI scans can be used to visualize internal injuries and internal bleeding within the skull.\nThe following treatment options can be used depending on the severity of TBI.\nSurgical treatment: Surgery is used to remove any blood clots (hematomas) from the head. Removing blood clots will reduce pressure on the surrounding brain tissues.\nObservation: Patients who have undergone surgery are closely monitored in the intensive care unit. The patients who have suffered mild TBI and have not undergone surgery are also monitored to detect the development of any complications.\nMedicinal treatment: Currently, there are no medications that can prevent nerve damage or facilitate the healing of a nerve after damage has occurred.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 205.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tarotforthetimes.org/2012/12/29/the-fool-ive-always-wanted-to-live-in-a-tree-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LIMVLMUZWVLIYVPA2F4KRSY4HH2GH3GT", "length": 1558, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "tarotforthetimes.org", "title": "The Fool: I\u2019ve Always Wanted to Live In a Tree House \u2013 TAROT FOR THE TIMES", "raw_content": "The Fool: I\u2019ve Always Wanted to Live In a Tree House\nThe card of the day is the FOOL.\nThere is no better card that illustrates the desire for freedom, adventure, and a generally spontaneous existence than the Fool. With the clothes on your back, a walking stick, a few lucky charms, and a casual pack \u2013 you are ready to hit the road! What\u2019s great about this card is that you can take what appears to be a risk and know that your faith (optimism, innocence) will protect you. Now I know some of you might say, that\u2019s crazy talk (because I know you are no fool), but maybe your leap of faith looks like this:\nAre you about to quit your high paying job in favor of pursuing a crazy entrepreneurial dream? Do you want to move to a new city with less than $100 in your pocket? Are you a life-long urban dweller who wants to buy a house in the country?\nThe appearance of the Fool tells me there is a risk that you really want to take, but only you will know if the risk is worth it. Sometimes you just don\u2019t know until you do it. The advice is to stay positive, keep moving forward (toward your dream), and to ask for help as it is needed along the way.\nTaking your trapeze cats on the road? Let\u2019s talk! We would love to hear about the crazy adventure you want to take in the comments section below.\nCategories Archives, Major Arcana\u2022Tags Major Arcana, tarot and adventure, tarot and freedom, tarot and risks, Tarot Card of the Day, the fool\nPrevious 5 of Wands: Can\u2019t We All Just Get Along?\nNext Ace of Cups: The Key to Emotional, Intuitive, and Creative Wellness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tatmitropolia.ru/english/monastyri/sevlak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SC6VZDCBR2VFVKRQEAJXGLXMP2KA7L35", "length": 6591, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "tatmitropolia.ru", "title": "Seven Lakes Hermitage of the Mother of God | \u041f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0435 \u0432 \u0422\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0435 | \u041f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u043b \u0422\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0438", "raw_content": "Seven Lakes Hermitage of the Mother of God\nThe Seven Lakes Hermitage of the Mother of God\n420099 Republic of Tatarstan\nVysokogorny district, Sedmiozerka village\nThe Hermitage was founded in the same way like many other monasteries did in Russia. In 1615 Schema-monk Evfimy who came from the city of Veliky Ustiug settled in a deserted place, which was visited only by the aboriginal pagan Cheremis tribes. Soon other monks and novices who heard much about the ascetic deeds of the blessed elder began to settle next to him. The monastery was officially established in 1627. Originally, the monastery was named in honor of the Ascension. Shortly after the Archbishop of Kazan transferred Schema-monk Evfimy to the Savior\u2019s Transfiguration Monastery of Kazan Kremlin, where he later deceased. For a long time the monastery was small and poor. In 1649 there were 27 monks who lived on gardening.\nThe Hermitage was transformed into a coenobitic monastery in 1816. In 1884 it was handed over the personal administration of the ruling bishops of Kazan, who became the priors of the Seven Lakes Hermitage since then.\nThe main shrine of the hermitage was the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Smolensk and Seven Lakes. The founder of the hermitage, Schema-monk Evfimy, brought the icon from the city of Veliky Ustiug, where it had been kept by his family long since. Evfimy donated the miracle-working image to the monastery with blessing of the ruling bishop. In 1654 the plague epidemic broke out. It was raging in the Volga region of Russia. A third of Kazan citizens died of it. That time a pious nun Marfa saw in her sleep an apparition of the Mother of God, who told to her that her miracle-working icon \u201cOf Seven Lakes\u201d should be carried out from the monastery to Kazan, and that the clergy and secular administration should give it a solemn reception with a cross-carrying procession. After all these orders were fulfilled, the plague epidemic stopped. Since that time Metropolitan Lavrenty gave orders to arrange the annual processions of carrying the miracle-working image from the monastery to Kazan to be performed on June 26, at the same place where later on the Kyzichesky (of Kyzicus martyrs) Monastery arose. Within a month the icon used to be carried from one temple of Kazan to another. Besides, one more annual procession of carrying the icon to Kazan took place from September 9 to October 1. The miracles worked by the icon of the Mother of God of Smolensk and Seven Lakes won the fame for the monastery, which was annually visited by thousands of pilgrims. At present the miracle-working icon is kept at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Kazan.\nThe elder Gavriil (Zyryanov, born in 1844, died in 1915) contributed one more vivid page to the history of the monastery. The Venerable Gavriil descended from the peasants of the Perm province. For ten years he was a novice of the famous Optina Hermitage and then the ecclesial disciple of Venerable Amvrosy of Optina. In Moscow he took monastic tonsure under the name of Tikhon, and then by the instruction of the elders of Optina he left Moscow for Raifa. Soon he went to the Hermitage of Seven Lakes, where he resided from 1883 to 1908. In 1894 he was invested with the great schema, and in 1900 he was appointed father-superior of the Hermitage at the request of the ruling bishop. Owing to the elder Gavriil\u2019s diligence, a new two-storey temple in honor of St. Euthymius the Great and St. Tikhon of Zadonsk was constructed in 1898-1899 to read unceasing the Psalter to the deceased. Venerable Gavriil was one of he most esteemed Russian elders, who gained the indisputable authority by the end of 19th \u2013 the beginning of the 20th century. From 1908 to 1915 he resided at the monastery of the Savior and St. Eleazar in the vicinity of Pskov city. In 1915 he left the monastery of the Savior and St. Eleazar for the Hermitage of Seven Lakes, but he did not reach his destination. Having arrived in Kazan, elder Gavriil deceased at his disciple\u2019s apartment at the Theological Academy. The elder Gavriil was buried in the Hermitage of Seven Lakes, at the Church of St. Euthymius the Great built under his guidance. In 1997 Schema-archimandrite Gavriil was canonized. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Hermitage was very large and beautiful monastery. The Ascension Cathedral and the Church of the icon of the Mother of God of Smolensk both were constructed in the second half of the 17th century. About that time the monastery was surrounded with a stone wall. In the 19th century five stone houses were built inside the walls. In 1881 a high bell-tower was erected. The Hermitage of Seven Lakes resembled the Raifa Monastery by the history of foundation and the outward view. The deference is that the Hermitage of Seven Lakes after it had been closed in 1926, it was for the most part destroyed. When the Hermitage was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1997, there remained only the fraternity building constructed in 1893, some parts of walls of the alms-house, and the two-storey temple in honor of St. Euthymius the Great and St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. It was the church where elder Gavriil was buried. The relics of elder Gavriil were saved from the profanation during the soviet time. Nowadays, divided in two parts they rest in the Hermitage of Seven Lakes, and in the Church of St. Ioann of Kronstadt in Kazan. Besides, there is kept in the monastery a miracle-working copy of the icon of the Mother of God \u201cOf Seven Lakes\u201d, which is particularly venerated. Not far from the monastery there are two holy springs.\nAt present, the restoration works are in progress at the monastery. The church and the fraternity building have already been restored. The monastic facilities are well organized. Other buildings, as well as the fence are under reconstruction.\nMonastic community of Seven Lakes Hermitage\nSuperior: Hegumen German (Kuzmin). Treasery: hierodeacon Agapit (Bortsov). Dwellers: hieromonk Avraamy (Bobrov), Fr. Rostislav Loginov, hierodeacon Nil (Komlev), deacon Valery (Volkov), Schema-monk Panteleimon (Efremov), rassaphore monk Lazar (Miniakhmetov), rassaphore monk Ioann (Krainov), rassaphore monk Antipa (Akhmetshin).\nRaifa Monastery of the Mother of God Holy Dormition Monastery of Sviyazhsk St. John the Forerunner Monastery Monastery of Kyzicus Martyrs St. Makary Hermitage \u2190 Seven Lakes Hermitage of the Mother of God Holy Dormition Convent on Zilant Hill Yelabuga Convent of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 10666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teamropingjournal.com/news/heart-rodeo-season-24772", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QTVXGSXYLLNPLIKVRGEXH7FTEWHJK4DO", "length": 3302, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "teamropingjournal.com", "title": "Heart of the Rodeo Season - The Team Roping Journal", "raw_content": "Heart of the Rodeo Season\nJake Barnes talks about his rush back to the Finals with Junior Nogueira.\nThis is the heart of the rodeo season. Everyone\u2019s geared up to make a run for this year at every level of the game. Dreams of the NFR (Wrangler National Finals Rodeo) are on everyone\u2019s minds. It\u2019s like The Amazing Race, and everyone\u2019s prepared. Some guys have had a great winter and are off to a strong start. I didn\u2019t go hard the last year and a half, so I didn\u2019t get to go to all the winter rodeos. We had to go through qualifications at some of the major rodeos, like Denver. There\u2019s sort of been some starting over. I feel like we\u2019ve (Jake and Junior Nogueira) done well so far, but the true tale will be told over the summer run, including this month\u2019s Fourth of July rodeos.\nThings have changed so much in the last few years. A lot of the older veterans aren\u2019t going anymore, so you have so many new faces in the industry. There\u2019s just so much young talent out there, and some of those young guys have been out here for a couple years now. Those guys have high expectations now.\nSeveral of us older veterans are also out here pushing to try and get back to the Finals. It\u2019s a little bit different for me this year having a new partner who\u2019s a rookie. Some of the money he won early this winter didn\u2019t count, because of the time it took to process his card after he filled his permit. So we\u2019re going to have to have a good summer to get us both there.\nThere are all kinds of obstacles in this race. Not having the same earnings with each other and missing some of the major winter rodeos are a couple of them. This is also a new experience for my partner, which is something else our team has to overcome. I know a lot of the conditions, but he\u2019s seeing this stuff for the first time.\nI\u2019m coaching my partner along, and doing my best to help him understand the different strategies in the different setups. There are times we have to take a chance and go really fast, and other times when the main thing is making it back to the short round. My experience from over the years will come in handy.\nYou take a lot for granted when you rope with a guy like Clay (O\u2019Brien Cooper), who\u2019s been everywhere so many times. You don\u2019t think twice about so much of it, because he\u2019s been there, too. I have to keep reminding myself that Junior\u2019s never been there before. The travel\u2019s tough on him also. I kind of feel like a school teacher, helping him understand how to get from one place to the next. I won\u2019t be out here forever, so I want to teach him everything I can while I have the chance.\nThis part of the season is so hard. When I was in my prime, it seemed easy. There weren\u2019t as many great ropers at that time. Now the whole pack of guys who are traveling have a huge opportunity to make the NFR. I\u2019ve seen guys who rope really well rodeo hard and not make the Finals the last few years. This is a tough game to play, and it seems to be getting tougher every year. The travel, the horsepower\u2014there\u2019s just so much to it these days. It\u2019s frustrating at times, because even when you prepare and take care of business, there will be let-downs. More than anything, you have to be very tough mentally to keep going. There aren\u2019t many jobs where there are so many days you go to work and you don\u2019t get paid.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techbrij.com/tag/techbrij-tool", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:A4N3VVKIT56F5DVMUA5IADQG53JADLQN", "length": 351, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "techbrij.com", "title": "techbrij tool Archives - TechBrij", "raw_content": "Tag: techbrij tool\nIt was on my mind since last year to create free online tools for fast development but didn\u2019t get a chance. One week ago, I had free time and started to create some tools. Today, I have finished some tools and just deployed on server. This article explains how we can increase productivity and do fast development using these tools.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/20/enterprise-incubator-alchemist-accelerator-lands-2-1m-from-impressive-backers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EZLOGS7L2PAYXMGOUXDNLRKKF2MJJ5BG", "length": 3380, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Enterprise Incubator Alchemist Lands $2.1M From Impressive Backers \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Enterprise Incubator Alchemist Lands $2.1M From Impressive Backers\nThe Alchemist Accelerator started two years ago with the goal of creating a platform to help promising enterprise seed-stage startups. Today, it announced $2.1M in funding that should provide enough capital keep the company going through the first quarter of 2018.\nThe round is led by Mayfield with help from Tyco and previous investor Cisco Investments. Other investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Foundation Capital, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Siemens and US Venture Partners.\nRavi Belani, managing partner at Alchemist says before his company came along, accelerators tended to be focused on consumer companies. He created this company to give promising enterprise startups a bit of money, access to mentors and some serious training in how to generate sales and raise funds to keep the company going.\nDanielle D\u2019Agostaro, who is a partner and VP of operations at Alchemist says the funding is real validation for the company. \u201cThe fact that Mayfield \u2014 which is one of the oldest, traditional enterprise-focused venture funds \u2014 is putting a stake in the ground is intriguing,\u201d she wrote in an email.\nD\u2019Agostaro explained there has been debate in the VC community about the viability of accelerators and whether they are a simply a fad or capable of creating real ventures of lasting value. She believes this funding round shows that an incubator focused on enterprise companies can be sustainable .\nBelani says the new capital legitimizes what was originally an experiment. He joked the idea of an enterprise accelerator was thought of as an oxymoron when he first started, but he said he saw entrepreneurs with ideas for enterprise companies, who didn\u2019t need a boat load of money. They needed the type of guidance that only VCs tend to provide. He called that his \u201clight bulb moment.\u201d\nThis really isn\u2019t about money either. Participating companies get $30,000 for six months, but they get trained on customer development, sales and fund raising. They get to test and refine their ideas with real companies like Procter and Gamble, Siemens and Samsung. They can meet with these companies and drive their proofs of concepts, get meaningful critiques and help them focus their ideas.\nThe proof is in the results and so far, they\u2019ve been impressive. The company launched in January, 2013 and have three acquisitions already including Cisco grabbing Assemblage and Dropbox acquiring Mobilespan, both in June last year.\nAccording to Alchemist Accelerator, half of the remaining participants \u2014 around 30 companies \u2014 have gone onto get funding with an average raise of $2M from some of the industry\u2019s top investment firms.\nThe program culminates in their Demo Day in which participating companies get to show off their work. The next one is this Thursday (Jan. 22, 2015) at Citrix in Santa Clara, and they say over 200 customers, partners and investors will be attending.\nToday\u2019s announcement also included new faculty members including Gary Swart, former CEO at O\u2019Desk; Steve King, former CEO at DocuSign; Steve Teig, co-founder and CTO at Tabula and Sean Byrnes, co-founder and former CTO at Flurry.\nYammer houses the Alchemist Accelerator workspace in its San Francisco headquarters and Yammer personnel like co-founder Adam Pisoni are involved in helping to mentor participating companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://templebaptistrichland.com/reaching-and-rescuing-the-lost-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-3-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2EWAB5M5QN7VB2YIYVRYHZAIMERHUXJ5", "length": 106, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "templebaptistrichland.com", "title": "Living A Life of Contrast - Temple Baptist Church of Richland", "raw_content": "https://templebaptistrichland.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019_1_13_PM_Barnes_LivingALifeOfContrast.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://templeshalomky.org/about-congregants/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2HXEGOEYYYIXLWJHA7KJF45DGZOBIN2", "length": 1252, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "templeshalomky.org", "title": "About Our Congregants - Temple Shalom Louisville, KY", "raw_content": "Temple Shalom is Mishpocha (an extended Jewish family) operating a liberal synagogue. We were founded in 1976, and have occupied our current building since August 1989.\nThe congregation has about 165 families, including singles, couples, families with children, and seniors. Rabbi Stanley R. Miles, who served the congregation almost since its founding, retired at the end of 2016 and was succeeded by Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner.\nTemple Shalom prides itself on the active participation of many of our members. When moving into our current building, a number of our founders and others did carpentry work, painted and did woodworking for many items in the sanctuary. When something needs to be done in the office, there are a number of our members who are there to help our single admininstrator. Painting, replacing cabinets, hanging white boards in classrooms or building a new storage building always brings out a sufficient number of participants to get the work done in a timely manner. Twice a year we have \u201cmitzvah days,\u201d where many members gather to spruce up the grounds.\nOur members often outnumber participants from other congregations on city-wide mission trips to Israel, and support Temple Shalom\u2019s activities wherever they might occur.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-journal.com/tags/blotter?page=19", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QCPX2XZBJB7NH5VYTAWJBXKIMHYCGZMW", "length": 2371, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "the-journal.com", "title": "Blotter Content - The Journal", "raw_content": "Wednesday, Feb. 8 1:26 a.m. : A man was arrested at National 9 Motel, 301 W. Main St., on suspicion of violating bond conditions. A woman was also arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace and...\nDATE: March 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: For the record\nSaturday, Feb. 25 12:35 p.m. : A man turned himself in at the Montezuma County Detention Center, 730 E. Driscoll St., and was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear. Friday, March 3 9:47 p.m....\nSaturday, Feb. 25 4 a.m. : A man was arrested on suspicion of DUI, careless driving, and violating a court order and bond conditions that banned him from consuming alcohol after he apparently drove...\nWednesday, Feb. 15 6:10 p.m. : A man was arrested in the 1200 block of East Main Street on two failure to appear warrants for out-of-county misdemeanors. Thursday, Feb. 16 6:47 a.m. : A man was...\nWednesday, Feb. 22 9:37 a.m. : A woman was arrested at Montezuma County Court, 601 N. Mildred Road, on two warrants for failure to appear. 10:53 a.m. : A man was arrested at Montezuma County...\nTuesday, Feb. 21 5:13 p.m. : A man was arrested in the 10000 block of County Road G on suspicion of DUI, driving under restraint and failure to drive in a single lane, after he allegedly cut a...\nTuesday, Feb. 14 12:50 p.m. : A man was arrested in the 4000 block of U.S. Highway 160 on suspicion of being under the influence on the highway and obstructing government operations after he was...\nDATE: Feb. 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: For the record\nSilverton to consider use of off-highway vehicles in town\nA fight is brewing in Silverton over whether to allow the continued use of off-highway vehicles within town limits, which is likely headed to a highly contentious vote this spring. Earlier this...\nWednesday, Feb. 8 3:25 a.m. : A woman turned herself in at the Montezuma County Detention Center, 730 E. Driscoll St., and was arrested on four failure to appear warrants from La Plata, Archuleta...\nWednesday, Feb. 1 1:49 a.m. : A man was arrested in the 10 block of West Main Street on a failure to appear warrant after he was pulled over for expired registration. 9:41 a.m. : A man was...\nSaturday, Jan. 28 5:12 p.m. : A staff member reported that a window had been broken in Manaugh Elementary School, 300 E. Fourth St. The case remains under investigation. Sunday, Jan. 29 12:35 a.m....\nDATE: Feb. 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: For the record", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 151.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebaldorgroup.com/mortgage-lenders-say-credit-easier-get/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7DWCGUEF656D23OG4HXFV5INHUVCW23", "length": 1456, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebaldorgroup.com", "title": "Mortgage Lenders Say Credit Is Easier To Get - TheBaldorGroup.com", "raw_content": "Mortgage Lenders Say Credit Is Easier To Get\nWhether or not you qualify for a loan depends, in some part, to how available mortgage credit is at the time. If lending standards are tight, you may have a harder time obtaining a mortgage than you would during another time when standards are looser. For example, following the housing crash, qualifying for a loan became more difficult for borrowers whose financial situation didn\u2019t meet new, stricter guidelines. However, those same borrowers, before the crash, may have had an easier time getting a loan due to looser standards. Because of this, Fannie Mae conducts a quarterly survey of senior mortgage executives to get an idea of whether or not credit is tightening or loosening. According to their most recent survey, the net share of lenders who reported easing credit standards over the prior three months reached a new survey high. Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae\u2019s chief economist, says it\u2019s the continuation of a trend that started late last year. \u201cLenders further eased home mortgage credit standards during the third quarter, continuing a trend that started in late 2016,\u201d Duncan said. \u201cLenders\u2019 comments suggest that competitive pressure and more favorable guidelines for GSE loans have helped to bring about more easing of underwriting standards for those loans.\u201d This is good news for prospective home buyers, as it means you\u2019ll have a better chance of qualifying for a loan to buy a house. More here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theblogoftheatrethings.com/2015/09/15/review-back-to-blackbrick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DI6EXGBEYNCLWYGQMNCB5NRUELERUIJD", "length": 4018, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "theblogoftheatrethings.com", "title": "Review: Back to Blackbrick at Arts Theatre \u2013 Theatre Things", "raw_content": "Review: Back to Blackbrick at Arts Theatre\nI first discovered Patch of Blue when I was asked to review their show Beans on Toast for LondonTheatre1.com. Initially drawn in by the promised combination of lamp light and live folk music, I wasn\u2019t disappointed, and pretty much fell in love with both the play and the company on the spot.\nBack to Blackbrick, Patch of Blue\u2019s new production, has just arrived in London\u2019s West End from Edinburgh, and the company kindly invited me along to see it at the Arts Theatre. I went in with worryingly high expectations \u2013 Beans on Toast was the first play I awarded five stars to as a reviewer, so they had a lot to live up to \u2013 but it soon became clear I had nothing to worry about. I don\u2019t do star ratings here, as you know, but if I did it\u2019s safe to say we\u2019d be looking at another five\u2026\nBased on a novel by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Back to Blackbrick is the story of Cosmo, whose beloved grandad Kevin has Alzheimer\u2019s, and is gradually slipping away from everything and everyone he loves. Still grieving for his brother Brian, who died on his tenth birthday in a tragic accident, and desperate not to lose Grandad too, Cosmo makes him a promise \u2013 to go to Blackbrick Abbey\u2026 only to find a sixteen-year-old Kevin waiting, and an opportunity to change the events that have brought the family to this point.\nThough the two stories are very different, Back to Blackbrick features many of the same qualities that so appealed to me in Beans on Toast. Both are gently humorous and whimsical, but with the emotional power to reduce you to tears. Both have a cosy fireside storytime feel, and, most significantly, they share a common theme \u2013 namely the power of memory, and the fact that even if you\u2019ve lost someone, they\u2019re never really gone as long as the memory of them remains.\nI think what I love most about Patch of Blue\u2019s work is that they have a way of drawing the audience in, sharing lives and memories until the characters begin to feel like friends you\u2019ve known for years. Whether it\u2019s Cosmo and Kevin, or Scott and Jen from Beans on Toast, you can\u2019t help but leave the theatre feeling like you\u2019re taking a little piece of them with you (which is also literally true, in a way \u2013 but I\u2019ll say no more about that, for fear of spoilers).\nThough various cast members lend their voices, Cosmo is predominantly played by Alex Brain, with the perfect combination of bolshy teenager and terrified, vulnerable child. Grahame Edwards is wonderful as poor, confused Grandad, shuffling around the stage in his pyjamas looking lost and bewildered, while Lloyd Bagley provides a counterpoint as the young Kevin, full of energy and optimism as he faces a future full of exciting opportunities. The first-rate cast is completed by Alexandra Simonet and Elizabeth Grace-Williams, who play the two women in Kevin\u2019s life, both past and present.\nBut actually, to say the cast is complete isn\u2019t quite true, because they\u2019re joined by London folk band Wovoka Gentle, without whom Back to Blackbrick would be an entirely different show. Their gorgeous folk music is a perfect accompaniment to the nostalgic wistfulness of the story, and I\u2019ll definitely be checking them out very soon in their own right.\nBack to Blackbrick takes a family-friendly story with an important message (the original novel aimed to educate young adults on the effects of Alzheimer\u2019s), and adapts it beautifully. Full of humour and Irish charm, the play nonetheless packs quite an emotional punch; the cast aren\u2019t the only ones in tears by the time the story reaches its moving conclusion.\nI\u2019m so looking forward to seeing what this exciting emerging company do next \u2013 based on what I\u2019ve seen so far, it\u2019ll be amazing.\nPhoto credit: Scarab Pictures\nCategories London theatre, Reviews\u2022Tags Alzheimer's, Arts Theatre, Back to Blackbrick, Beans on Toast, folk music, Patch of Blue, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Wovoka Gentle\nPrevious Review: An Inspector Calls at the Orchard Theatre\nNext Review: Blood Brothers at the Marlowe Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebookdinosaur.com/register", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LXN6NYAIRVBLDW44TUERPWNKBSWSASRZ", "length": 169, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebookdinosaur.com", "title": "The Book Dinosaur", "raw_content": "The Book Dinosaur is a place for both authors and readers. You can have accounts of both types, but they are handled separately.\nPlease select your desired account type.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebookgourmet.blogspot.com/2017/08/review-the-joker.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:51Z", "digest": "sha1:GZMN45K6DNWNMHHSQGWX22M3QXPFPX64", "length": 1294, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thebookgourmet.blogspot.com", "title": "Review: The Joker by Edgar Wallace ~ The BookGourmet", "raw_content": "Title: The Joker\nASIN: B01GDCJPTA\nWhile the millionaire Stratford Harlow is in Princetown, not only does he meet with his lawyer Mr. Ellenbury, but he gets his first glimpse of the beautiful Aileen Rivers, niece of the actor and convicted felon, Arthur Ingle. When Aileen is involved in a car accident on the Thames Embankment, the driver is James Carlton of Scotland Yard. Later that evening Carlton gets a call. It is Aileen. She needs help.\nThere's something fishy about millionaire Stratford Harlow, yet the police and Scotland Yard are unable to pin anything on him, despite the efforts of Sub-Inspector James Carlton...\nAn interesting plot-line with a better pacing than its predecessor. The \"villain\" was much more in the open, although the reader, alongside Scotland Yard's finest, struggles to see what he is up to and how anybody can prove any wrongdoing.\nAnd when you think it's over, and everything becomes rather long-winded and slightly dull (especially compared to the few chapters where the reader and Jim believe the worst), comes the surprising final twist, revealing the greatest Harlow \"joke\" of them all.\nI certainly didn't see that one coming. 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Hamilton in the upcoming film, \"Prince of Darkness.\"\nDon Cheadle is teaming up with Steven Baigelman, his former Miles Ahead collaborator, to bring the story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street\u2019s first Black millionaire, to life.\nThe actor acquired the film and TV rights to author Shane White\u2018s \u201cPrince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street\u2019s First Black Millionaire,\u201d released in 2015. White won the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic\u2019s best book prize and the 2016 New York City Book Award for his work.\n\u201cPrince of Darkness\u201d profiles Hamilton, who was mentioned as an arch rival in railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt\u2018s obituary. 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Her most recent publication is 'Do Maternal Dietary Antioxidants Modify the Relationship Between Binge Drinking and Small for Gestational Age? Findings from a Longitudinal Cohort Study'.\nProfessor, University of Hull\n@OxBUMP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thedailycheck.net/nuns-built-lovely-little-chapel-right-way-pipeline-purpose/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:09Z", "digest": "sha1:F25XSH55W3PITDTW5WUPB7OJQ3SSP24Q", "length": 2664, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "thedailycheck.net", "title": "These nuns built a lovely little chapel. Right in the way of a pipeline. On purpose.", "raw_content": "Home Culture These Nuns Built A Lovely Little Chapel. Right In The Way Of...\nOver 300 people gathered in a cornfield chapel on Sunday, July 9.\nThe chapel, a bare bones structure, rose out of a clear plot in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There are no walls; its boundaries are marked by tall rows of growing corn. Any breeze that blew over the rows must have been welcome \u2013 the temperatures had been hovering around the 80s pretty much all week.\nThis was the scene as the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a Catholic order of nuns, dedicated their new open-air chapel.\nBut this open-air chapel isn\u2019t just for prayers. It\u2019s a protest.\nIt\u2019s built directly in the path of an incoming natural gas pipeline.The Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline will be an underground extension of the Transco pipeline and will cut across 183 miles of Pennsylvania \u2013 including directly through the nun\u2019s cornfield.\nA federal commission gave Williams Partners, the company building the pipeline, permission to use eminent domain to claim the land, pending a July 17 hearing.In response, the nuns teamed up with a local grassroots group called Lancaster Against Pipelines to organize and construct the chapel in protest.\n\u201cThey\u2019re very fine people,\u201d Sister Sara Dwyer says.\nThe result is that, if Williams Partners really wants the land, they\u2019re going to need to tear down the pews and arbor first.\nThe sisters say their protest is a religious one and the pipeline violates one of their ethics, which names the Earth as a sanctuary to be revered.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just about this pipeline,\u201d says Dwyer. \u201cIt\u2019s about drawing awareness to what fossil fuel usage has done to the poor, to communities, and to the planet.\u201d\n\u201cWe see this as a moral, religious, and spiritual stand,\u201d Dwyer says.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time eminent domain has been used for pipelines.\nThe permission has been used on the Bakken and Dakota Access pipeline before. 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This cottage offers two delightful suites that are full of character and original features enjoying the benefit of small terraces overlooking the rear gardens. The Bramble suite on the ground floor is accessible from the main house.\nThe Bramble suite is located in this characterful 16th century cottage house which still has many of its original features. On the ground floor it is also fully accessible from the main house.\nSet in the loft of our quaint 16th century \u2018Poyer\u2019s Cottage\u2019, this romantic suite nestled in the eaves is accessed via steps from its own private terrace. 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Photo courtesy of Nipuna Ambanpola.\nRotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary\u2019s global membership is approximately 1.2 million men and women who belong to more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.\nRotary International strives to (1) promote peace, (2) fight diseases, (3) provide clean water, sanitation, hygiene, (4) save mothers and children, (5) support education and (6) grow local economies. The most recent top priority of Rotary has been eradicating Polio from the world, working hand-to-hand with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Under these avenues Rotary invests billions of dollars for disaster management through organizations like ShelterBox and builds sustainable communities around the world through their partnerships with world governments.\nRotary also serves the United Nations on an advisory capacity and is also the ONLY non-profit organization in the world to hold a permanent seat in the General Assembly.\nOne of Rotary\u2019s many successful projects includes leadership development of the youth. Rotaract is Rotary International\u2019s avenue for college students. In February 2016, the Rotaract Club of Armstrong State University was chartered under the sponsorship of the Rotary Club of Savannah South. Rotary links college students to more than 1.2 million business leaders around the world for networking, invests more than 100 million dollars in scholarships and exchange programs. Rotary supports increasing personal and professional growth of youth to be global citizens of tomorrow.\nThe Rotaract Club of Armstrong State University recently launched it\u2019s website. It\u2019s accessible at http://www.armstrongrotaract.org. Information about upcoming projects and opportunities on and off campus can be found on the website. The Rotaract Club hosts their general meetings every bi-weekly Mondays at 6:00 pm at the Solms Hall 108. The next meeting is on March 6, 2017.\nRecently, the Vice President of the Rotaract Club won a fully funded scholarship to study at the University of Oslo, Norway in the summer. The Rotary in Georgia are proud investors of the Georgia Rotary Student Program (GRSP) which provides fully funded scholarships to international students to study in the state of Georgia for one year. Each year, 2-3 international students enroll to study at Armstrong through this program. For the year 2016-17 we have two students from Iceland and Scotland.\nYou can engage in your community, network with business leaders, grow as a world citizen, find lifelong friends who become your brothers and sisters and make a massive positive impact in the world for just $25 a semester. 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Our Emergency and Critical Care departments operate 24-7-365. We also offer Out-of-Hours (nights, weekends and bank holidays) cover for local primary care practices who have asked us to do so.\nWhy The Ralph?\nFounded on a strong set of core values, the story of The Ralph dates back to 2008, when Shailen Jasani, a veterinary Emergency and Critical Care specialist, helped to treat an adorable rescue cat called Ralph, after he had been hit by a car. Click play to watch our video and to learn more about our journey.\nOur patients are treated by an experienced and dedicated team of clinicians and nurses who all share our core values including providing excellent care with compassion.\nOur Mission is to set the standard for small animal referral veterinary care with an ethical conscience.\nOur ethos is that \u201cthe animals in our care, their human families, our people, our referring practices and our wider community will always be treated with respect, compassion, dignity, integrity and humility.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://therapyjourney.wordpress.com/tag/self/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:24Z", "digest": "sha1:H3ONPRAIFTEWLOHC2APICVV3BC6PKAUH", "length": 10197, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "therapyjourney.wordpress.com", "title": "self | therapy journey", "raw_content": "\u2018Ego Distortion in terms of True and False Self\u2019 \u2013 A summary and reflection on Donald Winnicott\u2019s 1960 paper.\nDonald Winnicott\u2019s ideas of the True and False Self constitute a technical description of specific state of being which can be traced back to the adult\u2019s formative relationship with their \u2018primary object\u2019, the mother. The theory arose from his work as a psychoanalyst and paediatrician, who worked in Britain and wrote prolifically from the 1930\u2019s until his death in the early 1970s. Winnicott\u2019s work with mothers and infants gave him an insight into the correlation between inadequate bonding with the mother, and later developmental and psychological disturbances.\nIn this paper Winnicott argues that every baby develops according to one of two possible pathways which then determine whether a True Self or False Self emerges;\n\u201cIn the first case the mother\u2019s adaptation is good enough and in consequence the infant begins to believe in external reality which appears and behaves as by magic [\u2026] and which acts in a way that does not clash with the infant\u2019s omnipotence.[\u2026] In the second case [\u2026] the mother\u2019s adaptation to the infant\u2019s hallucinations and spontaneous impulses is deficient, not good enough. The process that leads to the capacity for symbol-usage does not get started [\u2026] in practice the infant lives, but lives falsely\u201d. (1960, p. 146).\nThe mother\u2019s lack of sensitivity to the baby\u2019s needs leads to him becoming prematurely autonomous as a defence to protect the True Self from discovery. Winnicott is quite clear about what constitutes \u2018good enough\u2019 mothering, and what does not. As touched on above, a \u2018good enough\u2019 mother meets the infant\u2019s omnipotence which means strengthening the infant\u2019s weak ego. On the other hand, a \u2018not good enough\u2019 mother does not implement the infant\u2019s omnipotence, and instead, substitutes her own gesture to which the infant responds by complying. The baby is not thus able to believe, for a period, in the \u201cillusion of omnipotence\u201d in which its true self can flourish.\nThis helps to understand the aetiology of the False Self \u2013 it is in large part attributed to a repeated lack of sensitivity to the true needs of the developing psyche, on the part of the mother. Her reactions do not correspond to what the baby is expecting, so they are inappropriate \u2018impingements\u2019. The repeated failure affects the pre-reflective, nonconscious mind of the baby all the way to adult life. The False Self is \u201cevidently a real clinical state [that] exists\u201d[1].\nThe less extreme version of the disturbance (nevertheless termed a \u2018clinical illness\u2019[2] ) still acknowledges the True Self and allows it a secret life. It may search for conditions which make it possible for the True Self to reign. When such conditions are not met, the result is ego \u2018suicide\u2019 which in this context means \u201cdestruction of the total self in avoidance of annihilation of the True Self.\u201d[3]\nThe True Self adult develops a wide range of cognitive and emotional skills. It learns to become truly autonomous when it is ready. It inhabits social roles comfortably and with careful consideration. It assesses its relationships independently and comports itself securely. Admittedly the True Self conception is an aspiration to which we aspire, and it could be contended that it is an idealisation.\nThe False Self however is concerned with identifications, false as they may be, and with a mannered and acceptable social attitude. It adheres to protocols willingly, and succumbs to external authority rather than establishing its own. It seeks to maintain relationships and gain approval even when this is detrimental to its wellbeing. These dependencies are comfortable because they buffer the True Self. Compliance and imitation[4] are main features of the False Self.\nThere is some internal acknowledgement that, \u2018This is not my True Self\u2019, but the False Self\u2019s relationships nevertheless seem very real to that individual and to others. They are in indeed in place of the real.\n\u201cWhere the mother cannot adapt well enough, the infant gets seduced into a compliance, and a compliant False Self reacts to environmental demands and the infant seems to accept them. Through this False Self the infant builds up a false set of relationships, and by means of introjections even attains a show of being real, so that the child may grow to be just like mother [\u2026]. The False Self has one positive and very important function: to hide the True Self, which it does by compliance with environmental demands.\u201d (1960, p. 146-7).\nWinnicott\u2019s words are significant to me, because they suggest that the powerful influence of the False Self can overshadow any notion of the True Self. It is a defence which can outlast its usefulness.\nFor me, in my own experiences as a person that has sought help from the psychoanalytic model of therapy two years ago, a lot of what was revealed to me in that process rang true in light of Winnicott\u2019s False Self theory. As I began the process of unpacking the weighty emotional baggage that had held me back my whole life, notions of a False Self emerged as my deepest issue.\nIn a blogpost from that time I recounted a session with my psychotherapist, in which I was asked to talk to my five-year-old self. What would I say to the child?\n\u201cThe things I wanted to say, she wouldn\u2019t understand. I want to tell her she must have the strength to be true to herself. I want to tell her she must find her own happiness. I want to tell her it\u2019s OK to be who she is. Trust yourself. I want to tell her that it\u2019s good to be open to love and laughter. Get out of your head more. If I could tell her just one thing, I\u2019d say \u201cenjoy now\u201d. \u201d[5]\nThis paints a poignant picture of both the adult coming to a painful realisation that something in her current position in life is terribly lacking, and that the promise of childhood was not fulfilled. We have the portrait of a child who is already not being her real self, a child who does not know anything about inner happiness, a child who looks to others for identity and belonging, a child who is afraid of spontaneous, joyful responses, a child who lives in her intellect already, who doesn\u2019t have a conception of living in the moment.\nWhat was startling for me reading Winnicott\u2019s 1960 article, was his recognition of the \u201cdanger of the [\u2026] not infrequent tie-up between the intellectual approach and the False Self.\u201d[6] He wrote of the tendency for the mind to become the location of this Self, creating a dissociation between intellectual activity and psychosomatic existence. A fine intellect and a high degree of academic success were always important to me but even now I cannot articulate why.\nIt was something that my psychotherapist picked up on very early. I used to write notes during our sessions, with my rationale being that since I was paying to have these insights, I might as well capture them on paper so I can work on them properly.\n\u201cThe subject of my reliance on thinking/writing also came up. G came to the conclusion I use my strongly developed mind instead of my feelings. I justify and rationalise all kinds of things, that then have an effect on my behaviour. And once poisoned thought becomes feeling then action, all hell breaks loose.\u201d[7] and\n\u201cG pointed out that it was obvious the inflated emphasis I put on cerebral activities. I had not realised before that there was an alternative. My mind is always crowded with thoughts about something and nothing. These aren\u2019t necessarily productive thoughts such as ideas, but can instead be circular, neurotic, mildly paranoid and self-sabotaging.\u201d[8]\nThis reveals an interesting facet of the False Self. Rather than detaching from pursuits that may require one\u2019s own authentic opinion, as intellectualism does, it can be set up as a defence. Academic success is only another thing to hide behind and it is eventually found to be lacking. \u201cThe individual \u201cfeels \u2018phoney\u2019 the more he or she is successful\u201d[9] For someone with a False Self, safe places are always being sought. The only satisfactory ones, sadly, are in one\u2019s own mind.\nHow do we find and express our True Self? I am sure there are many ways but for Winnicott the solution was to take part in psychoanalytic work in which a \u201cperiod of extreme dependence\u201d[10] takes place after the individual\u2019s own acknowledgement that the False Self is operating. One of Winnicott\u2019s most influential ideas was the \u2018holding environment\u2019 which refers to an ordinary, loving mother holding her child both emotionally and physically. An appropriate holding environment is essential for the True Self to develop as the primary self. When the holding environment in early life was deficient, the psychotherapeutic intervention may help later. \u201cA correct and well-timed interpretation in an analytic treatment gives a sense of being held physically that is more real\u2026than if a real holding or nursing had taken place. Understanding goes deeper\u201d.[11] The therapy relationship in essence recreates that early relationship.\nFor me, the False Self was never fully resolved, as the therapy was short term. I certainly found it very wrenching and emotionally exhausting to spend so long being back in early life, and didn\u2019t have stable structures in place to be able to cope with that. Opening the floodgates is all very well but without flood defences, you will drown. I\u2019ve sought changes via different, personal means such as love, service and faith, not through being inward-looking nor dwelling in the past.\n[1] Winnicott, D. W. (New York, 1965). \u2018Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self\u2019, in The Maturational Process and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development, p. 140 (Accessed via Gestalt NYC: http://tinyurl.com/z7h4r2a)\n[4] Winnicott, D. W. (1965) p. 147\n[5] \u2018Deepening the pool. Childhood memories.\u2019 on Therapy Journey, (published anonymously). http://tinyurl.com/zawfueu\n[7] \u2018Getting to know and tame my rebellious inner child.\u2019 by Therapy Journey (2014) http://tinyurl.com/he4d84p\n[8] \u2018Overthinking and freedom from prison.\u2019 by Therapy Journey (2014). http://tinyurl.com/z4b3hwx\n[11] Casement, Patrick (London, 1997) Further Learning from the Patient, pp. 96\u20137", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 65567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thescipub.com/abstract/10.3844/ajassp.2009.726.735", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5URGEHOVS2TWHPJ7VVKQTVQKXECSHIHH", "length": 2052, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thescipub.com", "title": "Durability Assessment of Cylinder Block for Two Stroke Free Piston Linear Engine using Random Loading | Science Publications", "raw_content": "Durability Assessment of Cylinder Block for Two Stroke Free Piston Linear Engine using Random Loading\nM. M. Rahman, A. K. Ariffin, S. Abdullah, M. M. Noor and A. B. Rosli\nThis research presents the durability assessment of cylinder block for a two-stroke free piston engine using narrow band approach. The life prediction results are worthy for improving the component design at the very early developing stage. This approach is adequate for periodic loading, however, requires very large time records to accurately describe random loading processes. Fatigue damage in conventionally determined from time signals of the loading, frequently in the form of stress and strain. However, there are scenarios when a spectral form of loading is more appropriate. In this case the loading is defined in terms of its magnitude at different frequencies in the form of a Power Spectral Density (PSD) plot. The vibration fatigue calculation can be utilized where the random loading and response are categorized using power spectral density functions and the dynamic structure is modeled as a linear transfer function. This research also investigates the effect of the mean stress on the fatigue life prediction using the random loading. The acquired results indicate that the Goodman mean stress correction method gives the most conservative results with the Gerber and no (zero) mean stress method. It is observed that the compressive mean stresses are beneficial while the tensile mean stresses are detrimental to the fatigue life. The proposed technique is capable of determining premature products failure phenomena. Therefore, this technique is able to reduce cost, time to market, improve the product reliability and finally the user confidence.\n\u00a9 2009 M. M. Rahman, A. K. Ariffin, S. Abdullah, M. M. Noor and A. B. Rosli. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetyee.ca/News/2009/11/19/HomelessBurbs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:04Z", "digest": "sha1:AXHBTRLAY63JM42Z6UQ2LHHKDLOR2T36", "length": 11226, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "thetyee.ca", "title": "Welcome to the 'Burbs, Meet the New Homeless | The Tyee", "raw_content": "Welcome to the 'Burbs, Meet the New Homeless\nTheir ranks are growing in cities like Surrey, as the working poor slip their grip.\nBy Monte Paulsen 19 Nov 2009 | TheTyee.ca\nMonte Paulsen reports on housing and homelessness for The Tyee.\nSurrey outreach workers Lori and Rich, with their minivan full of snacks and soap.\nHomeless Report Card 2010\nA Homeless Report Card for British Columbia\nA Beacon for Ending Homelessness\nThe Trouble with Tracey\nSherry and Chris spent the past few years \"just getting by.\" The couple paid $420 a month to share a house in Surrey. The rent cost more than half their income. And yet, as Sherry put it, they got by.\nProvince's New Counting Makes Homeless Disappear, Say Critics\nUntil they didn't.\nSherry, Chris and their many cats were evicted in September. Since then, they've camped out behind an abandoned strip mall a short distance from their former home.\nWhen they stepped across their threshold for the last time, they left behind the 1.5 million Canadian families that are \"just getting by\" -- the federal government describes these as households in \"core housing need\" -- to join the ranks of the estimated 300,000 Canadians who are homeless.\nTheir story helps illustrate why homelessness is growing so rapidly in sprawling suburbs such as Surrey, which may already host more homeless people than Vancouver. And a day on the road with a pair of homeless outreach workers shows what suburban homelessness looks like -- when you can see it.\n\"We're in a situation that could happen to anybody,\" Sherry told me. \"We're not staying out here for very long. We'll do whatever we have to do to get our own place.\"\nWorking poor pushed out of Vancouver\n\"It's a known pattern. The working poor are getting pushed out of Vancouver, out to the suburbs,\" said Rich, an outreach worker, as he drove across Surrey. \"A lot of these people, when they move here, they are like one pay cheque away from becoming homeless.\"\nRich and his colleague Lori work for Options, a society that operates the Hyland House shelter among other community services. (The Tyee agreed not to publish Rich and Lori's last names in order to protect their privacy.) Surrey is one of 49 communities served by homeless outreach teams under contract to BC Housing.\nThey work a territory that includes most of Surrey as well as Cloverdale, Ladner, Tsawwassen and White Rock. They drive a minivan packed with supplies: snacks, soap, water, juice and high-protein drinks. Their job is help the homeless find housing and other support services.\n\"There are two categories of homeless that seem to outweigh the rest. One being young adults who don't have employment and don't have a clue as to where to go or what to do. They're just not prepared for life,\" Rich explained.\n\"On the other side of the scale, we have quite a few people who are on the top edge of middle age. They've worked hard all their lives. But now they've lost their employment, and they don't have a clue as to how to jump through the hoops to get the support services necessary to keep going,\" he continued.\n'The mindset that society is against them'\nThe Options minivan rolled to a stop at the edge of a small wooded lot. There was a shopping mall on one side of the lot, and a row of expensive-looking townhouses on the other.\nRich and Lori led me through the brush to a small campsite near the centre of the lot. Rich called out to anyone who might still inside the tent, but no one replied. I reached down and placed my hand over the propane cook stove. It was still hot.\nRich joked that they've been finding \"a better class\" of homeless people this year. By that he meant people who are still working, and who had not yet slipped into the well of addiction or mental illness.\n\"They're just poor,\" he said. \"They simply don't earn enough money to live in this society.\"\nFrom where I squatted, I could see into the living rooms of the townhouses across the street. Had I been there at night, I probably could have smelled what they ate for dinner, or watched them watching TV.\n\"When they are living in this condition, and they see the guy across the street in the expensive home -- the guy who's not doing anything to help them -- you can see how they begin to develop the mindset that society is against them,\" Rich said.\nI asked whether they thought the families across the street watched back.\n\"I doubt it,\" Lori replied. \"Most people just don't realize how close to their backyard other people are sleeping.\"\nOnly two beds left\nWhen Surrey residents do come to realize how close the homeless are sleeping, they typically call the RCMP or the city bylaw enforcement office. Those organizations, in turn, often call the outreach team.\nAs Rich drives to the next campsite, Lori sits in the back seat with a telephone. It rings every 10 minutes or so. Some calls come from concerned residents. Others come from the soon-to-be-homeless, looking for a bed.\nOne such call came from an elderly woman who said she wanted to leave a Vancouver shelter where other clients were using drugs.\n\"That lady who just phoned?\" Lori said. \"She was born in 1937. Do the math. Wow.\"\nAnother call came from a man who said he needed a place to stay for a week while he waited to get into a recovery program.\n\"We get that a lot,\" Rich said. \"They cycle through recovery programs. Once they are out of the recovery program, if they can't find a place to live, they feel hopeless and a lot of them wind up using again. Then they start the cycle all over again.\"\nSurrey's outreach team is modeled loosely on the outreach program pioneered in Vancouver. But whereas Vancouver outreach workers have literally thousands of shelter beds and government-owned hotel rooms into which to place homeless clients, the Options team has just 35 beds at the Hyland House shelter and sometimes a few more at smaller shelters nearby.\nOn this particular day, only two beds are available. If both of the homeless people who called Lori this morning show up this afternoon, those beds are already full.\nI look at my phone. It's not yet 11 a.m.\nSurrey team sees 1,800 new homeless a year\nThere are a lot of empty lots in Surrey. Rich and Lori took me to almost a dozen. We found homeless camps every place we stopped.\nI mentioned that the \"official\" 2008 homeless count found 402 homeless people living in Surrey.\nRich chuckled.\n\"We make contact with about 400 homeless people a month,\" he said. \"That's just our team, just the people we come into contact with.\"\nOf those 400 people a month, about 150 are new.\n\"These are people we've never seen before. Many are new to the streets,\" Rich explained.\nIf 150 people join the ranks of the homeless each month, that's 1,800 new homeless people a year -- just in Surrey. If that figure is even in the ballpark, then Surrey's homeless population has almost certainly surpassed Vancouver's.\nI asked Rich and Lori if it was even remotely possible that there could be that many homeless people in Surrey.\n\"People get pushed around,\" Lori said. \"They decide, you know, 'We're going to push those people out of here.' And those people just turn up someplace else\u2026 So, they're around, somewhere, but they're not all here today.\"\nRich figured aloud as he drove: A couple of hundred active campsites, an average of perhaps two people per site. Add people sleeping in cars and trucks. Add people sleeping rough. Add people couch surfing or crashing in drug houses.\n\"I don't really know,\" Rich finally said. \"That might be accurate. It's possible.\"\n'On the streets for all sorts of reasons'\nBy mid-afternoon, we were at the Skytrain station, waiting to meet the woman who'd called that morning.\nLori flipped through the pages of The Province newspaper. There was a news story about a fugitive who was on the lam. His first and middle names were identical to those given by the man she'd spoken to that morning -- the one who needed shelter until he could get into treatment. Her suspicions were raised. She stepped away to phone the shelter he claimed to be in the night before.\nRich shrugged. The shadow of an overhead train glided across him.\n\"People are on the streets for all sorts of reasons,\" he said.\nA white-haired woman lugging three overstuffed bags plopped her way down the stairs a few moments later. Lori greeted her. Rich helped her to the minivan.\nChristina -- who also did not want her last name published -- said she was from Ontario but had lived in Maple Ridge for most of the last decade. She said she'd lost all her savings about a year ago as a result of a court case involving faulty automotive repairs. She said she'd lived with her brother until the spring. Since then she said she's lived in at least three different shelters in Vancouver, and one on the North Shore.\nLori questioned Christina patiently. Her wandering tale of legal woe involved crooked car dealers, shady lawyers, and even the Hells Angels. All I could tell for certain was that I was sitting next to an exceptionally fearful 72-year-old.\nWhen we got to Hyland House, Lori led her inside. I helped Rich with the luggage.\n\"We can't solve people's problems for them,\" Rich said. \"We try to help them find housing. We try to help them connect with people who might be able to help them. That's all we can do.\"\n'Abandoned and abused' but resolute\nThe mystery man from North Van never showed. So Lori offered the last bed at Hyland House to Sherry, the woman living behind the shuttered strip mall.\nSherry thanked Lori for the offer, but turned her down.\nWith a wisp of hair falling across her dirty face, Sherry explained that she was unwilling to leave her cats.\nThere are no pet-friendly shelters south of the Fraser. Lori had previously been able to place single dogs or cats into temporary homes, but didn't think she could place seven cats that may or may not have had their immunizations.\nSherry was polite and resolute.\nI was puzzled. I asked why she was willing to sleep in a parking lot in order to be with her cats.\n\"They've always been with us,\" Sherry told me. \"Even just moving out of the house, one of our cats -- because she'd been abandoned before and she'd been abused -- she thought that we were going to leave her. She just got really freaked out and stuff.\"\nSherry looked me in the eye. Tears welled in hers. I forgot whether she was talking about her cats, or herself.\n\"We're not going to leave her,\" she declared.\nLori gave Sherry an armload of food, and promised to check back in a few days. We wished her well and left her at the edge of the crumbling blacktop.\nThe minivan was quiet as we drove away. Lori finally broke the silence.\n\"Actually, that happens quite a lot,\" she said. \"People who've lost everything else, they get quite attached to their pets. Their pets are like family.\"\nRich added his thoughts a bit later.\n\"I don't think anybody wants to be homeless,\" he said. \"But a lot of them have so completely given up hope that there's anything else, that they find it easier to stay where they are.\"\nTwo month later, as this article was being prepared for publication, Rich told me that Sherry was still living behind that strip mall.\nI have no doubt but that she is taking very good care of her cats.\nRead more: Rights + Justice, Politics, Housing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 14651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thewholebagofchips.com/2014/03/14/fun-friday-dreaming-of-the-gardening-days/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7M3JIP5ZWEJPXUAQ5QACHYZODXXSXTG4", "length": 4743, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "thewholebagofchips.com", "title": "Fun Friday: Dreaming of the gardening days | The Whole bag of Chips", "raw_content": "Fun Friday: Dreaming of the gardening days\nI love seeing their kids out in the garden, exploring the things we\u2019re growing.\nI don\u2019t know about you, but I totally have spring fever! We\u2019ve had a cold and snowy winter, and although I have loved those days too, I\u2019m ready to move on. We\u2019ve had some warm days mixed in with our end-of-winter weather this past week and it\u2019s given us a taste of what\u2019s coming.\nSpring is right around the corner!\nI truly believe that having all four seasons is a blessing, and it allows us to love and appreciate each season for its differences. To me, there\u2019s nothing like seeing those first buds of spring as they\u2019re starting to make their way through the ground. Seeing the leaves on the trees sprouting and feeling the sunshine and warm wind on your face is exciting to me after the winter days.\nAs I\u2019ve run my errands over the past week, I\u2019ve started to see it: signs of spring inside too\u2026packets of seeds, seed starter kits, grass fertilizers and outdoor patio furniture. It makes my heart skip a beat when I go past the aisle, thinking of those days being upon us so soon.\nThis week, a friend posted an article on Facebook called \u201cAdvice for eating well on a tight budget from a mom who\u2019s been there.\u201d It\u2019s about a woman who is helping those on public assistance learn how to use fresh, home-grown fruits and vegetables to supplement what they get for public assistance and to enhance their eating habits. The woman herself had been on public assistance as a mom of seven and had always tried to utilize things she could grow, in order to help nourish her family. I thought it was a great article and great to see someone who\u2019s \u201cbeen there,\u201d giving back.\nOne year we \u201caccidentally\u201d grew pumpkins, and these were our three Halloween pumpkins that year; first time we\u2019d ever grown our own.\nAlthough we have never been on public assistance, we have always had a pretty tight budget and we\u2019ve always had a summer garden which helps us stay below budget on our food spending during the summer months. We grow mostly vegetables, but one year we were able to grow pumpkins, and that\u2019s a fruit! I love seeing the kids take on roles with the garden, helping to plan it, clean it up, plant it, water it, and then to watch them run out every day to see what\u2019s grown and what\u2019s ready to pick. One of my all-time favorite photos from years ago is a picture of two of my daughters out in the garden in their Halloween and dress-up costumes, picking tomatoes off the plants. We had one Minnie Mouse and one Cinderella, outside, in the garden, picking veggies and it was so funny to see; but such a special memory for me as well.\nThere is absolutely nothing in the world like fresh, garden vegetables in my opinion, and when you\u2019ve grown them yourself, that makes them exponentially better! I love cooking and baking with the things they\u2019ve planted and picked and I love telling them, \u201cThis is from our garden!\u201d\nA pack of seeds is not expensive and the amount it yields is far more than what you put out financially for the seeds. As soon as last year\u2019s garden was done, I already had a list on the fridge of our successes, so that we wouldn\u2019t forget to plant them again this coming year. The list is still there, and it\u2019s ready to go.\nI love to see the kids eating the veggies they\u2019ve picked, right off the vine, all summer long.\nI think it\u2019s important too, to make sure that our kids have an understanding of where their food comes from, that it\u2019s not just from the grocery store. I think it\u2019s important that they understand about nutrition and local produce as well. I like to see them eating their snap peas right off the plant outside or eating their cherry tomatoes as they pick them. I like them to know that they can grow their own food, and that you don\u2019t need a lot of space to do it. We don\u2019t have a huge house or a huge yard but we have a really good-sized garden and it teaches them that it doesn\u2019t take much of anything other than hard work, to grow their own food.\nSo as winter comes to a close, and spring begins, I\u2019m already dreaming of our gardening days. Spring Fever has hit hard, and I can\u2019t wait to start picking out seeds and planning out what we\u2019ll plant, pick and cook all summer long. Take a look at the article above, and think about how you too, can add home-grown fruits and vegetables to your summer menu!\nIt doesn\u2019t take a lot of space to have a garden, and lots can be done in containers if you don\u2019t have a yard at all.\nTags: eating on a budget, fresh fruits and vegetables, gardening\nCategories Cooking with Kids, Eating on a budget, Jennifer L. Cowart, Kids, Shopping on a budget\n\u2190 What\u2019s for Dinner Wednesday: Ham and Spinach Puff Pancake\nNew sponsored post for Jimmy Dean Sausage crumbles \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 8976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thriveadvertisingco.com/category/marketing-to-men-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ERKJI4TRHBBVOT47AU6HA2HGGPKWZ4EV", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thriveadvertisingco.com", "title": "Marketing to Men Archives | Thrive Advertising", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as \u201cMarketing to Men\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 7503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 124.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timbertown.ca/great-uses-laminate-flooring-calgary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VCESBNRDPW2BMYDGKCDDVMWSKCYATL2S", "length": 1842, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "timbertown.ca", "title": "3 Things You Have to Know About Hardwood Floors and Durability \u2013 TimberTown", "raw_content": "3 Things You Have to Know About Hardwood Floors and Durability\nConsidering installing hardwood floors in your home, or replacing older hardwood floors that are already there? In that case, there are a few things Timbertown would like for you to know:\n1. As a rule, hardwood floors are incredibly durable. It\u2019s hard to think of anything else in your home that can come close to matching the durability of hardwood flooring. With a little bit of care, and the occasional touchup or refinishing, hardwood flooring has been known to last several decades, and sometimes even longer.\n2. To make the most of hardwood flooring, it\u2019s important to choose the right type, finish, and quality. Of course, some types of Calgary hardwood flooring last longer than others (not to mention offer a different look or style). So, if you want yours to look great for years to come, it\u2019s important to choose a variety that\u2019s likely to last the test of time.\nAlso, we should point out that a lot of homeowners opt for hardwood-style laminate flooring, which can be incredibly versatile and durable as well, but costs less and is easy to install.\n3. Maintenance makes all the difference in the durability of a hardwood floor. Of course, how well you take care of your hardwood flooring is going to be the biggest determinant of how long it lasts, and how great it looks. Hardwood floors don\u2019t require a lot of maintenance, but you shouldn\u2019t neglect them, either. Don\u2019t worry \u2013 we\u2019ll tell you everything you need to know to maintain yours for many years to come.\nWant to know more about hardwood flooring in Calgary, or get help choosing the materials that are right for you? Timbertown doesn\u2019t just have the answers you need, we have a huge Calgary hardwood flooring selection, along with a local installation team. So, stop by today and see what we can do for you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timhortons.com/us/en/privacy.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FKHGHMZA3QHGWIFNG7M3BZQFPYFE5PBN", "length": 23858, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "timhortons.com", "title": "Tim Hortons - Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "The Restaurant Brands International, Inc. (RBI) Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and how it is used and shared. This policy applies to any information collected about you by RBI when you do any of the following (collectively, the \u201cServices\u201d): (i) visit a BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae or POPEYES\u00ae branded restaurant in the United States or in Canada, or (ii) use in the United States or in Canada any website, mobile or tablet application, digital in-restaurant kiosk, or other online service or platform of the BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae, POPEYES\u00ae brand, or any other RBI company that links or refers to this policy. This summary provides the highlights of our policy, but please click here to review the policy in full.\nWe collect various types of information about our users in connection with the Services, including:\nWe also may collect information in ways that we describe to you at the point of collection or otherwise with your consent.\nOperate and manage our stored-value card program;\nProvide and manage the products and Services you request;\nCommunicate with you about our products, services, and promotions;\nDeliver targeted advertising, promotions, and offers; and\nUnderstand our customers so that we can develop and improve our customer service, promotions, products, and Services.\nAffiliates, including the BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae and POPEYES\u00ae brands;\nFranchisees, including local owners of BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae and POPEYES\u00ae restaurants;\nBusiness partners, service providers, and social media services;\nCompanies that provide content, advertising, or functionality; and\nOther parties when required or permitted by law, as necessary to protect our users, or in connection with a corporate transaction.\nWe may provide aggregated information, and data with personal identifiers removed, to third parties to describe how our customers are using the Services. We also may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.\nOnline Advertising and Cookies\nWe and other companies that provide advertising and other services on our Services may use cookies, web beacons, do-not-track signals, and similar technologies to improve and customize your advertisements and your experience using our Services. The full RBI Privacy Policy provides additional information about our collection of information through these technologies.\nPrivacy and Access Choices Available To You\nThe full RBI Privacy Policy provides information about how to manage the privacy and access choices available to you. For example, you may block cookies and similar technologies, opt out of receiving certain targeting advertising, and opt out of receiving commercial communications. In some circumstances, you also may have a right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your personal data.\nData Security and Other Important Information\nWe have in place certain procedures to protect your personal information in our custody and control, but cannot guarantee the security of our Services or our control over your information when it is transmitted over the Internet.\nThe full RBI Privacy Policy provides additional important information about our data security practices, links to third party sites, children\u2019s privacy, California privacy rights, and international transfers of information.\nRestaurant Brands International, Inc. (RBI), the proud owner of the BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae and POPEYES\u00ae restaurant brands, knows that your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our privacy practices that apply when you visit BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae or POPEYES\u00ae restaurants or use any website, mobile or tablet application, digital in-restaurant kiosk, or other online service or platform of BURGER KING\u00ae, TIM HORTONS\u00ae or POPEYES\u00aeor any other RBI company that links or refers to it (collectively, the \u201cServices\u201d), regardless of who owns or operates the Services or the restaurant you ultimately visit, as well as our interactions with you on third party platforms (such as social media).\nWe collect personal information about our users in various ways. For example, we collect information that you provide to us, information that we collect through your use of the Services, and information that we collect from publicly available sources or third parties.\nInformation You Provide to Us. We collect information you give us when you use the Services. For example, when you visit one of our restaurants, visit one of our websites or use one of our Services, create an account with us, buy a stored-value card in-restaurant or online, participate in a survey or promotion, or take advantage of our in-restaurant Wi-Fi service, we may ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, year of birth, gender, street address, or mobile phone number so that we can provide Services to you. We may collect payment information, such as your credit card number, security code and expiration date, to process a financial transaction you have requested. We also may collect information about the products you buy, including where and how frequently you buy them, your use of coupons and stored-value cards, and the rewards you earn through our loyalty programs so that we can learn more about your interests and better serve you.\nUsage information \u2014 such as information about the Services you use, the time and duration of your use of the Services and other information about your interaction with content offered through a Service, and any information stored in cookies and similar technologies that we have set on your device.\nLocation information \u2014 such as your computer\u2019s IP address, your mobile device\u2019s GPS signal or information about nearby WiFi access points and cell towers that may be transmitted to us when you use the Services.\nOther Information We Collect. We also may collect other information about you, your device, or your use of the Services in ways that we describe to you at the point of collection or otherwise with your consent.\nPersonal Information Storage Time. We will keep your personal information for as long as it is needed to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and in order to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. This may mean that some information is held for longer than other information.\nWhen You Register or Create an Account. If you choose to use certain features on the Services, you may need to register or create an account and provide personal information such as name, email address, location, year of birth and a user name and password that you choose. We use this information to identify you and provide the requested feature and Services.\nTo Facilitate Participation in Our Stored-Value Card Programs. If you purchase a stored-value card, we may also use your information to operate and manage that program, which may include setting up automatic reloads and providing online or in-restaurant balance inquiries. We may also use this information to develop and improve our product and service offerings and provide you with tailored offers and information.\nTo Provide and Manage the Products and Services You Request. We use information that we collect to process your purchases of products, enable you to participate in features provided by the Services and in-restaurant, provide you with tailored offers, and improve the Services that we provide to you. From time to time, we may offer you the ability to personalize our products and Services, such as by uploading a photo or other information. We may also use services provided by third parties (such as social media platforms) to serve targeted ads to you and others on such platforms.\nTo Respond to You. When you contact us, we may collect information that identifies you (such as your name, address and a phone number) along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment. We retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service, products, Services, and promotions.\nWhen you Make A Purchase. You do not have to provide any personal information when you purchase merchandise with cash at a restaurant. If you use a credit or debit card for your purchase, your debit or credit card-related information will be collected to process and administer your payment. When you make purchases through the online Services, we may collect information such as your name, email address, billing address, the email or mailing address for delivery (if applicable), phone number, and payment card information. This information is used to process, fulfill and deliver your order.\nTo Contact You. We may contact you with offers and information about the Services and our affiliates, including to inform you about our products, events, promotions, and special offers that may be tailored to your interests. You may opt out of receiving commercial messages (excluding transactional messages) from us by following the instructions contained in our electronic messages or by contacting us as set out below.\nTo Deliver Targeted Advertising. We may use your information, including your location information, to facilitate the delivery of targeted ads, promotions, and offers to you, on behalf of ourselves, select business partners, and advertisers, on and off the Services. (See \u201cInterest-Based Advertisements\u201d section below.).\nTo Better Understand Our Customers and to Improve Our Services. In the course of providing the Services, we may collect information on our users\u2019 demographics, interests and behavior and analyze that data. We do this to better understand and serve our users, and to improve our products and Services.\nWhen You Use a \u201cShare with a Friend\u201d or Similar Feature on the Services. The Services may offer a \u201cshare with a friend\u201d or other similar feature which permits you to electronically send content from the Services to others by providing us with their contact information. Except where permitted by law, we do not use the contact information you provide when using this feature for other unrelated purposes without your consent or the consent of the recipient, as applicable. Please ensure that you only submit contact information for individuals you know and who would want to receive the content you share with them.\nThe following provides information about entities with which we may share information. Our practices vary depending on the type of information and sharing.\nAffiliates. We may share information within our family of affiliated companies so that we may provide offers from those companies that may be relevant to you, better understand your preferences, and improve our Services.\nFranchisees. We may share information with local owners of BURGER KING\u00ae and POPEYES\u00ae restaurants, particularly when they will work with us in delivering Services to you. For example, local restaurants will implement delivery and take-away services that you may request through the Services. We also may provide our franchisees with information so that a local restaurant may provide you with offers and promotions that might interest you.\nBusiness Partners. We may also share your information with business partners to provide you with Services that you request. For example, if you sign up for a promotion that runs on our Services but that is sponsored or co-sponsored by another company, your information may be shared with that sponsor. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these entities and recommend you review their privacy policies carefully.\nService Providers. We may share information with companies providing services on our behalf, such as delivery services, hosting vendors, advertising service providers, data analytics companies, marketing service companies, and list managers. We also may share your information, including your payment information, as appropriate to process your payments for the Services or complete a transaction. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other unrelated purposes.\nSocial Media Services. If you connect a social media account with the Services or engage with our services through a social media platform, we may share your information with that social media platform, and it may share information about you with us. We may use this information to personalize your experience on the Services and on the third-party social media platforms, or to provide you with offers or other products or Services you may request. The social media services\u2019 use of the shared information will be governed by the social media services\u2019 privacy policy and your social media account settings. If you do not want your information shared in this way, do not connect your social media service account with the Services.\nCompanies that Provide Content, Advertising, or Functionality. Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our Services may be provided by third parties, such as our advertisers. These companies may collect or receive certain information about your use of the Services, including through the use of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies, and this information may be combined with information collected across different websites and online services in order to deliver ads that are more relevant to you, both on and off our Services.\nOther Parties When Required or Permitted by Law, or As Necessary to Protect Our Users and Services. We and our service providers (including affiliates) may use and share your personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, our employees or agents or users, to detect, suppress or prevent fraud or where otherwise required or permitted by applicable law or legal process, including responding to a search warrant or other legally valid requests from public and government authorities (which may include lawful access by U.S., Canadian, or other governmental authorities, courts or law enforcement agencies).\nOther Parties in Connection With a Corporate Transaction. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.\nOtherwise With Your Consent or at Your Direction. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.\nAggregated Data. We also may provide aggregated information, and data with personal identifiers removed, to third parties to describe how our customers are using the Services.\n4. Online Advertising and Cookies\nWe and other companies that provide advertising and other services on our Services may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to facilitate administration and navigation, to better understand and improve our Services, to determine and improve the advertising shown to you here or elsewhere, and to provide you with a customized online experience.\nInterest-Based Advertisements. We may use third parties to serve advertisements on our Services and on other websites and digital platforms. 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Please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@rbi.com with any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information.\nThe privacy policy was last modified on October 31, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 32244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tmhome.com/experiences/billionaire-ray-dalio-on-benefits-of-meditation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FBP55M73GUQD3HJV3KUXFVBQAHX2H4NC", "length": 6050, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "tmhome.com", "title": "INTERVIEW with billionaire Ray Dalio: Benefits of meditation", "raw_content": "How to go from $300 to $11 billion in a lifetime? And what has meditation got to do with it?\nMODEST BACKGROUND: Ray Dalio was born in New York, an only son of a jazz musician and his wife.\nDalio\u2019s golden touch: Follow The Beatles!\nAs a 12-year old, Ray Dalio bought shares of Northeast Airlines with $300 he had saved from his job as a golf caddy.\nAs it happened, Northeast became the object of a merger effort, and the teenager quickly tripled his investment. Ray Dalio was hooked. By the time he graduated from high school, he had assembled a stock portfolio worth several thousand dollars, a significant amount for a teenager in the late \u201960s.\nIn addition to his business interests, Dalio followed music enthusiastically.\n2 x 20 MINUTES OF MEDITATION EACH DAY: \u201cCreativity is not coming from the \u201cworking the brain\u201d and the \u201cI will work hard and think about it\u201d. It comes from this deep state of relaxation,\u201d Ray Dalio says.\nAnd when the era\u2019s most popular band, The Beatles, travelled to India to study meditation, he thought there might be something in it for him too.\nSo in 1968, he became a daily practitioner of Transcendental Meditation \u2014 a discipline he has continued to find helpful throughout his life.\nA pragmatic look at the benefits of meditation\n\u201cThere are different parts of our brain that have a very big influence on us,\u201d Ray Dalio explains his fascination with meditation.\n\u201cFor instance, the amygdala is the part of the brain that has the \u201cfight or flight\u201d response producing anxiety. The pre-frontal cortex is the part dealing with \u201cexecutive functioning,\u201d it\u2019s the part that\u2019s reflective. It\u2019s the part that has the ability to say, \u201cDo we want to do that? Do we not want to do that?\u201d We put things in perspective.\u201d\nTHE TEACHER: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught Transcendental Meditation, an ancient Indian technique for calming the mind and perceiving reality more clearly.\nAnd here, says Dalio, is the crucial insight which can benefit us all, no matter what our profession or outlook on life.\n\u201cThose two parts of the brain fight with each other. In other words, one part constantly whispers to you, \u201cDo that because it\u2019s exciting! Don\u2019t care that it may be harmful!\u201d The other part of the brain says, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to do that.\u201d During meditation, the first part calms down, and the pre-frontal cortex lights up.\nSo that\u2019s why meditation leads to open-mindedness. To creativity. Meditating is a process of opening up. It\u2019s like taking a hot shower \u2014 even though you\u2019re not thinking of something, a great idea comes through and you just grab it.\u201d\nSuccess = open mind and no gossip\nOver the years, Ray Dalio applied the insights he had gained from his study of meditation to understanding the psychological factors that influence market decisions and company management.\nThe greatest obstacle to rational decision-making, he found, was \u201cthe ego barrier,\u201d the desire to prove oneself right and others wrong, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.\nUnder Dalio\u2019s leadership, his hedge fund Bridgewater has adopted a management style he describes as \u201cradical transparency.\u201d\nDETACHED LIKE A NINJA: \u201cMeditation lead to openness, to freedom, where a kind of intuition just comes through. You could step back and put things in perspective. It doesn\u2019t lessen your emotions. The emotions are the same, but you can step back and say, \u201cI\u2019m not going to be controlled by that emotion,\u201d and I think it then helps to see things at a higher level,\u201d Dalio says. Photo: raydalioblog.blogspot.com\nCriticism of fellow colleagues and analysis of their mistakes are encouraged and valued, as long as they contribute to the learning process. Secrecy, gossip and behind-the-back criticism are prohibited. All meetings are videotaped and the recordings are made available to the entire organization.\nBecoming one of the richest men on the planet\nIn 2006, Bridgewater analysts calculated that the total debt service in the U.S. was exceeding income, and that the economy was headed towards a major deleveraging.\nConsequently, Bridgewater made major investments in the U.S. Treasury bonds, gold and the Japanese yen. Ray Dalio foresaw that the boom in home mortgage finance in the U.S. would come to an end in 2007, and met with the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington to warn him that the large banks which were deeply invested in mortgage-backed securities were in danger of insolvency.\nIn the spring of 2008, Bridgewater pulled out of several large banks, including Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. A week later, Bear Stearns failed and panic overtook the international financial markets.\nIn the crisis that ensued, most investment funds posted massive losses, while Bridgewater\u2019s Pure Alpha fund posted gains of nine-and-a-half percent.\nThe markets continued to validate Dalio\u2019s approach. In 2010, Bridgewater\u2019s Pure Alpha fund rose by staggering 45 percent or $15 billion \u2014 more than the combined profits of Google, Amazon, Yahoo and eBay combined.\nWhile Bridgewater\u2019s workforce grew to well over a thousand employees, it remains an independent, employee-run organization. In 2010, Ray Dalio sold roughly 20 percent of the company to Bridgewater employees. In 2011, Bridgewater reported returns of roughly 23 percent, while the average hedge fund was losing four percent or more. It was estimated that Ray Dalio earned $3.9 billion that year, placing his net worth in the neighborhood of $11 billion and bringing him to Top 40 richest people in the US.\nIn both 2012 and 2013, Bridgewater was recognized for having earned its clients more than any other hedge fund in the history of the industry.\nPAY IT FORWARD: Ray Dalio receives the Golden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement. Along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Ray Dalio has signed \u201cThe Giving Pledge,\u201d committing to giving half of his net wealth to charity over the course of his lifetime. He has created The Ray Dalio Foundation to channel his philanthropic contributions. Read more about Dalio\u2019s charitable giving.\nRay Dalio Interview \u2013 Ray Dalio\u2019s Top 10 Rules For Success", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tomwfreeman.wordpress.com/category/national/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:65W5PXDVXEGQTNH4DCSICA2PDKFME23J", "length": 1915, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "tomwfreeman.wordpress.com", "title": "National \u2013 Tom Freeman", "raw_content": "Salmond: Teacher Strike is \u201cpremature\u201d\nToday in parliament Alex Salmond praised Scottish teachers,\nbut refused to bow to impending strike action.\nTeachers have responded by accusing the First Minister of \u2018serving platitudes\u2019.\nLast week members of Scotland\u2019s largest teaching union voted overwhelmingly to join other public sector workers in a national day of strike action on the 30th November. Salmond used first ministers questions today to praise the work of teachers. \u201cI bow down to no-one who doesn\u2019t recognise the contribution of Scottish teachers to Scottish Education\u201d he said. But he also claimed that any move toward strike action was \u2018premature\u2019\n\u201cI\u2019m a supply teacher. Our pay has been slashed already\u201d said Scottish teacher Donna McGlynn, \u201cbut this strike is even bigger. It\u2019s about pensions and it\u2019s about the loss of McCrone time, meaning teachers will work more hours for less pay. It\u2019s been over 20 years since teachers went on strike. Alex Salmond should see that we don\u2019t do things like this lightly. It\u2019s just platitudes. He has to see the severity of what\u2019s going on in our profession. All these proposed changes will have a severe impact on our children\u2019s futures, the education of generations. It\u2019s a pebble dropped in a pond, but I fear the ripple effect.\u201d\nEIS general secretary Ronnie Smith said that the 82% vote in favour of industrial action showed \u201cThe patience of teachers and lecturers has been exhausted. Faced with a wide ranging attack on their pensions, on top of a two-year pay freeze, rampant inflation and education budget cuts, our members are signalling that \u2018enough is enough\u2019.\u201d\nSalmond also accused the Westminster Government of \u201cPoisoning the atmosphere with regard to public sector workers\u201d but vowed that they would get fairer conditions in an independent Scotland.\nStandard | Posted in National, News, Politics\t| Tagged Alex Salmond, education, EIS teachers\t| 0 comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://toorefined.com/toys-for-women/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5KZ7JCDHZNAWAQXHIGEOITOP6AIJNWAS", "length": 8418, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "toorefined.com", "title": "Sex Toys For Women - Feel More Intense Orgasms\u200e - Toorefined.com", "raw_content": "Category - Sex Toys for Women \u2013 Learn How to Get Multiple Orgasms!\nSex toys for women have become quite common over time, and many people may think that this popularity owes to women liberation. However, archaeologists have discovered some early sex toy models from the Paleolithic era. Though there are no instructions as to how people used these devices, a quick look at them will get your imagination going.\nHowever, the fact that sex toys have been in circulation for centuries does not make their selection and use any less intimidating. As such, it helps to know as to what options are on the market, how to use them and ways to exercise caution on the same. Here are some options that will send you to cloud nine, whether you are using them for partnered sex or alone. Enjoy!\nOf all women sex toys discussed on adult forums, these seem to take the lead, and it is not for naught. Most women have a vibrator tucked somewhere such that they can reach for it when they feel the need. Vibrators come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.\nThey also come with a different set of features. Beginners should start slow in a way that they can understand what works for their body as they move on to bigger sizes and more complicated shapes over time. They also come with different strengths, thus allowing you to start at low speeds as you drive yourself into a frenzy when things get heated.\nA rabbit vibrator is a popular option in this regard. It comes with a shaft which you use in penetration as well as an arm which works to stimulate the clitoris. Most women cannot orgasm without simultaneous stimulation of the clitoris and vagina and with this toy, you can finally say hello to one big, happy finish.\nThere is the G-spot vibrator which allows you to send pulsations to your g-spot and if you have not experienced a g-spot orgasm, you will not believe how incredible the feeling can be. You will be coming back for more vibes in no time.\nThere is also the magic wand. With this vibrator, you can stimulate all your erogenous zones starting from your nipples all the way to your clitoris. You can also use it on your partner\u2019s penis and balls during foreplay, and the resultant sex will blow your mind.\nOnce you experience the strength of a vibrator, you will understand why many women have them on their nightstands.\nIf you wish to be in control of movement, these toys are a great option. They also come in an array of sizes, shapes, and materials and there is something for everyone.\nBeginners trying out sex toys should consider these options as you get to have control and understand your body better before venturing out to other toys. Materials in play include silicone, steel, and glass and your choice should depend on the sensation you wish to experience. If you are looking for something comfortable, silicone will do.\nHowever, if you want to apply sufficient pressure on your g-spot for the ultimate orgasm, consider using glass or steel toys. Using dildos can get uncomfortable in the beginning, and it is always best to use some lube.\nRegarding dildos, you can also opt to use strap-ons during partnered sex. They come in two parts: the harness and the dildo. The harness has an opening at the front where you fit the dildo, and either you or your partner should wear the harness around the waist. In this way, whoever is wearing the harness can penetrate the other vaginally or anally.\nThese balls also go by Ben Wa Balls, and they are weighted balls which you slip into your vagina and then held in place by way of flexing your vaginal muscles. These flexing motions act to stimulate your g-spot, and you can get an explosive orgasm as a result of the tension. They come with a cord which not only adds to the stimulation derived from their use, but it also aids you regarding retrieving the balls once you finish.\nThese balls have many benefits. For some women, they act in helping them achieve a g-spot orgasm. They also aid in strengthening the pelvic floor muscles, and this is especially useful after childbirth and in women who suffer urinary incontinence.\nOver time, you will notice that your orgasms are much stronger owing to the strengthening of your muscles. It is quite tempting to use them in anal play, but it is vital that you note that they do not work for this purpose and the results can send you to the ER.\nIf you want more pleasure from the use of these balls, be sure to consider the duotone balls. They are much bigger and heavier than kegel balls. Also, they have smaller balls in them, which enable you to experience varying sensations, thus resulting in unimaginable pleasure. When choosing kegel balls, be sure to get a size that is comfortable for you. You should also look into whether the material is suitable.\nFor people who love oral sex, these are the go-to devices. They come in shapes and sizes that comfortably fit around the clitoris. When in operation, they work by using suction sensations which in turn induce orgasms.\nAn example would be a pussy pump which works like a penis pump. It works by sucking air around the clitoris, and you, therefore, experience a sucking sensation. Blood rushes to your clitoral area and sensitivity increases, allowing you to experience each suction. They also have a transparent chamber that enables you to watch as your lips swell with pleasure.\nOver time, the use of these devices results in a tighter pussy, and you achieve orgasms much more comfortably than before.\nYou can also select a smaller version in the shape of a lipstick. These stimulators work discreetly, sending suction pulsations up your clit at different speeds and enabling you to achieve a pleasant finish without lifting a finger.\nTrying out anal sex can be quite painful at the early stages, and there are ways in which you can simplify the process: sex toys. Traditional penetration is quite hard for a beginner and sex toys will work to pave the way for subsequent anal play.\nThese toys go into the anus and work to stimulate you by reaching pleasure points you never knew you had. They come with loops or flared bases to ensure that they do not get stuck. They are quite useful in both solo and partnered sex.\nA good option in this regard would be the anal beads. These come with a set of balls of varying sizes attached to a long string. You insert the balls into your anus, starting with the smaller versions as you work your way to the larger ones. The beads are either made of silicone or hygienic rubber to make them safe for use in penetrative sex. They also come with a handle or a loop for ease of extraction.\nMasturbation allows you the freedom to try out techniques you probably would not want to try out with someone. You also get the privacy to do so. And let\u2019s be honest, it surely beats snoozing in your free time.\nThere is this belief that the use of sex toys can hinder the ease of getting an orgasm when with a man. However, this is a myth, and it could not be farther from the truth.\nYou see, with the continuous use of sex toys, you begin to understand your needs better, and this helps you in guiding your partner as to what you would like. In the end, you notice that your sex life becomes better than before and you thus strengthen your bond with your partner.\nWhat makes a good sex toy?\nIf you have not bought a sex toy in the past, the chances are high that you are unsure of what to consider. Here are some criteria to help you out in this regard:\nThe best surface would be one that is non-porous, and silicone wins in this category. You should also look for something body-safe and easy to clean if you plan on using the toy regularly. If you wish to use silicone lube, then you must ensure that the toys you get are non-silicone and good alternatives include hard plastic, stainless steel, and glass. If you are on a budget and thus cannot meet the above requirements, use a condom.\nEnsure that the toy you pick allows you to play about with the speeds such that you do not get bored over time. It will also enable you to find what works best for you.\nIf you plan on using the sex toys around people, then go for one with a silent motor.\nYou can also shop for waterproof sex toys which will allow you to take the fun to the bathroom or other wet environments.\nSex toys for women come in all shapes and sizes, and it will be a while before you find what truly gets you there. In the meantime, have fun experimenting. Enjoy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 9171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://topmgc.com/news/2018/microgaming-apricot-investments.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:G2FG2TEE5PTAKBLJMO3XOXGIBBB5AQVN", "length": 1510, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "topmgc.com", "title": "A Restructuring of Microgaming Software Systems Ltd Was Announced | Apricot Investments", "raw_content": "A Restructuring of Microgaming Software Systems Ltd Was Announced | Apricot Investments\nThe latest announcement from Microgaming Software Systems Ltd is that they\u2019re changing their name. The new company name is Apricot Investments, which is supposed to allow them to widen their interests into both private and public assets, though the focus will remain on the gambling and gaming niche.\nAt the same time, the former Oakwood Limited, which is a subsidiary of theirs, has been renamed as well, and it\u2019s now called Quickfire Limited.\nThe newly named Apricot Invesments, which was previously called Microgaming Software Systems Ltd, has announced that Roger Raatgever has been named its Executive Chairman. Roger Raatgever was CEO of the former Microgaming Software Systems Ltd for the last 17 years.\nThe focus for Apricot Investments will be on holding a variety of assets, both of the public and private variety. The focus of the company will remain the gambling and gaming space. As an investment vehicle, Apricot Investments will try to purse bigger interests in the gambling industry.\nMicrogaming has announced that its new CEO is John Coleman, which has been just been appointed to this position. John was previously the company\u2019s CFO, and he has been a major part of the company\u2019s efforts in the last couple of years.\nJohn Coleman declared that he is honored to be called to lead Microgaming. It\u2019s an important time for the business and there will be plenty of exciting opportunities in the years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torontolife.com/city/reasons-to-love-toronto-14/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:34:07Z", "digest": "sha1:EXOUPF3VBL7EQYIC4LV7IVAVAOYONO6T", "length": 1569, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "torontolife.com", "title": "Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there\u2019s beauty in this beast", "raw_content": "Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there\u2019s beauty in this beast\nBy Veronica Maddocks | June 15, 2012\nBy Veronica Maddocks | 06/15/2012\nBy Veronica Maddocks\nIn a city overrun with delicate glass towers, 222 Jarvis is an oddity. The hulking, inverted ziggurat, opened in 1971 as Simpsons-Sears\u2019 Canadian headquarters, is a prime example of Toronto\u2019s brief affair with brutalist architecture. It oozes testosterone, and it\u2019s hard to love: the dark brick seems to glower. Which is why it was such a surprise that the province, after buying the building from Sears in 2007, didn\u2019t simply rip it down, like so many of the city\u2019s 20th-century follies. Instead, Queen\u2019s Park chose to improve what was there, undertaking an ambitious green retrofit scheduled to be completed later this year. The revamped structure includes rainwater harvesting, occupancy sensors, extensive bicycle storage and a dramatic, oversized skylight that pours light through nine storeys of open-plan offices. The price of the job\u2014an estimated $100 million\u2014was rationalized, in the way only bureaucrats can, as a cost-saving measure, since it will house staff from four ministries who were previously working inefficiently in 19 offices around the city. Had the scheme been proposed in the current era of belt-tightening, the city would likely have one less icon.\n(Image: Simon Pulsifer/Wikimedia Commons)\nTopics: Architecture beauty Best of the City brutalist architecture Features office offices Ontario provincial government Reasons to Love Toronto 2012 renovation Sears sustainability Toronto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touroscholar.touro.edu/tuncom_pubs/118/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HP4BMDCBHFKJZXYCCNFMZ4LYUY26ZSGI", "length": 382, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "touroscholar.touro.edu", "title": "\"Get a Grip: Substrate Orientation and Digital Grasping Pressures in St\" by Kimberly A. Congdon and M. J. Ravosa", "raw_content": "Get a Grip: Substrate Orientation and Digital Grasping Pressures in Strepsirrhines\nKimberly A. Congdon, Touro University NevadaFollow\nM. J. Ravosa\nCongdon, K. A., & Ravosa, M. J. (2016). Get a grip: Substrate orientation and digital grasping pressures in strepsirrhines. 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It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power.\nTFF is an all-volunteer global network. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation in general, as well as in a more targeted way in a selected number of conflict regions \u2013 through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education and advocacy.\nThe Foundation is committed to doing diagnosis and prognosis as well as proposing solutions. It does so in a clear, pro-peace manner.\u201d\n\u201cTFF is an independent think tank, a global network that aims to bring about peace by peaceful means. It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power.\u201d\nTFF is an all-volunteer global network. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation \u2013 in general as well as in a selected number of conflict regions \u2013 through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education and advocacy.\nTFF works in support of two major UN Charter norms \u2013 \u201cto save succeeding generations from the scourge of war\u201d and that \u201cpeace shall be brought about by peaceful means\u201d.\nThe Foundation helps people learn to handle conflicts with less violence towards other human beings, other cultures and nature. Many of its Associates are professors or teachers in other capacities.\nTFF is a networking organization with Nordic and international Associates. We believe that alternatives to the main trends of our time are desirable and possible \u2013 indeed necessary for humankind to survive and live with dignity.\nTFF is critical and constructive. It is and shall remain an experiment in applied peace research and global networking.\nPhilosophy & credo\n\u2022 Independent of all special interest groups\n\u2022 \u201cNon\u201d- rather than \u201cnear\u201d-governmental\n\u2022 Factual and critical yet always constructive\n\u2022 Committed to nonviolence in all aspects of its operations and daily management\n\u2022 Personal, small and flexible\n\u2022 Meets supporters\u2019 and grant-makers\u2019 criteria for professional management with minimum administration and costs\n\u2022 Networking and team-building but no permanent research, administrative or other staff; all work is done on a volunteer basis\n\u2022 Does not accept funds derived from activities related to warfare\n\u2022 Works in the field according to a code of conduct and a series of published principles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 10948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travellargefamily.com/2014/03/15/paris-in-paris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UQSMG4R2T7DEHFSJ7QCC4EEMXD7LIIIH", "length": 231, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "travellargefamily.com", "title": "Paris in Paris!!!!!! | travellarge", "raw_content": "1 thought on \u201cParis in Paris!!!!!!\u201d\nFinally\u2026I have been waiting to hear your thoughts about your favorite place. I am so jealous about the 105 steps, it sounds like a challenge. Next you have to walk the stairs up the Eiffel tower.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 7704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travelswithtofu.com/2018/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2QOYYHYVO2LHPI6YOC4GPPUL35OL2K3Q", "length": 1077, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "travelswithtofu.com", "title": "April 2018 \u2013 Travels with Tofu", "raw_content": "Got to Portland Friday afternoon for some Sam-Fam time. Here\u2019s the almost 10 year old swinging away, demonstrating all the baseball prowess of his forebears. Looks great don\u2019t you think? So Sunday morning after some excellent family gaming, Sam and I took some great selfies. Here\u2019s the coziest one of the bunch. I left at [\u2026]\nRead More Okay then,\nWhy would anyone want to leave a place like this?\nWell, of course, I don\u2019t want to leave it for good. I\u2019m going to miss seeing most of our rhodies bloom. The azalea are just getting started; they\u2019ll be done flowering by the time Tofu and I return. When We get home I\u2019m going to have to face the roses; more than a hundred of [\u2026]\nRead More Why would anyone want to leave a place like this?\nTraveling Before Traveling\nLet\u2019s see how this is going to work. We\u2019re going on a trip that is further than going from Corvallis, Oregon to New York City\u2026. One Way! We hope to be traveling both ways. But before traveling I\u2019ve got to see if I can make this blog blogify. Will the picture I put on this [\u2026]\nRead More Traveling Before Traveling", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tribuneofthepeople.com/2015/10/09/the-remarkable-thing-that-happens-to-poor-kids-when-you-give-their-parents-a-little-money-the-washington-post/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HFKGTH3STCYFO7LHJIXQNSCJMQKZD3XH", "length": 1057, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tribuneofthepeople.com", "title": "The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money \u2013 The Washington Post \u2013 The Tribune of the People", "raw_content": "The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money \u2013 The Washington Post\nTwenty years ago, a group of researchers began tracking the personalities of 1,420 low income children in North Carolina. At the time, the goal was simple: to observe the mental conditions of kids living in rural America. But then a serendipitous thing happened.Four years into The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth, the families of roughly a quarter of the children saw a dramatic and unexpected increase in annual income. They were members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and a casino has just been built on the reservation. From that point on every tribal citizen earned a share of the profits, meaning about an extra $4,000 a year per capita.\nSource: The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money \u2013 The Washington Post\nPrevious Previous post: Chaos is the GOP\u2019s new normal \u2013 The Washington Post\nNext Next post: What the Hell Is Happening to the Republican Party? | VICE | United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 172.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tspppa.gwu.edu/brian-weeden-participates-%E2%80%9Cfuture-space%E2%80%9D-panel-davos", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:35Z", "digest": "sha1:SXHG54CSD5WP62SCDE5H3MZZ2DE7CQIY", "length": 1572, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tspppa.gwu.edu", "title": "Brian Weeden Participates in \u201cFuture of Space\u201d Panel at Davos | Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration | The George Washington University", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Brian Weeden Participates in \u201cFuture of Space\u201d Panel at Davos\nBrian Weeden Participates in \u201cFuture of Space\u201d Panel at Davos\nBrian Weeden, currently a third year PhD student at the Trachtenberg School, participated in a panel discussion on \"The Future of Space\" at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Currently, Weeden researches the work of Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2009 for her work on sustainable governance of common-pool resources. He evaluates where her work is potentially applicable to the space domain. In addition to his academic pursuits at the Trachtenberg School, Weeden works at the Secure World Foundation, where he focuses on the governance of space activities and looks at the various political, legal, economic and normative frameworks that are currently in place to manage activities in space.\nWeeden has been a member of the Space Security Council\u2014one of the Global Agenda Councils for the World Economic Forum\u2014for the last three years, and is currently the Chair of the Council.\nThe panel discussion this year focused on the many daily benefits and uses of space-based services and their uses to address issues such as climate change, sustainable development and monitoring conflict. The panel also discussed some of the long-term challenges facing space activities such as orbital debris, responsible behavior and space weather. The panel stressed the need for better public-private partnerships as well as connecting the space policy communities with other communities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 143.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uabearfacts.com/mercedes-man-travels-around-north-korea-and-parts-of-asia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XE3MR6S7R2UCVFUQC7MM3SZW2DIMF3VJ", "length": 4446, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "uabearfacts.com", "title": "\u201cMercedes Man\u201d Travels Around North Korea and Parts of Asia \u2013 The Bear Facts", "raw_content": "You may think you know what travel is, but you have got a whole other thing coming if you have not heard of Mercedes Man. Gunther Holtorf, 76, is called the Mercedes Man because he has been traveling the world in his 1998 Mercedes G-wagon, named Otto, for the better part of 23 years. He has visited 215 countries which includes, 172 sovereign countries, 17 dependent territories, six special territories and five de-facto states. Holtorf never stayed in hotels, he lived out of his car, Otto. Otto has over 549,292 miles and received nothing more than small dents after 23 years of travel with Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine.\nAfter going through Africa and nearly all of the Americas, Holtorf realized that he was missing the Asian influences in his trips. So immediately he began making plans for his next great adventure, Asia.\nOddly enough, one of the main things Gunther Holtorf had been working on during his time as boss of the air transport division of Hapag Lloyd and Lufthansa\u2019s head of Indonesia was a map of Jakarta. Now in 1973, a map of Jakarta would be particularly hard to come by because there were no street signs anywhere in the city. While Holtorf was stationed in Jakarta, if he wanted someone to come to his house, he would have to sketch his home\u2019s location or give a driver a very detailed and specific directions. After three years of hard work, Holtorf published the first map of Jakarta in 1977.\nThe first country Holtorf visited in Asia and his 100th overall was Kazakhstan. Otto\u2019s odometer reached 311,000 miles while they passes the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. Holtorf, Otto, and Christine made their way to Afghanistan where they spent ten days. The stopped in Tajikistan and made their way through Kabul where Holtorf says, \u201cYou could smell the tense situation in Kabul.\u201d Mercedes Man and company then exited through Khyber Pass.\nChristine died in June 2010 and two months after her funeral, Holtorf and Christine\u2019s son, Martin, left to visit Sri Lanka, China, and North Korea. For this trip to happen, Holtorf had to get outside help to organize it. Mercedes Benz was the main contributor to his cause because the company realized in 2004 that Otto was a great marketing campaign for the G-Wagon model. The company helped Holtorf get a special policy on his car insurance, which was a worldwide third-party insurance.\nHoltorf never truly wanted to be sponsored by anyone because he felt travel is \u201cthe perfect freedom- to go where you want, when you want- not to be steered one way or the other.\u201d But the paperwork to get into China, not even including all the paperwork to even be allowed to drive from province to province, would take over two months plus because each province needs a permit, the government needs a visa, and he had to arrange for an escort and an escort car. Mercedes paid for the mounting costs of the trip knowing one day that China would become one of Mercedes biggest Markets. Holtorf and Martin then spent three months in China even braving a very cold night at an Everest base camp.\nTo get into North Korea, Holtorf had to contact the German Government to get permission to drive through the off limits land. The German ambassador to Pyongyang sent a note to the North Korean foreign ministry which was responded to for five months. Shortly after the North Korean foreign ministry contacted the German ambassador, Holtorf and son were told that trip was on.\nOne of the most important details of their trip was that their itinerary could not be altered at any point after their arrival. The first part of the trip was just getting the car to North Korea. The plan was for Otto to cross from the Chinese port of Dalian, to Nampo in north Korea, But as soon as Otto cleared Chinese customs, which took a whopping three days, Holtorf and Martin were told that only Otto could cross and not them.\nOddly it the North Korean foreign ministry fixed the problem. The North Korean ambassador to Beijing requested special permission for Holtorf and Martin, German citizens, to board and come to Nampo. Because they arrived three days late to North Korea, their ship did not dock until 1:00 a.m. and Mercedes Man and co. were told that they must leave by 8:00 a.m. form the port.\nIt was arranged that no cars were to be on the roads in Pyongyang while Otto was driving around the city. 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REUTERS/Martin Acosta\nWriting by Brian Homewood; Editing by Christian Radnedge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uknowledge.uky.edu/black_history_month_2018/15/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:MA2TQ4FQFTERV6ORPSUFPMLYS5QCAZ6Q", "length": 1317, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "uknowledge.uky.edu", "title": "\"February 12: Nathan Alexander Moore\" by Reinette F. Jones", "raw_content": "February 12: Nathan Alexander Moore\nNathan Alexander Moore, from Louisville, is a genderfluid writer, scholar and dreamer. He's an alumni of the University of Kentucky, where he earned a BA in English. Currently, he is a graduate student at SUNY Buffalo, pursuing degrees in creative writing and African American literature and culture. He is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of blackness, queerness, memory, and history. He writes both poetry and speculative fiction that centers the experiences of queers of color, always striving to create art that is equally beautiful as it is brutal.\nFor more information about Nathan Alexander Moore and his research visit\n\"Writing The Next Chapter: Nathan Moore,\" College of Arts & Sciences - African American & Africana Studies\nMoore, Nathan A., \"Constructing National Memory: The Problematics of Resistance & Remembrance in the WPA Slave Narrative Collections\" (2015). Library Student Employees' Research\nMoore, Nathan A., \"Subjugation and the Supernatural: The Ethnogothic in African American Letters\" (2015). Breathitt Lectureship.\nMoore, Nathan A. \u201cAn Ode to Wildseeds: Black Girls, Creativity, and the Making of Freedom.\u201d Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 6, no. 3 (2017): 98-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.3.98", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unlimitedperspectives.com/category/inspirational_quotes/elizabeth-price/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DPCXD7P65N7ZZDY6OUQFIMPYRXFIUI2M", "length": 328, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "unlimitedperspectives.com", "title": "Elizabeth Price | Unlimited Perspectives", "raw_content": "Elizabeth Price \u2013 Anyone could be in the\u2026\nby | Nov 8, 2018 | Elizabeth Price\n\u201cAnyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There\u2019s something so...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3051, "original_length": 44452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/07-building-to-building-hood-to-hood/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5W3AAKE3ULEY4KY6KL5HIM2IVVDFUJGF", "length": 30883, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "uppingtheanti.org", "title": "Building to Building, Hood to Hood \u2013 Upping the Anti", "raw_content": "Chris Harris is a longtime organizer in the black community in Toronto who has worked with the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) for the past seven years. In this interview he talks about the history and work of BADC, and in particular, the group\u2019s attempt to intervene in local gangs through its \u201cHood to Hood\u201d movement. Central to Harris\u2019s concerns are the ways in which organizations like BADC can go beyond the limitations of social democratic consciousness, and begin developing the capacities for revolutionary leadership in some of the most oppressed communities in Canada. Tom Keefer interviewed Chris Harris in May of 2008.\nPlease introduce yourself and tell us a bit about how you became politically involved in the black liberation struggle.\nI\u2019ve been organizing youth in the black community since I was in high school. I got into politics by volunteering at the Black Action Defence Committee (BADC) when I was 21 years old. I found out about BADC through their 2001 \u201cStop the Killings\u201d campaign during which they showed pictures of the large number of black youth who were murdered between 1996 and 2001.\nI was also introduced to politics from different elders in the community. As a student in the Ryerson social work program, I was mentored by Akua Benjamin and Norman Otis Richmond, who were Marxist leaders in the Canadian black Power movement in the 1970s. Norman does a lot of radio programming at Ryerson and Akua is a professor specializing in anti-oppression education. They both took me under their wings in different ways. Sociology professor Louis Felthammer also played a big role in introducing me to Marxism. From 2002 to 2003 I did a lot of socialist youth organizing in Toronto with a group called Young Left.\nTell us about the origins and history of BADC.\nBADC is a militant anti-racist organization that was founded in 1988 after a decade of mobilizing against police brutality in the city of Toronto. These mobilizations began in response to the murders of Buddy Evans in 1978 and Albert Johnson in 1979. Organizers who went on to form BADC led a number of mass protests involving thousands of black protesters in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The high-profile police murders of Lester Donaldson and others in 1988 led to the formation of the organization.\nBADC is not a revolutionary organization, but it is anti-imperialist. BADC\u2019s struggles against police brutality are against the Canadian imperialist state and its oppression of African Canadian people. BADC was politically independent for much of its life. However, for the last five or six years, we have been surviving on funding coming through a major grant from the United Way. BADC never compromised its struggle. It had no allegiance to the state. All of its struggles were against the police state expanding in the city.\nWhat are some of the programs that BADC is involved in now?\nFor most of its history, BADC\u2019s main struggle was against police murders of black people. Because of this work, the number of these murders began to decline in the early 1990s. Our efforts led to the formation of the Toronto Police Services\u2019 Special Investigations Unit (SIU). The SIU was supposed to be a civilian-run agency that would investigate police murders of civilians. However, it ended up being staffed by retired police officers who claimed that civilians did not have the expertise to investigate police shootings. Although its implementation was flawed, the SIU reform is important to mention because it would not have happened without the mass mobilizations initiated by BADC over the previous decade.\nBeginning in 1996 and 1997, black-on-black killings began occurring at an unprecedented rate in the city. For the last 10 years, a large number of the murders in Toronto have been black people killing other black people. So instead of focusing on struggles to reform the state, BADC is now much more focused on doing anti-colonial work within the black community to try and address the levels of internal violence.\nWe\u2019ve had political campaigns in which we\u2019ve mobilized around the shootings in our communities, held rallies condemning the shootings and raised questions about where all the guns are coming from. In the last two years, we\u2019ve focused on mobilizing unemployed youth involved in gangs. Unemployment is a huge problem in the black community, especially given all the changes in the economy. Through our Freedom Cipher program, we\u2019re using hip hop to mobilize youth, since that is what youth are into. We\u2019re able to politicize youth by helping them make revolutionary music along the lines of artists like Dead Prez or Immortal Technique.Because the Freedom Cipher program is funded by the United Way, we\u2019re essentially part of the non-profit industrial complex now.\nWe were funded to do peace-building work with gangs and our funding will run out in 2009. Our flagship program is the Hood to Hood movement through which we\u2019re producing a series of mix tapes called \u201cThe Underground Railroad.\u201d We\u2019re having youth in gangs \u2013 be they Bloods, Crips, or Gators \u2013 as well as former gang members who are now in their late 20s or early 30s put together these mix tapes and holding community events in \u2019hoods like Jane and Finch, Weston and Lawrence, Lawrence Heights, and Vaughn and Oakwood.\nThe events are used to bring out local street youth and local gangs to promote Hood to Hood unity as an alternative to gang activity. We\u2019re having discussions at these events about the \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d the prison industrial complex, and the effects of capitalism on black youth. We emphasize the need for revolutionary youth in all of these communities to organize into some type of network so that we can resist the war on drugs, which is targeting our community.\nThe majority of our youth are entering the criminal justice system at an early age. There are weekly, if not daily, raids in our neighborhoods. The police are an occupying force in our communities, and the state is investing tens of millions of dollars in the construction of new prisons for our youth. Right now they\u2019re building an $81 million Brampton youth jail, and a lot of the youth who will be incarcerated in that jail are from the same west end black communities that we\u2019re currently organizing in. The war on drugs is also taking place in the school system. There are currently plans to start having police with guns patrolling the schools.\nOne positive thing about the gangs is that they show that youth are already getting organized and mobilized in their own communities. However, they have no real political vision right now. It\u2019s similar to the Bloods and Crips in Los Angeles that were formed in the vacuum following the demise of the black Panther Party. The youth had a lot of revolutionary spirit and energy and they were rebellious. However, there was no revolutionary leadership to organize them along political lines, so they formed their own street gangs, which ended up promoting an ideology of gang-banging during the \u201970s and \u201980s. Today, gang-banging has become a new form of African-American and African-Canadian genocide.\nWhat constraints do left organizations face when trying to take people directly out of gangs and bring them into political organizations?\nGangs are like any type of organization. They contain a right wing and a left wing. There are both revolutionary and reactionary youth within the gangs. We want to mobilize the revolutionary youth in each community. Gangs are here to stay. They\u2019ve sunk deep roots in the city and, because of the contradictions of capitalism, it\u2019s not realistic to expect that we can provide these youth with jobs. The loss of manufacturing jobs in the city means that we can\u2019t facilitate youth\u2019s entry into the working class. Some of these youth will never work at a \u201creal job\u201d a day in their life. The jobs just don\u2019t exist. I believe that in the upcoming decades we\u2019ll see a similar situation to the one in the US. Our black youth will make the transition from being unemployed workers to hard-core lumpen \u2013 a permanent underclass.\nRight now, the Bloods and Crips are comprised primarily of working-class African Canadian youth with precarious positions in the economy. Many of them are struggling to find their place in the world of work. When I began this political work, I was under the impression that these youth were a purely lumpen force. However, by getting to know the youth and building real personal relationships with a lot of the Bloods in my community, I\u2019ve come to realize that over half of them are actually workers. They\u2019re security guards, they\u2019re cooks, they\u2019re cleaners; they\u2019re doing odd jobs and they\u2019re doing the kinds of precarious jobs that are available to them. It\u2019s largely economic issues that are driving them into gangs. Our position is that we can\u2019t end the gangs. Instead, we want to go back to the essence of the black Panther Party. Gangs played a leading role in mobilizing the Party in its first couple of years of existence.\nCan you expand on the relationship between the Panthers and the gangs?\nIn mid-1960s LA, Alprentice \u201cBunchy\u201d Carter was a leader of the Slawsons street gang. He was one of the first leaders in the gangs recruited to the Panthers and he was a really dynamic, charismatic figure. On the street he was even more influential than Huey P. Newton. Like Fred Hampton did in Chicago, Carter was able to organize local gangs in LA into the black Panthers. Many of the Slawsons were inspired to join the Panthers because their leader became a Panther leader. Once you\u2019ve been in a gang, it\u2019ll always be part of your identity. You never lose that. We see a similar pattern developing in Toronto and we need to identify the revolutionary youth in the gangs and create a mass political movement to which they can redirect their energy and bring their peers, in which they can bang out against imperialism and capitalism instead of fighting each other over turf.\nRight now, the black community is under attack. The problems that confront us are overwhelming. Unlike working-class communities that are only dealing with oppression in the labour-capital relationship, we\u2019re experiencing national and cultural oppression as well. A lot of white parents are pulling their children out of black schools. Most inner-city schools are largely composed of working-class black youth who can\u2019t go to other schools. The prison industrial complex is expanding and the majority of police resources are being placed in the black community. These police resources are being used to criminalize black youth between the ages of 11 and 14, who then get cycled through the criminal justice system. The prison population swells and then people argue for the need to create new prisons.\nHow do you explain the major increase in black homicides since the 1990s? How do you try to address that problem?\nBlack-on-black violence in Toronto began to rise in 1996/1997, immediately following the implementation of Mike Harris\u2019s neoliberal policies. Under Harris, who was Premier of Ontario from 1995 to 2001, we saw the loss of manufacturing jobs in the city. These were jobs that our youth would have held. The rise in unemployment meant that a large number of black youth who would have been entering the working class instead went into the underground economy and the drug trade. The rise in gang activity occured precisely during the period of Harris\u2019s \u201cCommon Sense Revolution.\u201d\nHarris\u2019s legacy extends to the school system, where his policies continue to criminalize black youth. Many kids are getting their first criminal charges at school. In recent years, the Safe Schools Act has contributed to the mass criminalization of black youth in inner-city high schools. The police are collaborating with school administrators and the courts. Toronto District School Board staff sit in court and document all the black youth with charges laid against them. They then go back to their schools and notify administrators. Under the Safe Schools Act, these students are categorized as \u201cunsafe.\u201d Consequently, they\u2019re getting suspended and expelled and pushed out of school.\nToronto\u2019s black community is very diverse. Included in this community are recent immigrants from all over Africa and the Caribbean, as well as folks whose families have lived in Canada for generations. Is there a common point of unity within the black community or do you face insurmountable divisions?\nThere are a lot of ethnic divisions in the black community which complicate our efforts to build unity. Right now in Africa, there are conflicts between Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalians. A lot of those conflicts are reproduced in Toronto. A lot of black people in this city don\u2019t see themselves as belonging to the same community.\nBut we have to remember that the state has been oppressing African Canadian people for 400 years. Living in this imperialist country means that all African people face a common oppression. This must be the basis of our organizing. We are all Africans, and we have to recognize that processes of colonization make it challenging for us to develop a common identity. In Africa and the Caribbean, colonization has always used tactics of divide and conquer. Even in the Americas, the colonizers divided lighter skinned slaves from darker slaves.\nJust as First Nations peoples belong to different nations but share a political unity as aboriginal people struggling against the same colonial oppression, what unifies black people is colonial oppression. What would unify the gangs is recognition of the fact that we all suffer the same colonial oppression. The struggles of the youth at Jane and Finch are the same as those of the youth at Weston and Lawrence Heights or in Malvern or Regent Park. However, unity does not arise spontaneously; it will have to be organized step-by-step through struggle. Right now, BADC is working to build unity with the Somali community in Lawrence Heights. We\u2019re organizing community events with local Somali activists and organizations. However, at our events all of the Caribbean blacks are on one side of the room and all of the Somalis are on the other side. It\u2019s not an easy process, but building unity has to begin somewhere. And there are people from all the different nationalities in the city who understand the commonality of oppression.\nThrough the course of your organizing, you\u2019ve developed connections to the struggle at Six Nations. How do you relate black liberation struggles to indigenous struggles? How are black struggles also about land?\nIn the development of Canadian imperialism, the two nations oppressed by the English and the French were the black Canadians and the First Nations. We share a history of colonial oppression. The people at Six Nations are struggling over land for self-determination and national liberation, and blacks are a national minority facing similar struggles. We have been driven off of our land and out of our historic communities. The gentrification of Nova Scotia in the 1970s led to the destruction of Africville, a historic black Canadian community. Today, in the city of Toronto, historic black neighborhoods like Regent Park and Lawrence Heights are being gentrified. Stable black working-class communities are being driven off their land so that private developers can build condos that black people won\u2019t be able to afford.\nAll across Canada, First Nations people \u2013 especially at Six Nations, the vanguard of the aboriginal struggle for self-determination \u2013 are rising up and fighting back. In the city, we don\u2019t see that same level of resistance. Black people are lying down. We\u2019re not fighting gentrification. We\u2019re going with the flow. So, we\u2019re hoping that by bringing black youth to Six Nations they can see what it is for an oppressed minority community to rise up against the state and join in the struggle against gentrification. We\u2019re working with BASICS, a group that\u2019s leading the struggle against gentrification in Lawrence Heights. We\u2019re hoping that some of our youth in Lawrence Heights will become a part of that struggle as it develops.\nYou\u2019ve mentioned that you see BADC as a social democratic organization. But a lot of the work you\u2019re doing seems revolutionary. What contradictions does the non-profit industrial complex introduce into BADC\u2019s work?\nIt\u2019s a good question. Can you develop revolutionary cadre and revolutionary leadership in a social democratic organization? What I\u2019ve learned by running the Freedom Cipher program over the last year and a half is that social democratic organizations in the non-profit industrial complex produce social democratic consciousness. In the case of BADC, we see a black anti-racist consciousness that is social democratic and reformist in character. BADC is doing transitional work and it\u2019s useful despite its contradictions. Even though we risk being politically co-opted, we\u2019re developing organizing skills. However, BADC is currently in the common trap of having to constantly seek out state funds in order to maintain its operations. In order to receive state funds, we have to downplay our more radical political work. Eventually, we will either get blacklisted or be forced to cease doing this political work in order to maintain our funding.\nOur nine-to-five work at BADC is more reform-oriented. However, we\u2019re also doing work outside of the non-profit industrial complex. We\u2019re doing work in the Six Nations struggle, we\u2019re doing events on the weekends, and we\u2019re doing revolutionary work in addition to the social democratic work. So, BADC doesn\u2019t run on a 40-hour, nine-to-five type work week. We try to develop revolutionary consciousness outside of the parameters of our funding by doing special events at night and by doing work with revolutionary communist organizations. BASICS, a Maoist group that puts out a community newspaper, has revolutionary campaigns like the Justice for Alwy campaign. Alwy Al-Nadhir was an 18-year-old youth murdered by the Toronto police on October 31, 2007. Although the Freedom Cipher program is a reformist black anti-racist initiative struggling to create revolutionary activists, we\u2019re finding that we have to integrate the youth into actual revolutionary political campaigns in order for revolutionary consciousness to develop.\nWe are also trying to develop revolutionary consciousness by working with CUPE 3903, a union local that sponsored BADC youth to go to a hip hop show in solidarity with the Six Nations land reclamation. While it will take years to transform black working-class youth into communist activists, I think what we\u2019ve demonstrated is that, as long as we\u2019re honest about the work we\u2019re doing in the non-profit industrial complex, there is a possibility of developing revolutionary activists.\nWe must not have the illusion that grassroots work in the ghettos and the hoods is revolutionary in itself. We have to be very strategic and we have to recognize that revolutionaries become revolutionaries by working within revolutionary organizations and struggling in revolutionary campaigns. Non-profit organizations don\u2019t have the capacity to develop revolutionary organizations and campaigns. Because of this, there needs to be an alliance with communist and anarchist organizations. We need to be able to funnel youth into those initiatives.\nThe state isn\u2019t stupid. In many ways, the political work that BADC does is biting the hand that feeds it. We always run the risk of jeopardizing our funding base. However, what distinguishes BADC from other non-profit organizations is that we have deep roots. We are a social movement organization that has a long history of independence from the state. We may lose our funding as we integrate black youth into revolutionary organizations like BASICS. However, we\u2019re principled and, despite the fact that BADC has become co-opted by the non-profit industrial complex, we haven\u2019t forgotten our vision or the reason we\u2019re here. Ninety-nine percent of the non-profit organizations in Toronto will not mobilize with Six Nations or stand at their side. We\u2019re not like that. Even though it means jeopardizing our funding base, BADC will stand with Six Nations together with organizations like the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), CUPE 3903, and other allies.\nHow does BADC address the question of feminism?\nThe Hood to Hood movement is the work we\u2019re doing with young men. In the Freedom Cipher program, an organic black feminist practice began to emerge out of self-criticism. We became aware that we were focusing exclusively on mobilizing young black men in gangs and were not responding to the needs of young black women in the same neighborhoods. So the black women who built the Freedom Cipher project decided that they needed to focus their energies on mobilizing young women. In the black community, there are a lot of young and unemployed single mothers who have had to drop out of school. They\u2019re dealing with raising children and navigating the welfare bureaucracy. As black working-class women on welfare, they experience a lot of race, gender, and class oppression. In response, we\u2019ve organized a network of black female groups called the Set It Off Girls Groups. There\u2019s one at Lawrence Heights and there\u2019s one at Jane and Finch. The groups focus on developing revolutionary black women the same way that the Hood to Hood program aims to develop revolutionary black males out of the gangs. The most vibrant and dynamic leadership in BADC right now is coming from women.\nCompared to the Hood to Hood work, the organizing work with the women is advancing by leaps and bounds. One of the challenges with the Set It Off Girls Groups is that they\u2019re fostering the development of these really dynamic young women. These women are taking up the struggle to get organized. Unfortunately, there are currently no black feminist organizations or revolutionary black women\u2019s collectives in Toronto that can develop these young women into revolutionary communist activists. Without such organizations, it will be difficult for the Set It Off Girls Groups to avoid becoming liberal or reformist collectives. In order for them to fulfill their potential, in order for them to become revolutionary fighters struggling to transform oppressive relationships within the black community as well as struggling more broadly against capitalist society itself, they will need to be able to relate to revolutionary organizations and collectives that do not yet exist.\nHow does BADC relate to queer politics?\nIn January of 2007, BADC leader Sherona Hall passed away. She was one of the founders of BADC and one of the militant organizers on the frontlines of BADC\u2019s mass protests in the 1980s and 1990s. She lived in the heart of the queer village at Church and Wellesley and was a queer activist in BADC. Nevertheless, her identity was concealed from many in BADC because there is a lot of homophobia in the organization. We need to resolve that contradiction in black left organizations. On the one hand, we\u2019re organizing against race and class oppression in the black community while, on the other hand, we\u2019re incredibly homophobic and at times sexist. During Pride Week in the summer of 2007, there was a black queer rally. More than 200 black queer activists mobilized for that. I went to the event on behalf of BADC and I spoke about Sherona Hall. I stressed the need for black revolutionaries \u2013 straight and queer \u2013 to start unifying because black queer people face the same national or racial oppression faced by black straights. There\u2019s a lot of healing that needs to be done because, like the rest of Canadian society, the black community is very homophobic. This is especially true in working-class communities, and I feel like there needs to be organized dialogue between black queer and black straight activists on the left.\nPart of the problem is that many black community activists see black queer people as having been influenced by white society. They envision homosexuality as a negative or corrupting influence that came from outside of black communities. This is all nonsense and very damaging. Some of the greatest revolutionary fighters in the black community are queer. We need to value the many Sherona Halls we still don\u2019t know about. They are central to our entire community\u2019s struggle for liberation.\nIf we\u2019re going to achieve liberation, we can\u2019t contradict ourselves by oppressing one of the most oppressed sectors of our community \u2013 people that suffer race, gender, class, and sexual oppression in capitalist society. We can\u2019t just wait until we have a socialist society; we have to begin transforming these relations within our own movements and organizations right here and now. This work is easier said than done, but I think we need to begin with some serious dialogue, self-criticism, and honesty. I\u2019m sure a lot of black queer activists don\u2019t want to have anything to do with homophobic activists, so we have to figure out a way of coming together to begin a dialogue. From there, we can encourage this type of exchange on a wider basis in the community.\nThe consciousness-raising that black revolutionaries do today can\u2019t just be about capitalism, racism, and imperialism. In order for alliances to be sustained, it also has to be around homophobia. A lot of our homophobia comes from Christianity and, because of hard times, black people are turning to the church for consolation and support. While other communities are getting out of the church, we\u2019re running there in record numbers. Homophobia is pervasive in the church, so we need to engage in ideological struggle in the movement and the community. This work will have to be organized by people like myself and by black queer activists willing to take those risks. It\u2019s dangerous work. Because of the level of ignorance and homophobia in the black community, people could get killed doing this kind of alliance work.\nThere\u2019s been a lot of debate about the proposal to have Afrocentric schools in Toronto. What\u2019s your take on it? Would Afrocentric schools provide a sense of community and identity or would they result in the ghettoization and marginalization of black youth in the education system?\nInner-city schools with predominantly black populations are colonial institutions. If the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is going to create black focused schools without consulting the black left, then it will create a neocolonial type of institution. The mainstream inner-city black schools are already segregated because white families are pulling their children out and sending them to better quality schools. The proposal for black-focused schools arose because of struggle. Black parents have taken the TDSB to court and, in many cases, have won. Half of the black student population is failing and dropping out. Because of the external and internal pressure, it has become clear to the TDSB that they need to rectify the situation, or at least give the appearance that they\u2019re going to make more egalitarian schools.\nThe idea of black-focused schools did not come from the Board but from the black community. Black-focused schooling comes out of the US Black Power movement in the 1960s. Across Canada, there are native focused schools that are very important. However, they can either maintain the status quo by training another generation of aboriginal youth to have a colonial consciousness, or they can produce an anti-colonial consciousness and inspire aboriginal youth to struggle for liberation. I see black focused schools in the same light. The reason there\u2019s so much resistance to black-focused schools in white society is because they are political. Once you start providing an oppressed national minority with an education about the history of their colonization, than they will ultimately become politicized and start to struggle against imperialism.\nUnfortunately, if the schools keep going the way they\u2019re going now, they\u2019re going to be bourgeois liberal Afrocentric institutions whose dominant ideology will most likely be cultural nationalist. They will look at African-Canadian history and African history from a bourgeois perspective. The black left needs to struggle for community control of these institutions; we need to struggle for control over the curriculum in order to ensure that the schools become liberation schools. There needs to be a broader movement because, if the TDSB ends up controlling the schools, they will be neocolonial institutions.\nI think that the black revolutionary movement in Toronto will benefit from the rich tradition of BADC and other organizations with whom we have organized over the years. Although BADC is not a revolutionary organization, it has a rich tradition of struggle against Canadian imperialism. It provides contemporary activists with a point of inter-generational transfer for the historical memories of the Canadian black Power movement in the 1960s and \u201970s, and the anti-apartheid movement and struggles against police brutality in the 1980s and 1990s. There\u2019s a new generation of black youth interested in continuing the legacy of BADC. By developing youth movement leaders we are helping to create the future leaders of revolutionary organizations.\nOne of the big problems with the Canadian left is that we have our eyes set too far into the future. People need to struggle for community control and be able to lead local struggles over prolonged periods before oppressed groups \u2013 whether they\u2019re workers, women, aboriginals, or minorities like black people \u2013 can actually lead revolutionary movements against an imperialist state.\nThere were a lot of strong organizations during the black Power movement in America but they lacked political maturity. Many of those organizations were led by youth, and it was very easy for the state to undermine them. Although they were doing tremendous work, their political immaturity prevented them from sustaining their struggles. We need to learn from that experience and develop better strategies. The Left needs to learn from BADC and become more grounded in communities. We need to learn to be more patient. Only then will we be able to build a revolutionary socialist movement in the country. But if the Left stays on university campuses rather than organizing in the communities, we will remain very dogmatic, sectarian, and abstract. I think there are many possible roles for a group like BADC to play in developing revolutionary organizations. However, it takes time to develop revolutionaries and it takes time to build revolutionary movements. Although BADC is on its way, I\u2019m not saying we\u2019ll have something concrete in the next five years. In 20 years, you\u2019ll find that we\u2019ll be producing dynamic leaders. 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Magic\u2019s cool, but it\u2019s not worth visiting a city with seven fast food restaurants for every resident. But even if Hogwarts were real, you probably wouldn\u2019t want to be a student there; you\u2019d be paying loans for years to come.\nA writer over at Mic figured out how much it would cost to attend Hogwarts, based on quotes from J.K. Rowling (she\u2019s said a single Galleon converts to \u201cabout five pounds\u201d) and her Pottermore website. For instance, a wand will set you back $42, while an owl goes for a steep $140. No wonder poor (in every sense of the word) Ron had a rat. As for tuition:\nSome insist tuition at Hogwarts is free, though the books are unclear either way. For the sake of this exercise, we\u2019ll say that tuition must cost something. Multiple figures place the price around $42,000; we\u2019ll take that number at face value. 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The interview covers some interesting details about the daily life of suburban commuters back then. I think some urban historians might enjoy it. Looking at you Yuri Gama.\nThis is a relatively old interview, though. It was recorded in 2013 and Simon has published a few studies since then.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 7260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://urenco.com/people-and-careers/choose-a-career-at-urenco/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:I7HIWKPXYYYVEZKYXMJ7M4CKYF7NAQLP", "length": 3281, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "urenco.com", "title": "Choose a career at URENCO | URENCO", "raw_content": "Our people are one of our core strategic strengths \u2013 their skills and expertise are valuable assets to our business. We are proud to have an immensely capable and engaged workforce and we strive to inspire and challenge our employees, to manage their performance effectively and fairly and to recognise their achievements.\nWorking for URENCO\nA happy and well engaged workforce is very important to our business. We focus on bringing new talent into our business through our apprenticeship schemes and graduate placement opportunities, in order to attract the best candidates to our industry.\nEvery two years, we run a Group-wide employee survey to independently monitor employee satisfaction, commitment and engagement. We share the survey results with all employees and take responsibility for implementing initiatives to strengthen our position as an employer of choice.\nURENCO is active in the communities in which we operate. Our volunteering policy encourages employees to volunteer in local community projects scheduled throughout the year. Employees benefit from the opportunity to develop their communication and leadership skills, as well as having a positive impact on the local community.\nWe invest a great deal in developing the skills and potential of our people. We need the best people operating at the best of their abilities to ensure continual excellence in business performance and customer service.\nWe run leadership development training programmes across URENCO, designed to develop leadership skills and capabilities. 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How many times have you or a friend heard that. When the medical professionals are stumped, resigned or dismissive \u2013 what can you do? If you live in or near El Dorado Hills, I hope you will take the time to read this case study. Please note that some specifics have been omitted or changed to preserve patient privacy.\nA Case Study \u2013 Acupuncture Treatment\nPatient Issue \u2013 Rosie was a Disability Retired Veteran who suffered with extremely low immunity, lack of energy, and various mysterious symptoms. She suspected Lyme\u2019s disease and exposure to toxins during her years of service.\nChallenges to Patient \u2013 She was unable to participate and help with her grandchildren. Working was extremely challenging and she always felt terrible.\nAdditional Factors \u2013 Her doctors have tried everything and every test possible to get to the bottom of the problem with no luck. They dismissed her problems as \u201call in her head\u201d She came to me in great despair. Literally through tears she told me how everyone had given up on her including herself.\nDesired Outcome \u2013 She wanted to be able to have fun with her two grandchildren and work in the family business. She wanted to feel good again but doubted it would ever happen.\nTreatment Plan \u2013 I asked her to commit to one year of weekly acupuncture treatment. It was a big commitment and she knew her illness did not develop overnight and it was unlikely it would resolve overnight. The treatment was working with her own healing energy and was far more reasonable in cost than all the medicine, testing and co-pays she had made over the last number of years.\nWe slowly peeled the onion to get to the core of the problem. I altered her diet as needed and suggested lifestyle changes. Each week we discussed every change and improvement before the treatment. After the treatment she was more relaxed and hopeful. Rosie\u2019s progress was slow at times, yet there was enough positive improvement for her to continue. We both knew that she would be a different woman at the end of a year of consistent acupuncture treatment.\nOutcome \u2013 The year came to an end and she is working in the family business and is caring for her grandchildren a few days a week. She has hope and a new lease on life. She still gets regular acupuncture treatments and our goal is to reduce the number of treatments to four per year as the seasons change. Basically a quarterly \u201ctune up\u201d to keep her functioned at her absolute best.\nFor An Appointment in Your Area", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 8458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/how-to-grow-potatoes", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:57Z", "digest": "sha1:S7KSH5KVGHR7MGSL4UYQVHLZWWHIL2MM", "length": 2042, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "vancouversun.com", "title": "How to grow potatoes | Vancouver Sun", "raw_content": "Q: I would like to grow some of those lovely little new potatoes we buy for such a short time in early summer. I asked at my local nursery but they were unable to tell me what I should buy in order to grow them.\nSW: What we call \u201cnew potatoes\u201d are simply immature potatoes that have been harvested before they have time to become full grown. If that\u2019s what you want, then you simply dig them up earlier.\nStart by picking up some \u201ccertified\u201d seed potatoes. These are immature tubers that are usually available in garden centres in March. Being certified means they are guaranteed not to have diseases.\nYou should plant them in a sunny site where potatoes were not grown the previous year. They like fertile, slightly acidic soil.\n\u201cChitting\u201d is an old technique in which seed potatoes are placed in a cool dark place for a few days to encourage them to sprout.\nPlant your seed potatoes 40 cm (16-inches) apart and about 15 cm (6 inches) deep with most of the \u201ceyes\u201d pointing up. \u201cEyes\u201d are the buds from which the new growth sprouts. Look closely and you will easily spot them.\nAs the plant grows, you need to do something called \u201cearthing up\u201d or \u201chilling\u201d, which means covering the new, growing tubers with soil to keep them in the dark, which prevents them turning green and poisonous. It also helps to prevent diseases.\nAll you do is take a hoe and gently mound soil around the growing plant. You do this two or three times as soon as the plant reaches about 20 to 25 cm (8 to 10 inches) high above the ground. You should leave about 10 cm (4 inches) of stem visible.\nFor early potatoes, you can harvest in June, a couple of weeks after the plants have bloomed.\nFor full-sized potatoes, you harvest after the leaves turn yellow and the plant dies. Wait a few weeks to allow the skins to toughen. You can also grow potatoes in a tub or barrel (see above).\nRecommended varieties? \u2018Yukon Gold\u2019, \u2018Bintje\u2019, \u2018Epicure\u2019, \u2018Desiree\u2019, \u2018Norland\u2019 and \u2018Pontiac\u2019.\nElection Increases Importance of Port Mann Funding Deadline Make the final: Preds 5, Nucks 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 7028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vanessaquery.com/rip-barry-dennen-1938-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:77P3IM53E77ITIKY4L2R7XAPG6T2Y2Y2", "length": 3947, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "vanessaquery.com", "title": "RIP Barry Dennen 1938\u20132017", "raw_content": "RIP Barry Dennen 1938\u20132017\nI\u2019ve been wanting to write something about Barry, but it\u2019s been an especially hectic few weeks. (Talking to Frank has been a blessed alternative to my own lone processing\u2014thanks, Frank!)\nBarry was a bit of an oxymoron. He was an incredibly sweet man who could be a royal PITA. He was a genuine, honest person\u2014one of the most honest I\u2019ve ever met, often to the point of bluntness (see PITA comment above)\u2014who was also a caricature of himself. He was thoughtful and serious and hilarious and didn\u2019t take life too seriously.\nYou get the point. Basically, he was unabashedly human.\nAnd despite being a curmudgeon, he was vibrant. I miss that. I miss how when I was around him, I felt freer\u2014like I could be as honest and carefree and blunt as he was. We yelled at each other as frequently as we had long philosophical discussions about desire and Brecht. We argued like an old married couple and sometimes it was a bit much but mostly I reveled in it. He said \u201cyou know I adore you\u201d and it felt unconditional, so I didn\u2019t worry about saying the wrong thing or looking stupid or offending him (like I usually do with people, especially new people). It was like we were family\u2014immediately.\nLooking through my archives, I found this, from almost exactly 4 years ago, when we first met. This is a classic Barry story, which he never let me forget (and will haunt me about, no doubt). It was also my first real-life encounter with Team Neeley, so this will never not be a pivotal memory.\nI was to pick up Barry from the airport in Boston on my way to the theater in Cambridge. I gave Frank my number to give to Barry, and said, \u201cAnd you can tell Barry my car\u2019s an old navy blue Subaru wagon. He\u2019ll be ridin\u2019 in style!\u201d\nHis response, via Frank, included: \u201cI\u2019ll probably be in a wheelchair, with fireworks and brass band. An old navy blue Subaru is my favorite kind of car.\u201d\nI drove up to the airport in rush hour traffic the night before Game 1 of the World Series (which the Sox played at the Sox stadium). (Because I \u201clive under the rock\u201d as the media says, I didn\u2019t even know about the World Series until later that night.) So, naturally, I was late.\nWhen I pulled up, I peered into the window and saw him sitting there on one of those soulless multi-seat benches. He was a hunched-over old man, wearing sneakers, jeans, a black hoodie, and a black winter cap, but it was him all right. I put on my hazards and went in. He looked up, I said \u201cBarry!\u201d His face lit up. \u201cHi! Vanessa! You\u2019re here!\u201d He got up and gave me a big hug. \u201cSo great to meet you! Thank you so much for picking me up!\u201d\nI got him settled into my car and we took off.\nWe got lost pretty quickly, partly because we were talking, partly because I was a little nervous, partly because I don\u2019t know Boston well and that part not at all, and partly because he was a bad navigator.\nIt was OK for a while, trying to find my way back, then I got REALLY lost. And then REALLY REALLY lost. I was telling him how I usually have a good sense of direction, but Boston is like a black hole of direction, like if we had a compass it would just be spinning around. He said, yeah, you could churn butter with that compass needle.\nBy now, it was getting dark and spitting rain. We asked a few folks along the way, and they were all great and pointed us in the right direction, but Cambridge/Harvard Square is a NIGHTMARE and we kept ALMOST getting there but then getting veered off onto some bridge or tunnel or one-way street or construction site. It started to get a little tense. We got a little snippy with each other.\nBut it was fine. I mean we were fine. We eventually got there, a mere 45 minutes late. We were saying that it was one of those experiences that would either make us loathe each other or bond us for life. I\u2019m pleased to say that I\u2019m almost positive it was the latter.\nRIP Barry Dennen 1938\u20132017 \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\nPrevious Post: \u00ab RIP Pauline Whitesinger, Navajo elder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/02/supermeat-raises-3-million-for-lab-grown-chicken/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:44Z", "digest": "sha1:M4C4JICNTNQQX4OIILNBPIB6UEUKSJVN", "length": 2990, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "venturebeat.com", "title": "SuperMeat raises $3 million for lab-grown chicken | VentureBeat", "raw_content": "SuperMeat raises $3 million for lab-grown chicken\nAbove: Sliced chicken meat served on slate plate with fresh rosemary.\nIsraeli biotech startup SuperMeat has announced a $3 million seed round to bring its lab-grown meat products to market.\nFounded out of Tel Aviv in 2015, SuperMeat is one of a number of lab-made meat startups seeking to capitalize on the burgeoning sustainable food sector. The company\u2019s \u201cclean meat\u201d is created by growing cells that have been extracted from chickens, bypassing the costly and environmentally taxing process of breeding, feeding, and slaughtering animals.\nSuperMeat reeled in more than $200,000 in crowdfunding via Indiegogo in 2016, so the company\u2019s latest cash infusion represents its first notable external equity-based funding. Leading the round were U.S-based VC firms New Crop Capital and Stray Dog Capital, though PHW \u2014 a billion-dollar German poultry company \u2014 also participated.\nMaintaining animals raised for meat has a significant impact on the environment through the consumption of land, energy, and water, and a number of \u201cmeat substitute\u201d companies have come forward with the promise of a more sustainable approach. Back in August, Memphis Meats raised $17 million from DFJ, food giant Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Atomico, while last month U.S. meat giant Tyson Foods upped its stake in plant-based food startup Beyond Meat. Earlier today, TGI Fridays announced it was adding Beyond Meats\u2019 burger to its menus across the U.S.\nSuperMeat\u2019s funding comes as reports predict that Americans will eat a record amount of meat in 2018. Figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicate that the average U.S. consumer will munch through 222.2 pounds of meat this year, passing the previous record of 221.9 pounds set in 2004.\nMeat, it\u2019s fair to say, is big business. But with environmental issues also a concern for many, companies such as SuperMeat are clearly attractive to institutional investors, while food giants such as Cargill and PHW are looking to the future with strategic investments in cutting-edge food startups.\n\u201cSuperMeat is consistent with our pursuit to provide Europe with sustainable, clean foods \u2014 we do not see this transaction as a financial investment, but rather as the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership,\u201d noted PHW-Gruppe CEO Peter Wesjohann. \u201cWe look forward to working together with SuperMeat and are committed to supporting the company in its research and development, as well as the strategic positioning of its products in the European market.\u201d\nSuperMeat said that it expects its \u201cclean chicken\u201d products to go to market within three years, at a price \u201csimilar to the conventional chicken products currently available on store shelves,\u201d according to a company statement.\n\u201cThis partnership [with PHW] will enable us to bring to market a revolutionary new generation of tasty, sustainable meat products throughout Europe and beyond,\u201d added SuperMeat cofounder and CEO Ido Savir.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/184/6/193.1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3VVAPFUKCEHXCQNIO4XNDCCPYLFBFA7N", "length": 463, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "veterinaryrecord.bmj.com", "title": "Racism in the vet profession | Veterinary Record", "raw_content": "Racism in the vet profession\nI commend Vet Record on having an open discussion on racism in the profession (VR, 19 January 2019, vol 184, pp 73, 81-84). As a black, Asian, or minority ethnic group (BAME), UK graduate, vet who has been in the profession over 20 years, I have often asked how we can defend the profession on the charge of being a racist profession.\nThe examples provided by the three vets in the case studies are, at best, mellow in comparison to \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://victimservicesontario.ca/news-events.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PO6YWB5JJSDDPJRHMAGG37FIG4OT3VM7", "length": 2145, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "victimservicesontario.ca", "title": "News & Events", "raw_content": "Ontario Network of Victim Service Providers Receives Prestigious Award for\nEmpowering the Resilience of Victims and Survivors of Crime\nTORONTO, May 31, 2017 \u2013 During a ceremony at Queen\u2019s Park today, the Ontario Network of Victim Service Providers (ONVSP) was honoured as a recipient of the 2017 Victim Services Award of Distinction. Presented by the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, this award recognizes the exceptional achievements of dedicated professionals and volunteers in the field of victim services, as well as the important work of individual victims.\n\u201cVictims and their loved ones need help and support, but they don\u2019t always know that it\u2019s there for them\u201d said Jade Harper, President of ONVSP. For over 15 years, the ONVSP has been promoting awareness and raising the profile of Victim Service providers across the province of Ontario. \u201cIf you can assist victims right away you\u2019re starting them on a journey to recovery and resilience, potentially reducing further trauma which also prevents pressure on the system down the road.\u201d\nThrough collaboration and support, ONVSP\u2019s mission is to utilize the collective skills, experiences and knowledge of a vast range of Victim Services Professionals to preserve, promote and create more meaningful and supportive experiences for victims in Ontario. In turn, its member agencies offer support for victims across the province, who may suffer from various forms of trauma, physical injury, financial loss, emotional injury, and may not know where to turn for help.\nBy providing resources and support, ONVSP and its member agencies play a key role in making an incredible difference in the lives of people when they need help the most \u2013 creating positive change for victims and empowering survivors.\nMay 28 \u2013 June 3, 2017 is National Victims and Survivors of Crime Week\nONVSP consists of 38 victim service provider agencies from across Ontario\nOver 20,000 victims of crime are supported by ONVSP member agencies every year\nExecutive Directors of 'Victim Services' speak about their community services to Aruna Papp in 'Family Healing & Mediation' @ TAG TV\nView the video on Facebook!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vietnamconsulate-sf.org/en/2017/09/01/congratulations-by-h-e-secretary-of-state-rex-w-tillerson-to-the-72nd-national-day-of-vietnam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HMLEQODCELVASUPZXLXYHFZ6FJLGXQIS", "length": 1031, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "vietnamconsulate-sf.org", "title": "Congratulations by H.E. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to the 72nd National Day of Vietnam \u2013 VietNam Consulate", "raw_content": "Trang ch\u1ee7 / News / Congratulations by H.E. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to the 72nd National Day of Vietnam\nOn behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I offer congratulations to the people of Vietnam as you celebrate your National Day on September 2nd.\nSince the normalization of bilateral ties 22 years ago, relations between our two countries have grown in ways many would have never predicted. We have moved past conflict and division, towards a flourishing partnership that spans political, security, economic, and people-to-people ties.\nThe recent visits of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh, and Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich to the United States have reinforced this positive momentum between our two nations, and President Trump\u2019s commitment to travel to Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders\u2019 Meeting promises to elevate our partnership to new heights.\nOn this occasion, I wish all Vietnamese people peace and prosperity in the coming year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vintageaerial.com/photos/ohio/lorain/1969/MLO/22/13", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FJZCCAFMXENBHWJA47AUU7APMAZT7CEM", "length": 168, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vintageaerial.com", "title": "Vintage Aerial | Ohio | Lorain County | 1969 | 22-MLO-13", "raw_content": "South side of Rt 162 west of Rt 511, Rochester. The barn with the mis-matched roof panels was replaced long ago, before the 1990s. That barn and the house still remain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2011/01/011911-enginering-hongtedtalk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:HI3BUJ2QG5VAEEDFD2YVKM3ZBM367YIE", "length": 4588, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "vtnews.vt.edu", "title": "Virginia Tech associate professor, roboticist Dennis Hong to speak at TED2011 | Virginia Tech Daily | Virginia Tech", "raw_content": "Virginia Tech associate professor, roboticist Dennis Hong to speak at TED2011 /\nCurrent page: Virginia Tech associate professor, roboticist Dennis Hong to speak at TED2011\n(Left to right) Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, speaks with Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech and director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory. In this December 2010 image, they are preparing to test drive the latest Blind Driver Challenge vehicle at the Virginia International Raceway in Danville, Va.\nRoboticist Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, this March will speak at the TED2011 Conference in Long Beach, Calif. There, he will join the event stage with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford, and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, giving the \u201c18-minute talk of a lifetime,\u201d as the world-renowned conference declares.\nSpeakers for the TED2011 (originally called Technology Entertainment and Design) Conference were announced this past week. TED is a global set of conferences hosted by the American private nonprofit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate \u201cideas worth spreading,\u201d according to the group\u2019s website. Hong will focus his March 3 talk on the Blind Driver Challenge project, an effort to allow blind people to one day drive, using non-visual interfaces, as safely as any sighted driver does now.\n\u201cGiving a talk at TED is considered a great honor and a once in a life time opportunity to share \u2018ideas that change the world,\u2019 and to have the biggest impact,\u201d said Hong, director of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering\u2019s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory.\nHong is no stranger to TED events. He spoke at a regional TEDx event in Newport News, Va., in 2009. The \u201cx\u201d events are smaller versions of TED, held in a variety of locations throughout the world. Dubbed TEDxNASA, Hong spoke on the innovative robotics work at RoMeLa and the secrets of its success. The talk, and a resulting video, has resulted in more than 1 million page views on several websites, including YouTube. TED organizers saw the TEDxNASA talk and invited him to the 2011 event, Hong said.\n\u201cIt is amazing how many people know about me from that, people I meet who are not necessarily in the field or engineering,\u201d Hong said. \u201cI will use this opportunity to share with the world what I have learned about blindness while working on the Blind Driver Challenge project, to raise awareness, and inspire other researchers and scientists to develop technology to help the visually impaired.\u201d\nThe Blind Driver project is a Virginia Tech-led, National Federation of the Blind-initiated mission started roughly five years ago. RoMeLa accepted the Blind Driver Challenge in 2006, the only known university to do so. In July 2009, Hong debuted a prototype buggy as the first car for the blind at the National Federation of the Blind\u2019s summer 2009 Youth Slam Camp in Maryland. He also spoke about the Blind Driver Challenge project at the TECH+ Forum in Seoul, Korea, as part on the international G20 summit. The November 2010 talk was given in front of more than 5,500 people at the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium.\nHong says he plans to bring one of the current Blind Driver cars, a modified 2010 Ford Hybrid Escape SUV, to TED2011 and give a demo on the host location\u2019s parking lot. TED2011will be preceded by a public debut of the Blind Driver SUVs later this month at the Rolex24 event at Daytona International Speedway. The event is expected to be televised on the Speed Channel.\nThe first TED was held as a single event in 1984 in Monterey, Calif., and focused on technology design, the hub of the surrounding Silicon Valley region. Held annually since 1990, TED has expanded to include a wide range of topics, including research and practice of science and culture, and include several host cities, including London. Past speakers include Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and \u201cAvatar\u201d film director James Cameron.\nThe TED talks, including that of Hong, will be available for online viewing. Tickets to the actual event were sold out months ago, said Hong. According to TED organizers, Web views of videos showing previous speakers have topped 290 million as of July 2010.\nHong received a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.\nVictorTango wins $500,000 with an SUV that thinks like a driver", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 11341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://waitingforthemaster.wordpress.com/2015/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:OVSGOUPHM6VHK2P7JSCOH3W5FPOF3ARD", "length": 8655, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "waitingforthemaster.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2015 | waitingforthemaster", "raw_content": "\u201cTherefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us\u201d\nBelievers should lay aside every weight that hinders the race that God has set before them. They should not get stuck (bogged down) with what other people want them to do or with other people\u2019s problems.\nStuck means jammed, caught, or held in an immovable position. It also means not able to find a solution or way out of a situation.\n1. Do what God wants you to do, not what man wants you to do. God has a plan and a purpose for everyone. He will reveal to you what He has called you to do. Many times He doesn\u2019t show you the entire plan or purpose \u2013 just one step at a time. There are times that God will use other people to confirm to you what He is calling you to do, but it is only after He has already spoken to you about it.\n2. Don\u2019t allow the problems of others to hinder you. If you get bogged down with problems it hinders your useful to the kingdom of God. You are to bear their burden -go to God in earnest prayer on their behalf and listen to see what God will have you do. You must not allow their burdens to cause you to fall or to hinder your walk with God.\nRemember that in many cases you can\u2019t change anything, but you know the One who can. There are even times when we try to fix things for others but we only make them worse because God may be trying to speak to the other person through their problem.\nFiled under Bible Thoughts and tagged Hebrews 12:1 |\tLeave a comment\n\u201cTo the angel of the church of Ephesus write ,\n\u2018These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamp stands\u201d \u2018I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name\u2019s sake and have not become weary. Nethertheless I have this against you, that you have left you first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place \u2013 unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.\nHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.\u2019 \u201d\nThe church in Ephesus had it\u2019s good points (strong areas) and it\u2019s bad points (weak areas). They were instructed what to do to correct the bad points (weak areas).\nI. Strong Areas\nThe church in Ephesus was praised for rejecting evil, their perseverance, and their patience. The people had faithfully labored for the Lord\u2019s name. The people also hated immorality and idolatry.\nII. Weak Areas\nThe church in Ephesus was lacking in their love for God. Their love for Christ was no longer fervent. The church had experienced a considerable drop-off of love to the Lord.\nIII. Instruction\nThe church in Ephesus was instructed to admit, repent and do the first works again. Their lifestyle was to reflect their love for God. They should once again do the things that they had done before their love for God had dimmed.\n\u201cNethertheless I have this against you, that you have left you first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place \u2013 unless you repent.\u201d\nThey had to admit that they had grown cold in their love for God, that they had left their first love (They had left the love feast-intimate communion with God). No matter what the situation is, you will never get anywhere in finding a solution until you first admit that there is a problem. Problems will not go away by sticking our heads in the ground and pretending that nothing is wrong. Like the church in Ephesus, we must remember where we have been and look at where we are now. Is our love for God stronger now than it\u2019s ever been? Or have we too grown cold and turned away from our love of the Lord? Do we love the Lord with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind?\n\u201cJesus said to him, \u2018You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and great commandment.\u201d\nB. Repent\nThe church at Ephesus was told to repent. They church at Ephesus knew that they were to have vibrant (throbbing with vitality and enthusiasm), intimate communion with God, however they no longer did. They had become lukewarm and complacent in their worship and communication with God. They had become pleased with themselves and what they had. They were self-satisfied.\nTrue repentance is turning from your sin and going the opposite way, to make a conscience decision to turn away from sin. True repentance is to \u2018Go and sin no more.\u2019 The people were to ask God to forgive them of their lukewarmness and compliancy.\nAfter they repented for leaving their first love (the love feast \u2013 intimate communion with God), they were instructed to do the first works again. They were to once again enter into a time of intimate communion and worship with God.\n\u201cTherefore say to them, \u2018Thus says the Lord of hosts: \u2018Return to Me,\u2019 says the Lord of hosts, \u2018and I will return to you,\u2019 says the Lord of hosts.\u2019 \u201d\nIf the church as Ephesus would listen to and obey the instructions given to them then they would be allowed to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. The same is true for us today.\nFiled under Food For Thought and tagged JAMES 4:17, LOVING GOD, Matthew 22:37-38, REVELATION 2:1-7, Revelation 2:4-5, ZECHARIAH 1:3 |\tLeave a comment\nWhen God lights a fire about someone or something in you the enemy will do everything that he can to discourage you. A few things the enemy might say to you are: \u201cYou\u2019re a nobody.\u201d, \u201cYou\u2019re not perfect.\u201d, or \u201cYou\u2019re ordinary.\u201d God is not looking for extra ordinary or perfect people.\n\u201cThen Moses said to the Lord, \u201cO my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.\u201d So the Lord said to him, \u201cWho has made man\u2019s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? 12Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.\u201d\nDon\u2019t wait until conditions are perfect to obey God. He can do more with someone who stutters under the anointing than He can with the most eloquent speaker in the flesh.\n\u201cThen Moses answered and said, \u201cBut suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, \u2018The Lord has not appeared to you.\u2019\u201d So the Lord said to him, \u201cWhat is that in your hand?\u201d He said, \u201cA rod.\u201d And He said, \u201cCast it on the ground.\u201d So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cReach out your hand and take it by the tail\u201d (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),\n\u201cthat they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.\u201d\nWhen you step out in faith to obey God there will be those that do not believe God has called you or they question what you have been called to do.\n\u201cCome now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.\u201d But Moses said to God, \u201cWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?\u201d So He said, \u201cI will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.\u201d\nThe enemy may also tell you that you are not capable. If God has called you to do something, He will enable you to do it. If you do the natural, God will do the supernatural. The very one that created you will equip you to do the job that He has called you to do.\nThank-you that You have chosen me for a part in Your plan. By the power of the Holy Spirit let me hear only Your voice and not the voice of the enemy. Help me to remember that I am somebody and perfect through the blood of Jesus Christ. May I be quick to obey You and not question what You have called me to do. Thank-you that You enable me to do what You have called me to do.\nFiled under Bible Thoughts and tagged EXODUS 4:1-5, EXODUS 4:10-11, stepping out in faith |\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 11251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wealthmanagement.bnpparibas/asia/en/expert-voices/investment-outlook-20190.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CYGH3CZOPOAHSZMWYMMQF7BAS32APYQQ", "length": 3652, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "wealthmanagement.bnpparibas", "title": "Investment Outlook 2019 by Prashant Bhayani, CIO, Asia", "raw_content": "Investment Outlook 2019 [VIDEO]\nWhen we formulated our global economic outlook 2019, we believed that the world is in a synchronized slowdown. However, we believe the world is also late cycle but it's not the end of the cycle, that is the key takeaway.\nThat guided how we selected our investment themes for 2019. We wanted to assist investors with higher volatility that comes with later cycle investing. That means defensive ideas across asset classes.\nWe also wanted to focus on the longer term themes in Asia and emerging markets as well as multi-year mega-trends that can be taken advantage of through higher volatility as the year goes along.\nDEFENSIVE THEMES\nLet's first explore defensive investments. That's the category of our first two themes. Namely, number one, we're looking for yield and for the first time for dollar-based investors, due to the increase in interest rates over the last few years, you have opportunities in high quality corporate bonds.\nSecondly, in the equity space, we focus on dividend yields which now are attractive especially in Europe and Asia, in many cases at four percent or above. However, at this point of the cycle we also need to focus on other asset classes, diversifiers, namely gold.\nGold is a recession hedge, it's a portfolio hedge. Also, we prefer macro hedge funds in this environment. Why? There are trends in interest rates and currencies for managers to exploit as well as these charities generally have a low correlation with public market returns.\nFinally, we also prefer direct, private real estate investment. With inflation picking up, interest rates picking up, that flows through to rental income.\nASIA / EMERGING MARKET THEMES\nWe're optimistic on several Asia multi-year investment themes in 2019, namely a monumental one, the opening up of China's capital markets. For example, China's 15% of the world economy but it's only four percent of equity in the seas globally.\nWe're also going to see the bond industries develop, an increased use of the Chinese currency as North-South trade expands within Asia and globally.\nWe also believe the dollar is peaking in 2019 and that gives you opportunities in merging market local currency bonds as well as Asian currencies.\n2019 INVESTMENT THEMES: From our team of investment strategy experts\nMEGA TRENDS THEMES\nThe next group of our themes are important because they're long term, multi-year mega-trend investments. The first one, mobility. It's not just about autonomous vehicles, it's about the data that drives those vehicles, the technology, the commodities that go into the battery of electric vehicles. It's the entire supply chain which we're focused on.\nAlso, cyber security. This is mission-critical spending for company CEOs. Up to $100 billion of additional spend by 2020. Finally, we're firm believes in urban transformation. What does that mean? Smart cities, better water and waste management, recycling of plastics.\nOne of the most powerful drivers of longer term mega trends is demographics. We know the population is aging. In fact, the average lifespan will increase by seven years between now and 2050.\nBut more importantly, the composition of retiree spending is changing. We never retire with this much wealth and they're spending increasingly on travel and experiences, health care, healthy eating, and fitness. Finally, the fourth, industrial revolution which is a technology revolution is Industry 4.0.\nArtificial intelligence, robotics, big data, cloud computing, these will explode in terms of usage and in terms of demand for the next decade. All these represent compelling investment opportunities in the coming years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 6934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weatherhead.case.edu/events/2016/11/04/case-style-interviews-with-marc-cosentino", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FQU2BD2ZQZHQTGW7SS3MBO54U2F3CG4A", "length": 812, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "weatherhead.case.edu", "title": "Case Style Interviews with Marc Cosentino, Author of \"Case In Point\" | Weatherhead", "raw_content": "Case Style Interviews with Marc Cosentino, Author of \"Case In Point\"\nCase Style Interviews with Marc Cosentino, Author of \"Case In Point\"https://weatherhead.case.edu/events/2016/11/04/case-style-interviews-with-marc-cosentino\nJoin us as guest speaker, Marc Cosentino, author of \"Case In Point,\" leads us in a presentation of how to best attack the case-style interview.\nThe case-style interview format is most commonly used for candidates seeking consulting positions. However, this unique interview format is becoming more popular in many fields and functional areas. Case-style interviewing is a comprehensive approach to observe your critical thinking, analytic, and communication skill sets.\nStudent Registration via CareerLink.\nFriday, Nov. 4, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.\nGeorge S. Dively Building, Room 202", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://web.appstorm.net/roundups/task-management/creating-automated-reminders/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5B64VOR5KWCNJNHN664ZY2S7K6TISCI", "length": 5187, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "web.appstorm.net", "title": "Creating Automated Reminders \u2013 9 Helpful Web Services \u00ab Web.AppStorm", "raw_content": "Creating Automated Reminders \u2013 9 Helpful Web Services\nreminders,\nWhen it comes to productivity frameworks, there are always those pesky tasks that can easily fall between the cracks. These are the items that need to be completed on or by a certain day, but not at a specific time.\nGTD deals with these tasks with a Tickler file. A set of file folders that is broken down by month and day, and you simply place some sort of reminder on the day it will be needed.\nBut there are many online services that can be used in the same regard. For those who prefer digital tools over paper ones, check out the services listed below to automate your reminders. Never forget those routine, recurring or one time tasks.\nA simple, clean interface for creating your reminders.\nRemindr has to be the most pure web application for creating reminders \u2014 and only reminders. A clean interface gives you limited options: name your reminder, set the date and time, then choose how you want to be reminded. Your options are by Twitter, email, Jabber account, or by text message.\nThe cleanest service of them all, it\u2019s also free to use. That\u2019s a hard to beat set of features.\nTask.fm\nCreate your tasks via email or Twitter.\nAnother application in that\u2019s aimed directly at this category, Task.fm is also all about reminders and only reminders. It\u2019s also one of the easiest to use \u2014 it\u2019s designed to work via email and Twitter.\nA nice looking app, Task.fm is a leader in this genre of web applications.\nThe Reminders in Backpack are my favourite feature in the tool.\nThe all-in-one tool from 37signals, Backpack offers a nicely designed feature named \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Reminders. Perfect for tickler folder type of items, you can throw in items that have no hard date and Backpack will email or text message you. You can also set reminders to be recurring.\nOne of the most powerful task management web apps available.\nOne of the more powerful task management web applications around, Remember the Milk can be as simple or as complex as you like. It\u2019s a task management service, but the tasks themselves are more like one off items than what you would see in a more traditional project management application.\nAnd like Backpack, you can set tasks to be recurring and have multiple options for how you want to receive reminders about your tasks.\nCreate a separate calendar as a Tickler file.\nNow, as I\u2019ve mentioned, the tasks or reminders in question here, according to GTD, do not belong in your calendar because they have no hard date and time. But that doesn\u2019t mean you couldn\u2019t use a calendar application to manage those items.\nYou can simply create an extra calendar that is to be used for this types of items. With Google Calendar, each entry can be configured to send a reminder as well. Then simply toggle this calendar so it is not viewed in your timeline with your hard landscape items. Only view it when it\u2019s needed.\nA tool aimed at families, Cozi offers a reminders feature.\nCozi falls in line more with Backpack. It\u2019s a more full fledged service that is aimed at families. Help juggle your schedule, as well as the rest of your brood, all from within one tool. But it happens to have a Reminders function as well, which can also be used to send messages (reminders for them) to your children or spouse.\nWith the fall semester just under way, this is a good option for young families.\nGet your reminder, then get help with changing your oil on KeepUp.\nAnother simple service, KeepUp has a community aspect to it. Not only is the intention to remind you of a task, the application was designed to also help you complete the task. It\u2019s intended to help you reach out to the KeepUp community and to use one another as resources to find out how to complete your more obscure tasks.\nIt will send reminders via email, text or fax.\nAnother solid tool from the Zoho suite.\nAnother solid choice, Zoho planner is a tool for a variety of items. It\u2019s very similar to Backpack, with a few less features. But it does allow the user to create reminders and gives options for how to receive them. Another free option.\nA great way to get your tasks into your system when on the go.\nLastly, Jott is worth a mention. Not exactly a reminder tool, Jott allows you to create notes or reminders by phone. The service turns those items into text and then adds them to another service (Twitter, Google Calendar etc.). It\u2019s more of an interface than a way to organize your tasks.\nBut it\u2019s worth mentioning because of it\u2019s unique mode of entry. We\u2019ve all been in that place where we\u2019ve thought of something important while on the move and had no way to properly ensure that we\u2019d remember later. Since children are practically born with a cell phone in hand these days, a service like Jott is a great way to ensure that \u2014 whatever system you\u2019re using \u2014 you get all your important items collected into your system.\nSomewhat Lacking in Options\nWhen compared to other categories of web applications, there is a bit of a short supply for tools in this area. The services I\u2019ve mentioned above are all good, but I\u2019m interested to learn of more.\nIf you\u2019re using another option that was not listed here, please mention it in the comments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 6867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weretryingrecords.com/2017/01/10/i-see-land-joins-were-tryings-roster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OBQR7T6OGDP26IZDUNKRNWZL53UTVZVD", "length": 1294, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "weretryingrecords.com", "title": "I See Land. Joins We\u2019re Trying\u2019s Roster | We're Trying Records", "raw_content": "We\u2019re Trying Records is excited to announce the addition of New Braunfels\u2019 emotive hardcore band I See Land. to the roster!\nI See Land. started as a platform to release recording projects. In November 2015, this group of high school friends turned these projects into Everything I Missed About This Place. \u2013 the band\u2019s first EP.\nThis collection of songs developed from the shared experiences of each member, and was mixed and mastered by Sorority Noise/Old Gray\u2018s Cam Boucher. The harsh lyrics paired with the dream-like instrumentals causes the band and listeners to fall into nostalgic emotional state. With fond and hurtful memories all the same, the lyrics of the EP implore us to move forward.\nDespite a fast start for this young band, the group remained dormant until the summer of 2016 where they performed their first ever show at We\u2019re Trying\u2019s Summer Slam. From then on, the band has grown exponentially. With 30+ shows and their first national tour under their belt, the band is in the process of working on their second EP and planning to hit the road again this spring.\nGrab Everything I Missed About This Place. at I See Land\u2019s. Bandcamp and stream it via Spotify!\n\u2190 Here Is My Sadness; Marrowstone Releases \u201c10.22\u201d\nJustifying Your Own Behavior: Kidlat Punch Releases New Single \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/91xxv/corrections", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IAGJO4ZTEIPOJQ267P6O463FVWXWEZHH", "length": 1299, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk", "title": "Corrections : WestminsterResearch", "raw_content": "Summary form only given, as follows. In Vol. 12, no. 3 (Summer 2007), page 9, bottom of the left column, in 'Computer Architecture and Amdahl??s Law' by Gene Amdahl, the claim about invalidating Amdahl??s Law in 1988 came from a team at Sandia National Laboratories, and not Los Alamos. The correct text should read: \"Several years later I was informed of a proof that Amdahl's Law was invalidated by someone at Sandia National Laboratories, where a number of computers interconnected as an Ncube by communication lines, but with each computer also connected to I/O devices for loading the operating system, initial data, and results.\" On page 20 of the same issue, in the second sentence of the diagram explanation note by Justin Rattner, the percentage figures for the sequential and the system coordination parts of the workload were interchanged. The correct version of this sentence should read: \"assuming a fixed sized problem, Amdahl speculated that most programs would require at least 10% of the computation to be sequential (only one instruction executing at a time), with overhead due to interprocessor coordination averaging 25%.\"\nSolid-State Circuits Newsletter\n12 (4), p. 2\ndoi:10.1109/N-SSC.2007.4785648\nPermalink - https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/91xxv/corrections", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 43683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9268z/social-tourism-and-its-ethical-foundations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ALZHWYCQWC45X3EKJUGJ7JOJI7SNERF7", "length": 2837, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk", "title": "Social tourism and its ethical foundations : WestminsterResearch", "raw_content": "Minnaert, L., Maitland, R. and Miller, G.\nAlthough social tourism has been seen in a number of countries as having potential to counter social exclusion, formulating a definition for the term is difficult. \"Social tourism\" is used to describe a variety of initiatives for a variety of different social groups. These range from holidays for children from low-income backgrounds, through improving accessibility in hotels, to offering ecological holidays. This article discusses the definitions of \"social tourism,\" distinguishing host-related and visitor-related forms, and aims to clarify its potential value in combating social exclusion. It does so by examining the ethical values underlying the way social tourism is defined and suggesting a theoretical framework for the effects of social tourism. Some ethical views of society place an a priori moral duty on the stronger strata to support the weaker. Others do not judge the support of the weaker strata as an a priori dominant ethical principle, and judge the welfare of the state by the opportunity of all its strata. Ethical positions that see stronger strata as having a moral duty to support the weaker are more likely to be supportive toward both host-related and visitor-related social tourism. Those that do not will probably support host-related social tourism, but will support visitor-related social tourism, if publicly funded, only if it can demonstrate benefits for the whole of society. In Western liberal democracies where this is a prevailing view, visitor-related social tourism might justify public expenditure as a potential tool to combat social exclusion. It can be seen as a merit good if it improves excluded peoples' handicapping characteristics, through, for example, beneficial effects in health, self-esteem, and improvement of family relationships. However, there is little research to test its effectiveness in achieving these outcomes. Further research is required to evaluate whether social tourism can have a significant role in combating social exclusion, and thus justify support from public expenditure.\nSocial tourism, social exclusion, ethics\nTourism, Culture and Communication\n7 (12), pp. 7-17\nMinnaert,_Maitland_&_Miller_2006_final.pdf\nhttp://www.cognizantcommunication.com/filecabinet/Tourism_Culture/tcc71abs.html#tcc71abs1\nComplexity theory and tourism policy research\nStevenson, N., Airey, D. and Miller, G. 2009. Complexity theory and tourism policy research. International Journal of Tourism Policy. 2 (3), pp. 206-220.\nTourism policy making: the policymakers' perspectives\nStevenson, N., Airey, D. and Miller, G. 2008. Tourism policy making: the policymakers' perspectives. Annals of Tourism Research. 35 (3), pp. 732-750.\nPermalink - https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9268z/social-tourism-and-its-ethical-foundations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 16298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiki.communitydata.cc/index.php?title=Publications&action=info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:R5E5DJ7QFMTPHH62H22UXYCXZPH4CNPY", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wiki.communitydata.cc", "title": "Information for \"Publications\" - CommunityData", "raw_content": "Template:C (edit)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://williamoslerhs.wordpress.com/tag/partnership/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EMP2QULELO22ISPOI6WCAAC5ES3WXCLK", "length": 9322, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "williamoslerhs.wordpress.com", "title": "partnership |", "raw_content": "How Central West CCAC, Headwaters and Osler are taking patients from Hospital to Home\nWhen patients return home from the hospital, they sometimes need a little bit of extra support. Osler is working with its partners at the Central West Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) and Headwaters Health Care Centre (Headwaters) \u2013 as well as the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) and the Central West Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN) \u2013 to meet this need with Hospital to Home (H2H).\nH2H is an innovative new model of care that is helping to improve clinical handoffs and information sharing when patients leave hospital and re-enter the community. This means that patients continue to receive short-term nursing care from the same team after they return home. H2H will initially support patients with cellulitis and urinary tract infections requiring short-term nursing interventions, later expanding to support those with more complex needs.\nLast week, H2H launched at Brampton Civic Hospital. The program originally launched at Etobicoke General Hospital in December and then at Headwaters in January.\nOnce fully implemented, H2H will help prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, shorten the length of stay for admitted patients, provide greater continuity of care and ultimately, enhance the patient experience for those we serve.\nAs one of six integrated programs sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care\u2019s new bundled funding model, H2H is an excellent example of how different organizations from across the continuum of care can work together to improve access to care that truly benefits patients. And it\u2019s proving to be effective. Since November 2015, more than 135 patients have been enrolled in the program and dedicated H2H nurses have completed over 750 nursing visits in the community.\nWith each phase of the H2H rollout, the project team gathered feedback from staff and patients to help shape the program even further. Feedback to date has been very positive. Here\u2019s what some H2H patients had to say:\n\u201cI received outstanding care!\u201d\n\u201cMy experience was fantastic. Each Nurse was extremely knowledgeable and they arrived in the timeframe as promised.\u201d\n\u201cI really appreciate this program. You took the time to talk with my wife and comfort her when I did not know what to say to make her feel better.\u201d\n\u201cYou hired the best nurses for the job. They have all been wonderful!\nThis kind of patient experience is what we strive to achieve. That we are hearing such overwhelmingly positive feedback so early in the life of the program is a wonderful testament to the team\u2019s commitment to providing patient-inspired care!\nPosted in Uncategorized\t| Tagged community, H2H, partnership, partnerships\t| Leave a reply\nCelebrating a Year of Innovation and Partnership\nDo you remember what you were doing this time last year? At Osler, we were embarking on a journey with the Central West Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) and Headwaters Health Care Centre (Headwaters) that would change the way health care is delivered in our region.\nTogether, we announced an innovative cross-sector partnership that joined our non-clinical (administrative or \u2018back-office\u2019) functions to improve our collective ability to meet the health care needs of our communities. So far, we\u2019ve worked hard to build solid foundations that will impact the way health care is delivered in our region.\nHere\u2019s a snapshot of what we\u2019ve done this year:\nPlanning for the Future, Together\nFor the first time, we joined forces to develop our Annual Business Plans (ABP) and Quality Improvement Plans (QIP). By aligning our goals and monitoring them with a set of common metrics this will enable us to collectively improve health care quality and safety while having a positive, far-reaching impact on the patient experience across the Central West region.\nWe also worked together to showcase our individual and collective achievements from the past year in our Annual Reports in a fresh, dynamic way.\nThe old adage \u201ctwo heads are better than one\u201d certainly applies to the partnership. But for us, five heads are better than two. By creating a Joint Non-Clinical Executive Team, we pooled the collective resources and experience of all three organizations. This innovative approach to leadership has energized our senior teams and has created an environment that fosters collaboration and cooperation.\nWeathering the Seasonal Surge\nThere\u2019s nothing that tests the strength of a relationship better than a challenge. We put our partnership to the test as we collectively planned for and responded to a large patient surge during an exceptionally busy holiday season that was complicated by an early spike in flu activity. In a two week period, Osler saw a more than 8,800 patients visit our emergency departments (ED), admitted more than 1,000 patients for acute care and confirmed 350 flu cases.\nNeedless to say, this was a challenge but by working together we were able to effectively manage the flow of patients by providing excellent care in our hospitals as well as in the community.\nOver the past year we saw first hand how working together can yield incredible results and spark new ideas about how we can improve the patient experience. We will share more achievements as our relationship matures over the months and years ahead. It is an exciting time for health care in the Central West region and I\u2019m confident that the best is yet to come!\nPosted in Uncategorized\t| Tagged partnership, partnerships\t| Leave a reply\nHow Osler is working with the LHIN\nThere are many acronyms in health care. While medical dramas on TV have made many of these terms common place \u2013 like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and ED (emergency department) \u2013 there are some that are a bit more unfamiliar.\nOne of the terms we often use around Osler is LHIN, which stands for Local Health Integration Network. It\u2019s a long name, but what does it mean?\nThe LHIN system is unique to Ontario and was created so health care spending decisions could be made by local people and money could be distributed in a way that better reflects local needs of regions across the province.\nAcross Ontario, there are 14 LHINs that bring health care decision-making to the regional level. Everything from the planning, coordinating, integrating and funding of local health care services is managed by individual LHINs across the province. Each LHIN is overseen by a provincially-appointed Board of Directors to ensure that they remain accountable.\nOsler is located in the Central West LHIN and we work closely with the LHIN to deliver programs and services that make a difference in the lives of patients. The LHIN also works closely with health care providers in the community. This means that if you\u2019ve received care at Osler, moved a loved one into a long-term care facility, accessed community support services or visited a community health centre \u2013 you have touched part of the LHIN.\nHere are just a few examples of how Osler and the LHIN are working together to meet the needs of patients:\nPatients with COPD and Heart Failure are now able to manage their health from home through Telehomecare\nDiversity is in our DNA and Osler is part of the LHIN\u2019s Diversity and Equity Core Action Group to help ensure all patients receive fair and equitable access to health care\nWe\u2019re calling for better integrated care across the community through Telephone Town Hall meetings with our regional partners\nThrough the connectingGTA Program, Osler clinicians can access the health information they need to make care decisions using a secure regional electronic health record system\nThis is just the tip of the iceberg. As the health care needs of the communities we serve evolve, we will continue to work with our partners at the LHIN to improve access to services and find ways for health service providers to improve the quality of care.\nA lot can be achieved when working as a team. Osler \u2013 along with health care partners at the Central West Community Care Access Centre, Central West Local Health Integration Network, Headwaters Health Care Centre, and Region of Peel Health Services \u2013 will be hosting its fourth Telephone Town Hall to connect with people across the region about their health care services.\nDuring the call, we will talk about how we work together to provide specialized health services to the community. This time, we will also focus on the topic of seniors\u2019 health and the programs and resources available to them.\nREAD MORE: Questions and answers from the previous Telephone Town Hall\nThe call will happen on Monday, October 6 from 7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. By joining the call, you will have the opportunity to:\nHear directly from health care leaders in your community about issues that matter to you\nLearn how the health care system works in the Central West region\nAsk questions and provide valuable opinions that can help us shape the programs and services we offer\nAll members of the community are invited to have their voices heard so please share this information with your friends and family, too. Get your name on the call list by leaving a message at (416) or (905) 494-2120 ext. 50200 or email your telephone number to teletownhall@williamoslerhs.ca by Friday, October 3.\nPosted in Uncategorized\t| Tagged community, partnership, Telephone town hall\t| 2 Replies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 17045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/90-years-later-ghost-shipwreck-at-bottom-of-lake-huron-in-remarkable-shape", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CRR7NY32B22GO3MQOHRC3TSGJP5DTWXL", "length": 5792, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "windsorstar.com", "title": "90 years later, shipwreck at bottom of Lake Huron in remarkable shape | Windsor Star", "raw_content": "90 years later, 'ghost' shipwreck at bottom of Lake Huron in remarkable shape\n\"It's one of the coolest shipwrecks I've seen on the Great Lakes,\" said Windsor author and shipwreck seeker Cris Kohl of the Manasoo in Georgian Bay.\nSome of the first images from a video camera dropped more than 200 feet in Georgian Bay showed a mussel-covered, 1927 Chevy Coupe parked aboard the shipwreck of the Manasoo.\n\u201cWe made a pass along one side of the hull and in the opening we saw an old automobile,\u201d said Windsor maritime historian Cris Kohl who was part of a team that found two ghost ships of Georgian Bay this summer. \u201cIt is very rare to see a car, an automobile, on a shipwreck.\u201d\nThe Chevy has rested at the bottom of the bay north of Owen Sound for 90 years. The steel-hulled steamship sank in a storm Sept. 15, 1928. The car\u2019s owner, Donald Wallace, was the only passenger to survive along with the captain and three sailors. Sixteen people died along with more than 100 head of cattle Wallace had purchased.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the coolest shipwrecks I\u2019ve seen on the Great Lakes.\u201d\nThe ship is incredibly intact with the bow pointing up and the pilot house, ship\u2019s wheel and lifeboats unscathed except for the invasive zebra and quagga mussels that almost completely cover the surfaces. Kohl said the first images left him speechless and amazed.\nKohl, 69, is a Windsor author and diver who has helped discover about a dozen shipwrecks, with the two recent Georgian Bay finds at the top of his list for historic importance. His main job is researching to help narrow down the location of mystery shipwrecks.\n\u201cThere aren\u2019t that many mountains left on the planet to climb but there certainly are shipwrecks left to discover. It\u2019s the whole idea of the excitement of discovery and now we can lay this to rest.\u201d\nNinety years later, the wreck of the Manasoo reveals part of its sunken cargo \u00e2\u0080\u0094 a 1927 Chevy Coupe. Photo: Greg Hilliard Courtesy of Cris Kohl / Windsor Star\nThe team was led by Kohl\u2019s friend Ken Merryman, who has the archeological licence to search for the wrecks, and Jerry Eliason, both from Minnesota. They found the Manasoo June 30 and then, on the very next day, the J.H. Jones steamer that sunk off the Bruce Peninsula in 1906 with 30 lives lost \u2014 rare back-to-back discoveries.\nThe search for the Manasoo lasted four days over deeper waters before it was found near Griffith Island north of Owen Sound in about 200 feet (61 metres) of water.\nThe ship started taking on water in a storm in the early hours of Sept. 15, 1928, and was headed to shore. Kohl said it must have sunk faster than expected because most of the lifeboats are still attached. He said there were 116 head of cattle on board and supposedly they shifted to one side causing the ship to tilt and sink. No human remains or cattle bones were found at the wrecksite.\nThe 178-foot-long ship was built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1888. It started off as the S.S. Macassa, carrying tourists and cargo between Toronto and Hamilton on Lake Ontario for its first 39 years.\nIn early 1928 it was purchased by the Owen Sound Transportation Company which now operates the Pelee Island ferries. The ship would make runs from Manitoulin Island to Sault Ste. Marie and the name was changed to Manasoo.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a superstition among sailors that you don\u2019t rename a ship because it will bring bad luck and sure enough it brought bad luck,\u201d said Kohl. \u201cBefore it could end its first year on Georgian Bay, the Manasoo sank with severe loss of life.\u201d\nShipwreck discovery: Windsor man helps find sunken steamer lost in 1906\nWreck of the Griffon, a Great Lakes mystery\n1962 freighter shipwreck drew thousands to Detroit River\nKohl found his first wreck, a fishing tug, in 1983 in Lake Erie and was hooked. The former Chatham teacher has a masters degree in history from the University of Windsor and writes books on wrecks with his wife Joan Forsberg. Although he\u2019s a scuba diver, the Manasoo was too deep a dive for his certification so he could only watch in amazement at the first sonar and video images of the wreck.\nThere are more than 7,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes and only about 1,500 of them have been discovered, he said.\nDivers are shown in July swimming around the pilot house of the Manasoo, formerly the S.S. Macassa, which sank in Georgian Bay near Owen Sound on Sept. 15, 1928. Photo: Terry Irvine. Courtesy of Cris Kohl / Windsor Star\nCaptain\u2019s wheel of the remarkably well-preserved Manasoo, which sank in Georgian Bay near Owen Sound Sept. 15, 1928, is shown after a team which included Cris Kohl discovered two historic shipwrecks last summer. Photo: Greg Hilliard. Greg Hilliard / Windsor Star\nMaritime historian and author Cris Kohl, shown Nov. 15, 2018, holds two vintage postcards of the vessel S.S. Macassa, which was sold and renamed Manasoo in 1928. The steamer sank in September 1928 and was lost until recently, when a team of divers discovered the shipwreck in Georgian Bay near Owen Sound, Ontario. Kohl visited the Star to tell the amazing tale. Nick Brancaccio / Windsor Star\nBuilt in 1888 and originally named S.S. Macassa, the steamer sank in Georgian Bay in 1928 a short time after being renamed the Manasoo. Shown July 7, 2018, it remains in remarkably good shape at the lake\u2019s bottom. Photo: Ken Merryman WINwp\nA 3D photo/video composite of the shipwreck of the Manasoo by Jerry Eliason, as seen after being discovered last summer by a team which included Windsor\u2019s Cris Kohl. The steamer sank in Lake Huron near Owen Sound on Sept. 15, 1928. Courtesy of Cris Kohl / Windsor Star\nAni and Fabi this year's 'outstanding new business' at 21st annual... Deadly play-fight with brother leads to aggravated assault guilty plea\n\ue22190 years later, 'ghost' shipwreck at bottom of Lake Huron in remarkable shape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 11279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://windsorstar.com/transportation/airlines/airbus-lockheed-team-up-against-boeing-to-bid-for-us35m-air-force-contract/wcm/394d28ec-4613-4ac4-84f2-70d1201b5e3c", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HXNOYCD66IB6E6VMER5KM3XLLWGE3ZWK", "length": 2447, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "windsorstar.com", "title": "Airbus, Lockheed team up against Boeing to bid for US$35M Air Force contract | Windsor Star", "raw_content": "Airbus, Lockheed team up against Boeing to bid for US$35M Air Force contract\nSet to renew long-running battle with Boeing to supply Airbus's A330 jetliner-based multi-role tanker transport\nA newer Airbus A330, one of its two new, more fuel-efficient planes.\tRemy Gabalda / Getty Images\nAirbus is set to renew a long-running battle with Boeing to supply tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force after partnering with American defence giant Lockheed Martin.\nThe companies said Tuesday they\u2019ve agreed to pitch Airbus\u2019s A330 jetliner-based multi-role tanker transport, or MRTT, to plug a shortfall in the Air Force\u2019s mid-air refuelling capabilities and also develop entirely new programs. The structure of the collaboration is set to be worked out in the new year.\nAirbus is once again targeting the U.S. military tanker market after a US$35 billion contract to build 179 new planes was controversially handed to Boeing in 2011. The U.S. company\u2019s initial winning bid was overturned amid claims of impropriety and later awarded to its rival, only for Airbus\u2019s own proposal to be blocked by U.S. authorities, with Boeing triumphing in a final decision.\nBoeing, Embraer forge $4.75 billion commercial jet venture to take on Airbus and Bombardier\nWTO rules Boeing harmed by Airbus subsidies, exposing EU to U.S. sanctions\nAirbus renames CSeries: Bombardier passenger plane will now be known as the A220\nAirbus and Lockheed are teaming up after the Air Force flagged an increase in the number of refuelling aircraft required over coming years, in part due to higher utilization of existing planes that led it to issue a formal request for information to the industry in June.\nThe requirement could lead to the accelerated retirement of the U.S. fleet of KC-135 tankers, a sister model to the Boeing 707 that first flew in the mid 1950s.\nBoeing, which has been the sole supplier of aerial refuelling planes to the Pentagon since 1948, beat Airbus to the 2011 contract with the KC-46 tanker based on its 767 commercial jet \u2014 a model that has since suffered repeated delivery delays.\nToulouse, France-based Airbus\u2019s failed bid was originally made with Northrop Grumman Corp. before the U.S. company pulled out amid the legal and political wrangling overa the contest. Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Md., will contribute its expertise in systems integration, manufacturing and maintenance involving large airlift and tanker aircraft, according to a statement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 6852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wine-pages.com/wine-school-articles/south-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:57Z", "digest": "sha1:N7KQEKV25PWWTU7NNS7XDK2HZZORKHQW", "length": 9661, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "wine-pages.com", "title": "South Africa | wine-pages", "raw_content": "I suppose there was every chance that the wines that emerged from post-apartheid South Africa would appear odd, quirky, even weird to most wine lovers. After all, the wine-makers had worked in virtual isolation for decades, their wines \u2013 like all South African produce \u2013 officially embargoed by governments or privately shunned by consumers. Without the pressure of critical scrutiny to sharpen their focus, the country\u2019s wine industry might well have drifted into a backwater. What a relief, when South African wines began to re-appear on international shelves in the mid 90\u2019s, to find that crisp fruity whites, seriously structured reds and of course the unique Pinotage provided inexpensive, good quality drinking.\nThough the South African wine industry is certainly not without a legacy of problems, its seems there is huge potential for the area now that it has rejoined the international wine community. And the 20 years since the long walk to freedom has seen enormous changes. New areas like the hip and happening Swartland, the Elgin Valley and Bot River, new star young winemakers like Chris Alheit, Peter Allan Finlayson and Chris and Andrea Mullineux, and a new focus on celebrating small parcels of great old vine material in dedicated bottlings, rather than allowing them to disappear into blends produced by the country\u2019s biggest players. It is fair to say that South Africa is as dynamic and confident as any of the world\u2019s wine regions.\nOnly the very southern tip of the country has a climate suitable for growing wine grapes. As a whole, this is a hot climate region, but moderating influences are to be found in the shape of the Indian ocean to the south cooled by currents flowing up fom the Antarctic, breezes from the Atlantic ocean to the west, and some altitude to be found in upland areas.\nSouth Africa produces much more white wine than red and is widely planted with a broad range of the ubiquitous \u201cinternational\u201d varieties. However, a few grapes have particular significance:\nChenin Blanc the great grape of the middle Loire, it is often grown and bottled as Steen. Though generally producing dry, fruity, quaffing wines, it is versatile and can be fashioned in a variety of styles including oak-aged, serious examples and long-lived botrytised dessert wines. This single variety accounts for around 50% of all South African white wine production.Colombard\u2018s great claim to fame is as the base wine of Cognac, but here it makes a pleasantly fruity, usually dry white wine.\nSauvignon Blanc not particularly significant in terms of volume, but one of South Africa\u2019s most successful varieties in my experience.\nMuscadelle/Muscat d\u2019Alexandrie are both used for a whole range of dessert and fortified wines, usually with a wonderful combination of flowery aromatics and luscious, chocolaty sweetness.\nPinotage a cross of Pinot Noir and Cinsault, South Africa\u2019s very own grape variety which can produce both vibrant, super-fruity Beaujolais Nouveau style quaffing reds, and much more serious, oak-aged, robust, ageworthy efforts.\nPinot Noir is again not statistically significant in terms of production, but anyone who tastes a fine example from the likes of Bouchard-Finlayson or Hamilton Russell will agree that it shows massive potential.\nCabernet Sauvignon has traditionally been South Africa\u2019s premium red variety with fine estate-bottled examples being compared favourably with the best in the world. I have found mixed evidence: some bottles ripe, balanced and well-structured; some a little herbal and weedy.\nThe wines of South Africa\nSouth Africa has few vinous superstars that stride the global stage. International auction houses and collectors will scrabble for the glamorous top wines of Europe, Australia and California, but nothing from the dark continent commands that kind of fervour as yet, save perhaps for a few of Swartland\u2019s most iconic bottlings. Partly, this must be down to the country\u2019s political situation, but also to the way the wine industry is structured. Co-operatives and bulk producers still outnumber small-scale independent estates (around 85% of all production is by co-ops). Inevitably quality suffers in these circumstances. Nevertheless there are many visionary, quality-obsessed winemakers who are gradually re-shaping this landscape. There are also many well-respected and extremely fine wines that have reached international prominence, if not super-stardom.\nAt their best, it seems to me that South African wines exemplify a tremendous fusion of Old and New World styles. They can have the ripe, focussed, sunny fruit of Australia, yet the reserve, firmness and structure of fine Bordeaux or Burgundy. Several of the best producers are highlighted in the brief run through the main wine regions which follows:\nOne of the most familiar regional names, Stellenbosch is the home of most of the traditional premium red wines, especially Cabernets and \u201cBordeaux blends\u201d. A large area, there are a variety of soils and climatic conditions, but the Atlantic provides some moderation. There is a concentration of quality individual wine estates in Stellenbosch, amongst the best and longest-established are Blaauwklippen, Meerlust, Warwick, Thelema, Kanonkop and Rustenberg.\nIf you\u2019ve bought a bottle of inexpensive supermarket South African wine in the past, chances are it came from the massive KWV wine-growers association. KWV dominates the region producing a huge volume of red, white and fortified wine. A large inland valley area, there are quality individual producers too such as Fairview, Glen Carlou and Nederburg.\nOn the cool, coastal outskirts of Cape Town, this is South Africa\u2019s most historically famous wine region thanks mainly to its almost legendary dessert wines which are said to have given solace to the emperor Napoleon in exile. In 1986 the fine Klein Constantia estate revived this style with the fine \u201cVin de Constance\u201d, a Muscat-based sweet wine that is spoken of in the same breath as Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Yquem. The dry Sauvignon Blancs and Cabernets of the region are also well worth trying. Other fine producers include Groot Constantia, Buitenverwachting and Steenberg.\nThis cool, upland coastal area might be more familiar from the historical names of Walker Bay or Hermanus on the label, but it has been re-engineered as \u2018Heaven and Earth\u2019, with three sub-regions too: Valley, Upper and Ridge. Some of the most exciting South African wines I have tasted have come from here, principally the Pinots Noir and the Chardonnays of producers like Newton Johnson, Bouchard-Finlayson and Hamilton-Russell. These producers are employing new French oak barrels and very traditional winemaking to make premium wines that are convincingly Burgundian in style. Joining them have been plenty of new quality names like Shannon, Summaridge and La Vierge, and operations like Creation and Seven Springs extending further into new territory.\nAnother hot, inland area but with lime-rich soils suited to white wine varieties, particulary Chardonnay. Look out for the wines of de Wetshof, Van Loveren and Springfield.\nA small area southeast of the Paarl, the hot climate is again moderated by a little altitude. I\u2019ve been impressed by wines from La Motte, Von Ortloff, Bellingham and Boschendal, but arguably newer estates like Boekenhoutskloof and Chamonix are now leading the way.\nThe newest kid on the block to hit superstar status, Swartland lies further north than the established regions and a band of hipster winemakers, preceded by Charles Back, but led by Eben Sadie and Adi Badenhorst, quickly established a huge reputation by finding parcels of old, dry-farmed fruit of the highest quality and vinifying them with a \u2018hands off\u2019 approach to produce compelling wines. It\u2019s fair to say these pioneers have inspired not only a rush to Swartland by many more winemakers, but some of their philosophy extending and reinvigorating the whole country, even in the bastions of Stellenbosch and Paarl.\nSouth Africa\u2019s coolest wine growing region, the apple orchards of Elgin still dominate and many wine farms are on former apple land, but today this self-contained area, ringed by mountains to the south west of Cape Town, is one of South Africa\u2019s best, especially for aromatic varieties, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Paul Cluver and Oak Valley where pioneers, being followed quickly by Iona Estate, Almenkirk, and a whole group of new producers making increasingly fine cooler-climate wines.\nButter river is one of the latest regions that is trying to establish its own identity and set itself out as a distinctive terroir. Sandwiched between Elgin and Hemel-en-Aarde, it is also a cooler climate, where Syrah is one of the star grapes. The Luddite is perhaps the best-known brand of the region, though there are bigger players like Gabrielskloof. Peter Allan Finlayson, one of the hippest winemakers in the Cape thanks to his Crystallum label, has recently taken over winemaking at Gabrielskloof too, adding more lustre to the Bot River name.\nWinemaking here at the start of the rugged countryside of the Cape Point Peninsula is driven on quality terms by Cape Point Vineyards, though recently its long-term winemaker Duncan Savage has launched his eponymous range alongside to great critical acclaim.\nMost other vine growing regions such as Worcester, Cederberg, Olifants River, Orange River and Little Karoo are hot and arid, traditionally given over to bulk production of wines from irrigated vines, often used as the raw materials for distillation, but once again it is well worth keeping an eye out for a new generation of quality wines appearing from these, and just about any area of the Cape.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 10987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://winnersandwhiners.com/games/nhl/01-14-2017/pittsburgh-penguins-vs-detroit-red-wings-prediction-preview/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DABD5OC4CGJJEVKNA6Z7XUOOFS4JQSH6", "length": 4542, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "winnersandwhiners.com", "title": "Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Detroit Red Wings, 01/14/17 - Prediction", "raw_content": "Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Detroit Red Wings,\n#14 Detroit\nPittsburgh Penguins (26-10-4-1) vs. Detroit Red Wings (17-19-6-0)\nWhere: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan\nLines: Pittsburgh -162 / Detroit +145\nThe Detroit Red Wings (8th in Atlantic Division) are returning home after a horrid time on the road, which brought just two wins in seven outings. The visiting Pittsburgh Penguins (3rd in Metropolitan), meanwhile, will be looking to bounce back after two heavy back-to-back defeats\u2026\nThe Pens get hurt badly\nHaving won five games in a row between Dec. 23 \u2013 Jan. 8, the Pittsburgh Penguins (26-10-5) have unexpectedly tumbled in the first two outings of their current 3-game road stretch, losing 5-2 at the Washington Capitals on Wednesday before being defeated 4-1 by the Ottawa Senators just 24 hours later. This was the first time the Pens had been beaten in consecutive games in regulation since Dec. 14-19, 2015, going 90 strong outings without back-to-back defeats in 60 minutes. The lack of discipline dominated in Pittsburgh\u2019s trip to Ottawa, with the visitors giving up two goals on five overall power play opportunities. Coach Mike Sullivan was thrown out of the game by the referees shortly after Justin Schultz (7 goals, 26 points for the year) was called for goaltender interference. Conor Sheary (11 goals, 25 points) netted the only goal for Pittsburgh.\nGoalie Matt Murray played his first outing after returning from a lower-body injury, sustained just after Christmas, making a total of 29 saves. He is 13-4-1 for the current campaign with a 2.28 GAA and has never played against Detroit before. Marc-Andre Fleury (13-6-4 for the year with a 3.12 GAA) has gone 9-6-1 in the past against the Red Wings with a 2.93 career GAA. The Penguins are 6th in the NHL with 57 points from 41 games and have a dodgy 8-8-3 road record. They are scoring the 2nd highest quantity of goals per contest (3.41), conceding the 12th highest amount on the defensive end (2.85 per game). The Pens are 4th in power play with a great 22.8% success rate, but just 24th in penalty kill with pretty low 78.3% proficiency.\nThe Red Wings lose again\nAn absolutely catastrophic second period sealed the fate for the Detroit Red Wings (17-19-6), who finished off their 7-game road stretch on a deathly note, losing 5-2 to the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Thursday. The entertaining matchup saw the lively Stars record their first home win against Detroit in the past six years with three unanswered goals in the second period after Gustav Nyquist (5 goals, 20 points for the year) scored on a 5-on-3 power play and Henrik Zetterberg (8 goals, 30 points) made it 2:1 in the first 20 minutes. Dallas finished off the rout with an empty net goal 1:06 minutes from time. Nyquist\u2019s marker, meanwhile was only the third road power play goal of the current campaign for Detroit and their first since Oct. 19.\nGoalie Petr Mrazek made 16 saves on 20 shots and has now gone 9-11-4 for the season with a 3.19 GAA. He has a horrid 1-4-0 career record against Pittsburgh with an embarrassing 4.52 GAA, so it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if Jared Coreau (3-1-1 for the year with a 3.14) got the nod in the net to try to redeem himself after conceding 4 goals on his NHL debut against the Penguins six weeks ago. The Red Wings are currently 27th in the league with 40 points from 42 games and good 10 points off a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with just two games in hand. They are netting the 6th lowest quantity of goals per game (2.38), allow the 8th highest amount defensively (2.95), rank 13th in penalty kill with a decent 82.5% expertise and are still at the very bottom of the table in power play with a tragic 11.4% success rate.\nOver is 8-2 in Penguins last 10 road games.\nOver is 4-1 in Penguins last 5 Saturday games.\nOver is 12-3-4 in Red Wings last 19 following a loss of 3 or more goals.\nOver is 4-0 in Red Wings last 4 meetings in with Penguins in Detroit.\nOver is 5-0 in Red Wings last 5 overall meetings with Penguins.\nThe Red Wings are returning home, where they have been atrocious for the whole season so far, going 2-6-3 in their past 11 contests on their own ice alone. And there is no better news than that for the Penguins, who will seek to redeem themselves after two disappointing outings in a row, during which they managed to allow nine goals. No less than six markers have been scored in eight of their past nine head-to-head meetings, with an average of 8.25 goals netted in their last four matchups. Expect some action here\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 12730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://winnetkanc.com/news/plum-weighs-20460-sherman-way", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:04Z", "digest": "sha1:SDYMNXS73TFILUNGV5VAXIUD3DYAU23Y", "length": 971, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "winnetkanc.com", "title": "PLUM Weighs In On 20460 Sherman Way | Winnetka Neighborhood CouncilWinnetka Neighborhood Council", "raw_content": "PLUM Weighs In On 20460 Sherman Way\nThe Planning and Land Use Committee met in August and heard a revised proposal for the property at 20460 Sherman Way. Twenty stakeholders were present and expressed concern that the revised proposal does not address previously raised concerns. The new proposal increases the height of the building and the number of units. The planned use had been senior housing; the revised planned use is market based residential rental units. The PLUM committee sent a letter of concern to the South Valley Planning Commission. The board sent a letter after the September 2013 meeting. And as of September 12, 2013 Councilmember Bluemenfield's Office indicates that he cannot come out in support of the project hearing such community concern. UPDATE: Councilmember Blumenfield stated at the November 12, 2013 meeting that he put a stop to the proposal in its current format. Read a report on the Planning Commission hearing from September 12, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wizimatic.com/lampard-refuses-to-consider-chelsea-talk/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5UBVRUNQEQDL3UQNQYVLY4QMSA576YMD", "length": 1997, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "wizimatic.com", "title": "Lampard Refuses To Consider Chelsea Talk", "raw_content": "Sarri is under fire following a troubled first season at Stamford Bridge.\nThe Italian\u2019s problems peaked on Sunday when Chelsea suffered their heaviest defeat for 28 years in a 6-0 thrashing at Manchester City.\nThat led to Lampard, who is Chelsea\u2019s record goal-scorer after a glittering 13-year spell at Stamford Bridge, to find his name mentioned as a candidate to replace Sarri if he is axed by Roman Abramovich.\nThe former England midfielder helped Chelsea win the Premier League and Champions League among other prizes and is regarded as one of the club\u2019s all-time greats.\nIn his first stint as a manager, Lampard has earned plaudits for his work at second tier Derby, who are in contention for promotion from the Championship.\nBut, speaking at a press conference on Monday, Lampard showed respect for Sarri\u2019s perilous position as he made it clear he wasn\u2019t ready to declare his interest in the Chelsea job.\nREAD ALSO: Belgium star Hazard drops Chelsea exit hint\n\u201cMy job is here. We\u2019re working very hard and my thoughts are on Ipswich Town on Wednesday, and Brighton on Saturday,\u201d he said.\nLampard backed Chelsea to show resilience and respond to the humiliating defeat at the Etihad Stadium, a setback which leaves their top four hopes in turmoil.\nLampard, who had a brief spell at City at the end of his career, admitted he was stunned to see Chelsea out-classed.\n\u201cWith my Chelsea hat on, 13 years as a player there, you have a feeling for it and it\u2019s not nice, it\u2019s not easy. It doesn\u2019t happen to Chelsea much so when it does it\u2019s a shock,\u201d Lampard said.\nREAD ALSO: Goalkeepers Finally Being Valued, Claims Record-Breaker Kepa\nThe Blues\u2019 next game is a trip to Malmo in the first leg of their Europa League last-32 tie on Thursday.\nPrevious articleGrammys 2019: Seun Kuti Apologizes For Failure To Perform At Ceremony\nNext articleFunke Akindele Renews \u2018Jenifa\u2019s Diary\u2019 For Season 15\nAntoine Griezmann Wins UEFA Europa League Player Of The Season\nLucas and Spurs crush Man Utd at Old Trafford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wn.com/Solar_geothermal_power?from=solargeothermalpower.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WRDSBXMXD7LRIFNDKKOJVWKEFHNPFKG4", "length": 6525, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "wn.com", "title": "Solar Geothermal Power", "raw_content": "Geothermal electricity is electricity generated by geothermal energy. Technologies in use include dry steam power stations, flash steam power stations and binary cycle power stations. Geothermal electricity generation is currently used in 24 countries, while geothermal heating is in use in 70 countries.\nAs of 2015, worldwide geothermal power capacity amounts to 12.8 gigawatts (GW), of which 28 percent or 3,548 megawatts are installed in the United States. International markets grew at an average annual rate of 5 percent over the last three years and global geothermal power capacity is expected to reach 14.5\u201317.6 GW by 2020. Based on current geologic knowledge and technology, the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) estimates that only 6.5 percent of total global potential has been tapped so far, while the IPCC reported geothermal power potential to be in the range of 35 GW to 2 TW. Countries generating more than 15 percent of their electricity from geothermal sources include El Salvador, Kenya, the Philippines, Iceland and Costa Rica.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Geothermal_electricity\nGeothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth. Thermal energy is the energy that determines the temperature of matter. The geothermal energy of the Earth's crust originates from the original formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials (in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions). The geothermal gradient, which is the difference in temperature between the core of the planet and its surface, drives a continuous conduction of thermal energy in the form of heat from the core to the surface. The adjective geothermal originates from the Greek roots \u03b3\u03b7 (ge), meaning earth, and \u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 (thermos), meaning hot.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Geothermal_energy\nLatest News for: solar geothermal power\nSince 2008, wind power has more than tripled and solar power has increased 80-fold ... The Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program awarded about $2 billion to guarantee $16 billion in loans at 25 companies investing in solar, wind and geothermal power and clean energy manufacturing projects....\nWe already have socialism for the rich, with the nuclear power industry as a prime example. On a level playing field, nuclear power would go bust. Those owners get financial supports or subsidies that safe renewables like solar power, geothermal, and wind power don\u2019t get ... Nuclear power right now is six percent of energy of the world....\nGlobal Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) Market Analysis & Outlook, 2019-2026 - Set to Record a CAGR of 15.3% - ResearchAndMarkets.com\n4.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers ... 5.6 Solar Photovoltaic ... 6.2 Geothermal Power Generation. 6.3 Solar Power Generation ... Table 11 Global Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) Market Outlook, By Geothermal Power Generation (2016-2026) ($MN). Table 12 Global Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) Market Outlook, By Solar Power Generation (2016-2026) ($MN)....\nDemocrats\u2019 Green New Deal leaves lots of room for improvement\n... 340B Hospitals \u2014 Powerful House committee turns to drug pricing ... The Green Party plan calls for the United States to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 and is specific that renewable sources are wind, solar, tidal and geothermal, not gas, biomass or nuclear power....\nPercentage Share Breakdown by Technology for Bio-Power, Geothermal Power, Hydropower, Solar PV, Wind Power and Others (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) ... Percentage Breakdown for Bio-Power, Geothermal Power, Hydropower, Solar PV, Wind Power, and Others (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)....\nDon't tax carbon; end fossil-fuel subsidies, by Joseph Mirzoeff\nOnce is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action. 1) On Jan. 18, Arnie Arnesen forcefully advocates for a carbon tax on WKBK. 2) On Jan. 21, U.S. Rep ... 24, N.H. Rep ... But why a big, new, middle-class tax? Why not cut fossil fuel subsidies for tax relief instead? Yes, continue to build solar, look at geothermal and water power ... 641 Park Ave ... ....\nThere is broad agreement, however, that renewable energy has an increasingly important part to play in Australia. It is a sunny and windy place. It has a range of renewable power sources, including solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy, which taps heat in ......\nIn recent years, locals have pinned hopes of economic salvation on a variety of new industries, such as geothermal energy, lithium extraction and industrial hemp farming ... And the county is home to nearly a dozen geothermal power plants, which use a naturally heated underground reservoir to churn out pollution-free electricity around the clock....\nNegros Oriental declares Renewable Energy Day\nNegros Oriental is host to several renewable energy power plants that generate clean, reliable power through geothermal, solar, hydro, and wind sources, contributing substantially to the electricity needs of the Visayas region....\nArgan, Inc.\u2019s Wholly Owned Subsidiary Gemma Power Systems Enters into an EPC Contract and Receives ...\nThe power trains for the facility are provided by General Electric Company and utilize single shaft 7HA.02 gas turbines ... Guernsey Power Station is being jointly developed by Caithness Energy, L.L.C. and Apex Power Group, LLC ... Since 1995, Caithness has successfully invested in 54 power projects utilizing wind, geothermal, solar and natural gas....\nTough balancing act for growth\nCusi said 32 percent of power are sourced from coal then you have the natural gas from Malampaya, which is 15 percent then you have the renewables which are hydro, geothermal, solar and wind that makes up 30 percent and then 10 percent of that is oil ... \u201cSolar power plant is faster but, of course, the efficiency factor is different, he said....\nMarion Center students place in competition\nThe team had to solve this year\u2019s theme titled \u201cThe Resilient City.\u201d Teams designed a resilient power grid capable of withstanding a natural disaster ... Students learned about power and energy through webinars, research and a visit from J.T ... The city highlighted a gravity-fed water system, as well as geothermal, solar, water and wind power....\nThe Beijing 2022 Olympics will become the first Games in history to power all its venues with green and renewable energies produced from clean sources such as solar, wind and geothermal, according to the IOC....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 12880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://worcesterobserver.co.uk/news/your-chance-to-star-at-music-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:73X2N6ULEW5Z2YSFLZC7WDKW66WB7IEC", "length": 1821, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "worcesterobserver.co.uk", "title": "Your chance to star at music festival | The Worcester Observer", "raw_content": "Violet at Monroes Cellar Bar at last year\u2019s festival. Picture by Gordon Rogers\nORGANISERS of Worcester Music Festival inviting artists to apply to perform at 2019\u2019s event.\nThe festival, set to take place between September 13 and 15, will be a charity event with all proceeds being donated to a cause that supports the Worcestershire community.\nArtists from every genre are invited to apply to play the festival through an online application form that can be accessed via the festival\u2019s website. Performers will be asked to donate their time to help bring the city\u2019s music scene together, all in aid of a great cause.\nLocal promoters will be given charge of a night in one of the 25 venues located in the city centre, handpicking a line-up from the artists applying. The authentic crafting of the bill has always proven a success, the incredible high quality of the musicians taking the stage drawing large crowds of both music fans and passers-by.\nIn recent years, organisers have expanded the line-up to include comedy spoken word and a host of workshops aimed at the whole family. The festival hosts around 250 performances and attracts thousands of visitors from across the country.\nFestival director Anthony Robbins said: \u201cWe love listening to the vast array of artists who apply and we always come away feeling incredibly positive about the amazing quality of the acts in our local music scene and beyond. We would encourage artists to put themselves forward for consideration.\u201d\nTo date, the festival has supported 17 charities, raising almost \u00a355,000.\nLast year, the festival donated \u00a35,307.15 to the Worcestershire Association of Carers, enabling the charity to support carers across the county through a number of initiatives.\nVisit www.worcestermusicfestival.co.uk/artistsapply for more.\nYour chance to star a...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 198.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://workcapreview.podbean.com/e/pamela-cantor-on-the-science-of-adversity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SCHYPDQ4X5I6QR3RQJP4MRZKEXXD33SG", "length": 1978, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "workcapreview.podbean.com", "title": "Pamela Cantor on the Science of Adversity", "raw_content": "Pamela Cantor on the Science of Adversity\nMay 23rd, 2018 by workcapreview\nAs we consider the various challenges any nation faces, teaching our children \u2013 preparing them with the tools required to be successful, active players in a continually evolving society \u2013 is likely one of the most important and hardest.\nThe challenge is particularly great for children who experience various forms of trauma, including poverty. What\u2019s required \u2013 from new insights to teacher training to school design and beyond \u2013 to help them succeed?\nIt turns out, science has something to say about this \u2013 something my guest calls \u201cThe Science of Adversity.\u201d\nDr. Pamela Cantor is President and CEO of Turnaround for Children. She practiced child psychiatry for nearly two decades, specializing in trauma and founded Turnaround after co-authoring a study on the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City schoolchildren. Dr. Cantor recognized that the scientific research on stress and the developing brain that she had learned in medical school should be translated into practices to help children and schools challenged by the effects of unrelenting adversity.\nAs background, Dr. Cantor is a Visiting Scholar in Education at Harvard University, a member of the Council of Distinguished Scientists for the National Commission on Social, Emotional & Academic Development, and a leader of the Science of Learning and Development Initiative. An Ashoka Fellow, Dr. Cantor was awarded the 2014 Purpose Prize for Intergenerational Impact.\nDr. Cantor started Turnaround to help schools understand the impact of adversity on learning and to put children on a healthier developmental trajectory so they can live the lives they choose. Specifically, Turnaround for Children translates neuroscientific research into tools and strategies for schools serving students impacted by adversity, in order to accelerate healthy development and academic achievement.\nHow does it work? That\u2019s what we discussed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://workingdraft.me/2014/03/18/survivor-boy-ukulele-band/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:GULHR6ZGSTEVD6ECY4AHDIRB3CQAFZ3Z", "length": 312, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "workingdraft.me", "title": "survivor boy??? ukulele band | survivor girl ukulele band", "raw_content": "3 thoughts on \u201csurvivor boy??? ukulele band\u201d\nDon on March 19, 2014 at 7:20 am said:\nFantastic, Laurie. Thank you\nMargaret on March 19, 2014 at 5:33 pm said:\nYou are such an inspiration. Love you.\nwebmasterpluc on March 22, 2014 at 8:19 am said:\nAs ever, a really heart-warming tale. Hope it continues to go well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wotknots.co.uk/2017/08/17/going-back-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5LZZCDEYMX6Z23KHUQGTQQKZLRUK5LYR", "length": 568, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wotknots.co.uk", "title": "Going back home \u2013 Wotknots", "raw_content": "These are the latest items to emerge from my workshop \u2013 a set of 5 small natural edged yew bowls or dishes (not entirely sure what makes a bowl a bowl or a dish, but does it matter) that I finished this afternoon. These have a waxed finish so are not suitable for food use, but they are still great for loose change, desk tidies, or similar.\nThe timber came from a diseased tree taken down in the garden of Knebworth House a couple of years ago. These particular dishes will be going on sale in the Knebworth House gift shop, so you could say they are going back home!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ww.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/the-work-we-do/research/our-research-strategy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:73NTCXMOJKKSQNFGOHCD2SL7LGZSGELH", "length": 6662, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "ww.cysticfibrosis.org.uk", "title": "Our research strategy 2018-2023", "raw_content": "Our new five-year research strategy is called 'putting the person into personalised medicine'. It sets out how our research investments will focus on research to deliver treatment and care that is tailored to each individual with cystic fibrosis (CF).\nCystic fibrosis is caused by mutations in the CFTR gene. Some effective treatments for people with specific mutations, known as 'precision medicines', have now been developed, and more drugs are being tested in clinical trials. By 2021 there could be an effective treatment that would work for around 95% of people with CF in the UK.\nIf they are licenced, these treatments could have a dramatic impact on the lives of people with CF (and have begun doing so already) by improving their life expectancy, reducing the number of lung infections and improving their quality of life.\nHowever, the era of precision medicines brings with it new challenges which the research strategy aims to help solve.\nWhat are the challenges and how are we solving them?\nIf and when access to new precision medicines is approved, people with CF of different ages will be affected by their condition in different ways. For example, older people with CF may have more lung damage, or complications such as CF-related diabetes (CFRD). This means that the way that their CF is managed will be unique to them, and treatments will need to reflect this.\nWaiting for the right drugs\nThe development of precision medicines for people with CF is a huge leap forwards, but there are a number of reasons we shouldn\u2019t be complacent. Not only are we still campaigning tirelessly with the community for access to these medicines, but there is also room for improvement in the drugs that are licenced now \u2013 by tweaking the drug design we could improve how they work and reduce the side-effects, creating the \u2018next generation\u2019 of precision medicines. It\u2019s also important to keep the interest of the drug companies involved, as they may decide to work on easier (and more profitable) disease areas if we don\u2019t. We are also still looking to develop drugs for all that would work for anyone with CF, whatever their genotype. This would be of particular benefit to people with rare mutations or those for whom the current drugs don\u2019t work or cause side effects.\nCF and diseases of older age\nAs the general population gets older, they start to become affected by a range of different diseases and conditions. The same will be true for people with cystic fibrosis. It isn\u2019t known how things like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and social wellbeing will affect people with CF and how to reduce their impact.\nAltering the CFTR gene\nRather than using drugs to correct the function of the CFTR protein, another area of research underway is looking to correct the CFTR gene itself, either by delivering healthy, non-mutated copies of the gene using gene therapy, or by permanently correcting the existing damaged copy of the gene using gene editing.\nTreating lung infections\nPeople with CF can have a range of different lung infections, and it\u2019s important to know which infections are present and how to treat them. The earlier the infections are detected, the better chance there is of effectively treating them. Understanding how bacteria work can lead researchers to spot weaknesses that can be targeted with drugs.\nRepairing damaged lungs\nAs the lungs get more damaged, for many with CF a lung transplant may become the only treatment option, but there are sadly not enough donor lungs readily available. Researchers are investigating whether a combination of stem cell technology and gene editing could replace damaged lung cells, regenerating the lungs and providing an alternative to lung transplant.\nBalancing our funding\nOver the last five years, we have principally supported a balance between:\nresponse-mode research - funding proposals based on the research areas proposed by researchers\nstrategic research - identifying the research areas to be funded, in consultation with our strategy advisory board\nNew strategic investments growing out of the previous research strategy include the Clinical Trials Accelerator Platform, SmartCareCF and the Innovation Hub based in Cambridge.\nOver the coming five years, we will continue this balanced approach but we are now well-positioned to grow our strategic investments through the development of strong partnerships with external funders and the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and HealthTech industrial sectors.\nUsing existing funding schemes\nOur 2013-2018 research strategy created new approaches for conducting research, which included setting up multidisciplinary, collaborative and international research programmes called Strategic Research Centres (SRCs) and co-investing with external funding bodies to progress translational research in CF through our Venture and Innovation Awards (VIAs). We will continue to fund research using these funding schemes to fund both response and strategic mode funding.\nIntegrating our flagship programmes\nThe Trust is continually developing a number of flagship programmes, including the UK CF Registry, the Clinical Trials Accelerator Platform, SmartCareCF and the Innovation Hub. Integrating the activity across these programmes helps us to move towards personalised medicine for people with cystic fibrosis.\nOne example of this is our SmartCareCF digital healthcare programme. Machine-learning algorithms for Registry data could inform which data people with CF collect on the programme. In turn, data collected as part of the SmartCareCF programme may be efficient at predicting the benefits of a drug in a CTAP co-ordinated clinical trial.\nThe CF community is at the heart of everything we do, and we will ensure they are able to continue to help shape our research agenda by ensuring they are represented on our funding panels. We will also continue to improve how we communicate the research we\u2019re funding, progress made and how this investment makes a difference to people affected by cystic fibrosis and their families.\nTaking opportunities to participate in wider programmes\nAreas of research that are important for managing and treating cystic fibrosis are also priorities in wider strategy and policy initiatives. For example, antimicrobial resistance, accelerated access to medicines and personalised healthcare, which are all of importance in cystic fibrosis, are also the focus of Government and NHS initiatives in a wide range of health conditions. The research strategy aims to harness these initiatives to accelerate progress in CF research.\nRead about our research strategy and the achievements from our last strategy.\nRead our new strategy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 13838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.24thstreet.org/blog/2012/06/outstanding-achievement-in-american-theatre-award", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:29Z", "digest": "sha1:G5S75Q7FDRQXRCICEKL2RSB2T7YOHBIQ", "length": 1167, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.24thstreet.org", "title": "Outstanding Achievement in American Theatre Award! \u2014 24TH STREET THEATRE", "raw_content": "24th STreet Wins National Theatre Award! All of us at 24th STreet are just thrilled about being presented the 2012 Theatre Communications Group Peter Zeisler Award for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE. This is a prestigious national award, named for a prestigious leader in non-profit theatre, with a prestigious group of past recipients. It was presented to Executive Director and co-founder Jay McAdams in Boston on June 23rd in front of theatre colleagues from all over the United States at the TCG conference. We\u2019ll send you the video link to Jay\u2019s acceptance speech when it becomes available on the TCG website. Thanks to our longtime colleague, Center Theatre Group\u2019s Diane Rodriguez, who presented the award to Jay. And thanks to all of you, our audiences, our community members, the kids and families we serve, our artists, our funders, and our donors. We share this award with YOU, yes you, because 24th STreet would not be the magical place that it has become without each of you. 24th STreet is successful because of the greatness of spirit of those around us.\nTo see more pictures from the TCG Conference, check out our Facebook album here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.500daysoffilm.com/2016/09/22/the-clan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TQFRX427SX4AOWLWGPQ24SBGRRSR4HYB", "length": 3001, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.500daysoffilm.com", "title": "The Clan - 500 Days Of Film", "raw_content": "500 Days Of Film Reviews True-Life Crime Drama, The Clan, Starring Guillermo Francella And Peter Lanzani\nIn early 1980s Argentina, a seemingly normal family, in the traditional neighborhood of San Isidro, hides a terrible secret.\nThey make a living out of kidnap and murder.\nAll are, to a greater or lesser extent, complicit in these crimes. Father, Arqu\u00edmedes Puccio (Guillermo Francella), meticulously plans the operations. Meanwhile, his eldest son, Alejandro (Peter Lanzani), helps by identifying possible kidnapping candidates.\nHowever, as Argentina moves from a military dictatorship towards democracy, the immunity granted to Arqu\u00edmedes begins to fade - putting his entire family at risk.\nClick Here For Movie Reviews, News & Cinema Events!\nWritten and directed by Pablo Trapero, The Clan is a tense and disturbing film based on the horrific true story of the Puccio family.\nWhile I know about Argentina\u2019s \u2018disappeared\u2019 (those people kidnapped by the country\u2019s government during the military dictatorship that took place between 1976-1983), I was not aware of what the Puccios did or what eventually happened to the family.\nTrapero\u2019s film starts with a raid and the end of the Puccio reign of terror. It then moves back in time and begins to paint an extremely unsettling picture.\nHere is a family living an outwardly normal life - cooking, homework, chores. However, all the while, terrified kidnap victims are kept in their bathroom and basement.\nOver the hubbub of family life, the Puccios can hear their screams.\nThe Clan is both the story of a horrendously dysfunctional family and also an exploration of the complicity by which the military dictatorship in Argentina operated. Kidnapping was big business and men like Arqu\u00edmedes, scornful of the mere concept of democracy, were unwilling to give up their trade.\nGuillermo Francella is truly chilling as Arqu\u00edmedes. His cold blue eyes oversee all and he only becomes more terrifying as things start to deteriorate. Powerfully played by Peter Lanzani, Alejandro is controlled by his father. He is unable to stand against him - even in his choice of footwear.\nTrapero places us in the centre of Puccio family life. We get to know them and - with the exception of Arqu\u00edmedes - start to feel some (albeit conflicted) sympathy for their situation. We know what is about to happen and, as the film progresses, the suspense becomes almost unbearable.\nHowever, even after they are caught, The Clan has more character revelations up its sleeve. I was on the edge of my seat until the end.\nPablo Trapero also directed White Elephant, Lion\u2019s Den and Carancho.\nThe Clan was Argentina's submission for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award.\nHave you seen The Clan?\nIf you have, what did you think of this film? Let me know! You can leave me a comment in the box below. Alternatively, come over and say hi on Twitter!\ntagPlaceholderTags: Drama, Subtitles, Rated15, TrueStory, Review, 2016, NL, 1hr48mins, PabloTrapero, GuillermoFrancella, PeterLanzani", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.5keysyoga.com/store/p18/Gift_Package%3A_Group_%26_Private_Yoga.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KOCRULHS5H3PS63ACUPB44GY2KZLUNPP", "length": 539, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.5keysyoga.com", "title": "Gift Package: Group & Private Yoga", "raw_content": "A great package for people who want to deepen their practice or for beginners. This package includes five yoga classes at any of 5KY's classes and a 60-minute private yoga class with a certified yoga teacher. Package expires June 30, 2017.\nWe'll do our best to accommodate your top choice for the scheduling of your private class. However booking the class is at the discretion of you and your yoga teacher. As such, we cannot make guarantees about scheduling.\nAfter purchase, the purchaser will be sent a gift certificate within 48 hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acontentbox.org/a-quick-travel-guide-around-the-tourists-attractions-of-lucknow/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:HPCLAB6PQQN53DFIY7CX3MFT4XLPMKQF", "length": 3670, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.acontentbox.org", "title": "A Quick Travel Guide Around The Tourists Attractions Of Lucknow - A Content Box", "raw_content": "A Quick Travel Guide Around The Tourists Attractions Of Lucknow\nLucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, is one of those few places in the country which is known for its immaculate culture and history. Once the throne to the nawabs of Awadh, this historical city is guaranteed to enchant you with its perfect blend of history, modern lifestyle and food. Know more about the tourist attractions in and around this city of Nawabs.\nEven after an exceptional growth and budding economy, Lucknow successfully manages to showcase its old-world charm. Walk through the historical lanes of the city, and you\u2019ll be bowled over by the captivating Lucknawi tehzeeb. This fascinating historical city and the surrounding regions like Varanasi, Kanpur, Allahabad etc., are known for their humongous variety of culture, food and history. The best part of touring the capital is that on any given day, you can take up a Lucknow to Varanasi train or a bus to Allahabad and have a wonderful time.\nLucknow was the major seat of administration for the Nawabs and this can easily be seen right from their cuisines to mannerism and from architecture to language. The era of Nawabs was known for offering a flourishing ground for literature, dance, music and several other art forms. Still today, you can find either of these present in a prominent way and enjoy through various concerts and exhibitions.\nThe hawelis might have turned into apartments or the stellar art might have simmer down, but not many know that Lucknow will always be the birthplace of sitar, tabla, Kathak and that very warm adab (mannerism). Speaking of the famous tourists destinations to explore in the city, Bara Imambara and Bhool Bhulaiya are the frontrunners to bring heavy tourists footfall in the city. While the former is a mammoth sized tomb of the shahi (royal) Imam (high priest) of Awadh, the latter is a complex maze which served as a piece of entertainment. The ruins of Lucknow Residency is also home to the famous sepoy mutiny of 1857, also known as the first war of Independence, led by a soldier in the British army, Mangal Pandey. You can browse through the remnants of the war at the 1857 Memorial Museum, where the compound also serves as a breezy shelter away from the noise of the city.\nIf you\u2019re looking for more of greener pastures, the Lucknow Zoo, Botanical Garden and Buddha Park, Sikander Bagh, and Kukrail Forest Reserve are other brilliant spots to relax in this bustling city. To examine the Awadhi architectural mastery, there are some impressive monuments like the Kaiserbagh Palace, Shah Najaf Imambara, Rumi Darwaza, Begum Hazrat Mahal Park, and Taluqdar Hall. A visit to the famous Jama Masjid has to be in your itinerary, built in the 15th century by Sultan Ahmed Shah, this massive mosque is made entirely of yellow sandstone, and with its intricate design and architecture is considered to one of the beautiful mosques in the nation. Other tourists attraction in the city includes, Dahas lake, which is known for its scenic view and a great camping site.\nSo if you\u2019re planning a trip to this famous city, don\u2019t forget to make proper travel arrangements before hand. Being the most populous state in the country, getting a desired travel and accommodation facility could be hectic. Several leading air carriers like Go Air Airlines, Indigo, Spicejet etc., offers regular flights to the city. And, while you\u2019re travelling to Lucknow, don\u2019t forget to dig into some legendary Mughlai delicacies such as tikkas and kebabs.\nPrevious Previous post: Stainless Steel Balustrades, Bright And Attractive\nNext Next post: Here Is Why You Need To Visit Kullu With A Fresh Pair Of Eyes This Year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acorecapital.com/privacy-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:32Z", "digest": "sha1:EBM4BBW72EP5RBTAYGZNEIJPQBYTNKJB", "length": 7019, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.acorecapital.com", "title": "Privacy Policy \u00b7 ACORE Capital", "raw_content": "ACORE Capital, LLC (\u201cACORE Capital\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d or \u201cus\u201d) respects the privacy of visitors to the websites owned and operated by ACORE Capital (the \u201cSite\u201d). 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If revisions to the Privacy Policy are unacceptable to you, you must cease using this Site.\nIf you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use or our Site, please contact us at legal@acorecapital.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 7423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acorecapital.com/team/jason-mann/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:05Z", "digest": "sha1:22CEN3TU277GII2WG4FSDCGDXUGLTORR", "length": 1640, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.acorecapital.com", "title": "Jason Mann \u00b7 ACORE Capital", "raw_content": "Senior Vice President, Asset Manager\nJason Mann is a Senior Vice President of ACORE Capital as a member of the asset management team, responsible for managing a portfolio of loans.\nMr. Mann has over 15 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to joining ACORE, Mr. Mann was a Vice President for Bank of the Ozarks in the Real Estate Specialties Group. At Bank of the Ozarks, Jason was responsible for the day to day management of a $750 MM portfolio of construction and value add loans throughout the United States.\nPrior to joining Bank of the Ozarks, Mr. Mann was a Director at LNR Partners Europe in their London office. While at LNR, Mr. Mann oversaw all credit/real estate asset management decisions within the Investment Management group which oversaw a $750 MM investment fund which invested in B-notes, B-pieces, and mezz loans across Europe. Prior to this role, Mr. Mann was responsible for property and deal level underwriting for all deals associated with the acquisitions team in Europe.\nPrior to joining LNR, Mr. Mann worked for Trimont Real Estate Advisors in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was a financial analyst for specially serviced commercial real estate loan where he and assisted in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of loan work out strategies across a $2.2 BN portfolio.\nMr. Mann graduated from the Honors Program at the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, where he majored in International Business with a concentration in real estate. Mr. Mann earned a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, with a concentration in real estate finance and private equity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 146.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acronymattic.com/And-Alternates-A-(ASA).html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4UOZMI7ZG2CZC3ABUU6IKV6H6Y4E755G", "length": 704, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.acronymattic.com", "title": "ASA - And Alternates A | AcronymAttic", "raw_content": "ASA stands for And Alternates A\nASA\nMLA style: \"ASA.\" Acronym Attic. 2019. AcronymAttic.com 15 Feb. 2019 https://www.acronymattic.com/And-Alternates-A-(ASA).html\nChicago style: Acronym Attic. S.v. \"ASA.\" Retrieved February 15 2019 from https://www.acronymattic.com/And-Alternates-A-(ASA).html\nAPA style: ASA. (n.d.) Acronym Attic. (2019). Retrieved February 15 2019 from https://www.acronymattic.com/And-Alternates-A-(ASA).html\n12 jurors seated in Kerrick trial, alternates still needed - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC\nThe Denver Nuggets have unveiled a new \"WHITEGOLD\" alternate for the 2015-16 season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adoptionservices.org/adoption_florida/adoption_agencies_taylor_county_fl.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AODC55ET43E4EJIVHS76573P4TNKGHMQ", "length": 1525, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.adoptionservices.org", "title": "Adoption Agencies Taylor County, FL", "raw_content": "Adoption Agencies in Taylor County, FL\nBelow, we have listed a variety of resources from hospitals, adoption agencies, financial, medical and nutritional assistance programs in Taylor County, and across Florida, to information on the stages of pregnancy, where to go for help and even support groups. If you can imagine it, it is probably already listed here.\nThe adoption agencies are representative of those serving the Taylor County, Florida area.\nChildren & Families Department\nThere are many national, state and local financial assistance programs to assist pregnant women and new mothers in Taylor County, Florida. Simply click on the links (blue words) that follow to find the type of help you are looking for. May I suggest first that you bookmark this page to your favorite places so you may return as often as you like.\nThere are many national, state and local financial assistance programs to assist pregnant women and new mothers who live in the Taylor County, Florida area. Click on the links (blue words) that follow to find the type of help you are looking for. Don't forget to bookmark this page to your favorite places so that you can return here after you have viewed the links below.\nThe information below will help you locate homeless and abuse shelters in the Taylor County, Florida area and shelters all across FL.\nRefuge House (850) 487-8859\nVivid Visions (386) 364-2100\nPO Box 882, Live Oak, FL\nBelow we have listed a few of the Hospitals in the Taylor County, FL area that provide maternity services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 7365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adventure-in-a-box.com/50-best-audiobooks-for-kids-that-adults-will-also-like/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:04Z", "digest": "sha1:RRWUOC27ATJKCSGIHTZLKYIMI44EXE23", "length": 25479, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "www.adventure-in-a-box.com", "title": "50+ Best Audiobooks for Kids that Adults Will Also Like | Adventure in a Box", "raw_content": "Do you have a child who loves to read? Check out our list of the best audiobooks for kids. Equally great for road trips and during quiet time at home!\nWhen I was a child, we had a few audiobooks on vinyl. Before I learned how to read, they were my most treasured possessions \u2013 I could listen to them without asking adults (who were surprisingly reticent to sit down and read me a book for the hundredth time, what with all the cooking and cleaning they always had to do).\nSince then, I have loved audiobooks. Not more than written books, but almost. And it is definitely a better time for audiobooks now than it was in my childhood \u2013 with so many more available and so many more ways to listen to them!\nWhat\u2019s the Best Way to Get Audiobooks?\nFirst, we tried CDs. It didn\u2019t work out very well. They were easily scratched and covered with gunk, especially at the ever-sticky hands of toddlers. In the worst case scenario, they broke. Finally, I found it impossible to find a good CD player that a kid could use.\nMP3 were an improvement! Especially for toddler years \u2013 we recorded books for our kids and uploaded them onto this toddler-proof MP3 player. You can read more on how to record audiobooks here.\nBut MP3-method can get trickier as books get longer. When my son grew into chapter books, I started buying audiobooks for him off iTunes. He learned to turn them on pretty easily, and they could never get scratched or broken. I loved this, but the prices were steep.\nJust recently we have started growing our Audible collection as well. It\u2019s probably the most economic way to accumulate a lot of audiobooks over time, and you usually get a few months and a few books as a free trial. If you have never tried Audible before, you can actually get one of the books below completely free right now. All things considered, this would be my choice.\nIn addition, we have started recording audiobooks as we read a chapter or two (or half a book at a time if it was particularly good) to our son at night. Just as long as we are not overly perfectionist, it is an easy way to get our hands on audiobooks that have not even been published officially, like Emil\u2019s Pranks by Astrid Lindgren or Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat. Of course, there were coughs and giggles and occasionally kid\u2019s questions recorded at the same time, but somehow it made the recording more personal.\nWhy Listen to Audiobooks?\nAudiobooks come in handy on many occasions \u2013 during road trips and during quiet times. Right now, when my son is six \u2013 old enough to love good stories, but still not old enough to read fluently \u2013 he turns them on every day. It has done wonders for his vocabulary, and it is a fun accompaniment to his drawing or LEGO-building time. For me as well, it has turned into a pleasant experience where we both enjoy a book together while doing our own things.\nBelow you will find a list of our favourite audiobooks, up until now.\nI\u2019d like to say that the age limits I suggest are offered for general guidelance and not in any way absolute. As I have been looking for audiobooks for my children since they were tiny tots, I thought that the approximate minimum age limit would be useful. Regardless of this, most of the books here can be enjoyed by children and adults of any age! On the other hand, every child is different, so if your child doesn\u2019t take a shine to one of them, just try another. :-)\nAudiobooks for Preschoolers (3-5-year-olds)\nThe list contains Amazon affiliate links.\nThese are the books that have narration, possibly music, and text that is simple enough for preschoolers to follow. In the beginning, we would always read these books to our son aloud first, making sure that he had a chance to ask questions. Then, we would get the audiobook. All of these books have been played dozens of times in our house. I am certain that I have heard Finn Family Moomintroll and Children of Noisy Village at least fifty times each. Back when my son was little, he would just start those books over when he came to the end.\nFrog and Toad Collection by Arnold Lobel narrated by Arnold Lobel (Audible | iTunes | CD ): This was the first audiobook that captured my son\u2019s attention when he was not quite three. One hour and twenty eight minutes of pure bliss! We tested this audiobook in various conditions, the most extreme of which was a thirty two hour trip across eastern Canada. Even after that, we still loved Toad and Frog and their quirky relationship of best friends who occasionally get on each other\u2019s nerves, as only best friends are allowed to. The collection consists of short stories that are clever, funny and use simple words, so even a toddler can follow them. A special perk of this narration is that it was done by the author!\nWinnie-the-Pooh Collection by A.L. Milne narrated by Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Jane Horrocks and Michael Williams (Audible | iTunes): The story of the famous toy bear hardly needs an introduction. Perhaps, a couple of words about this particular audiobook though? It\u2019s a dramatization narrated by a selection of actors. While I don\u2019t usually recommend books that have been abridged and adapted for younger readers, I feel like dramatizations are a different matter. They do lose some text, but all the same they present the story with such artistic flare that I listen to it as if it was my favourite song! This particular adaptation is one of the best that we have. I mean, Stephen Fry as Winnie-the-Pooh? Sold! The dramatization is also easier to listen to than a unabridged narration, which is why my son has been enjoying this version since he was three, but if you\u2019d like the full version instead or in addition, check Winnie-the-Pooh narrated by Peter Dennis (Audible). We\u2019ve got it as well, and it\u2019s also good!\nA Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond narrated by Stephen Fry (Audible | iTunes | CD): Stephen Fry seems to specialize in giving voice to famous British bears. Well, strictly speaking, Paddington comes from Peru, but his adventures described in the book have a certain atmosphere that would be familiar to lovers of British literature \u2013 railways, weekends at seaside and elevenses (with marmalade!) pour from the pages. Interestingly, while I had a soft spot for Winnie-the-Pooh, my son, at least at his age, strongly preferred Paddington and listened to the stories about him again and again. Fortunately, it pays off to be a Paddington fan \u2013 there are currently fourteen books in the series! Many of them have also been turned into audiobooks \u2013 check More About Paddington, Paddington Helps Out and so on.\nFinn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson narrated by Hugh Laurie or Hugh Dennis (Audible | iTunes | CD) I grew up with stories of Moomins, so I was delighted when my son fell in love with their world soon after turning four. Having listened with him to the story (about fifty times!), I think that it is a perfect children\u2019s book. It fills youngsters with a dozen ideal scenarios for adventures they can dream about later on. Finding a magician\u2019s item that works in a mysterious way, but can turn water into raspberry juice? Check. Going to an uninhabited island and combing the beaches in search of treasures? Check. Fishing with friends in the early hours of the morning and catching a giant sea beast? Catch. And, finally, attending a party where one of the special guests is a magician who\u2019ll grant one wish? Check as well. In my opinion, this book is the best introduction to the world of Moomins, but if you like it, also check Comet in Moominland, Moominland Midwinter and Moominsummer Madness. There are a few others as well, but they sit better with a slightly older crowd. If you can, find the narration by Hugh Laurie \u2013 in my opinion, it is considerably better than Hugh Dennis, though Laurie only ever did the first book.\nThe Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren narrated by Catherine Byers (Audible | iTunes) This is one of those books that can stay with your children forever, filling them with warm memories about the life and customs of six children from rural Sweden some hundred years ago. This book doesn\u2019t have magicians and great adventures, but it has the magic of childhood that turns a walk from school into a great escapade, makes invention of a secret language necessary for weeding the garden, and suggests that crayfishing at four in the morning is the most wonderful thing in the world. I heard a lot of adults who read this book say that they wish they grew up in Noisy village, and I am also one of them. I was undoubtedly delighted when my son chose this audiobook as one of his favourites to listen to! If you like it, there are a couple more books about Noisy Village. Unfortunately, they have not been turned into audiobooks, but you can have a few fun evenings, reading them aloud.\nAll About Sam by Lois Lowry narrated by Bryan Kennedy (Audible | iTunes | CD) Lois Lowry is best known for The Giver and Number the Stars, both novels for middle-graders dealing with serious topics, such as nazism and totalitarianism. But before she wrote those, she created a series about Anastasia Krupnik, a girl on the verge of teenage-hood. That series is full of comedic situations which are easy to come upon if you live in a family with a father who is a poet and a literature professor, a mother who is an illustrator with a good sense of humour, and a very smart little brother. Well, this brother just happens to be Sam. After writing half a dozen books about his sister, Lois Lowry gave him a story of his own. It starts with Sam being born, and in the beginning it\u2019s one of those hilarious \u201chow the baby sees the world\u201d books. In a few chapters though, Sam grows into a toddler, learns to walk and to talk, and goes to preschool. There is a lot for preschoolers to relate to in this story! Truth be told, parents will also find quite a few things to relate to. Have you ever had a kid come down from a bathroom break with a funny haircut? I sure have! If you like Sam, there are three more books that were all turned into audiobooks \u2013 Attaboy, Sam!, See You Around, Sam! and Zooman Sam.\nLittle House in the Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder narrated by Cherry Woods (Audible | iTunes | CD) Having read this series in my twenties, I couldn\u2019t imagine that my five-year-old son would love it this much. But he did, especially this first book. After listening to it together with him again and again, I have decided that it is actually great for little kids. Laura is five in this book, and she is curious about the world around her. From her experiences around their farm come many detailed descriptions of how things work. No matter that the story is set one hundred and fifty years ago \u2013 my son was mesmerized by the stories of how to turn maple sap into syrup, or harden it into candy by throwing it on the snow. In a few months, he listened to the first book so many times that I had to get the next one and then the next one for him. Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek were also his firm favourites, but he didn\u2019t show as much interest in By the Shores of Silver Lake, so we\u2019ve decided to postpone the rest of the series until he is older.\nAlso for this age group:\nThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Audible|iTunes)\nHairy Maclary and Friends by Lynley Dodd (Audible|iTunes)\nMy Father\u2019s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Audible|iTunes)\nAudiobooks for Kids (5-8-year-olds)\nPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren narrated by Christina Moore (Audible | iTunes | CD) If you are fond of stories about spunky girls, this is the one to offer to the younger crowd. Pippi is the strongest girl in the world \u2013 she can carry a horse around \u2013 but she is also very kind and creative. She lives in a house all by herself, has a chest full of gold coins, and she is always up for organizing a fun afternoon for her friends and pretty much all the other kids in town. I fell in love with Pippi when I was about six, and she was my role model for the next few years. \u201cEverything is more fun with Pippi!\u201d says one of her friends. I was delighted when my son decided so as well. There are two more books about Pippi \u2013 Pippi Goes Aboard and Pippi in the South Seas. Unfortunately, they haven\u2019t been turned into audiobooks, but you can read them aloud.\nGooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry narrated by Lee Adams (Audible | iTunes) Want still more spunky girls? Gooney Bird Greene definitely fits the bill. You need to have spunk if you are a new kid coming to school in pajamas and cowboy boots! Her classmates are quickly fascinated by the new girl and ask her to tell them more about herself. Gooney Bird doesn\u2019t disappoint, so together with her classmates we learn how she got her unique name, moved to their town from China on a carpet, directed a professional orchestra and more. The best thing? Gooney Bird only tells true stories! Hint: she does like to play with words and double meanings. The series of Gooney Bird books is actually quite educational. In the first book, the children learn about the composition of a good story; in the second book, they find out about the story of Thanksgiving; the third book is about fables; the fourth one is about poetry. Then, there are also two books that are about anatomy and geography. Basically, the children are listening to the stories about other children learning at school, but because this is a book written by Lois Lowry, the winner of two Newbery medals, the story is irresistible \u2013 full of humour and quirky characters. The narration by Lee Adams deserves a special mention \u2013 she is great at giving each of the children in the book his or her own voice.\nHenry Huggins Collection by Beverly Cleary narrated by Neil Patrick Harris & William Roberts (Audible|iTunes) There is no denying that audiobooks can be quite expensive, and that\u2019s why I love it when they come up with a good collection that I can pick up for one Audible credit. This one features fifteen hours worth of really good narration and includes six books about Henry Huggins (Henry Huggins, Henry and Beezus, Henry and Ribsy, Henry and the Paper Route, Henry and the Clubhouse, Ribsy). Henry is a clever and enterprising boy from the 50s. While the books are pretty old, they don\u2019t seem dated. There is a certain earnest and honest attitude about Henry, but that only makes the books better. They are also really fun and clever, encouraging ingenuity in children. I personally loved the books about Henry, after reading them already in my twenties, but wasn\u2019t planning to give them to my son until he is about Henry\u2019s age. He however had other plans: after finding the audiobooks at the library, he listened to those fifteen hours several times and loved the adventures of Henry and his dog Ribsy.\nThe Ramona Quimby Collection by Beverly Cleary narrated by Stockard Channing (Audible|iTunes) Ramona first appeared in the books about Henry Huggins, but later on she got a series of her own. In my opinion, the Ramona series is more suitable for the younger crowd, though my son preferred to skip it altogether and go on to following Henry Huggins\u2019 exploits. The stories of Henry Huggins do have more anecdotal quality in them, while the stories of Ramona are about growing up, with a fair number of funny and embarrassing moments along the way. In the first book, Ramona is five. In the last book, she is ten. She goes a long way, and it is interesting to witness, especially since she is also a very spunky and creative kid. There is also no denying that this audiobook collection is awesome \u2013 it has eighteen hours of great narration and follows Ramona all the way to the last book.\nThe Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum narrated by Anne Hathaway (Audible|iTunes) or The Complete Oz Collection narrated by Eric Vincent (Audible|iTunes) If you want a more artistic narration of the first (and most famous) book, we loved Anne Hathaway\u2019s performance. She was especially good as a witch! But if you want to go for a good value \u2013 and have the full emerging experience, you can get the complete collection. It includes twenty books from the series, and the narration takes some ninety hours. Or why not get both, really? We did!\nMagic Tree House Collections by Mary Pope Osborne narrated by Mary Pope Osborne (Books 1-8: Audible|iTunes; Books 9-16: Audible|iTunes; Books 17-24: Audible|iTunes) Not my favourite, but definitely my son\u2019s favourite. Some of the books present a simplified view on history, which can be a little painful to listen to for history geeks like my husband and I, but one can\u2019t really expect the introduction to history for little kids to be full of nuance. On the positive side, these books do inspire an interest for history in little kids. Thanks to these books, we have already lived through a major Titanic obsession in our household, after my five-year-old listened to the 17th book in the series, Tonight on the Titanic.\nHow to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell narrated by David Tennant (Audible|iTunes) Chances are, by this age your kids have seen the animated movie by Dreamworks that is based on this book, so they may be curious to listen to it. And \u2013 they will be in for a bit of a surprise! It is very different from the movie. There is still a boy who doesn\u2019t quite fit with the rest of the viking crowd. He does have a dragon called Toothless. But that\u2019s about where similarities end. For instance, in the very beginning of the book, we find Hiccup trying to catch and train a dragon as an old rite-of-passage tradition. Even though different from the movie, the book is quite good for the age group, with some funny bits and some clever bits. Besides that though, the artistic narration by David Tennant is a real treat! There are eleven books and audiobooks to follow this one. If you\u2019re interested, look up How to Be a Pirate and How to Speak Dragonese next.\nAdventures with Waffles by Maria Parr narrated by Luke Daniels (Audible|iTunes) Do you like foreign children\u2019s books? I certainly do. In my childhood, my favourite characters were the Moomins from Finland and Pippi Longstocking from Sweden. Since then, I\u2019ve always been eager to get newly translated books, and now I share this fondness with my kids. If nothing else, we can always learn about little customs from around the world that seem a lot more fascinating when mentioned in passing in a book of fiction than in a tourist guide. That was the premise behind picking up this newly translated book in the first place. It didn\u2019t disappoint! Trille and Lena are next-door neighbours who live among the Norwegian fjords, and their life is filled with imaginative adventures, unexpected catastrophes and eating waffles. The situations they get themselves into are intermittently hilarious and touching, sometimes both. We laughed a lot as we read this book, and afterwards I promptly got us an audiobook, so that we could relive Trille and Lena\u2019s adventures again. If you liked this audiobook, also check Astrid the Unstoppable by the same author!\nThe Borrowers by Mary Norton (Audible)\nMary Poppins by Pamela Travers (Audible|iTunes)\nPeter Pan by J.M. Barry (Audible|Itunes)\nThe Ralf S. Mouse Audio Collection by Beverly Cleary (Audible|iTunes)\nStuart Little by E.B. White (Audible|iTunes)\nCharlotte\u2019s Web by E.B. White (Audible|iTunes)\nFive Children and It by Edith Nesbit (Audible|iTunes)\nMatilda by Roald Dahl (Audible|iTunes)\nJames and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Audible|iTunes)\nAudiobooks for Older Kids (8-12-year-olds)\nRonia, the Robber\u2019s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren narrated by Khristine Hvam (Audible|iTunes) This is one of those books that can easily lose its magic and appeal in a dry annotation. Ronia lives with her father, the robber chieftain, in a castle in the woods. Their life gets turned upside down when she befriends Birk, the son of a rival robber chieftain. That\u2019s the plot of the story. What it can\u2019t convey is the mesmerizing beauty of the forest that Ronia calls home or how it influences her personality, making Ronia one of the most charming girls in literature. And then, there is Birk! While Ronia is headstrong and passionate, he is calm, caring and resourceful, which, of course, leads to an enviable friendship. Together they have many an adventure, and, yes, in the end they do turn the life in the robbers\u2019 woods upside down. It\u2019s a beautiful and thoughtful book that I\u2019d be happy to recommend to anyone. I\u2019d like to mention that it can certainly be enjoyed by children as young as five. My son at five loved Ronia, especially after watching the great animated TV adaptation that studio Ghibli made a few years ago. But I believe that in order to fully comprehend the subject, he should try it again when he is a little older. All in all, there is enough magic in this book for various ages.\nThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien narrated by Robert Inglis (Audible|iTunes) I always thought that The Lord of the Rings was epic, but The Hobbit was whimsical and cozy. I liked it more for that and looked forward to suggesting it to my son when he was about eight, the age I got my hands onto that book. In reality, he listened to The Hobbit again and again when he was five. Was it the success of the narration? It was wonderful! Robert Inglis has voices for everyone, and he even sings songs.\nHowl\u2019s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones narrated by Jenny Sterlin (Audible|iTunes) A strong heroine, exotic places, wicked witches, and friendly demons \u2013 this book has it all and also a good dose of irony, which makes this story likeable for a variety of ages! The narrator also does an amazing job of reading, so while both of my kids are still a little too young to appreciate this book, I sometimes turn it on and enjoy by myself.\nJames Herriot\u2019s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Animal Stories narrated by Jim Dale (Audible|iTunes) From the springtime frolic of Oscar, Cat-About-Town to the yuletide warmth of The Christmas Day Kitten, these selected stories will make a great introduction to James Herriot\u2019s novels, which were, of course, never meant to be for children, but for people of all ages who love animals. If your children like this collection, in a few years they can move onto All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and so on. Filled with humorous and touching situations, those books would charm anyone who ever cared for an animal \u2013 or has an interest in the quirky characters of the English countryside.\nThe Giver by Lois Lowry narrated by Ron Rifkin (Audible|iTunes) The Newbery medal winner of 1994 about the seemingly ideal world of conformity and contentment is as important as ever in the modern days. The narrator Ron Rifkin did a great job of drawing suspense as well as presenting the haunting world where Jonas lives. Definitely not for younger children, who simply would not understand all the secret meanings of what is happening, but a very powerful story, both as a book and an audiobook. Look up Gathering Blue, Messenger and Son if you liked this one.\nHarry Potter and the Philosopher Stone by J.K. Rowling narrated by Stephen Fry or Jim Dale (Audible|iTunes) This addition is so obvious that I almost forgot to put it on the list. The first book of the series is everything a children\u2019s book should be \u2013 it is whimsical, humorous, full of magic, mystery and great friendship! Now, the question is \u2013 which narration to choose? The fans are still debating it. I\u2019ve listened to Stephen Fry\u2019s narration at one point and loved it, but it seems difficult to find in North America at the moment, and there are many people who insist that Jim Dale did as great a job.\nAnne of Green Gables Collection by L.M. Montgomery narrated by Susie Berneis and Tara Ward (Audible|iTunes) I don\u2019t know if my children will ever feel like they need all 73 hours of Anne\u2019s stories, but I got this one for myself. It\u2019s perfect for turning on whenever I feel like having a book in the background. :-)\nPrincess Academy by Shannon Hale (Audible|iTunes)\nThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Audible|iTunes)\nThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Audible|iTunes)\nA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L\u2019Engle (Audible|iTunes)\nThe Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jean Birdsall (Audible|iTunes)\nWonder by R.J. Palaccio (Audible|iTunes)\nWhat are the auidobooks that your children like? Share with us, please \u2013 we are always looking for new titles to listen to!\nLaurie Black\ton February 4, 2019 at 4:31 pm\nGreat lists! Years (decades!) ago on a road trip we listened to the Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks. The kids really enjoyed it, they were around 7 and 9 years old.\nHollyd\ton February 5, 2019 at 12:15 am\nExcellent list. I\u2019d also like to call out a terrific free audiobook resource\u2026 Librivox.org.\nVolunteers record books that are out of copyright and in the public domain, so think classics. It\u2019s affiliated with the Internet Archive and the Gutenberg project.\nCheck out the children\u2019s books and short stories genre. There are several on your list. Anne of Green Gables, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Ox, The Wind in the Willows and many by E. Nesbit. Check out the animal books by Thornton W. Burgess and Aesop\u2019s Fables\u2026\nWhen you search you might find multiple versions of a book or story. They can be solo, dramatic (play like) or collaborative (different people read the chapters).\nAnd, if you are so inclined, you can volunteer to read a favorite and add to their collection!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 34140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.advivumjourneys.ca/helen-mirren-made-me-do-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PCSEPYBTQMSY4PO5QNEMYNIJLCHRZSMY", "length": 639, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.advivumjourneys.ca", "title": "Blog - Helen Mirren made me do it \u2014 Advivum Journeys", "raw_content": "Photo credit Annie Liebovitz\nThe Re-Imagined Self is a mini-sabbatical, a moment in time that leaves the everyday behind, where you can drop in, hear the questions that you are already asking, but don\u2019t have the energy, time or courage to answer.\nThese 7 days in Hawaii, in the company of a small group of like-minded women, will rejuvenate the creative spirit while exploring identity, achievement and what makes yours a life well lived.\nAs executive and life coach, I have been leading discovery retreats of self exploration for over 15 years. 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Recognizing the need for renewable energy labour and experts, the RECP is supporting training and higher education activities in partner countries. Zimbabwe has a huge potential for renewable energy sources \u2013 especially for solar PV and water heating, biogas, and hydro power \u2013 while the availability of skilled experts in the country is limited. Currently, the RECP is supporting the University of Zimbabwe in the establishment of an international renewable energy Master\u2019s programme, in cooperation with the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and the Makerere University in Uganda. Adapted to local market needs and with a close link to the Zimbabwean and international industry and the academic world, the Master\u2019s programme will provide graduates with up-to-date knowledge and hands-on experience to enter the renewable energy job market. 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That would mark the fastest expansion for emerging markets since 2013 and a second consecutive year of higher growth for developing economies, which have slowed dramatically since a 7.4% GDP gain in 2010.\nThe survey of global logistics executives is part of the 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, an annual snapshot of industry sentiment and ranking of the world\u2019s 50 leading emerging markets by size, infrastructure, transport connections and business climate.\n\u201cThe logistics industry\u2019s optimism comes as a relief. A year ago, there was great concern that populism in the United States and Europe were going to hurt trade and damage emerging markets economies,\u201d says Essa Al-Saleh, CEO of Agility Global Integrated Logistics. \u201cIn 2018, we are looking at renewed growth overall, although it is likely to be very uneven from region to region and country to country.\u201d\n2018 Index and Survey Highlights\nChina and India top the 2018 rankings and put more distance between themselves and No. 3 UAE in the Index, a broad gauge of emerging markets\u2019 competitiveness. Russia climbs three spots to No. 7, an indication its economy is stabilizing after years of low energy prices, capital flight and U.S. economic sanctions. Brazil, struggling to emerge from political turmoil and its worst recession in a century, slips two places to No. 9.\nIndustry executives can\u2019t agree on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has come under intense criticism from the Trump administration. The United States, Mexico and Canada are in negotiations aimed at updating the agreement. Logistics executives were sharply split about whether a new pact would help Mexico (24.3%); hurt Mexico (21.8%); or leave trade unchanged (25.7%).\nEgypt surges six spots to No. 14 \u2014 the largest jump by any country in the 2018 Index \u2013 and rockets up 26 places to No. 21 in the separate category ranking countries\u2019 business conditions, or Market Compatibility. Bangladesh (No. 23) and Uruguay (No. 25) both leapfrogged four spots in the overall rankings.\nNigeria, Africa\u2019s largest economy, tumbled to No. 31 from No. 24 a year ago. In spite of its potential, Nigeria ranks next-to-last in infrastructure and transport connections, or Market Connectedness, and 46th in business climate. Also falling: Venezuela slumped to No. 48, and ranked dead last in Market Size and Growth Attractiveness; Kazakhstan fell six places despite a resumption in economic growth and announcement of a long-term development blueprint.\nLogistics executives are unconcerned, for now, that emerging markets economies will be harmed by Brexit, the UK\u2019s departure from the European Union. Nearly 45% say emerging markets will be unaffected; 25.4% say emerging markets could gain from Brexit through expanded market access. A year ago, nearly 69% expressed concern that Brexit and the failure of various trade initiatives were a threat to trade.\nGulf countries continue to dominate the top of the rankings when it comes to be emerging markets business conditions. UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain outpaced all other countries. Saudi Arabia was No. 8; Kuwait was No. 16. Gulf countries also rank toward the top in quality of infrastructure and transport connections: UAE (1), Bahrain (5), Oman (6), Saudi Arabia (7) and Qatar (8) were top performers.\nFifty-five percent of executives surveyed say small and medium-sized businesses \u2013 those with fewer than 250 employees \u2013 will benefit most from emerging markets growth. Twenty-size percent said large companies would be the biggest beneficiaries.\nIndia and China are the logistics industry\u2019s favorite investment destinations, but Vietnam leads a second group that includes UAE, Brazil and Indonesia.\nAlgeria, Ukraine and Ethiopia made big improvements in business conditions. The business climate deteriorated in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Tanzania, Lebanon and the Philippines.\nCheap labor is losing its attraction as a driver of emerging markets growth in the eyes of logistics professionals. They rate economic growth, foreign investment, trade volumes, location and transport infrastructure as more important factors.\nThe percentage of supply chain executives whose companies are considering investment in India jumped to 37.4% from 22.8% a year ago, following the rollout of India\u2019s Goods & Services Tax unification and other reforms.\nThe countries improving their infrastructure and transport connections most were India, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Argentina and Bangladesh. Infrastructure and transport rankings fell for Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Brazil, Thailand and Kuwait.\nIn Sub-Saharan Africa, infrastructure, links between economic centers and poor connectivity are deepening concerns for the logistics industry.\nQatar improves its overall Index ranking one spot to No. 11 despite an ongoing political dispute with a few countries in the Middle East. Qatar jumps two spots to No. 8 in the infrastructure/transport category and maintains its grip on No. 2 for business conditions. It leaps past Chile to rank as the No. 2 emerging market for countries with less than $300 billion annual GDP. Malaysia remained the leader for smaller emerging markets.\n\u201cIt\u2019s refreshing that the industry sees small and medium-sized businesses as the ones getting the most out of emerging markets growth,\u201d Al-Saleh says. \u201cIn large part, that\u2019s because SMEs are finally getting access to new technology and tools to improve their competitiveness and find new markets \u2013 a belated but very welcome development.\u201d\nJohn Manners-Bell, Chief Executive of Ti, says: \u201cEmerging markets enjoyed favourable market conditions in 2017 with trade growth the healthiest in years. However, there are many storylines yet to fully unfold, such as China\u2019s debt, the renegotiation of NAFTA and ongoing political and economic transition in the Middle East. While the going looks good for now, there are numerous challenges on the horizon.\u201d\n2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index: www.agility.com/2018index", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 368, "original_length": 11482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ahandtohold.com/blog/choosing-home-care-for-your-disabled-child-best-practices-to-follow", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:G2PRDJAMM2QP2HNGFC3DHLOFZEV2K2AB", "length": 4590, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ahandtohold.com", "title": "Choosing Home Care for Your Disabled Child: Best Practices to Follow \u2014 A Hand To Hold | Atlanta Home Care and In-Home Senior Assistance", "raw_content": "Caring for your disabled child at home can mean you are faced with a set of unique challenges and concerns. Depending on your child\u2019s level of disability as well as age, it makes every aspect of parenting more difficult. Parents who are faced with this may experience a variety of physical, mental and emotional challenges.\nFor those who do choose to rise to the challenge and care for their children at home, whether their child is disabled mentally or physically, there are home care options you may have access to and should consider. We\u2019ll discuss a few of these options and how to choose the best ones for your family\u2019s needs.\nWhat is home help?\nWhen you have a disabled child or a child with special needs, there are many options that can help you care for your child within the comfort of your own home. Depending on where you live, there are associations and companies that provide different types of home help, depending on your child\u2019s needs and medical condition. Your child\u2019s disability may also open some options specific to their disability, as there are many special needs organizations dedicated to helping people with specific conditions and their families.\nWhat are your child\u2019s needs?\nThe first thing you need to establish before choosing home care is your child\u2019s unique needs and limitations. The best way to do this is with the help of your doctor and any other health professionals who are involved in your child\u2019s care. Not only can they detail exactly what help your child requires, both in the present and the future, they may also be able to access options you can\u2019t.\nWith the help of these medical professionals, you can gather all the information available on how to help your child, whether that be with referrals to appropriate therapists or medical equipment. You can then move forward with finding in-home help with the right information.\nWhat are your care expectations?\nBeing clear about what you want from home care is just as important as knowing what is available. If you want a caregiver who is specially trained, you will have to access different resources than if you just want someone to sit and entertain your child when you\u2019re doing chores. You can also access specialized education services or even home help, so it\u2019s best to know what you want before you start the tedious process of evaluating candidates.\nResources to assist you and your disabled child may be limited by your location or by your financial resources. Make sure you educate yourself about all the programs available in your area, as well as financial support options applicable to your situation. Explore all programs and determine which is best for your child\u2019s needs.\nNational organizations like Parent to Parent USA can provide emotional support for you by matching you with an experienced parent of a child with disabilities.\nThere are many elements you should be aware of before you decide on a disability program.\nAre they accredited? Most states have a government-run accreditation program that determines if the programs and facilities run to an acceptable standard.\nAsk about the staff training levels. Remember that no matter how pretty the facility or website might look, the members of staff are the ones who will be interacting with your child. Their training and attitude towards their work will determine your child\u2019s experience.\nDoes the program have professional connections to hospitals or other healthcare providers? If it does, this will usually mean it is well-respected and regulated.\nBefore you make your final decision, you need to assess some of the practical elements of the home care option you are evaluating. This includes:\nHow long will your child and family need the service?\nHow often will they come to your home?\nHow much flexibility is there? If you need an extra day of help one week because of a family emergency, can you get the extra support easily?\nDoes your child seem to be bonding well with the home care staff?\nAnd finally, can the home care provider get access to emergency services if something happens?\nLearning to care for a disabled child at home requires a community. By accessing and carefully evaluating your in-home care options, you can give your child the best treatment and care possible, while still enjoying the time you have together.\nRaising a disabled child does not have to be a burden. Instead, it can be an unexpected delight and an opportunity to become closer to your child and to the rest of your support network.\nUltimate Savannah Senior Care Services Guide\nAging, Choosing a Care Providergum2012 June 30, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 6018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airportia.com/flights/s73210/yuzhno-sakhalinsk/vladivostok/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AUVW6W2GPH45EKFWO46XJZQU5NIJ2J77", "length": 1020, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.airportia.com", "title": "S73210 S7 Airlines Flight Status: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UUS to Vladivostok VVO", "raw_content": "S7 Airlines Flight S73210 / SBI3210 : Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok\nYuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport (UUS)\nVladivostok International Airport (VVO)\nS7 3210 S7 Airlines Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok Daily Flight History\n16/02/2019 UUS VVO 11:55 11:55 11:55 11:55\n< All Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UUS Departures All Vladivostok VVO Arrivals >\nS73210 S7 Airlines Flight: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok Information\nS7 Airlines Flight S73210 connects Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia to Vladivostok, Russia, taking off from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport UUS and landing at Vladivostok International Airport VVO.\nOther Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok Flights\nFlight S73210 is code-shared by 1 airline using the flight number SU4131.\nThere was a total of 16 flights connecting Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok, operated by 3 different airlines in the past. At this time there is a total 11 flights connecting Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok, operated by 3 different airlines.\nS73210 S7 Airlines Flight: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Vladivostok Route Map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/01/pride-and-embarrassment--at-the.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YVKUQMLC632IOP4HH4E3QGXJUMWV3W3V", "length": 11878, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.al-monitor.com", "title": "Embarrassment at Israeli President Shimon Peres' house", "raw_content": "Embarrassment at Israeli President Shimon Peres' house\nDaniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream, explains to interviewer Shlomi Eldar why he challenged the rules of official protocol at the president's house, and protested on behalf of his Palestinian employees who were searched like criminal suspects before meeting the president.\nIsraeli President Shimon Peres at the Kremlin in Moscow, Nov. 8, 2012.\nIt was supposed to be a routine ceremony, just another one of those events that appear on the official calendar of the President\u2019s House. People give speeches and applaud, someone receives a trophy or certificate, and the guests share in the excitement of participating in some official event or other. Then everyone goes back home to get on with their day-to-day business.\nBut just a few weeks ago, SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum, who was selected to receive this year\u2019s Outstanding Exporter Award from the president, turned one such ceremony into a thought-provoking occasion and the subject of considerable discussion and debate.\nAfter asking to say a few words, he took the microphone, and looked President Shimon Peres straight in the eyes. \u201cI am very proud to receive this prize and to raise the flag of Israel in 45 countries around the world. But it is precisely because of this commitment that I must tell you, Mr. President, about something that raised a question for me \u2014 a question that I consider far more important than industry or exports. The question, which I am asking here today, is how we relate to each other as human beings.\u201d A stunned silence filled the hall. Someone had just broken all the rules of protocol.\nA few days later, in an interview with Al-Monitor, Daniel Birnbaum (whose name is similar to that of another Israeli known for shattering conventions, the conductor Daniel Barenboim) spoke about what it was that caused him to deviate from the old, established rules of form.\n\u201cWe have three factories. The first one, in Ashkelon, came under rocket attack during Operation Pillar of Defense. Another one is located in Alon Tabor in the Galilee, but our main plant is located in Mishor Adumim in Area C (West Bank territories under Israeli civil and military control after the Oslo Accords). At this factory we employ some 900 Arabs from the Palestinian Authority, who live in an arc stretching from Jericho to Ramallah; the other half of the employees are Arab residents of East Jerusalem. When we were informed that we received the Outstanding Exporter Award, I thought about including some of our Palestinian workers in the ceremony to highlight the sense of solidarity and hope that can be felt throughout our factory. After all, these are the very people who produce the products for which we were receiving that award.\u201d\nAt this point it is worth noting that there is another, more problematic side to Birnbaum\u2019s vision. The factory that he heads is situated in the West Bank and benefits from a number of structural benefits such as tax incentives and government support with the stated purpose of promoting the development of industrial complexes in the West Bank. His opponents argue that he effectively benefits from the Israeli occupation of the Territories. The factory has also become a center of controversy. After announcing its intention to advertise during the upcoming Superbowl game, several Palestinian groups in the U.S. called for a boycott of its products.\nDid you ever consider that all your good intentions might not end as well as you planned?\nBirnbaum admits that this was the case. \u201cI was hesitant at first. I knew that there would be thorough body searches, and I didn\u2019t want to embarrass the workers. Here in Israel everyone is well aware of the kind of security inspections that people, especially Arabs, undergo at the airport or, for that matter, at the entrance to any shopping mall. It was for this very reason that I checked with the President\u2019s House to find out what specific kind of security measures those employees would be forced to go through. I was told that in keeping with the Shin Bet\u2019s directives, it would be a very thorough inspection, \u201cdown to their underwear.\u201d\nAfter long deliberations, Birnbaum decided that he would attend the ceremony with his employees anyway. But, he adds, he insisted on one single condition: \u201cI informed the security detail at the President\u2019s House that I would be willing to attend, provided that my workers and I go through the same inspection. We would all go through the exact same thing: me, management, and the workers. We practice equality and full cooperation both on the job and off it. Our factory has a synagogue, but it also has a small mosque. We all eat the same food in the same dining hall, and if necessary, we will go through the same security inspection.\u201d\nBirnbaum received a positive response, but when I spoke to him two days after the event, he was still upset, outraged in fact, over the affront to his employees.\n\u201cWhat happened was that three Palestinians and an Israeli Arab arrived at the ceremony, but despite our initial agreement, their inspection was different from ours. I protested, but that didn\u2019t help. They let the Israelis go through first, while they left them out in the rain and cold for three-quarters of an hour. Then security conducted an entirely different kind of search on them. I stood at the entrance to the President\u2019s House and saw how they were forced to undo their belts and drop their pants.\u201d\nWhat did you think would happen? Didn\u2019t you explain to them that they would undergo a particularly rigorous inspection because they were Palestinian Arabs visiting the official residence of Israel\u2019s President?\n\u201cWe met first at the hotel. They knew exactly what they were facing, but I had made a commitment to them that I would undergo the exact same inspection, down to my underpants, when, in fact, we were separated. I took the express route, while they were delayed for a more invasive search. That\u2019s what made the spectacle so difficult for me.\u201d\nBirnbaum repeated that word: separated.\nThis is the background for Birnbaum\u2019s unofficial breach of protocol at the President\u2019s House. He took the microphone and described to Peres and all the assembled guests how his workers were forced to undergo a veritable \u201cVia Dolorosa\u201d before they were granted entry. \u201cWe are committed to continue serving as a bridge and to sowing hope. Who knows as well as you, Mr. Peres, how important it is to remain optimistic that one day there will be peace?\u201d he said.\n\u201cHe was embarrassed, especially when I spoke about the double inspection. He lowered his eyes and stared at the floor. As for me, I was being cautious but clear. I didn\u2019t want to embarrass him too much. I didn\u2019t add that we live in a world with technologies that allow us to reach the same level of security inspections as having people remove their clothing. I mean the scanners that they use in the United States, which don\u2019t require anyone to drop their pants. I didn\u2019t descend to such uncomfortably picturesque details. Peres was a bit embarrassed, but on the other hand, my own people looked like they just had an ounce of dignity restored to them. When I stepped off the stage, they came over to kiss me. They had tears in their eyes.\u201d\nYou\u2019re one strange character.\n\u201cYes, I admit it. Not many other people employ Palestinians, because these days, most of Israel\u2019s industry is high tech. It\u2019s very hard to find many products now that bear the label, 'Made in Israel,' even though it once seemed so simple, so natural. Then there is us. We export some forty different items, which reach about 8 million homes overseas. There are 60,000 stores worldwide that carry our products with the label, 'Made in Israel.'\u201d\nWith all due respect to patriotism, doesn\u2019t that label cost you in sales? You are situated in the West Bank after all.\n\"We are facing an increasing tide of protests from all sorts of places around the world and from all sorts of sectors too. We are sometimes attacked in the international media for perpetuating the Occupation. Some retailers have protested that we should label our products as \u201cMade in Palestine.\u201d We\u2019ve come under attack from celebrities and even from business partners like Kraft, the largest food corporation in the U.S. And yet, we have the same answer for everyone. Our factories are apolitical. We don\u2019t take sides in this conflict. Quite the contrary, we inherited a factory in Area C, and we don\u2019t know what its final fate will be, if and when an agreement is reached. Nevertheless, we are building bridges between us and the Palestinian population, and we provide our Palestinian employees with respectable employment opportunities and an appropriate salary and benefits. We \u201ceven\u201d purchase medical insurance for them from a private Israeli company, because I am not confident that the money we pay to the Palestinian Authority for such social benefits will actually be used for medical insurance.\nThere aren\u2019t many factories that manufacture a national vision or a desire for peace, but with all your optimism, the feeling that you relay is one of missed opportunity.\n\u201cYes, we missed an opportunity. We\u2019ve become complacent, and that only means that we are cooking up a catastrophe. There is no reason for us not to extend a hand in peace. And when there were opportunities in the past, we always knew how to miss them. What the world doesn\u2019t know is that so many of us really do want peace.\u201d\nAt this point, Birnbaum describes a gathering of ambassadors, which took place in Jerusalem recently. During that event, National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror had some particularly harsh words for the participants over the regrets expressed by Ron Prosor, Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the U.N., about the timing of the recent construction spree in East Jerusalem. \u201cI was there,\u201d Birnbaum told me. \u201cI spoke right before Amidror, so I heard his irrational response. I also heard the applause that Prosor received and saw the frustration in the faces of those ambassadors who are supposed to represent us. They\u2019re embarrassed, and rightly so. The world doesn\u2019t see us as peacemakers. There are 136 countries in the world that are against us, so we go and upset the six countries that still support us? It infuriates me!\u201d\nAnd yet, on the other hand, what you have described is a wonderful friendship with your Palestinian employees, so maybe there is hope for peace after all.\n\"You know, as far as many of them are concerned, the only Israelis they know are settlers and the policemen at checkpoints. Most of them had never even been to Israel until I took them on a tour last summer. Then they saw Israelis on the beach and in the street. They saw plain, ordinary people. On the other hand, it was also an opportunity for us to break through the barriers of hatred and to get to know the other side, so that we could finally recognize that not every Palestinian is a terrorist. I\u2019m proud of that. I want people to finally realize that we\u2019re talking about people and that peace is possible, despite the politicians. If there were another hundred companies like us extending a hand to the other side, we would have a peace agreement, because everybody wants it, including the Palestinians.\"\nLet\u2019s get back to the big event. The ceremony was over. You and your employees left the President\u2019s House and stepped out into the cold Jerusalem air and the complex reality of this region. Tell me what happened.\n\u201cMy employees couldn\u2019t stop crying. One of them told me that I restored his dignity after they made him remove his clothing. Others mentioned the support they received during the ceremony itself. They told me how they \u2018never realized that there were Israelis like that.\u2019\u201d\nFound in: factory, west bank, sodastream, sanctions, president\u2019s house, peres, palestinians, israel, industry, export, discrimination, daniel birnbaum, boycott, body searches", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 15973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/Blog/2017/1/29/Oman-holds-military-football-tournament-featuring-worlds-brutal-dictatorships", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6MFOSVIZQZ5366FHDJP5CYW7SZW3D4KT", "length": 2553, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.alaraby.co.uk", "title": "Oman holds military football tournament featuring world's brutal", "raw_content": "Homepage : Blog : Oman holds military football tournament featuring world's brutal dictatorships\nOman's military team won the football tournament in the capital Muscat [AFP]\nmilitary world cup, Muscat, Oman, Syria, Syrian army, Iran, North Korea, football\nOman, Qatar and Syria made it to the finals of the military football world cup on Saturday, with the sultanate lifting the trophy to an ecstatic home crowd.\nOman beat Qatar in a penalty shoot out in the final match to win the little know tournament, which has seen a strong showing from Middle East teams.\nThe CISM World Cup features military teams from across the world, although many teams participating in the tournament are countries headed by unsavoury military dictatorships.\nAmong those battling for the prize was North Korea, Iran and Algeria where armies' dominate power (or pro-conservative Republican Guard militias in Iran's case), government spending, and poverty is often rampant.\nMore controversial was the presence of a number of militaries representing Middle East countries and whose armies have been accused of gross human rights' abuses.\nEgypt has seen a massive crackdown and massacres against Muslim Brotherhood supporters and liberals, following a military coup in 2013.\nBahrain has also witnessed the ruthless suppression of anti-government protests by the military since the first demonstrations erupted in 2011.\nProbably the worst culprit among the lot is Syria, whose army and air force are responsible for as many as half a million deaths in the country's war - the vast majority civilian.\nSyria made it to third place after beating Egypt giving the regime a chance to celebrate another military victory - this time on the football field.\nThe side ironically lost to regional rival and opposition-backers Qatar in the semi-finals in a penalty shoot-out.\nThe turmoil in Syria has seen the national football team play home games in Oman, the only Gulf state to provide quiet backing for the regime.\nOman has courted controversy in the Gulf for keeping diplomatic relations with Syria almost unchanged during the six-year war despite GCC partners such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar strongly backing the opposition.\nIn 2015, Omani Foreign Minister Yousef bin Alawi visited President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, while leading Syrian regime officials have also made trips to Muscat.\nAFCON 2017: Tunisia knocked out by Burkina Faso\nTunisia's journey at the Africa Cup of Nations came to an end on Saturday after they faced off with a determined, accurate and lethal Burkina Faso.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alexandershen.com/blog/2012/5/22/an-appropriate-happy-birthday-message.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SJZAPPV7RFSNMWH7NIMTFTJATYTV5GW3", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.alexandershen.com", "title": "An appropriate Happy Birthday message. \u2014 Alexander Shen", "raw_content": "An appropriate Happy Birthday message.\nIt's exactly what you think it is: a jar filled with farts.\nLet's all wish my brother a happy birthday on June 1st.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/01/201111772046999290.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:S7QF7VFHN7NJPSKPBZLHD45DIAU7QFI6", "length": 3160, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Tunisians in Canada against Ben Ali | Canada News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Tunisians in Canada against Ben Ali\nCanadian Tunisians are pleased about the political change, but angry at rumours Ben Ali's family may seek refuge there.\nCanadian Tunisians have used the internet to post details of a house said to belong to Ben Ali's daughter [Al Jazeera]\nThis past weekend, Tunisians took to the streets of Montreal, waving their country's flag and singing the national anthem to celebrate the sudden departure of ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.\nMore than 1,000 Tunisians braved the frigid Canadian winter to mark the historic event.\n\u201cI want to congratulate the Tunisian people for their sacrifices,\" Noureddinne Khemili a Canadian Tunisian told Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer.\n\"For the first time in history we are seeing a digital revolution, a cyber-revolution,\u201d Khemili said, referring to how much of the information about the beginnings of the revolt were disseminated via Twitter and Facebook.\nSpicer reported from Montreal, where Tunisians were jubilant about the political change in the North African state, which forced Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia on Friday in the face of protests against his 23-year rule.\nBut Tunisians were also angered by rumours that Ben Ali's family may now be trying to seek refuge in the north American country.\nCanada is home to some 20, 000 people with roots in Tunisia, many of whom reside in the French-speaking Montreal region.\nVenting Online\nCanadian media reported rumours that Ben Ali's daughter Nesrine and her husband El Materi may have fled to Montreal, and Canadian Tunisians have vented their resulting anger online.\nSome individuals posted directions to a house they said belongs to El Materi. Al Jazeera's Spicer investigated the rumour, finding that the house was owned by another family who were growing concerned at the mysterious traffic outside their home.\nDespite a public denial from El Materi about the family being in Canada, Tunisians still made their way to the airport to give him \"the welcome he deserved,\" one man said to Al Jazeera, planning to post the footage on YouTube.\nThere is great resentment to the wealth of Ben Ali\u2019s family.\n\"That money belongs to the people, and it must come back to the people. We will never accept that they come back here and are happy in their castle,\" one woman told our correspondent.\nA leaked WikiLeaks cable from the US ambassador to Tunisia echoed similar sentiments, saying: \"The opulence with which El Materi and Nesrine live and their behaviour make clear why they and other members of Ben Ali's family are disliked and even hated by some Tunisians.\"\nMany parents brought their children to the weekend's rally, some in strollers. Mohamed Najib, 37, brought his 20-month-old daughter Myriam to celebrate \"this second independence\" - the first of which was from France in 1956.\nLawrence Cannon, Canada's foreign minister, on Saturday said that Canada regretted the loss of life in the last month of violence in Tunisia.\nHe added that \"Canada welcomes news that free elections will be held in the near future, which will give all Tunisians a voice in building a new government committed to democracy, human rights and the rule of law.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 6987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alltherooms.com/blog/stay-citrus-bowl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EBWGMBPJUMNCWCXWPNHL6L4SJ3ZGPA6X", "length": 3050, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.alltherooms.com", "title": "Where to Stay for the Citrus Bowl - The AllTheRooms Blog", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sports Travel \u00bb Where to Stay for the Citrus Bowl\nWritten by Alistair Thompson in Sports Travel\n\u2190 Back to \u2018Traveling for Sports: What You Need to Know`\nA bowl game, Disney World and New Years all in one trip makes for quite the trifecta. Well, that\u2019s what you\u2019re signing up for when you buy your tickets to the Citrus Bowl. If you\u2019re up for the whirlwind, we\u2019re up for helping you land the ideal accommodation to help cut some of the travel stress. Here are our top picks for where to stay for the Citrus Bowl.\nThe Downtown Crowne Plaza: The safe bet\nPhoto by Crowne Plaza Orlando-Downtown\nDowntown Orlando is full of chain hotels and many offer a similar stay for a similar price. These are what we call \u201csafe bets\u201d. They\u2019re chains so you have a pretty solid idea of what kind of room you\u2019re getting and what kind of service you will receive from the staff. The Downtown Crowne Plaza stands out among the 3-4 star chains in downtown Orlando for its reviews and excellent rates. It\u2019s just a quick drive from the stadium so you don\u2019t have to worry about hiking to the other side of the city after the game.\nLa Quinta Universal Studios: The family penny-saver\nPhoto by La Quinta Inns & Suites\nWe\u2019re thinking of the football-loving families looking to bring the kids to the game and Disney World while not breaking the bank on the accommodations. While not right next door to the stadium (it\u2019s about a fifteen-minute drive), La Quinta does give you great access to the theme parks and all the things the kids will love to check out before or after gameday. It\u2019s a win-win.\nThe Four Seasons: The pull-out-all-the-stops luxury stay\nIt\u2019s tough to beat the Four Seasons. This is for vacationers who are looking to enjoy themselves without thinking too hard about the bill. From the waterfalls of the pool area to the outdoor dining area at the top of the hotel (a perfect place to catch the sunset or fireworks from the theme parks), this hotel is about as good as it gets in Orlando. It\u2019s about a 30-minute drive from the stadium, but making the drive on game day is a small sacrifice if you\u2019re planning to stay in Orlando for a few days and cover the theme parks as well.\nResort Condo: The kids\u2019 Christmas present\nPhoto by Nan\nThis condo near Lake Buena Vista is perfect for families planning a dream vacation for the kids. The condo development features a pool with a massive pirate ship in the middle with waterslides that run from the deck down into the water below. There\u2019s also a mini-golf course for when you get concerned about the amount of chlorine the kids are swallowing after every waterslide run. The full kitchen area and screened balcony are perfect for cooking up a meal (if you get tired of going out) and enjoying it together with the family on the balcony after a long day of theme parks and pool time.\nThe Top Resorts in Virginia\n5 Best Cheap Hostels in Portland\nAirbnb Gulf Shores: Where to Stay in Alabama\nThe 12 Best NFL Stadiums\nWhere to Eat the Best Brunch in San Francisco\nAtlanta Airport Delays Due to Government Shutdown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alten.com/country/romania/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:41Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7NGZH7XNFF6LAZ57VZ37HTG2VQU2WN2", "length": 1218, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.alten.com", "title": "Romania - ALTEN Group", "raw_content": "The Romanian companies within ALTEN Group serve customers both locally and internationally in the fields of telecommunications, banking, automotive, aeronautics, energy, insurance and pharmaceuticals, on projects in any stage of development.\nALTEN Group has also Delivery Centers in Romania, in Iasi and Bucharest, where is providing engineering consultancy in the automotive and aerospace fields. These experts in the mechanical design, electrics/electronics and supply chain areas have proven high standards of quality required for customers.\nATEXIS, specialized subsidiary, is optimizing the life in service of complex systems thanks to dedicated services in Maintenance Engineering, Technical Documentation, Training and In-service support.\nWhere to find us in Romania?\nWhether you are a candidate or a client, the group offers you opportunities in Romania as all over the world.\nConsultancy in engineering and IT\nSoftware Development and Atlassian Solutions\nALTEN Group serves customers in the fields of telecommunications, banking,\nautomotive, aeronautics, energy, insurance and pharmaceuticals.\nAeronautics Automotive Telecoms & Media Energy & Environment Banking, Finance & Insurance Retail & Consumer Services", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 3294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.altenergymag.com/news/2016/03/16/green-light-for-carno-3-wind-farm/23129/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:30Z", "digest": "sha1:SH6LZA4D5CHHG4X33FS74L4LXRGLOTSM", "length": 5298, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.altenergymag.com", "title": "Green light for Carno 3 Wind Farm | AltEnergyMag", "raw_content": "Green light for Carno 3 Wind Farm\nVisit http://www.naturalpower.com for further information\nNatural Power has secured consent for Carno 3 Wind Farm.\nPowys County Council voted to grant full planning permission for the Carno Wind Farm Extension Phase III (Carno 3) at a meeting of the Planning, Taxi Licensing & Rights of Way Committee held at County Hall, Llandrindod Wells on Thursday 10th March 2016, following a site visit earlier in the day.\nThe application benefitted from a great deal of local support with over 379 representations to the Council in its support, and 136 in objections.\nThe application was submitted by local company, Amegni Renewables from Carno, and prepared by Aberystwyth agents, Natural Power Consultants, and was initially made in 2010 for 18 wind turbines. Following consultation with the relevant authorities, local communities and the general public, five of the 18 turbines were deemed to have too great an impact. These five turbines were subsequently removed from the scheme, leaving a 13 wind turbine extension that was deemed acceptable by the planners and supported by the community and general public.\nJohn Woodruff, Planning & Development Principal Consultant at Natural Power said: \"The Carno project has been in the planning system for nearly six years and it is wonderful to see that the Council, in its vote, has acknowledged that this is the right scheme in the right place. Natural Powers Mid Wales based team have been advisors for the scheme since 2008. Our relationships with clients and stakeholders are key to our success and we are proud of being part of this particular success story. It is also encouraging to see Powys Council helping the County to further its contribution to Welsh climate change targets and enabling this locally promoted project to go ahead.\"\nThe wind turbines will be situated adjacent to the existing wind farms of Carno I and Carno 2 which lie to the south of the Carno village in Powys. The site will feature 13 wind turbines up to 126.5 m to the blade tip and generate up to 39 MW of renewable electricity. Based on the potential annual energy output of the development, it is expected that the scheme will supply the energy demand equivalent to approximately 17,000 homes and will provide greater than 74,000 tonnes per year of carbon (CO2) emissions savings over electricity generated from fossil fuels.\nA sum in excess of \u00a3100,000 per annum will be made available to the local area in the form of community benefits once the site becomes operational. In addition, the development is expected to contribute in excess of \u00a33 million to the Powys economy during construction and support 21 local jobs, with further local employment for operations and maintenance work once the site is up and running.\nSion Thomas of Amegni Renewables said \"We are extremely delighted that Powys County Council moved to support the Carno 3 development. We have maintained a consistent belief that this is a great project in a great location that has benefitted from the support of the community. The Carno 3 wind turbines will make a significant contribution towards Wales renewable energy ambitions. We look forward to working positively with the local communities to ensure that the benefits of this project are maximised locally.\"\nAbout Amegni\n\u2022\tAmegni Renewables is a young, local business from Carno, in Powys. The business is formed by local farmers who have diversified their farming businesses into wind energy. They have developed, and are now operators of the Carno II Wind Farm, one of the first windfarms of this scale to be locally owned in Wales. Amegni Renewables has been advised on the project throughout by Natural Power Consultants of Aberystwyth www.naturalpower.com\n\u2022\tThe Carno I Wind Farm was developed by RWE Npower and became operational in 1996. The site consists of 56 Bonus 600 kW wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 33.6 MW. The site is situated some 4 km to the south of Carno village in Powys.\n\u2022\tThe Carno II Wind Farm was developed by Amegni and became operational in 2009. The site consists of 12 Siemens 1.3 MW wind turbines and has a total installed capacity of 15.6 MW. The Carno II wind turbines are situated to the north of the Carno I turbines.\n\u2022\tEstablished in the mid 1990s, Natural Power is a leading independent renewable energy consultancy and products provider. The company offers proactive and integrated consultancy, management and due diligence services, backed by an innovative product range, across the onshore wind, offshore wind, wave, tidal, renewable heat, solar PV and hydro sectors, whilst maintaining a strong outlook on other new and emerging renewable energy sectors.\n\u2022\tNatural Power has been at the heart of many groundbreaking projects, products and portfolios for more than two decades, assisting project developers, investors, manufacturers, research houses and other consulting companies. With its iconic Scottish headquarters, The Green House, Natural Power has expanded internationally to work in 32 countries, and now employs over 320 renewable energy experts. 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I just don\u2019t have anything to say recently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anaarabcinema.com/directors14/zeina-daccache-scheherazades-diary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:06Z", "digest": "sha1:AGRB2HBEPEC7GGPT2H3BUO2XO72YOJVS", "length": 581, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.anaarabcinema.com", "title": "ZEINA DACCACHE / SCHEHERAZADE'S DIARY", "raw_content": "Directors 2014 ZEINA DACCACHE / SCHEHERAZADE'S DIARY\nPreviousCHERIEN DABIS / MAY IN THE SUMMER NextTALAL DERKI / RETURN TO HOMS\nZeina Daccache is a Lebanese actress, director and drama therapist.\nHer first documentary 12 Angry Lebanese was based on a theatrical staging, produced by Zeina, and presented by the male inmates of the Roumieh Prison in Lebanon. It screened at 63 festivals, and won both the Muhr Arab Documentary Award, as well as, the People's Choice Award at DIFF in 2009.\nDaccache is the Founder and Director of Catharsis - a Lebanon based Center For Drama Therapy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ancientfaith.com/announcements/2016/06", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DRYXZVRXXBM36P4FCB7E6M4GP4HITF6Z", "length": 1739, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ancientfaith.com", "title": "What's New? | Ancient Faith Ministries", "raw_content": "First Things Foundation\nBobby Maddex interviews John Heers, the co-founder and director of the First Things Foundation, the goal of which is to help the poorest of the poor with sustainable and enduring aid without crippling the local economy or demeaning the recipients.\nIs There Time in Heaven?\nDr. Nicole Roccas revisits the question of time in heaven from two different vantage points: Hellenic Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. Greeks and Jews of late antiquity had pretty different beliefs when it came to time and eternity, and both paradigms have implications for how one views the Incarnation.\nTongues of Fire: Teaching the Holy Spirit\nThe Holy Spirit can be a difficult and abstract concept to explain to young people, so in honor of the feast of Pentecost, Elissa Bjeletich explores the story of the tongues of fire, as well as the prayer \"O Heavenly King,\" to find ways to describe this most mysterious person of the Holy Trinity.\nThe Cerulean Locket\nBobby Maddex interviews Justina Uram, an Orthodox public interest attorney with degrees from Penn State Dickinson School of Law and Syracuse University\u2019s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is also the author of a brand new novel titled The Cerulean Locket, which is published by Tilden Terrence Press.\nWatchful Work\nKh. Krista West encourages us to learn to work efficiently and deeply and make every moment count. 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We certainly value him as a player. It's about patience. I believe he has a bright future with us.\"\nChelsea reportedly rejected Bayern's initial offer of \u00a320 million and are expected to reject the defending Bundesliga champions' latest approach.\nHudson-Odoi reportedly issued an ultimatum in late November in which he threatened to pursue other opportunities unless he's given assurances that he will receive more first-team minutes.\nThe reported threat came after Hudson-Odoi, who joined the Blues in 2007, scored his first goal for Chelsea during a Europa League win over PAOK.\n\"I know he hasn't played probably as much as he wanted but this is down to the quality of the players in front of him,\" Zola added. \"... He will have to learn that right now for him it's important to get better and better every day.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ar15howto.com/631/preparedness-theme-for-november/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VGCJZ7FRAO2FHU4YDME3UDDJHKQ4N2AE", "length": 542, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ar15howto.com", "title": "Preparedness Theme for November | AR15 How To", "raw_content": "Preparedness Theme for November\nNovember 1, 2013 by gunman\nThe Preparedness theme for November is Food/Water. As we are getting close to the end of the year it is important to look back on previous months and what you currently have, and reflect on what you might have missed, or are missing in your preps. 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In the last three decades he has curated art exhibitions, events, publications and collective projects in the fields of mail art, sound art, visual poetry, underground comics and street art. In 2004, together with other artists, he founded BAU, a cultural association in Viareggio, which annually creates BAU Container of Contemporary Culture. BAU Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 69.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artcommerce.com/products/diane-ltd-ed-photolithograph-john-kacere-signed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:32Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3ZEZJ4FSFGFETUHQWQ2CGMZ6WUSM6GH", "length": 1077, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.artcommerce.com", "title": "Diane, Ltd Ed Photolithograph, John Kacere \u2013 Art Commerce", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Diane, Ltd Ed Photolithograph, John Kacere\nDiane, Ltd Ed Photolithograph, John Kacere\nJOHN KACERE (1920-1999) Is considered a photo-realist or hyper-realist, although he has not adopted the methodology of these schools. 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Certificate of Authenticity included.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/4192/madonna-enthroned-with-ss-peter-and-mark-and-a-donor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RLGNMQP6TVV2WZON54ZZCC65MTDCKZXC", "length": 1443, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.artfund.org", "title": "Madonna enthroned with SS Peter and Mark and a Donor by Giovanni Bellini - Art Fund", "raw_content": "Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Madonna enthroned with SS Peter and Mark and a Donor\nA public campaign was launched to purchase the painting with just three months to raise the money.\nThe Art Fund acted as a catalyst to attract funds from private and public sources including \u00a350,000 from Sir Denis Mahon made through the Art Fund in memory of the late Lord Crawford's lifelong work for the museums of this country. Sir Denis' offer constituted a challenge to the Treasury: it was conditional upon a matching grant from the Exchequer. This insistence unlocked special Government grants of \u00a372,000 and the balance required was finally raised within the allotted time. This work was painted as a small altarpiece, no doubt intended for a private chapel or oratory. The subtle illusionism in the painting, together with the picture's warm atmospheric colour, is characteristic of the more famous San Zaccaria altarpiece, and anticipates the work of Bellini's two great pupils, Giorglone and Titian. Before the acquisition there was nothing comparable in an English public collection portraying the new humanism of the HIgh Renaissance.\nMuselli brothers, Verona 1648. Serehi family, Verona 1718. J.Purling, 1801. D.Turner, 1814. 4th Earl of Ashburnham,1878; by descent to 5th Earl of Ashburnham; V.J.Watney, Cornbury Park,1899; On loan to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, from 1967.\n1 . 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The rest, unfortunately, must continue to wait until all the Medicare liens are satisfied.\nThe settlement, approved by the District Court in Helena back in September, stems from exposure at the former W.R. Grace & Co. vermiculite mine in Libby.\nPayments Vary\nPayments for the victims will range from $500 to $60,000, according to court records, and depend upon the severity of the illness.\nThe Spokesman-Review Newspaper in Montana estimated that 400 people died and another 1,700 were sickened by the asbestos at the Grace & Co. mine that closed in 1990.\nMiners originally brought a suit against W.R. Grace, but the company escaped much of the liability from the extensive, community-wide contamination when it filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Negotiations and appeals continue to be discussed.\nThe settlement with the state still allows individuals to continue pursuing cases against W.R. Grace. The initial lawsuit against the state was filed in 2001 shortly after the bankruptcy filing. It was slowed because of numerous appeals and court rulings.\nMontana Fought Claims\nThe state first claimed that none of its agencies had a legal obligation to provide warnings of the mine\u2019s dangers, and lower court rulings concurred. It wasn\u2019t until the state Supreme Court in 2004 reversed those decisions that the victims began to move forward, still slowed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court injunction.\nThe state finally settled the claims in September of 2011.\nThe mine in Libby is approximately 50 miles south of the Canadian border and produced much of the vermiculite that was used across America for home insulation, potting soil conditioner and packing material.\nVermiculite is a naturally occurring mineral that often contains asbestos, which causes a wide variety of respiratory illnesses, including mesothelioma.\nThe majority of the plaintiffs in the suit against the state did not work in the mines, but were either family members or just living in the community that often was blanketed in dust that came from the nearby mines. Cleanup of the site still continues today with costs soaring over $370 million.\nMost of the victims who received payment last week were part of the Grace Libby Medical plan. or had private insurance that left behind no Medicare liens. Much of the state money now will go to reimburse Medicare expenses.\nThe Spokesman-Review. (2011, September 18). Editorial: Asbestos settlement a rare piece of good news.\nRetrieved from: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/sep/18/editorial-asbestos-settlement-a-rare-piece-of/\nHintze, L. (2012, January 30). PAYMENTS BEGIN IN STATE ASBESTOS SETTLEMENT. 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Debbie Dingell introduced legislation this week that would mandate a warning label on cosmetics marketed to children unless stricter testing can show they are free of asbestos fibers.\nThe legislation was sparked by reports in 2017 that trace amounts of tremolite asbestos were found in cosmetics marketed to girls by national retail chains Claire\u2019s and Justice.\nAlthough both companies quickly pulled products off store shelves, they also disputed the findings and later produced lab results showing their merchandise was safe and free of asbestos.\n\u201cParents across the country should have the peace of mind in knowing that the cosmetics they buy for their children are safe,\u201d Dingell said in a congressional press release. \u201cNo child should be exposed to asbestos through the use of common, everyday products.\u201d\nDingell introduced the bill as \u201cChildren\u2019s Product Warning Label Act of 2018.\u201d\nTesting Protocol for Cosmetics Is Key\nThe key issue today is the testing protocol used for cosmetic talc in the various products.\nAlthough the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) strongly encourages cosmetic companies to test for traces of asbestos, there is no federal law requiring it.\nThe FDA protocol also does not include the technologically advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to test for the toxic mineral.\nLess-exact, polarized light microscopy (PLM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) are considered adequate by current standards.\nThere never has been a medically documented case of a person diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease traced to cosmetics. But most experts agree even a small amount of exposure to asbestos could cause serious health problems such as mesothelioma.\nExposure also can lead to lung cancer, asbestosis and other serious issues.\nCongress May Grant FDA More Authority\nDingell this week also called for a broad overhaul of the FDA\u2019s authority over personal care products and cosmetics, believing it is the best way to address the current dilemma.\n\u201cBut if Congress is unwilling to consider this approach, we should start taking common sense steps to protect our children by passing my legislation to ensure consumers have all the facts about the products they purchase,\u201d she said. \u201cCongress must make this a priority in 2018.\u201d\nThe issue of asbestos in cosmetics stems from the extensive use of talc, one of the world\u2019s softest minerals.\nIt is used as a binding agent in chalk, ceramics and rubber. Talc is a common ingredient in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and a variety of other products.\nThousands of talc-related claims have been filed against pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive, claiming prolonged use of their personal care products led to cancer.\nTalc Often Mixed with Asbestos\nTalc often is found in the same area of the earth\u2019s surface as asbestos.\nIt\u2019s why talc is no longer mined in New York, Vermont or Southern California \u2014 where traces of asbestos have been commonly mixed with talc.\nMost of the reserves today come from mines in central and west Texas and southwest Montana, where the talc is purer.\nAs part of the proposed legislation, the cosmetics manufacturer must attest in writing to the Department of Health and Human Services that the talc being used comes from an asbestos-free mine.\nThe product also must be tested using the TEM method. Without those two assurances, the product would be required to have a warning label.\n\u201cWe need to pass comprehensive legislation to create a user-fee program for cosmetics and give the FDA the authority to review the most dangerous ingredients so they can keep people safe,\u201d Dingell said.\nCongresswoman Debbie Dingell. (2018, February 7). Dingell Introduces Legislation to Keep Children\u2019s Cosmetics Safe.\nRetrieved from: https://debbiedingell.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/dingell-introduces-legislation-keep-children-s-cosmetics-safe\nZaniewski, A. (2018, February 7). Dangerous kids\u2019 makeup must carry warnings, new proposal requires. Retrieved from: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/07/asbestos-cosmetics-cancer-claires/316623002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ask.com/web?q=Society+Transgendered", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3VKR4LVBQ5RKDC74P2Z3HEXKLU55JA27", "length": 2184, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.ask.com", "title": "Ask.com - What's Your Question?", "raw_content": "Did you mean: Society Transgender ?\nTransgender inequality - Wikipedia\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_inequality\nSeveral recent studies - from Trans Equality (NCTE) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) ...\nUnderstanding the Transgender Community | Human Rights ...\nwww.hrc.org/resources/understanding-the-transgender-community\nWhile these flawed views have faded in recent years for lesbians and gay men, transgender people are still often met with ridicule from a society that does not ...\nThe National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation's leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.\nWPATH World Professional Association for Transgender Health\nThe World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), is a 501(c) (3) non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization ...\nThe transgender arguments dividing society - BBC News\nwww.bbc.com/news/uk-43255878\nMar 5, 2018 ... Society is struggling to find consensus over a number of issues relating to trans peoples' rights. What are the key arguments?\nStandards of Care - WPATH World Professional Association for ...\nwww.wpath.org/publications/soc\nThe World Professional Association for Transgender Health promotes the highest standards of health care for individuals through the articulation of Standards of ...\nAnswers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender ...\nwww.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender\nTransgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or ... American Psychological Association Logo.\nIs the world more accepting of transgender people? Yes, but many ...\nglobalnews.ca/news/3991849/transgender-people-world-accepting-ipsos-poll\nJan 29, 2018 ... The data revealed the majority of respondents not only believe society is becoming more tolerant towards transgender individuals, but that ...\nWhat's the difference between being transgender or transsexual and ...\nwww.isna.org/faq/transgender\nPeople who identify as transgender or transsexual are usually people who are born with typical male or female anatomies but feel as though they've been born ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asm-autos.co.uk/asm-guides/car-recycling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FMUNQW4HW4WIHGE2VNDXHXL6OKTZ3K3G", "length": 4736, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.asm-autos.co.uk", "title": "Vehicle Recycling - Recycle My Scrap Car | ASM Auto Recycling", "raw_content": "All cars reach the end of the road. Our car recycling services are the ideal way to ensure your vehicle is scrapped safely and entirely in accordance with the environmental regulations. What\u2019s more, we\u2019ll pay you for the car.\nOur vehicle dismantling services remain by far the safest, most environmentally friendly way to scrap your car. Our 11-bay full workshops are completely equipped to full handle the dismantling, testing and cleaning of all recycled car parts, fully in-line with the Environment Agency\u2019s ELV Directive.\nWhat is the ELV Directive?\nThe End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive was put in place to ensure that the amount of waste produced from vehicle recycling is kept at a controllable level.\nAs many as two million cars reach their end of life in the UK each year: every single one of them is considered hazardous waste until they have been properly dismantled and any potential toxins removed and stored. Read more about ELVs.\nLooking to recycle your car? Click here for a free valuation\nCan I recycle my car with you? Are there any cars you don\u2019t take in?\nGenerally speaking, we take in almost every type of car, from those that have naturally reached their end-of-life, to those that have been written off by an insurance firm. Whatever your vehicle, the chances are we\u2019ll take it in.\nI can\u2019t actually get my car to you\nThat\u2019s OK, we\u2019ll come and collect it. Our teams collect vehicles from across the South-East of England, meaning that even if you can\u2019t bring the vehicle to us, we can come and pick it up from you. Give us a call today, and we\u2019ll send our collection team out.\nAnd you\u2019ll take care of everything else?\nWe\u2019ll take care of absolutely every part of the car recycling process. Our facilities ensure that your car is recycled in total compliance with the ELV Directive. All you need to do is arrange collection.\nOur car recycling process\nSo, how do we go about actually recycling the vehicle? Here\u2019s our process:\nThe fluids in the vehicle are completely drained. This includes petrol, oil, anti-freeze and both brake and transmission fluids, not to mention the different lubricants. All of the liquids are safely stored, before being shipped to processing plants.\nAny parts that can be re-used are removed, before being cleaned up and restored. The amount of usable parts will vary according to the age of the car, but any available are then added to our online parts catalogue.\nAny parts that can\u2019t be re-sold \u2013 such as the battery and any bald tyres \u2013 are also removed and safely either stored or disposed of, depending on if they\u2019re hazardous.\nThe chassis and any remaining parts are fed into the crusher in order to compact the metal, which is then put into the shredder.\nOnce shredded, the metal is separated into ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and any remaining residue (glass, foam and plastic) is disposed of.\nFinally, the scrap metal is melted down.\nVehicle Scrap & Recycling\nOur sister company, ASM Metal Recycling Ltd., provides us with an on-site division dedicated specifically to dealing with the high volumes of de-polluted end-of-life vehicles that we handle for scrap metal processing.\nOnce we have de-polluted a vehicle, their role will then be to recover and recycle as much of the ferrous and non-ferrous metal content as possible \u2013 including the engine, radiator, battery, catalytic converter, wheel rims and finally the shell.\nThey are well \u2018geared up\u2019 for vehicle scrap and recycling, with their 900-tonne car baler, 4x material-handling cranes, 6x roll on-off vehicles and 2x artics.\nWe have a wealth of experience in the scrap metal recycling industry, having been involved for three decades. We continue to invest in new technology, vehicles and personnel to continually evolve new technologies and improve the efficiency of our scrap metal recycling service.\nScrap metal processing is one key component of the car scrappage procedure. We procure end-of-life vehicles across London, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and the West Country. The de-pollution process includes the removal of all wheels and tyres. Tyre recycling processes the material for various new uses including children\u2019s playground and equestrian training surfaces.\nAll of our scrap metal processing drivers and assistants are trained to the uppermost industry standards.\nWe have over 35 years of experience in the metal recycling industry. Despite this, our technology and facilities remain at the cutting edge, and we continue to be one of the most efficient operators in the UK.\nEach year, we process over 30,000 end-of-life vehicles, and offer 2,500 vehicles for re-sale.\nIf you\u2019re looking to re-sell your car, there\u2019s no better choice than ASM. 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(Creative Commons)\nCave Paintings kaioker2\nEntrance to Cueva de las Maravillas sweetdbt\nDiscovered in 1926, the 800 meters of Cuevas de las Maravillas cave system are decorated with hundreds of Taino Indian cave paintings.\nTop Places in Dominican Republic\nFaro a Colon (Columbus Lighthouse)\nThe final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.\nCorral de Los Indios\nA pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.\nSee more things to do in Dominican Republic \u00bb\nThe Taino people are the indigenous residents of Greater Antilles. It was the Taino who greeted Columbus\u2019 arrival in Hispanola (now the Dominican Republic) in 1492. Throughout the Spanish colonial period that followed, their culture was ruthlessly suppressed, and through both violence and disease their numbers greatly depleted. Colonist and early humanitarian Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas wrote in 1561: \u201cThere were 60,000 people living on this island [when I arrived in 1508], including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this?\u201d\nThe caves are significant in Taino origin mythology. Distinctive petroglyphs made by the early Taino are etched on rocks around the island and on stalagmites in caves across the island.\nThe Cuevas de las Maravillas have been open to the public since 2003. Although the cave has come under criticism for the way in which paths and lighting were installed, possibly damaging some of the caved geologic features, it was awarded the 2003 Gold prize in the International Landscape Architecture Bienal Award.\nToday, visitors can explore about 200 meters on footpaths that wind through the galleries. Visits to the cave are strictly controlled, in small groups with a guide. Tours take about an hour.\nThe Taino people are the indigenous residents of Greater Antilles. It was the Taino who greeted Columbus' arrival in Hispanola (now the Dominican Republic) in 1492. Throughout the Spanish colonial period that followed, their culture was ruthlessly suppressed, and through both violence and disease their numbers greatly depleted. Colonist and early humanitarian Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas wrote in 1561: \"There were 60,000 people living on this island [when I arrived in 1508], including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this?\"\ncave paintingscurious cavesrepositories of knowledgesubterranean sitescaves\nhttp://dr1.com/articles/caving.shtml\nhttp://www.showcaves.com/english/car/showcaves/Maravillas.html\nhttp://www.moon.com/destinations/dominican-republic/the-south-central-coast/san-pedro-de-macoris/sights/cueva-de-las-maravillas\nLa Ca\u00f1a, 21000\nDonovan Republic\nFortaleza Ozama (Ozama Fortress)\nThe oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.\nNew Athos, Abkhazia\nNew Athos Cave\nThe second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.\nMarble Falls Township, Texas\nCivil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.\nAdded by slittleton\nAn unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.\nAdded by briangaines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 371, "original_length": 11318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pyramid-tomb-of-antonio-canova-frari", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7FKZBI3D2WF4LSPFHJS6YUKXZW6THOMP", "length": 1998, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.atlasobscura.com", "title": "Tomb of Antonio Canova \u2013 Venice, Italy - Atlas Obscura", "raw_content": "Tomb of Antonio Canova\nA sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.\nMonument to Antonio Canova. Didier Descouens (cc by-sa 4.0)\nMonument to Antonio Canova. matthiasheinrich (Atlas Obscura User)\nCloseup of the tomb. Divot (public domain)\nThe Frari church. Didier Descouens (cc by-sa 4.0)\nreley250 (Atlas Obscura User)\nLocated in the basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (known simply as the Frari church), the heart of Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova is enshrined in a monument that strangely differs from the many other tombs in the remarkable Gothic basilica.\nTop Places in Venice\nThe plague quarantine island home to the alleged \"Vampire of Venice.\"\nSee more things to do in Venice \u00bb\nThe pyramid-shaped structure with its looming statues was created by five of Canova\u2019s students after the master\u2019s death in 1822. It\u2019s based off a design Canova himself had drafted for the tomb for the Venetian painter, Titian. The pyramid shape and other details are Masonic symbols, a nod to Canova\u2019s Freemason membership.\nOnly the sculptor\u2019s heart is located within the monument in the nave of the Frari, a white marble memorial backdropped by the red brick of the 14th-century church. The artist\u2019s right hand is preserved in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and (the rest of) his body is buried in his hometown of Possagno, in the Tempio Canoviano, a church that was built based on his designs.\nThe basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is open to the public, the admission is \u20ac3,50. It is one of the three largest churches in the city of Venice.\nheartstombsmemorialsmonumentschurchessculpturesart\nmatthiasheinrich\nr reley250\n3072 Calle del Scaleter\nInteresting Places of the Macabre\nBY RICHARD SUAREZ\nWhere Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.\nAIDS Interfaith Memorial Chapel\nThe first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.\nPlymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.\nAdded by Jeff Newman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 9433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Sally+Anderson", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:11Z", "digest": "sha1:E7XPAO6TRFJMYR5VO7TEFZVG2UFDR7NA", "length": 1043, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.audible.com", "title": "Audiobooks narrated by Sally Anderson | Audible.com", "raw_content": "Showing results by narrator \"Sally Anderson\"\nJourney From the North, Volume 1\nNarrated by: Sally Anderson\nIn 1960, Storm Jameson decided to write her memoirs. The result was Journey from the North, one of the great literary autobiographies of the century. Volume One, first published in 1969, tells of her childhood in Whitby before the First World War, the strong ties with her formidable mother, an early love of the sea, her intellectual achievements at university and falling in love. She vividly recalls her first marriage and the birth of her son; then came her first book, work in London, and the deep happiness of her second marriage to Guy Chapman, the novelist and historian.\nSeries: Journey From the North, Book 1, Journey From the North, Book 1\nThe second volume in Storm Jameson's autobiography starts on the eve of the Second World War, and encompasses Jameson's involvement as the first female president of PEN, where she met all of the writers and artists of her day, and was pivotal in helping refugee families get to Britain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autobytel.com/chevrolet/trax/2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZAKP23WRJSTNI6HQI7OKHZIPN5RBTL7", "length": 652, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.autobytel.com", "title": "2019 Chevrolet Trax Models, Trims, Information, and Details | Autobytel.com", "raw_content": "Chevrolet Trax >\nThe 2019 Chevrolet Trax is available as a 4-door, 5-seat sport utility. Starting at $21,300, the 2019 Chevrolet Trax LS FWD is powered by a 1.4L, 4-cylinder engine mated to anautomatic transmission that returns an EPA estimated 26-mpg in the city and 31-mpg on the highway. The top of the line 2019 Chevrolet Trax Premier AWD, priced at $29,100, is powered by a 1.4L, 4-cylinder engine mated to anautomatic transmission that returns an EPA estimated 24-mpg in the city and 29-mpg on the highway.\nPeople who viewed the Chevrolet Trax also viewed:\nLearn More AboutChevrolet Trax\nGet pricing on a Chevrolet Trax\nFind a Used Chevrolet Trax", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 5469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autoinsurancea.com/limo-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:C5XIRHFRUL36DSBO6HUQS5OUAAGBE2RT", "length": 6164, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.autoinsurancea.com", "title": "Limousine Insurance", "raw_content": "Many people experience great difficulty when shopping for limo insurance, but the process does not need to be as painful as you remember. Advances in customer service and technology, allow you to do your limo insurance shopping in the easiest and most efficient way. This page will guide you through your limo insurance purchase with helpful tips and advice.\nTo save money on limousine insurance, consider setting a higher deductible of what you would pay out of pocket, in the event of an accident. The insurance company prices policies based on what they expect to pay out if you make a claim and reducing that amount, translates to lower premiums for you.\nOne of the best ways to drop your limo insurance rates is to show the insurance company that you are a safe, reliable driver. To do this, you should think about attending a safe-driving course. These courses are affordable, quick, and you could end up saving thousands of dollars over the life of your insurance policy.\nLimousine insurance protects you and other people in case of an accident. It is also to protect the bank that still owns your limousine. If the limousine gets totaled, your insurance company will be responsible for paying the amount due on the limousine, as well as what it is worth.\nHow Insurance Can Help Cover The Cost Of The Limousine\nIn order to save money, consider switching from a monthly payment plan to a yearly or semi-annual payment plan. If you\u2019re currently paying premiums by the month, you may be paying extra for the additional handling required to process your monthly payments. If you can afford to pay your premiums up front for a year, for example, you may gain significant savings.\nGet the rest of the family on your limousine insurance plan. Some limousine insurance providers, offer discounts for more than one plan made with them. Check to see if your provider offers such a discount. If they do, see if you can get other people that are living in your house to all get on a plan together.\nWhen purchasing limo insurance, make sure you do your homework and shop around. You can do this online. Look for companies that will give you the best discounts along with the best price. There is no reason to pay too much for limousine insurance.\nMake sure you check into getting coverage for \u201cuninsured\u201d drivers as a lot of people overlook this part. This is something you will really want to consider since it increases the price that you will pay. It will also protect you in the event that you are in an accident with an uninsured driver.\nTo find a cheaper limousine insurance you should shop around and look for the lowest price available to insure your vehicle. Get quotes online, call different agencies or call the company directly to find the best rates possible. You should also be sure to check a company\u2019s reputation to make sure the company you choose is a good one.\nSince your limousine insurance premium is based on your past credit history and ratings, be sure you pay all your bills on time. This will keep your credit in good shape and ensure you are receiving the lowest insurance rates, because they are based on your credit report and history.\nIf you want to avoid paying a high premium, don\u2019t drive a flashy limousine. Sports limousine and other high performance vehicles, often have premiums that are two or three times larger than that of a standard limousine. You should also research commonly stolen vehicles and be sure to avoid them. Most insurance companies will charge significantly more to insure these types of limousines.\nTips That Can Help You Get Low Cost Insurance for Limousine\u2019s\nWhen switching your limo insurance coverage, one important tip is to cancel your old insurance policy just before accepting the new one. Limo insurance is expensive enough without having to pay for two policies at the same time, so be sure to cancel the old policy and have the new one issued on the same day so that there is no period of double payment.\nBe sure to contact many different insurance providers for quotes. Have them explain the exact coverage that you will get for the price, this way you will be able to compare apples to apples. By comparing prices like this you can save yourself quite a bit of money, because different companies have different rating systems and they can offer surprisingly varying prices.\nIt\u2019s important to consider your insurance deductible and decide whether to go with a lower or higher deductible. A higher deductible will mean a lower monthly payment, but more out of pocket in the event of an accident. A lower deductible generally means a higher rate, but it might be easier to come up with the lower amount if you are at fault in an accident.\nImportant Information To Know About Cheap Limo Insurance\nDon\u2019t expect all insurance companies to give similar rates on limousine insurance. Rates vary greatly from company to company, usually without a clear reason. Each company has a differing internal formula for coming up with quotes, so you should compare and check at least 3 to 5 companies to make sure that you\u2019re getting a good deal.\nIf you are just beginning to drive, make sure you are on a policy with an older, more experienced driver. Many automobile insurance companies offer a lower rate if a young driver is paired up on the same policy as an older one. If possible, this is a great tactic for reducing your family\u2019s limousine insurance rate.\nIf you do not have back up transportation in case of an accident, then be sure to invest in an limo insurance policy that also covers a loan limousine. While many repair shops offer their clients loaners, it can take days or even weeks for their loaners to become available. For that reason, it is important that you have insurance that covers the cost of acquiring your own loan limousine for the duration of the repairs.\nAs you now may be starting to understand, the limo insurance purchasing process does not need to be as painful as it once was. The important thing to remember is to explore your options. By following the tips and advice you\u2019ve learned here will help to ensure that you have the best experience, while getting the best deal possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avfx.com/what-will-make-the-tech-showcase-so-special-this-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:A3TJFRBYVAIMOCAOWHEIYFAJNUWHL5UY", "length": 360, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.avfx.com", "title": "What Will Make the Tech Showcase So Special this Year? \u00b7 AVFX Event Technology", "raw_content": "You might be surprised who\u2019s calling the shots at the Tech Showcase. The special nature of the event is explained in this video by Steve Halling, President & CEO of AVFX.\nOn August 16th and again on August 21st we open our doors to friends and family and reveal what our designers and engineers have been planning all year long. This is their time to show off.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avivadirectory.com/Home/Lifestyles/Youth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:32Z", "digest": "sha1:EY7YRQG7P5FCGSON2V6FVWH267DL7VCV", "length": 2375, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.avivadirectory.com", "title": "Youth Directory | Add Url or Add Site to Submit to Aviva Web Directory", "raw_content": "Aviva Directory \u00bb People & Daily Life \u00bb Lifestyles \u00bb Youth\nIssues facing or about youth are the focus of this category.\nAdvocates for Youth is an organization that focuses on youth empowerment. Providing significant information on the aspect of sexual health primarily benefiting the youth and for parents to understand and support their children.\nhttp://www.advocatesforyouth.org\nThe Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a non-profit organization that aims to bridge the gap among parents and their children by helping parents, educators and others to understand the youth culture these days. The website features news and articles with regards to youth issues and family relationship.\nhttp://www.cpyu.org\nJunior Achievement is an organization that seeks to encourage the hopes and ambitions of young people. You can find out how to volunteer with Junior Achievement through this website. Junior Achievement also offers a set of scholarships to help young people get established in life.\nhttp://www.ja.org\nThe National Runaway Switchboard is a Chicago based organization that helps youth who have run away from their homes. The organization also conducts research on youth who are at-risk. The website also has resources for educators and parents who want to help to help these young people. The website is also available in Spanish and French.\nThe Save Our Children organization seeks to help young people in the United States and elsewhere. You can also donate money to support children through this organization. The organization supports education, helps people in emergencies, and helps women find economic opportunities.\nTed Noffs Foundation\nThe Ted Noffs Foundation is an Australian organization that provides a variety of helpful services to youth. The organization seeks to help young people who need help overcoming drug problems. The organization also provides advice for youth who want to get help with their drug problems. The Foundation provides both out-client and residential programs.\nThe National Runaway Switchboard is an organization that helps runaway and at-risk youth get off the streets and find safety. The website has advice on how to prevent runaways. Teachers can also find educational materials on how to discourage runaways and address the social needs of young people.\nhttp://www.1800runaway.org\nSearch for Youth on Google, Bing, or Yahoo!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avivadirectory.com/Religion/World-Religions/Pagan/Neopagan/Gaia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:VYJY7OCBKA6N7ZPXF5JRLNSMOSDCXNTB", "length": 6862, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.avivadirectory.com", "title": "Gaia Directory | Add Url or Add Site to Submit to Aviva Web Directory", "raw_content": "Aviva Directory \u00bb Faith & Spirituality \u00bb World Religions \u00bb Pagan Religions \u00bb Neopagan \u00bb Gaia\nNamed for the Greek goddess of the earth, Gaia is a widely inclusive term used to describe the idea that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to create a more livable planet.\nWhile not a religion in its own right, Gaia is a common concept in several earth-centered traditions within the Pagan, New Age, and UFO religions.\nThe Gaia Hypothesis is considered a science by some. Also known as the Gaia Theory or Gaia Principle, the Gaia Hypothesis holds that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings to form a self-regulating system that maintains and perpetuates the conditions for life on Earth.\nIn short, Gaia is believed to be the consciousness of the planet.\nAs a faith, or as a component of a spiritual tradition, Gaia is a Neopagan earth-centered faith that rejects Christianity. A mixture of Eastern mysticism, Paganism, science, and feminism, Gaia worship is central to the environmental movement. Although there have been other religions that have adopted a concept of the Earth as a living being or a deity, Gaia has united the environmental movement, New Age religions, many of the Eastern religions, and even several Christian leaders and denominations.\nThe Gaia Hypothesis, advanced as a science rather than as a religion, suggests that the biological entities of the Earth, along with the other elements of its environment, act as a self-regulating living system that maintains the conditions necessary for life. James Lovelock, who is credited with having founded the Gaia Hypothesis, believed that this living system was the result of a meta-life form that occupied the Earth billions of years ago, beginning the process of transforming the planet into its own substance, known as Gaia, and all of the life forms on the planet are part of Gaia. He viewed the Earth, not as a planet, but as a living being, which he named after the Greek goddess.\nNew Agers and Neopagans eagerly adopted the concept but, in order to get science-minded humanists and evolutionists on board, it needed to be presented as a science. Whether viewed as a religion or as a science, believers hold to the idea with all of the fervor of a cult.\nNew Agers and Neopagans are attracted to the mystical side of Gaia. To them, it is possible to experience a spiritual relationship with Gaia. The interconnectedness of all of the elements of the Earth, every living thing upon it, and mankind itself appeals to them.\nWhile Gaia is a part of the belief system of several religions, traditions, and sects, it is the central component of others. Any sites whose content focuses on Gaia, the Gaia Hypothesis, Gaia worship, or the concept of the Earth and everything in it as a living system or deity are appropriate for this category.\nEarthen Spirituality\nCreated and maintained by Sky McCain, an American citizen living in southwest England, involved in green activism, and a co-founder of the Wholesome Food Association, the site discusses a number of subjects, including religion and spirituality, but with a focus on Gaia Theory, climate change, and the relationship between science and spirituality. The site includes opinion and informational pieces on the planet as an entity, and the Gaia mind.\nhttp://www.earthenspirituality.com/\nFounded in 1997, the Pagan, earth-centered, Unitarian-Universalist congregation meets weekly in Kansas City. Made up of a diverse membership united by a reverence for nature and the belief in the Earth as a living entity. Its membership policies, covenant, bylaws, minutes, and budget reports are posted to the site, along with a calendar of events, Sunday service schedules, a photo gallery, newsletter, announcements, and contact data.\nhttp://gaiacommunity.org/\nGaia Democratic School\nGaia is a private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota that offers a holistic educational programs for students in grades kindergarten through the twelfth grade, with an emphasis on democratic process, individualized instruction, academic freedom, self-motivation, cooperative learning, youth empowerment, and environmental stewardship, based on the concept of Gaia as a living entity. Admissions policies, tuition, schedules, and a history of the program is presented.\nhttp://www.gaiademocratic.org/\nGaia Sagrada Retreat Center\nThe retreat center and eco-community in Cuenca, Ecuador strives to live as one with Mother Nature and to live in harmony on the Earth, which is held to be a sacred being. Directions, photographs, and travel information are set forth, along with retreat dates and prices, reviews, testimonials, schedules, and reasons to choose Gaia Sagrada. Its shamans and staff are introduced, and an overview of its programs, facilities, and amenities are described.\nhttps://gaiasagrada.com/\nPresented as a model and metaphor for the 21st century, the Gaia theory describes a productive confluence between a concept of the Earth as a living system with new and ancient cultural traditions of humanity as a seamless continuation of that system. Featured are a series of short stories and academic essays on the Gaia Paradigm, a list of links to online resources that discuss Gaia Theory, and a reading list of books inspired by the concept.\nhttp://www.gaiatheory.org/\nGaia Trust\nFounded in 1987, Gaia Trust, Denmark is a charitable organization that supports sustainability projects internationally. It includes an international network of eco-villages, divided into three autonomous zones, known as the Global Ecovillage Network, as well as Gaia Education, which is a provider of sustainability education active on six continents. Its site also includes links, articles, and books about spirituality, sustainable development, and earth-centered projects.\nhttps://gaia.org/\nGaia, Inc. is a global conscious media provider and community that operates a digital video subscription service catering to New Age, Neopagan, earth-centered, and environmentally conscious viewers. Viewing topics include interviews and documentaries of visionaries, spiritual teachers, and environmentally conscious media, personal development, and mind-body wellness programs, yoga, and similar topics. Articles on similar topics are included.\nhttps://www.gaia.com/\nGaia\u2019s Temple\nBased in Shoreline, Washington, Gaia\u2019s Temple offers Goddess worship services to a diverse membership of people who follow an earth-centered spiritual path that includes the Divine Feminine. Its board of directors, membership policies, youth programs, and a calendar of events are published to the site, along with podcasts, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers, and a photo gallery. Contact information is posted to the site, and contributions may be made online.\nhttps://www.gaiastemple.org/\nSearch for Gaia on Google, Bing, or Yahoo!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 7133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.azdem.org/locality/cochise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ML5SX4REFDO5KT673LUN5V2KIPO4A53C", "length": 551, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.azdem.org", "title": "Cochise County Democrats - Arizona Democratic Party", "raw_content": "Cochise County Democrats\nCochise County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 131,346 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Bisbee, a historical community in the Mule Mountains.\nChair: Elisabeth Tyndall\nCochise County is a beautiful and diverse county that represents rural Arizona. Our goals in 2018 are to make the Democratic Party more visible and accessible while supporting candidates at all levels that will further the core values of the Democratic Party.\n- Debbie Hickman, Cochise County Chair", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.b2bsource.co.uk/services/direct-mail-to-gain-customers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NVNUUVKZNW6JF3D5PBGJUA2J43YEAZU2", "length": 2547, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.b2bsource.co.uk", "title": "Using Direct Mail to Gain Customers - B2B Source", "raw_content": "Using Direct Mail for Gaining Customers\nGaining new customers is of paramount importance when it comes to successful business. When considering how best to attract a potential customer\u2019s attention, there a number of marketing tools which can be used. The question that remains is which is most effective in those precious few seconds it takes for a reader to get bored and look away. Partnered with the need to reach a wide spread audience whilst maintaining a quantified budget, sometimes the most suitable can be a little difficult to identify.\nOne tool which can be deemed very effective is direct mail. This is a simple tool used to send the likes of catalogues, flyers and informational letters via postal mail to both new and existing customers. The information that is send can be tailored to the intended reader thus improving the likelihood of success. From multiple inserts to interactive mailing \u2013 prompting the reader to respond \u2013 what the reader receives can be designed perfectly in line with your intended messages.\nDon\u2019t be another \u2018junk\u2019 mailer.\nThe most successful direct mail campaigns are those which consider its reader. With personalised messages and correctly named envelopes and packages, it is more likely that the reader will open the mail and read its contents \u2013 offering the best opportunity to promote interest. The use of colour and carefully selected wording can transform your direct mail into an effective tool and not just another \u2018to a valued customer\u2019 letter which is sure to be binned!\nWith other methods of marketing \u2013 for example television advertising \u2013 there is no guarantee of the audience reach. Although statistics may tell us that a certain group of people watch TV at a given time, it declines to mention other factors which may limit the number of watchers such as social plans or lack of interest in a programme. Direct mailing, on the other hand, almost certifies that the mail will reach the addressed potential or existing customer, ensuring that the right person is met with your intended message - if carried out correctly.\nOne of the most important tasks when marketing is the need to direct your message the correct target audience. Without this, your message will become lost in a sea of meaningless words. Ask a mailing specialist to help you to keep your mailing campaign as efficient as possible by tapping into their expertise.\nFor more information on direct mailing and the options available to you, please contact Orbital Mailing - leading direct mail house in Kent and the South East.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-08-05-1992218141-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3XB65UPADK6LRDU4RTB5QIBG5FSWXNDO", "length": 1784, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Optelecom Inc.The Gaithersburg-based maker of fiber optics... - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Optelecom Inc.The Gaithersburg-based maker of fiber optics...\nOptelecom Inc.\nThe Gaithersburg-based maker of fiber optics and laser systems posted a jump of more than 800 percent in second-quarter earnings to make it the most profitable three months in the company's 20-year history.\nThe company attributed the sharp rise in earnings to higher-than-expected shipments, lower production costs and the successful completion of an Air Force contract for laser illuminators.\n\"These results far exceed those of any previous quarter in the 20-year history of the company,\" said Chief Executive Officer William H. Culver. \"Although we do not anticipate that the remainder of the year will continue at this record pace, we do expect the overall financial trend to be very positive.\"\n.. .. ..Revenue .. ... ... ..Net .. ... ...Share\n'92 .. 1,735,942 .. ... .. 221,962 .. ..0.20\n'91 .. 1,215,271 .. .. .. .24,362 .. .. 0.02\n% change +42.8 .. .. .. .. ..+811.1 .. .. +900.0\nSix months ended 6/30/92\n.... .. Revenue .. .. .. .. .Net .. .. .. ..Share\n'92 .. 2,972,499 .. .. .. .257,063 .. .. 0.23\n'91 .. 2,303,357 .. .. .. .28,674 .. .. .0.02\n% change +29.1 .. .. .. .. ..+796.5 .. ..+1,050.0\nUniversal Security Instruments Inc.\nEarnings for the Owings Mills-based designer and maker of security, video and telecommunications products dropped in its first fiscal quarter because of poor economic conditions, the company said. But the firm was encouraged that it remained profitable and believes it is well-positioned for an upturn in the economy.\nThree months ended 6/30/92\n. . ... ... .Revenue. ... . . .. Net. .. ........ Share\n92. . .. ..5,449,125. ..........20,513. ...........0.01\n91. .......5,970,000. ..........50,179. .......... 0.02\n% change.......-8.7. ............-59.1.. .........-50.0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/ph-ag-county-executive-race-1031-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FOC5IRVJ5WVF7EUMEZYSAQ4GYAYPHDQI", "length": 6683, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Maryann Forgan challenges incumbent Barry Glassman for Harford County executive - The Aegis", "raw_content": "Maryann Forgan challenges incumbent Barry Glassman for Harford County executive\nDavid Anderson/The Aegis\nRepublican County Executive Barry Glassman, left, and his Democratic election opponent, Maryann Forgan participate in a candidate forum at Harford Community College.\nRepublican County Executive Barry Glassman, left, and his Democratic election opponent, Maryann Forgan participate in a candidate forum at Harford Community College. (David Anderson/The Aegis)\nTwo candidates with life-long ties to Harford County are seeking the opportunity in this year\u2019s election to lead its government for the next four years, with one campaigning for a return to the post and the other looking for a first shot at it.\nRepublican Barry Glassman, who grew up in Level and lives in Darlington, is the incumbent county executive elected to his first term in 2014. He faces a challenge from Democrat Maryann Forgan, who grew up on Ensor Drive in Joppatowne and now lives on Rumsey Island, also in Joppatowne.\nThe winner of Tuesday\u2019s general election will be the head of a county administration with 1,100 full- and part-time employees and a nearly $900 million combined capital and operating budget supporting general government operations, along with organizations such as the Harford County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Harford County Public Schools, the library system, the Circuit Court and State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office, an EMS system and Harford\u2019s 12 privately-operated volunteer fire and EMS companies.\nMaryann Forgan\nForgan, 54, grew up in the first section of the Joppatowne planned community built in the early 1960s. She is a 1981 graduate of Joppatowne High School.\nForgan is married with a daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren. She works as a home improvement contractor and is involved with community groups such as Joppa Development and Heritage Corporation and the Joppatowne Lions Club. She is a member of the Joppatowne Recreation Council board, and she is the founder and president of the Joppatowne Arts Festival.\nAbout 3,000 people attended the second annual arts festival in early October, Forgan said.\nShe is making her first run for elected office. Forgan lamented the departure of retail stores and recreation and entertainment centers, such as roller rinks, that had been around when she was growing up.\nShe said she wants to see greater investment in the Route 40 corridor and in Joppa, with projects such as a recreation center.\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re from here [Joppa] and you go there [Bel Air] and you say, \u2018Wow, this is what real people get,\u2019 and we just sit down here and take it,\u201d she said. \u201cUnless people vote for change, the whole Route 40 corridor is going to stay the same.\u201d\nForgan said she wants to create more opportunities for students attending schools in the Route 40 corridor, such as magnet programs in schools in Bel Air and Fallston, plus increase local funding for the schools so more counselors can be hired, safety programs can be improved and school officials can better deal with bullying.\n\u201cJust treat everybody equally; that\u2019s how I was raised,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what my parents taught me \u2014 we\u2019re all equal no matter what.\u201d\nShe also wants to provide more support services for people addicted to opioids, ensure green space is preserved as property is developed and bring greater diversity to the county leadership, which includes an all-male, all-Republican county executive and County Council.\n\u201cI truly believe that if we get enough Democrats in office up here in Harford County, we could make a change and everybody would be happy about it,\u201d Forgan said.\nShe said she is the best person to be county executive because \u201cI\u2019m not a politician and I\u2019m honest \u2014 I have integrity.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting year, and we just need everybody to get out and vote and know that their vote is counted,\u201d Forgan said.\nGlassman, 56, is married with one son \u2014 his son, Jordan, was elected to the Republican Central Committee of Harford County in June.\nBarry Glassman has held elected office for nearly 30 years. He was elected to the Harford County Council in 1990 and served until 1998, when he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates.\nGlassman spent nine years in the House and was appointed to the Senate seat of the late Sen. J. Robert Hooper after Sen. Hooper resigned in 2007.\nGlassman was elected to his first full term in the Senate in 2010 and then ran for \u2014 and won \u2014 county executive in 2014. The executive is limited by charter to two four-year terms.\nElection Day is less than a week away, but many Harford County residents have already flocked to the polls for early voting.\nAs always, we reject in the strongest terms any and all angry, divisive, hate-filled partisan politics.\nHere are some other thoughts about the choices on the 2018 ballot:\nGlassman worked for BGE for 22 years while on the council and in the General Assembly. He was a claims investigator when he retired four years ago to become county executive, his full-time job.\n\u201cWe\u2019re close to a billion-dollar enterprise right now,\u201d he said of being county executive. \u201cIt is not a job that you would turn over without any experience in working in a legislature or running an organization that size; it\u2019s just not a good starting position.\u201d\nHe said it took about a year to get used to the complexity of county departments and dealing with a budget as large as the county\u2019s.\nGlassman said he is involved with multiple community organizations and participates in events such as 5K races.\n\u201cI make it a point to be involved in all those things, to make sure I\u2019m connected with all the different pieces of the county,\u201d he said.\nGlassman listed multiple accomplishments from his first term, such as paying down debt, restoring the budget fund balance, pay increases for HCPS teachers, Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies and county employees, completing the 2016 HarfordNEXT master land-use plan, continued preservation of agricultural land, the recent launch of the Advanced Manufacturing, Materials and Processes, or AMMP, hub in Aberdeen and partnering with local health agencies and healthcare providers to open a 24-hour crisis center and establish a crisis hotline for people with mental health and addiction issues.\nThe crisis center in Bel Air is slated to be in full operation next spring; people can call the 24/7 hotline, 800-NEXT-STEP, or 800-639-8783.\nGlassman also noted initiatives to spur economic development along Route 40, such as enterprise zones, the Bel Air Auto Auction\u2019s relocation to Riverside between I-95 and Route 40 and the 2017 Edgewood Small Area Study on revitalizing that community.\n\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a misnomer to say that one part of the county receives more than the other,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 7861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bangor.ac.uk/alumni/news/why-alcohol-makes-some-people-violent-39023", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:21Z", "digest": "sha1:R3CSPIWVLM72HUPHK5MGPG6DSAJ6CEOS", "length": 4656, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.bangor.ac.uk", "title": "Why alcohol makes some people violent \u2013 Development and Alumni Relations Office, Bangor University", "raw_content": "Why alcohol makes some people violent\nNational study examines dangers of adults with traumatic childhoods drinking heavily\nHeavier drinkers are much more likely to be involved in violence if they have suffered high levels of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEsi), according to a new study.\nThe link between ACEs, alcohol and violence is especially pronounced in young men (18-29 years), with 62 per cent of those with high levels of ACEs who are heavier drinkersii having hit someone in the previous 12 months. This compares to 13.5 per cent in heavier drinkers with no ACEs.\nThe study by Public Health Wales and Bangor University of 12,669 adults across England and Wales is published today in the medical journal, BMJ Open. The results show:\n1.3 per cent of men with no ACEs who were moderate drinkers or abstainers had hit someone in the last 12 months. This rose to 3.6 per cent in those with no ACEs who were heavier drinkers. However, levels escalated to 28.3 per cent in those with who were both heavier drinkers and had experienced high levels of ACEs (four or more ACE types) as a child\nThe combination of ACEs and heavier drinking increased risks of recent violence in individuals of all ages studied (up to age 69). However, the effect was particularly marked in young men aged 18-29, with more than six in 10 (62 per cent) of those who were heavier drinkers and had high levels of ACEs having hit someone in the last 12 months\nThe equivalent figure for women was lower but still substantial. Approximately one in four (24.1 per cent) women aged 18-29 who were heavier drinkers and had high levels of ACEs had hit someone in the last 12 months\nOverall, 8.6 per cent of men in this national sample reported high levels of ACEs in their past and over half of those with high ACEs also reported heavier drinking levels. As a result, one in 20 of all men studied reported the most violent combination of a history of high ACEs and heavier alcohol consumption\nLead author of the study, Professor Mark Bellis, Director of Policy, Research and International Development at Public Health Wales, and Honorary Professor at the College of Human Sciences said:\n\u201cWe know that people who suffer high levels of adversity in their childhood can find it more difficult to control their emotions as adults, including feelings of aggression. Our results suggest that when they are also heavier drinkers this may further erode their control and increase the risk of them being involved in violence.\n\u201cUnfortunately, our results also suggest that individuals who were abused and neglected as children or exposed to traumas such as parents fighting in their home are also more likely to become heavier drinkers. In many circumstances drinking more heavily may be something they began in order to cope with childhood traumas.\n\u201cSadly, a toxic mix of childhood trauma and high adult alcohol consumption is not uncommon, and we found this combination in one in 20 of all men we surveyed. Such individuals are more than 20 times more likely to have hit someone in the last 12 months compared to lower level drinkers with adversity free childhoods.\u201d\nOther results from the study identified similar relationships between ACEs, alcohol use and being a recent victim of violence.\nIn women with no history of ACEs who were moderate drinkers or abstainers, less than one per cent (0.8%) had been hit in the last 12 months but this rose to 13 per cent in those with high levels of ACEs and heavier alcohol consumption\nIn men this difference was even more marked rising from 1.9 per cent (no ACEs and low or no alcohol consumption) to 32 per cent (high levels of ACEs and heavier alcohol consumption)\nProfessor Karen Hughes, co-author the study, also from the College of Human Sciences, said: \u201cIf you hit someone you are more likely be hit yourself and this may be part of the explanation why people who are currently heavier drinkers and have a history of adverse childhood experiences are more likely to have been a recent victim of violence.\u201d\n\u201cHowever, for some people their childhood adversities will have included experiencing violence and seeing domestic violence in their homes. Some women who experience such childhoods may believe suffering domestic violence is expected and so stay in abusive relationships and use alcohol as a coping mechanism.\u201d\nThe paper concludes that results support wisdom established for over two thousand years such as in vino veritas (in truth wine) which suggests that alcohol can expose underlying traits that people may otherwise wish to supress.\nThe study combined data from four studies undertaken in England and Wales between 2012 and 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bankforeclosuressale.com/wp/2013/22/looking-to-buy-foreclosures-know-where-to-look/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MAKQDTYC7IWFBZAC66W7QBZO4G36VNLT", "length": 3554, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.bankforeclosuressale.com", "title": "Looking to Buy Foreclosures? Know Where to Look", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Foreclosures \u00bb Looking to Buy Foreclosures? Know Where to Look\nLooking to Buy Foreclosures? Know Where to Look\nIf you are an investor or potential homebuyer looking for incredibly discounted properties, then you are more than likely looking for foreclosures (or other distressed properties). Although these homes often require some minor to moderate renovations before you can place them back on the market \u2013 or live in them comfortably \u2013 distressed properties provide some great opportunities for buying a home below market value.\nOver the last few years, foreclosures have been relatively easy to find. In fact, in most areas the foreclosure rate and housing inventory has been much higher than housing demand. Fortunately, this trend has changed and investors and consumers alike are gaining confidence. As a result, it has become increasingly harder to find discounted properties on the current real estate market \u2013 as the inventory is falling and demand is quickly rising.\nIn fact, foreclosure activity was down 21% in December 2012 in comparison to December 2011. Furthermore, foreclosure activity fell 10% from November to December. This information shows that the real estate market is well on its way toward recovery and that foreclosures are (and will continue to be) harder to find.\nIn the current real estate market the key to finding foreclosures is knowing where to look. Some areas of the country are recovering quicker than others and therefore finding foreclosures can be more difficult. At the same time, other areas are recovering slower (especially judicial foreclosure states) and therefore you can find distressed properties in these areas easier.\nSo where, exactly, should you be looking?\nLook to States with High Foreclosure Activity\nWhen searching for foreclosure deals and discounted properties, it is essential that you look at the states that still have high foreclosure activity. Therefore, the best thing to do is to take a look at the states with the highest foreclosure activity in December 2012.\nThe top 5 states with a high foreclosure rates are as follows:\nFlorida \u2013 1:338 homes in foreclosure\nNevada \u2013 1:345 homes in foreclosure\nCalifornia \u2013 1:457 homes in foreclosure\nIllinois \u2013 1:461 homes in foreclosure\nOhio \u2013 1:473 homes in foreclosure\nIn fact, according to CNN, several of the great foreclosure deals that are currently on the market are within these five states. Therefore, if you are looking to invest in foreclosures, then you may want to start your search by looking to Florida, Nevada, California, Illinois, and Ohio \u2013 the top five states with the highest foreclosure rate as of the end of last year.\nHowever, it is essential to understand that you must look at the local real estate markets as well \u2013 just because a city is in California does not meet that the city has a high number of foreclosures on the market. For example, Fontana, California has very few distressed properties currently on the market. The following video has more information on the Fontana real estate market.\nIn conclusion, there are still some incredible real estate deals on the market; you just have to know where to look. Start your search by looking at the states with the highest foreclosure rates and then narrow your search down from there to find discounted properties on the market that are great for investors and potential homebuyers alike.\nCondominium Foreclosure\nGovernment Foreclosures Homes\nHUD Houses for Sale\nReal Estate Foreclosure Auctions\nSheriff House Auction\nTax Deed Property Lists\nForeclosure Houses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baptistmessenger.com/construction-begins-on-chapel-at-camp-gruber/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BHYNEDSW3OEF6PL274NV65C4EPHVKNMA", "length": 4917, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.baptistmessenger.com", "title": "Construction begins on chapel at Camp Gruber | Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma Construction begins on chapel at Camp Gruber | Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Missions & Church \u00bb Construction begins on chapel ...\nBRAGGS\u2014Southern Baptist volunteers joined forces with World Mission Builders volunteers and others Oct. 28 to begin construction of the new, 10,500-square-foot interdenominational Thunderbird chapel near here.\nThe 16-day project was aimed at completing the exterior of the structure, which will seat 200 people.\nComing later are landscaping and completion of the interior before April, when the Oklahoma National Guard\u2019s 45th Infantry returns from their Afghanistan deployment, a goal established by Gov. Mary Fallin at the September groundbreaking.\nFallin said she wants the chapel to give soldiers \u201ca place of peace and a foundation where they can find spiritual solace.\u201d\nEven with several hundred workers committed, the project welcomes volunteers with building experience, said Sam Porter, volunteer missions specialist with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. Porter said work days will run from 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m.\n\u201cIf anyone cares to volunteer, we ask that they bring their own work belts, tool belts and hard hats, as well as their own hand tools,\u201d Porter said.\nA volunteer sign-up form is available at the chapel\u2019s website, www.campgruberchapel.org.\nAbout 60 Oklahoma Baptists were on hand as the work began Oct. 28, Porter said, including volunteers from Muskogee, First, members of Campers on Mission, Baptist Builders, the Union Association builders and Northeast Zone disaster relief feeding volunteers, who had set up BGCO\u2019s No. 1 feeding unit on site, providing meals for the volunteer workers.\n\u201cThey were serving between 150-200 volunteers at every meal,\u201d Porter said Oct. 31.\nGround was broken for the Thunderbird Chapel on Sept. 7 by several dignitaries, including Fallin, who announced a fund-raising drive for the structure on Aug. 9. The structure is estimated to cost more than $1 million.\nVarious companies in the state are donating materials and services, but about $500,000 is still needed to buy furnishings and supplies for the building, Fallin said. Money is needed for such things as pews, sound equipment, worship linens, sacristy items, baptismal robes, wedding candle stands, office furnishings, stained glass and musical instruments.\nAccording to Col. Mike Taylor, chaplain for the Oklahoma Army national Guard, Camp Gruber is one of the few National Guard military training facilities in the nation that doesn\u2019t have a chapel.\nTaylor, who formerly was a church planting strategist with the BGCO, said almost 150,000 soldiers are trained at Gruber annually.\nThe building will be called Thunderbird Chapel after the former 45th Division\u2019s insignia of a thunderbird, which is an American Indian symbol meaning sacred bearer of unlimited happiness.\nCamp Gruber was established in 1942 as a military mobilization training post in the Cookson Hills area of Muskogee and Cherokee counties in eastern Oklahoma. For the duration of World War II, Camp Gruber provided training to the infantry, artillery and tank destroyer units that went on to fight in Europe. Until 1946, Gruber was also home to a POW camp housing 3,000 German prisoners and employing 4,000 civilian workers.\nWhen Camp Gruber was originally built in the spring of 1942, it featured 1,731 framed buildings that housed barracks, administration buildings, hospitals, a laundry, mess halls, theaters and other services. Of those buildings, 14 were chapels available to soldiers and personnel of all faiths.\nFollowing Camp Gruber\u2019s deactivation in June 1947, most of the existing structures were destroyed or moved to other locations. The camp was reactivated in 1977, and although many new buildings have been constructed in the years since, Camp Gruber has remained without a chapel.\nThe vision for the Thunderbird Chapel at Camp Gruber is centered around the concept of serenity. The building will be designed to resemble an historic chapel structure.\nLocated in a wooded area that will provide easy accessibility for soldiers, Thunderbird Chapel will feature a sanctuary and facilities to accommodate services for 150-175 soldiers, as well as offices for clergy and counseling and areas to conduct seminars, religious studies and other gatherings that benefit the lives of soldiers and their families.\nServices to be offered include prayer services, counseling, weddings, funerals, baptisms, worship services, spiritual fitness training/education and faith specific fellowship gatherings.\nFor more information on the efforts to build the chapel at Camp Gruber, including how to donate, go to www.thunderbirdchapel.org.\nConventional Thinking: Merry XXX-mas? Nov 17, 2017\nOKC\u2019s Dilbeck to be 2nd VP nominee Apr 15, 2014\nPanel discussion from some great men of God! Jul 27, 2010\nLottie Moon Christmas Offering goal $175 million\nRICHMOND, Va. (BP)\u2014Jesus gave His followers a task \u2014to fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28: 18-19). He commissioned believers to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 7516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnebys.co.uk/blog/alan-rickman-tribute-to-a-bard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TGTQ7CN54TJM7IEITT6AIGD57LBNZER7", "length": 3088, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.barnebys.co.uk", "title": "Alan Rickman: Tribute to a bard \u2013 Blog \u2013 Barnebys.co.uk", "raw_content": "Alan Rickman: Tribute to a bard\nAs the art world says farewell to one of the stage and screen's most-cherished actors, we take a look back at Rickman's portrayal of literature's greatest characters.\nBorn in 1946 in Acton, in the North West London borough of Ealing, to a working class family, it was clear that Rickman was made for the stage. After graduating from Royal College of Art, he auditioned for Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) where he studied from 1972-1974. As he studied Shakespeare, Rickman worked as a dresser for Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Ralph Richardson, in order to fund his studies. Rickman went on to be a member of the esteemed Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC.)\n[youtube id=\"06qrlwQNdpo\"]\nRickman played the aggressive Tybalt Capulet in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Romeo and Juliet. Rickman joined the list of admired actors who had given superb performances as Tybalt before him, including Orson Welles in the 1934\u20131935 Broadway debut and Michael York in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version.\nHe played the seductive and vengeful Vicomte de Valmont in a 1985 television production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) Pierre Choderlos de Laclos epistolary novel, which was first published 1782. His performance saw him awarded both a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination.\nIn 1991, Rickman took on the role of the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham alongside Kevin Costner's Robin Hood in the Hollywood production of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Rickman was praised by critics for bringing quintessential British humour to the role of a villain.\n[youtube id=\"LUDntpV_HdQ\"]\nHailed as one of his best roles, Rickman played Colonel Brandon alongside Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant in the 1995 film version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.\nThe beautiful film, for which the screenplay was written in 5 years by Emma Thompson, saw Rickman portray Colonel Brandon as the warm and subtle older gentleman who falls for the charm of Marianne, played by Kate Winslet.\n[youtube id=\"clTG6sYtJig\"]\nIn 1998, Rickman took to the stage again, to play Anthony alongside Dame Helen Mirren's Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre for the production of Anthony and Cleopatra.\nRickman's acting was introduced to a new generation when he took on the dark role of Severus Snape in the silver screen's version of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. First playing Snape in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Rickman revised the role in 2002, 2004, 2005, 200, 2009, 2010 and finally, in 2011.\n[youtube id=\"tq3V3_HWIs8\"]\nRickman leant his talents of voice-acting to Tim Burton's 2010 Disney adaptation of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland. Rickman gave a wonderfully confusing performance as the hot-headed, wise, pipe-smoking Absolem the Caterpillar.\n[youtube id=\"6lu0IzD3lw4\"]\nIn a fitting tribute to his life's work, which saw him play so many beloved characters from English Literature, Rickman's final role, was of Absolem in Tim Burton's Alice Through the Looking Glass, which will be released later this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 7244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barneystireandwheel.com/auto-repairs/wheel-services.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VUKGYAERVX2MWJY322L2KQALFFSIJTL3", "length": 281, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.barneystireandwheel.com", "title": "Wheel Services in Temecula, CA | Barney's Tire & Wheel", "raw_content": "Barney's Tire & Wheel provides Wheel Services services to Temecula, CA, Murrieta, CA, Lake Elsinore, CA, and other surrounding areas.\nBarney's Tire & Wheel proudly serves the Wheel Services needs of customers in Temecula, CA, Murrieta, CA, Lake Elsinore, CA, and surrounding areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barthdems.org/tom_dell_files_for_city_council_at_large", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:AGSZVAOQM34AJLTXPXSNC5AHMAXQ2RHI", "length": 1796, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.barthdems.org", "title": "Tom Dell files for City Council-at-large - BCDP", "raw_content": "Tom Dell files for City Council-at-large\nPosted by Bartholomew County Democratic Party 133.20sc on \u00b7 Add your reaction\nArea businessman Tom Dell has filed to run as a Democrat for Columbus City Council at large. As a third generation business owner, Dell recognizes the investment that has been made in making Columbus the special community that it is. But Tom also believes that the City Council could use some fresh air.\n\u201cMy brother and I are running the business that our grandfather started, right here in downtown Columbus, so it\u2019s been great to see the investment and growth that\u2019s gone on in this part of town\u201d Tom said. He hopes to do his part in bringing new input to the council, especially by engaging some of the new and younger members of the community.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a whole new generation that will be leading our community in the next 10 years or so, but we\u2019re not doing the best job we can of engaging them and making them a part of the conversation. When we talk about things like the cost of housing, access to education, and the priorities in city development, we\u2019re talking about issues that directly affect young, middle-class families who want to build a life here in Columbus,\u201d Tom said.\nDell also thinks a change in atmosphere would do the Council good.\n\u201cNothing against the people on the Council now. I know they\u2019re all working hard, but the energy in the room hasn\u2019t been the best over the last few years. There\u2019s a lot of friction, and it seems like everyone\u2019s looking to stake out their turf,\u201d Tom continued. \u201cI think all that energy would be better spent working together to achieve the priorities that matter to people here in town. I want to be a part of getting those things done.\u201d\nTom and his brother co-own Dell Brothers, a men\u2019s clothing store in downtown Columbus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bartleby.com/essay/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-by-Charles-FKEX2E4J8MRS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KLEEBBJFI6L53NA5JDP7QQUI74WMVN25", "length": 6724, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.bartleby.com", "title": "A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 1073 Words | Bartleby", "raw_content": "Along the way, he is stopped in several villages by revolutionaries, and is scorned as an emigrant and an aristocrat. At one point, he is forced to hire two men to \u201cescort\u201d him to Paris. When he finally gets to Paris, he is declared to be a prisoner and is taken to La Force prison. He encounters several other aristocrats and French royalty who are imprisoned there, and who seem so lifeless and dead that he refers to them as \u201cghosts.\u201d Darnay is said to be at the prison \u201cin secret\u201d, and although he does not realize it at the time, means that he will be kept in solitary confinement. He is brought up to a small room at the top of a tower that measures \u201cfive paces by four and a half.\u201d Locked alone in the small room, Darnay resorts to pacing back and forth in an effort to clear his mind. He seems helpless and confused, unsure of how he ended up in this predicament, and more importantly, how he is going to escape from it.\nMonsieur Defarge is the man who escorts Darnay to La Force prison. Along the way, he recognizes him, and asks Darnay if he is the son-in-law of Doctor Manette, the father of Lucy Manette, who once visited his wine-shop. Darnay confirms that he is indeed that man, and pleads with Defarge to have mercy on him. However, Defarge states that he is a patriot, and therefore will absolutely not help an \u201caristocrat\u201d such as Darnay. He even refuses to tell Mr. Lorry, a friend of\u2026\nhistory \u2013 the best of times and the worst of times. The violence enacted by the citizens of French on their fellow countrymen set a gruesome scene in the cities and country sides of France. Charles Dickens uses a palate of storm, wine, and blood imagery in A Tale of Two Cities to paint exactly how tremendously brutal this period of time was. Dickens use of storm imagery throughout his novel illustrates to the reader the tremulous, fierce, and explosive time period in which the course of events takes\u2026\nCharles Dickens ' Tale Of Two Cities\nFated Coincidences Charles Dickens was a distinguished writer during the 1800s and was inspired by Thomas Carlyle\u2019s book French Revolution. Dickens was influenced by this book to write his novel Tale of Two Cities. Even though he wrote the book seventy years after the French Revolution, he studied many different books from two wagons from Carlyle which he sent as a joke. Throughout the book Tale of Two Cities, Dickens has a recurring theme of fate. Dickens illustrates that everyone\u2019s lives are\u2026\nwords of John Steinbeck. In order for one to understand how good or bad something really is, one must first experience its exact opposite. In A Tale of Two Cities, the author Charles Dickens uses the device of opposite for similar reasons. A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of Sydney Carton, Madame Defarge, Lucie Manette, Lucie Manette\u2019s husband, Charles Darnay, and a few others who lived around the time of the French Revolution. These characters faced the consequences of a revolution, which was\u2026\nA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a novel set during the time of the French Revolution in England and France. The Revolution is a time of great danger and constant change. Dickens\u2019 novel expresses the theme of fate through metaphors in many different ways. These metaphors connect the fates of Dickens\u2019 characters that are intertwined in some way whether they are aware of how they are connected or not. Charles Dickens illustrates to his readers that fate is predetermined as shown through\u2026\nHuman Cruelty is a Result of Hatred Charles Dickens is a very famous novelist, who was born on February 7, 1812, in his home of Portsmouth, England. He was a very dedicated man with a great imagination, and he shows his writing skills in his book A Tale of Two Cities, a historical fiction that focuses on the French Revolution. In this book Dickens uses both atmosphere and imagery to describe how brutal and inhumane men can be to each other. He uses scenes of a man\u2019s need for tyranny, a man\u2019s need\u2026\nanxiety, and misery, the French Revolution was a trying time for all involved, even the characters crafted by Charles Dickens\u2019 imagination. Charles Dickens\u2019 strongly enforces the hardships of this arduous era in his remarkable novel, A Tale of Two Cities, while exhibiting his keen ability to leave hints for the readers, allowing them to predict upcoming events in his skillfully fashioned plot. Dickens utilizes vivid imagery to construct menacing settings. He presents his characters as impulsive to indicate\u2026\nthese horrific acts, there was a revival of French spirit after the Revolution had ended, in the sense that the French are resurging after being an inch from death. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens shows the reader that the general idea of resurrection can occur at any given point of time. The novel is set in two cities, London and Paris, during the French Revolution. The story begins with Mr. Lorry, an official from Tellson\u2019s Bank in London, and Lucie Manette as they make their way to Paris\u2026\nOf the extraordinary amount of literary devices available to authors, Charles Dickens uses quite a few in his novel A Tale of Two Cities, which is set during the French Revolution. One of his more distinctive devices is character foils. The five sets of foils are Carton and Darnay, Carton and Stryver, Darnay and the Marquis de Evremonde, Madame Defarge, and Mr. Lorry and Jerry Cruncher. Dickens uses foil characters to highlight the virtues of several major characters in order to show the theme of\u2026\nAt the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens writes, \u201cevery human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other (14).\u201d Throughout the novel, Dickens incorporates the theme of secrets to connect characters and add mystery to the story. The three characters with the significant secrets are Charles Darnay, Alexandre Manette, and Madame Defarge. Darnay, Manette, and Defarge are all of French blood, living in either France or England in the heat of the French\u2026\nThe famous paradoxical line throughout history, \u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times\u2026\u201d captures the essence of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens, the Victorian age author of A Tale of Two Cities vividly captures the fright and upheaval of the Pre-Revolution time period. By evoking the French Revolution, love is evident throughout all characters in the novel. Love eclipses tyranny, poverty, and all other problems that sansculottes in the novel face as love cannot be taken away\u2026\nMore about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens\nThe Dangers of Hazing in Higher Education\nPotential Cardioprotective Effects Other than LDL Lowering\nDelta Airline's Tense Relationship with Its Employees\nTaking a Look at Search Engines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 172.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mff6t", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GSRQ2VVYRPXO6CHEVL7BRDIINMCE6NQH", "length": 439, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bbc.co.uk", "title": "BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, London's Ravenmaster", "raw_content": "London's Ravenmaster\nZoe Conway meets the Tower of London's Ravenmaster, Christopher Skaife, who has written a book on what it's like to look after some of Britain's most famous birds. Legend has it that should the ravens escape the Tower of London, the Kingdom will crumble.\n(Image: Christopher Skaife. Credit: BBC)\nSee all episodes from Best of Today\nInsight, analysis and debate as key figures are challenged on the latest news stories.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-47200446/leila-slimani-why-i-felt-fear-when-i-saw-my-newborn-son", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4J3CRQM76U7NUDAWZDZ4G6DZOYU7W7UE", "length": 954, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Leila Slimani: Why I felt fear when I saw my newborn son - BBC News", "raw_content": "She says men and women will be equal when it is recognised women also have a \"dark side\" like the character Adele from her first novel who compulsively seduced strangers, co-workers and acquaintances.\nAdele is a mother, wife and journalist but is unhappy with her life. The book highlights how women do not fit the stereotype of being \"nice and gentle and soft\".\nThe author recalled her own feelings when her child was born: \"Of course I loved my son but I must say that the first feeling I had when I looked at my son for the first time was not love, it was fear - fear that something could happen to him and fear of the fact that someone was depending on me and that I would never be alone again.\"\nYou can see the Hardtalk interview in full on Monday 11 February on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel and after on BBCiPlayer (UK only).\nhttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-47200446/leila-slimani-why-i-felt-fear-when-i-saw-my-newborn-son", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 3436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47114779", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PAYFDUYXK5V5S3AJIQFYTRWO5TQBS7KH", "length": 3304, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Port manager killed in Somalia's Puntland state - BBC News", "raw_content": "Port manager killed in Somalia's Puntland state\nImage caption Bossasso port is being developed under a 30-year deal\nA Maltese port manager has been shot dead in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous Puntland state, officials say.\nPaul Anthony Formosa, who was the construction project manager for P&O Ports, was killed near Bossasso port.\nIslamist militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.\nPuntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in 1998, in part to avoid the clan warfare in southern Somalia.\nThe state is a destination for many Somalis displaced by violence in the south.\nHow the crisis in the Gulf could spread to East Africa\nPuntland profile\nHow was port manager killed?\nMr Formosa was waylaid by gunmen disguised as fishermen as he was heading to the port, news agency Reuters reports.\n\"[He was killed] in the fish market as he was going to Bossasso port this morning. The men armed with pistols hit him [with] several bullets in the head,\" Yusuf Mohamed, governor of Puntland's Bari region, told Reuters.\nOne of the gunmen involved in Monday's attack was caught alive and has been identified as a member of al-Shabab, Mr Mohamed said.\nTwo guards at the port were also injured in the attack, he said.\nAl-Shabab said it carried out the attack, accusing developers of looting Somalia's resources.\nIt accused Mr Formosa of being in Somalia \"illegally\".\n\"We are behind the operation... we had warned him but he turned [a] deaf ear. He was illegally in Somalia,\" al-Shabab's military operations spokesman, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.\nWhy was the port deal controversial?\nDubai-based DP World - one of the world's largest port operators - won a 30-year concession in 2017 worth $336m (\u00a3260m) to develop and manage the Bossasso port.\nMany residents opposed the deal and staged protests during which at least one person was killed. They said that the deal would increase taxes at the port.\nDP World has a similar agreement for Berbera port in the neighbouring region of Somaliland, which has declared independence from Somalia.\nThe federal Somali government declared the deals null and void, accusing the operator of violating the country's sovereignty. Subsequently, the Somali parliament passed a bill banning DP World from Somalia.\nP&O Ports is working in Somalia as a subsidiary of the Dubai-based Port, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC).\nWhat is Somalia's relationship with the Gulf countries?\nSomalia has been caught up in the ongoing diplomatic spat between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, its two allies and benefactors.\nIt has so far taken a neutral stance.\nSaudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which includes Dubai, and Bahrain severed relations with Qatar on 5 June 2017.\n\"Somalia has become a chessboard in the power game between Qatar and Turkey on the one side and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies on the other,\" Rashid Abdi, director of the Horn of Africa project at the International Crisis Group, told the BBC.\n\"There is no doubt that these rivalries are spilling over into Africa. Somalia is especially vulnerable because of its proximity to the Gulf and its long historical relationship with the region,\" he added.\nCorrected on 6/2/19 to clarify that P&O Ports is a subsidiary of PCFC, not DP World.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 6854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-20043751", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:02Z", "digest": "sha1:7TIFFPP777IVA6Z73EOQ2ZRYAFWPAJZ3", "length": 4621, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Unlettered fruit-seller's Indian education dream - BBC News", "raw_content": "Unlettered fruit-seller's Indian education dream\nImage caption Mr Hajabba's dedication to educate children has served as an inspiration for many\nHarekala Hajabba, an illiterate fruit vendor in southern India who struggled to build a primary and high school from his savings for the village children, is busy charting his next step - a pre-university college.\nThe dirt road leading to the school in Newpadpu village, about 350km (217 miles) from Bangalore city, is muddy from the rains, but there are no complaints from the 130 students of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary and Composite High School.\nThe village had no school until 2000 when Mr Hajabba, who earns about 150 rupees ($2.8; \u00a31.7) a day from selling oranges in the nearby city of Mangalore, set up a primary school from his meagre savings.\n\"The first time I felt handicapped because of my lack of education was when a foreigner asked me the price of the fruits in English. I didn't not know what he meant,\" says Mr Hajabba, 55.\n\"An idea struck me to start a primary school so that the young children of my village would not go through a similar situation,\" he says.\nImage caption Mr Hajabba personally supervised the construction of the new school building\nThe locals revere him for setting up the school, but he is not distracted by the praise and comes across as a man on a mission.\nThufail Muhammad, a senior journalist at The Hindu newspaper who has covered Mr Hajabba during his struggles, says he has sacrificed much of his family life to make his dreams come true, and has inspired many in the process.\n\"He earned very little to even dream of starting a school. But, his determination to educate others drove him towards success. In a country like India where education is not the primary goal for many rural families, Mr Hajabba is a shining light,\" Mr Muhammad said.\nWhen Mr Hajabba decided to start a school in 2000, he received little support, but his determination saw him open a primary school with 28 students in a madrassa - a Muslim educational institution generally connected to a mosque.\nAs the number of students grew, he needed new premises, so he took out loans and used his savings to buy land for the school.\nWith support from a few philanthropists and his own savings, Mr Hajabba managed to construct a small building for the primary school.\nBut, he did not rest on his laurels and worked hard to raise money for the school to grow.\nHis efforts paid off and in June, the high school - for students aged 10 to 14 years - was inaugurated.\nThe premises will serve the high school students who have since 2008 been using rooms in the primary school for want of a building.\nProvisional data from the Indian government's 2011 census states that about 25% of the country's population cannot read or write. Many children do not go to school because there are none in their villages.\nImage caption In 2000, Mr Hajabba used his own modest savings to open a primary school in the village\nPerhaps ironically, it was the printed word that first got the fruit-seller's efforts noticed - an article in a local newspaper described his struggle to pay off the mortgage for the land on which the school stands today.\nThe government then sanctioned 100,000 rupees ($1,852; \u00a31,157) for the school building and a local newspaper, Kannada Prabha, named him their Person Of The Year.\n\"The award consisted of a purse of 100,000 rupees. People started sending in donations, irrespective of their caste or religion, and congratulated me. Until then, I was an unknown person,\" Mr Hajabba said.\nHis work also earned him the Real Heroes award from television channel CNN-IBN.\nDespite the fame, Mr Hajabba's humility and dedication remains untouched.\n\"In which school can you find the development and monitoring committee vice-chairman [Mr Hajabba's official title]sweeping the floor? He does not have a chair of his own in the school,\" school headmistress Veena GH said.\nMr Hajabba is now working to turn his next dream into reality - getting a college for his village.\nThe nearest government-run pre-university college is about 7km (4 miles) away in Deralakatte and once out of school, many of the students from his school have to pay for education at private institutes and colleges.\n\"If we have a government college in our village, the poor families would not have to pay for higher education,\" he said. \"So I have started saving and also requested the government to sanction a college in the village.\"\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 8012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbonline.com/united-states/connecticut/tolland/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:39Z", "digest": "sha1:OYXMJOLP2IAVQFLTKIEXSTLHPSCIVVMG", "length": 1158, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bbonline.com", "title": "Tolland Connecticut Central Connecticut River Valley Bed and Breakfast Inns", "raw_content": "Central Connecticut River Valley\nTolland Bed and Breakfasts\nTolland is located in the northeastern part of Connecticut. Late November, visitors can enjoy the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Don't miss the farmer's market every... Read more\nTolland is located in the northeastern part of Connecticut. Late November, visitors can enjoy the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Don't miss the farmer's market every Saturday during the summer from 9-12 in Tolland Green. The University of Connecticut is located seven miles from Tolland. It's just fifteen minutes to get to one of the area's largest shopping districts in Manchester, Connecticut. Be sure to check out Adam's Mill restaurant, it is located in a restored 120 year old paper mill. If you're celebrating a special occasion, treat yourself with a trip to Ruth Chris', a renowned steak house. Less\nB&Bs in Tolland\n1790s inn on village green. 7 rooms & suites, full breakfast. Hot tubs and firep...Read more\nFeatured Special: Winter Special\nDon't Forget to Visit Kollas Orchard During Your Trip to Tolland, CT\nRestaurants to Try in Tolland, CT\nBe Sure to Visit Shenipsit Lake During Your Trip to Tolland, CT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beechcroft.co.uk/slavery-and-human-trafficking-statement.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PJ3R43OTDQOPR3HW5HIO5CR6RMRIWSTP", "length": 3025, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.beechcroft.co.uk", "title": "Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement | Beechcroft Developments", "raw_content": "The following statement is published in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015.\nModern Slavery can take various forms including, but not limited to, forced and compulsory labour, human trafficking, slavery and servitude; all of which represent a violation of fundamental rights and a deprivation of an individual\u2019s liberty by other(s) who intend to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.\nThe Beechcroft Group is one of the UK's leading retirement developers building high quality homes for the over 55s in some of the most attractive towns and villages in Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Middlesex, Gloucestershire and Kent.\nThe Group and its subsidiaries have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and are committed to acting ethically and with integrity - and expect the same high standards from all the Group\u2019s sub-contractors, suppliers and business partners.\nThe Group is committed to ensuring that modern slavery and human trafficking does not exist within its supply chain, nor in any other area of its operations.\nOne of the key factors for the ongoing success of the business is the development of mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers and subcontractors, allowing the Group to engage with partners on a regular basis to safeguard the highest level of quality and integrity.\nIn order to identify and mitigate any risks:\nThe Group\u2019s standard subcontract terms and conditions have been reviewed and updated to include anti-slavery and human trafficking obligations on all of its business partners.\nThe Group will continue to work closely with its supply chain to ensure compliance.\nThe Group will build long standing relationships with suppliers and make clear its expectations of ethical behavior.\nThe Group will ensure an appropriate system is in place to encourage the reporting of concerns and protection of any employees who raise issues through a Whistle blowing Policy.\nThe Group will ensure an appropriate level of risk awareness in respect of modern slavery is incorporated into the training of all relevant managers and staff members throughout the organisation.\nAll new employees are subject to a vetting process that ensures the Company only employs individuals with the necessary and expected level of integrity and those with a right to work in the UK.\nAll agency staff are sourced through reputable companies which either operate on a large regional or national scale and, as a result, are expected to have their own safeguarding polices.\nAlthough the Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy is adhered to, all levels of management are responsible for ensuring those who report to them understand and comply with the policy and the Group\u2019s requirements under the Act.\nThe Beechcroft Group is fully committed to the ongoing requirements of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. This statement has been approved by the Board of Directors and will be reviewed on an annual basis.\nManaging Director October 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 146.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beijingbulletin.com/news/258111467/explosion-at-eskom-power-station-should-not-have-happened---expert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UZTYTTB2ND6JMTD7ZQR4GRGIN2N4SEVX", "length": 3564, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.beijingbulletin.com", "title": "Explosion at Eskom power station should not have happened - expert", "raw_content": "Explosion at Eskom power station should not have happened - expert\nAn energy expert has described Wednesday's fatal explosion at the Eskom Lethabo power station in the Vaal as a failure on the part of the state utility. One person was killed and another was critically injured in the blast.\n\"The power station has six units that produce electricity. One had a technical problem which resulted in a pipe rupturing - some call that an explosion,\" Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe told News24 on Thursday.\n\"One of our employees lost their life, while another is left critically injured,\" he said.\nREAD: One killed in explosion at Eskom power station\nThe critically injured man was transported to the hospital for medical care after the incident.\n'Failure of epic proportions'\nEnergy expert Chris Yelland told News24 the explosion was a \"failure of epic proportions\" and that repairs and loss of revenue would run into billions of rand.\nAccording to Yelland, there could be a number of causes for an explosion of such a nature.\n\"It could be equipment failure, it could be that protection devices failed, it could be poor maintenance, lack of skills, neglect - there are a number of issues we don't know.\"\nYelland told News24 that the \"explosion\" was preceded by the tripping of a generator.\n\"Energy from coal is being converted into high-temperature steam which drives a turbine, which in turn is rotating and driving a generator.\n\"These generators put out a lot of power - 600MW being fed into the grid.\nThorough, independent investigation recommended\n\"When you shut off a generator, the steam would continue to build up and the turbine would go faster and faster until it flies apart.\"\nThis, says Yelland, causes \"massive destructive damage\".\n\"If you were to shut off the steam from the turbine, the pressure would just build up until a pipe or the boiler ruptured or exploded.\"\nYelland says there are contingency measures such as valves and other automatic protection devices to avoid these situations.\nHe could not say why these devices did not prevent the explosion in this case.\n\"Protection devices can get bypassed for maintenance purposes - there are a lot of possible explanations. It is conceivable that the protection systems may not have been working properly, but I can't say what was the cause.\"\nAccording to Yelland, a proper and thorough independent investigation would need to take place to determine the exact cause.\n'This should not happen'\n\"This is not something that should happen. It causes loss of life, injury, as well as massive damage to equipment that can run into billions of rand.\"\nYelland said that repairs at the Duvha power station, 15km east of Emalahleni in Mpumalanga, which suffered a similar incident in 2015, hadn't even started and may never start because of the cost.\nIn June last year, the South Gauteng High Court interdicted Eskom from continuing with a controversial R4bn tender to replace Duvha's damaged boiler, Fin24 reported.\nEskom awarded the contract to Chinese firm Dongfang in March 2017, even though it quoted R1bn more than its rivals.\nNational Union of Metalworkers of South Africa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi told News24 the incident was \"very sad\".\nShe said she did not have enough information to give a more extensive comment and would do so at a later stage.\nDisgraced former Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko tweeted: \"I wish my former colleagues well and a speedy normalisation of the situation. Remember [our] drill. 'Safety first and be your brother's keeper'. My family and I will keep you in our prayers.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bentinhomassaro.tv/packages/sedona-retreat-2016-the-eye-of-the-hurricane/videos/eye-of-the-hurricane-session-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCMOCESNIDPTKGTW43A47VLR2CB2BIES", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bentinhomassaro.tv", "title": "Eye of the Hurricane Session 2 - Sedona Retreat 2016 - The Eye of the Hurricane - Bentinho Massaro TV", "raw_content": "Eye of the Hurricane Session 3 (Commu...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bera.ac.uk/promoting-educational-research/bera-in-the-news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6XMODKYOZKL2M6DBZFRFVU4AJBUXBV4", "length": 501, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bera.ac.uk", "title": "BERA in the news - Promoting educational research | BERA", "raw_content": "BERA > Promoting educational research > BERA in the news\nRead the article: The Guardian\nDid you submit an abstract to BERA 2018? Have you applied for a bursary?\nThank you to everyone who has submitting an abstract for the BERA conference. We have received a phenomenal amount of submissions. Don\u2019t forget you can also apply for a bursary. The deadline for all bursaries is the 26th February 2018. BERA Student Bursaries (Full and Part time students) Successful bursary applicants will be awarded a [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bergners.com/sc1/customer-service-privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5XWQU45747X42X6O5Z5WKKYQ3XAHKYH", "length": 8950, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.bergners.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - Bergners", "raw_content": "This website is owned and operated by The Bon-Ton Holdings, Inc., \u201cBon-Ton\u201d, and this Privacy Policy applies to the website only.\nWe have posted this Privacy Policy here to inform you of the information we may collect, how it is handled and your rights to opt out of information disclosure. We value our customers and understand your concerns about privacy. Therefore, we have instituted policies intended to ensure your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner.\nThis Privacy Policy includes examples of the types of personal information we collect. We do not sell or rent the information you provide to us. We do, however, share your information with third parties under certain circumstances. We use this information for marketing and promotional purposes and to service your account. The examples provided below are illustrative and should not be considered a complete inventory of our information collection, use and sharing practices.\nWe collect personal information about users over time and across different websites when you use this website or service. We may also have third parties that collect personal information this way. When you visit this Website, we may request that you provide us with certain personally identifiable information, such as name, address, e-mail address, phone and fax number, and other information. If you are a customer placing an order, we may request credit card or other payment information necessary to complete your order. In addition, we may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., AT&T, Yahoo).\nWe use the personal information you provide about yourself to operate this Website, to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services, to communicate with you about Bon-Ton, our offerings, events and promotions, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings; to prevent or respond to prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce the terms of use of this Website or this privacy policy; to customize, measure, and improve the performance of our Websites and advertising; and to compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties. We also use this information to communicate with you, such as to contact you about your orders or account with us.\nWe may also use personal information for internal functions such as research, data analysis, and auditing to develop Bon-Ton\u2019s products, services, and communications with customers and visitors. This information may also be used if you enter into a contest, sweepstakes, or other similar promotion. We may use your personal information to administer these programs.\nWe may supplement information we receive online with information from other sources to assist us in evaluating and improving our Website and online products, programs, and services, to determine your preferences so that we can tailor our Website, products, programs and services to you. We do not rent or sell personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes, except that we may provide personally identifiable information to strategic partners, agents, and contractors, and if we do, we also require them to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us..\nYou can opt out of online behavioral advertising by going to www.aboutads.info/choices.\nWe use the non-personal information that we collect to improve the performance, design and content of our Websites and to enable us to personalize your Website experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze usage of our Websites, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services. 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Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1473, "original_length": 29910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.berwyn-mental-health-board.com/parent-skills-training-at-ucp-seguin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ONBNNM6NBGLRJSV3LS2PPYK7Q2J3TT6N", "length": 497, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.berwyn-mental-health-board.com", "title": "Parent Skills Training at UCP Seguin | Berwyn Mental Health Board", "raw_content": "UCP Seguin is offering a parent skill training series which was developed to help parents decrease challenging behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental disabilities and increase areas of skill deficit. The training will include an overview of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and will have parents practicing the implementation of proactive strategies and reactive strategies.\nFor more information visit: https://ucpseguin.org/parent-skill-training/page.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bestlittlebookshopintown.com.au/p/teen-young-adult-tomorrow-when-the-war-began-1-tv-tie-in", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5DA4BNDUNIU66WNYJZGCL53IMIHX2335", "length": 939, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bestlittlebookshopintown.com.au", "title": "Tomorrow, When the War Began (#1) TV Tie-In by John Marsden | The Best Little Bookshop In Town", "raw_content": "Tomorrow, When the War Began (#1) TV Tie-In\nAuthor(s): John Marsden\nThe book that began the series that became the legend ... NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES\"The best series for Australian teens of all time.\" The Age\"Compulsively readable\" New York TimesSomewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone. Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door.They've got no weapons - except courage.They've got no help - except themselves.They've got nothing - except friendship.How strong can you be, when the world is full of people trying to kill you?Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanagan will love John Marsden.\nJohn Marsden is one of Australia's biggest selling and most awarded authors. He lives at the Tye Estate, just outside of Melbourne, where he opened a school called Candlebark in January 2006. John describes Candlebark as his proudest achievement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202:27&version=NASB", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:13Z", "digest": "sha1:V3HVLPYAEWAE5R34EO4WM33J6FRYAZQ7", "length": 258, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.biblegateway.com", "title": "Revelation 2:27 NASB - AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "27 and he shall [a]rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;\nRevelation 2:27 Lit shepherd\nRevelation 2:27 : Ps 2:9; Rev 12:5; 19:15\nRevelation 2:27 : Is 30:14; Jer 19:11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 25676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-baptism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KXGSVSXJ6KQ37A35KVWHMRTE6A4MHPSP", "length": 6476, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.biblestudytools.com", "title": "30 Top Bible Verses About Baptism - Scripture on Being Baptized", "raw_content": "Baptism is an important event in the believer's walk with Jesus Christ. The Bible talks about both water immersion baptism in which a believer makes a public confession of their faith. Jesus lead the way in example of water baptism! If you are wondering what it means to be baptized in the Christian faith, these verses should point you in the right direction and help you understand what it means to be baptized.\n21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also\u2014not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,\n48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.\n16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.\u2019\n12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.\n16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.\n4 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.\n36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, \u201cLook, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized? \u201d 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.\n4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.\n31 They replied, \u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved\u2014you and your household.\u201d 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.\n38 Peter replied, \u201cRepent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off\u2014for all whom the Lord our God will call.\u201d 40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, \u201cSave yourselves from this corrupt generation.\u201d 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.\n29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, \u201cLook, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, \u2018A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.\u2019 31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.\u201d 32 Then John gave this testimony: \u201cI saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33 And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, \u2018The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.\u2019\n11 \u201cI baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\u201d 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, \u201cI need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?\u201d 15 Jesus replied, \u201cLet it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.\u201d Then John consented. 16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, \u201cThis is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.\u201d\n1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don\u2019t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin\u2014 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don\u2019t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey\u2014whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 10736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bikeestes.org/2013/02/20/rocky-mountain-national-park-officials-are-studying-two-bike-trails/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QOCIIUNFKVNPP3XOAIECVZINAGKC43RV", "length": 1188, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bikeestes.org", "title": "National Park officials are studying two bike trails \u2013 Bike Estes", "raw_content": "Cycling in the park now is allowed only on roads, not trails. But park officials are considering a 15.5-mile nonmotorized, multi-use trail running from Estes Park\u2019s Fall River entrance to Sprague Lake as well as two miles of mountain-bike-friendly singletrack along the East Shore Trail near Grand Lake.\n\u201cThis would provide another mode of transportation for people to access the park and use the park,\u201d said the park\u2019s planning chief, Larry Gamble, on the potential trail along Fall River Road accessing campgrounds and trailheads on the east side of the park. \u201cOur goal is to look at a trail system that would link up with trails that are being planned in the Estes Valley.\u201d\nOn Monday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced $2.2 million in trail development grants for Colorado, including $337,000 for Estes Park to expand 2.5 miles of multi-use trail along U.S. 34 between the town\u2019s visitor center and the park entrance.\nRead more at http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22624850/rocky-mountain-national-park-officials-are-studying-two\nTags: fall river singletrack sprague lake trail\nUSA Pro Cycling Challenge - stage 6 - Loveland to Ft Collins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 7959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/reshape-lifesciences-continues-expansion-in-middle-east-with-approval-of-reshape-balloon-in-saudi-arabia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NQQ3UXLW2O3U53IOMN65UNHRIF4YAX6Q", "length": 4896, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.biospace.com", "title": "ReShape Lifesciences Continues Expansion in Middle East with Approval of ReShape Balloon in Saudi Arabia | BioSpace", "raw_content": "ReShape Lifesciences Continues Expansion in Middle East with Approval of ReShape Balloon in Saudi Arabia\nSAN CLEMENTE, Calif., April 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ReShape Lifesciences Inc. (NASDAQ:RSLS), a developer of minimally invasive medical devices to treat obesity and metabolic diseases, today announced approval of the Company's ReShape Balloon\u2122 by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Food and Drug Authority. Congruent with this approval, the Company received an initial stocking order from Dar Al Zahrawi Medical Co LLC, KSA.\n\"We are pleased to announce the approval and recent order of the ReShape Balloon in Saudi Arabia, both of which support the continued acceptance and affirmation of our product as a solution for obesity,\" said Dan Gladney, President and Chief Executive Officer of ReShape Lifesciences. \"Dar Al Zahrawi is one of the largest surgical distributors in the Middle East and we are honored to be able to partner with them in helping to reduce the growing obesity crisis in Saudi Arabia.\"\nSaudi Arabia has one of the highest obesity and overweight prevalence rates in the world, as reported in an October 2016 article published by the Journal of Obesity and Eating Disorders. While close to 30% of the global population is estimated to be obese, current obesity in 2017 in Saudi Arabia was estimated at 53% in 2017 and is projected to grow to 60% by 2022 according to World Atlas.\nThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements about the continued acceptance and affirmation of the ReShape Balloon as a solution for obesity. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words such as \"expect,\" \"plan,\" \"anticipate,\" \"could,\" \"may,\" \"intend,\" \"will,\" \"continue,\" \"future,\" other words of similar meaning and the use of future dates. These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of our management and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others: risks and uncertainties related to our acquisitions of ReShape Medical, Inc. and BarioSurg, Inc.; risks related to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's announcement to alert health care providers of unanticipated deaths involving the ReShape Balloon; our proposed ReShape Vest product may not be successfully developed and commercialized; our ability to continue as a going concern if we are unsuccessful in our pursuit of various funding options; our limited history of operations; our losses since inception and for the foreseeable future; our limited commercial sales experience; the competitive industry in which we operate; our ability to maintain compliance with the Nasdaq continued listing requirements; our dependence on third parties to initiate and perform our clinical trials; the need to obtain regulatory approval for our ReShape Vest and any modifications to our vBloc system or ReShape Balloon; physician adoption of our products; our ability to obtain third party coding, coverage or payment levels; ongoing regulatory compliance; our dependence on third party manufacturers and suppliers; the successful development of our sales and marketing capabilities; our ability to raise additional capital when needed; international commercialization and operation; our ability to attract and retain management and other personnel and to manage our growth effectively; potential product liability claims; the cost and management time of operating a public company; potential healthcare fraud and abuse claims; healthcare legislative reform; and our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our technology and products. These and additional risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those factors identified as \"risk factors\" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed April 2, 2018. We are providing this information as of the date of this press release and do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.\nCONTACT: Investor, Scott Youngstrom, Chief Financial Officer, ReShape Lifesciences Inc., 949-429-6680 x106, syoungstrom@reshapelifesci.com; or Gilmartin Group, Debbie Kaster, 415-937-5403, Investor Relations, debbie@gilmartinir.com\nView original content with multimedia: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reshape-lifesciences-continues-expansion-in-middle-east-with-approval-of-reshape-balloon-in-saudi-arabia-300623186.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk/are-you-ready-for-adventure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:EAQBL4IXSOUPTNTYM2PX2IGJADYVWZ5Y", "length": 761, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk", "title": "Are you ready for adventure? | Bishopston Voice", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re aged between six and ten and a half, and you want to experience adventure, learn new skills and make new friends, come along to the 1st Dings Beaver and Cub Scouts open evening.\nThe event is being held on Thursday 19 April, from 5pm to 7pm, the Hannah More Primary School and discover more about the 1st Dings Beavers and Cubs. There will be lots of exciting activities to try out and give you a taste of some of the fun you can have in Scouting!\nScouting is open to boys and girls, and there will be more information about Scouting and how to join as well. The Scout group is open to everyone in the Bristol area - we look forward to seeing you there.\nEmail louise.trevena@scouts.org.uk, call 07947 751512 or visit scouts.org.uk for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk/author-set-to-lift-the-lid-on-the-secrets-of-st-andrews", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YMREDLDFGBRWTTWYF4WFWJCZFQUPM472", "length": 1286, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bishopstonvoice.co.uk", "title": "Author set to lift the lid on the secrets of St Andrews | Bishopston Voice", "raw_content": "Author set to lift the lid on the secrets of St Andrews\nMichael Manson, local author and historian, will be speaking about pre-Victorian St Andrews and how the present Victorian suburb came to be laid out and built.\nThe public event is organised by Friends of Bishopston Library and takes place on Thursday March 1 at Bishopston Library on Gloucester Road.\nMichael has lived in St Andrews for thirty years, but it was during a wet August and a golden September that he took a daily early morning walk round St Andrews to see what he could uncover. He was surprised at how much he found, revealing a history dating back hundreds of years.\nHis talk will appeal to people living locally who want to find out more about where they live, but also to anyone interested in history and how Bristol developed.\nHis book The Hidden History of St Andrews will be on sale. He is also the author of several other books on Bristol \u2013 including: Bristol Beyond the Bridge; Riot! and (with co-author Edson Burton) Vice and Virtue \u2013 A History of Old Market.\nHis cult novel Where\u2019s My Money? was chosen by BBC TV as one of their \u2018Books that Made Britain\u2019.\nTickets cost \u00a33 at the library or online: www.bishopstonlibrary.org.uk\nThere will be a cash bar with fruit juices, coffee, and tea. Doors open at 7pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bizcommunity.com/222/793.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LBMTA62Z6VFUBV63KDNTEHGH2BZCWHQY", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bizcommunity.com", "title": "IT & Telecommunications United Arab Emirates", "raw_content": "Mobile & Apps United Arab Emirates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 526, "original_length": 8025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 191.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blessedredeemerpb.org/contact.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YDIWYMCF6JYU4IWW3JYWKCTZDXV3KL47", "length": 744, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.blessedredeemerpb.org", "title": "Contact Us - Church of the Blessed Redeemer - Palm Bay, Florida", "raw_content": "The Episcopal/Anglican Church of the Blessed Redeemer is located at 1225 DeGroodt Road SW in Palm Bay, Florida. Our Vicar is Fr. Brian Turner.\nYou can reach the church office by phone at (321) 725-6881 or by email at blessedredeemerpb@cfl.rr.com.\nYou can reach our Vicar, Fr. Brian Turner, by cell phone at (614) 432-5759 or by email at RevBrianWTurner@gmail.com. Fr. Brian's current office hours are Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.\nPlease see the map below for directions to the church. We have a new street sign (left) on DeGroodt Road that marks the entrance to the church. We're on the curve on DeGroodt right next to FPL's new electrical substation.\nEpiscopal/Anglican Church of the Blessed Redeemer\n\u200bPalm Bay, FL 32908", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/5800162/mcguire-relieved-to-join-settled-nq/?cs=12617", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:11Z", "digest": "sha1:VM52AFCN4YVACLKL62YC6T2ZB6FSH7MG", "length": 4302, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au", "title": "McGuire relieved to join settled NQ | Blue Mountains Gazette", "raw_content": "He may have left Brisbane with no hard feelings but North Queensland recruit Josh McGuire admits he is relieved to join a \"stable\" NRL club, saying it will extend his career. The Kangaroos lock - a 10-season Broncos player - was contracted at Red Hill until 2020 but made a surprise off-season request for a release amid ongoing speculation about Wayne Bennett's future. McGuire left to take up a four-year Cowboys deal before the Broncos coaching saga dramatically ended with Bennett's sacking via voice message. McGuire, 28, said he had no problems with Brisbane and simply needed a change. But the Queensland No.13 couldn't hide his satisfaction over signing with a \"settled\" NRL club. \"I am just glad everything has been resolved down there (Broncos),\" said McGuire, who played 194 games for Brisbane. \"It had nothing to do with me. I was out of there before everything went down. \"It's great to be part of a club that is so stable. \"I am just glad to be part of an organisation that is really settled and knows what they are working towards.\" McGuire said the move north was already agreeing with him. \"It's been a breath of fresh air to come up here. It gives me a chance to prolong my career,\" he said. \"I went to the (Broncos for release). I needed a change. An opportunity arose that I couldn't refuse and I took it. \"I have no ill will toward the Broncos. They will always have a place in my heart. \"But I had been there since I was 15 years old, played 10 years of first grade there so I felt it was the right time to step away and pursue another opportunity.\" McGuire - a 10 Origin, eight Test veteran - hoped to go to another level in a pack also boasting Tonga powerhouse Jason Taumalolo, ex-Test prop Matt Scott and Kangaroos forward Jordan McLean. \"It's a good opportunity to get together with those guys and improve our footy together, feeding and bouncing off each other,\" he said. \"It's a big year for me. I am excited about improving my footy and taking it to another level.\" Australian Associated Press\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-feed-data/edc606ec-f90a-4363-9e34-4542c49e3bc9.jpg/r0_74_800_526_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nMcGuire relieved to join settled NQ\nAlthough not wanting to talk the Broncos down, Josh McGuire says the Cowboys offer him stability.\nHe may have left Brisbane with no hard feelings but North Queensland recruit Josh McGuire admits he is relieved to join a \"stable\" NRL club, saying it will extend his career.\nThe Kangaroos lock - a 10-season Broncos player - was contracted at Red Hill until 2020 but made a surprise off-season request for a release amid ongoing speculation about Wayne Bennett's future.\nMcGuire left to take up a four-year Cowboys deal before the Broncos coaching saga dramatically ended with Bennett's sacking via voice message.\nMcGuire, 28, said he had no problems with Brisbane and simply needed a change.\nBut the Queensland No.13 couldn't hide his satisfaction over signing with a \"settled\" NRL club.\n\"I am just glad everything has been resolved down there (Broncos),\" said McGuire, who played 194 games for Brisbane.\n\"It had nothing to do with me. I was out of there before everything went down.\n\"It's great to be part of a club that is so stable.\n\"I am just glad to be part of an organisation that is really settled and knows what they are working towards.\"\nMcGuire said the move north was already agreeing with him.\n\"It's been a breath of fresh air to come up here. It gives me a chance to prolong my career,\" he said.\n\"I went to the (Broncos for release). I needed a change. An opportunity arose that I couldn't refuse and I took it.\n\"I have no ill will toward the Broncos. They will always have a place in my heart.\n\"But I had been there since I was 15 years old, played 10 years of first grade there so I felt it was the right time to step away and pursue another opportunity.\"\nMcGuire - a 10 Origin, eight Test veteran - hoped to go to another level in a pack also boasting Tonga powerhouse Jason Taumalolo, ex-Test prop Matt Scott and Kangaroos forward Jordan McLean.\n\"It's a good opportunity to get together with those guys and improve our footy together, feeding and bouncing off each other,\" he said.\n\"It's a big year for me. I am excited about improving my footy and taking it to another level.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1529886827.48198&user=cleaners", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:UOT2NJQR3Y5D5QFIDXRS7PCPAXWDJVHV", "length": 396, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.boards2go.com", "title": "Re(1): Todd Does Good Vibrations | Boards2Go", "raw_content": "Posted on June 25, 2018 at 01:33:47 AM by ageing ted\nI think he hadn't had a hit single for a couple of years and this may have been a low-risk shot at the charts. Here's some vintage weirdness from Todd - after seeing this, I know where Petunia Liebling-MacPumpkin got all her ideas from! My next post will cover my theory as to the origins of Andy Partridge.\nwww.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPsZa_N7jY", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boisestate.edu/privacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GUOY5322KSXVEQ4LMM6OQAL7MOUZ45LO", "length": 8594, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.boisestate.edu", "title": "Privacy Statement - Boise State University", "raw_content": "Boise State University is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Boise State University Web site and governs data collection and usage. 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We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 9928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boningtontheatre.co.uk/whatson/event/royal-opera-house-live-carmen-12a.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:HNJ4IDOIIVJHLTQE5LGKBLFA7KMXKRYN", "length": 1158, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.boningtontheatre.co.uk", "title": "Event - Bonington Theatre", "raw_content": "Royal Opera House Live... Carmen (12A)\nTuesday 6 March @ 6.45 PM\nA young soldier, Don Jos\u00e9, intends to marry Mica\u00ebla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her.\nCarmen grows bored of Don Jos\u00e9 and falls in love with Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don Jos\u00e9 sets off to track down Carmen...\nThe best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form, the opera\u2019s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve!\nThis ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky\u2019s highly physical production. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera\u2019s endlessly fascinating central character.\nConducted by Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and starring Anna Goryachova, Francesco Meli and Anett Fritsch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookbeat.se/bok/elixir-life-24252", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:UYD3Z4AH3E3KD7YVPD4GQB4OW6ZSZOHG", "length": 1412, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bookbeat.se", "title": "The Elixir of Life - Honor\u00e9 de Balzac - E-bok - Ljudbok - BookBeat", "raw_content": "Uppl\u00e4sareBruce Pirie\nRomanerKlassiker & PoesiUtl\u00e4ndska klassikerEngelskaFictionSci-fi & FantasyClassicsNoveller\nThe Elixir of Life is a short story by Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist.\nThe Elixir of Life is classified as one of Balzac's Philosophical Studies, many of which have supernatural overtones. This one not only has supernatural aspects, but also aspects of horror.\nThe scene opens on a winter evening in a princely palace where Don Juan Belvidero is giving a banquet. Don Juan has just remarked \"There is but one eternal father, and, as ill luck will have it, he is mine\" when he is told by a servant that his father, now ninety, is dying. When he reaches his father's side he hears a strange tale. His father tells him that he has found \"a way of coming to life again.\"\nHonor\u00e9 de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories, La Com\u00e9die humaine. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.\nBefore and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician; he failed in all of these efforts. La Com\u00e9die humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/x9975/siobhan-adcock", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CIFM2HNDKUVEMWATDZWUQX7XEKGMTRCX", "length": 419, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bookbrowse.com", "title": "Siobhan Adcock author information", "raw_content": "Siobhan Adcock author biography, plus links to books by Siobhan Adcock.\nSiobhan Adcock received her MFA in fiction from Cornell University, and her short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines. She has worked as a writer and editor for Epicurious, Gourmet.com, iVillage.com, and The Knowm among other digital publishers. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.\nBooks by Siobhan Adcock at BookBrowse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookologymagazine.com/resources/authors-emeritus/tag/american-abstract-artists/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:15Z", "digest": "sha1:UTSWDV454C4O3WCDHFWSSHI4PRNXGXGX", "length": 382, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bookologymagazine.com", "title": "American Abstract Artists | Authors Emeritus", "raw_content": "Tag Archives | American Abstract Artists\nEsphyr Slobodkina was born on September 22, 1908 in Chelyabinsk, Siberia. She was named after Queen Esther, although it is pronounced es-fear in Russian. Her father was a manager for an oil company, but the Russian Revolution created an unstable and dangerous climate for this Jewish family. They moved to Vladivostok and then to Harbin, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookologymagazine.com/resources/authors-emeritus/tag/boy-named-sue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UMVVJHWN7ONVR3HDULFWZPXQZWQYG7C7", "length": 374, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bookologymagazine.com", "title": "Boy Named Sue | Authors Emeritus", "raw_content": "Tag Archives | Boy Named Sue\nShel Silverstein, beloved author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and many other collections of poetry for children, was born on September 25, 1930. Born Sheldon Allan Silverstein, in Chicago, he was well known as a children\u2019s poet and book illustrator. That wasn\u2019t his primary goal, but his friend Tomi Ungerer introduced him to Ursula Nordstrom, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bouldercity.com/town-happenings/two-upcoming-public-meetings-february-12th/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YWKGWGURJEHXFO7L75CRQX4YZUMOXIWI", "length": 2040, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.bouldercity.com", "title": "Two Upcoming Public Meetings - Both on February 12th - Boulder City: Home of Hoover Dam & Lake Mead", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Town Happenings / Two Upcoming Public Meetings \u2013 Both on February 12th\nTwo Upcoming Public Meetings \u2013 Both on February 12th\nWe wanted to be sure you all knew about two upcoming public meetings here in town that are open to all to attend.\nBoulder City Community Think Tank\nThe Boulder City Community Think Tank will have its 3rd Quarterly meeting on marketing Boulder City. The event is hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, and will be held on Monday, February 12st at the Elaine K. Smith Center (located at 700 Wyoming Street) from 6-8pm.\nThis has been an on-going community project that began last August, and then the second meeting was held in October. A variety of smaller sub-committees have been formed and have each been working on a series of projects. This meeting will be an update and continuation of the work done so far. However, even if you have not yet been to a meeting, all are encouraged to attend!\nYou can read more about the first Community Think Tank and it\u2019s mission from our first post HERE.\nBoulder City Aquatic and Cultural Center\nThe second Community Outreach Meeting for the planned Aquatic and Cultural Center also has meetings on Monday, February 12th. The main meeting will be at the City Hall Council Chambers from 6-7:30pm.\nOther specialized focus group meetings centered on specific topics will be held during the day of the 12th , at the Parks & Rec. Multi-use Building at 1204 6th Street. They are as follows:\nWater Aerobics \u2013 3-3:30 pm\nSwim Team \u2013 3:30-4pm\nRacquetball Users \u2013 4-4:30pm\nLap Swimmers \u2013 4:30 to 5pm\nIt\u2019s a bummer these two meetings were scheduled at the same times, and we\u2019ll hope that doesn\u2019t happen again!\nFor now, those who really want to be involved in both can pick a buddy and \u2018divide and conquer\u2019 (so to speak), and each attend a different meeting and then share your notes after!\nHere is something I saw on Boulder City Social that I thought you might like. Here is the link: https://www.bouldercity.com/town-happenings/two-upcoming-public-meetings-february-12th/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boutiquewinesociety.com.au/wines/rockcliffe-single-site-cabernet-sauvignon-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NCQ7RMZ7IFCT6ACFDSGC2BIU5LHYBTOK", "length": 1281, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.boutiquewinesociety.com.au", "title": "Rockcliffe Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 | Boutique Wine Society | Buy Wine, Champagne Online", "raw_content": "Deep ruby glow. Lifted aromas of complex dark berries with earthy undertones. Delightfully fresh sweet berry fruits, blueberries and spice. The mid palate is elegantly balanced with a velvety smoothness, well integrated fine tannins and an earthy, savoury finish.\nAbout: Rockcliffe\nThe Rockcliffe Winery has been in production since 1980, but has only been known as 'Rockcliffe' since 2013. Originally Matilda's Meadow, the estate was settled by a family that began by planting dry grown vines. In 2007 the winery was completely rebuilt into a state of the art facility, capable of producing 50 000 cases of wine per year, and this marked the beginning of an evolutionary moment for the estate as they entered a new stage in brand and business. The name 'Rockcliffe' was chosen as a nod to the 100m high granite cliffs that overlook the Eastern end of Denmark's main bay. This same granite is what lies beneath the winery and is responsible for the wine's distinctive flavour and characteristics. Rockcliffe both produces its own wine (under the names Single Site, Third Reef, Quarram Rocks and Rivage) and acts as a modern contract winery business. Rockcliffe is absolutely devout in maintaining the integrity of the growers grapes; there is no mixing batches at Rockcliffe Wines!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brainmeasures.com/courses/online/676/event-planning-certification.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BURAZ3USCUMSA7LDWQU4ZKJZUUUEIM4U", "length": 5935, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.brainmeasures.com", "title": "Event Planning Certification USD 99 l Course l Training", "raw_content": "Event Planning Certification - $99\nCategory : Fashion Industry\nEvent planning refers to the process of administering or managing a project including tradeshows, conventions, meetings, team building activities, parties and ceremonies. A certified event planner would be in charge in establishing timelines, choosing and making reservations for the site of the event, budgeting, food planning, getting permits, developing themes, coordinating transportation, choosing keynotes and speakers, arranging the activities, facilities and equipment and developing contingency plans with an aim of effectively managing risks. It should be noted that the whole event planning process is extremely useful in a wide range of social or business occasions. The different events that are handled by the process are actually divided into various categories including education, promotions, commemorations and celebrations.\nEducational events that require planning usually include conferences, graduations and meetings. Celebrations, on the other hand include birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and parades while promotional events include product launches, fashion shows and political rallies. The commemoration category usually includes memorials and civic events. As an event planner, you will be required to perform a lot of functions. You will be in charge to handle a variety of tasks that are extremely useful in making the event successful. These include conducting a research about those who will attend the event, arranging the decorations for the site, sending out invitations and food and entertainment planning. The process also requires you to coordinate all the details of the conventions, meetings or events that you are handling starting from the location and the speakers up to the arrangement of audio and visual equipment and printed materials.\nBrainmeasures Event Planning Certification Program\nThe event planning certification program which is now offered by Brainmeasures is the perfect online certification course for you in case you dream of becoming one of the well-recognized event planners at present. Brainmeasures is already known for providing the public with high quality online certification courses so you have an assurance that its event planning course will never fail to supply you with the kind of knowledge that you desperately need. By taking part in this online certification program, you will be able to enjoy the company\u2019s event planning training which is guaranteed to work in your attempt to significantly increase the level of your understanding about the field including the most common definition and vital concepts associated to event planning, its scope, categories and functions, the roles and responsibilities that are usually played by an effective certified event planner and the many tools and techniques that you can use to make an event successful. As soon as you earn your event planner certificate from Brainmeasures, you will find it easier to impress the public with your skills and expertise in the field.\nHighlights of the Event Planning Certification Program from Brainmeasures\nThe event planning certification program which is now available at Brainmeasures is definitely impressive because of its proven effectiveness in supplying you with all the information that you need to become an expert in the event planning process. By enrolling in the Brainmeasures event planning certification course, you can easily understand the following topics:\nLearning the duties and responsibilities of an event manager and event planner\nChoosing the right person who will be responsible in managing the event that you are planning to host\nDetermining the specific objectives of the event and how you can achieve them\nEffectively planning the event\nPerforming a more detailed investigation about all the aspects associated to the event so you can easily plan it\nObligating yourself towards delivering the safest event\nUnderstanding the different types of event and how to successfully and effectively organize and administer it\nFactors that you need to consider in determining the best time to hold an event\nDetermining and defining your target audience so you will have an easier time formulating decisions and making arrangements\nProjecting the size of the event especially with regards to the number of attendees\nEstablishing the specific attractions that you need to provide to your target audience\nMaking investigations, researching and creating a list about the specific things that you need to successfully deliver an event\nChoosing the best site for the event\nBeneficiaries of Event Planning Certification Program\nThe easily accessible event planning certification program which is now available at Brainmeasures is a huge help to a lot of individuals and professionals. It targets aspiring, new and existing event planners, association and meeting planners, party planners, special event coordinators, administrative assistants, fundraisers, festival organizers and any other individuals and professionals who are responsible in organizing events for an organization.\nJob Opportunities after Completing an Event Planning Certification Course\nEnrolling in an event planning certification course and successfully completing it is also a huge help in advancing your career. With the help of your event planning certification, you will find it easier to acquire the following positions:\nCertified Event Planner\nMeeting and Event Coordinator\nExpected Salary for Event Planning Certification Holders\nEvent planning certification holders can also be expected to reward themselves because of the higher level of salary that they regularly receive. As an event planning certification holder, you can easily work as a meeting and event coordinator which gives you the chance to earn at least $47,000 annually. You can also work as a certified event planner which lets you enjoy up to $159,000 each year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 11042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2014/july/post-match-bath/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2UOTF2GF6ZYUFPISRLUCGBAMDD2COKQI", "length": 3057, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.bristolrovers.co.uk", "title": "Post-match Bath - News - Bristol Rovers", "raw_content": "Post-match Bath\nManager's thoughts on the game at Twerton Park\nManager Darrell Clarke indicated, after yesterday\u2019s game against Bath City, that he hoped to add another player to his squad on Monday morning; \u201cI have verbally agreed a contract with a player and am hoping\nthat will go through on Monday provided there are no last minute hitches.\u201d\nDarrell had just watched his side of youngsters and triallists, along with two of his new signings, slip to a single goal defeat by their hosts, the only goal being scored by former Rovers defender Pat Keary in the 81st minute.\nHe was impressed by goalkeeper Kieran Preston and midfielder Jamie Gosling in particular.\n\u201cKieran is still a second year scholar, but his distribution was excellent at times. Although he made one or two minor errors, I thought he did really well.\n\u201cJake was neat and tidy on the ball and made things happen for us.\u201d\n\u201cIt was a tough ask to put a team out containing triallists and youngsters, but they kept digging in.\n\u201cWe weren\u2019t overawed and should have finished off a couple of the chances we created.\n\u201cSome of those lads have had a tough week, at our training camp at the University of South Wales, and were asked to play alongside a couple of triallists who they hadn\u2019t played with before.\n\u201cThe younger lads will, though, learn from the experience; they have to, and they have to do it quickly.\u201d\nDecisions have yet to be made on any of the four triallists who featured in the game at Twerton Park and the manager had this to say about them afterwards.\n\u201cDan Thompson showed some nice early touches but picked up an injury, which was a shame, as I would have liked to have seen a bit more of him.\n\u201cNeal Trotman defended pretty well and was solid throughout, but he played a full season at Plymouth last year and has experience and is an organiser.\n\u201cAs for Pierce Mitchell and Ryan Higgins, we will make decisions on those boys early next week.\u201d\nDarrell then looked, briefly, ahead to the game at Yeovil on Tuesday evening.\n\u201cWe will be treating that as a first team game. I had to play youngsters today, as I only have a squad of 14 experienced players so we are very lightweight. The last thing I wanted to be doing was picking up\ninjuries in a game like this.\n\u201cRyan Brunt will feature in the game down at Yeovil, which is good news, as he\u2019s trained really well and is looking sharp.\u201d\nMichael Smith, the subject of transfer speculation earlier in the week, missed out yesterday with a slight injury problem.\n\u201cMichael remains a Bristol Rovers player and it\u2019s too early to say if he will be ready to feature in the game at Yeovil.\u201d\nWith his side now midway through their pre-season programme, Darrell said he was pleased with the way things are shaping up.\n\u201cI\u2019m very pleased with the players I have here, even though the majority of them have only played one game and some of the others haven\u2019t even played that.\n\u201cHowever their attitude has been good and the group has bonded well, but I do need to bring in another four players to add a little bit of strength and depth to the squad.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georg-Wenzeslaus-von-Knobelsdorff", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BZ2Z7G2ARCF5KJXHKZNXM2IYJI3Q6436", "length": 755, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff | German architect | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "In the north, in Berlin, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff alternated between Rococo (e.g., Potsdam, Sanssouci, 1745) and neo-Palladian classicism (e.g., Berlin, Opera House, 1741). Two influential country houses, La Gu\u00eapi\u00e8re\u2019s Solitude, near Stuttgart (1763), and Cuvilli\u00e9s\u2019s Amalienburg, Munich (1734), exquisitely graceful and refined, are examples of French influence in W\u00fcrttemberg\u2026\nIn Berlin: Cultural life\n\u2026the late German Baroque style; Georg Venzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who built Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam just outside Berlin for Frederick the Great; and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who gave the centre of Berlin its characteristic Neoclassical grandeur. The court painters Antoine Pesne and Adolf Menzel and the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 160.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Deoghar", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QJ76K2YKXZEHHA33HA4IHOMPCZ55QU7B", "length": 1856, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Deoghar | India | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "Alternative Title: Deogarh\nDeoghar, also spelled Deogarh, city, northeastern Jharkhand state, northeastern India. It is situated on the Ajay River in the Rajmahal Hills.\nVishnu templeVishnu temple, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. Frederick M. Asher\nAn ancient town, it is famous for its group of 22 temples dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Numerous Buddhist ruins are nearby. The Muslim invader Bakht\u012by\u0101r Khalj\u012b made Deoghar his capital in 1201 after the conquest of Bihar. It was constituted a municipality in 1869.\nDeoghar is a major rail and road junction and agricultural trade centre. It has a hospital, tuberculosis clinic, and leper asylum. The city houses several colleges (including a teacher-training institute) affiliated with Bhagalpur University. Pop. (2001) 98,388; (2011) 203,123.\nSouth Asian arts: Gupta period: central India\n\u2026of the Vishnu temple at Deogarh. Particularly striking are three large relief panels depicting Vishnu lying on the serpent Shesha, the elephant\u2019s rescue, and the penance of Nara-Narayana. The compositions tend to be dramatic; the carving and decoration, sumptuous, the sturdy forms recalling Mathura rather than the attenuated grace of\u2026\nJharkhand, state of India, located in the northeastern part of the country. Jharkhand is bordered by the states of Bihar to the north, West Bengal to the east, Odisha to the south, Chhattisgarh to the west, and Uttar Pradesh to the northwest. Its capital is Ranchi. Jharkhand,\u2026\nShiva, (Sanskrit: \u201cAuspicious One\u201d) one of the main deities of Hinduism, whom Shaivites worship as the supreme god. Among his common epithets are Shambhu (\u201cBenign\u201d), Shankara (\u201cBeneficent\u201d), Mahesha (\u201cGreat Lord\u201d), and Mahadeva (\u201cGreat God\u201d).\u2026\nMore About Deoghar\nGupta period temple sculpture\nIn South Asian arts: Gupta period: central India\nIn South Asian arts: The Gupta period (4th\u20136th centuries ad)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 5989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophical-feminism", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:44Z", "digest": "sha1:B7AKJ5IACL2OBQHFRGQ5RH3KEHATED2Z", "length": 19465, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Philosophical feminism | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "Philosophical feminism\nDiana T. Meyers\nPhilosophical feminism, a loosely related set of approaches in various fields of philosophy that (1) emphasizes the role of gender in the formation of traditional philosophical problems and concepts, (2) analyzes the ways in which traditional philosophy reflects and perpetuates bias against women, and (3) defends philosophical concepts and theories that presume women\u2019s equality.\n\u201d Hatred and hostility based on racial, ethnic, tribal, and other group divisions gave rise to some of the worst catastrophes of 20th-century history. Political philosophers responded to these developments in diverse ways. Perhaps the most innovative philosophical response to social and\u2026\nNature and scope of philosophical feminism\nPhilosophical feminism arose during the women\u2019s movement of the 1960s and \u201970s. During that period women in many academic disciplines, including philosophy, began to question why there were almost no works by women in the canons of their disciplines and why there were so few women in their professions. For feminist philosophers, part of the answer lay in the generally disparaging view of women that pervaded Western culture and was consequently reflected in the thinking of most male philosophers: compared with men, women were seen as irrational, emotional, unintelligent, and morally immature. Eventually women philosophers were led to ask more-pointed questions: how has philosophy been affected by the larger culture\u2019s attitudes toward women? What has philosophy left out or misunderstood because of those attitudes? The most obvious results, as women philosophers noted, were omissions. Until the late 20th century, women\u2019s philosophical contributions were generally dismissed (if they were noticed at all), and issues of concern to women were ignored. In the history of Western philosophy up to the 1970s, the topic of gender seldom arose, and when it did it was usually in the context of a rationalization of women\u2019s lower social status and their exclusion from public life. The exceptions to this rule, such as Plato\u2019s Republic and John Stuart Mill\u2019s The Subjection of Women (1861), were few and far between.\nFeminist philosophers soon came to realize, however, that the problem they had identified could not be solved by filling in a few gaps\u2014e.g., by hiring more women philosophers and by recognizing more philosophical works by women. Because of the historical sexism of Western culture and because the paradigmatic philosopher was conceived of as highly rational, dispassionate, and independent, the female philosopher was virtually a contradiction in terms. A woman could be a philosopher only if she \u201cthought like a man.\u201d Gender bias was thus built into the qualifications for membership in the profession.\nIf bias against women was not incidental to philosophy but in fact one of its defining features, the potential ramifications of a feminist critique were boundless. Although some feminist philosophers adhered to mainstream philosophical traditions and pursued women\u2019s issues within those frameworks, others were convinced that treating gender as a category of philosophical analysis would entail major modifications in the practice of philosophy. Different topics would be salient; different assumptions would make sense; different methods would be appropriate. For these philosophers, pursuing a gender-based critique of philosophy to its logical conclusion would transform the discipline and give rise to a distinctively feminist approach to philosophical problems.\nThere were some early attempts in the history of philosophy to address issues of concern to women, including Mill\u2019s The Subjection of Women, which argued for woman suffrage, and Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s The Second Sex (1949), which showed how prevailing notions of femininity served male interests. Still, feminist philosophy from the 1970s was no less indebted to the practices and positions originally developed in women\u2019s consciousness-raising groups (groups dedicated to raising awareness of women\u2019s issues). The tenets that feminist philosophy extracted from those sources included the following.\n1. Gender\u2014the complex of psychological traits and dispositions that characterize a person as either \u201cmasculine\u201d or \u201cfeminine\u201d\u2014as well as the relations between genders, are socially constructed (the product of socialization according to culturally variable norms), not biologically or genetically determined.\n2. Independence and self-determination for women can be achieved only by \u201cspeaking in one\u2019s own voice\u201d\u2014i.e., only by thinking and acting in ways that genuinely reflect one\u2019s perspectives, experiences, feelings, and concerns as an individual.\n3. The domination or subordination of women in any social setting or in any walk of life is a political issue, not a private one.\n4. Because knowledge is produced by societies\u2014i.e., knowledge is the result of collaboration among and validation by a community of inquirers\u2014the standards used to evaluate knowledge claims and to identify legitimate topics of inquiry are socially determined, not absolute.\n5. One\u2019s upbringing and social situation affect how one frames questions and what one is likely to understand.\nThose themes underlie contemporary feminist scholarship in all fields of philosophy.\nFeminist social and political philosophy\nThe earliest feminist philosophers examined gender bias in traditional social and political institutions. By asking the question \u201cWho benefits?\u201d they showed how mostly unspoken practices of gender-based exclusion and discrimination favoured the interests of men. Much of their analysis concerned sexual and family relations, which were then considered private or personal matters that could not (or should not) be addressed by political means. Accordingly, with a fine disregard, they adopted the rallying cry \u201cThe personal is political.\u201d\nThe traditional political philosophies of liberalism and Marxism generally ignored sexual and family issues; in contrast, feminist philosophers made them the focus of political theory. Eventually three major schools of feminist political theory arose, each emphasizing a distinctive subset of issues: liberal feminism, socialist feminism, and radical feminism.\nLiberal feminists\u2014e.g., Susan Moller Okin\u2014pointed out the many ways in which gender discrimination defeats women\u2019s aspirations, and they defended reforms designed to make women\u2019s equality a social and political reality. Noting that differences in the ways in which girls and boys are raised served to channel women and men into different and unequal social roles, they advocated gender-neutral forms of education and child rearing. They particularly focused on protecting and extending the rights that enabled women to pursue self-chosen goals, such as reproductive rights (including the right to legally obtain an abortion) and rights to full educational and economic opportunities.\nWhereas liberal feminists applied the core liberal values of freedom and equality to address women\u2019s concerns, the socialist feminists Alison Jaggar and Iris Marion Young appropriated Marxist categories, which were based on labour and economic structures. Criticizing traditional Marxism for exaggerating the importance of waged labour outside the home, socialist feminists insisted that the unpaid caregiving and homemaking that women are expected to perform are equally indispensable forms of labour and that the sexual division of labour that assigns most domestic work to women is exploitative. They also objected to the double day of work that burdens most women who have children and who work outside the home. Likewise, they condemned the economic dependency and insecurity of stay-at-home mothers and the low salaries of child-care workers.\nLast, the school of radical feminism turned women\u2019s attention to sexuality and to the disparities of power that pervade heterosexual relationships in patriarchal cultures. According to radical feminists, male heterosexuality objectifies the female body and makes the domination and degradation of women a source of erotic stimulation. Such assertions were the basis of Catharine MacKinnon\u2019s and Andrea Dworkin\u2019s campaigns in the 1980s and \u201990s against sexual harassment and pornography. Likewise, those assertions provided the basis of Marilyn Frye\u2019s endorsement of separatist feminist practices.\nLiberal, socialist, and radical feminism continue to challenge standard philosophical assumptions about the scope of politics and the nature of justice. Yet, arguably, each of them rests on a flawed conception of gender. As Elizabeth V. Spelman, Mar\u00eda Lugones, and Judith Butler claimed, none adequately takes into account the ways in which gender is influenced by and interacts with sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability, and none explicitly addresses how those factors affect the needs of diverse groups of women. Moreover, as Uma Narayan argued, none comes to grips with the complexities of advancing women\u2019s rights internationally or with the obstacles to coordinating feminist agendas in a globalized economy. Much current work in feminist social and political philosophy\u2014specifically in black feminist theory, queer theory, and feminist human rights theory\u2014takes on these urgent problems. Yet, despite advances in these fields, controversy persists between Luce Irigaray\u2019s view that gender is an ontological reality and Judith Butler\u2019s contention that it is an ontological illusion.\nWhereas feminist social and political philosophy arose from consciousness-raising groups, feminist ethics was initially developed by women who were or had been full-time homemakers or mothers and who felt excluded (and in some cases offended) by the women\u2019s movement\u2019s emphasis on dismantling barriers to professional careers for women. These women\u2019s moral worlds were less concerned with rights and justice and instead revolved around caregiving and maintaining networks of relationships. Inspired by Carol Gilligan\u2019s work on care ethics, early projects in feminist ethics shifted the focus of ethics from relations between citizens or strangers to close relationships rooted in emotional attachments, including friends, lovers, and mothers and children. In those intimate relationships, the parties respond to each other as unique individuals, not merely as typical human beings. Although they are vulnerable to each other in many of the same ways that strangers are, they are far more vulnerable to insensitivity, indifference, unkindness, and the threat of abandonment. Moreover, personal relationships are not always reciprocal. Because one of the individuals may be temporarily or chronically dependent on the other for sustenance, the other may shoulder a greater share of the burdens of the relationship. In those contexts, then, moral reciprocity is not reducible to equal respect or equal contribution.\nThe focus on interpersonal morality showed that general moral rules, which some traditional ethical theories strove to develop, were rather crude instruments for conducting a moral life. Consequently, feminist ethical philosophers\u2014notably Sara Ruddick, Virginia Held, and Annette Baier\u2014sought to explicate virtues and values suitable to everyday sociability. They questioned the tenability of basing moral relations on an implied social contract\u2014in which individuals promise to behave morally toward others on the condition they behave morally toward them\u2014and they demonstrated the critical role of trust in establishing an environment conducive to moral interaction. Although they did not repudiate the rational calculation of consequences in evaluating actions, they saw empathy and emotional responsiveness as vital to moral judgment. That general approach came to be known as the ethics of care.\nBecause the demands of caregiving often prevented women from pursuing other projects and goals, striking a proper balance between caring for others and caring for oneself became a key problem for feminist ethics. In work since the 1990s\u2014e.g., by Margaret Walker\u2014the concerns addressed by the ethics of care have been reframed in sophisticated accounts of the social processes through which individuals consolidate their moral identities, enter into and sustain relationships, and negotiate responsibilities.\nFeminist theories of agency\nBoth feminist social and political philosophy and feminist ethics presuppose a theory of women\u2019s agency\u2014i.e., an account of their capacity for individualized choice and action. The question of women\u2019s agency was salient for feminist philosophers because women\u2019s identities took shape in settings that were in some respects inimical to their interests. A prime motivation for all feminist scholarship was the knowledge that institutions and practices throughout human history have subordinated women\u2014albeit in different ways and to different degrees at different times and in different places. Because children assimilate cultural norms and form interpersonal bonds long before they are able to assess the desirability of these life-shaping influences, it is to be expected that many women will be predisposed to accept a subordinate social position. Thus, when opponents of feminist principles and initiatives pointed out that most women willingly comply with prevailing feminine norms, feminist philosophers replied that women might well choose to live differently were it not for the omnipresence of traditional heterosexual role models and media representations, not to mention the disadvantages of nonconformity. The problem of women\u2019s agency was thus inextricable from the theme of voice. What was at issue was how to discern when women are speaking in their own voices and doing what they really want to do.\nThere was considerable consensus among feminist philosophers regarding the criteria that a feminist theory of agency must satisfy, but there was also heated controversy about which theory best meets those criteria. At a minimum, a feminist theory of agency must explain how it is possible for women in male-dominated societies to live in ways that reflect their genuine needs and concerns, and it must explain how it is possible for women to develop critiques of sexist social and political institutions and to mount active resistance. Moreover, it must accomplish both of those tasks without pretending that people are capable of stepping outside their own socially determined viewpoints to attain a God-like perspective.\nBuilding on the consciousness-raising model of the 1970s, Nancy Hartsock held that women discover their own values and gain authentic agency only through acts of solidarity with feminist protesters and dissenters. Sandra Bartky pointed to the usefulness of discovering contradictions within the gender norms imposed upon women\u2014e.g., women are supposed to dedicate themselves to being beautiful and attractive to men but then are derided for being narcissistic. Such conflicts, they held, provide a basis for questioning prevailing notions of the proper role of women in society and the home.\nAnother approach invoked narration to account for agency. Hilde Lindemann urged that individuals articulate their sense of themselves by telling stories. Since the narrative form opens up the possibility of reinterpreting past events as well as of devising different continuations of a story in progress, it enables women to mobilize creative powers and thereby to reshape their lives. For example, by identifying some customary behaviours in the workplace as \u201csexual harassment,\u201d women workers validated the anger and humiliation they felt, which in turn enabled them to envisage ways of combating those discriminatory practices.\nFinally, an approach to agency that complemented those views focused on the epistemological question of how individuals can distinguish desires, values, and the like that are truly their own from those that they have merely absorbed from their social environments. The proposed solution was that agency requires a well-developed repertoire of skills in self-discovery, self-definition, and self-direction. By using those skills, individuals may identify beliefs, desires, projects, and so forth that promote their own flourishing as well as that of others and disavow beliefs, desires, and projects that they deem unfair and detrimental.\nFeminist epistemology and philosophy of science\nThe assumptions about the nature of persons that anchored feminist agency theory also informed feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. In Western culture, women often have been represented as essentially unknowable by men, in large part because men have been seen as rational and women as irrational. According to feminist philosophers, whatever cognitive deficits women may continue to have can be attributed to the fact that in the past women were rarely educated or encouraged to engage in intellectual pursuits. Even today girls in Western countries sometimes are discouraged from studying mathematics and science, in some cases directly and in others through the sexist attitudes and expectations of teachers or parents.\nAmplifying this point, the feminist philosophers Sandra Harding, Lorraine Code, and Helen Longino noted that \u201ccommunities of knowers\u201d\u2014those recognized as experts in some field of inquiry\u2014were remarkably homogeneous, not only with respect to sex but also with respect to race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Most such knowers, in other words, were white, Western, heterosexual men. To account for this fact, feminist epistemologists contended that the standards for judging who deserves credibility and authority as an expert are social constructions that help to reinforce the political and economic status quo. Moreover, because so many people\u2019s experience, reasoning, and testimony are discounted, feminist epistemologists are skeptical that science and the philosophy of science are as objective as they purport to be. Because vetting knowledge claims involves gaining a consensus among peer researchers as well as checking such claims against data, some feminist epistemologists concluded that the agents of knowledge acquisition are best understood not as individual experts but as communities of inquirers. Arguing, moreover, that knowledge cannot be value-free and that it always reflects the interests of the knower, those philosophers maintained that the only way to approximate the ideal of objectivity is to welcome diverse voices into the epistemic community. Today, as feminist historians of philosophy continue to unearth more and more work by forgotten female philosophers, it is becoming increasingly clear that the epistemic community was never quite as exclusive as Western philosophy and science imagined.\nGender identity, an individual\u2019s self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex. For most persons, gender identity and biological characteristics are the same. There are, however, circumstances in which an individual experiences little or no connection between sex and gender; in transsexualism, for example, biological sexual\u2026\nWomen\u2019s rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and \u201970s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the \u201csecond wave\u201d of feminism. 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She was so cool.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 111.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.broadwaytravel.com/s31-sukhumvit-hotel/226695", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LUXJU5JYUHWQ2V7JWJVWO5HUEUPMTNFA", "length": 1672, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.broadwaytravel.com", "title": "S31 Sukhumvit Hotel Bangkok | Holidays to Thailand | Broadway Travel", "raw_content": "Home > Thailand > S31 Sukhumvit Hotel\nThe hotel is located in one of Bangkok's prime central areas, just 5 minutes' walk from BTS (Sky train) Asoke and Phrom Phong stations and 2 km from Bangkok City Air Terminal, Makkasan Station (Airport Link). Suvarnabhumi Airport is approximately 20 km from the hotel.This city hotel, which was built in 2009, has 90 guest rooms. It combines a prime location with supreme comfort and new millennium intelligence. Designed by none other than national artist Dr. Sumet Jumsai to be chic, savvy and sensational, the hotel combines spacious duplex suites with beautiful views, all of life's not so little luxuries and seamless convenience. Guests are welcomed in a lobby with a 24-hour reception and check-out service. Facilities at the hotel include a hotel safe, a currency exchange, a cloakroom, lift access and a newspaper stand. There is a caf\u00e9, a bar and a restaurant on the premises. Conference facilities are available to business travellers and all guests will appreciate the WLAN Internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the hotel's room and laundry services and those arriving by car may park their vehicles in the hotel's car park.Each room has an en suite bathroom with a shower, a bath and a hairdryer. Rooms are furnished with double or king-size beds and amenities include a direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV, a radio, a hi-fi system, Internet access and a safe. Each room has its own kitchenette complete with a minibar, a fridge, a microwave and tea and coffee making facilities. An ironing set is also provided. Air conditioning is standard in all accommodation and each room has a balcony or terrace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bshs.org.uk/lecturer-in-history-of-medicine", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CR3HRUWFVITQVK33BBKMBHDUB4BVZTXT", "length": 2482, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.bshs.org.uk", "title": "Lecturer in History of Medicine \u2013 The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)", "raw_content": "Lecturer in History of Medicine\nHome/News/Jobs, Fellowships & Studentships/Lecturer in History of Medicine\nImperial College Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine\nSalary : \u00a335,001 \u2013 \u00a339,094 per annum\nApplications are invited for the position of Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The Centre is one of the leading places internationally for the study of the history of science, technology and medicine. It runs one of the most successful graduate programmes in the world and was rated 5A in the last research assessment exercise.\nWe are looking for someone early in their career who shows outstanding potential as a researcher and teacher in the history of medicine and life sciences. Your research speciality should be post 1800, though there is some preference for post 1900. Candidates must have a PhD in the history of medicine or a closely related field. You should be able to demonstrate excellence in research and be capable of continuing to develop your research in appropriate areas. You will be expected to contribute to undergraduate and post-graduate teaching (including PhD supervision) in the history of medicine and life sciences, and may be asked to contribute to teaching in areas beyond their research speciality at undergraduate level and in tutoring MSc students.\nSalary will be in the range \u00a335,001 \u2013 \u00a339,094 per annum, depending on experience.\nFurther details of the research activities of the group may be found at http://www.ic.ac.uk/historyofscience/ .\nInformal enquiries may be directed to the Head of Centre, Professor Andrew Warwick [email protected].\n* Application form \u2013 http://www.ic.ac.uk/employment/academicform.htm\n* Job Description and Person Specification \u2013 http://www.ic.ac.uk/employment/academic/jobdescriptions/1103host.htm\nApplication from and further details are available via the links above. Alternatively, please contact [email protected] .\nCompleted application forms (one hard copy and one electronic copy to be submitted) should be sent, with a curriculum vita, list of publications, research plan, and the names and addresses of 3 referees to:\nRobert Powell, Departmental Administrator, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ Closing Date: 11 March 2005\nBy bshs-admin|2010-12-14T15:13:07+00:00December 14th, 2010|Jobs, Fellowships & Studentships|Comments Off on Lecturer in History of Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 15536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 161.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.btec.ncsu.edu/about/news/events.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:HNGBE2LDPJBBOR3QBVJCNS2ULTOKT4RU", "length": 117, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.btec.ncsu.edu", "title": "Special Events - BTEC", "raw_content": "No special events are scheduled at this time. 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No matter what you're looking for, this is the place to shop for Buccaneers jerseys!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 9269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries.com/showthread.php?7110-Siddhartha-or-not-Siddhartha&s=ea0e0ef57d86d7dfe38bcf6cdcff2a35&p=79592", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:EGIKETREZ2VZJY3TRCSKLTQIMCYFTJGL", "length": 891, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.buddhismwithoutboundaries.com", "title": "Buddhist Forum - Siddhartha or not Siddhartha", "raw_content": "Thread: Siddhartha or not Siddhartha\nI've been told that the first account of the Buddha's given name being Siddhartha Gautama is in the \"A\u015bvagho\u1e63asyabuddhacarita\", and I've read that it's also in the \"Buddhavamsa.\" I haven't read either. The A\u015bvagho\u1e63asyabuddhacarita is a tough read and I'm just not in the mood right now, and I haven't found an english translation of the Buddhavamsa.\nMy question is this: are these the 2 earliest known instances of the Buddha's name being provided? Also, since the Buddhavamsa is thought to have been written 500 years or so after the Buddha lived, why would Theravadans add it to the Pali Canon?\nThe A\u015bvagho\u1e63asyabuddhacarita is a Mahayana text.\nOriginally Posted by ScottPen\nI haven't found an english translation of the Buddhavamsa.\nSome translations of the Buddhavamsa are mentioned on this page:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhavamsa#Translations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/the-taxman-cometh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GNZDNTPL4RSCTNWZA6K2DVAMPF7N32B7", "length": 2694, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bugmartini.com", "title": "Bug Martini \u00bb The Taxman Cometh", "raw_content": "I really tried to make a joke that involved a dragon called Turbothrax.\nGlasses bug\nThank you for trying and hello man with pink filter\nWell, he was turned into a newt but it got better.\nI would like to point out that to commoners, \u201csome coins\u201d could range from half the value of your property to the entirety of your life\u2019s savings. SIMPLE, maybe, but there is a difference between simplicity and ease.\nI would like to point out the point in panel two. You kept supplying coins and/or livestock and/or family members until the point went away. It really was as simple as it was easy.\nAnd panel four had me in stitches, should anyone care.\nIf you find it EASY to \u201c[keep] supplying coins and/or livestock and/or family members\u201d, then I can only presume you are either heartless, incredibly well-supplied in the formermost, or significantly lacking in the latttermost. Or possibly have suffered sibling/parental abuse, I shouldn\u2019t rule that out.\nYou also shouldn\u2019t rule out you\u2019ve missed the point.\nDo explain to me why it should be EASY \u2013 as opposed to SIMPLE \u2013 to hand over your life\u2019s savings, all your livestock, the deed to your property, and/or the lives of your blood relatives. Am I to assume that you think there would not be the slightest DIFFICULTY in relinquishing any of those?\nNah, that would be easy. You can try to work out yourself what I meant. Seems to me you need a lot more practice.\nOh, by the way, \u2018difficult\u2019 is the main antonym of your meaning of simple, thus mucking up your indignation. The word you\u2019re looking for is \u2018hard\u2019.\nQuite frankly, if you would hand over your accumulated income and source of income without conflict, you have confirmed your wealth, and if you would do the same to your family members, you have confirmed your heartlessness.\nThe antonym comparison you refer to may be a regional dialect clash, depending on where you hail from. In the form of English I have been raised to speak, \u201cdifficulty\u201d is in contrast to \u201cease\u201d, whereas \u201csimplicity\u201d is in contrast to \u201ccomplexity\u201d. I understand that this may not be universal, but those are the pairings I\u2019ve been trained in.\n-i.e. Defeating an Olympic medalist in a footrace is DIFFICULT, but it is not COMPLEX. Therefore, it is SIMPLE, but it is not EASY.\n#SeparatedByACommonLanguage\nThe middle ages also didn\u2019t have jesters on the side of the road, dressed in funny costumes holding a sign offering to do your taxes\u2026\u2026\u2026..\nOr maybe they did?\nI guess Turbothrax would be able to teach you a (part of a) Shout that you could use to get your taxes done instantly?\n\u201cThey said I was daft to build a castle in the swamp, but I did it all the same! \u2026and it sank into the swamp.\u201d\n\u201cProperty loss is deductible.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.builddirect.com/r/Hardwood-Flooring/Low-Gloss-3-5-8?N=M6en-nTD6-rLYl-S3O1-VyNy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:PTOJXCAS2DJ4FGN6Z2WTPFYTK64BB4EC", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.builddirect.com", "title": "3 5/8\" Low-Gloss Hardwood Flooring - FREE Samples Available at BuildDirect\u00ae", "raw_content": "3 5/8\" Low-Gloss Hardwood Flooring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 2867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bukkyolaleye.com/bukky-olaleye/2014/01/23/do-that-which-scares-you", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VAVYXTACFJZZ7MFZVN7F2O3NJEJ7VIJB", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bukkyolaleye.com", "title": "Do that which scares you \u2014 BUKKY OLALEYE", "raw_content": "It's three weeks into 2014, what will you do differently?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bustle.com/articles/81654-juliettes-postpartum-depression-storyline-on-nashville-brings-attention-to-an-important-issue-that-needs-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:20Z", "digest": "sha1:Y64MDPUXI6ZHYASD72CJLJ77QNVJRNFL", "length": 2988, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bustle.com", "title": "Juliette's Postpartum Depression Storyline On 'Nashville' Brings Attention To An Important Issue That Needs It", "raw_content": "Juliette's Postpartum Depression Storyline On 'Nashville' Brings Attention To An Important Issue That Needs It\nJuliette Barnes has undergone such a steady growth towards happiness and true adulthood on Nashville that it\u2019s been really hard to watch her struggle over the past few episodes. Wednesday night's episode offered an explanation for her change in behavior, as it appears that Juliette is suffering from postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter, Cadence. This week on Nashville, the signs became increasingly clear: she\u2019s completely detached from her child, has a very short temper, and has thrown herself completely into resurrecting her career to the point where she does not allow herself time to care for Cadence. While irritability and difficulty bonding with one's child are listed as symptoms of postpartum depression by the Mayo Clinic, the \"hyperfocus\" on career Juliette's doctor cited as evidence is not, though it does relate to her detachment and another symptom: \"withdrawal from family and friends.\" There have been traces of all these signs in the episodes following Cadence's birth and they really came to a head in \"Is the Better Part Over.\"\nThe climax of Juliette\u2019s issues happened after Avery returned home from watching The Exes perform at the Bluebird Caf\u00e9. Juliette said that she would listen to some songs for her new album and take care of Cadence, but instead she called her assistant, Emily, to take care of Cadence while she went to the studio. When Emily arrived, Cadence hadn\u2019t been fed or changed for hours. Avery called an intervention with Juliette\u2019s team and her doctor, and, man, did it not go well. Juliette denied that she had postpartum depression, became extremely angry, and stormed off to the studio to continue recording her album.\nBecause I love Juliette so much as a character, I was really hoping to see her begin to work through this, but I recognize that it\u2019s not that easy. As I\u2019ve written before, Nashville is brilliant at approaching women\u2019s issues, and postpartum depression is something that\u2019s widely suffered (the American Psychological Association estimates that it affects 9 to 16 percent of women after giving birth), but not very widely talked about. As psychiatrist Susan Hatters Friedman, MD told the APA, there\u2019s often an unfortunate stigma associated with PPD, due to others' expectations that new mothers should be extremely happy. Of course, that is not always the case, but because of such expectations, as Friedman stated, many women do not report their symptoms.\nI hope that watching Juliette\u2019s plight will help real women who may be struggling with PPD recognize the symptoms and seek help. Talking about something in a public forum, especially seeing it on television, can really aid some people. Next week's episode of Nashville looks like it will really heighten Juliette's story, and I just hope that we'll see her get the help she needs before the season ends.\nImages: ABC/Mark Levine; Giphy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.butlerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Barbara-Spitz/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HG2GMHGYQ3MJU5PHY67W4Q3I4MOAMVGG", "length": 499, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.butlerfuneralhome.com", "title": "Barbara Jean Spitz Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Barbara Jean Spitz\nBarbara Jean Spitz passed away on June 14, 2018 at 6:15 PM. She was born March 18, 1932 in Cedar County, Missouri, the thirteenth and youngest child of Allen Dickerson Wallen and Ova Mae Akins Wallen. In her youth she became a member of the... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Barbara Jean Spitz created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nBarbara Jean Spitz passed away on June 14, 2018 at 6:15 PM.\nSend flowers to the Spitz's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caltimes.org/2922/opinion/battlefront-ii-the-prequel-not-the-sequel-era/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK334ANJNFDSEW6QREFURKYH5U4XLVAV", "length": 3816, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.caltimes.org", "title": "Battlefront II: The Prequel not the Sequel Era \u2013 Cal Times", "raw_content": "Star Wars Battlefront was a huge release back in 2015, with its sequel game to be released later this year by publisher EA and developer DICE. The game is slated to be featuring the newest set of films by Disney, Episode 7 and 8. Although this is exciting, it also could be a missed opportunity.\nThe life of a video game, meaning the updates and downloadable content (for typical EA games), is about one year. Battlefront\u2019s last DLC was released in December of 2016, a year and two months after the release of the game. It\u2019s DLC was released alongside the Star Wars Anthology film \u2018Rogue One\u2019 which featured maps and two characters from the movie.\nIf EA and DICE were to release the next Battlefront based on the sequel era of movies, it would only have content from episode 7 and 8. It would not have content from episode 9 since that does not release until 2019, two years after the release date of episode 8. That is why Battlefront II should focus on the Prequel era. The game would be released later this year in 2017 then have a full year of DLC content with its last DLC featuring content from the Young Han Solo film that is reportedly taking place during or shortly after the prequel era. This would then line up perfectly with Battlefront III releasing alongside Star Wars Episode 9 and subsequently featuring Episode 7 and 8 in the game.\nWhat content could be featured:\nThe Prequel era has so much content to be used and explored from the three films to the television movie and show. If EA and DICE follow the same model as before then there would be three heroes and villains for the start and then one of each would be added in with the four DLCs.\nThe heroes featured on the initial release could be Padme Amidala, Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. The three Villains featured on the initial release could be Count Dooku, Chancellor Palpatine and General Grievous. Then of course is the four DLC packs which the first could be Naboo and release Darth Maul and Qui Gon Jinn.\nThe second DLC could feature Obi Wann Kenobi and Jango Fett with maps from Geonosis and Kamino. The third DLC could feature Kashyyyk and have Chewbacca and Cad Bane (the bounty hunter from the clone wars TV show). The final DLC could feature the young Han Solo and whoever the main villain is in the film.\nThere are numerous types of clone trooper and droid variants as well as ships and vehicles that could be featured. There are also many Heroes and Villains that could be released for added characters from the clone wars TV show. Here is a list of potential Heroes and Villains that were not mentioned above.\nRake Hardeen\nMother Talzin.\nTags: Battlefront II, DICE, EA, Star Wars, video games\n3 Responses to \u201cBattlefront II: The Prequel not the Sequel Era\u201d\nBrian on January 15th, 2017 3:00 am\nYeah, except that the only characters from the PT films that anyone besides the geekiest of geeks is familiar with are almost universally hated. It\u2019s just not an era that sits well with most people, because of how it was handled on film.\nThey should have made a Battlefront OT Part One, and a Battlefront OT Part Two. They could have milked yet another year\u2019s worth out of it, AND not have to release a Sequel Trilogy game in mid stream.\nDean on January 17th, 2017 7:58 pm\nI completely agree with this article. If EA was smart, they would hold off on doing a Sequel Trilogy Era Battlefront until the films are actually complete. Very unwise for them to ignore the mountains of available content at their disposal. I would rather play Clone Wars content than Resistance/First Order which (at the moment) would just be a reskin of the Galactic Civil War.\nTanner on January 30th, 2017 1:27 am\nI also think that there should be a prequel battlefront before the they do the force awakens. 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One year later, the Insurance Council of Australia reported that insurance losses from claims following 2015 spring hailstorms totaled about $1.208 billion with almost 120,000 insurance claims.\nSimilarly, a series of severe hailstorms devastated Australian farms in November 2016, resulting in the filing of over 28,000 insurance claims, totaling $193 million.\nMost Australian insurers provide coverage for weather-related damage if it falls into one of two categories\u2014thunderstorms (hail, flash flooding, wind, lightning) or land gales (gale-force winds that occur over land). Despite the fact that coverage is generally afforded for hail-caused damage, Australia has experienced an unprecedented rise in fraudulent insurance claims.\nTo address these issues, the Insurance Council of Australia created The Insurance Fraud Bureau of Australia to drive down the impact of insurance fraud. Moreover, the Insurance Council of Australia encourages policyholders to design and construct buildings to be resilient to the hazards present in the environment as minimum building standards in Australia are generally insufficient to protect against severe convective storms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/bill_would_allow_catskill_park_towns_to_remain_in_hudson_valley_greenway", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:APIBIFQGHSKDZE2TPSNKLDEGC3J737H2", "length": 1528, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.catskillmountainkeeper.org", "title": "Bill would allow Catskill Park towns to remain in Hudson Valley Greenway - Catskill Mountainkeeper", "raw_content": "Bill would allow Catskill Park towns to remain in Hudson Valley Greenway\nALBANY \u2013 Legislation to permanently extend a law giving municipalities located within the Catskill Park the option of participating in the Hudson River Valley Greenway program has passed in the Assembly. It is sponsored by Assemblyman Kevin Cahill of Kingston. If this bill is not enacted by the end of the year, the towns of Denning, Olive and Woodstock will lose their status as Greenway Communities.\n\"It is important that the Catskill Park towns continue to be afforded the same opportunities as other Greenway communities,\u201d said Cahill. \u201cThis program provides our region with the tools and expertise to create a framework that allows economic progress and success without sacrificing the historic and natural treasures of the region. It would be a shame if these towns lost their local option to participate.\"\nThe towns in Ulster and Greene County which are in the Catskill Park were expressly prohibited from joining the Greenway under the 1991 law which created the program. In 2006, the Legislature passed legislation expanding the initiative to include the towns of Denning, Shandaken, Olive, Woodstock and Hardenburgh. After gaining eligibility, Woodstock, Olive and Denning all joined the program. This new bill is needed by the end of the year to allow these towns to continue to participate in the Greenway if they so choose.\nThe Senate has yet to take action on the measure.\nhttp://www.catskillsnews.com/News/June08/18/Gwy_CatsPk-18Jun08.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arnolds-commando-performance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4RYAM5CE2WUMRF7VJSM3IVXJ4KXCM2YV", "length": 6759, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Arnold's Commando Performance - CBS News", "raw_content": "Arnold's Commando Performance\nUpdated on: September 1, 2004 / 5:57 AM / CBS\nCBSNews.com producer Jarrett Murphy reports from the Republican National Convention in New York.\nA former movie star who has been a state governor for less than a year and is considered by some as ideologically out of sync with some of his party's positions will take the podium Tuesday night in a featured speech to the Republican National Convention.\nAnd Republicans could not be more excited.\nRevved up by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's sprawling address on Monday, Republican conventioneers strolling Manhattan's sidewalks looked forward to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's appearance Tuesday evening.\n\"I think he's awesome,\" said Joan Keagley, a delegate from Kansas City, Mo. \"I can't wait to hear him speak.\"\nOther delegates apparently agree. A CBS News /New York Times survey of Republican delegates found 74 percent of the party faithful hold a favorable opinion of the governor. Only 4 percent held an unfavorable view, and 20 percent were undecided.\nAlong with first lady Laura Bush, Schwarzenegger is anchoring a Tuesday night lineup where diversity seems the theme. Eleven of those who will take the Madison Square Garden stage are women, among them North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole and Kentucky Rep. Anne Northup.\nHispanics are prominent among the speakers, from Carmen Bermudez who will deliver the invocation to Bonnie Garcia who will help lead the roll call, and the entertainers. Black Republicans like Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and Education Secretary Rod Paige will also talk.\nThe convention has been criticized for trying to disguise the Republican party with a roster of speakers more moderate and diverse than the party's rank and file. But the truth is, besides the president, the party's biggest stars are moderates -- Schwarzenegger, John Mccain and Colin Powell. That raises a question: can moderates get the lead, White House roles in the party, or are they forever co-stars.\nSchwarzenegger's speech will test that and reach beyond the adoring delegates and convention guests. His is a national address and, according to the recent CBS News poll, he has some convincing to do. Among Republican voters overall, Schwarzenegger enjoys a 47 percent favorable rating. While only 9 percent see the governor unfavorably, a sizeable 43 percent said they were undecided.\nPolitical historians said Schwarzenegger's rapid rise up the GOP ranks had little precedent.\n\"It's quite a transition for him, considering the movies he's made, to be a featured speaker at the convention,\" said presidential historian Paul Boller. \"I think it's unique.\"\nUniversity of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato says going back to 1960, major convention speakers have \"all been established political figures, all of them in office for a long time.\"\n\"This is absolutely meteoric,\" Sabato said.\nTrying to explain his rise Republicans cite Schwarzenegger's moderate politics and appealing biography as his chief assets\n\"I think he brings a different constituency,\" said Larry Novak of Brockton, Mass., vice chairman of the state Republican party. \"Because of the performance that he's done in California. He's considered a moderate. He's pro-choice, he's pro gay rights, he moves more into the mainstream to take votes away.\"\nSurveys indicate the governor does have wide appeal. Despite his moderate credentials, most of the governor's support in CBS News polls comes from self-identified conservatives. In the California recall election, he won 48.6 percent in a crowded field, taking twice as many independent voters as his Democratic opponent.\n\"And he's from California. You don't really expect to see that many Republicans from California,\" said Maryanne Kilroy, another Kansas City delegate. \"I think that helps him a great deal.\"\nIn August, a Field Poll in California gave Schwarzenegger a 65 percent approval rating, the highest for a first-year governor in more than 25 years.\n\"He deals with all members not just of his party but of the governmental organizations in the state of California,\" said Myron Arlen of Great Neck, N.Y., comparing Schwarzenegger's work in Sacramento to what President Bush did as Texas governor and Ronald Reagan as president.\n\"Here's a guy a foreigner, comes to this country, works his way up, gets into politics marries into a good family, becomes very very wealthy, takes over the state, and is really having a fantastic time accomplishing what he is trying to do, which many well-seasoned Republicans have been unable to do,\" Arlen said.\nPlus, \"He is a very good businessman,\" his wife, Susan Arlen of Great Neck, N.Y. said.\nAnd, notes Bay State GOP grand dame Polly Logan of Cohasset, Mass., \"He's married to a Kennedy.\"\nNot to be forgotten are Schwarzenegger's star quality and, some joked, impressive physique.\n\"There's an aura,\" Keagley said, around the governor.\nThe question for Republicans looking beyond 2004 is whether Schwarzenegger thinks that aura can carry him to the White House.\nIn addition to the other challenges that face any presidential hopeful (e.g., raising money, convincing voters and fending off other Republicans also eyeing the next nomination), Schwarzenegger faces a burden of historic proportions: article II, section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.\nThe passage states:\" No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.\"\nSchwarzenegger was born in Austria and thus is a naturalized \u2014 not a natural born \u2014 citizen. For Arnold to run for president, the Constitution must be amended.\nThat is no small task. Amendments require the approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and the legislatures in three-fourths of the states.\nThat ratification process takes time; in the case of the 27th amendment, first proposed in 1789 and finally approved in 1992, it took 203 years. But the wheels can also turn very quickly: The 26th amendment took only three months from passage by Congress to ratification.\nDelegates interviewed disagreed on whether the Constitution was likely to be changed to allow a Schwarzenegger candidacy, or whether it was a good idea for Schwarzenegger to declare presidential ambitions in any case. There was little doubt the California governor represents the party's future.\nThe question is, can a man with no legal chance to be president actually be a party leader?\n\"No,\" said Sabato,\" but he can be at the small table of people who have enormous influence in the party.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 14719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/elton-johns-big-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TOHWXXCZM5ZYY2SY4LTNK2PIYDE5BKAJ", "length": 4650, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Elton John's Big Day - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS News", "raw_content": "Elton John's Big Day\nPop star Elton John, right, and his longtime partner, filmmaker David Furnish, flash grins at the crowd after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. John and Furnish were the most prominent of hundreds of same-sex couples expected to form civil partnerships in England and Wales Wednesday, the first day that such ceremonies became possible.\nThe Guildhall, at center, in Windsor, England, is surrounded by media, police and public ahead of the arrival of pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish, who were to be united there in a civil union ceremony, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. Britain's Prince Charles married the Dutchess of Cornwall here in April.\nPop star Elton John, left, follows his longtime partner David Furnish through a crowd of photographers as they arrive for a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nSir Elton John waits for the start of a ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005, in which he will join in a civil union with longtime partner David Furnish.\nA crowd of media, police and public gather near the Guildhall in Windsor, England, ahead of the arrival of pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish, who were to take part in a civil union ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nFans hold placards picturing Elton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish, left, outside the Guildhall, Windsor, England, where the couple were having their civil partnership ceremony.\nJubilant celebrity couple Sir Elton John and David Furnish leave the Guildhall, Windsor, following their civil partnership ceremony on Dec. 21, 2005.\nCredit: GETTY IMAGES/Chris Jackson\nFilmmaker David Furnish and rock star Elton John wave to the crowd outside Windsor's Guildhall in England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. The two were joined in a civil union there on the first date on which it was legally possible.\nRock star Elton John blows a kiss as he and longtime partner David Furnish greet the public after their civil partnership ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor, England Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005.\nFilmmaker David Furnish and rock star Elton John pose for photos outside Windsor's Guildhall, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005, where they were joined in a civil union.\nPhotographers point their lenses at the car carrying Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish after they concluded their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. John and Furnish are the most prominent of hundreds of same-sex couples planning to form civil partnerships in England and Wales on Wednesday, the first day that such ceremonies became possible.\nElton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish, wave to the public after their civil partnership ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nDavid Furnish gives a thumbs-up sign as he and Sir Elton John, his longtime partner, greet the crowd after a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nElton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish accept a wedding cake from a representative of an ice-cream company after the two had a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nElton John , right, and his longtime partner David Furnish leave the Guildhall after their civil ceremony in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005.\nPop star Elton John, right, and his partner David Furnish wave to the media and public after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nA fan's poster across the street from the Guildhall in Windsor, England, mocks Queen Elizabeth II's likely reaction to the civil ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, uniting pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish. The Guildhall is just outside Windsor Castle, centuries-old seat of British royalty.\nPop star Elton John waves after he and his partner David Furnish were united in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nA statue of Queen Victoria looms outside the walls of Windsor Castle as a car carrying pop star Elton John and his partner David Furnish leaves the Guildhall after their civil ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.\nFans and police surround their car as pop star Elton John and filmmaker David Furnish are driven away after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cco.us/timely-filing-for-claims-and-appeals-medical-billing-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:25CWQSCREU4QTHHCYVITK76FW66B6GUM", "length": 15024, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.cco.us", "title": "Timely Filing for Claims and Appeals | Medical Billing Tips", "raw_content": "Q: Timely Filing for Claims and Appeals \u2014 \u201cPlease explain filing limits with insurance claim processing\u201d for the initial claim as well as the appeal process.\nA: Basically, we\u2019ll be covering information about how all insurance companies do enforce filing limits for both initial claim submission, as well as for appealing claims. So, you really need to know your payer filing limits and create a cheat sheet for your demographic area. When filing or appealing a claim, you want to be absolutely sure that you get those claims in early because there were always technical problems or if you\u2019re using snail mail, things get lost in the mail. It happens more often than not, so if a doctor gives you a charge today and expects you to transmit it tonight and thinks it\u2019s going to be OK because the cutoff is tomorrow, I can bet you that it didn\u2019t go through for some reason. There\u2019s always a delay and the insurance companies do look for specific proof of when they received it in order for you to get paid.\nYou want to pay also attention to notifications of changes regarding time constraints. For years, we were dealing with a year and a half with Medicare and then they changed to one year submission, so pay attention to any of your payer\u2019s notifications because they will send them to you via email if you sign up on their website. Lastly, when you do your aging, the follow-up \u2013 I can\u2019t say it enough, just pay attention to your follow-up because you can see trends there, as far as claims not being paid and you can see \u201cGee, if this whole bunch didn\u2019t get paid, there might be a problem,\u201d and so forth.\nVIDEO: Timely Filing for Claims and Appeals | Medical Billing Tips\nFiling limit \u2013 I can\u2019t stress enough. Below (on the answer sheet) is an example of how this particular payer, which is TRICARE, allows 90 days from the date of service to bill out claim but the biller really has to know all the filing rules! In this particular case, we see at the top that the date of the notice when the doctor got paid was May 15, 2006 and below where the other red arrow is, it shows date of service is April 08, 2006, and it was paid; so it clearly is showing me that the biller had the work and transmitted it right away and TRICARE paid it.\nWhat I do want to point out is that for any reason this claim is denied or there was any type of issue with it, if you were appealing to TRICARE, you would have 90 days to appeal from the date that the explanation of benefit was dated; so you\u2019re not going to go 90 days from the date of service but from the actual notice or EOB. So, the May 15 th , you would tap on 90 days, and if it\u2019s a secondary insurance, it might be 60 days, it could be a year, and whatever it is, you have that amount of time from the date of the original either payment or denial of an EOB.\nWhat I did just so that you all understand is that Google is a wonderful thing, and I just wanted to point out that when you know, when you\u2019re working for a practice, what payers are dealing with, whether it\u2019s California or Massachusetts, go into those payer websites. This example was TRICARE because I showed you that Explanation of Benefits, I just happened to find these guidelines and they were current. It basically said that: TRICARE network providers must file all claims within 90 days of the date of service. Where TRICARE is the secondary payer, the 90 days will begin after the first initial claim paid. If Medicare was primary and they paid today\u2019s date, you would have 90 days from today\u2019s date to bill out TRICARE. If TRICARE denied you would have 90 days from this denial to appeal.\nAlso, non-network providers may file claims up to one year after the date of service. That really is up to the biller to find out because a lot of doctors that are in networks of particular payers, they are usually affiliated with hospitals that are either involved in the network or not. Only you will know best and that\u2019s why I really stress you have to check it out.\nAnother example here just to show you very quickly is the Basic Claims Processing Times and the different guidelines with TRICARE. Most clean claims will process within 30 days and generally, if a clean claim goes over the 30 days, they will pay you interest. That\u2019s pretty standard with most insurances. Then they give you the criteria for clean claims: complying with the billing guidelines and requirements. Having no defects or improprieties on a claim, including documentation if it\u2019s applicable, and also do not require a special processing that would prevent timely payment.\nIf you have any problems with your EOBs, whether you don\u2019t think they paid enough or anything, TRICARE gives you a website that you can register on and you get a username and password and you can access all your doctor\u2019s information, or you can call voice recognition and call a number and speak to someone. That\u2019s just telling you a little bit more about how to process a claim.\nNext page, what I did is just showed you an example. There are multiple contractors that process Medicare claims. In my area and another areas in the United States, NGS is one of the contractors. What I wanted to do is just show you that not only do they give you information about where you have to file how many days you have, but if you look here, it gives you all the information on how to appeal a claim and if you look to the left it will say: Who May File An Appeal, Levels of Appeals and Time Limits for Filing, and it even explains Reopening and Redetermination.\nReopening is very basic, you messed up on a diagnosis code, you forgot a modifier, something very basic. Redetermination \u2013 you may feel that obstetrical procedure that\u2019s not typically bundled into another procedure, should have been paid or something, and it gives you all the guidelines. If you look to the right of this, you\u2019ll see this in Appeals Timeliness Calculator, which I\u2019ll show you next, as well as appeal forms. That is with any Medicare website and pretty much every other insurance company, it may look different but the information is the same.\nThe next page has to do with just basically the appeals calculator. Again, I won\u2019t go into big detail, but you have your option of picking if it\u2019s a reopening, redetermination, and it tells you the amount of days that you have to appeal, like, 120 days or whatever. Again, all your carriers will give you this information. This is just an example of what\u2019s available on the websites.\nThe next one is just a very simple explanation of what a redetermination is, and it\u2019s just giving you the filing limits again, how many days, time limit to initiate a redetermination, you have 120 days from the date of receipt of the initial determination, which is the EOB. Once they come up with the determination, you are not happy with it, you have 60 days to apply again, and it just gives you more information. It also tells you, a little bit below on this page, that you just submit your redeterminations online but you can do them on mail.\nThe next page, you\u2019ll actually see a copy of a form just as an example. I won\u2019t go through it, but it\u2019s basically the beneficiary\u2019s name, ID number, the reason why you are appealing, and so forth.\nLaureen: Jo-Anne, Tamika had a question, she said: \u201cDoes timely filing policies apply even if you\u2019re not contracted with the payer?\u201d\nJo-Anne: Yes, they do. And I\u2019ve had first-hand experience with that, so yes.\nLaureen: Then another related question: \u201cDo coders or billers process claims?\u201d\nJo-Anne: It really depends. In my billing service, all the billers always coded or make sure the coding was appropriate and then they bill it out. When you\u2019re in a big practice management within a hospital setting usually all roles are broken down, so a coder would actually be coding, but the biller they\u2019ll have one that registers, one that does keypunching, one that does coding, one that does payment posting, and one that does problem resolution. My mindset is I like to do it all because oftentimes the left hand doesn\u2019t know what the right hand is doing, and I like to have control when I used to bill all the time, of knowing when my claims went out, that I was responsible to leave notes against the patient\u2019s account. But typically, the coders don\u2019t have anything to do with the appeals process unless there\u2019s an issue with the code that the biller may approach the coder. But that\u2019s why a lot of billers are already coders because you will find out fast enough that you have to understand coding to a certain extent in order to understand why some of the claims are denied.\nLaureen: Then we had one more, Charity wants to know: \u201cIf Medicare does not pay a clean claim within 30-46 days, what would you suggest doing at that point to get them to pay the interest?\u201d\nJo-Anne: I\u2019ve never run into a time where they haven\u2019t paid the interest, but sometimes depending, like, when we went through ICD-10, major changes where we anticipated and they tell us ahead of time that there will be delays, I\u2019m not sure if we\u2019ve seen interest on that. But a typical delay in payment I\u2019ve always seen the interest given to the doctor, but again if they haven\u2019t been paid, first of all, you want to make absolutely sure that they\u2019re even in the system and so you can check online one or two just to make they\u2019re there, because if they\u2019re not there and you have a whole list of Medicare claims sitting there, then something may have happened between your office and the clearing house, or the clearing house and the payer, and that\u2019s where I really stress to follow-up and staying on top of your work because the filing limits really do come into play and they\u2019re not as lenient as they were even a year ago. They\u2019re so strict, so you want to make sure that you understand.\nThe next slide is a cheat sheet and whatever you do, do not go by my numbers, this is strictly an example, but this is what my staff always had and I used to have in a day. I would list all my key insurance companies (Medicare, BlueCross BlueShield, HMO, PPO, Medicare Advantage, one of their plans, Tufts Medicare Preferred). As you can see, the initial claims vary. At one point, BlueCross BlueShield, HMOs we only had 90 days, but their PPOs and indemnities we had a year. Now, everything is 90 days. And, their appeals vary from 90 days to 120 days, 180 days. You really have to go into the insurance companies that your providers are contracted with.\nIf you have any plans, and I know in Massachusetts we have a few, that a 60 days you stay on those because by the time you get it and it\u2019s transmitted and you get your EOB back, if you get it back, you don\u2019t have a whole lot of time to play there; so those 60 days, make those a priority.\nAllow Time for Technical Problems When Filing\nYou just want to allow time for technical problems. I would never submit a claim 1-5 days prior to the filing limit. Clearinghouses and payers have maintenance downtimes when no work can be transmitted. Databases crash, whether it\u2019s the software, the clearinghouses, or the insurance companies. Regardless of when you transmit, payers consider when the claim was received. It does not matter if you sent it one day before; if there was a delay \u2013 trust me, there\u2019s plenty of them. Things get lost in cyberspace so there\u2019re problems; claims will be delivered late and they will deny it for over the filing limit. Billers oftentimes can appeal, but like I said, it\u2019s very rare that they pay. If the insurance doesn\u2019t have an electronic acknowledgement saying that they have that claim, they don\u2019t usually work with you.\nAs far as problems where your claim is denied and you have to file, you have to first ask yourself: Was it the front desk? Was it the patient\u2019s fault? If the patient gave the information but the front desk was negligent, then the practice is liable if we didn\u2019t get the information on time, so you can\u2019t bill the patient. But if the patient came in and did not give updated information and billing companies, office will call the patient, will try to get the office to call the patient, and they finally get around to calling you four months after four bills have gone out, they\u2019re liable.\nAgain, your office should develop a protocol and stick to it for all your filing limit scenarios because front desk sometimes does not update their files by the time the biller gets the work, and that\u2019s a bad practice to get into. And follow-up on claims is IMPERATIVE. Problems will jump out when you examine the dates of the outstanding claims. A lot of times you\u2019ll see that the transmissions, even though they said they were sent weren\u2019t, so that will keep you in line as well. That will keep you in line as well.\nIn summary, just know your clean claim submission filing limits, as well as the filing limits for your claim appeals. Use designated payer forms, phone calls or online access to appeal claims. Definitely use a cheat sheet for the initial and appeal file limits. Allow time for technical problems and delays and file clean and appealed claims ASAP. Don\u2019t let them sit there. And, monitor your ageing to see if any claims are old- do not allow this to occur after the filing limit because it\u2019s really tough to get that money. And if your billing\n[or coded] for a surgeon, it\u2019s not $50, you may be talking $2500 and they won\u2019t be happy with you. And that\u2019s it!\nLaureen: Very good. I really like the graphics and showing those examples. One thing I wanted to clarify that came up because we do have a lot of newbies on the call, to do coding, you don\u2019t have to do billing and vice versa. They do complement each other, coding is a part of billing; but we don\u2019t normally do a lot of billing topics but we\u2019re starting to because we have a lot more billing students than we ever had and a lot of people want to have multiple skills and even though they might not actually do billing as part of their job. They want to understand all of the pieces because it makes them a more valuable employee.\nSome people do coding with auditing or coding and they get into risk adjustment, so there are multiple things that you can do in this industry. And because this call is kind of a hodgepodge of everything, we try and answer questions in all different areas, so for those who are currently taking our coding course and are freaking out thinking now they got to do billing, no you don\u2019t have to. You can, if you want to have multiple certifications, they do complement each other, and it\u2019s neat to know when you code things and off it goes to get paid, all the work that has to be done on the end of that. You\u2019re doing the coding upfront, but then billing has to take over and get it processed and post the payments and all that fun stuff.\nRelated Timely Filing for Claims and Appeals Posts:\nJennifer Costello September 22, 2016 at 1:23 am\t- Reply\nWonderful explanation and easy to follow examples. It is nice to hear from someone who has worked in the industry for a while and even has their own billing service. Thank you for taking the time to put this together JoAnne.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 20607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cederbergbrietzke.com/notices/Jackie-Gilley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:54Z", "digest": "sha1:G7RTG2A67YXA4BZSXZUE757O3HFJKYWI", "length": 457, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cederbergbrietzke.com", "title": "Obituary for Jackie Dale Gilley | Cederberg Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Jackie Dale Gilley of Prudenville, MI passed away January 23, 2019 at the age of 65 years. He was born January 28, 1953 in Chattanooga, TN to Norma Jean Gilley. He was a carpenter by trade in the construction industry prior to his retirement. He served in the U. S. Army in the 1970\u2019s.\nHe is survived by two sons, Cory Gilley and Shawn Gilley and one daughter, Raquel (Gilley) Maclin and 11 grandchildren.\nMemorial Service will be announced at a later date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 85.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.championbets.com.au/featured/bob-voulgaris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CZDYNWHW7NFLVTX53OC37MFXS54UJ64Y", "length": 5334, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.championbets.com.au", "title": "How A Big Punter Stays Ahead Of The NBA Game - Champion Bets", "raw_content": "Home Sports Betting Bob Voulgaris: How A Big Punter Stays Ahead Of The NBA Game\nBob Voulgaris: How A Big Punter Stays Ahead Of The NBA Game\nA profile of one of the most successful NBA punters in the world.\nBy the time Bob Voulgaris was 25 years old, he was regularly putting down over $1 million in bets each day on the NBA. He is now one of the most well-known and successful sports bettors on the planet.\nWhat\u2019s even more impressive is that he has shown that he can not only sniff out an edge, but also adapt and find new ways to win over time.\nVoulgaris was born in 1975 and introduced to gambling by his father when they first took a trip to Las Vegas. By his own admission his father was a terrible gambler. He would bet on anything from card games to the hottest penny stock of the day.\nWhile Bob Voulgaris was only 18 years old and not allowed on the gambling floor to watch his father play blackjack, he spent his time watching NBA at the Caesars Palace sportsbook. It was during that time that he was really able to both observe the game itself and also those betting on it.\nThe time spent in Vegas with his father sparked something inside Voulgaris and from that moment on he spent every waking hour consumed by the idea of finding an edge and betting on it.\nIn the late 90\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s Voulgaris hit his strides as a punter after he found a huge edge over the bookmakers. As he knows well, it\u2019s tough to beat the house. So when you find something that works you need to milk it for all its worth, and Voulgaris certainly did.\nHe uncovered the simple way that bookmakers set their half-time totals. At the time bookies simply took what they thought was the likely full-time score and cut it in half. However, basketball isn\u2019t as simple as that.\nIn the final term when the games are tight there are often higher scores than expected. Timeouts, numerous trips to the free throw line and players getting fouled out make for higher scoring quarters.\nAs a result, basketball needed to be viewed as separate quarters when looking at the points totals and not as an entire game. The edge that Voulgaris had at the time was huge and he hit it hard. He was winning 70% of the time which is a phenomenal strike-rate in a two-way bet. He won millions of dollars over a five year period. Voulgaris has said his only regret was that he didn\u2019t bet bigger.\nHowever like all edges, they come and go. By 2004 the bookmakers had sharpened up their totals lines and Voulgaris started to lose, and lose big. After having such a sustained successful run he wasn\u2019t prepared for the losses. He\u2019s admitted to going on \u2018tilt\u2019, or what we might call chasing.\nAfter dropping a number of large bets he eventually realised that his edge was gone and he needed to go back to the drawing board. So he did what smart punters do in this situation, which is to step away from betting.\nThe Ewing Theory\nBy 2005 Voulgaris realised that the only way to gain a decent edge was to build a computer model. There had been stories floating around about the successful computer-based gambling teams operating in Las Vegas and Hong Kong and Voulgaris knew he needed to build his own.\nSo in 2005 he took his decent bankroll and got to work. He knew he couldn\u2019t do it alone so he started looking for a maths and stats whiz to work on the project. After much trial and error, he eventually plucked a national maths champ from the hedge fund world and they set about building their own model.\nEarly on it was slow going and it took two years to roll out version 1.0. They named it Ewing after the \u201cEwing Theory\u201d, which suggests that when a team\u2019s overrated superstar leaves, the team, in fact, plays better.\nVoulgaris continued betting based on his own nous while the model was being built.\nThe goal of the Ewing model was to be able to take any two teams and simulate a match to the point that it could churn out an accurate predicted scoreline. That meant they had to break the game down to possessions and assess the game on a play-by-play basis.\nThis was a great time for Voulgaris to begin building his own model, as only a few years prior the NBA began releasing detailed statistics on the games that previously weren\u2019t publicly available. By the time he got underway there was enough data available to build reliable models and do some testing.\nBy 2008 the model was ready, although the initial results were anything but impressive. They had an edge but it didn\u2019t convince Voulgaris that it was all that remarkable. The team spent the offseason trying out another \u2018secret\u2019 tweak to the model and by 2009 things really started to take off. Ewing 2.0 began crushing it and the results were outstanding.\nThe model was finding about 1000 bets per season and in the 2010-2011 NBA season, Ewing produced a 6% ROI. However, performance has slowly declined since then. In 2011-2012 it produced a 5.14% ROI. Each year the returns have decreased, therefore the number of bets must increase to maintain the same profits.\nThese days Voulgaris continues to bet on the NBA as well as playing some high stakes poker. There\u2019s no doubt he is one of the most successful punters on the planet and has the ability to not only find an edge but also adapt to the changing betting landscape.\nJoin NBA Specials Today:\nJoin NBA Specials now for $169/month\nRead more about NBA Specials", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 8152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cheaptickets.com/events/matchups/cincinnati-reds-vs-new-york-yankees", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:31Z", "digest": "sha1:UXRDDCESQLRXZZ77NAROT2CJMVTXD6AG", "length": 167, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cheaptickets.com", "title": "Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees Rivalry | Schedule and Tickets | CheapTickets.com", "raw_content": "Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees Tickets\nPlease check back in the future for Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees tickets.\nCincinnati Reds vs. San Francisco Giants", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chemistryhelpcenter.org/courses/organic-chemistry/lessons/drawing-organic-molecules-structures-molecular-representations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:M3BQKRJE7ULUAXAZNSCICKRAP2Q77NT5", "length": 643, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.chemistryhelpcenter.org", "title": "Drawing and Reading Organic Molecules Structures \u2014 Chemistry Help Center", "raw_content": "Organic chemistry is a molecular science and molecular representations are extremely important for organic chemists. As a students of organic chemistry you want to master all types of organic molecules representations. The most common ones are:\nCondensed Structures\nFor the most part, you\u2019ll be dealing with the line structures. However, other types are also common and will pop up in your course and your textbook from time to time, so you should be able to recognize those as well and know how to deal with them.\nIn this topic we\u2019ll go over all these types and discuss their pros and cons and when to use different molecular representations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 157.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cheneyfreepress.com/story/2019/01/24/sports/sports-week/24279.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6GCCOK4NQS5Z3FLJPTW4NJLNIPGXUEZ5", "length": 642, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cheneyfreepress.com", "title": "Sports Week - Cheney Free Press", "raw_content": "Dates and times of activities are subject to change. For updated information call the Cheney High School activity line at 559-4120, the Medical Lake High School activity line at 565-3232, or visit the websites below\nThursday, Jan. 24, EWU at Portland State, 7:05 p.m.\nSaturday, Jan. 26, EWU at Sacramento State, 7:05 p.m.\nThursday, Jan. 24, EWU hosts Portland State, 11:05 a.m.\nSaturday, Jan. 26, EWU hosts Sacramento State, 2:05 p.m.\nFriday, Jan. 25, Medical Lake at Deer Park, 7:15 p.m.\nTuesday, Jan 29, Medical Lake at Newport, 7:15 p.m.\nTuesday, Jan. 29, Cheney hosts East Valley, 7 p.m.\nFriday, Jan. 25, Medical Lake at Deer Park, 5:3...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 188.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chess.com/news/view/fairfield-county-open-speed-chess-tournament", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FEEML63EJC7T3H6WZ3CG77CTOQ7JPDWD", "length": 1539, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.chess.com", "title": "Fairfield County Open Speed Chess Tournament - Chess.com", "raw_content": "Fairfield County Open Speed Chess Tournament\nMr-Patrick\nThe inaugural Fairfield County Open Speed Chess Tournament was held in the grand ballroom of the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center in Norwalk, CT on October 14, 2007. Some of the best players in the tri-state area battled for the $800 prize fund. The field included 5 masters and 4 experts.\nFIDE Master James Critelli of Darien, CT tied for first and took the title through tiebreaks. This is just the latest of Critelli's stunning achievements in the chess world. The teenager is currently the highest rated 16 year old in the nation (2372).\nFIDE Master Farai Mandizha a native of Zimbabwe and resident of New York City, tied for first with a total of 6 out of 7. This new face to local chess players will not soon be forgotten by the victims of his speed and precision. Mandizha was the highest rated player in the tournament (2405).\nFIDE Master Rico Salimbagat of Elmhurst, NY took clear third. Salimbagat posted the only victory against Critelli. His aggressive style was good for 5 1/2 out of 7.\nLocal player Ian Harris (2004 CT High School Champion) and Jeff Lawrence of Monroe, CT tied for fourth.\nThe scholastic section was headed by expert Harry Wheeler of Easton, CT followed by Santiago Montoya of Norwalk, CT and Kurt Rubin of Wilton, CT.\nMelvin Patrick, the sponsor of the event, was impressed by the strength of the competition and encouraged by the extremely positive feedback from the participants. \"It looks like this could be the start of something big\" said Patrick.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/ct-redeye-xpm-2013-05-31-39661299-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZCXYUNFDTF46GBVGW7FJMPRIYXDRFW4", "length": 919, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "Warning to Lawndale drugstores: Burglars might cut in - RedEye Chicago", "raw_content": "Warning to Lawndale drugstores: Burglars might cut in\nIt sounds like a maneuver out of a cartoon: burglars cutting holes in walls to steal from their local drugstore.\nBut police officials said in a community alert Friday afternoon that some burglars in Lawndale are doing just that to break into Walgreens drugstores.\nPolice said the burglars forcibly entered two stores on the Southwest side this May by cutting holes in adjacent building walls. They used the holes to enter the stores and exit again with merchandise.\nStolen goods included money, cigarettes, and CTA fare cards, police said.\nOfficials said they do not have any information about the number of offenders, their genders or ages.\nBoth burglaries occured in the early morning; The first took place at the Walgreens at 4005 West 26th Street at 5:30 a.m., and the second took place at the Walgreens at 3045 West 26th Street on May 27th between 3 and 7 a.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christianfilipina.com/433934", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XVFP5QSCITRH4BCY2YOJJJENWNYPIRSD", "length": 313, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.christianfilipina.com", "title": "Jim (user 433934)", "raw_content": "Location: Palm Springs, CA, United States\nI would like to find a good woman who would like to enjoy life and have a great life with me, lots of laughing and having fun, I enjoy life and would like a good woman to marry, looking for a fun loving god loving woman who wants a good kind loving man to enjoy life with", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chron.com/news/article/Gray-Post-office-parcel-is-a-gift-from-our-past-3305569.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2J7U7WFWRCNXY2WS4CNSSQ25LVB7N2LI", "length": 6359, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.chron.com", "title": "Gray: Post-office parcel is a gift from our past - Houston Chronicle", "raw_content": "https://www.chron.com/news/article/Post-office-parcel-is-a-gift-from-our-past-3305569.php\nGray: Post-office parcel is a gift from our past\nUpdated 5:25 pm CDT, Monday, April 2, 2012\nThere are rumblings that the downtown post office, which opened in 1962 to much fanfare, may be sold. The 16-acre parcel of land is where many things could converge: the bayou, light rail, bike paths and Amtrak.\nThere are rumblings that the downtown post office, which opened in 1962 to much fanfare, may be sold. The 16-acre parcel of land is where many things could converge: the bayou, light rail, bike paths and\nPhoto: Nick De La Torre\nHow different was Houston in 1962? Imagine this: People were thrilled about a big, expensive new post office. In 1962 Texas, big and expensive were always good. And post offices were important.\nFor months, the city's newspapers reported breathlessly on the complex under construction at 401 Franklin, at the north edge of downtown.\n\"The House That 4-Cent Stamps Built,\" as a headline in the old Houston Press dubbed the \"rambling, palatial structure,\" was believed to be the most modern post office in the country. More than five miles of conveyor belts would carry mail inside the enormous long, low factorylike block where mail would be sorted - a place \"so big that electric scooters are being provided for executives to make their rounds.\"\nThe new post office's public face, though, wasn't the sprawling two-story factory block, but the little five-story office building that stood front and center of it. Designed, like all of the complex, by Houston architecture firm Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson, the building was proudly modern, with its upper floors covered by a cast-concrete screen - an assertion that Houston looked not to the past, but to the future.\nView from a plaza\nThe complex's opening ceremonies were \"like the coming of Halley's Comet,\" enthused the Press. \"What Houston-ians watched today at 401 Franklin will not be repeated in their lifetime.\" The new post office, the article proclaimed, was a \"five-story alabaster beauty.\"\nTo a city in love with its own future, the complex symbolized great things: growth, change and modernity. President John F. Kennedy, in a message read by Rep. Albert Thomas, called it \"an important forward step in the progress and development of one of this country's largest and most important cities.\" And Deputy Postmaster General H.W. Brawley pronounced it a symbol of the progress that had swept Houston forward \"with the force of a tidal wave.\"\nThe post office's front plaza - a super-modern affair designed by landscape architect Fred Buxton - had the rare advantage of height, elevated on a bayou bank to look out over pancake-flat Houston. And on that opening day, when celebrants admired downtown, they had a terrific view of the Houston skyline - a skyline dominated by brick and stone, a skyline whose tallest building was 36 stories. The tidal-wave future was only getting started. And the post-office plaza was the perfect place to watch it roll in.\nThings converge\nFifty years later, that future is here, and Houston is a wildly different place. We no longer think that it's good for a government building to be \"palatial.\" Post offices strike us as throwbacks to the pre-digital age. And the city's future no longer seems guaranteed. These days, progress feels hard-won. The tidal wave might sweep us forward, but if we're not careful, it could flatten us instead.\nIn the past couple of years, there have been rumblings that the U.S. Postal Service plans to leave 401 Franklin and sell the 16-acre complex - a prospect that sets developers, architects and planners atremble. It's not just that the parcel of land is large enough to form its own downtown district. It's also that the land is a place where many things could converge: Buffalo Bayou, Houston's light-rail line, bike paths, even Amtrak and proposed commuter-rail lines. Done right, that post-office complex could become a major hub of activity - a symbol of sweet progress, at a time when we no longer count on it.\nThe Urban Land Institute, a national group that promotes good development, last month picked the complex as the project for its 2012 Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Graduate-student teams from across the country will dream up new uses for the old post-office site in hopes of winning the $50,000 prize.\nThe competition is hypothetical; there's no plan to build the winner's idea. But even so, the competition alarmed Houston preservationists, who worry that in describing the site, the contest organizers seem to encourage razing it and starting with a clean slate. In Houston, such hypothetical ideas have a way of becoming realities.\nStephen Fox, Houston's best-known architectural historian, emailed other preservationists to alert them to the whispered threat. The post office, he noted, won a Design Award from the Texas Society of Architects in 1963. It is, he wrote, \"an outstanding work of mid-century civic architecture,\" and as of this year, would be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.\nKeep memories alive\nFox thinks interesting things could be done not just with the \"alabaster beauty\" office building (now sadly in need of TLC), but also with the enormous low-slung industrial building where mail was once sorted.\n\"Can you imagine a green roof there?\" he asks. \"There's lots of room for plantings.\"\nRamona Davis, head of the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, suggests that the five-story office building should be repurposed in part as an Amtrak station. Houston's current one - an unassuming little building a block away - is \"an embarrassment,\" she wrote.\nArchitect Ben Koush, who's working on a book about Houston's modern architecture, worries that the front plaza, with its astounding view of downtown, could be lost. Landscapes from the 1960s are already rare, he notes, and this one was particularly well matched to its building.\nAt any rate, I'm hoping that the student teams take note. Rehabilitating buildings is far more ecologically sensitive than razing and building from scratch. But it's also good for a city's soul; it keeps its memories alive. And this particular place, built just as Houston was coming into its heyday, is a reminder of a time when the future seemed nothing but bright.\nlisa.gray@chron.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 12447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/graeme-souness-offers-inside-story-15194437", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:OIAGSLN6PPZYIY7QLNIT6AUX4SNVRXHK", "length": 4861, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.chroniclelive.co.uk", "title": "Graeme Souness offers the inside story on Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer's infamous fight at Newcastle - Chronicle Live", "raw_content": "Graeme Souness offers the inside story on Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer's infamous fight at Newcastle\nIn April 2005, Newcastle United team-mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer infamously exchanged blows out on the pitch\nKieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer\u2019s infamous fight came about due to \u201cpanic setting in\u201d among Newcastle United players, believes Graeme Souness.\nThe former Scotland international was Magpies manager at the time of the incident, and watched on as Dyer and Bowyer exchanged blows 10 minutes from the end of Newcastle\u2019s 3-0 defeat at home to Aston Villa in April 2005.\nIn his recently-released autobiography, Dyer revealed that he told Bowyer he was \u201cf****** s***\u201d after his fellow midfielder had claimed he never passed him the ball.\nThe pair then fought on the pitch, and were eventually separated by players from both Newcastle and Villa - including United captain Alan Shearer.\nSouness, meanwhile, screamed at the pair and urged them to stop but, having already walked on to the pitch, knew he was helpless to end the fight for fear he too would be sent off.\nLee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer of Newcastle come to blows (Image: 2005 Getty Images)\nAfter the game, Souness reprimanded both players and made them come out and face the media during the post-match Press conference so that they could attempt to explain their actions.\n\u201cThe referee! No, I don\u2019t know, it was both of them,\u201d Souness said when asked by Paddy Power about who started the infamous fight,\n\u201cWe\u2019d gone behind and the nervousness and frustration was building in the stadium - and then panic sets in.\n\u201cSomeone didn\u2019t pass to the other one and he shouted at him, and then the two of them turned \u2013 and I\u2019m now out of my seat, walking to the touchline; I could see the two of them walking towards each other and their heads had gone.\n\u201cI was actually on the pitch as they exchanged blows, but I couldn\u2019t go any further or I\u2019d be sent off as well.\n\u201cThey were full of remorse afterwards. I got them into the Press conference and said: \u2018Don\u2019t be asking me what happened, here they are, ask them.\u2019 And they couldn\u2019t answer it. It was just one of those things; they were off their heads.\nManager Graeme Souness of Newcastle United on February 1, 2006 (Image: Getty Images)\n\u201cWhen you meet footballers, they can be a certain type on the pitch, but off the pitch they might be a nice guy. That applies to those two,\n\u201cI liked both of them, they were good lads. But on the pitch they had to get themselves in the zone, where it was borderline they could explode.\u201d\nSouness managed Newcastle for two years, having succeeded Sir Bobby Robson, but the Scot was sacked in February 2006 with the Magpies 15th in the Premier League.\nAnd the 65-year-old admits that his negative experience at St James\u2019 Park convinced him to retire from management - stressing that he was unable to \u201cmassage the egos\u201d of modern-day footballers.\nFrom Shearer vs Gillespie and Bowyer vs Dyer to Beresford vs Keegan - a history of NUFC bust ups\nA combative midfielder during his playing days, Souness is a fiery character as a manager and he accepts he would struggle to be a \u201cdiplomat\u201d as he believes managers need to be nowadays.\n\u201cI reckon I don\u2019t have the personality to be a manager in the modern game,\u201d Souness explained.\n\u201cYou have to be more of a diplomat today than ever before, you have to massage egos today like you never had to before, and that wouldn\u2019t be my style.\n\u201cI\u2019d find it very hard not to just say what I felt was the truth, which might be things they don\u2019t want to hear.\n\u201cI had eight jobs and only got sacked three times. In management, you get sacked on a regular basis and, today, you might get half a season.\n\u201cBut I made my mind up, after being sacked by Newcastle, that I no longer had the personality for management.\n\u201cI think today in management you\u2019re called the boss and that\u2019s in name only. The players run the football club, because of their transfer values and the salaries they get paid. They are the ones that call the shots.\n\u201cTo have a successful football club, you have to have some good senior pros, otherwise the mad men are running the asylum. You really have to have good pros if you\u2019ve got any chance of being successful.\nDyer vs Bowyer 2.0? Shocking scenes in France evokes memories of one of Newcastle's darkest days\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard being a manager today. I don\u2019t know how I would\u2019ve been if I was getting the cash some of these boys get at 19 or 20.\n\u201cI think, in any walk of life, if you give someone too much too soon, they get in their armchair and put their feet up, and football\u2019s no different.\n\u201cSo it\u2019s really important you have those senior pros to tell the younger lads: \u2018No, this is how you do it if you want to be a top man.\u2019\u201d\nGraeme Souness was speaking exclusively to Paddy Power at their Museum of Mischief, celebrating the brand\u2019s 30th birthday. To read more, visit news.paddypower.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 14171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chsstudentconnection.com/staff/?writer=Ely%20Shepherd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BKSLOY26CP2KLU2QKPF4MHIZWUHBIUXU", "length": 621, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.chsstudentconnection.com", "title": "Staff \u2013 CHS Student Connection", "raw_content": "Hello, my name is Ely Shepherd. I am 17 years old; I attend high school at Corsicana High School. Although it is my last year of high school, I am a part of the AV Tech class and The Newspaper. I enjoy writing and anything and everything that has to do with film or music. After high school, I plan on moving to Austin, TX to start a career in possibly either writing, acting, or film. College is not yet on my agenda, but when I figure it out, I will let you know. Have a nice day.\nCHS Student Council Honored (Story)\nFriday Night Lights (Story)\nPowder Puff 2018 (Story)\nKristina Pedersen (Story)\nHallway Traffic (Story)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.churchtrainingacademy.com/category/blog/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UHIAEDHKB6U6V6K6YJGFH4OTZOJMSELJ", "length": 1104, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.churchtrainingacademy.com", "title": "Blog Archives | Page 10 of 10 | Church Training Academy", "raw_content": "How To Re-purpose Your Church\u2019s Live Stream for Maximum Impact\nAs ministers and church staff, everything we work on during the week seems to be pointed to and focused at our Sunday Morning service. Sunday School teachers, Worship leaders, the Band, the Youth Pastor and definitely the Lead Pastor are all preparing lessons, music and sermons all for the 4-5 hour window between 8 am [\u2026]\nShould Your Church Live Stream? Is it Worth it?\nWe\u2019re not sure if we should start live streaming our services. We don\u2019t know how many people will use it. It may not be \u2018worth it\u2019\u2026 I\u2019ve heard this more times than I really can believe. Many small and medium sized churches, understandably, aren\u2019t sure if putting ministry resources, money and staff or volunteers, [\u2026]\nMEVO by Livestream Android Beta and 4k Recording!\nI\u2019m here at NAB this week working with Livestream and they\u2019ve just announced some GREAT improvements to the awesome MEVO streaming camera. The more I play with this the more I\u2019m loving it. We\u2019ve had one at our church since it came out, and now, the functionality is EVEN more awesome! 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Lessons learned from Clinton's impeachment, 20 years later\nImpeach Trump? As the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton's impeachment nears, combatants past and present look at lessons learned.\nImpeach Trump? Lessons learned from Clinton's impeachment, 20 years later Impeach Trump? As the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton's impeachment nears, combatants past and present look at lessons learned. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/18/20-years-after-clinton-impeachment-lessons-loom-trump-congress-russia/2287529002/\nSusan Page, USA TODAY Published 9:39 p.m. ET Dec. 18, 2018 | Updated 2:49 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2018\nUSA TODAY's Susan Page delivers three lessons from the President Clinton impeachment in 1998 that are relevant today. USA TODAY\nFirst lady Hillary Rodham Clinton watches President Clinton pause as he thanks Democratic members of the House of Representatives who voted against impeachment in this Dec. 19, 1998, file photo.(Photo11: Susan Walsh, AP)\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Democrats who are contemplating impeaching President Donald Trump after they take control of the House of Representatives next month are considering a cautionary tale: what happened the last time a president was impeached.\nPresident Bill Clinton survived, but his top accuser, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, didn't, and it was the Republican Party that lost seats in the next election.\n\"Impeachment is hell,\" warned independent counsel Ken Starr, whose exhaustive investigative report on Clinton was the basis for the House vote, taken precisely 20 years ago Wednesday. Starr thought through all that happened in writing his new book, Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation. With the benefit of hindsight, he said in an interview, \"The better call would have been a resolution of censure,\" a measure that would have expressed disapproval of the president's actions but left him in office.\nTrent Lott, then the Senate majority leader, was one of 45 senators who voted to convict Clinton, but he has second thoughts of his own. \"I do think he made mistakes,\" Lott said in an interview. \"But in retrospect, I think it probably should not have been done.\"\nOutraged by allegations of perjury, obstruction of justice and sexual misbehavior leveled against the president, Clinton's political opponents argued that impeachment was the right course for the country. House Republicans impeached Clinton, but the Senate refused to convict him.\nThere are calls to impeach Trump over allegations that he colluded with Russians during the 2016 campaign, obstructed investigations and violated campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women. Last week, his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to prison for making those payments to suppress publicity about accusations of sexual trysts. Tuesday, Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn was in court, where he asked to postpone his sentencing for lying to the FBI about the Russia investigation.\nAs Washington waits for special counsel Robert Mueller's report, the I-word is in the air \u2013 and memories of the case of Clinton are a major factor in the debate.\nMore: Clinton impeachment: 20 years later, where are key figures from historic battle?\nMore: Poll: Pardon me? Most say Trump should be impeached if he pardons himself\nSuccess rate low, unintended consequences high\nRepublicans who played key roles in impeaching the president 20 years ago warned that the possibility of success is low and the prospect of unintended consequences high. Those lessons reinforced caution among top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is likely to be elected speaker in January, and New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is likely to chair the Judiciary Committee.\nThe House vote on Dec. 19, 1998, was just the second time in U.S. history that the House had voted to impeach a president. Both presidents survived Senate trials \u2013 Clinton in 1999 and Andrew Johnson in 1868. (In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in the face of his likely impeachment amid the Watergate scandal.)\nNadler was a junior congressman during Clinton's impeachment. He became one of the president's fiercest defenders, denouncing his impeachment as a \"partisan coup d'etat.\" He is poised to chair the committee that would consider Articles of Impeachment against Trump.\nHe urged Democrats to proceed with care. The question is not only whether the president committed an impeachable offense, he said, but also whether the offense is so serious that it can convince his own supporters that he should be removed from office. Trump would need to hold 34 of the 53 Republican senators to prevail in a Senate trial.\n\"Impeachment is hell,\" warned independent counsel Ken Starr, whose exhaustive investigative report on Clinton was the basis for the House vote. (Photo11: The Associated Press)\nTwo decades ago, when Starr submitted his report, Eric Swalwell was a 17-year-old high-school senior in California. Now he's part of the House Democratic leadership and a member of the Judiciary Committee. The consequences of Clinton's impeachment aren't lost on him, either.\n\"No one is above the law,\" Swalwell said in an interview. \"But you have to balance that against the reality of whether what you're seeking to do would be successful. If you're just doing it to score political points and you know you would never have support from the Senate, then I don't know if that's good for the country.\"\nFor him, he said, there would need to be \"an impenetrable case\" against the president that commanded bipartisan support and reflected a consensus across the country.\nA disruption of democracy\nImpeachment is a disruption of democracy, holding officials accountable by overturning the results of an election. In Article II of the Constitution, the founders made impeachment easy, requiring only a simple majority in the House. But they made conviction difficult, requiring two-thirds of the Senate.\nThey left the grounds for impeachment, of \"high crimes and misdemeanors,\" open to the best judgment of the day.\nHistorian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of \"Impeachment: An American History,\" calls impeachment \"the framers' safeguard, a nuclear option provided to halt tyranny and corruption at the top, to employ a term they would neither have employed or understood.\"\nThe accusations against Trump echo those the founders had in mind, he said, especially their fear that a president might be corrupted by foreign influence.\n\"I think the founders would be surprised that he hasn't already been impeached,\" Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, said in an interview. He noted that the polarized politics of today and the solidity of Trump's core support make conviction a distant prospect, whatever the charges.\nCount that among the lessons from Clinton's impeachment.\nFormer president Bill Clinton sits down with USA TODAY's Susan Page in White Plains, N.Y., on May 21, 2018. (Photo11: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY)\n\"The No. 1 takeaway I have is that nobody comes out looking good in the end,\" Engel said. \"I'm struck by how all the leaders of the Republican leadership who went after Clinton found themselves resigned or disgraced or both.\"\nThe costs for Clinton's accusers were high. Starr, who served as solicitor general and a federal Appeals Court judge, said the controversy that surrounded his role as independent counsel prevented him from being considered for a Supreme Court appointment. Gingrich, who acknowledged he was \"stunned\" when Republicans lost seats in the 1998 midterms amid the impeachment debate, resigned. Georgia Rep. Bob Barr, who filed the first impeachment charges, saw allegations of his own marital infidelity aired by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.\n\"I suppose the lesson there is if you have those sorts of problems, personal problems, you probably ought not to be taking a high-profile stance on an issue like the impeachment,\" Barr said in an interview, though he argued it was right to impeach Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. \"It certainly impacted my family, and that was unfortunate.\"\nThose cautions aside, some analysts and some voters assume Democrats will impeach Trump. \"It's inevitable,\" said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist and former aide to House Speaker John Boehner, citing pressure from the Democrats' most liberal voices. \"They won't be able to stop themselves.\"\nA 54 percent majority of Americans predicted in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll taken in October that if Democrats won control of the House, they would seriously consider impeaching the president. More than a third of those surveyed, 39 percent, said they supported the idea themselves, including more than two-thirds of Democrats.\nIncoming New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a leader among the new class of liberal Democrats, said on Capitol Hill that Trump has \"far surpassed\" the standards Republicans used to impeach Clinton. Would it be premature to impeach Trump? \"Not to me,\" she said.\nBillionaire activist Tom Steyer, who is considering a presidential bid, invested millions of dollars in a group called Need to Impeach, airing TV ads that call Trump \"dangerous\" and his impeachment \"a moral responsibility.\"\nDuring the midterm campaign, Steyer's campaign annoyed some top Democrats who saw it as a distraction at least and damaging at most, especially for candidates in swing districts. Most Democratic leaders, including former President Jimmy Carter, urged the party's candidates to focus on issues such as health care and to defer making pronouncements on impeachment until Mueller filed his report.\nPelosi urged Democratic colleagues who pushed for impeachment to give Mueller the time and space he needs to complete his inquiry. Associates said Pelosi, a California congresswoman when Clinton was impeached, noted that in the last impeachment, it was the House speaker who lost his seat, not the president.\n'People would revolt'\nPresident Donald Trump could face a hostile House come January. (Photo11: Carlos Osorio, AP)\nOne central player in today's drama doesn't seem to be looking for lessons from the past: Trump.\n\"It's hard to impeach somebody who hasn't done anything wrong and who's created the greatest economy in the history of our country,\" the president told Reuters in an Oval Office interview last week. \"I'm not concerned, no. I think that the people would revolt if that happened.\"\nEven so, NBC News reported that Trump told friends he was alarmed about the prospect of impeachment.\nGingrich, a Trump ally, said the president hasn't been interested in talking about Clinton's strategy of survival. \"He couldn't care less,\" Gingrich said in an interview. Trump trusts his instincts and has honed his own style. \"For 30 years now, Trump has been very successful as a counterpuncher. He has a New Yorker's attitude about fighting\" and a willingness to \"pound his way\" through challenges.\n\"What he doesn't have is a capacity to be passive,\" Gingrich said. \"Trump believes, probably correctly, he's his own best communicator and if he keeps his base revved up, he will not be convicted, period. He will be president, period.\"\nA New USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows that most Americans think that President Trump doesn\u2019t have the power to pardon himself. The poll shows that more than half of Americans, including almost a third of Republicans, would back impeachment if he issues himself a pardon. 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In a letter to the board of directors, he questioned Thompson\u2019s character and ability to lead before demanding his termination. It\u2019s unclear whether that firing will come, but in an effort to move past the controversy, Thompson sent out a memo to all Yahoo employees apologizing for what happened.\nAccording to The San Francisco Chronicle, the CEO\u2019s letter didn\u2019t address why the discrepancy may have been on his resume, but it did take responsibility for what happened. More than likely, he\u2019ll have to go in front of the board of directors and explain his actions, but in a perfect world, he probably wouldn\u2019t have to do so publicly as well.\nBy most accounts, Thompson has really done a wonderful job since taking over earlier this year. 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Historically, international law relating to disasters could be found in disparate regional and sub-regional treaties, bilateral agreements and soft law. In recent years, a more coherent body of international disaster response law (IDRL) has emerged, primarily through the work of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and of the International Law Commission. This IDRL has emerged through a number of techniques which, although often utilized in practice, do not conform to the traditional processes of law-making. These include the use of analogy; the development of a multilateral standard, which is ascertained through extrapolation from consistent piecemeal standards; the elucidation of a \u2018normative framework\u2019; and the resort to state-empowered entities. 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As they \u201cage out\u201d of the foster care system, these young men and young women are discharged from the state-supported care upon which they have depended for much of their lives.\nTypically, foster youth in metropolitan Orlando turn 18 with:\nNo family support system.\nWe estimate that in metro Orlando approximately 150 young people in foster \"age out\" each year. These young people face many challenges in their pursuit of happy, stable and productive lives.\nThe City of Life Foundation was founded in 2002 for the purpose of offering former foster youth tools, opportunities and a chance to pursue their dreams. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 corporation made up of a volunteer board and one full-time employee interested in making a positive difference in the lives of young people, especially foster youth, age 16 and older as they make transition to adulthood.\nThe Foundation works with existing community resources to build self-sustaining programs that provides jobs and structure for former foster youth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clarity-singapore.org/web1/index.php/list-of-events/list-of-events/icalrepeat.detail/2018/12/11/516/-/yes-interest-group", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:14Z", "digest": "sha1:463PWR6G6SCMXGIXOLPGTREKBSRUFCVM", "length": 97, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.clarity-singapore.org", "title": "YES Interest Group", "raw_content": "This is a closed group workshop.\nFor more information about this workshop, please call 6757 7990.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cleancredit.com.au/index.php/2014/02/16/can-i-really-fix-my-credit-file/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F4I4UQZD3UCJIN2RHAEEIQTST22M546E", "length": 2675, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cleancredit.com.au", "title": "Can I really fix my credit file? - Clean Credit Australia", "raw_content": "The great news is many negative credit listings can be removed from a credit file, like they never existed so the next time that person applies for credit the listing will not show and the credit provider will judge that persons credit worthiness as if the listing never existed.\nSound too good to be true? Think again.\nThe key to effective credit repair and how people can fix their credit file is based on the law. What many people don\u2019t know is prior to a credit provider listing a negative credit listing such as a payment default they must follow a very strict legal process, it is this process that is the key to repairing a credit file.\nEven though this process is documented in legislation such as the Privacy Act and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act it is common for credit providers to make errors when entering a negative credit listing. This does not mean the consumer may not owe money or may have been late making a payment, what I am referring to the process the credit provider followed before they listed the event with the credit reporting agencies.\nFor instance, in most cases a debt must be at least 60 days in arrears before a default can be reported. A correctly structured demand notice giving at least 30 days to pay must be mailed to the client at their last known address. This demand notice is a critical document and must comply with the legislation. This notice must state the amount owed, the date that the payment must be made by and that recovery action may commence if payment is not made. Prior conversations people may have had with the credit provider is also highly relevant as if there was any reference to hardship then a number of other laws may apply such as the Banking Code of Practice.\nIf it can be shown that a credit provider did not follow the required process before the listing a negative credit listing in many cases the offending credit record can be deleted.\nA breach of this process does not need to be large, even a small error such as a date or amount inconstancy is often enough to force the removal of the listing.\nThe key to effective credit repair is having an in-depth knowledge of the laws surrounding credit reporting and how to apply them to the credit listing and process a credit provider followed.\nWhile some people hold this knowledge for the most part there are few that have a solid understanding of credit reporting law and for this reason consulting an expert this this area can make good sense for someone wanting to restore their credit rating.\nIf you have a problem with your credit file and are asking the question, Can I fix my credit, with the right help the answer in many cases is yes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clermontlanap.com/scaling-and-root-planing-clermont-fl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:M5Z34WX54KJDUB5KOLUSKNANDF2J2SZO", "length": 841, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.clermontlanap.com", "title": "Scaling and Root Planing - Clermont, FL - Dr. Jesus Perez", "raw_content": "Scaling and Root Planing - Clermont, FL\nNON-SURGICAL GUM DISEASE TREATMENT: SCALING AND ROOT PLANING\nIf plaque and tartar is left on the teeth, as we mentioned before, it provides the right conditions for bacteria to thrive. The bacteria irritate the gums, which means that they bleed more easily. You may notice this if you are brushing your teeth, or eating, and sometimes your gums may bleed a bit. This is the early stage of gum disease called gingivitis. If you have gingivitis, your dentist or hygienist will clean your teeth by scaling and polishing them. They may also recommend an antiseptic mouthwash containing chlorhexidine (e. g. Corsodyl in the U.K.), and show you how to brush and floss your teeth effectively. Most adults have some degree of gum disease.\nHow Scaling and Root Planing Works\nScaling and Root Plaining in Action", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.clickfh.com/obituaries/Joseph-August-Koenig-Jr?obId=3905369", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XTBI6W5I5BDQ5V52FMMQTWJVHYIL67DI", "length": 5085, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.clickfh.com", "title": "Joseph August Koenig Jr. Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Celebrating the life of Joseph August Koenig Jr.\nObituary for Joseph August Koenig Jr.\nJoseph Koenig, age 94, of Knoxville passed away Thursday afternoon, December 6, 2018, at his home. Joseph was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Joseph and Anna Lucille Koenig. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his daughter, Karen Marie Koenig, and grandson, Patrick Kazee.\nHe enlisted in the US Navy in June, 1943, and was one of the first US Navy Seabees; he served in World War II in the Pacific Theater until 1946. He was very proud of that service and shared that pride in the Seabee traditions with his grandson, Benjamin, a Seabee currently stationed in Gulfport, MS. Two of his children also served in the military\u2014Barbara in the USAF and Mary Beth in the Navy. Joseph was an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati School of Pharmacy, and followed in his father\u2019s footsteps as a pharmacist. He first worked in his father\u2019s drugstore in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later opened his first drugstore in Cincinnati, Ohio. His wife of nearly 50 years, Sheila, worked for him when she graduated from high school; after working together for 10 years, they married on January 21, 1969. Joe and Sheila loved their life together in Cincinnati, and later moved to Tucson, Arizona, with their son, David, where they lived for over 20 years. Joe officially retired while in Arizona; in 1995, they moved to Knoxville, TN.\nJoe and Sheila traveled extensively throughout their marriage together, including to Alaska, the Caribbean, Niagara Falls, Italy, England, and Scotland, and traveled throughout the US on Southwest Airlines with their daughter, Nancy, who is a long-time employee of Southwest. Everywhere Joe went, he would inevitably meet someone he knew\u2026even in Rome in St Peter\u2019s square and at the museum of David in Florence, Italy! In fact, Joe never knew a stranger\u2014he loved to meet people and always had a story to tell. He loved golf, playing several times a week up until the age of 91, and was a longtime member of Beaver Brook Golf and Country Club. He even attended the practice session of the 2004 Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. There is not a room in the house that does not have a piece of golf memorabilia!\nBeside Sheila, Joe\u2019s greatest love was his family\u2014he was involved with nearly every facet of their lives, spent countless holidays with children and grandchildren, attended the wedding of every child and grandchild, baptisms of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, graduations, concerts, football games, and even marching band competitions. He loved all things military, and reveled in visiting military installations; a special joy of his was visiting the Pima County Air Museum aircraft \u201cgraveyard,\u201d where he and his grandson JR spent many hours climbing onto defunct airplanes. He was especially devoted to his disabled son, David, and planned his life around him, ensuring David was well-cared for and enrolled in the best programs available, even to the extent of moving cross-country twice to avail David with the best support. For the last 23 years, Joe and Sheila have been avid supporters and benefactors of Sunshine Industries and Special Olympics, and made a special effort to attend functions and competitions. They have always been tireless advocates for issues affecting mentally disabled adults.\nHe is survived by his beloved wife, Sheila, his brother, Rob, his children and their spouses, David Alan Koenig, Barbara & Alex Ritchey, Nancy Ridder, and Mary Beth Kazee; grandchildren and spouses, Mandy and Brian Stock, Becky and Ben Morrow, Joe and Angie Ridder, Lauren Ridder, Kevin Ridder, Karen Nicole Kazee, and Meghan Kazee; and great-grandchildren, Lydia Stock, Molly Stock, Isabella Stock, Sophie Josephine Morrow, Benjamin Ridder, Jacob Ridder, Andrew Ridder, and Anthony Ridder.\nThe Koenig family would also like to recognize and thank friends and neighbors and fellow parishioners at All Saints Catholic Church, especially Sheila and Joe\u2019s dear friend, Charlene, for her devotion to Dad and Sheila during the times when he needed it most. The staff from Caris Healthcare also were integral in his comfort and well being. Thank you!\nA Mass will be held at All Saints Catholic Church, 620 North Cedar Bluff Road at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11 with Father Miguel Velez Celebrant followed by full military honors conferred by the U S Navy and the East Tennessee Veteran's Honor Guard.\nA short reception will follow in the Parish Hall.\nIn lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sunshine ARC Industries of Knox County, 3000 N Central Avenue, Knoxville TN 37917, or online at www.sunshinekcarc.com\nClick Funeral Home, 9020 Middlebrook Pike, is serving the Koenig family.\nTo send flowers or a remembrance gift to the family of Joseph August Koenig Jr., please visit our Tribute Store.\nShare Joseph August Koenig Jr.'s life celebration\n\"Email Address\" would like to share the life celebration of Joseph August Koenig Jr.. 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Give us a call to discuss your needs and we will provide you with unbiased advice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnb.avocat.fr/en/news/french-national-bar-council-travels-auckland-annual-meeting-and-conference-inter-pacific-bar", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BNTANBRAFDBOUI3543BGU74Y75O3ESXE", "length": 1970, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cnb.avocat.fr", "title": "The French National Bar Council travels to Auckland for the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association | Conseil national des barreaux", "raw_content": "The French National Bar Council travels to Auckland for the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association\nFrom 6 to 9 April, Pascal Eydoux, president of the French National Bar Council, Pascale Modelski, former vice-president of the French National Bar Council, and Philippe-Henri Dutheil, president of the European and International Bar Council went to Auckland to take part in the 27th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA).\nFor several years now, the French National Bar Council has taken part in this event which brings together both ordinal, national, and local institutions, and lawyers from the pacific region.\nAs is customary when travelling abroad, the French National Bar Council held discussions (by telephone) with Her Excellency the Ambassador of France to New Zealand, Ms. Florence Jeanblanc-Risler. This meeting made it possible to broach various subjects, such as the region\u2019s major economic issues, the strengthening of continental law, Brexit, and France\u2019s presence in the pacific area.\nPascal Eydoux and Philippe-Henri Dutheil in a telephone meeting with the Ambassador of France in New Zealand\nWe may recall that France is present in the region, notably via the Bars of Papeete and Noum\u00e9a. The Bar Presidents and other representatives of the Bars of New Caledonia and Papeete responded to the call of President Eydoux to marshal French lawyers and strengthen their presence in the region and their attendance at international meetings, and came to join the French National Bar Council\u2019s delegation.\nThe French delegation to the IPBA\u2019s Conference\nThe subject of the conference, \u201cConnectivity & Convergence\u201d, highlighted technological advances which are accelerating the current legal services system and the legal profession. Consequently, the central focus of discussions was the need to converge and to harmonise legislation and cross-border procedures in this highly developed economic area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/16/globe-newswire-us-global-investors-inc-reports-results-for-fiscal-year-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HEC33N23MQNIACEITOC66OIN2M7OXJ3U", "length": 12093, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "U.S. Global Investors, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal Year 2015", "raw_content": "U.S. Global Investors, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal Year 2015\nSAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (NASDAQ:GROW), a boutique registered investment advisory firm with longstanding experience in global markets and specialized sectors, today reported a net loss of $4.0 million, or $(0.26) per share, on operating revenues of $9.4 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. For the fiscal year 2014, U.S. Global Investors recorded a net loss of $970,000, or $(0.06) per share, on operating revenues of $11.4 million. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, the company had a net loss of $2.1 million, or $(0.13) per share, on operating revenues of $1.9 million.\nThe fiscal 2015 results include the impact of a non-cash tax expense of $1.9 million, or $(0.12) per share, of which $1.2 million, or $(0.08) per share, was included in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015.\nOn June 30, 2015, total assets under management as of period end were $792 million compared to $1.23 billion on June 30, 2014, a decrease of 36 percent. The decrease in total assets under management was primarily due to market depreciation in resource related assets and redemptions in mutual funds. On a positive note, the decrease in assets was partially offset by the launch of the company's first exchange traded fund (ETF), the U.S Global Jets ETF. During fiscal 2015, U.S. Global Investors' average assets under management were $931 million, compared to $1.08 billion in fiscal 2014.\nTransforming Through a Year Challenged by a Strong Dollar and Slowing Global Growth\nThe challenges of a prolonged decline in emerging markets, gold and natural resources have dramatically impacted GROW's revenues for the past four years. \"The company will weather this storm by continuing a lean and reflexive cost structure and streamlining operations, while building for the future with innovative and competitive products,\" says Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors, Inc. \"We study global purchasing managers index (PMI) numbers as leading indicators of the future health of the global economy. Until PMIs are positive and constructive, odds favor commodity prices will remain flat or get worse. The cascading effect of the strong dollar and slow global growth is a headwind for natural resource and emerging markets investments as well as many American multinational companies.\"\nCompany's First Smart Beta ETF \"JETS\" Took Flight\nU.S. Global Investors expanded its product mix with the launch of its first ETF on April 30, 2015. U.S. Global Jets ETF trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker JETS. As the only airline-focused ETF presently available to investors, the product positions the company to grow assets under management. Out of all the equity ETFs launched in the first half of 2015, JETS ranked in the top 10 funds in assets under management, according to data from ETF.com.\nShort-Term Municipal Bonds--A Solution to Choppy Markets\n\"As investors continued to experience the pains of volatile equity markets and apprehension over the timing of potential interest rate increases, our Near-Term Tax Free Fund (NEARX) remained a calming solution. It has demonstrated positive returns every year for the past two decades, providing investors and financial advisors steady past performance, through bull and bear markets and rising and falling interest rate environments. Out of 25,000 equity and bond mutual funds, only 30 of them have had positive returns for 20 years in a row,\" says Holmes. NEARX is the company's second largest mutual fund and invests in short-term high quality municipal bonds.\nU.S. Global Investors continued purchasing outstanding stock. Since the program began in January 2013, the company has purchased shares totaling 243,654 class A shares using cash of approximately $755,000. The company uses an algorithm to purchase shares on down days, following the rules and regulations that restrict the amounts and times when shares can be purchased on any given day. The share repurchase plan expires at the end of the calendar year 2015 but may be suspended or discontinued at any time.\nContinued Strong Balance Sheet\nThe company had net working capital of approximately $19.8 million at the end of fiscal year 2015. With approximately $3.5 million in cash and cash equivalents and $19.9 million in securities recorded at fair value, which together comprise approximately 76 percent of total assets, U.S. Global Investors has adequate liquidity and is in a position to pursue potential investment opportunities. The company has had no long-term debt since 2004 and owns its headquarters building.\nU.S. Global Continues GROW Dividends\nThe company has continued to pay monthly dividends for more than seven years and will continue dividend payments in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015.\nThe company's board of directors approved the payment of the $0.0025 per share per month dividend beginning in October 2015 and continuing through December 2015. The company plans to use the cash from the lower dividend payment in the launching of new ETFs.\nThe dividend record dates are October 13, November 9 and December 14, and the payment dates will be October 27, November 23 and December 28.\nAt the end of this period, the company will have paid monthly dividends for more than eight years. At the September 14, 2015, closing price of $2.05, the current $0.005 monthly dividend equals a 2.9 percent yield on an annualized basis.\nThe continuation of future cash dividends will be determined by U.S. Global's board of directors, at its sole discretion, after review of the company's financial performance and other factors, and is dependent on earnings, operations, capital requirements, general financial condition of the company and general business conditions.\nThe company has scheduled a webcast for 7:30 a.m. Central time on Thursday, September 17, 2015, to discuss the company's key financial results for the fiscal year. Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer, will be accompanied on the webcast by Susan McGee, president and general counsel, and Lisa Callicotte, chief financial officer. Click here to register or visit www.usfunds.com. Please log in at least 5 minutes prior to the start of the webcast.\nSelected financial data (unaudited): (dollars in thousands, except per share data)\nOperating Revenues $1,872 $1,831 $2,905\nOperating Expenses 3,034 3,049 3,350\nOperating Income (Loss) (1,162) (1,218) (445)\nTotal Other Income (Loss) (89) 249 667\nTax Expense (Benefit) 801 25 (51)\nNet Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations (2,052) (994) 273\nNet Loss from Discontinued Operations -- -- (6)\nNet Income (Loss) $(2,052) $(994) $267\nLess: Net Income Attributable to Non-Controlling Interest 1 13 7\nNet Income (Loss) Attributable to U.S. Global Investors $(2,053) $(1,007) $260\nEarnings (Loss) per share (basic and diluted) $(0.13) $(0.07) $0.02\nAvg. common shares outstanding (basic) 15,380,689 15,379,365 15,437,165\nAvg. common shares outstanding (diluted) 15,380,689 15,379,365 15,437,165\nAvg. assets under management (millions) $819 $818 $1,023\nSelected financial data for fiscal year: (dollars in thousands, except per share data)\nOperating Revenues $9,371 $11,439\nTotal Other Income 434 2,165\nIncome Tax Expense (Benefit) 822 (517)\nLoss from Continuing Operations (3,976) (720)\nLoss from Discontinued Operations -- (243)\nLess: Net Income Attributable to Non-Controlling Interest 54 7\nNet Loss Attributable to U.S. Global Investors $(4,030) $(970)\nLoss per share (basic and diluted) $(0.26) $(0.06)\nAvg. common shares outstanding (basic) 15,399,831 15,459,022\nAvg. common shares outstanding (diluted) 15,399,831 15,459,022\nAvg. assets under management (millions) $931 $1,078\nThe story of U.S. Global Investors goes back more than 40 years when it began as an investment club. Today, U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (www.usfunds.com) is a registered investment adviser that focuses on profitable niche markets around the world. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, the company provides money management and other services to U.S. Global Investors Funds, the U.S. Global Jets ETF and other international clients.\nForward-Looking Statements and Disclosure\nThis news release and other statements by U.S. Global Investors may include certain \"forward-looking statements\" including statements relating to revenues, expenses and expectations regarding market conditions. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as \"outlook,\" \"believes,\" \"expects,\" \"potential,\" \"opportunity,\" \"seeks,\" \"anticipates\" or other comparable words. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties and should be read with corporate filings and other important information on the company's website, www.usfunds.com, or the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.\nThese filings, such as the company's annual report and Form 10-K, should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this release. Future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements and there can be no assurance that such statements will prove accurate and actual results. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.\nTotal Annualized Returns as of 6/30/15\nYear Five-\nYear Ten-\nYear Gross\nRatio Expense\nNear-Term Tax Free Fund 0.90% 2.27% 2.98% 1.08% 0.45%\nExpense ratio as stated in the most recent prospectus. The expense cap is a contractual limit through April 30, 2016, for the Near-Term Tax Free Fund, on total fund operating expenses (exclusive of acquired fund fees and expenses, extraordinary expenses, taxes, brokerage commissions and interest). Performance data quoted above is historical. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Results reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. For a portion of periods, the fund had expense limitations, without which returns would have been lower. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. The principal value and investment return of an investment will fluctuate so that your shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance does not include the effect of any direct fees described in the fund's prospectus which, if applicable, would lower your total returns. Performance quoted for periods of one year or less is cumulative and not annualized. Obtain performance data current to the most recent month-end at www.usfunds.com or 1-800-US-FUNDS.\nPlease consider carefully a fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. For this and other important information, obtain a fund prospectus by clicking here or by calling 1-800-US-FUNDS (1-800-873-8637). Read it carefully before investing. Mutual funds distributed by U.S. Global Brokerage, Inc.\nBond funds are subject to interest-rate risk; their value declines as interest rates rise. Though the Near-Term Tax Free Fund seeks minimal fluctuations in share price, it is subject to the risk that the credit quality of a portfolio holding could decline, as well as risk related to changes in the economic conditions of a state, region or issuer. These risks could cause the fund's share price to decline. Tax-exempt income is federal income tax free. A portion of this income may be subject to state and local taxes and at times the alternative minimum tax. The Near-Term Tax Free Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in securities that pay taxable interest. Income or fund distributions attributable to capital gains are usually subject to both state and federal income taxes.\nThe Purchasing Manager's Index is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. The PMI index is based on five major indicators: new orders, inventory levels, production, supplier deliveries and the employment environment\nCONTACT: Susan Filyk Investor Relations 210.308.1286 sfilyk@usfunds.com\nSource:U.S. Global Investors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 14568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cognitive-interaction-design.org/english-digest-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QC2TJ6HZXV277SDO4FXFCKFHMVHN4CFT", "length": 3244, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cognitive-interaction-design.org", "title": "Purpose of the Research Project - Cognitive Interaction Design", "raw_content": "Cognitive Interaction Design\nA Model-based Understanding of Communication\nand its Application to Artifact Design\nThe mental model of others, which is used for understanding and predicting partners\u2019 actions under certain situations, plays an important role in human communication. In fact, we sometimes feel a gap in the conversation with a stranger, since we do not have such a mental model of others at first. This kind of phenomenon, namely the communication facilitation by the mental model of others, is expected to find in the interactions between humans and companion animals/artifacts as well as in human-human communication.\nThis research project is aiming at establishing a new academic field which we call \u201cCognitive Interaction Design (CID)\u201d. We strongly believe that the cognitive construction of \u201cmental model of others\u201d is a key to establish the design and implementation of artifacts that can adapt themselves to human users naturally and persistently. To this end, we focus especially on the common cognitive process among human-human communication as well as the interactions between humans and animals/artificial agents. Then we implement the mental model of others at an algorithmic level and utilize it for the design of artifacts.\nWe have three main challenges in this research project:\nHuman-human interactions are cognitively analyzed to reveal 1) the mechanism of the metal model of others, 2) the way of interaction using the model, and 3) adaptation of the model in the course of interaction. We focus not only on the verbal communication but also on the nonverbal one. Both of adult-adult and child-adult interactions are analyzed.\nHuman-animal interactions are analyzed to elucidate how companion animals such as dog or horse can learn the meaning of instructions through food (primary reinforcer) or prosodic features (secondary reinforcer). Moreover, we examine how animals estimate the internal states of their human partners using the acquired instructions, and how human change their interactions according to the internal states of the animals. These analyses lead to a cognitive model of mutual adaptation process, which includes the internal-model of others, in the human-animal interactions.\nBased on the above analyses, a methodology of designing artifacts that can adapt to users naturally and persistently is established. A novel design policy in terms of the adaptive and persistent interaction with human users will be provided. Furthermore, ambient intelligent systems including a user adaptable electric wheelchair, a concierge for online shopping, and so forth, will be developed.\nOverview of our research project is shown here.\nExpected Research Achievements and Scientific Significance\nExpected research achievements are 1) the establishment of CID at an algorithmic level, which is beyond the current interaction design framework, 2) the establishment of cognitive science of the interaction between humans and companion animals, which is not established yet, and 3) the application of these achievements to the design of artifacts that can adapt to users naturally and persistently.\nHuman-Agent Interaction: a research field that aims to analyze and design interactions between humans and agents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.colemangreig.com.au/News-1216-Defining-Digital-Assets-Where-are-we-up-to.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:TDXXG73ZRC3OED4AOWZYDLKBTODV2KPP", "length": 8548, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.colemangreig.com.au", "title": "Defining \u2018Digital Assets' - Where are we up to?", "raw_content": "Home News & Alerts Defining \u2018Digital Assets' - Where are we up to?\nIt has now been six months since Coleman Greig published our last piece on the topic of digital assets ('Dealing with Digital Assets on Death or Incapacitation'), and I am not surprised to see that the trend of litigation against service providers in order to gain access to digital assets continues to rise. Luckily for Australian courts, whilst this rough game of tag is still in full swing - they are yet to be called to play.\nThis is, of course, not to say that they aren't stretching their legs on the sideline.\nFollowing a public invite for preliminary submissions, the NSW Law Reform Commission published a consultation paper in August 2018. This paper covered the Commission's review of laws specifying who has the ability to access a person's digital assets after they die or become incapacitated (including under what circumstances this may take place), as well as the Commission's views regarding whether NSW requires new associated laws to be put in place, and in turn, what such laws should include.\nThe report was divided into five chapters. The first chapter introduced the review and provided an outline of the Commission's intended approach, with the second providing some background to the meaning of 'digital assets', as well as the concept's context throughout both Australian and global jurisdictions. The paper's third chapter analysed current Australian laws - including the law of wills, administration of deceased estates, and those relating to assisted decision-making. This third chapter also included an overview of the effects of Australian contract, criminal and privacy laws on the access to digital assets.\nThe paper's fourth chapter examined the developments throughout other jurisdictions, with the fifth touching on how to best approach the required reform.\nThis consultation paper provides an excellent summary of both the current Australian and global states of play with regard to digital assets, and identifies a plethora of associated issues and concerns - as well as potential reforms.\nWhilst we already know that there are no laws dealing directly with the accessing or transferring of a person's digital assets upon death or incapacity, the number of existing laws (within the context of succession) that dance around the issue can be incredibly confusing.\nBy way of example, whilst estate administration and assisted decision-making laws such as the Powers of Attorney Act 2003 (NSW) require access to digital assets for the nominated fiduciaries to meet their legal duties, contract and criminal laws seem to prohibit such access, as it is debatable whether a deceased's next of kin or legal personal representative or attorney is 'authorised'.\nFor the purposes of this article, I will keep the discussion solely focused on the law of wills.\nDigital Assets and the Law Of Wills\nThe Succession Act 2006 (NSW) ('the Act') provides that a person may gift property, in which they are entitled, at the time of their death, by Will. They may also specify how property is to be controlled. With this in mind, within the context of digital assets there are three issues with the current law of wills.\nFirstly, it is unclear whether digital assets fall within the meaning of 'property' for the purposes of the Act. The Act merely defines property as \"any valuable benefit\". Section 21 of the Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW) ('Interpretation Act') provides a more detailed explanation of 'property' by defining it as:\n\"any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description, including money, and includes things in action\".\nFirstly, notwithstanding the specifics contained in the Interpretation Act, whether or not a person's digital assets actually fall within its definition still remains unclear, as service agreements can restrict user property rights. A common example of this is membership of the QANTAS Frequent Flyer Program. Upon death, and pursuant to the service agreement, membership of this program is automatically terminated, with all points accrued being cancelled and hence not redeemable or transferable. Accordingly, a provision in a Will relating to the disposition of QANTAS Frequent Flyer points, or any other digital asset with a similar restriction, may be ineffective, as it may not form part of a testator's 'property' available to be gifted by Will.\nSecondly, the question must be asked: if a testator provides conflicting instructions with respect to their digital assets, which instructions prevail? For example, if a testator notes their intentions on Facebook's Legacy Contact Tool but then later provides different instructions in a valid Will, it is unknown which instructions would take precedence.\nThirdly, given the longwinded 'fine print' of terms and conditions that are often attached to digital assets, estate planners would find themselves trolling through pages and pages of individual policy and service agreements for each digital asset in order to ascertain how testators could deal with the asset upon death. To do so would be a very costly exercise for clients.\nTo overcome such issues, the NSW Law Reform Commission suggests:\nthat the definition of 'property' found within the Act is amended to include digital assets, or that clarity is at least provided with regard to exactly what types of digital assets, if any, can be gifted by Will;\nthat where there is a connection to NSW, clear specifications are provided relating to which laws are to apply; and\nthat the relevant legislation specifies what directions are to take precedent in circumstances where the testator has left competing instructions (e.g. the Facebook Legacy Contact Tool example above).\nThe definition of digital assets included within newly adopted American legislation (Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act [2015]) only includes electronic records within which an individual has a property right of interest. Fiduciaries of a deceased or incapacitated person in the US are entitled to access a catalogue of electronic communications, but not their content. The same Act also provides that a testator's instructions on the ability of third parties to access their digital assets will prevail over service access agreements. In a similar vein, an instruction made through an online tool (such as Facebook's Legal Contact tool) will take precedent over an estate plan direction made to the contrary.\nA broader definition included in legislation recently adopted in Canada (Uniform Access to Digital Assets by Fiduciaries Act) sees a 'digital asset' defined as a record that is either created, recorded and transmitted, or stored in a digital (or otherwise intangible) form by electronic magnetic or optical means (or by any other similar means). Unlike US legislation, fiduciaries of a deceased or incapacitated person in Canada are entitled not only to electronic communications, but to the content of such communications, with access being granted as if the fiduciary was the account holder. In situations where instructions are conflicted, the 'last-in-time' instrument or direction takes precedent.\nIn assessing which model is to be adopted in Australia, the NSW Law Reform Commission will examine how both the US and Canadian models work in practice, as well as through the invitation of suggestions from the public. Either way, it has been identified that there are substantial policy grounds for legislative reform in the law of wills.\nThe NSW Law Reform Commission is now conducting targeted consultations and collating data from an online survey published on their website, with a plan to use this additional information in the drafting of a final report.\nWhilst there is no clear solution at present, the consultation paper has provided a number of relevant ideas on how testators can plan for the succession of their digital assets. Although there is no uniform law at present, recommendations such as the appointment of a 'digital executor', and the creation of a 'digital register' are strategies that a testator can incorporate into their estate plan at present.\nIf you have a query relating to any of the information in this article, or would simply like to speak with an experienced lawyer regarding the succession of your digital assets, please don't hesitate to get in touch with myself, or anyone else within Coleman Greig's Wills & Estate Planning team:\nLisa Barca PHONE +61 2 9895 9227 Email Lisa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 11125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.columbusceo.com/content/stories/apexchange/2013/09/30/us--sirius-town-halls.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3AKXL7JTQNZDMCKZLXQICYGI55HY6NED", "length": 4113, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.columbusceo.com", "title": "Channeling Andy Warhol for Sirius series - News - Columbus CEO - Columbus, OH", "raw_content": "Channeling Andy Warhol for Sirius series\nNEW YORK (AP) - Wind up Robin Williams and the stories pour out - how he developed his accent for \"Mrs. Doubtfire,\" found out \"Mork & Mindy\" was canceled by reading about it in a newspaper and the remark that abruptly ended his appearance on a German talk show.\nNEW YORK (AP) \ufffd Wind up Robin Williams and the stories pour out \ufffd how he developed his accent for \"Mrs. Doubtfire,\" found out \"Mork & Mindy\" was canceled by reading about it in a newspaper and the remark that abruptly ended his appearance on a German talk show.\nOld friend Whoopi Goldberg steered the conversation last week at SiriusXM, part of a town hall program that's swiftly becoming a programming signature at the Internet radio service.\nSirius' town halls bring artists together, usually when they have new projects to promote, with a small group of fans for hour-long discussions sent out to the Internet radio system's 25 million subscribers. Portions are fed out to a larger audience through Sirius' YouTube channel.\nThe series began by chance two years ago when Bruce Springsteen was touting his \"Darkness on the Edge of Town\" reissue. Sirius subscribers were brought in to meet their hero and asked about what Springsteen would want his children to know about the 1978 disc and how his writing was affected by the death of Elvis Presley, the latter question leading the singer to pick up his guitar to demonstrate.\nThere have since been more than 70 such encounters with artists and personalities.\n\"We could have one every day if we wanted,\" said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM president and chief content officer. \"But we want the bar to remain fairly high.\"\nSirius is influenced by Andy Warhol's old Interview magazine in an effort to occasionally match interview subjects with other personalities. Burt Bacharach was interviewed by occasional songwriting partner Elvis Costello, Tony Bennett by Alec Baldwin, Mel Brooks by Judd Apatow and Ringo Starr by Russell Brand.\nWilliams had an easy familiarity with Goldberg, who sometimes needed to do little more than name the title of a movie to get Williams going.\n\"It's so immediate and honest,\" said David Steinberg, Williams' manager. \"When you get people together who like each other, they're not guarded in what they talk about. It just flows.\"\nSteinberg, who also brought client Billy Crystal in for a town hall, watched from a control room adjacent to the glass-enclosed \"fishbowl\" where Williams and Goldberg sat before about a dozen Sirius subscribers. (For the record, it was a Holocaust-inspired comment 30 years ago that didn't go over well at the German talk show.)\nWilliams appeared to enjoy the interaction, even as he told of one episode where his maniacally energetic comedy worked against him. He was in a Minneapolis airport one time when a fan came up to him with a two-word command: \"Be zany.\"\n\"It's like walking up to Baryshnikov and saying, 'Dance, little Russian boy,'\" he said. \"It's like, Lincoln freed the slaves.\"\nWilliams said when the Sirius session was done that it wasn't as raucous as he had anticipated.\n\"It's a different feeling than I thought it was going to be,\" he said. \"But it worked.\"\nFor Sirius, the sessions reward subscribers along with providing original content. About 10 to 20 Sirius subscribers are chosen to participate in a town hall, a selection process that is an advertising opportunity in itself.\n\"It's a very smart, discerning, now very large and credit card-bearing audience,\" Greenstein said. \"It's an ideal audience for any artist.\"\nSirius' status as a promotional magnet and the fishbowl's central location lead to some celebrity traffic jams. Members of the rock band Korn peered through the window at Williams and Goldberg, while musicians Nick Lowe and Graham Nash chatted off to the side. When Bruno Mars walked by Henry Winkler's session, the Fonz jumped up to grab him for a mutual admiration meeting.\nhttp://www.siriusxm.com/townhall\nEDITOR'S NOTE \ufffd David Bauder can be reached at dbauder@ap.org or on Twitter@dbauder. His work can be found at\nhttp://bigstory.ap.org/content/david-bauder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.columbusceo.com/content/stories/apexchange/2013/10/31/federal-grant-will-continue-chardon-schools-recovery-efforts-after-shooting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:G2R7IAK3SVOIXU4MKCNSJIJAVGGEMTNE", "length": 2242, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.columbusceo.com", "title": "Federal grant will continue Chardon Schools recovery efforts after shooting - News - Columbus CEO - Columbus, OH", "raw_content": "Federal grant will continue Chardon Schools recovery efforts after shooting\nChardon Schools recently was awarded a $269,530 competitive federal grant by the U.S. Department of Education under the School Emergency Response to Violence Program, also known as Project SERV.\nThe funds are specifically designated for education-related services, including counseling and training, to help the district recover from a shooting tragedy that took place on Feb. 27, 2012.\nStudents Demetrius Hewlin, 16; Russell King Jr., 17; and Daniel Parmertor, 16, were killed by a gunman in the violent incident.\nU.S. Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Russell Township, who was Geauga County's chief prosecutor when the shooting occurred, announced the grant in Washington earlier this week.\n\"(The) news provides some comfort, as we take an important step toward helping our community recover from this unthinkable tragedy,\" Joyce said.\n\"As county prosecutor at the time, I saw firsthand the grief and devastation that no parent should ever have to experience ...we honor the memory of Daniel, Demetrius, and Russell, who were loved by their families, embraced by their communities and had their whole lives ahead of them. May God bless them and may God bless their families.\"\nSuperintendent Michael P. Hanlon said the district intends to use the money to continue the ongoing healing process for students, staff and community including:\n\ufffdAdditional social workers for continued screening and counseling support for at-risk students and staff.\n\ufffdSubstitute teachers so that staff can obtain resiliency training and suicide prevention skills training.\n\ufffd Continuation of the partnership with Virginia Tech University in further developing the Actively Caring for People initiative to build a strong student-driven school culture.\nA healing committee consisting of local mental health agencies and trauma centers, as well as the National Center for Bereavement and Trauma, was developed by the district soon after the tragedy.\n\"We remain committed to an ongoing healing process that supports our students, staff and community, recognizing that this process requires time and additional resources,\" Hanlon said. \"The Project SERV funds will enable us to continue this important work.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/3147063/retail-it/amazon-go-aims-to-change-retail-by-eliminating-check-out-lines.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:L6E6JKFTLTCUOUCKW5EXR725IDEKLCPY", "length": 3285, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.computerworld.com", "title": "Amazon Go aims to change retail by eliminating check-out lines | Computerworld", "raw_content": "Amazon Go aims to change retail by eliminating check-out lines\nUsing sensors, computer vision and machine learning, retailer tests new store\nSenior Writer, Computerworld | Dec 5, 2016 12:48 PM PT\nAmazon.com is using machine learning to try to change the shopping experience and the retail industry in general.\nAmazon employees are testing a new brick-and-mortar store, called Amazon Go, in Seattle that lets customers using an app bypass the checkout line.\nUsing a combination of machine learning, computer vision, sensors and deep learning, the smart store is designed to keep track of what users take off and return to shelves so it can track their purchases in a virtual cart. When they're done, customers can just leave the store with their purchases; Amazon will charge their account and send them a receipt.\n\"We created the world's most advanced shopping technology so you never have to wait in line,\" the company said on its site. \"With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout. (No, seriously.)\"\nThe 1,800-square-foot store, located at 2131 7th Ave. in Seattle, is in beta testing now so only Amazon employees are able to use it. The company expects it to be open to the general public in early 2017.\nThe store sells pre-made meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks made by on-site chefs and local bakeries. It also stocks milk and bread, along with meal kits, local chocolates and artisan cheese.\nCustomers only need an Amazon account, a smartphone and the Amazon Go app.\n\"Four years ago we asked ourselves: what if we could create a shopping experience with no lines and no checkout?,\" Amazon said in its statement. \"Could we push the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning to create a store where customers could simply take what they want and go? Our answer to those questions is Amazon Go and Just Walk Out Shopping.\"\nPatrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, said he's intrigued by the concept and a bit surprised that a major retail brand already ensconced in brick-and-mortar stores didn't come up with it first.\n\"Automatic checkout is absolutely a characteristic of the store of the future,\" said Moorhead. \"But I can see Amazon doing this to drive even more growth by going brick-and-mortar. The only way to be successful in brick-and-mortar is to change the game, and in this case, changing the game with checkout.\"\nHe also noted that this is a good use of smart technology.\n\"This is the ultimate way to use this technology in retail,\" said Moorhead. \"The challenge with all technology like this is accuracy. What if the system charges you for something you didn't take? That could be the big challenge to the system.\"\nOne of the biggest problems could be if the technology doesn't notice that a shopper picked up an item to look at it and then put it back. If the shopper is charged for something he didn't take, he wouldn't get the receipt and notice the false charge until after he left the store.\n\"If customers were charged for things they didn't take, it could lead to high customer dissatisfaction,\" said Moorhead. \"If a bad experience is continuous, it could qickly drive customers away so they just stop using it.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 6930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conceiveabilities.com/about/blog/the-surrogates-point-of-view", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QRMYPVVJWRA5KAJW7S3XIAQRSUE37NML", "length": 5269, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.conceiveabilities.com", "title": "The Surrogate\u2019s Point of View | ConceiveAbilities", "raw_content": "The Surrogate\u2019s Point of View\nApril 5th, 2017 Category: Surrogacy\nAs Intended Parents, or as a hopeful surrogate yourself, you may have a certain understanding of the surrogacy journey. You may have assumptions, based on theory or anecdotes, about what a surrogate experiences.\nWhat is the surrogate\u2019s point of view?\nThis post will answer several commonly asked questions regarding surrogacy \u2013 as told by real surrogates.\nWhat was the reaction from friends and family after choosing to become a surrogate?\n\u201cIt was a little more surprising than I thought. A lot of my friends were supportive. My parents were not. My mom was really concerned something would go wrong. My past IM (intended mother) was diagnosed with cancer right before we did the transfer, so my mom was really concerned if something happened to her, or something happened to the baby, or something happened to me, but I think it was just her being a mom. She was a lot more vocal about it than I expected her to be, so that was kind of hard. But she came around by the end of it, and this time she\u2019s totally on board and super excited. She asks me all these questions all the time.\u201d\n\u201cMy dad didn\u2019t really care- he\u2019s just a dad. He was like, \u201cokay whatever you want.\u201d My brother was totally grossed out by it, but he still supports my decisions. Other than that everyone\u2019s super supportive.\u201d\nConceiveAbilities interview with Leslie, surrogate and writer of my pea, their pod.\nSurrogacy is quickly becoming more accepted, but there are still detractors who are unfamiliar with the practice. Many surrogates are initially surprised when their decision to start a journey is not always welcomed or accepted by loved ones. Parents, spouses, even best friends may voice concerns. In the end, the decision is with the surrogate. As long as she is resolute, loved ones will ultimately respect her decisions and support her..\nWhat is the actual pregnancy like?\n\u201cIt was amazing. It was beautiful. It was heartbreaking. It was empowering. It was humbling. It was flawed. It was perfect... I\u2019m just afraid I won\u2019t be able to put the correct words together to adequately describe the birth and how it was for me.\u201d\nDana, writer of Return to Senders.\nHow can one accurately share the experience of carrying someone else\u2019s child, the highs and lows with each week, and the final moment of delivering the baby? How can a few words capture those private, intimate moments?\nNo one can answer that for sure. But there are blogs worth visiting that outline a surrogate\u2019s journey. You can find our list in the additional resources section below.\nWhat if the surrogate becomes too attached and wants to keep the baby?\nBecause the surrogate\u2019s role in the match process is to carry and deliver the family\u2019s child, parents sometimes voice concerns that the surrogate might become too attached and change her mind.\n\u201cWe do not, in any way, shape, or form consider this our baby. We are very aware from the get-go that this is your baby. And we're happy about that. Think about it this way, a surrogate is very capable of having her own children. If she wanted to have a baby, it's a fairly simple process. We would certainly choose to have our own baby if having one was what we desired.\u201d\nJeni, from Love Makes A Family, a blog about surrogate journeys.\nThe truth is that surrogates are not interested in keeping the baby. They understand that the baby does not belong to them. Before each match, we conduct psychological evaluations to look at each surrogate\u2019s motivation, assess for coercion, and ensure they are highly qualified. We only want to match surrogates with intended parents that we would trust with our own children.\nHow will the surrogate feel after the baby is born?\n\u201cI am literally the HAPPIEST person alive in part because 3 parents, 5 grandparents and many cousins, aunts, godparents, and friends are living in a brighter world. I am happy to say my life is richer and my horizons are broader because of 2 remarkable families. I am content to move on from this era of my life knowing I have fulfilled one of my callings, to help create a family (or two) by way of surrogacy.\u201d\nMelissa, Life. Love. Surrogacy., a surrogate\u2019s personal blog.\nLike all women after childbirth, the surrogate may have feelings of postpartum melancholy, which can last from a few days or weeks to a several months. After all, it can feel strange to deliver a baby, experience the physical symptoms of delivery, and then return home without the baby. However, most surrogates are blue because the experience is over, not because they are no longer with the baby. The general feeling is one of joy and hope of having shared life with another family.\nBesides reading the news on surrogacy, or talking to your friends and family, it\u2019s important to also seek first-hand accounts of the surrogate journey from gestational carriers themselves. Surrogacy is such a special adventure, and the only way to learn about it is straight from the source.\nFor other blogs written by surrogates, read these:\nSurrogacy is my Superpower\nReturn to Senders\nA Belly for Me, A Baby for You\nTo read more of our interview with our own star surrogate, Leslie Mattern, click here.\nFinally, make sure you\u2019re up to date with our blogs about the latest on surrogacy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 10139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1148", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LZVGZT7EKOEVGN7OCSJY2BGX35637Y3E", "length": 459, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.congress.gov", "title": "H.R.1148 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): FAST Act of 2017 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress", "raw_content": "H.R.1148 - FAST Act of 2017115th Congress (2017-2018)\nFurthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017 or the FAST Act of 2017\n(Sec. 2) This bill specifies that, under Medicare, telehealth services include telehealth-eligible stroke services provided to an individual soon after the onset of acute-stroke symptoms. Certain originating-site requirements applicable to telehealth services under Medicare shall not apply with respect to such stroke services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 49494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contentcrasher.com/5-excellent-reasons-buy-articles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IETCCQBXZQVMU52SAV6WFWTRNH4STZZA", "length": 3299, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.contentcrasher.com", "title": "5 Excellent Reasons to Buy Articles - Content Crasher", "raw_content": "5 Excellent Reasons to Buy Articles\nAlmost every webmaster thinks they can save their budget if they skip having to buy articles. They think they can do quick posts once or twice a week and they will magically have a spot on the first page of search engines results around the world. That is not how search engines work. That is not how to save the budget and that is certainly not how businesses become authorities in their industries. When it\u2019s time to get content on a website, webmasters can buy articles and stay on budget.\nHaving a website is hard work. It is an extension of a business that does not go to sleep or give excuses. A website should be a polished extension of a business and it should \u201ctalk\u201d to the customer and show them exactly why they should buy from you. The talk on a website is the content and to keep it talking, it should have fresh content continuously.\nBecause Content Writing is Hard\nThis is the most common reason to buy articles. Millions of webmasters that want to make money, get traffic and build their reputation. But they don\u2019t want to write articles. They want to focus on what they do best.\nThe solution is to buy articles that are 100% unique and post through the week without fail.\nBecause It Saves Time\nA webmaster is a business owner. Business owners have a lot of stuff to do every day and writing is not one of them. As business owners think about their day, they realize they do not want to spend their day sitting at a computer, writing about anything. If it is not their skillset, they don\u2019t want to do it. If it is not making them money directly, most laugh at the idea of doing it.\nThe solution is to buy articles that are specific to their industry and 100% unique.\nBecause It Generates Money\nBuilding authority online is very important to any webmaster. Being an authority means people will look to you as an expert and will turn to you for advice, services and products. Being an authority online means search engines will favor your website over the millions of other websites in the same industry. Being an authority brings the opportunity to make money.\nThe solution is to buy articles. Buying and posting articles consistently will bring the money to any business.\nBecause Everyone Needs an Expert\nEveryone is in business because they feel they are the best at what they do. Not everyone is in business as a writer. There is no point in posting content online that is not the best. If a businessperson is not the best at writing articles, they should not do it. It will damage their reputation and make them look smarmy in their industry.\nThe obvious solution is to buy articles written by an expert. It will make you look good!\nThere is no doubt that businesspeople are talented and can do many things when they put their heads to it. But if it takes you 3 hours to write a single 500-word post and 4 more to edit and post it, you are wasting money. Time is money and it\u2019s always best to spend time doing what earns money. Instead of stressing about writing an article, there are money saving alternatives.\nThe obvious solution is to buy articles written by an expert, ready to review and post.\nTags:article buying buy articles prewritten content\n\u2190 Entrepreneurship Is Not for the Faint of Heart\nBuying Content: Quality and Affordability \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corporate-cases.com/2016/12/mca-issues-clarification-regarding-due-date-transfer-shares-iepf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:46HCOYRPWLVDHK3HG6YS3OCJ2DITTOH4", "length": 752, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.corporate-cases.com", "title": "(MCA) issues Clarification Regarding Due Date of Transfer of Shares to IEPF Authority", "raw_content": "(MCA) issues Clarification Regarding Due Date of Transfer of Shares to IEPF Authority\nMCA General Circular No. 15/2016 dated 7th December, 2016:-\nVarious representations have been received from the Companies for simplification of transfer process of shares under Investor Education & Protection Fund (Accounting, Audit, Transfer and Refund) Rules, 2016, notified on 05.09.2016. It has also been requested for extending the due date prescribed for transferring the shares to IEPF Authority.\nThe matters, including simplification of transfer process and extension of date for such transfer, are under consideration and the rules are likely to be revised. The revised rules shall be notified in due course\nTags: Investor Education & Protection Fund (IEPF)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cotedemeraude-sothebysrealty.com/en/sale-rent-house-apartment-dinard/ref-cm1-722/sale-apartment-dinan-4-rooms-3-bedrooms-22100/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4KC2YA2NPUTLNOF57XCO3PUPPR6YXLP6", "length": 452, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cotedemeraude-sothebysrealty.com", "title": "Sale Apartment Dinan 4 rooms 97 m\u00b2 - Dinard Sotheby's International Realty", "raw_content": "Sale Apartment Dinan (22100) 97 m\u00b2\nDINAN - Charming medieval town by the Rance river - 25mn from the sea\nIdeally located in one of the most picturesque street in the heart of the historic centre, this elegant and refined bourgeois apartment.\nSpacious and full of character, it comprises of a large lounge with fireplace and a balcony, a fully fitted kitchen, 3 bedrooms of which 1 with a dressing and a bathroom, as well as a supplementary shower room.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-veterans-health-20171205-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:XXDJENHMWS6TQLP2PXWCDBEFSKZLBSSK", "length": 4790, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.courant.com", "title": "Study: Integrating Legal Aid With Medical Care Improves Veterans\u2019 Lives - Hartford Courant", "raw_content": "Study: Integrating Legal Aid With Medical Care Improves Veterans\u2019 Lives\nBy Peggy McCarthy and Conn. Health I-Team Writer\nVeterans\u2019 mental health and housing improved when they accessed free legal services in a Veterans Affairs facility, according to a study of veterans in Connecticut and New York City.\nThe more legal services they had, the better they fared, experiencing reduced symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and psychosis, spending less money on abused substances and having better housing situations, the study found. In addition, the study concluded that mental health was improved even if veterans lost their legal battles.\nThe study analyzed the legal/medical partnerships between the nonprofit Connecticut Veterans Legal Center (CVLC) and VA Connecticut Healthcare and between New York Legal Assistance and two VA hospitals. It looked at free legal help given to 950 veterans from 2014 through 2016 and its effects on the mental health, housing, and income of 148 of those veterans followed closely for a year. Income improved from VA benefits, but not from employment, the study reports.\n\u201cWe are really thrilled,\u201d said Margaret Middleton, executive director of the CVLC. She said the study confirms \u201can anecdotal sense that we are providing real relief for our clients.\u201d\nThe veterans\u2019 most prevalent legal needs related to: VA benefits; housing, such as evictions; family issues, such as child support and divorce; and consumer problems, including credit card debt.\nSidley Cousins, 38, a Navy veteran with bipolar disorder, said his mental health improved after getting free legal help and that he is planning to be married. Cousins, who works in security in East Hartford, said the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center helped him obtain a divorce, VA disability benefits and a settlement after his car was stolen. \u201cThey helped me tremendously,\u201d said Cousins, of New Britain, who served from 2000 through 2004.\nNationally, there are 15 medical/legal partnerships between the VA and legal services organizations, according to the study by lead author Jack Tsai, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a core investigator for Veterans Affairs, New England. The study was published in Health Affairs on Monday. There are 168 VA medical centers and 1,053 VA outpatient clinics nationwide.\nThe study shows a need for more partnerships and for proposed federal legislation that would provide funding toward legal services given at VA facilities, said Middleton, whose legal center is based at the VA Errera Center in West Haven. Her organization helps veterans who have faced homelessness and mental illness with legal problems related to health care, housing, and income.\nU.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a co-sponsor of a bill to provide funding for VA legal services, said that \u201caccess to expert legal services within the VA could mean the difference between a safe, stable home and homelessness.\u201d He called the fact that 1 in 10 veterans is homeless, \u201ca searing, staggering national failure.\u201d\nThe VA has issued guidance to its medical centers on working with community legal providers, but it has put \u201clittle focus on civil legal problems that can affect health and impede recovery,\u201d the study states, adding that in surveys, veterans consistently report legal help among their top unmet needs.\nThe study suggests a potential savings in medical care and housing services for veterans when they access legal services, but didn\u2019t do an analysis on it. However, it states that the two legal organizations estimated the average cost of each resolved legal issue ranged from $207 to $405. The study calls this \u201ca small amount relative to the average annual direct costs of $10,000 to $60,000 to provide care to a person who is chronically homeless, has a severe mental illness, or both.\u201d\nMiddleton said, \u201cThis could mean a relatively low-cost intervention that improves people\u2019s lives.\u201d\nMeanwhile, she said the finding that mental health improved even when a case is lost was \u201cunanticipated.\u201d She said it means that \u201cthe very fact that you have a lawyer talk to you about your legal issue or have someone work with you on it, may have value.\u201d\nOf the 705 Connecticut veterans included in the study, most were single or divorced, white males earning less than $21,000 annually. Twenty percent served in Iraq or Afghanistan.\nMiddleton said the study, funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, is \u201creally a starting point for trying to understand how integrating legal services into medical care works, what the mechanism is for how people\u2019s health may improve, and how we can best provide those services to make them the most effective.\u201d\nThis story was reported under a partnership with the Connecticut Health I-Team (c-hit.org).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/09/28/federal-judge-rules-challenge-regulations-ky-using-try-close-abortion-clinics/1069036001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:19:51Z", "digest": "sha1:S7YT4LNHV56SV5ESJODQSR4HPZKDUNMZ", "length": 6262, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.courier-journal.com", "title": "Kentucky abortion rules struck down in defeat for Matt Bevin", "raw_content": "Opponents argued a Kentucky law on ambulance transfer agreements was being used by Bevin's administration to shut down Kentucky's only abortion clinic\nFederal judge strikes down Kentucky restriction on abortion clinics Opponents argued a Kentucky law on ambulance transfer agreements was being used by Bevin's administration to shut down Kentucky's only abortion clinic Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/09/28/federal-judge-rules-challenge-regulations-ky-using-try-close-abortion-clinics/1069036001/\nDeborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal Published 4:12 p.m. ET Sept. 28, 2018 | Updated 6:49 p.m. ET Sept. 28, 2018\nA timeline of how abortion rights have changed since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Valeria Merino/Courier-Journal/USA Today Network\nAnti abortion protesters rallied in front of the EMW Women's Surgical Clinic this morning. July 28, 2017.(Photo11: By Pat McDonogh / C-J)Buy Photo\nA federal judge has struck down a state law requiring Kentucky abortion clinics to have written agreements with an ambulance service and hospital for emergencies \u2014 rules the administration of Gov. Matt Bevin had used to try to close the state's only abortion clinic.\nFriday's decision is a victory for abortion-rights supporters who had clashed with the administration of Bevin, an anti-abortion Republican, over rules they said his administration misused to try to close one clinic in Louisville and block another from offering abortions.\nAbove all, it's a victory for women, said lawyer Don Cox, who represented EMW Women's Surgical Center, the state's only abortion provider, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.\n\"From the standpoint of women, this represents the best protection of their rights that we can get in these times when we see the federal government doing all it can and the state government doing all it can to limit a woman's right to make her own choices,\" Cox said.\nCox also said the ruling stops what he called Bevin's \"abuse of power.\"\n\"The judge blew the whistle on the governor,\" he said.\n\"We are disappointed that the court would strike down a statute that protects the health and well-being of Kentucky women,\" Kuhn said in an email.\n\"The court today ruled that the state may not erect artificial barriers to safe and legal abortion services in Kentucky,\" she said. \"We are thrilled that women in Kentucky who need this medical service will be able to access it here. We look forward to helping those women.\"\nIn a separate order, the judge ruled the Bevin administration must pay about $20,000 in costs for Planned Parenthood after it claimed no one from the governor's office showed up for a deposition in the case last year.\n\"We also disagree with the court\u2019s decision to award attorneys\u2019 fees of $20,000 of Kentucky taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood due to a discovery dispute,\" she said.\nFriday's decision is the second setback on a state abortion law for the Bevin administration. A federal judge last year struck down a different state law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and attempt to show them and describe them to the patient.\nFriday's 60-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers follows a September 2017 trial in federal court in Louisville over a 1998 state law requiring abortion clinics to have so-called transfer and transport agreements with a hospital and ambulance service in the event of a medical emergency.\nStivers' ruling Friday found the law to be unconstitutional in that the agreements are unnecessary and pose a barrier to women seeking legal abortions.\n\"The evidence presented here establishes clearly that scant medical benefits from transfer and transport agreements are far outweighed by the burden on Kentucky women seeking abortions,\" Stivers' opinion said.\nLawyer Michael Abate, who helped represent Planned Parenthood in the case, said the judge's order is clear on that point.\n\"He held there is no medical justification at all for the regulations,\" Abate said. \"We think it's a great ruling and the court got it exactly right.\"\nThe law was originally established to add oversight of abortion clinics, with the expectation such agreements would be easily obtained, Stivers' order said. But under the Bevin administration, such agreement became more difficult \u2014 if not impossible \u2014 to obtain, the opinion said.\n\"Regardless of the reasons, it is clear that despite EMW and Planned Parenthood's best efforts, no Louisville hospital is willing to sign a transfer agreement with this type of facility,\" Stivers' opinion said. \"As a result, it is impossible for EMW plaintiffs or Planned Parenthood to comply with the requirement of such agreements.\"\nMore headlines: Gov. Bevin backs Braidy Industries as company pitches investors\nFrom May: Kentucky law banning abortion procedure delayed 6 months by fed judge\nAfter the Bevin administration threatened to revoke EMW's license over what it said were inadequate hospital and ambulance agreements, EMW filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Bevin administration was unfairly using the law to try to close it.\nThe revocation of EMW's license would have made Kentucky the only state without a single abortion provider. Stivers had ordered that EMW could remain open while the legal challenge is pending.\nStivers' ruling follows a previous setback to state efforts to restrict abortions in Kentucky, under a ruling last year from a different federal judge who struck down the 2017 ultrasound law.\nU.S. District Judge David Hale ruled in September 2017 that such a law, which also requires the physician to play an audible heartbeat of the fetus to the patient, violates a physician's right to free speech.\nHale found the law \"is intended to dissuade women from choosing abortion by forcing ultrasound images, detailed descriptions of the fetus and the sounds of the fetal heartbeat on them, against their will, at a time when they are most vulnerable.\"\nThe ACLU filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the law as unconstitutional and defending the procedure as \"safe and medically proven.\"\nRead or Share this story: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/09/28/federal-judge-rules-challenge-regulations-ky-using-try-close-abortion-clinics/1069036001/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 12273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coxformat.co.uk/services/extensions-north-london-herts/extensions-in-enfield/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AQK3VNBJZIDJDV73Q2UJJEGVJWN6KQ4Z", "length": 1814, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.coxformat.co.uk", "title": "Extensions in Enfield - Cox Format Home Extensions", "raw_content": "Cox Format are proud to have been building extensions in Enfield of over 30 years. Not only do we have a wealth of experience but we offer great quality workmanship and pricing too. We may not always be the cheapest, but we guarantee our prices so that you know the price quoted won\u2019t change.\nMore and more homeowners are choosing to extend their existing property rather than moving. The cost of moving can be very expensive particularly in areas such as Enfield where property prices are much higher, therefore raising the cost of stamp duty. It also helps avoid the stress of moving home too and allows you to stay in a house you love, but just a larger version of it!\nAdding an extension can help you create that much needed space as well as increasing the overall price of your property, thus enabling you to view the work as an investment too. It could be that you have a growing family, need some space so you can work from home or want a larger kitchen, in fact whatever your reasons we know we can help you create the room of your dreams.\nWhen we give you a quote for your extension that is the final price you pay, you will never receive any additional costs later on. This way you can budget for the work without having to put a contingency aside and we have built a fantastic reputation by doing just that.\nBecause we have a lot of experience building extensions in Enfield we also have a great working relationship with the local council which helps us give you great advice about local planning regulations and what will and won\u2019t be accepted.\nIf you aren\u2019t 100% sure about whether you want to proceed with an extension and live in the Enfield or North London area then please get in touch and we will be happy to discuss your requirements and the possibilities and answer any questions you may have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.croplife.org.au/media/media-releases/iarc-deliver-confusing-and-unconstructive-list-of-potential-carcinogens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:38Z", "digest": "sha1:LOFTN5Y3JS3YG4LOBQSMSBFQSKLHKGCB", "length": 2827, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.croplife.org.au", "title": "CropLife Australia | IARC deliver confusing and unconstructive list of potential carcinogens", "raw_content": "IARC deliver confusing and unconstructive list of potential carcinogens\n23 March 2015 (Canberra) \u2013 The International Agency for Research on Cancer\u2019s (IARC) decision to list five pesticides as \u201cpossible\u201d or \u201cprobable\u201d carcinogens contradicts the comprehensive scientific assessment of expert regulators around the world.\nThe pesticides have been added to a list of substances and activities that includes aloe vera, coffee, pickled vegetables and being a hairdresser or carpenter.\n\u201cIARC ratings are based on an incomplete, cherry-picked data review, that has omitted key evidence,\u201d said Matthew Cossey, Chief Executive Officer of CropLife Australia.\n\u201cIts conclusion is contrary to the broad consensus reached by numerous respected international regulatory bodies, which carry out extensive, scientific reviews.\n\u201cAround the world pesticides are assessed and regulated by expert scientific authorities, such as the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority. The pesticide registration process involves years of data collection and comprehensive assessment before approvals are granted and a product can be sold on the Australian market. The weight of scientific evidence shows that pesticides do not cause cancer.\nThe IARC results also contradict the Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) which is an internationally recognized expert body administered jointly by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and IARC\u2019s parent body, the World Health Organization. The JMPR is made up of the world\u2019s foremost toxicology specialists and has also approved the safety of these pesticides.\n\u201cA recent study by the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety and University of Sydney found that incidence of cancer is lower in farmers, who have the highest level of exposure to pesticides, than the general population. This study reflects similar findings overseas.\n\u201cGiven that the IARC have ranked the pesticides in the same categories as coffee and aloe vera, which many of us are exposed to or consume every day, reflects the inadequate and misleading nature of its method of assessment.\n\u201cEvery agricultural chemical product registered in Australia goes through a thorough scientific, evidence-based risk assessment, which assess any hazards associated with the product and determines the relevant risks to users, consumers and the environment. This process is far more scientifically rigorous than that carried out by the IARC.\n\u201cIt is important to note that the IARC has not undertaken or considered any new research or data that has not previously been assessed by expert regulators around the world.\n\u201cThe World Health Organization needs to explain how the IARC is able to reach conclusions that are contrary to countless scientific studies without any additional evidence,\u201d concluded Mr Cossey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crss.ucsc.edu/news/2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FV3XGDNX5WIPNITO6OZZJXU5DBCME5EO", "length": 723, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.crss.ucsc.edu", "title": "CRSS: News for 2013", "raw_content": "May 30, 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Avani Wildani, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis!\nJune 30, 2013: SSRC paper has won Best Short Paper at SYSTOR 2013\nJuly 15, 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Adams, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!\nAug. 30, 2013: The SSRC seminar series for Fall 2013 will be held on Mondays at 1:00 PM in E2-599, starting on September 30th.\nSept. 11, 2013: A poster on the Percival secure archival storage system will be presented to Rep Marcy Kaptur (D-OH).\nNov. 4, 2013: Hitachi sponsors CRSS research in genomic data storage.\nNov. 12, 2013: Ethan Miller has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist.\nDec. 9, 2013: UCSC research on storage access patterns quoted in The Economist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cspartners.com.au/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KYDS4LJ4CBBKFXCPN4MRPNAUYTEPJHWD", "length": 3558, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cspartners.com.au", "title": "About - Cornerstone Group", "raw_content": "About Us \u00bb Our Partners\nGLEN GURNEY\nCA B. Com.\nMember of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia\nAccredited Institute of Chartered Accountants SMSF Specialist\nGlen graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Education in November 1984 and after traveling for approximately 12 months, began a Bachelor of Commerce in 1986.\nGlen commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant in November 1986 working for KMG Hungerfords and then Arthur Andersen (upon the merger of the two). He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in November 1988 and completed his Professional Year to qualify as a Chartered Accountant in 1990.\nHe continued his employment with Arthur Andersen, including a two year overseas period until September of 1995, when he became a sole practitioner. In July 1999 Glen formed a partnership with Joe Peczka, to commence the practice known as Cornerstone Partners.\nJOE PECZKA\nJoe graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce in November 1982. He then commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with a small Chartered Accounting practice in West Perth in January 1983 and completed his Professional Year to qualify as a Chartered Accountant in April 1985.\nAs a result of mergers and acquisitions Joe progressed from working with a small practice to working as a senior manager with Arthur Andersen in 1987 where he worked until 1994 before he became a sole practitioner in July 1995. Joe joined Glen in July 1999 to form the practice of Cornerstone Partners.\nJoe has over 33 years experience in advising privately owned businesses of the commercial and taxation issues that they face from commencing business right through to ultimate sale or retirement.\nLAURIE LAPSLEY\nCA CTA B.Com. B.Sc.\nAccredited SMSF Specialist\nChartered Tax Advisor of the Tax Institute\nLaurie graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science in November 1981. He then worked in various commercial enterprises before commencing additional study in January 1984.\nLaurie graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce in November 1986 and then commenced his accounting career with KMG Hungerfords in January of 1987.\nLaurie completed his Chartered Accountants\u2019 Professional Year qualifications in January 1989 whilst in the employ of KMG Hungerfords and then Arthur Anderson (upon the merger of the two).\nLaurie commenced employment with Huigens & Co in January 1990 which later was merged into Huigens Harris Pty Chartered Accountants. In July 1994, he was admitted as partner in the practice Harris Lapsley Pty which continued until June 2000 when he joined Glen and Joe in the partnership Cornerstone Partners.\nLaurie has over 29 years\u2019 experience in advising on commercial and taxation issues facing businesses and individuals, from commencing and managing businesses, through sale or retirement, management of superannuation and even estate planning.\nNicholas commenced his career working with Glen Gurney & Co. in March 1999. His employment was continued with the formation of Cornerstone Partners in July 1999 by Glen Gurney and Joe Peczka.\nNicholas graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Commerce in February 2004. He then completed the Chartered Accountants Program in October 2007 and was admitted into the Institute of Chartered Accountants in January 2008.\nNicholas offers a wealth of experience, high technical competency and intimate knowledge of his clients\u2019 business affairs. He was promoted to a Partner of the Firm in July 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cswe.org/Centers-Initiatives/Initiatives/Social-Work-and-Integrated-Behavioral-Healthcare-P/Multiple-Cronic-Conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7KRXE7K7XAYCVEJ2JNA2H552466I4NTO", "length": 1750, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cswe.org", "title": "Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) - Multiple Chronic Conditions", "raw_content": "Home > Centers & Initiatives > Social Work and Integrated Behavioral Healthcare Project > Multiple Chronic Conditions\nMultiple Chronic Conditions (MCC)\nPersons with MCC, including physical conditions (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, cancer, HIV) and mental and cognitive disorders (e.g., substance addiction, chronic anxiety, ongoing depression, dementia) account for almost one-third of the U.S. patient population and two-thirds of U.S. health-care spending. Understanding the complex contextual factors affecting a person's health; advocating for person-driven, goal-directed care; and encouraging self-management of MCC are some of the current challenges facing social work and other physical and behavioral health professions.\nTeaching and Learning Resources from CSWE Members\nCSWE is collecting sample curricula to educate social work students about working with individuals with MCC. If you would like to add your curricula/materials to this list, please e-mail research@cswe.org.\nXavier University developed an annual interdisciplinary teaming symposium that invites students from social work, counseling, health services administration, nursing, occupational therapy, and psychology to address MCC using a mock treatment team approach.\nDepartment of Health & Human Services Initiative on Multiple Chronic Conditions\nMultiple Chronic Conditions Dashboard - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offer an interactive dashboard view of state and county level Medicare use\nBayliss, E. A., Bond, D. E., Boyd, C., Davis, M., Finke, B., Fox, M. H., et al. (May/June 2014). Understanding the context of health for persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Moving from what is the matter to what matters. Annals of Family Medicine, 12(3), 260\u2013269.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cutter.com/experts/ciaran-murphy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:I75EY2HUUI4H3LVIBLOMUPG3FLFDLP5M", "length": 1623, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cutter.com", "title": "Ciaran Murphy | Cutter Consortium", "raw_content": "Professor Ciaran Murphy is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice. He is the Bank of Ireland Professor of Business Information Systems, and the Chair of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University College Cork, Ireland.\nCiaran Murphy is an internationally recognised expert in Decision Support Systems. He has consulted to financial services companies, government agencies and international bodies. He is widely published, and has been author and editor of number of books, including Information Systems at CORE with Pat Finnegan. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of a number of international research journals and has chaired a number of European Conferences on Information Systems.\nHe was described as \"Ireland's Brain Farmer\" by Business 2.0, and as one of the eight key people in Ireland that international IT leaders should contact. He heads Ireland's largest academic research group in Information Systems and his program produces the largest number of graduates who work in the IT areas of financial services in Ireland and the UK.\nProfessor Murphy has served as Chairperson of the Higher Education and Training Awards Council of Ireland, and as Chairperson of the National Council for Educational Awards. He has also served as a member of the Higher Education Authority, the funding agency for all universities in Ireland, and was a member of the New Ireland Forum. Ciaran Murphy is regarded as one of the key drivers of the development of Ireland's knowledge economy. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 74.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyclingsa.com/mountain-bike-press/2014/10/28/strauss-ready-for-elite-step-up-at-pietermaritzburg-world-cup-opener", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IGIST3QQ3PPH66J7H3LHDPSHNJPMWOGX", "length": 2957, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.cyclingsa.com", "title": "Strauss ready for elite step up at Pietermaritzburg World Cup opener \u2014 Cycling South Africa", "raw_content": "Strauss ready for elite step up at Pietermaritzburg World Cup opener\nFormer under-23 South African Cross Country shining star, Mariske Strauss, is excited by the step up into the elite women\u2019s category that 2014 brings when she tackles the Pietermaritzburg leg of the international UCI MTB World Cup Series at Cascades MTB Park from 11-13 April 2014.\nStrauss is eager to take the first stride in the direction of her mountain bike World Cup top 20 goal. Having blossomed in her final year as an under-23 competitor in 2013, Strauss now has whole the country\u2019s mountain biking fraternity\u2019s eyes on her as she enters the big wide world of the elite women\u2019s race category.\n\u201cBeing in my first year as an elite rider, its back to being a small fish in a big pond!\u201d described Strauss. \u201cI\u2019ll start right at the back of the field and I\u2019ll really have to try find my bearings all over again.\u201d\nA career-defining 2013 saw Strauss, together with BMC-SA\u2019s Candice Neethling, become a shining light in the world of women\u2019s mountain biking in South Africa and she now hopes to take things forward in the women\u2019s elite category locally as well.\n\u201cRecently the women\u2019s elite category is probably the one area where we haven\u2019t quite been as competitive as we would have liked to on an international level and hopefully I can try help take things up a level or two this year. Yolande Speedy was an amazing athlete in her day but unfortunately she didn\u2019t have as many opportunities to race internationally as we do now.\u201d\nLast year, Strauss join the European-based Orange Monkey pro team, a move that the Western Cape based star is delighted to have made.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been such a blessing having such an awesome team who is always ready to walk a path with me. Unfortunately, even with an amazing South African team, you just don\u2019t have the support structures that a European team can offer and so I\u2019m really excited to try grow with Orange Monkey for the foreseeable future.\u201d\nStrauss has been rethinking certain goals and ambitions as well. \u201cWorking with Jeroen [Swart] means everything is all very scientific and structured, which really helps keep me going in the right direction and working towards my goals. I\u2019m going to be racing the Absa Cape Epic this year with Hanlie Booyens so that will be a really good experience and I\u2019m going in with a really open mind.\u201d\nAccording to Strauss the fact that the World Cup season opener takes place so close to home is a huge advantage and something she hopes will enable her to get her 2014 World Cup efforts of to a flying start.\n\u201cPietermaritzburg also holds a very special place in my heart. I\u2019ve raced there for the past twelve years, it is an amazing track that the organisers and designers just keep making better and better and I know the course like the back of my hand so I\u2019m really looking forward to racing there again in April.\u201d\nPhoto: Mylene Paynter\nKargo set to realise South African ...\nKargo Pro MTB paves the way for SA ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cytchicago.org/classes/Voice-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/226", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HABHH7XJPR4DSYYSTZZ5JCQTIRMS3CQ4", "length": 72, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cytchicago.org", "title": "Voice: Little Shop of Horrors | Lake, Winter 2019", "raw_content": "Voice: Little Shop of Horrors\nRegister for Voice: Little Shop of Horrors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 150.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailynews.com/2018/01/05/measure-m-and-metros-funding-shortfalls/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QIBXREFWKQEXXXXCDY24USMQ5B7ND4MK", "length": 4771, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dailynews.com", "title": "Measure M and Metro\u2019s funding shortfalls \u2013 Daily News", "raw_content": "Measure M and Metro\u2019s funding shortfalls\nStaff Photo by Scott Varley\nA Metro blue line train pulls to a stop along Long Beach Blvd.\nBy Thomas A. Rubin and James E. Moore | |\nOn November 8, 2016, Los Angeles County voters approved the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u2019s Measure M, the L.A. County Traffic Improvement Plan, Metro\u2019s fourth half-cent sales tax for transportation; and extended indefinitely the sales tax authorized in 2008 under Measure R. The Measure M Plan projects $121,390 million in new revenues between fiscal years 2018-2057, with $860 million in 2018.\nMeasure M presented voters with very high sales tax revenue projections dedicated to a long list of projects; including nine rail projects in the next decade for which planning, design, or construction are underway at an estimated total cost of $16.7 billion. Metro is attempting to accelerate other major projects scheduled for subsequent decades by committing future funds to financing Public-Private Partnerships, which depend on the quality of Metro\u2019s tax revenue projections.\nUnfortunately, Metro consistently overestimates future sales tax receipts. These distortions are presumably intended to convince voters that an extensive list of major new transportation projects can be completed in a short period.\nWe tried to replicate Metro\u2019s revenue projections, but couldn\u2019t, partially due to inconsistencies across values in the Measure M Plan. However, the plan\u2019s revenue grand total and subtotals can be closely approximated if Metro\u2019s sales tax revenues grow at an average annual compound rate of approximately 5.7 percent.\nThis is an implausibly high growth rate for sales tax revenues. Compare this to the actual revenue growth Metro experienced with its first half-cent sales tax, 1980\u2019s Measure A, which began in 1983. Over the last 34 years, the average annual compound growth rate for Measure A revenues was 2.6 percent, less than half the rate Metro projects for Measure M revenues. Most of this was due to inflation of 2.2 percent, leaving a real growth rate of less than 0.4 percent. Accounting for county population growth since 1983, real sales tax revenue per capita decreased.\nThe annual rate of inflation in metropolitan Los Angeles over the past ten years was just 1.8 percent. Metro\u2019s 2018 Budget shows Measure M\u2019s first year revenues as $761.9 million, already over 11 percent below the Plan\u2019s \u201cFirst Year Amount\u201d of $860 million, and shows $802.0 million in revenues for each of the previous sales tax measures. Combining this budget value, actual inflation rate for 2006-2016, and real sales tax revenue growth rate for 1983-2016 provides a realistic projected revenue growth rate of 2.2 percent; and a 40-year total of only $52.6 billion in Measure M revenues, or 57 percent less than Metro\u2019s $121.39 billion projection.\nIt gets worse. The Measure M Plan is a long-term financial and operating plan for the entire agency. The tax revenue growth Metro assumes for Measure M applies to revenues from Metro\u2019s other three half-cent sales taxes, Propositions A, C, and Measure R, and the quarter-cent Transportation Development Act sales tax. Measure M\u2019s revenue shortfalls apply to these taxes too, creating total 40-year shortfalls of over $300 billion. Further, Metro likely assumes funding matches from state and federal grants and loans and public-private partnerships. Their loss will increase the coming shortfalls.\nMetro also has a history of underestimating transit project costs. The costs of the Blue, Green, Expo, Red, Purple, Pasadena, Gold, and East Side lines all exceeded by several times Metro\u2019s budget for each. Determining by just how many billions has required us to track down where Metro creatively concealed the excess costs.\nMetro\u2019s project cost overruns and optimistic tax revenue projections will produce significant delays in starting some projects, and effective cancellations for others. Near term, revenue shortfalls leave Metro with a pernicious incentive to keep building by diverting funds from the bus system to rail construction, driving down total transit ridership.\nMetro\u2019s fiscal brinksmanship is strategic. Rosy revenue forecasts amplify the benefits that voters believe new sales taxes will deliver, while shortfalls position Metro\u2019s next proposition to L.A. County\u2019s electorate, asking for new taxes in exchange for promises that Metro knows it can never afford to keep.\nThomas A. Rubin is a consultant based in Oakland. He was the chief financial officer of the Southern California Rapid Transit District before it was merged into Metro. James E. Moore II is a professor in USC\u2019s Viterbi School of Engineering and Price School of Public Policy, and director of USC\u2019s Transportation Engineering Program.\nThomas A. Rubin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 9319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/11/womens-soccer1117", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TPZDXYR6EELUJW2O4MKV23KTIVDWXMZB", "length": 3758, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.dailytarheel.com", "title": "Senior Ashley and first-year Dorwart power UNC women's soccer to NCAA Tournament win - The Daily Tar Heel", "raw_content": "Senior Ashley and first-year Dorwart power UNC women's soccer to NCAA Tournament win\nFirst-year Tar Heel midfielder Rachael Dorwart (9) battles against Kansas defender Addyisyn Merrick (26) during Women's Soccer's 4-1 victory against Kansas in the second round of the NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament on Friday, Nov. 16 at Wake Med Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina.\nNash Consing\nCARY \u2014 If the North Carolina women\u2019s soccer team was cold Friday night, it didn\u2019t show it. Despite the frigid temperatures at WakeMed Soccer Park, the Tar Heels remained hot as they cruised to a 4-1 victory over Kansas, advancing to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.\nFor a team that\u2019s had fluctuations in the lineup throughout the season, including a season-ending injury to top goalscorer Alessia Russo, North Carolina (19-3-1, 10-0 ACC) has consistently found ways to put the ball in the back of the net.\nOn Friday, it was senior defender Julia Ashley leading the offensive charge against Kansas (12-6-3, 5-4 Big 12), registering a career-high three assists in the game. In the 3-4-3 system that head coach Anson Dorrance deploys, wing-backs like Ashley are empowered to attack and make plays for their teammates.\n\u201cI have a natural tendency to go forward,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s honestly probably too much \u2026 I think that\u2019s a threat I have as being an outside-back, I\u2019m able to attack as well as defend.\u201d\nThe attack caught Kansas off guard. It\u2019s not every day that a team encounters a press as aggressive as UNC's. That means increased opportunities for the backs like Ashley to get crosses up the field, including an arcing pass Ashley had early in the first half that led to a goal by midfielder Brianna Pinto.\nAssists are only valuable if there is a player there and able to convert on shot attempts. Pinto converted one shot, midfielder Annie Kingman another. But it was first-year Rachael Dorwart who stood out amongst the team.\nDorwart scored two goals, the first multi-goal game of her career, converting assists from Ashley as well as Pinto and forward Ru Mucherera. The midfielder was named a starter at the beginning of the year, before being moved to the bench after the seventh game and she saw her minutes decrease as the season went on.\nBut injuries and lineup changes create new opportunities, and in Dorwart\u2019s case, she capitalized.\n\u201cJust going into the playoffs, I knew with Alessia being hurt someone had to step up,\u201d Dorwart said. \u201cIn practices I\u2019ve been really working hard to get these opportunities for myself in the game, and then once they come I try and finish them.\u201d\nIn other programs, it\u2019s possible a first-year wouldn\u2019t have seen the field at all after struggling early on. But Dorrance has always had a different mindset.\n\u201cOur philosophy is to play the kids we recruit,\u201d Dorrance said.\nFor a team that often plays 18, 19, even 20 players in a game, Dorwart found minutes. When her number was called, she was ready.\n\u201cWe invested in her, we played her in every half all year,\u201d Dorrance said. \u201cAnd now she\u2019s paying us back \u2026 She\u2019s starting to play the best soccer that she\u2019s played in college.\u201d\nNewcomers might have stolen the show for this game, but North Carolina will still need to rely on leaders like Ashley to make it further in the tournament.\nFor Ashley, this tournament represents the last chance she\u2019ll have to get recognition for the next level. She graduates at the end of the semester. She\u2019s a top prospect for the National Women's Soccer League draft. But before that, she\u2019s got unfinished business. All the seniors do.\nWhether or not this team can do what UNC hasn\u2019t done since 2012 remains to be seen. But everyone on the team, from first-years to seniors knows those two words they want to add to their resumes.\n@bg_keyes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 7842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datingadvice.com/forum/topic/date-and-relationship-in-general-doubts", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:43:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7PKBMPNVAAKNTUHR6VQHNFWHAY73KRPH", "length": 2747, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.datingadvice.com", "title": "DatingAdvice Forum | Date And Relationship in general doubts.", "raw_content": "Date And Relationship in general doubts.\nHey greetings, i\u00b4m Pedro, from Portugal.\nI have a friend in my life for some time now(like 2 years), and have always had a close relationship, but early this year, he really quit contact because of a circle of lies i found out about her, and that pissed off a lot of her friends, not only me, but then i realized maybe i was a bit too severe with her when she came to apology me like 4 months ago.\nMoving on with that part, i\u00b4m studyin in another town than her(i\u00b4m in Braga, she\u00b4s in Porto), although i go to Porto every weekend because that\u00b4s where i\u00b4m from and where my parents live and it\u00b4s only 50 miles from Braga. We have been talkin since that time, and we are not strangers, we know each other, but we can only have so much fun when texting, so for a month i had thoughs of asking her out, i first said \u201cWould you Like to do something with me, like having some drinks or so?\u201d she answered \u201cOf course yes\u201d but then she had some family stuff to do and because i\u00b4m only at weekends at Porto,\ni couldn\u00b4t do much about it. Some 2 weeks later to my surprise, a bit random, we were really chatting about a injury my mom suffered, and she told me to give her a get well kiss, which i said i would deliver and said thanks for her concern, in which she replied \u201d \ud83d\ude42 Look Pedro, we could go have a cup of coffee this weekend if you want\u201d i said yes, but she then had to prepare a family lunch and dinner(which i believe is true). But one thing i noticed, that she seems diferente, even before she invited for that coffee, she was never a girl that was shy, but she looks a little bit shy, i wouldn\u00b4t say she doesn\u00b4t want to go out with me because we still have good talks, but she looks a bit shy with me, thing she never was, and i wonder why she is texting me less, when actually she was the one that invited me last and we didn\u00b4t go out because of her, not because of me. But, moving on, tuesday i decided to quit being a coward and asked her if she wanted to see Hunger Games\nwith me(and possibily go have Dinner with me after it), to which she replied \u201cIt sounds like a great idea \ud83d\ude42 i had already thought of that, but didn\u00b4t want you to feel obligied to go with me\u201d, since this is friday and i\u00b4m goin to Porto today, i decided to give her a reminder \u201cSo, when do you want to see Hunger Games? \ud83d\ude42 \u201cto which still she hasn\u00b4t replied. I\u00b4m really a bit lost here, is she playin games with me? Wants me to be more assertive or so? Is she shy because she is feelin some attraction for me and prefers to cut contact gradually because i study away from me? I really don\u00b4t want to lose her, even like a friend, but i really would like to go out with her alone a couple of times to see if we can build somethin else.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidrees.wales/en/aberavon-am-marched-with-steelworkers-in-brussels/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DKAI53OPCSNSCGAJONVLJWRNXZA3JCOB", "length": 3099, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.davidrees.wales", "title": "Aberavon AM marched with Steelworkers in Brussels - David Rees AM | Aberavon", "raw_content": "HomeLatest NewsLatest NewsAberavon AM marched with Steelworkers in Brussels\nAberavon AM marched with Steelworkers in Brussels\nFollowing the announcement last month of the job losses at Tata Steel Port Talbot, David Rees AM has been working with the Trade Unions and colleagues to put into place support for those losing their jobs and also to look at the options and means by which we can sustain a viable Steel making operation in Port Talbot. It is well known that the barriers facing the Steel Industry, who are only asking for a level playing field in a competitive market place, are high energy costs and the unfair dumping of cheap steel from other countries.\nAberavon\u2019s AM, David Rees, and MP, Stephen Kinnock, have been lobbying the UK Government hard for them to take action on these areas as they have the major levers to tackle high energy prices and lead on anti-dumping measures within Europe. They welcome the recent visit to the Tata works by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to see for himself the difficult challenges facing not only local steelworkers, but the UK Steel Industry as a whole and also the impact that the recent job losses will have on the economy of Port Talbot.\nDavid Rees said; \u201cFollowing his visit last week I hope the Secretary of State now shares my belief that there is a strong future for Steel making in Wales and will take that message back to the cabinet in London. It\u2019s time to see action from the UK government both on high energy prices in the UK and taking a lead in Europe to address cheap imports of steel from China and other countries.\nHe added \u201cHowever, I was disappointed that the Secretary of State didn\u2019t accept my offer to meet to discuss the issues facing the Port Talbot works and the UK Steel Industry. We now need him to ensure the UK government joins the Welsh Government to act in unison in support of our Steel Industry and protect the manufacturing base within the UK economy.\u201d\nDavid Rees AM also took this message to Brussels last week where he met with staff from the EU Commission to discuss both the introduction of anti-dumping measures against cheap imports of steel and support available for those Steel workers losing their jobs and for the communities in which they live. While in Brussels he joined Steelworkers and Managers from Tata Steel across South Wales who marched alongside other Steelworkers from across Europe who were there to lobby the EU commission for action on Steel. Mr Rees also attended a High Level Conference on Energy Intensive Industries while he was in Brussels, in which the call from industry was clear \u2013 act now if the EU wishes to maintain a steel industry.\nDavid Rees said \u201cLast week\u2019s discussions in Brussels allowed me to deliver a clear message to EU officials on the importance of the future of Welsh steel making. The challenges facing the Steel Industry across Europe need to be addressed to give our steel workers every opportunity to compete in the global market place. We know steel workers in Port Talbot can deliver if they are given that level playing field.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/1428539/russian-hackers-targeted-us-senate-think-tanks-microsoft", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:V3NKFVHN4RF6DPRLU4FGGB6OU4EHMR6O", "length": 3200, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dawn.com", "title": "Russian hackers targeted US Senate, think tanks: Microsoft - Newspaper - DAWN.COM", "raw_content": "Russian hackers targeted US Senate, think tanks: Microsoft\nWASHINGTON: Microsoft Corp charged that hackers linked to Russia\u2019s government sought to launch cyber attacks on the US Senate and conservative American think tanks, warning that Moscow is broadening attacks ahead of November\u2019s congressional elections.\nThe world\u2019s biggest software company said late on Monday that it last week took control of six web domains that hackers had created to mimic sites belonging to the Senate and the think tanks. Users who visited the fake sites were asked to enter login credentials.\nIt is the latest in a string of actions Microsoft has taken to thwart what it charges are Russian government hacking attempts. The company said it has shut down 84 fake websites in 12 court-approved actions over the past two years.\n\u201cWe\u2019re concerned that these and other attempts pose security threats to a broadening array of groups connected with both American political parties in the run-up to the 2018 elections,\u201d Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post.\nMicrosoft said it had no evidence that the hackers had succeeded in compromising any user credentials before it took control of the malicious sites.\nThe Kremlin rejected the Microsoft allegations and said there was no evidence to support them.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t know what hackers they are talking about,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. \u201cWho exactly are they talking about? We don\u2019t understand what the proof and the basis is for them drawing these kind of conclusions. Such information (proof) is lacking.\u201d Moscow has repeatedly dismissed allegations that it has used hackers to influence US elections and political opinion.\nThe targets, Microsoft said, included the International Republican Institute, whose high-profile Republican board members include Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has criticised US President Donald Trump\u2019s interactions with Russia and Moscow\u2019s rights record.\nThe Hudson Institute, another target, has hosted discussions on topics including cyber security, according to Microsoft. It has also examined the rise of kleptocracy, especially in Russia, and has been critical of the Russian government.\nOther malicious domains were used to mimic legitimate sites used by the US Senate and Microsoft\u2019s Office software suite, the company said.\nMicrosoft\u2019s report came amid increasing tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of midterm elections in November.\nA US federal grand jury indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers in July on charges of hacking the computer networks of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.\nSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russias role in the 2016 election and whether Trump\u2019s campaign worked with Russians to sway the vote. Russia denies interfering in the elections and Trump has denied any collusion.\nThe type of attack is known as \u201cspear fishing,\u201d in which the hackers trick victims into entering their username and password into a fake site in order to steal their credentials.\nFacebook Inc said late last month it had removed 32 pages and fake accounts from its platforms in a bid to combat foreign meddling ahead of the US votes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1408258", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:37Z", "digest": "sha1:UDPSLSOUKRO5VZ5WIM4EOTPG2GWQLPE3", "length": 1701, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.dawn.com", "title": "Pakistan Sports Board to build stadium named after deceased Olympian Mansoor Ahmed - Sport - DAWN.COM", "raw_content": "Published May 17, 2018 03:21pm\nPakistan Sports Board to build stadium named after deceased Olympian Mansoor Ahmed\nPakistan Sports Board (PSB) on Thursday announced that it will construct a stadium in Islamabad in the memory of Olympian Mansoor Ahmed, who passed away last week.\nA meeting of the executive board of the PSB accepted Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Secretary Shahbaz Ahmad Senior's suggestion to build a stadium after the World Cup winning hockey goalkeeper.\nThe board also decided to provide Rs1 million to the deceased family and approved recommendation of taking out health insurance for all of its athletes.\nAhmed, who was 49, passed away after suffering for weeks from complications stemming from a pacemaker and stents implanted in his heart, and had reached out to India for help in securing a heart transplant.\nHe had become a sporting icon in Pakistan's hockey circles after helping the country win the 1994 World Cup in Sydney with his penalty stroke save against the Netherlands in the final.\nAhmed played 338 international matches and also participated in three Olympics and various other high-profile events in a career spanning from 1986 to 2000.\nIn addition to being named the world's best goalkeeper on four occasions, Ahmed was bestowed with a presidential award in 1988 and the Pride of Performance in 1994.\nHockey hero Mansoor Ahmed would not have died had Pakistan had a deceased organ donation programme\nIt is mind-boggling that the ultimate gesture of kindness requires so much convincing for acceptance in society.\nHockey's governing body expects Pakistan to play 2018 World Cup in India\nFIH says India has given no indication yet of not wanting to host Pakistan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dealspoints.com/guide/using-united-airlines-award-miles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KT3V5SMARMXNT6BPWSEH4LTJDSPMLUHA", "length": 9560, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.dealspoints.com", "title": "Using United Airlines Miles & Points", "raw_content": "Guide to Redeeming United Airlines Miles for Maximum Value\nUnited is a great program because they do not pass on fuel surcharges, which can save you hundreds of dollars in fees. Additionally, you can do a free stopover and get a free one-way flight using the Excursionist perk.\nAward Chart: United Award Chart (includes Star Alliance Partners and definitions of zones). United has three different types of awards: (1) United Saver, (2) United Everyday, and (3) Star Alliance or partner airlines. Generally, it is cheaper to fly on United than their partners.\nFees: $25 for booking by phone, $75 fee for award booking within 21 days, $75 for any changes or redeposit 61 or more days, $125 for any changes or redeposit within 60 days. (assumes no status; if you have United status, here are their discounted award fees)\nYou may be able to avoid the $75 close-in booking fee by booking a flight 21+ days in advance and call to change it within the first 24-hours (free cancel or change period) to the date you want within 21 days. The best numbers to call are 1-800-421-4655 or the Philippines number (+63-2-884-8272; 8:30-5:30 p.m. M-F and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for their time zone). Avoiding the fee may require several HUCA (hang up and call again) since the customer service agents should charge that fee. Additionally, you can avoid the fee completely without the trick by using Singapore, Aeroplan, or LifeMiles to book United flights.\nFuel Surcharges: There are no carrier fuel surcharges on United awards! This can save you hundreds of dollars in fees on an award.\nUnited's Star Alliance Partners\nAdria, Aegean, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa, Croatia Airlines, Egyptair, Ethiopian, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, SAS, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Thai, and Turkish Airlines\nUnited's Other Partners\nAer Lingus, Aeromar, Air Dolomiti, Azul, Cape Air, Edelweiss, Eurowings, Great Lakes Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Island Air, Jet Airways, and Silver Airways.\nStopovers: You can have one stopover in the same region as the destination. (i.e. Charlotte to Munich (stopover) and continue to Athens).\nOpen-Jaws: Two open jaws are allowed on roundtrip award (or three with excursionist perk), but each open-jaw must be in the same region. (i.e. St. Louis to Singapore; and Bangkok to Charlotte)\nOther Award Rules: One-way awards are allowed. You can combine the open jaw and stopover rule for roundtrips (Charlotte to Munich (stopover) to Athens; then fly Rome to St. Louis).\nThere are some awards that you cannot do on a single award. Some examples from North America include: to South Africa via South America; To Northern Asia via Southeastern Asia; To Europe via South America; and to Australia via Europe or South America.\nCredit Cards and Elite Status- Only credit card holders and people with United elite status get access to \"XN\" award space, which is additional economy saver award space for United flights. Premier Platinum and Premier 1K get better award space for business or first class United flights.\nWaitlisting- You can waitlist for business or first class. You need to (1) book an economy seat (2) call United at 800-864-8331 to be put on the waitlist, (3) have enough points in your account for the upgrade. If business class seats become available, then you will automatically be upgraded.\nExtra Saver Availability Routes- United publishes a list of routes that have extra saver availability. Just look for the green asterisk. However, the list only works on routes from Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles.\nExcursionist Perk\nRules: This is a free one-way award within select multi-city itineraries. Members who book an itinerary with three or more one-way awards will be eligible to receive one of those one-way awards for free if it meets all of these conditions:\nThe Excursionist Perk cannot be in the MileagePlus defined region where your travel originates (region definitions are below)\nTravel must end in the same MileagePlus defined region where travel originates. (if you book a one-way ticket, you could still use this perk by paying 8k miles for an economy ticket under 800 within the origination region)\nThe formula is a flight departing one region + excursionist perk flight anywhere in the world outside of the original region + flight finishing in the orginial region.\nThe origin and destination of the Excursionist Perk are within a single MileagePlus defined region.\nThe cabin of service and award type of the free one-way award is the same or lower than the one-way award preceding it.\nBusiness one-way; Business (excursionist perk); economy is valid. But economy one-way; business (excursionist perk); business is invalid.\nBooking- Use United.com's multi-city award search. You may find it easier to search award space one segment at a time, and then use the multi-city search to put it all together. You can verify that you correctly used the perk if the award pricing is the same without that free one-way. If after several searches United displays \"no results avaliable,\" clear your cookies or pull United.com in different internet browser.\nAtlanta to Rome; Athens to Madrid (excursionist perk), Paris to Atlanta or another US city.\nShanghai to LAX in business, SFO to NYC in business (excursionist perk), then flight Shanghai to Bejing (8,000 extra points in economy). That 8,000 point segment allows you to book the 35,000 points San Francisco to New York City route for free using the excursionist perk. (You could also technically throw away the third segment if you wanted)\nHawaii to the U.S. Mainland + (some random flight outside of Hawaii and within the same region (e.g. Auckland to Sydney; Singapore to Thailand; San Francisco to Miami) + a 7,000 point economy flight from Maui to Honolulu.\nIstanbul to London; NYC to SFO in business (excursionist perk); Munich to Frankfurt (in economy for 8,000 points). (You get three flights in this example for 33,000 points whereas the single segment of NYC to SFO would be 35,000 normally by itself)\nAirlines with High Fuel Surcharges: United might not be able to get you there for the least amount of points, but it may be worth using more points to pay less in fees. (e.g. You can fly on Lufthansa business class using ANA points for 88,000, but almost $1,000 in fuel surcharges and taxes. Or use 140,000 United points plus $130 for taxes.)\nFlights on United: Flights on United in business class are usually about 20,000 points cheaper than flying on a partner airline. However, it might be worth it to fly on one of the top airlines in the world such as Lufthansa, ANA, Singapore, etc.\nUnder 800 miles: Only costs 8,000 points if (1) traveling outside of North America, (2) traveling non-stop, and (3) flight covers a distance of 800 miles or under. Use this sweet spot for those very expensive short flights abroad. (e.g. Guayaquil to Bogata is $506 one-way and would qualify).\nMainland U.S., Alaska & Canada Mainland U.S., Alaska & Canada\nHawaii Hawaiian Islands\nCaribbean Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadalupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherland Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, U.s. 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What we see on the web is just a fraction of what\u2019s truly available, the proverbial tip of the iceberg.\nBeneath the surface of the water lies the bulk of the iceberg, the deep web. It contains around five hundred times more information than the surface web and 550 billion individual documents \u2013 compared to the surface web\u2019s 1 billion.\nIt\u2019s estimated that over 200,000 deep websites exist and that 95% of it is publically accessible, which means you won\u2019t have to pay subscription fees or take out a membership to access it. It\u2019s also constantly getting larger \u2013 in fact, it\u2019s the most rapidly growing category for new content on the internet.\nThe Basics of Accessing the Deep Web\nThe first thing to remember is that much of the information that exists on the deep web is already outdated. It\u2019s a rapidly changing environment \u2013 which is one of the reasons why it holds such appeal \u2013 and there are a lot of myths and rumors about the deep web that simply isn\u2019t true.\nIf you\u2019re accessing the deep web from your computer then you\u2019ll probably want to use Tor, which is the go-to browser for beginners. But in this article, we\u2019re going to assume that you\u2019re using your Android device so that you can access the deep web on the go.\nIn popular culture, the deep web is thought of as a repository for drugs, weapons, and porn, but the truth is that you only hear that from the press. They know that\u2019s what sells stories, and while you can find all three of the above if you look for them, the deep web is about so much more. A great example of this is the New Yorker Strongbox, which allows people to create a code name and to anonymously (and securely) send files to the publication\u2019s editorial team.\nWe\u2019re not going to tell you exactly where to go and what to look for here because everyone\u2019s deep web experience is a little different and part of the joy of it is discovering it for yourself. That said, if you get stuck then it\u2019s worth logging into OnionChat, an anonymous chat room where you\u2019ll be able to find someone to help you.\nAccessing the Deep Web on Android\nThe first thing that you\u2019ll need to do is to download some applications so you can connect to TOR, the privacy tool that conceals users\u2019 identities and their online activity while they connect to the deep web. There are a number of different apps that can help you to do this, but for this tutorial, we\u2019re going to concentrate on Orbot and Orfox. Orbot allows you to connect to TOR, while Orfox is the browser that you\u2019ll use to navigate.\nOrbot works by giving you a dynamic IP, which is an IP address that changes every couple of minutes. That makes it much harder for people to track you down, but it won\u2019t protect you from viruses and malware. That\u2019s why it\u2019s also a good idea to run antivirus software. Even accessing Deep Web via Tor must be careful since it holds more threat than Android.\nOf course, you can still be tracked down if you\u2019re not careful, especially if background applications are still monitoring your location and other data. That\u2019s why it\u2019s also a good idea to use a service such as CyberGhost VPN, which helps you to protect your privacy online and to dodge regional restrictions by providing an encrypted virtual private network that allows you to appear to connect from any of a number of locations.\n1. Download CyberGhost VPN and configure it\nFirst download CyberGhost VPN, which you can use to enhance your privacy by connecting to the deep web via a VPN. CyberGhost VPN is free with in-app purchases, and it allows you to pick a country for your VPN by selecting from either a map or a list. Once you\u2019ve signed up to CyberGhost, you can head to the server list and select \u2018Onion over VPN\u2019 to connect to the deep web. Sign up here.\n2. Download Orbot and Orfox from Google Play\nBoth of these apps are free to download and they\u2019re arguably the most popular deep web Android apps for beginner users and veterans alike. They don\u2019t take up much space, either. Start downloading the apps and complete the installation.\n3. Make sure you\u2019re running antivirus\nBefore you hook yourself up to the deep web, make sure that you\u2019ve downloaded and installed some decent antivirus software. We recommend Kaspersky Internet Security for Android or McAfee Mobile Security, but you can take your pick from a whole host of providers by searching for \u2018free antivirus\u2019 in Google Play. Get it downloaded and up and running before you get started.\n4. Load up Orbot and connect to TOR\nConnecting to TOR through Orbot is easily enough. Simply boot up the app, wait for it to load and then hit the start button. You should see a message similar to the one shown below to let you know that you\u2019ve successfully connected to the deep web but before launching Tor, we recommend you to connect the CyberGhost.\n5. Switch to Orfox and boot up Not Evil or Torch to get started\nThere\u2019s no image here because, in the spirit of privacy and anonymity, the apps don\u2019t allow you to take screenshots while accessing the deep web. You can get around that, but we\u2019re not going to. Once you\u2019ve connected to TOR, both Orweb and Orfox will allow you to access the deep web, so boot up Not Evil or Torch \u2013 two different deep web search engines \u2013 to test your connection. If they load, you\u2019re ready to go.\nMore About the Deep Web\nEvery website on the deep web uses a .onion top-level domain (TLD) that you need a TOR browser to access. Orbot and Orfox are just two of the applications that can do this, but they\u2019re two of the most trusted and most popular. If you\u2019re looking for alternatives then consider trying Fire.onion or just search for TOR and see what comes up.\nOf course, there\u2019s not much point in connecting to the deep web if you have nowhere to go, so it\u2019s also worth finding and bookmarking a list of links in different categories to get you started. Bookmarking takes on some extra importance when you\u2019re using the deep web because it\u2019s not always easy to find a website again after you navigate away.\nAfter a while, you\u2019ll start to find that your bookmarks list is filling up. Don\u2019t just leave it \u2013 take the time to organize your bookmarks into subfolders so that it\u2019s easier for you to get around. It\u2019s a pain at the time, but it\u2019s worth it in the long run when it comes to the time you\u2019ll save.\nOne of the big benefits of using the deep web is that your usage is entirely anonymous. Remember, though, that anonymity will only remain if you let it. If you start to give away personal information like your name or your email address then you\u2019re sacrificing some of that anonymity.\nCongratulations \u2013 you can now access the deep web from your mobile device! What you do next is up to you and the possibilities are endless. It\u2019s a little bit like falling down a rabbit hole \u2013 once you know that the deep web is present it becomes difficult to ignore, and the thrill that you get when you discover a new site is intoxicating.\nWhy not give it a go yourself? But don\u2019t tell me I didn\u2019t warn you first ensure that your information is safe before accessing these sites and never give out any social identities that could put you and your family at risk.\nFiled Under: Deep web, Guides Tagged With: Access Deep Web, Android, Orbot, Orfox, Tor\nMoiz Iqbal says\nHow to get login nordvpn free and new account", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 9148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dentalhygienistprograms.com/dental-hygienist-schools-in-alaska/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:UM4B3HNFDTOPWEVWKXFHUPXYODAFLZ6D", "length": 3147, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.dentalhygienistprograms.com", "title": "Dental Hygienist Schools in Alaska \u2013 Dental Hygienist Programs", "raw_content": "Dental Hygienist Schools in Alaska\nAlaska is the largest state in the US, but it is also the third least populous, making it a wonderful destination for those who enjoy seclusion. The state is famous for its vast wilderness, characterized by majestic peaks, many of which are active volcanoes. The climate is of course quite harsh and unforgiving, but many of Alaska\u2019s residents feel it is well worth it to be surrounded by the grandeur of nature.\nWhy else should you consider moving to Alaska to work as a dental hygienist? If you are into outdoor activities, you will find Alaska is great not just for hiking but also for fishing and hunting. You will also be able to see remarkable wildlife in Alaska\u2014everything from salmon leaping upstream to whales spouting offshore.\nAnd guess what? There is no state income tax! Alaskans also receive annual checks ranging up to $1,000 as part of the Alaska Permanent Fund for the state\u2019s oil industry. That payment goes out per-person, so the more family members you have, the more money you get.\nIf you are thinking about dental hygiene as a career, here is what you can expect in general. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the mean annual income for dental hygienists is $73,440, and the field is growing at a rate of 19%. That is faster than average, so demand is good and the pay is also excellent regardless of where you work.\nSo what can you expect specifically if you move to Alaska to do this job? There are currently only around 480 dental hygienists working in Alaska. Considering the low population density, however, this is not unexpected. The really awesome news is that the mean annual wage is $102,890! That means you will be making significantly more than dental hygienists in most other states\u2014on the order of almost 50% more than the mean salary for the occupation.\nSo working in Alaska as a dental hygienist really is an awesome opportunity. You will be making a great income, and you may also receive benefits in addition to your salary. Further, you will not have to pay state taxes (though the cost of living may be high), and you will receive your payments from the Alaska Permanent Fund. So even with the high cost of rent, food and utilities in Alaska, you should do quite well for yourself.\nHow can you become a dental hygienist in Alaska? Here are the requirements:\nYou must take and pass the National Dental Hygiene Board Examination.\nProvide a copy of a certificate of examination which meets the requirements of AS 08.32.014(a)(1)(B) & (C).\nDocument at least 2,500 hours of clinical practice over a period of five years. You will need three affidavits from licensed dentists or dental hygienists attesting to this.\nIf you have been employed by a federal agency, you must verify your status there.\nYou will also need proof of current certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).\nPay the applicable fees for applying, review and licensing.\nWhere can you study to become a dental hygienist in Alaska? Check out the list below to find Alaska colleges offering accredited programs in dental hygiene.\nAHS Building #148, 3211 Providence Drive\nwww.uaa.alaska.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2010/07/01/groff-chosen-to-lead-national-charter-school-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:CGQ6UISJW5O2WILR6G5G6M2TT6YZ65RE", "length": 518, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", "title": "Groff chosen to lead national charter school group \u2013 The Denver Post", "raw_content": "Groff chosen to lead national charter school group\nFormer Colorado Senate President Peter Groff was picked to head the nation\u2019s largest charter school advocacy groupthe National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.\nGroff\u2019s appointment was announced on the final day of the National Charter Schools Conference in Chicago.\nHe leaves his position as director of the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Education \u2014 to which he was appointed in the spring of 2009. The Denver Post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 293, "original_length": 6600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 99.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/05/wildfires-in-us-west-have-gotten-bigger.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2CFOMYPIGUKZI3YXOD246WU6QHSNXJHT", "length": 2859, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.desdemonadespair.net", "title": "Wildfires in U.S. West have gotten bigger, more frequent and longer since the 1980s", "raw_content": "Wildfires in U.S. West have gotten bigger, more frequent and longer since the 1980s\nPosted by Jim at Thursday, May 26, 2016\nBy Anthony LeRoy Westerling\n(The Conversation) \u2013 Dramatic images of out-of-control wildfires in western North American forests have appeared on our television and computer screens with increasing regularity in recent decades, while costs of fire suppression have soared. In 2015, federal spending on suppression exceeded US$2 billion, just 15 years after first exceeding $1 billion. Something has been changing our fire seasons.\nThere are competing explanations for why wildfires have been increasing, particularly in our forests. I\u2019ve been studying the science of climate and wildfires for more than 15 years and the take-home message from our research is that, while our management of the landscape can influence wildfire in many different ways, it is a warming climate that is drying out western U.S. forests and leading to more, larger wildfires and a longer wildfire season.\nA look at the latest data\nTen years ago, several colleagues and I set out to see if we could quantify the changes in wildfire, particularly in mountain forests of the western U.S. We wanted to see if climate might be causing some of the increase in wildfire.\nIn our paper, we concluded that wildfire had indeed increased substantially in western U.S. forests beginning in the 1980s. We also found that most of this increase was from fires burning primarily in mid-elevation northern U.S. Rocky Mountain forests in years with an early snowmelt.\nOur latest research shows that wildfire activity in western U.S. forests has continued to increase, decade by decade, since the 1980s.\nWe looked at federally managed forests in the Sierra Nevada, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and northern and southern Rockies. Over the decade through 2012, large fires (fires greater than 1,000 acres or 400 hectares) were 556 percent more frequent than in the 1970s and early 1980s. And the area affected increased even more dramatically: the forest area burned in large fires between 2003 and 2012 was more than 1,200 percent greater than in the period between 1973 and 1982.\nWildfires in West have gotten bigger, more frequent and longer since the 1980s\nTechnorati Tags: wildfire,forest fire,North America,global warming,climate change,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,phenology\nLabels: climate change , ecosystem disruption , forest fire , global warming , Graph of the Day , habitat loss , North America , phenology , wildfire\nkevonz1 said... May 27, 2016 at 9:41 AM\nLook at the trend line. It is quickly beginning to look like an exponential increase. Once that trend commences and positive feedback loops kick in it will accelerate.\nWe are now in runaway abrupt climate change.\nhttps://kevinhester.live/2016/05/11/our-dying-forests-in-an-abrupt-climate-change-paradigm/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 8227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deviantart.com/michaelatman/journal/?offset=1", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:08Z", "digest": "sha1:44BSL2PH2KIAMQB7RHETWON35DYSDY3X", "length": 7618, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.deviantart.com", "title": "MichaelAtman's Journal | DeviantArt", "raw_content": "MichaelAtman\nby MichaelAtman, Jan 29, 2016, 9:49:01 AM\nI'm at three months now, and I've tried to be active and post something new almost daily. At first the number of views was growing at an amazing pace, but recently it's dropped off considerably. I really appreciate the people that seem to be following my work, but with 65 million members, it appears that only a very small fraction have even seen my work. So, I'm curious if after you're been at DeviantArt for awhile if what you do goes through some filtering process? I'm wondering if this is like Google where you get profiled and all of a sudden you are only seeing what some mathematical algorithm determines you should see, or worse yet, your work is only showing up to be viewed by a limited number of people. I'm careful how I tag, and I've set up Google analytics, yet none of my images seem to be showing up in Google searches. I have my own website and three blogs, and have been active on the Internet for more than 10 years, yet nothing I do seems to attract much attention. What I'm hoping here is that I'll get some answers from some Internet savvy geeks that know the ins and outs of being successful on the web. I need help and I'd appreciate any feedback.\nMichael Atman\nI'm Curious January 29, 2016 4 Comments No Favourites\nby MichaelAtman, Dec 30, 2015, 9:06:09 AM\nNot to be overly critical of Deviant Art or its users, but I can\u2019t help but notice that the site is more political than one would hope, and that popularity isn\u2019t necessarily about the best art. This shouldn\u2019t be a dumping ground for every scribble like Twitter is for every fart. I\u2019m here for inspiration, and I\u2019d rather people only put their best foot forward to make an impression.\nFaving is nice, but when I go to certain artists and find a dozen submissions of their own work and then 10,000 favs, I question their reason for being a part of the community. Isn\u2019t this a site where real art should flourish, not to be too critical of beginners that don\u2019t realize that anything that\u2019s put on the Internet is apt to haunt them for life if it\u2019s really bad or deemed inappropriate.\nI\u2019m already overwhelmed by how complex the system is just by its size, and you soon realize that you could make Deviant Art a career if you responded to every comment, Llama, or all the other ways people work to grab attention. More emphasis on ART and less on drivel would make the site easier to navigate and more productive.\nArt is truly subjective, and it\u2019s best to keep an open mind, but I can\u2019t help but notice that praise is often given to the best campaigners, not those most deserving. So, when you fav, make sure you\u2019re not just adding someone because you expect something in return. Do it because you appreciate their ART.\nSome Observations December 30, 2015 2 Comments No Favourites\nby MichaelAtman, Nov 22, 2015, 11:42:30 AM\nMy welcome to Deviant Art has been more than I ever expected. Thank you all for the Llama badges and adding me to your favorites. I wished I had time to respond to everyone, and if I haven't thanked you personally by returning the favor, please know that it isn't intentional. Certainly the amount of talent here is phenomenal.\nArt, or Photo Art more specifically, is my hobby. I do professional work as a graphic artist. I create book covers for epubconversions.com, and I've done a limited amount of compositing and illustrations for a few clients. Mostly I trade work when it comes to art. First and foremost, I consider myself a writer, although not a successful writer yet. I hope that will come, but I don't fret about it. I have a goal, which may be unrealistic, but I strive in everything I do to try to make the world better. From my perspective, we are on the wrong track.\nMy approach to making a difference has been to lock myself in a closet, so to speak, and analyze the world, and then throw my 2 cents in. My conclusion is that man is far too dependent. We live in a world with mass infrastructure. We've put too many eggs in one basket, and when the house of cards tumbles, ruin is going to be upon us. I point the finger at most of man's institutions, and of course greed and lust for power are big culprits.\nWe can solve many of our problem through technology, but unfortunately technological development is controlled by investors, and investors are more concerned with wealth than they are with the future of man or the environment. My solution is OsumPODS, so please visit my website and also read my novel, The Future Teller, soon to be followed by the sequel The Future Shaper. If I had a magic wand I'd wipe the slate clean and start over, and I wouldn't saddle the world with all the superstitious nonsense we see in government and religion. We need to be smarter, and we need to wake up before we find ourselves in the midst of Armageddon.\nAn Interesting Month November 22, 2015 No Comments No Favourites\nWhy Photo Art?\nby MichaelAtman, Nov 17, 2015, 5:27:51 PM\nWhen digital first became popular I feel in love a second time with photography, yet since I didn't have the luxury to be in the right place at the right moment, I wasn't particularly happy with my images. Out of desperation one night I opened up Photoshop and painted in a new sky. At the time I didn't even understand layers. I was so impressed with the transformation in my photo that I've never looked back. Photography every since has been all about capturing elements that I composite. My newest submission (Bandon Sunset) is a prime example. This is an image I took years ago, with a sunset I took last year at home in Loveland, CO. I could make images the rest of my life just from my library. Still, I like to get out an shoot, and I detest having to use a stock image for any of my work, although in graphic design, I sometimes have no other option.\nSo why Photo Art? First because it's fun. Second, because it allows me to compete at a much higher level.\nWhy Photo Art? November 17, 2015 No Comments No Favourites\nby MichaelAtman, Oct 23, 2015, 1:04:33 PM\nSince this is an introduction I will let you in on my passions, my philosophy about photography, and my justification for altering images. First and foremost, I feel photography should be fun. Of course, I\u2019m not into photography to make a living, although I\u2019d like to support my hobby. The fact that I\u2019m a hobbyist may be all too evident, however my passion for the art of photo manipulation and photography in general stems from my love of art and the freedom artists have for interpretation. I consider myself an artist first, and a photographer second.\nPhotography has many purists who believe their art must remain pure to be worthy of being called photography. Although digital has allowed great strides in high dynamic range and unlimited depth of field, there are many that frown on digital manipulation that alters the image in any way. If you\u2019re a purist, my Photo Art Blog may seem blasphemous to the nth degree. Digital capture is just the beginning for the non-purist that finds Photoshop irresistible.\nCome visit the world of Michael Atman and share in the fun of digital manipulation. Visit this world in new ways, and create imaginary worlds that titillate the imagination. Tutorials on many techniques such a creating lightning, planets, rings, star fields, shadows, sunrays, and more are available for free at this site.\nDownload a copy of The Art of Digital Space Art 1 and 2 available at Amazon for 99 cents each.\nFeb 29, 2016 500px\nJan 29, 2016 I'm Curious\nDec 30, 2015 Some Observations\nNov 22, 2015 An Interesting Month\nNov 17, 2015 Why Photo Art?\nOct 23, 2015 Devious Journal Entry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.devonlive.com/news/property/revealed-first-time-buyers-south-1427688", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2G2FMUCI7VNLPESZCKCKMBKZXBS6HNW4", "length": 3985, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.devonlive.com", "title": "Revealed: 'First-time buyers in the South West pay more than \u00a3200,000 for a home' - Devon Live", "raw_content": "The average deposit paid for a first home has increased by 2,264 per cent since 1977\nIt costs almost \u00a380,000 more to buy a first home in the South West compared to the North East of the country\nA new study has revealed buyers in the South West are paying more than \u00a3200,000 for their first home.\nThe study by online property agents Sellhousefast.uk sought to find out the current state of the first-time buyer housing market, and whether government schemes and cuts to stamp duty has helped more young people get on the housing ladder.\nAccording to the trade body for Britain\u2019s banks UK Finance, 365,000 buyers bought their first home in 2017 \u2013 an increase of 7.4 per cent from 2016 and the highest since the financial crisis in 2007/08.\nThe rise is likely to have been assisted by the stamp duty cuts in the November budget, which was expected to save four out of five first-time buyers up to \u00a35,000.\nHere's how you can get your mortgage paid for six months\nReal estate company Savills recently found that the \u2018Help to Buy\u2019 scheme has helped almost 40,000 first-time buyers across England access home ownership in the year to March 2017; accounting for around one in five new homes purchased by first-time buyers.\nFrom a recent Halifax report, Sellhousefast.uk analysed the average price for a typical first-time buyer home in England and Wales.\nIt found that the average first-time buyer will pay \u00a3212,079 in the UK, and \u00a3200,166 in England and Wales.\nFirst-time buyer home map\nThe North East has the cheapest average price, at just \u00a3126,437 for a first-time home, in front of Wales who pay \u00a3139,875 \u2013 a staggering \u00a313,438 difference.\nA first-time property in Yorkshire and the Humber is priced closely behind Wales at \u00a3139,970, followed by the North West at \u00a3149,990. The average first-time buyer home in the East Midlands costs around \u00a3163,005, followed by the West Midlands at \u00a3168,627.\nHere's how and when you can take a look inside Topsham's cheapest house\nThe South West surpassed the \u00a3200,000 mark, costing first time buyers \u00a3205,333 \u2013 a staggering \u00a336,706 more than the West Midlands.\nThe South West is closely trailed by \u00a3207,103 by East Anglia, and the South East of England soars to \u00a3278,749. Greater London is the most expensive region to purchase a first-time home, costing buyers a staggering \u00a3422,580 \u2013 \u00a3296,143 more than the North East.\nThe average age of first-time buyers across England and Wales increased to 30 in 2017\nSellhousefast.uk also identified what the next generation think they know about the property market. From the Halifax report, Sellhousefast.uk found more than a quarter (27 per cent) of 18 to 21 year olds believe they will be homeowners by the time they are 25.\nAccording to Savills, over the last 40 years the average age of first-time buyers across England and Wales has increased from 27 in 1977 to 30 in 2017. In London the average age is 31 years old.\nA quarter of 15 to 17 year olds expect to save for 20 years for a house deposit, and 23 per cent of 18 to 21-year-old men believe a deposit of between \u00a35,000 and \u00a310,000 would be enough to buy a home, compared to just five per cent of women. Interestingly, one in 10 18 to 21-year-olds think stamp duty is money to pay for stamps.\nFrom a Savills report Sellhousefast.uk discovered the average deposit paid for a first home was \u00a31,094 in 1977, \u00a32,200 in 1997 and \u00a325,867 last year \u2013 an increase of 2,264 per cent over four decades \u2013 emphasising how difficult it is for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder.\nThe FREE Exeter event that's helping first-time buyers get on the property ladder\nRobby Du Toit managing director of Sellhousefast.uk said: \u201cWith unrealistic house prices and deposits needed to buy a home in today\u2019s market, for many, buying a home and stepping foot on the property ladder feels impossible.\n\u201cHowever, this is where the government has helped. 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If any provision of this TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties\u2019 intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect.\nYou acknowledge, understand and agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or action arising out of or related to the use of our Services or the TOS must be filed within 30 Days year(s) after said claim or cause of action arose or shall be forever barred.\nPlease report any and all violations of this TOS to DFS CheatSheet, Inc. as follows:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 41475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.directtextbook.com/blog/16/12/26-College-Study-Sites", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MHX4VEYLGTSTPXM33RG2WT3TKE5Y4EGI", "length": 1219, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.directtextbook.com", "title": "26 College Study Sites - Direct Textbook", "raw_content": "Express yourself creatively with the latest scholarship opportunity from DirectTextbook.com. Show us what the word \"Transcend\" means to you with an original photo for a chance to win your share of $3,000 in scholarship money!\nWe are seeking photo essay entries on the topic \"Transcend\"! All students attending accredited U.S. colleges and universities (undergraduate and graduate) are eligible to enter. Scholarships are to be awarded as follows:\nTwo $500 Scholarships: Photos selected by Direct Textbook\nTwo $500 Scholarships: Photos with the most votes\nTwo $500 Scholarships: Photo entries selected at random from all qualifying entries\nAll photos must be original (owned by you) and will not be accepted after January 16th, 2019. The winners of each award will be notified by email on or before January 30th, 2019. You can read more details about the scholarship and apply here.\nTwo of the winners will be chosen by entry with the most votes, so don't forget to share your entry by email and social media. Give your friends and family a chance to view your work and vote for your photo by sharing it!\nWe thank you for choosing Directtextbook.com and wish all of you the best of luck!\nNov 29, 2018 Comments (3) Share:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 3647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.djsresearch.co.uk/about/person/327", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OATHA3SZTI3RM4ELF4F25NMBBMHYX7EX", "length": 734, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.djsresearch.co.uk", "title": "Rebbeca Calderbank - Field Executive", "raw_content": "Rebbeca Calderbank\nRebecca studied Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, before gaining a number of roles in social care and mental health services. As part of her training and work in the NHS and the university setting, Rebecca has experience of mental health and physical health research. This has included patient satisfaction surveys and larger scale research looking at the impact of health conditions and medication on cognitive performance.\nRebecca joined DJS Research in 2018 as part of the Field & Recruitment Team as a Field Executive, where she helps to manage qualitative and quantitative research projects. She is enjoying applying her experience of healthcare research to a range of projects across various sectors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.documentary.org/column/playback-ross-mcelwees-shermans-march-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LOLL2PRNPQ6A54YFJXGNLDD6ASP36EAE", "length": 3430, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.documentary.org", "title": "Playback: Ross McElwee's 'Sherman's March' | International Documentary Association", "raw_content": "Playback: Ross McElwee's 'Sherman's March'\nRoss McElwee\u2019s brilliant Sherman's March was a revelation when I first saw it in 1987. I had never seen anything like it\u2014a one-man band filming his own tumultuous, heartbreaking, hilarious journey through the South, and searching for love while trying to make a documentary about General William Tecumseh Sherman\u2019s March to the Sea during the Civil War. I was newly out of film school, trying to get my first screenplay produced with the help of the Sundance Institute, and writing scripts for others. I didn\u2019t know it then, but the lessons I learned from Ross\u2019 film would inform my own journey years later when I came to make my very first documentary, Baby It's You (Sundance and POV 1998).\nI became a documentary filmmaker out of frustration with the feature world, where I spent years being \"encouraged to death,\" in Pauline Kael's apt description of Hollywood. In 1995, I bought a Sony MiniDV camera, just released into the market, and turned it on myself. I had many doubts about this: How would my own grueling tale of fertility treatments find an audience if my most beautiful fictional imaginings could not get off the ground?\nThe first lesson I learned from Ross' film was that disappointment in one realm can open doors that lead not only to surprisingly rich experiences, but to the place one was meant to go in the first place. At the beginning of Sherman\u2019s March, Ross has just received a prestigious grant to make a historical documentary about Sherman\u2019s March; but en route to the South, his girlfriend ends their relationship. Heartbroken, Ross heads to his family\u2019s home in North Carolina. No one there wants to talk about Sherman; they want to find him a wife. And so begins Ross\u2019' sharp turn from Sherman to an exploration of Southern womanhood and the quest for love.\nEach woman he meets along his way is more astonishing than the last. Pat, an aspiring actress, performs cellulite exercises for his camera while chatting happily about her impossible dreams. A linguist writing her dissertation in a tree house on the Savannah coast beguiles Ross while expostulating about existential quantifiers and counterpart theory. For a while, Ross joins the entourage of a talented rock musician named Joyous Parent, who belts out \"Respect\" in a Sears parking lot. Whenever a relationship fails\u2014and they all do\u2014Ross holes up somewhere in a seedy motel, sets up his camera and films his despair, then eventually sets out again to film the next Sherman battleground\u2014or the next woman.\nWhen I set out to make Baby It's You, I thought it would culminate in the birth of my child. Ross' film gave me permission to embrace\u2014or at least survive\u2014failure; to see the eccentricities in my own extended family (my would-be polygamist hedge-fund brother, my Puritan aunts and uncles, et al); and to tell a larger story that resonates precisely because of those failures and eccentricities\u2014the things that make us human.\nOne of the most memorable characters in Sherman's March is Ross' former teacher Charleen. She berates Ross for his failures with women, and for his refusal to put the camera down and live life. At one point she rails at him, \"This isn't art, it's life!\u201d For us documentary filmmakers, they're one and the same.\nAnne Makepeace is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have aired on PBS, HBO, BBC Storyville, Channel 4, Showtime, et al.\nRoss McElwee's 'Sherman's March'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 7442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dometic.com/de-de/de/%C3%BCber-uns/our-company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BNS7NDVSPOY5YNTMOEQPFPAOB2Y4QCB4", "length": 1025, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dometic.com", "title": "Our Company | Dometic", "raw_content": "Dometic in Brief\nDometic provides branded solutions for mobile living in the areas of Climate, Hygiene & Sanitation, Food & Beverage, Power & Control and Safety & Security. Our mission is to make the mobile life easy.\nRegions and products\nDometic is organized into three regions: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and APAC (Asia and Oceania). We manufacture and sell a diverse range of products for use in recreational vehicles, trucks and premium cars, pleasure and workboats, and for a variety of other uses. Our motivation is to create smart and reliable products with outstanding design.\nDometic uses two sales channels, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Aftermarket (AM), to distribute our products. OEM customers are manufacturers of RVs, trucks, premium cars, pleasure and work boats, while the Aftermarket comprises upgrade and replacement products, parts and consumables as well as stand-alone Aftermarket products. These are sold through various distributors, dealers and retailers to end-users.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 6927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 199.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dreamscapeab.com/person/4305950;jsessionid=B8B4B198298826D9EB78794759D3D9DE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SQNQ7PTDKPCPPP2SQ7BNJIG3N6SSXMYI", "length": 391, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dreamscapeab.com", "title": "Welcome to Dreamscape", "raw_content": "Pedro Sanchez was born in Madrid, Spain where he later hosted Rayuela, a cultural radio program. In 1988, he relocated to Chile and has since given over thirty-five speeches about the arts at numerous universities and cultural centers. In 2014, he began his voiceover career and has since narrated audiobooks such as El Peregrino de Compostela by Coelho and Mero Cristianismo by C. S. Lewis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 147.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drpitner.com/2017/01/17/is-invisalign-right-for-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:40:46Z", "digest": "sha1:J5P6JHLHW7LUB6IJ54NIVK4YZQBRA6QF", "length": 3612, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.drpitner.com", "title": "Is Invisalign right for you? | Pitner Orthodontics", "raw_content": "For some people, the thought of 1-2 years in braces sounds like serving time in teeth prison! If that is you, the great news is that we now have new and better options such as Invisalign.\nFor those who don\u2019t know much about Invisalign, here is the \u201ccut to the chase\u201d version. Invisalign is a completely different system for moving your teeth than braces. Instead of brackets and wires, a 3-D virtual model is made of your teeth and, from that model, I can virtually create your new smile. From that, a series of clear retainers called \u201caligners\u201d are made that gradually shift your teeth to their ideal positions. You wear the aligners a minimum of 20 (preferably 22) hours per day. At prescribed intervals (usually 1 to 2 weeks), you change the aligner to the next one in the series. This process moves your teeth over time to your ideal straight smile.\nTwo big benefits stand out to most people. First, you can remove your Invisalign aligners to eat. Compared to having to eat with braces, this is pretty nice. You avoid the challenging cleaning you need to do with braces because you don\u2019t have the brackets and wire to clean around. This is not to say that you can get away without taking care of your teeth, but it is the same as what you need to do without Invisalign \u2013 no more, no less. Being able to remove your aligners to eat means there are also no restrictions on what you can eat. Popcorn at the movies \u2013 no problem!\nSecond, the aligners are clear so they are much less noticeable than braces. Most people looking into Invisalign are looking for a discreet option for straightening their teeth.\nSounds good, right? It is a great system, but there are a few other things to consider before deciding if Invisalign is right for you.\nOne of the system\u2019s greatest benefits is also the greatest temptation. For Invisalign to be effective, the aligners must be worn for 20 hours per day and 22 hours is preferred. The idea that you can remove the device for a little break can be very enticing, but realize that your treatment could drag on if you cheat from time to time.\nFor some people, having only a couple of hours per day to eat and brush before putting their aligner back on leaves them feeling rushed. This can lead to unscheduled breaks from using their aligner which we already know isn\u2019t good.\nYou will quickly learn that these aligners stain. And what stains them more than anything? Coffee. Which might be a non-starter for some. But keep in mind that you switch aligners every two weeks so they won\u2019t get too stained in that time.\nYou will also have attachments on some of your teeth to help them move correctly. In some cases, a patient might need enough of these attachments that they may look like they are wearing white braces, thus defeating a little bit of the original intent. Usually though, Invisalign is less noticeable than traditional braces.\nLastly, although you might think that you\u2019ll be done after the first batch of trays, most people will need to have refinement aligners to reach the ideal result.\nIf you decide you want some type of clear or discreet orthodontic treatment, make sure that you ask about all of the options. If you\u2019re looking for something aesthetic, then you and your orthodontist might consider clear ceramic braces, or even hidden lingual braces which are which are attached to the back of your teeth. We can even make appliances that are very similar to Invisalign right in the office.\nFor more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact us here. We\u2019d love to discuss what your options are and help you discover the best treatment for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dulwichsociety.com/2018-winter/1742-new-charter-school-east-dulwich", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UV2TYFXVJVSNY7CHIOASY5BG5JCVVBHR", "length": 5331, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.dulwichsociety.com", "title": "New Charter School, East Dulwich", "raw_content": "The new Charter School East Dulwich shares the former Dulwich Community Hospital site in East Dulwich Grove with the new Dulwich Health Centre - which is expected to bring together a range of community health and GP services under one roof. Designed by architect, FieldenCleggBradleyStudios (FCBStudios) the school will start taking pupils in January 2019 - at the moment it is on a temporary site on Southampton Way. Planned with a capacity of nearly 1700, construction of the final phase awaits the completion of the health centre in early 2020 - when the NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group will be able to decant services from the old buildings. Contractor Kier won the \u00a325m contract in October 2017 and the project is being project managed by Southwark Council. The design of the two projects, although by different architects, is complimentary, with both using a red brick for their facades.\nThe school\u2019s main access will be off East Dulwich Grove and the much loved \u2018Chateau\u2019 building will be retained. The class room buildings are at the rear of the site, behind the health building, near to and parallel with the railway. Playgrounds and sports pitches will replace the old wards to the west of the present gates while the site of the old doctor\u2019s accommodation is now a lecture hall and drama complex - which will also be available for community use.\nGiven that the catchment area is very limited, most children should cycle or walk, the school has a positive green travel plan to try and reduce teacher car travel as much as possible - and East Dulwich station is within easy walking distance. There are also two bus routes passing the front door, the No 37 and the no 42.\nThe new school was funded by Central Government through its \u2018School\u2019s Building Programme\u2019. 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In 1902 the Infirmary was renamed the Southwark Union Infirmary, after St Saviour's Union became the Southwark Union. In 19l5, during the First World War, it was requisitioned by the War Office as a military hospital and the number of beds was increased to 800. Of the 12,522 wounded soldiers treated in the hospital only 119 actually died, a remarkably low figure. The War Memorial to them, restored after pressure from the Dulwich Society, remains near the front entrance and is now grade 2 listed.\nThe hospital was transferred back to the Guardians in April 1919 and, in 1921 it name was changed - to Southwark Hospital. When the LCC took over administrative control in 1931 it became a general hospital and became the Dulwich Hospital. Additional facilities were built, including a new operating theatre, pharmacy, and a new boiler house, and the ground floor wards were converted to an Out-Patient Department, offices and laboratories, reducing the number of beds to 423.\nIt continued to serve the local population during WW2 and, although bombs and V1's exploded close by, the hospital was not hit. In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS, coming under the control of the Camberwell Hospital Management Committee, which included St Giles and St Francis' Hospital. The Accident and Emergency Department was closed in 1964 when it was taken over by King's College Hospital Group - it became a District Hospital and then a centre for renal treatment. Local support was so strong that in 1988 a new renal ward, designed by Sir Terence Conran opened, paid for from the \u00a31m raised locally over five years.\nIn 1974, following a major reorganisation of the NHS, the Hospital was again under new management - the Kings (Teaching) District Health Authority, part of the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (Teaching) Area Health Authority. After another major reorganisation of the NHS in 1982, the Hospital came under the control of the Camberwell District Health Authority, part of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority.\nThe first ideas about setting up a community hospital were discussed as early as 1996 but it took ten years of consultation, and changes in Central Government Policy, before a decision was made to close the hospital and clear the site for the construction of a Polyclinic. Even though the east wing was demolished in 2006 in preparation, more changes in government policy led to further delays. The original intention was for the remainder of the site to be sold to a residential developer but Southwark Council and local residents campaigned strongly for a new secondary school and this was finally agreed by the NHS Estate in 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.duttenhofers.com/product/2676/New-Stories-from-the-South--The-Years-Best-2000-New-Stories-from-the-South-Ser-Ravenel-Shannon-editor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5SR3WQRBL445WC7AMNEY4MH2N5MP2OG6", "length": 222, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.duttenhofers.com", "title": "New Stories from the South : The Year's Best, 2000 (New Stories from the South Ser.) New Stories from the South : The Year's Best, 2000 (New Stories from the South Ser.)", "raw_content": "New Stories from the South : The Year's Best, 2000 (New Stories from the South Ser.)\nTitle: New Stories from the South : The Year's Best, 2000 (New Stories from the South Ser.)\nKeywords: SHORT STORIES ANTHOLOGY 156512295X,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk-county-council-bid-for-two-free-schools-in-suffolk-1-5889304", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NIHXS52ABO6OY4NGQ642LLYEQV34XXBP", "length": 2577, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.eadt.co.uk", "title": "Martlesham Adastral Park development secondary school could be a free school | Latest Suffolk and Essex News - East Anglian Daily Times", "raw_content": "Will the Adastral Park secondary school be a free school and how are free schools different?\nThe 2,000 homes planned for Adastral Park will feature a new secondary school. PIcture: SARAH LUCY BROWN\nA bid has been launched by an academy trust for a new secondary school planned for the 2,000-home Adastral Park development to be a free school.\nSuffolk County Council supplied information requested by the Department for Education for two free school planned under the latest wave of applications by academy trusts, according to government data published last week.\nOne was for the Tucker-Baptist Multi-Academy Trust \u2013 although a location for that has not been disclosed \u2013 while the second is for the Adastral Park scheme in Martlesham, also known as the Brightwell Lakes development.\nA spokeswoman from Suffolk County Council\u2019s education team said: \u201cSuffolk County Council is assisting the Department for Education with their application process for the two free schools by responding to information requests.\n\u201cOur understanding is that both applications are for schools on large housing developments so if one or both applications were unsuccessful Suffolk County Council would develop the education infrastructure when required to serve these two new communities using the land and associated contributions from the developers.\u201d\nThe Department for Education was approached for comment but said it was unable to disclose the potential opening dates if approved, when a decision would be made on the bids or how many pupils each school would cater for.\nHowever, in September 2017, cabinet member for education Gordon Jones said two new high schools in the area \u2013 one for the Ipswich Garden Suburb (Northern Fringe) development and one for Adastral Park were anticipating easing pressure on oversubscribed schools in the area by around 1,500 pupils.\nIt is believed the Adastral Park school, which will be a part of a scheme of more than 2,000 homes being built in the area, will cater for around 600 pupils.\nExisting high schools in the area, including Northgate, St Alban\u2019s, Copleston and Kesgrave are already operating at capacity.\nFree schools are funded by central government and have greater freedom over staff pay, the hours of a school day, and what curriculum is taught.\nThey are run as non-profit making enterprises and must cater for all abilities, meaning academic performance cannot be used as a selection measure.\nIt followed government changes in 2010 for all new schools to either be free schools or academies, instead of establishments run by the local authority.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 7691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eaglefuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Carol-J-Keefer?obId=3358529", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KFTZXON2FVJBEVPAFIYZP4VQSNIKOLPH", "length": 114, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eaglefuneralhomes.com", "title": "Carol J. Keefer Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Carol J. Keefer\nStay up-to-date on event information as well as memories shared on Carol J. Keefer\u2019s Tribute Wall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/book/9781250097323", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6CGESOVEWSTEUWXWXOQEYM7KPXWX767I", "length": 5803, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.eastcitybookshop.com", "title": "The White Road: Journey into an Obsession (Paperback) | East City Bookshop", "raw_content": "An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber Eyes\nIn The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or \u201cwhite gold.\u201d A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected, and coveted\u2014and that would help him understand the clay\u2019s mysterious allure. From his studio in London, he begins by travelling to three \u201cwhite hills\u201d\u2014sites in China, Germany, and England that are key to porcelain\u2019s creation. But his search eventually leads him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.\nPart memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft, and purity.\nEdmund de Waal is one of the world\u2019s leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major international collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.\n\"The history of porcelain, as told in The White Road, is a constantly surprising, sometimes absolutely staggering, coming together of art, craft and commerce, politics and religion, national identity, larger-than-life characters and wild, sometimes ruinous obsession . . . A terrific book. If you read it, you\u2019ll never look at porcelain the same way again.\" \u2014Geoff Nicholson, Los Angeles Times\n\"The White Road is a unique book by a unique person. Polyglot, steeped in art and literature and history, able to throw a pot and turn a sentence with equal skill, endlessly curious and stupendously diligent, aesthetic to his fingertips but also deeply moral, Mr. de Waal brings a lot to the table, and with The White Road he goes all in.\" \u2014Ben Downing, The Wall Street Journal\n\"It is rare for someone to write as well as Edmund de Waal, all the more since it's his secondary vocation . . .The White Road is the story of how objects, through the accumulation of intent, labor and the patina of history, accrue a sense of self.\" \u2014Brian Thomas Gallagher, The Seattle Times\n\"[A] shimmering paean to porcelain . . . De Waal digs deep into the substance of his live, and what he shares is precious.\" \u2014Jean Zimmerman, NPR\n\u201cDe Waal is a master of telling stories through material objects. He can see a vase and not only imagine the kind of room it once inhabited but the type of woman who might have brushed her fingertips across its lip . . . It\u2019s de Waal\u2019s own obsession\u2014the man counts pots when he can\u2019t sleep at night\u2014that infuses the narrative with a true sense of the hunt . . . He is wonderfully manic in his research . . . He allows himself to get lost for weeks, to travel someplace only to return empty-handed\u2014which makes for a true adventure and a pleasure to read.\u201d \u2014Thessaly La Force, The New Yorker\n\u201cThe White Road is filled with marvelous examples of storytelling, and de Waal has a gift for inhabiting his characters. Also, the historical material is interleaved with stories from de Waal\u2019s own life as a ceramicist, which adds an extra and very welcome dimension to the tale.\u201d\u2014Christina Thompson, The Boston Globe\n\u201cAt once meditation, memoir, and travelogue as well as history, The White Road is one of those unclassifiable books that simply astounds with the author\u2019s infectious love of his subject . . . De Waal\u2019s prose is both elegant and powerful . . . Despite covering so many places, so many historical periods, and so many themes, de Waal\u2019s beautiful narrative voice and his love for his subject manage to shape this book into an almost seamlessly formed whole. Which leaves me with my one resentment regarding The White Road: It\u2019s damned unfair that such a distinguished artist should also be such a great writer.\u201d \u2014Kevin O\u2019Kelly, The Christian Science Monitor\n\u201cDe Waal reveals the depths and permutations of his life-shaping fascination with porcelain . . . [He] brings a historian\u2019s ardor for detail and a poet\u2019s gifts for close observation and radiant distillation to this exquisite chronicle of his extensive porcelain investigations . . . De Waal\u2019s passionately and elegantly elucidated story of porcelain, laced with memoir and travelogue, serves as a portal into the madness and transcendence of our covetous obsession with beauty.\u201d \u2014Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)\n\u201cA lyrical melding of art history, memoir, and philosophical meditation . . . In short passages of allusive, radiant prose, [de Waal] chronicles his journeys in search of both the materials and the history of porcelain, discovering along the way men as obsessed as he . . . De Waal's poetically recounted journey is a revelation.\u201d \u2014Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\u201c[De Waal] blends art history and personal travelogue in this immersive hands-on study of porcelain and its commercial and artistic appeal over the centuries . . . He enlivens his account with portraits of the people whose quirky personalities and entrepreneurial zeal advanced the manufacture of porcelain across Europe . . . A truly remarkable story.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\u201cAn immensely enjoyable meditation on what happens when the right mix of stone and clay enter the incandescent heat of a kiln . . . Journeying to Jingdezhen, Dresden, South Carolina, and southwest England, de Waal tells the story of determined experimenters who reproduced the magic the Chinese had mastered . . . [A] page-turning account, both sweeping and intimate.\u201d \u2014Library Journal\nPre-Recorded Audio Player (November 3rd, 2015): $69.99", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 8576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/social-justice-book-club-reads-one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:09Z", "digest": "sha1:USROF4D7E6Q7YYBVXQB7EY55NB7VXU6H", "length": 1714, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.eastcitybookshop.com", "title": "Social Justice Book Club reads ONE PERSON, NO VOTE by Carol Anderson | East City Bookshop", "raw_content": "Social Justice Book Club reads ONE PERSON, NO VOTE by Carol Anderson\nOur final selection of 2018 is One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson. All are welcome!\nFrom the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling\u2014and timely\u2014history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Congressman John Lewis.\nIn her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.\nFocusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.\nOne Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)\nBy Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by), Dick Durbin (Introduction by)\nPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 11th, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easyworknet.com/finance/repay-student-loans-faster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UXQTJDRBB7MKGU7KJ5VNLEBNAL2ACC5H", "length": 6010, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.easyworknet.com", "title": "Some Top Sources to get student loans - Tips on how to repay the debt", "raw_content": "Home Finance Tips To Repay Your Student Loans Faster\nEducation is a primary as well as basic need, though sadly it is not free. Those who are planning for higher education should know the cost involved with the courses that they want to pursue in future. Not just the course fee, expenses involve buying books, various equipment and many more. Nevertheless, the cost will be skyrocketing if you have decided to study abroad. Going outside the country for high studies or education is a common thing these days, but many aspiring students cannot fulfill this dream due to fund shortage. To make up the shortage of fund for such individuals, education loan has been offered.\nNow, as it sounds so simple, in reality, it does not happen in such a simplistic way. The major problem that has been faced by students is finding the right lender. To be honest, many lenders are there, and they are ready to offer a good amount of education loan. However, they come up with a lot of terms and conditions. Understanding these terms and conditions is important for choosing the right service provider or lender.\n1. Loan from Close Relative\n2. Bank Loan\n4. State Sponsored Education Loan\n5. Loan from Employers\nRepayment Plan for Education Loan\nThe best help or assistance during the time of financial crunch can possibly come from the closed ones in the family. If you have a friend or family member who is close to you enough to give you an education loan, nothing can get better than this. However, this is a matter which depends upon the amount of money you need for education. For a small amount, relatives can help. But, for a large amount, you may need to go to other sources for education loan. The advantage is that getting a loan from a close relative will give you the convenience of repaying the loan in a flexible time span. There would not be any rush and any strict policies for the loan repayment process.\nThe best place to look for an education loan is a bank or equivalent financial organizations. You can go to any bank and find an application form to apply for the education loan. The form should be read carefully as it mentions all the important terms and conditions that you should know. Make sure that all these terms and conditions are read carefully. Moreover, you need to fill up the application form with accuracy. All the fields should be furnished with quality information. For any false information, your loan application may be turned down. Bank has its own scrutinizing process before approving a loan for someone. This process could be lengthy as well as tiring. So, the application has to be made for the loan at least 2-3 months before you start joining a course.\nSome online lenders offer loans to the individuals with minimum document checkup requirements. They do not even investigate the reason why you are applying for the loan. They provide you a loan at a high interest rate so that they can make a profit at the end of the day. Now, such personal loans could be helpful for a short-term requirement during your education process. If you are facing a sudden financial problem or shortage of fund to pay your course fee, you can choose to go for such loans. But, the notable thing is that this kind of loan is not particularly an education loan. These loans can be chosen for making up short-term financial crunch.\nDifferent states want to encourage education for the students. As a part of the welfare plan of the state, some easy education loans are offered to the students. Different loans are offered under different categories. From higher education loan to basic education loan or specialized courses, loans are available for everyone. You can check the state welfare website where all information or data will be provided. All the terms and conditions will be mentioned on the website. You shall get to know how much financial support the welfare plans may provide to you.\nMany people aspire to pursue higher studies even though they are doing the job to someone under some employers. Many employers have plans to offer education loan to the employees who are ready to serve the company and want to pursue some higher studying courses simultaneously. It actually helps the employers, as the current employees gain more knowledge as well experience to provide high business productivity. Nevertheless, in this way small scale or medium scale businesses can keep the loyalty of their employees.\nGetting an education loan has a lot of options. Now, the most important thing is to plan for the repayment process. Repayment of education loan is a task which has to be taken seriously. So, here are some of the tips for your effective debt consolidation.\nWorking Part Time: To repay education loan, you need to make money savings. To do that you need a part-time income. The part-time income can be used for daily expenditure as well. Working as a part-time employee or freelancers has become easier these days, and plenty of opportunities are there.\nMinimize Luxuries: You need to minimize your luxuries if you want to repay education loan without facing any issues. During your education, you have to cut down all sorts of luxuries to a large extent. Making a sacrifice for the better future is always appreciating and satisfying.\nDon\u2019t Go for Private Lenders: Some courses are not included under education loan sanctions. So, you can look for the equivalents courses which can fetch education loans easily. Despite going for private lenders for education loan, it is always good to opt for bank loans. Private lenders have a high rate of interest which is difficult to repay.\nApart from all these aspects, a lot of things are there to know about education loan and repayment of the loan. For this matter, seeking the help of an expert financial consultant or advisor could be the right thing to do.\nTagsDebteducation loanstudent loan\nPrevious article The Beginner\u2019s Guide To Build A Smart Visual Identity\nNext article 6 Credit Card Security Features to Secure your Transactions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 10333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ecover.com/global/faq/plastic-wrapping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SMDIRK6KS72J7WB7BDJH2HU7W3MRZ5RO", "length": 1119, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ecover.com", "title": "Why do you use plastic wrapping on your Dishwasher Tablets? - Ecover Global", "raw_content": "Plastic Wrapping?\nYes, unfortunately we still have to use 0.3g of plastic per dish tab as there is no technology yet available that will seal them to keep them from disintegrating during transit. We choose to do this verses using the technology of other dish tablet manufacturers who use a plastic coating which dissolves into the water supply and is damaging to animal and plant life. Each pack weighs only 0.3 grams. We know that the best choice would be a packing of biologically plastic, but at present this material is simply not stable or durable enough to use it for this purpose. We prefer to know that the small amount of plastic used can be disposed of safely, some councils do provide recycling for this type of plastic if you want to contact them. It is also worth noting our box is in 100% recycled cardboard whereas the norm is to have dish tablets in plastic pouches. However you\u2019ll be pleased to know, we aren\u2019t settling and developing a replacement is top of our priorities. Hopefully we will be able to get rid of this plastic for good. Once a choice is available, you can rest assured that we switch!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edinburgchildrenshospital.com/events-and-programs/event-calendar/breastfeeding-support-group", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FXPPUWZKIOX2QOID7BUWGB6ZD2ZQIQZA", "length": 574, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.edinburgchildrenshospital.com", "title": "Edinburg Children's Hospital | Edinburg, TX", "raw_content": "The Edinburg Chapter of La Leche League is dedicated to providing education, information, support and encouragement to mothers or mothers-to-be who want to breastfeed. La Leche League leaders are experienced mothers who have breastfed their own babies and who have been trained and accredited by La Leche League International to help parents with all aspects of breastfeeding. They are available by phone whenever you have questions. For more information, call 956-534-7880.\nWhen: First Wednesday of the month\nLocation: Edinburg Children\u2019s Hospital, second floor Family Room", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 185.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eduinreview.com/scholarships/albert-b.-and-anne-t.-knapp-scholarship-fund-3704", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ADP7S66CEJ5SABSOEB3LEVKBIHAQKR3R", "length": 371, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eduinreview.com", "title": "Albert B. & Anne T. Knapp Scholarship Fund - Agribusiness Scholarships - EDU in Review", "raw_content": "Albert B. & Anne T. Knapp Scholarship Fund\nAnnual awards for incoming freshmen enrolled full-time at Iowa State University College of Business or College of Family and Consumer Science. Students must demonstrate academic achievement, financial need, and be graduates of Ames High School. Number of awards and award amount may vary. A FAFSA must be submitted by March 1st.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eff.org/my/issues/net-neutrality", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7QS6P2RXLOOEPHV66MYY4VWGX3DPCVI4", "length": 3359, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.eff.org", "title": "Net Neutrality | Electronic Frontier Foundation", "raw_content": "Network neutrality\u2014the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without improper discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services\u2014is a principle that must be upheld to protect the future of our open Internet. It's a principle that's faced many threats over the years, such as ISPs forging packets to tamper with certain kinds of traffic or slowing down or even outright blocking protocols or applications.\nIn 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) attempted to combat these threats with a set of Open Internet rules. But its efforts were full of legal and practical holes. In 2014, after a legal challenge from Verizon, those rules were overturned, and the FCC set about drafting a new set of rules better suited to the challenge.\nIt was clear that the FCC was going to need some help from the Internet. And that\u2019s exactly what happened. Millions of users weighed in, demanding that the FCC finally get net neutrality right, and issue rules that made sense and would actually hold up in court. EFF alone drove hundreds of thousands of comments through our online portal DearFCC.\nAs a direct result of that intense public activism and scrutiny, in 2015, the FCC produced rules that we could support\u2014in part because, in addition to the bright line rules against blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization of Internet traffic, they included strict \u201cforbearance\u201d restrictions on what the FCC can do without holding another rulemaking.\nUnfortunately, the FCC, led by a new Chair, repealed those hard-won rules just two years later, despite intense resistance from nonprofits, artists, tech companies large and small, libraries, even some ISPs, and millions of regular Internet users. What is worse, that repeal \u2013 via the ironically-named \u201cRestoring Internet Freedom Order\u201d -- ignored technical evidence submitted by EFF and others and showed a remarkable lack of understanding of how the Internet works.\nDespite the new FCC\u2019s best efforts, net neutrality isn\u2019t dead. The 2017 repeal is being challenged in court, in Congress, and by the states. The litigators will explain the holes in the FCC\u2019s order and the procedures the FCC ignored. Congress has the ability to overturn the FCC\u2019s order with a simple majority, and there are already bills waiting to do just that. And, through proposed state legislation and executive orders, states have started moving to protect their residents from ISPs.\u00ad\nRestoring the protections given in 2015 will be a step forward, but it isn\u2019t a silver bullet. ISPs must be open about how traffic is managed over their networks in order for anyone to know when there\u2019s a problem. Local governments can also play a crucial role by supporting competitive municipal and community networks. When users can vote with their feet, service providers have a strong incentive not to act in non-neutral ways.\nWe want the Internet to live up to its promise, fostering innovation, creativity, and freedom. We don\u2019t want ISPs acting as gatekeepers, making special deals with a few companies and inhibiting new competition, innovation, and expression.\nEFF Related Content: Net Neutrality\nRead more about Oakland Renters Deserve Quality Service and The Power To Choose Their ISP\nMozilla v. FCC EFF Amicus Brief\nRead more about Mozilla v. FCC EFF Amicus Brief", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 7525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elkusandsisson.com/blog/2018/april/porter-adventist-hospital-notifies-surgery-patie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:35Z", "digest": "sha1:7KP2OD4ZLWQSKMJIL6H6S53SMB7AFOUN", "length": 698, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.elkusandsisson.com", "title": "PORTER ADVENTIST HOSPITAL NOTIFIES SURGERY PATIENTS MAY BE AT RISK OF CONTRACTING HIV, HEPATITIS B AND HEPATITIS C", "raw_content": "On February 21, 2018 the Colorado Public Health Department was notified of an \u201cinfection control breach\u201d at Porter Adventist for people who had orthopedic or spine surgery over an 18-month period between July 21, 2016 and February 20, 2018. Porter Adventist Hospital advised patients could be at risk for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or HIV due to a sterilization breach where the process for cleaning surgical instruments following orthopedic and spine surgeries was found to be inadequate.\nAt Elkus & Sisson, P.C., our attorneys believe that the safety and security of health care for American families should come first. Please [click here] to see how we can help you or your family with your claim.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emaxhealth.com/82/8684.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QSWZPS4MQTT6GUV5CUJX4E5WMATB7HOU", "length": 2852, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.emaxhealth.com", "title": "FDA: Labeling Changes to Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers | EmaxHealth", "raw_content": "FDA: Labeling Changes to Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers\nLabeling of Pain Relievers\nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today proposed to amend the labeling regulations on over-the-counter (OTC) Internal Analgesic, Antipyretic, and Antirheumatic (IAAA) drug products to include important safety information regarding the potential for stomach bleeding and liver damage and when to consult a doctor. OTC IAAA drug products, commonly known as acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and ketoprofen, are used for pain treatment, fever, headaches, and muscle aches.\nTo help ensure safe use of OTC products, and to provide consumers with the labeling necessary for them to make more informed medical decisions, FDA is proposing the following label changes:\nFor Products Containing Acetaminophen\nTo require new warnings which would highlight the potential for liver toxicity, particularly when using acetaminophen in high doses, when taking more than one product with acetaminophen, and when taken with moderate amounts of alcohol;\nTo require that the ingredient acetaminophen be prominently identified on the product's principal display panel (PDP) of the immediate container, and the outer carton (if applicable).\nFor Products Containing NSAIDs\nTo require new warnings for products that contain an NSAID which would highlight the potential for stomach bleeding in persons over age 60, in persons who have had prior ulcers or bleeding, in persons who take a blood thinner, when taking more than one product containing an NSAID, when taken with moderate amounts of alcohol, and when taking for longer time than directed; and\nTo require that the name of the NSAID ingredient and the term \"NSAID\" be prominently identified on the product's PDP of the immediate container and the outer carton (if applicable).\nThe new labeling would be required for all OTC drug products that contain only an IAAA ingredient, as well as for products that contain an IAAA ingredient with other ingredients, such as cold symptom relievers. Consumers may also be taking IAAA ingredients in their prescription medications, which makes it important to alert them of the contents of their OTC medications, so they do not take too much of an IAAA ingredient.\nFDA based its proposal for labeling changes on previous Advisory Committee discussions, recommendations, and public comments and a review of the scientific literature.\nA number of manufacturers of OTC internal analgesic drug products already have voluntarily implemented labeling changes to identify these potential safety concerns.\nComments on the current proposal, to be published in the December 26, 2006 Federal Register may be sent to Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/author/katewashington", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3AMNYT543JHGLYSJWEJAWVINHUWWCBFF", "length": 373, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.emptymirrorbooks.com", "title": "Kate Washington, Author at Empty Mirror \")}}return a.proceed()});scriptParent=document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0].parentNode;if(scriptParent.tagName.toLowerCase!==\"head\"){head=document.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0];aop_around(head,\"insertBefore\");aop_around(head,\"appendChild\")}aop_around(scriptParent,\"insertBefore\");aop_around(scriptParent,\"appendChild\");var a2a_config=a2a_config||{};a2a_config.no_3p=1;var addthis_config={data_use_cookies:false};var _gaq=_gaq||[];_gaq.push([\"_gat._anonymizeIp\"])}", "raw_content": "About Kate Washington\nKate Washington is a writer in Sacramento. Her work has appeared in Avidly, The Billfold, The Bellingham Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Brain, Child, and many other venues. She is currently at work on her first book, a feminist hybrid memoir and cultural critique of the unpaid work of family caregivers. Follow her on Twitter @washingtonkate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-brownian-life-by-john-tischer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LIVYIB6TIZA2MBR2OBMARXZ2Q24DLPOT", "length": 6600, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.emptymirrorbooks.com", "title": "Book Review - Brownian Life by John Tischer - Neil Leadbeater \")}}return a.proceed()});scriptParent=document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0].parentNode;if(scriptParent.tagName.toLowerCase!==\"head\"){head=document.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0];aop_around(head,\"insertBefore\");aop_around(head,\"appendChild\")}aop_around(scriptParent,\"insertBefore\");aop_around(scriptParent,\"appendChild\");var a2a_config=a2a_config||{};a2a_config.no_3p=1;var addthis_config={data_use_cookies:false};var _gaq=_gaq||[];_gaq.push([\"_gat._anonymizeIp\"])}", "raw_content": "Brownian Life by John Tischer / Bibliotheca Universalis / Bucharest, Romania / 2015\nJohn Tischer was born in Chicago. He graduated from Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa, a Buddhist meditation master who was also a scholar, teacher, poet, artist and disseminator of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. In 2004, Tischer settled in Tepoztlan, Mexico where, in his own words, he divides his time between meditation practice, writing and doing nothing. In an interview with Daniel Dragomirescu, the full text of which is printed in the book, Tischer tells us that he started writing in College. He claims that he has never had a writing teacher, that \u201cit\u2019s all trial and error\u201d and that he has \u201ca suitcase full of writing\u201d that he wrote for the first 20 or 25 years which is at his daughter\u2019s house in Vermont. He cites many poets who have influenced him along the way: e. e. cummings, Salvador Quasimodo, Antonio Machado, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Robert Bly and Miroslav Holub, to name but a few.\nBrownian Life is his debut collection and is a bilingual (English / Romanian) book published in the Bibliotheca Universalis series currently publishing the work of honorary contributors to Orizont Literar Contemporan (Contemporary Literary Horizon) \u2013 a multi-lingual journal of literature and the arts, published in Bucharest, Romania. Credit should be given to the team of translators from the University of Bucharest for translating this book into Romanian.\nThe title of this collection takes as its starting point the \u201ctransport phenomenon\u201d named after the Botanist, Robert Brown. In 1827, while looking through a microscope at particles trapped in cavities inside pollen grains in water, Brown noted that the particles moved through the water but was not able to explain the mechanisms that caused this motion. Many decades later, Albert Einstein was able to explain in precise detail how the motion that Brown had observed was a result of the pollen being moved by individual water molecules. This explanation of Brownian motion served as definitive confirmation of the existence of atoms and molecules. In Brownian Life, this is how Tischer expresses it in poetry:\nAvuncular manifestation\nEating a meal in open air.\nDenizens of that dot of\nInfinite space, move in\nBrownian attraction and\nRepulsion dreaming free\nWill. It\u2019s so obvious it hurts,\nBut then, it hurts anyway.\nTischer is refreshingly modest about his poetic output and not at all phased by the reactions that it might provoke. In a short essay on poetry, posted on Radio Free Shambhala in 2009 he writes:\nMy critics are those that want me to learn to write poetry their way, and I say there are as many ways to make art as there are to make love\u2026someone gets off on Van Gogh, someone else on Norman Rockwell\u2026It\u2019s not so much that some art is intrinsically better\u2026it\u2019s the art\u2019s ability to communicate that measures its worth. Poetry uses language as its palette, but it is an art of communication, not of language, just as music is not an art of sounds and painting is not an art of paints.\nI could be a \u201cbetter\u201d poet, and I am from years back, but my goal is not to be a better poet. It\u2019s to write poetry. For many years I shared my writing, but now that I\u2019ve achieved a certain level of mediocrity, I\u2019ve found that some people like some of my poems, so, my ambition has found its natural limit. If I become a better writer, it\u2019s merely a side-effect.\nTischer\u2019s Ode to John Lennon\u2019s Diary reflects this \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d attitude:\nSometimes I write poems\nSome people read them\nSometimes I sit in a caf\u00e9 for hours\nSometimes I smoke some cigarettes\nSometimes I like the music in the caf\u00e9\nThis is very much a poetry of passive observation \u2013 of casual engagement with the present with little thought for the future or even the past:\nSometimes I think about the past\nbut not very often.\nBy contrast, the poem \u201cHappy Nuclyear!\u201d is a hard-hitting \u201cprotest poem\u201d with its play on words (drain bamage for brain damage, etc.) in the true tradition of the Beat Generation:\nI lost the preceding poem\nbecause of drain bamage\nand nuclear holochaostrophy,\nextending McKenna\u2019s word\nto something he couldn\u2019t see\nbecause he was right about\nnovelty, but as he said in his\nlast interview, \u201cnovelty\u201d does\nnot mean necessarily something\nyou would see as \u201cgood\u201d\u2026It\njust means \u201cchange\u201d\u2026so\u2026\nFukushima is included in the\nparadigm\u2026You can open your\npresent now.\nTischer is at his best in poems like \u201cKafka\u2019s Birthplace\u201d where he succeeds in conjuring up a surreal atmosphere that is a cross between the menace of The Trial and the suspense of a Hitchcock movie.\nFurther references to math and science are to be found in \u201cThe Mandelbrot Set\u201d \u2013 a short poem that relates back to Benoit Mandelbrot who is recognised for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, coined the word \u201cfractal\u201d and later discovered \u201cthe Mandelbrot set\u201d \u2013 a set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes, named in his honour. In Tischer\u2019s poem, these shapes take on human form, they are:\nthe ones that live in their jets\nand fly around in infinitely\nintricate swirls of trivial pursuits\ngoing nowhere but continuously\nunfolding like hopeless flowers.\n\u201cMissing Frames\u201d finds Tischer in philosophical mode. Trying to piece life together is not a simple matter. Using cinematographic imagery, we all have \u201cmissing frames\u201d and even the things that we do see are subject to different interpretation by different people \u2013 hence the reference to the Rashomon effect, derived from the film Rashomon where the accounts of witnesses, suspects and victims of a rape and murder are all different. (In the 1960\u2019s the British playwright John Hopkins attempted a similar thing in his TV play Talking To A Stranger where the same scene was aired in four different episodes but seen through the eyes of a different character in the drama). Paraphrasing a quote from Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa, Tischer writes:\n\u2026relative reality says a lot and means\nvery little\u2026absolute reality says\n\u2026it takes courage just to be there.\nTischer is a poet who likes to splash his mind into words. In the interview with Daniel Dragomirescu he says \u201cI\u2019m an ordinary human being who may have some worth as a writer, but, I don\u2019t see it as a \u201ccalling\u201d or something\u2026rather, it\u2019s just what I do\u2026it\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d This book serves as a useful introduction to his work and brings it to the attention of the wider reading public.\nAuthor: Neil Leadbeater Tagged With: book reviews, poetry, poetry reviews Filed Under: Book Reviews April 27, 2016\nHouse of the Cardamom Seed by Penelope Scambly Sch...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 9484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/asad-hafez-al", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:QB2WUIE2ANO24NCGYLVKFPRYMXBGN2TS", "length": 5777, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.encyclopedia.com", "title": "Asad, Hafez Al- | Encyclopedia.com", "raw_content": "Home Religion Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps Asad, Hafez Al-\nAsad, Hafez Al-\nASAD, HAFEZ AL- (1930\u20132000), president of Syria. Asad was born in Qardaha, an Alawi village in northeast Syria, to a poor peasant family. Although born to the Alawi sect (a heterodox offspring of Shi\u02bfa Islam, regarded as \"heretic\" by many Sunni Muslims), Asad was also educated as a Syrian-Arab nationalist in the predominantly Arab-Sunni town of Latakia. At the age of 17 he joined the newly formed Ba\u02bfth party and reportedly volunteered in 1948 to fight against the newborn State of Israel. Like many Alawi (and Druze) youngsters, Asad enlisted in the Syrian military in 1952, and in 1955 graduated with honors from the Air Force Academy in Aleppo. He was appointed a wing commander in the Syrian air force in 1957 after his party, the Ba\u02bfth, had mustered significant influence in the Syrian military and politics. Asad took an active part in the March 1963 revolution; and at the end of 1964 he was appointed commander of the air force with the rank of general. His rapid rise was not only a result of his Ba\u02bfthist affiliation but also of his unique qualities of leadership: ruthlessness, organization, manipulation, secrecy, patience, and coolness.\nIn February 1966, as number two to his fellow Alawi officer, Salah Jadid, Asad co-led the \"neo-Ba\u02bfth\" coup (the 13th coup in Syria) and was appointed also as minister of defense, a position which he used to strengthen his military power base. Despite the crushing defeat of the military in the 1967 war against Israel, Asad managed to shift the blame to the civilian Ba\u02bfthist leaders. Backed by the army command, he seized power in Damascus on November 16, 1970, deposing and jailing Jadid and his followers and thus opening a new era in Syrian history, politics, and society. On March 12, 1971, Asad was elected as Syria's president, by 99.2% of the vote in a national referendum, where he was the only candidate. He was subsequently reelected every seven years with 96% to 99% of the vote and served as president until his death on June 10, 2000.\nAsad was the first Syrian ruler in modern Syrian history to dominate his country and people for 30 years. Establishing a personal-authoritarian regime, he was able to bring about significant achievements but also suffered major setbacks to Syria, in the domestic, regional, and international arenas.\nFirst, he achieved unprecedented political stability in the country, which had been previously characterized by nearly nonstop military coups and countercoups. Yet this stability was realized not only through socio-political mobilization and cooptation, but also with an iron fist, mass arrests, and murder, torture, and other violations of human rights. The most notorious event was the Hama massacre of February 1982; at least 20,000 people were killed by the army, quelling a major rebellion by the \"Muslim Brothers.\"\nAsad's rule was also marked by significant socio-economic mobility of the lower, rural classes, notably the Alawi minority, and development of the educational and health systems as well as the economic infrastructure, but also by failure to solve the big problems of corruption, mismanagement, unemployment in the public sector, and tense intercommunal relations.\nAsad succeeded in creating a powerful army and strong independent state, also exercising regional influence, particularly over Lebanon, which in 1989 become a de facto Syrian protectorate. Earlier, in 1980, Asad established a strategic alliance with the revolutionary Iranian Islamic regime. Asad backed Iran in the devastating war with Ba\u02bfthist Iraq (1980\u201388) and, from 1982, coordinated with Teheran support of Hizbullah's military struggle against Israel.\nAsad was defeated in his wars with Israel in 1967, 1973, and 1982 (in Lebanon) and failed to reach a strategic balance with the Jewish state. During the 1990s, with American inducements, he was engaged in a peace process with Israel. Though an agreement was not reached, Asad allowed Syrian Jews \u2013 approximately 5,000 \u2013 to emigrate after holding them as hostages but also protecting them.\nAsad decreased Soviet influence in Syria, attempting to maneuver between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. He backed the U.S. in its war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in early 1991 after losing the military and diplomatic support of the U.S.S.R. under Gorbachev's leadership. He developed working relations with U.S. presidents Nixon, Carter, Bush, and Clinton, but failed to substantially improve Syrian-American relations. The relationship was aggravated on the ascendancy of Asad's son bashar (1965\u2013 ) in June 2000. This was because of Syria's continued backing of Islamic terrorist groups \u2013 such as Hizbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, the de facto occupation of Lebanon, the development of chemical weapons, and particularly his opposition to the American attack and occupation of Iraq in March 2003. Domestically Bashar introduced some reforms in Syria's economic infrastructure, but not in the rigid political system.\nM. Ma'oz, Asad \u2013 the Sphinx of Damascus, a Political Biography (1988); P. Seale, Asad \u2013 the Struggle for the Middle East (1988); N. Van-Dam, The Struggle for Power in Syria (1979); E. Zissar, Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition (2001).\n[Moshe Ma'oz (2nd ed.)]\n\"Asad, Hafez Al-.\" Encyclopaedia Judaica. . Encyclopedia.com. 15 Feb. 2019 .\n\"Asad, Hafez Al-.\" Encyclopaedia Judaica. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 15, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/asad-hafez-al\n\"Asad, Hafez Al-.\" Encyclopaedia Judaica. . Retrieved February 15, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/asad-hafez-al", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 8177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 147.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enough.org/news/2II9EDSB5T2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EKZMXHVJ6DGWFS4JJWSE72MUTDTSX57C", "length": 1504, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.enough.org", "title": "Enough Is Enough: President of Enough Is Enough issued the following statement regarding President Trump\u2019s Rose Garden speech to re-open the federal government and secure a border wall:", "raw_content": "Great Falls, VA \u2013 Donna Rice Hughes, President of Enough Is Enough\u00ae issued the following statement regarding President Trump\u2019s Rose Garden speech to re-open the federal government and secure a border wall:\n\u201cIn today\u2019s remarks, President Trump cited the immediate need for a strong and secure border wall to keep our nation free from human traffickers who are entering our country illegally in areas where there is no wall. He described the horrors of women and children who are \u2018tied up\u2026bound, duct tape wrapped around their faces and around their mouths\u2026they can\u2019t even breath\u2026and that problem, because of the internet, is the biggest problem\u2026it\u2019s at the worst level, human trafficking in the history of the world, this is not a United States problem, this is a world problem\u2026\u2019\n\u201cEnough Is Enough\u00ae applauds the president\u2019s efforts to secure our border and pleads with Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to immediately approve comprehensive immigration reform which includes a barrier of entry at all of our borders in order to stop sex trafficking from entering our nation.\u201d\nEnough Is Enough\u00ae\u00ae is a national bi-partisan non-profit organization who has led the fight to make the Internet safer for children and families since 1994. EIE's efforts are focused on combating Internet pornography, child pornography, sexual predation, and cyberbullying by incorporating a three-pronged prevention strategy with shared responsibilities between the public, Corporate America, and the legal community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 183.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/253843", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AIY23IVFUMBP2TNQWGAB5Z2OB7U22MJ5", "length": 5904, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.entrepreneur.com", "title": "Meet the Fearless Female Franchisors Who are Living Their Dreams", "raw_content": "Meet the Fearless Female Franchisors Who are Living Their Dreams\nInstead of waiting on a glass slipper, women are shattering glass ceilings. Below, you'll find two women who turned moments of difficulty into sources of opportunity -- one in home-healthcare, the other in fitness. Their stories -- like those in our Women to Watch slideshow -- are inspiring, and their business savvy is impressive. Read about how they followed their passions, then go follow your own.\nShelly Sun, Founder and CEO BrightStar Care\nShelly Sun and her husband, J.D., struggled to find good healthcare professionals with whom to entrust J.D.\u2019s aging grandmother. The couple lived in Illinois, while \u201cGrandma Pat\u201d lived in Florida. The distance made it especially difficult to determine what services she would need, as well as the best providers, level of care and cost.\nThat experience led to the blueprint of BrightStar Care, which the Suns launched in 2002 in Lake County, Ill. The company provides a variety of home-healthcare and medical-staffing services. Initially, Shelly spent a great deal of time interviewing caregivers, healthcare professionals and even competitors to find out how the company could differentiate itself from others in the space and gain prominence among potential referral sources. Soon she saw they had tapped into a need. Within three years, BrightStar opened additional locations in Chicago and McHenry County, Ill.\nAround that time, Shelly\u2019s mother-in-law, who was investing in two hotel franchises, asked Shelly to accompany her to a training session for new owners and managers. Shelly came away with the idea that BrightStar could work as a franchise, expanding much more quickly than if the Suns were opening new locations on their own. They had thoroughly documented each process as they opened and ran their McHenry and Chicago locations, giving them a head start in ensuring that the business model could be replicated. They sold their first franchise location in late 2005.\nFrom there, it was a wild ride. Revenue grew to $25 million by 2007 and doubled the following year. \u201cWe had these periods of time -- 2008, 2010 -- where literally every year or two years, we were doubling revenue,\u201d Shelly says. \u201cIt was just tiger-by-the-tail craziness.\u201d\nHowever, expenses continued to grow. In addition, she says, employee turnover was high in such a fast-paced growth environment. So she began to spend more on salaries to hire people who could grow with the company and also contribute to that growth.\nShelly estimates that today she spends about 20 percent of her time mentoring other business owners, helping them develop franchise concepts. She also invested roughly $100,000 in self-publishing a book, Grow Smart, Risk Less, tapping both her own experience in forming a business and her background as a CPA to help teach business owners how to grow their companies with less risk.\n\u201cIt was kind of my investment back into other entrepreneurs,\u201d she says, \u201cso they could potentially enjoy the same path and be well-educated.\u201d\nEllen Latham, Founder Orangetheory Fitness\nAfter losing her job, Ellen Latham, a single mom and longtime fitness professional with a degree in exercise physiology, started teaching Pilates lessons out of her home in Pembroke Pines, Fla.\nSoon she was so busy that on some days, she was booked every hour from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. In 2006, she borrowed $50,000 from her fianc\u00e9 to open a small Pilates studio.\nOver the next few years, Latham tweaked the workouts she offered, combining weight training and Pilates until she found a combination that was producing exceptional weight loss in her clients. The program -- a group workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training -- sets itself apart with its proprietary heart-rate monitoring system, designed to maintain a target zone that stimulates metabolism and increases energy, she says. As word got out, people were clamoring to get into her classes.\nThe studio built a solid clientele. In 2009, Latham was introduced to a customer\u2019s husband, who was involved in franchising. The duo rebranded Latham\u2019s workout into Orangetheory Fitness (OTF) -- a nod to the orange \u201cfat-burning\u201d zones on the heart-rate monitors -- and opened a pilot studio in 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. At the time, the \u201cstudio concept\u201d was taking off and outpacing gyms in popularity, she says. Within the first year, they sold three franchises.\nLatham made it a priority not to lose the \u201csecret sauce\u201d of her workout programs, taking care to work with franchise owners to ensure they understood them thoroughly. But that wasn\u2019t going to scale well, so early in the process, the team actually stopped franchising to get better systems in place and ensure that every studio had the best possible chance of success -- a virtual \u201cguarantee,\u201d she says.\n\u201cThere are some people [for whom] this is their life savings -- they cash in to own a franchise -- so we sat around a table and had a conversation,\u201d Latham explains. \u201cWe said we\u2019re not going to let these people do this unless we have our act together.\u201d\nOnce they had the systems locked down, Latham still had plenty of worries. She didn\u2019t know anything about franchising. Would she get along with her partners? How could she make it work? Then, she says, she started practicing the same technique she teaches students when they\u2019re in the middle of a tough workout: Turn the mentality from \u201cI can\u2019t\u201d to \u201cI can.\u201d\nAnd she did. OTF now has more than 700 studios throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and South America, and Latham estimates that there will be 1,000 internationally by 2018. Building the business, she says, has been a lot like raising children.\n\u201cIf you raise your kids really well, with morals and the things you\u2019re supposed to be doing, you don\u2019t really have to end up micromanaging their lives,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that\u2019s how we\u2019re supposed to do this.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 9003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitynet.com/news.aspx?nid=10161", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DQQHZHXFTHU63IQOFNKDJ2P5HUXEGRIL", "length": 4816, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.equitynet.com", "title": "EquityNet Featured in Star-Telegram", "raw_content": "EquityNet Featured in Star-Telegram\nBelow is an article by Star-Telegram entitled \u201cTexas sets the stage for crowdfunding\u201d.\nBy: Teresa McUsic, Star-Telegram\nIt is now legal for Texas companies to raise as much as $1 million in up to $5,000 increments from Texas adults for an equity share in the company through crowdfunding \u2014 an Internet service platform that links companies to investors.\nThis week, the Texas State Securities Board voted 4-0 to pass rules allowing Texans 18 and older to invest up to $5,000 a year in one or a number of Texas companies for an equity stake. The companies and the investors will be vetted to some degree by the portal services, but they will not be registered through the board.\nWith the passage of these rules \u2014 ahead of federal regulations that are bogged down in the Securities and Exchange Commission \u2014 Texas will be the biggest testing ground in the country for this new type of investing.\n\u201cThere are 20 million Texans age 18-plus who can now invest $5,000 per year in local startups for an equity share,\u201d said Robert Haskins, owner of the Austin-based public relations firm Front Page PR, which specializes in crowdfunding promotion. \u201cThat\u2019s $100 billion now available. The state securities commission doesn\u2019t like me talking in those terms, but that\u2019s the reality.\u201d\nTexas is the 13th and largest state to offer intrastate crowdfunding investments, said Judd Hollas, CEO of EquityNet, a crowdfunding platform based in Fayetteville, Ark.\n\u201cTexas may be the first really good intrastate success story for portals to find it attractive,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of the states that already passed crowdfunding rules were not big enough for us to spend money to customize our sites to their rules.\u201d\nCrowdfunding is an Internet phenomenon in which individuals and companies reach out to new investors by posting projects on Internet services like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise money for development or production.\nBut such sites have been limited by law in two ways. Most sites did not offer an equity share of the company. Instead, they offered free prototypes or promotional items in exchange for a donation. Crowdfunding deals that did offer equity shares were limited to only accredited investors.\nIn Texas, accredited generally meant someone with a net worth, or joint net worth with a spouse, that exceeded $1 million and with an individual income exceeding $200,000, or joint income exceeding $300,000, said Robert Elder, spokesman for the securities board.\nNow, through crowdfunding portals, investing in a Texas company is open to any Texan of legal age regardless of income or net worth. Investors merely have to prove through a driver\u2019s license that they are Texas residents. And there\u2019s a $5,000 cap on investing in a single year.\nLocal financial planners are skeptical of such investments, to say the least.\n\u201cI love it and I hate it,\u201d said Steve Blankenship, founder of Heritage Financial Planning, which has offices in Southlake and Grapevine. \u201cCrowdfunding is ripe for opportunity but also ripe for fraud. States want to be pro-business, but sometimes regulations come back only once people have been burned.\u201d\nBlankenship points out that the state securities board has been investigating and shutting down unregistered securities for years, but this new rule shifts the reporting requirements from the state to the crowdfunding portals. Those portals will be required to conduct a reasonable investigation on the background and regulatory history of the businesses issuing securities.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a way to raise capital, but void of most consumer protections,\u201d he said. \u201cThis may become a loophole that pushes these investments off the board\u2019s plate.\u201d\nThe crowdfunding portals will be registered with the securities board, Texas Securities Commissioner John Morgan said in a previous interview.\nBackground checks will be done on the portal operators, he said.\n\u201cThe portal is an intermediary,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cIt will host the investor offerings, post all documents required regarding that offering, and there will be a discussion area. It\u2019s a fairly streamlined approach.\u201d\nThe public forum is expected to draw expertise to each investment, allowing for the \u201cwisdom of the crowd,\u201d Morgan said.\n\u201cThe crowd will decide if it\u2019s a good deal or a bad deal,\u201d he said.\nThe dealer faces a registration process as well, Elder said.\n\u201cAn applicant can\u2019t do business until approved \u2014 otherwise, it\u2019s an unregistered activity,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they are not going to be registered in the traditional sense. The issuers do face certain requirements like a business plan, prospectus and disclosure statement and cannot have criminal or disciplinary actions against them.\u201d\nThe platforms are also required to inform investors that selling their investments may be hard because there is no ready market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.erotikgifs.com/after-a-one-night-stand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SCO4ICAECF5BAZUPGH2MCLNC3YZOY4UW", "length": 109, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.erotikgifs.com", "title": "After a one night stand | Erotic | Erotic animated GIFs", "raw_content": "After a one night stand in the hotel room. Up, get dressed, go! How it's done\nComment After a one night stand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 221.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.escandabuildingsolutions.com/en/antequera-old-city", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:23Z", "digest": "sha1:D5YSJOTCPASSOHDV3XVFWIP33ZV3XFZ2", "length": 1186, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.escandabuildingsolutions.com", "title": "| ESCANDA BUILDING SOLUTIONS", "raw_content": "Home / Antequera Old City\nThe Malaga city of Antequera, located at the main crossroads of Andalusia and known as \u201cthe heart\u201d of the autonomous community, has been and is a must for travelers of all time. Its magnificent monumental complex is the result of its historical past, and is reflected in more than fifty buildings of religious and civil architecture dating from the Bronze Age to the 18th century. It is very difficult to describe in a few lines the many centuries of history that contemplate dolmens, collegiate churches, convents, palaces, arches, gates, alcazaba, chapels, chapels, manor houses, palaces and even the urban fabric.\nBut Antequera is not only its monumental attractions, its fabolous gastronomy, but also the natural ones, with places as splendid as the fertile Vega or El Torcal, surprising karst landscape that moves us millions of years back in the history of the planet. We have a large range of properties for sale in the old town of Antequera, with great location, very close to the city centre, but still located in quite traditional white village. Please ask our team, what type of properties we can find for you in this wonderfull World Heritage City.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eschoolnews.com/1999/04/01/stakeholder-community-relations-boost-your-public-image-with-smart-online-pr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RRUH5OAKMLERY5ZNC6D2GDHQWXI4ZYQY", "length": 3603, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.eschoolnews.com", "title": "Stakeholder & Community Relations: Boost your public image with smart online PR | eSchool News", "raw_content": "Stakeholder & Community Relations: Boost your public image with smart online PR\nIf educators have a consistent gripe, it\u2019s that we don\u2019t recognize our schools or ourselves in the news coverage we receive.\nWe know that the vast majority of our schools are safe, well-managed, and high achieving. Yet each day we\u2019re bombarded with words and pictures to the contrary. Some fear\u2013and they may be right\u2013the unfettered nature of the web is only making the problem worse.\nGetting the media\u2019s attention for the good things your schools are doing can be a challenge\u2013after all, bad news and bad behavior sell.\nIf we\u2019re going to change our schools\u2019 image, it\u2019s up to us. It\u2019s not the media\u2019s job to tell our story. It\u2019s our job to convince them there\u2019s a better story to tell.\nThat\u2019s where the web can help. Most reporters like to tap into national news and trends. Like the rest of us, they\u2019re also pressed for time.\nUse this to your advantage. Design your home page with the media in mind, and post news releases, daily events, and staff members\u2019 expertise and eMail addresses.\nPackage your good news in a way that makes it easy for reporters to do business with you. Scan key web sites\u2013like www.eschoolnews.org\u2013that feature breaking education news and issues and tie your media pitch to what\u2019s happening nationally.\nNew surveys, reports, legislation, and major program announcements can serve as launching pads for in-depth features on pressing issues and good news stories about students and staff.\nHere\u2019s a few recent examples you can use:\n\u2022 New educational technology standards for students were published in February by the International Society for Technology in Education. How do local schools measure up?\n\u2022 A new national study published in February finds that schools must change to prepare students for the digital age. (See \u201cPreparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century\u201d on the American Association of School Administrators\u2019 web page.)\n\u2022 Schools\u2019 spending on software\u2013already at $822 million\u2013is increasing rapidly. What\u2019s the return on investment? How are your schools ensuring that money is being spent wisely? (See the Software and Information Industry Association\u2019s \u201c1999 Education Market Report K-12,\u201d and related news coverage in Education Week.)\nBig-picture issues\nWe recently used these big-picture issues to frame several technology story possibilities for our local media, offering our staff as expert interviews. The news \u201chook\u201d that made the timing right for a technology story was our Midwest Educational Technology Conference, an annual event that attracted more than 1,500 participants from 28 states.\nThe result? Strong local television segments on two different stations\u2013with a print story in the works\u2013on technology in schools and the importance of teacher training, with our organization positioned as an expert resource and one of our member districts highlighted as a powerful example of how schools can integrate technology into the curriculum.\nThe next step? Develop a \u201cgood news\u201d section on your web site for anyone who might have missed the originals and advertise its availability through eMail, fax broadcasting, snail mail, and other communication channels. (For an excellent example of this technique, see Rockwood School District\u2019s web site.)\nChanging education\u2019s image in the media is going to take time, resources, and a new level of sophistication and skill. Given the growing gap between the public and our nation\u2019s public schools (See Public Agenda\u2019s web site), yesterday is not too soon to get started.\nhttp://www.edweek.org\nhttp://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2018/trump-davos-trickle-american-engagement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5YS2PSGCVEMQODUSJE32V43EJSWTLHLH", "length": 4765, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org", "title": "Trump at Davos: Trickle-Down American Engagement - Ethics & International Affairs : Ethics & International Affairs", "raw_content": "Trump at Davos: Trickle-Down American Engagement\nNikolas Gvosdev | January 2018\nPresident Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he offered his audience of world leaders and major global business figures his parameters for continued American engagement with, involvement in, and support of the international system: what I have termed \u201cAmerican-led globalization with Trumpian characteristics.\u201d Several key themes were repeated throughout the speech: fairness, reform, renegotiation, equitable burden-sharing, as well as sovereignty and, above all, \u201cnational interest.\u201d\nTrump did not present any vision of a \u201cFortress America\u201d that will withdraw into economic autarky and pull back from a global role. Instead, Trump talked about the importance of trade and investment occurring across borders and the need for international cooperation to deal with pressing security threats like terrorism. However, the speech was not a complete about-face from themes he sounded during the 2016 presidential campaign or any sort of admission that he had changed his views. Instead, he offered a different vision of American leadership: one where pursuit of U.S. national interest will benefit other nations as well.\nIn many ways, the vision of American leadership within the global community of nations resembles a form of trickle-down theory: the U.S., under Trump, will pursue policies designed to unleash America\u2019s economic potential and secure its heartland from threat\u2013and, whenever necessary, do these things unilaterally and without consulting with or seeking permission from other states. Such steps will make America more prosperous and secure. Other states are then invited to harness and hook their economies and national security needs to the American engine and be pulled along the same upward trajectory. As Trump summed it up, \u201cAmerica first is not America alone.\u201d\nBut there are two important caveats. One, other states should not seek to put roadblocks or impede U.S. efforts in these areas, either by insisting on application of international regulations or by using international institutions and law to inhibit or limit American freedom of action. In other words, American power is not something to be restrained and caged but unleashed to produce these international public goods of greater prosperity and security. The second is that the ability to connect to the American engine is not automatic. There are entrance fees: payment to be made in terms of greater investments in defense and security (as opposed to relying on the U.S. to take the burden of securing the global commons) and payment in the form of renegotiation of existing pacts and agreements to remove what Trump sees as unfair costs and burdens placed on the United States. It is not accidental that he spent so much time talking about removing domestic regulations as an inducement for business figures to consider greater investment in the U.S., it also reflects his worldview that the U.S. has allowed itself to be overregulated and tied down by the international system. Trump has made it clear that whenever possible he will dispense with those restrictions, allowing America to be \u201cunleashed\u201d and to \u201croar back\u201d\u2013and those countries that aid him in that effort will benefit, while those that try and stop him will not share the benefits.\n\u201cToday, I am inviting all of you to become part of this incredible future we are building together.\u201d Trump made it clear that his lodestone is pursuing what he sees as U.S. national interest, not any vague sense of global or international interest. In turn, while recognizing that other countries will be pursuing their national interests, he believes that when they crunch the numbers, they will conclude that it is a better deal to align with\u2013rather than resist\u2013his approach.\nWhat will be interesting is how other states respond to his offer. For instance, the president indicated that he would be open to revisiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or to transform it into a series of bilateral deals. Will those countries respond or decide to take their chances with a Chinese-led regional order? America\u2019s European allies, at Davos, indicated their commitment to strengthening European integration and Europe\u2019s ability to function as a cohesive pole in international economic and political affairs. Will they decide to accept Trump\u2019s terms, or reject them? We\u2019ll see how this plays out over the coming year.\nTags: Trump; Davos; American engagement; international order\nCategory: Blog, Global Economy, Trade, and Finance, Global Governance\n\u00ab Mindful Diplomacy: A Pathway to Peace\nCarnegie Council Appoints Nikolas K. Gvosdev as Senior Fellow, U.S. Global Engagement Program \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.europebreakingnews.net/tag/jessie-price-tag-lyrics/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TGFFCHRD75Z6HKPSRVOY2VJAK7BECGG4", "length": 3610, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.europebreakingnews.net", "title": "Jessie price tag lyrics \u2013 Europe Breaking News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for Jessie price tag lyrics\nJessie price tag lyrics\nJessie J reveals empowering response to being told she can\u2019t have children\nJessie J has spoken out about the moment she was told by a doctor she can\u2019t have children. The British singer was introducing her song \u201cFour Letter Word\u201d, which is about infertility, at a concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London. \u201cSo four years ago, I was told that I couldn\u2019t have children, and it\u2019s OK,\u201c she is heard telling the audience in a video captured by an Instagram user. \u201dI\u2019m going to have children, trust me,\u201c the 30-year-old continued. \u201dWhen the doctor told me, my reaction was, \u2018Oh hell no'.\u201d The \u201cPrice Tag\u201d singer added that she wasn\u2019t trying to elicit sympathy, but trying to illustrate how many people are affected by infertility. \u201cI\u2019m one of millions of women, and of men, that have gone through this and will go through this, and it can\u2019t become something that defines us.\u201d She went on to explain how writing the song she was about to sing helped her \u2026 [Read more...] about Jessie J reveals empowering response to being told she can\u2019t have children\nUncategorized Jessie J, jessie j charity, jessie j clothes, jessie j song, jessi j, jessie j live, jessie j flashlight mp3 free download, jessie j lyrics, jessie j albums, where is jessie j now, jessie j flashlight download, t j hamilton, t j morris, james j.t. taylor, t.j. simmons, t j maxx credit card, j t oswald mortuary, t cell immune response, t j property management, t mobile executive response team, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, f j t, infertility, female infertility, Women, Lifestyle\nJessie J review, Royal Albert Hall, London: Pop singer is best without the gimmicks\nJessie J is at her best when she isn\u2019t trying. Performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the singer born Jessica Cornish is clearly determined to regain her status as a leading UK pop artist. Vocally, there are few British pop acts who can match her: she has a pop-friendly fluidity but also sneaks in a grittier rock edge, with the kind of controlled growls, snarls, whistles and melismatic swoops that Christina Aguilera would applaud. This skill was somewhat \u201crediscovered\u201d after she took part in the Chinese competition Singer \u2013 not as a judge, but as a contestant \u2013 and finally received the adulation she so clearly craves. It was a smart move. Now you feel inclined to pay more attention to her technical skill, whether it\u2019s the lightning speed of her delivery or her eagerness to show off her impressive range. Sometimes she over-reaches, and her highest falsetto becomes brittle. But when she succeeds, she is superb. Renditions of her \u2026 [Read more...] about Jessie J review, Royal Albert Hall, London: Pop singer is best without the gimmicks\nUncategorized busted royal albert hall, proms london royal albert hall, Royal Albert Hall in London, London Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Albert Hall in London, best seats royal albert hall, royal albert hall best seats, concert royal albert hall, Live From the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Albert Hall Cirque, royal albert hall seating plan, tennis at royal albert hall, stalls royal albert hall, Jessie J, Pop Singer, Male Pop Singer, young pop singer, best reviewed online colleges, best reviewed insurance companies, best online casino reviews, best locksmith london, best spread betting platform review, best accident claims company reviews, best bid electrical estimating software reviews, best contractor accountants london, which cpa review course is the best, best coworking spaces london, Live Music, gig review, pop music, Reviews, Music, Culture", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.evolutionhousebuyers.com/blog/tag/can-appraisals-affect-the-selling-price-on-a-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6BB2IFHNG7G6AB2DQCNJ2FNPEIERZZB3", "length": 332, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.evolutionhousebuyers.com", "title": "can-appraisals-affect-the-selling-price-on-a-house Archives | Evolution House Buyers", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re thinking about selling your house then you are probably trying to figure out what your selling price might be. Part of that process is getting an appraisal (or valuation) on your home. So, if you\u2019re wondering, \u201cCan appraisals affect the selling price on a house in Austin?\u201d then keep reading\u2026 When selling your \u2026 Continued", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eweek.com/storage/newtown-killer-s-ruined-hard-drive-might-still-yield-clues-on-motive", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DYAZVOB7FH2HEZDRLO6HFSUHC52XJF3C", "length": 3495, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.eweek.com", "title": "Newtown Killer's Ruined Hard Drive Might Still Yield Clues on Motive", "raw_content": "Newtown Killer's Ruined Hard Drive Might Still Yield Clues on Motive\nBy: Robert Lemos | December 21, 2012\nClues to what motivated the shooter in Newtown, Conn., may reside on his damaged hard drive. Recovery depends on how much it was damaged, say experts.\nA week after the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., clues about what set the killer on his deadly path may lie on the platters of a damaged hard drive from his personal computer.\nInvestigators found the hard drive in the home of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old man who, on Dec. 14, killed his mother in her bed, then shot his way into the school, and killed 20 children and six adults. In his home, Lanza apparently attempted to destroy the hard drive from his computer with either a screwdriver or a hammer, according to news reports.\nWhether the data from the drive can be recovered depends on what sort of damage he did to the storage device, said Tim Ryan, managing director of the cyber-incident response team at Kroll Advisory Solutions, a security services firm. Ryan, a former supervisory special agent with the FBI, said that physical damage to a drive, if not methodically carried out, is far less effective at destroying data than overwriting the drive with multiple passes of random 0s and 1s.\n\"When done correctly, overwriting the drive is highly effective,\" he said. \"The FBI has pulled hard drives off the battlefield in Afghanistan that had sustained battle damage. It depends on whether the actual physical media was destroyed or some other part of the hard drive was destroyed.\"\nIf Lanza did try to damage the hard drive with a hammer or screwdriver, it may have been an unplanned act, says Ryan, although the former FBI agent has no insider knowledge of the case. Unless Lanza actually opened the case to damage the hard-drive platters, it's likely that investigators will be able to recover information from the media, he said.\n\"So long as the hard-drive plates are intact, there are still things that can be done to read the media,\" Ryan said.\nRecovering data from damaged media has long been a challenge studied by the Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center (DC3), which organizes an annual digital forensics competition at the high school, university and professional levels. In the 2006 and 2007 challenges, participants had to recover data from damaged floppy disks, CDs and USB drives. Later challenges have focused more on breaking encryption and other tasks.\nWhile the hard drive likely contains valuable information, the public should not focus too much on this one aspect of the case, said Ryan. Few people manage to live their lives without leaving digital tracks online and it's likely that Lanza left myriad clues online as to why he carried out the killings.\n\"To the extent that they [the investigators] are looking at his online activities, I don't think that they are at the end game because he destroyed the hard drive,\" Ryan said. \"There is going to be a volume of evidence outside the hard drive.\"\nOn Friday, Connecticut and other states planned to memorialize the victims of the shooting by a moment of silence and the ringing of bells for the 20 children and the six adult victims of Lanza. The town has been inundated with gifts and acts of kindness. The incident has also spurred new discussions about the need for new gun-control legislation.\nPrevious Google Apps Vault Availability Spreads to Existing...\nNext Imation Acquires Nexsan for Unified Enterprise Storage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 17157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairfieldtheatre.org/shows/warehouse/new-politics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YES24CLPH6A3XGETVQLEGTKOWUU7J6PH", "length": 2549, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fairfieldtheatre.org", "title": "New Politics | Fairfield Theatre Company", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb New Politics\nNew Politics Rambunctious Danish indie rockers New Politics formed in the late 2000s around the talents of vocalist David Boyd, guitarist/vocalist/keyboard player S\u00f8ren Hansen, and drummer Poul Amaliel. The band's high-energy, guitar-driven blend of punk, pop, and electronically induced dance-rock (Boyd specializes in wildly unpredictable stage posturing) eventually caught the ears (and eyes) of RCA, which signed the group in 2009. Fearing American anonymity, the band relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where they released their self-titled debut full-length in July of 2010. Their sophomore effort, A Bad Girl in Harlem, followed in 2013 and their single \"Harlem\" received a number of prominent placements, among them a Taco Bell commercial, several trailers for the film Frozen, and the Guitar Hero Live video game. After switching over to Warner Bros.-affiliated label DCD2 Records, New Politics released their third LP, Vikings, in late 2015. In early 2017, after spending two years on the road, the band released a new single, the uplifting \"One of Us,\" with the full-length Lost in Translation arriving later that October. FACEBOOK EVENT RSVP for updates ARTIST WEBSITE newpolitics.dk Wednesday, November 14th 8:00PM Concert Tickets $28 Standing Room Only Limited Seating First Come First Serve\nBIKINI TRILL, THE SCORE\nPrice:$28 Standing Room Only Limited Seating First Come First Serve\nRambunctious Danish indie rockers New Politics formed in the late 2000s around the talents of vocalist David Boyd, guitarist/vocalist/keyboard player S\u00f8ren Hansen, and drummer Poul Amaliel. The band's high-energy, guitar-driven blend of punk, pop, and electronically induced dance-rock (Boyd specializes in wildly unpredictable stage posturing) eventually caught the ears (and eyes) of RCA, which signed the group in 2009. Fearing American anonymity, the band relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where they released their self-titled debut full-length in July of 2010. 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At the age of 85, Dudley Sutton has died. His family announced the news this well.\nhttps://twitter.com/MirrorBreaking_/status/1041042935758893061\nSutton is best known for his work in British films. He was a regular on BBC shows such as \"LoveJoy.\" His family announced the sad news by saying he had died after battling cancer in recent years.\n\"His former colleague Chris Jury who starred along Dudley on the BBC series Lovejoy said on Twitter: 'My dear, dear pal. Dudley Sutton died today. I loved him dearly. Condolences to Fanny, Peter, Barnaby, Wally and Jacqueline and all the rest of his family... and of course his extended family amongst the friends of Bill W. Love you Duds,'\" reported the Mirror.\nhttps://twitter.com/ButAmIAFreeman/status/1040968898483560448\nSutton's last role came in 2017. He played the lead role in a video for the Tom Chaplin song called \"Midnight Mass.\" His family released a satinet on his passing, saying, \"Today we\u2019re devastated by the loss of our beautiful Dudley, who leaves a gaping hole in all our lives. We\u2019re grateful for the love expressed by friends and fans everywhere and for the extraordinary care he received at the Royal Trinity Hospice in Clapham, South London, where he went out fighting for our NHS.\"\nhttps://twitter.com/Classicbritcom/status/1041001971761729536\nhttps://twitter.com/MartinKnight_/status/1041000807183867906\nPlease join us in praying for Dudley's family as they mourn his loss. 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By working directly with teachers we\u2019ve helped to bring about a sustainable culture of outdoor learning across schools that will continue long after the project has ended and will leave behind a lasting legacy.\u201d\nThe Natural Connections project focused mainly on areas of deprivation in Plymouth, Torbay, Bristol, Cornwall and Somerset, working in both urban and rural schools with varying school grounds and access to local green spaces. These areas are now developing innovative ways to continue supporting outdoor learning across the school networks they have established through the project.\nNatural England is now working with partners to help share the findings from this project to support and enhance the delivery of outdoor learning in schools across England. A full copy of the Natural Connections project report can be downloaded from Natural England\u2019s Access to Evidence publications catalogue\nA short video has been produced to accompany the publication of the project report. 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As my mother, who came through the deprivations of the Great Depression, often wryly observed, \u201cSome folks have got more money than sense.\u201d\nA couple years back, I did a tongue-in-cheekish column about the growing numbers of people buying \u201cpremium\u201d jeans, at prices ranging from $75 to $250, while the average price for a pair of \u201cordinary\u201d jeans at Wal-Mart or other retailers was $20 or under.\nGeez, those two-years-ago jeans were bargains; apparently all the inflation since then hasn\u2019t been at the gas pump.\nIn a New York Times article, \u201cWho pays $600 for jeans?\u201d, Guy Trebay acquaints us with a young woman who works for a Manhattan liquor distributor and indulges in \u201can obsession for foraging obsessively for the best, newest, most underground pair of five-pocket cotton trousers, hoping to unearth the holy grail \u2014 jeans made by a label never photographed on Jennifer Anniston.\u201d\nThus, we are told, she was elated to discover \u201csome import jeans, sewn by a London label so obscure it is barely available on these shores.\u201d Some people, the article notes, \u201cwould consider the price, a hefty $375, a deterrent.\u201d\nAhh, but not our status-conscious New Yorker, who says, \u201cI don\u2019t balk at $500 for a pair of shoes. Why should I balk at that price for jeans that are special?\u201d\nWhy indeed? After all, she explains, \u201cI wear two pairs every day, and I\u2019d much rather go out and find something unique that you\u2019re not going to see on every girl in New York.\u201d Hey, toss in a $1,200 Prada handbag, a $385 Ferre blouse, and a pair of $1,250 Manolo Blahnik sandals, and you\u2019ve got a nice work wardrobe.\nWhile the price of premium jeans \u201chas spiked so precipitously it is now in cloud-cuckooland,\u201d Mr. Trebay writes, it is \u201cmore curious still (that) blue jeans have suddenly shed their proud proletarian roots and (have) turned into what retailers call a status buy.\u201d\nAnd that status comes with a price tag of $319 for Tsubi jeans; $359 for True Religion; $272 for Blue Blood; $275 for Chip & Pepper; $428 for Nudie; $625 for Evisu\u2019s limited edition (but hey, they have a hand-painted design that varies with each edition and are made from three yards of fabric that is dyed using vintage equipment), and on and on. Even Levi\u2019s, fer cryin\u2019 out loud, now has $325 jeans. What is this world comin\u2019 to?\n\u201cFar from being rarities, jeans with price tags of $200 are now everywhere, the retail equivalent of dandelions after a spring rain,\u201d the article notes. This despite the fact many of them have had special treatments \u201cthat abrade, distress, and generally torture\u201d the jeans until they have \u201cjust the right luxuriantly ratty patina of something that has been dragged behind a truck.\u201d Not to mention holes and patches.\n\u201cRight now,\u201d says the owner of Pittsburgh Jeans Company, \u201cyou could have a pair of jeans that cost $1,000 and people would buy them.\u201d\nAll the while likely griping and moaning about all those evil subsidies to greedy cotton farmers\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 5885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.farmprogress.com/story-house-bill-tackles-duplicate-pesticide-permit-requirement-8-95648?ag_brand=farmfutures.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JXV6QCVEH67B3RGEX64H2MGXXPWZJSSE", "length": 2742, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.farmprogress.com", "title": "House Bill Tackles Duplicate Pesticide Permit Requirement | Farm Progress", "raw_content": "House Bill Tackles Duplicate Pesticide Permit Requirement\nBill aims to amend regulations requiring duplicate permits for pesticides already approved by the FIFRA\nA group of bipartisan lawmakers Monday introduced H.R. 935, The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013. The bill would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act and the Clean Water Act to clarify Congressional intent and eliminate the requirement of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the use of pesticides already approved for use under FIFRA.\nThe legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 31, 2011 as H.R. 872, The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011. It advanced out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, but the full Senate failed to consider it during the last Congress.\nH.R. 935 addresses the economic consequences of the ruling posed by the case National Cotton Council v. EPA (6th Cir. 2009). Under the court ruling, pesticide users are required to obtain a permit under the Clean Water Act or be subject to a costly fine.\n\"Under FIFRA, pesticides must undergo extensive and rigorous testing before being approved. To require a duplicative permit for a pesticide that has already been approved through the FIFRA process is not only arbitrary, it\u2019s an unnecessary burden on regulators and applicators and does nothing to improve water quality,\" said Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., co-sponsor of the bill.\nAlso sponsoring the bill are Reps. 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Mick Couper from the University of Michigan\nCentre for Social Informatics hosted prof. dr. Mick Couper (University of Michigan) between January 28-30, 2019. On Monday, prof. dr. Couper presented his current research in the field of mobile applications and voice capture of data in a lecture attended by students of the second level of Social Informatics and employees from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, the National Institute of Public Health, and the commercial sector.\nBilateral meeting of the IARA and CSI within the COOP4HEALTHCARE project\nOn Wednesday, January 16, the representatives of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Toma\u017e Burnik, assoc. prof. Vesna Dolni\u010dar, PhD, assist. prof. Simona Hvali\u010d Touzery, PhD, assist. prof. Andra\u017e Petrov\u010di\u010d, PhD, Kaja Smole Orehek and Mojca \u0160etinc visited Institute for Applied Research on Ageing (IARA) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.\n31. January 2019 | News\nGregor \u010cehovin successfully completed doctoral studies\nGregor \u010cehovin, a member of Centre for Social Informatics, successfully completed doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the young researcher training financed by Slovenian Research Agency. He successfully defended the doctoral thesis addressed \"The contribution of meta-analysis to knowledge on survey research operations on nonresponse\".\nExtension of Internet research programme funding\nCentre for Social Informatics has been awarded a six-year (2019-2024) funding by the Slovenian Research Agency to continue the centre\u2019s research with Internet Research programme leaded by prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD. The research programme deals with the integration of Internet technologies into all domains of everyday life and studies Internet as research object and as a tool for social science research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 7647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.feliciasullivan.com/2019/02/12/icymi-u-s-attorney-general-nominee-likely-wont-harsh-your-mellow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:03Z", "digest": "sha1:3YIXYE3IOOMRGWFAN5EU34SF37NAHK27", "length": 4917, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.feliciasullivan.com", "title": "ICYMI: U.S. Attorney General Nominee (Likely) Won\u2019t Harsh Your Mellow \u2013 Felicia Sullivan", "raw_content": "Home Uncategorized ICYMI: U.S. Attorney General Nominee (Likely) Won\u2019t Harsh Your Mellow\nIn rescinding all DOJ guidance on marijuana enforcement, Sessions torpedoed the famous 2013 Cole Memo, which outlined eight specific enforcement priorities of the DOJ in states with legal marijuana and which, between the lines, indicated that \u201crobust\u201d state regulations would keep the DOJ at bay regarding enforcement of the federal Controlled Substances Act. After that memo, entire states built their comprehensive cannabis licensing and taxation systems on those eight enforcement priorities, ensuring that compliance restrictions and barriers to entry were strong enough to support the same. Instead, Sessions put in place the \u201cSessions Memo,\u201d which was short on specifics. It doesn\u2019t contain an outright directive ordering U.S. Attorneys to go after marijuana businesses. It simply withdraws all of the earlier marijuana-specific guidance memoranda and directed U.S. attorneys to treat marijuana sales like any other federal crime. The withdrawn memos include, the 2013 Cole Memo, the February 2014 Cole Memo that extended low enforcement priority status to apply to banking activities (although the FinCEN guidelines are, importantly, still alive); and the 2014 Wilkinson Memo that was a sort of Cole Memo for tribal lands.\nRight now, U.S. attorneys have full discretion to determine to what extent they can/should enforce federal law in the context of marijuana crimes in states with legalization and medicalization\u2013which they always had anyway\u2013but the 2013 Cole Memo helped them prioritize certain marijuana issues across the DOJ. In his memo, Sessions referred to the principles of enforcement in the U.S. Attorneys\u2019 Manual, but that document reinforces the level of discretion and authority that each U.S. attorney has already. The Cole Memo was ultimately useful in providing a consistent nationwide federal policy. Under Sessions Memo, we are back to the days of having potentially 93 different enforcement policies \u2014 one for each U.S. Attorney. To date, there haven\u2019t been any reported incidents of the Feds going after state-law compliant cannabis operators in states that have legalized and regulated.\nA new sheriff is coming to town though, and that could be a very good thing for the momentum of state-by-state legalization in that states will better know what to expect from Big Brother as will marijuana businesses and their investors. William Barr may end up becoming a very unlikely helper when it comes to state-legal cannabis. He was Bush I\u2019s attorney general from 1991-1993, and he\u2019s a dyed in the wool conservative who, as Attorney General, was \u201ctough on crime\u201d and put many, many people in prison. As reported by Marijuana Moment, Barr in a mid-January hearing with Congress testified that:\nMy approach to this would be not to upset settled expectations and the reliant interests that have arisen as a result of the Cole memorandum . . . However, I think the current situation is untenable and really has to be addressed. It\u2019s almost like a backdoor nullification of federal law . . .\nWhile Barr also testified that he wouldn\u2019t go \u201cafter companies that have relied on [2013] Cole memorandum . . . ,\u201d he also didn\u2019t completely kowtow to state legal cannabis. He further testified that \u201cwe either should have a federal law that prohibits marijuana everywhere, which I would support myself because I think it\u2019s a mistake to back off marijuana. However, if we want a federal approach\u2014if we want states to have their own laws\u2014then let\u2019s get there and get there in the right way.\u201d\nIn reading the tea leaves, it sounds like, personally, Barr would have no issue with continuing the War on Drugs as it relates to cannabis. As a department under his watch and command, however, the DOJ probably wouldn\u2019t spend time and valuable resources on state-legal operators \u2014 even if Barr is concerned that the current dynamic is breeding \u201cdisrespect for the federal law.\u201d Reasonable minds can differ, but I\u2019d say that most cannabis operators and states are very mindful of federal law enforcement and it\u2019s really Congress, the DOJ, and the President to blame for creating legal confusion because of varied enforcement over the years.\nIn the end, Barr\u2019s testimony ultimately serves to show the country that Congress has been woefully impotent and ignorant when it comes to cannabis as a whole and especially as the topic relates to states\u2019 rights. What\u2019s good to know though is that if Barr is confirmed, we\u2019re very likely returning to the 2013 Cole Memo principles, which will at least create a political atmosphere of certainty in that the DOJ has bigger fish to fry than state-legal marijuana. Right now, Barr is pretty much a lock for U.S. Attorney General, so hopefully he\u2019ll make good on his cannabis compromises.\nSource: https://www.cannalawblog.com/icymi-u-s-attorney-general-nominee-likely-wont-harsh-your-mellow/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 7646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fentonchessclub.com/2018/09/annual-general-meeting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CMJPHNMWXNSSTGYC4ZLJLBHJHVDOI3UO", "length": 89, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fentonchessclub.com", "title": "Fenton Chess Club: Annual General Meeting", "raw_content": "The Minutes of tonight's AGM will be published on the website in the next couple of days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 104.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/pricewaterhousecoopers-hospital-future-value-based-care-transformation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4DTLZ5ASRNHEEIADYC5RBAODHTXDJBZY", "length": 3240, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.fiercehealthcare.com", "title": "PwC: Meet the 4 hospitals of the future | FierceHealthcare", "raw_content": "Hospitals will need to adapt their business models to survive the ever-changing healthcare system. (Getty/whyframestudio)\nHospitals are losing their place at the center of the healthcare system and will have to adapt to survive. Experts say they should look to four models to evolve.\nResearchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the \u201cprovider of the future\u201d will likely fit into one of four categories, based on the areas where it excels: product leader, experience leader, health manager or integrator.\n\u201cWhat your \u2018provider strategy of the future\u2019 should be is something we\u2019re having a lot of conversations about,\u201d said Gurpreet Singh, PwC partner and U.S. health services leader. \u201cMany of our clients are wondering what their role should be in this new world.\u201d\nEach of the four models will require hospitals and health systems to invest in different parts of their business and can be tailored to best suit their patient populations.\nRELATED: Nearly 1 in 10 hospitals at risk for closure, Morgan Stanley says\nWhat are these areas? According to the report, they include:\nProduct leaders. According to PwC, these health systems will take the lead on providing the most advanced care and positive patient outcomes. These facilities will be investing in telemedicine, and care for complex conditions to new markets.\nExperience leaders. These providers will need to put a focus on analyzing the communities they seek to serve to achieve high customer satisfaction. Another piece to this, according to the report, is ensuring that the market has access to diverse care settings to improve the experience.\nHealth managers. These providers will especially focus on population health and social determinants, according to the report. This will require a robust data infrastructure and direct contracts with employers to manage health.\nIntegrators. These providers will devote much of their effort to expanding and building scale, according to the report. Having a large network\u2014potentially even beyond U.S. borders\u2014will create value for patients.\nWhile each model has its own competency areas, all providers need to bolster their ability to offer holistic, cost-effective care while balancing value-based payment models with traditional fee-for-service, according to the report.\nChoosing a model will lead a provider to choose a \u201cmajor\u201d and \u201cminor\u201d in that path, focus areas that it can use to drive growth and improvement, according to PwC.\nRELATED: Industry Voices\u2014As hospitals evolve, so too must patient experience management\nSingh said that big-name academic medical centers and large health systems have already started this transformation and are aware of what the process will require. Smaller providers, though, may be so focused on the day-to-day struggles that they\u2019re not as aware of or prepared for disruptions to the system, such as the entry of new players like Amazon.\nThis is, in part, because smaller hospitals and systems operate in fewer risk-based models, he said.\n\u201cDrop down to a number of other players ... operating in fee-for-service setting, and they\u2019re not paying as much attention as they should be,\u201d Singh said.\nIntegrated Delivery Systems Innovation Research Customer experience (CX) Telehealth PwC Gurpreet Singh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmbioskopxxi.com/director/benni-setiawan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:A7PGHJJEXSPCSQ7IMEH6OR6FABR6G7SC", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.filmbioskopxxi.com", "title": "Benni Setiawan Archives - Nonton Film Bioskop XXI Online", "raw_content": "30 Apr 2015 Benni Setiawan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fjc.gov/history/courts/u.s.-district-court-middle-district-alabama-judges", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:29Z", "digest": "sha1:PYUOREINHVGIY6SFRK67Y3ICZLYUEG6Z", "length": 754, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.fjc.gov", "title": "U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama: Judges | Federal Judicial Center", "raw_content": "U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama: Judges\nNumber of judges: 20\nOrder ChronologicalAlphabetical\nCrawford, William (1839-1849)\nGayle, John (1849-1859)\nJones, William Giles (1859-1861)\nLane, George Washington (1861-1863)\nBusteed, Richard (1863-1874)\nJones, Thomas Goode (1901-1914)\nClayton, Henry De Lamar (1914-1929)\nKennamer, Charles Brents (1931-1955)\nJohnson, Frank Minis, Jr. (1955-1979)\nPittman, Thomas Virgil (1966-1970)\nVarner, Robert Edward (1971-2006)\nHobbs, Truman McGill (1980-2015)\nThompson, Myron Herbert (1980-present)\nDubina, Joel Fredrick (1986-1990)\nAlbritton, William Harold III (1991-present)\nDeMent, Ira (1992-2011)\nFuller, Mark E. (2002-2015)\nWatkins, William Keith (2005-present)\nMarks, Emily Coody (2018-present)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 7937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/2215339300/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:29Z", "digest": "sha1:2EC2OWKMHUWOG7Q6VJGQFUU56RG5QVBC", "length": 315, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.flickr.com", "title": "India-6099 - Taj Mahal | PLEASE, NO invitations or self prom\u2026 | Flickr", "raw_content": "India-6099 - Taj Mahal\nThe Taj Mahal is one of the most splendid masterpieces of architecture in the world. It was Emperor Shah Jehan who ordered the building of the Taj Mahal, in honor of his beloved wife, Arjumand Banu who was later known as Mumtaz Mahal, which means, the Distinguished of the Palace. Agra, India", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/16/is-icahn-moving-his-sights-from-apple-to-chesapeak.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:VXAUWVFJQWMQSMCSQPBNVNFNIYOXO6AJ", "length": 5306, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.fool.com", "title": "Is Icahn Moving His Sights From Apple to Chesapeake Energy? -- The Motley Fool", "raw_content": "Is Icahn Moving His Sights From Apple to Chesapeake Energy?\nRumors are out that Carl Icahn has plans to force Chesapeake Energy to find a buyer for the whole operation. After announcing that he will end his pursuit of pushing Apple to increase its share buyback plan, has he turned his attention to the still-recovering natural gas producer?\nCarl Icahn is a name that strikes fear (or at least angst) in the hearts of corporate managers. His extensive history as a corporate raider and activist shareholder is long, and in large part he has been effective at forcing change at companies, and often -- at least in the short term -- to the benefit of investors. With his recent proxy fight with Apple now over, there are rumors that he's pointing his aim squarely at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK). Considering his track record, and the fact that his Icahn Enerprises, L.P. (NASDAQ:IEP) owns 10% of Chesapeake's stock, what should investors do?\nWho's gonna buy?\nOf the rumored buyers, including ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), British Petroleum (NYSE:BP), and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-A), it's probably reasonable to go ahead and cross ExxonMobil off the list. After all, we are only a few years removed from the company's $30+ billion purchase of XTO Energy, which made ExxonMobil the largest natural gas producer in the U.S. Frankly, paying a premium for the second largest producer is not very likely, especially considering that the acquisition of XTO has yielded mixed results so far. Additionally, ExxonMobil's management is typically very conservative with capital allocation, and it's hard to see significant upside in acquiring Chesapeake for the company.\nShell is another company that seems unlikely to make a major purchase right now. One only has to go as far as a very recent statement by new Shell CEO Ben van Beurden:\nOur ambitious growth drive in recent years has yielded a step change in Shell's portfolio and options, with more growth to come, but at the same time we have lost some momentum in operational delivery, and we can sharpen up in a number of areas. Our overall strategy remains robust, but 2014 will be a year where we are changing emphasis, to improve our returns and cash flow performance.\nSpending $26 billion (based on the rumored premium Icahn is looking for) isn't a good way to improve cash flow performance in the short-term. And if that quote isn't enough, van Beurden highlighted the following in Shell's press release: \"Enhancing capital efficiency, with hard choices on new projects, reduced growth investment, and more asset sales.\" It would be pretty hard for van Beurden to backtrack from that statement, and potentially overpay for a company that's been struggling to do exactly what van Beurden is saying that he will do with Shell, in streamlining, selling off assets, and improving cash flow performance.\nBP in the game?\nHonestly, BP is probably the least likely company to make a bid to buy Chesapeake. After all, CEO Bob Dudley has been working to similarly streamline and rightsize BP since taking over in 2010, essentially in the midst of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. In a video just over a week ago, Dudley had this to say:\nIn these times, we need to be more focused, more simple, more clear ... We've had the best exploration year in at least a decade ... Many good things happening within the company. We are going to live within the capital discipline that we said, we will probably keep our capital (spending) flat in 2014 versus 2013, between $24 billion and $25 billion.\nMuch like his counterpart at Shell, it doesn't sound like Dudley has any intention to spend a large amount of capital on a business that is still recovering itself from massive leveraged spending.\nFocus on quality, not rumors\nWhile he will probably remain an active and involved shareholder, investing in Chesapeake because of Icahn's stake isn't smart investing, because it ignores the fundamental step of looking at the business itself. After all, one of the board members, Vincent Intrieri, is a senior vice president of Icahn Enterprises and a close ally of Icahn.\nWith that said, it's more important to consider that Chesapeake -- the business -- has largely solidified under the leadership of CEO Doug Lawler over the past year. It's also worth noting that the path that Lawler is following, of selling off underutilized assets to reduce debt and return the company to long-term profitability, was largely established by the board of directors last year, meaning that Icahn's fingerprints are already on Chesapeake's current direction. And with both cash from operations and free cash flow steadily improving since bottoming out in the Spring of 2012, there's plenty of reason to consider investing in Chesapeake for the long term:\nCHK data by YCharts\nAs long as this pattern continues, the market will eventually follow along and price shares accordingly. And that's all that Icahn, and investors in Icahn Enterprises, are looking for. If you're interested in Chesapeake, don't base your decision on what you think any of these companies may or may not do in regards to Chesapeake. Base your decision on the long-term potential of each as a stand-alone business.\nIs Icahn Moving His Sights From Apple to Chesapeake Energy? @themotleyfool #stocks $IEP, $XOM, $CHK, $BP, $RDS-A", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 10922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/transfer-news/alassane-plea-latest-transfer-news-14860616", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RCLATMKFM5Q7EJ23N75T6XTYBGAASZSO", "length": 1910, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.football.london", "title": "Alassane Plea returns to Nice pre-season training amid West Ham, Spurs & Newcastle transfer links - football.london", "raw_content": "Alassane Plea returns to Nice pre-season training amid West Ham, Spurs & Newcastle transfer links\nThe French striker was a mysterious absence on Monday...but he's back now\nReported West Ham, Spurs, Fulham and Newcastle United transfer target Alassane Plea has returned to pre-season training with Nice on Tuesday having missed Monday's first session.\nThe Toon are believed to be leading the way in the chase for the frontman, who banged in 21 goals last term and who Nice value at around \u00a327m for any potential suitors.\nFootball.London understands that while the Hammers did scout Plea on a number of occasions last season, a move for a new striker is not the priority during this transfer window.\nSources in France have told our colleagues at Chronicle Live that the striker would be keen on a move to Tyneside to work with Magpies boss Rafa Benitez should he leave France.\nThe key pre-season training areas West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini needs to work on\nWest Ham are reported to have made a bid for Plea's services, though we understand that is currently wide of the mark as Manuel Pellegrini and the first team have begun pre-season training in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.\nSuspicions heightened on Monday after Plea failed to turn up for the first day of Nice's pre-season training campaign under new manager Patrick Vieira.\nNice's French forward Alassane Plea (Image: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)\nThe former Arsenal midfielder said at a press conference on Monday: \"We were supposed to have all the players [available]. Unfortunately, those weren't there.\n\"We are trying to get to the bottom of it. We were expecting him [Plea] today but he wasn't here and it wasn't foreseen.\n\"My wish is to keep the players who want to be part of the project.\"\nThe French club later claimed that a mix up with flights was to blame for the striker's absence and he was subsequently pictured in training on Tuesday morning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 9846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fordav.com/blog/critical-collaboration-md-anderson-cancer-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6TNJTZA5JHJ27V4QUHVGZK2S5FSQSU66", "length": 2284, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fordav.com", "title": "Critical Collaboration: MD Anderson Cancer Center \u2013 Ford AV", "raw_content": "One of the original three comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) is regarded as one of the leading cancer centers in the world. Located in the heart of the medical center district of Houston, MD Anderson is both a degree-granting academic institution and a cancer treatment and research center. Furthermore, it is one of the few institutions in the US affiliated with two major research medical schools: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. As one of the foremost cancer centers in the world, MD Anderson must continually ensure their technology is on the same cutting-edge as their research.\nTo foster the spirit of learning and teaching, the Brain and Spine Suite in the hospital is equipped with pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. Not only do these cameras assist surgeons during a procedure by providing real-time images, but the cameras are capable of recording video to share with other doctors and students world-wide. Touch panel controls allow the operator to oversee the room\u2019s audio, video, and camera functions.\nEach classroom is equipped with technology to bring the best educational experience whether learners are on-campus or online. Each room is equipped with either an HD display or a projector with an accompanying control panel to monitor the functions of lighting, audio and video. PTZ cameras are installed on the ceilings so presenters and lecturers can be recorded or broadcasted live without obstructing the view of those within the room.\nThroughout the hospital campus, conference rooms provide a location for doctors to meet or teleconference with other doctors around the world. These rooms come fully prepared with multimedia projectors and in-ceiling speakers, capable of distributing full fidelity audio. The centerpiece of each room is a custom multimedia lectern. Each lectern, designed to MD Anderson\u2019s functionality standards, provides local media playback along with a dedicated computer, laptop, HD tuner and an interactive flat panel display for imaging local feeds to the projector and allowing the presenter to annotate and have mouse control of the local computer.\nIndustry: Education Solutions: Broadcast Systems, Sound Systems", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 5415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 170.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1970-07-01/ironies-indias-green-revolution", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:28Z", "digest": "sha1:S6MDRMSLPXNK5ZQEBETCZX7QOKWTEXJY", "length": 2177, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.foreignaffairs.com", "title": "Ironies of India's Green Revolution | Foreign Affairs", "raw_content": "Ironies of India's Green Revolution\nEssay July 1970 Issue AsiaIndia\nLabor Food & Agriculture\nBy Wolf Ladejinsky\nRead more by Wolf Ladejinsky\nFor nearly five years the \"green revolution\" has been under way in a number of agriculturally underdeveloped countries of Asia. Its advent into tradition-bound rural societies was heralded as the rebuttal to the dire predictions of hunger stalking large parts of the world. But more than that, those carried away with euphoria at the impending changes saw in them a remedy for the poverty of the vast majority of the cultivators. They were correct in assuming that the new technology stands for vastly increased productivity and income to match. However, the propitious circumstances in which the new technology thrives are not easily obtainable and hence there are inevitably constraints on its scope and progress. Apart from this, where it has succeeded, the revolution has given rise to a host of political and social problems. In short, the green revolution can be, as Dr. Wharton correctly pointed out in Foreign Affairs in April 1969, both a cornucopia and a Pandora's box.\nThis is seen very decisively in India's experience. There, extravagant anticipations have been replaced by a more sober and meaningful appreciation of its accomplishments and of the possibilities for expanding the scope of the technology beyond its current narrow limits. It has become obvious that many more farmers must be drawn in to share the benefits of the revolution. The polarization of income between the rich and the poor farmers and the erosion of the position of the tenantry which has been accentuated by the increases in productivity should not be part of the model of the new agricultural strategy. While self-sufficiency in foodstuffs is indeed a welcome-and likely-prospect for India, concern is rising that for all its technological feasibility it may fall short in helping solve some of the grave problems of a good many village poor. (The views expressed here and elsewhere in this article are, of course, those of the author alone.)\nIndian political and economic problems are currently as numerous and grave as usual, but for once food", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 7277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forexstrategieswork.com/category/global-forex-resources/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WEEAEVLBBRLFOXEV2GP3GE6QRWZTZIOR", "length": 3896, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.forexstrategieswork.com", "title": "Global Forex Resources Archives - Page 2 of 4 - Advanced Forex Strategies", "raw_content": "An Introduction to the RSI Indicator\nThe American investor and technical analyst, J.Welles Wilder, is the developer of the popular RSI indicator. Beside the RSI, Wilder created also the Average True Range (ATR), Average Directional Index (ADX), and Parabolic SAR. In this article, an explanation of the Relative Strength Index will be presented, together with real-life examples on the currency market. [\u2026]\nTaking a Behavioral Aspect on Technical Analysis for Better Trading Results\nFinancial markets are not only ruled by economic forces. Neoclassical finance has been the prevalent economic theory in the financial world for many years, and claimed that all financial practitioners are making rational decisions. However, empirical evidence and psychological studies have challenged the neoclassical finance in the last decades. Behavioral finance explains how human psychology [\u2026]\nMarket Reaction to the First Round of French Presidential Elections\nThe French presidential elections will set the tone for EUR trades in the coming weeks. The 4 candidates \u2013 the far right Marine Le Pen, the independent Emmanuel Macron, the center-right Francois Fillon and the left-leaning Jean-Luc Melenchon \u2013 couldn\u2019t be more different for the future of France. One thing is sure \u2013 an eventual [\u2026]\nDeveloping Your Own Winning Forex Trading Strategy\nYou may decide to develop your own trading system or you may prefer to purchase one that has already been developed for use and has a proven track record. In this article, we will look at the basics of developing your own trading system. In essence, a trading system is any set of rules that [\u2026]\nIs Forex Trading Charts Important in Your Trading Journey\nThe movements in the price of currency are represented by numerical figures usually accurate to within 4 or 6 decimal places and also in graphical terms with a currency price chart. The pricing chart is mainly used as the essential instrument when performing any form of technical analysis. In order for a trader to increase [\u2026]\nHow to Select the Right Forex Broker\nThe most important part of trading starts from right the beginning which is choosing your Forex Broker. Your Forex Broker is your partner and in many ways your banker. If you get the wrong partner from the start, then what would happen to your business venture? Yep\u2026 it\u2019s pointless even if your business is profitable [\u2026]\nBuy Low and Sell High Using Range Trading Forex Strategy\nWhat is Range Trading Forex Strategy? Range trading is a simple strategy that can be used on almost any financial product although this article is mainly directed to currency pair trading. Range trading is pretty much just as is sounds, find the range that a product regularly trades in, buy low sell high in the [\u2026]\nManaging Trading Risk Using Stop Loss\nWhy Set a Stop Loss? If you would like to know how to be a forex trader then the first thing you must know is that forex products are typically traded on margin accounts with large amounts of leverage, usually anywhere from 50:1 to 200:1 and sometimes as high as 500:1. Leverage can be a [\u2026]\n3 Important Ways to Proper Risk Management in Forex Trading\nNo forex strategy is 100% profitable. Even professional fund managers are not profitable all the time. We need to embrace losses in our trading; there is now way around it. Learning how to manage them effectively is a prerequisite in order to be consistently profitable. This article will show you three ways for minimizing [\u2026]\nThe Most Common Type of Technical Indicators and Analysis in Forex Trading\nUnderstanding the price trend in forex trading is crucial in allowing traders decide whether to sell or buy. Technical indicators enable traders to predict and follow price trends. In this article, we will take a look at some of the common technical indicators in forex trading. These technical indicators include: Pivot point analysis Pivot point [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 10371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foundationnewnan.com/events/ruth-hill-field-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ZR3NDIJTJDBFFE3QPTC6RC3DBCZH7UAQ", "length": 233, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.foundationnewnan.com", "title": "Foundation Christian Church", "raw_content": "Foundation will be at Ruth Hill's upcoming Field Day and House Competition Day with our Ice Cream Truck! Let us know if you would like to serve. Ruth Hill holds a special place in our heart! We need a team of 6-8 volunteers to serve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxsportsasia.com/uncategorized/592350/watson-hill-to-train-with-england/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IIUYQYFRFTBAGZZF2WG3MPDBBHCAVSZW", "length": 1313, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.foxsportsasia.com", "title": "Watson, Hill to train with England | FOX Sports Asia", "raw_content": "Watson, Hill to train with England\nEngland have retained 25 players at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington on Monday for a training week lasting until Friday, February 17.\nAnthony Watson returns to the squad have missed the opening matches against France and Wales.\nMako Vunipola has not been named in the 25-man group despite reports that he will be available to face Italy next weekend.\nThe other new face not involved in England's win over Wales last weekend is Northampton Saints prop Paul Hill, who was last capped on England's tour of Australia last June.\nForwards (14): Jack Clifford (Harlequins), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers), Jamie George (Saracens), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (Wasps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints), Nathan Hughes (Wasps), Maro Itoje (Saracens), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)\nBacks (11): Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Elliot Daly (Wasps), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath), Jonathan Joseph (Bath), Jonny May (Gloucester), Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs), Ben Te\u2019o (Worcester Warriors), Anthony Watson (Bath), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)\nHome Uncategorized Watson, Hill to train with England", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freqcon.de/company/awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LAKCNIDULVBWJP3IVBUPOG4CXD53W6Y5", "length": 1050, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.freqcon.de", "title": "Awards - FREQCON GmbH", "raw_content": "The German Renewables Award competition started in 2012 and is organized by the Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency. Every year different companies and projects are awarded in 4 different categories for outstanding achievements. FREQCON is proud to have received the award for \u201eproduct innovation of the year\u201c in both 2014 and 2016.\nIn 2014 FREQCON and Qreon GmbH jointly developed a 2 MW wind turbine design with integrated battery storage system and won the \u201eproduct innovation award\u201c. The integrated storage system makes the wind turbine very suitable for \u201eweak-grid projects\u201c and allows off-grid operation for extended periods of time.\nIn 2016 FREQCON received the award for the newly developed UGS Ultracapacitor Grid Stabilizer for dynamic voltage and frequency regulation. The UGS combines the STATCOM capabilities of an IGBT-Power Converter with active power support based on high-power Maxwell Ultracapacitors. Compared to other technologies this solution offers improved efficiency, combined with lower investment and operational costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gabinohome.mobi/en/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EOGXPVXISDOGN235JXK25DZVUMWM7TAW", "length": 1259, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gabinohome.mobi", "title": "About us at Gabinohome - Gabinohome.mobi", "raw_content": "About us at Gabinohome\nI studied Law in Zaragoza, I moved to Malaga in 2000 and in 2001 I started to develop Gabinohome.com with the help of some friends.\nMy job is to help Gabinohome continue to be one of the best website for vacation rental advertisement, long term rental, rooms for students and real estate around the world.\nI moved to Spain right after finishing my degree at the University of Northumbria in 1994.\nI have been working in web development since 2000 and joined the Gabinohome team in 2004.\nMy task is to keep everything working on gabinohome.com and it's sister sites.\nGraduated in Journalism from the University of M\u00e1laga and always eager to evolve, to learn and, of course, to help the users of the web.\nI joined the Gabinohome team in the summer of 2016, mainly as a community manager and content editor.\nGabinohome is web for vacation rentals, accommodation ads and an online travel agency based in Spain. We work in 50 countries, 16 languages and receive over 600.000 visits each month. Out team is based in Spain but we work with people from all around the world.\nWe combine creativity and international business characteristics from Europe, America and Oceania to form an international communication team of committed professionals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gaf.de/content/burkina-faso-establishes-computerised-mining-cadastre-based-gaf%E2%80%99s-emc-framework", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:05Z", "digest": "sha1:A5N6A73CYSWKJEI4UAIEYCGANKJBQ5YZ", "length": 2585, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gaf.de", "title": "Burkina Faso establishes computerised mining cadastre based on GAF\u2019s eMC+ framework | GAF AG | Munich", "raw_content": "Based on its 20 years of experience in designing and implementing mineral cadastre systems for jurisdictions across the globe, GAF has now successfully completed the implementation of a modern computerised mining cadastre in the Republic of Burkina Faso. In practical terms, the project involved implementing a rule-based, computerised management system with GIS functionality that caters for the entire life cycle of mineral titles.\nFollowing a thorough analysis of the administrative prerequisites, the mineral law and the regulatory framework, as well as modernisation and streamlining of the existing paper cadastre system, the GAF team and the DGCM established an up-to-date and consistent database of the mineral rights and introduced a harmonised administrative, procedural and technical framework and cadastral procedures that are compliant with the law. Based on this, GAF configured and installed a customized cadastre management system component of eMC+. The establishment of the new system further increases DGCM\u2019s capabilities for the transparent and efficient management of the licensing process. The entire implementation was accompanied by comprehensive institutional and technical capacity building activities within the cadastral organisation.\nWith the conclusion of the system implementation, Burkina Faso is now well on its way to making its mining sector more attractive for international investors and gain more benefits of its impressive mineral resources by transforming the potential raw material wealth into a continuous and constant source of income for the government and society.\nAbout eMC+\neMC+ is GAF\u2019s framework for providing mining cadastre authorities worldwide with a complete package of products and services. Using the eMC+ framework as a basis, GAF can create tailor-made and maintenance-friendly solutions for each individual client. As it is web-based, it works in an intranet setting as well as over the internet. The application's source code can also be made available to the client, thereby ensuring that the solution can be used sustainably beyond the lifetime of the implementation project. The system is based on FOSS (free and open-source software), which ensures that no additional costs are incurred for 3rd party licences and their maintenance. The total cost of ownership is therefore fully transparent and there is no vendor lock-in. eMC+ increases institutional capacity and efficiency by providing a comprehensive mineral tenure management framework.\nThe DGCM is now online\nDownload PDF: GAF_PR_Burkina Faso eMC_01402019_final.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.galatta.com/tamil/news/kamal-haasan-vishwaroopam-2-has-heavy-box-office-competition/97361/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YBWCJSALJAKAX3LNXWJYS65KV22HRFV3", "length": 1380, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.galatta.com", "title": "Kamal Haasan Vishwaroopam 2 Has Heavy Box Office Competition", "raw_content": "Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam 2 To Face Nationwide Opposition\nKamal Haasan\u2019s highly anticipated action crime thriller Vishwaroopam 2 is all set for a grand worldwide release on 10th August. It is indeed a superb release date, 15th August being a Nationwide holiday, the movie is expected to have solid run till its second weekend.\nIt is considered as Pan India film as it is shot in Tamil and Hindi, and has been dubbed to Telugu and Malayalam. There is an extremely positive buzz in all languages. In Tamil, there is no other release as of now, the much awaited sequel will mostly have solo release.\nBut it will be facing strong box-office oppositions from other language movies in India. To start with, Disney\u2019s Christopher Robin (English) is releasing here on 10th August.\nStrong competition from Bollywood as biggies like Akshay Kumar\u2019s Gold (Hindi) and John Abraham\u2019s Satyameva Jayate (Hindi) are releasing on the Indian Independence Day.\nVijay Deverakonda\u2019s Geetha Govindam (Telugu) is also releasing on 15th August and Nivin Pauly-Mohan Lal\u2019s Kayamkulam Kochunni (Malayalam) is the other movie slated to release for Onam.\nTags: Kamal Haasan, Nivin Pauly, Mohanlal, Vijay Deverakonda, Akshay Kumar, Vishwaroopam 2\nTAGS : Kamal Haasan , Nivin Pauly , Mohanlal , Vijay Devarakonda\n>> OFFICIAL: INDIAN 2 Shooting Begins | Kamal Haasan | Kajal Agarwal | Shankar | Lyca productions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gapatton.net/2018/06/152-good-policy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PLD4SXNMEAJDT4TEWYCQKY5VER2BLQPR", "length": 3390, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.gapatton.net", "title": "We Live In A Political World: #152 / Good Policy", "raw_content": "#152 / Good Policy\nThe cartoon above (click for a larger version, more easily readable) appeared in my newspaper on Thursday, May 31st. It came a couple of days too late for Roseanne Barr.\nReacting to the termination of her television series, in response to her racist Twitter post comparing an African-American woman to an ape, Ms. Barr was all over the map in followup postings. Barr apologized multiple times for her racist statement, excused it, blamed it on Ambien, and issued further vituperative remarks. Among this barrage of followup Twitter postings, Ms. Barr made the claim that, \u201cMy whole life has been about fighting racism. I made a terrible mistake.\u201d\nLet's stipulate to the accuracy of that second sentence. I am not familiar with Ms. Barr's record on racism, and so I am not able to evaluate the truth of the first one. I tend to have my doubts.\nDespite my complete unfamiliarity with Roseanne Barr (except for recognizing her name), I do have an observation prompted by what Ms. Barr said, and a reflection on the good advice provided by Stephan Pastis.\nIn my opinion, many, if not all of us, have made \"stupid remarks\" that we almost immediately regret, as we listen to the words that have just come out of our mouths. Because that is true, there is much wisdom in the \"good policy\" recommendation made in the Pastis cartoon.\nThe fact that \"random\" remarks are now, quite often, broadcast to a huge audience (an audience of millions who follow our president on Twitter, for example) makes the cartoon's advice even more pertinent. Think before you speak. Censor yourself, mentally, before spouting off, and REALLY think and censor yourself before firing off a social media posting by way of Twitter, Facebook, or some other platform. Very good policy advice, indeed!\nHaving definitely made the same mistake that Barr made, on a number of occasions (though not with respct to any racist remark), I can affirm that such statements can be, in fact, genuine \"mistakes,\" and that such stupid remarks do not always reveal deeper truths. Sometimes, of course, they do. But not always.\nThe \"reality\" we create, and ultimately inhabit, is brought into existence by what we \"do,\" by our actions. We need to be aware, though, that what we \"say\" is often \"performtive.\" In other words, by \"saying\" something, we bring it into the world, and actually create a reality by our words. If we take seriously this truth about how we bring realities into the world, we will understand that the cartoon's advice is actually a profound statement about how we must try to live. We must, always, speak \"truth,\" as we know it, because what we speak, in fact, does transform itself into the realities in which we will have to live.\nHow to decide what we want to advance as \"truth,\" before we \"speak\" that truth into the world as a performative statement that will help create a human reality, is a profound human responsibility. \"Thinking,\" an internal dialogue that should precede any serious statement, verbal or written, is an obligation imposed by our human condition. That is really what Pastis is talking about, it seems to me.\nA corollary, I also think, is this. Let us try to forgive others, when we can, for the mistakes they make. If we want to live in an inclusive world, not a factured and divided one. That, too, is demanded of us.\nhttps://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2018/05/31", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 6746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geminidata.com/blog/article/like-something-out-of-a-batman-movie-hack-nyc-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YYKP25WCBKM3NVSCSGXH6JE2EEY3IZEW", "length": 3647, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.geminidata.com", "title": "\"Like Something Out of a Batman Movie\": Hack NYC 2018 Part 1 - Gemini Data: Autonomous Data Cloud", "raw_content": "Cyber attacks.\nOften called non-violent or non-kinetic attacks, the simple truth is that there is a credible capability to use cyber attacks to achieve kinetic effects. Kinetic Cyber refers to a class of cyber attack that can cause direct or indirect physical damage, injury or death solely through the exploitation of vulnerable information systems and processes. This is why I decided to attend Hack NYC this year. Held annually, this conference has several sponsors including Microsoft, VMware, Goldman Sachs, and Adobe. The mission statement explains that HACK NYC \u201can event is about sharing big ideas on how we will fortify our daily life and economic vitality.\u201d\nThis is right up my alley, so I attended HACK NYC in May and got to participate in some great talks. The first of these was entitled 'Cyber Crisis Simulation' which was billed as \u201ca simulated crisis that is unfolding on a national scale. Triggered by a yet unknown adversary, what started as a technical issue has become a city wide impact, affecting millions of citizens, several industries, and spanning government jurisdictions.\u201d This sounded like a real life version of the game Risk, so I decided to attend.\nIn this interactive session, the audience was divided up and each team was given a scenario. Each group was asked to discuss and debate the scenario and then explain to the rest of the participants why we came up with our plan. The scenarios seemed like something out of a Batman movie! The first stated that the mayor of NYC was sent an email from an unknown source threatening an attack on several of the city\u2019s hospitals. The attacker threatened to start deleting patient files, shut down the AC, and stop the elevators unless paid 500,000 USD in bitcoin.\nOur team considered how to verify if the hospital networks were actually compromised. We asked ourselves questions such as how far reaching was the attack or were there assets that were not affected? We strategized on how to help people that were in the infected hospitals, how to slow or stop the damage and whether or not we would pay the ransom. What, if anything, would we tell the media? What would we inform/advise the mayor to do?\nWe ultimately decided that 500,000 USD was cheaper than the cost of lives.\nThe stakes were raised in the second scenario presented. In another email to the mayor, the hackers got control of medical records and were altering allergy information. They also threatened \u2018fireworks\u2019 at the Yankees vs Mets game and that they had somehow stopped all 911 emergency calls.\nIn this scenario it was verified that the attackers have taken patient medical records about allergies and the problem is now statewide. They demanded 5,000,000 USD in 4 hours.\nWhile this seems like a really bad day for the city, our team looked at the problems from all angles, many of which were quite revealing. If there is one lesson to be learned here, it\u2019s that all of these dire situations really require the solutions to understand all of the data involved and the ability to quickly see that data in context. I couldn't help but to think that Gemini Enterprise would have been a huge asset in this capacity. Using Gemini\u2019s machine reasoning would have assisted even the greenest of analysts in understanding the relationships between all of the data sources required to find, isolate, and remove the threat.\nHACK NYC was an amazing event. I would highly recommend it to anyone. To find out more information and learn about upcoming events, check out their website. [http://https://q22018.hacknyc.com/en/] and keep a lookout for my next post where I\u2019ll chat more about my experiences at HACK NYC!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gentfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Michael-Daniels-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XG5ERTTWS5BL4QXGG5NE3NIHM2D3RW3E", "length": 443, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gentfuneralhome.com", "title": "Michael R. Daniels Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Michael R. Daniels\nDateline: Alton, IL Michael R. Daniels, 67, died Saturday, July 21, 2018 at his residence. He was born July 11, 1951 in Alton the son of the late Raymond F. and Jeanette (Clendenny) Daniels. He was a fireman with the Alton Fire Department... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Michael R. Daniels created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nMichael R. Daniels, 67, died Saturday,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Gaz1868", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:67ZBY4WMJL2HNSBOUO6WHMT7UJXSS3MS", "length": 20397, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.genuki.org.uk", "title": "GENUKI: Devonshire 1868", "raw_content": "Help and advice for Devonshire 1868\n[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]\n\"DEVONSHIRE, a maritime county in the S.W. of England, bounded on the N. and N.W. by the Bristol Channel, on the N.E. by Somersetshire, on the E. by Dorsetshire, on the S.E. and S. by the English Channel, and on the W. by Cornwall, from which county it is separated for nearly the whole distance by the river Tamar. In form it is a very irregular quadrangle, containing 1,657,180 acres. The length from beyond Axminster to Mount Edgecumbe is 65 miles, the greatest breadth 69 miles. It lies between 50\u00b0 12' and 51\u00b0 15' N. lat., and 2\u00b0 54' and 4\u00b0 33' W. long.\nThe name by which the county was called by the ancient Cornish inhabitants was Dunan, the Welsh form being Deuffneynt, or \"deep valley.\" This was softened by the Romans into Damnonia, and the county was included in Britannia Prima. W. of the river Parret there was a tribe of Cimbri. The Romans founded several stations in the county: among them Isca Damnoniorum, at Exeter, and Moridunum, near Honiton. The British population resisted for a long time the Saxon invaders. Many battles were fought, but the first of which we have any clear account is the battle of Bampton, where Cynegils, King of Wessex, defeated the Britons in 614. In 633 Penda, King of Mercia, made an incursion into the S.W. parts of the island, during which he besieged Exeter. The entire county was brought under Saxon rule by Athelstan in 926, who defeated Howell, King of Cornwall, and drove the Britons beyond the river Tamar.\nThe Danes made many incursions on the southern coast, and burnt Tavistock Abbey. King Alfred spent some time in attempting to expel them, and defeated them several times, particularly at Brunnanburh, near Axminster. After William the Conqueror had obtained the English throne, he proceeded in person into the West of England to compel submission, and Exeter underwent a regular siege before it surrendered to his rule. During the dynasty of the Plantagenets, Devonshire and the neighbouring counties were much exposed to the devastations of the Irish on the N. coast, and of the French on the S.\nNo events of importance are connected with this county till the insurrections of Lord Audley and Perkin Warbeck, both of which commenced in Cornwall, and in both cases Exeter was besieged ineffectually by the insurgents. At the time of the Reformation, in 1549, Cornwall and Devon were in a very disturbed state, and Lord Russell, who was commissioned to put down the revolt, was unable to do so without resorting to arms, and several skirmishes took place in this county. During the parliamentary wars the inhabitants were mostly attached to the popular cause, and both Plymouth and Exeter were held by parliamentary generals. The latter town was forced to surrender to the royalist army under Sir John Berkeley and Prince Maurice. The king passed through Devon in pursuit of the Earl of Essex, who was obliged to capitulate, and on his return Charles left Sir Richard Grenville to carry on the siege of Plymouth; Sir Thomas Fairfax coming to its relief in about nine months, succeeded in suppressing all attempts to aid the royalist party.: On November 5th, 1688, William III. landed at Torbay, and made a public entry into Exeter, where he remained some, time awaiting reinforcements.\nThe southern coast of the county has always been liable to attack from invading armies. The Spanish Armada was first seen from the hills in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, and the fleet which destroyed it was stationed in that port. In 1690 Teignmouth was burnt by a body of French troops, and in 1719 and 1779 the county was threatened by the French and Spanish fleets, and a camp was formed at Clist Heath, near Exeter. Another encampment was formed in 1798, on the site of some old fortifications, on Woodbury Down, on the other side of Exeter.\nIn the 8th year of the present reign, the boundaries of the county were slightly altered by the addition of the townships of Stockland and Bridgerule, in return for which Thorncome, Beerhall, and Vaultershowe were taken from Devonshire. Many men famous in English history have been born and bred in Devonshire-among whom may be mentioned Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Duke of Marlborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the poet Gay.\nThe S.W. corner of the county contains a table-land, known as Dartmoor, consisting chiefly of open uncultivated common, and containing many lofty granite tors, piled in horizontal strata on the summits of the moorlands. The highest point of this table-land is Yeo Tor, which is situated about 3 miles S. of Oakhampton, and attains an elevation of 2,050 feet above the sea-level. There are several other hills which exceed 1,000 feet, as Amicombe Hill, Newlake Hill, Cawsand Beacon, Rippon Tor, Butterton Hill, and the source of the river Erme. The moor is almost entirely composed of peat, and is made use of as a pasture ground for a few ponies and sheep. Across this desolate waste several new roads have recently been cut by the labour of convicts, and Cranmere Pool has been drained. The greater part of the land, however, is utterly barren, and incapable of cultivation. There are two other tracts of land bearing the same character, viz. Exmoor and Blackdown. The former is on the N.E. boundary, extending also into Somersetshire; a range of hills runs from this along the coast to Morte Bay. The highest point is Dunkery Beacon, 1,658 feet, in Somersetshire. Blackdown is on the S.E. boundary, and is not so elevated as either of the other two moors already mentioned, its highest point being no more than 750 feet. Most of the hills have tabular summits.\nMany parts of the county are remarkable for their fertility, particularly the tract of land extending from Plymouth to Torquay, as far N. as Dartmoor, containing the valley of the Dart. This district, called South Hams, is frequently spoken of as the Garden of Devonshire. Lundy Island, about 10 miles N.N.W. of Hartland Point, is included in the county. It contains about 1,000 acres, and consists mainly of granite rock, covered in the S. part with very good soil. It contains large numbers of puffins, rabbits, and rats, and seals visit the surrounding rocks very frequently. There are ruins of a chapel and fortress, the latter near the landing-place.\nThe chief rivers of Devonshire are the Exe, which rises in Exmoor, in Somersetshire, and entering Devon near Bampton, passes Tiverton and Exeter, and at Topsham commences to be a tidal river. Its course is about 54\u00bd miles; it receives as tributaries the Dart, which joins it near Bickleigh; the Calm, which rises on Blackdown, passes Uffculm, Culmstock, and Collumpton; the Creedy, on which Crediton is situated; and the Clist, which enters the Exe just above Topsham. The river is navigable for shipping as far up as Exeter. The Dart rises at Darthead on Dartmoor, and passing Buckfastleigh and Totnes, falls into the sea at Dartmouth, receiving during its course the Western Dart, which also rises on Dartmoor, at Dartmeet Bridge. The length of the river is 36 miles, and it is navigable as far as Totnes, to which point the tide reaches. The Tamar separates Devon from Cornwall, receiving on its way the Tavy, on which Tavistock stands, and the Plym, the latter falling into the estuary of the Tamar, which is known as Plymouth Sound. Across the entrance to this harbour a breakwater of granite has been constructed to shelter the anchorage from the violence of the S.W. gales. The Torridge rises in the Ditchen hills, near Clovelly, and after a circuitous course of 53 miles, enters the sea at Appledore. The towns of Bideford, Torrington, and Sheepwash stand on its banks. The Okement, a small river, rising on Dartmoor, and on which Oakhampton stands, unites with the Torridge near Iddesleigh. The Taw rises in Cranmere Pool (now drained), on Dartmoor, passes North and South Tawton, Brushford, North and South Molton, Atherington, Tavistock, and Barnstaple, uniting at its mouth with the Torridge. During its course of 48 miles it receives the Mole and the Little Dart, with several smaller streams. The Otter rises on Blackdown, passing Upottery, Honiton, and Ottery St. Mary, and Otterton. Its length is about 25 miles, but it is not navigable. The Axe is about the same size; it rises near Beaminster, in Dorset, enters Devon near Wencroft, passes Axminster, and flows into the sea at Axmouth: Its chief tributary, the Yart, rises in Blackdown, and joins it near Axminster. The Teign flows from near Darthead to Teignmouth, passing Dunsford and Chudleigh, near which place it receives the Bovey and Newton Abbot. Its length is 33 miles. To Newton Abbot, a distance of 3 miles, it is navigable. Other smaller rivers are: the Avon, the Erme, and the Yealm, between Plymouth and Bolt Tail; the Sid, whence Sidmouth takes its name; and the Linn, between Trentishoe, and the Foreland.\nThe soils in the county vary with the rock which underlies them, and are chiefly argillaceous-gravelly, loamy, granitic, calcareous, slatey, and sandy. A tract of red marl extends across the Exe and Creedy, nearly to the Taw, continuing along the coast as far as Torbay. As far W. as the Axe the cliffs are principally chalk, but westward of that river the chalk gradually disappears., On the borders of Dorset, and on Blackdown, greensand is found, and in the higher part of the Axe and Yart, lias. Dartmoor consists almost entirely of granite, containing abundance of felspar, crystals, and a large amount of tin. The remaining part of the county belongs principally to the carbonaceous, or Devonian system. The cliffs at Clovelly consist of graywacke, which has taken most extraordinary forms. At Plymouth, and between Ashburton and Torbay, the limestone is used for building, and burnt for manure, and in many spots a very superior marble is worked. From Bolt Tail to Start Point, the coast is very rocky, being formed of mica and chlorite slate. Metallic ore is found in several places: on Exmoor, which consists of argillaceous slate, ironstone, tin, copper, and lead are worked; and at Combe Martin and Beer Ferris, silver is met with in conjunction with the lead. At Tavistock copper, lead, and manganese abound. At Bovey Heathfield lignite, potter's and pipe clay are found in the transition formation. A large quantity of clay is annually sent to the Staffordshire and other potteries. Iron ore is found at Ilsington, Combe Martin, and other places. From very ancient times the mining system has been under a separate jurisdiction. The stannary parliament was held at Crockern Tor, or Dartmoor, and the stannary courts at Ashburton, Tavistock, Chagford, and Plympton.\nThe climate is very mild; on the S. coast myrtles, oranges, and other plants which are grown in greenhouses in other parts of England, will flourish in the open air, if they are slightly sheltered during the winter. The mean annual temperature has been found to be 52\u00b0 5'. Owing to the large amount of coast, and the liability to S.W. winds, a very considerable amount of rain falls during the year, but notwithstanding this dampness, Devonshire has long been strongly recommended as a residence for those suffering from pulmonary consumption. The average quantity of rain during the year is 36.24 inches. The N. coast is much colder, and the winds higher. The crops vary with the locality. In the E. wheat, barley, and peas are most cultivated. In the W. wheat, oats, and grass. The staple of the county, is, however, cider; the apples from which it is made being grown chiefly in South Hams. Potatoes are grown largely for the London market. The Devon breeds both of cattle and sheep are deservedly famous. The Dartmoor pastures feed a small breed of sheep whose mutton is highly valued. The North Devon oxen are used chiefly for farming work, and the cows for breeding. The best milk cattle are crossed with the shorthorn. Exmoor and Dartmoor are celebrated for a breed of hardy ponies, about 12\u00bd hands high. The farms are mostly of small extent, 150 or 200 acres being considered large.\nDevonshire is divided into North and South Devon, each division returning two members to the House of Commons. North Devon contains the following hundreds:-Bampton, Black Torrington, Braunton, Crediton, Fremington, Halberton, Hartland, Hayridge, Hemiock, North Tawton, Shebbear, Sherwell, South Molton, Tiverton, Winkleigh, Witheridge, and West Budleigh. South Devon contains Axminster, Coleridge, Cliston, Colyton, East Budleigh, Ermington, Exminster, Haytor, Lipton, Ottery, Plympton, Roborough, Stanborough, Tavistock, Teign bridge, and Wonford. The parishes number 465, of which 40 are cities, boroughs, or market towns, viz. Exeter, Barnstaple, Honiton, Tavistock, Tiverton, Totnes, Bideford, Crediton, Holsworthy, Kingsbridge, South Molton, Newton Abbot, Oakhampton, Torrington, Axminster, Stonehouse, Plympton, Plymouth, Ashburton, Bampton, Brixham, Dartmouth, Devonport, Sidmouth, Chagford, Chudleigh, Chumleigh, Collumpton, Colyton, Hatherleigh, Ilfracombe, Modbury, Moreton Hampstead, Ottery, Teignmouth, Topsham, Beeralston, South Brent, Culmstock, and Uffculme. Three other parishes are also partly in this county, and there are 5 extra-parochial places. Of the above towns, the first 18, with St. Thomas, are Poor-law Unions; the first 15, with Plymouth, new County Courts.\nTwenty-two members are returned to parliament; two for each division of the county; two for each of the following boroughs: Exeter, Barnstaple, Devonport, Honiton, Plymouth, Tayistock, Totnes, and Tiverton; and one each for Ashburton and Dartmouth. The elections for the county are held, for the N. division at South Molten, the other polling-places being Collumpton, Barnstaple, Torrington, Holsworthy, and Crediton; for the S. division at Exeter, the polling stations being Plymouth, Honiton, Newton Abbot, Kingsbridge, Tavistock, and Oakhampton. The local government is in the hands of a lord-lieutenant, a vice lieutenant, a custos, a high-sheriff, about 90 deputy lieutenants, and 390 magistrates. The county is in the Western Circuit, and the assizes are held at Exeter, which is the seat of a bishopric, in the province of Canterbury. Devonshire contains 3 archdeaconries: Exeter, Barnstaple, and Totnes, which are again divided into 23 rural deaneries containing about 470 benefices. The number of inhabited houses in 1861 was 101,253, with a population of 584,373. In 1851 the number of persons was 567,098, showing an increase of 3 per cent. in the ten years. From 1821 to 1831 the rate of increase was 15 per cent., and it has been gradually lessening to the present time.\nThe people are chiefly employed in agriculture, and, on the coast, as sailors and fishermen. The chief manufactures are woollen goods, lace (principally at Honiton), gloves, tanning, and carpets (at Axminster). In the last century Exeter was the largest wool mart in England, next to Leeds, but the trade has been decreasing during the present century. A large number of hands are employed in copper, lead, and tin mines, and in boat and ship building-in private yards as well as in the government dockyards at Devonport.\nThe antiquities of the county are numerous. Dartmoor is covered with \"but circles,\" and other Druidical remains are found in various places. At Grimpspound, near Manaton, there is a stone enclosure of about 4 acres, probably the remains of a British town; other circles are found at Gidleigh, near Scorhill Tor, and other places on Dartmoor; and cromlechs at Drew's Teignton, Withecombe, and Maddock's Down, near Combe Martin. Several British roads can be traced: they run from Seaton to Molland, from Exeter to Molland and Oakhampton, from Crediton to Haldon, and from the mouth of the Exe to Taunton. Cairns and tumuli occur on Haldon and other downs in North Devon. In addition to the Roman stations already mentioned, there are remains of a camp at Hembury Fort.\nRuined castles are numerous. The Courtenays, earls of Devon, possessed those at Exeter, Plympton, Oakhampton, and Tiverton. Besides these, there are remains of Berry Pomeroy, Gidley, Compton, Hemiock, Dartmouth, Kingswear, Lidford, and other castles: the last mentioned, Lidford, was the stannary prison. The only abbeys of which any ruins are visible are the Cistercian abbeys at Ford on the Axe, and at Buckland, the residence of Sir F. Drake; the Benedictine house at Tayistock; the Austin priory at Hartland; St. Nicholas's at Exeter; and the Premonstratensian house called Tor Abbey. Two ancient mansions are worthy of notice:- Dartington, near Totnes, of the 14th century, and Bradley, near Newton Bushel, of the 15th, Exeter Cathedral is built in a variety of styles; the earliest portion belongs to the year A.D. 868. Bishop's Leighton church is an example of the early Saxon style, and Teignmouth of the Norman.\nThe chief seats of the nobility and gentry are-Castle Hill, Earl Fortescue; Stoyer House, Duke of Somerset; Endsleigh, Duke of Bedford; Saltram, Earl Morley; Mount Edgecumbe, Earl of Mount Edgecumbe; Pixton, Earl of Carnarvon; Powderham, Earl of Devon; Bagtor, Lord Ashburton; Exeter (Bishop of) Episcopal Palace; Bicton, Lord Rolle; Bishop's Court, Lord Graves; Poltimore, Lord Poltimore; Huish House, Lord Clinton; Canonleigh, Lord Exmouth; Ugbrooke, Lord Clifford; Blachferd, Rogers, Bart.; Buckland Abbey, Drake, Bart.; Courtland, Roberts, Bart.; Creedy House, Davie, Bart.; Escott, Kennaway, Bart.; Haldon House, Palk, Bart,; Killerten, Acland, Bart.; Mamhead, Newman, Bart.; Manaton, Elford, Bart.; Maristew, Lopes, Bart.; Netherton House, Prideaux, Bart.; Pound, Buller, Bart.; Rewdens, Nugent, Bart.; Shute House, Pole, Bart.; Spring Lodge, Farrington, Bart.; Dawstock, Wray, Bart.; Tor Royal House, Tyrwhitt, Bart.; Youlston, Chichester, Bart.; Buckland Filleigh, Fortescue; Coham, of Coham; Dartington, Champernowne; Denbury, Taylor; Barne, Trelawney; Dulford and Bradfield, Walrond; Fallapit, Fortescue; Farringdon, Cholwich; Fleet House, Bulteel; Ford, Wise; Fowelscombe, King; Fulford, of Fulford; Kelly, of Kelly; Hayne, Harris; Kitley, Bastard; Langdon, Calmady; Lifton, Arundel; Lindridge, Templar; Lupton, Buller; New Place, Tanner; Nethway, Luttrell; Newnham, Strode; Oxton, Swete; Pilton, White; Shapwick, Rhodes; Stockleigh, Bellew; Tor Abbey, Cary; Whitway, Parker; Wolford, Simcoe; Tavistock, Watermouth, Heanton, &c. The Cavendish family take the title of duke, and the Courtenays that of earl, from this county.\nThe railways passing through Devon are the Bristol and Exeter, entering the county near Wellington, and proceeding to Exeter, with a branch to Tiverton. It continues from Exeter along the coast, to Teignmouth, where it leaves the sea, passing through Newton Abbot, Totnes, and Devonport, crossing the Tamar to Saltash. There is a branch from Newton Abbot to Torquay, and another from Plympton to Tayistock. A line also runs from Bideford to Exeter, by way of Barnstaple; and another line, the South Devon and Yeovil, enters the county at Axminster, proceeding to Exeter, and sending off a branch a few miles W. of that town, along the river Exe to its mouth. The Great Western canal, from Taunton, passes by Tiverton, and at Exeter joins the Exeter canal. The Bude and Holsworthy joins the river Walden with the Launceston canal. Its length is about 15\u00bd miles. There are minor canals at Tayistock, along the Torridge, and from Newton Bushel for about 4 miles towards Bovey Tracey. There were four mail roads from London to Exeter: the Devonport, Exeter, and Bath road; the Exeter road, entering between Chard and Honiton; the Penzance, Falmouth, and Exeter, entering between Bridport and Axminster; and the Falmouth, Devonport, and Exeter, entering between Honiton and Ilminster. There are other roads diverging from Exeter to all parts of the county. The chief harbours are Plymouth, Torbay, and Teignmouth.\"\n[Transcriptions of the various town and parish descriptions in this Gazetteer can be reached via their respective pages. The Gazetteer also lists a number of Extraparochial Places. The remaining information transcribed from the National Gazetteer, for example on hundreds and rivers, is grouped together under the heading Miscellaneous.]\n[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)\nTranscribed by Colin Hinson \u00a92003]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 23328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gerad.ca/en/posts/740", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EZWRGWK7E6KMUUW67PCJR2ZGF2ZUP42E", "length": 1249, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.gerad.ca", "title": "Fran\u00e7ois Bellavance and Genevi\u00e8ve Gauthier honoured by the Statistical Society of Canada : GERAD", "raw_content": "Fran\u00e7ois Bellavance and Genevi\u00e8ve Gauthier honoured by the Statistical Society of Canada\nProfessors Fran\u00e7ois Bellavance and Genevi\u00e8ve Gauthier won two of the 2018 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awards, presented on June 5 in Montr\u00e9al in recognition of their exceptional contributions to advancing statistics.\nProfessor Bellavance received the Lise Manchester Award, which recognizes excellence in statistical research that considers problems of public interest and is potentially useful in developing Canadian public policy. The award was conferred upon him \"for his sustained, outstanding fundamental statistical research on road safety issues, for his determining role in improving road safety regulations and legislation in the province of Quebec, and for elevating the social debate and acceptance of road safety measures through the effective communication of statistical evidence.\"\nProfessor Gauthier was presented with the Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work. The SSC praised \"her outstanding contributions to the promotion of innovative statistical methodologies in financial engineering, and in the training of highly qualified personnel.\"\nFran\u00e7ois Bellavance and Genevi\u00e8ve Gau...\nFran\u00e7ois Bellavance, Genevi\u00e8ve Gauthier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/hospital-reacts-to-bitter-pill-4857597", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YM6USOAE2BCGWYSABPXBQ7ASW3KDIVWO", "length": 2641, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.getsurrey.co.uk", "title": "Hospital reacts to bitter pill - Get Surrey", "raw_content": "Hospital reacts to bitter pill\nTHE Royal Surrey County Hospital has dismissed a damning report that describes privacy and dignity in its A&E department as compromised to an extent \u201crarely seen\u201d as \u201cinaccurate\u201d.\nThe Winter and Emergency Services Team (WEST), from the Department of Health, routinely visited the hospital earlier this year.\nTheir corresponding report, which has only this week come to light, was not meant to reach the public domain but appeared in board papers for the Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust last Thursday.\nThe hospital is now furious and the chief executive of the Royal Surrey, Jeff Faulkner, called the oversight an \u201cenormous disappointment\u201d.\nWEST\u2019s letter to the Mr Faulkner, said: \u201cThe advice given by WEST previously regarding the unsuitability of cubicles in A&E for overnight stays, not only remains but it has been exacerbated by a doubling up of patients in some of the cubicles by the introduction of additional curtain tracking reducing cubicle size. We have rarely seen privacy and dignity so badly compromised.\u201d\nThe team added that since its last visit the department had \u201cdeteriorated further\u201d.\nThe short stay unit was labelled as \u201cineffective\u201d by the team and they went on to highlight deficiencies in the recently opened Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), so successful in easing operational difficulties at the hospital.\nMr Faulkner countered by arguing that no one in the country judged the performance of a MAU in the way WEST does and that significant changes have been made top the operation of the unit.\nBut to make matters worse, the team made light of the hospital\u2019s notorious problems with delayed discharges \u2013 where patients are stranded in acute hospital beds.\nThe report said that their effect on the local NHS was not \u201csufficient to gum up\u201d the system.\nThe criticisms run counter to continuing claims that the hospital\u2019s bed and staffing dilemmas are not at crisis point, and by patients, many of whom have praised improvements made to the hospital.\nKay Newnham from the South West Surrey Community Health Council, whose remit means she spends many hours in the A&E department, said: \u201cThis report is totally inaccurate, misleading and completely untrue. They have made so many improvements at the hospital. This is going to do nothing for staff morale.\u201d\nA Royal Surrey spokesman explained that they have made significant improvements since WEST visited. She added: \u201cThe report reinforced the areas that the trust had already identified as needing further development in light of the continued pressure on A&E and the new Department of Health guidance on reforming emergency care.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 9403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.giftoflife.org/posts/post/Donor-Eric-Gurevich-met-transplant-recipient-Ron-Dreben", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XZ7OPHMXQIKLQZT6IXKFOWQJK26FLFGS", "length": 4259, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.giftoflife.org", "title": "Stem cell transplant from stranger saves life of Washington, D.C. man - Gift of Life", "raw_content": "Stem cell transplant from stranger saves life of Washington, D.C. man\nJan 04, 2017 by Gift of Life News\nWhen Eric Gurevich was on a Mayanot Birthright Israel trip in 2008, he never dreamed it would lead to him saving a life. Eight years later, he was in Miami at the Gift of Life Cocktails and Conversation event, waiting to meet the man he had saved, Ron Dreben.\nTheir tie with each other started years ago as part of Eric\u2019s educational tour of Israel. His group saw a presentation by Gift of Life about the importance of joining the marrow registry as a volunteer donor, and he immediately felt it was clear that he needed to be part of the registry. Yet, given the low likelihood of being the ideal match for someone, he never expected to be called.\nThen, in 2014, Gift of Life contacted him to say that he was a potential match for a 53-year-old man with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Eric was asked to do a blood test to confirm the match, then several weeks went by. One day he received a call, text and email asking him to contact Gift of Life immediately, and that the need was urgent.\n\u201cI was on a plane to Washington, D.C. the next day,\u201d said Eric. \u201cI received an extensive medical check at the Apheresis Associates of Northern Virginia donation center, then went home to begin preparing for the donation, which involved receiving injections of Neupogen for several days, to increase my number of blood stem cells. I never imagined the entire process would be so seamless and painless \u2013 and frankly, joyful.\u201d\nAt the same time, his recipient, Ron Dreben, was feeling great relief that his donor had been found. When Ron was first diagnosed with MDS, he and his wife Alison were most concerned about the impact on their son, who had just started high school. Fortunately, his condition remained dormant long enough for their son to graduate and move on to college.\nBut in 2014, it suddenly flared up and a transplant was needed quickly. A matching donor was found immediately, but was unable to donate due to a medical condition. As Ron\u2019s condition worsened, a second donor was found, but would only donate bone marrow and the procedure could not be scheduled quickly enough. Ron needed a transplant right away.\nEric was Ron\u2019s third matching donor. He immediately committed to donating peripheral blood stem cells and arranged to travel to his preliminary medical examination the next day.\nJust over two weeks later, Eric\u2019s stem cells were on the way, being hand-carried by a courier to the Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston, where Ron was ready for his transplant. The infusion took only about an hour and the stem cells began to migrate into the bones to form new bone marrow and create new blood cells and an immune system. Ron and his wife stayed in a temporary apartment near Dana Farber for six months after the transplant, where they were able to hear games and concerts at nearby Fenway Park. Ron had incredible support from relatives, friends and family members.\nFor the next year, although they were not allowed to learn each other\u2019s identities, Eric and Ron wondered about each other, and exchanged many anonymous letters and cards. Finally, the day came when they were able to meet face-to-face and share a warm embrace.\n\u201cI met my blood brother,\u201d said Eric. \u201cThis has been the single greatest privilege of my young life. I would urge anyone to grasp the gravity of how greatly their decision to join the registry could impact a stranger\u2019s life for the better. Don\u2019t think twice \u2013 do it.\u201d\nTo watch a television interview with Eric, click here.\nA few months after donating, Eric went to Spain to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and has plans to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, \u201cjust to make sure my healthy marrow is still pushing the limits of what\u2019s possible!\u201d He works as the Director of Communications and Engagement at a nonprofit arts organization in Louisville, Ky.\nRon has resumed his career in Washington, D.C. as a trademark and copyright attorney, but has a new focus on balancing his work with plenty of exercise, rest, and pursuing personal interests. Alison, his wife, has been visiting Boston frequently to help Ron\u2019s mother, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma; she is doing well. Son James is now 21 and attends college.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gistmattaz.com/2018/05/former-us-president-george-hw-bush-in.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NOQHVNAA7GWDSFSAQSOJRYLSDSN5FJUN", "length": 1269, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gistmattaz.com", "title": "Former US President George HW Bush in Hospital For Low Blood Pressure and Fatigue... - Gistmattaz", "raw_content": "Home News Former US President George HW Bush in Hospital For Low Blood Pressure and Fatigue...\nFormer US President George HW Bush in Hospital For Low Blood Pressure and Fatigue...\nBush, 93years and the oldest living former US president, will likely remain at Southern Maine Health Care for a few days for observation, said the spokesman.\nFormer president and 41st president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush was taken to a hospital in Maine on Sunday after experiencing low blood pressure and fatigue, a family spokesman said.\n\u201cThe former president is awake and alert, and not in any discomfort,\u201d Jim McGrath wrote on Twitter.\nBush\u2019s wife, Barbara Bush, died in April at the age of 92. The couple had been married for 73 years.\nBush, his son former president George W Bush and Democratic former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama attended the funeral in Houston. Former president Jimmy Carter and current president Donald Trump did not.\nGeorge HW Bush was hospitalised after the funeral, for 13 days because of a blood infection.\nOn Saturday, Bush attended an American Legion event in Kennebunkport, Maine, to mark Memorial Day weekend with veterans and his former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.\nWishing mr Bush quick recovery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gizmo-design.com/portfolio/sports-medicine-website/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2HGUHHGVZGL35L753SJUMSWQFWREBFFC", "length": 204, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gizmo-design.com", "title": "Sports medicine website - Gizmo Creative Factory Inc.", "raw_content": "A long overdue revamp of this site updated this practice's web presence and brings a new doctor video to the forefront, along with the most-used areas of the website.\nURL https://chicagosportsdoctors.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2010/07/05/qaradawi-organization-to-have-ship-in-next-gaza-flotilla-qaradawi-plans-to-join-flotilla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:14Z", "digest": "sha1:623WWK3ZKHIRZKZQZYWZ7H3A34FUFWEF", "length": 3538, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.globalmbwatch.com", "title": "Qaradawi Organization To Have Ship In Next Gaza Flotilla; Qaradawi Plans To Join Flotilla", "raw_content": "Qaradawi Organization To Have Ship In Next Gaza Flotilla; Qaradawi Plans To Join Flotilla\nIslamic media is reporting that the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, plans to have its own ship in the next Gaza flotilla and that Qaradawi himself will take part. According to the first report on the IUMS plans for its own ship:\nThe International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), during the closing session of its General Assembly, announced its resolution to purchase a relief ship that will sail in its name. The 2000-tonne ship will carry up to 50 passengers as well as its crew, and have the words \u201cInternational Union of Muslim Scholars\u201d written prominently across its hull. The mission of the ship will be to travel around the world providing assistance and humanitarian relief wherever it is needed. One philanthropist attending the assembly in Istanbul, Turkey has already pledged to pay one-third of the cost of the ship, while Sheikh Abdullatif Aal Mahmood seperately pledged 200,000 Euros to the project. Also during the closing session, the founding of a public endowment for funding IUMS activities was announced, to which one million Qatari dinars has already been donated by IUMS president Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The endowment will be used for establishing a branch of the union in every Islamic country and every country with a strong Muslim presence such as India, Russia, and South Africa. The IUMS also called for closer cooperation with Islamic bodies such as Al-Azhar in Egypt, particularly in light of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayeb\u2019s appointment as its head.\nAccording to the second report on Qaradawi\u2019s plans to join the flotilla:\nSheikh al-Qaradawi emphasized the role of Muslim scholars in addressing the issues facing the Islamic nationThe Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has announced that he will take part in the next sea convoy which tries to break the siege of Gaza. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi confirmed that he will join Freedom Flotilla II and offer other support to the peaceful humanitarian aid efforts, either by sea or by land. In a speech at the opening of the third general assembly of the IUMS in Istanbul, Sheikh al-Qaradawi emphasized the role of Muslim scholars in addressing the issues faci ng the Islamic nation, and reaffirmed that the Union is engaged in addressing such challenges, \u201csometimes openly, sometimes quietly in the background\u201d. \u201c\u2018The Union will contribute effectively God willing to Freedom Flotilla II and will continue to issue statements in order to alert and warn the Islamic nation until it recovers its rights in the land of the prophets,\u201d he said. \u201cThe IUMS,\u201d continued the Sheikh, \u201chas paid attention to all of the major issues facing Muslims.\u201d Focusing at times on the core issue, that of Palestine and Jerusalem, has not distracted the IUMS from the situation in Somalia, Kashmir, Iraq and Afghanistan which are currently occupied by the US and other issues, he added.\nA previous post reported that Qaradawi\u2019s personal secretary was aboard the June Gaza flotilla.\nBREAKING NEWS: Youssef Qaradawi\u2019s Personal Secretary Was Onboard Gaza Flotilla Arabic media has reported that Akram Kassab, generally described as...\nQaradawi's Organization Announces Proposals To Lionize Qaradawi The website of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS),...\nQaradawi Says Israel Will Face \u201cGod\u2019s Wrath\u201d Over Flotilla Incident Gulf media is reporting that Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/interview-with-hezbollah-secretary-general-hasan-nasrallah/2790", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BF3KQYHM7UTMH6W2EPVA47UBJ7N2IG3L", "length": 75259, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "Interview with Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "Interview with Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah\nBy Al-Jazeera\nAl Jazeera in Arabic 22 July 2006\nAl-Jazeera interviews Hezbollah chief \u2013 text\nText of report by Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 20 July\nInterview with Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah, by Al-Jazeera Beirut Bureau Chief Ghassan Bin-Jiddu, on 20 July.\nEmphasis added by Global Research\n[Bin-Jiddu] It is sufficient to say that we are in the company of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah at this time in particular. The battles are still continuing. We are at a certain time in a certain place of this world, and not only in Lebanon, as I used to say earlier. This is why, without any introductions at all, I will start my questions to His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah. Your Eminence Al-Sayyid, first of all, thank you for responding to [the request to hold] this interview at this time in particular. Around 10 days have passed since the outbreak of hostilities. What do you say militarily and politically?\n[Nasrallah] In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Politically and militarily all at once, it is difficult. Let us start\u2026\n[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Not in detail. We will go into details with you.\n[Nasrallah] Let us start militarily and in the field. The general headline we can speak about clearly on the military level is steadfastness\u2013the great and significant steadfastness first and, secondly, full absorption of the Israeli strike. Over the past few days, the Israelis, in our opinion, did the maximum that they can do, from the air and the sea. Of course, we will discuss the ground option shortly. There is no target\u2013old, new, assumed, expected, based on information or analysis\u2013that they did not hit. Also, when we speak about what was hit, this includes military and civilian targets, but I want to speak now about the military aspect.\nI can confirm at this moment\u2013this is not an exaggeration and not part of psychological warfare, but facts\u2013that the command structure of Hezbollah has not been harmed. Yesterday night, they conducted a very violent raid on a building in the southern suburb. They spoke about 22 tonnes of explosives and a large number of aircraft that conducted the raid. They said that they made an achievement and killed some Hezbollah leaders and a large number of members of the resistance. This is not true. At any rate, your correspondent reported that he saw the area and that no ambulances came to the scene and no rescue efforts were made because the building is vacant and is under construction. The entire command structure of Hezbollah, including the political, jihadist, executive, and social\u2013so far, the Zionists have not managed to kill any Hezbollah cadre or leader at any level.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Do you mean the political leaders or the military commanders?\n[Nasrallah] All of them. Certainly, I would like to tell you and tell the viewers that when a martyr falls, we inform his family and we then announce this. We do not hide our martyrs until the end of the battle. We have never done this. On the contrary, we always take pride in our martyrs. Until this very moment, praise be to God, anything that could affect the command or administrative structure that is managing the battle or that is not managing the battle\u2013those who are directly linked to the battle or have a relationship to some aspects of the existing situation\u2013this structure has remained intact. This is especially true in the case of the military structure that is present in the field. This is first. The second thing that I can confirm is that all the Israeli talk that they hit 50 per cent of our rocket capability and warehouses\u2013all of this is untrue and nonsense. Until this moment, they have not been able to hit anything in this context. I confirm this to you. The evidence is that the resistance has continued to fire rockets\u2013not the regular Katyusha rockets that are fired on the frontline settlements\u2013the resistance is still striking Haifa, Tiberias, Safad [Zefat] and deep [into Israel] as well. We control even the number of rockets that are fired. Today, the resistance can fire hundreds of rockets in a single day. There is no obstacle in the field despite the intensive air activity of the Zionists.\nWe control the number [of rockets] because we are managing our battle. I will go back shortly to the management of the battle. There fore, as far as the rocket structure is concerned, things are excellent and this structure or capability has not been impaired at all. We have the ability to go on for a long time. Also, the fighters in the field have not started action so far. The ground confrontations that occurred over the past two days are the beginnings of the confrontation. The fighters on the border have so far not made a strenuous effort over the past few days. We are still at the beginning of action. Therefore, as far as the ground and rocket situation is concerned and on the level of capabilities and cadres, leadership, and organization in general, which is broader than the jihadist aspect or other political, social, and media aspects, the structure is still strong and solid and continuing, praise be to God.\nThe strike against the battleship off the coast of Beirut has made the Israelis decide to keep all their warships away from the Lebanese coast by tens of kilometres. What is reported sometimes in the media, to the effect that warships are bombarding the suburb or a certain area, is wrong. This is not true. The warships are not bombarding most areas because they are far away from the coast. The Israeli air force is the one that is conducting the bombing. In all events, this air force is a superior force. This is the picture of the field situation. Of course, in the confrontations that occurred, a number of Mirkava tanks have been destroyed so far. Some of these tanks are Mirkava of the fourth generation, which are the most advanced type of the Israeli Mirkava.\nThe Israelis admit the ferocity, power, and courage of the fighters on the frontlines. Certainly, we are wagering on those fighters. I think that if we take the picture of the military situation in general, I can confirm that Hezbollah has so far remained steadfast; secondly, it has managed to absorb the strike; thirdly, to move to the stage of taking the initiative; and fourthly, to offer some surprises, which it has promised. There is still a number of surprises, which we reserve to ourselves in the next stage. In the field, Hezbollah is still managing the battle calmly, slowly, quietly, and without any emotional reaction. You can see this. There are no unnecessary threats and no random rhetoric. We are following things closely and calmly and we calculate the time, place, number, capability, combat, point, front, and all details on the military level. This concerns the military aspect.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Excuse me your eminence, what guarantees that what you are kindly describing as calm is not confusion, and what guarantees or confirms that you are running the battle calmly, not with emotional reaction to conceal the inflicted enormous military losses as Israel claims?\n[Nasrallah] First, you know Lebanon. Today, the Israelis tightened the noose on the mass media in northern occupied Palestine and occupied Palestine. No one can report any news or broadcast any footage. [News reports] are subject to the Israeli censorship which permits and disseminates them. Even you at Al-Jazeera Channel were subjected to arrests, interrogation, restricted activities, and the like. Why do the Israelis resort to concealing the truth on the other side? Why? Do they do that only because they accuse the media outlets of setting the coordinates? This is nonsense. We have the coordinates of these Israeli settlements and military positions in the north, centre, or in any part of occupied Palestine. We do not need anybody to give us information, images, or the like. In that case, they want to conceal the true scene of the war on the other side because it will have definite impact on the Israeli street and media and the morale of the Israelis. This is what Olmert\u2019s government and the Israeli Army fear. On the other side, the media outlets in Lebanon today are reporting on everything, including the raids, the civilian martyrs, the combatant martyrs, and the roads. The towns are open even the Southern Suburb. The media outlets entered it. The media outlets entered and videotaped the place, which was bombarded yesterday at dawn, actually today at dawn. So, everything is evident. You know Lebanon more than anybody else that there are no secrets in Lebanon. If we have martyrs, we can only conceal them for an hour or two because their families and the residents of their village will know about it. Those are not fighters from another country; they are from the citizens of this country. If one of the leaders of Hezbollah is martyred, this will be made known within few hours. Therefore, we do not conceal our martyrs and we are proud of them. Secondly, as for the structure [of the resistance], its performance practically assert that things are still ongoing well. Moreover, the Israelis gave a while ago a picture of trucks to the mass media claiming that these trucks are transporting ammunition to Hezbollah. Well, if they videotape every target they strike, let them provide pictures of the rocket launchers, the launching pads, and the military bases that were bombarded. Thus far, they have been bombarding wrong targets. This indicates a technical failure on the one hand and an intelligence failure on the other. The drilling machines in Al-Ashrafiyah are old machines. So, they do not receive intelligence from the ground and I do not agree with the analysis that suggests they pounded Al-Ashrafiyah because they want to instigate the Christians and the residents of Al-Ashrafiyah against the resistance. We should not be hasty [in drawing conclusions]. They came and videotaped the two drilling machines. They might have looked as rocket launchers in the pictures and therefore they bombarded them. This is a failure. If they are depending on the reconnaissance aircraft, this is a technical failure. If they are depending on the agents on the ground, this is an intelligence failure. So, if they have pictures, let them show them to the world. You might wonder and says is it possible that no rocket launcher was hit. Neither me, nor anybody can claim that. There might be, for example, one or two were hit. After nine days, the strongest air force in the Middle East region and one of the strongest air forces in the world that have access to the airspace while we do not have the capabilities to face them at that level \u2013 an air force effectively and strongly present in various ways with the reconnaissance aircraft controlling the airspace of Lebanon \u2013 could not until this very minute even stop firing rockets or target the missile force. It is very evident.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Can we say that the onset of the ground battle has begun or not?\n[Nasrallah] We cannot say that accurately. Until now, what have been taking place are infiltration attempts in certain points on the borders. In this context, the Israelis are seeking to make any achievements. I tell that the only achievement made by the Israelis can be made by any air force in the world. It does not need the grandeur of the Israeli Air Force, namely destroying the bridges, the airport, striking at the ports, factories, the houses. This does not need any [special air force]. Any army that has some aircraft can do that. However, they failed in the face of the military infrastructure of the resistance. They succeeded in killing the children, women, and the elderly. They succeeded in displacing some people. As for the structure of the resistance, I affirm to you that it is present. They know that they are not hiding\u2013 as they claim\u2013 among the civilians. [The battle] is taking place in the frontlines, the mountains, the valleys, and between the trees in a wide area. They are looking for achievements. They talked at dawn today about the bombing of this building in the Southern Suburb. I heard over the past two or three days that they are talking about great, huge, fortified Hezbollah barracks along the borders that were destroyed. I was discussing the issue with the brothers. We discussed whether we should deny the claims or not. Some said: Let them be happy about it as they are showing their people that they made achievements. Let them be happy about their achievements and this might ease the onslaught. They will be happy in the Israeli Army that they made achievements. Others said: Let our public opinion know because this would have positive and negative psychological impact. So, let our public opinion know. Let me ask: Where are the fortified barracks on the borders of the Islamic Resistance? The border posts are actually surveillance posts consisting of a column on which an antenna is attached and another on which a camera is placed. Beside these columns there is a room where one of our youth stays. This is simply what these posts are consisting of. These posts were evacuated right from the first day. If they come today to say that they destroyed frontline positions. They mean these places. If they say that occupied frontline posts, these posts exist along the barbed wires and we evacuated them since the first day when we captured the soldiers. Now that the Israelis\u2019 helplessness has been proved, we affirm to you that they have a problem in receiving intelligence from the air and from the ground. Most of their agents are at large, some were arrested, and some disappeared. The agents are facing difficulties in their movements now on the ground to locate or give some information [to Israel]. At any rate, they need some commandoes groups to enter the Lebanese territories, either to collect intelligence or to correct some of the mistakes they made in their strikes on the frontlines. They also need them to conduct operations to capture or kill some of the mujahidin of the resistance, or even to say that they killed or made field achievement since the Israeli Navy retreated and was hit. I do not believe that the air raids are an achievement. So, they are looking for an achievement on the ground. What is happening until know is within this context. I do not call it the beginning of a ground incursion. However, I would like to affirm that that these points were strongly dealt with. It would have been better to provide pictures of the tanks that were destroyed, but the difficult travel conditions prevented that. Anyway, they are admitting that some of the tanks were destroyed, and that some people were killed and wounded. I promise them more fighting and toughness from the mujahidin of the resistance along the borders. As for the ground attack option, it is possible that they might resort to it. We have been ready for it since the first day. I do not want to raise the ceiling of expectations and I do not u se speeches. We are fighting a serious battle. I did not say one day that the Israelis will be unable to enter any post in southern Lebanon. We are not a classic army extending from the sea to Mount Hermon. We are a popular and serious resistance movement that is present in many areas and axes. They might be able to enter a certain point or a village or conduct a large-scale ground operation. They might enter a mountain or a frontline village and claim a historical victory. In order not to say that Hezbollah made a pledged, I did not promise one day something like that or say that. This is not the case. This can happen at any moment. As for us, our equation and principles are the following: When the Israelis enter, they must pay dearly in terms of their tanks, officers, soldiers. This is what we pledge to do and we will honour our pledge, God willing.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Do you expect that the battles will be long? Are you preparing, as one of the generals inside [ Lebanon ] warned, for a war of attrition?\n[Nasrallah] The battle here, if we want to answer these questions, we should discuss the background of the battle. We are not convinced at all\u2013perhaps during the first hours we can say that the reaction that took place was a natural reaction to the capturing of Israeli soldiers\u2013but hours after this, the issue has gone far beyond a reaction to the capturing of the soldiers. The Israelis entered [ Lebanon ] with a plan. The officials in charge of this plan, commanders, and news media used to talk about it with varying degrees, which we will analyse later. However, they, for example, spoke about destroying Hezbollah, not the missile force, but destroying Hezbollah. Some sides say the dismantling of the military structure of Hezbollah. Others said the annihilation and destruction of the missile force of the military structure, and others said we cannot destroy the military force of Hezbollah, but we want to pain Hezbollah and weaken this force. Then they said pushing Hezbollah far from the borders. Those who talk about pushing Hezbollah 10 or 20 km know that this does not mean pushing the missile force far from the borders. The one who attacks Haifa, Afula, and farther villages, and has the power to attack farther than this, then the story of 10 or 20 km is considered simple details. Some sides said that the objective of the operation is to free the two prisoners. I assure you that the objective of the operation is not to free the two prisoners. At any rate, the slogans on the one hand, and the objectives that were announced for the operation on the other, means that the operation would take a long time. I cannot say one week, two weeks, three weeks, one month, more, or less. This issue depends on the field developments on the one hand, and the political developments on the other. Now\u2026\n[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Excuse me. Does it depend on you or on Israel?\n[Nasrallah] On us and on them. The course of the battle\u2013I will say how\u2013for example, today, the talk began in Israel, and this is a logical analysis, to the effect that the Israeli military operation has reached its peak. What is more than this? I will answer you. What can the Israelis do more than what they did? What is left is the ground incursion, which is costly at any rate. There is an argument, not among the politicians on the political level, even on the military and security levels there is a real argument on the level of the military and security commands. What is left is the ground incursion. Except the incursion, everything the Israelis could do have done. So, they have reached the peak. Now, they have one of two choices: When they reach the peak they either proceed horizontally, or in other words, continue with the same standard or the dose [preceding word in English] of the peak, or they will begin to decline. So, the military operation will begin to decline and to calm down gradually to pave the way for a political settlement. How much time would this take? This depends on developments. When time drags\u2013the north is brought to a halt, northern Israel, excuse me, I apologize, I mean northern occupied Palestine\u2013there are two million Israelis who are either in shelters or outside the area, displaced outside the area. The entire economy in the north is brought to a halt. The factories, trade, tourism, and economic movement are all brought to a halt. The number of the killed and injured on their side could be much less than on our side, but this is natural. This is because they have a huge arsenal. Our arsenal is not for destruction, retaliation, and revenge, but a deterrent arsenal. They have a huge destructive power. There is no exaggeration here. They also have shelters. Give me one village in the south that has shelters in it. Up till now a large part of the people of the south are still in the south. Had there been shelters, the people would have remained there and would not have le ft . No one likes to live in school to be given ration. However, on their side, from the borders to deep in the north, there are shelters in the settlements. So, it is only logical that the number of those killed and wounded on their side is less than on our side. However, what affects the economy and the pressure the people are exposed to as a result of displacement and living in shelters. [Sentence incomplete as heard] They promised them with a quick operation within a few days. The first day and then the second day passed, and every day they say three or four times in the Israeli news media that they have killed me, killed the Hezbollah leaders, and made false achievements. So, what is next? Until when will this continue? The Israeli society is so far rallying round the government. We have seen this experience in 1993, in 1996, and in past wars, but this solidarity will begin to vanish with the passage of time. So, if the military operation took a horizontal direction or began to decline, then the peak that is higher than this is the ground incursion. I am sure that the ground incursion will be a catastrophe to the Israeli army. This is not a threat. You know from day one that I speak calmly and objectively on these issues. The issue now, if it continues\u2026\n[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Excuse me; you repeated the word disaster on more than one occasion.\n[Nasrallah] I mean a disaster for their tanks, officers, and soldiers. There will be a high price for them to pay. Right from the first day, I never claimed, even during negotiations and in my past speeches, that I can shoot down F-16\u2019s. We have never claimed that. We did not claim such a thing even during the [confrontation] in the sea, but we managed to surprise them in the sea. As for the land, we have 24-year experience; we have long and real experience in the land. We have high and efficient fighting capabilities, good armed capabilities, and good reserves.\nIt is a matter of time now. I rule out that the Israelis can make a military achievement. It is a matter of time. On the one hand, there is our military steadfastness, and on the other there is the political and popular steadfastness. They [the Israelis] are wagering on seeing the country\u2019s political situation break up and weaken, and on seeing a decline in the popular support for the resistance in order to achieve political results. We, on the other hand, are wagering on our steadfastness and that of our people, and on seeing a decline in the Israeli internal support for the military operation and on the pressures on the enemy\u2019s government, the beginning of which we began to see today.\n[Bin-Jiddu] We will discuss the political issues. I want to go back to what you said about the popular steadfastness. Your Eminence, it is obvious that there is a real popular support in the areas where members of the resistance and Hezbollah are present. Now, the people who expressed their genuine support for the resistance are displaced and exhausted, and there is destruction as well. Honestly, do you still have faith in this popular support? Do not you think that you might win militarily and lose popularly, even among your own sect, not among other parties?\n[Nasrallah] Before I met you, the brothers, who visited all the places where the displaced people are housed and talked to people, told me that the embassies of western countries are sending opinion-poll teams to the places housing the displaced people. They ask people about their sect and religion. Undoubtedly, they are interested first and foremost in the Shi\u2019is\u2019 opinion. Based on the [religious] structure of the country, they believe that if the Shi\u2019is begin to leave and desert the resistance, it would be an indication that the other sects will do the same \u2013 this is the [religious] structure of the country. The opinion-poll teams were amazed during their visits and meetings. There is strong support for the resistance; there is readiness to remain steadfast and make sacrifices. They listened to many women who said that they are ready to sacrifice their children, to fight, to remain steadfast and patient, and to endure, and that they will not allow the resistance to lose, be humiliated, or be stricken. Anyway, instead of me going to the people, anyone can go and meet these people and ask them in an objective and honourable manner. However, they should not ask a person who is not actually a displaced person and says that he speaks on behalf of them. We have information about the situation on the ground, and we are in constant contact with our people in the villages and cities. Our impression, which I am sure that it is now shared by the embassies that follow the situation and give information to the Israelis and decision-making centres in the world, is that the answers they got today will affect the course of the battle. Therefore, I thank the people for their position and steadfastness, which will make the war shorter. Why? If the opinion-poll teams see a sign of weakness and fragility, they will tell the Israelis to continue [their operations], that they can achieve their objectives, and that the war will not take a long time. It is not of their interest to fight for a long time. The US Administration, and other administrations, will build on that, and there will be no intervention. Today, yesterday, and the day before \u2013 especially today \u2013 they heard strong and honourable words. I tell you that they have began to feel desperate. I want to repeat what I said days ago that we have honourable people \u2013 I am talking about the Lebanese people in general, not only the Shi\u2019is. The Lebanese people are honourable, dear, and great; I do not flatter when I say that. You can go to all Lebanese areas where there are Christians, Sunnis, and Druze to see how the rest of the Lebanese people deal with the displaced people.\nbetween sympathy with those displaced persons, since they are Lebanese, and the attitudes towards the actions of Hezbollah and the resistance. It is said that the other parties, factions, and segments are not satisfied with Hezbollah\u2019s position, performance, and the way it got Lebanon involved, as they say, in this battle?\n[Nasrallah] I am not talking about some political forces. I am talking about the people, the good people, those who in hard times reveal their chivalry, honour, and patriotism. This is especially since the political climate now says what happened has happened, and that there will be time for accountability. We also say that there will be time for accountability. No problem. The political climate says let\u2019s be united to handle this battle. This level of political rhetoric, which contains less incitement \u2013 I do not say it contains no incitement \u2013 but it contains less incitement, gives people a chance to approach matters honestly. Today, neither the masses of the resistance feel alienated at the national and popular levels, nor the resistance feels that its supporters around it have begun to disperse. Never! I stress to you that the masses of the resistance are firmer and more resolved. Even when we go to political negotiations \u2013 for certainly there will be political negotiations and political discussions \u2013 one of the most important issues that the Hezbollah leadership must keep in mind is that behind it are masses who do not accept to offer concessions that they might be humiliating or something like that. They might demand high positions that are commensurate with people\u2019s steadfastness and sacrifices. This is what we are building on.\n[Bin-Jiddu] At any rate, your eminence, some say that Hezbollah might be strong militarily on the ground now, at least as you have said, but it seems that it is internationally isolated, excluded, and chased. It is also politically embarrassed at home. Even your former allies, the political forces with whom you used to hold discussions at home, do not conceal their dismay. True, they say there will be time for accountability, but they do not conceal their resentment. Moreover, they say: How could Hezbollah involve the country and take it hostage after a unilateral decision? The government was neither aware of that decision, nor does it bear its consequences or adopt it. Is this reasonable to happen?\n[Nasrallah] Well, let us say that we have begun to go into the political part. First, I just want to close the first part, since we have talked about the battlefield, the shelling, and settlements. I would like to address the family that was hit in Nazareth. In my name and on behalf of my brothers, I apologize to this family. Of course, the word apology is not sufficient. I bear full responsibility. That was not intended at all. However, at any rate, we consider those who were killed in Nazareth martyrs for Palestine, Lebanon, the nation, and the resistance. It is a tough and hard confrontation, in which flaws of this kind might happen. I would like to send them my condolences and apologies. I hope that they would accept my condolences and apology.\nNow I move on the political part. Politically, the international community, first, has never been with us. So I cannot say that is not with us, isolating, and forsaking us just today. It has never been with us. Moreover, it has mostly been against. For example, we have been listed on the US terrorism list since they created the terrorism list. We are among the first to be listed on that list. Some European countries also list us as terrorists. The position of the international community is clear. Consequently, we are not surprised by the international community. We have never wagered on the internatio nal community. The international community adopts international resolutions of which Israel implements nothing. Even Resolution 425 was not implemented by Israel; we imposed it on Israel. It has implemented none of the resolutions concerning the Palestine question. It has implemented none of the resolutions concerning the occupied Arab territories. For us, this is neither a new factor, nor a factor of pressure.\nRegarding some Arab positions, this is new. True, this is new. In the past, some Arab regimes abandoned the resistance and resistance men. I am so objective and realistic, so today we deem it acceptable if the Arab regimes are neutral. Just like that. If you view the Hezbollah rhetoric, we accepted such stands from them. Perhaps the brothers in Palestine \u2013 and rightfully so \u2013 have a different rhetoric. Their circumstances are much harder than ours. So they always attack, accuse, and denounce the regimes and rulers. This is not part of our rhetoric and literature. Why? We have forgotten them. To attack someone, you need to suppose that he exists. But if you feel that he does not exist in the first place, then you would be troubling yourself to no avail if you attack him. Once, we used to ask the international community to condemn the executioner and to ask for mercy for the victim. We reached a stage where we began to say we accept that they condemn both the executioner and the victim. This became one of the natural expectations. So we began to consider it a good thing to see a resolution condemning both the victim and the executioner.\nWith regards to the Arab regimes, we expect them only to sit on the fence. And, if they do not want to sit on the fence, then they should at least equate between us and Israel. We even agree to have them equate between the victim and the executioner. But we did not expect them to take part in shedding the blood of the victim and cover the crimes of the executioner. Yes, this was a surprise.\n[Bin-Jiddu] So?\n[Nasrallah] Nothing. This is nothing.\n[Bin-Jiddu] But these are principal countries, Your Eminence. They have positions and they can influence the Arab League and other Arab countries?\n[Nasrallah] Now, we are in a stage of war. There is a great deal of domestic and Arab discussion, so let us postpone this. If we talk about settling accounts, we also have a long list of things to consider in this settling of accounts. I agree with those who said before me \u2013 and these are not my words; they were said before me, and I am only repeating them now \u2013 that the Israeli reaction to the capture of soldiers could have been harsh, but limited, if it were not for the international and Arab cover.\nIsrael did not get a green light from the United States. Instead, Israel was given a decision by the United States to go and finish this issue in Lebanon. What are the elements of the US decision? We will leave this question to the time of settling accounts? The world community did not give a green light to Israel. The world community gave a decision to Israel to destroy the resistance in Lebanon. Some Arabs then came to provide a cover and encourage Israel to continue the battle, and to tell Israel that this is the golden and historic opportunity to destroy the resistance in Lebanon. I can tell you that they do not want to destroy the resistance of Hezbollah in Lebanon. They want to destroy any spirit of resistance in Lebanon, whether inside Hezbollah or any other party. They want to push the country to the point where words such as resistance would become unacceptable, and where words such as martyr, jihad, wounded, steadfastness, confrontation, liberation, freedom, glory, dignity, pride, and honour are unacceptable. All these words should be erased form the Lebanese people\u2019s dictionary, from the press, from the political literature, from the political mind, from the people\u2019s mind. This is what Israel is doing, and this is what the United States, which wants to re-arrange the entire region anew, needs.\nI can decisively say \u2013 and we will say this again at the time of settling accounts, especially now that some people say that this or that party said the truth, and so I want to say the truth. I can decisively say that if it were not for certain Arab positions, this war would not have continued; it would have stopped within hours. Then in the discussions [that follow] everybody can say what he has, and we will say what we have.\nToday, I do not expect anything from certain Arab rulers. Now if you ask me about what I expect from the nation, I know that if you examine the hearts of all people in the Arab and Muslim nations, they are with us. They may sit in front of television screens, cry, and show emotions. If they hear good news, they may stand up, clap, and show joy; if they hear sad news, they may cry and feel sad; and if they have the chance to show genuine emotions, they would do so. I have no doubt about this. I am even certain that some sons, daughters, and wives of some Arab rulers are with us. But I tell the Arab rulers, I do not want your swords and I do not even want your hearts. To say it in Lebanese slang, the only thing I want from you is leave us alone. Sit on the fence and have nothing to do with us. You have said what you said, thank you, go and rest. Today, there is a war that was imposed on Lebanon whose aim is to liquidate everything called resistance and resistance men in Lebanon and punish Lebanon for the defeat it inflicted on Is rael. In fact, the war on Lebanon aims at liquidating the Palestinian cause. Everybody knows that the wide-scale uprising in Palestine erupted following the victory in Lebanon.\nWhat is happening in Palestine is similar to, and is a Palestinian version of the Lebanese model. Now when we destroy the Lebanese model, what are we telling the Palestinians? We are telling them you should lose hope. When all these atrocities are taking place in Lebanon and the Arab world and the international community are not doing anything, then this means that we may see similar, or worse, atrocities in Gaza Strip and no one in the world would make a move. So, inflicting a defeat on Lebanon means ending the resistance movements in the region, which is their intention. It also means ending the Palestinian cause and imposing the Israeli conditions in any political settlement. We heard Amr Musa say that there is no more a peace process. There was a fair mediator, who was not fair from day one, and now the peace process was handed over to Olmert. Before Olmert, George Bush used to tell the Arabs and the Palestinians that they should accept what Sharon offers them and that we should accept the leftovers that they offer us. The objective of the operation in Lebanon is this. It was not a reaction to two prisoners. The issue has gone beyond this, and I can confirm to you that they will fail. We can talk about results later.\nLet me go back to your question about not telling them [the Lebanese Government] or asking them. First, the government statement, on the basis of which we participated in the government, talks about the Lebanese Government\u2019s endorsement of resistance and its national right to liberate the land and the prisoners. How could a resistance liberate prisoners? Go to George Bush for example? I cannot and will not go to George Bush. When you talk about the resistance\u2019s right, you are not talking about the Foreign Ministry\u2019s right. You talk about an armed resistance, and you establish in the government statement its right to liberate the land and the prisoners. So, I represent a resistance and I have weapons. This was the government statement according to which the government won the vote of confidence from the Chamber of deputies. That was the first point.\nSecond, all that was said at table of dialogue is available on tapes, as some have now begun to say Al-Sayyid [Nasrallah] said so and so. Yes, I told them we would maintain the border calm. That was our policy. However, there are two issues that stand no\u2026 [Nasrallah changes thought]. I used to say there are four points, two of which can stand delaying, procrastination, and making reminders about them. No problem about that. The first issue was the continued occupation of the Shab\u2019a farms. In this respect we can take our time. This is a limited piece of land. We do not want to go to war because of the farms, not a war like the one taking place now. The second issue is that of the air and maritime violations, and even the land violations. We can put up with these. Yes, violations of our sovereignty are condemned, but we would not raise hell because of them. However, there are two issues that can stand no postponement. The first is the prisoners\u2019 issue, for this involves humanitarian suffering. The second is any attack on civilians. I told them on more than one occasion that we are serious about the prisoners issue and that this can only solved through the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. Of course, I used to make hints in that respect. Of course I would not be expected to tell them on the table I was going to kidnap Israeli soldiers in July. That could not be.\n[Bin-Jiddu] You told them that you would kidnap Israeli soldiers?\n[Nasrallah] I used to tell them that the prisoners\u2019 issue, which we must solve, can only be solved through the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Clearly?\n[Nasrallah] Clearly. Nobody told me: no, you are not allowed to kidnap Israeli soldiers. I was not waiting for such a thing. Even if they told me no you are not allowed [nothing would change]. I am not being defensive. I said that we would kidnap Israeli soldiers in meetings with some of the key political leaders in the country. I do not want to mention names. When the time comes for accountability I will mention names. They asked whether this would resolve the prisoners issue if this happens. My answer was that it was logical for such an act to solve the prisoners\u2019 issue. I assure you that our assessment was not wrong. I am not being stubborn. In the entire world, tell me about any state, any army, or any war that was waged because some people kidnapped two soldiers, or even took hostages, not military soldiers. Tell me about a war that was waged against a state because of two soldiers. This has never happened in history. Nor has Israel done it anytime before. However, what is happening today is not a reaction to the kidnapping of two soldiers. I repeat that this is an international decision and an Arab cover. It is a decision that has to do with\u2026[changes thought]. I stress to you that had we not captured two soldiers in July, which could have happened in August, September, or some other time, the Israelis would come to this battle and would create for it any pretext and any excuse. The issue of disarming and finishing the resistance could not be achieved domestically, regionally, nor at the negotiating table. The Americans were well aware that this issue cannot be addressed domestically. Therefore, the Lebanese were told to step back and to let Israel terminate and disarm Hezbollah. But a cover was needed. So they provided an international and an Arab cover. This is what the issue is about. Finally, I will tell you how any resistance in the world operates. If I want to kidnap or capture two Israeli soldiers, the political leadership would make the decision and hand it to me, but even my brothers [in the leadership] should not know that this would happen at such a time and such a place. If 60 to 70 people know such details, would a capt uring operation be successful? No, no such operation would be successful, let alone when informing a government of 24 ministers, three key leaders, political forces, and political blocs. On the table of dialogue, we hold discussions, and only one hour later the minutes of the sessions become available to [foreign] embassies. So do you expect me to tell the world I am going to capture [soldiers]?\n[Bin-Jiddu] But Your Eminence, through your statement now you seem to be accusing the other party of having prepared for this plan, and that it might have used the capture of the two soldiers as a pretext. But some say the opposite. The statement of the 14 March forces was clear. Political statements very clearly stated that what happened was part of a Syrian-Iranian scenario. This way, you have returned the country to the time before 14 March. This serves the nuclear programme of Iran, which is now waging a conflict with the United States at this point. Syria wants to restore its influence. You have thus turned the table upside down.\n[Nasrallah] This is a good point to discuss. This is a repeated tone in Lebanon. Whenever something happens, they talk about the Iranian-Syrian dimension. Let me start directly with the capture of the two soldiers. True, I had not informed the Lebanese Government, but neither had I informed my closest allies. Syria and Iran had not been informed. No Syrian or Iranian person had had any prior information. They had not been informed, and I had not consulted anyone of them. We are a resistance group operating on Lebanese soil. We have prisoners in Israeli prisons. It is our natural right to restore them. There is a major government statement that stresses this right, according to which we acted. These are the limits of the subject. Then we began to hear some analysis. Some say Syria told them [Hezbollah] to do so. This is ridiculous and shameful to say. They say Iran told us to do this. Why does Syria want Hezbollah to carry out this operation according to some analyses repeated by some politicians? This is in order to postpone or close the file of the international tribunal. This is ridiculous. Why ridiculous? Let me tell you why. If the international community is preoccupied with the Lebanon war now, the war will come to an end in one, two, three, or four weeks. July will end, followed by August and September, then the international tribunal issue will be revived. Does anybody believe that a confrontation of this kind will cancel the international tribunal decision if there is an international will to establish an international tribunal? This analysis involves too much simplification and disregard for people\u2019s minds. Let me tell you the objective of this. The objective is to empty the resistance in Lebanon of its national, moral, and humanitarian content and to present it as a party or group of Syrian and Iranian tools that work for Syrian-Iranian interests and disregard or bypass the Lebanese interests, if not at the expense of the Lebanese interests. Regarding the Iranian issue, if a war takes place in Lebanon, a war will come to an end in one, two, or three months. How long would a war take? A war will eventually come to an end. What will this change in the Iranian nuclear file? What will it change? On the contrary I tell you that if there is a relationship with the Iranian nuclear file, the current war on Lebanon is not in the interest of the Iranian nuclear file. The Americans and Israelis have always taken into account that if a confrontation takes place with Iran, Hezbollah might interfere in Iran\u2019s interest. If Hezbollah is hit now, what does this mean? This means that Iran is weakened in its nuclear file, not strengthened. How do those people read politics?\nWhat is happening now, on our part, is an act of defence that has nothing to do with the international tribunal or with undermining the international tribunal. This is the silliest argument and I hope they would not repeat it. On 10 May, we took to the streets to say no to contractual employment [in the civil service], no to starving people, no to denying the acquired rights, no to submission to the International Monetary Fund conditions. We were told then that we want to sabotage the country and torpedo the international tribunal. Today, we captured prisoners to end the prisoners file. A war was imposed on us and we were told that we are starting a war to torpedo the international tribunal. It is shameful to say this. This issue has nothing to do with Syria or Iran.\nI want to add something else. Hezbollah has always given priority to the Lebanese national interest over any other interest. On the table of [national] dialogue, I argued with them and I told them that you have known us for 23 years or 24 years. I was ready to tell them, some of them and not all of them, what battles they fought in the interest of foreign parties and not in the interest of Lebanon. I asked them to bring anything against Hezbollah and say if it did anything in Lebanon or fought any war in Lebanon that was in the interest of another party, and not the interest of Lebanon. They could not give me a single example.\nOne person said there is the issue of the hostages. I told him that Hezbollah did not take any hostages. Even the groups that took hostages in 1982 and 1983, they took them to exchange them for hundreds of Lebanese prisoners from the Israeli prisons, especially in Atlit. Some witnesses are still alive. Speaker Nabih Birri was one of the people who ran the negotiations and was aware of this issue. So, if hostages were taken, they were taken to exchange them for Lebanese, and not for Syrian or Iranian interests. I have nothing to do with the hostages issues. So, I tell everybody now: Give us one example before this war, which you are accusing us of, to implicate us and prove that we have done anything against the national interest.\nOn the national level, we have a large political force. Lebanon is small, but relatively speaking, I can claim that Hezbollah is the biggest political party in Lebanon. In military terms, and no one can argue about this issue, it is the resistance today. In terms of popular presence, I can claim that Hezbollah is the biggest popular current in Lebanon. But, tell us when did we take advantage of this political, military, mass, and popular force in Lebanon for our own interest, for our own party interest, or for the interest of our sect, considering the sectarian structure of the country? Never! We have always offered concessions for the national interest.\nI do not have to defend myself here as Hezbollah or the resistance masses with regards the national interest. I say that we are fighting the war of national interest because Israel wants to humiliate Lebanon, subjugate Lebanon, and control Lebanon. If it succeeds in this war, then any future government in Lebanon should have the approval of Olmert and the Israeli Mosad. Not only the US ambassador, the French ambassador, or the British ambassador, but we will have a fourth one to endorse the elections law, the government, the new president; and that is Mr Olmert.\nI reject any such accusation and say that the aim of these accusations is to void the resistance of any humanitarian, ethical, national, and jihadist context.\nThe people know us very well. Let me defend ourselves here a little bit. I normally do not like to talk about our personal matters. Today, before the homes of the people were destroyed, the homes of Hezbollah leaders and cadres were destroyed. Can you mention the name of one of our publicly-known brothers whose home was not destroyed? The families of Hezbollah leaders and cadres are displaced, just l ike the other people. Therefore, we were the first to pay the price. Today, our sons, families, relatives, and dear ones are in the battlefield. No one is hiding anything. All of Hezbollah is in the battle. Hezbollah masses are in the battle. Are we that crazy, that I and my brothers want to sacrifice our souls, our families, our honourable masses, and our dear ones in order to have Syria return to Lebanon, or to postpone the international tribunal, or for the sake of the Iranian nuclear file. Can you imagine such statements! This is an insult. It is an insult to our patriotism and commitment. Yes, we are friends of Syria and Iran, but for 24 years we benefited from our friendship with Syria and Iran for the sake of Lebanon. There are others who benefited from their friendship with Syria for their own seats in power, houses, wealth, and bank accounts. But, for me, tell me where my bank accounts are? Tell me where is the palace that I built as a result of my connections to the Syrian officials in Lebanon? Never! Hezbollah has never taken advantage of these friendships except for the benefit of Lebanon. Today, Hezbollah is not fighting for the sake of Syria or the sake of Iran. It is fighting for the sake of Lebanon. Yes, the result of this battle in Lebanon will be seen in Palestine. If it ends in victory, it will be victory there too; and if, God forbid, it ends in defeat, then the Palestinian brothers will face difficult and tragic conditions. But, God willing, there will only be victory. [Al-Jazeera Television at 2257 gmt interrupts airing of the interview, and starts interviewing Arab writers and analysts, saying it will air the remainder of the interview after preparing the tapes for air transmission. Al-Jazeera resumes airing the remainder of the interview at 2310 gmt]\n[Bin-Jiddu] Here, what does victory mean, and what does defeat mean? When we say that you have achieved victory, then what do you mean? How do you understand that you were defeated? How does the world understand that you were defeated?\n[Nasrallah] To succeed in defence is victory. How was victory achieved in 1996? The Israeli military operation did not achieve its objectives. This is it. Hezbollah remained and the resistance of Hezbollah remained. We were not the ones who began the war or the ones who launched a large-scale war. It is not from the first moment after we captured two soldiers that we began to shell Nahariya, Haifa, Tiberias, and Zefat and launched war. No. Even in advancing, the Israelis were much faster than us. We were patient in the hope that things would stop at this point because we do not want to take our country to war. However, they launched war and we went to war. Victory here does not mean that I will enter and capture northern Palestine and liberate Nahariya, Haifa, and Tiberias. This is not one of our rhetoric or slogans. This is a process that concerns the Palestinians and the nation. This is another issue. The victory we are talking about is that when the resistance survives. When its will is not broken then this is victory. When Lebanon is not humiliated and its dignity and honour are maintained, and when Lebanon stands fast alone in front of the fiercest military power and does not accept any humiliating conditions regarding a settlement of the issue, then this is victory. When we are not defeated militarily then this is victory. As long as there is a missile that is fired from Lebanon and targets the Zionists, as long as there is one fighter who fires his rifle, and as long as there is someone who plants a bomb against the Israelis, then this means that resistance is still there. I tell you now\u2013some people say that this is the eighth day [of the war] and others say it is the ninth day. Now, we believe that we have achieved part of victory. Our steadfastness until today is victory. This is Israel. Even at the dialogue table I used to say that we do not belittle Israel. Are we fighting militias, a party, an organization, or an army in a poor state? No. We know that we are fighting an army that defeated a group of Arab armies at one time. But we fought it and defeated it with God\u2019s help, and we are fighting it now. Consequently, our survival and steadfastness until now means victory. Our absorbance of the strike is victory, and our continuation with the confrontation is victory. In addition to this, when the Israelis begin to make concessions [then this means victory]. In the first day, there were no negotiations. Now, the Israelis began to talk about negotiations. In the first day, they said that they want to destroy Hezbollah. A short while ago, I counted them to you and [words indistinct] politics. Now, even the Israeli officials do not use the language of destroying Hezbollah. There is not even the language of dismantling Hezbollah. Today, some sides talk about disarming Hezbollah, and other sides talk about weakening Hezbollah\u2019s missile force. Even the destruction of Hezbollah\u2019s military force is no longer a military target. The Israelis today know that through military force they cannot dismantle Hezbollah\u2019s military power or missile force. They have to deal with this through politics. This is an Israeli failure. Every Israeli failure is success to us. It is victory for us.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Your eminence, what are your demands now within this context? You are talking about negotiations now. Are you required to extradite the two captured soldiers without conditions, or is there anything else? We heard the Israeli Foreign Ministry saying that the German mediator should begin to move. What is there? There is a UN delegation, and there is [Javier] Solana\u2026\n[Nasrallah, interrupting] Regarding the United Nations, you just see the inappropriate behaviour with the Lebanese Government. The UN delegation arrived and contacted the Lebanese officials. It offered a comprehensive ceasefire, Hezbollah extradites the two prisoners to the Lebanese Government, and the Lebanese Government will then begin negotiations on the exchange of prisoners for a period of one month, and in light of this, a decision will be made on how things go. Our authorized channel\u2013and I announce this\u2013for political contacts in this regard, is [Chamber of Deputies] Speaker Nabih Birri for many reasons. We are present in the government and we are in contact with the prime minister. This is natural. However, for us, Speaker Nabih Birri is the side with which contacts and negotiations are held. We are in a continuous contact with him. Of course, we are in a continuous contact with all our friends and allies in Lebanon. Regarding the basic issues that we might reach, we will certainly hold some consultations. What was conveyed to us and what we understood was this offer. The offer was sent to me. I am not authorized to reply to it by myself. I have my personal opinion, but I cannot commit Hezbollah to my personal opinion. So, I sent a message to Nabih Birri telling him that I need some time to hold a meeting for the leaders. And you know the security circumstances of my brothers. We must not make any mistake in this regard. Any way, he said that they [the UN delegation] will leave for occupied Palestine at night. I said let them go and come back to know what the Israelis will say and I will discuss this issue with the brothers. My readiness to discuss this does not mean that I accept or do not accept this offer. Eventually, I am committed to a collective leadership and I have to consult it on this issue. The UN delegation left occupied Palestine, but did not return to Lebanon to give an answer. They just said that the [Israelis] did not accept the offer. Practically speaking, the UN offer was foiled. So, it does not need an answer from me because it was foiled. I discuss or answer issues that are seriously put to discussion. I do not want to reject or accept issues that are not put to discussion. When Solana came, he just came to convey the Israeli conditions. He came to Lebanon and told them [the Lebanese officials] you should return the two prisoners and implement Resolution 1559. In fact, the ceiling that Solana offered was higher than what the Israelis are talking about now. This is my information about the contacts that have thus far taken place.\n[Bin-Jiddu] What about the German mediator?\n[Nasrallah] Under all circumstances, what I heard is that the foreign minister of the enemy asked the German mediator to intervene with us to return the two prisoners without swapping along with some sweet. This cannot take place. At any rate, regarding the negotiations issue, even regarding the two prisoners, I want to relieve myself and Hezbollah from this issue. Anyone who wants to talk about this then let him talk with the state, and the state then talks with us. I will not receive any German, French, English, Russian, Chinese, or any mediators. Hezbollah is now in a position with which it deals seriously. Its priority is the battle. So, let them talk to the officials of the state who will talk to us, and we will then give the required answers.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Do you still insist on the principle of swapping?\n[Nasrallah] Certainly, this is an issue that we cannot tolerate. In fact, if the civilians who were martyred, the displaced who are suffering now the effects of displacement, and the steadfast people know that it is possible for me to extradite or return these two soldiers without closing this file they will accuse me of treason. I will also accuse myself of treason. This is completely out of question. In the first day, I said that if the entire universe comes, it will not be able to take back the two Israeli soldiers except through indirect negotiation and exchange of prisoners. And Ghassan [Bin-Jiddu] what is left for us to worry about? We were worried about the infrastructure, but they [the Israelis] destroyed it; we were worried about the people, they killed the people; we were worried about displacemen t , they displaced the people; we were worried about the houses, they destroyed our houses and the people\u2019s houses. And after this we tell them here are the two prisoners, pardon us, and then apologize to them. This is out of the question.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Regarding the exchange [of prisoners], who will you exchange the two Israeli soldiers with? Are you going to exchange them with Lebanese prisoners or Palestinian prisoners?\n[Nasrallah] This is an open process, and I will leave it to negotiations.\n[Bin-Jiddu] You still believe that Samir al-Qintar will be in Lebanon?\n[Nasrallah] God willing. In this exchange, Samir al-Qintar will be the first one. What is the use of this exchange if Samir al-Qintar is not included in the exchange and if all the Lebanese prisoners are not included in this exchange \u2013 of course, I am talking about an open process?\n[Bin-Jiddu] Your Eminence, let\u2019s put the other parties aside. You have a memorandum of understanding with General Awn. Has what is currently taking place shaken the pillars of the memorandum of understanding and your cooperation with the Free Patriotic Movement?\n[Nasrallah] No, not at all. First, the memorandum of understanding talked clearly about first releasing the prisoners and liberating the rest of the [occupied] Lebanese territories, and afterward discussing a strategy for national defence. This is what we began to discuss. Hezbollah has neither taken advantage of Lebanon to liberate Palestine, nor worked towards restoring the seven villages, which are Lebanese territories. It carried out an operation to capture [Israeli soldiers], because the government\u2019s policy statement stipulates the release of prisoners and the liberation of Lebanese territories. So, what we did is a national Lebanese action, even in the regional sense of the word. This [operation] was carried out within, not outside, the context of the memorandum of understanding signed between us and the Free Patriotic Movement.\nI am following the statements made by Major General Awn and other leaders in the movement. I believe they took a wise, balanced, national, and honourable position. Many political forces \u2013 I do not want to name them \u2013 adopted a similar position. I hope that you do not ask me to name them. If I name this or that party, it would then mean that the others did not adopt a similar position. I mentioned the Free Patriotic Movement because you asked me about it. Furthermore, the effort made by the Free Patriotic Movement \u2013 since your question is about the Free Patriotic Movement \u2013 in various areas is a big effort. We receive information about the impact of these good efforts on the displaced people. I do not think that the pillars of this [memorandum of] understanding were shaken. Things will become clearer in the future.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Your Eminence, if you are certain of your military capabilities, what then do you fear? Do you fear the internal or the external\u2026\n[Nasrallah, interrupting] We only fear God Almighty. Secondly, I want to assure you that we do not fear the internal front. They are trying to play on the sectarian divisions. They know that playing on the sectarian divisions is dangerous. It is true that it threatens the resistance, but it also threatens the state project, the Cedar Revolution, and the great democratic model that George Bush is talking about. It is worth mentioning that democracy is Lebanon is older than the whole Bush family. It is dangerous to the country. If they want to play on the differences between Sunnis and Shi\u2019is, Muslims and Christians, or Druze and Shi\u2019is, it will be dangerous to the country. However, they will not succeed in this at this time. Today, the Americans are playing on the divisions between Sunnis and Shi\u2019is in Iraq \u2013 the authority, the presence in power, the intimidation, and the acts of killing here and there. I hold America responsible for what is taking place in Iraq. I know what the Americans tell the Shi\u2019is, the Sunnis, and the Kurds. But today they cannot incite people. Let\u2019s take the Sunnis for example; are they going to incite them against us, the Shi\u2019is? Why? What wrong did we do? Are the Shi\u2019is in Lebanon are US agents to tell them to do so? Are the Shi\u2019is in Lebanon Israeli agents? Have the Shi\u2019is in Lebanon abandoned the Palestinian cause? Have the Shi\u2019is, who have seen Palestinian people being killed in Gaza, cooperated with the Israelis? You cannot believe such things. For example, the last statement made by Abu-Mus\u2019ab al-Zarqawi in which he said Hezbollah members are border guards, collaborators with Israel, traitors, and conspirators \u2013 many people were sceptical of the victory achieved in 2000 and said that it was a settlement between Syria, Iran, Hezbollah on the one side and Israel on the other, in addition to the talk about a Shi\u2019i crescent. This is part of the results. We did not want this war, but we are fighting it because it was imposed on us. One of the most important results of this war is that, with regard to the Shi\u2019i-Sunni issue, it fortified the Arab and Islamic world against the attempts to play on this issue. I do not say that it ended the sedition and calamity, but it greatly fortified [the Arab and Islamic world]. Today, we are Shi\u2019is fighting Israel. Our fighting and steadfastness is a victory to our brothers in Palestine, who are Sunnis not Shi\u2019is. So, we, Shi\u2019is and Sunnis, are fighting together against Israel, which is supported, backed, and made powerful by America. Perhaps, if Olmert reached a point where he would say to the Americans that he cannot continue, Bush will tell hem to continue, and that if he [Olmert] has a problem, he [Bush] will solve it for him. So, this is what I meant when I said it is the nation\u2019s battle, on which you previously commented. I am not fighting on behalf of the nation. No. But I say that the outcome of the battle fought by Hezbollah in Lebanon, positively or negatively, is a result for the nation. Defeat in Lebanon is a defeat for the nation and victory in Lebanon is a victory for the nation, like what happened in the year 2000\nHow would they incite the Sunnis? By saying they destroyed the country? The southern suburb was destroyed. I want safety and good for all Lebanese areas. Thanks to God, many Lebanese cities have not been harmed, and, God willing, they will not be harmed. We do not say that a war was imposed on us, and that some cities were destroyed, but our cities were unharmed, or that some houses were destroyed, but our houses were unharmed. No, we do not say that. We say that a war was imposed on us, and that in this war our houses, neighbourhoods, villages \u2013 unfortunately, according to the sectarian divisions in Lebanon \u2013 families, children, and dear ones were harmed. We offered our blood and souls in this battle. This is an unacceptable logic.\nInciting the Christians and Druze [changes thoughts]. Perhaps I talked too much about the Sunni issue, because the atmosphere in the country is an atmosphere of incitement between Shi\u2019is and Sunnis. I assure you that I do not fear any sedition, neither between Muslims and Christians, nor between Shi\u2019is and Sunnis in Lebanon. Until this moment, the people\u2019s acts have been wise and rational, despite the severe calamity facing Lebanon, and the acts of the majority of the political leaders have been wise and rational. I support them. We should preserve our unity at this time, something that I called for in the news conference. We all have words to say and things to discuss, and we will come to that later.\n[Bin-Jiddu] What does it mean to you when the army says that it will fight if a ground attack is launched against Lebanon, especially when such a statement is made by the defence minister? He, along with the army commander and senior officers, said that they will be in the filed to fight the battle of honour. What does that mean to you?\n[Nasrallah] This is not something new from this army, this institution, and this cadre. Before the liberation, we offered martyrs together. In the battles of Jabal al-Rafi and Arab Salin, there were martyrs from both the Lebanese Army and the resistance. The Lebanese Army, despite its limited capabilities, has always confronted the warplanes and every attack against the country. The army, as well as the resistance, has limited capabilities. We do not say that the resistance has huge capabilities; it has limited capabilities. However, the army has the same will and bravery that the resistance has. The difference between the resistance and the army is that the latter is an official classic institution, while the first is a popular resistance that carries out guerilla warfare.\nIt is expected and it is a natural thing that the army would support the resistance. This position has been proven by this leadership and institution. On this occasion, I would like to extend our condolences for the death of the martyrs\u2013 the officers and soldiers\u2013 to his excellency the defence minister, the commander of the army, the officers, members, and ranks of the army, chief of whom his excellency the president of the republic and the prime minister of the Lebanese Government, being the political authority of the army. At any rate, the motto of those officers is sacrifice, redemption, and honour. This is what we expect from this institution.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Before asking you to say your last word, I noticed that your eminence is living a normal life. I expected to see you wearing a military uniform, but nothing changed. You are watching television and listening to the political comments and statements?\n[Nasrallah] This would be a problem and exaggerating if we say that we are living a normal life. We are in a state of war. I and my brothers are a part of this state of war. The first time I spoke was live on air, while the second tape was recorded. Naturally because of the situation, the type of cameras used and the fact that a copy was made of the [original] videotape, there might be a scene which drew some remarks. The Israeli media said that my beard is long and the lights were too strong. I am in a state of war. I am not in a picnic. When I decided to talk to you, I trimmed my beard so that they would not say that my beard is not long. Now, they will say that I am sitting and relaxing while people are being displaced. No, we do not want to exaggerate and deal with things as they normally are. If I do not smile, they would say that I am afraid and horrified, and I am not. If I smile, they would say that my people, including women and children, are being killed and massacres are being committed and here I am laughing and do not care for the blood of those people. At any rate, you want be left alone in a psychological warfare. We are certainly distressed for the destruction that has been inflicted on our country. We are more aggrieved because of our people\u2019s situation. I would be surprised to see someone crying because of a bridge. The bridge can be rebuilt. The buildings and everything can be rebuilt. They will be rebuilt, God willing. This is a decisive decision.\n[Bin-Jiddu] By whom?\n[Nasrallah] By the government and Hezbollah. I tell you why. When we involved in the decision\u2013 and we will bring large amount of money to rebuild Lebanon \u2014 this will urge America, the West, and the Gulf states to bring their piled money to Lebanon because they would say to the people that if we leave only Hezbollah to rebuild Lebanon, Hezbollah will take over the country. We are also the cause of well-being. Be sure that if we ignore the reconstruction process, we will receive conditional political funds. Our involvement in building and reconstructing Lebanon will bring money to help Lebanon directly. This will force others to offer funds maybe without political conditions when they find that there are people who would spend money without political conditions.\nIn this regard, yes, we are in pain because of the children, women, and the displaced. But this is a war. They [Israelis] are also in pain. We have half a million, say one million, displaced people. They have two million people in the bunkers or displaced. They would talk about the Lebanese economy. The Lebanese economy has always been exhausted. In fact, there has been no strong Lebanese economy. When we targeted Haifa, billions of dollars have been lost as the Israeli stock exchange declined from that day until now. These are only the direct losses in north apart from the repercussions affecting the rest of the Israeli economy, not to mention the indirect losses they say that they are amounting to $100 million per day. There are human and economic losses. Israel is interested in the economic side more than anything else. They are concerned about their lives and the financial and economic sides. Eventually, they know and we know [these facts]. We will continue this confrontation until we achieve victory, as I said, based on our concept of victory. Yes, I do not say that I am living a normal or abnormal life. I and many of my brothers are living the life required by the battle. Nobody believes that we are afraid, concerned, or horrified. For 23 years, we have been speaking and mobilizing the people. We have been siding by them and speaking about the martyrdom, honour of martyrdom, and the stature of martyrs. Do the Zionists or those who encourage them imagine that I or this or that leader of Hezbollah can be afraid of martyrdom? We love martyrdom. If we take precautions, this is because we do not want the Israelis to make achievements. As a personal plan and wish, every one of us hopes and wishes to be martyred at the hands of those murderers of prophets and messengers. They are the most hostile people to the people who believe in Koran. I tell that there are brothers who say that they are concerned that they will not be killed in this battle which might be the last battle, God knows. It might be and it might not. We have no concern or fear of this kind. We, God willing, will continue and hope to achieve victory with God\u2019s help.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Your last word?\n[Nasrallah] In my last word, I would like to thank all those who sympathized with us and those who supported us. May God bless them. If we succeed in achieving the victory we are expecting and the expected results, we will never forget all those who supported us at this stage, God willing, by offering their cooperation and showing us their honour and nobility. This is a decisive battle.\nAs for those who sinned against us, those who made mistakes, those who let us down, and those who conspired against us \u2013 as there are various types [of people who are against us] \u2013 this will be left for a day to settle accounts. We might be tolerant with them and we might not. Now, our priority \u2013 as Lebanon, homeland, people, government resistance, and army \u2013 is to emerge from this battle victorious with our heads high. Being forces that have zeal for Lebanon, its dignity, and pride, I faithfully say that this is Lebanon\u2019s true battle of independence. If we win this battle, this means that we, the Lebanese people, will tell the whole world that we will be the decision-makers. We will even be able to tell the embassies that are interfering in our internal affairs not to interfere in our internal affairs. This is a battle of true independence. Hence, we are determined to hold out. I thank all those who cooperated with us, but I will not ask for anything since I did not ask for anything on the first day and I will not do that until the last day. The people shoulder their responsibilities. Governments, rulers, peoples, and everyone who can do something are free to help or not to help. I did not ask for anything from the people or from the governments from the first day. This is the way we were brought up before. We will keep on beseeching God Almighty today and tomorrow. We seek His help as acquire our assurance, strength, high morale, wisdom, hope, and victory from Him, God willing. At any rate, the days will be our judge and we will see how things will unfold.\n[Bin-Jiddu] Thank you your eminence for this meeting. Thank you our dear viewers for your attentiveness. Until another encounter, God willing. With my appreciation, Good bye from Ghassan Bin-Jiddu.\nSource: Al-Jazeera TV, Doha, in Arabic 2200 gmt 20 Jul 06\nCopyright BBC Monitoring Middle East \u2013 Political, Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring\nThe original source of this article is Al Jazeera in Arabic\nCopyright \u00a9 Al-Jazeera, Al Jazeera in Arabic, 2006\nArticles by: Al-Jazeera", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 80311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gordonbernell.org/apps/news/article/925368", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Y75A2UIVSO5BCNCUMBRKLAU2KHSZJMD4", "length": 517, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gordonbernell.org", "title": "Gordon Bernell Charter School", "raw_content": "Several years ago, Rebecca Martinez ran into trouble and spent some time in county jail. While there, she came across Cynthia Wooly, a [Gordon Bernell teacher, now a] CNM instructor who had come to the facility to teach a creative writing class. Rebecca says the encounter changed her life when Cynthia told her, \u201cthe system can try to take everything away from you, but they can\u2019t take away your education.\u201d . . . Click here for more at Faces of CNM\nhttps://www.cnm.edu/news/faces-of-cnm-rebecca-martinez Source: CNM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gracenetwork.ca/summer-experiences/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LLGX3I6J5GBBUGIG5XRIZU7BDZP52UTF", "length": 627, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gracenetwork.ca", "title": "Summer Experiences \u2014 The Grace Network", "raw_content": "What is a summer experience?\nA summer experience is a 4 week internship in gospel ministry in the setting of the local church.\nIn this program you will spend your time praying, learning, serving and orienting your time around ministry. You will serve in the local church and at local charities.\nwho it is for?\nThe summer experience is open to any young person who has graduated high school and is younger than 25.\nOttawa, ON. There is currently only one location for the summer experience, though we hope to add more in the future.\nThough Ottawa is the main location, part of the program will involve serving in other settings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.granville.oh.us/bzba-minutes-2007/2012/1/9/bzba-101107.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LEJSSOKQ5L3WZ3YCORVRJVGD65R4DBHM", "length": 11034, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.granville.oh.us", "title": "BZBA 10/11/07 \u2014 Village of Granville", "raw_content": "BZBA 10/11/07\nMembers Present: Amber Mitchell, Jean Hoyt, Jeff Gill, Fred Ashbaugh, Bill Heim (Chair).\nAlso Present: Alison Terry, Village Planner. Laura Andujar, Mrs. Ross, and Jean Crumrine.\nMr. Heim explained that the meeting is not a public hearing, yet it is open to the public and it is a quasi judicial proceeding.\nSpeedway Superamerica LLC, Speedway Drive, #07-073\nPlanned Commercial District (PCD); Suburban Business District (SBD)\nVariance request was submitted by Laura Andujar for the property located on Speedway Drive (vacant lot) west of the Arby\u2019s restaurant and owned by Speedway Superamerica, LLC. The request is for approval of the following variances:\n1) To reduce the requirement that roofs shall have a minimum pitch of 8/12 to a zero pitch requirement to allow for the construction of a flat roof.\n2) To increase the number of signs permitted from one (1) to six (6) total.\nMr. Heim swore in those witnesses who planned to speak during the hearing.\nDiscussion: Laura Andujar, 88 Arden Place, Hebron, stated that a flat roof was more appropriate to the building structure, than an 8/12 roof pitch. She explained that additional signage was requested due to multiple tenants in the building. Ms. Terry stated that she advised the applicant that a variance was needed before going to the Planning Commission with a formal request. She stated that the applicant had several work sessions with the Planning Commission, but there was not an endorsement of any kind at this point, nor had a formal application been submitted. Ms. Mitchell asked why and when an 8/12 type roof pitch specified in the Code would be desired. Ms. Terry stated that this restriction had been in the Code for a long time. She was unsure of the rationale. She stated that it was intended to preserve the historical character of Granville. Ms. Hoyt asked if the 8/12 pitch was desired for water run-off. Ms. Terry stated that this could be the case, but any pitch can still be effective for water runoff. She explained that newer retail structures generally do not have an 8/12 roof pitch. Ms. Hoyt asked if Arby\u2019s was required to get a variance for their roof pitch. Ms. Terry stated that in the Planned Commercial District (PCD), some of the Suburban District Regulations apply and some did not. She questioned if former staff viewed these as recommendations, rather than requirements. Ms. Terry stated that upon further investigation of the Code, she found that the 8/12 pitch was a requirement. Mr. Gill asked if the proposed roof pitch was believed to be best for the proposed building style or because it can be less expensive to build. Ms. Andujar stated that they felt a flat roof was more appropriate for a retail space and a one story structure. She stated that a flat roof also allowed the property owner to place the HVAC units on the roof which is a cost savings. Ms. Andujar stated that she had not designed a retail building with a pitched roof in the past. Mr. Heim stated that the Code referred to the aesthetics when specifying roof pitches. Mr. Heim stated that he was interested in a precedent being set regarding roof pitches. He stated that Bob Evan\u2019s had a pitched roof, while Arby\u2019s did not. Ms. Terry asked Ms. Andujar if she had considered a mansard roof style \u2013 similar to that of Bob Evans. Ms. Andujar stated that they had addressed these styles, but the Planning Commission preferred the current drawings.\nJack Thornborough, 13 Donald Ross Drive, stated that he would like to speak in regards to Application #07-073. Ms. Terry stated that because this is considered to be a hearing, only interested parties that could have a direct impact if the application is approved or denied are allowed to speak. Mr. Thornborough stated that he believes the Board should hear anyone who wishes to speak. He went on to say that he believes property that he owns on River Road will be affected with the approval of the application. Ms. Terry suggested that the BZBA Board hear the testimony by Mr. Thornborough and then table the application pending a review by the Law Director, Mike Crites. Mr. Heim explained that the BZBA Board must follow a set of guidelines handed down to them and they act differently from Council\u2019s legislative hearings where the public can speak.\nMr. Thornborough submitted a letter to the Board and read it aloud. A copy of the letter is attached as part of these minutes. Mr. Thornborough stated that the variance requests do not meet what is currently in the Code or the 1998 Comprehensive Plan update, which states that new development should have a feel of old Granville even if it is outside of the downtown area. Mr. Thornborough stated that he has constructed several commercial buildings and he built them to the 8/12 roof pitch specifications as stated in the Code.\nMr. Ashbaugh asked if the property Mr. Thornborough feels will be affected by Application 07-073 is located within the Village. Mr. Thornborough stated that the property is located in the Township and he lives in the Village. Mr. Ashbaugh stated that the application is for property located in the Village.\nMs. Terry stated that the Code does not differentiate between the number of businesses in a building and this is why the applicant is requesting six signs. She stated that some Codes address signage by the number of commercial tenants in one building. Ms. Andujar stated that there are also two fronts to the building design where additional signage would be appropriate. Ms. Terry stated that the BZBA Board can determine if an 8/12 roof pitch or something else is appropriate. She stated that the current Code states that a building shall have a minimum roof pitch of 8/12 and if this is to be changed a variance is required.\nMr. Heim asked if there was any more discussion or did anyone have a motion to Table application #07-073.\nMr. Gill made a motion to Table Application #07-073 pending review by the Law Director. Second by Ms. Mitchell.\nRoll Call Vote: Hoyt (yes), Gill (yes), Mitchell (yes), Ashbaugh (yes), Heim (yes). Motion carried 5-0. Application #07-073 is Tabled.\nMs. Terry told the applicant, Laura Andujar, and Jack Thornborough, that she will let them know the Law Director\u2019s decision regarding testimony and moving forward.\nAndy Ross of Granville Market, 484 South Main Street, #07-074\nSuburban Business District (SBD)\nVariance request was submitted by Laura Andujar for Granville Market located at 484 South Main Street for owner Andy Ross. The request is for approval of the following variances:\n1) To increase the maximum square footage for a single tenant from 4,000 square feet to 30,186 square feet. (The current structure is 29,636 square feet, the applicant is proposing an addition of 550 square feet to the front of the structure.)\n2) To reduce the required 8/12 roof pitch to a 3/12 roof pitch for the addition.\n3) To reduce the requirement that all other buildings shall be a minimum of two (1) stories to a one (1) story minimum.\nDiscussion: Ms. Andujar stated that they are requesting additional square footage to improve the fa\u00e7ade of the building and they see the additional square footage to be small compared to the current size of the building. Ms. Andujar explained that the existing roof pitch is 3/12 and they would like to keep this the same. She also explained that the two story requirement needs a variance since the building as is now is a one story structure. Mr. Heim stated that they currently have a flat roof, but it has never been \u201clegitimized.\u201d Ms. Terry stated that it is a non-conforming building as is and the proposed addition needs a variance. Mr. Heim asked if the addition would come out ten feet. Ms. Andujar stated yes. Ms. Mitchell reviewed the elevation plan and asked if there is a newly proposed roof for the two side doors. Mrs. Ross explained that there is a roof already in these locations. Ms. Terry stated that these are not part of the square footage of the building and the BZBA would be making a decision based upon all three roof pitches currently at a 3/12 pitch. Mr. Heim asked if anyone had any additional concerns or comments. None were stated.\nJack Thornborough, 33 Donald Ross Drive, stated that he has no complaints regarding this application because the Suburban Business District (SBD) regulations were imposed on them after the building had been constructed. He stated that he does not see this application as setting a precedent for the Code.\nMr. Heim read aloud the Duncan Standards (Findings of Fact) and asked the BZBA Board to review them giving weight to each standard.\nMs. Hoyt moved to approve Application #07-074 as submitted with the proposed variances. Seconded by Mr. Ashbaugh.\nVillage Planner, Alison Terry, stated that the motion should be amended to include an exhibit referencing the particular variances included.\nMr. Gill moved to amend Ms. Hoyt's motion to approve Application #07-074 to include the exhibit dated September 20, 2007 which entails a request for three variances. Seconded by Mr. Heim.\nRoll Call Vote on the motion to amend Application #07-074: Mitchell (yes), Gill (yes), Hoyt (yes), Ashbaugh (yes), Heim (yes). Motion carried 5-0. Motion to amend is approved.\nRoll Call Vote to approve Application #07-074 as amended: Ashbaugh (yes), Hoyt (yes), Gill (yes), Mitchell (yes), Heim (yes). Motion carried 5-0. Application #07-074 is approved as amended.\nMs. Mitchell read the following Findings of Fact:\na) That special circumstances or conditions exist which are peculiar to the land or structure(s) involved and which are not applicable to other lands or structures in the same zoning districts. YES.\nb) That a literal interpretation of the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance would deprive the applicants of rights commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same zoning district under the provisions of the Ordinance. YES.\nc) That the special conditions and circumstances do not results from the actions of the applicant. YES.(A majority of the Board believed this to be true.)\nd) That the granting of the variance will not confer on the applicant any undue privilege that is denied by this Ordinance to other lands or structures in the same zoning district. YES (A majority of the Board believed this to be true)\ne) That the granting of the variance will in no other manner adversely affect the health, safety and general welfare of the persons residing or working within the vicinity of the proposed variance. YES.\nMr. Gill moved the approve the Findings of Fact for Application #07-074. Second by Mr. Ashbaugh.\nRoll Call Vote: Mitchell (yes), Gill (yes), Ashbaugh (yes), Hoyt (yes), Heim (yes). Motion carried 5-0. The Findings of Fact for Application #07-074 are approved.\nMs. Hoyt made a motion to approve the minutes as presented. Second by Mr. Gill.\nRoll Call Vote: Gill (yes), Hoyt (yes), Ashbaugh (yes), Mitchell (yes), Heim (yes). Motion carried 5-0. The minutes are approved as presented.\nMr. Heim (Chair) made a motion to Adjourn.\nNext Meeting November 8, 2007\nNewer PostBZBA 11/8/07", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 15564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/our-work/news-events/news/kitchen-rivals-charity-banquet-raises-more-than-6000-for-gnaas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNLF55IZLIIDI6MOCDTL6B5Y3C5TSWCE", "length": 2645, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk", "title": "Kitchen Rivals charity banquet raises more than \u00a36,000 for GNAAS - Great North Air Ambulance Service", "raw_content": "Kitchen Rivals charity banquet raises more than \u00a36,000 for GNAAS\nA \u2018Kitchen Rivals\u2019 event hosted by Barclays, Baines Wilson, and Lake District Hotels has raised \u00a36035 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS). Teams from Baines Wilson and Barclays took over the Lake District Hotels\u2019 Inn on the Lake in Ullswater, on November 16 for the charity banquet. Throughout the evening the teams were in the kitchen and front of house, under the supervision of the Inn on the Lake\u2019s expert chefs and front of house staff, to ensure that all guests had an enjoyable experience. The diners paid a donation according to their satisfaction with the food and service, and more money was raised through a raffle and an auction for items and experiences. It was a close contest, but Baines Wilson received the highest amount of donations and were declared the winners. The total amount raised from the event was a massive \u00a322,548 which was then split between three chosen charities including GNAAS. Sophie Weir, Public Liaison Assistant for GNAAS said: \u201cAll the money raised on the night will go towards the running costs of the service, which will continue to provide world class pre-hospital care.\u201d Did you know we are reliant on donations to survive? Last year alone, we needed to raise \u00a35.1m to keep flying.\nA \u2018Kitchen Rivals\u2019 event hosted by Barclays, Baines Wilson, and Lake District Hotels has raised \u00a36035 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS).\nTeams from Baines Wilson and Barclays took over the Lake District Hotels\u2019 Inn on the Lake in Ullswater, on November 16 for the charity banquet.\nThroughout the evening the teams were in the kitchen and front of house, under the supervision of the Inn on the Lake\u2019s expert chefs and front of house staff, to ensure that all guests had an enjoyable experience.\nThe diners paid a donation according to their satisfaction with the food and service, and more money was raised through a raffle and an auction for items and experiences.\nIt was a close contest, but Baines Wilson received the highest amount of donations and were declared the winners.\nThe total amount raised from the event was a massive \u00a322,548 which was then split between three chosen charities including GNAAS.\nSophie Weir, Public Liaison Assistant for GNAAS said: \u201cAll the money raised on the night will go towards the running costs of the service, which will continue to provide world class pre-hospital care.\u201d\nDid you know we are reliant on donations to survive? Last year alone, we needed to raise \u00a35.1m to keep flying. To find out how you can help, please visit www.gnaas.com or call 01325-487263.\nDecember the 21st, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/our-work/news-events/news/update-from-the-first-weekend-in-july/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HTLXTFO4M2P22SYL5M42USY2DPCFZ7QF", "length": 5370, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk", "title": "Update from the first weekend in July - Great North Air Ambulance Service", "raw_content": "Update from the first weekend in July\nThe GNAAS crews had a busy weekend, here is an update from some of the incidents that they attended. The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to Sunderland on Friday, at around 4.25pm, where a man had fallen over and suffered a serious head injury.\nThe GNAAS crews had a busy weekend, here is an update from some of the incidents that they attended.\nThe Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to Sunderland on Friday, at around 4.25pm, where a man had fallen over and suffered a serious head injury. The 26-year-old was put into an induced coma on scene by the GNAAS doctor-led trauma team with assistance from North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) paramedics. The patient, believed to be local, was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), Newcastle, by road ambulance and he arrived at hospital in a stable condition.\nOn Saturday, at 2pm, the GNAAS Guardian of the North aircraft and crew members were called to a two car road traffic collision in Chollerford, Northumberland. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew worked alongside NEAS paramedics and Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service on scene. A 68-year-old woman, believed to be local, was treated for serious back, chest and abdominal injuries before being flown to the RVI in just ten minutes; this same journey by road would have taken around 35 minutes. She arrived in a stable condition. Two other patients were taken to hospital by road ambulance.\nLater on Saturday, at 3.30pm, GNAAS was called to Angle Tarn Pikes, near Patterdale, to assist Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) with a man who had fallen around 160 feet into a ghyll while running. The patient, believed to be in his 20s and from Warrington, sustained serious head, leg and arm injuries in the fall while competing in a fell race. The GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft was unable to land close to the patient and therefore had to land on the valley floor. The aircrew doctor and paramedic made their way to the injured patient which took around 25 minutes before they proceeded to assess and treat his injuries. He was placed onto a MRT stretcher and lowered to the valley floor by Patterdale MRT before being transported to the waiting GNAAS helicopter by their Land Rover. He was flown to the Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) in a flight that took just 20 minutes and he arrived in a stable condition.\nOn Sunday, at 10.25am, the GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft was called to Ingleton, near Barnard Castle, where a motorcyclist had left the road and hit a road sign. The 40-year-old man sustained head, chest and leg injuries in the collision. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew treated the patient with assistance from NEAS before he was flown to James Cook University Hospital (JCUH), Middlesbrough. The flight to hospital took just ten minutes, this same journey by road would have taken around 40 minutes. He arrived at hospital in a stable condition.\nFrom JCUH, at 11.55am, GNAAS was called to Middlesbrough where a three-year-old boy had been hit by a car and had sustained head, arm and leg injuries. He was treated by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew and paramedics from NEAS. He was transported to JCUH by land ambulance with the GNAAS aircrew due to the proximity of the hospital. He arrived in a stable condition.\nAs the aircrew were leaving JCUH, at 12.45pm, they were called to Yarm where a motorbike and a car had collided. A 49-year-old man was treated by the GNAAS trauma team for serious neck, pelvic and leg injuries. The man was found to need a blood transfusion. The GNAAS doctor administered one unit of blood and one unit of plasma to the patient. He was flown to JCUH in a flight that took just five minutes, the same journey by road would have taken around 20 minutes. He arrived in a stable condition.\nAt 1.50pm yesterday, the GNAAS Guardian of the North aircraft was called to Brunton, Northumberland, where a cyclist had gone over the top of his handlebars and sustained a head injury. The 71-year-old man was put into an induced coma by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew before he was flown to the RVI.\nAt 3.55pm, the Pride of Cumbria aircraft was called to Weardale where a motorbike had collided with a fence. The 50-year-old male rider sustained back and pelvic injuries in the collision. He was treated by the GNAAS aircrew and paramedics from NEAS for his injuries before he was flown to the RVI in just 20 minutes. He arrived in a stable condition. The Pride of Cumbria aircraft then made its way back to the Cumbrian airbase in Langwathby.\nAt 4.20pm, GNAAS was called to Seaham where a man had fallen from a bicycle and sustained head and facial injuries. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew treated the 40-year-old man before he was flown to the RVI in a flight that took just nine minutes, this same journey by road would have taken around 35 minutes.\nAt 6.40pm, the GNAAS Pride of Cumbria aircraft and crew were called to Levens, near Kendal, where a car and a cyclist had collided. The 19-year-old male cyclist sustained neck, pelvic, leg and head injuries in the collision. He was treated for his injuries by the GNAAS doctor-led aircrew and paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service. He was then flown to the RPH in a flight that took just 15 minutes with. The same journey by road taking around 40 minutes. He arrived at hospital in a stable condition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 8027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greeleytribune.com/go-do/entertainment/entertainment-calendar-08-16-18-through-08-22-18/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:7DHKKONUNPNZDYKLEXVM4WI7LZZTMQKC", "length": 16706, "nlines": 146, "source_domain": "www.greeleytribune.com", "title": "Entertainment calendar, 08.16.18 through 08.22.18 | GreeleyTribune.com", "raw_content": "Entertainment calendar, 08.16.18 through 08.22.18\nFlatland Cavalry, 8 p.m., Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nFriday Fest Greeley With Archie Funker, 6 p.m., 9th Street Plaza, downtown. Details: http://www.greeleydowntown.com.\nWoodstock Weekend!, 7 p.m., Broken Plow Brewery, 4731 10th St. Details: http://www.brokenplowbrewery.com.\nZoso \u2013 The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, 8 p.m., Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nOrgy \"Bring Your Army Tour\" Motograter, Brand of Julez, The Crowned, 8 p.m., Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nLil Debbie \"My Own Lane Tour\" with Whitney Peyton, Bobby Destine, True Apollo, Nazty Nano, Jay/R, Whitney Peyton, Shaw Monsta, Jay/R, Nazty Nano, True Apollo, Bobby Destine, 8 p.m., Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nThe Nightowls, 8 p.m., B Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nMuscular Housecat, 8 p.m., Avogadro's Number, 605 Mason St. Details: http://www.avogadros.com.\nBrian Kittrell, 9:30 p.m., Lucky Joe's Sidewalk Saloon, 25 Old Town Square, Details: http://www.luckyjoes.com.\nThe Just Jazz Quintet, 4:30 p.m., Avogadro's Number, 605 Mason St. Details: http://www.avogadros.com.\nAcoustic Shakedown Street, 9 p.m., Avogadro's Number, 605 Mason St. Details: http://www.avogadros.com.\nVenture Still, 9:30 p.m., Lucky Joe's Sidewalk Saloon, 25 Old Town Square, Details: http://www.luckyjoes.com.\nDave Kimball, 9:30 p.m., Lucky Joe's Sidewalk Saloon, 25 Old Town Square, Details: http://www.luckyjoes.com.\nKenneth Kelly, 9 p.m., The Pourhouse, 124 4th St. Details: http://pourhousecolorado.com.\nRetro 80's Tribute Band, 9 p.m., The Boot Grill, 4164 Clydesdale Parkway. Details: http://thebootgrill.com.\nDake Cisek Band, 8:30 p.m., The Pourhouse, 124 4th St. Details: http://pourhousecolorado.com.\nStumble Monkey, 9 p.m., The Boot Grill, 4164 Clydesdale Parkway. Details: http://thebootgrill.com.\nPonder the Albatross, 6 p.m., High Hops Brewery, 6461 Colo. 392. Details: http://www.highhopsbrewery.com/events.\nJordyn Pepper, 6 p.m., High Hops Brewery, 6461 Colo. 392. Details: http://www.highhopsbrewery.com/events.\nZoe Berman, 6 p.m., High Hops Brewery, 6461 Colo. 392. Details: http://www.highhopsbrewery.com/events.\nSummer Concert Series Kream Of The Krop, 7 p.m., Greeley Family Funplex at Twin Rivers Community Park, 1501 65th Ave.Details: greeleyrec.com/facilities/family-funplex/?utm_source=familyfunplex.com.\nFrankenstein, 7:30 p.m., Greeley Garage Sale Theatre (Family of Christ Presbyterian Church), 2410 35th Ave. Details: http://www.greeleytheatre.org/current-production.\nIllusionist And Magician Mike Super, 8 p.m., UNC Campus, University Center, Ballrooms, 2101 10th Ave. Details: calendar.unco.edu/event/mike-super.\n\"Pulse Of The Poudre\" Chuck Wagon Dinner And Show, 5:30 p.m., Poudre Learning Center, 8313 F St. Details: (970) 352-1276.\nGrease, 6 p.m., Fort Collins Marketplace, 3750 Mason St., Details: https://midtownartscenter.com/grease.\nGrease, noon, Fort Collins Marketplace, 3750 Mason St., Details: https://midtownartscenter.com/grease.\nToday-Aug. 25\nNewsies, multiple shows and times, The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr. Details: http://www.ColoradoCandlelight.com or (970) 744-3747.\n2018 Summer Showcase at Rialto Theater Center, 7 p.m., Rialto Theater Center, 228 4th St., Details: http://www.rialtotheatercenter.org/calendar.\nMamma Mia in Concert, 5:30 p.m., Foote Lagoon Concerts, 500 3rd St. Details: http://www.facebook.com/events/648466468824309.\nMonday-Aug. 25\nDoug's Hang Up, 10 a.m., 818 9th St., Details: (970) 475-1931.\nShowcase Art Center, 10 a.m., 1335 8th Ave., Details: (970) 356-8593.\nTointon Gallery, 9 a.m., 651 10th Ave., Details: (970) 350-9454.\nMadison and Main Gallery, 10 a.m., 927 16th St. Details: (970) 351-6201.\nThe Eden Gallery, 10 a.m., 926 8th Ave. Details: (970) 356-7100.\nFriday \u2013 Aug. 30\nHeather Oelklaus, O.P.P. Series, all day, The Center for Fine Art and Photography, 400 College Ave. Details: http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/heather-oeklaus.\nSaturday \u2013 Aug. 31\nrEVOLVE: The Art of Cycling, all day, Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 Lincoln Ave. Details: http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/art-exhibits/revolve-the-art-of-cycling.\nSaturday \u2013 Dec. 2\nFrom Saur to Soar, all day, Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 Lincoln Ave. Details: http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/art-exhibits/from-saur-to-soar.\nSaturday \u2013 Sept. 16\nJaune Quick-to-See-Smith In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, all day, Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 Lincoln Ave. Details: http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/art-exhibits/jaune-quick-to-see-smith.\nCSU Fibers Guild Showcase, all day, Foote Gallery, 503 Lincoln Ave. Details: http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/art-exhibits/csu-fibers-guild-showcase.\nEighth Grade, 4 and 7 p.m., Kress Cinema & Lounge, 817 8th Ave. Details: http://www.kresscinema.com.\nEighth Grade, 4 p.m., Kress Cinema & Lounge, 817 8th Ave. Details: http://www.kresscinema.com.\nSorry to Bother You, 7 p.m., Kress Cinema & Lounge, 817 8th Ave. Details: http://www.kresscinema.com.\nGremlins 2 for Monster Day, 6 p.m., Kress Cinema & Lounge, 817 8th Ave. Details: http://www.kresscinema.com.\nSummer of 84, 10 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nToilet, 6:30 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nBlacKkKlansman, 12:40, 3:35, 6:30 and 9:25 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nEating Animals, 1:55 and 4:40 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nEighth Grade, 2:35, 6:50 and 9 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nThree Identical Strangers, 11:45 a.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nWon't You Be My Neighbor?, 12:25 and 4:05 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nGeneration Wealth, 11:25 a.m. and 4:40 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nSorry to Bother You, 1:45, 6:20 and 8:40 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nSummer of 84, 9:30 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nEight Grade, 7 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nThree Identical Strangers, 4:05 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nWon't You Be My Neighbor?, noon, The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nBad Movie Nite!, 11 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nEight Grade, 9:20 a.m., 2:35 and 7 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nThree Identical Strangers, 12:25 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\nWon't You Be My Neighbor?, 10:45 a.m. and 4:05 p.m., The Lyric, 1209 College Ave., Details: http://lyriccinema.com.\n\"Our Gang\" Leads And Local Speakers, 7:30 a.m., Evans Area Chamber of Commerce, 3819 Saint Vrain St., No. C, Details: (970) 330-4204.\nMonthly Low-Cost Vaccination Clinic, 1:30 p.m., Humane Society of Weld County, 1620 42nd St. Details: http://www.weldcountyhumane.org.\nFamily Storytime, 9:30 a.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nHistorias Al Lado Del Rio / Stories By The River Spanish Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nTwinkle Babies, 9:30 a.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nFamily Yoga Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nPieceable Friends Quilt Guild Meeting, 7 p.m., Evans Community Center, Cottonwood Room, 1100 37th St. Details: http://www.orgsites.com/co/pfqg.\nMusic & Movement, 9:30 a.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nPops 'N Cops, 3 p.m., Riverside Library, 3700 Golden St. Details: http://www.MyLibrary.us.\nGreeley Chamber Leads Group, 7:30 a.m., Greeley Chamber of Commerce, 902 7th Ave. Details: (970) 352-3566 or http://www.greeleychamber.com.\nGreeley Noon Toastmasters, noon, Greeley Chamber of Commerce, 902 7th Ave. Details: (970) 352-3566 or http://www.greeleychamber.com.\nTurbulent Waters: Conflict In The South China Sea, 1:30 p.m., Good Samaritan Society Fox Run, 1720 60th Ave. Details: (970) 353-7773.\nOpen Mic, 6 p.m., Broken Plow Brewery, 4731 10th St. Details: http://www.brokenplowbrewery.com/live-music-.html.\nLive Trivia, 7 p.m., Wyler's Pub & Grill, 2385 27th St., No. 513, Greeley. Details: (970) 506-4000.\nGeeks Who Drink: Trivia At The Tavern At St. Michael's, 8 p.m., 2918 67th Ave. Details: (970) 330-2337.\nBlue And Gold Club Golf Tournament, 8 a.m., Greeley Country Club, 4500 10th St. Details: http://www.uncalumni.org/bg-golf-18.\nBlood Drive, 9:30 a.m., North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. Details: donors.bonfils.org/GroupLanding.aspx?s=B378.\nGreeley Chamber of Commerce Leads Group, noon, Greeley Chamber of Commerce, 902 7th Ave. Details: (970) 352-3566 or http://www.greeleychamber.com.\nBingo: Nonprofit Senior Benefit, 12:30 p.m., Bingo Planet, 2700 10th St. Details: (970) 353-7030.\nUNC Volleyball vs. Wyoming, 7 p.m., Bank of Colorado Arena at Butler-Hancock Athletic Center, 1600 23rd St. Details: (970) 351-4849 or athletics@unco.edu.\nUNC Soccer vs. Colorado College, 7 p.m., Jackson Stadium, 1830 6th Ave. Details: http://www.uncbears.com.\nGreeley Kennel Club: All-Breed Show, all day, Island Grove Regional Park, 501 N. 14th Ave.. Details: greeleyunexpected.com/events.\nEaton Masters, 8 a.m., Boomerang Links Golf Course, 7309 4th St. Details: (970) 353-GOLF (4635).\nGreeley Farmers' Market, 8 a.m., Union Pacific Depot, 902 7th Ave. Details: (970) 336-4167.\nFree Family Fun, 10 a.m., Mountain View Church, 6253 28th St. Details: (970) 330-1830 or greeleychurch.com.\nGreeley Game Night, 5 p.m., Cranford Cove Tea Tavern, 823 10th St. Details: http://www.meetup.com/greeleygamenight.\nUNC Volleyball vs. Alumni, 6 p.m., Bank of Colorado Arena at Butler-Hancock Athletic Center, 1600 23rd St. Details: (970) 351-4849 or athletics@unco.edu.\nGreeley Kennel Club: All-Breed Show, all day, Island Grove Regional Park, 501 N. 14th Ave. Details: greeleyunexpected.com/events.\nUNC Local Business Fair, 4 p.m., UNC Candelaria Lawn, Details: (970) 351-1089 or gsa@unco.edu.\nEarly Risers Toastmasters Club No. 784, 6:30-7:30 a.m., Downstairs conference room, Roche Constructors, Inc., 361 71st Ave. Details: toastmastersofgreeley.org.\nSensory Mondays, 10 a.m., HorseBuds Therapeutic Riding Center, 16696 Weld County Road 70, Details: http://www.horsebudstrc.org.\nGreeley Lion's Club, noon-1:30 p.m., Weld County Garage, 2699 47th Ave. Details: (970) 978-0541.\nWalking Tour: Trees And Linn Grove Cemetery, 6:30 p.m., Linn Grove Cemetery, 1700 Cedar Ave. Details: greeleyunexpected.com/events.\nWestern Dinner & Show, 6:30 p.m., Adamson 2000 47th Ave. Details: Call Cherry to make reservations, (970) 353-1212.\nPub Games With Andy, 7 p.m., Brix Taphouse & Brewery, 813 8th St. Details: http://www.facebook.com/Thenerdstore.\nOpen House, 4 p.m., Greeley Active Adult Center, 1010 6th St. Details: (970) 350-9440.\nOpen Pick, 7 p.m., Broken Plow Brewery, 4731 10th St., Greeley. Details: http://www.brokenplowbrewery.com/upcoming-events.html.\nKeep Calm And Play Trivia, 7 p.m., Crabtree Brewing, 2961 29th St. Details: http://www.crabtreebrewing.com/pages/tastingRoom.html.\nAnnual Student Employment Job Fair, 9 a.m., University Center, Fireside Lounge area, 2101 10th Ave. Details: http://www.unco.edu/financial-aid/types-of-financial-aid/work-study.aspx.\nGreeley Music Meeting 105.5 The Colorado Sound, 6 p.m., Moxi Theater, 802 9th St. Details: http://www.moxitheater.com.\nVinyl Listening Parties, 7 p.m., Wiley Roots Brewing Company, 625 3rd St., Unit D, Details: http://www.facebook.com/wileyrootsbrewing.\nTrivia! Broken Plow Brewery, 7 p.m., 4731 10th St. Details: (970) 301-4575.\nLarimer County Genealogical Society 1 on 1 Assistance, 1 p.m., Old Town Library, 201 Peterson St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nNewly Bereaved Support Group, 3:30 p.m., Pathways, 305 Carpenter Rd. Details: https://pathways-care.org/news-events.\nSummer Storytime, 10 a.m., Old Town Library, 201 Peterson St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nNoches en Familia, 4:30 p.m., Harmony Library, 301 Olive St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nMount a Staghorn Fern, 10:30 a.m., Gulley Greenhouse & Garden Center, 6029 Shields. Details: http://www.gulleygreenhouse.com/event/mount-a-staghorn-fern.\nTablets and Smartphones: Library eBooks, audiobooks, movies and more!, 3 p.m., Harmony Library, 301 Olive St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nPotholder Workshop, 1 p.m., Museum of Art Fort Collins, 201 College Ave. Details: Register at http://www.moafc.org/events or call (970) 482-2787.\nBikes, Brews & Blockbusters, 6 p.m., Holiday Twin Drive-In, 2206 Overland Trl. Details: https://holidaytwin.eventsmart.com/events/bbb-2018.\nSummitStone Health Resource Hours, 5 p.m., Old Town Library, 201 Peterson St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nHealing HeARTs \u2013 Creative Self-Care Art Group, 10 a.m., Pathways, 305 Carpenter Rd. Details: https://pathways-care.org/news-events.\nMemory Cafe, 12:30 p.m., Harmony Library, 301 Olive St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nConversations in English, 2 p.m., Old Town Library, 201 Peterson St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nFoCo Nonprofit Networking Group, 3 p.m., Harmony Library, 301 Olive St. Details: https://poudreriver.evanced.info/eventcalendar.asp.\nJackie Kashian. 6 p.m., Aggie Theatre, 204 College Ave. Details: http://www.aggietheatre.com.\nGenealogy Help \u2013 Personal Assistance, 1 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nPerler Key Chains, 2 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nWaggin' Tales, 4 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nLoter\u00eda Family Event, 6 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nMahjong Group, 10 a.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nToddler Storytime, 11 a.m, Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nBoys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County Inaugural Golf Tournament, 9 a.m., TPC Colorado, 2580 WCR 14. Details: http://www.facebook.com/events/139669930238121.\nMahjong Group, 1 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nThe Wooly Knitters Group, 1 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nBack to School Party, 4:30 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nPotluck & Readmore Book Discussion \u2013 Memory Wall, 6 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nMoney Matters: Stock Market Savvy, 6 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nTatting Group, 10 a.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nThe Loomy Knitters Charitable Group, 1 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nMinecraft Speed Building Challenge, 4:30 p.m., Loveland Public Library-Erion Room, 300 Adams. Details: http://www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.\nArtisan Market, 5:50 p.m., Boardwalk Park-Bank of Colorado Market Pavilion, 115 15th St. Details: (970) 674-3525.\nHunter Stone, 6 p.m., High Hops Brewery, 6461 Colo. 392. Details: http://www.highhopsbrewery.com/events.\nSummer Concert Series Bart Crow \u2013 Texas Red Dirt, 6:30 p.m., Boardwalk Park, 100 5th St. Details: https://windsorgov.com/509/Summer-Concert-Series.\nCoffee with the Mayor, 7:30 a.m., Coffee House 29, 1039 Main St #K. Details: http://www.windsorgov.com/calendar.aspx?CID=32,43,\nFarmers Market, 9 a.m., Boardwalk Park-Bank of Colorado Market Pavilion, 115 15th St. Details: (970) 674-3525.\nWindsor Lions Club Meeting, 7 p.m., Bethel Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 328 Walnut St. (2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month). 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The pastor requested that Howard personally come to renovate the new church grounds. Howard and his team decided to lend a helping hand and provided $24,000 worth of work, including landscape design and installation, grading, planting trees and shrubs, installing rock and mulch, and installing a new irrigation and sod.\n\u201cWhen you have the resources and are able to help someone out by volunteering your time and services, you should,\u201d Howard said. \u201cI\u2019m thankful to work for a company that constantly strives to pay it forward. We had a great time and knowing that is was for a good cause just made it that much better.\u201d\nThe volunteer work took traveling to Corpus Christi on two separate occasions. The first trip was to evaluate and assess the property. The final trip was to complete the landscape installation. 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Music at the stores is turned off and its tannoy set aside, used for urgent announcements only.\nThe initiative was created in conjunction with The National Autistic Society which has advised on creating the ideal environment for shoppers with autism.\nThose who suffer from autism can find loud noises and sudden movements distressing.\nJoe Morris, operations director at Home Bargains, said: \u201cHome Bargains stores can be busy places which can be overwhelming for people with autism. We have created the quieter and calmer environment to enable all of our customers to have an enjoyable and relaxing shopping experience.\u201d\nTom Purser, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, said: \u201cWe are very pleased to hear that Home Bargains is introducing a quiet hour into its stores to make shopping a little easier for autistic people and their families.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hamzaviderm.com/services/mole-mapping-and-dermoscopy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5KNAFSJO27GUFIFGDEWTASW46NWC5TUD", "length": 338, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hamzaviderm.com", "title": "Hamzavi Dermatology | Dermatology Specialists - Mole Mapping and Dermoscopy", "raw_content": "Mole mapping is the careful evaluation of every visible mole and is done with the expert eyes of our clinicians. This process is supplemented by a technology called dermoscopy, which magnifies the mole using lenses and polarized light. These procedures provide our patients with the most up-to-date care in protecting against skin cancer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 3825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hanel.us/us/storage-glossary/storage-organization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:50Z", "digest": "sha1:JPESNULWU72K5OK6Y7EPXJWJQPDWE3U3", "length": 2370, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hanel.us", "title": "Storage organization", "raw_content": "Storage organization for optimal intralogistics performance\nStorage organization refers to the planned structure of tasks and work processes in a warehouse environment. The definition of employee roles and responsibilities, along with designing a layout and process chain for storing and retrieving goods and items, are important elements of storage organization.\nEquipping the warehouse with various kinds of shelves and conveyor systems is a key aspect \u2013 as is the question of how goods should be put into storage and then retrieved later when needed. In large enterprises automated storage systems are installed in the warehouse in order to increase efficiency while reducing costs and workloads at the same time. Automated solutions support fully automated storage scenarios supported by warehouse management software \u2013 these software applications send commands to a mechanical retrieval device in the storage solution and request that specific items be transported to the order fulfillment station. The process for putting items back into stock is based on the same principle.\nThe size of a business enterprise, along with its specific requirements and processes, determines just how comprehensive storage organization must be. Storage is closely linked to the ERP system. The goal is to always ensure optimal utilization of storage capacity while keeping costs as low as possible \u2013 not to mention that throughput time must also be reduced to a minimum.\nStorage equipment: Planning for efficiency and cost-effectiveness\nIntelligent storage and warehouse planning is key to optimal performance. A holistic plan takes both business aspects and technical matters into account. The number and size of items in storage also play an important role in the planning phase, as do the average and maximum stock quantities of each item, the average number of shipments per day, plus the average and peak number of items included in each shipment. 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There are several ways of doing business in the country, the most common being the setting up of a limited liability company (d.o.o.). Alternatively, entrepreneurs may choose to establish a public limited company (d.d.), a branch office or a representative office, depending on their business needs.\nThe limited liability company (d.o.o.)\nThe LLC (d.o.o.) is the most common legal entity used by entrepreneurs setting up businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This entity requires only 1 director and 1 shareholder, who can be of any nationality and may not be resident in the country. A US$1,150 minimum paid-up share capital will berequired to complete the incorporation process.\nThe public limited company (d.d.)\nThis Bosnia business setup requires at least 1 shareholder who can either be an individual or a corporate body to be incorporated. The shareholder can be of any nationality and may not be resident in the country. This entity will require a minimum share capital of $29,000 if the company issues shares to the public.\nThe Bosnia business setup can engage in commercial activities like any other legal entity although the scope of operations for a Branch office is defined by the parent company. The branch must appoint at least 1 Bosnia resident individual of any nationality, to act as the company\u2019s representative in the country.\nThe Bosnia and Herzegovina representative office\nForeign legal entities may establish representative offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina by registering the entity with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations. This entity is not considered a legal entity and is not allowed to conduct any commercial activities within Bosnia and Herzegovina. A representative office may only conduct market research and engage in promotional activities for their parent company.\nComparison table between Bosnia and Herzegovina business entities\nAlso known as d.o.o. d.d. poslovnica predstavnistvo\nRecommended corporate bank account? Raiffeisen Bank UniCredit Bank FIMA Bank Union Bank\nBosnia and Herzegovina resident company secretary required? No No No No\nBosnia and Herzegovina corporate tax rate? 10% 10% 10% 0%\nRegulated by? Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance\nCan rent an office space in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Yes Yes Yes Yes\nCan buy Bosnia and Herzegovina property? Yes Yes Yes No\nCan own equity in other Bosnia and Herzegovina companies? Yes Yes Yes No\nTotal Bosnia and Herzegovina business setup costs in Yr. 1 \u20ac11,900 \u20ac13,900 \u20ac14,900 \u20ac14,550\nEnjoy Business in Bosnia and Herzegovina\nFor additional information on our business setup services in Bosnia and Herzegovina, please email us at email@healyconsultants.com. Alternatively please contact our in-house country expert, Ms. Evgeniya Salamonava, directly:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 610, "original_length": 21031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.herefordcathedral.org/cathedral-calling", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6LVCMTN4TBUNLDNZUXG5V4VHWBV5O3PN", "length": 185, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.herefordcathedral.org", "title": "Hereford Cathedral | Cathedral Calling", "raw_content": "Cathedral Calling\nCathedral Calling is a quarterly newsletter filled with news and stories about the life of Hereford Cathedral.\nThe latest issue (December 2017) can be downloaded here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 2112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heritagedaily.com/2011/11/st-paul%E2%80%99s-cathedral-before-wren/16141", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:P3RQZ6SB7BEVL6AW5HRPJXFBXVBACR2L", "length": 5464, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.heritagedaily.com", "title": "St Paul\u2019s Cathedral before Wren - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News", "raw_content": "by HeritageDaily November 23, 2011 June 24, 2014 0419\nAs the current St Paul\u2019s building celebrates its 300th anniversary, the cathedral\u2019s archaeologist John Schofield brings together the lives of its predecessors for the first time in one publication. St Paul\u2019s Cathedral Before Wren, published today (Monday 21 November 2011) by English Heritage, highlights the historical and religious importance of the cathedral and churchyard site over the course of its first 1000 years, allowing its buried buildings to rise from the roots of St Paul\u2019s once again.\nThe rune-stone was found in the churchyard of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral\nThe book contains documents, surveys and early maps showing the development of the religious complex and illuminating the lives of its occupants. The account starts with the cathedral\u2019s foundation in 604 AD. (It was popularly rumoured that a Roman temple of Diana was built on the site, but there is no evidence for this.) The main focus is on excavations and observations between 1969 and 2006, but discoveries dating from the time of Wren himself are included. One such example is the discovery of Roman pottery kilns by local apothecary and pioneering archaeologist John Conyers, as foundations for the new north transept were dug in 1677.\nThe Anglo Saxon cathedral\u2019s position and design remain uncertain, but gravestones of the 10th and 11th centuries are catalogued in the book, including for the first time a complete \u2018hogback\u2019 style grave-covering stone, one of the earliest surviving artefacts from the cathedral.\nThe cathedral was rebuilt in gigantic medieval form from 1087, and extended from 1269 to 1314. By 1300 it was the largest medieval building by area in Britain and one of the largest in Europe, with a spire of unprecedented height.\nFrom the 1530s the cathedral\u2019s fabric was despoiled and neglected as were so many great churches in the Reformation, and in 1561 its spire caught fire and was then demolished. However, during the Elizabethan and Jacobean decades, the choir of the cathedral became the site for prestigious tombs of courtiers and high-ranking officials. This collection of post-Reformation monuments, second only to those which survive in Westminster Abbey, is assessed in the book for the first time. They are among the very few representations of Elizabethan Londoners (though not necessarily from life) which remain today.\nSchofield\u2019s work also allows a major development in our understanding of Inigo Jones\u2019s restoration of the church in 1633-41. A tunnel excavated through the crypt in 1996 revealed the remains of Inigo Jones\u2019s 1642 portico, dismantled in 1687-8 and still charred from the Great Fire of 1666. Together with pieces already in the St Paul\u2019s historic collection which are now recognised as part of Jones\u2019s work, this has allowed the first theoretical reconstruction of the portico\u2019s dimensions from actual fragments.\nTogether with voluminous documentary records of the Wren building, some details of the construction process have only come to light through archaeological excavations. Traces of the construction works of 1675-1711, including a mortar-fixing area and scaffolding placements, show how the extensive underlying archaeology was taken into account during the building process. The book also reveals how the current building, already rooted and founded on the ghosts of its predecessors, contains much of its previous history within its structure. Excavations in the 1990s show that the crypt of the Wren building is made in part from the stones of the medieval cathedral, reused, jumbled, and often recut.\nAuthor John Schofield said: \u201cSt Paul\u2019s Churchyard comprises probably the best and most significant remaining block of strata for the understanding of the evolution of the City of London through 2000 years.\u201d\nIn his foreword to St Paul\u2019s Cathedral Before Wren, The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, Dean of St Paul\u2019s from 2007-11, said: \u201cIt is surprising that the detailed physical evidence for the cathedral and the buildings in the churchyard has never been brought together in one publication\u2026 This publication is not simply a management document for us to use in the future. It also stands as a lasting record of those who have worshipped on this site for more than a thousand years, and who raised successive buildings here to the glory of God.\u201d\nDr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, said: \u201cEnglish Heritage is proud to support important original scholarship in our publication programme. John Schofield\u2019s book at last gets us close to one of Britain\u2019s most important, and most neglected, lost buildings.\u201d\nThe excavation and post-excavation analysis which form the majority of the publication were funded by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral. Financial support for the post-excavation work was also given by the Museum of London and English Heritage.\nSt Paul\u2019s Cathedral Before Wren, written by John Schofield, is published on Monday 21 November 2011 by English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-84802-056-6. \u00a3100 hardback. 412 pages with 250 illustrations. It is available online at www.english-heritage.org.uk/shop\nArchaeologyarchaeology newsArt and designCultureHeritageLondonreligionromanUK newsShare0\n\u201cCrown\u201d in Damascus Gate Jerusalem Restored\nBuilding the Western Wall: Herod Began it but Didn\u2019t Finish it\nAncient human ancestors had unique diet, according to study involving CU Boulder\nNew 10 second sourcing technology set to transform archaeology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 9060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hgtv.com/shows/deserving-design/episodes/classic-work-and-living-space", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YOGKOZIQTG37KSFGT3GUJBHUOQNFEHIX", "length": 369, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hgtv.com", "title": "Classic Work and Living Space | Deserving Design | HGTV", "raw_content": "Classic Work and Living Space\nMusic saved Wayne Woodson's life. As a teenager, it kept him off the streets and out of trouble. Today, he's started a non-profit youth choir that's changing the lives of countless other kids. Designer Vern Yip treats Wayne to a transformation of his cluttered office and living room, creating a streamlined, classic work and living space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 3655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hillcountrychicken.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LWVFRLKNIM6ICPYX5QUQDRDJPIKYFD77", "length": 248, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hillcountrychicken.com", "title": "Contact | Hill Country Chicken", "raw_content": "We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message and we\u2019ll get back to you as soon as possible. You can also reach us by phone at (212) 257-6446. Looking forward to hearing from you.\nWhat are you getting in touch about? 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Take time to explore the traditional market towns, sleepy villages and country pubs in the beautiful Leicestershire countryside.\nAs well as magnificent Belvoir Castle near Grantham, there are several smaller castles and fortified houses around the county. The castle at Ashby de la Zouch is now in ruins but has a subterranean passage which children will love to explore. Kirby Muxloe Castle is another fortified mansion, with a fine gatehouse and brick-built tower perfectly set within a pretty moat. The castle was built for Lord Hastings, who also extended the castle at Ashby. Hastings was executed on charges of treason by Richard III in 1483.\nIndeed Leicestershire has many links to King Richard III. Richard spent the night before the Battle of Bosworth at the Blue Boar Inn in Leicester. After being killed during the battle, his body was returned to Leicester and buried at Greyfriars in the city. Last year his remains were found under a car park at the former Greyfriars site and plans are currently underway for their re-internment.\nLovers of the great outdoors are spoilt for choice in Leicestershire. This is the home of the National Forest, an area of woodlands, country parks, reservoirs and waterways, perfect for walkers and cyclists to explore.\nOr for retail therapy, a visit to the county town of Leicester is a must. The city lies on the Roman road the Fosse Way, and was the site of the Roman town of Ratae Coritanorum. There are some excellent museums here, including the 600 year old Guildhall and the Museum of Science and Technology situated in a 19th century sewage pumping station.\nLovers of pork pies should not miss a visit to Melton Mowbray, where Melton Mowbray pork pies are served in the place where they were first created. What is not so well known is that the town is also one of the five homes of Stilton cheese!\nEarly in August 1485 the would-be Lancastrian king, Henry Tudor sailed across the English Channel from France to south Wales\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Scandal-of-the-Silk-Purses-the-Hundred-Years-War/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YUAPFSAXLNTA7G3BFOWGYCZRPXFTXTMY", "length": 8802, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.historic-uk.com", "title": "Scandal of the Silk Purses and the Hundred Years War", "raw_content": "By the year 1314 the King of France, Philip IV was secure on his throne. Known as Philip \u2018the Fair\u2019 for his striking good looks, he had broken the order of Knights Templar the previous year, gaining him the potential of their vast wealth. He had three sons, each grown to manhood and married, with the future of the Capetian dynasty and France seemingly secure.\nFrance in 1314 found itself at peace. Its historical enemy, England was tied to the French Crown with Philip\u2019s daughter Isabella married to King Edward II. She had arrived in England as a twelve-year-old bride in 1308; highly intelligent with an engaging manner, she grew to be a formidable Queen, nicknamed the \u2018She-Wolf of France\u2019. Her husband, however, was more drawn to his close courtier Piers Gaveston than to his new bride.\nIsabella\u2019s family in 1315\nl-r: Isabella\u2019s brothers, Charles IV of France and Philip V, Isabella herself, her father Philip IV, her brother Louis X and her uncle, Charles of Valois\nHer brother Louis was husband to Margaret, the daughter of the powerful Duke of Burgundy; her other brothers Philip and Charles had married daughters of another Burgundian nobleman; Joan and Blanche. Phillipe\u2019s marriage to Joan was a love match, but Louis and Margaret\u2019s was a relationship of argument. Charles was pious and \u2018straight-laced\u2019 and appeared to have little time for his young wife. Margaret became firm friends with the two sisters and enjoyed a love of music, laughter and dancing.\nIsabella (pictured right) gave each of her sisters-in-law gifts of highly-embroidered silk purses. Later that year at a royal tournament, Isabelle saw two of the purses being carried by two knights, Phillipe and Gauthier d\u2019Aunay. Uncertain as to how the two brothers had acquired them, she wrote to her father suggesting the two men may have been having affairs with her sisters-in-law.\nKing Philip had the two knights placed under surveillance and later arrested along with his three daughters-in-law. It was alleged that Margaret and Blanche had had adulterous affairs with the d\u2019Aunay brothers over a period of years at Le Tour de Nesle, on the left bank of the Seine, opposite the Louvre. Joan was suspected of being complicit in the liaisons and was later also accused of adultery.\nUnder torture, both brothers gave details of the affairs and implicated Joan. The princesses were \u2018interviewed\u2019 but not tortured; confronted with the d\u2019Aunay\u2019s confession, Margaret and Blanche confessed; Joan continued to express her innocence. They were brought before a tribunal and found guilty. Margaret and Blanche were stripped of their clothes, dressed in sackcloth and their heads shaved. It is uncertain if Joan suffered the same punishment; the tribunal did not find her guilty but neither did they acquit her.\nThe women were taken to Pontoise in the north of Paris. There they were made to witness the d\u2019Aunay brother\u2019s execution. Phillipe and Gauthier were castrated and their private parts thrown to the dogs, then flayed alive; molten lead was then poured onto their exposed skin, their bodies strapped to a wheel and their bones broken with iron bars; they were then finally decapitated. Margaret and Blanche were sent to the imposing castle of Chateau Gaillard. Margaret was imprisoned in a high tower, open to the elements, given neither clothing nor bedding and little food.\nLouis\u2019 wife, Margaret of Burgundy\nBy the end of the year King Philip was dead. Because his wife\u2019s affair called into question the legitimacy of their only child, Jeanne, Louis needed to marry again quickly to secure the succession. During her imprisonment Margaret had remained married to Louis, but she died in August 1315, just five days before her husband, now King Louis X married his second wife. At the time the whisper on the streets of Paris was that she had been strangled on orders from her husband.\nLouis\u2019s new wife Clementina of Hungary was eight months pregnant when in 1316 Louis himself died following a game of real tennis. If she gave birth to a son, he would be king. Were she to give birth to a daughter, then the succession was less clear. Because Margaret and Louis were still married when Margaret died, their daughter Jeanne would outrank the newly born princess in the succession.\nClementina did indeed have a son, but he lived only five days. The Royal Regent, the dead King\u2019s brother Phillipe moved to secure the crown for himself, bypassing the stronger claim of his niece Jeanne.\nHe succeeded by invoking an ancient, obsolete legal code of the fifth-century Salian-Frankish kingdom (the present-day Somme and Isle de France). The particular clause was one that differentiates male from female inheritance. Men inherited landed property, but women could only inherit personal property. QED a woman could not inherit the Crown. This determination became known as \u2018Salic\u2019 law and over the centuries was a cornerstone of the French legal system.\nPhillipe assumed the throne as King Philip V but was still married to Joan. She had fared better than her sister princesses. She had always maintained her innocence and her imprisonment at Chateau Dourdan was more humane. Philip apparently still loved her and argued for her release, and she was accepted back at court. Now Queen of France, she was reunited with their four daughters.\nIn 1322 King Philip fell ill and died. Because of his introduction of Salic law, having no sons, none of his daughters could inherit. Thus the French Crown passed to his younger brother who became King Charles IV.\nPope John XXII annulling the marriage of Charles IV and Blanche\nCharles was still married to Blanche, who was languishing underground in primitive conditions in Chateau Galliard. As King he needed an heir: he paid the Pope to annul their marriage, a condition of which was that Blanche would be released and allowed to join a convent. She entered a Cistercian order at Maubuisson, north-west of Paris and lived until 1332, having given birth to an illegitimate daughter by her jailer while in prison in Chateau Galliard.\nWhen King Charles IV too died in 1328 with no male heir, the French court was thrown into turmoil. Charles was the third of Phillip IV\u2019s sons to succeed to the throne, but he would be the last of the Capetian line of Kings. He died leaving a pregnant wife, Jeanne d\u2019\u00c9vreux who again it was hoped was carrying the saviour of France. with the country now ruled by a Regent, Charles\u2019 nephew, Philip of Valois. But in April, Jeanne gave birth to a daughter, Blanche.\nThe French Crown could now pass to one of two contenders; Philip of Valois, Charles\u2019 nephew or the grandson of old King Philip IV through his daughter Isabelle, the King of England, Edward III. Blood meant Edward had a far stronger and more direct claim, but the French lords were not keen on having the King of England as their overlord.\nTo deny Edward, the French lords needed a justification for giving the Crown to Philip of Valois, and once more they invoked Scalic Law. Philip IV\u2019s daughter Isabelle could not pass on a claim to the French crown when she was not entitled to it. Hence Phillip of Valois became King Philip VI.\nAlthough \u2018Salic\u2019 law became a cornerstone of the French legal system, the same Salian-Frankish law code said, \u201c\u2026if the sons are dead then a daughter may receive land just as the sons would have done had they lived.\u201d The French nobility used Salic law to justify Philip of Valois becoming King, even though they knew that Edward III of England would fight for his \u2018right\u2019 to the French crown.\nThe decision was pivotal in Anglo-French relations, triggering the long-lasting conflict between them known to history as the Hundred Years War. Edward invaded France in 1337, keen to press his claim to the French throne and recreate the Angevin Empire of his ancestor Henry II. The war would last, on-and-off, until 1453 and would decimate the French nobility and leave the country economically devastated.\nWhat is ironic is that Isabelle developed a reputation as an infamous adulteress herself, having a high-profile affair with Roger Mortimer, the Earl of March and possibly having her husband Edward II murdered. She set in motion \u2018L\u2019affaire de la Tour de Nesle\u2019 which shook the French monarchy and directly contributed to the succession crisis in France that culminated in the Hundred Years War.\nA look at King Edward III\u2019s royal manor house in Rotherhithe, South East London, the remains of which can still\u2026\nThe English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, was a powerful type of medieval longbow used to great effect against the French during the Hundred Years War, particularly at the Battle of Agincourt\u2026\nBlack Monday changed the course of the Hundred Years War when a freak hail storm appeared from nowhere, killing over 1000 English soldiers and 6000 horses....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 11380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 221.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympics-is-held", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DLPCEYHMW7X7RRGCSE4PTR4THTKH7TQS", "length": 8197, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.history.com", "title": "First modern Olympics is held - HISTORY", "raw_content": "First modern Olympics is held\nOn April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating.\nThe International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1984 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad. The ancient games are believed to have originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece, where athletes competed in one event: a foot race. Over the years, other events were added, including chariot racing, boxing, wrestling and the pentathlon. Participants, who were all young men from Greek city-states and colonies, often battled it out in the buff, as a way to celebrate the human body, and winners received olive branches. The last ancient Olympics are thought to have taken place in A.D. 393.\nAt the first modern Olympics, 241 male athletes (and no women) representing 14 nations competed in 43 events. America\u2019s James Connolly became the first modern Olympic champion when he won the triple jump on the opening day of the Games. For his achievement, he was awarded a silver medal and an olive branch. Connolly later finished second in the high-jump event and took third in the long jump.\nFrance, Great Britain, Germany and Greece had the largest number of athletes participating. Nevertheless, the U.S. took home the most first-place finishes (11) of any nation, followed by Greece (10) and Germany (6). All told, America placed first, second or third in 20 events while Greece scored in 46 events and Germany placed in 13 competitions. To the delight of the hometown crowd, Greek runner Spyridon Louis won the marathon. The first Olympiad closed on April 15, 1896.\nThe second Olympiad was held in Paris in 1900 with 997 athletes (22 of them women) from 24 countries competing in 95 events. The U.S. hosted the Olympics for the first time in 1904, in St. Louis. The third Olympiad marked the first time gold, silver and bronze medals were given out to first, second and third-place finishers.\nStarting in 1992, the summer and winter games, which had traditionally been held in the same year every four years, took place two years apart. The Summer Games returned to Athens in 2004, with 10,625 athletes (4,329 women and 6,296 men) from 201 nations participating in 301 events.\nhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympics-is-held\nPeary\u2019s expedition reaches North Pole?\nOn April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos reach what they determine to be the North Pole. Decades after Peary\u2019s death, however, navigational errors in his travel log surfaced, placing ...read more\nMormon Church established\nIn Fayette Township, New York, Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, organizes the Church of Christ during a meeting with a small group of believers. Born in Vermont in 1805, Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by a Christian angel named Moroni who spoke to him ...read more\nAmerica enters World War I\nTwo days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I. When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality ...read more\nOn April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from ...read more\nU.S. ground combat troops to take offensive measures\nNational Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy drafts and signs National Security Action Memorandum 328 on behalf of President Lyndon B. Johnson. This document came out of National Security Council meetings that were held on April 1 and April 2. The memorandum authorized U.S. personnel ...read more\nU.S. forces respond to North Vietnamese offensive\nClear weather for the first time in three days allows U.S. planes and Navy warships to begin the sustained air strikes and naval bombardments ordered by President Nixon in response to the massive North Vietnamese offensive launched on March 30. The Nguyen Hue Offensive (later ...read more\nTyler is inaugurated as 10th president\nOn this day in 1841, John Tyler is sworn in as president. Tyler was elected as William Harrison\u2019s vice president earlier in 1841 and was suddenly thrust into the role of president when Harrison died one month into office. He was the first vice president to immediately assume the ...read more\nBlack Hawk War begins\nDetermined to resist the growing presence of Anglo settlers on traditional tribal lands, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk is drawn into war with the United States. Called Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak by his people, Black Hawk was born in 1767 in the village of Saukenuk in the present-day ...read more\nOscar Wilde arrested\nWriter Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde had been engaged in an affair with the marquess\u2019s son since 1891, but when the outraged marquess denounced him as a homosexual, Wilde sued the man for libel. However, he lost his ...read more\nThe Eurovision song contest launches a bona fide star\nIn Brighton, England, on April 6, 1974, the judges of the 19th Eurovision Song Contest crushed the hopes of tiny Luxembourg by denying that nation in its bid for a historic third straight victory at the pan-European musical event. Those judges did the rest of the world a favor, ...read more\n2001: A Space Odyssey released\nOn this day in 1968, Stanley\u2019s Kubrick\u2019s science-fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey makes its debut in movie theaters. Kubrick had first gained prominence as a director for the World War I-era drama Paths of Glory (1957). After helming the big-budget Roman epic Spartacus ...read more\nTrain falls off bridge in Brazil\nA train drops off a bridge in Tangua, Brazil, killing 110 people on this day in 1950. Twenty-two cars made up the Leopoldina Railways train that departed Rio de Janeiro for Victoria, Espirito Santo. The passenger cars were filled with people vacationing over the Easter holidays. ...read more\nSam Sheppard dies\nOn this day in 1970, Sam Sheppard, a doctor convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in a trial that caused a media frenzy in the 1950s, dies of liver failure. After a decade in prison, Sheppard was released following a re-trial. His story is rumored to have loosely inspired the ...read more\nU.S. and Soviet negotiators make progress\nU.S. and Soviet diplomats meeting in Washington, D.C., make significant progress in negotiations concerning the role to be played by the newly reunified Germany in Europe. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze carried out most of the ...read more\nBattle of Shiloh begins\nThe Civil War explodes in the west as the armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston collide at Shiloh, near Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became one of the bloodiest engagements of the war, and the level of ...read more\nEmil Jellinek-Mercedes born\nEmil Jellinek, an entrepreneur who commissioned engineer Wilhelm Maybach to design the first Mercedes automobile, named after Jellinek\u2019s daughter, is born in Leipzig, Germany, on this day in 1853. Jellinek was a successful businessman in 1897, when he bought a car from Daimler ...read more\nCongress opens all U.S. ports to international trade\nOn this day in 1776, the Continental Congress takes the first step toward American independence by announcing their decision to open all American ports to international trade with any part of the world that is not under British rule. It was the first act of independence by the ...read more\nGermany invades Yugoslavia and Greece\nThe German air force launches Operation Castigo, the bombing of Belgrade, on this day in 1941, as 24 divisions and 1,200 tanks drive into Greece. The attack on Yugoslavia was swift and brutal, an act of terror resulting in the death of 17,000 civilians\u2013the largest number of ...read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 10124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 160.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/en/studies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RIPT54Y5CL2V4E226QDRNTMEPS3ACA5L", "length": 183, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hkb.bfh.ch", "title": "Studies", "raw_content": "HKB > Studies\nThe doctoral programme at the \u00abGraduate School of the Arts (GSA)\u00bb is a collaboration between the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Bern and the BUA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 94.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hollandsentinel.com/x145182100/Greenspace-Insomniac-cereus-blooms-once-a-year", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QZMH3HBAVLTIABJBWRQQTQQKF3RRIVYB", "length": 3010, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.hollandsentinel.com", "title": "Greenspace: Insomniac cereus blooms once a year - News - Holland Sentinel - Holland, MI", "raw_content": "Greenspace: Insomniac cereus blooms once a year\nThe night-blooming cereus rewards your patience with a showy flower but once a year. It lasts only about six hours.\nMy wife was sitting in our living room watching a late-night movie. Suddenly, the room filled with the essence of cheap cologne. It was as if Clark Gable had stepped out of the TV.\nOut of the corner of her eye, she spied a single, brilliantly white flower, a total beauty. She knew what it was. She woke me up. Grab the camera.\nAh, the Queen of the Night. So mysterious, so beautiful, so fleeting.\nThe night-blooming cereus is all of the above. It is one weirdo plant.\nA reader gave me mine a few years ago. It\u2019s called the Lamb\u2019s Ear Cactus for its large, rounded leaves that sprawl everywhere. It\u2019s not a nice plant to look at, gangly and homely. You wonder why anyone would keep it.\n\u201cYou\u2019ll know why,\u201d the reader said.\nHe was right. A year of tending her and answering odd questions in my plant room paid off.\nOne night in summer, the plant figures it\u2019s time to shed its ugly past. It sends out a wrinkly bud that is what you\u2019d expect from such a plant. It looked dead. I was tempted to trim it off.\nAround midnight, the blossom opens to the incredible bloom, a fist-size, spiky flower that sends a fragrance throughout the house.\nCome dawn, the plant figures its job is done. The flower quickly dies off and is gone for yet another year. Patience, patience.\nThe cereus is a native of the Sonoran Desert, which straddles the border of Arizona, California and Mexico. In its heyday 200 years ago, it was known as a lifesaver by Indians and pioneers. It also grows to amazing sizes in the tropics, called the \u201ccactus orchid.\u201d\nThe plant stems from a large tuber that houses water and a protein-rich, edible flesh. In the desert, the tubers grow to watermelon size.\nThe flowers are fleeting, but so are the pack rats. They eat the buds and blooms. Cereus has been over-harvested by desert travelers. Where once it was common, now it is rare and protected by federal law.\nIt is so unpredictable that many growers never have seen the bloom, only the spent blossom the next day. You have to be serious about your cereus to see the bloom.\nNot long ago, the plant was hard to find. No self-respecting garden center would stock them. The only way to get one was as a cutting from a friend.\nI planted mine in regular potting soil. It\u2019s impossible to kill except for overwatering. Mine sits on a radiator cover in a northern window. It likes the heat in winter.\nSome growers snip off the flowers and refrigerate them in water. This prolongs their drying out by just 24 hours.\nThis is only for plant true believers. You must realize that your efforts will be rewarded, if only for six hours. Keep an eye out for the bloom, have a party, and stay awake for the exotic finish.\nThe plant is famous for reading human minds. Just when you think, \u201cThat\u2019s it, I\u2019m trashing it,\u201d the night-blooming cereus responds with one of the best shows in the flower universe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 5408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hollandsentinel.com/x1681300374", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:7BGEQD5DBOB6M3H4CQPASQTCFLQU3URT", "length": 108, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hollandsentinel.com", "title": "Photo: Spring snow - News - Holland Sentinel - Holland, MI", "raw_content": "Photo: Spring snow\nSnow and ice cover the trees Friday, March 28, 2008, at Greece Canal Park in Greece, N.Y.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holmesreport.com/latest/article/usc-panel-marketing-pr-convergence-fueled-by-earned-first-approach", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:T45B2KBKQRTOPBKFKW63AF7KFCUMVO3Z", "length": 4654, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.holmesreport.com", "title": "USC Panel: Marketing, PR Convergence Fueled By \"Earned First\" Approach", "raw_content": "Home Latest USC Panel: Marketing, PR Convergence Fueled By \"Earned First\" Approach\nThe trend toward greater convergence between marketing and public relations is driven in part by marketers becoming more enlightened about public relations.\nLOS ANGELES\u2014The trend toward greater convergence between marketing and public relations\u2014a key finding of this year\u2019s Global Communications Report\u2014is driven in part by marketers becoming more enlightened about public relations and turning increasingly to an \u201cearned first\u201d approach, according to a panel discussion hosted by USC\u2019s Annenberg School on Thursday evening.\nDiscussing research showing that both PR people and marketers predict closer alignment between the disciplines, Edelman\u2019s global COO Matt Harrington offered a positive explanation: \u201cI think the trend is real, but the way I like to think about it is that marketing has become more enlightened about PR, and in particular earned media. Many of the marketers I work with see earned as the tip of the spear to advance their brands and their products.\n\u201cWe see it as an opportunity for growth. We have added skills and disciplines that play into marketing, particularly in digital. In the digital space, we are trying to do digital storytelling and that\u2019s a space where we have a unique set of skills\u2014earning credibility and passion for brands\u2014and that has created a huge opportunity for growth.\u201d\nEllen Ryan Mardiks, vice chair of Golin, agreed: \u201cWe are increasingly seeing an earned first mentality,\u201d she told the audience of professionals and students gathered for the 27th annual Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium. \u201cEven if a holistic campaign is the end goal, if it\u2019s not going to work for earned it\u2019s not going to get off the ground.\u201d\nBut Matt Furman, CCO of Best Buy, representing the client side of the business, made the case for the continued separation of the two functions. \u201cThere\u2019s an alignment in goals, but not in organizations,\u201d he said. \u201cMy view is that the skills required in the near future are more likely to be found in a PR professionals: reputation protection and enhancement. These are skills the CEO will value more. That makes it less likely that PR will report to marketing.\u201d\nNot surprisingly, perhaps, Furman was protective of PR\u2019s continued reporting line into the CEO. \u201cIf you buy the premise that we live in a confusing world where your reputation can come under threat in an instant, you value someone who can understand that environment, and for the most part that\u2019s the CCO.\u201d\nA second corporate panelist, Oracle corporate communications manager Julie Sugishita, took a slightly different view, given that the software giant\u2019s PR people report into marketing. \u201cWe find that when we all come together in this moment of crisis and then have our chief marketing officer represent all of us and go to the CEO it can empower. The corporate communicator has that expertise, but there is some power in being able to run our ideas past our marketers and make sure we are aligned.\u201d\nAsked by panel moderator Fred Cook, director of the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations and chair of Golin, about the survey\u2019s findings about industry nomenclature\u201487% of respondents say PR will not accurately reflect the function\u2019s scope in five years\u2019 time\u2014Sugishita acknowledged that \u201cthere are misconceptions about what we do. When you ask people what we do, you might hear a lot of pejoratives. I do think it\u2019s important that we come together and re-describe what we are and get away from the idea that we are spin-doctors.\u201d\nMardiks agreed: \u201cFor a profession that has been building brands for 70, 80 years we have done such a poor job of building our own. PR is self-defined. We are misunderstood. We don\u2019t object when PR is used as a synonym for publicity, or a synonym for spin. Let\u2019s take this opportunity for groups like the Arthur Page Society and the PR Council and USC to come together and resolve this. I would like to keep the term PR and get people to really understand what it is.\u201d\nPerhaps the most spirited defense of PR, however, came from USC student Irene Bischofberger, one of those involved in the GCR research project: \u201cWe [students] are growing up an in era where we define it differently. We do content creation, we do social media management and we do earned media as part of PR. For people who have been in the industry, maybe they don\u2019t see all those things as an integral part of PR, but we do.\n\u201cIt might be that we are idealizing what PR is,\u201d Bischofberger acknowledged. \u201cBut I would define PR as all the different things I\u2019ve learned here.\u201d\nMarketing Oracle Best Buy Edelman Golin Global Communications Report News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 11635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotel-excelsior-luebeck.de/en/familytravel.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4M5SYNKBRMITSMIO6PX7U42FBGHGZAAU", "length": 858, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hotel-excelsior-luebeck.de", "title": "Families welcome | Hotel Excelsior L\u00fcbeck", "raw_content": "With the whole family to L\u00fcbeck\nSmall or large families - L\u00fcbeck is a nice destination for everyone. If you visit L\u00fcbeck, spend a great time in the Hotel Excelsior L\u00fcbeck and experience warm hospitality and comfort.\nThe hotel is centrally located in L\u00fcbeck. It is located between the train station and Holstentor, and the Music and Congress Hall as well as the Historic Old Town with many sights can be reached within a 5-minute walk.\nOur city experiences for the whole family\nWe are happy to provide cots and high seats for you. Our cozy shared rooms can accommodate up to 4 people. All rooms are equipped with:\nA large lounge invites you to unwind in the evening - perhaps with a common board game? We look forward to seeing you!\nWould you like to book a room at the Hotel Excelsior L\u00fcbeck? That's our pleasure!\nCheck the availability or send us an e-mail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotspotsmagazine.com/2010/03/18/sandrabernhardv2511/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RJIWLSNAVTTXOWYH6W3BWFOPKFHTJUGE", "length": 4813, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.hotspotsmagazine.com", "title": "Sandra Bernhard | Hotspots! Magazine", "raw_content": "Home Features Features Sandra Bernhard\nSandra Bernhard burst onto the stand-up comedy scene in the late 70\u2019s and has never looked back. From live theater, to television, to movies, to literature, Sandra has made a contribution in virtually all areas of artistic expression. She is outspoken, but always consistent on her views of Americana and how to make this world a better place. As she gets ready to bring her one woman show to Fort Lauderdale it was my pleasure to sit down and conduct an exclusive interview with someone I consider to be a legend in comedy.\nYour big break came in 1983 when you were cast in \u201cKing of Comedy.\u201d How did it feel to work with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis?\nIt was the highlight of my early career and it is a long standing sense of pride. The movie was ahead of itself on predicting how crazy our culture was.\n\u201cWithout You I\u2019m Nothing\u201d was an off Broadway show, an album and a film. How exciting was it to produce those projects and what was the inspiration for them?\nThe inspiration of all my shows is to reflect on culture at the moment and what\u2019s going on in my personal life, experiences and where I am at.\nYour role as Nancy Bartlett, the first openly lesbian recurring character on TV on \u201cRoseanne,\u201d is probably what you are most well known for in the public eye. Tell me about that experience and how was it to work with Roseanne Barr?\nRoseanne Barr is a genius and the show tapped into me and it was a great reflection of Americana. Everyone on the show was amazing to work with and it was very well crafted. I was thrilled to be included and for it to be a part of my life.\nYour daughter is almost 12 years old now. How has being a mother changed your life?\nI am a lot calmer and a lot happier to be at home. She has anchored and inspired me to be the best I can be for her, myself and the world.\nHow exciting is it to be on Comedy Central\u2019s list of the 100 greatest stand ups of all time?\nIt is always nice to be included, especially when you are not part of the mainstream.\nWhat some people may not know is that you have written many books and articles. What\u2019s your inspiration for writing?\nEverything I do on stage comes from my writing. I am a cultural observer. I am a big fan of Twitter because I can capture things and immediately put them out there.\nIn addition to comedy, you sing pop music, jazz and blues. What do you like better, stand up or singing?\nI love performing so everything I do is in conjunction with each other. I like the combination of singing and stand up because it tells the whole story.\nYou are a history buff and love reading. When did you get interested in history and reading?\nIf we don\u2019t know the past then we can\u2019t know the present or future; it helps with the journey. I study about Americana, women, Judaism, etc. so I can be a well rounded person.\nMost people know that you have very strong political views (ex: Sarah Palin incident). Where do these views come from and what would you change if you were president?\nI would push through all the right agenda\u2019s for the American people and the world. I admire Obama and I think people need to have faith in him.\nYou definitely have a reputation and it seems like people either love you or hate you. Does having a reputation affect the way you perform or conduct yourself in public?\nI am a person who has manners and understands protocol. This is something you definitely learn as a performer. Having said that, I am not going to censor myself and I will say things that need to be put out there.\nYou have such a strong presence. What advice do you give newcomers who want to break into show business?\nIf you don\u2019t have a clearvision on what you want to contribute to the world then don\u2019t do it. We need iconoclastic viewpoints.\nYou have legions of gay fans all across the world. Is this something you expected when you started your career and how do you feel about it?\nWhen I moved to LA in the mid 70\u2019s I hung out with the gay scene. I was very young and impressionable and I learned so much from the gay culture (camp, style, etc.) that has been the basis as a performer and who I am.\nWhat\u2019s ahead for Sandra?\nA lot of things are happening. I am at another plateau of television and film and I hope to continue to perform live on a bigger platform. Currently I have a lot of projects on the horizon. Do expect to see a lot from me in the next few years.\nTo find out more about Sandra check out her website at SandraBernhard.com and you can follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/sandrabernhard\n>> Catch the queen of comedy, Sandra Bernhard, on Saturday, March 28th live at the Parker Playhouse at 8 pm. This performance is a benefit for Broward House. To purchase tickets go to Parkerplayhouse.org\nSmall Business Spotlight: MC Film\nMike Halterman - September 18, 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 9646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/kali-nicole-gross", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3YPUAEH6C75HA6QQRDVAFKASFNOM5ZCC", "length": 320, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Kali Nicole Gross | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University\nDr. Gross has appeared on C-SPAN2/BookTV, NPR, and a number of radio and television programs. Her opinion pieces have been featured in BBC News, Ebony, The Huffington Post, Jet, New Black Man (In Exile), The Root, Truthout, Warscapes, and The Washington Post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 118.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-dies-after-bee-acupuncture_us_5ab47cbee4b054d118e16fed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DGM4VG56CTQ42YG4OQWNYXXWEAA3LFGI", "length": 2469, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Woman Reportedly Dies After Live Bee Sting Acupuncture | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Woman Reportedly Dies After Live Bee Sting Acupuncture\nShe suffered a severe allergic reaction, slipped into a coma and died from multi-organ failure.\nA woman in Spain has reportedly died after being stung by a bee during an unusual kind of acupuncture treatment.\nApitherapy, or \u201cbee therapy,\u201d is an alternative medicine practice that uses products made by honeybees, including bee venom, to treat ailments from arthritis to burns to muscle aches. It\u2019s been touted as a beauty regimen by actress Gwyneth Paltrow and holistic health practitioners, but research has shown there can be health risks in using this type of treatment.\nOne type of apitherapy \u2015 live bee acupuncture \u2015 was administered to a 55-year-old woman as a treatment for stress and muscle contractions. The procedure involved placing live bees on the patient\u2019s body so she could be stung and injected with bee venom.\nThe woman was treated with live bee stings on a monthly basis for two years and suffered no ill effects, researchers wrote in a case study published in the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology. However, during her last treatment, she suffered a severe allergic reaction, slipped into a coma and died from multiple organ failure several weeks later.\nPrevious tolerance to bee stings does not mean later stings carry no risk. In fact, the researchers noted that \u201crepeated exposure to the allergen was found to carry a greater risk of severe allergic reactions.\u201d\nThe study\u2019s authors said they believe this was the first reported case of death by bee venom apitherapy \u201cdue to complications of severe anaphylaxis.\u201d The study did not provide a date for the woman\u2019s death.\nA 2015 study of apitherapy published in PLoS One found that nearly 30 percent of patients experienced some kind of negative reaction. Researchers issued warnings against the treatment and suggested better training for practitioners and better emergency care.\n\u201cThe risks of undergoing apitherapy may exceed the presumed benefits, leading us to conclude that this practice is both unsafe and unadvisable,\u201d the authors stated.\nIn 2016, Paltrow told The New York Times that she found live bee acupuncture \u201cpretty incredible,\u201d adding: \u201cBut man it\u2019s painful.\u201d\nLast year, actor Gerard Butler revealed that he went into anaphylactic shock after being injected with the venom of 23 bees during treatment for muscle problems. His apitherapy didn\u2019t involve the use of live bees.\nBees Anaphylaxis Apitherapy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hydrofluxutilities.nz/our-team/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4QCDGUQCLGEMTIMHNKPAO62MBYV5GO7", "length": 3421, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.hydrofluxutilities.nz", "title": "NEW ZEALAND 09 352 2052", "raw_content": "The principal team at Hydroflux Utilities have worked most, if not all, their careers in the design, engineering, installation, commissioning and servicing of water and wastewater treatment plants and equipment, for physical/chemical, biological and reuse processes. This vast experience base gives our customers confidence that the solution provided will always meet or exceed their requirements.\nOur Principal Team\nBruce has more than 20 years\u2019 experience in water treatment providing expert operational, chemical, biological and mechanical advice for industrial and municipal clients.\nPassionate about developing and delivering strategic and sustainable solutions, Bruce\u2019s strategy focusses on linking financial and environmental outcomes.\nWith broad experience across Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific, including managing 25+ water treatment plants in countries as diverse as Malaysia, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore; his expertise is world class in all forms of water treatment.\nPaul Hearfield\nPaul has over 22 years\u2019 experience in waste water treatment mostly focussing on the operational aspects of industrial wastewater treatment plants. He has a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry and biology associated with physical, chemical and anaerobic or aerobic plants.\nPaul\u2019s main skills are in complete operation, maintenance, sampling, service, supplying chemicals and spare parts and consumables for industrial wastewater treatment plants.\nPrior to joining Hydroflux Utilities, Paul has operated his own waste water treatment business (HTS) and was the service division manager for AJM Environmental Services for many years delivering exceptional service and support to the industry.\nAdrian Minshull\nHaving been full time in the Australian Water Industry for the last 30 years, Adrian has professionally completed literally thousands of Water and Wastewater projects throughout Australia and the SE Asian region.\nPrior to joining the Hydroflux Group Adrian was the founder of AJM Environmental Services which was established in 1999 and grew to be one of the leading industrial wastewater treatment companies in Australia in the early 2000\u2019s.\nAdrian\u2019s specialist areas include new product and process design and development, large project management and corporate strategy and governance.\nAndrew Miley\nAndrew is an experienced Senior Water Industry Professional with over 25 years in the water industry. Andrew was a former owner / director of AJM Environmental Services, a business established in 1999 which grew to be one of Australia\u2019s leading industrial wastewater treatment companies.\nAndrew\u2019s Specific focus and expertise is on the process and concept designs for Food and Beverage plants using primary and secondary treatment and has successfully completed over 100 projects in Australasia, Europe, USA, India, Middle East and SE Asia.\nOne of his key achievements was playing a leading role in the negotiation of all aspects world\u2019s first 4ML/day waste to potable water reuse plant for a major food processor in Australia.\nTanya Bishara\nTanya Bishara qualified as an accountant from the University of Technology Sydney (BBus) in 1993 and has been a CPA since 1996.\nTanya brings extensive experience in Finance, Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement having worked in FMCG for 21 years, 15 of which, were in the capacity of Financial Controller for various divisions of Nestle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hyltonpotts.com/2013/01/litigants-in-person/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EWPETLTB4HYPG2FH2SRX74X3C6UE2OMR", "length": 4115, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hyltonpotts.com", "title": "Litigants in Person - London Law Blog | hyltonpotts.com", "raw_content": "Rodney Hylton-Potts writes;\nThe Court of Appeal have ruled the Civil Procedure Rules should be interpreted rigorously, and the mere fact that an individual is unrepresented in the proceedings will not mean that they will attract any special treatment by the courts.\nIn Tinkler and Another v Elliott, the unrepresented party was defending a claim for damages and an injunction against him by his former employers. The end of the business relationship between the parties had been acrimonious with Mr Elliott making various accusations about their working practices. The disputes had been initially compromised by a Tomlin Order which prevented Mr Elliott from repeating his allegations.\nHowever, Mr Elliott made further accusations and a further claim was made against him. This came on for trial on 15 March 2010. Mr Elliott did not attend the trial. Instead, he submitted a medical certificate of unfitness to attend the court but this failed to impress the Judge who proceeded to grant a permanent injunction against him. An appeal against this decision came before the Court of Appeal.\nThe appeal court said that the issue was \u2018promptness\u2019. The court had no discretion to set aside a decision taken in a party\u2019s absence until the applicant has satisfied the three positive requirements of the rule. The first of these required that \u2018he must show that \u201che has acted with all reasonable celerity in the circumstances\nMr Elliott had relied on \u2018his ignorance as a litigant in person of the availability of an application to set aside\u2019.\nThe Court of Appeal said that while \u2018there may be facts and circumstances in relation to a litigant in person that may go to an assessment of promptness\u2026 they will only operate close to the margins\u2019. They added that \u2018an opponent of a litigant in person is entitled to assume finality without expecting excessive indulgence to be extended to the litigant in person\u2019. Lack of understanding of procedures \u2018does not entitle him to extra indulgence\u2019\nThese may appear to be strong words which swim against a tide running strongly in favour of the court doing all in its power to ensure that a self-representing party has every chance to fully deploy their case and have it dealt with on its merits. But support for this proposition comes from a differently constituted appeal court in the decision handed down on 23 October 2012 in Fernandes v Kenny & Others. In this case, an unrepresented landlord applied to set aside a judgment for damages in respect of a deposit which had not been protected in an authorised deposit scheme, entered against him at a small claim hearing which he failed to attend. He failed in his application before a district judge and on a first appeal before the circuit judge.\nThe Court of Appeal found, however, that the lower courts had been right to conclude that the landlord had had no good reason for failing to attend the small claim hearing.\nThe court had to approach the \u2018issue in the round, taking into account the merits of a defence in order to moderate the rejection of an application to set aside that might give rise to injustice or infringe European Convention rights\u2019. It concluded that as there was such a degree of conflict in the defence filed by the self-representing party, and as he had not produced any witness statement, and the evidence relied upon by him was profoundly unsatisfactory, it was impossible to say that the circuit judge had been wrong.\nLittle allowance was offered the applicant for the fact that he was self-representing\nIn fact, what these decisions emphasise is that, while article 6 rights of a self-representing party must be respected and a court must be vigilant to ensure that the party understands the process, the litigant will still stand or fall on the quality of his own understanding of the law and the conduct of his case. Whatever comfort this might offer to the opponent of the self-representing party the stance is in fact not surprising. It is merely a reaffirmation of the fact that the judge should not and will not \u2018enter the arena\u2019 to give one party advice or assistance to get his case in order.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 9026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibiology.org/speakers/pablo-valenzuela/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:36Z", "digest": "sha1:V3QHYMUKNCQXXAIQYVTEGQIITZTPQ6CS", "length": 653, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ibiology.org", "title": "Pablo Valenzuela \u2022 iBiology", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Speakers \u00bb Pablo Valenzuela\nIn 1980, Dr. Valenzuela co-founded the biotechnology company, Chiron Corporation and served as the director of research for about 15 years. Upon his return to Chile, Valenzuela founded the Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida and continues to act as its director. He is also a Professor at the Catholic University of Chile and Andres Bello University.\nLife Sciences Foundation: Life Sciences in Chile\nIn talking about the Life Sciences Foundation, Pablo Valenzuela discusses opportunities and reasons to support science in Chile. 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TYO pursues this mission by establishing\u2026\nNablus, PS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 154.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ihfonline.org/sponsor/kangusur-apakor.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JFMW32P2XNRKNHI6VYX2U5ZWS5RRPH4I", "length": 1378, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ihfonline.org", "title": "Home Page", "raw_content": "My name is Faith. I first came in Nakuru in 2006, when I was only 6 years old. My parents divorced when I was young and I do not know a lot about them, especially my father. My mother is selling alcohol in the Pokot tribe; in fact this is one of the most renemurative job for the women there. However, the salary is not enough to cover the basic needs of a big family. We are five children; fours girls and one boy, all of them are married with kids, so for me having the opportunity to have a degree would represent an amazing way to be my family proud of me.\nMy goal is to work in the Tourism and Attraction field, I love to meet people from different countries, for example, at the IHF center I met many international volunteers and I created a strong connection with them. My dream is to work at the Masai Mara, I have never been there and I hope that one day I will walk in the middle of this amazing Pak Reserve! However, I would also like to have a big family with a loving, caring and honest man.\nEducation is important not only because allows you to get a good job, but also because it makes you a better person in society. In fact, this is what makes me study very hard every day: improving myself! I really hope to get this University sponsorship because I want to achieve my dream to work at the Masai Mara.\nTo support Kangusur (Faith), please see the options below:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ihrec.ie/category/press-releases/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GG4NF5J5F2IEJAYYKT7D7OMIWGXUJ5KX", "length": 4665, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ihrec.ie", "title": "\ufeff Human Rights and Equality Commission Critical of \u2018Retrogressive Measures\u2019 on Family Reunification for Refugees - IHREC - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission", "raw_content": "Human Rights and Equality Commission Critical of \u2018Retrogressive Measures\u2019 on Family Reunification for Refugees\nPolicy Statement Sets Out Legal and Policy Changes Required On World Refugee Day on the 20th of June, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (\u201cthe Commission\u201d) has criticised the narrowing of access to family reunification for people granted international protection. The Commission has described the 2015 legislative changes as \u201cretrogressive\u201d and is seeking change. [\u2026]\nDiscrimination and Inequality in Housing in Ireland Set Out in New Research\nHuman Rights and Equality Commission and ESRI Publish Findings New research has shown that specific groups, including people with disabilities, lone mothers and young people, are among those facing the highest levels of discrimination and inequality in relation to housing in Ireland. The new study entitled \u201cDiscrimination and Inequality in Housing in Ireland\u201d draws on [\u2026]\nEU Court of Justice Hears Case Arising from Alleged Age Discrimination in An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na\nCommission Providing Legal Representation in Luxembourg to Men Who Sought to Challenge Age Discrimination The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (\u2018the Commission\u2019) has today appeared in Luxembourg before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for the first time in a case to determine whether the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has the [\u2026]\nPresident Michael D. Higgins Appoints Seven Members to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.\nPresident Michael D. Higgins has today appointed seven members, including five new members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (the \u2018Commission\u2019). 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The case focused [\u2026]\nProposals to End \u2018Baptism Barrier\u2019 Welcomed by Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission\nThe Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (\u201cThe Commission\u201d) has welcomed legislative proposals published by Government to give practical effect to the existing right of children to be protected from discrimination in admission to schools, removing the effective \u201cbaptism barrier.\u201d The Commission today welcomed the proposal, in line with its own recommendations in 2015 and [\u2026]\nResolving Damaging Lack of Access to Employment for Asylum Seekers Requires Sustained Human Rights Focus from State\nIrish Human Rights and Equality Commission Addresses Oireachtas Members The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (\u201cThe Commission\u201d) has told Members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality that the State has an important opportunity to address the long-running human rights issue of access to employment for asylum seekers, and warned that a [\u2026]\nUnconstitutional Ruling in Review of Detention Case Welcomed by Human Rights and Equality Commission\nCommission Exercised Amicus Curiae Role in Court of Appeal The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (\u2018the Commission\u2019) has today welcomed the ruling of the Court of Appeal in a case concerning the right of a man detained in a psychiatric institution to initiate a review of his detention on foot of a twelve month [\u2026]\nBelfast (Good Friday) Agreement Joint Committee Confirms Brexit Rights Concerns in Barnier Meeting\nThe EU Chief Negotiator on Brexit Michel Barnier has today met with the Joint Committee established under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement to consider human rights issues on the island of Ireland. The meeting discussed the significant risks of differences in rights protections on a North-South basis following the UK\u2019s EU Withdrawal. Representatives of the Joint Committee consisting of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 196.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ijprs.com/article/a-review-on-mucoadhesive-microspheres-as-a-novel-drug-delivery-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3AD655LTGWT7VGV3ERIPOSHDWOZHAYYY", "length": 1536, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ijprs.com", "title": "A Review on Mucoadhesive Microspheres as a Novel Drug Delivery System - IJPRS", "raw_content": "Home Article A Review on Mucoadhesive Microspheres as a Novel Drug Delivery System\nA Review on Mucoadhesive Microspheres as a Novel Drug Delivery System\nThummar, A. V., Kyada, C. R., Kalyanvat, R., Shreevastva, B.\nThe objective of this article is to review the principles underlying the development and evaluation of mucoadhesive microspheres and the research work carried out on these systems. Mucoadhesion is a topic of current interest in the design of drug delivery systems. Mucoadhesion is commonly defined as the adhesion between two materials, at least one of which is a mucosal surface. Mucoadhesive microspheres may be designed to enable a prolonged residence time at the site of application or absorption and facilitate an intimate contact with the underlying absorption surface and thus contribute to improved and/or better therapeutic performance of drugs. In recent years such mucoadhesive microspheres have been developed for oral, buccal, nasal, ocular, rectal and vaginal routes for either systemic or local effects. This review article aims to provide an overview of the various aspects of mucoadhesion, mucoadhesive materials, factors affecting mucoadhesion, evaluating methods, and various mucoadhesive drug delivery systems.\nMucoadhesion, Mechanism of mucoadhesion, Microspheres, Site specific\nThummar, A. V., Kyada, C. R., Kalyanvat, R., Shreevastva, B. (2013). A Review on Mucoadhesive Microspheres as a Novel Drug Delivery System. International Journal for Pharmaceutical Research Scholars (IJPRS), 2(2), 188-200.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 5615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imore.com/cook-upgrades-apples-television-ambitions-beloved-hobby-intense-interest", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:SEJ5DTKI5B6HKWQGJQDVGDVXD6V5CKZL", "length": 1836, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.imore.com", "title": "Cook upgrades Apple's television ambitions from \"beloved hobby\" to \"intense interest\" | iMore", "raw_content": "Cook upgrades Apple's television ambitions from \"beloved hobby\" to \"intense interest\"\nWhen Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with NBC's Brian Williams for a wide-ranging interview about the past, present, and future of Apple (set in Apple's mammoth Grand Central Terminal store, no less), he closed with an interesting note. According to what he told Rock Center:\n\"When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.\"\nOf course, rumors and speculation about Apple's television ambitions have been swirling for years, spurred on in no small part thanks to the musings of the late Steve Jobs about Apple and the modern living room centerpiece. It's no secret that Apple wants to revolutionize the television set (despite their silence on the matter), just as they've revolutionized personal computing, mobile phones, and tablets over the years. As always, there are significant hurdles to Apple conquering the living room, the biggest being the holy grail of television content: live television.\nBut up to today, Apple's public line on television has always been that the adorable-yet-useful Apple TV box has been nothing more than a hobby (occasionally a beloved hobby). With Tim Cook declaring that the \"backwards\" television user experience is an \"area of intense interest\" for Apple and something that he can't discuss more definitely seems to be implying that they're getting even more serious. In fact, you could say he's implying that it's now only a matter of \"when\" for an Apple television set, not \"if\", though the rumors and speculation have always pegged it as \"when\", often with hilariously poor accuracy. 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One COO shares his story.\nMany CEOs want to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the performance of their business. But few know exactly how to do it.\nThat's understandable -- we're still in the early days of automation and analytics, and the business applications of AI aren't fully defined or foolproof. What's more, no one has figured out a process for integrating AI-powered applications that work for everyone.\nIn spite of these uncertainties, a recent report from Vistage and Salesforce indicates that many CEOs from small and midsize businesses are eager to venture into AI. In fact, 13.6 percent of the 1,467 CEOs surveyed by Vistage said they are already using AI to improve their business operations (51%), customer engagement (45.5%), talent management/hiring (20.2%) and financial reporting (16.2%).\nFor these early adopters, it's a good idea to study -- and learn from -- the successes and failures of other trailblazers in the AI space. One of these trailblazers, Ali Moshfeghian, participated in a panel that I moderated at the Salesforce Dreamforce conference last year, \"Customer Insights: How AI is Revolutionizing Small and Midsize Businesses Today.\" Moshfeghian, the chief operating officer for Xtreme Lashes, a global leader in eyelash extensions, described his company's journey with AI and offered these five lessons to leaders on a similar path:\n1. Clean up your data.\nWhen Xtreme Lashes decided to invest in an AI application, it initially made the mistake of feeding the application bad data. \"We didn't read the fine print, and the system didn't work,\" Moshfeghian says. \"That was a setback because we had a lot of excitement and buy-in to the system. But we learned from that experience.\" To recover, the company used the application to build models that classified, categorized, and cleaned up its historical data so that it could be analyzed for insight going forward.\n2. Don't be afraid to explore and experiment.\nIf you're running a small business, you might feel intimidated by AI. If that's the case, start by simply exploring an application, says Moshfeghian. \"Get in there and just poke around,\" he advises. \"Start with a small use case where you have decent data.\" He also recommends using online resources and communities to educate yourself on the AI basics -- and then experiment. \"I think trying things and failing is better than just waiting three months to try it,\" he says. \"I'd rather just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.\"\n3. Implement good practices for data governance.\nMoshfeghian recommends appointing a gatekeeper in your company who can oversee data governance. They should be able to ask questions such as: Is this field needed? Are we creating this field for the right reason? Do we need a validation rule? Do we need to take a step back?\n4. Remember that AI can analyze audio, video and images like data.\nMany AI-powered applications are capable of processing images, audio and video as data -- just like numbers. If your company works with these assets, then AI may be able to streamline and improve some of your business processes. Xtreme Lashes, for example, is training AI-powered models to classify images of eyelash extensions from its eyelash extension training programs. The goal is for the model to do the classification so that trainers no longer need to perform this task manually. \"We want our technicians, trainers and stylists to do the actual work, rather than the administrative task of classifying images,\" says Moshfeghian. \"That's just a waste of human capital.\"\n5. Don't assume you need to hire a data scientist.\nThe majority of small businesses don't need data scientists to get started with AI. They just need someone from their team who is interested enough in AI to give it a try. \"If you don't have the passion to get in there and do it, find someone on your team that does,\" says Moshfeghian. \"Give them some freedom and carve out enough time for them to explore. With analytics, you don't know if you're going to be successful. You just have to try.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiaart.com/Featured-Exhibitions/Kumaon-by-Chitra-Vaidya/Introduction.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DQWG6RD4UM5IUT2GRC4LADDZQHFUXSQW", "length": 3165, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.indiaart.com", "title": "Kumaon by Chitra Vaidya - Introduction", "raw_content": "Kumaon by Chitra Vaidya\nIt was sometime in 2011 that I conceived the project \"Call of the Hills\" to present the hills and all the facets that make them so alluring - beautiful landscapes, simple folks, heritage and culture. The plan was to present all this visually and in a multi dimensional way. I roped in Mumbai based artist Chitra Vaidya to work on this project.\nIn the first part, we covered the hills of Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar and Matheran. This collection was presented at the show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in March 2012. The show was well received and appreciated with significant media coverage and positive feedback from friends, well wishers, artists and several who bought the paintings and sketches. Full details related to this show are available on Indiaart's website.\nIn November 2012, we decided to travel in the hills of Kumaon and this turned out to be a wonderful experience. I saw some of the most breathtaking views of the Himalayan mountains especially views of seven to eight layers of mountain ranges as far as eye could see, with colours changing from black to grey to blue. The first hour from just before sunrise was not only a visual treat but was also a divine experience. The first rays of the morning sun glowing the snow and the rapidly changing colours of the snow and the sky was a spectacle well worth the tiring journey we undertook to reach the camp site at 8000 ft.\nThis collection is a result of the exploration of Kumaon - the mountains, landscapes, heritage and Kumaoni people. I must thank Mr. Santosh Pande for suggesting (actually almost insisting) that we explore Kumaon hills. Once the decision to travel to Kumaon was made, Suvrat Kher who is a geologist and also a football coach apart from an avid traveller suggested the camp sites in Kumaon operated by Wildrift. The locations of their camps were not only scenic but allowed us to live in rustic surroundings and experience first hand the culture and the life in remote areas of Kumaon. We walked quite a bit on foot to see the mountains, remote villages at close quarters and interact with the hardy folks out there. It was very touching to hear from a local village lad on one of our walks that he wants to be a scientist when he grows up. I asked him this question when he was playing and was expecting to get either Dhoni or Tendulkar for an answer.\nWe have decided to donate one third of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings and sketches from Kumaon. Theis will support a unique initiative which will be administered through Wildrift who promote Eco friendly tourism in Kumaon and operate a unique business model in which locals are partners. This project will involve conducting art workshops for children in the hill areas. This will be done by making available suitable resources such as videos, art materials and engaging local art teachers. Indiaart is proud to associate with Wildrift to announce this unique initiative.\nI am hoping that when some of you travel in the remote hills of Kumaon in future and ask a kid playing around as to what would he or she would like to be in the future and get \"I want to be an artist\" as an answer!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-top-story/vr-iyer-chairperson-managing-director-bank-of-india-115021300132_1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3ME4MWRYEQFTY52E6WVW7QRCKBWG4ZC2", "length": 3961, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.indiainfoline.com", "title": "VR Iyer, Chairperson & Managing Director, Bank of India", "raw_content": "VR Iyer, Chairperson & Managing Director, Bank of India\n\u201cThe fourth quarter of the current fiscal is expected to be challenging. The bank's loan growth would be around 10% largely driven by global growth,\u201d VR Iyer says\nFeb 13, 2015 04:02 IST | IIFL Dolly Mirchandani |\nVR Iyer, Chairperson & Managing Director, Bank of India was the Executive Director of Central Bank of India from September 01, 2010 till she joined Bank of India. Ms. Iyer, post-graduate in Commerce with CAIIB, started her career in Union Bank of India in 1975. Ms. Iyer, in her career span of more than three decades, had good stint in branch banking having worked in very large and extra large branches. She has extensive exposure in credit department, credit monitoring department and contributed significantly in setting up of risk management department, rolling out CBS, alternate channels and various other e-initiatives. Ms. Iyer served as Deputy General Manager (Information Technology) during 2006-07 before getting elevated as General Manager in January 2008 and was holding the portfolios of Information Technology and Risk Management.\nBank of India was founded on 7 September, 1906 by a group of eminent businessmen from Mumbai. The Bank was under private ownership and control till July 1969 when it was nationalised along with 13 other banks. Today, the Bank has over 4,835 branches and 6,169 ATMs in India spread over all states / union territories. Bank of India is the first PSU bank to launch instant-money-transfer on all ATMs nationwide.\nDolly Mirchandani of IIFL gives you the highlights of a media interaction where Ms. VR Iyer, says, \u201cThe fourth quarter of the current fiscal is expected to be challenging. The bank's loan growth would be around 10% largely driven by global growth.\u201d\nBrief us about your financial results?\nOur net profit stood at Rs.173 crore, while the operating profit was Rs.1,865 crore for Q3 FY15. The bank's net interest income \u2014 interest earned over interest expended \u2014 improved to Rs.2,780 crore, whereas our non-interest income was Rs.1,080 crore in Q3 FY15. The decline in operating profit was due to muted credit demand on the lower side. The bank's growth otherwise has been in tune with the industry.\nPlease provide some details about non-performing assets.\nThe bank's gross NPA ratio stood at 4.07% in December 2014 against 2.81% in December 2013. The net NPA ratio stood at 2.5% in December 2014 compared to 1.75% in December 2013. Asset quality is the major area of focus for the entire banking industry. Gradual improvement and broad base recovery is required which would help to reduce some stress on NPAs in the second half of 2016.\nWhat was your cash recovery & upgradation?\nThe bank's total cash recovery stood at Rs. 481 crore, while upgradation was Rs. 206 crore in the December 2014 quarter. The bank's slippages was Rs. 246 crore which is the lowest in the third quarter of the current fiscal.\nWhat is the bank's Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) as per Basel-III norms?\nThe CAR of the bank under Basel-III is 10.68% as on December 31, 2014. The Tier-I CRAR (capital to risk (weighted) assets ratio) was 7.77% as on December 31, 2014, whereas the Tier-II CRAR is 2.91% as on December 31, 2014.\nHow much was your CASA (current and savings account) deposits in Q3 FY15?\nThe CASA deposits increased 9.03% to Rs. 1.11 trillion in Q3 FY15 from Rs. 1.01 trillion in the third quarter ended 2013. Our focus remains on CASA in the current quarter as well as in the subsequent quarters.\nWe have received merchant banking licence from the government of India and started our operations almost 10 days back. The fourth quarter of the current fiscal is expected to be challenging. The bank's loan growth would be around 10% largely driven by global growth. The CASA is expected to be at 12%, while fee growth is expected to be at 5% YoY. We are planning to add 50 new branches and over 100 ATMs. We also target to bring our gross NPAs below 4%.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 11740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indianachamber.com/indiana-chamber-outlines-priorities-school-testing-reform/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:H6UJW4YUNJT5ZDICRUVUTHCYVP7RAEGM", "length": 2489, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.indianachamber.com", "title": "Indiana Chamber Outlines Priorities for School Testing Reform - Indiana Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "Indiana Chamber Outlines Priorities for School Testing Reform\nBradley Miles2017-09-07T22:41:32+00:00January 7th, 2016|\n(INDIANAPOLIS) \u2014 In testimony this week, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce began outlining its priorities for school testing reform. Caryl Auslander, the Indiana Chamber\u2019s vice president of education and workforce development policy, expands on some of her remarks:\nPause school accountability for one year only:\n\u201cThe Indiana Chamber fully supports a one-year pause in school accountability due to the many missteps in the latest ISTEP testing cycle. Teachers should still be subject to the important classroom and other evaluations that take place, but not have test scores used for that purpose for this one year.\n\u201cWith a new test administrator in place going forward, our hope is that the Indiana Department of Education (DOE) will work very closely with them to ensure that the test is administered accurately and that scores are finalized and reported in an appropriate timeframe (i.e., by the end of August). Many of the ISTEP issues can be traced to past vendor-DOE relations; those need to improve and DOE needs to take a more aggressive role in ensuring deadlines and expectations are met.\n\u201cWe urge legislators to resist any efforts to lessen our overall accountability process. Accountability measures for schools, teachers and students are critical. They allow us to accurately predict student progress, rate teacher effectiveness and compare and contrast school performance relative to state and national peers. We have to be able to grade ourselves.\u201d\nRescore of current data necessary:\n\u201cIf we are pausing accountability for the schools, it is important to keep the unadjusted scores/data as a baseline for growth measurement next year. That means it\u2019s essential for the scores to be correct and trusted. And the only way that can be accomplished is through a rescore of the exams by an independent third party.\u201d\nRebrand test; no need to start process over:\n\u201cWe have new, more rigorous academic standards and the new assessment exam to go along with them. There is no need to spend more of the state\u2019s money to change the assessment. The length of this test or any test is something DOE can and should address with the new test vendor.\n\u201cThe new test was labeled ISTEP out of a sense of continuity. Let\u2019s rebrand the test to reflect that it is indeed new and simply work to ensure future tests are executed properly and timely. That\u2019s all that needs to happen.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 7740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/01/390148.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YL23MOPSDAA23LKEPHKMQDHR4KAE6ONX", "length": 21834, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "www.indymedia.org.uk", "title": "UK Indymedia | Gordon Goebbels Brown's head in a SOCPA 2005 noose please", "raw_content": "Gordon Goebbels Brown's head in a SOCPA 2005 noose please\nCharity Sweet | 25.01.2008 14:54 | SOCPA | Education | History | London | World\nGood for the goose is good for the gander.\nWhat is the punishment for high treason in England or in Iraq, as the case may be? Where have they been committing their crimes? Where should they be tried?\nWhat should the punishment be for any war criminal?\nAs a mum, I was wondering if you were interested in a meeting my 8 year old Maranda is having with her Member of Parliament on February 15th, 2008 regarding the issues of a child's right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly as it is currently floundering beneath the current SOCPA 2005 legislation that has no prescribed processes as dictated it must within HRA 1998.\nWhen any human right is interfered with by the state - there must be clear and legitimate aims for interfering with these rights and there must be precribed process; the crown is also duly bound by HRA 1998 in reality; whether they agree in law or in court is another question that is yet to be seen.\nBelow are 3 recent letters as sent to Sir Ian Blair - the Chief of Police, Jacqui Smith - the Home Secretary and Chief Inspector Wheeler of the 'events' dision of Charing Cross as lead by PC Roger S. Smith.\nemail: NEWSCOTLANDYARD.@MET.POLICE.UK\nChief Inspector Ian Wheeler\nCX - Charing Cross Police Station\nWC2N 4DH\nDear Sir Blair,\nPlease read attached letter that was sent by myself in response to a letter sent to myself as a response to my daughter Miss Maranda Cameron\u2019s compliance with the Metropolitan Police Force policy, completion of SOCPA notification form, and hand deliverance of said form to Charing Cross Police Station, on the below noted date of 18, October, 2007.\nI look forward to your personal authorisation of my daughter\u2019s right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as already guaranteed within HRA 1998, within 6 days as per SOCPA 2005 which I believe to be incompatible with HRA 1998.\nI have posted a copy of this by way of the mailman, by way of email and I have also sent it by fax.\nI trust that you will pass a copy on to Chief Inspector Wheeler regardless of whether he has done you the same courtesy in the past.\nUntil I am offered evidence under which lawful authority you are delegating your authority, I must reasonably assume that you are personally responsible for the letter or notice of authorisation that my daughter filled out your form, in order to receive, some three months previously.\nI think we have been more than patient.\nMrs. C. Sweet\nSOCPA Authorisation\nChief Inspector Ian Wheeler:\nThank you for your letter dated October 30th and post marked October 31. I note my daughter Miss Maranda Cameron's notification form was completed and hand delivered on October 18th, 2007 at the same time, on the same day, to Charing Cross Station, as myself and my friend, Carolyn Emmerson. I am informed that Carolyn received her letter of authorisation some time last week and I received mine in today's post, dated October 24th, 2007 and post marked November 2nd, 2007.\nI assume you or Detective Superintendent Peter Newman will also be writing a letter to my daughter, at either of your earliest convenience, as she is most excited to be receiving mail through the post and has been expecting a letter such as the one I received from yourself today. Her SOCPA experience will prove to be a most interesting lesson in civics and the role of an up-and-coming citizen of England, participating in a democracy, as she experiences it \u2013 from the perspective of an eight year old child.\nMaranda has handed in a completed form as per the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act legislation states the required information to be given and the Metropolitan Police Force suggests; we are both waiting for an answer.\nI understand from Metropolitan Police Form 3175A and SOCPA that the Commissioner may impose conditions on her rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. As I have received this letter from yourself, I am compelled to issue a response on behalf of my daughter, as her mother and the person who truly has her best welfare at heart.\nI understand the SOCPA legislation states that conditions may be imposed if the Commissioner perceives or believes or assumes that the following must be prevented:\na) Hindrance to any person wishing to enter or leave the Palace of Westminster. Sir, I can assure you as can the Head of the Metropolitan Parliamentary Police Force, that I have never, in the past two years of being watching from various angles, from various CCTV cameras and dealt with by numerous police officers, ever obstructed the Queen's Highway nor moved with the public, out of the way of any incoming or outgoing vehicles of Parliament nor as a responsible parent would I place my daughter in such a ridiculous situation. It would be foolish to play hopscotch in the middle of any road or entranceway where one is expected to be moved on. I also have absolutely no desire to be mowed down by any manner of vehicle as I am a mother of three beautiful children and neither would I knowingly place my child in the way of an oncoming vehicle.\nb) Hindrance to the proper operation of Parliament. I cannot see how children playing nicely could halt the proper operation of Parliament. Parliament could learn a thing or two from the children, I would dare to say.\nc) Serious Public Disorder. Are children playing nicely or learning creating serious public disorder?\nd) Serious damage to property. I can assure you that children playing nicely will do nothing but inspire the smiles on the face of London and will cause no destruction of property.\ne) Disruption to life on the community. I believe that art only adds to the life of the community which is why children are generally encouraged to play with each other nicely \u2013 a lesson Maranda believes the adults could do with learning.\nf) A security risk in any part of the designated area. Are children ever a security risk in any shape or form? Is being a child now a potential crime?\ng) Risk to safety to members of the public. Once again? Is it risky for the public to be exposed to children in the community, in public? Is it not pleasant to stroll through an area where children are busy painting, or drawing or skipping and playing?\nI have read the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act and do not accept that the Act allows for ageism - discrimination based upon age.\nMy daughter's form was filled out with the help of Mr. Chris Coverdale and she gave great thought to the answers she gave. Her questions were answered in the same fashion as myself and Carolyn Emmerson. I see no reason why myself and my child should have to attend a meeting so as she may be interrogated by yourself so as you may \"ascertain your (and Maranda's) intentions and understanding of this application\".\nI kindly decline your offer of a meeting and would appreciate yourself or another officer from the 'events' division of Charing Cross Police Station to post a letter of authorisation to my daughter, at your earliest convenience, with or without conditions as the Commissioner may see fit to impose on a child and/or children.\nI look forward to hearing your response at your earliest convenience.\nGovernment Consultation on SOCPA 2005\nThe Home Secretary of England - Ms. Smith\nManaging Protest around Parliament\n5th Floor Fry Building\nPlease find enclosed a copy of the Bill to repeal SOCPA 2005 by Baroness Miller of Chilthorn Domer; secondly, a copy of the Website repeal-SOCPA.info - a mainstream, reasonable, intellectual written observation of the issue at hand to which I agree completely; lastly, a letter from myself to Chief Inspector Wheeler to which neither myself nor my daughter have yet received a response to regarding her notification and her outstanding notice of authorisation to which the Commissioner of the Metropolis of London is lawfully bound by SOCPA 2005, to give within 6 days.\nAs the Commissioner is the only officer who may impose conditions and has not as yet offered any proof to myself that he has delegated his authority as I would reasonably request of him should he delegate his authority, I am assuming that Sir Ian Blair is personally responsible for the neglect to authorise my 8 year old child to her rights of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly to which I believe, as a mother, you have absolutely no lawful right to interfere with.\nI understand the Human Rights Act was brought into English domestic law in 1998 which binds the Crown and employees of the Crown and that any interference with any of these rights must have a clear legitimate aim and be prescribed in law. There are no prescribed processes within SOCPA 2005 and the only clear aim I can see of this ludicrous legislation is not legitimate and deeply unlawful as it is, in reality, been placed by the Parliament and penned by Tony Blair under the past Home Secretary, as a gag order on political dissent; firstly, upon freedom of speech and presently, freedom of assembly is being placed under \u2018attack\u2019 by the present Home Secretary.\nI reasonably want to know exactly who I am dealing with and understand exactly under which lawful authority that party is acting. I do not believe that to be an unreasonable request.\nIt is my understanding that this legislation was quoted in Parliament as \u201ca hammer to crack a nut\u201d in reference to Mr. Brian W. Haw whose father was one of the first soldiers to enter the horrors of the Bergen-Belson concentration camp and rescue the victims of the Nazi Regime; an honourable deed one must concede.\nMr. Haw has been to Cambodia and born witness to \u2018the killing fields\u2019 from another war of another generation, yet another human tragedy of which most of humanity is capable of understanding should they dare to understand the reality of cause and effect., the natural laws of physics.\nIf you any doubt in your mind whatsoever with regard to the unfettered powers that have been disgracefully put upon certain objectionable members of the Metropolitan Police Force, I insist that you spend 5 minutes of your precious time within your consultation to view this video of events from last Saturday\u2019s peaceful protest against the gag order on free speech and banning order upon freedom of assembly you are attempting to hang like a black cloud over this great nation of free thinkers.\nhttp://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2008/01//389502.wmv\nThe Nuremburg Principles clearly define what a war crime is. The International Criminal Court Act of 2001 defines personal criminal accountability including conduct ancillary to genocide which this government has reduced paying taxes, in support of an illegal war, to.\nThe Statutes of Rome 1998, specifically article 25, clearly define criminal responsibility with regards to aiding and abetting, including providing the means to commit, war crimes.\nAs England was the founding signatory and Australia became the 60th member state to ratify this lawful attempt to shield human life from crimes of war, one would assume that the freedom to express these facts is what is utmost in the mind of Mr. Brian W. Haw amongst many others he has inspired in his cries for the brutalised peoples of Iraq \u2013 genocide is a war crime and Gordon Brown as well as Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and many others, are war criminals and should be immediately detained and sent for trial at the Hague for their complicity in war crimes against humanity through their use of depleted uranium and various other absolutely horrendous weapons of this grossly illegal war.\nIt is of great national and public importance to repeal the SOCPA gag order on free speech, which is vital to the future police state this nation will be placed under should SOCPA be spread like the plague over the nation. To remedy the past is to remove such a gag order from the people in a truly free and truly democratic nation.\nI look forward to your personal response at your earliest convenience. Upon receipt of this letter it is presumed that the above noted legislation will be completely read and understood by those involved in the business of working for crown and country, upholding both national and international law and entirely personally accountable to said legislation.\nMrs. Charity Sweet\nI pulled this little gem off of wikipedia.\nTucker v Director of Public Prosecutions (30 November 2007)\nTucker v Director of Public Prosecutions [2007] EWHC 3019 (Admin) (30 November 2007) This was an appeal by way of case stated. The appellant was convicted under section 132 (1) (c) of the Serious Organized Crimes and Police Act (SOCPA) of being within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, carried on unauthorised demonstration by herself in a public place in a designated area, namely Parliament Square. Her defence was that Mr Brian Haw had invited her to join him in his demonstration. He gave evidence on her behalf to that effect. The magistrate said: \"Had I accepted this evidence (which I did not) it would have been argued that the allegation that she had 'carried on an unauthorised demonstration by herself ..... ' could not have been made out, and further more (in my view incorrectly) that it would provide a defence by saying that as Mr Haw is safe from prosecution anyone who joins him is also safe.\" The question posed by the magistrate was: \"Was it lawful under section 6 (1) HRA to convict the appellant?\" The Administrative Court held that SOCPA was not incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (specifically, Articles 10 (freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of assembly)), and Ms Tucker's conviction was therefore lawful.\nIn this case, irrefutable evidence was offered regarding Babs and Brian wearing matching book-end pink sparkly banners and DJ N. Evans refusing to accept the truth of the evidence and reality.\nThere is a pattern of judges refusing to believe the truth as in the contempt case of Haw and Tucker at Southwark Crown Court with QC Rivlin who refused to accept that Babs was ill on the day of supposedd shouting and contempt of court, just like Evans refused to accept that Babs was with Brian. Rivlin refused to accept that I was listed on the day and my case was adjourned or that I was even present or not present on the day of the alleged contempt offences, as the case may be.\nA funny co-incidence is that I am to appear before his sideshow, the Rivlin freak-show of a Crown Court, on Feb. 7, 2008 regarding my conviction pertaining to this summons for standing outside the gates of Downing Street with an old wooden English door gratified with the words free speech, faith, hope and charity.\nI was exhibiting art.\nBollocks to Goebbels Brown.\nRepeal SOCPA.\nCollateral damage? One of the basic principles of international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish between military targets and civilian targets.\nThis sets out the overall parameters for GCIV:\n\u2022 Article 2 states that signatories are bound by the convention both in war, armed conflicts where war has not been declared and in an occupation of another country's territory.\n\u2022 Article 3 states that even where there is not a conflict of international character the parties must as a minimum adhere to minimal protections described as: noncombatants, members of armed forces who have laid down their arms, and combatants who are hors de combat (out of the fight) due to wounds, detention, or any other cause shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, with the following prohibitions:\n(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment\n\u2022 Article 4 defines who is a Protected person: Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. But it explicitly excludes Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention and the citizens of a neutral state or an allied state if that state has normal diplomatic relations with in the State in whose hands they are.\n\u2022 A number of articles specify how Protecting Powers, ICRC and other humanitarian organizations may aid Protected persons.\nProtected person is the most important definition in this section because many of the articles in the rest of GCIV only apply to Protected persons.\nArticle 5 is currently one of the most controversial articles of GCIV, because it forms, (along with Article 5 of the GCIII and parts of GCIV Article 4,) the American Administration's interpretation of unlawful combatants.\nPart II. General Protection of Populations Against Certain Consequences of War\nArticle 13. The provisions of Part II cover the whole of the populations of the countries in conflict, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, nationality, religion or political opinion, and are intended to alleviate the sufferings caused by war.\nPart III. Status and Treatment of Protected Persons\nSection I. Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories\nArticle 32. A protected person/s shall not have anything done to them of such a character as to cause physical suffering or extermination ... the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment' While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture (see discussion on the Torture page), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.\nThe prohibition on scientific experiments was added, in part, in response to experiments by German and Japanese doctors during World War II, of whom Josef Mengele was the most infamous.\nArticle 33. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.\nPillage is prohibited.\nUnder the 1949 Geneva Conventions collective punishments are a war crime. Article 33 states: \"No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed,\" and \"collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.\"\nBy collective punishment, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World Wars I and II. In the First World War, Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity. In World War II, Nazis carried out a form of collective punishment to suppress resistance. Entire villages or towns or districts were held responsible for any resistance activity that took place there. The conventions, to counter this, reiterated the principle of individual responsibility. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to \"intimidatory measures to terrorize the population\" in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices \"strike at guilty and innocent alike. They are opposed to all principles based on humanity and justice.\"\nAdditional Protocol II of 1977 explicitly forbids collective punishment. But as fewer states have ratified this protocol than GCIV, GCIV Article 33. is the one more commonly quoted.\nArticle 49. The second paragraph of Article 49 provides that persons displaced during armed conflict must be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased. This right of displaced persons is often referred to as the \"right of return\" and has been reaffirmed in later international treaties and conventions. State Practice also establishes this rule as a norm of customary international law, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.\nInternational treaty for the renunciation of war\nThe 1927 Kellogg-Briand Pact was concluded outside the League of Nations, and remains a binding treaty under international law. In the United States, it remains in force as federal law (see U.S. Const. art. VI).\nAs a practical matter, the Kellogg-Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war, and in this sense it made no immediate contribution to international peace and proved to be ineffective in the years to come; the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, and the German invasion of Poland in 1939, were prime examples of this. However, the pact is an important multilateral treaty because, in addition to binding the particular nations that signed it, it has also served as one of the legal bases establishing the international norms that the threat[1] or use of military force in contravention of international law, as well as the territorial acquisitions resulting from it[2], are unlawful.\nNotably, the pact served as the legal basis for the creation of the notion of crime against peace \u2014 it was for committing this crime that the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced a number of persons responsible for starting World War II.\nThe interdiction of aggressive war was confirmed and broadened by the United Nations Charter, which states in article 2 paragraph 4 that\nThe consequence of this is that after World War II, nations have been forced to invoke the right of self-defense or the right of collective defense when using military action and have also been prohibited from annexing territory by force.\nMr Chris Coverdale making wars history\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxL2M5wpFQ\nCharity Sweet XXX\nCharity Sweet\ne-mail: charitysweet@hotmail.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 438, "original_length": 26649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.innovativewomens.com/blog/would-you-like-to-improve-your-sex-life", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBDEWTYL2APTIMZXY45FRYMUMEGEUTDB", "length": 6070, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.innovativewomens.com", "title": "WOULD YOU LIKE TO IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE? \u2014 Innovative Women's Health", "raw_content": "A recent study concluded by the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that adults in America were having less sex, roughly nine fewer times per year than 20 years prior.\nA large national survey also concluded that fewer than half of women age 57-73 were sexually active, and those who remained active were having sex less than twice a month. Let\u2019s face it, all types of women today have obstacles in their path to sexual wellness and a healthy sex drive.\nSexual well-being can be a problem for all types of women in today\u2019s world. Do any of these issues sound familiar to you?\nMaybe I\u2019m just getting older...\nAs women continue through life, they may find themselves slowly begin to experience changes in their body\u2019s natural health and well-being. This is not uncommon, and is a topic that women will likely find themselves seeking solutions for at some point in their lives. Decreased sex drive, poor lubrication, or decreased arousal are common signs it may be time to find a path back to fulfillment and sexual wellness.\nBecause being a mom is a full time job\nResearch shows that mothers are more involved in their kids lives today than ever before, and parents are starting families later in their lives. This shift is leaving mothers with less energy at the end of the day. Also many women find themselves balancing a home life with an ever demanding work schedule, this exhaustion of energy can affect a woman\u2019s sex drive. It seemingly becomes harder to find the time and/or motivation to maintain an involved and healthy sex life.\nMedications are impacting my sex life\nMany women today take daily or long-term medications. Though modern medicine has brought relief, many of these women may also experience unwanted sexual side effects from their medications, placing them in a seemingly compromised position between their health and their wellness. It is not uncommon for many of today\u2019s medicines, taken daily or otherwise, to decrease a woman\u2019s desire or drive.\nI have bigger issues to deal with\nWomen suffering from chronic conditions or pain may find themselves with a lowered libido. As women living with chronic pain know, the day is filled with obstacles that can oftentimes keep living a satisfied and normal life just beyond reach. With all the hardship that goes with chronic pain or conditions, finding the energy to be intimate can sometimes seem an impossible task.\nI\u2019m a busy woman - My day never stops\nIn today\u2019s world technology is consuming more and more of our attention, and women are no exception to this rule. We spend more time with our devices than ever, maintaining contact with friends or exploring our favorite sites and blogs. Sometimes we experience what is commonly becoming known as \u201cthe drift\u201d, with our attention slipping towards our phones and computers, and away from our partner and our sex lives. This is common in today\u2019s world, and can complicate the dynamic between partners already struggling with issues regarding female arousal, intimacy, and pleasure.\nINNOVATIVE WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH UNDERSTANDS\u2026\n...and we have a solution\nSolving lubrication issues\nRelief from painful intercourse\nOK - here are some reasons to make the time.\nNow let\u2019s talk about the benefits of a healthy sex life. Did you know that having sex twice a week can have a positive effect on both your overall health and appearance? As a matter of fact, regular sexual activity can have many positive effects.\nImproved mood, pain reduction and healthier skin\nMinimize your stress and live a longer life.\nSex also reduces stress which results in reducing cortisol levels. This leads to a more balanced body, maintaining proper blood pressure and blood sugar, as well as naturally lowering acidity in a woman\u2019s abdomen.\nWomen with regular sex lives often see an increase in Immunoglobulin A, an antibody which strengthens the immune system. Women participating in sex at least twice a week show on average a 30% higher level of Immunoglobulin A.\nThere are studies that show regular penetration and orgasms can lead to promoting the health of a woman\u2019s pelvic floor, increasing blood flow and muscle contraction.\nRemember a time in life when you felt engaged and satisfied. Isn\u2019t it time to regain your femininity? There are countless reasons why women often times forget to nurture one of the most basic and powerful parts of themselves. It is easy in today\u2019s world to get so caught up in other things that a healthy and satisfying sex life falls to the wayside. Innovative Women\u2019s Health has created the Innovative Women\u2019s Health Program Kit, on a mission to help women re-capture their spark and regain their love life.\nINNOVATIVE WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH HAS A SOLUTION..\nSo by now you might be wondering what exactly is a Innovative Women\u2019s Health Program Kit and how can it help to improve your sex life?\nThe Innovative Women\u2019s Health Program Kit is a treatment for women experiencing low libido, poor-or-failing vaginal tissue tissue health, painful intercourse, low sex drive, and poor lubrication.\nWHAT IS AN INNOVATIVE WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH PROGRAM KIT?\nTALK TO INNOVATIVE WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH TODAY..\nInnovative Women\u2019s Health set out on a mission to bring relief to the growing number of women suffering from the many of the causes affecting their sex lives today. Whether dealing with poor libido, painful intercourse, poor lubrication, vaginal tissue health, or low sex drive, it\u2019s time to take back control of your sex life with the help of an Innovative Women\u2019s Health Program Kit today.\nTHE INNOVATIVE WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH PROGRAM KIT IS FOR TODAY\u2019S WOMAN..\nInnovative Women\u2019s Health is committed to providing modern sexual health solutions for the modern woman. With all the many complications, interruptions, and hang-ups of modern life, it\u2019s no wonder that Innovative Women\u2019s Health has brought satisfaction and relief to all types of women. Schedule an appointment today and find out for yourself why Innovative Women\u2019s Health is Washington\u2019s premier health clinic for women, and why the Innovative Women\u2019s Health Program Kit has brought back the spark for so many women today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 11757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/15/ashford-us-closure-and-what-it-says-about-profit-higher-ed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:02Z", "digest": "sha1:7PKRHMHWRT3R7KFD4AYEI7W4BTPHCB5K", "length": 11292, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.insidehighered.com", "title": "Ashford U's closure and what it says about for-profit higher ed", "raw_content": "Closure Delayed (by a Decade)\nAshford University is shutting down, 10 years after it became the platform for a publicly traded, mostly online college. A look at what the situation says (and doesn't say) about for-profit higher ed.\nA photo from Ashford's web page\nAshford University is shutting its physical campus in Iowa, the latest in a series of recent closures of small colleges (many in obscure places) with shrinking enrollments and revenues. But Ashford, given its history and its owner, is far from just another private college.\nA decade ago, in 2005, Franciscan University of the Prairies was on the verge of closure, its enrollment down to 320 students and the religious order it was affiliated with, the Sisters of St. Francis, in steep decline. In stepped Bridgepoint Education, a California-based company that vowed to pour resources into the Iowa college's physical campus and bolster its enrollment and revenues with online programs.\nOver the next 10 years, Bridgepoint's takeover of Ashford became exhibit A of one of the perceived questionable tactics of for-profit higher education: the \"buying\" of accreditation, by annexing an existing institution and transforming it into something very different (almost always online, and usually on a mass scale). The small Iowa campus became a springboard for a publicly traded college company with (at one point) soaring online enrollments and significant profits, drawing the enmity of U.S. senators and prompting significant scrutiny of the accrediting agency that approved the initial transaction.\nSo it isn't surprising that this month's closing of Ashford's Iowa campus led critics to question Bridgepoint's commitment to the on-ground college -- especially since 2013, when it no longer needed a physical presence in the Midwest to keep its accreditation, having been approved by the regional accreditor in California -- and to accuse it of having broken its promises.\nSo Bridgepoint buys accredited liberal arts college, builds big online shell around heart, & now is killing the heart http://t.co/0cfbvCUFh8\n\u2014 Bob Shireman (@bob_shireman) July 10, 2015\nWhen #4profit Ashford bought Iowa college 2005,it said:\"We will never,ever get rid of the Clinton campus.\"It just did http://t.co/7qG7smQby2\n\u2014 David Halperin (@DaHalperin) July 10, 2015\nThose critiques of Bridgepoint's handling of Ashford may be relatively easy to dismiss, because the critics behind them consistently doubt the motives of for-profit colleges.\nThat's far less true of Steven D. Crow, who was head of the Higher Learning Commission in 2005 when the accreditor approved the initial purchase of Ashford by Bridgepoint.\nIn an interview, Crow said the only thing that surprised him about Bridgepoint's decision to close Ashford's Iowa campus was that it took so long. He said it became clear to him a short time after the purchase that Bridgepoint's \"real interest was in distance ed,\" and that he \"figured the campus had very little interest to them, except to provide pictures\" to woo online students with the idea of a traditional college.\nCrow, who has had little to say about Ashford since leaving the accreditor in 2008, said with regret: \"I felt we'd been hoodwinked on that one.\"\nBridgepoint and Ashford officials bristle at Crow's suggestion that they were anything less than forthcoming that supplementing the campus-based programs with a significant online learning presence would be the only way to save Ashford, and that they fell short of a full-fledged effort to make the Iowa campus a going concern.\nThey note that they poured more than $40 million into campus facilities and spent $10 million a year in scholarship funds to try to bolster student enrollment, which topped 1,000 earlier this decade before dropping below 500 now. They assert that the same forces that prompted leaders at Marian Court College in Massachusetts and Virginia's Sweet Briar College to decide those campuses were unsustainable (a decision reversed, for now, in the latter case) drove Bridgepoint's board to the same conclusion.\nIf Bridgepoint had not been committed to the Iowa campus, \"we would not have invested in it, not worked as hard as we did to build it, and closed it down instead of spending almost a decade working to build the campus and its enrollment,\" Andrew Clark, Bridgepoint's chairman and founder, said in a rare interview with Inside Higher Ed. \"We pursued it with sincere belief that we had the ability to grow the campus, and we were on track to do so until the world of higher education started changing in 2012. As other institutions from all sectors have found -- it is difficult to get students to go to a small liberal arts school in a remote part of the country.\"\nFrom 320 to 1,000 Students \u2026\nFranciscan University of the Prairies, a Roman Catholic college founded in 1918 and known for most of its history as Mount St. Clare College, was poised to fold a decade ago, accumulating sizable annual deficits and a huge backlog of deferred maintenance.\nAfter one potential buyer dropped out, the nuns that ran Franciscan reached out to Bridgepoint, which, at the time, offered online courses with ACE credit recommendations through a partnership with Charter Oak State College (think an early version of StraighterLine).\nBridgepoint officials told Inside Higher Ed at the time that no Ashford employees would lose their jobs in the transition and that the company was \"committed absolutely\" to remaining in Clinton, Iowa. Clark, the CEO, said that Bridgepoint would work to expand two small master's programs that Ashford offered at the time.\nWhat an understatement. By 2012, Ashford's enrollment had soared to more than 90,000, with all but about 1,000 students online. That phenomenal growth enabled company officials to take Bridgepoint public in 2009 and led to high-visibility (and arguably unwise) steps like buying naming rights to a college football bowl game.\nBridgepoint's brashness and Ashford's growth combined to make the company an easy target for critics, especially congressional Democrats, who, encouraged by the Obama administration's regulatory crackdown on for-profit higher education, ramped up their own scrutiny of the sector.\nBridgepoint's origins were an especially sore point. A March 2011 hearing held by then Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa was designed to ask hard questions of Bridgepoint's Clark, but he opted to skip it.\nInstead, Sylvia Manning, who succeeded Crow as head of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, took significant heat from the assembled lawmakers for the fact that her agency had allowed Bridgepoint to buy Ashford and turn it into something completely different.\n\"What was wrong in our process,\" Manning said at the time, \"is that once we accredited [Franciscan's transition to Ashford] \u2026 it grew this enormous superstructure of online education \u2026. We had not seen that before, so we didn't have the tools to predict that or control that.\" She noted that her agency, and most other accreditors, had responded to the Ashford situation by changing their policies in ways that have largely precluded others from following suit in taking over the accreditation of existing institutions and radically transforming them.\n\"What happened in 2005 could not happen today,\" Manning said at the hearing.\nCrow, who headed the accreditor at the time of Ashford's purchase, said in the interview with Inside Higher Ed last week that he did not think Bridgepoint officials had been transparent enough with the accreditor about their plans for the Iowa campus.\n\"The way it was presented to me, they were going to save the campus, and use online learning to more broadly serve the state of Iowa,\" Crow said. \"That became more and more unreal\" as Ashford's national enrollment exploded and the university's operations in Bridgepoint's California home expanded, he said.\n\"I bought a line,\" Crow said.\nBridgepoint did not mislead the accreditor, Clark insists. \"Bridgepoint was very transparent in both its actions and conversations with HLC regarding planned growth on the campus and online,\" he said in an email statement. \"Beginning in 2005, AU had numerous HLC team visits, submitted and received approvals for new programs, and submitted required reports to our accreditor. In fact, one of the recommendations from HLC was that we needed to grow our online enrollment to provide additional revenue to continue improvement of facilities and services on the campus.\"\nYes, the company expanded its online enrollments significantly, Ashford and Bridgepoint officials acknowledge, but they also went to great lengths to bolster the Iowa campus.\nRichard Pattenaude, a former University of Maine System president who became Ashford's president in 2012, said the university essentially tripled its Iowa enrollment from 2005 to 2011 through a series of investments in facilities (about $40 million) and scholarships and other financial aid (to the tune of about $10 million a year, subsidized with revenues from online students), as well as expansion of academic and athletics programs.\nBut those efforts flagged in the face of the financial and competitive headwinds that began to hit all of higher education earlier this decade, Pattenaude and Clark said.\nThe college found it increasingly difficult to attract students to the rural campus in northeast Iowa, and that became even tougher as the institution sought to lower its tuition discount rate to closer to the national average, which is nearing 50 percent. Last fall, Pattenaude said, the college fell short of its goal of 200 freshmen, and for this coming fall, Ashford sought 150 students -- and \"will not reach 100,\" he said.\n\"We've been studying this for six months, and just can't get away from the fact that enrollment does not support the campus,\" he said. With Ashford's online enrollments falling, too -- Bridgepoint's latest quarterly report puts total enrollment at about 55,000, down from its peak of over 90,000 -- the company can't continue to subsidize the campus operation \"for the other 99 percent of our students and our stockholders,\" Pattenaude said.\nAshford officials are negotiating transfer agreements for its students with a dozen or so other colleges, and beginning in January will let any campus-based student who wants to finish his or her degree online do so tuition-free, Pattenaude said.\nFaculty and staff members are being given priority in hiring for positions at Ashford's and Bridgepoint's other locations (including the University of the Rockies, in Colorado) and on its online faculty. Those who don't catch on with other jobs there and stay through next May will get a \"generous\" severance package. And the company plans to try to sell the physical campus itself.\nSo, 10 years after Bridgepoint stepped in to save a failing campus in Clinton, Iowa, it will teach out its own failing campus in Clinton, Iowa.\nAshford officials portray it as just another example of \"the national phenomenon\" of small independent colleges with struggling business models closing, and in some ways it is. But given its history, it is something else, as well.\nAshford University is the latest big for-profit seeking to become a nonprofit\nWestern Accreditor Denies Ashford U. Bid for Accreditation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 387, "original_length": 22261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insurance-canada.ca/2009/09/25/manulife-sinochem-expands-again-in-china-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LZRV5S72ZXIVCC2HACQZKKWC63P7HULW", "length": 2422, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.insurance-canada.ca", "title": "Manulife-Sinochem Expands Again in China - Insurance-Canada.ca - Where Insurance & Technology Meet", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Industry News, News \u00bb Manulife-Sinochem Expands Again in China\nManulife-Sinochem Expands Again in China\nTORONTO, Sept. 25 2009 \u2013 Manulife Financial today announced that it is expanding again in China, with confirmation that Manulife-Sinochem Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to operate in the Province of Tianjin, one of China\u2019s fastest growing provinces.\nThe new license was granted on the heels of the recent trip to China led by Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty who was accompanied by the Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney, Superintendent of Financial Institutions Julie Dickson, Manulife President and CEO Donald Guloien and other Canadian financial industry leaders. The new branch license will expand Manulife-Sinochem\u2019s operational presence in China to some 37 cities across 11 provinces. Manulife-Sinochem currently has about 11,500 professionally trained staff and agents serving over 450,000 customers across China.\nManulife Financial President and CEO Donald Guloien said, \u201cManulife continues to see excellent opportunities to expand as we apply our products and skills to help meet the savings, protection and investment needs of customers across China. We are delighted with the positive support we have received from the Canadian and Chinese governments and our outstanding partner, Sinochem.\u201d\nManulife-Sinochem Chairman, Marc Sterling said, \u201cWe are very pleased to be able to open a new branch in the city of Tianjin. Tianjin is an important step in our Company\u2019s development.\u201d\nTianjin is located south east of Beijing, with a population of 11.8 million people. Tianjin is one of four special municipalities under the Central Government of China.\nAbout Manulife-Sinochem\nManulife-Sinochem is a joint venture company between Manulife (International) Limited (51 per cent) and China Foreign Economic and Trade Trust & Investment Company, a member of the Sinochem group (49 per cent).\nAbout Sinochem\nChina Foreign Economic and Trade Trust & Investment Company (FOTIC) is a core enterprise of Sinochem. Sinochem, founded in 1950, is one of the biggest foreign trading companies in China. Since 1989, Sinochem has topped the list of the country\u2019s 500 leading foreign trading companies and has also been recognized as a Fortune 500 company for 17 consecutive years.\nSinochem can be found on the Internet at www.sinochem.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 7211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.interton.com/en/hearing-loss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WQWGYEDNNVEUAS3XYEG3H7NHQHV5JDMY", "length": 1773, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.interton.com", "title": "Hearing loss & hearing problems: everything you need to know | Interton", "raw_content": "Everything you need to know about hearing loss\nHearing loss: you are not alone\nHearing loss is common. In fact, more than 400 million people around the world have some form of hearing problems.\nAnd yet, you may say: \u201cI\u2019m not really the type of person who wears a hearing aid.\u201d These days though, they\u2019re very different to the types you might remember. In fact, nowadays wearing a hearing aid is more like wearing glasses or a cool pair of wireless earphones.\nHearing loss definition\nPut simply, hearing loss is a decrease in how well you can hear. It can occur suddenly or gradually depending on the cause. And while hearing loss can affect anyone at any time, it is most commonly related to the aging process.\nAlthough your ears receive sounds, it\u2019s your brain that actually understands them. Wait too long before addressing even mild hearing loss, and your brain can lose the ability to process certain sounds. This means that taking care of your hearing helps keep your brain functionally healthily. And of course, hearing is an essential part of connecting with loved ones and enjoying life.\nIt\u2019s funny, but you may not be the first to notice that you have hearing loss. Often, it\u2019s the people around you who detect it before you do. They may notice that they have to repeat themselves a lot, you turn the volume up very loud or that you\u2019re not participating in the many ways you normally might. They\u2019re all keen to connect and enjoy life with you. Why not tune back in rather than miss out?\nStop missing out, today\nPeople with hearing loss wait an average of 7 years before seeking out a solution. Just think how many missed words, sounds and fun that adds up to? So, don\u2019t let time slip by for you. Take a hearing test today and enjoy life to the fullest. Sound good?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.invo.org.uk/current-work/involving-children-and-young-people/resources-for-involving-children-and-young-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:VMWSBEV4V4FJQFXVU4WNOSPHVHGNOW5V", "length": 1842, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.invo.org.uk", "title": "Resources for involving children and young people in research | INVOLVE", "raw_content": "Groups and resources\nIn September 2013, the NIHR Medicines for Children Research Network ran a ground breaking event. Following the event a Generation R report was published and a series of videos.\nGeneration R Alliance\nAnyone with an interest in promoting and working with children, young people and families in health research can join the Alliance. For further information about what this will entail read the following Terms of Reference.\nDECIPHer is the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement. They have a group of young people (ALPHA) aged 14-21 who advise their researchers on public health topics and their research.\nNational Youth Agency Young Researchers Network\nResources include a toolkit to support young people-led research.\nChildren\u2019s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE)\nCRAE is a membership body for organisations and individuals committed to their vision: a society where the human rights of all children are recognised and realised. They have publications on children\u2019s participation in decision making and rights.\n\u2018This is my story\u2019 \u2013 a two-minute animation of how Tom got involved in research. Tom and other children and young people share their experiences of being involved in research.\nTop tips for involving children and young people in research \u2013 ranked by children and young people.\nA longer document Involving children and young people in research: top tips and key issues including further information and resources\nReward and recognition for children and young people involved in research \u2013 things to consider \u2013 this new paper gives guidance on things to consider when planning involvement that includes young people. The London Generation R Young Persons Advisory Group (YPAG) at Great Ormond Street Hospital, helped to shape the content of this guidance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 11004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/the-man-who-tried-to-kill-mandela-1363681", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JAHMD4YJXQ6BXAT5QNPNT463GYWHUAAB", "length": 2830, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.iol.co.za", "title": "The man who tried to kill Mandela | Cape Times", "raw_content": "The man who tried to kill Mandela\nCape Times / 16 August 2012, 11:08am / SAPA\nBOEREMAG bomber Herman van Rooyen is a farmer from Bela Bela who was convicted yesterday of high treason for trying to kill former president Nelson Mandela.\nVan Rooyen was the Boeremag\u2019s military commander in Limpopo and headed a bombing campaign late in 2002 aimed at causing a racial war in South Africa.\nThe group planted a bomb near Bolobedu in Limpopo in October 2002. The bomb had been planted along the route which they hoped Mandela would travel on his way to open a school. He arrived in a helicopter instead.\nVan Rooyen is the 15th man to be convicted in the marathon Boeremag trial in the High Court in Pretoria.\nVan Rooyen participated in planting bombs at the police\u2019s air wing at Grand Central Airport, a bridge in Port Edward and a railway line in Soweto.\nUnder his leadership, several bombs were triggered at the same time in Soweto on the night of October 29, 2002. Claudia Mamatsieng Mokone was killed when a piece of steel was flung into her shack by the railway line blast.\nAccording to witnesses, Van Rooyen and his group had been very satisfied with the success of their bombing campaign in Soweto, and laughed when they saw on television that a woman had been killed.\nHe had also been one of the leaders during the Boeremag\u2019s failed D-Day plan in September 2002 where a group of men were on their way to start a bombing campaign aimed at overthrowing the ANC government.\nJudge Eben Jordaan said the arrest of some of the Boeremag members had not stopped Van Rooyen, who refined his coup plan and continued it with a small group.\nHe had undertaken reconnaissance work to identify targets for the bombings, including a taxi rank and a mosque on the Potchefstroom road.\nAt one stage, he was involved in plans to free fellow Boeremag members from prison and to kill policemen and prosecutors involved in the investigation against the Boeremag.\nPlans to kill investigating officer in the Boeremag case, Superintendent Tollie Vreugdenburg, were apparently abandoned because he was popular, had solved many farm murders and \u201chad a very pretty daughter\u201d.\nAccording to the evidence, he was unconcerned that people could be killed, saying it was a time of war and people would most certainly die. He told witnesses his group of whites were God\u2019s chosen nation and said they wanted to chase blacks out of the country.\nHe had also shown a witness a sketch of his plan for a revolution. He said bombings in Soweto would cause blacks to start attacking whites, and to turn against the ANC government, because they would not be able to catch the bombers.\nVan Rooyen and Rudi Gouws were on the run for months after managing to escape from court cells in 2006. They were part of a group that staged a failed escape attempt at the court last year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 388, "original_length": 7632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/michael-clifford-we-need-a-real-inquiry-to-unlock-the-truth-890152.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:22Z", "digest": "sha1:S7JNZEQ6VO4MQSVTJ75V7OFUTIAHOB5U", "length": 6878, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.irishexaminer.com", "title": "Michael Clifford: We need a real inquiry to unlock the truth | Irish Examiner", "raw_content": "Michael Clifford: We need a real inquiry to unlock the truth\nFollow @Mickcliff\nTwo weeks ago, the justice minister ordered what now appears to be a Mickey Mouse probe into a whistleblower\u2019s claims about the prison service, writes Michael Clifford\nGenerally, there are two categories of inquiry frequently undertaken by a State agency or government organ.\nThe standard inquiry is designed to find out whether something went wrong, how it happened, and who may be responsible.\nThe other category frequently used we shall refer to as the Mickey Mouse inquiry. This is designed to respond to a controversy.\nTurning over stones and digging for information is not the primary function of a Mickey Mouse inquiry. Instead, the main focus is to present the inquiry as an exhibit to show that something, anything, is being done.\nTwo weeks ago, the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan ordered what now has all the appearances of a Mickey Mouse inquiry.\nOn November 22, this newspaper published a story about a whistleblower within the Irish Prison Service (IPS) who is claiming to have knowledge of activities including placing tracker devices on prison officers\u2019 cars and planting surveillance devices that may have monitored conversations between prisoners and their solicitors.\nThe whistleblower also claims that a private investigations firm was hired to undertake much of this activity, and that results were passed on to An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.\nREAD MORE: Whistleblower: Tracking devices placed in prison officers\u2019 cars\nThe man\u2019s name is David McDonald. He is an assistant chief officer in the IPS\u2019s Operational Support Group and has worked in the prison service for nearly 30 years.\nThe allegations are extremely serious.\nOn November 23, this newspaper published further claims Mr McDonald is making in a sworn affidavit around how deaths in prisons are mishandled.\nThe allegations have arisen in the course of a dispute between Mr McDonald and two colleagues and the prison service. Mr McDonald and one of the colleagues were summarily told they were being transferred last August. They challenged the order and the High Court quashed the order relating to Mr McDonald. (The second man\u2019s challenge is ongoing).\nAll three prison staff have a long record of service in prisons and appear to be of a mind that they are being treated as if they have committed some grievous wrong, which they insist is completely false and damaging to their reputations.\nSo much for the route that these allegations have taken to arrive in the public domain. The motive for the dissemination can be questioned, but that is irrelevant as to whether or not the claims have substance.\nEnter Mr Flanagan and the Mickey Mouse inquiry. On the day the story was published, the minister announced that he knew of these allegations.\nI have therefore asked the independent Inspector of Prisons, Patricia Gilheaney, to carry out an urgent preliminary investigation into the allegations to determine as far as possible the facts,\u201d he said.\nSo Mr Flanagan knew about the allegations prior to the Irish Examiner story, but only once it was in the public domain did \u201curgency\u201d attach to the matter.\nMr McDonald says he rang the office of the Inspector of Prisons the morning after Mr Flanagan\u2019s announcement. He introduced himself as the man with the affidavit and allegations and said he was willing to help in any way possible.\nREAD MORE: Officer raises concern over jail deaths\nDespite the urgency attaching to the inquiry, he has not been contacted since. This should ring alarm bells for anybody familiar with the internal garda investigation into abuse of the penalty points system in 2013.\nOn that occasion, the senior garda\u00ed investigating senior garda\u00ed never bothered to contact the man who had made the allegations, Sergeant Maurice McCabe. The sergeant could have provided chapter and verse if asked.\nInstead, a report was published that was subsequently shown to have been less than rigorous. A cynic might conclude that Sgt McCabe was not contacted because he would have had plenty of uncomfortable facts to present to the inquiry.\nThe failure to contact the prison officer at the centre of the current claims is staggering if one were to take seriously the minister\u2019s \u201curgency\u201d to get to the truth.\nAnother pointer that suggests Mickey Mouse is lurking concerns the legal framework for this inquiry. The minister cited Section 31 of the Prisons Act 2007 as granting the inspector the power to examine all documents retained in prisons.\nThe act does exactly that, but it says nothing about prison service documents retained beyond prison walls. For instance, if there is documentation relating to a private investigations firm it is highly unlikely to be kept in one of the State\u2019s detention facilities.\nThe IPS HQ is in Longford and it also has a base in Dublin that is not located in a prison.\nMr McDonald\u2019s solicitor has written to the minister pointing out the deficit of legal power in the inquiry, but apparently to no avail. As things stand, it would seem that the inspector does not have legal power to carry out the kind of inquiry the minister indicated to parliament would be carried out.\nThen there is the matter of the inspector herself. Ms Gilheaney, who was appointed inspector last April, has a long and distinguished record in the area of mental health. As such, she was a fitting candidate for her current job. Mental health is a hugely important issue in prisons, particularly as a high number of prisoners suffer with their mental health.\nPrison officers doing a difficult job must also approve of an inspector who would place a high value of mental health in the prison environment.\nHowever, the substance of the inquiry at hand might involve uncovering information some would like to stay buried, locating and interpreting various documents, following a money trail that may not be transparent and interviewing people who may not wish to divulge anything incriminating.\nIs somebody with Ms Gilheaney\u2019s background the ideal person to conduct such an inquiry? Certainly, the lack of an urgent, or even any, response to Mr McDonald\u2019s offer of assistance would not inspire confidence.\nThe day after Mr Flanagan announced the inquiry, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na issued its own statement.\nAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is examining matters that it is aware of relating to the Irish Prison Service that are in the public domain,\u201d the statement said.\nOne element of the allegations is that material allegedly acquired illegally was passed onto to An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na. So we have guards investigating guards once more.\nBetween it all, there are huge questions regarding the approach to inquiring into serious allegations of malpractice. The way things are currently stacked up, there\u2019s a case to be made that this is a perfect template for a Mickey Mouse inquiry.\nWhistleblowerPrisonCharlie FlanaganInvestigationInquiry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 299, "original_length": 12503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/former-garda-chief-backs-decriminalisation-of-drug-use-amid-state-review-472622.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2M63BTRQ4ZDBWXEXEW4LANOYV5CMK3BT", "length": 2496, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.irishexaminer.com", "title": "Former garda chief backs decriminalisation of drug use amid State review | Irish Examiner", "raw_content": "Former garda chief backs decriminalisation of drug use amid State review\nA retired garda boss has said it is time to decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal use.\nFormer assistant commissioner Jack Nolan also said that a debate should commence on the legalisation of drugs.\nIn a very rare public comment by a former senior garda on drug decriminalisation, Mr Nolan said that while Ireland\u2019s fundamental legislation \u2014 the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 \u2014 had many successes, it was \u201ctime, now, to look at different options\u201d.\nThe Department of Health is conducting a public consultation on the issue, to inform a high-level State expert group on possible alternatives to the criminalisation of drug possession.\nIn an interview in Hot Press, the former Dublin police chief distinguished between decriminalising the substance and decriminalising the person using it.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no one seeking to decriminalise the actual substance,\u201d he said. \u201cI personally favour the option of decriminalising the person found in possession of smaller amount of drugs.\u201d\nHe said the establishment of the State Working Group on alternatives was a very positive step.\n\u201cThere are opportunities in the debate that\u2019s now commencing in this country to decriminalise possession of smaller amounts of drugs, rather than impacting on the life chances of somebody, from an employment or travel perspective,\u201d said Mr Nolan.\nHe said the world followed the law-enforcement model in dealing with the drugs problem and said it was \u201ccertainly required\u201d in relation to dealing, importation, and associated criminality.\n\u201cBut, the person at the end of the food chain, who suffers on the street, has been somewhat forgotten about,\u201d he said.\nUsing the criminal court and law-enforcement model for the people unfortunate enough to have become addicted to drugs is probably not the best approach.\nMr Nolan, who retired in April, 2017, said he was bothered, as an officer, at how a criminal conviction that might have happened a long time ago could affect the life chances of a person.\nOn the wider issue of supply, he said Uruguay and certain US states had legalised supply of cannabis and that Canada had recently passed similar legislation.\n\u201cThe issue of decriminalising a person is just one small part of a wider health and social issue for Ireland to consider,\u201d he said.\n\u201cAn emphasis on reducing supply, or controlling supply through a licence or nationalised outlets, is a debate that must commence as well,\u201d Mr Nolan said.\nGardaDrugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 8208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.isciences.com/blog/2016/4/26/zambia-hydropower-at-risk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:FQ4TLOAYALC276FZHUZFFDEXMFASXGY6", "length": 4104, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.isciences.com", "title": "Zambia Hydropower at Risk \u2014 ISCIENCES", "raw_content": "Zambia Hydropower at Risk\nISciences has developed the capability to assess risks to electricity production due to the impact of water deficits and temperature anomalies (see \"NOTE\" below). Water deficits directly limit the ability to produce hydropower and to provide cooling for thermal power generation; and, warm temperature anomalies reduce both the generating and cooling efficiencies of thermal power generation. As with our Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM), this capability operates on a monthly basis and both monitors current stress levels and provides monthly forecasts with lead times of up to nine months. In this blog post, we demonstrate this capability by providing a brief analysis of the current situation in Zambia.\nAs shown in our monthly WSIM assessments, widespread water deficits are currently affecting large parts of Africa. While these deficits are expected to diminish in most locations, Zambia is forecast to be hit with particularly severe and long lasting deficits until September 2016 (Figure 1).\nFigure 1. WSIM Composite index for the past 3 months and 9 month forecast, showing deficits in Zambia extending to September 2016. Based on observed data through Mar 2016 and forecasts issued last week of Mar 2016.\nLike many African countries, Zambia is highly dependent on hydroelectric power, with 95% of its electricity coming from a few large dams, especially the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, with a capacity of 1080 MW and the Kafue Gorge Dam on the Kafue River, with a capacity of 930 MW (Figure 2).\nFigure 2. Locations of major hydroelectric dams in Zambia.\nWSIM indicates that the Zambezi and Kafue Rivers at these locations have had very low flow for the past several years (Figure 3). At Kariba Dam, only one year (2014) in the past five has had anything close to a normal wet season. Trends at Kafue Gorge Dam have been similar, but with less severe drought in 2015. As a result, lake levels at Kariba are at or near historic lows. At both locations, abnormally low water levels are forecast to continue at least until the start of the next wet season.\nFigure 3. Total blue water (flow accumulated runoff) at Kariba Dam and Kafue Gorge Dam in Zambia. Background colors indicate anomaly of indicated water levels (see key).\nThese low flows are merely the latest in a succession of abnormally dry years for at least the past decade region wide (Figure 4).\nFigure 4. Total blue water (flow accumulated runoff) anomalies for the past decade in southern Africa.\nThese low water levels have a significant impact on Zambia's electrical supply, as illustrated by ISciences' WSIM electricity assessment (Figure 5). This shows that risk to Zambia\u2019s generating capacity has been quite high for the past 5 years. As of March 2016, losses were projected to be nearly 80% and increasing.\nFigure 5. Proportion hydroelectric power lost due to low water levels. Black indicates projections based on observed data, dark blue indicates current forecast, light blue indicates previous month\u2019s forecast.\nThese estimated losses match those reported in the press. Just this month, the New York Times reported that production at Kariba Dam was at 25% of capacity and power disruptions in Zambia have been widely reported on in the past months (e.g. Quartz and Bloomberg).\n[NOTE: ISciences' WSIM electricity assessment is produced monthly and shows estimated power losses globally for the past three months and forecast for the next nine months, by country, state/province, distribution grid, and watershed. The assessment combines WSIM data on flow accumulated runoff (total blue water) and temperature with data on electrical plant location and characteristics such as generating capacity, fuel stock, and cooling type to produce an estimate of generating capacity loss due to low water levels or high temperatures. In addition to present and forecast data, historical assessments are available going back to 1990.]\nPosted in Africa, *Special Topics\ntagged with Zambia, Africa, hydropower, water, electricity, Kariba Dam, Kafue Gorge Dam, Zambezi River, Kafue River, WSIM, drought", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 7142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.isciences.com/blog/2016/9/16/central-asia-russia-water-deficits-persist-in-russia-from-arkhangelsk-through-siberia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:LEFZT7HROE7K6BDOQRQK27BANF62QN46", "length": 2677, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.isciences.com", "title": "Central Asia & Russia: Water deficits persist in Russia from Arkhangelsk through Siberia \u2014 ISCIENCES", "raw_content": "Central Asia & Russia: Water deficits persist in Russia from Arkhangelsk through Siberia\nThe 12-month map (below) indicates widespread water deficits, including exceptional deficits (greater than 40 years) forecast in Russia from Arkhangelsk near the White Sea in the west through the Central Siberian Plateau. Deficits are also forecast for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Surpluses are forecast in much of Kazakhstan and in Russia northeast of Kazakhstan in an area surrounding the southern branch of the Ob River. Both deficits and surpluses are forecast in the eastern part of the Volga River watershed.\nA long dry period and unusually warm weather have extended Siberia's fire season into fall, according to Sergey Verkhovets, Chair of Ecology and Environmental Studies at Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk. The Yamal Peninsula and Yakutia region have been especially hard-hit, says Verkhovets. Though data on the number of fires in Russia is conflicting, the vast extent is evident in smoke-filled satellite images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Terra satellite on September 15, 2016, and from VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite on September 18, 2016.\nFrom September through November, water surpluses in Kazakhstan will begin to transition to conditions of both deficits and surpluses as deficits begin to emerge across the country. Surpluses are forecast in Kyrgyzstan, and both deficits and surpluses are forecast in the Volga River Basin. Moderate (5 to 10 years) deficits are expected to continue to emerge in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan through November. Widespread water deficits in Russia from Arkhangelsk through the Central Siberian Plateau are forecast to persist through November though the extent of exceptional deficits will diminish.\nLooking at the December through February map, the forecast indicates that aforementioned water deficits in Russia will continue to diminish in extent and severity, and moderate surpluses will emerge south of the Gulf of Ob. Surpluses will continue to emerge in the Volga River Basin, with large pockets of exceptional surpluses expected. Exceptional surpluses are also forecast for Kyrgyzstan, though both deficits and surpluses may appear. Deficits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are forecast to become less severe during this period before picking up in intensity after March.\nIn the last quarter of the forecast period widespread moderate to exceptional surpluses are forecast in the basin of the southern Ob River.\ntagged with Arkhangelsk, White Sea, Central Siberian Plateau, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ob River, Volga River, Kyrgyzstan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 325.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iselectfund.com/selection/brian-fielding/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:04Z", "digest": "sha1:WEWMELODW5TYDZ2X774C7PGO5K4ZPSC3", "length": 3522, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.iselectfund.com", "title": "iSelect Selection Committee Member, Brian Fielding", "raw_content": "Brian Fielding has over 30 years experience as an attorney, business executive, and consultant in digital media, broadcasting, technology and licensing. He was on the senior leadership team for 15 years at Audible.com, during its start-up and rapid growth phases and for five years after it was acquired by Amazon.com. Prior to Audible, Brian lived the dream by working in the Sports Division of CBS Television Network, after practicing entertainment law in NYC.\nAs a Senior Attorney with Outside GC, Brian provides business-focused commercial contract, digital and broadcast media legal counsel to technology, online, e-commerce, and digital media companies \u2013 both public and private.\nBrian was Audible\u2019s EVP for Corporate Development from 2005-2012, and played a key role in setting Audible\u2019s strategic and operational direction, including managing the relationship with Audible\u2019s mission-critical 3rd party distribution partner, Apple/iTunes. He managed international development and expansion opportunities, including all non-domestic content acquisition, and was responsible for Audible\u2019s Japan operations. He oversaw content negotiations with US-based Big 6 publishers and the leading European publishers.\nFrom 1997 \u2013 2005, he served as Audible\u2019s EVP \u2013 Content & Business & Legal Affairs, and functioned as de facto in-house counsel, responsible for managing content acquisition, content partner relationships, co-marketing and technology deals. Brian structured and negotiated strategic business development deals, including marketing and technology partnerships, and the first digital-only publishing imprint \u2013 Random House Audible. He developed the digital publishing concept of \u201cdirect-to-digital\u201d(D2D), now a paradigm for co-publishing and catalog deals between publishers and digital distributors. Additionally, Brian managed Audible Original Production Studios. Brian\u2019s deals included ground-breaking internet production/distribution deals with Robin Williams (in 1999) and Ricky Gervais (in 2005). He worked on Audible\u2019s original co-marketing deal with Amazon in 2000, and negotiated seminal deals with Microsoft and Apple, the latter of which covered the integration of Audible\u2019s firmware into the iPod and made Audible the exclusive global supplier of audiobooks to iTunes, which is still true today over a decade later.\nBefore Audible, Brian was Vice President, Business Affairs and Director of Programming at CBS Sports where he was responsible for sports rights and talent negotiations. He did all of the transactional negotiations with the IOC, the USOC and the respective local organizing committees for the1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.\nPrior to joining CBS, Brian was the associate attorney in the NYC boutique entertainment and sports-focused law firm Ryan & Fogerty where he worked on a wide variety of transactions, with a specialty in television broadcast rights (e.g. Augusta National Golf Club & The Masters golf tournament), home video rights, music, trademark licensing and broadcaster\u2019s personal service agreements.\nBrian graduated from the University of Michigan and received his JD from New York Law School. He grew up in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. After graduating from U of M he lived and played music in Detroit before moving to New York City\u2019s Tribeca neighborhood where he lived for almost 20 years prior to moving to Montclair, NJ with his wife and now-grown kids. Brian is a jazz pianist and composer and will be releasing his first album of original music in summer 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.islander.org/2018/02/obituaries-02-07-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:42P37UQ7VTTC5MDMLZAU5SQGDMMZIBTT", "length": 5816, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.islander.org", "title": "Obituaries \u2013 02-07-2018 | Anna Maria Island News", "raw_content": "Marion Hall, 98, of Holmes Beach, died Jan. 25.\nShe was born Aug. 20, 1919, in DuBois, Pennsylvania.\nShe and husband Bob raised her family in Niagara Falls, New York, spending summers at \u201cthe cottage\u201d on Lake Ontario.\nAfter moving to Florida in 1981, she delighted in being with her grandsons, who frequently joined her in playing her favorite game, Rummikub.\nA lover of all holidays, she would awe everyone with her artful displays of her collections.\nShe was a voracious reader of books and The New York Times.\nMostly, she adored being with her beloved dog Shayna.\nShe is survived by her daughter Janet and husband Ellis; daughter-in-law Judy; grandchildren Joshua Foster, Andrea, Joel and wife Chelsey; and four great-grandchildren.\nLaima Kircher\nLaima Kircher, of Anna Maria, died Feb. 1. She was born Nov. 27, 1963.\nIn 2001, she left her native Lithuania, temporarily leaving her son and daughter in her sister\u2019s care, and came to the United States, hoping to build a better life for herself and her children.\nFor the next six years, she worked seven days a week as a caregiver and, during that time, added fluency in English to her fluency in Russian and Lithuanian.\nIn 2007, her daughter Salomeja also emigrated to the United Sates. That same year, while living in New Jersey, Ms. Kircher started a new job as head cashier and eventually became a bookkeeper at a Home Depot.\nThere she met Andrew Mincieli.\nIn July 2010, the couple relocated to Anna Maria Island, where they married Nov. 11, 2011.\nHer first career in Lithuania was nursing and her dream was to continue that career here in the United States.\nThrough hard work and perseverance, Ms. Kircher received her nursing credentials and was hired as a CAN and unit secretary at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton. During her combined careers as a midwife and nurse practitioner in Lithuania and the United States, she assisted in the deliveries of more than 5,000 babies.\nShe is survived by husband, Andrew T. Mincieli; son Evaldas Dauskurdis; daughter Salomeja and husband Adam Burns; grandsons Jack Burns and Milo Mincieli; sister Dalia and husband Richard Jonuska; nephews Mindaugas Pakstas, Vytautas Jonuska and Kestitis Jonuska; stepson Dominic and wife Julies Mincieli; friend and health advocate Hope Stasen; and friend Barbara Deturo.\nAnthony \u2018Tony\u2019 Richard Paolucci\nAnthony \u201cTony\u201d Richard Paolucci, 71, of Wimauma and formerly of Anna Maria, died Jan. 25. He was born Dec. 8, 1946, in Glendale, West Virginia.\nHe was a U.S. Army veteran who served as a medic at Fort Ord, California, during the Vietnam War.\nRecently, he became a master Mason in the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Desoto Lodge No. 105, of Riverview.\nWhile living in Anna Maria from the 1970s-2000, he enjoyed working in retail management, pet-sitting for friends and neighbors, cooking at local restaurants and painting colorful Florida wildlife and landscapes for pleasure.\nHe wanted no formal funeral or memorial service. In his honor, and for all who serve in the military, pay tribute and continue to pray for healing and mercy for all who suffer from cancer.\nHe is survived by Bonnie Ware, his companion of many years; her family members; friends; neighbors; Mason brothers; sisters Linda Chicko and Patricia; and brother John of Columbus, Ohio.\nTerry Allen Rader\nTerry Allen Rader, 58, of Holmes Beach, died Saturday, Jan. 13.\nHe was born to Edgar \u201cJack\u201d and Beverly in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 21, 1959, the day Hawaii became a state.\nHe graduated from Antilles High School in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1977, after also living in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri.\nHe was an electrician.\nHe loved to fish and bowl, the Bucs and Rays, and to play guitar.\nA celebration of life will be held at the Bradenton Moose Lodge No. 1223, 310 44th Ave. E., Bradenton, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb 8. Brown & Sons Funeral Homes & Crematory 43rd Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Memorial donations may be made to the Manatee County Humane Society. Condolences may be made to brownandsonsfuneral.com.\nHe is survived by his mother, Beverly and step-father Bernard Chouinard; sister Tammy and husband Mark Crawford; brother Troy and wife Marie; Valerie and Mike Chouinard; nieces Addy Beetle and Katie; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.\nWolfgang \u2018Wolf\u2019 Schulz\nWolfgang \u201cWolf\u201d Schulz, 66, of Holmes Beach, died Jan. 31.\nHe was born in Germany in 1951 and was the son of Charlotte and Rudolph.\nHe studied mechanical engineering and helped build and race Formula 2 cars as a young man in Germany.\nHe moved to Arlington, Virginia, when he was in his 20s.\nLater he met and married Gayle Simpson in Alexandria, Virginia, and became a U.S. citizen.\nHe ran the service departments of two large car dealerships in Maryland and Washington, D.C., for many years, also training many mechanics until he and his wife moved to Holmes Beach in 1998.\nHe used all of his passion for engines and mechanical knowledge to open his own marine engine and repair shop, Wolfgang Schulz Marine Engine Services, in Holmes Beach, where Keyes Marina is located, and operated his business until he retired a few years ago.\nHe enjoyed making lots of home films, photography, boating in the area and in the British Virgin Islands on vacations and watching Formula 1 and other car races were some of his hobbies.\nHis latest love in retirement was his RV, which he enjoyed taking to beautiful places in Florida.\nHe is survived by wife Gayle; brothers Erich and Helmut; son Sascha in Germany; daughter Virginia and husband Tobias Zimmermann of Bradenton; grandson Christopher Zimmermann of Bradenton; and stepsons Eric and Matthew Simpson Funkhouser,\nA celebration of life is planned in March. Donations may be made to the Tidewell Hospice program, Manatee County Animal Services and the underdogadopt.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 8893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.issaquahalps.org/articles/hottopics/2019/1/20/logging-history-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TY7A44JA6ZJYO6GS63AUT3YDKODAYEM5", "length": 345, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.issaquahalps.org", "title": "Logging History Program \u2014 Welcome to IATC", "raw_content": "Once again, Steve Williams captivated all of us would-be lumberjacks with his annual Logging History Program. The event was held in the Lewis Creek Nature Center on Cougar Mountain - one of those places once covered with nothing but trees.\nHere are a few pics from the well-attended event:\nSteve Williams presents.\nSteve expounds on the details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/paul-belford-international-science-council-logo-redesign-100718", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KNISP7DVB2EE6TDAEBJSD4DWVVA7VYAS", "length": 1448, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.itsnicethat.com", "title": "It's Nice That | The International Science Council gets a new brand identity", "raw_content": "The International Science Council gets a new brand identity\nWords by Kieran Yates, Tuesday 10 July 2018\nLondon based creative agency Paul Belford Ltd has developed a new brand identity for the International Science Council.\nThe brief was to create an identity that would help to establish the ISC as a definitive single advocate for science, speaking in one voice for many countries and scientific disciplines.\nThe logo, developed by Paul Belford Ltd, appears as a sphere consumed with clean, bold dots. The supporting wordmark, meanwhile, is drawn from the Untitled Sans family \u2013 a neutral, modern and international sans serif font with glyphs available for all languages. The core palette consists of nine colours, plus black and white, as well as a metallic and a selection of tints.\nThe new entity was created as the result of a merger between the historic International Council for Science (founded 1931) and International Social Science Council (founded 1952). It is the only international non-governmental organisation bringing together the natural and social sciences and the largest global science organisation of its kind.\nSpeaking about the redesign, Belford says: \u201cThe purpose of our design is to create an identity that is authoritative and definitive. We have taken a bold and modern approach to all branded materials with a view to creating flexibility and visual impact\u201d.\nSee below for the old logo and redesign.\nwww.paulbelford.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 25487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2017-09-12/worlds-largest-airship-to-get-a-new-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ5XPQPXQXJXWBH2XEF6WKSXNACXWLXG", "length": 756, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.itv.com", "title": "World's largest airship to get a new home | Anglia - ITV News", "raw_content": "World's largest airship to get a new home\nAirlander during a test flight above Bedfordshire. Credit: ITV News Anglia\nThe world's biggest airship could soon be leaving its home in Bedfordshire.\nThe Airlander 10 airship is 26 metres tall - around the same height as four stacked double decker buses.\nIt is currently based at Cardington's shed one, but the company behind the project Hybrid Air Vehicles has confirmed that the Airlander will be moving on.\nA new site is expected to be announced in the next few weeks.\nAirlander 10 is designed to stay airborne for up to five days at a time to fulfil a wide range of communication and survey roles, as well as carrying cargo and passengers.\nAirlander 10 is based in Cardington shed one. Credit: ITV News Anglia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2018-08-19/guernseys-government-reject-plans-to-fill-2-quarries-with-inert-waste/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ5MHVIWFLEFQH23M36WQGCIJQSJXQEM", "length": 1464, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.itv.com", "title": "Guernsey's Government reject plans to fill 2 quarries with inert waste | Channel - ITV News", "raw_content": "Guernsey's Government reject plans to fill 2 quarries with inert waste\nCredit: ITV Channel TV\nGuernsey's government has rejected plans to fill the L'Epine and Guillotin quarries with inert waste.\nThe Policy and Resources Committee (P&R) said that the cost of \u00a3300,000 to use the sites for construction and demolition waste, \"would not be a good use of tax payers' money.\"\nThe Vice President of P&R said that committee members were concerned of \"awarding significant public funds to explore options that have little or no chance of coming to fruition.\"\nThe Committee was approached in July by the Environment & Infrastructure Committee and the States Trading Supervisory Board, for funding to run an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) at the L'Epine and Guillotine quarries.\nIt also wanted an assessment done at Longue Hougue.\nThe EIAs on those alternative sites would have cost about \u00a3300,000 and my colleagues and I considered this would not be a good use of taxpayers\u2019 money, given that both E&I and STSB acknowledge they are small and inferior options to the preferred site at Longue Hougue.\n\u2013 Deputy Lyndon Trott, Vice President of the Policy & Resources Committee\nDeputy Trott has now confirmed that more than \u00a3200,000 will be provided towards an EIA on the Longue Hougue south site.\nThe P&R Committee has said that it is writing back to E&I and STSB to recommend the issue be brought back to the States for further discussion.\nLast updated Sun 19 Aug 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/sanskriti-university-in-collaboration-with-msme-establishes-center-of-excellence-1534939001-1?ref=rel_stories_art", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4O3RVSB33P7MIFWPREIXHMLO2NHHBP6B", "length": 3431, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.jagranjosh.com", "title": "Sanskriti University, in collaboration with MSME, establishes Center of Excellence", "raw_content": "Sanskriti University, in collaboration with MSME, establishes Center of Excellence\nSanskriti University has set a benchmark for best practices in the field of technical education by establishing a Center of Excellence in collaboration with MSME, Agra. R. Paneer Selvam, Principal Director - P.P.D.C. Agra along with the Vice-Chancellor Dr. Rana Singh and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. Abhay Kumar inaugurated the Center of Excellence in the campus of Sanskriti University to promote professional and job-oriented courses in the Braj Region and establish Sanskriti University among the Top 10 engineering colleges in UP and north India region.\nThis is the first Center of Excellence that has been established in a higher educational institution with the active support of MSME. The Center will impart professional training to students in their respective field of study so that the students get promising employment opportunities in MNCs. Further, the initiative will also enable students to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams.\nThe Center of Excellence at Sanskriti University is a wonderful platform for students of Mathura District to leverage technical knowledge in a productive way and thus fulfill their dream of becoming engineers in emerging fields such as Robotics, Automation and CNN. At the launch of the Center of Excellence, the Vice-Chancellor of Sanskriti University, Dr. Rana Singh, shared his thoughts on the importance of evolving smart technologies and explained how students can use the training imparted by the Center of Excellence for enhancing their technical skills.\nHe emphasized that itwas a proud moment for everyone at the Sanskriti University to have joined hands with MSME in order to further strengthen the objective behind imparting skill development technical training in the domain of emerging technologies. Today, every industry is embracing digitization; therefore, it becomes crucial for students to adopttechnical and digital skills that go hand-in-hand with the demands of prevailing industrial trends.\nSpeaking on this occasion, R. Paneer Selvam, Principal Director, MSME, Agrashared how technical education plays a decisive role in the development of the country by increasing industrial production, improving the lifestyle of people and creating skilled manpower. He emphasized that India has now become an Industrial country and today the country needs smart engineers more than ever before. This is the reason MSME wants to nurture and produce top-class and globally competitive professionals by providing quality technical training to the youth. Mr. Selvam also applauded the Chancellor of Sanskriti University, Mr. Sachin Gupta, for his vision and for launching the Center of Excellence.\nThe Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Abhay Kumar, said that to develop the country it is mandatory to enhance the skill-set of the younger generation. The Center of Excellence at the Sanskriti University will be helpful and valuable for the youth of the entire Braj Mandal.\nAt the launch of the Center of Excellence, eminent personalities and educationalists such as PPDC Agra\u2019s Assistant Director, Rajkumar, Puran Singh, Prof. Nirmal Kundu, Head of the Department of Engineering \u2013 Vincent Balu, Prof. Dilip Singh, and Dr. Durgesh Wadhwa were present.\nPrevious Story Sanskriti University & Shantigiri Ashram sign historic agreement on Ayurveda\nNext Story With great powers, come great responsibilities!!!\n# MSME", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 16300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jameschen.vision/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6BK3RZFV2EP7C73XOAMPGKARHPRDJRD", "length": 1830, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jameschen.vision", "title": "James Chen", "raw_content": "James' Projects\nJames' Book\nBorn in Asia, raised in Africa and educated in Europe and the US, James Chen is a venture philanthropist with a global outlook. The importance of giving back was instilled in him by his father, Robert Chen, whose lifetime of philanthropic work led to the creation of The Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation, which focuses on improving early childhood literacy. As chairman of the Foundation, James continues the work his father started. He is also chairman of Wahum Group Holdings, a third generation family-owned manufacturing business, and the founder of his family office, Legacy Advisors Ltd.\nAside from his business activities, James has been gripped by one issue that has become both his focus and his passion: poor vision. The ability to see is a vital gateway to education, work and building a better life - but globally, 2.5 billion people still suffer from poor vision without treatment.\nFor the last 12 years, James has championed the cause, leading and funding work to drive new progress on an age old problem. This journey has given him an understanding of the many challenges that must be solved, and his determination to tackle the problem from all sides has inspired a host of projects.\nJames is the co-founder of Adlens, which is revolutionising lens technology with adjustable focus eyewear. He founded Vision for a Nation, a charity supporting emerging nations - starting with Rwanda - in providing affordable glasses and primary eye care to their citizens. Finally, as the culmination of his work so far, James launched the Clearly campaign to inspire new innovation and promote greater awareness of the global vision issue.\nJames describes vision as the problem the world forgot. His personal mission is to see a world where everyone has access to vision correction within his lifetime.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jamierubin.net/2012/01/08/vacation-in-the-golden-age-episode-30-december-1941/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:XJW4F755DCRT5PUGQDQQY4QNL5C66KJ4", "length": 30496, "nlines": 129, "source_domain": "www.jamierubin.net", "title": "Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 30: December 1941 \u2013 Jamie Todd Rubin", "raw_content": "Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 30: December 1941\nPosted byJamie Todd Rubin\t January 8, 2012 January 8, 2012 9 Comments on Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 30: December 1941\nDecember 7, 1941, the day that would live in infamy. The December 1941 issue would have hit the news stands on about November 19, 1941, 18 days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Plenty of time for most fans to have swallowed the magazine whole, before casting it aside to follow the constant stream of news bulletins that followed the attack. Of course, in the issue there is no indication of the growing threat of war in the United States. I imagine that will change in the coming issues.\nThe December 1941 issue also closes out 1941 and our third Vacation year. (I will use the term \u201cVacation year\u201d when referring to issue time as opposed to real present time. Put another way, I cover about 2 Vacation years in about 1 year\u2019s time.) In his book A Requiem for Astounding, Alva Rogers writes,\n1941 was the year that set the standards against which all the following years of the Golden Age were measured. Never again would Astounding run such a high concentration of classical or memorable stories in one twelve-month period.\nAnd indeed, if you look back over the stories that appeared in this Vacation year, it really is quite remarkable. I list my 10 favorite stories from 1941 later on in this Episode and that list alone would probably make a pretty good anthology of Golden Age science fiction.\n1941 closes out with, of course, the second part of E. E. \u201cDoc\u201d Smith\u2019s \u201cSecond Stage Lensmen,\u201d as well as stories by Vic Philips, and some names that at first blush, seem like newcomers: Colin Keith, Webster Craig, and Robert Arthur. And there are two good science articles, one by Willy Ley, the other by R. S. Richardson.\nAnd changes are coming, but I\u2019ll let Campbell explain that\u2026\nEditorial: Expansion\nThis month\u2019s editorial takes it title from the fact that beginning in January 1942, Astounding will be, well, expanding. As Campbell opens the editorial:\nAstounding Science Fiction is going to start the year 1942 with a real and major improvement. The January 1942 issue of Astounding will be the first of a new, large-size Astounding\u2013the same size in shape, area, and thickness as the recenly enlarged Unknown Worlds.\nThe new sized isues will be 128 pages as opposed to the current 162 pages. However, Campbell says that in terms of wordage, the new size allows for half again as much fiction as the current size. I\u2019ve estimated the average wordage in the 162-page issues at about 67,000 words. If Campbell is right, the new issues will be roughly 100,000 words in length.\nAuthors like novelettes\u2013and readers always have a shown a preference for them. Now it will be entirely practicable to run a long 35,000 word novella, a 20,000 word novelette, two 15,000 word novelettes, and several short stories of 5,000 to 8,500 words in each issue, together with articles and Brass Tacks.\nCampbell notes that the increased size allows for more wordage which means larger payments to the authors, but that is somewhat offset by no substantial increase in distribution costs\u2013so the price of an issue will be going up by 5-cents.\nIt will be interesting to see how the new size feels. The new size ultimately lasts for 17 months before it is cut back to the present size due to paper shortages in the War (and at the same time, Unknown goes bye-bye). I like the current size because it is compact, but the thought of more fiction in each issue is appealing, as I am sure it must have been to fans at the time. On the other hand, it means squeezing in more reading every 2 weeks. My present pace is 11 pages/day, maybe about 5,000 words or so. In the new format that will go up to about 7,500 words/day.\nI recall Isaac Asimov writing in his autobiography that he was annoyed with the new size. He had a nice neat line of Astounding\u2019s in his closet and the new size messed up the even lines of the collection. Later, when he was having the issues cannibalized to put them in bound books, he had to get a special set of books made for the larger issues. The things people complain about!\nSecond Stage Lensmen, Part 2 by E. E. \u201cDoc\u201d Smith\nBlurb: SECOND OF FOUR PARTS. Containing the sequel to \u201cGalactic Patrol\u201d and \u201cGray Lensman\u201d\u2013\u201cSkylark\u201d Smith\u2019s newest and strongest novel.\nAs I explained in the last Episode, I couldn\u2019t even get through a third of this latest installment of Smith\u2019s Lensman saga. I include the story here for completeness but since I didn\u2019t attempt to read it, I have nothing to say or add to what I already said last time. You can expect this in the January and February 1942 issues as well.\nAnd yes, I am aware that Smith has yet another installment in the saga coming in this Vacation, in the late 1940s. I will, of course, attempt to read it when I get there. Maybe my attitude will have changed about Smith\u2019s stories. But I\u2019m doubtful. We\u2019ll see.\nThe Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice by Colin Keith\nBlurb: The Sorcerer\u2013the greatest scientist of his age\u2013wanted a glass of water. He had a lazy apprentice. Now, the apprentice had an idea to save himself work, unfortunately\u2013\nI\u2019d never heard of Colin Keith before turning to this story, the title of which jumped out because it seemed to be fantasy rather than science fiction. But the old adage goes, \u201cDon\u2019t judge a story by its title.\u201d And indeed the story is not what it seemed. Neither for that matter is its author, for when I looked up Colin Keith in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, I discovered he was none other than our own Malcolm Jameson.\nThis is a case where Campbell\u2019s blurb for the story describes the story almost perfectly\u2013without giving away story. The story is indeed about a man who came to be known as \u201cThe Sorcerer\u201d because he was the greatest scientist of his age. What makes him the greatest?\nFirst, he had comprehended that single line of mystical symbols penned by Einstein in his declining years in which was stated the ultimate formula that binds space, time, gravity and all the electrical phenomena together. On top of that he had been able to apply them to practical use.\nThat \u201cpractical use\u201d was the ability to convert matter from the upper atmosphere into just about any other kind of energy or material. This process took place in a huge \u201cfactory\u201d carved atop Pikes Peak. The Sorcerer was in charge of the whole affair. He had an assistant and asked his assistant to get him some water\u2013a fairly simple task, it would seem. Meanwhile, the Sorcerer headed into town with several others to have lunch. Because of various power outages Hoskin\u2019s\u2013the Sorcerer\u2019s assistant\u2013can\u2019t simply collect a bottle of the water. But he gets the idea to use the process the Sorcerer developed to just produce a cup full of water. Of course, something goes wrong and he ends up flooding the mountain to say nothing of the town below.\n\u201cThe Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice\u201d is a humorous story and Jameson does a pretty good job of keeping it light and interesting at the same time. He is no de Camp, but I liked this story despite myself. He uses an interesting technique for telling the story, going so far in one view point, only to switch to another and backtrack a bit. But he does this in a manner that is completely clear and I appreciated the technique. The science in the story is pretty far-fetched, but that\u2019s not what the story is really about. What the story is really about is how we tend to over-complicate things that, at their core, are really quite simple. I can almost imagine the story being inspired by an incident Jameson had in the Navy when some underling was a bit overzealous in following an order. Or as Jameson writes at the end of the piece:\n\u201cWell, my boy, let me give you a rule to remember. The next time someone asks you to bring him five gallons of water, bring him that\u2013neither more nor less. Overdoing a thing is often as bad a fault as failing to do it altogether.\u201d\nBullard Reflects by Malcolm Jameson\nBlurb: Commander Bullard had a team nicely trained in a harmless sport\u2013but it turned out he had a team well-trained in the dangerous sport of outlaw-busting.\nAnd if one dose of Malcolm Jameson isn\u2019t enough, we are treated to a second dose in this issue, although perhaps few at the time realized that the previosu story was by the same author as this next one. \u201cBullard Reflects\u201d returns us to the familiar Captain Bullard of the Pollux and his crew, as they attempt to capture Ziffler \u201cThe Torturer\u201d from his outpost on a Jovian moon. If I am not mistaken, this is the sixth story featuring Bullard and his crew that I\u2019ve encountered in this Vacation, making them by far the most returned to characters so far. But that\u2019s okay, I kind of like them and particularly when Jameson is keeping the stories short\u2013as he does here\u2013they are fun.\n\u201cBullard Reflects\u201d opens with a game of \u201cDazzle Darts\u201d between his crew and the crew of another ship. Dazzle Darts is a football-like game involving rays of light that are aimed at goals, and that the defenders try to reflect back into the opposing goals Bullard\u2019s crew is beating the pants of the other team when word comes in that The Torturer has been found and Bullard\u2019s crew is sent out to round up him and his cronies. The crew is tricked into letting some men on board who use a chemical to knock out Bullard\u2019s crew. Ziffler has new ray weapons that are almost defenseless. He puts Bullard\u2019s crew into space suits and sends them out onto the moon to be hunted. But Bullard and his crew discover some meteor rock that will reflect the rays of the new weapons and use those rocks, like their reflectors in Dazzle Darts to win the day.\nI get the idea from the story that Malcolm Jameson has reached a certain stride and is just having a blast writing them. As with most of these stories, they are not much more than U.S. Navy-in-space stories, but I\u2019ve grown to like Bullard and his men, and I imagine many fans at the time probably felt the same.\nThere is one thing about this story that sets itself apart from other Bullard stories: it\u2019s feghoot-type ending. After defeating the villains with the same reflection techniques used in Dazzle Darts, Bullard wires home the following message to his commanders:\nAfter reflection, the enemy succumbed. \u2013Bullard\nMaybe overdoing it just a bit with that ending, but I still enjoyed the story.\nSergeant Terry Bull\u2019s Terrible Weapon (article) by Willy Ley\nBlurb: An article concerning the terrible\u2013if as yet hypothetical\u2013weapons designed by day-dreaming ordinance experts. These not only might be, but could be, and would work!\nWilly Ley is back for only his second science article in 1941, but his best this year by far, and indeed, my favorite Willy Ley article since \u201cSpace War\u201d back in the August 1939 issue (Episode 2). \u201cSergeant Terry Bull\u2019s Terrible Weapon\u201d is an article about ideas for improvements in weaponry in the military industry. The strange title comes from an actual column in a magazine called The Infantry Journal. As Ley describes it:\nOne of the most important America military journals, The Infantry Journal, has been publishing such dreams for some time. They were all written by \u201cSergeant Terry Bull,\u201d and they are laid against a common background, the war between the United States and the \u201cMungo Empire\u201d due to take place some years from now. \u201cSergeant Terry Bull,\u201d in those articles, is instructing his men from time to time, either about new forms of army organization, about new tactics of combat or simply about the use and advantage of new weapons that come from government laboratories and the factories to the battlefield\nLey describes how there are all kinds of crazy ideas submitted by people within the military, the government and even civilians, but argues that some of the best ideas are those were small changes make big improvements. He describes several of these possible changes and you can tell he is an expert in his particular field of ballistics and rockets and he does. He starts by describing a new kind of design for a hand grenade that is a kind of mash-up between the Allied \u201cpineapple\u201d and the German \u201cpotato masher\u201d\u2013giving a solider all of the advantages of both, but with additional safety built into it. (So that accidentally dropping a live grenade will not set it off, for example.) Such a grenade, properly designed, can also double as a mortar shell, making it more practical in multiple battle situations.\nNext he describes a \u201cdestroyer\u201d\u2013a tank destroyer. He describes the design of the machine, how it is crewed (3 men, a driver, a gunner and a loader) and why something smaller and faster has a big advantage over a standard tank. There are diagrams included, and Ley makes clear through some simple phusics and math why outputs are better. He goes on to describe a new gun and bullet design, and wraps up with a new design for defensive land minds. I was absorbed by this read as much as I was with Ley\u2019s earlier article on ballistics.\nI know very little about weaponry, but it would be interesting to get a military historian\u2019s perspective and find out if any of these subtle inventions ever proved as useful as Willy Ley made them seem.\nOperation Successful by Robert Arthur\nBlurb: The Callisto Tweeters were remarkable birds\u2013surgeon birds with an unholy skill. They could patch up a human wreck as neatly as a mechanic could overhaul a smashed spaceship\u2013\nI had no idea who Robert Arthur was when I started reading \u201cOperation Successful,\u201d but I assumed that it was likely a pseudonym, like many of the writers in this issue. So I looked him up, just to see who he really was\u2013and it turns out he really is Robert Arthur. What\u2019s more, I\u2019ve read him before. In fact, I even own one of his books! Back in 3rd or 4th grade, I remember ordering some books through the school book fair. One of them was part of a series of books about THE THREE INVESTIGATORS called The Mystery of the Green Ghost. It was by Robert Arthur. The same Robert Arthur who wrote \u201cOperation Successful.\u201d\n\u201cOperation Successful\u201d is the story of a rogue Space Patrolmen named Mike Devans who heads out to Saturn to capture Nels Banning for the murder of Banning\u2019s soon-to-be father-in-law. Only Banning is innocent. Devans set him up. We get the picture from both sides because Arthur switches view points throughout the story, although he does so in a way that works for the story and is not at all confusing. Rather die in space than go to the gas chamber, Banning causes their space ship to crash on Callisto, where both men are gravely injured. Fortunately, there are birds on Callisto, the \u201cTweeters,\u201d the can perform brilliant surgery, although they usually jumble things up. Devans awakes to find himself perfectly healthy. He\u2019s told that his body was smashed badly, but his brain was fine. Meanwhile, Banning\u2019s body was fine, but his brain was smashed. But it turns out that the Tweeters put Devan\u2019s brain in Banning\u2019s body, and Banning\u2019s brain in Devan\u2019s body. And when the authorities arrive, they carry Devans off to the gas chamber, thinking he\u2019s Banning.\nThis was a fun story that started out as a kind of locked-room mystery. You knew that Devans had managed the perfect frame and the mystery, of course, was how Banning was going to get out of it. I liked that Devans was a bad guys, but not a completely bad guy. His derangement was to to his drug use, and his drug of choice was the forbidden \u201cnightberry cigarette.\u201d But as a whole the story was fast-paced, entertaining, and fun. Nothing special, nothing standout, just good science fictional entertainment. Sometimes, that\u2019s all you\u2019re looking for.\nHomo Saps by Webster Craig\nBlurb: Indicating that it may not always be the burden bearer who is the dumber, harder worker\u2013\nWebster Craig was another name that I didn\u2019t recognize but a quick search turned it up as a pseudonym for Eric Frank Russell. I\u2019m not certain why Campbell didn\u2019t emphasize this more. In the case of Malcolm Jameson, I suppose it makes sense since Jameson has two stories in the issue. But Russell seems to be a popular writer and in an issue with lots of unfamiliar names, one would think a name like Eric Frank Russell in the table of contents would be a boon. Could it be that Campbell didn\u2019t want any of these other writers to outshine Smith?\nCraig/Russell\u2019s story, \u201cHomo Saps\u201d is a \u201cSahara on Mars\u201d story. Several human traders lead 45 camels across Martian deserts in search of goods that they can trade with the Martian\u2019s themselves. But the Martian\u2019s don\u2019t speak. They\u2019ve never spoken. And compared to the camels, they treat the humans rather poorly. Whenever the humans are in town, the Martians are drawn to the beasts. At one point, a Martian directs one of the humans to a tent in which there is a device that gives the Martians artificial speech. This is where the humans learn that the Martians are telepathic, \u201cjust like the camels.\u201d That the humans aren\u2019t telepathic makes the Martian consider them a lesser form of life.\nRussell\u2019s writing makes the story more interesting than it might otherwise have been. There is a distinct Britishness to the characters and the humor, too, seems distinctly British. Without the style that Russell adds through his writing, this story would have been mediocre at best. What I find most interesting about this story, however, is that Campbell printed it at all. Campbell was well known for not liking alien superiority over humans. And yet in this case, the story seems to me to imply that the Martians look at humans as inferior because they don\u2019t have telepathy. Maybe his rule was not hard and fast.\nInside Out Matter (article) by R. S. Richardson\nBlurb: A discussion of one of the most intriguing discoveries of recent years; not only is inverse, or contraterrene matter a theoretical possibility\u2013it exists and we\u2019re constantly bombarded with bits of it!\nR. S. Richardson is back with a very short article on \u201cInside Out Matter,\u201d or what today we call \u201cantimatter.\u201d While a very short article, it was a fascinating read because the idea was so new that, compared to what we know about antimatter today, it seems a bit quaint. As Richardson explains,\nContraterrene means just that\u2013a type of matter exactly the opposite of ordinary or terrene matter. Instead of atoms composed of a positive nucleus surrounded by electrons, it consists of a negative nucleus surrounded by positrons.\nThe implication, Richardson points out, is complete anihiliation when matter and antimatter collide. From this, however, an interesting theory is proposed. Richardson (and others) wonder if some apparent craters on earth were caused by antimatter meteors\u2013because no trace of meteor rock was found. We know better today, but it was an interesting proposal to see in a science fiction magazine in late 1941.\nAnd it should be pointed out that this is one case where Campbell\u2019s blurb is way over the top. Campbell might have had some strange ideas, but he was a smart man and he could certainly understand the implications of antimatter that Richardson presents in this article. If we were really being \u201cconstantly bombarded with bits of it,\u201d you would think there wouldn\u2019t be much of us left.\nDefense Lines by Vic Phillips\nBlurb: The hillbillies of the asteroids! Outcasts of the System, hated by men who ran the ships of space\u2013yet they held the answer to the problem that had to be solved!\nThe final story in the issue is a \u201cnovelette\u201d by Vic Phillips, which actually feels more like a novella. It is for this story, I believe, that the abstract-looking Rogers cover of the issue was painted. I\u2019ve had mixed feelings about Vic Phillips\u2019 stories in the past, but this was a good one, an early Golden Age example of what would today be called \u201cspace opera.\u201d\nThe story is about a reporter, Strike Morgan, who is enlisted by his boss to investigate some strange goings-on outside the asteroid belt. The corridors through the asteroid belt are controlled by a large corporation (which also owns the newspaper for which Strike works) and there is a need for secrecy in sneaking outside to find out what is really happening. As it happens, Strike has experience passing through the asteroid belt. He has encountered the Bevan\u2019s\u2013the \u201chillbillies\u201d living in the asteroids before. They helped to repair his ship. With the aid of a beautiful young code-breaker named Leni, they head out through the asteroid belt to make contact with the Bevan\u2019s and then to get passage through to eavesdrop on what is really happening in the outer system.\nIt turns out that some race from outside the solar system is attacking and have defeated much of the Defense Fleet. The asteroid belt itself becomes the last line of defense to protect the inner planets\u2013including Earth\u2013from destruction. Using some creative ideas\u2013charing the asteroids with positive or negative electric charges\u2013and with the help of the Bevan\u2019s they defeat the invaders.\nThe story is a well-written action adventure that grabs the reader right away with a snappy dialog between Strike and his boss. There is a lot of explanation at the outset, which can sometimes be boring (what we call today, \u201ctoo infodumpy\u201d) but Phillips makes it all an interesting read, and integral to the story itself. There is some nice interactions between Strike, Leni, Hugh and Durk Bevans and I think Phillips did a good job of handling a larger than average cast for the story being told.\nIt was a fun story, and a good one to close out the year.\nThere were two letters in the Brass Tacks column, both relating to the World Science Fiction Convention, that I thought noteworthy enough to point out.\nFirst, for those of you interested in Heinlein\u2019s Guest of Honor speech from the Third World Science Fiction convention:\nDear Mr. Campbell:\nBelieve your readers would be interested to know: \u201cThe Discovery of the Future,\u201d Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s dynamic speech, as delivered at the Third World Science-Fiction Convention and transcribed directly from sonodiscs is available in published form, priced at $0.10, from\u2013Assorted Services, 236-1/2 N. New Hampshire, Hollywood, California.\nThen there is this one:\n4TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION\nThe members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society wish to announce that Los Angeles has been chosen for the 1942 WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION. Preparations are now under way, and the exact convention date will be announced later.\nI call this one out because there was no convention in 1942\u2013the War put a hold on Worldcons for nearly five years. The actual 4th World Science Fiction Convention was held in 1946 in Los Angeles\u2013with A. E. van Vogt has the Guest of Honor.\nAnalytical Laboratory and My Ratings\nHere are the ratings from October 1941:\n1. By His Bootstraps Anson MacDonald 1.5 4\n2. Common Sense Robert Heinlein 1.65 2\n3. Not Final! Isaac Asimov 2.7 3\n4. Two Percent Inspiration Theodore Sturgeon 4.0 1\n5. Manic Perverse Winston K. Marks 4.5 5\nInterestingly, I agreed with three of the five rankings this month, and simply disagreed on 1st and 4th place. I\u2019m still waiting for that elusive issue where I am in complete agreement with contemporary fans in my ranks. I suspect that Heinlein/MacDonald were at a stage where his reputation simply made him a natural choice for first place. I really do think Sturgeon had the better story in the October issue.\nHere are my ratings for the December 1941 issue:\nDefense Line by Vic Phillips\nBecause I didn\u2019t read the second part of \u201cSecond Stage Lensmen,\u201d I decided not to include it in my ratings. I made my opinion about it clear enough in the previous episode, and there\u2019s no point in rehashing it here.\nAnd since this issue wraps up 1941, it only makes sense that I provide a listing of what I think are they best stories of the year. And so, here they are:\nMethuselah\u2019s Children by Robert Heinlein (July, August, September)\nNightfall by Isaac Asimov (September)\nMicrocosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon (April)\nMagic City by Nelson S. Bond (February)\nUniverse by Robert Heinlein (May)\nOld Fireball by Nat Schachner (June)\nTwo Percent Inspiration by Theodore Sturgeon (October)\nMechanical Mice by Eric Frank Russell (as by Maurice G. Hugi) (January)\nPoker Face by Theodore Sturgeon (March)\nBeyond All Weapons by Nat Schachner (November)\nThat\u2019s not a bad list, I think. Heinlein makes the list twice, Schachner twice, and Sturgeon, to my surprise, makes the list three times! I say to my surprise, because prior to this Vacation, I read very little Sturgeon. Not for any reason, other than I just never got around to him. I always had the idea that I wouldn\u2019t like his stories. How I\u2019ve been proven wrong in 1941!\nAlva Rogers points out that while Heinlein dominated 1941, van Vogt was conspicuously absent:\nThe failure of van Vogt to follow up o his sensational \u201cSlan\u201d with something a little more powerful than \u201cNot the First\u201d and \u201cThe Seesaw\u201d was one of the mysteries of the year. There have, of course, been instances of authors who have shown great promise with a few stories and then cease to exist as far as science fiction is concerned, but van Vogt, from his first published story, \u201cBlack Destroyer,\u201d which was so enthusiastically received by readers, to the tremendously sensational \u201cSlan\u201d barely a year later, not only showed promise, he had already arrived. It could only be hoped that something better would come from him in the next year.\nBy the time the January 1942 issue of the new large Astounding would appear the United States would be at war, and things would never appear quite the same again.\nI have just peeked at the contents page for the new, super-sized Astounding for January 1942. 6 pieces of fiction, and two articles and a list of familiar names that include: Jack Williamson (with the lead novelette), Eric Frank Russell, L. Ron Hubbard, Norman L. Knight, Malcolm Jameson, and L. Sprague de Camp. And of course, part 3 of E. E. \u201cDoc\u201d Smith\u2019s \u201cSecond Stage Lensmen.\u201d\nAnd so our third vacation year comes to a close. As Will Durant wrote at the end of Caesar and Christ, the third volume of The Story of Civilization, Thank you , patient reader.\u201d\nPosted byJamie Todd Rubin January 8, 2012 January 8, 2012 Posted in1941, episodes, vacation in the golden age\nAn open letter to New Scientist\u2019s subscription department\n9 replies on \u201cVacation in the Golden Age, Episode 30: December 1941\u201d\nKind of figured you were going to just leave off the Smith as a bad job.\nAnd as far as your list for the last part of 1941, it does support the notion that 1941 was a miracle year.\nMethuselah\u2019s Children\nAny serious student of the history of SF would and should these stories, all in your top five.\nAnd two Sturgeons in the top 10. Yeah. 1941 rocked.\nI don\u2019t know, and you are going to find out for us, what WWII is going to do to all this.\n\u201cIt is for this story [\u201cDefense Line\u201d], I believe, that the abstract-looking Rogers cover of the issue was painted.\u201d\nGoing by the massive armada of cigar shaped spaceships at the bottom, I am certain that Hubert Rogers is depicting a Boskonian craft being destroyed by some sort of super-science weapon during \u201cSecond Stage Lensman\u201d.\nPeak ahead a couple of months and take a look at the lead letter in the February Brass Tacks \u2013 the fans had problems with Doc Smith seventy years ago too.\nLooking over what was published in ASF during 1941, there are no lost gems trapped in the bittle pulp pages \u2013 every bit of worthwhile fiction has been reprinted at least once (and in the case of \u201cNightfall\u201d reprinted over a hundred times).\nThis is in contrast to 1940 which had Wiley Ley\u2019s never reprinted \u201cFog\u201d. If you are able to keep your vacation going, there are to come in the next eight years worth of Astounding a couple more \u201cone appearence only / rare and well done\u201d yarns.\n2012 marks the centenary birth year of Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912).\nQuoting from REFLECTIONS OF A. E. VAN VOGT \u2013\n\u201c\u2026I was back in the grind again at the Department of National Defense (in Ottawa). In 1941, I realized that I was working every other Sunday, all day Saturday and four nights a week, so I decided to quit. Just in time, too, because people were frozen in their jobs a couple of months later. I went up to a place in Quebec called Farm Point, just overlooking the Gatineau River, a very swift river.\n\u201cOur cottage had a screened-in veranda, and it was there that I started writing science fiction in earnest. We rented for five months, and during that time I worked steadily\u2026 I wrote a series of stories at this time which probably made my reputation in science fiction\u2014 the first of the Rull stories, and THE WEAPON SHOP.\n\u201c\u2026My life was to get up in the morning, eat, work all day out on the porch, and finally retire to bed. Every day.\n\u201c\u2026While I was up in the Gatineau, Campbell wrote and said, \u201cI would like to contract you to write for ASTOUNDING. I\u2019m willing to buy two or three hundred dollars worth of stories a month from you. In other words, it\u2019s wide open.\u201d\n\u201cThat sounded good to me, after I\u2019d been making eighty one dollars a month; he was talking to someone from the backwoods, and this was the kind of income that could make me. What an opportunity! And, essentially, I did it.\n\u201cI would surmise that, for a time, I supplied one-eighth of the material published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.\u201d\nThe van Vogt\u2019s left their Gatineau cottage in the fall of \u201941 for Toronto where he continued his writing regimen. Then, in November 1944, they migrated to Los Angeles.\nMark S.: I will peek at the February Brass Tacks when I get home this evening. It will be nice to have a \u201cnot a fan of Lensmen\u201d support group. Even if the group is more than 70 years old. \ud83d\ude42\nMark M., great stuff from van Vogt. How I wish I could spent my days at a cottage, eating, writing, and retiring in the evenings!\nI recently began collecting some old issues of Astounding, and also some other digest and pulp magazines like Unknown, Startling Stories, and Fantastic. I have never tried to read an issue straight through: instead, I usually just read one or two stories out of a given issue. So far, I\u2019ve probably spent more time trying to find the magazines at good prices than I have spent actually reading them. But this blog has inspired me to try for the authentic experience of reading the magazine as it was intended to be read: straight through with the hopes of discovering something \u201cnew.\u201d\nWilliam, good luck with your authentic experience! 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Although most companies like the idea of going paperless, some are still hesitant\u2026.Read Full Article\nAlthough it might be hard to find time in today\u2019s fast moving business world, occasionally taking a step back and reassessing your strategies is a necessity for success. Something you\u2019ll probably find when doing this is that some strategies need to be ingrained habits, instead of thoughtful approaches. Managing and archiving documents is a\u2026Read Full Article\nPosted in Electronic Content Management, Multifunction Device", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jefftk.com/p/belief-listing-project-antibiotics", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7BHTLGRHA3ZB7VHYESI5GEQD6DOK2SK5", "length": 3426, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.jefftk.com", "title": "Belief Listing Project: Antibiotics", "raw_content": "Belief Listing Project: Antibiotics\ncurrent_beliefs, antibiotics, health [html]\nI'm really happy I live in a time where we have antibiotics. They are an incredibly powerful medical tool, dramatically increasing your chances of surviving huge numbers of accidents, diseases, and surgeries. Unfortunately we are squandering their power through misuse and overuse, and the possibility of a future where we no longer have antibiotics is a real concern.\nAn antibiotic will kill bacteria. Most bacteria. Unfortunately, the ones not killed will have little baby bacteria that also know how to survive this antibiotic. Over time, each antibiotic goes from being extremely effective to nearly useless because bacteria have evolved resistance.\nNo matter what we do, an antibiotic doesn't last forever. There are some really foolish things we're doing, however, that are letting bacteria evolve resistance much faster than they have to. The biggest thing is prescribing a particular antibiotic when it is not called for. Antibiotics are on a continuum from the ones for which there is widespread resistance to the super powerful new ones we save for the most dire cases of multi-antibiotic-resistant disease strains. When treating a patient with antibiotics, the right thing to do is to use a low tier antibiotic unless there is evidence that this will be insufficient. Doctors, however, are responsible for individual patients, not global health, and suffer no penalty for prescribing an antibiotic more powerful than required. This dynamic leads to prescribing antibiotics that we should instead by holding in reserve, visibly increasing outcomes for patients but invisibly increasing resistance. The long term result is more people dying.\nPatients are also at fault here in at least two ways. Because antibiotics are so effective when used properly to treat bacterial infections, patients demand them when they are suffering from viral infections upon which they will have no effect. Doctors can sometimes convince their patients that this will not help, but others capitulate and the patient gives whatever bacteria are around a chance to evolve better resistance to whatever antibiotic was prescribed. The other big problem with patients is not finishing the prescribed dose. Patients take the antibiotics as directed, but stop taking them once they feel better. This doesn't make them get sick again, but because not enough bacteria have been killed they can go on to infect other people. And it's not just any bacteria going on to do that: it's the ones most resistant to the antibiotics the patient was taking.\nWe also use antibiotics in factory farming, often relying on them to keep the animals healthy instead of giving them enough room or proper sanitation. I've heard people claim this is increasing antibiotic resistance, but I'm not sure how much of a problem this is because we're only feeding the animals low-tier antibiotics, not daptomycin.\nWhile we do continue to develop new antibiotics, we're slowing down. Looking at wikipedia's list of when antibiotics were released, we can see that new releases are falling:\nnew antibiotic releases\nFuture medical breakthroughs may save us, but there's a good chance they won't. We need to stop wasting valuable antibiotics on conditions that do not need them, and make sure future generations get to live with antibiotics too.\nTune: Corriente Del Golfo Teach Yourselves The Hey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jfk-assassination.eu/warren/wch/vol12/page52.php", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HAM2T64BF6SX2T67P5GKLHEEML6QMP6J", "length": 3416, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.jfk-assassination.eu", "title": "John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage :: Warren Commission :: Hearings :: Volume XII :: Page 52", "raw_content": "You Are Here: \u00bb Home \u00bb Warren Commission \u00bb Hearings \u00bb Volume XII \u00bb Page 52\nWarren Commission Hearings: Vol. XII - Page 52 \u00ab Previous | Next \u00bb\n(Testimony of Sheriff J. E. (Bill) Decker)\nThere may be some others--I can send those to you anywhere-Washington or anywhere, it makes no difference, or I can send them up here to you in the next 45 minutes after I leave here.\nAfter lunch will be all right.\nMr. Decker.\nFine, I will send them up.\nI will just attach them to this exhibit.\nThat's all right--they belong in there and I don't know how they got out, but in comparing them, making a new one up, you lose some once in a while--as much paperwork as we do in law enforcement fields this day and time, you lose a heck of a lot of it.\nNow, Sheriff Decker, has any member of the Commission's staff interviewed you other than myself?\nHave you anything further you wish to add?\nI don't know why I should take any more of your time. You have practically everything I have that is of value to you. If there is anything further you want--we are available and you have a big job to do\nWell, that's all right--that's what I'm here for.\nBut if we know all that you know, then that's all right.\nThat's right--so, there is no reason of going over it.\nIs it your thought that considering your testimony here today and what you have told the FBI and your records--\nAnd my records that I have given to you---turned over to you and what my other deputies have given to you, I don't know of any reason to take up any more of your time, sir.\nI will be delighted to have you come and see my operation before you leave and it might clear up some things there for you.\nCapt. W. B. Frazier\nTestimony of Capt. W. B. Frazier\nThe testimony of Capt. W. B. Frazier was taken at 2 p.m., on March 2.5, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Leon D. Hubert, Jr., assistant counsel of the President's Commission.\nThis is the deposition of Capt. W. B. Frazier, Dallas Police Department. Captain Frazier, my name is Leon Hubert. I am a member of the advisory staff of the general counsel on the President's Commission on the\nCaptain FRAZIER. Yes.\nUnder the provisions of President Johnson's Executive Order No. 11130, dated November 29, 1963, and the Joint Resolution of Congress No. 137, and the rules of procedure adopted by the President's Commission in conformance with the Executive order and the joint resolution, I have been authorized to take a sworn deposition from you, among many officers of the detective bureau Your name has been specifically mentioned as a person from whom I could take a sworn deposition. I state to you now that the general nature of the Commission's inquiry is to ascertain, evaluate, and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of President Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of Lee Harvey Oswald. In particular as to you, Captain Frazier, the nature of the inquiry today is to determine what facts you know about the death of Oswald and any other pertinent facts you may know about the general inquiry. Now, Captain,-you have appeared here today by virtue of a letter addressed to Chief Curry by Mr. J. Lee Rankin, who is the general counsel for the President's Commission. Under the rules adopted by the Commission every witness is entitled to a 3-day written notice prior to the taking of his deposition. The rules also", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jfk.org/kennedy-1960-democratic-national-convention/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HO6KGJQ4CPPUDTBUEBP44LVJHTXNL36I", "length": 3483, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jfk.org", "title": "Kennedy's Call For Revolution at the 1960 Democratic National Convention - The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza", "raw_content": "> Blog > Kennedy\u2019s Call For Revol...\nKennedy\u2019s Call For Revolution at the 1960 Democratic National Convention\nGertrude Strohbeck Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza\nJuly 15, 1960. Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Standing before an audience of 52,000 people\u2014with an additional 35 million tuned in via television\u2014John F. Kennedy spoke of revolution.\nThe young and charismatic Massachusetts senator was referring to changes in technology, urban growth, medicine, human rights, and intellectual and moral strength. \u201cIt is a time, in short,\u201d he said, \u201cfor a new generation of leadership\u2014new men to cope with new problems and new opportunities.\u201d\nKennedy had experienced a remarkable journey from declaring his candidacy in January to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, from July 11 to 15, 1960. He had steadfastly battled critics of his age, his Catholicism, and his perceived inexperience. While far in the lead by the time he reached L.A., Kennedy was still a few dozen short of the delegate total needed to secure the nomination. It was time for his political opponents to pounce.\nLong considered potential candidates, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas and two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson officially announced their candidacies. Adlai Stevenson\u2019s supporters were quite vocal, and he was loved in Southern California. A ring of enthusiastic Stevenson backers wrapped all around the sports arena, increasing in size and in volume as the convention continued. Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson challenged Kennedy to a televised debate before a joint session of the Texas and Massachusetts delegations.\nReportedly, Kennedy was nervous entering the debate, yet he handled the audience with his characteristically potent mix of wit and charm. \u201cI come here today full of admiration for Senator Johnson,\u201d he concluded, \u201cstrongly in support of him\u2014for majority leader of the United States Senate.\u201d For many, the Kennedy/Johnson debate demonstrated that Johnson had little viability as a candidate outside of the South.\nUltimately, John F. Kennedy\u2019s hopes all rested on winning on the first ballot. His younger brother, Bobby, proved a fierce and untiring campaign manager as he and his team secured and counted votes one by one. It was tense, frantic, and down to the wire. Twelve Democratic candidates received votes on the first ballot. John F. Kennedy emerged as the winner with 53% of the vote, followed by Lyndon Johnson with 27%.\nTo the surprise of many, including brother Bobby, Kennedy asked Johnson to join him on the ticket\u2014and Johnson accepted. This strategic alliance broadened support for the Democratic ticket and may have eventually handed Kennedy a narrow victory over Republican nominee Richard Nixon.\nOn stage that July 15, before Kennedy spoke of revolution and change, he thanked his fellow Democrats, including Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, and Stuart Symington (who came in third on the ballot). \u201cI feel a lot safer now that they are on my side again,\u201d Kennedy joked. And then Kennedy sought to capture the imagination of a nation as he laid forth his vision for the 1960s: \u201cI believe the times demand new invention, innovation, imagination, decision. I am asking each of you to be pioneers on that New Frontier.\u201d\nTo learn more about what happened in the 1960 election after the conventions, visit our exhibit, A Time For Greatness, on display at the Museum until November 13, or visit JFK.org/ATimeForGreatness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jmag-international.com/catalog/54_movingcoillinearmotor_cogging/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7ZXR3DZJY2ZMAICLOOV2XBNJOMCTZVL", "length": 1602, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.jmag-international.com", "title": "54 \u2013 Analysis of the Cogging Force of a Moving Coil Linear Motor | JMAG : Simulation Technology for Electromechanical Design", "raw_content": "Linear motors have been widely used in carrier devices and the drive units of machine tools due to their capability for high acceleration and deceleration, as well as their accurate positioning. In order to improve performance people are trying to obtain a large thrust force in order to enhance responsiveness, but one also needs to fulfill the demand for the trade-off of reducing thrust force variations and the attraction force. There are also times when skew is added to the magnets because of requirements to reduce thrust force variation.\nIn order to obtain a large thrust force, the material\u2019s nonlinear magnetic properties and the magnet\u2019s demagnetization characteristics need to be accounted for, and they need to be analyzed after modeling a detailed geometry in order to evaluate thrust force variations. This is why the characteristics need to be studied with a magnetic field analysis simulation based on the finite element method (FEM).\nThis Analysis Note explains how to obtain the magnetic flux density distribution and cogging in a moving coil linear motor with skew applied to its magnets.\nThe magnetic flux density distribution at a translation distance of 36 mm is shown in fig. 1. Applying skew changes the magnetic circuit. It is anticipated that these changes in the magnetic circuit will affect the cogging torque.\nCogging Waveform\nThe cogging waveform is shown in fig. 2. When skew is applied, the cogging torque\u2019s peak value falls by approximately 50%.\n68 \u2013 Speed Versus Torque Characteristic Analysis of a Three-Phase Induction Motor\n58 \u2013 Efficiency Analysis of an IPM Motor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobilize.com/physics/section/summary-extended-topic-the-four-basic-forces-an-by-openstax?qcr=www.quizover.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:VEWFT7YLYMW6ZDYN67PIKMMFNBYYTUHM", "length": 4654, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.jobilize.com", "title": "Summary, Extended topic: the four basic forces\u2014an, By OpenStax (Page 5/7) | Jobilize.com", "raw_content": "Extended topic: the four basic\n4.8 Extended topic: the four basic forces\u2014an introduction (Page 5/7)\n4.8 Extended topic: the four basic forces 5\nAction at a distance: concept of a field\nInternational collaboration in this area is moving into space with the joint EU/US project LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). Earthquakes and other Earthly noises will be no problem for these monitoring spacecraft. LISA will complement LIGO by looking at much more massive black holes through the observation of gravitational-wave sources emitting much larger wavelengths. Three satellites will be placed in space above Earth in an equilateral triangle (with 5,000,000-km sides) ( [link] ). The system will measure the relative positions of each satellite to detect passing gravitational waves. Accuracy to within 10% of the size of an atom will be needed to detect any waves. The launch of this project might be as early as 2018.\n\u201cI\u2019m sure LIGO will tell us something about the universe that we didn\u2019t know before. The history of science tells us that any time you go where you haven\u2019t been before, you usually find something that really shakes the scientific paradigms of the day. Whether gravitational wave astrophysics will do that, only time will tell.\u201d \u2014David Reitze, LIGO Input Optics Manager, University of Florida\nSpace-based future experiments for the measurement of gravitational waves. Shown here is a drawing of LISA\u2019s orbit. Each satellite of LISA will consist of a laser source and a mass. The lasers will transmit a signal to measure the distance between each satellite\u2019s test mass. The relative motion of these masses will provide information about passing gravitational waves. (credit: NASA)\nThe ideas presented in this section are but a glimpse into topics of modern physics that will be covered in much greater depth in later chapters.\nThe various types of forces that are categorized for use in many applications are all manifestations of the four basic forces in nature.\nThe properties of these forces are summarized in [link] .\nEverything we experience directly without sensitive instruments is due to either electromagnetic forces or gravitational forces. The nuclear forces are responsible for the submicroscopic structure of matter, but they are not directly sensed because of their short ranges. Attempts are being made to show all four forces are different manifestations of a single unified force.\nA force field surrounds an object creating a force and is the carrier of that force.\nExplain, in terms of the properties of the four basic forces, why people notice the gravitational force acting on their bodies if it is such a comparatively weak force.\nWhat is the dominant force between astronomical objects? Why are the other three basic forces less significant over these very large distances?\nGive a detailed example of how the exchange of a particle can result in an attractive force. (For example, consider one child pulling a toy out of the hands of another.)\n(a) What is the strength of the weak nuclear force relative to the strong nuclear force? (b) What is the strength of the weak nuclear force relative to the electromagnetic force? Since the weak nuclear force acts at only very short distances, such as inside nuclei, where the strong and electromagnetic forces also act, it might seem surprising that we have any knowledge of it at all. We have such knowledge because the weak nuclear force is responsible for beta decay, a type of nuclear decay not explained by other forces.\n(a) 1 \u00d7 10 \u2212 13 size 12{1 times \"10\" rSup { size 8{ - \"13\"} } } {}\n(b) 1 \u00d7 10 \u2212 11 size 12{1 times \"10\" rSup { size 8{ - \"11\"} } } {}\n(a) What is the ratio of the strength of the gravitational force to that of the strong nuclear force? (b) What is the ratio of the strength of the gravitational force to that of the weak nuclear force? (c) What is the ratio of the strength of the gravitational force to that of the electromagnetic force? What do your answers imply about the influence of the gravitational force on atomic nuclei?\nWhat is the ratio of the strength of the strong nuclear force to that of the electromagnetic force? Based on this ratio, you might expect that the strong force dominates the nucleus, which is true for small nuclei. Large nuclei, however, have sizes greater than the range of the strong nuclear force. At these sizes, the electromagnetic force begins to affect nuclear stability. These facts will be used to explain nuclear fusion and fission later in this text.\n10 2 size 12{\"10\" rSup { size 8{2} } } {}\nFurther applications of newton\u2019s laws of motion Online Chapter\n1 Action at a distance: concept of a field", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 392, "original_length": 14074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobs.ac.uk/careers-advice/studentships/2347/what-not-to-do-when-finishing-a-phd-top-ten-tips", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DBHRUWSH73RCPAILKR46TRV5VDTZ3B46", "length": 3888, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jobs.ac.uk", "title": "What Not To Do When Finishing A PhD: Top Ten Tips - Careers Advice - jobs.ac.uk", "raw_content": "What Not To Do When Finishing A PhD: Top Ten Tips\nThe final stages of a PhD are arguably the hardest; the pressure to finish up ahead of a deadline combined with the anxiety of ensuring that your work meets the criteria for a PhD set by your university (generally that it represents a substantial original piece of work) can make for a very hard time. In the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, funding is often only provided for a period of three years, where in reality a PhD thesis can take up to four years to write. So what if your funding has run out, but you still need to work on the thesis? This article offers some advice on how to navigate the stressful final months of a PhD while also staying above the breadline. Above all, it seeks to offer some suggestions for what to avoid in order to successfully complete a PhD.\n1. DO speak to your supervisors about your impending lack of funding. They may have some suggestions for finding paid work within your department, although it should be noted that your supervisors are often most concerned with ensuring you complete your PhD on time, so be wary that they may not be as sympathetic to you taking on paid work as you might like.\n2. DO speak to friends and colleagues working in your institution. Sometimes it can be helpful to take on work which involves very little physical presence but which can be undertaken from home, such as helping out with your department\u2019s website or assisting a researcher on advertising their project.\n3. DO speak to colleagues at other institutions. Sometimes conversations with colleagues can lead to new opportunities for paid work elsewhere, which can help to develop your CV at the same time as providing some income.\n4. DO try to keep your costs down. If you\u2019re having to travel very far to undertake work while finishing your PhD then this will have an adverse effect both on your finances and on your ability to work on the PhD. If you have to take on some paid work, it tends to be most helpful if this can be done from home to prevent unnecessary expenditure on travel.\n5. DO contact any learned or academic societies or subject associations of which you are a member: these associations sometimes require postgraduates to carry out some website work or they may want someone to help with other forms of marketing.\n6. DON\u2019T take on too much paid work. The temptation can be to seize every opportunity for some income, but taking on too much work can have a detrimental impact on the progress of your thesis.\n7. DON\u2019T take on any work which requires too much preparation and/or marking. Marking and assessment, while often well remunerated if it is not part of PhD funding, is time consuming and can eat into the time dedicated for PhD thesis writing.\n8. DON\u2019T lose sight of the end goal. The thesis has to remain the main priority, despite all of the attractions that paid work can bring. Even in the darkest days of thesis writing-up, it is important to remember that the thesis will bring far greater opportunities once it is complete.\n9. DON\u2019T ignore your supervisors. While in some cases it might seem as though your supervisors have different priorities (often driven by institutional or departmental pressure to ensure PhD completion), their advice will generally be more valid and supportive than ever in the final stages of the PhD. Ignoring or failing to contact them on a regular basis can have a detrimental effect on the final thesis.\n10. And finally, DON\u2019T give up hope. There are always opportunities for some form of work in universities: using your contacts and searching on Jobs.ac.uk can yield opportunities which you may never guessed during the first years of your PhD. Remember, too, that no matter how far the thesis may seem from completion, hard work and determination (plus the occasional all-night slog) will help you to see the thesis through to the end.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnpielli.com/bases-empty-blog/category/jorge-lopez", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UJXZVXM5RWGFOK7T2RP3RTLIVKHWPJUJ", "length": 6395, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.johnpielli.com", "title": "Category: Jorge-lopez - JOHNPIELLI.com", "raw_content": "2016 30-1 MLB countdown previews: #27 Milwaukee Brewers\nAs spring training is beginning in the states of Arizona and Florida, it is time to get an idea of how each of the 30 MLB teams looks for the upcoming 2016 season. While the outlook for some teams seem very good, the likeliness is that some teams are preparing for the 2017 season and beyond. However, it does not mean it will always turn out that way. Each season, teams that are expected to do well, do not. And teams that do not expect very much end up having big seasons. You have to go no further than the 2015 baseball season and see some of the teams that made the postseason. The Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers were not expected to be ready to contend last season, according to the \"experts.\" It is likely that the same \"experts\" have a lot of faith in the teams that made the playoff last season.\nThe Milwaukee Brewers finished the 2015 season with a 68-94 record, good enough for last place in the National League Central division. What started with high expectations ended with the team in full rebuild mode. Among players traded from the 2015 Brewers roster include first baseman Adam Lind, closer Francisco Rodriguez, shortstop Jean Segura, and outfielder Khris Davis. Of course, the fire sale started in 2015 after the Brewers fired manager Ron Roenicke and general manager Doug Melvin decided to step down. The Brewers traded outfielder Carlos Gomez, third baseman Aramis Ramirez, outfielder Gerardo Parra, and pitcher Mike Fiers last season netting many younger players we may not see in 2016. The Brewers added infielder Aaron Hill (.230 batting average, 6 home runs, 39 runs batted in, .640 on base plus slugging) and pitcher Chase Anderson (6 wins, 6 losses, 4.30 earned run average, 27 games started) from the Arizona Diamondbacks in the deal for Segura. First baseman Chris Carter (.199, 24, 64, .734) comes over from the Houston Astros and once touted young players such as outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis and infielders Garin Cecchini and Will Middlebrooks have a legitimate shot of making this ballclub.\nFormer National League MVP Ryan Braun (.285, 25, 84, .854) leads the charge for the Brewers offensively. Catcher Jonathan Lucroy (.264, 7, 43, .717) is healthy after a disappointing 2015 season. Carter will be counted on to provide a lot of offense as the only other projected starting player expected to produce above average major league numbers is outfielder Domingo Santana (.238, 8, 26 in 52 games). Hill, Cecchini and Middlebrooks are all battling for the starting third base job with Jonathan Villar (.284, 2, 11) getting the opportunity to be the everyday shortstop. Villar was acquired from the Astros in an early off season trade. Shane Peterson (.259, 2, 16) will battle with Nieuwenhuis and Eric Young Jr for at bats in center field. Scooter Gennett (.264, 6, 29, .675) looks to cement his position at second base. The opening day lineup I would go with is Gennett 2B, Santana RF, Lucroy C, Braun LF, Carter 1B, Middlebrooks 3B, Nieuwenhuis CF, Villar SS. A lineup that was once potent now resembles a replacement team (particularly the bottom three in the projected order).\nThe Brewers will hope that players like Hill, Cecchini, Peterson and Young provide a little bit more depth than they are projected to. Martin Maldonado (.210, 4, 22) is the backup catcher with Jacob Nottingham waiting in the wings after being acquired from Oakland in the deal for Davis. Rymer Liriano comes over from San Diego to try to gain some outfield at bats.\nThe Brewers made a couple of aggressive signings over the past couple seasons with the hopes they would deepen their starting rotation. Kyle Lohse is finally off the books and Matt Garza (6-14, 5.63, 25 starts) has two more years remaining on his contract. The Brewers can probably fill a rotation without Garza, but need young pitchers Jimmy Nelson (11-13, 4.11, 30 starts) and Taylor Jungman (9-8, 3.77, 21 starts) to continue to develop. Wily Peralta (5-10, 4.72, 20 starts) struggled last season and also battled some injuries. Anderson, and Zach Davies, acquired in the deal that sent Parra to Baltimore, could feasibly be the forth and fifth starters. Garza, however, will get every opportunity to prove he still has something to offer. The Brewers are hoping he goes as they would like to get something back for him in a trade.\nThe Brewers bullpen is missing Rodriguez (1-3, 2.21, 38 saves, 9.8 Ks per 9 innings pitched) dealt to Detroit. As has been said by many (I do not necessarily agree), bad teams to not need a good closer. The Brewers will likely use left hander Will Smith (7-2, 2.70, 70 games) as their closer this season. Right hander Jeremy Jeffress (5-0, 2.65, 72 games pitched) was a Brewers prospect years ago that has prospered with his first team after moving around to a couple of organizations. Right handers Corey Knebel (0-0, 4.22, 48 games) and Michael Blazek (5-3, 2.43, 45 games) will likely get a good look. One intriguing late inning relief candidate is Tyler Thornburg (0-2, 3.67, 24 games). Thornburg was a solid prospect as a starting pitcher but possesses some strong stuff as a short reliever. Perhaps is Smith hits a rough patch, Thornburg can emerge as the closer of the future.\nNottingham leads the list of top prospects to potentially impact the 2016 Brewers. Of course, it may be difficult to get playing time with Lucroy in the mix, but if Nottingham is ready, the Brewers will find a place for both him and Lucroy. The \"crew\" can also trade Lucroy and open the starting catching job to Nottingham. Shortstop Orlando Arcia looks like the Brewers shortstop of the future. We may see him this season as well. Right hand pitcher Jorge Lopez, like Davies, has some very good stuff and is coming off a solid 2015 minor league season.\nWhat is tough about this particular rebuild is the fact that the Brewers do not have a ton of young players ready to make an impact within the next season or two. My theory is this club probably gets worse before it gets better. And that is not factoring in more trades that likely will be made during the season. I thought Las Vegas was generous with their over/ under number of 71 1/2. However, it is not that far off. I see the Brewers repeating their 2015 record of 68-94, but this time finish in last place in the NL Central division.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9345, "original_length": 132012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Sci-Tech/Science-And-Environment/US-may-join-Alliance-of-Civilizations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SAXZVSEQOX636JISHUZGTJS6IYBXUD6V", "length": 4716, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.jpost.com", "title": "US may join 'Alliance of Civilizations' - Health & Sci-Tech - Jerusalem Post", "raw_content": "US may join 'Alliance of Civilizations'\nIsrael sources baffled by reports, say group has strong anti-Israel, anti-Western history.\nBy Herb Keinon, AP\nObama nuke summit 311. (photo credit: AP)\nIsraeli officials expressed surprise and bewilderment on Thursday at reports the Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group called the Alliance of Civilizations. The US has hitherto largely shunned the group due to concerns over its anti-Israel and anti-Western stances.\nUS officials said the administration plans to announce as early as this week that it will begin a formal relationship with the five-year-old, UN-backed organization that has as its expressed aim easing strains between societies and cultures, particularly between the West and Islam.\nThe Bush administration boycotted the group when it was founded in 2005, amid worries it would become a forum for bashing Israel and the US. Those concerns were magnified a year later when the alliance released a report that officials in Washington said unfairly blamed Israel and the US for many of the world\u2019s problems.\nOne Israeli official said it was odd that the US would join a body that is \u201ccompletely insignificant.\u201d\nHe said it was one thing for Israel to join the OECD, as it did earlier this week, and another for Washington to join a group that on the international stage \u201cis about as important as the Ramle Friends of Hapoel Tel Aviv.\u201d\nThis is something that doesn\u2019t need to concern Israel, the official said, but should leave Americans wondering what the administration is doing.\nAnother government source said it was not inconceivable that the decision to join the group was yet another hint to Israel that Washington could make things uncomfortable for Jerusalem if it chose, without causing a public rift.\nThe source said this move, along with the reports that the UN\u2019s International Atomic Energy Agency will take up the question of Israel\u2019s nuclear capabilities at its board meeting next month, something that has never happened before and which the US could have prevented had it chosen to do so, indicated to a certain degree a change of tenor coming from Washington.\n\u201cI\u2019m not saying the US is deciding to join the organization to send a message to Israel, but it clearly was mindful of how this would be interpreted in Jerusalem,\u201d the source said.\nSince President Barack Obama came into office last year, the US has slowly opened the door to informal dealings with the Alliance of Civilizations, including attending some of its meetings as an observer.\nBut the US had yet to join the alliance by becoming a member of its \u201cGroup of Friends,\u201d countries and organizations that have lent their names and support to its goal of countering the rise of religious extremism and cultural polarization.\nThe decision to join grows out of Obama\u2019s desire to broaden US participation in international groups and improve its standing in the Muslim world.\nEarlier moves have included Obama\u2019s thus-far failed outreach to Iran and Syria, his speech last June to the Muslim world in Cairo and the US decision to join the much-criticized UN Human Rights Commission.\nThe US also participated in preparatory meetings for a UN conference on racism \u2013 the Durban II conference \u2013 that the administration ultimately boycotted over concern about anti-Semitism.\nThe US had been the only member of the Group of 20 major advanced and emerging economies to refuse to join the friends group, which now includes 118 countries and organizations.\nMany nations in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia are members, along with multilateral blocs including the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Israel and the US have been among the conspicuous holdouts.\nThe officials said earlier fears about the \u201cimbalances\u201d in the group, which was set up by Spain and Turkey, had been addressed after the US expressed \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the alliance\u2019s 2006 report. That document focused on the Middle East and identified Israel\u2019s \u201cdisproportionate retaliatory actions in Gaza and Lebanon\u201d as a main cause of Muslim-Western tension.\nThe officials said the administration had been assured by its current leader, former Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio, that it would take a \u201cmore positive\u201d approach to its work.\nDiabetes may significantly increase risk of dementia\nBy UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM\nBrain fatigue? A bout of exercise may be the cure\nBy AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY\nFood and Drugs: Administer Together\nWorkers protest Holocaust survivors hostel privatization\nBy JPOST.COM STAFF AND JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH\n1,000 Israelis \u2018connect with nature\u2019 at Dead Sea\nBy ANNE GRANT, SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 10592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2017/08/10/milwaukee-bucks-game-jerseys-feature-harley-davidson-advertising-patch-starting-2017-18/553550001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SGIMITL67FPBWGSTIUGMS5ZH6J54CIPK", "length": 8435, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.jsonline.com", "title": "Milwaukee Bucks game jerseys to feature Harley-Davidson advertising patch starting in 2017-'18", "raw_content": "Milwaukee Bucks game jerseys to feature Harley-Davidson advertising patch starting in 2017-'18\nThe new sponsorship deal is part of a three-year pilot program allowing NBA teams to place one ad on their jerseys.\nMilwaukee Bucks game jerseys to feature Harley-Davidson advertising patch starting in 2017-'18 The new sponsorship deal is part of a three-year pilot program allowing NBA teams to place one ad on their jerseys. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2vSrLTG\nMatt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 9:05 a.m. CT Aug. 10, 2017 | Updated 5:39 p.m. CT Aug. 10, 2017\nThe Milwaukee Bucks jerseys will feature a Harley-Davidson sponsorship patch for the 2017-'18 season.(Photo11: Milwaukee Bucks)\nWhen the Milwaukee Bucks reinvented their logos in 2015, they established three colors in their official palette \u2014 green, cream and blue. Along with white and black, those colors have been combined to create a variety of well-received uniform combinations over the past couple seasons.\nStarting with the 2017-\u201918 campaign, the Bucks\u2019 jerseys will feature a new, recognizable splash of orange, black and white on the front left shoulder.\nThe Bucks and Harley-Davidson on Thursday announced a new sponsorship agreement that includes featuring Harley-Davidson\u2019s iconic black, orange and white bar and shield logo on the team\u2019s game jerseys for the next three seasons.\n\u201cWe think we found the absolute perfect partner for this,\u201d said Matt Pazaras, the Bucks\u2019 senior vice president of business development and strategy.\n\u201cYou have somebody with a history that starts here in Milwaukee, a very long history \u2014 their 115th anniversary is next year \u2014 (and) they have a global presence and global reach much like the NBA. \u2026 The thing for me that sent it over the top and why we\u2019re so excited is to have a consumer brand that drives so much passion. Yes, the (Harley-Davidson) logo\u2019s going to be on our uniforms, but people tattoo it on their bodies. Something that drives that much passion from a consumer side is incredibly exciting for us.\u201d\nIn April 2016, the NBA board of governors approved a three-year pilot program allowing teams to place ads on their game jerseys beginning in 2017-\u201918. This program is the first among the country\u2019s four major sports leagues and its inception coincides with the NBA shifting to Nike as its official apparel provider. The Nike \"swoosh\" will appear on the right shoulder of team jerseys, opposite each team\u2019s sponsor.\nRELATED: NBA owners approve jersey ads\nEach team is responsible for forging its own deal, so last spring Pazaras and his colleagues immediately began working to find a suitable jersey sponsor. Settling on a sponsor with local ties that fit the team\u2019s vision and had a logo that meshed well with the Bucks\u2019 rebranded look proved to be a job that took over a year.\nThe Bucks\u2019 search led to talks with Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson. Those discussions began this spring and rapidly progressed toward the deal.\nMilwaukee Bucks announce jersey patch sponsorship with Harley-Davidson\nBill Davidson of Harley-Davidson greets the crowd after riding in along with a group of riders, including Milwaukee Bucks mascot, Bango. The Bucks and Harley-Davidson announced a three-year sponsorship on Thursday at the Harley-Davidson Museum that includes a Harley-Davidson patch on Bucks game jerseys. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nMilwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin addresses the crowd at Thursday's news conference. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nBucks center Thon Maker and mascot Bango unveil the team's new-look jerseys. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nBucks center Thon Maker and mascot Bango stand on stage after unveiling the Bucks' new-look jerseys with the Harley-Davidson patch. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nA look at the Bucks' new jerseys with the Harley-Davidson patch. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nA look at the Bucks' green jersey, now known as the \"Icon edition.\" This season, Nike has moved away from home and road designations for jerseys, instead allowing the home team to select what it will wear. The visiting team will then choose a jersey to contrast it. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nA look at the Bucks' white jersey, now known as the \"Association edition.\" This season, Nike has moved away from home and road designations for jerseys, instead allowing the home team to select what it will wear. The visiting team will then choose a jersey to contrast it. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nFrom left to right: Bucks center Thon Maker, mascot Bango, team president Peter Feigin and Harley-Davidson's Sean Cummings and Bill Davidson pose for a photo. Matt Velazquez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n\u201cIt moved quickly and I think it was because it was such a natural fit,\u201d said Anoop Prakash, Harley-Davidson\u2019s director of U.S. marketing and market development. \u201dWe\u2019ve been partners for some time and, again, as you think about what this is it\u2019s two iconic Milwaukee brands who have played above their weight nationally and globally for many years. What a great time to come together as both of us look to build the next generation of legends out there.\u201d\nHarley-Davidson has been noticeable at Bucks games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in the past, most notably with the team\u2019s mascot, Bango, riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on the court during a timeout in the fourth quarter of each game. That level of in-arena sponsorship will continue, along with Harley-Davidson branding appearing on the team\u2019s digital platforms and title sponsorship of the team\u2019s to-be-named fan squad.\nThe addition of the jersey patch, though, represents a new, enhanced step in Harley-Davidson\u2019s sponsorship of the Bucks, aimed at a younger, wider audience.\n\u201cI think the pivot here is that we\u2019re shifting our strategy to more global view and saying we really want to work with the Bucks to build the next generation of riders,\u201d said Prakash, who referred to both basketball and motorcycling as \u201cpassion sports.\u201d\n\u201cInstead of looking at more of the in-arena activations, we think of this partnership in line with other global partnerships that we have, like our partnerships with UFC, with X Games and other properties that reach new audiences around the world.\u201d\nFor the Bucks, the sponsorship creates an opportunity to partner with another Milwaukee-based brand while generating additional revenue.\nEarly estimates point to these small ads \u2014 the Harley-Davidson logo patch will take up a 2.75-by-2.09-inch area on the left shoulder of Milwaukee\u2019s jerseys \u2014 generating $150 million or more for the league each season. The revenue from those ad sales will be shared with the players, per the collective bargaining agreement.\nWhile the Bucks\u2019 deal with Harley-Davidson will last for three seasons, the yearly revenue brought in by the sponsorship has not been disclosed. Earlier this week, Bucks president Peter Feigin appeared on Fox Business Network and estimated that revenue from jersey ads could bring in $2.5 to $6 million per year, depending on the team.\nThe Bucks are the 12th team to announce their jersey sponsor for next season, joining the likes of the Cleveland Cavaliers (Goodyear), Orlando Magic (Disney), Boston Celtics (General Electric) and Philadelphia 76ers (Stubhub). Cleveland's deal with Goodyear is reportedly the most lucrative thus far, worth $10 million per season.\nThe Harley-Davidson patch will be on all Bucks game jerseys next season, though per league guidelines it will not appear on retail versions. However, fans will be able to purchase jerseys with the Harley-Davidson patch at the Bucks Pro Shop beginning on September 29.\nWith the shift to Nike uniforms, the Bucks will have at least four different jersey combinations next season along with a possible fifth, retro option. The team\u2019s full suite of jerseys will be unveiled at a later date.\nWhile there has been and will continue to be debate among NBA fans and sports purists about the presence of advertising patches, the early response from the Bucks \u2014 including the handful of players who have seen the jerseys with the Harley-Davidson patch so far \u2014 has been favorable.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a couple (players) in town floating around our new sports science center and we had a Harley jersey in our hands and we showed it to a couple of them and actually they loved it, Pazaras said. \u201cThey went nuts.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 12117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/balloon-festival-find-the-short-vowel-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FQMLWE6A7PYQPOZWYRHDXOCBCSJQ3NLU", "length": 333, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.k12reader.com", "title": "Balloon Festival: Find the Short Vowel 2 | Printable Worksheets", "raw_content": "Balloon Festival: Find the Short Vowel 2\nIn this worksheet each balloon has a different word. Your student must decide if the word has a short vowel sound or a long vowel sound. While it\u2019s compatible with 1st and 2nd grade Common Core Standards for Reading: Foundational Skills, you may also use it for other students as appropriate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 1987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.katrinamedia.org/projects/Struggling/story_OneWayDilemma.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HCEWDEQQ6CGLPQSMG23T2MXYNWWV4CNM", "length": 7176, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.katrinamedia.org", "title": "Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster - One-Way Dilemma by Katy Reckdahl", "raw_content": "One-Way Dilemmaby Katy Reckdahl\nTexas Health and Human Services Commission report on Katrina evacuees\nTravelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta\nNew Orleans evacuees are facing another hurdle to returning home: the cost of renting a moving van or truck has gone through the roof, writes Katy Reckdahl in this January 7, 2007, Times-Picayune article.\nWhen the U-Haul clerk quoted him a price for a one-way truck rental from Dallas to New Orleans, all Ajay Mallery could do was gulp.\nStarting in the fall, with a vow from the contractor that their flooded home would be ready by New Year's, he and his wife, Neljuana Mallery, had planned every step of the move back home.\nIn December, as the moving date approached, they enrolled their two children in New Orleans schools, and Ajay, a drummer, started picking up brass-band gigs.\nBut then came the shocker from U-Haul. To rent a moving truck for the drive to New Orleans would cost these Katrina evacuees an estimated $1,439 one way.\nAfter pondering the quote for a few minutes, an astounded Ajay Mallery picked up the phone and called U-Haul back. How much would it cost to drive the same truck from Dallas to Phoenix, he asked. \"They told me $640,\" he said, less than half the price, despite the trip to Phoenix being twice as long as the drive to New Orleans.\nHe tried other cities-among them Detroit and Chicago, which are about 500 miles apart, the same distance as Dallas and New Orleans. The cost for a U-Haul rental? About $250. \"I thought, 'This is ridiculous,' \" Mallery said.\nWhat made the price soar was the Mallerys' destination-New Orleans. Anyone driving a moving truck this way can expect to pay sky-high prices. That's because, over the past several months, thousands of evacuees have begun coming home. The result: truck- and trailer-rental parking lots overflowing, with rolling stock from places like Atlanta, Dallas and-more than anywhere else-Houston.\nTruck-rental prices from many cities have doubled and tripled in the past few months. Some Houston evacuees have been flatly denied rental trucks if they plan to return them to New Orleans. U-Haul International spokeswoman Joanne Fried said that happens when \"a stop\" is put on trucks headed to certain destinations glutted with gear. \"When that happened, it was because there was nowhere to park the trucks in New Orleans,\" she said.\nA sign of return\nJust as purple, green and gold signals the advent of another Carnival season, the orange cabs of U-Haul trucks in parking lots all over New Orleans are a sure sign that evacuees are returning. They even shed light on just who is returning-generally lower-income New Orleanians for whom hiring professional movers is out of the question. The trucks are also pawns in an unresolved fight between Louisiana state officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency over possible federal financing for the moves back to the city where the federal levees failed so catastrophically.\n\"They're coming home. People didn't think they would, but they are. Slowly but surely,\" said Sidney Doyle, who lives on Banks Street in Mid City, a few blocks behind U-Haul's Tulane Avenue lot. His friend, Brandon Matthews, said the U-Haul lot on Tulane always seemed to be struggling before the storm. Would-be customers were routinely sent on to another location, he said, because the Tulane lot had so few trucks.\nThese days trucks are parked bumper to bumper, side to side, in the parking lot and spill out onto side streets, where there's orange as far as the eye can see. \"Looks like business is booming,\" Matthews said.\nDoyle bets that most of the trucks are coming from Houston because the people he knows can't get jobs there and because New Orleans residents are harassed, like his cousin who got a jaywalking ticket even though the Houston resident he was walking with didn't get one. Matthews said that he's also heard that Houston charities are picking up the tab for rental trucks that carry evacuees back to New Orleans.\nAgencies are helping\nIt's true. While organizations in other cities like Dallas and Atlanta are financing a handful of families, Houston's program, primarily paid for by the Houston-Galveston Area Council, has its own U-Haul corporate account and is footing the bill for a steady stream of moving trucks headed to New Orleans.\nKatrina case managers in Dallas, where the Mallerys lived, only pay for moving trucks on a limited, case-by-case basis, mostly for families that still qualify for FEMA aid. The Mallerys were on their own, and a $1,469 fee was beyond their budget, they decided.\nSo Ajay Mallery pulled out the Yellow Pages and started dialing. When he got to the Rs, a Ryder manager told him that the company had ceased one-way rentals altogether after a parked Ryder rental truck was used in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. But, he said, Mallery could rent a Ryder truck with unlimited miles for $300. The catch? He had to drive the truck back to Dallas to return it.\nNo big deal, said Mallery, who got to New Orleans, unloaded the truck and then turned around and drove back. \"If it saves me $1,000, I'd do that drive anytime,\" he said.\nTruck-rental prices from many cities have doubled and tripled in the past few months. Some Houston evacuees have been flatly denied rental trucks if they plan to return them to New Orleans.\nOf the major moving companies, U-Haul seems to have the most trucks in New Orleans, roughly 2,300, according to spokeswoman Fried.\nThe largest local U-Haul lot, on Chef Menteur Highway in eastern New Orleans, used to hold about 50 trucks; now it holds 10 times that number.\nMost traffic from Houston\nThe logjam began in June, said Kimberly Cox, general manager of the Chef Menteur site. \"It pretty much started after school let out,\" she said. She saw another surge in October, which she attributes to onset of the Saints winning streak. After that, there was another long push that continued into Christmas week\u2014people determined to return home for the holidays, she said.\nConversations with employees at the U-Haul lots on St. Claude and Tulane avenues leave no doubt about where the trucks are coming from: a few from Atlanta, a goodly number from Dallas and other Texas cities, but most from Houston, said Darryl Williams, who works at the Tulane location. \"Houston is the first one,\" he said. \"It's overwhelming.\"\nHis observations are confirmed by U-Haul's official \"migration reports,\" tracking moves, and inventory buildup.\nSince May, according to the reports, Houston has been the top starting-point for trucks arriving in New Orleans. The precise number of trucks making those moves was unavailable, however, as it U-Haul corporate considers it proprietary information, Fried said.\nWilliams has a personal insight into the situation, having just driven to Houston to pick up his daughter, who was living there. \"They weren't going to renew her lease,\" he said. \"I'm hearing that more and more from people, as they come back.\"\nWhile flocks of moving trucks are an indicator, they also raise questions. Who is coming back? Some evacuee case managers said that, more and more, those trying to return are the city's poor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 7944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keglerbrown.com/garvey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SRLGDV4BNPYCCXDXAARDQF3PUU75TWHJ", "length": 3865, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.keglerbrown.com", "title": "Katja Garvey, German Speaking Global Business Attorney", "raw_content": "Katja Garvey, Associate\nAnwaltsportr\u00e4t\nSecondment in Germany\n@KatjaGarvey\nkgarvey@keglerbrown.com\nKatja joined Kegler Brown in 2013, focusing predominantly in the firm\u2019s Corporate and M+A practices, providing legal due diligence expertise and offering creative and efficient strategies on complex domestic and cross-border deals, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and joint ventures. She is also an active member of the Global Business practice, focusing on the European market.\nA native of Germany, Katja graduated from Juristische Fakult\u00e4t (law school) University of Passau, Germany, and spent a year at Capital University Law School, participating in the study abroad program before finishing her degree in Germany. Katja returned to Ohio to graduate from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law with a concentration in business law, receiving her LL.M. in 2012.\nKatja is well-versed in all aspects of business creation and preservation. She provides advice to growth-stage companies on numerous aspects of formation and organization, assisting clients with LLC creation, entity structuring and negotiating commercial agreements with national and international parties. Additionally, clients looking to buy or sell a business utilize Katja\u2019s counsel in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions. She provides effective risk management analysis along with legal due diligence that streamlines and clarifies transactions.\nKatja works with businesses to help navigate the legal requirements related to privacy and data security, helping to reduce the risk of a data breach and efficiently structure the process of responding to a breach, in order to reduce their exposure to litigation and limit loss. She creates and reviews policies and processes, crafts and assesses training programs, and negotiates vendor and customer agreements. Katja also assists clients with creating and managing any necessary compliance with global privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\nKatja\u2019s international roots and extensive business background have helped her establish a great deal of experience working with companies that have global operations. She advises international business clients on issues of U.S. law related to cross-border transactions, contract negotiation, entity selection and formation, as well as winding-down procedures.\nIn addition, Katja helps guide public and private university clients through the complex regulatory and funding process involved in global expansion. She works with educational leaders and university counsel to address the complex contractual, tax and regulatory issues at play in a particular country or region, assisting them to develop and execute new market (entry) strategies, implement project development initiatives, and establish education support services or recruiting initiatives.\nKatja assists Ohio employers with all aspects of workers\u2019 compensation matters, including representing employers at administrative hearings and employer depositions. She advises clients with respect to their workers\u2019 compensation programs and regularly defends employers in claims.\nThe Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (LL.M., 2012)\nJuristische Fakult\u00e4t (law school), Universit\u00e4t Passau (2011)\nCapital University Law School (Study Abroad Program, 2007-2008)\nLL.M Advisory Council, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, co-chair\nKegler Brown Women's Collaborative, co-chair\nInternational Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), member\nGerman-American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, member\nColumbus Bar Association, International Lawyers Committee, member\nSelected to the 2017 Ohio Rising Star list by Super Lawyers\nSupreme Court of Ohio Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program, mentor\nKatjas deutsches Anwaltsprofil k\u00f6nnen Sie hier ansehen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keteka.com/traveltips/how-to-ride-buses-in-rural-panama/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JGMROYALJANGTYVFMGA4GLQ6UWN65A5P", "length": 4290, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.keteka.com", "title": "How to Ride Buses in Rural Panama \u00bb Keteka", "raw_content": "Keteka >>How to Ride Buses in Rural Panama\nHow to Ride Buses in Rural Panama\nIf you\u2019re new to traveling in Latin America, the idea of using public transportation can be daunting. Panama is no exception. Traveling through Panama City is always the most unnerving. The lack of maps and confusing routes can make it easy for visitor to overpay for a taxi. Things have improved in recent years with the implementation [\u2026]\nIf you\u2019re new to traveling in Latin America, the idea of using public transportation can be daunting. Panama is no exception. Traveling through Panama City is always the most unnerving. The lack of maps and confusing routes can make it easy for visitor to overpay for a taxi. Things have improved in recent years with the implementation of a modern bus system, which replaced the the old \u201cdiablo rojos\u201d \u2013 repurposed and bedazzled 50 year old school buses. There is also a new metro system, which currently consists of one line, with plans to build several others. Both the new buses and the metor use a rechargeable card that you can purchase in the Albrook Terminal. But lets say you want to venture outside the city, to all of those beautiful communities of the interior that you\u2019ve heard so much about \u2013 this post will help you navigate rural Panama like a local!\nA diable rojo in Panama City\nAny large town in the interior of Panama has what\u2019s known as a piquera. This is where all of the internal buses, cars, or chivas (we\u2019ll get to those in a moment) gather to pick up passengers, sort of like a small terminal. In each town it\u2019s in a different location, usually near a central market. If you\u2019re traveling between rural locations and are not sure how to get there, you can talk to just about any transport driver at a piquera, who will indicate to you which transport to take.\nDeparting Changuinola, Bocas del Toro through the banana plantations\nLiterally meaning \u201cgoat,\u201d a chiva is usually a small van or pickup truck, with the back covered and outfitted with lateral seats. As a young female, getting a good seat on the chiva requires technique, and usually lots of smiling at the chiva driver. If you smile enough, you may get the honor of sitting in what my Peace Corps friends call, \u201cthe hot girl seat\u201d up front next to the driver (maybe even with a seatbelt!). If not, you are in the back. It\u2019s best to let others board first so that you\u2019re not shoved into the far corner. Your bags go under the seat and make sure you get a good bar to hold on to! From there, ask around to make sure someone lets you know when you\u2019re passing your destination, and then reach your arm out and bang on the side of the vehicle so that the driver knows that this is your stop.\nCutting a new road in the Comarca Ngobe Bugle\nThe Longer Routes\nAt some point, you\u2019ll want to trek across the country. Perhaps to David, perhaps to Santiago, or maybe you\u2019re willing to brave the 11 hour long haul to Bocas del Toro. Whatever the case may be, if you\u2019re coming from Panama City, you\u2019ll inevitably start in the Albrook Terminal. You\u2019ll need the card you\u2019ve purchased for the metro in order to exit the terminal to get to where the buses are departing from (this costs .10 cents). Before this, you\u2019ll need to find the counter with the bus going to your destination. Each counter is conveniently marked with the destination and will have the times for each bus that\u2019s leaving. Contrary to the chivas and diablo rojos in which you pay upon arriving at your destination, the longer route buses in Panama require you to pay before boarding. They\u2019ll usually have room above or below the bus to store your bags, so that you can keep the seat next to you free in order to meet friendly strangers, or have them take naps on your shoulder.\nAdmiring the natural beauty of the Veraguas mountains\nThe bottom line is that Panamanians in general are friendly and love giving directions. Even if it\u2019s tricky to understand the directions, don\u2019t hesitate to ask (and if necessary, get a second opinion) when heading anywhere in Panama, be it the capital city or the interior. Very few routes are marked on maps so most Panamanians rely on giving verbal directions. It\u2019s a great way to meet people, and an even better way to get an authentic experience on your vacation!\nWaiting for the chiva in rural Cocle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kevtoon.com/the-legend-of-dust-bunnies-a-fairys-tale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:33Z", "digest": "sha1:VYR2BRA34EIJFRJO77Q5QW65MLETUP7Q", "length": 415, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kevtoon.com", "title": "Kevin Richter - The Legend of Dust Bunnies, a fairy's tale.", "raw_content": "The book is written by Michelle R. Eastman. I illustrated the book as well as did the layout and design. This was my first ever children's book and I would love to do more.\nThe final cover for The Legend of Dust Bunnies, a fiary's tale. This is my first children's book that I've worked on and I loved the whole experience. Definitely want to illustrate more children's books.\nThis is the promo poster for the book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 125.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kianewscenter.com/news/kia-motors-america-announces-record-october-sales/s/33507fbb-54e8-4d59-b342-9eb29b087172", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MZKBCJGHBZIAQUEZR2QJZZE5PCP6JJ3F", "length": 609, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kianewscenter.com", "title": "Kia Motors Global Media Center : Kia Motors America Announces Record October Sales", "raw_content": "Kia Motors America Announces Record October Sales\nFollowing the recently completed best sales quarter in company history, Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced sales of 31,199 vehicles in October, a 38.7-percent increase over the same period last year and an all-time sales record for the month of October. KMA's year-to-date sales are up 14.6 percent over 2009, and the company is well positioned to achieve its 16th consecutive year of market share growth. The October sales record is KMA's third in the past four months \u2013 and seventh overall in 2010. Available content includes press release and b-roll.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 383, "original_length": 13492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/an-examination-of-mills-idea-of-utilitarianism-and-its-flaws-N2RAhMhm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:KGO2NHKZJZ2MB2ZGDEVTFOLODHR3B3DK", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kibin.com", "title": "An Examination of Mill's Idea of Utilitarianism and Its Flaws | Kibin", "raw_content": "An Examination of Mill's Idea of Utilitarianism and Its Flaws", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kimberleypayne.com/3-superfoods-you-may-not-have-ever-heard-of/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:A4NA3QU76DOZVXZZKKMFKHRCCXKAETOQ", "length": 4042, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.kimberleypayne.com", "title": "3 Superfoods You May Not Have Ever Heard Of | Kimberley J. Payne", "raw_content": "Three Superfoods You May Not Have Ever Heard Of by Jane Sandwood\nThe global superfoods market is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17.7% from 2018-2022, reflecting great interest in the link between what people eat and the state of their health. The plethora of healthy restaurant openings, new product launches, and vegan alternatives reveal that just as the Bible states, the body truly is a temple; one that benefits from a sound diet comprising healthy proteins, seasonal fruits and vegetables, healthy essential fats, and, lately \u2013 superfoods. You may have already heard of the plentiful benefits of the a\u00e7a\u00ed berry, wheatgrass, or flaxseed. However, the full list of superfoods is far wider than you may have imagined! In this post, we mention just a few that can help make you and your family healthier and perhaps, even happier.\nMighty Moringa\nMoringa oleifera may sound exotic to you, and that might be because it is! Originating in South Asia, where it is often used to prevent a plethora of diseases, it is often referred to as the \u2018miracle tree\u2019 or \u2018horseradish tree\u2019. It has an impressive nutritional content which includes Vitamin A, calcium, Vitamin C, potassium, and protein. It is also super rich in antioxidants, which help battle the free radicals that can cause cancer, premature ageing, and cardiovascular disease. Moringa has been found in various different studies to reduce blood glucose levels, stave off inflammation, and lower levels of cholesterol. Therefore, this is one superfood that will help you feel and look younger and more vital.\nChondrus crispus (or Irish Moss) is a cold water seaweed which has been used for centuries in Ireland, both as a food additive and for various practical purposes, including as a filler for mattresses! This seaweed, which varies in color from green, to dark red, purple, yellow, brown, or white, is an excellent source of healthful nutrients, including Omega-3 essential fatty acids, fiber, iodine, folate, and vitamins. Its benefits are plentiful and include better digestive health (since it is high in fiber), the improvement of eczema (it is used in ointments for many skin conditions, including psoriasis and minor burns), better bone health (owing to its selenium, calcium, magnesium and Vitamin K content), and increased production of red blood cells (since it contains Vitamin C, Vitamin A, iron, folate, copper, and chlorophyll, which are key to this process).\nCheck out these amazing superfoods \u2013 how many have you tried? (tweet this)\nYou may have already heard of the many beneficial effects of shiitake and reishi mushrooms, but maitake mushrooms are equally impressive in terms of their health benefits. Originally hailing from northeastern Japan, they have been the subject of many studies, with interesting findings being made. In lab research, maitake mushrooms were found to slow down tumor growth; in others, they were found to lower blood glucose levels, boost the immunity, and help reduce blood pressure. These mushrooms are also a potent source of Vitamin D. The one proviso with this superfood is to avoid taking it within two weeks of surgery, since it tends to interact with certain medications, including blood thinners.\nWe have mentioned just a few superfoods, but if this topic fascinates you, check out lists by health gurus such as Leslie Kenton, which include open-celled chlorella, Australian Dunaliella Salina, alaria, kombu and nori (all of which, interestingly, are algae). If you are considering adding any superfood to your diet, it is wise to consult your doctor first, to ensure your choices.\nJane Sandwood is a freelance writer and editor. After over a decade working as a nutritionist and fitness instructor, Jane took a step back to spend more time with her family and spend more time indulging her passion for writing and all things health.\nThis entry was posted in Guest Post, Healthy Eating and tagged healthy eating, Irish moss, maitake mushrooms, moringa, Superfoods by Kimberley Payne. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kimmelstudio.com/tidewater-farmhouse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4TQSQ2LT767HSJ5NXP4KPIOKQRYOYUE6", "length": 1000, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.kimmelstudio.com", "title": "Tidewater Farmhouse \u2014 KIMMEL STUDIO ARCHITECTS", "raw_content": "There is something familiar in the shapes you see in this large waterfront estate. This is\nbecause the simple lines echo the once ubiquitous farmhouses of the Eastern Shore.\nThis Tidewater style house reinterprets the vernacular language of the Chesapeake Bay area with a modern edge.\nThe tidewater farms of Maryland's Eastern Shore inspired us to draw the contours of this large farmhouse.\nWe designed the home as an ensemble of farmhouses and rural buildings connected by enclosed and open porches. The large and modern home looks as if it were composed of structures that were built over time, and that were then connected. This helps with the overall massing and scale of the compound.\nThe tidewater farm features river views on three sides and includes its own private pier for the owner's boat.\nThe Award-Winning Guest House. The guest house of this home looks like an average barn from the road, but the side facing the water is made completely of glass. It won the Best of Houzz Design award.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kiplinger.com/article/real-estate/T010-C000-S002-how-to-appeal-your-property-tax-bill.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DNK3I54FOVITIV7Q725S33HZTLOOUJLR", "length": 9198, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.kiplinger.com", "title": "How to Appeal Your Property-Tax Bill", "raw_content": "How to Appeal Your Property-Tax Bill\nA well-researched appeal can slash your property tax bill.\nChances are pretty good that you're paying more in property taxes than you should be. According to the National Taxpayers Union, as many as 60% of properties in the U.S. are assessed at a higher amount than their current value.\nSlide Show: 7 Steps to Lower Your Property Taxes\nThat may surprise you, since median home prices nationwide are down to levels last seen in 2003. But assessments don't necessarily move in lock step with market values. For one thing, properties are typically assessed only once every two to three years, according to an NTU survey of assessors, and sometimes the cycle is longer. So while home values drift down, assessments stay put.\nAnd property taxes are likely to head up. Severe budget shortfalls at the local level -- to the tune of $94 billion in this fiscal year -- mean municipalities are spreading the pain among taxpayers. In the most recent election cycle, voters concerned about budget shortfalls approved increases in property tax rates -- especially in California, Michigan and Ohio -- says Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the NTU. In a recent poll of Kiplinger's readers, 52% said their property taxes had gone up in the past year (but only 16% planned to appeal them).\nIn many areas, the combination of over-assessed properties and higher taxes has homeowners fighting back. Not every appeal is successful (Sepp estimates that just 20% to 40% of properties of all types are granted some reduction in value), but a well-researched case will boost the odds of success.\nGreg Cudahy of Milton, Ga., bought a home in August 2009. The following year, his property tax assessment showed a valuation that was 44% higher than the price he had paid. He filed an appeal, but his county's counteroffer was still 24% higher than the sale price. He decided to take the appeal to the next stage, and the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group that assists local property owners in appealing their assessments, took his case to the local appeals board. Cudahy's assessment was reduced to equal his home's sale price. He says that when he gets his next tax bill, he expects to see savings of at least $4,000.\nAssess your assessment. Before you start the appeal process, research how your local government assesses property. Look at the length of time between assessments as well as how the market value of a home is determined. An appraiser might compare your property with similar, recently sold properties to determine its market value, then multiply that by a set fraction, known as the assessment ratio. So if a property's market value is determined to be $100,000 and the assessment ratio is 80%, the assessed value for property tax purposes should be $80,000. Another method sometimes used in rural areas or wealthy neighborhoods where homes have unique features is to estimate the cost of replacing a house, adjusting for factors such as the land value.\nThe next step is to check for errors in your assessment. Your local assessor's office can provide your property's record card (it may be referred to as the working papers or a worksheet), which has information used to assess your property, such as dimensions and number of rooms. Check that the square footage listed is correct for both the house and the land. If you find an outright error -- for example, the card says your home has three bathrooms but it has only two -- you may be able to show the assessor your blueprints to get a reduction and skip the formal appeal.\nInvestigate the assessed value of similar properties in your area to see how yours compares. Look at property cards for homes of similar age and square footage with the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms. If you find that your assessed value is considerably higher than that of at least five homes (the more you can document, the better), you may have a solid case for appeal. Try to find comparable properties that are as close as possible to your own -- nearly the same square footage, in the same neighborhood, and with similar grades of construction materials. You may be able to find the records on your assessor's Web site.\nEven if you find, say, three properties assessed at a higher value and three lower, don't throw in the towel right away. You may be able to argue for a reduction based on certain differences between your home and comparable ones. Maybe your house is the only one with a less-than-desirable view of the city water tower, Sepp says, or you might have lousy grading that doesn't allow you to have a garden.\nGet all the breaks you deserve. You may be eligible to shield a portion of your property's value from the tax man. In some places, such as Florida and Washington, D.C., anyone who owns a home and lives in it can file for a homestead exemption or credit, which excludes some of the home's value, regardless of income or the property's value. Seniors, veterans, the disabled and other groups may be able to get an additional tax exemption or to get one in states that don't offer a break to all homeowners. In Ohio, for example, people 65 and older or those permanently and totally disabled are eligible for an exemption of up to $25,000 of a home's market value.\nTax exemptions may be subject to income limits or linked to taxes that benefit school districts. In New York, homeowners with incomes below $500,000 can exempt the first $30,000 of a home's full value from school property taxes -- even if they have kids in the public-school system -- and seniors with incomes of less than $79,050 can exempt the first $60,100 of a home's value from school taxes.\n\"Circuit breaker\" credits set a limit on how much property tax households must pay in relation to income. For example, senior citizens in Massachusetts who have incomes below specified thresholds and who meet other requirements can claim a credit if they paid more than 10% of their income in property taxes. Contact your state's department of taxation or visit its Web site to see what breaks are available to you.\nFight back. Rules vary by locality, but your assessment letter should explain how an appeal works. Most likely, you'll send your evidence, such as listings of comparable properties, blueprints, repair estimates and photographs, to the assessor for review. You may be able to negotiate a settlement informally before the assessor completes the rolls and get a reduction right away. If you can't come to a settlement, be sure to pay your tax bill to avoid penalties or a lien on your home. You'll get a refund in some form if the county eventually approves your appeal -- possibly a check or reduction in your bill in future years.\nRead all the fine print on your appeal form to make sure you're complying with the requirements, and keep copies of documents and other information you present. You should receive a response within a couple of months. If you don't get a reduction in your assessment -- or, as in Cudahy's case, you think the reduction isn't large enough -- the next step is to bring the case before an independent local appeals board. Here you'll have the advantage of making your case in person. You can use any visual aids, such as photographs, that could help you, and you may pass out copies of your important points in writing to each member of the board.\nUsually, you can take a case that fails at the local level to a state board, which may function much as the local one does. Or it may handle only narrowly defined cases. Beyond that, you're looking at a judicial hearing. For a homeowner, court fees and the cost of a lawyer probably outweigh any reduction.\nTracking down expert assistance to save time or reinforce your appeal may be worth the price. One option is to enter your address at ValueAppeal.com, which will pinpoint comparable properties in your area, their sale price and their assessment data. If the site determines that you have a strong case, you can buy a report to send to your appeals board for $99. You'll get the money back if your appeal is rejected.\nHiring a professional real estate appraiser who will take a thorough look at your property provides the strongest evidence of its worth, but check whether your community allows outside appraisals in an appeal before you get one. If you go this route, find someone with national certification, such as through the Appraisal Institute or the National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers. Several factors contribute to the cost of an appraisal, but expect to pay about $250 to $500. Nanette Albanese, assessor for the village of Scarsdale in Westchester County, N.Y., suggests bolstering your case by hiring someone who has spent years in the community and recognizes differences among neighborhoods. \"If they've made a legitimate claim, we're happy to rectify the situation,\" she says.Be wary of solicitations from law firms or other services offering to assist you with an appeal in return for a high percentage of any savings on your bill. Most often, residential homeowners can go through the process on their own. For $9.95, you can buy the National Taxpayers Union's guide \"How to Fight Property Taxes.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 13133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kneelaw.com/experts-say-caregivers-experience-isolation/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NAOHBPQK4C5O6MQ5TGRGQYWNM3TUVKKI", "length": 1933, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kneelaw.com", "title": "National Center on Caregiving: Experts Say Caregivers Experience Isolation", "raw_content": "Experts Say Caregivers Experience Isolation\nAccording to statistics compiled by the National Center on Caregiving, more than 43 million Americans have served as unpaid caregivers at some point in the last 12 months. Those caregivers typically monitor the needs and actions of a family member, friend or neighbor. Nearly 16 million of those being provided with care have been diagnosed with some type of dementia. Experts and advocates call it an epidemic and say it takes a heavy toll on the caregivers.\nAccording to professionals, the consequences of caregiving are many. Though caregiving is almost always done out of love, it customarily means giving up a career, managing medical appointments, battling with insurance providers, and losing a lot of sleep. The caregiver can spend days and weeks on constant alert, and often faces an even more psychologically damaging outcome\u2014complete isolation from the company of others.\nPeople who serve as caregivers say that the isolation comes from both directions\u2014they are reluctant to take their loved one out of the house, as the logistics of doing so can be daunting, and they can encounter resistance from others who feel \u201cuncomfortable\u201d having a person with dementia in their midst. Many caregivers say that going out in public with a loved one with dementia is more stressful than just staying home.\nIn addition, caregivers say visitors are few and far between, as people can be reluctant to expose themselves to the realities that a caregiver regularly addresses. Furthermore, many caregivers admit that their lives are so focused on the care they are giving that they feel they have nothing else to add to a conversation.\nMedical experts say that isolation can have actual physical impact on a person. Studies link loneliness and isolation not only to depression, but higher risk of heart disease and stroke. In addition, a Dutch study found a link between loneliness and dementia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kqcministries.org/single-event?event=63", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:03Z", "digest": "sha1:P5NLVFBYBOYNB4FID26YW5TRSY6XSHNM", "length": 195, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kqcministries.org", "title": "Kole Qara Christ Ministries", "raw_content": "Christmas Caroling at Nyack Hospital\nHelp us bring some Christmas Cheer to those who are often forgotten or overlooked during the holiday season. Meet us at Nyack Hospital in the lobby by 3:10 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ksat.com/news/crime-fighters/converse-woman-wanted-on-charge-she-intentionally-hurt-child", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4QIJEI76CYYMBSVPANJKCWCG5PWKAC7", "length": 833, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ksat.com", "title": "Converse woman wanted on charge she intentionally hurt child", "raw_content": "Converse woman wanted on charge she intentionally hurt child\nAmanda Marie Rodriguez, 29, indicted in October 2017\nSAN ANTONIO - Law enforcement authorities are asking for help to catch a woman who has been wanted for one year on a charge she hurt a child.\nA warrant was issued in October 2017 for the arrest of Amanda Marie Rodriguez on a charge of injury to a child by intent.\n\"The indictment alleged that Rodriguez physically assaulted a child causing bodily injury. The victim was under the age of 14 years old,\" said Deputy U.S. Marshal Chris Bozeman.\nRodriguez, 29, is 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.\n\"Her last known place of residence was in Converse,\" Bozeman said.\nIf you have any information on Rodriguez's whereabouts, call the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at 210-657-8500.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kshb.com/news/national/police-operation-leaves-canada-terror-suspect-dead", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QTXH4KZ5JNXKJTGAHUT5DXQURMRNWUUP", "length": 1094, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.kshb.com", "title": "Police operation leaves Canada terror suspect dead", "raw_content": "Police operation leaves Canada terror suspect dead\nTORONTO (AP) \u2014 A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists has been killed as Canada's national police force thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, a senior police official said.\nThe suspect allegedly planned to use a bomb to carry out a suicide bombing in a public area, a senior Canadian police official said late Wednesday.\nThe official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak ahead of a Thursday news conference, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver, a man in his mid-20s originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba.\nDriver had been under the spotlight for at least a year, as authorities believed he was a threat because he could help terror groups.\nDetails of how Driver died have not been released. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it halted a possible attack after receiving credible information of a potential terrorist threat.\nThey said a suspect was identified and the \"proper course of action has been taken\" to ensure no danger to public safety.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lakewoodchurch.com/Pages/Ministry.aspx?mid=40", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:G5TT4VKKSDKY3O7UHL37FLULJBAKS24N", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lakewoodchurch.com", "title": "Ministry", "raw_content": "Friday, Mar 01 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM | Champion's Club", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 10154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lamarcafolk.it/news.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:H7TCNCISGDKN7U2W5S5PVCIXRGMUA42P", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lamarcafolk.it", "title": "\ufeff Mulch Films Company, Cheap Mulch Films Supplier", "raw_content": "Our general manager went to Israel for a seven-day study tour in November....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lasportiva.com/en/recycle-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BPHEW4SOOR2I63MV5HZMAQY36ZFIGSWV", "length": 3450, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lasportiva.com", "title": "La Sportiva - Official Website", "raw_content": "Ziano di Fiemme, December 2013: One of the most common questions that is asked during visits to the manufacturing facility of La Sportiva Ziano di Fiemme (TN) is: \"what happens to the waste resulting from the manufacturing process?\" In fact, a small percentage of waste material deriving from the manually controlled cutting benches, can no longer be used in the production process and therefore represents the most significant waste product. Rubber is a complex material, obtained chemically from substances called elastomers mixed together to obtain different degrees of elasticity, hardness and grip: such complexity does not facilitate the disposal of the material in the standard production process and also requires the use of waste in production cycles of other products and sectors for which these remnants can provide a valuable raw material.\nLa Sportiva situated at the foothill of the Dolomites in the fascinating environment of the Val di Fiemme, produces over 220,000 shoes per year: the company\u2019s location brings with it a call for social and environmental responsibility strongly sustained by the Delladio family, founders and owners of the company since 1928, when artisan production methods were much less sophisticated than today and waste material could not be used for any other work other than the production cycle of the shoe.\nHowever, in modern times, although there is no rapid or simple ways to re-use the waste rubber, deriving from external suppliers in the form of sheets of raw material of different thicknesses which are then cut and shaped according to the footwear manufacturing process, the company has set up recycling systems that enable the re- use of approximately 50% of waste material in other production processes.\nA good example of recent re-use of scrap rubber, resulting not only from the production process but also from products now at the end of their life cycle, is the flooring industry: in particular in the manufacturing of anti-shock and high-impact absorption surfaces, where rubber is the core ingredient which is then processed chemically to obtain finished products. The opportunity to re-use waste material derives from a close collaboration with Prisms SRL Monteprandone (Ascoli Piceno), a company specializing in pulverization of rubber deriving from technical waste. The company in addition to producing this service, is also able to provide traceability of the material supplied and thus identify in which finished products the rubber has been re-used.\nSo here is the answer to the initial question about waste rubber: thanks to the collaboration with Prisms Srl, most of the material has been recuperated and re-used to produce the flooring for the new playground of the Alassio (Savona elementary school and the artificial turf surface for the \u201cLa Meridiana\u201d sports complex in Catania.\nA contribution, in terms of waste / raw material which has proved to be of great use for the realization of products aimed for use in the social and sporting sector, further underlining how the ISO 14001 environmental certification obtained by La Sportiva in 2003 is able to produce tangible results in the field of recycling. A responsible approach towards the environment is first and foremost a commitment that constantly drives a company to continue in its search for new and advanced, sustainable production processes.\nToday,\u201d innovate with passion\u201d, La Sportiva\u2019s company pay-off, means this too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 365, "original_length": 17547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-wrightsidenew17apr17-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3YRRMWHQJCGWPLFTECSEWUYJ2DLC3ORI", "length": 962, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "The more familiar side of Wright - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "The more familiar side of Wright\nBy By Thomas Curwen\nThe interior of the Ennis Brown house in Los Feliz. Tours are offered by reservation only. (Tim Street-Porter)\nConnoisseurs of Frank Lloyd Wright might be surprised by the Arts and Crafts stylings of T.C. Boyle's home.\nA Prairie-style design -- drawn in 1909 and built the following year -- Boyle's represents Wright's 15-year flirtation with low-lying residences evocative of the flat horizons of the Midwest, hence their name.\nMost Angelenos, however, more quickly associate Wright with textile-block, Mayan-esque residences, such as the Hollyhock House in Barnsdall Park, which is closed for renovations.\nIf you wish to experience a Wright home of this vintage, you may visit the Ennis Brown house, built in 1924. Located above the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Los Feliz Boulevard, at 2655 Glendower Ave. in Los Feliz, it can be toured by reservations only. For more information, call (323) 660-0607.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 3779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nfl-notes-20150819-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:01Z", "digest": "sha1:V4DO5WEPPTYXVKFXDXU2SNS6VRZNIDVR", "length": 2800, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "Missouri board OKs tax credits to build a stadium for St. Louis Rams - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "Missouri board OKs tax credits to build a stadium for St. Louis Rams\nAn artist's rendering of a proposed NFL stadium that could be built for the Rams in an area north of downtown St. Louis. (Jeff Roberson / Associated Press)\nA Missouri board approved $15 million in tax credits Tuesday for a new riverfront football stadium in downtown St. Louis, the first piece of an effort by state leaders aimed at either preventing the Rams from moving west or luring another team to the city in their place.\nDemocratic Gov. Jay Nixon and the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority want to build a new stadium along the Mississippi River to counter the Rams' possible relocation to Los Angeles. Owner Stan Kroenke has proposed building a $1.8-billion stadium there on the site of Hollywood Park, the old horse racing track.\nThe Missouri Development Finance Board approved the $15-million plan despite opposition from Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a board member who is running for governor. The sports authority plans to request another $17.5 million in tax credits next year and the year after, for a total of $50 million. That's only a small chunk of funding needed for the project, which is estimated to cost $998 million.\nA plan presented to the board on Tuesday outlines another $250 million from an NFL team owner, $200 million from the NFL's G4 loan program and $160 million from the sale of seat licenses. The state would need to issue $135 million in bonds under that plan, along with $66 million in bonds from St. Louis and a total of $187 million in tax credits and other state and local incentives.\nThe $15 million in tax credits approved Tuesday will be provided only if the sports authority can come up with at least $30 million in contributions. The tax credits also depend on the NFL committing to financially contribute.\nThe plans have been a magnet of criticism from some lawmakers, who are upset that it could incur debt that taxpayers then must pay.\nNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met Tuesday to discuss settling the Deflategate legal case but were unsuccessful, two people familiar with the case told the Associated Press.\nThe failure to strike a deal after about four hours of talks means a Wednesday hearing will proceed as scheduled.\nThe San Francisco 49ers traded tight end Asante Cleveland to the Patriots for offensive lineman Jordan Devey.\nThe trade still needed to be finalized through the NFL and the players were expected to take physicals once they made their cross-country flights to their new teams, which could complete the deal as soon as Wednesday.\nThe NFL suspended San Francisco wide receiver Jerome Simpson without pay for the first six games of the season for violations of the league's substance-abuse policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 5435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.law.com/2018/09/07/fewer-legal-jobs-for-second-consecutive-month-as-us-economy-continues-growth-streak/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:46Z", "digest": "sha1:B4NT4VVYY3EUQAVN5R37DWBV26NY6BG7", "length": 3224, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.law.com", "title": "Fewer Legal Jobs for Second Consecutive Month as US Economy Continues Growth Streak | Law.com", "raw_content": "Fewer Legal Jobs for Second Consecutive Month as US Economy Continues Growth Streak\nThe U.S. government's jobs report for August showed a decline in legal services employment for the second straight month.\nBy Scott Flaherty | September 07, 2018 at 02:14 PM | Originally published on The American Lawyer\nPhoto by Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock.com\nThe U.S. legal sector lost 1,500 jobs in August\u2014the second consecutive month of contraction, as the country\u2019s overall economy continued a nearly 8-year streak of monthly job growth, according to Labor Department data released Friday.\nIn its monthly look at the U.S. employment situation across a host of sectors, the department\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in August, an estimated 1,135,300 people worked in legal services\u2014a category that includes lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and other law-related professions. The BLS data is seasonally adjusted, but also provisional and subject to revision.\nThe August report marks a decline from July, when 1,136,800 people worked in the legal industry, according to Friday\u2019s jobs report. That July figure has been revised downward since an initial BLS report last month showed a higher number of people working in legal services.\nWith the July and August figures, the legal industry has seen two straight months of job declines. In June, according to now-finalized BLS data, the legal services sector employed 1,139,500 people\u20144,200 more jobs than Friday\u2019s provisional report for August.\nLegal employment is also slightly down year-over-year in light of August\u2019s results. Compared with August 2017, the provisional data released on Friday shows that 200 fewer people were employed in the legal services industry in August 2018.\nEven with the decline, August\u2019s figures remain within a range that has prevailed over the past few years. Since December 2016, the legal industry has generally employed between 1.13 million and 1.14 million people, according to historical BLS data.\nThe legal industry\u2019s employment situation in August runs counter to what happened with the U.S. economy overall in the same month, according to BLS. The agency reported on Friday that the country gained 201,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.9 percent.\nBLS specifically highlighted job gains in professional and business services\u2014a broad category that includes legal services. Professional and business services gained 53,000 jobs in August and have added 519,000 jobs so far this year. The agency also pointed to the health care sector as a source of job growth; that industry has added 301,000 jobs in 2018, with 33,000 of them coming in August, according to BLS.\nOverall, the gains in August marked the 95th consecutive month of job growth in the U.S. and surpassed the 190,000 additional jobs that economists reportedly expected.\nAverage wages for private, non-farm jobs in the United States increased by 10 cents to $27.16 per hour. Over the course of 2018 so far, that average hourly earnings figure has gone up by 77 cents, BLS reported.\nEconomic Substance Laws Shake Up Offshore Legal Market\nMichael Washburn | February 15, 2019\nNew rules from the EU aim to prevent corporations from avoiding tax liability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 352, "original_length": 13777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lawguru.com/legal-questions/california-criminal-law/threat-voice-message-195099219/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:JKYB6SV5XIQU2VTLIMMRNXUM3ZODNCOY", "length": 987, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lawguru.com", "title": "Can a threat on a voice message be a | Legal Advice", "raw_content": "A threat is a threat, whether is is made on a voice message, in person, in writing, by text message, relayed by a third party, or sent by carrier pigeon.\nLeaving a voice message just makes it easier for the prosecution to prove its case because they can play the recording to the jury; in most cases, the only evidence is the testimony of the person who claims to have been threatened.\nPenal Code 422 makes it a crime to threaten to kill or seriously injure another person or a member of their immediate family. It is a wobbler, which means it can be charged as a felony or a misdemeanor. A felony conviction of Penal Code 422 is a strike under the Three Strikes law and can greatly increase the punishment for any future felony conviction.\nIf someone's on probation for sale and possession of marijuana and gets arrested and...\nIf a person is convicted of PC 311.1(a) do they have to register as a sex offender...\nHow does the status of felony charges after 25 years as far as jobs etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leanproject.com/our-projects/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VSOERYKV5S6JOZ4Y4LT6R3GUGDCWDHBA", "length": 7344, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.leanproject.com", "title": "Our Projects | LeanProject", "raw_content": "Our experience spans dozens of projects over the past fifteen years and includes every type of project from hospitals to refineries, high rises to schools, and infrastructure to high tech manufacturing facilities. The projects listed here represent a small sampling of our experience.\nCardinal Glennon Children\u2019s Medical Center, St. Louis Missouri\nStarted: January 01 2005 | Completed: October 01 2007\nCardinal Glennon is a NICU and Surgery addition of about 138,000 sq. ft. to an existing hospital estimated at approximately $40 million. Construction Drawings were nearly complete and site prep work had begun when LeanProject was brought in to work with the team. This after the Owner (SSM) had attended a lean construction seminar. LeanProject worked with the team to implement Last Planner and various field techniques. The team then began to work on including these efforts in a typical AIA contract for the remainder of the project. As this became more of a chore they decided to try the Sutter Health Integrated Project Delivery Agreement and ultimately implemented this contract form. They also were the first team in the US to complete a project using the IPDA. The project completed on schedule, under budget with around 60 RFI\u2019s, a team anxious to work together again and an Owner that went on to use IPD on future projects.\nClark Pacific Company, Fontana, California\nStarted: January 01 2006 | Completed: December 31 2006\nClark Pacific (CP) is a leading engineering and precast firm in California. The company provides design, fabrication and installation of a variety of precast components including Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) that is important in the California market due to its light weight. LeanProject was engaged to work at the Fontana plant to improve their engineering (primarily productivity and scheduling) and their fabrication shop in preparation for an anticipated increase in production.\nAfter an initial review of the facility, LeanProject worked with the engineering and production staff to implement several lean techniques including a modified Last Planner System in the casting shop, Value Stream Mapping to identify wastes in the storage yard, 5S effort throughout the plant, increased maintenance of equipment and a Continuous Improvement plan for the employees. The plant saw significant performance improvements and in fact was prepared for the increase in production.\nGE Spindle Hill Energy Center, Frederick, Colorado\nGeneral Electric and a contractor were nearing the completion of the installation of a gas fired, peaking, electrical energy station. The concluding stages of the project were complex and not well organized. LeanProject was asked to work with the team and assist in planning the final work.\nLeanProject conducted several Pull Phase Planning sessions and implemented Last Planner techniques to help the team meet their very tight schedule. This included daily reviews of progress, several added planning procedures and documents, efforts to increase the staff available and on-going efforts to get team members to make reliable commitments. This, less than a month engagement, resulted in significant improvement in awareness and understanding of the issues involved in meeting the required start-up date. The team continued with many of the techniques that had been initiated at this time and ultimately did start up the power station.\nIntel Central Utility Building 4, Hillsboro, Oregon\nStarted: March 01 2012 | Completed: October 31 2012\nHoffman Construction Company in Portland, Oregon was engaged as the CM/GC for this Intel project on the Hillsboro campus. Some of the Hoffman staff had visited a project in California where Last Planner System was being used and felt that it could help in their execution of this project so LeanProject was engaged to implement Last Planner with the team.\nThe team participated in an initial training session both at the Portland office and then on site. Several trade contractors participated in an initial Pull Phase Session and the implementation of Last Planner was managed in a matter of a few weeks. The team used it very effectively through the end of the project and continued when additional work was assigned. In fact, this became a demonstration project for many additional Intel projects. The team also incorporated One-page A3 project reports, significantly improved BIM procedures and on-going Continuous Improvement efforts. The team incorporated some of their Last Planner management techniques as they implemented the very comprehensive and detailed commissioning planning process.\nUHS Texoma Medical Center, Denton, Texas\nStarted: October 01 2007 | Completed: December 01 2009\nThe Texoma project is a nearly 400,000 sq. ft. replacement hospital with 32 ICU/CCU patient rooms, over 100 patient rooms, 10 OR\u2019s and many additional facilities. Universal Health Services (UHS) had hired the architect, contractor and several trade contractors under typical AIA contracts. In May of 2008 the Construction Documents were almost 50% complete and LeanProject was asked to join the team and work with them to implement lean design and construction techniques.\nA Study Action Team (using \u201cThe Toyota Way\u201d book) was a starting point for the team, they went on to apply Responsibility-based Project Delivery and intensely develop their Conditions of Satisfaction which included reducing both the project cost and schedule. When the project moved to the field many of the concepts of Last Planner were used to manage the work. One-page A3 project reports were adopted, a Lean Leadership Team was established (that functioned much as a Core Group would on an IPD project),checklists were used and ultimately resulted in no punch list items at Owner Turnover. The project was completed 3 months ahead of the original schedule at a cost several million dollars below the original estimate. UHS declared at the conclusion of this project that all their projects would be executed as IPD in the future \u2013 they have now done over 100 in this fashion.\nSt. Peters Hospital, St. Peters, Missouri\nStarted: January 01 2006 | Completed: August 01 2009\nThe St. Peters project is $28 million expansion of an existing hospital. It included a new 3 story wing, additions to existing floors, a pharmacy area and significant shell space. It was the first project done with an Integrated Project Delivery Agreement (IPDA) by BJC HealthCare. The project team was a self-selected group who worked with BJC to revise the original project scope after their selection. The new project was nearly twice as expensive but provided a great deal of additional value to the hospital.\nThis was the first effort by this team on an IPDA and LeanProject worked with them to develop this new way of working together including management by a Core Group, the use of Last Planner System and several other lean techniques including Target Value Design, Zero Punch List through the use of checklists, Impact Statements to manage shutdowns and one-page A3 project reports.\nThe project was finished as scheduled with significant savings in the contingency budget allowing the team members to earn additional profit. Further, the team members were all very enthusiastic about the project atmosphere and actively searched for additional opportunities to work on a future IPDA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 8635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leedsonline.co.uk/hotels/Golden_Lion_Hotel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FVP63BMU454HUH6Q5FMJ2DQEKQMSZM4I", "length": 955, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.leedsonline.co.uk", "title": "Golden Lion Hotel Hotel, Leeds", "raw_content": "Home > Hotels & Guest Houses > Golden Lion Hotel\nGolden Lion Hotel, 2 Lower Briggate, Leeds, LS1 4AE\nOne of Leeds' oldest hotels, the Golden Lion has been carefully restored to retain its unique character The hotel has a central location, only 3 minutes from Leeds Station with free parking from 5pm to 9am daily.\nOne of Leeds' oldest hotels, the Golden Lion has been carefully restored to retain its unique character whilst offering guests the highest modern standards of comfort and service. Located in the heart of Leeds' business and shopping area. The hotel is suited to both business and leisure travellers.\nFree car parking between the hours of 5pm and 9am the following morning for guests staying overnight.\nThe Hotel has large screen televisions available in the bar area. All public area have 'Broadband' wireless access, as do all our 1st floor bedrooms.\nGolden Lion Hotel at a glance\nAddress:Golden Lion Hotel, 2 Lower Briggate, Leeds, LS1 4AE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legalhelphub.com/warning-htmlspecialchars-function-htmlspecialchars-charset-utf-7-not-supported-assuming-iso-8859-1-in-homelegalhelpublic_htmlwp-includesformatting-php-on-line-3019warning-htmlspecialch-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AIYDJVRZISAMAYJSFKROXAY25ELOP4ZV", "length": 2522, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.legalhelphub.com", "title": "The Detailed Process of a Personal Injury CaseLegal Help Hub | Legal Help Hub", "raw_content": "A personal injury lawyers Des Moines law firm will have plenty of competent attorneys on staff who can review your case to determine whether or not there is satisfactory evidence to file a personal injury claim. These attorneys have extensive knowledge in injury case law, so they will be able to advise you as to what your rights actually are. It is unwise to ever try to go pro se in these types of cases, because there is so much detail involved with them. You need someone who understands what the complete process is, so that you have the best chance possible to win your case. When you begin the process of filing a personal injury case, you need to understand that these cases often drag out for years. Some people might get lucky by getting a quick settlement, but the reality is that it doesn\u2019t happen that way for most people. The majority of people who file these cases have to take the case through the court system with full blow litigation to get any results.\nThings You Need to Consult With Your Attorney About\nWhen you are in your consultation appointments, you need to ask the personal injury lawyers in Des Moines you are considering how long they have been practicing law. You need to ask them how often they handle personal injury cases as well and whether or not they transfer cases to other partners in their law firm. This is a pretty common practice, but you will probably want to hire someone that does not transfer cases. Trust is a big thing where your attorney is concerned, which is probably why you hired them to represent you in the first place. If they transfer your case to someone that you don\u2019t know, then it will just cause you stress and aggravation that you don\u2019t need. You shouldn\u2019t hesitate to ask questions that you want answers to, because the success of your case could be vital to your livelihood.\nHiring an Attorney to Get Fast Action for Your Claim\nIf you have been injured badly enough that you are off of work, then you probably need fast action so that you don\u2019t end up in bankruptcy. While some personal injury claims are open and shut cases, the majority of them just plain out aren\u2019t. Don\u2019t expect miracles to happen overnight, because your attorney is not a miracle worker. They have to follow the court process and the laws that are in place just like anyone else. Most personal injury attorneys will welcome your questions, because it will make them feel like you will be an active participant in the case. They like knowing that their clients are a little proactive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 483, "original_length": 16002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legalservicecentre.com/when-do-you-need-a-family-lawyer-in-arlington-heights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WZ4XWAMT7TKYNMREDGJRT4DK6N4QPVTK", "length": 2657, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.legalservicecentre.com", "title": "When Do You Need a Family Lawyer in Arlington Heights? \u2013 Legal Service Centre", "raw_content": "Most of the occasions for which people would need a lawyer are either if he is accused of a crime or if he wants to sue someone. What should also be considered however is the probability of needing a family lawyer in Arlington Heights for some important family issues which you may encounter in the future. This is not a new thing especially since movies would depict the need for representation for the family. The question however is when you would need their help who would you trust particularly since it includes family issues.\nOne common issue that this kind of lawyers usually handles is divorce. Though it may be true that issuing a reason including its grounds and proofs are the only things required for you to be granted the divorce, people would often have themselves represented by lawyers who know the twist and turns of the issue to make the most of it. People would always want to get the best out of the situation and it is not different when it comes to divorce. This is why they ask for help to understand what divorce entails.\nOther issues for which a lawyer in Arlington Heights concerns himself with are adoption, child custody, child and spousal support, domestic violence and paternity. In summary, if you are experiencing any of these family law issues, this would mean that this kind of lawyer would be needed. Some of these issues may be a horrible experience to go through which is also the reason why people tend to make it possible to go through the whole process as fast as it can get. It can also be emotionally stressful for the people involve that some would need doctors.\nWith lots of family law issues happening in the society left and right, needing a family lawyer would be up to you. In divorce, some people would simply go to court and be the representatives themselves to save money. Though it may be cost-effective, some issues may be complicated that would require you to research on it as much as you can before you stand in court. It will however help you avoid lawyers who are after your money and prolong the process as much as he can so that he can earn more.\nIt is really stressful to go through these family issues to the point that it may even break families apart and have them hate each other. The best thing is to try to solve things out for yourself and try to keep the family intact. Couples should try to compromise with each other and practice give and take to avoid problems as much as possible. With this, these issues may be avoided as well.\nTaggedFamily Lawyer\nPrevious Article Where To Turn For Your Divorce Attorney In Carpentersville\nNext Article Criminal Defense Attorney Auburn: Who to Call", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/police-hunt-car-after-van-2183935", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VURXQDQSPDUPUQMKWBIBEBVHWAJZSWTP", "length": 1717, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.leicestermercury.co.uk", "title": "Police hunt for car after van driver is injured while trying to speak to person inside - Leicestershire Live", "raw_content": "Police hunt for car after van driver is injured while trying to speak to person inside\nThe two vehicles had earlier been involved in a 'driving incident', say police\nA van driver was hit by a car when he approached it to speak to the person at the wheel.\nThe van driver, who suffered cuts and bruises in the collision, had earlier been involved with what police described as a \u2018driving incident\u2019 with the occupant of the small silver car.\nThe initial incident happened in Copt Oak, near Coalville, between 6pm and 6.30pm last Tuesday, after the two vehicles had left the M1 at junction 22.\nHe was hit by the car a short time later at the junction of the A511 and Whitwick Road, on the outskirts of Coalville.\nThe disgusting way fraudsters are exploiting Remembrance Day to make money\nIn a statement today, Leicestershire Police said: \u201cThe driver of a white Mercedes van was involved in a driving incident with a small silver car as the two cars left the M1 at junction 22.\n\u201cBoth vehicles travelled along the A511 and later stopped at the exit road onto Whitwick Road, close to the roadworks on the bridge.\nThe van driver was injured near the junction of the A511 and Whitwick Road (Image: Google)\n\u201cThe driver of the van approached the silver car to speak to the driver and in the process of the silver vehicle leaving the scene, he was struck by the car.\u201d\nThe man was later treated for cuts and bruises.\nPC Ken Huddart, who is investigating the incident, said: \u201cI\u2019m eager to trace the driver of this car and speak to anyone who may have seen the incident on Whitwick Road or the events leading up to it.\n\u201cIf you have any information which could help our investigation, please get in touch.\u201d\nContact PC Huddart on 101.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 9122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leylandguardian.co.uk/news/environment/how-best-to-protect-lancashire-s-hen-harriers-1-9549760", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:26Z", "digest": "sha1:W3RVDLXWACGLHZGIREFMXWJ2VDV4QQFR", "length": 2728, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.leylandguardian.co.uk", "title": "How best to protect Lancashire's hen harriers? - Leyland Guardian", "raw_content": "Bowland was home to the majority of hen harrier chicks born in England back in 2007\nA bird of prey which is \u201cemblematic\u201d of the Forest of Bowland could benefit from the area being given a special status, a group of rights of way experts has been told.\nThe Lancashire beauty spot was a haven for hen harriers until just over a decade ago and was home to 38 out of the 45 harrier chicks born in England as recently as 2007. But those numbers later collapsed, eventually falling to zero - and have shown no significant sign of recovery.\nNatural England\u2019s lead ornithologist, Steve Murphy, told the Lancashire Local Access Forum that Bowland should be designated as a wintering Special Protection Area (SPA). The site is already classed as an SPA during the breeding season over spring and early summer.\n\u201cIt would increase protection [for the hen harrier] - and the evidence is there for all to see,\u201d Mr. Murphy said.\n\u201cThere are 13 hen harriers on Salisbury Plain and they are cock-a-hoop with it [as a protected area in winter]. We\u2019ve got 30 birds around here...so why isn\u2019t Bowland a wintering SPA?\u201d he asked.\nSPAs are designed to protect wildlife and their habitats. But forum member and Lancashire county councillor Cosima Towneley warned about the implications of the status.\n\u201cIt must not affect access [to an area] which makes a livelihood for some people. This is not a panacea to save one species - and it\u2019s often best when humans don\u2019t interfere,\u201d County Cllr Towneley said.\nSteve Murphy agreed that hen harriers value areas which are not subject to intensive management, but added that wintering SPA status would \u201cnot result in a massive influx of people\u201d.\nThe forum also heard that a controversial trial which sees hen harrier chicks temporarily removed from Bowland during the height of the grouse shooting season has \u201cengendered trust\u201d with local gamekeepers. Harriers are natural predators for grouse and are vulnerable to persecution, but their relocation has angered some conservation groups.\n\u201cPeople thought that the birds were being permanently sent down south,\u201d Mr. Murphy said. \u201cBut estates can apply to have chicks taken away to a creche - even if just for a month - and then they are released back in the same area.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve tried other ways for 15 years and there was no active resurgence of the hen harrier population. This [move] has given gamekeepers a safety net and they respect that,\u201d he added.\nThe meeting was also told that satellite tracking had given a much more accurate picture of the winter activity of hen harriers than previous radio controlled monitoring.\nWhile females which had nested in Bowland largely stayed in Pennine areas, males were found to travel as far a afield as Spain and Denmark.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.libbywinberginteriors.com.au/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XSQ2RUJ5AC3QWCXKD3LANTNMC34T7OAP", "length": 536, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.libbywinberginteriors.com.au", "title": "Interior Designer Sydney", "raw_content": "interior designer sydney\nI understand your home is a place to feel connected to your family and friends, a place to feel relaxed and content - your sanctuary. It also has to be functional, easy to live in a simply look beautiful.\nWhether you require a full redesign, or just need a decorator's touch; whether you rent or own your own home; I can help you achieve your goal.\nBased in Sydney's Inner West, Libby Winberg Interiors through a relaxed and personal approach, will guide you on the journey to breathing new life into your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lichildrenschoir.org/blog/our-new-home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:48Z", "digest": "sha1:V2CW2IBINH63IL4SCDGHCLYAGPJVXELH", "length": 217, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lichildrenschoir.org", "title": "LICC - Blog - Long Island Children's Choir", "raw_content": "We are happy to announce that we are now Ensemble-in-Residence at Five Towns College!\nAll auditions, rehearsals, and end-of-year performances will be held at the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center at Five Towns College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 1752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ligonier.org/store/what-jesus-demands-from-the-world-paperback/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JKHOK75YV44VV5N2ATJMPODSQBW2VC6C", "length": 890, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ligonier.org", "title": "What Jesus Demands from the World: John Piper - Paperback, Book | Ligonier Ministries Store", "raw_content": "The four Gospels are filled with demands from Jesus. These demands are Jesus\u2019 way of showing us who he is and what he expects of us. They are not harsh demands originating from a selfish desire to control, but rather loving directions for our good and ultimate satisfaction. In fact, what Jesus demands from the world can be summed up as: \u201cTrust and treasure me above all.\u201d This is good news!\nIn What Jesus Demands from the World, John Piper looks at the demands of Jesus as found in the four Gospels. He begins with an introduction that puts the demands in a redemptive-historical context, then engages in a concise examination of each. The result is an accessible introduction for thoughtful inquirers and new believers, as well as a refreshing reminder for more mature believers of God\u2019s plan for his Son\u2019s glory and our good.\nBiblical Studies, Jesus' Ministry, Sanctification and Growth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 7292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.littlemanautocare.com/autorepairinnampaid83651.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EXN6IZSWRD5N6NP74CWHG2B5DVP6AXVB", "length": 464, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.littlemanautocare.com", "title": "Auto Repair Nampa, ID - (208) 461-5680 - Little Man Auto Care", "raw_content": "Find an honest and trustworthy team here at Little Man Auto Care. We are dedicated to providing our customers with fast and reliable solutions to all of their auto repair problems. With our experience with a myriad of vehicles and our skill, you can trust that your car is in great hands.\nWe service all makes and models, specializing in a variety of mechanical areas. From brake repair to tune ups, you can count on us to get your car back on the road in no time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liveaction.org/news/breaking-president-obama-vetoes-legislation-defunding-planned-parenthood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UJUK6GGFNB4CF6JWULMOUA53LQX5S7MH", "length": 2594, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.liveaction.org", "title": "BREAKING: President Obama vetoes legislation defunding Planned Parenthood", "raw_content": "President Obama vetoes legislation defunding Planned Parenthood\nBy Becky Yeh | January 8, 2016 , 12:52pm\nPresident Barack Obama vetoed legislation Friday that would have ended $400 million of the over $500 million in forced taxpayer funding going to Planned Parenthood for one year. The measure would have shifted Planned Parenthood\u2019s public subsidies to comprehensive health care clinics that offer more health services and outnumber the abortion giant 20 to 1.\nH.R. 3762, which included efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, is the first bill to pass both houses of Congress and make it to the president\u2019s desk.\nThe U.S. Senate passed the measure last year using the reconciliation process, which prevented Democrat lawmakers from filibustering the bill. The U.S. House approved the Senate version this week.\nLive Action President Lila Rose issued a statement in response to the president\u2019s veto.\n\u201cPresident Obama, against the will of the people and the Congress that they elected, is forcing every taxpaying American to subsidize the nation\u2019s biggest abortion chain \u2013 a corporation that single-handedly kills over 320,000 children every year by abortion, including children who are up to six months of development in the womb.\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that in polls, voters have rated President Obama as the country\u2019s worst president since World War II. His extremism on abortion and his unflinching opposition to every pro-life policy, as well as his willful ignorance of the multiple documented criminal acts of Planned Parenthood, show that he\u2019s committed to paying back the abortion giant for the $12 million it spent to get him reelected in 2012.\n\u201cAbortion extremism is not popular, and when it\u2019s exposed, it becomes more than distasteful to the vast majority of people. That\u2019s why while Planned Parenthood whole-heartedly supports late-term and even partial-birth abortion, the vast majority of Americans stand against it.\n\u201cLive Action will continue to expose Planned Parenthood\u2019s criminal acts, its extremism, and its repeated abuses of women and girls so that Congress and new leadership in Washington will be motivated to finish the job and permanently end taxpayer funding to the nation\u2019s biggest abortion chain.\u201d\nWhile a veto by President Obama was expected, the passage of the bill shows that even under the most pro-abortion administration in U.S. history, there are enough pro-life votes to send a bill defunding America\u2019s largest abortion chain to the White House.\nThe veto ensures that 2016 is a critical year for the pro-life movement and for the future of Planned Parenthood.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livingeveryminuteofit.com/essays/2017/09/23/little-girl-itis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:V7OH47WJZYFXBFOSEDJVNZPPIKLC5UNC", "length": 2775, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.livingeveryminuteofit.com", "title": "Little Girl-itis \u2014 Living Every Minute Of It", "raw_content": "I don't know if this happens to you but for me sometimes something will happen or someone will say something and I'll become about four-years-old in my head. If I'm in good form, properly fed, slept, exercised, and otherwise appropriately stimulated emotionally, sensorially, spiritually, and socially, then I can catch it before I act from that place, before I act like a hurt, scared, or pissed off four-year-old. If I catch it I can breathe and pause, or rather stop, for a while, not do or say anything, notice the feeling of feeling like a hurt, scared, or pissed off four-year-old, what I'll call little-girl-itis, and Let It Pass. Let It Pass.\nOnce it passes, and it always does, I can notice that I am actually a rather grown up lady, not a little girl, who has her own ideas, her own life, her own family, and her own values that are not imperiled in any way by anyone else, or anyone else's thoughts or words about me. It's a sticks-and-stones type lesson that I get to re-learn when I interact with certain situations or people. It's an eye on the prize, keep calm and carry on, one day at a time, this too shall pass, serenity prayer-type situation. They happen all the time.\nFor example, just a random example, no, not that. Another example, no. That's not a good one. Anyway, you can imagine. Ok no I won't make you imagine. I'll tell my friend Princess Jelina's story instead of mine. PJ is literally a princess, like royal, though she downplays that pretty hard. Anyway, her mom gets on her about her curly hair a lot of the time, and PJ likes her curly hair and doesn't want to always wear it smooth and this becomes like, a thing, between them when they get together.\nAnd I love PJ so it's sad to see her get so upset at her mom for offering her a comb for example when her mom sees her. Like, \"No thanks, mummy, I look this way on purpose!\" So I guess the thing is sometimes I just want to be loved the way I look, the way I am, the way I live, and not have input on how to improve those things. But I don't get to control what input I get, so I gotta focus on what I can control, my part, which is a) not soliciting input, and b) taking care of myself in all those ways that help me stay in good form, so that c) if unwanted input comes my way I can relax and take it easy and not let little girl-itis run how I react.\nLike if I were PJ, instead of saying \"Keep your effing comb why don't you love me as I am?\" I could say -- something much nicer, less inflammatory, more mature. I can't think of what right now but I'm sure I'll come up with something if I wait long enough. Or maybe in that kind of situation I don't need to specifically respond at all, just give my comb-offering mom a hug and say, \"I love you,\" and move on. 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If you can't find what you're looking for please feel free to contact LMW Motors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lncrnablog.com/lncrna-a-versatile-regulator-of-the-nf-%CE%BAb-signaling-circuit/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:26:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6TBT3FKKT35OZZDTMHWOO5IQA4VTMCSO", "length": 1569, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lncrnablog.com", "title": "LncRNA \u2013 a versatile regulator of the NF-\u03baB signaling circuit | lncRNA Blog", "raw_content": "LncRNA \u2013 a versatile regulator of the NF-\u03baB signaling circuit\nPosted by: lncRNA Administrator in Review Paper December 13, 2016\t0 2,206 Views\nThe Nuclear Factor-\u03baB (NF-\u03baB) family of transcription factors play an essential role for the regulation of inflammatory responses, immune function and malignant transformation. Aberrant activity of this signaling pathway may lead to inflammation, autoimmune diseases and oncogenesis. Over the last two decades great progress has been made in the understanding of NF-\u03baB activation and how the response is counteracted for maintaining tissue homeostasis. Therapeutic targeting of this pathway has largely remained ineffective due to the widespread role of this vital pathway and the lack of specificity of the therapies currently available. Besides regulatory proteins and microRNAs, long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is emerging as another critical layer of the intricate modulatory architecture for the control of the NF-\u03baB signaling circuit. In this paper the authors focus on recent progress concerning lncRNA-mediated modulation of the NF-\u03baB pathway, and evaluate the potential therapeutic uses and challenges of using lncRNAs that regulate NF-\u03baB activity.\nDiagram illustrating lncRNAs involved in regulating NF-\u03baB signaling activity\nMao X, Su Z, Mookhtiar AK. (2016) LncRNA: a versatile regulator of the NF-\u03baB signaling circuit. Immunology [Epub ahead of print]. [abstract]\ncancer inflammation long noncoding rna NF-\u03baB signaling regulation\t2016-12-13\nTagged with: cancer inflammation long noncoding rna NF-\u03baB signaling regulation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 10056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.localexpertlocksmith.co.uk/touch-real-animals-in-farms-at-solihull", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAKONTM6XTI243X3MRFCA7Y35KFQHPUV", "length": 1904, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.localexpertlocksmith.co.uk", "title": "Touch Real Animals In Farms At Solihull | Local Expert Locksmith\tTouch Real Animals In Farms At Solihull \u2013 Local Expert Locksmith", "raw_content": "Does your child like animals and farms? Or maybe he or she just wants to go out and play? You\u2019re in luck because we listed out the best two kid-friendly farms in Solihull that you and your child can visit!\nUmberslade Farm Park located at Butts Lane, Tanworth in Arden, Solihull B94 5AE, England. Youngsters of all ages can enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to bottle feed newborn lambs and calves, hold the cutest little chicks, rabbits, and guinea pigs and even have the chance to ride one of their beautiful ponies \u2013 all at our children\u2019s farm park in the heart of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands. The family-run children\u2019s farm park is a fantastic family day out with the children of all ages, with in-door Egg Splat cannons and ride-on tractors as well as two adventure play areas for different age groups. Children can also jump on board our tractor & trailer ride too!\nHeronfield Small Breeds Farm and Animal Rescue Centre located at Warwick Road, Knowle, Solihull B93 0EE, England. Heronfield is a family run rescue centre which with the help of volunteers, donations, a huge amount of dedication and for the love for animals, their aim is to help unwanted, injured or orphaned animals and birds. Where possible animals at the centre will be re-homed or released back into the wild. They have had hundreds of animals and birds come into their care over the years and they have successfully rehabilitated and released those animals back into the wild. Some have found new homes and the rest have been staying in Heronfield being rehabilitated, being treated for various illnesses or are simply here because they have nowhere else to go.\nThese farms will give your kids a once in a lifetime educational experience that will make them understand animals. Give your kid the chance to know more about animals on hand. Visit these places in Solihull and we are sure that your kids will be happy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 2065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.londonsatman.co.uk/bis-tv-viewing-card-french-tv-c-23_78_75.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YTWJ6TKIYVBJJRVNCXSIKNZET6CPLMM4", "length": 290, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.londonsatman.co.uk", "title": "BIS TV viewing card for French satellite TV", "raw_content": "BIS TV viewing card includes all mainstream French TV satellite channels such as TF1, France 2, France 3, Arte and other 30 channels, some available in high definition. This package has a varied mix of genres for the whole family, available on Hotbird 13\u00b0 east and Atlantic Bird at 5\u00b0 west.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 7746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.luzerne.edu/classes/coursedetails.jsp?dept=coned&cat=On-Line&sub=Health%20and%20Wellness&cid=588", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:VE4W6LT4IGELNZQKEYZ4MZUY5O2V7VYK", "length": 1166, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.luzerne.edu", "title": "Luzerne County Community College - Course Registration System", "raw_content": "Description: Have you ever wished you had a personal chef preparing luscious, low-fat meals for you? This course is the next best thing! A registered dietitian will turn you into a food and nutrition expert in the comfort of your own kitchen. You'll learn how to ferret out fat in recipes, and discover how to reduce fat without sacrificing flavor or texture. Explore how to use flavor profiling to expand your culinary horizons. Learn how to prepare casseroles, crock-pot dishes, vegan dishes, oven-fried foods, meat-based meals, and many other entrees that are both nutritious and delicious! You'll discover how to get in and out of the kitchen faster, including tips for grocery shopping, menu planning, food preparation, and quicker cooking. You'll also learn a dietitian's tricks of the trade for encouraging reluctant family members to eat more healthfully. You'll have the chance to try out over 50 exciting and easy lowered-fat recipes for tasty entrees, side dishes, desserts, and garnishes, with each recipe demonstrating a topic that's covered in the lessons. Requirements: Internet access, e-mail, and Firefox, Netscape, or Internet Explorer Web browser.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 5420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maasclinic.com/skin-care/intro-skin-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4SPSEXWPJ7XRNHYYT7ZWNFLMPQQ5ASP2", "length": 3395, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.maasclinic.com", "title": "Modern Skin Care San Francisco | Skin Treatments Bay Area", "raw_content": "Intro to Skin Care\nOne of the most important things we do for patients is to inform and educate about proper skin care.\nSkin care is the single biggest return on investment type of activity that any of our patients can do, and that even includes surgery.\nGood skin care over a lifetime will reduce wrinkles and spots that are associated with the aging process, and most importantly, keep the skin healthy and reduce the risk of skin cancers and other types of neoplasm, or growths of the skin.\nProper skin care can be broken down into four basic categories.\nCleansing and Exfoliating\nThe first one is cleansing and exfoliating , which work closely together.\nThere are 50 to 100 layers of just dead skin cells on the surface of most people\u2019s skin, and the process of cleansing and exfoliation stimulates new generation of skin from the deeper basal layers to the surface, and make the skin look and feel smoother.\nThe second area is \u201ctreatment,\u201d which can be confusing due to the marketing hype surrounding many different commercial and corporate interests, but there are really only a handful of molecules that we know actually treat the skin and change the and physiology of the skin that\u2019s associated with aging and sun damage.\nOne of the main ingredients is Tretinoin, which is a vitamin A based molecule. The trade name was originally Retin A, it\u2019s off patent now, so it comes in many forms. Tretinoin is a vitamin A derivative that does many things in the skin cells and improves the quality of the skin, division or replication, and contours of the anatomy of the skin.\nUsing Tretinoin, along with other molecules we found to be helpful, including an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant like topical vitamin C, are good and important parts of the skin care program. By using the retinol type of products in the evening, along with cleansing and exfoliation, we\u2019re beginning a process of treatment that for most patients will make a substantial impact on their skin quality and appearance.\nThe third area is hydration. Most of the things that we see purchased over the counter at most of the skin care studios and salons like Nordstrom\u2019s or Neiman Marcus are very good hydrators of the skin, very good moisturizers, and while there is nothing wrong with excellent moisturization, it is only one component of proper skin care, and shouldn\u2019t cost hundreds of dollars.\nMoisturization of the skin creates plumping, and when the skin cells are plump, they\u2019re very well hydrated, which makes the skin look and feel smoother, and gives it a better overall appearance. It\u2019s not actually treating the skin, but it is making the skin look better and replenishing that surface hydration, which improves overall skin quality and tone.\nThe fourth and final component of proper skin care is protection.\nThe sunscreen you use should have a physical blocking agents zinc, and/or titanium oxide, it should have Avobenzone in it, and it can be oil free if you\u2019re acne-prone, because some sunscreens do plug the skin.\nAlthough sun screen with SPF factors of 50, 100, and 200 are available, even the best, waterproof sunscreens wash off or sweat off in outdoor conditions within about 4 hours, so reapplication of sunscreens during periods of prolonged exposure is critical to protection.\nIf you have other questions about putting together a custom skin care program, please call The Maas Clinic at 415.567.7000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 443, "original_length": 11137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.macworld.com/article/1134892/googleapps.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IUKMQZWQSGYTHZWNBOUEZSPMG6MFUQBN", "length": 2855, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.macworld.com", "title": "Google Apps hit by prolonged Gmail access problem | Macworld", "raw_content": "Gmail users report yet another outage\nA technical problem hit an undetermined number of Gmail users, including paying subscribers to the Google Apps hosted software suite, locking them out of their accounts for about 15 hours on Wednesday and early Thursday.\nGoogle first acknowledged the problem in the official discussion forums for Gmail and Google Apps shortly after 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and declared the problem solved at almost 5 a.m. on Thursday.\nA Google official posting status updates on the Apps forum wrote that the problem affected \u201ca small subset\u201d of Apps users, without being more specific.\nMore than 500,000 businesses and universities with about 10 million active users have signed up for the free and fee-based versions of Google Apps.\nThe problem, which also affected stand-alone users of Gmail, made it impossible for users to log in to their accounts. They got a \u201c502 Server Error\u201d message when they tried to log in.\nIn the main Google Apps Discussion Group thread devoted to this incident, administrators complained loudly about the length of the outage and the lack of status update details offered by Google officials.\nA \u201c502\u201d error hit Gmail on July 16 as well, and also led to a long outage for affected users, according to postings in the discussion forums.\nA day before this week\u2019s problem struck, Dave Girouard, president of Google\u2019s Enterprise unit, talked up Google Apps at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum.\nGirouard said Google has big plans to aggressively expand the features and capabilities of the suite, while keeping the price of the Premier fee-based version at $50 per-user annually.\nGoogle, Salesforce.com, IBM, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and other major vendors are big backers of cloud computing and the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for delivering applications and computing resources via the Internet.\nHowever, outages that leave users without access to such a basic business tool as e-mail for extended periods of time spook business and IT managers considering Web hosted software like Google Apps and cloud computing offers like Amazon Web Services.\nWhen something goes wrong with the hardware or software in the vendors\u2019 data centers and the performance and availability of the software or computing services are affected, there is little that IT and business managers can do but wait for the problem to be solved, while their end users complain and demand information and solutions that are out of the IT department\u2019s reach.\n\u201cSeriously\u2026It has been two hours. Can you provide us with another update? For a company with your reputation, I\u2019m absolutely shocked at the apparent absence of customer service,\u201d wrote a Google Apps administrator on the discussion forum on Wednesday. \u201cThis amount of down time is unacceptable.\u201d\nGoogle did not immediately reply to a request for comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-everest-make-the-ascent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DDRNY47YLWDUTAYKZHMVEEX7JOT2AD3A", "length": 3649, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.maketheswitch.com.au", "title": "SWITCH. | Film review: Everest - Make the ascent", "raw_content": "MAKE THE ASCENT\nIt's a sad fact that Mt Everest is littered with the bodies of those that came, saw yet did not conquer. Due to the weather, terrain, altitude and danger, those bodies are forever left up there, never to be returned to their families and given a Gina farewell. For decades, Everest was reserved only for the most experienced and hardened climbers, but eventually the glory of reaching the top proved too tempting to the average man and a new tourist attraction was born. By the mid 90s, Everest tourism was still in its infancy and growing at incredible rates, however someone forgot to tell the mountain. Everest was then and remains today one of the deadliest locations on Earth. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are, where you come from or how experienced you are, you cannot control the mountain, the mountain controls you. Up until a 2014 avalanche, the 1996 Everest climbing season was the mountain's deadliest on record. Many books have been written and accounts have been made of the events of that season by its survivors, most notably, journalist Jon Krakauer who was there writing a magazine story at the time. Now, for the first time, a fictionalised feature film has been made recounting those tragic days.\nSWITCH: 'EVEREST' TRAILER\nNew Zealand expedition leader Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) is heading off to Everest with his team from Adventure Consultants for the climbing season, leaving his pregnant wife Jan (Keira Knightly) back home. Arriving in Nepal, it appears to be the busiest year yet, with more and more guided companies popping up and therefore more climbers. One such company is Mountain Madness run by Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) who\u2019s currently bitter over the fact that Rob has snaked his journalist, Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly) for a feature story. With each team aiming for a summit date of May 10, some companies partner up to make for a safer ascent, while others decide it\u2019s every man for themselves. With a deadly storm looming, the climbers make their way up - but not everyone comes back down.\nDirector Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur ('2 Guns') along with screenwriters William Nicholson ('Gladiator') and Simon Beaufoy ('127 Hours') have committed an incredible amount of research and detail into this film. In spite of the characters' personal issues and backstories, this film is surprisingly not as sentimental as you would expect, focusing more on the existential climbers' question of what drives them to do what they do, and of course the film's protagonist, the mountain itself. Using natural and studio filming locations around the world including Nepal and Base Camp itself, the filmmakers have composed a visually impressive film. However, despite the film\u2019s scope and subject, its actions and physicality don\u2019t quite translate to its audience and we\u2019re left a little flat. While the obvious screen deaths are drawn out and laborious, it\u2019s the ones you don\u2019t see coming that are too sudden and almost laughable as characters literally fall off the screen.\nDirector Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur has committed an incredible amount of research and detail into this film.\nNot your average disaster movie, as this one is based on a tragic true story and not the worst-case global warming scenario or asteroid about to hit Earth. It\u2019s no surprise that this film deserves to be seen on a cinema or IMAX screen - luckily for audiences, both are available. With a grand and gifted cast including Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Emily Watson, Elizabeth Debicki, Sam Worthington and Robin Wright, \u2018Everest\u2019 is a film where you come for the story but stay for the show.\nWRITERS: William Nicholson\nwww.everestmovie.com\nEverestMovie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.malaysiamarketing.my/history-of-commercial-cleaning-companies-how-did-it-all-start-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:TLWF3GRSPANY632ANWK6BN2C6M346EMX", "length": 3463, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.malaysiamarketing.my", "title": "History of Commercial Cleaning Companies: How Did It All Start? - Malaysia Marketing Community", "raw_content": "History of Commercial Cleaning Companies: How Did It All Start?\n\u201cHousework is something you do that nobody notices until you don\u2019t do it.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous.\nAlthough commercial cleaning is somewhat different than housework, there are several parallels as well. For instance, you realize its need only when no one does it, and the later you realize, the harder it is to do.\nIndustrious as you may be, there are certain things best left to professionals. This is especially true for commercial buildings and industrial structures where specialized knowledge and skills are all the more important. To put things into perspective, if you had a tooth that required to be extracted, wouldn\u2019t you rather go to the dentist than tying a string around it and yanking it out yourself? When there are professionals who can do the task, faster and at cost, it makes sense to defer to their expertise.\nEnter commercial cleaners. The history of commercial cleaning companies began four decades ago in 1968 in the small town of Norman, Oklahoma. Jim Cavanaugh, a student at the University of Oklahoma and blessed with the entrepreneurial streak, began marketing janitorial services to clients in the locality, clients he would service at night after school.\nWithin a year, Cavanaugh founded Jani-King in 1969, the name derived from \u201cjanitor\u201d and \u201cking\u201d. He soon that the future of the company lay in expansion, and pioneered the company\u2019s unique franchisee model where franchisees are offered initial leads to business. This helps the franchisees as they do not have to start from scratch. It\u2019s no wonder that Jani-King has consistently ranked amongst the top ten franchisers in the country.\nJani-King\u2019s expansion was not restricted to the United States; the company went international when it its first Canadian franchise in 1986. It was during this that Entrepreneur magazine first bestowed the coveted title of the No.1 Commercial Cleaning Franchise Company, a title it has held for 19 of the last 20 years.\nCavanaugh had already shifted his headquarters from Oklahoma to Dallas to this exponential, and he wasn\u2019t unsatisfied. The 90s marked a of of Jani-King. The company established its 5,000th franchise and into Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey. In 1998, Entrepreneur magazine ranked Jani-King the No. 1 Maintenance Franchise and the No. 1 International Franchise in its Top 200 list.\nToday, there are more than 12,000 reported Jani-King franchisees in the world. Jani-King supports more than 120 regional offices in 16 countries, and services the commercial cleaning requirements of millions of customers annually.\nWhile Jani-King is indisputably the largest commercial cleaning company, there are various other reputed ones as well, some with a national presence and some to cities or states. Janitize America and Coverall are two prominent national commercial cleaning companies.\nYour of a commercial cleaning company has to be based on the local of the company. While national reputation is substantial, the main factor in your decision should be how the local franchisee is perceived by its clients. And as always, should also be a factor, but never the most important one.\nCleaning commercial Companies History start\nTop Hosting Companies in Asia\nHistory of the Bread Maker\n[100% Off UDEMY Coupon] \u2013 How to start an ecommerce business Google SEO, ads & Amazon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/88756/daphne_caruana_galizias_family_want_full_public_inquiry_into_murder", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:27:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3YHI3MT3LQ2O7YLBKNJEUXBNTZEOJT6D", "length": 2346, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.maltatoday.com.mt", "title": "Daphne Caruana Galizia\u2019s family want full public inquiry into murder", "raw_content": "Daphne Caruana Galizia\u2019s family want full public inquiry into murder\nLawyers for the Caruana Galizia family claim the government has failed to fulfil its investigative duty in a legal opinion asking for a full public inquiry into the assassination\nDaphne Caruana Galizia's family want a full public inquiry into her murder\nThe family of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is calling for a full public inquiry into her murder and is prepared to go to court on the matter.\nPaul Caruana Galizia, one of the journalist\u2019s three sons, told BBC the family wanted to know whether Daphne\u2019s life could have been saved.\nLawyers for the Caruana Galizia family will be presenting a 24-page legal opinion to Malta\u2019s High Commission in London calling for a full public inquiry into the journalist\u2019s murder.\nPaul Caruana Galizia being interviewed for the BBC\nThe BBC reported the family lawyers\u2019 claims that the government failed to fulfil its \u201cinvestigative duty\u201d under the European Convention for Human Rights.\nThe opinion was prepared by Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jonathan Price of Doughty St Chambers, together with Tony Murphy of Bhatt Murphy.\nMurphy said Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had been given till 31 August to reply, and that if he refused to open a public inquiry, the family would commence legal proceedings in Malta and perhaps ultimately in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.\nPaul Caruana Galizia told the BBC his mother\u2019s murder had been building up over the years with an escalation of threats and arson attacks.\n\u201cWe all have a shared interest... in understanding, what went wrong because something went horribly wrong,\" Paul told the BBC\nIn a subsequent statement, Paul emphasised that Muscat had promised to leave no stone unturned in the murder investigation.\n\u201cYet so far, he has refused to establish a public inquiry to investigate whether her assassination could have been prevented, despite his legal obligation to do so,\" Paul Caruana Galizia said.\n\u201cIt is hoped that the Prime Minister will respond to today\u2019s request by setting up a public inquiry without further delay so that further evidence is not lost. He has nothing to fear but the truth,\u201d he added.\nThree men have been charged with Caruana Galizia\u2019s murder and court proceedings against them are ongoing. However, the mastermind remains at large.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mamamia.com.au/the-pill-blood-clot-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YPX6D4JUCU5JQ5HOTQ3LS4FKIFMD6Y4A", "length": 10320, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.mamamia.com.au", "title": "A blood clot from the Pill caused this woman's heart attack", "raw_content": "Sarah had a heart attack when she was 23. Her doctors believe it was caused by the Pill.\nImage: Sarah Brison/JustGiving.\nIn July this year, Sarah Brison suffered a heart attack that left her in a critical condition.\nThe UK nursery nurse and semi-professional soccer player, who was 23 at the time, awoke one morning in \u201cunbearable\u201d pain and the sensation that her body was shutting down.\n\u201cEverything went blurry. Then, within seconds, I lost my vision completely. I couldn\u2019t feel my limbs, had no control over my body and I was sweating uncontrollably,\u201d Brison, now 24, tells The Sun.\n\u201cIt was like brain freeze except it was all over my chest, as if someone was pressing down on me with all of their weight.\u201d\nAlthough the symptoms clearly worried her, Brison assumed she was having a panic attack that didn\u2019t require medical attention. She even apologised to the paramedics who arrived on the scene after her boyfriend Billy called for an ambulance. She thought she was wasting their time.\nHowever, it\u2019s likely that phone call saved her life. Brison had in fact suffered a heart attack; her blood pressure was dangerously low and her heartbeat was abnormal.\n\"They say your hearing is the last sense to go before you die. Everything else had gone.\" (Image: JustGiving)\nHospital tests soon revealed she had clots on the vessels leading to her heart. It turned out Brison also had a hole between the two top chambers of her heart, through which a clot had managed to pass.\n\"I just kept asking the doctor how it could have happened ... Surely 23-year-olds didn't have heart attacks? I kept asking if I was going to die,\" she tells The Sun.\nOne consultant offered a possible cause: the contraceptive Pill. Brison had been using the contraceptive for seven years but had recently switched from a mini pill to the combined pill.\n\u201cI had heard about it being linked with an increased risk of blood clots so I asked my doctor if it was safe. But my GP told me it would be highly unlikely anything would happen,\" she recalls.\nLike Brison, you've probably heard of the link between the Pill and blood clots \u2014 and read stories about women who have suffered fatal health complications as a result. However, it's very important to remember this risk is small. (Post continues after video.)\n\u201cCombined pills do increase the risk of blood clots in all women who use them, but that absolute risk is very, very small,\u201d says Dr Deborah Bateson, Medical Director of Family Planning NSW.\nEvidence suggests this risk is increased around two to three times in combined pill users compared to non users, with a baseline rate of ten women per 10,000 affected per year.\n\u201cFor most women of reproductive age who are taking the Pill that risk is extremely low; in fact, much lower than the risk of blood clotting in pregnancy or immediately after delivery. There\u2019s a risk of a spontaneous blood clot in all non-Pill users as well,\" Dr Bateson explains.\nThe risk of blood clotting among users of the combined pill is effected by the level of oestrogen in its formula. Since the Pill was introduced in Australia, this dose has been gradually reduced from its original higher levels.\nDr Bateson says the low-dose Pills available today are a very safe formulation, and despite reports to the contrary, research is yet to determine whether certain brands are associated with a higher clotting risk.\n\"That absolute risk [of blood clots from the Pill] is very, very small.\" (Image: iStock)\nAlthough the risk of blood clots is low for most women who use oestrogen-based birth control, there are factors that can make them unsafe for some women. These factors include past experience with a blood clot, a strong family history of clots, or a mutation that increases susceptibility to developing one.\nFor this reason, it\u2019s important for GPs to take a good family history before prescribing birth control; it\u2019s rare that an existing risk factor won\u2019t show up in a woman\u2019s family previously.\nDr Bateson says there are a few other blood clot risk factors that make some people ineligible to use the combined pill or other oestrogen-based birth control methods.\nA woman who is immobilised or very overweight would be ineligible, while smoking and age are also viewed as risk factors \u2014 doctors generally stop prescribing the Pill for women when they reach the age of 50. (Post continues after gallery.)\nPopular forms of birth control\nIntrauterine deviceIUDs are small, T-shaped devices that are inserted into the uterus by a doctor in order to prevent pregnancy. There are two types of IUD: copper, which affects the movement and survival of sperm in the womb while changing the lining of the womb;and hormonal, which releases progestogen (a synthetic version of the naturally-occurring hormone progesterone) into the uterus. Although IUDs have a success rate of more than 99%, only around 2% of Australian women currently use one.\nContraceptive pillThe Pillis the most popular form of birth control. There are two types: the combined pill, containing two hormones, and theprogestogen-only, or mini, pill, which only contains one female hormone. The combined pill works by preventing the ovary from releasing an egg each month. The mini pill changes the mucus at the entrance of the uterus, which stops sperm from entering. Both are 99.7% effective; however, they don't offer protection from STDs.\nCondomsThe male condom is a barrier contraception that prevents both pregnancy and the transmission of STDs. They work by collecting semen so it doesn't enter theman's partner's body. Condoms are 95 to 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.\nThe female condomThe female condom is a pre-lubricated sheath, which loosely fits inside of the vagina. The condom has a removable ring, which helps to insert the sheath and keep the condom in place. A larger ring remains on the outside to cover the opening of the vagina. They are designed to fit all women and can only to be used once. Due to misuse of the product it is only 79 per cent effective.\nDiaphragmLike the male condom, the diaphragm is a barrier method of contraception. It's a shallow silicone dome that's inserted into the vagina andcovers the cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus. It's held in place by the pelvic muscles, and works by preventing sperm from entering the uterus. After sex, diaphragms need to remain in placefor another six hours, in which time the sperm inside the vagina die. This method is 88 to 94% effective at preventing pregnancy, although this rate increases with experience.\nBirth control implantThis is a 4cm-longimplant that is inserted into a woman's upper arm, just under the skin, by a doctor. It releases a hormone called etonogestrel, which prevents ovulation and thickens the mucus in the cervix, which can stop sperm from entering. Contraceptive implants - usually sold as Implanon - are removed under anaesthetic every three years, and are close to 100% effective.\nVaginal ringVaginal rings are soft plastic rings that contain the same two hormones as the combined pill - oestrogen and progestogen. The ring is inserted into the vagina, where the hormones are absorbed into the body and then prevent the ovaries from releasing eggs. Once inside the ring can't be felt, and it needs replacing every three weeks (with one week's break in between). When used correctly, this method is more than 99% effective.\nDepo ProveraDepo is a long lasting hormonal injection. The synthetic form of progesterone is administered every 12 to 14 weeks to woman, preventing pregnancy within this ongoing time period. The injection, which is given in the buttock or muscle of the upper arm, prevents ovulation and thickens the mucus in the cervix, helping to block sperm. The injections are 99 per cent effective but do not protect against STDs. Male contraceptive injections are currently being trialled\nThe morning after pillEmergency contraception (popularly referred to as the morning after pill) is used to prevent a pregnancy following unprotected sex. Other reasons include missing a contraceptive pill or a condom breaking. It is common in Australia to use the progestogen-only method. This entails a dosage of EC pills containing progestogen or the synthetic version. A doctor can prescribe the pill or they can be bought over the counter at a pharmacy without a prescription. Emergency contraceptionis 85 per cent effective in reducing the risk of pregnancy.\nSterilisationSterilisation is a permanent form of contraception. For women there are two types of sterilisation: tubal ligation, in which clips are placed on the fallopian tubes, or tubal occlusion in which a device is inserted into the tubes. These methods work by preventing the sperm from reaching the egg. Tubal litigation is 99.5 per cent effective. The Vasectomy (for men) works by cutting and blocking the tubes called the vas deferens, preventing sperm from leaving the testicles. The chances of impregnation with a vasectomy are 1 in 1000.\nThe good news is, there are several alternatives available for the small number of women who can\u2019t use oestrogen contraceptives. There are progesteron-only methods, like the hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) and hormonal implant, or methods that contain no hormones at all, like the copper IUD.\nIf you\u2019re concerned about the risk of blood clots, make an appointment to talk through your birth control options with a GP, or give the Family Planning Talkline (1300 658 886) a call, before taking any action independently.\n\u201cFor those women who are choosing the Pill, it\u2019s a very, very safe option indeed that\u2019s been used for a long time. We\u2019re certainly happy to prescribe the Pill for women when we\u2019ve taken a good family history and we know they haven\u2019t got those additional risk factors for blood clots,\" Dr Bateson says.\nAs for Sarah Brison, she is still having regular checkups and takes five types of medication a day, including blood thinners. She's been advised to stop taking the Pill. \u201cGetting some normality back after the past few months has been surreal. Having a heart attack has changed my outlook on life. It\u2019s made me see what\u2019s important,\" she tells The Sun.\nDo you use the Pill? Have you ever been advised not to for health reasons?\nTags: blood-clot , health , heart-attack , the-pill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 14795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/seize-opportunity/article/1168367", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TGJHHPOP4CF4DLT7TWRIY6YD2IYI2HFQ", "length": 10174, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "www.managementtoday.co.uk", "title": "How to seize the opportunity", "raw_content": "How to seize the opportunity\nThe How To Issue: Success isn't always down to luck. Here's how to seize an opportunity when one arises.\nby Frans Johansson\nWhen we look at the world at large, as well as our personal lives, it's easy to believe that randomness happens.\nStocks rise and fall unpredictably; we get married to someone we met by chance. And yet, when it comes to business, we think we can plan our way to success. We often require extensive market analysis to justify our actions. We place a lot of emphasis and time on creating the right strategy.\nMoreover, because we have become experts in our field, we think we know the rules for success.\nJust six years ago, Nokia - at the time Europe's most recognised brand - was the expert on mobile phones. With 40% market share and 437 million items shipped in 2007, Nokia knew a thing or two about what made a successful mobile device: shape and size, ringtones and colours. The iPhone, released in June 2007, broke all the rules and forever changed the mobile phone market.\nBut Nokia wasn't alone in its thinking. Many more experts - other manufacturers such as Motorola and mobile analysts and pundits from Silicon Valley to the City - failed to anticipate Apple's impact on the mobile device industry. And nor was Nokia the first market leader to be unseated when the rules changed.\nRegardless of your industry, the rules will change. The only constant is that randomness reigns, making success far less straightforward and far more uncertain.\nYet one thing is certain. You can stand apart by capturing the unexpected. Make unpredictability your friend because, if you don't, you may miss a chance opportunity that could be the turning point for your business or your career.\nAlthough it may sound counter to everything we've been taught, taking your eye off the ball is a good thing. In an unpredictable world, not only can the rules change but they can change very quickly. If you don't take your eye off the ball, you will be pursuing a plan that can become outdated or one that is so obvious that your competitor is doing the same thing.\nStarbucks as we know it would not have happened if Howard Schultz had not taken his eye off the ball. Then Starbucks's director of retail operations and marketing, Schultz went to Milan for an international housewares show.\nOn his walk from the hotel to the convention centre one morning, he noticed an espresso bar and decided to see what it was all about. He later tasted his first caffe latte and realised that Starbucks, then selling coffee equipment and coffee by the bag, had it all wrong - coffee was meant to be a communal experience.\nThis revelation prompted Schultz to take Starbucks down a new path.\nUse intersectional thinking\nIn 2003, Lebanese-Australian designer Aheda Zanetti had an idea. She combined two very different concepts to create a piece of clothing that has had a profound impact on many women.\nObserving the impracticality of wearing the Islamic hajib and veil to play sport, Zanetti began designing sportswear for Muslim women. After two years of experimenting, she had another insight. One outdoor activity dominated Australian culture - spending time on the beach. Zanetti tweaked her design again, creating a two-piece, head-to-toe swimsuit that became known as the burqini (a combination of burqa and bikini).\nToday, the burqini is distributed worldwide and is worn by Muslim and non-Muslim women alike for modesty as well as for protection against the sun.\nOne of the remarkable things about the burqini is that it came unexpectedly out of Australia - not from the Middle East, where there are far more Muslim women. It was the exposure to Australia and beach culture that inspired Zanetti to see the possibility of combining two opposite concepts in one idea.\nThis willingness to combine ideas from diverse cultures, fields and disciplines is what I call intersectional thinking, and it is counterintuitive to what we know. We're so used to focusing on a speciality, becoming experts in one area or being surrounded by the familiar that we don't always keep an open mind to random and sometimes very unobvious ideas.\nTo change this, you can create a collision-prone environment at your office. It can be a physical space that enables people from across the company to cross paths and interact. You can also create diverse teams, bringing together people with different perspectives, education, experience and background.\nPlace many purposeful bets\nPablo Picasso created over 50,000 works of art in his lifetime. Albert Einstein published hundreds of papers. The Virgin Group launched over 400 ventures. Rovio developed 51 games before it scored one of the best sellers of all time (now a franchise): Angry Birds.\nWhat these successful individuals and companies had in common is that they placed many, many bets.\nEven if most of the bets go nowhere, the success of even just one is enough. Many of Picasso's works are languishing in obscurity, nowhere near the genius level ascribed to his most famous works.\nEinstein published papers that received no citations whatsoever. For little-known Finnish company Rovio, the wild success of just one game led to a valuation approaching \u00a35.6bn in 2012.\nKeep your bets as small as possible\nOf course, placing many bets can become a drain on your resources, including time, money and reputation, so it's critical to keep them as small as possible.\nGiven the high failure rate of new ideas, products and ventures - Apple has a 90% failure rate in creating products, and venture capitalists plan on three out of four of their investments failing - smaller bets will allow you more chances to get lucky as well as more opportunity to iterate and refine your ideas.\nOne of the best examples of placing small bets is Icehotel, which started out as an idea to sell the winter. The man behind the idea, Yngve Bergqvist, began with an ice sculpture exhibit in a little town just shy of the Arctic Circle called Jukkasjarvi.\nHe brought in artists from Japan and created an exhibit that got some attention. The following year, his idea became a large 'igloo'.\nBy chance, the King of Sweden was visiting a town nearby and was persuaded to visit the igloo, which made the news. The next year, Bergqvist created a large expo hall entirely out of snow and featured objects hewn from ice, including an ice bar and a movie screen.\nDuring the expo, some visitors asked if they could sleep inside overnight. The idea evolved into the Icehotel the next year. This winter, the 22nd Icehotel is under the construction.\nKeep your eyes open to surprise\nOn the way to creating the Icehotel, Bergqvist not only made small bets, but he also took small steps. Each step was executed within a reasonable timeframe. After each step, he considered the results, the reactions and what could be improved.\nThis is the reality of how great ideas happen. YouTube was not a $1.6bn idea in its first iteration. Pfizer started out developing Viagra as a heart medicine. Sometimes, the success of a bet is not exactly straightforward; sometimes, it's a surprising result. Are you willing to abandon the original idea in pursuit of a possibly better one?\nYouTube started as a video-dating service. You upload a video; others can view your video.\nWas it a great idea? Possibly, but it hadn't taken off for the founders. One night, two of them went to a party, did some filming and wanted to share the video, but couldn't. Meanwhile, the third founder was desperately looking for videos of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' from the US Super Bowl - but couldn't find it.\nThe three compared notes and realised they had the software that could solve both sides of the problem.\nDouble your effort\nWhen it has become clear that a bet has taken off, then double your efforts with it - with money, time, reputation and other resources - to ensure it is successful in a big way. This plan is also highly likely to be unique, if arrived at by taking advantage of serendipity at every turn.\nPfizer, as mentioned, set out not to develop Viagra but rather a heart medicine for angina. But when the researchers noticed an anomaly while testing the drug - male subjects repeatedly asked for more of the drug, even though they showed no improvement in their heart condition - they looked more closely and saw a new possibility.\nThe researchers could have simply ignored this result and abandoned the drug for lack of results. But, instead, Pfizer doubled its efforts and released the blockbuster drug.\nThe fastest-selling drug ever, Viagra created a new category of drugs that many competitors tried to replicate and catapulted a small, little-known company into one of the top pharmaceutical firms in the world.\nJust put it out there\nIf you remember one thing about seizing opportunity in an unpredictable world, it's simply this: do something, do anything and put it out there, otherwise you're not giving it a chance to be successful, to be influenced by random forces or to create a complex force of its own.\nTake Stephenie Meyer, who awoke from a vivid dream and began to write, having never written a book before. After two months of writing every day, she had a 498-page book about forbidden love, teenage angst and vampires. She did not share the book with anyone but her sister, who urged her to get it published.\nEventually, Meyer sent her manuscript to 15 agents. One expressed interest and signed her. The published book, Twilight, was one of the best sellers of all time, led to three sequels and movies.\nAfter reading Meyer's saga, Erika Leonard James published an episodic Twilight fanfiction piece. This was eventually developed into Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling book of all time in the UK.\nNow where would popular culture be today if neither of these authors had put their ideas out there?\n- Frans Johansson is founder-CEO of the Medici Group. His book The Click Moment: Seizing opportunity in an unpredictable world is published by Portfolio Penguin at \u00a314.99\nStrategy Technology Media & entertainment\nMeet the entrepreneur trying to reel in film fans from Netflix\nMeet the entrepreneur trying to keep publishers in the black", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 12743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/g1526/august-2012-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:35:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GJVUP3SDZ2ZREDGWAS6ZAG3SS3EGMZBP", "length": 1737, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.marieclaire.com", "title": "Best August 2012 Fashion and Entertainment - Fashion, Art, and Entertainment Summer 2012", "raw_content": "What We Love About August\nThe best of summer: What you need to do, see, read, and talk about.\nRichard Ross/Getty Images\nIt's NATIONAL PSYCHIC WEEK. But then you already knew that, didn't you? (August 6 \u2014 10)\nKeith Leighton/Alamy\nNo summer is complete without a lobster roll, and the 65th annual MAINE LOBSTER FESTIVAL, in Rockland, is the perfect place to eat yours. (August 1 \u2014 5)\nEQUIPMENT, whose silk blouses are the cool girl's shirt of choice, brings its androgynous silhouettes to knitwear for the first time.\nWhat do you get when you combine the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Jack White, and Metric? The lineup for LOLLAPALOOZA. The annual music festival will have more than 100 acts in Chicago's Grant Park and still not enough Porta-Potties. (August 3 \u2014 5)\nJon Patterson/Studio D\nLady Gaga's first fragrance is a black liquid that sprays on clear. Fashion photographer Nick Knight designed the bottle. Its name? FAME. of course.\nRACHEL ZOE expands her clothing, shoes, and handbag line to include Art Deco \u2014 inspired costume jewelry.\nTime travel back to the turn of the 20th century with Selden Edwards' THE LOST PRINCE. With a cast of characters that includes Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and William James, it's like Midnight in Paris for the neurotic set.\nJananneAl-Ani/Courtesy of Arthur M. Sackler Gallery\nThe Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., is turning 25. As part of the celebration, the institution is exhibiting artist JANANNE AL-ANI's new Middle Eastern landscape video works. (August 18 \u2014 January 27, 2013)\nGrab a glass of Mo\u00cbt, the U.S. OPEN's house champagne, and toast to the new golden age of tennis. (August 27 \u2014 September 9)\nDress Code: Brooke Wall's Real Style\nThe Summer 2012 Reading Guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marionowentravel.com/blog/474", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:14:01Z", "digest": "sha1:7RHZVHB5IX7ZTC65E5D4AXKU5LZXN7NT", "length": 401, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.marionowentravel.com", "title": "Marion Owen Travel", "raw_content": "Whether you are looking for a relaxing holiday in the sun or wanting to be active you wishes will be catered for.\nSave 50% on departures September 2019 and only \u00a3150 per person deposit\nChoose from a selection of islands, Antigua, Barbados & Jamaica* are included to...\n*7 nights from just \u00a31299 per person\nClick on more information below or simply call 01482 212525 for further information & bookings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitats/detail/373/termsandconditions", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2MADT42UHDKY24JPYCI26DZ5PVJPSVH", "length": 80770, "nlines": 132, "source_domain": "www.marlin.ac.uk", "title": "MarLIN - The Marine Life Information Network - Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls", "raw_content": "Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls\nResearched by John Readman, Dr Heidi Tillin & Charltotte Marshall Refereed by This information is not refereed.\nJohn Readman, Dr Heidi Tillin & Charltotte Marshall Refereed by\nEUNIS 2008 A1.448 Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls\nJNCC 2015 LR.FLR.CvOv.FaCr Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls\nA1.448 - Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls\nLR.FLR.CvOv.FaCr - Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls\nThe inner walls of caves, predominantly in the mid shore in wave-surged conditions dominated by barnacles Semibalanus balanoides, and Verruca stroemia, with patches of encrusting sponges such as Halichondria panicea and Grantia compressa and occasional patches of the mussel Mytilus edulis. Increased moisture allows a denser faunal population than LR.FLR.CVOV.ScrFa to develop within the cave. The limpet Patella vulgata, the sponge and spirorbid tube-forming polychaetes can be present. The hydroid Dynamena pumila and anemones such as Metridium dianthus and Actinia equina may occur towards the lower reaches of the cave. Where a dense faunal turf of barnacles or bryozoan crusts cover the cave walls, the biotope can also extend to cover the ceiling and may be accompanied by the bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum. Variations of this biotope may occur in mid and lower shore scoured caves in south Wales the rock is dominated by dense Sabellaria alveolata. In south-west England the rock can be completely covered by the barnacle Perforatus perforatus. There may be a variation in the species composition from cave to cave, depending on local conditions. (Information taken from the revised Marine Habitat Classification, Version 04.05: Connor et al., 2004.)\nThis biotope is dominated by species able to withstand the frequent disturbance caused by wave surges. This in itself means that the community is unlikely to be a climax community, but more a transient community dominated by ephemeral, rapidly growing species that are able quickly to dominate spaces created by wave energy. Furthermore, the fauna is likely to vary both spatially, i.e. between caves, and on a temporal basis, depending on the frequency, severity and timing of disturbance. Competition for space may be high where disturbance is less frequent or less severe, for example, on or near the cave floor (if the floor is permanently submerged). Both the flora and fauna are dominated by low lying encrusting forms. The lack of erect and massive species reflects the high energy wave environment. On a sublittoral, vertical rock wall in Maine, Sebens (1985) listed the most rapid colonizers of bare rock to include spirorbid worms, encrusting bryozoans, red crustose algae, and erect hydroids and bryozoans. The assemblage mentioned in Sebens' study is very similar to the community that characterizes this biotope.\nErect algae are invariably absent in this biotope because they would probably not survive the persistent wave surges. The primary producers, therefore, are mostly represented by encrusting coralline algae, e.g. Lithophyllum incrustans\nSuspension feeders are the dominant trophic group although the dominant species is likely to vary between caves and in different geographic areas.\nActive suspension feeders that feed on bacteria, phytoplankton and organic particulates and detritus include sponges, encrusting bryozoans, occasional erect bryozoans and barnacles. The barnacles Semibalanus balanoides and Verruca stroemia may be abundant, although in the south-west of England, it is the barnacle Perforatus perforatus which may completely cover the cave walls. Semibalanus balanoides suspension feeds both passively and actively, depending on current flow. Patches of encrusting sponge, especially the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea and Grantia compressa may be found in damper areas of the cave. Damp crevices may give rise to small patches of the common mussel Mytilus edulis and anemones (see below). Encrusting bryozoans may form large turf areas and may include species such as Cryptosula pallasiana and Haplopoma graniferum. Erect bryozoans may be present in the upper reaches of the cave, where the effects of wave surge are reduced, or possibly submerged at the bottom of the cave and might include Alcyonidium diaphanum and Crisularia plumosa, the latter known to be found hanging in caves (Ryland & Hayward, 1977). Other active filter feeders likely to be present are tubeworms, such as Spirobranchus triqueter which is an opportunistic species rapidly able to colonize space.\nPassive suspension feeders feed on organic particulates, plankton and other small animals, and may include hydroids such as Dynamena pumila and anemones including the plumose anemone Metridium dianthus and the beadlet anemone Actinia equina. These anemones can feed on larger prey items and may also be present in the lower and submerged reaches of the cave, providing sand scour is not a significant factor.\nWhen the floor of the cave if submerged, mobile fish predators may prey upon on the smaller invertebrates. Blennies, for example, will feed on the barnacles.\nThe combination of the wave-surged habitat and the lack of easily digestible plant material mean that grazers are uncommon, although the common limpet Patella vulgata may be found occasionally as it is capable of feeding on the encrusting red algae.\nWhere a dense faunal crust covers the cave walls, space may become a limiting factor and some competition may occur. The anemones Metridium senile and Actinia equina are unlikely to be grown over (Sebens, 1985). Furthermore, both anemones can sting other anemones (Purcell, 1977; Manuel, 1988) and may therefore be competitively superior to other anemones where space is limited. The breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea was reportedly overgrown by everything apart from bryozoans in Sebens' (1985) study. This may explain why this sponge, and others, are usually only found in small patches within this biotope. Erect forms such as hydroids and the erect bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum may escape the immediate effects of competition from encrusting forms by developing vertically rather than laterally (Seed et al., 1983).\nOn wave exposed shores, it is usually the macroalgae that display the most obvious seasonal and temporal changes in abundance. In this biotope, however, it is the invertebrate species that demonstrate such cyclical changes. Some species of bryozoans and hydroids demonstrate seasonal cycles of growth in spring/summer and regression (die back) in late autumn/winter, overwintering as dormant stages or juvenile stages (see Ryland, 1976; Gili & Hughes, 1995; Hayward & Ryland, 1998). Many of the bryozoans and hydroid species are opportunists adapted to rapid growth and reproduction (r-selected), taking advantage of the spring/summer phytoplankton bloom and more favourable (less stormy) conditions (Dyrynda & Ryland, 1982; Gili & Hughes, 1995). Henry (2002) reported a drastic decline in Dynamena pumila over the winter months in the Bay of Fundy. The tubeworm Spirobranchus triqueter is also an opportunist that can quickly colonize bare rock. In a wave-surged biotope such as this, seasonal changes may be masked by the temporal changes brought about by wave disturbance. Furthermore, the timing of the large disturbances (in terms of time of year) will most likely influence the initial succession of the community. In addition, the community at any given time is likely to vary significantly in terms of abundant species between different caves. As a result of the continual disturbance resulting from wave surges, the community associated with this biotope can not be considered a 'climax' community per se and will continually undergo temporal changes.\nCave habitats are extremely varied and can be complex in terms of morphology. The most simple cave form may be a cave that has a single entrance and that retreats some distance either into a chamber, tunnel or tapered end of some description. More importantly, there are no holes in the roof of the cave and, therefore, light gradually diminishes with depth into the cave. Invariably, however, cave morphology is not as simplified as this and all caves will vary in terms of, for example:\nthe amount of light penetrating into them,\nthe depth of the water on the cave floor,\nthe height of the cave to the roof,\nthe amount of freshwater (if any) entering the cave through seepage or through cracks and fissures etc,\nthe length to which the waves penetrate the cave (short caves parallel to the current will obviously experience a greater surge than long caves perpendicular to the current) and\nthe extent to which the waves are funneled into the cave, e.g. short and narrow caves will most likely experience a greater surge than deep spacious caves where the waves will be dissipated over the large surface floor area.\nThe floor of the cave may be submerged at all times and the back of the cave will be damper than at the front. The walls of the cave are likely to have cracks and fissures along which moisture will collect. It is in such microhabitats that animals less adapted to desiccation will be found, for example, plumose anemones. The walls themselves may be vertical or overhanging and there may also be horizontal platforms on which water and sediment may settle. Due to the possibility of sediment settlement and puddles of water, such platforms may again give rise to a community comparably different to the rest of the cave, for example, Sabellaria alveolata crusts. The distribution of the flora and fauna within the cave will reflect their ability to withstand various stressors including desiccation, low light levels and sand scour.\nNorton et al. (1971) studied the distribution of organisms in relation to light in a cave on Bullock Island, Lough Hyne, Ireland. They found that the level of light reaching the organisms was much greater when the cave walls were not entirely immersed. This was because when the cave is only partly immersed, the organisms receive both direct light and reflected light.\nNo information was found concerning the productivity in this biotope but it is expected to be low. Encrusting algae are generally resistant to most grazers and as a consequence, will pass on little in terms of primary production to higher trophic levels. Only their spores and fragments of the algae may enter the food chain of local, subtidal ecosystems, or be exported further offshore. Rocky shores make a contribution to the food of many marine species through the production of planktonic larvae and propagules which contribute to pelagic food chains.\nApart from the encrusting algae, the majority of important 'other' species associated with this biotope produce planktonic larvae and have annual recruitment.\nSemibalanus balanoides produce one brood of between 5000 and 10000 eggs per year. The planktotrophic nauplii larvae develop in the surface waters for about two months although settlement and subsequent recruitment is highly variable.\nPerforatus perforatus releases nauplii into the plankton during the summer and the cyprids settle on the shore during early autumn (Fish & Fish, 1996).\nSponges may proliferate both asexually and sexually. Most sponges are hermaphroditic but cross-fertilization normally occurs. The process may be oviparous, where there is a mass spawning of gametes through the osculum which enter a neighbouring individual in the inhalant current. Fertilized eggs are discharged into the sea where they develop into a planula larva. However, in the majority development is viviparous, whereby the larva develops within the sponge and is then released. Larvae have a short planktonic life of a few hours to a few weeks, so that dispersal is probably limited and asexual reproduction probably results in clusters of individuals.\nMany anthozoans reproduce both sexually and asexually. The beadlet anemone Actinia equina frequently reproduces by viviparity whereby internal fertilization is followed by the release of fully formed young (Manuel, 1988).\nSpawning in Sabellaria alveolata occurs each July but subsequent recruitment can vary considerably from year to year. The larvae spend between 6 weeks and 6 months in the plankton. This could enhance the potential for recruitment from external sources, although it is the presence of some remaining adults that will assist in larval settlement as this is the preferred substratum (Wilson, 1929).\nHayward & Ryland (1995b) and Segrove (1941) suggested that breeding of Spirobranchus triqueter probably takes place throughout the year although several authors have suggested that there is a peak in breeding in some areas (see MarLIN review). Larvae are pelagic for about 2-3 weeks in the summer although this increases to about two months in winter (Hayward & Ryland, 1995b). Settlement is thought to be minimal over the winter months.\nLithophyllum incrustans reproduce annually and it has been calculated that 1 mm\u00b2 of reproductive thallus produces 17.5 million bispores per year with an average settlement of only 55 sporelings/year (Edyvean & Ford, 1984).\nDispersal of the hydroid Dynamena pumila is restricted to the planula stage which usually settles and starts to metamorphose within 60 hours of release (Orlov, 1996). Seed et al. (1981) reported that the reproductive zooids of Dynamena pumila were in abundance between May and August in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.\nLittle information was found concerning recruitment in the ctenostome bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum. However, Wood & Seed (1992) reported that in populations of Alcyonidium hirsutum and Flustrellidra hispida (two other common ctenostome bryozoans) in the Menai Strait, larval release occurred over a protracted period. Little growth was observed over the winter months and few survived to their second year. The brooded, lecithotrophic coronate larvae of many bryozoans have a short pelagic lifetime of several hours to about 12 hours (Ryland, 1976). Recruitment is dependant on the supply of suitable, stable, hard substrata (Eggleston, 1972b; Ryland, 1976; Dyrynda, 1994).\nAlthough no information was found concerning temporal changes in this biotope especially, work has been done on similar habitats. Sebens (1985, 1986), for example, studied the succession of a community on the vertical rock walls in the Gulf of Maine. Although the patterns of succession recorded in his work are not entirely relevant here (since his study followed a two year successional period which is unlikely in this biotope given that it is characterized by frequent disturbance), the patterns of recolonization he observed are relevant. This biotope is subjected to frequent small disturbances and the associated community is characterized by relatively short lived and opportunistic species. Furthermore, 'maturity' may well be hard to define for this biotope since the composition of the flora and fauna is likely to change quite dramatically between caves, depending on local environmental conditions. Nonetheless, it is likely that the time taken for the community to reach maturity will be no more than a few years. The spirorbids, encrusting bryozoans, red crustose algae, erect hydroids and bryozoans mentioned in Sebens study (1985) all covered the cleared areas within 1-4 months in the spring, summer and autumn months. The encrusting algae Lithothamnion glaciale took about 3 years to reappear (Sebens, 1985) and the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea approached previous cover in about 2 years or more (Sebens, 1985).\nLimiting Nutrients Data deficient, No information found\nSubstratum/habitat preferences Bedrock, Caves\nOther preferences Sheltered to exposed coasts.\nThis biotope is found on the vertical walls and ceilings of dark, damp caves. The caves must be damp in order to sustain the various soft bodied faunal and floral crusts.\nA full species list was unavailable for this biotope. However, given the extreme habitat with which it is associated, species diversity is likely to be quite low with a noticeable absence of erect algal species.\nThis biotope is characterized by a faunal assemblage that typically includes barnacles such as Semibalanus balanoides or Verrucosa stroemia with patches of encrusting sponges such as Halichondria panicea.\nThe biotope tends to occur above the sand/pebble scoured LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa in wave surged caves in which the moisture allows a denser faunal population to develop. The biotope varies considerably in composition (Connor et al., 2004) and the sensitivity assessments focus on the barnacle and sponge components as they are considered the important defining species. Other species associated with this biotope, such as limpets, mussels, anemones and hydroids, may not always be present and are, therefore, not considered to be 'important characterizing'.\nThe species that characterize this biotope are generally robust animals that can withstand some physical disturbance and/or recover rapidly. This biotope is therefore considered to have a high recovery potential. Sponges and anemones can repair damage and regenerate from small, surviving body parts. Other species such as limpets and isopods are mobile and can migrate into the biotope as adults, while other attached species such as the barnacles and spirorbids produce large numbers of pelagic larvae that can recolonize suitable habitats. Most of the epifauna is probably subject to severe physical disturbance and scour during winter storms and probably develops annually, through regrowth, recolonization and migration from adjacent habitats. Therefore, recovery is likely to be rapid as a typical biological assemblage develops within less than year and probably within 6 months in spring and summer.\nLittle information on sponge longevity and resilience exists. Reproduction can be asexual (e.g. budding) or sexual (Naylor, 2011) and individual sponges are usually hermaphrodites (Hayward & Ryland, 1994). Short-lived ciliated larvae are released via the aquiferous system of the sponges and metamorphosis follows settlement. Growth and reproduction are generally seasonal (Hayward & Ryland, 1994). Rejuvenation from fragments is also considered an important form of reproduction (Fish & Fish, 1996). Some sponges are known to be highly resilience to physical damage with an ability to survive severe damage, regenerate and reorganize to function fully again. However, this recoverability varies between species (Wulff, 2006). Many sponges recruit annually and growth can be rapid, with a lifespan of one to several years (Ackers, 1983). However sponge longevity and growth has been described as highly variable depending on the species and environmental conditions (Lancaster et al., 2014). It is likely that erect sponges are generally longer lived and slower growing given their more complex nature than smaller encrusting or cushion sponges. Fowler & Laffoley (1993) monitored the marine nature reserves in Lundy and the Isles Scilly and found that a number of common sponges showed great variation in size and cover during the study period. Large colonies appeared and vanished at some locations. Some large encrusting sponges went through periods of both growth and shrinkage, with considerable changes taking place from year to year. For example, Cliona celata colonies generally grew extremely rapidly, doubling their size or more each year, but in some years an apparent shrinkage in size also took place. In contrast, there were no obvious changes in the cover of certain unidentified thin encrusting sponges.\nHymeniacidon perleve is found in thin sheets, cushions and rarely as erect and branching. It is found from the Arctic to the Mediterranean from the littoral to the circalittoral (Ackers et al., 1992). Halichondria panicea is very polymorphic, varying from thin sheets, massive forms and cushions to branching. It crumbles readily and branches are brittle (breaking if bent through 20\u00b0). An opportunistic species, it is found in wide range of niches on rock or any other hard substratum (Ackers et al., 1992). Barthel (1986) reported that Halichondria panicea in the Kiel Bight went through annual cycles, with growth occurring between March and July. After July, a strong decline in mean individual weight occurred until the end of September. No change in individual weight was observed over winter, although a change in biochemical composition (condition index and protein, lipid and glycogen content) was noted. Reproductive activity occurred in August and September with young colonies appearing in early autumn. Adult Halichondria panicea degenerated and disintegrated after reproduction. Fish & Fish (1996), however, suggested a lifespan of about three years and Vethaak et al. (1982) reported that Halichondria panicea survived the winter in a normal, active state in the Oosterschelde. Fell & Lewandrowski (1981) observed the population dynamics of Halichondria spp. within an eelgrass bed in an estuary in Connecticut, US over a two year period. Large numbers of larval derived specimens developed on the eelgrass during the summer, and many of these sponges became sexually reproductive, further increasing the size of the population. However, mortality was high, and at the end of the summer, only a relatively small sponge population remained. Sexual reproduction by larva-derived specimens of Halichondria spp. occurred primarily after breeding by the parental generation had declined. The larva-derived sponges grew rapidly, and the percentage of specimens containing large, female reproductive elements increases with specimen size. Halichondria spp. exhibited an opportunistic life strategy with a \u2018high rate of turnover\u2019. Thomassen & Riisgard (1995) described a number of studies looking at the growth rates of Halichondria spp. with rates of between 1% and 3.3% of total volume per day. Sebens (1985; 1986) monitored recolonization of epifauna on cleared vertical rock walls and described the sponge Halichondria panicea as reaching pre-clearance levels of cover after 2 years.\nOn rocky shores, barnacles are often quick to colonize available gaps, although a range of factors, as outlined below, will influence whether there is a successful episode of recruitment in a year to re-populate a shore following impacts. Bennell (1981) observed that barnacles that were removed when the surface rock was scraped off in a barge accident at Amlwch, North Wales returned to pre-accident levels within 3 years. Petraitis & Dudgeon (2005) also found that Semibalanus balanoides quickly recruited (present a year after and increasing in density) to experimentally cleared areas within the Gulf of Maine, that had previously been dominated by Ascophyllum nodosum However, barnacle densities were fairly low (on average 7.6 % cover) as predation levels in smaller patches were high and heat stress in large areas may have killed a number of individuals (Petraitis et al., 2003). Following the creation of a new shore in the Moray Firth, Semibalanus balanoides did not recruit in large numbers until 4 years after shore creation (Terry & Sell, 1986).\nSuccessful recruitment of a high number of Semibalanus balanoides individuals to replenish the population may be episodic (Kendall et al., 1985). After settlement, the juveniles are subject to high levels of predation as well as dislodgement from waves and sand abrasion depending on the area of settlement. Semibalanus balanoides may live up to 4 years in higher areas of the shore (Wethey, 1985). Predation rates are variable (see Petraitis et al., 2003) and are influenced by a number of factors including the presence of algae (that shelters predators such as the dog whelk, Nucella lapillus, and the shore crab, Carcinus maenas and the sizes of clearings (as predation pressure is higher near canopies (Petraitis et al., 2003). Local environmental conditions, including surface roughness (Hills & Thomason, 1998), wind direction (Barnes, 1956), shore height, wave exposure (Bertness et al., 1991) and tidal currents (Leonard et al., 1998) have been identified, among other factors, as factors affecting settlement of Semibalanus balanoides. Biological factors such as larval supply, competition for space, the presence of adult barnacles (Prendergast et al., 2009) and the presence of species that facilitate or inhibit settlement (Kendall, et al., 1985, Jenkins et al., 1999) also play a role in recruitment. Mortality of juveniles can be high but highly variable, with up to 90 % of Semibalanus balanoides dying within ten days (Kendall et al., 1985). Presumably, these factors also influence the transport, supply and settlement of Chthamaus spp., Balanus crenatus and other species such as spirorbids that produce pelagic larvae.\nWhilst barnacles have been recorded as requiring up to three years to reach pre-clearance levels, the prevailing conditions in the biotope of wave surge and lack of algal species are likely to limit predation, and recovery is, therefore, likley to be more rapid. Overall, resilience is assessed as \u2018High\u2019 (within 2 years) for all levels of impact, even where resistance is none, as it is likely that a similar community can rapidly develop.\nNB: The resilience and the ability to recover from human induced pressures is a combination of the environmental conditions of the site, the frequency (repeated disturbances versus a one-off event) and the intensity of the disturbance. Recovery of impacted populations will always be mediated by stochastic events and processes acting over different scales including, but not limited to, local habitat conditions, further impacts and processes such as larval supply and recruitment between populations. Full recovery is defined as the return to the state of the habitat that existed prior to impact. This does not necessarily mean that every component species has returned to its prior condition, abundance or extent but that the relevant functional components are present and the habitat is structurally and functionally recognisable as the initial habitat of interest. It should be noted that the recovery rates are only indicative of the recovery potential.\nExamples of distribution and thermal tolerances tested in laboratory experiments are provided as evidence to support the sensitivity assessment. In general, populations can acclimate to prevailing conditions which can alter tolerance thresholds and care should, therefore, be used when interpreting reported tolerances. Species that are found in the intertidal are exposed to extremes of high and low air temperatures during periods of emersion. They also experience temperature fluctuation over a short period of time during the tidal cycle. In winter air temperatures are colder than the sea, conversely in summer air temperatures are much warmer than the sea. In general intertidal species are therefore able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures. Within this biotope, the cave habitat provides some shade and hence cooler temperatures and reduced desiccation supporting species typically found lower on the shore such as Balanus crenatus and encrusting corallines.\nIncreased temperatures are likely to favour Chthamalid barnacles present in the biotope rather than Semibalanus balanoides (Southward et al. 1995) and Balanus crenatus. Chthamalus montagui and Chthamalus stellatus are warm water species, with a northern limit of distribution in Britain so are likely to be tolerant of long-term increases in temperature. The range of Chthamalus stellatus and Chthamalus montagui has been extending northwards due to increasing temperatures. Chthamalus suffers a failure of fertilization at temperatures of 9 \u00b0C and below (Patel & Crisp, 1960) , its lower critical temperature for feeding activity is 4.6 \u00b0C (Southward, 1955). Semibalanus balanoides out-competes Chthamalus species for space, but recruitment declines and failures of Semibalanus balanoides in response to warmer temperatures benefit Chthamalus species by allowing them to persist and recruit (Mieszkowska, et al., 2014).\nBerman et al. (2013) monitored sponge communities off Skomer Island, UK over three years with all characterizing sponges for this biotope assessed. Seawater temperature, turbidity, photosynthetically active radiation and wind speed were all recorded during the study. It was concluded that, despite changes in species composition, primarily driven by the non-characterizing Hymeraphia, Stellifera and Halicnemia patera, no significant difference in sponge density was recorded in all sites studied. Morphological changes most strongly correlated with a mixture of water visibility and temperature. Barthel (1986) reported that reproduction and growth in Halichondria panicea in the Kiel Bight were primarily driven by temperature, with higher temperatures corresponding with the highest growth.\nSensitivity assessment. Typical surface water temperatures around the UK coast vary, seasonally from 4-19\u00b0C (Huthnance, 2010). The biotope is considered to tolerate a 2\u00b0C increase in temperature for a year. An acute increase at the pressure benchmark may be tolerated in winter, but a sudden return to typical temperatures could lead to mortalities among acclimated animals. However, no evidence was found to support this assessment. An acute increase of 5\u00b0C in summer would be close to the lethal thermal temperature for Balanus crenatus. Adult Semibalanus balanoides are considered likely to be able to tolerate an acute or chronic change, however, if an acute change in temperature occurred in autumn or winter it could disrupt reproduction, while a chronic change could alter reproductive success if it exceeded thermal thresholds for reproduction. The effects would depend on the magnitude, duration and footprint of the activities leading to this pressure. However, barnacle populations are highly connected, with a good larval supply and high dispersal potential (Wethey et al., 2011, Rognstad et al., 2014). Resistance is therefore assessed as \u2018High\u2019 (despite some potential effects on reproductive success) and resilience as \u2018High\u2019 (by default). This biotope is therefore considered to be \u2018Not sensitive\u2019 at the pressure benchmark, although some changes in the proportions of different barnacle species may occur.\nThe barnacle Semibalanus balanoides is primarily a \u2018northern\u2019 species with an arctic-boreal distribution. Long-term time series show that recruitment success is correlated to lower sea temperatures (Mieszkowska et al., 2014). Due to warming temperatures its range has been contracting northwards. Temperatures above 10 to 12 oC inhibit reproduction (Barnes, 1957, 1963, Crisp & Patel, 1969) and laboratory studies suggest that temperatures at or below 10 oC for 4-6 weeks are required in winter for reproduction, although the precise threshold temperatures for reproduction are not clear (Rognstad et al., 2014). The tolerance of Semibalanus balanoides collected in the winter (and thus acclimated to lower temperatures) to low temperatures was tested in the laboratory. The median lower lethal temperature tolerance was -14.6 oC (Davenport & Davenport, 2005). A decrease in temperature at the pressure benchmark is, therefore, unlikely to negatively affect this species. Balanus crenatus is described as a boreal species (Newman & Ross, 1976) it is found throughout the northeast Atlantic from the Arctic to the west coast of France as far south as Bordeaux; east and west coasts of North America and Japan. Chthamalus stellatus and Chthamalus montagui are \u2018southern\u2019 barnacle species and their range has been extending northwards due to increasing temperatures. Chthamalus suffers a failure of fertilization at temperatures of 9 \u00b0C and below (Patel and Crisp, 1960) its lower critical temperature for feeding activity is 4.6 \u00b0C (Southward, 1955). The cold winter of 2009-10 in France led to recruitment failure in Chthamalus species (Wethey et al., 2011).\nThe characterizing sponge Halichondria panacea is widely distributed across the coasts of the British Isles and is found from the Channel Isles to Northern Scotland (NBN, 2015). Berman et al. (2013) monitored sponge communities off Skomer Island, UK over three years. seawater temperature, turbidity, photosynthetically active radiation and wind speed were all recorded during the study. It was concluded that, despite changes in species composition, primarily driven by the non-characterizing Hymeraphia Stellifera and Halicnemia patera, no significant difference in sponge density was recorded in all sites studied. Morphological changes most strongly correlated with a mixture of visibility and temperature. Crisp (1964) studied the effects of an unusually cold winter (1962-3) on the marine life in Britain, including porifera in North Wales. Whilst difficulty in distinguishing between mortality and delayed development was noted, Crisp found that Halichondria panicea was wholly or partly killed by frost. Barthel (1986) also reported that Halichondria panicea in the Kiel Bight degenerated and disintegrated after reproduction before winter, however, young colonies were observed from September and this could be the survival mechanism.\nSensitivity assessment. The majority of species considered have a wide temperature tolerance range and the acute and chronic decreases in temperature described by the benchmark would have limited effect on barnacles and limpets. However, there is evidence of mortality in sponges including Halichondria panicea at extreme low temperatures in the British Isles. Given this evidence, it is likely that a cooling of 5\u00b0C for a month could potentially affect the characterizing sponge, and resistance has, therefore, been assessed as \u2018Medium\u2019. Resilience is \u2018High\u2019 and sensitivity is therefore as \u2018Low\u2019 at the benchmark level.\nThis biotope is recorded in variable (18-35 ppt) to full salinity (30-35 ppt) habitats (Connor et al., 2004) and therefore the sensitivity assessment benchmark considers an increase from full salinity to >40 ppt. Biotopes found in the intertidal will naturally experience fluctuations in salinity where evaporation increases salinity and inputs of rainwater expose individuals to freshwater. Species found in the intertidal are therefore likely to have some form of behavioural or physiological adaptations to changes in salinity.\nBarnes & Barnes (1974) found that larvae from six barnacle species including Balanus crenatus, Chthamalus stellatus and Semibalanus (as Balanus) balanoides, completed their development to nauplii larvae at salinities between 20-40\u2030. (Some embryos exposed at later development stages could survive at higher and lower salinities). Balanus crenatus occurs in estuarine areas and is therefore adapted to variable salinity (Davenport, 1976). When subjected to sudden changes in salinity Balanus crenatus closes its opercular valves so that the blood is maintained temporarily at a constant osmotic concentration (Davenport, 1976). No evidence for Halichondria panicea in hypersaline conditions was found.\nSensitivity assessment. Little direct evidence was found to assess sensitivity to this pressure. Although some increases in salinity may be tolerated by the associated species present these are generally short-term and mitigated during tidal inundation. This biotope is considered, based on distribution on the mid-shore to be sensitive to a persistent increase in salinity to > 40 ppt. Resistance is therefore assessed as \u2018Low\u2019 and recovery as \u2018High\u2019 (following the restoration of usual salinity). Sensitivity is therefore assessed as \u2018Low'.\nThis biotope is recorded in variable (18-35 ppt) to full salinity (30-35 ppt) (Connor et al., 2004). At the pressure benchmark, a change from variable to reduced salinity (18-30 ppt) is assessed.\nBalanus crenatus occurs in estuarine areas and is therefore probably adapted to reduced salinity (Davenport, 1976). When subjected to sudden changes in salinity Balanus crenatus closes its opercular valves so that the blood is maintained temporarily at a constant osmotic concentration (Davenport, 1976). Acclimation to different salinity regimes alters the point at which opercular closure and resumption of activity occur (Davenport, 1976). Balanus crenatus can tolerate salinities down to 14 psu if given time to acclimate (Foster, 1970). At salinities below 6 psu, motor activity ceases, respiration falls and the animal falls into a \"salt sleep\". In this state the animals may survive (Barnes & Barnes, 1974) in freshwater for 3 weeks, enabling them to withstand changes in salinity over moderately long periods (Barnes & Powell, 1953). Larvae are more sensitive than adults. In culture experiments, eggs maintained below 10\u2030 rupture, due to osmotic stress (Barnes & Barnes, 1974). At 15-17\u2030 there is either no development of early stages or the nauplii larvae are deformed and \u201cprobably not viable\u201d, similarly at 20\u2030 development occurs, but about half of the larvae are deformed and not viable. (Barnes & Barnes, 1974). Normal development resulting in viable larvae occurs between salinities of 25-40 \u2030 (Barnes & Barnes, 1974). Barnes & Barnes (1965) found that in high suspended solids and low salinity there was a decrease in the number of eggs per brood of Chthamalus stellatus / Chthamalus montagui If salinities decrease below 21 psu all cirral activity of barnacles normally associated with full salinity waters, ceases (Foster, 1971). Semibalanus balanoides are tolerant of a wide range of salinity and can survive periodic emersion in freshwater, e.g. from rainfall or freshwater run-off, by closing their opercular valves (Foster, 1971b). They can also withstand large changes in salinity over moderately long periods of time by falling into a \"salt sleep\" and can be found on shores (example from Sweden) with large fluctuations in salinity around a mean of 24 (Jenkins et al., 2001).\nHalichondria panicea has been recorded in reduced salinity biotopes, such as SIR.ESTFA.MytT (Connor et al., 2004) and occurs in outer and mid estuaries (Hayward & Ryland 1995b).\nSensitivity assessment. All characterizing species are found in salinities of 18 ppt or lower and are therefore unlikely to be affected at the benchmark level. The biotope is considered \u2018Not sensitive\u2019 to a decrease in salinity from variable to reduced. Biotope resistance is therefore assessed as \u2018High\u2019 and resilience is assessed as \u2018High\u2019 (by default) and the biotope is assessed as \u2018Not sensitive\u2019 at the benchmark level.\nThe barnacles and encrusting sponges characterizing this biotope are securely attached and as these are relatively flat and small they are subject to little or no drag compared to upright growth forms.\nChanges in flow rate may impact the supply of food to filter feeders. Laboratory experiments demonstrate that barnacle feeding behaviour alters over different flow rates but that barnacles can feed at a variety of flow speeds (Sanford et al., 1994). Flow tank experiments using velocities of 0.03, 0.07 and 0.2 m/s showed that a higher proportion of barnacles fed at higher flow rates (Sanford et al., 1994). Feeding was passive, meaning the cirri were held out to the flow to catch particles; although active beating of the cirri to generate feeding currents occurs in still water (Crisp & Southward, 1961). Field observations at sites in southern New England (USA) that experience a number of different measured flow speeds, found that Semibalanus balanoides from all sites responded quickly to higher flow speeds, with a higher proportion of individuals feeding when current speeds were higher. Barnacles were present at a range of sites, varying from sheltered sites with lower flow rates (maximum observed flow rates <0.06- 0.1 m/s), a bay site with higher flow rates (maximum observed flows 0.2-0.3 m/s) and open coast sites (maximum observed flows 0.2-0.4 m/s). Recruitment was higher at the site with flow rates of 0.2-0.3 m/s (although this may be influenced by supply) and at higher flow microhabitats within all sites. Both laboratory and field observations indicate that flow is an important factor with effects on feeding, growth and recruitment in Semibalanus balanoides (Sanford et al., 1994, Leonard et al., 1998), however, the results suggest that flow is not a limiting factor determining the overall distribution of barnacles as they can adapt to a variety of flow speeds.\nRiisg\u00e5rd et al. (1993) discussed the low energy cost of filtration for sponges and concluded that passive current-induced filtration may be insignificant for sponges. Pumping and filtering occurs in choanocyte cells that generate water currents in sponges using flagella (De Vos et al., 1991). Halichondria panicea has been recorded in very strong to negligible biotope (0- > 3 m/sec).\nSensitivity assessment. The species that characterize or are associated with this biotope are securely attached and can occur in a range of flow speeds. The resistance of the biotope to changes in water flow is assessed as \u2018High\u2019 and resilience as \u2018High\u2019 (by default) so that the biotope is assessed as \u2018Not sensitive\u2019. Scour is a key factor structuring this biotope (Connor et al., 2004), changes in flow exceeding the pressure benchmark may increase or decrease sediment transport and associated scour may lead to indirect changes in the character of the biotope.\nEmergence regime is a key factor structuring this (and other) intertidal biotopes. Increased emergence may reduce habitat suitability for characterizing species through greater exposure to desiccation and reduced feeding opportunities for the barnacles and other filter feeders including spirorbids, barnacles,sponges and anemones which feed when immersed. Semibalanus balanoides is less tolerant of desiccation stress than Chthamalus barnacles species and changes in emergence may, therefore, lead to species replacement and the development of a Chthamalus sp. dominated biotope, more typical of the upper shore may develop. It should be noted that moisture from wave surge is considered important in maintaining faunal abundance (Connor et al., 2004). Changes in emergence may therefore eventually lead to the replacement of this biotope to one more tolerant of desiccation.\nDecreased emergence would reduce desiccation stress and allow the attached suspension feeders more feeding time. Predation pressure on barnacles and limpets is likely to increase where these are submerged for longer periods and to prevent colonisation of lower zones. Semibalanus balanoides was able to extend its range into lower zones when protected from predation by the dogwhelk, Nucella lapillus (Connell, 1961). Mobile species present within the biotope would be able to relocate to preferred shore levels. Where decreased emergence leads to increased abrasion and scour while immersed, the removal of fauna may lead to this biotope reverting to the more barren LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa.\nThis biotope is recorded from locations that are judged to range from exposed to sheltered (Connor et al., 2004). The barnacles and encrusting sponges associated with this biotope have a flat growth form and are unlikely to be dislodged by increased wave action.\nSensitivity assessment. The biotope and characterizing and associated species are found across a range of wave exposures, populations occurring within the middle of the range are considered to have 'High' resistance to a change in significant wave height at the pressure benchmark. It should be noted that the biotope relies on wave surge to provide enough moisture to maintain an abundant fauna, a significant decrease could result in loss of the biotope to one more tolerant of desiccation. However, at the benchmark level, resistance is 'High'. Resilience is assessed as \u2018High\u2019, by default, and the biotope is considered \u2018Not sensitive\u2019.\nNo information was found concerning the effects of heavy metals on encrusting coralline algae. Bryan (1984) suggested that the general order for heavy metal toxicity in seaweeds is: organic Hg> inorganic Hg > Cu > Ag > Zn> Cd> Pb. Contamination at levels greater than the pressure benchmark may adversely impact the biotope. Cole et al. (1999) reported that Hg was very toxic to macrophytes. The sublethal effects of Hg (organic and inorganic) on the sporelings of Plumaria elegans, were reported by Boney (1971). 100% growth inhibition was caused by 1 ppm Hg.\nContamination at levels greater than the pressure benchmark may adversely impact the biotope. Barnacles accumulate heavy metals and store them as insoluble granules (Rainbow, 1987). Pyefinch & Mott (1948) recorded a median lethal concentration of 0.19 mg/l copper and 1.35 mg/l mercury, for Balanus crenatus over 24 hours. Barnacles may tolerate a fairly high level of heavy metals in nature, for example, they are found in Dulas Bay, Anglesey; where copper reaches concentrations of 24.5 \u00b5g/l, due to acid mine waste (Foster et al., 1978).\nBryan (1984) suggested that gastropods are also rather tolerant of heavy metals. In the Fal estuary Patella vulgata occurs at, or just outside, Restronguet Point at the end of the creek where metal concentrations are in the order: Zinc (Zn) 100-2000\u00b5g/l, copper (Cu) 10-100 \u00b5g/l and cadmium (Cd) 0.25-5 \u00b5g/l (Bryan & Gibbs, 1983). However, in the laboratory Patella vulgata was found to be intolerant of small changes in environmental concentrations of Cd and Zn by Davies (1992). At concentrations of 10 \u00b5g/l pedal mucus production and levels of activity were both reduced, indicating a physiological response to metal concentrations. Exposure to Cu at a concentration of 100 \u00b5g/l for one week resulted in progressive brachycardia (slowing of the heart beat) and the death of limpets. Zn at a concentration of 5500 \u00b5g/l produced the same effect (Marchan et al.,1999).\nTethya lyncurium concentrated BaP (benzo[a ]pyrene )to 40 times the external concentration and no significant repair of DNA was observed in the sponges, which, in higher animals, would likely lead to cancers. As sponge cells are not organized into organs the long-term effects are uncertain (Zahn et al., 1981). No information was found on the intolerance of the characterizing sponges or barnacles to hydrocarbons. However, other littoral barnacles generally have a high tolerance to oil (Holt et al., 1995) and were little impacted by the Torrey Canyon oil spill (Smith, 1968).\nHoare & Hiscock (1974) reported that the limpet Patella vulgata was excluded from sites within 100-150m of the discharge of acidified, halogenated effluent in Amlwch Bay. Limpets are also extremely intolerant of aromatic solvent based dispersants used in oil spill clean-up. During the clean-up response to the Torrey Canyon oil spill, nearly all the limpets were killed in areas close to dispersant spraying. Viscous oil will not be readily drawn in under the edge of the shell by ciliary currents in the mantle cavity, whereas detergent, alone or diluted in seawater, would creep in much more readily and be liable to kill the limpet (Smith, 1968). A concentration of 5ppm killed half the limpets tested in 24 hours (Southward & Southward, 1978; Hawkins & Southward, 1992). Acidified seawater affects the motility of Patella vulgata. At a pH of 5.5 motility was reduced whilst submerged but individuals recovered when returned to normal seawater. At a pH of 2.5 total inhibition of movement occurred and when returned to normal seawater half had died (Bonner et al., 1993). Reduced motility reduces the time for foraging and may result in decreased survival of individuals. Acidified seawater can also change the shell composition which will lead to a decrease in its protective nature and hence survival (Bonner et al., 1993). Short periods (48 hours) are unlikely to have much effect on a population but long periods (1 year) may cause reduced grazing and an increase in algal growth. However, seawater is unlikely to reach pH 2.5, therefore, intolerance to slight changes in pH will be low. Hoare & Hiscock (1974) reported that in Amlwch Bay Patella vulgata was excluded from sites within 100-150 m of the discharge of acidified, halogenated effluent.\nSpecific information concerning oxygen consumption and reduced oxygen tolerances were not found for the important characterizing species within the biotope. It is likely that as this biotope occurs in areas that are shallow and tidally flushed that re-oxygenation is likely, limiting the effects of any de-oxygenation events. However, this may mean that the species present have little exposure to low oxygen and may be sensitive to this pressure. Balanus crenatus, however, respires anaerobically so it can withstand some decrease in oxygen levels. When placed in wet nitrogen, where oxygen stress is maximal and desiccation stress is minimal, Balanus crenatus has a mean survival time of 3.2 days (Barnes et al., 1963) and this species is considered to be \u2018Not sensitive\u2019 to this pressure. Semibalanus balanoides can respire anaerobically, so they can tolerate some reduction in oxygen concentration (Newell, 1979). When placed in wet nitrogen, where oxygen stress is maximal and desiccation stress is low, Semibalanus balanoides have a mean survival time of 5 days (Barnes et al., 1963).\nIn laboratory experiments, a reduction in the oxygen tension of seawater from 148mm Hg (air saturated seawater) to 50 mmHg rapidly resulted in reduced heart rate in limpets of the genus Patella (Marshall & McQuaid, 1993). Heartbeat rate returned to normal in oxygenated water within two hours. Limpets can survive for a short time in anoxic seawater; Grenon & Walker, (1981) found that in oxygen-free water limpets could survive up to 36 hours, although Marshall & McQuaid (1989) found a lower tolerance for Patella granularis, which survived up to 11 hours in anoxic water. Therefore, some individuals may survive for one week at an oxygen concentration of 2 mg/l. However, Patella vulgata is able to respire in air, so would only be exposed to low oxygen in the water column intermittently during periods of tidal immersion. In addition, in areas of wave exposure and moderately strong current flow low oxygen levels in the water are unlikely to persist for very long.\nHalichondria panicea has been reported to survive under oxygen levels as low as 0.5-4 % saturation (ca 0.05-0.4 mg/l) for up to 10 days (Mills et al., 2014).\nSensitivity assessment. Based on evidence for the charatcerizing Semibalanus balanoides, Halichondria panicea and considering mitigation of de-oxygenation by water movements, this biotope is considered to have 'High' resistance and 'High' resilience (by default), and is, therefore 'Not sensitive'.\nThis pressure relates to increased levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon in the marine environment compared to background concentrations. The benchmark is set at compliance with WFD criteria for good status, based on nitrogen concentration (UKTAG, 2014). 'Not sensitive' at the pressure benchmark that assumes compliance with good status as defined by the WFD.\nThe animals found within the biotope may be able to utilise the input of organic matter as food, or are likely to be tolerant of inputs at the benchmark level. Cabral-Oliveira et al. (2014), found that filter feeders including the barnacle Chthamalus montagui, were more abundant at sites closer to a sewage treatment works, as they could utilise the organic matter inputs as food. On the same shores, higher abundances of juvenile Patella sp. and lower abundances of adults were found closer to sewage inputs, Cabral-Oliveira et al. (2014) suggested the structure of these populations was due to increased competition closer to the sewage outfalls.\nRose & Risk, 1985 described increase in abundance of the sponge Cliona delitrix in an organically polluted section of Grand Cayman fringing reef affected by the discharge of untreated faecal sewage. Halichondria occurs in harbours and estuaries (Ackers et al., 1992) and may, therefore, tolerate high levels of organic carbon, although no specific evidence for this species was found, other sponges have been described in organically enriched environments. Fu et al. (2007) described Hymeniacidon perleve in aquaculture ecosystems in sterilized natural seawater with different concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC), at several concentrations between 52.9 and 335.13 mg/L). Hymeniacidon perleve removed 44\u201361% TOC during 24 h, with retention rates of ca. 0.19\u20131.06 mg/hr \u00b7g-fresh sponge. Hymeniacidon perleve removed organic carbon excreted by Fugu rubripes with similar retention rates of ca. 0.15 mg/h \u00b7 g-fresh sponge, and the sponge biomass increased by 22.8%.\nSensitivity assessment. It is not clear whether the pressure benchmark would lead to enrichment effects in this dynamic habitat. High water movements would disperse organic matter particles, mitigating the effect of this pressure. Based on the AMBI categorisation (Borja et al., 2000, Gittenberger & Van Loon, 2011), characterizing and associated species are assessed as \u2018Not Sensitive\u2019 to this pressure based on \u2018High\u2019 resistance and \u2018High\u2019 resilience as there is no impact to recover from. Although species within the biotope may be sensitive to gross organic pollution resulting from sewage disposal and aquaculture they are considered to have \u2018High\u2019 resistance to the pressure benchmark (which represents organic enrichment) and therefore \u2018High\u2019 resilience. The biotope is therefore considered to be \u2018Not Sensitive\u2019.\nThis biotope is characterized by the hard rock substratum to which the key characterizing species, spirorbids, barnacles and associated species can firmly attach to. A change to a sedimentary substratum would significantly alter the character of the biotope. More subtle changes in substratum type can also lead to indirect effects. Surface roughness, for example, is correlated with settlement in barnacles (Coombes et al., 2015). Spirorbids are also selective and will discriminate between different types of hard surface (James & Underwood, 1994). An artificial substratum may therefore not be equivalent to a natural rock reef habitat. An increase in mobile surfaces can also indirectly decrease suitable habitats. Shanks & Wright (1986) observed that limpet mortalities were much higher at sites where the supply of loose cobbles and pebbles were greater, leading to increased abrasion through wave action 'throwing' rocks onto surfaces. The biotope is therefore considered to have 'No' resistance to this pressure (based on a change to sediments), recovery is assessed as 'Very low', as the change at the pressure benchmark is permanent. Biotope sensitivity is therefore assessed as 'High'. As this biotope is found in caves, a change in topography from a cave to an open rock surface would also result in the loss of the biotope.\nThe species characterizing this biotope occur on rock and, therefore, have no protection from surface abrasion. The effects of trampling (a source of abrasion) on barnacles appear to be variable with some studies not detecting significant differences between trampled and controlled areas (Tyler-Walters & Arnold, 2008). However, this variability may be related to differences in trampling intensities and abundance of populations studied. The worst case incidence was reported by Brosnan and Crumrine (1994) who reported that a trampling pressure of 250 steps in a 20x20 cm plot one day a month for a period of a year significantly reduced barnacle cover at two study sites. Barnacle cover reduced from 66% to 7% cover in 4 months at one site and from 21% to 5% within 6 months at the second site. Overall barnacles were crushed and removed by trampling. Barnacle cover remained low until recruitment the following spring. Long et al. (2011) also found that heavy trampling (70 humans km-1 shoreline h-1) led to reductions in barnacle cover. Single step experiments provide a clearer, quantitative indication of sensitivity to direct abrasion. Povey & Keough (1991) in experiments on shores in Mornington peninsula, Victora, Australia, found that in single step experiments 10 out of 67 barnacles, (Chthamlus antennatus about 3mm long), were crushed. However, on the same shore, the authors found that limpets may be relatively more resistant to abrasion from trampling. Following step and kicking experiments, few individuals of the limpet Cellana trasomerica, (similar size to Patella vulgata) suffered damage or relocated (Povey & Keough, 1991). One kicked limpet (out of 80) was broken and 2 (out of 80) limpets that were stepped on could not be relocated the following day (Povey & Keough, 1991). Trampling may lead to indirect effects on limpet populations, Bertocci et al., (2011) found that the effects of trampling on Patella sp. increased temporal and spatial variability of in abundance. The experimental plots were sited on a wave-sheltered shore dominated by Ascophyllum nodosum. On these types of shore, trampling in small patches, that removes macroalgae and turfs, will indirectly enhance habitat suitability for limpets by creating patches of exposed rock for grazing.\nHiscock (1983) noted that a community, under conditions of scour and abrasion from stones and boulders moved by storms, developed into a community similar to this biotope, consisting of fast growing species such as Spirobranchus (formerly Pomatoceros) triqueter. Off Chesil Bank, the epifaunal community dominated by Spirobranchus (as Pomatoceros) triqueter and Balanus crenatus decreased in cover in October as it was scoured away in winter storms, but recolonised in May to June (Gorzula, 1977). Warner (1985) reported that the community did not contain any persistent individuals but that recruitment was sufficiently predictable to result in a dynamic stability and a similar community, dominated by Spirobranchus (as Pomatoceros) triqueter, Balanus crenatus and Electra pilosa, (an encrusting bryozoan), was present in 1979, 1980 and 1983 (Riley and Ballerstedt, 2005).\nShanks & Wright (1986), found that even small pebbles (<6 cm) that were thrown by wave action in Southern California shores could create patches in Chthamalus fissus aggregations and could smash owl limpets (Lottia gigantea). Average, estimated survivorship of limpets at a wave exposed site, with many loose cobbles and pebbles allowing greater levels of abrasion was 40% lower than at a sheltered site. Severe storms were observed to lead to an almost total destruction of local populations of limpets through abrasion by large rocks and boulders.\nSensitivity assessment. The impact of surface abrasion will depend on the footprint, duration and magnitude of the pressure, however persistent abrasion from scouring could result in a change to the similar biotope LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa (Connor et al., 2004). The evidence for the effects of trampling and scour on barnacles suggest that resistance, to a single abrasion event is \u2018Low\u2019 and recovery is \u2018High\u2019. Sensitivity is assessed as \u2018Low\u2019.\nThis biotope tends to occur above scoured habitats. An increase in scour could result in a change in biotope to the more faunally impoverished LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa. However, given the proximity to the this scoured biotope, it is likely, depending on local sediment supply, that the biotope is exposed to intermittent episodes of high-levels of suspended solids as local sediments are re-mobilised and transported. A significant increase in suspended solids may result in smothering (see siltation pressures) where these are deposited. Based on Cole et al. (1999) and Devlin et al. (2008) this biotope is considered to experience intermediate turbidity (10-100 mg/l) based on UK TAG (2014). An increase at the pressure benchmark refers to a change to medium turbidity (100-300 mg/l) and a decrease is assessed as a change to clear (<10 mg/l) based on UK TAG (2014).\nAn increase in turbidity could be beneficial if the suspended particles are composed of organic matter, however, high levels of suspended solids with increased inorganic particles may reduce filter feeding efficiencies. A reduction in suspended solids will reduce food availability for filter feeding species in the biotope (where the solids are organic), although effects are not likely to be lethal over the course of a year. A reduction in light penetration could also reduce the growth rate of phytoplankton and so limit zooplankton levels. However, light penetration itself is unlikely to be an important factor as both Balanus crenatus and Spirobranchus triqueter are recorded from the lower eulittoral or the lower circalittoral.\nA significant decrease in suspended organic particles may reduce food input to the biotope resulting in reduced growth and fecundity of barnacles and encrusting sponges. However, local primary productivity may be enhanced where suspended sediments decrease, increasing food supply.\nGyory et al., (2013) found that increased turbidity triggered the release of larvae by Semibalanus balanoides, a response which may allow the larval release to be timed with high levels of phytoplankton and at times where predation on larvae may be lowered due to the concentration of particles. Storm events that stir up sediments are also associated with larval release (Gyory & Pineda, 2011).\nSensitivity assessment. The increased scour associated with an increase in turbidity would probably result in increased mortality among the characterizing species. Overall biotope resistance is assessed as \u2018Medium\u2019 to an increase in suspended solids. Resilience is categorised as \u2018High\u2019 and sensitivity is 'Low'.\nLR.FLR.CvOv.FaCr tends to occur above biotopes subject to scouring from abrasion by mobile sediments (Connor et al., 2004) and is, therefore (being on cave walls and ceilings), unlikely to be affected by smothering in most cases. Increased scour is probably the most important factor when considering sensitivity to deposition of sediment. The characterizing species occur in biotopes subject to sedimentation and scour (such as the more impoverished LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa) and are therefore likely to tolerate intermittent episodes of fine sediment movement and deposition, however, decline in abundance is likely given the respective biotope descriptions (Connor et al., 2004) . Removal of the sediments by wave action and tidal currents would result in considerable scour. The effect of this pressure will be mediated by the length of exposure to the deposit and the nature of the deposit.\nHolme & Wilson (1985) described a Pomatoceros-Balanus assemblage on \u2018hard surfaces subjected to periodic sever scour and \u2018deep submergence by sand or gravel\u2019 in the English Channel. They inferred that the Pomatoceros-Balanus assemblage was restricted to fast-growing settlers able to establish themselves in short periods of stability during summer months (Holme & Wilson 1985), as all fauna were removed in the winter months. Barnacles may stop filtration after silt layers of a few millimetres have been discharged as the feeding apparatus is very close to the sediment surface (Witt et al., 2004). In dredge disposal areas in the Weser estuary, Germany, where the modelled exposure to sedimentation was 10mm for 25 days, with the centre of the disposal ground exposed to 65 mm for several hours before dispersal, Balanus crenatus declined in abundance compared to reference areas. (Witt et al., 2004). However, separating the effect of sedimentation from increased suspended solids and changes in sediment from sediment dumping was problematic (Witt et al., 2004).\nObservations on exposed and sheltered shores with patches of sediment around Plymouth in the south west of England found that Patella vulgata abundances were higher where deposits were absent. The limpets were locally absent in plots with 50-65% sediment cover (Airoldi & Hawkins, 2007). Littler et al. (1983) found that the another limpet species, Lottia gigantea on southern Californian shores was restricted to refuges from sand burial on shores subject to periodic inundation by sands.\nSensitivity assessment. Sensitivity to this pressure will be mediated by site-specific hydrodynamic conditions and topography of the biotope. Whilst smothering is unlikely, given that the biotope typically occurs on cave walls and ceilings, scour and abrasion are likely to result in mortality. Resistance is assessed as \u2018Low\u2019 as the exposure to abrasion and scour is likely to result in the decline of the characterizing species (however, the impact may be mitigated by rapid removal of the deposit). Resilience is assessed as \u2018High\u2019. Biotope sensitivity is therefore assessed as 'Low'.\nLR.FLR.CvOv.FaCr tends to occur above biotopes subject to scouring from abrasion by mobile sediments (Connor et al., 2004) and is, therefore, being on cave walls and ceilings, unlikely to be affected by smothering in most cases. Increased scour is probably the most important factor when considering sensitivity to deposition of sediment. The characterizing species occur in biotopes subject to sedimentation and scour (such as the more impoverished LR.FLR.CvOv.ScrFa) and are therefore likely to tolerate intermittent episodes of fine sediment movement and deposition, however, decline in abundance is likely given the respective biotope descriptions (Connor et al., 2004) . Removal of the sediments by wave action and tidal currents would result in considerable scour. The effect of this pressure will be mediated by the length of exposure to the deposit and the nature of the deposit.\nField observations and laboratory experiments have highlighted the sensitivity of limpets to sediment deposition (see also the \u2018heavy\u2019 siltation pressure for further information). Airoldi & Hawkins (2007) tested the effects of different grain sizes and deposit thickness in laboratory experiments using Patella vulgata. Sediments were added as a \u2018fine\u2019 rain to achieve deposit thicknesses of approximately 1mm, 2 mm, and 4 mm in controlled experiments and grazing and mortality observed over 8-12 days. Limpets were more sensitive to sediments with a higher fraction of fines (67% silt) than coarse (58% sand). Coarse sediments of thicknesses approximately 1, 2 and 4 mm decreased grazing activity by 35, 45 and 50 % respectively. At 1 and 2 mm thicknesses, fine sediments decreased grazing by 40 and 77 %. The addition of approximately 4 mm of fine sediment completely inhibited grazing. Limpets tried to escape the sediment but lost attachment and died after a few days (Airoldi & Hawkins, 2007). Observations on exposed and sheltered shores with patches of sediment around Plymouth in the south west of England found that Patella vulgata abundances were higher where deposits were absent. The limpets were locally absent in plots with 50-65% sediment cover (Airoldi & Hawkins, 2007). Littler et al. (1983) found that another limpet species, Lottia gigantea on southern Californian shores was restricted to refuges from sand burial on shores subject to periodic inundation by sands.\n. Thompson et al. (2004) demonstrated that Semibalanus balanoides, kept in aquaria, ingested microplastics within a few days. However, the effects of the microplastics on the health of exposed individuals have not been identified. There is currently no evidence to assess the level of impact.\n'Not relevant'. Wave action on exposed shores is likely to generate high levels of underwater noise. Other sources are not considered likely to result in effects on the biotope.\nLight penetration is a key factor structuring the cave biotope. Encrusting corallines and other shade-tolerant algae grow closer to the entrance where light availability allows. Encrusting corallines can occur in deeper water than other algae where light penetration is limited. Samples of Lithophyllum impressum suspended from a raft and shaded (50-75% light reduction) continued to grow over two years (Dethier, 1994). An increase in light in the spectrum that supports photosynthesis may allow algae including Rhodochorton purpureum and Pilinia maritima which are found within caves (Connor et al., 2004) to colonise more surface area, altering the structure of the biotope.\nSemibalanus balanoides sheltered from the sun grew bigger than unshaded individuals (Hatton, 1938; cited in Wethey, 1984), although the effect may be due to indirect cooling effects rather than shading. Barnacles are also frequently found under algal canopies suggesting that they are tolerant of shading. Light levels have also been demonstrated to influence a number of phases of the reproductive cycle in Semibalanus balanoides. In general, light inhibits aspects of the breeding cycle. Penis development is inhibited by light (Barnes & Stone, 1972) while Tighe-Ford (1967) showed that constant light inhibited gonad maturation and fertilization. Davenport & Crisp (unpublished data from Menai Bridge, Wales, cited from Davenport et al., 2005) found that experimental exposure to either constant darkness, or 6 h light: 18 h dark photoperiods induced autumn breeding in Semibalanus. They also confirmed that very low continuous light intensities (little more than starlight) inhibited breeding. Latitudinal variations in the timing of the onset of reproductive phases (egg mass hardening) have been linked to the length of darkness (night) experienced by individuals rather than temperature (Davenport et al., 2005). Changes in light levels associated with climate change (increased cloud cover) were considered to have the potential to alter the timing of reproduction (Davenport et al., 2005) and to shift the range limits of this species southward. However, it is not clear how these findings may reflect changes in light levels from artificial sources, and whether observable changes would occur at the population level as a result. There is, therefore, 'No evidence' on which to base an assessment.\nJones et al. (2012) compiled a report on the monitoring of sponges around Skomer Island and found that many sponges, particularly encrusting species, preferred vertical or shaded bedrock to open, light surfaces, which may be explained through competition with algal species.\nSensitivity assessment. The key characterizing faunal species colonize a broad range of light environments, from intertidal to deeper sub tidal and shaded understorey habitats and are considered to be unaffected by increased shade or more light penetration. However, an increase in light in the spectrum that supports photosynthesis may increase algal growth altering the character of the biotope. Some specialist cave species may colonize depending on the presence of source populations. The biotope is therefore considered to have \u2018Low\u2019 resistance and \u2018High\u2019 resilience following restoration of typical conditions (as the algae are likely to be lost). Sensitivity is therefore considered to be \u2018Low\u2019.\nNo direct evidence was found to assess this pressure. Barriers that reduce the degree of tidal excursion may alter larval supply to suitable habitats from source populations. Conversely, the presence of barriers may enhance local population supply by preventing the loss of larvae from enclosed habitats. As the larvae of Balanus crenatus and Semibalanus balanoides and other species such as Patella vulgata are planktonic and are transported by water movements, barriers that reduce the degree of tidal excursion may alter larval supply to suitable habitats from source populations. However, the presence of barriers may enhance local population supply by preventing the loss of larvae from enclosed habitats.\nIt should be noted that examples of this biotope require tidal surge for moisture to maintain species abundance, however, this is considered an indirect effect and only the species movement is considered. Resistance to this pressure is assessed as 'High' and resilience as 'High' by default. This biotope is therefore considered to be 'Not sensitive'.\nMany of the animal species within the biotope probably respond to light levels, detecting shade and shadow to avoid predators and day length in their behavioural or reproductive strategies. However, their visual acuity is probably very limited and they are unlikely to respond to visual disturbance at the benchmark level. This pressure is, therefore, assessed as \u2018Not relevant\u2019.\nBalanus crenatus possesses a rudimentary eye and can detect and respond to sudden shading which may be an anti-predator defence (Forbes et al., 1971). Balanus crenatus tend to orient themselves when settling, with the least light sensitive area directed towards the light (Forbes et al., 1971), so that the most sensitive area can detect shading from predator movements in the area where light availability is lower (Forbes et al., 1971).\nImportant characterizing species within this biotope are not cultivated or translocated. This pressure is, therefore, considered \u2018Not relevant\u2019 to this biotope group.\nScour in this biotope will probably limit the establishment of all but the most scour resistant invasive non-indigenous species (INIS) and no direct evidence was found for effects of INIS on this biotope. The low levels of light within this biotope, particularly the rear walls of caves, are considered to also inhibit invasive algal species.\nThe Australasian barnacle Austrominius (previously Elminius) modestus was introduced to British waters on ships during the second world war. Increased warming has allowed the Australian barnacle Austrominius (formerly, Elminiusi) modestus, to dominate sites previously occupied by Semibalanus balanoides and Balanus crenatus (Witte, 2010). However, on settlement panels deployed in SW Ireland, Austrominius modestus initially dominated panels in the lower subtidal but post-recruitment mortality over a year allowed Balanus crenatus to become the dominant barnacle (Watson et al., 2005). Balanus crenatus and Austrominius modestus have shown recruitment differences which may alter the seasonal dominance patterns (Witte et al., 2010). In general, its overall effect on the dynamics of rocky shores has been small as Austrominius modestus has simply replaced some individuals of a group of co-occurring barnacles (Raffaelli & Hawkins, 1999). Although present, monitoring indicates it has not outnumbered native barnacles in the Isle of Cumbrae (Gallagher et al., 2015), it may dominate in estuaries where it is more tolerant of lower salinities than Semibalanus balanoides (Gomes-Filho, et al., 2010).\nTwo non-native spirorbids \u2013 Dexiospira oshoroensis and Pileolaria rosepigmentata - were found on the non-native algae Sargassum muticum in Portsmouth (Knight-Jones et al., 1975). Invasive tubeworms are reported from UK harbours (Thorp et al., 1986) and are likely to be well established in areas with large volumes of ship traffic.\nThe tunicates Didemnum vexillum and Asterocarpa humilis, the hydroid Schizoporella japonica and the bryozoan Watersipora subatra (Bishop, 2012c, Bishop, 2015a and b; Wood, 2015) are currently only recorded from artificial hard substratum in the UK and it is not clear what their established range and impacts in the UK would be. Didemnum vexillum occurs in tide pools in other areas where it has become established (Bishop, 2012c) and can have substantial effects on communities, similarly the tunicates Corella eumycota and Botrylloides violaceus can smother rock habitats (Bishop, 2011b and 2012b).\nSensitivity assessment. Overall, there is 'No evidence' of this biotope being adversely affected by non-native species. It should be noted that replacement of native barnacles and spirorbids by non-natives alters the identity of the species present but has little impact on biotope character and function.\nGochfeld et al. (2012) found that diseased sponges hosted significantly different bacterial assemblages compared to healthy sponges, with diseased sponges also exhibiting a significant decline in sponge mass and protein content. Sponge disease epidemics can have serious long-term effects on sponge populations, especially in long-lived, slow-growing species (Webster, 2007). Numerous sponge populations have been brought to the brink of extinction including cases in the Caribbean (with 70-95% disappearance of sponge specimens) (Galstoff,1942) and the Mediterranean (Vacelet,1994; Gaino et al.,1992). Decaying patches and white bacterial film were reported in Haliclona oculata and Halichondria panicea in North Wales, 1988-89 (Webster, 2007). Specimens of Cliona spp. exhibited blackened damage since 2013 in Skomer. Preliminary results have shown that clean, fouled and blackened Cliona all have very different bacterial communities. The blackened Cliona are effectively dead and have a bacterial community similar to marine sediments. The fouled Cliona have a very distinct bacterial community that may suggest a specific pathogen caused the effect (Burton, pers comm; Preston & Burton, 2015).\nThe charazing species Semibalanus balanoides are considered subject to persistent, low levels of infection by pathogens and parasites. Barnacles are parasitised by a variety of organisms and, in particular, the cryptoniscid isopod Hemioniscus balani, in which heavy infestation can cause castration of the barnacle. At usual levels of infestation, these are not considered to lead to high levels of mortality. The associated species Patella vulgata has been reported to be infected by the protozoan Urceolaria patellae (Brouardel, 1948) at sites sheltered from extreme wave action in Orkney. Baxter (1984) found shells to be infested with two boring organisms, the polychaete Polydora ciliate and a siliceous sponge Cliona celata.\nSensitivity assessment. Sponge diseases have caused limited mortality in some species in the British Isles, although mass mortality and even extinction have been reported further afield. However, \u2018No evidence\u2019 of mortality due to disease could be found for the the important characterizing species of this biotope.\nDirect, physical impacts from harvesting are assessed through the abrasion and penetration of the seabed pressures. The sensitivity assessment for this pressure considers any biological/ecological effects resulting from the removal of target species on this biotope. 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Removal of a large percentage of the characterizing species resulting in bare rock would alter the character of the biotope, species richness and ecosystem function. Resistance is, therefore, assessed as \u2018Low\u2019 and recovery as \u2018High\u2019, so that biotope sensitivity is assessed as 'Low\u2019.\nBarnes, H. & Barnes, M., 1965. Egg size, nauplius size, and their variation with local, geographical and specific factors in some common cirripedes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 34, 391-402.\nClarke, G.L., 1947. Poisoning and recovery in barnacles and mussels. Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 92, 73-91.\nGubbay, S., 1983. Compressive and adhesive strengths of a variety of British barnacles. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 63, 541-555.\nPurcell, J.E., 1977. Aggressive function and induced development of catch-tentacles in the sea anemone Metridium senile (Coelenterata: Actiniaria). Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole), 153, 355-368.\nRyland, J.S. & Hayward, P.J. 1977. British anascan bryozoans. London: Academic Press. Synopses of the British Fauna no. 10.\nWood, V. & Seed, R., 1992. Reproduction and growth of Alcyodinium hirsutum (Fleming) and Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius) (Bryozoa: Ctenostomata) within a Fucus serratus L. community. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 33, 347-363.\nReadman, J.A.J., Tillin, H.M., C.E. Marshall 2016. Faunal crusts on wave-surged littoral cave walls. In Tyler-Walters H. and Hiscock K. (eds) Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Reviews, [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 16-02-2019]. Available from: https://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitat/detail/373", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 939, "original_length": 147510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=104", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WTKIGUWD4YK7VWHEAFNDCVASISMHISSX", "length": 11282, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.martiauto.com", "title": "Marti Auto Works - Concourse Quality, Hobbyist Price '); //} } // Set up Year Change Event Handler cboYears.change(function() { var year = cboYears.val() * 1;\t// Convert from string value to # with * 1. var records = modeldata.records; var engine_file = \"\"; $(this).css('background-color',''); // Special case if year was reset if( year == 0 ) { cboModel.empty(); cboModel.prepend('Select Model'); cboModel[0].disabled = true; cboEngine.empty(); cboEngine[0].disabled = true; cboEngine.prepend('Select Engine'); return; } else { if ( year < 1960 || year > 1974 ) { //alert('disable engine'); cboEngine.hide(); lblEngine.hide(); }\telse { cboEngine.show(); lblEngine.show(); }\t}\t// Clear combo cboModel.empty(); // Only parse if year is valid between earliest & current year if( year >= earliest_year && year <= latest_year ) { $.each(records, function(index, record) { // Add the option if the selected year is between low & high model values // Array Translation: Record [0] = year lo, [1] = year high, [2] = model type, [3] = model description if( year >= record[0] && year <= record[1] ) cboModel.append('' + record[3] + ''); }); } // Add Select Model as 1st pull down choice if we have any items otherwise display No Models found if( $('#AUTO_Model > option').length > 0 ) { cboModel.prepend('Select Model'); cboModel.append('Other'); cboModel[0].disabled = false; } else { cboModel.append('No Models Found'); cboModel[0].disabled = true; } // Load Engine data via AJAX call enginedata = {}; engine_json_loaded = false; engine_file = \"Y\" + cboYears.val() + \".json?v190131\"; //alert(engine_file); $.getJSON(engine_path + engine_file, function( data ) { if( data !== null && typeof data === 'object' ) { engine_json_loaded = true; enginedata = data; // Manually trigger change event for Engine Combo - must come *after* we populate the control above cboModel.trigger(\"change\");\t} }); // Manually trigger change event for Engine Combo - must come *after* we populate the control above cboModel.trigger(\"change\"); }); // Set up Model Change Event Handler cboModel.change(function() { var model = $(this).val(); $(this).css('background-color',''); // Special case if year was reset if( model == \" \" ) { cboEngine.empty(); cboEngine[0].disabled = true; cboEngine.prepend('Select Engine'); return; }\t// Clear combo cboEngine.empty(); // Check for valid engine data if( enginedata !== null && typeof enginedata === 'object' ) { // Parse each engine type with it's corresponding object data for that engine type. $.each(enginedata, function(engine, engine_object) { var engine_descr = engine; // Parse each engine object with the model value & the array of models that can have that engine. $.each(engine_object, function(model_value, model_array) { // Engine's array of models must contain the one we want if( model_array.length==0 || model_array.indexOf(model) >= 0 ) { // Add the option cboEngine.append('' + engine_descr + ''); } }); }); } // Add Select Model as 1st pull down choice if we have any items otherwise display No Models found if( $('#engine > option').length > 0 ) { cboEngine.prepend('Select Engine'); cboEngine.append('Other'); cboEngine[0].disabled = false;\t} else { // Always allow for \"Other Choice\" cboEngine.prepend('Select Engine'); cboEngine.append('Other'); cboEngine[0].disabled = false;\t} }); $.urlParam = function (name) { var results = new RegExp('[\\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)').exec(window.location.search); return (results !== null) ? results[1] || 0 : false; } $(\"#addvehsubmit\").click(function() { //alert('ajax call to update cookies, update header with vehicle info.'); var vYear = $('#Auto_Year').val(); var vModel = $('#AUTO_Model option:selected').text(); var vModelType = $('#AUTO_Model option:selected').val(); var vEngine = $('#AUTO_Engine').val(); if (vYear=='') { $('#Auto_Year').css('background-color','#ffff80'); return; } if (vModelType=='') { $('#AUTO_Model').css('background-color','#ffff80'); return; } $.post(\"/ajax_selectvehicle.cfm\", { auto_year: vYear, auto_model: vModel, auto_engine: vEngine, model_type: vModelType}, function(data) { // Reload this div after the comments are updated var itemname = $.urlParam('item'); if (itemname =='') { window.location = window.location; } else { if (itemname.indexOf(\"TAG\") >= 0) { window.location = 'http://www.martiauto.com/tags.cfm'; } else if (itemname.indexOf(\"REP-\") >= 0) { window.location = 'http://www.martiauto.com/martireports.cfm'; } else { var referrer = document.referrer; var useReferrer = 0; if (referrer.indexOf('reproducedparts') >= 0) useReferrer = 1; if (referrer.indexOf('nosparts') >= 0) useReferrer = 1; if (referrer.indexOf('books') >= 0) useReferrer = 1; if (referrer.indexOf('originalinvoices') >= 0) useReferrer = 1; if (referrer.indexOf('windowsticker') >= 0) useReferrer = 1; if (useReferrer = 1) { window.location = referrer; } else { window.location = window.location; } } } //window.location = window.location = window.location.href.split(\"?\")[0]; }); }); });", "raw_content": "Vehicle Order Image: On the top of deluxe and elite reports is a series of numbers that repeat counting from 1 to 0 to form 80 to 160 columns depending on the model year. Below these numbers is the vehicle order image. It contains the data that was used to build your vehicle. This was based on an older computer punch card system where a punch card would contain 80 columns with rectangular holes punched across the cards in precise locations that could be scanned by a computer to translate them back into alphanumeric text. See http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=25 for a picture of a punch card and more explanation.\nEach column has a different meaning for different years. As an example, for the 1967 model year, the paint code is found in column 15 (and 16 if a tu-tone paint) and the radio code is found in column 58. The original ordering dealer is always found in columns 70-75. Note that the ordering dealer is not necessarily the selling dealer (see http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=17 for more information). Also, terms and descriptions are used on the reports that may not match word for word other terms on other documents. See http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=27 for more explanation on this.\nFord paint numbers, names, and codes: Ford paint numbers are the actual means by which Ford Motor Company orders paint. Paint codes and names change from year to year and make. As an example, there is a particular color that was used from 1967 to 1972. Depending on the year and make, it was referred to as Acapulco Blue, Nordic Blue, Bright Blue Metallic, and Medium Bright Blue Metallic. For the 1967 and 1968 model years, it had a paint code of D. In 1969, this was changed to 6, which continued throughout the 1970 and 1971 model years. For the 1972 model year, it was identified by paint code 3J. However, during this time, its paint mix formula was cataloged at Ford as paint number 3077.\nSpecial Paint: Special paint was available on most cars and trucks each model year. Because there were over 250 special colors available, Ford did not have the ability, within the confines of the system they had established, to create a code for each color. They, therefore, left the paint code blank both in the database and on the data plate that was attached to the vehicle. As such, when we prepare a report, the paint area of the report will display, \u201cSpecial Paint, Ford color unknown.\u201d It is possible for us to determine the special paint that was used on the vehicle if appropriate documentation is provided. This can include a buck tag that contains the paint number (not all buck tags have that info), a build sheet (the information is contained in the remarks section), or a paint sample that has been supplied. We do not guarantee that we will be able to add this information to the report and a report is considered to be complete with the \u201cSpecial Paint\u201d designation, but we will endeavor to provide the paint number if it is possible to do so.\nSerial Numbers: Ford serial numbers start with 100001. Lincoln and Mercury serial numbers start with 500001, 600001, or 800001 depending on make and year. For this reason, if you have, for example, a Mustang with serial number 100106, our report will list it as the 106th car scheduled for production.\nOrder Received (Order Date) This is the date an order was received by the Ford General Office from a dealer (or by a department within Ford if it was a company vehicle).\nCar serialized (Serialized Date) This is the date the General Office assigned the plant that would assemble the vehicle and gave a consecutive unit number to the vehicle.\nBucked (Buck Date) This is the date the first piece of sheet metal was welded to another piece of sheet metal to begin forming the buck (if you imagine unbolting everything possible from your vehicle, that which remains is the buck. Generally, on this date, the entire body is produced, appropriate holes are punched, and the body is primed and painted. See http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=56 for more info.\nScheduled for Build (Scheduled Date) At the time the General Office assigned the plant that would assemble the vehicle, it also projects a best estimate date that the vehicle would be constructed.\nActually Built (Build Date) Due to the fact events generally don\u2019t go as planned, the Scheduled Date was not necessarily the actual date of manufacture. The actual build date is the date the vehicle begins to be assembled on the Trim and Chassis line. Generally, the vehicle is completed on this date.\nReleased (Release Date) This is the date the assembly plant released the vehicle to either a Convoy (trucking) company or Rail (road) company for delivery to the dealer.\nSold (Sold Date) This is the date the first retail customer purchased the vehicle or the date the vehicle was paid for by one department at Ford to the Marketing Department if it was a car sold within Ford.\nAbout dates: Dates are manually input into the Ford database by Ford employees. We have no control over those dates. Generally, the dates form a logical pattern, but occasionally an obvious discrepancy occurs. For example, a vehicle may show a production date of January 2, 1968, but a release date of December 29, 1967. Logically, the vehicle could not have been released before it was manufactured. In a case like this, it could be simply someone having mistyped one of the dates. Another possibility, especially in the 60s and early 70s, is that someone at Ford wanted to make their month or year end report look better so they entered into the system that the vehicle was released even though it wasn\u2019t. Obviously, we have no way of knowing what the correct date would be.\nSome dates may appear to be mistypes. There are certain vehicles that, for example, have a scheduled build date like 65H, corresponding to August 65th. This is not an error. Rather, it was a system employed within Ford to keep track of certain types of vehicles, typically at the beginning of a model year. We have no further information about what the purpose of that tracking was.\nOn rare occasions, the month of manufacture listed on your report will be either one month earlier or one month later than the month listed on your VCL (vehicle certification label). This actually occurs when the department at Ford that produced the VCLs was either running ahead or behind schedule with the production of the VCLs. Because Ford Motor Company consisted of many large departments, it was not always possible for them to keep those departments in sync. Although technically the month of manufacture listed on the Marti Report is accurate and the label that is actually on your car is off one month and Ford considered the label \"close enough\" for government certification, we are allowed to reproduce the report and override the month of manufacture on the report to match your vehicle. Just return the report with picture proof of your original VCL. Keep in mind, the date listed for manufacture on the Marti Report is the true date of manufacture and you should use it when making restoration decisions.\nOccasionally, one or more of the fields in the \"IMPORTANT DATES\" box is/are blank. This is because Ford did not record that info and we have no further information.\nOrder Type Ford Motor Company builds vehicles for different purposes and different customers. In fact, there are over twenty different classifications of order types. Some of the more common are:\nRetail \u2013 an individual comes to a dealership and orders an as yet unbuilt vehicle\nStock \u2013 a dealer orders a vehicle to have available for display at his/her location\nBasic \u2013 Ford has excess capacity on an assembly line and produces vehicles to keep the plant busy\nFleet \u2013 a company that orders five or more vehicles yearly qualifies for price breaks on these vehicles\nSpecial Purpose Vehicle \u2013 a vehicle built by Ford for what the name implies\nIntroductory Show Unit \u2013 a vehicle built to demonstrate a new model. Generally this vehicle is shipped to be on display at some large public gathering\nA-Plan \u2013 vehicles built for current Ford employees and sold at a discounted price\nZ-Plan \u2013 vehicles built for retired Ford employees and sold at a discounted price\nLease \u2013 vehicles leased by Ford to an individual or a company\nDSO Item # See http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=24\nStatistics Box \u2013 the statistics box provides five individual statistics that apply to your particular year and body type. The statistics are not linked to each other; they represent five separate statistics. As an example, if a 1969 Mustang report shows 17,051 with this paint code and 5,194 with these engine/transmission codes, each statistic stands separately. The 5,194 with these engine transmission codes is not a subset of the 17,051 with this paint code. Further, if in this example it says at the bottom of the statistics box \u201cfor the 1969 Mustang Sportsroof\u201d it includes all sportsroofs for that year including Mach Is because Mach Is did not have a separate body type that year. However, if all of the above appeared on a 1970 report, it would not include Mach Is because that year Mach Is had their one separate body type. DSO in this section of the report stands for District Sales Office, a region of the country that had responsibility for collecting orders from the dealers of that region. The DSO statistic represents how many of the particular body type were sold in that district that model year. The option statistic is chosen on the basis of what is most significant for that particular carline and body type for that model year amongst the options that vehicle was produced with. Certain statistics are not computable because of the methodology Ford employed for counting options. For this reason, you may not see the statistic you would like in the report. We do offer a research service and oftentime a statistic you are interested in can be generated manually by using this service. See https://www.martiauto.com/secure/stats.cfm for more info.\nOptions - Regular production options are listed in this section. Please note this list includes those items defined as options per Ford Motor Company. They do not include dealer-installed items or items that are standard with certain types of cars (e.g. a 1969 Mustang ordered with the Mach I package received a console as standard equipment, therefore it will not be listed as an option even though other 1969 Mustangs could be ordered with the optional console). The list does not include Special Order equipment. The names used for options may differ between the report and other documents such as window stickers. This is because different departments at Ford used their own \"languages.\" Sometimes these are subtle differences such as the spelling of a word like \"molding\" or \"moulding\" and \"gray\" or \"grey.\" An example of greater variation would be the use of the term \"Handling Suspension\" versus \"Cross Country Ride Package.\" Both refer to the same option. The terminology reflected on the report is as reported to the Data Processing department at Ford, which is what we utilize. There is no such thing as a \"correct\" term any more than a person is more correct to use the term \"faucet\" for \"spigot\" or \"tap.\" See http://www.martiauto.com/faqfocus.cfm?qid=27", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 17344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maryscullyreports.com/2018/11/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:65ER76X37ZPL2VE2RHC3SNWUH4NA6ZWL", "length": 13974, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.maryscullyreports.com", "title": "November | 2018 | Mary Scully Reports | Page 3", "raw_content": "Scottish actor Gerard Butler recently made his fifth visit to Israel, this time to attend the premiere of his film \u201cHunter Killer\u201d which opened October 26th. When in Israel, Butler was asked if he had been pressured by BDS activists to honor the cultural boycott or if he found it harder because of BDS to be pro-Israel. He answered, \u201cAll I know is I love Israel & I love coming here & I never worry for a pro or negative view on anything.\u201d In speaking to Israeli media, he said \u201cI always love being here. One day I\u2019ll come here for vacation & just stay until I\u2019m called elsewhere. I\u2019ll ask someone to burn my house down in Los Angeles so I won\u2019t have anywhere to go back to & I won\u2019t have any choice but to stay in Israel.\u201d\nButler\u2019s love affair with Israel may have more to do with feathering his own nest than any ideological commitment to apartheid. That\u2019s where being an opportunist dirtball takes you. Turns out Avi Lerner, the producer of \u201cHunter Killer\u201d, is an Israeli with whom Butler has made five other films. The film\u2019s distribution company, Summit Entertainment, is owned by Arnon Milchan, an Israeli billionaire & film producer. who was once an Israeli secret agent. In that capacity, by his own admission, he was an arms dealer operating 30 companies in 17 countries & brokering deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars for Israel. Shimon Peres, who was Israel\u2019s president from 2007 to 2014 & architect of Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons program in the 1960s, recruited Milchan as a nuclear agent. Milchan admitted to promoting the apartheid regime in South Africa in exchange for it helping Israel obtain uranium for its nuclear program. This is the company Butler keeps.\nBut in one of those be careful what you wish for\u2013especially if you\u2019re a dirtball\u2013moments, Butler\u2019s Los Angeles home burned to the ground a few weeks after his Israeli trip & just days after he was promoting & raising money for the occupying Israeli army enforcing apartheid & carrying out genocide against Palestinians. Couldn\u2019t happen to a nastier piece of work. Anyone who would put his career as a second-rate actor over the human rights of the Palestinian people deserves a little bad karma in his life. That bad karma would mean including his movies in the cultural boycott of Israel.\nPhoto is one of umpteen photos Butler has taken over the years with Netanyahu & his loathsome family.\nLast night, I watched a movie about the Jewish holocaust. It was a love story in the time of genocide & not a very good movie but it gave a small glimpse into the horrors of the holocaust. Denouncing the treacheries of Zionism can lead one to being callous about the pogroms & persecution of Jews & the holocaust & that is a very serious mistake. I\u2019m reposting this from April 2014, just a few months before the seven-week Israeli bombing assault on Gaza. Zionism & Israeli apartheid & genocide cannot be justified by the holocaust. But we always need to sharply distinguish Zionism from the hatred of Jews which has led to such monstrous savagery. Based in supremacy, Zionism tries to separate Jews from the rest of humanity. We honor them as our own, as brothers & sisters in the struggle for a world free of such violence & hatred.\nZionism & its supporters have controlled the history of the holocaust under the Third Reich of Hitler & the Nazi party. They have done so in a way to maximize guilt & mystify the political & economic causes for such unspeakable horrors against millions of Jews.\nMost importantly in their distortions, they have separated the holocaust of Jews from that of Roma, the disabled, & millions of others exterminated by the Nazi regime & in a grotesque & racist caricature of history, they proclaim over & over again that the Jewish holocaust was the worst genocide in all of human history. Millions of Native Americans throughout the western hemisphere, millions of Africans caught in the Atlantic slave trade, millions of Pacific Islanders & Asians caught in the tentacles of imperialism & colonialism going back centuries are simply brushed aside in the Zionist distortion of history.\nMany Zionists are making quite a living out of what Norman Finkelstein calls \u201cshoah business.\u201d But the main purpose of this historic deceit & guilt-baiting is to justify forcibly wresting Palestinan lands, violently terrorizing millions into exile, & making Israel an exception to all of the achievements of civilized society.\nNevertheless, six million Jews did perish in monstrous ways. While Zionism is a contemptible ideology, those six million people are not responsible for that. The holocaust is a monumental human tragedy that should be commemorated\u2013not based on a false history but on a recognition that they were our own & that \u201can injury to one is an injury to all\u201d of humanity. That is not a trite sentiment because it requires a commitment to come to grips with the true causes of the holocaust in order to honor those who died.\nIsrael is not a solution to pogroms & holocausts; it is Zionism reproducing in Israel the political matrix & methods of the Third Reich.\nWe should stop a moment or more to remember the six million Jews, the Roma, the disabled, & the millions exterminated by imperialism & colonialism since its ignominious inception. We should bow our heads to their memory & commit ourselves to creating a world where such savagery cannot exist.\n(Photo of Jewish children in concentration camp by unidentified photographer)\nAm I the only one who has a hard time with those \u2018the masses are stupid\u2019 discussions? I thought we\u2019d left all those sheeple-damners behind but more likely they\u2019re among those dispatched to Facebook blockland.\nOne of Trump\u2019s first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom award yesterday was 73-year-old Miriam Adelson, the wife of 84-year-old Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul & arch-Zionist who with Haim Saban plays a leading role in promoting Israel & Zionism in the US. Miriam, who married Sheldon in 1991, is not just a trophy wife but an Israeli-trained doctor specializing in chemical addiction\u2013& an arch-Zionist in her own right. She has used the casino wealth to build addiction treatment facilities in Las Vegas & in Israel.\nMiriam was born in Palestine before the formation of Israel & Sheldon was born in Boston. They met when she came to the US for training in addiction medicine at Rockefeller University, NYC. What cemented their relationship was mutual rabid Zionism & realization that they could use gambling profits to impact US politics regarding Israel. Though their politics are considered even more right wing than AIPAC, they are among its largest donors. They also bankroll Republican congressional tours to Israel & countless Zionist organizations & initiatives in the US. The Adelsons, along with Haim Saban, are primary sponsors of Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, a Zionist group that just raised over $60 million in Hollywood for the Israeli army carrying out genocide against Palestinians. Both, under their individual names, contribute millions to Republican candidates & super PACs. In the 2012 election, she was the largest female donor to Republicans, contributing more than twice as much as those of the next top 15 women donors combined. In that election, Politico reported a total of $46 million from her & $50 million from him. Since his worth of over $33 billion makes him one of the richest men in the US & in the world, they can afford to buy a lot of candidates & influence a lot of elections\u2013including, or especially, Trump. Sheldon Adelson gave $25 million to a Trump super Pac & $5 million for the inauguration. There is no report if Miriam gave individually to either.\nAs rabid Zionists, the Adelsons care about only one issue & that is Israel. Whatever else Republican candidates who they bankroll stand for is of no concern to them. Sheldon has called Palestinians \u201can invented people\u201d whose sole purpose is to destroy Israel & opposes any peace negotiations that would get in the way of a one-state annexation of all of Palestine. As the publishers of Israel Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu newspaper in Israel, they are supporters of apartheid & genocide & of course endorsed Trump for US president.\nMiriam, with her troll-like husband beaming proudly in the audience, was given this worthless honorific because money can buy US politicians. But it must be emphasized that US policy toward Israel is not determined but only facilitated by these billionaire Zionists. The primary factor in US policy toward Israel is as a stronghold for US economic & political policies in the entire Middle East.\n(Photo of Adelson receiving Medal of Freedom by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)\nOthers may not appreciate my posts about Betty Windsor & the British moochocracy because they consider them mean. Is there a problem with that when we\u2019re still trying to undo the damage from centuries of British colonialism? Feudalism is rooted in the moronic belief that some are born superior & the rest of us inferior. Posting against moochocracy is my small way of spitting in the eye of such delusions.\nCharlie Windsor, who had his 68th birthday on Monday, may be the only feudal mooch that merits pity. He doesn\u2019t have the horse track for distraction like Betty & Camilla & isn\u2019t a flatulent halfwit like his father Phil.\nIf you\u2019re going to be born to a life of indolence, stupid is an asset\u2013the shallow depths of which have been plumbed over & over again, if not pioneered, by the Windsor clan. They cannot be blamed entirely for that since stupid seems to be the historic hallmark of feudal social relations. All that blue blood crap rots the brain.\nOur man Charlie seemed to have more going for him. There was real promise & if his personal valet had ever taught him how to brush his own teeth or wipe his own butt he might well have developed beyond hapless.\nCharlie\u2019s post as \u201cPrince of Wales\u201d comes with the motto \u201cIch dien\u201d (German for \u201cI serve\u201d). Why it\u2019s in German & why a guy who\u2019s waited on hand & foot would have such a motto is anybody\u2019s guess. If you research it, you\u2019re a damn fool. But you will find out it has to do with ostrich feathers, jousting, & other tomfooleries of feudalism still extant centuries beyond its historical usefulness. Didn\u2019t Karl Marx talk about that somewhere?\nRecently we heard he & Camilla had pulled off a palace coup in Buckingham & exiled Betty & Phil. That may be one of those fake news stories that FB & Google are so worried about. That\u2019s why you could only learn it in the checkout line at the supermarket.\nHere Charlie is confronted with a teddy bear. Betty never allowed the poor boy toys. Instead she gave him military medals for battles he never fought in so he\u2019s entirely nonplussed as to whether it\u2019s real or not. Why won\u2019t the damn thing talk back to him & call him \u201cyour royal highness\u201d like all his other minions?\n(Photo from Getty)\nNewsy is reporting dissension among members of the Central American refugee caravan. Of course there is. What\u2019s the big deal? The refugees are under tremendous pressure, including from the Mexican government. They\u2019re exhausted & scared & worried for their kids since Trump has amassed 15,000 troops on the border threatening to shoot them. The problem of dissension isn\u2019t just some kind of national conflict between Hondurans, Guatemalans, & El Salvadorans, as Newsy reported, but because it\u2019s an ad hoc formation being threatened by the US, thwarted by Mexico, & only helped by Mexican working people who are themselves under military occupation by the Mexican army & drug cartels. A lot of any dissension will evaporate if they are offered busses to carry them north, encampments to protect them when they reach the border, & protesters to stand with them demanding \u2018Open the damn borders. Immigration is a human right.\u2019\nPhoto is a Honduran man protecting his child against Mexican soldiers trying to prevent them from crossing into Mexico, Oct. 19, 2018.\nYou\u2019ll love this brief video of anti-Zionist Israeli activists marching to the apartheid fence with Gaza to meet with Great Return March organizer Ahmed Abu Artema & express solidarity with Palestinians.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/schwarczenberg/videos/vb.202358256550543/335538063904065/?type=2&theater\nIs Oprah still trying to form a cult of personality around Michelle Obama? Apparently successfully, since hundreds are paying big bucks to hear her shill her new book whilst other authors beg attendance. A tender moment here with the architect of the Iraq war & a marriage with the architect of intervention in Syria & Yemen & continuance in Afghanistan, Iraq, & Libya. This is called \u2018working across the aisles\u2019 in US politics where there is no meaningful difference between the two parties.\n(Photo from AP, September 2017)\nList of Rohingya demands sent to Aung San Suu Kyi:\n1) Our ethnic identity \u201cRohingya\u201d must be recognised as an official ethnic group as before 1970s.\n2) Our return to our homeland in Rakhine State must be protected by international observers.\n3) International protection must be placed in our homeland before we return.\n4) Our houses in original villages must be rebuilt before we return.\n5) We seek compensation and reparations for lives lost, injuries inflicted and harm caused. 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Additionally, you will also be able to personalize a couple more things like the pocket style, belt loops, thread and button colors.\nCustom made jeans for either men or women are priced at a very affordable $65. If you are not in the mood to do your own designing, you also have the option to buy pre-designed jeans displayed on the site. These are all designed quite stylishly but they do cost a little more, with a price tag of $125 a pair for the jeans. They also have shorts priced from $95 \u2013 $105.\nZ2Jeans Co. ships worldwide via FedEx and DHL. You will be happy to know that shipping is free worldwide. Production time for custom made jeans is from 2 to 3 weeks and shipping can take around 3 to 7 days. So, give it around 4 weeks in total before it reaches your door.\nThey offer an \u201cabsolute satisfaction\u201d guarantee but will only accept returns if they accidentally make a measuring error and the fit turn out to be wrong. 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Additionally, you will also find designing very easy because the site provides plenty tips and information during the designing process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 5719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/gallery/pretty-little-lies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OFNPLCJMVLQ7QPP2LAABB4US2U2PAG3B", "length": 29369, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "www.mattpaynephotography.com", "title": "Pretty Little Lies - February 5, 2018 | Matt Payne Photography Blog | Fine Art & Nature Photography Prints | Matt Payne Photography", "raw_content": "Sony Gear Selection Tool\nOn Digital Manipulation\nMatt Payne Photography Blog: Pretty Little Lies - February 5, 2018\nA treatise on landscape photography's dark side\nThe process of having thoughtful conversations with landscape photographers from all over the world on my podcast has really made an impact on my own thoughts and beliefs relating to all sorts of landscape photography topics. The topic that constantly causes me the most inner turmoil, the most mental energy, and the most controversy online is the topic of artistic composites and unrealistic post-processing. As a formerly avid practitioner of both (guilty as charged), I felt that I needed to explore the topic deeply. I am by no means trying to draw a firm line in the sand, rather, as a member of this community we call landscape photography, I felt it would be healthy to really dive deep into the topic to let people form their own opinions based on things I hope to bring into light. Lastly, I am certainly not jealous at all of the success found by those that employ these tactics, I just feel that a conversation about these tactics is necessary. If you disagree with that basic premise, then this article is likely not for you.\nLandscape photography has had an interesting and arduous journey as an art-form, having been wholly rejected as an art-form for a very long time. Indeed, according to Wikiversity.org, at the beginning of 1862, an article published in the Photographic Journal, by an unknown author, summed up the discussions over photography as art, stating: \"the question is not whether photography is fine art per se - neither painting nor sculpture can make that claim - but whether it is capable of artistic expression; whether in the hands of a true artists its productions become works of art.\" A French naturalist, Louis Figuier, also made an accurate observation in regards to photography and fine arts: \"Until now, the artist has had the brush, the pencil and the burin; now, in addition, he has the photographic lens. The lens is an instrument like the pencil and the brush, and photography is a process like engraving and drawing, for what makes an artist is not the process but the feeling.\"\nFast forward to 2018 and beyond and the computer and Photoshop have become natural extensions of the camera and lens. In fact, almost all landscape photographers today employ the method of photographing in RAW format and adding contrast, color, white balance, saturation, and sharpening on the computer. This allows for the greatest amount of artistic freedom and allows photographers to have a tremendous amount of control over the flaws in their equipment and methodologies. Of course, the inevitable arguments arise among photographers and the public regarding the authenticity of an image and cries of \"Photoshopping\" are heard 'round the world. In fact, I can think of only one other art-form (music) where the \"authenticity\" of the art is even questioned. In music, the purists argue that any use of technology such as auto-tuning, re-recording loops, etc. is cheating the art-form. I see many parallels between music and photography in that regard.\nMy friend Zachary Bright put it best when he stated:\nHowever, a potentially disturbing trend has emerged and become quite popular, especially on social media - not only are landscape photographers using Photoshop to control contrast, white balance, saturation, and sharpening, they are also using it to: add in objects that were not in the photograph such as a person, meteors, the moon, a mountain, or the Milky Way core; add objects that are literally not even possible to be seen in the scene depicted such as galactic objects, the moon, and the Milky Way core; or, to grossly exaggerate the size of certain objects such as mountains, lakes, rivers, people, etc. On the surface, it seems that certain landscape photographers have become so desperate for a sliver of social media attention in a suddenly over-crowded field that they are incapable of restraint. Or, it's just art, let it be. Which one?\nThe question I wish to pose and attempt to answer is: \"Is it acceptable to employ these controversial post-processing methodologies, and does it even matter?\"\nThis article is meant to be a deep exploration into that question as I believe that this is a topic worthy of deep analysis and thoughtful examination.\nThe forms of Unrealism\nTo start with, let us consider the different forms of \"unrealistic\" post-processing that exist today. I thought I would use some of my own photography to demonstrate how this works.\nFirst, let's examine what I like to call the \"post-processing\" continuum. This is meant mostly as a guide of showing extremes and everything in between, with white representing purist perspective (no editing what-so-ever) and black representing the other extreme (swapping in skies, adding Milky Ways, making the moon bigger, etc). Everything else is in \"the gray zone.\" The placement of each form of unrealistic post-processing was purely subjective on my part, but I think it is a fair portrayal. Where you stand on what is acceptable or not is up to you; however, later in the article, I pose some arguments that may make you think twice.\n1. Purists\nPurists represent a relatively small number of landscape photographers that are either shooting film or are shooting .JPG format and don't realize that their camera is applying an algorithm of variables including saturation, contrast, white balance, and sharpening and is post-processing on their behalf. We won't spend time arguing the merits of shooting .JPG vs. RAW here, but if you need a primer, this one is good.\n2. Overcoming Technology to show what was actually there (exposure blending, luminosity masking, and focus stacking)\nThese methods are quite common in landscape photography today. While cameras and lenses are getting better and better, it is sometimes still necessary to blend multiple exposures to bring out all of the details in both the shadows and highlights or to overcome other things like diffraction. One such extreme example of this can be seen in one of my personal favorite images:\nIn order to bring out the extreme details of the Milky Way, I shot the stars at ISO 10,000 for 10 seconds. This introduced a tremendous amount of noise to the foreground. In order to compensate, I shot a second exposure of the foreground at ISO 1600 for 243 seconds with Noise Reduction turned on. I then blended them together. The Milky Way was really there at that time and the mountains were really there at that time. The RAW files are below.\n3. Same scene, different times of day\nThis is more common with night photographers, but essentially the idea is to capture a photograph of a scene closer to sunset or sunrise to allow for lower ISO images with subsequent reduced noise which are then blended into the same scene at a different time of day from the same perspective. This is also referred to as a blue hour blend. Many very famous and well-respected night photographers, including Michael Bollino, Joshua Snow, and Mike Taylor use this technique on a regular basis. One such example from my own gallery is this image of the Milky Way over Mexican Hat. I shot a panorama of the scene at blue hour and then another panorama of the same exact scene (in fact, my tripod never moved) later in the night when the Milky Way was in position.\n4. Focal Length blending\nThis is a relatively new technique which I dabbled in back in 2015. I am not even sure if others were doing it, but I got a creative idea in the field and executed it later using Photoshop. Essentially, the idea is to blend a scene shot from the exact same spot using two focal lengths (usually wide and telephoto). Wide angle lenses make distant objects look really small and closer objects large, whereas telephoto lenses make distant objects look closer. I took one photo of the flowers in the foreground at 14mm (very wide) and another of Mount Hood at 200mm. I then blended the two to look like they were taken at the same time in the same shot.\n5. Same scene, different day\nThe idea here is that two images are blended together to show what a scene would look like at a different time of year or if there actually were nice clouds, etc. This is a very common practice among some landscape photographers, known as \"sky swapping.\" In fact, the scene can be made even more fantasy-like by blending focal lengths AND skies, such as the example below, which is sadly one of my best selling images.\n6. Warping objects to make them look bigger\nIn this type of post-processing, you have some of the most egregious examples of post-processing. Moons are doubled, tripled, quadrupled in size. Mountains are made to look bigger by stretching them. The most classic use of this technique is the presentation of a full moon or a lunar eclipse in a wide angle shot with the moon enlarged. F-Stoppers recently posted an article about Peter Lik's recent moon image that pretty much confirmed that it was a total fake. A clear giveaway here is usually atmospheric refraction (or rather, the lack thereof). Additionally, with sharp lunar photographs, the edge of the moon should appear bumpy due to mountains and craters. Here's an example of a real moon photo I shot several years ago with a 300mm lens with a 1.4 teleconverter attached. I was accused of the image being fake. The only \"size\" enhancement I did was to crop the image. Here are the images (exported from RAW). Notice the atmospheric refraction which makes the moon look a little oblong.\n7. Totally different scenes blended and the scene is impossible to exist naturally\nPerhaps the most controversial use of unreal post-processing is the practice of blending two scenes into one photograph that could never exist. For example, a photographer captures an incredibly sharp image of the Milky Way at various elevations over the course of one night using a star tracker and voil\u00e0 - you now have a few base layers of the Milky Way that you can re-use over and over again in any given scene, even if the Milky Way is never actually visible over your chosen foreground. There are several well-known photographers that employ this methodology to great success. The give-away to the un-informed bystander is when a person's images of the night sky all start to the look the same, when objects such as clouds, airglow, or light pollution all look the same in every image. I personally had the opportunity to use a star tracker this year and it is a very amazing device. Basically, the device follows the rotation of the earth to allow for much lower ISO shots with longer exposures of the night sky, creating crystal clear images. Below you can see a completely unedited .RAW export of an image I was able to get with it.\n8. Adding objects that were not there\nThis is highly related to #7 above. The most common things I've seen done are: adding a moon where a moon was never at; adding meteors to images where a meteor never fell; adding people to images where people never were; adding deep sky astrophotography objects to scenes where they would never even be visible (OK let's admit it, they are only visible using deep-sky equipment and never combined with a foreground); adding sources of light where no sources of light existed, etc. I don't have many examples of this in my own work because I gave it up a long time ago; however, here is one example from Oregon where I added in a moon where the moon never was. Also, I'm not super proud of the processing. Yeesh!\nNow that we have established what we are talking about, let's move on to some analysis on what the ramifications, if any, are in using these techniques.\nRamifications of artistic composites and unreal post-processing\nFor this section, I am going to take four separate approaches to describe what I believe to be the ramifications of the uses of these techniques.\n1. Landscape Photography as an Economy of Trust\nYou'll need to bear with me on this one, but I think there are strong correlations with basic economics and landscape photography as a consumed media. Just think about it for a minute - photographs are consumed, they are purchased, they are licensed, they sell people on an idea that a place exists and that nature is amazing. In that vein, I posit that landscape photography is an economy based on trust. When people see an image of a location, they are sold on the idea that if they also go to that location, they will have the opportunity to see what the photographer saw, or at least a reasonable facsimile of it. By presenting images that are literally impossible to exist, trust in that idea is completely eroded. The ramifications are not only individual but also global - all landscape photographers suffer. Indeed, if we believe that pursuit of these techniques is in any way an adoption of a policy, then we must consider how those policies will impact the craft of landscape photography. In his classic 1946 book, Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains: \"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.\" Meaning, short-term personal gain may have consequences on other landscape photographers later.\nIn my opinion, when some of the techniques are employed (especially #7 and #8 above), it is no longer about showing the world how beautiful the natural world is, it's about creating an increasingly dramatic image every single time with total disregard for the implications of doing so. If you're compositing an image and you pass your photograph off as real, you're trading in people's future belief in landscape photography as a medium, you're eroding that economy based on trust. You're creating something that was more amazing than what existed, and in the future, people will look at a photograph and say, \"maybe that's real, maybe not.\" In the below example, the mountains and sunset were very real; however, I used a technique by which I flipped the image and created a mirror to make it look like a reflection. I then added rocks from another foreground to make it look more real. Is it pretty? Sure. Is it real? No. Guess what question people asked the most? Where's that lake!?\nThere are plenty of photographers trying to naturally represent the landscape. I posit that post-processing techniques #2 and #3 above all fall into this category, more or less. There are landscape photographers busting their ass to get a photograph, including: doing research on locations, watching the weather, spending hundreds of hours driving, spending countless days and nights at a location to capture something special, being in the right place at the right time, and of course, using their equipment correctly. With some of these post-processing techniques, you literally can eliminate almost all of the hard work involved and short-cut the entire process to create fantasy-like photographs of places and times that never really occurred. The result is a diversion of demand to fake, hyper-real imagery away from authentic imagery. Since demand for landscape photography as a consumable medium is finite, this unfairly diverts sales, accolades, awards, customers, and work away from those photographers working hard to those willing to take short-cuts and trick consumers into believing a false reality. Simply put, the easier something is produced, the greater the supply. The greater the supply, the lower the profit from existing demand.\nTo further illustrate this point, I hope to present an analogy which can be especially poignant for any sports fans. In sports, there is the problem of athletes that use performance enhancing drugs such as Human Growth Hormone, Steroids, or other doping schemes. The impact of these drugs is that it artificially enhances that athlete's ability to perform at their given sport. In baseball it was home-runs for Barry Bonds. In cycling, it was faster times for Lance Armstrong. The effect on the ecosystem was that in order to compete, one needed to also use these drugs. Consumers (fans) of the sport came to expect more and more out of the athletes until they were exposed for their behavior. In my opinion, it is no different in landscape photography.\nThe below photo is an example of what is really possible. Through planning and scouting, I placed myself in the ideal location to capture the Milky Way directly above Cape Kiwanda at 1 AM in August. Someone employing tactics 7 and 8 could just go take a shot of this place during the day and then swap in a Milky Way above it and call it good. That's highway robbery, sir!\n3. Demoralization of other photographers\nAnother case I'll make to demonstrate the ramifications of the use of some of these techniques is flat out demoralization of other photographers. Photographers spending countless hours in the field to try to get an authentic image are greatly discouraged when an up-and-comer re-creates or completely blows away their vision with a few clicks of the mouse in Photoshop (OK, it's a little more complicated than that, but a $75 tutorial or a few hours on YouTube will teach you everything you need to know about composites). I've heard a lot of photographers (including myself) say that to avoid this phenomenon, you should just focus on your own work and not worry about what other people do; however, that is a really hard pill to swallow when you put in the hard work to create an image that was completely authentic (with no print sales) only to see someone else create something totally over-the-top and receive viral attention and sales. This is particularly painful when the fantasy-like image is obviously impossible. For example, in the recent blood moon event, the moon set in the West at dawn, yet I saw images of the moon set in the Eastern sky with sunrise light under it.\nMaybe this fits the definition of jealousy, I don't know: \"resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success of advantage itself.\"\nI personally feel like it is not jealousy because I don't want to be known for creating images that are unreal. That's too easy.\nI know I'm not alone - I know of one very famous photographer in particular that has given up photography altogether because of this phenomenon.\nSingle exposure of the recent lunar eclipse over Shiprock. ISO 1600, f/7.1, 138mm, 4s - totally real!\n4. Landscape Photography as a vehicle for conservation\nI\u2019m a strong believer that landscape photography can and should be used as a vehicle for good in the realm of conservation. This is perhaps the most damaging ramification of all for using unrealistic post-processing techniques- the general public can no longer trust that a photograph actually represents a location that needs to be conserved; in fact, the more prevalent these types of images become, the less people will actually care - just go Photoshop in what it should still look like. Who needs reality? This type of processing directly undermines the effect that landscape photography can have for good. Additionally, when one employs extreme post-processing methods (#7 and 8 especially), I posit that they don't have a real connection to that landscape - a necessary component if one is to fully and truly use their art as a medium for conservation.\nPossible motivations and why this occurs to begin with\nI've talked to a lot of photographers about this and have done some deep introspection regarding my own personal motivations relating to post-processing, especially using techniques #4-8. For myself, my motivations were two-fold:\n1. It was a creative outlet and something to try for fun\n2. I genuinely wanted a way to get my photography noticed more frequently by consumers with the end game being increased print sales and prestige among my peers (there, I admit it)\nI've heard over and over again from people regularly using techniques #6, #7, and #8 that they only do it because they want to create artwork and share it with the world. In fact, they claim to have no financial stake in their behavior at all (regardless of the fact that they sell online tutorials and teach workshops relating to their techniques).\nWhat can behavioral science tell us about this phenomenon? Quite a lot actually.\n1. Social comparison and dishonesty - why people cheat\nIn order for this explanation to work, I need to convince you that landscape photography could be seen as a competition, despite what many of my podcast guests have suggested. Given my economical arguments above, I think that it makes perfect sense to state that landscape photography can be seen as a competition. Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit. Unless you're not monetizing your photography, giving your art away for free, and teaching workshops for free, your actions as a landscape photographer land you squarely within this definition whether you care to admit it or not.\nSocial psychological experiments have demonstrated that when people succeed in competition against others, it seems to compromise their ethics. It makes them more likely to cheat afterwards. Winning a competition engenders subsequent unrelated unethical behavior. The studies revealed that after a competition has taken place, winners behave more dishonestly than competition losers. The studies also demonstrated that winning a competition increases the likelihood of winners to steal money from their counterparts in a subsequent unrelated task. Additionally, the studies demonstrated that the effect holds only when winning means performing better than others (i.e., determined in reference to others) but not when success is determined by chance or in reference to a personal goal. Finally, the studies demonstrated that a possible mechanism underlying the effect is an enhanced sense of entitlement among competition winners.\nAccording to Amos Schurr, the study's author and professor of psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, \"People who win competitions feel more entitled, and that feeling of entitlement is what predicts dishonesty.\" In the words of the Roberto Ferdman, the author of the article from the Washington Post about the study, \"In other words, when people win against others, they tend to think they're better, or more deserving. And that thinking helps them justify cheating, since, after all, they're the rightful heir to whatever throne is next \u2014 If I'm better than you, I might as well make sure I win, because I deserve to anyway.\"\nThis photograph of mine is totally real and employed absolutely no Photoshop techniques. How can you tell? It's pretty dull (haha).\n2. Moral Disengagement\nTapping deeper into social psychology, we discover the concept of moral disengagement. I strongly believe that moral disengagement helps to explain all sorts of disturbing behavior we encounter as landscape photographers, including destruction of sensitive locations, buying followers on Instagram, and more. For this article; however, I will attempt to use it to describe the behavior of using post-processing techniques to create an image that otherwise would be impossible to create.\nAccording to psychologyconcepts.com, moral disengagement is \"a term used to describe the process by which an individual convinces himself that ethical standards do not apply to him within a particular situation or context. Moral Disengagement can be further broken down into four categories: reconstructing immoral conduct, diffusing responsibility, dehumanizing the victim, and misrepresenting injurious consequences.\" For the purposes of this article, we will only refer to the reconstructing immoral conduct and misrepresenting injurious consequences.\n\"Reconstructing conduct is a method of moral disengagement in which the actor depicts an otherwise morally reprehensible behavior as having some sort of moral purpose. In this way he convinces himself that the behavior is now acceptable.\" Time and time again I have heard photographers say that what they are doing is creating art for the world to enjoy, inspiring others to do the same. It is like they all practiced this line and regurgitate it whenever they're confronted with the truth. So, I guess as long as their work is considered \"art\" and \"inspires others\" it is totally acceptable? Following the concept of moral disengagement, this response completely makes sense.\n\"Misrepresenting injurious consequences is a method of moral disengagement in which the actor attempts to avoid admitting to himself that his conduct is wrong by ignoring personal reflection on what the negative consequences of his behavior might be.\" I personally think this one hits home for so many photographers, yet many are afraid to admit it, or they are simply unaware of the consequences of their behavior (which we've covered at length above). I think this is also highly related to the next social psychological concept that is related - cognitive dissonance.\n3. Cognitive Dissonance\nOf all the social psychological concepts, this one perhaps has the most application to this topic. According to Simply Psychology, \"cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance, etc.\nFor example, when people smoke (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition).\nCognitive dissonance theory suggests that we have an inner drive to hold all our attitudes and beliefs in harmony and avoid disharmony (or dissonance). This is known as the principle of cognitive consistency.\nLet's explore this further. The conflicting beliefs are: \"Unrealistic post-processing is fine, I'm creating art, it has no impact on anyone, or, anything else,\" and, \"Unrealistic post-processing is cheating, even though it looks amazing, it's not authentic and it is lying to my audience.\" That's pretty discomforting trying to hold both of those beliefs at the same time!\nAccording to cognitive dissonance theory, there is a tendency for individuals to seek consistency among their cognitions (i.e., beliefs, opinions). When there is an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviors (dissonance), something must change to eliminate the dissonance.\nDissonance can be reduced in one of three ways:\n1. Change one or more of the attitudes, behavior, beliefs, etc., to make the relationship between the two elements a consonant one.\nWhen one of the dissonant elements is a behavior, the individual can change or eliminate the behavior. However, this mode of dissonance reduction frequently presents problems for people, as it is often difficult for people to change well-learned behavioral responses (e.g., using unrealistic post-processing techniques to showcase your artwork).\n2. Acquire new information that outweighs the dissonant beliefs (hey maybe that's why you're here to begin with).\nFor example, thinking unrealistic post-processing is ultimately bad for landscape photography could cause dissonance if a person uses these techniques. However, new information such as \u201cunrealistic post-processing is an innovative way to showcase your vision\u201d may reduce the dissonance.\n3. Reduce the importance of the cognitions (i.e., beliefs, attitudes).\nA person could convince themselves that it is better to \"only care about what I do for me\" than to \"consider my behavior's impact on landscape photography as an art-form.\"\nIn other words, he could tell himself that only caring about their own photography is better than caring about the craft as a whole or the impact on other photographers. In this way, he would be decreasing the importance of the dissonant cognition (unrealistic post-processing does have a negative impact on landscape photography).\nPosted in Articles and tagged Art, Photoshop, Post Processing, Fake.\n\u2190 Previous: Interview with Eric Bennett on F-Stop Collaborate and Listen\nNext: Interview with Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou on F-Stop Collaborate and Listen \u2192\nAbout Matt Payne\nI am an adventurer, mountaineer, and fine art nature and landscape photographer specializing in unique and hard-to-reach locations and subjects, including the highest mountains in Colorado. My artwork transports viewers to the world's most spectacular locations. I love the craft of landscape photography and have produced a podcast dedicated to landscape photography called \"F-Stop Collaborate and Listen.\" Read more >>\nMy artwork is something I am very proud of. As such, my artwork is produced using only the most beautiful materials designed to impress and last. Each piece of art is produced to float off of your wall using a secure hanging system and is ready to hang upon arrival; none of my artwork requires exterior framing of any kind. This method of production reduces your total costs and anxiety. My artwork is modern, crisp, and unique. I also offer a small collection of Limited Edition works of art as well. Learn more >>\nContact Matt Payne\nAll material \u00a9 copyright by Matt Payne. All rights reserved. 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The Court awarded the $23.3 million in damages and set the case for further proceedings on the amount of punitive damages to award to McCuneWright\u2019s client. It is believed that this verdict is that county\u2019s highest verdict in 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 134.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/meet-our-people/mckinsey-women-blog/author/alex-brena", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GTSNB4T3IQE5FZOLERKTV3QI2TOVJC3O", "length": 391, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mckinsey.com", "title": "Alex-Brena | McKinsey Women Blog | McKinsey & Company", "raw_content": "Alex joined us after earning her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Tufts University, where she studied political science and art history. She is an associate in our Stamford, CT office and is interested in TMT (Technology, Media, & Telecom) work, particularly in marketing and sales. In her free time, Alex enjoys travelling, cooking, and running.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 6119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 80.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/x379999661/Yachts-away-at-Needhams-Rosemary-Lake", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SQXAGC2ZW7M3G3NQ56F4NHS6CKRLO7AR", "length": 3470, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.mcphersonsentinel.com", "title": "Yachts away at Needham's Rosemary Lake - News - McPhersonSentinel - McPherson, KS - McPherson, KS", "raw_content": "Yachts away at Needham's Rosemary Lake\nWill Bradford\nThe sign at the edge of the parking lot off Rosemary Street clearly states \u201cNO BOATING OR SWIMMING IN ROSEMARY LAKE.\u201d Just don\u2019t tell that to the members of the Minuteman Model Yacht Club.\nThe Needham-based club, founded in 1973, uses Rosemary as its home lake and either practices or races there two to three times a week, according to vice commodore Jim Linville.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great sport,\u201d said 70-year-old Jack Villa of Boylston. \u201cI used to fly model airplanes. I played golf. To me, this is just the best.\u201d\nOn such a warm, sunny Sunday morning, it was hard to argue with Villa.\nThe group consists of about 50 members, but according to Linville, a Hull resident, there are only a dozen or so diehards. The boats they raced at their most recent meet July 27 were sailboats one meter in length, but the club also race ships that range in size from one foot (\u201cfooties\u201d) to gargantuan 7-footers. A small section of the lake was scattered with red, yellow, white, green and orange buoys around which the boats darted.\nAs the men walked along the lake\u2019s banks in response to their boats\u2019 position in the water, it was obvious the club was a close group.\n\u201cStarboard!\u201d \u201cPort!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ve got to give me room at the buoy!\u201d the men would occasionally yell to one another, like brothers.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a bad guy in this hobby,\u201d Linville said.\nThe hometowns of the club members read like a list of Boston suburbs, but apparently, only a few members are actually from the Needham, even though it is the club\u2019s home town. The one Needhamite that was present at Rosemary Lake on Sunday was the club\u2019s youngest member, 17-year old Colin Mosgrove.\nMosgrove, who has been a member since he was 14, said he stumbled upon the club by chance. \u201cI just saw them down here; I came down and talked to them about it...\u201d\n\u201cBefore we knew it, he\u2019s down here beating us with a boat that\u2019s as old as he is,\u201d John Whalen, 37, of Lunenberg, interrupted.\nMosgrove, who is a rising senior at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, was humble about his skills, but according to the others, he is one of the best. He races a boat with a thin hull, a model that can improve speed but takes much more skill to control.\n\u201cAt 14 he was beating us all,\u201d said Linville. \u201cHe\u2019s a good kid. We like him.\u201d\nHal Robertson of Arlington described the certain ebb and flow that comes with racing so often with the same group.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been in this group 14 years,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone goes through hot streaks, whether it\u2019s six months or several years, that they\u2019re winning everything. I had a year when I was winning everything, and people said enjoy it while it lasts. Now I\u2019m coming in last all the time.\u201d\nAt any of their events, members are more than happy to set up spectators with a boat \u2014 even though each one can cost between $300-$1,800 \u2014 and transmitter to let them get a feel for controlling one of the vessels. The men practically insist on getting newcomers into the water where, if one is lucky enough to take part in a race, last-place finishes are foregone conclusions against the members\u2019 sailing skills.\nThe club meets for a \u201cfun sail\u201d every Thursday at 2 p.m. and races competitively on most Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m.\nAll meets are at Rosemary Lake in Needham.\nFor more information, contact Commodore Cliff Martin at 508-533-5971 or Vice Commodore Jim Linville at 781-925-0045, or visit the club\u2019s Web site at www.modelyacht.org/club25.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/08/fox-uses-denounced-disability-report-to-obscure/196342", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5CQYBXL5YBM3YWW3YUHRM7K2HRTDPMKK", "length": 6593, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.mediamatters.org", "title": "Fox Uses Denounced Disability Report To Obscure Falling Rate Of Disability Claims", "raw_content": "Fox Uses Denounced Disability Report To Obscure Falling Rate Of Disability Claims\nResearch \u203a\u203a\u203a October 8, 2013 2:12 PM EDT \u203a\u203a\u203a HANNAH GROCH-BEGLEY\nFox hyped a discredited report on federal disability benefits to falsely claim that the Obama administration purposely made it easier to claim disability in order to keep the unemployment rate low. In fact, it is harder than ever to receive benefits as the percentage of approved claims has fallen since 2007, and experts agree disability is not connected to a decrease in the labor force.\nMisleading 60 Minutes Report Hypes Rise In Disability Claims\nCBS News' 60 Minutes Misleadingly Hyped \"Waste And Fraud\" In Federal Disability Benefits. A misleading CBS News 60 Minutes report on Social Security disability relied on anecdotal evidence from a bipartisan investigation led by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) to deceptively portray the vital program as wasteful and unsustainable, representing the growth in the program as linked to \"waste and fraud,\" despite the fact that disability award rates have fallen since the recession and that fraud is less than one percent of the program. The report was denounced by national disability organizations as misleading and \"sensational.\" [Media Matters, 10/7/13]\nFox Hypes Discredited Disability Report To Link Growth In Benefits To Unemployment\nFox Business' Stuart Varney Cited Discredited Disability Report To Claim Obama Admin Pushing Disability Benefits To Lower Unemployment Rate. On Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney used the inaccurate 60 Minutes report to claim the administration was not interested in enforcing the rules prohibiting ineligible individuals from receiving benefits. Varney noted that the number of people receiving disability benefits has increased in recent years, and claimed, \"It helps the unemployment statistics to get people on disability ... is it in the administration's interest to change things? If you can push more people onto disability, don't you get the unemployment rate down, which makes you look good in terms of recovery? It's a contradiction here. Why enforce this? Why clamp down?\" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/8/13]\nRate Of Approval For Disability Claims Has Fallen Since Recession\nSocial Security Actuaries: Percentage Of Approved Claims Has Fallen Since 2008. According to a report released by the Social Security Administration's actuaries, though the number of people applying for disability benefits tends to increase during periods of higher unemployment, the total allowance rate, or percentage of disability claims that are actually approved, falls. The report included the following chart, which shows that the current total allowance rate has fallen significantly since 2008, and from its peak in 2001, and that it is consistently harder to receive disability benefits in periods of higher unemployment:\n[Social Security Administration, Actuarial Note, August 2013]\nCenter On Budget And Policy Priorities: \"Standards Don't Become More Lax In Recessions.\" The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained that agencies that screen disability applications for the strict eligibility requirements do not relax their standards during economic downturns, when they receive more applications for benefits:\nWe've noted before that economic downturns generally spur more applications for Social Security disability benefits -- but have a much smaller effect on awards. That usual pattern is based on several decades' worth of recessions and expansions. And it seemed to be holding true in the Great Recession that officially began in late 2007.\nNow the Social Security actuaries have confirmed what our earlier post implies: allowance rates tend to fall in economic downturns. That is, when the unemployment rate rises, the state and federal agencies that sift applications for disability benefits allow a smaller fraction of claims.\nIn short, the disability programs do a pretty good job of weeding out people who don't meet the strict eligibility criteria. Standards don't become more lax in recessions, and stories that focus only on the growth in applications omit that crucial fact. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 9/3/13, emphasis added]\nExperts: Disability Benefits Are Not Luring Away The Labor Force\nCEPR: Study Shows If More Individuals On Disability Benefits Worked It Would Have Minor Effect On Employment Figures. In response to a Washington Post column by Charles Lane, which misleadingly cited research to claim that Social Security disability payments harmed the economy and erodes the workforce, the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker pointed out that the study actually showed increasing employment rates among people receiving federal disability benefits would have a relatively minor effect on the employment-to-population ratio:\nWall Street Journal: Claims That Disability Benefits Are To Blame For The Shrinking Labor Force Are \"Exaggerated.\" The Wall Street Journal reported that federal disability benefits are not to blame for the shrinking labor force, explaining that the recent decrease in labor force participation -- the number of employed and unemployed Americans who are currently seeking work -- \"has more to do with retiring baby boomers than frustrated job seekers abandoning their searches.\" The article noted that claims that Americans are voluntarily leaving the workforce to receive Disability Insurance instead of working, for example, \"may be exaggerated,\" and also noted that disability was the least common reason for individuals leaving the workforce in March 2013. [The Wall Street Journal, 4/29/13, via Media Matters]\nEligibility Criteria Are Strict, And Majority Of Claims Are Denied, Even After Appeals\nCBPP: Even After Appeals, Only 4 In 10 Applications Are Approved. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained the process by which people can apply for disability benefits, noting that \"of about 1,000 initial applications, about 410 are awarded benefits,\" with 590 denied, even after multiple rounds of appeals:\nClaimants apply to the SSA, which rejects people who are technically disqualified (chiefly because they lack insured status) and submits the remaining applications to each state's disability determination service (DDS) for medical evaluation. If denied at the DDS level, the applicant may appeal. Ultimately, of about 1,000 initial applications, about 410 are awarded benefits -- more than one-third of them on appeal (see Figure 5).\nFor more information on misleading media reports on disability benefits, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 16716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mericity.com/Ahmedabad/Sanjivani-Super-Specialty-Hospital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FGJ3JJYYEEK625FOQ5D7GZLP3QQSD337", "length": 139, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mericity.com", "title": "Sanjivani Super Specialty Hospital in Ahmedabad, Vastrapur - Cardiac Hospitals, Maternity Hospitals in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India - MeriCity", "raw_content": "Sanjivani Super Specialty Hospital in Ahmedabad, Vastrapur - Cardiac Hospitals, Maternity Hospitals in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India - MeriCity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 7361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metlifecare.co.nz/investor-centre/board-of-directors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DX66GFE4YD7I2O7TQCJRPVQYNCWE67P3", "length": 725, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.metlifecare.co.nz", "title": "Board of Directors - Metlifecare NZ", "raw_content": "The Board, elected by the shareholders, is responsible for supervising and directing the management of the business of the Company, including the performance of the Chief Executive Officer, so that it acts in the best interests of its shareholders. It is responsible for guiding the corporate strategy of the Company.\nThe Board schedules a minimum of six meetings each year. An annual work programme and a standing agenda, together with written reports and presentations from the Chief Executive Officer and senior management, address and update directors on strategy and operational matters.\nThe Board generally addresses the matters contained in its annual work programme set out in the Board Charter.\nDr. Noeline Whitehead", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 158.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metrochiro.com.au/chiropractic-treatments/scoliosis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:V5ZUTDRAYD7X4TY3WZ3QK445JJZDRCHR", "length": 2199, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.metrochiro.com.au", "title": "Scoliosis - Metro Chiropractic", "raw_content": "Scoliosismetro2018-02-20T21:30:34+00:00\nWhile your back has a natural curve in an S shape when viewed from the side, scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature in your spine which is thought to occur in 3-5% of the population. In the majority of cases, this develops spontaneously usually during a period of rapid growth. Usually between the ages of 10-15 and more commonly in girls than boys. Most curves are very mild and do not cause any symptoms. However, some curves are more severe and can lead to consequences cosmetically and symptomatically particularly if the curve becomes greater.\nIt is important to identify a scoliosis early and measure it radiographically so that the extent of the curve can be recorded to monitor progression. The younger a scoliosis appears, the more likely it is to progress. If curves are severe or progressing rapidly, prompt referral to a specialist is necessary to give you the advice you need on the most appropriate treatment.\nLiving with a scoliosis is for most individuals nothing out of the ordinary however in some cases, the biomechanical changes as a result of the shape of the spine can cause considerable discomfort. Asymmetrical loading occurs through the spine due to the S shaped curve which can cause muscle and joint tightness/inflammation as well as long term asymmetrical disc and spinal degeneration. The whole kinematic chain beneath the spine is affected particularly the pelvis and lower limb joints due to uneven force loads. In addition, rotation of the vertebrae associated with a curve in the upper spine can affect the ribs and in some cases, lung capacity.\nWhile there has been research into the ability of Chiropractors to reduce the degree of curvature in the spine, there is not conclusive evidence for permanent long term reduction. What we can do however is aim to improve the function of the surrounding structures and decrease the tension present within the muscles and joints of affected areas. Previous research has found that while treatment in combination with exercise may not result in a permanent reduction in the curve when measured radiologically, persistently lower pain rating and disability scores were maintained.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mettafund.org/who-we-are/bio/john-woodward/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JDCI3MBR76ZH4ZCBHMVCG2PWQQ73DTFY", "length": 928, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mettafund.org", "title": "John Woodward - Metta Fund", "raw_content": "John Woodward is the Chief Executive Officer of Front Porch Communities and Services, a not-for-profit organization that owns and operates both multi-level and continuing care retirement communities as well as affordable housing communities. Front Porch currently serves over 5,000 residents at 38 locations in four states.\nPrior to joining Front Porch, Mr. Woodward served as an investment banker and consultant to not-for-profits including health care systems, academic medical centers, and senior living organizations. As an advisor to senior management and the board, he assisted with planning and implementing major expansion programs, reorganizations, mergers and the acquisition of facilities.\nMr. Woodward\u2019s educational background includes A.B. degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago with a specialization in hospital administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 78.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mfaic.gov.kh/site/detail/22999", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:36Z", "digest": "sha1:HLLLUVBH6SR2L53DRDDBWNXSE3KATJ6C", "length": 195, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mfaic.gov.kh", "title": "Press Release on the meeting between H.E. 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After all, that's where the knowledge translates into practice.\nSee Articles By Girija Satyanarayan\nConnect with Girija Satyanarayan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 3057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.minglebox.com/articles/study-in-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VYFEOLBUC7PDJH6PSWQPGMGPRNK5JLP5", "length": 1029, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.minglebox.com", "title": "Study in USA- Course Search and Advice, Cost and Visa Information 2019 - Minglebox", "raw_content": "Category: Study in USA\nDrew University New Jersey attracts most international...\nDrew University in New Jersey, the US is among the top universities...\nAnalysis of choosing MBA Program from Stanford...\nStanford University \u2013 It is always worthwhile to analyse thoroughly before you...\nStudents from India studying in the USA...\nThe USA \u2013 The number of international students at American colleges and...\nCareer Options for MSc Microbiology Professionals in...\nCareer Options for MSc Microbiology Professionals \u2013 Microbiologists work in several areas....\nUnited States of America remains top host...\nUnited States of America \u2013 Admissions from the overseas students in the...\n5 Universities in US offering Top Distance...\nUnited States of America- Here are some of the U.S. universities to...\nHarvard University MBA graduates pull down $160,268...\nHarvard University \u2013 In what could be termed as the record of...\nWashington University in St Louis offers BSc...\nWashington University in St Louis \u2013 The Bachelor of Science in Global...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 7051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missionalwomen.com/discipleship-build/our-call-to-discipleship", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:39:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RWVZPOFKAXPMOW4ZTCSWZ4WLKEYE3ERB", "length": 3124, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.missionalwomen.com", "title": "Helping women live on mission for the glory of God {MissionalWomen.com} - Missional Women", "raw_content": "Our Call to Discipleship\nJesus\u2019 last recorded command was that we should make disciples in all nations. Now that sounds a little daunting, right? Discipleship can easily just be a big word, filled with too much responsibility, which someone smarter than me should probably be doing. But really, if you are a Christian and you are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, you are completely capable of discipling any women out there!\nWhen I was a sophomore in college, the leaders of our campus ministry encouraged me to disciple a younger girl in my ministry. This was absolutely terrifying and I definitely did not feel equipped for the task! But, let me tell you what I learned through that experience about why I was truly able to lead this other girl.\nFirst of all, it\u2019s not really about you! If you are discipling another woman, it is Christ within you who is the ultimate leader. You are only a tool being used by Christ to lead this woman closer to Him. Now, you are still responsible for what you say to her; make sure you are rooted in the Word daily so that what you pour out is aligned with truth. But beyond that, you can only trust that the Holy Spirit is speaking through and working in her heart.\nThe second very important lesson I learned is that you don't have to be perfect to be in a discipleship relationship. When I first was asked to do this, I was terrified because I knew I had struggles with sin and that I didn\u2019t always read my Bible every single day. But lets be honest, we will never stop sinning (we are human!) and we will never be perfectly suited for the task of being an example to another believer. Now, we are called to a higher standard as leaders, but if we are walking in the Spirit and submitting to Him, we can trust that we are suitable for the task. And as a bonus, so often in my discipleship relationships, I can be vulnerable with my struggles, which is so helpful for her to see and learn from me!\nThe last big lesson I learned is that we are called to be pouring out to other women. You have the exciting task of leading other women around you closer to Him, so you need to step up and do it. Be available and seeking for other women around you.\nPractically, here is what discipleship can look like (in case discipleship is still a big, vague word for you, like it was for me!): simply start by ask the other woman out for coffee so that you can get to know each other better. Everyone loves coffee and loves talking about themselves, so this truly fun and not too scary. Then, if she seems to be interested as well as ready for discipleship (if she seems faithful, available and teachable), ask her to make it a weekly thing! Now at this point you can assess what it will look like for the two of you each week, some examples might be talking about your lives, accountability, and studying the Word together.\nAlso check out the Spiritual Mentoring Series; How to Find a Mentor, How to Become a Mentor, How to Be a Mentor for more on how to disciple someone.\nSo be encouraged, you are qualified for the task, go out and serve other women in your community through discipleship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 7123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobiledekho.com/news/new-schematics-sony-xperia-xz-pro-surfaces-online/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UM5PKNQYM4R7HDAXENUFMX6EVO33CHKS", "length": 2492, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.mobiledekho.com", "title": "New Schematics Of Sony Xperia XZ Pro Surfaces Online | MobileDekho", "raw_content": "The leaks reveal the handset front and rear design\nThe Sony Xperia XZ Pro to carry 5.7 inches full-screen design\nThe device will be the first smartphone from Sony to have an aspect ratio of 18:9\nThe handset will be accompanied by a dual rear camera setup\nIn Las Vegas, Sony Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra, and Xperia L2 smartphones were launched by the company at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 tech show and now it is expected that Sony will unveil Xperia XZ Pro premium and the Xperia XZ2 smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, which will be held between February 26 to March 1. It is also speculated that after getting released in this event, the Sony Xperia XZ Pro handset might be available for sale in June 2018.\nThis flagship smartphone Sony Xperia XZ Pro is believed to be the world\u2019s first device to embrace a 4K OLED display. New schematics of the device that has surfaced online recently reveals that the smartphone will be carrying a full-screen design with a dual rear camera setup. Both the front and the back side of the Xperia XZ Pro have been highlighted in the latest schematics.\nPhoto Credit: PHONECORRIDOR\nXperia XZ Pro Specifications\nThe top bezels of the device feature a selfie camera, a sensor. There are two loudspeakers, one at the top while the second at the bottom bezel with an elongated display of 5.7 inches. Apparently, the handset will become the first device from Sony to have an aspect ratio of 18:9. The fingerprint sensor is placed on the right side of the device with the power button. Earlier, some leaks of the smartphone, which were leaked suggested that the Xperia XZ Pro will be powered by Snapdragon 845 SoC with octa-core Kryo 385 processor as well as Adreno 630 graphics. The memory configuration was said to be 6GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage capacity and a microSD card slot.\nXperia XZ Pro Camera\nAs far as the rear camera is concerned, the device Xperia XZ Pro will be donning an LED flash and a dual camera setup, which will be horizontally arranged. It is expected that the primary camera will be carrying an 18-megapixel sensor of pixel size \u2013 1.33\u03bcm, whereas the secondary camera will be accompanied by a 12-megapixel sensor of pixel size \u2013 1.38 \u03bcm. The front camera will carry a 13-megapixel sensor and will be supported by a 3,420mAh battery. Furthermore, it is also rumored that the device will run on the pre-installed Android 8.0 Oreo Operating System at a price tag of 6,000 Yuan (~$950).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moldovastamps.org/catalogue_stamps_issue.asp?issueID=3010", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BSUKZNMS7ZVAEXIDNWEW4LM6YF36RHE3", "length": 1253, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.moldovastamps.org", "title": "IMPS | Discover Moldova 2018", "raw_content": "Tourism in the Republic of Moldova focuses on the country's natural landscapes and its history. Wine tours are offered to tourists across the country. Vineyards/cellars include Cricova, Purcari, Ciumai, Romane\u0219ti, Coju\u0219na, Mile\u0219tii Mici. In 2015, Moldova received 2.85 million visitors. Read more..\nThis article uses material from the Wikipedia article \"Tourism_in_Moldova\", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.\nOn July 5, 2018, the Post of Moldova put into circulation a nice series (2 stamps printed in 200,000 copies each), designed by Corina Levco, entitled \"Discover Moldova\" (\"Descoper\u0103 Moldova\"), dedicated in particular to the fortress of Soroca and the museum and archaeological complex of Orheiul Vechi, two of the most famous sites in the country (with maybe the wine complexes of Cricova and Mile\u015ftii Mici)... Read more..\nOriginal Date of Issue: July 5, 2018 Theme: Buildings and Architecture\nSoroca Fortress (1499)\nCultural and Natural Reserve Old Orhei (Orheiul Vechi)\nMinisheet: Soroca Fortress (1499)\nMinisheet: Cultural and Natural Reserve Old Orhei (Orheiul Vechi)\nFirst Day Cover Cachet: Soroca Fortress (1499)\nFirst Day Cover Cachet: Cultural and Natural Reserve Old Orhei (Orheiul Vechi)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 8429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moneymover.com/insights/money-mover-country-report-new-zealand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PI3YEYIIAD37UEJJZ3CXSR33UCCUHIWE", "length": 4607, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.moneymover.com", "title": "Money Mover Country Report - International payments to New Zealand", "raw_content": "New Zealand\u2019s geographic isolation from the rest of the world used to be a huge downside for this island nation in the South Pacific, actually, it\u2019s made up of over 30 islands, but the main two are the North and South. Now, isolation is one of New Zealand\u2019s best features, drawing people from around the world who want to forget the rest of the world, if only for a few short weeks of holiday. The entire country contains every dramatic landscape you could imagine squished into 268,021 km\u00b2 square feet; soaring, snow covered mountains, bubbling craters of geothermic activity, sweeping coastlines with black and white sand beaches, glacier-carved fjords, deep valleys and dense forests and is a backdrop for the world\u2019s most famous movie trilogy, Lord of the Rings. So much so, that since 2001, the country has rebranded itself as \u201cMiddle Earth\u201d to planeloads of jetlagged and awestruck tourists.\nWith only 4 million people the country is one of the least populated in the world, and Kiwis - as they are affectionately known - are largely outnumbered by sheep, (but please refrain from cracking any sheep jokes, as the world\u2019s largest exporter of sheep meat, they\u2019ve heard them all).\nNew Zealand\u2019s small size and isolated location have created a distinct \u201ckiwi-can-do\u201d mentality; ingenuity is a defining national characteristic. After untangling itself from burdensome regulations over the last thirty years, the country boasts a competitive, export driven free market economy and has negotiated a number of free trade agreements. In fact, in the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, New Zealand ranks third in the world, just behind Hong Kong and Singapore. In reflection of New Zealand\u2019s push to promote opportunity and prosperity, the World Bank (2015) ranked New Zealand as the easiest country to start a business, you can be up and running, paperwork signed, in less than one day. Tied with Denmark, it is also the least corrupt nation in the world.\nAgriculture and forestry are two of New Zealand\u2019s most important industries and dairy is by far the largest sector, in 2016 it exported NZ $12.4 billion of dairy products. New Zealand\u2019s largest company, Fonterra, is a co-operative dairy owned by approximately 10,500 farmers and is also the world\u2019s largest dairy exporter, responsible for 30% of the world\u2019s milk production. In 2016, meat exports were worth $5.9 billion. In 2017, a new trade deal with China to sell high valued chilled meat levels the playing field with Australia, its neighbor and largest trading partner, and opens up a new hundred million dollar market for NZ meat exports. China is the country\u2019s second largest trade partner, followed by Japan, the US and the UK.\nBut it\u2019s not all milk and sheep. Tourism, film and wine are also significant contributors to the economy - which is bolstered by the fact that it takes nearly three bottles of Sauvignon Blanc to make it through the nearly twelve hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, by which time, the plane tickets to Middle Earth have already been booked\u2026\nThe New Zealand dollar has been the official currency since 1967 when it switched from the New Zealand pound. In 1999, New Zealand introduced polymer bank notes. In 2015, the $5 note won \u201cbest bank note of the year\u201d out of 20 countries for its depiction of famous mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hilary on one side, and a rare yellow-eyed penguin on the other. The New Zealand dollar is one of the ten most traded currencies in the world.\nFor naval history buffs, the New Zealand dollar is also the official currency of Pitcairn Island, a British territory in the South Pacific and home to the original descendants of the mutineers of the famous ship, The Bounty.\nThe New Zealand dollar is one of the world\u2019s major currencies. The USD/NZD currency pair is the tenth most traded pair with a daily trade volume of nearly 3% of the entire FX market.\nThe most common New Zealand dollar minor currency pairs or major crosses are EUR/NZD, GBP/NZD, AUD/NZD, NZD/CAD and NZD/JPY.\nInternational payments to New Zealand\nNew Zealand is a low risk country and considered stable, both politically and economically. There are no known issues with making global payments to New Zealand.\nAll payments are sent via SWIFT and although we can send all supported currencies to New Zealand, the majority of Money Mover customers send New Zealand dollars.\nWe can dispatch funds the following day for payments in New Zealand dollars to New Zealand as long as we receive funds prior to the cut off time of 14:00 (GMT).\nWe provide flexible payments for the following New Zealand dollar currency pairs:\nNZD/CZF", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 8314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 167.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moonsfoodstore.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4XRGH3QUOQBA7KWWUR6F2NXLAYHJJP4D", "length": 692, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.moonsfoodstore.com", "title": "Moon's Food Store\t- Moon's Food Store - Home", "raw_content": "We invite you to stop in and experience convenient shopping that's out of this world!\nFaces of Moon's Food Store\nTake a look at some of the recent updates we've made. We'd love for you to come by and tell us what you think!\nWe typically carry a variety of food, beverage, household and automotive products. We also sell lottery and cigarettes.\nOur inventory is constantly evolving. If there's something you want that we don't have, just ask. We'll be more than happy to try to find it and order it for you.\nWater and milk\nCoffee, cocoa and cappuccino\n*Wine and vodka products\n* We do not sell wine on Sunday.\n6:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. daily\nWelcoming you 365 days a year!\nmoonsfoodstore@gmail.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/paloma-faith-clean-bandit-and-razorlight-added-to-carfest-line-up-as-final-tickets-are-released-1-9125360", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PTYWBIZLOZZTD6NTIJZESYMCYHD4QX5Q", "length": 3401, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.morleyobserver.co.uk", "title": "Paloma Faith, Clean Bandit and Razorlight added to CarFest line-up as final tickets are released - Morley Observer and Advertiser", "raw_content": "Paloma Faith, Clean Bandit and Razorlight added to CarFest line-up as final tickets are released\nCarFest has added extra acts to this year's bill.\nA host of big name acts have been added to the bill for this year's CarFest as the final tickets for this year's spectacular are released.\nThe unmissable family festival is back for its seventh year this summer and singer Paloma Faith, rockers Razorlight and chart stars Clean Bandit will all join the line-up.\nFinal tickets for CarFest North and South 2018 went on sale this morning at http://www.carfest.org/ticket-information\nAlso added are The X Factor 2018 Winners Rak Su, Burt Bacharach, The Coral and Richard Ashcroft.\nThey will appear alongside 80s icons Bananarama, Billy Ocean, The Feeling, Status Quo, Alfie Boe & Michael Ball, The Proclaimers and Madness.\nWhat\u2019s more, this year will feature an exclusive performance from CarFest\u2019s Supergroup, curated by Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson, including Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Spandau Ballet\u2019s Gary Kemp, with more members still to be announced.\nSome of the cooking scene\u2019s top talent will be joining the CarFest Kitchen, including UK favourite Joe Wicks The Body Coach and Bake Off favourite Candice Brown.\nReturning culinary masters including Tom Kerridge and Angela Hartnett will also be joined by James Martin and Michelin Star Chef Atul Kochhar in the kitchen during the weekend.\nNot to be forgotten, CarFest\u2019s four-wheeled action will be back and better than ever.\nThe Car Paddock is back, celebrating the very best F1 cars, convertibles, coupes, grand tourers, saloons, super cars and sports cars.\nTake a trip to Oktoberfest where you will be transported to an authentic German Village featuring a wonderful display of the best German cars themed amongst a Bavarian beer hall with traditional food, music and entertainment.\nThe unmissable family festival is gearing up for its seventh year this summer. Offering a medley of incredible cars, great food, live music and a rich mix of family entertainment, this year, CarFest will be bursting with fun for CarFesters of all ages.\nCarFest 2018 will also offer brand new amazing activities for the whole family as well as bringing back some of the family favourites.\nStep into a world of Christmas at our new Toy Factory, and be the first to try some of the newest toys made by the Christmas Elves who are already hard at work ahead of the festive period.\nThe Vintage Village is back by popular demand and bigger than ever. Step back in time and visit the vintage market, tea rooms and sweet shops, and discover cars from the 30s through to the swinging 60s and groovy 70s. PLUS, to end the weekend with a bang there will be a Record Breaking Sunday with dozens of records being broken, with the help of Bear Grylls who will be flying in especially.\nCarFest North will be kicking things off on 27th - 29th July and CarFest South will take place the following month from 24th - 26th August. Set in the rolling landscapes of Bolesworth Estate and Laverstoke Park Farm, these two unmissable family festivals are set to be bigger and better than ever for 2018.\nIn the last six years the two annual events have raised an incredible \u00a310.5 million for BBC Children in Need, whilst entertaining more than 600,000 festival-goers of all ages with its unique and wonderfully eclectic mix of music, cars, food and fun, and 2018 promises to be the best year yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormon.org/me/8SQY", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DPDGWMVHWDM5CZ36AKWJLVYX5E2OK6OJ", "length": 1642, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mormon.org", "title": "Carlos | Mormon.org", "raw_content": "Hi I'm Carlos\nI'm from Colombia. I'm serving a mission in Salt Lake City. I'm a Mormon.\nI'm from Colombia, I love to watch movies with my friends, and I'm actually going to study film-making and work making movies or being part of it, I love sports like rock climbing, squash, and MMA, I also like to play the Guitar and spend time with my friends and my family.\nI love the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it has helped me a lot in my life, it has helped me to grow with good principles and to have a really happy life, it doesn't matter what kind of trials or challenges I've had in my life the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his Atoning sacrifice for me and for all of us bring me happiness and hope in the future, I know that God through Joseph Smith restored the same church that Jesus Christ organized when he was on earth, and that He received the priesthood so God can fulfill His purpose: \"to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of men\", I know that the Book of Mormon is true, everything that is written on it really happened and that if we read it and the bible as well, we are going to know what to do so we can live with God and our families for all the eternity and enjoy of eternal happiness.\nI'm serving a mission, teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person, inviting them to receive the restored Gospel through Faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holly Ghost and endure to the end, that's our purpose as missionaries and I'm really happy for this opportunity that I have to share these things that makes me happy and to help others to receive the promised blessings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormon.org/me/8T2Y", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TMYO3MV6X4RCYL4MSEXJUFJ5D2EFAPC4", "length": 1584, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mormon.org", "title": "Jacob | Mormon.org", "raw_content": "I grew up on a farm. I love to ride horses. I'm a Mormon\nI grew up milking cows and doing a lot of farm work. I love being with my family which consists of my four brothers, four sisters, two awesome parents, eight nieces and nephews and a dog. We do a lot of fun things together. I love being in the mountains. I love riding horses, four wheelers, snowmobiles, etc. Fishing and hunting are my some of my favorite things to do. I like to play some basketball and football whenever I can. I was on the local fire department at home.\nI have been around a lot of happy people in my life that have always been examples to me. I have noticed that when I am around those people and listen to their advice, that things make sense and I am a happier person. The same is true for the gospel of Jesus Christ. When I read the scriptures and do what they tell us, things make sense, such as having an eternal and forever family. It also makes sense that our loving Heavenly Father would give us a prophet to lead His true church in this time. I know that he sent his son Jesus Christ to be a Savior to all of us here on earth so that we can live with our families happily for eternity. I have found real truths through sincere prayer and listening to the Holy Ghost.\nI like to do service. The funnest thing is getting a bunch of people together to go help someone make their load lighter or get something done that they would have a harder time doing themselves. I have also been in the scouting program and had some leadership opportunities in the young mens program. I am now serving a mission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moscowvillager.com/business/20181112/auto-bits-drivers-dabble-with-drive-time-decisions", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IJWQZDACL4C5I4VWFX2LLHFV5TBKZN5L", "length": 4923, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.moscowvillager.com", "title": "Auto Bits: Drivers dabble with drive-time decisions - Business - Moscow Villager - Moscow, PA - Honesdale, PA", "raw_content": "Auto Bits: Drivers dabble with drive-time decisions\nThere are a lot of decisions to make when it comes to driving, and the list only grows once you\u2019ve got your own set of wheels. Whether you\u2019re facing a purchasing dilemma over which make and model is best for you, or simply wonder how much is too much to top off the gas, being a responsible driver comes with more options than there are gears on a manual car.\nYou may think that the biggest choice you\u2019ll face when it comes to cars is which one you\u2019ll own. However, even after that primary purchase, there\u2019s a plethora of other parts to ponder, too \u2014 like the tires! According to the latest installment of Hankook Tire\u2019s Gauge Index Survey, Americans are more likely to consider the safety rating of their tires (26 percent) than the safety rating of their car (18 percent). And the decisions don\u2019t stop there. Americans are split (50/50) on whether off-road tires are only meant for off-road cars. The truth is, while you can put them on vehicles for everyday driving, they are optimized for off-road use.\nBut no matter which type of tire you\u2019re shopping for, one thing is for certain: Buying American-made products is in. The Gauge found that 92 percent of Americans prefer to buy products that are made in the U.S. That\u2019s up from 87 percent this time last year. Luckily, with more and more automotive companies like Hankook manufacturing products in the U.S., there are plenty of options for consumers to consider.\nLights on, or lights off?\nApparently, we actually did listen to our parents when they told us to turn off the overhead light in the backseat. The Gauge found that more than half (58 percent) of Americans believe the \u201cold dad\u2019s tale\u201d that driving with your interior lights on is illegal. Because it\u2019s distracting to other drivers, experts recommend that you don\u2019t drive with the interior lights on.\nThat said, your mom was right about using low lights in foggy or rainy conditions. While more than a third (38 percent) of drivers think that high beams are the right choice for fog or rain, it actually can create a harsh reflection against the water, making it more difficult to see.\nCheck the checklist\nLet\u2019s add another decision to the mix \u2014 when to service your vehicle. How many miles are you really supposed to go between service appointments? That depends on the car, seasonal driving conditions, how much driving you do, and a whole plethora of other factors. However, many drivers use the change of seasons as a regular reminder to take the car in, and it\u2019s a good schedule to keep by. For example, car and tire maintenance was on the back-to-school checklist for 45 percent of Americans, but winter weather may not have been top of mind at the time. As the leaves fall and temperatures drop, it may be time to talk about what\u2019s necessary for the cooler coming months - whether that\u2019s a new set of winter tires, or a fresh pair of windshield wipers.\nTo top it all off ...\nIt can be terribly tempting to squeeze the handle once or twice more to get the most bang for your buck at the gas pump. In fact, 3 in 5 Americans (60 percent) don\u2019t think that topping off your gas tank is bad for your car ... but experts say it is, and can actually lead to further damage down the road! Topping off can overfill the tank and cause liquid gas to enter the charcoal canister or carbon filter, which in turn can damage your engine. Save yourself a potential maintenance headache, and let off the gas once the pump shuts off.\nMany of the choices you make as a responsible driver go beyond figuring out which parking spot to snag in a grocery store lot (for the record, 43 percent of Americans will park as close to the entrance of a store as they can get). But the decisions don\u2019t need to be daunting, so long as you stay informed about your vehicle\u2019s maintenance schedule and needs, and know the options available to you to keep your ride smooth and your car well maintained.\nA new ad campaign hopes to raise awareness of the dangers of children riding in a car without being properly secured in the right car seat, booster seat or seat belt. When used correctly, these safety restraints can dramatically reduce the risk of fatality or injury. According to 2017 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, 675 children younger than 13 were killed while riding in passenger vehicles. Additionally, more than one in three (35%) of those killed were not using a car seat, booster seat or seat belt.\nAAA projects 54.3 million Americans will travel for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, a 4.8 percent increase over last year. with 2.5 million more people taking to the nation\u2019s roads, skies, rails and waterways compared with last year. INRIX, a global mobility analytics company, says its predictions show that travel times in the most congested cities in the U.S. (New York, Boston and San Francisco) could be as much as four times longer than normal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mpamag.com/business-strategy/what-sets-the-successful-apart-99299.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OXTM52MVWKGR3YE5YA467FBBQBFJMG5Q", "length": 4170, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mpamag.com", "title": "What sets the successful apart?", "raw_content": "What sets the successful apart?\nby Contributor01 May 2018\nAs a professional broker, manager, real estate coach and trainer for the past 20 years, I have had the opportunity to meet and work with thousands of real estate agents and have noticed one major difference between those who will be successful and those who probably will not.\nSuccessful players in the game of real estate burn their boats from the start. They have no other options \u2013 they\u2019re not testing the waters or trying it out. They\u2019re in it for the long haul. For them, there\u2019s no such thing as quitting. When these people enter the profession, they give it more than 100%.\nThese people behave distinctly. They consider themselves true professionals in the same way a lawyer, doctor, dentist, accountant or engineer might. They act as if they belong in the realm of professionals who went to university and specialized in the industry. Their reputation is everything to them, and they stand behind it. They are not confused or unclear \u2013 they are clear about what they\u2019re doing and why they\u2019re doing it, and they are prepared to give it all they\u2019ve got. They are willing to invest time, money and their complete focus into their profession and treat it like a long-term business, rather than a short-term sales career they\u2019re willing to drop if things don\u2019t work out.\nThe most interesting thing I\u2019ve witnessed is that even if they don\u2019t have the qualities that a salesperson is expected to possess in order to succeed, they flourish nonetheless, because the depth of their commitment and the level of their professionalism ensures they can learn and develop any required skills.\nAnd perhaps most important of all, these are the people who actually thrive in a difficult market.\nWe have recently seen some major and unexpected changes in the industry at both the national and provincial level. This is the time when consumers will be crying out for someone who is a true professional: a representative who is in the industry long-term, takes their business seriously and holds themselves to the highest standards.\nIn a hot market, when properties routinely sell within hours of listing, the public doesn\u2019t value real estate professionals. This vibrant setting creates the perception that properties sell themselves; it\u2019s little wonder that our importance is reduced in the public\u2019s mind. More people enter the profession during these markets because there\u2019s a perception that it\u2019s easy money and anyone can do it. In extremely hot markets, sellers are more likely to hire a friend or family member in an effort to reduce the commission payable since the value of the profession is much less apparent.\nThe great thing about a normalized or cooling market is that uncommitted people are weeded out of the market once it becomes clear that professional skills are necessary. Also, buyers and sellers become aware of the fact that they need the help of a true industry professional who is committed long-term, knows the business and is able to use their expertise to their advantage. Finally, the public remembers that they can\u2019t just have anyone helping them buy or sell their most valuable asset \u2013 and this realization is great news for real estate professionals.\nHere\u2019s some more good news: Anyone taking the time to read an industry publication already falls into this category. Even if you don\u2019t realize it, you\u2019re going the extra mile. If you are wholly committed to this industry, you can thrive in uncertain market conditions. We are likely entering a growth period for true professionals, because they are finally going to be valued the way they deserve to be. Times like these represent an exciting opportunity as both buyers and sellers come to the belated realization that not just anyone can do this. Fear and doubt often accompany changing times; use this to your advantage. That same fear and doubt will have the public seeking you out and respecting you for the true professional you are. It\u2019s your time to shine!\nGiuditta Gareri has more than 20 years of experience working in real estate as a broker/ owner, manager, coach, trainer and speaker. She currently works at Chestnut Park in Toronto.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mptusa.com/cart/product.cfm?p=485", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5BSJCONEKN7AAAKLV56PYQKPHQKMX4UA", "length": 1316, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mptusa.com", "title": "Ship Store - MPT | Maritime Professional Training", "raw_content": "Marine Radionavigation and Communications - $44.95\nJeffrey W. Monroe & Thomas L. Bushy\nSize: 6' x 9\"\nIllustrations: 30 b/w photos, 36 illustrations, 46 drawings, & 3 maps, Glossary/Index\nDesigned for those who make their living on the sea or who navigate offshore for recreation, this comprehensive textbook introduces the mariner to each navigation and communication system and outlines its uses and limitations in practical application. An introduction to the basic theory of radio waves and how they affect system use is followed by descriptions of the various types of equipment and how they function. Especially useful for the navigator are discussions of radio direction finding systems, including radar beacons; hyperbolic radio navigation systems; satellite navigation systems, including the Global Positioning System and the Global Navigation Satellite System; hydrosonic systems; radar; and Automatic Radar Plotting. The sections on communications cover all systems in application in the marine field, including the Global Maritime Distress Safety System. 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Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian-based dialects can be found scattered in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Ukraine. As a result of a modern diaspora, there are also Albanian speakers elsewhere in those countries as well as in other parts of the world, including Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Turkey. Origin Albanian is often seen as the descendant of Illyrian, although this hypothesis has been challenged by some linguists, who maintain that it derives from Dacian or Thracian. (Illyrian, Dacian, and Thracian, however, may have formed a subgroup or a Sprach bund; see Thraco-Illyrian). Education Albanian is the medium of instruction in most Albanian schools. The literacy rate in Albania for the total population, age 9 or older, is about 99%. Elementary education is compulsory (grades 1-9), but most students continue at least until a secondary education. Students must pass graduation exams at the end of the 9th grade and at the end of the 12th grade in order to continue their education. Word order In Albanian, the constituent order is subject\u2013verb\u2013object, and negation is expressed by the particles nuk or s' in front of the verb.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 7052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 115.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/the-historical-archive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:16Z", "digest": "sha1:YRGY7JRTP4RFJJFICOR5H6WHZ2DZHLV5", "length": 998, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.museopiaggio.it", "title": "The Historical Archive | Museo Piaggio", "raw_content": "The Historical Archive\nArchive Fonds\nArchive consultation\nThe Piaggio Historical Archive contains material about Piaggio from its origins in the late 19th century through to the present day, covering all its fields of operation.\nCreated thanks to the painstaking research begun by Tommaso Fanfani in the mid-1990s, the Historical Archive was opened to the public in March 2000.\nThe Archive contains a rich variety of material, in terms of both content and media (paper, photographic, digital, video) and is an invaluable source not only for the reconstruction of the history of one of the most important metalworking companies of the postwar period, but also for an analysis of social, economic and cultural change in Italy since the end of the 1800s. The Archive continues to grow as material is acquired from internal offices and from private citizens.\nAccess to the Archive for research work is free, exclusively by appointment, from Monday to Friday from 10 am to 6 pm.\narchivio@museopiaggio.it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 120.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myfictionnook.com/2016/03/author-of-month-piper-vaughn-week-two.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3NG4MFVPBBSZ2OZDHOBZXSGY2ENY3OO", "length": 11853, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.myfictionnook.com", "title": "My Fiction Nook: Author Of The Month - Piper Vaughn - Week Two", "raw_content": "Welcome to our 2nd week of celebrations for the superbly talented\nIn today's post, we'll talk about Bookmarked (one of the novellas from the Heartsville universe), as well as One Small Thing, and One True Thing, and the standalone novel, Love Rising, plus take a look at five little-known facts about Piper. Of course, all the way at the end, there's another chance to win as well.\nFirst up, Bookmarked:\nTo save his bookstore from closing, Mark Werner realizes it\u2019s going to take a miracle\u2014like getting reclusive, best-selling author Shepherd Knight to agree to appear for a signing.\nAfter their disastrous last encounter, Mark doesn\u2019t hold up much hope Shepherd will agree. Shepherd\u2019s never made a single public appearance. In fact, Mark wouldn\u2019t even know what he looks like had he not accidentally discovered the sexy stranger he\u2019d been flirting with for months, aka \u201cTall-Dark-and-Grumpy,\u201d was also his fanboy obsession.\nBut desperate times call for desperate measures. If Mark can convince Shepherd, it\u2019ll be a major coup in the book world and might just save Bookmarked from sinking. Too bad Shepherd won\u2019t reply to his e-mails. Yet Mark didn\u2019t earn the reputation of having a \u201csunshine-and-rainbow-fart\u201d personality for nothing. He\u2019ll do whatever it takes to get his man\u2026 and hopefully not make a fool of himself in the process.\nMark straightened, unsure where to look, his cheeks blazing hot. So much for afterglow. Now that the urgency was gone and the evidence of his orgasm cooled in his briefs, reality slammed down hard. Not only had he screwed around in his bookstore, which was unprecedented, he\u2019d come while sniffing a Stephen King novel and being dry-humped by his favorite author. There had to be a joke in there, something about loving his books but not loving his books. All Mark knew was there couldn\u2019t be many guys out there who\u2019d gotten off to the scent of Pet Sematary. Somehow, he didn\u2019t think Stephen King would appreciate getting that in a fan letter.\nShepherd cleared his throat, dragging Mark\u2019s attention to him. Shep was flushed, his lips red and swollen from their kisses. He looked as embarrassed as Mark felt\u2026 but happy too. More happy than anything else.\n\u201cSorry.\u201d Shepherd smiled sheepishly, and as few times as Mark had seen that expression, it hit him like a sharp jab to the chin, stunning him for a second. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t the plan when I walked in here.\u201d\nHalf-dazed, Mark found himself grinning back. \u201cWhat was the plan?\u201d\n\u201cWell, I figured we\u2019d go to dinner, maybe talk, but you\u2026.\u201d He coughed and rubbed at the back of his neck. \u201cYou look good in yellow.\u201d\nMark ducked his head to hide how much the compliment pleased him. God, they could\u2019ve been a couple of shy teenagers, wading through the minefield of all-consuming crushes, stilted conversations, and first-time sexual encounters. In his younger days, he\u2019d blown random guys in bars without feeling a flicker of embarrassment after the fact. This was odd, new territory. But it felt good. It felt wonderful. Mark wanted to lock up the feeling and hoard it like a dragon with his treasure.\n\u201cI think dinner is still on the menu,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe my apartment instead of Riverview? I\u2019m not the greatest cook, but I can handle simple recipes. And I can give you something to change into.\u201d Mark indicated Shepherd\u2019s crotch with a vague wave of his hand.\nThe blush in Shepherd\u2019s cheeks intensified, but he nodded, looking pleased.\n\u201cI\u2019ll just go clean up in the restroom really quick, and then we can take off.\u201d He went to brush by Shepherd, but Shepherd stopped him with a hand on his arm. Mark turned to him and received a light kiss on the corner of his mouth.\n\u201cThank you,\u201d Shepherd said, \u201cfor giving me another chance.\u201d He released Mark and gave him a pat on the ass. \u201cI\u2019ll take care of the books.\u201d\nAlso from Piper (written with M.J. O'Shea), One Small Thing:\n\"Daddy\" is not a title Rue Murray wanted, but he never thought he\u2019d have sex with a woman either. Now he\u2019s the unwitting father of a newborn named Alice. Between bartending and cosmetology school, Rue doesn\u2019t have time for babies, but he can\u2019t give her up. What Rue needs is a babysitter, and he\u2019s running out of options. He\u2019s on the verge of quitting school to watch Alice himself when he remembers his reclusive new neighbor, Erik.\nAlso available, One True Thing, co-written with M.J.:\nPiper's mermaid story, Love Rising:\nWith a sigh, Francis got to work, setting aside the smaller items that could possibly be of use\u2014a tarnished candle holder, a pair of woolen trousers that might be mendable, a small knife that nearly sliced open his thumb. He was about halfway through untangling a good length of rope when he saw it\u2014a flash of crimson shining in the final glimmers of sunset. Brow furrowed, Francis reached out to touch it, flinching back when instead of warmth his fingertips encountered something clammy and slick.\nIt took a moment for Francis to fight off the shiver that threatened to overtake him. Curious, he pushed aside knotted rope and the heavy material of the still-damp sail until he\u2019d revealed what looked to be a\u2026 tail? A fish tail, he realized, but of a size that astounded him. The scales ranged in color from the darkest red to the orange-brown of rust to a pale sort of pinkish-gold. His curiosity increasing, Francis kept digging, uncovering more and more of the tail, which ended in an elegant, deep scarlet fin.\nFrancis swallowed hard. He would wager he had perhaps half of the thing uncovered, and already it was larger than any fish he\u2019d ever caught or seen. He went back to work, shifting the debris aside, his wonder increasing with every passing moment. What he expected to find was nothing near what he did once the entirety of the\u2026 creature was exposed. The bottom half was a fish tail; that much was true. But the upper half\u2026.\nFrancis blinked down at it. Impossibly, the upper half seemed to be human. Francis had heard countless tales from his shipmates of such creatures, but he\u2019d never believed them. Mermaids. Half women, half fish. Creatures that beguiled sailors and lured them to their deaths at the bottom of the sea. But this one\u2026. Francis couldn\u2019t be certain, but it didn\u2019t appear to be female. There were no breasts, and the lines of its chest and the breadth of its shoulders weren\u2019t entirely dissimilar from Francis\u2019s own. A bit narrower, perhaps, a tad more delicate, but masculine. Its hair, though, was longer than that of any man or woman Francis knew. And the color, like its scales, was a blend of reds and gold, something like sunrise and fire put together. It was more beautiful than anything Francis had ever seen.\nHelpless, he reached out to touch that fire-and-sunrise hair, his fingers slipping into its heavy, half-sodden mass. Even snarled and tangled as it was, the silken feel of it made Francis shudder. However, the beauty of that hair was nothing compared to the face Francis revealed when he finally recovered enough to push it from the creature\u2019s brow. Its features were finely crafted, as though by an artist\u2019s hand, and further strengthened Francis\u2019s belief that it was male: straight nose, strong jaw, and high, defined cheekbones. Lips that could not have been created for anything but kissing.\nAnd now, as promised, five little-known facts about Piper Vaughn:\nWell, I tend to be a bit of an open book sometimes, so there are doubtless people out there who\u2019ve heard a few of these, but here are five things most people probably don\u2019t know about me. :)\n1. I\u2019ve never been officially diagnosed, but I believe I suffer from at least a mild level of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have certain tics \u2013 when I get anxious, I tend to want to straighten things out on/near my desk, and it\u2019s always the same things. I have to make sure they\u2019re positioned just-so, and this process happens repeatedly every day. I also worry constantly about the front door being left open. Even knowing I closed it, having checked the knob/lock, and having looked multiple times while pulling out of the driveway, it happens fairly frequently that I feel compelled to turn around and go back to the house to check\u2014even if it\u2019s just driving by for a visual check. Lots of minor things like that trip me up on a daily basis.\n2. Years ago I modeled for pictures for a math textbook. My neighbor was a photographer and asked my parents if he could use me for one of his shoots. So at one point I was one of those kids wearing horrible \u201980s clothes and smiling cheesily at students from the pages of their textbook. I almost wish I had a copy, but I never got to see the final book.\n3. I lived in Anchorage, Alaska for two and a half years, from 2002 to 2005. I moved there to live with a friend, who I\u2019d met through my fanfiction writing. I\u2019m actually still friends with some people who I\u2019d met through the fandoms I was involved with and that I made while living in Alaska, some of them for going on 14 years. Through social media/the Internet, we\u2019ve seen each other through marriages, births, deaths, and yet with two of them, we\u2019ve never met in person.\n4. When I was younger, I wanted to be a film director/screenwriter. I even looked into programs at various art schools when I was considering colleges, but I let myself be talked out of pursuing that dream for fear of never becoming successful like Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I\u2019ve always regretted letting those doubts sway my decision. Even if I\u2019d never achieved Spielberg level fame, I could\u2019ve still been involved in filmmaking, which I know I would\u2019ve loved. But at the same time, I was also very interested in true crime. Another option I considered was becoming a criminal profiler, and most of my college credits are in law enforcement/legal courses. But I think if I were to go back to school now, which I am contemplating, I\u2019d probably do something involving forensics or crime scene investigation.\n5. People often joke about having zombie survival plans and stuff like that, but my husband and father-in-law are actually survivalists. We keep bug-out bags in our cars and we have food and supply stores. We also keep weapons hidden throughout the house, and have a backup generator in case of a prolonged power outage, and my husband collects dryer lint for emergency kindling. If we could afford to buy a large, secured property in the middle of nowhere and build an underground bunker, I honestly think he\u2019d want to do it. My feelings about this are a bit mixed. Generally, I think it\u2019s a good idea to have some of these things, like food and first aid supplies, in case of natural disaster scenarios, but partially I\u2019m bemused because this has been a more recent development, for only the last maybe 2-3 years of our ten-year relationship. I\u2019m still not entirely sure what sparked it all.\nAnd those are a few, lesser known facts about me. People will probably think I\u2019m even weirder now. :P\nMore about Piper:\nThanks for joining us this week to celebrate Piper Vaugh. Come back soon for our third week of celebrations, when we'll discuss Prickly Business, Prickly By Nature, and two more of Piper's free reads, Last First Kiss and An Oral Fixation.\nThanks for the post and the facts. I can relate to checking the house (and other things). I tend to get worried about whether I did something or just thought about it, so end up checking stuff frequently. And collecting lint is a new one on me. My cat would like that - he loves lint. ;-)\nJbst March 13, 2016 at 12:20 AM\nAll of the facts were so interesting, especially the last one. At the very least, some of the supplies are good for natural disasters.\nThank you for sharing so much of yourself in the facts. I have a habit of double and triple checking to make sure I have my keys and that the house is locked when I leave.\nMore books to add to my wish list, thank you for the giveaway chance and sharing some interesting facts :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 34735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mygeekbox.de/blu-ray/star-trek-the-next-generation-movie-collection/10052021.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:00:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BXM52ITR3S5QVZAMPJH3VJBNLGR7UXFM", "length": 2399, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mygeekbox.de", "title": "Star Trek - The Next Generation Movie Collection MyGeekBox", "raw_content": "Generations: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue a physicist named Soran. Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbors a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now Picard's only hope for a future rests within in the Nexus and a legendary captain from the past.\nFirst Contact: They call themselves the Borg - a half-organic, half machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen (Alice Krige), the Borg are headed to Earth with a devious plan to alter history.\nInsurrection: From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. But now Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree and must rebel against Starfleet to lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.\nNemesis: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise-E crew find themselves on a diplomatic mission to initiate peace with the Romulans. Learning that the Romulans have undergone a political upheaval and their new Praetor, Shinzon, wants to discuss a peace treaty with the Federation, Picard and his crew must investigate the situation and determine Shinzon's sincerity. But they learn that not only is the new Praetor not a Romulan at all but a native of Romulus' sister planet Remus, they also find that he is a human replica of Picard, originally bio-engineered by the Romulans to be substituted for the captain as a weapon against the Federation. Now, Picard and his crew must determine if the Romulans truly desire a peace treaty, or if they have other plans in mind\nPatrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, John De Lancie, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn\nStar Trek: Generations: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish\nStar Trek: First Contact: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish\nStar Trek: Insurrection: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish\nStar Trek X: Nemesis: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myguidealicante.com/things-to-do/cultural-trips-and-sightseeing-tours", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GLUW7XVYPJK424DRIKM4EF7NK7PCAQJ3", "length": 1486, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.myguidealicante.com", "title": "Cultural Trips and Sightseeing Tours in Alicante | My Guide Alicante", "raw_content": "Cultural Trips and Sightseeing Tours in Alicante\nAlicante is a region with a rich history and cultural past. You can find out more about the region by joining an organised tour or visiting the many museums and art galleries.\nOne of the finest ways to find out about your resort or the Alicante region is by sitting back and enjoying the ride on a tourist bus or road train. You can find out about the great Costa Blanca painters and writers, Hannibal's connections to the region, Alicante's role in the Civil War and the fantastic era when the Moors ruled the land. Other trips are available by boat where you can take a closer look at the ever-changing Alicante coastline.\nMicrofiesta Benidorm, Alicante\nAlicante Turibus Alicante City, Alicante\nOne of the best ways to get to know a city is to take a trip on the sightseeing bus. Alicante Turibus has 10 stops around the historic city and you can hop on and hop off\nBenidorm Sightseeing Bus Benidorm, Alicante\nA splendid way to see Benidorm at its finest is on the top deck of an old-fashioned English double decker bus.............\nMoraira Road Train Moraira-Teulada, Alicante\nA lovely way to get to know your holiday resort of Moraira is to take the little tourist road train. You can just sit back and enjoy the ride.............\nMundo Marino Denia, Alicante\nFor more than 10 years the Mundo Marino team has been sharing its passion for all things nautical but nice.............\nFilter Cultural Trips and Sightseeing Tours by Region", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 811, "original_length": 33153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Festival-of-Trees-8217-roots-deepen-at-Pathway-13394179.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CWVF4OT352Q2MGQTCYTXZ75BHVN3B5VG", "length": 4897, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.myjournalcourier.com", "title": "Festival of Trees\u2019 roots deepen at Pathway - Jacksonville Journal-Courier", "raw_content": "https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Festival-of-Trees-8217-roots-deepen-at-Pathway-13394179.php\nFestival of Trees\u2019 roots deepen at Pathway\nSteve Seymour works Tuesday to put the finishing touches on one of two giant wood reindeer he built to welcome visitors to the Festival of Trees at Pathway Services on Morton Avenue. The festival begins at 5 p.m. Friday and runs through the weekend.\nSteve Seymour works Tuesday to put the finishing touches on one of two giant wood reindeer he built to welcome visitors to the Festival of Trees at Pathway Services on Morton Avenue. The festival begins at 5\nAngela Bauer | Journal-Courier\nWhen Pathway Services agreed in 2017 to take over the annual Festival of Trees event from Woodhaven Hospice, organizers were learning on the fly, figuring out what worked and what didn\u2019t in real time.\nWith that first event under their belt and a year to plan, their goal now is to evolve and grow, keeping the best parts of the community tradition while adding what hopefully will become new favorites.\n\u201cLast year, we were trying to get a feel for it, listen to what people said. \u2018I like this, I don\u2019t like that\u2019,\u201d said Steve Brundage, Pathway\u2019s executive director.\nWith the event moving last year from the Masonic temple to the Pathway building, the move alone was enough change, Pathway board member Barbara Suelter said.\n\u201cWhat was interesting for us last year was that moving from the Masonic temple was a drastic change for people,\u201d she said.\nThe extra space at the Pathway building is a huge plus for the event, with plenty of room to expand, she and Brundage agreed. But the size also proved challenging for some festival-goers.\nRather than proving a stumbling block, the Pathways crew saw the need for a map. For this year\u2019s event, the hallways in the building have been named like streets and those attending will be given a map to help them find their way around.\nOrganizers also saw some humor in the situation.\n\u201cWe had so many people last year say, \u2018I can\u2019t find the door I came in,\u201d Suelter said, adding that this year, the building\u2019s main entrance has been designated \u201cThe Door I Came In\u201d and noted appropriately on the map.\nIt\u2019s all in good fun, as are the other additions to the annual display and auction of decorated Christmas trees.\nAlong with two 15-foot reindeer greeting guests at the front door, \u201cdancing\u201d lights will be strung along the building\u2019s exterior to keep time with music being played. Weather permitting, a train will give children rides around the parking lot. Food will be available for purchase. Children\u2019s activities will be available, and a gift and craft shop will be open for shopping.\nAs for changes to the trees, the biggest is that certain times during the weekend will be designated as \u201cChristmas Glow\u201d hours, when the main lights will be turned off and guests can tour the display of trees using the light from the trees as guidance.\nWhile they were anticipating having 27 \u201cdecorator\u201d trees, 18 \u201cyouth\u201d trees, 17 wreaths and assorted centerpieces for display as of Tuesday, Suelter said that number could easily increase by the time the event opens Friday evening.\n\u201cLast year we had a lady walk in and say, \u2018I have six wreaths\u2019,\u201d Suelter said.\n\u201cBut it\u2019s such a big building, extra wreaths or trees, we can still find space for them,\u201d Brundage said. \u201cIt\u2019s not an issue.\u201d\nThe trees are decorated by a range of people in the community, from professional designers to 4-H clubs, school classes and church groups, and the diversity of the decorators is reflected in the diversity of the tree designs.\n\u201cWe have a theme,\u201d Brundage said. \u201cBut people interpret it different ways.\u201d\nThe range of people working to make it happen is part of what makes the event so special, he and Suelter agreed.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of work and a lot of people \u2026 but everyone pulls together to make it happen,\u201d Brundage said.\nThe Festival of Trees will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday with an auction of trees and wreaths at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pathway Services building at 1905 W. Morton Ave. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free to those under 5.\nAlong with being a community holiday tradition, the Festival of Trees also is a charitable fundraiser. Proceeds will benefit the Pathway Partners Fund, which helps to cover the cost of unfunded needs for clients receiving services through Pathway.\nLive entertainment will perform throughout the weekend during Festival of Trees.\nFriday night\u2019s lineup includes the Central Christian Church Handbell Choir, Tyler Maul and the Gospel Gals.\nSaturday\u2019s lineup includes Rod Nicholson, Chuck West and Co., Sunshine Singers, Christine Smith, Robert Sampson, Mike Anderson, Triopia Vocal Choir, AnnaBelle Blue, Morgan Schulte and Phil Foxworth.\nSunday\u2019s lineup includes Mike Anderson and the Faith Lutheran Church Handbell Choir.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/life/things-to-do/article224167350.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FE6G2CKNRSNCMDYOFYJIXB5BZO6SJGBO", "length": 1708, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.myrtlebeachonline.com", "title": "Mopar Week | MyrtleBeachLife.com | Myrtle Beach Life | Myrtle Beach Sun News", "raw_content": "On Monday, a Meet N\u2019 Greet will take place at Planet Hollywood and Legends in Concert from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. This event is a great time to meet up with other Mopar owners and find out more about the events planned for the week. Mopar participants will get a 10% discount on food purchases at Planet Hollywood.\nTuesday is for Jeeps, it\u2019s the Jeep Run at and Myrtle Beach Speedway. The Speedway is setting up an obstacle course for off road vehicles.\nAlso on Tuesday, gather with other Mopar owners for a fun day at Broadway Grand Prix.\nWednesday, head out to the Myrtle Beach Speedway again for the Mopar Week Race Challenge. Participants will get to race against the clock on either the oval or on the road course.\nAlso on Wednesday, Jeep owners are invited to a Mopar Week Jeep Cruise-In & Ride at Hard Rock Cafe. Start off with lunch at Hard Rock (with a 25% discount). Following lunch take a drive down through Myrtle Beach (starts at 2 p.m.). The ride will end at the Wheels of Yesteryear.\nOn Thursday, Hooters in North Myrtle Beach and Calli Bakers Firehouse are hosting a Mopar Week Cruise-In from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.\nA charity ride will take place Friday. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. at Hard Rock Cafe. The ride supports the Wounded Warrior Project.\nSaturday will be Mopar owners chance to show off their cars to the public. The Mopar Week Classic & Modern Muscle Car Show will be held at Broadway at the Beach from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The public is invited to attend the show for free.\nFollowing the car show on Saturday, Mopars will cruise the Myrtle Beach Strip.\nThe week wraps up on Sunday at Wheels of Yesteryear. The car museum will host a Cruise-In.\nFor a full list of events and more details, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 228.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/life/things-to-do/article224168560.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:IOXNJ26NTU42GVLRCZHFH3F54TDXUVKX", "length": 572, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.myrtlebeachonline.com", "title": "| Myrtle Beach Life | Myrtle Beach Sun News", "raw_content": "Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s hit songs include \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Water,\u201d The Sound of Silence\u2019 and \u2018Mrs. Robinson.\u2019\nSince then, Garfunkel has lead a successful solo career with 12 albums. Garfunkel has not only had success as a musician, but has appeared in films and published a book of poetry. He is also booked for Five Irish Tenors and Garrison Keillor.\nIn this show, you will not only hear his greatest hits, you will hear his poetry and stories.\nTickets go on sale Friday, April 22 at 10 a.m.\nFor more information and to purchase tickets, click here or call 800-843-6779.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 143.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalnews.com/032726_GMOs_national_wildlife_refuge.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:29:50Z", "digest": "sha1:TOZ7ZN4EQYOZAFQSITGIUVFXTRDH6YHN", "length": 2597, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.naturalnews.com", "title": "Obama administration gives green light for GMOs to be planted in national wildlife refuges - NaturalNews.com", "raw_content": "Obama administration gives green light for GMOs to be planted in national wildlife refuges\nTags: GMOs, national wildlife refuge, health news\nhttps://www.naturalnews.com/032726_GMOs_national_wildlife_refuge.html\n(NaturalNews) A battle is raging over whether or not it should be legal to plant genetically-modified (GM) crops in US wildlife refuges. A little over a month after various conservation and food safety groups achieved a unified legal victory that banned all future plantings of GMOs in refuges, the Obama administration announced its full-fledged support for GMOs in refuges. And the administration is now working towards ramrodding through a new plan that would exempt the issue of GMO plantings in refuges from having to face any further legal challenges that oppose them.\nAccording to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a non-profit alliance of local, state, and federal resource professionals, the Obama administration is on a quest, of sorts, to create justification for GM plantings in the refuges. Only crops deemed \"essential\" to refuge operations are permitted for planting, so the administration will have to craft some pretty manipulative rhetoric in order to make its proposal anything other than a pitifully laughable insult to both science and common sense.\n\"These (Obama administration) plans are based on the curious notion that wildlife benefit from having the small slivers of habitat set aside for them covered by genetically engineered soybeans,\" said Jeff Ruch, PEER's Executive Director. \"To boost US exports, the Obama administration is forcing wildlife refuges into political prostitution.\"\nPromises of hope and change apparently do not apply to federal policy concerning \"Frankenfoods,\" which have received even more support from the current administration than from previous ones. The Obama administration is responsible for overturning numerous court decisions that would have banned, or at least better regulated, GM crops that have never been proven safe, including GM sugar beets (https://www.naturalnews.com/029724_sugar_beet...) and GM alfalfa (https://www.naturalnews.com/031196_GE_alfalfa...).\n\"The Obama administration says that it is devoted to scientific integrity but these new reviews are scientific travesties,\" added Ruch, concerning the complete and utter lack of any legitimate scientific proof that GMOs are safe for the refuges. \"The sole document assessing the environmental impacts of genetically engineered planting in 25 Southeastern refuges is only six pages long.\"\nhttp://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 15453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 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"language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 116.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/Ben-Jerry-Free-Cone-Day-April-4-418010803.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:03Z", "digest": "sha1:PF5I4O76H5GGFDIXIIUZ3URRO4MBKWQ7", "length": 1084, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nbcboston.com", "title": "Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day Is April 4 - NBC10 Boston", "raw_content": "Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day Is April 4\nCustomers can get a free scoop of their favorite flavor from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at participating locations\nCourtesy Ben & Jerry's\nFree Cone Day is April 4th! What flavor will you choose?\nI scream, you scream, we all scream for free Ben & Jerry's ice cream!\nThe Vermont-based ice cream chain will celebrate its annual Free Cone Day event on Tuesday, April 4.\nCustomers can get a free scoop of their favorite flavor from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at participating locations. And if after enjoying a Cherry Garcia cone your taste buds yearn for some Phish Food, just get back in line for another free cone. \"Over and over again. We're not counting. Really, go for it,\" the company said on its website.\nThe first Free Cone Day was in 1979 \u2014 one year after co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield launched the company in a renovated gas station in Burlington. The tradition has since expanded globally, and Ben & Jerry's says it will hand out more than 1 million free scoops this Tuesday.\nClick here to find a participating Ben & Jerry's location near you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/blogs/dog-house/Maya-Up-for-Another-Honor-Has-Bobblehead-Now-128317298.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5D6JXDBWVHP4JUHLDRAA3QXYS3R5MS6E", "length": 954, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nbcconnecticut.com", "title": "\"Maya Up for Another Honor, Has Bobblehead Now\" - NBC Connecticut", "raw_content": "\"Maya Up for Another Honor, Has Bobblehead Now\"\nMinnesota Lynx forward Maya Moore is in line for another honor, which at this point has become about as predictable as the sunrise. In the middle of a fantastic rookie season that has included an All-Star start and helping lead the Lynx to first place in the Western Conference, Moore is still being recognized for her contributions to the college game.\nAccording to the Associated Press, Moore, one of 30 semifinalists announced Tuesday by NCAA officials, has made the first cut for the NCAA's Woman of the Year Award. Ten women from each of the NCAA's three divisions made the list, which will be paired to nine finalists in early September. The winner will be announced Oct. 16.\nPerhaps her greatest achievement to date, however, has little to do with personal records or team championships. Based on this video, it could be the Maya Moore bobblehead doll:\nLindsay Whalen is way too excited by all this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9524963", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6CFNFUZKDTS7A5NUCFR6JL3X7NHZ2JUB", "length": 1899, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Inhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in response to lipopolysaccharide is independent of changes in circulating corticosteroids. - PubMed - NCBI", "raw_content": "Neuroimmunomodulation. 1997 Jul-Aug;4(4):188-94.\nInhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in response to lipopolysaccharide is independent of changes in circulating corticosteroids.\nKondo K1, Harbuz MS, Levy A, Lightman SL.\nDepartment of Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University of Bristol, UK. konkuni@net-tokai.or.jp\nWe have investigated the role of circulating glucocorticoids in the suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection in rats. Intraperitoneal injection of LPS (2.5 mg/kg) suppressed paraventricular nucleus thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) mRNA, pituitary thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) mRNA and plasma triiodothyronine. In these animals LPS also increased paraventricular nucleus corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) mRNA, pituitary proopiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA and plasma corticosterone levels. To investigate the role of plasma corticosterone in the suppression of the HPT axis, we clamped the plasma corticosterone level at morning baseline level by bilateral adrenalectomy and corticosterone pellet implantation. Ten days after surgery, LPS injection evoked a dramatic increase in CRH mRNA and POMC mRNA. Despite the lack of change in plasma corticosterone in the corticosterone-clamped rats, LPS was still able to suppress TRH and TSH mRNA levels in both corticosterone-clamped and sham-operated rats. These data indicate that in response to LPS, suppression of the HPT axis occurs and is independent of the LPS-induced increase in plasma corticosterone.\nAdrenal Cortex Hormones/blood*\nLipopolysaccharides/pharmacology*\nParaventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus/drug effects*\nParaventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus/metabolism\nPituitary Gland, Anterior/drug effects*\nPituitary Gland, Anterior/metabolism\nPro-Opiomelanocortin/genetics\nThyroid Gland/physiology*\nThyrotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 8645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/mortgages/buying-a-house-private-mortgage-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PAFKFAR5PKAUXENKUWI66P5LDKHGD5Y4", "length": 4359, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nerdwallet.com", "title": "Buying a House: Private Mortgage Insurance - NerdWallet", "raw_content": "Buying a Home: Finalizing Your Loan\nMortgages: The Basics\nBuying a House: Private Mortgage Insurance\nBuying a home usually includes a monster obstacle: coming up with a sufficient down payment. If you opt for a down payment of less than the traditional 20%, your lender will probably require you to buy private mortgage insurance.\nThe concept behind mortgage insurance is the same as with other insurance plans: You pay a monthly premium to the insurer, who protects the mortgage lender in the event you default.\nPrivate mortgage insurance, or PMI, is insurance for the mortgage lender\u2019s benefit, not yours. It\u2019s a concession often required when your down payment is less than 20%. (If you\u2019re planning to put down 20% or more, you won\u2019t need to think about this.) Because lenders are assuming additional risk by accepting a lower amount of upfront money toward the purchase, they will often call for the borrower to purchase PMI.\nPMI will pay the lender a portion of the balance of the principal due if you stop making payments on your loan. PMI will typically pay the difference between a conventional 20% down payment and what a borrower actually put down.\nFor example, if you put down 5% to purchase a home, PMI might cover the additional 15%. A loan default triggers the policy payout as well as foreclosure proceedings, so that the lender can repossess the home and sell it in an attempt to regain the balance of what is owed.\nHow much does PMI cost?\nThe cost of private mortgage insurance is based on the size of the loan you are applying for, your down payment and your credit score. The average annual cost can be from 0.5% to 1% or more of the loan amount, which is divided by 12 and added to your monthly house note.\nWhen can you cancel PMI?\nOnce your mortgage principal balance is less than 80% of the original appraised value or the current market value of your home, whichever is less, you can generally cancel the PMI. (This often happens thanks to appreciation in a home\u2019s value, since all of that extra value goes to you.) Often there are additional restrictions, such as a history of timely payments and the absence of a second mortgage.\nMortgage lenders are required to tell you at closing how long it will take for you to reach that loan-to-value mark and update you annually of any cancellation options. Generally, mortgage lenders are required to cancel PMI once the mortgage balance dips down to 78% of original value.\nPMI can also be terminated if you reach the midpoint of your payoff. For example, if you took out a 30-year loan and you\u2019ve completed 15 years of payments, PMI may be terminated.\nMortgage insurance for FHA and VA loans\nMortgage insurance for loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates a little differently from conventional mortgages.\nVA loans to active, disabled or retired military servicemembers and their eligible surviving spouses never require mortgage insurance, but most borrowers will pay a \u201cfunding fee\u201d ranging between roughly 0.5% and 3.3%. This fee depends on a wide variety of factors, including whether you\u2019ve applied for a VA loan before and how much money you\u2019re putting down, if any.\nVA loans are also available to certain reservists and National Guard members. Others may also qualify. The VA Eligibility Center has details at 888-768-2132.\nMortgages of $625,500 or less backed by the FHA currently require a 1.75% upfront mortgage insurance payment as well as monthly mortgage insurance premiums ranging from 0.45% to 0.85%, depending on the loan term and amount.\nThe down payment decision\nMortgage insurance allows a lot of people to become homeowners who otherwise might not be able to. And it\u2019s natural to want to put down as little money as possible, but you\u2019ll want to consider the real costs now and down the road.\nThe way the system works is: The larger the down payment, the better your financing deal. You\u2019ll get a lower mortgage interest rate, pay fewer fees and gain equity in your home more rapidly. But ultimately it\u2019s a matter of balancing your short-term financial capabilities with the realities of your local real estate market and your future savings and earnings potential to determine the best long-term financial result for you.\nGet Advice Now about Mortgage Insurance\nTips for finding the best mortgage lender", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 11478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neurohopewellness.org/about-us/our-team/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EURU4ZL7Y6PYHHHZALQNDHUM7IIVEXTV", "length": 7366, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.neurohopewellness.org", "title": "Our Team \u2013 NeuroHope", "raw_content": "NeuroHope staffs Physical Therapists who specialize in neurologic recovery, and Rehabilitative Exercise Specialists who are devoted to bettering the lives of individuals living with spinal cord injury, brain injury or stroke. NeuroHope works in collaboration with the University of Indianapolis Krannert School of Physical Therapy.\nNora Foster\nPT, DPT - Director of Therapy\nNora is the Director of Therapy at NeuroHope and a founding member of the NeuroHope Board of Directors. Nora shares the vision of building Indiana\u2019s first extended rehabilitative and wellness facility, and is excited to provide clients with the aggressive, activity based therapy and exercise they need.\nNora is a graduate of Bethel College (IN) and earned her Doctorate degree (DPT) from the Krannert School of Physical Therapy at the University of Indianapolis. During her graduate studies, Nora became passionate about working with the neurologic population. She began her clinical career working at an inpatient rehabilitation facility specializing in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), and has also spent time at both skilled nursing facilities and outpatient clinics, and has attended courses in SCI, clinical education and wheelchair positioning.\nNora married her husband Brent in 2013. They enjoy the outdoors and being active camping, kayaking, traveling and spending time with family and friends.\nMegan received her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a Health Fitness Specialist major from Indiana University, and earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. She has additional training from the NeuroRecovery Training Institute, and in Neuro-Developmental Treatment. Megan developed an interest in helping individuals with neurological conditions early in her graduate studies. She began her career in the acute neurological setting, progressed to acute rehab and outpatient neurological settings, and has expertise in both adult and pediatric populations. Megan and her husband, Shane, have three energetic sons. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, being active outside, and traveling.\nMS - PTA\nDonna began her work as a therapist immediately after earning her A.S. from Vincennes University in 1989. Her early career was spent at St. Vincent Hospital where she worked at inpatient and outpatient levels, as well as with patients in Home Care. In 1992, Donna became one of the first employees of the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (RHI), where she quickly developed a passion for spinal cord injury rehabilitation. Donna specialized in neurologic recovery throughout her twelve year tenure at RHI (1992-1996, 2006-2014), and has also served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Indianapolis, and a guest lecturer for various PTA programs around the state. Donna earned her B.A. in Health Sciences from IUPUI, and her Master\u2019s in Education at Purdue University. Donna and her husband have four children, and she enjoys cooking, spending time with her family and rooting on her beloved Colts and Packers!\nTravis Jefferson\nMS - Rehabilitative Exercise Specialist\nTravis is a graduate of Charleston Southern University (B.S. in Kinesiology), Miller-Motte Technical College (Therapeutic Massage), and California University of Pennsylvania (Masters in Exercise Science and Health Promotion). He started his career as a Graduate Assistant for the Strength and Conditioning Department at Charleston Southern University.\nTravis is an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist, NASE Speed and Explosion Specialist, Crossfit Level 1 instructor, and holds the ACSM Exercise is Medicine credential. He has experience working with collegiate athletes and the elderly and chronically ill population.\nTravis moved to Indiana with his wife, Ariel, and bulldog, Princess, in June of 2016, one day after their wedding. They enjoy traveling, trying new foods, and attending college and professional sporting events.\nBart Richwalski\nMS, CSCS - Rehabilitative Exercise Specialist\nBart has developed a passion for the rehabilitation of musculoskelatal and neurological injuries while working as a strength and conditioning coach in the Indianapolis area over the past decade. From novice fitness enthusiasts to professional hockey players, Bart has utilized his skills to enhance performance, and rehab clients through traumatic injuries.\nHe received his B.S. from Purdue University in 2007 and his M.S. in Biomechanics from Ball State University in 2014. His primary research interests while working on his thesis included musculoskeletal injury mechanisms and targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR). He is excited to share his experience and innovative thinking with NeuroHope and its rehabilitation team. Bart is also an avid outdoorsman who enjoys everything from camping and hiking to hunting and fishing, while sharing these activities with friends and family.\nMarshall Sparenberg\nTherapy and Wellnes Tech\nMarshall has a passion for helping individuals recover from any injury, but during an internship at NeuroHope, he developed a special interest in helping patients recover from neurological conditions. He is an ASCM Certified Exercise Physiologist, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a concentration in Occupational Therapy from The University of Indianapolis in 2018. In the future, he plans to continue his education, and pursue a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy.\nIn his free time, Marshall enjoys watching baseball, golfing, and building wood furniture with his father. He also loves traveling and watching his favorite basketball team, the Purdue Boilermakers.\nNatalie Robison has more than 9 years of medical office management and billing / coding expertise. A 2008 Graduate from MedTech College, Natalie possesses a strong commitment to helping others throughout their medical treatment and recovery, providing a professional attitude of compassion, understanding, and support. She has been a credentialed member of the American Academy of Professional Coders since 2007.\nNatalie and her husband Joseph were married in 2013 in the US Virgin Islands. They have two children, a 13 year old son named Gavin and a 3 year old daughter named Maeve. Natalie spends her free time crafting and runs a small T-shirt and decal business.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/neurohope/\nChris Leeuw\nChris Leeuw is the Founder and Executive Director of NeuroHope of Indiana, a 501(c)3 outpatient physical therapy clinic that specializes in recovery from neurologic injury. In August of 2010, Chris sustained an incomplete c4 spinal cord injury that initially left him paralyzed from the neck down. Throughout his two-year recovery process, he traveled to clinics across the country that combined aggressive therapy with integrated wellness programs at affordable rates to help patients maximize recovery after insurance visits were exhausted. In 2012, he returned home walking, independent, and determined to create a like-minded facility in Indiana. NeuroHope opened doors to its first patients in February of 2015. Prior to his spinal cord injury and recovery, Chris worked in television news at stations in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, and Ft. Myers FL in both production and as an on-air reporter. Chris is a graduate of Indiana University and earned his Masters Degree from the University of Miami (FL).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 8971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/graduate-study", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QJPDWLCDLPUNHWAU7TRBMPJGAZY47NUP", "length": 1590, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.new.ox.ac.uk", "title": "Graduate Study | New College", "raw_content": "We admit approximately 100 graduates every year, of whom some are New College undergraduates staying on to do graduate work. Admission is on the basis of academic merit, subject to the College's desire to accept candidates in a broad range of disciplines for a wide range of courses; some preference is given to candidates who wish to work in subject areas or take courses in which a Fellow of the College takes a particular interest.\nApplying to New College\nTo apply to New College, applicants must apply to the University of Oxford following the procedure described on the University website, and nominate New College as their first choice college. They must first be accepted by the department or faculty in which they wish to study. Their application will then be considered by the college(s) chosen.\nThe scholarly interests of our graduate students are very diverse: as well as those reading for advanced degrees in both Sciences and Humanities, we admit each year a good number of clinical medical students, candidates for the PGCE, and a few graduates reading for undergraduate honours degrees.\nIn addition to teaching and supervision provided by the University faculties, each graduate is appointed a College Advisor, who is one of the Fellows of the College. The College Advisor's role is generally to provide support and encouragement to graduate students, and to assist with their integration into the life of the College.\nYou can view the Graduate Prospectus on the University webpages.\nYou may also find useful information on the MCR website.\nMSt International Human Rights Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 4943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newcastle.co.uk/branch-refurbishment/ashington/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6JHVY7BABBR3ML2YEIJE3M2FKKJAMHUV", "length": 488, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newcastle.co.uk", "title": "Ashington Branch - Newcastle Building Society", "raw_content": "Ashington, it\u2019s time for something new. An improved branch, right at the heart of the community.\nA community area is an integral part of our new branch, which will provide a free space in which local people, groups and good causes can share information about events and activities that are happening in the local area.\nThis is our commitment to you. Our improved branch in Ashington will be an open welcoming place, somewhere to bring people together, with a community focus at its heart.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 142.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neweracap.com/SPORTS/NEW-YORK-YANKEES-1996-WORLD-SERIES-WOOL-59FIFTY-FITTED/p/11783652", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TVTELJFDKVUNVHLFJ7NOIV4QC3VJ2IES", "length": 399, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.neweracap.com", "title": "NEW YORK YANKEES 1996 WORLD SERIES WOOL 59FIFTY FITTED", "raw_content": "NEW YORK YANKEES 1996 WORLD SERIES WOOL 59FIFTY FITTED\n6 7/8 7 7 1/8 7 1/4 7 3/8 7 1/2 7 3/4 7 7/8 8 8 1/8 8 1/4\nCelebrating their 1996 World Series victory, the New York Yankees World Series 59FIFTY Fitted Cap features a 100% Wool woven fabrication with an embroidered Yankees logo at the front panels and a 1996 World Series Side Patch at the left-wear side with an MLB Batterman logo at the rear.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 465, "original_length": 7266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newschief.com/news/20070525/mccheadmagic-say-hill-couldnt-delivermcchead/1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:20Z", "digest": "sha1:AXDDU5I3DQGQTNRZ6RKMCXPX7NAYPB7H", "length": 3778, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.newschief.com", "title": "Magic say Hill couldn't deliver - News - News Chief - Winter Haven, FL", "raw_content": "Magic say Hill couldn't deliver\nORLANDO - The Orlando Magic are a small-market team with big ideas, and just making the playoffs isn't one of them.\nNeither is 40 wins in 82 games, or an 0-8 showing for the season against the Eastern Conference powerhouse Detroit Pistons. So it was with a heavy heart, Orlando general manager Otis Smith said Thursday, that the Magic dismissed coach Brian Hill after his second season back and their first playoff appearance in four years.\n\"I believe we have one of the best sports franchises in the country, so I think we should expect our team to win a championship,\" Smith said. \"Short-term expectations of the next guy is to win a championship. I don't know how to say it any other way. I know that sounds like I put a lot of pressure on everybody in the room, myself and whoever the next guy is going to be.\"\nHill - in his second stint with Orlando - is still the most successful coach in the young franchise's history, and Smith was quick to praise him. The Magic are negotiating with him to stay in another capacity.\n\"This wasn't an easy decision by any stretch of the imagination,\" Smith said. \"It was something that kept me up nights trying to figure out, \ufffdIs this the right thing to do at this time for this young basketball team?\"'\nThe team said Hill was not immediately available for interviews.\nHe was Orlando's coach from 1993-1997, taking a young Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway to the NBA Finals in 1995. The club dismissed him halfway through the 1996-97 season and brought him back in 2005 when a carousel of others failed to produce.\nHill inherited a team with 36 wins and posted the same record last season. This year Orlando improved by four games, but got bounced from the playoffs in four straight by the Pistons. The Magic also lost all four games to Detroit in the regular season.\nThe Magic even started hot, helping Hill earn the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month award after a 12-4 November. But Orlando struggled - particularly against weak teams - and barely made the postseason as a No. 8 seed.\nSmith acknowledged consistency at the top has been a problem for the Magic. Hill was their fourth coach in four years, including Chris Jent, Orlando's interim coach for two months before Hill's second hiring.\nThe club seemed confident in Hill at regular season's end, but team president Bob Vander Weide said after the playoffs they were reconsidering.\nSmith refused to talk specifically about replacement candidates.\n\"Of course there's a list that exists, but I'm not going to get into a list of candidates and who that person is going to be,\" Smith said. \"You guys are going to call me again for the next couple of weeks and I'm not going to answer my calls or e-mails for the next couple weeks until we get the right person.\"\nSome speculated the Magic would try to lure Billy Donovan from nearby Gainesville after the Florida Gators' second straight championship, but Donovan said he'd stay put in a statement Thursday.\n\"My focus is on coaching at the University of Florida,\" the statement said, adding that Donovan expects to finalize a new contract there soon.\nSmith said Orlando's offensive imagination and adjustments had to change, and the new coach must develop Orlando's young but talented core. It includes All-Star Dwight Howard, forward Trevor Ariza, point guard Jameer Nelson and 7-footer Darko Milicic, a free agent the Magic vow to re-sign.\nGrant Hill's status is still uncertain as he considers retirement. The often-injured 34-year-old's contract expired after this season, and he could opt for another year with Orlando or a title run somewhere else.\n\"I think our team is attractive enough to get some attention from some other coaches that might be available out there right now,\" Smith said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newschief.com/news/20190209/warren-makes-presidential-bid-official-with-call-for-change", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YSMWYRQVFX3CZHX5YGAF2LIUZWAX57B5", "length": 786, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.newschief.com", "title": "Warren makes presidential bid official with call for change - News - News Chief - Winter Haven, FL", "raw_content": "By Elana Schor, The Associated Press\nTrump \"is not the cause of what's broken,\" Warren told an elated crowd without using the president's name. \"He's just the latest \u2014 and most extreme \u2014 symptom of what's gone wrong in America.\"\nThe choice of Lawrence to start her campaign \"shows who she's fighting for,\" Garcia said. Asked whether fellow New Englander Sen. Bernie Sanders could pose a serious threat to Warren in New Hampshire's critical primary should he get into the race, Garcia said Warren is \"such an effective communicator that I think that people will respond to that very well.\"\nShe held an event later Saturday in New Hampshire, home to the nation's first primary, and plans to spend Sunday in Iowa, where the leadoff caucuses will be the first test of candidates' viability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 8665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newshuntermag.com/2018/08/rosemond-brown-reveals-paying-ghc-7200.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:X7WDRLBNC7677J4OBFBJ4TY3D3OD6LFP", "length": 1502, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.newshuntermag.com", "title": "Rosemond Brown Reveals Paying Ghc 7,200 To A Blogger Whose Duty Was To Insult Her In Order To Be Famous - News Hunter Magazine", "raw_content": "Home Entertainment Rosemond Brown Rosemond Brown Reveals Paying Ghc 7,200 To A Blogger Whose Duty Was To Insult Her In Order To Be Famous\nRosemond Brown Reveals Paying Ghc 7,200 To A Blogger Whose Duty Was To Insult Her In Order To Be Famous\nKofi Oppong Kyekyeku 5:20 pm Entertainment, Rosemond Brown,\nGhanaian actress, Rosemond Brown, has made a shocking revelation about some things she did to be famous.\nBeing so desperate to be famous, Rosemond Brown stated in an interview with Okay FM that she paid a blogger Ghc 7,200\u2014and the blogger\u2019s duty was to insult her so that she can be famous within a short time.\nShe stated that she paid an \u2018Instagram gossiper\u2019 with the username @thosecalledcelebs Ghc 300 every week for a period of six (6) months to execute the planned insults\u2014aimed at making her popular.\nRosemond said the plan worked for her because other bloggers in the country started writing about her.\nThe Revelation by Akuapem polo @rosemond_brown _________________________________________________ I haven't said this anywhere before and for the very 1st time I'm saying this in the public domain that I \"Akuapem polo @rosemond_brown contacted \"Those Called Celebs\" and Paid GHC 300 for a 6 Months Contract hype to get to where I am now\" __________________________________________________ It hasn't been an easy road and after our 6 months contract the account blocked me. #RonnieisEverywhere\nA post shared by GHANA'S LIVE UPDATE KING\ud83d\udc51 (@ronnie_is_every_where_) on Aug 29, 2018 at 5:49am PDT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsy.com/videos/millions-attend-pope-francis-mass-in-the-philippines/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MLQMJZKDQ4Q3FOFQZQBPUSYPLLBCUCRN", "length": 2070, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.newsy.com", "title": "Millions Attend Pope Francis' Mass In The Philippines (VIDEO)", "raw_content": "Millions Attend Pope Francis' Mass In The Philippines\nAs many as 6 million people attended Pope Francis' mass. If accurate, that's the most people ever brought together by this pontiff.\nHe's been popular ever since taking over leadership of the Roman Catholic church. Now, he may be the most popular pope in history after an estimated 6 million people attended Pope Francis' mass in the Philippines.\nThe pope wrapped up his tour of the country Sunday with mass in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Pope Francis braved heavy rain, covered up with a poncho and traveled in his windowless popemobile. (Video via Al Jazeera)\n\"He traveled around, stopped along the way, kissed babies, and, as I said, just got close with the people. He is a pastor. He is a pope of the people,\" CNN reporter Anna Coren said.\nIn the Philippines, about 81 percent of the country's 100 million people are Roman Catholic \u2014 giving the country one of the largest Catholic followings in the world.\nPope Francis dedicated his week long visit to the country, in part, to the victims of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people. His visit to hard-hit Tacloban was cut short Saturday due to bad weather. (Video via Fox News)\nFrancis' mass crowd of six million would break the previous record of five million people who welcomed Pope John Paul II to the area in 1995.\nStill, the BBC points out, there's a bit of confusion over these most recent numbers.\n\"Exactly how many we don't know. There is a bit of controversy over this figure. Earlier it was estimated to be about 3 million. Now they're claiming 6 to 7 million. I have to say, that sounds a bit high, but it was a very, very large crowd,\" BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said.\nMultiple other outlets reported the same, citing city officials and Vatican officials who reported the number.\nWhile Sunday's numbers were impressive, they're far from the world's largest religious gathering. That record belongs to Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that brought an estimated 100 million people to northern India in 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 10567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 193.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkapologetics.com/the-bible-tells-us-to-reason-with-people-at-times-in-defense-of-the-gospel/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HMT6J2RHQNY7UP6CMFKMW4IJQNLIY25F", "length": 2016, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.newyorkapologetics.com", "title": "The Bible Tells Us To Reason with People at Times in Defense of the Gospel - New York Apologetics", "raw_content": "The bible tells us to reason with people at times in defense of the Gospel.\nI recently had someone tell me that I shouldn\u2019t argue for the truth of God\u2019s word.\n\u201cJust should just pray for people and let God do His work\u201d, I was told.\nShould we reason or argue in the defense of the Gospel?\nIn our last blog on the subject of apologetics we looked at 5 verses that mention the greek word apologia translated defense. (Include link to other blog article)\nToday, we are going to look at the question of whether or not we should argue for the truth claims of Christianity.\nAs a point of clarification, when you see the word argue here, it is in the sense of reasoning that supports a proposition asserted.\nThe verse in the Bible that stands out to me is\n2 Corinthians 10:5 (NASB95)\nIn this verse Paul uses the greek word logismos, which means fallacious and deceptive reasoning (Lou Nida 30.11), translated speculations.\nWhat does Paul say about these fallacious and deceptive reasonings? He says that we are destroying these speculations! How? By dismantling these reasonings.\nWait a minute\u2026destroy or dismantle speculations (reasonings)? Sounds like good argumentation to me!\nI believe it is fair to say that the this and other scripture verses in the New Testament encourage helping people away from false beliefs and doctrines through reasoning.\nPaul speaks of a more mature reasoning process in 1 Corinthians 13:11:\n\u201c When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.\u201d\nLuke records Paul\u2019s custom of reasoning from the scriptures:\nAnd according to Paul\u2019s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,\nSo while it is always a good practice to pray, sometimes argument plays a vital role in and out of the church.\nDo you think you can show from scripture that we shouldn\u2019t argue in the sense of logical reasoning? Or can you show other places where argumentation is used in the Bible?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nick.com/shows/avatar", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GPQQ52CFRQITJHHRBOJQIQMD6EOMABST", "length": 133, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nick.com", "title": "Avatar - Official TV Series | Nickelodeon", "raw_content": "Aang, the last Airbender, is also the long lost Avatar. It\u2019s up to Katara and Sokka to help Aang face his destiny and save the tribe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nickl-partner.com/en/projects/healing-architecture-en/aerztehaus-an-der-klinik-rotes-kreuz-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RRWLSOWROFM46Y4N6N4B7ILZIA5F4I32", "length": 484, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nickl-partner.com", "title": "Nickl & Partner Architekten AG - \u00c4rztehaus an der Klinik Rotes Kreuz", "raw_content": "Medical Centre at the Red Cross Clinic\nA new Medical Centre is being erected at Frankfurt\u2019s Red Cross Clinic. The project\u2019s confined inner-city location in a mixed residential area presented a special challenge. The new building will be linked to the surrounding existing structures and accommodate a cardiologic practice with cardiac catheterisation labs and a hybrid operating room, a radiology practice with large medical apparatus such as MRT and CAT scanners, as well as offices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:47Z", "digest": "sha1:B7YWFJ5UQS6I5QKE4KGENYFXSXOV3VQJ", "length": 540, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nisra.gov.uk", "title": "Census | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency", "raw_content": "The census collects information every 10 years about people and households in Northern Ireland. It is used by central and local government, health authorities and many other organisations to plan and provide future services.\nThe next census in Northern Ireland will be in 2021.\nInformation on Northern Ireland's next census, including consultation plans.\nInformation on the 2011 Census in Northern Ireland, including how to access the data and supporting documents.\n2001 Census Interactive Content\n2001 Census Statistics\nContacts for Census", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/behind-the-lines/shell-filling-factory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MCKC47KTVBIGONQY7AKAK2EEDNBZZ3MI", "length": 937, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nls.uk", "title": "Shell filling factory plan - First World War exhibition - National Library of Scotland", "raw_content": "Shell filling factory\nPlan of Georgetown shell filling factory\nPlan showing the layout of the shell filling factory built at Houston in Renfrewshire in 1915.\nFrom 1914-1918, Scotland, along with the rest of the British nation, made a full commitment to total war.\nIndustries vital to supplying Britain's armies quickly came under Government control.\nIn response to the shell crisis of 1915, David Lloyd George was appointed first Minister for Munitions, and he quickly intensified munitions production.\nThe Scottish (later 'Georgetown') Filling Factory was built for the Ministry of Munitions in 1915 to fill and assemble finished shells for guns at the Front. It had two railway stations and its own branch line. The factory closed and was decommissioned in 1919.\nSee maps and plans from the time of the Great War in our exhibition 'Behind the lines: Personal stories of the First World War', which ran from 27 June to 11 November 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 157.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.noeticmind.net/2010/10/self-labeling-as-workplace-bullying.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:14Z", "digest": "sha1:B7RFKXEMYI724I5FFZQO6Y2QZLJGQDNQ", "length": 5240, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.noeticmind.net", "title": "Noetic Mind Review: Moderator Effects of Exposure to Negative Acts and Self-Labeling as a Victim of Workplace Bullying", "raw_content": "Moderator Effects of Exposure to Negative Acts and Self-Labeling as a Victim of Workplace Bullying\nIn the study of moderator effects and self-labeling as a victim of workplace bullying, Vie and Einarsen (2010) referenced 33 pieces of literature to examine self-labeling as workplace bullying victim. In the literature review, authors of this study explained that most studies measured bullying by operational method or self-labeling method (Nielsen, Skogstad, Matthiesen et al., 2009) and large discrepancy between the two methods was found (Salin, 2001). This discrepancy motivated the authors to study which factors predict self-labeling for workplace bullying.\nThis study identified the gap in current studies as a lack of research on personal and situational variables as potential moderators on the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labeling bullying. By reviewing the research by Matthiesen and Einarsen (2004), authors of the study predicted that highly anxious people are more likely to label themselves as target of bullying when exposed to negative acts at work and the authors further hypothesized that trait anxiety, trait anger, and organizational position might moderate the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labeling as a victim of workplace bullying.\nUnlike other studies that examine workplace bullying behavior, Vie and Einarsen (2010) focused their research on self-labeling as the victim of workplace bullying. In this study, Vie and Einarsen (2010) presented the research question in the title of their article: \u201cDoes trait anger, trait anxiety or organizational position moderate the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labeling as a victim of workplace bullying?\u201d (p. 67). The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that may moderate and predict self-labeling as a victim of workplace bullying. Three hypotheses were designed to analyze personal or situational variables that \"make some individuals more or less likely to label themselves as 'bullied' when facing bullying behavior at work\u201d (Vie and Einarsen, 2010).\nThis study had a moderate sample size. Respondents returned 466 completed questionnaires with an overall response rate of 55.8 %. Of this sample, 57.5% were leaders and 42.5% were followers. Males comprised 86.3% (n = 383) and females comprised 13.7% (n = 61). The mean age of the sample was 45 years (SD = 11. 77) with age ranging from 17 to 66 years.\nThe findings showed that exposure to negative act is common in a workplace because 64.4% respondents reported it. The result of the study revealed that 6.2% of respondents are victims of bullying. Also, 13.7% of respondents labeled themselves as victims of bullying, which is higher than expected. This study found significant correlations between self-labeling and all variables of the study. The logic regression showed that exposure to bullying behaviors acted as a strong predictor of self-labeling.\nIn this study, all three hypotheses were rejected because this study could not find trait anger, trait anxiety, or organizational position moderated the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labeling as a victim of bullying. This study verified that both trait anxiety and trait anger acted as individual predictors of self-labeling when controlled for NAQ. This study gave a negative answer to the research question but it confirmed that exposure to negative acts or behavior identified as bullying acts as a strong predictor of labeling oneself as a victim of workplace bullying.\nBesides the common limitation of self-reporting, other limitations in the study might include the uneven distribution of gender in the sample; also, this sample did not provide the yield of supervisors. Another limitation could be the research on moderator effects which are difficult to detect in general. In the study of moderator effects, it is important for researchers to select, oversample, or control the levels of the predictor variables so that they can detect statistically reliable interactions or quadratic effects explaining an appreciable proportion of the variation of the dependent variable (McClelland & Judd, 1993). The not-large-enough sample size has limited the effectiveness of moderator effects research.\nMatthiesen, S. B. & Einarsen, S. (2004). Psychiatric distress and symptoms of PTSD among victims of bullying at work. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 32, 335-56.\nNielsen, M. B., Skogstad, A. Matthiesen, S. B. Glas\u00f8, L., Aasland, M. S., Notelars, G. & Einarsen, S. (2009). Prevalence of workplace bullying in Norway: comparisons across time and estimation methods. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 18(1), 81-101.\nSalin, D. (2001). Prevalence and forms of bullying among business professionals. A comparison of two different strategies for measuring bullying. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 10, 425-441.\nVie, T., Glas\u00f8, L., & Einarsen, S. (2010). Does trait anger, trait anxiety or organisational position moderate the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labelling as a victim of workplace bullying?. 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Officials could not give more details on the hours surrounding the spill, but a letter from Plains CEO Greg Armstrong to lawmakers published Wednesday afternoon included more details. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk photo)\nBy Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @laraanncooper | June 24, 2015 | 7:30 p.m.\nIt took Plains All American Pipeline employees two hours to visually confirm that oil was indeed spilling out of their own Line 901 last month, the discovery of which prompted one outmatched employee to fight the flow by making a makeshift berm with his shovel.\nThose are just a few of the details listed in a letter sent from Plains CEO to several lawmakers probing for answers about the timeline on the day of the Refugio oil spill.\nThe spill dumped as much as 100,000 gallons into the Pacific Ocean and surrounding beaches last month, and a letter published Wednesday between Plains CEO Greg Armstrong and handful of legislators put some more clarity to the day's events.\nArmstrong responded on June 19 to a letter sent on June 5 from U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Edward Markey and Rep. Lois Capps, which outlined questions that still remain for the oil company.\nThe California Attorney General's Office is one of the agencies investigating the pipeline rupture, and specific details about what Plains knew and when have been shrouded by the ongoing investigation.\nIn the meantime, Plains has spent almost $100 million in cleanup and response alone, according to company officials who spoke at a press conference Wednesday.\nThat number does not include the amount Plains will have to pay for claims, penalties, court proceedings or lost revenues.\nAbout 93 percent of the shoreline has met cleanup goals at this point, and El Capitan State Beach will reopen Friday. Refugio is closed as crews continue to clean oil from the bluffs and shoreline.\nThe letters that were published Wednesday outlined questions that had to do with Plains' response in the wake of the spill, and Armstrong wrote back that the company has a spill response plan that states the maximum detection and shutdown time for Line 901 is 15 minutes.\nThat window of time was exceeded many times over, however, as employees struggled to identify where the spill was coming from.\nThe lawmakers referenced a corrective order from the oversight agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, or PHMSA.\nThat order stated that Plains employees detected anomalies in the pipelines at 11:30 a.m. the day of the spill, discovered the failure at 1:30 p.m. and reported the incident to the National Response Center at 2:56 p.m.\nLawmakers wanted to know why it took 3\u00bd hours to notify the center of the spill.\nArmstrong responded that the company is providing PHMSA with a second-by-second accounting of what happened during that time and that it would be \"premature and inappropriate to provide detail responses\" about the timeline while the investigation is ongoing.\nHe did, however, provide a timeline of events from Unified Command that began when the Las Flores pump was remotely shut down by Plains Midland control room at 11:30 a.m., 12 minutes before the Santa Barbara County Fire Department received a 9-1-1 call reporting an odor.\nJust after noon, State Parks staff were alerted to the 9-1-1 call and attempted to locate where the smell was coming from. State Parks and county fire staff met at Refugio State Beach and noticed a sheen on the water.\nIronically, at the same time, Plains representatives and employees from the county's Emergency Management and Fire departments were attending a previously scheduled spill drill at Freeport McMoran's Gaviota Station.\nThe timeline said that those company representatives were notified of oil on the beach just before 12:30 p.m.\nAt 12:43 p.m., the National Response Center received notification of the spill, and that shortly after that, company reps and county officials confirmed an oil sheen on the water.\nTwo Plains employees then left to ride the Line 901 right of way to determine if that was the source of the leak.\n\"It was not readily apparent from their vantage point near the beach that the oil had originated from Line 901,\" the timeline said, adding that the line is located uphill from the other side of the highway and oil was not seen running down the slope, highway or across the railroad tracks.\nThere was a culvert very near the point of release that was discovered later, where oil had traveled under the slope, highway and railroad tracks, the timeline stated.\nIt was not until about 1:30 p.m. that the company confirmed that the release originated from Line 901.\nThe employees began calling Plain's Midland control center to confirm the spill and begin bringing in resources.\n\"One of the Plains employees attempted to build a makeshift berm with his shovel to prevent additional oil from getting to the culvert and was subsequently assisted in this effort by SBFD personnel,\" the timeline states.\nPlains employees in Bakersfield also began to make notifications to regulatory agencies and several of the calls were duplicated, the timeline states.\nTo properly notify the National Response Center, Plains employees needed to have the location of the coordinates and an estimate of the volume of oil released.\n\"While the onsite Plains personnel were busy with the immediate demands and distractions associated with the response, the Plains personnel in the Bakersfield office were not able to reach the on-site employees to get a volume estimate,\" the report states, but were able to determine the location.\nAt 2:56 p.m., a Plains Pipeline Bakersfield employee called the NRC and formally notified it of the release, estimating the volume of the spill at 21,000 gallons.\n\"This contact was in addition to the initial contact received by the NRC at approximately 12:43 p.m.\" the report states.\nThe letter from Armstrong also confirms that on the day of the spill, the company saw both its Sisquoc and La Flores pumps shut down at 11:15 a.m. and about 11:30 a.m., respectively.\nHe also confirmed to lawmakers that Line 901 was not outfitted with an automatic shut-off sensor. The line instead had remote-controlled valves that allow liquid to flow in one direction but not the other.\nFederal guidelines don't require them to evaluate automatic shut-off valves for use, he said, and that installing one could cause \"unintended consequences\" if an unexpected closure occurred and could cause the line to rupture.\nArmstrong also said the company doesn't expect to use automatic shut-off valves on Line 901 after the affected segment is replaced. In fact, the company does not have any automatic shut-off valves on any of the 17,800 miles of crude oil and natural gas pipelines it owns.\nIn a shorter, separate letter to Rep. 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News - Notts County FC", "raw_content": "Notts to face Doncaster, Grimsby and Newcastle Under 21s in Checkatrade Trophy\nNotts County's have announced fixture and ticket information regarding their 2018-19 Checkatrade Trophy group stage.\nThe Magpies have been drawn in Group G alongside Doncaster Rovers, Grimsby Town and Newcastle United's Under 21s and details for each match have now been confirmed as follows.\nTuesday 4 September Grimsby Town (A)\nTuesday 9 October Newcastle U21s (H)\nTuesday 13 November Doncaster Rovers (H)\nAll kick-off times 7.45pm\nHome match prices\nUnder 12 (accompanied): \u00a31\nUnder 7 (accompanied): Free\nThere will be a \u00a32 increase on the day of the game for adults, over 65s, under 18s and under 16s tickets.\nTicket details for the trip to Grimsby will follow in due course.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 2449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.npec.nl/en/NPEC/show-17/5.7-million-towards-future-proof-lettuce-varieties.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:04Z", "digest": "sha1:GJFP3CIK7XWLHGFLDPMXEATJCARKYPGI", "length": 3921, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.npec.nl", "title": "\u20ac5.7 million towards future-proof lettuce varieties - NPEC", "raw_content": "A new \u20ac5.7 million research project has been set up in order to make lettuce more resistant to pathogens and the effects of climate change as well as to improve its performance in new growing systems. To this end, researchers from institutions including Utrecht University will map the properties and genetic codes of 500 wild and cultivated lettuce varieties. 'Our aim is to combine the most advantageous properties of these lettuce varieties into new varieties that will eventually end up on our plate.'\nThe LettuceKnow project, led by Utrecht University Professor Guido van den Ackerveken, has attracted a 4 million euro Perspectief grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Six major seed-breeding companies have topped up this sum with an additional 1.7 million euros to ensure the project's viability.\nThis will result in a great deal of important information about how lettuce grows and regulates its resistance\nProf. Dr. Guido van den Ackerveken - Future Food, Faculty of Science\nThanks to the work done in the past to map the genomes of such key food crops as corn and tomato, breeding new varieties of these crops has yielded significant results. 'However, we have only made slow progress so far with lettuce, even though it is one of the main vegetable crops,' says Guido van den Ackerveken. 'This fact is in spite of the Netherlands Centre for Genetic Resources owning more than 2,000 wild and cultivated lettuce varieties from the Mediterranean and South-West Asia.'\nTo remedy this deficit, twelve research groups convened by Utrecht University, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wageningen University & Research and Leiden University will map a broad range of properties pertaining to 500 of these lettuce varieties in order to build a vast knowledge database for the benefit of research into the growth and resistance of leafy vegetables.\nThey will use technology to make exact measurements of external characteristics and investigate how the crops respond to a range of external stimuli, such as pathogens and saline stress, in order to map the activity of all 30,000 or so lettuce genes.\n'This process will result in a great deal of important information about how lettuce grows and regulates its resistance,' Van den Ackerveken believes. 'If we could harness this genetic information for data analysis purposes, we could identify the underlying hereditary properties. In the second part of the study, we will look at which of these properties we can use to breed new cultivated varieties of lettuce.'\nLettuceKnow is part of the research hub Future Food Utrecht. This hub focuses on the societal challenge of ensuring that future generations have access to sufficient food and a healthy diet. Through their fundamental research, Utrecht University's scientists contribute to the sustainable innovation of food production, the development of a healthy diet and the promotion of smart food choices.\nTheir efforts will enable the cultivation of lettuce varieties that are ideally suited to dry and hot circumstances, saline soil or vertical farming. Moreover, Van den Ackerveken expects that the knowledge thus acquired will also be applicable in fields other than lettuce breeding. 'Lettuce is a member of the composite vegetable family. Although this plant family is the largest around, none of its members have so far been investigated as intensively as we will do with lettuce. Consequently, I expect that the knowledge acquired through LettuceKnow will also be useful for research into other composite vegetables, such as Belgian endive, sunflower and other leafy vegetables.'\nThis project is a collaboration of Utrecht University, Wageningen University & Research, Leiden University, University Medical Center Utrecht, Bejo Zaden, the Netherlands Centre for Genetic Resources, ENZA Zaden, Rijk Zwaan, Syngenta, Takii & Co. Ltd and Vilmorin & Cie.\nGuido van den Ackerveken", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 4199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nuneslaw.com/videos/can-settle-car-claim-settling-injury-claim/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:31Z", "digest": "sha1:4IY5H6KHTCZFMQQZHAMXRAWKGJZ4SNSZ", "length": 1156, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nuneslaw.com", "title": "You Can Settle Your Car Claim Before Settling Your Injury Claim \u00b7 Law Offices of Frank M. Nunes", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Video Quick Help: California L\u2026 \u00bb You Can Settle Your Car Claim\u2026\nAfter a car crash, you may be wondering whether you have to wait to settle your car damage claim until you are ready to settle the bodily injury portion of the claim.\nYou don\u2019t have to wait. You can settle one before the other. Think of these as two separate claims, even though they originate from the same accident.\nIt is common to settle the car claim quickly, and the other\u2019s party\u2019s insurance company will want to do so as well. This will help keep their costs down and allow you to get back to using your vehicle for your daily needs.\nHave the insurance company come out to inspect the car at their earliest convenience. After they do so, you will receive an estimate showing whether they are going to repair or replace your vehicle. Remember, don\u2019t discuss any other aspects of your case.\nIf you have additional questions regarding processing a claim for vehicle damages or for bodily injury sustained in a car crash, I want you to call me at (559) 436-0850. Visit our educational website at www.NunesLaw.com, where you can view more videos and media content from our law firm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nycinejon.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HJ4APO3HO2EKQGNBNOEWDOOPSVIGGCH6", "length": 646, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nycinejon.com", "title": "Jonathan Alvarez Cinematographer", "raw_content": "Cinematographer & gaffer\nJonathan got his first encounter with the film industry 7 years ago while attending NYC prestigious Academy of career in television and film. He graduated 2015 having had specialized in grip and electric for 2 years. He then went on to freelance, working primarily on feature films and branded content. He\u2019s worked with brands such as Samsung, Eddie Bauer, Pediasure, St. Joseph`s College, Jhene Aiko, The Breaking Benjamins, Fetty Wapp Ect. He's had cinematography worked published on Funny or Die and IFC. He is passionate about telling narratives about traditionally unrepresented communities and new mediums to do so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/using-ice-cream-to-understand-frequentflier-miles.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KA5HWDIL42OEVY4AEOFDS4O3NKC5IE6W", "length": 1781, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Using Ice Cream to Understand Frequent-Flier Miles - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Business Day|Using Ice Cream to Understand Frequent-Flier Miles\nUsing Ice Cream to Understand Frequent-Flier Miles\nBy DAVID LEONHARDT APRIL 25, 2006\nTo understand the appeal of frequent-flier miles, itA\u0302\u0092s worth considering an experiment that some researchers did on a Midwestern college campus a few years ago.\nStudents were given a choice between two simple tasks. One would take six minutes, and the students were told that they would get a gallon of Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream as a reward. The other would require seven minutes of work, and the payment would be a gallon of Haagen-Dazs pistachio.\nNot surprisingly, since the second option involved more work and a less popular flavor, only about a quarter of the students chose it.\nBut the researchers also repeated the experiment with a couple of tweaks. In the new version, the six-minute task led to a payoff of 60 points, and the seven-minute task brought 100 points.\nThe researchers then told the students that anyone who finished with between 50 and 99 points would be given a gallon of vanilla ice cream. Anyone with 100 points would get pistachio.\nPractically, there was no difference between the two experiments. But the outcomes ended up being very different.\nWith the lure of points added to the mix, more than half of students chose the longer task and the less desirable pistachio prize that went with it. Independent of their actual value, A\u0302\u0093pointsA\u0302\u0094 apparently give people some satisfaction.\nThatA\u0302\u0092s just one reason that frequent-flier programs have been so successful for so long.\nThe ice cream experiment was done by Christopher K. Hsee, Fang Yu, Jiao Zhang and Yan Zhang, all of the University of Chicago. To read a paper describing their research, including a number of related experiments, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 4574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/arts/joseph-bologna-actor-dies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VRVTGSPLB3VDDFJHMC3RT7XE5LGTZSQ5", "length": 7554, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Arts|Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82\nJoseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82\nJoseph Bologna and Ren\u00e9e Taylor in \u201cIf You Ever Leave Me \u2026 I\u2019m Going With You!,\u201d a Broadway show about their marriage, at the Cort Theater in 2001.CreditCreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times\nJoseph Bologna, who looked like the quintessential tough guy but couldn\u2019t seem to resist writing and playing sensitive male characters who longed for love and commitment in films like \u201cLovers and Other Strangers\u201d and \u201cMade for Each Other,\u201d died on Sunday in Duarte, Calif., near Pasadena. He was 82.\nHis death, at the City of Hope Hospital, was confirmed by his publicist, Dick Guttman. Mr. Bologna learned he had pancreatic cancer three years ago.\nMr. Bologna\u2019s fame, like his onscreen persona, had its roots on the Broadway stage. He was 34 when \u201cLovers and Other Strangers,\u201d four short plays about couples of various ages and situations that he wrote with his wife, Ren\u00e9e Taylor, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Clive Barnes of The New York Times praised it as a \u201csprightly quartet of revue-style playlets,\u201d written with \u201ccompassion, insight and irony.\u201d\nJoseph Bologna in \u201cThe Woman in Red\u201d (1984).CreditOrion Pictures, via Everett Collection\nThe production, in which Ms. Taylor starred, ran only two months, but Mr. Bologna and Ms. Taylor sold the film rights. \u201cLovers and Other Strangers\u201d the movie (1970) was a box-office hit, earning roughly three times its production cost in North America alone and garnering the couple a shared Oscar nomination (with a co-writer, David Zelag Goodman) for best adapted screenplay.\nThat bought the Bologna-Taylor team major credibility, which they turned into their next film, \u201cMade for Each Other\u201d (1971), a satire based on their own love story. Mr. Bologna made his screen debut, starring opposite his wife as an Italian-American bachelor who meets a neurotic Jewish actress in an encounter group and does psychological battle with self-esteem issues and a fear of intimacy.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a deep, loving character study and manages to make us laugh while demonstrating how much the truth can hurt,\u201d Roger Ebert wrote of \u201cMade for Each Other\u201d in The Chicago Sun-Times.\nAs soon as Hollywood casting directors met Mr. Bologna, they saw him as a gangster. He was cast as the mobster Joe Bonanno in the TV movie \u201cHonor Thy Father\u201d and as a police officer turned thief in \u201cCops and Robbers\u201d (1973).\nHe combined comedy and the tough-guy personality, and received the best reviews of his career, in \u201cMy Favorite Year\u201d (1982), as King Kaiser, a tyrannical 1950s TV variety-show host modeled on Sid Caesar. Kaiser may have been a law-abiding citizen, but his ego was criminal.\nMr. Bologna, left, in \u201cMy Favorite Year\u201d (1982) with John Welsh, center, and Peter O\u2019Toole.CreditMGM, via Everett Collection\nJoseph Bologna, left, and Michael Caine in \u201cBlame It on Rio\u201d (1984).CreditTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, via Photofest\nThe typecasting took only partial hold, as Mr. Bologna made a film career in varied comedy roles. In \u201cBlame It on Rio\u201d (1984), he starred as a middle-aged adulterer whose teenage daughter had an affair with his best friend, played by Michael Caine. He was a mad scientist in \u201cTransylvania 6-5000\u201d (1985) and Adam Sandler\u2019s father in \u201cBig Daddy\u201d (1999). He and Ms. Taylor continued to make films together, including \u201cLove Is All There Is\u201d (1996), a Romeo and Juliet story about dueling catering families on City Island, in the Bronx.\nIn 2001, Mr. Bologna and Ms. Taylor \u2014 in their 60s \u2014 wrote and starred in \u201cIf You Ever Leave Me \u2026 I\u2019m Going With You!,\u201d a Broadway show that consisted largely of anecdotes about their marriage. It closed after eight weeks, but they publicized it beforehand by interviewing each other for The Times. Asked how he felt about working with his wife so often, Mr. Bologna declared the arrangement \u201cvery practical.\u201d\n\u201cI can have an affair with my director, writer and co-star at the same time,\u201d he said. \u201cThat saves a lot of wear and tear at my age.\u201d\nMr. Bologna was born on Dec. 30, 1934, in Brooklyn, the son of Anthony and Josephine Bologna.\nJoe Bologna was the son, grandson and nephew of bootblacks. His grandfather Giuseppe Bologna was the author of \u201cAt the Feet of the Mighty: A Bootblack\u2019s Biography,\u201d and Joe\u2019s uncle Pat Bologna recalled giving investment advice to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. that helped Kennedy avoid the financial devastation of the 1929 crash. Kennedy remembered it with a slightly different point of view. \u201cWhen the shoeshine boys have tips,\u201d he said, \u201cthe stock market is too popular for its own good.\u201d\nJoe graduated from Brown University with a degree in art history. When he was cast in a student stage production of \u201cStalag 17\u201d there, he was surprised to discover that he had dramatic abilities. \u201cI found out that I could do things that other people couldn\u2019t do,\u201d he told the actor Robert Wuhl in a 2016 podcast.\nBut he did not immediately consider an acting career. Instead he joined the Marine Corps. He later found an entry-level job at a New York advertising agency and worked his way up to directing television commercials. He had also considered a career as an architect, he said, but believed his freehand sketching wasn\u2019t good enough.\nHe met Ms. Taylor while moonlighting as a joke writer for comedians. \u201cWe spent most of our courting in Sardi\u2019s,\u201d the theater-district restaurant, he told The Daily News in 1996. They married in 1965, and the reception was broadcast on \u201cThe Merv Griffin Show,\u201d on which Ms. Taylor had been a frequent guest. They had a son, Gabriel Bologna, an actor and director. In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Bologna is survived by a daughter, Zizi Bologna; a sister, Barbara Carson; and a grandson.\nMr. Bologna in Los Angeles in 2006.CreditFrazer Harrison/Getty Images\nGabriel Bologna directed his father\u2019s final film performance, as a priest in \u201cTango Shalom,\u201d an indie comedy. The elder Mr. Bologna was also a screenwriter. His last television appearance was as a serial killer\u2019s father, a gruff but gracious Italian-American restaurateur, in a 2010 episode of \u201cC.S.I.\u201d\nMr. Bologna, who always thought of himself more as a writer than an actor, liked to talk about comedy. \u201cYou have to have surprise and inevitability at the same time,\u201d he said in a 2003 interview with The San Francisco Chronicle. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes you laugh. Subliminally, you know where the scene is going and that even the most outrageous insults are somehow going to end well.\u201d\nBut over the decades, the subject that reporters tended to ask Mr. Bologna and Ms. Taylor about most frequently was the secret of their enduring marriage and professional collaboration. Mr. Bologna often pointed out the ways in which they were opposites, far beyond their religious upbringings. (She was Jewish. He was Roman Catholic.)\n\u201cI was a hedonist, and she was a sufferer,\u201d he told The Boston Globe good-naturedly in 1984. \u201cI taught her pleasure, and she taught me to suffer.\u201d\nAn earlier version of this obituary misstated the given names of Mr. Bologna\u2019s parents. They were Anthony and Josephine, not Peter and Antonett. The earlier version also misidentified the author of the book \u201cAt the Feet of the Mighty.\u201d It was Mr. Bologna\u2019s grandfather Giuseppe Bologna, not his uncle Pat Bologna.\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page B12 of the New York edition with the headline: Joseph Bologna, 82, Dies; An Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor. 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Arrangements were handled by the O\u2019Connell Funeral Home.\nMemorial donations may be made to Southampton Village Ambulance Corp., 44 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York 11968 or to the Angel Guardian Home, 6301 12th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 84.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oddities123.com/category/natural-disasters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DTRS6QF7WA4EMUJFYAZT2NP62VDPOWVY", "length": 3298, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.oddities123.com", "title": "Natural disasters | Oddities", "raw_content": "The heavy rains that have plagued the Russian city of Sochi caused dangerous flooding. Drains exploded and flooded the city and affected almost all areas of the city. 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Casa De Maris Hotel is the ideal place for relaxing and pleasant vacations.\nMarmaris is approx 98km from Dalaman Airport or 134km from Bodrum Airport\nThe guest rooms have double/twin beds, an en-suite bathroom with a shower and a balcony or terrace. They are air conditioned and equipped with satellite TV and a direct dial telephone, a hair dryer, a safe deposit box and a mini fridge. Cots are available on request.\nThe hotel offers buffet and A la Carte restaurant services and there is also a snack bar, a lounge bar, a pool-side bar and a beach bar.\nSwimming pool and sun terrace, surrounded by loungers and parasols. 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As such, any document filed by a clerk of courts throughout the state, as well as any correspondence sent from, or received by, any government employee, shall become the immediate property of the citizenry. In short, in the State of Florida, the people have a right to know. That is why you are seeing information below regarding ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ. Once a report is filed by a criminal justice agency in Orange County, Florida, it becomes accessible to anyone who desires to see it. So after ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ was detained by authorities on 12-06-2018, all of the information filed on that date, as well as all future files docketed in connection with the apprehension of ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ in Orange County, became a matter of public record. If you write to the governor of Florida (currently Richard Scott) or to the attorney general (currently Pamela Bondi), your name and e-mail address will become part of Florida's public record. If you are jailed, for any reason, the complete report and your photograph (if taken) are immediately available to anyone, anywhere in the world, at virtually any time. That is why you are seeing this report about ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ; this website endeavors to publish an accurate record of all detainments in Orange County to better provide for transparency in government.\nFor an update on the detainment of ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ, you are welcome to contact the Orange County Clerk of Courts. This website does not have the resources to publish a file-by-file of all papers docketed in any individual criminal case proceeding. The inclusion of information regarding ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ on our website is an indication merely of an apprehension. DO NOT ASSUME ANY CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ANYONE WHOSE NAME, ADDRESS, DATE-OF-BIRTH, OR THE LIKE, APPEARS HEREIN. In the United States, everyone detained by a law enforcement official, including ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ is presumed innocent. The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1788, provides all defendants in criminal proceedings the right to a speedy trial (Amendment Six) and Due Process (Amendment Fourteen). ALEXIS VEGAORTIZ's name and/or image appear(s) herein because it/they are part of the Orange County Clerk Of Court's official record and are published in accordance with all local and state laws in the State Of Florida (USA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 182.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.organicmuscle.com/blogs/organic-health-wellness/tagged/wheat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:44Z", "digest": "sha1:AJ72RPKYNR4NF2DINGWNIZMO63KPPAJW", "length": 598, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.organicmuscle.com", "title": "Organic Muscle Blog ~ The Organic Path to Health and Wellness. \u2013 tagged \"Wheat\" \u2013 Organic Muscle Fitness Supplements", "raw_content": "Got Gluten? Posted on 18 Oct 13:27\nIts been well documented that those who have been diagnosed with \"Celiac Disease\" cannot consume foods that contain gluten in them. This is a serious autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It is estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide. Two and one-half million Americans are undiagnosed and are at risk for long-term health complications. So, what exactly is this gluten stuff, where does it come from, and are only those with celiac disease effected by it?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 4698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.origobranding.com/works/generation-rx-brand-web-strategy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GGJLF33PTC6RKGFCELLJOVSMEWMUFT6L", "length": 1137, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.origobranding.com", "title": "Origo Branding | Advertising, Marketing, Digital Agency. Columbus, Ohio \u00bb Brand & Web Strategy", "raw_content": "In collaboration with The Cardinal Health Foundation and The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, Origo Branding Company created a new brand strategy for Generation Rx - creating a more community focus for the program, helping to advocate its mission to prevent the misuse of prescription medication for individuals of all ages. Utilizing the insights from the client, Origo was able to also develop an engaging and easy-to-navigate website that directs users to their intended goals and information. The site was equipped with a Content Management System that allowed for easy updates, edits, and management of content by the Generation Rx staff, positioning the brand as a leader in providing valuable online resources on prescription drug misuse prevention. Developed as a responsive website, the new approach provided an optimal experience on mobile phones, tablets, and desktop devices. 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Investors were also weighing the latest company earnings and deal news. Consumer staples companies lagged the rest of the market.\nKEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,127 as of 1:22 p.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor\u2019s 500 index added five points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,105. The Nasdaq composite index gained 12 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,952.\nTHE QUOTE: After several weeks of moving in different directions, the stock market appears to be getting more closely tied to the fluctuations in oil prices.\n\u201cOil is what\u2019s been driving the market lately,\u201d said Chris Gaffney, president of EverBank World Markets.\nENERGY FOCUS: Climbing oil and natural gas prices helped lift shares in several energy companies. Williams Cos. rose 82 cents, or 4.6 percent, at $18.83, while Devon Energy gained $1.39, or 4.1 percent, at $35.01. Murphy Oil added 85 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $31.32.\nCHARGE IT: Discover Financial Services climbed 7.5 percent after the credit card issuer and lender reported better-than-anticipated quarterly profit and sales as loan volume improved. The stock gained $3.93 to $56.48.\nSTRONG QUARTER: VMWare jumped 13.6 percent after the cloud-computing company reported better-than-expected earnings. The stock climbed $7.01 to $58.47.\nPRINT IT: Lexmark International surged 9.7 percent after the printer maker agreed to be bought by a group that includes Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital for about $2.51 billion. The stock added $3.36 to $38.02.\nFOR SALE: Yahoo rose 3.7 percent a day after the Internet pioneer said that it is considering the sale of part or all of its Internet business. The news overshadowed its latest quarterly loss. The stock added $1.33 to $37.66.\nNO FIZZ: Coca-Cola slid 4.2 percent after the world\u2019s biggest beverage maker reported a lower profit for the first quarter. The company was squeezed by a strong dollar and charges related to the transformation of its North American operations. Coca-Cola fell $1.97 to $44.63.\nNOT RECOMMENDED: Angie\u2019s List slid 6.2 percent after the online ratings service reported an unexpected loss and disappointing sales in the first quarter. The stock lost 48 cents to $8.23.\nENERGY: U.S. crude reversed an early morning slide. It was up $1.25, or 3 percent, at $42.33 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up $1.74, or 4 percent, at $45.77 a barrel in London.\nOVERSEAS: In Europe, Germany\u2019s DAX rose 0.7 percent, while the CAC-40 of France gained 0.6 percent. The FTSE 100 of leading British shares added 0.1 percent. Earlier in Asia, most markets closed lower. South Korea\u2019s Kospi fell 0.3 percent and Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng slid 0.9 percent. 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Or, if you\u2019re feeling more adventurous, take the Tree Top Challenge.\nReward your walk and sit by clear pools and cascading waterfalls. Waterfalls are a feature throughout the park, many of them flowing all year.\nMount Tamborine is a perfect destination at any time of the year. If you are looking for an event with a truly local flavour, don\u2019t look past the Scarecrow Festival held every September.\nOr tantalise your tastebuds with the gastronomic delight which is the Scenic Rim Eat Local Week held in late June/early July. This festival is a celebration of food, wine and farming, raising awareness of the impact our food choices can make on the planet.\nMount Tamborine enjoys a very moderate climate, with temperatures rarely exceeding 30 \u2103. The summer temperature here is often 4 -5 degrees cooler than surrounding areas.\nTemperatures remain mild throughout winter, with occasional overnight frost in protected valleys.\nThe area is subject to a moderately high rainfall, some 1,500 mm annually. The majority of the rainfall occurs in the summer months, from December to March.\nMount Tamborine \u2013 So Near But So Far\nThis lush paradise plateau was created through volcanic eruptions in the Mount Warning region over 20 million years ago. After the volcano became extinct, rain and wind took to shaping the landscape. Steams were formed, gradually eroding the basalt lava, forming valleys and gorges.\nThe value of Mount Tamborine and its ecosystems was recognised early by Robert Collins, a local pastoralist. Inspired by the creation of Yellowstone National Park in the US, he began his crusade. After his election to the Queensland Parliament in 1896, he continued his campaign, however his campaign met with resistance. His persistence paid off when over a decade later, Witches Falls became Queensland\u2019s first declared national park in 1908.\nThere are 10 different types of forest around Tamborine Mountain, providing an important habitat for a diverse collection of fauna.\nAn easy drive from the coast, Mount Tamborine offers a unique glimpse into ecological history, in a friendly relaxed setting.\nTours that visit Mount Tamborine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pandkg.com/issue-68-is-now-available-to-pre-order/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EQVQR62LZJMJB3QHAF4F436OLWFOASHP", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pandkg.com", "title": "Issue 68 is now available to pre-order! | Pinstriping & Kustom Graphics Magazine", "raw_content": "Issue 68 is now available to pre-order!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 171.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parrotalert.com/L46335", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RUYX3WIF3FWKNXCO2RAXHJKK2BUXUGAV", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.parrotalert.com", "title": "Lost African Grey Sidcup, Greater London, England, United Kingdom - L46335", "raw_content": "Sidcup, Greater London, England, UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 60.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thepangeablog/tag/free-will/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2ANB3OQWWMXEF66WUL7BE6DGSNQV6C5Z", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.patheos.com", "title": "Free Will Archives - The Pangea Blog", "raw_content": "Can Prayer Change the Future? Your Thoughts\u2026\nI haven't done many posts on the blog in the past few months, but I...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 6139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 170.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcl.org/2010/11/new-federal-rules-target-heavy-duty-vehicle-emissions-and-fuel-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SRSQPQJTJYI5VTSNJTIHFAMYWRGJFKRJ", "length": 1715, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pcl.org", "title": "New Federal Rules Target Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Economy | Planning and Conservation League", "raw_content": ">Media Center>News Room>New Federal Rules Target Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Economy\nNew Federal Rules Target Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Economy\nLast week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation announced new proposed fuel efficiency standards for heavy vehicles. The standards, which would begin with 2014 models, would require increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles like heavy-duty trucks and buses from their current average of 6 miles per gallon (mpg) to 8 mpg. Heavy-duty vehicles comprise only 4% of all vehicles in the United States, but with their low fuel efficiency and high trip mileage, they currently account for 20% of all domestic vehicle fuel consumption. The EPA projected a reduction of greenhouse gas emission by about 250 metric tons and a savings of 500 million barrels of oil over the lives of the vehicles produced within the first five years.\n\u201cIn addition to cutting greenhouse gas pollution, greater fuel economy will shrink fuel costs for small businesses that depend on pickups and heavy-duty vehicles, shipping companies and cities and towns with fleets of these vehicles,\u201d said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. The EPA estimates that adopting the new standards will yield $41 billion in net benefits for heavy-duty vehicles made between 2014 and 2018.\nYou can find the proposal and submit comments at: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climate/regulations.htm and http://www.nhtsa.gov/fuel-economy.\nPosted November 2, 2010 in Climate\nTagged Big Rig emissions, Department of Transportation, Emission standards, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Fuel Economy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Heavy duty truck emissions, new standards", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/2041717/office-mobile-for-iphone-whats-really-at-stake-for-microsoft-and-apple-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:37Z", "digest": "sha1:4KTEUY4QV5AJFDBXKZICNQM6FJH5INWU", "length": 6713, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "Office Mobile for iPhone: What's really at stake for Microsoft and Apple? | PCWorld", "raw_content": "Office Mobile for iPhone: What's really at stake for Microsoft and Apple?\nOffice Mobile for iPhone: What you need to know\nOffice for iPhone is a belated, ambivalent move, analysts say\nMicrosoft Office for iPhone is finally here, and it changes everything\nOffice Mobile for iPhone: What you need...\nFirst look: Hands-on with Office Mobile...\nOffice Mobile for iPhone: What's really...\nMicrosoft Office for iPhone is finally...\nOffice for iPhone is a belated,...\nCloudOn CEO: Office Mobile for iPhone...\nReview: Microsoft's Office Mobile for...\nFew people actually open and edit documents on their smartphones, let alone actually create them there. From a short-term perspective, then, placing a version of Microsoft Office on Apple's iPhone shouldn\u2019t dramatically change the world.\nMicrosoft announced Office Mobile for iPhone on Friday morning, ending months of speculation.\nThe \u201cfree\u201d Office Mobile for iPhone app only works with an Office 365 subscription, however, so users will have to pay to edit Office documents, whether it be an Office 365 subscription or Apple\u2019s own $9.99 productivity apps, iWork. And, for now, Office Mobile is specifically formatted for the iPhone, so iPad users won\u2019t be able to use it.\nOffice Mobile for iPhone users will only be able to open and edit, not create, documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, although a Microsoft-supplied graphic shows the other standalone apps available for the iPhone: Lync, SharePoint, Yammer, and Skype. Outlook appears to be missing, although the Outlook.com app somewhat fills that hole. A dedicated SkyDrive app is also included, which appears to be the only option for cloud storage. That could be a real sticking point if Microsoft doesn't allow documents to be saved to iCloud or imported from there.\nFrom a broader perspective, however, Office Mobile on the iPhone represents a foothold by Microsoft onto the broader iOS platform, which represents an opportunity to push Microsoft's idea of Office wherever you are, said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft. In some sense, it\u2019s the complement to Microsoft\u2019s newfound direction of Windows Everywhere.\n\u201dThis would be an important announcement for Microsoft to confirm their intent and commitment for Office and other platforms,\u201d added Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner.\nMicrosoft characterized Office 365 on Mobile as an added benefit for Office 365 subscribers. \"Office Mobile is another great example of the value of subscribing to Office 365, and I can guarantee you, there will be lots more to come,\" Julie White, the general manager of Office, said in a blog post.\nWhat does Apple get out of the deal? That\u2019s a more difficult question to answer. If nothing else, Apple users get access to the \u201cofficial\u201d version of Office. But although Apple\u2019s iWork suite for the iPhone and iPad may be getting a bit long in the tooth, according to analysts, there\u2019s also no indication that Apple plans to discontinue it, either. In fact, Apple announced a new iWork for iCloud version is due later this year, along with new versions of iWork for the Mac and iOS.\nOffice Mobile for iPhone requires either an iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 or iPod Touch 5th generation. It also requires iOS 6.1 or later, Apple says.\nA list of files stored within Office Mobile for iPhone.\n\u201dI don\u2019t know if Apple gets anything out of it, because I don\u2019t know that people weren\u2019t buying Apple products because they coudn\u2019t get Office on it,\u201d Silver said. It might be different if Microsoft supports Office on the iPad, he said.\nThe key appears to be that in restricting Office to the iPhone, Apple leaves the iPad an exclusively iWork platform\u2014unless users want to access the Office Web Apps via the Safari browser, that is.\nEarlier than expected?\nShipping a version of Office for either iOS or Android devices has been the subject of rumors for months. Early reports had indicated that it wouldn\u2019t happen until the fall of 2014, although the possibility has been discussed for the better part of a year. That\u2019s left the door open to third-party developers, including everyone from CloudOn to OnLive, to bring Office to the iPad and other platforms.\nMicrosoft already ships a version of Office for the Mac platform, although the suite, Office for Mac 2011, is generally considered to be a year behind the Windows version. A version of Microsoft\u2019s Office 365 is also available for the Mac, with the 20 GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls available to Windows users. But, at its heart, it\u2019s the same Office for Mac 2011 suite that Mac users can buy as a standalone package.\nIn the future, Microsoft may hope to push Office to the remainder of the iOS ecosystem, including the iPad, which is suited more for productivity than the iPhone. And then there\u2019s the Android world, which would represent the final frontier for Office.\nMicrosoft Excel for Office Mobile for iPhone.\n\"I think that there's always a question about whether the Office product group is there to sell Office products, or there to prop up Windows, and the more time we go before we see an iPad version or an Android version, the more that comes into question,\" Gartner's Silver said. \"An iPhone version really isn't proof of that. Again, I'm not sure how many people are going to want to do a lot of Office work on a phone. A tablet's going to be a lot more important.\"\nAccording to Miller, iWork isn't really an option for even the smallest of businesses, which will welcome Office. An updated version of Office for the Mac is reportedly due in 2014, although Miller said he'd heard nothing official.\nBut for now, merely pushing Office into competition with Apple\u2019s iWork suite is achievement enough. No mobile platform is entirely \u201cpure,\u201d in the sense that it\u2019s isolated from other services. Outlook.com exists as an Android app. Windows Phone can now tap into Google\u2019s YouTube. And the iPhone has both a Gmail app, Google Maps, and now Office as well.\nWindows Phone, however, has but a small percentage of the market share that the iPhone does, so relatively few people use Office Mobile on the Windows Phone platform. If Microsoft really wants to push the concept of mobile Office, it's going to have to do so via the competition. Office on the iPhone is an important first step for Office, and a giant leap away from Windows onto other platforms. 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It handles disputes involving no more than $5,000, and is less formal than other Maryland courts. The Court's rules of procedure and evidence are relaxed to make it easier for persons to represent themselves without hiring attorneys, although you may hire an attorney to represent you if you want. Cases are decided by a judge; there is no jury.\nRead the Law: MD Code Courts & Jud. Proc. \u00a7 4-405; Maryland Rule 3-701.\nA lawsuit may be filed in Small Claims Court in the District Court if:\nThe suit is for money only (not for the return of property or performance of a service, for example).\nThe suit is for no more than $5,000 plus interest and costs.\nThe person filing suit (plaintiff) is at least 18 years old. If the plaintiff is not 18 years old, another person who is at least 18 years old must sue on the plaintiff's behalf.\nThe steps for filing a Complaint in the Small Claims Division of Maryland District Court are outlined below. Please review these steps carefully. If you have questions about the procedure, talk to a lawyer. You can talk to a lawyer for free at the District Court Self-Help Center.\nPre-Trial Settlement\nBefore filing suit, you may choose to send a letter to the intended defendant warning that you will sue unless your claim is satisfied within a stated period of time. Keep a copy of the letter you send.\nMany cases come to trial needlessly because the parties have not tried to talk to each other. Before filing suit, you should make every effort to resolve the dispute by settling it out of court. Consider Mediation. District Court mediation is free. For more information, contact the District Court of Maryland\u2019s ADR Office.\nThere are drawbacks to going to trial. It may be time consuming, and even if you win your case, you may have trouble collecting the money. Also, if you win, the defendant may appeal the decision, and you may have to go through a new trial in Circuit Court. Therefore, you may decide to settle for a lesser amount rather than go to trial. If you cannot settle the claim before filing suit, you may still settle after filing suit. In deciding the amount you will accept as a settlement, remember to consider any amount already spent on court costs.\nWhen to See an Attorney\nThere are times when it may be necessary or advisable to consult an attorney, for example:\nIf your case involves personal injury and/or medical expenses.\nIf your case involves damages resulting from a traffic accident. If the defendant is insured, he may be represented by an attorney provided by his insurance company. You may also wish to have an attorney.\nIf you have difficulty filling out the forms or have unanswered questions about preparing your case.\nFile your case as soon as it is reasonably possible. If you wait too long, the defendant may win the case by raising the Statute of Limitations, the law that requires that lawsuits be brought within a certain period of time. In Maryland, most cases must be filed within three years of the time when it was first possible to sue, but some must be filed sooner and some may be filed later.\nHow & Where to File\nTo start a case, you must file a Complaint. You can find the Complaint form online or pick up a copy in a District Court clerk\u2019s office. You must pay a fee when you file. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for a fee waiver. You may also have to pay a fee to have the defendant served with the court papers.\nIn most cases, you should file your complaint at the District Courthouse in the county where the defendant lives, works or is employed. If there are multiple defendants, you may file in the county where any of them could be sued. A corporation which has no principal place of business in the State may be sued where you live. In some tort actions you may file the suit where the cause of action arose. If you are not sure which county to file in, talk to a lawyer.\nThe defendant may claim that you filed in the wrong county. This is called \u201cimproper venue.\u201d The defendant can raise this issue by filing a written motion with the Court, by raising it at trial, or the judge may determine that venue is improper. If the defendant files a motion, he or she should mail you a copy of the motion so you can respond. The Court may transfer the case to any county in which it should have been brought, or may dismiss the case.\nNotifying (Serving) the Defendant\nYour case will not move forward until the defendant has been served with the court papers\u2014a summons to appear and a copy of your Complaint along with other papers filed with it. There are three ways to serve a defendant:\nFor a fee, the court may send the papers to the defendant by certified mail, restricted delivery, return receipt requested.\nFor a fee, the sheriff may serve (deliver) the papers, to the defendant or leave the papers with a person who lives at the defendant\u2019s home who is of \u201csuitable age and discretion.\u201d\nYou may have the papers served by a private process server. A private process server may be a paid service, or you can use any person over 18 years old who is not directly involved in the case. The process server must deliver the papers personally to the defendant or leave the papers with a person who lives at the defendant\u2019s home who is of \u201csuitable age and discretion.\u201d The process server must return an affidavit detailing the service to the court. The affidavit should state that the person who made the service is at least 18 years old, and the name, mailing address and telephone number of the process server; the name and description of the person served, and include the date, time and place of service. If the defendant was not served personally, the affidavit should state the relationship that the person served has to the defendant.\nIf the Court or sheriff has attempted to serve the defendant without success, you will be notified. If a private process server was unable to serve the defendant, you should still return the affidavit of service to the Court. Your process server should detail how many attempts were made, including the date(s), time(s), and place(s) of the attempted service. You may then, for an additional fee, renew the Summons and attempt to have the defendant served again. You may decide to give the Court a different address for the defendant or try another method of service.\nThe Court should notify you if the defendant has not been served, and also if the defendant has been served and intends to appear at trial. If the defendant files his Notice of Intention to Defend, the Court may reschedule the trial date. Your case cannot move forward unless the defendant is properly served.\nYou may dismiss your claim at any time before the defendant files a notice of Intention to Defend. This dismissal is without prejudice. After that, and before judgment is entered, you may dismiss with prejudice. This means you cannot file this claim again.\nIf You Are Sued (the Defendant)\nIf you are a defendant who is sued in Small Claims Court, read the other sections of this page to be aware of actions the plaintiff may take.\nAs a defendant, you should receive a Complaint describing the reason for the suit and a Summons notifying you to appear in court for the trial. See \u201cNotifying (Serving) the Defendant\u201d above to learn more about service. If you were not served properly, you may file a motion to dismiss the case based on improper service.\nIf you believe you do not owe some or all of the money the plaintiff is claiming, and you want the opportunity to tell the judge your side of the story, you must file a Notice of Intention to Defend. In most cases, you must file your Notice of Intention to Defend within 15 days of receiving the summons.\nThe Notice of Intention to Defend lets the Court know that you intend to appear and contest the case. You can find the Notice of Intention to Defend attached to the Summons form. You can submit it to the court by delivering it in person or by mailing it to the clerk\u2019s office. You should get a copy of your Notice of Intention to Defend date stamped by the clerk\u2019s office to make sure you have proof that it was filed on time. If you appear for trial without having filed a Notice of Intention to Defend, the case may be postponed or you may have to tell the judge why you do not owe the money before the case will be rescheduled for trial.\nIf you cannot appear at the time designated for trial, you may ask the court to postpone the hearing to a future date. You should ask for a postponement as soon as you know that you will not be able to make it. If you ask for a postponement too near the trial date, the judge may deny your request. If you do not appear for trial, or if your postponement request has been denied, the judge may rule against you for the amount claimed or for some other amount. This is called a default judgment. Even if you are not there, if the judge decides you owe the money, he or she will enter a judgment against you.\nIf you believe the claim against you is justified and you do owe the money, you may still try to settle with the plaintiff for a lesser sum or enter into an installment payment arrangement to avoid having to go to trial. Avoiding a judgment may also be better for your credit. If you settle the case or agree to pay a lesser amount, be sure to get the agreement in writing. Make sure the agreement is filed with the court so the court knows you settled. If not, the case may move forward without you.\nCross-Claims, Counterclaims, Third-Party Claims\nIf you have a claim against the plaintiff and you want to sue the plaintiff, you may file a counterclaim within 10 days after the time that your Notice of Intention to Defend is due. This is usually 25 days after you are served with the court papers. If you miss the deadline, you can file a motion and ask the court for permission to file a late counterclaim.\nIf you are one of several defendants, you may sue another defendant in a cross-claim if you believe the other defendant owes you for the money the plaintiff claims you owe.\nIf you believe someone who is not named as a defendant in the suit against you owes you money that should be used to satisfy any judgment the plaintiff may win from you, you may file a third party claim at least 10 days before trial.\nIf you counterclaim, cross-claim, or third party claim is for more than $5,000, the entire case will be moved from Small Claims Court and more formal rules of evidence and procedure will apply.\nBefore the trial, you should prepare your case thoroughly. The judge evaluates the case based only on the evidence presented by you and the other party. You should come prepared to supply as much information as possible. If you forget to bring evidence or witnesses to court on the trial date, the judge may not postpone the trial to give you the opportunity to gather evidence.\nUsually it is best to have witnesses come in person to testify in court. Although any available evidence is permitted in a small claims case, judges often prefer live witnesses to written statements or affidavits.\nIt is important to have itemized estimates of costs relating to your claim. Defendants, and plaintiffs, may want to come prepared with estimates if the amount of damages is in dispute. In some cases, you may need an expert witness to come in person to present evidence to the judge. If the person is considered an \"expert witness\" (i.e., an auto mechanic in a damaged automobile case), you may have to pay him for spending time in court. If you are not sure if you need an expert witness, talk to a lawyer.\nMake an outline of what you plan to say to the judge. Practice before trial and bring a copy of your outline to the trial. Sometimes people get nervous or distracted and forget to present an important point. If you are calling witnesses, make a list of questions that you plan to ask your witnesses. Practice with them so you are not surprised by what they say at the hearing. Do not forget that court testimony is given under oath and that you and all witnesses must tell the truth.\nCourt hearings are open to the public. Many people find it very helpful to attend Small Claims Court before the date of the trial to see how things go.\nFinally, in small claims cases, there is no discovery. Discovery refers to the formal process before a trial where parties try to obtain information from the other side about his or her case.\nCollect all documents relating to the case, including written contracts, correspondence, estimates for repair or replacement, warranties, canceled checks, photographs, and any other similar materials that you may want to show the judge and enter into evidence.\nArrange your material either chronologically or in the manner in which you plan to discuss your case.\nDiscuss the case with potential witnesses who have personal knowledge of any aspect of the case and who may be able to provide evidence in your favor at the trial. The evidence may be a written, signed statement, or, even better, the witness's personal testimony at the trial. Personal testimony lends more weight to your case than a written statement.\nIf there is someone you believe can provide essential information and that person is unwilling to appear in court or to give a written statement, you should ask the clerk to issue a subpoena for him or her at least ten days before the trial date. Even if your witnesses agree to testify, it is still a good idea to subpoena them to appear. Judges are often unwilling to postpone a trial if witnesses do not show up.\nYou have ten (10) days after the Court makes its decision to request a new trial or to ask the court to receive additional evidence. You should do this by motion. Read the Rules: Md. Rule 3-533 and 3-534\nYou have thirty (30) days to file an appeal to the Circuit Court. Small claims appeals are heard \u201cde novo.\u201d This means a completely new trial will be held in front of a new judge in the Circuit Court. You will not have to pay for a transcript, although there are fees to appeal. If you cannot afford the fees, you may ask the court by motion to waive them. You may ask the Court to provide you a recording of your trial. There is a fee for this service. Read the Rules: Md. Rules 7-101 through 7-116.\nCollecting Your Judgment\nIf the judge finds that the defendant owes money to the plaintiff, he or she will enter a judgment against the defendant. If the defendant fails to pay voluntarily, the plaintiff may try to collect on the judgment. It is not always easy to collect a judgment. You can try using the following processes:\nGarnishment of Property\nYou may ask the Court to seize money in bank accounts that you believe the defendant owns. Garnishments must be served on the bank in the ways discussed above (certified mail, restricted delivery, sheriff or constable, or private process server). If the defendant has money in the bank, the bank will \"confess assets\" to the Court, and the Court may order that these be paid to you.\nThe defendant may choose to exempt certain funds from garnishment. Other funds like Social Security, child support, and certain government pensions may be exempt from garnishment. The defendant can also seek to exempt up to the value allowed by law, or $6000, in a bank account. The defendant should tell the Court within 30 days of the day the Writ of Garnishment is served if the money is exempt by filing form DC CV 36. Read the Law/Rule: MD Rule 3-645.1, MD Code Courts & Jud. Proc. \u00a7 11-504\nYou may ask the Court to garnish wages of the defendant if he is employed. The garnishment must be served on the employer in the ways discussed above (certified mail, restricted delivery, sheriff or constable, or private process server). The defendant has 30 days after service to file an answer and assert defenses. After the writ is served, the lien or claim against the garnishable wages continues until the judgment is paid in full. If the defendant has other garnishments, no wages will be deducted under a later garnishment until the earlier wage garnishment has been paid in full. Federal law also makes 75% of the defendant's wages exempt from garnishment. In some cases, if the defendant has a very low income, there may not be any income that can be garnished. Read the Rule: MD Rule 3-646. View a sample Request for Writ of Garnishment of Wages.\nYou may ask the Court to levy on and sell certain goods that you believe the defendant owns. A deposit is required assessed as costs to cover moving, towing, storage fees and the costs of advertising and of the auction. The deposit will be returned if the sale brings sufficient return. If you ask the Court to levy on real estate (land), in most counties, you must request the clerk to file a lien in the Circuit Court of any Maryland county. It will attach to any real estate or interest in real estate the defendant has or may acquire in that county, unless the interest is owned jointly with the defendant's spouse, and the judgment is against only one of them. After doing this, the plaintiff may ask the Court to order the sale of the land. The lien attaches whether the land is sold voluntarily or as the result of a court order.\nCertain goods may not be seized or may be exempt.\nOral Examination in Aid of Execution\nIf you are not sure what assets the judgment debtor has, you need to do an investigation. If you file for an \u201coral examination,\u201d the Court may order the defendant to appear in court to answer questions under oath about his finances. If you file for an oral examination, you are the one who asks the questions, not the judge. Prepare for the oral examination by writing down a list of questions that you want the defendant to answer about his finances. You must wait to file for an oral examination until 30 days have passed from the date the judgment was entered. If you wish to examine a person again, the court usually orders that person to appear again, unless less than one year has passed since the first examination. If that is the case, the court may require you to show good cause.\nYou may also use interrogatories to ask the defendant what assets he has. Read the Rule: Md. Rule 3-633.\nIf the defendant pays you the amount of the judgment, you must give the defendant a statement that the judgment is satisfied and you must file this with the clerk.\nEdited by Erica Rankin, and Amy P. Hennen, Esq., Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, and Regina Strait, Esq.\nWhat To Do When You Have Been Sued in Small Claims Court\nDistrict Court of Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Office\nFrom mdcourts.gov\nIncludes Tip Sheet; Administrative Office of the Courts of Maryland, Access to Justice Department", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 21340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.perfectbettingonline.co.uk/la-liga-barcelona-vs-levante", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIGXFVOSK2BRQWTS37TQEPTI5NSBEHN3", "length": 3441, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.perfectbettingonline.co.uk", "title": "La Liga \u2013 Barcelona vs Levante | perfectbettingonline.co.uk", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Betting Tips \u00bb La Liga \u2013 Barcelona vs Levante\nLa Liga \u2013 Barcelona vs Levante\nBarcelona start the first weekend of La Liga fixtures in 2018 sitting pretty at the top of the table and know they have the title in their own hands this season. Ernesto Valverde\u2019s team currently have a 9-point lead over second place Atletico Madrid and perhaps more importantly, a 14-point lead over defending champions Real Madrid, which all but rules them out of the title race this season. This weekend Barcelona welcome Levante to the Camp Nou. Levante find themselves in 16th place at the start of the weekend, just 3 points off the relegation zone. The teams around them will see this as an opportunity to gain points on Levante unless they can cause a massive upset.\nBarcelona Form\nBarcelona come into this match defending an unbeaten run in La Liga this season and they are yet to lose a match. There have been 14 wins and 3 draws from their 17 games played and while two of those draws have come in their last 5 games, there is no sign of Barcelona letting up this season.\nBarcelona have dropped only 2 points at home in La Liga this season, which came in a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo. They have won 19 of their last 20 home La Liga matches and have remained unbeaten in each of their last 34 matches in all competitions. Valverde\u2019s team have kept a clean sheet in 8 of their last 12 La Liga games and scored 2 or more goals in each of their last 20 home league matches.\nLevante Form\nLevante come into this match having defeated Espanyol 2-1 away from home in the Copa Del Rey on Thursday night to claim their first win in 7 matches in all competitions. Their form in La Liga is very poor and Levante have picked up just one win in their last 12 games and that came away from home at Las Palmas on the 19th November. Since then, Levante have lost 2 and drawn 3 of their league games, including a good 0-0 draw at Sevilla.\nHowever, Levante have struggled to score goals in recent games and have failed to find the back of the net in 4 of their last 5 La Liga games. This is not the form you want to be in when heading to the home of the team with the best defensive record in the league.\nBarcelona will be without the suspended Sergio Busquets in midfield and this could see Sergi Roberto move into the middle of the pitch with Nelson Semedo playing at right-back. Central defender Samuel Umtiti is injured so Thomas Vermaelen should continue in defence. Levante are without the injured duo of Ivan Lopez and Alex Alegria. They also have three players suspended and Enis Bardhi, Jose Morales and Jose Campana will miss the match, removing much of their goal threat.\nBetting Tips (Ladbrokes & William Hill)\nYou will not find a team more certain to win this weekend anywhere in Europe in the bookmakers\u2019 eyes than Barcelona and that\u2019s why they are priced at just 1/16 with William Hill to take maximum points. Given Barcelona\u2019s excellent defensive record this season and Levante\u2019s troubles in attack, Barcelona to win to nil makes a good bet and this is on offer at 4/6 with Ladbrokes. Given what appears to be a large gulf in quality between the teams, Barcelona\u2019s forwards will see this match as an opportunity to add a few goals to their name. You can get 7/5 with William Hill for Luis Suarez to score 2 or more goals.\nClaim the best Odds at William Hill\nPrevious: La Liga \u2013 Celta Vigo vs Real Madrid\nNext: EFL Cup \u2013 Manchester City vs Bristol City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.petewishartmp.com/2017/01/theresa-may-must-respect-scottish-parliament-wishart-welcomes-supreme-court-decision", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:26Z", "digest": "sha1:34MRTJ6HJEBTD3CIPSOEDTJTDCYVG23F", "length": 1307, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.petewishartmp.com", "title": "THERESA MAY MUST RESPECT SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - WISHART WELCOMES SUPREME COURT DECISION", "raw_content": "Member of Parliament for Perth and North Perthshire, Pete Wishart, has welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court that the UK Parliament must have the opportunity to vote on legislation before the UK can be taken out of the EU.\nFollowing the decision by the Supreme Court judges on Tuesday, the SNP has said they will put forward 50 \u201cserious and substantive\u201d amendments to the UK government legislation.\nThe SNP MP Pete Wishart has said the party will amend the legislation to ensure that agreement is made by devolved administrations and that the European Commission must be in agreement of the final terms.\nSpeaking today (Thursday 26th) Pete Wishart said:\n\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision is welcome- the Tories cannot bypass parliament on one of the biggest decisions facing the UK. Leaving the EU would affect us all- from jobs to industry and our ability to travel.\n\u201cFor six months SNP MPs have been raising concerns surrounding a hard Tory Brexit but the Prime Minister has not listened.\n\u201cIf Theresa May is intent on being true to her word that Scotland and the other devolved administrations are equal partners in this process, then now is the time to show it.\n\u201cOur amendments will address the very serious concerns facing the UK and the very real issues that the UK government has, thus far, avoided.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.planetizen.com/news/2018/07/99769-review-football-oz-north-texas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:64OFYKPMH4PB755FRMNKC2EW4WT2IEAV", "length": 1813, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.planetizen.com", "title": "Review: A 'Football Oz' in North Texas - News | Planetizen", "raw_content": "Review: A 'Football Oz' in North Texas\nThe Star, the corporate headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys, opened in 2017, but this week it finally got the architecture review treatment from an unflinching critic.\nMark Lamster writes a review of the Dallas Cowboy headquarters, The Star, located in Frisco, Texas. Lamster places the tradition of the Dallas Cowboys as \"America's Team\" before shifting the history to the tenure of current owner Jerry Jones.\nIn Frisco, he has built it a genuine capital, a shimmering football Oz that emerges like a spectral vision from the blank canvas of North Texas nothingness. It is a miniature city, a 91-acre branded corporate headquarters and entertainment complex dedicated to football, consumption and \u2014 above all \u2014 profit.\nThe Star is not to be confused with AT&T, which opened in 2009 with a price tag of more than a billion dollars including more than $300 million in public funding. According to Lamster, however, the style of both complexes works in concert.\nAs at the team's AT&T Stadium in Arlington \u2014 a.k.a. Jerry World \u2014 the architectural language of the Star is unapologetically modern. It is a city of reflective surfaces, of glass and metal and white concrete that dazzles in the sun, and it is blessedly free of the kitschy, nostalgic elements common to sports design. \"We talk about the past but we build for the future,\" a team representative told me.\nLamster also compares to a warmer, more vernacular style of architecture that is also found in Texas, and laments the auto-orientation of the complex (\"understandable\" but \"unfortunate,\" writes Lamster). A follow up article by Christopher Wynn breaks Lamster's points into a tl;dr list.\nWith The Star in Frisco, the Dallas Cowboys build a football Oz\nPublished on Friday, July 20, 2018 in The Dallas Morning News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 9491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/new-york/hempstead/11550/hempstead-center-3321-91100/std-testing-treatment", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Q66U2TCBVSAQPIIN3NGTMHXJKEDZQT2M", "length": 433, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.plannedparenthood.org", "title": "STD Testing in Hempstead, NY - Herpes, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea Tests", "raw_content": "Hempstead Center\nSTD Testing, Treatment & Vaccines in Hempstead, NY\nHempstead Center offers the following services related to the testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs):\nHempstead, NY 11550 USA\nEnglish; Spanish; During some hours of operation we have staff members that speak Russian, Hebrew, French Creole. Interpretation by telephone available for other languages.\n\u00a9 Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 6588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.playbuzz.com/neville10/why-sci-fi-is-making-a-comeback", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KWTKEZ3TIMWWFLVWQVHCCKW4ZOGLRFDA", "length": 3864, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.playbuzz.com", "title": "Why Sci-Fi Is Making A Comeback", "raw_content": "Why Sci-Fi Is Making A Comeback\nThe Modern Prometheus...\nHave you noticed something lately? All of the biggest and best TV shows and movies seem to have one thing in common these days: Sci-Fi.\nYes, my friend, good ole' science fiction is making a massive comeback. In fact, it already has, it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger than ever before.\nTHINK ABOUT IT: Superhero movies? That's all sci-fi. Star Wars, Star Trek, Avatar, Inception, The Martian, The Matrix, Interstellar, Looper, Wall-E, Gravity, Arrival, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...The list goes on and on...and these are some of the best movies being made! So when did this whole sci-fi craze even start?\nScience fiction in its modern form began in the early 19th century with the publication of Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley in 1818. But it wasn't until later in the century that the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells would explode into the public imagination with tales like Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864) and The Time Machine (1895).\nThe birth of this new genre represented a kind of \"wild west\" of the mind. New kinds of technologies, sciences, civilizations, worlds, alternate history; they could all be dreamed up and written down on paper and enjoyed by millions for the first time in history.\nThe 20th century was a true whirlwind for the world. Two massive global wars surrounded by smaller conflicts, and then the Cold War: They all helped to facilitate a thermonuclear explosion of creativity. Some of the imaginings of the past, like traveling to the moon, fax machines, and nuclear power, all became a reality during this time. Like their predecessors, prolific writers dared to imagine future worlds, technologies, and alternate iterations of our reality. Writers like Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke transformed our perception of ourselves.\nWith the advent of TV and film, some of the first success stories in film came from the world of sci-fi. Films like Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, and shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek immersed us in amazing new worlds. As with everything, there are ebbs and flows, but science fiction seems immune to that maxim.\n...Never Ended\nScience fiction always had a dedicated and loyal audience. Over generations, that audience has grown exponentially, further solidifying sci-fi in our cultural mindset. In fact, these days, things just aren't as interesting without a hint of sci-fi in the story. Comic books perhaps best represent an unending line of creative storytelling over the decades, which all fall within the sci-fi spectrum.\nNowadays, comic books ARE the movie business. They are the blockbusters attracting everyone to theaters at a time when little else manages to do the same. At a time when creativity in Hollywood is at an all-time low, they've had to look to places where creativity seems to flow endlessly: to science fiction. There's just so much to draw from, it's no wonder it's become the best source for adaptations in the last two decades.\nSo why exactly is science fiction making a comeback? Well, in short, it was never gone to begin with. It's just gotten bigger and better with time; to the point where, now, it's ubiquitous with quality artistic expression.\nSci-fi represents an outlet for everything that causes the aggregate human mind and spirit anxiety, seeking to relieve it or hyperbolize it for the sake of a dire warning. It is an introspective genre that, particularly at a time when the future is truly at stake in the challenges of climate change, nuclear exchanges, and increased nationalism, we cannot help but seek solace in worlds of \"what-ifs\" and \"maybes\" for some answer, some relief from the burdens we face as the arbiters of humanity's course through time.\nWhat's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Franchise?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pohlmann-company.com/en/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VLKCOTMNVPKMG2N3WJXLXZC423HNS5KA", "length": 1160, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pohlmann-company.com", "title": "News | Pohlmann & Company", "raw_content": "The TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix 2018\nSince 1995 Transparency International compiles and updates the Corruption Perception Index (\u201cCPI\u201d) on a yearly basis. The CPI measures the [\u2026]\nOn January 29, 2019, Transparency International published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for the year 2018. The CPI 2018 shows [\u2026]\nReview, Perspectives, Outlook 2019 Due to national, European and international developments in compliance regulation, listed companies that operate globally are [\u2026]\nIn order to act as a supervisory board member in day-to-day work, it is essential to obtain information quickly and [\u2026]\nThe Legal 500 Germany 2019 \u2013 Rankings Published\nIn the most recent rankings of The Legal 500 Germany 2019 Pohlmann & Company is recommended as a top tier [\u2026]\nAt the 35th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) end of November 2018 in Washington D.C. Dr. [\u2026]\nDr. Andreas Pohlmann and Stefan Hoffmann-Kuhnt were admitted as new members of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM). [\u2026]\n\u201cIf you play for time, you lose in the end\u201d In the new issue of JUVE Rechtsmarkt, compliance specialist Andreas [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 143.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2017/03/31/island-announces-new-parks-rec-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PHKXCAUMCJWFPWW2GRKYAPPKO7ANSIQU", "length": 1333, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.portisabelsouthpadre.com", "title": "Island announces new Parks & Rec manager \u2013 Port Isabel-South Padre Press", "raw_content": "Child struck by vehicle on beach\nThe City of South Padre Island has a new Parks and Recreation manager. Anne Payne was introduced to the Committee by Dr. Sungman Kim during last Wednesday\u2019s meeting. Payne comes to the Island from Tyler, where she worked for that city managing Liberty Hall for Texas Medical Center in Tyler. She also served as the executive director for Habitat for Humanity of Smith County for 12 years.\nDuring the meeting, the committee also took action on improvements of the Butterfly Park. David Travis of the SPI Building Inspections and Permitting Department provided updates on the modifications made to the gazebo structure at the park. The modifications made by the SPI Public Works Department were done to comply with safety and building code standards. These modifications included increasing the height of the guardrails, reducing the spacing between the guardrail pickets, adding handrails with grip-able surfaces, rebuilding the stairs, and removal of the lattice work from the bottom of the structure.\nDirector of Development Services, Dr. Sungman Kim stated that on March 1, the City Council approved $15,000 to be spent on plants and landscaping improvements for Butterfly Park.\nPermanent link to this article: https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2017/03/31/island-announces-new-parks-rec-manager/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2018/02/02/writers-block-feeling-super-blue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LEUCOVQK2G7MND6WT47WAQGE5FDNR6II", "length": 3276, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.portisabelsouthpadre.com", "title": "Writer\u2019s Block: Feeling Super Blue \u2013 Port Isabel-South Padre Press", "raw_content": "Rio History: Billy Hunts the Cutthroats\nTarpons Roll, Lady Tarpons Fall at Progreso\nWriter\u2019s Block: Feeling Super Blue\nDid you happen to catch a glimpse of the super blue blood moon this week? I didn\u2019t, though I tried.\nSo, what was it? It was our regular old moon \u2014 that gleaming silvery white hunk of cheese which has shown us the same smile for millennia now \u2014 hanging in the night sky, same as always. Well, almost same as always.\nThis time around that pale orb, once known as Selene to the Greeks, was to make her circuit across the heavens during a particularly intriguing confluence of coincidences those ancient people may have believed was imbued with some significant meaning.\nFirst, January 30\u2019s moon was set to be a full moon, but not just any full moon. It was going to be a super moon, which occurs when the elliptical nature of Earth\u2019s sole satellite brings it in close to the planet. For hawk eyed observers, a super moon will appear ever so slightly larger than a \u201cnormal\u201d full moon.\nThat elliptical orbit means we here on terra firma can expect about 4-6 super moons per year.\nSecond, it was a blue moon. Wednesday\u2019s full moon was the second full moon of January, the first having occurred on the first night of the year.\nWhile today people tend to understand that a blue moon is the occurrence of two full moons in one month, traditionally, it meant an \u201cextra\u201d full moon occurring during a season. With four seasons a year \u2014 winter, spring, summer and autumn \u2014 which each last three months, a true blue moon would be when there are four full moons that occur in one season.\nIt\u2019s those seasonal blue moons which are rare, happening about once every three years. Nonetheless, many folks considered Tuesday night\u2019s/Wednesday morning\u2019s moon to be a blue moon.\nAnd then there was the third and final coincidence: this week\u2019s full moon would also be a total lunar eclipse.\nA total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon\u2019s path places it precisely in line with the Earth and the sun, causing the planet\u2019s shadow to darken the entire face of the moon. Several eclipses can occur each year, but a total lunar eclipse are a fair bit rarer.\nAnd thanks to a few tricks of physics involving light waves, refraction and our planetary atmosphere, the shadow the Earth casts on the moon appears red rather than black.\nAnyway, after you add those already rare moon oddities together, you realize such variables don\u2019t combine in just such a way very often. In fact, according to Space.com, this week\u2019s super blue blood moon was the first such moon to be visible in the United States since 1866.\nIt\u2019s interesting to think about the idea of getting a chance to witness a spectacle last seen by people born two or three (or more) generations before our own grandparents. That was the plan, anyway.\nI knew that the total eclipse would occur right around the time the moon was scheduled to set \u2014 7:16 a.m., just three minutes after sunrise. I thought I had a decent chance for a glimpse if I could position myself in a spot with a clear view of the horizon. Alas, Mother Nature had other plans as dawn brought with it low clouds which hugged the western rim of the world.\nPermanent link to this article: https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2018/02/02/writers-block-feeling-super-blue/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.power-to-change.eu/3-reasons-for-using-linkedin-to-ensure-your-career-success/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:01Z", "digest": "sha1:3X73BQBV2KZIJUJZJKCO5ZDGUELNCFPH", "length": 2564, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.power-to-change.eu", "title": "3 reasons for using LinkedIn to ensure your career success | Power to Change", "raw_content": "\u00ab Tips for graduate job seekers\nHow to write a CV when you have no recent work experience \u00bb\nLinkedIn plays an integral part in your career success yet few people are actually making the best use if it. There are many who set up a profile on LinkedIn and connect with a few people and believe that is enough. Unfortunately it\u2019s not!\nThat is why I am giving my top 3 reasons for using LinkedIn to ensure your career success\nPersonal development \u2013 we are constantly learning and by connecting and interacting with people in your industry you have the opportunity of not only sharing your knowledge but also of learning from other experts in your field. This enables you to build a strong online identity which can help you achieve your career goals faster. On the whole, people like it when they are asked for help or advice and so this opens up a great opportunity for you to turn your career around. Ask for help and advice, join discussions and get known.\nThe hidden job market \u2013 through LinkedIn there are numerous ways of tapping into the hidden job market. By networking and being perceived as an expert in your field, you have a better chance of being approached or told about vacancies before they are advertised which means that you may not have to compete with so many applicants. This is why it is really important to have a complete professional profile that highlights your strengths and achievements so that recruiters and head-hunters can find you. If you can confidently showcase your talents and experience, the chances are that you will get approached about job vacancies even when you are not looking for a new job.\nPersonal brand \u2013 writing your LinkedIn profile is all about creating a strong personal brand. It is therefore the ideal opportunity to really take time to think about your career and the direction it is heading as you consider; what it is you really want to do, why you want to do it and who you want to do it for. A strong personal brand can be extremely powerful in attracting career success.\nRemember that future employers will look you up on LinkedIn because it can provide so much more information than your CV alone so make sure you take the time to review your profile regularly and connect and interact with as many people as possible.\nIf you need any help or advice about creating a strong personal brand to use on your LinkedIn profile and ensure your career success, contact anne@power-to-change.eu\nThis entry was posted on Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 12:07 pm\tYou can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.precisionsignandgraphics.com/best-practices-for-political-yard-signs-and-banners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5ETOOB7A56CS3ICJPYMKUJFOSZHQBDSI", "length": 2955, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.precisionsignandgraphics.com", "title": "Best Practices for Political Yard Signs and Banners", "raw_content": "It\u2019s that time of year again when the political landscape begins to take over. With political yard signs covering the landscape it\u2019s easy to get your message lost in the mix. Regardless of who you want to win the political election when creating political yard signs and banners you want to make sure that the message about your favorite candidate can easily be seen. Here are some useful tips when putting together political yard signs and political banners in the Riverside, CA. area.\nIt\u2019s no secret that the majority of people that go to the ballot box in the Riverside, CA. area do not vote on a candidate based on their credentials, but rather the popularity. The concept of \u201cSight Sign Association\u201d plays heavily into this mindset as if the voter does not know any of the candidate\u2019s platform, they\u2019ll simply vote for the one that they recognize the most. It is for this reason that we recommend a larger quantity of political yard signs and banners rather than trying to have a political yard sign or banner that explains the position of the candidate.\nWe have seen many political yard signs and banners that essentially want to give the 10 or more points that the candidate is running their political platform on; however, when you try to put that much information on an 18\u201d x 24\u201d yard sign\u2026 No one can read it when driving down the road making it useless. So at Precision Sign and Graphics serving the Riverside, CA. area, we recommend to put the name of the candidate with some attention grabbing or traditional political colors on the political yard sign or banner, then put them out in mass quantities.\nWhat they need to remember\nIt is also not necessary to put the face of the politician or additional unnecessary clipart images, as the politician\u2019s face is not on the ballot. (Remember the concept of Sight Sign Association is the closer the sign is to the actual use, the easier it is for the mind to associate the two things together)\nWhen utilizing political yard signs and banners that are not on the road but rather in a parking lot or on a walking path, you can easily get away with putting additional information on these products; but don\u2019t go crazy with it. Not many folks are going to stop and read a paragraph of information on a political yard sign. We also recommend to have a very short and simple website address that is easy to remember to go on your political yard sign, banners and materials so the voter can go to that candidate\u2019s website to get more information.\nAt Precision Sign and Graphics serving the Riverside, CA. area we can design and print political yard signs and banners that will help get your message out. With discounts for high quality, high volume materials you can be sure to get your political message out loud and clear. We can also help with political vehicle wraps for your car, bus or van as well as logo design and business cards. We are your full service political sign and graphics headquarters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/ArianaGrande/view/175360/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:CAQ7LWS5BH6LPPPTJG44JYP7HTM5UMB4", "length": 2422, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.pressparty.com", "title": "Ariana Grande to debut new single 'No Tears Left To Cry': Pressparty", "raw_content": "Shortlink to this content: http://bit.ly/2vuyRhP\nmusic, news, pressparty, music news, london, united kingdom, uk, ariana grande, manchester attack, brits, brit awards, 2018, ariana, grande\nAriana Grande to debut new single 'No Tears Left To Cry'\nAriana Grande is set to release her new single 'No Tears Left To Cry' tomorrow on Friday, April 20.\nThe 24-year-old posted a clue on Twitter earlier this week. Returning to social media, Grande shared an upside down sentence which read \u2018No Tears Left To Cry\u2019, along with the date 4.20.\nGrande has exclusively previewed the track at a listening party in London and is set to debut it on BBC Radio One tomorrow. It was inspired by the Manchester Arena terrorist attack at her concert in the UK last year on May 22. During the tragedy, a suicide bomber killed 22 people (including children) and injured dozens more.\nAlthough not all the song alludes to the event, some of the lyrics do, which left listeners at the exclusive preview clearly emotional.\nAt the very end of the new music video - her first release since the Manchester Arena bombing - a worker bee (the symbol of Manchester) can be seen flying towards the camera, in homage to the city.\nThe singer has worked with Max Martin, Savan Kotecha and Pharrell Williams on her upcoming new album, which is said to be made up of a host of deeply personal songs, all inspired by the events and experiences that have affected her over the past two years.\nThe terrorist attack, in particular, left the young star heartbroken, driving her to organise the One Love Manchester concert a few weeks later in order to raise funds for the victims and their families. The concert was aired worldwide, with even more viewers than Live Aid in the 1980s. It featured performances from some of music's biggest stars, including: Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell, The Black Eyed Peas, Katy Perry, Niall Horan, Little Mix, Take That, Justin Bieber, Mac Miller and Liam Gallagher.\nGrande has pretty much retreated from the public eye in the wake of the tragic attack. However, she did perform her track 'Be Alright' at the March for Our Lives pro-gun-control rally in Washington D.C. last month. She also made an appearance at A Concert for Charlottesville last September after the white supremacist protests and clashes in the town left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and injured 19 others.\nListen to a snippet of 'No Tears Left To Cry', below:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.presstelegram.com/2014/01/07/laura-whitehurst-redlands-teacher-convicted-of-sex-with-students-released/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:W5MRSZEKXTISIY5BRHDSMU667EAIWCWR", "length": 2797, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.presstelegram.com", "title": "Laura Whitehurst, Redlands teacher convicted of sex with students, released \u2013 Press Telegram", "raw_content": "Laura Whitehurst, Redlands teacher convicted of\u2026\nLaura Whitehurst, Redlands teacher convicted of sex with students, released\nFormer high school teacher Laura Whitehurst of Redlands was sentenced, last year, to a year in county jail and five years\u2019 probation. Whitehurst has been released from jail. Whitehurst is seen here during a July 26, 2013 court appearance. File Photo\nPUBLISHED: January 7, 2014 at 9:07 pm | UPDATED: August 29, 2018 at 1:53 pm\nREDLANDS >> A former Redlands Unified School District teacher convicted of having sex with underage students has been released from jail.\nJail records show Laura Whitehurst, 29, of Redlands, was released from jail on Sunday more than six months before her jail sentence was to be completed.\nShe is being ordered to register as a sex offender within five days of her release and must wear a GPS tracking device, according to San Bernardino County District Attorney spokesman Christopher Lee.\nCalifornia\u2019s registered sex offender database website, also known as the \u201cMegan\u2019s Law\u201d website, doesn\u2019t show Whitehurst\u2019s registration as of Tuesday night.\nWhitehurst pleaded guilty to six felony counts associated with three victims \u2014 four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and two counts of oral copulation of a person under the age of 18 \u2014 in San Bernardino Superior Court on July 30.\nShe was sentenced to 365 days in jail and five years\u2019 probation, per the terms in her plea agreement, when she returned to court on Aug. 28.\nWhitehurst was facing 41 felony charges, which carried a maximum sentence of 29 years in prison. The remaining counts were dismissed at her sentencing.\nWhitehurst, who taught English at Citrus Valley, Redlands and Orangewood high schools, was arrested last year based on a complaint from the parents of a 17-year-old boy who claimed Whitehurst had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with their son over the past year. Investigators said Whitehurst\u2019s baby is the product of that relationship.\nShe is a 2003 graduate of Redlands East Valley High and began her career at RUSD in 2007 as an English teacher at Redlands High, where she worked until spring 2009, when she was laid off due to budget cuts, according school district records.\nWhitehurst returned to the district in fall 2009 to teach at Orangewood and transferred to CVHS in the fall of 2010, school district assistant superintendent Sabine Robertson-Phillips said in a previous interview.\nWhitehurst worked at CVHS as an English teacher and adviser to clubs until her resignation following criminal proceedings.\nThe CVHS student, now 18, alleged to be Whitehurst\u2019s baby\u2019s father has hired attorney Vince Finaldi to file a civil suit against RUSD.\n\u201cThis case is not going away, and I\u2019m coming back with a vengeance,\u201d Finaldi said in December.\nLaura Whitehurst", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 8196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.programmableweb.com/api/local-search-maps-geocoder/frameworks?qt-top_most_menu_other_directories=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DSMSR6LREIAOGG4X7GA6RSVUCWFBKSMM", "length": 352, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.programmableweb.com", "title": "Local Search Maps Geocoder | ProgrammableWeb", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb APIs \u00bb Local Search Maps Geocoder\nLocal Search Maps Geocoder API\nThe Geocode API is a web service that allows users to easily integrate their site or application with the Google Maps or Virtual Earth API's. It is built to function with JavaScript, allowing the user to geocode based on criteria such as street address, city, state, and zip code.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 5164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/projects/community-work-for-teenagers-samoa/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:39Z", "digest": "sha1:P526PPBSCRP2NLWBG2B346VJMXG6LCB7", "length": 5748, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.projects-abroad.co.uk", "title": "Community Volunteer Work for Teenagers in Samoa | Projects Abroad", "raw_content": "Community Volunteer Work for Teenagers in Samoa\nTeam up with people your age and give back while immersing yourself in traditional Samoan village life\nTeam up with a group of volunteers your age and take part in community volunteer work in Samoa for teenagers. On this project, you\u2019ll have the chance to really immerse yourself in traditional village life on a tropical island. You\u2019ll also take part in work that benefits the local community.\nIn Samoa, you\u2019ll team up to help run literacy programmes for children during their school holidays. These programmes take place in local libraries. The libraries are in a state of disrepair, so your group will do some basic renovation work. It\u2019s great way for you to add experience to your CV and develop your teamwork and leadership skills.\nYou\u2019ll live and work with your group in two different villages. When you\u2019re not working, we\u2019ve organised plenty to keep you busy. Our friendly local staff will be there to supervise and support you at all times, and make sure you enjoy exploring Samoa with new friends!\nHigh School Specials > Samoa > Childcare & Pacific Island Village Project\nSamoa > Childcare & Pacific Island Village Project\nIs cultural immersion in Samoa for teenagers right for me?\nThis project is perfect for teenagers who are looking to take part in cultural exchange projects and help out with initiatives that benefit a local community. It\u2019s a great opportunity to gain experience working with children as well as basic repair know-how. You\u2019ll also be able to add new skills like teamwork and leadership to your CV.\nYou don\u2019t need any qualifications or experience to join this cultural immersion project. This trip is specifically designed for teenagers, and Projects Abroad staff are there to support and guide you at all times.\nThis trip takes place over fixed dates, and you can choose the one that best fits your schedule. You\u2019ll follow a set timetable of tasks. We\u2019ve also organised a number of social and cultural events so you can make the most of your time abroad. The highlight is a weekend sightseeing trip to the stunning Savii island.\nWhat will I do on this cultural immersion project in Samoa?\nAs a teenager volunteering in a Samoan village, you\u2019ll work alongside people your age. Together, you\u2019ll learn about the local culture and take part in valuable community work. Here are just some of the things you\u2019ll be doing:\nTake part in basic renovation work to improve local libraries\nHelp to run a holiday literacy programme for local children\nImmerse yourself in the local culture and learn about their way of life\nWork alongside other teenagers your age and experience life in Samoa\nMany of the local libraries are in a state of disrepair and need a facelift. Under the supervision of local staff, you\u2019ll give them a fresh coat of paint and take part in some basic repair work. This may involve fixing doors, windows or shelves, for example. Working together, you\u2019ll help to create a much-improved reading environment for the community.\nYour trip coincides with the Samoan school holidays, so you will have the chance to help out with the library reading programme for local children. This is a great way to improve their English literacy skills, while making reading a fun and interactive experience.\nA big part of this project is about immersing yourself in traditional village culture and learning about the Samoan way of life. You\u2019ll stay with a local family, enjoy your meals with them and spend time getting to know each other while helping out with daily tasks.\nWork alongside other teenagers and experience life in Samoa\nYou\u2019ll be living and working alongside a group of teenagers from across the world. You\u2019ll get to share in this exciting adventure, taking part in organised social activities and weekend trips. Our friendly local staff will be there to supervise you throughout these events.\nDuring your time on this cultural immersion project for teenagers in Samoa, you\u2019ll be based in two locations. Your first week will be spent in Fasito'o Tai village on Upolu Island. You\u2019ll spend the second week in the village of Salelologa on Savaii Island.\nFasito'o Tai\nFasito'o Tai is a village located on the northwest coast of Upolu island, Samoa\u2019s second largest island. Here you will live with a friendly host family, and travel to the nearby town of Apia for work on their local library.\nSalelologa is a village situated on the eastern side of Savii island, Samoa\u2019s largest island. Here, you\u2019ll stay with a local family in this traditional rural village, and learn all about their way of life. You will enjoy a supervised weekend trip with fellow volunteers and staff around the beautiful island. Savii is home to incredible natural wonders, from palm-fringed beaches to waterfalls, caves and blue holes.\nThere are two main aims of this project: to immerse yourself in a different culture and lend a helping hand at local libraries.\nAt Projects Abroad, we recognise the importance of cultural exchange. By gaining insight into the way people around the world live their lives, we can learn more about ourselves and each other. This in turn fosters greater understanding.\nThere is also a more tangible community benefit to this project. Many libraries in Samoa are under-resourced, although they are important community institutions. You will help out by taking part in basic painting and repair work. Furthermore, you\u2019ll also help to run a holiday reading programme for local children. This is an excellent way to support their educational development and improve their literacy skills.\nJoin this Childcare & Pacific Island Village Project designed specifically for teenagers and help to support a local community, while experiencing a more traditional way of life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 17032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.protectamerica.com/home-security-blog/faqs/how-effective-are-home-security-systems_15019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NMAYMWPKAESQPBKOSO3RX4ZLGZHKU7FI", "length": 3161, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.protectamerica.com", "title": "How Effective are Home Security Systems? | Protect America Security", "raw_content": "How Effective are Home Security Systems?\nHome security systems are touted as being one of the best ways to keep your home safe when you are not around. But you may find yourself wondering just how effective home security systems are. Here is some information you may want to know if you are in the market for a home security system.\nDeterring Burglars\nResearchers at UNC Charlotte surveyed a group of burglars and found that 60% of would-be thieves would choose another target if a security system was present. This is a huge statistic to consider when determining just how effective a home security system is. This means that if one hundred burglars looked at your home, only 40 would consider breaking in if you have a home security system. A security system deters more criminals, making it a great choice for keeping your family safe.\nStopping Repeat Crimes\nIf you\u2019ve been the victim of a burglary in the past, you\u2019re statistically 5 1/2 times more likely to be targeted by burglars again. This is a huge statistic to consider. It is believed that if you have been targeted before and the criminal has gotten away, they are more likely to target you again because they are familiar with the layout of your home and have gained confidence they can get away with the crime again. Installing a home alarm system helps to stop your home from being targeted by criminals. If your home has been hit before, now is a great time to think about installing an alarm system in your home.\nAffecting All Types of Crime\nHome security systems do more than just decrease your chances of being targeted by a burglar. In a Rutgers University study, burglary rates declined across specific neighborhoods as a whole when homeowners installed alarm systems. This means that all types of crime, including car theft, car burglaries and assault, decreased in the neighborhood as well. Most criminals are looking to make money any way they can. In some cases, a home break-in is the easiest way, in other cases, a car break-in is easier. If more people start installing home security systems, it limits the options the criminals have, and in turn, they bypass these neighborhoods, helping to make them safer for everyone who lives there.\nIn addition to effectively deterring thieves from entering your home and helping to diminish crime in your neighborhood, there are many other ways that a home security system is effective. A home security system can also:\nAlert you to fires\nAlert you to carbon monoxide\nHelp you determine when your kids come and go\nCan be used in medical emergencies\nUse cameras to monitor the exterior of your home or business\nHome security systems provide the owner with peace of mind in many different areas, making them one of the most useful and effective ways to keep your home and family safe from a variety of situations.\nHome security systems are one of the best ways to keep your home safe when you are away. If you do not yet have a home security system, contact Protect America to learn more about installing one today. It can be the difference between burglars targeting your home or leaving your home alone. Contact us now for a free price quote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prpackaging.com.au/printed-plastic-bags/stock-plastic-bags/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:H47ANYSDUUFM53O5Q4ZQJEQTK52465ZS", "length": 18, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.prpackaging.com.au", "title": "stock-plastic-bags -", "raw_content": "stock-plastic-bags", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 1479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/roi-cohen-kadosh-wins-bps-spearman-medal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SMGAZMYTDYUOLXN47DPNY3BKK6CJCTBS", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.psy.ox.ac.uk", "title": "Roi Cohen Kadosh wins BPS Spearman Medal \u2014 PSY", "raw_content": "Roi Cohen Kadosh wins BPS Spearman Medal\nDr. Roi Cohen Kadosh has won the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal for outstanding contributions to psychology. Dr. Cohen Kadosh's work focuses on understanding mathematical abilities in children and adults. The award recognises the most promising early-career work from Psychologists in the UK; past winners associated with Oxford include Anne Treisman, Glyn Humphreys and Kate Nation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.psychicencounters.com/psychic/lundyn-4-phone", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:F4UAOZPN7RGHPIUUMQSYCPPSKDTXSNGA", "length": 629, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.psychicencounters.com", "title": "Psychic Encounters. Lundyn", "raw_content": "Lundyn $0.99/min.\nHelps you trust your instincts and find the truth.\nI am a psychic reader and spiritual advisor with thirty years experience. I give accurate readings and caring advice on all aspects of life.\nLooking for Answers? Look no further. No need to wonder about your love life, relationship, marriage, dating, and soulmate. Allow me the opportunity to look in to these questions. I will analyze your situation, by looking into the past, present and future, pinpointing exactly where the blockages are. Giving you the confidence on what course of action to take. I am committed to bring better clarity to your situation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ptcommunity.com/news/20160321/30-year-alzheimer-s-quest-may-soon-bear-fruit", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:34:55Z", "digest": "sha1:T6SQ3SDKQJR37RARKJ6UTTKZV764XNS6", "length": 2652, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ptcommunity.com", "title": "30-Year Alzheimer\u2019s Quest May Soon Bear Fruit | P&T Community", "raw_content": "30-Year Alzheimer\u2019s Quest May Soon Bear Fruit\nCompany focuses on tau protein\nSingapore-based TauRx Pharmaceuticals has taken a slightly different approach to finding a treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) than most other companies, according to a report posted on the BioSpace website. TauRx is studying LMTX, a second-generation tau aggregation inhibitor (TAI), in three international phase 3 trials and hopes to present the results as early as July.\nThe two primary causes of AD are believed to be excess accumulation and \u201cclumping\u201d of beta-amyloid and a protein known as tau. Most drug research has focused on beta-amyloid, but TauRx has targeted tau. Company cofounder Claude Wischik discovered a new class of chemicals in the 1980s, noticing that they dissolved filaments of tau in test tubes.\nTauRx has published six papers in technical publications\u2013\u2013five during the first half of 2015\u2013\u2013that have outlined 10 years of clinical and preclinical work on LMTX.\nAlthough more than 100 failed AD trials were reported between 1998 and 2014, some fairly high-profile companies are also pursuing AD treatments. Eli Lilly, for example, recently announced that it had changed the primary endpoints of its phase 3 study of solanezumab in AD patients. The company said it was shifting its focus to cognition and away from metrics related to activities of daily living. Solanezumab is a monoclonal antibody that appears to help clear the brain of beta-amyloid early in the disease.\nLate last year, Biogen reported that it was pivoting away from its successful multiple sclerosis franchise toward Alzheimer\u2019s research. The company is conducting two identical phase 3 clinical studies of aducanumab in a total of 2,700 patients with AD. Aducanumab is another antibody that targets beta-amyloid.\nMid-stage studies of LMTX have shown positive results, although the findings were not consistent with dosing. Patients who received 138 mg per day for 24 and 50 weeks experienced positive cognitive benefits, but patients on a higher dose of 228 mg didn\u2019t have the same results. Wischik believes the discrepancy was related to absorption problems. A newer version of LMTX is being used in the current phase 3 studies.\nIf LMTX is eventually approved, it could be worth billions of dollars, although it is unlikely to end up being a sole cure for the disease, BioSpace noted. \u201cThe consensus of the field,\u201d Wischik said, \u201cis that ultimately some sort of cocktail will be necessary. There\u2019s no winner-takes-all drug.\u201d\nSource: BioSpace; March 18, 2016.\nNext Steps for Solanezumab, Potential Alzheimer\u2019s Drug\nAlzheimer\u2019s Drug Targeting Soluble Amyloid Falls Short in Trial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/fbi-did-not-record-or-administer-oath-when-interviewing-clinton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XP7DJDTCPZR7QXJFUJUAVHYO3XJH4PFW", "length": 1715, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.puppetstringnews.com", "title": "FBI did not record or administer oath when interviewing Clinton - Puppet String news", "raw_content": "FBI did not record or administer oath when interviewing Clinton\nHillary Clinton did not swear an oath to tell the truth before meeting with the FBI for three and a half hours last weekend, and the interview was not recorded, FBI Director James Comey told House lawmakers on Thursday. The lack of a sworn oath does not remove the possibility of criminal penalties against Clinton if she lied to the FBI, though he said he had \u201cno basis to conclude\u201d that she was untruthful. \u201cStill a crime to lie to us,\u201d Comey told the House Oversight Committee.FBI policy is not to record interviews as part of its investigations. Yet the revelations will nonetheless raise questions among Republicans, who have been skeptical of the FBI\u2019s investigation and have demanded to see the transcript of the former secretary of State\u2019s interview in downtown Washington on Saturday. \u201cWell, that\u2019s a problem,\u201d Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) told Comey when the FBI chief explained the terms of the interview. \"It's pretty clear ... that the American people would like to see what Hillary Clinton said to the FBI,\" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Wednesday, a day before Comey\u2019s appearance before House lawmakers. Before the questioning of Hillary even started by the FBI, it looks like typical questioning protocol was broken. If you understand basic law and no one reads you the oath of law, then you cannot be held accountable for your actions. This is probably the ultimate fact why Hillary was not pressed charges, because she was not read the oath of law before being questioned. So once again it looks like the FBI was paid off by Hillary once the investigation started a little over a year ago from this day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/03/19/canadian-solar-exceeds-q4-shipment-guidance-posts-99-6m-profit-in-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RYSEGD34A65I6T2ISPUJ6LZMJBKDF5DU", "length": 3547, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.pv-magazine.com", "title": "Canadian Solar exceeds Q4 shipment guidance, posts $99.6m profit in 2017 \u2013 pv magazine International", "raw_content": "Canadian Solar exceeds Q4 shipment guidance, posts $99.6m profit in 2017\nCanadian Solar has recorded net income of about $99.6 million for 2017, up sharply from the preceding year, as its full-year PV module shipments jumped by roughly 1.6 GW on the year to 6.8 GW.\nImage: Canadian Solar\nFull-year net revenue edged up to $3.39 billion in 2017, from $2.85 billion in 2016, according to its results for the fourth quarter and year to the end of December 2017. Net revenue from its total solutions business accounted for about 22.8% of the group\u2019s total net revenue, from just 8.1% a year earlier.\nThe Chinese Tier 1 solar group shipped roughly 1.83 GW of PV modules in the fourth quarter, down slightly from 1.87 GW in the preceding three-month period, but slightly higher than the upper range of its quarterly guidance. Revenue rose about 21.7% from the third quarter to $1.11 billion in the final three months of 2017, while the company\u2019s net income rose sharply from $13.3 million in the third quarter to $61.4 million.\n\u201cOur record-high solar module shipments for the full year 2017 were driven by strong demand from China, India, Europe and the United States,\u201d said Shawn Qu, chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar.\nIn the fourth quarter, Canadian Solar sold 72.7 MWp of PV across 13 sites in Japan to its Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund unit for $270 million. It partly attributed its fourth-quarter gross profit of $218.6 million and its gross margin of 19.7% to the sale of those projects in Japan.\n\u201dWe benefitted from the higher margin contribution from the sale of 72.7 MWp of solar projects to CSIF in Japan,\u201d said Huifeng Chang, senior vice president and CFO of Canadian Solar. \u201cWe are encouraged by our success in monetizing our operating solar power assets globally. This serves as a further validation of the strength of our business model.\u201d\nThe group currently operates about 1.2 GWp of solar capacity throughout the world, with approximately 2 GWp of PV in various stages of development by the end of February 2018.\nIts late-stage utility-scale PV project pipeline, including arrays that are still being built, included 459 MWp in the U.S., 435.7 MWp in Mexico, 410 MWp in China, 362.2 MWp in Japan, 215.6 MWp in Brazil, 59 MWp in India, 24.2 MWp in Australia, 18.4 MWp in Chile, and 8.2 MWp in the U.K.\nCanadian Solar invested about $8.6 million in R&D in the fourth quarter, according to an online statement. It claimed $1.19 billion of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash by the end of December, up slightly from about $1.15 billion at the end of September 2017.\nIts total borrowings for utility-scale PV projects stood at $1.38 billion by the end of 2017, from $1.43 billion a year earlier.\nThe group\u2019s total PV cell production capacity stood at 5.45 GW at the end of 2017, with plans to expand that to 6.35 GW by the end of this year. Its PV module manufacturing capacity stood at 8.11 GW at the end of December, with plans to expand that to 9.81 GW by the end of the current year.\nIn the first quarter of 2018, Canadian Solar expects to ship approximately 1.3 GW to 1.35 GW of solar panels, including about 65 MW for its own utility-scale PV projects. Total revenue for the first three months of this year will likely range from $1,370 million to $1,400 million, it said.\nFor the full year, it expects total PV module shipments to reach between 6.6 GW and 7.1 GW, and revenues of $4.4 billion to $4.6 billion.\nGas Natural Fenosa enters Brazilian solar market with 83 MW acquisition\nEncavis reports solid results for 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 9498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.q102.ie/celebritybuzz/first-details-of-love-island-usa-released/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HXVGEMH3EGUYAS3VQTQTQHPHS5AN7AOO", "length": 2204, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.q102.ie", "title": "| Dublin's Q102", "raw_content": "We are BUZZING.\nEarlier this month, Virgin Media Television announced that they would be airing the brand new Love Island USA, alongside the hit UK and Australian versions of the show, to their viewers this year.\nFinally, the first details of the show are in.\nProducers are currently recruiting for the show and have given us the first glimpse of how the show will be formatted.\nLove Island USA is set to air on Virgin Media Television this year. (via ITV)\nIn the application form, it's revealed that the premise of the show will remain the same.\n\"How do you feel about enjoying your very own long hot summer of romance? The International mega hit 'Love Island' is coming to the U.S. summer 2019 and we're now on the lookout for lively singles from across the country to take part. Our Islanders will take up residence in a spectacular luxury villa in the hope of finding love.\nIf you make it to the Island, you\u2019ll be living, competing and coupling up with other sexy singles. Viewers will chime in along the way and help determine which couple takes home the cash prize. If you think you\u2019ve got what it takes, then we want to hear from you! If you\u2019re over 18, you could be spending next summer in paradise. You must be warm, honest, open and genuinely looking for love.\"\nUnlike the UK version of the dating show, however, this series is looking for singles who fit into certain categories.\nThe five categories are as follows:\nSexy and fun single straight men\nSexy and fun single straight women\nSexy and dynamic single male models\nSexy and dynamic single female models\nSexy and fun singles with professional careers\nSo, while it doesn't seem to be completely inclusive for all applicants, it seems we may get some interesting characters at least.\nVirgin Media Television are yet to announce what date the show will be airing from, but considering it's happening in summer 2019, the same time as the UK version, our guess is that it will be in the latter part of the year.\nCork native Killian returns for another go, following his stint on the show last series.\nCatch him from 9.30pm on RT\u00c9 2.\nvia RTE2\nThe Tigers have a mole in their midst but no one suspects a thing.\nThat kicks off at 9pm on E4.\nvia E4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.qddp.org/2018-qddp-preconference-sessions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EZJ3MEFLWKVA44O2S3KLNBZF4AMLOR4Z", "length": 6152, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.qddp.org", "title": "2018 QDDP Preconference Sessions", "raw_content": "Our pre-conference sessions will be held on August 7 from 9:00AM - 4:00PM. These sessions offer in-depth training on topics critical to successful & effective disability professionals. This year we are proud to offer the following options:\nOption 1: Leading and Managing Cohesive Teams with Alice Dendinger\nIf you lead or manage teams in your organization, you will be responsible for their productivity, rules of engagement, and how they are managed, motivated and coached to perform better. As supervisors and managers, we directly or indirectly influence team cohesion and set the standards for team behavior. Teamwork is the single most untapped competitive business advantage and if you have a cohesive team - you get results.\nWhat does it take to build cohesive and effective teams? As a base, we will explore Patrick Lencioni's Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team and elevate the standards and expectations of your team members.\nObjectives for this six-hour workshop include:\nLearn the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team in an effort to elevate standards and expectations for teams that you lead and manage.\nGain tips and tools for establishing greater trust, managing healthy conflict, gaining commitment from team members, ensuring accountability to get the job done and with a focus on the collective results of the team.\nThrough a profile called DiSC, we will explore aspects of your leadership style that can help or hinder your employee\u2019s productivity and retention.\nThroughout the day, explore best practices that you can customize for your own organization that will help you coach, manage and motivate your employees.\nAlice Dendinger, SPHR has over 30 years of experience in the field of Human Resource Management and Organizational Development. She has initiated and designed programs that have lowered turnover and increased employee satisfaction thus impacting productivity and profits of the client organization. Alice has focused her work on organizational development, strategic management, employee relations and communication, mediation and performance management; and assisting the leaders, managers, supervisors, and direct reports at every level \u201cwork better together.\u201d She is often called upon to work with Human Resource and Business leaders to \u201cchange the culture.\u201d\nOriginating from Yankton, South Dakota, Alice has an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Marketing from Northern State University in Aberdeen as well as a Masters in Communication from the University of North Texas. Additional education/certifications include: Texas Certified Mediator, Coach University Graduate, Future Search Strategic Planning Facilitator, Emotional Intelligence, DiSC Behavioral Analyst and Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) facilitator. Alice has continued education in communication, group facilitation, dialogue and deliberation, conflict management, team development, interpersonal skills, leadership development and 360\u00b0 assessments.\nAlice is a popular conference presenter, where she inspires the audience with her high energy, passion for human resources, humor and ability to connect with each member of the audience. In October 2014, she was inducted into the HR Southwest Conference Speaker Hall of Fame. She currently resides in Austin, Texas where she leads the Alice Dendinger Alliance Group - an HR Consulting, Coaching and Mediation Company. In 2014, Alice launched another company, PivotU \u2013 a Training, Learning and Transformation Company. More information about this new Training, Learning and Transformation Company can be found at www.pivotu.com.\nOption 2: Supporting Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia with Lucille Esralew\nDue to modern improvements in health care we are seeing people with significant disabilities live longer lives. While we celebrate this fact, we also recognize that this has caused an increase in diagnoses traditionally attributed to an aging population. Of particular interest to disability professionals is how they can best support people with dementia related diagnoses.\nThe NTG-EDSD (Early Detection Screen for Dementia) is a rating tool that captures observations of change in behavior and functioning likely to be associated with dementia. Dr. Lucy Esralew, will review the use of this tool within the context of the assessment process for cognitive impairment and dementia which begins with screening and assessment, and leads to obtaining a diagnosis. This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to learn about a practical screening tool to rate the functioning of individuals whom they support. This information can be used in shared decision making by medical and non-medical members within the valued team to promote important care conversations and design supports for individuals to age-in-place.\nLucy will utilize structured exercises and interactive review of case scenarios to demonstrate how findings from the screening tool can be used to stimulate dialogue with health care providers and promote planning for services that support aging in place. Specifically, the case studies will demonstrate:\nHow to communicate with health care professionals based on information gathered from the tool including preparing for a doctor\u2019s visit.\nHow to facilitate an interdisciplinary team meeting using information from the screening tool and other data to plan services and supports\nWhat \"next steps\" to take in regard to training and discussion with support staff.\nLucy Esralew, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist at the Redwood Coast Regional Center in Ukiah, California. Previously she was the clinical administrator for two statewide crisis response/clinical follow-up programs. She is Editor of the NADD Bulletin. She serves on the steering committee of National Task Group in Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices. She is a certified dementia practitioner (CDP) and trainer through the National Council for Certified Dementia Practitioners. She is a Master trainer of the NTG Dementia Capable Caregiving curriculum and she is a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor through the National Council for Behavioral Health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-211209679/what-s-your-problem", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MIR64ACZHFCD4VGD2E6ADEC5XAYAGC5M", "length": 3163, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.questia.com", "title": "\"What's Your Problem?\" - Management Today, November 1, 2009 | Online Research Library: Questia", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Browse \u00bb Magazines \u00bb Management Magazines \u00bb Management Today \u00bb Article details, \"What's Your Problem?\"\nQ: I was recruited to a company about six months ago, with the intention of taking over the division when the manager stepped down (he now has).\nHowever, the company has undergone a change in senior management, and the current regional and national managers, while affable, don't have any strategy in place and don't know who they want to hire to the position. I offer long-term growth versus short-term gains. Do I go over their heads and speak directly to the CEO, or wait six to 12 months for the inevitable problems to arise and then act?\nA: I'm not as clear as I'd like to be. You joined this company 'with the intention of taking over the division when the manager stepped down' Was this your personal intention - in other words, an ambition? Or was it discussed and agreed at the time you were taken on? From the fact that your senior managers are still uncertain who to hire as the new divisional head, I suspect that, while your 'intention' may have been known to, and informally agreed by, the outgoing manager, it was never known to, let alone endorsed by, anyone higher up. In other words, however unjust you may feel it to be, you should assume that you're no better placed than any other candidate, internal or external. \u2026\nLabor relations--Management\nStrategic planning (Business)--Management\nStrategic Public Relations Management: Planning and Managing Effective Communication Programs By Erica Weintraub Austin; Bruce E. Pinkleton Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001\nMaking Labor-Management Relations Integral to the Management Process: The Interagency Labor Relations Forum (ILRF) Seeks a Dialogue among Federal Labor Relations Practitioners and Other Interested Parties. (Labor-Management Relations) By Smith, Kenneth L. The Public Manager, Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall 2001\nInformation Technology in Human Resource Management: An Empirical Assessment By Mishra, Alok Akman, Ibrahim Public Personnel Management, Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 2010\nStrategic Planning for the Management Business By Gray, John T. Journal of Property Management, Vol. 54, No. 5, September-October 1989\nRisk Management and Business Strategy: Risk Management and Strategic Planning Are Not Two Separate Things. They Are Two Braids of the Same Rope-And They Must Be Built That Way in Order to Contribute to the Strength of the Whole By Holmquist, Eric The RMA Journal, July-August 2012\nCompleting the Business Case for EAPs: Research on EAP Organizational Services Shows They Save Money and Create Opportunities to Participate in Management Initiatives and Strategic Planning By Attridge, Mark Amaral, Tom Hyde, Mark The Journal of Employee Assistance, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2003\nBeyond Combative Labor Relations Some Companies Are Diluting Top-Down Management to Involve Workers in Decisionmaking By Mark Trumbull, writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 1994\nBASF Korea Sets New Standard in Labor-Management Relations By Korea Times (Seoul, Korea), June 28, 2000\nFREE! Taft-Hartley Labor Act The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1112808511/baking-hot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:30Z", "digest": "sha1:44UBMV4JUU2DJ7DH7W66TX2DOIGP3MOI", "length": 3850, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.questia.com", "title": "\"Baking Hot\" by Heath, Michael - The Spectator, November 5, 2005 | Online Research Library: Questia", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Browse \u00bb Magazines \u00bb News and Opinion Magazines \u00bb The Spectator \u00bb Article details, \"Baking Hot\"\nA couple of years ago I was in New York with my arm candy, plus friends and offspring, checking out the Chelsea area and SoHo with its hip residents, rats and meat-packing outlets now converted into eating establishments for people who live in converted lofts. We were watching New Yorkers mooch about the boutiques (boutiques is not a word we use over here any more, is it? ) crammed with geegaws of all kinds, when we couldn't help but notice a mob moving towards Bleecker Street. Most of the crowd were chatting excitedly and licking their lips, but some were silent, strolling and rolling their eyes. All moved as if in a trance. By now I'd become tired of counting the rats who, by the way, are not at all like British rats. Oh no, New York rats have street cred and wear low-cut jeans, if female, with ankle socks and high heels. They're in the media, property, and you can see them on the subway, laughing at cartoons in the New Yorker, roller-blading around the city that never sleeps.\n(That's not strictly true; New York goes to bed quite early. ) We wished the rats farewell and tagged along with this madding crowd only to find ourselves at the end of a long, orderly queue which turned out to be for a bakery. \u2026\nOnly in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City By Sam Roberts Fordham University Press, 2019\nThe History of the New York City Legislature By Frederick Shaw Columbia University Press, 1954\nCity Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York By David M. Henkin Columbia University Press, 1998\nKing of New York: Northern Patronage and Support for Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957-1963 By Jones, Rhonda Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 38, No. 2, August 2014\nExpert Opinion and Product Quality: Evidence from New York City Restaurants By Gergaud, Olivier Storchmann, Karl Verardi, Vincenzo Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53, No. 2, April 2015\nUsing the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System to Enhance Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigations in New York City Restaurants By Matis, Bailey McKelvey, Wendy O'Halloran, Dan Stavinsky, Faina Wong, Melissa Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 79, No. 8, April 2017\nAre London's Restaurants Really Better Than Those of New York? I Doubt It. (Food) By Skidelsky, William New Statesman (1996), Vol. 132, No. 4645, July 7, 2003\nOur Very Best Restaurants (According to the French, That Is.): The Michelin Guide, Published by a French Tire Company since 1900 and for Decades the European Gourmet's Bible, Has Invaded America, with Lots of Controversy but Surprisingly Good Results, Writes Amy Cortese. New York, for Instance, Beats Rome By Cortese, Amy The American (Washington, DC), Vol. 1, No. 3, March-April 2007\nEating out Classic New York Style: In Preview's 2000 Edition, Late Art Business News Columnist Emmett Murphy Took Us Back 100 Years to Restaurants That Have Been around since the Last Millennium. These New York City Dining Classics Are Still Going Strong, and in Celebration of a Classic Show, Here Is a List of Some Classic Restaurants By Murphy, Emmett Art Business News, Vol. 29, No. 13, December 2002\nColumnist Takes Us to Amy's Bread, One of His New York City Favorites By New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), June 30, 2014\nNew York Hospitals Cracking Down on Junk Food By Manila Bulletin, September 25, 2012\nNew York City Hospitals Cracking Down on Junk Food By Meghan Barr Verena Dobnik Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), September 30, 2012\nFREE! New York (state, United States) The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018\nFREE! Port Authority of New York and New Jersey The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.quoteopia.com/famous.php?quotesby=bereniceabbott", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HFDBXKP5RJ7RRGK7UWYG5OQUJFBR6UJL", "length": 1464, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.quoteopia.com", "title": "Famous quotes by Berenice Abbott - Quoteopia!", "raw_content": "Quotes by Berenice Abbott\nDoes not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.\nLet us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.\nSome people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.\nThe camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.\nThe challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.\nThere are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.\nWhat I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/217182/o'sullivan-new-poet-laureate", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NM6DQEFVBAKG5ND34GLR3LGODV2XJEPV", "length": 854, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.radionz.co.nz", "title": "O'Sullivan new poet laureate | RNZ News", "raw_content": "One of the country's most distinguished writers has been chosen as New Zealand's new poet laureate.\nVincent O'Sullivan was nominated by his contemporaries and chosen by the Poet Laureate Advisory Group to promote New Zealand's poetry.\nThe poet, fiction writer and editor will succeed Wellington poet Ian Wedde.\nMr O'Sullivan says it is gratifying to be selected as it is an act of faith on the part of those who chose him.\nHe says the role will be a liberating experience and allow him to work more collaboratively with artists in other fields.\nMr O'Sullivan will also receive $100,000.\nThe group's chair, Chris Szekely, says Vincent O'Sullivan is a leading figure in poetry both here and internationally and will be a great champion for New Zealand poetry.\nMr Szekely says his poetry is accessible, intelligent and reaches a diverse ranges of audiences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 3603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.railsport.uk/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MXW7LRBHFGH4VSMSU6QT6N6JWJ25LWDT", "length": 6240, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.railsport.uk", "title": "RailSport Games UK", "raw_content": "Rail Media:\nCreating opportunities to connect...\nRail Media, creating opportunities to connect...\nWe are Rail Media and we create opportunities to connect - whether it\u2019s connecting you to industry news, with like-minded professionals or even with that ideal candidate for a role in your company. We keep you connected with the latest developments and projects within the industry, through reading one of our magazines or by attending one of our many events.\nRail Media has the rail industry covered - here\u2019s how:\nRailStaff Magazine\n...focuses on the people within the rail industry, their activities and challenges. It includes the regular monthly features that our 175,000 readers tell us they want - from safety and training to people moves and the latest projects and initiatives. Distributed to stations, depots and academies up and down the country, RailStaff can be found on desks and tables throughout the industry.\n...is written by engineers, for engineers. Our writers visit factories, worksites, stations and depots all around the UK to meet with specialist engineers, bringing our readers news of the latest projects and developments every month. In addition, we also report on cutting-edge rolling stock innovations and on-board technologies that enhance performance, safety, energy efficiency and the passenger experience.\n...provides daily updates about the rail industry worldwide, from the awarding of orders for new fleets of trains to the completion of major infrastructure projects. Through a weekly newsletter, we provide news and analysis directly to thousands of subscribers in all corners of the world.\n...has a growing database and excellent long term relationships with the recruitment industry. Alongside this, Railway People offers a wealth of fantastic advertising options allowing you to get the best return from your marketing. As all great recruiters are aware, it is attracting the right candidate for your roles that is important, so we offer a range of helpful bundles to help you do just that.\nRailJobStem.com\n...offers a place for the Global Rail Industry to advertise its non-UK Rail vacancies. Whether you want to reach rail professionals in Asia, the Far East, Australasia, the Americas, Africa or Europe, Rail Job Stem is the place to do it, easily and effectively.\n\u2026recognise the work that people do to go the extra mile for colleagues, passengers and the general public. They celebrates the success of individuals and teams and allows the industry to say \u201cthank you\u201d to those who make rail what it is today, from drivers to cleaners, engineers to station staff, back-office administrators to infrastructure maintainers. You can nominate your colleagues, whether they have saved a life, managed a large-scale project or just done their job particularly well this year, and send us stories of lives saved, careers turned around and adversity conquered. This recognition of our people in the national RailStaff Awards is the event of the year and one not to be missed.\nThe Rail Partnership Awards\n\u2026give Network Rail, working in partnership with Rail Media, the opportunity to recognise organisations which are helping to deliver a better railway for a better Britain. The 2018 Rail Partnership Awards bring the supply chain together to celebrate the very best of 2017\u2019s achievements in the rail industry. 14 awards are open for nominations and only their winners will be considered for the coveted Supplier of the Year Award, presented to the organisation that has, in the judges\u2019 opinion, demonstrated excellence and best practice in all areas.\nThe Rail Asset Management Summit\n...moves the discussion on from the last three Rail BIM Summits. As the rail industry moves into a more digital world, now is the time to understand how rail businesses can benefit from the relationship between BIM and asset management. A panel of experts will share their knowledge and experience so that delegates can learn how assets are managed throughout the rail industry.\nThe Rail Technology Summit\n...takes the conversation which started at 2017\u2019s Digital Rail Summit and broadens the subject into one of Rail Technology. Speakers from throughout the industry, from rolling stock to train operations and infrastructure management, will look at how the use of innovative technology in rail is bringing about a revolution in efficiency and reliability.\nThe Rail Safety Summit\n...has brought rail safety professionals together for the last ten years. It provides a unique opportunity for them to network and discuss the latest concerns and developments while hearing from those involved with developing new systems to drive safety up and risk down. Academics and hand-on safety specialists learn from each other as no topic is too difficult for the panel to tackle.\nThe Rail Procurement Roadshows\n\u2026are a series of UK conferences and workshops designed to encourage those new to the industry, and those not so new, to develop their skills in bidding for and winning work. There is a vast opportunity for suppliers to secure new contracts, across both the existing network and new large-scale infrastructure projects, and these roadshows will help you pitch for that business.\nThe RailSport Games\n\u2026have, since the early 1990s, been encouraging railway staff to reignite their long-held hopes of sporting glory and compete to be crowned the industry\u2019s best. The RailSport Games tournament was established by the British Rail Staff Association and continues to this day with the help of many great volunteers. It has welcomed thousands of competitors from across the rail industry, participating in everything from cycling to rounders, darts to chess and football to rugby. As employers increasingly promote staff fitness, the RailSport Games are open to individuals and to company teams, both for serious competition and for the fun of participating.\n\u2026is an Outdoor Plant exhibition for the Rail Sector. Rail Media has teamed up with PLANTWORX to launch a brand new outdoor rail equipment trade show for 2019. PLANTWORX is the UK\u2019s largest plant and equipment exhibition, with over 15,000 visitors in 2017. It's about to get even bigger with the introduction of RailWorx, the new dedicated section for the rail industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 7843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rawstory.com/2010/02/naacp-tancredo-remarks-outrageous-insidious-politics-denigration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:EDWQRKD3OVPAKOAK6JBFN5Z22CBTEAV7", "length": 3531, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.rawstory.com", "title": "Exclusive: NAACP calls Tea Party speaker's quip 'outrageous, insidious'", "raw_content": "Exclusive: NAACP calls Tea Party speaker\u2019s quip \u2018outrageous, insidious\u2019\nConvention\u2019s opening speaker suggested reinstating law that kept blacks from voting\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo may have fired up the most zealous conservatives at the first ever National Tea Party Convention, but he hasn\u2019t pleased the renowned civil rights group NAACP.\nSpeaking before a crowd of 600 delegates in Nashville, Tennessee, Tancredo fired away at \u201cthe cult of multiculturalism\u201d and claimed President Obama was elected because \u201cwe do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country,\u201d according to ABC News.\nThe historical context of Tancredo\u2019s comments is important. As the NAACP notes on its Web site, \u201cliteracy tests and poll taxes systematically denied African American people their constitutional rights\u201d for nearly a century following the abolition of slavery in 1870.\nIt wasn\u2019t until 1965 that the Voting Rights Act allowed African Americans to fully participate in the political process.\nHilary Shelton, Washington Director of NAACP, blasted Tancredo\u2019s remarks as \u201coutrageous\u201d and \u201cinsidious\u201d in an interview with Raw Story. \u201cThis is the politics of denigration,\u201d he said.\nTancredo also said the United States \u201cput a committed socialist ideologue in the White House \u2026 Barack Hussein Obama.\u201d ABC reported that his speech \u201creceived enthusiastic applause at times.\u201d\nSheldon, who is also NAACP\u2019s Senior Vice Preident for Advocacy and Policy, assailed Tancredo\u2019s use of Obama\u2019s middle name as a \u201cdeliberate attempt\u201d to subliminally \u201ctie him to Saddam Hussein\u201d as a way of appealing to voter fears. \u201cWhy else would he use it?\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a strategy of desperation,\u201d Sheldon said, alleging that some conservative leaders are purposefully targeting Obama\u2019s character because they prefer not to debate policy.\nThough he stopped short of labeling him a racist, Shelton said Tancredo\u2019s aim \u2014 and the aim of Tea Party leaders \u2014 is to undermine the entire Democratic Party by targeting the president.\n\u201cThey\u2019re not debating his ideas and platform,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir approach is to denigrate his character, because his policies are policies that millions of Americans support.\u201d\nShould Tancredo apologize? \u201cIf he\u2019s thoughtful he would,\u201d Sheldon told Raw Story.\nFounded in 1909, NAACP \u2014 short for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People \u2014 is among the oldest and most powerful civil rights groups in the country.\nTancredo did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Raw Story.\nMark Skoda, a businessman and spokesman for the Tea Party convention, mildly criticized the former Congressman\u2019s remarks. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t further the dialogue,\u201d he said, according to CNN.\nMichael B. Keegan, president of the liberal advocacy group People For The American Way, called Tancredo\u2019s words \u201cdeeply offensive\u201d and said they \u201cembodied the worst of today\u2019s Republican Party.\u201d\n\u201cHe would be nothing more than a bad joke if he did not represent a corrosive spirit that is far too prevalent in our politics today,\u201d Keegan added.\nThe Tennessee convention\u2019s kickoff included a \u201cmodified American flag to serve as a symbol for the Tea Party movement,\u201d according to its creator, USRevolution2.com founder Jeffrey McQueen.\nThe opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and \u201cthe cult of multiculturalism,\u201d asserting that Obama was elected because \u201cwe do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 8397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog/foodie.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5XY3DBOF7UBT4KVMZNJMQ745HVKT5ZNV", "length": 4009, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.reallakedistrict.co.uk", "title": "FOODIE | Blog | Lake District Hotels Association", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Blog \u00bb FOODIE\nThe Lake District - Fabulous food and where to find it!\nCalling all foodies... we've a special blog for you this week... **Stops typing. Picks up another biscuit**\nCumbria is doing a marvellous job of putting itself on the map for the foodies of Britain.\nOur local produce is second to none, and we have a number of absolutely fantastic restaurants serving delectable dishes and offering a top class dining experience.\nJust this year, two more restaurants have been awarded Michelin stars, taking our total of Michelin-starred restaurants to four \u2013 with L\u2019Enclume in Cartmel, The Samling in Ambleside, Forest Side in Grasmere and Gilpin Hotel in Windermere flying the flag for gastronomic success in Cumbria.\nBut what makes our food so special? Firstly, we probably owe a lot to our phenomenal local produce. Let\u2019s take a look at a few famous foods from our region.\nThe Cumberland sausage is a form of sausage that originated in Cumberland, now part of Cumbria. The sausage is very long and is sold rolled in a flat, circular coil. It is made using natural ingredients and selected cuts of pork. The meat is typically chopped rather than minced which gives it that distinctive chunky texture, and the sausage contains no added colouring or preservatives, with the seasonings being prepared from a variety of spices and herbs. In March 2011, the \u201cTraditional Cumberland sausage\u201d was granted Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status.\nThose who have tasted this will know this gingerbread is extraordinary rather than ordinary. Many describe it as an intensely ginger-flavoured shortbread, topped with sandy, sugary, gingery crumbs. It is made to Sarah Nelson secret recipe, dating back to the 1850s. The gingerbread is made in the tiny building which was once the village school, by the entrance to St Oswald\u2019s church in Grasmere. It is only available to buy here, and by mail order.\nThis has been made by Romneys of Kendal since 1918 and is a sugary, peppermint flavoured sweet treat. According to legend, a Kendal confectioner, who was intending to make glacier mints, took his eye off the cooking pan for a minute and then noticed that the mixture had start to grain and become cloudy instead of clear \u2013 the result was Mint Cake. It is popular among climbers and mountaineers as a source of energy. Sir Edmund Hilary and Sidar Tensing even ate the mint cake on top of Everest.\nCartmel village shop is famous for its sticky toffee pudding, and their products are available throughout Cumbria and beyond at many retailers, due to its popularity. While the origins of the dessert are considered a mystery, the most widely accepted story is that Francis Coulson developed and served this dessert at his Sharrow Bay Country House Hotel on the shore of Ullswater in 1960.\nThis is lamb that has grazed on the salt marshes on the Cartmel peninsula at the edge of Morecambe Bay. They eat the grasses and hers that are wild and are untreated with agricultural chemicals. The salt marsh lamb meat has more flavour than young \u2018spring\u2019 lamb and can be bought in different retailers around the area.\nDamsons and Damson gin\nThe Lyth and Winster Valleys between Kendal and Windermere are well known for their damson orchards, the home of the Westmorland Damson, which are used to make various damson products, including Damson gin. There are damsons elsewhere, but the flavour of the smaller Westmorland damson is widely accepted as being second to none.\nA traditional recipe of lightly spiced butter with a dash of dark rum, usually served together with Christmas Pudding and mince pies.\nIt\u2019s no surprise that writing this blog has made us feel a little bit peckish, and we\u2019re incredibly lucky to have these foodie treats right on our doorstep, here in Cumbria. We\u2019d love to know which of these local delights is your favourite \u2013 we\u2019re torn between Cumberland sausage and Grasmere gingerbread (the perfect main meal and dessert!) Comment below and tell us which are your favourites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rebeccabradleycrime.com/2016/07/15/the-end-of-the-road-for-first-drafters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:H5W7TTKTBJI6O5PTJKSISSPB6RCVAVVG", "length": 3183, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.rebeccabradleycrime.com", "title": "The End Of The Road For First Drafters\u2026", "raw_content": "The End Of The Road For First Drafters\u2026\nYes, I\u2019m sorry to say that we are about at the end of the road for our fabulous First Drafters. It must be close to two years that this series has been running and I have had a multitude of authors talking to me about their First Draft processes, but I am slowly running out of authors to harass. And, to be honest, it does feel as though I am harassing them now, rather than them actually wanting to take part!\nSo, what I\u2019m going to do is finish up with the ones that I still have to do (there are a few more to come) and then I have a new series up my sleeve which I think you might enjoy! It\u2019s along similar lines \u2013 What\u2019s Your Revision Process Like? (So, how does the first draft turn into something that resembles a novel?)\nAnd, if an author comes along who wants to do a blog tour and maybe hasn\u2019t done the first draft Q&A at any point, they can be slotted in on any day, once the new series takes on the Friday slot.\nIt feels like a sad day, saying goodbye to the First Draft process series \u2013 even though there are still a couple more to come, but, it is the start of another great series. A step forward from the first draft. Moving on and seeing where the authors go next after they have those first words on paper (or screen).\nI\u2019m looking forward to it, I hope you will too!\nWho do you hope to see come back and talk about their revision process?\nFiled Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: #amwriting, Crime Fiction, Editing, First Drafts, Revising, Writing\nCPhilippou123 says\nBoooo \u2013 I\u2019ll miss the feature, but keep up the great work \ud83d\ude42\nThanks Christina. It\u2019ll not disappear altogether and I\u2019m sure revisions will be just as interesting \ud83d\ude42 Have you done the first draft Q&A? Would you be interested before it closes its Friday doors?\nI love reading about first drafts, and I love the idea of learning about other writers\u2019 revision processes. Mine is peculiar, so I\u2019m hoping to discover I\u2019m not alone \ud83d\ude42\nI\u2019m so glad you enjoyed the process. I know you did the first draft Q&A. Would you be interested in doing the revision one?\nCan\u2019t believe you\u2019re at the end of the list of authors. I\u2019d be glad to do it but I think you just want mystery authors.\nAbsolutely not Alex! I\u2019ve had other authors do the first draft series. Email me at Rebecca.bradley2010@gmail.com and I\u2019ll send you the stuff you need and we\u2019ll get you on before the doors finally close on the Friday slot!\nYour First Draft series has been fantastic, Rebecca, and I was honoured to be part of that group. But things change, don\u2019t they, and there\u2019s always something new. Looking forward to your new series!\nI\u2019m glad you enjoyed it Margot and it was a pleasure having you a part of the series. Would you be interested in completing the next step?\nThese were very interesting, Rebecca. I especially liked the workspace pictures. I suppose you could continue that into the Revisions series\u2026\nI\u2019m glad you enjoyed them, Jacqui. Yes, the revision series will definitely run in the same vein. I\u2019ll make it as similar as I can but bearing in mind it\u2019ll be many of the first drafters I\u2019ll have to pick another photo to get from them. You\u2019re right though, I love seeing their work space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/47o4bz/is_there_any_truth_to_the_guy_who_claims_the/d0fpicf/?context=3", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BAPY3L4NI6I7ZPHW7RHIQFD5B73G5OYB", "length": 5405, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.reddit.com", "title": "Is there any truth to the guy who claims the nameservers were owned by the MPAA via whois records? : PopCornTime", "raw_content": "u/herpnderp02\nIs there any truth to the guy who claims the nameservers were owned by the MPAA via whois records?\nmetteemo\nThe short answer: No, it's not true. The MPAA does not control the popcorntime.io update server http://its.pt/ or the current http://popcorntime.sh/ websites.\nYou don't have to take my word for anything, of course. You can look at a neutral source like http://torrentfreak.com (you've heard of Torrentfreak for years now, right?) and see how many links and articles they have about popcorntime.sh, and how many links they have to (the fake CE version) popcorntime.ag website. Hint: they don't talk about popcorntime.ag at all.\nTorrentfreak is a news website that's existed for years before Popcorntime existed, and probably will exist for years after Popcorntime, too. They're old and generally reliable.\nThe detailed, long answer... There are some technical parts, but I'll try to simplify the explanation:\nIt's a lie, but like many lies, there is a tiny bit of truth in the statement.\nThe MPAA did not take over (and thus does not own) the domain for the popcorntime.io update server (its.pt), but it did take over the popcorntime.io main website domain (popcorntime.io) and the nameserver domains (ptn.sh, ptn.re. ptn.wf and ptm.pm).\nBefore the MPAA took over the popcorntime.io domain, the DNS system was set up so that any user connecting to a popcorntime.io server would \"ask\" one of the 4 popcorntime.io DNS nameservers (ptn.sh, ptn.re. ptn.wf and ptn.pm) for \"directions\" in order to access the website. As an overly simplified drawing, it looks something like this: https://i.imgur.com/fnIypxC.png\nAfter the MPAA took over the DNS domains, it would have looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/55R14ul.png\nThis means that (funnily), the update server (its.pt) was using the MPAA owned domains for a short amount of time (the dotted lines). This doesn't mean that the MPAA controls the its.pt domain, of course, the owner of the its.pt domain can just change DNS nameservers. That's exactly what happened, and this is what the diagram looks like now: https://i.imgur.com/PwPIG8P.png\nThis third diagram isn't completely accurate- popcorntime.sh is running behind Cloudflare, which does weird things DNS-wise in order to run their CDN (which increases reliability and security), but for the most part it helps you understand what's going on.\nIf you read the other subreddit post carefully, there is a lot of effort spent proving that the DNS nameservers (ptn.sh, ptn.re. ptn.wf and ptm.pm) are now owned by the MPAA, but that's misdirecting you. The MPAA can take all the DNS nameserver domains they want, but it doesn't mean the actual popcorntime.sh domain or the update server domain (its.pt) was controlled by the MPAA. You can ask your website registrar to change your website DNS nameservers at any time.\nThey present as \"evidence\" a link (https://web.archive.org/web/20160218113703/https://torrentfreak.com/images/its.png) that shows the its.pt nameservers listed as the old ones (ptn.sh, ptn.re. ptn.wf and ptm.pm), but that doesn't mean anything, since that just means the its.pt domain simply wasn't updated immediately after the MPAA took over the other domains. I imagine the guy who owned the domain had more important issues to deal with, than the nameservers of update server of an app that didn't even have a main website anymore.\nThe old DNS nameservers are obviously owned by the MPAA now, as a quick WHOIS lookup can show you:\nhttps://whois.domaintools.com/ptn.re\nhttps://whois.domaintools.com/ptn.sh\nhttps://whois.domaintools.com/ptn.wf\nhttps://whois.domaintools.com/ptn.pm\nHowever, the domain for its.pt is not owned by the MPAA (neither is popcorntime.sh, for that matter):\nhttps://whois.domaintools.com/its.pt\nThere are also (evidence-less) accusations:\nThe following reddit users ... are in some way directly or indirectly connected to the MPAA\nHowever, (hilariously) this is pointing to people that were active with the popcorntime.io project way before the MPAA sued Popcorntime. If those guys were actually working for the MPAA, those would be the deepest spies ever, haha. There's something silly, when the accuser (which has a reddit account made after the MPAA sued) is accusing people who were contributing to popcorntime.io for more than a year.\nEverything I said here should be true, as far as I know. That being said, I'll end with a note of \"always be careful\". I'm not affiliated with the popcorntime teams at all, I just post around here. If you DO find out any REAL evidence that a popcorntime fork is actually working with the MPAA or anything, please tell me, I'd be very interested in exposing the truth.\nThis is very helpful. Thank you.\nBut actually the MPAA have the ITS.PT\nhttps://k60.kn3.net/A/E/3/D/1/C/5BC.png\nSo.... why ???\nThe MPAA obtained the domain via a court order after I wrote this post. You can go check domain history websites to see that when I originally wrote this post, the MPAA did not own the its.pt domain.\nLechugaKnight\nSo now that the MPAA own the its.pt domain, what changes?\nIf you have the old popcorntime.io program installed, then it can no longer automatically update to popcorntime.sh. (You can manually uninstall it and install popcorntime.sh).\nOther than that, nothing really changes. If you use the popcorntime.sh program, it will automatically update via a different server unrelated to its.pt domain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reference.com/history/important-things-happened-1997-178533918b6792dd", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IONMWXD6TLOGTHXWSLRTGMWGU4X7FEUQ", "length": 1628, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.reference.com", "title": "What Important Things Happened in 1997? | Reference.com", "raw_content": "What Important Things Happened...\nWhat Important Things Happened in 1997?\nImportant events that occurred in 1997 includes, but are not limited to, the transition of control of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China, and the passing of Proposition 209 in California, which banned affirmative action in the state. Significant deaths that occurred in 1997 included those of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa.\nIn 1997, several significant scientific achievements and advancements occurred, starting with the first successful genetic manipulation of a mammal. This success occurred at the Roslin Institute in Scotland and resulted in Dolly, the first sheep that had been genetically modified to contain a human gene within its body. The scientific team behind this success was led by Dr. Keith Campbell and Dr. Ian Wilmut. On July 4, 1997, a United States unmanned spacecraft also begun explorations on the planet Mars.\nIn popular media, 1997 was also significant, as it saw the premier of the film \"Titanic\" on screens around the world. At the time of its premiere, \"Titanic\" was the most expensive movie ever to be produced, with a budget of around $300 million. 1997 also saw the debut of author J.K. Rowling in the United Kingdom, with the release of \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (released in the U.S. as \"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone\").\n1997 What Happened - More Info Here - Search 1997 What Happened\nfind.zoo.com/1997 What Happened/Now\nSearch 1997 What Happened. Compare Results on Zoo.com\nIs Hong Kong a Country?\nHow Was the Oregon Territory Acquired?\nWhat Are Some Tips for Taking Care of an Orchid Tree?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 4796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 147.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.referralsroofing.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=123887213", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:X2ZE5UVN7DPX6WZ42S7N4COW2D2JQG2E", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.referralsroofing.com", "title": "Before Home - Slider", "raw_content": "This photo was taken before the area around the detached shed was cleaned up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 541, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 125.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regus.fr/coworking-space/united-states/colorado/boulder/colorado-boulder-downtown-boulder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:10Z", "digest": "sha1:H24NB2G3QWO2UPSKRZXOPORDN742KEZQ", "length": 1086, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.regus.fr", "title": "Coworking \u00c0 Downtown Boulder | Regus FR", "raw_content": "Coworking \u00e0 Downtown Boulder, Boulder\n1434 Spruce Street, Suite 100, Boulder, Colorado, 80302\nThe Downtown Boulder business center occupies a class A bank building in a fantastic central location just one block away from the city's vibrant Pearl Street Mall. Other companies based here include architects and IT firms. According to Businessweek Magazine, Boulder is the best place to start a business in Colorado. A community of mentoring and support combined with a culture of innovation help companies in sectors ranging from organic cookies to lasers or wind turbines to thrive here. The city has a strong scientific base, with a concentration of national research labs, energy and hi-tech companies and a world-class university. Thanks to its unique location on the footsteps of the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by 45,000 acres of open space, it has also gained a reputation as a healthy, environmentally sound place to live, with a thriving community of outdoor recreation, tourism, and sustainable living industries.\nVoir tous les sites \u00e0 Boulder\nDes solutions sur mesure \u00e0 Boulder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regus.se/virtual-office/united-states/ohio/columbus/ohio-columbus-easton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VWALQYOXM6HYDAW3BT6P2LXTAE3AOPRA", "length": 859, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.regus.se", "title": "Virtuella kontor i Easton | Regus SE", "raw_content": "Virtuella kontor i Easton\n4449 Easton Way, 2nd Floor, Columbus, Ohio, 43219\nThe Columbus Easton Center occupies the entire second floor of a modern, brick-fa\u00e7ade, four-story building and has an impressive reception area. Its location in Central Ohio's largest mixed space campus is one of the most prestigious areas for business. The center is minutes from interstate highway I-270 and Port Columbus International Airport. Columbus's diverse economy is based on education, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and technology. It is home to the world's largest private research and development foundation - the Battelle Memorial Institute - and to CAS (Chemical Abstracts), the world's largest clearing house of chemical information.\nVirtuella kontor i Easton K\u00f6p nu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reliefjournal.com/blogposting/2010/02/22/spectacle-and-the-spirit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ASQZZGPD47XCSY4JZLNEWNHBDR2WCET7", "length": 7058, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.reliefjournal.com", "title": "The Spectacle and the Spirit (Another blog on Avatar) \u2014 Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith", "raw_content": "The Spectacle and the Spirit (Another blog on Avatar)\nBrad Fruhauff considers Avatar under the banners of pantheism and the American pastoral.\nOkay, so I finally saw Avatar - in \"RealD,\" no less. There has been no end of press about this film, of course, including some reflections on this site by Travis Griffith (with whose comments I will respectfully disagree, for reasons to be described below), but what got me interested finally was when my students started telling me about reports that, after being immersed in Cameron's imaginative virtual world, Pandora, a number of people have been feeling depressed and even suicidal .\nI was pretty sure this was an overreaction, but I had to see a movie that made people want to kill themselves.\nAnd I was right - these people are overreacting. Pandora is an impressive, fully-realized world full of natural wonders like pretty glowing trees, but it's still just a fantasy world. In fact, some of the ways it is most realistic also make it less idyllic - take, for instance, the scaly, tendril-waving, giant panther creature or the leathery-winged dinosaur-like ikran, which try to kill you if you try to ride them. This is a world at least as dangerous as it is beautiful. It's also hostile to humans, who have to wear oxygen masks due to the atmosphere, which is also the premise for developing the biological Na'vi avatars in the first place.\nIt's not \"just a movie\". . .\nBut I don't want to be dismissive of these people who go crazy over something that's \"just\" a movie. Granted, it's not exactly an epidemic or culture-wide phenomenon, but sometimes the \"crazy\" responses of a minority of people are really a symptom of a wider dysfunction. When a family-systems psychologist, for instance, is brought a child who is \"acting out,\" she will often have the whole family in to study the nature of the home environment; sometimes the healthy response to a sick family culture is to act \"sick.\"\nSo, is getting depressed over Pandora a healthy response to American culture? It's a response, anyhow, and not an entirely strange one. There is, after all, something in the American psyche that \"gets\" these kinds of films. David Edelstein is not alone among a multitude of critics who have noted the similarity of Avatar to movies such as Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. These films seek to redeem both our modern sense of disconnect from nature and the cultural guilt of Euro-Americans toward Native Americans. They achieve this handy double-whammy through romanticized visions of Native American spirituality and/or superficial fantasies of reconciliation and assimilation.\n. . . it's something deep in the American unconscious\nEdelstein is also not alone among critics who considered Avatar's story \"a crock\" and yet could not help but speak of it with awe. My wife and I agreed that as long as we weren't paying too much attention to the plot (or dialogue), the movie was thrilling, spectacular, and entertaining. Let's face it, there was very little unique about the heroes and villains in this film, and little in the plot that could truly surprise us. Yet how many of us were still spellbound?\nHow can these reactions be possible alongside the \"I'm depressed I don't live on Pandora\" ones?\nI'd like to say that some of us are more discerning about the finer points of narration (which were weak) and the craft of film-making (which were pretty strong), but I don't think any amount of special effects and camera-play could have saved a narrative with absolutely no resonance - and Avatar has resonance.\nIt goes beyond Dances with Wolves. There's a similar impulse at work in Longfellow's famous epic poem of 1855, The Song of Hiawatha, which tries to convince its Euro-American readers that they, too, can have the same mythico-religious relationship to this new land as the \"vanishing\" Native Americans. As Ross Douthat insightfully describes it for The New York Times, these narratives participate in a decidedly pantheistic impulse that is discernible at the founding of this nation. Our democratic spirit of unity longs to see everything involved in some metaphysical connection, whether in the nature-worship sense or the beacon of history one.\nAmerican Pastoral 2.0\nThis is the American pastoral: a nostalgic myth about being at home in our world and having transcendent experience. The fundamentalist Christian version looks toward some future of American cultural and religious dominance; the pantheistic, \"spiritualist\" version looks (as Douthat notes) toward an assimilation with the natural world that will also relieve us of our guilt-ridden self-consciousness.\nThe other side of our expansive democratic spirit is our accumulative consumerism, which is driven by the very technologies that represent our \"alienation\" from \"nature.\" The tragedy of the consumer, however, is that he cannot accumulate the whole world, and so the spiritualization of his consumptive desire would be a transcendent union with that world that would obviate his need to consume it.\nWhat Avatar does, then, is update the pastoral myth for a consumer-based, web 2.0 world. I know Cameron wrote his first treatment back in 1995, but he's clearly adapted it as our technologies changed (and as we got embroiled in Iraq), because Avatar is above all an American-pastoral wish-fulfillment fantasy that all our virtual network connections could become physical and organic.\nThink about it: the very title evokes the virtual identities we create or inhabit in our video games. The Na'vi literally have organic USB cables in their heads that can \"plug 'n' play\" into creatures and plants alike, and as Sigourney Weaver's scientist explains, the planet itself is a living network of roots more complex than the human brain. It's a compelling vision of life that can satisfy the scientist and the spiritualist at once, and yet it's packed with all the pathos of the modern American soul, for we have connection only through lifeless plastic devices, and the luminosity of our world consists of the neon artifice of Las Vegas.\nSo, what am I supposed to think?\nMy goal is not to pronounce this film good or bad for the Christian viewer. I'm glad I saw it once, in the theater, but I don't expect my life will be lacking if I never see it again. It'll probably win all sorts of Oscars, but I expect, like Titanic, we'll remember it more for it's budget and earnings than for anything lasting substantive value. We'll look back years later and say, Avatar was the first to do x, but of course all sorts of movies have surpassed it since then. Or we'll look back and think of it as a kind of cultural marker, a film that crystallized a moment in our cultural and technological story.\nAvatar is certainly a kind of cultural \"event,\" and, as event, will fade at last like any other thing. As art, it has certainly done something wonderful: given us an experience that casts us back upon the ordinary world with new eyes, if only for a moment.\ntags avatar, pantheism, pastoral, suicide, web 2-0\nThe Speech that can Save Christianity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/tag/opportunities-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CR5IPAZWJMUIRWE33JRKSZ3QNBPTNS5U", "length": 158008, "nlines": 1037, "source_domain": "www.religiousstudiesproject.com", "title": "opportunities \u2013 The Religious Studies Project", "raw_content": "Sociology of Religion, vol 74, no 4 \u2013 advance notice. http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/74/4?etoc\nReview of Religious Studies Research, vol 55, no. 4 http://link.springer.com/journal/13644/55/4?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals\nReligion and State, vol 41, no 4 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/crss20/41/4#.UqrCpeL9qBs\nNarratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving. Oxford University Press, 2013 (Oxford Ritual Studies). ISBN 978-0-19-994215-2 (pbk)\nAuthor: Smith, Bardwell L.\nNew Antiquities: Transformations of the Past in the New Age and Beyond\nThe twentieth century witnessed a surge of fascination with the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean, whose allure was appropriated in innovative ways by various actors and movements ranging from Rudolf Steiner to Goddess-cult(ure)s, from Neo-Gnostics in Brazil to the Russian New Age. In these diverse interpretations and productive misunderstandings of antiquity, ancient gods, philosophers, religious specialists, sacred institutions, practices, and artifacts were invoked, employed, and even invented in order to legitimize new developments in religious life. Focusing on the contemporary period (from the 1960s to the present day), our goal is to identify and analyze these appropriations and changes of ancient religious life. We seek critical, scientific papers that take an historical, philological, and/or sociological approach towards transformations and constructions of the past in the literature and cultural discourse of the New Age and beyond, extending into movements such as Neo-Paganism and Neo-Gnosticism. Join us for a workshop in Berlin, from 26\u201328 June 2014!\nSelected papers from the workshop will be published in the peer- reviewed Brill series, Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity. Participants will need to provide their own funding.\nDeadline for the submission of abstracts: 31 January 2014.\nContact info:Please send abstracts together with a CV (both no more than 500 words) to newantiquities [at] yahoo.de; further inquiries can be directed to the co-organizers of the workshop:\nCFP: Tombs, Mausoleums, Shrines and Memorials of Religious/Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East (1980-2011)\nAfter my recent call for papers regarding \u201cTombs, Mausoleums, Shrines and Memorials of Religious/Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East (1980-2011)\u201d I understood for many reasons this field of study is still undeveloped.\nTherefore by this e-mail I invite you for working together on one book publication project regarding above topic but ONLY related to the mentioned leaders (below).\nPlease send the title of your chapter, your discipline, a 500-word abstract and your full academic affiliation including your e-mail address as an attached file (Office Word) by 30th Feb. 2014 to: (pedram.khosronejad [at] st-andrews.ac.uk)\nThis edited volume will be published by SeanKingston Publishing House in U.K.\nAll branches of disciplines are welcome.\nCFP: Transformations: A Journal of Myth and Fairy Tale Studies \u2013 Proposals January 8 th, 2013\nEMMA, Universit\u00e9 Montpellier 3, France\njulie.sauvage<@>univ-montp3.fr, weeksj<@>iupui.edu\nWe are in the process of establishing a brand new web-based, peer-reviewed journal in English, in the field of myth and fairy tale studies. We are currently accepting proposals for the first two issues.\nDEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014\nTransformations is designed to explore myth and fairy tale adaptations published after 1870. The journal\u2019s coverage includes modern adaptations of myths and fairy tales in a variety of print and cinematic media, regional myths and fairy tales, colonial and postcolonial interpretations of fairy tale adaptations, myths and fairy tales as a forum for gender exploration, and comparative studies of myths and fairy tales. Transformations features English-language scholarship; however, the scope of the journal is broadly international and multidisciplinary. Individual papers do not have to address both myths and fairy tales, although we are interested in the interpretive intersections between these genre categorizations.\nThe journal will be published semi-annually in December and June. Each submitted article will be peer-reviewed by two academic experts selected from relevant fields of research. Articles should be 5,000-8,000 words in length, including notes and works cited.\nThe first two issues of the journal will be open submission for any topic related to myths and fairy tales. Thereafter, the journal will alternate between an open topic issue in the winter, and a special issue focused around a particular theme, tale, author, or sub-genre in the summer. Future special issue topics will include (\u201cLittle Red Riding Hood,\u201d Late Victorian Political Myths and Fairy Tales, Myths and Fairy Tales from India, and Neil Gaiman)\nPossible topics for general issues may include, but are not limited to:\n\u2013 relationships between myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 literary or film genres in myth and fairy tale revisions\n\u2013 the politics of myth and fairy tale revisions\n\u2013 gender in myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 post-colonial perspectives on myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 translation and displacement of myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 history in myth and fairy tale revisions\n\u2013 myths and fairy tales and modernism/post-modernism\n\u2013 orality in the rewriting of myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 narrative patterns in myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 redefining the subject through myth and fairy tale revisions\n\u2013 narrative technique and voice\n\u2013 performing myths and fairy tales\n\u2013 myths and fairy tales on screen\n\u2013 myths and fairy tales in new media\n\u2013 intermedial approaches to myths and fairy tales\n500-word proposals should be sent by January 8th 2014 as e-mail attachments. Please include your full name and institutional affiliation. Address submissions to the editors:\nVI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: \u201cIMAGES OF DEATH\u201d\nVenue: National University of Salta\nSalta, Argentina Republic \u2013 13 al August 16, 2014\nWe are sending the First Circular concerning the VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: \u201cIMAGES OF DEATH\u201d with schedule information, inscriptions, as well as the subject areas.\nDate and sending proposals \u2013 by e-mail: until 20 February 2014.\nResponse on acceptance of proposals (sending the acceptance letter) \u2013\nE-mail: March 20, 2014.\nOff of the full texts of the paper \u2013 by e-mail: until 20 May 2014.\nRealization of Congress 13 to August 16, 2014.\n1) FORMAT: Single or double registrations (each participant must make payment for your registration) with proposals for free topics. The presentations will be organized in co-ordinated by the Organizing Committee, according to thematic criteria and / or chronological sessions.\n2) DELIVERY OF THE PROPOSAL / PRE-REGISTRATION: Send file attached to a mail message to the following address:6imagenesdelamuerte@gmail.com ,\nb) Institution;\nc) Country;\nd) Curriculum summarized (with area of training, professional action, major publications);\ne) Title of the presentation;\nf) extended summary of 2 pages, Times New Roman 12, line spacing 1.5. It should record the subject, research problem, hypothesis or orientations of meaning, sources, references and brief conceptual conclusions as above. The summary should be accompanied by five key words that refer to the main concepts that articulate the proposal.\ng) The selection and approval criteria will be the quality and relevance of the proposal sent through the summary.\n3) TARIFFS:\nProfessional speakers: $ 800\nProfessional attendees: $ 400\nStudents post-graduation speakers: $ 800 students attending\npost-graduation: $ 400 Exhibitors grade students: No Tariff assistants grade students: No Fee\n4) THEME: sessions will be organized by the Organizing Committee according to two cutouts: chronological / procedural and thematic. Encompassing a broad interdisciplinary range to provide opportunities to identify complexities and riches in the analysis and discussion of theoretical, methodological and conceptual explanatory theory of the social aspects are provided. Discussions will allow also advance studies at local, regional, national and / or global.\n4.1) chronological CLIPPING:\na) Death, dying and the post-mortem between different cultures of the period Pre- Columbian / pre-European;\nb) Death, dying and the post-mortem in the process of European conquest:\ncatechesis,\nappropriations and cultural relationships in situations of conquest and settlement European;\nc) Death, dying and the post-mortem in situations of colonial Christianity and\nimplemented: burials ad and apud sanctos ecclesian, places of death and the dead, funeral rituals and customs covering different cultures (the Catholic death / baroque death among different indigenous and African races), the Catholic / Protestant hegemony over different attitudes and representations; prescribed and lived;\nd) Crisis of Colonialism, wars of independence, assertion of Independent States (imperial or republican), ruptures and continuities before death:\nalteration of mortality patterns and habits, hygiene and medicalization of death, creating processes extramural cemeteries, new places of the dead, transformations and cultural traditions;\ne) Transformations and continuities in the context of challenge to the hegemony of death, dying and the afterlife and the construction of new religious (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).;\nf) Death in contemporary societies, ruptures and continuities: the loneliness of the dying, euthanasia, cremation, violent deaths.\n4.2) THEME CUTS:\na) Rituals and attitudes towards death;\nb) Representations, sensibilities, conceptions, philosophical aspects of death, death and the afterlife;\nc) Spatiality and places to death;\nd) secularization and sacralization;\ne) Planning, health, public cemeteries;\nf) Funerary art, art cemeterial;\ng) Studies and bioarchaeology paleoepidemiologia;\nh) Morbidity and mortality;\ni) Death and violence: murder, crime, suicide, genocide, death penalty;\nj) Death and power: state funerals.\nk) Psychological aspects, medicine, medicalization, euthanasia, palliative care;\nl) literature, visual arts, theater, music, photographs, film;\nm) Different social practices against pain: Judicialization, organizations demand collective struggles.\n2014 Postgraduate Conference: Bodies: Bridges and Boundaries\nMonday 6\u2013Tuesday 7 January 2014, Christ Church, University of Oxford\nWendell Berry suggests that \u2018when we say the word \u201cbody\u201d theologically, we cannot distinguish in an absolute way whether we mean our own human bodies, Jesus\u2019 human body, Christ\u2019s bodily presence in the elements of the Eucharist, or the social body called the church\u2019. Our experience of life, salvation and sanctification is an embodied experience, but what this means is far from clear given that bodies have a liminal character as both a defining boundary of the self and a communicative bridge to the outside world, both immanent and transcendent. This conference seeks to explore the interaction between theological and religious conceptions of the body, both individual and corporate, and the lived experience and praxis of those bodies in the world.\nGerard Loughlin, University of Durham\nGraham Ward, University of Oxford\nPamela Sue Anderson, University of Oxford\nWerner G. Jeanrond, University of Oxford\nThis conference aims to gather postgraduate students. We invite critical and constructive papers of 20 minutes in length from all disciplines concerned with theology and religion. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, theological approaches to:\nMind as embodied and environmentally embedded\nDoctrines such as incarnation, resurrection and ascension\nSoteriology and sanctification of the body\nBodies, passions and emotions\nThe body in sacrament and ritual\nChanging conceptions of the body in history\nBodily language and metaphors in scripture and theology\nEthical considerations of technology and the body\nCommunion and communication\nNegotiating social, political and cultural bodies\nPlease submit your abstract (500 words maximum) to tobias.tan@theology.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is 25 October 2013.\nTo register your attendance at the conference, please complete the following form.\nThere is no registration fee for the conference. Please register by 9 December 2013.\nIn general, delegates will need to organise their own accommodation. The organising committee is attempting to make various affordable accommodation options available for postgraduate students. The following options may be of interest:\n1. We are currently searching for local Oxford based students and faculty who may be willing to host a student. Accommodation will vary depending on what the host can offer. You may indicate your interest in being hosted on the registration form.\n2. We have been able to arrange for 39 places at The Vines at \u00a335 for Monday the 6th of January (only). The Vines is a large house on Pullens Lane owned by Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, a visiting student program. It is a 5-10 minute bus-ride from city centre. Rooms will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please be advised that should you secure a place, you will most likely be sharing a room with 1-3 other delegates. You may include roommate requests when you book. The kitchen will not be available for use. If you are interested in accommodation at the Vines please express your interest on the registration form by Monday 9 December. You will then be contacted to confirm whether you have place and given details about how to make a formal booking.\n3. List of other accommodation options in Oxford\nLunch will be provided free of charge on Tuesday 7 January (please indicate your dietary requirements on the registration form). Breakfasts, dinners and lunch on Monday 6 January will not be provided.\nWe are attempting to secure funding to make travel bursaries available to those who require assistance to attend. Please note the following information about bursaries:\nBursaries will only be available to those giving papers.\nBursaries will only be available for domestic train/bus travel within the UK. We are unable to cover flights, international travel or accommodation.\nDepending on funding and demand, we may only be able to subsidise a percentage of your travel expenses.\nOriginal receipts will need to be provided before bursaries are paid.\nBursary payments will be made after the conference and may take several weeks. We aim to inform those who are awarded bursaries when abstracts are accepted (approx. mid-November).\nWhere possible, participants are encouraged to apply for other funding so that we are able to maximise access to the conference.\nTo apply for a bursary, please complete the relevant section of the registration form. For any inquiries relating to Bursaries, please contact ulrich.schmiedel@theology.ox.ac.uk\nA full conference programme will be available at a later date. The conference will begin at 13:00 on Monday 6 January and conclude at 17:00 on Tuesday 7 January.\nFor general enquiries, please contact tobias.tan [at] theology.ox.ac.uk.\nCFP: The Leeds Postgraduate Monasticism Conference has opened a cal for papers which could be of interest to many of you: Monastic Myths: Origins, Identities, Legacies, 16-17 May, deadline 28 February.\nMore information: http://leedsmonasticismconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2014/\nThose involved in shaping forms of religious expression in the Middle Ages had recourse to a powerful tool: the creation of origin narratives. Monastic, mendicant, canonical and semi-regular congregations self-consciously looked to the past for models to emulate, appropriated traditions to present to contemporaries, and established precedents to edify future generations. Within communities, origin stories were crafted by male and female religious to strengthen their position as the spiritual vanguard of Christendom, as well as to legitimise certain forms of religious life. Similarly, external factors played their role in myth formation, either through wider ecclesiastical policy or through the active participation of interested lay people. These stories can be seen in a variety of media, and were expressed as easily by depictions on the walls of religious houses and in paintings as they were through written works such as hagiography and chronicles.\nOslo International Graduate Students Conference: Space, Culture, and Religion: Considering Implications of The \u2018Spatial Turn\u2019\nTime and place: May 19, 2014 \u2013 May 21, 2014, University of Oslo\nIn recent years, the humanities and social sciences have seen a renewed interest in spatiality. Scholars have increasingly considered ways in which texts, history and cultural practices are physically embodied \u2013 and, hence, spatially embedded. Notions of \u2018space\u2019, \u2018place\u2019 and \u2018landscape\u2019 are no longer the exclusive domain of geographers, but have been appropriated by social anthropologists, scholars of religion, historians and literary scholars. Following a number of other \u2018turns\u2019 in the humanities, this development has been called \u2018the spatial turn\u2019 (e.g., Warf & Arias 2009). Scholars are studying aspects of space from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, drawing on theories not only from geography but also from philosophy and sociology. Thinkers whose work has been rediscovered, or reinterpreted from a spatial perspective, include Mikhail Bakhtin (\u2018chronotope\u2019), Pierre Bourdieu (\u2018social space\u2019), Michel de Certeau (\u2018spatial stories\u2019), Michel Foucault (\u2018heterotopia\u2019) and Henri Lefebvre (\u2018the production of space\u2019). In this conference, we would like to examine implications of the \u2018spatial turn\u2019 for the humanities. In particular, we look at the possible impact of new considerations of space on the disciplines represented at our institute: Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, cultural studies, and the study of religion(s). We welcome papers on a variety of topics, as long as they relate to our central topic. We particularly would like to invite (post)graduate students and young (postdoc) researchers to present papers on the spatial aspects of their own research.\nThe conference will be divided into the following four subtopics: politics of space; imaginations of space; history of space; writing space, crafting space. Participants are requested to relate their presentation to one of these four topics. For more information on these subtopics, please see the conference website: http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/network/ikos-austin-collaboration/Graduate-Conference/ Those who wish to participate in the conference and present a paper are requested to submit an abstract (max. 500 words) before December 20, 2013.\nPlease indicate which of the four subthemes your paper relates to. Abstracts can be sent to Aike Rots: a.p.rots [at] ikos.uio.no\nAuburn University \u2013 Assistant Professor, visual and material culture of the Mediterranean and/or Near Eastern World (ancient or early medieval) \nBrown University \u2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and Middle East Studies, \nRipon College \u2013 Assistant Professor of U.S. History/African or Asian Diaspora \nUniversity of Zurich \u2013 Professorship for Global History (18th-20th Century) \nSchool of Oriental and African Studies \u2013 Lecturer in the History of Iran since c. 1500\nCase Western Reserve University \u2013 The Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professorship in Catholic Studies \nMcGill University \u2013 Barbara and Patrick Keenan Chair in Interfaith Studies \nMount Allison University \u2013 Assistant Professor, East Asian Religions \nOld Dominion University \u2013 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies \u2013 Jewish Traditions \nYork University \u2013 Assistant Professor, Classical Judaica; Modern Religious Thought and/or Modern Comparative Religion \nPhD Studentships: History\nPhD Studentships: Philosophy\nThe Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University wishes to appoint a Postdoctoral fellow studying New Atheism for a period of two years, beginning as soon as possible and April 1, 2014 at the latest. Application is due on January 15, 2014.\nThe Faculty is looking for a project with a critical scientific focus on New Atheism/contemporary atheistic positions or groups. What characterizes the phenomenon in question? What historical roots does it have? How does it relate to earlier forms of atheism and critique of religion? What understanding of religion and which ideological assumptions does it presuppose? Towards which forms of religions and ideologies is the atheistic criticism directed? What are the arguments for atheism and against religion, and what weight should be awarded to these arguments? How does the phenomenon relate to the contemporary criticism of secularization theses and secularism? What normative grounds and political ambitions does it have? What role does the phenomenon play in today\u2019s society and politics?\nhttp://www.uu.se/en/jobs/?positionId=29394#\nThe Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University is accepting applications for the Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies. Graduate Assistantships, which include tuition, healthcare benefits, and a monthly stipend, are available for qualified students.\nOur students and faculty are committed to the ethnographic study of vernacular culture and the integration of practice and research.\nAs an M.A.-only program, we focus on preparing students for professional careers in research, performance creation, and public outreach; for teaching at the high school and community-college level; and for admission to top-tier, research-intensive Ph.D. programs. Many of our students conduct ethnographic fieldwork and include performance as components of their M.A.\ntheses. As they\u2019re writing and researching, they\u2019re also delivering papers at national and regional conferences, publishing book reviews, and winning\nuniversity- and college-wide fellowships for their research and professional development.\nPerformance Studies scholars examine relationships between performance and culture. The department has research strengths in Africana studies, dance and ritual studies, ethnomusicology, folklore, performance ethnography, popular music studies, religious studies, theatre history, media studies, and women\u2019s studies.\nInformation on the application process, courses, and the degree plan can be found at http://perf.tamu.edu/ Please contact Dr. Kirsten Pullen, Director of Graduate Studies (kpullen [at] tamu.edu ) with any questions.\nFor full funding consideration for Fall 2014, students should apply by January 15, 2014. Applications will be reviewed until February 15, 2014 or until all assistantships are filled.\nParanthropology vol 4, issue 4 http://www.scribd.com/doc/182589981/Paranthropology-Vol-4-No-4-October-2013\nSri Lanka International Journal of Buddhist Studies (SIJBS) VOLUME 2 http://sibacampus.com/demo/Journal/SIBA_Vol_2.pdf\nJapanese Journal of Religious Studies 40:2 (2013) http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/jjrs/listofjournals/\nBuddhist priests chanting in jazz clubs? A temple designed to also serve as a black-box theater? Buddhist-inspired sociopolitical activism and innovation as a shift in the dominant paradigm of funerals and memorials? These are just a few of the themes in Experimental Buddhism, now available in paperback ($32) and hardcopy ($60) from the University of Hawaii Press.\nEditor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Editorial board member: Hibba Abugideiri, Editorial board member: Heba Ezzat, and Series edited by John L. Esposito\nHardback | 1232 pages\n\u00a3255.00 | 10 October 2013 | 978-0-19-976446-4\nby J. Abraham V\u00e9lez de Cea\nRoutledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy. New York and London: Routledge. 2013.\nLiterature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist Edited by David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer Retail price: $64.50 \u2014 Web price: $58.05\nPages: xxii + 562\nwww.eisenbrauns.com/item/VANLITERA\nConference on Adventist history and historiography\nDescription: What is the state of the field in the sub-discipline of Adventist history, 150 years after the foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Adventist history is little studied, and this conference explores the changing concept of Adventist history, within and without the denomination, as well as \u2026\nContact: bakerb [at] gc.adventist.org\nURL:www.adventistarchives.org/adventism-and-adventist-history-sesquicentennial-reflections#.UnahLiT8Slk\nSpeaking for the Humanities\nDescription: Scholars representing philosophy, American studies, humanities, law, and literature will discuss how to defend and even talk about the humanities without succumbing to the instrumentalist language of its detractors (measuring outcomes and deliverables) or retreating into the ivory tower by simply as \u2026\nContact: cps [at] newschool.edu\nURL: www.newschool.edu/cps/events/#humanities\nReligion at the Borderland; Conceptualizing Bordersthrough the Study of Religion\nDescription: Symposium Religion at the Borderland; conceptualizing borders through the study of religion Speakers include Pablo Vila (Temple University); Sean R Roberts (George Washington University); Silvia Montenegro (Universidad Nacional de Rosario); Jovan Maud (University of Gttingen); Benedikt Korf and Debo \u2026\nContact: marta.dominguez [at] unisg.ch\nCFP: The 6th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality\nDescription: Dear colleagues, We wish to remind you about the call for papers for the 6th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality, which will be organized by the Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University, 23 April 2014. This conference will continue the tradition whic \u2026\nContact: spirituality.tel.aviv [at] gmail.com\nhumanities.tau.ac.il/religious_studies_eng/index.php/conference/call\nCFP: Religious pathways to better futures\nDescription: Conference of African Studies Association Germany (VAD), Bayreuth University, June 11-14 2014, call for papers \u2013 panel 32: Religious pathways to better futures Religious groups in Africa are not only an important source of imaginations of the future they are also remarkably active in their efforts t \u2026\nContact: katrinlangewiesche [at] yahoo.fr;espies [at] uni-mainz.de\nURL: www.vad-ev.de/bayreuth2014/callforpapers/\nEmbodied Identities: Figural and Symbolic Representation of the Self in Anatolia June 7 and 8, 2014 Istanbul, Turkey\nThis two-day workshop will be hosted at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Ko\u00e7 University, in Taksim. The organizers invite the submission of abstracts presenting excavation data relating to identity, territoriality and artistic expression of Anatolian personalities or groups, as well as investigations into the creation and manipulation of identity through material culture. The focus of the first day will be on theoretical and methodological approaches to identity in prehistoric Anatolia, while the second day will be open to papers concerning identity and self at any time period in Anatolian studies.\nThe main objective of the workshop is to investigate the embodiment of identity markers in literal and representative media; such as mortuary practices, personalization of tools, location of petroglyphs, and changing contexts of settlement planning. The archaeological focus of this workshop will enhance our perspectives on the relations between the self-determination of ancient Anatolians and their material context in Anatolia.\nAbstracts of 300 words or fewer should be sent to no later than midnight on February 10, 2014.\nCall for Papers: Esoteric Practices: Theories, Representations, and Methods June 19-22, 2014\nThe Association for the Study of Esotericism\n(ASE) is seeking paper and panel proposals for its fifth International North American Conference on Esotericism to be held at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York.\nProf. Brach holds a Chair at l\u2019\u00c9cole pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes et in d\u2019Histoire des courants \u00e9sot\u00e9riques dans l\u2019Europe moderne et contemporaine (Sorbonne) succeeding Antoine Faivre in this role\nProf. Johnston, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion at Ohio State University, is author of numerous books and articles on Greek and Roman esoteric philosophical-religious traditions. She is also editor of Religions of the Ancient World (Harvard UP).\nIf you wish to submit a paper proposal or a thematically focused panel proposal (with three presenters and short descriptions included) for review and possible presentation at the conference, please send it by regular email to ASE2014Conference@gmail.com\nNo attachments, please: simply copy and paste your abstract into plain text email. Individual abstracts should be limited to one or two paragraphs, and must indicate academic affiliation and/or other academic qualifications.\nIndependent scholars are welcome to submit proposals. Please note that our previous conference was at maximum capacity, so it is best to submit your proposal sooner rather than later.\nWe hope to post a preliminary list of accepted proposals early in 2014. Possible venues for the publication of conference papers include the book series Studies in Esotericism (this will be the fourth volume in the series).\nFor more information on the ASE, and registration for the conference, see our website at www.aseweb.org\nCFP: Aristotle considered voice as the sound produced by a creature possessing a soul, but not any sound produced by a living creature is a voice; for the voice is a sound, which is the sign of something. Voice could be defined as a property, intrinsic ability, used by humans, to communicate or express themselves; it can vary from a mere call, to an opinion, a work of art or an attitude. However, the history of humankind is filled with cases where the right to voice has been denied or eliminated; it has been silenced.\neSharp: Issue 21\neSharp, an established peer-reviewed international online journal for postgraduate research in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. For Issue 21, Silenced Voices, we invite articles that discuss and examine the subject of silenced voices, in the fields of the Social Sciences, Education, and the Arts and Humanities. We encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research.\n\u2013 Gender, politics and religion,\n\u2013 Slavery, freedom and human rights,\n\u2013 Contemporary society, discrimination and segregation,\n\u2013 Violence, death and war,\n\u2013 Education, social control and manipulation,\n\u2013 Language, ethics and society,\n\u2013 Cinema, writing and journalism,\n\u2013 Internet and social media.\nSubmissions to eSharp must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. These should be made in Word document or RTF format. Please ensure that you accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. A full list of guidelines and our style sheet is available athttp://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/.\nSubmissions and enquiries should be sent to submissions@esharp.org.uk.\nDeadline for submission: 25th November 2013.\nThe Journal of Religion, Politics and Ideology is always looking for new reviewers! Anyone interested can email the Book Review editor Anupama Ranawana at anupama.ranawana25 [at] gmail.com to ask for the current list of titles available for review, or send a review directly to reviews-tmpr [at] intr.keele.ac.uk\nFor more information about the Journal, go here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftmp21/current\nTantric Buddhism, rank open, Buddhist College of Singapore https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48056\nTransnational Buddhism, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of California \u2013 Riverside https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48045\nBard Graduate Center \u2013 Bard Graduate Center/ American Museum of Natural History Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Museum Anthropology \nLaurentian University \u2013 Indigenous land-use, economic sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental impact assessments. \nUniversity of Dallas \u2013 Assistant Professor, Medical Anthropology \nWashington University in St. Louis \u2013 East Asian Religions Postdoctoral Fellow \nLecturer/Senior Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts\nTemporary Lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible\nInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University\nEach year the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, makes about 9 appointments of visiting research scholars.\nISAW\u2019s scope embraces research and graduate education in the history, archaeology, and culture of the entire Old World from late prehistoric times to the eighth century AD, including Asia and Africa. Projects of a theoretical or comparative nature relevant to this domain are also welcome. Academic visitors at ISAW should be individuals of scholarly distinction or promise in any relevant field of ancient studies who will benefit from the stimulation of working in an environment with colleagues in other disciplines. Applicants with a history of interdisciplinary exchange are particularly welcome. Scholars are expected to be in residence at the Institute during the period for which they are appointed and to take part in the intellectual life of the community.\nFor details about the categories of scholars, the financial support, and the application, please visit http://isaw.nyu.edu/visiting-scholar-program. The application deadline for 2014/15 appointments is December 2, 2013. New York University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.\nThe Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt is seeking to appoint a Junior Professor within the framework of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe Research Group \u201cReligious individualization in historical perspective\u201d at the earliest possible date:\nJunior Professorship (W1)\nEmployment is initially limited to 4 years with the option of prolongation for another 2 years according to \u00a7 82 Abs. 6 Th\u00fcrHG.\n Research in the field of Entangled History, preferably with a specialization on the religious history of Europa and/or South/South East Asia, e.g. of the Middle Ages or the early modern period\n Teaching\nThe prerequisites for hiring and the demands of qualification as of \u00a7 82 Th\u00fcringer Hochschulgesetz are binding.\n Exceptional PhD in the field of history, sociology, religious studies or an adjacent discipline\n Publications in the field of Entangled History using sources in at least one non-European language\n Research must match the research context of the Kolleg Research Group \u201cReligious individualization in historical perspective\u201c\n Interest in interdisciplinary research in the framework of the Max Weber Center\nInternational experience, excellent research activities as well as teaching experiences are desirable.\nThe University of Erfurt is an equal opportunity employer and encourages in particular applications by women. Handicapped applicants will be given preference in case of equal qualifications.\nThe successful candidate is expected to move to Erfurt or its surroundings and to teach courses in the University of Erfurt\u2019s interdisciplinary and partly English teaching program, including Studium Fundamentale.\nApplication/Deadline: Please submit your application (stating the reference number 53/2013) with an outline of the research project you would like to pursue (max. 5 pages), CV, academic resume, list of publications, list of courses taught, teaching evaluations (if available), qualification certificates, a copy of PhD thesis, and up to four further relevant publications as pdf-files on a CD by 11 December 2013 to:\nUniversit\u00e4t Erfurt \u2022 Direktorat des Max-Weber-Kollegs \u2022 Postfach 90 02 21\u2022 99105 Erfurt.\nInformal enquiries may be made to Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke (joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de) or Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow (martin.mulsow@uni-erfurt.de).\nAs the University cannot refund any costs incurred by applying, your applications will not be resent. Please use photocopies or pdf-files.\nThe Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt is seeking to appoint two research associates (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in; 40 hours/week) for the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (International Research Group) \u201eReligious Individualisation in Historical Perspective\u201c (KFG) at the earliest possible date:\nPostdoc Research Associates\nSalary according to 13 TV-L (100 %, from EUR 3367 per month)\n1st Position: Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter). Research area: Indian Religious History / Anthropology or Sociology of Indian Religion, preferably specialization in research on bhakti within the framework of the Research Group (KFG)\n2nd Position: Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter). Research area: History of Ideas in the early modern period with a special focus on the history of transfer of ideas from the Islamic world to Europe, preferably with an emphasis on Sufism, within the framework of the Research Group (KFG)\nAll Positions: Participation in the research and conference program of the Max Weber Center and in particular of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe\n Excellent academic degree\n Relevant PhD thesis\n Excellence in research\n Knowledge of German and English and the relevant foreign languages\n Willingness to cooperate in the interdisciplinary context of the Max Weber Center and in particular the Kolleg Research Group\nFurther information about the Max Weber Center and the Kolleg Research Group is available at www.uni-erfurt.de/maxwe\nSpecial instructions: The general admissions rules of \u00a7 84 Abs. 4 Th\u00fcringer Hochschulgesetz apply. Both positions are initially limited to 2 years with the chance for prolongation (at maximum up to the end of the duration of the Kolleg Research Group).\nInformal enquiries may be made to Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke (joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de) and (for position 1) Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs (martin.fuchs@uni-erfurt.de) or (for position 2) Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow (martin.mulsow@uni-erfurt.de).\nApplication/Date:Please submit your application (stating the reference number 50/2013) with CV, copies of your final school and university degrees, an outline of the research project you would like to pursue (max. 10 pages), a copy of your doctoral thesis, up to four further publications as well as a list of publications) as pdf-files on a CD by 11 December 2013 to:\n===========================0\nThe Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt is seeking to appoint one research associate (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in; 40 hours/week) for the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (International Research Group) \u201eReligious Individualisation in Historical Perspective\u201c (KFG) at the earliest possible date:\n Research area: Religious Studies / History with a special focus on questions of theory and religion and religious history of the modern period (in particular the early modern period)\n Participation in the research and conference program of the Max Weber Center and in particular of the Research Group\n Willingness to cooperate in the interdisciplinary context of the Max Weber Center and in particular the Research Group\nSpecial instructions:The general admissions rules of \u00a7 84 Abs. 4 Th\u00fcringer Hochschulgesetz apply. Both positions are initially limited to 2 years with the chance for prolongation (at maximum up to the end of the duration of the Kolleg Research Group).\nInformal enquiries may be made to Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke (joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de) and Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow (martin.mulsow@uni-erfurt.de).\nCulture and Religion http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcar20/14/4#.UnLS2xBZh0o\nJournal of Hindu Studies http://jhs.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/3?etoc\nA History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism\nIdeal for students and scholars of comparative religion; philosophy of religion; medieval Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity. This book investigates the idea that there is a truth within the person discovered through introspection is found in most religions. This book examines this metaphor in the history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism and the methods developed in those religions to realize it, particularly prayer and meditation.\n978-0-19-968456-4 | Hardback | \u00a365.00\nSat., Nov. 2nd Chinese Studies Research Group (San Francisco Bay Area) Meeting\nDescription: Please join us for the fall meeting of the Chinese Studies Research Group (San Francisco Bay Area)! The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim welcomes interested faculty, independent scholars and graduate students to join us for this first meeting of the 2013-14 academic year. Satur \u2026\nContact: mdale3 [at] usfca.edu\nRevisiting Early Modern Prophecies (c.1500-c.1815)\nDescription: The Reformation dramatically changed Europes religious and political landscapes within a few decades. The Protestant emphasis on translating the Scriptures into the vernacular and the developments of the printing press rapidly gave increased visibility to the most obscure parts of the Bible. Similar \u2026\nContact: l.laborie [at] gold.ac.uk\nURL: www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/panaceasociety/propheciesconference/\nStart: Nov 1, 2013 5:00:00 PM\nEnd: Nov 3, 2013 5:00:00 PM\nLocation: UCL Institute of Archaeology\nA conference on \u2018Monstrous Antiquities\u2019, looking at archaeology and the uncanny in popular culture, will be held at the Institute from 1-3 November 2013.\nHaunted ruins, cursed artefacts, arcane rituals and ambulant mummies: archaeology and the ancient world have provided some of the most effective and ubiquitous scenarios for tales of horror and the supernatural. Authors and filmmakers such as MR James, Bram Stoker and Terence Fisher have drawn heavily upon popular conceptions of both the ancient past and the work of the archaeologist. The conference \u2018Monstrous Antiquities: Archaeology and the Uncanny in Popular Culture\u2019 aims to study and celebrate this long and productive relationship.\nWorkshop \u201cThe matrix of the world: cultural constructions of the uterus\u201d\n21-22 November, 2013.\nEscuela Espa\u00f1ola de Historia y Arqueolog\u00eda en Roma, Via di Torre Argentina 18, Roma http://w3.uniroma1.it/verderame/eventi/uterus.html\nAn International Colloquium on Proverbs to be held at Nancy and Paris on November 5, 6 and 7, 2013.\nThe program is financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR), organized by Marie-Christine Varol from INALCO, Paris and Marie-Sol Ortola from the University of Nancy, France. Its starting point is the so-called \u201cGolden Era\u201d in 9th to 13th centuries Spain when Jewish, Arabic and Christian cultures cohabited and shared common proverbs.\nHowever, it also includes search for roots in the wisdom literatures of the ancient Near East and follows the afterlife and spread of wisdom sayings to medieval cultures. It is connected with the systematic tagging of various wisdom collections that will be available online.\n.\nCall for Papers for Edited Volume: New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam\nDescription: Call for Papers for Edited Volume: New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam For much of its long history the Nation of Islam has generated popular support and censure across the United States and beyond. Scholars have produced a wealth of literature on the NOIs leadership, theology and history. This \u2026\nContact: Dawn-Marie.Gibson [at] rhul.ac.uk\nCFP: XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions will take place from August 23 to 29, 2015 in Erfurt, Germany\n\u201cMoney and Cult\u201d\nThe Role of the Temple in the Ancient Economy\nAs major social and administrative institutions, often with substantial assets, temples played an important role within the economies of the Ancient Near East. Not only were resources diverted to them for building and cultic use, but many temples also played a role in the creation of wealth and the employment of various strata of society, from priests to scribes to slaves. Similarly, kings both patronised temples and used them as convenient sources of revenue. The interactions between religious needs and economic practicalities were complex and varied significantly over time and location. We therefore invite papers which examine the intertwined roles of cult and economy in the Ancient Near East.\nPapers which explore a wide-range of economic aspects of temple cults or the cultic ramifications of economic realities are expected.\nAppropriate topics include building programmes, educational programmes, sacrificial economies, trade in cultic paraphernalia, systems of tithing and temple taxation, and the relationship of priests to royal administrations. We are also interested in the relationships between temples, such as the temples in Jerusalem, Elephantine, Leontopolis, and on Mount Gerizim (and elsewhere), and how much their interaction may have been aided or hindered by economic aspects.\nDepending on received submissions, sessions will be structured in chronological order with the days divided as follows:\nFriday, 23 May 2014: Early First Millennium (to the Neo-Babylonian Period)\nSaturday, 24 May 2014: From the Persian to the Seleucid Era\nSunday, 25 May 2014: Roman Period (from the reign of Herod the Great to the end of the Bar Kokhba Rebellion)\nWe invite abstracts of no more than 500 words to reach us by email at hekhal.dublinia@gmail.com by 28 February 2014.\nPlease note, presentation of papers at this conference will be 40 minutes within a one-hour slot, allowing time for ample discussion after each paper.\n(For further details, see Hekhal website http://hekhal.wordpress.com/)\n6th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality, which will be organized by the Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University, 23 April 2014.\nThis conference will continue the tradition which was formed at the University of Haifa during 2009-2012, and last year at Tel Aviv University. This event can be a good opportunity for researchers working outside of Israel to learn more about the country\u2019s bustling New-Age \u2018scene\u2019 and about development in the research on contemporary spirituality in Israel.\nThe conference\u2019s guest of honor and keynote speaker will be Prof. Peter Berger (University of Boston, USA). The conference\u2019s CFP can be downloaded throught the following link: http://humanities.tau.ac.il/religious_studies_eng/index.php/conference/call\nPlease feel free to send this to any relevant address in your private e-mail lists. We will of course be very happy to receive your own proposals by November 15 2013, addressed to Mr. Shai feraro (Conference Coordinator), spirituality.tel.aviv@gmail.com\nCalifornia State University \u2013 Chico \u2013 Assistant Professor, Ancient History \nOakton Community College \u2013 Anthropology and Humanities faculty \nUniversity of Minnesota \u2013 Twin Cities \u2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sawyer Seminar \u201cMaking the Mississippi: Formulating new water narratives\u201d \nUniversity of Victoria \u2013 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences \nBeloit College \u2013 Visiting Instructor, Asian History \nUniversity of California \u2013 Irvine \u2013 Europe and the World \nUniversity of North Carolina \u2013 Wilmington \u2013 Assistant Professor \u2013 International Studies\nUniversity of San Francisco \u2013 Academic Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History\nWestern Michigan University \u2013 Faculty Specialist, tenure track, Buddhism/World Religions\nAarhus University \u2013 Professorship in Applied Ethics \nAarhus University \u2013 Associate Professorship in Theology \nUniversity of Pennsylvania \u2013 Assistant Professor in Religion and Material Culture \nHebrew Bible Assistant Professor\nVanderbilt University Divinity School invites applications for the position, assistant professor of Hebrew Bible (tenure track). Areas of specialization may include but are not limited to canonical studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies, philology, contextual hermeneutics, and Mishnaic Hebrew. The successful candidate will have competence in teaching a broad range of students at both the masters and doctoral levels within a pluralistic setting (see http://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/about/purposes.php), as well as a strong research and publication agenda. Doctorate must be in hand at time of application. Applicants are to send cover letter and curriculum vitae (as .pdf, .doc or .docx files) to , asking three recommenders likewise to send letters to the same email address.\nReview of applications will begin on November 25th. Teleconference interviews of considered applicants will be conducted on December 11th. Vanderbilt University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Candidates from underrepresented groups in the profession are encouraged to apply. Note: Vanderbilt is concurrently conducting a senior-level (tenured) search in Hebrew Bible. Interested parties are invited to refer to that position opening.\nHebrew Bible, Associate or Full Professor\nVanderbilt University Divinity School invites applications for a tenured position in Hebrew Bible, at the rank of associate or full professor, with a possible active role in various departments of Arts and Sciences, including Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Classical Studies. Areas of specialization may include but are not limited to canonical studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies, philology, contextual hermeneutics, and Mishnaic Hebrew. The successful candidate will have a strong research agenda and body of publications, demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring to bring to masters and doctoral-level programs in a pluralistic setting (see http://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/about/purposes.php), and a record of service to academic institutions and professional organizations.\nApplicants are to send cover letter and curriculum vitae (as .pdf, .doc or .docx files) to , asking three recommenders likewise to send letters to the same email address.\nReview of applications will begin on December 15th. Personal inquiries and confidential nominations may be directed to the search chair, Dr.\nBruce Morrill (). Vanderbilt University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Candidates from underrepresented groups in the profession are encouraged to apply.\nNote: Vanderbilt is concurrently conducting a junior-level\n(tenure-track) search in Hebrew Bible. Interested parties are invited to refer to that position opening.\nReligious Studies Opportunities Digest \u2013 4 Oct 2013\nJournal of Contemporary Religion, vol 28, issue 3 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcr20/28/3#.Uk5TTRDg8gI\nSociology of Religion \u2013 advance access http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc\nInternational Journal of Tantric Studies (IJTS) vol. 9, n. 1: http://asiatica.org/ijts/vol9-1/\nDiscount for the History of Western Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, published by Acumen. Acumen are offering members of the BASR a discount of 25% off the full price of the five volume set.\nSpecial Introductory price of \u00a375/$115 on the 5-volume paperback set * if you order before 31 December 2013. Please quote discount code 9EN.\nhttp://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2009013016055139&sf1=sort_date&st1=20090330:20100529&sort=sort_date/d&m=10&dc=20\nInternational Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference, Canterbury, August 2014\nhttp://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/events/event2014-08-06.html\nPopular Antiquities: Folklore & Archaeology Conference\nUCL Institute of Archaeology & Folklore Society\nSaturday, 12 October 2013 at 10:00 \u2013 Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 15:30 (BST)\nhttps://popularantiquities.eventbrite.co.uk/\nRegistration for the event \u201cFrom Floor to Ceiling: A symposium on South Asian floordrawings and murals\u201d is now open\nhttp://www.westminster.ac.uk/cream/events/from-floor-to-ceiling\nThe last date for registration is 18 October 2013, but to facilitate our planning for the event, we would appreciate it if you could register as soon as is possible.\nStockholm History of Religions 100th anniversary (1913-2013) \u2013 8th of November 2013\nhttp://www.erg.su.se/stockholm-history-of-religions-100th-anniversary-1913-2013\nHundred Years of History of Religions at Stockholm University (preliminary program)\n9.00 Welcome addresses \u2013 Astrid S\u00f6derbergh Widding, Peter Jackson\n9.30 Geraldine Hultkrantz\n9.50 Christer Hedin\n11.30 Per-Arne Berglie\n11.50 Ulf Drobin\nOne-Day Centennial Workshop \u2013 \u201cHorizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach\u201d\nThe study of ecstatic practices and conceptions of the soul in the intersection of historiography and ethnography has distinguished our department\u2019s contribution to the field of History of Religions. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the History of Religions at Stockholm University, three leading scholars have been invited to dwell upon the the current status of shamanic practices and belief systems, both as \u2018etic\u2019 scholarly categories and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous peoples of post-Soviet Siberia.\n14.00 Majorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown Universit: \u201cShamans Emerging from Repression in Siberia: Lighting Rods of Hope and Fear\u201d\n15.00 Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus of History at the UCLA and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa: \u201cTravelling in Spirit, from Friuli to Siberia\u201d\n16.00 Jan Bremmer, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen and Visiting Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t in Munich: \u201cContextualising the study of shamanism in Antiquity\u201d\nFor more information, please contact peter.jackson [at] rel.su.se. To register, please contact lena.euren [at] erg.su.se\nCFP (IAS Lima 2014): Boundaries and Belief: Colonialist Spirituality and Indigenous Alterity in the Visual Culture of the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1800-1925\nDescription: International Association of Inter-American Studies, Biennial Conference, August 6-8, 2014, Lima, Peru CFP: Boundaries and Belief: Colonialist Spirituality and Indigenous Alterity in the Visual Culture of the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1800-1925 Located at a geographical crossroads of Spanish colonialis \u2026\nContact: brobertson [at] wesleyan.edu\nCFP: Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences\nDescription: The Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences is calling for papers for its November issue. JAPSS is published both electronically and in print in Florida, USA. The Journal is indexed and catalogued by EBSCOhost and other prestigious indexes. Please visit our website for more inform \u2026\nContact: journalalternative [at] hotmail.com\nURL: www.japss.org\nCFP: Daniel Boyarin and Other Borderline Jews\nDescription: The University of Toronto Journal of Jewish ThoughtThe Journal of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto CALL FOR PAPERS Vol. V: Daniel Boyarin and Other Borderline Jews Be deliberate in judgment, and raise many disciples, and make a fence to the Torah (Ethics of the Fathers 1:1 \u2026\nContact: utjjt.cjs [at] gmail.com\nDO ISLAMIC LEGAL RULES MATTER IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY?\nDescription: DO ISLAMIC LEGAL RULES MATTER IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY? Islamic International Law and International Politics After September 11, and beginning War on Global Terrorism, intervention Western Alliance in Iraq, beginning internal conflict in Arab World and biblical war between Israel and Palestinians, in \u2026\nContact: hrcpc [at] yahoo.com\nURL: www.unbi.ba\nCFP: 6th Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine\nFriday 2nd May \u2013 Sunday 4th May 2014: Lisbon, Portugal\nDespite the attempts of feminists the conjunction between evil and the feminine seems unbroken. Established as secondary, derivative and hence inferior, women have been long suspected of being the source of human (though more often masculine) miseries, always in cahoots with the forces of evil and destruction. Paradoxically, at the same time, some have also been put on the pedestal and lauded as ideals of purity and dedication, yet these paragons only proved the rule that, on average, the feminine/woman equals imperfect and transgressive.Mischievous, beguiling, seductive, lascivious, unruly, carping, vengeful and manipulative \u2013 these are only a few of the epithets present in cultures and literatures across the world. In grappling with our understanding of what it is to be and do \u2018evil\u2019, the project aims to explore the possible sources of the fear and hatred of women and the feminine as well as their manifestations and pervasiveness across times, cultures and media.\nEvil, Women and the Feminine seeks to engage fruitful academic discourse over the core theme of evil and monstrous women, and the variations thereof. Although this type of discourse can lend itself to a feminist theoretical standpoint, the conference does not necessarily align itself as such and welcomes a variety of theoretical and critical approaches, such as \u2013but not limited to \u2013 queer studies, post-structural, Marxist, psychoanalytical, anthropological etc.\nAmong the core themes to be explored at this years conference explored are:\n-Murderess\u2019, terrorists, child-killers, kidnappers, abusers, serial killers -Monstrous motherhood in literature and film: monstrous births and infanticide (Beowulf, Alien, Rosemary\u2019s Baby, etc.\n-Archetypical fears: feminine blood and castration -Portrayal of Evil Woman in Literature: from Shakespeare\u2019s Lady Macbeth to Kessey\u2019s Sister Ratched.\n-Psychoanalytic perspectives: \u201cVagina Dentata\u201d etc -Historical perspectives of female evil -Women and/in Power: Cleopatra, Messalina, Isabella of Castile, Mary Tudor, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Lucia Borgia, Eva Peron, etc. Were these women truly evil or did they merely try to survive in a man\u2019s world?\n-Holocaust and Nazi witches: Irma Grese or the \u201cBitch of Belsen, Ilse Koch Born, Witch of Buchenwald and others; -Evil women in the visual arts -Cultural and racial stereotypes -Mythological icons: Medusa, Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies, Sirens, Hel, Eris -Female revenge: women who took revenge on their unfaithful husbands or ungrateful children. From mythology to real life: Kriemhield, Medea, Clytemnestra, Katherine Knight, Maria Savez, etc.\n-Evil females in children\u2019s books and cartoons. Step-mothers are supposed to be the most evil women in the world of fairy-tales and Disney cartoons but is this really so?; -Ethical studies -Beauty as threatening or evil: from the times of witch-hunts female beauty was considered dangerous. Do we still feel threatened by a female beauty?\n-Fantasy: evil women in strips and video games;\n-Folklore: female Vampires, witches, witch-hunts, pact with a devil -Evil Women in/and Religion: Dark Goddesses and Counter-Readings\nThe Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.\nIn order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between two and possibly all three groups \u2013 and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between evil, women, femininity and/or violence and/or femininities and masculinities.\nWhat to Send:300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 6th December 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 14th March 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in thisorder:\na) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.E-mails should be entitled: EWF6 Abstract Submission.Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\nOrganising Chairs: Natalia Kaloh Vid: nkv [at] inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: ewf6 [at] inter-disciplinary.net\nThe conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.\nInter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.\nFor further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/\nPlease take note of the approaching deadlines to submit proposals for panels and papers for the next conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion to be held in Groningen, on \u2018religion and pluralities of knowledge\u2019.\nKeynote speakers: Bruno Latour, Carlo Ginzburg, Birgit Meyer and J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke.\nReminder that the deadlines for proposing papers and panels for the 2014 EASR/IAHR/NGG conference on \u201cReligion and Pluralities of Knowledge,\u201d to be held in Groningen from11-15 May 2014, are 15 October (for panel themes) and 1 December (for papers). Please submit your proposals to easr2014.thrs@rug.nl.\nWe invite contributions from various disciplines and perspectives to explore the nexus of religion, pluralism, and knowledge. We encourage a conversation among theoretical, historical, and empirical contributions. Papers and panels may address topics such as the following:\nThe pluralistic nature of knowledge about religion, including different disciplinary perspectives and new concepts: history as imaginative knowledge, sociology of knowledge, knowledge and space, materiality of knowledge (goods, objects, machines, instruments), aesthetics of knowledge, knowledge as related to gender and race, etc.;\nVarious forms of knowledge about religion: rational knowledge, imaginative and poetic knowledge, explicit and implicit knowledge, embodied knowledge, ritual knowledge, etc.;\nHistorical developments, changes, and reconfigurations of knowledge systems that relate to the field of religion;\nProcedures and politics in the organization of knowledge about religion: production, reception, circulation, transmission, (de)legitimization, (de)canonization, traditionalization, but also the rejection, marginalization, and exclusion of knowledge.\nIn addition to these subtopics and approaches, we encourage contributions that address other aspects of the conference theme. Proposals of contributions and panels that are not directly linked to the conference theme will also be considered. There will be panels for the presentation of ongoing doctoral research.\nRequirements for proposals\nProposals for individual papers and for pre-arranged sessions need to consist of an abstract of no more than 150 words (to be used in the program book, should the paper and/or session be accepted) and an outline of the proposed paper and/or session with no more than 500 words. We also welcome suggestions for open panels, asking for submission of individual papers to fit with the proposed panel. Proposals will have to provide names of presenter(s)/convenors and their email address(es).\nDeadline for submitting themes for open panels and pre-arranged sessions: 15 October 2013\nAnnouncement of approved panels and sessions: 1 November 2013\nDeadline for submitting proposals for individual papers: 1 December 2013\nNotification of acceptance individual papers: 15 January 2014\nPlease indicate clearly whether you are applying for an individual paper fitting in with the conference theme, a pre-arranged session, an open panel or the presentation of ongoing doctoral research. All proposals should be sent as an e-mail or as a Word document attached to an e-mail to easr2014.thrs [at] rug.nl.\nThere will be a double-blind peer-review process. All proposals will be evaluated by an independent committee, consisting of members of the organization committee and the scientific advisory board.\nFor more information, please visit: http://godsdienstwetenschap.nl/index.php?page=conference-2014\nThis is a reminder for a call for papers for the following session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Tampa, Florida from 8-12 April 2014:\nGeographies of Alternative Spiritualities Session sponsored by the Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group\nOrganisers: Nadia Bartolini (Open University), Sara MacKian (Open University) and Steve Pile (Open University)\nSpirituality is commonly understood, in Human Geography, using models of faith and belief based on mainstream Religion, usually in the guise of Christianity or Islam (see, for example, reviews by Yorgason and della Dora 2009, Kong 2010 and Wilford 2010). Though there has been increasing interest in the idea of post-secular society, especially drawing upon the experience of Western cities (see Beaumont and Baker 2011, and Stevenson et al. 2010, Wilford 2010), and the re-emergence (or not) of faith and belief systems as significant in the constitution of social and spatial relationships, questions of spirit and spirituality remain strangely absent from these debates (MacKian 2012). The purpose of this session is to engage with these issues through the lens of spirit and spirituality beyond the traditional institutional, ontological and epistemological confines of Religion. In particular, we are interested in exploring the lived experiences of forms of belief, faith and spirit that fall outside of the conventional practices of Religion. What is \u2018alternative\u2019, of course, depends on where you stand, so we would like to think beyond straightforward dualisms between the secular and the religious by using a more dynamic sense of \u2018spirit\u2019 and \u2018spirituality\u2019. In this session, we are interested in building upon Cloke and Beaumont\u2019s (2013) argument that secularism and post-secularism need to be viewed as fluid and porous, and indeed, in constant mutually transformative dialogue with one another. We therefore seek papers that wish to engage with the experiences and the practices of spiritualities in everyday life \u2014 and, especially, how the mundane and the extraordinary are interwoven.\nThe organisers would particularly welcome papers that would explore:\n\u2013 The spatialities of spirituality\n\u2013 Spirituality and spirit\n\u2013 The paranormal, the occult, the magical and the extraordinary\n\u2013 Post-secular, post-phenomenological arguments in the context of alternative spiritualities\n\u2013 The lived experiences and everyday practices of spirit\n\u2013 Vernacular religion\n\u2013 Spirit and the production of space (urban, rural, communal, small town, national, etc.)\nFor those interested in participating in the session, please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Nadia Bartolini (nadia.bartolini [at] open.ac.uk), Sara MacKian (sara.mackian [at] open.ac.uk) and Steve Pile (steve.pile [at] open.ac.uk) by Friday 4 October 2013.\nCRASIS Annual Meeting and Masterclass\nUniversity of Groningen, 13-14 February 2014\nCultural Knowledge in the Ancient World Production, Circulation, and Validation\nKeynote & Master: Prof. Marietta Horster (Mainz)\nWe invite PhD and Research Master Students, PostDocs, as well as senior researchers to take part in the third CRASIS Annual Meeting and PhD/MA Masterclass on 13\u201314 February 2013.\nCRASIS is the interdisciplinary research institute for the study of the ancient world at the University of Groningen. We bring together researchers from Classics, Religious Studies, Ancient History, Archaeology, Ancient Philosophy, and Legal History, focusing on Greek and Roman societies as well as on Jewish and Near Eastern civilizations and on the interaction between these.\nThe CRASIS Annual Meeting and Masterclass is a two-day event, set up as an informal meeting place for students at PhD or Research Master level, postdocs and senior staff to promote discussion and exchange of ideas beyond disciplinary boundaries.\nThe theme of this year\u2019s Annual Meeting and Masterclass will be:\nCultural Knowledge in the Ancient World\nProduction, Circulation, and Validation\nShowing what you know, who you know, and innovating upon prior knowledge are key strategies to sustain yourself in society today. The internet radically changed the speed at which knowledge is transmitted. We now have unprecedented access to information across the globe, and it is even difficult to control what others know about our private lives. The global crisis contributed to an emphasis on the economic value of certain types of knowledge. Amidst all these changes, there is concern for the loss of traditional forms of knowledge. But what do we know about what the ancients knew, and how they came to know it?\nThis Annual Meeting focuses on cultural knowledge: the packages of knowledge (skills, competences, and information) that are needed to operate competently within in a particular community (group, cult, school, city, ethnos, empire \u2026). We adopt a broad understanding of ancient cultural knowledge that includes social, legal, technical, religious, and philosophical forms of knowing. Ancient historians examine the transmission of knowledge across networks; archaeologists study the development and tradition of technical skills in material production, and technological transfer; religious knowledge is analysed from cognitive perspectives, while there is also a new emphasis on the role of the body and the senses in experiencing and generating knowledge. We aim to bring these angles and approaches together and develop new ones that help us understand the production, circulation, and validation of cultural knowledge in the ancient world.\nWho: Priests, diplomats, literary authors, traders, officials etc. operated as agents of knowledge production, mediation, and authorisation. How was access to knowledge gained, controlled, contested, and concealed?\nWhere: What was the role of workshops, gymnasia, sanctuaries, assemblies, funerary areas, festivals, courts etc. as settings of production, circulation, and validation of cultural knowledge?\nHow: How did particular media and artefacts (coins, inscriptions, statues, laws, oracles, letters, landscapes) contribute to and change the production, circulation, and validation of cultural knowledge?\nKEYNOTE AND MASTER\nThis year\u2019s Keynote Speaker and Master is Professor Marietta Horster. She holds the Chair of Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz. Her broad-based expertise is evident from publications on imperial building inscriptions in the Roman West, land possession, civic priests and cult personnel at Greek sanctuaries, and the transmission of cultural knowledge through poetry.\nWe invite senior researchers to submit a title and short abstract for a twenty-minute presentation on the first day of the Annual Meeting\nPhD and Research Master Students are invited to submit a topic proposal (500 words) for the Masterclass on the second day explaining their research in relation to this year\u2019s theme\nProposals for both days should be submitted no later than 1 November 2013 with Birgit van der Lans: b.e.a.l.van.der.lans@rug.nl.\nPhD/ReMa Students\nOnce your proposal has been accepted, ReMa students should submit 3000-4000 words essays and PhD students 5000-6000 words essays before 13 January 2014 so that the papers can circulate among the participants. At the Masterclass ReMa students have ten minutes to briefly introduce their paper and PhD students have twenty minutes. After each presentation discussion follows under the expert guidance of Professor Horster.\nWe will soon start a local reading and study group in preparation for the Annual Meeting and Masterclass. If you are interested, please get in touch with Birgit van der Lans\nFor more information, see: http://www.rug.nl/crasis\nTexas A&M University \u2013 College Station \u2013 Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Africana and Religious Studies Programs \nAmerican University \u2013 Beirut \u2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities \nUniversity of Pennsylvania \u2013 Assistant Professor in Arabic Literature \nUniversity of Maryland, College Park \u2013 Assistant Professor of Chinese Regional Cultures and Sinophone Studies \nIndiana University \u2013 South Bend \u2013 Assistant Professor, East Asia \nMerrimack College \u2013 Assistant Professor, World Histroy \nPennsylvania State University \u2013 Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History \nUniversity of British Columbia \u2013 Assistant Professor in Japanese or Korean Art History or Architectural History \nUniversity of Sydney \u2013 LECTURER IN CHINESE AND EAST ASIAN THOUGHT \nUtah State University \u2013 Assistant Professor in Asian History \nGeorgetown University \u2013 Professor of Islamic Studies and History of Islam \nSam Houston State University \u2013 Assistant or Associate Professor, Islamic World \nWest Chester University \u2013 Islamic World History \nhttps://i0.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wordle20132.jpg?fit=363%2C212&ssl=1 212 363 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-10-04 07:13:142018-08-20 09:47:12Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 4 Oct 2013\nReligious Studies Opportunities Digest \u2013 6 Sept 2013\nSeptember 6, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opportunities /by Louise Connelly\nSociology of Religion, Advance access, http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc\nThe Study of Religion: A reader\nBy John S. Harding, Hillary P. Rodrigues\nThis collection illustrates the spectrum of ideas that people throughout history have had when considering how to understand and study religion. The editors present a selection of key writings that reflect a broad range of voices on the nature and practice of the discipline. Religious studies draws on works by anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, and others, which notably impact our understanding of the concept of religion, of particular religious ideas, and on how religion should be studied. The Study of Religion: A Reader contains both classic and contemporary perspectives, including material from non-Western traditions. It provides students of religion with an understanding of how the discipline developed, some of the current issues and lines of thought, as well as future prospects.\nedited by: Jeffrey T. Kenney, Ebrahim Moosa\nThis comprehensive introduction explores the landscape of contemporary Islam. Written by a distinguished team of scholars, it:\nprovides broad overviews of the developments, events, people and movements that have defined Islam in the three majority-Muslim regions\ntraces the connections between traditional Islamic institutions and concerns, and their modern manifestations and transformations. How are medieval ideas, policies and practices refashioned to address modern circumstances\ninvestigates new themes and trends that are shaping the modern Muslim experience such as gender, fundamentalism, the media and secularisation\noffers case studies of Muslims and Islam in dynamic interaction with different societies.\nIslam in the Modern World includes illustrations, summaries, discussion points and suggestions for further reading that will aid understanding and revision. Additional resources are provided via a companion website.\nhttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415780865/?utm_source=RoutledgeReligionArena&utm_medium=CMS&utm_campaign=IslamintheModernWorld_9780415780865_relig\n\u2018John Hick and Religious Pluralism: Some Hindu Perspectives\u2019\n4:00 \u2013 5:30pm (followed by vegetarian nibbles and wine reception)\nA free public talk by Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah (Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies, University of Birmingham).\nTo be held in the Emmanuel Centre (corner of Woodhouse Lane and Cavendish Road), University of Leeds. Everyone welcome.\nFor further information, please contact Dr Tasia Scrutton (t.scrutton@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr Mikel Burley (m.m.burley@leeds.ac.uk). No advance booking required, but RSVPing would be helpful so that we have a general idea of numbers.\n\u2014 The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).\nRegistration is now open for Gujarat Studies Association\u2019s 5th biennial conference, to be held on 19-20 February 2014 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. For the registration form and further details please visit: www.gujaratstudies.org\nConference Theme: (Re)Defining Gujarati Identity\n2 September 2013 \u2013 Conference registration opens\n11 November 2013 \u2013 Presenter Registration/Early Bird Registration Ends\n9 December 2013 \u2013 Conference Registration Closes\n7th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, to be held at the University of Vienna, Austria from the 18th August to 23rd August 2014, is now open for registration at\nhttp://iabs2014.univie.ac.at/registration/\nOnline abstract submissions begin June 15, 2013 and end November 1, 2013. Online conference registration will open September 1, 2013, and will remain open until August 15, 2014.\nRequests concerning registration, accommodation and travelling should be sent to:\nUniversit\u00e4tsring 1, 1010 Vienna\ne-mail: gerry.schneider [at] univie.ac.at\nAll correspondence concerning the academic program of the congress should be sent to:\nMag. Ewa Lewandowska\nInstitute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies\nSpitalgasse 2, Court 2, Entrance 2.7, 1090 Vienna\ne-mail: ewa.lewandowska [at] univie.ac.at\nMag. Judith Starecek\ne-mail: judith.starecek [at] univie.ac.at\nCFP: The Bodily AND Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation\nwww.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/call-for-proposals-religious-subjectivation\nIntended date of conference: 17-18 June, 2014.\nVenue: UCL, Dept. of Anthropology*\nDeadline for CFP: 31 December, 2013.\nNotification: 31 January, 2014.\nConference Conveners: Jean-Pierre Warnier and Urmila Mohan.\nFor further information please contact Urmila Mohan (u.mohan.11 [at] ucl.ac.uk).\nCFP: Symbols of Contemporary Culture\nDescription: Symbols arise spontaneously as a natural component of human behavior, as well as the result of ideas being transferred from one culture to another. In the ancient world, symbolic characters wandered from country to country along the trade routes and were exchanged with goods and ideas. They often ga \u2026\nContact: symbol2013 [at] o2.pl\nURL: www.isr.wsmip.uj.edu.pl/english-version\nCFP: Visual Methodologies: A Postdiscipline of Inclusions?\nDescription: The saturation of social space by the visual has spawned in increasing interest by scholars in developing innovative methodologies within the context of rapid technological change. While visual research is methodologically and theoretically diverse there is no single common heritage,aim, or definin \u2026\nContact: william.feighery [at] gmail.com\nURL: www.metlab.ch/conference\nCFP: Origins of Truth: Foucaults Lectures on the Will to Know\nDescription: Papers are invited for a conference on Michel Foucault\u2019s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collge de France, 1970-1971, to be held November 8-9, 2013, in New York City. Sponsored by the Foucault Society and the Stony Brook University Department of Philosophy, the conference will feature \u2026\nContact: foucaultsocietyorg [at] gmail.com\nURL: www.foucaultsociety.org\nCFP: Religious Globalization in an Age of Global Crises? Theory and Practice of the Oikoumene in the 20th Century\nDescription: Fourth European Congress on World and Global History Paris, 11-14th September 2014 Religious Globalization in an Age of Global Crises? Theory and Practice of the Oikoumene in the 20th Century The twentieth century saw the emergence of unprecedented efforts to build a world Christian community that w \u2026\nContact: engel [at] gsnas.fu-berlin.de\nCFP: Arts, Literature, and Religion Section of Southwest Commission on Religious Studies\nDescription: Arts, Literature, and Religion The Arts, Literature, and Religion section invites proposals for papers or panels on any topic concerning the intersection of the arts, literature, and religion. Of particular interest this year are papers or presentations that cast such intersections as instances of K \u2026\nContact: allen.redmon [at] ct.tamus.edu\nURL: https://sites.google.com/site/swcrsaarsblasorassr/\nCall for Contributors: Encyclopedia of American Myth, Legend, and Folklore\nDescription: ABC-Clio is planning to publish a three-volume Encyclopedia of American Myth, Legend, and Folklore in 2015. The editors seek contributors from fields of literature, history, anthropology, sociology, folklore, and allied subjects to write entries ranging from 750-2500 words on a wide range of topics. \u2026\nContact: jwebb [at] huntington.edu\nAssociation for the Study of Esotericism Fifth International Conference\nThe Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE) is seeking paper and panel proposals for its fifth International North American Conference on Esotericism to be held at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York\nIf you wish to submit a paper proposal or a thematically focused panel proposal (with three presenters and short descriptions included) for review and possible presentation at the conference, please send it by regular email to ASE2014Conference@gmail.com\nThe list of specific issues is open for continuation.Two Round tables will be held within the framework of the Workshop: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Orthodox civilization and traditional values\u00e2\u20ac (in commemoration of Alexander Panarin); \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Arab Spring\u00e2\u20ac and the future of the Middle East: fundamentalism or secularization?\u00e2\u20ac\nChairs of the Workshop:Dr. Rudolf Siebert, Professor of the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University (USA), Director of the Center for Humanistic Future Studies, Director of the International course on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Future of Religion\u00e2\u20ac at the Inter-University Center for Post-Graduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Croatia http: //www.rudolfjsiebert.org\u00c2\nDr. Tatyana Senyushkina, Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University (Ukraine), Director of the Network of Cultural Exchange and Interethnic Trust http://www.crimea.edu/person_page/senyushkina/index.htm\nParticipants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 presentations will be published after the workshop.\nRegistration fee: $ 100 USD to be paid upon arrival, for an accompanying person \u00e2\u20ac\u201c $ 50 USD.\nRegistration fee includes conference materials (badge, program, list of participants), coffee breaks, welcoming dinner and concert, publication (3 pages) and certificate of participation. Permissible amount of additional written materials \u2013 up to 12 pages ($ 7 USD per page).\nAccommodation: The Bristol Hotel, 10 Roosevelt St., Crimea, Yalta http://bristol.ua/en/ +38(0654)27-16-06\nPrices: $ 80 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 275 USD per room per night.\nThe price includes accommodation, breakfast, swimming pool, fitness hall, luggage service, WI-FI, VAT, beach-solarium.\nTo find out about other, cheaper options of accommodation, please feel free to contact the Organizing Committee.\nGuided Tours: The Livadia Palace of the last Russian Tzar Nikolay II in Yalta; The Palace of Alexander III in Massandra (Massandra Palace); The Nikitsky Botanical Garden; The Chekhov House-Museum in Yalta; The Orthodox churches of the Southern coast of the Crimea; The Crimean oldest winery Massandra: the largest wine collection (about a million bottles) on the globe and Famous Wine Tasting.\nTo participate in the Workshop, please send your application form no later than 15 October, 2013 on the following address: nce@mail.ru, tsenyushkina@yandex.com\nCFP: Hagiography\nThe Hagiography Society will be sponsoring four sessions at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8-11 May 2014, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. The Call for Papers is below; to propose a paper for any of these panels please send a 350-word max. abstract by Sept. 15 to Sara Ritchey at ritchey@louisiana.edu\nhttp://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=206222&keyword=religion\nInstitute for Indian and Tibetan Studies\nPh.D. Position, Indology / Buddhist Studies\nColumbia University \u2013 Premodern Chinese Literature and Poetry \nColumbia University \u2013 Modern Chinese Film and Visual Culture \nRutgers University \u2013 Camden \u2013 East Asian History, Assistant Professor\nSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich \u2013 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Extra-European History \nGeorgetown University \u2013 Assistant Professor in American Religious & Philosophical Thought \nOld Dominion University \u2013 Assistant Professor \u2013 History of the Ancient World\nCollege of Idaho \u2013 Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \u2013 Hebraica Library Specialist\nStanford University \u2013 Professor of Philosophy\nStanford University \u2013 Assistant Professor of Philosophy\nMellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islam in Context\nhttp://dean-faculty.williams.edu/graduate-fellowships-2/mellon-post-doctoral-fellowship/\nPostdoctoral Researcher in History\nhttps://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UVA/vacancy/19640/lang/en/\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wordle2-2013.jpg?fit=362%2C188&ssl=1 188 362 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-09-06 08:13:462018-08-20 09:50:35Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 6 Sept 2013\nJuly 19, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opportunities /by Louise Connelly\nPlease visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/ajec\nTHEMATIC FOCUS: History, Heritage and Place-Making\nCFP: \u201cBeyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in 20th Century America\u201d\nhttp://rap.wustl.edu/news/2013/06/call-for-conference-papers-beyond-the-culture-wars-recasting-religion-and-politics-in-20th-century-america/\nCFP: Anthropology Matters Journal, Summer 2014 Issue\nAnthropology Matters welcomes paper submissions from postgraduate researchers and early career scholars for its 2014 Summer Issue. This issue will include papers based on original research in any region and on any theme within social anthropology.\nAnthropology Matters is an online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that serves as a venue for postgraduate researchers and early career scholars in social anthropology to publish their research. The journal is linked to the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. For previous editions of this journal, see http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/\nThose who are interested in submitting a paper for review are requested to register at the Anthropology Matters website and upload full papers of approximately 5,000 words by 1 November 2013.\nFor further details, please consult our submission guidelines.\nAny queries about this call for papers or about the journal can be addressed to editors Carna Brkovic and Ainhoa Montoya at anthropology.matters[at] gmail.com\nCFP: Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present\nDescription: Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present11-12 February 2014, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe, 1200-1800, University of Adelaide The relationship between emotion, ritual and power has been at the heart of anthropological research for over a century, yet it \u2026\nContact: katie.barclay [at] adelaide.edu.au\nwww.historyofemotions.org.au/events/emotion,-ritual-and-power-in-europe-1200-to-the-present.aspx?page=2\nCFP: African Sacred Spaces\nDescription: African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change Not much has been written about the nexus between spatiality and spirituality in the African experience. Where space has been the subject of intellectual/academic scrutiny, it has often been through sociopolitical prisms. The purpose of this collec \u2026\nContact: ogundayo[at]pitt.edu\nCall for Proposals (Papers and Films): The Bodily and Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation\nVenue: UCL, Dept. of Anthropology.*\nDeadline for CFP: 31 December, 2013. Notification by 31 January, 2014.\nConference Convenors: Jean-Pierre Warnier and Urmila Mohan.\nThere is no known religious practice that does not involve bodily motions (bowing, standing, walking, fasting, feasting, etc.) and their associated emotions, nor the use of given material things (shrines, musical instruments, substances of various kinds). Both involve the sensory apparatus of touch, sight, smell, etc. Without disregarding religious discourses and creeds, the conference will focus on the cultures of religious practice with a strong emphasis on both ethnographic documentation and theoretical elaboration based on a few basic principles \u2014 the importance of Bodily and Material Culture, and Religious Subjectivation involving technologies of the self.\nCall for Proposals and Films\nWe welcome proposals from students, faculty and independent researchers based on ethnographic fieldwork focused on both bodily and material cultures of religious practice as part of the production of a religious subject in different areas and religious settings (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Asiatic, African and other religions, etc.). The papers should address theoretical issues, whatever theoretical references may be put to use, provided they articulate bodily and material cultures. We aim at establishing discussions between various academic traditions on both sides of the Atlantic and the Channel. Short documentary films (e.g. 20 min maximum as a rule) showing the intertwinement of bodily and material cultures in religious practice are welcome. The proposals (of ca. one page) should be addressed to the convenors. They will be assessed by the organizing committee of the conference. Ultimately, we expect to end up with an edited volume.\n*This event is organised by UCL Anthropology together with the Interdisciplinary Research Group (GDRI) \u201cAnthropology and Art History\u201d at the Muse\u0301e du Quai Branly.\nCFP: Conference on Philosophy and Film Lisbon 2014\nDescription: International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking reality and time through film (7-10 May of 2014) During the last two decades film has been increasingly recognized as a medium of philosophical reflection, in an ontological and epistemological perspective. But what does it mean to und \u2026\nContact: filmtimereality[at]gmail.com\nURL: https://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014\nCFP: 4th Global Conference: Spirituality in the 21st Century\nDescription: 4th Global Conference Spirituality in the 21st Century Tuesday 18th March Thursday 20th March 2014 Prague, Czech Republic Call for Presentations: The contemporary study of spirituality encompasses a wide range of interests. These have come not only from the more traditional areas of religious schola \u2026\nContact: s21-4[at]inter-disciplinary.net\nURL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/spirituality-in-the-21st-century/call-for-papers/\nCFP: ISORECEA in cooperation with Vytautas Magnus University and Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions\n11th ISORECEA conference\nRELIGIOUS DIVERSIFICATION WORLDWIDE AND IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE\nKaunas, Lithuania, April 24-27, 2014\nFor a long time the secularization thesis dominated the field of studies of religions in contemporary societies. Many definitions and even more explanations of the process of secularization in contemporary societies led scholars of religions to search for new theoretical insights about the rapidly changing global social situation. Opponents of this paradigm claim that we are witnessing growing religious vitality at religious market or change in religion itself ? here we find the privatization thesis, precarious religion or religious bricolage. Independently of how we approach it from theoretical perspective religious diversification is the process that is evident in the majority of contemporary societies. It is manifested through numerous religious traditions and new emerging religious communities not only within the religious traditions, but also at the individual level, as well as by the increasing number of non-believers and non-adherents, etc.\nHow do worldwide and CEE societies adapt to religious diversification?\nHow do religious communities approach the diversification of religion?\nHow do states react towards the changing situation? How do worldwide and CEE societies differ from each other in relation to religious diversification?\nReligious diversification and Church and State relations\nReligious tolerance and discrimination\nReligious diversification and social participation\nReligiosity or Spirituality ? within or outside religious institutions.\nPlease submit a 250-300 words abstract of your presentation by e-mail\nto: isorecea2014@smf.vdu.lt by November 15, 2013. If you are interested in another topic related to the study of religion in the CEE or worldwide, we encourage you to organize a session/panel. In this case, please submit a 200-300 words proposal by November 15, 2013 to the same email address.\nSubmission of paper and session panel proposals \u2013 November 15, 2013\nNotification of acceptance and opening of the registration \u2013 December 15, 2013\nThe final date of the registration for the conference \u2013 January 31, 2014\nFinal program \u2013 February 20, 2014\nEarly career scholars interested in entering the competition are invited to submit their full papers to the email address isorecea2014@smf.vdu.lt by January 10, 2014. The winner will be announced by January 31, 2014, which is the final date for registration for being on the program of the ISORECEA conference. http://www.isorecea.net/\nPapers submitted for the Award should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words long and should strictly follow the rules applying to papers submitted to the ISORECEA journal Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. For details see:\nhttp://www.rascee.net/index.php/rascee/about/submissions#authorGuidelines\nCFP: Crosscurrents in Music and Theology\nHumanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield, S3 7QY\nProfessor Bennett Zon (Durham University)\nProfessor Hugh Pyper (University of Sheffield)\nWriting in the introduction to Resonant Witness (2011), Jeremy Begbie and Steven Guthrie state that \u2018the study of theology and the study of music need not, and should not, be kept apart; that there is an enormous amount to gain from conversations between those who seek to explore and articulate the content and shape of Christian truth, and those who inhabit the world of Beethoven and Bruckner,\nCorinne Bailey Rae and Keith Jarrett.\u2019\nThis one day-conference seeks to build on that conviction by exploring the rich variety of crosscurrents that are currently evident between the disciplines of\nMusic and Theology.\nWe invite a range of papers to be delivered, in the following four broad areas that reflect the contours of current interdisciplinary research. Please send abstracts (200 words/20 minutes) to George Parsons (mup07wgp[st]shef.ac.uk) for consideration by the conference committee by September 1st 2013.\nThis CFP can also be seen at http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/newsandevents/2013/gparsons250613\nBeyond Established Categories in World Historical Studies\nDescription: This symposium focuses on one of the most foundational attributes in historical studies: categories. Born of the need to classify subjects of inquiries, categories enable historians to label the unfamiliar and place it within the known universe. Yet this seemingly helpful condition has also created \u2026\nContact: webadmin[at[ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp\nThe 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester (August 5th-August 10th, 2013)\nRepresenting the Non-representable: Visual Representations of Extraordinary Beings in Ethnographic Films (V07)\nConvenor: Dr. P. Khosronejad (Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews)\nDate: 8 and 9 Aug. 2013\nVenue: Chemistry G.54\n\u2013 Roger Canals (University of Barcelona, Spain)\nDon\u2019t look at a spirit\u2019s eyes!: Filming rituals of possession in afro-american religions\n\u2013 Rachael Hayward (University of York, U.K.)\nSeeing what is \u201cunseen\u201d: Using video to enrich our social understanding of paranormal experiences\n\u2013 Anja Dreschke (University of Siegen, Germany)\nFilming Trance \u2013 Picturing Possession. On \u201cTrance Mediums\u201d and \u201cNew Media\u201d in Morocco\n\u2013 Erminia Colucci (The University of Melbourne, Australia)\nThe Visual Representation of Spiritual Healing Practices\n\u2013 Mike Poltorak (University of Kent, U.K.)\nThe Healer and the Psychiatrist: A visual dialogue through spirits\n\u2013 Christian Suhr Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)\nSacrificing Visibility: An ethnographic film-project about Islamic exorcisms and psychiatric healthcare in Denmark\nThird Session (14:00-15:30)\n\u2013 Simon Serna (University of Paris X, France)\nThe Drums, the Camera and Man : cin\u00e9-transe in Jean Rouch\u2019s cinema\n\u2013 Alireza Ghasemkhan (University of Art, Tehran, Iran)\nSuper Human Forces in Iranian Documentary Cinema\n\u2013 Michaela Sch\u00e4uble (Harvard University, U.S.A.)\nThe Creative Use of Reality: Aesthetic and Political Dimensions of Films on Trance and Spirit Possession (1940s-1960s)\nForth Session (09:00-10:30)\n\u2013 Itsushi Kawase (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan)\nGreeting Seyfou Tchengar Audiovisually: Challenges and prospects of the documentation of Zar spirits in Gondar, Ethiopia\n\u2013 Concluding remarks and closure\nConference \u2013 Islam and Education \u2013 28th August 2013\nDescription: Dear Colleagues, Prof. Alison Scott-Baumann (Derby), Dr. Theodore Gabriel (Gloucestershire) and I are organising a conference on Islam and Education on 28th August 2013. This is an important area that has great significance for discussions around empowering young people, inter-faith relations and in\nContact: A.Scott-Baumann[at]derby.ac.uk; tgabriel[at]glos.ac.uk; s.contractor[at]derby.ac.uk\nThe Nan Tien Institute in Australia cordially invites you to a free public lecture by Venerable Dr Huifeng. Kindly also forward this announcement to your students and colleagues who may wish to join us.\n\u201cMeditation Practices in Chinese Buddhism\u201d\nTime: 10:00am \u2013 11:30am, Saturday, 10 August 2013\nVenue: Conference Room, Nan Tien Institute, Berkeley, NSW\nEnquiries: contact Juewei (juewei [at] nantien.edu.au) or info [at] nantien.edu.au\nICBS (the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies) cordially invite you to attend the Fall 2013 Lecture Series given by Dr. Jiang Wu held at University of the West on September 27-30, 2013.\nICBS Fall 2013 Lecture Series\nTitle:The World of the Chinese Buddhist Canon\nLecturer:Dr. Jiang Wu, associate professor, Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Arizona\n9/27 Fri 6-9pm Lectures #1-2\n9/28 Sat 1-4pm Lectures #3-4\n9/29 Sun 1-4pm Lectures #5-6\n9/30 Mon 6-9pm Lectures #7-8\nED201, University of the West\n1409 Walnut Grove Ave, Rosemead, CA\nE-mail: icbs@uwest.edu\nWebsite: http://www.uwest.edu/icbs/lectures/lecture20.html\nFree admissions! All are welcome!\nThis course aims at introducing the history of the Chinese Buddhist canon in East Asian context to a wider audience who are interested in Buddhism and East Asian culture. The importance of the canon in Chinese and East Asian Buddhism will be highlighted through studying the phenomenon of the Cult of the Canon and through exploring popular literature and legends about the canon such as Journey to the West. Basic information about the technical and physical aspects of the canon will be provided to gain in-depth knowledge about the production and circulation of the canon. In addition, three case studies of the Chinese Kaibao Canon, the Korean Goryeo Canon, and the Japanese Taish\u014d Canon will be included.\n(1) An Overview of the Canon Tradition in East Asian Buddhism\n(2) The Canon in Chinese Popular Culture: Tripitaka in Journey to the West (Xiyouji)\n(3) Imagining Tripitaka: Legends of the Canon in Chinese Buddhist Literature\n(4) From the Cult of the Book to the Cult of the Canon\n(5) Technology of Canon-making: Tripitaka as a Collection of Books\n(6) The First Printed Canon: Kaibao Canon\n(7) The Korean Goryeo Canon and its Role in East Asian Buddhism\n(8) The Modernization of the Canon Tradition and the Emergence of Taisho Canon\nFor free online attendance, contact extendedstudies@uwest.edu\nThis lecture series will be edited as HBL240 online course, with 1.2 Continuing Education Units. (CEU)\nProphets and Prophecy in Stories\nProphecy Network Meeting Utrecht 2013\nDate: Friday October 4, 10:00 up to Saturday October 5 15:00 2013\nLocation: Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, 3512 JJ Utrecht\nTheme: Prophets and Prophecy in Stories\nFocus: In what way are prophets represented in stories? How would reading these stories be foundational for the identity of the readership then? Is a shift over time detectable?\nFormat: Time slots of 45 minutes for the key-note speakers (30+15) and\n25 for all others (15+10)\nFor details contact Bob Becking .\nhttp://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/projects/prophecy\nConference on Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural\n25-30 March 2014, Shetland, UK\nhttp://www.islanddynamics.org/folkloreconference.html\nThe Law and Religion Scholars Network PhD students workshop will be held at BG01, Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University on Saturday\nUnfortunately, although a very healthy number of students have indicated via doodle that they would like to come on that date, only two have provided their emails as originally requested (and thanks to both of you!).\nIf you would like to come to the PhD workshop, please email me with your name, and if you would like to give a paper a short title (this will help me strand the day). If you just want to come along to listen to other students and contribute to the general discussion, that is fine too! Please email me by Friday 13th September, at pwedge [at] brookes.ac.uk\nPrinceton University \u2013 Assistant Professor, Asian American History \nPrinceton University \u2013 Assistant Professor, Late Imperial / Early Modern Chinese History \nYonsei University \u2013 Tenure track position in Chinese Literature/Film \nYonsei University (Underwood International College) \u2013 Tenure Track Position in Japanese History\nJOB GUIDE NO: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46934\nHarvard Divinity School, Women\u2019s Studies in Religion Program\nResearch Associate and Visiting Faculty in Women\u2019s Studies and Religion for 2014-15\nPosition: Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Scholar, Visiting Professor\nHARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2014-15 in its Womens Studies in Religion Program. Proposals for book-length research projects utilizing both religion and gender as central categories of analysis are welcomed. Priority will go to book projects for which most research has been completed. They may address women and religion in any time, place or religious tradition, and may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences. Full-time residence at Harvard Divinity School during the 2014-15 academic year is required. Associates meet together regularly for collective discussion of research in progress; each Associate teaches a one-semester course related to the research project; and the Associates present their research in a public lecture series and at an annual conference . Salary for 2014-15 will be $55,000. The appointment is full-time, lasting ten months, and includes health benefits and reimbursement of some expenses. Completed applications must be submitted online by October 15, 2013. Applicants must have received their PhD by October 1, 2013. Letters of recommendation should be addressed to the WSRP Search Committee and submitted electronically in word, rich text, or PDF format to wsrprec[at]hds.harvard.edu. Information and application may be accessed at http://www.hds.harvard.edu/wsrp/appform/application.htm.\nJOB GUIDE: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46928\nPH.D. POSITION IN INDOLOGY / BUDDHIST STUDIES\nDepartment: Institute for Indology and Tibetology\nStart date: 19 August 2013 or later\nSalary: TV\u2010L 13 / 75%\nTerm of employment: The initial term of employment is two years.\nhttp://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/stellenangebote/wissenschaft/20130701132222.html\nThe Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) is one of the most renowned and largest universities in Germany.\nJunior Professor for Empirical Religious Studies Theology Faculty Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald\nThe Theology Faculty of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald plans to hire a Junior Professor for Empirical Religious Studies (W 1) as soon as possible. While the Junior Professor should have an independent research profile in Religious Studies, s/he is also expected to cooperate on a theoretical and methodological level with the other fields of the faculty on current and planned individual and group research projects.\nA qualification in Theology (M.A./M.Sc.) is desired but not essential.\nThe teaching load is approximately four to six hours per week per semester in the field of Empirical Religious Studies. Teaching in English is permitted. Readiness for cooperation in the context of existing and planned interdisciplinary research projects on Regional Religion (e.g. the Baltic Sea region, Central/Eastern Europe) and Empirical Ethics is desired.\nIn accordance with \u00a7 62 of the State Higher Education Law of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (SHE M-V):, Junior Professors are appointed as temporary officers for three years. Successful fulfillment of work duties will result in extension within the third year.\nJob Requirements are based on \u00a7 62, Sec. 1 of the SHE M-V: completed graduate study, pedagogical aptitude, and exceptional ability for academic endeavors, as typically confirmed by the completion of an outstanding dissertation.\nArticle 4.2 of the agreement between the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg and Pomerania from January 20th, 1994 (the G\u00fcstrower Accord) should also be kept in mind.\nThe University seeks to increase the representation of women in areas in which they are under-represented. Therefore, applications from women are especially welcome and will receive preference in cases of equal qualifications, provided that there are no other outweighing qualities in the person of the competing applicant.\nHandicapped persons will receive special preference in cases of equal professional and personal qualifications.\nApplication costs will not be borne by the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Applications containing the customary documents (Academic Curriculum vitae, list of publications and courses, academic certificates, proof of teaching experience) are to be submitted by 31.08.2013 to:\nErnst-Moritz-Arndt-Universit\u00e4t Greifswald Dekan der Theologischen Fakult\u00e4t Prof. Dr. Roland Rosenstock Am Rubenowplatz 2/3\nAssistant Professor in Theory of Religion (Religious Studies)\nPlease Note: The successful candidate is expected to be in post by 1st January 2014\nInterviews for this position will be held the week of the 16th September 2013\nApplications are invited for a four year fixed term appointment based in the Department of Religions and Theology, within the Confederal School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics, from candidates with a Ph.D. in the following areas: history of the study of religion; classical authors in the study of religion; contemporary theories of religion; current debates on religion, modernity, and the public sphere; and / or the influence of religion on the cultural development of Europe and the West since Antiquity.\nObligations will include teaching and supervision from undergraduate to postgraduate levels on classical and contemporary authors in the study of religion, on methodology, and on the history of religion from antiquity to modernity, as well as sharing in the administrative duties in the life of the Department and the School. The successful candidate will have a track record in, and current plan for, research in religious studies, reflecting the relationship to disciplines such as philosophy, classics, sociology and theology, and show evidence of creative and effective teaching.\nFurther application information for this position can be obtained at: www.tcd.ie/vacancies \u2013 Please note candidates who do not submit the required information as outlined on the Job Description will not be considered for shortlisting. The closing date for receipt of completed applications (by e-Recruitment only) 12 Noon, Friday, 16th August 2013.\nFurther information on the Department and the School can be found on the websites,www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/\nwww.tcd.ie/religions-theology-ecumenics/\nTenure-Track Assistant Professor in Folklore\nEmployment Level: Tenured, tenure track\nWebsite: http://jobs.gmu.edu\nCategory: Humanities, Other social/ behavioral sciences Employment Status: Full-time\nTenure-Track Assistant Professor in Folklore. The George Mason University, Department of English within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences announces a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Folklore beginning fall, 2014.\nCompletion of a Ph.D. in folklore or a related field is required before August 2014. Candidates should have strong scholarly credentials in folklore and should be ready to teach in our growing Folklore Studies Program. The field of specialization is open, but we are particularly interested in candidates whose work is globally focused with a preference in one of the following areas: folklore and digital humanities, diasporic culture, African folklore, Chinese folklore, Native American folklore, Russian folklore, or South Asian folklore. Must demonstrate potential for excellence in folklore scholarship, and in graduate and undergraduate teaching\u2014including introductory and advanced courses in folklore, ethnographic methods, and general education courses in composition and literature.\nGeorge Mason University\u2019s Folklore Studies Program offers an undergraduate concentration in the B.A. in English, an interdisciplinary minor in Folklore and Mythology, a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Folklore, and a graduate certificate in Folklore. We also offer the nation\u2019s premier ethnographic training course: the Field School for Cultural Documentation, in collaboration with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.\nA review of applications will begin on September 2, 2013, and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates will be interviewed during the 2013 meeting of the American Folklore Society in Providence, RI. October 16-19.\nFor full consideration, applicants must apply online at http://jobs.gmu.edu for position number F5959z; complete the faculty application; and attach a cover letter, CV, and a writing sample of approximately 30 pages. Applicants should also submit three letters of recommendation and official transcripts to the search committee administrator: Stacey Remick-Simkins, Department of English, MS 3E4, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444. AA/EOE\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wordle2-2013.jpg?fit=362%2C188&ssl=1 188 362 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-07-19 08:09:562018-08-20 09:52:35Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 19 July 2013\nReligious Studies Opportunities Digest \u2013 21 June 2013\nJune 21, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opportunities /by Louise Connelly\nSociology of Religion, vol 74, no. 2 http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/74/2?etoc\nContribution to Indian Sociology \u2013 Online. Special Issue: Social Value Projects in Post-liberalisation India: June 2013; Vol. 47, No. 2 http://cis.sagepub.com/\nMarburg Journal of Religion, vol 17 http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/current_issue\nContemporary Islam, vol 7, no. 2 http://link.springer.com/journal/11562/7/2/page/1\nCorrespondences: An Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism is the brainchild of Jimmy Elwing and Aren Roukema, two postgraduates from the University of Amsterdam, and I\u2019ll be interviewing them on their latest exciting venture for my Albion Calling blog in the coming weeks.\nContained within this first issue are papers on ritual black metal from Kennet Granholm, on the Nag Hammadi Interpretation of Knowledge text from Matthew Twigg, on the theological debate within Cochranian Witchcraft from myself, and on the influence of Daoism on Aleister Crowley from Johan Nilsson. There\u2019s also Dave Vliegenhart\u2019s review of Gary Lachman\u2019s new book on Madame Blavatsky.\nIn contrast to the subscription-based academic journals that currently dominate the field, the entire issue is downloadable for free here: http://correspondencesjournal.com/issue-1-1/\nNew Book: From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Religion, and Religion in Haitian Thought\nwww.amazon.com/From-Toussaint-Price-Mars-Rhetoric-Religion/dp/1490400958/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1371292650&sr=8-3&keywords=celucien+joseph\n\u2018Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her interpreters\u2019 edited by Andrew and\nLeslie Bank (Cambridge University Press 2013).\nhttp://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2013/06/inside-african-anthropology-monica-wilson-and-her-interpreters/\nCFP: Religion and Popular Culture\nDeadline extension: June 30,2013\nDescription: Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 2013 Conference, Nov. 7 9, 2013, Atlantic City, NJ Religion and Popular Culture Area Call for Papers The Religion and Popular Culture area seeks presentations on the following topics: Choosing the Leader: This past year Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergo\nContact: adzias[at] comcast.net\nURL: mapaca.net\nAssociation for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting\nDescription: Call for Panelists! This is a call for panelists for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting that will take place in Philadelphia, PA, March 27-30, 2014. I am\nseeking panelists to help address the garment industry in Asia from a wide range of perspectives. My paper will focus on the u \u2026\nContact: Samantha.christiansen [at] gmail.com\nCFP: IABS 2011 Buddhism on the Silk Road III \u2013 the Extent of Gandh\u0101ran Buddhism\nIABS \u2013 Vienna 2014\nI am organizing again a panel on Buddhism on the Silk Road III \u2013 the Extent of Gandh\u0101ran Buddhism for IABS conference in Vienna, Aug 18 \u2013 23, 2014. This is one of the provisionally accepted panels and a sequel to the sessions we had on the AAR in 2001 and IABS, 2011. If you are interested in joining the panel, please contact me as soon as possible. The main theme of the panel is the historical transmission of Buddhism from India to China via\nCentral Asia, where I believe Gandh\u0101ran Buddhism had major impacts on artistic inspirations as well as textual transmissions. I would like to receive abstracts of your possible presentation papers (500 words or less) by Oct 15, 2013 (for Nov 1 IABS web submission deadline). Please send me a short email introducing your potential papers beforehand.\nMariko Walter, Ph.D\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies/Harvard\nDirector: ACANSRS\nAssociation for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies\nCollege House, 3F, 1430 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA\nmnwalter[at] post.harvard.edu\nmnwalter[at] acansrs.org\nCFP: \u201cQuest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History\u201d \u2013 CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PEER-REVIEWED OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL\nDescription: The editors of the online open access journal Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History invite proposal for articles on any aspect of Jewish history from the XVIIIth century to the present day (see the description of the journal in http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/about.php?issue=4 ) The call is m \u2026\nContact: mail [at] quest-cdecjournal.it\nURL: quest-cdecjournal.it\nCFP: United Methodist Women\u2019s History: Voices Lost and Found\nDescription: To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the United Methodist Women, Methodist Theological School in Ohio will host a conference on this historic organization on May 28-30, 2015. Papers that explore the history, significance, prominent persons, and defining issues in the development of UMW and its pred \u2026\nContact: slancaster@mtso.edu\nCFP: \u201cWays of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School\u201d\nOct 25-6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts\nCFP Deadline July 1, 2013\nThe Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School announces the second annual graduate student conference on religion. In our inaugural conference, held in October 2012, eighty students and early career scholars representing twenty-five different graduate programs from across the United States and the world gathered to present their research.\nFollowing the success of last year\u2019s conference, this multi-day event will be comprised of thematic panels that cross religious traditions, academic disciplines, and intellectual and theological commitments. The conference aims at promoting interdisciplinary discussion of prevailing assumptions (both within and outside the academy) about the differentiation, organization, authorization, and reproduction of various modes of knowing and acting in relation to religion.\nWe invite paper proposals representative of a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches and that explore religious practices especially in relation to identities, authorities, discourses, texts, and experiences. We welcome projects that utilize all sorts of theoretical tools, including discourse analysis, gender theory, race theory, disability theory, post-colonial theory, performance theory, and ritual theory. Papers may focus on a specific period, region, tradition, person or group, and/or on a set of practices, texts, doctrines, or beliefs. Projects that are primarily sociological, anthropological, theological, ethical, textual, historical, or philosophical are welcome, as are projects indebted to multiple disciplines.\nThis year\u2019s conference will also feature two thematic modules. Several panels will be devoted to each of the following themes:\n1) \u201cConstructions of Autonomy in Early Modern and Modern Contexts\u201d\n2) \u201cRitual as a Category of Religious Experience\u201d\nProposals are to be submitted to gradreligionconference[at]hds.harvard.edu by Monday, July 1, 2013. Please go to our website for further details on the Call for Papers and submission instructions: www.hds.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference\nCall for Contributors\u2013_Miracles: An Encyclopedia_\nI have recently contracted with ABC-CLIO, a publisher of reference books and other academic titles, to edit Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. This encyclopedia will be both cross-cultural and interdenominational. I am building an international collaborative of authors who are willing to share their scholarly wisdom on the subject of miracles, from historical, religious, sociological, philosophical and scientific perspectives.\nApproximately 190 short articles will range over several topics (for instance, magic, medicine, mind reading), persons (for instance, David Hume, Conyers Middleton, John Henry Newman), geographic areas (Fatima, LaVang, Lourdes), and historical eras. The scope and content of this reference work, including a full list of entries, is available on request (pjhayesphd[at]gmail.com).\nPlease inquire about the precise word count. As the encyclopedia is meant for a general readership, contributors should bring their scholarly expertise to bear without freighting their entry or entries with overly technical jargon. I would appreciate very much if you would kindly circulate this request among your professional colleagues and graduate students as well.\nI am hoping to receive entries between January and March, 2014, with completion of revisions by the fall of 2014, roughly September 1. I would like to submit the whole manuscript by the end of next year for expected publication in 2015.\nSurvey: Animals and the Spiritual Imagination\nIs a new research project on animals and the spiritual imagination. I\u2019m researching connections between religious/ spiritual worldview, spiritual views of animals, and behavior towards animals and animal-oriented causes. If you\u2019re interested, you can help by taking the survey at the link below:\nhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KGP32D8\nIt will remain open until the end of June 2013. We are particularly in need of male respondents, as we have a preponderance of female respondents as of now, but you are welcome to take the survey regardless of your gender identity. You may also share this link with other interested parties.\nPlease don\u2019t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much for helping me with this research.\nCalifornia State University \u2013 Northridge sabina.magliocco[at]csun.edu\nFourth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society\nUniversidad Nacional Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica\nReligion and Spirituality in Society is an international conference, a cross-disciplinary scholarly journal, a book imprint and an online knowledge community which, together, set out to describe, analyze and interpret the role of religion and spirituality in society. The bases of this endeavor are cross-disciplinary. The intellectual project is neutral with respect to the agendas of particular religions or explicit counterpoints to religion such as agnosticism or atheism. These media are intended to provide spaces for careful, scholarly reflection and open dialogue.\nFor more information: http://religioninsociety.com/the-conference\nRegistration is open for the one day conference Risk and Rapture: Apocalyptic Ideology in Late Modernity to be held at the University of Chester, Wednesday 11th September 2013\nSECURE ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE AT http://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=270\nCost: \u00a365 waged and \u00a330 unwaged\nPlease use the dedicated email address for any enquiries at Riskraptureconf[at]chester.ac.uk\nFrom September 13 to 15, 2013 the international conference \u201cThe Christian Mystery. Early Christianity and the pagan mystery cults in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in the history of scholarship\u201d will be held in Ghent (Belgium)\nThe theme of this international conference, hosted by Franz Cumont\u2019s alma mater Ghent University, is the way the Belgian historian of religions and his contemporaries conceived the relationship of Early Christianity to the pagan mystery cults. We will also include predecessors and more recent scholarship on this topic.\nThe online registration system for our conference is now open:\nhttp://www.csct.ugent.be/christianmystery/registration\nWe kindly ask to register before September 1, 2013 so as to make it easier for us to organize the further logistics of the conference.\nThe University of Illinois will host an international symposium, \u201cReligious Performance, City and Country in East Asia,\u201d October 9-10, 2013, at Levis Center of the Urbana-Champaign Campus.\nThis conference brings together leading scholars in the field from North America and Japan for a two-day symposium, October 9-10, 2013 (Levis Center), to examine the relationship between metropole and rural religious performance by drawing a set of clear lines of liturgical practice in the East Asia case, with special reference to Japan. The keynote speakers will be Professors Matsuo K\u014dichi, National Museum of Japanese History, and Haruo Shirane, Columbia University. First, we pay attention to the position of medieval Japanese religious performance vis-\u00e0-vis continental East Asia. What were the ritual and cultural flows that informed the development of medieval Japanese Buddhist and other religious performance (Kami worship, Shugend\u014d [mountain asceticism])? Second, we consider the character and movement of a series of religious performances in the Japanese isles. What were the producers and audiences of these performances? How, moreover, were these performative modes translated between groups in the metrapole and countryside? Third, how did performance genres such as divine dance (kagura), visual didactic performance (etoki), and biwa lute playing influence religious performance and reception through their mixture of multiple media? Finally, how did the mobility of performers and media influence the development of religious performance? That is, how did the travel of the monk Ennin to China influence his production of sh\u014dmy\u014d chanting in Japan? What does archeological study tell us about the movement of Pure Land Buddhist performative practices? How did performances of Kumano believers and Shugend\u014d practitioners transmit or otherwise transform their practices in currents between metropole and mountainside? Furthermore, how were textual-performative practices related to temple arts and ritual transmission in the city and country?\nRegistration is free but required (contact ruppertshogyo[at]gmail.com) since there is limited seating. Booklets with the full lectures by participants, including translations into Japanese and English, will be provided to all registrants at the event; discussants, with the exception of Professor Matsuo, will comment in English, and discussion will be in both English and Japanese. Japanese participants will present in Japanese.\nIslam in Europe through the Balkan Prism\nDescription: Islam in Europe through the Balkan Prism, Sarajevo, October 24-26, 2013 This conference aims to look at Islam in Europe through the Balkan prism. What are the historical, institutional and religious traits that characterise endogenous European Muslims? How have they recast themselves vis\u2013vis Europe \u2026\nContact: arolda.elbasani@eui.eu\nURL: www.eui.eu/Projects/ReligioWest/Home.aspx\nLiterature of Luther: The Individual, Freedom, and Grace\nDescription: 2013 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature: Literature of Luther: The Individual, Freedom, and Grace St Francis College, NYC November 8-9, 2013 It has been almost 500 years since Martin Luther penned his Ninety-Five Theses. It is in view of this upcoming anniver \u2026\nContact: NECCL [at] sfc.edu\nURL:www.pepperdine.edu/sponsored/ccl/conferencesandannouncements/northeast.htm\nLAST FEW PLACES AVAILABLE\nHEA workshop: Narrating your academic practice\nThursday 27 June, Kents Hill conferencing centre, Milton Keynes\nThis workshop is free of charge to colleagues from subscribing institutions.\n\u2022analysed your teaching in a critical and creative way;\n\u2022started to construct a narrative of your own teaching, drawing on the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), which can be used as the basis for your application for recognition as Academy Associate Fellow or Fellow.\nAccording to Hannah Arendt, storytelling can be \u2018a place to begin inquiry\u2019, which can \u2018hold fragments together\u2019. In this workshop we will take you to the heart of your academic \u2018story\u2019 to curate the different experiences and encounters of your own teaching.\nMetaphor and narratives abound in the Arts & Humanities and in the Social Sciences. This workshop aims to bring together the language of our disciplines with the language of academic practice used in the UKPSF.\nThroughout the day you will participate in a series of creative \u2018making and connecting\u2019 activities \u2013 for example, creating rich pictures, identifying narrative structure (story and plot) and drawing on dominant tropes \u2013 that will both support your own reflective practice and provide you with a \u2018toolbox\u2019 for use with your students in the future. In the final session of the day you will draw on the outcomes of these activities to develop the structure for the narrative of your own learning and teaching.\nFor further details and to book a place: http://bit.ly/11WJtwa\nSeminar Title: \u2018The possessions at Loudun: Their significance in the history of the science of mind\u2019\nLocation: UCL Institute of the Americas, Room 105, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN\nSpeaker: Dr Craig E. Stephenson (AGAP/CPA/CAPT/IAAP)\nAbstract: This seminar focuses on the seventeenth-century possessions at Loudun, France and presents how the events of this famous case played out at the time and how theorizing about possession and obsession changed over almost four centuries of writing about them.\nFor instance, in his definition of demonism for the Schweizer Lexikon (1945) C.G. Jung referred to the debate about Loudun, as did Gilles de la Tourette, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, and Jacques Lacan.\nEventually, psychopathology co-opted the word \u2018obsession\u2019, stripped of its religious connotation, and left the word \u2018possession\u2019 outside medical discourse. Then, in 1992, the American Psychiatric Association attempted to introduce \u2018possession\u2019 into its diagnostic manual (DSM-IV) as a mental disorder. Revisiting the history of Loudun provides a means for situating the APA\u2019s recent interest in possession within a medical and intellectual continuum.\nKoc University \u2013 Professor, Sociology\nZentrum Moderner Orient \u2013 Research Positions (Post-doc/very limited Doctoral) from January 2014 (36 months)\nNational University of Singapore \u2013 Research Fellowship at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore\nRichard Stockton College \u2013 Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor Pacific World/Asia-Pacific History\nWilliam Temple Foundation wish to appoint an Assistant Director: Communications and Development\nWe are looking for someone who can make a significant contribution to the development of the William Temple Foundation\u2019s influence in the growing debate about the relationship between religion, society, economics and human flourishing. The successful candidate will be either London or North West based, and have skills in communication, media relations and network creation as well as being knowledgeable in the areas of social justice, politics and faith communities.\nThe post holder will achieve their goals by:\n\u00b7 Engaging with potential new stakeholders in public life, the churches and the academy\n\u00b7 Generating media networks for the dissemination of research findings, including front of camera and audio representative work\n\u00b7 Using social media for tweeting and re-presenting research findings for public and media engagement with the work of the William Temple Foundation.\n\u00b7 Working collaboratively on scoping new research projects and funding bids with our Research Director and Senior Honorary Fellows.\nThe successful candidate will enjoy enhanced opportunities for networking, research and travel in an exciting and expanding area of public policy and research, engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders including the faith and voluntary sector, media (at all levels), academic departments and think tanks, the public and private sector and government policy makers. For the right person and with the anticipated growth of the William Temple Foundation\u2019s work there could be the possibility to extend the role to include the conducting, writing up and publishing of empirical research projects.\nThis is an appointment on a three year fixed-term contract. The post is 25 hours a week on an annual salary of approximately \u00a330, 000 (paid pro-rata).\nFor the application pack see the William Temple Foundation\u2019s website www.wtf.org.uk\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wordle2-2013.jpg?fit=362%2C188&ssl=1 188 362 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-06-21 07:28:252018-08-20 10:02:05Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 21 June 2013\nMay 24, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opportunities /by Louise Connelly\nFunding/Fellowships\nA Fatal Addiction: War in the Name of God\nAlgora Publishing: 2012 (226 pp.)\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Addiction-War-Name-God/dp/0875869300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369326462&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Fatal+Addiction%3A+War+in+the+Name+of+God\nNew Titles from Ashgate: Religious Studies\nhttp://www.ashgate.com/pdf/catalogues/Religion-2013-ROW.pdf\nContemporary Islam, vol 7, issue 1 http://link.springer.com/journal/11562/7/1/page/1\nCFP: Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2013 \u2013 Reading historical sources in the digital age\nDescription: The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur lEurope (CVCE), together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme Digital Humanities Luxembourg DIHULUX (research unit Identits-Politiques-Socits-Espaces (IPSE)) and the Univ \u2026\nContact: frederic.clavert [at] cvce.eu\nwww.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&groupId=10136\nPopular Antiquities 3: Folklore and Archaeology: A joint conference of The Folklore Society and UCL Institute of Archaeology\nSaturday 12-Sunday 13 October 2013 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London\nCALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline extended to 28 June\nContributions are invited on any aspect of the collaborations of archaeology and folklore around the world, including but not limited to: Antiquarians & Antiquarianism; Archaeology of Folklore / Folklore of Archaeology; Folk Revivalism & the Appropriation of Archaeological Materials; Folklore & Heritage; Reception & Representation, etc.\nSend abstracts of 200 words for 20 minute presentations to t.paphitis@ucl.ac.uk, martindavidlocker [at] hotmail.com and enquiries@folklore-society.com\nCfP: Epistemologies of Spaces and Places\nDescription: Theory of Science, a journal for interdisciplinary studies of science, seeks research articles, review articles and book reviews focusing on epistemologies of spaces and places. Spatial, or geographical turn in the history and philosophy of science, advocated by scholars such as Steven Shapin or Dav \u2026\nContact: teorievedy [at] flu.cas.cz\nURL: teorievedy.flu.cas.cz/\nCFP: THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY\nAnnual Conference in Romani Studies\n*Abstract Deadline: May 31st 2013 *\nAnnual Conference and Meeting: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 12th-14th September 2013\nThe Gypsy Lore Society annual meeting and conference on Gypsy/Romani Studies for 2013 will be held from the 12th \u2013 14th of September at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Papers on any aspect of Gypsy/Romani Studies are most welcome. Please send abstracts via e-mail attachment (maximum 500 words) to the program chair, Dr Colin Clark. Please note all abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the local organising committee. Submissions should include the author\u2019s name, institutional affiliation (if relevant), address, daytime telephone and e-mail address. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 31, 2013 and you will be notified if your paper has been accepted by June 30th, 2013.\nPlease address all conference inquiries to Dr Colin Clark, e-mail c.r.clark[at]strath.ac.uk.\nRegistration is now open for the Second Sight and Prophecy Conference taking place at the University of Aberdeen , 14-16 June 2013\nThis interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from a range of academic disciplines including history, folklore, anthropology, divinity and sociology whose research interests cover a wide range of topics exploring varying methods used by different cultures (both now and in the past) to look into the future and the rationale for so doing. The future has always held a fascination for humankind especially in times of tribulation and this is worthy of academic discussion in light of the changes affecting so many of us in our current global context. The role in culture of seers and prophets, by whatever name they are known, and the use of rituals, drugs and sacred sites will be examined.\nWe are delighted to welcome Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London as our keynote speaker. His paper, \u2018Boyle\u2019s legacy: Second Sight in English and Scottish Thought in the Long Eighteenth Century\u2019 is based on his recent research. It follows the success of his seminal work, The Occult Laboratory; Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland (2001) and will set the tone for the conference.\nAn exhibition by artist Nicola Moss supports this conference. It is already available to view in the James MacKay Hall on a drop-in basis.\nFurther details are available at the following link http://www.abdn.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/2392/ This will be supplemented by a photographic display of the University\u2019s own collection of seventeenth-century Sibyls.\nFull details of the conference can be found at the following link.\nhttp://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/events/secondSight/index.shtml\nRegistration can be made through the above link or directly through the Online Store\nhttp://www.store.abdn.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=14&modid=2&prodid=151&deptid=50&prodvarid=0\nTuesday 30th July \u2013 Sunday 4th August\nWith Fringe Day Events from Sunday July 28th\nCelebrating the Great Earth Mother and Grounding the Vision of the Motherworld\nThe Glastonbury Goddess Conference and Fringe is a spiritual and cultural feast!!\nWith ceremonies, workshops, performances, talks, music, art and craftwork, drama, poetry and song, all dedicated to Goddess. The Conference itself lasts for six days, with an additional three days of Fringe day workshops with well-known Goddess presenters, a sweatlodge and Glastonbury Tor Labrynth walk.\nIt\u2019s a wonderful opportunity to meet the Goddess, as She expresses Herself within the sacred landscape of Glastonbury and the Sacred Isle of Avalon, and as we see Her in each other and in the world around us.\nIn 2013 we are celebrating Eartha, the Great Earth Mother, and all things earthy. We are grounding the Vision of the Motherworld, a new society and culture in which the values of mothers and of mothering \u2013 love, care and support for each other are placed in the centre of life, rather than being neglected on the periphery of life. This is a vision whose time has come. The Motherworld is the place where women\u2019s values and awareness are honoured and celebrated. We invite to come and join us in bringing this great and radical work of transformation into being.\nDIGITAL MEDIA AND SACRED TEXT\nMonday 17 June, Open University\nThis one-day Open University conference will bring together academics interested in the study of digital sacred text from a wide range of religious traditions, including sociologists, anthropologists, media scholars, computer scientists, historians and digital humanists. We also welcome religious practitioners and publishers engaged in creating digital sacred texts.\nWe are delighted to announce that the keynote speaker will be Professor Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M University). Attendance at this event will cost \u00a320. Thanks to generous funding from the AHRC, 30 free places are available for the first delegates to register.\nA full programme and online registration page can be accessed here: http://www.mediatingreligion.org/events/digital-media-and-sacred-text\nUniversity of Manchester \u2013 Research Associate\nNanyang Technological University \u2013 Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy or Asian Religion (Philosophy Group)\nSouthern Methodist University \u2013 One-year position for lecturer or visiting assistant professor of art history: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture\nUniversity of Manchester \u2013 LECTURER IN CHINESE CULTURAL STUDIES\nOpportunities for Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies\nDescription: INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, School of Historical Studies, Opportunities for Scholars 2014-2015. The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations.\nContact: mzelazny [AT] ias.edu\nURL: www.hs.ias.edu/\nFUNDING/FELLOWSHIP/SCHOLARSHIP\nJewish History at the Medici Archive Project\nDescription: The Medici Archive Project (MAP) is pleased to announce a new scholarly initiative: the Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe (JHP). Thanks to the generous lead support of MAP board member Eugene Grant, as well as the support of other board members and do \u2026\nContact: ebrizio [AT] medici.org\nURL: medici.org\nPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognition and Culture\nThe Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion at Masaryk University is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognition and Culture. The successful candidate will be employed to work under the supervision of Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas (Director) on experimental studies of religion. The post involves carrying out behaviouralexperimental research in the LEVYNA lab facilities and in naturalistic settings.\nResponsibilities include contributing to the training and mentoring of graduate researchers from the humanities who work in experimental methods, providing help with research design and data analysis, and publishing peer-reviewed articles.\nCandidates are expected to hold a PhD in Psychology, Cognitive Science, or any related discipline with a focus on behavioural research (e.g. Behavioural Economics, Behavioural Ecology, Behavioral Neuroscience, etc). The successful candidate will be required to have experience in running empirical studies and good knowledge of statistics and quantitative data analyses (SPSS or other statistical packages). Prior theoretical and empirical knowledge in the area of the scientific study of religion is desirable but not necessary.\nThe position will be located at the LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, in Brno, Czech Republic, an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to the use of experimental methods in researching religious belief and behaviour. LEVYNA is hosted by the Department for the Study of Religion at Masaryk University, and is a senior partner of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC). The centre has excellent connections with all major Cognitive Science of Religion centres.\nThe post is a full-time position starting September 2013. The appointment will be made for one year, renewable contingent upon external funding.\nThe deadline for applications is June 19, 2013.\nFor information on how to apply, please contact the programme manager Kristyna Bro\u017ekov\u00e1: brozkovak [at] phil.muni.cz\nHerbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2014-15\nDescription: The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships for the 2014-2015 academic year on the theme of \u201cNew Perspectives on the Origins, Context, and Diffusion of the Academic Study of Judaism.\u201d The predominant narrative in this history of the academic study of\nContact: carrielo [AT] sas.upenn.edu\nURL: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowship-program/next-year\nAHRC has one call out, and have announced they will make another call later in the year for capital funding in the digital transformations area.\nThis first call, which has deadline already 27th June, is for projects related to community engagement in particular, under the ttle \u201cDigital Transformations in Community research, Co-production in the Arts and Humanities\u201d. Projects can be from \u00a350 to \u00a3600K and a total of \u00a34M is available.\nhttp://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Capital-Funding-Call-for-Digital-Transformations-in-Community-research-Co-Production-in-the-Arts-and-Humanities.aspx\nKingston University has recently advertised some PhD scholarships. Proposals in the sociology of religion are most welcome.\nhttp://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGK482/phd-scholarships-in-the-arts-and-social-sciences/\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wordle2-2013.jpg?fit=362%2C188&ssl=1 188 362 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-05-24 08:45:532018-08-20 10:05:08Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 24 May 2013\nReligious Studies Opportunties Digest \u2013 3 May 2013\nMay 3, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opportunities /by Louise Connelly\nInternships/Summer Schools\nOpen access publisher Social Sciences Directory included in DOAJ\nDescription: Social Sciences Directory has just published its third issue of papers and we are delighted to announce that we have been accepted for inclusion in the Directory of Open\nAccess Journals. As a prestigious database it has always been our intention to gain entry and it is a strong signal that we have d \u2026\nContact: dan.scott [at] socialsciencesdirectory.com\nURL: www.socialsciencesdirectory.com\nJournal of Contemporary Religion, vol 28, no. 2 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjcr/2013/00000028/00000002\nCFP: Submissions are now open for the July 2013 issue of \u201cParanthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal\u201d (Vol. 4 No. 3).\nParanormal/Supernatural/Spiritual/Religious belief/experience, Magic, Parapsychology, Afterlife Research, etc., Mediumship, Shamanism, Occultism, etc., Psychedelic experience, Extraordinary encounters in the field (particularly focussing on the ethnographic interpretation and presentation of extraordinary experiences), General issues in the anthropology of consciousness, religion and experience\u2026\nIf you have an idea for an article that you think would be suitable for the journal, or have any questions or comments, please don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with the editor via discarnates@googlemail.com\nArticles should be written in an academic, though accessible style, and should utilise the Harvard referencing system (for information visit http://paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com/submit.html). All articles should be submitted no later than June 28th 2013.\nCFP: Sacred and secular: Researching the role of religion in contemporary Europe\nUniversity of Leicester, Friday 21 June 2013\nThis one-day workshop seeks to provide an important opportunity for developing collaborative links between early-career researchers, doctoral researchers and practitioners. The main aims are: (1) to develop a research agenda relating to the role of religion in the politics of European countries, looking at its interaction with political parties, civil society, public opinion and governing institutions; and (2) to facilitate an intellectual exchange on the differing methodological approaches, analytical frameworks and theoretical perspectives used to study religion and its role in the political process.\nThe workshop will involve both panels for the presentation of research and a roundtable discussion featuring representatives from leading think-tanks.\nWe have a small number of places available for those who wish to attend. Proposals for papers should include a title and an abstract of up to 200 words.\nTo submit proposals, or for further information, please contact Dr Ben Clements at bc101 [at] leicester.ac.uk\n**Deadline for proposals: 8 May 2013**\nA few final subsidised places have opened up for the Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective: Engaging outside Academia conference at The Open University on Milton Keynes on 15-16 May.\nSpeakers include: Marion Bowman; George Chryssides; Dan Cohn-Sherbok; Matthew Cragoe; John Eade; Dawoud El-Alami; Rob Gleave; Ronald Hutton; Frances Knight; Kim Knott; Edward Royle; Steven Sutcliffe; David Voas; Rob Warner; John Wolffe.\nThe conference will engage with topics like: How research can inform current debates on religion? What might historical perspective bring to research on contemporary religion? What can academics and religious practitioners learn from each other?\nFor more details (ignore the deadlines), please visit:\nhttp://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/religious-studies/crhp2013.shtml\nAlternatively, please contact Dr John Maiden (j.maiden [AT] open.ac.uk ).\nCHRC WORKSHOP ON LAW, FAITH AND HISTORICAL MEMORY\nDescription: The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict organises a one-day workshop on Law, Faith and Historical Memory. Date: 12 JUNE 2013 Venue: Stratford campus, University of East London, London What role can and should the law play in the \u201crecovery\u201d or \u201crecuperation\u201d of the collective memory of state sanctioned\nContact: chrc [at] uel.ac.uk\nURL: www.uel.ac.uk/chrc\nBooking is now LIVE for the EASR conference hosted by the BASR at Liverpool Hope University, 3rd-6th September! Please go to http://www.hope.ac.uk/religionmigrationmutation/ for all details. Hope University offers comfortable Standard accommodation, with limited rooms available in the Executive suite; book early to avoid disappointment!\nPlease note, the call for papers remains open, with both individual and panel proposals warmly received! These details, as well as a link to the online Booking page, can also be found at http://www.hope.ac.uk/religionmigrationmutation/ .\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool Hope\u2019s lovely campus, and to enjoying a full conference with outstanding keynote speakers, engaging papers, and highlights including a gala dinner and evening with a Beatle\u2019s tribute band! (\u201cMore popular than Jesus\u201d? You\u2019ll have to be the judge!)\nFor any queries please contact the Conference Organizing Committee at easrconference [at] hope.ac.uk\nWomen\u2019s Rights in the Islamic World After the Arab Spring\nDescription: There has been a great deal of hope, and some very real progress, in the enhancement of gender equality and womens rights in many of the Muslim majority nations following the surge of freedom and democracy of the Arab Spring. This program will try to put those advancements in historic context and ex\nURL: www2.nycbar.org/EventsCalendar/show_event_new.php?eventid=2174\nCollaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks\nFunded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)\nhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/collaborative-partnerships-project\n23rd May 2013, Senate House, London\n(in collaboration with Human Rights Consortium, University of London )\n27th June 2013, Birmingham University, Birmingham\n(in collaboration with Centre for Islamic and Middle East studies, University of Birmingham)\nRegistration is now open for two conferences that are being organised as part of an ESRC funded follow-on project exploring Collaborative Partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions. This project builds on previous research around Muslim faith leadership, Islamic Studies in pluralist British contexts, women\u2019s education and learning Arabic. Our research findings indicate that it is possible to address these issues at higher education level, focusing particularly on ways to forge a more cohesive society for Muslims and other Britons. This work will bring together Islamic Studies academics, scholars and practitioners (including professionals who may have aspects of Islamic studies in their work) to facilitate increased collaborative partnerships and linkages between UK universities and Muslim institutions, and is aimed both at academia and Muslim communities. Papers presented will explore various aspects of Islamic education at the HE (Higher Education) and FE (Further Education) levels, both in validated and non-validated sectors in Britain and beyond, across the following themes:\n1. Islamic Education for cohesion, pluralism and inter-faith dialogue\n2. Collaborative educational models in the UK and beyond\n3. Barriers to collaborative partnerships and possible solutions\n4. International and local best practice\n5. Approaches to theological training in other faiths\n6. Teaching and learning Arabic\nProf. Ron Geaves, Liverpool Hope University\nDr. Hany El Banna, Islamic Relief\nDr. Haifa Jawad, University of Birmingham\nProf. Robin Attfield, Cardiff University\nTo register for your place please visit \u2013 http://www.derby.ac.uk/collaborative-partnerships-project/top-menu/project-events/project-conference Registration is free, but places are limited so please register as soon as possible. For further details please visit our website \u2013 http://www.derby.ac.uk/collaborative-partnerships-project or contact the Project Administrator Michelle Wood by email on m.wood [at] derby.ac.uk or by phone on 01332 592896.\n36th annual Denton Conference in Implicit Religion, at Ilkley Yorkshire, 10th-12th May 2013.\nFurther information is available on the CSIRCS website www.implicitreligion.org or edward.bailey [at] implicitreligion.org\nSummer Internship \u2013 Religion and the Public Sphere\nThe Social Science Research Council (SSRC), an independent, nonprofit international organization devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, seeks a summer 2013 intern for the Religion and the Public Sphere Program.\nhttp://www.ssrc.org/about/employment/listings/summer-internship-%7c-religion-and-the-public-sphere/\nInternational ILEM Summer School \u201cTransformation of Muslim World in the 21st Century\u201d\nDescription: International ILEM Summer School Transformation of Muslim World in the 21st Century 24-30 August 2013 / Istanbul ILEM is willing to share its own intellectual experience with academics, researchers and intellectuals from different geographies and to benefit from their experiences as well. To achieve \u2026\nContact: iiss [at] ilmietudler.org\nURL: iiss.ilmietudler.org\nThe International Buddhist Academy (Boudha/Kathmandu) is happy to offer the following courses this summer:\n\u2013 Colloquial Tibetan (May 29 \u2013 August 28)\n\u2013 Introduction to Classical Tibetan (May 30 \u2013 July 23)\n\u2013 May 29-June 25: Introduction to Buddhist practice, taught by Khenpo\nJamyang Tenzin\n\u2013 July 1-26 & August 1-28: the Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva, taught\nby Khenpo Jorden and HE Ratna Vajra Rinpoche\n\u2013 September 3-12 & 15-24: 2 meditation retreats led by Ven. Dhammadipa\nFor further details and registration, please visit:\nwww.internationalbuddhistacademy.org\nJacobs University Bremen \u2013 Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities\nUniversity of Sydney \u2013 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW\nClayton State University \u2013 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and/or North African History\nUniversity of Illinois \u2013 Urbana-Champaign \u2013 Visiting Lecturer of Chinese Studies\nhttps://i2.wp.com/www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wordle2-2013.jpg?fit=362%2C188&ssl=1 188 362 Louise Connelly https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Louise Connelly2013-05-03 06:58:232018-08-20 11:18:48Religious Studies Opportunties Digest - 3 May 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2508, "original_length": 306933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.relocatemagazine.com/articles/education-the-us-education-system-explained-rebecca-marriage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PGOKI6E7MT2V45ITGJ4BNYAIIRUABMA3", "length": 5580, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.relocatemagazine.com", "title": "The US education system explained: From K-12 to Advanced Placement | Rebecca Marriage | Relocate magazine", "raw_content": "For families moving to the US, the education system can appear bewildering. Rebecca Marriage takes a look at everything from the K-12 programme to SATs, ACTs and Advanced Placement.\nThe US spends more on education per pupil than most other developed countries; however, in the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings (the triennial international survey that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide) the US took 24th place for reading and 36th for maths.It is something that President Donald Trump and his US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos are seeking to address through sweeping education reforms \u2013 aiming to reduce the role of the federal government and improve school choice.\nCommon Core standardised tests\nAlthough the American education system is unlike that of many other countries in that education remains primarily the responsibility of state and local government, the US federal government has attempted to standardise the curriculum across schools through the introduction of the Common Core \u2013 an education initiative which outlines what students should know in maths and English by the end of each Grade level.However, standardised testing in schools has become a controversial issue in the US, with a study from the Council of the Great City Schools suggesting that students would sit around 112 standardised tests between Kindergarten and 12th grade. In fact President Donald Trump has described it as a \u2018total disaster\u2019 and his government is currently working to abolish the Common Core altogether.\nK-12 education system\nUnlike other countries\u2019 end-of-school examination systems, such as the A Level in the UK, the French Baccalaur\u00e9at or the globally recognised International Baccalaureate Diploma, US students leave school with a collection of assessments that demonstrate their readiness for college or work.K-12 stands for \u2018from Kindergarten to 12th grade\u2019. This equates roughly to a school starting age of around five through to Grade 12 at around the age of 18. The system is broken down into three stages: elementary school (Grades K\u20135), middle school (Grades 6\u20138) and high school (Grades 9\u201312).Testing takes place throughout the year, to ensure that pupils are on track. However, with the layering of tests issued by mandates from Congress, the US Department of Education, and state and local governments, the system is becoming confusing and unwieldy and it is this that the Trump government is currently seeking to address.Although some schools issue a high-school diploma on satisfactory completion of Grade 12, this is not a standardised qualification and the requirements are set by individual states. At the end of high school, pupils are also provided with a Grade Point Average (GPA) \u2013 an average of their results in all four high school Grades \u2013 which can help to determine their next step into work or college.\nSATs and ACTs\nHowever, colleges and universities in the US are likely to require more information about prospective students than the GPA and a high-school diploma can offer. This is why many students opt to take either the SAT (formerly known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test) or the ACT (the American College Test), both of which are nationally recognised tests taken at high-school level.\u201cNearly all highly ranked US universities require applicants to submit scores from one of the US admission tests \u2013 either the SAT or the ACT,\u201d says Jon Tabbert, head of US admissions at Dukes Education consultancy and Jon Tabbert Associates.\u201cA strong test score is crucial to a successful application, and because these exams differ greatly from those on traditional UK or international syllabi, they can be an extremely challenging element of the admissions process.\u201dThe ACT is another standardised test for college admission in the US. Like the SAT, it assesses high-school students\u2019 general academic aptitude and a student\u2019s ability to complete higher-education-level work. The tests are multiple-choice and cover four areas: English, maths, reading and science. They also include an optional writing test, which measures a student\u2019s skill in planning and writing a short essay.International students can sit the ACT and the SAT from outside the US in order to gain entry into US higher-education institutions. Students can search for test centres outside the US on the College Board and ACT websites.\nThe Advanced Placement (AP) is another programme of learning and assessment designed to help US higher-education institutions to assess students for entry into college and university. It is developed and administered by the College Board, the organisation responsible for the SAT tests.The AP is specifically designed to be closely linked to the first year of college in the US, so students typically take the programme to demonstrate a commitment to a discipline or subject that they hope to continue studying at college level.According to the Fulbright Commission, the AP is more rigorous and in-depth than the standard high-school courses offered in US schools and compares favourably with A Levels and the International Baccalaureate, both of which are considered to be the gold-standard qualification for university preparation.While the AP is not necessary for entry into US higher-education institutions, students are able, by undertaking the programme, to demonstrate a commitment to the subject they hope to take further. And, especially for the most competitive of universities, successful completion of the AP could offer admissions officers further insight into a student\u2019s academic abilities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 12380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 164.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rentalcars.com/TermsAndConditions.do?affiliateCode=tripkz&cor=us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CFUQBKONDN4OXXBYQYZBXO5A4Y2QOUZJ", "length": 29430, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.rentalcars.com", "title": "Rental Cars and Car Rentals from Rentalcars.com", "raw_content": "Agreement between User and Rentalcars.com\nRentalcars.com (part of the priceline.com group) is a trading name of TravelJigsaw Limited, a company registered in England & Wales (number 5179829), whose registered office is at 100 New Bridge Street, London EC4V 6JA (\u201cRentalcars.com\u201d, \u201cTravelJigsaw\u201d, or \u201cwe\u201d). 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No Covered Party shall be responsible for any Provider\u2019s breach of any warranty including, but not limited to, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose or of merchantability, nor shall any Covered Party be responsible for any other wrongdoing of a Provider (including any liability in tort), as to any products and/or services available through this Site. No Covered Party shall be responsible for any Provider\u2019s failure to comply with this Agreement nor for any Provider\u2019s failure to comply with applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.\nIf, notwithstanding the above, a Covered Party is found liable for any loss or damage relating to the use of this Site, User agrees the liability of any such party shall in no event exceed the total charge to the User assessed by Rentalcars.com for making a Request. Some states or jurisdictions, to the extent their law might be deemed to apply notwithstanding the selection of Connecticut law as described below, do not allow the limitation of liability, so the foregoing limitations might not apply to you.\nYou agree to defend and indemnify TravelJigsaw, their affiliates, and/or their respective suppliers and any of their officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought (i) by you or on behalf of you in excess of the liability described above, within the limits permitted by applicable law; or (ii) by third parties as a result of:\nyour breach of this Agreement\nyour use of this Site in violation of the terms and conditions set forth herein.\nIf you use this Site to submit Requests for or on behalf of a third-party (\u201cThird-party\u201d), such as a family member or a traveling companion, you are responsible for any error in the accuracy of information provided in connection with such use. In addition, you must inform the Third-party of all Terms and Conditions applicable to all products or services acquired through this Site including all rules and restrictions applicable thereto. Each User using this Site for or on behalf of a Third-party agrees to indemnify and hold each Covered Party harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, suits and claims (including the costs of defense), relating to the Third-party\u2019s or the User\u2019s failure to fulfill any of its obligations as described above. You are directly responsible for any Request submitted including for total charges and performance obligations.\nAll comments, feedback, suggestions and ideas disclosed, submitted or offered to a Covered Party in connection with your use of this Site (collectively, \u201cComments\u201d), shall be and remain the exclusive property of Rentalcars.com and may be used by a Covered Party in any medium in accordance with our Privacy Notice and you agree to execute any documents that may be necessary for such an assignment of rights. By providing your Comments to a Covered Party, you shall be indicating your consent to the Covered Party\u2019s use of your Comments. For example, your Comments could be used on this Site and in radio, television, and print advertisements. Your first name, first initial of your last name, and town and state may be used with any Comments you submit. The information and opinions expressed in Comments on this Site are not necessarily those of Rentalcars.com or its content providers, advertisers, sponsors, affiliated or related entities, and Rentalcars.com makes no representations or warranties regarding that information or those opinions. Rentalcars.com does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Comments or determine whether the Comments violate the rights of others. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other users will be at your own risk. No Covered Party is under any obligation to maintain your Comments (and the use of your first name and first initial of your last name with any comments) in confidence, to pay to you any compensation for any Comments submitted, or to respond to any of your Comments. You agree you will be solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make.\nTo the extent this Site contains links to outside services and resources, any concerns regarding such services or resources should be directed to the particular outside service or resource provider. Rentalcars.com does not monitor or control the linked sites and makes no representations regarding, and is not liable or responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, or availability of any of the content upload, displayed, or distributed, or products or services available at these sites. If you choose to access any third-party site, you do so at your own risk. The presence of a link to a third-party site does not constitute or imply Rentalcars.com\u2019s endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third-party, or of the content, products or services contained on, or available through, any such third-party site.\nRentalcars.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, suspend, or terminate this Site and/or any portion thereof, including any service or product available through the Site, and/or your profile, password, or use of the Site, or any portion thereof, at any time for any reason with or without notice to you. In the event of termination, you will still be bound by your obligations under this Agreement and any Additional Terms, including the warranties made by you, and by the disclaimers and limitations of liability. Additionally, Rentalcars.com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to this Site.\nWe endeavor to publish and maintain accurate prices and information for the services we offer. Our Providers provide us with the price and other information related to these services. In the event, however, that a service is listed or provided to us at an incorrect price or with incorrect information due to typographical error or other error in pricing or service information received from our Providers, we retain the right to refuse or cancel any Requests placed for such service. We shall have the right to refuse or cancel any such Requests whether or not the order has been confirmed and/or your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your Request is canceled because of incorrect Provider information, we will promptly issue a credit to your credit card account in the amount of the charge.\nTo the extent that we need to contact you, you agree that we may do so via any electronic means, including but not limited to communications posted on this Site or electronic mail.\nAccessing materials on this Site by certain persons in certain countries may not be lawful, and Rentalcars.com makes no representation that materials on this Site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside of the United States, other than the countries listed here. If you are located in a country other than the countries listed here, you must not transact business with this Site.\nUnless otherwise expressly permitted, websites may not hyperlink to any page beyond the homepage of this Site or frame this Site or any web page or material herein, nor may any entity hyperlink any aspect of this Site in an email for commercial purposes without the express written permission of Rentalcars.com.\nCertain reservations for vehicle rentals that are available to customers for booking on this site are facilitated by our sister company, priceline.com LLC.\nThe captions in this Agreement are only for convenience, and do not, in any way, limit or otherwise define the terms and provisions of this Agreement.\nThis Agreement, and the related parts of this Agreement relating to each service represent the entire agreement between you and each Covered Party regarding your use of this Site and supersede any prior statements, representations, or prior versions of these Terms and Conditions relating to the use of the Site that were displayed on this Site before. We reserve the right to modify, revise or update this Agreement from time to time by updating this posting. Your continued use of this Site will be subject to the terms of this Agreement in effect at the time of your use. Certain provisions of this Agreement may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located elsewhere on this Site, which will be adequately brought to your attention. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the internal laws of the State of Connecticut shall govern the performance of this Agreement and you consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in all questions and controversies arising out of your use of this Site and this Agreement. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any claim or cause of action arising from or relating to your use of this Site and/or this Agreement must be brought within two (2) years from the date on which such claim or action arose or accrued.\nTravel Service Limitation of Liability\nTHE AIRLINES, HOTELS, RENTAL CAR COMPANIES AND OTHER SUPPLIERS PROVIDING TRAVEL OR OTHER SERVICES THROUGH THE SITE (COLLECTIVELY, \"TRAVEL SUPPLIERS\") ARE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND NOT AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF THE COVERED PARTIES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COVERED PARTIES DO NOT ASSUME LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURY, DAMAGE, DEATH, LOSS, ACCIDENT OR DELAY DUE TO AN ACT OR OMISSION OF A TRAVEL SUPPLIER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, AN ACT OF NEGLIGENCE OR THE DEFAULT OF A TRAVEL SUPPLIER, OR AN ACT OF GOD. FURTHER AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NO RESPONSIBILITIES ARE ACCEPTED FOR ANY DAMAGE AND/OR DELAY DUE TO SICKNESS, PILFERAGE, LABOR DISPUTES, BANKRUPTCY, MACHINERY BREAKDOWN, QUARANTINE, GOVERNMENT RESTRAINTS, WEATHER, TERRORISM OR CAUSES BEYOND THE COVERED PARTIES\u2019 CONTROL. NO RESPONSIBILITY IS ACCEPTED FOR ANY ADDITIONAL EXPENSE, OMISSIONS, DELAYS, FAILURE TO MAKE CONNECTIONS,RE-ROUTING OR ACTS OF ANY GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.\nPassports, Visas, and Hazards\nWe have no special knowledge regarding foreign entry requirements such as the need for passports and visas, unsafe conditions, health hazards, weather hazards, supplier bankruptcies, or the suitability for disabled persons of any portion of any tour. For foreign entry requirements, go to travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country.html. For State Department travel warnings and advisories, go to travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings.html. For foreign health requirements and dangers, go to www.cdc.gov/travel/index.htm. Other information relating to particular international destinations can be found at www.tsa.gov, www.faa.gov, www.treas.gov/ofac, or www.cbp.gov/travel. You hereby release the Covered Parties from any claims resulting in whole or in part from any problem covered in this paragraph and any other causes not within our control.\nBY OFFERING OR FACILITATING TRAVEL TO PARTICULAR INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS, WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT TRAVEL TO SUCH POINTS IS ADVISABLE OR WITHOUT RISK, AND WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OR LOSSES THAT MAY RESULT FROM TRAVEL TO SUCH DESTINATIONS.\nYou agree to abide by the terms or conditions of purchase imposed by any Travel Supplier, whether that Travel Supplier is selected by you or by Rentalcars.com, including, but not limited to, payment of all amounts when due and compliance with the Travel Supplier\u2019s rules and restrictions regarding availability and use of fares, products, or services. You understand that any violation of any such Travel Supplier\u2019s conditions of purchase may result in cancellation of your reservation(s) or purchase(s), in your being denied access to any flights, hotels, or automobiles, in your forfeiting any monies paid for such reservation(s) or purchase(s), and in Rentalcars.com debiting your account for any costs Rentalcars.com incurs as a result of such violation. You shall be completely responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes, and assessments arising out of the use of this Site.\nVehicle rentals available through this Site are subject to standard rental contracts of the car rental companies, which will be completed by you at the time of pick-up of a vehicle.\nCharges for Taxes and Service Fees: In connection with facilitating your rental car transaction, we will provide you with a breakdown of the estimated taxes, fees and surcharges that may apply to your transaction. We will not charge you for these taxes, fees and surcharges, but the car rental supplier will charge you taxes, fees and surcharges at the time you rent your car.\nCurrency Conversion & Charges\nThe rate displayed is an estimate shown in US dollars. For non-prepaid rates for pick up outside the US, you will be charged by the rental car provider in the local currency. The rate charged by the local rental car provider may be determined by converting the US dollar amount shown to you into the local currency at an exchange rate established by the local rental car provider. Your credit or debit card company may convert that charge in the rental car supplier\u2019s local currency back into dollars (or your own local currency if it is not dollars) at an exchange rate selected by it and additional fees and surcharges may apply. Because conversion rates differ, the final charge to your credit or debit card may be more than the estimated rate shown to you on priceline.com.\nMany rental companies operating in foreign countries may only accept payment in local currency (not USD). Some may accept local currency cash while others may require you to pay by credit or debit card in local currency.\nIn certain non-US destinations, personal or third party liability insurance may be required by law. Liability insurance provides you with minimum financial responsibility limits as outlined in the applicable motor vehicle financial responsibility laws of the country where the vehicle is operated. Third party liability insurance may be offered for purchase by the local rental car company and may be required. The cost of purchasing PLI varies and is not included in the rental charges shown on priceline.com. Collision damage insurance (which is insurance for the vehicle and not personal or third party liability insurance), or PLI that accompanies U.S. credit or debit cards may not be acceptable forms of liability coverage. If you provide acceptable proof of current liability coverage in a foreign country and you decline to purchase the liability insurance offered by the local rental car company, an additional authorization amount may be held on your credit card by the rental car company. Read the terms and conditions from the rental car company applicable to your reservation for additional information.\nRentalcars.com is a trading name of TravelJigsaw Limited which is a limited company registered in England and Wales (Number: 05179829) whose registered address is at 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA. VAT number: GB 855349007. 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Turkey and Israel together will supply nearly half the pay TV revenues in 2024.\nConcentrating just on the 13 Arabic-speaking countries, pay TV revenues fell by 16% from $1,254 million in 2016 to $1,059 million in 2018. The total will recover to reach $1,432 million by 2024. Pay TV subscriptions fell by 9.5% between 2016 and 2018 to 3.40 million, but will progress to 5.23 million by 2024.\nSimon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: \u201cPay TV in the MENA region has been hit by a Saudi-led ban on the sale of Qatar-backed beIN decoders and subscriptions since mid-2017.\u201d\nPublished in January 2019, this 200-page PDF and excel report is our ninth edition. The report comes in three parts:\n\u2022 Outlook: Forecasts for 20 countries in a 47-page PowerPoint document full of charts, graphs and bullet points;\n\u2022 Excel workbook covering each year from 2010 to 2024 for 20 countries by household penetration, by pay TV subscribers, by pay TV revenues and by major operator. As well as summary tables by country and by platform;\n\u2022 Insight: Detailed country-by-country analysis in a 73-page PDF document.\nTV Analytics Market by TV, Application - Global Forecast to 2023\nIntensifying business competition among TV analytics solution providers is driving the growth of the market MarketsandMarkets estimates the global TV analytics market to grow from USD 1.9 billion in 2018 to USD 4.2 billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.4% during the forecast period. The TV analytics...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.resthavenfuneral.com/obituaries/Pedro-Martinez-10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HVCCE4SV5COG6QYGSOBSKCT2UW6FTZCR", "length": 484, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.resthavenfuneral.com", "title": "Pedro Martinez Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Pedro Martinez, age 80 of Dallas, TX, passed away August 22, 2017. He was born January 18, 1937, in Mexico to Roque and Santos (Huerta) Martinez. He worked as a carpenter. Pedro is survived by sons: Reyes Martinez of Mesquite, TX, Luis Martinez... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Pedro Martinez created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nPedro Martinez, age 80 of Dallas, TX, passed away August 22,...\nShare and view memories of Pedro...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maldives-politics-china-exclusive/exclusive-maldives-set-to-pull-out-of-china-free-trade-deal-says-senior-lawmaker-idUSKCN1NO0ZC?il=0", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:20:38Z", "digest": "sha1:C6MYYERKODNHHYPD4MFAUPWRUAC7HSKD", "length": 4864, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.reuters.com", "title": "Exclusive: Maldives set to pull out of China free trade deal, says senior lawmaker | Reuters", "raw_content": "MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives\u2019 new government will pull out of a free trade agreement (FTA) with China because it was a mistake for the tiny nation to strike such a pact with the world\u2019s second biggest economy, the head of the largest party in the ruling alliance said.\nIt is the latest sign of a backlash against China in the Maldives, best-known for its luxury resorts on palm-fringed coral islands.\n\u201cThe trade imbalance between China and the Maldives is so huge that nobody would think of an FTA between such parties,\u201d said Mohamed Nasheed, the chief of the Maldivian Democratic Party, which leads the ruling federal alliance. \u201cChina is not buying anything from us. It is a one-way treaty.\u201d\nOn Saturday, as he took office, the new President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared the state coffers have been \u201clooted\u201d and warned that the country was in financial difficulty after racking up debt with Chinese lenders.\nFormer President Abdullah Yameen, who lost the election in September, signed the FTA during a visit to Beijing in December, and the same month his parliament ratified the treaty despite opposition protests that he had rushed through the 1,000-page document in less than an hour without any debate.\nNasheed, a former president and now an advisor to Solih, said parliament would not pass the law changes required for the zero tariffs agreement to come into force.\n\u201cIt was ratified by parliament, but fortunately it calls for different sets of legislation. We are not going to have this further legislation. We can\u2019t go with that,\u201d Nasheed told Reuters in an interview in the capital Male.\nChina\u2019s embassy in Male did not respond to a request for a comment on the trade pact.\nBut China\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Culture and Tourism Minister Luo Shugang, President Xi Jinping\u2019s special envoy to the inauguration, told Solih that China paid great attention to developing relations with the Maldives.\nThe Maldives is among a number of small countries where China has invested billions of dollars building highways and housing as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Through that initiative, Beijing hopes to improve trade and investment flows with much of Asia and parts of the rest of the world.\nChina was willing to work with the Maldives to consolidate their traditional friendship, plan their practical cooperation and promote Belt and Road to inject \u201cnew impetus\u201d into their future relationship, the foreign ministry cited Luo as saying during Sunday\u2019s meeting with Maldivian president.\nThe statement cited Solih as expressing appreciation for China\u2019s long-term support of the Maldives and that he was willing to further deepen cooperation under the Belt and Road framework.\nSTRIKING DEALS\nCritics in the Maldives say a China-led infrastructure boom has left the tiny country of a little more than 400,000 people debt-ridden, and a free trade pact would only make the situation worse given the lopsided nature of the relationship.\nBetween January to August this year, the Maldives\u2019 imports from China were $342 million, while its exports to China were just $265,270, according to Maldives customs data. The island nation bought meat, agricultural produce, flowers, plants, electronics and toys from China among many other items.\nIt imported $194 million worth of goods from India, its traditional partner, during the same period, while exporting $1.8 million of products including scrap metal such as copper, aluminum and steel.\nThe Yameen administration said at the time that the FTA with China would help diversify the $3.9 billion economy and boost fisheries exports from the Maldives, crucial since the European Union declined in 2014 to renew a tax concession on them.\nThe two countries would open up services such as finance, healthcare and tourism, China said at the time. The Maldives has no free trade pacts with any other country.\nIf the Maldives turns away, it would be the latest setback for China, which is facing opposition for its projects in countries stretching from Malaysia to Nepal, and even from its all-weather ally Pakistan.\nA proposed free trade agreement has been held up in Sri Lanka over Colombo\u2019s demand that it have the option to leave after 10 years.\nA member of Solih\u2019s transition team also said the administration was thinking of cancelling the pact.\n\u201cIt makes no business sense,\u201d the official said, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. \u201cThis is not something we are going to pursue, we expect the cabinet to meet and take a formal decision on this.\u201d\nThe new administration plans an audit of the deals signed by the Yameen administration, but it said it had no plans to suspend or cancel any of the projects, such as airport expansion and housing contracts, given to Chinese firms.\nAdditional reporting by Ben Blanchard in BEIJING; Editing by Martin Howell and Alex Richardson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-davos/trump-cancels-u-s-delegation-to-davos-forum-press-secretary-idUSKCN1PB2XI", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PZ3GOE55FU53ILFMQIPLV6KDMUQ7U7A6", "length": 1389, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.reuters.com", "title": "Trump cancels U.S. delegation to Davos forum: press secretary | Reuters", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has canceled his delegation\u2019s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week due to the partial U.S. government shutdown, according to a statement released by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday.\nTrump, who attended last year\u2019s Davos event, had planned to go again this year but pulled out last week as he grapples with Democrats in Congress over funding for a wall on the border with Mexico that has led to a partial shutdown of the government.\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were expected to lead the U.S. delegation in Trump\u2019s place, two senior administration officials said this week.\n\u201cOut of consideration for the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed, President Trump has canceled his delegation\u2019s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,\u201d Sanders\u2019s statement said.\nMnuchin and Pompeo had planned to speak jointly to the opening session of the forum on Jan. 22. They were also expected to jointly host a dinner of the Group of Seven foreign and finance ministers to discuss national security and economic issues.\nCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer also planned to be part of the delegation.\nReporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Lisa Lambert and Sonya Hepinstall", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reviveskinemporium.com.au/the-history-of-manicure-how-nail-art-came-to-fame/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CE74IERH3GIGDC6X6GZS4AJIWVCAEIMA", "length": 3271, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.reviveskinemporium.com.au", "title": "Experience the best Manicure Perth | Revive Skin Emporium", "raw_content": "The term manicure comes from the Latin words manus meaning hand and cura meaning care. The interesting art of manicure features an ancient history. The term is nowadays used with the main meaning of a specific hand care system which includes nail and skin care as well as various medical procedures and treatment involving these and numerous painting and fake nail techniques and applications.\nManicure in the past\nIf we were to consider how manicure was perceived 3000 years ago, we would simply have to say that such various possibilities encountered in the world of manicure these days were not even considered possible then.\nNo one even dreamed about what manicure would become or how it would be perceived in times like the ones in which we live now. Trends were definitely a lot different then, when nails were only covered with bright tones in ancient China and Egypt where it all began. The peasantry used to have different types of manicure than the rest being allowed to use natural and pale tones only.\nThe history of manicure in China\nIn China, manicure trends started being appreciated by wealthy women 600 years ago. They started by painting their nails in silver or gold. In time, they started using paint for manicure as well and they used to make it using egg whites, rubber and wax.\nDuring the famous Ming dynasty in China, women that were part of the aristocracy used to paint their nails in bright red tones or black. Later on, they started wearing various types of finger tips that were nail-shaped and which were made of precious metals. The purpose was that of highlighting the length of their nails. Their nails represented a very important symbol of their social status.\nManicure in the beginning of the 19th century\nThe history of manicure has always featured numerous changes in trends and ideas across the world. In America the fashion was changing fast at the beginning of the 19th century and this included the art of manicure. The trends in this area were at that moment all onto the short almond shaped nails that every woman simply adored and wanted to have.\nAromatic oils were favourites among women interested in making their nails healthier and better looking at that moment. They also used a soft cloth for polishing their nails properly. The manicure was then mainly done by means of metal instruments, acids and proper scissors.\nThe evolution of manicure tools\nDuring the numerous years in which the history of manicure has featured numerous changes in trends and techniques, there were also various changes encountered in the case of manicure tools used in different parts of the world.\nThese tools evolved in time and 1830 is the year when the first orange-tree file started being used for this purpose by a doctor named Sits. Later on, another doctor discovered the acrylic paint by mistake. This soon became very popular across the world and has always played a very important role in the manicure industry since then. More and more exploration into nail art boomed in the 21st Century and manicure as well as pedicure shops are mushrooming in every country of the world.\nNowadays, the manicure industry has reached the level of an artistic business and manicure itself has become an important part of every modern woman\u2019s life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rfffh.com/notices/Colette-Trudel", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KXVQXUW7JBFT6G2GZJ7B6GCLKKGCJGZL", "length": 968, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.rfffh.com", "title": "Obituary for Colette Trudel | R\u00e9sidence Fun\u00e9raire Fawcett Funeral Home Inc.", "raw_content": "Colette Trudel\nMRS. COLETTE C\u00c9CILE TRUDEL (Nee Pomerleau)\nThe family announces with sorrow her death at the Hornepayne Community Hospital on May 30, 2018 at the age of 74. Beloved wife of R\u00e9jean Trudel and dearest mother of: Serge Trudel (Christine) of Hearst and St\u00e9phane Trudel (Claudette) of Hornepayne. She is survived by numerous brothers and sisters and will be sadly missed by her 5 grandchildren and her 4 great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at Holy Name of Jesus R.C. Church (Hornepayne) on Tuesday, June 5th from 10:00am to 11:00am. A funeral mass for Colette will be held at Holy Name of Jesus R.C. Church (Hornepayne) on Tuesday, June 5th at 11:00am with Father Roger Pronovost officiating. The interment will be held at a later date. Donations to the Hornepayne Community Hospital would be appreciated. Messages of condolence may be placed at the R\u00e9sidence fun\u00e9raire Fawcett Funeral Home website at: www.rfffh.com\nHornepayne, Ontario, ON P0M 1Z0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/16175", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TQTFF2Q5A3PDPCTH7TQQ3HI6L7IHZSSZ", "length": 3378, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.roadsideamerica.com", "title": "Largest Ball Of String, Not Twine, Weston, Missouri", "raw_content": "Largest Ball Of String, Not Twine\nBack in the 1950s, a man named Finley Stephens opened the Gateway to the West Museum in an old barn in the tiny town of Weston, Missouri. He had many odd treasures, including a pair of bib overalls for a 15-foot-tall giant, and a double-barreled shotgun as long as a car. But his prize possession was his huge ball of string, 19 feet around. It weighed 3,712 pounds.\nStephens made his Ball in a time when people mailed their packages tied with thin, postal string. He had postmasters from every neighboring town save string for him. According to Patrick O'Malley, who bought the Museum from Stephens in 1973, \"It finally got to the point where the only way that he could add to the ball was to take it to a nearby tobacco warehouse and roll it on the floor.\"\n\"It was quite an attraction in a town of 1,400 people,\" Patrick said.\nWith the change of ownership, Stephens stopped adding to his ball, and then he died. The Museum closed. The bib overalls and the shotgun were sold off. But the Ball remained -- two tons of anything tends to stay put.\nThe barn is now occupied by the America Bowman Restaurant and O'Malley's Irish Pub, which keeps the Ball where it's been since the Bicentennial -- shackled to a small red, white, and blue platform on wheels, in a walled-off back room. This isolation in space and time has preserved the Ball, which has never gotten wet or musty (although it does smell like old mail). Finley's creation remains nearly perfectly round, and wound tight enough to stop a bazooka shell.\nWhen we last spoke with the O'Malleys, they had removed a side wall of the barn and were preparing to wheel the Ball into a specially-designed, glass-sided viewing room. \"You want to have people to be able to see it, but you don't want people pullin' at it,\" said Patrick. Oh, right -- this is an Irish pub.\nWhen the move is complete, the Ball will be back in public view for the first time in over 30 years.\nFinley's Ball is probably the largest ball of string (as opposed to rope or yarn or plastic cord) in the world, distinguishing it from the creations of compulsive twine winders such as James Kotera, or Frank Stoeber, or Francis Johnson. \"It may not be the largest diameter ball,\" said Sean O'Malley, Patrick's son, \"but it's not a lot of thick rope filler. No baling twine. This is all string. This is the real deal.\"\nAmerica Bowman Restaurant and O'Malley's Irish Pub\n500 Welt St., Weston, MO\nAmerica Bowman Restaurant and O'Malley's Irish Pub. I-29 to exit 20. West on Elm Grove Rd/Hwy 273. Stay on Hwy 273 for four miles, then continue straight on Hwy JJ for two miles into town. Turn left on Welt St. (which is not well marked) and it's two blocks to the restaurant, on the left.\nT-Su 11:30 am - 9 pm. (Call to verify)\nMore on Largest Ball Of String, Not Twine\nC.W. Parker Carousel Museum, Leavenworth, KS - 7 mi.\nRex the Dinosaur, Leavenworth, KS - 7 mi.\n3D Crosswalk, Kansas City, KS - 17 mi.\nJapanese Tea House, St. Joseph, MO - 24 mi.\nNearby Hotels and Motels, Weston, Missouri\nTownePlace Suites Leavenworth, 5 mi. (From $139)\nFairfield Inn & Suites Leavenworth, 5 mi. (From $109)\nHampton Inn Leavenworth KS, 6 mi. (From $119)\nHome2 Suites By Hilton Leavenworth Downtown, 6 mi. (From $119)\nQuality Inn & Suites Kansas City Airport North, 7 mi. (From $75)\nTravelodge By Wyndham, Airport Platte City, 7 mi. (From $62)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.robinswrite.website/roadtrip-hickson/2009/07/mug-shots-and-dog-shots.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XFDML3FEH5XIS3D25T2CP5WQKB7S2KLM", "length": 2097, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.robinswrite.website", "title": "Mug shots and dog shots \u2014 robin's write", "raw_content": "So, some promised 'who are we' pictures. First, is Zep (Led Zeppelin). He is going on holiday, but of course he isn't actually coming with us!\nI came back from work today and he'd already packed. He had heard that he was going to Theo's house, where they have another (girl) Jack Russell, two other dogs, a cat, four kittens and five horses. Fortunately they've not long said goodbye to a snake, a rat and a vicious Uli-hating cockatoo-thing ;)\nAnyway. We had to disappoint him for a few days.\nTalking of animals, I was reading today in Lonely Planet guide to USA about spiders, snakes, scorpions and bears. Apparently there are various anti-venoms available for the snakebites, but not for a bear bite. I was also told a story by a colleague at work today about a friend of his who went hiking through Utah (?) and was followed by a bear for 3 km. I'm told he walked through a stream for another 2 km until he was sure the bear had lost his scent (the guy was French).\nI digress. The rest of the team;\nSarah: my beautiful wife-cum-teacher-cum-co-driver-cum navigator. Too much cum maybe but you get the idea. Naturally I exaggerate anyway. She is beautiful, she is a teacher and she is a co-driver, but she couldn't navigate her way out of a paper bag. On the other hand, I don't have to worry about her driving on the ' right' side of the road; generally she confuses left and right in any case.\nThe next one is a tricky one. Trying to get a photo of Beth is like trying to pronounce 'prison' in Dutch ('gevangenis') without covering yourself in phlegm. This is the best we could find post-6 years old, and has the added advantage of indicating Beth's communication skills.\nLewis is easier to get a photo of. Perhaps you'll understand that from the photo (believe me, this is one of the least embarrassing ones).\nThen there's me of course. Nuff said.\nAnd the team member who's decided to stay at home and 'chill' (roughly translated as party), Laura-jane:\nThat's it for the day. A quick thank you to Tom for giving us some directions and hints! Thank you.\nRobin Hickson 8 July 2009 20091 Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.robotawakens.com/machining-parts/screw-machine-parts/lead-screws.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:56:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SPWLHKNZY3Z76E756ABFIH5QZPEEXPRV", "length": 495, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.robotawakens.com", "title": "China Lead Screws Suppliers - Top Quality - Guiyao Machinery", "raw_content": "The lead screws is sometimes used with a split nut also called half nut which allows the nut to be disengaged from the threads and moved axially, independently of the screw's rotation, w\u200bhen needed.\nThe lead screws is sometimes used with a split nut also called half nut which allows the nut to be disengaged from the threads and moved axially, independently of the screw's rotation, when needed.\nHot Tags: lead screws, China, suppliers, customized, high precision, top quality, with great price", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 35.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/what-the-historic-abortion-decision-means-for-american-women-92164/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:00Z", "digest": "sha1:24VLP4D6LOGAB3GCUOGGOZN24KYVNJH6", "length": 6792, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.rollingstone.com", "title": "What the Historic Abortion Decision Means for American Women \u2013 Rolling Stone", "raw_content": "What the Historic Abortion Decision Means for American Women\nFor a long-beleaguered community, Monday morning\u2019s victory could not have been sweeter\nPro-choice demonstrators cheer in front of the Supreme Court Monday after learning the outcome of the 'Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt' case.\nIt\u2019s almost impossible to overstate how terrible the past 12 months have been for abortion providers: They\u2019ve seen maliciously edited videos intended to deceive people into thinking abortion clinics sell baby parts; a huge spike in harassment and threats directed at providers and medical researchers; the longest sustained terrorist shoot-out in American history, resulting in three people being killed and nine injured at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood; seemingly endless congressional investigations that have produced invasive subpoenas into providers and their allies\u2019 practices; state investigations into abortion funding and fetal-tissue disposal; scores of new anti-abortion legislation; and more.\nIt\u2019s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year \u2014 until today. For the first time in what seems like eons, abortion providers and the patients they serve were victorious. And it was a huge victory indeed.\nToday, the Supreme Court decided 5-3 that two provisions of a monster Texas law that would have ultimately reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state \u2014 the second largest both geographically and in terms of population \u2014 from over 40 to just eight or nine. The decision was written by Justice Stephen Breyer (joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan), and it was a resounding rejection of state legislatures meddling in women\u2019s health without any medical reason for doing so.\nThree years ago, Texas rushed through an extreme sham of an abortion law. Among other provisions, the law required that all doctors working at abortion clinics obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and that all clinics meet the heightened facility standards of an ambulatory surgical center, or miniature hospital. These laws may sound sensible on their face \u2014 after all, who doesn\u2019t want to promote safety? But as countless medical organizations stated and the Court wrote today, neither provision has anything whatsoever to do with safety. Rather, they are intended to close down abortion clinics and stop women from having abortions.\nWendy Davis on Abortion-Rights Win and Why Women Should Fear Trump\nToday\u2019s decision recognized these laws as nothing more than fronts to shut down clinics and curtail women\u2019s constitutional rights. Texas had urged the Supreme Court to defer to the state legislators\u2019 \u201cexpertise,\u201d but the Court did nothing of the sort. Instead, the Court said it is appropriate for federal courts to determine the facts when constitutional rights are at issue, and the facts here are clear: There was no scientific basis for these laws. Rather, abortion was already one of the safest medical procedures there is long before Texas\u2019 new restrictions. As Justice Breyer noted, abortion is far safer than child birth, colonoscopies and liposuction, and Texas had no evidence whatsoever that there was a single woman anywhere in the country who would have been helped had its laws been fully in effect.\nBalanced against the fact that the law had no legitimate medical purpose was the huge burden it imposed on abortion access in the state. The number of clinics would decrease by over 75 percent, some Texas women would have to travel hundreds of miles to have an abortion, the surviving clinics would not be able to expand to accommodate increased numbers and women would be subject to needless requirements.\nWith the law having no medically sound purpose while imposing a very serious burden on Texas women choosing to have an abortion, the Supreme Court found it to be an \u201cundue burden,\u201d which is unconstitutional under the Court\u2019s 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision.\nThe big issue after today\u2019s decision is what it means going forward \u2014 for Texas, for other states and for the Court.\nFor Texas, the legal answer is clear, even if the practical effect is not yet. The legal answer is that both provisions are struck down and cannot be applied in any circumstance in the state. Because the Court had put the lower court\u2019s decision (that had approved the provisions of the Texas law) on hold while it considered the case, the state now has almost 20 open clinics. And those clinics will remain open. The other 20-plus clinics that have closed since the law was originally passed cannot immediately re-open, though \u2014 not because of the law, but because of practicalities of hiring, leases, the availability of doctors, etc. You can close a clinic in an instant; re-opening one, especially one that has been closed for a year or more, is not so easy. Texas providers, however, will be working diligently to restore access for Texas women as soon as possible.\nFor the rest of the country, the Court\u2019s decision makes clear that the \u201cundue burden\u201d test has meaning: something many lower courts were unclear about until today. A state wishing to pass a law restricting abortion cannot seriously burden women\u2019s ability to get an abortion without a sound medical reason for doing so. There are many other states that have similar laws, and those that are currently being challenged will now be subject to this standard. The Court cited two challenges in particular, in Alabama and Wisconsin, and did so in a way that indicates that it approves of the lower court decisions that struck down those states\u2019 similar laws. For other states, lawyers and clinics will have to carefully assess the reasons the state offered for the laws and the particular effect the laws have for abortion access in their state before deciding whether to try to use today\u2019s case to strike down that state\u2019s laws.\nFurthermore, today\u2019s decision is possibly another signal that, with Justice Antonin Scalia no longer on the bench, the Supreme Court has become a more liberal body. To be sure, the Court still awaits its elusive ninth justice, but in the meantime, in the past few days alone Justice Kennedy has joined the four liberals on two of the great social issues of our time: affirmative action and abortion. It\u2019s possible that the Court\u2019s impenetrable liberal bloc has now become more convincing to Justice Kennedy than the Scalia-less conservative wing.\nWhatever the future holds, today\u2019s victory for abortion rights could not have been sweeter for a community that has been beleaguered for years. The struggle will continue, as anti-abortion forces will certainly not give up. But after today, abortion providers have yet another powerful Supreme Court precedent by their side.\nIn This Article: Abortion,\tSupreme Court,\tTexas,\twomen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 11033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rotech.com/veterans-affairs/joint-veterans-partnership-avenue-mori-rotech/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:02Z", "digest": "sha1:G75OSVKOQRSBJIJCYQAHIDSVHHK6GROC", "length": 4067, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.rotech.com", "title": "Joint Veterans Partnership \u2013 Avenue Mori / Rotech", "raw_content": "Avenue Mori Medical Equipment & Rotech Healthcare\nFor the past twenty (20) years, Rotech has been contracted to provide Home Oxygen and Durable/Home Medical Equipment (DME/HME) services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Rotech\u2019s longstanding relationship with the VA affords Rotech the opportunity to partner with Avenue Mori Medical Equipment, Inc. (AMME), a Joint Commission Accredited and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) company, under a Small Business Administration (SBA) approved, Mentor Prot\u00e9g\u00e9/Joint Venture partnership, to service VA contracts.\nAMME, was founded by Mr. Myo Tun and Mr. Gordon Mori. Myo, attended the University of California at Riverside, where he received his BA in Business Economics and Political Science. After graduating from college, Myo was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps and served on Active Duty for 12 years. He currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. After leaving the Marine Corps, he worked in the medical equipment and pharmaceutical industry and was a Director level employee holding numerous high level leadership/management positions. The leadership, operational, and logistical skills he learned in the Marine Corps and the healthcare industry have been instrumental in allowing him to start his own companies in the healthcare industry (Avenue Medical Equipment, Avenue Home Care and AMME). Gordon, attended Brigham Young University where he received his BA in Economics and Japanese. He went on to further earn an MBA from Columbia University. His professional career started on Wall Street but his career led him to the financial capitals of the world (Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and London). After a very successful career in the financial industry and living internationally for over 20 years, Gordon decided to return home to the United States. After returning home and settling in Carlsbad, California Gordon, started Mori Medical Equipment (MME) with his son, Andrew Mori. MME, has been in business over six years. MME, has been successful due to Gordon\u2019s experience in dealing with and solving complex issues.\nWith both Gordon and Myo having established a footprint in the healthcare industry with their own companies, it became clear to both, that they and their companies were a perfect fit to work together on a larger scale and servicing a higher calling. The higher calling for Gordon and Myo was to provide the best services and best equipment to those who have served our country honourably. This lead to the formation of Avenue Mori Medical Equipment, Inc. (AMME). Both Gordon and Myo are involved in every aspect of the daily operations of AMME and the AMME/Rotech Joint Venture. Their passion is to honourably care for those who honourably served our country.\nAMME and Rotech through the Joint Venture are committed to servicing our nation\u2019s veterans with quality care services and quality equipment to enrich their quality of life. The AMME and Rotech established the following companies to provide Home Oxygen and Durable/Home Medical Equipment services to our veterans:\nJoint Venture Companies:\nVeterans Choice Medical Equipment, LLC\nVeterans Care Medical Equipment, LLC\nVeterans Advantage Medical Equipment, LLC\nMission Statement: AMME and Rotech \u2013 Joint Venture Companies:\nTo honourably care for those who served honourably in an ethical, compassionate, respectful, timely, e\ufb00ective and e\ufb03cient manner to achieve the best clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.\nTo our patients, our mission is to make their lives better.\nTo our referral sources, our mission is to make their lives easier.\nTo our employees, our mission is making the di\ufb00erence.\nWe strive for excellence in providing goods and services to patients with the goal of being the industry's gold standard for patient care, ethical business practices and business e\ufb03ciency.\nAvenue Mori Medical Equipment, Inc.\nTo view the Avenue Mori Medical & Rotech Healthcare Veterans Patient Information Booklet, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.royrstone.com/news-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:20Z", "digest": "sha1:T7Z6BIMWFYJOSF46RBK73UDSDLZB5XQW", "length": 1348, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.royrstone.com", "title": "News \u2014 Roy Stone", "raw_content": "Fashion, dance event to help fund grants\nAmong the men is Roy Stone, a professional dancer and instructor who owns LaVelle Hall in South Tampa. One of his students, Shirley Taylor, is a co-chair of the event.\n\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in what they are doing and I was honored she invited me to be part of it,\u201d Stone said recently as he picked out a white sports coat at Stein Mart for the occasion.\nSimon Cordero March 14, 2018\n92-year-old defies her age through ballroom dance\nTAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 We grow a little bit older each day, but that doesn\u2019t stop one Florida woman from dancing.\n92-year-old Judith Baizan is turning back the clock with some show-stopping dance moves, giving a new meaning to the \u2018twilight\u2019 of life.\nBaizan has been dancing since high school and hasn\u2019t lost a step.\nTampa woman finds fountain of youth in ballroom dancing\nFacing life alone for the first time after their 63 years of marriage, 92-year-old Baizan has focused on dancing to lift her spirits.\n\u201cAt one point, I thought it would be fun to do ballroom dancing. I was hesitant, then I discovered Roy. I found out a lot of the women who\u2019d been taking lessons from him had been taking them for years, I thought that\u2019s a pretty good sign. I appreciate way he teaches. He\u2019s very good, very caring about students and treats us well.\u201d\nSimon Cordero February 8, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rt.com/news/nba-goes-east/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6FPKMQQHVICGROFFOGGVEOXLMKZJZZBH", "length": 909, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.rt.com", "title": "NBA goes East \u2014 RT World News", "raw_content": "NBA goes East\nThe National Basketball Association is launching a reality TV show in China. \u2018Mengniu NBA Basketball Disciple\u2019 will be NBA's sixth such program of that kind since 2002, but the first outside the US.\nThe winner of the show, to be launched in May, will receive an all-expenses paid trip to try out for the NBA's lower-level developmental league.\nThe move comes as part of NBA\u2019s efforts to build its popularity in the world's most populated country, reports Reuters.\n\u201cWe're having an incredibly exciting season here in run-up to the playoffs and you can absolutely feel that very much in China just as if you were in any of the cities here in the US,\u201d said Heidi Ueberroth, President of the NBA's International Business Operations, adding \u201cThe popularity of the game in China is at an all-time high.\u201d\nChinese interest in basketball was sparked after all-time center Yao Ming joined the NBA in 2002.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 170.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rti.org/publication/parental-socialization-factors-and-adolescent-drinking-behaviors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:41:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7BTKLSLTAF6DWNENLRY52NTEMYPGQZ3H", "length": 1157, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rti.org", "title": "Parental Socialization Factors and Adolescent Drinking Behaviors | RTI", "raw_content": "Parental Socialization Factors and Adolescent Drinking Behaviors\nFrom family socialization theory, it is hypothesized in this study that parents, as models and as agents of socialization, influence the development of various types of drinking behaviors in their children. In-home interviews were conducted with a representative general population sample of adolescents from 12 to 17 years old and their mothers and fathers. The findings revealed that adolescent drinking can be explained in part by parental models of drinking behavior; for example, heavier-drinking parents were more likely than other parents to have adolescents who were also heavier drinkers. Parental socialization factors, particularly support and to a lesser degree control, were also shown to have an effect on the development of adolescent drinking behaviors. It was concluded that the family socialization process should be considered as a critical element in the prevention of problem behaviors such as alcohol abuse\nBarnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Cairns, A. (1986). Parental Socialization Factors and Adolescent Drinking Behaviors. Journal of Marriage and Family, 48(1), 27-36.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/education-rights-group-condemns-threat-arrest-anand-teltumbde", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OR6MP346VOXND6EPAFTGDGWH7GJZNU7E", "length": 5358, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.sabrangindia.in", "title": "Education rights group condemns threat to arrest Anand Teltumbde | SabrangIndia", "raw_content": "Education rights group condemns threat to arrest Anand Teltumbde\nIn a statement, they said that to incarcerate select human rights defenders, intellectuals and activists in peoples\u2019 movements and curb dissent in the country is an unprecedented and blatant abuse of power.\nAll India Forum for Right to education (AIFRTE), a movement for people\u2019s educational rights condemned Professor Anand Teltumbde\u2019s threat of arrest calling it the vilest post-independence plot by the state.\n\u201cComing from the poorest of poor families, Prof. Teltumbde has passed through the best institutes in the country with scholastic achievements. It naturally propelled him to take cudgel for the disadvantaged people in the manner possible for his professional jobs. He is currently General Secretary of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) and Presidium Member of All India Forum for Right to education (AIFRTE), a movement for people\u2019s educational rights. There is not an iota of the \u201cunlawful\u201d either in his voluminous writings or his selfless activism. His entire academic career and corporate career of nearly four decades have been an example of the integrity of the highest degree,\u201d they said in a statement.\nAIFRTE appealed to all its member organizations and the university community across the country to approach the national and regional media, issue statements against the threat to Teltumbde through social media and protest meetings.\nFull text of the statement:\nProfessor Anand Teltumbde, an IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, IIT Professor, Executive Director of BPCL, Ex-MD & CEO of Petronet India, Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics in GIM, author of 26 books, columnist in EPW, writer of innumerable articles, a noted scholar of caste-class and public policy issues, leading public intellectual and democratic and educational rights activist faces imminent threat of arrest as an \u2018Urban Maoist\u2019 in the vilest post-independence plot by the state.\nThe criminal farce of exploiting an important day of commemoration for the Dalits, the anniversary of the battle that took place at Bhima-Koregaon in 1818 in which the Mahar soldiers played a leading role in defeating the Peshwa rulers, to incarcerate select human rights defenders, intellectuals and activists in peoples\u2019 movements and curb dissent in the country is an unprecedented and blatant abuse of power.\nThe police have claimed that there was a plot to carry out a \u201cRajiv Gandhi style\u201d assassination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi! Fabrications such as this have allowed the police to apply the dreaded UAPA which leaves no defence for the arrested who can be incarcerated for years without evidence. It is a perfect vehicle for the police, acting at the behest of their political bosses, to claim knowledge of fabricated \u201ccrimes\u201d.\nUnder the circumstances, on 14th January 2019, the Supreme Court rejected Prof. Teltumbde\u2019s appeal for quashing the \u201cfalse\u201d FIR against him filed by the Pune Police, stating that the matter was under investigation and that he could seek pre-arrest bail from the competent court within four weeks.\nComing from the poorest of poor families, Prof. Teltumbde has passed through the best institutes in the country with scholastic achievements. It naturally propelled him to take cudgel for the disadvantaged people in the manner possible for his professional jobs. He is currently General Secretary of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) and Presidium Member of All India Forum for Right to education (AIFRTE), a movement for people\u2019s educational rights. There is not an iota of the \u201cunlawful\u201d either in his voluminous writings or his selfless activism. His entire academic career and corporate career of nearly four decades have been an example of the integrity of the highest degree.\nIn the country, when the due process of law itself is a punishment that the police use to the hilt, it is nothing short of capital punishment to a professional-intellectual-activist like Prof Teltumbde. People in the past have been kept in jail for averagely five years before they were acquitted of every charge. There is absolutely no accountability of anyone in our justice delivery system for this unlawful incarceration and destroying victims and their families. Prof Teltumbde expressed his anguish over this prospect that he would be kept away from his intellectual activities, from his students who are admitted in the Big Data Analytics course, the first of its kind he launched this year and worried about the investment that GIM made. He is worried about his half-written manuscripts of books committed to various publishers, research papers at various stages of completion, and his family\u2014wife, who, as the granddaughter of Babasaheb Ambedkar hardly bargained for this fate and daughters who are already disturbed not knowing what has been happening to him since August last year.\nAIFRTE strongly condemns the threatened arrest of Prof Teltumbde and demands that the Maharashtra government should immediately drop all charges (including those under UAPA) against Prof Anand Teltumbde.\nAIFRTE also appeals to all its member organizations and to the university community across the country to immediately begin this process by approaching the national and regional media, issuing statements through social media and organizing protest meetings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 8877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2015/balletboyz-young-men/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QJ7F7ZHBYDHY47M4TFR3C76PUWVKZNRE", "length": 1012, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sadlerswells.com", "title": "Sadler's Wells Theatre - BalletBoyz - Young Men", "raw_content": "BalletBoyz \u2014 Young Men\nYoung Men is a new full-length production from BalletBoyz, winners of the National Dance Awards Best Independent Dance Company 2013.\nIn an intensely moving portrayal of love, friendship, loss and survival, Young Men explores the theme of war and the bonds that develop between the men consumed by it. Drawing inspiration from images of conflict through the ages, the production is a compelling hybrid of dance, theatre and screen performance from the ever-inventive BalletBoyz and their all male dance company the TALENT.\nOpening Sadler\u2019s Wells 2015 programme, Young Men is choreographed by rising star Iv\u00e1n P\u00e9rez (Nederlands Dans Theater I and II, Ballet Moscow, and the National Ballet of Cuba) and features a newly-commissioned original score from the cult singer songwriter Keaton Henson (albums Dear\u2026 and Birthdays).\nFeaturing the award-winning dancers of the TALENT and live music, Young Men is a co-production with Sadler\u2019s Wells Theatre and 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/922412/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:59:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5YV2XPP5QQYQLOKDSXBMT6GCQZJCLBLB", "length": 1382, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "A New Type of Robotic Cell for Assembly in Aeronautics", "raw_content": "A New Type of Robotic Cell for Assembly in Aeronautics 922412\nA unique \u201clight\u201d robot assembly cell, designed by the CTRI robotic division of DASSAULT AVIATION has been put in production in DASSAULT's Biarritz assembly plant. The designation \u201clight\u201d was chosen because it represents an alternative to either a heavy single purpose machine or a stiffer robotic system.\nThe choice was made after a careful examination of the alternatives available and was based on the following hypothesis: a robotic cell, whose cost needs to be justified against a sub-contract opportunity of limited duration, must embody the following characteristics:\nLOW COST in order to assure pay-back with the term of the subcontract\nFLEXIBLE in order to accommodate future production requirements without major system modification.\nIn order to meet these goals, we chose a standard low mass robot and provided it with a long track in order that it be able to cover a large work area at a minimum cost.\nThe result was a very cost effective and efficient production system. Just as \u201csmall\u201d is often considered \u201cbeautiful\u201d, in robotic systems it may be that \u201clight\u201d will be considered \u201ccost effective\u201d.\nCitation: Da Costa, S., \"A New Type of Robotic Cell for Assembly in Aeronautics,\" SAE Technical Paper 922412, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/922412.\nAuthor(s): Sylvain J. 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If you would like to make an appointment or to ask questions contact us today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.samacharlive.com/Business/infosys-nyse-infy-announces-results-for-the-quarter-ended-december-31-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SIAY36RETAAOOGUJ7OD2UZJJLN7JOIGM", "length": 13050, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "www.samacharlive.com", "title": "Infosys (NYSE: INFY) Announces Results for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2018 - Samachar Live", "raw_content": "by PR Newswire January 11, 2019 52\nBENGALURU, India, Jan. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ \u2014\n10.1% CC YoY Revenue Growth in Q3 Leads to Upward Revision in Guidance\n\u201cWith increased client relevance, we saw double digit (10.1%) year-on-year growth in Q3 on a constant currency basis,\u201d said Salil Parekh, CEO and MD. \u201cWe also had another strong quarter in our digital business with 33.1% growth and large deals at $1.57 billion which gives us confidence entering 2019\u2033, he added.\n8.5%-9.0% Revision in FY 19 Guidance in CC terms\n2.7% QoQ revenue growth in CC terms\n33.1% YoY Digital revenue growth in CC terms\n$1.5 Bn+ Large deal signings\n22.6%* Operating margin\n*Includes additional depreciation and amortization impact of 0.4% due to reclassification of assets of Panaya and Skava from \u201cHeld for Sale.\u201c\nQ3 19 revenues grew year-on-year by 8.4% in USD terms; 10.1% in constant currency terms\nQ3 19 revenues grew sequentially by 2.2% in USD terms; 2.7% in constant currency terms\nDigital revenues at $942 million (31.5% of total revenues), year-on-year growth of 33.1% and sequential growth of 5.0% in constant currency terms\n9 months revenues grew by 7.4% in USD terms; 8.1% in constant currency terms\nFY 19 revenue guidance in constant currency revised upward to 8.5%-9.0%; Operating margin guidance retained at 22%-24%\nAnnounces buyback under open market route of IDR8,260 crore at a Maximum price of IDR800 per share\nAnnounces a special dividend of IDR4 per share\n1. Financial Highlights- Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)\n\u2013 Revenues were $2,987 million, growth of 8.4% YoY and 2.2% QoQ\n\u2013 Operating profit was $675 million, growth of 0.9% YoY and decline of 2.6% QoQ#\n\u2013 Basic EPS was $0.12, decline of 33.9% YoY@ and 13.6% QoQ#\nFor nine months ended December 31, 2018\n\u2013 Revenues were $8,740 million, growth of 7.4% YoY\n\u2013 Operating profit was $2,038 million, growth of 3.7% YoY\n\u2013 Basic EPS was $0.37, decline of 11.3% YoY##@\n# Includes additional depreciation and amortization expenses of $12 million for Panaya and Skava. Additionally, Basic EPS includes reduction in fair value of Skava which together resulted in a reduction in EPS by $0.02.\n##Includes additional depreciation and amortization expenses, reduction in fair value and carrying value of Panaya and Skava, respectively which resulted in a reduction in EPS by $0.03.\n@Includes impact on account of conclusion of an APA with the US IRS which has led to an increase in EPS of $0.05 for the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2017.\n\u201cVolume growth was strong and revenue productivity was stable despite Q3 being a seasonally weak quarter. We had good growth across geographies and large business segments,\u201d said Pravin Rao, COO. \u201cAttrition declined during the quarter and we are continuing on the path of increased interventions and employee engagements to reduce it further.\u201d\n\u201cWe saw significant currency volatility during the quarter and managed it effectively by our hedging strategy,\u201d said Jayesh Sanghrajka, Interim CFO. \u201cCash generation was strong during the quarter. Executing on the capital allocation strategy announced in April 2018, we have announced a share buyback program and a special dividend.\u201d\n2. Capital Allocation Policy\nThe Board in its meeting held today approved the following:\nBuyback of Equity Shares, from the open market route through the Indian stock exchanges, amounting to IDR8,260 crore (Maximum Buyback Size) (approximately $1,184 million) at a price not exceeding IDR800 per share (Maximum Buyback Price) (approximately $11.46 per share), subject to shareholders\u2019 approval by way of Postal Ballot, and\nA Special Dividend of IDR4/- per share (approximately $0.06 per share) that would result in a payout of approximately IDR2,107 crore (approximately $302 million) (including dividend distribution tax)\nAfter the execution of the above, along with the special dividend (including dividend distribution tax) of IDR2,633 crore ($386 million) already paid in June 2018, the Company would complete the distribution of IDR13,000 crore, which was announced as part of its capital allocation policy in April 2018.\nAs the USD/INR* exchange rates have moved from April 2018 when the capital allocation policy was announced, the total capital allocation in US$ terms amounts to $1,872 million (comprising $1,184 million pertaining to buyback as mentioned above, $386 million towards special dividend paid in June 2018 and $302 million towards special dividend to be paid to shareholders in January 2019).\n*US$ 1= IDR69.78 as at December 31, 2018\nThe company had earlier classified its subsidiaries Kallidus & Skava (together referred to as \u201cSkava\u201d) and Panaya as \u201cHeld for Sale\u201d. During the quarter ended December 31, 2018, based on evaluation of proposals received and progress of negotiations with potential buyers, the Company concluded that it is no longer highly probable that sale would be consummated by March 31, 2019. Accordingly, Panaya and Skava have been de-classified from \u201cheld for sale\u201d in accordance with the requirements of IFRS 5.\nOn de-classification, the Company recognized additional depreciation and amortization expenses of $12 million and a reduction of $65 million in the carrying value for Skava. The impact of the same on the Basic Earnings Per Share was a decrease of $0.02 for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.The Company plans to repurpose Skava\u2019s micro services based business and refocus Panaya\u2019s suite of products.\n4. Board Update\nBased on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board approved the re-appointment of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw as the Lead Independent Director from April 1, 2019 to March 22, 2023, subject to shareholder\u2019 approval.\n\u201cI am delighted that the Infosys Board of Directors has unanimously recommended Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw for reappointment as the Lead Independent Director,\u201d said Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Board. \u201cKiran has been a pillar of strength to the board, especially over the last eighteen months as we steered the company to stability and growth. As chair of the Nominations & Remuneration Committee, she played a critical role in the CEO and CFO selection process. Her continuity, experience and insights are greatly valued by the Board as it guides the company in executing its strategy in the coming years,\u201d he added.\nInfosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 45 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on\nlearning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.\nVisit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.\nCertain statements mentioned in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations intended to qualify for the \u2018safe harbor\u2019 under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company\u2019s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company unless it is required by law.\nInfosys Limited and subsidiaries\nAudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as at\n(Dollars in millions except equity share data)\nAssets held for sale(4)(5)\nInvestment in associate\nEmployee benefit obligations\nLiabilities directly associated with assets held for sale(4)(5)\nShare capital \u2013 IDR5 ($0.16) par value 4,800,000,000\n(2,400,000,000) equity shares authorized, issued and\noutstanding 4,347,938,160 (2,173,312,301), net of\n20,709,738 (10,801,956) treasury shares as at December\n31, 2018 (March 31, 2018), respectively\nOther components of equity\nAudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income for the\n(Dollars in millions except equity share and per equity share data)\nReduction in the fair value of\nDisposal Group held for sale(4)\nAdjustment in respect of excess\nof carrying amount over\nrecoverable amount on\nreclassification from \u201cHeld for\nShare in net profit/(loss) of\nassociate, including impairment(6)\nRe-measurements of the net\ndefined benefit liability/asset, net\nEquity instruments through\nItems that will be reclassified\nFair valuation of investments, net\nFair value changes on\nderivatives designated as cash\nflow hedge, net\nincome/(loss), net of tax\nEarnings per equity share(8)\nDiluted ($)\nWeighted average equity shares\nused in computing earnings per\nequity share(8)\nThe audited condensed consolidated Balance sheet and Statement of Comprehensive Income for the three months and nine months ended December 31, 2018 have been taken on record at the Board meeting held on January 11, 2019.\nA Fact Sheet providing the operating metrics of the Company can be downloaded from www.infosys.com.\nOther income for three months and nine months ended December 31, 2017 includes interest on income tax refund of $31 million and $41 million respectively.\nIn the three months ended March 2018, Kallidus and Skava (together referred to as \u201cSkava\u201c) and Panaya, were classified as \u201cHeld for Sale\u201c. Consequently, a reduction in the fair value amounting to $18 million and $39 million in respect of Panaya was recognized for the year ended March 31, 2018 and three months ended June 30, 2018, respectively.\nDuring the three months ended December 31, 2018, based on evaluation of proposals received and progress of negotiations with potential buyers, the Company concluded that it is no longer highly probable that sale would be consummated by March 31, 2019. Accordingly, Panaya and Skava have been de-classified from \u201cHeld for Sale\u201c in accordance with IFRS 5.\nOn such reclassification, the Company recognized additional depreciation and amortization expenses of $12 million and an adjustment in respect of excess of carrying amount over recoverable amount of $65 million in respect of Skava during the three months ended December 31, 2018.\nDuring the nine months ended December 31, 2017, the Company has written down the entire carrying value of $11 million in its associate DWA Nova LLC.\nDuring the quarter ended December 31, 2017, on account of the conclusion of an Advance Pricing Agreement (\u201cAPA\u201c) with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (\u201cIRS\u201c), the Company has reversed income tax expense provision of $225 million which pertains to previous periods which are no longer required.\nPrevious period share numbers and EPS have been adjusted for September 2018 bonus issue in accordance with IAS 33, Earnings per share\nIFRS-INR press Release: https://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filings/quarterly-results/2018-2019/Q3/Documents/IFRS-INR-press-release.pdf\nFactsheet: https://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filings/quarterly-results/2018-2019/Q3/Documents/fact-sheet.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 496, "original_length": 19860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sanmarcoristorante.it/en/langhe-roero-monferrato.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KVGTKVA2LH35MQHAI2EN7CYWVRWWQJFR", "length": 4811, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sanmarcoristorante.it", "title": "Langhe - Roero - Monferrato", "raw_content": "The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato\nThe vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato in Piedmont consist of a selection of five distinct winegrowing areas and a castle, whose names evoke profound and ancient expertise in the relationship between man and his environment. They reflect a slowly developed association between a diverse range of soils, grape varieties that are often native, and suitable winemaking processes. They offer panoramas of carefully cultivated hillsides, following ancient land divisions punctuated with buildings that lend structure to the visual space: hilltop villages, castles, Romanesque churches, farms, ciabots, cellars and storehouses for cellaring and for the commercial distribution of the wine in the small towns and larger towns on the margins of the vineyards. The serial property is outstanding for its harmony, and the balance between the aesthetic qualities of its landscapes, the architectural and historical diversity of the built elements associated with the wine production activities and an authentic and ancient art of winemaking.\nCriterion (iii): The cultural landscapes of the Piedmont vineyards provide outstanding living testimony to winegrowing and winemaking traditions that stem from a long history, and that have been continuously improved and adapted up to the present day. They bear witness to an extremely comprehensive social, rural and urban realm, and to sustainable economic structures. They include a multitude of harmonious built elements that bear witness to its history and its professional practices.\nCriterion (v): The vineyards of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato constitute an outstanding example of man\u2019s interaction with his natural environment. Following a long and slow evolution of winegrowing expertise, the best possible adaptation of grape varieties to land with specific soil and climatic components has been carried out, which in itself is related to winemaking expertise, thereby becoming an international benchmark. The winegrowing landscape also expresses great aesthetic qualities, making it into an archetype of European vineyards.\nThe integrity of the serial property is satisfactory, as it contains all the elements required for full expression of its values. Considered as a whole, its five components fully express the cultural, residential, architectural, environmental and productive complexity of this winegrowing and winemaking region. It bears witness to an ensemble of centuries-old traditions that have gradually been built up. The integrity of the nominated serial property is fully justified, and all the technical and social processes associated with grape production and winemaking, with a high degree of expertise, are properly illustrated.\nThe authenticity of the landscape elements and the many cultural elements of the serial property has been justified. The use of the soils, the built structures and the social organisation of all the stages of the winemaking process, from tending and harvesting the grapes to vinification, are an expression of continuity of ancient practices and expertise to form authentic ensembles in each component of the serial property. The Piedmont vineyard landscape is undoubtedly one of the most harmonious and most consistent with the ideal of a \u201cscenic\u201d rural and vineyard landscape, accentuated by the gently rolling hills that provide many vistas and panoramas with subtle nuances.\nThe property is protected under the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code (Decree n\u00b042 of 22 January 2004), under the responsibility of the Cultural Heritage Ministry and its regional agencies. It defines the responsibilities of the public regional and local authorities and the application procedures. The municipalities regulate and control permits for building and alterations. They do so with reference to municipal regulatory plans and urban development plans. The protection of the buffer zones has been confirmed by the Provincial Act of 30 September 2013.\nThe Management Association groups together the municipalities covered by the serial property and buffer zones, under the authority of the Region for the purpose of coordinating the conservation measures. This results in the implementation of precisely defined programmes, gathered together in the Management Plan. The Agreement Act embodies the commitment of each municipality and each administration to apply the protection measures and the sector conservation plans, and to actively participate in the management and enhancement of the property.\nwww.unesco.it/cni/\nwww.paesaggivitivinicoli.it\nImages by Carola Ferrero\nGraduated in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novara, passionate about nature and landscapes, she has dedicated some of her collections to the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 132.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.saromaholidays.com/index.php/westbengal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZWLCYEATGD642PCOUNNH2JJCIXN5NJD", "length": 15354, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "www.saromaholidays.com", "title": "Saroma Holidays, a unit of SAROMA HOTELS & RESORTS PVT LTD, Kerala, providing services are Exclusive Houseboats, Romantiscapes (Romantic Escapes), Family Fiesta, Educational and Corporate Tours, Pilgrimages, Inclusive Holidays, Photography Tourism.", "raw_content": "Saroma invites you to experience West Bengal with its grand allure, religious flavour, strong culture and imperial monuments leaving an ineffaceable impression on its visitors.\nThe city which has many names: \"Cultural Capital of India\", \"The city of Processions, \"City of Joy\" and so on\u2026..is best explored with Saromas customized packages that offer highly efficient and systematic tours of the state.\nKolkata / Calcutta are India's second largest city and the capital of West Bengal. During 1772-1912 it was the capital of East India Company. Located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly where the Indian subcontinent starts to narrow into the triangular southern peninsula.\nIt has also been a home to many famous personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose, Mother Teresa and Satyajit Ray.\nPublic Transport in Kolkata is provided by Trams, Kolkata Metro and buses. Auto Rickshaws, Cycle Rickshaws and taxis are some other common modes of transport. For long distance travel, Kolkata has two railway stations, Howrah Station and Sealdah and one airport, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International airport at Dum Dum.\nBelurmutt\nDooars Valley\nSaroma welcomes you to the land of exotic charms, come and explore its natural beauty \u2026\u2026with Saromas customized tour packages specially crafted to suit your taste and budget, so that you can enjoy a hassle-free tour to West Bengal\u2026. find bliss in the fascinating historic and natural charm of West Bengal.\nWe provide good accommodation at the various hotels in West Bengal which cater to the varying tastes and budgets of the tourists visiting the state.\nKolkata City\nKolkata is crammed with beautiful colonial buildings and heritage structures. The Indian Museum established in 1814, is the oldest museum in Asia it houses vast collection of Indian natural history and Indian art. The Victoria Memorial is one of the major tourist attractions in Kolkata, has a museum documenting the city's history.\nBelurmutt - Belur Mutt was founded by Swami Vivekananda during 1897.It is on the banks of the Hooghly River. The headquarters of Ramakrishna Mutt and Ramakrishna Mission is also situated here.\nRamakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission - These are twin organizations which form the core of a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta Movement).\nDakshineswar - Dakshineswaris deemed to be a very important religious site in West Bengal.\nKalighat - Kalighat is a locality of Kolkata, India. One of the oldest neighborhoods in South Kolkata, Kalighat is thickly populated and lively with a rich history of cultural m\u00e9lange with the various foreign incursions into the area over time.\nSHANTINIKETAN - Shantiniketan was founded by Noble Laureate Shri. Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1901 .His vision was to create a perfect harmony of humanity with nature.\nSUNDARBANS - The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO included 'The Sundarbans' in its World Heritage List. Dotted with innumerable creeks, canals the tributaries of the river Ganga and 54 small islands the Sundarbans is the natural heritage of West Bengal.\nDarjeeling, the Queen of the Hills - Darjeeling is a well known hill station of West Bengal.Enjoy the snow capped breathtaking mountains with a wide array of adventure sports on offer with Saromas customized packages\u2026.\nKalimpong - The picturesque town of Kalimpong is located 51 kms east of Darjeeling .It was the former headquarters of the Bhutanese Governor.\nMirik - A pristine hill resort nestled in the forest hills away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The serenity of this enchanting place attracts many tourists.\nBelur Mutt was founded by Swami Vivekananda during 1897.It is on the banks of the Hooghly River. The headquarters of Ramakrishna Mutt and Ramakrishna Mission is also situated here.\nVivekananda carried the ashes of Ramakrishna Paramhansa in a copper casket and deposited it at Belur. The Ramakrishna Temple here is an international pilgrim center.\nThe other places of attractions are Vivekananda\u2019s residence, Matri Mandird Sri Ramakrishna Museum. The birth anniversaries of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and holy mother Sarada Devi are celebrated here. Belurmutt is 10 kms away from Kolkata; it is well-connected by trains and buses.\nRamakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are twin organizations which form the core of a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta Movement).\nThis aims at deem spiritual fulfillment, harmony of the East and the West, harmony of religions, harmony of the ancient and the modern, all-round development of human faculties, social equality, and peace for all humanity, without any distinctions of creed, caste, race or nationality.\nRamakrishna Math is a monastic organization for men brought into existence by Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), a great saint of Bengal who is regarded as the \u2018Prophet of the Modern Age\u2019.\nRamakrishna Mission is a registered society in which monks of Ramakrishna Math and devotees work together in accomplishing various types of social service mainly in India. It was founded by Sri Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), one of the leading philosopher and religious leaders of the present age.\nAlthough Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are legally and financially separate, they are closely inter-related in several other ways, and considered as twin organizations.\nDakshineswaris deemed to be a very important religious site in West Bengal.\nAmong the Temples of Dakshineswar, the Kali temple deserves a special mention. The place is a located in the Barrackpore of West Bengal. The famous kali temple was built in the year 1847 by Rani Rasmoni.The place is located alongside the Vivekananda Setu, on the East bank of Hoogli River.\nEnjoy the snow capped breathtaking mountains with a wide array of adventure sports on offer with Saromas customized packages\u2026.\nDarjeeling is a well known hill station of West Bengal. This has been called the queen of hill-stations. It is at an altitude of 7000 ft. It offers a breath taking view of the several peaks of the magnificent Himalayas. The clouds seem to whisper to one another .The Kanchenjunga is covered with snow from the head to foot all round the year. The view of the sun rise from the famous Tiger hill is really breathtaking.\nThis place with lofty mountainous terrain and cascading rivers, offers adventure sports trekking, mountaineering and river rafting to the tourists.\nPadmaja Naidu Himalaya Zoological Park, Natural History Museum, Lloyds Botanical Garden, Tibetan Self-help Centre, Darjeeling-Rangeet Valley Passenger Ropeway, Lebong Race Course, Rope way, Ghoom Buddhist Monastery, Observatory Hill\nFor mountain views the best time to visit is from mid September to mid January, and then from mid March to mid June, when it starts becoming hazy, because of cloud cover. The average temperature ranges from 8.5 - 15 degrees Celsius in summers and 1.5-6 degrees Celsius in winters.\nBy Air: The nearest airport is at Bagdogra, 90 km away from Darjeeling. Bagdogra is connected to important cities of the country by domestic airlines.\nBy Road: There are bus connections to Darjeeling from Siliguri, Bagdogra, Gangtok, Kurseong and Kathmandu.\nBy Rail: New Jalpaiguri /Siliguri are the rail head for all trains, except the toy train running to Darjeeling. Siliguri is connected to Calcutta and other parts of the country by train. Or you can take the famous toy train, which is a meter gauge train operating over breath taking scenery. The journey takes approximately seven and half hours.\nThe most famous of the little trains linking the town of New Jalpaiguri in the plains to the lovely hill station of Darjeeling perched on the awesome Himalayas.\nThe Darjeeling Himalayan railway (DHR) has been given world heritage status by the UNESCO and is one of the major highlights of tourism in West Bengal\nThe widespread lush green tea gardens separated by meandering silvery mountain streams, rolling hill slopes, high Sal forests, measureless meadows, small quiet ethnic villages with an out line of the magnificent Himalayan ranges in the horizon, endless sky..... That\u2019s Dooars for you\u2026come and visit this gateway to the hill stations of Darjeeling with Saromas hill station packages\u2026\nGarumara National Park & Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary:Two hours drive from New Jalpaiguri and two and half hours from Bagdogra.\nBuxa Tiger Reserve & Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary: One and one and half-hour from Alipurduar and Coochbehar respectively. It takes three hours to reach Jaldapara from New Jalpaiguri/Bagodogra.\nPositioned at an altitude of 7200 ft, 32 km from Kalimpong Lava offers a breathtaking view of Rechi La passes and Jelep La. Short drives through dense forests of Kalimpong are tourist spots with unspoiled tranquil surroundings. Lava is the gateway to the Neora National Park.\nLolay Gaon / KAFER\n56 km from Kalimpong and located at an altitude of 5500 ft. A panoramic view of Kanchenjunga can be obtained from this point. The remarkable view of Sunrise over Kanchenjunga can be seen from Lolay Goan.\nKanchenjunga Darshan\n\"Kanchenjunga is one of the world's most huge and stunning mountains ranges\".\nKanchenjunga appears to be a mighty upheaval of snow and ice from the main Himalayan Range. The dazzling whiteness of snows coupled with distance ruins the perception of relative proximity and inaccessibility.\nKanchenjunga as it appears from Darjeeling is not a calm and silent mountain. The ice and rock avalanches, wind hurricanes of incredible dimensions frequently thunder as they roll down precipitous slopes.\nKalighat is a locality of Kolkata, India. One of the oldest neighborhoods in South Kolkata, Kalighat is thickly populated and lively with a rich history of cultural m\u00e9lange with the various foreign incursions into the area over time.\nA famous temple dedicated to the goddess Kali is situated in Kalighat. The right toe of Dakshayani is said to have fallen here. It is a very famous place for pilgrimage followers of the Hindu religion.\nThe picturesque town of Kalimpong is located 51 kms east of Darjeeling . It was the former headquarters of the Bhutanese Governor. Situated at an altitude of 1250 meters between the Deolo and Durbindra Hills, Kalimpong is an ideal place for a quiet holiday amidst gently rolling hills and deep valleys at the foot of the gargantuan Himalayas.\nDurpin Dara, Shri Ganeshmoni Pradhan Nursery, Standari Nursery, Shri L.B.Pradhan Nursery, Gouripur House, Swiss Welfare Dairy, Tibetan Monastery.\nReach There:\nBy Air: Nearest airport Bagdogra- 80 kms is connected to Calcutta, Delhi, Guwahati & other places of north-east.\nBy Rail: Two nearest railway stations are New Jalpaiguri (NJP) and Siliguri where NJP is directly connected by rail with the important places.\nBy Road: Calcutta- 651 kms, Guwahati- 513 kms, Delhi- 1312 kms and other major cities.\nOther important buildings in Kolkata are Belvedere Estate, Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Marble Palace, National Library of India, Raj Bhavan, Shaheed Minar and Writers' building.\nToday it is a major commercial hub with the second largest stock exchange in India.\nKurseong enjoys a milder and very healthy climate throughout the year because of its lower elevation. Kurseong means the places of White Orchid. It\u2019s located at an altitude of 4860 feet.\nBest time to visit: March to mid June & September to mid December.\nEagle's Crag, Deer Park, Forest Museum, Giddhapahar Mandir, Ambotika Shiv Mandir, Makaibari Tea Estate, St.Mary's Hill, Downhill, Bag aura, Chimney, Kettle Valley Picnic Spot, Names, Netaji Kathi.\nBy Air: Nearest airport Bagdogra- 60 kms, is connected to Calcutta, Delhi, Guwahati & other places of north-eastern India.\nBy Rail: Kurseong itself is a railway station. New Jalpaiguri- 57 kms from Kurseong is directly connected to the major places.\nBy Road: Siliguri- 51 kms, Guwahati- 560 kms, Calcutta- 636 kms, Delhi- 1359 kms, Kathmandu- 621 kms.\nA pristine hill resort nestled in the forest hills away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The serenity of this enchanting place attracts many tourists.\nThe natural beauty of this beautiful hill resort has a rejuvenating effect on the tired urban soul. The enchanting lakes, wild flowers and flourishing forests with Kanchenjunga as a backdrop add to its immense beauty. Mirik is indeed a paradise on earth.\nSumendu Lake: a man made lake, enveloped in a forested ridge with a floating fountain in its center. Sumendu is considered ideal for boating and Fishing.\nThe temple of Singha Devi or the Devi Sthan is on the west bank of the river and you have to take the bridge over the lake to get there.\nOther temples dedicated to Shiva, Kali Mata and Hanuman can also be visited there. Bokar Gompa is another place of religious importance.\nShantiniketan was founded by Noble Laureate Shri. Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1901 .His vision was to create a perfect harmony of humanity with nature. It is at a distance of 212 kms from Kolkata and is well connected by road and rail, the nearest rail station being Bolpur. Besides the University, the complex at \"Uttarayan\", arts gallery and museum are a must see in the itinerary of tourists.\nThe World Heritage Committee of UNESCO included 'The Sundarbans' in its World Heritage List. Dotted with innumerable creeks, canals the tributaries of the river Ganga and 54 small islands the Sundarbans is the natural heritage of West Bengal and is considered as the largest Estuarine Forest in the world. The dense mangroves in the mud flats, the birds sanctuaries in Lothian island and Sajnekhali, the hatchery cum sanctuary of crocodiles at Bhagabatpur, the large number of brackish water fish, prawns and crabs, the dense forest at Kalashdwip and The royal Bengal Tigers in the Tiger Reserve, all taken together offer an mystery to be unraveled.\nWest Bengals culture boasts of lasting richness in the reformation movements, making the whole of Oriental culture a cataclysm. The tradition and ethnicity were not ripped off; rather they were entangled with the new trends. Thus the natural outcome was a cosmopolitan way of thinking, embedding the pros and cons of both cultural practices.\nThe dense forest of Sundarbans shapes the demography of the region into a unique assortment. Immigrants from Bihar, Bangladesh and also the tribes like Santhals, Mundas etc have added new aspect to the culture Festivals, cuisine, music, dance, lifestyle allow the cultural embellishment of Bengal.\nWest Bengal is diverse with high peaks of the magnificent Himalayan ranges in the northern extremes to coastal regions down south, with flat terrains and Ganges delta intervening in between.\nWest Bengal is only state in India where Himalayas are in the north and Sea is at the south, with both plains and plateaus covering the remaining region.\nThe region remains hot and humid throughout the summer. Temperatures sometimes exceed 40 \u00b0C. Monsoons arrive in July and usually continue till September. October to March is a pleasant time to visit as the state enjoys a cool clime during this time. The region receives heavy rainfall during monsoon, and cyclones and storms are quite common.\nBy Air: Well Connected with the major cities.\nBy Rail: Howrah and Sealdah are the main railway stations in Calcutta. Calcutta is well connected with the major cities.\nBy Road: Well Connected with the major cities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 16874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbe.org/sections/AMGroundSystems.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EIK7N2GIMKXALSL55AQGMELUJXQXVHBX", "length": 1725, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sbe.org", "title": "Society of Broadcast Engineers", "raw_content": "AMGroundSystems\nAM Ground Systems\nInstructional Method: On-demand\nAM transmission systems require the use of a specific ground system that is designed as part of the antenna. These systems are often a source of mystery to the uninitiated. In this webinar we will focus on understanding the AM antenna system and the need for these ground systems. We will discuss theory, design standards, FCC requirements, good engineering practice, installation process, maintenance, and troubleshooting.\nGood Engineering Practice\nAbout Your Instructor - Stephen Lockwood, P.E., PMP\nStephen Lockwood is a senior engineer and partner with Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, with more than 30 years experience in the field of broadcasting and telecommunications engineering. He is a Registered Professional Electrical (P.E.) Engineer in Washington, Alaska, and Wyoming and holds a BS Electrical Engineering and BS Engineering Physics from Oklahoma Christian University. He is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers where he holds the certification of Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE) and AM Directional Specialist (AMD) and holds Amateur Radio Operator License K7SSL. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member and past president of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE) and is a member of Project Management Institute where he is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP).\nThe completion of a webinar from Webinars by SBE qualifies for 1 credit, identified under Category I of the Recertification Schedule for SBE Certifications.\nThis webinar is approximately one hour.\nIf you have questions regarding this course, contact Cathy Orosz via email or by phone at 317-846-9000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sc-compressed.com/2017/08/what-is-science-fiction-defining.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GDPYDWI2KJA4PF5FX6KLE734TLI22J4K", "length": 7981, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.sc-compressed.com", "title": "SC-COMPRESSED", "raw_content": "Home / Unlabelled / What Is Science Fiction - Defining Science Fiction\nWhat Is Science Fiction - Defining Science Fiction\nDefinitions of what Science Fiction is and is not\n-The literature of change\nIt's often said that Science Fiction is the literature of change. When a culture is undergoing a lot of changes due to scientific advances and technological developments, and expects to undergo more, it's hardly surprising if stories about these changes become popular as a way of expressing people's feelings (optimistic or otherwise) about change. Note that the changes may be in our ability to control the world, or just in our understanding of it. For example, some \"post-holocaust\" stories, such as Wyndham's The Chrysalids (also known as Rebirth ), portray cultures that understand and control less of the world than we do; the scientific element consists of our understanding of their world, and of how it arose out of our world. Other stories offer future technologies that we can hope for based on present-day science, but haven't developed yet, such as fusion-powered spaceships. Yet others go beyond this to dazzle us with future science that differs from what is now believed, but they retain some recognisable elements of the world we live in, so we can at least believe that the world depicted in the story might some day come to be. This leads up to my loose definition of ScF as fiction set in a world that differs from our everyday world in a way that importantly involves science or technology. Some people add that ScF should make you think about possible future worlds and alternatives thereto, but I'm quite glad to have some fiction that's purely entertainment. If history is any guide, there will always be plenty of ScF that asks questions (and usually supplies ready-made answers) about changes in the world and the futures to which they may lead.\nAbout a year after inscribing the above onto my hard disk, I was reading an introduction by Isaac Asimov to a novel by a younger author and found this:\nA science fiction story must be set against a society significantly diferent from our own -- usually, but not necessarily, bcause of some change in the level of science and technology -- or it is not a science fiction story.\nHe was contrasting ScF with detective stories, where criminals are caught and order is restored:\n... the science fiction story destroys our own comfortable society. The science fiction story does not deal with the restoration of order, but with change and, ideally, with continuing change ... we leave our society and never return to it.\n-The literature of science\nAnother widely-held view is that ScF is fiction that describes the impact of science or technology on people. To the extent that its readers are \"science buffs\" (never mind whether they know any science!), this may well be the chief reason they enjoy reading it. Its heroes are often those who understand the science or technology, which can add an element of wish-fulfillment. It can also contribute to the ghastly stereotype of the ScF reader as someone with no accomplishment or merit other other than science, and no interest in the impact of art on people, or for that matter of people on people. For my opinion of this definition, see below.\nSerdar Yegulalp suggests\nA kind of fiction that could only result from a scientifically-influenced worldview. Short & to the point. It covers explicitly technological SF, and also stuff like Phil Dick and even Thomas Pynchon....\nI like this one, though it has to be read carefully. It's also rather flexible, depending on what you regard as a scientific influence on your view of the world; which is probably a point in its favour.\n-A teaching aid\nIt is strongly rumoured that Heinlein wrote his \"juvenile\" novels partly with the intention of inspiring his young readers to take an interest in science and technology. I also rather enjoyed this page where David DeGraff describes his success in using short ScF stories to help teach introductory astronomy.\n-ScF and non-speculative genres\nAside: the \"sf\" in rec.arts.sf.written stands for Speculative Fiction, covering (at least) science fiction, fantasy, and alternative history. Damon Knight and Tom Shippey offer interesting observations about how ScF relates to fiction in general and to \"pastoral\" fiction.\n-Satires: Laputa and Erewhon\nThere is a centuries-old tradition whereby authors who have something really pungent to say about the society in which they are living will present their criticism as a work of fiction, ostensibly about another society living in a remote place to which the protagonist is somehow transported. Is this kind of thing science fiction? When I was too young to see through the veil of fiction to the kernel of satire, I used to read it eagerly. Certainly most of it is about worlds that differ from ours, but only to the extent necessary to make the author's point, and sometimes by a simple reversal: in Erewhon , Butler depicts people being punished if they have a cold or a fever, and attended by a doctor if they defraud someone. These days I find it hard to see much of either science or fiction in such works, though I find them much funnier than I did as a child. OTOH there's a fine line between satire disguised as ScF and fiction which tries to show how society could change radically if the rest of the world changed just a little (a playful example is Edmund Cooper's Five to Twelve ). By my definition above, the latter is genuine ScF.\n-High-tech fiction\nPeople have argued whether books like Clancy's The Hunt for Red October are ScF. Undeniably they describe the impact of technologies on people, and the technologies are not the ones found in my everyday world. OTOH these technologies do exist now, and are part of the everyday worlds of people like the characters in the books (e.g. military personnel). Thus they fall outside my definition of ScF but within some others. I feel safe in claiming that they are not much more speculative than the average detective story. And after all, there are a fair number of Westerns that describe the impact of steam train technology on people who used to ride horses; does this make them into science fiction?\nAuthors' and critics' opinions\nNeyir Cenk Gokce has compiled an excellent list of short definitions of ScF given by authors (and by some people whose names I don't recognise). I rather like the one by Pohl. I've put a few longer definitions that I found interesting onto a sub-page.\nAnother such list can be found at Magic Dragon, who also has a link back to this site, so it seems only fair that I should link to his.\n... and an anti-definition of my own\nHere's something which I used to attribute to Heinlein. I couldn't find it in his essay RayGuns and Rocket Ships (collected in Expanded Universe ), though. I'm indebted to Peter Knutsen for pointing out that it appears in Bova's Challenges in an article entitled Science in Science Fiction . It's this: a work shouldn't count as ScF unless the science is necessary to it. This takes aim at the many stories where, if you replaced the spaceships with covered wagons, the green skins with red ones, and the lasers with six-shooters, nobody could distinguish the resulting epic from a (usually rather poorly-written) Western. Indeed, I like to call such stories \"Mars Westerns\". They are just adventure stories (or romance novels, or ...) with high-tech props, resembling science fiction the way Hamlet resembles a history of Denmark. Given their resemblance to the subset of \"historical fiction\" that is just present-day fiction in an exotic setting, perhaps they could be called \"future fiction\"; I've also heard \"space fantasy\" and \"space opera\" used to refer to something similar. They have one thing in common with Gulliver's Travels : they are not really about a world that differs from the one we live in.\nWhat Is Science Fiction - Defining Science Fiction Reviewed by Tech Guru on August 09, 2017 Rating: 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 10810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/this-is-a-job-for-a-big-construction-machine-by-chris-oxlade/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:27Z", "digest": "sha1:M2RPEXXV2ZBCIUNNT4Y2QY5NXF6ESE3D", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.scholastic.com", "title": "This Is a Job for a Big Construction Machine by Chris Oxlade | Scholastic", "raw_content": "This Is a Job for a Big Construction Machine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scotmid.coop/2013/10/scotmid-and-semichem-teams-brush-up-on-life-saving-skills/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FTXSFTVUAUEHWPJXREH7AASGQ6CVTCCA", "length": 2647, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.scotmid.coop", "title": "Scotmid and Semichem teams brush up on life-saving skills | Scotmid Co-operative", "raw_content": "Scotmid and Semichem teams brush up on life-saving skills\nStaff completed their defibrillator training with the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\u201cThe roll out of this public access defibrillator programme has made a positive contribution to safer and sustainable communities around the country. \"\nStaff from the Scotmid Co-operative family of businesses came together last night (28 October 2013) at the Scottish Ambulance Service Headquarters in Dundee for a refresher course in operating in-store defibrillators.\nTeam members from Scotmid Clepington Road, Semichem Wellgate Centre and Semichem Lochee were trained by Stuart Ballantyne and Rupert Wilson from the Scottish Ambulance Service, ensuring that their life saving skills were brought up to date and store teams are ready to deal with the worst kind of first aid emergencies in their stores.\nIn a unique national partnership between Scotmid and the Scottish Ambulance Service, 35 Community Public Access Defibrillators have been placed in Scotmid Co-operative owned businesses across the country including Scotmid, Semichem and The Fragrance House stores. An additional ten stores will be selected for a further roll out in the coming months.\nThe chance of survival from a cardiac arrest is much greater when a patient receives early defibrillation, quickly followed up by advance cardiac care from an ambulance team.\nMaureen Mauchline, Manager at the Semichem Wellgate Centre store, attended training in defibrillator use and CPR techniques with colleagues last night. Maureen said: \u201cAll of our stores provide a service at the heart of local communities across Scotland and Scotmid is committed to making a difference and improving people\u2019s lives and the store staff have got completely behind the defibrillator roll out. Although the defibrillators we have in store are fully automated to allow no room for error, it was great for us to undergo the training for a second time. It made a big difference in consolidating our knowledge and just added to our confidence to deal with potential situations.\u201d\nKenny Freeburn, Head of Community Resilience at the Scottish Ambulance Service, said: \u201cThe roll out of this public access defibrillator programme has made a positive contribution to safer and sustainable communities around the country. While we have world class ambulance response times in Scotland, we know that in cardiac cases every second counts and that equipping communities with basic life saving skills and equipment will improve survival rates. We are delighted to support the Scotmid family with their training and it is a pleasure to see how the store teams have embraced this.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 5813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scotsman.com/sport/tennis/wimbledon-2018-five-of-the-top-10-women-s-seeds-crash-out-1-4764539", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LSTSWDLVASQ4C2DOXJW6DUBI7ICRAR4Z", "length": 1969, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.scotsman.com", "title": "Wimbledon 2018: Five of the top 10 women\u2019s seeds crash out - The Scotsman", "raw_content": "Wimbledon 2018: Five of the top 10 women\u2019s seeds crash out\nPetra Kvitova was defeated in three sets by Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Picture: AFP\nThe women\u2019s draw at Wimbledon is wide open after five of the top 10 seeds crashed out in the opening two rounds, with the possibility of two more following on Thursday.\nCaroline Wozniacki, Sloane Stephens, Elina Svitolina, Caroline Garcia and Petra Kvitova were all knocked out in the first three days of the championships.\nTop seed Simona Halep and defending champion Garbine Muguruza had work to do on Thursday to avoid also going out before the last-32 stage.\nTo lose such a large number of the seeds early on is not unknown at the All England Club, however.\nOver the last five years, 2017 was the anomaly as a top-10 women\u2019s seed did not fall until the third round.\nBut in 2016 three fell in the first two rounds, four went in 2015, there were two beaten early in 2014, and in 2013 six of the top 10 were no longer in the tournament after their opening two matches.\nIt was a bad year for the seeds all round in 2013 as four of the top 10 men also fell before the third round.\nGenerally, though, the men\u2019s elite have found less trouble in navigating through to later on in the tournament. Only one of the top 10 men fell in the first two rounds last year and in 2014, with two in 2016 and three in 2015.\nHere is a look at the top 10 seeded women who have fallen so far in the first two rounds in 2018, and in the past five years:\n2018 (seedings in brackets): 5 - Caroline Wozniacki (2), Sloane Stephens (4), Elina Svitolina (5), Caroline Garcia (6) and Petra Kvitova (8)\n2016: 3 - Garbine Muguruza (2), Belinda Bencic (7), Petra Kvitova (10)\n2015: 4 - Simona Halep (3), Ana Ivanovic (7), Ekaterina Makarova (8), Carla Suarez Navarro (9)\n2014: 2 - Jelena Jankovic (7), Victoria Azarenka (8)\n2013: 6 - Victoria Azarenka (2), Maria Sharapova (3), Sara Errani (5), Angelique Kerber (7), Caroline Wozniacki (9), Maria Kirilenko (10)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 4997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 162.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sdfamilylawattorney.com/practice-area/marriage-law/same-sex-marriage-with-biological-and-non-biological-parent-s", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:43Z", "digest": "sha1:T42EZFV7ICRXMOOPYHUE3AAFQI3S6AQ7", "length": 12319, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.sdfamilylawattorney.com", "title": "Same Sex Marriage with Biological and Non-Biological Parent's Attorney | San Diego Family Law Attorney", "raw_content": "Going through a divorce is a difficult task where two individuals must accept the division of goods and child custody regulations. Same-sex parents must endure a long process in order to become legal parents of a child. When a divorce is filed and children are present, the court must analyze many factors to determine which party will receive child custody. Like with different-sex couples, where both are biological parents, there are many issues that arise when child custody is at the forefront of the divorce.\nThe San Diego Family Law Attorney understands the difficulties that arise when same-sex couples are fighting for child custody. Some cases are complicated especially when non-biological parents are requesting to keep the child. Biological parents in these cases tend to have more rights for custody than the other parent. However, there have been cases where the non-biological parent was able to prove enough of his presence in the child's life as a parent to fight for custody.\nThese cases require strong and sensitive attorneys who are specialized in dealing with same-sex parent child custody issues. Though same-sex marriage has been protected in the State of California for a very long time, it is not guaranteed that all courts will understand the delicate attributes of the situation. The San Diego Family Law Attorney Firm is committed to providing reliable representation in matters of same-sex parent child custody disputes. We are ready to defend your right as a parent to provide you the right to remain a part of your child's life.\nSame-Sex Parents and Child Custody Factors\nSame-sex couples have a lot to think about when filing for divorce. Who will receive child custody, who will provide spousal support, and how will assets be shared? The court of law has established ways in which individuals can file for spousal support or share assets. There are many factors that are considered when deciding who will gain child custody between same-sex partners. The court will analyze the case differently if the child was adopted (by both or by one of the parents), if the couple used a surrogate, if the child was conceived through sperm or egg donation, and if the child is from a different relationship. Depending on the process, these factors affect the way in which the court will decide child custody. If you are a nonbiological parent and you wish to maintain close ties and jurisdiction over your child, it is crucial to have submitted documents that prove the nonbiological parent is involved in the child's life.\nADOPTION: If the child was adopted under any state in the United States, the parent who signed the paperwork, is most likely the parent who will gain custody of the child. Even if you played a significant role in raising the child, the court will not adhere to your case if there is no legal documentation proving you existed in the child's life. If you were present in your child's life and find yourself in a custody dispute, you should contact your local attorney to discuss possible ways of proving yourself as a legal guardian of the child. With enough proof, you may be able to fight for child visitation and child custody rights.\nNATURALLY CONCEIVED: If the child was conceived through a surrogate or sperm/egg donation, the child is biologically connected to one parent. The parent who provided the sperm or egg or the parent who conceived the child is entitled to claim the child in court. Non-biological parents who did not adopt the child or who failed to sign the certificate of birth may face issues regarding child custody. To establish your rights as a parent and to establish your rights to child custody in the case of a divorce, you must become a legal parent.\nLegal Parents\nIn divorce cases dealing with child custody rights, the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transsexual (LGBT) community has legal ways in which non-biological parents can fight for child visitation and child support rights. Before ending a relationship involving a child, the non-biological parent (if he or she wishes to maintain legal rights over his or her child), should become a \u201clegal\u201d parent.\nA legal parent is a person who is recognized by law to be the child\u2019s parent. A legal parent has gained rights over his or her child through adoption, through birth, and through other legal means. Legal parents are allowed to make decisions regarding the child\u2019s education, well-being, and health. In many states, a person who is not considered the legal parent may not have the right to fight for child support or visitation rights. Even if the non-biological or nonlegal parent lives with and cares for the child, he or she may be unable to request documentation of the child and be unable to fight in a court of law for his or her child custody rights.\nIn both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, both \u2018legal\u2019 parents have the lawful right to fight for child custody in any court of law. If the couple was married or an adoptive child was brought into the relationship, both parents are presumed to be the legal parents of the child. However, if you were in a married relationship, civil union, or in a domestic partnership, it is still highly advised to have adoption documentation for the non-biological parent. This will help you fight for your child custody as a \u2018legal\u2019 parent. Again, legal parents have the most advantage over a child custody dispute when the other person is not registered as a legal parent.\nThe most common way to protect your parental rights and to become the legal parent of your partner's child is to opt for \u2018second parent adoption\u2019. This legal action allows a same-sex partner to legally adopt and become a parent of the partners biological or adoptive child. Second parent adoption allows the child to have two legal parents and in turn allows both parents certain rights in case of a divorce. Both parents are legally recognized and both parents are lawfully protected when fighting for child custody.\nIn all second-parent adoption cases, the parent seeking to become a legal parent will need the consent of the first parent to continue the legal documentation. If the first parent refuses to give consent to the other partner, the proceeding is considered \u2018contested\u2019. If your partner contests the adoption petition you may only be able to adopt if under two circumstances.\nIn contested cases, you may adopt if you find a way to prove that it is in child's best interests.\nIn contested cases, you may adopt if you can prove the other parent has neglected his or her parental responsibilities.\nBefore a judge can grant the requesting parent with adoption rights, the judge will need to consider if the adoption is in the best benefit of the child. The court will typically require a \u201cpost placement report\u201d and a physical and mental record of the child's health. The report will ultimately, provide information about the prospective legal parent's criminal history, the family lifestyle, the environment at home and other factors that may determine if an adoption is in the best interests of the child.\nIn addition, non-biological parents have the option to obtain parentage judgment through the Uniform Parentage Act. In states like California, non-biological and non-adoptive parents can be legal parents given certain circumstances. In some states, non-biological parents are considered de-facto legal parents under parentage codes if they can provide proof of living with the child or providing \u2018psychological support\u2019. Every state has fine points regarding their take on who is or who is not a legal parent. To avoid child custody issues if you are a non-biological parent, it is important to obtain legal documentation as a parent.\nMany states across the country do not process second-parent adoption or parentage petitions. If you are residing in a state that does not allow you to legally become a parent of a child that is not biologically yours, you and your partner may opt for a parenting agreement. A parenting agreement will allow the second parent to have exclusive custody rights. Though this document does not legally recognize the other spouse as a parent, in a court of law, it may help win child support and child visitation rights.\nChild Custody and California Family Code 3011\nThe California Family Code 3011 establishes ways to determine the best interests of the child in case of a divorce proceeding. The Family Code 3011 is used as a guideline for child custody disputes throughout California courtrooms. The California court considers many relevant factors pertaining to the child's life when making a child custody claim including:\nThe child's well-being (safety and history of health)\nAny history of abuse by the parent seeking custody or his or her partner\nFor any allegations of abuse, the court will require any written documents that allow the court more information on the subject at hand.\nThe nature of the relationship between both parents\nThe location of the school and other facilities where the child frequents (involvement in the community)\nThe presence of illegal substances in the child's life. The court will take into consideration any history of illegal use of controlled substances by either parent seeking for custody.\nAfter considering the above factors, the court can decide that both parents are not capable of keeping the child. In these cases, the court grants a third-party guardianship over your child. If the court deems either parent unable to care for the child, the parents may still have the right to visitation. Please consult your local attorney to learn more about the laws pertaining to guardianships.\nChildren at the age of reason\nCourts throughout the United States also take into account the wishes of the child to determine his or her best interests and therefore determine the best child custody resolution. Children who are over the age of eighteen have the most leverage and can contribute the most to the child custody resolution. Emancipated children have legal adult status and they are able to choose where he or she will go to school, the type of medical coverage, and how he or she will handle her or his private assets. A child not at the age of 18 may emancipate themselves if they meet certain factors.\nThe court will consider emancipation of a child if:\nThe child is over the age of 14 years\nThe child is making his or her own money (legally making money)\nThe child is able to handle his or her own expenditures\nThe child is determined to move from foster care or from the parent who was granted custody\nThe child custody procedures are the same for parents in a homosexual or heterosexual relationship. In child custody disputes both parents must come to an agreement on how they will share and take care of their child. In order to do so, parents must file legal paperwork and must come to an agreement in or outside of a courtroom. Dealing with these issues outside of a courtroom through a mediator is the best option to determine how assets and child custody will be shared in the event of a divorce.\nThe state of California has dealt with same-sex issues for longer than many states within the United States of America. The court is obliged to practice anti-discrimination laws and treat every case fairly and to provide just jurisdiction over these sensitive matters. However, it is not uncommon to find judges who feel uneasy about homosexuality. In cases involving a child custody from a previous heterosexual relationship, the unsympathetic judge may become a considerable factor in the child custody case.\nWhether you are a biological or nonbiological parent seeking custody of your child, please contact your local lawyer at the San Diego Family Law Attorney. Our experienced team of attorneys can provide you information specific to your case and provide legal guidance to protect your rights as a same-sex parent. The state of California is required to treat same-sex legal matters with fairness under the law as it would in any case involving heterosexual couples. California Family Code Section 3011 has been extended by the California Supreme Court to protect the rights of parents within a same-sex parent custody case. If you are experiencing any type of discrimination in a court of law, you should contact our experienced attorneys at 619-610-7425.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 16562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/qa-neal-stephenson-on-seveneves-a-space-race-with-life-and-death/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WUX77DWABODPKH5OY3QOT4RBNH6OXAUM", "length": 6807, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.seattletimes.com", "title": "Q&A: Neal Stephenson on \u2018Seveneves,\u2019 a space race with life and death | The Seattle Times", "raw_content": "Q&A: Neal Stephenson on \u2018Seveneves,\u2019 a space race with life and death\nOriginally published May 31, 2015 at 4:03 am Updated June 3, 2015 at 11:36 am\nIn Seattle writer Neal Stephenson\u2019s amazing new book, \u201cSeveneves,\u201d our planet is in for a pummeling from pieces of the exploded moon. People must flee into space, stay safe for thousands of years, then go back and start over.\nNeal Stephenson has outdone himself, and that\u2019s saying something.\nSeattle novelist Stephenson has published speculative fiction in the alternative present or near future (\u201cSnow Crash\u201d among others), and historical fiction in the distant past (the Baroque Cycle). He even consulted on Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space project, though he can\u2019t say what he did (\u201cThe first thing I did was sign an NDA\u201d \u2014 nondisclosure agreement).\nBut his new novel \u201cSeveneves\u201d (Morrow, 857 pp., $35) represents an imaginative leap, even for someone with a powerful imagination.\nThe author of \u201cSeveneves\u201d will appear at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, at Barnes & Noble in the Alderwood mall, 19401 Alderwood Mall Parkway, Lynnwood (425-771-3193; http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/87690).\nNote: The store will begin distributing wristbands for this event at 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the reading. For book-signing guidelines, please contact the store.\nThe premise of \u201cSeveneves\u201d: Something hits the moon, and it starts to break up. Earth\u2019s leaders have two years to figure out how to preserve the human race before the planet\u2019s surface is destroyed by the \u201cHard Rain,\u201d a continuous pummeling of pieces of the former moon. Up on a space station of sorts, about 1,700 survivors have to figure out how their descendants will stay alive for the 5,000 years it will take for the Hard Rain to stop falling.\nReading a Stephenson book takes some effort, but the rewards are legion. A member of a family of engineers and scientists, Stephenson loves technology and cryptography, physics and genetics. He grasps concepts that we all live with but only dimly understand.\nJason Sheehan, reviewing \u201cSeveneves\u201d for National Public Radio, came up with this apt description: \u201cWhere most hard SF really means \u2018a bunch of ray guns, then some talk about wormholes,\u2019 he plays with hard ballistics, hard genetics, hard sociology. And what thrills me is that he makes it interesting. That he makes life and death in space about actual life and death \u2014 about the million things that will kill you and the two or three things that really smart people can do to stay alive.\u201d\nStephenson, currently on a national book tour, answered some questions about \u201cSeveneves\u201d:\nQ: In \u201cSeveneves,\u201d a conflict develops between governments, who are grappling with impending catastrophe, and private space companies. One entrepreneur, Sean Probst, responds to the emergency more swiftly and successfully than the world\u2019s space bureaucracies. Do you see that conflict playing out in real life?\nA: What I tried to do is extend some credit to both kinds of space programs. The achievements of the old-school programs of NASA and the Russian programs were fantastic and laid the groundwork. There\u2019s no way private space entrepreneurs could have done it.\nThose programs continue today, and they continue to do impressive things. But there\u2019s also room for the upstart private programs. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. Sean Probst just shows up, he has the resources, he causes some resentment. The members of the traditional teams hate him on sight and want to confiscate his stuff. Rather than advocate for one or the other, I\u2019m trying to be more of an observer of the way things are in that world and tell a story that I think makes sense.\nQ: In many science-fiction movies, when catastrophe is about to strike, people freak out and behave badly. In \u201cSeveneves,\u201d for the most part, people behave pretty heroically. Do you think that is more realistic than the movie scenario?\nA: I read a lot of history. My general observation about people who have been in wars, and disasters, is that there\u2019s always instances of bad behavior. But for the most part, people tend to rise to the occasion.\nI see a tendency in media to assume the opposite. Whenever there\u2019s a train wreck or a car wreck or a bombing, newspapers \u2014 particularly British newspapers \u2014 the word \u201cpanic\u201d is used. In fact, it\u2019s mostly people keeping your cool. I wasn\u2019t interested in writing a book where everyone loses their minds.\nQ: Many different aspects of science and technology are discussed in \u201cSeveneves\u2019\u2019 \u2026 one is the way the descendants of the \u201cSeveneves\u201d are bred for certain traits that their ancestors valued \u2014 strength, courage, cunning, intelligence. Are we close to an era where people will manipulate the human genetic code for certain traits?\nA: The ability to do that, at least theoretically, is almost upon us. It\u2019s very, very close.\nHistory shows that everything is always more complicated than you think. My guess is that people in the next 10 years will be trying to do this, if they\u2019re not doing it already, and they will discover glitches and problems and drawbacks that will force them to go back to the drawing board. But I think within a few decades people will know how to do it.\nQ: The end of \u201cSeveneves\u201d cries out for a sequel. Do you have one in mind?\nA: There\u2019s nothing currently in the works. A lot depends on what happens in the next few months, how people respond to the book, if there\u2019s any interest in doing media adaptations.\nAll science fiction and fantasy is about building worlds. When I was a kid, I remember reading Frank Herbert\u2019s \u201cDune\u201d for the first time. (There\u2019s) a glossary of some of the unfamiliar terms used in the book. At first it was off-putting, though now it\u2019s commonplace \u2026 by the time I had read through the glossary, I had a picture in my head of the way that this world works. It\u2019s not just one story, it\u2019s a whole world. \u2026 Almost any successful fantasy or science-fiction book is going to leave you with the sense that there could be more.\nQ: Which do you enjoy the most, writing in the future or in the past?\nA: The years I spent writing the Baroque Cycle were very enjoyable years. Not that I didn\u2019t enjoy writing the other books, I derived a lot of enjoyment from going through and reading all those books about history.\nI loved that and would like to do more of it. I\u2019m actually well into another book that\u2019s another one of those. I made the decision to put it on hold to get \u201cSeveneves\u201d out.\nQ: This book made me appreciate our natural environment. I would get so engrossed in it, imagining these people living in a confined space with very little hope for survival, that when I would look up and see the sky I would think, \u201cOh, thank God, it\u2019s still there.\u201d Was that your intent?\nA: I\u2019ve heard other people make similar remarks, so thank you for that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 10781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1572384/000164033418000257/rssv_ex102.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:4RKXBDQ6UI5LBLGY5UBGLUSATR7ESWIV", "length": 6935, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.sec.gov", "title": "EX-10.2 3 rssv_ex102.htm TERMINATION OF SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT rssv_ex102.htm", "raw_content": "TERMINATION OF SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT\nThis Termination of Share Exchange Agreement (the \u201cTermination Agreement\u201d) is made as of February 9, 2018 (the \u201cEffective Date\u201d), by and between Resort Savers, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the \u201cPurchaser\u201d), Dusun Eco Resort (2015) Sdn. Bhd., a limited liability company incorporated in Malaysia (the \u201cCompany\u201d), and each of the shareholders of the Company, collectively owning of 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests in the Company (collectively, the \u201cSellers\u201d). The Purchaser, the Company and the Sellers are sometimes referred to herein individually as a \u201cParty\u201d and, collectively, as the \u201cParties\u201d.\nWHEREAS, the parties hereto are parties to the Share Exchange Agreement, dated as of December 7, 2017 (the \u201cShare Exchange Agreement\u201d); and\nWHEREAS, the parties hereto have mutually agreed to terminate the Share Exchange Agreement pursuant to the terms thereof and this Termination Agreement;\nNOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and representations set forth below, the Parties agree as follows (all capitalized terms, unless otherwise defined, shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Share Exchange Agreement):\n1. Termination. The parties hereby agree to terminate the Share Exchange Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1(a) thereof. Effective as of the date hereof (the \u201cTermination Date\u201d), the Share Exchange Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect. Notwithstanding any provision of the Share Exchange Agreement to the contrary, neither party shall have any further obligations thereunder or with respect thereto, except as specifically set forth herein.\n2. Effect of Termination. Effective as of the Termination Date, none of the parties (or their Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents or other representatives) shall have any liability or obligation to each other under the Share Exchange Agreement, except such liabilities and obligations which by the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement are to survive termination thereof.\n3. Releases. Effective as of the Termination Date, each of the Parties hereto, on its own behalf and on behalf of its principals, agents, Affiliates, successors, assigns, heirs, representatives, and attorneys, hereby irrevocably, fully and unconditionally releases and forever discharges the other Party and each of its past or present directors, officers, employees, attorneys, principals, agents, Affiliates, successors, assigns, heirs, representatives, and insurers, from and against any and all present and future claims, counterclaims, demands, actions, suits, causes of action, damages, controversies and liabilities, including, without limitation, any costs, expenses, bills, penalties or attorneys\u2019 fees, whether known or unknown, contingent or absolute, foreseen or unforeseen, and whether in law, equity or otherwise, that could have been asserted in any court or forum and relating in any way to any conduct, occurrence, activity, expenditure, promise or negotiation arising from or relating to the Share Exchange Agreement, including the performance thereof and further payment obligations of any kind in connection therewith.\n4. Due Authorization. Each Party hereto hereby represents and warrants that the signature to this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on its part and that the officer executing this Agreement on its behalf has the authority to execute the same and to bind it to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.\n5. Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law, or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of this Agreement is not affected in any manner adverse to any Party. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the Parties as closely as possible in a mutually acceptable manner.\n6. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed and delivered (including by facsimile transmission) in one or more counterparts, and by the different Parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.\n7. Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Nevada applicable to contracts executed in and to be performed in that State. All actions and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be heard and determined exclusively in any state or federal court located in Clark County, Nevada (or in any court in which appeal from such courts may be taken). The parties hereto hereby (a) submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any state or federal court sitting in Clark County, Nevada for the purpose of any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement brought by any party hereto, and (b) irrevocably waive, and agree not to assert by way of motion, defense, or otherwise, in any such action or proceeding, any claim that it is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts, that its property is exempt or immune from attachment or execution, that the action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the action or proceeding is improper, or that this Agreement may not be enforced in or by any of the above-named courts.\n8. Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by the Parties hereto at any time by action taken by or on behalf of their respective Boards of Directors. This Agreement may not be amended except by an instrument in writing signed by each of the Parties hereto.\n9. Entire Agreement; Assignment. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof, including the Share Exchange Agreement (except such liabilities and obligations which by the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement are to survive termination thereof). This Agreement shall not be assigned by either party (whether pursuant to a merger, by operation of law or otherwise).\nIN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Party hereto has caused this Agreement to be signed and delivered by its respective duly authorized officer as of the date first written above.\nThe Purchaser:\nDUSUN ECO RESORT (2015) SDN. BHD.,\na Malaysian limited liability company\nZhou Gui Bin Name: Lim Kiang Huit\nPresident and CEO Title: Director\nLIM KIANG HUIT\nLAW KONG ENG\nJIANG HAIYAN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 7215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seeingspots.co.uk/2013/09/the-artful-readers-club-9.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:06:26Z", "digest": "sha1:NXR25M45UWZVO3PG4N3Q2237PEOKAKMM", "length": 1341, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.seeingspots.co.uk", "title": "The Artful Readers Club #9 - Seeing Spots", "raw_content": "Time for another instalment of The Artful Readers Club, This time I went back to Chick Lit and I'm so pleased I did.\nThis book was a really good read.\nI have read most of Jenny Colgan's books and they all tend to be enjoyable and again with many books follow a tale of two people and flash back to the past.\nNow being honest I don't really like this style of writing and often don't read the flash back chapters. I often feel like I don't miss out on anything by doing it. However this book was different I really enjoyed the flashback chapters and wanted to know more about that side of things.\nThe jist of it is Anna works in a UK mass manufacturing chocolate company in the UK and has an industrial accident, while she is in hospital her old French teacher who arranges for her to spend a summer in France working at a chocolate shop.\nThe story follows Anna's struggle to fit in with the locals, speak french, make chocolate and when the shop owner falls ill she has to step in to run the shop, make the chocolate, sort out family fall outs and helps reunite old lovers.\nIt might sound a bit soppy but it really is a lovely read.\nNext Month I'm planning to read a very different kind of book to what i've read before and I'm really hoping I will enjoy it.\nOnce again no art but it's all in my head. It will make it to the page eventually!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 4016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.senatenj.com/print/release.php?postid=9383", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RJBFJLVKJ6K2TSXTV23CSKNCRVQKFCKY", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.senatenj.com", "title": "Press Release", "raw_content": "https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/oroho/oroho-oversight-of-temporary-transitional-aid-essential-for-programs-success/9383", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sermoncentral.com/contributors/allan-quak-profile-13764?ref=SermonPrint", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UT5JQLCYKWWVCQF2CGUP25O5G5X6WWIE", "length": 8203, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.sermoncentral.com", "title": "Allan Quak Profile - Learn about Allan Quak, view sermon resources shared by Allan Quak - SermonCentral.com", "raw_content": "Allan Quak\nContributing sermons since Dec 5, 2005\nChurch Name: Northside Evangelical Church\nAllan's church\nNorthside Evangelical Church\nNorthgate, *Province/Other 4013\nEducation: My primary theological education took place at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong Australia. It was a five year full time Bachelor of Divinity. I have almost completed a Master of Arts in Theology through the Australian College of Theology. I also have a Graduate Certificate in Professional Management.\nExperience: I have been in full time ministry for 20 years.\nComment to those looking at my sermons: Thanks for being willing to have a look. It is humbling to know that sermons which God has graciously allowed me to write are being used all over the world. If you do end up preaching them please pray that the Spirit will use the sermons to transform and convict those to whom you speak.\nSermon or series that made a difference: Many of them do. When I preach I don\u2019t just preach at the congregation but I also preach to myself. Having said that the sermon series which I did on the 12 disciples had a large impact on my personal thoughts about the purposes of the church and my place in it.\nFamily: I have been married for 25 years and I have three daughters who are 25, 24 and 21, and on son-in-law. My wife has been a constant support to my ministry and I am so thankful to the Lord for providing her in my life.\nWhat my parents think of my sermons: They really enjoy them.\nWhat my spouse (really) thinks of my sermons: She believes I am the best preacher she has ever heard.\nBest advice given to me about preaching: Keep it simple and focus on the Word.\nBooks that have had an impact: I read all the time and there are many books which have had an impact. Indeed I have found that you can be impacted from the most unlikely sources.\nHobbies: I have a dream to build an n-scale model railway loosely based on the New South Wales (Australia) railway system.\nIf I could Preach one more time, I would say...: What I always say; \"Jesus is the only way to eternal life\".\nSomething funny that happened while preaching: I often use the phrase \"brothers and sisters\" which I am addressing the congregation. However, one time, it came out as \"brothers and sinners\".\nWhat I want on my tombstone: He let Jesus make the difference\nAs we run the race the journey will be one where we face many faith-testing situations. In that journey we can endure and \u201cfinish well\u201d because our Saviour gives us all we need to fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith.\nYou can listen to the full message here:- http://www.nec.org.au/running-the-race/ Message 2 Timothy 4:1-8 Finish Well I want to start by talking about epitaphs. An epitaph is the words which are written on a tombstone and they act as a way of remembering a deceased person\u2019s life. One day a man ...read more\nTags: Endurance, Finish Well, Drink Offering, Fight Good Fight\nIn the journey of life we want to run the race faithfully but we constantly find ourselves failing. However because we are put of the church we are able to fail well. To fail well requires is to fulfil our responsibility and accept our vulnerability.\nYou can listen to the full message here:- http://www.nec.org.au/running-the-race/ Message Galatians 6:1-10 Fail Well No-one wakes up in the morning \u2026 or at least I don\u2019t know any Christians \u2026 who wake up and say, \u201cGod let\u2019s make this day a day of failure.\u201d You and me God \u2013 we can do this. But I ...read more\nTags: Restoration, Failure, Body Of Christ, Vulnerability\nWhen we run the race our calling is to be jars of clay. The Christian race is not run to bring attention to ourselves, but to put all the attention onto the treasure which is within us. When we run like this then we are running well.\nYou can listen to the full message here:- http://www.nec.org.au/running-the-race/ Message 2 Corinthians 4:1-18 Run Well We are continuing our series on \u201cRunning the Race\u201d. Today our focus will be on the question of \u201cRunning Well\u201d. As we think about this question I want to bring your mind back to ...read more\nTags: Perseverance, Jars Of Clay, Run Well, Treasure In Us\nWe will only begin the race well when we identify, and full confess, our spiritual bankruptcy to Jesus. There are no achievements, or spiritual outcomes, which make us worthy of God\u2019s attention. It is only our faith in the great exchange that Jesus is willing to make for us.\nYou can listen to the full message here:- http://www.nec.org.au/running-the-race/ Message Ephesians 2:1-10 Begin Well 10 days ago Wild Oats XI won the 2018 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. They also won in 2017 \u2026 sort of. Wild Oats XI finished the 2017 race in one day, eight hours, 48 minutes and 50 ...read more\nTags: Conversion, Dead In Sin, Grace Alone, Total Depravity, Spiritual Bankruptcy (view more) (view less)\nComing Full Circle Again\nMalachi ends on a sombre note. In the life of the people of Judah, everything has come full circle all over again. However there is the promise of the messenger, and a message, which will bring a circuit breaker to the cycle of sin.\nYou can listen to the full message here:- http://www.nec.org.au/listen-to-a-sermon-series/jexit-judah-comes-home/ Jexit: Judah Comes Home Coming Full Circle Again Malachi 2:17-4:6 We all know this doesn\u2019t actually happen. But, if I was God, I think there would be days when I would get very ...read more\nScripture: Malachi 2:17-4:17\nTags: Sin, John The Baptist, Consequences, Breaking Sin Cycle\nScripture: Ephesians 2:1-10, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Galatians 6:1-10, 2 Timothy 4:1-8\nTags: Finish Well, Begin Well, Run Well, Fail Well\nJexit - Judah Comes Home\nScripture: Ezra 1:1-11, Nehemiah 1:1-13:1, Zechariah 8:1-23, Zechariah 4:1-14, Haggai 1:1-2:1, Ezra 4:1-5, Ezra 2:1-70, Esther 1:1-10:1, Malachi 1:6-2:6, Ezra 6:13-18, Malachi 2:17-4:17 (view more) (view less)\nTags: Temple, Unrepentant, God's Promises, Distraction, Purim, Post Exile, Judah Restoration, Named By God, Post Spiritual High, Small Beginnings, Despise Spiritual Life, 70 Year Exile, Nehemiah Wall, Second Temple (view more) (view less)\nMiracles Through The Manger\nScripture: John 1:14, Galatians 4:4-5, Colossians 1:15-18, Hebrews 4:14-16, Ephesians 4:22-24 (view more) (view less)\nTags: Advent, Identity In Christ\nScripture: 1 Timothy 3:1, 2 Timothy 3:14-15, Matthew 16:13-20, John 6:25-59\nTags: Communion, Church, Leadership, Bread Of Life, Gates Of Hades, Infants, Overseers, Knowing Scripture (view more) (view less)\nGhost Perhaps you have seen the movie \"Ghost\". Admittedly it came out in 1990 so maybe it is a bit old for some of you. It stars Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Early in the movie Patrick dies and becomes a \"ghost\". Near the end of the movie Demi has to let him go as he walks to a group of ...read more\nThe Day After The Berlin Wall Fell A Sign ...\nThe day after the Berlin Wall fell a sign appeared in the churchyard of a small church in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The sign simply said:- \"The Lamb Wins.\" That is the glorious Gospel Truth. The Lamb Wins. Not sin. Not disease. Not death. Not tragedy. The Lamb ...read more\nLet Me Tell You About Louis Slotin, One Of The ...\nLet me tell you about Louis Slotin, one of the early scientists who were working with the effects of radioactive uranium. On May 21, 1946, he was experimenting to find how long it would take for uranium to be triggered into an unstoppable reaction. He was doing that by pushing two hemispheres ...read more\nA Fencing Contractor Was Talking With A Rich ...\nA fencing contractor was talking with a rich property owner about his chances of going to heaven. The rich man believed that God would be pleased with his efforts. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve lived a good life and been hardworking and giving to worthy causes. Sure, I hide some of my income so it doesn\u2019t ...read more\nAfter The Battle Of The Bulge During World War ...\nAfter the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, one German officer described the capture of an American unit early in the fighting. Among the booty was a box that contained a cake. What was remarkable about the cake is that it had been sent to an American soldier from Boston and it was still ...read more\nSend Message to Allan Quak", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 13401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.serviceexpertsmemphis.com/faq/how-can-i-better-control-my-home-energy-costs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KCNULPDJ5BOAWVZM22LT6BDWGNB4A7JN", "length": 1541, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.serviceexpertsmemphis.com", "title": "How can I better control my home energy costs? | Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning", "raw_content": "With energy costs soaring, there are a few steps you can take to help cut down the expenses of heating and cooling your home. HVAC equipment usually consumes more energy than any other appliance in the home. This inevitably shows up every month on monthly bills, but it's important to remember that energy costs can be controlled in several ways.\nMaintenance: One method to control energy costs is to schedule annual maintenance to ensure your furnace and air conditioner is running properly and efficiently. Operating dirty heating or cooling equipment can result in unnecessary loss of efficiency and may even damage the unit.\nZoning: Zoning can drastically lower your heating costs. Zoning divides your home into separate comfort areas, which are heated or cooled based on the occupancy of the rooms. That means a zoning system allows each room in your home to potentially have its own temperature setting. With a zoning system, you no longer pay to heat or cool areas of your home that are rarely used, and your family gets the exact temperature you want in highly occupied rooms.\nProgrammable Thermostats: Programmable thermostats can make a big difference in energy consumption. Since you can proactively set a schedule for the days and times that the home is occupied, these thermostats are able to deliver exact comfort, efficiency and energy savings. For example, if you're going to be away, you can set the whole house at an energy-saving temperature to avoid heating or cooling an empty house and conserving energy in the process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Job-hunters-flock-to-Avon-Mary-Kay-Tupperware-3295867.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3JRD3YZWCCNS55UOC2DPE5QV7UDFDBZA", "length": 3913, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.sfgate.com", "title": "Job hunters flock to Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware - SFGate", "raw_content": "https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Job-hunters-flock-to-Avon-Mary-Kay-Tupperware-3295867.php\nJob hunters flock to Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware\nJuanita Cousins, Associated Press\nIn a Friday, May 15, 2009 photo, Melanie Lyke, left, discusses Avon products with her client, Jennifer Jarnagin, right, in Jarnagin's home in Franklin, Tenn. Lyke sells Avons products as a way to earn a second income. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey) less\nIn a Friday, May 15, 2009 photo, Melanie Lyke, left, discusses Avon products with her client, Jennifer Jarnagin, right, in Jarnagin's home in Franklin, Tenn. Lyke sells Avons products as a way to earn a second ... more\nPhoto: Christopher Berkey, AP\nArmies of new Avon ladies, Mary Kay reps and Tupperware sellers are advancing on living rooms across the country, their ranks full of professionals forced to take a second job amid the recession.\nBecke Alexander, sales manager for Avon Products Inc. in New York, hears each week from laid-off bankers and stay-at-home moms, but also gainfully employed people worried how long they'll stay that way. All of them are willing to knock on doors, host parties or do whatever else it takes to peddle some makeup.\n\" 'I need money.' That's what I've been hearing since about November,\" Alexander said. \"There are no hobby seekers coming here. It's people with a legitimate need.\"\nJob cuts, shrinking bonuses and scaled-back hours have pushed more people than ever to become direct sales representatives, a phenomenon industry experts say they've seen before.\nIn the 1990-91 recession, the number of direct sellers increased 8 percent to 5.1 million Americans. In the 2001 recession, the work force increased to 12.2 million.\nAnd while 2008 figures are not yet available, in 2007 an estimated 15 million people nationwide were in direct sales. About 58 percent of them became reps as a second job, according to the Direct Selling Association, a trade group that represents 200 U.S. companies.\nWhen money began getting tight in Nicole Robinson's household in Garland, Texas, the full-time pharmaceutical sales rep signed up to host Mary Kay parties and give facials, working just six hours to make about $600 a week.\n\"Costs aren't going down and opportunities are tightening up. Raises and bonuses aren't as big. And I didn't want to ever be in a situation where we were in jeopardy,\" said Robinson, who joined Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. in September.\nBusiness declined at the international cell phone company her husband works for, she said, and they wanted to continue their moderate lifestyle and contribute to their children's college funds.\n\"We were looking for a plan B for our family to make additional income,\" she said. \"We really didn't want to participate in the recession.\"\nRhonda Shasteen, chief marketing director for Mary Kay, said the Addison, Texas, company saw traffic on its Web site increase by 108 percent in March, when it began airing TV ads to attract new sales reps.\nThe sales force grew 22 percent from January to March, compared with the same period last year.\nTupperware Brands of Orland said it's making more money and has more people selling its products, spokeswoman Nora Alonso said.\nDirect sales reps can earn commissions between 25 to 50 percent of retail sales, and some companies will also pay for recruiting a new salesperson.\nCompanies that are members of the Direct Selling Association are required to refund at least 90 percent of costs to sales representatives who get stuck with products.\nDuring stronger economies, people usually take on direct sales jobs so they can have money for leisure spending, said Larry Chonko, business ethics professor at The University of Texas at Arlington.\n\"Times are tough, as we know, and there is an absolute need for extra income,\" Chonko said. \"Direct sales is not recession-proof, but it is the kind of business that even in a recession you can make success of it.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 11509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/A-new-book-for-the-beach-bag-if-it-fits-3225002.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:54:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6AXSOWUXUFBMIOTL6C2KNO2EQFYZIGLT", "length": 2421, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.sfgate.com", "title": "A new book for the beach bag, if it fits - SFGate", "raw_content": "https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/A-new-book-for-the-beach-bag-if-it-fits-3225002.php\nA new book for the beach bag, if it fits\nChristopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times\nSurf rolls along the beach in front of San Onofre nuclear plant, May 10, 1998, at San Onofre State Beach, about 60 miles south of Los Angeles.\nPhoto: Denis Poroy, AP\nSummer's here and the time is right for ... 352 fact-packed pages from the California Coastal Commission.\nThe commission has published a weighty paperback covering San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles counties, \"Beaches and Parks in Southern California\" (University of California Press, $24.95). The volume includes more than 50 color maps and about 300 color photos. The editor and principal writer is Steve Scholl.\nHere, drawn from the new book and only slightly sensationalized, are a few nuggets.\n-- It's not a bird. It's not a plane. It's not Superman. It's Cypselurus californicus. The California flying fish, often spotted by boaters headed to and from Santa Catalina Island, can glide in the air for distances up to 20 yards.\n-- There's a good reason you can run faster than you swim. Ocean water is 3,500 times more dense than air.\n-- If some people had gotten their way, the waves at Santa Monica might be a lot smaller today. In a 1963 preliminary report, the Army Corps of Engineers found it would be feasible to link Santa Monica and Malibu Beach with an offshore freeway cutting through Santa Monica Bay, with the roadbed built on a causeway or earthen fill. The idea died.\n-- There is such a thing as a bad beach day. On a single lifeguard-free day at San Diego's Ocean Beach in 1918, 13 people drowned (Page 65).\n-- Some butts are never beach-ready. On California's annual Coastal Cleanup Day (this year, Sept. 19), the most common debris is cigarette ends.\n-- The San Onofre nuclear power plant leaks. Deliberately. The plant, which operates by heating and discharging water, ejects about 1.6 million gallons per minute through 126 ports, which are spread out over nearly a mile on the shallow sea floor.\n-- Richard Henry Dana Jr. probably should have eaten more oysters. The only romantic spot on California's coast, he wrote after a stint as a sailor in the 1830s, was San Juan. \"Compared with the plain, dull sand-beach of the rest of the coast, this grandeur was as refreshing as a great rock in a weary land.\" The contemporary name for his \"San Juan\" is Dana Point.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 337, "original_length": 10629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shrewsburyma.gov/380/Town-Moderator", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UUJGEWYIUNXHWZGU6HA4QRWZCD6L6JPW", "length": 1779, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.shrewsburyma.gov", "title": "Town Moderator | Shrewsbury, MA", "raw_content": "The Town Moderator position is defined by both state law (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 39, Sections 14-15) and local bylaw (General Bylaws of the Town of Shrewsbury, Article 2). The Moderator is elected by the voters of Shrewsbury at the annual town election and serves for a term of 3 years.\nModerator's Responsibilities\nThe Moderator is the presiding officer of the annual town meeting, held in May of each year, and any special town meeting that may be called by the Board of Selectmen during the year. During the town meeting, the Moderator announces and explains the articles contained in the meeting warrant, conducts the discussion of each article, makes rulings (as needed) on the articles and any proposed amendments to the articles, calls for a vote on each article, and announces the results of each vote.\nThe Moderator is the final authority on all procedural issues that arise during town meeting. The town bylaws mandate that Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice be used as the procedural basis for conducting town meeting, except as otherwise provided by the town bylaws or state law.\nThe Moderator is also responsible for appointing the members of the Finance Committee, Personnel Board and Shrewsbury's representative to the Lake Quinsigamond Commission.\nThe Moderator traditionally conducts a pretown meeting prior to the annual town meeting, where newly elected town meeting members are welcomed and given an orientation on town meeting procedures, and all town meeting members are invited to ask questions of the Finance Committee and other town officials regarding the town meeting warrant articles.\n2015 Town Meeting Survey (PDF)\nFinance Committee Report and Recommendations (PDF)\nSummary of 2015 Shrewsbury Town Meeting Survey\nChristopher Mehne", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sierraspringschurch.org/sermon-archive/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:29:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6J43KU6CNDSRDS5R3VIEXTKR3BZ65FDI", "length": 73, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sierraspringschurch.org", "title": "2017 September - Sierra Springs Church", "raw_content": "1 Samuel 7:1-17 I WILL PRAY TO THE LORD FOR YOU.\nThe Best Meal I Ever Ate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 2906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.signaturedentistryofrockvillecentre.com/financial-information", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:00Z", "digest": "sha1:URHDHB5Q6GDUHEN5KJLLMFRON7QYIVF6", "length": 161, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.signaturedentistryofrockvillecentre.com", "title": "Financial Information - Signature Dentistry of Rockville Centre P.C. | Rockville Centre NY", "raw_content": "Our office staff is always available to help you with insurance claims and paperwork. Please let us know if you have any questions about your insurance coverage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sil.lawyer/blog/2017/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YYZ42IUF3K6XFWFHIC45J4IEQTWWSCB5", "length": 72, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sil.lawyer", "title": "January 2017 Archives | Toronto Personal Injury Blog", "raw_content": "Continue reading Neuropsychological Assessments and the $2,000 AB Cap...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.siscofuneral.com/obituaries/Dennis-Walker-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VXOSQMM5B67DVBT6IMD2CMEHCMUVW7UJ", "length": 472, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.siscofuneral.com", "title": "Dennis Joe Walker Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Dennis Joe Walker\nDennis Joe Walker went home to be with the Lord on February 3, 2018. He died peacefully in the hands of his wife and daughter. Anyone who knew Dennis could all agree in saying, “What a life he lived”. Dennis was born in Fayetteville,... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Dennis Joe Walker created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nDennis Joe Walker went home to be with the Lord on February 3,...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skyscanner.ca/routes/xds/jfk/ottawa-train-station-to-new-york-john-f.-kennedy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:G74MGATWFPJSXUHXZDUHLO2BY7LJ3KGO", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.skyscanner.ca", "title": "Cheap flights from Ottawa to New York John F. Kennedy with www.skyscanner.ca", "raw_content": "Cheap Flights from Ottawa to New York John F. Kennedy in 2019\nFlight information Ottawa to New York John F. Kennedy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bob-hawke-there-is-not-one-outstanding-leader-in-the-world-20160708-gq1kgf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:32:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ5YIDFG7YGJHIPGUBPMLUOYQDLRK36Y", "length": 7139, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.smh.com.au", "title": "Bob Hawke: There is not one outstanding leader in the world", "raw_content": "Bob Hawke: There is not one outstanding leader in the world\nThe death of a former French prime minister might easily pass unremarked upon in Australia but on Thursday afternoon, just hours before Michel Rocard was buried in Paris, Bob Hawke sat in his office overlooking Sydney's sodden, windswept Botanical Gardens and Opera House and recalled a friendship forged decades ago that was to change the world.\nTogether one afternoon in Paris in 1989 Rocard and Hawke sketched out a plan to kill off an international convention that would have opened Antarctica to mining and drilling.\nBob Hawke: \"I don't want to blow my own trumpet, the facts speak for themselves.\" Credit:Nic Walker\nThe goal was bold not just because after at least six years of negotiations - much of them led by Australian officials - the convention was all but a done deal, but because it was backed by global heavyweights including the United States of America and the United Kingdom.\nAsked about the achievement today, in an era when even basic reform seems impossible, Hawke notes that optimism has slumped in the years since.\nThe men who pushed the Madrid Protocol in 1989: former French PM Michel Rocard and Bob Hawke. Credit:Glenn Jacobson, AAD\nAnd, he suggests, in a typically frank assessment, that today's leaders are not up to the task.\n\"I obviously don't want to talk about myself, but the fact is that we are in a unique time, it is the first time since the Second World War when there is not one outstanding leader in the world,\" he says.\n\"Think about it, there is not one. And to get things done you have to have capable people around. I don't want to blow my own trumpet, the facts speak for themselves. There are not people around today with that sort of initiative and capacity.\"\nThe way he remembers it, Hawke's quixotic mission to save Antarctica began one weekend in May, 1989. He was at home at the Lodge reading briefing papers for Monday's cabinet meeting when he came across one item on the agenda that stood out to him.\nCabinet was to discuss the pending endorsement of a convention among member nations of the Antarctic Treaty on how to regulate mining and drilling in the empty continent.\n\"I just couldn't believe it. Here was the last pristine continent. We were going to be called upon to ratify it and I thought, 'No bloody way.'\n\"I spoke to my environment advisor Craig Emerson ... and I said this is nonsense isn't [it]? And he said 'Yes, prime minister, I'm glad you agree'.\"\nHawke had environmental form by then. He had won office opposing the planned Franklin Dam, a development that was finally killed off after a High Court fight with the Tasmanian government.\nEmerson recalled this week that when Hawke told his cabinet that rather than sign the convention he was going to see it off there was, \"mirth and merriment\".\nThen environment minister Graham Richardson backed the convention because he thought it better to regulate mining than let if off the leash. Then attorney general Gareth Evans supported it because he believed Australia would damage its international relationships to pull out at the last minute.\nOthers, including treasurer Paul Keating and resources minister Peter Cook, backed Hawke. (Indeed, in the years since, Keating has argued that Hawke has since overplayed his own role at Keating's expense, that he had earlier alerted Hawke to the convention.)\n\"With an amused tolerance and an enormous skepticism,\" says Hawke today, cabinet decided to \"let the old boy go\". He and Emerson set off on their mission almost at once.\nFrance was a major Antarctic treaty member and the two men believed it could be swayed. It was trying to re-establish its credentials in the South Pacific after its nuclear testing and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace ship sunk in New Zealand by French agents. With France's support the two men believed they could begin appealing to other smaller European nations, and then hope to sway the big guns.\nThey first approached Jacques Cousteau, the famed French author and undersea researcher who had been campaigning against mining in sensitive areas since the Exxon Valdez disaster. With him on board they lined up the meeting with Rocard. Before they even sat down together Cousteau had held his own press conference congratulating Hawke for the initiative.\nRocard and Hawke were born in the same year, and in tracing their careers other parallels appear.\nBoth men famously coaxed and cajoled their leftist parties to accept and embrace free market reforms, prompting surges of reform that seem almost unimaginable today.\nBoth men had careers marked by a burning and in the end bitter rivalry \u2013 Hawke with Keating, Rocard with Francois Mitterrand, who killed off Rocard's presidential ambitions in his own pursuit of the office.\nThe author Robert Schneider wrote a book about the two men called The Quiet Hatred.\nRocard and Hawke sat in the gardens of Rocard's grand official residence, the Hotel Matignon, on a warm sunny day, as Hawke remembers it. Hawke smoked a cigar as the two men talked, Rocard a cigarette. Their rapport was easy and fast, and Rocard soon offered his support.\n\"It was a personality thing, we were very similar personalities. He was a very engaging personality, bright, imaginative, a good listener. We became very good friends,\" says Hawke.\nRocard secured the backing of the Spanish leader, Felipe Gonzalez, and together they began rounding up the support of other smaller European nations, those that had supported the mining convention, but had little interest in the Antarctic. Hawke turned his attention to the Margaret Thatcher and George W Bush.\n\"Like all meetings with Maggie it was very formal and proper, but what I was about was not her cup of tea,\" he says. Similarly Bush was unimpressed, but he voiced no objection to Hawke lobbying other US political leaders. Soon they had the support of Al Gore, the powerful Democratic senator.\nAs support for it shifted the mining convention fell apart and in 1991 the nations that were to have signed it instead adopted the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, now known as the Madrid Protocol.\nAll mineral extraction was banned for 50 years and the Antarctic was set aside as a \"natural reserve, devoted to peace and science\".\nEmerson remembers the months he and Hawke flew around the world championing the protection of the Antarctic as the most exhilarating and satisfying of his career. Hawke says it was perhaps his greatest public contribution aside from the role he played in helping to bring about an end to apartheid.\nOn the 2011 anniversary of the protocol's adoption Neil Hamilton, the Australian director of international polar conservation organisation Le Cercle Polaire wrote for Fairfax that in 18 months Hawke and Rocard had managed to convince the world to \"set aside its differences, its insatiable appetite for power, control and resources, and decided that peace, knowledge, and environmental protection were absolutely and unassailably paramount\".\nAs a result, 14 million square kilometres of the last and purest wilderness on earth were protected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 9971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smithmcghee.com/possible-consequences-of-weapons-crimes-in-alabama/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4GUGD7IXOEJBINUAUWUZCRHRTQFWBGAC", "length": 2095, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.smithmcghee.com", "title": "Possible consequences of weapons crimes in Alabama | Smith Mcghee", "raw_content": "Possible consequences of weapons crimes in Alabama\nWhen people think about weapon crimes, many picture firearms, but in Alabama weapons offenses could involve other weapons just as easily. Like other states, Alabama has several strict laws in place to control such weapons while helping keep the population safe from harm. Weapon aficionados would do well to understand these laws in order to avoid initial weapons charges and the consequences that come with a conviction.\nBelow you will find a few common weapon offenses and the possible penalties associated with a conviction.\nCarrying a Concealed Weapon: Without possessing the required special permission, it is against the law to carry concealed weapons. Upon conviction, the defendant may face penalties such as a fine of $50 to $500, a jail sentence or hard labor.\nFighting in Public with Firearms: Unless the firearm is used in self-defense, the defendant could face a fine of between $200 and $500 as well as a possible jail sentence or hard labor.\nSelling Weapons to Minors: Those convicted of selling, giving or lending weapons like knives or guns to minors will be fined between $50 and $500.\nCarrying Concealed Slingshots or Brass Knuckles: As with the traditional concealed weapons, a defendant convicted of carrying and concealing either of these will have to pay a fine of up to $500 along with a possible jail term or hard labor.\nCarrying a Rifle or Shotgun Cane: Considered some of the more serious weapons offenses, convictions typically result in costly fines of between $500 and $1,000 in addition to a sentence of no less than two years in the state prison.\nAs you can see, Alabama takes a severe stance against weapons crimes. Even defendants who broke these laws accidentally will likely face serious charges. The best course of action immediately following an arrest for a weapon-related crime is to speak with a defense attorney and ask for help.\nSource: Alabama Attorney General\u2019s Office, \u201cAlabama\u2019s Firearms and Weapons Law,\u201d accessed May. 21, 2015\nBy Smith & McGhee, PC | Posted on May 21, 2015 Tags: Weapons charges", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 9020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.soldbyfigteam.com/sitemap/micanopy/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:HZ4JJIDJV7ZZ6MJ3M5N3Z4J5EEMUMNZI", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.soldbyfigteam.com", "title": "Central Florida Real Estate | The Figueroa Team", "raw_content": "Postal Codes for Listings in Micanopy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sonlight.com/blog/where-are-they-now-kiera-lee-hayes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PZJRR2LAST5YTJLJGDZDW4WKS7ECXYVL", "length": 4107, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sonlight.com", "title": "Where Are They Now: Kiera-Lee Hayes | Sonlight Homeschooling Blog", "raw_content": "Where Are They Now: Kiera-Lee Hayes\nI read this article and wanted to share it with you: Where Are They Now: Kiera-Lee Hayes https://www.sonlight.com/blog/where-are-they-now-kiera-lee-hayes.html.\nKiera-Lee is the eldest of our four children and the first Sonlighter in the Hayes family, originally from Cape Town, South Africa but recently relocated to Brisbane, Australia.\nWhen Kiera's Sonlight catalog photo was taken, she was a 4-year-old preschooler who loved each and every book in her curriculum, with a few firm favourites that she still speaks of with great fondness. Now, at 15, she continues to delight in finding new treasures in the Sonlight curriculum, and her love of literature and history is evident in her own writing and ability to communicate well.\nFrom a very young age, Kiera dived deeply into each and every new passion that came her way, often working hard to achieve dreams that her parents had mistakenly discouraged, thinking they were unreachable! Her outward achievements include gymnastics, theater, dance, singing, guitar, piano, ukulele, and writing. A number of her short stories have been published nationally in South Africa, helping her earn enough money to buy her first computer at the age of 12.\nKiera has tackled the upheaval and change involved in their family move from South Africa to Australia with the same tenacity she has shown in other areas of her life. Within a couple of months, she was playing ukulele in the youth church band and participating in a number of stage productions, including taking a lead role as the narrator for a Christmas show. She has developed deep and meaningful friendships and finds time to invest in other people's lives, all while keeping up her self-imposed, heavy academic workload.\nCurrently, she is working on a number of different courses alongside Sonlight 200: Church History with the view to complete two academic grades in one year. Her hope is that she will be able to spend the next two years exploring interests with the view to gain greater clarity for her future work\u2014something, she suspects, will include her passion for writing and communication.\nKiera's parents are obviously proud of her work ethic, her achievements, and most of all her character. Through their years of homeschooling, the family has had many discussions about how choices impact character. Kiera's mom Taryn says, \"Since they were little, my prayer has been that they grow to be people of godly character because of\u2014 and especially in spite of\u2014 our (often flawed) parenting.\n\"Over the years, we've watched Kiera grapple with many heart truths that were difficult to understand or own. So many long, hard conversations and discussions track the path of our parent-child relationship: many of which were prompted through the excellent stories Sonlight brought into our lives! Now, in these teen years, we've been greatly encouraged by how she has taken ownership over so many areas of her life: from the little things like responsibilities at home, to the bigger things like facing temptations outside of the home.\n\"This past year, she has spent many hours of independent study in and around the Word of God as she tackles big theological questions. It is a delight to us to watch her walk this road to greater independence in her faith, choosing to read apologetics, doctrinal works, and many other theological tomes outside of her assigned reading from 200. Recently, she organised a theological discussion group with her Christian friends so they could share their different views.\n\"She's eager to learn and eager to be someone of integrity. I'm grateful for God's hand in her life\u2014not least of which was the way He led us into homeschooling with Sonlight. I cannot begin to express the gratitude I have for the many character-building opportunities that were born out of Sonlight moments, helping to shape the hearts and minds of our children. These 11 years of homeschooling with Kiera have been so rewarding; I look forward to seeing how God uses her for His glory in the years to come.\"\nWhere Are They Now Encouragement Scholarship Winners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/43064-see-venus-jupiter-conjunction-january-2019.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:H4HMGN6BDU3AVP2WZ5ACGTKIYXLQTKAE", "length": 3648, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.space.com", "title": "How to See Venus and Jupiter Early Tuesday! Two Brightest Planets Meet Up at Dawn | Space", "raw_content": "When very bright Venus rises from the southeastern horizon at around 4:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday, January 22, the planet Jupiter will be positioned only 2.5 degrees to Venus' lower right. They will both fit within the field of view of binoculars (orange circle). Both Jupiter and Venus will be travelling eastward during the third week of January, but Venus' faster motion will cause it to catch, and then overtake, the more distant planet, pairing them up for several mornings on either side of January 22.\nWithout a doubt, now that Sunday night's total lunar eclipse has passed into history, the most spectacular celestial sight coming this week is reserved for the early morning sky: Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will unite for a stunning dawn conjunction.\nKenneth L. Franklin (1923-2007), the former chairman and chief astronomer at New York's Hayden Planetarium and, I'm proud to say, one of my mentors in astronomy, would often refer to our \"dynamic and ever-changing sky.\" Such an eloquent description certainly fits our current morning sky, for this week will be great time for pre-dawn skywatchers, with a beautiful pairing-off of Venus and Jupiter on Tuesday morning (Jan. 22). [Amazing Photos of the Super Blood Wolf Moon of 2019!]\nDazzling \"double planet\"\nFor the past few months, dazzling Venus has been prominent in our morning sky. And about a month ago, brilliant Jupiter also began to emerge from the glare of the sun. The two planets are currently rising from the east-southeast horizon more than 3 hours before sunrise.\nAll through this month, the gap between them has been noticeably closing. Jupiter has been slowly ascending and approaching Venus, and on Tuesday, they'll be separated by 2.4 degrees, which is equal to nearly five times the apparent width of the full moon. (The width of your fist, held at arm's length, roughly corresponds to 10 degrees.) Jupiter will shine brilliantly, at magnitude -1.8, yet it will appear only one-eleventh as bright as Venus, which will gleam at magnitude -4.4 (lower magnitudes are brighter).\nTogether, the two objects will make for a spectacular \"double planet\" in the dawn twilight. In recent days, I've received several inquiries from early risers who have sighted these two bright lights in the east-southeast sky and have wondered what they are.\nIn reality, not really so close\nOf course, what we are seeing is strictly an illusion of perspective. In a relative sense, neither planet is close to the other in space. Venus is 73 million miles (118 million kilometers) from Earth. The lesser gem flanking Venus \u2014 Jupiter, largest of all our solar system's planets \u2014 is nearly four and a half times more distant from us than Venus is, at 558 million miles (897 million km) away from Earth.\nGenerally speaking, at least for the immediate future, conjunctions between Venus and Jupiter will come in pairs. The first conjunction such a pairing takes place in the morning sky, followed about 10 months later by another in the evening sky. Then, after about two and a half years, Venus and Jupiter will again appear in conjunction, again in the morning sky.\nAfter Tuesday's conjunction, Venus and Jupiter will next get together in the evening sky late next fall, on Nov. 24. After that, we'll have to wait until April 20, 2022 (morning sky) and March 2, 2023 (evening sky) for the next set of Venus-Jupiter conjunctions.\nEditor's note: If you snap an amazing photo of the Jan. 22 conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that you'd like to share with Space.com and our news partners for a possible story or image gallery, send comments and images in to: spacephotos@space.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spartannation.com/2018/12/03/dantonio-must-take-hard-look-at-downward-trending-offense/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TGWGMCTFX327YPXMYDBFRX2DH7HFRHZW", "length": 5464, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.spartannation.com", "title": "Dantonio Must Take Hard Look at Downward Trending Offense! | Spartan Nation", "raw_content": "Dantonio Must Take Hard Look at Downward Trending Offense!\nThroughout Michigan State\u2019s 7-5 season, the offense has been at the center of heavy criticism as the Spartans try to identify why a once-promising season has now resulted in disappointment.\nMichigan State ranked near the bottom of Division 1 college football in several offensive statistical categories, including scoring offense, where the Spartans rank 123rd out of 130 teams with 19.8 points per game and total offense, ranking 117th with 343 yards per game.\nThose anemic offensive numbers, along with play-calling that can be described as predictable and unimaginative, have led to several questions regarding the job security of members of Michigan State\u2019s coaching staff, most notably offensive coordinator Dave Warner.\nSpartan Nation asked Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio about possible staff changes following the 2018 season after last Saturday\u2019s 14-10 win over Rutgers and Dantonio said he will again evaluate his coaching staff like he does after every season.\n\u201cThose are questions that I think are in-house questions and when I make those decisions I make those decisions,\u201d he said. \u201cI do think that first of all you self-evaluate and you start to think about people and you start to think about things, you always do. Every year we do, we did last year too, and the year before and the year before and the year before\u2026we always look at those things. From my perspective, it is more than just about calling a play. It is about the teaching progressions, it is about what is being taught in the classroom, what is being taught on the field, it is about the execution of that and it is also about how do you recruit, how do you handle people in general and what kind of person you are.\u201d\nMichigan State\u2019s offensive woes aren\u2019t anything out of the ordinary in recent years, as the Spartans ranked 91st in total offense and 96th in scoring offense despite finishing 10-3 in 2017. The Spartans ranked 75th in total offense and 104th in scoring offense in 2016.\nThose finishes are a far cry from Michigan State\u2019s 2014 season where the Spartans ranked 11th in the nation in total offense at 500.8 yards per game and No. 7 in scoring offense with 43 points per contest.\nAs far as Michigan State\u2019s 2018 struggles are concerned, injuries can be blamed to a certain extent, but for a season where several players were expected to take a step forward, the argument could be made that many of those players regressed instead.\nBut when asked by Spartan Nation, Warner said that he believes he and the rest of the offensive staff have proven to be able to develop players and added that while the statistical rankings are disappointing, he\u2019s more focused on the team\u2019s record and following Dantonio\u2019s lead.\n\u201cI think the proof is in the pudding that we\u2019ve developed our players,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, we\u2019re not happy with the results as far as our rankings. I\u2019m concerned about wins and losses and what coach Dantonio wants to run, that\u2019s my biggest concern.\u201d\nBut considering the fact that Michigan State has taken considerable steps backward over the course of the past five years, the question of whether or not there will be changes to the coaching staff will be made.\nDuring his tenure at Michigan State, Dantonio has been a coach who has valued loyalty continuity on his staff and believes that is a key factor in his team\u2019s success in previous years.\nBut even with his offense\u2019s struggles and the fact that he will evaluate his staff at season\u2019s end, Dantonio admitted that, at the moment, he would prefer to keep his staff intact, rather than make sweeping changes on the offensive side of the ball.\n\u201cI have always said that loyalty goes both ways so my inclination is sort of sit and hold with people,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is who I have been, that is why we have had continuity because it goes both ways. I know everybody out there is on a warpath and the wolf is at the door as I said last week. That is why I am the head coach, so I can deflect some of that.\u201d\nThey now head to San Francisco for a New Year\u2019s Eve tilt at the Redbox Bowl on Monday, Dec. 31 at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET in Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, versus the Oregon Ducks.\nAs Michigan State will head for its bowl game and during the time leading up to the season finale, Dantonio will have plenty to ponder about his coaching staff and if he is still confident in the direction of an offense that has gone backwards over the course of the past five years.\nRemember to check back to Spartan Nation for all of the latest news on the 2018 Michigan State football team!\nPreviousMark Dantonio Moments Ago on Redbox Bowl Bid\nNextQuick Look Ahead at Oregon & The Redbox Bowl!\nTake 5 Good Minutes and Enjoy This MUST SEE VIDEO Interview with Spartan DE Shilique Calhoun\nMillen interested in Porter?\nSpartan Nation\u2019s Mark Mulder Struggles in First Game Back from Injury\nSpartan Nation NFL Draft Scouting Report # 7 \u2013 Running Backs\nThanks for the hot new take!\nNote to Dave Warner, 2002 just called, they want the Wildcat back.\nM C PRUETZ\ton December 3, 2018 at 1:05 pm\nToo bad Dantonio can\u2019t wake up to the situation before it\u2019s too laTE. aT LEAST AT HIS AGE AND PREVIOUS PAY LEVELS HE WILL RETIORE COMFORTABLY. iT\u2019S JUST A MATTWER OF TIME. wILL HE MAKE THE DECISION TO RETIRE OR WILL THE ADMINISTRATION MAKE THE DECISION? i HOPE WE DON\u2019T HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH TOO MANY MORE YEARS LIKE THIS ONE TO FIND OUT HIS RETIREMENT DATE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 9195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.specialistcastings.com/anodes/sacrificial-anodes/aluminium-anodes/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RDK7AB7XG6C5EJT4BWQBY7GRB6NFNE56", "length": 1393, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.specialistcastings.com", "title": "Aluminium Anodes - Specialist Castings", "raw_content": "Aluminium Anodes are another type of Sacrificial Anode that, although they have a lower voltage rate than magnesium anode, they have a much slower consumption rate than magnesium or zinc, and are ideally suited for seawater applications though can be used in fresh water too.\nAluminium anodes are well-suited to prevent corrosion of steel structures in seawater and fresh water and are commonly used on seawater based vessels, mechanical equipment, marine engineering and harbour facilities, seawater pipelines, ship hulls, ballast tanks and drilling platforms.\nThey are also used to reduce corrosion in structural metal objects such as buildings.\nAluminium Anodes have several advantages, such as being lighter weight, with a much higher capacity than zinc and a slower corrosion level than magnesium. They are a popular choice due to their ability to perform in different water types and their increased longevity due to their increased current capacity compared to aluminium and zinc. They are also not considered a pollutant so are better for the environment. Aluminium Anodes are immune to the calcareous coating menace and are therefore well suited for use in seawater, as well as brackish and fresh water. We are a leading supplier of Anodes in the UK, therefore you are guaranteed the highest quality when purchasing our products.\nYou can download our Aluminium Anodes technical sheet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.speechmodification.com/blog/how-to-pronounce-eclipse", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:W6QH2EL5GQF3EV2DRQCR3CZTKHAYGSJJ", "length": 105, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.speechmodification.com", "title": "Speech Modification Blog - American Accent Training Blog", "raw_content": "How to Pronounce Eclipse\nDid you see the solar eclipse today? Here's help pronouncing the word \"eclipse.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 22023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stacycolelaw.com/non-compete-agreements-and-disputes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MRU2ZX4EH6AB6EQWZXCJSTDHJ2YGZ52R", "length": 3563, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.stacycolelaw.com", "title": "Non-Compete Agreements and Disputes - Austin | Travis County Employment Law Lawyers", "raw_content": "Non-Compete Agreements and Disputes - Austin\nContact our Austin office and schedule a consultation with an Austin employment lawyer to discuss your non-competition agreement and learn about your rights if a dispute arises. Many employers require employees to sign non-compete agreements. Afterwards, employers may threaten to take legal action against employees who have been terminated or leave their employment. The simple presence of a non-compete agreement does not mean that the entire agreement is enforceable. However, it is also may be possible that the agreement is fully enforceable. To learn more about your rights and to discuss your non-compete agreement, schedule a consultation with an Austin employment lawyer in our law firm.\nNon-Compete Agreements in Texas\nMany Texas employees are subject to non-compete agreements. However, it is often difficult to understand whether the agreement, in its entirety, is enforceable. If you are subject to a non-compete agreement, you should review the agreement with an employment lawyer prior to signing or violating the non-competition agreement An Austin employment lawyer with our firm may be able to help you understand your rights.\nTexas courts consider numerous factors when determining whether a non-compete agreement is enforceable. These factors include time limitations on working for a competitor, geographic limitations on employment, limitations on scope of employment, and other conditions listed in the agreement. Additionally, courts consider whether the non-compete agreement is part of an otherwise enforceable agreement, something that is often missed by an employer. These factors may weigh in your favor if a claim arises.\nIf you are subject to a non-compete agreement with your employer and are considering changing positions, schedule a consultation with an Austin employment lawyer with our Austin office today. In certain circumstances, it may be better to learn about your options before giving notice to your current employer.\nNon-Disclosure Agreements in Texas\nMany employers require employees to sign an agreement stating that the employee will not disclose the employer's confidential information to a competitor. Although the law may also prohibit such disclosures, employment agreements provide additional protections for an employer. If your employer brings a claim against you for violations of a non-disclosure agreement, contact our law firm to schedule a consultation with an Austin employment lawyer.\nThe common law often prohibits an employer from disclosing confidential information to a competitor. Confidential information is normally information that is not generally known to the public. For example, an employer's plan to extend its business into a new market is not generally known by the public until the employer makes a public announcement. However, this area of law is complicated and depends heavily on the facts of each issue that arises. To understand your rights, contact an Austin employment lawyer in our office today to schedule a consultation.\nScheduling a Consultation with an Austin Employment Lawyer\nIf you are involved in a dispute regarding a non-compete agreement, non-disclosure agreement, misappropriation of a trade secret, or any other employment related dispute, contact one an Austin employment lawyer in our office today. In a consultation, we will discuss the law and what options you may have to protect your rights and minimize your risk of liability.\nNon-Compete Agreements and Disputes - Austin | Travis County Employment Law Lawyers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.staugustine.com/living/health/2013-02-27/dental-assistant-week-celebrated", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:56Z", "digest": "sha1:AXFNPUFA5Z2R4VQWQWHAVR4IJDTIEDGI", "length": 1312, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.staugustine.com", "title": "Dental assistant week celebrated - Lifestyle - The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine, FL", "raw_content": "Dental assistant week celebrated\nFirst Coast Technical College will observe Dental Assistants Recognition Week, March 3 to 9, to appreciate those pursuing a career in the dental field.\nFCTC and others in the community respect the vital role and the professional excellence that Dental Assistants provide in the delivery of patient care. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts employment of dental assistants will increase 36 percent by 2018.\n\"A dental assistant is an integral member of the dental team, competent via education, experience, and understanding of patient welfare,\" said Patricia Rench, FCTC health careers coordinator. \"They are qualified to provide support in administrative duties; chair-side, laboratories, and radiological procedures, as defined by FCTC's curriculum.\"\nHealthy teeth and gums do more than providing a nice smile, it is noted. Poor dental health can have larger effects on overall wellbeing for recent studies link common oral problems to other illnesses.\nFCTC's program is approximately 18 months long with classes held Monday through Thursday from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and alternating Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Applications accepted for upcoming classes with financial aid for qualifying students.\nLearn more at www.fctc.edu or call 547-3471.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stevefarber.com/extremeleadershipexperience19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XLKNUQLTQC3EF5A336I2L7RNKTHE5ESZ", "length": 38136, "nlines": 174, "source_domain": "www.stevefarber.com", "title": "Extreme Leadership Experience 2019", "raw_content": "21-23.FEB, 2019 SAN DIEGO, CA\nRegister for San Diego Event\nLEARN FROM THE EXPERTS HOW TO UNLEASH THIS POWERFUL PATHWAY TO EXPLOSIVE GROWTH.\nAre you passionate about leadership? Do you believe that we can change the world for the better through the way we live and lead? Do you want to start 2019 with a massive dose of knowledge and inspiration to do it all? This is a very special and unique experience for you to connect with other Extreme Leaders and celebrate a new year of possibilities, while learning to operationalize the principles of LEAP (Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof), which are changing leaders and cultures around the world.\nIn this 2 1/2 day deep dive into the practices of Extreme Leadership and The Radical LEAP framework, you will work with phenomenal people from across the business spectrum and beyond. You will learn to expand your leadership influence in powerful and personal ways. You will master a proprietary leadership method, focus on real-time opportunities, work with real-life material, learn from groundbreaking practitioners, and hear from world-class guest speakers.\nAn intimate setting with the best selling author of The Radical Leap, The Radical Edge, and Greater Than Yourself, and his Extreme Leadership Institute team of world-class facilitators, speakers, coaches and consultants\n\u201cLife is travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a LEAP taken.\u201d DH Lawrence\nAttendees to the Extreme Leadership Experience are powerful influencers \u2014 from CEOs to entrepreneurs, educators, non-profit executives, and multi-level managers. They come from all walks of life \u2013 Fortune 500 companies, pharma, technology, consulting, education, consultants, and financial services to name a few. What each has in common is a shared passion about leadership and using their influence to better their organizations, the people whom they lead, and the world around them.\nCurrency of Exchange\nThe conclusion of the event itself is not an ending for the attendees, but more like a commencement \u2014 marking the beginning of a new chapter in their leadership story. As they take with them a greatly expanded network and begin to create new practices in their organizations, event sponsors will be top of mind.\nAt the 2-1/2 day event, your sponsorship will be prominently featured and appreciated in a number of ways that will reach far beyond the event itself. In addition to presence at the event, you will benefit from Steve Farber\u2019s community that extends to tens of thousands of influencers who will gain exposure to your message whether through his outreach platforms including email lists, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram networks.\nPlease email Veronica@ExtremeLeadership.com for more information about sponsoring this amazing event!\nAn intimate setting with the bestselling author of The Radical Leap, The Radical Edge, Greater Than Yourself, and the upcoming book, Love Is Just Damn Good Business, along with his Extreme Leadership Institute team of world-class facilitators, coaches and consultants...including this lineup of stellar speakers (all of whom are experts in operationalizing Love as a business practice and beyond). Please click on the pictures below to see full bio of the speakers.\nCEO & Founder, The Extreme Leadership Institute\nChairman & CEO, S. Graham & Associates\nPresident and CEO, American Greetings\nJOHN BEEDER\nFounder, Yes To Success Seminars\nAuthor, The Heart-Led Leader\nSingers, Songwriters, Transformational Leaders\nTHE BROTHERS KOREN\nSTARLA LEWIS\nMentor to Mentors, Bestselling Author\nPresident, The Extreme Leadership Institute\nJENNA LYNCH\nOrganizational Culture Expert, World Class Magician\nTV Personality, World Adventurer, Author\nPresident & CEO, Trailer Bridge\nMITCH LUCIANO\nCEO, Active Healthcare Receivables, Balanced Healthcare Receivables\nDirector, Corporate Development for Trailer Bridge, Inc. Advisory Board Member, The Extreme Leadership Institute\nINDIE BOLLMAN\nOwner and CEO, Westward Entertainment\nMIKE KOCIELA\nRetired Superintendent, Oceanside Unified School District\nDuane Coleman\nFOUNDER, INCOME STORE\nKEN COURTRIGHT\nKERRI COURTRIGHT\nHis third book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership, is a Wall Street Journal\u00ae and USA Today\u00ae bestseller. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as \u201ca playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.\u201d And his first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, is already considered a classic in the leadership field. It received Fast Company magazine\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice Award and was named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time.\nFarber is a member of the exclusive Transformational Leadership Council, and his column, The Extreme Leadership Chronicles, runs frequently on Inc.com.\nHis new book, Love is Just Damn Good Business, will be published by McGraw-Hill in the fall of 2019.\nStedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates. As a businessman, educator and speaker, he presents, consults and conducts training with corporations, educational entities, the military and veterans, nonprofits and the government. His Identity message is grounded in the fact that the key to success is self-leadership capability. The Identity Leadership programs, driven by his proprietary Nine-Step Success Process\u2122, are based on the philosophy that individuals hold the power to their educational, career and personal success or failure.\nGraham has authored eleven books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success. His latest release, Identity: Your Passport to Success, was a Wall Street Journal Bestseller. His next book, Identity Leadership, will be released in early 2019.\nClients have included the Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Vikings, Gulfstream Aerospace, Microsoft, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, Lenovo, General Dynamics, the US Departments of Labor, Education and Agriculture, CVS Pharmacy, and the Sonima Foundation (through which he taught in 150 high schools in 2 years). He has also lectured or conducted workshops in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, China, Canada, the UK, the British Virgin Islands, Aruba, Bermuda, South Africa, and Africa.\nCommitment to education and lifelong learning is central to Graham\u2019s philosophy. He has served as an adjunct professor or guest lecturer at Northwestern, Harvard, Wharton, University of Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago, National University, Highpoint, Howard, Temple, Morehouse, UCLA, and Pepperdine to name a few.\nAs a veteran of the United States Army, he has proudly served our active military, veterans and their families through programs at Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, Fort Jackson, NATO, the Military Child Education Coalition, and internationally at Landstuhl, Germany and the US Military Community in Rotterdam, Holland.\nA proud native of Whitesboro, New Jersey, Graham has demonstrated an enduring pledge to youth and community. His Teens Can Make It Happen Program has been utilized in numerous middle and high school in the US and abroad, providing positive growth for our leaders of tomorrow, as well as their parents and teachers. With dedication to community development, Graham is the founder of the Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro and Concerned Citizens of Lake Waccamaw, NC and a co-founder of The Community Alliance for Youth Success. He is an ongoing contributor to the Cleveland Foundation Tru2U Project educating youth and their mentors, and to the organization MaDi through which he provides Identity Leadership education to thousands of refugees who are integrating into new communities and cultures.\nGraham holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University, a Master\u2019s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College.\nJohn Beeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of American Greetings and a member of the Company\u2019s board of directors.\nJohn joined American Greetings in 2008 as Senior Vice President, Executive Sales and Marketing Officer. In that role, he led product, sales and marketing efforts for North America while American Greetings significantly grew its market share in the U.S. and Canadian markets. In 2012 he assumed leadership of a core operating group aligning the Company\u2019s product, marketing, production, procurement, distribution, sales and planning activities into one organization.\nJohn has worked for more than 30 years in the greeting card industry\u2014a business he is passionate about. He has held executive management positions in marketing, product development, supply chain, finance and new business development. Prior to joining American Greetings, he had served as managing partner and chief operating officer of Compact Clinicals, a medical publisher in Kansas City, Missouri.\nHe is a former president of the U.S. Greeting Card Association. John has served on the board of directors of Dean Operations, a real estate company in Kansas City, as well as enterprises owned by his family.\nJohn earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Editorial/Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University and his Master of Management degree in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.\nJohn and his wife, Stephanie, have two grown children, Christy and David.\nFor over 35 years, Debra Poneman, bestselling author and founder of Yes to Success Seminars, has shared her success system, now used by tens of thousands in every corner of the globe, to create lives of not only success and abundance, but deep and profound happiness, self-love and inner fulfillment.\nKnown as the mentor to the mentors, Debra\u2019s students have used her teachings to become mega-successful entrepreneurs, renowned transformational leaders, NY Times bestselling authors, millionaires, billionaires\u2014even household names. But Debra\u2019s greatest gift is her deep belief in each person\u2019s magnificence and her ability to convey that belief to activate in her audience members profound and lasting transformation.\nTommy Spaulding is the Founder & President of Tommy Spaulding Companies, a leadership development, speaking, training, and executive coaching firm based in Denver, Colorado.\nA world-renowned speaker on leadership, Spaulding has spoken to hundreds of organizations, associations, educational institutions, and corporations around the globe. His first book, It\u2019s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life and Your Organization by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships, published by Penguin Random House in 2010, quickly climbed to the top of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestseller lists. His new book, The Heart-Led Leader, published by Penguin Random House in October, 2015 is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal national bestseller and was also listed on Inc.com\u2019s Top 100 Business Books of 2015.\nSpaulding rose to become the youngest President & CEO of the world-renowned leadership organization, Up with People. In 2000, Tommy founded Leader\u2019s Challenge, which grew to become the largest high school civic and leadership program in the state of Colorado. He is the Founder & President of the Global Youth Leadership Academy as well as the National Leadership Academy, a leading national non-profit high school leadership development organization.\nPreviously, Spaulding was the Business Partner Sales Manager at IBM/Lotus Development and a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program. He received a BA in Political Science from East Carolina University (1992); an MBA from Bond University in Australia (1998), where he was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar; and an MA in Non-Profit Management from Regis University (2005).\nIn 2006, Spaulding was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award by East Carolina University (ECU) and in 2007, Spaulding received an Honorary PhD in Humanities from the Art Institute of Colorado. In September, 2012 Spaulding was named by Meetings & Conventions Magazine as one of the 100 MOST FAVORITE SPEAKERS in the nation.\nTommy resides in the Denver metro area with his wife and children.\nAs The Kin, the Brothers Koren were signed to Interscope/Universal Records. Their music has been featured in major movies, they\u2019ve appeared on Conan and traveled the world as headliners alongside the likes of Coldplay, Pink, and Rod Stewart. Despite all of this, however, they experienced first hand how restrictive the music industry was, and after fifteen years they chose to stop chasing approval and rebelliously fully express their value in the world.\nThe brothers developed The Songwriter\u2019s Journey for those who\u2019d always had a heart for music but abandoned it along the way. They shepherd clients through a three month process to reclaim their voice, and integrate their full expression into their lives.\nStarla Lewis is a woman on a mission. For more than 40 years Starla has committed herself to bridging, unifying and empowering multi-culturally diverse communities.\nAs a professor of Black Studies, poet, author, and life mastery consultant, Starla has inspired change from Kindergarten through post secondary classrooms, prisons, juvenile facilities, board rooms, corporate offices, national conferences, cultural and community events, as well as on radio and television.\nStarla Lewis has helped people cultivate leadership in their academic, professional and personal lives by teaching them how to be truth seekers and agents of change who mirror love, acceptance, and respect. She has taught at San Diego Mesa College for over twenty years, where she served as Department Chair for eleven years, and is currently a Professor Emeritus. She has also served as an instructor at San Diego City College, Palomar College, San Diego State University, Webster University, Union Institute, San Diego High School and Lincoln High School.\nStarla is the C.E.O of C.E.L.L (Celebration of Everlasting Life and Love) a human potential consultancy firm, where she has worked for over thirty years as a life mastery coach. Through C.E.L.L she teaches people how to utilize love and life skills to heal and transform themselves and their communities. Through teaching people how to share compassion, love, mutual respect and understanding, her work has helped bridge families and communities.\nAs a community leader Starla Lewis has served as a member of San Diego boards and committees, which aim to empower women and diverse communities. She has served as a board member for the San Diego Mayor\u2019s Commission on the Status of Women, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, the I Am My Sister mentor program, and the California Black Women\u2019s Health Project, to name a few. She is a seven-time recipient of the Mesa College \u201cTeacher of the Year\u201d award, and was profiled by the San Diego Union Tribune as the Bob Marley Peace Award recipient for leadership in 2002 and 2003. Starla Lewis has received numerous honors including an induction into the Women\u2019s Hall of Fame from the California Women\u2019s Museum, the \u201cUnsung Hero Award\u201d from KPBS, the \u201cDistinguished Community Leader Award\u201d from the Jenna Druck Foundation\u2019s \u201cSpirit of Leadership\u201d program, the \u201cWorld of Difference Award\u201d from the San Diego County of Education department\u2019s \u201cHonoring Women in Prevention\u201d committee, and the \u201cOutstanding Alumni Award\u201d at all three of her alma maters, San Diego State University, Pasadena City College and John Muir High School.\nStarla has a gift for teaching people how to love and how to heal the stereotypes, biases and prejudices that divide communities. Her commitment to creating a more just, compassionate and humane world is evidenced by her 40+ years of community service. Through her work Starla affirms that all people are: \u201cBrilliant, Powerful, Limitless, Love!\u201d\nDavid Corbin has been referred to as \u201cRobin Williams with an MBA\u201d because of his very practical, high-content speeches, coupled with real life, entertaining and sometimes side-splitting stories and applications. He\u2019s know as the \u201cMentor to Mentors\u201d and Entrepreneur Guru as he\u2019s trained and advised, mentored and guided many luminaries in the fields of speaking, consulting, entrepreneurship and big business.\nA former crisis intervention counselor with a background in healthcare, he has served as a management and leadership consultant to businesses and organizations of all sizes\u2014from Fortune 20 companies to businesses with less than 1 million\u2014and enjoys the challenges of all. He has worked directly with the president and office of the president of companies such as AT&T, Hallmark, Dominos, Kaiser Permanente, Mountain States Mortgage as well as the Hon. Secretary of Veterans Administration and others.\nHe has been a featured speaker for Inc Magazine and rated top 5% of speakers, Secret Knock, Income Store, City Summit, Digital Footprint, CEO Space and many more. David was awarded the Innovation of the Year by Bank of America and presented in association with Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Tom Peters, Sec. James Baker, Maya Angelou and others. Featured in Forbes Magazine, Inc.Magazine, NBC, FOX, and was star and host of the movie, Pass It On as he hosted such gifted contributors as Brian Tracy, Gavin Keilly, Greg Reid, Les Brown, Mark Victor Hanson, Bob Proctor, Evander Holyfield, Mario Lopez and others.\nAn author of numerous books including,ILLUMINATE THE NEGATIVE: Converting Challenges into Opportunities, Preventing BrandSlaughter: How to Preserve, Support and Grow Your Brand Asset Value, Psyched On Service: Building a Total Service Mentality, From Image To Influence, From ChangeVictim to ChangeMaster,From Internment to Fulfillment, PointCount, ReSanity: Truths About Food, Pharma and Healthy Living in an Insane World, From WTF to OMG with some LOL.\nJenna Lynch is the President of The Extreme Leadership Institute. She is known as a positive, dynamic Catalyst, Advisor, People Expert and Confidante. She is a highly influential, dynamic, tactical HR Leader with creative and charismatic strategic vision and ability to inspire and enroll people at all levels in the organization to produce exceptional results. Jenna is a confident motivator able to fully engage and contribute at the highest levels in a high-energy, fast-paced, progressive company that is committed to leading edge people practices. Her generous spirit is contagious and her life experience is inspirational.\nWith over 23 years\u2019 experience, a degree in Business and Marketing, serving on several Executive Teams, being employed as a Senior Executive (People Culture Officer & Vice President of Human Resources), owning her own businesses and being hired to consult for several companies and Advisory Boards, Jenna has had the opportunity to deeply understand all aspects of a business, its culture, and the dynamics of its people.\nJenna has worked with all sizes of companies. She has helped start-up and mid-size companies build a solid infrastructure, and has worked with large companies to mentor existing HR staff in an advisory capacity or tackle supplemental HR initiatives . She also specializes in developing compelling company cultures and has been involved in many culture transformations.\nShe is a natural Leader (Executive Advisory Board Level), charismatic Speaker (Audiences of 50 to 5,000) and engaging Trainer (50 Training Topics), yet still considers herself a life-long learner. She is grateful to have worked side by side with C-Level professionals and powerful Icons that are regarded as some of the brightest individuals in their field, and forward thinking in their respective industries. And, in turn, has given back and mentored over 800 young women for over 24 years on a volunteer basis.\nJenna is passionate about Internal Employer Branding, Personal Branding, and Leadership Development, topics that she has been living and teaching for 15 years. Her Internal Employer Branding methodology for Corporations helps define organic, congruent and effective culture strategies to drive results, of which has earned several of her clients prestigious \u201cBest Workplace\u201d awards. In turn, she has helped hundreds of people \u201cdefine themselves\u201d and realize their full potential through the Extreme Leadership and Personal Branding processes.\nWhat differentiates Jenna from others? Her contributions have made radical and measurable results, period.\nA unique mix of business and life experiences has given Andrew valuable insight and compassion, enabling him to facilitate profound transformation in people and companies.\nAndrew spent ten years at former U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot\u2019s company EDS, where he held a variety of management positions, culminating in growing an account from $5 million to $65 million in Australia in only two years.\nFor 25 years, he has been a leadership and organizational culture consultant and executive coach partnering with leaders building cultures where people can thrive. Andrew has been involved in nearly 40 major culture revitalization projects. He is recognized for taking the time to really understand his client\u2019s business, culture, and challenges. He is gifted at building trust and credibility at all levels of an organization. This allows him to get to the root of issues to create customized solutions which have strong buy-in and lasting results.\nFor almost 50 years Andrew has been a magician and is a member of London\u2019s Magic Circle, the highest honor in magic. Ross Perot encouraged Andrew to use magic in his business presentations, and he has been wowing audiences for the last 35 years. Magic is the art of transformation. Andrew uses it to teach people how to rethink possibilities and obstacles, opening the door to new ways of thinking and acting.\nAndrew\u2019s experience and results prove that the human mind and heart are sources of incredible power. He teaches managers and leaders how to create environments where innovation, resilience, and capacity for change thrive.\nAllan is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, adventurer, and television host.\nAllan Karl has never been able to sit still. With an insatiable passion for world travel, culture, people and food, he has explored\nover 70 countries, photographing, writing, and blogging about them along the way.\nIn his bestselling book, FORKS: A Quest for Culture, Cuisine, and Connection, Allan brings to life his three-year motorcycle adventure \u2014 in stories, photos, and food from each of the 35 countries he traveled.\nA dynamic and inspiring professional speaker, Allan shares his message with captivating storytelling and award-winning\nphotography. Allan inspires to overcome challenges, tackle obstacles, embrace change, and smile\u2014especially in the face of\nadversity. And he knows how. Allan spent three years riding around the world alone on a motorcycle. Along the way guerrillas marched him into the Colombian jungle at gunpoint, he crushed his leg in the middle of nowhere in Bolivia and had to beg the governments of Syria and\nSudan to let him across their borders. (Eventually, they gave in.)\nBeyond his motorcycle adventures Allan has:\n\u2022 Sailed the Flores Sea in search of the elusive Komodo Dragon\n\u2022 Climbed the most active volcano in Indonesia; and\n\u2022 Competed in the most grueling motorsport race in the world \u2013 The Dakar.\nBefore embarking on his adventures, Allan co-founded Wirestone, the national digital agency which Accenture acquired in 2017.\nMitch Luciano has been President and CEO of Trailer Bridge, Inc. since 2012, having originally joined the company as the VP of Logistics. Prior to his tenure at Trailer Bridge, Mitch spent over 19 years in the Transportation and Logistics industry with large international and domestic logistics organizations like NYK Logistics North America and C.H. Robinson. An accomplished entrepreneur, Mitch has also been involved in start-up ventures in the logistics and system development arenas.\nBryon Stephens is an accomplished C-Suite veteran of the Franchise & Food Service Industry. He is also a business growth monster. He began his career as a dishwasher in the Holiday Inn of his hometown of Logansport, IN. Within a short time, Bryon was asked to move into a management role with the company, which set him on the path to a series of stellar leadership achievements.\nIn 1992 he took the role as the Director of Franchise Development for A&W Restaurants. The once legendary brand had dwindled from 2300 stores in the 1970s to only 320 stores when Bryon came on board. By the time he left the organization in 2004, A&W had bounced back to 1400 stores and was dubbed the \u201cHot Again\u201d concept by Nation\u2019s Restaurant News. Along the way, A&W acquired Long John Silvers and Bryon was asked to be the V.P. of Franchise Development for both brands under the Yorkshire umbrella. That led to his strategy of co-branding their restaurants together with Tricons\u2019s brands KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut\u2014which turned out to be a revolutionary idea that fundamentally changed the branding industry. As Tricon and Yorkshire evolved into the entity now famously known as Yum Brands, Bryon took the helm as head of development for all of the company\u2019s 5 major brands.\nIn 2004 Bryon began working with Marco\u2019s Pizza, which at the time was a 100-store chain operating in 3 central states. He joined the team as Chief Development Officer, soon added the role of President and Chief Operating Officer, and by the time he retired from Marco\u2019s in 2017, the brand had 890 stores in 33 states and 4 countries and was ranked the fastest growing franchise in the U.S. for over 5 straight years. Bryon has become a bit of a celebrity, too: during his tenure at Marco\u2019s, he became one of a select group of business executives who have been featured on the acclaimed CBS show \u201cUndercover Boss.\u201d\nBryon is a founding Partner in the firm Pivotal Growth Partners (PGP), a franchise growth and consulting firm that specializes in assisting small, emerging market franchise companies in their growth.\nBryon is a founding advisor of The Extreme Leadership Institute where he is helping to grow the organization by bringing his proven leadership and business skills to bear on the Institute\u2019s present and future plans.\nSimply put, Bryon is an Extreme Leader who gets radical results by Cultivating Love, Generating Energy, Inspiring Audacity and Providing Proof\u2014and teaching other leaders and organizations to do the same. And\u2014far from a PS\u2014Bryon is also a loving father to 9 children and step children and a devoted husband and partner to his wife Tricia.\nBrent Rice and his teams at Active Healthcare Receivables, LLC (AHR) and Balanced Healthcare Receivables, LLC (BHR) run call centers in the healthcare accounts receivable management space. AHR is a Hospital customer care call center and BHR is a professional third party debt collection firm.\nBrent began his call center career as a mutual fund trader and call center representative for Fidelity Investments in 1986. In 1988, he began his career in the debt collections business as a sales representative and quickly moved to Administration/ Finance/ Operations. In 1991 he became an owner of Allied Creditor Service Incorporated (Allied) out of Boston MA. In 1996, he created Outsource Receivables Management, Inc. (ORM). In the span of 11 years, Brent and his team built these two companies into a 350+ employee management firm with clients across the US.\nIn 2002, Brent sold these companies (Allied and ORM) and ran the combined organization with 800 employees and 29 offices around the US.\nIn 2004, Brent joined the Hilco Trading Company out of Chicago, IL and helped pioneer the debt buying industry within the healthcare space. In 2006, Brent and his partners sold this company to Goldman Sachs.\nAfter some deliberation and angst, Brent realized that he missed running business operations, so in 2007, he created BHR and in 2018, AHR was born.\nBoth AHR and BHR have the privilege of working with clients where there is a philosophical fit based on honesty, authenticity and reasonableness. With 120 employees and over 100 clients across the United States, they have positioned themselves to grow\u2013but only where and when it makes sense. Most important, Brent and his senior management team embrace the concepts of accountability and \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d for their companies and associates. The AHR/BHR management invests heavily in its people, culture, clients and technology and the companies are fully engaged in a multi-year endeavor to operationalize love as a business principle and embody the Radical LEAP and other Extreme Leadership practices in their culture.\nIndie has worked in the Human Resources and Corporate Development field for over 30 years and is currently in the role of Director of Corporate Development at a fast-growing, award-winning logistics firm. Her extensive background includes senior and executive roles in human resources, administrative operations, corporate development, and marketing, primarily with technology and engineering firms headquartered in Northeast Florida. Throughout her career her work has included identifying organizational development needs and creating and leading initiatives and programs to address them.\nA Florida native, Indie received her undergraduate degree in business and her MBA from the University of North Florida. In addition, she holds both her SPHR and SHRM-SCP designations in human resources.\nIndie enjoys spending time with her daughter, hiking, travelling, and teaches and practices yoga whenever time allows. Her strong sense of mindfulness and connection, which she gained throughout years of extensive yoga teacher training, is something she uniquely brings into her leadership and program development and facilitation with a business perspective.\nShe has heart for helping others and a fire in her soul to teach and share the principles of Extreme Leadership around the world because of the radical results she has experienced first-hand and seen in others as a result of it.\nMeeting Mike Kociela you wouldn\u2019t believe he\u2019s been a force in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. He began his musical journey in fourth grade by picking up the violin but quickly switched to the trumpet and guitar. While attending college on a full ride music scholarship, Mike started a rock band called New World Spirits, which eventually landed a major label deal with Universal Records. His band traveled coast to coast for nearly ten years, made it on to virtually every radio station and lived the rock dream.\nHowever, the road began to lose its luster and the band decided it was time to move on. That\u2019s when the call came from a prominent entertainment agency offering Mike the position of local talent buyer. After two years of climbing to the top, he outgrew his role and launched Entertainment St. Louis.\nMike set out on a tireless quest to become the region\u2019s premier entertainment marketing agency and that is exactly what he and his team did. One production lead to another and the client list began to build.\nHe went on to pursue a storied career of creating, owning, and managing iconic large-scale festivals with hundreds of thousands of people in attendance\u2014events like the multi-award-winning Taste of St. Louis festival, The San Diego Taco Festival, and the annual 4th of July Celebration under the Gateway Arch, to name just a few.\nAnd as notable as those accomplishments are, there\u2019s one fact that separates Mike\u2019s events from the rest: a perfect track record of absolutely no violence or police incidents in any of these massive gatherings. The secret, Mike says, is in intentionally creating every detail of the event\u2019s \u201cculture\u201d to contribute to a safe and enjoyable experience for the attendees. Create an experience that the people will love, and the rest takes care of itself.\nMike built and co-founded The National Blues Museum in St Louis and is now pursuing his new passion by creating and co-founding The Museum of Beer in San Diego, which is due to open in 2020.\nWhen he\u2019s not behind the desk crunching out production schedules and creating new projects, Mike still finds time to pick up the bass guitar at jam sessions, work on vintage motorcycles, and talk shop with his chef buddies about his latest hot sauce recipe.\nKen and Kerri Courtright are the founders of Income Store, one of the fastest growing companies in the US. Their company has helped hundreds of families and businesses generate immediate passive revenue through revenue-generating websites. Currently, their 160 employees build, manage, and monetize over 900 sites for investing partners around the world.\nA special blend of Speakers, Activities and Entertainment\nLunch with the group is included\nPlus lots of Ted-style presenters, group activities, music, and SURPRISES! This is a master-class in Extreme Leadership application, so you\u2019ll learn everything you need to know to achieve whatever results and transformation you\u2019re striving for in 2019 and beyond. And there\u2019ll be lots of music! Featured speakers and activities include: Steve Farber, Tommy Spaulding, Debra Poneman, David Corbin, Jenna Lynch, Small Group Mastermind\nRECEPTION FOLLOWED BY 'CAMPFIRE WITH SPONSOR'\nOur great sponsors from Income Store will host a drink and hors d\u2019oeuvres reception followed by a \u201ccampfire\u201d group discussion with our fabulous guest panel.\nLunch with the group is (of course) included!\nThe learning laboratory, gathering, and celebration continues! A deep dive into LEAP. More guest speakers, a PHENOMENAL group activity, a touch of magic, and even more SURPRISES! Featured Speakers and activities Include: John Beeder, Starla Lewis, Andrew Bennett, Elay Cohen, The Brothers Koren\nSPECIAL BLEND OF SPEAKERS, ACTIVITIES & ENTERTAINMENT\nA special presentation and performance by The Brothers Koren, Steve Farber and\u2026you? Followed by a music jam session into the night. Bring your instrument if you\u2019d like to play, your shoes if you want to dance, your ears if you want to listen, and your mouth if you want to talk with your fellow Extreme Leaders. Or\u2026all of the above!\nAN AWESOME CONCLUSION\nOn our last morning together, we\u2019ll hear from more great speakers, finalize our action plans, and engage in a very special closing experience to The Experience. Featured speakers and activities include Allan Karl, Bryon Stephens, Indie Bollman, Action Planning\nGet yours while they're still available\nFull Access to the Live Event\n19 Extreme Leadership Expert Speakers\nSmall Group MasterMind Sessions\nAccess to Event Videos\nLunch With the Group on Thursday & Friday\nThursday Evening Cocktail and Hors D'oeuvres Reception (Courtesy of our sponsor, Income Store)\nFriday Night Music Event and Jam Session\nExclusive Course Materials\nLive Stream of the Event\nView in real time or at your own convenience\nAccess to all session videos for a full 3 months after the event\nPDF of all course materials\nExclusive follow-up webinar hosted by Steve Farber\nWHAT ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE\nHear about the magic...\nAgile Consultant, Release Train Engineer\nI Loved every minute! The highlights for me were meeting Steve Farber and understanding he is exactly how I wanted him to be, the messages from all of the other speakers, and the music! It changed my perspective on how I want to be as a leader and a person.\nPresident, Perkins Masonry, Inc.\nI left each day feeling a sense of new empowerment. People were willing to share ultra personal stories/experiences (with a veritable stranger) if they thought it would help me - Amazing!\nMy favorite part of the event was the interaction with the amazing group of people that attended. It really is incredible to meet such a diverse group of professionals that are all tied together by the same philosophy\nImmuno-Oncology Tumor Specialist, Bristol-Myers Squibb\nI loved the presentations by individuals who shared their challenges, heartbreaks, and difficulties with transparency and audacity, to become successful inspirational leaders in their fields and lives.\nPalomar Family Counseling Service\nThe whole event just rocked.\nPostmaster, United States Postal Service\nIt was demonstrated in story and in many examples throughout the Extreme Leadership Experience that love is just damn good business. My leadership tank was definitely filled \u2013 it was just a remarkable collection of impressive and dedicated people in the room \u2013 and it was inspiring to be so drawn to the competency and commitment demonstrated by those around me. But I will never forget the intense feeling of personal responsibility to go forth from here and \u2018do leadership\u2019 very intentionally in the moments, days, weeks, months, and years ahead.\nPresident, Growing Forward\nI've never attended anything like this in my life. I have traveled many times to the U.S. for business coaching, but not for leadership. Sad thing is, at least from my perspective, they should be the same thing. We are not separate from how we live or how we do business. Everyone there--and I mean everyone--was genuine, caring and loving. How weird is that...weird in that I've never experienced it before at events. I felt like I was home. This was my place. I belong here. I have never felt that way before.\nPresident, One Lilly Pad, LLC\nThe Extreme Leadership Experience was a great blend of meaningful content, emotional stories that connected the audience to the power of LEAP,great entertainment, and interactive sessions to keep everyone engaged. It's a truely remarkable event.\nAgile Transformation Consultant, Thought Leader\nThe experience inspired me to bring out the best in others, and the energy generated from this event is sticking with me even months later.\nThe Extreme Leadership Experience!\nThank you for helping to make this remarkable event possible!\nThe Marriott San Diego La Jolla 4240 La Jolla Village Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037\ninfo@extremeleadership.com\nExtreme Leadership Community Sign Up\nGet the latest news and updates from Steve Farber and The Extreme Leadership Institute. We'll never share your contact info!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 335, "original_length": 44194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stevens-bolton.com/site/insights/articles/employee-despite-contract-for-services-and-psc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RTS3RNNLNAZBSQYT5TQSYUSC6KQ3PLMU", "length": 5292, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.stevens-bolton.com", "title": "Individual was employee despite contract for services and intermediary personal service company - Stevens & Bolton LLP", "raw_content": "Individual was employee despite contract for services and intermediary personal service company\nIn Sprint Electric Ltd v Buyer\u2019s Dream & Another the High Court held that an individual was an employee rather than an independent contractor. This conclusion was reached despite the fact that the individual provided services to the company under a contract for services and via an intermediary personal service company. Additionally, none of the parties had questioned the description of their relationship as that of contractor and client. Nevertheless, the High Court considered it necessary as a matter of policy to look beyond the description of the relationship that the parties had chosen to adopt.\nSprint Electric Limited (SEL) offered Dr Potamianos a senior post at the company. He was required to work through a service company for tax avoidance reasons. Dr Potamianos therefore formed Buyer\u2019s Dream Limited (BDL) and over a number of years BDL entered into a series of contracts for services with SEL. Under one such contract (the Source Code Contract), Dr Potamianos created software and documents that were used by SEL. In 2017 Dr Potamianos was removed from SEL and excluded from the company\u2019s premises. He took and retained an SEL computer from SEL\u2019s premises on leaving the company, which led to the litigation. SEL brought commercial proceedings in the High Court (the Court) in relation to a number of intellectual property disputes that arose between the parties. From an employment perspective, the interesting point in this case was the Court\u2019s assessment of the employment status of Dr Potamianos.\ni. Employment status\nIn its judgment, the Court examined the law around the use of service companies in an employment context and looked at the tax advantages of this type of arrangement. The Court made it clear that the existence of a service company is not in itself conclusive evidence that an individual is an independent contractor. The Court was driven to re-evaluate the type of contract in place between the parties because in the Court\u2019s view the parties were clearly motivated by tax avoidance objectives when they entered into a number of key written agreements which were at the heart of the proceedings. The Court commented that such motivation was \u201cimpossible to ignore\u201d and went on to say that where a court has concerns that parties have chosen to give their relationship a label that is untrue or inaccurate for reasons of tax avoidance, it can and should consider the issue of its own accord.\nThe Court concluded that the parties had, in this case, given an inaccurate label to their relationship. It considered a number of factors including the fact that there was a clear expectation that Dr Potamianos would personally perform the relevant services for SEL and the existence of detailed restrictive covenants. Bringing all the factors considered together, and in light of its policy reasoning for making the assessment, the Court concluded that the true relationship between SEL and Dr Potamianos was that of employer and employee.\nIt is worth noting that the Court\u2019s decision in this case was in relation to Dr Potamianos\u2019 employment status rather than the tax position of the arrangement. The IR35 legislation already tackles the use of intermediaries to avoid income tax and NICs. When IR35 applies, the sums received by the intermediary are treated as employment payments by the intermediary to the worker for tax and NICs purposes and will therefore be subject to PAYE.\nii. Ownership of copyright under the Source Code Contract\nThe decision that the relevant relationship between SEL and Dr Potamianos was that of employer/ employee provided clarity for the Court when seeking to establish the owner of the copyright in the software and documents created by Dr Potamianos under the Source Code Contract. Under section 11(2) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, where a work is made by an employee in the course of their employment, the employer will be the first owner of copyright in the work, subject to any agreement to the contrary. On this basis, and as there was no agreement to the contrary, SEL\u2019s claim in relation to the Source Code Contract succeeded and the Court held that SEL owned the copyright in the relevant software and documents.\nThe decision reached is a surprising one from an employment perspective as it indicates that the use of a service company is vulnerable to challenge not only under IR35 for tax purposes, but also for the purposes of employment status, even in circumstances where neither of the parties involved wish to contest the arrangement.\nFrom an IP perspective, the end result of this case was relatively uncontroversial, given the established principle that copyright in a work created by an employee in the course of their employment belongs to their employer. Nevertheless, the Court\u2019s decision that the relationship between SEL and Dr Potamianos was one of employee and employer clearly provided an elegant resolution to both the policy concern of tax avoidance and the issue of IP ownership. As such, the Court appears to have gone further than normal, and it is likely that if these key elements of the case had not been present, we would have seen a different outcome.\nTom Lingard , Boma Adoki", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storyofalily.com/page/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:31:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RGAF224CLH5SEVGIVCVCO2G2HN4ZPJWB", "length": 3488, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.storyofalily.com", "title": "Story of a Lily - Page 12 of 12 - battling book addiction since 1992", "raw_content": "Five Common Money Mistakes \u2013 Dollars and Sense, Part 1\nI might have been born obsessed with money. Throughout my childhood, I was bookkeeping and balancing my piggy bank on a regular basis, because instead of an allowance, we received our entire annual budget at New Year\u2019s, to do with as we saw fit. I\u2019m fascinated by how money is created, used, acquired, and how money affects people. Even with my near academic fascination, I still made a lot of common money mistakes. Wasting money on things I know I won\u2019t like. Losing actual currency by being careless. Getting knowingly ripped off either out of convenience or embarrassment. Why does this keep happening??\nDollars and Sense is about the common money mistakes we make, and why we make them. A lot of these mistakes are subconscious; we don\u2019t even know we\u2019re making them. So what is causing it, and how can we stop something we\u2019re not aware of?\nEvery year, I attempt to make and keep resolutions. Grandiose goals like losing weight or running more (it\u2019s not hard to run more since I run never, and yet I still manage to fail this yearly) that are not in line with my personality, character, habits, and lifestyle. So this year, I\u2019m focusing on five financial resolutions that I can easily follow in 2018. That should be doable, right?\nI picked up Beth Kobliner\u2019s Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties towards the end of last year, and the breadth of information was a little daunting at first. She covers the whole gamut from basic banking to investing to retirement to all kinds of loans. I always thought I was doing a decent job managing my money, but I realized, I was just mindlessly saving. And that wasn\u2019t an efficient way to achieve my financial goals in life. So, without further ado\u2026\nPosted on\tJanuary 1, 2018\tMay 15, 2018\n\u201cIf you could do only one thing with your life right now, what would you do?\u201d\nThat was the question the author asked himself, and that was the question that led me to start this blog.\nIn the last couple of years, I have been feeling overwhelmed with life. I had a work laptop so that I could work while at home, and my manager was trying to get me a work cell so they could call me at all hours. I was on half a dozen social media platforms, feeling like I could never keep up with anyone and wondering where everyone else got all their energy. (I\u2019ve had to join about half a dozen more since starting business school, but that\u2019s neither here nor there). I felt like I was being dragged along by the current of life rather than actively swimming (even though I can\u2019t swim).\nEventually I became drawn to things like minimalism, decluttering, bullet journaling, hygge \u2013 basically, things about reducing and cutting back. I had tried to read this book twice prior, but couldn\u2019t get into it; it wasn\u2019t resonating with me at those times in my life. This time though, the message hit home. So I gave this book another try, eager to declutter my life as well.\nEssentialism, by Greg McKeown, talks about trying to do too many things, and focusing on the most important things instead of trying to do it all. Life is about trade-offs, and trying to have it all will not make us happy \u2013 it will only stress us out further. Essentialism is about doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time. Things will not fall into place until all three conditions are met. It\u2019s a philosophy about cutting out the overwhelming excess in life, and about doing LESS, BUT BETTER.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 7855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.strata.com/museum-captures-the-past/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:37Z", "digest": "sha1:URR6U5QNRHJMV7NDTK4PLOTFJFWCE634", "length": 1433, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.strata.com", "title": "Museum Captures the Past - Strata", "raw_content": "The question that Lars faced was how to create this virtual museum in a way that brought the real sense of history to these objects. He felt photographs alone wouldn\u2019t do.\nFoto 3D allows the easy capture of real world objects using a simple digital camera. When Lars found out about this unique technology from developer Creative Dimension Software he knew he had his solution.\n\u201cThe web visitors will have access to our databases and direct links to other databases, with an interface as simple as possible\u2026\u201d Lars explained. These 3D models \u201c\u2026will be used in our virtual museum, where a new item is presented in 3D each month. The modeling of artifacts can in some cases be done in half an hour, which is important if modeling is to be a regular routine.\u201d\nLars was able to set up a small studio area in which to photograph the museum artifacts. A simple turntable with the printed Foto 3D orientation template was created. Additional lighting was added to properly illuminate the object.\nFinished photographs are then downloaded to a PC and fed into the software to build the 3D models. A combination of both photographs and 3D models are used for the website. 3D models are displayed using a Java based player technology similar to Strata Live 3D\nThe results speak for themselves. All of the images below are 3D models from the virtual museum. The artifacts are now \u2018preserved\u2019 in the digital domain for future generations to enjoy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studyabroad101.com/countries/colombia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WHX5GWLF5CTHYMPBD4JWVDSDSG4AQLIC", "length": 5066, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.studyabroad101.com", "title": "Study Abroad in Colombia", "raw_content": "Study Abroad in Colombia\nColombia is located in northwestern South America. There are over 45 million residents of Colombia, which makes it the second largest country in South America yet only a few hundred American students will study abroad in Columbia each year. Colombia lies on the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and is bordered by many other South American countries, such as Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. Colombia is perfect for students looking for an ethnically diverse population and a great place to study abroad.\nBelow you will find our list of Study Abroad programs in Colombia It is an index to international education in Colombia listing university level study abroad, internships, volunteer and intensive language school programs oriented to American college and university students. Some pre-college and post-graduate options are also included. We invite you to read the student reviews, see the ratings scores and use this site to compare programs and understand what other students have encountered during their education abroad.\n1. Medellin 20 reviews\n2. Barranquilla 1 review\n3. Bogota 1 review\n4. Cali 1 review\n5. Cartagena 0 reviews\nStudy Abroad in Colombia - Featured Programs\nIPSL: Colombia - Post-Conflict Studies and Afro-Caribbean Culture\nIPSL has designed and delivered international programs focusing on experiential learning, ethical service and engaged research for 37 years. Now t...\nSIT Study Abroad: Colombia: Building a Culture of Peace (Summer)\nWitness history in the making as you experience the peacebuilding process in Colombia. Learn about the history of conflict in Colombia and its bel...\nStudy Abroad in Colombia - All Programs\nThe Intern Group: Colombia, Emerging Markets Internship Placement Program\nWe offer successful applicants an outstanding internship in the sector of their choice. Our emerging markets internship program offers comprehensive personal and professio...\nUniversidad Aut\u00f3noma de Occidente: Cali - Direct Enrollment & Exchange\nUniversidad Autonoma de Occidente in Cali, Colombia\nThe Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Occidente is a private university, established in 1970. Its first seat was on Champagnat neighborhood, in Cali....\nISA Study Abroad in Barranquilla, Colombia\nUniversidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia\nSituated along the Magdalena River and known as the \"Golden Gate to Colombia,\" Barranquilla (population approx. 2 million) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan Caribbean port cit...\nPontifical Xavierian University: Bogota - Direct Enrollment & Exchange\nPontificia Universidad Javeriana / Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogota, Colombia\nJaveriana University is one of the 28 universities Entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL), and one of the 114 worldwide. Its alumni play an important ...\nUniversity of Antioquia: Antioquia - Direct Enrollment & Exchange\nUniversidad de Antioquia \\ University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia\nThe University of Antioquia, also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Medell\u00edn, Antioquia, Colombia....\nUniversidad Nacional de Colombia: Bogota - Direct Enrollment & Exchange\nUniversidad Nacional de Colombia \\ National University of Colombia in Bogota, Colombia\nThe Universidad Nacional de Colombia, also called UNAL or just UN, is a public, national, coeducational, research university, located primarily in Bogot\u00e1, Medell\u00edn, Maniza...\nNRCSA: Bogota - IH Spanish Language School\nLocated in the center of the country at an altitude of approximately 2,600 meters, Bogot\u00e1 enjoys an almost perfect climate with average temperatures varying from 9 to 23 d...\nNRCSA: Cartagena - Lengua Spanish School\nOur school of the Caribbean is located in the city of Cartagena. 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In addition ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/24-stanley-and-dorothy-pauley/Content?oid=1578410", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NHNXVJQE3S6R2SAN74F33OC7XYLTN3RH", "length": 862, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.styleweekly.com", "title": "24. Stanley and Dorothy Pauley | 2011 Power List | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.", "raw_content": "July 12, 2011 Special/Signature Issues \u00bb 2011 Power List\n24. Stanley and Dorothy Pauley\nRichmond Philanthropy\nThe chairman and chief executive of the Carpenter Co. and his wife are major players among Richmond\u2019s corporate and philanthropic elite. She\u2019s a dependable advocate for the arts, and he\u2019s an active supporter of higher education. In 2009 their family foundation gave more than $3 million to charities, including the Medical College of Virginia Foundation, the Richmond Symphony and Circle Center for Adult Day Services. CenterStage alone received $1.025 million of the family\u2019s largesse.\nTags: 2011 Power List, Stanley Pauley, Dorothy Pauley, Carpenter Co.\nLatest in 2011 Power List\n1. Mayor Dwight C. Jones\n2. Thomas F. Farrell III\n3. William H. Goodwin Jr.\nMore 2011 Power List \u00bb\n\u00ab 23. Michael Rao | 25. E. Claiborne Robins Jr. and the Robins Family \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suchtv.pk/health/item/78259-why-a-lack-of-sleep-can-make-you-angry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HLQDFFZTUZUWUV4W47FXWLXXBL3J3TOP", "length": 1195, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.suchtv.pk", "title": "Why a Lack of Sleep Can Make You Angry - SUCH TV", "raw_content": "Why a Lack of Sleep Can Make You Angry\nResearchers say not getting enough rest can make it more difficult to do simple tasks and can lead to frustration.\nA lack of sleep can make you angry more quickly, but there are ways to cope with this sleep-deprived reaction.\nWhen you slack on shut-eye, you won\u2019t just develop bags under your eyes.\nYou may also develop anger issues.\nNew research from Iowa State University reveals that people who lose just a few hours of sleep at night are angrier and less capable of adapting to frustrating situations than people who get adequate rest.\nThe results, which were published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, are among the first to link sleep loss to an increase in anger.\nPrevious studies have suggested a possible link between the two factors, but it was unclear if sleep loss increased anger or if anger led to the sleep loss.\n\u201cSleep-restricted individuals actually showed a trend toward increased anger and distress, essentially reversing their ability to adapt to frustrating conditions over time,\u201d Zlatan Krizan, PhD, study author and professor of psychology at Iowa State University, said in a statement. \u201cNo one has shown this before.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suertestudio.com/newsSingle.php?id=30", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:C63JC7YTCJN7VFJER237L3RH6E3TI5UW", "length": 6394, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.suertestudio.com", "title": "Headquarter Via Vicenza 23/1", "raw_content": "Interview w/ Manuel Miranda - Suerte Studio '\nManuel Miranda is a graphic designer, design advocate, and educator in New York. His firm Manuel Miranda Practice (MMP) focuses on using graphic design to \u201cmake places and content visible, legible, and navigable to people.\u201d\nWe spoke with Miranda about the nature of collaborative design projects, his role on New York City\u2019s Public Design Commission, and the importance of incorporating graphic design into architecture and urban projects.\nMW: You\u2019ve worked with a number of well-known design firms in the past. How did you decide to branch out on your own and start Manuel Miranda Practice? Is there a difference in the type of projects you take on?\nMM: Previously, I worked in branding and design at 2\u00d74, Inc., and Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather. One thing I learned from both of these studios was how to navigate super-collaborative projects with multiple stakeholders while still advocating for a design-centric approach. After nearly five years of working for other firms, I started MMP because I wanted more freedom in choosing the kinds of projects I work on and more control over my own pace. In some ways, many projects I work on have the same level of scope, particularly in the institutional realm, but I also do more publicly-oriented and less product- and profit-driven work than in previous jobs. I\u2019m also able to integrate teaching and other activities such as design programming for cultural institutions into my practice, which is more difficult to do if you are a full-time employee at a firm.\nMW: A lot of your projects have a strong community component (your work for Urban Justice Center, New York Foundation, and Neighborhood Plaza Partnerships, for example). What is it about community-based work that you find so appealing?\nMM: Given the current political climate, I think it\u2019s important for designers to make an effort to better the world by supporting organizations that are working towards a more equitable and habitable future for everyone. A powerful skill graphic designers have in their toolbox is the ability to make things visible, whether that\u2019s a product or a designer\u2019s personal voice. Hence my choice in working with the organizations you mention (as well as Center for Urban Pedagogy, ArtPlace America, New York Housing Conference, Red Hook Initiative, and Van Alen Institute). I support these organizations by making their mission and work visible to the world. In addition, I come from an immigrant family and grew up as a person of color in this country, and I believe this gives me some insight into and empathy for the experience of underserved minority communities these organizations work for.\nAlso, these projects require a certain visual dexterity and design resourcefulness, as one needs to simultaneously employ multiple visual rhetorical modes such as typography, color, iconography, diagrams, collage, and photography to transmit the complexity of the content to a public audience. I like this challenge, and my desire to work in this way comes from an early love of comic books, which similarly use multiple storytelling approaches at once for a mass audience.\nMW: You\u2019ve collaborated with other architecture and urban design firms working in the public realm. Why is it so important to fold graphic design into these larger projects at the outset?\nMM: There are several reasons graphic design is important to architecture and urban projects. First, public buildings aren\u2019t objects unto themselves but rather the manifestation of an organization\u2019s or community\u2019s vision and mission. Going through a design process and getting internal stakeholders to agree on a public-facing graphic identity helps the organization driving the program for a building or place to gain consensus about how it wants to be publicly perceived. Second, a cohesive and strategic approach to print and digital communications helps the organization project a united front and make itself and its offerings visible and legible to its audience. Third, visitors need to feel a sense of belonging in public spaces. Graphic design, through interpretive signage and environmental graphics, helps to make places navigable and inhabitable to people. Oftentimes, you see architecture and urban design firms working without a proper graphic designer because they assume anyone can do graphic design because it\u2019s just letters, shapes, and colors, but, as I try to outline above, there\u2019s a lot more at stake than just those elements. This is something I address during Public Design Commission reviews.\nMW: Do you have an example of how this plays out in a project you\u2019ve worked on?\nMM: I\u2019ve recently been working as a subcontractor to WxY on a project in Sunset Park for the NYC Economic Development Corporation. The City owns several old industrial spaces in Sunset Park and is seeking to attract tenants working in garment manufacturing, film and television production, and other small-scale light manufacturing. The goal is to provide manufacturers with the tools and space they need to grow and succeed, who will, in turn, create manufacturing jobs for workers. MMP\u2019s role takes place on many layers\u2014the district needs a graphic identity system that ties previously disparate locations together, it needs promotional materials that both tie the district to the City\u2019s mission of creating good-paying jobs for its inhabitants and also communicates the value of the workspaces to manufacturers, and it needs a signage and wayfinding system that and helps tenants and visitors find their way around the site. This is all developed in close collaboration with WxY and NYCEDC, alongside building and streetscape improvements and creative placemaking initiatives. Right now the work is being summarized in an activation plan with some aspects set for construction. There have also been a few print materials released, and an enhancement to one of the space\u2019s website. Different to a private development, this is a mission-driven initiative, and all of the visual materials need to be unified in signaling this. Creating this cohesion is really the purview of graphic design.\nImage: \u201cGreat Falls Great Food Great Stories\u201c) interpretive signage in Paterson, NJ. In collaboration with Team Paterson for The Hamilton Partnership for Paterson and the National Park Service. Photo: Cameron Blaylock\nMolly Woodward / NYCxDesign", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 6684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suicidegirls.com/members/dr_bob/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NAQ47DMSDPHMVFPNYYNIR5BFQNXKVO35", "length": 521, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.suicidegirls.com", "title": "dr_bob's SuicideGirls Blog", "raw_content": "I know I am in the minority with what I'm about to say but.......to Hell with Obama. He's not going to make a difference in the shit-storm that are country is in the middle of. I wish him luck, but it is my opinion that he is gonna \"choke\".\nOnly time will tell.....\nI have so few friends on here and only read a few of the girls blogs(look at the naked) that I think I'll let my subscription run out. So I guess I'll be here for a little bit longer. I just can't see wasting the money on something I get so little use of.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.superbcatalyst.com/diary/namaste-sir/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QVNXSA7JOX6HUG6WC5V3GS5U2BA5DXK2", "length": 5309, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.superbcatalyst.com", "title": "Superb Catalyst \u00bb Namaste Sir", "raw_content": "Let me tell you about my time in Khanikhola, Nepal at the Superb Catalyst Academy\nThe five letters in Nepal stand for \u2018Never Ending Peace And Love\u2019. This statement turns out to be absolutely true when one is visiting the wonderful regions of this country, especially in the rural and traditional areas all around the Himalayas. I quickly fell in Love with Nepal when I started my journey in November 2016. I had multiple reasons to visit exactly this part of the world, as I was not only interested in eastern religions and cultures, but also in the educational system of the country.\nAfter a few days in Kathmandu, a very friendly taxi driver with the name of Suresh picked me up and brought me, plus three bags full of footballs and school items, to the wonderful village Khanikhola in Dhading, Naubise, which is about 25 kilometres away from the capital. I immediately arrived at the Super Catalyst Academy, and the principal of the school and also the host of my journey, Ajoy Rimal, gave me a warm welcome. I got introduced to his wife Bina, who is not only a talented teacher but also a wonderful cook, and to the other teachers as well. Everybody was smiling and I could already feel the \u2018vibe\u2019 of the village for the first time. I can also remember that Ajoy immediately told me a story about 5 Austrian people that he met in Khanikhola during his early childhood years. He never met an Austrian person ever since, so he was kind of excited to see one again\nHe had never met an Austrian person since, so he was kind of excited to see one again\nLater on, Ajoy shared more of his personal stories with me and other volunteers. All I can say is that this man is a powerful soul, a true worker of Life, a servant of Truth, with a noble mind, a very generous and patient character, and very clear and good intentions. He is really putting his whole energy in the school, investing everything he has got into it, constantly. Not only did I find a teacher and a host in him, but also a friend, an inspiration and an \u2018older brother\u2019 (a \u2018dhai\u2019 is how they call it in Nepal).\nThe place where the volunteers stay, called \u2018Global Home\u2019, is also the home of Ajoy, Bina and their joyful and beautiful daughter Emi. The area is absolutely wonderful and there is enough space for at least 4 volunteers. It is located about 20 minutes away from the school and the whole way up is full of organic fruits and vegetables, little shops and of course smiling people. This I noticed already when I walked up to my new home for the first time. Young children and old adults, all of them are smiling at you, greeting you with a warm \u2018Namaste\u2019. This scenario repeats daily. One of the most beautiful moments of the day was indeed the walk down to the school and later on up to the house again. Usually, a whole group of primary school children is following you upwards, all of them wanting to hold your hand and to sing songs with them. This alone makes you realise the beauty of Life in such a simple and wonderful way that it cannot be described in words.\nAfter wonderful food and a good and peaceful first night, I arrived at the Superb Catalyst Academy for my first teaching experiences. Ajoy told me that especially Class 10 needs some help in Science, and as I studied Biotechnology and Genetics with a Masters Degree, I kind of knew how I could help them a little bit. In the following months, I spent a lot of time with them, but also with younger students and other classes. I discovered plenty of new things about myself and others during my visit.\nAs everywhere in the world, also in Khanikhola, the students are just different. Some are shy, some are outgoing. However, most of them are extremely curious. They want to know a lot of things and some of them will never stop to ask you questions (which is obviously a very good sign!). The children also love to give you some riddles to solve, and they, of course, love it when you do the same with them. I realised quickly that the best way to teach children is to combine knowledge with fun. All children love to play games and thus education also has to undergo a kind of re-orientation. Not only in Nepal, but worldwide.\nA great balance in the daily life of the students are the extracurricular activities. During this periods I usually practised Tai-Chi and Yoga with the children, an activity that we all enjoyed a lot. I strongly believe that a balance of mind (thoughts), body (actions) and soul (feelings) is required for a balanced and healthy life. Education must always revolve around these 3 pillars and principles of Life.\nAnother great, priceless thing: Every time you are looking for a little bit of joy and love, you just need to visit the \u2018minions\u2019 of Class 1 and of the Nursery Class. They\u2019ll make you cry tears of joy and your heart will burst\nDuring my time in Khanikhola, I had a great opportunity to get to know others and myself in a better way. Mother Nature is absolutely alive here and all the people live in a perfect harmony with her. Every day I experienced a little miracle here and each moment is full of joy, peace and bliss.\nYou are all wonderful souls, believe in yourself!\n\u201cThere\u2019s a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools. 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The team traveled to Allahabad, India for the Kumbh Mela festival, the largest gathering of human beings ever recorded. This auspicious gathering occurs once every twelve years and draws over 100 million pilgrims. By bathing at the confluence of India's holiest, yet most polluted rivers, pilgrims seek to cleanse their karma in order to bypass reincarnation.\nThe Ganges (Ganga), India's most sacred river, originates in the pristine Himalayas, flows 1,500 miles across the Indian countryside and sustains millions of people. In the process it becomes one of the five most polluted rivers in the world.\nThe objective was to attend the festival, walk with the masses, connect with the culture, and feel the power of one of the world\u2019s \u201cpurest\u201d paths to enlightenment. To do this, the group decided that they needed to fully experience life on the Ganges both at the festival and downriver. The team embarked on a 140-mile SUP journey down the Ganges from the Kumbh Mela to India's most sacred city, Varanasi.\nThe documentary \"Kharma Bums,\" will follow this four-week cultural journey of ups and downs, music and noise, dancing, and splashing, as the team uncovers the beauties and realities of the sacred river.\nJeremiah Kent is a Los Angeles based Filmmaker and Cinematographer. Kent has been working on film sets since 1999. He met Co-Producer Ryan Salm on the banks of Lake Malawi in 2010, while traveling on a fourteen-month voyage around the world.\nRyan Salm is a Lake Tahoe based Travel/Adventure Photographer. This adventure was Salm's brainchild, seeded from pictures he saw in his dad's National Geographic magazines growing up.\nSo here's the skinny: The documentary has been shot, and the team has over thirty hours of beautiful footage, but is lacking the funds to bring it to life. 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Our electrical and small power designs will assist the specialist lighting designer to set the mood for each zone in the exhibition, and our mechanical ventilation designs will ensure the exhibition is well ventilated without disrupting the air flow and fire alarm systems within the large, temporary exhibition hall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sydneypoint.com.au/events/sydney-colorfest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2FDTHLRN5C2FZBZTLAUKQHC7CDPWNHXC", "length": 2125, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sydneypoint.com.au", "title": "Sydney Colorfest - Sydney Point", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Events \u00bb Sydney Colorfest\nSydney Colorfest\nThe Sydney Colorfest is a vibrant community event that takes place for a one day every April. The main highlight is the throwing of bright, organic coloured powder every thirty minutes to symbolize friendship, love, and freedom.\nEveryone is welcome to attend the event, with activities curated for all age groups. Talented local DJ\u2019s will be spinning tunes all day long, while international cuisine and dishes serve as festival fare. Take note that as food and beverages will be served, event organizers are prohibiting bringing your own to the event. Given that the nature of the event involves throwing coloured powder around, it would be in your best interest to ensure your electronic gadgets and smart phones are protected in a plastic bag or sleeve.\nBe prepared to get drenched in colour; come in white but leave in colour! It\u2019s recommended to wear comfortable sandals or shoes which you don\u2019t mind getting coloured powder in. Individuals who wear contact lenses may also want to bring glasses or goggles to protect the eyes. Powder throwing follows a schedule as well; every thirty minutes a countdown will remind the audience that it\u2019s time to toss your powders. Only non-toxic, eco-friendly, and water-soluble Zhilmil powders are used. It is made with food-grade colour and corn starch. You may purchase your colours on the day of the event; it will be available while stocks last. Only certified powder will be allowed into the festival; thus, it will not be permitted for attendees to bring their own powder to the event.\nChildren may spend their time at a designated playing area. Parents should also take note that the event tends to be filled with stampedes of people dancing and jumping, so it\u2019s necessary to ensure your children are kept in the safe area.\nThe ticket prices for Sydney Colorfest are: $30 for adults, $18 for kids aged 5-12, $18 for pensioners, and $80 for families. The events take place at the Showgrounds at the Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush, New South Wales from 11AM to 5PM. The event will go on rain or shine.\nSydney Colorfest Information", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 421, "original_length": 8265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.talkvietnam.org/tag/new-york-accredited-online-colleges/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6Z5SG7UAPOUDUZM4N7I5MJLE44ES4BUC", "length": 2150, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.talkvietnam.org", "title": "New york accredited online colleges \u2013 Talk Vietnam", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives for New york accredited online colleges\nNew york accredited online colleges\nSecond post-Tet cold snap to hit northern region A strong cold front is moving southwards and is expected to hit the northern region on February 18, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has reported. According to the national weather service, the second cold snap since the Lunar New Year is expected to bring heavy rain and temperatures below 15\u00b0C to all areas of the region. The cold weather should last for 3-4 days, before temperatures begin to rise. Northeastern winds in the Gulf of Tonkin and the northern part of the East Sea are expected to reach sustained speeds in category 7 (50\u201361 km/h) on the Beaufort scale, with gusts up to category 9 (75\u201388 km/h). Rough seas are also anticipated. Sweden creative day to be held in city The Embassy of Sweden in Vietnam will coordinate with the HCMC government to organize the Sweden Creative Day exhibition in HCMC in two weeks this November. At the exhibition, enterprises and experts from Sweden will \u2026 [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 18/2\nTraffic accident kills three policemen A traffic accident killed three policemen as they were driving on the National Highway 1A section which runs through Huu Lung district in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son around 2.30pm yesterday. The policemen, Phuong Van Chung, Vi Van Loc and Trinh Van Hieu, from the district's police force, were on a working trip from Ha Noi to Lang Son when their Toyota car crashed into a passenger bus travelling in the opposite direction, according to the district's police. The bus belonged to the Son Duc \u2013 Lang Son joint venture company. The incident remains under investigation. Coach, truck collide, injuring nine A coach crashed into a truck in central province of Nghe An on Saturday night, injuring nine. At about 11:20pm, a 29-seat coach bound for Vinh City lost control and rammed into the back of a truck parked on the side of the road. Those wounded on the coach were immediately rushed to the hospital. None suffered critical \u2026 [Read more...] about Social News 3/8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2017/10/19/fort-pierce-utilities-authority-wastewater-spill-into-indian-river-lagoon-being-addressed/776560001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:354OYWWOKUJVCJ6XNUOSJMZJOAVMBINO", "length": 5632, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.tcpalm.com", "title": "Wastewater spill into lagoon being addressed, Fort Pierce utility says", "raw_content": "Fort Pierce Utilities Authority: Wastewater spill into Indian River Lagoon being addressed\nElectrical outage and an \"operational error\" contributed to the 1.25 million gallon discharge in early October.\nFort Pierce Utilities Authority: Wastewater spill into Indian River Lagoon being addressed Electrical outage and an \"operational error\" contributed to the 1.25 million gallon discharge in early October. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2017/10/19/fort-pierce-utilities-authority-wastewater-spill-into-indian-river-lagoon-being-addressed/776560001/\nTyler Treadway, tyler.treadway@tcpalm.com Published 11:14 a.m. ET Oct. 19, 2017 | Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2017\nThe Fort Pierce Utilities Authority wastewater treatment plant is seen along the Indian River Lagoon on Seaway Drive on Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce.(Photo11: ERIC HASERT/TCPALM)Buy Photo\nPower and communications problems that led to more than 1 million gallons of treated sewage being dumped into the Indian River Lagoon are being fixed, Fort Pierce Utilities Authority official said Thursday.\nPower went out on one of two lines serving the plant.\nA second power line deemed \"unreliable\" since Hurricane Irma had not been repaired and was unavailable.\nA computer warning system didn't notify an on-call operator of the power loss, so the spill went unnoticed for three hours.\nWhat FPUA is doing\nA dedicated power feed to the plant has been installed.\nMore FPUA staffers will be trained to manually transfer the plant from one power line to the other.\nA switch to automatically transfer the plant from a damaged power line to the other will be installed.\nTwo aging transformers at the plant will be replaced by next year's hurricane season.\nA stand-by generator will be installed by the 2019 hurricane season and portable generators will be available in 2018 in case both power lines fail.\nA larger backup battery has been installed on the computer warning system, which will alert several FPUA personnel if there's a power outage at the plant.\nAbout 1.25 million gallons of wastewater was released into the Indian River Lagoon between 3 and 6:45 a.m. Oct. 2 because of a power outage at the FPUA's Water Reclamation Facility on South Hutchinson Island, at the southeast base of the South Bridge.\nThe effluent was \"completely biologically treated,\" said FPUA spokeswoman Jann Widmayer, and posed no threat to people or wildlife. The plant had removed heavy metals as well as nitrogen and phosphorous, which can spur algae blooms.\nThe effluent did contain bacteria \"that would not survive in saltwater,\" Widmayer said.\nThe lagoon water at the treatment plant is brackish, a mixture of saltwater and freshwater.\nFPUA collected water samples from seven sites in the area for 10 days after the spill and found no problems, Bo Hutchinson, FPUA director of water and wastewater, told the utility's board of directors Tuesday.\nAccording to Hutchinson's presentation to the board, power went out at the plant about 2 a.m. when a broken circuit knocked out electricity to customers in the South Beach area of Fort Pierce.\nTwo independent circuits provide electricity to the plant. The two \"can be switched back and forth\" so if one goes down, the other can power the plant, Hutchinson said.\nOne of the circuits was \"less reliable\" after Irma, so the plant was running on the other. Operators failed to fix the faulty circuit so there would be a back-up source of power, Hutchinson said.\n\"That's an operational error on our side,\" Hutchinson told the board.\nThe back-up power source wouldn't have eliminated the wastewater release, he said, \"but the volume would have been reduced.\"\nAlso, the battery backup on the computerized warning system ran out of power and failed to notify the on-call operator the plant had lost electricity.\nHow's the water? | Map updated Oct. 27\nThe plant had capacity to store the treated wastewater for about an hour after losing electricity, Hutchinson said, but about 3 a.m. it started overflowing into the lagoon.\nFPUA staffers didn't realize there was a spill until they arrived at the plant at 6 a.m.\nThe discharge ended about 6:45 a.m. when power was restored to the plant.\nThe spilled water had gone through all the treatment processes except having chlorine added and was supposed to go into the injection well. But because of the power outage, there was no way to push the effluent into the well.\nThe plant can treat up to 10 million gallons of the area's wastewater a day and discharges the treated effluent into a 3,000-foot-deep injection well, according to FPUA's website.\nThe portable generators FPUA plans to rent in case of emergencies for next year's hurricane season will be able to power the well pumps, Hutchinson said. The generator that will be on site by the 2019 season will be able to power entire plant.\nThe automatic switch and the generator will cost a total of about $1.5 million, he said.\nThe treatment plant had two similar spills because of power outages during Hurricane Irma:\nAbout 6 million gallons between 10 p.m. Sept. 10 and 1 p.m. Sept. 11\nAbout 3 million gallons between 3:49 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Sept. 12\nHutchinson said those spills were unavoidable because the hurricane knocked out all electrical power to the plant, but future outage-related discharges should be prevented or lessened when back-up generators are in place.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2017/10/19/fort-pierce-utilities-authority-wastewater-spill-into-indian-river-lagoon-being-addressed/776560001/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 7976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/Business-Services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UQS5VIGPORDGB3T7GA22PUYBRN4B3VKC", "length": 371, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tdsb.on.ca", "title": "Business Services", "raw_content": "At the TDSB, financial and business operations are managed by our Business Services department. Some of the areas of responsibility include accounting, accounts payable, community services, purchasing, transportation and cafeteria services. In addition, the Business Services department also oversees and coordinates the annual budget process and all financial reporting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 498, "original_length": 11454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 143.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/Innovation/Gender-Based-Violence-Prevention/Accommodation-of-Transgender-Students-and-Staff", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3ASS5HIOO2LXQHOAPFYTAOOXX6SQ5D5H", "length": 5181, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.tdsb.on.ca", "title": "Guidelines for the Accommodation of Transgender and Gender Independent/Non-Conforming Students and Staff", "raw_content": "Guidelines for the Accommodation of Transgender and Gender Independent/Non-Conforming Students and Staff\nThe Toronto District School Board has developed accommodation guidelines for transgender and gender non-conforming students and staff. These guidelines set out the TDSB\u2019s best practices related to accommodation based on gender identity and gender expression. They have been designed to raise awareness and help protect against discrimination and harassment.\nView the guidelines here as well as a fact sheet.\nQ: Why do we need accommodation guidelines?\nA: Ontario Human Rights Code provides for equal rights and opportunities and freedom from discrimination for all persons. People cannot be discriminated against or harassed because of their gender identity or expression. These guidelines explain TDSB\u2019s best practices related to accommodation based on gender identity and gender expression. They have been designed to raise awareness and help protect against discrimination and harassment.\nQ: How does someone seek an accommodation?\nA: A student or staff member is encouraged to make an accommodation request in writing or speak directly to their Principal or manager. Each request will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Each accommodation will involve collaboration between the school, the student or staff, their family, and their community to jointly explore accommodation solutions.\nQ: What should be taken into consideration when dealing with an accommodation request?\nA: These guidelines have been designed to raise awareness and help protect against discrimination and harassment. The TDSB will take reasonable steps to provide accommodation to staff or students who state that the Board\u2019s operations or requirements interfere with their right to free gender expression and/ or gender identity. Each accommodation will involve the collaboration between the school, the student, their family, and their community to jointly explore accommodation solutions.\nQ: Are all requests accommodated in the same way?\nA: No, all requests are treated on a case by case basis. Board and school staff must consider each student\u2019s needs and concerns separately. An accommodation that works for one student or staff member cannot simply be assumed to work for another.\nQ: Does this mean that students will be able to use a washroom of their choice without accommodation approval?\nA: A student or staff member is encouraged to make an accommodation request in writing or speak directly to their Principal. The TDSB will work with the student or staff member to prepare for their accommodation.\nAll staff and students have a right to safe restroom facilities and the right to use a washroom that best corresponds to their gender identity, regardless of their sex assigned at birth. Where possible, schools will also provide an easily accessible all-gender single stall washroom for use by any student or staff member who desires increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason.\nQ: Will students be able to use a washroom that does not correspond to their assigned sex at birth?\nA: In some cases students or staff members will be able to use the washroom that corresponds with their gender identity. However, use of an all-gender single stall washroom will be an option if one is available.\nQ: How are students accommodated for sports activities, gym classes and change rooms?\nA: School staff must ensure students can exercise their right to participate in gender segregated sports and physical education class activities in accordance with each student\u2019s gender identity. Students have the right to a safe change-room that corresponds to their gender identity. Transgender or gender non-conforming students have the right to an accommodation that best meets the individual student\u2019s particular needs.\nSuch accommodations can include:\nuse of a private area within the public area (a bathroom stall with a door; an area separated by a curtain; a P.E. instructor\u2019s office in the change-room);\na separate changing schedule in the private area (either utilizing the change room before or after the other students);\nuse of a nearby private area (a nearby washroom; a nurse\u2019s office);\naccess to the change room corresponding to the student\u2019s assigned sex at birth, or\nsatisfaction of the P.E. requirement by independent study outside of gym class.\nThe TDSB strives to maintain a culture that upholds the dignity, worth and safety of all students, staff and members of our school communities. As such, staff from the Gender-Based Violence Prevention office put together a video to highlight best practices in implementing an all-gender washroom in all schools, elementary and secondary. This video features students and staff at City View Alternative School and their efforts in establishing an all-gender washroom in their school as a means of removing barriers for gender non-conforming staff and students.\nInterviews with students, teachers, principals, social workers, and a superintendent address the importance of providing safe and accepting spaces in schools \u2013 including access to washrooms that reflect gender diversity \u2013 as well as guidelines for effective implementation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 521, "original_length": 16348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030620/0233239.shtml?cid=73", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZZMA3EHENXAR6VTFD2ASXH4UYWHNI33", "length": 3014, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.techdirt.com", "title": "Wearable Videocam Records Your Life | Techdirt", "raw_content": "Jerry Falwell Claims Rights To 2 Web Addresses\nSmart Bricks, Or A Dumb Idea?\nWearable Videocam Records Your Life\nfrom the life-imitates-snowcrash dept\nThe number of research projects out there to create some form of a \"backup brain\" are increasing every day. Accenture was one of the first to announce such a project, but were quickly followed by Microsoft, HP and even DARPA is taking a stab at it. All of these projects come from a different direction in an attempt to better record events around you. Microsoft and DARPA are really trying to record everything they can - sight, sound, whatever. The prototype of the Accenture device ended up being drastically scaled down from its original vision, which would involve cameras, recorders, voice recognition, facial recognition and plenty of other neat tricks. In the end, what they showed was just something that would record snippets of conversation if you happened to give it the right cue (such as by saying \"that's interesting\"). HP took the visual side of it, and is working on a camera that is supposed to automatically know when to take a picture based on what you say. There's one thing that all of these projects definitely have in common: you can't get your hands on them, and won't for quite some time. However, it appears that someone out there is finally trying to take at least one small part of this concept and put it into a real product. A company called DejaView has created a small video camera that attaches to your eyeglasses. The camera is constantly recording in a 30 second loop. However, whenever anything happens that you want to keep, you just press a button and it saves the previous 30 seconds. As the article says, it's sort of a TiVo for your life. Of course, I'm not sure what people who don't wear glasses end up doing. The system will save the files to an SD Card that you have to provide - meaning it can hold as many 30 second videos as you can afford in storage. It's kind of a neat concept. As they say, the idea is that you'll no longer need to be constantly holding a video camera waiting for life's precious moments - and end up with hours upon hours of boring tape you'll never watch. Of course, the quality isn't the greatest. Also, with a number of places already banning camera-phones for fear of privacy-violating photographs, just imagine how some people will react to the idea of everyone recording everything happening around them all the time... just in case they happen to catch something interesting.\nMe Again, 15 Jan 2004 @ 10:33am\nRe: Cameras recording everything\nGood robot! Thats exactly what they want you to do !Sit down ,shut up and be recorded!Imagine the cameras on the telephone poles in your house.Genius you are,such a Genius.What on God's earth is so dam important that you need to record on tape 24 hours a day?I dont even watch tv.Get a Life.I bet you watch video tapes you make of your kids all day long you child porn lover.We have tapes at home,we never watch em ,so why make em?Tape this !:p", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/node/365", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:12Z", "digest": "sha1:I37VELVOX7GJBX76GKEAYI6LOFBVR34C", "length": 1308, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.teenagecancertrust.org", "title": "The Vamps play Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust | Teenage Cancer Trust", "raw_content": "\u203a The Vamps play Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust\nThe Vamps play Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust\nTeenage Cancer Trust and The Vamps held a free exclusive single launch party at O2 Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire to celebrate the release of third single \u2018Last Night\u2019.\nAfter storming the charts and hitting the top three with their first two singles - debut \u2018Can We Dance\u2019 and follow up \u2018Wild Heart\u2019 - The Vamps have been causing a stir everywhere they go. From selling out New York\u2019s Gramercy in minutes to picking up #1s around the globe, The Vamps are the most exciting new band that everyone's talking about.\nThe band held their first full headline London show back in April, performing a 30-minute set for free all in the name of Teenage Cancer Trust! This was the first time many fans had the opportunity to see The Vamps live and probably the last time in such a small venue.\nThe Vamps saw the great work of Teenage Cancer Trust for themselves when they visited and performed at one of the charity\u2019s specialist units for young people with cancer in Leeds last November. The same age as many of the patients, The Vamps immediately wanted to support the charity.\nPurchase your strictly limited-edition T-shirts or text VAMPS to 70500 to donate \u00a35 to Teenage Cancer Trust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 337, "original_length": 12086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teendreamingkorea.com/review-bts-love-yourself/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UBHNFZVN7E6AR2AXFPT47TXMB47ZMJBS", "length": 15570, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.teendreamingkorea.com", "title": "[Review] BTS; Love Yourself: Tear \u22c6 TeenDreamingKorea", "raw_content": "Genre: Hip Hop, Alt-R&B, EDM\nLabel: Big Hit Entertainment, IRIVER\nWhere To Buy: Here (Amazon, $19.99) and here (CD+Photobook+Mini Book+Photocard+Standing Photo+Folded Poster+Free Gift, Amazon, $28.99).\nInstrumental: Very minimalistic, which helps deliver the message of the song and increases focus on the delivery of it. It\u2019s a pretty experimental mix between R&B and Jazz/Soul. The bass guitar is monotone and creates a very haunting atmosphere.\nThe song is a bit too slow for my personal tastes, I prefer more song like Blood, Sweat & Tears and Not Today, I don\u2019t know if I explain properly. But even so, there\u2019s no doubt that the production and composing of this song is stellar. Even if the song doesn\u2019t particularly suit my own personal tastes, it\u2019s a very interesting, experimental, atmospheric and refreshing piece, which I really appreciate. And I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll feel like skipping it when playing the album.\nLyrics: The song is filled with beautiful metaphors and interesting imagery meant to represent pain, hardships, and the struggle of remaining true to oneself like:\nSo I can definitely say that the lyrics are very poetic, interesting and emotional. Namjoon wrote the lyrics of this song, and if you\u2019ve been following BTS for a while, you know that he has been struggling with finding his personal identity so this song both feel like a stand-alone look into the members\u2019 personal thoughts. The lyrics are very well written and moved me personally.\nSinging style: His airy singing style makes the delivery sound pretty raw, emotional and sensual, which is a cool contrast to the haunting elements in the instrumental. His singing is almost like a whisper, which helps carry the message and lyrics across. That\u2019s something that requires a lot of control and much more breath support. So this is a very impressive stylistic singing choice for this song.\nWith his deep baritone voice, Taehyung has one of the more unique male voices in kpop, and in this song, he\u2019s allowed to showcase its fascinatingly deep and soulful timbre, which he usually doesn\u2019t get to do on BTS songs. I absolutely love the vocal melody in the chorus, where he raises his pitch and volume, contrasting the quiet and low pitched delivery of the rest of the song. That\u2019s my favorite part of the song. Very good performance!\nInstrumental: That are no doubts that BTS has one of the most interesting instrumental repertoires and that\u2019s one of the reasons I love their music so much.This track, just like many of their other tracks, also manages to blow me away instrumentally. It\u2019s experimental and fresh with it\u2019s grunge guitar + hip hop + edm + trap mix. There are so many production elements to this song, I don\u2019t even know where to start. It\u2019s a massive production, with a lot of detailed layers.\nThe track has a pretty guitar-heavy sound that really stands out and is vital to the melody. The guitar you hear in the verses is quite mellow, melodic and catchy, but also slightly fuzzy which gives it that grunge sound.\nThe song does a fabulous job at building the intensity of the song, by gradually adding more and more sound layers in the verses, which then culminates with the electric drum drop into the chorus. The edm bass during the chorus on this song is massive. It\u2019s the kind that will rake through your body at a concert or club. I personally think that\u2019s dope AF. During the chorus, a reverb heavy electronic guitar recording also kicks in, adding more of that distorted feeling, as well as an edginess to the edm.\nAll of the distorted elements combined with the very melodic elements, gives the song a very mellow and melancholic sound, while the edm and bass makes it possible for you to still get turned up.\nLyrics: I love the subject the lyrics concern themselves with. The song is about hiding your feelings and insecurities from someone, and thereby also hiding your true self, which will eventually doom the relationship. The lyrics during the verses honestly move me for some reason. I think what they\u2019re saying is so true, and love really is a difficult and painful thing. Especially loving ourselves.\nI love the usage and blending of English and Korean. The chorus lyrics are catchy and easy for anyone to understand. I think the English lyrics are very mature and tastefully done.\nSinging style: They use a couple different rap styles here, but one thing\u2019s for sure: it\u2019s on fire. I love the way they weaved the rap and vocals in the verses, like a conversation.\nAnd Jimin\u2019s high pitched vocals\u2026 I\u2019m screaming.\nFollowing the current trends, they use autotune on both some of the vocals and rap to give the song a more electronic sound but I think I would have preferred the song without it.\nThat\u2019s totally my jam.\nInstrumental: It starts off as a ballad. Very stripped-down song instrumentally, which puts focus on the lyrics and delivery. For 2/3 of the song, it\u2019s basically just a raw acoustic piano recording with some added sound elements.\nThe acoustic piano, with all it\u2019s distorted white noise, aided by the mentioned sound effects gives the song a sad and haunting sound. Then towards the end, the production takes off like crazy. First, a slow electric guitar layer and drums are added which expands the production and adds a sensual feel to the song. The tempo then suddenly rises and you think it\u2019s the climax of the song, but BAM! The song increases in tempo and production once again right before the song ends. I\u2019m personally not really into ballads, but the production and composing on this song are definitely good.\nLyrics: Crazy emotional and compliments the sad and haunting instrumental really well. The track focuses on personal insecurities, how much space they take up in our lives, and how we\u2019re compelled to hide them, which makes us feel incredibly lonely. The lyrics are written from the perspective of someone who has gone through a break-up because of their own insecurities, and are now reflecting on their mistakes. The lyrics are incredibly poetic, with beautiful metaphors and imagery much like with Singularity.\nSinging style: Only the vocal line features on this song. They do a good job of delivering the emotions of the song. The airy and light timbres of the tenors, suit the song really well. Beautiful vocals, Jin especially stands out for me on this one. They show more skill on this track, but once again, taking the autotune away would have made the delivery better for me, even though it\u2019s not used a lot in this song.\nInstrumental: A really interesting and funky song. I have a hard time pinpointing the genre mix, it\u2019s kinda lo-fi hop hop + Jazz-funk + folk. It\u2019s definitely really interesting and unexpected but I don\u2019t fully connect with the instrumental. Once again, this is definitely a very smooth and versatile production. I\u2019m in love with the funky bass in the background, I can\u2019t help grooving along to it. I also love the reverb synth effects during the bridge, they\u2019re really cool and adds a lot.\nLyrics: I guess it goes without saying, the lyrics are really pretty and poetic in it\u2019s imagery, it\u2019s BTS after all. This follows the same narrative about heartbreak and regret due to personal insecurities, that the previous songs focused on too. What I particularly love about the lyrics on this one, is the beautiful connection/parallels they draw between their own situation and Pluto\u2019s nameless and thrown away fate. Pluto was also once considered a It\u2019s really intelligent writing. Reminds me of Whalien 52, lyrically.\nSinging style: I think both the vocalists and rappers sound really solid on this one. I also think the pitch here fits most of the vocalists a little better, since it\u2019s a little lower. Jungkook\u2019s smooth and very controlled vocals stand out for me on this one.\nInstrumental: Now this instrumental is more up my alley. This genre is totally me. It\u2019s a soulful r&b + hip hop + pop mix, with some real retro sounds. The bass line is really well made and funky. It\u2019s a very pleasant song for easy listening and jamming out. It mixes its very funky beat and melody with beautiful xylophone synth sounds and trap-like guiro effects.\nLyrics: We revisit an old well known lyrical theme of BTS\u2019 here. The members talk about how it\u2019s ok and natural to not have any big dreams in life. That it\u2019s ok to not know who you are or what you want in life. They criticize the neo-liberal mindset that we should all dream big, since we have the means to do so nowadays, because that leads to a life and a society that\u2019s focused more on competition than happiness. Beautiful and well-written lyrical content.\nSinging style: I love the vocal melody, it\u2019s got a lot of bounce to it due to the chopped-up syllable emphasized singing, which fits perfectly with the bass line. The background adlibs add a beautiful sultry sound. The anthem part is a killer too. I love that they\u2019ve added harmonization to that part. The vocalists sound very strong on this one and the rapline does a really great job too.\nInstrumental: Another song, that\u2019s right up mu alley genre wisely. It\u2019s a urban trap + modern trap + R&B mix. This track also has quite a few retro sounds in it, reminiscent of the type of R&B you\u2019d hear in the 90s. Love the acoustic electric guitar and synth drums that make up the beat. It\u2019s another easy-listening song with a lot of groove, similar to Paradise, but it still has a lot of intriguing elements. It has this really interesting distorted harmonica sound accompanying the verses in the background, and a high-strung synth that kinda mimics a string instrument, which makes up the main instrumental melody in the chorus and the interlude. The synth has a really interesting sound and melody, it almost sounds like a gayageum. Really cool. An organ like sound also makes its presence towards the end of the song. Another amazing, pleasant, and interesting instrumental production.\nLyrics: This song illustrates love as a complex maze, where you need to make a lot of tough choices. You start on opposite ends, and finding each other is difficult AF. The end destination is to exit the maze together, but you can only make it out with help and support of each other. It\u2019s a beautiful metaphor, but I\u2019m not too big on love songs.\nSinging style: Vocals are slaying on this tracks. There\u2019s a lot of variety in the vocal melody. The vocalists airy singing style suits R&B tracks perfectly, so this song is a perfect fit for them. They go for slightly higher ranges here, but make them sound effortless. Jungkook and Jin sound especially great on this track. The rappers create a nice contrast to the soft and sultry vocals, and they also showcase a lot of skill with their mid-verse changes in rap tempo and rhythm.\nInstrumental: This is one of the stand-out songs on the album to me. The instrumental is so so good. It\u2019s an edm + electropop + future bass mix. But the EDM isn\u2019t really overpowering, there\u2019s a lot of softness to the instrumental. The synthesized glass harp sound, that\u2019s been very popular globally, is the main interest driving element in the instrumental. It gives the song a haunting sound. It is constantly present in the song, except the bridge, but its scale melody changes between verses and chorus, which makes it feel less repetitive or tiring.\nThe verses are beautiful and simple \u2013 just the melodic glass harp synth and some synth percussion to create a beat. But then the pre-chorus slowly builds tension in the song, with the addition of some bass, electric guitar and faster percussion. The chorus introduces some of the classic future bass elements. It\u2019s beautiful and somewhat understated, which helps give the song a climax, while still keeping it chill sounding. The bridge almost turns acoustic, and the sudden space left in the song is really pleasant and allows a lot of space for the vocals. But then it builds up to the climax with a sick bass recording that increases in intensity. My only real critique I have of the instrumental, is that I find the during the alien-sounding synth during the bridge drop a little too loud and jarring. But a really impressive production all in all.\nLyrics: This is another fan song, reminiscent of 2!3!. The song tells us that everything will become ok. They\u2019re sharing their personal struggles and promising, that if we show them our true selves, they\u2019ll show us theirs. So we can all take of our \u201cmasks\u201d and be true to ourselves. It\u2019s really cute, and as a fan I love it, but objectively speaking I think others might think it\u2019s a little cheesy?\nSinging style: Ok I\u2019m blown away by the vocals here. Like legit, what did they eat before singing this song? Jimin stands out, his belted notes sound really good and strong in this pitch. Jin too, he sounds good in his belted high notes. Some of the best vocal moments on the entire album are given to us in this track. The rap also has a little more fire to it here, than in some of the other songs. Suga especially delivers a strong rap. The vocal melody during the chorus is catchy and the anthem-like choir towards the end emphasizes the \u201ccome-together\u201d feeling of the lyrics. Really really good job from everyone.\nInstrumental: This is probably the biggest surprise on the album. BTS doing latin pop/bachata? Who would\u2019ve thought? They kill it tho. The song is very catchy from beginning to end. The instrumental has plenty of sultry groove and sass, without it loosing the edginess that we associate with BTS. It achieves that with deep bass synths and a few trap elements.\nLyrics: They talk about their honest emotions, ups and downs during their 2017 world tour. Maybe not the most stimulating lyrical content upon first glance, but it\u2019s written very well and you can feel their sincerity about their own insecurities, and just wanting to sing and perform. As a fan, it can\u2019t help but touch me a little.\nSinging style: Both the vocals and rappers do a great job here. Rappers go a little harder and faster, while the vocalists show us a little more of their skills. The airy singing style of the 4 vocalists also fit perfectly with the sultry vibe of the song. I like all the layers of vocals on this track \u2013 harmonizing, adlibs etc. There\u2019s plenty of them, and they all sound nice. They definitely help elevate the song, and give it a more sensual feeling. Jimin, in particular, is like made for this genre. It\u2019s crazy how well his adlibs and lines work in this. Also, I\u2019m pretty sure the moaning recordings on the track is him\u2026 I guess when you think about it, it makes sense that Stripper Jimin would do well with a sexy genre. Really great delivery through and through.\nThis MV is full of dynamic imagery \u2014 there\u2019s no time to be bored as the scenes change at a breakneck pace, showing you one epic shot after another. You\u2019ve got boys sitting alone in shafts of light, and towards the end, it all seems to be flood-related, as water spills out from grates in the wall to gouts of fire engulfing another band member. And there\u2019s the dancing.\nThe dancing \u2014 what can be said that hasn\u2019t already? These boys know how to bring it and move with a power and intensity rarely seen these days. They also are synchronized with machine-like precision, and this just adds to the arresting nature of this MV.\nThere\u2019s no girls in this, no shadow of a love interest or anything like that. Just shot after awe-inspiring shot of the boys, filmed in various poses and featuring those amazing confident moves of theirs. There\u2019s no question that this MV is full-on fantastic.\nPrevious Post Product Launch: Mermaid Glow Color Lip Balm by Haart\nNext Post Asian Makeup vs. Western Makeup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 20600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teennews1.com/tabu-only-good-role-no-rat-race/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5D2Z2SD6QLLVTWI7EQWCKFCAK7E46HUN", "length": 2065, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.teennews1.com", "title": "Tabu: Only good role...no rat race... - Teen News 1", "raw_content": "Home Entertainment Tabu: Only good role\u2026no rat race\u2026\nTabu: Only good role\u2026no rat race\u2026\nToday:- In her two-decade long career, Tabu has never been on a signing spree because she feels a good role is enough to keep an actor alive in the audience\u2019s mind.\nThe 43-year-old \u201cHaider\u201d star said she has a unique \u201ctemperament\u201d which does not allow her to follow others.\n\u201cI can\u2019t do back-to-back films. I can\u2019t do promotions. I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.\nIf I like something, I will do it otherwise I won\u2019t do it. I never felt the need to be in the rat race. I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it,\u201d she told PTI in an interview.\nTabu started her career in showbiz as a child artiste in 1985 film \u201cHum Naujawan\u201d, where she played Dev Anand\u2019s daughter. She also tried her luck in Telugu films before debuting in Bollywood with Ajay Devgn-starrer \u201cVijaypath\u201d.\nThe two actors have teamed up again after a long time in \u201cDrishyam\u201d and Tabu is happy with the way Devgn\u2019s career has shaped up in the industry.\n\u201cAjay has carved his own niche in the industry. He is extremely versatile and I feel proud when I see his success and growth. But success has not changed Ajay as a person. He is still the same like he was 20 years ago. It\u2019s his speciality,\u201d said Tabu, who last worked with Devgn in 1999 movie \u201cThakshak\u201d.\nIn \u201cDrishyam\u201d, which is a remake of the Malayalam movie of the same name, the National-award winning actress is playing a cop, who is against Devgn in the film.\n\u201cI never thought that I will play such a role where we will be pitted against each other. That shows how cinema has changed over the period of time and you get to understand your own journey.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very important film for me. My character comes into play near the interval. I have three important scenes with Ajay in the film,\u201d she said.\nBy: Teennews1 Nrtwork Team\nTabu role race good actress\nPrevious articleWindows 10\u2026\u2026A New Era Of Windows Starts Today\nNext articleBajrangi Bhaijaan Fever In Pakistan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teenrehab.org/resources/street-drugs/predisposition-to-drug-use/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:52Z", "digest": "sha1:MOPYWWD2YW3BSJEDUAIBECHGNMD2TJFI", "length": 2275, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.teenrehab.org", "title": "Can Someone Have a Predisposition to Drug Use?", "raw_content": "Home | Resources | Street Drugs | Can Someone Have a Predisposition to Drug Use?\nCan Someone Have a Predisposition to Drug Use?\nThere are so many factors involved in someone\u2019s decision to start using drugs and developing an addiction\u2014many of which are extremely complex. While there is no simple way to predict a person\u2019s likelihood of developing an addiction, it can be helpful to understand some of these factors when working towards prevention or treatment.\nWhile family history plays a significant role in someone\u2019s likelihood of developing an addiction, there are several environmental factors to keep in mind that can influence someone\u2019s decision to start using drugs to begin with.\nWhen teens are surrounded by friends and peers who are engaging in risky behaviors, they can often be tempted to participate. This peer pressure is a significant environmental factor in why someone might try drugs.\nIn fact, recent research shows that when making decisions, teens evaluate risk and reward differently that adults do in that risk is often ignored in favor of reward. Put simply, the risk associated with drug use is often ignored in favor of the approval a teen will receive from their friends.\nImage Flood G.\nThe actions of family members\u2014not just their genes\u2014also have a significant influence on a teen\u2019s behavior towards drugs. In fact, children of individuals addicted to drugs are 3-4 times more likely to develop a drug addiction themselves. This is generally because there is often a neglect in parenting, and the children begin to accept drug culture as normal. Some teens might even be able to access drugs from their parents. Therefore, as a parent, it\u2019s especially important to behave as a role model and to take this responsibility seriously.\nUnfortunately, economic status can also play a role in whether or not a teen is more likely to engage in drug abuse. According to the Partnership for Drug-Free America, communities that have high rates of poverty also tend to have high rates of drug abuse.\nUltimately, the argument of whether or not someone is \u201cpredisposed\u201d to addiction is still up for debate. It is clear, however, that there are many environmental factors that increase the risk of a person developing an addiction.\nFeature Image Reuben Degiorgio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tennispoint.com/tennis-court/rochelle-il-rochelle-township-high-school", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3CN7S36XU2KJAQG466GP2KFV5QSRVJXI", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tennispoint.com", "title": "Tennis Club near me in Rochelle, IL || directions to Rochelle Township High School", "raw_content": "1070 N. 7th St., Rochelle, IL 61068\nRochelle Township High School (815) 562-4161", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 164.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thealonsogroup.com/amazon-chooses-other-u-s-cities-over-austin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:47:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EQQAIWAWOLWQ57K36UVKLCYNIYA2KIKZ", "length": 225, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thealonsogroup.com", "title": "Amazon Chooses Other U.S. Cities Over Austin - Alonso Group - Alonso Group", "raw_content": "New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon second and third headquarters, ending a more than yearlong public contest that started with 238 candidates and ended with a surprise split of its so-called HQ2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theaquarian.com/tag/joey-diaz/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KLQLL7VTOFOTLG6KRLJCHDDENBPKNBKL", "length": 282, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.theaquarian.com", "title": "joey diaz | The Aquarian", "raw_content": "Tagged joey diaz\nAn Interview with Joey \u201cCoCo\u201d Diaz: In The Name Of Science\nAfter leaving Havana, Cuba, for the United States as a young boy, Joey \"CoCo\" Diaz called North Bergen, NJ his home for most of his adolescent life. But this wasn\u2019t some fairytale story. Like many teenag...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theasg.org.uk/index.php/outreach", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AIHRVU3V4H3RVHR2CK4M6HS537CZHXHN", "length": 725, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.theasg.org.uk", "title": "The Astronomical Society of Glasgow - Outreach", "raw_content": "Photos by E Gibson (left) and A Dumitriu (right)\nAs well as the public lectures, we at the ASG carry out a range of outreach activities throughout the year. During the winter months, these focus on introducing people to the night sky and giving them the chance to observe the Moon, stars, galaxies and nebulae through a range of telescopes. During the summer, the focus not unexpectedly changes to solar observing.\nCome along to these events and meet us, whether you're a beginner or an experienced astronomer. If you're thinking of buying a telescope, you can see the various types some of our members use - but you should also check out some of the advice available online.\nSome of our upcoming activities are listed below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebeautyinsiders.com/loreal-gets-fda-warning.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:42Z", "digest": "sha1:U3XCSGC546X7QIJQRNRDWRHDXZFRHQBA", "length": 2910, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thebeautyinsiders.com", "title": "L\u2019Oreal Gets FDA Warning", "raw_content": "L\u2019Oreal Gets FDA Warning\nL\u2019Oreal gets FDA warning regarding their advertisements for an anti-aging cream particularly G\u00e9nifique from Lanc\u00f4me. L\u2019Oreal is currently one of the world\u2019s largest cosmetics groups with loyal customers from all over the globe. The United States Food and Drug Administration warning is regarding the company\u2019s advertising method using language that makes the L\u2019Oreal skincare product sound like a drug. Advertisements for the G\u00e9nifique claim that it can \u201cstimulate cell regeneration to reconstruct the skin to a denser quality\u201d and \u201cboost the activity of genes\u201d and therefore reduce the signs of skin aging.\nAccording to the FDA, any product which claims to affect either the structure or function of a person\u2019s body is classified as a drug. In the United States, drugs cannot be sold without demonstrating to the FDA that these are not just effective but also safe. Since Lanc\u00f4me has not submitted the necessary data for marketing its product as a drug, the FDA gave the company 15 business days to come up with a plan to tone down its advertisement language. Otherwise, G\u00e9nifique will not be allowed to be sold in the United States.\nAccording to a representative of L\u2019Oreal, they have already received the warning and will respond to the regulatory concerns in a timely manner. The representative from L\u2019Oreal\u2019s corporate communications department stated that Lanc\u00f4me is fully committed to complying with the laws and regulatory standards and they are doing everything they can to address the issue. According to inside sources, the incident wherein L\u2019Oreal gets FDA warning is not being taken lightly so the company is now a lot more careful when it comes to their claims and advertisements.\nMore and more cosmetic companies are pushing the envelope when it comes to bold promises especially regarding anti-aging. However, this one from L\u2019Oreal obviously went too far. According to Dr. Barney Kenet, a dermatologist based in Manhattan, if the product really modified the activity of genes in any way, it would not be sold over the counter.\nHowever, he also states that the incident where L\u2019Oreal gets FDA warning is unusual since cosmetic companies don\u2019t usually get called out for such claims. In fact, there are many other similar products on the market making similar claims. This problem is common because most people wouldn\u2019t even consider filing a formal complaint or class action lawsuit in case such claims are not delivered by the products.\nThis incident should be a lesson to all cosmetic companies to avoid making bold claims just to increase revenue. Hopefully, the FDA will keep close watch on all cosmetic companies and not just single out the big ones. After all, there are many other skin care products that make similar bold or even bolder claims which usually deceive consumers.\nThis Article Has Been Published on October 1, 2012 and Last Modified on June 16, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 9638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 201.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theblackpage.net/interviews/liberty-devitto", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QKJ7AUUSY74LFPDUHUDYFF5I3UVOWEK3", "length": 18426, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.theblackpage.net", "title": "Liberty DeVitto - Interviews - The Black Page", "raw_content": "I don't really care if other drummers like the way I play. I want guitar players and bass players and keyboard players and singers to like the way I play, because I found out a long time ago the odds of me going into a recording studio with another drummer are really small.\nWhen I think about my introduction to drumming, there are two very vivid memories. The Buddy Rich vs Animal drum battle and the Glass Houses album. If Buddy and Animal introduced me to drums, Liberty DeVitto introduced me to music. When I was a kid, my dad used to crank up his Hi-Fi and throw on the old Glass Houses album. (Yeah, this was the 80\u2019s) Who didn\u2019t love that album? Front to back a musical masterpiece. And behind it all, relentlessly pushing that groove as if to drive the band forward, is Liberty. The man in the driver\u2019s seat. I would listen to that record for hours and emulate Liberty\u2019s playing, even though I didn\u2019t have any lessons yet. But it didn\u2019t matter; the music felt so damn good. The best that my coordination could handle at the time was to nail the 2 and 4. I would try and stay up at night when my folks threw a party and hope to heck dad would throw on that record. I loved the pulse of \u201cIt\u2019s Still Rock and Roll to Me.\u201d And the groove on \u201cYou May Be Right\u201d? Fuggetaboutit! When I was offered a chance to interview Liberty DeVitto I was extremely nervous. Here was the guy who made me want to play drums. Hands down the first drummer to influence me. And in meeting Liberty I was not disappointed. That man can play, period. What a musician, never mind drummer.\nHere is a guy who can lay it down so hard that, as we watched him play, all three rows in the theatre were blinking on his 2 and 4. The power he has is inhuman, but he exudes musicality. For Liberty, there is no greater gift than the gift he gives to the song, and that is so evident in his playing. Even if he has to lay back and play the brushes, Liberty is in for the long haul. As a drummer interviewing a legend, I wanted to blurt out, \u201cDude, I freaking play drums because of you!\u201d But instead of freaking the guy out, I maintained my composure, did the interview, and had the greatest 25 minutes of my life. As an added bonus, Liberty was interviewed by a camera crew right after our interview, and the host happened to ask about the old Billy Joel albums. I sat and listened as Liberty described the songs and the soundtrack of my life as an eight-year-old kid.\nIn listening to that interview and the one he and I shared, I realize that Liberty has taught me so much more than the huge 2 and 4. He has taught me that it\u2019s not the sticks you choose but what you choose to do with them that makes you who you are as a player. That it doesn\u2019t matter what you bring to a tune as long as you remember that it is always about the tune. It\u2019s the song that is your mark on history, not how well you played a buzz roll. In his selfless career Liberty has and continues to give so much to the music industry, so much so that when my children are eight years old, I too can play Glass Houses and create new memories of our own. In doing something Liberty loved--playing drums--and by giving to the music, he actually gave so much more. Thanks, Liberty.\nLiberty, you\u2019re working on a really interesting book with Jules Follett about New York City drummers. Tell us about that.\nJules loves drummers, first of all. She\u2019s been photographing groups and stuff like that for years, and she says that it\u2019s the hardest to take a picture of the drummer. The drummer is always up on a riser, so when you\u2019re standing in front of the stage, he\u2019s high up. There\u2019s so much stuff in front of the drummer like cymbals and drums, you can\u2019t see his whole body\u2026 you barely see his face, you know. So she decided to do a coffee table book on drummers because a band is only as good as the drummer. The drummer drives the whole thing, and he doesn\u2019t get the recognition that he should. I mean, I feel we\u2019re kind of like the bottom feeders of the music world (laughing) because we don\u2019t have any melody and we can\u2019t copyright anything. So she\u2019s giving us all this recognition of being the middle of the band, the whole centre of the band. She\u2019s actually gone around getting guys in a studio or in casual situations, just sitting in chairs. She went to Shawn Pelton\u2019s apartment where he practices and took pictures of him there. She went to a Letterman rehearsal and took pictures of Anton Fig there. Stuff like that.\nTell me about your NY project The NYC Hit Squad.\nWe play once a month or something like that because the guys in the band are all from other bands. There\u2019s me and Ricky Bird (Ricky Bird played with Joan Jett and The Black Hearts). We started this [project]. We were playing somewhere once and he started to play this little funky R&B song and I said,\u201d You know, why don\u2019t we start a band in New York?\u201d So we put this thing together and we\u2019ve had Will Lee come through and play bass. We\u2019ve had Hugh McDonald from Bon Jovi\u2019s band play bass, but then he went out with Bon Jovi. Now we\u2019ve got Muddy Shews who plays with Southside Johnny and a bunch of guys like that. And Christine Ohlman who sings on Saturday Night Live, so if we get a Saturday night gig, Christine can\u2019t do it (laughing). It\u2019s that kind of band.\nWhere did you learn to play?\nI\u2019m self taught. I tried to take lessons, but I wanted to learn how to play like Ringo and it was 1964. The jazz guys were the ones that were teaching then and they hated the way Ringo played. When I was a kid, I wanted to play drums when I saw Ringo on TV. Actually, I tried to play drums when I was in the sixth grade, which would have been\u2026 I was 12 years old\u2026 it was \u201962, but I couldn\u2019t do the buzz roll for the \u201cStar Spangled Banner,\u201d and the music teacher said, \u201cPut down the sticks, you\u2019ll never do anything with the drums.\u201d So it was like, how was he to know that I was going to be a bad drummer if I just couldn`t do that buzz roll? He was actually a bad teacher for saying that to me. So when the Beatles came out, it was then I said, \u201cI want to do that,\u201d and it wasn`t to play the buzz roll, it was to be in a band if it made girls fall over. So that`s how I started, playing 2 and 4. Everybody loved it. I don`t really care if other drummers like the way I play. I want guitar players and bass players and keyboard players and singers to like the way I play because I found out a long time ago the odds of me going into a recording studio with another drummer are really small.\nGive me your take on the \u201cschooled versus nonschooled\u201d topic?\nLet me start by saying this, I don\u2019t think a drummer should take lessons at least for the first 5 years because you have to learn groove and feel; you have to listen more than read. When you buy a book and you learn notes off a book, it\u2019s stiff; it\u2019s just whatever\u2019s written down there. You\u2019re just playing it with no feel, no nothing. I do a thing in the clinic where I\u2019ll show them how I learned to play and I\u2019ll show them what I used to do when I was home and I was a kid and I would take \u201cHide Your Love Away\u201d by the Beatles, and I\u2019d play to that. Because I\u2019m playing to the timing of John\u2019s voice, the way he sang \u2018cause that\u2019s where that emotion is\u2014in his voice rather than just notes on a page. Then later, learn paradiddles and stuff like that because nobody really uses those things except in drum festivals.\nYou were with Billy Joel for over 30 years. How have you branched off and redefined Liberty DeVitto?\nI\u2019ve been doing a lot of clinics. The thing is when I was a kid and I saw Buddy Rich, I felt very insecure in my playing. The first clinic I ever saw\u2014and I saw Dom Famularo play\u2014I was very insecure in my playing even though I had gold albums on the wall and everything because I don\u2019t play like that. So my clinic is to tell kids, \u201cLook, you don\u2019t have to play like that. If you can\u2019t play like that, that\u2019s fine. Two and four, two and four, man. That\u2019s where it\u2019s at.\u201d\nAny plans for a new book?\nI am writing a book. It\u2019s a basic book because I\u2019ve noticed that a lot of drummers today are listening to Dave Weckl and stuff like that, and they\u2019re going into stores and they\u2019re buying their videos, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. But, I think in rock \u2018n roll, the basic beats that you play you take with you for the rest of your life. Those are the beats that you play. The difference between a young kid learning just a basic 2 and 4\u2014and hearing that same 2 and 4 on an AC/DC record\u2014is just the way the guy\u2019s playing it. I mean, he\u2019s playing the same thing that the kid first learned. It\u2019s time for them to get back to basics again; it\u2019s time for kids to learn from the beginning again. I feel fortunate that I grew up when the Beatles were out. Ringo played a song. He was a song writer\u2019s drummer; he played songs. I like music better than I like drums. I love the drums but I like music better.\nHow did the Billy Joel band line-up come to be?\nI was in a band called Topper at the time. There was me, Russell Javors, Doug Stegmeyer and Howie Emerson. That was Topper, and Doug got called to play bass on the Streetlife Serenader Tour. Billy already had out Piano Man and Streetlife Serenader. [Billy] was living in LA. Doug gets called to do that tour. On the tour, Billy tells Doug, \u201cI\u2019m thinking about getting rid of the band that we tour with now and moving back to New York because I want the same musicians that play in the studio to play with me on the road.\u201d (At the time, Billy was using studio musicians and then taking different guys on the road). So Doug said, \u201cWell, I know a drummer.\u201d And I had known Billy since I was 16 years old. We played in the same club but in different bands. [Billy] said, \u201cI remember Liberty.\u201c So I went out and auditioned for him. It was great and everything like that, so we went in to record Turnstiles, which is Billy\u2019s fourth album\u2014just me, Doug and Billy. Then when Billy said, \u201cWell, we need guitar on this,\u201d me and Doug said, \u201cWell, we know guitar players.\u201d We brought in Howie and Russell. We added Richie Cannata on saxophone, so Topper became Billy\u2019s band with Richie Cannata.\nIf you could put together the Liberty DeVitto All-Star Band, who would be in the line-up?\nOn bass would probably be my friend David Santos. He plays with John Fogerty and people like that. I did an all-star band with him a while ago. We were the Northwest Airlines All-Star Band. It was me, Billy Preston, Mark Farner, Steve Cropper, and Felix Cavaliere. David Santos is probably my favorite bass player. Then on keys and vocals I would want Steve Winwood because I\u2019ve always admired his voice. I think he\u2019s fantastic. Who would I want to play guitar? Let\u2019s see, I have a friend George Marinelli who lives in Nashville\u2014played with Bonnie Raitt for a long time. He\u2019s fantastic. Guys like that.\nI\u2019ve got three daughters, so parenthood has taught me that when you\u2019ve got a son you worry about one penis; when you have a daughter, you worry about all penises. (laughing) My daughter is actually doing very well. I have three daughters. One is 27. She mixes sound on Long Island, in clubs on Long Island, and she was a tour manager for a group call Antigone Rising\u2014they were an all female group out of New York. The middle one is the actress. She just finished season five on One Tree Hill, and I just went to see a movie that she made in the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It made it to the festival, so she\u2019s doing good. She lives out in LA. The little one, she\u2019s 19. She is licensed to cut hair in Michigan, and she just graduated from theatrical makeup school in Orlando.\nHow did you balance being a dad and a high profile rock drummer?\nIt\u2019s hard to do that you know because it\u2019s almost a selfish thing to be walking out your front door and have these little girls grabbing your legs and saying, \u201cDaddy, don\u2019t go!\u201d And you look down and say, \u201cDon\u2019t worry. Dad will be back in eighteen months,\u201d and expect them to go, \u201cOh, okay,\u201d and just go play with their coloring books and stuff like that. But that\u2019s why, when I talk to kids in clinics, I say you have to be dedicated to what you\u2019re doing because there\u2019s going to be times that even your wife will not realize and not understand that she will never be first. She\u2019ll be second, a close second, but never first. I mean, my drums have been there for everything. You think about me and my drums as a great thing, like it was fantastic\u2014play Madison Square Garden, play everything around the world and stuff like that. I also know them as I got divorced. But when I sit behind the drums and play with the band I feel better; it\u2019s ok. They\u2019re always there.\nWhat is it about Little Kids Rock that makes you want to be part of the program?\nThe fact that they give free lessons to inner city kids. It\u2019s a great thing because these kids have nothing to do today. They took all the music programs out of the schools. What are the kids going to do? What if you\u2019re not into sports? What if you don\u2019t like them? What if you can\u2019t play them? What\u2019s your option? Go hang out in the mall? Go hang out on a street corner? So, this guy Dave Wish, who started Little Kids Rock, he was a teacher and he saw these kids hanging out and said, \u201cLook, I\u2019ll give you guitar lessons for free.\u201d When he got the manufacturers involved, he got the guitars donated to Little Kids Rock. The kid takes the guitar, and if he keeps taking the lessons for a year he keeps the guitar. So it\u2019s a great thing for these kids. Pro Mark is a part of it. They give me drumsticks to bring into the kids. You hand them out; these kids freak out. They think you\u2019re Santa Claus. Then they see you play, and it\u2019s like, \u201cI wanna do that.\u201d\nYou also support Camp Jam, what is that?\nIt\u2019s a camp in the United States, started in Atlanta by a friend of mine Dan Lipson and another friend of mine Jeff Carlisi, who is a founding member of 38 Special. It started in Atlanta 5 years ago and now it\u2019s in 14 cities. It\u2019s for kids from 11 to 17 (actually, there\u2019s one for the little kids too). We call them the Bedroom Players; they practice in their bedroom. But like I said before, the reason why my friends and I took up instruments, and the reason why most kids take up an instrument, is because they saw something on MTV or they heard something on the radio and said, \u201cI wanna do that.\u201d And it wasn\u2019t a paradiddle that they saw, it was a band. They want to be in a band. So Camp Jam puts them in a band with players that are equal to their ability and for a week they rehearse 2 or 3 songs. They play AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Beatles\u2026 whatever they wanna play. It\u2019s funny, young kids playing that classic rock. And then by the end of the week, they do a full on concert, on a big stage with the PA and the monitors and everything, in front of their parents and all the other students and their friends. And they feel like rock stars. It\u2019s actually a team-building thing. They say sports is a team-building effort, but in baseball the ball is hit, it gets hit to the outfielder, he catches it on one bounce, he throws it to the second baseman, they tag the guy out. Two guys on the team are playing in that play. In music, the drummer counts to four, and everybody\u2019s in the game.\nLet\u2019s turn to your influences for a bit. Why has the music of The Beatles transcended multigenerations?\nAll of them were great songwriters. Even \u201cOctopus\u2019s Garden\u201d. You gotta say, Ringo wrote a great song there. It\u2019s good. But their melodies are wonderful and they played as a band like a little orchestra. An orchestra has its parts: the strings don\u2019t play over when the oboes are playing, they don\u2019t walk over them. Like Ringo. That\u2019s why he was such a great drummer\u2014because he made up parts. If you have a great song, like the Beatles do, or like I had with \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d with Billy Joel... Billy could come in, play it on the piano, and you could hear it, just him and the piano, and go, \u201cThat\u2019s a great song.\u201d Now I\u2019m gonna put drums on it. My job is to make it better, not to walk all over it. And anything Ringo played on a Beatles\u2019 song he made better. He created sounds in the studio that were never created before, that were never done before. His licks like in \u201cA Little Help From My Friends,\u201d try putting a different fill there. Doesn\u2019t work. So it\u2019s like he played the perfect fills. I mean, his stuff was well thought out. Billy Preston told me when he was in the studio with them, he said it was cool when one or two of them were in there, but when all four of them were in there, it was actually scary. It was so much creativity in that room that it was magical. I mean, they were great. They were really good. And they grew, they progressed. A lot of bands from the 60\u2019s that came out with them, didn\u2019t progress\u2014the way the Beatles wore those suits and they had the floppy hair\u2014[these bands] stayed there. The Beatles all of a sudden decided, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be that anymore. Let\u2019s move on. It\u2019s time to move on.\u201d And when they did Sergeant Pepper, or even Revolver and Rubber Soul; it was different. So all their stuff, they just kept evolving.\nHave you had a chance to work with any of The Beatles?\nI\u2019ve actually worked with Paul. There\u2019s a CD out in England called Beautiful Night and actually Ringo plays on the album, but he had done demos of it over the years. I was in the studio with him and did it once. So on this thing, Paul\u2019s explaining this song \u201cBeautiful Night,\u201d and how he started to play it on the piano, wrote it on the piano, and it eventually goes into me playing with him, and then, it goes into Ringo playing with him\u2014the one that went on the album. And the great part about it is that you read the credits and it says: bass and vocal, Paul Mc- Cartney; drums, Ringo Starr. And then you read underneath: bass and vocal, Paul McCartney; drums, Liberty DeVitto. (laughing) It was really cool! I met Ringo twice. I actually got to play with him. I played \u201cA Little Help From My Friends\u201d with him while he sang it. That was cool. But the first time that I met him, I said, \u201cRingo, if it wasn\u2019t for you, I wouldn\u2019t be doing what I am doing now.\u201d And he said, \u201cWell, at least you\u2019re not blaming me for it.\u201d (laughing) Who is your favorite Beatle? Ringo\u2019s my favorite Beatle. I loved the way Paul sang, and I really in later years have learned to appreciate John and George as songwriters. But Ringo is the reason why I\u2019m doing what I\u2019m doing now.\nVisit Liberty online: http://www.myspace.com/ldthedrummer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 20582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theblackpage.net/technique/page:4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NXS5CPDVWTFER6XCZK37ZQPHDLLDC4I6", "length": 859, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.theblackpage.net", "title": "Technique - Page 4 - The Black Page", "raw_content": "Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of The Black Page. So all year we've been doing silly stupid...\nInverted double strokes were not something I really worked on in my early days, I should have! They can...\nHello, Black Page readers! I hope all is well in your world of drums. This month we\u2019re looking a short...\nAdding to my rudimental presentations, here is another personal fav entitled \u201cWaltz.\u201d This one has three...\nToday I am going to be talking about a groove called the mozambique. The mozambique was made famous by...\nAs drummers, we usually don\u2019t take practicing our feet as seriously as we should. Having said that I hope...\nBrushes are fun to play and it\u2019s a good idea to learn how to play them. You never know when you\u2019ll need to...\nThe samba is one of the most popular music styles to have ever emerged from Brazil. The word itself has...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-deutsche-bank-links-to-be-probed-by-house-investigators", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KWI2O2ZJX2LPMFSPJLARHKEYPX3ZJBK5", "length": 1078, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thedailybeast.com", "title": "Trump-Deutsche Bank Links to be Probed By House Investigators", "raw_content": "Trump-Deutsche Bank Links to be Probed By House Investigators\nHouse investigators will probe President Donald Trump\u2019s business ties to Deutsche Bank, the controversial German bank that has been linked to Russian money laundering. Democrats are now discussing how to divide up the investigative work and the Intelligence Committee and Financial Services Committee are preparing to look into Deutsche, Reuters reports. The bank has been prosecuted for multibillion-dollar Russian money-laundering operations that flowed through its accounts. There has been speculation as to why Deutsche was one of the only banks willing to lend large sums of money to Trump and his businesses in the past decade; it extended millions of dollars in credit to the Trump Organization. Trump reportedly sought to fire Robert Mueller when he heard that the special counsel was looking into Deutsche. A Deutsche Bank spokesperson said the company will fully cooperate with any investigations, saying it \u201ctakes its legal obligations seriously.\u201d\nHouse Investigators to Dig Into Trump-Deutsche Bank Links", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/866122/-/item/0/-/7g408f/-/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:20:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ESCINWL46NHEBP6CHLCYTHOTNN6DBJXQ", "length": 5592, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.theeastafrican.co.ke", "title": "More women in corporate boards, but few taking a show at CEO job - The East African", "raw_content": "More women in corporate boards, but few taking a show at CEO job\nArni Hole, director general of the Equality Ministry, remembers the shock wave that went through Norway\u2019s business community in 2002 when the country\u2019s trade and industry minister, Ansgar Gabrielsen, proposed a law requiring that 40 per cent of all company board members be women.\nThe idea seemed radical, if not for its goal, then for the sheer magnitude of change it would require.\nBack then, Norwegian women held less than seven per cent of private-sector board seats; just less than five per cent of chief executives were women.\nAfter months of heated debate, the measure was approved by a significant majority in Parliament.\nMany prominent business leaders dismissed the 2003 law as a political stunt and argued that Norway did not have enough experienced women to meet the quota.\nNearly eight years on, the share of female directors at the roughly 400 companies affected is above 40 per cent, while women fill more than a quarter of the board seats at the 65 largest privately held companies.\nTo many feminists, this is the boldest move anywhere to breach one of the most durable barriers to gender equality.\nIndeed, the world has noticed: Spain and the Netherlands have passed similar laws, with a 2015 deadline for compliance.\nThe French Senate will soon debate a bill phasing in a female quota by 2016, after the National Assembly approved the measure recently. Belgium, Britain, Germany and Sweden are considering legislation.\nBut as the dust has settled, researchers are grappling with some frustrating facts: Bringing large numbers of women into Norway\u2019s boardrooms has done little \u2014 yet \u2014 to improve either the professional calibre of the boards or to enhance corporate performance.\nIn fact, early evidence from a little-noticed study by the University of Michigan suggests that the immediate effect has been negative on both counts.\nAnd the six-fold increase in women as directors has not yet brought any real rise in the number of women as chief executives.\nIn the past 50 years, women have gained ever more prominence in politics and society.\nA decade into the 21st century, however, their corporate power remains slight \u2014 although women represent half or more of the work force in many countries.\nIn the European Union, 9.7 per cent of the board members at the top 300 companies were women in 2008, versus eight per cent in 2004, according to the European Professional Women\u2019s Network.\nIn the United States, roughly 15 per cent of the board members of the Fortune 500 companies are women, while at the top of Asian companies, women remain scarce: In China and India, they hold roughly five per cent of board seats, in Japan, just 1.4 per cent.\nTraditional tendencies die hard. The higher up the corporate ladder, the greater the perceived risk associated with choosing managers who are not \u201chomogenous,\u201d said Hilde Tonne, an executive vice president and head of communications at Telenor, a global telecommunications company based in Oslo. \u201cDiversity is not as easy as you move up.\u201d\nWhen the Norwegian government first made its case for the quota, the number of women on boards had been growing by less than one percent a year, for a decade.\nIt would have taken 200 years, Ms Hole said, to reach 40 per cent.\nThe quota was sold to Norway\u2019s business community as a way to gain greater social equity and competitive edge: \u201cProfit is made by employing the best people, regardless of gender,\u201d she said.\nExperience vs social equity\nSome see potential risks in sacrificing experience for the sake of social equity.\n\u201cWhen you suddenly replace 30 per cent to 40 per cent of your board with inexperienced people, it is easier for those new members to be manipulated \u2014 that\u2019s just common sense,\u201d said Ruilf Rustad, a professional investor who has been chairman of at least 20 listed companies over the past 10 years.\nAs a newcomer \u201cit\u2019s not always easy to see what\u2019s going on in a board,\u201d he said, adding that women who rise to boards too soon risk damaging their careers if they fail to perform.\nProponents argued that the effects of greater boardroom diversity were more subtle, however, and that the arrival of fresher female talent brought genuine strategic benefits.\n\u201cIf you look at the typical board of a European company today, you see almost nothing but white males between the ages of 50 and 65,\u201d said Elin Myrmel-Johansen, who at 36 is an executive vice president at Storebrand, the Norwegian financial services group.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t need everybody to be the same age, from the same schools, reading the same magazines. Often younger people are better able to spot new market trends.\u201d\nMen perform better and come better prepared when there are women in the room, she said. \u201cWomen are taking the place of the mediocre men,\u201d she added. \u201cWhen you expand the universe of candidates, the existing ones have to work harder.\u201d\nCritics say boardroom quotas cannot address the question of why fewer women are seizing leadership opportunities.\n\u201cWhen the law says you must have 40 per cent women, of course you can get to 40 per cent \u2014 that is not an achievement,\u201d Mr Rustad said. \u201cAn achievement would be to find a way to get women to rise above middle management. So far we don\u2019t have an answer for that.\u201d\nMr Rustad and others predicted that, despite the initial adjustment costs, women\u2019s increased visibility as directors would eventually lift many of them into top management.\nMs Tonne, an early skeptic, is today among those convinced that the longer-term effects of legislated diversity outweigh the short-term drawbacks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 8815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefourohfive.com/film/article/watch-the-newest-trailer-for-finding-dory-146", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4J2DPSKA3DAFLESEKDNCPKVVINWFOX3O", "length": 1120, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thefourohfive.com", "title": "Watch the newest trailer for Finding Dory", "raw_content": "Watch the newest trailer for Finding Dory\nPixar's next mega-release arrives in theaters June 17th.\nMatt Korman25 May, 2016. Photography by Pixar\nNearly 13 years to the day, Disney released its seminal animated hit Finding Nemo, which managed to become one of the most beloved hits of the decade. To this day it is the most-sold DVD of all-time, the second-highest grossing film released in all of 2003, the 33rd highest-grossing film of all-time, and the 6th highest grossing animated feature.\nMonths after Finding Dory's first full-length trailer premiered, Pixar has unveiled the newest variation, which explores the story of Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) looking for her parents with the help of the protagonists of the first film, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and the titular Nemo (Hayden Rolence). Also featured in the trailer are the characters of Fluke (Idris Elba), Hank (Ed O'Neil), Dominic West (Rudder), and Desity (Kaitlin Olsen), along with guest work from SNL alums Bill Hader and Kate McKinnon.\nCheck out the trailer below, which premiered on The Ellen Show, before the film's June 17th release.\nFinding DoryEllenPixar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegatewayonline.ca/2016/10/biosci-2-sandiego/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:O6JIVTHB6BT3FVD6HACQCPGSQD7YUMSG", "length": 3287, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thegatewayonline.ca", "title": "UAlberta alumnus goes from the Biological Sciences Building to the San Diego Zoo - The Gateway", "raw_content": "Home/News/UAlberta alumnus goes from the Biological Sciences Building to the San Diego Zoo\nUAlberta alumnus goes from the Biological Sciences Building to the San Diego Zoo\nWhen Nicholas Pilfold isn\u2019t at his San Diego Zoo office, he\u2019s working with polar bears in the arctic, spectacled bears in the Andes, or great pandas in China.\nPilfold became a post-doctoral associate at the San Diego Zoo\u2019s Institute for Conservation Research after finishing his PhD in ecology at the U of A in 2015. He researches polar bears\u2019 responses to ice level and climate change, a project that he started at the U of A under the supervision of Andrew Derocher, a biological sciences professor.\nPilfold is one of 200 scientists working at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, which conducts research in 35 countries. As part of the institute\u2019s applied animal ecology team, Pilfold works primarily in the field.\nThis year, Pilfold spent time in the Peruvian Andes studying distributions of spectacled bears, which are one of the least-known bear species. He also works with giant pandas in China to measure success of their reintegration projects.\nWhile Pilfold works with other bear species he said he was first drawn to polar bears because of their connection to the arctic, an area he has always wanted to see.\n\u201c(The arctic) is a region that\u2019s undergoing some of the vastest changes that we\u2019ve seen anywhere on the planet when it comes to climate change,\u201d he said.\nPilfold grew up on a farm in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia for his undergraduate degree in Life Sciences. He had always been interested in animal care, having grown up close to animals with and having access to the outdoors. Pilfold said he was also drawn to ideas in his upper year ecology courses, inspiring him to pursue the field as he worked upward in academia.\nBefore coming to the U of A for graduate school, Pilfold worked on small wildlife reserves in Africa to see if long hours and remote fieldwork were for him.\n\u201cWe got up early every day to track predators on the reserves, lions, leopards, and hyenas, and I loved it,\u201d he said. \u201cI fell in love with both Africa and the work. I decided that that is what I wanted to do for a career.\u201d\nPilfold\u2019s work as a biologist has taken him to isolated places such as M\u2019Clur Strait in the Northwest Territories, where he and Derocher stayed in a tiny cabin estimating the number of polar bears in the area. The two-week trip confirmed Pilfold\u2019s love for the arctic.\n\u201cYou\u2019re just surrounded by wilderness, there\u2019s nobody around for thousands of kilometres and I think that left the biggest impression on me about the arctic,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the last wild places on the planet.\u201d\nPinfold said he never envisioned himself working at the world-famous San Diego Zoo, but he was drawn to the position when the Institute for Conservation Research was looking for a bear expert.\nPilfold said aspiring biologists at the U of A should be flexible enough to see paths that they might not have considered.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not always easy to end up in your career of choice, there can be difficulties along the way,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving a persistent attitude and keeping at it is really important to recognizing and achieving your dreams.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 186.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegigcartel.com/Venues/Oswaldtwistle-Civic-Arts-Centre.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:46D6ZHWM3IF6HVRF43WAYDVAXPBLLMHT", "length": 116, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thegigcartel.com", "title": "Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre", "raw_content": "Website: http://www.civicartscentre.co.uk/getting-here\nAddress: Civic Arts Centre, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington BB5 3HZ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegryphon.co.uk/2018/11/30/are-you-a-member-of-the-mob/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6CMUJLKW4ERI3AFC5ZTEQPR2G2MOZWSZ", "length": 3190, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thegryphon.co.uk", "title": "Are you a member of the MOB? \u2013 The Gryphon", "raw_content": "A blog created in University by a thrifty student has now become a fully-fledged business with a book deal, partnerships with other brands and a thriving Instagram community. With the festive period upon us, inevitably you\u2019ll be having several Christmas dinners towards the end of this semester. Whether it\u2019s with your flatmates or with your friends, it can often be hard to find recipes that cater for everyone, with ingredients that don\u2019t break the bank. If you\u2019re looking for unique ideas, MOB Kitchen has got you covered.\nMOB Kitchen is an online publishing company that was set up by Benjamin Lebus to share affordable and easy-to-make recipes via free \u201chow-to\u201d videos online. The brand claims what makes them different to other food bloggers on social media sites is that they don\u2019t post typical \u201cfood porn\u201d that the average person couldn\u2019t hope to cook well. Instead, the recipes are easy to replicate, showing students that it\u2019s possible to make delicious, tasty food, even after a long day of lectures.\nThe main component that has led to their success over the past two years is their budget-friendly food. Every recipe in their first series of videos, as well as in their 2018 cookbook, feeds four or more people for under a tenner\u2026and when they say \u00a310, they mean it. If you\u2019re thinking of getting back into the kitchen but are lacking the kit, don\u2019t panic! Their budget doesn\u2019t assume you\u2019ve got the kitchen cupboard fully stocked \u2013 all they expect you to have is salt, pepper and olive oil. Recipes are also priced at the cost of the product in the supermarkets rather than the cost of how much of the product you use, making it so much easier to work out your weekly shopping bill. What\u2019s even better is after you\u2019ve trialled a few recipes, you\u2019ll have leftover ingredients from previous videos and can subtract that cost completely from your next shop.\nWe spoke to Anna Higgins, the official Leeds MOB Brand Ambassador (a new position created this year in order to spread the news about the MOB). Anna believes that MOB is focused towards students and tries to help students in every way: \u201cI personally have always been a big foodie and came across the brand before I started university \u2013 MOB\u2019s recipes are cheap, easy and most importantly super delicious.\u201d Anna emphasised that MOB tries to be as inclusive as possible, offering a range of recipes to suit all dietary requirements. Their vegetarian and vegan recipes have been so successful, they\u2019re planning to launch an exclusively veggie recipe book next year. Vegetarian recipes have seen tremendous growth in popularity with all age groups, not least of which among young people who are becoming more environmentally conscious about their food consumption. This brand has something for everyone and if you\u2019re looking for quick and easy ideas to keep all your housemates happy at Christmas, these free online videos could give you a helping hand.\nWhatever you\u2019re planning this holiday, food can bring people together, so why not take the opportunity to try out a few recipes with your mates this festive season?\nPosted in BusinessTagged Business, christmas, Daisy Woodford, mob kitchen\nCould Your Employer Microchip You?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/30/luka-modric-world-cup-croatia-unassuming-genius", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:21:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BQPVLW6K3PKBDQ7IQ7RXHPMM4VVIDTN3", "length": 6428, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Luka Modric: the unassuming genius driving Croatia\u2019s tilt at the World Cup\nCroatia midfielder is lighting up Russia 2018 in a way that may finally see him ranked alongside Xavi and Iniesta\nSat 30 Jun 2018 17.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 18 Nov 2018 15.28 EST\nLuka Modric plays the ball during Croatia\u2019s extraordinary 3-0 group-stage thrashing of Argentina in Nizhny Novgorod. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images\nSaturday 17 November 2007 and the pitch at the National Arena in Skopje is a bog. Incessant rain has caused severe waterlogging and put Macedonia\u2019s hosting of Croatia in a Euro 2008 qualifier under threat. The game goes ahead, and the hosts go on to win 2-0, but it is a poor contest as players on both sides struggle to control the ball, let along do anything with it.\nAmid the sodden muck one player does catch the eye. Croatia\u2019s No 14, a small and wiry midfielder who, despite the conditions, looks to use possession intelligently and precisely. Sometimes he fails, sometimes he succeeds, but he continues to try, continues to trust in his technique, and what makes his display even more impressive is he is just 22.\nCroatia\u2019s Luka Modric: \u2018It is only right there are great expectations of us\u2019\nThe less clued-up reporters watching on from the press box double check the player\u2019s name on the team sheet: Luka Modric. Plays for Dinamo Zagreb. Definitely one to keep an eye on. Could be a serious talent. Which is precisely what he became.\nA little under 11 years on, Modric remains small and wiry but professionally he is now a giant: a four-times Champions League winner with Real Madrid and the captain of his country as they face Denmark on Sunday in their first World Cup last-16 tie in two decades. Modric has impressed in Russia and is key to Croatia\u2019s hopes of progressing. From an individual point of view, these finals also offer the 32-year-old a chance to establish himself as the finest midfielder on the planet.\nIt is somewhat odd that Modric is not spoken of in those terms already. He has been a key cog in the most successful European club team of the past 10 years and is a player whose ability to dictate the tempo of top-level matches with brain as well as feet cannot be beaten. There have been others of a similar ilk, most notably Xavi and Andr\u00e9s Iniesta, but they have at least been fully recognised for their brilliance. Modric operates in relative darkness, passing, moving and gobbling up winner\u2019s medals with barely a nod of approval in his direction.\nIn part that is down to Modric\u2019s unassuming nature. He is a subtle operator who physically gets lost among the game\u2019s honed and toned superstars. As Barney Ronay once put it in the Guardian, Modric resembles a \u201csmall boy dressed up as a witch\u201d, but the talent is undeniable and now, on the greatest stage of all, comes a chance to lift himself above the crowd.\n\u201cWe are all football lovers and we know Modric is an incredible player,\u201d said Dejan Lovren on behalf of his Croatia teammates, all of whom leant heavily on the man with No 10 on his back as they went about topping Group D with a 100% record to head into Sunday evening\u2019s contest in Nizhny Novgorod as favourites to progress to the quarter-finals.\nNo Croat has completed more passes at this World Cup than Modric (143), or received more (124), highlighting the level of trust the midfielder\u2019s colleagues have in him to do the right thing at the right moment. And it is not just with his use of the ball that Modric has made a telling contribution. He is also second for greatest distance covered (26.09km), third for most sprints completed (93) and, somewhat surprisingly, has made more tackles than anyone else in Zlatko Dalic\u2019s ranks (seven).\nLuka Modric celebrates after his stunning goal against Argentina. Photograph: Ricardo Mazalan/AP\nThe captain is here, there and everywhere, having also scored twice at these finals, following up a penalty in the opening game against Nigeria with that twisting, turning howitzer in the 3-0 victory against Argentina. Modric described that goal as one of his best in 109 appearances for Croatia and, more than anything, it reflected his capacity to keep a clear head in the most pressured situations, a remarkable feat given the player travelled to Russia with a possible five-year prison sentence preying on his mind.\nThe sanction stems from Modric\u2019s involvement as a witness in the criminal trial of the former Dinamo Zagreb director Zdravko Mamic, following which he was charged with perjury. A trial is due to take place after the World Cup and, it would not have been a major surprise had Modric, who denies wrongdoing, performed like a troubled soul at the tournament.\nAll hail Luka Modric, the maestro who makes Real Madrid\u2019s superstars tick | Barney Ronay\nInstead he has flourished in the centre of Croatia\u2019s midfield, dictating play with calmness, precision, variety and a quality he is not widely renowned for: robustness.\nFor a man who is 5ft 6in (1.68m) and 10st 3lb (66kg), Modric is incredibly strong, using every element of his frame to hold off more imposing opponents in order to receive and use the ball. It was a trait that was fully on show during Real\u2019s Champions League final victory over Liverpool in Kiev and something Harry Redknapp noticed on becoming Tottenham manager in October 2008, six months after Modric joined the club from Dinamo.\n\u201cLuka is as brave as a lion,\u201d said Redknapp, having overseen the flourishing of a player who had struggled to adapt to life in north London. \u201cHe can make things happen \u2013 he has that ability to open the door.\u201d\nThey have also seen that at Real, where Modric likewise suffered early teething problems. He was voted the worst signing of the 2012-13 La Liga season by Marca, having arrived at the Bernab\u00e9u for \u00a330m a few weeks before the start of the campaign. He refused to crumble, however, and having moved from a No 10 role into centre midfield, became integral to Real\u2019s success on the European stage.\nNow he plans to help Croatia reach grand heights, potentially emulating or even surpassing their success at France 98, when a team who included Robert Prosinecki, Zvonimir Boban and Davor Suker reached the semi-finals. Do that and Modric will well and truly stamp his mark on the global consciousness.\n\u201cBecause we are a small country, Luka gets less attention than he deserves,\u201d Lovren said. \u201cHe is one of the best in the world. Maybe even a Ballon d\u2019Or winner.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 8611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/unesco-names-three-new-world-heritage-sites", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:37Z", "digest": "sha1:4BICKGY5LPXAL6DTVNKLZV6SBLMOX7CY", "length": 2804, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Unesco names three new world heritage sites\n16th-century Kenyan dry-stone walled settlement, ancient city in Oman and oasis in Saudi Arabia recognised by UN body\nThe Bibi Maryam mausoleum in the ancient city of Qalhat, Oman, which has been added to Unesco\u2019s world heritage list. Photograph: QDP/Unesco/EPA\nThree new sites have been awarded world heritage status by Unesco, including a remote Kenyan settlement and an ancient city in Oman.\nThe 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee made the announcement on Friday afternoon following a meeting in Bahrain.\nWhy is Britain so cavalier with its glorious world heritage? | Catherine Bennett\nThe first to be named was Thimlich Ohinga in Kenya, north-west of the town of Migori. Unesco said the dry-stone walled settlement was probably built in the 16th century.\nAn entrance to an enclosure at the Thimlich Ohinga archaeological site in Kenya. Photograph: Ephraim Mwangi/Unesco/EPA\nIt said the settlement seems to have \u201cserved as a fort for communities and livestock, but also defined social entities and relationships linked to lineage\u201d and was the \u201clargest and best preserved of these traditional enclosures\u201d.\n\u201cIt is an exceptional example of the tradition of massive dry-stone walled enclosures, typical of the first pastoral communities in the Lake Victoria Basin, which persisted until the mid-20th century,\u201d it added.\nAlso listed was the ancient walled city of Qalhat in Oman, located on the east coast of the sultanate.\nUnesco said: \u201cThe city developed as a major port on the east coast of Arabia between the 11th and 15th centuries CE, during the reign of the Hormuz princes. Today it bears unique archaeological testimony to the trade links between the east coast of Arabia, east Africa, India, China and south-east Asia.\u201d\nThe last to be added on Friday was the Al-Ahsa oasis in Saudi Arabia, described as \u201can evolving cultural landscape in the eastern Arabian peninsula\u201d.\nNatural world heritage sites under threat \u2013 in pictures\nThe Qasr Ibrahim mosque in the Al-Ahsa oasis in Saudi Arabia Photograph: Fran\u00e7ois Cristofoli\nUnesco described the Al-Ahsa Oasis as \u201ca serial property comprising gardens, canals, springs, wells and a drainage lake, as well as historical buildings, urban fabric and archaeological sites.\u201d\nIt added: \u201cThey represent traces of continued human settlement in the Gulf region from the Neolithic to the present, as can be seen from remaining historic fortresses, mosques, wells, canals and other water management systems. With its 2.5m date palms, it is the largest oasis in the world. Al-Ahsa is also a unique geocultural landscape and an exceptional example of human interaction with the environment.\u201d\nThe committee will make decisions on dozens more nominated places over the weekend.\nHeritage (Culture)\nHeritage (Travel)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/John-McCain-s-record-is-right-on-taxes-8267807.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QXHXMSTAF2YJMY74HSKAXNERLMNELIHK", "length": 1866, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thehour.com", "title": "John McCain's record is right on taxes, immigration - The Hour", "raw_content": "https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/John-McCain-s-record-is-right-on-taxes-8267807.php\nJohn McCain's record is right on taxes, immigration\nWith Election Day only a few days away, the people America face a very distinct choice on Nov. 4. They are indeed very different candidates. As a conservative, I will be choosing John McCain based on facts and Sen. McCain's record. He has pledged to appoint constructionist judges to our federal courts. He will not grant amnesty to people who came to and live in our country illegally. He believes in cutting taxes and allowing lower tax rates to stimulate the economy.\nIreland cut its corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent 20 years ago after suffering a dreadful per capita GDP. Its economy has boomed as a result, and it now raises 50 percent more corporate tax revenue as a percent of GDP than the US does with its 35 percent rate. Obama has pledged to raise the corporate tax rate, which would be devastating to the U.S. economy. His tax and spend policies have failed numerous times in history. Obama claims he is going to give tax breaks to 95 percent of Americans. Since the fact is that one third of Americans pay no income tax, it is clear that Obama plans on more hand outs to those who do not contribute.\nI respect the opinion of those who do not share my conservative ideology but would urge those Obama supporters out there to vote based on facts, not feelings. Every Obama supporter I have talked to say that they are voting based on \"change.\"\nI would remind you just about every politician runs on a platform of change. He is no more than an opportunist with a very sketchy past filled with drug use and dangerous associations. He has no executive experience and has used each of his elected positions as platforms to run for the next office. Please be informed before you cast a vote for Barack Hussein Obama.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/fyre-festival-documentary-4440953-Jan2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:07:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YZ6HGRY7HAZ5PV7DKJMAGO32SAM2ETOD", "length": 4677, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.thejournal.ie", "title": "The story behind the greatest party that never happened \u00b7 TheJournal.ie", "raw_content": "The story behind the greatest party that never happened\nA behind-the-scenes look at the Fyre Festival has come to Netflix. It\u2019s as bizarre as it sounds.\nBy Sean Murray Sunday 20 Jan 2019, 6:00 PM\nIT WAS BILLED as the most exclusive music festival in the world.\nIts slick promotional video promised \u201ctwo transformative weekends\u201d on a \u201cremote and private island in the Exumas\u201d that would explore the \u201cboundaries of the impossible\u201d. Models and social media influencers such as Emily Ratajkowski and Bella Hadid appeared in the promo.\nFurthermore, the island was once owned by narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar. Blink 182 and Major Lazer were among the headliners.\nDay tickets cost upwards of \u20ac1,000. VIP tickets set you back tens of thousands. It quickly sold out after the PR campaign got under way in December 2016.\nAttendees were promised the finest of food, drink, and accommodation.\nBut when people began to arrive for the Fyre Festival in April 2017, they were met by an absolute disaster.\nNearly two years on, one of the main organisers is in jail and has been ordered to forfeit over \u20ac20 million for wire fraud.\nAnd a new documentary that came to Netflix charts the bizarre rise and quick fall of the Fyre Festival.\nThe protagonist in this story is Billy McFarland and he\u2019s very much portrayed as the villain of the piece as the man who along with rapper Ja Rule convinces investors, employees and ticket consumers alike to fall for his dream of the most exclusive, high-end music festival around.\nThe film charts how the charismatic McFarland sought to create the perfect festival but shows how while Fyre Festival\u2019s promotion was going at a blistering pace, the plans for its production were not.\n\u201cThe cultural event of the decade,\u201d is how he described it. Ja Rule said that he and McFarland were \u201cgoing to change the way people look at a young tech entrepreneur and a hip-hop mogul, come together and create something incredible\u201d.\nIn the documentary which has incredible access to those involved with the project, McFarland is shown to have sold villa packages before he knew there\u2019d be enough space for all the people, as well as changing the festival site at the last minute when it became clear how much it would actually cost.\nIn a darker turn, local Bahamians who were enlisted to work on the festival weren\u2019t even paid.\nAlong the way he falsified statements to show investors that his company earned millions of dollars from April 2016 to February 2017 through talent bookings. In reality, his company had earned just over \u20ac50,000.\nThe extravagance that was promised certainly didn\u2019t materialise, and it was one photo of the meagre food offering that helped the story of the festival go viral as it was shared widely.\nHey @GordonRamsay what would you rate #fyrefestival gourmet meals? pic.twitter.com/SYJIgwAIYp\n\u2014 Rain Man (@omgRainMan) April 28, 2017\nSource: Rain Man/Twitter\nThe two slices of bread and couple of cheese slices with a bit salad was a far cry from the food that was promised.\nPeople who\u2019d been sucked in by the Instagram influencers and the social media buzz were met with a stark reality as the quality of food, or lack thereof, chimed in with the rest of the organisation of the festival.\nAs well as that, mattresses and tents were soaked through the night before guests were due to arrive meant that many were left with nowhere to stay, never mind simply sub-standard accommodation.\nA consultant who worked on the festival recalls hearing a staff member say to another \u201cat least they won\u2019t get away with it now\u201d, referring to the organisers.\nThe festival of a lifetime was anything but, as organisers only admitted defeat after hundreds of people had arrived to attend. Influencers distanced themselves from it, and anger was directed at McFarland and co for creating such a farce.\nWhen the extent of McFarland\u2019s fraudulent activities emerged, it added a new layer to the tale of incredible hubris that played out almost entirely on social media \u2013 from the initial promotion, to those livetweeting from the festival and the subsequent vitriol directed at McFarland.\nAnd when the sheen of the social media posts were stripped back, there was nothing of substance to the Fyre Festival \u2013 the greatest party that never happened.\n\nEmail \u201cThe story behind the greatest party that never happened\u201d.\nFeedback on \u201cThe story behind the greatest party that never happened\u201d.\nThe story behind the greatest party that never happened Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 12915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thelocal.se/20181002/live-blog-sweden-nobel-prize-in-physics-to-be-announced-stockholm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3UZXRJAYKJDZYIA43O22YVJAS5YXWZZK", "length": 10993, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "www.thelocal.se", "title": "BLOG: Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics announced - The Local", "raw_content": "nobel prizephysics\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which hands out the Nobel Prize in Physics. Photo: Hanna Franz\u00e9n/TT\nThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is shared between scientists from the US, France and Canada for \"groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics\".\nThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Arthur Ashkin (USA) and the other half jointly to G\u00e9rard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada) for \"groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics\".\n13:36 'Only the future will tell'\nSo, what are the practical applications of the laureates' research? In the words of Claes-G\u00f6ran Wahlstr\u00f6m, head of atomic physics at Lund University: \"We have to be careful about looking too closely for applications. It's basic science; it's an invention which opens fields to do further basic science, then we will see where that leads. Scientists around the world will say yes, this is a good prize because this is the technique and the invention I use to do my research. But as an example, we've heard of CPA lasers being used in laser eye surgery on hundreds and thousands of patients every year. I can also see for example radiation therapy using this technology, but only the future will tell.\"\nWith that, I'll leave you for today. Thank you for following our live blog from Stockholm and please join us tomorrow for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.\n13:17 'I admire the work she's done'\nThe Local's Catherine Edwards has just spoken with Claes-G\u00f6ran Wahlstr\u00f6m, head of atomic physics at Lund University. He has known Mourou, one of the laureates, for 20 years: \"We both deal with high intensity lasers and we have worked together on a lot of committees and in creating the international committee of ultra-intense lasers (ICUIL). Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to work with Dr Strickland but I look forward to meeting her in December. I admire the work she's done and have used the invention she has contributed to.\"\nWe asked him what stands out about the research. Here's what he had to say:\n\"Firstly the technology has allowed us to make ultra-high intensities which has opened up a brand new field of physics where people are continuously discovering new phenomena. It's also made it possible for more researchers, more university groups to access high intensity. Before this invention, the very high intensities could only be achieved with a huge national facility; with this technology now university groups can build these lasers and start to make strong field physics in their existing laboratories.\"\n\"The third aspect is the high peak power; instead of taking a few shots per day these lasers can run ten shots per second which completely revolutionizes the way we do science. Now you can study and see much more subtle effects because you have more statistics. Those three things together make it extremely promising. I feel confident that within the next 15 years or so there will be other Nobel Prizes that are a result of this invention. It's an enormously expanding field worldwide, and not least in the UK.\"\nThe Local's Catherine Edwards speaks with Claes-G\u00f6ran Wahlstr\u00f6m. Photo: Nele Schr\u00f6der/The Local\n12:20 'Revolutionized laser physics'\nMy colleague Catherine Edwards is now waiting to speak with one of the experts of the Nobel Assembly, who will hopefully be able to explain more about the research that led to this year's award.\nIn the meantime, here's a helpful fact sheet and a summary by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:\n\"The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionized laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly fast processes now appear in a new light. Not only physics, but also chemistry, biology and medicine have gained precision instruments for use in basic research and practical applications.\"\n\"Arthur Ashkin invented optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms and molecules with their laser beam fingers. Viruses, bacteria and other living cells can be held too, and examined and manipulated without being damaged. Ashkin's optical tweezers have created entirely new opportunities for observing and controlling the machinery of life.\"\n\"G\u00e9rard Mourou and Donna Strickland paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses created by mankind. The technique they developed has opened up new areas of research and led to broad industrial and medical applications; for example, millions of eye operations are performed every year with the sharpest of laser beams.\"\nChairman G\u00f6ran K Hansson with his Nobel colleagues. Photo: Nele Schr\u00f6der/The Local\n12:15 Why the announcement was delayed\nG\u00f6ran K Hansson, the Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, confirms that they have been able to reach all the new laureates to inform them of the award. He says there was a problem getting a phone connection established with one of them, which is why the press conference started late.\nI understand the laureates were all very pleased but apparently Ashkin told Hansson that he may not be able to give interviews because he is \"very busy with his latest scientific paper\". Priorities, I guess.\n12:10 'Crazy!'\nWe've now got Donna Strickland on a phone line, presumably speaking to us from Canada. She is now one of three women who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics (out of 210 in total). One of the journalists in the room (I didn't catch from which newspaper) asks her how she feels about that.\n\"Is that all? I thought there might have been more,\" she says. \"I think we need to celebrate women physicists, because we are out there. I don't know what to say. I am honoured to be one of them.\"\nHow did it feel to learn she'd won the prize? \"Crazy!\" Strickland also praises the other 2 Laureates and their discoveries #nobelprize\n\u2014 Catherine Edwards (@CatJREdwards) October 2, 2018\nShe is clearly very proud and moved by receiving the most prestigious gong of the science world.\n12:03 More about the new laureates\nThe award was actually announced ten minutes behind schedules, which is very-late-indeed in Sweden. I wonder if we will find out what caused the delay?\nG\u00f6ran K Hansson, Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as always impressively announced the laureates in five languages: Swedish, English, German, French and Russian. The Academy says Arthur Ashkin is awarded \"for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems\" and G\u00e9rard Mourou and Donna Strickland \"for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses\".\nI'll tell you more about their research shortly. We're now about to hear more from Strickland.\nThe official @NobelPrize account has handy explanations of the prize-winning techniques https://t.co/osxdyxy7a7\n11:55 The 2018 Nobel Prize of Physics goes to...\n... Arthur Ashkin (USA) with the other half awarded jointly to G\u00e9rard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada) for \"groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics\". Congratulations!\n11:38 Less than 10 minutes to go...\nThe Local's Catherine Edwards and Nele Schr\u00f6der are at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences where the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is to be announced at 11.45am. The Nobel Committee is usually on time, because Sweden.\n15 minutes to go! We've just been told everything is running on time and reminded where we can get coffee - so far, so Swedish #nobelprize2018 pic.twitter.com/FKFGlrgx5v\nInternational journalists have lined up to report on the #NobelPrize in #physics. The room is filled with a cacophony of different languages. pic.twitter.com/XTQiiyVdW6\n\u2014 Nele Schr\u00f6der (@NeleSchr) October 2, 2018\n11:27 'Hello, you have won the Nobel Prize'\nWhen does the winner get told? Usually just a few minutes before the rest of us find out. However, it is often difficult to reach them due to the time differences, so sometimes they only find out when they wake up and turn on the morning news. And in 1989, the Nobel Committee accidentally called the wrong Norman Ramsey to inform an unsuspecting man (who was actually an economist) he had won the Nobel Prize in Physics.\n\"They had guessed maybe I might be in Washington DC. There was a Norman Ramsey there. And the chairman of the committee called him,\" Norman-Ramsey-the-physicist once recalled in an interview.\nFrom this ordinary phone, someone will receive an extraordinary phone call #NobelPrize #Physics pic.twitter.com/EpDoSdobIy\n\u2014 Vetenskapsakademien (@vetenskapsakad) October 2, 2018\n11:15 205 men, two women\nTo date, 111 Physics prizes have been handed out to 207 laureates, two of whom were women. The gender imbalance was heavily debated last year, when none of the Nobel Prize winners in either category (Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and the bonus category of Economics) were women.\nG\u00f6ran K Hansson, the Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for the Physics, Chemistry and Economics prizes, then said he would like to see more women laureates, but that they have to make their decision based on the nominations they receive \u2013 and apparently not enough female physicists get nominated.\nHere's how the nomination process works. Thousands of members from the world of academia, science, parliamentary assemblies and previous Nobel laureates \u2013 chosen to represent as many countries and universities as possible over the course of time \u2013 submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Committees of the awarding institutions then select the winners after much deliberation. The names of the other nominees cannot be revealed to the public until 50 years later and unfortunately I found out too late that you are not able to nominate yourself for a Nobel Prize.\nThe two women who did win the Physics Prize were Marie Curie (who also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry \u2013 way to nick the limelight from the rest of us, Professor Curie) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer.\nMarie Curie working in a laboratory with her daughter Irene in 1927. Photo: AP\n11:00 Good morning...\n... and welcome to day two of Nobel Prize season. The two things everyone is asking in Sweden today are 1) Who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics and 2) When will Sweden form a government? Follow this blog to find out the answer to the first question in 45 minutes. Guiding you through this process is The Local Sweden's editor Emma L\u00f6fgren, with the help of our reporters Catherine Edwards and Nele Schr\u00f6der. Hello from us!\nREAD ALSO: Cancer researchers awarded 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine\nK - 02 Oct 2018 20:55\nReally great blog, thanks. It's brilliant to see this website giving such good coverage of science.\nEmma L\u00f6fgren, Editor, The Local Sweden - 03 Oct 2018 12:32\nThank you! I have to say that the Nobel panel also does a very good job of explaining the science to the journalists at the press conference, so that's very helpful.\nIn numbers: Sweden's luxurious Nobel Banquet\nEverything you need to know about the Nobel Prize ceremony\nSwedish Academy to let outsiders help pick Nobel Prize for the first time in its history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 16000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themarque.com/profile/michael-hawker-am", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YLGAIXMY2TLUHXT6OKA33I7WPAQTCGNP", "length": 2091, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.themarque.com", "title": "Michael Hawker AM | Official Profile on The Marque", "raw_content": "Independent Non Executive Chair of Board Remuneration Committee\nMacquarie Group and Macquarie Bank\nMichael Hawker previously played Rugby Union for Australia from 1980-87. He retired as CEO of the largest Australian General Insurer (IAG) 2001-8. Michael is Chairman of The George Institute for Global Health and is also NED on Aviva, Macquarie Group & Bank, Washington H. Soul Pattinson and The Rugby World Cup Board. Michael is married with three children and based in Sydney Australia. He likes all sports, contemporary art, wine and music but hates jogging.\nMichael Hawker AM\u2019s Background\nMACQUARIE Group Limited is a global investment banking and diversified financial services group, providing banking, financial advisory and investment and funds management services to institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world.\nThe George Institute for Global Health is a health and medical research institute whose mission is to improve the health of millions of people worldwide.\nWashington H. Soul Pattinson\nWHSP is an Australian public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The principal activities of WHSP include a portfolio of industries - its traditional field of pharmacy as well as retail, building materials, natural resources, equity investments, agriculture, telecommunications and corporate advisory.\nIndependant Non Executive Chair of Board Risk Committee\nThe Australian Business in the Community\nProvides corporate support to underprivileged schools across Australia, in the form of student and teacher mentoring, and other non financial support - e.g. marketing, accounting, legal and other services.\nNon - Executive Director of Rugby World Cup Board\nAwarded an 'Order of Australia in 2010, for service as a leader in the banking and finance industries, and to the community, particularly through the development of corporate mentoring programs in schools.\nAustralian Sports Medal\nAwarded an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, for being a \"Former Wallaby (25 caps) of note, and former Chairman of selectors.\nMichael Hawker AM\u2019s Education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/contributors/trump-s-korean-legacy-shotgun-diplomacy-FB6GZjRpTUWspwblZsJgvg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CAUSCUSDVQ2VLNNBQLA2UI5UJECDHKNZ", "length": 397, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.themaven.net", "title": "Trump\u2019s Korean Legacy: Shotgun Diplomacy - The Old Resurgent Page. New Home at TheResurgent.com", "raw_content": "Trump\u2019s Korean Legacy: Shotgun Diplomacy\nThe last 24 hours have done nothing if not shown the resiliency of the American president\u2019s thumbs. They are dutifully back at work now that he\u2019s done his due diligence in Texas.\nUnfortunately, his performance in the wake of Hurricane Harvey does not invalidate the actions he takes the rest of the time. His latest tweeting should make us all wish it did.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenews.mx/entertainment/hfpa-investigating-actor-brendan-fraser-s-groping-claim/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7H2PWOD6CUUB45JWQM3VWMEO4OZRLBF", "length": 1533, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thenews.mx", "title": "The News", "raw_content": "HFPA investigating actor Brendan Fraser's groping claim\nThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association says it is investigating actor Brendan Fraser's claim that its former president, Philip Berk, groped him in 2003. Fraser, best known for his role in 'The Mummy' trilogy, made the accusation against Berk in an interview with GQ magazine. A spokesman for the HFPA, the organization that puts on the Golden Globes, says the accusation includes information it was previously unaware of, and is looking into it.\n, FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, actor Brendan Fraser attends a special screening of \"Gimme Shelter\" in New York. Fraser has accused former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk of groping him in 2003, and the organization says it is investigating the claim. Fraser, 49, best known for his roles in \u201cThe Mummy\u201d trilogy, made the accusation in an interview with GQ magazine. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)\nThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association says it is investigating actor Brendan Fraser's claim that its former president, Philip Berk, groped him in 2003.\nFraser, 49, best known for his role in \"The Mummy\" trilogy, made the accusation in an interview with GQ magazine .\nA statement from the HFPA, the organization that puts on the Golden Globes, says the interview \"includes alleged information that the HFPA was previously unaware of\" and is looking into the accusation. It also stresses that the organization has long had what it calls \"a positive working relationship\" with Fraser.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenewsjournal.net/2018/10/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:55:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KEGRB64IEHSARZA4F42LP3A2VKO3SKZL", "length": 2357, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thenewsjournal.net", "title": "The News Journal October 10, 2018 \u2013 The News Journal", "raw_content": "Jerry Ray Horn\nJerry Ray Horn, 75, the husband of Linda Rawlings Horn of Radcliff, passed away on Sunday at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, KY. The family has requested that all services be private. Burial followed in the A.R. Dyche Memorial Park in London. Laurel Funeral...\nWesley Eagle\nWesley Eagle, 36, of Corbin, passed away on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at Baptist Health Corbin. He is survived by his parents Breckey and Connie Hughes Eagle Funeral service was held Saturday, October 6, at Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Brafford Cemetery.\nRaleigh \u201cDavid\u201d Bennett\nRaleigh \u201cDavid\u201d Bennett, 57, of Corbin, passed away on Monday, October 8, 2018 at his home. He is survived by his wife, Lisa Fogus Bennett. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 11, at Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Bennett Cemetery...\nVerenda Sharp\nVerenda Sharp, 77, of Ellison Bend Road, Williamsburg departed this life on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington. She was born on September 6, 1941 in Williamsburg to the late Steve Lawson and Cecile Lawson. She was also preceded in...\nRaymond Malicoat\nRaymond Malicoat, 74, of the Wolf Creek Community of Whitley County, passed away Monday, October 1, 2018 at Baptist Health of Corbin. He was born on June 20, 1944 to the late Larkin Thomas Malicoat and Sally (Sawyers) Malicoat in Clairfield, TN. He was the grandson of the late...\nJohn Angel, 79, of Newcomb, TN went to be with The Lord on Wednesday, October 4, 2018 at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, TN. John was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years Iris Angel; parents, Marion Alford Smiddy and Betty Ellen Murray Smiddy; sister, Vina Sue...\nJerry Wayne Hollars\nJerry Wayne Hollars, 69, of Fairview, went to be with the Lord on Saturday October 6, 2018 at the Jellico Community Hospital with his wife by his side. Jerry worked at the Jellico Community Hospital in the Radiology Department for 21 years and was very dedicated to his job. Jerry...\nDarrell Ball, 67, of Rockholds, departed this life on Sunday, October 7, 2018, at the Greg and Noreen Wells Hospice Center of Hazard. Born June 13, 1951, Darrell was the son of the late Eldon and Dorothy (Parrett) Ball. Darrell was a retired shift supervisor of 31 years for CTA...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theplancollection.com/bonus-room-house-plans", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5JPEVM2R4DJA544YZCWXRL2766SYKOX6", "length": 2546, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.theplancollection.com", "title": "House Plans with Bonus Room - The Plan Collection", "raw_content": "Home > Collection > Floor Plans by Feature > Bonus Room House Plans\nFeatured Home with Bonus Room\nThis enchanting ranch style home with Craftsman detailing (Plan #117-1107) has 1848 square feet of living space. The 2-story floor plan includes 3 bedrooms ...\nHomeowners looking to account for unforeseen space needs often turn to bonus room house plans, as they are a flexible and affordable way to plan for the future. As the name implies, bonus room plans offer a multipurpose room that has no limitations, making the expandable house plans a great choice for anyone who wants to make sure that their family doesn\u2019t grow out of the home too quickly. Bonus rooms are separate from bedrooms and general living spaces, so homeowners don\u2019t have to worry about making compromises to accommodate their needs, such as giving up one of the...\nHomeowners looking to account for unforeseen space needs often turn to bonus room house plans, as they are a flexible and affordable way to plan for the future. As the name implies, bonus room plans offer a multipurpose room that has no limitations, making the expandable house plans a great choice for anyone who wants to make sure that their family doesn\u2019t grow out of the home too quickly. Bonus rooms are separate from bedrooms and general living spaces, so homeowners don\u2019t have to worry about making compromises to accommodate their needs, such as giving up one of the kid\u2019s rooms to make space for a storage area.\nOne of the reasons these plans are so versatile is that they make use of the house\u2019s existing layout to add the room in unobtrusively. One of the most common layouts for bonus rooms involves placing it on top of the garage, either connected to the main house on the second floor or through its own entryway in the home floor plan or the garage itself. Another frequent choice is to place the bonus room within a finished basement, as this allows the owners to create larger spaces without having to deal with the complications that can come from working with a two-story home.\nBecause the room doesn\u2019t take away from the main floor plan of the home, it\u2019s possible to add on or modify the extra room later on in the construction process. This works out great for homeowners with a tight budget or who are still working out the exact purpose of the room. Many homeowners choose bonus room house plans because they can turn the space into a home office, exercise space, extra bedroom(s), or playroom for the kids.\nTake a look through our bonus room floor plans and plan for your future needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 10023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theresumecenter.com/careers-advice/interview-preparation-help/psychometric-testing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:59:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WBL43RMKVG5K4RHHX3BO6W4Q4LPAJD2Q", "length": 6002, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theresumecenter.com", "title": "Psychometric Testing - Interview Preparation Help - Careers Advice - The Resume Center", "raw_content": "Psychometric Testing - A The Resume Center Guide\nWhat Are Psychometric Tests?\nPsychometric Tests have been developed as a means of assessing an individual's character and abilities and are often used by employers to ensure that a candidate is suitable for a specific role. They are becoming increasingly popular during the recruitment process either in the initial stages, where it is necessary to whittle down a large number of applicants, or in the latter stages to finalise the decision. Employers can use generalised psychometric tests or they can even use tests that are specifically tailored towards assessing suitability for a particular role. For example, an administrator would need to be able to demonstrate organisational skills, efficiency and good written communication skills and a psychometric test could be developed to assess these particular attributes.\nWhat Are The Popular Types of Psychometric Tests?\nThe most frequent kinds of psychometric tests that are given to candidates measure cognitive abilities, e.g. numerical and verbal reasoning tests. There are also other kinds of tests which are administered, but not as frequently, such as logical reasoning, spatial reasoning and diagrammatic reasoning tests. In addition, many test batteries evaluate personality traits and decision making, e.g. personality questionnaires and SJTs. Popular publishers of these tests are SHL, Kenexa, Saville, Talent Q and Cubiks.\nPractice numerical, verbal reasoning, logical reasoning and personality tests.\nAnother example of a psychometric test commonly used in the recruitment process is a DISC Profile. A simple questionnaire is completed, the results of which can provide an employer with an insight into an individual's approach to work, their motivation and their strengths or weaknesses. This information can then be used to make an assumption as to how a person will respond in a particular situation.\nThe Myers Briggs Type Indicator is another popular psychometric test that assesses an individual\u2019s personality by distinguishing between:\nJudging and Perceiving\nThere are 16 different personality types that can be determined by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator based on the differing preference levels of the above factors.\nMany people are now using psychometric tests to help them to identify what career path they are ideally suited to. Schools and colleges commonly encourage students to complete a Morrisby Profile, a specific psychometric test designed to assess your abilities, work style and key talents before matching these to a list of the most appropriate jobs accordingly.\nThere are two specific types of assessment that make up a standard psychometric test:\nAn aptitude test does not necessarily assess your skills or experiences in a particular area but is rather a judge of your potential to undertake certain activities. Based on the results of an aptitude test, an employer can ascertain whether or not you will be capable of performing the tasks involved in a particular role. Perhaps the most common aptitude tests are those which assess numerical reasoning and verbal skills.\nNumerical tests are normally based on your ability to apply basic mathematical principles including calculations, identifying sequences and patterns and thinking logically. You can help to prepare yourself for numerical reasoning tests by practising basic sums without using a calculator, reciting times tables and completing number puzzles.\nVerbal tests can include an assessment of your spelling, language comprehension and grammar. You may well be required to identify synonyms, antonyms or analogies or to provide the missing word from a sentence. Crosswords and other word games or puzzles are an ideal way of preparing for verbal tests.\nPractice aptitude tests by clicking here\nOnce it has been ascertained whether or not you are capable of performing a role, a personality questionnaire can be used to indicate if your personal characteristics are actually suited to the position. There is a real danger that significant differences between your personality traits and those of the people you will be working with can cause conflict and result in under-performance, poor motivation and general unhappiness in the workplace.\nPossibly the most important advice for the completion of a personality questionnaire is to make sure that the responses you give are totally honest. It can be tempting to try to give the responses that you think the employer is looking for, even if this is not actually an accurate representation of your character. However, there really are no right or wrong answers in a personality questionnaire and, if you are called for interview, you will need to be able to demonstrate the personality traits that you claimed to possess in the questionnaire. Sometimes, a personality questionnaire may even pose very similar questions that are worded slightly different just to try to catch out people that may be attempting to portray a false representation of their character. Ultimately, it is to your benefit to be honest when completing a personality questionnaire otherwise you may end up in a role that you are just not suited to.\nIn general, psychometric tests should be approached calmly and rationally - remember that there will not be any \"trick\" questions so, quite often, the answer that seems the most obvious is indeed the correct one. You can prepare yourself by making sure that you have a good sleep the night before and, while making sure that you remember to eat breakfast to boost your energy levels, avoid drinking too much coffee as this may have an adverse effect on your responses. Listen carefully to any instructions that you are given before the test and make sure that you read each question carefully. Finally, remember that you will not be tested under circumstances that are any different from other people completing the tests so your chances of success are just as good as anybody else's.\nPractice psychometric tests by clicking here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 8406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesouthafrican.com/journalists-cricket-australia-scuffle-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:26:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NPPPNQHTFIKGLWX7HT3TBV2IO56MCKBK", "length": 2827, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thesouthafrican.com", "title": "Journalists clash during a Cricket Australia press conference [video]", "raw_content": "Watch: Journalists clash during a Cricket Australia press conference [video]\nAussie heads are falling off.\nChip le Grand and Tony Tardio get into a scuffle at James Sutherland's press conference\nThe heat of battle seems to have thoroughly rattled the Australians. After the tourists were caught blatantly cheating at Newlands on Saturday, a Cricket Australia press conference then ended in acrimony.\nThe world of sport hasn\u2019t been able to take its eyes off Cape Town, after Cameron Bancroft used a yellow object (which he later identified as \u201ctape\u201d) to try and change the condition of the ball in the third Test \u2013 one of cricket\u2019s most cardinal sins.\nCricket Australia CEO James Sutherland was addressing the media from Melbourne, to give the ruling body\u2019s official stance on the grand-scale scandal. Sutherland stated CA were \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d with what they\u2019ve seen.\nCricket Australia CEO James Sutherland on ball tampering:\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very sad day for Australian cricket. One of the unique things about the game of cricket is that it\u2019s to be played not only within the laws of the game but in the spirit of the game.\u201d\n\u201cAnd activities on the field yesterday in Cape Town are neither within the laws of the game or within the laws of the game or within the spirit of the game. And for us at Cricket Australia that\u2019s extremely disappointing, but more importantly for Australian cricket fans it\u2019s extremely disappointing as well.\u201d\n\u201cIt will be dealt with promptly, we will work very hard over the next couple of days to get to the bottom of it, to understand the big picture, to understand the detail and to be making further comment on that in due course.\u201d\nJournalists caught up in a scuffle\nSutherland was visibly emotional during his speech. But those tangible feelings of anger and hurt went on to manifest themselves physically, as two local journalists ended up rowing with each other and getting into a scuffle.\nChip le Grand of The Australian in Melbourne appears to shove Tony Tardio of 3AW, following a heated exchange between the pair. The reporters are then separated before anything could escalate further.\nThis is James Sutherland\u2019s press conference. 2 journalist get into a fight. Accurately reflects the state of this series #SAvAus pic.twitter.com/PGidDNCnGI\n\u2014 Hashim\u2019s Mighty Beard (@CricFan2000) March 25, 2018\nWhat has happened during the SA vs Australia series?\nThe circus surrounding this current series shows no signs of leaving town anytime soon. We\u2019ve had everything from contentious sledging to celebrations that have riled up the opposition.\nIt was perhaps only a matter of time before something extreme happened. The fallout from this is going to be huge. It\u2019s now up to the Proteas to lead the way, and show the Aussies how to turn on the style without having to cheat.\nTags: AustraliaSteve Smith", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2011/02/mega-update-5-simon-and-schuster.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:MZIQF7RWWI5J2LEBWXR5SPKYRJMCHDI3", "length": 7904, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.thetrekcollective.com", "title": "The Trek Collective: Mega update #5: Simon and Schuster", "raw_content": "Lots has been going on in the past few months from the various Simon and Schuster imprints that now deliver us new Trek prose:\nAll four books of the Typhon Pact series are now available. Since my last updates there are now excerpts up for the last three books in the series on Simon and Schuster's website: Seize the Fire, Rough Beasts of Empire, and Paths of Disharmony. You can also find and excerpt from the latest Myriad Universes book, Infinity's Prism, which was released at the end of last year.\nAlso already out is the second book in the new Starfleet Academy series, The Edge. The cover was released on startrek.com before publication, and looks like this:\nThe next book in the series, out in April, now has a title: The Gemini Agent, and has apparently been pushed back from April to June release date, if the listing on Simon and Schuster's website is accurate. Correspondingly the listing on Simon and Schuster's online catalogue for the as yet untitled fourth book in the series notes a September publication date, moved from the initial May listing.\nThe Simon and Schuster catalogue has also been updated with new (preliminary) covers and blurbs for several forthcoming books:\nDTI: Watching the Clock is on its second stand-in cover, but according to Christopher L. Bennett on his blog not the final. This version is apparently an element of the final cover though, and is a rendition of the clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory:\nBennett also talks a bit about his work on the novel on his blog; have a read.\nThe next Voyager relaunch book, Children of the Storm, has a new cover and blurb:\nIn the aftermath of Destiny, the third novel in the Voyager series that takes original characters\u2014and all new ones\u2014into the Star Trek universe.\nThree Federation starships\u2014the Quirinal, Planck and Demeter \u2014have mysteriously vanished, and a contingency plan is developed for the crew to search for the missing ships. An unknown alien race who call themselves the Children of the Storm is at fault, announcing to the Federation that they do not negotiate with destroyers of worlds\u2014and it is not the Borg being referenced, but the Federation itself!\nSo does the next Vanguard book, the anthology, Declassified:\nIn this fifth Vanguard novel, the stakes are raised for all those embroiled in the mystery of the Taurus Reach.\nFour great Alpha Quadrant superpowers\u2014the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Tholian Assembly, and the Romulan Star Empire\u2014have all taken tremendous risks in their race to learn and control the ancient technologies of the interstellar hegemons known as the Shedai. Go back into prehistory and see the reign of the Shedai as it really was; follow journalist Tim Pennington as he investigates the most bizarre story of his career; see how the Cold War of the original Star Trek era plays out between two groups of colonists; and get a glimpse of the lighter side of life aboard Starbase 47\u2026.\nThis cover has been confirmed as not final, owing to being too similar to previous covers in the series according to the author Dayton Ward. You can see a larger version of the unused cover art on the artist, Doug Drexler's, blog.\nThe TOS novel A Choice of Catastrophes too has a new cover and blurb:\nAn all-new novel based on Star Trek: The Original Series\u2014one of the most popular television series of all time!\nIt is mid-2268. The Enterprise, under the command of Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, is returning from a mission to deliver medical supplies to one of Starfleet\u2019s most distant installations. All is routine until the Enterprise comes within a light-year of the planet Mu Arigulon; the ship is suddenly thrown from warp and suffers a momentary power cut. There\u2019s only one injury\u2014a minor one, and the Enterprise is again underway. Before the ship can reach full speed, it hits another distortion, this one much worse. There are a few more physical injuries, but what\u2019s more worrying is an officer that\u2019s entered into a coma\u2026for no apparent reason.\nThe ever impressive Unreality SF also recently posted an interview with the authors, Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster, who describe the books plot as follows:\nWhile McCoy has to find a way to save the lives of a handful of people that have inexplicably fallen into a coma as well as the lives of everybody aboard the Enterprise when the ship is threatened by a destructive space phenomenon, Kirk et al. are exploring a mysterious planet that seems abandoned by the civilisation it was once inhabited by. What they discover is a terrible crime in progress, and they will need all their skills to put a stop to it and capture the perpetrators before they escape.\nMollmann and Schuster also revealed the book was initially pitched as a potential new movie timeline novel, with the idea in mind it could be tailored to either timeline, as is the case with it eventually falling into the prime timeline. They also offered a summary of a story that is from another timeline, Tears of Eridanus, their story in the recently released new Myriad Universes anthology. The point of divergence in this story is:\n...the death of an obscure young computer scientist called Surak who died in a surprise terrorist attack. Consequently, his place in history is empty, but it is soon occupied by somebody else who will be familiar to readers of certain Vulcan-related novels. The result is that the planet is embroiled in a millennia-long period of clan warfare, preventing its people from shaping and affecting interstellar affairs as they did in the \u2018original\u2019 universe.\nThe lack of Vulcans to vie with the Andorians causes a lot of changes in \u2018Federation\u2019 history, and the lack of Romulans to vie with the Klingons certainly has some major repercussions too!\nThe authors talk extensively about these two stories and their previous Trek offerings in the Unreality SF interview.\nFinally the online catalogue also gives us a new cover and blurb for the post-The Undiscovered Country novel, Cast No shadows. Which the author James Swallow has also posted on his blog, albeit with this longer version of the blurb:\nThe year is 2300, and seven years have passed since the events of the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. A space station orbiting the Klingon colony Da'Kel is being used as a staging area to undo the disastrous fallout from the destruction of Praxis. With the help of aid supplies from the United Federation of Planets, reconstruction is in progress\u2013but the peace process begun by the Khitomer Accords is still fragile.\nUnknown to either the Federation or Klingon representatives warily watching one another over Da'Kel's skies, a third group is plotting. Unnoticed by security, a civilian transport ship with a skeleton crew docks at the station. The ship transmits an ancient Klingon proverb\u2013\"Traitors cast no shadow\"\u2013before destroying itself in a massive blast of subspace energy that obliterates the space station.\nMeanwhile, light years away in a Starfleet penal complex, former officer Valeris is in counselling with her Betazoid therapist. But the process is proving difficult, as Valeris refuses to let down her defenses. She has little hope of ever regaining her freedom or returning to her native Vulcan; guilty of murder and treason against the Federation, she believes she will never be able to go home again. An observer has also been watching - none other than Spock himself, recently retired from Starfleet service and now a representative of the Federation Diplomatic Corps. Spock has come to Jaros II to see Valeris because he believes he is to blame for failing to prevent her attack. He is as marked by that incident as Valeris, carrying the guilt of what he was forced to do...\nThe novel has also been moved forward, from October to August.\nLabels: anthologies, art, blurbs, covers, DS9, Myriad Universes, new-TOS, novels, nuTrek, prose, Starfleet Academy, The Typhon Pact, Titan, TNG, TOS, Vanguard, Voyager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 18500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thevrara.com/blog2/2018/1/16/the-vrar-global-summit-to-take-place-in-vancouver-hosted-by-the-vrar-association", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:25Z", "digest": "sha1:W775HXVTGPYL54ZJC6XHIEBEDQCXG2M7", "length": 3853, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.thevrara.com", "title": "The VR/AR Global Summit to take place in Vancouver in Sept, hosted by the VR/AR Association \u2014 VR/AR Association - The VRARA", "raw_content": "Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Jan 16, 2018 - Today the VR/AR Association (VRARA) announced their first annual Global Summit, to be held in Vancouver Canada in September 2018. The VR/AR Global Summit brings together world leaders in the space of VR/AR/MR to discuss the present and future of immersive technologies.\n\u201cThe VR/AR Global Summit continues the mission of the VR/AR Association of facilitating growth, knowledge and connections across the globe, and across industry verticals for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. The growing VRARA member base and thousands of registered companies have been asking for this type of interactive and innovative conference,\u201d said Nathan Pettyjohn, Founder and President of the VR/AR Association.\nVancouver is one of the most vibrant Chapters of the Association, and a hub for tech innovation; It\u2019s the #1 Startup Ecosystem in Canada and #15 Startup Ecosystem Globally. With its strong history in film, gaming and VFX (it\u2019s a #1 Global VFX & Animation Cluster), Vancouver's VR/AR/MR scene is on a trajectory to rival other world class tech hubs. Vancouver boasts amazing talent in the VR/AR/MR space across the verticals. It\u2019s the #2 Best City for Asia Pacific Business.\n\u201cVR/AR Global Summit is designed to bring together both industry leading solution providers as well as the brands and companies looking to deploy these types of technologies to improve and enhance their business. In addition to enterprise, we also have an exciting gaming and entertainment program at Global Summit\u201c says Kris Kolo, Global Executive Director, VRARA.\nVancouver is consistently voted as one of the world's Most Liveable cities, it\u2019s rich with natural beauty, surrounded by ocean, mountains and rainforest. It is easily accessible by flight - only 2.5 hours from San Francisco.\n\u201cVancouver is a global hub for immersive technologies that boasts over 160 companies working directly in the VR/AR/MR space, plus is a dynamic part of Cascadia, that encompasses the Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland communities. I am very excited to work with such an amazing organization as the VRARA to produce this event. This will be the largest, and best show of its kind in Canada,\u201d says Anne-Marie Enns, Executive Producer of the VR/AR Global Summit.\nThe VR/AR Global Summit fills an opportunity to continue the momentum of the CVR/Vu conference formerly held in Vancouver. \u201cArchiact started CVR in 2016, and recently rebranded to Vu: Defy Reality. We had a big vision for CVR/Vu and we knew its mission was broader and grander than Archiact. Now the event has reached this point, and we are happy to hand it off to VRARA, who have renamed it VR/AR Global Summit. We know that the VRARA can take it to the next level, which is bringing together people who are passionate about VR & AR, and accelerating global adoption across many business sectors. Best of luck to the VR/AR Global Summit in 2018 and all the coming years!\u201d, says Derek Chen, President of Archiact.\nThe VR/AR Global Summit will take place September 21-22, 2018 in Vancouver Canada.\nFor press inquiries or for more information please visit the website at http://www.thevrara.com/vr-ar-global-summit\nVRARA\nKris Kolo, Global Executive Director\nkris@thevrara.com\nAnne-Marie Enns, Executive Producer\nam@thevrara.com\nAbout the VR/AR Association (VRARA)\nThe VRARA is an international is an international organization designed to foster collaboration between innovative companies and people in the VR and AR ecosystem that accelerates growth, fosters research and education, helps develop industry standards, connects member organizations and promotes the services of member companies. VRARA has over 4,000 companies registered, over 50 chapters globally, and 20 industry committees.\nTagged: Events, VR, AR\nWhy 2018 is going to be the year of VR/AR in Vancouver", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 6857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/canadian-fishing-trip-recap", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:XZ3DHKXPNB75ON53T3TPHAOW52VMT5MT", "length": 2961, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thingelstad.com", "title": "Canadian Fishing Trip Recap - thingelstad.com", "raw_content": "Canadian Fishing Trip Recap\nA few weeks ago I went on a fishing trip into Canada with my three brother-in-laws and our father-in-law, Don, as well as his brother, Roger, his son and son-in-laws and oldest grandson. The 10 of us adventured up into the wilderness to catch huge Northern Pike and Walleye. Don and Roger have been on these trips a few times before, they make it an annual thing, and thought it would be a good idea to have the extended family go together. It was a really great trip with 5 days of non-stop fishing. Thanks to Don and Roger for making this trip happen!\nI caught a ton of fish. I grew up in North Dakota fishing on the shore. To me, fishing always meant getting up way too early, driving too far, sitting on the shore with way too much sun, and not catching any fish. Not exactly the best of times. We fished the Chipai Lake for five days and the only way you got downtime was if you weren\u2019t fishing. If your line was in the water you were probably getting a fish. I didn\u2019t keep really close count, but I know I caught over 10 fish a day. And the smallest of these fish rivaled the biggest of any other fish I had ever caught.\nI really enjoyed this trip in part because it was something outside of my normal zone. I\u2019ll admit to being a bit worried about handling these big northerns. I was a bit worried about my boat skills. But everything came together well and we had a really good time. It was fun to get to know my brother-in-laws better, especially the guys on the other side of the family. I have never been in that remote of a location before. We were completely off the grid. There was no cellular service. No phone service at all. Any electricity was provided by a couple of small solar panels and a generator that you could start as needed. The cabin did have a shower, and gas range and refrigerator. But being that far out of communication was new to me. That\u2019s the longest I\u2019ve ever been off of the Internet since college.\nEach day had a regular pattern to it. We got up around 6:00 am and were in the boats by 7am. We\u2019d have a big breakfast at 10am, and a big dinner at 5pm. All the boats would be out on the water for three sessions a day: 7-9:30a, 11-4pm and 6-9pm. We rarely saw the night. The sun didn\u2019t go down until around 11 and rose about 4am. We ate walleye every night. That was our only real job, each morning on the first session out each boat was to bring in a couple walleye to eat. They were freshly fileted, battered and fried up. Even after 4 nights of Walleye, it still tasted great.\nI have over 800 pictures from the trip, but this collection of about 80 is a nice recap.\n24\u2033 iMac in the House 5 months ago I said goodbye to my iMac G5 and sent it on to live happily with my sister. After it departed the MacBook took it\u2019s place and started\nGot a Message While I was in Canada fishing I was without any means of communication. The only thing that would have worked was a satellite phone, and while I", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/339/break-up/prologue-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:33:16Z", "digest": "sha1:W6H3N4R7HO3EF6DJEQMOZHN7RIT6RV5H", "length": 871, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thisamericanlife.org", "title": "Prologue - This American Life", "raw_content": "Host Ira Glass talks with Lauren Waterman, who's in the middle of a break-up right now and grappling with totally contradictory feelings. She wants her boyfriend to call, but also\u2014maybe a little bit\u2014doesn't want him to call. She misses him and doesn't want to stop thinking about him...but also does all of this elaborate math to calculate the day she'll finally be over him. (5 minutes)\nAct Three: The Run\nDavid Kestenbaum retraces the steps of Steve Snyder, a man who found himself running for love.\nAct Four: You Had Me at Hello\nComedian Jillian Welsh tells Diane Wu about one of the most romantic\u2014and stressful\u2014nights of her life, a night that paralleled the plot of a rom-com in several ways.\nAct One: Meet Cute\nActor Daniel Radcliffe reads a short piece of fiction, \u201cThe Present,\u201d from Simon Rich\u2019s book of short stories \u201cThe Last Girlfriend on Earth.\u201d (10 minutes)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1560633/Snow-blow-to-Hughes-sales.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:WTN5DZRYVKFQPWW7NEK6S63IGM3RCNOC", "length": 686, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thisismoney.co.uk", "title": "Snow blow to Hughes sales | This is Money", "raw_content": "Snow blow to Hughes sales\nSnow across the Midlands and the North-West hit sales over the Christmas period at department store group TJ Hughes, chief executive George Foster has reported.\nThe Northern discount retailer said like-for-like sales were ahead 2.8% for the six weeks to last Saturday against a rise in the 23 weeks to 6 January of 3.6%.\nTotal sales in the second half of the year are 22% better. But snow, floods and petrol disputes hit the end-of-year sales push in the week between Christmas and New Year, said Foster.\nAlthough he reckoned that took two percentage points off comparative Christmas sales, it still compared favourably with last year's pre-millennium bonanza.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 11401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketluck.com/concert-tickets/A-Night-To-Remember/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TDMSPTYRSUW6RGHJEACZXWNH5D56Z53M", "length": 2402, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ticketluck.com", "title": "Cheap A Night To Remember Tickets", "raw_content": "Home Concerts Tickets Comedy A Night To Remember Tickets\nBuy All A Night To Remember Tickets\nAlthough we have run out of A Night To Remember Tickets, we would like to invite you to view tickets in the following places\nA Night To Remember Tickets Prices\nThe average A Night To Remember tickets will cost you $200 for the event being held on 27/07/2018 at Miller Symphony Hall, Allentown. The minimum get in price is $64 at Miller Symphony Hall.\nA Night to Remember Allentown 27-Jul-18 $200 $64\nDetails of A Night To Remember and the Ticket Luck value\nThis promises to be very melodious and nostalgic ride into the past. A Night To Remember tickets bring to you one classic event where the music of four of the world's biggest name in the world of American music will be revived by talented musicians. Collectively these four artists have sold millions of albums all over the world and have got a number of chart topping hits to their names. This is one night that you will not forget for many years to come so quickly get A Night to Remember tickets.\nA Night to Remember is a musical concert giving tribute to four great singers namely Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny cash and Carl Perkins. The history about this melodious event goes to back to the year 1956. On December 4th an impromptu jam session took place at the renowned Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. This session is more famously known as the Million Dollar Quartet. Carl Perkins was recording a song in Sun Studio when Elvis Presley dropped by to meet someone. He heard Perkins singing so joined him in the recording room followed by Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis joining in.\nThis impromptu jam session was recorded at the spot and often termed as one of the best of its kind. A Night to Remember surely reminds the listeners of this great million dollar quartet jam session that went on for the whole day with Presley, Cash, Lewis and Perkins collaborating and making music.\nA Night to Remember is one musical experience that all rock and roll and country music lovers simply cannot afford to miss. You certainly have a huge collection of songs of these four singers but for a real tuneful experience so you should come and watch this concert which will be a tribute to these great artists. Tickets to this event are finally on sale now so you should purchase A Night to Remember tickets now.\nView All A Night To Remember Tickets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeout.com/leeds/music/chic-ft-nile-rogers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:11:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6FHRKUOJOCFM2WTEX6FHYPRFG442B2TC", "length": 666, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.timeout.com", "title": "Chic ft. Nile Rogers | Music in Leeds", "raw_content": "Chic ft. Nile Rogers\nEverybody Dance and get ready for the Good Times as the brilliant CHIC featuring Nile Rogers release their first single in 23 years.\nAs one of disco's most commercially successful bands of all time, CHIC featuring Nile Rogers should need no introduction - and let's face it, nor should its new tour need much by means of promotion.\nSet up by guitarist Nile Rogers and bassist Bernard Edwards in 1976, the group returns to the stage in support of their first single in 23 years, I'll Be There, complete with a show that will no doubt be the most fun you've ever had.\nhttp://www.o2academyleeds.co.uk/event/74610/chic-featuring-nile-rodgers-tickets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/08/22/jack/591672001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:30:56Z", "digest": "sha1:D3XXDR5HMQPPNLLL2XYJE3JXITYXTZZZ", "length": 4068, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.timesrecordnews.com", "title": "Antiquities & Interiors' Patty Nabors exhibiting her artwork at Forum", "raw_content": "Nabors' art: It's a circus in there\nThe work of Patty Nabors is being exhibited at the Forum\nNabors' art: It's a circus in there The work of Patty Nabors is being exhibited at the Forum Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: http://wtrne.ws/2xqeCxZ\nRichard Carter, Special to the Times Record News Published 4:45 p.m. CT Aug. 22, 2017 | Updated 2:46 p.m. CT Aug. 25, 2017\nPatty Nabors\u2019 \u201cThe Ringmaster\u201d is one of 14 mixed media works in her first solo exhibit at The Forum. The show runs through Oct. 16.(Photo11: Contributed)\nEverything in the world is so serious, said painter Patty Nabors, who believes people would be better served with a bit of laughter, hence her new art show at the Forum.\nGrowing up in Santa Fe, \u201cArt was kind of ingrained in us,\" Nabors said. \"When I started school, I won an art contest with a painting, and they put it in an art gallery. That was my dream to grow up and be an artist and have my paintings exhibited somewhere. And years later, here I am.\u201d\nNabors will have her first solo show of 14 mixed media paintings at The Galleria at the Forum through Oct.16.\nAn artist when she has time, Nabors runs an interior design business and owns and operates Antiquities & Interiors with her husband, Jerry, who himself just had a solo art show at the Kemp Center for the Arts' NorthLight Gallery in 2016.\nEven though she wanted to become an artist at an early age, she didn\u2019t major in art in college.\n\u201cI went to OU (the University of Oklahoma), and the art department there was pretty wild and crazy, so I chose to go the business direction with my interior design. I still did a lot of renderings and classes.\u201d\nNabors began painting about eight years ago, studying with Kaye Franklin and attending numerous workshops with major artists brought in by Jane Spears.\nHer first solo show does not have a name, but it does have a sort of circus theme.\n\u201cMaybe I wanted to run away and join the circus,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cI always said I am a bit of a schizophrenic painter. I like one thing one month and something else the next month. When I paint, I tend to paint in a series, and then I go on to something else.\u201d\nThe artworks are all mixed media.\n\"Because I don\u2019t have formal training, I am constantly trying new things, which other people with formal training would probably say, \u2018You can\u2019t do that.\u2019\u201d\nBecause of her background in faux finishing, she said she knows what will work together and what won\u2019t.\n\u201cI am not afraid of putting things together that a formally trained artist won\u2019t.\u201d\nAll of her paintings are on canvas, and ingredients include \u201cmainly acrylic and oil which I mix with oil, pastel, chalk and pastels, and pretty much anything I can get my hands on. I will draw with a watered-down acrylic to get a sketchy look.\u201d\n\"Texas Weather Changes (a Lot)\" is by Patty Nabors, whose work is on display at the Forum, 2120 Speedway. (Photo11: Contributed)\nIn addition to circus performers, other figures occupy her paintings, such as a jack-in-the-box, which is a play on businessmen.\n\"It\u2019s got a businessman with his coat and tie on, but he\u2019s the jack-in-the-box.\u201d\nA lot of her work is tongue-in-cheek.\n\u201cThere\u2019s one with a snake oil salesman with a snake for a necktie - a sort of shady business guy.\u201d\nMost of her paintings are figural, she said, but there are abstracts, such as \u201cTexas Weather Changes (A Lot).\u201d\n\u201cPainting is a relaxing thing for her,\" she said. \u201cThis show was good for me because it forced me to devote more time to painting.\u201d\nThe work was painted over a three-month period, and none have been shown before. Nabors has exhibited her pieces previously in a group show at her store.\nShe\u2019s studied art history and likes many forms of art.\n\u201cSince we moved into a contemporary house four years ago, I have enjoyed the more contemporary artists since then.\u201d\nWhat: Patty Nabors art exhibit\nWhere: The Galleria at the Forum, 2120 Speedway Ave.\nWhen: Exhibit runs through Oct. 16. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.\nRead or Share this story: http://wtrne.ws/2xqeCxZ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 5961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 222.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/illinois-man-faces-hate-crime-charges-after-incident-with-woman-wearing-puerto-rico-flag-shirt", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6FUBKEUDWI55LDM2RM5YQ6KLIIGZC2JJ", "length": 6682, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.tmj4.com", "title": "Illinois man faces hate crime charges after incident with woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt", "raw_content": "Illinois man faces hate crime charges after incident with woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt\nBy: Amanda Jackson, Faith Karimi\n(CNN) -- An Illinois man accused of harassing a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt at a Chicago-area park was charged Thursday with state hate crimes, authorities said.\nProsecutors filed the two Class 3 felony hate crime charges against Timothy G. Trybus, Cook County state's attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said.\nTrybus could face up to five years in prison for each of the hate crime charges. He has a bail hearing Friday afternoon in Skokie, Illinois.\nVIDEO: Armed Robber Caught On Camera At Greenfield George Webb\nHe also faces separate charges of assault and disorderly conduct after the June 14 incident involving Mia Irizarry that was recorded on video.\nHe will go to court August 1 to face those charges.\nTrybus will be represented by a public defender, but one has not been assigned to him yet, the public defender's office said.\nCNN has attempted to reach Trybus for comment.\nOfficer resigns\nA parks officer has resigned after being criticized for not intervening during last month's 14 incident. which was caught on video at a northwestern Chicago park.\nIn the video, Irizarry pleads for help as a man harasses her and says her shirt is un-American. The officer initially appears to ignore the pleas.\nIrizarry said she was celebrating her 24th birthday at Caldwell Woods park when the man approached her and asked her why she was wearing the sleeveless Puerto Rico flag shirt. It also had \"Puerto Rico\" written below the neckline.\nOn Monday, Forest Preserves of Cook County, which administers the park, tweeted it was aware of the incident and video, and had launched an investigation.\nThe Cook County Forest Preserve District police officer, Patrick Connor, resigned Wednesday, and an investigation continues, the agency said.\nAn attorney for the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council, which is representing Connor, said that the video \"does not look good\" but cautioned that it may not tell the whole story.\n\"We don't know what was happening outside the video; we don't know what was going on inside his (Connor's) head at the time,\" the attorney, Tamara Cummings, said Thursday. \"He was looking forward to an opportunity to explain what was happening. However, given the media attention and pressure, he decided to resign.\n\"Given his decision to resign, he won't be offering any additional comment on what might have happened during this situation,\" she said. \"He's very distraught and not happy about having to leave employment much sooner than he intended, but because of the strong reaction from the public and political figures, he thought it would be unrealistic to stay as an officer.\"\nThe preserve district police chief, Kelvin Pope, said he didn't know why Connor apparently didn't step in initially.\nPope said that Connor feels \"he wasn't given a fair shake\" and that \"he was very remorseful.\" But the officer resigned before investigators could ask him what happened during a disciplinary hearing, Pope said at a news conference Thursday.\n\"(Connor's) personnel file will reflect that this officer did not resign in good standing, with a note indicating that he left the district with discipline pending,\" said Arnold Randall, the park agency's general superintendent.\nCall for hate crime charges\nCook County Commissioner Jes\u00fas \"Chuy\" Garc\u00eda had called for hate crimes charges against Trybus.\n\"A charge for simple assault or disorderly conduct is not sufficient,\" Garc\u00eda said. \"We cannot allow that ugly rhetoric to be the norm in Cook County.\"\nRandall, the forest preserves superintendent, said his agency has apologized to Irizarry and refunded the money she had paid for a permit to gather at a picnic table area on the day of the incident.\nHe said his agency would re-examine diversity training for its officers and other employees.\n\"It's up to each and every one of us to present a better model to demonstrate with our own actions how to treat each other with more respect,\" he told reporters Thursday. \"We might start with the fine example presented by Mia Irizarry and her family, who handled this ugly incident with great composure, never stooping to the level of the man who attacked her.\"\nIn the footage, a man can be seen approaching Irizarry saying: \"You should not be wearing that in the United States of America.\" He gets closer to her and asks \"Are you a citizen? Are you a United States citizen?\"\nIrizarry says Puerto Rico is part of the United States and the man approaches her multiple times. She asks a park police officer to help, saying, \"I am renting this area and he's harassing me about the shirt that I'm wearing.\"\nLater she says: \"Officer, I feel entirely uncomfortable, can you remove ... please officer\" as the officer is seen walking away from her.\nThen she says: \"Officer, I'm renting, I paid for a permit for this area. I do not feel comfortable with him here, is there anything you can do?\"\nDecision 2018: Who Do You Think Won The Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial Debate?\nThe officer can then be seen talking to the man who gesticulates back and tells him to \"shut the f*** up.\"\nMore police arrive and Irizarry says she still doesn't feel safe. The man resumes his abuse, saying: \"You're not American, if you were American you wouldn't wear that. You know that right?\"\nA female officer asks to see his ID and can be heard telling him that he's intoxicated, to which he replies, \"Well that's your judgment.\" She explains that Irizarry has a permit and she warns him he could be arrested \"for not being compliant.\"\n\"You don't come here harassing people,\" the officer continues. \"People have just as much right to be here as you and when you're drunk, you don't belong here.\"\nThe female officer then speaks with Irizarry, who gives her version of the incident, and the officer explains that they were called to the area after a report a man was choking a woman.\nEventually the first officer on the scene takes notes of Irizarry's account and says he was at the scene due to the separate incident, noting that she was not being attacked though acknowledging she felt threatened.\nIrizarry can be heard explaining to the officer that the incident began when she and others had asked the group the man was in if they could move as they had a permit for the area. She said the group politely complied but her Puerto Rico shirt appeared to act as a trigger to the man.\nPuerto Rico is a US commonwealth with its own constitution. Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since 1917 and have the right to vote in US presidential primaries but not in presidential elections.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 8603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tmz.com/2010/02/24/yung-berg-rapper-pistol-whip-victim/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ICINXURPPGMDSRK6232PP73COCF5DGMD", "length": 736, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tmz.com", "title": "Yung Berg: Pistol-Whip Victim | TMZ.com", "raw_content": "Yung Berg: Pistol-Whip Victim\nYung Berg -- the guy who rapped on the song \"Sexy Can I\" -- was violently beaten and robbed at a house in Los Angeles this weekend ... TMZ has learned.\nAccording to law enforcement sources, Berg -- real name Christian Ward -- was at a house party at around 2:00 AM Monday morning when four suspects entered the home and brandished firearms.\nWe're told the suspects pistol-whipped two people inside the party -- one of whom was Berg. Law enforcement sources say the suspects robbed eight people and made off with $10,000 in cash and jewelry.\nA rep for Yung Berg said his client \"has been in Vegas.\" When asked if Yung was in L.A. over the weekend -- the rep said he doesn't know anything about the incident.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tonyrobbins.com/ask-tony/cycle-of-meaning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRPKURMBFUYBSWGDLSDDCD4Q23VCG6UR", "length": 6397, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.tonyrobbins.com", "title": "Learn How to Gain Emotional Control, Read Now!", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Ask Tony \u00bb What does emotional control really take? How can I have a better reaction to the events in my life I cannot control?\nHow Can I Better Control My Emotions\nWhat you will learn from reading this article:\nYou cannot control everything that happens in your life, but you can control the meaning you attach to those events\nHow to slow down, unpack the cycle of meaning and learn to practice emotional control\nHow to let go of your expectations as a means of controlling your reactions\nHow to change your mood by looking at the meaning of events in a different way\nA formula for the complex cycle of meaning (Meaning = Emotion = Life)\nWhy is it that, as human beings, we react differently to the same events? Take your team losing an important game \u2013 some people are seemingly inconsolable, while others figure out what to improve before the next one. Or maybe you get stood up by a date or a friend. Are you angry, frustrated, amused or indifferent? Does it change your mood for the rest of the day or week? Are you able to let it go or do you hold a grudge?\nAll of this connects back to a core question: how do we make meaning of the world around us? Do we ever have any emotional control over what meaning we get, or are we locked into our current story forever? (Hint: it\u2019s not the second one.)\nHere we\u2019ll cover what makes up the cycle of meaning. When you\u2019re able to understand the steps that make you react and behave the way you do, then you\u2019re closer to creating lasting change in your life. Learning to control your reactions is just the first step to understanding how to control your emotions. So we\u2019ll slow down, unpack the cycle and look at ways to make meanings lift you up instead of drag you down.\nMeaning and control\nThere are plenty of things we can\u2019t control: the weather, our children, traffic, and love are just a few. But we can always control one thing: the meaning we take away from events. Meaning connects to our larger life blueprint; it\u2019s a way to either give up control of our lives or accept responsibility.\nFor example, let\u2019s take Tony inviting some of his friends to his place in Fiji. It\u2019s a lush, tropical paradise with sun and sand; but in order to be that green it rains a lot. So Tony\u2019s waiting for his friends to arrive and it\u2019s raining and he\u2019s stressed out. He wants everything to be perfect with the tide in and the sun shining. So he\u2019s miserable because what he thinks is supposed to be isn\u2019t; life doesn\u2019t match what he perceives as the ideal.\nHowever, what\u2019s really great about the rain in Fiji is that it\u2019s warm, not chilly. So when his friends arrive, they\u2019re having fun like little kids in the rain. It\u2019s a bunch of grownups running around and splashing. They\u2019re completely happy even if the place doesn\u2019t look like a postcard. So they\u2019ve gotten a completely different meaning out of the same occurrence. When you learn how to control emotions, you can derive more positive, productive meanings, even from seemingly negative events.\nEmotions, feelings and emotional control\nLet\u2019s stick with this Fiji example. What emotions are now flying around? We\u2019ve got Tony feeling upset because he believes he needs to create a certain kind of environment for his friends to be happy. He\u2019s not controlling his reactions. Instead, he\u2019s got an image of that ideal \u2014 sunny \u2014 and even though he knows that no one can control the weather, he\u2019s still frustrated. So instead of enjoying his friends, he\u2019s stuck in a bad mood. Then here are his friends. They\u2019re having a great time and are happy, even ecstatic. They\u2019re not at all disappointed, but maybe they\u2019re a little confused why Tony seems unhappy.\nSo even though everyone has the same stimulus (the rain), the meaning they\u2019ve attached to it has caused completely different emotional responses from the individuals within the group. The same process occurs throughout our lives. What can you do to regain emotional control? Change the meaning and you change the emotion. The reverse also holds true \u2014 change the emotion and you\u2019ll change the meaning.\nAnother key factor in the cycle of meaning is what words you use. What do you feel when someone says that you\u2019re mistaken? What about if they say \u201cYou\u2019re wrong.\u201d? Chances are that you don\u2019t feel very good, no matter your level of emotional control, and that\u2019s you just thinking about it, not it actually happening.\nIt\u2019s a small example, but it illustrates just how crucial words are to how we make meaning (and thus what we feel). This is why Tony has people think about the words they\u2019re in the habit of using, especially if they\u2019re trying to make major life changes. Simply put, whatever words you attach to your experience become your experience.\nActions and the formula that makes up our lives\nWhen you feel certain ways, you do certain things. Our patterns of behavior, from negative ones like smoking to positive ones like going to the gym, all stem from our desire to meet some of our six human needs, the meaning we\u2019ve assigned, and the feelings we have. The pattern then becomes our life story, what we tell ourselves about who we are and why we are that way. Instead of emotional control, we likely feel adrift and powerless.\nSo while we can\u2019t control the triggers we encounter in our lives, we can control the meanings we extract from the events that occur, therefore controlling our feelings and, more broadly, our lives. That\u2019s why if you\u2019re trying to make a change in your life, you have to examine what meanings you already have, then make up new ones. Emotional control is all about making the meaning you want. Otherwise you\u2019ll continue to repeat old patterns and not make any lasting change.\nWe can reduce the cycle of meaning\u2019s complexity to a single formula:\nMeaning = Emotion = Life\nSo if you\u2019re looking to change your mood, change the meaning you\u2019re taking from the triggering event. When you ask yourself, \u201cHow can I control my emotions?\u201d what you\u2019re really asking is, \u201cHow can I assign positive meaning to this event, instead of letting negative feelings linger?\u201d You have the power to shift your mindset and improve your life, because life is happening for you, not to you.\nReady to discover what motivates your every action?\nGain control of your emotions by uncovering the driving force behind your reactions. Take Tony Robbins\u2019 Driving Force quiz to find out which of the six human needs drives you.\nDiscover my driving need", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 8941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.toolkoo.com/how-to-build-kitchen-cabinet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SRCAHVPSIAOUM75SWCJYHMT53HIM7JOD", "length": 4816, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.toolkoo.com", "title": "How To Build Kitchen Cabinet", "raw_content": "When it comes to hands on projects involving power tools and building, a lot of people shy away from it because they don\u2019t know what they are doing or how to do it. However, this particular tutorial is going to make one of these things a lot easier for you. Building your kitchen cabinets is a great way to get what you want in your home and it gives you a sense of accomplishment! Below, you\u2019re going to learn everything there is to know about building your own cabinets so you can do so with ease!\nAs with just about any tutorial, it\u2019s important to make sure you have the right materials on hand so that you can successfully complete the job the right way. If you want to have the best results possible, you should make sure you have the following materials on hand during your project.\nTo begin, you need to make sure that you have all necessary power tools including a saw, drills, sander and some other high powered tools to make the entire process easier. Additionally, make sure you have the necessary safety supplies such as a mask and safety glasses. Lastly, be sure to have access to an entire tool kit in case you need it.\nThe first thing you need to do is have a design in mind so you know what you are trying to build. Make a detailed design along with plenty of measurements so you know what to aim for and cutting will be a breeze.\nCut Sides\nFirst, you a \u00be\u201d MDF or plywood to cut the side pieces you need for the cabinets. It doesn\u2019t need to be a great material so keep that in mind because people will not see the sides.\nThe bottom panel will be around 2 feet deep but the width might change depending on your design. The width of the bottom panel needs to equal the total width of the cabinet minus the two side panels.\nCut Two Base\nNext, cut two pieces of 1x6 wood and ensure it is the same width of the bottom panel. If you are making wall cabinets, you do not need this step and you can move onto the next one.\nCut Top Bracers\nNext, cut two more pieces of 1x6 wood to the same length. These particular pieces are going to be used to help brace the upper portion of the panels. Once again, if you are building wall cabinets, then you can skip this step as well and move to the next.\nCut Face Panels\nYou will see this part of the cabinet so make sure you use a wood that looks appealing to you. If you want to achieve a certain look, you can use a couple different sizes including 1x2s, 1x3s and 1x4s.\nNext, line up the flat face of a base panel to the back edge of the bottom panel and then the second base piece needs to be about three inches from the other end of the panel. You can then glue these pieces in place and drill pilot holes to secure the pieces together with screws.\nAdd Side Panels\nAttach the side panels you have to the base you just assemble with a glue and screw process. Make sure the base and all edges are flush and be sure you get the right and correct 90 degree.\nSecure Top Braces\nOnce again, you need to fit and glue the upper brace so that the flat pane is flush the back of the cabinet and can rest against the wall. Repeat this step on the other side for the next brace.\nNail Back Panel\nOnce you know the dimensions of the frame, cut a back panel from \u00bd\u201d plywood and screw it into place. If you are doing wall cabinets, you should use a thicker material around \u00be\u201d.\nReinforce Connections\nUsing corner brackets and screws, reinforce all of your connections within the cabinet.\nInsert Shelves\nMeasure both sides of the cabinet and mark on each side for your shelves. Measure and ensure they are level before installing for corner brackets, two on each side, for the selves to rest in. Slide the shelves in once this is done.\nFit And Attach\nMove the cabinets to their final place and secure them into the proper place by screwing them through the back panel and into the wall studs. If you are using wall cabinets, this step is crucial and needs a lot more support.\nUnless you happen to be remodeling a massive kitchen, the best thing for you to do is to just buy the doors to install. Follow the manufacturer's instructions and you\u2019ll be all set and ready to go.\nNow that you have taken the time to read this entire post, I hope you have had the chance to learn all there is to know about how to build a kitchen cabinet for your home! While it might be a lot more work than you thought, it is well worth it in the long run and you will feel that sense of accomplishment when you are finished with it! By following all of the information outlined above, you\u2019ll be able to build your own kitchen cabinets in no time! If you enjoyed this article, please feel free to share it with your friends and family and be sure to comment below with any comments or advice you might have!\nPrevious Post How To Build A Deck Next Post Best Benchtop Bandsaw Reviews \u2013 Complete Buying Guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.traka.com/en-us/site/traka-usa/usa-media/news-blog/2014/news/september-11th-remembrance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OHWJXOEAR5RXMGOQOUVU3UALSJMJPCOT", "length": 102, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.traka.com", "title": "\ufeff September 11th Remembrance", "raw_content": "Traka USA would like to take a moment to remember those that lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 66.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transcontinental.com.au/business/homewares-furniture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OH7ERFI4AJVY5QWVWTPQ7IHVZHQFWBSA", "length": 100, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.transcontinental.com.au", "title": "| The TranscontinentalLocal businesses in Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia | The Transcontinental", "raw_content": "Better Homes Supplies in Port Augusta has the largest range of hardware, building supplies, tiles...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 2877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trcmaine.org/news/memoriam?num=100382", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:28:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OHEUO6RFCTQN6WVU4EKR5G46K2YEXLB3", "length": 2074, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.trcmaine.org", "title": "In Memoriam | TRC", "raw_content": "David R. Leathers\nBROWNVILLE JCT. - David R. Leathers, 44, died unexpectedly Aug. 13, 2005. He was born in Fort Kent, Dec. 27, 1960, the son of John and Eleanor (Drummond) Leathers of Brownville Junction. David graduated from Penquis Valley High School in Milo, in 1979. He was employed by Eastern Maine Railway, working in several capacities over the years. He had worked as a railway trackman, carman, bridge and building foreman and railway train conductor. David was a busy man, a hard worker that always had several \"irons in the fire\". He enjoyed life immensely and was known by family, friends and co-workers for his loud and hearty laugh. He loved the outdoors, boating, hunting, fishing and especially snowmobiling with his brother-in-law, Bob. He leaves his parents, John and Ellie Leathers of Brownville Junction; sister and brother-in-law, Kathy and Bob Hogan of Sebec; his brother, John Leathers of Newburgh; his brother and sister-in-law, Rick and Gail Leathers of Medford. He was a much loved \"Uncle Davey\" to nephews, Justin Hogan of Portland, John Hogan of Sebec, Tucker Leathers of Medford, John O. Leathers II of Newburgh; and niece, Sara Kate Leathers of Newburgh; also many aunts, uncles, cousins and good friends. He will be especially missed by his very special friend, Michelle Herbest of Sangerville and his good friend and best buddy, Doug Willinski of Brownville Junction. Abiding by David's wishes, there will be no funeral. His family feels that he would encourage friends to attend the upcoming Eagles Tribute Band concert being held at the Big Pine Amphitheater at the \"Junction Store\", 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005, hosted by his good friends, the Belvin family. A memorial service is planned for a later date. If desired, contributions may be made in David's memory to the Heartwise Cardiac Rehab Program of Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft; the PCC Club of the Piscataquis Regional YMCA; or the charity of one's choice. Arrangements by Cremation Basics Inc., Bangor.\nPrevious: Harry W. Walton Memoriam Home\nNext: Gwendolyn M Hogan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/9-foods-restaurant-staff-avoid-ordering-when-theyre-out.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:40:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TK53N6YMGITJMWLCNKVCIHHLAZZW72ZR", "length": 4078, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.treehugger.com", "title": "9 foods that restaurant staff avoid ordering when they're out | TreeHugger", "raw_content": "9 foods that restaurant staff avoid ordering when they're out\nKnowing what goes on behind the scenes is a sure-fire way to ruin one's appetite.\nWhen it comes to knowing what to order at a restaurant, it makes sense to ask the experts -- the chefs and servers who spend their professional lives in those settings. They know how food is handled and prepared, and what's actually going on behind the scenes, so it's not surprising that they have pretty strong opinions on what not to order. You'll want to keep this advice in mind next time you're sitting down with a menu.\nThis is a common no-no across various forums that I read. Reasons range from boring (\"It's probably just on the menu as a crowd-pleaser for unadventurous eaters\") and overpriced, to concerns about how it was raised (\"The amount of chemicals in chicken just personally scares me. If the menu doesn't list the provenance of a chicken, don't order it unless you want a plate full of hormones and antibiotics\") and safety (often undercooked because \"either the kitchen was slammed or the cook was being lazy\").A better alternative to chicken is quail or guinea hen, which are less common and generally raised in less industrialized conditions.\n2. Seafood:\nUnless it's a restaurant that specializes in top-quality fresh seafood, you can't be guaranteed a good product. Anthony Bourdain famously once said that he'll never order fish on a Monday, since New York fish markets aren't open on Saturdays, which means that, in a best-case scenario, the fish was caught on Thursday. If you live far from the ocean, you could be dealing with this problem on a regular basis.\nAnother issue is sourcing, as seafood is notoriously mislabeled. Ocean conservation group Oceana says that up to 44 percent of seafood is labeled incorrectly, which means you're not getting what you think, and you could be supporting illegal fishing of at-risk species.\n3. Beer on tap:\nI've heard this before from acquaintances, that the tap lines are rarely cleaned in restaurants. One server is quoted in Food & Wine: \"No one cleans the fountain, and it usually has mildew festering in it.\" Getting bottled beer is a safer bet.\n4. Soup of the day:\nSoup is either yesterday's leftovers or an afterthought designed to be a cheap lunch item. From Food and Wine:\n\"I learned how to make soups in culinary school, and you can tell the difference between a crappy, hastily-thrown-together soup, and one that is mindful. The former is what I realized I was getting most of the time, because a lot of normal restaurants just see it as a side dish or a cheap lunch item.\"\n5. Anything that isn't the restaurant's specialty:\nUnless you have no other dietary options, it's generally wise to stick with ordering what the restaurant is good at making.\n\"If it's a burger joint, I'll probably order a burger, not a chicken wrap. Don't send the kitchen into a frenzy because they can't remember how to prepare your food.\"\n6. Special of the day:\nIt's usually made with the oldest ingredients that need to be used up the fastest. (Although, from TreeHugger's anti-food-waste standpoint, that sounds like a noble and worthwhile accomplishment!)\n7. Anything you can make easily at home:\nEating out should be a chance to enjoy dishes you wouldn't normally prepare, or that are prepared using premium ingredients you wouldn't get, i.e. a pasta dish should be made from fresh house-made pasta because you can boil the dried stuff anytime.\n8. House wine:\nThe consensus seems to be that it's a rip-off. \"If you order the house wine, you're drinking the cheapest goon the bar manager thinks he can get away with.\" Another F&W source: \u201cWe buy tiny wine bottles for $7 and sell for $37. The house wine [here] is Franzia box wine.\u201d\n9. Desserts, unless it's made in house:\nI read several accounts of sheet cakes being picked up at Walmart or Giant Food, then drizzled with raspberry and chocolate sauces to look fancy.\nHow to avoid eating out at restaurants\n8 most atrocious dishes from chain restaurants\nThis app reduces food waste by offering restaurant 'leftovers' for ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tririversconference.org/public/genie/273/school/1/date/2020-01-01/view/week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:08:05Z", "digest": "sha1:TSI63TYUDCLFIIIKTFIA6YNI6JG56DJP", "length": 138, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tririversconference.org", "title": "Central City", "raw_content": "4:30pm Basketball: High School J.V. Girls/Boys vs. Maquoketa Valley\n6:00pm Basketball: High School Varsity Girls/Boys vs. Maquoketa Valley", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 1780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truenorthloghomes.com/floor-plan/citadel-iii/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DV3YLRZHTOTJTVD6X374SIJ37V2USNZH", "length": 367, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.truenorthloghomes.com", "title": "Citadel III - True North Log Homes", "raw_content": "This Citadel is delightful for many reasons. In addition to the many creative design features, our home\u2019s open concept is what is most enjoyable. It is ideal for entertaining and other celebrations. As well, the home features a 1,117 sq ft studio apartment with a unique walk-out balcony located directly above the garage. (R. and M. Wrightman, True North homeowners)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truthdig.com/articles/free-bicycles-are-reducing-pollution-in-china-and-india/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5WT3UDWUEYMFZLUVRQ4R3LTC5CTJIXHO", "length": 4011, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.truthdig.com", "title": "Free Bicycles Are Reducing Pollution in China and India - Truthdig", "raw_content": "Free Bicycles Are Reducing Pollution in China and India\nOne of Hangzhou Bicycle Service\u2019s 3,600 bicycle stands. (Paul Starkey / Ashden)\nIn China everyone used to travel by bicycle, then along came an urban middle class and the cities were choked with private cars. Now the bicycle is making a comeback, and, at least if you live in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, you don\u2019t even have to own one because the city will provide a bike for you to ride for free.\nWhat began as an experiment to see if it was possible to reduce both air pollution and congestion has become a major success story, not just in Hangzhou but in 175 cities across the country.\nPerhaps the most surprising aspect of the Hangzhou Bicycle Service is that it makes a profit. Companies pay for advertisements on the bicycles and on the kiosks where they are stored and rented from. This pays the wages of those who run the scheme.\nThe experiment in Hangzhou started in 2008 with 2,800 bicycles, and there are now plans to scale up to 200,000 due to its popularity.\nThere are several keys to the scheme\u2019s success. For starters, although a card is required to hire a bicycle, the first hour is free so if you can get to work or a train or bus stop in under an hour you never have to pay. More than 90% of all rides taken are free.\nPlus, the organisation provides a cycle park every 300 metres, with attendants nearby to solve any problems. Each attendant runs 35 stands. A central control room keeps an eye on the entire operation, ensuring there are plenty of cycles available where they are needed.\nAnother reason it works so well is that it is integrated with all other forms of public transport, so the card that you use for bicycle hire also works on buses, the metro, water taxis and trains. Across the city there is a network of bicycle lanes and bicycle traffic signals providing access to every public transport hub. The authorities have boosted the scheme by imposing parking restrictions and, in some parts, banning petrol-powered motorcycles and scooters.\nThe Chinese based the idea on a bicycle hire project that operated in Paris. It is one of a number projects competing for an award in the sustainable transport category at the Ashden Awards in London, which will be presented on 15 June by Al Gore, the former US vice- president turned climate campaigner, at the Royal Geographical Society. The winners will receive \u00a320,000 towards their businesses.\nIndian Bicycles\nAnother bicycle project has taken off in India, a country that also has serious problems with air pollution and congestion. Based in the city of Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu, Ampere Vehicles make low-cost electric bicycles, scooters and flatbed vehicles for carrying loads. The company is a candidate for the same Ashden award as the Hangzhou Bicycle Service.\nTo date, Ampere has sold more than 14,000 longlife battery-powered vehicles. Many of the load carriers are being used by municipalities for collecting refuse and by large factories for carrying goods.\nPrivate buyers tend to use their electric bicycles to get to work or are people who run small businesses and carry samples or goods on their bikes \u2013 for example, coconut collectors and tea sellers.\nThe machines have no gears and are simple to operate. The Ampere versions of electric vehicles fall into the same category as bicycles because they are regulated to a maximum speed of 25 kilometres an hour. This gives them a huge advantage as it means owners don\u2019t need to worry about taxation, a driving licence, insurance or a protective helmet.\ncars china china free bicycles climate change environment free bicycles india india free bicycles politics pollution transportation\nFour Scary Implications of the French Election\nThe Ultimate Inside Job -- Dismantling the Government -- Is Well Underway\nby Steven Harper / Moyers and Company\nAmerican Imperialism Leads the World Into Dante's Vision of Hell\nby Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould\nU.K. Criminals Have Dramatically Decreased Their Carbon Footprint", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 9192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsln.com/news/secretary-zinke-directs-interior-bureaus-to-take-aggressive-action-to-prevent-wildfires/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KMEKAWXM2IKAJPAH2CH24COEYXMH7KHU", "length": 6076, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.tsln.com", "title": "Zinke commands aggressive action to prevent wildfires | TSLN.com", "raw_content": "Zinke commands aggressive action to prevent wildfires\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke last week directed all Department of the Interior bureaus, superintendents, and land managers at all levels to adopt more aggressive practices, using the full authority of the Department, to prevent and combat the spread of catastrophic wildfires through robust fuels reduction and pre-suppression techniques.\nThis year-to-date, 47,700 wildfires have burned 8 million acres across the country, with the majority of the devastation in the states of California and Montana. High-profile fires in Yosemite and Glacier National Parks have caught national headlines, however millions of acres of forest and grassland have burned in recent months.\n\"This Administration will take a serious turn from the past and will proactively work to prevent forest fires through aggressive and scientific fuels reduction management to save lives, homes, and wildlife habitat. It is well settled that the steady accumulation and thickening of vegetation in areas that have historically burned at frequent intervals exacerbates fuel conditions and often leads to larger and higher-intensity fires,\" said Secretary Zinke. \"These fires are more damaging, more costly, and threaten the safety and security of both the public and firefighters. In recent fire reviews, I have heard this described as 'a new normal.' It is unacceptable that we should be satisfied with the status quo. We must be innovative and where new authorities are needed, we will work with our colleagues in Congress to craft management solutions that will benefit our public lands for generations to come.\"\nThe Secretary is directing managers and superintendents of units that have burnable vegetation to address the threat of fire in all of their activities, and to use the full range of existing authorities, to reduce fuels.\nBryan Rice, Director of the Office of Wildland Fire, said, \"It is critical to fully consider the benefits of fuels reduction in the everyday management activities that we carry out for our public land management objectives, such as clearing along roadsides, around visitor use areas like campgrounds and trails, near employee housing areas, and within administrative site areas subject to wildfire.\"\nThe Department has lost historic structures in wildfires like Glacier National Park's historic Sperry Chalet lodge. In an effort to help prevent future losses, the Secretary is also directing increased protection of Interior assets that are in wildfire prone areas, following the Firewise guidance, writing: \"If we ask local communities to 'be safer from the start' and meet Firewise standards, we should be the leaders of and the model for 'Firewise-friendly' standards in our planning, development, and maintenance of visitor-service and administrative facilities.\"\n\"I welcome Secretary Zinke's new directive and his attention to the catastrophic fires taking place in many western states,\" said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. \"Treating our landscapes mitigates wildfire risk, increases firefighter safety, and makes our forests and rangelands healthy and resilient. We can no longer delay the implementation of this important work.\"\nHouse Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop said, \"We must ensure our land management agencies have the tools and resources they need to protect communities and landscapes from catastrophic wildfire. Over the long term, Congress and the Administration must work together to reverse the sorry state of our federal forests and grasslands. I'm heartened to finally have an Administration that's focused on actively managing and addressing the on-the-ground conditions that are contributing to our historic wildfire crisis. I hope to build on this by enacting comprehensive legislation to restore the health and resiliency of federal lands.\"\n\"If we don't start managing our forests, the forests are going to start managing us,\" said Montana Senator Steve Daines. \"The fires burning across Montana are a catastrophe, and we need all available resources to combat this threat. I applaud Secretary Zinke's action to focus resources on attacking wildfires.\"\n\"I applaud Secretary Zinke's effort to thin the threat. If we can reduce the fuel loads in our forests and rangelands we will provide our fire fighters more defensible space to do their jobs,\" said Idaho Senator James Risch. \"We need bold actions like this not just for the hurricanes in the south and east but also to avert the devastation caused by the wildfires in the west.\"\n\"More than 50 million acres in the United States are currently at risk for catastrophic wildfire. That is why we must act to prevent calamitous fires. Management actions taken by Secretary Zinke today will not completely stop the risk, but it is an important step forward in our fight to turn unhealthy, overgrown, and infested forests into thriving, healthy ecosystems,\" said Congressman Bruce Westerman. \"I commend Secretary Zinke for recognizing this emergency situation and taking steps to address prevent further loss of life and property due to these preventable, catastrophic wildfires. I am committed to working with him and my colleagues in Congress to find a permanent solution to this problem that emphasizes active forest management as the first line of defense against catastrophic wildfires.\"\nWith Western Fire season reaching its natural peak in September, the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group elevated the National Fire Preparedness Level to \"5\", the highest level NMAC declares, on August 10, 2017. Above normal major-fire activity continues to be observed across portions of the Pacific Northwest, Northern Rockies, northern Great Basin, and northern California. Fuel moisture levels and fire danger indices in these areas are at near-record to record levels for severity. Drier and warmer than average conditions across the central Great Basin and Southern California are allowing for the fine fuels to become more receptive to fire activity. F", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 11645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsstuff.net/2018/03/art-of-war-by-monique-orgeron_26.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:58:31Z", "digest": "sha1:S2CDCYCWGPQS55CTZ6X3MA2OXS32FP4T", "length": 4704, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.tsstuff.net", "title": "T's Stuff: Art of War by Monique Orgeron", "raw_content": "\u201cThe storyline is fantastic, it will have you on the edge of your seat, will have you bawling, and will have your cheering and rooting for this family! This is absolutely a Must Read!!\u201d ~ Amazon Review\n\u201cI LOVED THIS BOOK!! . . . If you have read the first two books this one is even better!\u201d ~ Amazon Review\nOnce Zander leaves, I hug myself, knowing I\u2019m the one becoming stupid when it comes to him. I just have to be careful not to let it show. I feel everything he says that he does when we kiss. It\u2019s a draw I have never felt, something I didn\u2019t think existed. A spark that stays burning long after we\u2019ve separated. It\u2019s a spark that I can\u2019t help wanting more of.\nKyle sneaks up on me and begins questioning. \u201cAre you realizing how much you want him?\u201d\n\u201cWhat? No! Leave me alone!\u201d\nKyle jumps with glee. \u201cYou are! Oh my God, Murphy you like him. Like, really like.\u201d\n\u201cShut up, Kyle, get out of my way!\u201d\nI march right past him, slamming my bedroom door. Oh God, I do like him, probably more than any other man I\u2019ve ever met. What does that say about me? I know, that I\u2019m glutton for punishment. How can I possibly find him, the man who belongs to the family that is holding my life in their hands more attractive, more interesting and more annoying than any other decent guy out there? Maybe because I never truly met a decent guy, and for some reason I think Zander is decent. And the way he makes me feel. I can still feel his hands on me, gently cleaning my injuries.\nI can maybe deny him during the day but when I sleep there is no denying in my dreams. Every night since we\u2019ve met, I can see and feel his touch, the way it felt to be in his arms or the way he controlled my body. The orgasms that he gave me, nothing has ever come close to that.\nShit, what am I thinking? I can\u2019t have these feelings. He is nothing to me, or at least that\u2019s what I need to keep telling myself. I will not be like my mother and fall for the wrong man, or any man. So, I\u2019m in like with him, but it\u2019s not love. Love doesn\u2019t truly exist; not for me, it doesn\u2019t.\nI\u2019m startled from my thoughts as Kyle barges into the room. \u201cI wasn\u2019t finished with you yet, Murph.\u201d\n\u201cOh yes, you are. I don\u2019t want to talk about Mr. Zander Stern again.\u201d\n\u201cMr. Zander Stern, that\u2019s what we\u2019re calling him now? So professional. Is that a way for you to feel less comfortable with him?\u201d\n\u201cWhat the hell are you talking about now?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m talking about how that man is sweet on you and you keep pushing him away like you always do. Except this time, I see something different.\u201d\n\u201cReally? Do tell, I know you\u2019re dying to.\u201d\n\u201cOh I will. I see the smoldering heat that comes off you two when you\u2019re around each other. I see the desire in your eyes for him.\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re full of shit, Kyle. It\u2019s almost laughable.\u201d\n\u201cExcept that neither one of us is laughing. Why do this to yourself, Murphy?\u201d\n\u201cDo what, Kyle?\u201d\n\u201cWhy do you try so hard to keep people at bay? Why are you so determined not to let anyone in, especially men? That man cares for you so much that he has his mother waiting to collect from you, and you still push him away.\u201d\nI can\u2019t answer, I have no answer for him other than I refuse to be used or hurt. I hang my head, not from shame, but for the time to build my defenses back up. Kyle\u2019s right about me; over the years I let him in, I let him close enough to me that he recognizes my faults, but he has no right to throw them back in my face.\nHe refuses to stop. \u201cListen, Murphy, be smart. Even if you don\u2019t want to admit how much Zander gets to you, you should still consider his mother\u2019s offer. I heard everything. I know his mother wants you to marry him. I think you should do it. He can protect you, and you can keep a percentage of the casino. It\u2019s a win-win.\u201d\nI\u2019m done, that did it. \u201cWhat the hell are you talking about? You want me to be forced to marry a man I don\u2019t love to keep a small percentage of a casino I already own? You want me to be tied down to a man who is dangerous, not to mention a womanizer, to just piss away everything that\u2019s mine by right? If that is my choice, I choose to just leave, go back home, let the Sterns have it all, just forget it ever existed. But I\u2019m not. I will find a way to pay them back and keep what is mine without having to sacrifice the rest of my life.\u201d\nKyle\u2019s shaking his head in defeat. \u201cFine, Murph, do what you have to do, but honey, if you can\u2019t pay them, you will lose everything, including Zander, and you won\u2019t believe me now, but that will hurt more than losing the casino.\u201d\nI continue to watch in shock as he disappears into his bedroom. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I don\u2019t care about Zander, and he definitely isn\u2019t mine, so how could it hurt worse than losing my casino?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 14455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tsstuff.net/2018/05/chopper-by-jessie-cooke.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4JECQSLXEBZHQN6DCDRVSJILEE6BLMRK", "length": 15821, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.tsstuff.net", "title": "T's Stuff: Chopper by Jessie Cooke", "raw_content": "With the love of his life, Chopper was preparing for the road trip of his dreams, but nothing could prepare him for the journey he was about to take\u2026 NOTHING!\nChelsea had lost more than she could bear, and the last thing she needed was a wild biker from a motorcycle club.\nHe could mean losing the last chance she had in life, and that just wasn\u2019t an option\u2026 so why was she saying yes when she needed a no?\nThis is the 11th book in the Southside Skulls MC Series. It is a Standalone Romance Novel but characters from the previous novels, DAX, CODY, GUNNER, ZACK, LEVI, KAT, HUNTER, GARRETT, WHEELIE, JIGSAW & RUSTY are included in this story too.\nThe Southside Skulls MC Series is about members of the MC club, and their friends and associates.\nChelsea\u2019s days generally started as a battle with herself. She didn\u2019t want to get out of bed. She didn\u2019t want to start a day over that she already knew would feel just like the one she lived the day before. She was doing all the things she\u2019d promised herself, and her parents, and her sponsor, and her counselor, that she would do\u2026but some days she had to wonder if it was all worth it. There was only one reason she continued to get up every day, though\u2026so with a sigh, she pushed up out of bed and readied herself for another twelve hours of absolutely nothing new.\nChelsea had big plans for her life when she was a kid. By now she was supposed to be a famous artist, with showings in a gallery in New York or LA. While she waited for the shower to heat up, she made a mental list of things she had to be grateful for. It was a trick she\u2019d learned in rehab. Some days it worked and some days it just made her want to kick her own Pollyanna ass. Today was one of those days. She was in a bad mood and happy she had the night off from her job at the diner. Four nights off, and she needed it. She was way too pissy to paste on a smile and brew coffee for Boston\u2019s finest. Today she didn\u2019t want to count her blessings. She wanted to feel sorry for herself and dwell on what she hadn\u2019t accomplished instead of what she had. Hopefully one day of concentrating on that would get it out of her system\u2026and the rest of the weekend could be all about having fun.\nShe stepped into the shower and tried to imagine the warm water washing the stress away. It was another trick her therapist taught her. Some days, though, there just wasn\u2019t enough hot water to accomplish it. She closed her eyes while she washed her hair and tried to visualize her blessings\u2026all listed out on a chart in front of her, resplendent with photos as well. She was alive\u2026that one was always on top. It was a miracle she\u2019d lived through her late teens and early twenties. She had done so many drugs over the years, taken so many pills, smoked whatever was handed to her, drunk whiskey by the bottle\u2026the very fact that she was still breathing was enough to give her hope on her good days. On the bad ones, she still added it to the list, but she wondered if anyone was really any better off because of it.\nChelsea came from a good family. She\u2019d graduated high school and started community college six years earlier. She had plans to go there for two years and then transfer to a university\u2026hopefully in New York. Her parents were not rich, but they were helping as much as they could. She had a job in a diner and she was determined to save enough money so her move to New York wouldn\u2019t be a hardship on anyone. She had everything mapped out\u2026until the day she met Wayne and took a long and harrowing detour.\nThat night started with a party she hadn\u2019t wanted to go to. It was there she first laid eyes on Wayne. He was a few years older and he was hotter than any guy she\u2019d ever been with. He told her he worked as a mechanic and took her outside and showed her his Camaro. Every girl at the party wanted him\u2026but to her delight, Wayne only seemed to have eyes for her. Chelsea fell hard and fast, and by the time she realized Wayne had a little problem holding down a job\u2026a big problem with telling the truth\u2026and a thirst for alcohol and sex that bordered on the insatiable, they were already living together.\nHer parents didn\u2019t approve, but Chelsea believed she loved him. She loved her parents, though, so she was determined to keep the peace. The stress of pretending to her parents that everything was okay, while she supported Wayne and his bad habits, and tried to carry a full load at school, quickly became overwhelming. By the end of her sophomore year in college, she was nowhere near ready to transfer to a university, and she had to take a summer school course to make up the classes she\u2019d dropped mid-semester, because she had to work. That was when Wayne decided to \u201chelp\u201d her. He had one of his friends hook her up with some pills that would keep her alert so she could stay awake while she worked and/or studied around the clock. Chelsea knew she could have said no, and she was way past blaming Wayne for all her problems, but she didn\u2019t say no. She took the pills, and then she took more. She stayed up for days at a time, and then she took another pill to come down. She started skipping classes and skipping work. Her days became a blur of partying with Wayne and his friends during the day, and having wild, uninhibited sex at night. She was usually so wasted that she barely remembered it the next day. She knew Wayne was kinky and sometimes he let his friends watch, but as long as she wasn\u2019t sober, she didn\u2019t care.\nAs the months and then years went by, Chelsea\u2019s dependence on the drugs and Wayne, who supplied them to her, became complete. She drove away her old friends and ultimately her parents who were devastated by what she\u2019d become. But still, she couldn\u2019t leave Wayne. She needed him, or so she thought. He kept a roof over their heads somehow, despite not having a regular job. He never hurt her and he always made sure she had what she needed to feel good. It wasn\u2019t until one night of extreme partying that it suddenly hit her what she had become. She woke up feeling sick and pulled herself out of bed, naked and obviously well-used, and ran for the bathroom. While she was on her knees in front of the toilet, snippets of the night before started playing in her head like a home movie. She saw herself in the center of the room, surrounded by men\u2026most of whom she didn\u2019t know. Wayne had brought home some fucking awesome X that day, and she\u2019d taken it\u2026maybe more than one. She remembered dancing and taking off her clothes, and fucking. A lot of fucking, but as the spasms in her stomach started, and the sour alcohol left in her gut from the night before began to resurface, it dawned on her that all of that fucking hadn\u2019t been with Wayne, and worse yet\u2026it hadn\u2019t been with only one man at a time.\nShe sat in front of the toilet that afternoon for hours, naked on the cold floor, shaking and sobbing, and hating who and what she had become. When she finally pulled herself together, she tried to talk to Wayne about maybe getting into a program and getting clean. She told him she wanted to go back to school and get a respectable job and maybe even have a kid someday. Wayne laughed at her. He told her that she had been worthless to him while she was going to school and working at the diner. In the heat of their argument, he let it slip just how much money he\u2019d made off her over the past year. Chelsea had been supporting them all along; she just hadn\u2019t known it. It made her sick, and her self-loathing was complete. Someone hearing her story might be thinking that her chapter with Wayne ended there. But drug addiction is a monster that grabs on and holds tight. It makes you forget about everything and everyone else, and Wayne knew how to control that monster.\nOver the next year Wayne made sure he was in complete control. He was the only one there for her in Chelsea\u2019s mind, the only one that hadn\u2019t walked away. Chelsea might have gone on like that until she woke up dead, if not for the day Wayne dropped her off at the abortion clinic. That was the day she decided to take her life back. It was almost three years ago, and she was sober. She had a job at a coffee shop and she was drawing and painting again. She\u2019d even sold a few of her drawings to the guy in the tattoo shop in town. He did most of the ink for the Southside Skulls. Some days she was proud of that, and other days she reminded herself that her \u201cart\u201d was being viewed by old ladies, club girls, and gang task force members\u2026and on really bad days, the guys in the morgue. It was something, she supposed, but still a far cry from a gallery in New York.\nShe was sober, though, and despite being broke, depressed, and alone most of the time, she did have her parents back in her life. They\u2019d been there for her during her recovery, every step of the way, and had gone above and beyond even after that. She had to keep in mind that things could always be so much worse. It was the only thing that kept her from sliding backwards and making the same mistakes that had almost cost her life.\nWhen she got out of the shower, she debated starting a new project. She wanted to drive out to her parents\u2019 house, but she was already expected for dinner the following day, so she didn\u2019t want to overstep. She got out her sketchpad and her charcoals and set the easel up in front of the window. She\u2019d worked the late shift the night before, so most of the day was already gone; the light of the late afternoon wasn\u2019t great. She started to move the pole lamp over, but watching all the people walk by outside of her apartment building made her antsy. She rarely went out. What was there to do for a girl who didn\u2019t have any friends, didn\u2019t drink, and had given up sex along with the drugs and alcohol? But she couldn\u2019t quell the feeling that she needed to get out, if for nothing else than to take a walk down to the harbor.\nShe pulled on a pair of ripped-up jeans and her leather jacket and boots, and without even checking her hair or make-up, she left the depressing little apartment. Some fresh air would probably do her mood good. She didn\u2019t want to still be in a funk when she went to her parents\u2019 house the next day. Her twice-a-week visits to the little ranch where she\u2019d grown up were all she really had to look forward to lately.\nChelsea walked along Washington Avenue until she came to the aquarium. It was a Thursday night, but the city was still bustling with people, headed home from work or already on their way out for a night on the town. She walked next to them, in front of and behind them, but always alone. When she got to the harbor, she sat on one of the metal benches and looked out at the boats. She wondered if the people on them ever worried about the mundane things in life like she did. Did they have money problems? Did they ever wonder if they were good enough?\n\u201cWell, hello there, beautiful.\u201d Chelsea, was startled at the sound of the voice, and looked up into the face of a man. He had dark hair that hung down low over his eyes and although he wasn\u2019t a bad-looking man, there was something about him that instantly put her on edge.\n\u201cHey,\u201d she said, trying to return her attention to the boats and give him a hint that she wasn\u2019t in the mood for conversation. When she saw him sit down next to her out of the corner of her eye, she knew that hadn\u2019t worked.\nChelsea sighed. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m not really looking for conversation.\u201d She forced a smile at him and stood up. \u201cYou have a nice day, though.\u201d She started walking away, glad that it wasn\u2019t dark yet. She hadn\u2019t gotten far when she heard hurried footsteps behind her. She turned and saw the man chasing after her. He smiled at her and that made him look even more sinister somehow.\n\u201cI\u2019m not really looking for conversation either\u2026Chelsea.\u201d\nShe narrowed her eyes at him. She didn\u2019t think she knew him, but there were a lot of things, and people, she didn\u2019t remember from the years she\u2019d spent in a drug-induced haze. \u201cDo I know you?\u201d\nHe licked his lips and then ran his eyes over her body and said, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter, babe. I know you\u2026\u201d\nChelsea didn\u2019t wait around for any more. She turned and started to run. The man called out after her, but she didn\u2019t look back. She was gasping for breath as she dashed across the busy intersection and almost took a few people out on the sidewalk in front of the Harbor Hotel. She made it all the way to Charles Avenue before she dashed out into the street directly in front of a chopper. The guy driving it hit his brakes as she froze like a deer in the headlights. He stopped short of hitting her by only inches, and as soon as the bike came to a stop, Chelsea was on the run again. Now she had another guy yelling at her and chasing her down the street, only this one was quicker, or she was just tired from all the running. She felt a hand grab her by the shoulder and spin her around. She was face to face with the most incredible pair of brown eyes she\u2019d ever looked into, but that didn\u2019t matter, she didn\u2019t want any man touching her.\nThe guy did let go of her and he put his palms up in the air. That was when she noticed he was wearing a black leather Skulls vest. Fucking great! When would she learn to stay the fuck at home and out of trouble? \u201cWhoa there, I just wanted to make sure you were okay. You ran right out in front of me like the devil was chasing you.\u201d\nChelsea suddenly remembered the other guy. He hadn\u2019t been chasing her to make sure she was okay. She looked up the street, but although some people were staring at her and the biker, the creepy man wasn\u2019t anywhere in sight. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she said, in a shaky voice, \u201cI didn\u2019t see you.\u201d\n\u201cI figured that. Are you okay?\u201d He turned and looked back where Chelsea\u2019s eyes kept searching the people on the street for the man\u2019s face. \u201cIs someone chasing you?\u201d\n\u201cNo. I\u2019m fine. Thank you.\u201d She tried to turn away again, but the man put his hand on her shoulder once more. \u201cDo you mind?\u201d\nHe moved his hand again. He looked genuinely concerned for her well-being, but trust wasn\u2019t something that came easily to her any longer. \u201cMaybe I could give you a ride wherever it is you\u2019re going,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s starting to get dark.\u201d\n\u201cNo. I\u2019m fine,\u201d she said again. This time the man smiled. He had a sexy little crooked grin and a dimple on one side of his mouth. That wasn\u2019t all that was sexy about him, but she was trying hard not to notice. He was smoking hot. So hot, in fact, that her racing heart skipped a few beats and her pussy might have throbbed just a little before she remembered she\u2019d sworn off men. But damn, this guy had messy brown hair that begged a woman to drag her fingers through it. He hadn\u2019t shaved in a day or two, and the stubble gave him an edgy look. His t-shirt clung to his biceps and shoulders, and the black leather vest that announced to the world he was a part of a 1% MC should have turned her off, but it only made him that much more interesting. She almost shook her head, trying to get the image of her tongue tracing those full lips out of her mind. She cleared her throat and said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t mean to be rude. I should really get going before it does get dark.\u201d This time when she turned away he didn\u2019t try to stop her. Chelsea was shamefully disappointed by that, until she reminded herself that panty-melting hot was what had started the downward spiral of her life.\nShe had walked about block and a half, and was trying to figure out the best street to turn on and head back toward her apartment, when she heard the sound of the Harley. Looking out into the street she saw the guy in the Skulls vest, on his chopper, slowly following her. He was hot, but maybe he was just as creepy as the other guy. 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Plus: a Tribute to TV Fandom in 'United We Fan'\nThe Conners (8/7c, ABC): First seen in the Roseanne spinoff\u2019s Halloween episode, Matthew Broderick is back as Jackie\u2019s (Laurie Metcalf) questionable new beau, who comes under increased scrutiny by a protective Dan (John Goodman) when he learns how much his sister-in-law paid for Peter\u2019s Christmas gift. With Jackie, things (and people) who seem too good to be true often are.\n'The Conners': All of the Series' Guest Stars (So Far) (PHOTOS)\nSome familiar faces & new names have popped up.\nUnited We Fan (Video on Demand): This endearing feature-length documentary, which arrives On Demand after a tour of the doc-film circuit, gets up close and personal with those who share an undying love for great but endangered TV shows. Michael Sparaga\u2019s loving look at campaigns that rallied behind such shows as Star Trek (which started the fan-campaign trend), Chuck, Cagney & Lacey, Longmire, Person of Interest, Designing Women, Jericho, Roswell, Veronica Mars and others is a valentine to the communities that form, online and otherwise, around their passion for beloved characters and compelling storytelling. A special focus is given to Dorothy Swanson, who helped found the influential-in-its-day Viewers for Quality Television (and you can spot me in the corner of a group photo from VQT\u2019s first convention in a Virginia hotel). A fun, if bittersweet, look at the perks and perils of fan activism.\nLegends of the Lost with Megan Fox (Travel Channel, 8/7c): The title may sound like an action movie, but the star of such franchises as Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is in reality a history buff with a passion for ancient civilizations. She puts this obsession to good use by traveling to far-flung lands in a four-part series that excavates age-old mysteries. First up: a trip to Scandinavia and England to investigate the theory that female warriors (as seen in History\u2019s Vikings) fought alongside male Vikings, enhancing the invaders\u2019 fearsome reputation.\n'Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox': Travel Channel Series Will Explore Ancient Mysteries\nThe four-part series debuts this December.\nInside Tuesday TV: Series star Tom Cavanagh directs the 100th episode of The CW\u2019s The Flash (8/7c), with Barry (Grant Gustin) fretting about taking daughter Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) into the past in their latest effort to stop Cicada (Chris Klein)\u2026 Night Court\u2019s Markie Post guests on ABC\u2019s The Kids Are Alright (8:30/7:30c) in an episode where the kids think Mom (Mary McCormack) may be pregnant again \u2014 with a sister! \u2014 but it\u2019s actually a cyst\u2026 Fox\u2019s Lethal Weapon (9/8c) has a knack for holiday episodes, stretching back to the original film. This year\u2019s homage, also the fall finale, includes a case involving diamond-thieving Santas, with personal stories for Cole (Seann William Scott) bonding with daughter Maya (Shay Rudolph), and Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) anxiously awaiting the return of son RJ (Dante Brown) on a flight from Costa Rica\u2026 A case gets personal for Maggie (Missy Peregrym) and OA (Zeeko Zaki) on CBS\u2019s FBI (9/8c) when a U.S. marshal and a witness are killed in an ambush, and they\u2019re tasked to find the leak.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twoblondeswalking.com/what-is-life-attic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6SS63HZOMKW6VV7RSQUC2VZ7BUDMXJZL", "length": 551, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.twoblondeswalking.com", "title": "What is Life Attic? | Dartmoor Hiking", "raw_content": "LifeAttic is the brand new venture being undertaken by a good friend and colleague. Joan is embarking on what I think is an amazing idea. Recording your own personal biography to be turned, by Joan, into a beautifully designed and written hard-back book seems to me to be a fantastic idea. I can imagine having a biography such as this from my own grandparents. Their lives were so interesting and yet only a very small part of it was shared with me. If only I could go back in time!\nCheck out her website to read all about it.\nWe would be this happy\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twofriends.com/menu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YY2SE24GW4NO4QJ56EOTJX6VDTPJPSIV", "length": 119, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.twofriends.com", "title": "Key West Seafood Restaurant & Bar Menu: Free Delivery | Two Friends", "raw_content": "Come join us for a casual open air patio dining experience -- breakfast, lunch or dinner every day, beginning at 8 a.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 214.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twoohsix.com/2018/07/oceans-eight-movie-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PWHN4RUAADAJB4U75YC2PQLLOW3WL2SL", "length": 1856, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.twoohsix.com", "title": "TwoOhSix.com: Ocean's Eight - Movie Review", "raw_content": "The Movie: Ocean's Eight\nThe Director: Gary Ross\nThe Cast: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Dakota Fanning, Elliott Gould, Richard Armitage, James Corden\nThe Story: Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.\nOne of the things about this franchise is the unparalleled cool factor thanks to the cast of characters and the sense of style embedded throughout and I was definitely looking forward to seeing how the ladies would carry this on. From the opening moments, it became very apparent the the game was about to be raised with the prime examples being Sandra Bullock and the always stunning Cate Blanchett. As the leaders of their team, they set the standard for the rest of the cast and the rest of the story.\nAs each member of the team is introduced and brought into the fold, they get to show off their unique personalities along with their characters' skill sets. Speaking of unique personalities, Helena Bonham Carter has to be one of the most unique, talented, and extraordinarily brilliant actors in the business today. Every moment she is on screen, there is an unmistakable energy that elevates everything around her. I so love watching her on screen and am glad she has found a spot on this roster of amazing women.\nOcean's Eight is fun, glamorous, slick, stylish, and everything I was hoping it would be. Director Gary Ross stays faithful to the franchise and fills his film with all the fun twists and turns you would expect from a high stakes heist movie.\nLabels: 2018 Movie Reviews , Awkwafina , Cate Blanchett , Charlotte Kirk , Dakota Fanning , Elliott Gould , Griffin Dunne , Helena Bonham Carter , James Corden , Mindy Kaling , Richard Armitage , Rihanna , Sandra Bullock , Sarah Paulson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 6695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ubergizmo.com/2018/10/apples-new-macbook-air-is-powered-by-intels-7w-amber-lake-cpu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ICTPA53GCZKB3G52K7RGFNGXVXR4FFRQ", "length": 1747, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ubergizmo.com", "title": "Apple\u2019s New MacBook Air Is Powered By Intel\u2019s 7W Amber Lake CPU", "raw_content": "Apple\u2019s New MacBook Air Is Powered By Intel\u2019s 7W Amber Lake CPU\nApple had recently announced its new MacBook Air which according to the company, would feature 8th gen Intel Core i5 chipsets. While this is technically true, it should be noted that there is a subtle difference and that not all Core i5 chipsets are made the same because upon further digging, it was discovered that the new MacBook Air laptops are actually more specifically powered by Intel\u2019s Amber Lake CPUs.\nFor those wondering what are the differences, Intel basically has chipsets that are designed to be high-powered as part its U-series which you can find in the MacBook Pros. Then you have the lower-powered Y-series chipsets which is what the new MacBook Airs are using. This means that a Core i5 MacBook Air and Core i5 MacBook Pro are two very completely different beasts.\nWhat does this mean for would-be customers? Basically the lowered powered Amber Lake CPUs aren\u2019t necessarily designed for professionals who need to render images and videos at high-resolutions. However as an everyday laptop for work, watching videos, surfing the web, maybe even light gaming, then these chipsets should do just fine. Plus they also have the added advantage of consuming less power, which according to Apple translates into 12 hours of web browsing time, or 13 hours of watching movies on iTunes.\nFiled in Apple >Computers. Read more about Intel, Laptops and Macbook Air.\nIntel Unveils New RealSense Cameras That Can Help Machines Navigate\nIntel Uses AI Cameras To Help Stop Poachers\nJob Listing Hints At Apple\u2019s Plans To Make Their Own Modems\nThis AI-Based Wheelchair Can Be Controlled Using Facial Expressions\nMacBook Air (2018) Teardown Reveals That It Is Somewhat Easy To Repair", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2012/october/ulster-scientists-battle-harmful-water-toxins", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:23:22Z", "digest": "sha1:4BTTBXZHAW3JY4QC6ZN2XNHYCAB2ZQZG", "length": 6435, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.ulster.ac.uk", "title": "Ulster Scientists Battle Harmful Water Toxins - Ulster University", "raw_content": "Ulster Scientists Battle Harmful Water Toxins\nUniversity of Ulster scientists are collaborating with international research partners to develop a new \u2018clean\u2019 technology to destroy water toxins caused by harmful algal blooms.\nThe research team, which is led by Dr Tony Byrne and includes Dr Patrick Dunlop and Dr Jeremy Hamilton, is based at NIBEC, Ulster\u2019s Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre at the Jordanstown campus where clean technology is a key research theme.\nDr Byrne explains: \u201cClean Technology is a term used to describe knowledge-based products or services that improve operational performance, productivity or efficiency, while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste or pollution.\n\u201cThe increase of harmful algal blooms in estuaries and freshwater aquatic systems around the world is a major global problem because of the serious threat they pose to wildlife, livestock and humans,\u201d he said.\nThe seriousness of the problem on a local scale was highlighted this summer when harmful algal blooms were spotted on Loughbrickland Lake close to Banbridge in Co Down, and Moor Lough near Strabane, Co Tyrone. Both lakes, which are popular with anglers and used for water based recreation activities, were closed to members of the public for several weeks.\nAlgal blooms occur naturally but not all pose a risk to humans or animals. However, an increased supply of limiting nutrients in water due to pollution will increase the likelihood of harmful algal blooms.\nDr Tony Byrne continues: \u201cBlooms containing cyanobacteria, sometimes called blue-green algae, can pose a serious threat, as these micro-organisms can produce and release a variety of cyanotoxins. These toxins include hepatotoxins, dermatotoxins, and neurotoxins with extremely high toxicity.\n\u201cTitanium dioxide is a white powder which is used in sunblock, paint, cosmetics and even some food products (E171). It is a non-toxic pigment but when excited by ultra violet light (UV), it becomes a powerful catalyst capable of destroying pollutants in water.\n\u201cThis process is called photocatalysis and our challenge is to increase the solar efficiency because sunlight contains only a small proportion of UV. We have already demonstrated the destruction of the cyanotoxins under laboratory conditions using new catalysts under solar light but we need to fully understand the mechanism.\u201d\nThe Ulster researchers are funded by the Department for Employment and Learning under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership initiative involving Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and the USA. They are collaborating with experts in the USA: Professor Dion Dionysiou from the University of Cincinnati and Professor Kevin O\u2019Shea from Florida International University, funded by the National Science Foundation (USA). Dr Suresh Pillai is the main collaborator from the CREST Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology. He is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. This research project also delivers the objectives of the cross boarder collaboration initiative, EHSI (Environmental Health Sciences Institute) involving strategic partnerships with the University of Ulster and Dublin Institute of Technology.\nThe collaborators are involved in a number of other research projects exploring the use of other advanced oxidation processes for the removal of cyanotoxins from water sources.\nDr Byrne is course director for the BEng (Hons) degree in Clean Technology. When the course was introduced by the School of Engineering at the Jordanstown campus in 2009 Ulster became the only university in the UK or Ireland to offer an engineering course dedicated to Clean Technology.\nThe first intake of students will graduate next summer and Dr Byrne said he is optimistic about the growing employment opportunities in the Clean Technology sector.\n\u201cClean Technology or \u2018Cleantech\u2019 is attracting billions of dollars of investment and carries the hopes of a low-polluting and sustainable future. There are excellent job prospects opening up for graduates who can contribute to this growing multi-billion dollar industry sector.\n\u201cGlobal issues such as energy supply, environmental pollution and access to clean water demand innovative solutions and our research is contributing to these technological advances which create opportunities for increased economic growth,\u201d said Dr Byrne.\nCAPTION: Researcher Jeremy Hamilton in the labs at Ulster's Jordanstown campus.\nNIBEC is a multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Ulster\u2019s Jordanstown campus http://www.nibec.ulster.ac.uk.\nClean Technology is a key research theme within NIBEC, developing advanced materials and engineering solutions for energy and environmental applications. Other key themes include: Sensors and Connected Health: Sensors, Point-of-Care Monitoring and Integrated intelligence based platforms; Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: The surface science of biomaterials and their biological interface, focusing the surface modification of substrates to act as bio-active scaffolds; Nanomaterials: The growth and characterisation of nanostructures to enhance processes and devices.\nHarmful algal blooms have threatened beaches, drinking water sources, and even water based activities around the boating venue for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. They appear to be increasing along the coastlines and in the surface waters of the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). HSB epidemiologists have led a number of studies to investigate the public health impacts of blue-green algae blooms and Florida red tide. 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This resource is only available on-campus.\nOffers authoritative reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers to provide contextual information on the world's most influential people.\nGlobal Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format. State of Maine funded.\nHospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. 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It\u2019s already here and it\u2019s already costing us money, not to mention the lives of other species with whom we share our planet. Here...\nI try to read Nature quotes every day because they keep me focused on what really matters. In the old days, before the Industrial Revolution, people could get away with exploiting Nature\u2019s abundant treasures....\nThe answer is: no. And it\u2019s not good for other people or other species either. Humans have been eating tuna for a long time. According to the journal New Scientist, people have been deep sea fishing for tuna...\nI am not a scientist. If I had been good at chemistry, my path would have been clear: I would be zooming around in a Zodiac off the Farallon Islands right now looking for great white sharks, or in a lab somewhere...\nWhen I was an environmental studies major at San Francisco State, I had a biogeography professor named Dr. George Treichel. He had a few distinct characteristics, for which his students loved him. He had been a game...\nOn average, every four minutes: 4 people in the U.S will die of a heart disease-related event. (The Heart Foundation) Americans will spend $2.5 million on diabetes-related healthcare costs, which can be tied...\nWhen I read Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan\u2019s letter to their new baby girl, Max, on December 1st, I was aware that I was reading it from my own viewpoint\u2013a set of values developed partly by how I was...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-rise-of-energy-humanities/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NJJ34Z2KLO23L4DCVAS35OR2WGXHGTJH", "length": 6474, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.universityaffairs.ca", "title": "The rise of energy humanities | University Affairs", "raw_content": "The rise of energy humanities\nBreaking the impasse.\nBy DOMINIC BOYER + IMRE SZEMAN | FEB 12 2014\nWe\u2019ve become all too familiar with bad news stories about the fate of the humanities. Whether as a result of student desires for an education that translates directly into a career or aggressive actions by governments that look only to the bottom line, many have begun to imagine that the 21st century might be the time when the humanities wither and disappear.\nWe\u2019d like to offer an alternative perspective to all this bad news about the humanities. Our story is about an area of humanities research that is being recognized by the sciences, by government, indeed by industry. And not only that, this research field shows that the humanities are contributing directly to the solution of an immense \u201creal world\u201d social problem: how to find our way toward a sustainable energy future.\n\u201cEnergy humanities\u201d is a rapidly emerging field of scholarship that overcomes traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Like its predecessors, energy humanities highlights the essential contribution that the insights and methods of the human sciences can make to areas of study and analysis that were once thought best left to the natural sciences.\nEnergy is a perfect example of an issue that exceeds the traditional division of labour within the university. As the fact that humanity has entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene sinks in, experts and publics across the world are wondering: how can we cope with a rising demand for energy when our current portfolio of energy sources is already inducing global warming, ocean acidification and climate change?\nAn October 2013 report by the World Energy Council (WEC) offered two possible scenarios for the energy supply mix that would develop by the mid-21st century: an \u201caffordable and accessible\u201d one and a \u201csustainable\u201d one. In the WEC projections, by 2050 we are likely to be using 60 percent more total energy than we are using today, with the bulk of that increase to come from coal, oil and gas. Even in the \u201csustainable\u201d scenario, we would be using 27 percent more energy, though nuclear, biomass and renewables would make up more of the total than they do now.\nGiven these numbers, it is not an exaggeration to ask whether human civilization has a future. Neither technology nor policy can offer a silver-bullet solution to the environmental effects created by an energy-hungry, rapidly modernizing and expanding global population. What we energy humanists contend is that today\u2019s energy and environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics, habits, values, institutions, belief, and power \u2013 all traditional areas of expertise of the humanities and humanistic social sciences.\nThe impasse afflicting humanity \u2013 the gap between knowledge and action, insight and involvement \u2013 is an impasse that has repeatedly been addressed in post-Enlightenment humanist thinking. And thus, it follows logically, solving our dilemma requires the humanities\u2019 involvement \u2013 not as an afterthought to technology and policy, but as a forerunner researching the cultural landscape around us and imagining the future relationship between energy and society that we need to strive toward.\nWe\u2019ll make a bold, upright claim: The humanities are key to moving this civilization forward. Without greater insight into these areas of impasse that research in humanities can provide us, it is all too likely that we\u2019ll lazily opt for \u201caffordable and accessible\u201d instead of \u201csustainable,\u201d and never get to where we need to be in the constitution of our future social lives.\nThe good news is that this is not just a story we humanists are telling ourselves about why we are so important. When energy humanists start talking with scientists, engineers, government officials, and even the energy industry, we often discover that they have been waiting for us to arrive. Those who are closest to the blunt necessity of energy for our complex, modern societies are aware of the enormous challenges of mitigating the environmental effects of energy use. They are looking for change. But when it comes to how they might participate in change, or how the public would react to policies that might necessitate significant transformations in their daily lives, they realize they need insight and guidance from humanists and social scientists.\nTo quiet the concern from our scholarly colleagues that this is just a new kind of applied research or humanistic consulting work, energy humanities is already producing theories that any hardcore scholar would love. Timothy Mitchell\u2019s Carbon Democracy, for example, on how the Keynesian model of growth depended fundamentally on a cultural understanding of oil as an inexhaustible, inexpensive resource, has had an immediate impact on research across the disciplines. Stephanie LeManager\u2019s book, Living Oil: Petroleum and Culture in the American Century, constitutes a rich archive of the omnipresence of petroleum in daily life and the way in which energy shapes affect, belief and belonging. Geographer Matthew Huber\u2019s Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital, traces in detail the ways that an existence organized around property, mobility and entrepreneurship is linked directly to the presence of cheap and seemingly inexhaustible forms of energy. We can no longer fully understand developments in culture, society, politics and economics without paying attention to the role played by energy in each domain.\nIn \u201cMeet the Humanities,\u201d Mike Hulme, a professor of climate change, notes that the research cited for the third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was dominated by the natural sciences. Dr. Hulme thinks this is a big mistake, and we do too. We can only solve our current energy and environmental dilemmas by making humanistic research part of the conversation \u2013 and a big part. Once its contributions to the fight against climate change are given the credit they are due, it may be much easier to persuade anxious students and skeptical politicians that the humanities are absolutely strategic and vital to the future of the planet.\nDominic Boyer is director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Imre Szeman is a professor of English, film studies and sociology and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unv.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=&type%5B0%5D=story&field_sustainable_development_go%5B0%5D=60&field_story_category%5B0%5D=5&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:02:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KG65IIAVY5YWV4LUBDUXRU7C7A3ETFI5", "length": 1314, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.unv.org", "title": "Search | UNV", "raw_content": "Hadijah works with important stakeholders like the Parliament of Uganda, Electoral Commission, Equal Opportunities...\nPrior to my UNV assignment, I worked with the UNHCR representation in Ghana as a national staff member, thus UNV...\nSaima graduated from Rawalpindi Medical College in Pakistan and obtained her diploma and Master\u2019s degree in Public...\nThe desire to prevent deaths from infectious diseases like TB and HIV/AIDS in vulnerable groups brought Ronald across...\nThe training was implemented through UNV Regional Capacity Development and Learning Facility (CDLF), a facility...\nSDG 1: No poverty, SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nFollowing Nepal's recent constitutional transition to a federal structure and many new provincial offices being...\nYulia graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Oriental Studies from the National Research University Higher School of...\nSDG 3: Good health and well-being, SDG 10: Reduced inequalities, SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals\nI am a lawyer by profession but I have chosen to be a diplomat and an advocate for the rights of children. 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Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sfhRW8\nGregory Korte, USA TODAY Published 6:03 p.m. ET May 29, 2017 | Updated 1:19 a.m. ET May 30, 2017\nEmmanuel Macron has opened up about his now infamous long, white knuckle handshake with Donald Trump while in Brussels at a NATO Summit. Jose Sepulveda(@josesepulvedatv) has more. Buzz60\nPresident Trump walks past Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou at a \"family photo\" with leaders of the G7 and African countries in Taormina, Sicily on Saturday.(Photo: TIZIANA FABI, AFP/Getty Images)\nWASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump received a largely cordial welcome on the first overseas trip of his presidency. But now that he's returned to Washington, the foreign leaders he met with are increasingly blunt in their reviews of the American president.\nIn separate remarks intended mostly for domestic consumption, leaders of Germany, France and Israel all sought to distance themselves from Trump, just days after meeting with the president during his nine-day foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Vatican City, Brussels and Italy.\nAmong the sources of friction: Trump's reluctance to unreservedly commit to the North Atlantic alliance, his skepticism of a climate change accord signed on to by his predecessor, President Obama, and outreach to Palestinians in pursuit of a Middle East peace agreement.\n\"It\u2019s clear that in Europe at least, that anti-Trump position plays well domestically,\" said Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration. \"But the larger issue is that the trip didn\u2019t go well in Europe.\"\nThe dynamic is partly one of Trump's brash style. \"I think what grates on European leaders is the sense that he does not treat them as equals, let alone as allies,\" Daalder said. \"He approaches them in this confrontational way, in an attempt to constantly get a better deal out of them.\"\nPresident Trump is pictured walking during the G-7 summit in Taormina, Italy. (Photo: Andrew Medichini, AP Images)\nTrump hasn't spoken about the trip publicly, avoiding press conferences for the entire journey. But on Twitter, he pronounced the mission a triumph. \"Just returned from Europe. Trip was a great success for America. Hard work but big results!\" Trump tweeted on Sunday.\nThe reaction abroad was more cautious:\n\u25ba France: New French President Emmanuel Macron said his now-famous white-knuckled handshake with Trump was a deliberate attempt to demonstrate that he wouldn't be bullied by the American president. \u201cOne must show that you won\u2019t make small concessions, even symbolic ones, but also not over-publicize things, either,\u201d he told the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche. \u201cMy handshake with him \u2014 it wasn\u2019t innocent.\u201d\n\u25ba Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday at a Bavarian beer hall that Europe can no longer \"fully rely\" on its overseas allies. On climate issues, she said, the Group of Seven meeting was \"seven against one\" \u2014 counting the European Union as part of the seven (and the United States as the one). Her chief political rival took umbrage at the way Trump sought to \"humiliate\" Merkel in Brussels. \"I reject with outrage the way this man takes it upon himself to treat the head of our country's government,\" said Martin Schulz, who is challenging Merkel for the chancellorship as an \"anti-Trump\" candidate. He said Trump was \"acting like an autocratic leader.\"\n\u25ba United Kingdom: British Prime Minister Theresa May is upset that American intelligence officials leaked information about the Manchester concert bombing to the media. Trump acknowledged that he got an earful from May, tweeting Sunday that she was \"very angry\" about the leaks. \"Gave me full details!\"\n\u25ba Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said Israel has \"no better friend\" than Trump, appeared to hold the president at arm's length on Monday. Speaking to members of his conservative Likud party, Netanyahu warned that a Trump-brokered peace negotiation with the Palestinians \"comes at a price.\" And while he welcomed U.S. support for Israel, he emphasized that \"there is no such thing as innocent gifts.\"\n\u25ba Palestinian Authority: An Israeli television station reported that Trump shouted at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, during their meeting in Bethlehem last week yelling, \"You tricked me!\" and accusing the Palestinian Authority of inciting violence in the West Bank. (The Palestinians denied the report.)\nTrump's trip began in Saudi Arabia with a summit of Muslim Arab leaders \u2014 and they're perhaps the least likely to grumble. After feeling neglected by Obama, the Saudis welcomed a $110 billion arms package and Trump's more bellicose rhetoric toward mutual enemies like Iran and the Islamic State.\nBut in Europe, Trump's \"America First\" foreign policy appeared to alienate other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the 68-year-old alliance intended to contain Russia \u2014 the country at the center of a growing controversy over ties to Trump aides.\nAt a ceremony meant to solemnize the collective defense provision of the NATO charter in Brussels, Trump failed to explicitly reassure European allies that the U.S. would come to their aid in the event of an attack. Instead, he renewed his complaints that they were not paying their fair share. (In doing so, he misrepresented the commitment by NATO allies to spend at least 2% of their economies on defense.)\nAnd in Sicily, where leaders of the G-7 economic powers gathered, Trump continued his hard-line stance on climate and trade issues. He reportedly told Merkel that Germany was \"bad\" or \"evil\" (depending on the translation) because of its trade imbalance with the United States.\nBut among Trump supporters, his tough talk to foreign leaders drew raves. Sen. 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The two carers are also required for his bedtime routines and other activities during the day. This is part of a lifetime management system, which includes special equipment and strategies, and which will continue to evolve according to his needs. Essentially most everyday functions that able-bodied people take for granted are not possible for Matty without assistance.\nIn June 2016, Matty underwent nerve and tendon transfer surgery to try and gain some function in his fingers. Since the operation, improvement has been seen in his right hand, particularly with his gripping. However, as nerves grow very slowly, it will be up to two years before the full benefits of the surgery are realised. He is currently working on strengthening his upper body and core strength muscles. 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This will allow Matty to manoeuvre around the house and give him the opportunity to do the other things we all take for granted.\nThe support of the \"rugby family\" and the wider community is very much appreciated by Matty, Kylie, their family and the Trust.\nbeyondblue\u2019s mission is to equip everyone in Australia with the knowledge and skills to achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.\nWe give people the confidence to support those around them, and make anxiety, depression and suicide part of everyday conversations.\nAnd as well as tackling stigma, prejudice and discrimination, we\u2019re breaking down the barriers that prevent people from speaking up and reaching out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.villages-news.com/2017/08/07/sam-shepard-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GWX7WVOTKZWG5UJNQS5UW333BRMPGBHW", "length": 2452, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.villages-news.com", "title": "Sam Shepard and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Villages-News: News, events, classifieds in The Villages, FL", "raw_content": "Home Health Sam Shepard and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis\n\u2022 wrote more than 55 plays, often focusing on the serious problems that occur in American family life;\n\u2022 won the most Obie Awards (10) for his off-Broadway writing and directing. In 1979 he received a Pulitzer Prize for his play, Buried Child, and New York Magazine called him \u201cthe greatest American playwright of his generation.\u201d\nHe was born on November 5, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. His \u201cdysfunctional family\u201d served as a basis for characters in many of his plays. His father was a United States Army Air Force bomber pilot during World War II who was also an alcoholic and an abusive husband and father. His loving, supportive mother, a teacher, offset some of the pain and abuse he suffered from his father. In his early years, the family had to move every two years because of army transfers. Later his father left the service and bought an avocado farm in Duarte, California. Shepard briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt. San Antonio College, but soon left school to move to New York City, where he worked as a busboy, played in a psychedelic folk band and tried to break into the theater.\nAt age 35, his acting career took off when he won a role in Terrence Malick\u2019s Days of Heaven, with Richard Gere and Brooke Adams. At the same time, he continued to write successful plays and in 1986 (age 43) he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\nIn his last few years, Shepard suffered privately from ALS, but he described his experience in his last book, The One Inside. One of the characters said that he couldn\u2019t get up from bed in the morning and felt as though his limbs weren\u2019t connected to \u201cthe motor\u201d driving his body. \u201cThey won\u2019t take direction \u2014 won\u2019t be dictated to \u2014 the arms, legs, feet, hands. Nothing moves. Nothing even wants to. The brain isn\u2019t sending signals.\u201d\nThe first sign could be difficulty buttoning a shirt, writing, or turning a key in a lock. The disease usually does not affect a person\u2019s ability to think and reason, so affected people are terribly disturbed by their lack of ability to control their voluntary muscles. As the disease progresses, a person loses the ability to speak, eat, walk and eventually breathe. The most common cause of death is inability to breathe, which typically occurs about 3-5 years after symptoms start. Only about ten percent of affected people live more than ten years after first being diagnosed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 96.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.villages-news.com/event/gin-rummy-tournament-64/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CUZJGTYXP7H6OWEO5JQDHWYSOEWVL7X4", "length": 335, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.villages-news.com", "title": "Gin Rummy Tournament - Villages-News: News, events, classifieds in The Villages, FL", "raw_content": "Colony Cottage Recreation Center\nOn Sept. 17, from 5:20 \u2013 9 p.m. at the Colony Cottage Recreation Center, men and women can come play 5 games against 5 different players with 6 \u2013 10 players, depending on the number of entrees, making the final 2 playoff rounds. Friendly players, always have a wonderful evening of cards and kibitzing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitmysmokies.com/attractions/ramblings-of-a-plaid-mind-show/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5LGEFXFH7W66NLYA5DZXZN65EKLLSHO5", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.visitmysmokies.com", "title": "Ramblings of a Plaid Mind Show - Theaters", "raw_content": "This musical comedy features singing, dancing and comedy. It's a celebration of 40 years of entertainment and foolishness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 107.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voacambodia.com/z/2762/2017/8/22", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYY2CWQ2ZQ7NWKVEYASPT5CL63PSNHXE", "length": 449, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.voacambodia.com", "title": "Science & Technology, 22 August 2017", "raw_content": "Three Years After Public Bus Service Launched, Service Quality Questioned\nThe public bus system, which was resumed in 2014 after a failed pilot project in 2001, is used by up to 8,000 Cambodians each day.\nCambodian Teens Gain \u2018Coopetition\u2019 Experience in Global Robotics Challenge\nThe group of young scientists aged between 16 and 18 were selected to compete in the international technology competition from their schools in rural Siem Reap province.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org936630.jsp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZB6W2RDTYNP5DFPGIJYGPFIBLWUBFOEM", "length": 1020, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.volunteermatch.org", "title": "New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. 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BoxNew Bedford, MA 02741\nTo educate the public about the history and culture of New Bedford's commercial fishing industry by engaging them in authentic experiences, to document that culture and history for future generations, and to honor and support the men and women who make their living from the sea.\nLocated in New Bedford, the nation's most valuable fishing port, the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center is dedicated to preserving and presenting the story of the fishing industry past, present and future through exhibits, programs and archives.\nhttp://www.fishingheritagecenter.org\nWould you recommend New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc.?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 154.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20100226/NEWS/302269987", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:W7VYHOPIBWRA754AC4RRSIOHJLF6WUWA", "length": 635, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.vvdailypress.com", "title": "Junior gun club - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA", "raw_content": "Junior gun club\nA local club geared toward exposing young shooters to gun safety and the correct way to load, handle and shoot a firearm is available twice a month for those willing to aim and pull the trigger.\nThe Apple Valley Gun Club provides .22 caliber rifles, hearing and eye protection, shooting mats and training for young shooters in its Junior Rifle Club, ages 5 to 18. The club meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month for a one-time fee of $20 and $2 for ammunition.\nThe club is at 16699 Stoddard Wells Road in Victorville. For more information, visit www.AppleValleyGunClub.com or call (760) 245-8702.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 2793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wallstreetpr.com/repligen-corporation-nasdaqrgen-delivers-strong-2q-sales-of-protein-a-affinity-ligands-27848", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:4HIKC4PICJHV46CUQJ2N2M54NVEENQYS", "length": 2867, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.wallstreetpr.com", "title": "Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) Delivers Strong 2Q Sales Of Protein A Affinity Ligands - Wall Street PR", "raw_content": "Home Small Cap Stock News Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) Delivers Strong 2Q Sales Of Protein A Affinity Ligands\nRepligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) Delivers Strong 2Q Sales Of Protein A Affinity Ligands\nBoston, MA 08/11/2014 (wallstreetpr) \u2013 Life science company Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) delivered strong sales and earnings number for the second quarter driven by robust sales of protein A affinity ligands apart from higher demand for its chromatography products. As a result, the company\u2019s bottom line came in more than the Street analysts\u2019 estimations.\nThe company\u2019s president and CEO Walter Herlihy said that Repligen\u2019s second quarter financial results were driven by record products, its tactical acquisition of Refine Technology, a bioprocess business, and by key management appoints that included its chief financial officer, as well as, chief operating officer.\nThe CEO indicated that the company witness a strong demand for its chromatography products because of which product revenue advanced 19.5% over the prior year quarter.\nRepligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) said that it expects total revenue of $59 \u2013 $62 million for the current year 2014, which was lifted from its earlier forecast of $58 \u2013 $61 million. As a result, product revenue guidance has also been boosted to $57 \u2013 $60 million from $56 \u2013 $59 million. On average, Wall Street analysts are expecting the company to deliver $59 million revenue.\nThe Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) is also expecting to yield better pricing for its products as it boosted its gross margin outlook to 53% \u2013 55% from its earlier 51% \u2013 53% guidance. Lifting gross margin forecast is a sign of indication that the company can push its products at a higher price. However, it had guided its net income between $8 and $10 million, which was in consistent with its earlier outlook. The company expects to close the year with $64 \u2013 $68 million of cash and cash equivalents.\nRepligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) reported net income of $2.83 million, down from $4.54 million and the earnings dropped to nine cents a share from 14 cents a share in the year-ago quarter. On average, Street analysts\u2019 expected the company to earn six cents a share.\nIts total revenue slipped to $15.55 million from $15.51 million in the previous year quarter, which was higher than the Street analysts\u2019 estimation of $14.85 million.\nRepligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN)\nPrevious articleCisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO): Earnings Or Rumored Layoff To Be In Focus?\nNext articleNokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)\u2019s Feature Phones Survive As Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Rethinks Earlier Decision\nSalem Communications Joins iHeartRadio, CC Media Holdings Hits New Low (CCMO)\nPenny Stock Madness! First Sound Bank Sky Rockets 540% (FSWA)\nIs Worthington Energy Worth Another Look? (WGAS)\nNever Ask A Scarecrow Which Direction to Trade (ONVO)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 5335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walthampublicschools.org/parents/pupil-and-personnell-services/special-education/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:35:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GQYBWJUGRMUGSYQBUZIZ5XPBDMJGFNV6", "length": 4898, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.walthampublicschools.org", "title": "Waltham Public Schools :: Special Education", "raw_content": "The Waltham Public Schools Special Education Department is responsible for making sure that our 1000 students with special education needs successfully access the general education curriculum with the support of specialized instruction and support services. Our students, who range in age from 3 to 22 years old and are in grades Pre-K through post grade 12, have learning needs that are met in the least restrictive educational environment as possible. Specialized programs are found in each building.\nSpecial Education Leadership Team\nDr. Nadene Stein\nAdministrator of Pupil Personnel Services\nJannell Pearson Campbell\nAssistant Director of Special Education, Elementary\nLynn Summerill\nAssistant Director of Special Education, Secondary\nSpecial Education Evaluation Team Leaders (ETLs)\nWaltham Special Education Parent Advisory Council\nThe WSEPAC is a state mandated and supported advisory group comprised of parents, guardians, teachers and administrators working in partnership to promote an innovative environment where children with learning challenges have equal access to educational opportunities, while ensuring that our schools strive to improve educational outcomes for all children. Contact us at walthampac@gmail.com\nWaltham Public Schools Child Find Information\nThe Waltham Public Schools recognizes its responsibility to provide a free and appropriate public education to eligible students with disabilities within its geographical boundaries. The District has a \"child find\" process that is designed to locate, identify and evaluate children with disabilities residing within its geographical boundaries preschool through grade 12 or through age 22 if they have not received a high school diploma.\nIf you know a child who lives within the boundaries of the Waltham Public Schools and attends school in the District who may be in the need of special education and/or related services, please contact the District's Special Education Office for further information regarding the referral and evaluation process. If the student is a school age student who attends a non-public private school that is not located within Waltham\u2019s geographical boundaries, the student may need to be referred to the school district in which the non-public school is located in order to receive services during the regular school year. Please contact that school district for information regarding time deadlines for requests for services.\nWaltham Public School\u2019s Child Find process extends to students with physical or mental impairments that substantially limit a major life activity. Such students may be eligible for services or accommodations pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 504 is a Federal civil rights statute that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities and programs receiving Federal financial assistance. Please contact your child's school\u2019s principal for more information regarding Section 504 eligibility and services.\nWaltham Support Services\nOccupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, School Adjustment Counseling, and Speech and Language Therapy\nParents' Notice of Procedural Safeguards\nDESE's notice to parents about procedural safeguards for all students receiving services in MA public schools.\nThe Parent Information Project aims to enhance the involvement of parents of children with special needs in their children\u2019s education, development, and transition to adult life. For more information, read A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Understanding the Special Education Process.\nProgramas de Educaci\u00f3n Especial\nBecome a member of the WalthamSEPAC\nMembership is open to all interested parties; voting membership is limited to parents or guardians of special needs students residing in Waltham with or without and IEP or 504 Plan, as well as students over the age of 14.\nFor complete details on becoming a member of WSEPAC, you may read the brochure in its entirety here in English, en Espa\u00f1ol, and Creole.\nWSEPAC Monthly Meetings\nHere\u2019s what\u2019s coming up for the Waltham SEPAC 2017 Fall School Year!\nCollaborative Problem Solving Workshop\nWatch Video Footage of October 25th Workshop here!\nFREE Parent Workshop on \u201cCollaborative Problem Solving\u201d\nWednesday, October 25th, 6:00-8:00pm Waltham Public Library, Lecture Hall.\nLearn how to de-escalate your child when tensions are running high!\nAll meetings are held at the Waltham Public Library, Meeting Room A from 6:30-8:00pm unless otherwise notified.\nParent Network Support Group\nAll gatherings are at the WATCH building located at 24 Crescent St, Ste.#201 from 6:30-8:00pm unless otherwise notified.\nFor more detail on all of these important events, you may read the announcements in their entirety here in English, en Espa\u00f1ol, and Creole.\nFree 2-day basketball clinic for students in Special Education grades 4-8! See the flyer below for all the details.\nVisit WalthamSEPAC on Facebook!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 10443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/guide-to-gardens-around-rome.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5M7AMQICKLP2O36PPCZIQAKQKJQOONO2", "length": 9676, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.wantedinrome.com", "title": "Guide to gardens around Rome - Wanted in Rome", "raw_content": "Home News Guide to gardens around Rome\nGuide to gardens around Rome\nA short guide to some of the best and enchanting gardens located just a car ride away from Rome.\nCastel Giuliano.\nOne of the best rose gardens in Lazio about 7 km from Bracciano north of Rome. The estate gardens surround the large square three-storey farm castle, which stands on a high island of volcanic tufa rock facing Cervetari and the sea, and they encompass the church of S. Fillipo Neri in the grounds. The planting of the garden is the work of Marchesa Umbertina Patrizi and shows a garden style that is rarely found in public parks in Italy. There are more than 1,000 rose bushes, including fine climbers on the castle walls. Only open for group bookings. This year's Festa delle Rose takes place on 9-10 May from 10.00-19.00. Palazzo Patrizi, Castel Giuliano, tel. 0699802530, see website for more details.\nOn the island of Ischia off the coast of Naples is an oasis of tropical and Mediterranean plants. The gardens were created in 1958 by Susana Walton, the wife of English composer Sir William Walton. La Mortella is divided into two areas: the valley garden and the hill garden. The valley, designed by celebrated English landscape architect Russell Page, is shady, luxuriant and tropical whilst the hill, designed by Lady Walton, is sunny and Mediterranean. The garden design takes advantage of the sea views and is enriched by fountains. Open until 1 November, on Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 09.00-19.00. La Mortella also organises open-air concerts of classical music in its Greek Theatre which overlooks the sea. Via Francesco Calise 39, Forio d'Ischia (NA), tel. 081986220, see website for more details.\nThe Primavera della Landriana, the annual garden fair and horticultural sale, takes place at the Landriana gardens south of Rome from 24-26 April, from 10.00-19.00. The ten-hectare gardens were created in the 1950s by owner Marchesa Lavinia Taverna Gallarati Scotti with the help of Russell Page. Now considered the most important post-war garden in Italy, Landriana contains 32 secret rooms and walks including one planted entirely with Mutabilis roses. Driving from Rome, take Via Pontina or the coastal road to Ardea, or by train on the Rome-Nettuno line to Campo di Carne. Via Campo di Carne 51, Tor S. Lorenzo, Ardea, tel. 0691014140, see website for more details.\nThis romantic English-style garden spread over eight hectares was built by the Caetani family at the start of the 20th century on the ruins of the mediaeval town of Ninfa. The garden is open to all, without obligatory booking, from 4 April to 4 October on the first Saturday and Sunday of the month, on the third Sunday of June and the first Sunday in November. This year it is open every Sunday in April and May. However groups (minimum of 30 people) that book a guided tour can visit the gardens all year round. Ninfa is part of the natural monument of the same name established by the Lazio region in 2000. Fondazione Roffredo Caetani Onlus, Via della Fortezza 04010 Sermoneta (Ninfa), see website for more details.\nThis botanic garden is located in the heart of Trastevere, behind Palazzo Corsini and across from the Villa Farnesina, on a 12-hectare sloping site filled with palms, yucca and terraces with gravel paths. Established in 1883 after the Corsini family donated it to the Italian government, it is now run by the University of Rome La Sapienza. The gardens host over 3,500 species of plants, including specially-cultivated plants in danger of extinction in the wild, and feature a scent-and-touch garden for the visually impaired. Open every day except Sunday until 18 Oct 09.00-18.30, and from 19 Oct-29 March 09.00-17.30. Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, Trastevere, tel. 0649917106, see website for more details.\nThe Barberini gardens at Castel Gandolfo are located in the Alban hills about 25 km south-east of the capital, and have spectacular views over Lake Albano. The 30-hectare papal gardens feature ancient Roman ruins dating back to Emperor Domitian as well as a square of holly oaks, paths of roses and aromatic herbs, and a magnolia garden. The 55-hectare site, which includes a 25-hectare Vatican farm, has acted as a papal retreat since the 17th century but in 2014 was opened to the public by Pope Francis for the first time. The 1.5-hour guided tours of the Barberini gardens are held Mon-Sat at 08.30, 10.30 and 11.30. Tours can be booked by emailing visiteguidategruppi.musei@scv.va, full visiting information on the Vatican Museums website.\nPontifical Gardens at Castelgandolfo\nRome\u2019s municipal rose garden on the Aventine hill generally opens from 21 April until 15 June. There are two separate sections overlooking the Palatine hill and Circo Massimo: the upper garden with its collection of classic \u201cold roses\u201d, and the lower garden featuring the entries of the prestigious annual international rose competition known as the Premio Roma, which this year takes place on 16 May, and a collection of winning roses from previous years. The gardens will be closed on the day of the prize-giving but from the next day onwards the public can admire the winning specimens. The Roseto is home to over 1,000 varieties including a green-blossomed rose from China. Daily 08.30-19.30. Via di Valle Murcia 6, tel. 065746810, rosetoromacapitale@comune.roma.it.\nS. Liberato\nThe garden was designed in the 1960s by landscape architect Russell Page, around the romanesque church of S. Liberato near Lake Bracciano north of Rome. Huge lawns and beds of plants, shrubs and flowers, a mediaeval herb garden, a formal rose garden with more than 1,000 rose bushes, and rare specimen trees, maples, Japanese cherry trees, liquidambar and liriodendra. The garden is open to the public on selected days from 2 May until 15 June, and from 1 October until November. Guided 1.5-hour visits are possible at other times for groups of at least 20 people, by prior arrangement, reduced prices for groups. Via Settevene Palo 33, S. Liberato, 00062 Bracciano, tel. 99805460, see website for more details.\nBuilt for the Cardinal Ippolito D'Este around 1555, these complex renaissance water gardens in Tivoli are among the most famous in the world. Water from the nearby river Aniene is channeled under the city of Tivoli to feed the gardens' vast range of spectacular fountains, including the celebrated organ fountain. Cascades, pools, water staircases, grottoes and nymphs are revealed at every turn. The villa has a bar and restaurant on the terrace overlooking the gardens and there is a bookshop. Open daily, except Monday, from 08.30, with last entry in April at 18.30, and at 18.45 in the summer months until September. For full details see website. Piazza Trento 5, Tivoli, tel. 199766166, villadestetivoli@teleart.org.\nCULTURAL ACADEMY GARDENS\nThe American Academy includes five hectares of organically-cultivated gardens on the Janiculum hill. The Aurelia Gardens were originally laid down by the Farnese family in the 17th century, and follow a classical layout. They are characterised by giant dome-shaped topiaries and fountains and the entry drive is lined with mixed borders of white and blue flowering plants. The Bass Garden at the McKim, Mead & White Building and around the Casa Rustica features cherry trees, olives, cypresses and Roman pines. It also has an orchard with persimmons, apricot, plum and crab apple trees. The gardens are home to the Rome Sustainable Food Project whose organic produce is enjoyed by the academy's community. American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 0658461, see website for more details.\nWith their cherry trees, wisteria, irises and dwarf pines the gardens of the Rome\u2019s Japanese Cultural Institute feature all the essential elements associated with the Sen-en style, including a waterfall, ponds, an ornamental bridge and a traditional t\u014dr\u014d stone lamp. The gardens are the work of garden designer Ken Nakajima, who was also responsible for the Japanese section of the botanic gardens in Trastevere. Groups of 15-20 people are taken on guided tours, free of charge, but booking by telephone is necessary. The gardens are open to the public with tours every half hour on Thursdays and Fridays from 15.00-16.30, and on Saturdays from 10.00-12.00, until 30 May. Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Via A. Gramsci 74, tel. 063224754, see website for more details.\nLocated between Trinit\u00e0 di Monti and Villa Borghese, Villa Medici has been home to the French Academy in Rome since 1803. Its magnificent 16th-century gardens are laid out in a series of squares, lawns and fountains. Distinctive features of the gardens are the umbrella pines and sculptures, the most admired being the group of Niobe's dying children. The celebrated French artist Balthus, who was academy director from 1961-1977, had copies made of the fourth-century Niobe orginals. The gardens are open every day except Monday for guided tours in English, French and Italian. However groups (up to 25 people) can book a visit at any time. Acad\u00e9mie de France \u00e0 Rome - Villa Medici, Viale Trinit\u00e0 dei Monti 1, tel. 0667611, see website for more details.\nPrevious article US student dies three months after Rome fall\nNext article Rome's Metro A closes early from 14 April\nRome uncovers absenteeism among city gardeners\nNinfa Garden wins prestigious European award\nDiscover Rome\u2019s largest park\nRome auditorium transforms into forest\nRome's waterfall garden reopens after 56 years\nRome's Villa Celimontana restored\nCastel Gandolfo papal gardens open to public\nGuided tours of Rome\u2019s parks\nRome\u2019s rose garden\nRestoration of Villa Celimontana\nNinfa\u2019s Pantanello Park reopens\nAutumn at Landriana Gardens", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 630, "original_length": 21267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wanttoknow.info/15/2-ufo-files-psychedelic-billionaires", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:11Z", "digest": "sha1:D4U4B57YKLYB5SVP2C6ZIIHOK6I43AXE", "length": 31563, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "www.wanttoknow.info", "title": "UFO Files, Psychedelic Billionaires", "raw_content": "Clinton Chief of Staff on UFO Files, Psychedelic Billionaires, Fighting Addiction With Connection\nBelow are key excerpts of revealing news articles on Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta going on the record about UFO files, the revelation that psychedelic drug use is commonplace amongst billionaires and tech industry leaders, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's extremely poor handling of corporate investigations that has made it impossible to know how much published medical data is inaccurate, and more.\nRead also wonderfully inspiring articles on Portugal's successful use of a suppressed theory of addiction to restore addicts to health by focusing on their unmet need for human connection, the incredible success of the populist 'common man' party in India's recent elections, the world's largest solar power installation, and more. You can also skip to this section now.\nThank you!!! Thank you so much to all who donated around $1,500 after the recent message on our financial status. We deeply appreciate all of your support.\nSpecial Note: Watch a richly inspiring five-minute video of Maya Angelou titled \"Love Liberates.\" For those who can stomach it, read this disturbing article about the likely murder of Bill Bowen, a man who was about to complete a documentary exposing blatant, horrible abuse by Child Protective Services that was covered up at high levels. Any who have lost a child will great appreciate this video showing the beautiful way one woman overcame her incredible grief. Watch the powerful trailer of a film titled \"The Mask You Live In\" showing how men are taught to be aggressive and suppress their emotions.\nQuote of the Week: \"When we look into our shadows, we see darkness is just another aspect of the light.\" -- Gerar Toye\nVideo of the Week: Watch a most profound six-minute video showing how even in the midst of incredible despair, healing and even transformation is entirely possible. Thank you, Anna, for your courage in sharing this video. If video cuts short, see the end on this webpage.\nObama aide John Podesta says 'biggest failure' was not securing the disclosure of UFO files\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/02/13/obama...\nOutgoing Obama counselor John Podesta remains a devoted fan of things extraterrestrial. When Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, returned to White House duty in late 2013, we wrote that his arrival meant \"the Obama presidential library will be inundated \u2013 just as the Clinton library in Little Rock has been \u2013 with Freedom of Information Act requests, such as this one: for 'e-mails to and from John Podesta, containing the words either, X-Files or Area 51.'\" Karen Tumulty asked him in 2007 about the FOIA jam at the library, and Podesta, through a spokesman, replied: \"The truth is out there.\" And, just to make sure the FOIA requesters don't forget, Podesta tweeted Thursday: Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere.\nNote: Read more in this intriguing article and this one. Podesta wrote the introduction to a 2010 book titled, \"UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.\" Watch Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, talk about what really happened at Roswell. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing UFO news articles from reliable major media sources.\nWhen Silicon Valley takes LSD\nhttp://money.cnn.com/2015/01/25/technology/lsd-psychedelics-silicon-valley\nIn Silicon Valley, there is a premium on creativity, and tools thought to induce or enhance it are avidly sought. Some view psychedelics as ... a way to approach problems differently. There's no definitive scientific evidence that LSD or other hallucinogens improve creativity, and the DEA classifies LSD as a highly addictive, Schedule I drug. But the belief that they might work as a creative tool is enough to fuel some technologists' hope for professional epiphanies. Tim Ferriss, a Silicon Valley investor and author of \"The 4-Hour Workweek,\" says he knows many successful entrepreneurs who dabble in psychedelics. \"The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use hallucinogens on a regular basis,\" Ferriss said. \"[They're] trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world ... and ask completely new questions.\" The phenomenon was satirized on HBO's Silicon Valley when psychedelic mushrooms guide one of the show's main characters in the hunt for a new name for their startup. A recent study at Imperial College London provides a possible explanation. Twenty participants ingested LSD and then had their brain activity monitored in an fMRI machine. The drug [allowed] new patterns of communication to form. \"Psychedelics dismantle 'well-worn' networks, and this allows novel communication patterns to occur. Modules that don't usually talk to each other are talking to each other more,\" explained Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, the researcher who conducted the study.\nNote: Food justice champion Michael Pollan recently wrote a fascinating article prominently featured in the venerable magazine The New Yorker about the amazing power of psilocybin mushrooms to create profound healing in carefully controlled environments. It is subtitled \"Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.\" Are the healing potentials of mind altering drugs finally starting to receive honest mainstream attention?\nResearch misconduct often unreported in published studies\nFebruary 9, 2015, NBC/Reuters\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/56951863#.VOheuSyeaZk\nWhen U.S. health regulators find serious problems with how medical researchers collect their data, the researchers' final reports often don't mention it, a new analysis suggests. Out of 78 published papers reporting on clinical trials in which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found very serious issues, only three mentioned any violations, the new report says. \"These are major things,\" said Charles Seife, a journalism professor and the study's author. Using documents and data from 1998 to 2013, Seife and his students at New York University in New York City identified 57 clinical trials that received an \"official action indicated\" violation - the most serious type of violation for trials - for reasons including poor record keeping, false information and poor patient safety. The problems that weren't reported were sometimes egregious. One paper, for example, said all patients reported improvement, but in fact, the FDA found that one patient had a foot amputated two weeks after receiving the treatment. In another case, the entire clinical trial was considered unreliable by the FDA - but the published paper didn't mention that. In another, researchers falsified data, which led to one patient's death. Data on these violations are not readily available. So it's impossible to say how often tainted data are published and how often the violations are noted, Seife said.\nNote: Read an informative article with much more detail about the egregious conduct of the FDA. This article raises the question, \"Why does the FDA stay silent about fraud and misconduct in scientific studies of medicine?\" For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing science corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.\nSenior London Telegraph Writer Peter Oborne Quits Over HSBC Allegations\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/peter-oborne...\nA senior writer at the Daily Telegraph has dramatically quit the newspaper after accusing its owners, the Barclay Brothers, of suppressing reports about the HSBC scandal out of fear of losing advertising revenue. Peter Oborne, the paper's chief political commentator and an award-winning author, announced his resignation [and] accused the Telegraph of committing a \"fraud\" on readers. Mr Oborne detailed a series of investigations about HSBC, and other financial scandals, which he said executives at the newspaper had closed down. Mr Oborne wrote: \"From the start of 2013 onwards stories critical of HSBC were discouraged [because] HSBC [had] suspended its advertising with the Telegraph. \"Its account ... was extremely valuable. HSBC, as one former Telegraph executive told me, is 'the advertiser you literally cannot afford to offend'. \"Winning back the HSBC advertising account became an urgent priority. It was eventually restored after approximately 12 months. Executives say that Murdoch MacLennan [chief executive of Telegraph Media Group] was determined not to allow any criticism of the international bank.\" As a result of a 2012 investigation into accounts held by HSBC in Jersey, he claimed: \"Reporters were ordered to destroy all emails, reports and documents related to the HSBC investigation. I [resigned] as a matter of conscience. The past few years have seen the rise of shadowy executives who determine what truths can and what truths can't be conveyed across the mainstream media.\"\nNote: Oborne's online resignation provides a unique window into some of the ways that big money is used to manipulate the media. Read lots more on HSBC's empire of corruption in a Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi. HSBC was founded to service the international drug trade in the 19th century, and launders money for mobsters and terrorists on a massive scale.\nSpy agencies could be funding geo-engineering research in pursuit of weaponising the weather, scientists claims\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/spy-agencies-could-be-funding...\nA senior American climate scientist has spoken of the fear he experienced when US intelligence services apparently asked him about the possibility of weaponising the weather as a major report on geo-engineering is to be published this week. During a debate on the use of geo-engineering to combat climate change ... Prof Robock said: \"I got a phone call from two men who said we work as consultants for the CIA and we'd like to know if some other country was controlling our climate, would we know about it? \"I told them, after thinking a little bit, that we probably would because if you put enough material in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight we would be able to detect it and see the equipment that was putting it up there. \"At the same time I thought they were probably also interested in if we could control somebody else's climate, could they detect it?\" Professor Robock, who has investigated the potential risks and benefits of using stratospheric particles to simulate the climate-changing effects of volcanic eruptions, said he felt \"scared\" when the approach was made. \"I'd learned of lots of other things the CIA had done that haven't followed the rules and I thought that wasn't how I wanted my tax money spent. Professor Robock's concerns come as a major report on geo-engineering is to be published this week by the US National Academy of Sciences. Among the report's list of sponsors is the \"US intelligence community.\" The professor alleges that ... the US government had a proven history of using the weather in a hostile way.\nNote: The National Academy of Science's two-part report says that geoengineering technologies \"present serious known and possible unknown environmental, social, and political risks, including the possibility of being deployed unilaterally.\" With a deeply corrupt scientific establishment being guided by corrupt intelligence agencies to meddle with the planet's total ecology, and with low public awareness about the messy history of mysterious atmospheric experiments over cities in the U.S. and elsewhere, what could possibly go wrong? For solid evidence the military has used the weather as a weapon, read about HAARP.\nRabbis' absolute power: how sex abuse tore apart Australia's Orthodox Jewish community\nFebruary 18, 2015, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/19/rabbis-absolute-power...\nFrom a Melbourne courtroom, the torment of the Chabad rabbis was streamed live to the world as the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse probed the city's secretive and powerful Yeshivah community. Sharp divisions in the Jewish world have been exposed. Two rabbis, including one of the nation's most prominent, have been forced from their posts. Whistleblowers, humiliated and ostracised for years by Yeshivah, have been dramatically vindicated. More victims have come forward. More criminal charges may follow. Yeshivah schools face a nightmare of civil litigation. The cast is Jewish, yet the bones of this story are familiar to anyone who has followed the scandal of child abuse in Christian schools and parishes. The witness stand of a royal commission is a cruel place for men of any faith. Cardinals and preachers are not used to being held to account. In their world, facts don't necessarily matter. Belief is everything. Up against the law, compelled to answer, they find themselves trapped in daylight. Over 10 long days of hearings in Melbourne, rabbi after rabbi apologised for the failings of the Chabad-Lubavitcher communities of St Kilda and Bondi. Some did so bluntly. Some only when they were cornered by tough questioning. Only Rabbi Moshe Gutnick seized the opportunity. \"I and many of my so-called ultra-Orthodox friends and colleagues share the outrage as to what has gone on here,\" he told the commissioners.\nNote: For more on this disturbing story read this article also in the UK's Guardian. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.\nSwiss prosecutors are shocked by HSBC's tax scandal\nFebruary 18, 2015, Fortune\nhttp://fortune.com/2015/02/18/swiss-prosecutors-are-shocked-shocked...\nA scandal implicating HSBC in alleged tax evasion widened further Wednesday, as Swiss prosecutors raided the Geneva headquarters of its private bank in Switzerland. The raid, in connection with an investigation into 'aggravated money-laundering', marks the latest twist in a saga that dates back 10 years. Materials leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ... indicated that HSBC aggressively marketed schemes suitable for tax evasion to rich clients across the world. The materials come from a stash of files stolen from HSBC by Herv\u00e9 Falciani, a former employee and whistleblower. Falciani was indicted in Switzerland in December for industrial espionage and for breaking the law on banking secrecy. Falciani's files have already led to criminal investigations in France, Belgium and Argentina. The Swiss authorities' action Wednesday, however, is the first to suggest that they regard tax evasion itself as a bigger crime than exposing it. [HSBC has also recently] been found guilty of manipulating benchmark interest and foreign exchange rates, [and] desperately needs to be able to prove that it has not aided or abetted tax evasion or money-laundering since December 2012. That was when it signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. after admitting to helping Iran get round sanctions and laundering the profits of Mexican drug trafficking gangs. Any evidence that it has broken that DPA could lead to it losing its all-important license to bank in the U.S., destroying its status as a global bank overnight.\nNote: Read lots more on HSBC's sweetheart deal with U.S. officials in a Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi. US Senator Elizabeth Warren is working hard to bring justice in this case. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about systemic corruption in government and the financial industry.\nA Whistleblower's Horror Story\nFebruary 18, 2015, Rolling Stone\nhttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/a-whistleblowers-horror...\nOne man's story in particular highlights just about everything that can go wrong when you give evidence against your bosses in America: former Countrywide/Bank of America whistleblower Michael Winston. Two years ago this month, Winston was being celebrated in the news as a hero. He'd blown the whistle on Countrywide Financial, the bent mortgage lender that ... nearly blew up the global economy. Today, Winston [has] spent over a million dollars fighting Countrywide (and the firm that acquired it, Bank of America) in court. At first, that fight proved a good gamble, as a jury granted him a multi-million-dollar award for retaliation and wrongful termination. But after Winston won that case, an appellate judge not only wiped out that jury verdict, but allowed Bank of America to counterattack him. The bank eventually beat him for nearly $98,000 in court costs. That single transaction means a good guy in the crisis drama, Winston, had by the end of 2014 paid a larger individual penalty than virtually every wrongdoer connected with the financial collapse of 2008. When Winston protested his preposterous punishment on the grounds that a trillion-dollar company recouping legal fees from an unemployed whistleblower was unreasonable and unnecessary, a California Superior Court judge denied his argument \u2013 get this \u2013 on the grounds that Winston failed to prove a disparity in resources between himself and Bank of America! Four years later, we're still waiting for the first criminal conviction against any individual for crisis-era corruption. There's been no significant reform. What we've seen instead is a series of cash deals with the most corrupt companies.\nNote: Countrywide bought political influence to more effectively defraud institutional investors and taxpayers. Thanks to Winston, they were caught and proven guilty. But Bank of America purchased Countrywide, and has been paying off officials in secret deals to continue skirting the law without admitting wrongdoing. And Michael Winston now has to pay Bank of America for their trouble.\nIn the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans didn't know how banking really works, because if they did, \"there'd be a revolution before tomorrow morning\". Last week, something remarkable happened. The Bank of England let the cat out of the bag. In a paper called \"Money Creation in the Modern Economy\", co-authored by three economists from the Bank's Monetary Analysis Directorate, they stated outright that most common assumptions of how banking works are simply wrong, and that the kind of populist, heterodox positions more ordinarily associated with groups such as Occupy Wall Street are correct. It's [an incorrect] understanding that allows us to continue to talk about money as if it were a limited resource like bauxite or petroleum, to say \"there's just not enough money\" to fund social programmes, to speak of the immorality of government debt or of public spending \"crowding out\" the private sector. To quote from its own initial summary: \"Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits\" When banks make loans, they create money. This is because money is really just an IOU. The role of the central bank is to preside over a legal order that effectively grants banks the exclusive right to create IOUs of a certain kind, ones that the government will recognise as legal tender by its willingness to accept them in payment of taxes. There's really no limit on how much banks could create. The Bank's job is to actually run the system, and of late, the system has not been running especially well.\nMedia watchdog laments global decline in press freedoms\nFebruary 12, 2015, The Star/Associated Press\nhttp://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/02/12/media-watchdog...\nRussia, the United States, Japan and many parts of Europe lost ground last year in its ranking of global press freedoms. The rise of non-state groups, crackdowns on demonstrations, wars and economic crises provided a backdrop for a tough 2014. The Paris-based media watchdog [Reporters Without Borders] said two-thirds of the 180 countries surveyed in its annual World Press Freedom index scored worse than a year earlier. Western Europe, while top-ranked, lost the most ground as a region. Three Nordic countries headed the list, but there was slippage in Italy \u2013 where Mafia and other threats weighed on journalists \u2013 and Iceland, where the relationship between the media and politicians soured. The U.S. fell three places to 49th amid a \"war on information\" by the Obama administration. Reporters also faced difficulty covering events like demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, where black teen Michael Brown was shot dead in August by a white police officer. Russia dropped two notches to 152nd place after passing \"draconian laws\" to limit freedom of information, the group said. Legislation allowing access to information helped Mongolia jump 34 spots \u2013 the highest single advance \u2013 to 54th place. China, Iran and North Korea all remained among the 10 lowest-ranked countries. The group uses seven criteria to calculate its index \u2013 measures for media independence, the diversity of opinions expressed, self-censorship, transparency, abuses and the legislative environment.\nNote: For more on ongoing threats to press freedom, see concise summaries of deeply revealing media manipulation stories from reliable sources.\nTV News and the Idea of Truth\nFebruary 17, 2015, New York Times\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/us/tv-news-and-the-idea-of-truth.html?_r=0\nI have been the guest of both Jon Stewart and Brian Williams, the newsy comedian and the comedic newsman who announced very different sorts of leave-taking last week. As they depart \u2013 Mr. Stewart honorably, Mr. Williams with his integrity in doubt \u2013 I found myself recalling very different experiences on their shows. On Mr. Stewart's show, the truth was a process; on Mr. Williams's, it was an outcome. \"The Daily Show\" deconstructed purported truths. \"Nightly News\" took precarious facts and fallible \"experts\" and constructed them into something purporting to be Truth. An under-told aspect of Mr. Stewart's legacy is how much his deconstructing spirit meant to many in the less open parts of the world. On a reporting trip to China some years ago, I was struck by the risks young people took to download the show illegally and, in some cases, to subtitle and disseminate it for others. I telephoned one such Stewart fan in Beijing to ask how she was coping with his departure. \"We hope he can delay his resigning until after the 2016 election,\" said Maggie Chen. \"We're not interested in your politics,\" she said, adding: \"We're interested in the style of the show, and the idea that you can use jokes to tell the truth.\" As a young Chinese woman living through a widening crackdown on free speech, Ms. Chen admires the show's exploration of \"the things behind the news or within the news.\"\nNote: \"The Daily Show\" has used irreverent comedy to talk about NSA spying, financial industry malfeasance, racial inequality, and even to celebrate child heroes of a global human rights struggle.\nAPS authored Congressional letter to feds asking to crack down on solar industry\nJanuary 16, 2015, ABC's Arizona Affiliate\nhttp://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/aps...\nArizona's largest utility company has been at odds with the solar panel industry for years. Now, APS [Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility] is asking the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on solar companies. But they didn't ask them directly. Six Arizona Congressmen sent letters to federal regulators asking them to investigate solar leasing companies. Reporter Evan Wyloge ... has the original letter and proves it's actually APS spearheading the effort. Arizona Public Service [is] one of the largest campaign donors for the group of lawmakers. The APS-authored, congressmen-signed letter comes as the latest in an ongoing effort to stymie third-party solar panel companies, whose business has grown tenfold over the past half-decade, presenting a challenge to the long-term business model of traditional utilities like APS. The high-profile fight between the traditional utility and newer rooftop solar panel companies is not unique to Arizona. Similar struggles have emerged in other states. On Nov. 19, Democratic Reps. Ron Barber, Ann Kirkpatrick and Kyrsten Sinema asked [regulators] in a joint letter to ... look into solar panel leasing practices. Then, on Dec. 12, Republican Reps. Trent Franks, Paul Gosar and Matt Salmon sent a similar letter to the FTC. After both letters were sent, the Arizona Corporation Commission voted late in 2014 to open a docket on consumer complaints about solar companies. Initial hearings are expected to begin this spring.\nNote: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing government corruption and energy news articles from reliable major media sources.\nFebruary 12, 2015, Yes! Magazine\nhttp://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/portugal-cut-drug-addiction...\nThe experiment is simple. Put a rat in a cage, alone, with two water bottles. One is just water. The other is water laced with heroin or cocaine. Almost every time you run this experiment, the rat will become obsessed with the drugged water, and keep coming back for more and more, until it kills itself. But in the 1970s ... Bruce Alexander noticed [that] the rat is put in the cage all alone. It has nothing to do but take the drugs. What would happen, he wondered, if we tried this differently? So Professor Alexander built Rat Park. It is a lush cage where the rats would have colored balls and the best rat-food and tunnels to scamper down and plenty of friends. The rats with good lives ... mostly shunned [the drugged water]. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment did. Professor Alexander argues [that] addiction is an adaptation. It's not you. It's your cage. This gives us an insight that goes much deeper than the need to understand addicts. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection. This isn't [just] theoretical. 15 years ago, Portugal had one of the worst drug problems in Europe, with one percent of the population addicted to heroin. They had tried a drug war, and the problem just kept getting worse. So they decided to do something radically different. They resolved to decriminalize all drugs, and transfer all the money they used to spend on arresting and jailing drug addicts, and spend it instead on reconnecting them to their own feelings, and to the wider society. The results? Since total decriminalization, addiction has fallen, and injecting drug use is down by 50 percent.\nFebruary 10, 2015, Christian Science Monitor\nhttp://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2015/0210/Delhi-election...\nIndia's two political giants were defeated Tuesday by an anti-corruption party led by a former tax inspector. Arvind Kejriwal, a youthful-looking former tax inspector and winner of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, has pulled off a stunning near-sweep in New Delhi's local elections on Tuesday. The Aam Aadmi, or \"Common Man,\" party won 67 of 70 seats in New Delhi, the largest single victory ever in India's capital. The party's victory also marks the first major loss for the Hindu nationalist BJP party since its own sweep of India last spring, [and] the first time that Congress, the venerable party associated with the liberation movement of Mohandas Gandhi, failed to win a single seat in Delhi. The success of the Common Man party stems from its sustained campaign against corruption combined with a dedicated army of volunteers. Analysts say Kejriwal also benefited from the perceived arrogance or overconfidence of the BJP. Kejriwal existed for years under the political radar in India, surfacing from time to time to take up \"transparency\" issues like clarifying the Right to Information Act. He was born in 1968 in a middle class family from Haryana state in the north and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering, moving then to work for the Tata group and then the Indian public tax service. Kejriwal entered politics in 2012 and championed transparency and anti-corruption. He launched a party that brought together activists, youth, and poor people, and his anti-graft ideas caused a stir nationwide. His party's symbol is a broom, a reference to its origins as an anti-graft campaign group.\nWorld's largest solar plant opens in California desert\nFebruary 10, 2015, USA Today\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/10/worlds-largest-solar...\nThe Southern California desert is now home to the world's largest solar power plant. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell joined state officials on Monday to open the 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in the town of Desert Center, Calif., near Joshua Tree National Park. Built by First Solar, the project generates enough electricity to power 160,000 average California homes. Desert Sunlight received a federal loan of nearly $1.5 billion. Money provided by the project's owners ... is also being used to fund $400,000 in improvements to the community center in nearby Desert Center. Desert Sunlight is the world's largest solar power plant, although only by a hair. The Topaz solar project in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. \u2013 which, like Desert Sunlight, was built by Arizona-based First Solar \u2013 also has a capacity of 550 megawatts. But the desert has more abundant sunlight than San Luis Obispo County, so Desert Sunlight will actually generate more electricity than Topaz, said Georges Antoun, First Solar's chief operating officer. California as a whole has installed more renewable energy than any other state, noted David Hochschild, a member of the California Energy Commission. \"There were a lot of skeptics who actually didn't believe that renewables could scale, that this cost reduction could happen, that we could introduce it to the grid,\" Hochschild said. \"They've been proven wrong.\"\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/01/28...\nAmerica is a nation of pavement. According to research conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, most cities' surfaces are 35 to 50 percent composed of the stuff. And 40 percent of that pavement is parking lots. That has a large effect: Asphalt and concrete absorb the sun's energy, retaining heat \u2013 and contributing to the \"urban heat island effect,\" in which cities are hotter than the surrounding areas. So what if there were a way to cut down on that heat, cool down the cars that park in these lots, power up those parked cars that are electric vehicles, and generate a lot of energy to boot? There is actually a technology that does all of this \u2013 solar carports. It's just what it sounds like \u2013 covering up a parking lot with solar panels, which are elevated above the ground so that cars park in the shade beneath a canopy of photovoltaics. Depending of course on the size of the array, you can generate a lot of power. For instance, one vast solar carport installation at Rutgers University is 28 acres in size and produces 8 megawatts of power, or about enough energy to power 1,000 homes. So what's the downside here? And why aren't solar parking lots to be found pretty much everywhere you turn? In a word, the problem is cost. They are mainly springing up in Arizona, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York and most of all California. That's because these states offer an array of state financial incentives to support their development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 729, "original_length": 53299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/26/the-price-republicans-pay-for-embracing-know-nothingism/?utm_term=.9e7f53612c3d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4MFTSBBHE6I52VPL37PH4DTGFUDIXYI6", "length": 7141, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "The price Republicans pay for embracing know-nothingism - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "The price Republicans pay for embracing know-nothingism\nSen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Sept. 4. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\nFor years, Republicans have refused to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change. With the Trump administration\u2019s own report confirming both the fact and urgency of climate change, some Republicans are begrudgingly moving to concede reality \u2014 in the most equivocal fashion possible. (Other Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida wrongly insist there is doubt that climate change is man-made, despite the danger that increasingly extreme climate conditions pose to their constituents.)\nReleased on Friday (in the Trump administration\u2019s ham-handed effort to tamp down attention), the latest government report, the Fourth National Climate Assessment, was unflinching in its assessment of the dangers all of us face because of climate change:\nEarth\u2019s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. The impacts of global climate change are already being felt in the United States and are projected to intensify in the future\u2014but the severity of future impacts will depend largely on actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the changes that will occur. Americans increasingly recognize the risks climate change poses to their everyday lives and livelihoods and are beginning to respond . . .\nClimate-related risks will continue to grow without additional action. Decisions made today determine risk exposure for current and future generations and will either broaden or limit options to reduce the negative consequences of climate change. While Americans are responding in ways that can bolster resilience and improve livelihoods, neither global efforts to mitigate the causes of climate change nor regional efforts to adapt to the impacts currently approach the scales needed to avoid substantial damages to the U.S. economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades.\nChris Wallace grilled Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Sunday about the report, which painted a picture of dire consequences if we continue to ignore the obvious issue of climate change:\nWALLACE: Senator, how seriously do you take this report from the Trump administration?\nSASSE: Well, I think it\u2019s clear that the climate is changing. I think reasonable people can differ about how much and how rapidly. But I think it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s changing and it\u2019s clear that humans are a contributing factor.\nI think the real question, though, becomes what do you do about it? Because you can\u2019t legislate or regulate your way into the past. We have to innovate our way into the future.\nAnd right now, you don\u2019t hear a lot of people who put climate as their number one issue. You don\u2019t hear a lot of them offering constructive innovative solutions for the future. It\u2019s usually just a lot of alarmism, but I think the report is important and it shows that the climate is changing.\nWALLACE: But, for instance, you oppose what you call EPA overreach, including President Obama\u2019s climate change plan. According to the report, rolling that back, which would limit greenhouse gas emissions, is exactly the wrong approach.\nSASSE: Yes. Well, I think we have to recognize that this is a global issue and China and other countries that are rapidly building middle classes are going to be the number one drivers in the long term. So, what the U.S. needs to do is participate in a long-term conversation about how you get to innovation. And it\u2019s going to need to be a conversation, again, that doesn\u2019t start with alarmism, but that starts with some discussion of the magnitude of the challenge, the global elements to it and how the U.S. shouldn\u2019t just do this is a feel-good measure, but some sort of innovative proposal.\nAnd right now, that\u2019s not really what I get from most of the people who make this a top two or three issue for themselves.\nWALLACE: But just quickly, I want to move on to other subjects, China for instance is trying to grow into the future and has become a huge investor in solar panels. There was an international agreement in which countries made commitments, the Paris Climate Accord and the president is going to pull us out of that.\nSo, aren\u2019t \u2014 isn\u2019t much of the rest of the world actually moving faster than we are?\nSASSE: So, I distinguish between the two parts of your answer. I think the first part about Chinese investment does show part of the way forward. The U.S. needs to have a long-term investment and innovation strategy, that\u2019s true.\nBut things like the Paris Climate Accord tend to be more binding on us than on other nations. And so, that\u2019s not good for the U.S. consumer and it\u2019s not a long-term solution. But conversations like that are certainly important going forward.\nOne is left wondering what Sasse is really complaining about. Alarmism? Well, the administration is sounding the alarm (\u201cthe evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country, and that climate-related threats to Americans\u2019 physical, social, and economic well-being are rising\u201d). It\u2019s almost as if Sasse and other Republicans so identify with their political tribe (the Trumpized GOP) that they cannot fathom adopting views inconsistent with its dogma, which has included climate-change denial. (It\u2019s noteworthy that Sasse was a former university president; one assumes at this point no respectable university would hire a climate-change denier as its president.) Their tribal identifiers force Republicans to ignore facts, depart from reality and insist on doubt where there is none.\n\u201cYou can address these problems that are market friendly, nongovernment bureaucracy, intrusive manner that would be more effective in my view,\u201d Bill Kristol said on CNN. \u201cBut Trump is just \u2014 is it impossible to even have that discussion with Trump. Trump attacks everyone\u2019s motives, attacks everyone\u2019s, you know, makes it seem like there\u2019s no reasonable position on the other side. And then people \u2014 the Republicans sort of follow him like sheep and the party looks idiotic.\u201d Indeed.\nWhether it is climate change or trade protectionism or FBI conspiracy theories, Republicans fear deviating from the Trumpian know-nothingism. They cling to the Trump/GOP hymnal, no matter how illogical or a-factual, while desperately trying to add a few caveats in order to avoid sounding idiotic. As a result, they sound both insincere and clueless. Perhaps they might consider simply embracing reality and criticizing Trump when he makes patently false statements.\nMax Boot: The GOP is now the party of neo-Confederates\nKaren Tumulty: Trump wants to interfere with the scales of justice. These policies could curb him.\nE.J. Dionne Jr.: This is the only Trump syndrome we need to worry about\nJennifer Rubin: Trump\u2019s incoherence is too much \u2014 and it\u2019s getting worse\nGreg Sargent: Trump is failing miserably on his biggest issue. And he\u2019s covering it up with lies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 8407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/uae-hacked-qatari-government-sites-sparking-regional-upheaval-according-to-us-intelligence-officials/2017/07/16/00c46e54-698f-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_usqatar-640pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b042269ad4ed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:36:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WJZWX4YP5J3DO24JMW764M4S2IKZUD5Y", "length": 11274, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials\nThe United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar\u2019s emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, in late May that sparked the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbors, according to U.S. intelligence officials.\nOfficials became aware last week that newly analyzed information gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that on May 23, senior members of the UAE government discussed the plan and its implementation. The officials said it remains unclear whether the UAE carried out the hacks itself or contracted to have them done. The false reports said that the emir, among other things, had called Iran an \u201cIslamic power\u201d and praised Hamas.\nThe hacks and posting took place on May 24, shortly after President Trump completed a lengthy counterterrorism meeting with Persian Gulf leaders in neighboring Saudi Arabia and declared them unified.\nCiting the emir\u2019s reported comments, the Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt immediately banned all Qatari media. They then broke relations with Qatar and declared a trade and diplomatic boycott, sending the region into a political and diplomatic tailspin that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has warned could undermine U.S. counterterrorism efforts against the Islamic State.\n[Tillerson heads home from Qatar with no resolution of regional dispute]\nIn a statement released in Washington by its ambassador, Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE said the Post article was \u201cfalse.\u201d\n\u201cThe UAE had no role whatsoever in the alleged hacking described in the article,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWhat is true is Qatar\u2019s behavior. Funding, supporting, and enabling extremists from the Taliban to Hamas and Qadafi. Inciting violence, encouraging radicalization, and undermining the stability of its neighbors.\u201d\nThe revelations come as emails purportedly hacked from Otaiba\u2019s private account have circulated to journalists over the past several months. That hack has been claimed by an apparently pro-\nQatari organization calling itself GlobalLeaks. Many of the emails highlight the UAE\u2019s determination over the years to rally Washington thinkers and policymakers to its side on the issues at the center of its dispute with Qatar.\nAll of the Persian Gulf nations are members of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State. More than 10,000 U.S. troops are based at Qatar\u2019s al-Udeid Air Base, the U.S. Central Command\u2019s regional headquarters, and Bahrain is the home of the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet. All are purchasers of U.S. defense equipment and tied to U.S. foreign policy priorities in numerous ways.\nThe conflict has also exposed sharp differences between Trump \u2014 who has clearly taken the Saudi and UAE side in a series of tweets and statements \u2014 and Tillerson, who has urged compromise and spent most of last week in shuttle diplomacy among the regional capitals that has been unsuccessful so far.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t expect any near-term resolution,\u201d Tillerson aide R.C. Hammond said Saturday. He said the secretary had left behind proposals with the \u201cSaudi bloc\u201d and with Qatar including \u201ca common set of principles that all countries can agree to so that we start from .\u2009.\u2009. a common place.\u201d\nQatar has repeatedly charged that its sites were hacked, but it has not released the results of its investigation. Intelligence officials said their working theory since the Qatar hacks has been that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt or some combination of those countries were involved. It remains unclear whether the others also participated in the plan.\nU.S. intelligence and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.\nThe Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, as did the CIA. The FBI, which Qatar has said was helping in its investigation, also declined to comment.\nA spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that government\u2019s attorney general, Ali Bin Fetais al-Marri, who said late last month that \u201cQatar has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the hack.\u201d\nHammond said he did not know of the newly analyzed U.S. intelligence on the UAE or whether Tillerson was aware of it.\nThe hacking incident reopened a bitter feud among the gulf monarchies that has simmered for years. It last erupted in 2013, when Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain accused Qatar of providing safe haven for their political dissidents and supporting the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood; funding terrorists, including U.S.-designated terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah; and using its state-funded media outlets to destabilize its neighbors.\n[Key senator threatens arms sales over gulf dispute]\nQatar \u2014 an energy-rich country ruled by its own unelected monarchy \u2014 saw the Saudi-led accusations as an attempt by neighboring autocrats to stifle its more liberal tendencies. Separately, the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups \u2014 a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries. While Qatar promised some steps in response to the charges in a 2014 agreement with the others, it took little action.\nDuring his two-day visit to \u00adRiyadh, Trump met with the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council \u2014 Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar \u2014 and held individual closed-door meetings with several GCC leaders, including the Qatar emir. The day before his departure on the morning of May 22, Trump delivered a speech, focused on the need for religious tolerance and unity against terrorism, to more than 50 Muslim leaders gathered from around the world for the occasion.\nBut he devoted most of his attention to Saudi King Salman, praising as a wise leader the man who controls his country\u2019s vast oil reserves. In what the administration hailed as a high point of the visit, the Saudis agreed to purchase $110 billion in U.S. arms and signed letters of intent to invest hundreds of billions in deals with U.S. companies.\nHe had told the Saudis in advance, Trump said in an interview Wednesday with the Christian Broadcasting Network, that the agreements and purchases were a prerequisite for his presence. \u201cI said, you have to do that, otherwise I\u2019m not going,\u201d Trump recounted.\nThe statements attributed to the emir first appeared on the Qatar News Agency\u2019s website early on the morning of May 24, in a report on his appearance at a military ceremony, as Trump was wrapping up the next stop on his nine-day overseas trip, in Israel. According to the Qatari government, alerts were sent out within 45 minutes saying the information was false.\nLater that morning, the same false information appeared on a ticker at the bottom of a video of the emir\u2019s appearance that was posted on Qatar News Agency\u2019s YouTube channel. Similar material appeared on government Twitter feeds.\nThe reports were repeatedly broadcast on Saudi Arabian government outlets, continuing even after the Qatari alert said it was false. The UAE shut down all broadcasts of Qatari media inside its borders, including the Qatari-funded Al Jazeera satellite network, the most watched in the Arab world.\n[Why Saudi Arabia hates Al Jazeera so much]\nThe first week in June, the \u00adSaudi-led countries severed relations, ordered all Qatari nationals inside their countries to leave, and closed their borders to all land, air and sea traffic with Qatar, a peninsular nation in the Persian Gulf whose only land connection is with Saudi Arabia.\nIn addition to charges of supporting terrorism and promoting instability inside their countries, they accused Qatar of being too close to Iran, Saudi Arabia\u2019s main rival for regional power and, according to the United States, the world\u2019s foremost supporter of global terrorism. Iran conducts robust trade with most of the gulf, including the UAE, and shares the world\u2019s largest natural gas field with Qatar.\nThe day after the boycott was announced, Trump indirectly took credit for it. \u201cSo good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with King and 50 countries already paying off,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cThey said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar.\u201d\nAt the same time, Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called for negotiations and a quick resolution of the dispute. When the Saudi-led group released a list of 13 \u201cnon-negotiable\u201d demands for Qatar \u2014 including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists \u2014 the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for long-standing regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.\nQatar rejected the demands. Tillerson appeared to agree that they were draconian. But when he called for the boycott to be eased, saying it was causing both security and humanitarian hardship, Trump said the measure was harsh \u201cbut necessary.\u201d\nThe one concrete result of Tillerson\u2019s stops in the region last week was a new bilateral agreement signed with Qatar on stopping terrorism financing, the only one of the gulf countries that had responded to an invitation to do so, Hammond said.\nSpeaking to reporters on his plane flying back to Washington on Friday, Tillerson said the trip was useful \u201cfirst to listen and get a sense of how serious the situation is, how emotional some of these issues are.\u201d He said that he had left proposals with both sides that suggested \u201csome ways that we might move this forward.\u201d\nAll of the countries involved, Tillerson said, are \u201creally important to us from a national security standpoint. .\u2009.\u2009. We need this part of the world to be stable, and this particular conflict between these parties is obviously not helpful.\u201d\nAsked about Trump\u2019s tweets and other comments, he noted that being secretary of state \u201cis a lot different than being CEO of Exxon,\u201d his previous job, \u201cbecause I was the ultimate decision-maker.\u201d He knew what to expect from long-standing colleagues, he said, and decision-making was disciplined and \u201chighly structured.\u201d\n\u201cThose are not the characteristics of the United States government. And I don\u2019t say that as a criticism, it\u2019s just an observation of fact,\u201d Tillerson said. While neither he nor the president came from the political world, he said, his old job put him in contact with the rest of the world and \u201cthat engagement .\u2009.\u2009. is actually very easy for me.\u201d\nFor his part, Trump agreed in the Christian Broadcasting Network interview that he and Tillerson \u201chad a little bit of a difference, only in terms of tone\u201d over the gulf conflict.\nQatar, Trump said, \u201cis now a little bit on the outs, but I think they\u2019re being brought back in.\u201d Asked about the U.S. military base in Qatar, Trump said he was not concerned.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be all right,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, if we ever have to leave\u201d the base, \u201cwe would have 10 countries willing to build us another one, believe me. And they\u2019ll pay for it.\u201d\nKareem Fahim in Istanbul and\nCarol Morello in Washington contributed to this report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 12183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/14/no-15-butler-fades-late-loses-67-55-to-tennessee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PIXNIHB6B3W3MYNXY6KFNGHCFOH5IERB", "length": 3700, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.washingtontimes.com", "title": "No. 15 Butler fades late, loses 67-55 to Tennessee - Washington Times", "raw_content": "No. 15 Butler fades late, loses 67-55 to Tennessee\nButler guard Kellen Dunham (24) looses control of the ball as he\u2019s defend by Tennessee guard Kevin Punter (0) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014, in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee won 67-55. ... more >\nBy STEVE MEGARGEE - Associated Press - Sunday, December 14, 2014\nKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Butler had a simple explanation for the collapse that ended its four-game winning streak.\n\u201cWhen it comes down to it, I just feel like we got out-toughed in the second half,\u201d Butler forward Kameron Woods said after the 15th-ranked Bulldogs\u2019 67-55 loss at Tennessee.\nButler (8-2) led 37-25 after Kellen Dunham\u2019s 3-pointer in the opening minute of the second half, but Josh Richardson scored the game\u2019s next eight points to spark a 12-0 run that tied the score.\nThe Bulldogs weren\u2019t the same the rest of the way. Richardson scored 18 of his 20 points after halftime and Kevin Punter added 18 points as Tennessee (4-3) outscored Butler 42-21 in the second half.\nButler shot 6 of 23 and committed nine turnovers after halftime.\n\u201cIt hurts when teams like that hit 3s,\u201d Punter said. \u201cIt kind of takes the life out of you. But you\u2019ve just got to stay with it if you want to win. We stayed with it, we kept grinding, they coughed it up a few times and we capitalized.\u201d\nDunham scored 16 points, but only two of those came in the game\u2019s final 19 minutes. Kelan Martin added 13 for Butler. Woods had seven points and matched a career high with 16 rebounds.\nButler struggled on both ends of the floor in the second half. The Bulldogs couldn\u2019t take care of the ball on offense and couldn\u2019t stop anyone on defense, as Tennessee shot 59.3 percent (16 of 27) over the final 20 minutes.\n\u201cWe couldn\u2019t get a stop in the second half,\u201d Butler interim coach Chris Holtmann said. \u201cI think if you said, \u2018Hey, what was the most disappointing part of the game,\u2019 it\u2019s the fact we got out-toughed in some areas and we just could not get a stop in the second half. We just weren\u2019t able to do it. What has been our bread and butter through the first (part) of the season was a real liability, and that was our half-court defense tonight.\u201d\nTennessee missed seven consecutive shots during one stretch late in the first half and trailed 34-25 at the break. The Volunteers rallied to tie the game at 37-all on Derek Reese\u2019s putback with 13:57 left.\nMoore later put the Vols up 50-49 for their first lead since it was 6-5 in the game\u2019s opening minutes. That started a 6-0 run.\nAfter Butler\u2019s Andrew Chrabascz hit a 3-pointer to cut Tennessee\u2019s lead to 58-55 with 2:40 left, Reese answered by banking in a 3-pointer to start a game-ending 9-0 run.\n\u201cThank God it went in,\u201d Reese said. \u201cThe bank is open on Sundays sometimes.\u201d\nButler: Butler gave up the most points it has allowed all season. Butler had held eight of its first nine opponents below 60 points.\nTennessee: The Vols used their sixth different starting lineup in seven games. Devon Baulkman, a junior-college transfer, made his first career start and had three points and three rebounds in 18 minutes.\nButler entered the day with a turnover margin of plus-5.9, but it committed 14 turnovers while forcing only seven against Tennessee.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever been more proud of a group of guys than I was today, just because you\u2019re playing a nationally ranked team with the tradition and history of Butler. The first half didn\u2019t go our way. Early in the second half, it didn\u2019t start exactly right and they just battled, clawed and found a way.\u201d-Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall\nButler: Saturday vs. Indiana in Crossroads Classic at Indianapolis.\nTennessee: Wednesday at North Carolina State.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 8206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.webmedicinecenter.com/parenting-pregnancy/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:73PZAV2SE26ZUR2JKVMM3D5YGXWBN53Q", "length": 1941, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.webmedicinecenter.com", "title": "Parenting & Pregnancy Archives - Page 4 of 11 - WebMedicineCenter", "raw_content": "Reaching the 41st week is considered as post \u2013 term pregnancy. 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Aside from that, a mother \u2013 to \u2013 be will experience the following symptoms below\nWeek 36 marks as the 9th (and last) month of pregnancy, it is dedicated to intensive fetal growth. By the end of this week, an expectant mom\u2019s gestation will reach its full term. This means...\nThe measurement in centimeters from the top of the pubic bone to the top of the uterus is approximately the number of weeks of gestation. In a like manner, the utmost part of the uterus...\nIn the 34th week of pregnancy, the uterus continues to grow even though there is not enough space for it. The uterus\u2019 size is around 5 inches above the navel now. By the same token,...\nIn the 33rd week of pregnancy, uterine walls begin to thin out and the amniotic fluid decreases. With that being said, his fetal movements feel sharper from this week onwards. For 1sttime moms (about 50%...\nThe blighted ovum (egg) \u2013 called as an anembryonic pregnancy in medical terms \u2013 is a typical mainspring of an untimely stillbirth. This genetic error occurs during the first eight weeks of gestation before the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Redundancy.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:53:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ETUEILR22AOZSZGDVHZNZIMEJTSQK2R4", "length": 1258, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.welfare.ie", "title": "Redundancy", "raw_content": "An overview of Redundancy Payments, with links to more detailed information, including frequently asked questions.\nIf you lose your job in Ireland you may be eligible for redundancy. What are the rules on qualifying for a redundancy payment.\nSection 12 of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 (as amended) requires employers to notify the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in writing of the proposals at least 30 days before the first dismissal takes effect.\nLump sum payments in compensation for loss of employment in Ireland are subject to tax. How is tax calculated and what are your entitlements?\nGeneral Information on the Redundancy Payments Scheme is available from the Workplace Relations Customer Services or the Redundancy Payments Section, Floor 2, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Ground Floor, Gandon House, Amiens Street, Dublin 1. D01 A361\nPh:(01) 673 4500 or LoCall: 1890 800 699\nWorkplace Relations Customer Services (formerly Information Services of the National Employment Rights Authority)\nEmail: www.workplacerelations.ie/en/services/contactus\nNote: please note that the rates charged for the use of 1890 (LoCall) numbers may vary among different service providers\nRedundancyCurrently selected", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/2018/09/24/scc-ai-scrutiny-panel-how-ai-robots-and-technology-will-transform-southamptons-employment-by-2030/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PKGUFXBTNHDZJKVLLCKYJDAMR5EGR2QG", "length": 6070, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wessexscene.co.uk", "title": "Southampton City Council AI Scrutiny Panel: How AI, Robots and Technology Will Transform Southampton\u2019s Employment By 2030", "raw_content": "Credit: AlanFord at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\nBy Patrick Lowe on\t September 24, 2018 News Politics Science & Technology\nOn Thursday the 20th of September, the first of six monthly scrutiny inquiry panels began discussing how Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and technology will impact the future of work in Southampton and beyond.\nThe CEO of the Centre For Cities think-tank, Andrew Carter delivered a presentation highlighting that low-skilled physical work, with an algorithmic-style routine, was especially vulnerable to automation. While, on the other hand, it was said that careers requiring analytical, interpersonal and problem solving skills are less routine-orientated, thus will continue to demand more human workers. Therefore, it is vital that education continues throughout workers\u2019 lives to develop these skills that are required in an evolving economy.\nThe Leader of the Council, Councillor Hammond began by explaining the transformative power of technology since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Household chores were eliminated by labour-saving devices, removing the desire for domestic service work, with the electrification of formerly gas-lit street lighting also being responsible for shifting workers to other fields. Hammond argued that the future is an issue that must not be kicked into the long grass, predicting that in just 10 to 15 years, careers in fields such as retail and hospitality will no longer exist. Automation in these areas is already visible in technologically advanced countries such as Japan. However, it must be mentioned that between the years 1911 and 2016 there was a 60% rise in UK cities\u2019 employment and that this is expected to continue with the creation of new career paths.\nAn example of a local project aiming to boost future investment in Southampton is the conversion of the first floor of the Marlands in the City Centre into a network co-working hub. With an accessible and flexible monthly gym-style membership, start-up businesses will be able to use desks and specialised facilities such as 3D printing. This is one way the city is attempting to retain graduates who will invest in the local community and enhance its valuable knowledge economy.\nCarter argued that as a result of globalisation, higher wage demands in Western countries, such as the UK, make it less competitive in terms of price for manufacturing, therefore highly skilled jobs will be in greater demand. For example, the most expensive part of development for Apple products is the design and marketing, rather than the assembly in China. Jobs at a high risk of being lost to automation include: sales assistants, retail cashiers, storage workers, customer service, administration, construction and building. It has been estimated that 22% of jobs in Southampton will be lost by 2030 \u2013 which is just 1% higher than the national average.To adapt to a changing jobs market, our focus should be on bringing about a highly educated workforce. Careers requiring analytical, interpersonal and problem solving skills are too complex for technological replacements to carry out currently. To develop these skills there must be early intervention in the first 5 years of life, engagement with extra-curricular activities and learning that continues past the end of secondary, sixth form and university education. Vocational education must be improved so that those who do not attend University continue to develop skills that will make them employable in the new jobs market.\nCouncillor Fitzhenry asked which countries are global leaders in terms of future proofed education. Carter replied that there was no simple answer to this question. Inspiration for vocational education should come from Germany where it\u2019s particularly strong, unlike in this country where apprenticeships are undervalued and fail to integrate into the economy. In Shanghai and South Korea, in-work education within industry is notable. Whilst the US education system is poor prior to university level, the country\u2019s ability to steal talent from across the globe highlights the importance of a desirable location. The welfare system of Nordic countries encourages the pursuit of lifelong learning. A short discussion ensued as to whether lifelong learning is valued more in other cultures. A member of the audience who is a teacher voiced his frustration that lifelong learning is not recognised adequately through qualifications, therefore it\u2019s difficult to move from one sector to another. Councillor McEwing replied that she has personally benefited from further education through her trade union.\nCouncillor Bogle also raised the topic of inequality in Southampton, noting a conflict between on the one hand post-industrialism and on the other, a vibrant centre of learning with multiple university campuses. Of course this prompted mentions of Brexit, a popular narrative arguing the Leave vote was a backlash from those who felt left behind in a changing, globally-connected society. In response Carter suggested that working alongside the universities, Southampton receives a positive spill-over effect, unlike other post industrial cities which lack a knowledge economy on a similar scale. Those on the panel displayed pride in the city hosting the National Oceanography Centre and the Centre for Cancer Immunology.\nSouthampton City Council will be holding two further Scrutiny Inquiry Panel meetings into the \u2018Future of Work in Southampton\u2019, on Thursday 18th October and Thursday 22nd November at the Civic Centre. Members of the public are welcome to attend.\nSouthampton City Council approves \u201cbiggest budget cuts in its history\u201d\nCouncil Introduces \u2018People\u2019s Panel\u2019 to Influence Decision Making\nChris Hammond Elected Leader of Southampton City Council\nSouthampton City Council Cabinet Reshuffle\nTags: AIartificial intelligenceautomationEducationFuture of Work in SouthamptonGlobalisationLifelong learningMarlandsRobotsScrutiny Inquiry PanelSouthampton City CouncilTechnology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whimn.com.au/talk/people/meet-the-gays-who-are-fighting-homophobiawith-guns/news-story/ff3392745f2edf9c8a9529b209923f18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MPIHDFVEPLSKP7UJVM5BNMCM5XPBHVCL", "length": 8018, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.whimn.com.au", "title": "Inside The Pink Pistols The Gay NRA Protecting Themselves From Hate Crimes", "raw_content": "Inside The Pink Pistols The Gay NRA Protecting Themselves From Hate Crimes\nMeet the gays fighting homophobia with guns.\nWhimnJune 12, 201812:20pm\nJeff Bloovman is a gay man, gun instructor and member of The Pink Pistols. Photo: Gays And GunsSource:Whimn\nIn 2017, 52 people were murdered for identifying as LGBTIQ+ in America. That\u2019s one person a week.\nAnd it\u2019s still as bad in 2018. In fact, the number gay hate crimes has never been higher, and one LGBTIQ+ group is dealing with that problem in a way you wouldn\u2019t expect - with guns.\nThe Pink Pistols, who are the subject of The Feeds new documentary, Gays And Guns, believe that the best way to tackle the problem of rising rates of gay hate crimes is to fight back by bearing arms. The group, whose motto is \u201cpick on someone your own calibre\u201d, claim to be the fastest growing pro-gun group in America, with over 45 chapters and 10, 000 members in the United States. And they\u2019re showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.\nPat Abboud, the investigative journalist who gained unprecedented access to The Pink Pistols for Gays And Guns, explains that when you consider how stark the numbers are, it makes some sense that they exist.\nHe tells me, \u201cThe Pink Pistols are responding to this epic rise in gay hate and gay hate crimes. The Federal Human Rights Campaign, which is one of the few organisations that track the FBI crime stats and analyse why things are happening, even describe it as an epidemic of violence against LGBTIQ+ community. And this is happening right now in 2018. So, in that sense, I kind of understand why some of the Pink Pistols feel like the only way to defend their lives and protect themselves, or to even be able to go out and not feel that sense of fear, is to arm themselves.\u201d\nIn 2017 alone 52 people were murdered for indentifying as LGBTIQ+. Photo: Gays And Guns.Source:Whimn\nOne of the people we meet in the documentary is Jeff Bloovman, a gay gun instructor from Philadelphia and member of The Pink Pistols. He is, in essence, the perfect embodiment of the complexity behind the issue.\n\u201cHe\u2019s someone who breaks every stereotype,\u201d Abboud explains, \u201che\u2019s the straightest gay man I\u2019ve ever met in my life. He\u2019s so butch and so blokey, an Italian Jewish man who comes across as a big, tough dude but he\u2019s studying to be a nurse, he\u2019s incredibly gentle - a really loving sweetheart. \u201c\n\u201cI was so blown away by the fact that he had so many guns in his home and while he might come across as some gun-nut when you see him do all that, the reality is: a) he\u2019s grown up around guns and been around them since he\u2019s a little kid, so it\u2019s nothing new for him and, b) he genuinely feels like he\u2019s always on the defence.\n\u201cSo even someone like him, who breaks the stereotype, he goes out in public thinking someone is going to attack him because he\u2019s gay. He has this innate sense of fear and innate sense of feeling discriminated against, so he\u2019s always on the defence. Which I found so shocking. And that\u2019s his reason for always carrying guns.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not merely an argument of self-defence when it comes to The Pink Pistols justifying their existence. The Pink Pistols argue that they need to be armed due to the inadequacy of law enforcement. This is at the heart of why Piper Smith, the head of the largest and most active chapters in San Diego, believes in the cause.\nPiper Smith heads up the largest Pink Pistols chapter in San Diego and believes that law enforcement are not adequately responding to the problem of gay hate crimes. Photo: Gays And GunsSource:Whimn\nAs Abboud says, \u201cshe doesn\u2019t feel like she can rely on law enforcement because in the time it take to call the police to get to a situation, you could be dead. So, the reality is for her and a lot of the people that train with her, go shooting with her and are a part of the group quite actively, say the same thing: \u2018we are our own first responders and the difference between living and dying is whether or not you have access to a tool that will save you in a moment where law enforcement is not there.\u2019 There\u2019s this real lack of faith in law enforcement.\u201d\nWhile on the face of it, The Pink Pistols may seem like a \u201ccrazy vigilante group\u201d, the reality is that they are merely dealing with the current socio-political climate that puts queer lives at risk. And it\u2019s no secret that the Trump government does little to condone hate speech, let alone properly fight back against homophobia and transphobia, having passed more than 100 anti-gay bills across 29 states in the past year. Having such discriminatory messages coming from people at the top means that homophobia and transphobia within our communities are legitimised and excused.\nHowever, The Pink Pistols are not the only group weighing into the debate around gun control and the rise in gay hate crimes. \u201cOn a bigger level, you have the Federal Human Rights Campaign and other advocacy groups who are saying, \u2018no, it\u2019s the law that needs to change and we need to make sure our laws are designed to prevent the violence.\u2019 And that\u2019s where groups like Gays Against Guns come in\u201d Abboud says.\nGays Against Guns are on the opposite side of the argument to The Pink Pistols. A group of journalists who investigate the epidemic of gun violence in America, they firmly believe that the answer is anything but guns and want The Pink Pistols to disarm.\n\u201cThey put out their findings by public demonstration and are more the activist group, they\u2019re very, very invested in banning assault weapons. They\u2019re sort of like the gay version of March For Our Lives, if you like.\u201d\nGays Against Guns couldn't disagree with The Pink Pistols more. Photo: Gays And GunsSource:Whimn\nImportantly, it\u2019s a stark reminder that we still have a ways to go before our society even remotely resembles a place of equality for all. And for us in Australia, while we may not have guns, homophobia and transphobia are still rife. A 2012 study done by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University found that 18% of young LGBTIQ+ people have experienced physical homophobic abuse and 61% have experienced verbal abuse.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not this isolated, removed thing happening in the US,\u201d Abboud tells me, \u201cbecause there are parallels that can be made to homophobia and transphobia here in Australia, we had gay hate crimes in the 80s. Just because we don\u2019t see it on the surface now, obviously we don\u2019t have guns, there is still that sense of discrimination. I think that\u2019s why it\u2019s important to interrogate this issue because, you know, we saw it here with the Marriage Equality debate - the level of vitriol and bigotry that came out of that was horrifying and it affected young people in particular. So there\u2019s a lot of parallels to be drawn.\u201d\nLeia, a recent member of the Pink Pistols tells Abboud in the doco that, \"I don't want to get beaten to death and stabbed and burnt alive. I want a gun to feel equal.\" Photo: Gays And GunsSource:Whimn\nIf anything, Abboud hopes the documentary will open up a conversation about gun control and the rise of gay hate crimes - issues that are not as black and white as we are sometimes led to believe. In order to properly address the issue, we need to fully understand both sides of the argument. And that means trying to empathise with queers who feel so at risk that they have no other option than to bear arms.\n\u201cI want people to watch this feeling some empathy for those that are part of the Pink Pistols, but at the same time, understanding the complexities of what is going on in the US is the same kind of complexity which forms part of the reason why people here in our LGBTIQ+ community feel so discriminated against and feel like they constantly need to be on the defensive. The fact that we had the incredible win with marriage equality is amazing, but it\u2019s not the end. And that\u2019s the thing: when you\u2019re a minority group, it\u2019s never the end. There\u2019s always something you\u2019ve got to fight for.\u201d\nThe Feed special, Gays And Guns, premieres on SBS VICELAND tonight at 7:30 pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 10139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitman.edu/dean-of-students/drug-free-schools-and-community-act/2014-2016-biennial-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VELHPJC6SEPC6CBXHJU3RKNVQPTGTKUC", "length": 23683, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.whitman.edu", "title": "2014-2016 AOD Prevention Program Biennial Report | Whitman College", "raw_content": "2014-2016 AOD Prevention Program Biennial Report\n\u00bb Dean of Students \u00bb Drug-Free Schools and Community Act \u00bb 2014-2016 Biennial Report\n1. Description of AOD program elements:\nIn the NIAAA's 2002 report, \"A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges\" three strategies were identified in their Tier 1: Evidence of Effectiveness among College Students category. This includes:\nStrategy: Combining cognitive-behavioral skills with norms clarification and motivational enhancement interventions. Cognitive-behavioral skills training strives to change an individual's dysfunctional beliefs and thinking about the use of alcohol through activities such as altering expectancies about alcohol's effects, documenting daily alcohol consumption, and learning to manage stress. Motivational enhancement is designed to stimulate students' intrinsic desire or motivation to change their behavior. Motivational enhancement strategies are based on the theory that individuals alone are responsible for changing their drinking behavior and complying with that decision (Miller et al., 1992). In motivational enhancement interventions, interviewers assess student alcohol consumption using a formal screening instrument. Results are scored and students receive nonjudgmental feedback on their personal drinking behavior in comparison with that of others and its negative consequences. Students also receive suggestions to support their decisions to change.\nStrategy: Offering brief motivational enhancement interventions. Students who receive brief, personalized motivational enhancement sessions, whether delivered individually or in small groups, reduce alcohol consumption. This strategy can also reduce negative consequences such as excessive drinking, driving after drinking, riding with an intoxicated driver, citations for traffic violations, and injuries (D'Amico and Fromme, 2000; Larimer and Cronce, 2002; Marlatt et al., 1998; Monti et al., 1999). An effective brief intervention has been developed at the University of Washington. This brief intervention for high-risk drinkers is based on the ASTP program and is known as the BASICS program: Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (Dimeff et al., 1999). BASICS is administered in the form of two individual sessions in which students are provided feedback about their drinking behavior and given the opportunity to negotiate a plan for change based on the principles of motivational interviewing. High-risk drinkers who participated in the BASICS program significantly reduced both drinking problems and alcohol consumption rates, compared to control group participants, at both the 2-year follow-up (Marlatt et al., 1998) and 4-year outcome assessment periods (Baer et al., 2001). BASICS has also been found to be clinically significant in an analysis of individual student drinking changes over time (Roberts et al., 2000).\nStrategy: Challenging alcohol expectancies. This strategy works by using a combination of information and experiential learning to alter students' expectations about the effects of alcohol so they understand that drinking does not necessarily produce many of the effects they anticipate such as sociability and sexual attractiveness (Darkes and Goldman, 1993, 1998; Jones et al., 1995). The research conducted to date indicates that the positive effects of this strategy last for up to 6 weeks in men, but additional research is under way to verify and extend this approach to women and for longer time periods. These three Tier I strategies have been the basis for developing much of the AOD program elements at Whitman College, including all of our work with BASICS, social norms marketing and our opening week/orientation programs. In addition to the Tier I strategies, Whitman prioritizes our campus 'ethic of care' in our AOD programs, utilizing our supportive, responsive community to work with anyone who demonstrates an issue with AOD issues.\n2. Statement of AOD Program goals and discussion of goal achievement.\nWhitman College's AOD program focuses on five primary goals, with multiple and diverse strategies used to meet these goals. These include:\nA. Document AOD issues and campus violations:\nTracking of students with AOD issues via Advocate\nOne-on-one student meeting with the Dean of Students if ambulance transport to hospital\nB. Intervene and refer those who have use/abuse issues with AODs:\nIntervention by appropriate staff when alcohol is found in a public space on campus\nReferral to BASICS if behavioral concern regarding AOD issues\nHealth Center referral to emergency room or counseling center as appropriate\nReferral to Serenity Point for professional assessment when warranted for AOD issues\nC. Provide on-going support for those who struggle with issues of sobriety:\nAll counselors trained in BASICS and motivational techniques\nCounseling Center intake form asks questions regarding use and/or abuse of AOD on forms . All clients identifying AOD as a concern on the intake form will complete a BASICS assessment and follow-up with their counselor.\nAll students who are taken to the Health Center for AOD issues will be invited to complete an eCHECKUP self-assessment and discuss the results with a nurse\nWork with programs like Montana Academy, facilitating support, counseling and referral if needed to help with continued sobriety\nD. Educate on AOD issues:\nReview of AOD policies with new student by residence life staff\nRequired AOD presentation during new student orientation with small group follow-up discussion\nRequired completion of online program, \u201cThink About It\u201d by all incoming new students\neCHECKUP offered to all members of Whitman Community 24/7/365\nIntensive AOD training for all new residents assistants each January\nRequired annual alcohol education program for all fraternities and sororities\nGreekLife.Edu offered by several sorority chapters and required completion by all new members prior to initiation\nProfessional staff participation in all College Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention (CCSAP) webinars and annual conference\nReview of college's alcohol policy and discussion of AOD use on athletic performance by all varsity sports teams\nCompletion of an AOD Social Trends survey every 3 years\nE. Support safer, less risky drinking:\nSocial norms posters in residence halls, interest houses, counseling center, health center and campus center\n21st b-day cards with gift certificates sent to students during the academic semesters\n21st b-day cards sent home to parents during the academic semesters\nBanquet permits for events serving alcohol, with service by trained staff\nIn the goal areas of 1) documenting AOD issues and 2) intervention/referrals for those with AOD issues, Whitman has been providing consistent efforts for many years. In the goal area of 3) provide on -going support for those who struggle with issues of sobrierty, the Counseling Center has added a new feature regarding client intake forms and the use of BASICS. Any clients that indicate a concern regarding AOD issues on the intake form will be required to complete a BASICS assessment and discuss the results with their counselor. Any student who is taken to the Health Center for AOD issues will be invited to complete the eCHECKUP self-assessment and discuss the results with a nurse. In the goal area of 4) educate on AOD issues, we have added several new initiatives. This includes requiring all incoming new students to complete a 2-3 hour online course called \u201cThink About It\u201d that includes sections on alcohol and drug use. We have also obtained eCHECKUP and make it available to any member of the Whitman community 24/7/365. Finally, as a steering committee member on the College Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention (State of Washington), professional staff participate in all online webinars and the annual spring conference.\n3. Summary of AOD strengths and weaknesses.\nWhitman College focuses the majority of our AOD resources on supporting and educating our students. We work with an incredibly bright group of students who respond well to information based on documented research so our interventions, speakers, programs and posters focus on this type of information. The Whitman campus culture is community oriented and an ethic of care is deeply ingrained. We do not hesitate to support each other or seek out assistance for others when needed. We have also increased the training to the counseling center staff in terms of motivational interviewing and BASICS. When deciding to implement new AOD initiatives, we verify that these methods have been researched and proven effective.\nWhile we do successfully focus on support and education, we could do a better job of tying our efforts into the Tier I effective strategies, to make sure we are maximizing our efforts. We also need to do more work outside the counseling center with motivational interviewing and the change theory model, to make sure our intervention efforts across the campus are consistent in terms of message and delivery. At this time, we also lack any on-going student peer education or bystander intervention efforts specifically related to AOD issues.\n4. Procedure for distributing the annual AOD notification to students and employees.\nThe annual AOD notification is maintained on a Whitman College Web site that is available to students and employees at all times. An e-mail is sent to current students and employees prior to February 1st that reminds students and employees of the notification's availability and the exact address (URL) of the Web site at which the report is posted (http://www.whitman.edu /annual_notification).\n5. Copies of the policies distributed to students and employees.\nAlcohol use continues to be an issue of concern on college campuses all across the country. Its abuse by Whitman students is strongly discouraged because such behavior is counterproductive to the goals and mission of the College. Whether or not students choose to drink alcoholic beverages is their personal decision; however, individuals are held personally accountable for their actions at all times. The primary objectives of the College\u2019s policy and procedures on alcoholic beverages are (a) to promote responsible behavior and attitudes among all members of the College community, (b) to educate students concerning the use and effects of alcoholic beverages in order to promote responsible decision-making, and (c) to help individual students experiencing difficulties associated with the use of alcohol.\nRegulations Concerning Alcohol\nThere shall be no drinking of alcoholic beverages and no open containers of alcoholic beverages in public places on the College campus or public areas in campus buildings.\nExceptions may be made on an event-by-event basis under the following conditions:\nThe use of alcoholic beverages will be in full compliance with the Washington State Law.\nThe event is sponsored by a college-affiliated organization or an organization that has reserved the facility according to college procedures.\nA college faculty or staff member assumes responsibility for the event and agrees to be present for its duration.\nThe department, division, office, or administrator responsible for the facility being requested agrees to the terms of the use of alcoholic beverages and the facility.\nNo ASWC fees or residence hall fees may be used for the purchase of alcoholic beverages.\nStudents and student groups must avoid the direct or indirect sale of alcoholic beverages.\nStudents will be held directly responsible for the destruction of personal or public property, the violation of the safety or rights of other persons, or the violation of any other campus regulations, which may occur while they are under the influence of alcohol. Excessive consumption and/or purchasing large quantities of alcoholic beverages are considered a violation of the alcohol policy.\nAll students should be familiar with the Washington State Law that governs the use and purchase of alcohol (see below). Further, students who are of legal age should pay careful attention to laws regarding the supplying of alcohol to those under the age of 21.\nStudents should know that the Alcoholic Beverage Laws of the State of Washington and the City of Walla Walla specify the following:\nIt is unlawful for any person to sell, give, or otherwise supply liquor to any person under the age of 21 years or permit any person under that age to consume liquor on his or her premises or on any premises under his or her control. It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to possess, consume, or otherwise acquire any liquor except that given to them by their parents or guardian, used in connection with religious services, or administered by their physician or dentist for medicinal purposes. The supply of alcohol to, or the use of alcohol by, any person under the age of 21 years is a gross misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment. A person under the age of 21 years acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for him or herself or someone else experiencing alcohol poisoning, shall not be charged or prosecuted if the evidence for the charge was obtained as a result of the person seeking medical assistance.\nThe possession, use, or distribution of illegal drugs or other controlled substances is a violation of the law. The College has chosen to take a strong stand against the use of controlled substances because of the significant risks that students assume when deciding to use them. Many of these substances are physically or psychologically addicting; the composition of \u201cstreet\u2019\u2019 drugs can never be determined by the user and is often dangerous; strictly enforced laws and policies can lead to serious consequences for even the experimenter or occasional user. For example, jail sentences may be imposed, fines may be levied, and one\u2019s status with the College, as well as future employment opportunities, may be jeopardized. The negative personal consequences that can happen to a student far outweigh any brief exhilaration or escape. The College strongly believes that any use of controlled substances is antithetical to the growth and development of students and contrary to the mission of Whitman College.\nThe College recognizes that substance use and abuse can cause serious problems for students and will intervene when appropriate. Current information and personal assistance is available from the Health Center. Personal counseling and referral to community resources are available in the Counseling Center and the Health Center, 11 Merriam St., (509) 527-5281.\nRegulations Concerning Drugs\nIt is a violation of college policy to use, possess, or distribute any illegal drug or controlled substance including marijuana. Any student choosing to violate this policy, or the laws of the State of Washington, should be prepared to accept the consequences of their decision. The College reserves the right to pursue legal and/or its own judicial action should students violate the law or this policy. Whitman College may apply disciplinary procedures to students who abuse drugs or substances that are not illegal but may cause harm. Some drugs and substances, although not illegal, may also cause harm and are dangerous to use. The College may apply disciplinary procedures to students who abuse these substances.\nMarijuana, while legal in small amounts for those 21 and over in the State of Washington (in private spaces), will not be allowed, in any form, on campus.\nThere shall be no drinking of alcoholic beverages and no open containers in public places on the College campus, except at College sponsored events. A College sponsored event is one that uses College funds and/or that is on College property. College houses rented by faculty and staff are exempt. Alcoholic beverages may be served on an event by event basis under the following conditions:\nThe faculty or staff member responsible for the event obtains the appropriate liquor permits:\nSpecial Occasion License - required for any event where alcohol is to be sold except as noted below. Bon Appetit must be used to serve the alcohol. Appropriate foods must be served by Bon Appetit. Allow 30 days for the application process. Application is made at a State Liquor Store.\nBanquet Permits - required for events with 50 or more people and where alcohol is served but not sold. Tickets may be used to limit the number of drinks served each individual. Application is made at a State Liquor Store. Employees coordinating the function should complete the application as a representative of Whitman College. Food must be served.\nPrivate Functions - no permits are required at private functions, which are individually hosted College social events of less than 50 guests. Food must be served. No one under the age of 21 may be served alcohol.\nFaculty and staff may host private functions at their homes to which students are invited. The College strongly encourages such events to be alcohol free. If alcohol is served, it is recommended that it be done so on a BYOB basis. No one under 21 should be served. Faculty and staff present should be role models for responsible drinking.\nFunctions which are held at restaurants or other business establishments licensed to serve alcohol do not require special permits.\nIt is unlawful for any person to sell, give, or otherwise supply liquor to any person under the age of 21 years or permit any person under that age to consume liquor on his or her premises or on any premises under his or her control. It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to possess, consume, or otherwise acquire any liquor except that given to them by their parents or guardian, used in connection with religious services, or administered by their physician or dentist for medicinal purposes. The supply of alcohol to or the use of alcohol by any person under the age of 21 years is a gross misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000 or imprisonment. A person under the age of 21 years acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for him or herself or someone else experiencing alcohol poisoning, shall not be charged or prosecuted if the evidence for the charge was obtained as a result of the person seeking medical assistance.\nThis Drug Free Workplace Policy is intended to meet, at a minimum, the requirements of all applicable federal and state laws, including but not limited to the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986, as amended, and the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, as amended. It is the College\u2019s overarching goal, however, to work effectively with individuals to resolve substance abuse issues in a positive and constructive manner.\nIt is the policy of Whitman College that the workplace is to be free from the unlawful use, possession, distribution, or sale of alcohol and other controlled substances. Moreover, faculty and staff are discouraged from working while under the influence of alcohol, as it may lead to behavior evidencing irresponsible consumption (obvious intoxication, impaired judgment, verbal harassment, etc.). Working while under the influence of any controlled substance not medically authorized is strictly prohibited.\nThe College is committed to promoting the highest possible standards of health and welfare among its students, faculty and staff. This policy will enable each faculty and staff member to perform his or her work in a safe, conscientious and effective manner that does not adversely affect the College community and the working/learning environment. As required by law, each individual employed by the College is hereby notified that, as a condition of his or her employment, he or she must abide by these drug-free workplace requirements.\nA faculty or staff member will be required to report his/her criminal drug statute conviction for a violation occurring in the workplace to his/her immediate supervisor within five (5) days after such conviction. The supervisor must immediately notify the college officer responsible for the particular work area, who will in turn notify the Director of Human Resources.\nThe College\u2019s response to violations of this policy may include assessment and treatment options and/or a range of penalties from admonition to dismissal from the College, depending on the severity of the violation. Other sanctions may also include, but are not limited to, formal reprimand, restrictions on participation in campus activities, transfer, demotion, forfeiture of promotion or salary increase, suspension or mandatory leave of absence, and mandatory participation in an approved counseling or rehabilitative treatment program as a condition of continued employment. The College will investigate and review the circumstances of each individual case and take appropriate action, determined separately on the merits of each case.\nDisciplinary sanctions will be determined by the respective Budget Officer, in consultation with the Director of Human Resources. The affected staff member or faculty member may appeal the decision to a panel of the Employee Relations Committee (ERC), which shall make a final recommendation to the Chair of the Faculty, who will then make the final decision. Note that the dismissal of a faculty member must occur in accordance with the terms and process outlined in the Faculty Code (Chapter 1, Article III, Sections 4&5).\nWhitman College takes its commitment to provide a drug-free working environment seriously. Any faculty or staff member who suspects he/she might have a drug (or substance) abuse problem is encouraged to seek assistance through his/her own efforts before the problem affects his/her employment status with the College. To comply with the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, the College\u2019s Human Resources Office maintains a list of agencies which provide rehabilitative and counseling services related to substance abuse. Any contact will be held in strictest confidence.\n6. Recommendations for revising AOD programs.\nIn the future, we would like to expand out AOD programs by adding several new features. This includes:\nHiring an AOD counselor whose job function would include campus outreach and education as well as one-on-one counseling with students.\nCreate a list of high-risk AOD behaviors that will result in a student being required to participate in BASICS assessment and two meetings with a counselor.\nCreate a list of unsafe AOD behaviors that will result in a student being required to participate in an educational conversation and/or program.\nExplore the idea of creating an off-campus housing option for juniors and seniors who are in AOD recovery.\nImplement eCHECKUP and design effective ways of using it. For example, several of the Whitman sororities have access to GreekLife.Edu and do require all of their new members to complete this online program prior to initiation. For the sororities and fraternities that do not have access to this program, we can offer them access to eCHECKUP. We could also offer it to residence life sections, varsity and club sports, student clubs, etc. as an educational program.\nWe have seen an increase in the number of students who admit to using marijuana in our Social Trends survey (administered every 3 years). In order to educate and raise awareness, we would also like to consider adopting eTOKE, which could be used in similar ways to eCHECKUP, with a variety of student groups.\nAdapt the Alcohol Skills Training Program to be a peer-led skills development program focused on teaching students to drink in a safer, less-risky manner.\nIncorporate alcohol expectancies into the social norms posters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 352, "original_length": 29685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitstablebiennale.com/project/resisting-expectations/?ref=archive", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6HTS4GEZDXMYSH2TA52LPWPORKFJWGCG", "length": 7181, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.whitstablebiennale.com", "title": "Resisting Expectations \u2013 Whitstable Biennale", "raw_content": "Analogue Ensemble, Resisting Expectations. Vicky Smith. Photo: Dik Ng (43)\nResisting Expectations\nA selection of film, video and performance works that investigate, critique, and play with ways to make and present the moving image, confounding our perceptions and conceptions, through direct physical action, filming and editing processes, or manipulation of the technology.\nWorks presented: Karel Doing uses ingredients from nature to \u2018grow\u2019 images on film; Vicky Smith\u2019s live manipulation of the filmstrip produces primal, abstract and noisy animation; Conor Kelly explores the relationship between sound, image and site; Deniz Johns reverses the allure of the \u2018selfie\u2019, and a Peter Gidal collaboration with William Burroughs.\nKarel Doing Wilderness Series. HD Video and DCP, 13:38 minutes, colour, 2016.\nBy using plants, mud and salt in conjunction with alternative photochemistry, images are \u2018grown\u2019 on motion picture film. What at first glance is perceived as abstract turns out to be a concrete precipitation from phenomena that surround us in everyday life. The \u2018aliveness\u2019 of the images is underlined by Andrea Szigetv\u00e1ri\u2019s evocative sound-design.\nPeter Gidal Code I & Coda II. 16mm film, sound, 4 minutes, colour, 2013.\nPeter Gidal\u2019s starting point for his 16mm film is a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971, read by William Burroughs. Gidal describes the film\u2019s \u2018so-called imagery\u2019 as \u2018a complex of barely visible cuts in space and time, the opposite of erasure, but nothing so much as visible\u2019. Both Coda I & II films are codas for another film, not far at all (2013). Co-commissioned by Frieze London and EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, 2013. https://lux.org.uk/work/coda-i\nDeniz Johns #youjustnow / Media Blackout III Digital video, monitor, silent, loop, colour, 2018.\nMedia Blackout is a series of works Deniz Johns is currently undertaking as part of her research, which revolves around models of political aesthetics and filmic constructions in experimental film and video.#youjustnow / Media Blackout III challenges the online construction of idealised self by reproducing a self-portrait over and over again through screenshots, rather than \u2018improving\u2019 the image with filters, colour corrections, soft focus and so on, this process degrades the image towards illegibility.\nConor Kelly Sands HD Video, sound, live performance, 10 minutes, 2018.\nVicky Smith Agitations 16mm film, performance, projection, 2017/18.\nVicky Smith marks directly onto film by jumping on it. Attempting to register imagery in the same place she moves in repetitive, restricted ways. The film is made in equal measure through her physical actions and the force of the ground. Projection of the film reveals delicate patterns inscribed upon the worn-out emulsion.\nThe evening will end with a discussion between the audience and artists.\nKarel Doing is an artist and filmmaker, creating experimental films, installations and performative pieces focusing on sensorial, semiotic, post-colonial and environmental topics. Through the study of material process, the recording of oral history and the (re)use of cinematic heritage he explores alternative knowledge systems. Kareldoing.net\nPeter Gidal is a renowned writer, theorist and film-maker. He studied theatre, psychology and literature at Brandeis University, Massachussets (1964-68) and the University of Munich (1966-67). He was a student of the Royal College of Art from 1968-71 and taught Advanced Film Theory there until 1984. An active member of the London Film-Makers\u2019 Co-operative since 1969, he was its cinema programmer from 1971-74. He was a co-founder of the Independent Film-Makers\u2019 Association in 1975, and served on the British Film Institute Production Board from 1978-81.\nPeter Gidal\u2019s films have been screened widely, with retrospectives at the ICA (1983), Paris Centre George Pompidou (1996 & 2016), DocPoint Helsinki (2014), Anthology Film Archives (2016) and Cinematek Brussels (2016). He was the recipient of the Prix de la Recherche Toulon (1974), the Ljubljana International Biennial Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) and his most recent film not far at all (2013) won the 2015 L\u2019 ge d\u2019Or Prize at Cinematek Brussels.\nHis writing include books; Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings (Studio Vista, 1971), Structural Film Anthology (BFI, 1976), Understanding Beckett: Monologue and Gesture (Macmillan, 1986), Materialist Film (Routledge, 1988), Andy Warhol: Blow Job (Afterall, 2008) and Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016 (The Visible Press, 2016). His writing has been published extensively in journals such as Studio International, Screen, October and Undercut, and the exhibition catalogues of Gerhard Richter, Cerith Wyn Evans and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Oulton.\nDeniz Johns is a Turkish/British filmmaker and a curator of experimental film and video, who lives and works in London. Before receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art in 2012, she studied film, choreography and linguistics in Turkey, Poland, Japan and the UK. She is currently undertaking her Ph.D by practice, which revolves around modes of political aesthetics and filmic constructions in experimental film and video in Britain.\nHer work is shown in national and international venues including: CineCycle, Toronto, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Southbank Centre, Close-up Film Centre and the Roundhouse, London. She is a founding member of collective-iz, an artist collective, based in London, working within the context of experimental film, video and performance. cargocollective.com/denizjohns\nConor Kelly\u2019s visual work deals with and challenges traditional hierarchies and modalities of the sound-image relationship within the moving image. Added to this are elements involving space, site specificity performance and a practice exploring technologies, forms and processes. uca.ac.uk/staff-profiles/conorkelly/\nVicky Smith works with direct-on-film experimental animation to explore the vulnerable and vital body. Her work has screened in international galleries and retrospectives including during 2018, \u2018Voyages Elsewhere\u2019, Edge of Frame Animation, London; \u2018Matters of Being\u2019, Independent Film Show, Naples; \u2018Holy Fluids\u2019, Union Docs Center for Documentary Art, New York and \u2018Physical Connection\u2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. Recent publications include: Exploring the work of Sandra Lahire: Animation studies online (https://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=2174); BEEF: One Year of Material Practice at The Brunswick Club (http://www.beefbristol.org/writings/) and Experimental & Expanded Animation: Current Perspectives and Practices, co-edited with Nicky Hamlyn. She lectures at the University for the Creative Arts and at The University of the West of England.\nAnalogue Ensemble, Resisting Expectation (Conor Kelly), 2018. Photo: Dik Ng\nAnalogue Ensemble, Resisting Expectations, ( Vicky Smith), 2018. Photo: Dik Ng\nAnalogue Ensemble, Resisting Expectations, Karel Doing, 2018. Photo: Dik Ng\nAnalogue Ensemble, Resisting Expectations, 2018, Deniz Johns. 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This timely edition is destined to become the definitive guide to CSR, Sustainability, Business Ethics and the organizations and standards in the field.\nThe A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility is a unique publication and is the culmination of over a hundred of the world\u2019s leading thinkers, opinion formers, academic and business people providing an easy-to-use guide to CSR: from general concepts such as sustainability, stakeholder management, business ethics and human rights to more specific topics such as carbon trading, microfinance, biodiversity, the Base of the Pyramid model and globalisation. In addition to definitions of the most important terms across the wide range of CSR associated topics, this book also covers all the most important codes and guidelines, such as the Equator Principles, the UN Global Compact and ISO standards, as well as providing background on organizations such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Transparency International and profiles of CSR in particular industries and regions.\nThis paperback edition includes all the latest developments in CSR as well as incorporating new sections on boardroom pay, the sub-prime market and the financial crisis.\n\"\"A complete reference guide...offers an invaluable combination of lessons learned and best practice for the future...provides first\u2013hand insights\"\" (Forum CSR International, October 2008)\n\"\"This is a timely and innovative contribution to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility\"\" (Retail & Leisure International, February 2008)\n\"\"...a handy reference to have on the shelf behind your desk...\"\" (Ethical Performance, February 2008)\n\u201cYou will not find a wider display of today\u2019s key global players and their action programs than here.\u201d (CSR\u2013News.net, May 2008)\n\u201cThe book contains a great deal of detailed research.\u201d (Supply Management, May 2008)\nDirk Matten, Hewlett Packard Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility at York University Business School, Toronto.\nWayne Visser Founder and CEO of CSR International, London. Wayne He is Visiting Professor in CSR at Manheim University (Germany) and Senior Associate and Internal Examiner at the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (UK), where he previously held positions as Research Director and External Examiner.\nManfred Pohl & Nick Tolhurst, ICCA, The Netherlands.\nThe A to Z of CSR \u2013 Introduction (Wayne Visser and Dirk Matten).\nContents of the A to Z.\nThe A to Z.\nIndex of Terms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 9952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.willeyco.com/willey-cos-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:07:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DXPYAQH2CKP3L2QIBUD77X6ODQF7P6JF", "length": 6306, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.willeyco.com", "title": "Septic Tank Maintenance Sussex | Well Drilling Kent County | Septic Pumping Delaware - Willey Co.", "raw_content": "Willey & Co\u2019s Story\nLarry Willey created the concept of Willey & Co back in 1970. Larry was working a day job at DuPont and decided that he did not want to work his entire life in a factory type job while working for someone else. Larry wanted to put to work his excellent business sense and his desire to make a difference in people\u2019s lives.\nBecause of demand the septic industry had to expand with increasing growth in Delaware. Larry took a major risk when he decided to purchase a used backhoe. The intent of this purchase was to install septic systems on his days off, nights, and weekends. Having a client list of zero is definitely an uphill road to climb. This incredibly hard task of finding work helped mold his core business principles.\nWhenever someone asked Larry to install a septic system for them, he made their job his own. He was genuinely interested in any customer\u2019s story. He enjoyed meeting people. He began to develop the motto that we still uphold today. His interest in his customers lives, compassionate pricing, and attention to detail began to start a small buzz in the community. After a couple of years of installing septic systems on the side, he was developing a client base that he could not keep up with. He decided to leave DuPont to pursue the septic industry full time.\nThis was a tremendous leap of faith. His desire to make every customer happy and establish friendships was helping his business succeed. Slowly L.E. Willey & Co evolved into a successful business. His effort to create happy customers was having a much more dramatic effect on his customer base than he realized. As the years went by, Larry received calls from previous customers\u2019 children and family members. This was the ultimate success in his business. He realized that his customers were so happy with him, they were going out in the community and recommending family and friends to use him for all their septic needs.\nLarry grew the business to accommodate the growing demand that word-of-mouth advertising was creating. In the early 80\u2019s Larry began working for several home builders. With new homes being built, Larry realized water wells and systems were a tremendous compliment to the business he had developed. He embraced the idea and started offering the well/hookup service. This was a very successful idea because his home builder clients had one less person to call, and Larry was able to offer a very reasonable price on the whole deal. Before long, second generations were calling from previous customers.\nMy father had me on the job, running the machines, and learning the business as soon as I could walk. My father instilled the principles for his success in my character. He did this simply by telling me about all of his experiences. As I got older, I began working on the job whenever I was not in school. I was earning extra money, learning the job, and helping my father manage the workload. I was mainly focused on the physical work that needed to be done, but I was constantly being told about all of the keys for success. As soon as I turned eighteen, I was obtaining licenses and creating a background in the business. I was working full time on the job while going to college.\nFor several years I continued this. I was starting to see how all the principles my father taught me through the years were coming to life. I went away to finish college. When I came home I decided to get more involved with the business. It was what I knew and was natural for me. I knew where I was supposed to be in life.\nThe transition took a couple of years. In 2005 my father stepped back and I took over. I restructured the company into Willey & Co Inc. We enjoyed a couple of good years after I took over. Those were good years for our economy. In late 2007 we got our first test in a bad economy. We saw our industry collapse around us. We saw horror stories happen to very respected clients and people in the industry. My leadership skills were put to the test. We made big decisions in this time era. We decided to do the opposite of our economy and expanded our services. Our entire company pulled together and did incredible things to get us through the worst economy in a long time. Our decisions paid off. Our expanded services helped us dramatically weather the economic storm.\n2009 was a big year for Willey & Co. Willey & Co expanded its services by buying out Morris Well Drilling. This was a big move for us as it expanded our client list, enhanced our fleet, and grew our staff. Little did we know, this move was a great move. Willey & Co acquired some key staff members and equipment. It also required Willey & Co to need an office staff due to an expanded paper work demand.\nIn 2010 we started seeing our economy recover, some. It was amazing to see how the smart decisions we made to weather the storm are paying big dividends now. When you put together a great staff with good principles the results will be positive even if it\u2019s not always clear.\nAs of 2012, our business has continued to grow. We started to see a rebound out of the recession. It was a great feeling to see the economy start growing again. The recession is something we will look back at for decades. Willey & Co is making plans to acquire a new home in Laurel. Willey & Co has always been a home business for the most part. We have stored materials and fleet at different locations throughout our history, but we are looking at building one property to finally call home.\n2013 brought Willey & Co a new address, 11588 Commercial Lane. Our new Home. We even refined our image and marketing for the new place. We are honored and blessed to be able to have a central place to call our home. We have a indoor facility for our fleet and all staff members. 2013 also was another excellent year in growth. Growing pains come with growth, but we push forward.\nOur goal is and always will be to satisfy our clients needs to the point where they are satisfied enough to be more than comfortable referring us to others. In fact we want them to go out of their way to refer us to others. That takes a lot of satisfaction and that\u2019s how we aim to leave all clients.\nI believe this philosophy will honor my father\u2019s intention for this company, and we aim for our future to be based on the principles of the past!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 9236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.willeylumber.com/eco-friendly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:10:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YD24Q65VSPLC5P72VNOY2JB3VEY2DGMS", "length": 1521, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.willeylumber.com", "title": "Willey Lumber - Eco-friendly", "raw_content": "The principles of sustainable eco-friendly building are surprisingly uncomplicated. There are certain steps everyone can take to improve their property's impact on the environment and vastly increase energy savings at the same time.\nInsulation allows your home to stay cooler in summer and warmer in the winter. We offer brands like CertainTeed and Knauf insulation to make your home more eco-friendly and reduce your heating/cooling costs.\nUsing certain colors on metal roofing can deflect heat that would otherwise be absorbed by the building and require more energy-wasting air conditioning. We provide several brands of metal roofing that have energy star rated colors.\nThe possibilities are nearly limitless: By creating buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows, it's possible to let in natural sunlight, thereby reducing the need for indoor lighting. This also lowers heating expenses, since the windows allow sunlight to fill the room. Solatube is a company that makes several different tubular skylights as well as other ecofriendly products like solar powered attic ventilation systems.\nIf you haven't given it much thought in the past, it may be time to find out what benefits to the environment and your wallet are offered by sustainable eco-friendly building supplies. Our team of experts is always ready to share their knowledge, expertise, and research about sustainable eco-friendly building supplies and designs. Drop by our location and speak with us in person or contact us by e-mail with your questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.win.tue.nl/~timw/projects.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:43:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PC5KBEQI7PV77INW73VWP3RK2HARBOKA", "length": 1161, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.win.tue.nl", "title": "PROJECTS - Tim A.C. Willemse", "raw_content": "Principal Investigator in the industry-funded project VOICE-B (2018-2023), a project on adding verification technology to Model-Driven Engineering solutions developed at Oc\u00e9 (funded by Oc\u00e9-Technologies B.V.)\nProject member/co-applicant in the NWO TOP-C1 project AVVA (2018-2022), a project on accelerating verification and verifying algorithms for verification.\nProject leader in the industry-funded follow-up on VICTORIA, 2016 (funded by Verum B.V.)\nPrincipal Investigator in the EU-FP7 TETRACOM project VICTORIA (2014-2015), a project on connecting mCRL2 to Dezyne, an MDE solution.\nPrincipal Investigator in the NWO-project VOCHS (2010-2013), a project on verifying the control software of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), using the framework of parameterised Boolean equation systems.\nPrincipal Investigator in the NWO-project COMFORTS (2006-2009), a project on verification of data-dependent and real-time systems using parameterised Boolean equation systems.\nProject leader of Line of Attention 3 on Model-Based Testing Methodology within the SenterNovem-project TANGRAM (2004-2008) on Model-Based Testing, Integration and Diagnosis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wingeorgia.com/about/programs/soc-grant/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:18:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MEJB4XCW6Q33BRNEP7I4ZR2U77VHL4AP", "length": 1053, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wingeorgia.com", "title": "System of Care Supplemental Support Grant \u2013 LMCME | Win Georgia", "raw_content": "In July 2014, LMCS was awarded a grant by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), Office of Children, Young Adults and Families (CYF) to use in the expansion of System of Care value-oriented work for the youth and their families served by the agency.\nThe System of Care Supplemental Support Grant is designed to further support System of Care philosophy, framework, and processes by increasing and improving cooperation and collaboration across child-serving agencies to meet the multiple and complex needs of youth with emotional disturbances and their families; improving access and expanding the array of community-based, culturally and linguistically competent services and supports for children and youth and their families; and including families and youth in partnership with the designing of programs and policies that are appropriate, effective, evidence-based, individualized, and build on their strengths in order to improve functioning at home, in the school, in the community and throughout life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 147.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wired.com/2012/12/2012-year-on-twitter-shows-second-screen-culture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:4INT3RLRT43J62GMNYYRH3PYTXFV755E", "length": 2615, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wired.com", "title": "Our Favorite Tweets Highlight Our 'Second Screen' Culture, Twitter Survey Shows | WIRED", "raw_content": "Our Favorite Tweets Highlight Our 'Second Screen' Culture, Twitter Survey Shows\nPresident Obama's simple message \"Four more years\" was retweeted 810,000 times, making it the biggest tweet of the year, according to Twitter's 2012 year in review report.\nPresident Obama's simple message was the biggest tweet of the year, according to Twitter's 2012 year-in-review report.\nTwitter released its annual look back at the year's most popular tweets, biggest trends and most notable moments as seen through the lens of 140-character updates. There was a lot going on, from Hurricane Sandy to Whitney Houston, but the clear standout trend: We love to talk about things on TV.\nAlmost all of the year's major conversations were about sports, politics or entertainment. Twitter went wild during the the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the presidential debates and the MTV Video Music Awards. It was the second screen where we went online to root for teams and politicians and musicians.\nYou could see this even more vividly reflected in the most retweeted moments of the year. Barack Obama had the most retweeted (810,000!) message with \"Four more years.\" But every one of the top tweets was related to politics, sports or entertainment.\nThis is the second-screen culture we keep hearing about, where we take to a phone or a tablet to talk about the things we're seeing on TV. Even when it comes to Sandy's destruction, or Houston's self-destruction, when news hits we no longer just digest it; we go online to disseminate, dissect and discuss it. This isn't a new behavior, of course. It's the water cooler writ large, all across the planet, all at once. Except instead of taking place the day after an event, Twitter and Facebook and the like let us talk about events as they happen.\nWhich is exactly why politics and sports, and even natural disasters, lead to so many conversations. They are unscripted moments, happening in real time, with uncertain outcomes. They tend to be full of drama and human emotion. They elicit passionate takes, which themselves elicit passionate replies (and maybe even passionate retweets).\nThere's a lot of talk about Twitter remaking itself into a media company. And Twitter clearly is trying to position itself as the place people go online to talk about current events \u2013 the Discover tab in its app was more or less made just for that.\nBut really, just as we gave it the retweet and the hashtag, we are the ones remaking Twitter. It may be able to point out things that are going on, but we're the ones who make things happen. If Twitter is a media company now, it's because we've made it that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 6121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmalabamalaw.com/employment-law-blog/2018/october/when-is-sexual-assault-within-the-scope-of-emplo/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VGQZHGD3W72D42U5HUOH6VJWLBVJMVHE", "length": 3196, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wmalabamalaw.com", "title": "When is Sexual Assault Within the Scope of Employment?", "raw_content": "A common question in employment cases that involve injury at the hands of a co-worker or other employee is whether the business can be held liable. The general assumption is that a business would be responsible for the actions of its employees, but that is not always the case. The legal theory referred to as vicarious liability states that an employer can be held liable for the actions of an employee when those actions occur at work or the actions were taken within the scope of employment. An interesting case out of Florida addressed this issue.\nSexual Assault by a Supervisor in an Employer-Furnished Apartment\nAccording to the lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida, a female worker who was employed seasonally was being housed in employer-furnished housing during her employment. On one occasion, her supervisor entered her apartment that she shared with her children and claimed he needed to conduct an inspection. While in the apartment, the female worker claims he forced her into a bedroom and raped her. She reported the rape to a manager but there was no investigation and no disciplinary action was taken against the supervisor. The supervisor later retaliated against her for making the complaint and she was ultimately terminated.\nDid the Sexual Assault Occur Within the Scope of the Supervisors Employment?\nThere are many factors to consider in determining whether the supervisor\u2019s actions in assaulting the female worker occurred within the scope of his employment. This is a pivotal issue because it would determine whether the company could be held responsible for the supervisor\u2019s actions. Basically, the court had to determine whether the supervisor was able to accomplish the sexual assault by using his authority as a supervisor of the company. Some of the factors considered by the court included the fact that the apartment leased by the female worker was under the control of the employer and the supervisor who allegedly raped her was her supervisor. As a crew leader, his duties also included assigning workers like her to the company-furnished apartments. In other words, he had the authority to enter the premises and perform an inspection. On the date of the alleged assault, the supervisor informed the female worker that he was inspecting the apartment to determine whether there was available space to house additional employees.\nDoes Vicarious Liability Apply in This Case?\nThese facts suggest that the supervisor acted within the scope of his employment when the alleged rape occurred. Although in most cases sexual assault is the type of intentional misconduct that would fall outside the scope of employment, there may be an exception when the assault was accomplished by virtue of the employment relationship.\nIn this case, the jury could decide that the supervisor used his authority given to him by his employer to gain access to the apartment in order to rape her. Unfortunately, there was also evidence that the employer knew of this particular supervisor\u2019s propensity for sexual misconduct as there had been other complaints of sexual harassment occurring at the same housing. For this reason, the federal court allowed the case to go to trial.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 165.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/why-a-car-key-costs-200-to-copy-and-new-cheaper-options", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ID5SDR6HQDZZPRWVZDNVFKKAASEXC5KA", "length": 2608, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.wmar2news.com", "title": "Why a car key costs $200 to copy, and new cheaper options", "raw_content": "New services can be half the cost of the dealer\nEver lose a car key, or have one go bad after a few years? You probably dreaded asking the dealer for a new one, worried about the cost, with some keys and fobs costing $300 or more.\nBut you now have some cheaper options.\nRon Sparer needed a duplicate key for his 2003 Toyota. He knew the dealer would charge well over $100 \u2014 if not $200 to $300 \u2014 so he ordered an inexpensive blank online.\nBut then, he says, \"I couldn't get the key cut.\"\nSparer says three hardware stores and big box stores all refused to even try to duplicate his key.\n\"All three told me the same thing,\" he said. \"They won't cut a key, and said I have to go to the dealer.\"\nSome implied it was a security issue to prevent thieves from making copies while others wouldn't do it because today's keys are \"smart keys\" with a unique code. And they told him they would not be able to match the code of the RF chip molded into the plastic in the end of the key.\nSolutions to the computer chip problem\nIndeed, most car keys sold since 2001 now have a computer chip inside, leaving hardware stores struggling to make duplicates that work.\nIt typically requires a trip to a dealer for a pricey new key fob, and an even pricier programming service.\nThat is until now, thanks to some new high tech programs, like Duracell Renewal.\nAce Hardware's John Doucleff said a growing number of Ace Hardware stores have joined the Duracell program, and said at his store, \"we are able to do between 95 and 98 percent of the keys on the road now.\"\nNot only can they find you the exact fob for your car, they can cut the key blank, then program the whole thing to work. The whole process takes about 20 minutes, he said, and is about half the cost of many dealerships.\nAnd unlike a store with just a key cutter, \"we are actually able to marry the key, reprogram the key and reprogram it to the dashboard.\"\nThe program won't work with some high tech European cars like Mercedes and Volvo, or many newer post-2014 cars with no keys at all.\nSparer, who had not yet heard about the Duracell program, finally cut the key blank himself, then learned from a YouTube video how to sync the remote.\n\"You do different things like press the brake pedal five times and the accelerator once, and you have a key that's set to go,\" he said.\nIt finally worked for him.\nNeed a key? Call an Ace hardware near you. Not all Ace stores have this program, so call ahead.\nOr try an online company like Keyless Ride, which sells discount key fobs for hundreds of cars, and the instructions to program them, so you don't waste your money.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenofthevine.com/articles/women-of-the-vine-spirits-foundation-now-accepting-scholarship-applications", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4RA6NUBV4XKIDD6FAVVUIPXLNPSKDBVT", "length": 3683, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.womenofthevine.com", "title": "Women of the Vine & Spirits | Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications", "raw_content": "Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications\nFoundation to provide scholarships and awards for women in alcohol beverage industry\nAugust 1, 2018 (New York) \u2013 Women of the Vine & Spirits, the world\u2019s leading membership organization dedicated to giving women globally a platform and voice to thrive in the alcohol beverage industry, has announced it is accepting scholarship applications to be awarded this summer through the Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation, Ltd.\nThe Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation provides scholarships and awards for the purpose of helping women advance in their careers in the food, wine, spirits, hospitality, or viticulture industries through education, leadership, and professional development.\n\u201cEducation is vital to empowering women and is a pillar of our organization,\u201d said Deborah Brenner, Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & Spirits. \u201cWe value and recognize the benefit that higher knowledge gives to an individual seeking to progress their career, which is why we are passionate about our Foundation and providing scholarships to deserving women looking to thrive in this industry.\u201d\nThe Foundation offers scholarships each calendar year to recipients of either a Professional & Leadership Development Scholarship or an Educational Scholarship.\nNew this year, Women of the Vine & Spirits has formed a strategic alliance with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), providing scholarships toward WSET course fees. The mutual alliance aims to improve the visibility of progression paths and opportunities for women in the wine and spirits industry. WSET Scholarships is a subset of the Continuing Education Scholarship. Applicants should specify which WSET Level they would like to apply their Scholarship toward on the application where indicated.\n\u201cWSET is a champion for equal opportunity in the industry, emphasizing the value of education for all professionals and enthusiasts, men and women,\u201d said Ian Harris, Chief Executive, WSET. \u201c43% of WSET Diploma graduates are women and eight out of the past 10 highest scoring Diploma students have been female. We are pleased to be working with Women of the Vine & Spirits to develop further opportunities for the benefit of our students, our partner\u2019s members and the industry at large.\u201d\nApplications are now being accepted with the deadline to submit, August 15, 2018; recipients will be selected September 15, 2018.\nFor more information about the Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation, to view the current scholarship opportunities, to apply, or to donate visit womenofthevine.com/foundation.\nAbout Women of the Vine & Spirits\nWomen of the Vine & Spirits is the world\u2019s leading membership organization dedicated to giving women globally a platform and voice to thrive in the alcohol beverage industry. Women of the Vine & Spirits is an organization for members to connect through our global and diverse network and collaborate across all industry sectors. Providing members with resources and opportunities to thrive is the cornerstone of our organization and success. We offer steadfast support for women at every position in the field with membership benefits that include: education, training, mentorship, entrepreneurship and networking as well as tools, services and resources for personal and business development. Together, we are a committed community taking action and making a positive impact on the alcohol beverage industry, worldwide. Save the date for the Fifth Annual Women of the Vine & Spirits Global Symposium, March 11- 13, 2019 in Napa, California. For more information, please visit womenofthevine.com.\n2018 Scholarship Announcement.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 12064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.woodlandhillspharmacy.com/ldn-for-dermatological-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:X6KV6UR5V374CX62JE56JJUYR6GRDJQX", "length": 6165, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.woodlandhillspharmacy.com", "title": "LDN for Dermatological Conditions - Treating Skin Disease with LDN", "raw_content": "It seems that new research demonstrating the benefits of daily low dose naltrexone (LDN) usage is published every month. Recently there have been case studies and reports showing that LDN may an effective treatment for dermatological conditions. A majority of existing treatments for these conditions are topical, making LDN a unique oral option that is non-toxic and can be used on a daily basis.\nLDN and Dermatology\nLDN (low-dose naltrexone) is a lower-dose version of the drug naltrexone, which has been used for many years to help individuals recover from opiate dependency. At lower doses, naltrexone exhibits anti-inflammatory properties that are not seen at the higher doses used for drug addiction. Examples of conditions that have been treated with LDN are inflammatory bowel diseases, arthritis, and fibromyalgia. All of these conditions are associated with inflammation. Inflammation can affect many parts of the body, especially the body\u2019s largest organ: the skin. That is why dermatology researchers and clinicians have started to try LDN to treat a variety of skin conditions.\nFamilial benign pemphigus, also called Hailey-Hailey Disease, is a rare dermatological condition that can be debilitating. This genetic condition is due to a gene mutation that results in blisters as skin cells fail to adhere properly. A recent case study was conducted using LDN to treat Hailey-Hailey disease. Remarkably, each of the three patients studied exhibited at least an 80% improvement in the extent of their disease. One patient even had a 90% clearance of their condition. No adverse effects were reported as part of this study.\nPsoriasis is a common dermatological condition that results in painful, itchy patches of skin cells that are overproduced. Many oral medications, topical treatments, and laser and light devices are used to manage psoriasis. In a case study published recently, a 65 year old female patient who had psoriasis covering about 10% of her body was treated with LDN daily. After six months, the patient\u2019s psoriasis had been reduced to only 1% of her body. She also experienced less itching in the patches that remained. The patient continues to take LDN and is seeing further remission of her psoriasis.\nGuttate psoriasis is a rarer form of psoriasis that causes small reddish spots on the skin. In another study, a 75 year old male patient was successfully treated with LDN for his guttate psoriasis. As is common in almost every study with LDN, no adverse effects were reported. LDN is a promising treatment for psoriasis because it is both clinically effective and cost-effective. The cost of regular laser treatments or other prescription medications and be significant and need to be repeated indefinitely.\nThis rare type of lichen planus affects the scalp and causes hair loss, itching, and burning. Most patients who develop this condition are young women and although it is thought to be an autoimmune condition the exact cause is not known. Lichen planopilaris is another type of inflammatory condition affecting the skin that has been successfully treated with low dose naltrexone. In a review of four cases where patients with lichen planopilaris were treated with LDN, all four showed improvement in symptoms and no adverse effects were reported.\nSystemic sclerosis is another condition with no established cause that is thought to be an autoimmune condition. This condition causes the skin to thicken as excessive collagen accumulates. The systemic type of sclerosis can affect other parts of the body besides the skin including the kidney and heart. The effects on the skin include thickening, redness, and pruritus. The pruritus associated with systemic sclerosis is difficult to treat. However, preliminary studies have shown that LDN may be effective at treating pruritus associated with this condition.\nBenefits of LDN for Skin Conditions\nMany skin conditions can only be treated with expensive medical procedures or commercially available medications. For skin conditions that require regular treatment, these can be cost-prohibitive for some individuals. LDN is an affordable alternative that may help patients get clearer skin without needing to break their budget.\nAnother benefit of LDN over other treatments is that it is non-toxic and few, if any, adverse events have been reported in studies. The majority of patients tolerate daily LDN well. The dose that is FDA-approved is around 50mg daily for managing opiate addiction. The dose of LDN used for managing dermatological conditions is only 1.5-4.5mg daily. The safety and efficacy of the 50mg dose needed to be proved before the commercial medication obtained FDA approval. That is why many doctors feel confident prescribing a much lower dose of the same medication.\nAs new research emerges on using LDN to treat skin diseases, its use will only continue to expand. It is likely that LDN will continue to only be available from compounding pharmacies, who will be challenged to meet the new demand for this remarkable drug.\nJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology \u2013 Low-Dose Naltrexone Treatment of Familial Benign Pemphigus (Hailey-Hailey Disease). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768314\nJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology \u2013 Treatment of psoriasis vulgaris using low-dose naltrexone. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143714/\nInternational Journal of Pharmacy Compounding \u2013 Compounded Low-dose Naltrexone for the Treatment of Guttate Psoriasis: A Case Report. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30021181\nJournal of Drugs in Dermatology \u2013 Novel Treatment Using Low-Dose Naltrexone for Lichen Planopilaris. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29141063\nInternational Journal of Rheumatology \u2013 Low-Dose Naltrexone for Pruritus in Systemic Sclerosis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171757/\nThis entry was posted in Dermatology and tagged dermatology, Hailey-Hailey Disease, LDN, lichen planopilaris, Low Dose Naltrexone, psoriasis, skin conditions on January 29, 2019 by woodlandhills pharmacy.\nTags: dermatology, Hailey-Hailey Disease, LDN, lichen planopilaris, Low Dose Naltrexone, psoriasis, skin conditions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 9276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 148.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.workingforest.com/species-at-risk-recovery-plans-delayed-by-ottawas-inaction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:CYBLJFIVZMY7RKJXMJWZJP6E5WBIJYBL", "length": 1880, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.workingforest.com", "title": "Species at risk recovery plans delayed by Ottawa\u2019s inaction | The Working Forest", "raw_content": "The number of recovery plans waiting to be put in place for species at risk continues to grow, show documents obtained under a freedom of information request.\nIn 2013, the federal auditor general admonished Environment Canada for its backlog of about 150 cases. As of June 2014, the number had grown to 174, and experts say the number is most likely much higher today.\nWith 316 species waiting for an at-risk designation, the number of recovery plans in the backlog could soar.\nThe species at risk advisory committee used to develop those recovery plans, but Ottawa cancelled the meetings last year.\n\u201cWhile they sit in that limbo of not being listed, nothing else happens. At least when a decision is made, then it triggers Fisheries Act measures or Species At Risk Act measures,\u201d said Susanna Fuller, the marine co-ordinator at the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax and a member of the species at risk committee.\nIn the documents obtained under access to information, the only reason given for cancelling the meetings was \u201cthere were concerns that not all interested parties are represented in the current structure of the committee.\u201d\nEnvironmental groups blame the Stephen Harper government for the problems.\nThere is hope that better days are ahead. Scientists and special interest groups are anxiously waiting to see the approach Environment Canada takes under prime-minister designate Justin Trudeau\u2019s government. On Wednesday, Trudeau will name his cabinet.\n\u201cWe are very much looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings. I mean it\u2019s not all going to happen tomorrow,\u201d said Kate Lindsay, the director of conservation biology with the Forest Products Association of Canada.\nSpecies at risk experts say there is a lot of work to catch up on quickly, which will cost more money.\nThe next list of animals, fish, plants and insects at risk will be made at the end of this month.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldweet.com/strongest-clan-leaders-in-boruto/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:55:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AGGOYUHZWWSNWJPDXUW5WKK2SQ7WSAG5", "length": 4612, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.worldweet.com", "title": "Top 10 Strongest Clan Leaders in Boruto \u2013 WorldWeet", "raw_content": "Clans have existed in the world of Naruto even before the time of the Warring States Period. Usually, they were at each other\u2019s throats all time, until the first Village, Konohagakure was created. After that, several clans joined together to live in harmony. The Uchiha and the Senju were two of the most powerful clans in Naruto, led by Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju respectively. A lot of time has passed since then, and the clan leaders have also changed. Today, I\u2019ve made a list of the 10 strongest clan leaders in Boruto.\nIno Yamanaka is a member of the Yamanaka clan. Her father, Inoichi Yamanaka was the leader of the clan, so after his death, it is implied that Ino became the leader of this clan. The Yamanaka clan are great sensors, and they have their own set of Hiden techniques. They\u2019re truly a force to be reckoned with.\nShikamaru Nara is the leader of the Nara Clan, and he succeeded his father, Shikaku Nara as the leader of the clan after his death. He has stepped up to the job very well and he\u2019s one of the wisest characters in the series. His intelligence can be matched by few, and that\u2019s what the clan is known for. He is also the advisor of the 7th Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki.\nKonohamaru Sarutobi is the grandson of Hiruzen Sarutobi. Little is known about the Sarutobi Clan, but Hiruzen was its last known leader. His two sons died, one of whom was in the ANBU. Konohamaru is also one of the few known Sarutobi Clan members and now that he\u2019s an adult, I do believe he is fit enough to lead the Sarutobi clan. This clan is also one of the strongest in Konoha\u2019s history.\n07. Choji Akimichi\nChoji Akimichi is the son of Choza Akimichi. Choza was the head of the Clan during the 4th Great Ninja War. However, Choji was already in line to be the next clan leader during the war. Since it\u2019s been a long time since then, I think Choji should\u2019ve become the clan leader by now. That much is certain. He is also one of the strongest shinobi in Konohagakure, so he definitely deserves the spot as the leader of the Akimichi clan.\n06. Hiashi Hyuga\nHiashi Hyuga is the leader of the Hyuga Clan. Even now, he\u2019s one of the strongest clan leaders, and is also considered to be an elite Jonin of his time. His daughter, Hanabi Hyuga is also the heiress of the clan, so, after him, she will be the next Clan leader. Hiashi has led the clan for a long time now. His brother, Hizashi Hyuga also gave his life to protect the clan.\nKurotsuchi is the granddaughter of the Third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, Onoki. Onoki himself was said to be a member of the Kamizuru Clan. Now that he\u2019s stepped down as Tsuchikage, his place has been taken by his granddaughter, Kurotsuchi. So, it is also possible that Kurotsuchi is the current leader of the clan after all. Onoki must be very old by now, and shouldn\u2019t be leading a clan at this age.\nGaara is the 5th Kazekage of Sunagakure, and the leader of the Kazekage Clan. His father, Rasa, was also the last known leader of this Clan. The Kazekage Clan in itself is very weird, to be honest. It is a Clan of the family of those who have their blood tied to Rasa. The Village is only supposed to choose a person related to Rasa, as the Kazekage. Right now, Gaara is the leader,and after him, it could also be his adoptive son, Shinki.\nRock Lee is the leader of the Lee Clan from Konohagakure. This clan was likely established by Lee himself, sometime after the 4th Great Ninja War. They also include all those members who specialize in the usage of Taijutsu only. Several members from this Clan took part in the Chunin Exams in Boruto. Their leader, Lee, is definitely one of the strongest clan leaders in Boruto.\nSasuke Uchiha is the leader of the Uchiha Clan, which has been reestablished after the Uchiha Clan Massacre. Right now, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Uchiha, and Sarada Uchiha are it\u2019s only known members. However, there are the clones that were recently brought to Konohagakure. It is also possible that they\u2019ll be included as members of this clan as well. The Uchiha clan has always been recognized as the strongest clan in the history of Konohagakure, and it is still very powerful.\nNaruto Uzumaki is the leader of the Uzumaki Clan of Konohagakure, which has been reestablished after the war, just like the Uchiha Clan. It\u2019s current members are Naruto himself, Hinata, Boruto Uzumaki and his sister, Himawari Uzumaki. The leader of this clan, Naruto Uzumaki, is also the 7th Hokage of Konohagakure. The Uzumaki have become a very prominent clan in Konoha.\nWho do you like the best among the strongest clan leaders mentioned? Let me know in the comments section below!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 184.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/snow-leopard-range-countries-gear-up-for-climate-smart-conservation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:15:58Z", "digest": "sha1:H67GJJ76UGNC4CQL6D3HRD42BD7NG5KR", "length": 3260, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.worldwildlife.org", "title": "Snow leopard range countries gear up for climate-smart conservation | Stories | WWF", "raw_content": "Snow leopard range countries gear up for climate-smart conservation\nDelegates from the 12 snow leopard range countries met in Kathmandu to strengthen their commitment to snow leopard conservation and chart a way forward to secure a future for this elusive and endangered cat.\nWith climate change threatening all of the Third Pole\u2014the high mountains in Asia that are home to the snow leopard\u2014the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) steering committee meeting focused on climate-smart conservation, poaching and trade, as well as snow leopard and high mountain research.\nAt the event, Ari Nathan, regional environment officer for USAID, recalled his recent meeting with George Schaller, who went out on a quest for the elusive snow leopard in Nepal\u2019s mountains 40 years ago. Recently, as he retraced his steps in Nepal, he said he found the biggest difference in the mountains was the impact of climate change.\nTo combat this threat that is changing the face of mountains in the Third Pole, countries are working on climate-smart management plans for snow leopard landscapes, as part of the GSLEP goal of securing 23 such landscapes by 2020.\n\u201cClimate smart landscape management is a critical, and globally advanced methodology that is being rolled out in this important part of the world,\u201d said Kate Newman, vice president for public sector initiatives at WWF. \u201cIt is encouraging that countries are on track to complete a number of plans ahead of schedule.\u201d\nSpeaking at the opening of the GSLEP steering committee meeting, prime minister of the host country Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, emphasized that snow leopards are the guardians of the water towers and the indicator of the health of the mountain ecosystem. Saving their habitat is not just the responsibility of a handful of snow leopard range nations, but of everyone who needs clean air and water.\nHe also reiterated Nepal\u2019s commitment to snow leopard conservation, pledging almost half a million dollars for the effort, and launching a new National Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Nepal at the opening ceremony, which includes a budget of $3.15 million for implementation. The plan was prepared with financial and technical support of WWF Nepal.\nUnderscoring the urgency of transboundary snow leopard anti-poaching work, James Compton, senior director at TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, emphasized how, like snow leopards, poachers and traffickers also respect no borders. He presented the alarming findings of a recent TRAFFIC report that since 2008, a minimum of four snow leopards have been killed per week. But this number could be substantially higher since many killings in remote areas go undetected.\nThe report, An Ounce of Prevention: Snow leopard crime revisited, was produced with support from the USAID funded Conservation and Adaptation in Asia\u2019s High Mountain Landscapes and Communities program. Through the program, WWF and USAID have also been supporting the GSLEP process.\nThe GSLEP steering committee meeting and landscape management planning workshops hosted by Nepal are both geared towards preparation for a Global Snow Leopard Summit of the twelve range nations, to be hosted by the Government of Kyrgyzstan on Sept. 7 and 8, 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 5141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wtps.org/domain/1716", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5K6M6ODCNWVS4QSOMFLT37MN7YUSZLOK", "length": 2116, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wtps.org", "title": "Board Meetings / Becoming a Board Member", "raw_content": "Board Meeting Podcasts\nJune 20, 2018 -- Work Session\nJune 26, 2018 -- Regular Meeting\nBoard Agendas Archive\nAn individual who wishes to run for a position on the Washington Township Board of Education must meet the following qualifications as prescribed by State law: a) must be a citizen of the United States; b) must be a resident of Washington Township for at least one year immediately preceding election; c) must be able to read and write; d) must be registered to vote in the district and not disqualified from voting pursuant to N.J.S.A. 19:4-1; e) may not have been convicted of a crime or offense as listed in N.J.S.A. 18A:12-1; and f) cannot concurrently hold office as a mayor or member of the governing body of Washington Township.\nEach member of the Board of Education, within thirty days of election or appointment to the Board shall undergo a criminal history background investigation including fingerprinting for the purpose of ensuring the member is not disqualified from Board membership due to a criminal conviction of a crime or offense listed in N.J.S.A. 18A: 12-1 et seq.\nThose seeking candidacy for the Board of Education must obtain a \u201cSchool Board Candidate Kit\u201d from the Gloucester County Clerk\u2019s Election Division, 550 Grove Road, West Deptford, NJ. Published by the New Jersey School Boards Association, the School Board Candidate Kit includes a sample nominating petition as well as information about legal qualifications for school board candidacy and the role of the school board member. Information about the New Jersey School Ethics Act, important dates in the school election process, and briefing sessions for school board candidates are also included in the Kit. The deadline for filing nominating petitions is typically in June.\nSchool Board members are elected typically on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November to serve voluntarily and without compensation for a three-year term. If an elected member is unable to complete his or her term, the remaining members of the Board select a replacement in accordance with board policy to serve until the election in November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 6503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wvsto.com/About-The-Office/Meet-the-Treasurer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KMZJPD2SDYUSGUTENCA7WOKDHB3ZXCUZ", "length": 2863, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wvsto.com", "title": "West Virginia State Treasurer's Office > About The Office > Meet the Treasurer", "raw_content": "The honorable John D. Perdue is West Virginia\u2019s 24th State Treasurer and is currently serving his sixth term. Treasurer Perdue is West Virginia\u2019s longest-serving state treasurer with over 20 years in office. He gained that distinction in 2015 when he surpassed Richard Talbott (D-Barbour) who occupied the office from 1933-1951.\nTreasurer Perdue has served the people of West Virginia for more than 40 years. He started his public service career with the Department of Agriculture in 1973. During his time there he held several positions, including the title of Assistant Commissioner. In 1989 he became executive assistant to former Governor Gaston Caperton and served as a member of his executive staff for eight years.\nSince taking office in 1997, Treasurer Perdue has worked diligently to make West Virginia a better place for families, business owners and citizens of all ages. As the banker of state government, Treasurer Perdue manages more than $13 billion of state money annually. The Treasurer\u2019s Office has set records in the Unclaimed Property Division by returning more than $191 million to rightful owners over the course of his administration. In addition, he oversees the state\u2019s Board of Treasury Investments, the West Virginia Retirement Plus deferred compensation plan and the SMART529 college savings program.\nThe Treasurer\u2019s commitment to education is unparalleled. His NetWorth financial education program is the proud past winner of an Excellence in Financial Literacy Education Award. The Council of State Governments also gave the NetWorth program its Innovations Award for two consecutive years.\nTreasurer Perdue is the only West Virginia State Treasurer to serve as president of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST). He was honored as the organization\u2019s Treasurer of the Year in 2007. In 2012 he received the Unclaimed Property Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA).\nJohn Perdue is a 1972 graduate of West Virginia University and a native of Boone County. He and his wife Robin have two adult daughters.\nTreasurer Perdue\u2019s accomplishments include:\nThe Board of Treasury Investments receiving Standard and Poor\u2019s AAAm, the highest rating available for a money market fund\nEstablishment of the SMART529 college savings program\nCreation of nationally award-winning NetWorth financial education initiative\nExecution of dozens of workshops and conferences to help West Virginians better manage their financial assets\nReturn of more than $191 million in unclaimed property to state residents\nTaking control of West Virginia Retirement Plus, the state\u2019s deferred compensation plan\nServing as past president of the National Association of State Treasurers and the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators\nReceiving NAUPA\u2019s lifetime achievement award", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 135.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wwspi.com/staffing-agency-insurance-hiring-process-impacts-retention/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:25:52Z", "digest": "sha1:26IVG45J27GZCSRYOJJJQHH45DJQI3UT", "length": 1884, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wwspi.com", "title": "Staffing Agency Insurance: Hiring Process Impacts Retention", "raw_content": "Staffing Agency Insurance: Hiring Process Impacts Retention\nTalent is hard to come by. A company that not only can attract but retain good talent can boost their corporate health and longevity.\nThe hiring process is difficult and lengthy for candidates and employers. It is difficult to sort through large volumes of applications and resist the urge to find a candidate as quickly as possible. As a recruiter, it is your role to play the middle man and find that ideal fit.\nRetention begins with clarity and clear communication in the recruiting process. Recruiter.com suggests that employers can improve retention rates \u201cby avoiding a false image of a candidate\u2019s role, corporate culture, and expectations during the hiring process.\u201d It is tempting to say anything and everything to convince a candidate to take a position. But if they do not know key facets of the position, such as company culture, they may be more likely to leave.\nClear communication involves speaking not only to the candidate, but extensively with the employer as well to understand the company culture, position expectations, and then be able to communicate them to candidates. They should have a detailed picture of the position before they accept the job.\nTypically it is in the first three to six months that an employee decides whether to stay or leave a new job. In the recruiting industry, finding the right candidate for the job goes beyond just finding a quick fit. Increasing a company\u2019s retention begins in the hiring process. The more realistically a job is portrayed by the recruiter, the more accurate candidate assessments.\nStaffing Agency, Staffing Insurance employee expectation, how to retain employees, Insurance, insurance companies, Recruiter, Recruitment, Staffing, Staffing Agency permalink.\nStaffing Insurance: Why Young Grads are Losing Out\nRecruitment Trend: Twitter is the New Resume", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/08/01/something-is-rotten-in-the-eurozone-kingdom-my-op-ed-in-the-financial-times/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:39:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AUX67B3JLLSU65QZ7HMG5AXVODKGWRAF", "length": 6114, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.yanisvaroufakis.eu", "title": "Something is rotten in the eurozone kingdom \u2013 my op-ed in the Financial Times \u2013 Yanis Varoufakis", "raw_content": "Something is rotten in the eurozone kingdom \u2013 my op-ed in the Financial Times\nEnglish European Crisis Finance Minister Financial Times Greek Crisis Media Op-ed YanisV 3941 Views 7 comments\tAugust 1, 2015\nPlan would have eased Greece\u2019s chronic liquidity shortage, writes Yanis Varoufakis in the Financial Times.\nA paradox lurks in the foundations of the eurozone. Governments in the monetary union lack a central bank that has their back, while the central bank lacks a government to support it.\nThis paradox cannot be eliminated without fundamental institutional changes. But there are steps member states can take to ameliorate some of its negative effects. One such step that we contemplated during my tenure at the Greek ministry of finance focused on the chronic liquidity shortage of a stressed public sector and its impact on the long-suffering private sector.\nIn Greece, where the central bank is unable to support the state\u2019s endeavours, government arrears to the private sector \u2014 both companies and individuals \u2014 have been a drag on the economy, adding to deflationary pressures since as far back as 2008. Such arrears consistently exceeded 3 per cent of gross domestic product for five years.\nThe phenomenon is both the cause and consequence of delayed tax payments to the state, reinforcing the cycle of generalised illiquidity.\nTo address this problem, our simple idea was to allow the multilateral cancellation of arrears between the state and the private sector using the tax office\u2019s existing payments platform. Taxpayers, whether individuals or organisations, would be able to create reserve accounts that would be credited with arrears owed to them by the state. They would then be able to transfer credits from their reserve account either to the state (in lieu of tax payments) or to any other reserve account.\nSuppose, for example, Company A is owed \u20ac1m by the state; and it owes \u20ac30,000 to an employee \u2014 plus another \u20ac500,000 to Company B, which provided it with goods and services. The employee and Company B also owe, respectively, \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac200,000 in taxes to the state. In this case the proposed system would allow for the immediate cancellation of at least \u20ac210,000 in arrears.\nSuddenly, an economy such as Greece\u2019s would acquire important degrees of freedom within the existing European monetary union. In a second phase of development, which we did not have time to consider properly, the system would be made accessible through smartphone apps and identity cards, guaranteeing that it would be widely adopted.\nThe envisaged payments system could be developed to create a substitute for fully functioning public debt markets, especially during a credit crunch such as the one that has afflicted Greece since 2010. Organisations or individuals could buy credits from the tax office online using their normal bank accounts, and add them to their reserve account. These credits could be used after, say, a year to pay future taxes at a discount (for example, 10 per cent).\nAs long as the total level of tax credits was capped, and fully transparent, the result would be a fiscally responsible increase in government liquidity and a quicker path back to the money markets.\nHanding over the reins of the finance ministry to my friend, Euclid Tsakalotos, on July 6, I presented a full account of the ministry\u2019s projects, priorities and achievements during my five months in office. The new payments system outlined here was part of that presentation. No member of the press took any notice.\nBut when a subsequent telephone discussion with a large number of international investors, organised by my friend Norman Lamont, and David Marsh of the London-based Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, was leaked \u2014 despite the Chatham House rule we agreed with listeners, under which speakers are not identified \u2014 the press had a field day. Committed to unlimited openness and full transparency, I granted OMFIF permission to release the tapes.\nWhile I understand press excitement about elements of that exchange, such as having to consider unorthodox means of gaining access to my own ministry\u2019s systems, only one matter is of significance from a public interest perspective. There is a hideous restriction of national sovereignty imposed by the \u201ctroika\u201d of lenders on Greek ministers, who are denied access to departments of their ministries pivotal in implementing innovative policies.\nWhen a loss of sovereignty, arising from unsustainable official debt, yields suboptimal policies in already stressed nations, one knows that there is something rotten in the euro\u2019s kingdom.\nDeath by Debt: My Response to The German Finance Ministry, by Jeffrey Sachs\nPoor Mr. Sch\u00e4uble \u2026\nhttp://goo.gl/B8HbjR\nsynagonism says:\nTo my knowledge, the solution is a-digital-complementary-currency\n\u2013 ISSUED by the greek government\n\u2013 ADOPTED by greek companies and housholds by paying taxes and\n\u2013 BACKED with greek goods and services\nsee \u2018People Powered Money\u2019 http://synagonism.net/book/economy/2015.ppm.html\nkiitossakidila says:\nPlease, take a look at the last chapter of the book published in 2009 in Portugal. The last chapter has an attachment made by a mathematician in English.\nhttp://www.teamneurs.org/\nWhat do you mean something is rotten? We can smell the decaying Schauble stench from here to China.\n\u201cProf. Varoufakis, please meet the Eurozone. Eurozone, here is Yanis\u201d\nNow that we all met each other, let\u2019s revisit the idea of Sovereignty that has become such a theme of yours recently.\nJoining the EU, and the EMU, entail significant limitations on sovereignty as we tell our first year students. It takes a bit of getting used to (the German constitutional court struggled for a while) but it is part and parcel of participation in these institutions.\nFixing the deficiencies of EMU is a lengthy subject that cannot be by-passed by gimmicks. The loss of sovereignty you describe is a fundamental aspect of the common currency, not a consequence of Greece\u2019s debt.\nNo Greek has ever voted to cede national sovereignty. If you think otherwise then put it to a vote and see how wrong you are.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 18741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourchampionshipcompany.com/the-navy-seals-bin-laden-operation-the-ultimate-in-teamwork/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:4BUHQWZQ57LDQW7N4WAWMOWIHGMDJWTC", "length": 7294, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.yourchampionshipcompany.com", "title": "The Navy Seals\u2019 Bin Laden Operation \u2013 The Ultimate in Teamwork | Your Championship Company", "raw_content": "May 3, 2011by Skip Weisman in Champion Leadership Communication, Champion Leadership Traits/Characteristics, Championship Teamwork, Leadership, Managing Employees for High Performance\nAs the news continues to come out about the operation that led to the capture and killing of one of the world\u2019s most notorious terrorists I can\u2019t help but be engrossed in learning about the teamwork it took to pull off an operation of this magnitude.\nIn writing about teamwork and leadership and workplace communication much of the things we\u2019re trying to accomplish on a daily basis are so minuscule in the big picture of the universe, especially when compared with this recent Navy Seals mission, and others we probably will never even know about.\nI do believe, though, that there are lessons to be learned from this operation that business leaders can apply in the workplace.\nThere are tremendous similarities and some big difference between the teamwork it takes for a successful Navy Seals operation and day-to-day business teamwork success.\nIn general, the rules for success are all the same but it\u2019s so much easier for business leaders to develop successful teams, yet you would never realize it.\nIt is so much easier in the business world to build a high-performance team with high levels of morale and motivation in the workplace than it is for the Navy Seals, or it should be.\nI mean, in the business world, we\u2019re not dealing with looking at life and death, ours and our adversaries, on a daily basis with every \u201cmission.\u201d Although, by the reaction of some employees in many situations you\u2019d be hard pressed to believe otherwise.\nThe #1 secret ingredient that allowed teamwork to work flawlessly on this mission was PURPOSE!\nEveryone on that team was committed to the PURPOSE of the operation.\nAnd, although it took a dozen or so Navy Seals to do the physical activity to complete the mission, there had to be hundreds of others behind the scenes, investigating, planning, deciding, researching, drawing, playing devil\u2019s advocate, supporting, and much more we\u2019ll never know to make it successful. But, the absolute #1 secret ingredient that allowed this mission to be successful was PURPOSE.\nEveryone on the team was committed to the PURPOSE of the mission. So committed that they stayed focused on their unique and specific role to do it flawlessly because the success of the mission depended on each person executing flawlessly. Without it, lives were in the balance.\nThis is why I continue to harp on the fact that successful teamwork in the business world should be a no-brainer and should also work flawlessly.\nIn my estimation in athletics and in military operations there are only 2 reasons for failure:\ndespite flawless commitment and execution on our side, the opposition just outperforms us\nthere is a breakdown in communication and execution by one or more individuals on our side\nIf we can agree that those are the only two ways we can fail, in business the first reason does not, or should not, obtain.\nTherefore, we have only #2 to focus on. And, that seems to obtain much more than it should.\nAnd, I would argue the cause of that breakdown is a lack of commitment to the team\u2019s purpose. And, that lack of commitment I believe usually comes because the purpose is ambiguous. In my work I find that organizational leaders at all levels do a poor job of defining the purpose of their mission.\nWhen the purpose is clear, and all team members are on board and committed to that mission, success can be achieved. Without, it can\u2019t. Without it egos get in the way. And, to pull off a successful mission like the Navy Seals just completed, egos are put aside and everyone is comfortable with their role and their unique contribution to the success of the mission. When that is in place, there is nothing left for individuals to focus on.\nMore on this in future blog posts as I have other thoughts to add, but this is enough for today.\nThe Australian Open Men\u2019s Finals & Leadership Communication Level 1\nKEN DWYER\nYour are absolutely correct with PURPOSE.In business, at times, we fail to communicate the PURPOSE of why we do what we do. But we also need to include the following as well\n\u2013 Commitment: Are our employees totally committed to the PURPOSE of the business.\n\u2013 Communication: Do we as managers communicate the PURPOSE of why we exist as a company or organization. We have lost the art of just talking to each other.\n-Courage: The ability to respectful correct a wrong or do the right thing for the PURPOSE of the mission of the company.\nCandor: Be upfront about reality, sometimes too much sugar just gets you fat.\nCaring: Do our employees genuinely care about the PURPOSE of our company and are they motivated by the management to care.\nThese are some of the few ideals that the military instills in its leaders but it may help our business leaders as well.\nThanks so much for stopping by and adding value to the discussion. I love the comment about sugar coating reality and too much sugar making us fat, absolutely.\nIn Jack Welch\u2019s book Winning he talks alot about Candor being key to a leader being successful and having their team succeed.\nAnd, as you note, none of \u201cC\u2019s\u201d you mention of Commitment, Communication, Candor, Courage and Caring can occur to the level we need without first clearly articulating our PURPOSE\nI even wrote an article about how I believe organizations should throw out their Mission Statements and replace them with a PURPOSE STATEMENT, because every Mission has to have a Purpose to be successful! Guess I\u2019ll have to resurrect that old article and republish it here.\nI agree with your point that defining purpose statement is the first step. I only wonder about the ways it is defined. In some companies it may be issued by Corporate and in some it may be derived by leaders of business unit. I have strong conviction that more the involvement of people in defining the purpose statement with guidance from top management, connectivity will be high.\nPurpose is common goal and connectivity to common goal has to create effective team.\nYou are absolutely correct that the more participation the greater the buy-in. The challenge is that with larger organizations its not practical, effective or even necessary to have everyone at all levels participate in creating the Purpose of the organization.\nAnd, in large organizations, often times, what is more important is for the smaller entity, division/department/team to create its own Purpose as it relates to the larger organization to which it belongs. Such as, in athletics, in your world I\u2019m assuming football (soccer as we call it in America) resonates at some level with you so I\u2019ll use that as an example.\nThe \u2018team\u2019 that makes up the \u201cdefensive\u201d side of the field, the fullbacks and goalkeeper, have one purpose to stop the opposition from scoring. Whereas, the \u201cteam\u201d on the offensive side of the field, the midfielders and forwards, have the purpose of scoring goals. Together they fulfill the over arching purpose of winning games or the ultimate purpose of winning a \u201cchampionship.\u201d\nAnd, I think organizationally, in business it can (and should be encouraged to) be applied similarly.\nThanks for commenting and adding value to our discussion. I appreciate your regular contributions to my blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 10750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/MCPAS-closes-season-Saturday-with-Eagles-tribute-9280692.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:58:46Z", "digest": "sha1:T3YYB6RFELE6T4J3NNWOBAVJIWNJB24Y", "length": 3431, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.yourconroenews.com", "title": "MCPAS closes season Saturday with Eagles tribute group - The Courier", "raw_content": "https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/MCPAS-closes-season-Saturday-with-Eagles-tribute-9280692.php\nMCPAS closes season Saturday with Eagles tribute group\nHarrison Thomas, Contributing writer\nHotel California A Salute to the Eagles plays at the Crighton Theatre June 1 at 7:30 p.m. through the Montgomery County Performing Arts Society.\nPhoto: Pat Johnson\nWhen asked why Hotel California has played nothing but songs by the Eagles for more than 25 years, guitarist Dicky-Lee Dickinson responded with: \u201cIt\u2019s great music. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d\nHowever, Hotel California isn\u2019t your average cover band. Dickinson, who represents the group, said in a phone interview this week that each member can walk on anybody\u2019s stage and play anything.\n\u201cEverybody in the group is multifaceted,\u201d said Dickinson. \u201cWe have a member of the Midwest Rock N\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame, and a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild.\u201d\nThe love for playing the music of the Eagles has brought together these five men of various backgrounds, including Scott Fronsoe, an accomplished software engineer.\n\u201c(The music) has transcended the generational divide. There is a huge demand for what this group does,\u201d Dickinson said.\nFor Dickinson, it isn\u2019t difficult to keep playing the same Eagles songs for so many years.\n\u201cWe make it our own,\u201d Dickinson said. \u201cWe take the records and we make it our starting point, and we are faithful to articulate the material as accurately as possible.\u201d\nFrom this launching point, the band is free to express themselves through the songs they perform. From Dickinson\u2019s perspective, the purpose of the cover band isn\u2019t necessarily to give Eagles fans what they want to hear.\n\u201cFrom a musician\u2019s standpoint, you do it for yourself. But if you do it properly, you do it for the fans at the same time.\u201d\nThe Eagles disbanded in 1980 due to internal disputes, and in response, Hotel California was created in 1982. Although the Eagles reunited in 1994, this did not stop Hotel California from performing the group\u2019s music. Now the band plays more than 180 shows a year and tours across the country.\nFrom a musician\u2019s standpoint, the diversity of the music of the Eagles is appealing to the group. The band members combine their skills with instruments such as keyboards, mandolins, guitars and more to adapt and perform the source material.\n\u201cIf you find material that broadens your horizons, that lets you play different kinds of music, then that\u2019s what you want. That\u2019s where it comes together,\u201d Dickinson said.\nHotel California will be playing hits at the Crighton Theatre in Conroe such as \u201cLyin\u2019 Eyes,\u201d \u201cWitchy Woman,\u201d and \u201cTake It Easy.\u201d\nThe opening act will be Amy Hatfield and the band Songbook, a local group based out of Richard, Texas. Hatfield describes the music of the group as adult contemporary with a sultry flair. The group has been making music together for four years and performs locally.\nThe Montgomery County Performing Arts Society booked Hotel California when artistic director Carrie Wilmes saw the group perform at a convention in Minneapolis two years ago. Hotel California\u2019s show is a part of MCPAS\u2019 34th season.\nThe group will be playing at Conroe\u2019s Crighton Theatre on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. This will be the first time the group has performed in Conroe.\nTickets can be purchased through the Crighton Theatre at crightontheatre.org and the ticketing office can be reached at 936-441-7469.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourdictionary.com/increaser", "date_download": "2019-02-15T23:37:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YHAAQKKX5SFHMQU5ADSADEYWX4D7OK2Y", "length": 340, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.yourdictionary.com", "title": "Increaser dictionary definition | increaser defined", "raw_content": "(plural increasers)\nOne who, or that which, increases.\nincrease +\u200e -er\n\"increaser.\" YourDictionary, n.d. 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It is the family Drama revolving around the story of Manju who is a hard working woman. She works for a small advertisement firm and pretty much committed towards her work. Manju Slives with her disciplined father Narayana Moorthy who tries to teach good habits to other people as far as possible. Watch the full movie to find out what happens next. 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An angry headline in the Daily Mail opens a story on an audit by the UK\u2019s National Audit Office, which found that the payments broke the BBC\u2019s own rules and \u201cput the public trust at risk.\u201d\nThe payments came as the BBC began to implement a 20% cut in its budget, in part due to a freeze on the license fees that provide much of its revenue, along with challenges from other media. It is, one could say, not unlike the financial challenges the fictional Robert Crawley, Fifth Earl of Grantham faced in the popular Downton Abbey drama \u2013 which, ironically enough, was produced by ITV, a private-sector competitor of the BBC. .\nTen top former BBC executives received \u00a34.9 million ($7.49 million) in severance, and the Audit Office found that somehow two executives were paid their severance twice. We don\u2019t know enough about patterns of severance pay for semi-public companies in Britain to judge for ourselves whether this is outrageous \u201cbehaviour,\u201d but there\u2019s evidence these payments were excessive to even one of the recipients: Roly Keating, the BBC\u2019s former comptroller, returned his \u00a3376,000 ($574,100) severance, calling it inappropriate. His action earned him a headline in The Telegraph newspaper hailing him as \u201ca role model for our age.\u201d Additionally, the UK\u2019s Culture Secretary called the payments \u201ca culture of pay-offs that simply cannot be justified.\u201d\nSurely this is publicity the BBC doesn\u2019t want and doesn\u2019t need. What might its experience teach US entities \u2013 whether private sector companies or public agencies \u2013 about severance pay or golden parachutes? 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For a statewide and national teachers strike!\nBy WSWS Teacher Newsletter, 8 September 2018\nThe WSWS Teacher Newsletter urges Seattle teachers meeting today to vote \u201cno\u201d and immediately constitute themselves as an independent rank-and-file committee to plan a serious struggle.\nThe Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party: Part Three\nThis resolution was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Equality Party Congress, held from July 22\u201327.\nThe Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party: Part Two\nThis report was delivered by David North, the national chairperson of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to open the Fifth National Congress of the SEP, held July 22-27, 2018.\nThe Socialist Equality Party in the United States held its Fifth National Congress July 22-27 in Southeast Michigan.\nThis resolution was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Equality Party Congress, held July 22\u201327.\nSocialist candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth submits thousands of signatures for ballot access in Michigan\nBy our reporter, 19 July 2018\nNiles Niemuth, the Socialist Equality Party's candidate for US congress, formally filed for ballot access Wednesday, submitting nearly 6,000 signatures from residents of Michigan's 12th district.\n\u201cI want a political organization that acknowledges that capitalism is not working\u201d\nSEP, IYSSE campaign for congressional candidate Niles Niemuth at pro-immigrant protest in Ann Arbor, Michigan\nA team of SEP and IYSSE members intervened in Saturday\u2019s \u201cFamilies Belong Together\u201d rally, collecting over 500 signatures to put Niles on the ballot in November.\nMobilize the working class against the bipartisan attack on immigrants!\nGrowing opposition to the attack on immigrants and democratic rights requires a clear political focus and policy.\nThe global significance of the resurgence of class struggle in the United States\nThe following speech was delivered to the ICFI\u2019s May Day 2018 International Online Rally by Jerry White, labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site.\nSocialism and the struggle against Internet censorship\nBy Andre Damon, 9 May 2018\nThe following speech was delivered by Andre Damon, a leader of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.\nBy Tom Hall, 24 April 2018\nThe World Socialist Web Site spoke with several of those attending the meeting \u201cWar, the Class Struggle and the Fight Against Internet Censorship,\u201d held at Wayne State University on Sunday.\nNo to World War III! For the building of a socialist anti-war movement!\nBy Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, 17 April 2018\nThe assault by the imperialist powers on Syria is only the prelude to a far broader and bloodier conflict with Iran, Russia, and China.\nThe struggle of teachers cannot be isolated! For a united movement of the entire working class!\nThe wave of teachers\u2019 strikes in the US and internationally has raised vital political and strategic issues, which must be discussed and debated to take this struggle forward.\nPublic conference in Detroit April 22\nThe resurgence of class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship\nOn Sunday, April 22, the WSWS, Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public conference in Detroit, Michigan to mobilize the working class against Internet censorship.\nBy David North, 13 November 2017\nWe are publishing here the text of a lecture delivered on Saturday, November 11 by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party of the US. The audio for the lecture is embedded in the text.\nLarge turnout for Ann Arbor, Michigan meeting on centenary of the Russian Revolution\nSpeaking exactly 100 years and one day after the working class seized power in Russia, David North reviewed the global impact of the October Revolution, its origins and its political significance.\nStrong turnout at San Diego campuses for lectures by David North on Russian Revolution\nThe lectures were well attended and prompted lively discussions with members of the audience.\nUS public meeting series: Why Study the Russian Revolution?\nThe SEP and IYSSE are hosting meetings throughout the country featuring David North to mark the centenary of the October Revolution of 1917 and to discuss its impact and lasting consequences.\nPublic meetings in Michigan, California and New York\nGoogle: The new face of Internet censorship\nThe SEP and IYSSE are hosting meetings throughout the country to inform students youth and workers of the fight against Internet censorship.\nSEP public meetings: \u201cFlint and the Grenfell fire: Social crimes against the working class\u201d\nThe SEP and the IYSSE are holding public meetings Thursday in Detroit and Flint, Michigan to review the experience of the Grenfell fire tragedy in London and its broader implications for the working class.\nNo to San Diego school layoffs! Defend the right to high quality public education!\nBy the WSWS Teacher Newsletter, 11 April 2017\nThere is widespread opposition to the layoffs of 1,500 teachers and staff, but to fight, school workers must build a political movement against the squandering of resources on war and the interests of the super-rich.\nSEP/IYSSE public meetings\nMobilize the working class to defend immigrant rights!\nAt these meetings, representatives of the SEP and IYSSE will speak on the significance of Trump\u2019s election and the political perspective that must guide opposition to war, inequality and dictatorship.\nSEP meeting in Detroit Saturday to oppose GM layoffs\nThe SEP and the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter have called this meeting to organize and mobilize opposition to the layoffs throughout the region.\nIYSSE demonstrations in Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago\nUnite the working class against the attack on immigrants and refugees!\nThe International Youth and Students for Social Equality is 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\u201cSocialism vs. Capitalism and War\u201d conference in Detroit\nThe conference mapped out a strategy for building a new antiwar movement based on the fight for socialist internationalism in opposition to the two parties of big business and war.\nAttendees at SEP anti-war conference speak on war danger, US election\nBy a WSWS reporting team, 7 November 2016\nWorkers and young people attending the conference \u201cSocialism vs. Capitalism and War,\u201d held November 5 in Detroit, said they were impressed by the presentations and encouraged by the fight against war being conducted by the Socialist Equality Party and the IYSSE.\nAlbert Dragstedt (1933-2016)\nBy Fred Williams, 2 November 2016\nA long-time member of the Workers League, which he joined in the early 1970s, and a supporter of the Socialist Equality Party, Albert combined immense erudition with an unwavering dedication to Marxism.\nLive online forum Friday at 7:00 pm Eastern Time\nThe political crisis in the US and the 2016 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interview, which has been accessed more than 4,000 times, deals with the issues raised in North\u2019s book and their relevance for contemporary politics.\nLive online discussion with WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh\nToronto International Film Festival 2016: How well does filmmaking reflect present-day life?\nToday, September 23, at 7:00 pm Eastern Time, the WSWS is hosting an online discussion with David Walsh that will be broadcast live on the WSWS Facebook page, fb.com/wsws.org.\nSocialism vs. Capitalism and War\nThe SEP and IYSSE schedule November 5 antiwar conference in Detroit\nThe purpose of the conference in Detroit is to politically mobilize workers and young people against the war policies of US and world imperialism, which threaten to escalate into a nuclear Third World War.\nThe Life and Times of Bill Brust\nBy David North, 15 September 2016\nThis speech, originally delivered by David North at a memorial meeting in Minneapolis in 1991, reviews the life and political legacy of Bill Brust.\nTwo months until the US elections: The political issues facing the working class\nBy Joseph Kishore, 9 September 2016\nWhether it is Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump who occupies the White House, the next administration will be one of war, austerity, repression and violence.\nSocialism and the 2016 elections\nSocialist Equality Party campaign launches fall election meetings\nSEP presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth will be speaking at meetings throughout the country. We invite readers to contact the SEP to organize a meeting in your area.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a whole lot we can do unless some type of revolution kicks off\u201d\nSocialist Equality Party campaigns in Aurora, Illinois\nSEP campaigners visited Aurora, once a major industrial center, and now the second largest city in the state, to promote Jerry White and Niles Niemuth\u2019s presidential campaign.\nSocialist Equality Party (US) 2016 Congress Resolutions\nFor the unity of the working class in the United States and Latin America\nThis resolution was passed by the Fourth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from July 31-August 5 in Detroit, Michigan.\nJoin the IYSSE! Join the fight against war, inequality and the danger of dictatorship! Join the fight for socialism!\nStatement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality\nThe following statement by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US) is being distributed at campuses throughout the country.\nThe fight for socialism and the tasks of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality\nThis resolution was passed by the Fourth National Congress of t he Socialist Equality Party (US), held from July 31-August 5 in Detroit, Michigan .\nThe Socialist Equality Party in the US held its Fourth National Congress from July 31 to August 5 in Detroit, Michigan.\nVideo discussion from West Virginia: SEP candidates Jerry White and Naomi Spencer\nOn July 4, SEP US presidential candidate Jerry White and West Virginia House of Delegates candidate Naomi Spencer broadcast a discussion live on Facebook.\nSEP vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth visits scene of fatal fire in Manchester, New Hampshire\nBy John Marion, 10 June 2016\nManchester is a former mill town coping with deindustrialization and old housing that is unsafe for workers.\nSEP election meeting in Detroit on May 31 to be streamed live on Facebook\nWorkers and young people all over the world will be able to watch the meeting, which will be addressed by SEP presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth.\nVideo: SEP presidential candidate Jerry White\u2014Obama says Flint crisis is no big deal\nJerry White, the Socialist Equality Party\u2019s 2016 presidential candidate, responds to Obama\u2019s declaration that the poisoning of thousands of children in Flint, Michigan is not a major issue.\nIn midst of water shutoffs, Flint water crisis\nDetroit teachers shut schools for second day to protest non-payment of wages\nBy Thomas Gaist, 4 May 2016\nThe new attack on Detroit teachers is part of a wider assault on the working class being carried out by both big business parties and the Obama administration.\nSupport the struggle of Detroit teachers! Unite the working class in a fight back!\nBy Niles Niemuth, 4 May 2016\nThe attack on Detroit teachers is just one part of an assault on every section of the working class throughout the region and beyond.\nVideo: Detroit teachers denounce attacks on public education\nSocialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White spoke to Detroit teachers participating in a rally of Detroit teachers engaged in a sickout on Monday.\nDavid Walsh speaks on \u201cArt, War and Social Revolution\u201d at meetings in California\nBy Evan Blake and Jake Dean, 3 May 2016\nWalsh presented the history of 20th century anti-war cinema and sought to uncover the roots behind the present cultural stagnation in the light of the eruption of American imperialism.\nSEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts\nBy Kate Randall, 29 April 2016\nCambridge was part of a trip by White to the East Coast, with stops in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts, where the SEP candidate spoke with Verizon workers.\n\u201cThey\u2019re worried we\u2019re going to change the system, and they\u2019re doing everything they can to stop us\u201d\nVideo: Wayne State University students speak out against war\nBy Jerry White and Zac Corrigan, 28 April 2016\nIn this video, students at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan discuss the danger of war and social conditions facing youth.\nVideo: Jerry White meets striking Verizon workers on the picket line in New York City\nNearly 40,000 workers throughout the United States are on strike against the telecommunications giant to defend their jobs, health care and pension benefits.\nVerizon strikers in New York City give warm welcome to SEP presidential candidate\nBy Thomas Gaist, 25 April 2016\nIn visits to picket lines in Manhattan and Queens, Jerry White discussed the political issues in the battle with the telecom giant.\nSocialist Equality Party announces presidential campaign\nSupport White, Niemuth in 2016!\nBy Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 22 April 2016\nSEP candidates Jerry White for president and Niles Niemuth for vice president will advance a socialist program that addresses the needs of millions of workers and youth in the United States and around the world.\nUpcoming events in Cambridge, Mass. and Albuquerque, New Mexico\nSEP meetings in the US: Socialism and the fight against war\nThese meetings will review the present state of the global war drive and outline a political strategy for the building of a new mass, anti-war movement.\nFlint meeting examines background of city\u2019s water crisis\nThe SEP and IYSSE held a well-attended meeting on the campus of the University of Michigan, Flint, examining the social and political background to the lead poisoning of city residents.\nEmergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit and Flint draws over one hundred workers and youth\nBy E.P. Bannon, 29 January 2016\nThe meeting, which was attended by teachers, city workers, autoworkers, students and other sections of the working class, discussed a political strategy for the entire working class.\nLarge turnout at emergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit and Flint called by SEP\nOver a hundred workers, retirees and young people, including representatives of teachers and students participating in a sickout protest in Detroit Public Schools, as well as autoworkers and Flint residents, attended an emergency meeting called by the Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Detroit Wednesday. A full report on the meeting will follow tomorrow.\nUS, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers face common fight\nBy David Brown and Jerry White, 12 August 2015\nAs talks for a new labor contract continue, the US-based automakers are threatening to shift more production to Mexico and other lower wage countries.\nSocialist Equality Party launches digital WSWS Autoworker Newsletter\nThe weekly newsletter will provide coverage of the struggle confronting 139,000 US workers at General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler, whose labor contracts expire September 15.\nUS Supreme Court hears oral arguments on same-sex marriage cases\nNearly fifty years after the Supreme Court ruled that the right to marriage applied to interracial couples, the Court today is split on whether to allow states to ban same-sex marriage.\nBy Alexander Fangmann, 9 February 2015\nIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will argue before the state Supreme Court that Illinois is entitled to use its \u201cpolice powers\u201d to overturn the state constitution.\nBy John Marion, 9 February 2015\nThe recent spate of snowstorms in the Boston area have laid bare the effects of years of inadequate funding for public transportation in Boston.\nWide audience for online interview with David North, author of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century\nBy our reporter, 15 December 2014\nMany hundreds of people from over thirty countries listened to the interview held December 13.\nMeeting at University of Michigan connects police violence to imperialist war\nBy Naomi Spencer, 6 September 2014\nIYSSE National Secretary Andre Damon outlined the interconnection between the increase in police brutality and stepped-up US military aggression overseas.\nThis is the main resolution of the Third National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), adopted unanimously on August 5, 2014.\nDefend the rights of immigrant workers! 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Mile High United Way champions education, health, and financial stability throughout the Metro Denver area.\nAce helps one child at time through scholarships for students from low-income families. Ace\u2019s scholarships allows these students from low-income families to attend the school of their choice, greatly improving their chances of graduating from High School and attending college.\nThe Alzheimer\u2019s Association takes a three-pronged approach to Alzheimer\u2019s prevention and treatment: care for patients, accelerated treatment research, and education to prevent the onset of the disease.\nThe American Cancer Society is on a mission to put an end to cancer. They fund cutting edge cancer research, support those battling cancer, and educate the masses.\nThe American Heart Association dedicates their work to fighting heart disease and stroke. 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A national organization, Mercy Housing funds projects in Denver, Commerce City, Durango, Westminster, and Fort Collins. With our dedication to residential real estate, this partnership was the perfect fit.\nThe Movember Foundation aims to reduce the number of premature deaths of men across the country. Their focuses include; prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and suicide prevention.\nNational MS Association\nA leading resource for the country\u2019s MS community, the association strives to improve the lives of those facing MS through support and services.\nThe National MS Society helps those with MS live their best lives. The society is a place for all those touched by MS to connect, organize and take action.\nThe Parker Task Force and Food Bank provides food, financial support, and other services to those in need with compassion and care.\nPediatric Care Network\nThe Pediatric Care Network utilizes the latest research and data in order to analyze best practices and treatments in order to improve pediatric care.\nReading Partners partners with under-resourced elementary schools in order to provide individual support to students so that they can read at grade level by the 4th grade.\nRealtor Roundtable\nRebuilding together brings communities together in or to support low income homeowners and seeks to provide a safe and healthy home for everyone.\nThe Salvation Army helps disaster survivors, relieves hunger, eases poverty, provides shelter, fights human trafficking, mitigates domestic abuse, teaches children, empowers the arts, combats addiction, serves Veterans, and brightens the holidays throughout the country.\nSamaritan\u2019s Purse provides spiritual and and physical aid to those who need them most around the world.\nSecond chances provides clothing to the very low income and homeless. They partner with local housing and service providers to make their clients\u2019 lives brighter, making residential real estate more widely available.\nThe Tennyson Center for Children provides spiritually integrated therapy to children who have experienced severe neglect, abuse, and/or trauma.\nThe only national non-profit fighting Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease, The ALS Association by investing in research and offering services and support to the ALS community.\nThe Bridge of Life seeks to improve the lives of those with chronic kidney disease through education, prevention, and treatment.\nThe Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth\nThe Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth addresses teen suicide in Colorado. The foundation utilizes education, awareness, and support in order to accomplish their mission.\nThe Wellspring Community empowers the lives of adults with special needs through job opportunities and individualized support.\nThe Women\u2019s Bean Project provides stepping stones to independence for women who have experience conviction, domestic violence, or addiction by training them to become industrious workers and move on to subsequent employment.\nWorld Vision Donation\nWorld Vision Donation tackles poverty and injustice around the world through transformational development, emergency relief, promotion of justice, partnerships with churches, and public awareness.\nWounded Warrior serves Veterans and service members who have suffered physical or mental injury. They offer a variety of services and programs throughout the United States.\nAs a Denver residential real estate brokerage, our company has grown exponentially, thanks to the popularity of Colorado and the booming housing market. Giving back fulfills us and offers inspiration to our agents and the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 12903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zulfikarfahd.com/2015/09/30/somewhere-between-russia-and-turkey/", "date_download": "2019-02-16T00:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OWSRD64JZRQEBHSUJ4DLUEUYYKJRG27X", "length": 695, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "zulfikarfahd.com", "title": "Somewhere Between Russia and Turkey \u2013 Zulfikar Fahd", "raw_content": "Somewhere Between Russia and Turkey\nAll taken in Tbilisi (capital of Georgia), located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. And this is the photographer, BONNIE BURTON, an awesome Canadian who gave me a three-night free stay at her apartment in Hong Kong during the crazy & peak New Year\u2019s season in 2013. She now lives in Madrid with her boyfriend, Alex.\nPosted in Wordless WednesdayTagged armenia, azerbaijan, couchsurfer, couchsurfing, eastern europe, georgia, russia, tbilisi, turkey, western asia, wordless wednesday\nNext You Can Now Forget Phuket\n2 thoughts on \u201cSomewhere Between Russia and Turkey\u201d\nOh, I thought Georgia was only the name of one of the states in the US :O", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00004.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" } ]